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New Books List: 333 titles

  • An Accidental Grace

    Irene Mahoney

  • 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...

  • Alice with Golden Hair

    Eleanor Hull

  • All About Robots

    Mary Billard

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Animal Partners

    Patricia Curtis

    Discusses ways in which animals are trained to help the handicapped and to provide companionship for mentally retarded, ill, and elderly persons. Based on interviews with professional animal trainers, therapists, social workers, and teachers....

  • Annie and the Kidnappers

    Amy Ehrlich

  • Annie Joins the Circus

    James Howe

  • Apache

    Donald Clayton Porter
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  • Apple Crunch

    Frederic V. Huber

  • Autumn Beginning

    Kay Kirby

  • The Baby Uggs Are Hatching

    Jack Prelutsky

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Becoming a Heroine

    Rachel M. Brownstein

  • The Bell Tree

    H.M. Hoover

  • 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, ...

  • 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, ...

  • Black Pope

    Mark Ramsay

  • The Blaze

    Elizabeth Fritch

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Blue Bear's Race

    Mirabel Cecil

  • Blue Highways

    William Least Heat-Moon

    Hailed as a masterpiece of American travel writing, Blue Highways is an unforgettable journey along our nation's backroads.William Least Heat-Moon set out with little more than the need to put home behind him and a sense of curiosity about "those lit...

  • Bob Fulton's Amazing Soda-Pop Stretcher

    Jerome Beatty

  • Bob Fulton's Terrific Time Machine

    Jerome J. Beatty

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • Burton and Speke

    William Harrison

  • 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...

  • 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 Cage

    Susan Cheever

    Alone in their New Hampshire summer estate, magazine writer William Bristol and his suburb-bound wife, Julia, confront the fragmentation of their once-shared hopes amid the private-menagerie cages inherited from Julia's wealthy family...

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Babe Ruth Baseball

    David A. Adler

    Fifth-grader Cam Jansen has the perfect chance to show off her amazing mental camera at the community hobby show -- especially at the Babe Ruth exhibit of baseball cards and other collectibles. But when the prized baseball, autographed by Babe Ruth, ...

  • Can I Help?

    Anne Rockwell

  • The Captive Witch

    Julian Messner

  • Carnival in My Mind

    Barbara Wersba

  • 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...

  • Castle Crespin

    Allen Andrews

  • Catch a Falling Star

    John Brunner

  • Censors in the Classroom

    Edward B. Jenkinson

  • Child of Hell

    William Dobson

  • Childrens Story

    James Clavell

    It was a simple incident in the life of James Clavell — a talk with his young daughter just home from school — that inspired this chilling tale of what could happen in twenty-five quietly devastating minutes. He writes, The Children's Stor...

  • Childrens Ward

    Howard L. Weiner

  • The China Option

    Nancy Dall Milton

  • China Winter

    Carole Maso

  • Christmas Observed

    Owen Dudley Edwards

  • 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’...

  • Claudine at School

    Colette

  • 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 ...

  • The Cock, the Mouse and the Little Red Hen

    Lorinda Bryan Cauley

  • Code of Arms

    Lawrence Block

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Controlled Cheating

    Larry Goldberg

  • Cosmo Report

    Linda Wolfe

  • 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...

  • The Creature Catalog: A Monster Watcher's Guide

    Michael Berenstain

  • 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...

  • Critical Path

    Michael Ansara

  • Crossroads of Love

    Madeline Blackwood

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dark Angel

    Sean Forestal

  • Darkchild

    Sydney J. Van Scyoc

  • 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....

  • The Day Before Tomorrow

    Gerard Klein

  • The Day It Snowed

    Ed Stevenson

  • Dear Shrink

    Helen Cresswell

  • Death and the Princess

    Robert Barnard

    THE QUEEN WAS NOT AMUSED. Murder and royalty didn't mix. Princess Helena had only a distant claim to the throne, but when her friends and lovers began turning up dead, Buckingham Palace demanded to know why. The princess appeared to have a wildly wi...

  • Deathmate

    Martin Caidin

  • 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'...

  • Delicate Geometry

    Ken Chowder

  • The Descent of Anansi

    Steven Barnes; Larry Niven

    THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN... Its the American Revolution all over again. But this time its a rag-tag band of space colonists vs. The United States. And the fate of the world hangs by a thread--200 miles above the earth....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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, ...

  • Doubles

    Tom Seligson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Easy Company and the Twilight Sniper

    John W. Howard

  • Einstein Anderson Lights Up the Sky

    Seymour Simon

  • Emerald Enchantment

    Nomi Berger

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Eulalia's Island

    Carolyn Meyer

  • Eve's Delight

    Cindy Nemser

  • The Express Riders

    Lee Davis Willoughby

  • The Falcon Strikes

    Mark Ramsay

  • A Family Album

    Frank V. Dawes

  • 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.” -...

  • The Fantastic Saint

    Leslie Charteris

  • Fast Eddie

    Neil Bayne

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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 Flight of Bembel Rudzuk

    Russell Hoban

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Forbidden Love

    Caroline Courtney

    Sir Hugh Abingdon was not the sort of man a properly bred youn girl would dare to meet alone... so Phyllida brought her chaperone. That was not enough for Bath society. To quiet the ensuing scandal, Phyllida was sent off to France into the protecti...

  • The Forsaken

    Cameron Read

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

  • Foxx's Foe

    Zack Tyler

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Girl Meets Boy

    Hila Colman

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Golden Shore

    Harvey Aronson

  • 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...

  • 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 Good-Guy Cake

    Barbara Dillon

  • The Great Hotel Robbery

    John Minahan

  • 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...

  • Halloween

    John Carpenter

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Help! Let Me Out!

    David Lord Porter

  • 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...

  • The Hidden Wrath

    Stella Phillips

  • Hippos Go Berserk!

    Sandra Boynton

    The hippos meet up with their friends and enjoy an evening out at a party where chaos, fun, and wild times erupt, in a colorful counting book featuring a humorous rhyming text and enhanced by lively illustrations....

  • The Horrible, Impossible, Bad Witch Child

    Barbara Williams

  • 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...

  • How Little Porcupine Played Christmas

    Joseph Slate

  • I Love My Pets

    Anne Rockwell

  • I Still Dream About Columbus

    Jack M. Bickham

  • Idle Hands

    William O'Rourke

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Killing Connection

    Dane Hartman

  • King of the Seventh Grade

    Barbara Cohen

  • 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...

  • Labor of Love

    Barbara Roush

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Land of Dreams

    Michael Foreman

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • Life Support

    Virginia Barclay

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

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  • Little Company

    Mary Elmblad

  • 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 ...

  • Lone Star and the Border Bandits

    Wesley Ellis

    ACROSS THE BORDER! Nightriders are raiding the ranches near the Starbuck spread, so Jessie and Ki set out to raid the raiders. Then their trails split ...Jessie's leads to a remote U.S. Army outpost and the arms of a cavalry officer, while Ki's lead...

  • Longarm in the Badlands

    Tabor Evans

    LAND IS MONEY IN THE GODFORSAKEN BADLANDS Interior is nothing but a two-bit town in the Dakota Territory -- a land where pistol-toting sharp-shooters make their own laws, and corrupt lawmen choose not to notice... But when two U.S. Land Office ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Manitou's Daughter

    Paul Joseph Lederer

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • The Mendoza Manuscript

    Nick Carter

  • Mercenary Kill

    John Quinn

  • 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....

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Moon of Mutiny

    Lester Del Rey

  • 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...

  • Morning, Rabbit, Morning

    Mary Caldwell

  • Mother Goose

    Sesame Street

  • The Mountain Queen

    Chad Calhoun

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A New Tomorrow

    Irma Walker

  • 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...

  • Nightwatch

    Barbara Shoup

  • The Nurse's Story

    Carol Gino

    The author's sixteen years of nursing experience have rendered up a straightforward account of back-breaking work, frustrating bureaucracies, hugh responsibilities with no authority, emotional conflicts, defeats, satisfactions, triumphs, and joys...

  • 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...

  • Ogre, Ogre

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When a Nymph rides a Night Mare, Ogre beware!Smash knew all about ogres. After all, despite his having a human mother, Smash was an ogre himself. Ogres were not only huge and horribly ugly, as Smash was; they were also so stupid they could hardly spe...

  • 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...

  • The Orchids

    Thomas H. Cook

    Dr. Langhof, nearly forty years after his medical experiments for the Waffen SS, lives on in seclusion in the Republic, remembering--with no forgiveness or atonement--his descent into darkness and degradation...

  • 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. ...