Speaking Volumes: 953 books

A sweeping novel of the Native American experience as seen by a powerful and controversial member of the Osage nation. C.R. Jones was one of the wealthiest men in Oklahoma. A full-blooded Osage Indian, he'd parlayed the black gold of oil into a position of unassailable power. But behind the success...

T.D. Stash, part-time sleuth, was over his cool head 'n dirty business in the Everglades: There was an adorable little girl who claimed her loving father wanted her to be an adorable corpse... a tycoon who bred killer alligators for profit and pleasure... a sex kitten with skin you'd love to touch...

"The Most Peaceful Town in the World" boasts the sign leading to the quiet adult community of Young Lake. And it was—until they started shooting across the generation gap. First there were the "incidents": a broken arm, a scorpion sting, rocks hurled at the school bus. Next...

They had all died screaming. She had seen them in her psychic visions. And she saw herself.

Led by circumstances to accept the kind of case he dislikes—a "worried mother job"—"Nameless" reluctantly agrees to investigate the strange disappearance of college student Allison McDowell and her mysterious new boyfriend while on a driving strip from Oregon to San Francisco....

The women in his life call him the Alias Man. From Santa Fe to Pennsylvania, from Vancouver to San Francisco, he has seduced and charmed, stolen and disappeared, leaving unbearable hurt in his wake. Then his three most recent victims—Jessie, Sarah, and Morgan—find one another and collectively...

As we follow Rex Sackett ("The Metaphor Kid") on his way to the top in that great spectator sport of the future, hack-writing, we realize that this a fast-moving, ribald parody of the writing profession. From the moment the Head Editor waves his red flag to the second the typewriting stops and a victor is chosen, every reader will be cheering at the sidelines of Prose Bowl.

A freelance charter pilot on uneasy terms with the police but greatly respected by the underworld, Dan Connell turns down a bundle of cash to smuggle a jade carving of a bird out of Singapore—which doesn’t make the thieves or the authorities happy. When an old cohort is killed, Connell discovers that only by finding the bird can he avoid his own murder.

A chilling, ingenious brain-teaser by two masters of the psychological thriller. Nicholas Augustine was a rancher and a railroad enthusiast, a popular maverick whose meteoric rise to the Presidency dumbfounded every self-styled expert in Washington. But scandal threatens when someone is murdered in...

Logspur is a small and dangerously isolated community in the rugged logging country of northern California. The town's lumber baron, Henry Johnston, is a fanatic right-wing paramilitarist who has a cache of illegal weapons and ammo in two old freight cars. The ordnance is slated for a secret bivouac...

Dead men tell tales—the living take vengeance. HORROR IN SERENITY Jack Slade, now a deputy U.S. mar­shal in the lawless Oklahoma Terri­tory, is investigating the mysterious death of fellow marshal Aaron Price near a town called Serenity. But Slade soon learns Serenity is nothing...

It was a snake-bit journey from the start. Riding across the most godforsaken expanse of nothing in all of Arizona, Clint comes across a gut-shot stranger. And granting the dying man's last wish brings the Gunsmith nothing but trouble... Soon Clint's forced to live up to his reputation. And that means...

Clint is in Alban, Louisiana to help his friend, Scott Meyer, mend his law breaker ways by getting married and opening his own business. But while he is there, people are starting to show up not only murdered, but butchered in the most horrible ways imaginable. Before long, the killer—dubbed THE...

In Prophecy, there's a slim redhead with a sensuous face. In Jericho, a big, brash, sexy blonde. And in Jory, an Indian girl with hair as black as a raven's wing. Clint Adams has had his share of gorgeous women before, but never three beautiful bounty hunters, each willing to do anything to...