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New Books List: 509 titles


  • Megan Abbott

    This book considers a recurrent figure in American literature: the solitary white man moving through urban space. The descendent of Nineteenth-century frontier and western heroes, the figure re-emerges in 1930-50s America as the 'tough guy'. The Stre...



  • Tony Abbott

    A Jeweled Door. A Dark Staircase. The magic of Droon is not a secret anymore.... When Eric chased Lord Sparr out of Droon, he knew they were heading for the real world. But he didn't realize just how much was about to change. With them, Eric and...



  • Alice Adams

    “Alice Adams has an inimitable ‘voice’"quick, deft, brilliantly evocative and specific. There is always something special about a story of hers, like a watercolor perfectly executed.”  --Joyce Carol Oates     Award-winning wr...




  • Rochelle Alers

    Reporter Dana Nichols has come home to Mississippi determined to discover the truth behind her parent's long-ago murder/suicide and at last clear her family's name. The last thing she expected was her instant sensual attraction to handsome, dedicated...



  • Hannah Alexander

    Book 2 of the Healing Touch series. Dr. Grant Sheldon’s move to Dogwood Springs is not turning out as he had planned. The ills he thought he’d left behind in the big city trouble this otherwise peaceful town, too. Lauren is drawn to Grant and his...




  • Elissa Ambrose

    "TELL ME, LAURA, DOESN'T IT GET LONELY UP THERE IN YOUR IVORY TOWER?" Upon her return home, Jake Logan made Laura see how the perfect life she'd ordered (with a little denial on the side) wasn't so perfect. Sure, her marriage to him had been elect...



  • Caroline Anderson

    Fran Williams is at a crossroads: she's in need of space and a little TLC! Instead she accepts an assignment nursing one injured, impatient, wealthy whirlwind by the name of Josh Nicholson. Josh is everything Fran doesn't need, until she arouses h...



  • K.A. Applegate

    The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty new science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action!

    The Remnants are on a mission to promote peace bu...



  • Jennifer Armstrong

    They have found others.

    Five years after a deadly plague killed all the Grown-ups, the world's population has nearly vanished. But a group of children have survived and forged a new family, a new life, and together travele...



  • Robert Ashcom

    There are certain special -- and rare -- books that refresh our understanding of how children see the world. This is one of those books. It's the story of a boy growing up in a lost time in an idyllic place -- rural Virginia of the late 1940s. Charl...



  • Anne Ashley

    A LADY IN THE KITCHENS... Alone in the world, too proud to accept charity, vicar's daughter Emma Lynn earns her living by cooking -- in a tavern! But her independence has a heavy price: a tavern wench isn't fit to mix with the gentry, and Emma has...



  • Jennifer Ashley

    UNCHARTED TERRITORY Evangeline Clemens knew she tread in dangerous waters. Sent to seduce the captain of the merchantman Aurora, the English governess trembled in her innocence. Her stepbrother's life -- and the life of the rugged sailor she m...



  • Adele Ashworth

    Miss Mary Marsh has beauty, brains, and breeding. But it takes one fateful act to bring the perfect man -- and the perfect love -- into her life. When the mesmerizing Marcus Longfellow, the Earl of Renn, comes striding into Miss Mary Marsh's l...



  • Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    CAUGHT in a nation splitting apart. ANGERED by those who would enslave others. EMBOLDENED by a passion to make a difference. TORN between the one she loves and a truth she can't deny. Here is Caroline Fletcher's story. Candle in the Darknes...



  • James Axler

    RED DAWN When the world blew out in 2001, the secrets locked in its darkest corridors became the answer to humanity's survival. Now, more than two centuries later, a mysterious Imperator prepares to seize his birthright from the nine hybrid barons f...



  • Dale Bailey

    Sauls Run is a great place to raise a family. Life is good, folks live to a ripe old age, and there hasn't been a violent crime in nearly a generation. It's almost as if some force is protecting the God-fearing folk of the Run from harm.... Henry ...



  • Jacqueline Baird

    Solo Maffeiano owns half of Penny Haversham's family home, yet she needs to pay off debts left by her late father. She has no choice but to agree to Solo's offer: he will pay the debts, restore the dilapidated mansion, where they will live --...



  • Todhunter Ballard

    When his father is brutally murdered by strikebreakers at the Bank of California, a powerful company that controls the miners, Major Mark Dorne embarks on a deadly mission of revenge that involves the theft of five million dollars in gold coins, but ...



  • Leanne Banks
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    This Christmas, spirited schoolteacher Amy Winslow was sharing a home with a ruggedly handsome rancher! Now if only she could teach tight-lipped Lucas Bennett that the holidays were meant to be merry. And that he was made for love!...



  • John Barnes

    The sequel to A Million Open Doors and Earth Made of GlassSpecial agent Giraut Leones, betrayed by his superior and closest friend, swore he would never work for the Office of Special Projects again--but now he must. A new movement on Earth seeks to ...



  • Beverly Barton
    in

    After one passionate night, Faith Sheridan found herself pregnant with her sexy bodyguard's child. Now she hoped the news of their secret child would be a welcome gift to Worth Cordell this holiday -- and the beginning of a lifetime of love.......



  • Beverly Barton

    SOMETIMES LOVE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME OF ALL As the powerful head of one of the strongest protection agencies in the world, Ellen Denby believed she was invincible. Invulnerable. Until she came face-to-face with the one man who made her rememb...




  • Rexanne Becnel

    THE BRIDEMAKER'S RULES: 1) TEACH YOUNG LADIES HOW TO ATTRACT THE BEST POSSIBLE HUSBAND 2) DRESS CONSERVATIVELY, SO YOU WILL NEVER OUTSHINE YOUR STUDENT 3) NEVER, EVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR STAR PUPIL'S BEAU... She's called "the...



  • Nancy Bell

    The bigger they are, the harder they fall... Biggie Wetherford may be a pint-sized institution in the bucolic East Texas town of Job's Crossing, but the irrepressible eccentric is embroiled in a murder of hefty proportions. Biggie's first love, Rex ...




  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Half of New York's criminals are gunning for Spider-Man's head and to make matters worse, the web-slinger must now contend with the re-emergence of the Green Goblin. Collects Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #22-27....



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Dr. Octopus is out for revenge and Kraven the Hunter is out to bag the ultimate prey. Can Spider-Man survive double trouble? Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #14-21....



  • Alan Bennett

    From Alan Bennett, the author of The Madness of King George, come two stories about the strange nature of possessions...or the lack of them. In the nationally bestselling novel The Clothes They Stood Up In, the staid Ransomes return from the opera to...



  • Ann Benson

    With her acclaimed novels The Plague Tales and The Burning Road, Ann Benson has carved out a unique place on the literary landscape with her fascinating alchemy of mystery, history, and psychological terror. Now this gifted storyteller returns with a...



  • Raymond Benson

    Agent 007 James Bond returns in another action-packed adventure in a novelization of the new Bond film from MGM. Original. (An MGM film, releasing Fall 2002, starring Pierce Brosnan, Halle Berry, John Cleese, & Judi Dench) (Suspense)...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    ARE YOU MY PRINCE? For Sara Wallington, escort for the man who was just possibly the heir to the throne of her native country, the answer was a resounding I doubt it. Because Shane Cordello -- aka the possible prince of Penwyck -- was hardly the r...



  • Helen Bianchin

    He'll have to wed her to bed her! The moment hot-blooded tycoon Jace Dimitriades met Rebekah, the attraction sparked between them! Jace knows that women find him irresistible -- and Rebekah's no exception. So how come all he's getting ...



  • Maeve Binchy

    Is it possible to tell the story of a generation and a city through the history of a restaurant? Ella Brady thinks so. She wants to film a documentary about Quentins that will capture the spirit of Dublin from the 1970s to the present day. After all,...



  • Haden Blackman

    Collects Jango Fett: Open Seasons (2002) #1-4. He was born a poor farm boy on a forgotten planet in the galaxy's Outer Rim. Taken under the wing of a wise mentor after the violent death of his family, he would rise up to lead a band of fighters str...




  • Mary Blayney

    Theirs Was A Match Made In Heaven... James Braedon's relationship with his father has never been an easy one. Yet he knows he cannot refuse to care for him after the frail man falls ill -- nor can he escape his duty as the Viscount of his family...



  • Barbara Block

    Robin Light has had better days. Business at her pet store is painfully slow. Syracuse has had twenty-three consecutive days of snow. And she's trying to quit smoking...again. So when ex-cop Paul Santini calls, offering a cakewalk of a job finding so...



  • Johnny D. Boggs

    From a Spur Award"winning author of the Five Star Western Series comes a thrilling tale of James clan.   Outlaws Frank and Jesse James eluded capture for 16 years and became folk heroes. In 1882, after Jesse was killed by Bob, Frank surrendere...



  • Johnny D. Boggs

    Briskly paced, well-researched novel detailing the violence and anarchy of the South Carolina back country during the American Revolution. Author Johnny D. Boggs is a South Carolina native who grew up in the old stamping grounds of Francis Marion, th...



  • Barbara Boswell

    MILLIONAIRE IN DISGUISE Nine years ago Ty Hale denied his heart when he drove Shannen Cullen out of his life. He never expected to see the blue-eyed spitfire again -- especially as a contestant on a reality game show set on a deserted island. Now ...



  • Gary Bower

    This series of heartwarming picture books (#1 Tessa's Treasures; #2 Wyatt's Wagon; #3 Ivy's Icicle) will entertain young children as they learn about the joy of thinking of others. Each book teaches a principle through a compelling story while expres...



  • Irene Brand

    He had been her first and only love. Yet when Lorene Harvey met Perry Saunders again after twenty years, she was amazed by the emotions sweeping through her. She wanted desperately for them to have a second chance, but Lorene had a secret...one she f...



  • Irene Brand

    It is 1927, and Ellen Hern, now a wealthy widow, is returning to her childhood home in Appalachia. She wouldn't have personally chosen the move - which will cause her to relive painful experiences at Arrowwood Estate - but the local authorities have ...



  • Max Brand

    Anyone making a living on the rough frontier took a bit of a gamble, but no Western writer knows how to up the ante like Max Brand. In "Speedy--Deputy," the title character racks up big winnings on the roulette wheel, but that won't help him when he'...



  • Terri Brisbin

    Christian Dumont Had Been To Hell To Pay For The Sins Of His Father. Now a royal command to wed would restore all he had lost -- but at what price? For though marriage to landed, beauteous Emalie Montgomerie seemed to present no hardship, his cou...



  • Vera Brittain

    Bright and vivacious, Daphne Lethbridge is back at Oxford after a stint of volunteer work. World War I has ravaged Europe, but it has done nothing to daunt her spirit, and she plunges headlong into the whirl of college life. Her enjoyment, though, is...




  • Debra Lee Brown

    NO WAY OUT The Alaskan tundra -- a land whose pristine beauty was overshadowed by the darkness of winter, the danger of corruption. Her career hung in the balance, her life was on the line, and, after one reckless moment in a stranger's embrace, L...



  • Dixie Browning

    LSCC Member: Sexy district attorney Spence Harrison Social Status: Busy convicting the bad guys; he's in need of a good woman Method of Seduction: Forgetting his name but finding a home for his heart. To Ellen Wagner, Spence Harrison w...



  • Jan Harold Brunvand

    The definitive word on the subject from the dean of urban legend studies.

    We all know those stories that are too bizarre to be true―roasted babies, vanishing hitchhikers, scuba divers in trees―but have you heard about the ice man or the bu...



  • James Buckley Jr.

    The NBA (National Basketball Association) continues to score with its bestselling books on one of America's most popular sports.

    This Level 3 book in the ongoing line of NBA readers features super photos, sensational stats, and fascinating pro...



  • Anita Richmond Bunkley

    When her mother died, seven-year-old Sara Jane Talbot knew things would never be the same--and she was right. Her father's dark moods got darker. The abuse he administered got worse. And life in rural Mallard, Texas quickly became almost unbearable--...



  • James Lee Burke

    1861. Two young Southerners, friends despite their differing political views and backgrounds, enlist in the 18th Louisiana regiment of the Confederate Army: Robert Perry, wealthy and privileged, and irreverent Willie Burke, the son of Irish immigrant...



  • Jan Burke

    Hailed by reviewers and fellow authors alike, Edgar Award winner Jan Burke has won a legion of devoted readers with her witty, ingeniously crafted novels featuring Irene Kelly. Now Burke, who earned critical acclaim for her stunning departure novel, ...



  • Mary Burton

    Revenge Was His Mission... No person had ever caused such fire in Travis Rafferty's blood as Civil War nurse Meredith Carter had. Yet when the prisoner of war had attempted an escape, she'd betrayed him and his bedraggled men. Now, years later, ve...



  • Kurt Busiek

    Kang's ultimate triumph! The time-traveling warlord called Kang the Conqueror returns - and this time he plans to enslave all of Earth! The only thing standing in his way is its mightiest heroes! Time and time again, Kang has been a thorn in the Aven...



  • J. Lee Butts

    As elderly lawman Hayden Tilden approaches the end of his life and career, he recounts his adventures and exploits in the Wild West to young journalist Franklin J. Lightfoot, including his run-in with vicious outlaw Smilin' Jack Paine. By the author ...



  • Laura Caldwell

    The choices Casey Evers has made in her twenty-six years aren't exactly making her happy. In fact, her life is so on course -- college, law school, boyfriend, job offer -- that it's actually off. So, before she slides into fourteen-hour days at a Chi...




  • Gayle Callen

    A STRANGER'S BED Gwyneth Hall has heard the dark rumors about Sir Edmund Blackwell, the man she is betrothed to but has never seen. To save her penniless family from ruin, however, she would wed the devil himself. And this gorgeous, moody "devil" ...



  • Dana Cameron

    Archaeologist Emma Fielding is beginning to doubt the wisdom of spending her vacation in England helping friends excavate a twelfth-century abbey, especially when they uncover an all-too-modern skeleton in a nearby medieval graveyard. But it's the se...



  • Andrea Camilleri

    Andrea Camilleri's Inspector Montalbano has garnered millions of fans worldwide with his sardonic take on Sicilian life. Montalbano's latest case begins with a mysterious tt tt with a Mafioso, some inexplicably abandoned loot from a supermarket...



  • Joanna Campbell

    Before Thoroughbred, Ashleigh Griffen lived at Edgardale, her family's farm in Kentucky. Nothing could be more perfect than life on the farm with her family, her favorite horses, and her best friend, Mona. Ashleigh loves helping with the horses --...




  • Elisa Carbone

    Driven from his home by the Ku Klux Klan and still reeling from the death of his mother, Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to the desolate Pea Island on the Outer Banks of North Carolina to start a new life. Fortunately, life on Pea Island...



  • Joanna Carl

    CONFESSIONS OF A CONFECTIONER After leaving her bad-new husband back in Texas, Lee McKinney moved up north to a quaint resort town. Now she keeps the books for her aunt's luxury chocolate shops. But Lee soon finds that Michigan winters can be murder...



  • Rebecca Carmi

    Hi, I'm Carlos -- one of the kids in Ms. Frizzles class. I know Ms. Frizzle thinks of weird ways to teach about science, but she never had a crazier idea than challenging Mr. O'Neatly's class to a science contest. The contest topic was magnetism, a...



  • C.J. Carmichael

    Some old acquaintances are never forgot Miranda James is back in the tiny prairie town of Chatsworth, Saskatchewan, to work on a video biography of reclusive writer Warren Addison. While she's there, she hopes to help her best friend, Chad English...



  • Tori Carrington

    SHE'S HAVING A BABY! Darby Parker Conrad was the town widow -- a sweet, single mother of twin girls. John Sparks was the town sheriff -- a former bad boy and her late husband's best friend. And now, three months after one secret night of passion, ...



  • Danita Carter; Tracie Howard

    Morgan Nelson is working 24/7 to get her fledgling party-planning company, Cache, off the ground. Dakota Cantrell is busy turning heads and landing fat commissions in the upper echelon of mostly white, mostly male Wall Street. But the professional li...



  • John Case

    For Danny Cray, a struggling artist and part-time private investigator, the offer is too good to be true. A wealthy, enigmatic lawyer, Jude Belzer, would like to retain Danny for a little damage control. Belzer's client, an elusive billionaire, is th...



  • Linda Castillo

    ANYTHING FOR HIS CHILD... Search-and-rescue leader Buzz Malone thought losing the only woman he'd ever loved was the worst blow life could deal. He was wrong. Finding out that he had a son -- a son his ex-wife, Kelly, had kept secret -- was worse....



  • Linda Lea Castle

    He was a man without a memory...she was a woman who denied her past... When Lochlyn Armstrong awakes wounded in a strange cottage, he has no idea what has happened to him -- and little memory of who he is. One thing he's sure of -- the proud la...



  • Kimberly Cates

    Keeping a promise to her mentor, international photojournalist Jacqueline "Jack" Murphy takes time out from her jet-setting lifestyle to photograph a lighthouse in Maine. To her shock, her new assignment brings her face-to-face with Tom Brownlow and ...



  • Jack Cavanaugh

    Konrad Reichmann, an outstanding product of Hitler’s youth movement, becomes disillusioned as the reality of the Russian front bears no resemblance to the "glory" of the Third Reich. Even lower than his unit’s morale are supplies and fuel as Russ...



  • Dennis Chalker; Kevin Dockery

    They came from everywhere across the nation to be part of the most elite fighting team in the world: the U.S. Navy SEALs. At a no-frills training base on the shores of the Pacific Ocean the weak and unworthy would be quickly eliminated -- and the str...



  • Jack L. Chalker



  • Alexander Chee

    From the best-selling author of How To Write an Autobiographical Novel, Alexander Chee's award-winning debut is "One of the great queer novels . . . of our time." -- Brandon Taylor, GQTwelve-year-old Fee is a shy Korean-American boy growing up in Mai...



  • C.J. Cherryh

    CLOSE ENCOUNTERS It has been nearly ten years since the starship Phoenix returned to the abandoned station orbiting the world of the alien atevi. This station, called Alpha, had been deserted for centuries following a rift between a faction of the...



  • Deepak Chopra

    Struggling writer Jess Conover's ordinary life is turned upside down by an encounter with Elena, a lovely but mysterious woman who is the leader of an ancient mystery school called "The Daughters of Joy," who pass on sacred lessons of love from gener...



  • Dianne L. Christner

    The first decade of the nineteenth century is full of promise and adventure for the infant state of Ohio. But for the three Carson sisters, it is filled with trepidation as they struggle with the loss of their parents in the battle for statehood. Kat...



  • Lucy Clare

    What do you do when your husband dies and leaves behind a secret that might devastate your family Learn to Trust Again... The London Times called Hoping for Hope "emotionally convincing." Publishers Weekly raved, "there's something here for e...



  • Jack Clark

    It was another nothing case. That's the only kind private eye Nick Acropolis seemed to get lately. But this one leads to Westerfield's Pharmacy, which sits in the heart of Chicago's West Side ghetto, surrounded by ruins.

    Nick was a real cop y...



  • Wahida Clark

    New York Times best-selling author Wahida Clark is all too familiar with the terrifying truths of ghetto life. The first novel in her gritty, gripping Thug Series takes you into a world where a wrong choice can be the last choice a person ever makes....



  • Douglas Clegg

    A chilling gothic novel of the most haunted house in the world from New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning novelist, Douglas Clegg -- the 1st Book of the Harrow Series!  The Key to Harrow... The house called Harrow has an ancie...



  • James Clemens

    Some might call him a fool, but Harlequin Quail claims to be a spy. And he comes fresh from the foul fortress of Blackhall itself, where the Dark Lord dwells. There he uncovered things that spell certain doom--for a final Weirgate remains, the most p...



  • Hal Clement

    Discover MESKLIN - Gravity: 3g at the equator, 700g at the poles!Hal Clement is a Grand Master of SF, and the one most associated with the subgenre of hard SF. From his classic stories in Astounding in the 1940s through his novels of the 1950s and on...



  • Elaine Coffman

    Napoleon has fallen and the Austrian Empire sweeps the continent. Dashing revolutionaries, traitors and spies lurk in every quarter in the turbulent Italy of the 1820s. Italian patriot Angelo Bartolini is a man of many faces: a devoted son and bro...



  • Paula Marantz Cohen

    It is a truth universally acknowledged that a nice Jewish widower must be in want of a wife. JANE AUSTEN centered her classic novels around "three or four families in a country village." So does Paula Marantz Cohen in this witty twist on Pride and P...



  • Joan Collins

    hen gutsy Irish redhead Millie McClancey defies her humble beginnings to pursue a life on the stage, she becomes the first of four generations of unforgettable women to taste success in the exciting yet precarious world of show business. Taking reade...



  • Max Allan Collins

    On May 7, 1915, the luxury liner Lusitania was struck by-a German torpedo. Sinking within eighteen minutes--and claiming the lives of twelve hundred people--it was a pivotal event of the First World War that has been shrouded in mystery... Critic ...



  • Lynn Collum

    For best friends Sara, Ella, and Rosamund, life thus far has been anything but a fairy tale. They have little to look forward to upon graduation from Mrs. Parson's Academy for Girls -- not even a Season in London! But, as each young lady is about...



  • Michael Connelly

    The messages waiting for Henry Pierce when he plugs in his new telephone clearly aren't intended for him: "Where is Lilly? This is her number. It's on the site." Pierce has just been thrown out by his girlfriend and moved into a ne...



  • Aaron Copland

    Now in trade paperback: “The definitive guide to musical enjoyment” (Forum).In this fascinating analysis of how to listen to both contemporary and classical music analytically, eminent American composer Aaron Copland offers provocative suggestion...



  • William J. Coughlin

    Charley Sloan isn't your typical lawyer. But then again, this isn't your typical case. When famous author and hometown hero Miles Dane is arrested for murdering his wife, it seems like an open-and-shut case. With no credible alibi, a mountain of phys...



  • Jasmine Cresswell
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    Just before Thanksgiving, Major Brad Henderson is released from prison, exonerated after almost thirty years for a crime he never committed. His mission: to be reunited with his three daughters. How to find them? Contact Dylan Garrett, of the Finders...



  • Michael Crichton

    In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practi...



  • James Crumley

    Milo Milodragovitch is back in Texas, running the bar of his dreams and trying to do a little private investigating on the side. His relationship with his woman is on the rocks ever since his overnight fling with the classy, scotch-drinking Molly McB...



  • Margaret Daley

    Devoted to her students, irrepressible Sadie Spencer would stop at nothing to help them. Even if it meant winning a date with one of Oklahoma's most eligible bachelors, Andrew Knight, to discuss their needs. But Sadie soon realized that God had a mor...



  • B.J. Daniels

    FORBIDDEN LOVER? Charlotte "Charlie" Larkin believed she'd been cursed when it came to matters of the heart, especially since every man she'd ever been involved with had met with an untimely end. To add insult to injury, to-die-for true-crime writ...



  • Teri Daniels

    A young boy describes himself as old enough to feed the fish, bold enough to hold a worm, and sweet enough to give a gift, in a self-esteem story that shows his exhilarating steps toward independence. Reprint....



  • Mary Davis

    Jackie and Roger Villeroy spent their first anniversary at Manny's, their favorite restaurant. Roger gave Jackie a gift, but before she could share her surprise with him, a phone message called Roger away. The next thing Jackie knew, her husband was ...



  • Russell Davis

    Apprentices in a variety of fantastical fields struggle to master their unusual talents in a selection of all original short fiction by Charles de Lint, Michelle West, Esther Friesner, David Bischoff, Tanya Huff, Fiona Patton, Mickey Zucker Reichert,...



  • Roxann Dawson; Daniel Graham

    On the planet Klamdara, several members of the elite fighting force of the Alliance known as the Tenebrea -- including their leader, Hal K'Rin -- are imprisoned, dying, and hoping for rescue. On the planet Cor, that hope resides in Andrea Flores, one...



  • Tom De Haven

    The final installment of De Haven's dazzling tour of twentieth-century America, revealed through the world of the comic strips and their creators. In 1967, the Summer of Love, Roy Looby, a gifted young cartoonist, deserts his mentor and joins the dro...



  • Janelle Denison
    in

    You know who they are--the ones who drive you wild with temptation. Who charm your grandmothers with one hand on your...assets. Who can reveal your deepest dreams and forbidden fantasies with just a look. Dive into these three erotic tales and discov...



  • Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In the blasted ruins of Tilverton, demons stalk the shadows. In Evereska and Cormyr, alliances crumble. In the sun-baked desert of Anauroch, an empire of darkness is established. In the soul of a tortured elf, the future is decided....



  • Kathie DeNosky

    Brenna Montgomery's meddlesome grandmother was determined to see her wedded -- and she'd chosen Dylan Chandler as Brenna's prospective groom. But Brenna didn't want a sexy, Stetson-wearing lawman who sent shivers up her spine and made her weak in the...



  • Kathleen Dexter

    During her fifth life, the Catwoman seeks refuge from the pain, ignorance, poverty, and prejudice of the world on her own private oasis, surrounded by fifty cats, but the arrival of a stranger named Angelo turns her isolated world upside down....



  • Philip K. Dick

    Following a devastating nuclear war, the Moral Reclamation government took over the world and forced its citizens to live by strictly puritanical rules -- no premarital sex, drunkenness, or displaying of neon signs -- all of which are reinforced thro...



  • Robyn Donald

    For ten years, memories of Sorrel and that magical summer have haunted Luke. Now Sorrel has returned to New Zealand to take ownership of the house that had once been Luke's home. Surprising both of them, it only takes one night to reignite tha...



  • Kate Donovan

    WILL THIS DAMSEL IN DISTRESS... Trinity Standish may be impulsive, but even she knows that using a matchmaker to find a husband is simply Not Done. Yet her grandfather's will requires her to marry within the year--and she needs a groom who knows how...



  • Richard Dooling

    A terminally ill man sells his life insurance policy for cheap to an investor who will collect the full amount when the sick man dies.But is the sick man really sick? Does he even exist? In the age of AIDS and no-holds-barred capitalism, the business...



  • Doris Dorrie

    Meet Fred Kaufmann, disillusioned husband of thoroughly competent Claudia and father of surly teenager Franka. His dreams of being a movie director have long ago been shelved for marriage and a child. While Claudia sells her successful vegetarian ...



  • John Douglas; Mark Olshaker

    Renowned former FBI criminal profiler and New York Times bestselling author John Douglas continues the electrifying saga of the Broken Wings -- a team of ex-FBI profilers who walk a razor's edge between the criminal mind and their own destruction. ...



  • Rosey Dow; Andrew Snaden

    Whodunit? Who killed Beth Martin just days after her long-awaited facelift, and a month after the suspicious death of her husband? Who knew the late Mrs. Martin would have a deadly reaction to a certain prescription drug? And why would that person da...



  • Laura Dower

    "The Powerpuff Girls" is Cartoon Network's highest-rated show among kids 2-11. It's a mega-hit! And so are Scholastic's books -- last year's Valentine Book hit #9 on the NY Times Kids' Bestsellers.

    The Powerpuff Girls may get a new member -- a...



  • Malachy Doyle

    A girl has a white cat. A boy has a black cat. They all live on the same street, but they've never met -- until one rainy night when a big storm results in bringing the cats and the children together in a most unexpected and delightful way....



  • Stephanie Doyle

    Married by thirty or else! If still single on her birthday, Baily Monohan promised her family she'd return home and marry her boring childhood sweetheart. But fate has other plans when Baily is involved in an accident with a black Mercedes -- driv...



  • Eric Drooker

    From American Book Award winner Eric Drooker, this is a story for the ages, beginning with the agrarian past, through the industrial present, and into the technological future.
    A young woman bravely escapes a military assault on her island villag...



  • Diane Duane

    The highly acclaimed creator of many brilliantly realized worlds in fantasy and science fiction, New York Times bestselling author Diane Duane now presents a startlingly original new adventure--a gripping mystery that spans seven alternate universes....



  • Barbara Dunlop

    SURVEILLANCE AT ITS SEXIEST! Jenna McBride is making a new start: a new city and a new business with a shot at the big time. She and her best friend -- and interior decorating partner -- jump at the chance to refurbish a venerable Seattle hotel. F...



  • Margot Early

    Carmen Dinesen's young sister, Bizzy, wants only one thing for Christmas -- a horse. Chris Good Rider, a Blackfeet Indian, can give her one...if Carmen marries him. If she and Bizzy move to his ranch in Montana. That's a lot to ask. But as Carmen kno...



  • Gail Eastwood

    Brazen Hearts Just back from his three-year exile to the West Indies, clearly Lord Ramsdale has yet to outgrow his penchant for scandal. Of all the available women in London, he has to let the infamous Lady Wetherell catch his interest.... Her ...



  • Susan Edwards

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  • Lynn Emery

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  • Richard Paul Evans

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  • Tabor Evans

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  • Sara Fanelli

    Meet Medusa, the Minotaur, and eleven more mythological monsters
    of ancient Greece - artfully portrayed in striking collages, followed by a
    glossary of fun facts.

    What three-headed dog guards the gates to the underworld? Whose 100
    ...



  • Andrew J. Fenady

    Captain Thomas Gunnison has been entrusted with an extremely vital cargo. His commerce ship, the Phantom Hope, is laden with two thousand Henry rifles, weapons that could turn the tide of victory for the Union. Even more important, though, is fifteen...



  • Jude Fisher

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    The Two Towers Visual Companion is a full-color guide to the characters, places and landscapes of J.R.R. Tolkien's Mid...



  • Susan Floyd

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  • Christine Flynn

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  • Colin Forbes

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  • Michael Curtis Ford

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  • Kate Forsyth

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  • Susan Fox

    The last time Lainey saw Gabe Patton was five years ago -- as they were exchanging their marriage vows! It had been a dream wedding...until Lainey discovered that Gabe had only married her for convenience. She was left with no choice but to run away....



  • Jan Freed

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  • Sara Hoskinson Frommer

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  • Simon Furman

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  • Diana G. Gallagher

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  • Sally Gardner

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  • Melanie George

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  • Joshua Gilder

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  • Danielle Girard

    Ex-FBI agent Cody O'Brien lives a quiet life in northern California. Self-sufficient and content, she provides a good home for herself and her eight-year-old son, Ryan. But all of that is shattered when Ryan is kidnapped in broad daylight.... Cody'...



  • Sephera Giron

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  • Christine Goff

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  • Leonard S. Goldberg

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  • Jo Goodman
    in

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  • Lisa Gornick

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  • Lynne Graham

    Lily couldn't believe her luck when she met Rauf Kasabian in the exclusive London bar where she worked and found herself the object of this charming, wealthy Turkish tycoon's affection. But when Rauf witnessed Lily leaving a hotel with anothe...



  • Jean-Christophe Grange

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  • Alan Grant

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  • Kristiana Gregory

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  • Lois Greiman

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  • Amelia Grey

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  • Matt Groening

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  • Elizabeth Gunn
    in

    When the department store Santa of Rutherford, Minnesota, goes missing, it's a child's happy shout that calls attention to the red-suited figure just visible within the branches of the Christmas tree. Jake Hines is called to investigate a holiday mys...



  • Axel Hacke

    A charming fairy tale for adults in the tradition of The Little Prince and The Snowman.

    "For some time now, I've been getting visits, every now and again, from December II, the little pot-bellied king. He's about three inches tall and so fat...



  • Margaret Peterson Haddix

    Ten-year-old girls don't wear wigs.So why is Anya wearing one? That's what Keely wants to know. But when Anya's wig falls off in front of the whole class, Keely realizes what she really wants is to help Anya, even though she's not sure how--and even ...



  • Virginia Hamilton

    Newbery Medalist Virginia Hamilton presents a novella that brings together the slave past and multi-generational present life of a young girl in Ohio.

    From picking berries with her cousins to surviving a tornado to being dissed by a white, big...



  • Brenda Hammond

    JEEVES NEVER LOOKED THIS GOOD... Freddi Elliott needs a job, fast. And she's willing to take anything -- even a job as some old coot's butler. Only, little does Freddi know that this assignment will test not only her domestic skills, but also her ...



  • David Handler

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  • Barbara Hannay

    A SECRET BABY... When Sydney girl Stella Lassiter discovers that she's pregnant, she travels to the Outback seeking her ex-boyfriend for help, only to bump into the one man she's hoping to avoid -- Callum Roper. ...A WHIRLWIND WEDDING! A ye...



  • Jack Hanson

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  • Kate Hardy

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  • Jonathan Harris

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  • Harry Harrison

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  • William K. Hartmann

    The Southwestern United States has become a battleground for those who promote new land development and those who wish to preserve the land's beauty and heritage. Drawing together contemporary urban land-use politics and a scandal more than four cent...



  • Martin Hegwood

    Johnnie the Dime Koscko: don't be fooled, he's not really a gangster. But he'd like to be one, and that might just make him even more dangerous. He left the Mississippi coast thirty years ago in search of the big leagues in Las Vegas. But the closest...



  • Libby Fischer Hellmann

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  • Virginia Henley

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  • Mary H. Herbert
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The highways and byways of Ansalon are being ravaged by war. As the War of Souls rages, vast armies and powerful wizards vie for control of Krynn. But despite the deeds of the mighty, it is the common people who must endure the great hardships of ...



  • Patricia Hermes

    Nothing makes Blessing happier than to sit, singing, with Monnie, her grandmother, beside her, making music on the fiddle. Blessing's mama died when she was two, and Monnie has looked after her ever since in their small house in the Tennessee moun...



  • Joan Hess

    WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS...IT'S MURDER Faberville bookstore owner Claire Malloy is ruminating over the state of her love life when she gets disturbing news. Elderly Miss Emily Parchester is up a tree. Chained to an old oak, packing a thermos of tea a...



  • Glen Hirshberg

    The Snowman’s Children is a poignant, psychologically intense first novel that tells the story of an incident from one man’s childhood in the 1970s, when a serial killer called The Snowman stalked the streets of suburban Detroit. The incident, a ...



  • Nina Kiriki Hoffman

    Gypsum LaZelle had nearly given up. She’d already watched her two older siblings experience the transition -- the sudden, debilitating process that turned them from ordinary children into mages, gifted spellcasters like their beautiful mother. Perh...



  • William Hoffman

    In Wild Thorn, Charley LeBlanc returns to the place of his birth only to find himself caught up in corruption and intrigue. The black sheep of a distinguished Virginia family, Charley has now settled in Montana to escape his felonious past. When he h...



  • Kate Hoffmann
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    Just before Thanksgiving, Major Brad Henderson is released from prison, exonerated after almost thirty years for a crime he never committed. His mission: to be reunited with his three daughters. How to find them? Contact Dylan Garrett, of the Finders...



  • Kate Hoffmann

    Welcome to Twin Oaks -- the new B and B in Cooper's Corner. Some come for pleasure, others for passion -- and one to set things straight.... Check-in: Bah humbug! That's what single mom Grace Penrose felt about Christmas this year. Grace was in ch...



  • Elizabeth Holcombe

    A savage land. An untamed passion. A member of the court of Mary, Queen of the Scots, the exquisite Sabine de Sainte Montagne is at the mercy of Her Majesty's whims -- and has been promised in marriage to a powerful, yet devious, Scottish lord...



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    Scottish beauty Rose Keith knows people think her a witch. Some say that the delicious meals she prepares from her special garden can inspire rapturous passion. That must be why Sir Adair Dundas has asked for an offering of her legendary sweet tarts....



  • Angela Elwell Hunt

    One called him son. One called him brother. One called him husband . . . and all three suffered for him. How do you love a God-intoxicated man? The story of Moses through the eyes of the women in his life . . . the shadow women....



  • Johanna Hurwitz

    Having gone away to a Vermont farm as part of the Fresh Air Fund in 1910, orphan Dossi returns to her sister's apartment in New York City where she must find something interesting in her boring world to write about to her new friend, Emma....



  • Alison Inches

    Bob and the team decide to surprise Wendy by cleaning up her garden while she is away visiting her sister, but they hurry to finish the job before she returns, in a charming story about friendship and teamwork. Original....



  • Judith Ivory

    Stuart Aysgarth, the new Viscount Mount Villiars, doesn't know he's playing with fire when he inadvertently runs afoul of Emma Hotchkiss. True, the exquisite Yorkshire lady is a mere sheep farmer, but she also guards a most colorful past that mak...



  • Brenda Jackson

    Delaney Westmoreland refused to let a mix-up in her vacation plans postpone the R and R she craved. But when she reluctantly agreed to share a secluded cabin with an arrogant sheikh bent on seduction, she found herself enrolled in a crash course in h...



  • Brenda Jackson

    It all started in college, in the turbulent sixties, when Randolph and Jenna became lovers. Randolph knew the moment he saw Jenna Haywood that he had to make her his. But the path to love is not an easy one. His wealthy Grandmother Julia disapproves ...



  • Anna Jacobs

    Will new love conquer old grudges?Since her father died, Deborah Jannvier has been living under the provision of her callous uncle. So when a handsome stranger named Matthew Pascoe appears bearing a summons from a long-lost wealthy relative, Deborah ...



  • Liz Jarrett

    The one and only! Jared Kendrick knows in his cowboy gut that Leigh is the one for him. All he has to do is convince her. Ha! She wants to celebrate her singleness and not get hog-tied to a relationship. Though Jared has her four older, loving yet...



  • Liz Jarrett

    This is one cop who's gonna get caught... Erin Weber insists she's not meant for Trent Barrett! He's one Hometown Heartthrob she's going to avoid, but not if Leigh, his matchmaking sister, has anything to say about it. Sure enough, there's soon a ...



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    Sara had never thought to see her precious Rev ever again. Yet here he was, come to stay for the holidays in the very home where she was a governess...and bringing up the painful memories of their shared past....



  • John Jeffrey

    Searching for the perfect mate, Carson St. John, editor of the gay men's magazine Throb, devises a provocative questionnaire that sends Carson and his four best friends on a quest to find true love, with unexpected results. Reprint. 10,000 fi...