Books Published in May 1993

New Books List: 571 titles

  • Crossing by Night

    David Aaron

    As Europe heads irrevocably toward World War II, Elizabeth Pack, a beautiful woman trapped in a loveless marriage to a stodgy British diplomat, is willing to do anything to stop the onslaught of the Nazi war machine. Reprint....

  • Eclipse Fever

    Walter Abish

    While Mexican literary critic Alejandro longs for Mercedes, his estranged and unfaithful wife, Bonnie, the daughter of Mercedes' lover, witnesses a murder, and Preston, an American industrialist, and his wife deal with an unscrupulous art dealer...

  • Devil or Angel

    Audra Adams

    REALLY BAD BOY Brooke Pattersen had never seen anyone like Devon Taylor. This devil-in-nodisguise had seduced her right out of the loving embrace of her family and right into his...arms. But when her father put a stop to their romance, driving Dev...

  • Margin for Murder

    Bronte Adams

  • What About Charlie?

    Melodie Adams

    What about Daddy? Clint Blackwell was the local hero when it came to handling young troublemakers. When the rugged cowboy met that rascal Charlie Whitney, he knew the little guy only needed lots of love -- the kind of love Clint had been saving fo...

  • A Cat With a Fiddle

    Lydia Adamson

    Available Digitally for the First TimeA holiday in rural Massachusetts seems like just the thing for talented actress turned cat-sitter Alice Nestleton -- until a killer strikes a sour note… Alice Nestleton has recently died… at the box office, t...

  • Teeth Week

    Nancy Alberts

  • Belinda

    Pamela Allen

  • The Infinite Plan

    Isabel Allende

    In her first novel set in the United States and portraying American characters, bestselling author Isabel Allende weaves a vivid and engrossing tale of one man's search for love, and his struggle to come to terms with a childhood of poverty and negle...

  • At Dead of Night

    Linda Amey

    Moving back to her hometown of Live Oak, Texas, with her teenage daughter, funeral director Blair Emerson becomes the star witness in an arson trial while being stalked by a mysterious stranger. Original....

  • Thirst

    Stephen Amidon

    Daniel's alcoholic father Cal walked out on his family to dry out in the parched, ravaged landscape of Phoenix, Arizona. Now, 13 years later, Daniel travels to the lunar wastelands of the American desert to unravel the mystery of his father's strange...

  • A Question of Proof

    Joseph Amiel

    Amiel's courtroom drama features a Jewish lawyer in Philadelphia. Dan Lazar defends low-life clients with high-profile cases, and he's having a tough week. Peter Boelter, owner and publisher of the Philadelphia Herald, prints inside info on Dan's pim...

  • Goodbye Jumbo...Hello Cruel World

    Louie Anderson

    The latest self-help guide from the comedian and author of Dear Dad chronicles his struggle to lose weight and gain self-esteem in the face of a lifetime of negative conditioning. 100,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour....

  • Can You Guess?

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Hard Sell

    Piers Anthony

  • A Miss With a Purpose

    Rebecca Ashley

    HE PITIED THE POOR SOD WHO LOST HIS HEART TO THIS AUDACIOUS MISS.... Though fate had made them co-inheritors of a mill in Manchester, Arabella Fairingdale's plea for funds to improve the appalling working conditions met with Lord Ridgeton'...

  • The Moon's Wife

    A.A. Attanasio

  • Angel of Passage

    Joan Avery

    THE IRRESISTIBLE ENEMY With the entire country sitting uneasily on the brink of civil war, the lovely Rebecca Cunningham led a dangerous double life. A dominating force of Detroit society by day, by night she moved runaway slaves across the river ...

  • Stolen Thunder

    David Axton

    In a plot to avenge her husband's hideous death at the hands of terrorist's Tariq Talal's forces, Captain Tamasin Masterson, her father, and a carefully chosen crew steal a retired B-52 and plan to annihilate Talal's Libyan camp...

  • Whispers in the Dark

    Jonathan Aycliffe

    When Charlotte Metcalf, a desperate orphan, shows up on the doorstep of the Ayrtons, her father's relatives, they welcome her into their home, where Charlotte experiences a series of mysterious incidents. Original....

  • Shadows in Their Blood

    Marian Babson

    Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair are starring in a new Dracula film, but when the weather turns foul during the tense shooting, Trixie and Evangeline are suspected of being real vampires and murder makes a cameo appearance...

  • Hana, the No-Cow Wife

    Pat Bagley

  • To Have and to Hold

    Jennifer Baker

  • Thumper's Book of Opposites

    Rita Balducci

  • Walt Disney's Alice in Wonderland: Book of Colors

    Rita Balducci

  • Emily Eyefinger, Secret Agent

    Duncan Ball

  • Kate and the Soldier

    Anne Barbour

    The Wrong Man to Love Kate Millbank's heart beat faster when she heard that Major David Merritt was returning from the wars. For she had worshipped David ever since they had been children together. But Kate was no longer a child. She was ol...

  • The Broken Circle

    Rodney Barker

    "As gripping a true-crime book as you're likely to read all year....Read[s] almost as if [it] had been written by Tony Hillerman."
    CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
    In Farmington, New Mexico, a town that borders a Navajo reservation, the tensions between white...

  • Forgive and Forget

    Elizabeth Barnes

    His fire, her ice... Kathy couldn't fight it -- the chemistry had been there between them since their first meeting when she'd been seventeen and desperate to escape her lonely life. Reid had been her salvation...but ultimately he'd br...

  • Snapshot

    Linda Barnes

    Every Friday a child's snapshot arrives at the Boston office of P.I. Carlotta Carlyle. There's no note. No return address. Just pictures of the child as a newborn, as a toddler, as a preschooler. Maybe Carlotta should have tossed them all in the tras...

  • A Pound of Flesh

    Trevor Barnes

  • Lord of the Plains

    Robert Baron

    Stormrider and his biker gang face their last stand in the explosive conclusion to the post-nuke action series. Heavily armored Purity Forces from the City head onto the plains to wipe out the free biker clans--every man, woman, and child. But only S...

  • Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing

    John Calvin Batchelor

    Based on rumors of a Soviet manned flight to the moon, a novel by the author of American Falls follows the adventures of Peter Nevsky, a cosmonaut-in-training with dreams of claiming the moon for Mother Russia. 20,000 first printing....

  • The Dead Game

    A. Bates

  • The Model Bride

    Pamela Bauer

    WAS IT LOVE OR OBSESSION? Model Jessie Paulson looked remarkably like Kathleen Daniels, the woman who haunted Aidan McCullough's past. The woman who had broken up his family. The woman his father had been convicted of murdering. Jessie had been...

  • Creatures Of Habit

    Julie Baumgold

    In the twilight of glittering, shameless New York, the most famous chronicler of eighties society was columnist Libby Alexander -- a.k.a. The Pimpernel. She was the all-perceiving eye among the citizens of a gilded arena. Now New York is in the grip ...

  • The Marlene Dietrich Murder Case

    George Baxt

    New Year's Eve, 1931: Marlene Dietrich, as the reigning queen of Hollywood, sees fit to throw a royal bash in order to show off her legendary legs - and her secret-recipe potato pancakes. Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford, and Jean Harlow are only a few ...

  • Mike's Baby

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    BODY AND SOUL When a suspicious hit-and-run driver injured state witness Joanna Nash, the authorities insisted on round-the-clock protection. The doctors insisted that she recover from her injuries, so she hired all-too-personal trainer Mike McCoy...

  • Timelike Infinity

    Stephen Baxter

    WAR BETWEEN THE AGES Once mankind reached glorious heights, even immortality. Now it is oppressed by the Qax--until the loose end of a time tunnel, long since set adrift, whips back through the solar system. In one desperate leap, a band of rebel...

  • Wee Sing Pop-Up Nursery Rhymes

    Pamela Conn Beall

  • After the Promise

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    Every bride and groom believes the vows exchanged on their wedding day will hold them together forever. But, as the years pass, busy lives may extinguish the passion of those vows. Sometimes it takes a near tragedy to rekindle the love...and the prom...

  • Save Me, Joe Louis

    Madison Smartt Bell

    One fateful decision pushes a soldier from a life of stifling order to a life of freedom as doomed as it is thrillingMacrae, a nice kid from a small town in Tennessee, joins the army only because the boys he grew up with enlisted before him. But when...

  • With Downcast Eyes

    Tahar Ben Jelloun

    A young Moroccan girl in Paris confronts the sophistication of an unfamiliar country and the weight of a prophecy stating that she will one day discover a treasure that will save her Berber community. By the author of Sacred Night. ...

  • Sunset after Hours

    Cherie Bennett

    Rediscover Sunset Island in Sunset After Hours, the riveting third book in Sunset After Dark -- the new series about Darcy Laken. She's a girl from the wrong side of the tracks with an eye for what others can't see. I've always had a little ESP, a...

  • Sunset Surf

    Cherie Bennett

    We're all having a great weekend in San Francisco! Sam's birth mother sent her a plane ticket, Carrie's on another photo stint, and Emma, of course, can afford to go anywhere she wants. So here we are. One problem, though -- it seems that Emma is fa...

  • Please Don't Go

    Elizabeth Benning

    Sent to Hope House for her bulimia, Zibby Lloyd discovers that her roommate there is Lauren Kent, a beautiful, perfect girl whom Zibby has known all her life, and whose determination to escape Hope House could endanger Zibby. Original....

  • Somebody's Darling

    Sarah Benton

    College professor Stacey Anderson receives a three-million-dollar trust fund from an anonymous source, but her newfound prosperity and a whole new life-style threaten her relationship with Steve Travis. Original....

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Nerdy Nephew

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Stuck-up Ferdy Factual learns that friendship takes more than just smarts Brother and Sister Bear try to welcome the new cub in town by taking him to school on his 1st day. They quickly learn that Ferdy Factual, son of the famous scientist Actual...

  • Green Bottle and the Silver Kite

    Fredericka Berger

    In an attempt to cure his summer doldrums, ten-year-old Phil plans to acquire a silver kite, and along the way, he encounters many surprises. By the author of Robots--What They Are, What They Do. ...

  • Love's Awakening

    Kay Bergstrom

    Intent on recovering the nest-egg that her parents invested in a cowboy's scheme to find a lost city of gold, lawyer Sandra Carberry flies to Colorado and finds unexpected passion and romance with Russel McCloud. Original....

  • Deadly Justice

    William Bernhardt

    Ben Kincaid is not a superstar attorney. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, there are only a few lawyers who win headlines and big bucks. So when the notorious Apollo Consortium offers Ben a job as their in-house counsel, he takes it--for the money. The violence...

  • Hannah's Temper

    Celia Berridge

  • Let's Pretend

    Cecile Bertrand

  • Mississippi Flame

    Cheryl Biggs

    SHE VOWED NEVER TO GIVE HER HEART Men! Furious at being betrayed by her fickle fiance only hours before the wedding, Elizabeth Devlin packed her portmanteau and fled her Mississippi hometown in a flurry of wounded pride. But the pampered blond be...

  • Glory Trail

    Mike Blakely

  • Ecstasia

    Francesca Lia Block

    Calliope and Rafe, sister and brother, were born of a woman of the Desert and a man who made magic with his mind, who could fight off illness and age with his potions. But now the children have grown and their parents are gone. Now Calliope and Rafe,...

  • Come to Me

    Amy Bloom

    National Book Award FinalistBloom writes about passion—shameful, blissful and perverse. . . . Her voice is sure and brisk, her language often beautiful; the result is humorous and well as heartrending fiction. . . . Her work has the power both ...

  • The Genius of Desire

    Brian Bouldrey

    "GENTLE AND FUNNY...From the first chapter...to the very touching ending, The Genius Of Desire is a good story worth telling."

    --San Francisco Chronicle

    Michael Bellman is not your average little boy. He speaks to plates, banisters, and...

  • The Road to Wellville

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    In this “wildly funny” (People) novel, an eccentric cast of characters navigates a world obsessed with health and longevity -- from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tortilla Curtain. “Boyle’s send-up of dietary fanaticism cle...

  • Legacy

    Leigh Bristol

    IN CHARLESTON THE OLD SOUTH LIVED ON WITH A SMOLDERING LEGACY OF SIN, SECRETS ... AND LOVEI From one of the South's finest families, blue-eyed, auburn-haired Laurel Sinclair Laughton found that poverty could push even a lady to desperate acts --...

  • Mage Quest

    C. Dale Brittain

    Five men from Yurt--the king, his nephew, the prince, a wizard, and a priest--encounter intrigue, treachery, black magic, and a big blue djinn on their journey, and only the wizard's cleverness can save their lives. Original....

  • Where There's Smoke

    Sandra Brown

    No one knows why Lara Mallory opens up her medical practice in the rowdy Texas town where Tackett Oil owns everything. But everyone remembers her role in the well-publicized scandal that caused the downfall of White House hopeful Senator Clark Tacket...

  • Comanche Moon

    Virginia Brown

    HE WAS A HALF-BREED GUNSLINGER WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD...SHE WAS HIS DEFIANT CAPTIVE...TWO HEARTS FATED TO CLASH AND AWAKEN TO LOVE ON THE LAWLESS NEW MEXICO PLAINS! Few dared to tangle with rugged Zack Banning, the son of a Comanche chief, and o...

  • No Problem Kit

    Eileen Browne

    Mouse's present from Rat contains so many pieces that Mouse and his friends puzzle over which construction they build is the right one, in a tale that includes a seven-piece kit for readers to make their own crazy machine....

  • Trail of Love

    Amanda Browning

    "You're in trouble with a capital T!" Kay Napier was a happy, intelligent young woman who had been brought up in a loving home. But then lightning struck.... The first bolt came in the disturbingly attractive shape of Ben Radford. The second...

  • Stable Manners

    Bonnie Bryant

    No one knows more about horses than Stevie, Carole, and Lisa. Or do they? The Saddle Club's knowledge is going to be tested in a Know-Down at the next Horse Wise meeting....

  • Stroke by Stroke

    Patt Bucheister

    TURNER--His Lips Tasted Like Hot Nights... For two years, he'd been obsessed by her mystery, intrigued by her, distance, and fascinated by the way she turned his blood to molten lava just by entering his office, but Turner Knight had never admitt...

  • Winter Palace

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    What price must be paid in the struggle for power, for wealth, for souls, in the fragmented new Russia? Jeffrey Sinclair could scarcely believe his good fortune. Two years in London had won him success in the international antiques trade, a new unde...

  • The Vampire Encyclopedia

    Matthew Bunson

    The first A-to-Z compendium on vampires and vampiric lore. In approximately 2,000 entries, from Hades to Hematomania to Lycanthropy and Lugosi, The Vampire Encyclopedia tells readers virtually everything they could possibly want to know about vampire...

  • Each Time We Love

    Shirlee Busbee

    THIS UNTAMED HEART Wild and willful Savanna O'Rourke has yet to meet her match in any male -- until she is abducted by a pair of murderous outlaws who think she knows the secret to a hidden treasure. And to escape, she must join forces with the ...

  • Scandal's Darling

    Nancy Bush

    IN PROPER VICTORIAN ENGLAND, THEY DEFIED CONVENTION -- AND SURRENDERED TO A PERILOUS, MAGNIFICENT LOVE! Lady Veronica Elizabeth Ashworth was the talk of London, ever since society gossip linked her with a notorious rake. To save the family reputat...

  • A Frog's Eye View

    Rebecca Busselle

  • Field Day

    Nick Butterworth

  • Race to Danger

    Stephanie Calmenson

    In search of transportation for his prom, sixteen-year-old Indiana Jones heads for the laboratories of Thomas Edison, only to find himself caught up in an investigation into the theft of the designs for a new electric car. Original....

  • Bargain Bride

    Stella Cameron
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    A bold and breathtaking love blossoms from a marriage of convenience -- when a headstrong English miss loses her heart to the dashing knight in shining armor who rescued her from an unwanted wedding...but has designs of his own....

  • Sante Fe Run

    Will Camp

  • Amarillo by Morning

    Bethany Campbell

    SHOW TIME--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. EVERYBODY LOVES A COWBOY And Cal McKinney is one of the b...

  • Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree

    Janet Campbell

  • Rise and Shine

    Nancy White Carlstrom

  • The Cabbage Patch Kids Visit the Doctor

    M.J. Carr

    It shows that going to the doctor is always okay and should not be a scary experience. Kids should be exposed to a book like this because going to the doctor is always a scary experience it seems for kids and this book really helped even me as a chil...

  • Stolen Bones

    Joan Carris

    While in Montana as part of a paleontological dig with his surly grandfather, "Dr. Dinosaur," Alec Wright tries to solve the mystery of the disappearing fossils. By the author of Aunt Morbelia and the Screaming Skulls. ...

  • Rails West!

    Franklin Carter

    THEY BUILT A RAILROAD -- AND A NATION! After the bloodshed of the Civil War, America turned West ...The future of the nation lay in waiting, and so the race began to build a railroad to carry settlers across the Plains to the Pacific. This is the ...

  • Storm of Passion

    Jenny Cartwright

    Restless... Eleanor had gone to Wales to figure out what to do with her life. She could work at her safe, stable job and marry a safe, stable man -- everyone else's favorite choice -- or she could pursue a career that allowed her to travel and...

  • Chloe in the Know

    Judith Caseley

    In the third volume in the Kane family chronicles, Chloe, the eldest child, finds herself helping her brother, Harry, when he is unjustly accused of lying. By the author of Starring Dorothy Kane. ...

  • Three Happy Birthdays

    Judith Caseley

  • A Fleeting Moment

    Carla Cassidy

    COP IN THE KITCHEN When the local police asked Edie Turner to let them use her apartment for an undercover surveillance operation, she was happy to help take a bite out of crime. But that was before she met Cliff Marchelli. This surly, unshaven co...

  • So Far from God

    Ana Castillo

    One of The Atlantic's Great American Novels The beloved feminist classic of Chicano literature that "could be the offspring of a union between One Hundred Years of Solitude and General Hospital: a sassy, magical, melodramatic love child who won’t s...

  • Willie's Wonderful Pet

    Mel Cebulash

  • The Leopard Unleashed

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    For four years, Renard, heir to Ravenstow, has been a crusader in Antioch, a city of heat and eroticism far removed from the Welsh Marches of his birth. It is here in an Arab tavern that he meets Olwen, a beautiful, predatory dancing girl who rules m...

  • Downtiming the Night Side

    Jack L. Chalker

    When former Air Force officer and NSA agent Ron Moosic is assigned for special duty in charge of security for a nuclear power plant, he has no idea that the plant is only a cover for a top-secret project involving time travel.The government has disco...

  • Mr. Wright

    Lauryn Chandler

    Finders keepers Poor Sharlie Kincaid -- she had a case of the single's blues. But what was the remedy when a lonely, discouraged woman felt down-and-out when it came to love? Why, a manhunt, of course! And what better "fairy godfather"...

  • Alabama Twilight

    Danette Chartier

    MAGNOLIA ROAD There was perhaps no place in history more filled with romance and beauty than the old South in the days before the Civil War. Now, journey down Magnolia Road and visit the most majestic plantations of that gracious era... ROSE OF...

  • An Incident at Bloodtide

    George C. Chesbro

    The Hudson River shone like silver during their evening sail. Unfortunately, when Mongo and his brother Garth step ashore, a self-styled sorcerer named Sacra Silver is also around. An old boyfriend of Garth's wife, Mary, he is soon tossed out of the ...

  • Echoes of the White Giraffe

    Sook Nyul Choi

    This follow-up to The Year of Impossible Goodbyes provides a revealing look at the role of women in Korean society, and the coming of age of one exceptional young woman. Sookan, the unforgettable heroine of "Year of Impossilbe Goodbyes", is now fifte...

  • Man Out at First

    Matt Christopher

    A young baseball player loses his confidence after being hit in the chest by a fast moving ball....

  • Pressure Play

    Matt Christopher

  • X-Men VS. the Avengers

    Chris Claremont

  • E I E I O: The Story of Old MacDonald, Who Had a Farm

    Gus Clark

  • I'll Be Seeing You

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Covering the story of a stabbing victim, television news reporter Meghan Collins stares down at the sheet-wrapped body of a beautiful young woman in a New York City hospital. What she sees in the dead girl's face draws her into a terrifying web of tr...

  • Gai-Jin

    James Clavell


    The heir to the magnificent English trading company, the Noble House…the direct descendant of the first Toranaga Shogun battling to usher his country into the modern age…a beautiful young French woman forever torn between ambition and desire...

  • Another Man's Poison

    Ann Cleeves

    Ursula Ottway may have outlived her time, but she's still a tough old bird. When she finds her beloved cats and some protected wildfowl dead of illegal poison, she angrily threatens to expose her landlord, politician Marcus Grenville, as an anti-p...

  • 1st Culprit

    Liza Cody

    'Ruth Rendell, with a new Wexford story, and Dick Francis, with a cunning racetrack heist, lead the field in this superb new collection from the Crime Writer's Association. International stars, old favorites, and new talents combine in a collection t...

  • A Fool's Death

    Patrick Cody

    Key West, a tropical paradise brimming with criminals and misfits - nearly all of whom have something to hide - is the steamy setting for A Fool's Death, the sensational debut mystery featuring Mason Collins, a tough-guy private eye and undercover so...

  • Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind Crockett

    Caron Lee Cohen

  • Appearance of Evil

    Carolyn Coker

    THE FINE ART OF MURDER As houseguest of one of the Huntington Museum's board members, and busy with her restoration project, art restorer Andrea Perkins is dimly aware of the discovery of a corpse on the grounds of the museum. LAPD detectives T...

  • Thunderstick

    Don Coldsmith

  • Blood on the Plains

    Judd Cole

  • Next of Kin

    Anne Coleman

  • A Sparkling Affair

    Mary Chase Comstock

    AN IMPETUOUS HEROINE They were really too wretched, sighed lady Selinda. She had never dreamed that the aunts who bad taken her and her younger sister in after their parents' death would turn out to be such gorgons! It was a most difficult task inde...

  • Nibble, Nibble, Jenny Archer

    Ellen Conford

    When she appears in a television commercial, Jenny Archer envisions great success until she discovers that the snack food she eats in the advertisement is actually for gerbils. By the author of Dear Mom, Get Me Out of Here! ...

  • The Long Trail North

    Robert J. Conley

  • Bottom Liner Blues

    K.C. Constantine

    BIG TROUBLE IN A SMALL TOWN With its shut-down mines and restive white-ethnic, blue-collar inhabitants, Rocksburg, Pennsylvania, is in the midst of hard times. And no one has it tougher than its own police chief, Mario Balzic--working hours longer...

  • Whatever Happened to Janie?

    Caroline B. Cooney

    How could it possibly be true? But it is true. As Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl on the milk carton, she was overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl-- it was she.... With the mystery of her kidnapping no...

  • Deception

    Eleanor Cooney

    A Confucian investigator and dedicated judge puts his own life in jeopardy by exposing the bloody machinations of the emperor's concubine, who is murdering her way to the top of seventh-century China's T'ang dynasty. Reprint....

  • Freshman Passion

    Linda A. Cooney

    Winnie blames Josh for the motorcycle crash that has changed their lives forever. Can their love survive the pain and guilt? Brooks is finding Angela hard to hold--and the more she eludes him, the more determined Brooks is to have her! Will bro...

  • Glory

    Alfred Coppel

    The Goldenwing spaceship Gloria Coelis approaches the colony planet Voerster with an essential supply shipment ordered centuries before. Settled by South Africans determined to preserve apartheid, Voerster is now threatened by revolution and war... w...

  • Love's Triumph

    Christina Cordaire

    LOVE IS THE GREATEST PROTECTOR OF ALL... With both of their beloved parents gone, Elizabeth Chanders fled with her younger siblings to the estate of their guardian, the Earl of Wynmalen. Elizabeth accustomed to watching over the family was concer...

  • The Ten Thousand

    Harold Coyle

  • The Grub-And-Stakers House a Haunt

    Alisa Craig

    A GRAVE SITUATION Normally not one to be spooked by a specter, spunky widow Zilla Trott is nevertheless unnerved when the ghost of long-dead mule driver Hiram Jellyby appears in he kitchen -- demanding that someone disinter his murdered bones and ...

  • Lullaby Town

    Robert Crais

    Hollywood's newest wunderkind is Peter Alan Nelsen, the brilliant, erratic director known as the King of Adventure. His films make billions, but his manners make enemies. What the boy king wants, he gets, and what Nelsen wants is for Elvis to comb th...

  • Free Fall

    Robert Crais

    Elvis Cole is just a detective who can't say no, especially to a girl in a terrible fix. And Jennifer Sheridan qualifies: Her fiance, Mark Thurman, is a decorated LA cop with an elite plainclothes unit, but Jennifer's sure he's in trouble--the kind o...

  • Miss Seeton Plants Suspicion

    Hamilton Crane

    Seeds Of Suspicion Miss Seeton was busy tending her garden when a local youth was arrested for murder. Everyone assumed she would put her finger -- or green thumb--on the real culprit. But Miss Seeton was digging up soil, not clues. And the killer d...

  • Rouse a Sleeping Cat

    Dan Crawford

    THE HIGHER THE THRONE, THE THICKER THE PLOT... Only nine years old, the King of Rossacotta is a lure that attracts courtiers, nobles, ambassadors--and assassins. Nimnestl came from her native land to ensure that the child-King would live to be ...

  • Pet

    Ron Crawford

  • Fly by Night

    June Crebbin

  • Phantom Lover

    Millie Criswell

    A DARING PIRATE WITH A PRICE ON HIS HEAD, HE WAS ALL SHE'D EVER DREAMED OF Tall, lean, his blue eyes blazing from behind his silken mask, his powerful body wrapped in a black cape, he was called "The Phantom." Danielle Sheridan had only to set eye...

  • How to Grow a Picket Fence

    Mary Louise Cuneo

  • Wild River Massacre

    Jack Curtis

  • Camp Big Paw

    Doug Cushman

  • Dune to Death

    Mary Daheim

    LIFE'S A BEACH...AND THEN YOU DIE! Bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle and her policeman beau Joe Flynn have finally gotten hitched--and they're off on a sunny honeymoon to beautiful Buccaneer Beach. But an unfortunate confrontation with a ...

  • My Sister Lotta and Me

    Helena Dahlback

  • Inheritance

    Joleen Daniels

    Legacy of love Margret Brolin owed her life to Jude Emory -- the kindhearted stranger who rescued her when her storm-tossed car plunged into an icy creek. But when she finally arrived at her destination -- the Double Diamond Ranch -- she discovere...

  • Heiress Apparent

    Kayla Daniels

    From the moment he placed the ad to find an adventure writer's long-lost daughter, New Orleans attorney Clay Holbrooke was besieged by every kind of fortune hunter known to man. Then when stunning Mariah McKenna sailed into his office with a smil...

  • The Upstairs Lover

    Emma Darcy

    He made her an offer she couldn't refuse When Shane Courtney followed her home from Paddington Bazaar, Christine Delaney knew she'd met a man who didn't take no for an answer. He didn't have to -- he came from one of the richest, m...

  • The Siege

    Peter David

    Deep Space NineTM is forced to curtail entry to the wormhole due to increased graviton emissions, and an air of biting tension settles over the station. This anxiety leads to the murder of an Edeman religious leader, Commander Benjamin Sisko and Secu...

  • Prophets of the Dark Side

    Paul Davids; Hollace Davids

    A Jedi Prince. A devastating betrayal. And the destruction of the Lost City? The battle against the evil Empire rages on as heroic men, women, and aliens of the Rebel Alliance continue their struggle to end the era of darkness. But by rescui...

  • Atlantic Run

    Bart Davis

    Navy Captain Peter MacKenzie must stop a renegade Russian captain from running the Northern Star, once the pride of the Soviet Union’s now extinct submarine fleet, to Cuba....

  • To Hold an Eagle

    Justine Davis

    Everything had its price.... PASSIONATE PERIL Chandra Lansing was a woman with dangerous information. Of that, Naval investigative agent Linc Reese was certain -- though she couldn't hide much in the swimsuit she'd been wearing when he'd fishe...

  • The Texan's Bride

    Geralyn Dawson

    SHE LIVED BY HER OWN SET OF RULES.... Katie Starr knew the rugged Texan was trouble the moment he stepped into her father's inn. Overbearing, overconfident, and overwhelmingly attractive. Branch seemed to delight in sparking her anger -- and her pas...

  • The Tolkien Companion

    David Day

    A guide to the mythical world of Middle-Earth and the Undying Lands, this companion arranged in an A-Z format explores and explains the creatures, plants, events and places that make up these mythical lands. It is aimed at anyone who loves Tolkien's ...

  • Comanche Wind

    Genell Dellin

    Betrothed against her will while barely more than a child, lovely, impetuous Jennie O'Bannion believes her life is over. Then fate intervenes on the Texa frontier, when a proud Comanche warrior claims Jennie as his own -- abducting the strong-willed,...

  • In the Back Seat

    Deborah Durland DeSaix

    Because he is not tall enough to see out the car window, Jeffrey finds car trips boring, until his big sister Ariel, who can look at the scenery, helps him weave together an exciting story about their surroundings....

  • Relics

    John Desjarlais

    Consumed by an impossible longing for the lovely Baroness Blanch DuVal, trapped in the middle of a conspiracy to assassinate King Louis IX, and struggling to keep his faith, Jean-Michael finds that love, war, and treachery await him at every turn....

  • What Do I Do at Eight O'Clock?

    Carla Dijs

  • No Way Out

    Franklin W. Dixon

    The Hardys travel to Idaho to learn the wilderness sport of orienteering, but Frank, Joe, and their instructor, Rob Niles, run into some treacherous terrain, and their courage and resourcefulness are stretched to the limit. Original....

  • Cobra Curse

    Bill Dolan

  • Polar Day 9

    Kyle Donner

    When an earthquake along the San Andreas Fault unleashes cubic tons of crystallized particles into the atmosphere, Dr. Cliff Lorenz fears that the particles will deflect the sun's rays and bring about the second Ice Age. Original....

  • Jacaranda Bend

    Charlotte Douglas

    PARADISE Promised in wedlock to a man she barely knew, Rowena Elliot reluctantly accompanied her father to the distant shores of America -- where fate soon left her orphaned and alone. She sought refuge at a sweeping, Florida estate in order to es...

  • Bright Islands in a Dark Sea

    L. Warren Douglas

    WITCH HUNT Yan Bando suffered from the family curse -- a mindless, deadly violence that overcame him in the face of danger. And so he chose the most peaceful life he could imagine: poring over the meager documents of an era two thous.and years past,...

  • Books of the Keepers

    Ann Downer

    In the conclusion to the trilogy that began with Spellkey and The Glass Salamander, Caitlin the Seer, Badger, and their children live peacefully in their world after rescuing son Bram from the elvish underworld....

  • The Price of Love

    Christine S. Drake

    Jessy Flint, an orphaned 14-year-old girl living on a farm in the Midwest in the early 1900s, is reunited with her brother and must deal with his coldness as well as that of the barren prairie. Can Jessy's love and loyalty transform her brother's hea...

  • Blind Hunger

    David Drake

    Patty Hunsacker, a recently widowed blind woman, welcomes a stranger into her home who claims to be her husband's twin brother but is, in fact, her husband returned from the dead as a vampire. By the author of Brain Fever. Original....

  • The Imposter

    June Drummond

    Accepting a bet that he cannot endure a full week's work, idle Lord Hector Finch Wycombe takes a job as tutor to Admiral Carey's family and finds several complications--including the admiral's enticing niece. Reprint....

  • By Love Betrayed

    Sandra Dubay

    RELUCTANT LOVE When raven-haired Rebecca Carlyle agreed to become a spy for the British during the War of 1812, the lovely young widow had nothing but revenge on her mind--revenge for the death of her husband, who had died fighting the Americans. ...

  • If You Walk Down This Road

    Kate Duke

  • Upland Outlaws

    Dave Duncan

    COME THE MILLENNIUM The power-mad dwarf-sorcerer Zinixo had driven Emshandar V from his throne. He had shattered the ancient Protocol that kept tenuous peace among Pandemia's warlocks. And his conquest had only begun. Somehow the deposed Impero...

  • A Special Request

    Judith Duncan
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    Sarah Jeffrie's son didn't want much --- just a dog and a dad. Nat Anderson had the dog --- and he'd be a prime candidate for dadhood, except Nat was just passing through. Sarah refused to fall for a sexy smile, but Nat wasn't leaving till he fulfill...

  • Under the Mosquito Net

    Elizabeth Dunkel

    When a sophisticated New York career woman takes a spur-of- the-moment trip to the Yucatan, she encounters an intriguing man and embarks on a steamy affair. By the author of Every Woman Loves a Russian Poet. ...

  • Thea's Marquis

    Carola Dunn

    A FAMILY AFFAIR .. . Family meant everything to Miss Thea Kilmore, even though she never expected to have one of her own. She was happy to spend all her considerable energy seeing to the well-being of her mother, sisters and brother. Until she met...

  • Tower of the Gods

    Thomas A. Easton

  • To Arms! to Arms, in Dixie!

    J.T. Edson

    Assigned to investigate mysterious consignments of priceless weapons for her new employer, the U.S. Government, former rebel spy Belle Boyd runs up against the secret Brotherhood for Southern Freedom, a sinister band of renegades...

  • Kipper's Game

    Barbara Ehrenreich

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed comes a futuristic thriller about science, love, politics, and social disarray.Della Markson is searching for her son, a brilliant, nihilistic computer hacker who has invented an addictiv...

  • Old Scores

    Aaron Elkins

    "A fascinating glimpse into the hidden world of tense auctions, suspected forgeries and internecine feuds." St. Louis Post-Dispatch
    The art world is abuzz with news of the discovery of an unknown Rembrandt. Rene Vachey, the famed collector who mad...

  • Lone Star and the San Diego Bonanza

    Wesley Ellis

    A killer goes for gold -- and leaves Jessie and Ki in the dust of his deadly trail...When Jessie's old pal, Lawson Blaine, turns up dead, the Lone Star team searches for the killer, certain that it is the same person who recently robbed Wells Fargo....

  • Echoes and Illusions

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    OUT OF THE PAST Lauren Ryder is content with her quiet life in a small, scenic town in Maine. She has it all--a thriving needlecraft business and a wonderful husband. But then the dreams start--dreams so real she fears she's losing her mind. Somethi...

  • The Craft of Light

    Ru Emerson

    A WORLD OF MAGICAL ADVENTURE... ...is what three unsuspecting visitors found when they were rudely summoned from their everyday lives by an ancient Thread-wielder. As sorceress, shapeshifter, and soldier, each played a vital role in restoring to the...

  • Rainbow Man

    M.J. Engh

  • Paradox

    Lynn Erickson

    TRAPPED IN TIME! Emily Jacoby --- Bright, sophisticated and independent. Used to being in control, she's a real woman of the '90s. Will Dutcher --- Arrogant, brash and domineering. On his ranch in the rugged foothills of Colorado, his word is la...

  • Quinn Eisley's War

    Patricia Gardner Evans

    SECRET WEAPON Quinn Eisley: Special agent, U.S. Naval Intelligence. Specialty--works alone, high-risk missions. Blue Harrell: Secret bodyguard. Specialty--invisibility. Rating--excellent, little regard for her own life. Working undercover as a ...

  • Longarm and the Diamond Snatchers

    Tabor Evans

  • This Above All

    Barbara Faith

    Fiddle-de-dee. Laurel Merritt's assignment that sultry Georgia night should have been simple for a Southern belle: sweet-talk elusive Christian Dumond into selling a tiny piece of his dusky tropical isle. Unfortunately, Christian's dark, hypnotic sen...

  • Kitty's First Airplane Trip

    Linda C. Falken

  • Thicker Than Water

    Penelope Farmer

    When her cousin Will comes to live with her family after his mother's death, Becky, who lives in an English mining town, finds herself caught up in a haunting mystery that involves ghostly weeping and an old mining tragedy....

  • Secret Shores

    Kelly Ferjutz

    The restless daughter of a self-made shipbuilder, Samantha knows more about ships than ten men put together. She would gladly abandon ruffles and curls for the chance to make her mark in an industry she was weaned on. When tragedy strikes her family,...

  • Holding Out for a Hero

    Marie Ferrarella

    A SHOCKING CRIME... Single mother Jennifer Sinclair had no way of knowing she shouldn't trust the kindly nurse who took her newborn daughter away for routine tests. She had no way of knowing that her baby had just been kidnapped--that she might ne...

  • Lily Beach

    Jennie Fields

    This complex and widely acclaimed debut novel tells the story a talented artist who's rush of sexual pleasure with anonymous partners becomes her escape from painful memories--until one of the three important men in her life becomes a catalyst for vi...

  • The Broken Sphere

    Nigel Findley

  • Michael the Angel

    Laura Fischetto

    A biography of famed Renaissance artist Michelangelo teaches young children about the life, career, and extraordinary masterpieces of a great figure in art history. By the authors of Inside Noah's Ark. ...

  • Texas Medico // Dusty Boots

    Lee Floren

    Tod Morgan and his hard-bitten wranglers face off against frontier veterinarian Wade Russell in "Texas Medico," and in "Dusty Boots," Kirk Roper gets in the middle of a gunfight while helping an editor friend. Original....

  • Bride of the Wildcat Purchase

    Judith E. French
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    A half-breed tidewater planter gets more than he bargained for when the docile mail-order bride he requested turns out to be a feisty and sensuous hellion who will not be tamed...

  • Why the Sea Is Salt

    Vivian French

    In a retelling of a Norwegian folktale, kindly Matilda's generosity toward a stranger brings her a magic butter churn that gives her family everything it needs, and brings her greedy uncle exactly what he deserves....

  • Peerless Flats

    Esther Freud

    Sixteen-year-old Lisa has high hopes of imitating her older sister Ruby during her first years in London. Ruby's shady past and rockabilly boyfriend indicate to Lisa a life lived to the fullest. But as her family's prospects start to look bleak, L...

  • McLendon's Syndrome

    Robert A. Frezza

    Ken MacKay's career in space was going nowhere. The decrepit trading ship he served on was also going nowhere: the Rustam's Slipper was grounded on Schuyler's World, a backwater planet lacking even a good bar. For diversion, Schuyler's offered bad ba...

  • Night Shift

    Margot J. Fromer

  • The Pure Cold Light

    Gregory Frost

    Guerrilla activist and rebel journalist Thomasina Lyell discovers a destructive, mind-shattering power that threatens the future of humankind and will stop at nothing to reveal it to the world. Original....

  • Shadow Play

    Frances Fyfield

    Crown Prosecutor Helen West is doubly frustrated. Her lover, Geoffrey Bailey, is off to a police education course, with weekend visits only a slight possibility. And she has just failed for the fifth time to convict a menacing little man called Logo....

  • Miracleman Book Four: The Golden Age

    Neil Gaiman

  • Dead Magnolias

    M.L. Gamble

    Past sins haunted the South.... In the steamy dog days of an Alabama August, P.I. Teresa Worth struggled with her cases. Her kidnapped daughter remained top priority - then came hit-and-run murders, petty thieves and men like Wells Talmadge. T...

  • Just Like My Dad

    Tricia Gardella

  • Never Send Flowers

    John E. Gardner

    In different corners of the world, four high-profile figures are assassinated in less than a week. Nobody claims responsibility, and nobody links the deaths. But one thing is certain: each victim has been stalked, sought out and killed with care and ...

  • Circus Girl

    Michael Garland

    Vivid illustrations and a straightforward text capture the unique world of a traveling circus family, from the parade through town, to the rehearsals, to the big show itself, with its clowns, acrobats, animals, and more....

  • Anything You Can Do

    Sara Garrett

    Checkmate Bailey Russell had heard about the hot-shot attorney before he arrived in Kansas City. Rumor had it that Austin Travers was a big gun who'd been brought into the rival firm to shake things up. But she'd never expected Austin to be drop-d...

  • Western Enchantress

    Wendy Garrett

    A SONG IN HER HEART Risking everything to find her long-lost father, Rianne Kierney journeyed to the frigid Yukon wilderness alone...only to discover that her father's life was in a shambles, his mining claim mortgaged to a rugged but decidedly ...

  • Half-Breed's Bride

    Georgina Gentry

    Born dirt-poor Sassy Malone had only her wits and wiles to get her by in life. So when tragedy struck her soon-to-be-wed employer, the feisty lass seized her chance: Armed with a new identity, she passed herself off as a high-class lady and boarded t...

  • Lawful Possession

    Catherine George

    Just how far would he go to gain possession? Flora Blair had every intention of vacating her great-aunt's cottage in the Scottish Highlands, until James Cameron chose to act the arrogant landlord. Well, she would just let him dangle for a whil...

  • The Fire Bug Connection

    Jean Craighead George

    Mutant Bug! "When a raven, flies at you, there will, be a murder." That's what Maggie's grandmother once told her, and the longer twelve-year-old Maggie stays with her parents at the Biological Research Station--or Bug Camp, as she calls it--the mor...

  • Zorina Ballerina

    Enzo Giannini

  • Landscape with Traveler

    Barry Gifford

    Landscape with Traveler: The Pillow Book of Francis Reeves is Barry Gifford’s first full-length novel. In print for the first time in fifteen years, Landscape with Traveler is written as the protagonist's diary -- inspired by the first century Japa...

  • Death of a Fantasy Life

    T.G. Gilpin

    While searching for his runaway nephew in London's Soho district, university professor Anthony Ponton finds himself in the middle of the mystery concerning a stripper's murder, and he and his newfound stripper friend, Sylvia, decide to investigate...

  • Ghostwriter

    Eve Gladstone

    She was having a bad day... There was a dead body in her flower garden and the notes from the scathing expose of a murder in the Amazon she'd ghostwritten had been stolen. When she returned to the scene of the crime Kim Killian was next in line fo...