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New Books List: 424 titles

  • A Name to Conjure With

    Donald Aamodt

    FROM PAPER-PUSHER TO GOD-STALKER Sandy MacGregor never asked to become a demon. But when a shifty sorcerer conjured him to the mystic realm of Zarathandra, he didn't have much choice. And in this world of high treachery and low wizardry, Sandy is ...

  • Paper Stars

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    Lumberton's prodigal son, ruggedly handsome Duke Jones, was back, and residents were up in arms. Public opinion was clear: he was not welcome. Duke had tried to outrun his family reputation, but old memories died hard. The community outcry app...

  • King's Day

    Aliki

    A day in the life of France's King Louis XIV, focusing on the elaborate ceremonies which took place when he dressed in the morning, ate his meals, conducted affairs of state, entertained, and finally, when he prepared to go to bed at night...

  • All Our Tomorrows

    Ted Allbeury

    It could happened next year: as the politicians bickers, a neutral Britain’s decline accelerates into anarchy. The Prime Minister accepts the Russian offer to ‘help restore law and order.’ Faced with national breakdown he has no choice. Mill...

  • The Dead of Winter

    Michael Allegretto

    In frigid Denver, Lomax braves the mob to find a bookie’s missing daughterJoe Bellano never hurt nobody. A gentle barber who takes bets on the side, he’s muddling through life when his world comes crashing down around him. First heR...

  • Gale Force

    Jo Andrews

    LIKE A HURRICANE ... Jace Wyatt had learned the hard way to trust only himself. He was a loner who didn't believe in love, loyalty or forever. But when stubbornly optimistic Mattie Thornton offered him everything--no strings attached--he was tempt...

  • Center Game

    Robert Andrews

    When the U.S. government refuses to believe data that reveal the secret build-up of Soviet weaponry, John Freeman, an analyst for a crack CIA unit, must venture into enemy territory to bring back the proof he needs...

  • Mountain Lovesong

    Katherine Arthur

    It was a struggle she had to win! For Lauren, keeping her holiday lodge in California's Cascade Mountains a profitable business was becoming close to impossible. Yet somehow for her small son's sake she had to keep a roof over their heads....

  • Melting Ice

    Rosalie Ash

    "Julius Korda is as cold as steel, as ascetic as a monk, and the only god he worships is the almighty dollar." From the moment they met, young, carefree, Victoria was infatuated with Julius. But Julius made it clear that as far as he was ...

  • Best Friends Get Better

    Sandy Asher

  • A Kindness Cup

    Thea Astley

    The story of Taws, an Australian town about to celebrate its 20th anniversary. But one man is not about to celebrate. Returning from 15 years exile, he is intent on reminding the town of the brutal acts they perpetrated during their early years of se...

  • The Last Legends of Earth

    A.A. Attanasio

    Set in the artificial planetary system of Chalco-Doror, which is no more and no less than a vast cosmic machine, The Last Legends of Earth is a love story, a gripping saga of struggle against alien control, and an examination of the machinery of cr...

  • Something So Right

    Elizabeth August

    A MATTER OF TRUST Frank Davidson wasn't convinced that Laura Martin's brother had been framed for hijacking his trucks -- until Frank and Laura teamed up and caught the real culprits red-handed. He admired Laura's determination to brin...

  • Waterdeep

    Richard Awlinson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Who will be the new gods? The God of Strife is dead, destroyed in his attack on Tantras, and Midnight and her allies have recovered the first Tablet of Fate--one of a pair of artifacts that will return the gods to their former glory and save the R...

  • Gently Love Beckons

    June Masters Bacher

    The sixth and final book in the Love's Soft Whisper series. June Masters Bacher takes you back to pioneer days in Gently Love Beckons. Courtney begins the journey to her childhood home back East in answer to a mysterious letter from her brother E...

  • New Destinies, Volume VIII

    Jim Baen

  • The Intruder

    Judy Baer

    Having made the big adjustment to life at Cedar River, Lexi Leighton thought her family had settled into a routine and life was normal again. She couldn't have been more wrong!

    Lexi senses that something's bothering her mother; she's so quiet a...

  • Codename: Ice Man

    Ned Bannister

  • The Great and Secret Show

    Clive Barker

    Armageddon begins with a murder in the Dead Letter Office in Omaha, Nebraska. A lake that has never existed falls from the clouds over Palomo Grove, California. Young passion blossoms, as the world withers with war The Great and Secret Show ...

  • Great American Folklore: Legends, Tales, Ballads and Superstitions from All Across America

    Kemp Plummer Battle

    This compilation of more than 280 memorable tales from the American oral tradition features both popular and less-familiar folktales, legends, verses, ballads, superstitions, riddles, children's rhymes, ghost stories, and witty anecdotes...

  • Halloween

    Caroline Feller Bauer

  • Tangents

    Greg Bear

    A definitive overview of the work of a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author presents a selection of stories that includes the Hugo and Nebula-winning "Tangent" and "Blood Music," "Sisters," "Sleepside Story," and "Dead Run"...

  • South Street Confidential

    Dick Belsky

    Stated First Edition. A near fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Soiling to the edges of the book's upper page block. Review copy with publisher's 8 1/2" x 11" folded letter laid in. Light wear to the letter's left edge....

  • Style #1

    Leila Bercier

  • Changing the Past

    Thomas Berger

    A novel of alternate realities from the Pulitzer Prize"nominated author: “Those willing to spend a few hours in his Twilight Zone will come away the richer” (Library Journal).   With a loving wife and son, a successful job as chief copy-ed...

  • Summer Dance

    Elizabeth Bernard

  • Silver Wedding

    Maeve Binchy

    An occasion to celebrate, when Desmond and Deirdre Doyle must gather family and friends around them in remembrance of the twenty-five years of marriage they've shared. A moment of reckoning as an uneasy couple is forced to face a hapless daughter st...

  • The Princess and the Pauper

    Natalie Bishop

    One reckless teenage night, April Hollis tempted a boy from the wrong side of town, and it changed her life forever. Jesse Cawthorne was poor, but his kisses were rich with desire...April yielded her body, her soul -- and bore a child Jesse never kne...

  • Major Attraction

    Alison Blair

  • A World of Difference

    Leona Blair

    On a bleak night in 1904, young Connor MacKenzie accompanies his mother to Brandon Hall, where she will be nurse to textile baron Rhys Brandon's motherless infant, Georgia. From the first, Connor's good looks and stubborn intelligence make him Brando...

  • Beverly Hills

    Pat Booth

    Paula Hope arrives in Los Angeles, penniless and on the run from a violent and tragic past. Her great taste and style catch the eye of an international interior designer -- and her career and life seemed touched by the gods when she is asked to help...

  • The After-Dinner Game

    Malcolm Bradbury

  • When Fortune Smiles

    Sally Bradford

    Sharing rent was one thing Gretchen Batter was in dire financial need, so any roommate was a godsend. But when yuppie dentist Alex Carson moved in, lock, stock and jock equipment, she became suspicious. Obviously Arex didn't have to pinch pennies....

  • Spells of Wonder

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • In Memory of Angel Clare

    Christopher Bram

    The new novel by the bestselling author of Hold Tight, this brilliant comedy of manners set among a group of Manhattan sophisticates depicts the friends of a dead filmmaker trying to put their lives back together--a task made more arduous by the youn...

  • Across a Starlit Sea

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    SHE WAS CAUGHT IN A WHIRLWIND OF PASSION... TORN BETWEEN TWO MEN, TWO BROTHERS, AND TWO FATES As the wind tossed her tangled locks, Laura Prescott looked out into a future as bleak as the savage moors. The only daughter of a sea captain, Laura wa...

  • The Wild Weasels

    Cat Branigan

    THERE WAS NO TERROR LIKE A SAMLAUNCH. THERE WAS NO VENGEANCE LIKE A WEASEL... Every pilot knew the NVA was building radar-guided SAM missile sites, but Washington prohibited any strikes until the death rockets were up and blowing American fliers to p...

  • Partners

    Carolyn Bransford

  • The Refuge

    Chaz Brenchley

  • The Mystery of the Plumed Serpent

    Barbara Brenner

  • A Series of Murders

    Simon Brett

    A SERIES OF MURDERS "AS AN ACTRESS, SIPPY STOKES WAS ABSOLUTE DEATH." From the vain leading man to the rock star making his acting debut to the aging writer whose books were being chopped to death on the set of the "Stanislas Braid" TV series, every...

  • Mother Knows Best // Sail Away

    Barbara Bretton

    DIANA'S LIFE WAS NEATLY PLANNED Author of the "Mother Knows Best" helpful-hints column, Diana Travis had a master plan: finish her book, lose ten pounds and on Labor Day begin hunting for Mr. Right. But Gull Cottage and twin toddler nieces were...

  • Nijinski

    Catherine Brighton

  • Lone Tree

    Bruce Brown

  • Race the Wind

    Noreen Brownlie

    THE FIRE INSIDE... Kali Rainwater didn't want to like devil-may-care Quinn Sullivan. He'd bought part of her land -- her legacy -- and though she'd needed the money, she simply didn't want to see the insufferable man again. But ...

  • Bad Blood

    Anthony Bruno

    DEADLY RITUALS The young couple had been murdered with peculiar precision. .a single sword stroke that nearly cut their joined bodies in half. This bizarre homicide that crossed state lines led New York FBI agents Bert Gibbons and Mike Tozzi to a ...

  • Dude Ranch

    Bonnie Bryant

    THE GIRLS OF PINE HOLLOW HIT THE SANTA FE TRAIL! The founders of the Saddle Club -- Stevie Lake, Carole Hanson, and Lisa Atwood -- gear up for the adventure of their lives when their friend Kate Devine invites them to her family's dude ranch. They wi...

  • Death

    Bill Buford

  • Worse Than Death

    Thomas Bunn

  • Black Cherry Blues

    James Lee Burke

    Evil crept into Dave Robicheaux's bayou world one night and destroyed the woman he loved. Now it's threatening the life of his innocent child. Framed for murder, the Cajun ex-cop is traveling far from his Louisiana home to clear his name, to help a ...

  • Lady Sundown

    Nancy Bush

    IN A MAGNIFICENT NEW TERRITORY, SHE FOUGHT FOR HER INDEPENDENCE--AND WAS CAPTURED BY AN UNEXPECTED LOVE! As beautiful and reckless as the glorious Oregon wilderness, Lexie Danner was determined to claim the shining promise of her future. Not for h...

  • My Brown Bear Barney

    Dorothy Butler

  • Coffin Underground

    Gwendoline Butler

    FOR THE TWISTED AND TALENTED, MURDER IS A GAME Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent John Coffin is properly skeptical of the evil reputation of the house at No. 22, Church Row. True, the house has seen violent death over the centuries. None of it...

  • Silver Swords

    Caryn Cameron

    "I Am Your Lord and Master Until Your Freedom's Bought..." Melanie McVey feared for her life from the moment she was kidnapped from her fiance's ship and held for ransom on a dreaded pirate island off the coast of Florida. But under the blazing ey...

  • Stringer on Pikes Peak

    Lou Cameron

    Even a newspaperman with Stringer MacKail’s brand of courage knows you can’t cover a stalemated miners’ strike without getting on somebody’s fightin’ side. But that won’t stop Stringer from trying to get some ink on the gold miners’ sit...

  • Friends

    Stella Cameron

    FRIENDS ARE FOR KEEPS Tom, Shelly and Ben had been inseparable as children. Together they had survived all the terrors of growing up. Then they had become adults, and their friendship had faced a different challenge, their loyalties a tougher t...

  • The Lost Moon Flower

    Bethany Campbell

    "Whitewater -- I want you." There. She'd uttered the words she'd sworn Aaron Whitewater would never have the satisfaction of hearing from her -- and she braced herself for a dose of his infuriating sense of humor. But once he re...

  • The Way of the Seeded Earth: Mythologies of the Primitive Planters

    Joseph Campbell

  • Jane Eyre

    Susie Campbell

    This study is one of a specially developed series of critical essays on the major works of literature for use by students in universities, colleges and schools. This volume in the series provides close textual analysis of Charlotte Bronte's classic n...

  • Vietnam Spook Show

    Wayne Care

    This novel of Vietnam Naval Intelligence is so authentic and revealing it required clearance by the National Security Agency. For Intelligence Officer Craig Nostrum, love for Vietnam is haunted by the constant destruction he sees around him. Then he ...

  • The Mad Hatter Mystery

    John Dickson Carr

    A CAB-HORSE IN A BARRISTER'S WIG AND A CORPSE IN A TOP HAT The newspapers dubbed the thief the "Mad Hatter," and his outrageous pranks amused all London. But the laughter turned to horror when a corpse with a crossbow bolt through the...

  • Sweet Illusion

    Angela Carson

    The job seemed an answer to prayer Nothing in Marion's previous experience, however, had prepared her for the extreme mental and physical pressure of working with the General Hospital's Flying Squad. And nothing had prepared her for Luk...

  • Law of the Lion

    Nick Carter

  • Partners in Passion

    Rosemary Carter

    Teri returned with such high hopes Lelaanie, her grandfather's cherished game park, was beset by problems. Her beloved grandfather had only a few weeks to live. And Rafe Matthias, his partner, was unwelcoming. Eight years ago when Teri left wit...

  • Restless Is the Wind

    Kimberly Cates

    HE HAD RENOUNCED ALL HOPE OF LOVE. SHE WOULD BRAVE ANY STORM TO POSSESS HIM. Lady Cecily Lansdowne was the exquisite jewel of London society, her violet-eyed grace acclaimed by the highest in the land. But it was Captain Ransom Tremayne who ignite...

  • Saturday Cousins

    Rebecca Caudill

  • Voices from Home

    Neil Caudle

  • Squeeze Play

    Anne Cavaliere

    DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER When sports psychologist Julia Archer signed on to help the sagging Boston Eagles baseball team, she never dreamed she'd be going to bat against the club's fiery manager. Not only was handsome Storm Donovan a natural a...

  • Fire in the Night

    Sara Chance

    Playing with Fire Detective Jon Kent was less than thrilled with his assignment to an arson case -- until he met his most promising lead, beautiful radio personality Tracy Michaels. Tracy fanned the fires of Jon's passion with a desire he couldn&...

  • Brighten the Corner Where You Are

    Fred Chappell

    Brighten the Corner Where You Are is the riveting story of a day in the life of Joe Robert Kirkman, a North Carolina mountain schoolteacher, sly prankster, country philosopher, and family man. This novel from award-winning author Fred Chappell has wo...

  • The Snow Image

    Maggi Charles

    He'd pursued her through a raging blizzard, then served her vending-machine soup and his own brand of TLC in their motel shelter. Carla Logan knew then that snow would forever remind her of Jonas Davenport -- his dark good looks framed against a ...

  • Renegade Hearts

    Carolyn Chase

    THIRTEEN COLONIES: Thirteen novels of sensual romance and breathtaking adventure about the men and women whose pioneering spirit forged this great American nation. BLAZE OF PASSION Alone and unprotected, beautiful Elizabeth Greening was forced ...

  • Joker's Wild

    Sandra Chastain

    When her injured knee failed to heal,' Olympic, figure skater Allison Josey sought refuge in the Georgia home of her happiest childhood memories. Instead, she found Joker Vandergriff, a red-haired giant of a man who insisted on invading every part of...

  • The First Rebellion

    Marion Chesney

    HIS KISS LEFT HER FLUSHED AND DISCONCERTED -- PERHAPS MEN WERE BEST AVOIDED AFTER ALL! The Earl of Tredair had his fill of balls, routs, and silly misses, and despaired of finding anyone out of the ordinary... Until he met Miss Fanny Waverley. ...

  • Until October

    Margaret Chittenden

    He was a carefree fun-loving bachelor San Francisco chiropractor Nate Ludlow didn't believe in long-term relationships; thank you! Marriage was out of the question, and children made him positively nervous... Maddy Scott knew Nate's typ...

  • One Magic Box

    Roger Chouinard

    When one magic box falls from the sky, everyone is puzzled, including the four policemen who come to inspect it, the five big monsters who sit on it to see if it will hatch and the ten flying saucers that hover over it to take a peek....

  • Baseball Stories 1: Look Who's Playing First Base/Catcher with a Glass Arm/the Kid Who Only Hit Homers

    Matt Christopher

  • Clear and Present Danger

    Tom Clancy

    At what point does criminal activity threaten national security? When can a nation respond to it as to an enemy? These are the questions Jack Ryan must consider when he hears the awful news: Colombian drug lords, tired of being harassed by U.S. law...

  • Skeen's Leap

    Jo Clayton

    This fast-paced, gritty space adventure introduces the unforgettable Skeen, a hard-edged heroine and intergalactic thief trapped in an unknown universe.   Jo Clayton, creator of the popular Diadem Saga, introduces a delightfully unforgettable ne...

  • Ecstasy's Masquerade

    Gwen Cleary

    HE WANTED NO PART OF HER... Hidden on a ship bound for the Montana territory, Elizabeth Hollis hoped she would finally find peace and freedom. However, when a mysterious, scheming young woman threatened to have the beautiful stowaway arrested unle...

  • Those Lake View Wives

    Charles Cohen

  • The New Teacher

    Miriam Cohen

  • Dealers

    Gerald Cole

    A film tie-in of the film starring Paul McGann. A romantic drama with a contemporary city background, where Pascoe discovers he is merely another pawn in a game far bigger than any he could ever have imagined. The author's previous novelizations incl...

  • The Silent Scream

    Michael Collins

    An odd gang of crooks hires Fortune to learn about a beautiful young woman.

    Most of Dan Fortune's customers are nervous. It takes fear to make normal people reach out to a private detective, and that is how he knows that his newest client, t...

  • The Slasher

    Michael Collins

  • Sunglasses After Dark

    Nancy A. Collins

    Befriending the three members of a metal band, teenage loner Skinner is horrified to learn that Rend, Sunder, and Ripper are werewolves, eager to introduce him to their nightmarish world of murder, madness, and human flesh. Original....

  • Ms. Maxwell and Son

    Toni Collins

    SPECIAL DELIVERY! Jack Spangler was a night owl and, snowstorm or no snowstorm, he didn't appreciate being interrupted in the middle of his work to take his pregnant -- and -- alone neighbor Katie Maxwell to the hospital. But off he went, sinc...

  • King of the Scepter'd Isle

    Michael Greatrex Coney

    A GNOME IN CAMELOT For the first time in remembered history, humans and Gnomes find themselves sharing the same Earth happentrack. But King Arthur has larger concerns as he watches the society he rules spiraling toward ultimate destruction. Little...

  • Tower of Fear

    Glen Cook

    The Witch entered the temple as the men met. She gasped, unable to believe even now that she saw it. How had the man gotten through the citadel's defenses? What man could have earned such great power? Clouds of light and shadow contended. Larger t...

  • Limbo System

    Rick Cook

    The demonic aliens had been trapped in a single planetless system for a million years. Now the Earthmen have uncorked the bottle......

  • Killer's Wake

    Bernard Cornwell

    Despite the lure of the sea, the heir to an ancient earldom reluctantly returns to his British home to protect valuable paintings belonging to his family--a treasure that someone is willing to kill for...

  • Night Shadow

    Catherine Coulter

    LOVES MAGIC COULD SAVE HER... OR DESTROY THEM BOTH! The brutal murder of her benefactor left Lily Tremaine penniless and responsible for the care of his three children. In desperation, she presented herself at the door of his cousin, Knight Winthr...

  • Flawless

    Sara Craven

    Now, Carly thought, she'd get her revenge As a gawky, plain teenager, Carly has suffered bitter disillusion at the hands of Saul Kingsland. And she had waited for the right time. As an acknowledged beauty arid successful model now, Carly co...

  • Mixed Doubles

    Daniel Da Cruz

    UNFINISHED SYMPHONY In late 1990s California, Justin Pope had all the virtues needed for success: ambition, self-confidence, and not a little greed. All he lacked was talent, and that was never a problem -- he just stole the compositions of the long...

  • The Ultimate Choice

    Emma Darcy

    She'd never run from anything before And Kelly wasn't about to start now. Horses were Kelly's life -- and when the sardonic new owner of Marian Park seemed set to ruin her career in show jumping, she was furious. More important, the...

  • Shadow War

    Clay Dawson

  • Red and the Black: A Chronicle of 1830

    Marie De Stendhal

  • Brain Fever

    Ron Dee

    Mirror image When Adam Reynolds woke up, he had no idea where he was. He didn't know the woman in bed beside him who kept calling him "Doug". And when he looked in the mirror, someone else's face was staring back at him... Living nightmare ...

  • Real Estate

    Jane DeLynn

    Jack, an East Village artist, hides from his failures in the expensive but empty upper West Side co-op of his lover Lorraine, whose ex-husband and daughter round out a cast searching for satisfaction in material wealth...

  • Year of the Zinc Penny

    Rick DeMarinis

    Now in paperback, The Year of the Zinc Penny is a contemporary classic. Trygve Soren Napoli is a ten-year-old just beginning to realize that he is alone in the world. Certain inescapable quirks tip him off: He cannot stop himself from repeating aloud...

  • A Gift of Life

    Henry Denker

    A meticulously researched medical novel set in a heart transplant center follows the decision-making process of a dedicated cardiologist who must choose between two very different heart recipient candidates...

  • Goodbye Emily, Hello

    Pat Derby

  • The Calvin Nullifier

    Gene DeWeese

    Dandelion, an intergalactic law-enforcement agent masquerading as an ordinary cat, joins forces with Calvin, his father, and his friend Kathy to repair malfunctions abroad an important space probe and to clear Calvin's father from suspicion of sabota...

  • Widows' Adventures

    Charles Dickinson

    Two widows take to the road across America in this ambitious novel by Charles Dickinson. Helene, who is blind, does the driving. Her sister, Ina, shows the way, and together they break free into the light they feared had gone out of their lives. They...

  • Men

    Margaret Diehl

    Beautiful, talented Stella James explores the heady power of her own sexuality by seeking out anonymous sexual encounters. Though the men may long to see her again, by dawn Stella is always gone. She revels in the intensity and honesty of her encount...

  • The Hospitality of the House

    Doris Miles Disney

    Although they never met, Mandy O'Brien and Janet Avery had corresponded for years, but when Mandy finally does pay a visit, she is convinced that the entire Avery clan is plotting to kill Janet's grandmother--and her too...

  • Disney Read Aloud Bambi

    Walt Disney

  • Black Moon

    Alison Drake

  • Keeper of the City

    Diane Duane; Peter Morwood

    Under the careful guidance of the catlike mrem, the city of Niau has grown into a prosperous trading center. It lies, however, far to the east--on the very edge of the kingdom of Ar--ever vulnerable to invasion by the mrem's legendary enemies, the Ea...

  • Self-Portrait of Someone Else

    Vincent Eaton

    Vincent Eaton's dark, angry and intense first novel uses police documents, psychological evaluations, interviews, straight narration and interior monologues to chronicle the self-destruction of Tim Buckles. At 28, Buckles appears at first to be leadi...

  • The Moon in Hiding

    Teresa Edgerton

  • Thursday's Child

    Nancy Elliott

    Her guardian was no angel. Sheltered in a palace since birth, Elise St. James knew nothing of the world. Then political turmoil forced her to flee her home and she acquired a bodyguard -- one Logan Hunter, attorney by trade, adventurer by inclination...

  • Lone Star and the Diamond Swindlers

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki's search for gemstones leads straight into a trail of tombstones in the eighty-fifth 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, a...

  • Candle in the Window

    Suzanne Ellison

    She was a beacon in his dark life. Gary Reid was imprisoned in a notorious California correctional institution for a "crime" he refused to name as such. While working on a convict fire crew, he met Carly Winston, dedicated conservationist and fire fi...

  • Murder in China

    Charlotte Epstein

  • Light

    Seymour Epstein

    George Light, the eponymous protagonist and narrator of Epstein's accomplished, thought-provoking novel, is appealing despite the faults he confesses to and reveals. George is a restless man whose career in TV has never had his full commitment. At 50...

  • General Murders

    Loren D. Estleman

    "With his usual knife-sharp prose in cutting form, Loren D. Estleman proves that he can carve a short story as cleanly as the full-length Amos Walker detective novels.Detroit''s favorite private investigator, Amos Walker, barrels through this collect...

  • Ivan Takes a Wife // Love Overboard

    Janet Evanovich

    Sinfully handsome schooner captain Ivan Rasmussen deserved to be called Ivan the Terrible, Stephanie Lowe decided. First he'd sold her a haunted house, and now he was laughing at her Calamity Jane cooking! She'd only agreed to work one voyage of his ...

  • Longarm and the Rebel Killers

    Tabor Evans

  • Skid

    Maud Farrell

  • The Last Stand of the DNA Cowboys

    Mick Farren

    Minstrel Boy, Reave, and Billy Oblivion--the DNA Cowboys--find themselves plagued by their own problems as well as the nuisance of a barbarian horde bent on destroying what is left of the Damaged World...

  • Prince of the Blood

    Raymond E. Feist

    For twenty years, since the end of the Riftwar, the kingdom of Midkemia has enjoyed peace and tranquility. But now that-peace is suddenly in jeopardy. Prince Arutha, the heir apparent, has renounced his claim to the throne, and his twin sons, Borric ...

  • Hush, Money

    Jean Femling

    Concern for her injured ex-boyfriend motivates auto-insurance claims investigator "Moz" Brant to risk personal danger by checking out the suspicious circumstances under which a boat exploded, killing its "perfect" owner...

  • Deadly Harvest

    Morgan Fields

    CHILDHOOD FEAR Nine-year-old Jodie McCullough knew there was something really scary in the quiet woods outside her Texas town. It was something that had nearly gotten her and two best friends; a living nightmare that their fathers didn’t believ...

  • The Organ Grinder's Monkey

    Richard Fliegel

    MURDER BEHIND THE BARS. EVEN FOR THE BRONX, IT'S INSANE... In the Allerton Avenue Precinct, homicide can mean plodding, patient police work, a slow sweaty routine. But serial murder is different. It's the crime longtime Sergeant Shelly Lowenkopf a...

  • Final Appeal

    Joanne Fluke

    JURY... JUDGE... EXECUTIONER... Michael Hart killed his wife--that was the jury's verdict. And for ten years, he's been locked away, balanced on the edge of insanity. Only now the nightmare seems over at last. He's escaped, holed up in a safe ho...

  • Monkey Bay

    Elaine Ford

  • The Willful Widow

    Pamela Frazier

    The world called him a traitor -- but her heart named him her own true love... Few were the tears shed by Lady Aurelia Vernon when her brutal husband met his match in a duel. Returning to her father's estate, the young widow put her brief marr...

  • Playoff Pressure

    Mark Freeman

    Now that the regular season has ended, the playoffs begin, and the major-league teams are duking it out . Boston is aiming for a place at the top, but Chicago is coming on strong, and L.A. is a sure bet for the play-offs. No matter who wins, there's ...

  • Scarlet Ribbons

    Judith E. French

    WHO WAS THIS HANDSOME SCOUNDREL...? The American Patriots knew Sarah Turner needed watching. Since her husband's disappearance she had been running King's Landing Inn, a known center of Tory plotting. Forest Irons, a magnetically handsome ...

  • The Wizard of Oz

    John Fricke

  • Black Watch

    Ernest K. Gann

  • Emma and Persuasion

    Roger Gard

  • Win, Lose or Die

    John E. Gardner

    When M receives word that a known terrorist organisation is planning to destroy a top-secret British Royal Navy aircraft carrier " currently hosting a summit of world leaders - James Bond is returned to active duty in the Royal Navy. Promoted from ...

  • A Time for Dragons

    Gary Gentile

  • Payment in Blood

    Elizabeth George

    The career of playwright Joy Sinclair comes to an abrupt end on an isolated estate in the Scottish Highlands when someone drives an eighteen-inch dirk through her neck. Called upon to investigate the case in a country where they have virtually no aut...

  • Call Home the Heart

    Rebecca George

    Lovely eighteen-year-old Cassandra Harding and her soul-mate, Diccon, son of the Duchess of Stratford, vow to be together always. But the jealous Duchess has other plans for her son and arranges a marriage for Cassandra that will take her to America ...

  • Dark Veil

    Nickolae Gerstner

    Certain that her scientist husband's suicide was actually murder, Madelon Farrell enlists the aid of a young boy with psychic powers claiming to have "witnessed" the crime, but even his powers are limited when someone begins stalking Madelon...

  • Garbage Juice for Breakfast

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    "Help Us Find Treasure" Dawn Bosco can't wait! Her camp counselor, Miss Perry, has just handed out clues for a treasure hunt. Dawn's itching to put on her Polka Dot Private Eye hat and find the hidden treasure. But her friend Lizzie Lee's hot on the ...

  • Light Can Be Both Wave and Particle

    Ellen Gilchrist

    Fiction from a National Book Award-winning author and “short-story writer of substantial gifts and reputation” (The New York Times).    From National Book Award Winner Ellen Gilchrist, a pillar of Southern literature hailed by...

  • The Jump-Off Creek

    Molly Gloss

    A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist • Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award • Winner of the Oregon Book Award"An instant classic. . . a truly beautiful piece of American storytelling." -- William Kittredge, author of&...

  • The Snake Oil Wars or Scheherazade Ginsberg Strikes Again

    Parke Godwin

  • The Dead Pull Hitter

    Alison Gordon

    For the first time in their history, the Toronto Titans are on a winning streak and headed for the World Series -- a dream come true for sports reporter and baseball fan Kate Henry. But when a pair of murders hits the team at its very heart, Kate fin...

  • Eyes in the Fire

    Deborah Grabien

  • The Willow Garden

    Kathryn Grant

  • Walk in Beauty

    Sabina Grant

    WALK IN DANGER They were going West, the courageous young Elspeth and her beautiful but ailing married sister, leaving their civilized life in Boston for the uninhabited unknown. Elspeth told herself they were going for her sister's health, but when...

  • Wild Passage

    Vanessa Grant

    Serena knew she was out of place A crew party was meant for those who were serious about sailing. All Serena really wanted was to absorb the atmosphere that had been her dead husband's dream. That is, until she met Neil Turner. She was stu...

  • Love Is a Gypsy

    Kerrie Gray

    SUMMER LOVE Spending the summer on picturesque St. Cecelia Island was not a vacation for ambitious Stephanie Morrison, but an opportunity to prove herself. She had planned on avoiding unnecessary distractions--like men and romance--until a disast...

  • Saint Valentines Night

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Top television investigative reporter Neal Connor finds romance and danger when he returns to his hometown of Chicago on assignment and reunites with his childhood sweetheart, the recent widow of his best friend...

  • Reader, I Murdered Him

    Jen Green

  • The Mountain Walks

    Roland J. Green

  • Impact

    Stephen Greenleaf

    TOWER TO 617. YOU'RE OFF COURSE. RETURN TO ZERO ONE ZERO. INCREASE ALTITUDE TO THREE THOUSAND... TOWER TO SURFAIR. TOWER TO SURFAIR. WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED? LORD JESUS. I THINK THEY'RE DOWN.... With the crash of SurfAir 617 this powerful, brill...

  • Robbers' Roost

    Zane Grey

    A classic story of imperiled love on the western frontiers of nineteenth-century America.“He was a young man in years, but he had the hard face and eagle eye of one matured in experience of that wild country. He bestrode a superb bay horse, dusty a...

  • The Old Silent

    Martha Grimes

    In the tenth murderous case for Richard Jury, the New Scotland Yard superintendent witnesses a killing in a West Yorkshire inn called the Old Silent, while his highborn , amateur colleague, Melrose Plant wishes to he could perform one as he drives hi...

  • You Never Believe Me: And Other Stories

    Davis Grubb

  • Silver Bough

    Neil M. Gunn

    Archaeologist Simon Grant arrives in the Scottish Highlands to excavate a local burial cairn, hires a local simpleton to assist, and puzzles over the disappearance of the gold he discovers in the course of the dig...

  • The Starwolves

    Thorarinn Gunnarsson

  • Trouble At Alcott School

    Dorothy Haas

    Peanut and Jilly to the rescue! Miss Kraft's class is in an uproar. First, Elvis's mice escape, and if that isn't bad enough, Erin loses her beautiful gold locket! Poor Erin -- she wasn't even supposed to be wearing it to school. But is it reall...

  • Unicorn Calendar

    Michael Hague

  • Bodies Are Where You Find Them

    Brett Halliday

    A disappearing corpse draws Miami PI Mike Shayne into a deadly political conspiracy in this hardboiled mystery that inspired the film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. A year after marrying the toughest PI in Miami, Phyllis Shayne longs for a few weeks alone wit...

  • Ben's Touch

    Carole Halston

    When Ellen Cumberland signed up for Ben Masters's summer class, she never dreamed she'd find the renowned potter so utterly irresistible. Brilliant, earthy, intense, sexy, he was every young girl's erotic fantasy in the flesh. But forty-y...

  • Highway Warriors

    Bob Ham

  • Petrogypsies

    Rory Harper

    In an alternate universe, organic, semi-sentient, alien engineered oil field drilling rigs roam the plains of Texas and the Southwest in search of petroleum. Petrogypsies is the first novel in Harper's series about the great drilling beast, Sprocket,...

  • Junk in Space

    George Harrar

  • Modern Women

    Ruth Harris

    Three spirited and ambitious women, representative of the changing times in which they came of age, reflect on the sexual, social, and economic liberation of the 1960s and their struggle for independence and self-fulfillment...

  • The Planet of the Robot Slaves

    Harry Harrison

    A sequel to the author''s Bill, the Galactic Hero, published over 20 years ago, this book is the first of a new series of novels featuring Bill. With two right arms, an artificial foot, and a set of surgically implanted tusks, Bill sets out to fin...

  • A Little Class on Murder

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    Invited to teach a class on mystery novels, offered for some strange reason in the journalism, rather than the English department of a local college, Annie finds that university politics become grist for the school's paper. Student editor Brad Kelly'...

  • Fallen Angel

    Catherine Hart

    The nuns called her Esperanza because her sweet face and ethereal beauty brought hope to all she knew. But no one at the secluded desert convent guessed that behind her angelic smile burned a hot flame of desire. Only one man could touch that smol...

  • Remains to be Seen

    Roy Hart

  • Oklahoma Kiss

    Jean Haught

    TOMBOY BEAUTY Expelled from finishing school, half-breed Blair Townsend made the most of her freedom by donning boy's clothes and riding hell-for-leather around her family's Oklahoma ranch. And when she came across what seemed to be one of the new s...

  • A Rustle in the Grass

    Robin Hawdon

    ''A peculiarly fascinating story.''
    The Guardian''s Polly Toynbee

    Above ground the countryside stretches quietly, majestically beneath the changing skies. Peaceful and untroubled, far from the wars and woes of man, nature moves through her...

  • An Unmarried Man

    Sarah Hawkes

    She'd give him his just desserts Michelle Moens was a computer whiz, but men were a mystery to her. She couldn't fathom, for example, why the gorgeous and eligible Alex Lindfors would pretend her best friend--his sister--was his wife. Unless, of c...

  • A Very Particular Murder

    S.T. Haymon

    Tiny Angleby was the site of a gathering of the world's greatest physicists celebrating the first man to advance the theory of a random universe. But it's a shame, muses Inspector Ben Jurnet, that the professor won't be able to enjoy the observance ...

  • The Falcon and the Flower

    Virginia Henley

    Promised to him in marriage, she vowed not to surrender her body or her soul. AN ANGEL WITH HELLFIRE IN HER HEART Astride her white palfrey, surrounded by a nimbus of silver-blonde hair, Jasmine was a vision to strike a man mute with desire. Bu...

  • The Seven Men at Mimbres Springs

    Will Henry

    This book is written by Will Henry. The best secret agent the South had was L L Henderson. She was also a beautiful woman and a counterspy for the Union army. Her men were dangerous hard cases: hired guns, drunks, drifters, a murderous freed slave an...

  • The Three Sillies

    Kathryn Hewitt

  • Little Monsters

    B.B. Hiller

    A group of kids discovers that there really are monsters under the bed and that these creatures are busy playing video games, eating junk food, and getting into trouble for which children are invariably blamed...

  • Dragon Fall

    Lee Hindle

  • The Devilish Marquis

    Karla Hocker

    The delectable tale of a playful rake, a clever miss...and a wicked game of hearts! "YOU'D THINK I WAS THE FIRST THE WAY YOU CARRY ON!" First, Nell Hetherington was rudely awakened in the middle of the night by an intruder looming over her bed!...

  • Lady Megan's Masquerade

    Cindy Holbrook

    MAN OF HONOR It was a point of honor with the Earl of Argyle never to take advantage of the "lower orders." The Earl was a rake--but a discriminating one, who only succumbed to the charms of his own kind. But there was something about his ne...

  • Acts of War

    Richard Holmes

    Through interviews, historical accounts, and numerous years of research, Richard Holmes examines the behavior of men in battle through the course of war.In this compelling attempt to explain the nature of war, the experience of a soldier during the d...

  • Three-Legged Horse

    Ann Hood

  • Golden Threads

    Kay Hooper

    Imprisoned by fate -- and the FBI -- in a strange town with a new identity, Lara Mason longed to escape the painful memory of her father's murder. Playing Rapunzel in a local production would distract her, she hoped -- until broodingly sensual De...

  • Enemy Mine

    Kay Hooper

    DANGEROUS TERRITORY Tyler St. James was courting disaster when she teamed up with wily Kane Pendleton to hunt for the gold chalice. But being alone in the Colombian wilderness with a sniper on her tail made even a shaky truce with her fiercest ri...

  • The Case of the Crying Clown

    Laura Lee Hope

  • The Mother Shadow

    Melodie Johnson Howe

    Maggie Hill just turned thirty-five and doesn't have much to show for it save a short-lived writing career and a broken marriage. Things don't get any better when her latest temporary employer, the wealthy Ellis Kenilworth, puts a bullet through his ...

  • Tigress

    Charlotte Hughes

    Caught in a freak snowstorm in the Carolina hills, Natalie Courtland was certain she'd freeze to death...until Nick Jordan came to the rescue and convinced her that Bigfoot had carried her off! Stranded in the woods with the ruggedly virile Nick,...

  • The Mind Invaders // The Archon Conspiracy

    Dave Hunt

    In a race against time, CIA agents and Soviet leaders scramble for the ultimate weapon...psychic power. Locked into the international intrigue is computer genius Ken Inman whose goal to contact mysterious entities turns into a nightmare when Archons ...

  • Illuminations

    Jonathan Hunt

  • Blackberry Ramble

    Thacher Hurd

  • Return Fire

    Charles Ingrid

    A GHOSTLY AVENGER is what Jack Storm is forced to become when Emperor Pepys betrays the Dominion Knights into an alliance with their long-time enemy, the alien Thraks. Convinced that the Thraks and not the mysterious invaders, the Ash-farel, are sti...

  • Buccaneer's Bride

    Jean Innes

    INFAMOUS SCOUNDREL As she stood at the bow of The Adventuress, Sarah Huxley wondered if she had made a terrible mistake. She had run away from an arranged marriage, leaving everything she had ever known, to seek a haven on a pirate ship. But even he...

  • The Last of the California Girls

    Pamela Jekel

  • Bad Boris Goes to School

    Susie Jenkin-Pearce

  • Dr.wooreddy's Prescrptn

    Colin Johnson

  • Worlds of the Federation

    Shane Johnson

  • Happy Birthday, Mole And Troll

    Tony Johnston

  • The Believers

    Rebecca C. Jones

    Unsatisfied with her mother's frequent absences from home and seeking love and security, Tibby believes she has found solace with members of a rigid fundamentalist sect, until a crisis forces her to make a difficult choice....

  • Crocodile Beat

    Gail Jorgensen

  • After the Rainbow

    Yvonne Kalman