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New Books List: 468 titles

  • Ghost Brother

    C.S. Adler

  • The Challenge

    Jerry Ahern

    With an army of renegade police officers and veterans known as the Patriots, David Holden attempts to free a group of U.S. military leaders who are being held prisoner in a Montana death camp by the terrorist FLNA...

  • Jeremiah in the Dark Woods

    Janet Ahlberg

  • Travelers By Night

    Vivien Alcock

    Determined to save an old elephant from the slaughterhouse, two circus children kidnap the animal and begin a dangerous journey, traveling by night across the English countryside to a safari park where they hope to find the elephant a home...

  • Frankenstein Unbound

    Brian W. Aldiss

    A disruption of time and space sends a modern man back two hundred years to confront Dr. Frankenstein’s immortal monster in this brilliant reinvention of Mary Shelley’s classic tale Some years into the twenty-first century, a newly devised weapon...

  • The Black Cauldron

    Lloyd Alexander

    IN THE IMAGINARY LAND OF PRYDAIN, where "evil is never distant;' it has become imperative that the Black Cauldron chief implement of the diabolical Arawn, be destroyed. In this cauldron Arawn has created his terrible army of deathless warriors from t...

  • The Philadelphia Adventure

    Lloyd Alexander

    Spirited Vesper Holly has crossed mountains on camelback and narrowly escaped earthquakes. But even she is surprised when President Ulysses S. Grant appears on her doorstep and asks for her help.



    Notables from around the world have com...

  • Sunshine

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    A SPOONFUL OF LAUGHTER An alligator farm in Florida didn't exactly fit in with hard-driving New York advertising executive Rob Emery's career plans. Neither did a ray of sunshine named Angelica Franklin. But suddenly he had both on his han...

  • Night Magic

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    MAGIC NIGHT IS the story of a cat who finds something that does not belong in his people's house - something flittery and skittery that turns the rest of the night mysterious and magical. What could it want? Hurricane the cat is going to find out!...

  • The Return of Mr. Campion

    Margery Allingham

    ‘Nowadays, the Mystery goes everywhere.’ In this fantastic collection of thirteen short stories, Margery Allingham explores both the Mystery and the other genres it has allowed her to write. From a Christmastime story and a portrait of her ...

  • Switchback

    Catherine Anderson

    Trust no one... When kidnappers stole Mallory Christiani's little daughter Emily, her world threatened to crumble. She'd been warned not to tell anyone -- not her family, not her friends and most definitely not the police. But, despite her...

  • Chimaera's Copper

    Piers Anthony; Robert E. Margroff

    When his two deadliest enemies join forces to take revenge on him, Kelvin is trapped in the distant Frame World and must escape in order to save the woman he loves, who carries their unborn child. Reissue....

  • Dinosaur Mountain

    Caroline Arnold

  • Allie's Wild Surprise

    Carrie Austen

  • Julie's Boy Problem

    Carrie Austen

    Julie wants that cute Mark Harris but his best friend is the obnoxious, girl-hating Casey Wyatt, a situation that leads to problems when Julie and her party line pals are hired to provide the entertainment at Casey's shindig...

  • Web of Love

    Mary Balogh

    LOVE -- IN THE PRESENT TENSE Enchanting young Ellen Simpson had been deeply in love with her husband Charles. Though many years older, he was everything she wanted in a husband -- strong, gentle, kind, good-humored, and warmly devoted. After hi...

  • There Was an Old Lady

    Nick Bantock

  • Cabal

    Robert L. Barker

  • Caressa

    Linda Lang Bartell

    "Let me chase away your demons, Caressa mine." His lips met hers as she lay back against the soft, scented pillows, and made the blood dance in her veins.... Ravishingly beautiful young Caressa Chiari Rugerio was barely a wife before she became a ...

  • Herald of Joy

    Pamela Belle

    In the aftermath of the Civil War, England lies quiet, for now… The war left much of the country ravaged and at Wintercombe, in Somerset, the St Barbe family was not left untouched. But peace is short-lived, as Charles II gathers support in S...

  • Close Range

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    For private investigator Mick Dante, casual surveillance of ethereal Emily Thorne, the beautiful redhead who lived in the next building, was definitely his pleasure--and none of his business. Until the day she innocently walked into his office to hi...

  • The Tiger's Lair

    Helen Bianchin

    "I've waited a long time for you, Sachi. Years," Dominic continued. "Watching, waiting for you to grow up, for the time when there'd be no one else you could turn to -- except me." Sachi Tarrant's only choice was to mar...

  • Abduction

    David Bischoff

    Dr. Everett Scarborough, whose life's work has involved abolishing the myth of UFOs, is confronted with the object of his own skepticism when his partner is murdered and his daughter is kidnapped by what may be aliens...

  • Dreaming of Samarkand

    Martin Booth

  • Allegheny Ecstasy

    Caroline Bourne

    VISION OF BEAUTY Dressing up as a ghost to scare an heiress away from her mansion wasn't Cole Donovan's cup of tea, but he'd been blackmailed and his only other choice was the gallows. The rugged Scotsman was in for a surprise -- he hadn't counted o...

  • Leo And Emily

    Franz Brandenberg

  • Carrier War

    Cat Branigan

  • The Dew of Heaven

    Carolyn Bridgwood

  • Web of Deceit

    Amanda Browning

    She was a pawn to be used as he liked And in the circumstances, Eve had no choice but to go along with the pretense set up by Max Nilsson's schemes. A rich man's lover -- or a loving daughter trying to shield her family? Eve knew very w...

  • A Lot to Make Up for

    John Buell

    This novel tells the story of two young people wrestling with drug addiction and the child they had, born addicted. In his fifth novel, Buell once again demonstrates his compassionate interest in ordinary people who show courage and endurance against...

  • New Europe

    Bill Buford

  • Happy Birthday, Dear Duck

    Eve Bunting

  • The Cat's Pajamas

    Mark Burgess

    Captain Cat and his enthusiastic but incapable animal crew set off on a humorous journey. Turning a wheel completes the verse on each spread of illustrations by revealing the correct rhyming word and the section of illustration to match the choice....

  • Nightlight

    Michael Cadnum

    Paul Wright’s family sends him to find his cousin, a photographer whose subjects have become increasingly macabre. Paul investigates Len’s last known address, a cabin in California’s Napa Valley, only to discover the frightening and sinister tr...

  • The Scandalous Marquis

    Julie Caille

    CAST IN THE SHADE Impoverished, orphaned Amanda Marlowe knew she was completely cast in the shade by her vain cousin Eve whose spectacular beauty and fortune had brought even London's most infamous rake, the Marquis of Vale, up to scratch. But n...

  • A Room Made of Windows

    Eleanor Cameron

  • The Private Worlds of Julia Redfern

    Eleanor Cameron

    Julia's fifteenth year is filled with jealousy, forgiveness, first love, and artistic satisfaction, all against a background of loving support from her adored uncle, adopted grandmother, and other family members....

  • The Heart of the Sun

    Bethany Campbell

    She'd seen the omen of change Kimberly was too wrapped up in heartache to give much thought to the significance of a ghost-white squirrel's appearance. But Australian folklorist Alec Shaughnessy's presence was another matter. She re...

  • Never Say Goodbye

    Suzanne Carey

    DANGEROUS DECEPTION When American-born Kathryn Dane journeyed to Russia to find her grandfather, she never dreamed that a simple pleasure trip would become a waking nightmare. Within days of her arrival she was stripped of her citizenship, and she...

  • The Black Swan

    Philippa Carr

    Has she sent the wrong man to the gallows? Or has a killer's ghost come back to haunt her? Only Lucie Lansdon could identify the man who had murdered her father. Justice was served by his execution, but nightmares of that evil face continue to haunt ...

  • The Greatest Idea Ever

    Joan Carris

    Fourth grade is a time of turmoil for the irrepressible Gus, whose imaginative ideas constantly get him into trouble as he tries to train his new dog, organizes a school art show, and battles his enemy Nanny Vincent....

  • Arctic Abduction

    Nick Carter

  • Echoes in the Night

    Rosemary Carter

    "Don't break your heart over Jason Langley." That's what Nicola's half brother, Todd, told her before she set off on a working trip to the Drakensberg in Jason's company. There was no danger of emotional involvement with...

  • Special Interests

    Linda Cashdan

    Reporter Cynthia Matthews learns that Senator Frederick Barker was offered campaign money from a special interest group, but publicizing that information might jeopardize her relationship with lawyer Jed Farber...

  • The Smuggler's Embrace

    Carolyn Chase

    SWEET SAVAGE SPLENDORS A cultured beauty with flowing, copper hair and deep blue eyes, Gretchen North is the most precious prize of the Bay Colony. Promised to a man she does not love, she flees Boston rather than submit to his touch, journeying t...

  • When Rabbit Howls

    Truddi Chase

    A woman diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder reveals her harrowing journey from abuse to recovery in this #1 New York Times bestselling autobiography written by her own multiple personalities.Successful, happily married Truddi Chase began th...

  • Adam's Outlaw

    Sandra Chastain

    When one of the Peachtree Vigilantes swung down from a tree and tackled him, police captain Adam Ware was stunned to discover he was being held captive by an angel with golden curls! Toni Gresham had been hunting muggers who preyed on the elderly, an...

  • My Life and Dr. Joyce Brothers

    Kelly Cherry

    In a novel created from twelve connected stories, Cherry writes with lightness and grace about life's most serious subjects. Her plucky heroine travels a bumpy road from dependence to self-help, with a beacon of humor guiding the way....

  • Second Horseman Out of Eden

    George C. Chesbro

    Christmas time usually finds Mongo in a jolly mood; he and his brother Garth customarily celebrate the season by granting the wishes of needy children. But there is no joy in this year's task - the Frederickson brothers must race the clock to bestow ...

  • Collidescope

    Grace Chetwin

  • Magic of the Black Mirror

    Ruth Chew

    Face to face with an Indian from long ago... "Amanda," Will whispered to his sister, "that boy is just like the picture of an Indian I saw in my social studies book." The two children stared at each other. Suddenly Amanda remembered. "The book ...

  • Project Solar Sail

    Arthur C. Clarke

    SAILING TO DISTANT STARS is a dream that began with the publication of Arthur C. Clarke s classic short story "Sunjammer," in which he introduced the concept of space vehicles powered by sunlight. Scientists were so fired by the idea that their re...

  • The Snares of Ibex

    Jo Clayton

    Aleytys had searched for her mother across the worlds of the inhabited galaxy. Her mother was of a super-race; her homeworld's location a secret. But Aleytys had become an expert star hunter, alert to clues and wary of danger -- and she knew that on ...

  • The Pandora Principle

    Carolyn Clowes

    A Romulan Bird of Prey mysteriously drifts over the neutral zone and into Federation territory. Captain Kirk and the crew of the Enterprise investigate, only to find the ship dead in space. When Starfleet orders the derelict ship brought to Earth for...

  • Miss Mary Mack and Other Children's Street Rhymes

    Joanna Cole

    Quick! What color was Miss Mary Mack wearing when she went upstairs to make her bed? And what did Miss Lucy name her baby boy?

    Discover the answers to these questions inside, along with more than one hundred fabulous handclaps and street rhy...

  • Waiting for Baby Joe

    Pat Lowery Collins

    Text and photographs describe what happens when Missy's brother Joe is born prematurely and needs special care in the hospital, disrupting family routines and causing Missy to feel confused and left out...

  • Stonewords

    Pamela Conrad

  • Sunshine Enemies

    K.C. Constantine

    Rocksburg Police Chief Mario Balzic must probe a tangle of reluctant witnesses, local mob figures, and a not-so-holy minister when a brutal murder occurs in the parking lot of a controversial pornography shop...

  • Horselords

    David Cook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Between the valiant kingdoms of the western Realms and the exotic eastern lands of Kara-Tur lies a vast, unexplored kingdom. For centuries, the "civilized" peoples of the Forgotten Realms have given little notice to these barbarians. Now, a powerful ...

  • Treasure of Rudolfo Fierro

    St. George Cooke

  • Go Away Monsters Lick

    Nancy Evans Cooney

  • Choosing Sides

    Ilene Cooper

    Jon enjoyed playing basketball until his school got an official team and a gung-ho coach. "Cooper's view is keenly focused and convincing. The plot unfolds at a sprightly pace....Even older reluctant readers will take to this newest entry in an attra...

  • Fool Me Once

    Lori Copeland

    IT WAS THE DIRTIEST LOW-DOWN TRICK A MAN COULD PLAY ON A WOMAN... Fate and the B&O railroad delivered the sassy, beautiful, and very rich Miss Gideon Wakefield right into Tom Lannigan's hands. The Philadelphia debutante was coming west to sell her...

  • Rich or Dead

    Michael Cormany

    Kruger... Ex-cop and sometime rock musician, Dan Druger wasn't a typical private investigator. Scared of guns and attracted to lost souls, he go the cases that promised to litle money and too much danger. But his code of honor and street smarts gave ...

  • T.J. Flopp

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • The Cartoonist

    Sean Costello

    Imagine this: You and two of your best friends have just been accepted into medical school, a coveted payoff after years of hard work and self-sacrifice. So you go on a road trip together, have a few drinks, a final fling before the long academic hau...

  • Bird of Paradise

    Vicki Covington

  • The Portable Malcolm Cowley

    Malcolm Cowley

  • Strike Eagles

    James P. Coyne

    Written in 1990, this book looks at a future cold war gone hot in an unspecified year. Concentrating on the team of Deadly Jesters and this missions they fly in their F16's. The rest of the war is mentioned briefly in passing, but not in detail. Bit ...

  • Miss Seeton by Appointment

    Hamilton Crane

    Losing Her Head Miss Seeton is off to Buckingham Palace on a secret mission ... to spy on a royal retainer who might be a Russian agent! But one mystery isn't enough for the indomitable spinster. Someone has warned her about a fabulous jewel heist...

  • Two Queens of Lochrin

    Lee Creighton

  • Dragon

    Clive Cussler

    A PLUNDERED TREASURE IN THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS...A DEVASTATING NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN THE PACIFIC...AN EVIL PLOT TO BRING THE WEST TO ITS KNEES! Japan, 1945: Two U.S. bombers take off with atomic bombs. Only one gets through. The Pacific, 1993: J...

  • Under Prairie Skies

    Margot Dalton

    His love freed her at last. A BATTLE OF WILLS Allan Williamson might have been just a simple prairie farmer, but he went after what he wanted. And from the first day he met Mara Steen, his son's kindergarten teacher, he wanted her -- as ...

  • Space Hawks

    Sean Dalton

  • Paradise Island

    Mons Daveson

    SHE WASN'T INTERESTED IN ANYONE ELSE The memory of Alexis Markham had kept Clarissa from relationships with other men. Not that she'd made much impact on him back when she was an adoring girl barely out of the schoolroom. But to Clariss...

  • The Enthusiasms of Robertson Davies

    Robertson Davies

    First published in the U.S. last year, this updated collection contains the best of Robertson Davies' newspaper and magazine articles written over the past 50 years. "Each piece is entertaining and enlightening. . . ."--Publishers Weekly....

  • Maud Flies Solo

    Gibbs Davis

  • Happy Birthday, Sheldon!

    Jim Davis

  • The Honorable Barbarian

    L. Sprague de Camp

    The Whims of Destiny Jorian, the one-time unbeheaded king, was now safely retired from a long career of getting into trouble. But his younger brother Kerin lacked such wisdom. The outraged father of Adeliza had caught him in compromising circumsta...

  • Undesired Princess and the Enchanted Bunny

    L. Sprague de Camp

    The Undesired Princess finds the overly practical Rollin Hobart transported to a far-from-sensible world, while in The Enchanted Bunny, ghostwriter Joe Johnson falls into the middle of a fairy tale. Reissue....

  • Barrow

    John Deakins

    BARROW is the first of a continuing fantasy series. It introduces the free-wheeling city setting and the protagonists who will drive the series. Behind the scenes, a powerful, ancient magician (the Old Man) manipulates the city and its people, but ...

  • Cherokee Dawn

    Genell Dellin

    With her seventeen-year-old hormones running amok and propriety and good sense consequently abandoned, Lacey Longbaugh heads into the Oklahoma Territory of the 1860s and finds dangerous romance with part-Cherokee Ridge Chekote. A PASSION BEYOND HE...

  • The Gold Coast

    Nelson DeMille

    Welcome to the Gold Coast, that stretch on the North Shore of Long Island that once held the greatest concentration of wealth and power in America. Here two men are destined for an explosive collision: John Sutter, Wall Street lawyer, holding fast to...

  • The Badger and the Magic Fan

    Tomie DePaola

  • The Narrow Escapes of Davy Crockett

    Ariane Dewey

  • The Wench Is Dead

    Colin Dexter

    Who lies in the grave? An innocent victim? A shoeless temptress? THE WENCH IS DEAD Confined to his hospital bed with a temperamental ulcer, an impatient Inspector Morse sees his slow recuperation as a tedious prison term at best. Until he cracks ...

  • Hurricane Alley

    Richard H. Dickinson

    When John Ludlow of the Weather Reconnaisance Squadron falls in love with Michelle Parkes, drug smugglers hatch a plot to use the relationship as a means to employ the Squadron's planes for their own purposes...

  • Wolf and Iron

    Gordon R. Dickson

    After the collapse of civilization, when the social fabric of America has come apart in bloody rags, when every man's hand is raised against another, and only the strong survive. "Jeebee" Walther was a scientist, a student of human behavior, who saw ...

  • No Next of Kin

    Doris Miles Disney

    Political columnist Fergus MacDonald suspects foul play when a congressional candidate and his lovely daughter, Andrea Langdon, begin receiving serious threats from Andrea's ex-lover, the lowly Seymour Boyd...

  • White Peak Farm

    Berlie Doherty

    Living on an isolated Derbyshire sheep farm, Jeannie is faced with grief over her grandmother's death, her sister's marriage, her brother's leaving, and a choice between a college education and the boy she loves...

  • No Guarantees

    Robyn Donald

    It was hard to keep a distance between them Because her late husband had made no secret of his hatred for Quinn Fraser, Camilla had tried to keep away from the man. But Quinn Fraser was an arrogant, superior aristocrat -- not the sort to respo...

  • Northworld

    David Drake

    WORLDS AT WAR The Consensus ruled twelve hundred worlds--but not Northworld. Three fleets had been dispatched to probe the enigma of Northworld. None returned. Now, Commissioner Nils Hansen must face the challenge of this distant planet ... a gat...

  • Mistress of the Sun King

    Sandra Dubay

    WIFE TO A MARQUIS, MISTRESS TO A KING Abused by her brutal husband, lovely Athenais de Montespan yearned for the love of the one man in all France who seemed completely beyond her reach-.--handsome, sensual Louis XIV. As Maid of Honor to Queen Mar...

  • Hungry Women

    Laramie Dunaway

  • Lady in the Briars

    Carola Dunn

    Lord John Danville, smitten with Rebecca Parr, persuades the young woman's relations to allow her to travel to Russia, and when Rebecca is imprisoned for her involvement in Russian politics, Lord Danville's gallant rescue is the perfect aphrodisiac...

  • Choke Hold

    Lew Dykes

  • Waco Rides in

    J.T. Edson

    His only name was Waco ...A Texan who rode as an Arizona Ranger, being peace officer, detective and ready to handle any emergency.His duties led him to lock horns with a campaigning lady politician, to tangle with Curly Bill Brocious and his girlfrie...

  • Places in the Heart

    Andrea Edwards

    Folks in backwater Edwardsburg had always made Matt feel like an outsider. Except sweet Tessa. Fresh as the morning sunshine, she'd shared his hopes, his uncertainties...his youthful passions. Still, he'd had to move on and Tessa had up and w...

  • Savage Bliss

    Cassie Edwards

    SEDUCED BY DESIRE When beautiful young Amelia first came upon Gray Wing in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest, she was entranced by the virile strength of his bronzed, muscular body and the unbridled passion in his smoldering glance. With every...

  • The English School of Murder

    Ruth Dudley Edwards

    The death of an instructor, a mugging, and another "accidental" death has Detective Constable Ellis Pooley sending Robert Amiss undercover to investigate Knightsbridge School of English and capture the killer before anymore "accidents" occur....

  • Summer's Promise

    Lucy Elliot

    The Guarded Heart When handsome French trapper Daniel Ledet stepped out of the frontier forest, he reignited desires Caroline Fielding had banished eight years before. Yet she thought that no man could ever love her--not since her fall from grace....

  • Lone Star and the Renegade Ranger

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki are in for one rough ride with a bloodthirsty outlaw who calls himself a Texas Ranger in the ninety-second Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on...

  • Lone Star and the Ripper

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki trail a mad slasher who's cutting a bloody path across the west in the ninety-third Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, an...

  • Spell Bound

    Ru Emerson

    Young Prince Conrad had never seen such a beautiful maiden. Her name was Sofia, and she was bewitching, beguiling, and bewildering. It was as if she had cast a spell on him. But was it true love—or a dark, powerful sorcery as tempting and in...

  • Ripe for the Picking

    Mary Tate Engels

    Their love was above the law When Brett Meyer returned to his father's New Mexico ranch, he received a hero's welcome--from everyone except Annie Clayton. The law-enforcement officer was recuperating from gunshot wounds, and he had plenty of time ...

  • Sweet Women Lie

    Loren D. Estleman

    Entangled in a scandal involving a Hollywood woman and a quarter of a million dollars, Amos Walker experiences a bittersweet reunion with his ex-wife and becomes trapped in a game of lies and murder. Reprint. NYT....

  • Smitten

    Janet Evanovich

    Single mom Lizabeth Kane wasn't exactly construction-worker material, but she truly wanted a job -- and Matt Hallahan found her radiant smile utterly irresistible! When the virile hunk with the perfectly tanned chest agreed to hire her as a laborer, ...

  • Longarm and the Wyoming Bloodbath

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm in the Red Desert

    Tabor Evans

    PHANTOM BULLETS! Longarm had seen the way grown men trembled with fear at the merest mention of the Red Sash Gang. These infamous outlaws rode a hideous trail of butchery and vandalism from Texas to Montana, killing every man, woman, and child unl...

  • Danger in Paradise

    Barbara Faith

    MOONLIT OBSESSION Rugged Matt McKay had a knack for troubleshooting. When Hollywood director Emory Winston disappeared with his bank's twenty-five-million-dollar investment, Matt was convinced Emory's stepdaughter knew where he was hiding....

  • Fiends

    John Farris

    In the frozen pit of blackest hell, Death sleeps. Ravishing beyond words, evil beyond our darkest dreams of Satan, Her eyelids flutter.Rising from Her pit, She wakes her vampire brood -- and frees them from their ancient graves.No, no one is safe, n...

  • The Essence of Evil

    Joe Clifford Faust

    When merchant captain James May went to the Essence Company to return the stolen phials of the extraordinary product called Shared Knowledge, he needed more than the reward money-he needed the company's help. His copilot Duke had sampled the product,...

  • Stamp Out Mad

    Albert B. Feldstein

  • Time to Kill

    Richard Fliegel

    THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE DAMNED... The blood-red Ferrari flashed by. When Detectives Shelly Lowenkopf and Homer Greeley finally caught in on the Bronx River Parkway, they found a nun behind the wheel, and an owner of record named Cesar Catalan, ...

  • The Mystery Hideout

    Ken Follett

  • Goodbye To Some

    Gordon Forbes

  • Love's Awakening

    Rachel Ford

    She was taking a calculated risk And Selina knew it when she returned to the Greek islands just three years after that traumatic summer. She told herself that with the Aegean Sea between them, there would be little chance of meeting Alex Petri...

  • Lord of the Forest

    Rachel Ford

    Cal needed a cure for a broken heart So she volunteered for an arduous stint of fieldwork in the Central American rain forests, hoping it would do the trick. But she hadn't reckoned with Luis Revill the aloof, austere landowner whose territ...

  • Blood Fever

    Bruce Forester

    When a fatal disease spreads throughout the planet, Dr. Greg Terrie discovers that he is the only human being immune to its death grip, and to possess Greg Terrie's precious antibodies, the world powers are prepared to take the doctor, dead or alive...

  • Ripples

    Deborah Fowler

  • The April Rainers

    Anthea Fraser

  • The Trick of It

    Michael Frayn

    He knows everything about her before they meet: the make of pen she writes with, her exact height, the various honorary degrees she holds. He knows more about her nine novels and 27 short stories than she does herself. Naturally―he has devoted h...

  • Always and Forever

    Cynthia Freeman

    Kathy Ross married for better or for worse--a choice that would lead her heart down unexpected roads beyond her hidden dreams and secret temptations... Her husband Phil was heir to New York's greatest fur empire. But all the money and success he sha...

  • Reasonable Doubt

    Philip Friedman

    Ex-federal prosecutor Michael Ryan has been estranged from his twenty-seven-year-old son Ned for three years when Ned is murdered. His daughter-in-law, wealthy socialite Jennifer Kneeland Ryan, has been indicted for the crime - Ned was bludgeoned to ...

  • Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins

    Carlos Fuentes

    Renowned as a novelist of unsurpassed invention, Carlos Fuentes here presents his second collection of stories to appear in English. Where his first, Burnt Water, published in 1980, had as its underlying theme Mexico City itself, Constancia and Othe...

  • A Question of Guilt

    Frances Fyfield

    Cunning and evil, poisoned by a lifetime of love withheld, Eileen Cartwright has an unrivalled passion for revenge. When the rich, middle-aged widow falls in love with her solicitor, she cold-bloodedly arranges for the murder of his wife. It is a c...

  • Bride of the Slime Monster

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    Roger Gordon, ace movie buff, must locate Captain Crusader, the legendary movie hero and the only person capable of stopping the hundreds of celluloid evildoers who are on the loose throughout dozens of movie worlds...

  • Nightrose

    Dorothy Garlock

    ABANDONED! Katy suddenly knew that she, her sister, and her tiny niece were the only people left in a desolate Montana ghost town. Without a horse or a rifle, they hadn't a chance of crossing a wilderness crawling with outlaws, Indians, and griz...

  • Temptation's Wild Embrace

    Rene J. Garrod

    READY FOR PASSION Widowed Baltimore beauty Sarah Williams was ripe for adventure. Vowing never again to be dominated by any man, she set out for the untamed California plains in search of the excitement she'd been missing all her young life. But...

  • The Ambassador's Women

    Catherine Gaskin

  • The Charmed Circle

    Catherine Gaskin

    The three daughters of a renowned British actor -- Julia, Constance, and Alex -- find love and fulfillment, as well as a potentially devastating crisis, during the World War II years....

  • Girls at the Lighthouse

    Beverly Gasner

  • The Warriors of Spider

    W. Michael Gear

    The 20th anniversary edition of groundbreaking space opera that launched Gear’s sci-fi career First contact between two disparate space colonies -- one run by genetically-altered humans, the other by mysterious native warriors -- has the power to...

  • Under the Knife

    Tess Gerritsen

    Malpractice ... or murder? Dr. Kate Chesne knew that no surgery was ever routine, but when a colleague and friend perished on the operating table during a simple gallbladder extraction, her very profession was threatened. Had she misread an EKG .....

  • Road to the City

    Natalia Ginzberg

  • Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love Stories

    Rumer Godden

    A poignant collection of short stories centers on India and its many facets, from the fabled India of old to modern India, from the rice fields of Bengal to the streets of Calcutta, exploriong themes of love, faith, and courage...

  • Love Is in the Cards

    Emma Goldrick

    HE WASN'T THE MAN SHE WAS LOOKING FOR When Peggy Mitchell found handsome James T. Marston lying hurt near her Saint Vincent's Caribbean plantation, she hoped he was bringing news of an inheritance. She desperately needed the money to save...

  • Brutus the Wonder Poodle

    Linda Gondosch

  • Passion's Sweet Revenge

    Jo Goodman

    SHE OWED HIM HER LOVE Some things never changed. The name on the playbill at Wallack's Theatre said "Katy Dakota," but for Logan Marshall no amount of face paint could disguise the unforgettable beauty of Mary Catherine McCleary, the girl who'd betr...

  • Plainsong

    Deborah Grabien

    A mysterious plague, which seems the precursor of even more astounding events, wipes out most all adults, leaving only the young and the animals alive, who develop an uncanny ability to communicate with each other...

  • G Is for Gumshoe

    Sue Grafton

    Kinsey Millhone celebrates her thirty-third birthday as only she can-she moves back into her renovated apartment, gets hired to find an elderly lady supposedly living in the Mojave Desert by herself, and makes the top of triggerman Tyrone Patty's hit...

  • So Much for Dreams

    Vanessa Grant

    Dinah couldn't refuse a cry for help Without knowing if her car would survive the journey, or thinking about her lack of Spanish, she dashed off from Vancouver to Mexico. So it wasn't surprising that she herself needed rescuing, though ...

  • Where's My Share?

    Valerie Greeley

  • Pig-out Blues

    Jan Greenberg

  • The Guardian

    Dan Greenburg

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  • Seductive Wager

    Leigh Greenwood

    HE GAMBLED ON PASSION Brett Westbrook had earned his reputation as a gambler and a scoundrel. But even he was outraged when his latest opponent offered his own sister in place of the debts he could not pay. Brett was determined to rescue the poor gi...

  • Plunk's Dreams

    Helen V. Griffith

  • Everyone Asked about You

    Theodore Gross

  • Dogeaters

    Jessica Hagedorn

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  • The Dead Man in Indian Creek

    Mary Downing Hahn

    When Parker Pettengill and Matt Armentrout find a dead man at the edge of Indian Creek, their camping trip comes to a close -- and a detective hunt begins. Evans, the creepy new boyfriend of Parker's mom, Pam, was seen at the place of the crime -- bu...

  • The Underground Man

    J.P. Hailey

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  • Quiller Barracuda

    Adam Hall

    British agent Quiller must extricate a Miami-stationed agent from a twisted enemy conspiracy that involves incredible mind-control technology and may reach as far as the President of the United States...

  • Paper Products

    James W. Hall

    In these funny, lyrical, and often sexy tales, James Hall’s people … eccentrics and misfits, diehards and outcasts … are both magical and hilariously real. The mayor of a fading Kentucky town changes its fate by renaming it Miami Beach and mes...

  • Client

    Parnell Hall

    "What's wrong with me?" is the thought that crosses Stanley Hastings's mind when he gets his first paying client. Stanley has absolutely no interest in being a P.I., but hey, he needs to pay the bills. The novice P.I.'s first victim . um . client is ...

  • The Hidden Pearl

    Celeste Hamilton

    HIDEAWAY HEART Maggie O'Grady had been hurt in love -- badly. Ever since, her heart, like an oyster's pearl, had been in hiding. Yet when rugged Jonah Pendleton entered her life, Maggie came out of her shell. Knowing restless Jonah was hardly the se...

  • Emma's War

    Lucy Hamilton

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  • Robbed Blind

    Roy Hart

    Stella Pumfrey had fallen down the stairs and fractured her skull. From all appearances, she had interrupted a common burglar, caught her slipper on the carpeted landing, and fell to her death. Inspector Roper immediately realizes the investigatio...

  • The Hellfire Rebellion

    Simon Hawke

    A demon straight from Hell....For a moment, they saw nothing. Then they heard the rapid beat of iron-shod hooves on cobblestones. A black-clad rider with a long, billowing cloak came hurtling at them from the shadows. He turned, reining in sharply, a...

  • Night, Winter, and Death

    Lee Hawks

  • Elmo Goes to Day Camp

    Linda Hayward

  • How to Get Rid of Bad Dreams

    Nancy Hazbry

  • Sweet Sleep: A Collection of Lullabies and Cradle Songs

    Christopher Headington

  • Owl in the House

    Bernd Heinrich

  • The Pushcart Prize XIV: Best of the Small Presses 1989-1990

    Bill Henderson

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  • The Colonial Upstart

    Emily Hendrickson

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  • Jinx

    Courtney Henke

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  • Robak's Run

    Joe L. Hensley

  • Force of Eagles

    Richard Herman

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  • Out of the Blue

    Orel Hershiser

  • Devil in Spurs

    Norah Hess

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    Jack Higgins

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  • Heart of Gold

    Tami Hoag

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  • An Adult Love

    Sarah Holland

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  • Secret City, U. S. A.

    Felice Holman

  • The Case of the Creepy Castle

    Laura Lee Hope

  • Half a Mind

    Wendy Hornsby

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  • Running West

    James Houston

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    Stephanie Howard

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  • Elfking's Lady // Highland Captive

    Hannah Howell

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  • The Third Circle

    Bren Howley

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  • Picture Postcard

    Frederick D. Huebner

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  • White Lies & Alibis

    Tracy Hughes

    It had been an innocent seduction... Luke Wade had never touched her in any way but a brotherly fashion, yet even as a young teen, Kristen's pulse had raced whenever he was near. At night, she'd dreamed of being held in his arms, while dai...

  • Class President

    Johanna Hurwitz

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    The fifth-grade class election is shaping up as a close contest between class clown Lucas Cott and one time teacher''s pet Cricket Kaufman. It''s just possible that the student with the greatest leadership ability is Julio Sanchez, but Julio''s t...

  • Invasions

    Eugene Izzi

  • His Bride to Be

    Lisa Jackson

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  • The Gentleman

    Kristin James

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  • A Second Loving

    Claudia Jameson

    Emma was at a loose end She'd come to America to nurse her brother back to health. Then she found he didn't need her -- his new girlfriend was only too pleased to help out. That's when Tor Pedersen stepped in and offered to show Emm...

  • Minor in Possession

    J.A. Jance

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  • Shadowlight

    Mike Jefferies

  • Our Happiness

    Tom Jenks

    An accidental killing and a crumbling marriage animate this stunning debut novel in the Southern Gothic tradition.
     
    “A sheriff's car, unmarked, the color of putty, flashed along the fence row, cruising by. We could see the roof and hood, t...

  • Everything

    Muriel Jensen

    SHANNON KNEW ONE THING Carlisle's department store. And when ex-model Marty Hale bought her family's business, Shannon Carlisle thought he'd be glad of her help. Marty needed help -- but of a different kind. With four boys, a dog an...

  • Hammett

    Terry C. Johnston

  • Concerto

    Dennis Jones

  • The Lives of Christopher Chant

    Diana Wynne Jones

    His father and uncles are enchanters, his mother a powerful sorceress, yet nothing seems magical about Christopher Chant except his dreams. Night after night, he climbs through the formless Place Between and visits marvelous lands he calls the Almost...

  • Anna, the One and Only

    Barbara M. Joosse

    Anna, who was born on a Wednesday, is convinced she is a (according to the old saying) child of woe. So when she starts third grade in a new town, she decides to be a Sunday child``bonnie and blithe and good and gay''like her sister Kimberly. She tel...

  • Night in Tunisia

    Neil Jordan

    Neil Jordan's brilliant first book of stories, which won the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1979, reveals a young writer already confident in the highly visual, tragic, dreamlike idiom that marks his later writing and film.
    First published when h...

  • Breaking Away

    Penny Jordan

    Their first meeting was disastrous Harriet Smith had accused the disreputable-looking, near-naked man of being a rapist. She'd refused his plea for help. So it was highly embarrassing when Harriet discovered that the man was Rigg Matthews, ...

  • Money Trail

    William Jovanovich

    A special U.S. task force battles con artists, schemers of all sorts, and government bumblers as they attempt to launch a sting operation against several Florida banks suspected of laundering drug money...

  • Off the Record

    Joe Joyce

    Journalist Seamus Ryle sets out to revive his flagging career by investigating the bizarre death of an up-and-coming Irish politician, whose body washes up in Dublin harbor, and uncovers a high-level cover-up that could topple the Irish government...

  • The Congressman Who Loved Flaubert

    Ward Just

    This masterly volume comprises the best shorter fiction written by Just over the last 25 years. The working life, the war, politics, love affairs, and marriage seem to be the waters in which my boats set sail, Just writes. Here is a generous selectio...