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New Books List: 365 titles

  • Resolved: You're Dead

    Nicholas Adams

    Accidentally causing the death of Lisa Enright's boyfriend, the members of the debating team decide to keep their secret when no one suspects them, but when Lisa realizes the truth, the group decides to get rid of her. Reissue....

  • Murder: Impossible! the Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Other Impossible Crimes

    Jack Adrian

  • Flying Changes

    Caroline Akrill

  • Cinderella Girl

    Trisha Alexander

    The costume ball held all the enchantment of a fairy tale, and courtly Dusty Mitchell seemed truly a prince among men, sweeping Victoria Jones clear off her synthetic glass slippers. For a single mom used to moonlighting to make ends meet, playing pr...

  • The Ring of Charon

    Roger MacBride Allen

    BREAKTHROUGH! The commlink from JPL went dead. In the middle of View Screen Three, Earth flashed out of existence. The Moon hung in the telescope view. Alone. Larry sat there, watching the monitor screen in frozen horror. The comm people wer...

  • Deck the Halls

    Heather Allison

    CHRISTMAS...WITH THE RIGHT MAN! Unfortunately, Holly Hall -- driven, hardworking, conscientious Holly -- didn't have time for any man. Even one as downright wonderful as Adam Markland. Because it was December, the busiest time of year for Hol...

  • Wolf Kill

    Gregg Almquist

    Recalling the night her brother-in-law abducted his daughter--when his battered corpse was discovered but there was no sign of little Mary--Alice realizes that the wolf-like presence stalking at night is the missing child...

  • The Penguin Book of Modern Indian Short Stories

    Stephen Alter

  • Bananas: From Manolo to Margie

    George Ancona

  • Green Man

    William Anderson

    Traces the origins and evolution of the concept of the Green Man, a symbol of renewal and oneness with nature, from prehistory to the present, in the myths, folklore, and art of cultures around the world...

  • Anno's Medieval World

    Mitsumasa Anno

    Brief, poetic text and brilliantly colored and detailed paintings evoke the spirit of the Middle Ages, surveying its culture and beliefs, fears and superstitions, and significant advances in scientific thought and inquiry...

  • Groo Adventurer

    Sergio Aragones

  • Rebel Seduction

    Jane Archer

    "Stop that train!" came Lacey Whitmore's terrified warning as she rushed toward the locomotive that carried wounded Confederates and her own beloved father. But no one paid heed, least of all the war-weary soldier who pinned her roughly t...

  • Tender Texas Touch

    April Ashmore

    NO NEED FOR A MAN When emerald-eyed Jessalyn Kendrik volunteered to help the Texas Rangers track down El Halcon, she did it for reasons of her own. The vicious Comanchero had killed her father and she was out for revenge. Heaven help anyone who got ...

  • The Acolyte

    Thea Astley

  • Rosie's Mystery on Ice

    Carrie Austen

  • Snake Eyes

    Richard Austin

    DEATH RACE! World War III was a nuclear nightmare that lasted only one day. America was left a shattered nation. Its only hope for survival: The Guardians. A handpicked force of elite troubleshooters, they live for peace ... and kill for freedom. ...

  • Avenue of the Stars

    Jina Babcar

  • Sneeze-O-Saurus

    Jacqueline A. Ball

  • Glory's End

    Nick Baron

    The Time Patrol must stay on its toes when, on a trip back to the Civil War, time criminals alter the course of history so that President Lincoln is not assassinated and Robert E. Lee does not surrender...

  • Furnished for Murder

    Richard Barth

    Westchester furniture salesman Leo Perkins enlists the aid of eccentric Polish chess master Jakob Barzeny when Perkins suddenly becomes a suspect in the murder of flamboyant piano teacher Harmon Parrish, who has been playing around with the wealthy m...

  • Golden Fleece

    Jack Becklund

    Sheriff Ray MacNulty has his hands full investigating the disappearance of Harry Potter and his sailboat, a logger's murder, and evidence of illegal mining, three puzzles linked by the involvement of a woman known as Big Charlie, in a mystery set on ...

  • The Boy with a Toucan in His Heart

    Christina Bell

  • The Secret of the Underground Room

    John Bellairs

    A young hero and his professor friend set out to save a priest from a ghost, in this novel by the author of The House with a Clock in Its Walls
     
    Aside from the eccentric Professor Childermass, young sleuth Johnny Dixon’...

  • Farm Under a Lake

    Martha Bergland

  • Professor Romeo

    Anne Bernays

    The story of Jacob Barker, a professor of psychology at Harvard University and the campus Don Juan. With merciless pen and eye, Anne Bernays chronicles the conquests of the campus romeo from his undergraduate affairs to the terrifying moment he is ca...

  • Donovan's Chance

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    Competing in the annual Run for the Rose to wring a dream vacation for her and her little girl, waitress Rowan Chance saw her high hopes crashed to the ground -- along with her tray of wine. Looking up at the bystander she'd bumped into, she saw ...

  • Story of the Easter Bunny

    Sheila Black

  • Vampire Cousins

    Hanya Bloom

  • The Bridal Price

    Barbara Boswell

    A MARRIAGE OF INCONVENIENCE Carling Templeton was fit to be tied! Here she was, an independent, enlightened twentieth-century woman -- about to be sold into marriage like some sort of medieval bride. Even worse, her husband-to-be was the insuffer...

  • Puppy Love

    Carla Bracale

  • Sword and Sorceress VII

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    IN THE MAGIC REALMS a quickly woven spell may prove the key to power or to a power weaver's downfall, while a skilled blade wielder may survive dangers beyond even a sorceress's wildest imaginings. So join today's top magic makers and talented ne...

  • Her Pilgrim Soul: And Other Stories

    Alan Brennert

    Imaginative, magical stories delve into the lives of such characters as an aging hero with the power to remedy the Mideast crisis and a petty thief who steals an ancient Aztec healing stone. Reprint. K. PW. ...

  • Time and Chance

    Alan Brennert

    Before Alan Brennert became a bestselling author of historical novels, he wrote this lyrical fantasy in the vein of The Time Traveler’s Wife. Part love story, part deeply affecting character study, it is a literary tour de force chronicling the p...

  • Stranger in Paradise

    Barbara Bretton

    They met amongst the pomp and pageantry of Queen Elizabeth's coronation. They courted on fog-shrouded streets and in intimate pubs. And after only one day, brash American Mac Weaver had won the heart of Englishwoman Jane Townsend. He promised her ...

  • Little Creatures Everywhere

    Mary Bringle

    While vacationing at an old hotel in the Pacific Northwest, editor Laura McAuley finds a body in the linen closet, causing everyone to appear suspicious and Laura to feel as if she is being stalked at night...

  • Sea Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    CAN THE SADDLE CLUB GIRLS SURVIVE CHRISTMAS VACATION APART? Ever since they formed The Saddle Club, Stevie, Carole, and Lisa have been inseparable. So they're all feeling a little sad at the thought of not being together for the Christmas holidays...

  • Dead Wrong

    Alan Dennis Burke

  • Eagle Chief

    Lou Cameron

  • Dead Opposites

    Bethany Campbell

    Eerie sounds... that went bump in the night were part of Hawthorne Towers's history. When Ginnie Price heard rumors that the building was haunted, she decided it was time to move. But her decision was made too late. For when she arrived home one e...

  • Tales of the Southwest

    Benjamin Capps

  • The Worthing Saga

    Orson Scott Card

    It was a miracle of science that permitted human beings to live, if not forever, then for long, long time. Some people, anyway. The rich, the powerful, they lived their lives at the rate of one year every ten. Some created two societies: that of peop...

  • Catspaw

    John Carroll

  • Daughter of Destiny

    Jackie Casto

    Eyes of a Sorceress... That was what the people called Esme's startling green gaze. Who else but a sorceress could guess another person's thoughts? What other innocent, uneducated girl could captivate a seasoned warrior with years of experience and a...

  • A Cruel Deception

    Cathryn Huntington Chadwick

    A PHANTOM LOVER For years, Lady Margaret Willoughby had resisted marriage, convinced that no man could compare to her perfect, long-departed girlhood love, the late Jeremy Verelst. But now, practically on the shelf at twenty-two, Lady Margaret knew ...

  • Never Deal With a Dragon

    Robert N. Charrette

    WHERE MAN MEETS MAGIC AND MACHINE The year is 2050. The power of magic and the creatures it brings have returned to the earth, and many of the ancient races have re-emerged. Elves, Orks, Mages and lethal Dragons find a home in a world where techno...

  • Rebel's Kiss

    Carolyn Chase

    Raven-haired beauty Deirdre Blake has lost her parents to savage Indian raiders. Deirdre's one hope is to find her young sister, Katie, who has been missing since the attack. Before she can proceed, Kevin MacLain, a ruggedly handsome sea captain,...

  • The Sandalwood Princess

    Loretta Chase

    THIEF OF HEARTS The sorrow of leaving her beloved India after five splendid years is lessened considerably for vivacious Amanda Cavencourt by a thoughtful parting gift from her dearest friend: an exquisite statue of a princess carved from sandalw...

  • The New Mutants: The Demon Bear Saga

    Chris Claremont

  • Santa's Secret Helper

    Andrew Clements

  • The Hand of Lazarus

    Molly Cochran; Warren Murphy

  • Attack!

    Clay Coleman

  • Daring Deceptions

    Patricia Coleman

    SHE WAS MUCH TOO PRACTICAL TO REJECT THE MATCH FOR MERE SENSIBILITIES... A child of scandal and nearly penniless, Rose Maynwaring's hopes for marriage had grown decidedly dim. Until her grandfather's will awarded her a sizable inheritance - providin...

  • What Katy Did Next

    Susan Collidge

  • A Perfect Match

    Susan Combs

    THE CHASE IS ON! Emily Brown had always been considered exceptionally bright. As a cryptanalyst for the National Security Agency, she spent her days decoding secret messages with the zeal that most people applied to solving crossword puzzles Emily...

  • Dead and Doggone

    Susan Conant

  • Freshman Nights

    Linda A. Cooney

    Now that Christopher has dumped his fiancee, Faith is finding out that two-timing wasn't his only deception. Can she love someone who refuses to tell the truth? Just when Winnie and Josh are finally getting together, Winnie's old boyfriend shows u...

  • Family

    J. California Cooper

    In this wise, beguiling, and beautiful novel set in the era of the Civil War, award-winning playwright and author J. California Cooper paints a haunting portrait of a woman named Always and four generations of her African-American family....

  • A Common Death

    Natasha Cooper

    When plain, analytical Willow King is accused of her boss's murder, she begins her own investigation of the crime, discovering a certain gossip columnist with a motive for revenge, a scandal at her company, and someone who wants her silenced...

  • The Golden Thread

    Ann Copeland

  • 'Tiz the Season

    Lori Copeland

    The Hunk in the Santa Claus Suit... Attorney Darby Piper groaned when she saw the bulldozer blocking her driveway -- she was going to be late for court! But when she ordered the undeniably tall, dark, and handsome construction foreman to clear he...

  • Where Have All the Colours Gone?

    Jane Courtney

  • Two Youths & Other Stories

    Peter Cox

  • Absolutely Normal Chaos

    Sharon Creech

    Dear Mr. Birkway, Here it is: my summer journal. As you can see, I got a little carried away. The problem is this, though. I don’t want you to read it. Mary Lou Finney is less than excited about her assignment to keep a journal over the summer. Bo...

  • Brazen Virginia Bride

    Millie Criswell

    PERSUADED BY PASSION Fiery Alexandra Courtland--as independent as the Virginia colony she loved--was outraged! Thirty years ago, thwarted by a hopeless passion for a British lord, her mother had signed a love pact: her first-born daughter would marr...

  • My Soul's High Song: The Collected Writings of Countee Cullen

    Countee Cullen

  • Magic and Moonbeams

    Margot Dalton

    The moonlight carried magic And almost against their wills, Libby Lyndon and Warren McIntyre found themselves falling in love. But in the daylight hours, Warren represented the government. He was determined to build a field museum at a site once...

  • Jewels of our Father

    Kristy Daniels

  • Silver Bells

    Val Daniels

    Christmas...with the wrong man! Jillian Kemp had planned the holiday carefully -- a secluded cabin, a beautifully decorated tree, even stockings hanging by the fireplace. The first Christmas shared with her soon-to-be fiance, Harrison, would be pe...

  • The Light on Willow Lane

    Andrea Davidson

    IT WAS A MAGICAL SEASON Erica Manning never knew how much she loved Christmas, needed Christmas. Until she wrangled an interview with Adam Bech... ...and met his special little girl, Jilly. Erica saw the house that had known such joy and knew ...

  • Boone

    Nick Davis

  • An Elephant's Best Friend

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • No Perfect Dreams

    Marjorie DeBoer

    From the depths of London's slums to the heights of glittering British society... In a world where there were no perfect dreams... Born into a sordid world of poverty and shame, the waif called Polly vowed that one day she would escape the horrors of...

  • Spy Line

    Len Deighton

    HERO'S WELCOME British agent Bernard Samson is back from his harrowing mission in Len Deighton's masterful novel SPY HOOK. Now, in SPY LINE, Samson is not rewarded for his extraordinary success; instead, he is inexplicably hunted as a traitor, for...

  • For the Sake of All Living Things

    John M. Del Vecchio

    Nang is conscripted into the Khmer army, while his sister struggles to aid a flood of refugees and his parents are enslaved to erect a new Kampuchea, in this portrayal of a Cambodian family torn apart by social unrest...

  • The Dream Comes True

    Barbara Delinsky

    He drove her to distraction Nina Stone was a go-getter. As the broker for the Crosslyn Rise development--and an investor--she was on the fast track to success. But John Sawyer and his infernal dawdling were holding her back. John also had a sta...

  • Broken Drought

    Craig Dent

  • The Dark Door Opens

    Joe Dever

  • Silver Mist

    Theresa DiBenedetto

    DAYS OF INNOCENCE... For lovely Dara Owens, quiet Rainly, Florida, was a safe haven -- there she grew up protected by her family, naive to the power of a man's love. DAYS OF TURMOIL... Everything changed for Dara when Rainly erupted with ...

  • Ron Truffle

    Barry Dickins

  • Three by Annie Dillard

    Annie Dillard

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    ""One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today."" —Boston Globe

    A stunning collection of Annie Dillard''s most popular books in one volume.

    Pilgrim at Tinker Creek took American letters by storm when it was ...

  • Foul Play

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Jewels of Helen

    Jane Donnelly

    A spoiled brat who liked her own way Eight years ago Max Torba thought Anni was self-centered-and that she didn't care if her demands made life impossible for those who loved her. Now, meeting again at Max's home in Turkey, it was clea...

  • It Had to Be You

    Gail Douglas

    A First-Class Mystery Man... Mike Harris would be the perfect shipboard romance, Caitlin Grant decided when she bumped into the gorgeous stranger in the Armani suit! He was just right for walking on moonlit decks and dancing cheek to cheek, but sh...

  • Red Bleeds the Sun

    Anne Drybrough

  • The Microcosm

    Maureen Duffy

    The main characters are all women and The Microcosm deals with their relationships, as they grow and as they disintegrate. The pressures of society force them to live in an enclosed world. Steve, the schooly under the strain of her marriage; Sadie's ...

  • Magic Casement

    Dave Duncan

    A PERILOUS PROPHECY Princess Inos lived an idyllic life in her father's sleepy, backwater kingdom. Krasnegar was a peaceful realm, and Inos was a friend to all-especially her childhood companion, the stableboy Rap. Then one day a God appeared ...

  • A Poor Relation

    Carola Dunn

    SHE vowed to make the best of it One day, Rowena Caxton was the proud owner and mistress of a large estate. The next, she had lost everything and was forced to take up residence with her only remaining family. Her days became an endless round ...

  • Jaguar

    Loup Durand

  • That James Boy

    Lois Faye Dyer

    MOONLIGHT AND ROSES Sarah McFadden would never forget the teenage antics of her older brother, Trace, and his best friend, Jesse. Both had always had a passion for fast cars and cute girls. And Jesse James had lived up to the legend of his name by...

  • Fastest Gun in Texas

    J.T. Edson

    At fifteen he joined the Confederate Army. By eighteen he had become a legend. His name was Dusty Fog: a man with a magic hand that could draw, shoot and hit his mark in less than a second. Dusty killed quick. His opponents died slow...slow getting t...

  • Float

    David Eyre

  • Lord of the Desert

    Barbara Faith

    Swept away... EAST MEETS WEST Lord Ali Ben Hari disapproved of strong-willed public-relations executive Genevieve Jordan, who had been assigned to help organize his country's economic conference. She was everything he detested in a woman, yet ...

  • The Ten Greatest Myths About Men

    Warren Farrell

  • Grassroots

    Susan Fawcett

  • Brazen Whispers // Almost Innocent

    Jane Feather

    JOINED BY DESIRE IN A WORLD DIVIDED... She was called Magdalen -- the beautiful, illegitimate daughter of a powerful British duke and his French mistress -- hidden behind the cloistered wals of an impenetrable English fortress and betrothed at a t...

  • Montana Moonfire

    Carol Finch

    A WEDDING TO FORGET As usual, silvery-blond Chicago debutante Victoria Flemming-Cassidy was given no choice: today she would marry stuffy, oh-so-suitable Hubert Carrington Frazie the mate her socially ambitious mother had chosen for her. The ceremon...

  • Trespass

    Phillip Finch

  • Man of Rock

    Rachel Ford

    Zak Trenchard's return meant trouble At least as far as Tamsin Westmacott, his neighbor, was concerned. She'd worshiped him once, as had others, and they'd all been left with broken hearts. Now it seemed that Zak was after her land....

  • Moonfeather

    Judith E. French

    "I CLAIM THIS CAPTIVE AS MY OWN..." With those words, Moonfeather brazenly stepped forward to save the golden-haired Englishman from the flames of Shawnee vengeance...by marrying him! An hour later; Viscount Bandon, son and heir of the pow...

  • The Palm Dome

    Liz Fulton

    The old Camfrey estate in Connecticut has seen its share of tragedies over the years, but when Emmeline Camfrey dies in a suspicious accident, the survivors who seek the truth behind the mishap come up against a hideous force bent on vengeance and de...

  • The Alien Dark

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Out of the darkness of interstellar space . . The ahsin bey, a race of catlike beings determined to expand their territory, launch six vessels into deep space to search for an uninhabited world suitable for colonization. Tahl d'jehn commands th...

  • The Rainbow Cat

    Silvana Gardner

  • Sand in the Wind

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear

    DREAM OF DESTINY Drawn by troubling dreams of a handsome Indian warrior, Colleen Merrill had come westward with her brutal husband to homestead in the Montana wilderness--only to fall in love with Lieutenant Matthew Douglas, a dashing U.S. Cavalry...

  • Heather Moon

    Sharon Gillenwater

    THE SPLENDOR OF PASSION -- AND THE DANGERS OF DECEIT... Posing as a maid, beautiful Catriona Denley fled her native Scotland, hoping to mend a bitter rift that left her father cruelly disinherited from the family estate. But once on English shores...

  • What's It Like Out?

    Penelope Gilliatt

  • The Life of a Useless Man

    Maxim Gorky

  • Slam Dunk

    S.S. Gorman

  • Moments in Time

    J.P. Grady

  • Tales from the Nightside

    Charles L. Grant

  • Great Australian Novel At Last Its Here

    Murray Gray

  • Tender Betrayal

    Grace Green

    Kyla was well aware of Adam's thoughts about her He believed her to be a fortune hunter. "You've got it all now," he said. "The furs, the diamonds, the easy life. All the things you believed you couldn't get from me." ...

  • Haunted House

    Sharon Green

    Murder was her business... For mystery writer Diane Phillips, it was supposed to be a working weekend -- a convention of writers, editors and fans, held at the wonderfully spooky resort known as the Haunted House. Work or no, Diane was hoping to ...

  • Yesterday's Wedding

    Kay Gregory

    Margie was shocked After a decade of silence, Justin Lamontagne stood at her door, handsome and ruthless as ever. Only now, he was the successful businessman he'd always claimed he'd become. Eleven years of separation hadn't healed ...

  • Sport of Kings & Other Stories

    Tom Griffith

  • Rapunzel and The Seven Ravens

    Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm

  • Over the Sea to Die

    Richard Grindal

    When both his holiday plans and love affair collapse, London doctor Charles Mackinnon agrees to act as locum in Skye, looking forward to a peaceful stay. However, within hours of his arrival he witnesses someone being thrown off a distant cliff into ...

  • Human, Beware!

    Thorarinn Gunnarsson

  • Sunder, Eclipse and Seed

    Elyse Guttenberg

    True Dreamer: When Calyx's father banished her to the dream temple at Aster, it was an answer to her prayers, for now she would be trained to watch and read the dreams of others. But Calyx was barred from training, and only through long-buried knowle...

  • Not a Creature Was Stirring

    Jane Haddam

    THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME FOR THE HOMICIDE For former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian, retirement has just come to an abrupt end. What started as a mysterious summons to a Christmas Eve feast at multimillionaire Robert Hannaford's isolated country est...

  • Juror

    Parnell Hall

    Hall's (Client ) latest addition to the Stanley Hastings series featuring the somewhat inconsequential private detective who specializes in negligence cases, finds Hastings reluctantly serving as a juror in a numbingly boring trial. Fellow juror and ...

  • Only the Nanny Knows for Sure

    Phyllis Halldorson

    WHAT THE NANNY LEARNED Heather Carmichael was thrilled at the prospect of a position as nanny to Boston's famous Sheffield family. Taking charge of the tiny heiress in their magnificent Beacon Hill home would be quite a challenge -- as would t...

  • Courage to Love

    Carole Halston

    The proposal was tempting.... Rugged widower Jonus Logan made his masculine desire for her plain enough. His beseeching, button-eyed daughter tugged at her every maternal instinct. Yet Polly Dearing had suffered too much from love and loss. Her re...

  • Midnight Enchantment

    Jeanne E. Hansen

    Emily Harcourt was on the run, and taking refuge aboard Seneca Prescott's cargo ship was the only way to elude her pursuers and possible solve the murders of her uncle and cousin. But Seneca-a muscular giant of a man with looks as dark as a starless ...

  • The Jade Affair

    Madeline Harper

    It was no simple affair Reeve Holden had bailed out Clea Moore's brother one too many times. He wished his best friend would finally grow up. As for Clea, she'd been daddy's little girl for too long. In fact, Reeve didn't want anything to do wi...

  • Andie and the Boys

    Janice Harrell

    Andie loves her new stepbrother and his two best buddies, but when their overprotectiveness begins scaring off prospective boyfriends, she tries to think of a way to remedy the situation without hurting her friends' feelings...

  • Real Murders

    Charlaine Harris

    THE "MURDER OF THE MONTH" SUDDENLY TOOK A VERY REAL, VERY VIOLENT TURN Every month, Real Murders, a society of crime buffs in Lawrenceton, Georgia, met to discuss a favorite infamous murder. Its members were an eccentric lot: Gifford Doakes, the m...

  • A Christmas Melodie

    Catherine Hart
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    A mail-order bride spends a romantic Christmas in a deserted cabin with a handsome young widower and his four rambunctious children......

  • Predator 2

    Simon Hawke

  • The Quivering Tree

    S.T. Haymon

    As a young girl, the author struggles to cope with the death of her father, her mother's absence, the two eccentric teachers with whom she lives, life in a Norwich girls' school, and approaching adolescence...

  • A Christmas Courtship

    Sandra Heath

    The Strong-Minded Miss Beautiful Blanche Amberley knew whom she loved. The lucky gentleman was Antony Mortimer, a banker's son who offered her not only his heart and hand, but also a life of wealth and ease. Miss Amberley also knew whom she tho...

  • Warlord

    Eric Helm

    The U.S. continues to provide clandestine assistance to the anti-communist Hmong soldiers conducting direct operations against the Pathet Lao and Vietcong. Now, in a concentrated effort to disrupt enemy traffic on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, the U.S. laun...

  • Friends in High Places

    Michael Hendricks

    Street-smart investigator Rita Noonan finds the corpse of ex-cop Wilsey Weiss in her apartment, and struggles to find his killer while coping with her aging boss and her feelings for a client's husband...

  • Double Deceit

    Emily Hendrickson

    A Juggling Act of Love Miss Caroline Beauchamp had accepted a very tricky task. She had to seduce Lord Hugh Stanhope, the handsome husband of her dearest friend, Mary Stanhope, to break the hold that an infamous beauty had on the vulnerable Viscou...

  • A Multitude of Tigers

    John Hepworth

  • I Hate Being Gifted

    Patricia Hermes

    Nobody Wants to Be a LEAP Creep That's what some kids call the ones who make it into LEAP -- our school's special program for smart kids. Like me. Just because I passed one lousy test, everyone thinks I'm a nerd. Even my best friends, Melinda and Ch...

  • Morning Morning True

    Ernest Herndon

  • Space Food

    Ann Hodgman

  • Panna

    Imre Hofbauer

  • Handsome Devil

    Joan Hohl

    Mr. December Who? Luke Branson - the most sinfully seductive devil ever to tempt mortal woman. Where? The stark, sun-scorched mountains fo West Texas. With? A fiery passion for heavenly Selena McInnes. Why? He'd finally met his match! ...

  • An Elf for Christmas

    Judith Hollands

  • Day Dreaming on Company Time

    Robert Hood

  • A Bride for Strathallane

    Stephanie Howard

    There'd never been anyone for her but Rory Deep inside, Isla MacDonald acknowledged that. But she was no longer the wide-eyed teenager who'd been brokenhearted when Rory Buchanan cast her out of his life. Oh, she'd survived. Isla ha...

  • Deeper and Deeper

    Jan Hudson

    A Tiger in Tight Jeans and a Wicked Grin... Wick McCall knew how to tempt a lady into having a good time, even when she insisted he was all wrong for her! Psychologist Maya Stephens was a sultry-eyed enchantress whose voice poured over Wick like ...

  • Dawn Rider

    Jan Hudson

    Kit Fox's sixteenth year with her people, the Bloods, is filled with preparations for an important buffalo run, talk of her older sister's coming marriage, and skirmishes with their traditional enemy the Snakes...

  • Eight Skilled Gentlemen

    Barry Hughart

    Once again World Fantasy Award-winner Barry Hughart blends folklore and fantasy to create a work of enchantment set in an ancient China that never was... but should have been. Master Li and Number Ten Ox -- heroes of Bridge of Birds and The Story of ...

  • The Factory

    Lyn Hughes

  • Tools of the Trade

    E.J. Hunter

  • Eagle

    Michael Hyde

  • Fragile Heritage

    Sara Hylton

    Reared in the repressive world of working-class respectability and false piety, two young women, Ellen Adair and her best friend, Kitty, take different paths as they pursue their shared dreams of living in luxury...

  • White Heat

    Steve James

  • An Unexpected Song

    Iris Johansen

    THE BROODING, ENIGMATIC COMPOSER... When Jason Hayes heard Daisy Justine's spectacular voice, he felt a fierce joy, and a shocking need to possess her! She was born to sing his music for Desdemona, but when she refused his offer and wouldn'...

  • Sweetwater Seduction

    Joan Johnston

    A DANGEROUS INNOCENCE Her rich titian hair in a bun, schoolmarm Eden Devlin was too tall and too doggone smart. Most men in Sweetwater wouldn't tangle with her. Until Burke Kerrigan rode into town. Big, hard, and handsome, he wore a pair of six-guns...

  • Alarm

    Ariel Jennifer Jones

    Allen Cage, a latter-day Houdini recently released from prison, secures a job selling security systems, but life out of jail proves difficult, and soon he is mixed up with a blackmailing psychopath and an L.A. businessman...

  • Sweet Obsession

    Kathy Jones

    HOT WITH PASSION From the moment rancher Jack Corbett kept her from capturing the wild white stallion, Kayley Ryan detested the man. She hated him for standing between her and revenge on the animal that had nearly killed her father. And how dared he...

  • The Self as Fighter

    Shlomo Kalo

    A philosophical thriller and a belletristic work of contemplation. A fateful encounter between a spiritual master and the one who is destined to be his pupil. Yitschak, the central character, represents the average spiritual disciple, progress...

  • Secret Wishes

    Lou Kassen

  • Challenge of a Lifetime

    Barbara Kaye

    Then A chance meeting on an Alabama riverbank; an instant connection that meant more than Paula Steele or Dane Markham could know.. Now A passionate romance. A chance for Dane, country music's latest sensation, to dazzle Nashville. An opportunit...

  • Cold As Ice

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy spends a winter weekend on campus -- and finds that crime is on the curriculum Ned invites Nancy, Bess, and George to Emerson College's Winter Carnival for four days of nonstop skiing, skating, and sleigh riding. But a jewel heist on campus pu...

  • The Haunting of Horse Island

    Carolyn Keene

    GHOST RIDERS' HIDEAWAY! Friends of George's parents invite the girls to visit their rustic retreat in upstate New York. With its riding stables and canoes, the resort seems a dream come true. But before Nancy can hitch up her hiking boots, she disco...

  • The Perpignon Exchange

    Warren Kiefer

    Likeable con-man Dahoud el Beida, aka David Perpignon, hijacked to Libya by PLO terrorists and mistakenly welcomed as the terrorist leader, becomes involved in a rescue attempt that might make him both a hero and very rich...

  • Campfire Story

    Robert Y. Kline

  • Shadow Steed

    Richard A. Knaak

    The prosperous mountain kingdom Talak survived war with the Ice Dragon unwounded -- except for young, mutilated King Melicard's hatred of dragons, drakes, and magical humans like Cabe and Gwen Bedlam. Pursuing his twisted vendetta, Melicard captures ...

  • The Space Between: or All about Anna

    Hartwig Kopp

  • Born on the Fourth of July

    Ron Kovic

  • Six Little Angels

    Betina Krahn
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    An unconventional young noblewoman reluctantly accepts the help of her handsome ex-suitor, rekindling long-suppressed desires......

  • Home Is the Hunter

    Dana Kramer-Rolls

    A dispute over a planet and its primitive people leads Captain Kirk and a Klingon Commander to pit their ships against each other in battle. But the fight is stopped by a mysterious and powerful alien being named Weyland, who decides to punish three ...

  • Education of a Wandering Man

    Louis L'Amour

    From his decision to leave school at fifteen to roam the world, to his recollections of life as a hobo on the Southern Pacific Railroad, as a cattle skinner in Texas, as a merchant seaman in Singapore and the West Indies, and as an itinerant bare-knu...

  • A Match Made in Heaven

    Linda Ladd
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    A Christmas wish by three matchmaking children brings together two lovers separated by the Civil War......

  • The Reforming of Lord Roth

    Emma Lange

    The Country Miss Miss Isabella Ramsey was intimately acquainted with the facts of life. The facts of country life, that is. For she had to manage her family estate to keep her father from ruin and her sister dressed in the height of fashion. Th...

  • A Promise Made

    Catherine Lanigan

    GOLDEN PROMISES... FEVERED PASSIONS... DANGEROUS OBSESSIONS... Barely a woman when her world was shattered, Lisa Parrish sacrificed everything for a magnificent vision. Driven from her Louisiana home by cruel treachery, she abandoned her family'...

  • Unfinished Passion

    Terry Lawrence

    Her First Lover, Her Only Love... Marcie Courville wondered desperately how she could be excused from serving on the jury--she knew she'd never survive sharing such intimate quarters with Ray Crane! Ten years earlier the ruggedly sexy construction...

  • The Crimson Crown

    Edith Layton

    A King’s Throne at Stake, a Woman’s Heart at Risk Handsome adventurer Lucas Lovat was an instrument of the King’s will. And the King was Henry VII of England, who would do anything and destroy anyone to keep his hold on the sceptre of power....

  • Smart Stuff

    Karen Leabo

    IN HOT PURSUIT Camille Gordon had lived her entire life behind the sheltered walls of the Energy Institute. She knew a whole world was out there, so she packed her bags and decided to make a new life for herself. But sweet, trusting Camille had no...

  • Richer Than Sin

    Barney Leason

  • Tales of Pirx the Pilot

    Stanislaw Lem

    Brilliant stories of a bumbling astronaut, and the human desire to discover the unknown, by the much-loved author of Solaris. Set in the not-too-distant future, when space flight has evolved to the point where humanity is ready to colonize the solar ...

  • He Who Wept

    Thom Lemmons

    Jeremiah (Paperback) I found this to be scripturally accurate and a very helpful as well as enlightening view of Jeremiah's life. Once you read this, you'll love Jeremiah and appreciate the ministry he did to Israel. Thank you Thom Lemmons....

  • Upon a Midnight Clear

    Laura Leone

    HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS With no family to call her own, Fiona Larkin was happy to share her Christmas turkey with the four-legged inhabitants of the Oak Hill Pet Motel--until she spotted a mysterious two-legged intruder lurking about the grounds. Ca...

  • World Class Gymnast

    Elizabeth Levy

    When Lauren has the opportunity to meet Heidi Ferguson, the world-class gymnast, she cannot understand why Heidi is so unhappy and why all she worries about is staying thin, until Heidi ends up in the hospital...

  • Rumors and Whispers

    Marilyn Levy

    SARAH HATED EVERYTHING ABOUT HER NEW SCHOOL -- EVERYTHING, THAT IS, BUT HER ART TEACHER. Her name was Sarah Alexander, and she'd lived in Ohio all her life -- until the day her father announced that the whole family was moving to Southern Californ...

  • Extremity of the Skies

    Jeff Lewis

  • Arrowsmith

    Sinclair Lewis

    Harry Sinclair Lewis (7th February, 1885 â€" 10th January, 1951) was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1930 "for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humour, new types of chara...

  • The Prisoner of Pineapple Place

    Anne Lindbergh

    Pineapple Place, an invisible street that moves from city to city and keeps its inhabitants the same age forever, is threatened with change when nine-year-old Jeremiah becomes bored and makes contact with the outside world....

  • Gentle Rogue

    Johanna Lindsey

    Her heart trampled and torn, innocent Georgina Anderson was desperate to return home to America. Leaving her sorrows on England's shores, she defiantly boarded the "gentleman's ship" Maiden Anne disguised as a cabin boy--never dreaming she'd be force...

  • Murder, I Presume

    Gillian Linscott

    Crippled explorer Peter Pentland turns sleuth to investigate the murder of a disgraced fellow explorer--killed by a rare African poison--who had threatened the reputations of rival adventurers Col. Hardy Stretton and Philip Bright, in a mystery set i...

  • Point Blank

    Jayson Livingston

    The murders and postmortem sexual assaults of two women lead Stu Reddman and his colleagues on a desperate search for a brutal killer, and their only clues are identical coins left at the scenes of the crimes and two books filled with coded names and...

  • The Horse Thief War

    Jake Logan

  • The Pendragon Virus

    Cait London

    MR. MOM So what if Sam Loring gave dictation through his secretary's coffee break--he had a company to run! But then his female staff attended Dallas Pendragon's stress-management seminar, and they suddenly wanted everything from a child-care cent...

  • The World of Emily Dickinson

    Polly Longsworth

    Photographs trace the people and surroundings of Emily Dickinson's life, including her family's influential and active public life, the friends and relatives closest to her, and the growth of the town of Amherst...

  • Giving Birth to Thunder, Sleeping with His Daughter

    Barry Lopez

    Prankster, warrior, seducer, fool -- Old Man Coyote is the most enduring legend in Native American culture. Crafty and cagey -- often the victim of his own magical intrigues and lusty appetites -- he created the earth and man, scrambled the stars and...

  • Diamond Eyes

    John Lutz

    PI Alo Nudger, at the St. Louis airport to pick up a pal, offers his business card to a distraught woman just before an incoming plane blows apart. The next morning she arrives at his office with a wild story about a bomb in an attache case and a for...

  • Remember My Love

    Pamela Macaluso

    THE SWEETEST MEMORIES When Deanna Palmer spotted the attractive patient in the hospital ward, she knew she'd found her man. She had spent a week tracking down Maxwell Hilliard, entrepreneur and heir to a financial empire. Her brother's detective a...

  • The Sheriff Takes a Wife

    Debbie Macomber

    Maybe it was the Montana air. Or the fact that her sister had just given birth to a precious baby boy. But from the moment she met Custer County's sheriff-elect, overpoweringly masculine Cody Franklin, responsible, city-bred Christy Manning took a tu...

  • To Sea with a Lyre

    Marion Maguire

  • A Time to Sing

    Sally Mandel

    American pop singer Karen Wells falls in love with Edward Vaughn, a faltering English writer, but their relationship cannot hold strong against the divisive forces of a love triangle and the ravages of disease...

  • Black Water 2

    Alberto Manguel

  • Redshift - Blueshift

    Chris Mansell

  • Walt Disney Pictures Presents the Prince and the Pauper

    Fran Manushkin

    The Prince and the Pauper is a novel written by American author Mark Twain. The story centers around two young boys who look identical in appearance, but one is a pauper and the other is Prince Edward, the son of King Henry VIII....

  • California Girls!

    Ann M. Martin

    California, here they come! Who would believe it -- the Baby-sitters have won the lottery! And with their winning money, the girls are all going with Dawn to...California! What adventures they have. Jessi lands a (tiny) part in a TV show, Kristy ge...

  • Poor Mallory!

    Ann M. Martin

    Need a baby-sitter? Save time! Call: The Baby-Sitters Club The best friends you'll ever have! There's some bad news in the Pike family: Mallory's dad has just lost his job. And since money is going to be tight until Mr. Pike finds a new job, all eig...