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New Books List: 408 titles

  • This Christmas

    Laura Abbot

    This Christmas...Mary Fleet will try to find her birth parents. She's got only one clue to go on, but she's determined to let nothing stop her--no matter how difficult her search, how uncertain the outcome. Falling in love with a rancher isn't part o...

  • Under A Texas Moon

    Faye Adams

    Jessie Braddock is headed back to Mesa City, Texas, looking every inch a lady. When she left four years ago, she could ride and shoot better than most men, and out-swear the toughest cowboy. Her time at an Eastern finishing school hadn't changed ...

  • A Gift From Above

    Joyce Adams
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    Five-year-old Christy wants a new daddy for Christmas. But her widowed mother clings to her memories... until her husband's spirit plays matchmaker and gives his family the greatest gift of all......

  • His Lordship's Dilemma

    Meg Alexander

    MISS ELINOR TEMPLE TOOK HER RESPONSIBILITIES VERY SERIOUSLY So when the Bath Seminary for young ladies closed its doors for good, she took it upon herself to escort young orphan Hester Winton to the home of her guardian, Marcus. But she had never ...

  • A Baby for Rebecca

    Trisha Alexander

    PROMISE HER ANYTHING, BUT... Rebecca Taylor saved Kyle MacNeill's life - and fell deeply, secretly in love with the sexy scoundrel. Alas, to Kyle, Rebecca remained the prim, ladylike savior he'd vowed to repay. He'd promised her the world. But wha...

  • A Marry-Me Christmas

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    CHRISTMAS TO-DO LIST (WHEN YOU'RE TIRED OF SHOPPING) * Vacation in a wilderness cabin and discover a hunk living next door. * Indulge in a harmless affair, then return home and realize you can't live without him. * Pine away ...I mean really pin...

  • A Mistletoe Marriage

    Jeanne Allan

    She had one month to win back her husband! Justin Valentine was a man who had everything -- a ranch, smoldering green eyes, a sexy, slow smile and even a wife, Cait...but she'd run out on him two years ago. Now Cait was back -- and all she ...

  • Cowboys

    Joan Anderson

  • The Predator

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us . . . well, we just won't Iet them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone i...

  • Christmas Special Edition

    Katherine Applegate

    Enjoying picture-perfect college life on Coconut Key with her brother and best friends, Summer Smith is unable to forget Austin when the Christmas season arrives, and she hopes for a reconciliation when they team up for a shared cause. Original....

  • Due Process

    Catherine Arnold

    DEADLY LIES ... A brutal crime leaves one man dead and a community in shock in this explosive novel of legal intrigue. Karen Perry-Mondori's career as one of Florida's hottest attorneys is put to the test as she takes on the defense of accused mu...

  • Catch the Lightning

    Catherine Asaro

    In the distant future, the Skolian Empire rules one third of the human galaxy, and is the most powerful of all. For the ruling family has the power of telepathy, and through it, the ability to communicate faster than light... across interstellar spac...

  • The Lone Man

    Bernardo Atxaga

  • The Man Behind the Book

    Louis Auchincloss

    Twenty-three biographical essays on writers admired by the National Medal of Arts"winning author of The Education of Oscar Fairfax.For Louis Auchincloss, life and letters are not two things but one. It therefore comes as no surprise that when he wr...

  • The Snow Queen

    Anne Avery

    Once upon a time. . .they lived happily ever after. THE LOVE OF A HEART PURE WILL QUELL THE LONELY FATE OF THE SNOW QUEEN'S SPELL When Boston-bred Hetty Malone arrived at the Colorado Springs train station, she was full of hope that she would s...

  • The Face of Time

    Camille Bacon-Smith

    Tracking down a serial killer in the town of Thorgill, two New Scotland Yard officers are about to enter a whole new territory of police investigation. And though one of the detectives and the townspeople know what is really going on, no one's willin...

  • A Royal Visit

    Rebecca Baldwin

    Regal Intrigue Prince Theodoric of Batavia desperately needed a suitable wife to help him carry on the royal line, and a titled British lady seemed ideal. He'd even picked out the perfect bride -- the impeccable Lady Louisa Coldstone. All he n...

  • Mathemagics

    Margaret Ball

    The Pen Is Mightier Than the Sword (But Sometimes Paper Just Isn't Enough...) Just because mild-mannered suburban mom Riva Konneva was a warrior woman from an alternate reality didn't mean she got out of going on field trips. Nor could she just sl...

  • According to the Law: Four Accounts of Mankind

    Solvej Balle

    Nicholas S., a biochemist in Quebec, is close to bringing the human race to solving the great enigma of man's upright posture. As his story opens, he is on the way to collect the corpse of a young woman who has died from hypothermia and bequeathed he...

  • A Horse to Die For

    Carolyn Banks

    WHO'S BEATING A DEAD HORSE? Certainly not die-hard horse aficionado Robin Vaughan. She would never lay a hand on any four-legged creature, least of all the magnificent horse her friend Lola had just received as a Christmas gift. But Robin s...

  • Net to Catch Time

    Sara Harrell Banks

    Cuffy wants to buy a boat someday and become a fisherman like his father. In order to earn money, he'll have to do a good business selling his grandma's deviled crabs. From the Gullah culture of Georgia's beautiful Sea Islands comes A Net to Catch Ti...

  • Forms of Heaven

    Clive Barker

    Includes the titles, "Crazyface", in which a clown lands in Europe's dark ages; "Paradise Street," in which Liverpool is transformed by time-travelers; and "Subtle Bodies," a play about the Sea of Dreams....

  • Upon A Mystic Tide

    Victoria Barrett

    THE MAGIC OF THEIR LOVE LIVES ON... Cecelia and Collin Freeport once lived, loved and died in the rambling clifftop house they named Seascape. Sea Haven Village remembers Cecelia's healing work and how, at death, her soul was carried away in the...

  • Hell's Half Acre

    Frederic Bean

    A historical novel about "the Paris of the Plains," a part of Fort Worth known as the most dangerous strip of land west of the Mississippi for nearly three decades, captures a place where there are twice as many whorehouses as churches and more murde...

  • Lorena

    Frederic Bean

    Lorena Blaire is one of the Union nurses Ulysses S. Grant has sent to infiltrate the Rebel medical corps, and she does so, only to realize that she must choose between her loyalty to the North and the rebel doctor whom she loves. Reprint....

  • Enchantress

    Barbara Benedict

    Practicing the magical arts in an isolated hamlet, Moriana vows to return to Camelot and casts a spell that will bring a Round Table knight to assist her, but she conjures up handsome Saxon warrior Penawulf instead. ENCHANTRESS A foundling dau...

  • Death at Sandringham House

    C.C. Benison

    A MURDER FIT FOR A QUEEN... When housemaid Jane Bee accompanies the Royals on their annual Christmas jaunt to Sandringham, she believes she's in for a bit of a snooze. Aside from her regular duties, there's nothing much to do in the wilds of Norfo...

  • This Dog for Hire

    Carol Lea Benjamin

    She gets top billing. But he's the real teeth of the operation. In the search for a killer, they make the perfect team.... BARK, DON'T BITE She's thirty-eight, too independent for most men's taste, and too suspicious for her own good. In her ba...

  • Cruel Justice

    William Bernhardt

    Leeman Hayes, a black teenager in Tulsa, is accused of brutally murdering a young woman. As attorney Ben Kincaid struggles to pull together a defense, a young boy is falling into the clutches of a child molester. Ten-year-old Abie Rutherford, lonely ...

  • Hearts Divided

    Cheryl Biggs

    LOVE'S DECEPTION Southern beauty Teresa Braggette Proschaud had not seen her husband Jay in four years...ever since their wedding night when he had inexplicably disappeared. She had borne his child alone, and felt her affection for him turn to bi...

  • Serpent's Shadow

    Timothy Boggs
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Hercules possessed a strength the world had never seen, a strength surpassed only by the power of his heart. He journeyed the Earth, battling the minions of his wicked stepmother, Hera, the all-powerful Queen of the Gods. 0 Wherever there was evil, w...

  • It's a Wonderful Life

    M.C. Bolin

    A novelization of the classic holiday movie follows the story of disillusioned George Bailey, who wishes on one difficult Christmas Eve that he had never lived and is granted his wish by angel-in-training Clarence....

  • Preternatural

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

    Struggling science fiction writer Karen Guerreri believes that the alien jellyfish in her current work is trying to communicate with her, and she must figure out whether she created the aliens, or they invented her. Reprint....

  • Winning Ways

    Barbara Boswell

    CONFLICTS OF INTEREST In the great game of power, fame, and the media, it's every man -- and woman -- for themselves. There's no place on the agenda for scandal...and absolutely no room for love. Or so some people think... Smart, poised and...

  • Lost Tales

    Gleb Botkin

    Created for Tsar Nicholas's children in 1918, when they were held captive in  Siberia, Botkin's poignant tales are by turns allegorical and political. Smuggled out of the Soviet Union in 1919, the beautifully illustrated tales are being published h...

  • Orion Among the Stars

    Ben Bova

    A new installment in the military science-fiction series by a Hugo Award-winner finds the superhuman, outer-space warrior John O'Ryan caught in the middle of a dangerous contest between a goddess and a god. Reprint....

  • Moonrise

    Ben Bova

    “[An] epic novel of lunar conquest” from the New York Times"bestselling and six-time Hugo Award"winning author of Mars (Orlando Sentinel).   In the twenty-first century, the world is on the brink of a scientific renaissance, about to bi...

  • Ride Against the Wind

    Terrell L. Bowers

    Unforgiving Stover Gates, who holds a grudge against the Danmyer family, detests his daughter's choice of a Danmyer man as a husband, but when a swarm of locusts devastates crops all over Kansas, the natural disaster brings out the best in some peopl...

  • Bounty Bride

    Emily Bradshaw

    HE WAS A TOTAL STRANGER-HER PURSUER, HER PROTECTOR, HER FATE.... She had become a woman without shame. Hiding under the guise of respectable widow, Rachel Dorset had made a life for herself and her son far away from her genteel Southern past, in t...

  • Red Devil of the Range

    Max Brand

    When young Ever Winton loses the two most important things in his life, his Uncle Clay and Red Pacer--the wildest, most untamable horse in the West--he must ride with the notorious Timberline outside the law, doing whatever it takes to get his horse ...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Stands Corrected

    Emily Brightwell

    TROUBLE IS BREWING... When a local publican is murdered, stabbed in the back in his own pub, Inspector Witherspoon finally takes Mrs. Jeffries's advice to heart. He's going to trust his own instincts and listen to his inner voice. Only that keeps Mr...

  • The Kissing Game

    Suzanne Brockmann

    He knew just the right moves to melt her resistance.... Allowing Simon Hunt to play her partner on her latest assignment probably wasn't Frankie Paresky's best idea ever, but the P.I. found it just as hard as most women did to tell him no! When a...

  • Short Stories

    Harold Brodkey

  • Blazer Drive

    Sigmund Brouwer

    When Josh Ellroy, left-winger for the Kamloops Blazers, and his dad find more than a dozen dead cattle on the family ranch, Josh has some serious decisions to make. On one hand, the Western Hockey League playoffs are ahead, plus a chance to play in t...

  • Arthur's Valentine's Day

    Marc Brown

  • A Colorado Christmas

    Virginia Brown
    in

    Once as wild as the Old West, Caitlin's past catches up with her when she is kidnapped by her former gang. Her plan for escape soon turns into the adventure of her life... and a Christmas she'll never forget.....

  • A Little Bush Maid

    Mary Grant Bruce

    Billabong Station is home to Norah, her father and her brother, Jim. Norah loves to roam over Billabong on her pony, helping with the mustering and joining in the fun when Jim comes home from boarding school. A fishing trip results in drama when they...

  • Horse Blues

    Bonnie Bryant

    The girls in the Saddle Club are making New Year's resolutions, but keeping them won't be easy. Can Stevie be nice to Veronica for a whole month? Can Lisa learn embroidery to make her mother happy? And will Carole give up junk food? The first one to ...

  • A Bride for Saint Nick

    Carole Buck

    She was the only woman he'd ever loved... One snowy Christmas, John Gulliver came to a sleepy New England town as a stranger. He had a new name, a new face, and even the woman he'd loved and lost didn't recognize him. Because everything from their...

  • Into Tomorrow

    Anita Richmond Bunkley
    in

    Three novellas by African-American women writers explore the emotional and spiritual connections between sisters, bonds that are tested by the men in their lives and the drive to make it in the world. Original....

  • The Wanting Seed

    Anthony Burgess

    Set in the near future, The Wanting Seed is a Malthusian comedy about the strange world overpopulation will produce. Tristram Foxe and his wife, Beatrice-Joanna, live in their skyscraper world where official family limitation glorifies homo...

  • Nothing Like the Sun

    Anthony Burgess

    "Wildly inventive" -- Stephen Greenblatt, author of The SwerveA magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare’s love life, following young Will’s maturation into sex and writing. A playful romp, it is at the same time a serious look at the forces th...

  • A Christmas Kiss

    Caroline Burnes

    In steamy New Orleans; three people witnessed the same crime, testified against the same man and were then swept into the Witness Protection Program. But now there's new evidence, and these three witnesses are about to come out of hiding... WI...

  • Nightfall

    Loure Bussey

    Competing in an amateur competition for singers, businesswoman Lena Durant captures the heart of successful attorney Cordell Richarson with her voice, but their romance is challenged by an unexpected reversal. Original....

  • Love Me Not

    Eve Byron

    A lady in danger. As a child, Lady Kathleen was grateful that a sacred vow had been made that protected her form the malevolent grasp of the earl who called himself her father. But the exiled earl has returned, to ruin her dreams of independence ...

  • Pulse

    Joe Cardillo

    When the local planning board announces its intentions to surrender the town's last remaining wilderness area to a shopping mall developer, a young high-school couple forms an environmental group that brings them up against corrupt town politics....

  • Roughing It

    D.l. Carey

    Comforting rookie pitcher West Rideout when he injures his shoulder, Yellowjacket volunteer Lydia Malcolm is astonished when West confesses that he has fallen in love with her and will not take no for an answer. Original....

  • Trials and Tribble-Ations

    Diane Carey

    Almost a century ago, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise first encountered the irresistible (and astonishingly prolific) life-form known as the tribbles, resulting in one of the most unusual adventures in the annals of Star...

  • The Man Who Saved Christmas

    Marisa Carroll

    It wasn't beginning to look a lot like Christmas At least not for Ellie Lawrence and her family of two -- soon to be three -- kids. A fire destroyed their home in North Star, Michigan, and most of their possessions. They'd have lost the fa...

  • Human Error

    Tom Casey

    When a plane bound for Paris crashes, killing forty-five of the people on board, the personal and professional life of the pilot, Captain Hugo Price, comes under intense official scrutiny, as both the government and Price himself try to determine if ...

  • Angel's Fall

    Kimberly Cates

    A vicar's daughter, Juliet Grafton-Moore is also the proprietress of Angel's Fall, a house where London's ladies of the night receive shelter from the past. It is an institution despised by distinguished peers and peasants alike, a place where the wo...

  • Golden Palaces

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

  • Love's Golden Shadow

    Maggi Charles

    LOVE'S GOLDEN SHADOW Guy Medfield's waning sight left him feeling bitter and alone. But Tracy Graham's healing touch taught him to live again. From her he learned to see with his heart, to read in the touch of her lips on his and in the feel of...

  • Thunder Falls

    Scott Ciencin

    For Joseph and Fleetfeet, a young Stegosaurus, a journey across the dangerous terrain of Dinotopia to retrieve a stolen prize for their guardian is hampered by their constant competitiveness. But the two friends must put aside their differences to sh...

  • The Gallows Murders

    Michael Clynes

    Roger and Benjamin delve into the underworld of Tudor Britain...Conspiracy and murder combine to threaten Roger Shallot's own life in his fifth journal, The Gallows Murders, from acclaimed author Paul Doherty. Perfect for fans of Ellis Peters and Sus...

  • Fade Away

    Harlan Coben

    OLD ATHLETES NEVER DIE. THEY JUST FADE AWAY. Once Myron Bolitar was the best. Then an injury sent him to law school amid on to a second career as a big-time sports agent--a career fueled by savvy, Yoo-Hoo, and an athlete's broken heart. Now Myron'...

  • Renegade Siege

    Judd Cole

    Born the son of a great chief and raised by frontier settlers, Touch the Sky returns to his father's people, and with the help of his white friends, hopes to protect his tribe from a murderous attack that could destroy the settlers and the tribal cam...

  • The Backyard

    John Collier

  • Daylight

    Max Allan Collins

    When a massive explosion rips through the Manhattan commuter tunnel, trapping dozens of people in the thinning air under the Hudson river, EMS search and rescue tech Kit Latura launches a bold rescue plan. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Autumn of the Gun

    Ralph Compton

    BLOOD TIE IN A BLOODY LAND Nathan Stone was a living legend in the West as a lawman, as an outlaw, as a gambler, as a wanderer through the wildest towns and terrain. He blazed a vengeance trail, giving no quarter and asking for none. Fearlessly, h...

  • Rebel's Spirit

    Susan Connell

    TEACHER'S PET Rebecca Barnett had been the bane of Raleigh Hanlon's teaching career. He'd nearly been done in by the high school senior's flirtatious zest for life. Now ten years later Rebecca the troublemaker was back for the holidays--all grown up...

  • Where You Are

    George Constable

    After the death of his elderly aunt, Lake Stevenson finds his life rearranged when she wills him her elegant Philadelphia home and her unwanted springer spaniel and he meets a pretty real estate agent....

  • Bumpo, Bill, and the Girls

    Kent Conwell

  • Out of Time

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Annie Lockwood exists; everyone admits it. Everyone has seen her. But only Strat insists that Miss Lockwood traveled one hundred years back in time to be with them in 1895. Now Strat is paying an enormous price: His father has declared him insane and...

  • Samantha Crane on Her Own

    Linda A. Cooney

    Sam finds herself in the difficult position of having to negotiate with a kidnapper for Kristine's freedom, while Dylan struggles with jealousy over Sam and Kenny's relationship and Alison fears for Sam's safety. Original....

  • Lord Savage

    Patricia Coughlin

    She had eight weeks to tame a savage--and to fall in love. The request was impossible. Unthinkable. And unavoidable. Ariel Hallidaycouldn't refuse the head of Penrose School when he asked her to take on aparticularly difficult assignment--not if s...

  • Bruce Coville's Book of Aliens II: More Tales to Warp Your Mind

    Bruce Coville

    LOOK OUT, PLANET EARTH! If you like that spine-tingling, creepy-crawly feeling you get when someone says alien, you've found the perfect book! Bruce Coville, best-selling author of the My Teacher Is an Alien series, has traveled to planets you've nev...

  • The World's Worst Fairy Godmother

    Bruce Coville

    Given one last chance by her skeptical boss when her spells continue to backfire, haphazard fairy godmother Maybelle Clodnowski seeks to reform the obnoxious Susan, a situation that is complicated by a secret enemy. Original....

  • Operation A.I.M

    Greg Cox

    THE GOLDEN AVENGER IN A DEADLY CHASE AROUND THE GLOBE! MODOK: the Mental Organis Designed Only for Killing, the produ of the corrupt scientists of A.I. (Advanced Idea. Mechanics). Iron Man learns that MODOK has turned his back on his creators, des...

  • Sweet Miss Seeton

    Hamilton Crane

    A delicious case of foul play.. An eccentric artist wants Miss Seeton's beloved cottage for his newest work: a chocolate-covered house. But no amount of money or publicity will convince her to give up her home, especially when there are more impor...

  • Airframe

    Michael Crichton

    Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane... . At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair dis...

  • Prim Rose

    Millie Criswell

    Rose Elizabeth is mad as a hornet when her beloved farm is sold out from under her. It seems her bossy sister Heather wants her to give up farming to attend Mrs. Caffrey's School for Young Ladies. Rose, however, has plans of her own -- and they don't...

  • Gabriel's Bride

    Suzannah Davis

    WILL YOU MARRY ME? Could she really ask this man to marry her? Sarah Ann Dempsey approached him. Determined jaw ... wide shoulders ... pure masculinity. Suddenly a glistening drop of moisture trickled from the handsome man's navel and disappeared be...

  • Spellbound

    Saranne Dawson

    DUTY BOUND All her life Shayna had idolized the legendary warrior responsible for unifying her planet. So when she traveled back through time to save Mikal's life, it was not surprising that she found herself entranced by his virile power. The ful...

  • Tryin' To Sleep In The Bed You Made

    Virginia Deberry; Donna Grant

    Gayle Saunders and Patricia Reid were total opposites who chose each other as best friends when they were children. Through the years they were raised together, as close as sisters. Gayle, the beauty pampered by her working-class parents, believes a ...

  • Silver Moon Song

    Genell Dellin

    Emily's peaceful life as frontier teacher and her engagement to a local rancher are disrupted when she meets Tay Nashoba, a proud Choctaw leader, for whom she begins to harbor strong feelings. After a turbulent childhood, Emily Harrington has fin...

  • Miss Zukas and the Raven's Dance

    Jo Dereske

    AN INVITATION TO MURDER A most unusual death has landed Helma Zukas right in the middle of another murder scene. Stanley Plummer has been cataloging a collection of Native American books for Bellehaven's new cultural Center when his body was found...

  • Miss Kendal Sets Her Cap

    Marian Devon

    Miss Kendal was a most determined miss! Taking up a challenge born mostly out of boredom, Miss Frederica Kendal set her cap for her new neighbor, Lord Thorpe. A calamitous first meeting provided a rather inauspicious beginning for her campaign. Th...

  • Deal With the Devil

    Robert DiChiara

    When the body of his long-lost father finally turns up, a Los Angeles police officer makes a Faustian bargain with a mysterious stranger and travels back in time to solve his father's murder. Original....

  • The Final Encyclopedia Vol. 2

    Gordon R. Dickson

    The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R. Dickson's future history of humankind and its ultimate destiny. Now one of its central novels return to print in a two-volume corrected edition.

    In The Final Encyclopedia the huma...

  • The Final Encyclopedia, Volume 2

    Gordon R. Dickson

    The Childe Cycle, also known as the Dorsai series, is Gordon R. Dickson's future history of humankind and its ultimate destiny. Now one of its central novels return to print in a two-volume corrected edition.

    In The Final Encyclopedia the huma...

  • Lord Savage

    Debra Dier

    THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN Lady Elizabeth Barrington was sent to Colorado to find the Marquess of Angelstone, the grandson of an English duke who had disappeared during an attack by renegade Indians. But the only thing she discovered was Ash MacGregor, a...

  • First Contact

    J.M. Dillard

    The official novelization of the widely acclaimed major motion picture based on Star Trek: The Next Generation!From the deepest, darkest reaches of space came the greatest threat the United Federation of Planets had ever faced: the Borg, a half-organ...

  • The Last Leap

    Franklin W. Dixon

    When a parasail daredevil stunt in Manhattan ends in tragedy, the Hardys discover that the fatal fall was not an accident and must catch a killer before a second high-stakes jump is to take place. Original....

  • Kites

    Norma Dixon

    ces and experts alike. Step-by-step instructions lead readers from gathering materials to decorating and launching their very own kites. Beautiful full-color diagrams enhance the text, which includes tips on launching and flying safety. From classic ...

  • A Love For All Seasons

    Denise Domning

    Johanna of Stanrudde despises her husband, a man her dying father pressured her towed. Robert of Blacklea is the man of her heart, a man who cruelly abandoned her yet still haunts her dreams. When he finally returns, it is too late. Johanna is a wife...

  • Black Wine

    Candas Jane Dorsey

    “Those who enjoy the work of such popular feminist speculative fiction writers as Joanna Russ and Ursula K. Le Guin will find much to admire here.” -- Publishers Weekly   Winner of the IAFA Crawford, and the James Tiptree, Jr., and the...

  • Glaice

    L. Warren Douglas

    Charged with keeping peace among the seven mutated races of humanity, John Minder, otherwise known as The Arbiter, arrives on Glaice, an icy planet where full-scale war threatens to erupt among its strange residents. Original....

  • The Time of Murder at Mayerling

    Ann Dukthas

    Nicholas Segalla journeys back in time to Vienna in 1889 to uncover the truth about the supposed murder and suicide of Archduke Rudolph, heir to the Hapsburg throne, and his beautiful young mistress, Maria Vetsera, at Mayerling....

  • Ghost by the Sea

    Eileen Dunlop

    While a guest at Culaloe, Robin discovers that the spirit of Milly, a young girl who tragically drowned prior to World War I, is haunting the house, and she and her cousin, John, begin a search for answers to the mysterious happenings involving their...

  • The Christmas Party

    Carola Dunn
    in

    'TIS THE SEASON... FOR LORDS AND LADIES... TO FALL IN LOVE! Holly boughs and mistletoe, Yuletide carols and holiday surprises bring together the beauties and their beaux of the ton for mischief most merry -- and romance most unexpected! In C...

  • Christmas Elopement

    Anne Eames

    THE BOSS SAYS "BAH, HUMBUG." Ever had a tall, dark and scrumptiously sexy boss? So desirable that you wish he'd be waiting under your Christmas tree on December 24, wearing nothing but a red ribbon around his neck? But so scroogelike that he's pla...

  • A Bad Man

    Stanley Elkin

    Breaking the law in a foolhardy attempt to accommodate his customers, unscrupulous department store owner Leo Feldman finds himself in jail and at the mercy of the warden, who tries to break Leo of his determination to stay bad. Reprint....

  • Christmas Knight

    Lyn Ellis

    SINNER OR SAVIOR? Nick DeSalvo: Ex-cop. Full-time rebel. To protect a friend, he took the rap for something he didn't do. T. J. Amberley: Proud. Fearless. Sexy. Vulnerable. She's been searching for Nick for a long time.... The only thing T.J...

  • The Marquess Lends a Hand

    Monique Ellis

    ONE WAY FOR A LADY TO MAKE A MATCH... Phoebe Parmenter was in a terrible predicament: she was being blackmailed into marriage by her beloved stepmother's wastrel cousin. Under her father's thumb all her life, Phoebe didn't particularly m...

  • Flying Home: and Other Stories

    Ralph Ellison

    These 13 stories by the author of The Invisible Man "approach the elegance of Chekhov" (Washington Post) and provide "early explorations of (Ellison's) lifelong fascination with the 'complex fate' and 'beautiful absurdity' of American identity" (John...

  • A Light in the Castle

    Robert Elmer

  • Skitterfoot Leaper

    Barbara Else

    Lindsey Willow is stuck in the tiny town of Elford with her Auntie Jen, along with a host of problems sh e wraps up inside herself, and a dork-brain called Martin. S he hates it there, but neither does she want to return home to her arguing parents. ...

  • Happy New Year, Baby

    Lynn Emery
    in

    A SEASON OF HOPE, GIVING...AND LOVE Along with the scent of evergreens, romance is in the air this joyous holiday season, as three. Arabesque authors bring you heartwarming tales that are the perfect way to celebrate this special time of sharing, ...

  • The Soliders

    Ken Englade

    In the days leading up to the Civil War, a bloody shootout between soldiers and renegades leaves twelve immigrants dead and a villainous outlaw named "Notch" Henderson still roaming the frontier. Original....

  • Legend of the Zuni Stallion

    Allison Estes

    Taking a small carving from a Native American campsite for a good luck souvenir, Keith Hill fears the worst when everything starts to go wrong, especially after a mysterious visitor at Thistle Ridge Farm reveals the carving's secret. Original....

  • Longarm and the Secret Assassin

    Tabor Evans

    THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE SECRET ASSASSIN There are probably a million James Smiths in the world, but there's only one who used to be a paid government assassin. Only one whose wife and kid got murdered by the Marble Gang. And only one who's chas...

  • The Time of Feasting

    Mick Farren

    A colony of vampires lives unrevealed beneath New York City. But now the Time of Feasting is at hand and the thirst for blood has become an overwhelming need. Renquist, the centuries-old colony Master, is being challenged from within by the younger o...

  • A New Beginning

    Colleen Faulkner
    in

    They say Lord Bolton is mad; they say he murdered his first family. But when Brenna Abbott arrives at his castle, she meets a very different kind of man... one who offers the indentured servant a Christmas gift she never expected......

  • Ferman's Devils

    Joe Clifford Faust

    A young, twenty-first-century ad writer, Boddekker cuts a deal to put him on the fast track, with a million-dollar dream house, promotion, and the affections of Honniker in accounting, but when he is mugged by a group of ruffians known as Ferman's De...

  • Christmas Bride

    Marie Ferrarella

    Home for the holidays, indeed! Somehow, Toni had to pretend she and Derek were happily married. How could she tell sweet old Nonna they had really split up two months ago? And the bigger question: How could she tell Derek she was pregnant? So her...

  • All She Wants for Christmas

    Liz Fielding

    It wasn't exactly what Maddy had had in mind. Hugo Griffin -- Griff -- had agreed to fly Maddy to her holiday destination, but halfway over Paradise Island they had been forced to crash-land! Maddy had wanted peace and quiet but she couldn't ...

  • Pest Control

    Bill Fitzhugh

    PROFESSIONAL EXTERMINATOR FIFTEEN YEARS FIELD EXPERIENCE! GONE PRIVATE WITH LETHAL NEW CONCEPT! NO PEST LEFT ALIVE! Bob Dillon just can't get a break. A down-on-his-luck exterminator, all he wants is his own truck with a giant fiberglass bug on...

  • Christopher's Gifts

    Gwynne Forster
    in

    A SEASON OF HOPE, GIVING...AND LOVE Along with the scent of evergreens, romance is in the air this joyous holiday season, as three. Arabesque authors bring you heartwarming tales that are the perfect way to celebrate this special time of sharing, ...

  • New Beginnings

    Diana Fox

    As a world-renowned concert pianist, Charlene Walker's hands are her life. After a mugging leaves her with a broken arm and a myriad of bruises, both mental and physical, Charlene just wants to heal as quickly as possible and return to her music....

  • Torn By Desire

    Natalie Fox

    Two brothers...both rich and gorgeous.... Which was the right man for Kate? Kate knew she must make up her mind soon -- because her clever, beautiful boss, Lorraine, was only too eager to become the mistress of a Latham brother! But where did Kate...

  • I'll Sing You Two-O

    Anthea Fraser

  • House of Smoke

    J.F. Freedman

    Good-looking and gutsy Kate Blanchard once was a street-smart cop. But now she is working the other side of the street as a private eye for a poor little rich girl, moving through a maze of money and murder to the root of an evil buried deep in a Ca...

  • Patches of Fire

    Albert French

    Personal, lyrical, and extraordinary, Patches of Fire is a memorable exploration of the black soldier's experience in Vietnam, the plight of the Vietnam veteran, and the redemptive power of writing.

    With the same passion for truth and stunning...

  • The VMR Theory

    Robert Frezza

    On the lam from a vicious ex-wife who'd won everything but the kitchen sink in the divorce, Ken MacKay was a journeyman crew member on Rustam's Slipper, the sorriest scow ever to move cargo between stars. Then in a low-class spacers' bar in a mise...

  • Zappy Holidays!

    Diana G. Gallagher

    When holiday spirit in Paradise Valley suffers due to budget cuts and canceled plans, Alex thinks that she is the only one who remembers what Christmas is all about and decides to put some cheer back in the season. Original....

  • A Lady of Quality

    Mona Gedney

    ALL OF LONDON WAS ABUZZ... Sworn never to become leg-shackled to any man, Vivian Reddington dreaded the marriage mart of the current London Season. She simply couldn't act like an addle-brained flirt. But her boredom at one of the endless ball...

  • Enchanted Fire

    Roberta Gellis

    ORPHEUS...his music was magic. His gifted fingers stroke lyrical enchantment from his lyre, seducing Gods and mortals alike. Until he is seduced by the bewitching Eurydice, a woman with the beauty of a goddess--a woman who tempts and torments him be...

  • Mars Attacks!

    Jonathan Gems

  • Unofficial X-Files Companion II

    N.E. Genge

    A second companion to the popular television series brings readers through the third season of X-Files on an episode-by-episode basis, providing additional information about the cast and crew, production bloopers, and more. Original....

  • Living Next Door To Alex

    Catherine George

    At close quarters. When Alexander Mackenzie III arrived to decide the fate of the manor house where Sarah was housekeeper, she prepared herself for the worst. However, Alex was instantly enchanted by the property - and, it seemed, by Sarah - and quic...

  • Wings of Love

    Teresa George

    HE’S AN ANGEL… Dr. Gray Ingram isn't himself at all. His soul has gone to the other side, and his body has been taken over by John A. "A" as in angel. A Civil War soldier, John has come back to earth on a rescue mission: to stop Dr. Charlotte "C...

  • Dance of Death

    Jo Gibson

    Finding a beautiful pair of red shoes, Tammy Peters tries to overcome her superstition when she is told that the shoes are cursed, but whenever a friend borrows them, strange and terrible things happen. Original....

  • Lady Cecilia's Charade

    Jacquelyn Gillis

    MUCH ADO ABOUT...LOVE Cecelia, the Baroness of Somersett, was the most scandalous lady of the ton. Or she would be...if anyone discovered her second identity as the enigmatic new actress called "Amber." Cecelia had taken to the stage to sa...

  • A Father For Christmas

    Paula Tanner Girard

    A COACH, A CASTLE AND A CATCH -- FOR THE LADY WHO ISN'T LOOKING FOR LOVE... Widowed Lady Millicent Copley rejoiced at the invitation from the Copleys in Devonshire: Christmas at their magnificent castle on the faraway moors. A visit to the remote...

  • The Pirate's Daughter

    Robert Girardi

    It began with a chance meeting and led to a date at a small French restaurant in a city by the sea.  She ordered expensive wine.  He paid the bill.  She spoke of the sea.  He was haunted by her green eyes and c...

  • Sade

    Anne Giwa-Amu

  • Interior Design

    Philip Graham

    Interior Design presents a gallery of people who, for all their strangeness, seem deeply, touchingly familiar as they explore the designs of their private inner thoughts.  Huddled under his covers with a flashlight, a young boy lies awake listen...

  • No Truer Love

    Ginna Gray

    A windswept stretch of beach along the north shore of San Francisco...two neighbors cut off from the world by jagged cliffs and crashing waves--a rugged ex-football star and a beautiful enigmatic woman. But Lauren McKenna coolly told Adam Raffert...

  • Whisper To Me

    Carmen Green
    in

    A SEASON OF HOPE, GIVING...AND LOVE Along with the scent of evergreens, romance is in the air this joyous holiday season, as three. Arabesque authors bring you heartwarming tales that are the perfect way to celebrate this special time of sharing, ...

  • Deadly Partners

    Christine Green

    SEASON OF DISCONTENT A working pre-Christmas holiday to the Isle of Wight is just what nurse/medical investigator Kate Kinsella needs to revive her lagging funds and sagging spirits. It's a missing persons case: hotel owner Nigel Carter has disappea...

  • Trouble in Paradise

    Grace Green

    A mission to seduce...by him. It was four years since Jessica had last seen Mitch, yet she'd never forgotten -- or forgiven -- his heartless treachery. Now, blackmailed by her boss and in the name of 'business', Jessica was forced to conf...

  • An Unholy Alliance

    Susanna Gregory

    In 1350, Cambridge lies ravaged by the Black Death. Plague victims fill its graveyards, hunger haunts its filthy alleys, and superstitious folk blame the Church. Crime flourishes, too: three harlots are found with slit throats and branded feet, a fri...

  • Baptism in Blood

    Jane Haddam

    When an infant is found murdered at a controversial women's retreat located in the small community of Bellerton, North Carolina, rumored to be a den of Satan worship, former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian pursues the truth and learns that are many with a...

  • Ghost Movies II

    Peter Haining

    Collected here are short stories which were either the basis or inspiration for several classic TV productions, such as Ghost Stories for Christmas, Tales from the Darkside, and the recent success, Ghosts....

  • Black Orchid

    Karen Harper

    Jordan Quinn was back in the Florida Everglades, where her teenage elopement with the fiercely proud Seminole Seth Cypress had ended. Now she was following her husband, brilliant scientist Lawrence Quinn, who was pursuing the cure for a disease shado...

  • Baby in My Arms

    Madeline Harper

    He wasn't what she'd expected... With his silky ponytail and unfathomable eyes, Ben Blackeagle didn't fit Kate McNair's image of a security expert. But then, ever since she'd inherited baby Amanda, nothing in her well-ordered life had been under ...

  • Desperate Hearts

    Alexis Harrington

    A BEAUTY IN DISGUISE The life Kyla was leading wasn't the one she had imagined for herself. Banished from her Oregon ranch and disguised as a boy, she was riding through Idaho beside a handsome bounty hunter, hoping to convince him to kill the g...

  • Blood Lines

    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    With his love Joanna off playing violin at a British opera festival, Detective Inspector Bill Slider puts aside his pub time to get involved with the Arts himself. At the BBC studios, a prominent music and opera critic has apparently committed suicid...

  • Charmed

    Catherine Hart

    In 1813, a magnificent Shawnee warrior called Silver Thorn buries an amulet imbued with unusual powers. In 1996, Ohio history teacher Nikki Swan retrieves the amulet...and her world spins. Awakening to the sight of a gorgeous, half-naked man who clai...

  • The Christmas Portrait

    Holly Harte
    in

    After Meghan Tompkins learns that her fiance has been killed in the Civil War, the belle has only his fading photograph and dying vow to return. It is a romantic, impossible promise... until the Christmas Meghan discovers the magic of true love......

  • Drowning in Honey

    Kate Hatfield

    A battered husband, a beautiful unhappy woman and a failed priest are brought together during a trial one cold, wet spring in the west of England. Melissa Wraxall thought that she was happy until she was summoned to act as a juror in a murder tria...

  • Second Father

    Sally Tyler Hayes

    ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE Police Detective Marc Dalton had always secretly loved his best friend's wife. Now Ginny was his best friend's widow and trying to raise her baby alone amidst troubling allegations surrounding her husband's death. Knowing he cou...

  • Death of a Hero

    S.T. Haymon

    Detective Inspector Ben Jurnet is dating again after the tragic death of his fiance+a7e, but in the midst of investigating the murder of a idealistic political activist, Ben struggles to sort out his own life without his beloved Miriam....

  • A Connecticut Yankee in Criminal Court

    Peter J. Heck

    A beautiful city with ugly traditions of corruption and racism. A black man set to hang for a murder he didn't commit. A world-famous author--and detective--who isn't about to let it happen......

  • Love and Joy

    Virginia Henley
    in

    LOVE AND JOY by Virginia Henley whisks us back to the reign of King Charles II, as a beautiful governess discovers unexpected passion and learns a lesson in love....

  • Hunting Game

    Nancy Herndon

    Elena Jarvis is an officer in the Crimes Against Persons department of the Los Santos, Texas, police. She's got a sharp mind and a strong sense of justice. She's also got a condescending boss, a chauvinist partner, and an overprotective narc ex-husba...

  • Sixth Grade Star

    Constance Hiser

    Disgusted by her sister's perpetual beauty pageant successes, Jill feels triumphant when she lands the starring role in a school play, but the play is scheduled for the same night as another pageant. Reprint. C. ...

  • Under the Mistletoe

    Karla Hocker
    in

    'TIS THE SEASON... FOR LORDS AND LADIES... TO FALL IN LOVE! Holly boughs and mistletoe, Yuletide carols and holiday surprises bring together the beauties and their beaux of the ton for mischief most merry -- and romance most unexpected! In C...

  • The Grass Widow

    Teri Holbrook

    After a self-imposed exile in England, historian Gale Grayson has returned to her southern roots, only to find eccentric relatives--and murderous scandal alive and well in Statlers Cross, Georgia.... They'd been talking about Linnie Glynn Cane sin...

  • Unknown Regions

    Robert Holdstock

    The British Science Fiction Award-winning author of The Hollowing tells the story of a boy whose supernatural powers enable him to travel into the past, each trip bringing him closer to a terrifying fate. Original....

  • Pendragon's Banner

    Helen Hollick

    At age twenty-four, King Arthur has the kingdom he fought so hard for and a new young family. But keeping the throne of Britain -- and keeping his wife and three sons safe -- proves far from easy. Two enemies in particular threaten everything that is...

  • Mrs. Malory: Death of a Dean

    Hazel Holt

    Mrs. Sheila Malory and actor David Beaumont have been friends since their salad days. Less green today, David is scrambling to save his charming, much-mortgaged cottage located across from the famed Royal Shakespeare Theatre. When his brother, the ha...

  • Another New Year's Eve

    Phyllis Houseman

    New Year's Resolution #1: Get Over Sam Simple enough but not exactly easy for Eve Gray to deny her attraction to the devastatingly handsome -- and very married -- Sam Davidson. But before she even had a chance to try, midnight struck -- and so did...

  • Meant To Be

    Anna Hudson

    It's a jungle out there! So how does a single woman--fed up with the modern dating scene--meet a nice (translation: marriageable) man? Three audacious and inventive Texas career women get the inspired idea to advertise! They can't possibly know w...

  • Tall, Dark and Bad

    Charlotte Hughes

    He taught her how to break the rules -- and get away with it. He stormed her grandma's dinner party like a warrior claiming his prize, but when Cooper Garrett pressed Summer Pettigrew against the nearest wall and captured her mouth, she had no c...

  • Winter Pollen

    Ted Hughes

    Spanning a period of thirty years, a wide-ranging collection of writing about poetry and literature by the Poet Laureate of England includes reflections on the creative process and such figures as Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and Sylvia Plath....

  • Melissa

    Sara Hylton

    During World War II, as a young child, Ginny Lawrence welcomes two evacuated children to her small town, and later, after they are all grown up and the three are reunited, Ginny finds herself caught up in a love triangle....

  • Just an Ordinary Day

    Shirley Jackson

    “Jackson at her best: plumbing the extraordinary from the depths of mid-twentieth-century common. [Just an Ordinary Day] is a gift to a new generation.” -- San Francisco ChronicleAcclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and...

  • Gross-Hoppers

    David Jacobs

    When normal grasshoppers happen upon a batch of nuclear waste, their appetite for corn, and human flesh, loses control, and Kara Wilson and the other inhabitants of Huxley, Kansas, find themselves at the top of the menu. Original....

  • Single With Children

    Arlene James

    Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE SECRET Every time Adam Fortune gazed at his children, he knew they desperately needed motherly love. So he hired pretty Laura B...

  • Ebony Angels

    Faith Jaycox

    Although belief in divine messengers and guardians is certainly not limited to people of European heritage, angel books thus far have worn distinctly Euro-American faces. To help correct this imbalance, Ebony Angels presents prose excerpts and poetry...

  • What She Wants for Christmas

    Janice Kay Johnson

    All she wants under her Christmas tree is this man! Joe Hughes. He's gorgeous, strong, passionate...with the kind of intensely private quality that's a challenger to any self-respecting woman. Not that Teresa really needs another chal...

  • Wicked

    Susan Johnson

    Serena Blythe's plan to escape a life of servitude had gone terribly awry. So she took the only course left to her. She sneaked aboard a sleek yacht about to set sail -- and found herself face-to-face with a dangerous, sensual stranger. Beau St. ...

  • Maximum Velocity

    Bruce Jones

    Chris Neilson's life is thrown into disarray when a renegade CIA agent named Springer, who has let a terrorist named Godunov escape, claims Chris' wife as his own wife, but another CIA agent offers Chris a deal--if he can find and kill Godunov, she w...

  • Unnatural Acts

    Dylan Jones

    When Chicago homicide detective Lou Bek receives a midnight call from his schizophrenic brother about a murderer and a body, Detective Bek must decide if his brother killed someone or if a mysterious man whom his brother calls ""the Whistler"" ...

  • Strange Stains and Mysterious Smells

    Terry Jones

    The former member of Monty Python's Flying Circus presents a journal of fairy research by Quentin Cottingham that attempts to analyze the protoplasmic nature of fairy stains. 60,000 first printing....

  • Her Christmas Fantasy

    Penny Jordan

    Dreaming of a white Christmas After traveling the world with her parents, Lisa yearned for stability, roots and tradition. Marriage to solid, dependable Henry would help her achieve this ambition, but first she had to meet his parents! Christm...

  • Wizard for a Day

    Sherryl Jordan

    Borrowing a wizard's magic book to so that he and his friend Samantha can enjoy a little excitement, Denzel gets them stuck in medieval England, where they encounter everything from witch hunters to rat killers. Original....

  • Curl Up and Die

    Christine T. Jorgensen

    Among his female clients, Denver's fabulous DeAngelo is hot, both as a hairstylist and love god. And Stella the Stargazer's best friend, Meredith, is caught in the heat. Stella herself was cocooned in a seaweed wrap when DeAngelo placed his tired fee...

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Donna Julian

    LACY JAMES LOOKED IN THE MIRROR AND SAW A STRANGER. Was she the victim of a mysterious accident that left her robbed of memory and defenseless against those around her, including the man who claimed to be her husband? LACY JAMES LOOKED AT HER H...

  • Last Night in Rio

    Janice Kaiser

    In Rio, there were no rules Serena Bouchard had done it again. She'd blown into his life without warning and conned him with her irresistible charm. The fact was Michael Hamlin had never been able to deny his ex-wife anything. Serena's brother,...

  • A Surprise Ending

    Firdaus Kanga

  • A Wife for Christmas

    Judy Kaye; Pamela Bauer

    Charli McKenna runs a business that specializes in organizing all those annoying domestic details of life, from dinner parties to laundry. Christmas is her specialty! Max Taylor wants a full-time wife. A wife will also get him a seat on the boar...

  • A Matter of Honor

    Mandalyn Kaye

    Emmy Greene was too busy running her uncle's gem appraisal business to read the news stories of the "Diamond Hawk," a mysterious hero who stopped two robberies right outside of little Carding, Missouri. But she couldn't ignore Joss Br...

  • Betrayed by Love

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY'S JOINED A WEDDING PARTY IN WHICH SOMEONE HAS TAKEN A DEADLY VOW. Nancy's old friend Angela Chamberlain is getting married, and Nancy's come to her family's opulent Long Island estate to be a bridesmaid. But love and money can be a very volati...

  • Going Home

    Carolyn Keene

    Preparing to visit a recuperating Bess and to introduce their boyfriends to their families, Nancy and George are distracted when Jake discovers copies of counterfeit audiotapes that lead back to Stephanie's new boyfriend. Original....

  • The Secret of the Forgotten Cave

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy goes to Connecticut to visit George’s Aunt Elizabeth -- and lands right in the middle of a controversy. George’s aunt, among others, proposes a bicycle path instead of widening a dangerously winding country road, in order to save a rare spe...

  • Fly Away Home

    Judith Kelman

    Everyone on Rand's Island swore Eva Haskel was crazy. Ever since the well-publicized, unsolved kidnapping of her baby, she was a tragic figure on the tiny island off the Connecticut coast, wildly mourning the child who mysteriously vanished six long ...

  • Song in the Silence

    Elizabeth Kerner

    Lanen Kaelar has spent her life being told just how wrongheaded and foolish she is by her entire family. When Lanen's father dies, she chooses to leave her abusive relatives and search out the great dragons she has always dreamed of, though she knows...

  • Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

    Marian Keyes

    Lucy Sullivan is getting married...or is she? Lucy doesn't even have a boyfriend. (To be honest, she isn't that lucky in love.) But Mrs. Nolan-a local psychic-has read her tarot cards and predicted that Lucy will be walking down the aisle within ...

  • Almost Famous Daisy!

    Richard Kidd

    Entering the Famous Painting Contest, young artist Daisy explores the world of classic art for inspiration for what her subjects will be and eventually paints her own family members, in a humorous tribute to five great masters....

  • The Widowed Bride

    April Kihlstrom

    The Unsettling Stranger Lovely young Lady Annabelle Winsborough's honeymoon ended almost before it began when her noble bridegroom, Lord Richard Winsborough, was slain by a pair of masked highwaymen. But even this astonishing event was not as ...

  • Death Duty

    Stephen Kimball

    Kate Verdi is a U.S. State Department death officer, handling cases of Americans who die abroad. Her dreams of riding the fast track in the foreign service suddenly come true when she is promoted into the Circle, a select group of the department's be...

  • Upon A Midnight Clear

    Katherine Kingsley
    in

    UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR by Katherine Kingsley introduces us to a young blind woman who helps a desperate artist rekindle his genius as she brings the true spirit of the season to light....

  • Madeline

    Marie Kiraly

  • The Honorable Thief

    Martha Kirkland

    STOLEN HONOR Not only did Miss Honoria Danforth prefer to be called Honor by friends, she also thought of herself as the most honorable of young ladies. What then was she doing stealing money from a perfect stranger? Still more shocking, what was ...

  • Homecoming

    Sandra Kitt
    in

    Three novellas by African-American women writers explore the emotional and spiritual connections between sisters, bonds that are tested by the men in their lives and the drive to make it in the world. Original....

  • Gender Tales

    Judith Klinefeled

    A book of real world cases, this text introduces flashpoint issues related to gender equity in the schools. It immerses readers in the human dilemmas teachers face when they set out to provide equal opportunities for -- and to develop the abilities o...