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  • The Great American

    Alex Abella

    Involved in a romance with Laura, a young revolutionary, Ohio Marine William Morgan, stationed in pre-Castro Havana, becomes caught up in the turbulent struggle against Batista, only to be faced with disillusionment, loss, and betrayal in the afterma...

  • My Awesome Holiday Friendship Book

    Linda Williams Aber

    An activity guide packaged with stick-on earrings shows readers how to make friendship bracelets, holiday cards, hair ribbons, and more, while offering party ideas and suggestions on how to be a good friend. Original....

  • No Regrets // Sooner or Later

    Elizabeth Adler

    Sole heir to her family's once formidable fortune, Ellie Parrish Duveen divides her time between running her small restaurant and trying to take care of her beloved grandmother. The last thing she has time for is men.. "Dan Cassidy, formerly a New Yo...

  • Vows

    Rochelle Alers

    From This Day Forward... On a well-deserved vacation in exotic Mexico, sensible, practical accountant Vanessa Blanchard allows a maelstrom of desire to turn her world upside down. She's not sure why she dared to trust gorgeous, mysterious Joshua K...

  • Chelli, Be Mine!

    Allen

  • A Dance in Deep Water

    Doug Allyn

    When deep water diver Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell decides to repair her broken ties to her estranged young son, she finds herself immersed in an emotional journey during which she must face some disturbing facts about her mother's death...

  • Tomorrow's Treasures

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    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...

  • Eyes of Night

    Beth Amos

    A woman is missing. There is no evidence of foul play, but certain small, disturbing signs indicate that the young mother didn't leave of her own volition. The only answer to the mystery lies locked in the mind of her terrified, silent child. When ...

  • The Reaction

    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 let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in...

  • Alien Scream

    Chris Archer

    In the third book of this middle grade sci-fi series, a teen suddenly fluent in multiple languages discovers he is part alien, and someone wants him dead.   At Metier Junior High, Jack Raynes is usually the class clown, but lately he has one pro...

  • Imperfect Justice

    Catherine Arnold

    When criminal attorney Karen Perry-Mondori is hired by a big-time crime boss nabbed for drug possession, she assumes sheÆll once again be representing another client that she secretly feels is guilty. But he insists he was set up, and the incredible...

  • Father Christmas

    Judith Arnold

    SOMETIMES A MAN NEEDS HELP LEARNING TO BE A DAD...THAT'S WHAT THE DADDY SCHOOL IS ALL ABOUT. Cops, kids and Christmas. When John Russo showed up at Molly Saunder's Daddy School carrying a not very well concealed weapon, she thought the worst....

  • Paternal Instincts

    Elizabeth August

    MARRY ME... For Romance-weary Roxanne Dugan, another loveless marriage seemed out of the question. But desperate to win custody of a special little boy, she proposed a marriage in name only to a virtual stranger with surprisingly paternal instincts...

  • Savage Sun

    James Axler

    THE UNPROMISED LAND Time hasn't stopped after the apocalypse. After the long nuclear winter, a few continue the struggle for survival in the irradiated wastelands. Then, a new order emerges, with a directive to destroy whatever freedom remains in it...

  • Knight's Rebellion

    Suzanne Barclay

    'Twas Said That The Sommervilles Love Only Once.... Yet Alys Sommerville was no heir to this legacy of passion, for the Fates had sent her along a different road. One that led straight into the arms of Gowain FitzWarren, the leader of a desperate reb...

  • Amistad

    Joyce Annette Barnes

    "Any man would do the same to get back to his family." In 1839, a young man named Cinque leads a group of illegally enslaved Africans in a revolt against their captors aboard the slave ship Amistad. All they want is to be free, to return to their ...

  • Midnight Skies

    Crystal Barouche

    Finding that their attraction is mutual, Sela Clay, host of a top-rated nature show, and Jonathan Mokane, an African safari operator, embark on a romance together, only to discover that their newfound passion is threatened by a clash of cultures. Ori...

  • The Smoking Life

    Ilene Barth

    The Smoking Life has much to teach both smokers and their adversaries. Author Ilene Barth entertainingly explores the tobacco wars of the past and present, answering such questions as: Why did the stylish stuff tobacco up their noses? How bad is smok...

  • The Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Murder Case

    George Baxt

    While 1939 Atlanta is gearing up for the premiere of Gone With the Wind, Hollywood is experiencing a series of kidnappings targeted at star babies, with the dashing Clark Gable and his glamorous wife Carole Lombard on the case....

  • An Embarrassment of Corpses

    Alan Beechey

    Scotland Yard is hunting the worst kind of serial killer -- one with a sense of humor.When children's book author Oliver Swithin, reluctant creator of the notorious "Finsbury the Ferret," finds an old friend's body floating in a Trafalgar Square foun...

  • Every Dream Come True

    Barbara Benedict

    Desperate to save her family's plantation from financial ruin, Jude Latour hires bounty hunter Tucker Boone, a rascal with a reputation, to find her missing adoptive father and has her heart stolen in the process. EVERY DREAM COME TRUE Faced ...

  • Second Chance Dad

    Angela Benson

    Five months before Christmas, his old love gave to him...a child he never knew he had. But Dillon Bell had been betrayed once before by this woman; dare he believe Monique's son was truly his? Three months before Christmas, Dillon was embraci...

  • Rise of West Indian Cricket

    Frank Birbalsingh

  • Death Dines Out

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sis...

  • Broken Wings

    Terri Blackstock

    LIVES. LOVE. A GOOD MAN'S NAME. ARE THEY THE COST OF TELLING THE TRUTH? Among the 151 people who died in the crash of Flight 94 was Mick Hammon, the plane's captain and Erin Russell's close friend. Herself a pilot, Erin narrowly missed being on t...

  • When Lightning Strikes Twice

    Barbara Boswell

    AFTER HIS HEATED CROSS-EXAMINATION... Dubbed the "Freezer Queen" for her cool professional reserve, attorney Rachel Saxon effectively uses her glacial demeanor to ward off everyone--from clients to suitors. But even at her frostiest, she is no mat...

  • Teddy's Christmas: With Mini Christmas Cards

    Pete Bowman

    Having made by hand special Christmas cards for all of his woodland friends, Teddy is disappointed on Christmas day when he goes to deliver the cards and finds no one around, until he returns home to a special surprise....

  • The Gratitude of Kings

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Packaged for gift giving, a fantasy yarn by the author of The Mists of Avalon follows a centuries-old female wizard who must disguise herself as a male to survive the intrigue and black magic of the court....

  • The Sacking of El Dorado

    Max Brand

    An exciting collection of stories includes restored and uncut typescripts and magazine appearances filled with adventures, hardships, and the glory of the Old West, from one of the most renowned Western writers. Original....

  • Love Heals All

    Leslie Brannen

    As the sole veterinarian of Little Falls, Missouri, Cat Wills was devoted to caring for animals and racing horses. Ever the tomboy, she'd never thought about men much--until a handsome bachelor swept into town--and swept her off her feet... Flush ...

  • Face Off

    Emma Brookes

    Face Off by Emma BrookesWhen Suzanne Richards fled Omaha, she left behind her old life--and her work as a police consultant, forging psychic links with the most brutal serial killers. But she cannot run from her talent. And she cannot resist the plea...

  • Galilee Man

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Sleeping at the Magnolia

    Lisa G. Brown

    IF THE SHADOWY WALLS COULD TALK For 100 years, the Tennessee moon had shone down on the Magnolia Inn, the old hotel that Lainie Thorne's family has always owned. Nowadays the place is crumbling to nothing. Its walls hold only memories and secrets....

  • Look What the Stork Brought

    Dixie Browning

    Instant Father: former detective Joe Dana had a weakness for beautiful women - not pudgy babies! Earth Mother: Sophie Bayard knew all about natural childbirth - she just didn't expect a handsome stranger to practically deliver her baby in a vegetab...

  • Horse Guest

    Bonnie Bryant

    Pine Hollow is boarding some horses from a neighboring stable. One of the horses has special problems that require help from The Saddle Club. But first they have to figure out how to get the horse to tell them what's wrong.Meanwhile, Stevie's grandmo...

  • A Magnificent Match

    Gayle Buck

    Propriety or Pleasure It was a scandal! Although Megan O'Connell was quite beautiful and already nineteen, she would soon be on the shelf. Living a lonely life in rural Ireland was a far cry indeed from the exciting prospects of a London Season. T...

  • The Star of India

    Carole Bugge

    Holmes and Watson find themselves caught up in a complex chess board of a problem, involving a clandestine love affair and the disappearance of a priceless sapphire. Professor James Moriarty is back to tease and torment, leading the duo on a cha...

  • The Darkness of God

    Chris Bunch

    Joshua Wolfe has four sworn enemies: the Chitet cult, a power-mad baron, the Federation government, and the alien “virus” that is slowly invading the known universe.And he has one hope: the Ur-Lumina, the legendary power-enhancing crystal of the ...

  • Aftermath

    Levar Burton

    Now LeVar Burton achieves new renown in his widely acclaimed first novel--a powerful, thrilling adventure of human courage in a devastated, transformed America....

  • Wait For Me

    Stella Cameron

    A Forgotten Fiancee Gray Falconer went to the West Indies for four years -- not once did he write. When he strides back, without any explanation, and confident that she'll "forgive and forget," it's Minerva's turn to test his patience. An Unfor...

  • Cindy's Honor

    Joanna Campbell

    Honor Bright, one of Cindy Mclean's Favorite horses, is old enough for her first racing season! Cindy can't wait to be her jockey. So Cindy is terribly upset when she has an accident during a training session and the doctor says she wont be able to r...

  • Black Mist

    Orson Scott Card

    Japan has long been one of the key players in business, technology, and culture...and now some of today's finest writers have created these all-new novellas envisioning how its influence will change the world! Calling on their expert knowledge of Jap...

  • So Speaks the Heart

    Joyce Carlow

    LOVERS FOR A MOMENT IN TIME... Amid the exotic wonders of the Byzantine empire in 523 A.D., the beautiful healer Leandra is set apart. Her dreams foretell the future and see the truth. And the truth she sees about Alexander, a dashing charioteer, is...

  • Doug's Secret Christmas

    Jan Carr

    Featuring the animated character created by Jim Jinkins and Joe Aaron, a Christmas story finds Doug making solo holiday plans when the impending birth of his baby sister takes up all of his parents' time....

  • Their Only Child

    Carla Cassidy

    For Christmas, she wanted her family back For single mom Theresa Mathews, the Christmas holidays were extra special because of her son. And because in him she still held part of Sullivan -- the man she'd once loved. But now their child was mis...

  • Temple's Prize

    Linda Castle

    There Was More At Stake Here Than Money... Temple Parish knew it the minute Constance Cadwallender set foot in Montana. If he were saddled with 'little Connie,' how could he concentrate on winning the scientific prize that would make his ...

  • Love Happens

    Elizabeth Chandler

    Although Jeff Danzig and Quinn Eaton come from entirely different worlds, they look so much alike that people at Maplecrest Prep think they're brothers. So when Quinn's parents ask him to cancel his ski trip to spend winter break with some old family...

  • The Drifter's Gift

    Lauryn Chandler

    Star light, star bright, first man I see tonight... When a sexy drifter showed up at Danielle Harmon's farm, the struggling single mom suddenly dreamed of riding off into the sunset with this ruggedly handsome man. But though Sam Mclean was as c...

  • The Dreaming Tree

    C.J. Cherryh

    The classic fantasy duology, combining The Dreamstone and The Tree of Swords and Jewels in an omnibus for the first timeIt was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which befo...

  • The Homecoming

    Marion Chesney

    WILL THE LAST BEVERLEY DAUGHTER MARRY FOR MANNERLING? Lizzie is the sixth and youngest daughter of the late Sir Beverley, the patriarch who gambled away their beloved estate, Mannerling. Each of Lizzie's sisters had been entrusted by their ambitio...

  • The Golden One

    Deborah Chester

    Here is an epic set in a far distant universe--a saga of faraway planets and of races strange and more fantastic than any ever seen on our world. Yet their struggles are universal: for justice, for freedom, for peace. Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles is ...

  • The Surprise Christmas Bride

    Maureen Child

    ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS... Finding herself in bed with her childhood love after being jilted at the altar by another man wasn't exactly Casey Oakes's idea of a merry Christmas. But she knew she wouldn't have wanted to spend her &...

  • Never Too Late for Christmas

    Jane McBride Choate

    Brother and sister, Drew and Ashley Hunter seem to belong to completely different families. Drew is a well-respected newspaper reporter, and Ashley is a punk teen on the wrong track. After a session with Lauren Roberts, owner of Imaginations, a makeo...

  • Snowboard Maverick

    Matt Christopher

    Can a skateboard pro conquer the slopes? Dennis O'Malley is the best skateboarder in town. Unfortunately, he has to shelve his board for more than half the year, when the streets are covered with snow. Then a new sport emerges on the scene, one ...

  • Desire

    Hugo Claus

    United in their considerable desire for drink and cards, Jake, an overweight, slow-witted yet gentle man, and dark, brooding Michel have become fixtures at The Unicorn, a local Belgian watering hole. Suddenly aware that their wants have outgrown the ...

  • Shopping

    Jean Claverie

  • Nick of Time

    Casey Claybourne

    London, 1997. Detective Nick DaCosta had lost nearly everything. His partner had been in a coma for almost a month. His badge was taken away. It seemed the only thing left was an old photo kept in his wallet, a picture of a paradise he's never seen. ...

  • What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day

    Pearl Cleage

    This New York Times"bestselling novel is “lively, topical, and fantasy filled. Watch out, Terry McMillian. Cleage is on your tail” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers an...

  • Kept By a Countess

    Pat Cody

    When the Scottish terrier first fell into Meriel Welwyn's hands, the Countess knew she'd found a diamond in the ruff. But even more perfect was the pooch's owner, the Earl of Hadham. Tall, dark and handsome, Douglas Jonys had a smile that set Meriel'...

  • Circus F.R.E.A.K.S.

    M.T. Coffin

    Charlie and Jeanna think it is great fun to dress up as freaks for the school circus play, and when the circus comes to town, they rush down to meet some real circus freaks, but when they become a part of the F.R.E.A.K. show, they find themselves in ...

  • Under the Mistletoe

    Elaine Coffman
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    When widow Holly Noel Winter, along with a nanny, housekeeper, six little girls and one baby boy, moves next door to resident scrooge Dr. Stan Levine, it's time for a war between the sexes. Unless Christmas brings peace on earth and a time for even a...

  • Heather's Change of Heart

    Zoe Cooper

    Heather has met the man of her dreams, but when her future mother-in-law completely takes over the wedding plans and her fiance+a7 Reggie refuses to stop flirting with other women, Heather starts to have second thoughts about her dream come true. Ori...

  • Loving a Lowly Stranger

    Christina Cordaire

    Instead of claiming the coal mines he inherited, Adrian Ashe keeps his identity a secret. For bitter reasons of his own, he takes a job in the mines, becoming a champion of the workers. As Adrian's deception grows, Lady Elise Danforth finds herself i...

  • MacBeth

    Bruce Coville

    When Macbeth encounters the witches upon a misty heath, he is intrigued by their predictions of royalty and fame. Urged on by his ambitious wife and his own greed, Macbeth is determined to become King of Scotland. But a rebellion is brewing....

  • Is Your Teacher an Alien?

    Bruce Coville

    Susan, Peter, and Duncan return in an adventure that invites readers to help the trio conduct their alien investigations through Mad Lib-style activities that include crosswords, secret messages, word searches, alien trivia, and more. Original....

  • R Is for Radish!

    Molly Coxe

    Radish is a wRiter, a Rapper, a jump-Roper, and a Raspberry pie eater. She is also a hysterically funny problem solver, à la Ramona Quimby. With wit, humor, and a style all her own, Molly Coxe has created an alluring, alliterative story!  ...

  • Christmas Pie

    Emma Craig

    Pie in the Sky Unlike most girls her age, Polly MacNamara did not go out with friends to parties or on sleigh rides with charming beaux. She stayed home to take care of her ailing mother and only dreamed of a world of boundless riches and endless fu...

  • Hot Pursuit

    Jordan Cray

    Ran finds himself wanted by both the FBI and a cyber terrorist group when he starts bragging about his abilities to hack into the United States Defense Department's highest security computers. Original....

  • One Christmas Knight

    Kathleen Creighton

    FA LA LA LA... LABOR! Okay, maybe driving solo cross-country in her eighth month wasn't the most brilliant idea Mirabella Waskowitz had ever had. And maybe she should have turned back when she heard the blizzard warnings. But the feisty mom-to-be ce...

  • Alien Resurrection

    A.C. Crispin

    At the farthest reaches of the solar system, aboard orbiting space station Auriga, the unthinkable has happened. Ripley awakes. Her last memory is of her fiery death on the prison colony Fiorina 361. And yet she is alive. Her questions grow as ...

  • Steel Rose

    Kara Dalkey

    FAERIE TALES DO COME TRUE... Once upon a time, performance artist T.J. Kaminski would have done anything to be a success. Then she discovered the way to jumpstart her career: by conjuring something up in a secret corner of Pittsburgh's Schenley Park...

  • Marley and Her Scrooge

    Emily Dalton

    Talk about the Christmas spirit! When Carl Merrick fell asleep at his desk on Christmas Eve, his business partner made an unexpected appearance in his dreams -- in baby-doll pj's and a come-hither grin! Now he was looking at Marley Jacobs in a...

  • Undercover Christmas

    B.J. Daniels

    She Claimed Her Baby Was His Yet Chase Calloway swore he'd never met the mysterious pregnant woman who appeared at his family's ranch. True, an accident had blocked parts of his memory, but he wouldn't have forgotten the desire that flared betwee...

  • Yuletide Bride

    Rebecca Daniels

    HE HAD GIVEN HER LIFE'S MOST PRECIOUS GIFT... Marcy Fitzgerald could never forgive Cruz Martinez for leaving her. Yet she couldn't forget him, either. The proof of their long-ago love lived on in her cherished child. A child who was now in danger....

  • Santa's Special Delivery

    Val Daniels

    Lori found the best Christmas present she could ever hope for lying on her doorstep -- an adorable baby girl! And as Lori couldn't have children of her own, the question was, would she be able to keep little Kris? She sought advice from her lawye...

  • Final Orbit

    S.V. Date

    Space program veteran Santy Santich suspects a NASA cover-up when an astronaut dies horribly on a routine space shuttle flight, but his place on the next shuttle is in jeopardy, and the countdown to liftoff with a killer has already begun. Original....

  • Star Trek: New Frontier

    Peter David

    Recommended by Jean-Luc Picard, Captain Mackenzie Calhoun takes command of the U.S.S. Excalibur, manned by a crew that includes members from Star Trek: The Next Generation, for a daring voyage....

  • The Cop and the Cradle

    Suzannah Davis

    ANYTHING FOR FAMILY Jake Lattimer couldn't believe that his newly discovered twin brother had dumped a wacky, feisty woman on his doorstep for safekeeping! From her snooping and unearthing heirloom cradles to her subtle sexiness, she was driving t...

  • Mistletoe Mischief

    Alyssa Dean

    A Christmas Elf? It happened to Josh Larkland every year. He'd be happily running his multimillion-dollar company, when the whole world would just go...nuts. It meant only one thing...Christmas! Not that Josh really minded Christmas -- h...

  • Havana Strike

    Jim DeFelice

    When Fidel Castro dies, his children fight for supreme reign but are deterred by guerilla rebels and the U.S. military, which offers technologically advanced tools to restore stability, until it is discoverd that Castro left behind a secret that coul...

  • Mama Stalks the Past

    Nora Deloach

    DEADLY LEGACY When my mama receives an angry visit from Nat Mixon, she learns some startling news. Nat's mother and Mama's neighbor, spiteful recluse Hannah Mixon, has just died and left a large parcel of land to Mama! Nat is convinced Mama stole ...

  • Easy

    Phillip Depoy

    CHECK OUT THE MAJESTIC DINER AT 3 A.M. LOOK FOR A MAN NAMED FLAP AND A WOMAN NAMED DALLIANCE... Flap Tucker isn't like other private eyes. He's a mystic, a finder of lost things, a veteran of a foreign war who lives on the wrong side of town and ...

  • A Gift of Love

    Jude Deveraux

    Nothing is more precious than the gift of love. In this dazzling new collection, two leading ladies of romance, New York Times bestsellers Judith McNaught and Jude Deveraux, along with the rising stars Kimberly Cates, Andrea Kane, and Judith O'Brien,...

  • Hunter in Disguise

    Kathy DiSanto

    A MYSTERIOUS HUNK WHOSE LETHAL SMILE PROMISED "DANGER AHEAD..." Candy Johnson was convinced the new gym teacher had more on his mind than volleyball! Sure, George Price had a face and body to die for, but what was a man with his muscles and moves ...

  • Abuela Mobile

    Arthur Dorros

  • Firestorm

    Keith Douglass

    The first mission is simple. Lieutenant Blake Murdock and his SEALs must infiltrate a Chinese beach house and acquire top secret information from a CIA informant. During the raid, the spook goes belly-up, but the package is delivered. Mission accompl...

  • Isaac Asimov's Christmas

    Gardner Dozois

    A collection of stories from the pages of Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about how Christmas might look like centuries in the future, in alien lands, and the cold vastness of space features works by Connie Willis,,, Michael Swanwick,...

  • Red Queen

    Dirk Draulens

    In a world in which men are thought to be no longer needed for reproduction, female warriors hunt down the only man to survive their genetic weapon, unaware that he is in fact necessary to keep the gene pool safe from parasites. A first novel....

  • A Distant Hero

    Emma Drummond

  • Santa's Little Helper

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Christmas Magic Sabrina's down in the dumps. Everyone else has the holiday spirit...even Libby Chessler! Sabrina's aunts, Hilda and Zelda, are trying to give her a happy holiday, but their best spells fall flat. And Harvey seems so busy and secret...

  • The Marriage Pact

    Elizabeth Duke

    Bride for hire? Money couldn't buy love, but would it buy Adam Tate a wife? Claire needed a plane ticket home, and money to help her sister. Adam promised to help -- on the condition that Claire became his wife and mother to his two-year-old s...

  • Shelter from the Storm

    Tony Dunbar

    In Shelter from the Storm, Dunbar once again brings us to the crazy and colorful city of New Orleans. This time it's Mardi Gras--and a violent storm drenches the city in chaos. As the water level rises, a dangerous gang of marooned bank robbers becom...

  • The Holland Suggestions

    John Dunning

    Jim Ryan, the single father of a teenage girl, has a lot to live for. But something vital is missing from his life--a lost piece of his past, which haunts his dreams and robs him of sleep. When an anonymous delivery lands on his desk--a mysterious ph...

  • The Best Little Joeville Christmas

    Anne Eames

    THE LITTLEST MONTANA MALONE... Jenny was pregnant! And the father-to-be had taken off for the hills - before she could tell him the news. Why had Shane Malone suddenly hightailed it off the Malone ranch? After their night of passion and all that h...

  • Who's Afraid of the Mistletoe?

    Margot Early

    Who's afraid of the mistletoe? Sarah Calder, that's who. Why is she afraid? She can't really say... The answer is that Christmas means family, emotion, remembering the past. And kissing can mean the same things... But now Sarah nee...

  • Oklahoma Outlaw // Wanted! Belle Starr!

    J.T. Edson

    In the violent and lawless days following the Civil War many infamous outlaws cut a bloody swathe across the West...John Wesley Hardin, Bad Bill Longley, Sam Bass, Frank and Jesse James, the Daltons...all rode and shot their way to notoriety....
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  • Christmas Magic

    Andrea Edwards

    THE PETS WHO SAVED CHRISTMAS "What kind of cat burglar brings her kitties?" groused tough state policeman Mike Burnette. Then Mike learned that his irrepressible intruder was actually Casey Crawford, his new -- unwelcome -- housemate...f...

  • Axiomatic

    Greg Egan

    A collection of science fiction stories that looks at the possible future includes stories of genetically altered dolphins that speak in limericks and a software program that allows users to design their own child...

  • Tender Touch

    Lynn Emery

    Concentrating on her high-profile career rather than her broken heart, Jade meets Damon, wary of women after his wife's infidelity, and together they must try to clear Jade's name from involvement in a tabloid scandal and begin to build trust again. ...

  • Perilous Relations

    Carole Epstein

  • Upon a Midnight Clear

    Lynn Erickson

    Bless the beasts and the children...especially at Christmas! After nearly a hundred years, there are wolves in Colorado again. And Brigitte Hartman, a field biologist working with the Fish and Wildlife Service, is one of the people responsible. Th...

  • Longarm and the Voodoo Queen

    Tabor Evans

    When half of a deputy federal marshal's body is pulled from a New Orleans swamp, Longarm is sent to investigate and discovers that the truth about the case may lie in the hands of a mysterious voodoo-practicing Cajun beauty named Claudette. Original....

  • Love's Reward

    Jean R. Ewing

    An Elopement to Danger Fitzroy Mountfitchet, Viscount Tarrant, was used to getting his brother Quentin out of scrapes. But this was outside of enough! Quentin had eloped with no less than the Lady Joanna Acton, an earl's daughter whose older b...

  • The Ordained

    Terence Faherty

    LOST IN RAPTURE Ex-seminarian Owen Keane, a man still wandering in the circle of his own past, returns to Indiana to attend the parole hearing of a killer he helped convict. Here, in the isolated town of Rapture, Owen is drawn into a mystery with ...

  • Marriage a la Mode

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    A Scandal Over Love The ton was in an uproar! The King was bringing divorce proceedings against the Queen. And Lady Melody Bainbridge was doing the same against the cruel lord she had wed a few years before. Now forced to hide her face behind the ...

  • Death Fires

    Ron Faust

    In this shocking thriller set in Baja California, a movie cast and crew on location becomes the setting for murder and depravity. The Director: Visionary and perverse, he coaxes and prods his cast and crew as he tries to bend them to his will in the...

  • The Haunted Spaceship

    Brad Ferguson

    Accused of seeing things until another cadet also witnesses the ghostly image, Geordi La Forge meets the ghost of their spaceship's former captain, who bears an important message as the ship nears an asteroid belt. Original....

  • Desperately Seeking Twin...

    Marie Ferrarella

    A small, faded photograph had turned Blair Stephens' world upside down. She'd suddenly learned she was adopted -- and that, somewhere, she had a twin sister who was her spitting image! With nowhere else to turn, she hired the services of hunky Devin ...

  • The Baby Came C.O.D.

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE BABY IN HIS IN-BOX Workaholic Evan Quartermain had no time for love. So when someone left a baby on his secretary's desk, claiming it was his, he was in shock. What did he know about babies? Single mother Claire Walker could see her handso...

  • Dangerous Waters

    Amy J. Fetzer

    THE DRAMATIC STORY OF A BEAUTIFUL, MODERN-DAY BOUNTY HUNTER IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE, AND HER DESTINY, IN THE ARMS OF A LAWMAN OF THE OLD WEST. Twentieth-century bounty hunter Victoria Mason plunges through a waterfall after a wanted man and finds her...

  • Up Close and Personal!

    Sandra Field

    A gorgeous stranger... It was simply by chance that Morgan Cassidy had stumbled across Riley Hanrahan -- lying injured in the desert after being shot. She couldn't leave him there -- but after three days in his company, Morgan was beginning to...

  • Father and Child Reunion

    Christine Flynn

    A mother and child are held hostage .... A father searches frantically for clues .... Rio Redtree had never recovered from his teenage sweetheart's betrayal. Eve Stuart had left him without a word of explanation, and though six years had passed...

  • Action Stations

    William R. Forstchen

    THEY PLANNED ON A NICE WAR... There had been a century of peace, and the politicians of Earth and its colonies were running on platforms of cutting "wasteful" military spending--all while Earth's military tried to keep aging and obsolete ships fly...

  • Bride Required

    Alison Fraser

    The price of a bride... Baxter Ross had asked Dee to become his wife of convenience in return for a very large sum of money. Dee decided she had nothing to lose, and agreed to go ahead with the wedding. But why did such a good-looking man need ...

  • In the Name of a Killer

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    Kate Hoffmann

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    Ken Hood

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    Susan Howatch

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    Jerrie Hurd

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    Muriel Jensen

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    Brenda Joyce

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    Jonathan Kellerman

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    Kathryn Kent

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    Katharine Kerr

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    Garry Kilworth

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    Katharine Kincaid

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    Martha Kirkland

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    Edward I. Koch

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    Michael Kosser

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    Ellen Krieger

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    Nancy Krulik

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    Nancy Krulik

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    Dinah Kung

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    Louis L'Amour

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    Mercedes Lackey

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    Linda Ladd

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    M.D. Lake

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    Jodie Larsen

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    Kirby Larson

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    Paul Lauter

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