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New Books List: 493 titles

  • End of Fame

    Bill: Brooks Adams Cecil

    THE TRUTH IN MASQUERADE No one was more revered by the mysterious Kanalist movement than their rebel playwright, Evan Larkspur. But that was long ago, before Kanalism was driven underground by the repressive Column dictatorship. Believed dead, Lar...

  • Let's Make It Legal

    Trisha Alexander

    John Appleton had never once regretted stepping off the fast track. His responsibilities as a single father came first, and that was something he'd just have to make clear to his most difficult client, a beautiful lady lawyer who was driving him...

  • Murder Most Merry

    Garrison Allen

    Mystery, mayhem, and murder provide a singular backdrop for the Christmas holidays in six short whodunits by Garrison Allen, Barbara Block, Toni L. P. Kelner, J. Dayne Lamb, James McCahery, and J. F. Trainor. Original....

  • Murder in the Senate

    Thomas B. Allen

    When a senator is found brutally murdered, Jeff Fitzgerald, chief of the Capitol Police and former FBI agent, must contend with conflicting political forces, two warring senators, and others to get at the truth...

  • Millennium

    Jack Anderson

    Disguising himself as a human, an extraterrestrial being lands in Washington, D.C., to warn humankind of an imminent invasion, but a mugging, a technology-crazed agent, and a drug gang thwart his well-intentioned efforts. Reprint....

  • A Wild Ride

    Louis Anderson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In this Endless Quest book, the reader becomes the navigator for the intrepid band of heroes from the Wildspace game and video. The reader's decision controls the adventures, where he or she makes port, sails to, and makes war against the landscape o...

  • Tracer Inc.

    Jeff Andrus

    Anthony and Cleopatra, Beverly Hillbillies, Michelle and Barack step aside for John Tracer, his wife and kids and cowardly watchdog. In this comedic mystery newly unemployed Tracer has no job prospects except to follow a childhood dream of beco...

  • Tower of Doom

    Mark Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In the bell tower of Nartok Keep there lives a monster. At least, so it is whispered in the village below. But Wort is no monster. He is merely a man--gentle and lonely, his form hideously twisted by fate. When a good deed earns Wort only the revi...

  • Tales from the Great Turtle

    Piers Anthony

    A rich collection of stories inspired by Native American tradition includes the works of such writers as Piers Anthony, Ed Gorman, Mike Resnick, Jane Yolen, Meredith Raymond, and Alan Rodgers. Reprint....

  • Paradise Overdose

    Brian Antoni

  • Widowmaker

    William Appel

    Criminal psychologist Kate Berman and her medical examiner husband tackle the case of a killer who preys on married males--but it must be a transvestite or drag queen because there are no female serial killers--or are there?...

  • The First Miracle

    Jeffrey Archer

    On his way home from market, the thirteen-year-old son of a Roman magistrate stationed in Judea encounters a foreign couple taking shelter in a manger behind a roadside inn and becomes caught up in the miraculous events of the first Christmas....

  • Noblesse Oblige

    Helen Argers

    Raised by a father whose only passion is horses, spirited and beautiful Caroline Richmond plots with her invalid mother to have one social season in London. Determined and hopeful, she spends the little money she inherited from her uncle on proper at...

  • Grace of the Wild Rose Inn, 1944

    Jennifer Armstrong

    Awaiting her fiance+a7's return from World War II, Grace MacKenzie finds strength in managing her family's inn and is heartbroken when Jimmy returns a changed man, bragging of his wartime heroics and insisting that she give up her own dreams. Origina...

  • Trial by Marriage

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Reform of the rake... ? Sarah Sutherland: Twenty-six years of age, wears horn-rimmed spectacles and works as a schoolteacher: "I suppose you could say I fit everyone's picture of a typical spinster. I wish, though, that the fact I've t...

  • The Hidden War

    Michael Armstrong

    A harrowing and unforgettable story of an extraterrestrial threat to utopian existence, and the ensuing battle in space hidden from all of earth's inhabitants. Thanks to the wonder of the hide, no one starves or freezes or gets sick on the perfe...

  • Aunt Dimity and the Duke

    Nancy Atherton

    A broken heart, a missing lantern, and a dead rock star... thank goodness being dead won't stop Aunt Dimity from lending a helping hand. Emma Porter is forty, fat, frumpy, and a passionate amateur gardener. When her longtime lover dumps her fo...

  • Trader Redux

    James Axler

    Struggling for survival among the remains of a post-nuclear United States, Ryan Cawdor, the leader of a band of warrior survivalists, finds his authority challenged by his former mentor as the band treks across the wasted country. Original....

  • Double Danger

    Judy Baer

  • Three's a Crowd

    Judy Baer

    Brock Taylor is the new guy in Cedar River, and he's very interested in getting to know Lexi better much better. In fact, Brock seems determined to ignore the friendship Lexi and Todd have built over the years. Lexi's flattered, but Todd ...

  • No Earthly Sunne

    Margaret Ball

    Long ago, wicked Kit Arundel had been spirited away by the Queen of Faeries because of his musical masque, leaving his lover Eleanor bereft, and now, Ellen Ainsley flies to England as the spheres of Earth and Fairie collide once again. Original....

  • The Anniversary

    Mary Balogh
    in

    Bringing together five all-new Valentine's Day stories by some of the most extraordinarily talented and highly acclaimed Regency authors, this charming collection celebrates the passion and magic of the most romantic day of the year. Mary Balogh pain...

  • Christmas Belle

    Mary Balogh

    Once they were lovers. Isabella was a fledgling actress, struggling to survive. Jack Frazer was a youth as innocent as he was handsome, consumed by love for this girl whom he could never make his wife. Their year together was bliss; their parting...

  • The Best Gift

    Mary Balogh
    in

    Ring in the season with these festive Regency stories from five highly acclaimed authors. Mary Balogh tells of a lonely schoolmistress who celebrates Christmas for the first time and receives the best gift of all--love. Sandra Heath shows us the beau...

  • Rendezvous

    Elaine Barbieri
    in

    Two displaced Southerners come to realize that Christmas will never be right again until they are together forever....

  • The Wooing of Lord Walford

    Anne Barbour
    in

    Bringing together five all-new Valentine's Day stories by some of the most extraordinarily talented and highly acclaimed Regency authors, this charming collection celebrates the passion and magic of the most romantic day of the year. Mary Balogh pain...

  • Daniel and the Angel

    Jill Barnett
    in

    When the weather outside is frightful, what better way to warm up than with four tales of love and adventure from your favorite romance writers. Slip into a bubble bath or curl up in front of a roaring fire - and let Jude Deveraux, Judith McNaught, A...

  • Tender Rogue

    Linda Lang Bartell

    Renaissance Florence . . . A time of opulent splendor, deadly intrigue, and treacherous passion . . . Rodrigo da Valenti is a handsome vagabond -- a mercenary caught between the carefree gypsy life of his childhood and the world of title and ...

  • Golden Rapture

    Stephanie Bartlett

    PRECIOUS LOVE Riding through lush stands of fragrant pine with the cool river breezes caressing her hair, she holds tightly to his buckskin-clad torso as their mule climbs the Coldwater Mountain Trail and into the Oregon Territory ... So begins...

  • Shadow of Doubt

    Wayne Barton; Stan Williams

    Journeying to the home of his murdered half-brother to notify his sister-in-law, whom he secretly loves, of her husband's death, Texas Ranger Jeff King encounters an escaped convict who seeks revenge against the dead man's family...

  • The Broken-Hearted Detective

    Milton R. Bass

    Surviving a heart attack only to fall in love with his nurse, freelance gumshoe Vinnie Altobelli is distressed at her kidnapping, and when inquiries take him to the Southwest, he finds a squad of helpers--including another enamored patient. Original....

  • Notorious Deception

    Adrienne Basso

    BETWEEN DANGER AND DESIRE Young, beautiful, and tempestuous, Diana Rutledge was shocked by the unexpected death of her husband. And a trip to London to set her husband's affairs in order brought even more unpleasant surprises for the dowager cou...

  • Reckless

    Michael Bates

  • Tapestry of Fate

    Nina Beaumont

    Nothing Could Keep Them Apart Forever... While mournful gypsy songs of star-crossed love and depthless passion filled the tavern air, Alexei Muromsky gazed into a pair of emerald eyes and lost his soul. For in Irina Golovin he'd discovered his pa...

  • Avenging Angel

    David Belbin

    Unwilling to rest after the police give up searching for the hit-and-run driver who killed her brother, Clare recalls the last moments before Angelo's death, and hopes to prove her suspicions before becoming a victim herself. Original....

  • Ratha's Challenge

    Clare Bell

    An encounter with a group of unusual cats helps bring Ratha, leader of the prehistoric cat clan called the Named, and her estranged daughter, Thistle, to a better understanding of each other. Reprint....

  • Coyote Run

    Don Bendell

    Chris Colt, his hot-tempered half-brother Joshua, and a proud Native American warrior, Man Killer, risk everything in their battle against a ruthless mining company out to seize control of Coyote Run, the Colts' ranch in the Sangre Cristo Mountains. ...

  • Destiny

    Barbara Benedict

    FROM THE DAZZLING HALLS OF A LEGENDARY KING'S PALACE... Raised by an ordinary fisherman, Ica secretly believes she is the child of the sea god Poseidon ... and destined for heroic deeds. Disguised as a boy, she is sold to the magnificent warrior J...

  • Sunset Passion

    Cherie Bennett

  • Enchanted

    Patti Berg

    WITH A LITTLE TOUCH OF CHRISTMAS MAGIC, TWO HEARTS CAN FALL IN LOVE A Christmas story for those who believe when love is involved, anything is possible. Mac O'Brien is wealthy and powerful -- but since the death of his father, the magic has gone ...

  • Next Stop, the Big Apple

    J.T. Bergen

  • I Want a Pony

    Jeanne Betancourt

    Do you love ponies? Be a Pony Pal! Lulu wants a pony. If only she had a pony, then staying with her grandmother while her father is away would not be so bad. If she had a pony, she could ride with Pam and Anna. And then they could be friends -- Po...

  • Hunter's Planet

    David Bischoff

    THE HUNTER'S ULTIMATE PARADISE; THE ULTIMATE HUNTER'S NIGHTMARE... The best time of Machiko Naguchi's life came in the wake of the Ryushi colony massacre. It was then that she abandoned her human heritage and ran with the Predators as a dedicated ...

  • Lady Sarah's Fancy

    Irene Loyd Black

    A MATCH FOR MONEY... Ever since she and her father sailed to America, Lady Sarah Templeton had dreamed of little else but one day returning to England. And now, with her late mother's ancestral castle in danger of being lost forever, she hurried bac...

  • Tame the Wildest Heart

    Parris Afton Bonds

    IN A WORLD WHERE MEN MADE THE RULES, SHE FOUGHT TO LIVE LIFE ON HER OWN TERMS Mattie McAlister was a woman to be reckoned with, and most folks were unforgiving of her tragic past. When she walked into a room, even the toughest of cowboys gave her ...

  • Wicked Games

    Barbara Boswell

    In a small town, there's a fine line between respectability and disgrace. In Waysboro, Maryland, there are two families everyone talks about. The Ways, known for their privilege and prestige. And the Monroes, who are gossiped about even more--b...

  • A Misbegotten Match

    Rita Boucher

    A SCANDALOUS REPUTATION Pretty and proper Amanda Westford has heard talk of Sebastian Armitage's debauched Caribbean adventures. Now her dear friend, Sebastian's elderly godmother, has fallen grievously ill -- and it is Amanda's duty to ...

  • Midnight Dancer

    Emily Bradshaw

    "YOU NEVER TOLD ME MARRIAGE WAS PART OF THE BARGAIN." In the half-light of the Lady Luck Saloon Magdalena Montoya danced a wanton flamenco for the brooding stranger who watched from below. Afterward, she was summoned to his side. The arrogant Engl...

  • Loose Among the Lambs

    Jay Brandon

    It's mid-August, and San Antonio is on edge. Over the summer three children have briefly disappeared, each returning home with chillingly similar accounts of where they have been - of the man who took them in, tended to them, touched them in all the ...

  • Full Commission

    Carol Brennan

    When a real-estate agency's clients find their homes sabotaged after being put on the market, public relations expert Liz Wareham tries to keep the sensational stories out of the papers while tracking down the murderous vandals. Reprint....

  • Tomorrow and Always

    Barbara Bretton

    Unlikely lovers from very different worlds... Andrew McVie is a man on the run. Running from duty and heartache...running toward the freedom and passion...running two hundred years in time, right into the life of Shannon Whitney. Shannon Whitne...

  • A California Night's Dream

    Chelsea Brooks

  • Angels Do Have Wings

    Helen Brooks

    Dear Vicky, Things are just the same here. My life is mapped out for years ahead with a chance of anything changing... As she wrote those words to her best friend, Angel had no idea that a gorgeous stranger was about to turn her world upside d...

  • Engineman

    Eric Brown

    Once the Enginemen pushed bigships through the cobalt glory of the nada-continuum. But faster than light isn't fast enough anymore. The interfaces of the Keilor-Vincicoff Organisation bring planets light years distant a simple step away. Then a man w...

  • The Plainswoman

    Irene Bennett Brown

    Amity Whitford dared to stake her own claim an the endless plains of western Kansas. She built her homestead, Dove's Nest, with her bare hands. But the ravages of the sun and drying winds took their toll, putting her dreams and her livelihood in jeop...

  • Two Hearts, Slightly Used

    Dixie Browning

    BRACE RIDGEWAY: Okay, I was dumped. No big deal. I'm not too upset at being single again, but the reason I got jilted was pretty embarrassing. So I escaped to North Carolina's Outer Banks to be alone, and what do I get? A woman who wants to know my ...

  • Wind Song

    Margaret Brownley

    SHE WOULD SUBDUE THE WILDFIRES... Miss Maddie Percy had come all the way from Washington, D.C., to teach school in Colton, Kansas. Instead, the feisty, red-haired schoolmarm found the town burned to the ground and her only shelter an isolated sod ho...

  • The Divine Child

    Pascal Bruckner

    During a technically advanced age that enables unborn children to receive prenatal educations and have a conscious understanding of the outside world, a disillusioned Louis battles his determined mother when he decides he does not wish to be born...

  • Purebred

    Bonnie Bryant

    When Carole Hanson and her father travel to Minnesota to visit relatives, Carole has the perfect assignment to create a family tree.  Ever since her mother died, Carole has been curious about that side of the family, especially about an ancestor...

  • Sahara Crosswind

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Stalked by bands of assassins, they risk the ravages of the desert to save a nation from the hand of tyranny. In Morocco, Jake Burnes and Pierre Servais have rescued Pierre's twin brother from his kidnappers, but their reunion is overshadowed by mo...

  • River of Peace

    Janelle Burnham

    The remote village of Dawson Creek, British Colombia, has never had a schoolteacher. Since the death of her beloved mother, Ida has never been on her own. Welcomed warmly not only by her students and their families, but the boardinghouse matron as we...

  • Making Waves

    B.B. Calhoun

  • Dragon Companion

    Don Callander

    HUMAN SEEKS EMPLOYMENT. FORMER LIBRARIAN WITH DRAGONRIDING SKILLS. 'A Librarian? Very good! That's most interesting," boomed Murdan. "If you're not bespoken, I can use a Librarian in my service, lad." "Well...," Tom hesitated. "Er...providing t...

  • Writing to Richie

    Patricia Calvert

  • Ghosts of Christmas Past

    Marilyn Campbell
    in

    Ghosts of Christmas Past by Marilyn Campbell Charming Christmas spirits assist a small town in bringing its widower mayor and a fiery reporter together for the holiday season. The Crystal Dove by Justine Davis A crystal dove is a harbinger of go...

  • Swan Princess with Charm

    M.J. Carr

  • I Know What the Red Clay Looks Like

    Rebecca Carroll

    Discover the inspiring strength of today's black women writers in a telling selection of interviews and excerpted works from 16 of the best-known and most promising talents. A collection that speaks powerfully to the shared ideas and conflicts facing...

  • Fugitive Father

    Carla Cassidy

    THE SECOND TIME AROUND Sheriff Reese Walker thought he could tackle any obstacle head-on--until his former flame showed up with a little girl whose eyes mirrored his own. He'd always believed he wasn't good enough to raise a child. But someone was...

  • The Real Mother Goose Clock Book

    Jane Chambless-Rigie

  • Appointed to Die

    Kate Charles

    Death at the Deanery -- sudden and unnatural death. Someone should have seen it coming. Even before Stuart timer arrives as the new Dean of Malbury Cathedral shock waves reverberate around the tightly knit Cathedral Close, heralding sweeping chang...

  • Little Angel Street

    Jerome Charyn

    On the brink of being named mayor of New York, Isaac the Pink Commish goes underground, assuming the alias of Geronimo Jones, and a racist gang called the Knickerbocker Boys begin killing off anyone who could be Isaac. Reprint....

  • Scandal in Silver

    Sandra Chastain

    SHE NEEDED A MAN... Sabrina Alexander needed man. The silver mine left to her and her four sisters was useless without the strength to mine the silver nuggets. But when she returned from her trip to Boulder City, Colorado, it was with not one but fo...

  • Imaginary Lover

    Sandra Chastain

    Tempted by a fallen angel, urged on by a ghost, he needed a magic spell.... Dusty O'Brian couldn't believe her aunt had left the old house to her and to Nick Elliott! The pain burning in the doctor's mesmerizing dark eyes echoed her o...

  • The War

    Deborah Chiel

  • First and Forever

    Zita Christian

    Accepting the proposal of Justin Barrison, the son of a wealthy store owner whose marital decision risks his inheritance, Katrina Swann finds many unexpected tests for their love. By the author of Band of Gold. Original....

  • Dragon Moon

    Chris Claremont

    From the best-selling comic book writer of all time, and science fiction’s Beth Fleisher, comes a dark, contemporary fantasy rich with all the characters and plot-twists Claremont’s X-Men stories are known for.Cass Dunreith lives the wr...

  • Evil Reincarnate

    Leigh Clark

    Psychopaths are not new to Connie Stallman. As a psychiatrist she’d seen everything in her work with dangerous patients. But murderer and sexual psychopath Tod Jarrow is something else again. As Jarrow’s prison psychiatrist, Connie finds to he...

  • The Lottery Winner

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Alvirah Meehan, one of Mary Higgins Clark's most beloved characters returns in these dazzling, intertwined tales of sleuthing and suspense. Alvirah, the former cleaning lady who struck it rich in the lottery, made her first appearance in "Weep No Mo...

  • The Devil's Darling

    Casey Claybourne

    A DEVILISH RAKE. It's said that the smooth-talking Colin Forster could charm anyone -- even the Devil himself. But the handsome, rakish Earl of Sorrelby is more concerned about the marriage-minded ladies of London. That's why he's pla...

  • There's a Hamster in My Lunchbox

    Susan Clymer

    Enthusiastically accepting the anonymous Halloween hamster left on their teacher's desk as the class pet, Elizabeth's class wonders who gave it to them, and Elizabeth determines to solve the mystery while Squeaks keeps getting into mischief. Original...

  • The Anne of Green Gables Treasury of Days

    Carolyn Strom Collins

    This charming treasury, beautifully illustrated in full color, brings to life the daily joys and seasonal pleasures of Anne's world as it commemorates each day with history, lore, and inspiring sentiments from L.M. Montgomery's Avonlea. It also lists...

  • A Christmas Conspiracy

    Mary Chase Comstock
    in

    When Lady Frances receives a letter from her estranged husband Giles, begging her to return to Montmorency Hall for Christmas, she is delighted. Never mind that the missive was really penned by their mischievous twin daughters; Frances can hardly wai...

  • Mail Order Cowboy

    Patricia Coughlin

    IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! Ranching the Circle Rose was no job for a back-East heiress--not even scrappy, headstrong Allie Halston. And maverick Burn Monroe vowed to prove it--by playing insufferably macho foreman to hi...

  • Our House

    Debra Cowan

    FOR THE SAKE OF A FAMILY ... ABBY A dedicated doctor, she fought to be accepted in a man's world -- and came to Texas after a broken marriage engagement... JEFF The gunslinger came home to care for his orphaned nieces -- and ran smack int...

  • Another Time...another Place

    Bonnie L. Crank

    Since her father's illness, Kaitland, a wisp of a woman, has had the sole responsibility for Glen More, the family's 4,000-acre plantation. Although she has succeeded remarkably well, the arrival of a Yankee search party may be the ultimate test of h...

  • Wes Craven's New Nightmare

    Wes Craven

    The boundary between fiction and reality blurs when actress Heather Langenkamp, who played Freddy Krueger's first and greatest foe, begins to have nightmares and is terrified when accidents start threatening those around her...

  • Edge of Eternity

    Jasmine Cresswell

    KEEP YOUR LOVE FOR ETERNITY For generations, couples have been coming to Eternity, Massachusetts, to exchange wedding vows. Legend has it that those married in Eternity's chapel are destined for a lifetime of happiness. And the townsfolk are ...

  • When Old Men Die

    Bill Crider

    Truman Smith is happily fishing off a Galveston pier when his friend Dino seeks him out and asks for some help: Outside Harry, an old-timer with connections to Dino's family, is missing.Smith doesn't want to have anything to do with it; the last time...

  • A Wing and a Prayer

    Harry H. Crosby

    A personal account of a 1943 Group Navigator for the "Bloody 100th" Air Force bomb group describes his thirty-seven missions aboard the B-17s, recounting his team's triumphs, losses, near-escapes, and aerial warfare adventures. Reprint....

  • Operation: Clean Sweep

    Beth Cruise

  • Exit, Stage Right

    Beth Cruise

    While Alex deals with his anger over losing the leading role in the school play to a spoiled child star, snobbish Porter Van Loon takes Zack's place in the suite, and Zack copes with life in a fancy singles apartment complex....

  • Going, Going, Gone!

    Beth Cruise

  • Breaking the Rules

    Beth Cruise

  • Robin Hood and His Merry Men

    Jane Louise Curry

    Follows the exploits of the legendary English outlaw as he builds a group of outlaws who prey on the rich to feed the poor and matches wits with the greedy sheriff of Nottingham and the scheming Prince John....

  • Rough Cut

    Stan Cutler

    Ex-P.I. Rayford Goodman and his gay collaborator, Mark Bradley, become caught up in case with tentacles into high-level L.A. politics when they investigate the murder of a call girl neighbor and a psycho who opens fire at the Gay Book Awards dinner....

  • The Minpins

    Roald Dahl

    Little Billy strays into the forest, where he meets the Minpins?tiny people who live within the trees. The Minpins tell Billy about The Gruncher, who preys on them. So Billy embarks on a mission to rid the Minpins of their foe once and for all, and s...

  • The Yngling in Yamato

    John Dalmas

    The Yngling, lawgiver and peacemaker for the tribes, journeys to Japan to confer with a renowned holy man and finds a challenge to his mental powers as he searches for his Star Men friends and a way home. Original....

  • Gold Town Gal

    Kit Dalton

    MOTHER LODE A mining town would be trouble anywhere, but stuck among the proud pillars of a California mountain range, Bodie was busting out with bushwhackers, bandits, and bombers who wanted to blow up the local works. Buckskin Lee Morgan was off...

  • Turncoat

    Sean Dalton

    The drums of Revolutionary War beat in the time travel series from the “masterful” national bestselling author of the Pearls and the Crown novels (Extrapolations).   A time loop drops historian and time traveler Noel Kedran into the Revoluti...

  • Long Lost Husband

    Joleen Daniels

    STRANGER... Despite his denial, Andrea Ballanger knew the man lying in the hospital bed was her husband. True, the two men looked nothing alike and she'd been told Trey had died while working undercover years ago. But no other man had ever made ...

  • Beach Realities

    Judith Daniels

    After announcing her plans to become a librarian, Miranda Jacobs faces unexpected problems when her movie-producer father refuses to pay her college tuition and she falls in love with Skyler, one of the students she tutors in a literacy program. Orig...

  • The Literary Traveler

    Larry Dark

    A collection of nineteen stories brings together the works of Paul Theroux, Sue Miller, Alice Munro, William Trevor, and others, and follows a theme about new places and perspectives as brought on by travel. By the compiler of The Literary Lover....

  • Sleeping Tigers

    Sandra Dark

    Someone didn't want Sabrina Glade to finish the biography she was ghostwriting -- ever. First her subject mysteriously died. Then would-be heir Spencer Bradley emerged from obscurity, demanding that the book be stopped. Sabrina felt strangely attract...

  • My Brother Has AIDS

    Deborah Davis

  • The Crystal Dove

    Justine Davis
    in

    The Crystal Dove by Justine Davis A crystal dove is a harbinger of good fortune for a cynic who doesn't believe in miracles -- even if he receives the woman of his dreams for Christmas. Ghosts of Christmas Past by Marilyn Campbell Charming C...

  • The Clay Dancers

    Cecil Dawkins

    AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL CREW DISCOVERS THE ANCIENT ART OF MURDER.... Near Santa Fe, a dedicated group of archaeologists, geologists, and students works diligently on a dig as rich as the soil. Harmless fires and slithering snakes don't bother this group...

  • Star-Crossed

    Saranne Dawson

    WRITTEN IN THE STARS Rowena was a master artisan, a weaver of enchanted tapestries that whispered of past glories. Yet not even magic could help her foresee that she would be sent to assassinate an enemy leader. Her duty was clear - until the sedu...

  • The Outer Buoy: A Story of the Ultimate Voyage

    Jan De Hartog

    The sea captain is now retired, but adventure is still in his blood. The taste for excitement and the lure of the unknown have led Harinxma to crisscross the face of the earth many times, and they now draw him toward the only frontier left to him. Wi...

  • Some Like It Hotter

    Roz Denny

    Love is like Texas chili -- the hotter, the better. Chino Delgado is the Chili Man--and he knows how to turn up the heat! Chino's not only a chili professional -- he runs a chain of chili restaurants -- but a veteran of more cook-offs than you...

  • The Advocate's Devil

    Alan M. Dershowitz

    A handsome, rising voting basketball star accused of rape... a prominent local attorney looking for a big win...the case that becomes a lawyer's ultimate nightmare: one that threatens his basic beliefs, his integrity, and the life of someone he loves...

  • Wish Upon An Angel

    Teresa DesJardien
    in

    On the eve of Christmas -- in the midst of a perilous winter storm -- young Amanda is visited at her parent's country estate by a friendly angel. Now, with her father missing and her brother betrothed to the wrong woman, Amanda must put her faith in ...

  • The Deathlord of Ixia

    Joe Dever

    The latest installment in the best-selling science-fiction role-playing series pits the reader against Ixiataaga, vile Deathlord of Ixia, and his legendary Deathstaff, who is bent on destroying the good people of Magnamund. Original....

  • Change of Heart

    Jude Deveraux
    in

    When the weather outside is frightful, what better way to warm up than with four tales of love and adventure from your favorite romance writers. Slip into a bubble bath or curl up in front of a roaring fire - and let Jude Deveraux, Judith McNaught, A...

  • The Annie Dillard Reader

    Annie Dillard

    “One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today” (Boston Globe) collects her favorite writing selections in The Annie Dillard Reader.This collection of stories, novel excerpts, essays, poetry and more demonstrates the depth and reso...

  • Mission: Mayhem

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Participating in a rigorous pre-astronaut training program, the Hardy boys find the space-flight simulations becoming dangerously real and are horrified by a team member's attempts to sabotage the mission. Original....

  • Time Weaver

    Kate Donovan

    CAN A MODERN-DAY WARRIOR AND AN UNCONVENTIONAL ARTIST FIND THEIR FUTURE IN THE DISTANT PAST? Native American attorney Alex BlackKnife is a man with a mission: to find Shannon Cleary, last seen crossing the border into sacred Indian territory. Ins...

  • Half Nelson

    Jerome Doolittle

    It's the greening of America that's got Tom Bethany seeing red these days. More accurately, it's the storm trooper tactics being used against charismatic ecologist Robert Rackleff by the Brotherbund, a skinhead goon squad that favors the exterminatio...

  • My Seaswept Heart

    Christine Dorsey

    LIFE IS WILD... Anne Cornwall had journeyed with a daring band of colonists to seek a new life on the remote island of Libertia. But her tropical paradise turned savage when an infamous French pirate ravaged her home, seized her family's gold and v...

  • Christmas Magic

    Carole Nelson Douglas
    in

    Christmas Magic by Carole Nelson Douglas A Macy's window dresser finds herself altering more than store displays for Christmas when she is transported back to the year 1896 -- where she will help to reunite a family and discover a love that tran...

  • Burning Bright

    Tom Dowd

    When Mitch Truman, the heir to a vast entertainment conglomerate, vanishes, his father hires tracker Kyle Teller to find the young man, but a dark and evil power is growing beneath the city of Chicago. Original....

  • Hunters' Moon

    D. Doyle

  • Fire Curse and Other True Medical Mysteries

    David Lee Drotar

  • The Venom Factor

    Diane Duane

    IN A MANHATTAN WAREHOUSE, an innocent man has been murdered during a mysterious crime. Evidence points to the involvement of Venom -- the alien symbiote who is obsessed with Spider-Man's destruction. Yet Venom has always safeguarded innocent lives --...

  • The Wolf and the Lamb

    Kathleen Eagle
    in

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    J.T. Edson

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    Cassie Edwards

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    Jaroldeen Edwards

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    Selma Eichler

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    Richard Ellis

  • Lone Star and the Nevada Gold

    Wesley Ellis

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    Arlene Erlbach

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    Terry Essig

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    Loren D. Estleman

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    Marcia Evanick

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    Patricia Gardner Evans
    in

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    Tabor Evans

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  • Viking

    Fabio

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  • The Counterfeit Coachman

    Elisabeth Fairchild

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    Barbara Faith

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    Debra Falcon

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  • The Other Christmas Story

    Colleen Faulkner
    in

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  • Midshipman's Hope

    David Feintuch

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  • Runaways

    Andrew J. Fenady

  • Callaghan's Way

    Marie Ferrarella

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  • The Dating Game

    Sandra Field

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    Liz Fielding

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  • The Christmas Wish

    Carol Finch
    in

    All the ranchers in Oklahoma -- except loner Seth Broden -- consider Lottie Dawes a "saint" who can charm the pants off the parson. But this Christmas, the do-gooding Lottie has a lalapalooza of a gift for Seth: a wagonload of orphans guarant...

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    Rebecca Flanders

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    Donna Fletcher

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  • When Morning Comes

    Christine Flynn

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    Ken Follett

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  • Arena

    William R. Forstchen
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    WHERE MAGIC AND MAYHEM MEET Festival will never be the same again. For even as the fighter-mages of the four great Houses prepare for their annual battle in the Arena, a stranger arrives for Festival. Who is Garth One-eye, and where did he get ...

  • Codgerspace

    Alan Dean Foster

  • Amzat and His Brothers

    Paula Fox

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    Phil Frank

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    Esther Friesner

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    Robert Funderburk

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  • Home for Christmas

    Jennie Gallant
    in

    Elizabeth loathed the thought of marrying Baron Rathborne, whose blackmail and skullduggery forced her to such a fate. Then Lord Wyckholme came to the rescue, with a much more desirable scheme.......

  • Holiday Tradition

    Rene J. Garrod
    in

    Even a scrooge of a ship's captain can't dampen Margaret Danton's spirits on her voyage west to California. But bells really start jingling when the New York beauty decides to "deck" the halls with some much-needed holiday cheer -...

  • Touch of a Stranger

    Robert E. Gelinas

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  • Cheyenne Splendor

    Georgina Gentry

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    Catherine George

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  • Mad As Hell

    Jack W. Germond

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  • Dragon of the Island

    Mary Gillgannon

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    James Preston Girard

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  • Wildfire

    Ken Goddard

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  • A House with Four Rooms

    Rumer Godden

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    Rumer Godden

  • Listen to the Nightingale

    Rumer Godden

  • Father Time's Cuckoo Clock Shop

    Golden Books

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    Emma Goldrick

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    Kathleen Ann Goonan

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    Beatrice Gormley

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  • Indecent Deception

    Lynne Graham

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  • Jackals

    Charles L. Grant

    The pretty young woman whose car has broken down, signaling for help...the stubborn tailgater who follows too close, for too long...the wild driver who causes accidents but is never a victim of one... These are the jackals, hunters who follow the ...

  • Yesterday's Vows

    Vanessa Grant

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  • Conan at the Demon's Gate

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Mourning the loss of Belit, the fierce pirate queen, Conan retreats into the wild depths of the Black Coast, but his solitude ends when he is suddenly transported into the distant Pictish Wilderness. Reissue....

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    Jennifer Greene

    LEFT AT THE ALTAR When Mary Ellen Barnett found herself facing a church full of guests and no groom on the way, she did what every self-respecting woman would do--she ran! And foolishly ended up in a wilderness town just crawling with big, burly, ...

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    Stephen Greenleaf

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    Leigh Greenwood
    in

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  • The Maze

    Peni R. Griffin

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    Batya Gur

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  • Centers of the Self: Short Stories by Black American Women from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

    Judith A. Hamer

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    James Hamilton-Paterson

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  • Where's Waldo? The Dazzling Deep-Sea Divers Sticker Book

    Martin Handford

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    Janice Harrell

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  • Let There Be Dark

    Allen Lee Harris

    Writer Matt Hardison turns his favorite childhood story--a tale about a carnival spook that steals people's shadows--into a bestseller, forgetting that repeating the legend brings the Shadowstealer to life...

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    Lee Harris

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  • The Hammer and the Cross

    Harry Harrison

    865 A.D. Warring kings rule over the British Isles, but the Church rules over the kings, threatening all who oppose them with damnation. Only the dreaded Vikings of Scandinavia do not fear the priests.Shef, the bastard son of a Norse raider and a cap...

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    Jessica Hart

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    Jenny Hartley

  • Christmas Magic

    David G. Hartwell

    A collection of holiday stories features the works of today's most popular fantasy and science fiction authors and includes the tale of a little girl's quest to become one of Santa's elves, a boy's discovery of Santa's tenth reindeer, and more. Origi...

  • Visions of Fear

    David G. Hartwell

  • Remember When

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    The Americana Series HOMESTEAD - 1898 It was the kind of place where life seemed to change very little, where a man could find a home and a good woman to share it, where childhood wishes came true in the most unexpected manner. Certain that he...

  • The Imposter

    Sandra Heath
    in

    Bringing together five all-new Valentine's Day stories by some of the most extraordinarily talented and highly acclaimed Regency authors, this charming collection celebrates the passion and magic of the most romantic day of the year. Mary Balogh pain...

  • Dinner at Grillion's

    Sandra Heath
    in

    Ring in the season with these festive Regency stories from five highly acclaimed authors. Mary Balogh tells of a lonely schoolmistress who celebrates Christmas for the first time and receives the best gift of all -- love. Sandra Heath shows us the be...

  • Christmas Knight

    Emily Hendrickson
    in

    Ring in the season with these festive Regency stories from five highly acclaimed authors. Mary Balogh tells of a lonely schoolmistress who celebrates Christmas for the first time and receives the best gift of all -- love. Sandra Heath shows us the be...

  • I'll Pulverize You, William

    Patricia Hermes

  • O Little Town of Maggody

    Joan Hess

    MISTLETOE -- AND MURDER... Chief of Police Arly (Ariel) Hanks is still hiding out in her hometown of Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755), the land of moonshine, Ruby Bee's Bar & Grill, Nashville on the radio, cheatin' hearts and, well, maybe murder. Ma...

  • Martians in Maggody

    Joan Hess

    For Police Chief Arly Hanks, Maggody, Arkansas, (pop. 755) is a sleepy little town where nothing ever happens--until the day UFOs, Martians, Bigfoot, and tabloid reporters descend on Maggody... and bring along a case of murder. The summer starts o...