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New Books List: 715 titles

  • Obsidian Fate

    Diana G. Gallagher

    ETERNAL NIGHT On the outskirts of Sunnydale, recent rains have uncovered the remains of a five hundred-year-old Spanish expedition. But one of the artifacts, a smoky mirror with an ornately carved obsidian frame, goes missing, along with the histo...

  • The Devil's Workshop

    Stephen J. Cannell

    They told USC grad student Stacy Richardson that the death of her noted microbiologist husband was suicide, but nothing will convince her of that. Now only her own death will keep her from the truth... They told "Lucky" Cunningham he was doing his...

  • Extreme Faction

    Trevor Scott

    Jake Adams, former CIA officer and Air Force Intelligence captain, is back with a new thrilling adventure. This second installment pits Jake against some of the most idealistic terrorists ever to strap on a suicide bomb. Jake is hired by a Portland, ...

  • The Killing Game

    Iris Johansen

    A MERCILESS KILLER ON THE HUNT... AN INNOCENT CHILD IN HIS SIGHTS... A WOMAN DRIVEN TO THE EDGE TO STOP HIM... The killer knows Eve Duncan all too well. He knows the pain she feels for her murdered daughter, Bonnie, whose body has never been f...

  • A Civil Campaign

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    ONE CUNNING PLAN TOO MANY... ? It's spring in Vorbarr Sultana, and a young person's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love ... money ... bio-genetics ... love ... lack of money ... incompatible planetary sexual mores ... love ... District success...

  • The Forgotten War

    William R. Forstchen

    The legendary Starfleet Captain Lucien Murat, a contemporary of Christopher Pike, disappeared during a battle with the alien Tarn. Now, generations later, Captain Picard is conducting delicate diplomatic negotiations with the Tarn when the Starship E...

  • I, Q

    Peter David

    The enigmatic entity known as Q remains one of the greatest mysteries in the universe, yet no one, perhaps, understands Q as well as actor John de Lancie, who has played Q on television for more than a decade -- now de Lancie and Peter David, bestsel...

  • The Queen's Amulet

    Julianne Balmain

    The planet of Naboo is surrounded by dark and powerful forces, and it is up to the young, strong, and beautiful Queen Amidala to save it. Readers will thrill to this epic tale of adventure set in the faraway, long-ago galaxy of Star Wars: Episode I. ...

  • The Attack of the Two-Inch Teacher // I Shrank My Teacher

    Bruce Coville

    Tiny teacher -- BIG Trouble! All Pleskit Meenom wants to do is fit in on his new planet. But even a trip to the mall to get some Earth-style clothing isn't enough to stop Jordan Lynch's teasing. Finally Pleskit and his best friend Tim decide to te...

  • Cave of Stars

    George Zebrowski

    Old Earth is gone. Humanity has been scattered to the stars. Some left their dying planet in spaceship arks, in search of new worlds to inhabit. Others, nanoengineered for near-immortality, explore the far reaches of interstellar space in gargantuan ...

  • Deathstalker Destiny

    Simon R. Green

    HIS DESTINY CANNOT BE CHANGED Owen Deathstalker's greatest love--Hazel d'Ark--has been abducted by the Blood Runners, a culture dedicated to the extremes of genetic scientific experimentation. Stranded in a mission on Lachrymae Christi, Owen busie...

  • Doomsday

    John Peel

    At the threshold of the next century, Tristan Connor lives in a completely computerized America, a mix of virtual and actual realities. Tristian's clone, a dark-minded genius named Devon, has programmed a computer virus that is about to blow the enti...

  • The Forlorn

    Dave Freer

    HUMANITY'S LAST HOPE LIES IN THE BALANCE ... The relentless search is on: Find the opal-like sections of a matter transmitter, scattered across a continent. Without them the only human colony-planet dies. The pieces are hidden in the vast deserts,...

  • Half Life

    Hal Clement

    In about two hundred years, the human race on Earth is perhaps facing extinction due to the rapid evolution of disease. A crew of young men and women travel to the moons of Saturn, to Titan, to investigate the biochemistry of the pre-life conditions ...

  • Paradox Gate

    Dan Parkinson

    The time has come . . . to reinvent time.

    Oklahoma native Ben Culver possesses a sudden, strange power. Much like a sleepwalker, without awareness or intent, he begins to travel through time--into the past, into the future, and into serious tr...

  • Pilgrim Stars

    Peter Telep

    Combat Alert In Deep Space!

    Welcome to the real world! Christopher Blair, his sexy flymate, Dev, and his pal Maniac graduated from the Confed's elite Academy straight into a nasty, three-way war. Their ship, the Tiger Claw...

  • Rift

    Kay Kenyon

    There is a fine line between transformation and ruin....

    Twenty-four-year-old Reeve Calder has spent his life on a high-tech space station, watching as terraforming gradually fails on his home planet of Lithia--a failure that has doomed the co...

  • The Road to Mars: A Post-Modem Novel

    Eric Idle

    What makes humans bark?Is the funny bone funny?What is the algebra of comedy?Did the sitcom originate with the ape?Carlton is an android (a 4.5 Bowie Artificial Intelligence  Robot) who works for Alex and Lewis, two comedians from the twent...

  • Sunnydale High Yearbook

    Christopher Golden

    It's senior year for Buffy Summers and her friends. And that means homecoming, senior prom, finals, graduation -- all the usual evil doings guaranteed to make the Chosen One long for recess. Slayer duties caused Buffy to miss picking up her Yearbook,...

  • A Virtual Soul

    Kevin Teixeira

    In a near future society, genetically engineered slaves known as tubies are an expendable workforce. Em-printers implant the empty minds of tubies with rudimentary personalities and cognitive abilities, yet they are missing the one thing that would m...

  • The Baby Farm

    Karen Harper

    Something is very wrong in the town of Shelter, Kentucky. Deep in the hills of Appalachia, someone is stealing babies. Without a trace or a reasonable explanation, pregnant women are disappearing, targeted for the precious commodity they carry. ...

  • Big Trouble

    Dave Barry

    In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer....

  • The Bird Yard

    Julia Wallis Martin

    When 12-year-old Joseph Coyne is missing and is assumed to have been abducted, Detective Parker makes a promise to the boy's mother: We'll get him back, alive. It proves to be a promise that Parker cannot keep. When another young boy is missing under...

  • The Blind Side of the Heart

    Michael C. White

    From the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Brother's Blood, comes a haunting story about an Irish housekeeper who must discover the truth when her friend, the parish priest, is accused of horrible crimes.Maggie Quinn has had her share of mis...

  • Bloodhound

    Jay Bonansinga

    Psychic Charlotte Vickers is used to helping the police locate missing persons, but when a woman hires her to find a fiance+a7 who vanished a year earlier, she finds her extrasensory powers strained to the limits. Original....

  • Carnage

    Andrew Billings

    Lurking in the darkest corners of Lauren Bowman's mind are the memories of a brutal past and stolen innocence. Now one of Seattle's most respected businesswomen, she is a formidable animal rights advocate. But her convictions cannot stop her closes...

  • A Conspiracy of Tall Men

    Noah Hawley

    The debut literary thriller that launched the career of the bestselling author of Before the Fall and the creator of the show Fargo. Linus Owen is a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco. His marriage is ...

  • Cutting Loose

    Michael Z. Lewin

    "Show some respect, young man...Just what was this young woman to you?" Jackie looked into the nurse's pinkface. "Nance was the best friend I ever had," she said. "The only friend I ever had." Jackie is Jack Cross to everyone except Nance, a Wild ...

  • The Desperate Season

    Michael Blaine

    It begins, as shocking events often do, with a simple lapse in judgment.

    A strange and brilliant young man slips out of a mental institution and takes his family hostage in the frozen isolation of the mountains. In a suffoca...

  • Everybody Pays

    Andrew H. Vachss

    A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer. An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for reasons as mysterious as they are deadly. A two-bit graffiti...

  • Family Honor

    Robert B. Parker

    The author of the bestselling Spenser novels introduces a heroine unlike any other-private eye Sunny Randall. She's street-smart, sexy, and suddenly thrown into a Boston mob war where high-stakes politics and low-down killers conspire to make Sunny's...

  • The Final Faberge

    Thomas Swan

    Rumor has it that a mysterious Fabergé Egg disappeared in the days just before the Russian Revolution. It's up to Scotland Yard art crime detective Jack Oxby to solve the mystery and find the infamous art treasure. Trouble is, whoever attempts to fi...

  • Fire of Heaven

    Bill Myers

    'My words will become a fire in your mouth that you cannot contain. They will burn until you have warned my Bride. Warn her before it is too late!' So begins a dramatic journey into holiness, as newlyweds Brandon and Sarah Martus accept the call to b...

  • Forbidden Love

    Claire Lorrimer

    After losing her husband in the war, Susan Parish has, in the succeeding years, managed to find a measure of happiness and contentment in bringing up their young son in the quiet seclusion of the country. Resigned to a tranquil if somewhat shadowy ex...

  • Fourth Down

    Dave Klein

    Once Ed Buck, sports reporter, and Adam Benson, star quarterback for the Chicago Bears, played football on the same college team. Years later, they are still close friends. In New York for a game against the Giants, Benson hands Buck the biggest st...

  • Freezer Burn

    Joe R. Lansdale

    ONE GUY ON ICE. ONE LIVE GUY IN HOT WATER. The scene is East Texas, Lansdale country. Loner, loser, and sometime armed robber Bill Roberts says goodbye to his dead momma in the back room after a bungled raid on a fireworks stand, escapes through a b...

  • Hearts in Atlantis

    Stephen King

    Although it is difficult to believe, the Sixties are not fictional: they actually happened. No matter the format, Stephen King's work is spellbinding because the author himself is spellbound. The first hugely popular writer of the TV generation, K...

  • Look Back All the Green Valley

    Fred Chappell

    The last in the Kirkman family cycle by one of our most treasured writersIn Look Back All the Green Valley, Jess Kirkman returns to the North Carolina mountain town of his boyhood to be with his ailing mother and finally settle the family's accounts ...

  • Motherless Brooklyn

    Jonathan Lethem

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist."A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur det...

  • On the Edge

    C.E. Poverman

    Stay clean. Pay the bills. Keep the marriage together. Get the career off the ground. Frank August's is not your average laundry list--and Frank is not your average guy. He wants the White Picket Fence, but sometimes self-destruction is just too damn...

  • The Quiet Game

    Greg Iles

    Natchez, Mississippi, is the jewel of the antebellum South, a city of old money and older sins, where passion, power, and racial tensions seethe beneath its elegant facade. It is here that Penn Cage, a Houston prosecutor-turned-novelist, returns t...

  • Remember September

    Jon Salem

    Stephanie Hart is a sharp and aggressive young lawyer fighting on behalf of battered women. Her work is gratifying, her husband, Peter, is handsome and passionate, and her daughter, Tuesday, is adorable. On the outside her life is perfect. On the ins...

  • Sewer People

    David L. Preston

  • The Sun King

    David Ignatius

    Washington Post columnist David Ignatius is one of the most highly regarded writers in the capital, an influential journalist and acclaimed novelist with a keen eye for the subtleties of power and politics. In The Sun King, Ignatius has written a lov...

  • Unhallowed Ground

    Gillian White

    Like a combination of Cold Comfort Farm and Psycho, Gillian White's brilliant new novel begins very quietly, almost romantically, then builds inexorably to nearly unbearable suspense.It's about an attractive, fortyish widow, very lively but deeply wo...

  • Vienna Blood

    Adrian Mathews

    Set vividly in a future city, this tale of murder and corruption reaches back into Vienna's darkest past--Hitler's dream of a master race--to render a tale of human evil never fully conquered. A first novel. Reprint....

  • Villa Fontaine

    Julie Ellis

    Janice Carleton is all set for her two-week European holiday, but just as she is about to leave she receives a letter from her sister Holly. Unbelievably, Holly, an actress working on a low-budget film in Rome, has met, fallen in love with and marrie...

  • Word of Honor

    Terri Blackstock

    What will it cost to keep a promise? Of the four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off, three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose in the hospital and might not survive. Who would do such a thing?...

  • The Alibi

    Sandra Brown

    The sensational murder of one of Charleston's most powerful citizens, real-estate tycoon Lute Pettijohn, rocks the city and gives ambitious prosecutor Hammond Cross his chance to become the city's next district attorney -- if he wins the case...

  • Cowboy Justice

    Patricia Rosemoor

    ALL OR NOTHING -- THAT'S THE COWBOY WAY After a lifetime of struggling, Cash Abreu had everything he'd ever wanted -- except Reine Kendrick. One touch of her skin and Cash knew he wanted her, this time forever. And with Reine's cousin in danger -...

  • In Her Lover's Eyes

    Tina Vasilos

    STRANDED... Nurse Abby Chance recognized her patient on a soggy, country road just before he collapsed of exhaustion. She brought Zach Andros to her weekend getaway cabin, but hadn't expected to become stranded with a man too tormented by memories f...

  • The Safe Hostage

    Cassie Miles

    Carrie Lamb thought nothing could be worse than being held hostage-until she began falling for her captor! Ryan Dallas rescued Carrie, only to take her prisoner himself-and the man's hard body and sexy smile were giving her ideas no captive should ha...

  • The Third Heiress

    Brenda Joyce

    When Jill Gallagher's fiance is tragically killed, she brings his body home to his aristocratic English family. Once there, she enters a world of hostility, suspicion, and closely guarded secrets. Then she finds an old photograph of an American heire...

  • To Save His Baby

    Judi Lind

    The Father Of Her Baby...? One look at her patient's chocolate-brown eyes, and Dr. Valerie Murphy knew that beneath the straggly beard and the bruises was Gil Branton. Gil had disappeared from her life, her bed, her future, four months ago. And no...

  • Trust No One

    Christiane Heggan

    Eight years ago an innocent woman was killed in a terrorist bombing. Now a powerful politician is brutally murdered and an old man dies in a strange accident. Somehow these deaths are parts of the some puzzle -- a puzzle that consumes one woman'...

  • Hussar's Kisses

    Joy Reed
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    After enjoying a successful London season, the news that Hussar Captain Lawrence Westmoreland is returning a hero from Waterloo sets Camilla Leslie's heart aflutter. For it was this gallant soldier who left her without an expected proposal. It will t...

  • The London Belle

    Shirley Kennedy

    More Than a Mere Pretty Bauble Lady Jane Sperling is the eldest daughter of the Earl of Hedley, and in her third season. Her finicky nature and scholarly pursuits have prevented her from complying with her family's wishes to wed her off to som...

  • Lord Freddie's First Love

    Patricia Bray

    HER CHILDHOOD FRIEND After six years abroad, Anne Webster returned to New Biddeford with a child at her side -- a child whose unruly red hair and mischievous green eyes left society no doubt as to the identity of his mother! Though five-year-old Ian...

  • Lord Maxfield's Birthday Cake

    Cathleen Clare
    in

    The new Lady Maxfield adores her bridegroom, who took her from a life of genteel poverty to one of wealth and opulence. Determined to prove her own worth, Tabitha begins to practice economics by reducing the chef's budget. When he resigns in a huff, ...

  • A Love for Lydia

    Jeanne Savery

    When a gentleman falls in love, two's company...six orphans are a crowd! ENOUGH LOVE TO GO AROUND.... Lydia Cottrell had such dreams for her six half-brothers and sisters! She prayed their new guardian, the dashing Lord Huntingdon, would be...

  • A Matter of Taste

    Alana Clayton
    in

    Lady Fiona Atterly is everything a young lady should be -- except for her most unladylike culinary skills. When she agrees to help a friend's house party by preparing some of her special recipes, her mysterious absences from the festivities attra...

  • The Misfit Marquess

    Teresa DesJardien

    A Daring Masquerade Seeking to escape the cruel designs of a false lover, Elizabeth Hatton fled into the night. Then an accident left her unconscious--and she was rescued by the handsome Lord Gideon Grayleigh! Elizabeth's reputation depended on se...

  • Miss Haycroft's Suitors

    Emily Hendrickson

    A Helpless Heiress Trapped under the guardianship of her despicable uncle, Anne Haycroft is about to be married off to pay his gambling debts. She has been promised to a heartless nobleman who wants to add the lovely heiress to his collection of p...

  • Willed to Wed

    Wilma Counts

    WILL A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE Her Grandpapa's will was outrageous. Lady Emily Longbourne would inherit only if she wed the heir to the adjoining estate. Of course, Grandpapa thought her fiance would be sweet Robert Markholme. But the young man's ...

  • The Baby Affair

    Marion Lennox

    Friend, Lover … Husband Dr. Jock Blaxton was a wonderful obstetrician, and adored each baby he delivered, but something stopped him having his own, for he dated no woman more than twice. Until Dr. Tina Rafter arrived to care for her sister's child...

  • Cupid's Corner

    Annie Jones

    Annie Jones's delightful Route 66 series continues with the story of two very different people who seem to have nothing in common - but who are brought together by the God they both serve.
            
    Mayor Jenny Fox of Cupid's Corner, Ka...

  • Lara Gets Even

    Katherine Applegate

    Lara can't bear to watch Kate steal Jake. But Kate's about to find the mystery boy who rescued her at Ben's party. Can Lara dream up a scheme that will lead Kate straight to the wrong guy?...

  • Love Me Twice

    Annie Jones
    in

    In this anthology of four novellas,(three proven favorites and one new delight), "animal attraction" gains a whole new meaning! Four couples discover love thanks to unexpected, sometimes hilarious, and always entertaining assistance. In Cupid's Chase...

  • A Season for Love

    Linda Windsor
    in

    In this anthology of four novellas,(three proven favorites and one new delight), "animal attraction" gains a whole new meaning! Four couples discover love thanks to unexpected, sometimes hilarious, and always entertaining assistance. In Cupid's Chase...

  • Tune in Anytime

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Intrigue. Suspense. Romance. Evil Schemers, Innocent Victims, and True Love. Is it a TV soap opera? Not exactly. It's what's happening to sixteen-year-old Sophie Olivette. Her father has announced that he wants out of his marriage because he's found...

  • Whispers from Yesterday

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    Following her father's death and her own attempted suicide, pampered socialite Karen Butler seeks refuge at the home of Sophia Taylor, the grandmother she has never known. Determined to escape Sophia's broken-down ranch as soon as she can, Karen resi...

  • Wilderness

    Karen Ball

    Mady Donovan and Jason Tiber have little in common-or so they think. When they find themselves lost together in the wilderness of Washington's North Cascades, they realize they share one disturbing similarity: anger with the God they each believe has...

  • Deep Background

    David Corn

    Deep Background is an exciting political thriller from David Corn that starts with the assassination of the President of the U.S. and never lets up.After President Bob Hanover is shot dead at the White House press conference by a gunman with no ident...

  • Arms and the Women

    Reginald Hill

    A smartly dressed couple, looking entirely middle-class, has tried to abduct the wife of Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe. Not a woman to go gently into strange BMWs, Ellie Pascoe escapes. But the subsequent assault on a British matron close to the Pasco...

  • Chains of Command

    William J. Caunitz

    William J. Caunitz's One Police Plaza has become the benchmark by which all cop novels are measured. Now Caunitz sets a new standard in an explosive novel that probes the treacherous chains of command on both sides of the law.... In Upper Manhatta...

  • Gumbo Limbo

    Tom Corcoran

    In this acclaimed mystery series, author Tom Corcoran takes readers to the sizzling, spicy, sometimes seedy Key West, plunging them into a dangerous mystery featuring freelance crime-scene photographer Alex Rutledge. When Alex's Navy pal, banker Zack...

  • The Night Visitor

    James D. Doss

    The world of Daisy Perika ia a realm of shadows, omens, and restless spirits. In tribal policeman Charlie Moon's world, good and evil manifest themselves in more explainable, human ways. Yet the irascible old Ute shaman and her huge, good-natured nep...

  • Pariah

    Thomas Zigal

    In Aspen, ex-hippies drive Volvos, ski bums cut million-dollar deals, and Sheriff Kurt Muller is the law: a single father with a checkered past and the notion that right and wrong still matter. But one evening, against his better judgment, Muller spe...

  • A Place of Safety

    Caroline Graham

    THE SMALLER THE TOWN. THE DEADLIER THE SECRETS... When sour Charlie Leathers and his dog disappear into thin air, his neighbors in the small, sleepy English village of Ferne Basset are more concerned about the dog than they are about Charlie. Ever...

  • The Skull Mantra

    Eliot Pattison

    The corpse is missing its head and is dressed in American clothes. Found by a Tibetan prison work gang on a windy cliff, the grisly remains clearly belong to someone too important for Chinese authorities to bury and forget. So the case is handed to v...

  • An Autumn Bouquet

    Linda Madl
    in

    Public relations manager Jennifer Hollis is at the historic Apple Grove House when, with a camera's flash, she finds herself in 1861, saying her vows to Union officer Captain Bennett Vance. Though she has found her soul mate in Bennett, Jen must retu...

  • Autumn Lover

    Kathryn Fox
    in

    As autumn ripens, television producer Leigh Hunter realizes her high-gloss career has lost its luster. But when a "special" pumpkin she bought for the holidays transports her to 1899, quiet, compelling Ben Sutton soon shows her that love is of far gr...

  • Body & Soul

    Jennifer Archer

    What woman hasn't wished for the sexy body of a twenty-year-old? Overworked under-appreciated housewife and mother Lisa O'Conner gazed at the young driver in the car next to her. Tory Beecham's manicured nails kept time with the radio, her curly ...

  • Circle of Time

    Lynn Hanna

    The magic of Scotland... The mysteries of love... The sole survivor of a place crash washes ashore holding an ancient necklace. Now his daughter must return the necklace to a mystical waterfall in the Scottish Highlands, a journey that reveals a ...

  • The Colors of Autumn

    Carol Finch
    in

    Modern studio artist Julia Harper paints herself into a mural of life in 1880 Bugtussle, Texas...and into the arms of Win Calloway -- a man who is everything she ever dreamed of. Now she must decide if the fame and fortune she has known in the "f...

  • Free Falling

    Stobie Piel

    ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE How did anyone talk her into jumping out of a plane strapped to a stranger? And why didn't anyone tell her that the stranger was going to be her wildly handsome ex-boyfriend Adrian de Vargas? Cora Talmadge never thought...

  • A Ghost for Maggie

    Emily Carmichael

    She's a ghost with a disreputable past...and a heavenly mission. With her trademark blend of sparkling humor and sizzling romance, Emily Carmichael has earned a legion of devoted fans. Now she returns to delight readers with a wickedly delicious t...

  • Heart of the Dove

    Tracy Fobes

    Lucinda Drakewyck, one of a long line of Drakewyck witches, has foreseen her own death. Desperate for answers, she calls upon the magic in her cherished crystal dove, hoping for visions of the warrior whose love would first save her then destroy them...

  • Night Whispers

    Karen Sandler

    Almost 140 years ago, young prospector Noah Simmons was killed in the Hoyo del Diablo of the Arizona desert. Now, after almost a century and a half of haunting his lonely cave, he watches a group of settlers arrive--including a lovely young woman... ...

  • Razzle Dazzle

    Lisa Hendrix

    An ambitious businessman is working overtime on a very personal merger that could save his career -- but his heart just isn't in it. And when his meddlesome mother tries to work some magic, the result proves that business and pleasure don't m...

  • A Time for Dreams

    Jen Holling

    A PASSION SO INTENSE it frightened her... intrigued her... consumed her... and called to her from another time. What would possess an intelligent, self-sufficient woman to step into a world of magic and mystery, a dangerous land of intrigue an...

  • Flashpoint

    Linda Barnes

    Carlotta Carlyle, Boston's favorite redheaded, wisecracking P.I., is back in a taut mystery that begins with a seemingly innocent tenant-landlord dispute--and quickly escalates to arson, intrigue, and murder. Carlotta thinks she's simply doing a f...

  • Hard Time

    Sara Paretsky

    In an instant, the lives of two women collided. One was behind the wheel of a Trans Am she liked to drive too fast. The other was lying in the road, dying an agonizing death. When Chicago private eye V. I. Warshawski got out of her car to look at the...

  • In Big Trouble

    Laura Lippman

    First as a reporter and then as a p.i., Tess Monaghan has learned how to survive and thrive on the streets of Baltimore. But a new case will force her to confront her own past, and a man she loved and lost. It starts when she gets a newspaper photogr...

  • Lady Vanishes

    Carol Lea Benjamin

    The residents at Harbor View, a Greenwich Village home for "thrown away" people, love Lady, the live-in therapy dog. But when the owner dies in a tragic and bizarre hit-and-run accident and Lady vanishes, Harbor View is plunged into chaos. Working...

  • Majic Man

    Max Allan Collins

    It’s 1949 in Washington, D.C., and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, convinced he has been targeted for murder, hires Chicago P.I. Nate Heller for protection. Heller must deal with Beltway infighting, Communist paranoia, Israeli agents, and...

  • Singing the Sadness

    Reginald Hill

    TOO HOT TO HANDLE Private investigator Joe Sixsmith, a former lathe operator whose skill at detection is part pure luck and part and uncanny ability to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, rushes into a burning cottage to save a young woman tr...

  • Stone Quarry

    S.J. Rozan

    Bill Smith's country cabin in upstate New York is far from the city's savage streets--a retreat where a weary P.I. can play Mozart on his upright piano and let nature heal him. But when Eve Colgate, a local farmer and painter, asks him to find stolen...

  • Vengeance

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Three years ago Lew Fonseca quit his job as a process server with the State Attourney's Office in Cook County, Illinois, and drove his rattling Toyota south to escape the memories of his beloved late wife. Headed for Key West, the Toyota broke down i...

  • Farewell Conch Republic

    Hialeah Jackson

    FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS... Hemingway wrote his manly prose there. Foreigners lose their shirts there. And now people are starting to die in Key West. For the divine Miss A--the beautiful hearing-impaired owner of Miami's largest corporate security...

  • The Experiment

    John Darnton

    Skyler was a test subject, and the Lab was his home. Carefully attended to by physicians, he never had a reason to leave the Lab. Until he found one of the other test subjects dead--with his heart removed. Jude was a journalist, and New York was h...

  • Gravity

    Tess Gerritsen

    A young NASA doctor must combat a lethal microbe that is multiplying in the deadliest of environments--space. Dr. Emma Watson has been training for the adventure of a lifetime: to study living beings in space. But her mission aboard the Internatio...

  • The Bad Detective

    H.R.F. Keating

    Jack Stallworthy is a bad detective just on the right side of corrupt. But now he's turning criminal...

    Detective Sergeant Jack Stallworthy has been accepting backhanders for most of his career. And why not? He's spent thirty years...

  • Exiles on Main Street

    Lisa Kleinholz

    THE SCOOP OF A LIFETIME Working as a reporter for a small-town newspaper can be a bit dull for a glamorous former rock'n'roll writer like Zoe Szabo. But after life in the fast lane nearly killed her musician husband and their marriage, she believe...

  • The Interior

    Lisa See

    It begins when an old friend from a village deep within China's interior asks Beijing police detective Liu Hulan to find out the truth about her daughter's suspicious suicide. Hulan can't refuse--even though the case will take her deep into her own b...

  • Speak of the Devil

    Joe Gores

  • The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost

    John Bellairs

    A young man fights to save his father from a spirit’s curse in the epic finale to a series starring “a terrific hero” (The New York Times)
     
    The sea is calm, the air is fresh, and the bobbing boat feels like ...

  • Just Revenge

    Alan M. Dershowitz

    One of the foremost courtroom lawyers of his generation, Alan M. Dershowitz takes controversial stands based on the principle of equal justice for all. Along the way, he has authored the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah; the bestselling account ...

  • Personal Injuries

    Scott Turow

    Robbie Feaver (pronounced "favor") is a successful personal injury lawyer with a burgeoning practice, a way with the ladies, and a beautiful wife (whom he loves) dying of an irreversible illness. He also has a secret bank account where he occasionall...

  • Cereus Blooms at Night

    Shani Mootoo

    Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, Cereus Blooms at Night unveils the mystery surrounding Mala Ramchandin and the tempestuous history of her family. At the heart of this bold and seductive novel is an alleged crime committed...

  • Cilla Black

    Douglas Thompson

  • Jakob the Liar

    Jurek Becker

    One of the most remarkable novels of the Holocaust ever written, Jakob the Liar is a tale of everyday heroism and the extraordinary power of illusion. Set in an unnamed German-occupied ghetto, the story centers on an unlikely hero, Jakob Heym, who ac...

  • John Brown's Body

    A.L. Barker

    Marise Tomelty is a child-wife who dislikes sex and is terrified of open spaces. Ralph Shilling, a dealer in pesticides, lives in the flat above the Tomeltys'. One day, Marise's traveling-salesman husband casually mentions that he recognizes Ralph as...

  • Second Harvest

    Jean Giono

    Panturle lives in the village of Aubignane, in the Provencal uplands. He is a huge man: "When he met a living animal, he looked at it without moving: it was a fox, a hare, or a big snake in the rubble. He did not move; he took his time. He knew that ...

  • Apache Flame

    Madeline Baker

    As a child, Mitch Garrett was excluded from respectable society. His father was the town drunkard, his mother was an Apache, and his only friend was Alisha Faraday, the sweet, innocent daughter of a preacher. But as adults, their secret affection ...

  • Black Widow

    Linda Jones
    in

    Ah Venice In the whirling decadence of Carnival all forms of desire are unveiled. Amidst the crush of those attending the balls, filling the waterways, and traveling in the gondolas of post-Napoleonic Venice, nothing is unavailable--should one kno...

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    Susan Johnson
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    The Princess Marko hs kidnapped Hugh Dalsany, Marquis of Crewe. Now Hugh finds himself her prisoner, shackled to a bedpost. But it isn't long before he becomes a very willing captive, succumbing to her expert skills in seduction....

  • Bride to Be

    Jane Ashford

    TO HAVE AND TO HOLD The daughter of free spirits who routinely outraged the haut ton, Emily Crane longed for a less scandalous life. Now she's the toast of society -- and she couldn't find it more tedious. Until, in the midst of yet anothe...

  • The Brightest Flame

    Sonya Birmingham

    Ship of Dreams Molly Kilmartin left Ireland on a ship bound for New York City, determined to stand on her own two feet--to find her piece of the American dream and never have to ask a soul for anything. She certainly didn't need a man like the dashi...

  • Chasing Alfie

    Sandra August

    Alfie & The Ghost Chaser The little girl sitting neat to her on the train wasn't supposed to talk to strangers; and L. V "Alfie" Foster knew better herself But the handsome man across the car was eager to introduce himself, and the feisty reporter...

  • Cloth of Heaven

    B.J. Hoff

    A SAGA OF TRAGEDY AND TRIUMPH...OF THUNDER AND GRACE In this first book of the Song of Erin saga, a powerful hurricane batters the Emerald Isle, wreaking destruction and sending shock waves reverberating across the Atlantic. Few Irish are immune t...

  • Cold Night, Warm Stranger

    Jill Gregory

    SHE VOWED NOT TO LOVE THE GUNFIGHTER WHO MADE HER BURN WITH DESIRE... A SHIVERING COLD ANGEL... Maura Reed was all alone in her Montana hotel, curled up in her robe and slippers, when the blizzard hit. It was cold, quiet, and lonely -- until a ru...

  • Daring the Devil

    Leslie LaFoy

    FORBIDDEN DESIRE AND A DEADLY CHASE Darcy O'Keefe lives by her wits, picking pockets on the streets of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in order to survive. But when she chooses a well-heeled--and extremely handsome--gentleman as her next mark, her kee...

  • Dark Desires

    Thea Devine
    in

    Drue Caledon despises her new husband Courtland Summerville, the man she was forced to marry, and vows to remain loyal to her true love, Gerard Lenoir. But Court intends to make Drue his in body and spirit by introducing her to the pleasures of the f...

  • Desert Hearts

    Anna Gerard

    A WIDOW'S WISH When a bank robber takes her husband's life, Jessamine Satterly takes over the operation of Brimstone's bank. A natural beauty, she locks away her heart for safekeeping -- dreaming of the day she can avenge her husband'...

  • The Duke's Return

    Malia Martin

    When Trevor Phillips finally returns home to claim his inheritance, he's astonished to find the estate in shambles. Still, he has no great desire to be rusticating in the country and it's only the enchantingly beautiful--and shockingly young--Dowager...

  • Ecstasy

    Bertrice Small
    in

    Dagon, Prince of Aramis, has been betrayed by his twin brother, and sold into slavery. He vowed to escape his tortured life, and seek revenge...until he was brought to Kava. Now Dagon is under the rapturous spell of the women who rule this kingdom an...

  • The Emerald Isle

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    Interweaving two captivating stories of romance and intrigue, humor and faith, The Emerald Isle wraps up the multi-colored threads of Angela Elwell Hunt's The Heirs of Cahira O'Connor series in a page-turning conclusion that will satisfy both spirit ...

  • Flowers Under Ice

    Jean Ross Ewing

    She seemed as innocent as a flower, the perfect pawn for a deliciously wicked game of seduction and surrender.. He appeared as sly as a fox, daring his lovely opponent to explore temptations beyond her wildest dreams... A rake and a scoundrel, ...

  • Follow the Moon

    Linda Cook

    SHE FOUND LOVE BY MOONLIGHT... 1193 Brittany. Newly widowed Lady Johanna awakens to find a stranger in her bedchamber, his handsome face hidden in the shadows. He claims to be an assassin -- sent to kill her. Instead, he promises her safety and help...

  • The Heiress

    Claire Delacroix

    "I SEEK A BRIDE, THE WEALTHIEST HEIRESS IN IRELAND." No woman can resist the charms of Rowan de Montvieux. But the dashing rogue is in no hurry to marry--until his family dares him to find a bride . . . or risk losing his inheritance. So Rowan set...

  • Highland Bride

    Janet Bieber

    A tale of two spirited people who love as fiercely as they fight. A glorious female chieftain in Scotland retaliates against those who killed her father and brothers by kidnapping and wedding the enemy -- a handsome knight. As proud and fierce as an...

  • His Wicked Ways

    Samantha James

    From across the Scottish Highlands strides Cameron MacKay, the last member of the once powerful Clan MacKay. Handsome, fearless, and determined, he is a man who catches the eye of many a woman... yet he has but one goal--to find Meredith, last daught...

  • Honor's Disguise

    Kristen Heitzmann

    THOUGH HE HAD THE LOOK OF A GUILTY MAN, COLE JASPER HAD SAVED HER LIFE. NOW SHE HAD A CHANCE TO REPAY THE DEBT.... Abbie Farrel is just beginning to settle back into living again after the financial crises that have rocked her ranch since her husb...

  • Jackie & the Giant

    Linda Jones

    CLIMBING TO PASSION It wasn't a castle, but Cloudmont was close: The enormous estate housed everything Jacqueline Beresford needed to quit her life of crime. But climbing up to the window, Jackie got a shock. The gorgeous giant of an owner was awa...

  • A Knight of Honor

    Laurel O'Donnell

    A RAVEN-HAIRED HELLION... After losing her mother in a blaze of fire, thirteen-year-old Taylor Sullivan fled Castle Sullivan with only a golden ring, and a bitter legacy of rage. Armed with a sharp dagger and a quick sword, she hired out as a mercen...

  • A Knight's Vow

    Gayle Callen

    Married by His Majesty's Request He was her father's enemy, and now he was her husband by the king's decree. But that didn't mean Lady Isabel Atherstone planned on honoring James Markham, Earl of Bolton, with her love. She only hop...

  • Lady of the Knight

    Tori Phillips

    SIR ANDREW FORD WAS NOBODY'S FOOL He knew that looks could be deceiving. And though his friends warned him that Rosie would be nothing but trouble, there was something very special about the woman beneath the tangled mane of hair and the dirt-smud...

  • Lady Polly

    Nicola Cornick

    Lady Heartbreaker of London Even as Lady Polly rejected another proposal of marriage, her heart burned for the man she'd rejected five years ago. She'd heard that in his misery, her beloved Lord Henry Marchnight had become a rogue and a gambler. But...

  • A Lady's Pleasure

    Robin Schone
    in

    Seeking shelter from a storm, Colonel Robert Coally intrudes on Abigail Wnyfred while she is reading a book that would surely raise more than one eyebrow in London society. When the lonely Abigail confides in him that she aches for the touch of a man...

  • Love's Disguise

    Elaine Fox
    in

    Ah Venice In the whirling decadence of Carnival all forms of desire are unveiled. Amidst the crush of those attending the balls, filling the waterways, and traveling in the gondolas of post-Napoleonic Venice, nothing is unavailable--should one kno...

  • Loving Elizabeth

    Victoria Dark

    WHEN YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE... Elizabeth McKay's life had drastically changed the day she found Rand Matthews wounded on the Kansas prairie. Nursing him back to health, she never imagined she would also give her heart away to a man on the run, falsely ...

  • The Maiden and the Unicorn

    Isolde Martyn

    The year is 1470 and the legendary Wars of the Roses threatens to tear England apart. In the middle of the conflict is a most unlikely heroine. For Margery, the beautiful and spirited ward of Warwick the Kingmaker, freedom is the only prize worth hav...

  • The Midwife

    Carolyn Davidson

    FOR THE SAKE OF HIS CHILD Widowed father Gar Lundstrom's offer of a marriage of convenience had given Leah the chance of a new life for herself caring for his children. Yet what would happen to her newfound happiness when the stalwart farmer learn...

  • Pete

    Leigh Greenwood

    ANNE Pete rode up to the Winged T cattle ranch with one purpose: to retrieve his stolen money. A self-proclaimed drifter, he was not a man to get roped into anything. But within moments of his arrival he found himself owner of a cattle ranch and h...

  • Queen of the Nights

    Sharon Pisacreta
    in

    Ah Venice In the whirling decadence of Carnival all forms of desire are unveiled. Amidst the crush of those attending the balls, filling the waterways, and traveling in the gondolas of post-Napoleonic Venice, nothing is unavailable--should one kno...

  • Red Roses Mean Love

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    Yellow for friendship. Pink for passion. But . . . Red Roses Mean Love. She dreamed of roses.... Orphaned and abandoned by her fiance, Hayley Albright is determined to care for her younger siblings even if it means having to give up her own dr...

  • San Antonio Rose

    Constance O'Banyon

    The story of a flamboyant cantina dancer, intent on avenging her family, who loses her heart to a handsome soldier. Sam Houston understands that he needs all the help he can get if his small, ragtag army is to defeat Santa Anna's seasoned fighting m...

  • The Scent of Roses

    Rachel Summers

    A WOMAN'S SMILE Rosalyn Delaney's husband, Josiah, had vanished six years ago. Following a private detective's lead, Rosalyn leaves Salt Lake City and boards a train heading to the mining town of Whiskey Ridge, Arizona. She arrives at Rose House, an...

  • The Scoundrel's Vow

    Sherri Browning

    THE SCOUNDRELS SURPRISE Six years of Lady Shelbourne's School for Girls gave her polish. But nothing could tame the passion Calandra Locke felt for Sir Scarborough Weston, her father's employer, the man she'd loved since childhood. She knew that Sc...

  • Separate Roads

    Tracie Peterson; Judith Pella

    Book Two in repackaged RIBBONS WEST SeriesWhile the Civil War is raging, Brenton Baldwin has promised to provide a safe escort to California for Caitlan O'Connor. But now that his heart is totally hers, how can he leave her once they finally arrive?...

  • Some Trust In Horses

    Sally Krueger

    Hannah Butler has chosen to follow her father's veterinary profession, but her job, usually held by men, incites her mother's wrath. Hannah has a secret love, which, if satisfied, could put her in the position her mother desires for her. The area'...

  • Somewhere Lies the Moon

    Kathryn Lynn Davis

    For free spirit Ena Rose, the daughter of Ailsa Rose, growing up in Glen Affric has been idyllic. But womanhood looms; she faces tormenting questions of the heart -- and a love that can never be. Then there are the women whose destinies hay unfolded ...

  • The Soul Collector

    Kathleen Kane

    A WOMAN WHO WORKED THE LAND On her remote Colorado ranch, Rebecca Hale struggled to raise her small son alone. The last thing she needed was a drifter on her land - a drifter with no horse, no gear and no memory... A MAN WHO TOUCHED THE SKY ...

  • Star Keeper

    Patricia Potter

    As the war of independence rages on, Philadelphians are riveted by the seafaring escapades of a rogue rebel sympathizer known only as the Star Rider. This daring hero uses his own vessel to sabotage the British -- until his ship goes down in a fero...

  • Stolen Charms

    Adele Ashworth

    A Flawless Beauty Bored with her pompous suitors, Miss Natalie Haislett longs for romance and adventure. She is inflamed by dreams of the mysterious Black Knight -- a daring English thief who has stolen her heart from afar with his legendary explo...

  • The Sun God

    Katherine Deauxville
    in

    Ah Venice In the whirling decadence of Carnival all forms of desire are unveiled. Amidst the crush of those attending the balls, filling the waterways, and traveling in the gondolas of post-Napoleonic Venice, nothing is unavailable--should one kno...

  • The Surrogate Wife

    Barbara Leigh

    Meagan Reilly Was Innocent! Yet she was condemned to a life of servitude for a crime she did not commit. And though many would call her punishment light, they could not imagine the suffering of each day spent with a man whose forbidden touch would...

  • The Switch

    Lynsay Sands

    TO BOY When they first met Lord Jeremy William Radcliffe, Charlie and her twin sister, Elizabeth, were escaping from their uncle -- taking turns acting the young gentleman to avoid detection. But Charlie couldn't help falling head over heels ...

  • Texas Angel

    Judith Pella

    A Riveting Tale Where Revenge Meets Redemption Courageous and reckless, Micah Sinclair escaped the domineering, heavy hand of his father as a boy to join the cause of his beloved Texas. Driven by revenge, Micah sets out to destroy the Mexicans--first...

  • Thanks to a Lonely Heart

    Elaine Bonner

    Steven needs a mother for his five children. Emily wants a famiy and a home of her own. So thier marriage seems like a good arrangement for them both. But when Emily sets out with Steven for east Texas, she certainly never planned on her home bein...

  • Untamed

    Sharon Ihle

    GOOD MEDICINE... Working as a laundress at Lolo's Pleasure Palace, Josie Baum doesn't know anything about playing nursemaid. But when a Cheyenne warrior whisks her off to care for his friend, Daniel McCord, she doesn't have a choice. Sud...

  • Winter's Bride

    Catherine Archer

    Tristan of Brackenmoore Was Desperate If a bouquet of forget-me-nots could but make the Lady Lily Gray remember what they once shared, Tristan would have gathered the flowers from beneath the winter snows. But his one true love had no memory of th...

  • Frankenstein

    David Hawcock

  • Full Moon Fever

    R.L. Stine

  • The Haunted Car

    R.L. Stine

    Goosebumps now on Disney+!Mitchell Moinian tried to do some homework. But he kept jumping up and going to his bedroom window to peer down at the car.A street light made the chrome bumpers sparkle and the sleek blue body glow. Mitchell couldn't resist...

  • Jade

    V.C. Andrews

    "Tears are more private than smiles....Why should I share anything with these girls?" Jade had listened to Misty and Star tell their stories. Now it is her time to speak. But she can't. For while the others in Dr. Marlowe's therapy group had expos...

  • The Nightmare Chronicles

    Douglas Clegg

    These short stories from a master storyteller of horror, The Nightmare Chronicles is a world of horror within the boundaries of a book -- the equivalent of opening a Pandora's box of terror and growing fear. It all begins when a young boy is held ca...

  • Road To Hell

    Gerard Houarner

    Max is a man. An assassin, to be exact. But within him lurks the Beast, an unholy demon that drives Max to kill -- and to commit acts even more hideous. Throughout the years, the Beast has taught Max well, and Max has become quite proficient in his c...

  • Vanish

    S.R. Martin

  • Death of a Colonial

    Bruce Alexander

    When a nobleman who is the last of his line is executed, his possessions are expected to go to the Crown. Then a man appears--claiming to be the nobleman's younger brother who disappeared seven years ago -- and declares his right to the estate. But i...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Rocks the Boat

    Emily Brightwell

    DEADLOCKED Mirabelle Daws traveled all the way from Australia to Sheridan Square to visit her sister--only to be stabbed to death in the middle of a locked garden. The residents of Sheridan Square all have their own key to the garden, but the more I...

  • Must the Maiden Die

    Miriam Grace Monfredo

    As the Civil War begins in 1861, Glynis Tryon, Seneca Falls, New York, librarian and amateur sleuth, meets a woman seeking her lost daughter. Meanwhile, Glynis' cousin Emma fears losing her independence in marriage, and a rich Seneca Falls merchant i...

  • The Gathering Dark

    Jeff Grubb
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    After the war comes the darkness Terisiare lies in ruins. Nations have fallen, goblins raid the land, and an oppressive faith throttles the city-states. Now deep within the walls of the Conclave of Mages, Jodah must decide if unlocking his own imm...

  • Mercadian Masques

    Francis Lebaron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Treachery stalks the Weatherlight. Escaping from Rath, the crew of the flying ship Weatherlight finds itself adrift. Grieving for their lost comrades and in need of repairs, they make their painful way to Mercadia, a city where everything is for s...

  • The Mirror of Merlin

    T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Strange wickedness is rising up on the magical isle of Fincayra. To save his homeland, and his destiny, Merlin is forced to travel to frightening places -- both on the land and within himself. Joined by Hallia, the deer-woman he has grown to love, an...

  • The Siege of Mt. Nevermind

    Fergus Ryan
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A miraculous machine . . . and a nightmare! Innova, a young gnomish recluse, finds himself in a terrible situation. Tried in a gnomish court for an unfortunate accident and sentenced to spend months at the bottom of Mt. Nevermind tuning gnomefling...

  • The Spine of the World

    R.A. Salvatore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The Road to Redemption Even the brutal streets of a treacherous city can't hide a tortured soul forever. The barbarian Wulfgar sets upon a dangerous path toward redemption when an old friend finds him in the city of Luskan. Wulfgar's journey tw...

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Judd Cole

    The Kansas Pacific Railroad is laying track where someone definitely doesn't want it, and a number of people have been murdered, so the Pinkerton Agency sends Wild Bill Hickok to get to the bottom of the situation...

  • Brookfield Days

    Maria D. Wilkes

    It's 1845, and Caroline Quiner lives in a little frame house in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. Each day brings new adventures for Caroline as she helps Mother, Grandma, and her five brothers and sisters run the family farm.

    The ...

  • Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile

    Kristiana Gregory

    3 JANUARIUS, MORNING I could feel my insides shaking. Would this sister try to poison me? Yes, I believe so. As for my other older sister, Berenice -- never! She and I adore each other even though I am eight years younger. I took the cup and raised...

  • The Copelands

    Doug Bowman

    When Seth Copeland returns home to Kentucky after the Civil War, he is a different man. Having expanded his horizons during the war, he finds himself suddenly restless, his mind filled with the tales of his fellow soldiers in arms about the wide-open...

  • Diamondback

    Guy Brewer

    Con artist Dex Yancy is not much interested in the family business--a cotton plantation called Blackgum Bend--but when his own brother cheats him out of his inheritance and fires his best friend, he heads home to settle the score. Original....

  • Emma's Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl

    Marissa Moss

    The year is 1774, and the British army has blockaded Boston. Ten-year-old Emma is stuck at Aunt Harmony's house in the city, far from her family. Emma desperately wants to help the American struggle for freedom. When Papa gives her a secret code the ...

  • Family Feud

    J.R. Roberts

    NO STRANGER TO DANGER A visit to a rancher friend is no vacation--once Clint finds himself caught up in his buddy's lethal love triangle. With twelve angry men on his tail, even the law doesn't want to touch this one. But the Gunsmith is used to a ch...

  • The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl, 1864

    Ann Turner

    Mean Mouth shouts directions... There are so many men in blue! They make loud cries, their horses stamp, and all the time the Nakai is shouting directions to us...."Make a line, all together! You can bring your animals." Kaibah names him Mean M...

  • The Gold Trail

    Max Brand

    Presents three tales of the frontier by the popular Western author, including the title story, which follows the unforgettable Reata, as he, on the run from the law after a robbery gone wrong, tries to find the real criminals and reclaim his loot. Re...

  • The Green River Trail

    Ralph Compton

    Bestselling author Ralph Compton brings the Old West back to life in this epic saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who paved the way toward the Great Frontier. The horses came from California. The cattle came from Texas. And the men were coming Nort...

  • Hannah's Helping Hands

    Jean Van Leeuwen

  • Indian Territory

    Matt Braun

    The railroad’s drive to close the great distances of the wild American West was treacherous. One man was hired to troubleshoot -- and, along the way, he grew to admire the Indian way of life….and a Cherokee maiden. When hired gun John Ryan heads ...

  • The Journal of Ben Uchida, citizen #13559

    Barry Denenberg

    Tuesday, April 21, 1942 I never thought I looked different from the other kids. Never once, even though most of them are Caucasian, except for Billy Smith, who's a Negro, and Charles Hamada, who's part Japanese, part jerk. But now I realized my fa...

  • The Journal of Sean Sullivan

    William Durbin

    August 17 Last night I found out why the Indians are still so dangerous.... Pa and his buddy Bill Flanagan were playing cribbage like they usually do before they go to bed, when a bullet whizzed through the side of our tent. I didn't even realize wh...

  • Longarm and the Sheep War

    Tabor Evans

    Custis Long finds himself knee deep in sheep when he goes undercover to protect a group of Wyoming sheepherders from the local cattle folk, who will stop at nothing, even murder, to drive them out of the state. Original....

  • The Looking Glass

    Richard Paul Evans

    An ex-minister, sometime gambler, and fugitive from justice, Hunter Bell comes to the aid of Quaye MacGandley, a beautiful young Irish woman, abused and abandoned by a brutal husband, and together these two lost and wounded people find a way to bring...

  • The Lost Colony

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

    The year is 1934. Sir Wilbur Tennington, who led a successful expedition to find the lost Incan city of Haucha, has been living for several years in India, studying with a holy man and carefully reading the text of the Rig Veda. Realizing that the co...

  • Mary, Bloody Mary

    Carolyn Meyer

    The story of Mary Tudor's childhood is a classic fairy tale: A princess who is to
    inherit the throne of England is separated from her mother; abused by an evil
    stepmother who has enchanted her father; stripped of her title; and forced to
    car...

  • The Mustangers

    Lauran Paine

  • The Pecos Kid

    Dan Cushman

    Two exciting adventures of the Pecos Kid, otherwise known as former Confederate officer Bill Warren, are contained within one volume and include "Riders of the Gunsmoke Rim, " in which the Kid and his two saddle partners arrive in Yellowstone country...

  • Slocum and the Cattle King

    Jake Logan

    Slocum goes up against the biggest, baddest cattle baron in the territory...John Chisum, a ruthless cattleman, is aiming to run off anyone in the way of his new project -- blocking the local water supply and forcing everyone to buy their water from h...

  • Sugar Snow

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    With this illustrated adaptation from the beloved Little House series, the youngest readers can share in the joy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved classics.

    In Sugar Snow, Laura is delighted when a soft, thick snow falls in late spring in...