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New Books List: 333 titles

  • Trick-Or-Treat Trap

    Dirk Zimmer

  • Devil's Work

    Margaret Yorke

    When Alan Parker is suddenly made redundant, he can't bring himself to tell his wife. With time on his hands while secretly and desperately looking for a job, he meets a waif-like little girl, Tessa, and her lonely, widowed mother. Alan discovers he ...

  • The Golden Hawk

    Frank Yerby

    They called him the Golden Hawk, Kit Gerado, whose tawny mane and fierce hungers were know and feared thoughout the Caribbean. As a young boy Kit Gerado had seen his mother murdered by the arrogant Don Luis del Toro. Now, as a buccaneer captain, he l...

  • Liars in Love Dlt

    Richard Yates

    A collection of short stories--including "Trying Out for the Race," "A Compassionate Leave," "Oh, Joseph, I'm So Tired," and "Saying Good-bye to Sally"--explores troubled human relationships and family life...

  • Murder in Washington and the Body on the Beach

    Dorothy Woolfolk

    MURDER IN WASHINGTON Donna dashed up the steps toward the huge statue of Abraham_Lincoln -- and stopped short Cradled in the giant stone arms was the body of a man.... Donna's and Abbey's trip to Washington, D.C. turns into a hunt for a derange...

  • Cosmo Report

    Linda Wolfe

  • The Express Riders

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • Princess of Powder River

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • The Vigilantes

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • The Horrible, Impossible, Bad Witch Child

    Barbara Williams

  • Giant's Bread

    Mary Westmacott

    Vernon Deyre is a sensitive and brilliant musician, even a genius, tormented and driven by forces even he didn't understand. His sheltered childhood in the home he loves has not prepared Vernon for the harsh reality of his adult years, and in ord...

  • Lesson in Love

    Tracy West

    The party was an unqualified success! And the best part had been lithe, handsome Mark James who had tumbled into Netta’s life and was now doing flipflops in her singing heart. Would he juggle it as expertly as he did those oranges? She didn’t car...

  • Carnival in My Mind

    Barbara Wersba

  • Man for Hire

    Sally Wentworth

    Something in his past worried him Yet Rafe Hendrix was obviously not a man to accept defeat, and Charis immediately knew he was the one who could rescue her young sister. Jane had been spirited away by a religious sect, and Charis feared for he...

  • Childrens Ward

    Howard L. Weiner

  • The Touch of Passion

    Lynda Ward

    HOW COULD SHE RESIST THE POWER OF HIS KISS? Gemma Culver, as a woman and an artist, was moved by the sensuous beauty of Jordan di Mario's sculptures. She'd often fantasized about meeting the master of erotica, the man who could breathe sexual vita...

  • Swan Villa

    Martin Walser

  • A New Tomorrow

    Irma Walker

  • Sweet Surrender

    Donna Vitek

    AN INSURMOUNTABLE CHALLENGE Suzanne Collins had no idea what was in store for her when she left for Italy. Expecting a quiet visit with her father, she never dreamed she would end up falling in love with his business partner! But Jared Caine wa...

  • The Summer Jenny Fell in Love

    Rosemary Vernon

    Jenny wants to fall in love--preferrably with someone handsome and rich! Having Craig and his mother rent rooms in her house doesn't exactly fall into her carefully made plans. Though he is awkward and insecure, Craig still knows how to get on her ne...

  • Sweet Bondage

    Dorothy Vernon

    SHE WAS DESIRE'S WILLING CAPTIVE. Maxwell Ross had set into motion a plan to avenge his younger brother. But he was wreaking revenge on the wrong woman, as Gemma Coleridge was only too happy to tell him -- at first. But soon, too soon, her heart o...

  • The Reluctant Lady

    Michelle Venet

    Chaos and broken hearts littered the wake: of the dazzling Brendan, Duke of Tressilian. But Kristen Killian, beautiful widowed Countess of Killeaven vowed she would never succumb to his notorious charm--until a moonlit night bound them together in a ...

  • The War Against the Rull

    A.E. Van Vogt

    When A.E. van Vogt wove several of his classic stories of The Rull into a novel, he created a work of enduring popularity in the science fiction field. Now back in print for the first time in the 1990s, this Tor edition includes "The First Rull," a s...

  • Darkchild

    Sydney J. Van Scyoc

  • The Butterfly Hunter

    Janwillem Van De Wetering

    Careening from the ashes of the Third Reich to the war-torn Central America of the eighties, Eddie Sachs, possessor of the secret to $100 million in Nazi gold, pursues his destiny, impelled by his belief in a second chance...

  • Bech is Back

    John Updike

    In this follow-up to Bech: A Book, Henry Bech, the priapic, peripatetic, and unproductive Jewish American novelist, returns with seven more chapters from his mock-heroic life. He turns fifty in a confusing blend of civic and erotic circumstances whil...

  • Foxx's Foe

    Zack Tyler

  • Ride the Vengeance Trail

    William O. Turner

  • Lallia

    E.C. Tubb

    Dumarest continues his restless wandering - combing the spaceways for an ancient and almost forgotten planet called Earth. Then, on a primitive world, he fights a giant mutant for the life of the lovely psychic Lallia - and wins a vital clue that cou...

  • Shining Nights

    Lynda Trent

    As England bowed to Elizabethan rule, a dazzling beauty challenged her destiny -- and an irresistible love WILLFUL, BEAUTIFUL LAUREL DEVON LOST EVERYTHING... After her father's death she fell upon the charity of the queen. Yet Laurel kept h...

  • After Hours

    Edwin Torres

    This best-selling book was the basis for the thrilling film Carlito's Way starring Academy Award winners Al Pacino and Sean Penn, directed by Brian De Palma. Carlito Brigante, often described as the Puerto Rican Godfather, was just released early fro...

  • Sultry Nights

    Ariel Tierney

    SULTRY NIGHTS Deserted by her husband, newscaster Annie Carroll ran her life with clockwork precision. No one could penetrate her defenses--until Ellis, a New Orleans art collector. Suave, sophisticated, sure of himself--and his women --he drew he...

  • Dawn's Early Light

    Elswyth Thane

    Sovereign Nation, Captive Heart 1774. Beneath the colonial charm of Williamsburg seethes a rebellion about to explode. Behind closed doors, young revolutionaries clash in a hot debate, while Colonel Washington dines alone at the Governor's Palace....

  • Summer Crossing

    Steve Tesich

    Hating East Chicago, Indiana, and the stunted lives it fosters, high-school senior Daniel Price sees a way out in his love for newcomer Rachel Temerson and then learns that the older man living with her is, in fact, her lover...

  • Lord Wicked Wolf

    Margaret Summerville

    He was a handsome rogue who had already cost her a job...and heaven knows what else! But Cassandra Covington couldn't afford to think of the scandalous Lord Wolverham. She was alone and penniless. Now even the daring plan of a determined friend made ...

  • A Lamp for Jonathan

    Essie Summers

    He was too near -- and not to be trusted Having Jonathan back in New Zealand was torture for Camilla. Five years had passed since she'd painfully broken their engagement, though she'd kept her knowledge of his dishonesty a secret. No ma...

  • Light on the Sound

    Somtow Sucharitkul

    The Inquestor Series was a classic science fiction series of the 1980s — and has now been reincarnated for the 21st century, with more adventures, more spectacle, and more extras. Tachyon bubbles, people bins and galactic empires — and pr...

  • Roadside Picnic

    Arkady Strugatsky / Boris Strugatsky

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    Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left ...

  • The Origin

    Irving Stone

    Darwin, the discoverer, did not mean to rock the world. He meant only to know the truth. But before he was done, Charles Darwin would shake the faith of centuries...would be reviled as a fiend, denounced as a madman - and finally hailed as a genius. ...

  • Round the Garden

    William Stobbs

  • The Third Generation

    Whitney Stine

    Through untold hardship and havoc, the bravehearted Heron clan strove to create a bold heritage from the barren land...wrestling their fortunes from the dark riches that lay deep beneath the earth, until they had established a powerful petroleum empi...

  • The Day It Snowed

    Ed Stevenson

  • Pride's Possession

    Jeanne Stephens

    Sara Dantan was her own woman, making her own way in the world, but Dr. Court Pride had plans to end all that. He planned to make her his woman, and the more she resisted, the more he enjoyed the fight. His kisses taunted her, his caresses torment...

  • Sweet Temptation

    Caroline Standish

    She will let no man rule her. And so, from the ashes of deception and defiance, their love was born--proud and passionate and unrelenting......

  • The Beast

    Robert Stallman

    A shapeshifter learns he’s not alone on earth in the finale of this acclaimed science fiction trilogy for fans of Ray Bradbury and Theodore Sturgeon. The shapeshifting beast’s human form has settled down in Albuquerque. Barry Golden is a ...

  • The Black Beast

    Nancy Springer

    THOSE WHO LIVED BY THE SWORD OF PASSION -- WOULD DIE BY THE SWORD OF LOVE! Frain and Tirell, princes of Melior, ventured together into mysterious regions of Vale in search of an army and the hope of victory. For his father's murder of the gentle, ...

  • A Presence with Secrets

    W.M. Spackman

  • Worlds of George O.

    George O. Smith

    Includes an introduction by Frederik Pohl, and new story notes by Smith. Stories include: Blind Time (1946); The Planet Mender (1952); The Catspaw (1948); Rat Race (1947); Meddler's Moon (1947); Meddler's Moon (radio script); In the Cards (1947); His...

  • The Valley of Ogrum

    David C. Smith

  • How Little Porcupine Played Christmas

    Joseph Slate

  • Flight to Romance

    Tracy Sinclair

    SHE HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO FLY. When Kalim Al Kahira, one of the most influential industrialists in the world, requested that Jennifer Fairchild return with him to Egypt aboard his private jet, her career demanded that she go. But her job could n...

  • Six Feet Under

    Dorothy Simpson

    An English village is shaken by murder in this police procedural from the “dependably pleasing” author of The Night She Died (The Boston Globe). Det. Inspector Luke Thanet may be the only happy cop in England. He has two healthy children, a wond...

  • Einstein Anderson Lights Up the Sky

    Seymour Simon

  • Of Passion Born

    Suzanne Simms

    CHAUCER WAS HER FIRST LOVE. Professor Chelsie McBride was thoroughly acquainted with her subject: the sometimes humorous, sometimes bawdy Canterbury Tales that could make even her students blush. A respected professional in her field, she was no s...

  • Where the Evil Dwells

    Clifford D. Simak

    FOUR AGAINST HORROR Secretly and in stealth, four puny humans set out to invade the heartland of Evil--the so-called Empty Lands, filled with every evil creature from the darkest of mankind's myths. Harcourt went reluctantly to rescue his long-lo...

  • The Shrouded Planet

    Robert Silverberg

  • Whale in the Sky

    Anne Siberell

  • The White Stallion

    Elizabeth Shub

    Long ago, a proud white stallion roamed the plains of Texas. Cowboys said he was the greatest horse that ever lived. And Gretchen knew they were right....

  • Nightwatch

    Barbara Shoup

  • Voices of Death

    Edwin S. Shneidman

  • Promise in Wind

    Perdita Shepherd

  • All She Ever Wanted

    Linda Shaw

    ALL SHE EVER WANTED was to continue her mother's dream. To Victoria, the school her mother had run was everything. Then Clifford Pennington entered the picture, and suddenly she wanted something new--this virile lawyer whose touch awoke the passio...

  • Dagger of the Mind

    Bob Shaw

    'The entire head had been stripped of skin, creating a nightmarish sculpture in gelled blood...' The hideous apparition that confronted John Redpath almost defied description. It was the beginning of a horrific ordeal that would cause him to question...

  • Miss Bianca and the Rescuers Bo

    Margery Sharp

    1962 edition, 5 book set includes Miss Bianca, The Rescuers, Miss Bianca in the Orient, Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines and The Turret. All inside a sturdy protective box. A Disney movie was made from The Rescuers story....

  • Mother Goose

    Sesame Street

  • Doubles

    Tom Seligson

  • Irma and Jerry

    George Selden

    I'M JERRY; IRMA'S A CAT Whiskers! In Connecticut things were never like this! Imagine me, mild mannered, philosophically inclined Cocker Spaniel that I am, staging burglaries and mad attacks and cheesing it (that's how Irma would put it; it means ...

  • The Glory

    Judith Saxton

    A family saga which follows the fortunes of the Neylor family. Mark has come back to New Zealand, while Tina's family is growing up in England. Then the First World War breaks out, and lives are changed forever. From the author of THE BLUE AND DISTAN...

  • Anger

    May Sarton

    The marriage of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a singer on the brink of fame, is a battlefield of opposing temperaments.

    Emotional and forthright, Anna battles against Ned's crippling reserve. In the clash of these two strong...

  • Morituri

    Barry Sadler

    SPAWNED IN THE DEPTHS OF THE CIRCUS MAXEMUS... The Gladiators found the starving slave-boy suckling a she-goat. Right then, they named him Lucanus -- Little Wolf -- and predicted that through all the wrenching bloodshed that was Rome... HE WOUL...

  • The Incredible Space Machines

    Joanne Ryder

    The first 14 pages of this book by Joanne Ryder, Paper Engineering by Ib Penick, Illustrated by Gerry Daly for Random House, contain excellent information about various kinds of rockets, satellites, people in space, the first men in space, astronauts...

  • Perpetual Light

    Alan Ryan

  • Labor of Love

    Barbara Roush

  • Second Harvest

    Erin Ross

    HER LEGACY WAS WINE FOR REMEMBRANCE.... The fields of Kia Ora were all that remained of Alex's turbulent past, and Lindsay was bound to honor her husband's memory by taking an active part in the New Zealand vineyard. The exotic splendor of Kia Ora...

  • Washington!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    WAGONS WEST Defying the icy dangers of majestic snow-capped mountains, they came to a rugged frontier town. They were enticed by promises of fabulous wealth, but their dreams were often shattered by fate and lawless violence. Some were brave, lust...

  • Three Volume Boxed Set: Dark Fires + Lost Love, Last Love + Sweet Savage Love

    Rosemary Rogers

  • Rapunzel

    Barbara Rogasky

    A wicked witch catches a man taking rampion from her garden, forces him to give her his daughter, Rapunzel, and imprisons the girl in a high tower until she is rescued by a prince, in a version of a classic fairytale first published in 1982. An ALA N...

  • Can I Help?

    Anne Rockwell

  • I Love My Pets

    Anne Rockwell

  • Heavyweight Gun

    J.R. Roberts

    Prizefights and beautiful women spell danger for the The Gunsmith! Down on his luck. The Gunsmith enters the boxing business to make some money. He signs on a young fighter whose smart and sassy sister wants to push the kid to the top. But Clint Ada...

  • Return Engagement

    Kay Robbins

    Sparks flew whenever fiery-haired actress Tara Collins and domineering producer Devlin Bradley came within shouting distance. Who would have guessed they'd been engaged once before... Then circumstances force Tara to make a pact with her torment...

  • Virginia Clay

    Meredith Rich

    A woman juggles her exhilarating career, the love of a sexy, powerful man and her vicious stepfamily in this romance from the author of Bare Essence. As an underwater photographer capturing the international pearl trade, Clay Fitzgerald is no strange...

  • Cry to Heaven

    Anne Rice

    In this mesmerizing novel, the acclaimed author of THE VAMPIRE CHRONICLES and the LIVES OF THE MAYFAIR WITCHES makes real for us the exquisite and otherworldly society of the eighteenth-century castrati, the delicate and alluring male sopranos whose ...

  • By Love Betrayed

    Anne N. Reisser

    She was a beautiful heiress far from home who dreamed of being loved for herself alone. Arrogant and powerful, he didn't ask questions. He commanded and took her trust, love, and passion - then left her with only her cold stubborn pride. They&...

  • The Forsaken

    Cameron Read

    The Hamiltons move into a historic North Carolina mansion unaware that the ghosts of two dead sisters haunt it...

  • Escape from Sobibor

    Richard L. Rashke

    A story suppressed by the Nazis, the largest prisoner escape of World War II is here reconstructed from the diaries, notes, and memories of the six hundred Jews who revolted, three hundred of whom escaped the death camp Sobibor...

  • Black Pope

    Mark Ramsay

  • The Falcon Strikes

    Mark Ramsay

  • A Talent for Destruction

    Sheila Radley

  • Vienna Dreams

    Janette Radcliffe

    SHE FOUND THE MAGIC OF LOVE IN THE CITY OF MUSIC AND DREAMS.... A woman's place -- the parlor, not the concert stage! But radiant Diana Ballantyne, pianist extraordinaire, had one year -- a year before she would bow to her father's wishes, return ...

  • A Boy to Dream About

    Lisa Quinn

    From the moment the dynamic young actor, Casey Dewitt , stepped on stage, Michelle fell under his spell. She was sure his golden hair and turquoise eyes would forever enchant her. At last she had met the boy of her dreams. ...

  • Mercenary Kill

    John Quinn

  • Dragonfire

    Bill Pronzini

    Investigating the shooting of his friend Lt. Eberhardt, the "Nameless Detective" finds himself caught in a life-threatening web of murder, bribery, violence, and organized crime in San Francisco's Chinatown...

  • The Baby Uggs Are Hatching

    Jack Prelutsky

  • A Visit from the Footbinder, and Other Stories

    Emily Prager

    Offbeat stories of women trying to transcend limitations imposed on them because of their sex and of men confused as a result focus on innocent depravity, absurd rituals, escapes from constraining lifestyles, and life's pleasures and fun...

  • Apache

    Donald Clayton Porter
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  • War Cry

    Donald Clayton Porter
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  • Help! Let Me Out!

    David Lord Porter

  • The Hidden Wrath

    Stella Phillips

  • The Maid of the North

    Ethel Johnston Phelps

    The Maid of the North weaves together tales about a woman's right to freedom of will and choice. In this collection of mostly nineteenth-century folk and fairy tales, Ethel Johnston Phelps's heroines successfully portray women as being spirited, cour...

  • The Maid of the North: Feminist Folk Tales from Around the World

    Ethel J. Phelps

  • Frankenstein's Aunt

    Alan Rune Pettersen

    When Aunt Frankenstein arrives at the castle of her nephew, who created the monster, to restore that place to order and clear the family's blackened name, she encounters both Dracula and the werewolf and attempts to solve their problems too....

  • Paramilitary Plot

    Don Pendleton

    Warning: Black Death! The disappearance of a leading U.S. biochemist was handled routinely by the Department of Justice... until their agent on the case was found dead in Florida, his body ravaged by a plague bacillus. Enter Mack Bolan. The mur...

  • Conquest

    Oliver Payne

    Autumn, 1763. After the longest siege of the Indian Wars, Fort Detroit has struck an uneasy truce with the mighty Red Nations. In a spirit of celebration, Owen Sutherland makes beautiful Ella Bently his bride and together they forge a great frontier ...

  • The Sisterhood

    Michael Palmer

    “A suspenseful page-turner . . . jolts and entertains the reader.” -- Mary Higgins ClarkInside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon's knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of t...

  • Star Struck

    Linda Palmer

  • The Man Who Would not Die

    Thomas Page

    In an isolated mountain clinic, doctors work frantically to treat the body of Daniel Forrester, the shattered victim of a plane crash. Desperately trying to save his life, they place him in the latest medical machine.Strange things happen to Forreste...

  • Have You Seen My Son?

    Jack Olsen

    When her estranged husband disappears with their five-year-old son, Lael Pritcher embarks on a lonely, obsessed search that takes her through the northwestern United States, into Canada, and--finally--to Mexico...

  • One Way Trip

    Walter Olesky

    In a world that keeps dealing nothing but bad breaks, stayoing out of trouble isn't easy. For Tom Delos forming the Guardians was his last chance to prove to himself and to others that he could achieve something. From now on, helping kids like himsel...

  • Idle Hands

    William O'Rourke

  • Segundo

    Frank O'Rourke

    RANGE WAR! Bill Hearndon had been away from Segundo for eight years -- years spent riding hard, pushing steers, earning the cash to come back and build a ranch of his own on the land he'd inherited from his father. Yet Hearndon had been gone just a ...

  • This Golden Land

    Louise O'Flaherty

    An epic story of tough ambitious immigrants to CaliforniaAaron, Jan and Rose. In brash little Los Angeles, each battles the way toward the top-one bringing in gushers in the fledgling oil discoveries; one fighting for stardom in the raw new movie ind...

  • Good Son

    Craig Nova

    “The Good Son is the work of an artist in full command, and those of you entering it for the first time can only be envied.” -- From the foreword by Jonathan YardleyChip Mackinnon returns from World War II a changed man. After being shot down...

  • The Shtetl

    Joachim Neugroschel

    Collectible, over-sized pbk. in Good Condition overall. First Perigee printing, 1982. Cover good (see photos provided), spine tight /sturdy, pages clean /unmarked. Minor crease on cover. Page edges has small brown spots (not mildew) on edges. Ships U...

  • Eve's Delight

    Cindy Nemser

  • Virginities

    Robert Muller

  • Passion from the Past

    Carole Mortimer

    She had fallen for him at first sight When Laura learned she was to work for the handsome Gideon Maitland, she was overwhelmed. Since she was a very junior secretary, he would never otherwise have noticed her. But he had more than seen her. He ...

  • Blood Oath

    David Morrell


    He wanted to make peace with the past...

    Peter Houston just wanted to find the grave of the war-hero father he never knew--a yearning that would draw him thousands of miles from home to the military cemetary in France.

    Instead, he s...

  • Man of Illusion

    Jill Moore

    APPRENTICE IN LOVE He threw off sparks of anger like shards of sharp metal, yet Cara stood her ground. She had no notion of what she was supposed to do or how to do it, but now she meant to stay. Pulled this way and that by a baffling cast of char...

  • House Of Danger

    R.A. Montgomery

    THE HOUSE OF DANGER IS YOUR BIGGEST CASE -- AND IT MIGHT BE YOUR LAST! You are a detective and psychic investigator. One day in your office/lab you receive a phone call: "HELP! I NEED YOUR HELP!" You quickly trace the call to a big, strange-looki...

  • Relentless Love

    Hayton Monteith

    After six years her secret was public knowledge, and the one man she had tried to avoid finally knew the truth: Rennie Gilbert, famed children's book author, was Lee Chatham, the wife who had deserted him so long ago. Price Chatham reeled her bac...

  • Lightfall

    Paul Monette

    A strange urge drives Dr. Iris Ammons to leave her home and travel to a small California town, where she comes under the influence of a weird evil power. A modern epic of terror steeped in centuries of evil.

    ...

  • The Great Hotel Robbery

    John Minahan

  • The China Option

    Nancy Dall Milton

  • Visions from San Francisco Bay

    Czeslaw Milosz

    Interrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The Nation, called "remarkable, morally serious and thought-provoking essays, which strive to lay aside the barren categories by which we have u...

  • Broken Dream

    Marcia Miller
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    MIXED EMOTIONS Cathy Mills’ promotion to society editor of San Francisco’s Morning Sun was a dream come true. But when Deke Connors, the handsome young editor of the paper, told her she was going to London to cover a society wedding, chaos eru...

  • Spotlight on Romance

    Marcia Miller
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    When gray-eyed Nan Ross reported for her first day of work at the plush Beverly Hills office of Allied Artist Corporation, the last thing she expected to receive was a warning against her new boss. But Rhoda Meade, her co-worker at the prestigious pu...

  • Eulalia's Island

    Carolyn Meyer

  • The Captive Witch

    Julian Messner

  • Pennies for the Piper

    Susan H. McLean

  • The Running Backs

    Robert McKay

    An 18-year-old goes from a reformatory to a small town high school, joins the football team, and tries to put his life in order. High school senior Jack Delaney, new in town, joins the football team as running back and rapidly becomes the school h...

  • When We First Met

    Norma Fox Mazer

    They Never Should Have Met -- But They Did... When Jenny meets Rob Montana she's happier than she's been in a long time. Theirs is the kind of love she thought existed only in movies. It seems that Jenny and Rob can talk about and share everything...

  • Dangerous Journey

    Margaret Mayo

    No doubt about it, Verna was inhibited She'd always kept her relationships with men light, friendly. Whenever stronger feelings threatened, her mother's biased cautions would come back to save her. But Verna had never before met anyone ...

  • The Runes of the Lyre

    Ardath Mayhar

    Created by the powerful Hasyisi, yet missing for centuries from its home world, the Lyre just hangs in a willow tree, waiting. Hasyih, the Heart of the Worlds, links contiguous dimensions, many worlds invisible to each other, yet accessible through d...

  • Empire

    Patricia Matthews; Clayton

    A breathtaking novel of wealth, pride and passion on America's last frontier. From Alaska's boozing, brawling boomtowns to the graft-ridden pipeline andlawless frontier, the Cole dynasty was spawned from blood and money, cursed by the Midas touch....

  • A Flame Too Fierce

    Jan Mathews

    Bereaved by death, betrayed by love, nurse Gin Selton seeks a safe, new life in Minnesota. But Noah Grady--whose reputation as a lover exceeds his renown as a physician--makes excessive demands at work that bring them into explosive opposition... unt...

  • The Sphinx

    Graham Masterton

    A horrifying legacy is brought to life.
    Gene Keiller, a young politician with a reputation to enforce finds his world shattered when he meets a beautiful woman at a party; a woman with a terrifying and secret past.

    The Sphinx describe...

  • China Winter

    Carole Maso

  • Fevre Dream

    George R.R. Martin

    A THRILLING REINVENTION OF THE VAMPIRE NOVEL BY THE MASTER OF MODERN FANTASY, GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Abner Marsh, a struggling riverboat captain, suspects that something's amiss when he is approached by a wealthy aristocrat with a lucrative offer. Th...

  • Rawhide Woman

    Cort Martin

    BOLT WAS A WANTED MAN...WANTED BY HIS FAMILY THE LAW--AND BY A WHOLE LOTOF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN! On the trail to Fair Chance, Bolt gallops straight into the gunsights of Rawhide Kate. But before she can pull the trigger, Bolt lets her know he comes in pea...

  • Light Thickens

    Ngaio Marsh

    "TURN, HELL-HOUND, TURN!" The fight. Leap, clash, sweep; hoarse, snarling voices. Macbeth is beaten backward, Macduff raises his claymore, and they plunge out of sight. A scream. A thud. Silence. Seyton carries his claidheamh-mor and on it, str...

  • Contessa

    Helene Mansfield

    DEBUTANTE Valentina's debut into glittering Parisian society was everything she dreamed it would be. She flirted with the handsome Prince of Wales, drank champagne until she was dizzy with desire and danced until dawn glowed rosy pink over the br...

  • The Counterfeit Husband

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    If only she could pretend forever... Camilla, Countess of Wyckfield, heaved her book at Thomas. "Why, you... you...!" "Bounder? Jackanapes? Dastard?" he supplied. "All of them! Get out of my sight!" She didn't s...

  • Dream Come True

    Ann Major

    SECRETS OF LOVE He had seared her innocence with burning desire. Now, six years after their divorce, Barron Skyemaster, superstar, tried to claim her again. But how could Amber face him after denying him the knowledge of his son-a son he had every...

  • The Haunting

    Margaret Mahy

    Nobody knew. Or did they? Barney's family seems ordinary enough...until Great Uncle Barnaby dies. Suddenly, an eerie, weird voice starts taunting poor Barney unmercifully. It won't leave him alone. Only his sister Tabitha, the aspiring novelist, s...

  • An Accidental Grace

    Irene Mahoney

  • The Search for Anderson

    I.I. Magdalen

  • Cirak's Daughter

    Charlotte MacLeod

    A young woman investigates the death of her wealthy, estranged father in a small Rhode Island town in this novel by the author of the Peter Shandy Mysteries. -- Murder can happen anywhere, even in sleepy Meldrum, Rhode Island. And while the town’...

  • The Good Old Stuff

    John D. MacDonald

    The Good Old Stuff has been selected to give readers a taste of John D. MacDonald's great fiction. "The Simplest Poison" is a straight detective story. "Miranda" is psychological suspense. "Noose for a Tigress" is about a woman who wanted too m...

  • Spirit Woman War

    Warren T. Longtree

  • Why Am I Grown So Cold? Poems of the Unknowable

    Myra Cohn Livingston

  • Shadow Like a Leopard

    Myron Levoy

    Ramon Santiago, a fourteen-year-old street kid and poet, records his thoughts in a notebook. He is skilled with words and skilled with his knife, when needed. Alone, he wants to join a street gang to be macho, but to prove himself, he must rob an eld...

  • Water Dancer

    Jenifer Levin

    Several years after being ranked the top female marathon swimmer, Dorey Thomas determines to swim the as yet uncrossed San Antonio Strait and turns for training to Sarge Olssen, who lost his only son to the strait...

  • Yesterday's Tears

    Susannah Leigh

    SISTERS UNDER THE SKIN Faith Eliot came from England to the South Carolina plantation of Havenhurst to find out the truth about the mysterious death of her twin sister, Fleur. But when she arrived, she could feel Fleur's spirit come alive -- within ...

  • The Blue and the Gray

    John Leekley

    THE BOND OF BLOOD MADE THEM A FAMILY. WAR MADE THEM ENEMIES. The Geysers and the Hales: one set of cousins sweated its living from the soil, the other from a small-town newspaper. One made its home in the South, the other -- only a few miles ride aw...

  • Manitou's Daughter

    Paul Joseph Lederer

  • Passions

    Barney Leason

    Passions is a humorous look at the high-flying world of Parisian haute couture designers, foreign correspondents, political intrigue, and the demands of the big egos involved....

  • Whistle in the Graveyard

    Maria Leach

  • The Mace and the Plume

    Jeanne Lancour

    A courtly saga of love and triumph in the era of knights and kings, this is the powerful story of two young, proud women who share a common ancestry...shattered by the treachery and deceit of the men who would steal their lands. From the fief of Leau...

  • For the Love of Lori

    Veronica Ladd

    Andy and Lori neighbors and friends since kindergarten. They had never imagined that anything could come between them. Yet when they exchange their first kiss, everything changed. Would they ever be friends again? Or should they chance the bitte...

  • Tapestry of Love

    Cathryn Ladd

    TANGLED THREADS OF ROMANCE Beautiful young Callie Forbes could scarcely believe her good fortune when Owen Trenwyn hired her to help him catalog his precious art and antique collection. The job was a challenge, and her elderly employer treated Cal...

  • The Shadow Riders

    Louis L'Amour

    RIDE THROUGH THE SHADOW OF DEATH Dal and Mac Traven left Texas young and idealistic. They came back from opposite sides of a living hell, a war that had torn a nation in two. They wanted only to reclaim their old lives, but one man held their futu...

  • Steps

    Jerzy Kosinski

    This National Book Award"winning novel of power, libido, and morality is “a powerful and profoundly disturbing book” (The New York Times).   First published in 1968, Jerzy Kosinski’s classic vision of moral and sexual estrangement captur...

  • Syndic

    C.M. Kornbluth

    There have been a thousand tales of future Utopias and possible civilizations. They have been ruled by benevolent dictatorships and pure democracies, every form of government from extreme right to absolute left. Unique among these is the easy-going s...

  • Monster

    Jeffrey Konvitz

    A monster stirs at the bottom of Loch Ness. For centureies it has lived in peace, rising to the surface, from time to time, to become a legend in the hills of Scotland. Now something has arrived to disturb it's tranquility - the violent, greedy thru...

  • The Turtle Street Trading Co.

    Jill Ross Klevin

  • The Day Before Tomorrow

    Gerard Klein

  • Slice of Life

    J. Kisner

  • Autumn Beginning

    Kay Kirby

  • Mixed Doubles

    Meredith Kingston

    Cynthia and Russ were powerful opponents on the tennis court and in every argument--but friends nonetheless. Then they went their separate ways. Reunited years later, both single once again, their comfortable companionship suddenly burst into a torri...

  • Different Seasons

    Stephen King

    An unjustly imprisoned convict seeks a strange and startling revenge... a teenager becomes both the puppet and the puppet master of evil...four rambunctious young boys plunge through the facade of a small town and come face-to-face with life, death, ...

  • Night Vision

    Frank King

    Avenging herself on her former lover and protege, Dr. Helen Roth unleashes the energy behind the dream process to psychologically manipulate Paul Stanislaus into committing increasingly violent crimes...

  • A Scandalous Bequest

    April Kihlstrom

    A KNOWING YOUNG LADY Felicity Lyford harbored no illusions as to why both the debonaire Lord Harry Eastcott and the dashing Sir Anthony Woodhall might want her hand in wedlock. Their wealthy and eccentric old aunt, Lady Cora Meecham, had told them...

  • Silver Rose

    David A. Kaufelt

    THE PASSION OF CASABLANCA THE DECADENCE OF CABARET THE LOST INNOCENCE OF…SILVER ROSE Rennie Jablonski -- she came back to Berlin, into the gathering storm to rescue her father. She stayed because there was no turning back. She stayed to beco...

  • Red Heat

    William Katz

  • Wildraith's Last Battle

    Phyllis Ann Karr

    She had been a God, lord of all forests and the creatures that dwell within, until a small and thoughtless act of cruelty brought heavenly justice upon her, sentencing her to the worst punishment of all: to become human....

  • Some Things Dark and Dangerous

    Joan Kahn

  • The Silken Web

    Laura Jordan (2)

    WITH SUMMER'S SWIFT PASSION, THEY MET AND LOVED... Beautiful fashion buyer Kathleen Haley was determined to resist Erik Gudjonsen, the magnetic blond photographer on assignment at the camp where she was a volunteer counselor. But soon she was ...

  • When September Returns

    McClure Jones

    "MAYBE YOU OUGHT TO GO OUT WITH OTHER GUYS," Joanne's friends all told her. But she couldn't. She had fallen for Tim . Tim with his blond hair and crooked smile, Tim who called her gorgeous. She knew that she had another year of school, while Tim wa...

  • The Stone Maiden

    Velda Johnston

    The advertisement, complete with box number, appeared in New York newspapers: "Will anyone having information about an infant abandoned in Manhattan twenty-eight years ago please communicate." -- Katherine Derwith had placed the advertisement. In ...

  • Censors in the Classroom

    Edward B. Jenkinson

  • In Name Only

    Roxanne Jarrett

    HOW COULD SHE MARRY A STRANGER? Finally, Jill Carteret was going to Brazil. But she was not going to work in her uncle's company as she had planned. Instead, her uncle, now deceased, had arranged for Jill to marry his younger partner, Simon Todd. ...

  • Henry James

    Henry James

    In a penetrating examination of Washington Square, The Portrait of a Lady, The Bostonians, What Maisie Knew, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl, Hutchinson shows that, like the major American authors who preceded him, Henry J...

  • Warlock of Firetop Mountain

    Steve Jackson

    FIGHTING FANTASY is the brilliant series of adventure gamebooks in which YOU are the hero! Decide which monsters to fight, which paths to take, who to trust and when to run. Can you survive the clutches of the hideous Bloodbeast, or defeat a noxious ...

  • Promise the Earth

    Clive Irving

    Recounts the complex, protracted, and bloody events of the settling of modern Palestine, during and just after World War I, with an ensemble of characters that includes such near-mythic, historical figures as Weizman, Ibn Saud, and T.E. Lawrence...

  • Enchanted Island

    Jean Innes

    With the stars as her guide and nature's colors as her inspiration, lovely Shelley Rogers had made a name for herself as London's most gifted interior designer. Now she was off to the sun-bright Isle of Jersey to redecorate wealthy Alex Hart's enchan...

  • Tough-Luck Karen

    Johanna Hurwitz

    This fourth novel about the popular Sossi family focuses on 13-year-old Karen and the bad luck she encounters when she ignores her schoolwork for cooking and babysitting. "Skilled in making everyday occurrences interesting, the author has written a p...

  • Marcus Whitman: Frontier Mission

    Greg Hunt

    A backwoods doctor and fearless adventurer, Marcus Whitman was respected and admired by all who traveled the Oregon Trail. By cart and wagon, on horse and on foot, the settlers came in increasing numbers…welcomed to the rich, verdant valley where W...

  • Alice with Golden Hair

    Eleanor Hull

  • Apple Crunch

    Frederic V. Huber

  • Trotsky's Run

    Richard Hoyt

    When the famous British traitor Kim Philby contacts a U.S. Agent in Moscow claiming to have important information, the CIA is cautiously interested. Their counterintelligence director Ara Schott, normally a desk man, goes along to Yalta to talk to Ph...

  • Annie Joins the Circus

    James Howe

  • The Money, Honey

    Linda U. Howard

    A sweepstakes winning sweeps still-aspiring artist Matthew Morganstein into the upbeat world of high finance and tax shelters, but he longs for a return to the days of pre-monetary, idyllic, bohemian bliss with his Jewish-princess lover, Ariel...

  • An Independent Wife

    Linda Howard

    AN INDEPENDENT WIFE... ...and determined to stay that way--that was Sallie Jerome Baines. Her husband Rhydon Baines had broken her heart and once, she had vowed, was enough. Then fate brought them together again, and the new Sallie fell for Rhy...

  • Easy Company and the Twilight Sniper

    John W. Howard

  • An Improper Betrothment

    Henrietta Houston

    Nell Trant knew Sir Charles Grayson kept several light-skirts. She had jilted him for that very reason -- at their betrothment ball no less. A shocking scandal! Later she regretted her haste -- though she admitted it to no one... Now she is beside...

  • The Bell Tree

    H.M. Hoover

  • The Devil's Mistress

    Sarah Holland

    Alex Brent was a dangerous man! Natasha was horrified to learn he had been chosen for the starring role opposite her. Once they had been everything to each other, but he had chosen to believe the lies of Roger, his spoiled, willful brother. Ale...

  • The Flight of Bembel Rudzuk

    Russell Hoban