The agency's website, 1998 to 2009
Harris Literary card catalog
The Harris Literary Agency website, as it stood between 1998 and 2009, restored from Wayback Machine captures. This is a reading archive, not the agency: nothing here is represented, and nothing can be submitted.
The Harris Literary Agency kept a small website for about a decade. It described itself as an agency that sought both established and new writers, charged no reading or agency fees, and was based in San Diego, California. Its pages listed fiction in several categories, from mainstream and mystery to thriller, science fiction and women's fiction, and non-fiction from memoir to self-help. The site was a working tool: a showcase of manuscripts being marketed to publishers, a page of guidelines for authors who wanted to query, and a short essay on where the agency thought publishing was headed.
According to its own About page, Barbara J. Harris was one of the founders. The page said she had worked as an editor for a number of years, held credentials in speech and language pathology, and had taken degrees at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and San Diego State University. The agency wrote that she had seen many good manuscripts fail to reach publication and wanted to advocate for authors instead. Nothing else about the agency's staff or history survives in the captures, so this archive does not add to it, and it does not guess.
What survives here are 245 author listings, kept as the agency published them. Most belonged to authors whose listings named no publisher; a smaller number did, such as Kevin McAleer's Surferboy with Wrecking Ball Press in Hull and Scott MacMillan's The Big Game, sold in several languages. Others matter for who wrote them: W. Watts Biggers, co-creator of the cartoon Underdog, whose novel Abe and Almiranda retold the 1876 plot to steal Lincoln's body, or the anthropologist Schuyler Jones with his autobiography A Stranger Abroad. Browse by genre, by author name from A to Z, or through the card catalog.
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- ABRAMThrillerInside OutFran AbramAn accountant in Washington DC helps an FBI agent investigate her employer's money laundering, and the trail leads to a master criminal…
- ADIBEParenting guideWinning the Child Care ChallengePatience AdibeA mother's account of eleven years, from 1986 to 1997, spent finding quality child care for four children while studying and working. It…
- ALEXANDERSelf-helpHyper-Sex: Pathways to EcstasyAlexanderA guide for consenting couples that teaches suggestion-based techniques meant to heighten desire, responsiveness and intimacy in lovemaking.
- AMINMemoirReflections From The Shining BrowKamal AminAn Egyptian architecture graduate apprentices with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin and finds a community shaped by Olgivanna Lazovitch and…
- ANTONECrime fictionSOILED ANGELAntoneChinese Triad criminals try to take over Newport, Rhode Island, where the Navy and the wealthy are secretly in their debt. Former San…
- APLIN-SNAKERIVERLegal thrillerSnake River SecretMaureen Meehan AplinJackson Hole attorneys Mary MacIntosh and Harry Harrison search for their missing legal secretary, and the trail runs down the Class V…
- APLINLegal thrillerPowder River PoisonMaureen Meehan AplinA Wyoming rancher and former rodeo star faces MethZap, a coalbed methane company that bought the mineral rights under his ranch near the…
- ARMSTRONGMedical thrillerReactionCarolyn ArmstrongSevere drug reactions in two patients bring estranged half-sisters, an ER doctor and a laboratory president, together to trace contaminated…
- ARNOLDSuspenseVengeanceAnn ArnoldGraduate student Carol Garvey researches a thesis on Westpoint Mall and stumbles on a twenty-year-old murder that militia leader James…
- ASTREThrillerThe Doppelganger ProtocolPatrick P. AstreForty years after a CIA project to arm soldiers with genetically engineered creatures, an agent is killed in Puerto Rico and a retired…
- BAIRDPsychological mysteryMURDER TIMES TWOMarlene BairdPolitician Daniel McCallister's career and marriage are shaken when he learns of his wife's college abortion and of a brother he never…
- BAKERMysteryThe Sands of LuxorTom BakerEgyptologist Shannon Wright, an assistant professor at the University of Chicago, is asked to test a gold statue bearing a royal cartouche…
- BALRAJYoung adult fantasyKeeper of the SeedVijay BalrajThe first book of a multiverse series for young adults, in which Sarina and Samir are called to become Keepers, ancient protectors of the…
- BARGMemoir and self-helpBut The Heavens Never CriedCindy E. BargA woman's journey after her brother's murder, from the life-altering phone call through the trial to her family's long grief. It follows…
- BARNHILLHard-boiled mysteryCreature ComfortsStuart A. BarnhillWinston Nash, a St. Louis private eye of enormous size, takes a runaway-teen case for a retired judge, and it turns sour when the girl is…
- BARTONMedical thrillerThe ProtocolKeith BartonA sociopathic Houston psychiatrist manipulates an FDA drug trial for an anti-violence drug, and Lieutenant Mark Johnson investigates the…
- BARZYDLOScience fictionDisplaced in TimeCharles BarzydloEarth freezes and drifts into space, then thaws after a forty-year journey near another sun. Astronomer Chuck Beinden tries to rebuild his…
- BEACHAMComic novelBodiesWalton BeachamA flock of millions of starlings settles on Virginia's capitol building and refuses to leave, and the absurd standoff slowly changes the…
- BEARDYoung adult adventureThe RunawayRobert W. BeardTwelve-year-old Timmy Keaton runs away from a troubled home to Apalachicola, Florida, and sails with an older man named Robin toward…
- BELTONThrillerUnderground AsylumDan BeltonMark Conlan buys land beside a wilderness area near San Francisco, where decapitated bodies keep turning up. His son finds a vast cave…
- BENEDECEspionage fictionAltar of the EnemyStacy BenedecFreelance agent Adam Crawford takes a CIA contract to help a Soviet businessman defect, paired with an agent he regards as a blue-blood…
- BIGGERSHistorical fictionAbe and AlmirandaW. Watts BiggersIn 1876 a counterfeiter's gang plots to steal Abraham Lincoln's body from a Springfield, Illinois cemetery to ransom their leader, while…
- BLACKHALLScience fictionStealth PlanetRay BlackhallA young NASA astrophysicist discovers a nearly invisible planet at the edge of the solar system. Set about twenty-five years ahead, the…
- BLANEYHistorical fictionSo The River FlowsSuzanne BlaneyJennifer Todd flees a violent marriage for pre-war Paris, is trapped there by the Nazi invasion, and later builds a career in Hollywood…
- BLAUTechno-thrillerSolar WindPeter J. BlauProject Aurora, a multi-billion dollar station in Alaska that receives solar energy beamed from satellites, is racing to open while…
- BLOEMERSuspenseFirst ImpressionBrad BloemerIn 1978 a twelve-year-old in a small Missouri town realizes that a new neighbor, seventeen-year-old Ricky Henry, is dangerous. Decades…
- BLUMENTHALMainstream fictionFanning the FlamesBlumenthalAt 52, widowed ad man Matt Moore, now a New York Times auto reporter, revisits six old flames while chasing a story about a canceled small…
- DEBONOThrillerPoint of HonorDouglas De BonoSix years after the Gulf War, Saddam plots revenge with a more virulent VX nerve agent called the City Killer, and a rendezvous at sea goes…
- BRACCIALEFamily fictionAngels on Grant StreetAngelo BraccialeA father tells his injured daughter a once-upon-a-time story about Aunt Mary and her teenage nephew Angelo, who face long odds in a small…
- BURBRIDGEMystical suspenseSecrets in the FieldsRoger BurbridgeJillian Truscott, in despair after a failed marriage, travels to southern England to research a crop circle tour. Her estranged brother…
- BURNETTAction novelHalf OffBurnettColombian drug lords unleash a crime wave on Detroit, and two homicide detectives, one white and one black, are marked for death by the…
- BURNSComic novelSmith, Smythe, What's the Difference?Rob BurnsEd Smythe, a man in his thirties, must cope with the gifts handed down by his father Ted: an obsession with unsolvable verbal math problems…
- CALLOWAYWomen's fictionA Meeting of MindsElizabeth Turner CallowayJanie Miller Sterne, a young Dallas woman, survives an abusive husband and a near-kidnapping of her son while building a career in her…
- CAREYContemporary fictionEscaping LindaJean CareyLinda Carson ends her engagement to an abusive fiance, who then stalks her. With a disguise and her savings she runs, and a female truck…
- CARMANHistorical romanceHampton WickRobert O. CarmanIn postwar Europe, a quiet English village is changed by the arrival of Americans at nearby Bushy Park Air Force Base, and young servicemen…
- CARTERLegal dramaUnborn SoulMike CarterAttorney Paul Blythe, close to making partner, takes a hospital's case to remove an incompetent physician after a young nurse is left in a…
- CASPERScience fictionKing of the UniverseMark L. CasperAstronaut Jason Goodall sees his dead aunt the night before the maiden flight of the Columbus Space Shuttle, and later hears biblical words…
- CHENHistorical fictionWidow of Que-MoyJeff ChenThe Chinese civil war separates Mary Wu, from a prominent Shanghai family, and Lieutenant Mike Brightman of the U.S. Consulate Guard, and…
- CHUBBSuspenseA Foreign ExchangeThomas ChubbGlenn Sommers, a widower in the Colorado mountains, lets his seventeen-year-old daughter Jessie spend a semester in Florence, Italy. A…
- CLARKSouthern fictionShades of RetributionWill ClarkIn Mississippi, an elderly African-American couple is chased by three men in a truck with a Confederate flag, a chase that opens a story…
- COLLINSSuspenseMen of GreedJean CollinsOne misplaced computer disk could destroy an international manufacturer. Former employee Jennifer Loring unknowingly holds proof of drug…
- COLONYComing-of-age fictionChasing the SunChad ColonyCrandon, an Iowa farm boy with big ambitions, works off a prank for a reclusive old neighbor called Chief, whose stories begin to echo in…
- CONOYERSelf-helpDesigning Your DestinyDebra ConoyorA self-help guide to the psychological causes behind behavior, with techniques people have used through the ages to overcome obstacles and…
- CRAVERThrillerReunionCraverMurder brings terror to the tiny town of Pine Ridge, Washington, when a woman returning for her class reunion is killed. The sheriff…
- CROSBYWomen's fictionBeneath the SnowBette L. CrosbyWidowed Sarah Robertson learns of her husband's long affair, withdraws from everyone, and slowly recovers through a friendship with a…
- CROSSChildren's picture bookWhen Time Was YoungLaura Scandalis CrossIn a land of primary colors, yellow circles, red squares and blue lines turn on one another until three contestants must find the magic…
- CROZIERSupernatural thrillerDreams Come TrueThane C. CrozierAfter his wife and daughter die in a car accident in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, Sid Riker begins having ten recurring dreams that he believes…
- DALESHistorical non-fictionLetters from GrandmaMildred DalesA memoir in letters about growing up in a large, poor family in rural upstate New York early in the 20th century, covering everyday topics…
- DANIELHumorous fictionFlying DragonsKen DanielOne summer, four boys and a coastal Florida town plagued by mosquitoes: the community raises funds to import dragonflies that arrive by…
- DAVISEducation self-helpBeatitudes of LearningPatricia DavisAn educator with more than thirty years of experience asks why so many children still are not learning. She sets out eight principles, from…
- DEANMemoirThe Altered EyeJean Small DeanA painter born with a heart defect was told in 1959 that surgery would kill her. She refused that verdict and describes the years of…
- DEGARMOCrime fictionOf A Sound MindDeGarmoJon Loucher, a piececutter in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, learns his logging company helps dispose of illegal chemicals for a paper mill.…
- DELONGHistorical fictionVoices of the Living GrailW. Bradford DeLongA spiritual adventure in a 13th century European kingdom ruled by descendants of the Grail keepers, built on the idea that the Grail is a…
- DERRINGERShort story collectionKaleidoscope of Many Shapes & ColorsWilliam DerringerRealistic short stories arranged in sections on family from childhood and the teen years, lifelong friendships and loves, and hopes in…
- DONAHUECrime fictionPurple HayesMichael DonahueTwo homicide detectives follow the murder of a drug dealer into the world of methamphetamine production. They ally with a state narcotics…
- DONATIContemporary fictionA Story to TellCarma DonatiNewspaper editor Anne Barrett, a divorced forty-five-year-old, takes a firefighter's dare to write a series on the city's engine houses,…
- DORNERMedical thrillerA Cure by DeathBrian DornerStephanie Drier, a Ph.D. researcher at the small bioengineering company MolecTech, nears a hepatitis cure when an accident contaminates her…
- DOUGLASBusiness thrillerTrade SecretsDouglasWhen trade secrets are stolen from a small Silicon Valley biotech firm, marketing executive Gina Stasov is caught between a ruthless…
- DRAKEAction and adventureSouthboundJerry S. DrakeKevin Mathias, wrongly sent to prison for life, escapes in a garbage truck and heads south, hoping a rogue pilot will fly him out of the…
- DUNNCrime fictionFlawed From InceptionRobert DunnNewport Beach investment advisor Joe Harper is pulled into a murder and fraud plot after a frightened accountant gives him a check and a…
- DUNN1Crime fictionFlawed From InceptionRobert DunnThe day after a con man is found murdered, a frightened accountant hands Newport Beach investment advisor Joe Harper a check and a safe…
- DUNN2Mainstream fictionA Killing In The MarketRobert DunnInvestment advisor Joe Harper and attorney Beth Manning survive an attempt to drown them off Newport Beach, and the men behind it walk free…
- DUNN3Historical fictionVice Squad 1942Robert DunnLong Beach, California in early World War II, where Acting Sergeant Jim Tong and his ten-man vice squad try to keep servicemen out of…
- DUNNINGComic novelThe Venus VirusChristopher DunningPius Harris, a would-be priest in England, is sent to Canada to marry his pregnant former girlfriend. There he revises insurance policy…
- ECKARDTMystery and suspenseOmerta - Deadly SilenceEleanor Pari EckardtIn Boston in 1963, Harvard student Emilio Tonella sets out to clear his grandfather's name after the old man is found shot in the Public…
- ELLERHistorical mysteryThe Children of Sherlock HolmesBen F. EllerA Sherlock Holmes mystery set in Victorian England of the 1890s, where thousands of impoverished children work fourteen-hour days in…
- ELLIOTTLiterary fictionShiny ThingsJacob ElliottTom Farley, drunk and out of options in a transient hotel, is interrupted mid-plan by a burst pipe from the apartment above. Its tenant, a…
- ERICKSONCrime fictionSquare DanceRichard EricksonThe McKinley family's cancer fundraiser in Minnesota is the setting for a kidnapping, planned by two men chasing a seventeen million dollar…
- ESTORGEMemoirStorkbitesMarie EstorgeA memoir of a wealthy Louisiana family with nine children, a mother who swings between sobriety and drunkenness, and a young mother…
- FARBERHistorical fictionWe Belong to History: A Feminist Perspective (The Journal of M.L. Smitherman 1848-1861)Mary Carol FarberA fictionalized narrative and journal follows Margaret Louise Smitherman, a young Oberlin graduate and feminist writer, as her life crosses…
- FARISMysteryThe Third BookJames W. FarisCarrie Thompson is accused of murder after her fiance vanishes. A file called The Third Book, locked in an unbreakable code, may be her…
- FAYMysteryThe Marble OrchardFaySan Antonio detective Jenny Hall, harassed by her supervisor, works with Boston forensic expert Frank Burke to track a female serial killer…
- FONTANALegal thrillerReverse OnusJames FontanaIn San Diego, the mystery solver is trial judge Howard Lerner, not a detective or a defense lawyer. A routine murder case against a Mexican…
- FORNESSNon-fictionDon't Get Duped - A Consumer's Guide to Health and FitnessLarry FornessA consumer guide to the health and fitness industry that examines supplements, equipment and treatments and shows how to test whether a…
- FOSTER-MINDSECRETSSelf-helpMind SecretsThomas W. FosterA self-help book on the powers of the subconscious mind and how learning to control them can shape the life a reader wants.
- FOSTERSelf-helpYour Mind Power UnleashedThomas W. FosterA self-improvement guide to reversing the subconscious attitudes that hold people back, replacing them with a mind-set built for solving…
- FRANZMEIERSuspenseThe Spiral BridgeAl FranzmeierDepression-era college student Tillie Tilden takes an emergency teaching post in a Minnesota country school and starts to doubt how her…
- FRITHLegal fictionA Loss of FaithAlfred L. FrithThe nation's largest law firm is sued for fraud after a partner is accused of supplying prostitutes to officials to win approval for a…
- GAITISports fictionDutching the BookRitch GaitiBased on actual people and events, four high school friends known as the Syndicate set out to beat the racetrack. Ben Gaines, a fireman and…
- GEDDESMystery and suspenseThe ArtifactD. Grant GeddesA monk carrying a relic for the Vatican is murdered, and New York art sleuth Peter Grant, in Venice to trace a stolen Bellini, is drawn…
- GIBBONSRelationship guideHyper-Sex: Pathways to EcstasyGibbonsA guide for consenting couples that uses the power of suggestion to set the mood, heighten responsiveness and strengthen closeness in…
- GILLESPIEMysteryThe London ClubH.R. GillespieScotland Yard's MacPherson Team investigates the death of London businessman Victor Paulson, once a street-gang leader. Its method examines…
- GOREHumorSomething's Leaking UpstairsWillma Willis GoreCalifornia journalist Claire and her British husband George leave careers in Orange County for a mini-ranch in the San Joaquin Valley, with…
- GRANEYAdventureIndian SummerDouglas F. GraneyBen Henry leads fellow Apaches on horseback from a Seminole reservation in Florida to an Apache reservation in New Mexico. A Miami reporter…
- GRANGERLiterary fictionOne is InfinityRobert A. GrangerNobel laureate David Whink, ill in a hospital, looks back on what his research cost him and gets a chance to win back lost love, at a price.
- GREENSHPONMysteryHamsinMargarethe GreenshponRecently divorced Marie Goldstein leaves her Haifa apartment on a hot spring day, and at her friend Annette's house her twin sons'…
- GRIBBLEComing-of-age fictionThe Pit: Ever Thickening HawsersJack L. GribbleA young boy who lost his father early is mentored by his older brother Bill. He narrates the building of a backyard swimming pool, an…
- GRIFFITHMainstream fictionTHE INSIDER THIEFGriffithSan Francisco investment banker Eric Knight sees his insider-trading network come apart as the Securities and Exchange Commission closes in…
- GRINBERGComing-of-age novelWild About HarryHenry GrinbergHarry Glass, ten, grows up in a Jewish immigrant family in London at the start of the Second World War, at odds with his parents and nearly…
- GUNTHERSuspenseThe Sentry PostAl GuntherIn Colorado's San Luis Valley, small-town lawyer Freddie Romero learns his best friend was killed to clear the way for buying the Baca…
- GUTHRIEYoung adultMystic Red -- Return of the Spirit GuideJean Neff GuthrieRed Donovan spoke to a spirit guide as a small child, sent him away at her parents' insistence, and as a teenager struggles with divorce…
- HAINESThrillerCountdown at College StationHarry HainesTexas A&M nuclear engineering professor Kendall Evans, hit by personal attacks and depression, flees to St. Martin. Meanwhile a terrorist…
- HANNAAdventureOps ApprovalJohn HannaRichard, an ambitious statistician at the Drug Enforcement Agency, is refused a promotion and investigates a Caribbean drug distributor on…
- HARDISTYLiterary fictionIrish PennantsJeffrey HardistyIn the summer of 1971, twelve-year-old Phillip Reese is caught in the garage of Pat Lamb, a World War II Marine veteran, and what follows…
- HARREMysteryLooney TunesGary HarreLos Angeles fixer Looney Abbot, a nickname borrowed from the Warner Brothers cartoons, takes the case of an up-and-coming starlet who is…
- HARRISONMysteryChildren of the OrchidR. Harris HarrisonWhen a prize orchid vanishes, ex-courtroom artist turned investigator Wolfgang Fenstemier finds a murder, a kidnapping and a link to the…
- HARTLOVESuspenseTruth Be ToldMichele HartloveWashington Post reporter Cassandra O'Neil Pierce investigates whether the death of CIA Director Leonard McPhearson was murder, days before…
- HAUCKHistorical mysteryMillion Dollar BabyAmy Patricia HauckIn 1935 British millionaire Creighton Ashcroft moves to Ridgebury, Connecticut, where a body is found buried on his new estate. With a…
- HAYESSuspenseGallant DeceptionEdward HayesAn old woman with a wartime past sends her daughter to Berlin to find a document worth millions, after her earlier attempt cost her son his…
- HEMPHILLSuspenseTainted BlessingJohn HemphillKansas graduate student Elin Norman discovers a wheat gene of unprecedented nutritional value, but her discovery is tainted and her future…
- HENDERSONHistorical thrillerThe Burden of MercyTom HendersonThe Holy Spear that pierced Christ's side passes from a Roman legionary at Golgotha to Pope Alexander VI and the Borgias in 1494, as the…
- H-SMITHBiographical novelTeresitaZenaida Hernandez-SmithIn 1960 Cuba, Teresita's fifteenth birthday is interrupted when Castro's soldiers occupy her sugar cane village, and she becomes a runner…
- HINMANMainstream fictionIraq, The Last Day of the WarJohn HinmanTwo families, one Iraqi and one American, are followed from a prewar summer to the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as their children take…
- HITEHistorical fictionKahu's GhostsRobert HiteIn 1914 young attorney Sam Westbrook arrives in Honolulu and is drawn into the magic of an old kahuna, along with racial prejudice and…
- HJELMELANDContemporary fictionThe Bamboo LoungeAndy HjelmelandBenny Wilburs narrates his escape from a correctional forestry camp, alternating with flashbacks to his delinquent youth. Hitchhiking to…
- HOFFLERMemoirPromotion: DeniedJoseph W. HofflerA decorated Air Force Academy security police commander recounts being denied promotion to colonel in 1984 and links it to race, drawing on…
- HOLMESThrillerEmily's RunDavid HolmesEmily hides her young daughter from her undercover-cop husband and runs, and a stranger she meets on a freezing road helps her protect the…
- HOWEAdventure fictionOld StonesRichard HoweThree longtime friends raft the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon: a Seattle defense attorney in a bitter divorce, a short-tempered…
- HOWELLMysteryInvisible WoundsSue HowellDetective Maggie Dare investigates the murder of a college student in a small Midwestern town, and the case points to blackmail and a gay…
- HUNTERComic novelSpindley BakerSteve HunterTwo Ozark hillbilly children hustle their way into business and, over forty years and eighteen swindles, make and lose millions before…
- IANNONESelf-helpWhat One Can DoHeather IannoneA book on how every reader is connected to every other person, built on the idea that one person can make a difference. It opens with…
- CLEMMERINGMysteryActing in the DarkJayson Clemmer and Lynette IngramEx-actor Raymond Deal, back in Memphis after treatment for PTSD, joins a blackmail scam and becomes the prime suspect when a playboy is…
- MCINTYREMysterySaving ElysiumRobert Mc IntyreMagazine editor Martina Vaughn investigates the murder of a friend who found corruption in a city councilman's office that threatens…
- JENKINSCrime fictionThe Big DealHoward JenkinsExecutive Paul Langley meets Vivian Davis while playing Texas Hold'em online and is drawn into her ex-boyfriend's plan for a heist at a Las…
- JINSEISpirituality and self-helpYES, Your Eternal SpiritJuna JinseiA spiritual guide told as the author's own quest for truth. It compares the world's religions and their founders and offers metaphysical…
- JOHNSONComing-of-age fictionGrit of CrawJames W. JohnsonPurvis Moody, the brightest student at a South Georgia high school and the son of a poor sharecropper, sets his sights on valedictorian and…
- JOHSMysteryIn Pursuit of EvilMaria JohsA woman is found shot on a crofter's property in the village of Peartree, and detectives MacLanahan and Nicholson learn the victim was a…
- JONESAutobiographyA Stranger AbroadSchuyler JonesThe autobiography of anthropologist Schuyler Jones, a longtime director of the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford and an expert on Nuristan in…
- JOSEPHThrillerCaught In The WebRon JosephA novel that imagines a new weapon behind the TWA 800 explosion and asks whether the public is being shielded from the cause.
- KAMINSKIComic novelPeople Wanting ChildrenKaminskiTom and June, a couple who choose marriage without clergy, want to have a baby, while the novel's own author struggles to make a book, and…
- KARLTONSatireThe Lizard of Ozzzz.com... A Silicon Valley TaleMary Lauren KarltonCaitlin Leary, a twenty-two-year-old Ph.D., joins Ozzzz.com, a dot-com that presents itself as an online community for children. It is…
- KELTERThrillerBy Executive OrderLarry KelterFBI agent Hal Niecro investigates a murder and must work with a Mossad agent as the US and Israel pursue the narcotics trade, with the mob…
- KEMPHumorous fictionA Sticky WicketJohn KempAt Oxbridge Estate in Dudberry, England, Ronny Summers runs into Patricia Witherspoon, the girlfriend he neglected thirty-five years…
- KENNEYSuspenseThe FaçadeSheri KenneyWidowed and in debt, Christine Kelly disguises herself as a man to trade in the Chicago commodity pits, where FBI agent Trent Nichols is…
- KISELMemoirCELEBRATION OF LIFEColleen Nagle KiselA mother's journal to her son, diagnosed at seven with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, covering treatment, family strain and the search for…
- KLATTTrue crimeFinal JusticeWayne KlattThe true story of prosecutor Terry Hake, who offered favors for bribes in the largest undercover operation in U.S. history, aimed at a…
- KLEMMEMemoir and self-helpBrother's KeeperKristie KlemmeAt eight years old, Kristie Tovrea accidentally shot and killed her little brother Jimmy with their father's gun. The memoir follows years…
- KLUCKMemoirOne-Pound BlessingDebra Rowell KluckA veterinarian describes her daughter's premature birth and the six months in neonatal intensive care that followed, guided by the idea…
- KORPELLAThrillerThe Red TriangleRobert J. KorpellaExecutive Al Tucker investigates bizarre and violent behavior at a Missouri plastics plant and finds hidden words and symbols spliced…
- KRISMERMedical thrillerUntil I Say GoodbyeJohn R. KrismerIn a small border town, a clique of corrupt physicians controls both hospitals. When the administrator and nursing director are murdered,…
- KRYSINSKIAdventurePirate of My Own SailboatPatricia KrysinskiCassandra McCullough takes back command of her yacht from her Dutch crew and sails a 6,000 mile voyage from Ensenada, Mexico, to Bonaire.
- KULENMystery thrillerDeath Rides a Pale HorseKathryn KuhlenDuring the U.S. Olympic equestrian team trials in Middleburg, Virginia, rider Alan Weber is found dead in a water jump, and horse trainer…
- LAMBETHThrillerOur Lady of Perpetual DeathLambethIn 1960s Southern California, Catholic schoolboy Roger Donnelly watches his best friend Jesse claim conversations with Jesus and the Virgin…
- LANDRUMHistorical fictionHypatiaLandrumDardania, a slave bought by the philosopher Hypatia, narrates life in Alexandria amid religious conflict and the political danger that…
- LAPUMASpiritual self-helpA New Myth to AwakenKaren LaPumaA collection of teaching tales, personal stories and practical tools meant to open readers to a larger perspective and a new way of being.
- LASKINYoung adult fictionVisitationPamela L. LaskinPati, about to turn thirteen, has moved to Park Slope, Brooklyn and built a story that her stepmother is her real mother. Every Saturday…
- LAWRENCESuspenseRisenKrystal LawrenceA modern vampire tale set in the fictional town of Alder Lake, California, where mysterious murders leave a detective as the only suspect.
- LEICHTERMedical legal dramaWitch-HuntLarry R. LeichterA young African-American physician, Roy Lawrence, faces hospital hearings brought by the chief of staff, and when that powerful doctor is…
- LEMZASatireI, EbenezerJohn LemzaEbenezer Scrooge tells his own story in a journal: a wealthy, worldly hedonist in a bawdy Victorian world of schemers who plot against him,…
- LEVINScience fiction for young adultsThe Kids from FoldenK.R. LevinIn 2105, seven young students and their bus driver break down in the Junk Zone and find an abandoned space station run by a computer called…
- LEWISSelf-helpReclaiming JoyJoy LewisA recovery plan for people after a breakup, with steps for the first days and weeks, daily affirmations for healing and the common mistakes…
- LOCKHARTMemoirSome Other JoyLockhartSet in Dallas in 1986 over six months, the memoir follows a twelve-year-old girl, her mother Joy, newly diagnosed with Multiple Personality…
- LONARDOFantasyThe Coming of a ManWill LonardoStruggling artist Leon Vincenti befriends an old vagabond, Vito, and finds a ring among his belongings that suggests Vito is no ordinary…
- LONGMysteryThe Twilight Side of the HillLarry LongIn 1958 an eleven-year-old girl is found murdered in Riverview, Iowa, with a stranger unconscious beside her, and Lyle Kincaid returns from…
- LUCASYoung adult fictionWATERTIMEJay Harris LucasRetired engineer Richard Pensler carries guilt over his son's death and begins to open up while fishing with his twelve-year-old grandson,…
- LUVSelf-helpStuck on Stupid-The Self Help Book!Tito LuvA common-sense self-help book drawn from the author's personal philosophy, Titoism, written for readers who have grown lazy in their…
- LYTLEYoung adult fantasyFaylinnJulie LytleEleven-year-old Quinn Butler McEwan lives on an island in northwestern Washington, beside an enchanted tree called Faylinn where fairies…
- MACMILLIAN-FOREIGN-FRENCHSelf-helpThe Big Game: 10 Strategies for Winning at LifeScott MacMillanA guide built on ten components, such as knowing your values, thinking critically and living in the moment, that the author says anyone can…
- MACMILLIAN-FOREIGNSelf-helpThe Big Game: 10 Strategies for Winning at LifeScott MacMillanTen components for building a foundation for effective living, drawn from the author's twenty years of teaching health principles,…
- MACMILLIANSelf-helpThe Big Game: 10 Strategies for Winning at LifeScott MacMillanA guide to ten components of effective living, among them knowing your values, thinking critically, staying disciplined and never letting…
- MADELINECorporate fictionTowers of ConceitStephen MadelineA novel based on the life of Lee Iacocca, following Martin Iannelli's rise at a Detroit automaker and his clash with the chairman, who is…
- MAGGIOLOEspionage thrillerZamrah and BeforePaulette B. MaggioloZamreh Musenu, a young Muslim woman fluent in Arabic, is recruited by U.S. intelligence agent Nick Tarzini while working at Sundance…
- MAISNERHistorical fictionGlorious Whore of MilanLarry MaisnerIn sixteenth-century Lombardy, Caterina, the daughter of exploited Flemish immigrants, shows signs of genius as a child. After the governor…
- MANFREDEBiographyFaithful DevotionLisa Lillian Manfrede-SmithThe life of Alvin Louis (Pete) Smith, Jr., a Washington, D.C., native who joined the Navy at seventeen and later led a unit of Korean…
- MARGALITHSatireAd NauseamSanford MargalithVietnam veteran Harry Brody joins New York's advertising and magazine business, where his friend Lorenzo Moss exploits his talent in a bid…
- MARSHALLMysteryThe Pandora KeysJeannie Holloway MarshallA Texas Ranger, Brad Warren, and travel magazine writer Chris Hamilton renew an old relationship amid a case that opens with the murder of…
- MARTINMemoir and self-helpThrough the Mirror of My Mind: Reflective Inspirations for CaregiversC. Andrew MartinA memoir of five years caring for a partner diagnosed with HIV, structured as a nine-week hospice course with lessons for caregivers.
- MASSNICKMysteryCloud of SuspicionForler MassnickA Seattle electronics CEO sees what looks like a duplicate of his adopted son at a daycare center and hires a private investigator, setting…
- GOTTLIEBTrue storyThe Men's ClubBert Gottlieb and Thomas J. MawnA patient and his urologist tell, in alternating voices, the story of a prostate cancer diagnosis, surgery, incontinence and eventual cure.
- MCALEERComing-of-age fictionSurferboyKevin McAleerFifteen linked stories set around 1980 in the San Fernando Valley and on Santa Monica Bay follow teenager Steve, an inlander trying to…
- MCBRIDEPolitical satireBorn AgainRick McBrideIn a near future drifting toward religious totalitarianism, a minister turned national politician breaks with his former allies and sees…
- MCDADELiterary fictionSuzanne at the WindowJoseph McDadeCommunity college instructor Donald Garvey is assigned to teach English to a high school class and ends up in a romantic triangle with two…
- MCINTOSHMystery and romanceThe Boy Who Talked With GodNed McIntoshAfter a Navy pilot dies, his young son Michael, unable to read or write, says he talks with God in his dreams. A mystery and love story…
- MCKIMSea suspenseThe Alpha MaleDoyle McKimSkipper Rawling Harris waits in a Honolulu cell for a verdict after a man is hanged by his shipmates, and retraces the voyage that began on…
- MELICHAutobiographyShe, The ForeignerGisela MelichA memoir-style family history set on Madeira, opening with the murder of the author's great-great grandfather in Prazeres. It follows her…
- MERRIMANCrime fictionA Red Rose in a Beer BottleJoe MerrimanTwo rebellious young people in San Francisco, Domino and his runaway girlfriend Shiela, are pulled into the city's underworld by an older…
- MICHAELSSuspenseAcappella BlueRaymond MichaelsAfter suspected bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa, a president approves Acapella Blue, an experiment in manipulating behavior…
- MILLARDMainstream fictionTrees With Deeper RootsBonny C. MillardKatie McPherson, raised on a Virginia farm, learns she was adopted and seeks out her birth mother, Mimi DuPree, a reserved French-born New…
- MILLSLiterary fictionUndercurrentsLaurel MillsArt professor Martha Felkins returns to her family's home on Quarry Island, Maine, to heal after a companion's death, and a young man's…
- MILLSPAUGHScience fictionThe Deadly SeekerAlbert U. MillspaughIdaho ranch foreman Mike Jenner is attacked by a seven-foot creature whose bullet wounds pour water, while an Air Force commander in…
- NORAHistorical fictionFlowers on StoneNora MilnerIn 1880s France, Count Ferdinand de Lesseps, fresh from the Suez Canal, takes on a new challenge: a canal across the Isthmus of Panama.
- MITCHELLTechno-thrillerTrojan HorseMitchellTrojan Horse is a techno-thriller listed in the Harris Literary Agency Authors' Showcase. The archived page carries no synopsis or author…
- MONGEAUAdventureQuest for the RosePhilip MongeauOn a sailing holiday in the Bahamas, Peter Magyar and Audrey Whiddon find a jeweled chalice that leads them to a treasure lost in the…
- MONREALLiterary fictionThe EditorialistDavid MonrealAfter a divorce, New Yorker Julia Schwartz buys the newspaper of Joaquin, California, to spread progressive ideas and clashes with its…
- MONTILiterary fictionThe Sweep of the Second HandDean MontiMalcolm, manager of a small foreign-film theater, loses sleep over a wristwatch he believes his ex-girlfriend Lena still has. As she…
- MOOREMainstream fictionBackwardsJim MooreBradley Cole, a 67-year-old widower living in a small boy's body, tries to find peace through a book that treats time as an illusion.
- MORALESTrue storyOut of the DarknessRalph Morales Jr.The story of Dr. Jon Edgar Lindstrom, born with Klinefelter Syndrome, who at the height of success and a terminal diagnosis sets out to…
- JEANChildren's bookKelley's Best DayJean MurrA rhyming story told by Kelley, a Border Collie, who recalls hoping to be chosen from a litter and winning over a new family.
- MURRAYBusiness thrillerPassion and CrimeG. Graham MurrayA driven narrator, shaped by an absent father, goes from Harvard to a New York firm and then to a San Diego software company built on…
- NELSONMysteryEpidemic of Choice - A DEA StoryDon NelsonVeteran DEA agent Jake Shaunessey works to find the source of a heroin epidemic threatening Minnesota, and each lead seems to end in…
- ORORKEHistorical romanceChasing the MoonTorena O'RorkeIn New York, the spirit of Selene, a Moroccan sorceress trapped in a portrait, watches archaeologist Tara Bold hunt for the Deigratia…
- PALMIEAdventureThe Road to Mama BearNancy PalmieWealthy engineering manager Matt Haldeman drops out at the top of his career and travels west to Alaska, hoping to reconnect with his…
- PATTERSONSuspenseThe Family ManMichael S. PattersonFrank Mallory, a lonely man whose rage drove away his first family, kidnaps a pregnant woman and takes her to a secluded compound in Canada…
- PAYNEPolitical thrillerThe Q ConspiracyAlan PayneAfter a luxury yacht sinks in 1947, two small-time blackmailers find secret letters linking a senator and an Israeli diplomat to a…
- PEARCEScience fictionThe BiogramDavid C. PearceA Florida engineer studying human DNA for a cola company finds the Biogram, a genetic program laid down by aliens, and someone tries to…
- PEWTHERSHistorical fictionPaganTom PewthersHistorians Sophie Warren and Blake Stuart are caught between the Muslim Brotherhood and Opus Dei in a novel about religious conflict…
- PHELANLegal mysteryHeir ApparentTwist PhelanYoung lawyer Joe McGuinness investigates after a wealthy client and her son are found dead and her assistant, Mia Ortiz, is arrested. His…
- PHELAN1Legal mysteryLear's DaughterTwist PhelanHannah Lear, an associate in her family's law firm in an Arizona desert resort town, fights to save the firm after an IPO collapses over…
- PHELAN2Young adult adventureSoul of the BeastWes PhelanEnglish teen John Sexton, Irish convict's son Mick Kelly and the Himalayan monk Zhong search for a mystical blue diamond while hunted by an…
- PHILLIPSSuspenseDeadly WatersSam PhillipsEd Thackeray murders a Florida bank executive to take his job, the first of three planned killings meant to secure the conspirators'…
- POWERPolitical satireIn the Area of GrayJoe PowerA comic look at the Irish government sector in Ireland and New York, where perception counts for more than results and ego drives the…
- RAINWATERWomen's fictionThe Second MilagroLinda RainwaterAfter a mine cave-in at Real de Catorce, Mexico, widow Patricia Morelos learns her seventeen-year-old son has been kidnapped and travels to…
- RAUENHORSTAdventureForce of WillJohn RauenhorstPhysician Ken Johnson and CIA officer Holly Gonzalez pose as honeymooners in Venezuela to find two missing CIA officers, drawing on his…
- RAVENMysteryPrivate DancerNicholas RavenHomicide detective Caitlyn Lewis and her partner hunt a killer of women in Miami's South Beach, helped by a club disc jockey whose wife was…
- WARRENYoung adult fantasyTwilight Returns to Noah's MountainLinda Regula-WarrenFirst in a trilogy, loosely based on the author's childhood. Nine-year-old Lindy Cooper escapes poverty on Noah's Mountain through her…
- REIMERReligious mysteryDaniels' DenLarry ReimerAn ecclesiastical investigation agency in St. Augustine, Florida, looks into a minister's misconduct with a young woman in his church and…
- REMICKCrime fictionBike RouteRachel Lee RemickA Philadelphia detective doubts Nellie Feinberger's story that a madman kidnapped and held her, and suspects a link to a drug dealer. The…
- RICHARDSLegal and railroad suspenseRIP-RAPMax C. RichardsAttorney Ginger Simmons and assistant trainmaster Zack Tyler are drawn together as a scheme to steal railroad coin shipments ties into drug…
- RIELYAdoption memoirAnd Then There Were ThreeLinda RielyLinda and Charles Riely tell how they adopted Samantha, who had spent over five of her first eight years in foster care, and the simple…
- RODWELLHistorical fictionGommera WomanGrant RodwellIn the new country of Australia, brothers Richard and Robert Barsden want to control the Twin Rivers pastoral empire and drive Aborigines…
- ROSEYoung adult fictionThe Mirror With Nine LivesRobert G. RoseMiddle schooler Alex Chauncey faces her parents' separation, with grandparents as the thread through three linked stories.
- ROSEVEAREMysteryMurder at Spawning RunSally Simpson RoseveareTravelogue producer Aurora Harris returns to Smith Mountain Lake, Virginia, for her mother's funeral, where a mysterious black boat and a…
- ROTHContemporary fictionPaved With Good IntentionsEleanor RothHarvard student Dave Weiss is sentenced to eight to ten years in prison after a confrontation with a pawnbroker who preyed on boys. Inside,…
- RUSSOMainstream fictionOocyteRussoThree college friends survive a violent night, and years later one of them, a fertility specialist, faces a choice about cloning for her…
- RUTLEDGECrime caperThe Raid on Fort PurityRutledgeTravel agency owner Tina Perrone smuggles her former lover Ben Foster into the U.S. and enlists him to rescue her sister Jo Jo from the…
- RYANThrillerBring Out Your DeadTerry RyanA mutation twelve thousand years ago creates a new human species, marked by green eyes with no whites. A secret group, the Venice…
- SAWYERAdventureStanding on FishesRichard SawyerTaylor Monroe and a friend crash in the Colombian rainforest while searching for his kidnapped sister, and a shaman of the Kogi people…
- SCHAEFERSatireWomen: DOWN through the AgesJerry SchaeferA satirical account of how men's ownership of the world and domination of women followed the agricultural revolution, and of the social,…
- SCHMIDTThrillerHYPERSHOTSchmidtForeigners are being shot in Munich's English Gardens during Oktoberfest, while an American weapons designer is sent to Germany to secure a…
- SCHOLBEMainstream fictionThomas Hayes Died HereJohn ScholbeThomas Hayes, a third-year law student with $70,000 in debt, faces bleak job interviews and the pull between a predictable career and…
- SCOTTThrillerHYPERSHOTScottForeigners are shot in Munich's English Gardens during Octoberfest, and Colorado weapons designer Chad Hunter is sent to Germany to secure…
- LOVE_SEABURYThrillerCalculated RiskRonald L. Love and Debra L. SeaburyAfter two deaths in a Frankfurt bombing, international securities broker Will Chandler, who hides a violent past, is drawn into a fight…
- SEATEThrillerChosenJ. Troy SeateSteve and Maria Swann live in a valley town where girls are vanishing and families share buried secrets. Someone hidden in the woods is…
- SELEGUEContemporary romanceNo Sun Without ShadowRoger SeLegueInsurance worker Vergil Tynan, restless in his job, becomes obsessed with Camus's question on whether life is worth living, in a story of…
- SHAWMysteryMurder at Nineteen PalmsJ. M. ShawJeremy Todd, leaving a broken marriage and a failed construction business, buys a condominium at Nineteen Palms in Deerfield Beach,…
- SHOWSMilitary fictionThe Marines of 8th and ITerry ShowsAt the Marine Corps' oldest post on Capitol Hill, elite ceremonial Marines live under pressure to be perfect and spend their off-duty hours…
- SKIScience fictionThe CounselSteve SkiA team of investigators looking for a missing man finds technology that can travel between dimensions, and a secret organization led by a…
- SLATERFictionMeltdown!Rick SlaterBeginning after a death, the book traces how a group of men ended up working at nuclear plants, drawing on fourteen years in the industry.
- SMITHTrue crimeThe Last Christmas of Jon Benet RamseyLaurence SmithA psychologist examines the death of a little girl on Christmas night 1996 in Boulder, Colorado, analyzing the staging of the crime and the…
- SNYDERSelf-helpWhen Teen Drug Use Comes HomeBettina SnyderA parent's guide that opens with the author's own story of her fourteen-year-old son's arrest for marijuana possession and offers advice on…
- SPEVACEKRural dramaMillen County StandoffBill SpevacekFather Tad Coburg, a theologian teaching in Rome, is called back by the Bishop of Madison to run three parishes in rural Wisconsin, where…
- SPOHNCorporate fictionVanishing IllusionsDave SpohnCorporate manager Brent Shannon is a candidate for his boss's job, but he has promised his wife Annette that family comes before career.…
- STEENThrillerAirborneJohn SteenFBI agent Paul Brodin faces an airborne Ebola strain in the hands of Hamas, mixing bio-terror with spiritual warfare and global politics.
- STEPHENSThrillerBlood & Black WaterMichael G. StephensA series of brutal, unexplained murders shatters a coastal hamlet in a fictional Florida county between Amelia Island and Jacksonville, and…
- STEPHENSONGambling guideCasino Gambling - How to Win When Lady Luck is On Your Side and How to Limit Your Losses When She is NotElliott "Steve" StephensonA guide to the gaming propositions offered by casinos in the United States and abroad. It reports the house percentage in each game and the…
- STEVENSONSuspenseMountains Prime EvilWade A. StevensonSpecial Agent Steve Scott, back from Europe, starts at a Defense Department investigative office in Colorado Springs and meets a violent…
- STRANGELiterary fictionThe Ascent of LightJeff StrangeSculptor Peter Bennett, creatively blocked for eight years, brings a scheme to billionaire patron Valentino DiDona, who sees him as worth…
- SWAINTechno thrillerWorld HungerBrian Kenneth SwainVangard Corporation tests genetically modified seeds meant to reduce hunger in Third World countries. Midway through the trials, reports…
- SYLVESTERTechno-thrillerThe Hohmann TransferSylvesterA woman launched into orbit after hurried training survives a shuttle breach that kills the crew, and must outthink those who planned for…
- TAGThrillerCategory 5Paul Mark TagIn the 2007 hurricane season, Navy meteorologist Victor Mark Silverstein suspects his old college roommate Cameron Fitzby of controlling…
- THOMPSONMystery thrillerHELL'S SNOWThompsonAnne St. Claire, a devoted player of the city-planning simulation SyPlann, receives the game's long-rumored next release years later, and…
- THOMSENSelf-helpWhen the Shit Hits the Fan!Barry ThomsenA practical guide for small business owners on what to do when things go wrong, drawn from thirty years of running and advising small…
- VERRASTROThrillerGoddess XRobert VerrastroKeith Martin, raised partly by his kind next-door neighbor Dawn, sees her husband's betrayal at the opening of his nightclub, No Escape,…
- WALLINApocalyptic thrillerThe Golgotha ProjectEric WallinSet in the early twenty-first century after a market collapse, the story spans three cities, including plague-stricken Philadelphia and a…
- WALTERPolitical thrillerDeath Becomes the HeroEdward WalterProfessor Lester Menkhen doubts the official verdict on the death of a cold war hero and investigates despite pressure from CIA agents and…
- WAPLESPolitical thrillerWhite WidowDavid August WaplesAfter President Stewart Kraft dies shortly before his reelection campaign, his widow Lorraine appeals to the press secretary as the speaker…
- WEBERSuspensePhotobytesRobert WeberAP reporter Luke Stockwell, set in Newport Beach, follows his missing brother's videotape into a plot involving a rogue CIA agent after a…
- WILLIAMSAdventure thrillerPower GrabBrian H. WilliamsThree murders in New Mexico, including a protected federal witness, plus missing weapons-grade uranium send an intelligence team to…
- WILLIAMS2Military thrillerOnly Hell Burns HotterBrian H. WilliamsTwo university freshmen are kidnapped after a sorority fashion show. A Defense Department intelligence team under Admiral Rebecca Remarke…
- WILLISMemoirThe CarebridgeRick WillisA Nashville police officer and youth football coach shares the story of eight-year-old Kwame Kyler with his team, which dedicates its…
- WISEMainstream fictionThe Lonely SentinelWiseA friend erects a monument to a man lost at sea off western Mexico, and eighteen years later executive David Slater investigates why his…
- WOODMysterySheer MadnessDaryl WoodNew York homicide detective Jori Knight is about to transfer to Los Angeles when a brutal murder lands on her desk, then finds a…
- WOODARDHistorical fictionMomentary AngerJ. David WoodardA fictional retelling of events in Alabama in early 1965, following journalist Cole Graham as he covers the desegregation story and…
- YEAGLEYSuspenseSilent ThunderChuck YeagleyIn 1970 Pittsburgh, advertising executive Craig James is shot, fired and hunted, and his best friend is murdered a day later.
- YOUNGQUISTSuspenseAlpiniEric V. YoungquistIn 1980, as terrorism shakes Italy, industrialist Dario Alfieri asks his friend David della Croce, a Boston attorney, to learn who is…
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