Books Published in October 2003

• Oct-2003
• / Women's Fiction
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TWO STRANGERS. . . The windswept village of West Bay is hope, an escape, and a future for Kathy Wilson, who dreams of turning the empty cottage she inherited into a home free of the pain and scorn she suffered back in London. As the summer slowly pa...

• Oct-2003
• / Urban Fantasy
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Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... PRETTY POISON The gang at Angel Investigations is well versed in the nuances of demon fighting. So they're surprised to find themselves euphorically giddy after a long night of...what? Their...

• Oct-2003
• / Thriller
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When a prominent conservative politician is killed inside his lakeside cabin, authorities have no suspect in sight. And two more deaths--seemingly isolated incidents, achieved by very different means--might be linked to the same murderer. With the he...

• Oct-2003
• / Thriller
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A white-hot military thriller that pits a brilliant agent against a traitorous cabal within the United States Cyclops One: America's most advanced airborne laser system. It will change the face of combat forever--perhaps rendering war itself obsol...

• Oct-2003
• / Thriller
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Ex-PI Joe Kurtz's survival is on the line when an ambush leaves him badly wounded and his parole officer Peg O'Toole barely clinging to life. Their respective professions have ensured that neither suffers from a shortage of enemies so discovering whi...

• Oct-2003
• / Thriller
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IT HAS WAITED....IT HAS HUNGERED.... When Jake Caruso and his construction team find a hidden tunnel in the cellar of the old Blake mansion in the sleepy hamlet of Harrington Falls, Jake can't wait to explore its depths. There, he finds an even gr...

• Oct-2003
• / Thriller
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Secrets of the City is celebrated author Anne Roiphe’s brilliant novel about a big-city mayor and the struggles that shape the fortunes of his city, the life of his family, and the condition of his soul. Mel Rosenberg is the mayor of a city uncanni...

• Oct-2003
• / Thriller
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From the master storyteller and creator of Charlie Muffin When accountant John Carver dies in a road accident, the two women in his life find out about each other's existence. Jane, the unsuspecting wife, and Alice, the mistress, streetwise financial...

• Oct-2003
• / Thriller
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A MAN IS KILLED ON A BEACH IN SPAIN. MISSING ARE HIS LAPTOP AND A SECRET DOCUMENT. THE LAPTOP CONTAINS MILITARY SOFTWARE THAT COULD CHANGE THE FACE OF WAR. THE DOCUMENT, CALLED THE PROFESSIO, CONTAINS A DECLARATION THAT COULD DESTROY THE CATHOLIC ...

• Nov-2003
• / Space Opera
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STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS The da Vinci comes across a strange runaway vessel that is giving off tremendous amounts of dangerous energy. However, the ship is not as strange as they think, as they've encountered it once before... During the Domini...

• Oct-2003
• / Space Opera
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High above the planet Earth, an alien probe appears -- and in an unspeakably horrific instant, releases a deadly blast that strafes the planet's surface, leaving a miles-wide, smoldering crater of destruction in its wake. Millions die in Florida, Cub...

• Oct-2003
• / Space Opera
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HIS FIRST MISSION MAY BE HIS LAST On the barren planet of Tatooine, young Boba Fett is surrounded by criminals, mercenaries, and thieves. In his quest to become a bounty hunter, he is searching out the greatest crime lord of all - Jabba the Hutt. B...

• Oct-2003
• / Space Opera
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The Risen Empire left readers begging for more. Now Scott Westerfeld comes through with the dazzling payoff in the conclusion of Succession, The Killing of Worlds. Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is a walking dead man. Unjustly held...

• Oct-2003
• / Space Opera
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The unpredictable cosmic entity known only as Q has plagued Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise�"� since their very first voyage together. But little was known of Q's mysterious past or of the unearthly realm from which he...

• Oct-2003
• / Space Opera
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THE BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE Skyfallgoes back to the beginning, to the rebirth of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demo...

• Oct-2003
• / Space Opera
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A crewman has been murdered aboard the U.S.S. Trident, and all evidence points to Ensign Janos of the Excalibur. Captain Mackenzie Calhoun is reluctant to accept that Janos, a powerful non-humanoid whom the captain has known and trusted for years, co...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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FLASHES AND FLASHBACKS The son of an infamous starship captian, the grandson of a diplomat admiral, and his home station's "Hot #1 Bachelor," Ryan Azarcon lives in a fishbowl. After witnessing a horrific terrorist bombing of his grandfather's emba...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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In the aftermath of 9/11, Captain America must come to grips with a changing global landscape--from the ruins of the World Trade Center to the horrors of a small town shaken by terrorism--and is forced to make some hard decisions about his role in th...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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For decades World War 2 super-soldier Captain America lay in frozen suspended-animation, encased in ice, until he was revived in the modern world to again take his post of protector of the Red, White and Blue. But when a mysterious package arrives at...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant -- a mighty vessel of the Systems Commonwealth that encompassed three galaxies -- finds himself a man out of time. Three hundred years have passed, the Commonwealth has fallen, and chaos reigns in the Kno...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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SC, TPB, in cello, New, Written by JIM KRUEGER and ALEX ROSS. Art by DOUGIE BRAITHWAITE, BILL REINHOLD, STEVE PUGH, STEVE YEOWELL, and BILL SIENKIEWICZ. Cover by ALEX ROSS. Published in 2007. Softcover, 304 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99....

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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When an environmental disaster sparks off a conflict in the Far East which looks like it could lead to World War III four friends in Sheffield must face up to their worst nightmares. The prospect of a nuclear attack forces Kayleigh, Mayner, Wren and ...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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Commander Van C. Albert is a good officer with bad luck. It seems to have changed when he becomes a military attache on Scandya, and prevents an assassination, but he wakes from a coma to find himself decorated, promoted and summarily retired. Then t...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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While the Republic of Cinnabar is at peace with the Alliance, warriors like Lt. Daniel Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy must find other work--like escorting a pair of wealthy nobles on an expedition to the back of beyond! The Princess Cecile, th...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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For years Crusher Creel has terrorized the world with his ability to absorb the properties of anything he touches. Now, after being locked away in a secret underground prison, the Absorbing Man has gained the new ability to jump in and out of people'...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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From the phenomenal British classic sci-fi comic series, 2000 AD, comes terrifying stories of psychic police from John Wagner and Alan Grant (Judge Dredd) and artists Brett Ewins (Skreemer) and Cliff Robinson, and with a cover by comics legend Brian ...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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Best friends Elias, Shohei, and Honoria had a bond that couldn't be broken, but as time went on and the trio grew up, the strains began to show as different personalities and goals made it difficult for three such unique people to find a working bala...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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Millions of years from now, humanity will be on the brink of self-destruction. The world's great leaders have created an elite group who, by their superior wisdom and abilities, keep the peace, maintain progress, and otherwise safeguard humanity's fu...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes one of the most thrilling debut novels in years. Welcome to a posthuman universe of emergent Als, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware, where survival can be only a state of mind. Welcome to....

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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The SS Cygni is 245 light-years from Earth. It sends back hours and hours of video, but only a few minutes matter--the four minutes that show a creature living, moving, dancing in the plasma fire of a double star's accretion disk. A dragon made of st...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, a young woman who has chosen a military career instead of joining the family's shipping business. It's adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. But after a single error in judgment, she...

• Oct-2003
• / Science Fiction
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Meet Jack Stein, Psychic Investigator.... hIs specialty: Drawing CLUES FROM DREAMS AND PSYCHIC impressions. Not a line of work that brings a lot of respect. His stomping ground: The Locality, a crowded, quasi-organic, self-feeding "urban enviro...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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"Where's Jessie?" Even as she breathes out the words, Karen Matthews knows that her worst nightmare has become a reality. Her seven-month-old baby is gone, stolen during the night. When the police call a famous psychic, Zoe Shefford, to use her myste...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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It’s a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority’s Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endl...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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Set in the not-so-distant future, Adrenaline introduces James Parker, a biochemistry grad student who discovers a cure for muscular dystrophy, the disease confining him to a wheelchair. However, the cure that began as his salvation appears to have bi...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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In the sequel to The Winter Soldiers, "Fancy Jack" concludes his Crimean tour of duty amid the brutal clash of the British and Russian empires. The year is 1855, the port of Sebastopol is still under siege by the Allies, and the czar's troops are put...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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On the streets of L.A., the most dangerous person can be a cop. Us against them. That's the law of the cop world. Out on the mean streets of L.A., the only defense is to be more ruthless than your opponent. You gotta bang with the best of the roug...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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SOME PLACES... As the sun sets on a deserted Florida beach, a desperate man prepares to take his next victim. The young girl seems just the right age to survive the journey through the black water. And if she doesn't...she'll end up like all the oth...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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I am a deathmaiden. That's my job. I help people die.... Like a religious call, a career as a deathmaiden is not something you choose: It chooses you ... . The little boy in a coma was sent home to die. But from the moment she touches him, Frances...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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From Newbery Honor author Janet Taylor Lisle comes a lyrical story about one girl’s discovery of her startling past -- and her search to understand her complicated present.Joelle’s height and dark skin set her apart from everyone in Marshfield. I...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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This Irish bad-boy thriller -- set in the hardest streets of New York City -- brims with violence, greed, and sexual betrayal. "I didn't want to go to America, I didn't want to work for Darkey White. I had my reasons. But I went." So admits M...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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Ralph "Sonny" Barger first gained the attention of the book world with his bestselling memoir Hell's Angel. Now he uses what he's learned from a life insidea subculture few will ever know to create his no-holds-barred first novel, giving readers a ta...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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A SHOCKING CRIME… Once police officer John Davey had everything … until bribery charges destroyed his life. Now he’s been given a second chance. He’s asked to join the investigation into the baffling murder of a Chicago couple who were sho...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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It was a winter morning in 1978, that the body of a young barmaid was discovered in the snow banks of a Scottish cemetery. The only suspects in her brutal murder were the four young men who found her: Alex Gilbey and his three best friends. With no e...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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Max Travis is one of the country's best prosecutors. In court, few can match his determination to bring criminals to justice, even if it's at the expense of his own personal life. When two of Max's close friends are the victims of a violent robber...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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Baxter residents fear upheaval when a regional tire plant announces it's coming to Baxter. Rumor says mayor Charlie Kirby's signature on the deal was influenced by an affair with the tire company's corporate attorney - who dies suddenly after the agr...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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From the bestselling author of Aloha, Mr. Lucky and Too High"Fans of Elmore Leonard and Carl Hiassen looking for more of the same could help this series catch fire."-Publishers WeeklyShickie Doone is one of the best con men on the planet. After his l...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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His profitable career as a high-end automobile thief abruptly thwarted when he is set up for the murder of a Philadelphia mob boss, Teddy Clyde must outmaneuver a mobster with a grudge, an assistant U.S. attorney, two arms dealers, and a beautiful in...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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Aspiring author Tracey Sullivan, on the mend from her boyfriend's betrayal and father's suicide, has landed the perfect opportunity: a job as ghostwriter for a fading film star who lives in a magnificent Greek villa. But soon Tracey discovers more th...

• Nov-2003
• / Suspense
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Picking up where his runaway bestseller Back Bay left off, William Martin returns to Boston to bring the history of HarvardUniversity vividly to life. There are many Harvard legends. One of the oldest is the tale of how John Harvard's parents were br...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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Still young but already a seasoned veteran of King Edward's army, Thomas of Hookton possesses a fearlessness and an uncanny prowess with the longbow, talents that have made him a natural leader. Now, at the head of a small but able band of soldiers, ...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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This page-turning thriller evocatively depicts a corrupt and desolate Berlin at that turning point in history when Hitler is on the cusp of taking power. It is the story of Detective Harry Wulff, a member of an elite police force, who is assigned to ...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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In an Arizona hospital, a patient barely clings to life after suffering a cardiac arrest -- the victim of a hidden condition, an inexplicable accident ... or an unspeakable vengeance. Surgical resident Malcolm Ishmail made two mistakes that devast...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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At the request of her many fans -- Terri Blackstock revisits the heroic cast of characters in this fifth book in her best-selling Newpointe 911 series In Line of Duty, a bomb explodes at the Icon International building in New Orleans while lawyer Jil...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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There is Caleb Doyle, a hot new playwright whose newest work, Chaos Theory, has just bombed. His sister, Jessie, also loves theater but has no outlet for her talents except to work as the personal assistant to British actor Henry Lewse, "the Hamlet o...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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A woman commits suicide for no apparent reason. A week later, her son -- beautiful, troubled fifteen-year-old Mark Underhill -- vanishes from the face of the earth. To his uncle, horror novelist Timothy Underhill, Mark’s inexplicable absence feel...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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A man claiming to be Jesus is in Rome. Is it the beginning of the end?Joshua Ben-Yosef attracts a huge following. He was born in Nazareth to parents name Mary and Joseph and speaks more than a dozen languages -- fluently and without accent. His words...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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It's the Christmas season, and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by los...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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A ghost story that begins in everyday tragedy, from a distinctly American master of both forms: a "scary, sad, funny . . . mesmerizing read" (Stephen King)

At Midnight on Halloween in a cloistered New England suburb, a car carrying five tee...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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A beautiful executive is robbed and murdered. With her last breath, she identifies her assailant. Or does she? Damon Tucker, a kid from Harlem, is quickly charged with the murder, but he maintains his innocence from the beginning. Soon the only pe...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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There are two oceans, mom used to tell me. There is one that is blue-a clean, bright Disney World blue, which simply is the mirror of a clear sky above. But look at the ocean on a cloudy day, she would say, and here lies the green ocean-the true o...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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A headline murder. A rookie investigator. A race against the clock -- and against the past. With his newly minted detective badge, “Mac” McAllister reports for his first assignment with the Oregon State Police: a particularly gruesome homici...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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Reveling in outrageous shenanigans and hilariously off-kilter characters, Shoveling Smoke (now in paperback) does for East Texas what Carl Hiaasen's novels do for South Florida. Burned-out corporate lawyer Clay Parker chucks it all and moves from Hou...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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You will now feel the pain I have felt for the past ten years, Hank Tobin. You are going to know what it is like to have your son suffer for the sins of his father, which is the worst pain any man will ever know. Hank Tobin had it all: a popular col...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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On a cold night in autumn, an unspeakable crime shatters the quiet calm in a small seaside village. Tess wills her best friend, Lennie, to be injured or even trapped somewhere, but on some level she can already feel her absence. When she hears that L...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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Los Angeles, 1953. Lionel Walk is a young black caddy at Brookline, the oldest, most exclusive country club in the city, where he is known by the nickname "Train." A troubled, keenly intelligent kid with no particular interest in his own prodigious t...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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THE THREAT TO OUR FUTURE Moscow--a city under siege by hardcore Communists threatening to plunge the country back into Stalinist darkness. Into the heart of the firestorm, American ambassador Stephen Metcalfe has been summoned to find the one man wh...

• Oct-2003
• / Suspense
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In Paris's Pere-Lachaise cemetery lie the bones of many renowned departed. It is also home to a large number of stray cats. Now, what if by some strange twist of fate, the souls of the famous were reborn in the cats with their personalities intact? T...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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Reserve Deputy Constable Raven returns in this page-turning sequel to the critically acclaimed Constable's Run. This time, Raven's got more problems than just a cheating boyfriend . . .There's Yucatan Jay, who may or may not work for the CIA and is f...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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A DARING WOMAN Angelina Mercer is Federal Agent Finn Carver's last, best hope. The hunt for a dangerous weapon has led him to her door with a proposition that could be her salvation or destruction. It's her one shot at turning around a life gone wro...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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PROTECTOR...LOVER She'd been a prodigy since birth, a woman for whom no puzzle was unsolvable. But when she was attacked in her very own research lab, brilliant, reserved Dr. Genie "Genius" Watson quickly discovered that this time she didn't have ...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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PICTURE PURRRFECT Someone wanted gorgeous stunt double Nicole Paul out of the picture in more ways than one. Except Familiar, the crime-solving black cat, knew only her rugged boss, Jax McClure, believed she was being framed for a jewel theft. But...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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THE BOLD, FEARLESS TWIN That was Heartskeep heiress Hayley Thomas -- until the blackouts, slamming doors and nighttime whispers began. Was someone at Heartskeep toying with her or was she going crazy? With her sister away and the eerie family esta...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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Since moving to Austin to ease the pain of tragic mistakes, Paris Gibson has led a life of virtual isolation, coming alive only at night when she hosts her popular radio show. Then one listener--who identifies himself as "Valentino"--tells Paris that...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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Attorney Jillian Newman, advocate for the downtrodden and watchdog of the local police department, witnesses a horrible murder during the height of a thunderous storm in a downtown parking deck. Hunted by the gunmen, an attempt is made on her life an...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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SHE WAS CARRYING HIS BABY...AND RUNNING FOR HER LIFE Bounty hunter Olivia "Scout" Jackson was no stranger to danger -- but being pregnant changed everything. And wanting, trusting, kissing Pierce Maxwell was risking more than she dared. She couldn...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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In the darkness of her memory terror lurks Street artist Jade remembers little of her childhood except for the time she spent under the ruthless control of a cult leader, a time marked by terrible abuse and suffering. For the fifteen years since s...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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WHEN NO ONE CAN BE TRUSTED... For five years, Hannah Stuart has taken refuge from the horrors of her past inside Kenninghall, the hundred-year-old Washington estate of her dear friend, Milo Biehle. But now, Milo has died, and in his will he has lef...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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Kasey Ellis's life is shattered after she witnesses the murder of her friend and business partner at their Tyler, Texas, advertising agency. Though Kasey can't identify the killer, she believes the killer saw her -- and that her life is now in danger...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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RANDALL HONOR demanded that Jim Randall help the only woman to break his heart. Patience Anderson's child's life was at stake -- so Jim swept back into her life, secreting her and her son high in the mountains to protect them from a dangerous enemy. ...

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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When architect Holly Fairfield lands a dream job renovating a posh San Francisco restaurant, she discovers nothing has happened by chance. Soon she's caught in a dangerous game between Cutty family rivals -- and a dark legacy of obsession and murder....

• Oct-2003
• / Romantic Suspense
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HE WAS SWORN TO UPHOLD THE LAW Detective Nash Couviyon never let emotion interfere with duty. But when his former flame Lisa Bracket was the victim of a frame-up, he knew he had to help her clear her name. Although Nash had thought he'd never see ...

• Oct-2003
• / Traditional Regency
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He Stole Her Heart Jacob Winters, Earl of Hawthorne, is in no position to act as guardian to a spoiled nineteen-year-old girl. As a notorious member of London's most charming trio of rakes, Jacob decides it's best to foist his new charge onto his ...

• Oct-2003
• / Traditional Regency
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A NAUGHTY SCHEME... For Nigel Manning, Earl of Stratford, this Christmas promises to be less than merry. His scapegrace brother, Roger, pawned a family heirloom with reputed mysterious powers. And, as had luck would have it, the pendant's new owner ...

• Oct-2003
• / Traditional Regency
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A Family Christmas brings together a couple estranged since just after their arranged marriage the year before, and gives them the perfect chance to start over....

• Oct-2003
• / Traditional Regency
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Regency favorite Jo Ann Ferguson brings us the latest tale of intrigue featuring the delightful Lady Priscilla Flanders and her dashing admirer, Sir Neville Hathaway. A romantic tryst in Bath turns deadly--and our intrepid pair finds themselves at th...

• Oct-2003
• / Traditional Regency
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An Unexpected Delivery 'Tis the season to be merry, but Miss Augusta Oglethorpe is anything but--thanks to her ninny of a sister who has dashed off to heaven knows where, leaving her three young children behind. Her upcoming Christmas plans now ...

• Oct-2003
• / Traditional Regency
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WHY LOOK FOR THE IDEAL WIFE... Marriage is a serious matter according to wealthy businessman Gabriel Carr, not to be influenced by anything so frivolous as emotion--or the usually giddy female reaction to his striking good looks. Drawing up a list o...

• Oct-2003
• / Traditional Regency
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While the ton dances and gossips, another kind of society altogether claims the London night as its own. By the light of the moon, three noble vampires entrusted with the protection of their kind will discover that human desire is far from lost to th...

• Oct-2003
• / Traditional Regency
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Love has a way of taming even the wickedest of men... SHE WAS EVERYTHING THAT WAS PROPER... Miss Althea Bronson has a sterling reputation, and she intends to do keep it that way...even if it means concealing her long-held feelings for the ton'...

• Oct-2003
• / Traditional Regency
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Going Overboard The intrepid Miss Greeley, heading home from adventures on the high seas with her two brothers, is not quite sure what to make of this handsome, if waterlogged, stranger. Confused and shivering aboard her leaking vessel, he claims ...

• Oct-2003
• / Traditional Regency
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A SHELTERED LADY Camilla Twainsbury has always followed the rules of polite society as set forth by her exceedingly proper mother. But nothing in her upbringing has prepared her for what Fate holds in store. For no sooner does Camilla arrive for a q...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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All I Want...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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Leah McLaughlin welcomes the daunting challenge of rejuvenating the once magnificent gardens of the sprawling Waitehaven estate. She is also excited about the much needed income.

What the young widow doesn't anticipate is how much of a challenge ...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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In this national bestseller and basis for the smash hit movie starring Paula Patton, Baggage Claim is the story of one woman who decides that she’s done flying solo.When her baby sister announces she’s getting married in thirty days, sexy but sin...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.

Seventen-year-old Anthony "Spoon" Witherspoon is returning to Harlem afte...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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In Edith Layton's "Best Wishes", a pair of newlyweds discover--during their first quarrel over Christmas plans-- that making up is indeed the best part....

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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When Lucia first meets David Fraser, trustee of an art foundation dedicated to the work of the American sculptor Charles Carr, she falls irrevocably in love. But there are problems in store: Lucia, fascinated by Carr's work--especially his monumental...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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The memory of one kiss from an elfin girl is enough to warm an Irish sailor for many chilly nights. Now home for Christmas, he'll do whatever it takes to get his love--now prim and staid--under the mistletoe, in Emma Jensen's "Following Yonder Star."...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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For the Miami-based "Classic Strings" quartet, the mellow tones of violin, viola, bass, and cello blend in perfect harmony. But discord fills the personal life of each member. Marissa Soliz, who plays the upright bass, has serious doubts about the ne...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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What hope is there for Poppy Minkel? She has kinky hair, big ears, skin that's too sallow, and an appetite for fun. Poppy's mother, Dora, despairs of ever finding her a husband, despite the lure of the family fortune offered by Minkel's Mighty Fine M...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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For the Miami-based "Classic Strings" quartet, the mellow tones of violin, viola, bass, and cello blend in perfect harmony. But discord fills the personal life of each member. Marissa Soliz, who plays the upright bass, has serious doubts about the ne...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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Bounced from one foster home to another, Sarah Churchill learned early that love is conditional and nothing is free. Not even the homeless dog she accidentally runs over.

Veterinarian Grant Morrison is a sucker for strays, both the four-legged ki...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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TWO LIVES SEEMINGLY SHATTERED -- One from the inside out...The other from the outside in Lenore hadn't planned on changing their lives forever when she posed her question to Daniel.... Daniel's body tensed. Lenore stayed perfectly still, t...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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A confirmed bachelor cannot forgive himself for a long-ago sin--that is, until his niece's governess teaches him a thing or two about Christmas in Carla Kelly's "Let Nothing You Dismay."...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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One Last Goodbye. One Last Adventure.Pearly Laurel is devastated by the death of her beloved husband of thirty-five years. The two had always said they couldn’t live without one another, and Pearly has no desire to even try. Then, in the midst of h...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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Lana Tate dreams of the day she can leave Wyoming and live in a more civilized place like San Francisco or New York. Since her mother died her father has been paralyzed with grief, and Lana must sing in the saloon just to earn enough money to make it...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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A down-at-the-heels benefactor finds that a single penny-- his last--is worth more than riches when it brings him face- to-face with a breathtakingly beautiful Christmas angel, in "The Lucky Coin" by Barbara Metzger....

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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Sandra Heath's "Merry Magpie"--a bird as noisy as he is nosy--has a bad habit of screeching uncomely secrets, turning his masters against each other. But Christmas has a way of warming hearts, even those of the feathered persuasion......

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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Olivia Hamilton comes home to Misty Harbor only to sell her late grandmother's house to Ethan Wycliffe, the obnoxious boy she remembers from childhood. But Christmas memories have a funny way of holding people, and boys have a funny way of growing up...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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For the Miami-based "Classic Strings" quartet, the mellow tones of violin, viola, bass, and cello blend in perfect harmony. But discord fills the personal life of each member. Marissa Soliz, who plays the upright bass, has serious doubts about the ne...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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Five best friends go coastal in this fabulously fun surfing series from Roxy Girl! Isobel can't believe her good luck. First, she meets the boy of her dreams. Roger is smart, charming, and drop-dead gorgeous, plus he's fluent in Spanish and a s...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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Stephanie, a bored housewife and downtrodden mother, wants a job -- and Madeleine's recruitment company, PAs, appears to be the ideal place to go. Except that instead of Personal Assistants, the agency offers Perfect Alibis to unfaithful women. And i...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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Alana Devlin is a stage magician performing in Las Vegas. What no one knows is that she doesn't do magic tricks, but has the ability to create true, glamorous, faerie illusions that can fool all the senses. She's spent her entire life training to tak...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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It's the month of December and Mele Pitman is receiving little surprises at the oddest moments. Sweet, inexpensive gifts in her locker and in her car. "It's just like the Secret Santa at school, Aunty Mele," her twin nieces tell her. But Mele knows s...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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The Pine Ridge Portraits series opens as two soldiers discover a desperate woman hidden in a cellar, then take her back with them to their U.S. Army post at Fort Robinson. The painful secrets surrounding Laina Gray and her seeming indiffernce toward ...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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People in pain often do not understand the wounds they give others.... SO GO THE WORDS OF ESTELLA, whose years have given her a wisdom she longs to share. But her insights give little reassurance to Andy, whose torment seems to obliterate any cha...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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For the Miami-based "Classic Strings" quartet, the mellow tones of violin, viola, bass, and cello blend in perfect harmony. But discord fills the personal life of each member. Marissa Soliz, who plays the upright bass, has serious doubts about the ne...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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Following the success of Susan's first HeartQuest release, Happily Ever After, her new novel will delight readers with its well-woven plot and heart-stirring romance. Anne Lundstrom yearns for a safe haven from her painful past. Former gang member No...

• Oct-2003
• / Romance
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"Sweet Strangers" Renee Jardin never meant to become the world's most sought-after thief. But the minute she walks out of her biotech firm accidentally carrying "The Cure"--the most important scientific discovery of the century--she's on the run fr...

• Oct-2003
• / Political Thriller
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An epic story that moves with force, passion, and authority, Balance of Power begins when President Kerry Kilcannon and television journalist Lara Costello at last decide to marry. But the momentous occasion is followed by an unspeakable tragedy--a m...

• Oct-2003
• / Political Thriller
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Attorney Sean Drummond thinks his new job has put him on easy street. Think again, Sean. Fed up with his trouble-magnet tactics, the Pentagon "loans out" attorney Sean Drummond to a white-shoe D.C. law firm. Drummond makes the best of his corner-o...

• Oct-2003
• / Police Procedural
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With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy....

• Nov-2003
• / Police Procedural
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Early one quiet Monday morning, in an empty executive office, assistant Janice Denard begins to prepare for another ordinary day - but instead discovers evidence of horrific crimes, shocking photographs left abandoned in a printer. Now, with the hel...

• Oct-2003
• / Police Procedural
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Detective Julian Palmer is taking a break from homicide-or so she thinks. Signing on to assist in a simple insurance investigation, she soon finds herself enmeshed in something far more elaborate. It's a bizarre case, one that leads her from a dead i...

• Oct-2003
• / Police Procedural
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Joe Gunther's picturesque, rustic Vermont is getting darker...and more dangerous. In the course of one week a young heroin addict is gunned down while trying to rob a convenience store, a narcotics dealer is found hanging from a bridge, and the grand...

• Oct-2003
• / Police Procedural
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Lambert and Hook face a murderer who won't take no for an answer Headteacher Peter Logan is a strange case of Jekyll and Hyde. Unquestionably, he's effected impressive improvements at his Cheltenham school, but his private life is in no way exemplary...

• Oct-2003
• / Police Procedural
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GRAVE DOUBTS When local history teacher Lou Cameron disappears, Farrell County sheriff Frank Decker is puzzled by accusations of embezzlement, even if they do come from wealthy and influential Nathaniel Wetherston, whose family has owned half of F...

• Oct-2003
• / Police Procedural
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Simla 1922. While the rest of India bakes in the hot season, up in the pine-scented coolness of the Himalayan hills the English have recreated a vision of home. Here are half-timbered houses, amateur theatricals, gymkhanas and a glittering vice-regal...

• Oct-2003
• / Police Procedural
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Sheriff Dan Rhodes has half a mind to shoot the next person who asks if it's hot enough for him, what with the near hundred-degree heat and a months-old drought. He's also a bit warm under the collar over an ambitious local reporter's allegations of ...

• Oct-2003
• / Paranormal Romance
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The tree-lined streets and mystical shops of Salem, Massachusetts resonate with a seductive and brutal history. New Orleans musician Megan O'Casey has returned to the home of her ancestors to perform, with her husband Finn, in a weeklong series of co...

• Oct-2003
• / Paranormal Romance
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When Marcy Bridges discovered a portal to hell in her closet, she needed help from the last person she wanted to call -- her gorgeous landlord. Could she trust her life -- and her heart -- to the care of a dark, dangerous stranger?...

• Oct-2003
• / Paranormal Romance
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On the night of her twenty-fifth birthday, alone in her apartment, Air Force Sergeant Christine Canady wished for one thing: a little magic in her life. After drinking way too much champagne, she performed, of all crazy things, a goddess-summoning ri...

• Oct-2003
• / Paranormal Romance
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All He Wants For Christmas... As a cop, Nathan Baxter is sworn to protect and serve, but none of his training could help him save his wife's life. Now, the sexy widower has his hands full raising his adorable five-year-old daughter, Phoebe, and keep...

• Oct-2003
• / Paranormal Romance
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Embrace the darkness in a sensual new vampire romance novel from acclaimed author Susan Sizemore.... The world holds great danger for Alec Reynard and his kind. As the dark hollows of his soul threaten to overwhelm him, he undergoes secret medica...

• Oct-2003
• / Paranormal Romance
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Surgeon Dana Saint-Cyr trusted her instincts, even when they urged her toward an irresistible Louisiana man with a wicked reputation. But would she discredit the whispers of his supernatural powers and murderous intent before falling prey to his pass...

• Oct-2003
• / Paranormal Romance
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Dr. Holland Banks is head of the Century Psychiatric Hospital and president of the Schizophrenia Research Foundation...but is she going insane? The rest of the world seems to be. There's a sniper on the loose, she's being stalked, her father is condu...

• Oct-2003
• / Paranormal Romance
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Artist Vivien Gray's new mysterious lover promised soul-stealing ecstasy that haunted her dreams and set her spine tingling. Now their happiness was at stake -- from the ominous evil their very love had unleashed....

• Oct-2003
• / Paranormal Romance
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The swamp is their sanctuary. Its nights echo with the beat of their moonlit revels, feeding their dark hunger for power--and for revenge.:. The Nature's Refuge preserve deep in the southern Georgia swamp was a place steeped in superstition and le...

• Oct-2003
• / Private Investigator
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SEX, LIES AND MURDER Trade Ellis's high-country Vaca Grande ranch is just a car ride away from a world that couldn't be more different--a city of flash and glitter, poverty and hurt. Trade is happy making her living with Brahman cattle, but an occ...

• Oct-2003
• / Private Investigator
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Humphrey Bogart teams up with down-and-out Hollywood private detective Terry Scott to uncover a blackmailer out to frame Bogie for murder, an investigation that leads them from the glamorous haunts of the stars to L.A.'s dark underbelly and brings th...

• Oct-2003
• / Law Enforcement
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The case against Lieutenant Dominick Sisto is overwhelming. It's so overwhelming that Major Harry Voss hasn't been called in to prove him innocent--but to fight for a less severe sentence when the guilty verdict is read. Charged with disobeying a dir...

• Oct-2003
• / Law Enforcement
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The client is clear: Attorney Kali O'Brien is to come alone. The meeting place: a deserted, wooded park. The information the client has is explosive and highly dangerous. But she doesn't live to tell it. Instead, a sniper's shot ends her life and nea...

• Oct-2003
• / Law Enforcement
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THE CRIME SCENE: UNDERWATER THE CLUES: BELOW THE SURFACE I'm Hannah Sampson. I head the Dive and Recovery Team of Denver's homicide division--underwater investigation of crime scenes and evidence retrieval. When you dive, equipment can fail, reas...

• Oct-2003
• / Medical Thriller
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Settling into her new life as a private forensic consultant, Kay Scarpetta agrees to investigate a cold-case in Louisiana--the baffling eight-year-old murder of a woman with a history of blackouts and violent outbursts. Then she receives news that ch...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Mr. Day's prized tennis trophy had been safely locked in his cabinet. Now it's gone! "I keep the office door and the cabinet doors locked. How could anyone have taken it?" Mr. Day asks. Eric thinks he can solve the case. Cam knows she can. Can you?...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Featuring friendship, school, family, and a diverse community, these early illustrated chapter books from James Preller have it all.Got a mystery to solve? Jigsaw Jones is on the case. When Bobby Solofsky is accused of stealing the grand prize for a ...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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An updated edition of the one-of-the-kind cookbook presents more than two hundred delicious recipes and menus inspired by the best-selling mysteries of Lilian Jackson Braun, featuring such dishes as Boot Bean Soup, Chicken in a Dark and Mysterious Sa...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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The morgue is that cold and sterile facility where medical examiners do their necessary, but to many of us, dreadful work. Less familiar is its dry and dusty version, usually housed in the bowels of newspaper buildings, where old story clippings are ...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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When May Forsyth goes to work as gardner at Cannaluke House, she doesn't expect to find a dead body, and she certainly doesn't expect to fall for the investigating officer, but as the enquiry develops, they get to know each other much better and buri...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Can the secret weapon in Idaville’s war on crime really be a ten-year-old boy in sneakers? It can if it’s Encyclopedia Brown! Encyclopedia is back with ten all-new mysteries to solve, along with the help of his partner, Sally Kimball, the prettie...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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It is Germany, 1938, and Franz Schmidt is the chief auditor in a commercial bank in a provincial city. But as Schmidt will soon learn, the bank's prestigious new client, the Nazi party, is at once its least desirable. Schmidt will oversee their accou...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Description When Gavin Penfold finished work that evening, he was thinking only of looking forward to an evening drink with his wife before dinner at their beautiful home in the country. But his journey was soon brutally interrupted by men who hijack...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen idly to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to ...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Half black and half Vietnamese, emergency room physician Dr. Carmen Nguyen rides her motorcycle and practices medicine with equal passion. But her years on the ward have taught her one rule about becoming personally involved with patients: don't. Yet...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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A letter received by the now elderly newshound extraordinaire returns her physically, mentally and emotionally to her past and to her hometown in northeastern Oklahoma. As the pages of the letter unfold, so does the story of Gretchen's summer of 1944...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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The new novel featuring the delightful Ellie Quicke

Ellie Quicke, fiftyish and recently widowed, is still trying to come to terms with her husband's death and her newly-single state. She's coping, just, but could do without everyone else makin...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Includes CD of Mozart's piano music, performed by the author. Stranded in Milan by a train strike, a down-on-his-luck music scholar finds a mysterious document. Could it be the diary Mozart kept when he was an adolescent, traveling through Europe wit...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Ruthless, domineering Win Castle is drunk on power. A wealthy Texas rancher, his vast spread also boasts a hugely profitable winery. After a near fatal heart attack, he decides to find a suitable successor by pitting his two grown sons against each o...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Marie Louise was eight years old when she discovered the meaning of murder. She remembers specifically because it was her birthday and everybody in her family was out at her grandmother's and before she could blow out the candles and Grandmere could ...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Abigail Sutton's beloved husband walks out one night and two years later is found dead. Starting a new life, Abigail moves to a small town and buys a fixer-upper house left empty when old Edna Summers died. At one time, it was home to Edna's younger ...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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'Tis the weeks before Christmas in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and some big events are stirring for Lakota Deputy Sheriff Steve Martinez. The normally sleepy woodland area is uncharacteristically alive with activity after the body of one of its ...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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From a manuscript believed to be the work of John H. Watson, MD When a series of bizarre accidents befall small shopkeepers who have recently taken precautions to protect their premises, Sherlock Holmes is the first to discern a pattern, to the befud...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Small-town librarian Gwen Barlow gets more than she expected when she inherits her uncle's lavish Mississippi showboat and discovers that the Jubilee Palace is in serious financial straits, her uncle's death by a falling theater backdrop is under sus...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Shep Ladderback, the Philadelphia Press's aged obit writer, mentors the young Andrea (Andy) Cosicki, fledgling journalist and daughter of the late political fixer,Benny the Lunch Cosicki. Ladderback (who knows everything about everyone in the city) w...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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In this “gripping mystery”from the author of Closing Time, New York City PI Terry Orr finally confronts the madman who murdered his wife and son (Providence Journal-Bulletin).   Terry Orr has taken on his share of baffling cases -- but he’...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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FAMILY SECRETS When a Manhattan real-estate mogul is found bludgeoned to death in his study, evidence points to those near and dear. His wife loathed and feared him, his daughter hated him and his perfect son is anything but. Coroner's assistant L...

• Oct-2003
• / Mystery
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Every Christmas since Alex can remember, his family and neighbors have filled their front yards with decorations from each of the twelve days mentioned in the song ""The Twelve Days of Chirstmas."" But this year someone is stealing them one by one. A...

• Oct-2003
• / Literary
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In his new work of fiction, J. M. Coetzee has crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale told through an ingenious series of formal addresses. Vividly imagined and masterfully wrought, Elizabeth Costello is, on the surface, the story of a woman's l...

• Oct-2003
• / Literary
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If you're meeting the Ladies of Covington for the first time, prepare to fall in love with Hannah, Grace, and Amelia -- three warm, strong, and wonderful sixty-something women who are so real, they'll soon become dear friends. If you've visited Covin...

• Oct-2003
• / Literary
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J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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They Meet Again... Meryl Carrington, the youngest of the five Carrington sisters, is her mother's darling--and her mother's despair. Matrimony? Meryl seems to have most unladylike plans to run the family railroad empire instead. Fortunately, her fat...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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No one writes romance like Jo Goodman, especially with her magnificent quartet featuring the irresistible men of the Compass Club. In her third installment she holds readers spellbound as Gabriel Whitney, known as East to his friends, enters the life...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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A covert network of secret agents is Colorado's most lethal weapon -- and its only hope. Bound by love, loyalty and the law, these men and women are trained to handle the most clandestine and dangerous cases. As scandal and ruin threaten the state's ...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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'TIS THE SEASON... Proud but poor, Boston socialite Amelia Lawrence has no choice but to become a mail-order bride for a charming Illinois gentleman she's never seen. But when Amelia arrives, she finds that his "Grand Estate" is nothing more than a ...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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BETRAYED BY HER FATHER, ACCOSTED BY HER BETROTHED, AND DECEIVED BY THE ONE MAN WHO HOLDS HER HEART Scottish Highlands, 1694 With one brief meeting, a stranger destroys Maggie Robertson's hopes for her future and threatens everything she has worke...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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Come to the church in the wildwood. . .where the citizens of Hickory Hollow have worshiped for generations. In 1869, the preacher's daughter, Amanda Hodges, is drawn to mysterious newcomer Matt Campbell who helps to build the church. When Matt's croo...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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"Florrie or Dorie--I'tis such a wee dif'rence. Dinna ye fear, lassie, Alan'll still wed ye," declares Angus MacAllister, chief of the Texas branch of the Clan MacAllister. And with these words, the mixed-up mayhem begins. When Dorcas Jeffries offers ...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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The marriage is make-believe, but the passion is all too real... 'Tis the stuff legends are made of: a heroic husband risks his life to save his beloved from a shipwreck. Yet the gravely injured man Leah of Pecham tenderly cradles is not her...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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RULE #2: NEVER LET YOURSELF BE SEDUCED. He is a member of the Liar's Club, an elite group of renegade spies who work in the service of the Crown. His missions are difficult, dangerous, and undercover, requiring him to study his subject very, ver...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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'Twas said he could whisper a woman to bed, and now Sir Blaidd Morgan had turned his considerable charms on Lady Becca Throckton. But could she trust his intent? A childhood injury had made her fit to be no man's bride, and yet the Welsh warrior made...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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Was Gwenellen Drummond a woman or a witch? Friend Or Foe? Arriving home, warrior Andrew Ross discovered his castle ravaged by fire, his father and all who lived within its walls dead. Yet alive amidst the carnage was a woman with the face of an...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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Come to the church in the wildwood. . .where the citizens of Hickory Hollow have worshiped for generations. In 1869, the preacher's daughter, Amanda Hodges, is drawn to mysterious newcomer Matt Campbell who helps to build the church. When Matt's croo...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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A little disgrace... Isabella Winslowe's Wallflower Society is less a statement of the ladies' dire prospects for marriage than a pleasant get-together for tea. Still, Daniel, Earl of Colebrooke is outraged that his marriageable sister, Gr...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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Cecily is swept off her feet by one of Capital Duster's door-to-door salesman. When Averil Kingsley gives his unconventional demonstration - by dumping dirt on her mother's heirloom carpet - Cecily gives him her heart. Never mind that she stands a...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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All her life, Olivia Moreland has denied her clairvoyant abilities, working instead to disprove the mediums that flock to London. But when Stephen, Lord St. Leger, requests her help in investigating an alleged psychic, she can't ignore the ominou...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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A Woman With A Secret Impersonating her young friend Precious is the most bizarre thing American Cordelia Weston has ever done, but in order to find her sister Emily's errant British fiance, Cordelia needs the aid of her friend's family in L...

• Nov-2003
• / Historical Romance
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A bold woman known as the "duchess of Magnus" was wagered -- and won -- in a card game. But the woman who arrived was her shy, quiet cousin Eleanor. Eleanor de Lacy must have been mad to agree to exchange identities with her stronger-will...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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Come to the church in the wildwood. . .where the citizens of Hickory Hollow have worshiped for generations. In 1869, the preacher's daughter, Amanda Hodges, is drawn to mysterious newcomer Matt Campbell who helps to build the church. When Matt's croo...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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Someone wanted her dead -- or so her faintly familiar bodyguard kept telling her. But the only person "Louisa Haversham Winslow" needed protection from was him -- because this gentle giant of a man made her crave things no respectable newly widowed w...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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A Perfect Mess When Celia Rider's inheritance is stolen, she immediately suspects her irresponsible pea-goose of a stepmother, Patrice. Determined to uncover the truth, Celia poses as a governess to Patrice's neglected son, hoping to glean some clue...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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Love & Daring in Mayfair What was a proper English lady to do when a pirate moved next door? Add the newly titled viscount to her list of possible suitors? Take his wildly eccentric young daughter under her wing? Let the outlandish rogue kiss her ...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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The last of the lovely Ashcroft sisters to find a husband, Rose is fast approaching spinsterhood at the age of twenty- one. But the intellectual beauty is determined to make her way down the aisle--with no less than a nobleman--even if it means hidin...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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Meet six men who are dedicated to preaching God’s Word -- and six women who wonder if they are cut out to support that calling. Being a helpmate to a pastor is no easy task. They must step out in a special kind of faith and love to become preachers...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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In 1825 New York, marriage and family are a common desire of most women. But for Liz, whose family is very dependent on her, she knows romance may be as fleeting as a summer dream. But that's before Stephen Ames arrives in town to become the new p...

• Oct-2003
• / Historical Romance
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Raised in an atmosphere of equality, Daughtie Winfield is outspoken in her support for the rights of others, from the mill girls threatening a strike over pitiful working conditions to the immigrants living on the other side of town. So she is unprep...