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New Books List: 413 titles

  • Remember Me

    Fay Weldon

    Madeleine wants to love, be remembered—and take revenge Abandoned by her husband, Jarvis, for a new wife and child, Madeleine is left alone with her troubled adolescent daughter, Hilary. By day, Madeleine tends (or doesn’t tend) to Hilary...

  • All Geared Up

    Seth McEvoy

  • Batteries Not Included

    Seth McEvoy

  • Battle Drive

    Barbara Siegel; Scott Siegel

  • Beyond Armageddon

    Walter M. Miller Jr.

    Distinguished science-fiction writer Walter M. Miller, Jr., and famed anthologist Martin H. Greenberg have compiled a collection of stories that address one of the most challenging themes of imaginative fiction: the nature of life after nuclear w...

  • Bioblast

    Raymond Z. Gallun

    The enigmatic Lance Tolliver, a unique blend of human being and genetic chameleon with extraordinary abilities, may be either the next step in human evolution or the evil sire of a race of supermonsters capable of destroying humankind...

  • Centrifugal Rickshaw Dancer

    William J. Watkins

    Uwalk Wenn, a rebel agent, and the centrifugal rickshaw dancers join forces with charismatic rebel leader Roger Count Aerowaffen to wrest control of the Grand Sphere from the repressive LeGrange Corporation...

  • Cuckoo's Egg

    C.J. Cherryh

    They named him Thorn. They told him he was of their people, although he was so different. He was ugly in their eyes, strange, sleek-skinned instead of furred, clawless, different. Yet he was of their power class: judge-warriors, the elite, the fig...

  • Fanglith

    John Dalmas

    Two political refugees are pursued by the Thought-Police and the violent warriors of eleventh-century Earth after they are trapped on a barbaric planet with only a small computer and a telepathic wolf to help them...

  • Freedom Beach

    James Patrick Kelly

  • The Futurological Congress

    Stanislaw Lem

    The Franz Kafka Prize-winning author invites you to a doped-up dystopia. “Nobody can really know the future. But few could imagine it better than Lem.” -- The Paris Review   Bringing his twin gifts of scientific speculation and scathin...

  • Grassy Knoll

    Poul Anderson

    The benevolent, paternalistic World State regarded the freedom-minded Jeffersonians as a minor embarrassment whose violent elimination would cause more disruption than their demise would merit. So both sides were happy when the chance came for volunt...

  • Human Error

    Paul Preuss

    "[W]onderful, enlightened, and convincing beyond any reasonable expectations of what a science fiction novel should be." -- Greg Bear Compugen has become a giant player in the tech field overnight by making genetically altered viruses into "biochips...

  • Ice

    Anna Kavan

    A dazzling and haunting vision of the end of the world, Ice is a masterpiece of literary science fiction now in a new 50th anniversary edition with a foreword by Jonathan Lethem"One might become convinced that Kavan had seen the future . . . A half c...

  • Millennium

    John Varley

    To Louise Baltimore and her fellow citizens of Earth in the 99th century, life offers bleak prospects. The world is on its deathbed, dying from the accumulated poisons of one too many wars. Suicide is common, since convincing reasons for hanging arou...

  • Needle in a Timestack

    Robert Silverberg

    A collection of twenty classic stories from the Science Fiction Grand Master who “seems capable of amazements beyond those of mere mortals” (The Washington Post Book World).  Needle in a Timestack is Robert Silverberg at his very best -- in...

  • Peace Company

    Roland J. Green

    If you seek peace -- prepare for war A rule as true in the 24th Century as it is today. When 75 planets from savage tribes to outlaw tyrannies to star-spanning mega-powers -- totter on the brink of the hell that began the day Earth destroyed itsel...

  • Race Against Time

    Piers Anthony

    John Smith is a typical teenager living in a world he believes to be America in the 1960s, but the strange behavior he sees forces him outside forbidden boundaries to discover the shocking truth. Reissue....

  • Space Assassin

    Steve Jackson

  • A Stainless Steel Rat is Born

    Harry Harrison

    In the auspicious annals of crime, chicanery and counter-espionage, one name towers above all the rest--"Slippery Jim" diGriz, the fabled outlaw known and feared as The Stainless Steel Rat! Now, the uncanny, untold origins of the 25th century's most ...

  • Starquake

    Robert L. Forward

    Starquake, the sequel to Dragon's Egg, takes place on the surface of a neutron star. The gravity is 67 billion Earth gravities. The native cheela, the size of sesame seeds, live a million times faster than their human friends in orbit. After a starqu...

  • Under Plum Lake

    Lionel Davidson

    A young boy swimming off the cliffs of Cornwall discovers a cave, the entrance to a wonderful new world of giant, long-living people, fish that swim in the air, flower-flavored water, and varying time patterns...

  • The Wanderer

    Dennis Schmidt

  • The Yngling

    John Dalmas

  • Appleby's Answer

    Michael Innes

    One of the Appleby crime novels. In a West Country village Priscilla Pringle, writer of clerical detective stories, becomes involved in one of her own ingeniously constructed plots. Luckily Sir John Appleby, retired Metropolitan Police Commissione...

  • Blue Heron

    Philip Ross

    To save the life of a child, James Marley searches desperately for the elusive, former radical Sarah Kleinhagen, responsible for the bombing of a government facility, and discovers that they are both being stalked by a ruthless killer...

  • The Coach That Never Came

    Patricia Beatty

    A stagecoach that vanished without a trace...$40,000 in stolen payroll money...a jewel-studded belt buckle -- they are all pieces of a 110-year-old mystery, that Paul Braun is determined to solve.

    While the thirteen year-old Easterner is vis...

  • The Elberg Collection

    Anthony Oliver

  • Enchanted Isle

    James M. Cain

    While searching for her father, a runaway stumbles into a deadly mess At thirteen, Mandy was too old for spanking when her stepfather first took her over his knee. She’s didn’t mind the pain, but hated the look in his eye and his lingerin...

  • The Florida Burn

    Stephen Grave

  • From a High Place

    Edward Mathis

  • Man from Internal Affairs

    Nat Hentoff

    Jazz-loving New York police detective Noah Green, trying to find a killer on New York's Lower East side, finds himself trying, at the same time, to ward off the depredations of the Internal Affairs Division...

  • Night Train to Paris

    Manning Coles

  • Or the Bambino Dies

    Peter Inchbald

  • Pigs Get Fat

    Warren Murphy

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    Thomas Collins is a commercial real estate agent with an insatiable sexual appetite. He'd do unspeakable things with a snake, a friend confides, if only he could get that low. Normally, that'd just be Mrs. Collins's business, but Mr. Collins is a...

  • A Position of Trust

    Roy Hart

  • Roses Are Dead

    Loren D. Estleman

    Hit man Peter Macklin battles divorce attorneys, mobsters, and hired assassins in this action-packed, hard-boiled thriller   For years, Donna ignored the guns in her husband’s safe, his long hours, and all the cash he couldn’t possibly have ...

  • Safekeeping

    Gregory McDonald

    Brought to the United States under a program to save children from the Nazi blitzgkrieg, Robby Burns, a duke's son, finds himself under the questionable protection of a New York newspaper reporter inclined to drink...

  • The Shipkiller

    Justin Scott

    It was the largest moving object on the face of the earth, but for Carolyn and Peter Hardin it was a towering wall of steel bursting out of a squall at full speed, bearing down on their ketch Siren. In a few dramatic moments, Siren was shattered by t...

  • Some Beasts No More

    Kenneth Giles

  • Tickled to Death

    Simon Brett

  • Private Desires // Leonie

    Elizabeth Adler

    Leonie is born into a world of poverty and hardship, she came from the provinces to find her future in Paris. With only her exotic beauty, seductive innocence, and fiery spirit, Leonie vows to rise above her poverty and make a name for herself. As sh...

  • Risky Pleasure

    JoAnn Ross

    Was it a dream come true--or a nightmare? Blair MacKenzie had a successful modeling career, but her lifelong dream was to own a stable of horses, as her estranged grandfather had. When he died and left his reputable California farm to her, she tho...

  • Stalk a Stranger

    Rachel Scott

    His passion brought a promise of love...darkened by a shadow of suspicion. LOVE IN THE SHADOWS The man in the red Porsche was obviously in trouble, but Bianca knew she'd be taking a dangerous chance if she went to his aid...alone in the mid...

  • Unsuspected Conduct

    Elaine K. Stirling

    She never suspected what awaited her in Rio... As a junior corporate attorney, Bethany Grey bemoaned the lack of glamour in her life. So when her aunt Zoe asked her to come to Rio de Janeiro, Bethany readily accepted. There, she became reacquainte...

  • When Darkness Falls

    Barbara Corcoran

    A junior counselor at a summer camp in the Montana mountains, seventeen-year-old Julie Horton is puzzled by the behavior of fellow counselor Mark after the strange disappearance of one of her young campers....

  • A Change of Fortune

    Sandra Heath

    TEMPTING TARGET Miss Leonie Conyngham was as wealthy as she was beautiful and proud--until family disaster stripped her of fortune and left her with only her pride to defend her beauty. Rupert, the Duke of Thornbury, the most notorious and suc...

  • The Dangerous Dr. Langhorne

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE LORD OF SCANDAL From the moment beautiful Lady Vanessa Ventriss saw Sir Philip Langhorne at a ball, she was entranced by this tall, elegant, handsome man. Then she began to hear the rumors about him. First she heard that he had been a common ...

  • False Angel

    Edith Layton

    A prudent young beauty vows never to let England's most notorious rake cast his spell over her THE LIBERTINE LORD...AND THE LADY Lord Joscelin Kidd, Marquess of Severne, was the handsomest and most charming nobleman in London--and the most noto...

  • Frederica in Fashion

    Marion Chesney

    "SINCE THERE IS NO HOPE OF MY SECURING AN ELIGIBLE PARTI, DUE TO A SAD LACK OF LOOKS, I AM RUNNING AWAY...." So wrote the sixth of the famous Armitage sisters. For how could colorless Frederica Armitage withstand a Season's scrutiny af...

  • The Mysterious Marquis

    Eileen Ainsworth Ramsay

    Returned from the Valley of the Kings, Elizabeth Ridgeway enjoys a break from collating her archaeologist papa’s notes by walking in the lovely woods around her Perthshire home. There she discovers a small boy who has fallen into a stream. Since he...

  • Reckless Heart

    Lois Arvin Walker

    HIS SCANDALOUS PAST INTRIGUED HER -- BUT SHE WAS PLAYING WITH PASSION'S FIRE! INNOCENT LADY Rebecca Langford, the toast of London, had never been so mortified in her life. She had defied society by inviting the notorious Earl of Compton to he...

  • Rosalind

    Clarice Peters

    "YOU CAN'T BE THINKING OF MARRIAGE FOR THE GIRL. SHE'S JUST A CHILD!" Rosalind McHenry's outrage knows no bounds when her wastrel brother announces a dubious design: he intends to marry off his daughter, Felicity, a mere school...

  • The Scoundrel's Daughter

    Rachelle Edwards

    "I AM TO HAVE A SEASON AFTER ALL. I CAN SCARCELY CONTAIN MY DELIGHT!" Jacey Trevallion's joy at being summoned to London by her profligate father is to be short-lived indeed. For once there, he confesses to her that he has promised her portion--an...

  • The Secret Bluestocking

    Eileen Jackson

    HER SHAMEFUL SECRET On the surface, Miss Emma Waring seemed a most proper young lady. True, her hair was a rather unfashionable reddish-gold, and at times a spark of deviltry marred her studiously innocent gaze. But all in all, Emma obeyed the pro...

  • Crazy Love

    M.E. Cooper

    Out of control... When Kim and Woody fall for each other, it's like a romantic scene from one of Woody's Kennedy High stage productions. Kim's smart, independent, and pretty; Woody's funny, talented, and handsome. They're destined for a happy endi...

  • The Girl Most Likely

    Suzanne Rand

    Conflict erupts between Stacy Harcourt, the popular, beautiful, and bright captain of Midvale High's cheerleaders, and her friends, Gina Damone and Tess Belding, when Stacy starts dating the dynamic Nick Cooper...

  • Moving Too Fast

    M.E. Cooper

    Can opposites attract . . . for keeps? It's love at first sight when an accidental meeting throws Sasha and Wesley together. But on their first date, this couple realizes they have little in common besides their love for each other: she's a romant...

  • Prairie Songs

    CONRAD P

  • The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur

    Howard Pyle

    Time honored retelling of the Arthurian legends, including the adventures of Sir Galahad and the pursuit of the Holy Grail, as well as the last days of King Arthur -- his attack on Sir Launcelot, fatal battle with Sir Mordred, and final journey to ...

  • The Rattle-Rat

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

    Douwe Scherjoen has been murdered, far from his native Friesland. This remote province of Holland is almost like a foreign country, so it's fortunate that Detective GrQpstra was born there. With Sergeant de Gier in tow, he heads across the dike to hi...

  • The Trouble With Magic

    Megan Lane

    It would never work. She was not only an artist, but a bona fide psychic. He was an ex-military man, a war hero, and now a promising senatorial candidate. Vella Redding and Matthew Colridge had nothing in common. They had only to be seen in public to...

  • Flood

    Andrew H. Vachss

    Burke’s newest client is a woman named Flood, who has the face of an angel, the body of a high-priced stripper, and the skills of a professional executioner. She wants Burke to find a monster for her -- so she can kill him with her bare hands. In ...

  • Last Seen Alive

    Dorothy Simpson

    Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger: A troubled woman returns to her peaceful English village after twenty years -- and is murdered within twenty-four hours. When Det. Inspector Luke Thanet was a young man, Alicia Parnell was one of the most popular girl...

  • Murder in the Queen's Armes

    Aaron Elkins

    SKULLDUGGERY... Why would anyone steal a thirty-thousand-year-old skull? England's famous Poundbury Man has been swiped right from its museum case, and anthropologist Gideon Oliver, honeymooning in Britain with his new bride, Julie, finds the myst...

  • Murder Moves in

    A.M. Pyle

    In order to investigate a murder in a recently gentrified neighborhood of Cincinnati, detective Cesar Franck finds he must deal with angry contractors, entrepreneurs, and a self-serving community leader...

  • The Armchair Detective

    Straus & Giroux Farrar

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery at the Monkey House

    David A. Adler

    Someone's been monkeying around at the monkey house.... A few monkeys are missing from the zoo, and Cam is sure she knows how the thief took them from their cages. With the help of her amazing photographic memory and her best friend, Eric, can Cam...

  • The Spell of the Sorcerer's Skull

    John Bellairs

    Professor Childermass has disappeared. And Johnny Dixon can find few clues: a haunted dollhouse and a lighted. menacing iack-e-lantern. The dollhouse is a miniature replica of a room in the Childermass family home -- the same room where the professor...

  • The Bishop and Other Stories

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    In the waning weeks of his life, a renowned bishop reflects on his past and his priorities. Written during the period when Anton Chekhov was gravely ill with tuberculosis, "The Bishop" reflects the author's feelings about his own imminent death, and ...

  • Another Dawn

    Sandra Brown

    Jake Langston wasn't a man to go looking for trouble, though if it found him he'd settle it -- with a gun or a soft threat. But the night beautiful Banner Coleman forced his hand, he was lost... Torn by secrets he'd never shared, Jake ...

  • Gentle Warrior

    Julie Garwood

    IN FEUDAL ENGLAND, THE NOBLE ELIZABETH WAS TRAPPED IN HER OWN CASTLE-SUBJECT TO A PASSIONATE LORD! 1086, England. Lady Elizabeth Catherine Montwright barely escaped the bloody massacre that destroyed her family and exiled her from their ancestral ...

  • Gifts of the Queen

    Mary Lide

    Ann of Cambray galloped across the Norman countryside, her flaming hair a banner unfurled in the breeze. Her lord, Raoul of Sieux was taking her home to the land of his childhood, to lie in his arms, to bear his child, to live in peace. But they w...

  • Golden Ecstasy

    Wanda Owen

    ANDREA WAS TOO INNOCENT ...to know that she felt intense desire for the rakehell Gil Barlow. The stunning beauty was furious that he had seen her tumble from her horse. But nothing could match her rage when he thoroughly kissed her full trembling li...

  • Journey to Love

    Cynthia Sinclair (1)

    A DANGEROUS JOURNEY KINDLED THEIR LOVE AND THREATENED TO SEPARATE THEM FOREVER! On the day of Gabrielle's betrothal to the wealthy, older Louis Chauvin, English soldiers invaded her French Canadian village. Taken from her fiance, forced aboard...

  • The Lion and the Leopard

    Mary Ellen Johnson

    Love, Duty and Loyalty Collide in a Dramatic Fashion to Determine King Edward II's Future in the Medieval Historical Romance, The Lion and the Leopard, by Mary Ellen Johnson--Medieval England in the reign of Edward II, from 1307-1327--Maria Rendell w...

  • Love Fire

    Deana James

    FORBIDDEN DESIRE Lovely Princess Joanna couldn't stop the tumultuous emotions that surged through her heart when she first saw the knight Geoffrey Fitzjean. His sculpted face and virile frame made her ache to her very core. His golden hair and slate...

  • Love's Gentle Journey

    Kay Cornelius

    Theirs was a perilous journey ... across a vast ocean to uncharted wilderness ... but the hard-won prize would be A New World ... A New World for Ann McKay - Poised on the brink of uncertain womanhood, loath to leave behind the familiar haunts of hom...

  • Moon for a Candle

    Maryn Langer

    Alexas Spence -- She came west, a small-town girl with big dreams, ready to fight for the only thing she had ever owned -- her ranch -- even if it meant clashing with the logger and the gentleman. David Hornbeck -- He rode into her life in a fine...

  • Practice to Deceive

    Patricia Veryan

    They dared all for one England, one dream, one love! NO TREACHERY CAN CONQUER A PASSIONATE HEART. NO MASQUERADE CAN CONCEAL THE EYES OF LOVE... It is 1746. Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebellion has been crushed, and his loyal followers, bound ...

  • Rebel

    Elizabeth Evelyn Allen

    She lived and loved with passion -- but only on her terms! "AIN'T SHE SOMETHING!" the soldiers cried as they watched her ride the huge stallion into the raging river...to save a drowning man. She was Marsh Creighton, a ravishing teen...

  • The River Between

    Jacquelyn Cook

    The River had Brought Him to Her -- Would the River also Keep Them Apart? From the belvedere of her Alabama mansion on the banks of the Chattahoochee River, Lily watched for steamboats and dreamed of the man who would one day be united with her ...

  • Savage Kiss

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    SHE SAVED HIS LIFE WITH A KISS -- THEN SURRENDERED HER HEART TO FORBIDDEN SPLENDOR! FORBIDDEN RAPTURE The caress of the frontier wind and the kiss of the Western sun had always been enough for ebony-haired Falling Water. Then she stumbled across ...

  • Savage Storm

    Phoebe Conn

    SHE DREAMED OF A HUSBAND Luscious Gabrielle had lost everything she had in Kansas City. Now all she wanted was to survive the Oregon Trail and start a new life as a mail order bride. Then she met ruggedly handsome Jason Royal, and the auburn-hair...

  • Seize the Fire

    Laura Kinsale

    THEIRS WAS A LOVE FORGED FROM TARNISHED DREAMS AND HAUNTING SECRETS... Sheridan Drake was a fallen angel... a scoundrel... a blackguard... every maiden's nightmare. Olympia St. Leger was an exiled princess in need of a hero. Amused by her innocenc...

  • Shadowtide

    Dianne Price

    "She was the bride of a stranger--caught in a whirlpool of terror!" Alone in the world, Jenna had little choice but to accept Brennan Savage's unexpected proposal. Son starkly beautiful Cape Savage she hoped to find a home and a loving...

  • Tyler's Woman

    Linda Sandifer

    LOVE'S ETERNAL FIRE Roseanne McVey was determined to join the dangerous cattle drive to the Colorado Territory -- with Tyler Chanson, the tall, darkly handsome man she had adored since she was a child. Beneath the magnificent starlit skies, she woul...

  • Wild Embrace

    Myra Rowe

    WILD LOVE It did not take long for Marisa Montfort to fall in love with the lean, dark Frenchman Nicholas Pomfrey. At first glance he made her gypsy blood boil and awakened her sleeping desires. Although still a young innocent, she knew thaat she ...

  • Wild Flame

    Gina Delaney

    NEW LOVE She had been born and reared a gentle English lass. Yet once seventeen-year-old Milly set foot on the vast Australian farm, she had the Outback in her blood. Young and innocent, she dreamed of love's sweet awakening. But she couldn't tame...

  • The Wild Rose

    Rene J. Garrod

    SECRET DESIRES California's gold rush had lured Miranda Austen and her father all the way from London. But when her father lost his life in the harsh wilderness, the well-bred English beauty was suddenly alone in the uncivilized American West. Onl...

  • The Wishing Star

    Marian Wells

    In the same genre as THE WEDDING DRESS and WITH THIS RING, author Marian Wells brings history and fiction together in a powerful novel of light and darkness, truth and falsehood, good and evil. THE WISHING STAR Jenny, living in the frontier district...

  • Adventures: Being a Stirring Chronicle of Intrigue, Romance,

    Mike Resnick

    Con-man adventurer Dr. Lucifer Jones matches wits with hordes of cannibals, royal mummies, bloodthirsty vampires, the Lord of the Apes, the White Goddess, and other perils on the Dark Continent, in this satirical fantasy romp...

  • Heaven

    V.C. Andrews

    OF ALL THE FOLKS IN THE MOUNTAIN SHACKS, THE CASTEELS WERE THE LOWEST--THE SCUM OF THE HILLS Heaven Leigh Casteel was the prettiest, smartest girl in the backwoods, despite her ragged clothes and dirty face.. . despite a father meaner than ten vi...

  • Last Rites

    Jorge Saralegui

  • The Spirit of Enterprise

    George Gilder

  • Year's Best Horror Stories 13

    Karl Edward Wagner

  • Death in the Devil's Acre

    Anne Perry

    When a doctor is found brutally murdered in the lurid section of London aptly named "Devil's Acre;" even its most hardened residents are stunned. But shock soon turns to horror when Inspector Pitt discovers three more bodies with the same gruesome "c...

  • Stop That Witch!

    Mary Clark
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Charleyhorse

    Cecil Dawkins

  • The Coming of the Kid

    Oakley Hall

    A lush who talks to horses, a dwarf with a traveling pharmacy, a world-weary grizzly named Duke, and hordes of uncanny riders make up the supporting cast of this satiric fable about the advent of the Kid, summoned to battle Evil in the Old West...

  • Crossfire Country

    Roy Lebeau

    Lee Morgan, with the help of a lovely young Ojibway squaw, sets out to avenge the death of Canadian land baron Matthew Dowd--a mission that leads him to Dowd's former partner, who is determined to stop Lee dead in his tracks. Original....

  • Custer's Last Stand

    Will Henry

    The real story of the Little Big Horn begins a thousand bitter miles southward in a drift of burning tipi ashes on the banks of the Washita. There, in November 1868, Custer and his Seventh Cavalry murdered the sleeping village of the peace chief Blac...

  • Death over Darien

    Ramsay Thorne

    Captain Gringo spearheads a red-hot war in Panama!Even when he is minding his own business, trouble seeks out Captain Gringo. This time the British Secret Service is on his back, seeking information on a Scottish pearl­ trading colony on the Caribbe...

  • The Golly Sisters Go West

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    A funny introduction to pioneer life, perfect for classrooms and homeschoolers

    The Golly Sisters are heading west. They’ve got new dresses and the best show on either side of the Mississippi. But can they keep their act together long enoug...

  • Hell Town

    Jon Sharpe

  • Lone Star and the Gold Mine War

    Wesley Ellis

    JESSICA STARBUCK: WANTED FOR LARCENY Passing herself off as Jessica Starbuck, a scheming cartel woman buys up dozens of mining claims in California's Mother Lode -- paying for them with counterfeit bank drafts and leaving the real Jessie holding the...

  • Longarm in the Bitterroots

    Tabor Evans

    THE MONTANA ORDEAL No one could be that lucky in gambling. Yet Weeping Snakes won every time, claiming guidance from the spirits. When the impoverished ranchers and miners in Bitterroots, Montana, try to stop his winning streak, Weeping Snakes goe...

  • Luke Sutton, Bounty Hunter

    Leo P. Kelley

  • The Opium Queen

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Promise Forever

    Dee Austin

  • Timber Blood

    Steven F. Havill

  • Vigilante Justice

    Jake Logan

    SLOCUM WAS JUST PASSING THROUGH New Mexico Territory. He didn't want to know why posses were roaming the country looking for men to string up, why the governor's militia was pillaging the country, or why Ute raiding parties had the people barricaded ...

  • Wild Bill's Ghost

    J.R. Roberts

    The rumors are flying in Leadville -- Hickok is still alive! The way the story goes, somebody else, and not Wild Bill, was killed by Jack McCall in Deadwood. Clint Adams isn't one to put much stock in rumors ... but he's never actually seen Bill's...

  • 4400763ters Rules Set 4

    Random House

  • After the Ball Was Over

    Rosemary Kingsland

    In a concise novel of class and caste set in a provincial town in India in 1930, a gallery of eccentrics, including Jane Barhill, daughter of a martinet father, and poor Lizzie Edwards, who thinks she is a bird, work out their tangled destinies...

  • Airships

    Barry Hannah

    Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, Airships is a “strong, original, tragic and funny” story collection of “the creative Southern tradition” (Alfred Kazin).   One of the most revered short story collections of the past fifty years, Airships...

  • Alamein to Zem Zem

    Keith Douglas

  • Alexis

    Marguerite Yourcenar

    It was with Alexis that, in 1928, Marguerite Yourcenar began her career as a novelist. The book remains one of the stellar literary debuts of the century. Yourcenar has created a moving meditation on the relationship between pleasure and love.

    ...

  • All

    Joanna Wharton

    Terribly written, this has a certain goofy charm and unintended humor. Flashy and hostile punker Amy, who underneath the glitter and black mesh stockings is really lonely and vulnerable, is stranded at a stodgy Boston college, dreaming that her Londo...

  • American Reich

    Douglas Muir

    After the murder of his girlfriend, reporter Kirk Stewart uncovers a plot--by right-wing religious fundamentalists, the Ku Klux Klan, the American Nazi Party, the CIA chief, and major industrial leaders--to seize control of the United States...

  • Assassin Code

    Ben Mochan

  • Baaa

    David MacAulay

    After the last person has gone from the earth, sheep take over the world, make the same mistakes as humans, and eventually disappear as well....

  • Balancing Act

    Rebecca Larsen

  • Bedita's Bad Day

    Eros Keith

  • Beetle Bailey: Thin Air

    Mort Walker

  • Berlin Fugue

    J.C. Winters

  • Bicycle Race

    Donald Crews

    A counting book
    for the youngest --
    filled with motion,
    excitement, and
    suspense. Twelve
    riders compete
    in a bicycle race.
    Who will win?
    (A word to the wise:
    Keep your eye
    on Number 9!)
    ...

  • Big Bad Pig

    Allan Ahlberg

  • The Big Picture

    Michael Wolk

  • Bimwili and the Zimwi

    Verna Aardema

  • Bonnie's Blues

    Jeffrey Cooper

    High-school junior Bonnie Simmons, reporter for the school newspaper, interviews rock star Jerry Casablanca, lead singer for the Ragged Edge, and soon finds herself romantically involved with Jerry, editor Peter Stepman, and Tim, her best friend's co...

  • Boocoo Death

    John Lansing

  • Borderline

    Janette Turner Hospital

    By chance, Felicity, a Boston art gallery director, and Gus, a Canadian insurance salesman, witness the arrest of Salvadorean refugees trying to enter Canada, and decide to help an alien missed by the custom inspectors...

  • Bowens Ark

    George Sakers

  • British Short Stories

    Frederick R. Karl

  • Bully of Barkham Street

    Mary Stolz

    What made Martin Hastings, the ‘bully’ of A Dog on Barkham Street, behave the way he did? Martin resolves problems of his own in ‘a sensitive study of a lonely, frustrated boy. The [family] relationships are exceptionally well drawn.’ -- BL....

  • Bully!

    Mark Schorr

    Being the 26th U.S. president is sometimes more of a burden than an asset for Theodore Roosevelt. Our youngest president investigates a dangerous conspiracy that could alter the course of history while he runs the country, engages in his unique lifes...

  • Bunnies and Their Hobbies

    Nancy Carlson

  • Calke Abbey Derbyshire a Hidden House Revealed

    Howard Colvin

  • Caracole

    Edmund White

    In French caracole means "prancing"; in English, "caper." Both words perfectly describe this high-spirited erotic adventure. In Caracole, White invents an entire world where country gentry languish in decaying mansions and foppish intellectuals excha...

  • Caribbee

    Thomas Hoover

    In the epic and powerful tradition of James Clavell and James Michener, Thomas Hoover, author of the international bestseller, The Moghul, presents a magnificent novel of bold adventure, political intrigue, and passionate romance. Caribbee, dazzlingl...

  • Caught

    Jane Schwartz

  • Chloe and Maude

    Sandra Boynton

    First published in 1985, this classic Sandra Boynton storybook of three stories about two best friends has been redrawn and redesigned for a new generation of young readers!Chloë and Maude is a truly terrific children’s classic, celebratin...

  • Christina's Ghost

    Betty Ren Wright

    "You mean he's a ghost?" The last thing Christina wants to do this summer is stay with grumpy Uncle Ralph in his old Victorian house. She's sure she'll have an awful time. But on her very first day there, Christina meets a sad, mysterious little g...

  • The Christmas Book: Stories, Poems, and Carols for the Twelve Days of Christmas

    Caroline Royds

  • The Cone-Gatherers

    Robin Jenkins

    The acclaimed novel of brothers working on a Scottish estate during WWII “has a strange haunting poetic quality…a fable of eternal significance” (Iain Crichton Smith). As World War II rages through Europe, brothers Calum and Neil work to gather...

  • The Convict and Other Stories

    James Lee Burke

    THE COLLECTION NO CRIME FICTION FAN SHOULD BE WITHOUT -- THE ESSENTIAL SHORT STORIES OF JAMES LEE BURKE "America's best novelist" (The Denver Post ), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush, suspense-charged portrayals o...

  • Coral's Reef

    Dee Scarr

  • Cream of Creature from the School Cafeteria

    Mike Thaler

    Something very strange was going on in the school cafeteria. The food smelled awful and was making funny noises. But when it slurped out of the pans and across the floor, eating everything in its path, the children ran for their lives. Something had ...

  • The Cunning Little Vixen

    Rudolf Tesnohlidek

    Juxtaposing a world of not-so-innocent animals and a world of humans, scarcely more intelligent or less brutal, this first translation of the Czech novel recounts the story of the forester Bartos and the vixen Sharp-Ears...

  • The Curate's Wife

    E.H. Young

    1985 first thus, Penguin Books trade PB. Virago Modern Classics. An unconventional beauty with no household skills marries a curate names Cecil Sproat and has to repress her appreciation of handsome young men...

  • Curious George Goes Hiking

    H.A. Rey

  • Curious George Makes a Splash

    Nancy Krulik

  • Diary of a Frantic Kid Sister

    Hila Coleman

  • Disposable People

    Marshall Goldberg

  • Distant Replay

    Jerry Kramer

    The nostalgic reunion of the first Super Bowl champions, the Green Bay Packers of the mid-1960s, elicits reminiscences of their victorious triumphs and their tragic losses, especially of their late coach, Vince Lombardi...

  • Dogwood Afternoons

    Kim Chapin

    Dogwood Afternoons is the story of Andrew Mavis, a young race-car driver. Mavis is testing his car on a new superspeedway, running practice laps against his boyhood friend and rival, Wynn Tatum, as they vie with each other for a job with a factory r...

  • Doodle Soup

    John Ciardi

  • Double Exposure

    Joy Gould Boyum

  • The Emperor's New Clothes

    Nadine Bernard Westcott

  • Eva's Spell

    Ingrid Pitt

    She was a legend in her own lifetime.Eva Duarte, the small-time actress and radio announcerwho turned Juan Peron from an ambitious soldier into the most charismatic leader Argentina had everknown.Peron was ambitious, and had used the ferment of World...

  • Fear Itself

    Tim Underwood

  • Fee Fi Fo Fum

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Fifties Style

    Richard Horn

    Two hundred color and black-and-white photographs provide a visual catalog of the full range of design and decoration during the 1950s, ranging from jetlines to album jackets, from automobiles to advertising images, from buildings to bangles...

  • First Comes Spring

    Anne Rockwell

  • Footsteps

    Richard Holmes

    Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called ‘Footsteps’ and the writing of biography was changed forever. A dari...

  • Four-D Funhouse

    Clayton Emery

  • Frederick's Fables

    Leo Lionni

    Illustrated on every page, this sumptuous anthology contains thirteen of Lionni's most popular animal fables, including three Caldecott Honor books--Alexander and the Wind-Up Mouse, Swimmy, and Frederick. Reissue....

  • Friend

    Diana Henstell

    Paul "Piggy" Conway, a thirteen-year-old scientific genius, brings back to life his beloved Samantha, who lives next door, after the young girl is murdered by her alcoholic father, and the grotesque "rebirth" has unexpected and horrific repercussions...

  • Frosty Snowman ABC

    Patricia Schories

  • Funny Farm

    Jay Cronley

    Andy and Elizabeth Farmer exchange New York for a rural paradise but find that the pond next to their new house has snakes, the house is infested with mosquitoes, and the former owner is buried in the yard...

  • Galapagos

    Kurt Vonnegut

    “A madcap genealogical adventure . . . Vonnegut is a postmodern Mark Twain.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewGalápagos takes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly becomes an evolutionary journe...

  • Garfield Rolls On

    Jim Davis

    You just can't keep a good cat down. And with Garfield you'd need muscles to do it, anyway. This is the frisky feline's tenth collection and it's full of the antics and acrobatics you know and love him for. As a bonus it also features an inteview wit...

  • George H. Ghastly and the Little Horror

    Ritchie Perry

  • Get along Gang and Missing C-

    Jim Razzi

  • God Bless Us Every One!

    Andrew Angus Dalrymple

    This sequel to "A Christmas Carol" is set in the Cratchit household seven years later when Bob Cratchit is a smug senior partner in the law firm of Cratchit and Scrooge, and Tiny Tim a rebellious teenager...

  • The Good Terrorist

    Doris Lessing

    The Good Terrorist follows Alice Mellings, a woman who transforms her home into a headquarters for a group of radicals who plan to join the IRA. As Alice struggles to bridge her ideology and her bourgeois upbringing, her companions encounter unexpect...

  • Goodnight Moon Room

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Grace in the Wilderness: After the Liberation, 1945-1948

    Aranka Siegal

    "As 15-year-old Piri leaves the hospital, she and her older sister Iboya, clinging to each other as they did in the camps, are given loving care in Sweden...[The book] captures, perhaps for the first time in young adult literature, the complexity of ...

  • Grave for a Russian

    Charles Vance

  • The Great Thirst

    William Duggan

  • Halloween III

    Tommy Lee Wallace

  • Happy Birthday, Little Witch

    Deborah Hautzig

  • Happy Worm

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Hating Alison Ashley

    Robin Klein

    A classic story of friendship and jealousy from a beloved Australian author.
    Erica has always believed herself to be the star of her sixth grade class. But then Alison Ashley shows up, and right from the start, seems to threaten Erica's position. ...

  • Hazel Rye

    Vera Cleaver

    An eleven-year-old girl, with no appreciation for land and growing things, finds her values beginning to change when she agrees to let an impoverished family live in a small house she owns, in exchange for working in the surrounding orange grove....

  • He Will Not Walk With Me

    Alice Bach

  • Help!

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Hitler Must Die

    Herbert Moll Mason

  • Hollywood Dream Mach

    Bonnie Zindel

    When Gabrielle journeys to Los Angeles to visit her old friend Buffy for the summer, she cannot adjust to the world of movie glamour until she meets the son of a filmmaker, is swept into a chic new social life, and faces crucial decisions about her l...

  • Homework Caper

    Joan Lexau

  • Hush Money

    Peter Israel

    Hired to kill a sensational story, a modern-day shamus discovers a murder The rumors start flying almost as soon as Karen Beydon leaps out her window. The newspapers provide myriad theories as to what led this beautiful heiress to hurl herself out of...

  • I Been There Before

    David Carkeet

    As the years of Mark Twain's birth and death coincided with the two successive appearances of Halley's Comet, this book records Twain's fictive reincarnation, provoked by the comet's approach toward Earth in November, 1985...

  • I Love My Baby Sister... Most of the Time

    Elaine Edelman

  • In the Woods

    Luigi Puricelli

  • The Incredible Cat Caper

    Kelley Roos

  • The Iron Web

    Ken Crowder

  • Katie's Baby-Sitting Job

    Martha Tolles

    Katie thought baby-sitting would be fun! Katie was thrilled when Mrs. Stellan called and asked her to baby-sit for the evening. She had never done any baby-sitting before, but she was sure she could take care of four-year-old Annie. After all, Kat...