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New Books List: 538 titles

  • The Knights of Silversnow

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Snow in the summer?!! Eric, Neal, and Julie are headed back to Droon to fix the mess they made with the Wand of Urik. Even though it’s summertime back home, the gang’s new adventur...

  • Compulsion

    Keith Ablow

    Burdened by his own psychological scars, brilliant forensic psychiatrist Dr. Frank Clevenger has endured the most extreme twists of the human mind. Then he receives a disturbing call from Nantucket's chief of police. The five-month-old daughter of pr...

  • Tom, Dick and Debbie Harry

    Jessica Adams

    After a whirlwind courtship with Richard, the gentle small-town vet she met in London, Sarah finds herself, to her surprise, moving to Australia as his bride. But on the morning of the wedding itself, she realizes she has made the worst mistake of he...

  • Baby, Baby

    Kylie Adams

    Baby Love B-movie queen Tatiana Fox's life has gone the way of her straight-to-video career. She's been had by the sleazy, the lazy, and the greedy--all on a shoestring budget. First, her husband left her. Then, her nanny quit, deserting her for a b...

  • Special Forces

    Ted Allbeury

    When the Russians learn that the British ambassador to Moscow is to return to London they give orders to the KGB that he is to be drawn into the Soviet net. If they are successful, their plans for Britain can be accomplished. But no-one could have en...

  • Before We Were Free

    Julia Alvarez

    I wonder what it would be like to be free? Not to need wings because you don't have to fly away from your country? From award-winning author Julia Alvarez comes the story of Anita de la Torre, a twelve-year-old girl living in the Dominican Republi...

  • Always in My Heart

    Catherine Anderson

    Two years ago, Elbe Grant would have fallen apart at any reminder of her ex-husband, Tucker. But now she doesn't bat an eye when "their song" comes on the radio. She's unfazed by the thought of Tucker's perky new girlfriend. Ellie Grant is over him. ...

  • Hidden Empire

    Kevin J. Anderson

    THE ENEMY UNKNOWN Having colonized the worlds of the spiral arm, mankind's three branches--the Terran Hansa, starship-dwelling Roamers, and telepathic Green Priests--are certain the galaxy is theirs for the taking. But when scientists success-full...

  • Shocking Behavior

    Jennifer Archer

    OUT OF SIGHT! J.T. Drake had always felt he paled in comparison to his father's outrageous inventions. But with the fateful push of a button, one of the professor's madcap gadgets not only knocked him off his feet--it actually rendered him invisib...

  • The Princess and the Pea

    Sarah Aronson

  • For King & Country

    Robert Asprin; Linda Evans

    TIME TRAVELING TERRORISTS SPELL DOOM FOR BRITAIN'S ONCE AND FUTURE KING ... AND THE REST OF US AS WELL What SAS Captain Trevor Stirling doesn't know may kill him -- along with every man, woman, and child alive. He must follow a terrorist into the ye...

  • Murphy And Myrtle: The First Day Of School

    Martha Atwater

    A sweet story about two important beginnings: school and friendship!

    Murphy is a shy, lovable bear who is nervous about his first day at a new school. He brings his trusty backpack filled with books he likes to read. At school he meets Myrtle,...

  • My Last Chance Brother

    Amy Axelrod

    While describing the many mean things his older brother, Gordon, does to him on his birthday, from giving him a noogie to dropping his toothbrush in the toilet, Max unexpectedly discovers that Gordon is not all bad when he saves him from a scary spid...

  • Dragoneye

    James Axler

    Lurking deep within the moon, a place of extraordinary power, two ancient entities prepare to battle for control of the earth and humankind, a war that could destroy the entire universe, forcing Kane, Grant, and Brigid to destroy the very beings that...

  • Slow Hands

    Lauren Bach

    THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND Alec Dempsey swore he'd never go back to Freedom, Arkansas. But that was before the A.T.F. special agent learned that Keira Morgan was being targeted by a vengeful ex-con. Seeing her again brings back memories that have hau...

  • Dog in the Dungeon

    Ben M. Baglio

    A spooky spin-off of the best-selling Animal Ark series, this new Hauntings title will have animal-lovers shivering in fear and delight.

    Mandy and her best friend James are used to dealing with animals in distress. But ghostly animals in distr...

  • Blood Roses

    Jeanette Baker

    How does a woman pick up the pieces after witnessing her husband's brutal murder? And how does she live with the ache in her heart that comes from losing the kind of man who appears only once in a lifetime? Kate Nolan has taken it one day at a tim...

  • Animals, Animals, Animals!

    Liza Baker

    Harold loves animals so much that he decides to find out what it's like to be one. Join Harold and an elephant, a camel, a herd of cheetahs, and a slippery bunch of penguins on this wildlife adventure in his imagination.

    ...

  • Harold Finds a Friend

    Liza Baker

    Harold's favorite toy is his stuffed animal, Lilac, but what Harold wants is a real live pet. When Harold enters the world of his imagination he discovers that Lilac has turned into a running, jumping, ball-catching sheepdog!

    ...

  • China Run

    David Ball

    "Allison realized she'd been awake for twenty-four hours. She hadn't done that since college. It had been the most remarkable twenty-four hours of her life -- hours in which, for better or worse, a choice had been made, a line crossed. There was no g...

  • Farewell Performance

    Tessa Barclay

    Gregory Crowne is a concert agent with a difference. His real name is Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein and, although he likes to play down his royal background, there are times when it comes in useful. Even billionaire Japanese businessmen, men su...

  • The Spanish Doctor

    Margaret Barker

    New baby...new love? When staff nurse Pippa Norton goes into labor on the way to a new life in Spain, her new boss, Dr. Carlos Fernandez, comes to her rescue. He brings baby Matthew safely into the world, and from then on, Carlos is never far from t...

  • The Sky So Big and Black

    John Barnes

    At the end of the twenty-first century, Earth is under the control of a single intelligence, the apparently benign One True. Mars, meanwhile, is slowly terraforming, and the human settlers there are still free of One True's control...but they need a ...

  • The House That Jack Built

    Catherine Barry

  • The Rebel's Return

    Beverly Barton

    LSCC Member: Dashing bachelor Dylan Bridges Social Status: This judge's son may be single, but this lady-killer is searching for a certain Mission Creek socialite Method of Seduction: Boldly showing beautiful Maddie Delarue that he's the man...

  • The Hermit's Story

    Rick Bass

    A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year: “Uniformly excellent” stories about our relationships with each other and with the treacherous natural world (Publishers Weekly).In the title story, a man and woman travel across an eerily frozen lake --...

  • The Norton Anthology of American Literature

    Nina Baym

    The classic survey of American literature from its origins to the present, The Norton Anthology of American Literature offers the work of 212 writers--38 newly included. From trickster tales of the Native American tradition to bestsellers of early wo...

  • Mended Wheels

    Ann Bell

    Carol Pine and her golden retriever, Prince, have been together for four years, living in a small house on a tree-lined street in Columbia, Missouri. Prince is a wonderful companion, but Carol is lonely. Her job as a graphic designer and her involvem...

  • A Fruitful Vine

    Carrie Bender

    After a summer of "dating" Nate, Miriam finds herself hopelessly in love with him--but now Hannah claims Nate! Miriam resolves to let no one know about her feelings for Nate. She yields herself to God's will, and in the end she finds satisfaction and...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 2: Learning Curve

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Driven by a desire for revenge, SpiderMan sets out to take down Wilson Fisk, the infamous Kingpin of Crime, who employed the man who killed Peter's beloved Uncle Ben. Collects Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #8-13....

  • The Lioness

    Nancy Varian Berberick
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    In the embattled kingdom of Qualinesti, Dark Knights harass the common folk, and the once-proud Elven Senate moves at the will of the green dragon Beryl. Even the elf king walks a tightrope between serving the needs of his people and keeping the drag...

  • Once Bitten

    Laurien Berenson

    With her former fiance off finding himself, Melanie Travis figures the only ring she'll be seeing in the near future is one where she's showing her prized poodles. But love is still in the air for her brother Frank, who is about to tie the knot with ...

  • Restoration

    Carol Berg

    By the time Seyonne survived sixteen years of slavery, reclaimed his life, and watched it slip away again, he had undeniable evidence of the gods. Now, exiled from his homeland, he is left to face the demon inside his soul. Meanwhile, the Hamraschi h...

  • Criminal Intent

    William Bernhardt

    Defending radical priest Father Daniel Beale, the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a female parishioner, is the most difficult case of Ben Kincaid's career. Even as Father Beale struggles to escape the shadow of suspicion, another woman is savag...

  • A Pumpkin for Pooh

    Frank Berrios

  • Jim and Louella's Homemade Heart-fix Remedy

    Bertice Berry

    A sizzling, smart, and utterly engaging novel about sex, love, folklore, and family history from the author of Redemption Song and The Haunting of Hip Hop.With her characteristic sense of humor and a good dose of motherly wit, Bertice Berry spins the...

  • Leaping Hearts

    Jessica Bird

    Her dreams are within reach--all she has to do is learn to hold on... A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN WITH A DEFIANT spirit, A. J. Sutherland spends a small fortune on a horse with a wild reputation, and is forced to sacrifice her position at her family's...

  • Luke Ludd

    D.J. Bishop

    Because of the blood pouring from his wounds, Luke is losing his strength fast and knows if he doesn't get help soon he will surely bleed to death.

    After a shoot-out with the dangerous McKuen brothers, Luke awakens to find himself being nursed ba...

  • A Scholarly Gentleman

    Catherine Blair

    SHE THOUGHT SHE KNEW ABOUT ROMANCE... Seven years ago, Miss Phoebe Granville had been the toast of the ton. Dazzled by her own success, she'd rejected the suit of Jordan Blakley in favor of his dashing cousin Arthur DeVaux. When her glittering m...

  • Would-Be Wife

    Kasi Blake

    Julia Keller's world shattered the night her beloved husband, Jack, was gunned down on her ranch. Now, two long and lonely years later, a mesmerizing stranger with Jack's face appeared on her doorstep, minus a memory. So the only way to recover the t...

  • Enough Rope

    Lawrence Block

    Enough Rope, a collection of superb stories, establishes the extraordinary skill, power, and versatility of contemporary Grand Master Lawrence Block. Block's beloved series characters are on hand, including ex-cop Matt Scudder, bookselling burglar...

  • Strangers and Pilgrims

    Stephen A. Bly

    The Bowers are not your typical, late-nineteenth-century homesteading family. They did not move west to farm Nebraska; they moved east. Matthew Bowers won't be working the land; his wife Lissa will--despite her diminutive size. And while Papa is d...

  • A Fallen Woman

    Cheryl Bolen

    SHE WAS SHROUDED IN SCANDAL Since her husband's tragic death in the Peninsula, Carlotta Ennis had hoped to attract a wealthy husband in Bath. Instead she made the ruinous mistake of loving a rake who was willing to seduce her, but not to marry her. ...

  • Her Home or Her Heart

    Elaine Bonner; Kasandra Paris

    The Maines sisters, Ashley and Susanne, have embarked for several days on a replica of the Louisiana Queen stern-wheeler - but not for a vacation. They're on a mission, searching for the deed to their plantation home in the original furnishings. ...

  • Franklin & His Friend

    Paulette Bourgeois

    Franklin's reunion with a friend who moved away isn't exactly the fun Franklin had anticipated. This story is based on an episode of the popular television series.

    Franklin is overjoyed when he learns that his good friend Otter will be coming ...

  • Kismet

    Fiona Brand
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    A star-crossed love affair and a stormy night combined to bring Laine Abernathy into Sheik Xavier Kalil Al Jahir's world. Now, as she took cover in her rugged rescuer's home, Laine wondered if it was her destiny to fall in love with the mesmerizing s...

  • Crusader

    Max Brand

    Harry Camden came out of the wilderness unwillingly, lured in by a fight manager who knew he had a devastating punch. So Harry drifted into a life of crime, culminating in the theft of the great stallion, Crusader, a horse that no one but he could ri...

  • Tower of the King's Daughter

    Chaz Brenchley

    Go to the Sharai, Daughter of the Shadow... The desert-dwelling Sharai are massing on Outremer's borders to recapture that bloodstained land. The Knights Ransomers -- the Kingdom's fanatical warrior-priests -- stand poised to repel them. But the y...

  • Fairy Nuff

    Herbie Brennan

    On a night when Fairy Nuff is left home alone, he decides to light a candle. First, he pours gasoline on the candle to be sure the wick lights, then uses the label from a container of gun powder to light the candle. KABOOM! Fairy Nuff has burned d...

  • The Torso in the Town

    Simon Brett

    In the historical village of Fedborough, Jude attends a dinner party for the new homeowners of Pelling House. But an uninvited guest--in the form of a mummified, armless and legless torso has crashed the party. There's no telling how long the dead bo...

  • Shadowing Shahna

    Laurey Bright

    Leaving Kier Remington had been hard, living without him even harder. Shahna Reeves never expected him to find her, never imagined he would even bother to look. Until he walked back into her life, long, lean, and reminding her too well of things she&...

  • Psyche's Tears

    Charlotte Brisbon
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    Real magic and witches are far more exciting than anything pop culture has dreamed up. Modern-day Witches live by one commandment-Harm None. But even knowing the Rule of Three-that which you do returns thrice to you-following that commandment isn't e...

  • Magnus Maybe

    Errol Broome

    After leaving the protection of his cage, Magnus the pet mouse finds himself alone in the cold and lonely world where he is soon on the run with a wild mouse who teaches him about avoiding traps and finding shelter. Original....

  • Violet's Wish

    Carolyn Brown

    Be careful what you wish for; you just might get it. Violet did. After her husband died, she swore off lackluster men and a dull life. She wished for someone to put a sparkle in her eyes and excitement in her life, like an old love did year ago in...

  • Beckett's Cinderella

    Dixie Browning

    "You can't refuse me!" -- Lancelot Beckett, millionaire on a mission to settle a debt Secret heiress Liza Chandler didn't want the money -- or the rugged millionaire who'd suddenly come into her life. But Beckett had made a vow to get the job done.....

  • Change of the Heart

    Lynn Bulock

    UNEXPECTED LOVE When a simple game of volleyball lands Carrie Collins in the emergency room, the feisty redhead is determined not to let a broken wrist interfere with her active life. Despite what the oh-so-serious but very handsome Dr. Rafe O'Con...

  • Star Risk, Ltd.

    Chris Bunch

    IF YOU'VE GOT THE CASH, THEY'LL TAKE THE CHANCE. M'chel Riss spent eight years of her life in the Alliance Marines, earning the rank of major, only to be assigned to a desolate outpost in the middle of nowhere. Then a rescue mission brought some e...

  • Dragonmaster

    Chris Bunch

    The land between the volatile kingdoms of Deraine, Sagene and Roche is ruled by the sword and by the outlaw. But the schemes of men and nations hold scant interest for Hal Kailas. For him the only true power in the world is that of the dragons ... ...

  • Storm of Wings

    Chris Bunch

    The land between the volatile kingdoms of Deraine, Sagene and Roche is ruled by the sword and by the outlaw. But the schemes of men and nations hold scant interest for Hal Kailas. For him the only true power in the world is that of the dragons.As a c...

  • Fatal Truth

    Robin Burcell

    IN THE LINE OF DUTY A homicide inspector with the San Francisco Police Department, Kate Gillespie worked hard to get where she is. But a frantic phone call from a snitch threatens to destroy everything she is and everything she's earned. Pulled fr...

  • Cooper's Revenge

    Joe Burkett

    Or so he thinks, until the Zed Rodel gang decides to hold up the stage at Cooper's stage stop. Away on an errand, Cooper is confronted with carnage when he returns. The stage driver and the passenger are sprawled on the ground. Cooper's wife, child a...

  • Mucus Attack!

    Kathy Burkett

    Take the imagination of bestselling author Gordon Korman, add the hands-on expertise of the popular Mad Science group and eureka! A hilarious new science fiction series!

    Taste bud tricks. Artificial mucus. Skeleton models made out of marshmall...

  • Familiar Oasis

    Caroline Burnes

    Amelia Corbet rushed into the desert to save her sister and wound up a captive! But not for long. First a strange black cat appeared, followed by a dark rescuer with the eyes of a hawk and a fierce embrace that stirred her deepest longings. But was H...

  • The Discarded Duke

    Nancy Butler

    Shepherd's Delight Nearly destitute, Ursula Roarke agrees to sell her late husband's bloodstock to the Duke of Ardsley. But the wily widow has an ulterior motive in visiting the peer's property in Devon: She hopes to entice him into m...

  • Nicola and the Viscount

    Meg Cabot

    NICOLA Nicola Sparks, sixteen and an orphan, is ready to dive headlong into her first London Season. A whirlwind of fashionable activities awaits her, although nabbing a husband, ordinarily the prime object of every girl's Season, is not among them....

  • All American Girl

    Meg Cabot

    Top Ten Reasons Samantha Madison is in Deep Trouble 10. Her big sister is the most popular girl in school 9. Her little sister is a certified genius 8. She's in love with her big sister's boyfriend 7. She got caught selling celebrity portra...

  • The Hidden Heart

    Candace Camp

    FATE, IT SEEMED, HAD DONE ITS WORST With his life in ruins, Richard, Duke of Cleybourne, returned to his country estate to deal with the tragic loss he had suffered four years earlier. His plans, however, were interrupted by the arrival of Miss Je...

  • Cindy's Last Hope

    Joanna Campbell

    Cindy McLean and her partner, Ben al"Rihani, can‘t find a jockey to ride Gratis in the Kentucky Derby.

    The only person besides Cindy who can handle the difficult horse is a stubborn and inexperienced groom named Wolf. But Cindy doesn...

  • Simple Riches

    Mary Campisi

    Sometimes The Only Thing Worth Treasuring...Is In Your Heart Developing luxury resorts may be an odd career for a woman who never takes a vacation, but growing up with her grandfather's no-nonsense work ethic has made Alexandra Chamberlain good at h...

  • Street Boys

    Lorenzo Carcaterra

    Naples, Italy, during four fateful days in the fall of 1943. The only people left in the shattered, bombed-out city are the lost, abandoned children whose only goal is to survive another day. None could imagine that they would become fearless fighter...

  • Hooray for Grandparents Day!

    Nancy Carlson

  • My Lady Mischief

    Kathy Carmichael

    Lady Thea knows what she wants in life. Desiring to stay with her widowed father, she's set her cap on a local farmer's son.

    When "Hart," the Marquis of Hartingfield, arrives on the scene, he sends her wits reeling and her sense tumbling. Their m...

  • Just over the Mountain

    Robyn Carr

    Welcome back to Grace Valley, California, where the best things in life never change... Here in this peaceful community, folks look out for one another like family, though sometimes a little too well. In a town like this, it's hard to keep a secre...

  • Skin Deep

    Tori Carrington

    ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING... After getting publicly dumped -- again! -- Kyra White is making some changes. And picking up the latest makeover book is her first move toward a new life. Following the step-by-step directions in Sex Kitten 101, Kyra sets...

  • The Real Allie Newman

    Janice Carter

    Who is the real Allie Newman? Is she the woman who lives a quiet, predictable life teaching math and working in a health food store? Or is she the long-lost granddaughter of a wealthy and notorious racketeer -- as Joel Kennedy believes? With th...

  • 13 Scary Ghost Stories

    Marianne Carus

    This collection of thirteen scary stories from around the world is perfect for young readers looking for a frightening (but not terrifying) read.

    Readers will meet thirteen ghosts, werewolves, skeletons, and other creepy characters in this spi...

  • Secrets of a Pregnant Princess

    Carla Cassidy

    A KINGDOM'S HONOR depends on the actions of the man assigned to protect the princess... When Princess Samira Kamal found herself pregnant and abandoned, she faced shaming her family and threatening the peace between Tamir and neighboring Montebello....

  • The Perfect Victim

    Linda Castillo

    Despite a happy childhood, successful entrepreneur Addison Fox has always yearned to find her birth mother. And with the unexpected death of her adoptive parents comes a renewed determination to fill in the missing pieces of her life--to find her "ot...

  • Crossing the Line

    Laura Castoro

    Thea Morgan never thought she'd fall in love again. Not so long ago, she had the perfect marriage--to a white man--and for once, her light skin and eyes didn't make her feel so out of place. But since her husband's death, Thea's not sure what to f...

  • Hope's War

    Stephen Chambers

    For the city of Hope, stability is a memory. Counseled by Lord Denon, the leader of the Church, Vel, the new and very reluctant young king, has unintentionally prompted a bloody civil war. Pounded by an unrelenting winter and faced with diminishing f...

  • Unbreakable Bonds

    Judy Christenberry

    Privilege was granted to one, poverty to the other. Identical twin brothers, separated at birth, are finally reunited in this Randall family saga. Gabe Randall struggled his entire life to own his Wyoming ranch, and it cost him the love of sweet J...

  • The House of Seven Mabels

    Jill Churchill

    "Homemaking" is about to take on a whole new meaning for Jane Jeffry now that she's agreed to help the prosperously divorced Bitsy Burnside restore and redecorate a decrepit old neighborhood mansion. Bitsy's decision to employ an almo...

  • Vengeance

    Scott Ciencin; Dan Jolley

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN Los Angeles is a city divided between the haves and the have-nots, and those that have it seem to have it all: tanned good looks, fit physiques, celebrity, flashy cars...

  • Red Rabbit

    Tom Clancy

    Lond before he was president or head of the CIA, before he fought terrorist attacks on the Super Bowl or the White House, even before a submarine called Red October made its perilous way across the Atlantic, Jack Ryan was a historian, teacher and re...

  • Jinxed

    Carol Higgins Clark

    Savvy young Los Angeles P.I. Regan Reilly faces an unusual challenge when she gets an urgent call from Lilac Weldon, owner -- with her two hippie brothers -- of the run-down California winery Altered States. Lilac asks Regan to find her actress daugh...

  • Where Are You, Blue Kangaroo

    Emma Chichester Clark

    Blue Kangaroo belongs to Lily, and she takes him with her wherever she goes. Sometimes Blue Kangaroo gets lost, but he always waits for Lily to find him. Lately, though, Lily has been losing her friend too often"leaving him behind at the park and o...

  • Emergency: Doctor In Need

    Lucy Clark

    In search of a real family Dr. Jessica Yeoman, the Emergency senior registrar at Adelaide's children's hospital, and her boss, Dr.Thomas Bryant, are immediately at odds. He tests her professionally, and they test each other personally -- with a si...

  • Nobody Knows

    Mary Jane Clark

    NOBODY KNOWS THE DARK SECRETS. Cassie Sheridan has all a television news reporter could want: an important beat in Washington, D.C., and a skyrocketing career. But then, she makes a critical mistake. Suddenly, her career is in shambles. NOBODY KN...

  • Yesterday's Shadow

    Jon Cleary

    Love never dies ... unless a killer intervenes. The Hotel Southern Savoy has become the reluctant host to two corpses on a single night -- and Homicide Inspector Scobie Malone knows this investigation will be a nightmare the moment he arrives. The...

  • A Week in the Woods

    Andrew Clements

    COLLISION COURSE The fifth-grade Week in the Woods is a beloved tradition of Hardy Elementary, where Mark Chelmsley (the Fourth) is pretty much killing time before his parents send him off to an exclusive prep school. But then Mark realizes the Week ...

  • Wriggly, Wriggly Baby

    Jessica Clerk

    What do wriggly babies want? Adventure! And here it is!

    If a baby likes to wobble and to wriggle and to bop,
    He could bobble out the back door -- and then not stop!
    Zip over to the zoo where he'd bow before the beasts,
    Then dance down...

  • Strange Heaven

    Lynn Coady

    Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award, and Thomas Head Raddall AwardShortlisted, Governor General's Award for FictionShe's depressed, they say. Apathetic. Bridget Mu...

  • A Whore in the Kitchen

    Amanda Coe

    A child's imaginary friend, a woman who wants a baby more than anything, the holiday from hell, and the friend who tries to help too much -- these are all part of this extraordinary collection of stories from a wonderful new young writer. With her pe...

  • This Car

    Paul Collicutt

    Buckle up and start your engines!

    Paul Collicutt once more shows his reverence for machines of travel in a simple, inviting survey of different kinds of cars for very young enthusiasts. While the concise text describes how cars differ from one...

  • The Northeast Kingdom

    Peter Collinson

    A prison riot, followed by a mass escape from America's most advanced maximum-security prison leaves the inhabitants of the tiny town of Gilchrist, Vermont, at the mercy of a violent winter storm and some of America's most ruthless criminals. Origina...

  • Miss Whiting and the Seven Wards

    Lynn Collum

    For best friends Sara, Ella, and Rosamond, life thus far has been any-thing but a fairy tale. Left to grow up at Mrs. Parson's Academy for Girls, they have little to look forward to upon graduation--not even a Season in London! But, as each young lad...

  • A Shred of Honour

    Tom Connery

    As an Irish-Catholic and a reputed coward, Lieutenant George Markham is a marine with something to prove. When his commanding officer is killed at sea, Markham seizes his chance -- and finds himself at the helm of a creaky frigate crewed by malconten...

  • Absolute Certainty

    Rose Connors

    As an assistant D.A. for Massachusett’s Barnstable County, Marty Nickerson sees her job as a means for doing right. When a jury finds Manuel Rodriguez guilty of a brutal murder committed on a Cape Cod beach at the beginning of last year’s tourist...

  • Desperado Dad

    Linda Conrad

    SHELTER FROM THE STORM The leather-jacketed stranger was clearly as dangerous as any man Randi Cullen had ever set eyes on. But she couldn't abandon him -- or the defenseless baby with him -- to the rainswept Texas night.... She offered them bo...

  • Saving Room for Dessert

    K.C. Constantine

    For former Air Force veteran and ex-mall security guard William Rayford, making the cut as Rocksburg's first African American cop fulfilled one of his life's ambitions, even though it sometimes still gives him a case of the Steel City Blues. Rayford ...

  • Family Fun Homemade Holidays

    Deanna F. Cook

    From the creators of FamilyFun Tricks and Treats comes a collection of celebration inspirations for the winter holiday season. The winter holidays are a magical time, especially for families with youngsters. FamilyFun Homemade Holidays proivdes an in...

  • Listening to the Quiet

    Gloria Cook

    When new passions rise to the surface, old secrets threaten to ruin everything…Jo Venner returns to the Cornish tin-mining village to where she grew up to take up the post of schoolmistress filled with memories of the happy days she spent there as ...

  • The Devil's Roundup

    Will Cook

    Presents a collection of five short novels set in Hondo, Texas, and the surrounding ranching community, following a wealth of unforgettable characters as they all fight to survive in the untamed frontier. Reprint....

  • Out of the Dark

    Natasha Cooper

    An eight-year-old boy comes running out of the dark to find barrister Trish Maguire one wet Sunday night. Just before he can reach her, he's knocked over by a skidding car. Fighting to save his life, the rescue team finds Trish's name and address sew...

  • Bone Island Mambo

    Tom Corcoran

    A pleasant Key West Sunday in January turns into a tropical nightmare. It's early. The tourists are still asleep. Freelance and part-time crime photographer Alex Rutledge bicycles near-vacant streets, taking pictures for his own enjoyment. But he'...

  • Nergal and the Great Space Race

    Shana Corey

    Those irresistible martians are back w/ more made-up martian words (Yabay!), cosmic health & fitness & a gentle message a/b trying. Great for beginning readers & all the small worriers in our universe

    The first graders of Pod 1 are buzzing: It...

  • Tera, Star Student

    Shana Corey

    Those irresistible martians are back w/ more made-up martian words (Yabay!), cosmic health & fitness & a gentle message a/b trying. Great for beginning readers & all the small worriers in our universe

    The first graders of Pod 1 are buzzing: It...

  • Labor of Love

    Carol Costa

    As head of the display department at Dixon's Department Store, Margo Conroy comes in contact with all of the employees. Recent policy changes put in place by Dixon's new General Manager, David Martin, have everyone disgruntled. The employees feel tha...

  • The Fire Fighter

    Francis Cottam

    Autumn 1940. London is being firebombed, unable to strike back as the Luftwaffe drones overhead. Jack Finlay, a young man notorious for his ability to fight fires, is given the task of preventing five buildings vital to Britain's war effort from ...

  • Blood Money

    Ralph Cotton

    UNFINISHED BUSINESS Ever since Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart lost his father to ruthless J. T. Priest, he's hoped to find the outlaw and bring him down. Then hanging judge Isaac Parker sends Hart and his partner, Twojack Roth, to break up Priest's ...

  • A Dangerous Fancy

    Tracy Cozzens

    SHE HAD EVERYTHING TO LOSE Lily Carrington's ambitious mother had set her sights on a Season. With two younger daughters yet unwed, high hopes for a titled marriage were pinned on Lily. As honorable as she was beautiful, Lily vowed not to disapp...

  • The Duke's Mistress

    Ann Elizabeth Cree

    Lady Isabelle Milborne would pay in hell for her treachery -- even if he went there with her! Three years ago, Belle had participated in her late husband's wager, which had ruined Justin, the Duke of Westmore. And now the duke would stop at noth...

  • And Justice There Is None

    Deborah Crombie

    Sergeant Gemma James of New Scotland Yard is adjusting to professional and personal changes that include her eagerly sought promotion to the rank of inspector--and a future now intimately entwined with Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid. But her...

  • River Thieves

    Michael Crummey

    “An impressive first novel” of a crisis between natives and colonists in Newfoundland, based on historical events (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). In 1810, David Buchan, a naval officer, arrives in the Bay of Exploits with orders to establish contac...

  • Faking It

    Jennifer Crusie

    LOVE AND DECEPTION HAVE A LOT IN COMMON. Meet the Goodnights, a respectable family who run a respectable art gallery -- and have for generations. There's Gwen, the matriarch who likes to escape reality; Eve, the oldest daughter who has a slight ident...

  • The Adventures of Comanche John

    Dan Cushman

  • The Alpine Obituary

    Mary Daheim

    SPECIAL EDITION: MURDER Not even in Alpine, Washington, could the death of octogenarian Jack Froland be considered big news--except by his drinking buddies at Mugs Ahoy. But that suddenly changes when in the middle of the funeral, Jack's widow hys...

  • The Bronze Madonna

    Elizabeth Daish

    Love grows - into distrust...A holiday in a French village seems the answer for Nurse Stephanie Jerome. She desperately needs to escape from a busy hospital and the trauma of a doomed relationship. With her friend, Doctor Leslie Bane, Stephanie belie...

  • Family for Keeps

    Margaret Daley

    A DREAM LOST Pediatric nurse Tess Morgan had dreamed of having a large family. But when her fiance was murdered, her hopes and dreams, along with her faith, were shattered by a single bullet. Until she met Peter "Mac" MacPherson, no stranger to trag...

  • Mind Catcher

    John Darnton

    Brain damaged in a near-death trauma, thirteen-year-old Tyler lies in a New York hospital bed. At his side, his father waits helplessly as two scientists take charge of the boy's fate. One is a neurosurgeon. His unorthodox approach uses computers ...

  • Disappear

    Kay David

    How does a family just disappear? Alexis Mission returns to her parents' house for Thanksgiving and winds up in the middle of a mystery. The house is locked, the turkey's in the oven -- burned to a crisp -- four places are set at the table and not o...

  • The Woad to Wuin

    Peter David

    The return of Sir Apropos of Nothing! "This sequel to the wildly successful Sir Apropos of Nothing starts off with a bawdy send-up of Lord of the Rings, but quickly segues into its own territory with the appearance of a mysterious Visionary at Aprop...

  • The Frog King

    Adam Davies

    Harry Driscoll is living in New York City (if you call trying to survive on an editorial assistant's salary "living").His family is wealthy (but Harry Driscoll is not).His education is Ivy League (but what good is it doing him?).His publishing job is...

  • Aristotle and the Gun and Other Stories

    L. Sprague de Camp

  • Falling for the Enemy

    Shawna Delacorte

    Paige Bradford intended to expose Bryce Lexington for the ruthless shark he was. But when they started working together, the sparks they gave off jettisoned her best intentions.... Paige knew this corporate hunk wasn't what he seemed -- but was she l...

  • Falling Star

    Diana Dempsey

    Youth. Beauty. Ambition. Watch Your Back! Meet anchorwoman Natalie Daniels. Her husband just dumped her. Her boss is scheming to replace her. And she's hopelessly in love with a man who's engaged to another. What's a woman like Natalie to do-espec...

  • Cowboy Boss

    Kathie DeNosky

    ROMANCE ON THE RANCH Gentle-hearted Faith Broderick had come to the Triple Bar Ranch to start a new life, not to get involved in a matchmaking scheme intended to get Cooper Adams to cast off his bachelor coat-of-arms. But suddenly stranded with th...

  • The Rogue's Seduction

    Georgina Devon

    CAPTURED FOR REVENGE -- KEPT FOR PASSION Ten years ago Lillith, Lady de Lisle, was forced to stand up the man she loved at the altar in favor of a richer husband. Now a widow, she suddenly finds herself the target of her thwarted lover's rev...

  • The Good Sister

    Diana Diamond

    ONE IS SUGAR, THE OTHER SPICE... To the world, the privileged Pegan sisters are the ideal complement to each other: one sweet-tempered and reserved; the other vibrant and willful. Together they both are determined to lead their global communication...

  • Dangerous

    Debra Dier

    AMOROUS Only a fool acted on emotion, but that was exactly what the Marquess of Andover had done when he allowed a mysterious beauty to lure him to her home. No sooner had he decided she was the most appealing female he'd ever met, than the youn...

  • Disney's: Winnie the Pooh Happy Birthday to You!

    Disney Book Group

    Happy Birthday, Winnie the Pooh! Join Pooh and his friends in this interactive book just right for baby. With fun flaps to life and a busy bar that features an abacus, a squeaker, a spinner, and a bell, baby can practice fine motor skills while gaini...

  • The Slayers of Seth

    P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    Can Judge Amerotke discover what links two deaths before the killer strikes again?Judge Amerotke is called in to solve a double murder in Paul Doherty's gripping mystery, The Slayers of Seth. Perfect for fans of Brad Geagley and Wilbur Smith. 'All th...

  • Atlantis: Gate

    Greg Donegan

    They have invaded before. Ten centuries ago when they destroyed Atlantis and left a civilization in ruins. The Shadow triumphed to wreak havoc in our world. In the Bermuda Triangle. In the Devil's Sea. In a mysterious region of Cambodia. Now, man's...

  • A Deep Blue Farewell

    Sharon Duncan

    Private detective Scotia MacKinnon, an intuitive ex-cop, makes her home on a sailboat in the harbor of San Juan Island. There, in a tiny town in the upper reaches of the Pacific Northwest, Scotia meets up with big-time crime.... Scotia MacKinnon's...

  • The Iron Bride

    Rosemary Edghill
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    Real magic and witches are far more exciting than anything pop culture has dreamed up. Modern-day Witches live by one commandment-Harm None. But even knowing the Rule of Three-that which you do returns thrice to you-following that commandment isn't e...

  • Savage Love

    Cassie Edwards

    WAN-WAN-KAIT Monster bones. They were the stuff of Indian legend, which warned that they must not be disturbed. But lovely, golden-haired Dayanara and her father were on a mission for the Smithsonian Institute to track down the mysterious bones and ...

  • Rude Mule

    Pamela Edwards

    Can a little boy with impeccable etiquette and a very rude mule enjoy an afternoon together?

    What would you do if a mule knocked on your door one day and said, "I've come for lunch"? You'd say, "Hello! Come in, Mule."

    But what if the m...

  • The Dead Room

    Robert Ellis

    DEAD END A young woman has been found, brutally murdered and left on gruesome display ... in the "safety" of her own home. The atrocity kicks off an investigation into a bizarre string of increasingly disturbing murders, all believed to be perpetr...

  • True Betrayer

    Robert Elmer

    War breaks out following Israel's 1948 declaration of independence, finding Dov and Emily at Yad Shalom kibbutz helping old friends--and perhaps a new enemy--prepare for the approach of Arab soldiers, as Dov struggles with questions about his faith....

  • Hazezon

    Clayton Emery
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Who dares speak of the prophecy? The denizens of the desert live in the shadow of the sacred, where battles are won or lost at the whims of the gods. Now the outcome of one desert war could change the history of Dominaria forever. The prophecy ...

  • The Mount

    Carol Emshwiller

    * Philip K. Dick Award Winner* Best of the Year: Locus, Village Voice, San Francisco Chronicle, Book Magazine* Nominated for the Impac AwardCharley is an athlete. He wants to grow up to be the fastest runner in the world, like his father. He wants to...

  • Pharaoh

    Karen Essex

    Following on from 'Kleopatra', the glittering epic of Egypt's queen continues as she allies herself with Anthony and begins a love story that immortalizes her as one of history's greatest political players and most tragic heroines....

  • Suicide's Girlfriend

    Elizabeth Evans

    Elizabeth Evans traces the complex and often painful threads of human relationships in Suicide's Girlfriend, her most inspired work to date. In these richly textured stories, you'll meet:Oyekan, a confused young Nigerian student who wrestles with fee...

  • Longarm and the Druid Sisters

    Tabor Evans

    In a town full of ladies, Longarm does his duty. And he does his job, too.Longarm figures checking up on the Harrisonville post office will be a no-hassle assignment. He figures wrong. Dead wrong.   The people of Harrisonville are fishy with mor...

  • Spitting Off Tall Buildings

    Dan Fante

    Bruno Dante -- aspiring playwright, part-time depressive, and full-time drunk -- has hitchhiked cross-country, escaping the sunshine, have-a-nice-day culture of L.A. for the more cynical climate of New York. It seems to be his kind of town. But h...

  • Death to Spies

    Quinn Fawcett

    Was Ian Fleming a master spy?After years of serving in the intelligence community, Ian Fleming retired -- and soon thereafter created James Bond, that debonair, dashing hero of countless novels and films.But what if Fleming never really retired from ...

  • The King

    David Feintuch

    With his kingdom still reeling from the war that set the crown of Caledon upon his head, Rodrigo must prove himself bold, decisive, and ruthless to keep his throne amid the terrifying invasion of the brutal Norlanders. Hounded and driven from castle ...

  • M.D. Most Wanted

    Marie Ferrarella

    From the moment she was rushed into Blair Memorial's emergency room, Dr. Reese Bendenetti's famous new patient had turned his solitary life upside down. For the first time, this dedicated surgeon was beginning to wonder if healing others might not be...

  • Whispers and Lies

    Joy Fielding

    Terry Painter enjoys her quiet life in tranquil Delray, Florida, where the single, forty-year-old nurse lives alone in the house she inherited from her mother. When young, vibrant Alison Simms rents the cottage on her property, the two women strike u...

  • The Middle Ages

    Jennie Fields

    When you least expect it, life can turn you around. Take forty-something Jane Larson. Although she views her situation with wry humor, her life feels frozen. An architect, she's had the same job for eighteen years, designing chain banks, grocery stor...

  • Lonesome Ryder?

    Carol Finch

    Run over by a stampeding bull and bulldozed by a cheating ex-wife, rancher Wade Ryder doesn't want anything to do with women. Too bad for him that his tricky cousins decide a woman is just what he needs. They've hired gorgeous Laura Seymour to keep h...

  • Restaurant Romeo

    Carol Finch

    Meat 'n taters were just fine for the menfolk of Hoot's Roost. But when Stephanie Lawson turns her family's diner into a five-star restaurant -- with the female population's approval -- a battle of the sexes seems about to ensue. But the men have a s...

  • A Slug of Hot Lead

    Earl G. Fisher

    Joe Weaver, foreman of the Summerlin ranch in Colorado, thinks his biggest problem is keeping the cattle fed over the long, cold winter. He has never been more wrong. Being foreman for Mrs. Summerlin did have its advantages-he was earning wages while...

  • What's the Girl Worth?

    Christina Fitzpatrick

    In this emotionally charged first novel, meet Catherine Kelly, a young cocktail waitress on the brink of her first trip alone to Madrid, Spain. From the beginning she is a feisty young woman, hard-edged and honest; yet as she leaves a world she knows...

  • Standing in the Rainbow

    Fannie Flagg

    Good news! Fannie’s back in town--and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel. Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, w...

  • Hell's Canon

    T.T. Flynn

    A collection of five stories of the old West includes tales about a man trying to resume his life after two years in prison, and a former soldier who finds himself on a Mississippi riverboat with a woman who claims to be his wife....

  • Mystery Of The Hooded Horseman

    Focus on the Family

  • My Life and Adventures

    Castle Freeman


    Fleeing the wreckage of a murky diplomatic job in a Chaotic Latin country, Mark Noon finds himself down-and-out and holed up in a hotel in Mexico. As a last resort, he claims an odd bequest from a long-deceased family friend named Hugo Usher, and...

  • Ice Age

    Brian Freemantle

    A mysterious disease emerges from the Antarctic, threatening the survival of mankindAs the polar ice caps melt, scientists prepare for slowly rising sea levels. But there is a far more urgent threat, hitherto unimaginable, which in a matter of months...

  • Take Me To School With You

    Sonali Fry

    A shaped Clifford paperback with a perfect back-to-school story!

    Clifford had a wonderful summer with his best friend, Emily Elizabeth. But soon it's time for Emily Elizabeth to go back to school. Clifford is very sad. He misses Emily Elizabet...

  • More Than Enough

    John Fulton

    John Fulton's More Than Enough is a powerful debut novel about a month in the life of one American family as they struggle to pull together and break apart in Salt Lake City, UtahAfter a gang of neighborhood boys attack Steven and his sister Jenny an...

  • Finding True Love

    Shelley Galloway

    When Kevin Reece comes to Missy Schuler's rescue one rainy night, Missy is sure he is too good to be true. Handsome, successful men like Kevin aren't attracted to struggling, divorced, barely-on-their feet, shy girls...are they?

    Before long, Miss...

  • The Book of Israel

    Jeremy Gavron

    Dunsk, Lithuania, 1874: brought home dying from the mill, an old man leaves his new grandson the only thing of value he owns - his name. In one Jewish family, the forename Israel is handed down from generation to generation. But as parts of the famil...

  • Coming Home

    Roberta Gayle

    Charlotte Ann Brown knew she had married too young, and when her husband walked out on her, she only had herself to blame. Now, years later, he's returned to their hometown as a successful doctor --and wants her back! Determined to make a new star...

  • Raising Abel

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    ONE TERRIFIED CHILD Veronica Tremain's nightmare begins with a phone call. Her anthropologist brother, Dr. Scott Ferris, has been savagely murdered. Within days other scientists on three continents start to die or disappear, and their labs and notes...

  • The Logistics of Carthage

    Mary Gentle
    in

    In this collection of original novellas, four award-winning masters of alternate history turn back time, twisting the facts with four brilliant excursions into what might have been by traversing Worlds That Weren't. Under the influence of the phil...

  • Sarah's Secret

    Catherine George

    The single mom's secret... Jake Hogan, millionaire businessman and Pennington success story, knocked Sarah out... well, almost. But he was gentleman enough to escort her home ,and so began an enthralling affair. Though she was incredibly at...

  • Art of Seduction

    Melanie George

    Parris Sutherland cares little for the gossip swirling about her after she is left at the altar. She is far too busy with a new project: masquerading as "Lady Scruples" and exacting justice on philandering men. If only she could resist the desire aro...

  • The Apprentice

    Tess Gerritsen

    It is a boiling hot summer in Boston. Adding to the city's woes is a series of shocking crimes in which wealthy men are made to watch while their wives are brutalized--a sadistic demand that ends in death. The pattern suggests one man: serial killer ...

  • Breed

    Owl Goingback

    The quaint Florida town of St. Augustine is a magnet for tourists. But one site is off-limits even for the locals. Built on the site of an ancient Indian village, Tolomato Cemetery has been closed for years. But now a slaughtered Wiccan priestess ...

  • His E-Mail Order Wife

    Kristi Gold

    Workaholic exec Drew Connelly returned from his business trip -- dog tired, happy to see his daughter, and...engaged? Before he could question how, his "fiancee" moved in for their "trial marriage"! What kind of woman could his six-year-old daught...

  • Force Majeure

    Christopher Golden; Thomas E. Sniegoski

    > MAIN ENTRY: force ma-jeure > FUNCTION: noun 1: superior or irresistible force 2: an event or effect that cannot be reasonably anticipated or controlled TWENTY-YEAR-OLD GENIUS SHANE MONROE has his life laid out before him. As part of an accelerate...

  • And My Shoes Keep Walking Back To You

    Kathi Kamen Goldmark

    A down-on-her-luck country music singer finds sudden stardom, and backstage backstabbing, in this funny, “fast-paced, feel-good novel” (Booklist).   After getting kicked off the tour by a famous, egomaniacal performer, sexy Sarah Jean Pixlie...

  • Death Medicine

    Kat Goldring

    Schoolteacher Willi Gallagher is a regular kind of gal in a not-so-regular town. The next-door neighbors read palms and hold seances, and the town investigator haunts her with cryptic riddles. All the education in the world couldn't prepare this teac...

  • Alchemist's Door

    Lisa Goldstein

    Scientist, mathematician, and court astrologer to Queen Elizabeth I, John Dee is also one of the sixteenth-century's most renowned alchemists, driven by a passion to fathom the elemental secrets of the cosmos. But when his reckless assistant, Edward ...

  • Andiamo, Weasel!

    Jon Goodell

    A weaselly weasel, a sprinkling of Italian, and a gentle message about self-esteem"all in one gorgeous, funny picture book!

    Mamma mia!

    Perhaps trusting a weasel was not such a good idea.

    First he weaseled his way out of helping...

  • Princess Dottie

    Lucy Gordon

    A head-to-toe makeover, fancy balls, and royal consorts had never been part of Dorothea Hebden's plan. The London barmaid had reckoned on a normal life and family with her very common childhood sweetheart. Then former royal Randolph waltzed into Dott...

  • Guns of the West

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Louis L'Amour and others masters take aim at the legends behind the guns.

    Includes new and classic tales by Louis L'Amour, Ed Gorman, Bill Pronzini, Gary Lovisi, James Reasoner, Judy Alter, Bill Crider, R.C. House, Wendi Lee and Mary Kay Lan...

  • Juno & Juliet

    Julian Gough

    With this irresistibly fresh debut about a set of twins in their first year of college in Ireland, Julian Gough ("Roddy Doyle in an extremely good mood." -- The Washington Post Book World) has established himself as Ireland's most delightful new voi...

  • The Best Is Yet To Come

    Judith Gould

    Carolina Mountcastle has everything she could ever want: a sexy, attentive husband, a terrific teenage son, and a successful career as a florist and decorator in New York. Then, without warning, tragedy strikes. Carolina's husband suffers a fatal hea...

  • Falling for the Sheik

    Carol Grace

    Desperate to turn her life around, nurse Amanda Reston swore off big-city E.R.'s and powerful, deceptive men. Surely working private duty in placid Pine Grove would provide peace of mind.... Alas, Amanda's first patient proved impossible -- imposs...

  • Vain Hope

    Christine Green

    The second in the series featuring Detective Inspector Thomas Rydell and his assistant Denise Caldicote The Harmony Clinic, a plush cosmetic surgery practice, is ruled over by the ruthlessly efficient Carla Robins. When top surgeon, handsome Saul Rav...

  • Sol's Children

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A selection of original science fiction tales explores the adventures that await humankind as we explore and colonize the planets of our solar system, featuring contributions from Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Roland Gre...

  • First You Kiss 100 Men...

    Carolyn Greene

    By day, Julie Fasano was secretary to dashing private investigator Hunter Matthews. By night, she was the Mystery Kisser, a journalist with the assignment to kiss 100 men and report on the results. Only problem was, Hunter's assignment was to sleuth ...

  • Malice

    Ewell Greeson

    Alex and Jan Bradley's vacation turns into a nightmare when they find themselves running for their lives from trained killers, through the wild mountainous area of western Canada. When Jan is killed, Alex becomes a wild animal. He turns on his tormen...

  • From This Day Forward

    Bettye Griffin

    With two teenage sisters and an ailing father to care for, thirty-two year old Cornelia "Hatch" Hatchet's dreams for her future are now confined to working the night shift at Super Kmart. Life in her dreary, poverty-stricken hometown of Farmingdale,...

  • The Grave Maurice

    Martha Grimes

    In a pub called the Grave Maurice, Melrose Plant overhears the intriguing story of fifteen-year-old Nell Ryder, granddaughter of the owner of Ryder Stud Farm in Cambridgeshire, the heart of Britain's racing world. The girl was abducted nearly two yea...

  • Beyond Suspicion

    James Grippando

    For smart, tough Miami criminal lawyer Jack Swyteck, it was a golden opportunity to help out his beautiful ex-girlfriend Jessie Merrill, who sold her life insurance for a cash payment when she wrongly believed she was dying. Now, thanks to Jack's cou...

  • Meet Me With a Promise

    JoAnn A. Grote

    When the Spanish-American War causes yet another postponement of Frank and Amy's wedding, she vows to marry him when he returns. A severe battle brings Frank home from the Philippines before the rest of his regiment, but Amy is simply glad that her f...

  • Human Voices

    James Gunn

    In Human Voices you will find stories covering the past three decades of James Gunn's career: imaginative, entertaining speculations revealing insight-and foresight-into human nature now and in the future, which are the unmistakable hallmarks of his ...

  • A Family Affair

    Shirley Hailstock

  • Border Bride

    Deborah Hale

    For thirteen years he'd been a wanderer.... Now Con ap Ifan had returned, a tested warrior and a talented bard. But Enid of Glyneira remained unimpressed. No stolen kisses or honeyed promises that faded with the dawn could tempt her to abandon hearth...

  • Winging It

    Candy Halliday

    Pilot Alec Southerland is just a man who can't say no. Can he help it if women flock to him, or if he's too considerate to hurt their feelings? He's also exactly the type of man Mackenzie Malone's mother always warned her about -- too good-looking, t...

  • Sisters of the Raven

    Barbara Hambly

    The Yellow City is in crisis. Men have always possessed the magic that sustains civilization, from healing the sick to calling the rains to keeping the mice from the granaries. Now the rains are weeks late, the wells are drying up, and the Sun Mages ...

  • Long Time Gone

    Denis Hamill

    Danny Cassidy couldn't remember if he'd killed the cop. So begins one man's journey through his fifty-year-old history and conscience in Long Time Gone, Denis Hamill's gripping novel set in the back streets and alleyways of Brooklyn, U.S.A. It's the...

  • The Dirty Dollar

    Gerald Hammond

    Catapulted into the high-octane world of the oil business, Jill must fight to survive ... Intelligent and attractive, young graduate Jill Allbright is finding it difficult to get a job in the male dominated world of engineering. In desperation, she t...

  • Where's Waldo? Mini Edition

    Martin Handford

    The amazing original that set off the worldwide search for Waldo! Perfect for the youngest Waldo searcher, this special edition contains all the fun of the original but with lots of eye-boggling extras! Anyone who has found Waldo before will want to ...

  • The Civil War

    Harry Hansen

    Provides a comprehensive overview of the Civil War from a variety of perspectives, describing the causes of the war, the battles and campaigns, the military leaders and politicians involved, the ideas and values that it exemplifies, and its long-term...

  • Eensy Weensy Spider

    HarperCollins