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  • Harvest of Desire

    Mary Christopher

    HIS WISH WAS HER COMMAND Katarin Jameson was spellbound. He was here, in the flesh, the Baron von Drachensberg -- tall, compelling and definitely interested in Katarin. When she'd returned to the land of her ancestors to run the family vineya...

  • The Venetian Court

    Charles L. Harness

    The Plaintiff, Universal Patents, Inc., was heartless.The judge, Rex "Spider" Speyer was merciless. Ellen Welles' case seemed hopeless.Unless her lawyer could locate the mad creator of FAUST - the robot-inventor who'd given Universal Patents its stra...

  • 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...

  • Jungle of Desire

    Antoinette Beaudry

    SHANGRI-LA Safely hidden in the far reaches of the lush Amazonian jungle lies a mythical paradise, peaceful and idyllic, isolated from civilization for over a century...until a band of vicious guerrillas invade the valley, greedily searching for dia...

  • Promise Me Love

    Lynn Bartlett

    She thought she could never love again. She was just sixteen when she met Neil Banning. Innocent of love and its deception, she was shattered to learn how cruelly her heart could be broken. Eden Thackery, the most desirable young lady among New Yo...

  • Savage Embrace

    Alexis Boyard

    PRIMITIVE PASSION was what Sylviane felt when she first saw the powerful Indian warrior. Her heart raced with fear and her legs trembled in fright -- but she yearned to twine herself around him like a supple vine to a mighty oak. It didn't matter ...

  • Green Willow

    Barbara Bonham

    Almost from the first moment Selene Prescott arrived in Green Willow, she admires the handsome, intense young man who helps the new settlers adjust to life on the harsh frontier. As Selene's affection for Alex Berry deepens in to love, she comes to s...

  • The Belle of the Rio Grande

    Dorothy Dixon

    She was a dimpled, violet-eyed, black-haired beauty, who wore scarlet velvet dresses, white-plumed hats and two Navy Colts hanging from her shapely hips. She was Belle Starr, Queen of the Outlaws, and as she blazed her way through the wild frontier, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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......

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Voices in the Dark

    James Haynes

    There is a fear which Christie cannot escape. Can she save herself from the grip of a power beyond her control?...

  • The Witch Goddess

    Robert Adams

    The tale is set in precataclysmic North America, approximately 600 years after nuclear war, man-induced plagues, and worldwide seismic disturbances have thrown humanity into a brutal pre-industrial age. Much of California and the East Coast have sunk...

  • Moon of Mutiny

    Lester Del Rey

  • Time Safari

    David Drake

  • The Purple Book

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • Catch a Falling Star

    John Brunner

  • Manshape

    John Brunner

    The interstellar Bridge System was the greatest invention in the long history of cosmic humanity Spread through dozens of planets, men and their societies had drifted apart in isolation until the Bridge came to link together humanity's multifold worl...

  • 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 Defector // Betrayal

    Evelyn Anthony

    A woman and a man have arrived at an English country house to spend a quiet weekend in the depths of Wiltshire. Surrounded by magnificent formal gardens they relax with drinks before dinner .The woman is Davina Graham, one of British Intelligence'...

  • Dangerous Promise

    Alyce Bowen

    IT HAD TO BE ALL -- OR NOTHING Stephanie had little choice but to accept Cade Steele's demand. As production coordinator she would be personally responsible to him while her company filmed on his ranch. But working with the formidable, deva...

  • Devil's Bargain

    Elaine Camp

    HE LURED HER INTO THE MAZE OF HIS HEART. Years ago, Alexis Walker had been easily wooed by the splendor of Greece and the charm of Drayce Tombazkis. Beneath the majestic columns of the Acropolis, they had shared a love that seemed blessed by the g...

  • To Catch the Wild Wind

    Jo Calloway

    From the moment he appeared on the beach--tall, sun-bronzed, and impossibly handsome--Kenda knew that she wanted him, loved him.... Kenda had survived the tropical storm that killed her father and destroyed his research lab. Alone on one of Fiji's...

  • Logic of the Heart

    Dixie Browning

    A SUMMER PARADISE Even though the trip was business, Emma looked forward to seeing the romantic island of Hatteras. Meeting the dark, handsome Dan Slater had not been part of her plans. But the situation she walked into grew as sizzling as the ...

  • The Renegades

    Mary Canon

    Betrayed and driven... They were THE RENEGADES Under the tyranny of Cromwell's Puritan rule, the Irish fought vainly for their freedom. Caught in the struggle, Irish beauty Maggie O'Hara waged her own fierce war against marriage to a r...

  • Power Play

    Jayne Castle

    Blackmail! Talia Haywood could hardly believe she was so desperate. But something about Kane Sebastian drove her to it: anything to get the information that only he could provide. She thought she knew his type: an arrogant industrial tycoon, the k...

  • A Fire of the Soul

    Ginger Chambers

    Safety -- that was what she needed most after the shock she'd received when she discovered that Carl, the man she'd thought was hers, was about to be married -- to her sister, Marla! A refuge -- but could she find it here on her uncle'...

  • Love's Tender Trial

    Maggi Charles

    When nurse Fern Morgan met Jonathan Delafield, she knew she had found someone special. She and the handsome district attorney struck sparks off each other from the first, but it was not until an injury placed him under her care that they learned ...

  • The Second Time

    Janet Dailey

    How long could their love last? She had been an impetuous teenager when she had defied her love for Slater MacBride to marry a Texas millionaire, and she regretted her mistake. After eleven years of marriage without love, Dawn Lord was returning ...

  • Satin and Steele

    Jaelyn Conlee

    Skye Anderson knew about love -- its pain and aching loss. As executive secretary at the Hayes Corporation, she had found safety in a cocoon of hard-working days and lonely nights. James Steele threw her into turmoil. Elegant and impossibly viril...

  • A Tender Wilderness

    Christine Hella Cott

    SHE WASN'T A WOMAN WHO ACCEPTED DEFEAT Jessamine knew Bensen Everhart was annoyed with her. Too bad! She hadn't meant to dig up family skeletons -- but she had to research her historical novel, and that included his pioneer ancestry. St...

  • Texas Bride

    Catherine Creel

    WEDDING OF CONVENIENCE Ravishing Sarah Bradford was all alone in Wildcat City. The rough boomtown was full of brawny unbridled men and the Yankee beauty needed one man's protection. In name only Sarah became Mrs. Adam MacShane. And only then did she ...

  • Summer Magic

    Laura Eden

    SUMMER MAGIC ... For Alexa Jones this was to be a summer of rest and relaxation. But a vacation in Adam Carlyle's disturbing presence turned her world around. No more could she hold herself aloof from life, from men. Adam stormed her citadel, d...

  • Little Company

    Mary Elmblad

  • A Fatal Attraction

    Shirley Hart

    His eyes moved insolently over her, following the slim curves of her body down to the delicate instep of her heeled sandals. Amanda met his mocking gaze with cool eyes. She remembered him. The formidable Reid Buchanan, a man who changed women as e...

  • Love Has Its Reasons

    Olivia Ferrell

    LOVE HAS ITS REASONS. Cara Lang had been slumbering, waiting, though she hadn't known it until Sloan Montgomery stormed into her life and awakened the woman inside her. She shivered beneath his touch, gloried in his dazzling gaze and reveled in...

  • Winds of Desire

    Jocelyn Haley

    SHE HAD UNDERESTIMATED THE POWER OF PASSION When Dr. Michael Stratton chose Tracey for his arts scholarship she cried for joy. At last she could quit waitressing and write full-time. But she didn't trust the attractive doctor's motives. Mo...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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&...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Code of Arms

    Lawrence Block

  • The Killing Connection

    Dane Hartman

  • A Talent for Destruction

    Sheila Radley

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Case of the Kidnapped Angel

    E.V. Cunningham

    Masao Masuto is a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force- a cultured stranger in an even stranger land of traffic-clogged freeways, artery-clogging fast food... and brutal murders. In The Case of the Sliding Pool, the collapse of a swimmin...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Some Other Summer

    C.S. Adler

    A thirteen-year-old orphan is baffled and upset when her long-time friend Jeremy comes to spend the summer on her uncle's horse ranch and seems to ignore her. Continues the story of "The Magic of Glits."...

  • Critical Path

    Michael Ansara

  • Murder Unprompted

    Simon Brett

    Here is another of Simon Bretts fascinating blends of crime and backstage drama. This time he provides what might be described as the biography of a playfrom the cradle to the grave. Murder Unprompted takes you from the author, to an unscrupulous pro...

  • Our New Baby

    Jane Hamilton-Merritt

  • 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...

  • 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’...

  • 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...

  • The China Option

    Nancy Dall Milton

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Promise in Wind

    Perdita Shepherd

  • 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...

  • Last Respects

    Catherine Aird

    MURDER AT EBB TIDE "Found drowned, my foot," said the pathologist two minutes after looking at the body. The unidentified young man pulled from the salt water near the fishing village of Edsway hadn't drowned after all. And he hadn't been a bather...

  • Castle Crespin

    Allen Andrews

  • Golden Shore

    Harvey Aronson

  • The Powers

    William Bailey

  • Becoming a Heroine

    Rachel M. Brownstein

  • Just Hold on

    Scott Bunn

    In their senior year, outsiders Charlotte and Stephen find each other and acceptance into the school's inner circle, but at times Charlotte's remoteness and Stephen's friendship with Rolf drive them apart...

  • Morning, Rabbit, Morning

    Mary Caldwell

  • Blue Bear's Race

    Mirabel Cecil

  • The Fantastic Saint

    Leslie Charteris

  • Delicate Geometry

    Ken Chowder

  • The Cobweb Christmas

    Shirley Climo

    This beautiful picture book about the warmth and wonder of Christmas and the origin of tinsel on trees will leave children enchanted with the magical possibilities of the season.

    Everybody loves Christmas at Tante''s. The old lady decorates ...

  • King of the Seventh Grade

    Barbara Cohen

  • Family Happiness

    Laurie Colwin

    From the acclaimed author of Home Cooking comes a heartfelt novel about a midlife crisis and a woman tired of being taken for granted -- and a reminder that family, like happiness, can take many forms.“Colwin wrings magic from ordinary lives.” -...

  • Kiss the Candy Days Good-Bye

    V.T. Dacquino

    The cars and horns. The colors combining. My lack of strength. Everything tried to keep me from getting home. But I made it. Finally the huge glass doors were in front of me. Through the glass I saw Harold. I pushed hard. Help me, I wanted to say. Bu...

  • A Family Album

    Frank V. Dawes

  • The Names

    Don DeLillo

    Set against the backdrop of a lush and exotic Greece, The Names is considered the book which began to drive "sharply upward the size of his readership" (Los Angeles Times Book Review). Among the cast of DeLillo's bizarre yet fully realized characters...

  • The Samurai

    Shusaku Endo

    In 1613, with plans to open a trade route between Mexico and Japan, four Samurai and an ambitious Franciscan missionary embark on a journey that takes them to Mexico and Rome and back again to a Japan torn by strife...

  • Skeleton in Search of a Closet

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

  • Land of Dreams

    Michael Foreman

  • Mantissa

    John Fowles

    In Mantissa (1982), a novelist awakes in the hospital with amnesia -- and comes to believe that a beautiful female doctor is, in fact, his muse....

  • The Shadow Line

    Laura Furman

    When reporter Liz Gold fled to Houston to escape her family and her wrecked marriage, she investigates the twenty-year-old murder of the mistress of a prominent businessman and uncovers the truth about the murder--and herself...

  • Wilberforce Goes on a Picnic

    Margaret Gordon

  • Saigon

    Anthony Grey

    Four families--American, French, and Vietnamese--find their destinies intertwined as they endure fifty years of political turmoil, revolution, and war, in a story that traces the fate of Saigon from 1925 to 1975...

  • Life Sentences

    Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

    A woman who encounters tragedy unexpectedly has two choices. She can spend her life mourning. . .or she she can learn to live again. The choice Lindsay Howard made after her young husband's accident would outrage some people and inspire others. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • The Turtle Street Trading Co.

    Jill Ross Klevin

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • China Winter

    Carole Maso

  • 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...

  • Virginities

    Robert Muller

  • 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 Hidden Wrath

    Stella Phillips

  • Nightwatch

    Barbara Shoup

  • 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 Day It Snowed

    Ed Stevenson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Swan Villa

    Martin Walser

  • Trick-Or-Treat Trap

    Dirk Zimmer

  • My Lady of Cleves // The King's Choice

    Margaret Campbell Barnes

    My Lady of Cleves reveals the mesmerizing story of Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife, one of the rare women who matched wits successfully with the fiery king and lived to tell the tale. Written by world-renowned historical novelist Marg...

  • Giants in the Shadows

    Gloria Vitanza Basile

    The Manipulators In this shattering finale to the story of Val Erice and his relentless battle against worldwide conspiracy, we finally learn the dark secrets that have haunted his proud, self-made empire. The forces of IAGO, too, are unmasked and pr...

  • Emerald Enchantment

    Nomi Berger

  • Rum Colony

    Terry Nelsen Bonner

    AUSTRALIA A new land, A new way of life The recently discovered continent was many things to many people: For Annie Hollister, a young and spirited beauty it meant a chance for her family to overcome its past and make a new start...until the u...

  • Hawkmistress!

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    She had rejected her noble birthright and embraced the freedom only a man could claim. She was Romilly who lived among the beasts of hill and forest and communicated with them, who tried humanity and turned it down for its evils and jealousies. She h...

  • Tomorrow's Journey

    Drusilla Campbell

    HOPEWELL SAGA The tangled destinies of the Hopewells and the Shawns are drawn to a startling and powerful climax...in this fourth and final volume of the HOPEWELL SAGA. Eben Hopewell - Bearing the guilt for the fate of a woman he never loved, c...

  • The Mendoza Manuscript

    Nick Carter

  • Claudine at School

    Colette

  • 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 ...

  • Roses in Winter

    Joan Dial

    From the history of two generations touched by two great wars, comes a soaring epic of the human heart...of a girl born to a dying woman in the Great War's last dark hour, to live in England's most privileged splendor...of a young man who ran...

  • Tears and Laughter

    Rebecca Drury

  • Taken by Storm

    Glenna Finley

    On a business trip to England, a beautiful young woman becomes a player in a perilous game of love… A Heartfelt Confusion Lovely American Rosemary Lewis never imagined that a simple buying trip to England could make her life so complicated. B...

  • The Lieutenants

    W.E.B. Griffin

    They were the young ones, the bright ones, the ones with the dreams. From the Nazi-prowled wastes of North Africa to the bloody corridors of Europe, they answered the call gladly. War. It was their duty, their job, their life. They marched off as boy...

  • 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 ...

  • The Day Before Tomorrow

    Gerard Klein

  • The Great Hotel Robbery

    John Minahan

  • Eve's Delight

    Cindy Nemser

  • 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...

  • The Shrouded Planet

    Robert Silverberg

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • Darkchild

    Sydney J. Van Scyoc

  • Royal Silk

    Marsha Alexander

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

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

    Rosemary Rogers

  • Princess of Powder River

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • The Express Riders

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • The Vigilantes

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • Daniel Boone: Westward Trail

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    The wilderness. It was a brutal force, a powerful magnet drawing Boone away from the woman he loved and the children he fathered … into the savage unknown. Rebecca Boone watched him go and waited for his return … her heart aching and filled wi...

  • Bob Fulton's Amazing Soda-Pop Stretcher

    Jerome Beatty

  • Takeover

    Jonathan Evans

    A fight for control of the world’s largest hotel chain turns vicious

    Harry Rudd has put his past behind him. He has forgotten his impoverished roots, his carefree college days, and his life with Angela. Forgetting Angela has been the ...

  • Texas Dawn

    Phillip Finch

    Three homeless and rootless Civil War veterans strike out for Texas where they start the Circle Three Bar, a sweeping cattle ranch that comes to dominate their lives and the lives of their descendants...

  • Shadow on the Trail

    Zane Grey

    Traveling with a new name and a new face, Wade Holden, the triggerman responsible for the fall of the notorious Simm Bell gang, rides far and wide, carving out the life of a feared and respected gunman. Reprint....

  • Easy Company and the Twilight Sniper

    John W. Howard

  • 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...

  • Red Heat

    William Katz

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Perpetual Light

    Alan Ryan

  • 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...

  • Cosmo Report

    Linda Wolfe

  • Trails to Glory

    Robert C. Barnes

  • Bob Fulton's Terrific Time Machine

    Jerome J. Beatty

  • Crossroads of Love

    Madeline Blackwood

  • Halloween

    John Carpenter

  • Trails of Peril

    Ross Anton Coe

  • When Things of the Spirit Come First

    Simone De Beauvoir

  • Orphan Army

    Lionel Derrick

  • Child of Hell

    William Dobson

  • Annie and the Kidnappers

    Amy Ehrlich

  • The Riddle of Raggedrock Ridge

    Marilyn Ezzell

    EARTHSHAKING SLEUTHING Susan Sand and her best friend Marge Halloran are horseback riding on a tranquil autumn day. As they reach Raggedrock Ridge, boulders and rocks begin to tumble and splinter, and an earth tremor ensues, bolting Marge from her...

  • Dark Angel

    Sean Forestal

  • Crib

    Harold Lee Friedman

    SHHHH. THE BABY IS ASLEEP... Right from the beginning, Joni Lawrence and her baby had a strange and wonderful connection her husband could not understand and could not share. Somehow she could speak to six-month old Stephen without words...without...

  • World of Dark Crystal

    Brian Froud

  • Controlled Cheating

    Larry Goldberg

  • Where Passion Waits

    Virginia L. Hart

  • Apple Crunch

    Frederic V. Huber

  • Alice with Golden Hair

    Eleanor Hull

  • Censors in the Classroom

    Edward B. Jenkinson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Pennies for the Piper

    Susan H. McLean

  • The Captive Witch

    Julian Messner