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New Books List: 678 titles


  • Karen E. Taylor

    Remember me? Deirdre Griffin, vampire? As you may recall, I didn't want to be one, but in matters of blood, a woman doesn't always have a choice. After living in London for the past two years, I'm finally back in my favorite city. But life in New Yor...



  • Nelson DeMille

    The cold war is over, and Keith Landry, one of the nation's top intelligence officers, is forced into early and unwanted retirement. Restless, Landry returns to Spencerville, the small Midwestern town where he grew up. The place has changed in the qu...



  • David Weber

    Honor Betrayed The People's Republic of Haven's sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious. But Manticor...



  • Brian Daley

    Han Solo soars again--in this awesome trilogy of his extraordinary exploits. Ride with him as he rides to the rescue, narrowly escapes certain death, and foils evil in its ruthelss tracks!Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a p...



  • J.A. Lawrence

    Scheming to take over the starship Enterprise and ultimately the entire galaxy, the infamous Harry Mudd paralyzes the galactic economy by creating a monopoly on the most valuable fuel source in the universe--dilithium. Reissue....



  • John Peel

    Deep Space Nine becomes a tension-filled battleground as Jake, Nog, Ashley, and T'Ara become caught between Jakar, a Bajoran boy whose parents have been killed by the Cardassians, and Kam, a stowaway and the daughter of a Cardassian official. Origina...



  • Michael Jan Friedman

    Twenty-five years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard conducted breakthrough negotiations with an aggressive race called the Gorn. Now, on the anniversary of that achievement, Captain Picard and the U.S.S. Enterpriseā"¢ are headed for the Gorn Homeworld to ...



  • Diane Carey

    The Dominion: The mysterious rulers of the worlds on the other side of the wormhole. The Dominion: a ruthless planet-conquering race unknown even to those they rule. The Dominion: the most dangerous foe the Federation may ever face. At the edge of t...



  • Nancy Cane

    SIREN SONG On a secret mission that took him to the far reaches of the galaxy, Lord Rolf Cam'brii was captured and enslaved. Sworn to escape at any cost, he vowed to destroy anyone who tried to stop him. But his plans went awry when he came face-t...



  • Alfred Coppel

    When a nuclear warhead capable of destroying all of North America is planted in Hudson Bay by members of a Russian cabal, Colonel John Morgan pursues a trail of espionage from Moscow to Washington. Reprint....



  • Mark A. Clements

    An evil spirit takes the form of a beautiful woman who seduces anyone who may fulfill her dark purpose, and her search brings her to the man who may defeat her or enable her to rule all humankind. Reprint....



  • Mike Resnick

    Judith Tarr, George Alec Effinger, Frank M. Robinson, David Gerrold, and other notable writers present a collection of entertaining science fiction tales in which the bad guys go legit and some of history's heroes take up a life of crime. Original....



  • Edward L. Ferman

    The nineteen stories in this compilation comprise an excellent sample from the forty-five-year history of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, with works by such authors as Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, and Dale Bailey....



  • William C. Dietz

    He lives in a world where technology grows too quickly for the mind to comprehend. Where huge corporations expand outward into the far reaches of space. Where things of the past are swiftly deleted to make way for the future. But some things...




  • James Follett

    The BBC Radio dramatization of the story about the crew of a starship who were born in space, but whose spiritual home is Earth - which has somehow vanished from the solar system. They have studied holograms and videos of Earth and long to find it an...



  • Jack McDevitt

    Humans call them the Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues on distant planets in the galaxy. Each relic -- is different. Each inscription defies translation. Yet all are heartbreakingly beautiful. And for planet Earth,...



  • Michael Scott

    After people start falling into comas while playing their Night's Castle game, "Game Makers" BJ and Liz play it themselves to see what is happening--and soon become involved in a game of life and death....



  • Bruce Sterling

    Enter a world where scientists are superstars and gene-hackers unleash "Our Neural Chernobyl," creating drooling geniuses, TV-drugged cats, and gangs of raccoon toughs. A rock star becomes the voice of the people in a crumbling America...and the u...




  • Alan Dean Foster

    A Futuristic Whodunnitā€¦The Grandest Theft in the Galaxy! NO ONE COULD GET IN The shipments of high-tech pharmaceuticals were locked inside an impenetrable metal shed -- guarded by three security teams and dozens of alarms. NO ONE COULD STAY IN Ca...



  • Maureen F. McHugh

    War veteran David Dai has come to ocean-bottom Caribe to work as bodyguard to Mayla Ling, banker and scion of the undersea city's old-money set. But as Mayla negotiates the biggest deal of her life, she draws the attention of terrorists who threat...



  • Arthur C. Clarke

    From one of the bestselling science fiction authors of all time comes this heart-stopping far future novel of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.   A century into the future, technology has solved most of the problems that have plagued...



  • Kate Elliott

    WHEN CONQUERORS CLASH-- On the planet Rhui, the jaran tribes, under the leadership of Ilya Bakhtiian have ranged far in their campaign to subjugate all who will not willingly yield to their rule. Yet even as they prepare to besiege the royal city ...



  • Roger MacBride Allen

    A second work in a trilogy that examines Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics finds Caliban, the only robot without guilt or conscience, suspected in the murder of a politician and challenged to lead the New Law robots in a rebellion that threatens humani...



  • Kate Elliott

    THE GAME OF PRINCES-- When the human rebellion against the Chapalii Empire failed, the alien overlords did the unthinkable. They made Charles Soerensen, leader of the rebellion, a duke in their empire, granting him lordship over several worlds, am...



  • Lesley Howarth



  • K.D. Wentworth

    In this thrilling science fiction classic, author K.D. Wentworth sets the stage for her ground-breaking House of Moons series, introducing Haemas Sennay Tal—the Moonspeaker. Daughter of one of the most powerful families of the mindtalented Kas...



  • Vonda N. McIntyre

    In the final volume in the Starfarers series, the crew of the Starfarer must decide, on the behalf of Earth, whether to join the interstellar Civilization of the aliens or risk being stranded in space. Original....




  • Louise Lawrence

    Privileged, isolated Helena and impoverished, unemployed Hugh find some fulfillment in their love, but they are still trapped in this dismal Wales of the future -- until they meet an unusual group of "patchwork people," who are working carefully and ...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    A collection of spine-chilling stories of terror features the writings of Dean Koontz, John Coyne, F. Paul Wilson, J. N. Williamson, John Gregory Betancourt, Edward D. Hoch, and others. By the editors of Stalkers. Reprint....




  • Greg Cox

    Journeying from the streets of old London to the decks of interplanetary spaceships, a new collection of science fiction vampire tales features short stories by Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Dean Ing, Spider Robinson, and other notable authors. Origin...



  • Barbara Vine

    Anna is a young woman living in turn-of-the-century London, confiding her rebellious thoughts and well-guarded secrets only to her diary. Years later, her granddaughter discovers that a single entry has been cut out--an entry that may forge a link be...




  • Peter Maas

    Overseeing the interests of a Hong Kong industrialist client, Tom MacLean learns that a drug called "China White"--the purest form of heroin to hit the streets--has infiltrated New York, and a determined FBI agent seeks his help. Reprint....



  • Warwick Downing

    Rommel leaves her beloved Denver to travel to Washington, D.C., to help prosecute the case of an American accused of killing an Arab from Rashidi, only to find herself working for the defense instead. ...



  • Lois Walfrid Johnson

    Someone is trying to steal Kateā€™s horse! Will she lose Windsong to a crook? With the reward money Kate received in Calmet burning a hole in her pocket, she, Anders, and Erik head to Charlie Saunderā€™s livery stable to buy Kate a horse of her o...



  • John Calvin Batchelor

    Temporarily transferring power to the vice president while on disability in the year 2003, President Ted Jay is shocked when the vice president refuses to relinquish command five months later, an action that threatens to tear the nation in two. Repri...



  • Thomas Gifford

    Twenty years have passed since John Cooper triggered a series of events that shattered the underground rise of the Fourth Reich. Unable to make peace with his own history, Cooper has submerged himself in the old films he plays at his Boston movie hou...



  • Tim Willocks

    After three years' hard time, minding no-one's business but his own, Ray Klein wins his parole. That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart by tribal war, and the prison falls into the hands of its inmat...



  • Robert Goddard

    In her seaside cottage, Beatrix Abberley bravely confronts an intruder moments before her life is brutally taken. The crime stuns the elderly spinsterā€™s family -- especially Beatrixā€™s niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mour...



  • Judith Kelman

    Sarah Spooner, an investigator for the district attorney with her own young daughter, launches a probe into the Velvet Viper, a twisted, mysterious criminal responsible for the abduction of prepubescent girls, who are returned with little memory of t...



  • Abbey Pen Baker

    Myrl Adler Norton was, by all accounts, one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. The daughter of the acclaimed opera singer Irene Adler, she was a respected professor of logic at Smith College as well as one of the most famous consu...



  • Angela Elwell Hunt

    Learning of his Irish origins, a proud English knight seeks the secrets of his birth. But the truth shatters his illusions, leaving him struggling with God's purpose for his life.This is an excellent scripting of people and events in England and Irel...



  • Douglas Preston

    Douglas Preston's Jennie, based on the real story of the chimpanzee who inspired Curious George, is the celebrated novel that was made into the award-winning Disney television film The Jennie Project. Translated into many languages, Jennie became a w...



  • Mitchell Smith

    IN A WORLD RULED BY FATE, there are moments that are beyond any one person's control. For Evan Scott, that moment comes high atop a half-finished skyscraper under a starlit Manhattan night, when he witnesses a woman plunging thirty stories to her de...



  • Judith Kelman

    They say I cannot be held responsible. The papers dubbed beautiful Thea Harper Westport's Black Widow. They said she lured Senator Simon Gallatin to her home for a night of deadly passion. But psychiatrists insisted it was a short circuit of the m...



  • Fay Zachary

    Hester Jones is a nurse specializing in the care of her invalid father. A favorable ruling in a lawsuit would have allowed Hester to care for him in comfort for the rest of their lives. But the defense attorney Liz's father saw to it they received ne...



  • Sandy London

    Taking a job at the Everest Training Equipment corporation, a former field hospital administrator, becomes caught in a dangerous power struggle between her magnetic new boss, Dominic Croft, and Everest's ruthless new president. Original....



  • Jim Thompson

    Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserte...



  • William P Wood Jr.

    Small-time operator Bobby Carnes took a shot at a big score, setting up a major drug sale with some high rollers in Marina del Ray. He went in with a few bags of crank-methamphetamine and a .44 and walked out a stone-cold killer: a suitcase full of c...



  • Cherokee Paul McDonald

    Modern-day crime in the Florida sunbelt is illustrated through the experiences of Jessie Summer, a young, idealistic cop, who is trying not only to survive, but also to maintain a sense of justice in her life and career. By the author of The Patc...



  • Jim Thompson

    To everyone he's every played dice with, Mitch Corley seems like the luckiest guy around. But in truth, Corley's fast hands are the only gift fate's ever given him. He's never held down a steady job, and when it comes to women, his luck might just be...



  • David Madsen

    When prize-winning Washington journalist Ray Falco becomes involved in the disappearance of Jean-Mars Baptiste, a Haitian politician, he is drawn into a deadly web of political corruption and discovers the strange, dangerous world of vodoun. ...



  • Erin Grady

    With the police racing against time to stop a serial killer targeting small children, Christie McCoy has no one to turn to when an unknown stalker invades her world and must brave the shadows of her own life to unmask the mad intruder. Original....



  • Elizabeth Ergas

    While researching a series of child abductions and disappearances, reporter Molly Deere uncovers a diabolical conspiracy, but her investigation soon turns terrifyingly personal after her own young son, Petey, vanishes. Original....



  • Stephanie S. Tolan

    When fourteen-year-old Drew and her mute younger brother come to live with their father's estranged relatives after their parents' sudden death, they discover that the house is haunted by ghosts and a deadly family secret...



  • Dick Francis

    Once a blacksmith, now famous and respected as a newspaperman, Valentine Clark knows everyone who is anyone in the racing world. Aged, confused, blind and dying, he harbors a daunting secret that he is desperate to be rid of. he makes his last confes...



  • Jane Stanton Hitchcock

    A respected surgeon and rare book collector is brutally murdered in his elegant Manhattan home, just hours after showing a book dealer the fifteenth-century manual of black magic -- a grimoire -- he'd received from a grateful patient. Now the healer'...



  • Caroline Burnes

    The riddle Who hated Sarah Covington enough to frame her for murder? Or were the secret ingredients in her meals the way she disposed of her enemies? The romance It was Daniel Dubonet's job to get close to Sarah. And the sexy maverick agent...



  • Adrianne Lee

    Something old... After the Carlyle family lost its wedding heirloom that guaranteed bliss, all marriages failed. Now Lyssa set out to retrieve the necklace from the Rival family - to ensure her own future happiness. Something new... For Craig...



  • Kelsey Roberts

    Could she trust him? Tyler Cantrell was bold, brash and unbelievably attractive, but that wasn't why the rugged cowboy gave Danielle Baylor the jitters. His father had been convinced of murdering her parents over twenty years ago - and now, at Da...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    Althea Ingram found no gentleman she could look up to among the London dandies and fortune-hunters. But in Europe she discovered John Maitland, Earl of Montmorcy, who personified her idea of the ideal husband. Unfortunately, it appeared that Montmorc...



  • Rachelle Edwards

    THE RAKE WOULD SOON BE THWARTED BY HIS OWN DEBAUCHERY... Stacia Gilbert, the toast of the London theater, harbored a secret loathing of the ton's truest incomparable, Lord Silverwood, after he ruined her father. Now, after years of deprivation...



  • Helen Archery

    A BATTLE OF WILLS... AND A WILLFUL BRIDE TO-BE An arranged marriage was not what Hillary Astaire had hoped for, but she was honor bound to keep her promise to her late father. Until she learned that her betrothed, the viscount of Wolverton, known ...



  • Sara Blayne

    SHE TOOK THE TON BY STORMā€¦ Charity Wade had gone from impoverished miss to heiress, from a spinster-on-the-shelf to the talk of the ton. And she owed her good fortune to the masked rogue whoā€™d saved her life! Charity had been sailing from Indi...



  • Patricia Rice

    The Fortune Hunter Lady Marian Oglethorp came to London to snare a husband with a fortune large enough to save her family from ruin. She had to move fast. Flaunting her bewitching beauty while keeping her biting wit out of sight, she captured the ...



  • Monette Cummings

    "BELLE," BOOK, AND CANDLE... What a perfect setting for a Halloween ball, thought Fiona Mallory as she walked into Queen's Gift, Viscount Rex Stinson's majestic mansion... if only the lavish estate weren't so far from London. A...



  • Melinda Pryce

    A haunting love... Two years had passed--but Diana Barlow could not forget the husband she had lost. Now she fears she may lose her home as well, as the new heir arrives. A rough-hewn American whose rugged masculinity seems out of place in an Engl...



  • Joan Smith

    To find true love in the present, Belle must venture back to the past. SHE WAS HELD IN THRALL BY THE MAGICAL WARMTH OF HIS PHANTOM EMBRACE... Romance writer Belle Savage came to England looking for a hero -- the kind of rakish stranger women ha...



  • Sheila Walsh (1)

    The Best Laid Plans Serena Fairburn should have been the happiest of young ladies-for she could look forward to the best of marriages. Soon she would be bride to the fabulously wealthy Cedric, Duke of Cornwall, and her family would be rescued from...



  • Georgina Devon

    UNWILLING BRIDE! When Lord Alaistair St. Simon, better known as 'Saint, ' won the young Baron Stone's inheritance at the gaming tables, he fully intended to return Stone's vowel the next day. But the next day, Stone was dead, and h...



  • Rebecca Robbins

    A MAIDEN'S SURPRISE Several rude shocks have, of late, set Miss Emily Hastings' pretty head a-spin. First she learns her adored deceased father was not a naval hero as she was led to believe, but a brazen pirate instead. And now she is expected firs...



  • Teresa DesJardien

    THE CHASE IS ON! It all began when Regist, Viscount Collingsworth, overheard that scoundrel, Lord Willernott, laying odds at White's that he could woo and win the lovely Lady Stephana Monroe. Regist had always held the incomparable Stephana in...



  • Sue Sully

    Young Nancy Gillimore is dazzled by gentleman explorer Aubrey Farringdon, until they leave London for his family manor when, drawn into his scandalous past, Nancy discovers a disturbing and destructive story of passion and betrayal...



  • Marilyn Kaye

    Because Debra Lewis is facing a campaign of harassment after rumors circulate about her supposed romance with her white study partner, Steve Nowiki, her best friend, Sharon Delaney, plans an on-the-air confrontation about the school's racial tensions...



  • Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Steel tracks and the lure of the sea led them to Washington Territory, but only a few would triumph. EMBER RIDGEWAY is the vivacious, pampered niece of railroad tycoon Mack Ridgeway. Orphaned at a young age, Ember's struggle for identity in a worl...



  • Cherie Bennett

    Jane McVay's country music band, Wild Hearts, continues to get better and better, but their success suddenly takes second place when Jane meets and falls head over heels in love with Travis Laramie, a handsome young fiddle player. Original....



  • Cherie Bennett

    After getting into a terrible fight, Emma, Samantha, and Carrie have similar dreams about what the three of them will be doing ten years into the future, and what a mutual enemy will finally get as just desserts. Original....



  • Rochelle Majer Krich

    "The Angel of Death spared your forefathers--Will he spare you?" To L.A. lawyer Barry Lewis, the note on his front door spells danger. To LAPD Detective Jessie Drake, it is as ominous as the Star of David scrawled across Lewis's paint-smeared door...



  • Jon Cleary

    When the Sydney police ministerā€™s son falls twenty floors to his death, the politics of murder ripple the city like a boulder into a pool. Caught in the wash is Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, as he uncovers an elaborate financial scheme, a seri...



  • Faye Kellerman

    A diamond dealer and his entire family have mysteriously disappeared from their sprawling Los Angeles manor, leaving the estate undisturbed and their valuables untouched. Investigating detective Decker is stumped--faced with a perplexing case riddled...



  • Sharon Sala

    OUTLAW ANGEL Harley-riding hellion Gabriel Donner had broken every rule, sinning enough for at least two lifetimes. And it would take just as long to right all his wrongs and earn his way to heaven. But his time was running out .... Then Gabrie...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    Former Husband Chase Randolph had fallen for Gina Delmonico in an instant and, within days, made her his wife. But their marriage didn't survive long on just passion and promises. Now Gina was back in his life--for better, or for worse.... Former...



  • Amber Kaye
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    Lost on the Scottish moors, Bridget Mackay enters a magical realm...and comes face to face with Artair, the handsome prince who has long haunted her dreams. In an enchanted world brushed with moonbeams and stardust, Bridget loses her heart. But is he...



  • Maggie Shayne

    THE PERFECT SCAM It was no secret that reporter Ashville Coye was hot on the trail of the Syracuse Slasher. But only Josephine Bradshaw knew that he was destined to become the killer's next victim. And when Ash landed in the hospital with amnesia,...



  • Renee Roszel

    WHAT'S A NICE GIRL LIKE ALICE DOING IN A HAUNTED CASTLE LIKE THAT? If she'd had any other choice, Alice Woods would have run from Percival Castle the moment she saw it. But the Gothic monstrosity was her last refuge--she needed somewhere to recove...



  • Dawn Stewardson

    CHESTER CITY, NEVADA 2014 A.D. ALANNA DeRAIN: Feisty, independent and daring. As a ghostbuster, she was used to encountering the unexpected. Then she met John McCully .... JOHN McCULLY: Traditional, resourceful and headstrong. He never dreamed ...



  • Susan Sizemore

    INTO THE MISTS OF IRISH LEGEND California biker Sammy Bergen was a cool dude. He thought he'd seen everything. Then he was summoned back in time to medieval Ireland by a druidic song spell--and he met the singer, the bewitchingly lovely Brianna. ...



  • Barbara Bretton

    Jilted! Jenna Grey had been left at the altar not once, but three times. Now, at the debut of her Vegas wedding chapel, Jenna was hearing voices -- marriage proposals, to be exact. But there was no groom in sight! Cursed! Two years ago Chas...



  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    She'd accidentally downed a love potion... ...and now Jill Sutherland was desperate to find the antidote! When she'd imbibed the offensive drink, she'd been gazing deep in Remy Beauregard's eyes. Now she couldn't keep her mind--or hands!--off the in...



  • Cheryl Biggs
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    Randi Baines accompanies her fiance, Lane DuCroix, home to his Louisiana Plantation -- only to discover that their arrival has awakened dark forces in the shadowy bayau. Now, Randi must fight the century-old spirit of a beautiful woman named Liliand...



  • Nancy Gideon

    BLOOD LEGACY A sheltered beauty raised in the scenic French countryside, Nicole Radouix's world shattered the day she discovered her father's shocking secret. Desperate and afraid, she fled for her immortal soul. . . BLOOD LUST In the seething ...



  • Nancy Kilpatrick

    As David Lyle Hardwick and his beautiful human companion, Zero, a wounded woman fleeing a dangerous past, travel the world in search of his enemies, David discovers that he is being transformed into nosferatu, a creature of unspeakable, tormented pas...



  • Sara Orwig
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    No-nonsense businesswoman Grace Goltry seeks shelter in a Texas ghost town...and finds herself in the year 1872...in the arms of Logan Graywolf, a legendary Comanche half-breed who awakens her deepest desires. But Grace knows Logan is fated to die in...



  • Sandra Hill

    "PICTURE YOURSELF FLOATING OUT OF YOUR BODY -- FLOATING...FLOATING...FLOATING..." The hypnotic voice on the self-motivation tape was supposed to help Ruby Jordan solve her problems, not create new ones. Instead, she was lulled from a life full o...



  • Amy J. Fetzer
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    Christine Warner's South Carolina island vacation takes a mysterious turn when she encounters a handsome stranger -- born over a century before! Alexander Dearborn gallops out of the mist to steal Christine's heart...and then vanishes. Can Ch...



  • Sabine Kells

    A SHADOW IN THE DARK, A WHISPER IN THE NIGHT, A MAN REACHING OUT TO HER . . . Surely, Carolyn was dreaming. The ghostly legends of Thornwyck Castle couldn't be true. Tiernan O'Rourke had lived nearly three hundred years earlier; he couldn't stil...



  • Janelle Taylor

    MOONDUST AND MADNESS... STARDUST AND SHADOWS... novels of universal desire and intergalactic adventure... Now, the magic continues amidst the blaze of STARLIGHT AND SPLENDOR... Many years have passed since Commander Varian Saar spirited the lovel...



  • Eve Gladstone

    The devil and the deep blue sea Thoroughly modern Bree Kealy was obsessed by a legend. Over a century ago, amid rumors of dark betrayal and bitter revenge, devilish seafarer Alexander Devane went down with his doomed clipper. Yet now his restless ...



  • Dennis Danvers

    While researching her new novel, which is based on a true event from eighteenth-century Virginia, author Marion Mead travels to her character's family home and begins a haunting and desperate love affair with the plantation's owner. Reprint....



  • Debbie Macomber

    A Season for Giving...and Loving It is a time of joy and gladness--yet even the wonder of Christmas cannot brighten lives burdened by loneliness and despair. So when three "rush" prayers fly up from the City of Angels, three real angels fly down t...



  • Jennifer Drew

    The Beautiful Disbeliever Dawn Girard believed there was a logical explanation for everything. Even the midnight noises in her sister's old house. Nobody would convince her otherwise. Not even a handsome stranger with eyes as dark and seductive ...



  • Ashland Price

    THE DREAM For years, Dana Swansen had been haunted by a recurring dream of a faraway time and place. And here, at an ancient Celtic site in Ireland, where she'd come seeking refuge from an unhappy love affair, those visions seemed closer than ever. ...



  • Kristin Hannah

    A MAN LOST IN THE PAST, A WOMAN LOST IN TIME... Romance writer Alaina Costanza has given up on dreams and fairy tales. Then one storm-tossed, enchanted night she is plunged back in time to the wild, Western world of her newest novel. Disoriented a...



  • Melodie Johnson Howe

    Even High Fashion Has Its Low Points. Elegant, enigmatic private eye Claire Conrad and her very independent assistant Maggie Hill - a dynamic female duo as different as mismatched earrings, are about to fly to Los Angeles when a young woman appears a...



  • Reginald Hill

    ALL THIS AND A MATCHMAKING AUNT, TOO... It is feast or famine for ex-machinist turned private investigator Joe Sixsmith. One minute he's dozing in his office, the next he's been hired by a self-proclaimed dabbler in the dark arts to retrieve a sto...



  • T.J. MacGregor

    The husband-and-wife detective team track down the murderer of the wife of a mysterious South American faith healer, whose popularity among the wealthy residents of Palm Beach, Florida, has made him a target of criminals....



  • S.J. Rozan

    CRIMSON NEW YEAR'S BANNERS WITH GOLD LETTERS SNAP IN THE WIND. IN CROWDED STORE WINDOWS THERE ARE CHICKENS, DUCKS, AND CHAINS OF RED-WRAPPED FIRECRACKERS... It's a city within a city, of smells, sounds, dark shops and close-knit families; it's a w...



  • David Daniel

    Winner of the 1993 PWA/St. Martin's Press Best First Private Eye Novel contest, The Heaven Stone introduces a fresh voice in author David Daniel and a likable new protagonist in Alex Rasmussen, ex-cop turned private investigator, who is drawn into th...



  • Robert Irvine

    Moroni Traveler, the Salt Lake City investigator heralded by the New York Times Book Review as "a true rebel hero in the classic private-eye tradition," finds himself working on a very personal case as he and his adoptive father, Martin, look for the...



  • Sharon Zukowski

    I've never had a client who was a month away from being born,'' says Blaine Stewart after the death of her original client- -widowed acquaintance Judith Marsden, whose in-vitro egg is currently growing inside surrogate mother Hannah Wyrick, who has t...



  • Lawrence Block

    An ancient brotherhood meets annually in the back room of a swank Manhattan restuarant, a fraternity created in secret to celebrate life by celebrating its dead. But the past three decades have not been kind to the Club of 31. Matthew Scudder -- ex-c...



  • Randye Lordon

    After a life-long family friend is killed in a traffic accident, P.I. Sydney Sloane begins to uncover her friendā€™s unsuspected secret life. No longer believing her friendā€™s death was accidental, Sloane starts to investigate and finds herself foll...



  • Richard Rosen / R.D. Rosen

    Harvey Blissberg, ex-major league outfielder turned private eye, is summoned to Chicago by his brother, Norm, to look into the murder of real-estate agent Larry Peplow. Norm once played basketball with Larry and feels an obligation to this pleasant, ...



  • Anthony Bruno

    A cops-and-mobsters crime thriller that ā€œkeeps us entertained with razzle-dazzle styleā€ (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times).   When an undercover FBI agent is murdered, the mob and the bureau race to nab the triggerman. The prime suspect ta...



  • James Sallis

    With this flashback novel to Lew Griffinā€™s past, James Sallis takes readers to 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists.   A sniper has fatally shot five people. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin i...



  • Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, go on the run when they find an ex-teammate and friend of Scott's murdered in their apartment. With the killers now on their trail, with the death of Scott's friend still a myste...



  • Louise Hendricksen

    Forensics is her forte. Working in Seattle's State Crime Lab, living on lovely Lomitas Island--where her father is local Medical Examiner--Dr. Amy Prescott has an eye for telling detail...and a taste for deadly danger A KILLING IN SILVER On the...



  • Janwillem Van De Wetering

    "[Van de Wetering] is doing what Simenon might have done if Albert Camus had sublet his skull."  -- John LeonardOn a quiet street in downtown Amsterdam, a man is found hanging from the ceiling beam of his bedroom, upstairs from the new religious...



  • Richard A. Lupoff

    Prior to World War II, black actors were restricted to mainstream film roles as chauffeurs, maids, night club entertainers, and comic buffoons. But there was a second Hollywood, a BLACK Hollywood, where great producers and directors like Oscar Michau...



  • Sharyn McCrumb

    Fear more chilling than approaching winter blankets the Appalachian community of Dark Hollow, Tennessee. Some believe that the ghost of Katie Wyler, kidnapped by Shawnee two hundred years ago, is once again roaming the hills. Even more frightening, a...



  • Lucretia Grindle

    During his long-overdue vacation in the Scottish Highlands, Chief Inspector Ross investigates the murders of actress Claudia Furnival, her sister, and their husbands, a crime for which a local shepherd is charged. Original....



  • Laurali R. Wright / L.R. Wright

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  • Susan Froetschel

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  • Rochelle Krich

    Some things are uglier than homicide - and ultimately as dangerous. For Barry Lewis, a Los Angeles attorney famous for handling controversial cases, danger comes in the form of a note on his front door: "The Angel of Death spared your forefathers - w...




  • Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! Halloween is coming, and Dawn and her friends in the We Love Kids Club are almost as excited as the kids they baby-sit for. Then, just before the big night, a masked robber holds up a store in Daw...



  • Peter Senge

    Leading management guru Peter M Senge defines the five business 'disciplines' which together help to build learning organizations. These companies will be the successful ones in the coming decade because of their ability to learn, to absorb new ideas...



  • Joe Gores

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  • Jake Thoene

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  • R.C. Sproul

    Drawing on the witness of Scripture and the testimony of the church's greatest thinkers, Sproul looks at God the Holy Spirit and his roles. This second volume in his trilogy on the Trinity covers this perplexing doctrine as well as the baptism of the...





  • Edward D. Hoch

    A nineteenth edition edited by a writer for Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine includes works by Bill Prozini, Donald Westlake, Lawrence Block, and other distinguished mystery writers....



  • Walther Habers

    Bram Aardsen is a self-made man. Chance has had no role in his success; years of hard work precluded luck as a factor. Yet it is a sheer accident that his life is interdicted by a young boy's. The moment is but a millisecond, the effect is irreversib...




  • Brenda Joyce

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  • Megan Chance

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  • Jane Bonander
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  • Connie Brockway

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  • Carol Finch

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  • Paula Marshall

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  • Wendy Garrett

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  • Joan Johnston
    in

    Having wed to end the warring ways of their feuding Texas families, a reluctant bride and groom find life together an unending battle -- until a beautiful arrival at Christmastime teaches them the true meaning of peace and joy and love....



  • Catherine Anderson

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  • Teresa Warfield

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  • Mary Jo Putney

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  • Debra Dier

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  • Deborah Simmons

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  • Caroline Bourne

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  • Catherine Palmer

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  • Debra Hamilton

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  • Christina Cordaire

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  • Barbara Cummings

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  • Elizabeth Bailey

    The Fantasies of Miss Friday Friday Edborough dreamed of her very own Paris falling in love with her, a plain and bookish Helen of Troy. She couldn't have been more surprised when her father -- determined to see his daughter wed -- arranged a ...



  • Elizabeth Gregg

    At 17, Tressie Majors is stranded in a soddie on the high plains when her mother dies in childbirth. Reed Bannon flees a Yankee soldier after stealing his horse. He was shot and is almost dead when he arrives at the soddie while Tressie is burying he...



  • Christina Dodd

    CURTAIN UP Rosie lived a knave's life on the streets of London, singing for her supper with a ragtag band of actors who were always one step ahead of the law. It was a credit to her thespian skills everyone thought she was a boy. But even Rosie...



  • Martha Longshore

    A Stubborn Western Beauty Kora Hunter loved helping out with her father's Sacramento newspaper, until Mason Fielding, an ambitious new reporter, came along and turned her life upside down. The glint in his stunning blue eyes could only mean that ...



  • Cheryl St. John

    Paradise In her secret heart, sheltered Lydia Beker yearned for more -- a sea of sensation, a husband to be tender with. Surely such longings couldn't be wrong? And then came Jakob Neubauer, an outsider who promised her a world of passion... ...



  • Veronica Sattler

    SHE WAS HAUNTED BY A PAST SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER...AND A HUNGRY PASSION SHE COULD NOT DENY Fate is playing fast and loose with the notorious rakehell and ladies' man Captain Nicholas Sharpe. First, he inherited an unwanted legacy from his late...



  • Tanya Anne Crosby
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    Choosing Christmas to do the deed, a dashing English duke breaks off his long-standing engagement -- only to discover the innocent fiance he ignored for years has unexpectedly blossomed into a fiery and irresistible woman....



  • Erin Yorke

    Alanna O'Donnell Lucas had named her his wild Irish witch. For, with hair the color of the sun and eyes blue as the sky, she had bedazzled him beyond imagining. Making him forget that she tore his heart asunder between duty and desire. Lucas de...



  • Jennifer Horsman
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    In a season of giving, a rash, handsome doctor tending to a sickly youth is smitten by the child's sad and beautiful mother -- and vows to melt away the young widow's grief with the passionate heat of his sensuous, seductive care....



  • Catherine Creel

    "You are no innocent, and I am no fool!" Alexandra Sinclair was no baseborn little doxy to be toyed with; she was a lady -- with no place here in Australia, in the factory prison at Parramatta ... or in the arms of an arrogant, green-eyed American...



  • Shirl Henke

    THE REBEL -- Quintin Blackthorne dared to despise his father and defy his king, but a mutinous beauty overwhelmed the American patriot with a rapturous desire... THE ROGUE -- Part Indian, part white, and all trouble, Devon Blackthorne would belong...



  • Cordia Byers

    The touch of his lips made her want to forget her honor and her pride... For more than three centuries her family had fought and died for France. Now Dara Rochambeau is caught in a deadly plot and branded a traitor to the king. She is determined t...



  • Jacqueline Marten

    MOONSHINE AND GLORY is a wonderful historical novel that will make you laugh out loud and break your heart...sometimes all on the same page. Beginning with a shotgun wedding in Virginia at the end of the Revolutionary War, MOONSHINE AND GLORY traces ...



  • Lois Greiman

    INNOCENT CHARMS Katherine Simmons was a schoolmarm back East -- but out West, she was forced to manage a saloon...and brothel. GUILTY PLEASURES Travis Ryland had the reputation of an outlaw -- and the heart of a hero. His worst crime was falling...



  • Katherine Kingsley

    Andre de Saint-Simon has no use for Ali, the mysterious young woman whose life he has saved while on his travels. When he discovers that she is the long-lost daughter of his mentor, he promptly returns her to England -- and tries to forget bout her. ...



  • Lydia Browne

    HARMONY'S OWN BIT OF ROYALTY... ... is a misplaced Englishman, an earl's son, who's trying to run a farm. Unfortunately, he knows nothing about farming -- and must ask for help from a woman like no other he's ever seen: a sassy, sur...



  • Barbara Chase-Riboud

    "Barbara Chase-Riboud writes with a quill of eloquence that is indeed a sword, sounding with the spirituality of Toni Morrison and the passion of Charles Dickens."
    --Elaine Brown
    Author of A Taste of Power
    Barbara Chase-Riboud made literary...



  • Kimberly Cates

    SHE HAD A FIERY SPIRIT ONLY ONE MAN COULD TAME... The vitality of colonial Virginia had transformed Lucy d'Autrecourt Blackheath into a defiant and self-assured young woman -- and made her restless and hungry for adventure. When a parcel arriv...



  • Scotney St. James

    THE LADY... Juliana Lowell had had it with men. First, she was jilted by her faithless cad of a fiance...who then went and married her sister. As if that wasn't bad enough, Juliana's father gave away her dowry in the bargain! Now, the humiliated L...



  • Jane Peart

    'End of the line!' The stagecoach driver's shout sent a chill down Holly Lambeth's spine. What an ominous sound! Was Riverbend, Oregon, to the be the end of the line for her? she had come West to escape the swirling gossip about her broken engagement...



  • Leona Karr

    From the banks of the mighty Colorado, Trish Winters watched the boats struggling against the rapids that had taken many strong men down. A frontierswoman of rare courage and an exquisite beauty hidden beneath her ragged calico dress, Trish vowed tha...



  • Susan P. Teklits

    TREASON Vanessa Davis played the role of Tory seductress for the sake of the Patriot Cause, charming secrets out of powerful, foolish men before they could claim her body. Until the fateful night when a dashing British officer outwitted her at her...



  • Lisa Bingham

    When Micah St. Charles wakes up at the wrong end of a gun aimed by a women who has stolen his clothes, he decides to get clear of Eliza Wilder's barn fast. On the run from the Union army -- accused of treason by the one man who should have lo...



  • Susan Weldon

    NO PLACE FOR A LADY Rayne was a little girl when her father, Jasper North, abandoned her to make his fortune out west. Now as a woman, she heads to Nevada for a reunion with the supposedly repentant reprobate. But someone else is waiting for the pro...



  • Judith E. French

    The white man's cruelties have hardened the heart of Fire Talon. And now his honored father is in their hands, forcing the handsome Delaware war chief to take a captive of his own. She is called Rebecca, the beautiful, untouched bride of his most hat...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    A GROOM WHO JUST WON'T DO Regina Morrisey had a lively wit, a flawless education...and nary a shred of domestic experience. But that didn't stop her diplomat papa from wedding her by proxy to the Marquess of Daniston. Leaving exotic Algiers ...



  • Tamara Leigh

    SHE WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO AVOID BEING SENT TO A CONVENT-- EVEN HER VIRTUE Lady Graeye Charwyck was desperate to escape the fate her father had planned for her--to spend the rest of her life in a convent. She could envision only one way out: to li...



  • Laurel Pace

    What Fate Awaited Them? Though at one with the Spirit of Life, Ethan Woodard walked alone. Until the day Elizabeth Merriweather, possessed of sun-splashed beauty and untested strength, came to the place he called home... and changed the landscape ...



  • Diane Hoh

    Accepting a position as assistant to a Salem horror writer, Reed is terrified when she learns that all of the author's previous assistants have disappeared, and when frightening things begin happening to her, Reed learns how the books are written...



  • Nicholas Pine

    Breaking up with her tough greaser boyfriend, Danny, after he breaks up a high-society party, rich girl Robin Anderson is alarmed when her wealthy friends start getting killed off and fears that Danny is out for ultimate revenge. Original....



  • Richard Posner

    Determined to help their school board candidate beat his hateful opponent, Kate Bennett and Drew Meyer have the campaign threatened by Drew's kidnapping and a cold-blooded killer who has lethal plans for both of them. Original....



  • Clive Barker

    "Our most accomplished contemporary purveyor of horror fiction strikes again in Everville, a tale of worlds in conflict. . . . [Barker's] extravagantly unconventional inventions are ingenious refractions of our common quest to experience and understa...



  • Thomas Ligotti

    Seeking deadly justice when she and her invalid father receive next to nothing in a lawsuit settlement, nurse Hester Jones targets the defense attorney's daughter, hematologist Liz Broward. By the author of Blood Work. Original....



  • Nola Thacker

    A third addition to a humorous horror series continues the adventures of the kids at Graveyard School, when a new student in the class puts a different twist on the original version of "The Headless Horseman." Original....



  • David Robbins

    On Halloween night, two buddies decided to play a cruel trick on the class brain...but the joke was on them. They only wanted to scare their enemy to death...but their prank went awry and one of their friends ended up dead, her body ripped to piec...



  • Michael Bates

    An exotic new perfume attracts the attention of many teenagers with claims that it arouses desire, until it begins demonstrating some strange, potentially harmful side effects that cause wearers to experience twisted obsessions. Original....



  • Paul Zindel

    Blip...blip...blip... Sonar screens stalk the astonishing, massive water creatures that have been sighted in a remote Vermont lake. Fifteen-year-old Loch Perkins is aboard the Revelation, a high-tech search yacht, when the first creature explodes f...



  • Beverly Hastings

    Taking her baby-sitting charge to the park after a disturbing crank phone call, Rebecca accepts a ride home from the boy's divorced father and realizes that he is taking her deep into the woods while a snowstorm gets worse around them. Original....



  • V.C. Andrews

    One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) continues an engrossing saga of psychological suspense with this second book of the Landry Family series -- soon to be a Lifetime movie! Fate has ...



  • R.L. Stine

    LIGHTS...CURTAIN...PHANTOM? Brooke's best friend, Zeke, has been given the lead role in the school play, The Phantom. Zeke's totally into it. He loves dressing up in the grotesque phantom costume. And scaring the other members of the cast. Brooke th...



  • David Robbins

    Beneath sky pitch-black and moon full bright, lurks terror twice as dark as night. Newly risen from the grave. Hot, flesh red blood it does crave. Grisly death it brings the brave; The cowardly will rant and rave. Halloween is a time for fri...



  • Dennis J. Higman

    It was Halloween night and the kids were dressed to kill. All they wanted was a little harmless fun on that foggy October evening -- a little revenge against the uptight, solid citizens of Puget Sound who looked down on them. A few overturned gar...