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New Books List: 538 titles

  • Crash Dive

    James B. Adair

  • Rookie Dad

    Pepper Adams

    TAURUS MAN Real-estate developer James Townsend was out of his element. Stacking building blocks with preschoolers was a far cry from a power lunch. But Colly Fairchild required all parents to "do time" at her nursery school. James quickly...

  • Cam Jansen and the Mystery at the Haunted House

    David A. Adler

    Cam's on the lookout for a creepy criminal! Cam Jansen and her friend Eric are visiting an amusement park with her aunt and uncle. Bumper cars and the Haunted House are exciting enough, but then Aunt Katie's wallet is stolen. Who could have taken i...

  • I'm Growing!

    Aliki

  • Day of Atonement

    Alfred Alvarez

    When their friend Tommy Apple dies leaving them a million dollars and unanswered questions about his drug dealings, Joe and Judy Constantine are pressured to cooperate both with Tommy's cronies and with federal agents. 12,500 first printing....

  • Summer Fling

    Diane Ames

    Annie cannot wait to start her new job as junior counselor and promises her boyfriend David that she will be loyal all summer, but now she must resist the smile of the gorgeous new tennis instructor. Original....

  • Fortune's Fury

    Linda Andersen

    FROM HATRED... TO DESIRE...TO ECSTASY The Arizona Territory was no place for a beautiful woman...but stunning Samantha Drury suddenly found herself alone there when her husband was killed in a tragic mining accident. She thought she would never re...

  • The Armies of Elfland

    Poul Anderson

    A collection of fantasy tales by the author of The Broken Sword and A Midsummer Tempest stars gods and warriors and features the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning "The Queen of Air and Darkness." Original....

  • The Game of Empire

    Poul Anderson

  • Old Devil Moon

    Joyce Anglin

    MAC--He Looked Too Good in the Morning to Push Out of Bed .... Dr. Kendra Davis was having a terrible vacation so far--no heat in the ski lodge, a noisy party in the next room keeping her awake--but she felt even worse when she pounded on their d...

  • The Unbelievable Truth

    Katherine Applegate

    Hannah Ward is the kind of girl everybody loves - she's beautiful, warm, and smart. That's why her death comes as such a shock, especially to her best friend, Claire Katz. But Claire has to face an even more powerful emotion when she finds herself fa...

  • Sleight of Hand

    Vivien Armstrong

    Infuriated by the interference of Special Branch in one of his murder investigations, Ralph Arnott resigns from the force and turns the case over to Sergeant Judy Pullen, but he is soon helping her solve the case anyway...

  • The Scandal of Ulysses

    Bruce Arnold

    Long before its publication , James Joyce`s " Ulysses" was the cause of scandal. It was to be denounced as obscene, and its publication in Britain and the United States prevented. Controversy surrounded it throughout Joyce`s lifetime, and he claim...

  • The Signmaker's Assistant

    Tedd Arnold

  • American Voices: Best Short Fiction by Contemporary Authors

    Sally Arteseros

  • Law of the Circle

    Rosalie Ash

    "Why do men always confuse sex and love?" Fen believed she had every right to ask Adam Trevaun that question. After all, seven years ago in Paris he had virtually accused her of betraying him with another man. Now Fen found herself forced to work wit...

  • Deadly Reunion

    Jeffrey Ashford

    After losing his job and his wife, Gary Weston meets an old schoolmate by chance in Spain and learns that he could lose even more, possibly even his own life, if he is not careful. By the author of An Illegal Solution. ...

  • A World the Color of Salt

    Noreen Ayres

    "Friends call me Smokey. I'm female, five five, bland blond, the right weight..." Jerry Dwyer was a good kid--friendly, helpful, a bit goofy, perhaps. And he deserved better than to be gunned down in his parents' convenience store--snuffed by a pa...

  • Piccolo

    James Baddock

    This is very much a 21st century thriller, involving ‘a new kind of treason'. Police Inspector Steven Redmond, of Special Branch, is charged with investigating the suspicious deaths by ‘accident' or ‘suicide’ of several Ministry of Defence co...

  • Tye May and the Magic Brush

    Molly Bang

  • A Treasury of Flower Fairies

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • Regeneration

    Pat Barker

    “Calls to mind such early moderns as Hemingway and Fitzgerald...Some of the most powerful antiwar literature in modern English fiction.” -- The Boston GlobeThe first book of the Regeneration Trilogy -- a Booker Prize nominee and one of Entertainm...

  • Talk of the Town

    Beverly Barton

    TOO CLOSE FOR COMFORT Sweet Southern belle Lydia Reid never imagined she'd be the subject of scandal. Yet when her unfaithful husband made her an unforgiving widow, Lydia turned to country boy Wade Cameron for comfort ... and EVERYONE in town bega...

  • Teenage Idol, Travelin' Man

    Philip Bashe

    The complete biography of rock idol Rick Nelson includes details of behind-the-scenes tensions on the set of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Rick's brushes with the law, his drug abuse, and his untimely death....

  • Today Is Monday

    Susan Baum

  • Wallflower

    William Bayer

    Not since the infamous "Switch" case had Detective Janek seen such perverse brutality. The killer hod defiled the victims' bodies so carefully, so lovingly, that only a mind twisted by the most extreme sexual obsession could conceive such acts. But n...

  • Anvil of Stars

    Greg Bear

    The Ship of the Law was made of the fragments of Earth's corpse, a world in itself, cruising massively close to the speed of light, hundreds of years from the dust and rubble of home... And aboard were 82 mortal exiles sworn to find and punish the...

  • A Hopeless Case

    K.K. Beck

    Jane da Silva knows a Cole Porter tune and a silky voice will only carry you so far through the urbane cabarets of Europe. So when the young widow's "eccentric" Uncle Harold dies, she jets back to the States to claim the fortune she dearly needs to r...

  • The Complete Beyond the Fringe

    Alan Bennett

  • Bodily Harm

    Marc Berrenson

    Suffer the little children. An innocent young girl had been molested and murdered - the latest in a brutal series of child killings. And the man accused of the unthinkable crime is a celebrated public servant. An acknowledged hero with a sterling rec...

  • The Light of Home

    R.C. Binstock

  • Past the Bleachers

    Chris Bohjalian

    Agreeing to coach what would have been his son's baseball team after his son Nathaniel's death at the age of ten, Bill Parris hopes to exorcise his grief, even when a new boy who looks disturbingly like Nathaniel joins the team....

  • Paddington Bear

    Michael Bond

    Mr. and Mrs. Brown stumble upon a small, marmalade-loving, hat-wearing bear from Peru in the middle of London's busy Paddington Station, in a reillustrated version of Paddington Bear's first adventure....

  • The Scandalous Schoolmistress

    Rita Boucher

    A SECRET HEART Guinivere Courtney has proven herself a valued member of Society. As headmistress of Morton House she has shown a remarkable aptitude for properly finishing some of London's most unmanageable young ladies. But there is more to the p...

  • Sam Is My Half-Brother

    Lizi Boyd

  • Eleven Edward Street

    Clare Boylan

  • Air Force Eagles

    Walter J. Boyne

  • Sheba the Chimp and Skylar

    Sarah Boysen

  • Almost History

    Christopher Bram

    Jim Goodall joins the foreign service during the 1950s and is sent to the Philippines, where he observes the U.S.'s treacherous dealings with the Marcos regime, dealings that shake his belief in his government and himself....

  • Through All Eternity

    Brenna Braxton-Barshon

    From the steamy back streets of New Orleans to the glitter of London's titled society to the fury of the French Revolution. they were two hearts bound together by a single destiny... Desperate circumstances had forced her into a reckless life of dang...

  • Shiva

    J.H. Brennan

    A Cro-Magnon tribe is forced to confront its collective fear of the Neanderthal people they call ogres, when a young girl of the tribe, Shiva, befriends an ogre boy, and when Hiram, a young hunter from the tribe, is captured by ogres....

  • Where There Is Love

    Annette Broadrick

    MR. MAY Man: Secret agent Max Moran--silent, stealthy and ready to spring. Current Assignment: Rescue a kidnapped child. Disturbing Factor: Teaming up with ex-agent Marisa Stevens--delicate, determined and dreamy enough to break any stoic secret...

  • Watermark

    Joseph Brodsky

    A collection of forty-eight essays on Venice explores the city's meandering, waterlogged streets, stunningly beautiful architecture, atmospheric characters, and unique spirit. By the author of Less Than One. ...

  • Untold Tales

    William J. Brooke

  • The Badmen

    Bill Brooks

  • California Kingdoms

    Robert W. Broomall

    Bound together by friendship and their quest for gold, Wade Rawson, Jack Marlow, and Kathy Beddoes face the challenges of the lawless wilderness and the San Francisco streets during the gold rush. Original....

  • Masterpieces of the English Short Novel

    Ken Brown

    Includes works from Samuel Johnson's "Life of Richard Savage" to Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Sharer," including fiction by Maria Edgeworth, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Mrs. Gaskell, George Eliot, George Meredith, Thomas Love Peacock, and William Hazlitt...

  • French Silk

    Sandra Brown

    UNDERNEATH THE INNOCENCE LAY DESIRE...SECRETS...MYSTERY AND THE SENSUOUS TEMPTATIONS OF FRENCH SILK Claire Laurent was a woman who embodied all of New Orleans' sultry paradoxes: beauty mixed with a mysterious elusiveness, a vibrant zest for living...

  • The Veiled Vixen

    Virginia Brown

    At first reluctant to marry her father's choice of beaux for her, the eligible Marquess of Brodhurst, Lady Alicia soon changes her mind when she finds out that the Marquess wants nothing to do with her. Lady Alicia strongly objected when her f...

  • Sunshine and Shadows

    Pamela Browning

    THE TROUBLE WITH SAINTS The moment Lisa Sherrill began to work at Yahola, Florida's Faith Mission, she heard all about Jay Quillian. To hear people talk, you'd think he was perfect, a miracle worker. The mission nuns would have pinned a...

  • Cry of the Seagull

    Megan Brownley

    Suddenly her dream made sense For years, Janette Taylor dreamed she'd heard her newborn baby cry. But the doctors had told her the infant was stillborn. Then she met Amy, the ten-year-old who looked exactly like the child in a portrait Janette's f...

  • Bad Guys

    Anthony Bruno

    A crime thriller starring two FBI agents up against the mob: “This series dazzles with fast, intricate plotting, terrific characters, and humor” (Publishers Weekly).   Mike Tozzi and Cuthbert Gibbons were once odd-couple partners in crimesol...

  • Fox Hunt

    Bonnie Bryant

    Tallyho!The Saddle Club is in for some real excitement when Stevie’s boyfriend, Phil, invites them, along with a few other kids from their Pony Club, to participate in a genuine fox hunt. Stevie, Lisa, and Carole can’t wait for the event to begin...

  • The Hidden Heart

    Gayle Buck

    A Dangerous Friendship Beautiful young Lady Caroline Eddington found it devilishly difficult to be the best friend of Lord Miles Trilby, the Earl of Walmsley. Miles might be the most handsome lord in the realm, but he was also the most heartless, ...

  • The White Rhino Hotel

    Bartle Bull

    Historic romance and adventure do not get any better than in this companion novel to the top-selling A Café on the Nile. The Great War has ended, tragically for many, but for some, Africa holds the prospect of vast estates, fabulous wealth, and limi...

  • Florian's Gate

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    The Iron Curtain has been torn open, setting Poland on the road to democracy. But can true freedom come to those still bound by tragic memories of - Florian's Gate When Jeffrey Sinclair takes on the challenge of assisting in a high-priced London an...

  • Brain Damage

    Herbert Burkholz

    The third thriller, following The Sensitives (1987) and Strange bedfellows (1988), in Burkholz's series featuring a group of people called "Sensitives," who are able to read other people's thoughts, and are thus zealously recruited by the world's int...

  • Deadly Currents

    Caroline Burnes

    The Call of the Wild There was a secret hidden in the Tabuga River -- one that Miranda Conner was never meant to find. But now that she had, she was having a hard time staying alive. The preservation of the pristine Appalachian waterway depende...

  • Journey's End

    Julie Caille
    in

    From the day her sister died in childbirth, Clarissa had raised Gillie as her own. And she would fight as fiercely as any mother to keep from giving up her child to a stranger -- even one as handsome and fascinating as Lord Taunton......

  • Pyromancer

    Don Callander

    ***APPRENTICE WANTED *** to learn the MYSTERIES and SECRETS of WIZARDRY in the Discipline of FIRE from a MASTER MAGICIAN, SUPREME SPELLCASTER, WONDERFUL WIZARD and PRESTIGIOUS PYROMANCER! I require a bright, obedient, well-witted lad of at least ...

  • Conditioned to Death

    C.K. Cambray

    When the now-profitable health club, recently taken over by Dawn Gray, begins losing some of its members to bizarre accidents, Dawn must spring into action and locate the killer before she is his next victim. Original....

  • Raven Rising

    J.D. Cameron

    Hidden in an underground fortress, the insane U.S. president and his elite corps of stormtroopers, survivors of the nuclear holocaust that has left the world in ruins, make plans to enslave what remains of the human race. Original....

  • Lady Legend

    Deborah Camp

    She is called Copper-Headed Woman -- a legend among trappers and Indians alike. Abducted while still a child, she mastered the ancient healing arts of the Crow as she grew to ravishing womanhood -- and suffered at the hands of a cold and brutal mate....

  • Desert Sunrise

    Raine Cantrell

    FAITH Beautiful and strong willed, she traveled west to leave her past behind, and called upon a brave stranger to lead her across the perilous Arizona Territory. How could she know this man of secrets was destined to be her lover -- or that his har...

  • Sacrifice

    Harold Carlton

    THREE FAMOUS FACES. THREE TERRIBLE SECRETS. Marcella Balducci Winton escaped from the staid, close-knit world of Little Italy on the strength of her astonishing writing talent, becoming a literary superstar and the mother of two exceptionally bril...

  • Captive Treasure

    Tena Carlyle

    SHE NEEDED HIM Daughter of the noted archaeologist Charles Cecil Meriweather, Baltimore beauty Constance Meriweather was determined to retrieve the Aztec treasure her father had found in Mexico and open a museum in his memory. All she needed was an ...

  • The Gossamer Cord

    Philippa Carr

    When happy-go-lucky Dorabella Denver marries Dermot Tregarland, a charismatic young Cornishman, her twin sister, Violetta, is haunted by premonitions of disaster. Her worries soon multiply, as rumors of blood feuds and mysterious deaths are linked to...

  • Heartbreaks along the Road

    Roch Carrier

  • Ghost of a Chance

    Joan Carris

    During their summer vacation in Beaufort, North Carolina, Punch and his friend Tom join a local boy, Skeeter Grace, on a search for hidden treasure, a quest that leeds to an encounter with a school of dolphins and a ghost....

  • Muse-Echo Blues

    Xam Wilson Cartier

    "Brilliant...Xam Cartier's talent with language, and her gift for expressing anew the codes and ceremonies of black life, have a new and vibrant source of expression. Muse-Echo Blues is one hell of an improvisation."
    - SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
    ...

  • Kisses

    Judith Caseley

    Hannah, a shy fifteen year old who is talented in music but lacking in self-confidence, comes to realize, after several unsuccessful encounters with boys, the importance of being true to oneself. Reprint....

  • The Running Vixen

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    In 1126, the Welsh Marches are a land darkened by strife, where nothing is safe; not even a young woman's heart .... Adam de Lacey has returned home to Ravenstow after a royal mission, and the newly widowed Heulwen finds that her passion still bur...

  • The Run to Chaos Keep

    Jack L. Chalker

    When the two horned demons--the greatest discovery of all time--escape their giant sealed amber cell and leave a trail of mutilated victims, the three major empires must follow these creatures into another dimension. Reprint....

  • The Bestiary of Christ

    Louis Charbonneau-Lassay

  • Thunderheart

    Lowell Charters

    "THUNDERHEART HAS COME AGAIN, BRIGHT AS THE SUN, STRONG AS THE BUFFALO, HE COMES TO HIS TROUBLED PEOPLE." A part-Sioux FBI agent, Raymond Levoi is sent to the Badlands of South Dakota to investigate the unexplained murder of a Native American. In ...

  • Maria's Girls

    Jerome Charyn

    Obsessed with Alejo Toma+a7s and Carlos Maria Montalba+a7n, two corrupt members of the New York school system, police commissioner Isaac Sidel sends Detective Caroll Brent to dog their trail. Reprint....

  • Summer Lightning

    Sandra Chastain
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    Through a violent summer storm in Nashville, Joe's haunting music drew her to him, striking strangely familiar notes in her mind though she had lost her memory. For him, she was only Summer, with no past, only the present. Together they shared a midn...

  • White Nineteens

    David Christiana

  • Return of the Home Run Kid

    Matt Christopher

    Last year, Sylvester was the "kid who only hit homers," but this season it seems like he can't do anything right. He's playing so badly that the coach has him warming the bench -- until he meets Cheeko. With Cheeko's help, Sylvester learns how to p...

  • Red Riding Hood

    Christopher Coady

  • Chasing Eights

    Michael Collins

    Hired to track down Jack Price, a card shark forever in search of the one hand that will win him the jackpot, Dan Fortune enters a netherworld of small-time gamblers, wheeler-dealers, drug pushers, and murderers. Original....

  • Losing Things at Mr. Mudd's

    Carolyn Coman

  • Glory Girl

    Susan Connell

    EVAN--He Was Irresistible Temptation in the Flesh .... He couldn't understand why the delectable strawberry blonde with endlessly long legs was trying to hide behind sunglasses and a huge hat! When she suddenly ran for cover, Evan Jamieson had to...

  • Underworld

    Peter Conrad

    A desolate valley peopled by criminals spurs the dreams of an architect set on rebuilding the valley, an artist who is inspired by the area, and a young boy trying to flee from it. 15,000 first printing. National ad/promo....

  • The Black Widow

    Gerry Conway

  • Freshman Follies

    Linda A. Cooney

    Lauren's in love -- again! Gorgeous Dimitri Broder has swept her off her feet. But is Dimitri the poor student he claims to be -- or a con artist who uses gullible rich girls? The wedding date is set but can Melissa and Brooks last until then? The ...

  • Friends 'Til the Thunder Claps

    Deirdre Corey

  • Wake up Screaming

    Vincent Courtney

    Derek finally gets to spend his summer vacation in Florida with his grandpa, but creepy things start to happen when Derek and his new friend fool around with a demon book that summons the vengeful ghost of his dead grandmother. Original....

  • Miss Seeton by Moonlight

    Hamilton Crane

    THE ART OF CRIME How do you catch an art thief? With artistic bait, of course. And who else but the talented Miss Seeton would provide a painting for Scotland Yard, hoping it will get stolen? Before the trap is sprung, a second thief strikes ... i...

  • The Secret Language of the SB

    Elizabeth Crarboro

  • Almost Goodbye

    Helen Cresswell

  • Gator Kill

    Bill Crider

    After he failed to find his missing sister, whose remains finally turned up in a bag in an overgrown field, Texas PI Truman Smith retired to become a housepainter on Galveston Island. But when an alligator is killed and its carcass left on display on...

  • Serpent's Gift

    A.C. Crispin

    When an archaeological find beneath the surface of the Starbridge Academy's asteroid base threatens to destroy their dreams for the future, instructor Serge and student Heather spring into action. Original....

  • Dangerous Games

    Susan Crosland

  • Paradise Valley

    Jack Curtis

  • Cat's Cradle

    Clare Curzon

    Old Lorely Pelling was as queer as two left boots...A reclusive eccentric with a checkered past and dozens of cats, her shooting death is first believed accidental, the result of local boys' target practice. But Detective Superintendent Mike Yeadings...

  • Aunt Eater's Mystery Vacation

    Doug Cushman

  • The Hidden Hand

    Carroll John Daly

    Stated first HarperPerennial edition. Trade paperback is in near fine condition. Black remainder mark at the edges of the bottom page block. Some dust spots to the edges of the page blocks. Mild toning to the page margins. A Race Williams Mystery....

  • Paradise in His Arms

    Elizabeth Daniels

    Bronzed by tropical suns and hardened by stormy northern seas, Captain Caleb Innes had always held a devastating attraction for the women of the Paradise family. For as long as she could remember, feisty Kate Paradise had yearned to taste those firm,...

  • L.A. Midnight

    Rebecca Daniels

    PRIDE AND PREJUDICE Suddenly Miles Richards had to be a father to an orphaned deaf boy he couldn't communicate with. And the only woman he wanted help from was the same woman who'd walked out on him without an explanation. Teresa Sandoval worked w...

  • To Tame a Wild Heart

    Emma Darcy

    Slade had been bored until Rebecca arrived Rebecca Wilder had more than arrived. She'd burst into the Manhattan boardroom of Cordell Enterprises, demanding Slade do something about the situation on his drought-stricken Australian cattle statio...

  • The Precious Pearls of Cabot Hall

    Peggy Darty

    "You must leave Cabot Hall!" Ever since she was orphaned 5 pears ago, Kathleen O'Malley had thought she was alone in the world. Thus she was overjoyed to discover the name of her father's sister--the famous novelist L. Cabot--and was pleased at t...

  • The Disinherited

    Peter David

    Gamma Xaridian--a peaceful Federation research colony that becomes the third Federation world to suffer a brutal attack at the hands of a mysterious alien fleet. With Lt. Uhura gone on an important mission of her own, Captain Kirk and the U.S.S. Ente...

  • Christy's Magic Glove

    Gibbs Davis

  • Red Knight

    J. Madison Davis

  • Upon the Storm

    Justine Davis

    Trace Dalton had spent three long years searching for the mysterious woman who had changed his life forever. But when the famous film star finally found Christy Reno, nothing could convince her that he wanted her for keeps, nothing could prove to her...

  • All Men Are Mortal

    Simone De Beauvoir

    Probably de Beauvoir's strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French resort.

    He becomes thoroughly attached to her and confides a terrifying truth: he...

  • Spiritwalk

    Charles de Lint

    Tamson House, in modern, urban Ottawa, is a rambling, eccentric curiosity of a house--and a place of hidden Power. Built at a point where the leylines meet, upon land that was once a sacred site, it is the gateway to a spirit-world where Celtic and N...

  • Crescent City Kills

    O'Neil De Noux

    CRESCENT CITY KILLS - LaStanza Novel #4This is New Orleans 1983.NOPD Homicide Detective LaStanza and his new partner, the long-cool-blond Jodie Kintyre, are called to the west bank of New Orleans where the bodies of two young women, hands bound behin...

  • Just One Kiss

    Carole Dean

    THE KINDNESS OF A STRANGER Despite the gathering darkness and whispering snow, Nikki Johnson decided to take one last run down the mountain. With the recent merger of her company with Prisma International, Nikki knew the rest of her time at this l...

  • The Werewolf Murders

    William L. Deandrea

    A gathering of the world's most celebrated scientists threatens to fall apart due to a rash of vicious attacks and murders, and it happens to be a full moon. For some, rationality soon gives way to superstition. ...

  • Village by the Sea

    Anita Desai

    A classic survival story by one of India's most acclaimed authors, set in a quiet village outside of Bombay about two siblings who struggle to maintain their family's bond in difficult timesAnita Desai’s The Village by the Sea is an excit...

  • Midnight Lady

    Georgina Devon
    in

    Pretending to be his mistress, a lovely spinster gives herself under cover of darkness to the man she secretly loves -- willing to accept any consequences for this one night of passion....

  • Living

    Annie Dillard

    “Remarkable. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is hard to let the frontier town and its people go.”  -- San Francisco...

  • Isaac Asimov's Earth

    Gardner Dozois

    A collection of science fiction stories featuring the planet Earth includes stories by Nancy Kress, Frederik Pohl, Marta Randall, Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Rosenblum, Charles Sheffield, Dave Smeds, D. Alexander Smith, and Michael Swanwick. Original....

  • Starliner

    David Drake

    The Empress of Earth Finest passenger liner in the galaxy -- Brightest link in the chain that binds the starflung civilization of the 23rd century -- Six thousand lives in a single hull, trembling through multiple universes to land on raw, oft...

  • Holograms of Fear

    Slavenka Drakulic

    As a woman lies in an American hospital room, she recalls her brutal childhood in Yugoslavia, retracing the psychological journey that brought her to her present condition and reflecting on the possibility of a new life...

  • The Big Picture

    Vanessa Drucker

    The mistress of Swiss financier and art collector Emil Papier, backwoods girl Susannah Bishop finds new passion with sculptor Dan Helena, even as Emil enters into an illicit scheme to grab control of the Big Apple art market...

  • High Moon

    Diane Duane

    RED DAWN RISING THEY DREAM OF WORLD CONQUEST: The Red Dawn--a radical band of space outlaws dedicated to destruction. THEY HOLD THE TOOL OF CHAOS: A decoder prototype stolen from the Solar Patrol--rendering the security apparatus of the elite ...

  • Whispering Vines

    Elizabeth Duke

    Armand Broch, owner of Chateau Broch Wines -- rich, good looking, and single. He worked and played hard, he smoldered with sex appeal. And Calli Smith was the lucky woman who'd been chosen to write a feature article. Armand Broch. The man who'...

  • Who Killed My Daughter?

    Lois Duncan

    On July 16, 1989, Kaitlyn Arquette was shot to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The police gave up, but her mother would not . . . In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighte...

  • The Road to Gretna

    Carola Dunn

    They tempted Fate Even when it seemed too late Miss Penelope Bryant was possessed of a practical nature. Therefore, to avoid certain disaster, she convinced her dull but dependable fiance to elope with her to Gretna Green. Likewise did Lord Kilm...

  • Send a Fax to the Kasbah

    Dorothy Dunnett

    When a bomb at Kingsley Conglomerates sends upwardly mobile Executive Secretary Wendy Helmann and her mother, Kingsley's Chairman, to Morocco, the two must endure races on horseback, murder, and mayhem. 10,000 first printing. Reissued as Moroccan ...

  • Ole Devil and the Mule Train

    J.T. Edson

    Captain Jackson Baines Hardin had been given the task of ensuring the safe delivery of a five hundred caplock rifles, on which depended the success of the Texians’ struggle to liberate themselves from the tyrannical rule of the Mexican dictator, Pr...

  • Sweet Knight Times

    Andrea Edwards

    Her sass drove him crazy; her smile drove him wild. She drove a delivery truck that had died in his driveway. But did that mean Stephen Van Home had to open his door -- and his heart -- to this pint-size pizza princess? Yet open he did -- and in r...

  • Wild Ecstasy // Savage Wrongs

    Cassie Edwards

    EVERYTHING STOOD BETWEEN THEM BUT NOTHING COULD KEEP THEM APART Beautiful, flame-haired Mariah Temple is the daughter of a tyrannical father who despises all Indians and has given them every reason to hate him. Echohawk is the handsome, daring Chipp...

  • A Tale of three Kings

    Gene Edwards

    This best-selling tale is based on the biblical figures of David, Saul, and Absalom. For the many Christians who have experienced pain, loss, and heartache at the hands of other believers, this compelling story offers comfort, healing, and hope. Chri...

  • The Prisoner in the Third Cell

    Gene Edwards

  • Bad Blood

    Hank Edwards (1)

    #7 in "The Judge" Western series. One drunken night, bad-blood Clete Bartlett rides roughshod through town until his wild gunfire kills an innocent shopkeeper. Arresting Clete for murder stirs up trouble as he is the only son of a ruthless cattle bar...

  • Reckless Guns

    Josh Edwards

    Driving three thousand head of Cassandra Whiteside’s cattle into a town called Sundust, John Stone expected the usual gunplay with rustlers and bandits. But this time Stone collects double rations of deep trouble -- and he’ll need more than a fas...

  • Star Prey

    Ehren Ehly

    WAS HE PLAYING THE PART… Sometimes actor Adrian Finesse felt like murdering every jerk in tinsel town. Once he’s been on his way up, now he was considered over-the-hill, getting nothing but bit parts in B-movies. His agent was even forcing him...

  • You're My Nikki

    Phyllis Rose Eisenberg

  • Pillars of Gold

    Alice Thomas Ellis

    When Barbs, a loud radical feminist goes missing, her neighbours are in a quandary and when a body is found in the river, all sorts of speculations run riot. In this comedy of errors, the author's theme is human immutability....

  • Trespassing Hearts

    Julie Ellis

  • Lone Star and the Black Bandana Gang

    Wesley Ellis

    Their faces were hidden -- but there was murder in their eyes!When an old friend is slain by the ruthless Black Bandanna Gang, which has been wreaking havoc all over Nevada mining territory, Jessie calls on Ki to help her bring the gang to justice....

  • King of the Corner

    Loren D. Estleman

    Recently released from prison, former major league baseball player Doc Miller takes a job as driver and muscle man for a tough bail bondsman and finds himself in a world of guns, greed, and murder. Reprint....

  • Longarm and the Lady Sheriff

    Tabor Evans

  • The Matador

    Barbara Faith

    "YOUR HUSBAND MAY NOT LIVE! " For years Megan had lived in fear of those words. She loved the Mexican matador Ricardo Montoya, but as his wife and the mother of his infant daughter, she hadn't been able to bear to watch him risk his l...

  • Newsies

    Jonathan Fast

  • Cats in Space and Other Places

    Bill Fawcett

    Space. The Feline Frontier. It has been said (by Mark Twain) that "If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat:' In this volume we explore the many and manifest reasons why humans should voluntarily ...

  • Lost on a Mountain in Maine

    Donn Fendler

    Based on the true account of a boy's harrowing journey through the vast wilderness of the Katahdin Mountains, Lost on a Mountain in Maine is a gripping survival story for all ages.

    Twelve-year-old Donn Fendler steps away from his Boy Scout t...

  • The Mark of the Moderately Vicious Vampire

    Lionel Fenn

    In search of a female companion, the Vampire Lamar moves to New England, where repeated killings cause local vampire hunters to suspect Kent Montana, an out-of-work actor, of being a vampire. Original....

  • Moonlight Enchantress

    Carol Finch

    Determined to prove herself as capable as any man, auburn-haired Darcey O'Roarke trekked westward from St. Louis to halt the robberies that were plaguing her father's stagecoach business -- single-handed. She didn't need the protection of silver-ey...

  • X-Men Cartoon Adaption Pryde of the X-Men

    Danny Fingeroth

  • Renegade's Angel

    Phoebe Fitzjames

    Sworn to bring outlaw Ace Denton to justice for her father's death, Jenny Templeton discovers that her determination to have justice done is no match for her desire to love the handsome Ace. Lovely Jenny Templeton gazed into outlaw Ace Denton's da...

  • Ride the Wild Country

    Lee Floren

  • Thief! Said the Cat

    Louise Munro Foley

    The first in a new series features Kiki, a fourteen-year-old redhead who makes dinner for her doctor mother, writes for the school newspaper, plays tennis, and still finds time to solve mysteries with help from her cat, Pumpkin. Original....

  • Child Bride

    Suzanne Forster

    CHASE -- The Tall, Tough Renegade She'd Never Escape His whip cracked the air like black lightning, and Annie Wells knew she'd finally found the man she'd risked her life to locate - her husband! Chase Beaudine was a modern-day bounty hunter who rod...

  • Martian Rainbow

    Robert L. Forward

    Welcomed as a hero after he successfully defeats Mars's Russian invaders, General Alexander Armstrong lets the adoration turn him into a power-hungry demagogue, and it is up to his twin brother, Gus, now Governor of Mars, to stop him. Reprint....

  • Black Fire

    Stuart Fox

    As the assassins of Tiananmen Square eye Hong Kong greedily, Eastern News Service investigative reporter Doyle Mulligan uncovers shocking evidence that could force the British to save Hong Kong. Reprint....

  • The Inquisitor

    Cheryl J. Franklin

  • Little Grey Mice

    Brian Freemantle

    The KGB decides to use agent Otto Reimann to seduce Elke Meyer, the personal assistant to a top West German Cabinet member, to give over classified information, but Moscow does not count on the unpredictability of love....

  • A Whisper of Wings

    Steven Ray Fulgham

    Bewitched by the kisses and caresses of the lovely creature he encountered on a deserted country road, Duncan Glass soon discovers that his body and soul are slowly changing, consumed by an evil passion. Original....

  • Two Girls, Fat and Thin

    Mary Gaitskill

    This captivating novel shimmers with dark intensity and wicked wit. In a stunning synthesis of eroticism, rage, pathos, and humor, Gaitskill's "fine storyteller's pace and brilliant metaphors" (The New York Times Book Review) create a haunting and un...

  • The Secret

    Julie Garwood

    Judith Hampton was as beautiful as she was proud, as purposeful as she was loyal. The dear Scottish friend of her childhood was about to give birth, and Judith had promised to be at her side. But there was another, private reason for the journey from...

  • The Perfect Solution

    Catherine George

    The wife is always the last to know .. . Joanna Clifford's marriage was over long before her husband, Paul died in a car accident. Still, she was surprised to find out that he'd had a mistress, Rosa Anstey and a child. But even more shocki...

  • Voyage under the Stars

    Bernadette Gervais

  • The Unquiet Earth

    Denise Giardina

    Dillon Freeman returns from World War II to Blackberry Creek, West Virginia, where he confronts the coal mining industry as a union organizer and falls in love with his conventional cousin, Rachel. By the author of Storming Heaven....

  • T.S., I Love You

    Theresa Gladden

    LOGAN -- His Kisses Made Her Tremble and Burn White-Hot.... As a golden-haired boy, he 'd rescued a lonely princess from unseen terrors, but the dizzying desire he 'd awakened in her had turned to bitter hurt when he'd betrayed the fragi...

  • Make Me a Miracle

    Ruth Glick

    Miracles do happen Dr. Elizabeth Salvatore devoted herself to caring for critically ill children. She'd given up believing there would ever be someone to care for her. Then a chance meeting with a stranger in the Kentucky woods one night chang...

  • New Big House

    Debi Gliori

  • Years of Dreams

    Gloria Goldreich

    A moving story that spans three decades chronicles the lives of four women struggling to realize their visions while clinging to a friendship that survives through trust and betrayal, devotion and desertion, and a shocking twenty-year-old secret....

  • Wild Sweet Ecstasy

    J. Goodman

    SHE COULDN'T IGNORE HIM The gang of train robbers swore they could smell a reporter a mile away. Maybe it was her perfume that saved Mary Michael Dennehy from the brutal fate of her newspaper colleagues on the train to Colorado. Instead of being k...

  • Wild Sweet Ecstasy // More Than a Touch // Only My Love

    Jo Goodman

    SHE COULDN'T IGNORE HIM The gang of train robbers swore they could smell a reporter a mile away. Maybe it was her perfume that saved Mary Michael Dennehy from the brutal fate of her newspaper colleagues on the train to Colorado. Instead of being k...

  • Beating the Odds

    Deborah Gordon

    AND YOU THINK YOU'VE GOT PROBLEMS... Meet Laura Miller. Smart and sexy, she's the mother of two great kids, the soon to-be ex-wife of a confessed philanderer, and the daughter of an irrepressible widow eager to re-marry her off She's a...

  • Spectre

    Knox Gordon

    An experimental C-130 Spectre aircraft is shot down over Laos by a lurking MiG-21. The U.S. "Spooky" gunship is loaded with supersecret gear and must stay out of enemy hands at all costs. Special Forces Captain Mike Reese and his Hatchet team are o...

  • I Is for Innocent

    Sue Grafton

    Since she was fired by California Fidelity Insurance, Kinsey Millhone has lost her usual swagger. And her new case is no confidence builder. Attorney Lonnie Kingman is going to court on a civil suit in three weeks when his P.I. drops dead of a heart ...

  • Rose Meets Mr. Wintergarten

    Bob Graham

    Rose is terrified of her neighbor, Mr. Wintergarten--who is rumored to have a pet crocodile and who has a penchant for eating small children--until she finally braves the perils of his garden to retrieve her lost ball....

  • Impossible Vacation

    Spalding Gray

    Having detailed the agonies of writing a book in his monologue Monster in a Box, Spalding Gray now gives us the monster itself: a convulsively funny, unexpectedly moving novel about a man eternally searching for a moment of protected pleasure even as...

  • As Good As It Gets

    Judith Greber

    Determined to preserve their dreams and their marriage, Ted and Hallie Bennett weather the storms of society as it sweeps from the fifties, through the turbulent sixties and seventies, to the eighties. 20,000 first printing....

  • Shooting Star

    Kate Green

  • The Price of Victory

    Vincent S. Green

    As his marriage crumbles, defense attorney Captain Jack Hayes devotes all his energy to defending former Green Beret Sergeant Billy Frazier, accused of being the biggest drug dealer in the U. S. Army. Reprint....

  • Cat Crimes

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Daring Gamble

    Maria Greene

    HIGH STAKES HER HOUSE AND HER HEART... Marion Rothwell was out of step with the current season's fashionable young debutantes. Her flame-red hair and bookish nature did not sit well with London's stylish young men. But that didn't undu...

  • Let Me off This Spaceship!

    Gery Greer

  • Who Will Tell the People? the Breakdown of American Democracy

    William Greider

  • The Day of the Beast

    Zane Grey

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • Rough and Ready

    Leslie Davis Guccione

    MONTANA BOUND As far as Dory Lydon was concerned, men were no more trustworthy than snakes -- and she intended to steer clear of both while she was visiting her family's ranch in Montana. But then she ran into six feet, two inches of green-eye...

  • Orlando's Home Life

    Kathleen Hale

  • Shadow Whispers

    Wendy Haley

    Vowing to catch her sister Charla's killer, Garland Russ soon finds that she is in over her head when odd events--her discovery of broken glass in her mailbox, a threatening message left on her machine--begin occurring. Original....

  • A Neighborly Affair

    Carole Halston
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    The spirit of motherhood is the spirit of love--and how better to capture that special feeling than in three glorious new stories from three favorite Silhouette authors? It wasn't likely that Catherine Baker would ever be a wife, but she could be ...

  • The Last Shot

    Hugo Hamilton

    In a tale that spans two generations, an American living in West Germany travels to Nuremberg, where he meets the man who fired the final--but unrecorded--shot of World War II. By the author of Surrogate City. ...

  • Flashpoint

    Janice Harrell

  • Warrior Dreams

    Kathleen Harrington

    HEALING HANDS, HEALING HEART The massacre at the Little Bighorn has given Doctor Suzette Stanwood reason to fear the Cheyenne -- yet nothing can dampen her resolve to aid the reservation's ill and injured. Nor can she deny her attraction to the ...

  • The Diary

    Jesse Harris

    When McKenzie uses her psychic talents and a tormented diary to channel the last thoughts of a close friend who had committed suicide, she begins to suspect that her friend had been the victim of murder. Original....

  • Horses of War

    Duff Hart-Davis

  • Texan's Honor

    Bryce Hart

  • Temptation

    Catherine Hart

    TEMPESTUOUS Ravishing but tough riverboat gambler Amanda Sites wants to be a proper lady -- and her newly won half of a Kentucky horse farm seems the answer to her prayers...with a magnificently handsome partner thrown in to sweeten the pot! TEMP...

  • Garland of Roses

    Gail Harvey

  • Stars

    Kathryn Harvey

    The troublesome lives of twin sisters Rachel Dwyer and Christine Singleton, separated at birth, are traced in this story. Rachel turns to prostitution after linking up with Danny McKay, a charismatic confidence man. Eventually, Rachel changes her ide...

  • Pirate Who Tried to Capture the Moon

    Dennis Haseley

  • The Reluctant Sorcerer

    Simon Hawke

    Accidentally transported through time to a parallel universe where magic really works, bumbling genius Dr. Marvin Brewster is mistaken for a sorcerer and must escape through a route controlled by the Grand Director of the sorcerers' guild. Original....

  • Call to Battle

    Simon Hawke

  • Summers Wind Blowing and Spring Waters Rushing

    Susannah Hayden

  • Cooler by the Lake

    Larry Heinemann

  • Up the Wall

    Nicholas Heller

  • The Wicked Proposal

    Emily Hendrickson

    The Husband Hunt Lady Penelope Winthrop knew exactly what she wanted in a husband. The fair-haired beauty did not seek a mate who was wildly attractive or sinfully rich. All she wanted was a man who would go with her to the altar and afterward lea...

  • Beneath the Silent Sea

    Richard P. Henrick

    Beneath the waves, three great superpowers clash in the first battle of the final war! The Red Dragon: Under the command of fanatical Maoist madmen, Communist China's most advanced ballistic missile-carrying submarine embarks on the most sinister mis...

  • Sea of Death

    Richard P. Henrick

    COUNTDOWN TO DOOMSDAY From a small island in the East China Sea, a terrifying force from which there seemed to be no escape, was about to be unleashed. Code-named “Death Wind,” it was the ultimate biological weapon … and now it lay in the hand...

  • Cinderella Mom

    Anne Henry

    MATERNAL INSTINCTS Teenage Barry was thunderstruck. Little Mary Sue couldn't believe it. Sara Cate, otherwise known as good old Mom, was going on a real live date. When Major Julian Campbell came back to his Oklahoma farm town, he turned S...