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New Books List: 337 titles

  • The Best American Short Stories 1983

    Houghton Mifflin Company

  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas

    Tracey Campbell Pearson

  • Esteban and the Ghost

    Sibyl Hancock

  • Truth about the Moon

    Clayton Bess

    The puzzling moon! How it followed Sumu around like a dog, playing tricks on him. Sometimes it seemed right over his shoulder, but it was always just out of reach. Sumu had to know what that little moon was up to. By intermingling folklore with the s...

  • The Dragon Kite

    Nancy Luenn

    Based on the historical thief who lived in Japan in the late 1600s or early 1700s, this is a story of Ishikawa, who steals to feed the poor and hungry. “Luenn’s version of a Japanese folktale hums with suspense. Hague’s soaring, beautiful paint...

  • The Sesame Street Word Book

    Tom Leigh

  • Disney's Elegant ABC Book

    Walt Disney

  • Captive Splendors

    Fern Michaels

    INNOCENCE GONE Wren van der Rhys - rescued from London's alleys when the magnificent couple, Sirena and Regan, take her into their hearts, she ripens into a creature as enchanting and wild as Sirena, as headstrong and fierce as Regan. SAVAGE ...

  • To Escape the Stars

    Robert Hoskins

    Del Rey / Ballantine, 1978. Mass market paperback, 2nd of two printings. This is the third in a trilogy of novels; it follows Master of the Stars (1976) To Control the Stars (1977) This trilogy describes, over a period of aeons, a cluster of galac...

  • Lando Calrissian and the Flamewind of Oseon

    L. Neil Smith

  • Waltz in Marathon

    Charles Dickenson

    Gentleman loan shark Harry Waltz, a sixty-one-year-old resident of Marathon, Michigan, finds his life dramatically altered by the return of his grown children and his romance with Mary Hale, a successful, forty-year-old lawyer...

  • One Day of Life

    Manlio Argueta

    Awesome for the authenticity of its vernacular style and the incandescence of its lyricism, One Day of Life depicts a typical day in the life of a peasant family caught up in the terror and corruption of civil war in El Salvador.

    5:30 A.M. in ...

  • Masks

    Fumiko Enchi

    A stunning and understated debut novel of seduction and infidelity about a woman who, devastated by the death of her son, takes an increasing interest in the personal affairs of her widowed daughter-in-law.  Following the devastating death ...

  • Early Disorders

    Rebecca Josephs

    Terrified of growing up and confronting her femininity and the prospect of independence, fifteen-year-old Willa, the sensitive daughter of an artistic, affluent Manhattan couple, embarks on a desperate course of self-starvation...

  • Spooky Riddles

    Marc Brown

  • J. W. Anglund Xmas Book

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • My First Book of Nursery Tales

    Marianna Mayer

  • A Savage Place

    Alfred Silver

  • A Visit to the Sesame Street Firehouse: Featuring Jim Henson's Sesame Street Muppets

    Dan Elliott

    Illus. in full color. "Big Bird, Ernie, and Grover are invited to visit the firehouse where all aspects of fire fighting and fire prevention are explained. The trucks, equipment, and fire fighters (including a woman) are realistically depicted. Strai...

  • The Care Bear and the Terrible Twos

    Ali Reich

  • When the Dark Comes Dancing: A Bedtime Poetry Book

    Nancy Larrick

  • Scenes Form Married Life

    William Cooper

  • Medieval Feast

    Aliki

  • The Perfect Match

    Norma Lee Clark

    WAS SHE A MATCH FOR LOVE? Ever since Sydney Armytage was a small girl, her ruling concern was her younger sister Meriel's happiness. Meriel was left motherless at birth, and Sydney watched over her anxiously as Meriel grew up to be ravishingly...

  • Wanted for Love

    Glenna Finley

    Love’s Messenger… Blair Morley…his very name made beautiful Abby Trent shake with anger. She had fallen under Blair’s spell years ago, while he was working for her uncle. But instead of treating her like an attractive child. Abby had hoped...

  • To Love Forever

    Page Anthony

  • The Mystery of the Flying Orange Pumpkin

    Steven Kellogg

  • Marty McGee's Space Lab, No Girls Allowed

    Martha G. Alexander

  • Ralph's Secret Weapon

    Steven Kellogg

  • Union Street

    Pat Barker

    'Vivid, bawdy and bitter' THE TIMES 'A first-rate first novel . . . pungent, raunchy dialogue . . . passages of fine understated wit' IVAN GOLD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeti...

  • Claimed by Rapture

    Marie Charles

    The first time their lips met, Kate Lonigan knew Mike Fleming was the man for her. It wasn't just his authoritative demeanor and incisive moves as temporary troubleshooter in her insurance office. There was something about his warm green eyes and wit...

  • Golden Roses

    Patricia Hagan

    UNDONE BY FATE With her dear father dead, Amber Forrest was alone in a foreign land, at the mercy of a cruel, domineering stepbrother who vowed he would bend her to his will and make her his bride. PURSUED BY DESIRE But Amber was a prize all me...

  • The Long Shadow

    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    In a Fury of Ungodly Hatred and Ungodly Love Fierce guardian of her ancestral heritage, reigning beauty at the rakish court of Charles II, Annunciata Morland's restless spirit refused to be confined by her illustrious station. With a will of iron,...

  • Sybelle

    Roberta Gellis

    SHE WAS A HEADSTRONG BEAUTY CAUGHT IN THE FLOOD TIDES OF PASSION AND WAR. Tempestuous, amber-eyed heiress to the magnificent Roselynde dynasty, Sybelle knew that her time had come to choose a husband. But she was ruler of her own lands and would b...

  • A Twist of Fate

    Lisa Jackson

    When Kane Webster bought the Seattle bank he bought trouble. One embezzler had already been uncovered and there was certain to be an accomplice. The evidence seemed to point to Erin O'Toole, but evidence is sometimes circumstantial. Kane listened ...

  • Free Spirit

    Fern Michaels

    Any smart woman can learn to be a good homemaker. The real question is: Should the role take over her whole life? Dory Faraday, 31, is an executive on the rise at an ultra-sophisticated New York women's magazine. But she decides to give it all up ...

  • Forever, My Love

    Jean Nash

    Mark Van Holden was one of the most attractive men Joanna Sinclair had ever met. But the shy young widow was all too aware of his scandalous love affairs that had shocked society from New York to Newport. When Joanna became Mark Van Holden's bride, t...

  • The Captain's Vixen

    Wanda Owen

    Captain Lance Edwards had sailed the seas and obtained women ever since he was a lad, and no woman had ever resisted his masculine magnetism -- no one but the luscious, jet-haired Elise. Passionately attracted to the strong-minded beauty, Lance str...

  • A Cold Blue Light

    Marvin Kaye

    Old Charlotte Aubrey has died. Yet something still lives at Aubrey House, glowing with a strange blue light, breathing in the dark, waiting... -- Is it waiting for Richard Creighton, the brilliant philosopher who longs to forget the terrible accide...

  • Footprints of the Dead

    Jay Callahan

  • The Children of the Island

    T.M. Wright

    Winter. The lake has frozen over. The island is covered with snow. Everything is still and white. Everything except the people at the bottom of the lake. The dead people, with their bright blue eyes and their strange, translucent skin. They have b...

  • The Emperor of Eridanus

    Pierre Barbet

  • To Control the Stars

    Robert Hoskins

  • The Colors of Space

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    It was a week before the Lhari ship went into warp-drive, and all that time young Bart Steele had stayed in his cabin. He was so bored with his own company that the Mentorian medic was a welcome sight when he came to prepare him for cold-sleep. The M...

  • The Deadly Streets

    Harlan Ellison

    Remember Charles Bronson stalking the streets of New York blowing holes in muggers in Death Wish? Remember Glenn Ford standing off the vicious juvenile delinquents in Blackboard Jungle? Well, it is more than fifty years and two different worlds from ...

  • Book of Shadows

    James Killus

  • Jonuta Rising

    John Cleve

  • Thendara House

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    To Thendara House came the Terran Magda in exchange for the Free Amazon Jaelle, who had become the wife of an Earthman and had entered the Terran enclave. The cross-currents of two cultures, one male-dominated, one egalitarian, combined with the h...

  • Gentle Fury

    Monica Barrie

    "WHO ARE YOU?" TI ASKED. "YOUR SERVANT," HE REPLIED. "I DON'T THINK SO." For three long years, Ti Bennett had followed her father's orders. She'd run the ranch and cared for her two sisters. Then she received ...

  • Passionate Deceiver

    Barbara Andrews

    For anyone else it would have been a dream come true. Cal Bishop was the designer of the decade. His estate was too luxurious to be real. Being singled out to model his luscious new line of sportswear then being miraculously swept into his arms -- wh...

  • Untamed Desire

    Kasey Adams

    Could Lacy Barnett love the man who had almost destroyed her father? That question burned into the beautiful young painter's heart when she learned the truth about Ward Blaine. Ward was handsome and charming, but he was not the friendly ranch hand sh...

  • Spring Dreams

    Jane Archer

  • Promises in the Night

    Jackie Black

    Fresh from her first success in Nashville, Gem Reasoner -- heiress to an oilman's fortune -- looked like a waif singing for her supper in a small-town club miles from nowhere. When the going got rough, it was Roan Christiansen who came to her ...

  • Another Love

    Joan Winmill Brown

  • The Coral Sea

    Jane Converse

    Bryan Stewart made his living diving beneath the sea. The underwater world held no terrors for him, but the world of emotion was another story altogether. Laurel Rand's job was to film a documentary on Bryan's latest expedition, but she soon fell ...

  • Callista

    Cordia Byers

    Her family tricked her into a betrothal with an evil old man. There was nothing to do but run... The first tiling Callista did was disguise herself as a boy, which was not easy with her long raven tresses and voluptuous body. But she managed to ge...

  • Fiery Splendor

    Beverly Byrne

    THE GRIFFINS HAD MONEY. POWER AND POSITION. ALL THEY CRAVED WAS LOVE... Anthony Griffin dreamed of going to sea. He got more than he bargained for... Ceci was a beautiful Acadian outcast whom Antony loved more than life itself... Sophia def...

  • Time of a Winter Love

    Jo Calloway

    Attraction, longing, desire--but not love... that couldn't be what she felt for the beautiful young man who held her so passionately in his arms.... The unmerry widow, Jennifer Morris had devoted her every waking moment to running the Morris tea p...

  • Where Tomorrow Waits

    Mary Carroll

    SECOND TIME LUCKY Widowed and disillusioned, Faye Maddox was determined not to fall into the marriage trap again. Now that she had a good job and a nice home, did she really need a man to betray her again? When she met Scott Trent, her firm res...

  • Snow Bride // Surrendering Flame

    Shannon Clare

    SHE KNEW WHAT IT WAS TO BE A WOMAN DESIRED... Alexander Cortlandt was a compelling man -- a startling combination of English aristocracy and a wilder Asian origin. As a political speechwriter, Caylie Quinn had corresponded with the brilliant ec...

  • Untamed Possession

    Andrea Davidson

    Nature always wins as true love claims its untamed possession... "A superwoman of the eighties" is an apt description of Evelyn Scott. Quickly climbing the corporate ladder for a New York City oil firm, Evelyn is thrown a curve when her bo...

  • The American Bride

    Megan Daniel

    SHE WAS THROWN INTO THE ARMS OF A STRANGER AT SEA--AND ANOTHER ONE ON LAND It was on a storm-tossed Atlantic crossing that young American Abigail Dawson found herself clinging for more than life to Charles Lydiard, the handsome Englishman supposed...

  • Apache Tears

    Marianne Clark

    Apache Tears--that was the name of the gemlike stones beautiful young Catriona Frazer mounted in the exquisite jewelry she fashioned. She went to the Indian reservation, leaving behind the secure world of her established life, to learn from the famou...

  • Mari's Caress

    Roberta Clark

    Matthew was mesmerized by the gorgeous golden creature in the aqua lagoon. The flimsy cloth accentuated her luscious curves while her long dark hair seductively surrounded her. To taste her honey lips would be heaven. To hold her in his arms would be...

  • A Taste for Loving

    Frances Davies

    Freelance book designer Kate Elliot had submerged her creativity and sacrificed her independence once -- and once was enough. Now she automatically steers away from any potentially domineering male... no matter how original or intriguing his approac...

  • Restless Wind

    Margaret Dobson

    Are you happy? Are you married? Are you tired of life in the fast lane? The answers were "yes," "no," and "maybe." As her postcards implied, Devon O'Neal, star reporter, had done well in New York. She wasn't sure ...

  • Best of Friends

    Rebecca Flanders

    Once lovers, could they still be best of friends? The idea of sharing a house in California's Topanga Canyon enticed Kelly Mitchell. On her meager salary as a physical education teacher, she found that communal living offered a high quality li...

  • Tides of Rapture

    Elizabeth Fritch

    FLAME OF PASSION As far as headstrong, honey-haired Mandy Cooper was concerned, the Yankees weren't welcome on her land, in her home and certainly never in her bed. But that was before she encountered Major Buck Delaney. Enchanted by the fires of ...

  • A Very Reluctant Knight

    Billie Green

    A tornado brought them together in a storm cellar, where the unleashed forces of nature rivaled the tempest outside! But Maggie Sims and Mark Wilding were anything but perfectly matched. He was a tall, irresistibly handsome playboy who was used to ge...

  • Mountain Melody

    Phyllis Halldorson

    AN ACCIDENT OF LOVE Summer theater was an exciting new experience for actress Robyn Flannery, but when she was framed in a hit-and-run accident, it seemed like the end of her dreams. David Christopher, a handsome veterinarian and father of the ...

  • The Man from Ti Kouka

    Rosalie Henaghan

    Trudi was torn between two worlds Trudi Carr loved her exciting fashion career in Christchurch. And she was determined not even marriage would steal her away from it! But when Dan Johnson, a sensitive yet arrogant drifter, proposed on the roman...

  • In Loving Regret

    Judy Harvey

    Sometimes mistakes are made in loving regret Cassandra Spencer was nervous. She had finally made the decision to go back to work after her husband, Quinn, died, but now, in the moment before she was to meet with Quinn's ex-partner, Casey had cold ...

  • Reach for Tomorrow

    Mary Haskell

    Cathy Phillips never takes chances -- and she's not about to start now. When she returns to close up the New England lake house where tragedy shattered her golden existence, she intends to leave her memories ... and way of life... intact. The vita...

  • Edge of Love

    Anna James

    THE ART OF LOVING... J.T. had expected to find new artists on her buying trip to Europe. She hadn't expected to lose her heart to the most difficult of them all. He was Jake Marshall, and despite his talent he had shut himself off from his nat...

  • Handle With Care

    Betty Jackson

    Could she be jealous of her own teenage daughter, a budding blond beauty who had apparently enchanted a man more than twice her age? Ridiculous! Katherine Meadows thought she had good reason to mistrust the arrogant new neighbor her two children a...

  • Two Worlds, One Love

    Meg Hudson

    HE HAD BUILT A WALL TO DIVIDE THEM Hope Standish was stunned by the speed with which Ross Adair took control of her life -- and her heart. When an accident on an Indian reservation curtailed her painting trip through the Great Smokies, she was for...

  • Proud Possession

    Jena Hunt

    Strictly business brings wealthy Heather Andrews to the isolated Pacific island where her devastatingly handsome ex-husband practices medicine. Years ago Ross chose to leave her glittering social world far behind; now she refuses his invitation to ex...

  • Interlude

    Catherine Kay

    SHE WAS A FOOL TO FALL IN LOVE Fate played a cunning trick on tourist journalist Meg Brown. Because of a dizzying series of mishaps in romantic Venice, she found herself entangled with the most stunningly attractive man she'd ever met. Marco Monte...

  • The Silver Snare

    Stephanie James

    "I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU MINE, JESSIE. TOTALLY & COMPLETELY" Their strong wills clashed from the moment the small plane crash-landed in the desert. But only one could win: Lucas Kincaid, primitive male, who dared to claim Jessica Travers...

  • All in the Game

    Jessica Jeffries

    Playing the sport called love was all in the game... The difference between Bobbi Morrow and Blain Pearson was sizable -- in more ways than one. A star player for the Washington Bullets basketball team, Blain had known a lot of women, but was neve...

  • Tempest at Sea

    Iris Johansen

    Jane Smith sneaked aboard Jake Dominic's yacht on a dare, never dreaming she'd collide with the bronze playboy-director in the flesh! But the muscled arms that captured her were inescapable--and suddenly Jane found herself agreeing to a month...

  • Whisper on the Wind

    Nell Kincaid

    A leading daytime soap opera, "The Sinners", had jumped to the top of the ratings. But success meant serious trouble. Now catastrophes scripted for the characters were happening off-camera--to the cast! Casey Fredericks, exquisite private eye, had be...

  • Beloved Gambler

    Ruth Langan

    Once Lane Winters had been a girl with dreams of glory: She would sing and the world would listen. Ross Matthews was the man--the lover--she had left behind in her quest to make it on her own. The dream had come true. Her voice had indeed been ...

  • Hold Love Tightly

    Megan Lane

    Unlucky thirteen! Jenna thought. It was two years since she'd met him, eleven months since he'd vanished. Their marriage had lasted exactly thirteen months. Together they'd been the music world's most beautiful -- and explosive -- couple. Since th...

  • Tenderness at Twilight

    Megan Lane

    Her face was her fortune. But when Kea Mason's light plane crashed outside L.A., her life shattered with it. Her husband was dead; her brief, unhappy marriage over; her future as a respected TV interviewer uncertain; her position in a world of wealth...

  • Native Season

    Doreen Owens Malek

    A TOUCH OF FIRE Tall, honey-blond with gray-blue eyes, Jennifer Gardiner hardly fit the role of Publicity Director for the Philadelphia Freedom football team. A lawyer and a professional in a rough-and-tumble world of men, she'd learned to be ...

  • A Mind of Her Own

    Anne MacNeill

    A DETERMINED YOUNG BEAUTY COURTED DANGER WHEN SHE DECIDED SHE WOULD BE MORE THAN AN ENGLISH LORD'S PERFECT WIFE SHE HAD EVERYTHING A WIFE COULD WANT. BUT SHE WANTED MORE. Courtney's marriage to Lord Nigel Davies should have made her the happies...

  • Traitor for Love

    Virginia Nielsen

    Did she dare to love? Elena is stunned when her guardian tells her she is the daughter of the deceased king and must prepare to claim her rightful position as queen. But the story of her royal birth is disputed by the dashing nobleman, Don Armando, w...

  • The Passionate Escape

    Mary Lyons

    "I never want to see you again! " Try as she might, Emily couldn't escape from the handsome Ludovic for long. Then they were unexpectedly thrown together, fleeing across the rugged African landscape. Ludovic's mockery of her wea...

  • Steal the Sun

    A.E. Maxwell

    Los Alamos 1945: The first nuclear weapon is about to be tested--and the second is about to be stolen!! Finn is the O.S.S. Captain charged with safeguarding all the processed uranium there is in the entire world--just enough to make two bombs. Th...

  • The Devil's Heart

    Kathleen Maxwell

    First with tender love, then with a darker passion, he taught her the meaning of desire WAS HIS AN ARISTOCRAT'S GAME OR AN ARCH-DEMON'S GAMBIT? Reckless tomboy when she defied her father, gentle lady when she cared for the weak or helpless, you...

  • Tender Torment

    Harper McBride

    Shotgun justice-- was that what Heath Tanner wanted? Had he kidnapped her and imprisoned her on his Montana ranch because he wanted to watch her suffer? Was it fair? Shelby Constantine had already paid for her "crime." Just a girl, could she have ...

  • Enduring Love

    Tate McKenna

    Him! It was him! Yesterday he'd terrified her, tracking her through Washington. Today he infuriated her, barging into her office to introduce himself -- Reid Mecena, the Arizona senator's son. The sophisticated East and the rugged West had met. C...

  • Recipe for Love

    Suzanne Michelle

    RECIPE FOR SUCCESS Katsy Spencer had thrown her heart, soul and savings into her Cabaret, a colorful restaurant that was quickly gaining prestige among Houston's gourmet food critics. She thought she'd heard it all ... until D.W. Gardner, an intri...

  • Here I Stay

    Barbara Michaels

    THE HAUNTING Turning a decrepit old mansion into a beautiful country inn isn't easy, but for Andrea Torgesen, the hard work is exactly what her younger brother, Jim, needs after a serious car accident. Or, so she thinks -- until Jim is haunted by un...

  • Opposites Attract

    Alicia Meadowes

  • Against All Odds

    Leslie Morgan

    As an editorial cartoonist on a big St. Louis newspaper, Jennifer Aldrich made her living pointing up the follies and weaknesses of the nation's politicians. But all her scorn for politicians deserted her when she met Congressman Ben Trostel. Here wa...

  • Autumn Flames

    Sara Orwig

    She meant to fire a warning shot, but instead Lily Dunbar's aim faltered and she grazed the hunter himself. She had ventured too far into the wilderness of Reece Wakefield's vast Chilean ranch, now an oncoming storm thrust her into his arms and he re...

  • Hearts Divided

    Francine Rivers

    Carla Gelsey returns to her childhood home intent on restoring the Victorian mansion she always admired. But handsome Blake Mercer is equally determined - along with the town council - to tear it down. When Carla hires a group of carpenters to begin ...

  • Moonlight Splendor

    Leigh Roberts

    IT COULDN'T BE A WORSE TIME TO GET INVOLVED... Selina was proud to be a professional chef. But her dreams for success didn't stop there. She was determined to build a rewarding career, and nothing could stand in her way. Except Gilmarti...

  • Dance of Dreams

    Nora Roberts

    Ruth Bannion had never met anyone like Russian emigre choreographer Nickolai Davidov. Ruth was open, giving, but Nickolai's background had left him reserved, even wary, and his pride would not let him reveal his need for her. Fear of rejection ke...

  • Time for Tomorrow

    Erin Ross

    GHOST OF PASSION After three years she'd finally come face-to-face with the unknown brother-in-law she held responsible for her sister's death. Karen Prescott hated Jean-Paul Picard. Yet she had come to France as a hotel management professional, a...

  • Wild Flight

    Renee Roszel

    HIGH-FLYING LOVER He was just another handsome pilot stealing her hard-earned job. Not even her journalism and public relations degrees from the Air Force Academy could secure Captain Ronda Voss's position as Chief Information Officer for the SAC ...

  • Silverwood

    Carin Scofield

    A MYSTERY LOVE News photographer Angela Hastings knew that failing to track down reclusive Hollywood mogul Jarrod Cannon could cost her job. So when she accidentally met Cannon's handsome gardener, she knew she'd stumbled onto the perfect lead. ...

  • Flame on the Sun

    Maura Seger

    "I'VE COME TEN THOUSAND MILES TO SAVE MY FAMILY'S SHIPS. NO MAN WILL STOP ME NOW." So Erin Conroy declared as the Yankee shipping heiress arrived in Japan to discover that Storm Davin, the proud Southern Aristocrat she had refused ...

  • Stars in Her Eyes

    Tracy Sinclair

    "I DON'T WANT TO BE AN ACTRESS!" Lisa Brooks shouted at producer Logan Marshall. She hadn't been in Hollywood long, but already she hated that glittery world where everything--and everyone --was for sale. But Logan was cynical when it came to b...

  • Shadow Dance

    Lorraine Sellers

    PERFECT PARTNERS IN A PERFECT LOVE . . . Solo St. Clair had built her life around dance to hide the pain of a wounded heart. Ben Savin was the man who had shattered her life and in the process nearly destroyed his own, as well. Neither time ...

  • Love's Gilded Mask

    Francine Shore

    Dark-haired historian Merilyn Pierce was investigating the past when she went to the old New England inn. But what she found was a very modern romantic dilemma in Morgan Drake, the captivating, domineering, yet mysteriously aloof real estate tycoon w...

  • Reckless Surrender

    Jeanne Stephens

    TOO GOOD TO BE TRUSTED? Layna adopted a facade on the glorious Greek cruise. She became a woman of poise and sophistication, a woman at home with a man like Caleb Danner. Caleb, however, knew more than he was telling, though by profession he was ...

  • A Splendid Obsession

    Francesca Sinclaire

    Elizabeth Salisbury has little time for love. She's taken refuge from a broken engagement in the demanding job of editing tomorrow's bestsellers. Then she's assigned Dr. David Spinelli's first novel, a book in desperate need of her expertise. Unli...

  • Rose-Colored Glass

    Edith St. George

    AN ARTISTIC TOUCH Widowed after three years of marriage, Maureen McClelland was left with only her husband's stained-glass workshop, and the skills he had taught her. She was anxious for both the commission and the artistic challenge Ray Gord...

  • Steal Love Away

    Brenda Trent

    HE WOVE A SILVER WEB AROUND HER .. . Silversmith Kellen Cartland had come to Taxco for two reasons: to consider her business partner's marriage proposal and to see silverwork that was unsurpassed anywhere. She hadn't come to fall in love--yet that...

  • Winged Victory

    June Trevor

    AS FREE AS THE AIR . . . That was Mickie Kilpatrick, who reveled in her life as an Alaskan bush pilot--until Matt Greenslade bought her out. Suddenly she, who had always been as wild as the northern wind, had to answer to a man who seemed bent on...

  • A Rebel's Love

    Joyce Verrette

    She was loyal to the crown. He was its most feared enemy. Their passion would break every rule... In the mighty battle for freedom, Love was their greatest weapon... Raised a loyalist on a luxurious Virginia plantation, golden haired Venita Flemin...

  • Tempestuous Challenge

    Eleanor Woods

    Was it possible? Was she immune to his masculine charms? Every woman south of the Mason-Dixon line might be at his beck and call, but Shannon knew better. She'd met the seductive gaze of his sea-blue eyes with glacial indifference. Cayce Hamilton-...

  • Old Money

    Lacey Fosburgh

    Lacey Fosburgh, an American Journalist, author and academic best known for her bestselling book, Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder (1977) was born in 1942 and died in 1993. She was born in Manhattan, New York, to the journalist Hugh ...

  • 11 Harrowhouse

    Gerald A. Browne

    The classic New York Times–bestselling tale of suspense and intrigue that takes readers behind the scenes of the secretive billion-dollar diamond business From a centuries-old building on a narrow street in the heart of London, a firm known as...

  • Gabriel's Girl

    Norma Johnston

    Sarah embarks on a dangerous mission in Spain when she searches for her father, a famous exposâe writer, who has mysteriously disappeared from his hotel....

  • Remains to Be Seen

    Elizabeth Cadell

    With no idea of what awaits her, Philippa Lyle returns to her hometown, the quiet English village of Montoak. Anticipating nothing more than an uneventful visit with her mother and some childhood friends, she discovers that all Montoak is in a state...

  • The Shakespeare Girl

    Mollie Hardwick

    Miranda Heriot has grown up knowing nothing of the stage. In the miserable atmosphere of her grandmother's house, the topic is never, ever mentioned. Then, a secret trip to Stratford reveals to Miranda the excitement of the theater. Although she may ...

  • Who Stole Stonehenge?

    Leela Cutter

    When the Druidic ruins at Stonehenge disappear, dotty mystery writer Lettie Winterbottom takes on the extraordinary case, which combines political intrigue, modern-day Druidic ritual, and engineering wizardry...

  • Blood and Orchids

    Norman Katkov

  • Bindlestiff

    Bill Pronzini

    Pronzini is a pro.?The New York Times His P.I. license reinstated, his old friend Eberhardt back on his feet, and things with his girlfriend Kerry patched up, Nameless is ready to roll again. On his first day back at work, he lands an assignment he w...

  • Love and Glory

    Robert B. Parker

    BOONE ADAMS--He was so smart he wrote half the English papers for the freshman class, when he wasn't getting drunk at night and waking up hung over in the morning. To him life was full of promise . . . just the ones it didn't intend to keep. JENNI...

  • Find Me a Villain

    Margaret Yorke

    Ah, the tranquility of the English countryside. Where bizarre late-night phone calls shatter the silence. Eccentric neighbors turn heartrending private grieves into frightening public rituals. And an at-large sex murderer searches for fresh prey. ...

  • The Crucible of Time

    John Brunner

    Traces the development over milennia of a civilization of an unusual alien species, whose sense of humor, resourceful adaptibility, and metalworking skills are the strengths and the hope of their society...

  • The Ladyship

    Elisabeth Kidd

    Matrimony was simply not Elinor Bennett's affair. As landlady of a bustling coaching inn, lovely Nell did her best to conceal her feminine charms, while overseeing the family business in her brother's absence. Soon Elinor was so successful at innkeep...

  • Love Me With Fury

    Janelle Taylor

    When golden-haired Alexandra first saw the dark-haired stranger, her fury knew no bounds. How dare he intrude on her privacy as she swam in her secret pool! The moment Captain Joshua Steele set eyes on the angry young woman, he saw only a delectable ...

  • Passing Fancies

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    Couldn't Pippa ever do something sensible...like fall in love? Love Revealed "Blast you, woman," he muttered through clenched teeth, "won't you ever see?" Almost viciously, he pulled her to him again, causing her spectacles to fall from her no...

  • The Promise of Summer

    Barbara Faith

    CHARMED LIVES... She was April Juneau. One day spent watching the parade of light and shadow, the glory of the Spanish bullring, would change her life forever. He was Alejandro Cervantes, a matador, a man who wore the suit of lights and danced ...

  • Summer Course in Love

    Carole Halston

    For doctoral candidate Rebecca Blakely, writing about the past was no longer enough. For thriller author Ryan Prescott, writing about the present was no longer possible. In the clear air of Maine they learned to see beyond their limitations. As th...

  • The Isis Pedlar

    Monica Hughes

  • Bright Shadow

    Joyce Carol Thomas

  • Necromancer Nine

    Sheri S. Tepper

    He wears the guise of a Necromancer: the black cloak, the broadrimmed hat, the gauze mask painted with a death's head. But raising the dead is the least of his Talents. He is a wild card that threatens the True Game itself. Demon. Doyen. Dragon. a...

  • The Horse in the Attic

    Eleanor Lowenton Clymer
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    Twelve-year-old Caroline's discovery of a forgotten painting in the family barn leads to her father's restoration of the portrait of Sprite, a filly in the Racehorse Hall of Fame, and a revelation about the previous owners of their old house....

  • Turtle Beach

    Blanche D'Alpuget

    Judith Wilkes, an ambitious journalist, leaves her husband and two sons in Australia and goes to Malaysia to report on the international refugee crisis. Ten years earlier, Malaysia provided Judith with her first major career success, but also with a ...

  • A Conflict of Interests

    Clive Egleton

    Inspector Coghill investigates the murder of Karen Whitfield, an enterprising woman who indulged the sexual fantasies of her gentleman callers, videotaped them, and developed a lucrative blackmail sideline...

  • Mandarin

    Robert Elegant

    A grand tale of intrigue in nineteenth-century China, where imperial rule is crumbling as the Opium Wars and Taiping Rebellion rage, from the author of Manchu. Loyalty is put to cruel test in Shanghai, where Jewish merchant Saul Haleevie and his long...

  • Winter's Tale

    Mark Helprin

    One night in New York, a city under siege by snow, Peter Lake attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty, the daughter of the house is home... Thus begins the affair between this Irish burglar and Bev...

  • Challenging Heights

    Max Hennessy

    A new enemy, a savage battlefield, a devastating loss...Dicken Quinney proved himself as a brilliant and heroic pilot in World War One, saving the lives of his fellow RAF servicemen, and winning a slew of medals. It is now the near aftermath of the G...

  • The Griffin Legacy

    Jan O'Donnell Klaveness

  • Froggie's Treasure

    Dick McCue

  • Teddy Dresses

    Dick McCue

  • The Mad Gasser of Bessledorf Street

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Sam attempts to discover who is gassing the assembly-line workers at the parachute factory, the town's largest industry, and traces the culprit to the hotel his own family manages. Originally published as The Mad Gasser of Bessledorf Street. ...

  • Metzger's Dog

    Thomas Perry

    A soldier of fortune. His cat. His ex-lover. With a clean shot at 10 million. All they have to do is read the want ads. Blackmail the CIA. Shut down a major American city. And get away with it ... When Leroy "Chinese" Gordon breaks into a pr...

  • A Place of Light

    Rhonda Shapiro-Rieser

    The dreams of spiritual heroism Madeline Blumfeld had put aside when she married rabbi Aaron Stern resurface as jealousy when her husband takes as his assistant an independent, spiritually gifted young Israeli woman named Lynda Jacobs...

  • Departing As Air

    Allen Wier

    Departing as Air chronicles the memories of Jessie, now old and widowed, as she nears the end of her life and looks back on her two marriages, her emotional breakdown and recovery, and her ultimate acceptance--and celebration--of life....

  • Walk Out a Brother

    Thomas Baird

    Only sixteen when his father dies, Don runs away from the domination of his hated older brother and crosses paths with a murderer high in the Rocky Mountains, where he is faced with the choice between freedom and family loyalty....

  • Return to Phantom Hill

    Wayne Barton

  • The Constant Star

    George Blake

  • The Westering Sun

    George Blake

  • Everything and More

    Jacqueline Briskin

    Two sisters -- the beautiful and alluring Marilyn, and her smart and savvy sister, Roy -- move to Beverly Hills with their mother after the death of their father, so that they can attend the posh public school Beverly Hills High. Though they live in ...

  • Del Corso's Gallery

    Philip Caputo

    A classic novel of Vietnam and its aftermath from Philip Caputo, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir A Rumor of War is widely considered among the best ever written about the experience of war.

    At thirty-three, Nick DelCorso is an award-winnin...

  • The High Kings

    Joy Chant

  • A Trembling upon Rome

    Richard Condon

    Elevated to the papacy and involved with two remarkable mistresses, Baldassare Cossa--lawyer, soldier, and prelate--becomes embroiled in the political intrigue, financial machinations, and violence of late medieval Italy...

  • Speranza

    Sven DelBlanc

  • Pyrrhus Venture

    Randolph Dominic

  • The Compromise

    Sergei Dovlatov

    Weary of his battles with the bureaucracy, with the bottle, and with his profession, an unemployed Soviet journalist reviews his file of clippings and recalls the real people and events now reduced to bland, officially approved lines...

  • Katie in the Morning

    Crescent Dragonwagon

  • Inspector Smart Gets the Message

    Richard Fowler

  • Watch Time Fly

    Laura Furman

  • A Gathering of Old Men

    Ernest J. Gaines

    A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man--set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s.

    The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel ...

  • Mr. Bedford

    Gail Godwin

  • The Mind-Body Problem

    Rebecca Goldstein

    The hilarious underground bestseller about one woman’s pursuit of carnal pleasure -- and the philosophy that gets in the way.

    When Renee Feuer goes to college, one of the first lessons she tries to learn is how to liberate herself from the ...

  • Double Crossing

    Erika Holzer

  • The Midnight Castle

    Consuelo Joerns

  • Jealousies

    Caroline Leavitt

  • Hunter's Stand

    Steven Linder

  • A Cold Mind

    David L. Lindsey

    Houston sprawls in the sun like a woman ready for the richest comer. Past the plush condos of expatriate Brazilian to the city’s rotting wharves, wealthy Police Detective Stuart Haydon cruises in his Jaguar -- hunting a killer. The homicides chi...

  • Lord of the Dance

    Robin Lloyd-Jones

    Two Englishmen are travelling the dusty roads of 16th century India: Thomas Coryat, a physician and man of science, who comes to India to find a cure for his wife's leprosy in the famed medical library at Agra; and Brother Peter, known as Frog, who h...

  • Something the Cat Dragged In

    Charlotte MacLeod

    AN OLD CODGER, A TOMCAT, AND A KILLER The venerable Herbert Ungley wouldn't have been caught dead without his toupee. So when his landlady's cat dragged it into her kitchen, Betsy Lomax knew something was amiss. When she found old Ungley lying beh...

  • The Human Body

    Jonathan Miller

    This hardback book "The Human Body: WIth Three-Dimensional, Movable Illustrations Showing the Workings of the Human Body" is pre-owned and is in good condition. The cover has some wear mainly the edges. On the first page it has the name of the previo...

  • Radiance

    N. Richard Nash

    As activist-actress Calla Stark prepares for her role in a controversial motion picture, she must cope with the waves of self-doubt and the anonymous phone calls and threats that counterpoint her fierce political independence...

  • Tikal

    Daniel Peters

    Set in the years--785-790 A.D.--that marked the beginning of the decline of the Mayan civilization, this novel traces the dynamics of this rich society through the lives of a variety of Mayan craftsmen, warriors, rulers, priests, and commoners...

  • Stop at Nothing

    Douglas Rutherford

  • For Mary, With Love

    Thomas Savage

    Possessed of astonishing beauty, steady self-possession, and a glorious style, Mary Skoning, the daughter of a dairy farmer, pursues a modeling career in Chicago, makes an unlikely marriage in Montana, and finds passion and troubles in a second marri...

  • The Penitent

    Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Seeking an escape from his unfaithful wife, mistress, and her greedy daughter, prosperous Joseph Shapiro journeys from America to Israel to find salvation and meaning in the traditional Jewish way of life...

  • Hoopla

    Harry Stein

    Filled with cameo portraits of prominent sports legends of the early twentieth century, this novel brings to life the era in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox, accused of throwing the 1919 World Series, became known as the ""Black So...

  • Hugging the Shore

    John Updike

    WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD   “Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea,” writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But...

  • The Lizard's Tail

    Luisa Valenzuela

    A political satire edged with fantasy, this book traces the life and rise to political power in an unnamed South American country of a witch doctor--"The Master"--a character modelled on Lopez Rega, Isabel Peron's Interior Minister...

  • Two and Two Together

    Julia Whedon

  • Liar, Liar

    Laurence Yep

  • As Time Goes by

    Elaine Bissell

  • The Defiant

    Terry Nelsen Bonner

    They boldly grasp for life beyond society's narrow confines: Flanders Wilde: A woman who casts off the restraints of Victorian propriety to shock her male colleagues and love a desperate fugitive with a price on his head. Lachlan McKenzie: A ma...

  • Thendara House

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    To Thendara House came the Terran Magda in exchange for the Free Amazon Jaelle, who had become the wife of an Earthman and had entered the Terran enclave. The cross-currents of two cultures, one male-dominated, one egalitarian, combined with the h...

  • Firebrand

    Jane Lewis Brandt

    FLESH AND BLOOD, FIRE AND ICE, CLOSE AS SISTERS, DISTANT AS STRANGERS With her hot temper and unconventional opinions, Elizabeth yearned for adventure in the vast expanse of the West, daring to go beyond marriage for the passions her husband couldn'...

  • Dream Prom

    Margaret Burman

    When Molly Knight reads her birthday card from Duncan Grover at her Sweet Sixteen party, she knows that he's the boy for her. But then Duncan's best friend, Matt, asks her to Landon High's senior prom-the kind of formal dress-up prom she's always dre...

  • The Istanbul Decision

    Nick Carter

  • The Foretelling

    Caroline Crane

    Mystery Writers of America Presents: An innocent game turns tragic Drafted into telling fortunes at a fund-raising carnival, Angela Dawn prepares herself by studying a book on palmistry, never dreaming that lives will be changed by her predictio...

  • The Blue Cut Job

    Tom Cutter

  • Ever This Night

    Virginia Decoursey

  • The Poison People

    William Haggard

    The death of Harry Maxim, who fell from a fifth-floor apartment, leads Charles Russell into an investigation of an international heroin ring and a parliament member's attempt to avenge his narcotics-addicted son...

  • The Man With No Face

    J.D. Hardin

  • Night of the Hawk

    Leigh Franklin James

    John Cooper Baines -- the Hawk -- now rides forth to battle his deadliest foe. Clad in buckskin, his long rifle at his side, he is the undefeated master of this wild, sprawling Texas land. But a white renegade has sworn allegiance to hell itself ...

  • A Wicked Way to Die

    J.G. Jeffreys

  • Search for the Sun

    Colin Kapp

    They were three: Maq Ancor, the master assassin, Macician Cherry, space illusionist, Sine Anura, mistress of the erotic. Chosen for the great quest, the journey into the heart of mankind's greatest creation: Zeus. Zeus who made the new worlds for ...

  • Spell of the Winter Wizard

    Linda Lowery
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    Pick a path to adventure!

    In Endless Quest, readers become heroes in their own fantasy quest. Fight a dragon; ride a flying carpet, or fling spells at an evil wizard. The adventure is endless and the choices are yours!

    In the latest End...

  • Heirs of Rebellion

    Maggie Lyons

    The Cond?s of Charleston were an 18th century Carolina family to rival the Ewings of Dallas for scandal, drama and daring. These headstrong French Huguenots were determined to forge a dynasty and create their own legends with passionate secrets and l...

  • The Polferry Riddle

    Philip MacDonald

  • Ferret

    George Markstein