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New Books List: 389 titles

  • A Family at Last

    Carolyne Aarsen

    HEAVEN HELP HER... Cory Luciuk couldn't forget her painful childhood -- or forgive Matthew McKnight for his role in it. Now the man who stood for everything she loathed was back in her life, claiming to hold the key to Cory's future -- and...

  • Final Acts

    Alex Abella

    When the decapitated bodies of young women appear along the California coast, Morell, hero of The Killing of the Saints and Dead of Night, returns to investigate what appear to be cult-related murders. After working for years as one of Los Angeles's ...

  • The Marriage Contract

    Anna Adams

    There's no place like home, but even ruby slippers won't get Clair Atherton there. For Clair, home is Fairlove, Virginia, and a Federal Era house built by her ancestors. Although the house still stands, it might as well be over the rainbow, because...

  • A Cat With the Blues

    Lydia Adamson

    Alice Nestleton is cat-sitting a beautiful Russian Blue--who also happens to be the center of a raging custody battle. Sidney and Beatrice Woburn are fighting over Frenchy, and just about everything else...so Alice, at the request of the lawyers, is ...

  • Second Chance

    Rochelle Alers
    in

    Welcome to Leo's -- Where Anything Can Happen A proper lady lets loose on Open Mike Night -- and opens her heart to a different kind, of man.. A Texas Ranger and a candy shop owner have a blind date--with a deliciously unexpected outcome... ...

  • The Last Love Letter

    Victoria Alexander
    in

    When their midnight elopement is foiled, a handsome young earl and his dazzling debutante swear to love each other forever -- no matter what. Now it's midnight once again...can their love be rekindled with one perfect kiss?...

  • Murder on the Mauretania

    Conrad Allen

    DEATH ON THE HIGH SEAS Only a few short months after crossing the Atlantic aboard the Lusitania, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield are back in Liverpool to embark on the first voyage of the Mauretania. Again working undercover as priva...

  • Miracle of Love

    Gloria Alvarez

    More than a decade ago, Elena Santiago broke her engagement to David Moncloa, certain she couldn't be a police officer's wife. Now a widowed single mother, she's back in her hometown--and David's arms. Despite all their years apart, nothing has chang...

  • A Capeside Christmas

    C.J. Anders

    Stress Much? Two days into rehearsal, the director of the Capeside Christmas Winter Follies drops out, so Dawson volunteers to direct the town show. But he's finding out the hard way it's easier to direct a small cast film than a giant Christmas ...

  • A Mother By Nature

    Caroline Anderson

    A family worth fighting for At last--a man to share her life with, have kids with. And Adam Bradbury, the new pediatric surgeon, seemed to feel the same. He was a devoted father with a burning desire to seek sanctuary in Anna's arms. Their pass...

  • To Cut a Long Story Short

    Jeffrey Archer

    A masterful collection of fourteen riveting tales of elaborate confidence tricks, political chicanery, immoral behavior, and dangerously illicit affairs, rendered with the breathtaking narrative twists that have become the Jeffrey Archer hallmark. ...

  • Senses

    Neil Ardley

  • Air

    Neil Ardley

  • By Marriage Divided

    Lindsay Armstrong

    The heiress bride and her rough, tough husband... Angus Keir, a self-made millionaire, considers Domenica to be a social butterfly. Her privileged background is in direct contrast to his own. But their fortunes are reversed when he saves her famil...

  • The Quantum Rose

    Catherine Asaro

    Kamoj Argali is the young ruler of an impoverished province on a backward planet. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of a prosperous province. But before Argali and Ironbridge are we...

  • Phule Me Twice

    Robert Asprin

    YOU CAN'T MISTAKE JUST ANYONE FOR A PHULE. When the, planet Zenobia is invaded, Captain Willard Phule is made their military advisor. The first priority for Phule's Company: staying out from underfoot of the peaceful, dinosaurlike Zenobians... ...

  • Dead Run

    Leo Atkins

    He's Connor Gibbs, P.I. He's got a shady past--and a questionable future. But when it comes to solving crimes, he's killer... Sometimes you just know when something awful's about to go down. Call it instinct. Benella Sweet does. The second she lai...

  • Canyon Song

    Gwyneth Atlee

    FROM THE ASHES OF BITTER TRAGEDY... Skilled in the Mexican healing art of curanderismo, Anna Bennett lives a solitary life in the canyons of Arizona. But when a badly injured man is left to die at her doorstep, she is stunned to recognize Quinn Ry...

  • Zero City

    James Axler

    A FUTURE CONDEMNED The nuclear Armageddon of 2001 put the world on an odyssey of savage rebirth. Now, little more than a hundred years after the blast, the quest for power is viciously embraced by America's new masters, barons commanding fortresses ...

  • Temporary Husband

    Patricia K. Azeltine

    All Stacey Williams wants to do is make her parents happy. Unfortunately, marriage seems to be the only answer. But as a journalist she doesn't have time to date--much less get married. Instead, she concocts a plan to place a personal ad for a tempor...

  • Ferret Fun

    Ben M. Baglio

    Mandy Hope loves animals. She knows all about them -- both her parents are vets! Mandy is always ready to help out her friends with their pet problems. ANIMAL ARK IS FULL OF ANIMALS AND SURPRISES. Freddie, a stray ferret, is found under the shed ...

  • The Veiled Bride

    Elizabeth Bailey

    Wanted: One Wife Why does Anton, Lord Raith, need to advertise for a wife? As she walks down the marriage aisle toward this stranger, Rosina Charlton feels her pulse race at the very question. But the truth is revealed as her new husband turns ...

  • The City of Ravens

    Richard Baker
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Ravens Bluff The City of Ravens For the first time, Jack Ravenwild's designs exceed his talents. His ambitions plunge him into the middle of a plot to destroy the city, a noble quest to find a lost hoard, and a conspiracy to seize the reins of ...

  • Chalk's Woman

    David Ballantine

    David Ballantine's debut novel Chalk's Woman, is a story about freedom, liberation, and love. Set in the violent backdrop of the waning months of the Civil War, Chalk's Woman addresses violence and redemption as seen through the eyes of a girl maturi...

  • Expecting the Boss's Baby

    Leanne Banks

    "YOU'RE NO LONGER MY ASSISTANT. YOU'RE GOING TO BE MY WIFE!" CEO Michael Hawkins had made an executive decision. After making his secretary, Kate Adams, pregnant in an unexpected night of passion, Michael asked for her hand. Kate didn't want to be...

  • His Special Delivery

    Belinda Barnes

    On the side of the road, about to give birth, Sara Jamison was in despair -- until he stopped by. A vision in a tux, with rough but tender hands, a slow drawl and enough confidence to calm her anxious mind, Sara couldn't do anything but trust Cal Tuc...

  • Candle

    John Barnes

    Currie Culver is about fifty-five years old, in good health, living in a comfortable retirement in the Rockies with his wife. In the wake of the Meme Wars that swept the planet two generations before, Currie, his wife, and almost everyone on Earth ha...

  • Fall From Grace

    Jill Barnett
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    National bestselling author JILL BARNETT decrees all is fair in love-when a rollicking Highland clan war leads an impetuous lass to kidnap the wrong man!...

  • Hearts at Risk

    Suzanne Barrett

    A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS Tom McKittrick has had it with women. Pushed out of his own start-up company by a domineering "modern" female, he's ready to lick his wounds in private at the rural family estate he's inherited. But he isn't prepared...

  • After Dark

    Beverly Barton

    WHEN A SHOCKING SCANDAL EXPOSES SOUTHERN SECRETS... As the blazing heat of summer gives way to sultry September, a shroud of suspicion settles over Noble's Crossing, a sleepy Alabama town. Nothing is as it seems--and never will be again. Lane Noble G...

  • If Whispers Call

    Don Bassingthwaite

    As a young woman lies in a deep and inexplicable coma in a Chicago hospital, investigators from the Hoffman Institute search for answers, finding a clue in a small cemetery, abandoned for nearly four decades, that holds the key to secrets from beyond...

  • Secrets From Beyond

    David Benjamin

  • Expectant Bride-To-Be

    Nikki Benjamin

    Single Mother-To-Be? Abby Summers, proud, pregnant...alone The Insistent Father: Handsome hometown hero Jack Randall The Pretend Engagement: If Jack could get Abby to pose as his fiancee, surely it would only be a short step to the altar. Kind ...

  • Flirt in the Mirror

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    When does a dream become a nightmare? Find out in Mirror Image as a teenage girl finds a glittering meteorite, places it under her pillow, and awakens to discover that her greatest wish has come true....

    Mirro...

  • Monahan's Gamble

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    THE LOVE BET? The bettor: Sexy Sean Monahan. At stake: dating beautiful -- if slightly flaky -- Autumn Pulaski, the new girl in town, for more than her prescribed four weeks. If he could only get her to go out with him for eight weeks, then she'd ...

  • Path of Glory

    Randall N. Bills

    NEW ALLIES. OLDER ENEMIES. For MechWarrior Zane, allegiance to the Nova Cat Clan comes above all else. So when he sees his clan disgraced, cast out, and suddenly allied with the hated Inner Sphere, Zane's only desire is to see the Nova Cats return...

  • The Matchmaker

    Pam Binder
    in

    PAM BINDER flings a pretty Edinburgh baker and a computer-games designer into an adventure of passion and intrigue-inside the sixteenth-century palace of Mary, Queen of Scots....

  • The Keys to Avalon: The True Location of Arthur's Kingdom Revealed

    Steve Blake

    Avalon exists. It is a real place with geographical boundaries and a turbulent history. It is the treasure house of Arthurian legend, and the true birthplace of Arthur. It is the secret location in which the identity of an entire nation has lain buri...

  • Irresistible You

    Barbara Boswell

    "I plan on staying single and carefree to the end of time." -- Luke Minteer, bachelor juror How could Luke Minteer be picked for a jury? And he was...glad? Maybe his happiness had to do with the sexy, single, nine months pregnant woman who sat be...

  • Scion's Lady

    Rebecca Bradley

    Tig never wanted to be a hero. And after using the powers of the magical artifact known as the Lady in Gil to destroy the barbarous Sherkin Empire, he is quite willing to return to his quiet and peaceful life as a scholar... Unfortunately for Tig,...

  • His Stolen Bride

    Shelley Bradley

    Return to an age of danger and chivalry, when three daring knights -- fostered together since boyhood in the same warrior tradition -- face their greatest challenge... winning the hearts of the women they love. CAPTIVES OF LOVE Wrongly accuse...

  • The Romantics

    Peter Brandvold

    The Romantics is a thrilling adventure shot through with danger and heroism, with greed and jealousy, and with love and honor.The daughter of a Hispanic landowner, Marina Clark has been given a map that purports to lead the way to a hidden cache of S...

  • Big Bed for Me

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Baby Christmas

    Pamela Browning

    The year the Stork played Santa -- and Cupid -- for Christmas! Alone on Christmas Eve, Rachel Hirsch was astounded to find a cooing newborn outside her apartment door. With social services closed for the holiday, she had to take the baby home with h...

  • Setting the Pace

    Bonnie Bryant

    Carole Hanson never knew that falling in love could be so easy--as easy as falling off a horse! Cam may be setting the pace, but Carole's right in step, and now she wants everyone to share her happiness. Life just couldn't get any better, could it?

  • Belle's Beau

    Gayle Buck

    A Confusing Courtship Raised in seclusion in the country, Miss Annabelle Weatherstone is making her first foray into the gaiety of the London Season -- taking the place of her twin sister, Cassandra, who had lived with their aunt and uncle in Bath...

  • To Ruin a Queen

    Fiona Buckley

    The fourth novel in the fascinating series featuring Ursula Blanchard, loyal subject of Queen Elizabeth I and sleuth extraordinaire, finds our heroine torn between love and duty as she investigates treason of the highest order. Desperately missing...

  • Love's Funny That Way

    Pamela Burford

    Four high school friends and a pact -- every girl gets her ideal man by thirty or be prepared for matchmaking! The Bride-To-Be: Raven Muldoon, therapist by vocation and aspiring stand-up comic by desire, realizes her friends in the Wedding Ring ha...

  • One Farm

    Melissa Blackwell Burke

  • The Christmas Captive

    Patricia Cabot
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    PATRICIA CABOT leads a beautiful runaway to her kindred spirit -- a Scottish lord who sweeps her away to the rugged shores of the Isle of Skye....

  • My Champion

    Glynnis Campbell

    The Knights of de Ware: Wealthy and powerful, the de Wares are one of the most respected noble families in England. The heirs to the de Ware legacy -- Duncan, Holden, and Garth -- are true warriors...and reckless lovers... Duncan de Ware has swor...

  • Perfect Image

    Joanna Campbell

    Will Melanie save Image? Image is wild--perhaps too wild to train for the track. But she' s fast, and Melanie Graham wants nothing more than to be her jockey. If only Image's owner and trainer would let her work with the temperamental filly. Melani...

  • The Tin Collectors

    Stephen J. Cannell

    IT TOOK ONE MOMENT TO CHANGE HIS LIFE It begins with a call in the middle of the night from a woman at the mercy of her abusive husband. It ends with a split-second decision for LAPD detective Shane Scully. But the man Scully brings down is also his...

  • Inside a Zoo in the City

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

  • A Daughter's Place

    C.J. Carmichael

    Home is where the farm is Libby Bateson was seventeen and pregnant when her father kicker her off the farm. She never intended to go back. But now she and her daughter need a place to stay. So for the few months it'll take to get her life together...

  • Fortune's Treasure

    Carol Carson

    Nora-Leigh Dillon wants excitement. The schoolteacher of Steamboat Bend has already resolved herself to being a spinster, but despite that, she's vowed the summer of 1886 will be one to remember. She'll find herself some lost gold, a hidden t...

  • Eternity's End

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    THE STARSHIP LOST IN ETERNITY In the century since the devastating War of a Thousand Suns, humanity has stagnated, staying in the cocoon of the Centrist Worlds while the rapacious pirates of Galen Space prey on ships that venture too far into the ...

  • Scooter Mania

    Jeremy Case

  • Strangers When We Married

    Carla Cassidy

    THE AGENT: Seth Greene, determined operative -- and estranged husband and father. THE MISSION: Infiltrate his ex-wife's home -- and gain her much-needed expertise. THE DEVASTATING DISCOVERY: Seth is still very much in love with his ex.... Their ...

  • Red Moon

    Michael Cassutt

    It begins in 1964 with the sudden and unexpected death of Sergai Korolev, the man who ran the Soviet Space Program. Young Yuri Ribko, an engineering student working for one of the Korolev's bureaus, is either fortunate or unfortunate to have an uncle...

  • Story

    Ann Charters

  • The Outlaw Bride

    Sandra Chastain

    She'll fight for justice... Orphan Josie Miller was saved from a life of crime when a stranger rescued her off the street. Josie owes everything she has to Dr. Annie -- from her hard-won law degree to her impressive knowledge of medicine. So whe...

  • Devil to the Belt

    C.J. Cherryh

    C. J. Cherryh's upcoming new science fiction novel Hammerfall (Avon Eos, 7/01), is the perfect opportunity to revisit this author's strong backlist, including the latest book, Devil to the Belt (Warner, 12/00). Ranging from Earth to the asteroids and...

  • Alternate Realities

    C.J. Cherryh

    Port EternityTheir names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Mordred, Lynette and Vivien, and they were made people, clone servants who worked aboard The Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship. They had no idea of their origins, from tho...

  • Patchwork Family

    Judy Christenberry

    NEWS FLASH: TYLER PLAYBOY DATES ...A SINGLE MOM?! Rumor has it that our resident attorney Quinn Spencer has been offering Molly Blake more than legal advice these past cold winter nights. Does this sandy-haired stud, who has broken hearts all over...

  • Dinosaurs Ate My Homework

    Scott Ciencin

    Because of his family's many relocations, Aaron Aimes has always had an excuse for avoiding everything from gym to homework. After all, everyone overlooks "the new kid." But when Aaron is yanked back to prehistoric Nevada with his classmates, he's ou...

  • First Avenue

    Lowen Clausen

    A former beat cop, novelist Lowen Clausen sat down to write First Avenue when "there was no distance between the street and me." Filled with compelling authenticity, his debut novel is the passionate and powerful story of a Seattle cop who can't shak...

  • Rachel and the M.D.

    Donna Clayton

    Dr. Sloan Radcliff was the first to admit he didn't know a thing about clothes, makeup -- or dating! And although he refused to succumb to the triplets' shameless matchmaking schemes, he was glad they charmed Rachel Richards into helping out. In fact...

  • The Times They Used to Be

    Lucille Clifton

    Mama, Mama.
    Tell us about when you was a girl . . .
    tell us one of them stories
    about the olden days.

    So begins this tender story, set in 1948, when Satchel Paige was in the majors, Ralph Bunche was at the U.N., and each evening Sook...

  • Hair Raiser

    Nancy J. Cohen

    Not just your average South Florida beachcomber, Marla's now a volunteer for Ocean Guard, a coastal preservation group. She's even in charge of their upcoming Taste of the World fundraiser. But when chef Pierre Chevalier's flaming Bananas Foster resu...

  • Rogue Flyer

    Loren L. Coleman

    The planes are faster, the engines are bigger, the guns are deadlier, and the women are more beautiful... The year is 1937. The collapse of the old United States has made highways and railroads useless. Airlanes are all that connect the fractured...

  • Protecting Jennie

    Ann Collins

    Waitressing in the Arizona desert was a far cry from Jennie Andrews's high society background, but it couldn't be far enough from the future her father had planned for her -- even if it meant wasting her doctoring skills slicing bacon. As determined ...

  • The Christmas Charm

    Lynn Collum

    Adriana Addington never met a stuffier man than Viscount Borland. Why her godmother sent this bookish gentleman to escort her to snowbound Scotland, she can't imagine. Despite his admirable physique, she is sure he can't fight off a flea let ...

  • Sidetrip To Sand Springs

    Kent Conwell

    When Charley Bookbinder rode into Sand Springs, all he wanted was a thick steak, cold beer and a hot poker game. As the time, that didn't sound like much.

    What he got was a crooked poker game with five of the town's leading citizens; a twelve-foo...

  • Prey to All

    Natasha Cooper

    Barrister Trish Maguire has too much on her plate: not only is she swamped with work, but her father has just suffered a heart attack and he's not likely to pull through. The last thing Trish needs now is a seemingly unsolvable case, one closer to he...

  • Marrying Walker McKay

    Lori Copeland

    Sara followed her dreams and discovered the love of her life. But will she have cause to regret marrying Walker McKay? The Rancher Takes A Wife The last thing Walker McKay wants to do is go courting--but it's time to settle down and raise some...

  • The Door in the Tree

    William Corlett

    Thirteen-year-old William Constant and his two younger sisters, Mary and Alice, have come to ancient, mysterious Golden House in Wales for the holidays. Their lives will never be the same once they enter the Magician's House -- and discover their des...

  • There's an Alien in My Backpack

    Bruce Coville

    Pleskit and Tim meet a new alien friend in this ninth book in the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series Sixth-Grade Alien from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework, Bruce Coville.Pleskit has always said that he’s not neces...

  • Special Report: Cover Me

    Debra Cowan

    SPECIAL REPORT: Peril and passion over Texas Skies SAM HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Texas (AP): U.S. Marshals' Flight 407 "Con Air" was hijacked before takeoff today, 108 aboard... Duty demands Marshal Spence Cantrall produce the hijacker's ...

  • The Tycoon's Mistress

    Sara Craven

    A motive for marriage? Cressy was astonished when Draco Viannis proposed. From the moment she'd met the gorgeous Greek, Cressy couldn't get him out of her mind. The passion between them was mind-blowing -- but had it just been a holiday af...

  • The Thieves' Guild

    Jeff Crook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Palanthas, Jewel of Ansalon, City of Seven Circles, heart of the old Solamnic empire. For three thousand years she has shone as a beacon to the world. Even now, ruled by the Knights of Neraka, she glitters in the night. Yet at the core of the glea...

  • The Palace of Tears

    Alev Lytle Croutier

    The Incense Road--fabled and feared for centuries--runs from the North African coast to the southern gates of Arabia. Spices from the Orient, pearls from Ceylon, diamonds and ivory from India, gold from the Persian Gulf have travelled along this time...

  • Authorized Personnel Only

    Barbara D'Amato

    For Chicago cop Suze Figueroa, home is a sanctuary, a quiet refuge from the crime, corruption, and tragedy she encounters everyday on the job. The creaky old Victorian house she shares with her little boy, her invalid sister, and her sister's family ...

  • Tug of Love

    Jenny Dale

    The day after King Street Kennels returns Jason, a Labrador found roaming the local dog show, to a loving family, Mr. Scott, a professional breeder, arrives with the papers to prove that Jason--or rather Junior--is his dog....

  • Genpei

    Kara Dalkey

    Throughout the twelfth century, two rival clans, the Minomoto and the Taira, struggled for supremacy in Imperial Japan. Each attempted a rebellion and, for a time, the Taira gained ascendancy. But their rule turned despotic and at last, during the Ge...

  • Dreaming Down-Under

    Jack Dann

  • The Marriage Risk

    Emma Darcy

    If only Lucy's sexy boss, James Hancock, would see her as a desirable woman -- not just his sensible secretary! Unbuttoning Lucy's prim suits is indeed on James's mind....But will he lose the best assistant he's ever had? Lucy is ...

  • Cold Feet

    Geralyn Dawson
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    GERALYN DAWSON puts a rough-hewn Texas cowboy under the spell of a charming herbalist with some curious powers of attraction....

  • Speaking in Tongues

    Jeffery Deaver

    Two men of words. One seeks only peace. The other, violence... Aaron Matthews is a man with a gift: he can talk anyone into doing almost anything. As a psychologist he used that talent to help people. Now he's using it against one man in a deadly ...

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Dom DeLuise

  • Seduced

    Janelle Denison

    NO RETREAT... Lawyer Ryan Matthews wanted sexy Jessica Newman the moment he saw her. And she seemed to want him, too, but something was holding her back. So now Ryan decides it's time to launch a sensual assault. He is going to have Jessica in his b...

  • Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence

    Jo Dereske

    THIS AIN'T NO GARDEN PARTY In a boldly personal move, Police Chief Wayne Gallant has arranged a meeting between his children and Bellehaven's beloved librarian Helma Zukas. But the fates have not yet smiled on this pair, as the long overdue introd...

  • Unfinished Business

    Jude Deveraux
    in

    New York Times bestselling author JUDE DEVERAUX unravels a ghostly murder mystery in an ancient Scottish castle....

  • Daddy, M.D.

    Jacqueline Diamond

    "Doc, I lost my tonsils!" That was what precocious five-year-old Spike told bachelor doctor Chad Markham. It didn't take Chad long to figure out that the little orphaned boy merely wanted a "prescription" for unlimited amounts of ice cream...and m...

  • The Missing Link

    Charlyne Dickerson

    While they both try to deny the magnetism drawing them together. Craig's ex-wife arrives on the scene, using whatever means necessary, including her body and their son, to try to reclaim what once was hers....

  • The Right to Arm Bears

    Gordon R. Dickson

    HUMANS OR HEMNOIDS: AN UNBEARABLE CHOICE! Planet Dilbia is in a crucial location for both humans and their adversaries, the Hemnoids. Therefore making friends with the Dilbians and establishing a human presence there is of the utmost importance,...

  • The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Jim Eckert, the Dragon Knight, must now confront the three disasters that lie in wait for any visitor to the English Middle Ages: war, plague, and Plantagenets. The plague is caused by a covert invasion of shape-changing goblins with plague-tipped...

  • Christmas Stories

    Disney Book Group

  • Disney's to School & Beyond

    Disney Book Group

  • My Very First Disney 123 Counting Book

    Disney Book Group

  • Joint Operations

    Keith Douglass

    PEARL HARBOR--REVISITED While Vice Admiral "Tombstone" Magruder and his men are enjoying a little R & R in Hawaii, China prepares their Rising Sun vessel for a surprise attack on U.S. soil--or rather, sand. The beach explodes into devastation--and...

  • The Nameless Day

    Sara Douglass

    According to the ancient pagan calendar of Europe, the Nameless Day is the one day of the year when the veil is thinnest between our world and the world of the spirits. In the Year of Our Lord 1377, the Black Plague is sweeping the continent, and Bro...

  • Solitary Man

    Karen Drogin

    CAN ONE NIGHT OF PASSION... Boston cop Kevin Manning had promised to look out for the family of his mortally wounded partner. He didn't think that comforting his partner's grieving sister Nikki would lead to a night of blazing passion. B...

  • Graciela of the Border

    John Duncklee

    Jeff Collins sets out in pursuit of the rustlers who had stolen his prized roan mare, pregnant with the foal of a great racehorse, which he had won in a high-stakes poker game, and ventures in to the perilous region near the Mexican border, where he ...

  • The Superintendent's Daughter

    Marjorie Eccles

    The disappearance of his daughter, Julie, and the brutal killing of her best friend since childhood, Kathryn Conolly, finds Gilbert Mayo ensnared in a very personal investigation of murder and kidnapping....

  • The Redemption of Althalus

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    Althalus is an unrepentant rogue and scoundrel. Yet of all the men in the world, it is Althalus who will become the champion of humanity in its desperate struggle against the forces of an ancient god determined to return the universe to nothingness. ...

  • House on the Lake

    Julie Ellis

    Andrea's head is spinning as she journeys to visit her long-lost father at his home in Geneva. But though she receives a warm welcome on arrival at the beautiful chateau at the edge of the Alps, she soon realises that danger isn't far away. Someone h...

  • Centauri Dawn

    Michael Ely

    In a novel based on the hit computer game, the United Nations colonial starship Unity finally reaches the only habitable planet orbiting Alpha Centauri's primary star, but a mysterious malfunction destroys the ship, killing the captain and se...

  • Face Down Under the Wych Elm

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    Elizabethan England is swirling with panic and paranoia, as the enterprising Susanna, Lady Appleton, sets out to save her former nemesis from being burned at the stake... Face Down Under The Wych Elm Wealthily widowed and fiercely independent, Su...

  • On Thin Ice

    Lynn Erickson

    Ellie Kramer has changed her name and concealed her past in a dogged pursuit of justice. But justice isn't all that's driven her for the last twelve years. She wants payback for every moment her father languished on death row, wrongly convic...

  • That Man Matthews

    Ann Evans

    Even the best father in the world needs a little help now and then ... Cody Matthews can't believe the recent changes in his daughter. Gone is daddy's little angel; in her place, the devil in blue jeans. As a last resort -- since Cody's a man who ...

  • Longarm and the Mad Bomber's Bride

    Tabor Evans

    U.S. Marshal Long journeys to the small town of Gilead to find out what transformed mild-mannered Professor MacLennon into a mad bomber who is threatening to blow up the president of the United States. Original....

  • Captain Cupid Calls the Shots

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    Battles of the Heart Captain Alexander Shelbourne was known as Cupid to his friends for his uncanny marksmanship in battle. But when he accompanied a fellow soldier home and met the lovely Penny Foster, he himself became a target -of scorn and gos...

  • Orchid Isle

    Sally Fairchild

  • Masuto Investigates

    Howard Fast

    Masao Masuto is a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force -- a cultured stranger in an even stranger land of traffic-clogged freeways, artery-clogging fast food...and brutal murders. Here, collected for the first time, are the two adventure...

  • Taming Ben

    Colleen Faulkner

    THE LAST BACHELOR... The remaining single holdout of her formerly no-marriage buddies, Ben Gordon is on a massive "just say no" campaign to long-term relationships. That is, until he registers a complaint with Mackenzie Sawyer, the owner of the hou...

  • A Sister's Quest

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A family scattered to the winds by the French Revolution struggles to find its destiny in a Europe threatened by Napoleon. Two sisters and a brother, separated as children, raised as strangers, discover the crest of the thunderbolt is the only clue t...

  • The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction

    Edward L. Ferman

    Since its founding, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been acclaimed as one of the pinnacles of the field, the source of fantastic fiction of the highest literary quality. Now the magazine known to its readers as "F&SF" celebrates its f...

  • Final Ride

    Mike Flanagan

    IT'S ALL ABOUT HOLDING ON... For two years, Clay Tory has been tearing up the rodeo circuit under the guidance of veteran rancher Jack Lomas. Unfortunately, things aren't going so well back home at the ranch. Years of hard work and stress have taken...

  • The Accidental Pope

    Raymond Flynn; Robin Moore

    The former US Ambassador to the Vatican and the bestselling author of The French Connection join forces to write an unforgettable, compelling novel about a humble fisherman who is elected as the next Pope.Locked in a stalemate after days of voting, t...

  • Code to Zero

    Ken Follett

    January, 1958--the darkest hour of the cold war and the early dawn of the space race. On the launch pad at Cape Canaveral sits America's best hope to catch up with the Russians--the Explorer I satellite. But at the last moment, the launch is delayed ...

  • The Wife Degree

    Aisha Ford

    In the second grade, Madison Thompson fell in love with the boy next door. But Jordan Sanders never really noticed her. Oh, he used to tease her over her good grades. And in high school he and hsi friends made fun of her. But he never gave her the at...

  • The Last Hot Time

    John M. Ford

    When Danny Holman leaves the cornfields of Iowa for the bright lights of Chicago, he expects his life to change. He just can''t guess how much and how fast. A violent incident on the road brings Danny the favor of a man known only as Mr. Patrise, ...

  • Down to the Sea

    William R. Forstchen

    FIRST CONTACT...OR LAST? Twenty years after the defeat of the alien Hordes, the human Republic has been exploring, mapping, and taming their new home. Encountering other human colonies while patrolling the great ocean, they hear rumors of a mighty...

  • Prince of Charming

    Karen Fox

    OUT OF THE PICTURE...AND INTO HER HEART Kate Carmichael has not had an easy life. After her mother's death, her father left her in the care of a kind friend while he attempted to settle his debts, but he never returned. Now, twelve years later, Ka...

  • The First Time

    Kathryn Fox

    In 1874, three men--loyal, brave, and true--rode into the lawless Canadian wilderness. Each would fight for justice...and for the right to claim the heart of the woman he loved. UNEXPECTED TEMPTATION Freshly graduated from medical school and eage...

  • The Man She'll Marry

    Susan Fox

    Tracey couldn't believe she'd written off Ty Cameron's car, nor that he was insisting she pay for it -- by working for him! And that meant living with Ty, who seemed determined to get to know her.... But Tracey had learned to be wary ...

  • Angel Fire

    Ron Franscell

    Twenty-four years after war correspondent Daniel McLeod is killed in Vietnam, his only brother Cassidy is drawn by a mysterious phone call to their Wyoming hometown, where he must confront a lifetime of his own ghosts. A first novel. Reprint....

  • The Squire's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    Years ago, young Robert Fenner was forced into marriage with Lady Blaunche. Now, in 1442, he is being forced toward warfare over the property to which she wrongfully claims ownership. To make matters worse, a wealthy young heiress has captured hearts...

  • Some Day Tomorrow

    Nicolas Freeling

  • Doomsday Deck

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Arts and crafts...and evil It's that time of the year for the Sunnydale Sidewalk Art Festival, and Buffy and the gang have been enlisted to help Joyce pre-pare for the big event. In fact, Xander's especially eager to pitch in, due to the arrival o...

  • All of an Instant

    Richard Garfinkle

  • Bloodtide

    Cliff Garnett

    Amid the turmoil, horrors, and devastation of Kosovo, a gang of Serbian renegade creates a concentration camp to hold thousands of Albanian refugees fleeing the conflict, but when they campture a downed American NATO pilot, the TALON force is sent in...

  • The Case of the Wandering Witch

    James Gelsey

    Scooby-Doo and the gang are at the screening of an exciting new movie called The Wandering Witch. They discover that there are people who don't want this movie to come out. And one of them seems to be a real witch! It's up to Scooby-Doo -- and you --...

  • Lost Burgundy

    Mary Gentle

    THERE IS MORE THAN ONE HISTORY OF THE WORLD... In a barbarous age in a world now forgotten, an extraordinary figure stood formidable on the European battlefield--a remarkable female warrior and strategist without equal... save one. Dijon, the o...

  • The Extra-Special Gift

    Catherine George

    All Jessica wants is a baby, but her new husband, tycoon Lorenzo Forli, is reluctant to start a family. When he's delayed coming home on Christmas Eve, Jess wonders if their marriage has a future. But Christmas night brings them both The Extra-Specia...

  • Now And Forever

    Rachel Gibson
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    She's attending her high school reunion as a newly formed ravishing beauty; he's now sexy, successful, and determined to give her her come-uppance. What will happen when the clock strikes twelve?...

  • Ellen Gilchrist

    Ellen Gilchrist

    With the publication of 1983's The Annunciation, Ellen Gilchrist established herself as a teller of charming, bittersweet tales of the modern South. Since then, her works of fiction - sixteen in all - have built up a solid base of dedicated fans. W...

  • Crazy Eggs!

    Golden Books

  • What a Wonderful World

    Golden Books

  • Shadow of Heaven

    Christie Golden

    An imbalance of dark matter has placed two realities in jeopardy, causing the separate universes to merge and threatening the stability of both realms. To preserve reality as it is known, the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager must defy a cosmic conspiracy...

  • Emperor's New Groove Joke Book

    Rebecca Gomez

  • This Child of Mine

    Darlene Graham

    He's chosen to keep his child She'd given her baby away Kitt Stevens has never really believed the old adage -- opposites attract. But she has to admit she finds Mark Masters very attractive, even if he disagrees with her on almost every topic they ...

  • The Star King

    Susan Grant

    Careening out of control in her fighter jet is only the start of the wildest ride of Jasmine's life; spinning wildly in an airplane is nothing like the loss of equilibrium she feels when she lands. There, in a half-dream, Jas sees a man more powerful...

  • Picador Book of African Stories

    Stephen Gray

    From Egypt to South Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia, Stephen Gray introduces vital voices from the African continent and offers an insight into contemporary Africa in a series of stories that describe love, war, family and oppression.

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  • Voyage to Eneh

    Roland J. Green

    Ehoma Tuomitti is the feisty deck-watch chief of the Kertovan battleship Bybur, at war on the high seas of the island planet Kilmoyn. Tuomitti has her hands full fighting both fog and enemy ships as well as juggling an upstart lover--and then Sean Li...

  • To Die For

    Sharon Green

    HE WAS TALL, STRONG AND DETERMINED... And Mike Gerard was the best detective the police academy had ever bred. Tanda Grail desperately needed help finding answers about her brother's death, and Mike, with his virile magnetism and rock-solid manlin...

  • Luke

    Leigh Greenwood

    The freedom of the range, the bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky -- they get into a man's blood until he knows there is nothing better than the life of a cowboy...except the love of a good woman. VAL...

  • Silent Salvo

    Joe L. Gribble

    As North Korea prepares to launch an all-out attack on South Korea and Japan, tensions begin to mount in Washington, D.C., when it is discovered that some of those nuclear missiles can reach the mainland U.S., and former Air Force officer Lance Brand...

  • The Shattered Alliance

    Jeff Grubb
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    After the ice comes the peril The Ice Age has come to an abrupt end, but the world's troubles have not. Legions of undead still plague the living. The temporary peace in Kjeldor has come to an end, and an evil far more treacherous than Lim Dul has b...

  • The Coming

    Joe Haldeman

    Astronomy professor Aurora `Rory' Bell gets a message from space that seems to portend the arrival of extraterrestrial visitors. According to her calculations, whoever is coming will arrive in three months--on New Year's Day, to be exact. A crowde...

  • The Elusive Bride

    Deborah Hale

    MARRIAGE MEANT SAFETY To protect her home and people, Cecily Tyrell would marry the devil himself! And if rumor held any truth, she would mayhap do so! A royal command bound her to wed Lord Rowan DeCourtenay, a knight of some renown...but a widowe...

  • The Naked God: Faith

    Peter F. Hamilton

    One of the most daringly brilliant, grand scale epics in years, THE NAKED GOD is the breathtaking climax to the acclaimed saga of The Reality Dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist, as nano-augmented Adamists, genetically engineered Edenists, and a...

  • Light Play

    N.D. Hansen-Hill

  • Montana Born and Bred

    Alexis Harrington

    Harboring a dangerous secret, Sarah Kincade flees to Lame Horse, Montana, with her infant son, hoping to begin a new life. But her past follows swiftly behind, in the form of bounty hunter Zach Garrett, a man with a warrant to bring her little boy ba...

  • A Man of Steel

    Cindy Harris

    Seduce Him, Camilla Camilla knew she should be scandalized by the command to beguile Wickingham Castle's newest guest, but seeing as she'd already been pinned beneath the handsome knight's large body and felt his hot flesh pressed against her own,...

  • Got to be Real

    E. Lynn Harris

    Four popular African-American authors--E. Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey, Colin Canner, and Marcus Major--come together in a bold new collection of original stories that explore the vast complexities of the human heart and the challenges of love in ...

  • Wedding at Waverley Creek

    Jessica Hart

    A WEDDING FOR THE BABY's SAKE... Jack Henderson was impossibly handsome, dangerously charming and way out of Ellie Walker's league! Women like her beautiful, outgoing sister were more the type to capture his attention... but now Jack had noticed E...

  • You Made Me Love You

    Neesa Hart

    Just who does this man think he is? Eli can't resist pretty, passionate Liza Kincaid, even though he's vowed he'd never take another bride. But Liza's tender touch makes him ache with long-forgotten desires, and he quickly decides that their lives...

  • One Nation Under a Groove

    Jim Haskins

    Gr 4-9-While a number of books look at the current popularity of rap music, Haskins focuses on its roots and evolution, giving readers a real sense of how it is part of a long history of social commentary through art. He discusses the place of women ...

  • A Mystery of Errors

    Simon Hawke

    Two travelers, Will Shakespeare -- a fledgling dramatist, and Symington Smythe, an ostler and aspiring thespian, meet at a roadside inn and decide to cast their lot together for fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of the London theater in Elizabe...

  • Tall, Dark and Wanted

    Morgan Hayes

    THE MAN SHE COULDN'T FORGET Policewoman Molly Sparling remembered everything about Mitch Drake -- his wild eyes and low, sexy voice, his touch...and that they had parted badly. Now Mitch, a protected witness, was missing and presumed dead. Moll...

  • The Babel Effect

    Daniel Hecht

    A stunning post-millennial thriller from the author of PUPPETS. Genius husband-and-wife team Ryan and Jessamine McCloud are founders of Genesis, an unorthodox problem-solving think tank. Commissioned by a billionaire corporate chief to study the caus...

  • Red Angel

    William Heffernan

    Anyone who brings grief to the people NYPD detective Paul Devlin loves is going to have to pay. That's why he's accompanying Adrianna Mendez, the lady of his heart, to Cuba, where Adrianna's aunt Maria has met with a serious "accident." A great hero ...

  • Psyduck Ducks Out

    Sarah E. Heller / S.E. Heller

    When Psyduck evolves into Golduck, Misty is thrilled! Golduck is the fastest swimmer of all. Besides, training Psyduck was one big headache. Psyduck was totally clueless and clumsy, except when it got a headache. Then its attacks were unstoppable -- ...

  • A Scandalous Affair

    Donna Hill

    A dynamic Washington D.C. activist, Samantha Montgomery faces the controversy of a lifetime when she agrees to help handsome civil rights attorney Chad Rushmore take on a landmark police brutality suit. Not only does their sudden, fiery attraction en...

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Donna Hill
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    Welcome to Leo's -- Where Anything Can Happen A proper lady lets loose on Open Mike Night -- and opens her heart to a different kind, of man.. A Texas Ranger and a candy shop owner have a blind date--with a deliciously unexpected outcome... ...

  • Four Ace Reverse

    Gordon Hill

  • Undercover Elf

    Kate Hoffmann

    Aspiring reporter Claudia Moore is looking for her big break. And when she hears about a store Santa who really grants children's wishes, she thinks she's found it. Only, she never dreamed she'd have to go undercover -- as an elf, of all things! A...

  • Unexpected Angel

    Kate Hoffmann

    Alex Marrin knows his seven-year-old son, Eric, wants a perfect Christmas -- the way it used to be before the divorce. Heck, the kid's even put in an order with Santa! But when beautiful Christmas consultant Holly Bennett shows up on their doorstep...

  • The Angel and the Sword

    Cecelia Holland


    In the dark and bloody days of the Ninth Century, a courageous young woman took the guise of a gallant warrior to preserve the precious legacy of the past, and protect her people from destruction. Here is a bold retelling of one of Europe's great...

  • P.E.A.C.E.

    Guy Holmes

    The New York City of the not-too-distant future is a surveillance state. Thousands of video cameras are mounted on street corners and in subways, and a special corps of elite NYPD officers roam the city undercover with high-tech tranq-guns. It's the ...

  • King's Cure

    Daniel Hood

    KING'S CURE Liam Rhenford has traveled to the royal capital of Torquay to investigate new trade routes for the Duke. But Liam hasn't been told his true mission: to deliver a magical remedy to King Nicanor IV. That's why Liam is surprised when he d...

  • Life Blood

    Thomas Hoover

    Perfect specimen... It lies hidden deep in the mist-shrouded rain forest of Central America. A place where a brilliant doctor fulfills dreams for some - and creates chilling nightmares for others. Now, filmmaker Morgan James is about to journey strai...

  • Vivienne

    Richard Hoyt

    February 1968. The Chinese New Year. The Tet Offensive. Vietcong ambush American units all across South Vietnam. Meanwhile, back home, reporter Jim Quint covers the escalating antiwar protests, writing stories the brand him a coward and a traitor in...

  • Resort To Murder

    Mary Ellen Hughes

    Baltimore high school math teacher, Maggie Olenski, feels burned out, and a resort in the mountains of western Maryland seems like the perfect get-away spot - until she stumbles on the body of a former student near the tennis courts. There's been mor...

  • The Wild Colonial Boy

    James Hynes

    After years of violence, a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland, soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive, intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership...

  • The Uncle's Story

    Witi Ihimaera

    Michael Mahana's personal disclosure to his parents leads to the uncovering of another family secret, about his uncle Sam, who had fought in the Vietnam War. Now, armed with his uncle's diary, Michael goes searching for the truth about his uncle, abo...

  • Mood Swings to Murder

    Jane Isenberg

    Dead Ringer for a Dead Singer Fifty-something New Jersey community college professor Bel Barret has had enough "changes of life" lately to last her a lifetime. Her daughter has cheerfully announced her pregnancy and her impending marriage in a sin...

  • Main Agenda

    Brenda Jackson
    in

    Welcome to Leo's -- Where Anything Can Happen A proper lady lets loose on Open Mike Night -- and opens her heart to a different kind, of man.. A Texas Ranger and a candy shop owner have a blind date--with a deliciously unexpected outcome... ...

  • Thorne

    Lisa Jackson

    The Millionaire CEO: Thorne McCafferty His Reputation: Rich, rugged and ruthless. He would rather lose his fortune than get caught at the altar. His Dilemma: Not letting a beguiling beauty take possession of his heart. Thorne had returned to...

  • A Season for Love

    BJ James

    CAN THE SHERIFF KEEP HIS TRUE LOVE SAFE? Eighteen years ago, a terrible tragedy forced Maria Delacroix to flee Belle Terre -- and Sheriff Jericho Rivers, her first love. Now she was finally back in Jericho's warm embrace, but someone from the past...

  • Corpse First Class

    H. Paul Jeffers

  • When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street

    Angela Johnson

    A new collection of stories by award-winning author Angela Johnson about Charlie and her adventures on Magnolia Street.

    It's summertime, and that means more adventures for Charlie and her friends on Magnolia Street in this collection of short ...

  • Just One Kiss

    Doris Johnson

  • Pray Hard

    Kevin W. Johnson

  • Cross Train

    Kevin W. Johnson

  • Glamour Puss

    R.J. Kaiser

    Glamour Puss Was Buried Under a Pool in Hollywood….Mac McGowan knew exactly where Aubrey St. George was buried, because he'd put the famous film star -- known to all of Hollywood as Glamour Puss -- there himself. It had all been a terrible accident...

  • Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies

    Ken Kalfus

    The acclaimed short story and novella collection by “a virtuoso of the dismal comedy of Soviet life” -- and the basis for the HBO film PU-239 (The New York Times).Ken Kalfus traverses a century of Russian history in tales that range from hair-rai...

  • The Big Silence

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Abe Lieberman is a strong, sympathetic character, an Everyman whose love for his family is only matched by his quiet, zealous commitment to justice: "A figure out of Talmudic lore-endearing, wise in his crotchets, weary with his wisdom." says The Was...

  • Mad Dog and Annie

    Virginia Kantra

    HER DARK KNIGHT He was everything she didn't want. Possessive, demanding, intense. Maddox "Mad Dog" Palmer wouldn't be ignored or forgotten. But Annie had to stay away. He was a cop -- though on medical leave -- and her ex-husband's best friend. H...

  • The Wrong Child

    Patricia Kay

    What would you do if you discovered that your beloved child wasn't yours at all? Patricia Kay presents a compelling, tender story of a bond that is stronger than blood--and of the difficult choices that can only be with the heart... With her jet-b...

  • Lullaby and Goodnight

    Susan Kearney

    WHEN HE LEFT HER BED, RAFE SUTTON DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS PREGNANT.... After seeing the heartache love could cause, Rafe had sworn himself to bachelorhood. But that was before Rhianna McCloud knocked this cowboy for a loop. And though he suspected he'...

  • The Chinese New Year Mystery

    Carolyn Keene

    WHAT'S CHINESE NEW YEAR WITHOUT A DRAGON? The third-grade classes at Nancy's school are learning about Chinese culture, and they'll celebrate the Chinese New Year with a special parade. The highlight of the parade will be a dragon costume. Nancy's c...

  • Love's Labyrinth

    Anne Kelleher

    England 1999. When best friends Olivia Lindsley and Alison O'Neill put on 16th century dresses and entered the labyrinth at Talcott Forest, they thought it would be fun to make believe they were Elizabethan ladies. But when they finally left the ...

  • Dr. Death

    Jonathan Kellerman

    A brutalized corpse discovered in a remote region of the Hollywood Hills plunges psychologist-detective Alex Delaware into a landscape of rage and madness as he struggles to solve this most baffling of homicides. To some, Eldon Mate was evil perso...

  • Suite Seduction

    Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

    THE WRONG BED... Ruthie Sinclair is having one of those days. First she discovers she has to wear the bridesmaid's dress from hell to her cousin's wedding. Then her lackluster boyfriend runs for the hills when she suggests they get a little "closer....

  • The Lesser Kindred

    Elizabeth Kerner

    The Lesser Kindred is the stunning sequel to Elizabeth Kerner's haunting first novel Song in the Silence, continuing the story of Lanen Kaelar, a young woman who fearlessly embarked on a search for the great dragons of legend and in her travels disco...

  • Reilly's Gold

    Elizabeth Keys

    Follow the spirited Reilly clan back to the middle of the 19th century, when a legendary family "blessing" forces its sons and daughters to question destiny...and fight for love. FATEFUL JOURNEY Young Irishman Devin Reilly had just arrived in Am...

  • A Brighton Flirtation

    Valerie King

    A HEROIC YOUNG WOMAN. . . Katherine Pamberley loves life in Brighton--in spite of Captain Evan Ramsdell trying to spoil her fun. He's entirely above being pleased--and his old-fashioned ideas about women drive her mad! How he managed to engage her a...