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  • Combat Command: Shines the Name

    Mark Acres

    A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE TRAPPED IN AN ALIEN WORLD! You are Paul Nelson. Once a CIA mercenary, you took your orders from Rick Galloway. Then an operation went bad. Outnumbered. Outgunned. You faced certain death, until the alien spaceship appeared. But ...

  • The Moon's Revenge

    Joan Aiken

    Seeking to become the best fiddler in the land, a boy angers the Moon, who seeks revenge by making his sister mute, but when a monster threatens the land, it is only the boy's music that can subdue it and restore his sister's voice. The Mo...

  • Absurd Courage

    Nobuko Albery

  • The Game Is Love

    Jeanne Allan

    Sex was just a game to him, and he knew all the moves If Denver's star quarterback, Tony Hart, was the "stuff of heroes," Erin Cassidy had yet to be convinced. He'd just caused her to lose a major stained glass commission, and now ...

  • What Did You Lose, Santa Claus?

    Berthe Amoss

  • Bedtime Stories

    Dina Anastasio

  • Take Two

    Kristi Andrews

    Shane Bradbury, the fun-loving impetuous co-star of a television soap opera and the youngest in a dynasty of actors, faces problems on the set and off when her grandmother, a famous actress, joins the cast of her show and she breaks up with Mitch...

  • Being a Green Mother

    Piers Anthony

    THE GIFT AND THE CURSE Orb had a rare gift--the magic which manifested whenever she sang or played her harp. No one could resist her music. But greater magic than Orb's lay in the Llano, the mystic music that controlled all things. The quest for t...

  • Split Infinity

    Piers Anthony

    THROUGH THE CURTAIN On the technological, decadent world of Proton, someone was trying to destroy Stile, serf and master Gamesman. His only escape lay through a mysterious "curtain" revealed by a loving robot. Beyond the curtain lay Phaze -- a wor...

  • Vale of the Vole

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When Esk, a young ogre-nymph-human, began his pilgrimage to the Good Magician Humfrey to rid himself of a seductive demoness, little did he know it would become a mission of mercy. A running river paradise and its harmless inhabitants were perishing ...

  • Deception

    Lorayne Ashton

  • Fantastic Voyage II

    Isaac Asimov

  • Aurora

    Kathryn Atwood

    THEY WERE LOCKED TOGETHER IN THE PASSIONATE EMBRACE OF INTRIGUE, SCANDAL, AND DESTINY... Handsome Lord Blacklaw rescued her from the horrors of Bridewell prison -- then made her his pawn in a dangerous game of intrigue and espionage. She became...

  • The Witching of Ben Wagner

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

    When twelve-year-old Ben moves with his family to a town on the shore of Lake Ontario he finds a friend who seems to be a witch and who helps him meet the problems associated with his moving and with his stormy relationships with his father and big s...

  • Devil's Race

    Avi

    Sixteen-year-old John Proud discovers his family's dark secret in 1854 an ancestral namesake confessed to being a demon. Now John finds himself battling his ancestor who is trying to use John for an evil purpose. Mounting suspense plus the sure draw ...

  • Moonglow

    Judy Baer

    "My worst fears come true. My flight crew has both a civilian and a woman -- all in one package." JUDD McALLISTER had no enthusiasm at all for Dr. Sarah Christie's membership on the crew of the shuttle Discovery. Ever since his appointment as missi...

  • Slave Trade

    Chuck Bainbridge

  • Firemouse

    Nina Barbaresi

  • Christmas Toy

    Joanne Barkan

  • Midnight Rambler

    Linda Barlow

    DARK SHADOWS There were no such things as vampires! Dany Holland knew that, yet Max Rambler still sent shivers down her spine. She'd never seen him in the daylight... and she found it impossible to escape from his dark, hypnotic eyes. With ever...

  • The Elusive Countess

    Elizabeth Barron

    BESET AND ENAMOURED... The heath was cloaked in a mist so lush that Lady Rosaline could not find her way. Not could the beautiful countess divine the face of the gallant stranger whose waiting arms saved her from the starless, rainswept night. No...

  • Pied Piper of Hamelin

    Barbara Bartos-hoppner

  • Midnight Snowman

    Caroline Feller Bauer

  • Touch the Moon

    Marion Dane Bauer

    Jennifer is disappointed on her birthday when her father gives her a little china horse and the promise of riding lessons instead of the real horse she's been expecting....

  • Young Mrs. Cavendish and the Kaiser's Men

    K.K. Beck

  • Ratha's Creature

    Clare Bell

    Conquering the Red Tongue, Ratha claims the flickering creature as her own, for no wild cat before could tame mysterious fire. But now the bold she-cat must suffer for her triumph: the jealous leader of her clan orders her into exile. Banished, Ratha...

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Day of the Dinosaur

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • The Berenstain Bears on the Job

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • I Love Colors

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • An Awakening Desire

    Helen Bianchin

    Emma Martinero wasn't looking for romance Love was a closed chapter in her life now that the husband she had adored was dead. That didn't mean, however, that she couldn't pick up the pieces and make a new life for herself. Her trip ...

  • Interface for Murder

    Lloyd Biggle Jr.

    When a high school computer genius is murdered after he claims to have written a program that will identify the slasher, who has attacked five local college students, Jay Pletcher is hired to find the killer...

  • Destiny's Dawn

    Rosanne Bittner

    A Magnificent Epic of the Frontier -- And a Man Torn Between His Heritage and His Heart The civilized world called him Caleb Sax, but among the proud Cheyenne he was known as Blue Hawk, the warrior destined to conquer new lands in his search for...

  • The Baby Sitters Club Notebook

    Sonia W. Black

  • School's Out

    Alison Blair

  • The Candy Cane Caper

    Cynthia Blair

    Christmas is in the air as teen-age twins Chris and Susan Pratt head to their grandparents’ house in a charming, snow-covered village in Vermont. But the girls do more than engage the entire town in a festive holiday celebration. With their usual c...

  • Texas Rose

    Veronica Blake

    Unexpected passion... -- Lisa Parker laughed as she galloped to the creek. She loved her forbidden dawn rides across the Texas countryside. Lost in thought, Lisa didn't notice the clothing draped on the tree behind her. But she couldn't fail to see...

  • Christmas Card for Mr. McFizz

    Obren Bokich

  • Halloween Performance

    Felicia Bond

  • Wake up, Vladimir

    Felicia Bond

  • Lawman's Justice

    James Calder Boone

    The trio were as close to evil as flesh and blood could get. And with the Grand River running red in the wake of their killing spree, Remington and his men make a desperate bid to draw the desperados out..using themselves and an innocent farm family ...

  • Battle Station

    Ben Bova

    THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON WAS A CIVILIAN But those who have gone on to explore our newest boundary have almost all been military personnel. Space is truly the final frontier, and with the explorers and settlers will come the forces that will prese...

  • Kinsman Saga

    Ben Bova

    Having abandoned his family's Quaker roots, Chet Kinsman becomes a hot shot astronaut and the first space murderer, and although subsequently barred from space, he becomes determined to conquer this final frontier...

  • World's End

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    Haunted by the burden of his family's traitorous past, woozy with pot, cheap wine, and sex, and disturbed by a frighteningly real encounter with some family ghosts, Walter Van Brunt is about to have a collision with history. It will lead Walter to s...

  • The Arrangement

    Sally Bradford

    IT WAS A NO-STRINGS ARRANGEMENT Juliet Cavanaugh was a pragmatic lawyer with a no-nonsense approach to life. She'd seen too many broken hearts and homes in divorce court to ever consider marriage. But she wanted to experience motherhood. So sh...

  • Firebrand

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    VIVIDLY BLENDING THE MYTHS OF GODS WITH THE PASSIONS OF MEN AND WOMEN, MARION ZIMMER BRADLEY BRINGS US A SWEEPING, FASCINATING STORY . . . KASSANDRA: Trojan priestess of Apollo, torn between her beloved Sun Lord and the ancient worship of the Eart...

  • Cameron's Closet

    Gary Brandner

  • The Lady and the Lawman

    Joyce Brandon

    THE SUN IS HIGH. THE LINES ARE DRAWN. THE SHOWDOWN IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.... Danger and death are a way of life on the Western frontier in the 1880s--a fact Angie Logan discovers when she returns to her family's Arizona ranch fresh from an Eastern col...

  • Paloverde

    Jacqueline Briskin

    The love story of Amelie -- the sensitive, ardent, young girl whose uncompromising code of honor leads her to choices that will reverberate for generations. The tale of two brothers whose fierce love for the same woman almost destroys them both. Th...

  • Mystery Lover

    Annette Broadrick

    MIND OVER MATTER Some men send flowers, some send cards. But Chad was different. He sent his thoughts -- literally! -- by telepathy. Ever since Jennifer was a child, Chad had comforted her, teased her, and, as she grew into womanhood, loved her. I...

  • Passion's Angel

    Betty Brooks

    Destined for Love She saw him in one of her visions--a handsome, dark-haired man, badly wounded, waiting for his Indian captors to finish him off...And though emerald-eyed Angellee Tucker was intent on tracking her parents' killer, she couldn&#...

  • Play Rhymes

    Marc Brown

  • Belonging

    Dixie Browning

    Saxon Evanshaw had buried his past -- until his sickly father and greedy stepmother dragged him back to his North Carolina home. There he was greeted by sinfully beautiful Gale Chandler, his stepbrother's widow, who held the entire estate in he...

  • A Matter of Crime, Volume 2: New Stories from the Masters of Mystery and Suspense

    Matthew Joseph Bruccoli

    PAPERBACK ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION, Harvest/Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, © 1987. First Printing, so stated, no previous publication. Includes 'The White Cat' by Joyce Carol Oates; 'Smart Guys Don't Snore' by Joe Gores; 'A Trouble Of Fools' by Linda Barn...

  • Maiden

    Cynthia Buchanan

  • All That Jazz

    Carole Buck

    Jazz O'Leary's learned life's lessons the hard way. A tender-hearted tomboy with a knockout smile, she's willing to sacrifice practically anything for the troubled teens she's taken under her wing. But Jazz can't handle the grace and good manners of ...

  • More Than Dreams

    Pamela Bullard

    Katherine Marchand, the ambitious general manager of Boston TV station WLYM relies on anchorwoman Kim Winston to be the linchpin for Katherine's growing media empire, but Kim's involvement with Katherine's ex-husband, Jonathan, complicates matters...

  • Will You Be My POSSLQ

    Eve Bunting

  • The Pianoplayers

    Anthony Burgess

    Following the death of her father, an irregularly employed pianist, Ellen Henshaw becomes a high-class prostitute in Paris during the 1930s and then founds a chain of schools to instruct men in the arts of love and music...

  • The Lost Get-Back Boogie

    James Lee Burke

    TROUBLE 1S RISING 1N MONTANA'S BITTERROOT VALLEY ... ... and Frank Riordan is the only one willing to stop it. As he wages a one-man campaign to shut down the local pulp mill that is polluting the air and devastating the environment, tensions are ...

  • A Lion on Tharthee

    Grant Callin

  • Stringer on the Assassin's Trail

    Lou Cameron

    Stringer was just doing his job when he went to hear Teddy Roosevelt speak at a railway stop in Granger, Wyoming. But Stringer’s job is to write about the speech -- not get shot at. So suddenly a certain reporter has a powerful curiosity about who ...

  • A Breath of Scandal

    Diana Campbell

    Susanna Randall thought she knew everything there was to know about Edward Sutton the Earl of Langham, when she wed him. First, he was marrying for the fortune that her wealthy father pledged to him. Secondly, his devotion long had been claimed by th...

  • Hip-Deep in Alligators

    Robert Campbell

    When the bosses of Chicago's Democratic Party Machine send precinct captain Jimmy Flannery underground to inspect the city's sewers, the idea is to teach him to keep his nose out of other people's business. But Flannery figures what goes on in his wa...

  • The Brimming Cup

    Dorothy Canfield

    CONTENTSCHAPTER Page I. PRELUDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 II. INTERLUDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23_PART ONE_ III. OLD MR. WELLES AND YOUNG MR. MARSH. 29 IV. TABLE TALK. . . . . . ...

  • Night Into Day

    Sandra Canfield

    SOME CALL THE FEELING "KISMET" When sports celebrity Patrick O'Casey's eyes met Alex Farrell's across a crowded New Orleans dance floor, both of them felt like running. He wanted to run off with her--and she just wanted to run. But Alex couldn'...

  • 50 Great Tales of Terror

    John Canning

  • The Manse

    Lisa Cantrell

    Happy Halloween! Each Halloween, the Manse becomes a House of Horrors. Vampires, werewolves, ghouls and ghosts - not to mention Frankenstein's monster - stalk the premises. Bats and spiders drop upon the unwary. At every turn a new fright awaits -...

  • Liquid Sky

    Anne Carlisle

  • Arnie and the Stolen Markers

    Nancy Carlson

  • The Happy Orpheline

    Natalie Savage Carlson

  • Voyage 1st Dec Mmp

    Robert Carlyle

    “Henry Carlisle has done a superb job. Voyage to the First of December has true distinction … A story that has long lain buried in the annals of the American Navy is the record of the only alleged mutiny -- an abortive one at that -- in our count...

  • Walt Disney's Classic Cinderella

    Jan Carr

  • Tempted

    Robyn Carr

    SHE WAS BELLIGERENT AND IRREVERENT, AND HE WAS TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE ... Widowed at thirty-three, with two small kids to bring up alone, Beverly Simpson wanted to blame someone. Until now, fate had been on her side, she admitted that, but in a cruel...

  • Dark and Full of Secrets

    Carol Carrick

  • Pressure Point

    Nick Carter

  • Clypsis

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    RACEWAY TO THE STARS Imagine Clypsis, an entire solar system designed as the most awesome racetrack in the history of the sport. Imagine personality-implanted robots, whose knowledge and influence can make or break a racer's career, and fusion-...

  • Last Hunter

    Fred Cederberg

  • Christmas Story

    Mary Chambers

  • Last Quadrant

    Meira Chand

  • Passions

    Helen Chappell

  • Dangerous Places

    Elaine Raco Chase

    NIKKI AND ROMAN. DETECTIVE AND REPORTER. IF THEY DON'T KILL EACH OTHER, THEY MIGHT SOLVE A FEW MURDERS. The 7 Deadly Sins have never been so - Deadly! Or so much fun! Meet Nikki Holden - she may know 140 characters but social media is not her ...

  • Princess Who?

    Emily Chase

    She's a real, live princess! The Princess Allegra of Montavia is touring boarding schools, and Jane, Andy, and Toby are put in charge of her during her visit to Canby Hall. Everyone is excited, and Jane gives plenty of advice on how to treat royalt...

  • Fever Season

    C.J. Cherryh

  • Beasts of Valhalla

    George C. Chesbro

    He's an ex-circus performer turned hard-nosed New York private eye -- with a Ph.D. in criminology and a black belt to boot. He's also a dwarf -- which creates some problems even as it gives him special insight into the slings and arrows that pierce t...

  • The Riddle and the Rune

    Grace Chetwin

  • African Journey

    John Chiasson

  • The Child's Story Book

    Kay Chorao

    Children who cuddled up with Chorao's The Baby's Story Book and The Baby's Lap Book can graduate to the fairy tales collected in this volume. In addition to ``Jack and the Beanstalk,'' ``Hansel and Gretel,'' ``The Pied Piper'' and ``The Ugly Duckling...

  • Go West, Swamp Monsters!

    Mary Blount Christian

  • Red-Hot Hightops

    Matt Christopher

    When Kelly Roberts plays basketball at home with her friend Ester, she's a whiz, but as soon as she faces a crowd, she freezes. One day Kelly finds a brand-new pair of red hightops in her locker. They fit her perfectly, and whenever she wears them, h...

  • The Friends of Emily Culpepper

    Ann Coleridge

  • Spree

    Max Allan Collins

    The taut, final crime novel in Max Allan Collins's Nolan series. Both Nolan and his friend Jon have retired from the dangerous game of robbery. But a backwoods hoodlum named Cole Comfort kidnaps Nolan's girlfriend and demands he pull one final, huge ...

  • The Actor

    Robert J. Conley

    When Bluford Steele and the traveling acting troupe he has joined arrive in the dangerous town of West Riddle, the evil tyrant of the town forces them to perform and then steals their money, and Bluford must play the role of a lifetime as a ruthless ...

  • Among Friends

    Caroline B. Cooney

    THE AWESOME THREESOME Together-forever friends -- that's how everyone had always thought of them, and how they'd thought of themselves. Until now. Jennie: The powerful center of the trio, Jennie strives for perfection. But her quest to be the bes...

  • The Winning of Miss Lynn Ryan

    Ilene Cooper

    Miss Ryan is unlike any teacher Carrie's ever had. She's pretty and glamorous -- and she picks favorites. Carrie would do anything to be in that circle of favorites, and at last she's found a project that will let her shine. But the campaign to win M...

  • Head over Heels

    M.E. Cooper

  • Sweet and Sour

    M.E. Cooper

  • Avenging Angel

    Lori Copeland

    LAWLESS LOVE With her beautiful face profiled against the hot Missouri sky, Wynne Elliot was every inch a southern lady, but that didn't make the rifle in her hands any less deadly. She had sworn vengeance on the handsome scoundrel who'd taken ...

  • Space Station Ice-3

    Bruce Coville

  • Fortunes

    Vera Cowie

    After Charles Despard's death, his estranged English daughter, Kate, and his French stepdaughter, Dominique, are pitted against each other in a contest for profit and ultimate control of the Despard international auction empire...

  • Forever Friends

    Patricia Cox

    Cassie Gordon was off her rocker.... Dave Spencer thought he had heard wrong, but Cassie had said she wanted him to help her catch Brad, his close buddy! Maybe she had spent too much time in the hot kitchen with her catering business? But Cassie t...

  • The Beauty Queen Killer

    John Creasey

    Only a jealous lover? Betty Gelibrand was young, exceptionally beautiful, and the proud winner of a contest that guaranteed her a part in a movie. It was a small part, to be sure, but every great actress had to start somewhere small...or so she told ...

  • The Blind Spot

    John Creasey

    An Inspector West mystery. Janet West finds an envelope containing the message "This is only the beginning!" under her front door. And her husband, Inspector Roger West of Scotland Yard, is in the hospital, the victim of an unknown acid thrower. ...

  • A Natural Woman

    Caitlin Cross

    Kansas farm girl Vanessa Linnier never imagined captivating a sophisticated city man like Sky Van Dusen. But once their eyes met across a dusty corral, their souls forged a link that led to a special night of sweet, unbridled desire. Then Vana's...

  • Roscoe's Leap

    Gillian Cross

    A plan to restore a guillotine and other strange toys once belonging to an eccentric millionaire fills his twelve-year-old great-great-grandson with nameless dread and concern for his family's safety....

  • Wait for Me!

    Molly Cross

  • Pop Goes the Weasel!

    Robert Crowther

  • Dinosaurs

    Mauro Cutrona

  • Necessary Parties

    Barbara Dana

  • Master Handicapping

    Steven Davidowitz

  • As October Dies

    Kenn Davis

    When three paintings are stolen from her private collection, Agnes Trevillion hires detective Carver Bascombe to investigate her art curator, Jordan Kooby, but the case takes a lethal turn when Kooby turns up dead...

  • Halo

    Chet Day

  • The Incorporated Knight

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Preferring trade to chivalry, practical-minded Eudoric Dambertson reluctantly sets out to kill a dragon to appease his would-be father-in-law and learns some discomfiting truths about dragon aying.

    ...

  • Washington Wives

    Maureen Dean

    After the President's closest adviser dies, the President announces that he will name a successor within five days and four of Washington's most powerful women launch their own powerplay, each determined that her man will be appointed...

  • A Duet for My Lady

    Marjorie DeBoer

    A Gentleman with a certain spark... that was who Stephanie Endicott wanted for a husband, but he was not to be found in Philadelphia. And expedition to London, it was hoped by her indomitable mother, would produce a suitable match -- with an earl, a ...

  • Spring Will Come

    Sherry DeBorde

    On the terrifying day of her father's death, Camille Braxton Beaufort went searching the gambling halls and bordellos of the muddy Mississippi for the one man her father promised she could trust, and the man she would manly--Charles Longmont. ...

  • Heat Wave

    Barbara Delinsky

    It was simply sultry Caroline Cooper was hot. And after dealing with other people's crises all day, she was frustrated. But throwing open her window to catch the night breeze did little to solve her problems. Directly across the courtyard sat ...

  • The Secret of Annexe 3

    Colin Dexter

    WHO HOLDS THE KEY TO A HOTEL ROOM? AN AMOROUS STRANGER? A DANGEROUS LOVER? A West Indian Rastafarian costume won him first place at the Haworth Hotel's New Year's Eve ball. But when his body is found in Room 3 of the hotel's annexe, no one knows h...

  • Unlikely Partners

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Sarah felt as if she were Cinderella High-society dances at the yacht club, flights in a private plane to the California wine country, a designer wardrobe--life had never been this wonderful for shy librarian Sarah Farentino. Suddenly she was lead...

  • See No Evil

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Dancing at the Rascal Fair

    Ivan Doig

    The central volume in Ivan Doig's acclaimed Montana trilogy, Dancing at the Rascal Fair is an authentic saga of the American experience at the turn of this century and a passionate, portrayal of the immigrants who dared to try new lives in the impos...

  • Smoke in the Wind

    Robyn Donald

    Her response to him was frightening... Venetia had felt desire before. The result? Such a disastrous marriage that she felt she wanted never to experience desire again. And she hadn't -- until now. Ryan Fraine, famous documentary filmmaker,...

  • Holy Mother

    Gabrielle Donnelly

    For the disparate group of young Catholic comprising Our Lady Of Sorrows (Soho) Parish Society of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Friday night discussions held under the guidance of Father Bob Powers offer an opportunity to mix with others of their own kind....

  • Evenings in Paris

    Kathleen Downes

    The mystery lady stood on the observation deck of the Eiffel Tower in trench coat and dark glasses, and Bart Callister was fascinated. He wanted her, wanted to know her secrets, to slip inside her enigmatic heart. Arri Smith knew she was no siren who...

  • The Radiant Way

    Margaret Drabble

    Liz Headleand, Esther Breuer, and Alix Bowen have been friends since Cambridge. Twenty-five years later, life has led them all down very different paths. Liz is a successful and well-known psychiatrist with a full social life. Esther, an eccentric bo...

  • Kill Ratio

    David Drake

  • Kimberly's Kiss

    Kathleen Drymon

    NO MAN'S PLAYTHING All of her girlhood, high-spirited Kimberly Davonwoods had spent her days racing her horse, perfecting her fencing, and roaming London's byways disguised as a boy. Then, at nineteen, the raven-haired beauty suddenly found herse...

  • Frederique

    Yvonne du Fresne

    On New Zealand's Manawatu Plains in the 1860s a young woman, part-Danish, part-French Huguenot, part-settler, lives in anguish. What are these strange stirring memories of another Fredrique, born in France in the 17th century, who fled the religious ...

  • Scarlet Surrender

    Sandra Dubay

    A SCARLET ROSE HAD BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER In the still, hot, sweet-scented night, Grey Verreaux entered a shadowy room, expecting to enjoy the lush charms of his intended bride. Like the fragrant petals of the flower that marked her door, passion u...

  • Pretty Good Magic

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Illus. in full color. "Magic, humor, and an unusual ending make Pretty Good Magic pretty good fun. The text hops along with the overabundance of rabbits that Presto (a 'pretty good magician') has produced. Beginning readers will delight in the troubl...

  • Last Worthless Evening

    Andre Dubus

    Yet another tour de force from an American master of fiction In his fifth collection of short fiction, Andre Dubus exhibits his remarkable storytelling range. In Deaths at Sea, two naval officers, one black and one white, must come to terms with ...

  • Shadow

    Dave Duncan

    Sald Harl would like nothing more than to soar on the wings of his noble eagle, but his youthful rides in the sky are cut short by an appointment to guard the prince. Sald watches his dreams of flight fade with his name and independence as he takes o...

  • Moving Target

    Fran Earley

    Two for the price of one Tracy Hannon had seen little action during her term as sheriff of San Isabel County. The tranquil atmosphere was shattered, however, when a sniper took aim at Shane Keegan, the dynamic chairman of Trans-world Systems. Shan...

  • Hunt With the Hounds

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    At dusk, murder rode with the bright-jacketed huntsmen through woods and fields. Among them was young and pretty Sue Poore, involved with an attractive man whose wife had been mysteriously murdered. Already under suspicion, Sue Poore was ripe for mur...

  • Shock Effect

    Glen Ebisch

  • Maximum Effort

    G.C. Edmondson

  • Crystal Rapture

    Sarah Edwards

    A BEAUTIFUL, DEFIANT YANKEE Cassandra Caldwell joins her father in London only to lose him under mysterious circumstances. A suicide note satisfies Scotland Yard, but not headstrong Cassie. Determined to see justice done, she accepts the more than g...

  • Marianne's Grandmother

    Bettina Egger

  • Buck-Buck the Chicken

    Amy Ehrlich

  • Leo, Zack and Emmie Together Again

    Amy Ehrlich

    Winter brings out the snowball-throwing worst and snowman-building best in Leo, Zack and Emmie as they argue about the existence of Santa Claus and catch chicken pox one by one. But no amount of snowballs and spots on their faces can come between fri...

  • The Haunted Heart

    Blossom Elfman

  • The Rabbi of Lud

    Stanley Elkin

    Rabbi Jerry Goldkorn resides in Lud, New Jersey, where Jews from the surrounding states come to bury their dead.

    Distressed by the lack of living children in the area, the Rabbi''s daughter Connie creates a scandal that livens up the town o...

  • The Einstein Legacy

    Richard Elliott

  • Lost and Found

    Robin Elliott

    FINDERS, KEEPERS When Kendra Smith noticed that her prize geraniums had been eaten, she should have known it meant trouble. But Homer, her handsome new neighbor's pet rabbit, was the least of her problems. When she went next door to give Josep...

  • Lone Star and the Phantom Gunmen

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki follow a town's bloody secret to Boot Hill!Jessie and Ki ride out to the Arizona territory to look after Starbuck interests. They find the town of Whitewash helpless against a band of phantom rustlers. And what starts as cow thieving en...

  • Lone Star in a Range War

    Wesley Ellis

    A corrupt cattle town explodes as an innocent man is sentenced to hang in the sixty-second Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki --...

  • September Faces

    Seymour Epstein

  • The Pack

    William Essex

  • Longarm on Dead Man's Trail

    Tabor Evans

  • Emma In Winter

    Penelope Farmer

    Lonely and unhappy after her sister Charlotte goes away to boarding school, Emma discovers that she and Bobby Tumpkins, a fat, awkward classmate, are being propelled backward in time while they sleep....

  • Taking Chances

    M.J. Farrell

  • Golden Fire

    Jonathan Fast

    Here, brought splendidly to life, is the golden age of India. And here an epic story of love and vengeance unfolds, sweeping from battlefields thundering with majestic fighting elephants to the erotic hidden world of the harem... A blood rivalry ...

  • Doctor's Heart

    Jeanne Felldin

  • One Friend to Another

    Elizabeth Feuer

    Embarking on a new life style as she starts junior high, Nicole Aldrich seeks the friendship of the most popular girl, Rhonda Winkler, but later must face the truth about real friendship when she discovers that she has been betrayed...

  • Guns Roaring West

    Peter Field

  • Station Break

    John Fischer

  • Romany Summer

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    THE ULTIMATE INDISCRETION Beautiful, chestnut-haired Felicity Carruthers was little more than a girl when a thwarted elopement with the young man she loved left her with the loss of both her love and her reputation. Felicity was older now and w...

  • Paper Money

    Ken Follett

    PAPER MONEY It was worth a night of sex that a high government official would never forget. PAPER MONEY It was worth setting the stock market spinning in a ruthless grab for a giant corporation. PAPER MONEY It was worth any gamble for a corporate r...

  • Ladies Whose Bright Eyes

    Ford Madox Ford

    What would really happen to a modern man thrown back to the Middle Ages ?...

  • How Much for Just the Planet?

    John M. Ford

    Dilithium. In crystalline form, the most valuable mineral in the galaxy. It powers the Federation's starships... and the Klingon Empire's battlecruisers. Now on a small,out-of-the-way planet named Direidi, the greatest fortune in dilithium crystals e...

  • Clouded Paradise

    Rachel Ford

    She was not offering anything but money! Catherine loved Coral Strand, but if a multimillion dollar company wanted to develop her deserted strip of beach, who was she to stand in the way? St. Hilaire would benefit from the potential employment ...

  • A Wanted Man

    Regan Forest

    He was as guilty as sin What with all the cattle rustling going on, brand inspector Beth Connor was suspicious of everyone. Especially a certain skinny-dipping drifter she caught red-handed with two of her neighbor's horses. Though she soon...

  • Testostero

    David Foster

  • Starfire

    Judith E. French

    Rebecca Bradford descends the grand staircase of her new Maryland home. Her gown shimmers with every step, her radiant beauty belying her contempt for this world of golden luxury. For years she has lived as "Star Blanket," daughter of the Shawnee, wh...

  • Early Thunder

    Jean Fritz

    Daniel knew he was loyal to England and the King. Until something happened that changed his life forever. This "vivid and compelling story of the American Revolution" is set in Salem in 1774, when people were either Tories or Whigs and the growing v...

  • Slaughter Zone

    Frank Garrett

  • Surrender to a Stranger

    Sibylle Garrett

    A WOMAN IN NEED Investment banker Laura Foster's son had been kidnapped by her vengeful ex-husband. Laura had come to sultry Mexico to find the child, but she couldn't challenge the wealth and power of Julio Vasquez on her own. Gabe Bor...

  • Man of Iron

    Catherine George

    He thought she was just a gold digger! Until her adoptive mother died suddenly, Antonia Grant hadn't known that her natural mother had kept a distant watch over her. So it was disconcerting to meet her for the first time. Antonia loved Dian...

  • Encounter at Farpoint

    David Gerrold

    SPACE...THE FINAL FRONTIER. THESE ARE THE ALL-NEW VOYAGES OF THE U.S.S. ENTERPRISE! Gene Roddenberry, the man who created the original STAR TREK television series, now brings the magic of STAR TREK to a brand-new, even more exciting future--a futu...

  • The Mountains of Tibet

    Mordicai Gerstein

  • From Hand to Mouth

    James Cross Giblin

  • Burning Chrome

    William Gibson

    Ten brilliant, high-resolution stories from the man who invented the term cyberspace: From the chip-enhanced couriers of Johnny Mnemonic to the street-tech melancholy of Burning Chrome, Gibson's characters and their intensely realized worlds become i...

  • Raging of the Wea

    Charles Gidley

  • The Secret at the Polk Street School

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    To help her class win the school contest, Dawn Bosco will have to find the person who is trying to ruin their play, Little Red Riding Hood Ms. Rooney’s second-grade class is determined to win the school contest by putting on a surprise pla...

  • Tootsie Tanner, Why Don't You Talk?

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Youthful sleuth Abby Jones finds her investigation complicated by an unlikely prime suspect, the mysterious Tootsie Tanner and her disappearing twin, Tillie, a rumor of a runaway, and a terrifying baby-sitting job...

  • Hoover Vs. the Kennedys

    Christopher Cook Gilmore

  • Operation S.N.A.R.E.

    Eve Gladstone

    She was torn between loyalty...and suspicion Trouble began for Boston-bred Molly Ryder when her tape recorder was stolen from her handbag. Later that day she found a dead man lying on her living room floor. Rick Boulter, an assistant district a...

  • Where Memories Begin

    Elizabeth Glenn

    She wasn't nineteen anymore Gorgeous Chandler Scott had been Lanni Preston's first experience with passion. She alone had glimpsed the vulnerable side of the aloof, arrogant youth. When he'd left her suddenly that summer, without expla...

  • The Winter Heart

    Victoria Glenn

    WARMTH IN WINTER Being a Hollywood actress was far from glamorous for Amanda Ryan. But whether she was playing a Martian in a music video, or recording voice-overs for cartoon characters, she was determined to succeed not only for herself but for ...

  • A Southern Family

    Gail Godwin

    The novels of Gail Godwin are contemporary classics -- evocative, powerfully affecting, beautifully crafted fiction alive with endearing, unforgettable characters. Her critically acclaimed work has placed her among the ranks of Eudora Welty, Pat Conr...

  • The Man Who Was Not With It

    Herbert Gold

    The Man Who Was Not With It is the story of young Bud Williams and his safari southward to Florida. On the way, he is abruptly confronted with the con men, addicts, and freaks, and the bruised innocence, of carnival and nightclub life. ...

  • A Mask for the General

    Lisa Goldstein

    In a sorely oppressed America of the near future, Mary and Layla attempt to unite two distinct factions--the Tribes and the Underground--in a rebellion against the General, a tin-pot dictator with dreams of glory...

  • The Story of a Main Street

    John S. Goodall

    A panoramic, wordless picture history chronicles the evolution of an English main street, from the medieval period through the changes and developments of the Elizabethan, Restoration, Georgian, Regency, Victorian, and Edwardian eras, to the present....

  • In the Shadow of the Peacock

    Katharine Gordon (1)

  • Eagle's Prey

    Lucy Gordon

    PRISONER OF LOVE... Sara was a wildlife photographer determined to brave the desolate cliffs of Farraway Island to capture the golden eagles on film. Instead, Sara was captured by Rorke Calvin, a man as fierce and untamed as the eagles Sara was s...

  • Richard and the Vratch

    Beatrice Gormley

    Exploring the hills near his house, Richard sees an odd drawing and hears eerie sounds: "vratch, vratch." Is a strange animal hiding in the sagebrush, or is it Richard’s imagination? What’s the matter with Richard’s new dog? And why is that cre...

  • Kitty Collins

    Lesley Gould

  • Shadows Ten

    Charles L. Grant

  • Forever Love

    Laurie Grant

    COURTLY LOVE, FOREVER LOVE Simon of Winslade had just one thing in mind when he claimed sweet Ysabeau's yielding lips: seduction. Too long she had tempted him with the melting innocence of her soft, dark eyes; too long she had held herself aloof, ...

  • The Sorcerer's Apprentices

    Nicholas Stuart Gray

  • Loving Jenny

    Billie Green

    When Jenny Valiant crashed his wedding reception, Nick Reynolds expected the worst. Even if it wasn't her fault their quickie divorce had been a phony he wouldn't have put it past his impulsive ex-wife to do it on purpose! It wasn't easy escaping the...

  • Looking Glass Years

    Jill Gregory

    Her heart's destiny soared on the wings of time... Elly Forrest... a woman who dared to dream. Hers was a life of laughter and tears, heartache and joy. From the industrial boom of Pittsburgh in the late 1800s to the windswept grandeur of Chicago,...

  • Dreamhouse

    Kate Grenville

    In a decaying Tuscan villa, Rennie, a self-absorbed academic, completes his dissertation, and Louise contemplates the ruin of their marriage, until Louise's life ripens with new and unconventional possibilities...

  • Blood Hunt

    Neil M. Gunn

  • Love and Splendor

    Patricia Hagan

    DESTINY OF LOVE... AND SPLENDOR When Dani Coltrane flees to Paris, she leaves behind heartache and pain, and vows no man will ever control her. But then the proud heiress to the Coltrane dynasty meets the dashing nobleman, Drake, and her determinati...

  • In Trouble Again, Zelda Hammersmith?

    Lynn Hall

    Five episodes in the zany life of fourth grader Zelda Hammersmith, in which she deals with a bad report card, a boy who does not want to be her boyfriend, the theft of her best friend, and other tribulations...

  • Ride a Dark Horse

    Lynn Hall

    After her father is killed in a shameful accident, Gusty McCaw becomes suspicious of happenings at Tradition Farm, the horse farm where she works, and soon finds herself caught in a web of dark secrets, danger, and murder...

  • Search the Seven Hills

    Barbara Hambly

    In ancient Rome, a poor philosopher races to rescue his kidnapped lover before she is abused by the sinister Christian cultThe son of a wealthy Roman family, Marcus gave up the prestige and riches that were his birthright to devote himself to philoso...

  • White Romance A

    Virginia Hamilton

  • Hey Jack!

    Barry Hannah

    A Southerner odyssey revolving around Gramps, a hypochondriacal professor, a rock star, redneck Southerners, Korean veterans, and Jack, an old cafe owner whose friendship with Homer, the narrator, anchors the story...