Books Published in September 1990

New Books List: 575 titles

  • The Coffin Ship

    Peter Tonkin

    'A master of seagoing adventure.' Clive CusslerThe giant supertanker Prometheus sits at anchor in the Persian Gulf, holding 250,000 tons of crude oil. Somewhere on board is a crew member who is determined that the ship not make it to its destination ...

  • HMS Marathon

    A.E. Langsford

    1942: The Mediterranean. The war at sea is at its most intense. Operation Stonehenge gets under way - a convoy laden with desperately needed fuel, food and ammunition for the besieged island of Malta sets sail. Captain Robert Thurston commands the cr...

  • Over the Brink

    Irving A. Greenfield

  • The Eyes of the Beholders

    A.C. Crispin

    After several Federation and Klingon ships disappear while traveling a newly opened trade route, the Enterprise is sent to investigate. Their quest leads Captain Picard and his crew to an eerie space graveyard full of ships of every size and descript...

  • The Vor Game

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    THE PRINCE AND THE MERCENARY Together, they can get into a lot of trouble. Trouble only the combined forces of the Free Dendarii Mercenaries can get them out of. At least, that's what they're hoping... In this latest adventure with the galaxy's...

  • Code Name Peregrine

    Sean Dalton

    Among the few things Salukans and Earthers have in common is a disgust for traitors. One thing Salukans don't share, however, is mercy for them. So when the Salukan agent "Sparrow" is desperate to defect to the Alliance, only the Space Hawks can hope...

  • Dangerous Interfaces

    Robert Silverberg

    Collects stories by Silverberg, Anne McCaffrey, Christopher Stasheff, and Robert Sheckley, dealing with a futuristic society in which humans have computer-generated slaves with the personalities of long-dead historical figures...

  • Delta Pavonis

    Eric Kotani

    Have we got a planet for you. And don't worry: nothing native to Delta Pavonis is likely to hurt you; humans are too alien to be tasty. At least that's what they said during orientation. Dierdre Jamail isn't quite sure she believes them -- she's neve...

  • Fantastic Four: Trial of Galactus

    John Byrne

  • Fire on the Border

    Kevin O'Donnell

    HER FIGHTER ARROWED TOWARD THE ALIEN SHIP... Lieutenant Darcy Lee could not tear her gaze away from the giant alien vessel displayed on the screen. The enemy's defenses had to be manipulating gravity in a way that Terran researchers had never susp...

  • GARBAGE!

    Simon & Schuster

  • The Ice Beast

    Frank A. Javor

    STATED FIRST PRINTING. Sept. 1990 DAW trade paperback, Frank A. Javor. Pike had come to this frozen world in search of a creature out of legend--only to stumble upon a scoop more deadly than any legend....

  • Judith Resnik

    Joanne Bernstein

  • Knight of Shadows

    Roger Zelazny

    The one real world, of which all others-including our Earth--are but shadows... AMBER The magnificent epic adventure of magical realms and royal intrigue continues, as Merlin, heir to miraculous powers, is forced to choose a definitive allegian...

  • Lord Conrad's Lady

    Leo Frankowski

    VACATION IN PEACEFUL MEDIEVAL POLAND SEE the ancient city of Cracow burn! WALLOW in the frightful murder of noblewomen and children at the invincible castle of East Gate! ENJOY the attack of the crazy old ladies at Sir Miesko's manor! WAT...

  • The Mutant Season

    Karen Haber; Robert Silverberg

    WHEN WINTER COMES THE MUTANTS GATHER... They have always lived in the shadows, on the fringes of normal society. Ignored, shunned, they survived in their own invisible clans, using their extraordinary psychic abilities to shield themselves from th...

  • N-Space

    Larry Niven

    On an L.A. talk show Arthur C. Clarke was once asked to name his favorite writer. His answer was: "Larry Niven." Countless others agree. The Baltimore Sunand Kirkus Rfillews have both dubbed Niven "the premier writer of hard SF," and Gregory Benford ...

  • The Planet Beyond

    Steve Mudd

    On the deceptively utopian planet Seelzar, Alyssa Montoya struggles against a powerful, corrupt elite to save her brother, but her efforts bring her close to the heart of an ancient secret that would rather self-destruct than be discovered...

  • The Price of Ransom

    Alis A. Rasmussen

    She crossed an ocean of stars in her search for freedom

    Though the revolution is won, Lily Ransome and the crew of the Forlorn Hope are renegades, pursued by the forces of the liberator they gave their blood to proclaim.

    Now their only ...

  • Ready for Blastoff

    Rick North

  • Renegade Steele

    J.D. Masters

    STEELE MUST DIE! Like all good programmers, the scientists who brought Steele back to life kept a backup copy of the software containing the mind and personality of Lt. Donovan Steele. But the matrix is more than just a copy -- it is Steele. It has ...

  • The Robin Hood Ambush

    William F. Wu

    In a future where time travel is common and Time Patrolmen insure that time tourists do not tamper with history, Bob, Will, and Alan travel back to the time of King Richard the Lion-Hearted and pose as Robin Hoods...

  • The Sensational She-Hulk

    John Byrne

  • Shadowspeer

    Jo Clayton

    Now in ebook for the first time, the second book of Clayton's classic sci-fi trilogyThe price of a world's death was extremely high, but Ginbiryol Seyirshi would give any buyer his money's worth. Creator of Limited Editions, "productions" in which en...

  • Spider-Man: Parallel Lives

    Gerry Conway

  • X-Men Legends: The Dark Phoenix Saga

    Chris Claremont

  • Admit to Murder

    Margaret Yorke

    When Louise Vaughan disappears on her way home from choir practice in the village of Feringham, her parents and their dear friend Norah are devastated. No trace of her is ever found. But twelve years later, Detective Marsh rekindles the investigation...

  • Blood Sport

    Michael Newton

  • Brother Lowdown

    S.K. Epperson

    Homicide detective Simon Brith, a misogynist with a long-standing grudge against women, matches wits with the charismatic Brother Lowdown, another misogynist who brings wisdom to the homeless and death to the women of Wichita...

  • California Street

    Donna Levin

    Guilt is San Francisco psychologist Joel Abramowitz's business--and it is his second feeling after lovely, very rich Margot, his best friend's wife confesses she loves him. His first feeling is unabashed lust. But the next morning the lady vanishes, ...

  • The Capricorn Quadrant

    Charles Ryan

    A sophisticated Soviet bomber malfunctions during its maiden flight, threatening to detonate all nuclear warheads within a thousand-mile radius, and the government calls on reclusive Cas Bonner to defuse the bomb...

  • Dark Matter

    Garfield Reeves-Stevens

  • Deadfall in Berlin

    R.D. Zimmerman

    Through hypnosis, a Chicago actor travels thirty years back in time to war-torn Berlin, where, in an act of incredible betrayal, his mother was gunned down by a killer whose identity is only just beginning to emerge. Reprint....

  • Dear Mr. Right

    Eileen Dewhurst

  • Fifth Law of Hawkins

    Charles Durden

    He downs tequila as if it were water, smokes dope when he can get it, mouths off with no provocation, and beds any female who catches his fancy. This is Durden's hero Jamie Hawkins, writer and self-described commentator on life's absurdities. In fact...

  • I Was Dora Suarez

    Derek Raymond

    One of the most shocking crime novels of all time

    In what may be Derek Raymond’s most talked-about novel—indeed, in what may be one of the most talked about crime novels ever—the reader is immediately plunged into the horrif...

  • Joe Nix Is Dead

    Malcolm McClintick

  • Kiet and the Opium War

    Gary Alexander

    Bamsan Kiet, chief of police in the capital city of Luong, a mythical Asian country that exists placidly among its violent Indochinese neighbors, is troubled by a flourishing opium trade, gangster-style rubouts, and friction from his soon-to-be inlaw...

  • Longshot

    Dick Francis

    His agent has always known that John Kendall, writer of travel guides to harsh terrains, is impulsive. But taking an assignment because he needs money hardly seems a rash act, and off to rural England Kendall goes to interview his subject, a successf...

  • The Monkey Handlers

    G. Gordon Liddy

    The brave, the proud, the damned... Sara Rosen: Dark, impulsive beauty-- her radical acts on behalf of animal rights land her in terrible danger.... Michael Stone: He kept the tools of his former trade closed up in a trunk. Now he must open his SEAL ...

  • Peeping Thomas

    Robert Reeves

  • The Poison Heart

    Amanda Hemingway

    Blamed by her father for her mother's death during childbirth, Elsa becomes obsessed with winning her father's love, but the trail of that destructive obsession is strewn with jealousy, deceit, duplicity, possible murder, self-denial, and self-blindn...

  • The Power

    James Mills

    American scientist Jack Hammond finds himself involved in a game of cat-and-mouse with a duplicitous and beautiful Soviet agent when he begins investigating the Soviet Union's use of paranormal forces for defense purposes...

  • Sand Against the Tide

    Paul Bishop

    A retired cop-turned-fishing boat captain, Calico Jack Walker must pay for ignoring his instincts when he charters his boat to two shady characters who try to hijack the ship and almost murder his son. Reprint....

  • Scene of the Crime

    Mickey Alman

  • Skin Deep

    Carol Davis Luce

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    She is young, she is in love, and she is the first runner-up in a San Francisco beauty pageant. Regina Van Raven’s head is filled with hopes and dreams but they’re shattered in one unspeakable instant when a psychopath, obsessed wit...

  • The Society Ball Murders

    Jack Albin Anderson

    Reporter-sleuth Patty Nottingham and her boyfriend, pianist Rex Murphy, embark on their own investigation after the police claim that the bizarre death at a society ball of San Francisco society matron Binky Crenshaw was due to over dieting and lipos...

  • The Suspense Is Killing Me

    Thomas Maxwell

    A journalist searches for the true story of his glamorous sibling's death When rock star J. C. Tripper died, only his brother Lee was by his side, and in the decades since, Lee has been deviled by questions of what really happened that night in Ta...

  • Swf Seeks Same

    John Lutz

    No matter how much you think you know, you're still taking a chance when you shop for a new roommate. But after Allie Jones throws out Sam, her sexy but two-timing live-in lover, she desperately needs someone to split the rent on her Upper West Side,...

  • Tree House Hideaway

    Hilda Stahl

  • Witchery Hill

    Welwyn Wilton Katz

  • Yellow Gardenia

    Anthony Mancini

  • Diamond of Deceit

    M.L. Gamble

    Dead men don't rob banks Bank executive Emma Kingston was on vacation when the vault blew up. A man was killed-and his identity strangely obliterated. A king's ransom littered the floor -- but not a thing was stolen. Philip Rowlands pro...

  • Southern Cross

    Jenna Ryan

    Was it her imagination? At NORStar Space Park, fantasy became reality. There, robots ruled the far reaches of the galaxy, and good battled evil. At NORStar, dreams came true... . But so did nightmares. Especially for Kristian Ellis, who witness...

  • Airs & Graces

    Elizabeth Hewitt

    THE BEST LAID PLANS Lady Julia Halston had all she needed for total happiness. The youthful widow had beauty, wit, wealth and position. And if she chose to surrender single bliss, the handsome Sir Royden Tallboys would provide a superbly suitable ...

  • The Calico Countess

    Phyllis Taylor Pianka

    SHE was the answer to his prayers and he had no intention of letting her go Emily Merriweather Harding had little idea that when she rescued the tipsy, grimy, aging ragamuffin from a gang of youthful thugs, she had rescued a countess. Claiming...

  • Cousin Cecilia

    Joan Smith

    HER MATCHMAKING SKILLS WERE UNEQUALED -- YET SHE HERSELF HAD NO USE FOR MARRIAGE! Once a thriving place to land a husband, Laycombe had tuned into a marital desert with the arrival of Lord Wickham. The rake's corrupting influence had led all...

  • Forever in Time

    Janice Bennett

    MODERN WOMAN Erika Van Hamel had been living alone on the tiny British island for two years when a stranger identifying himself as Gilbert Randall washed up after a boating accident. Although he was strikingly handsome, he wasn't exactly her typ...

  • Game of Hearts

    Leonora Woodbury

    When the stakes are seduction and love--Cupid is not above stacking the deck! Only the boldest of men would flirt with Persephone Welton. Why, her hard-drinking, hard-gambling husband was hardly cold in his grave! Still, the maddening Peter Ramsey...

  • The Heart's Intrigue

    Evelyn Bond

    DEVIL IN DISGUISE Lady Clarissa Tregallen preferred the windswept wilds of Cornwall to the jam-packed ballrooms and noisy routs of the London ton, but as the future bride of the tediously respectable Duke of Mainwaring, Clarissa would soon bid her...

  • Lady in Silver

    Rebecca Ward

    The cynical Earl of Brandmere has the rug pulled out from under him by the outrageous Miss Campion. "YOU ACTUALLY BELIEVE I WOULD RATTLE AROUND AS A GHOST. WHAT UTTER FUSTAIN!" Despite her protests, Suzanna Campion's scheming uncle...

  • Lord Lyford's Secret

    Amanda Scott

    A BOLD BEAUTY MUST DEFEAT THE DESIGNS OF AN OVERBEARING NOBLEMAN Lovely Lady Gwenyth Traherne knew that her dearest friend, Miss Pamela Beckley, was far too beautiful for her own good and too vulnerable for her own safety. Thus when Pamela said th...

  • Miss Wyndham's Escapade

    Emily Hendrickson

    A tender beauty trips along a tightrope between ruin and romance Miss Marianna Wyndham was in disgrace, her life in ruins around her. A classmate at her fashionable finishing school had branded her a thief--and she left that insufferably stuffy in...

  • A Prior Engagement

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    Cupid's song is the sweetest of all... A race to the altar Genevra did not give a fig for marriage; it was the violin she loved. The pretty miss had never lacked for suitors, mind you -- but a penchant for jilting them had left all prospects f...

  • Sussex Summer

    Lucy Muir

    Had she been foolish to hope for more than friendship? When Captain Edward Tremaine returned from the Peninsular War, the first sight to greet his weary eyes was the natural beauty of Miss Jane Hampton tending to her English country garden. Dr...

  • Island Rendezvous

    Glenna Finley

    A CHANCE ENCOUNTER Lovely, blond New Yorker Stephanie Church feared her plans for a peaceful sailing holiday were dashed when she missed the boat for Tortola Island. Yet when a handsome stranger asked her to fill in as a last-minute hand on his b...

  • Death of a Busker King // The Death of an Irish Tinker

    Bartholomew Gill

    A body is found shackled to the upper branches of the tallest tree in Ireland. The victim is a "Tinker," one of the mysterious class of itinerant travelers who have roamed Ireland for generations. The murder bears all the signs of being the work of D...

  • Dark Secrets

    Glenda Sanders

    Something was terribly wrong When schoolteacher Vanessa Wiggins first reported screams coming from her backyard, the local sheriff dismissed her concerns. Maybe it was her new house settling or wolves baying at the moon. He convinced her no one ha...

  • Greenfire

    Saranne Dawson

    As leader of her people, it was time for beautiful, flame-haired Nazleen to choose a mate, time to produce a daughter and heir. For generations, the women of her race had kept an uneasy truce with the warlike men around them, submitting to male desir...

  • Moonspell

    Regan Forest

    HE WAS EVERY WOMAN'S PERFECT FANTASY I loved Nicholas Paul, probably more than any of his countless female admirers. After all, I had created him. When I wrote about Nicki, I wrote of adventure -- of passion, danger and intrigue. None of thos...

  • Prince of Dreams

    Carly Bishop

    She was no ordinary doctor He was no ordinary man The Petrakis men were legendary. Power, wealth, adoration -- they had it all. But for Alex Petrakis, locked in a coma after a daredevil accident, all the money in the world couldn't guarantee ...

  • In the House of Secret Enemies

    George C. Chesbro

    Dr. Robert Frederickson ('Mongo' to his friends), dwarf, private detective, criminology Ph.D., martial arts expert, ex-circus headliner, cult hero of such crime thrillers as Shadow of a Broken Man, Second Horseman Out of Eden and The Language of Cann...

  • No Sign of Murder

    Alan Russell

    Beautiful, deaf heiress, Anita Walters, spent her days involved in cutting-edge primate research--teaching a gorilla named Joseph to communicate through sign language. By night she ran wild with a dangerous crowd. And six months ago she vanished. ...

  • Pet Peeves

    Taylor McCafferty

    In Pigeon Fork, Kentucky, it's not easy to be a hard-boiled detective... Being as how my office is over my brother Elmo's drug store, it's kind of tough getting the right private-eye atmosphere. Fact is, since I'd left Louisville homicide four mon...

  • A Ticket to the Boneyard

    Lawrence Block

    Twelve years ago, Matthew Scudder lied to a jury to put James Leo Motley behind bars. Now the ingenious psychopath is free. And the alcoholic ex-cop-turned-p.i. must pay dearly for his sins. Friends and former lovers -- even strangers unfortunate eno...

  • Turnaround Jack

    Richard Abshire

    DALLAS DETECTIVE JACK KYLE IS ON THE TRAIL OF AN UNFAITHFUL WIFE -- A TRAIL THAT ENDS DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS'S CRIME WORLD private eye Jack Kyle is back, and his new client, Guy Borodin, has just the kind of simple case Kyle loves. Borodin s...

  • Bitter Water

    Douglas Clark

  • Gideon's Art

    J.J. Marric

    As England's largest repository of art treasures, the National Gallery was one of London's most heavily guarded institutions. So when the museum reported that Velazquez's priceless painting "The Prince" had been stolen, Commander George Gideon of Sco...

  • Murder in a Good Cause

    Medora Sale

    When the rich and glamorous Clara von Hohenkammer collapses dead at a dinner party, Toronto Police Inspector John Sanders is called in to lead the investigation. With a house full of guests to interview, Sanders’s investigation is complicated by th...

  • Past Reckoning

    June Thomson

  • Pious Deception

    Susan Dunlap

    THE CASE OF THE PASSIONATE PRIEST Kiernan O'Shaughnessy, M.D., former California medical examiner, now detective for hire, is choosy about her cases. But finding out if the hanging of a handsome young priest in a Phoenix, Arizona, church is sui...

  • Playing the Dozens

    William D. Pease

    When the man accused of killing a cop is found hanging in his cell, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Holden investigates a bizarre case involving drugs, money, sex, and corruption. Reprint. NYT....

  • Time Bomb

    Jonathan Kellerman

    By the time psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware reached the school the damage was done: A sniper had opened fire on a crowded playground, but was gunned down before any children were hurt. While the TV news crews feasted on the scene and Alex began his...

  • Postmortem

    Patricia Cornwell

    Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing with the National Forensic Academy in Florida, digs into a case more bizarre than any she has ever faced, one that has produced not only unusual physical evidence, but also tantalizing clues about the inner workings of ...

  • Birthday Party Mystery

    Marion M. Markham

  • Child Proof

    Michael Z. Lewin

    Lewin introduces a new detective in Adele Buffington, a social worker in Indianapolis, who finds her hands full when someone starts attacking her and her colleagues and one of her cases goes missing. Lewin's previous novels include "Hard Line", "Out ...

  • City of Strangers

    Robert Barnard

    DEADLY NEIGHBORS Wynton Lane, with its imposing Victorian houses, is a bastion of respectability. Belfield Grove Estate is not. Belfield Grove harbors families like the infamous Phelans. Led by their foul-mouthed, beer-swilling patriarch, Jack, they...

  • Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Disgusting Sneakers

    Donald J. Sobol

    A stolen teacup...An extra set of footprints...Four very strange words...A pirate's treasure...And a race to find a cheater in Idaville's annual disgusting sneaker contest!These are just some of the ten brain-twisting mysteries that Encyclopedia Brow...

  • Halloween Candy Mystery

    Marion M. Markham

  • The Life and Times of Hercule Poirot

    Anne Hart

  • Murder at the National Cathedral

    Margaret Truman

    Murder didn't stop Mac Smith and Annabel Reed from falling in love, or from getting married at the glorious church on the hill in Washington, D.C., the National Cathedrals But the brutal murder of a friend drags them from their newlywed bliss into an...

  • The Price You Pay

    Hannah Wakefield

    COMPROMISING POSITIONS The murder of prominent journalist Amanda Finch raises many questions. For eminent psychiatrist David Blake, the question is why his wife was found beside the body of a Chilean exile -- who just happened to be a former mental p...

  • Whiskey River

    Loren D. Estleman

    In 1931 Detroit, the era of Prohibition, the booming auto industry, and the Mob, newspaperman Connie Minor chronicles the rise and fall of gangster Jack Dance, a story that makes him a witness of and key player in a dangerous game...

  • The Year's Best Mystery and Suspense Stories, 1990

    Edward D. Hoch

  • Trial

    Clifford Irving

    Young Texas attorney Warren Blackburn was watching his career go to hell in a hand-basket. Falling for a client's sob story had pushed him into telling a little white lie...and cost him a year's suspension. Now he's back in the courtroom with not one...

  • Age of Iron

    J.M. Coetzee

    Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee tells the remarkable story of a nation gripped in brutal apartheid in his Sunday Express Book of the Year award-winner Age of Iron....

  • Fires in the Sky

    Philips Parotti

    In the years directly preceding the Trojan War, when Trojans fought with their Mysian neighbors, Dymas, a young commoner whose father had been a hero, finds his brilliant future threatened by royal scandal, impossible love, and unhappy marriage...

  • Overlanders: A Classic Story of the Australian Outback

    Dora Birtles

  • That Time in Malomba

    James Hamilton-Paterson

  • Apache Captive

    Betty Brooks

    SHE WAS HIS WOMAN For four long years, Chama had kept his distance as the captive he called Fire Woman temptingly came of age. The raven-haired Apache warrior had jealously guarded her from the other braves, and now that he had paid the bride-pric...

  • Ashana

    E.P. Roesch

    It is the 1790s, and the old ways of Alayeksa are perishing, crushed by a collision of cultures. Russian fur traders are claiming the rich Alaskan wilderness for imperial Russia, and forcing the proud Native Americans into slavery.

    Beautiful A...

  • Autumn Ecstasy

    Pamela K. Forrest

    HE MELTED HER RESISTANCE Linsey McAdams was lost. The Philadelphia beauty had finally eluded her kidnappers but now she was at the mercy of the ruggedly handsome frontiersman who owned the remote cabin where she'd taken refuge. Luc LeClerc offered h...

  • Canadian Kiss

    Christine Carson

    NO MAN COULD TAME HER Sent halfway around the world from London to Vancouver to marry a stranger three times her age, golden-haired Sara Oliver had barely arrived when her husband was murdered -- on her wedding day. Sara vowed to track the killer do...

  • Captain's Bride

    Kat Martin

    A LUSTY MAN Captain Blackwell was a rake and rogue...a devilishly handsome scoundrel who used women and tossed them aside. Marriage was the last thing on his mind. Then a wealthy plantation owner invited the captain to his daughter's nineteenth birt...

  • Caught in the Act

    Betina Krahn

    SECRET PLACES... A shocking liaison accidentally observed opens floodgates of deception... and desire. HIDDEN COSTS... A rogue's game of passionate betrayal takes an audacious, unexpected turn when emotional debts come due. SWEET REWARDS....

  • Cherish the Dream

    Kathleen Harrington

    THE TRAIL OF DESTINY AND DREAMS... It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for naturalist Theodora Gordon. Leaving her affluent New England home, the bookish, gently bred beauty headed west to join a government expedition across America's last...

  • Daughter of Grace

    Judith Pella; Michael Phillips

    After a shocking discovery in Miracle Springs, Corrie's world is turned upside down. But as the community grows and their cabin becomes a home, she feels the Hollisters are finally learning how to be a real family. Deep down, she knows she isn't old ...

  • Diva

    Carol Kane

    AN UNFORGETTABLE WOMAN WITH INSATIABLE DESIRES Maeve Devereux is blessed with a fiery Irish beauty that stirs men's blood, and a voice that leaves royalty in awe. Above all, though, she is a woman determined to be the most exalted opera diva of he...

  • The Doubletree

    Victoria Pade

    To the Victor, the Spoils Glenna Ashe had to get out of town fast. The advertisement for a frontier wife seemed an answer to her prayers--until she confronted the handsome, brooding widower she was soon to wed. Then even a cold Chicago jail began ...

  • Earth Song

    Catherine Coulter

    Philippa de Beauchamp, as impulsive as she is beautiful, flees her father's castle when she hears she'd to be wed to the repellent Baron de Bridgeport. But her daring escape in a wool wagon quickly becomes a misadventure and she winds up in the arms ...

  • Forbidden Fires

    Madeline Baker

    Beautiful and hot-headed, Caitlyn had vowed to hate all Indians until the day she died. After all, weren't they the ones responsible for the senseless massacre of her beloved brothers? But when she gazed into the defiant eyes of the half-breed ...

  • Forever and Beyond

    Penelope Neri

    Their love was timeless...their passion would last forever! SHE WOULD ALWAYS BE HIS Badly in need of a change, newly divorced Kelly Michaels traveled to Arizona to forget her troubles and put her life in order. But instead of letting go of her pa...

  • Forever in His Arms

    Penelope Neri

    Whispers of war between North and South were riding the wind the summer Jenny Delaney fell in love with Tyler Mackenzie. But high in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, it was still possible to believe in fairy tale endings...even though Jenny knew in ...

  • Heart of the Falcon

    Diane Wicker Davis

    THE SAINT AND THE SINNER Nothing in her Quaker upbringing had prepared Tabitha Fell for the shock of being kidnapped, her dangerous rescue or the man who saved her. No man could match Viscount Langley's pursuit of perilous adventure. No wom...

  • Highland Captive

    Susan Tanner

    Hers was a beauty no man could resist . . . his was a will no maiden dared thwart. From the moment she became his highland captive, it was only a matter of time before they came together in an explosion of desire. Highland laird and English lady, ...

  • In Pursuit of the Green Lion

    Judith Merkle Riley

    THE GREEN LION ...the secret of turning base metal into gold, contained in a book of alchemical code... THE GREEN LION leads the beautiful and indomitable Margaret of Ashbury -- witch, healer, friend to man and ghost -- on a perilous journey to ...

  • King's Ransom

    Mary Daheim

    The Man Behind the Mask... Disguised in a black cloak, hat and mask, daring highwayman Captain Hood galloped into Honor Dale's quiet life. To restore England's King Charles to his rightful throne, Hood stole from the hapless rich who traveled the ...

  • A Lady of the West

    Linda Howard

    IN THE SAVAGE NEW MEXICO TERRITORY, LOVE COULD REDEEM...OR DESTROY Victoria Waverly was a noble daughter of the war-ruined South, sold in marriage to a ruthless Western rancher. Only honor and pride could help her endure her painful role as wife i...

  • Mississippi Mistress

    Gina Robins

    SHE WOULDN'T GIVE IN Nobody was going to tell Cori Pierce what to do or when to do it. Outraged by her father's murder and the loss of her inheritance, she vowed to avenge the crime and earn her independence, even if it meant signing on as...

  • Northern Fire, Northern Star

    Scotney St. James

    WILLFUL WANTON Rhys Morgan exploded in anger when he finally met the mail-order doctor he'd hired--"Alex" Mackenzie was a woman! No matter what her credentials, the tantalizing female had no business attending to the needs of a raucous bunch of ha...

  • Phantom

    Susan Kay

    A CHILD IS BORN... His mother's only gift is a mask. Precocious and gifted, he will live friendless and alone. Taunted and abused, he will flee, only to find himself caged again--as a freak in a Gypsy carnival. A BRILLIANT OUTCAST...THE WORLD IS...

  • Quicksilver Passion

    Georgina Gentry

    SHE MEANT WHAT SHE SAID Beautiful Silver Jones had been called every name in the book. But now that she owned her own tavern in Buckskin Joe, Colorado, she didn't care what the self-righteous citizens thought of her. She never let a man touch he...

  • Rose

    Jill Marie Landis

    Across the Golden Plains, Two Searching Hearts Find Love ROSA The sultry, dark eyed beauty dared to leave her home in a small Italian village and journey to America, to join her husband on the wild frontier. But a tragic twist of fate left her a...

  • Santa Fe Fantasy

    Judith Steel

    When lovely gunrunner Adeline Montclair rescues Captain Trace Randall, and then falls into his heated embrace, she doesn't realize that he has been riding the Santa Fe trail to find out who has been supplying rifles to the Comanches Adeline Montcl...

  • A Song For Silas

    Lori Wick

    Amy thought love would never pass her way again. She didn’t know how close it was...until she met Silas. He is an answer to prayer for her injured father, Grant Nolan, who welcomes him with open arms. The brotherly way Silas feels toward Amy soon...

  • Stolen Dreams

    Susan Anderson

    Abducted by a thief--and seduced by love! Jocelyn had always possessed a fiery spirit...but a new fire was ignited within her by the burning caresses of the handsome highwayman who was her captor. Dash was tortured by dark memories and driven b...

  • Sunny

    Linda Madl

    Like so many others, Sunny Lang and her brother Jeff were struggling to rebuild their lives after the brutal devastation of the Civil War. When the tall, lean stranger came to their west Arkansas ranch, they were happy to hire him as a hand. But ther...

  • Surrender

    Amanda Quick

    At four and twenty Victoria Huntington thought herself quite adept at fending off fortune hunters...until she came under siege from Lucas Colebrook, the darkly disturbing new Earl of Stonevale. Amidst the brightly plumed birds of the ton, Lucas was a...

  • Sweetwater

    Sandra Chastain

    SHE CAST HER LURE...AND LOST HER HEART AT SWEETWATER LAKE. The simple pleasures of a summer sojourn at Georgia's grand Sweetwater Hotel were lost on Portia MacIntosh traveling Shakespearean acting troupe. Feisty Portia was determined to win it bac...

  • Threads of Destiny

    Arnette Lamb

    THE WIND ACROSS THE HEATHER WHISPERED OF THEIR PASSION ... AND WARNED OF THEIR FATE Lady Suisan Harper couldn't take her eyes from the dangerously attractive man whose presence filled the candle-lit room-Myles Cunningham. She had expected a weakli...

  • Tiger Rose

    Sonya T. Pelton

    DECEPTIVE DEVIL Promised in wedlock to a British aristocrat, prim, sheltered Daniella Rose Wingate accompanied the elegant stranger down the aisle, determined to forget the swashbuckling adventurer who had kissed her in the misty woodland grove and ...

  • Where Love Dwells

    Elizabeth Stuart

    IN HER CAPTOR'S GENTLE EMBRACE, SHE WOULD FIGHT HER HEART'S FIERCEST REBELLION... -- In an age when duty was sovereign, the highlands of Wales resounded with the clash of arms as Welsh lord and English knight met in bloody conflict. And amid the r...

  • Wild Virginia Nights

    Christine Dorsey

    UPPITY FEMALE BOSS A lady boss! Mining engineer Nicholas Colton would never have sunk so low if the loyal Englishman hadn't been doing an old friend a favor Now he was stuck playing nursemaid to an American wench who had a bad habit of reminding him...

  • Children of the Shroud

    Garfield Reeves-Stevens

    CHILDREN OF GOD? OR SPAWNS OF SATAN? They mysterious shroud of Turin. They say it holds the actual image of Jesus. And something more…something equally miraculous…the genetic key to a race of superior beings. In their hands lies the power f...

  • Daddy's Home

    Paul Dale Anderson

  • Eastern Ghosts

    Frank McSherry

    Eastern Ghosts is the last volume of the American Ghost Series that covers the regions of the United States state-by-state. The others are Dixie Ghosts, Western Ghosts, Ghosts of the Heartland, and New England Ghosts, New York New Jersey, Pennsylvani...

  • Four Past Midnight

    Stephen King

    Four Times Fear Equals Total Terror....

    THE LANGOLIERS
    You are strapped in an airplane seat on a flight beyond hell.

    SECRET WINDOW, SECRET GARDEN
    You are trapped in the demonic depths of a writer’s worst nightmare.

    THE LI...

  • Halloween Party

    R.L. Stine

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself...and see if its dark terror and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Invitation To Terror The invitat...

  • The Haunting of Frances Rain

    Margaret Buffie

  • The Lower Deep

    Hugh B. Cave

    Terror Lurks beneath the waves...In Dame Marie, sleeping villagers walk in the dead of night - they return without memory, naked and soaking from the sea...when they return at all...Dr. Stephen Spence is new to the village, but he has seen Evil befor...

  • Nightwaves

    Collin A. McDonald

    A collection of horror tales in which a young girl discovers evil forces lurking in her mother's garden, a boy whose radio gives news of a very strange kind, and the haunting of a construction worker killed in a dam accident...

  • October

    Al Sarrantonio

    THE DYING SEASONIt's a time of ripe apples and falling leaves, a time of raging bonfires and leering jack-o'-lanterns, a time of homecoming for human and demon both.OCTOBERProfessor Kevin Michaels has returned to the picturesque town of New Polk to f...

  • Out of the Night

    Patrick Whalen

    The strangers came under cover of darkness and camped high on the hill just west of town. Then the deaths began -- horrible savage, beyond comprehension -- one every night for five nights. When two young boys disappeared, the enraged townsfolk of Rav...

  • Secrets of Scary Fun

    Stephen Mooser

  • Shocker : No More Mr. Nice Guy

    Randall Boyll

  • Tempter

    Nancy A. Collins

    Smart New Yorker Charlotte Calder thinks she has found herself a great catch when she meets and falls for Adam Rossiter, never suspecting that the man she is sleeping with is controlled by an evil force...

  • The Witch's Eye

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Lynn Morley and her best friend, Mouse, thought their lives would be back to normal after Mrs. Tuggle's house burned down. But now Lynn's little brother, Stevie, is acting strange, and when Lynn confronts him in his room, she discovers that the witch...

  • Women of Darkness II

    Kathryn Ptacek

  • The Serpent Amongst the Lilies

    P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    An investigation into the mysterious woman known as Jeanne of Arc...The turbulent times of the 15th century are perfectly captured in Paul Doherty's gripping mystery, The Serpent Amongst the Lilies. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Susanna Gregor...

  • SPQR // The King's Gambit

    John Maddox Roberts

    FOR THE SENATE AND PEOPLE OF ROME... They were evil times for the great Republic of Crassus and Pompey-- when vicious gangs ruled the streets, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembow...

  • Homeland

    R.A. Salvatore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Travel back to strange and exotic Menzoberranzan, the vast city of the drow and homeland to lcewind Dale hero Drizzt Do'Urden. The young prince of a royal house, Drizzt grows to maturity in the vile world of his dark kin. Possessing honor beyond t...

  • Ben Cooper, U.S. Marshal

    Phillip Underwood

    United States Marshall Ben Cooper tracks the Chambers gang, a deadly group of cutthroats responsible for a bloody trail of terror, torture, and murder that claims the life of Hap Hinkle, after the outlaws kidnap young Christie Hinkle...

  • Black Hills Blood

    Jon Sharpe

  • Buffalo Girls

    Larry McMurtry

    The Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of Lonesome Dove chronicles the passing of the American West through the eyes of Calamity Jane in this western.In a letter to her daughter back East, Martha Jane is not shy about her own importance: “I am the Wil...

  • Counterfeit Madam

    Jon Sharpe

  • Dodge City Trail

    Doyle Trent

  • The First Man in Rome

    Colleen McCullough

    With extraordinary narrative power, New York Times bestselling author Colleen McCullough sweeps the reader into a whirlpool of pageantry and passion, bringing to vivid life the most glorious epoch in human history.When the world cowered before the le...

  • Medicine River

    Thomas King

    When Will returns to Medicine River, he thinks he is simply attending his mother’s funeral. He doesn’t count on Harlen Bigbear and his unique brand of community planning. Harlen tries to sell Will on the idea of returning to Medicine River to ope...

  • Moses: The Deliverer

    Ellen Gunderson Traylor

    Moses comes alive as the brilliant young prince of Pharaoh's court, a man torn between a secret love for his Hebrew kinsmen and his dedication to Egypt. His life takes a radical turn when he slays an Egyptian and is forced to flee his royal heritage....

  • Ride with Me, Mariah Montana

    Ivan Doig

    This greathearted novel is the finale of Ivan Doig's passionate and authentic trilogy about the McCaskill family and their alluring Two Medicine country along the hem of the northern Rockies.Jick McCaskill, the illustrious narrator of English Creek, ...

  • Saddle a Whirlwind

    Eugene C. Vories

    Journeying to Texas to escape some trouble in Colorado, Clint Austin becomes involved in the problems of Becky Major and her family as they struggle against overwhelming odds to hand on to their debt-ridden ranch...

  • Station West

    Luke Short

    Lieutenant Haven is ordered to retrieve or destroy a shipment of Army uniforms bound for Fort Stambaugh in order to prevent them from falling into the hands of the outlaws who have intercepted all of the town's recent gold shipments...

  • The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle

    Avi

    The Seahawk looms against a darkening sky, black and sinister. Manned by an angry, motley crew at the mercy of a ruthless captain, the rat-infested ship reeks of squalor, despair...and mutiny! It is no place for the lone passenger, thirteen-year-old ...

  • The Stolen Bride of Glengarra Castle

    Anne Knoll

    "'Tis an evil place mum and haunted too Some say a banshee wails in the Tower!" It had seemed like exile to young Elly Kincaid when she was packed off to England to be raised by an aunt after her mother's death. Now, at eighteen, her long awaited ...

  • This Time Forever

    Margaret Chittenden

    He'd waited a lifetime for her Liz Brooks felt like a swimmer caught in a powerful undertow. One minute she was an ordinary travel rep, her feet planted firmly on the ground. The next she was swept into the past -- the eighteenth century, to b...

  • Daredevil: Love and War

    Frank Miller

  • Moebius 1: Upon a Star

    Marvel Book Group

  • 28 Barbary Lane

    Armistead Maupin

    Armistead Maupin's uproarious and moving Tales of the City novels -- the first three of which are collected in this omnibus volume -- have earned a unique niche in American literature and are considered indelible documents of cultural change from ...

  • All Fall Down

    James Leo Herlihy

    A teenage boy’s image of his older brother is shattered by tragedy in this “remarkable first novel†by the author of Midnight Cowboy (New York Herald Tribune Book Review).   Some families get a reputation for being strange, and so it is wi...

  • Allie's Big Break

    Carrie Austen

  • The American Promise

    Milton Meltzer

  • Archie, Follow Me

    Lynne Cherry

  • B Is for Bethlehem: A Christmas Alphabet

    Isabel Wilner

  • Baby Dot

    Margery Cuyler

    After failing to adjust well to the routines of the learning cave and refusing to go back, spoiled girl dinosaur Baby Dot finally returns and encounters another young dinosaur even meaner than she was....

  • Bad Desire

    Gary Devon

    An innocent teenage girl sparks a psychopath’s obsessive desire in this chilling tale of suspense and serial murder. Beautiful high school cheerleader Sheila Bonner has a new dress for the prom and a football-player boyfriend who’s wild about her...

  • Baumgartner's Bombay

    Anita Desai

    A beautifully written, richly textured, and haunting story (Chaim Potok), BAUMGARTNER'S BOMBAY is Anita Desai's classic novel of the Holocaust era, a story of profound emotional wounds of war and its exiles. The novel follows Hugo Baumgartner as he f...

  • Be-Bop, Re-Bop

    Xam Wilson Cartier

    "Compelling...Ms. Cartier joins the ranks of Afro-American writers-among them Ralph Ellison and Ntozake Shange-whose works demonstrate the deep connections between music and narrative."
    NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
    Be-Bop, Re-Bop is the pulse of ...

  • Beach Ball

    Peter Sis

    "A stiff breeze blows Mary's beach ball along the water's edge for miles and miles. People, objects and animals appear and disappear as Mary gallops from page to page, chasing the ball....Sis's inimitably cheerful illustrations fuse a riot of unsulli...

  • Beaky

    Jez Alborough

  • Before I Go to Sleep

    Ann Pilling

  • Bert

    Mary Alys Skulavik

  • Big Bad Love

    Larry Brown

    "Larry Brown writes like a force of nature." -- Pat Conroy Larry Brown caught the rapt attention of readers and critics with the 1988 publication of Facing the Music, his prize-winning first collection of stories. The following year, his first novel,...

  • The Big Book for Peace

    Ann Durell

    The wisdom of peace and the absurdity of fighting are demonstrated in seventeen stories and poems by outstanding authors of today such as Jean Fritz, Milton Meltzer, and Nancy Willard, illustrated by famous illustrators such as Paul Zelinsky, the Dil...

  • The Big Garage on Clear Shot

    Tom Bodett

  • Blood Red Ochre

    Kevin Major

    An air of mystery surrounds Nancy, the new girl in David's class. She looks different, "foreign," and David finds her disturbingly attractive. At Nancy's insistence, they set out on a canoe trip to Red Ochre Island, a burial place of the Beothuk Indi...

  • Blue Skies and Jack and Jill

    Hel Hodgman

  • Body

    Harry Crews

    Shereel Dupont--who abandoned her former name, Dorothy Turnipseed, when she left Waycross, Georgia, to seek fame and fortune with bodybuilder Russell Morgan--finds her new life threatened by the arrival of her corpulent, redneck family...

  • Boo Who?

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    When a purse snatcher starts stalking Deerfield, the girls must divide their time between trying to catch the culprit and rehearsing for the ballet, "Dracula," in which they have been cast as vampires...

  • Bouncing Dinosaur

    Emma Chichester Clark

    Freddy and William invite Boris, a lonely dinosaur, to come home to live in their village, but Boris's bad habit--bouncing--makes life miserable for everyone, until his bouncing proves useful in outwitting a prowling fox...

  • The Boy of the Bells

    Carly Simon

  • Breaking the Chains

    David Katz

    Describes slavery in the United States, the harsh conditions under which slaves lived, the active and passive resistance with which they fought for their rights, the revolts, and the involvement of slaves in the Civil War....

  • Bufo and Spallanzani

    Ruben Fonseca

  • Bugs Bunny and Friends

    Golden Books

  • Busy O'Brien and the Great Bubble Gum Blowout

    Michelle Poploff

    Ten-year-old Busy O'Brien sets out to save the town's Meal Mobile, a project threatened by a lack of funding, by setting up a bubble-gum-blowing contest with the first prize being lunch with the mayor--Busy's mother...

  • C Is for Curious: An ABC of Feelings

    Woodleigh Hubbard

    Raging dragons, leaping cows, and baseball playing dogs all come together in this zany collection that explores a host of feelings from A(ngry) to Z(ealous). Brilliantly colored and brimming with endearing creatures, Woodleigh Hubbard's exuberant ill...

  • California Countdown

    Joe Dever

  • Case of the Sticky Fingers

    Jack C. Harris

  • Castaways in Lilliput

    Henry Winterfeld

    When their life raft at last comes to ground, Jim, Peggy, and bossy Ralph rejoice. But this island is not like the world they left behind. The entire island is filled with miniature villages, roads, even cities with skyscrapers. Where are they?...

  • The Cat Who Escaped From Steerage

    Evelyn Wilde Mayerson

    As nine-year-old Chanah and her family journey from their native Poland to seek a new life in America, Chanah worries about the possible fates of her deaf-mute cousin Yaacov and of Pitsel, the cat she had rescued in Marseilles and smuggled aboard shi...

  • Catch the Sea

    Mary-Rose Hayes

    While her artist father is away trying to arrange a much-needed exhibition, thirteen-year-old Lily stays alone at the beach cottage in which they have spent the summer and discovers her own inner strengths and resources and some evidence of an artist...