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  • The Wizard of 4th Street

    Simon Hawke

    WIZ KIDS NAB GEMS Wyrdrune was a student wizard with a penchant for botching spells. Kira was a cutie whose snatch-andgrab act was big on New York's seamier streets. In spite of themselves, they managed to pull off the heist of the 23rd century. T...

  • 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...

  • The Price of Glory

    William H. Keith Jr.

    The Gray Death Legion has been betrayed. After a year-long campaign in the service of House Marik, Grayson Carlyle and the warriors of the Gray Death Legion were ready for a rest. But their home base has been destroyed, their families scattered, a...

  • Search the Shadows

    Barbara Michaels

    Born of a secret tainted bloodline... Haskell Maloney came to Chicago to study Egyptology, following in her mother's academic footsteps. But it was more than a degree she was seeking. Haskell was looking for answers to her mother's untimely death-...

  • Felicity

    Coral Lansbury

    With a murderous rapist roaming Long Island's prestigious Pequod College, suspicion falls on Bernie Lefkowitz, a campus playboy, and his recently jilted lover, Felicity Norman, a voluptuous art historian...

  • Maximum Effort

    G.C. Edmondson

  • 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...

  • Thursday and the Lady

    Patricia Matthews

    1848. America's most unforgettable era. As suffragettes begin their long struggle...as the gold rush spurs glorious optimism...comes a story of a proud, passionate love only the gifted pen of Patricia Matthews can tell. Jemina Benedict refuse...

  • The Other

    Thomas Tryon

    NYRB Classics presents the landmark psychological horror novel about 13-year-old twins living in a bucolic New England town -- one good and the other very, very evil. “A whirlpool of Oh-My-God horror.” -- Ira Levin, author of Rosemary’s Baby...

  • War Weapons

    Craig Sargent

    After his encounter with Gen'l Patton III, The last Ranger is out for revenge. As he hunts for the renegade rmy man who is looking to build a fascist empire, Stone finds that he is also being hunted himself....

  • Slave Trade

    Chuck Bainbridge

  • Wild Is My Love

    Janelle Taylor

    SET IN A THRILLING AGE OF NOBLE KNIGHTS AND LADIES FAIR, HERE IS A MAGICAL, ROMANTIC TALE OF BOLD ADVENTURE, EXOTIC FANTASY AND WILD, ENDLESS LOVE... She is the bewitchingly lovely Princess Alysa. He is a mysterious stranger who has come to res...

  • Songbird

    Linda Shaw

    In the wake of the Civil War Jessica saw Conrad Montgomery, the man she loved, driven out of Texas-threatened by the vengeance of a man sworn to destroy him. but in time Conrad returned to a new Texas-magnificent, wild, arrogant a land that fueled hi...

  • Trial by Fire

    J.R. Roberts

    A likable hunchback dies trying to save Clint's life. His last request extracts a strange promise from the Gunsmith. Now Clint must find the dead man's long lost daughter. A fortune waits for the missing gal, if only the Gunsmith can find her. It'...

  • 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 --...

  • 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...

  • Longarm on Dead Man's Trail

    Tabor Evans

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Passions

    Helen Chappell

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • Doctor's Heart

    Jeanne Felldin

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Defiant Vixen

    Katharine Kincaid

    BEAUTIFUL AVENGER Seraphim Carver narrowed her golden eyes as she considered the final details of her plan. She'd managed to stow away aboard the Lawrence and persuade Commodore Perry to let her stay and serve as a nurse... now she had to find a way...

  • The Ruthless Lord Rule

    Michelle Kasey

    A proud beauty defies a lord who has never known defeat. THE ELUSIVE MISS LAWRENCE Fashionable society buzzed with rumor when Miss Mary Lawrence made her appearance in its most exalted circles. Where had this startling young beauty come from, ...

  • Moontide Embrace

    Constance O'Banyon

    NIGHT CLOAKED SPLENDOR Ever since notorious Judah Slaughter had kissed thirteen-year-old Liberty Boudreaux in thanks for helping him escape, she knew there could be no other for her. Now, five years later, the gangly girl had become a breathtaking ...

  • An Obsession With Honor

    Andrea Kent; Bette McNicholas

    STORMY PASSIONS SWEPT HER ONTO THE SWELLING SEAS Treason! The word gripped Blair's heart with an icy dread. British troops were burning Washington, and Blair O'Bannon, feisty young patriot, had been marked for arrest. First her father had been abd...

  • Leprechaun

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Blake Pemberton knew he had to be dreaming, or else he'd lost his mind -- there was an enchanting green-haired alien standing next to his bed! But it was Nichelle Clay who froze at the sight of the sinfully gorgeous man wrapped in one thin, rumpled ...

  • No Choice But Surrender

    Meagan McKinney

    PRISONER OF PASSION Penniless and alone, Lady Brienne had come to Osterley Park, back to the house of the father she despised. She found a stranger waiting -- an arrogant American whose sensuality set her heart beating wildly, rendering her powerles...

  • Nighthawk's Embrace

    Gloria Pedersen

    Nicholas Harrowe had taken Elissa aboard his ship as a prisoner of war, then captured her heart with a single burning kiss. He had claimed her hand in a hasty midnight ceremony, then dueled the man who doubted her virtue at dawn. He had made her a wo...

  • Love's Golden Promise

    Lynette Vinet

    SHE WAS THE CAPTIVE OF HIS DARK DESIRE. Penniless and .heartbreakingly beautiful, Wynter McChesney, knew of only one man who could lend her the vast sums she needed to save her ancestral manor. But the collateral Cort Van Linden demanded was an ou...

  • Ride the Eagle

    Vita Vendresha

    He could torment her days with doubts and her nights with desires that fired her soul. He was everything she ever wanted. But they were opponents in a labor dispute, each fighting to win. Would she risk her brilliant career for the promise of lo...

  • Briar Rose

    Susan Wiggs

    DANGEROUS PASSION From the moment Briar Rose sets eyes on Lord Gareth Hawke's magnificent Saxon face -- his golden hair gleaming in the sunlight -- she is captivated. She has found her knight -- a loving partner to one day be lord of Briarwood, he...

  • Sea Dream

    Terri Valentine

    NO TIME FOR ROMANCE Since her father died, headstrong Erica Armstrong had run his vast shipping company, finding the success and freedom she always craved. Still, there were moments when the sensuous blonde yearned to luxuriate in her femininity and...

  • It Started With a Kiss

    Kit Windham

    When Henrietta Jones jumps out of a cake into the arms of a stranger at her future brother-in-law's bachelor party, she's the one who gets the surprise--he kisses her in front of all her friends! But Sam Marchand's impulsive act isn't typical. And He...

  • Guidelines

    Eric Helm

    The Americans believe that the North Vietnamese are using a new kind of guidance system for their SA-2 missiles. U.S. fighter aircraft are unable to detect surface-to-air launches on their radar equipment. If this discovery is true, then the air w...

  • The Pack

    William Essex

  • Halo

    Chet Day

  • Throwback

    Mark Manley

    Once in many generations, it reappears. Scientists cal it a freak of evolution. The people in the hills have another name for it. Throwback. Something preys on your mind even as it grows under your skin. It will sprout a bone structure. Clawi...

  • Entombed

    Guy N. Smith

    Years Ago . . . the children toiled in the dank slate mines of Cowmgilla, hostages to their mad overseer . . . helpless victims in his evil satanic rites. Now . . . on the outskirts of the charming Welsh village, something stirs deep in the...

  • 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...

  • Crowned Heads

    Thomas Tryon

    Though the greats of Hollywood may fade, their secrets live on foreverFedora is dead, and movies will never be the same. A star since the early days of Hollywood, she survived the business for an unprecedented four decades before retiring to Crete. A...

  • Lady

    Thomas Tryon

    LADY recreates a small New England town of the 1930s and '40s. Seen through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy, Woody, we meet Lady, a charming widow, owner of an imposing home on the Green. As does Woody, we come to care for and love his "special fri...

  • Kill Ratio

    David Drake

  • Raven's Gathering

    Keith Taylor

    A POET AND A PIRATE, THEY WERE THE DEADLIEST TEAM ON THE NORTHERN SEASHE IS FELIMID MAC FAL, once a bard of Ireland. Now he uses his wits and his magic in the service of his lover, the most notorious pirate on the seas of ancient Britain.SHE IS GUDRU...

  • Nightrider

    David Mace

  • Angels in Hell

    Janet Morris

    Altos, Hell's only Unfallen Angel, tours the nether regions and observes as Genghis Khan teaches a military historian a lesson, Marilyn Monroe kisses the Devil, Stalin rewrites the Bible, and Napoleon's lover ponders an offer to enter Heaven...

  • Conan the Defiant

    Steve Perry
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Before avenging a friend's death, the youthful Conan must battle undead warriors and Men With No Eyes--two formidable factions seeking the Source of Light, a talisman that can make Neg the Malefic unconquerable or destroy him forever...

  • Tales from the Planet Earth

    Frederik Pohl

  • Love and War

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The legend of Raistlin's daughter! A strange story that cannot be confirmed, yet it is whispered among the elves of Silvanesti, gossiped about by the kender of Krynn, and told here for the first time by Caramon, the enigmatic mage's surviving twin...

  • Matters of Form

    Scott Wheeler

    The Shan, immortal alien shape changers, who could offer mankind both the freedom of the starways and an eternal lifetime to explore the universe. The Phoenix Group, shipwrecked Shan, separated from the last remnants of their race, working secretly o...

  • The Crown Jewels

    Walter Jon Williams

    Drake Maijstral, a dispossessed aristocrat and master thief, is commissioned to steal the invaluable jeweled box that has become the focus of the power struggle between the Khosali alien conquerors and the successfully rebellious Humans...

  • Invid Invasion

    Jack McKinney

    A DESPERATE COUNTERINVASION... The Invid Regis had succeeded where the Zentraedi and their Robotech Masters had failed. She had driven her warrior horde across the far reaches of space to lay claim to the galaxy's last supply of the Flower of Life a...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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&#...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • A Knight to Remember

    Olivia Harper; Ken

    The T in Tegan Knight's name definitely stood for trouble, but what could Jason Sloan do? The tease of a "fortune hunter" was too delightfully devious to ignore! He wanted to believe the worst of the schemer with the devilish glint in her eyes, that ...

  • 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,...

  • The Guarded Heart

    Barbara Hazard

    Beautiful Erica Stone left Regency England for Vienna with a husband she barely knew. But she found her husband mysteriously murdered and herself alone in a city of romance, where women were playthings and words of love were lies. Owen Kingsley, t...

  • Love and Lavender

    Muriel Jensen

    Love could have some very strange symptoms Rosie Weaver and her new boarder argued over the insignificant details of day-to-day living and brazenly probed each other's deepest secrets. The McMinnville, Oregon, boarding house became a war zone ...

  • The Whole Truth

    Jenny Loring

    THE YEARS HAD CHANGED EVERYTHING BUT THEIR LOVE Besides integrity, Susannah Ross brought a certain poise to the judgeship--and nothing could have threatened that more than seeing Dan Sullivan in her court. Dan. The lawyer she'd lived with and lov...

  • Banish the Dragons

    Margie McDonnell

    Angela Newman stormed into the camp office breathing fire, ready to do battle with the heartless counselor who'd made her beloved niece Liz cry. But David Ortega wasn't the dragon she expected to face. Instead, she was swept up by a dashing knight wh...

  • Run Wild, Run Free

    Nancy Morse

    HE WAS NO ORDINARY COWBOY Hank Reardon could outrope and outride any man in Wyoming but guilt over his wife's death while he was out on the rodeo circuit forced him to retreat to his ranch to breed horses and break mustangs, vowing never to compet...

  • Kismet

    Helen Mittermeyer

    Thane Stoner was a hunk to be sure. Tru Hubbard admitted, but was he a man to be sure of? Feeling dizzy and happy and just a bit reckless was a wonderful change for her from the months of hurt and struggle as her marriage was ending, but could she fi...

  • No Laughing Matter

    Marie Nicole

    LAUGHING ALL THE WAY When Marti McGregor burst into his office, wanting him to produce her film, Stephen Townsend knew his life would never be the same. He liked the surface Marti--confident, funny, beautiful--but he was captivated by the woman be...

  • Woman Hater // Mountain Man

    Diana Palmer

    MOUNTAIN MAN Everyone in the office described the boss's mysterious older brother as a real woman hater -- an absolute bear of a man. So, when Nicole White had to travel with her ailing employer to his brother's home in Montana, she was prepared ...

  • Room for One More

    Virginia Nielsen

    WHAT WAS FIVE YEARS' AGE DIFFERENCE? Nothing, as far as Seattle technician Brock Morley was concerned. He loved widow Charlotte Emlyn with all his heart and was determined to marry her. Charlotte was ready to agree--until her teenage son Wade d...

  • When Hearts Dream

    Laurel Pace

    No dream was impossible for Anne and Wes Major and minor setbacks hadn't stopped Anne Torrence from opening a boutique in Charlotte, North Carolina. Long, pressure-filled days never prevented successful engineer Wes Jordan from moonlighting as a j...

  • Gentle Persuasion

    Rita Rainville

    WANTED WOMAN Nothing ever happened in Saratoga, California, until the day Kaylie West went to the jewelers and found herself in the middle of a robbery. Just one witness could identify the crooks, and she it. Still, Kaylie was sure she didn't need...

  • Outback Nights

    Emilie Richards

    WELCOME TO OZ Russet Ames had escaped! As the plane flew over the Australian countryside, Rusty felt no regret at having left behind the glittering New York world of modeling. She was looking forward to a quieter pace, a tranquil life in the land ...

  • Give and Take

    Anna Schmidt

    FRINGE BENEFITS The position was only temporary--Joshua Carrington needed someone to design the windows of his Milwaukee department store, and Marlo Fletcher needed a job to help take a load off her bank balance. The situation was perfect for both...

  • The Playboy Prince

    Nora Roberts

    LADY OF MYSTERY Prince Bennett Bisset of Cordina had been making gossip headlines since his teens--but the prim and proper Lady Hannah Rothchild wasn't his usual choice in women. Something in her eyes intrigued him, and he was determined to discove...

  • Carnival Madness

    Erin Ross

    THE BRASS RING Elizabeth couldn't take it anymore. The carnival in Venice was crowded with nothing but foolish partygoers. She'd much rather be completing her historical research in Scotland, but her aunt had insisted on her taking a break. Elizab...

  • Sea Gate

    Maura Seger

    They were worlds apart... BRAVE NEW WORLD... Andrew Paxton was a man of science -- he dealt with the facts and left the fantasizing to others. His work involved classified government material, so when his small son discovered a raven-haired bea...

  • The Tender Devil

    Colleen Shannon

    He was the devil in the flesh. She was an angel in his arms.. Aimee Lingstrom ... a blonde Norwegian beauty, she vowed no man would ever possess her. Yet to save her family from financial ruin, she recklessly gave herself in marriage to an abso...

  • Winds of Betrayal

    June Lund Shiplett

    She was caught between two passionate men -- and her own wild desire SHE WAS ONE MAN'S LAWFUL WIFE--AND ANOTHER MAN'S LAWLESS DESIRE Beautiful, voluptuous Lizette Kolter deeply loved her husband Bain Kolter, even though the handsome adv...

  • Run Away Home

    Marianne Shock

    Burke Julienne had firmly scheduled his future, and it didn't include Savannah Jones. Yet when her ailing eighteen-wheeler stranded her on his lush California estate, he was unwillingly mesmerized by the scruffy, delicate trucker. Savannah napped ...

  • A Certain Smile

    Lynda Trent

    Left to their own devices, freedom-seeking Megan Wayne and responsible Reid Spencer had trouble enough with their improbable attraction. But at the mercy of Reid's rebellious daughters, their burgeoning passion seemed destined for destruction. Me...

  • Texas Blonde

    Victoria Thompson

    She swore she'd share his name -- and win his heart! DESPERATE FOR A HUSBAND When dashing Josh Logan rescued her from death by exposure petite Felicity Morrow realized she'd never survive rugged frontier life without a man by her sick And...

  • Chase the Storm

    Alison Tyler (1)

    ASSIGNMENT: KISS AND NEVER TELL Jennifer Heath's a knockout...in looks and karate moves. Now she's shopping the most expensive Paris boutiques and doing a little favor for the CIA. But her little assignment turns into big trouble when she goes to...

  • Thunderstruck

    Pamela Toth

    Honey Collingsworth adored her twin brother and loved working on his hydroplane crew. The racing "thunderboats" took her breath away. Unfortunately, so did tall, muscular driver Alex Checkhov--the hated competition. Though Honey cherished stolen m...

  • Final Verdict

    Pat Warren

    Tony Adams was a brilliant prosecutor who'd stricken the word commitment from the record. It killed romance and never lasted. His summation: keep relationships shallow and avoid divorce court. Attorney Sheila North fell hard for charming, cynical ...

  • Far from Over

    Brittany Young

    THIS HEART FOR HIRE Samantha was good . . . very good. Well, maybe pretty good was a better description of Samantha English's detective skills. She certainly couldn't take much pride in having landed in jail after she broke into the wrong hotel ro...

  • Hero in Disguise

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    She was holding out for a hero Settling down was not for Summer Reed. Party by night, work by day and let tomorrow take care of itself--that was her motto. But when Derek Anderson, her roommate's globe-trotting brother, crashed into her life, Summ...

  • 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...

  • 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 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Yellowfish

    John Keeble

    Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and "high class jack-of-all-trades," takes a hefty fee for smuggling a group of illegal Chinese immigrants ("yellowfish") from Vancouver, B.C., to San Francisco in the 1970s. Three are teenaged "Hong Kong boys," one o...

  • Bullshot

    Gabrielle Kraft

  • Death at Appledore Towers

    Gerald Lientz

  • The Only Girl in the Game

    John D. MacDonald

    Her employers are the high priests of Las Vegas and she is their handmaiden. Her job is to lead the lambs to the sacrifice, to keep them happy at the tables, where her partners slaughter the suckers. She longs to be free of the entertainers rubbing e...

  • Tricks

    Ed McBain

    On Halloween night in the 87th Precinct, a liquor store owner is shot, by costumed children, a headless torso is discovered, and Detective First Class Eileen Burke, disguised as a hooker, hopes to trap a serial killer...

  • The Devil's Home on Leave

    Derek Raymond

    A man’s corpse is discovered in a London warehouse, bundled into five shopping bags. Our nameless narrator from the Unexplained Deaths division of the Met is put on the case. As he probes a world of horror in South London, a terrible secret from hi...

  • The Straight Man

    Roger L. Simon

    It's not a good time to be Moses Wine. After the events of California Roll, his life seems to have taken a turn for the worse-he's lost his high-paying security job at the Tulip Computer Corporation, his kids don't pay any attention to him, his love ...

  • Signs and Portents

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

  • Evidence to Destroy

    Margaret Yorke

    At first Lydia Cunningham seems just a nice, neat, self-contained widow in reduced circumstances, who has problems with her children... Her daughter Thelma, recently divorced, has just paid a rare visit - bringing along a young man she met on the...

  • Psychic Spawn

    Ryder Syvertsen

    EVIL IN ASHES... It had been the most important work undertaken by Nazi Germany, the key to the future of the master race--an ultrasecret, super-advanced genetics project designed to perfect the world's ultimate, most devastating weapon, the human m...

  • 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-...

  • 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 Stainless Steel Rat Gets Drafted

    Harry Harrison

    In a galaxy where civilization covers every world with steel and ferroconcrete. only a very special man can break all the rules and still stay free...A man who moves through the rafters of society like a rat. A stainless steel rat... And when the gal...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Revenge of the Hound

    Michael Hardwick

    A badly mauled tramp and the footprints of a giant hound; the theft of Oliver Cromwell's bones a sinister murder on the channel ferry; an illustrious personage who fears blackmail....It is up to Sherlock Holmes and his brilliant powers of deduction t...

  • 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...

  • Kaleidoscope

    Danielle Steel

    The World War II love affair between lovely Frenchwoman Solange Bertrand and American GI-turned-actor Sam Walker burned too brightly and ended in tragedy, leaving their three young daughters orphaned. Hilary, the oldest (and the only one who remember...

  • 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 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...

  • Heat Lightning

    John Lantigua

  • Saint Mike

    Jerry Oster

  • When the Fat Man Sings

    William Murray

    SHIFTY TAKES A BIG GAMBLE ON A FAT MAN Rotund Fulvio Gasparini is the world's greatest operatic tenor and worst gambler. He is losing at the tables and losing big... until magician Shifty Lou Anderson steps in with his hot hand for dice and recoups ...

  • Out on the Rim

    Ross Thomas

    Would you be wary if someone gave you the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist--never mind from whom or why? Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert just fired from his job at a bashful organization that never admitted ...

  • The Forgotten Murders

    John William Wainwright

  • The White Audi // Persona Non Grata

    Timothy Williams

    Northern Italy, 1985: Commissario Piero Trotti is on the verge of retirement from the police force. He is 56 years old, and though he is widely respected for his integrity and work ethic, he is not widely liked. The junior detectives he works with tr...

  • A Flame in Byzantium

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Atta Olivia Clemens had received St. Germain's darkest gift -- would his love save her from the True Death?...

  • 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 ...

  • Moontide Embrace

    Constance O'Banyon

    NIGHT CLOAKED SPLENDOR Ever since notorious Judah Slaughter had kissed thirteen-year-old Liberty Boudreaux in thanks for helping him escape, she knew there could be no other for her. Now, five years later, the gangly girl had become a breathtaking ...

  • Night Magic

    Karen Robards

    WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU'RE A SECRET AGENT? Author Clara Winston was snuggling in for the night when the strange men burst into her carriage house apartment. Terrified, she couldn't make sense of their heavy Russian accents, but they seemed to be dema...

  • To Love a Rogue

    Valerie Sherwood

    Lovely Lorraine London had a sensuous charm that seemed to ignite the passions of every scoundrel in New England. Born in revolutionary America, she was sold into indentured servitude until she caught the roving eye of Raile Cameron, a renegade gunru...

  • The Chinese Emperor

    Jean Levi

    In third century B.C. Ch'in, as that alien world is depicted in this extraordinary feat of scholarship and imaginative representation, modes of behavior were exotic, at least from a modern vantage point. A malicious courtier induces the susceptible p...

  • The Lady

    Anne McCaffrey

    AMIDST THE GRANDEUR OF THE EMERALD COUNTRYSIDE, A MAGNIFICENT STORY UNFOLDS.... They are the Carradvnes, who for over 200 years have bred and trained horses of the finest caliber on Cornanagh--a land so beautiful it inspires the soul. But all i...

  • The Slipper

    Jennifer Wilde

    They started out with nothing but their dreams, determined to meet destinies filled with fame and fortune. ONCE UPON A TIME.... There were three young women who dreamed of glittering, magical lives, of living with Prince Charming happily ever aft...

  • 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...

  • Space Station Ice-3

    Bruce Coville

  • A Scent of Murder

    Elizabeth Howard

    Meet PARISParis Mackenzie is a sixteen-year-old from Chicago with an irrepressible personality and a passion for Sherlock Holmes. When she visits her namesake city at the turn of the century, Paris finds all the glamour and romance she ever dreamed o...

  • Nights in Ghostland

    Carol Beach York

  • On the Edge

    Francine Pascal

    Headed for trouble... Regina Morrow and Bruce Patman have been going together for months. But when beautiful, devious Amy Sutton is paired up with Bruce on a school project, she schemes to steal him away from Regina. Little by little Bruce's resist...

  • Outcast

    Francine Pascal

    No one to turn to... Ever since Regina Morrow's tragic death at Molly Hecht's party, everyone has been treating Molly as if she has the plague. Nobody at school wants to talk to her, her parents have permanently grounded her, and even her good frie...

  • Stretching the Truth

    Francine Pascal

    What's wrong with Mary Robinson? That's what Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield want to know. She has a rich new stepfather who has a fabulous yacht and is going to build them a huge house. So why has Mary been acting so strange? Jessica is confident th...

  • 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....

  • The Riddle and the Rune

    Grace Chetwin

  • 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 ...

  • The Seventh Gate

    Geraldine Harris

    Having acquired six of the seven keys necessary to free the imprisoned Savior of Galkis, Kerish-lo-Taan faces danger and death alone in the Desolation of Zarn with only his memories and determination to sustain him...

  • Mystery of the Metro

    Elizabeth Howard

    In 1900, sixteen-year-old Paris, a Chicago teenager with a fondness for Sherlock Holmes, travels to Paris, France, to visit her uncle, a prominent scientist, only to find on her arrival that he has died under circumstances sufficiently mysterious to ...

  • 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...

  • Head over Heels

    M.E. Cooper

  • Sweet and Sour

    M.E. Cooper

  • Will You Be My POSSLQ

    Eve Bunting

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Spangle

    Gary Jennings

  • Rosella and the Star

    Jennifer Magnani

  • Cause and Effect

    Ralph M. McInerny

    IT'S FUNNY WHAT A MAN DOES WHEN HE'S TOLD HE'S DYING... Andrew Broom has everything: a thriving law practice in Wyler, Indiana, a beautiful and sophisticated wife and more money than he thought he had a right to. He's also in the middle of one of ...

  • Toolmaker Koan

    John McLoughlin

    In the not-too-distant future, after a One-Day War separates the world into two opposing power blocs, a Soviet space probe discovers Charon, an ancient, god-like computer system that has been studying Earth for centuries...

  • Baltasar and Blimunda

    Jose Saramago

    “A romance and an adventure, a rumination on royalty and religion in 18th-century Portugal and a bitterly ironic comment on the uses of power.” -- The New York Times Portugal, 1711. The Portuguese king promises the greedy prelates of the Church ...

  • Uncle Charles Has Locked Himself in

    Georges Simenon

    Upon returning home, Charles Dupenn, a humble bookkeeper, locks himself in the attic and will not respond to his wife or his daughters, who remain downstairs speculating on what might be happening as they cast anxious glances at the ceiling...

  • An adultery

    Alexander Theroux

    The third novel from acclaimed, award-winning Alexander Theroux is a darkly realistic tale of adultery set in contemporary New England. Christian Ford is a man who is betrayed in an adulterous affair, only to discover that he himself betrayed a woman...

  • Corkscrew

    Ted Wood

    Reid Bennett and his dog Sam serve as the police force for not-so-quaint Murphys Harbor, Ontario. They have yet another perilous but important task. There are some pretty nasty bikers disrupting the fa ade of serenity of Murphys Harbor, and Reid must...

  • 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...

  • Fantastic Voyage II

    Isaac Asimov

  • Young Mrs. Cavendish and the Kaiser's Men

    K.K. Beck

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • September Faces

    Seymour Epstein

  • 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...

  • The Mountains of Tibet

    Mordicai Gerstein

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Shadows Ten

    Charles L. Grant

  • 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...