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New Books List: 425 titles

  • Turning Points

    Lynn Abbey

    This new volume includes new stories by Raymond E. Feist, Dennis L. McKiernan, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Diana Paxson, Lynn Abbey and others.

    Sanctuary: a lawless city governed by evil forces, powerful magic, and political intrigue, where surviv...

  • Visit from the Tooth Fairy

    Sarah Albee

    Blue has a loose tooth! She's excited, and she keeps wiggling her tooth until one day...it falls out! Blue eagerly puts it under her pillow for the Tooth Fairy. But will the Tooth Fairy visit Blue? Read along and find out!...

  • The Shores of Tomorrow

    Roger MacBride Allen

    On the verge of extinction, only the gravest imaginable crime against humanity can save it...A bold new plan seeks to ignite a new Sunspot over Greenhouse, saving the habitat domes crucial to the survival of the Solacian people. But a secret clouds t...

  • Terminator Dreams

    Aaron Allston

    An amnesiac computer programmer holds the key to humanity’s salvation in this apocalyptic adventure inspired by the hit film.Despite the heroic efforts of John Connor and Kate Webster, and the ultimate sacrifice of a T-850 terminator, Skynet became...

  • Deprivers

    Steven-Elliot Altman

    In this science fiction thriller by an LA Times bestseller, an assassin with the power to temporarily paralyze others helps with a hostage rescue. Robert Luxley has a biological problem he does not understand and cannot control: one touch from his ba...

  • Seal With a Kiss

    Jessica Andersen

    For the past eight years, Smitty and Violet have formed the core of the marine mammal conservation group, Dolphin Friendly. The friction between them has been buffered by the presence of their boss and friend, Brody. But Brody's marriage removes him ...

  • Sons of Fortune

    Jeffrey Archer

    In a hushed maternity ward, an infant dies, while twin brothers thrive. By morning, one mother is told that her only child is doing fine. Another is told that she has tragically lost one of her sons... Twins separated at birth, Nathaniel Cartwright...

  • Not the End of the World

    Kate Atkinson

    Arthur is a precocious eight-year-old boy whose mother is a B-list celebrity more concerned with the state of her bank account than with her son's development. Then an enigmatic young nanny named Missy introduces him to a world he never knew existed....

  • Oracle Night

    Paul Auster

    The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside down in this compulsively page-turning tale by "one of the great writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle).Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-...

  • Pahgosa

    Tom Austin

    The O'Malley clan has always bonded together when trouble is on the horizon. So when the Burdett gang threatens young Tom O'Malley and his sweetheart Lee Conall, his cousins, uncles and brothers come from all over to help.

    The first run-in with t...

  • Bloodfire

    James Axler

    NUCLEAR LEGACY Life in twenty-second-century America is an odyssey of pain and death. Savagely transformed by atomic fallout, what remains of humanity endures an internecine war against those who thrive on chaos and bloodshed. A legend in a violent l...

  • Other Girls

    Diane Ayres

    Arriving at stately Willard College, English major Elizabeth Breedlove finds herself immersed in world of academic rivalry, sexual secrets, and life-affirming revelations when she becomes enamored with Pip, a quick-witted and sharp-tongued girl who r...

  • Cage

    Brian Azzarello

    Investigating the murder of a teenage girl, Cage suddenly learns that a three-way gang war is underway for control of the turf he calls home. And what better way to disrupt the stalemate than offering his services to the highest bidder?...

  • Mare in the Meadow

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy and ...

  • Wolf at the Window

    Ben M. Baglio

    The Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic takes care of animals of all kinds. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need -- and sometimes even ...

  • His Defender

    Stella Bagwell

    Isabella Corrales refused to fall for her newest client, Ross Ketchum. He was cocky and arrogant, with a devil-may-care attitude and dimples deeper than the Grand Canyon. Nope, she wasn't going to fall for him. Not even when she had to move into his ...

  • House of Bones

    Dale Bailey

    An unconventional billionaire, with the help of four strangers, is determined to unlock the secrets of Dreamland, a place of human suffering that has stood empty for years, before it is demolished, but they get more than they bargained for when they ...

  • Love Potion

    Steven Banks

    Jimmy shows off his latest invention -- a love potion -- to Carl and Sheen. Anyone exposed to it will fall in love with the first person he or she sees. Jimmy thinks his potion is stored safely in the containment chamber, but Carl accidentally op...

  • Reflections

    Jo Bannister

    SINS OF THE MOTHER Brodie Farrell's "Looking for Something?" investigation agency specializes in tracking down everything from the mundane to the murderous. It is the latter, now, that involves Brodie in the family life of a murdered woman, stabbe...

  • Double Vision

    Pat Barker

    Double Vision from Pat Barker, a gripping novel about the effects of violence on the journalists and artists who have dedicated themselves to representing itIn the aftermath of September 11, 2001, reeling from the effects of reporting from New York C...

  • Dangerous Company

    Peter Bart

    In Hollywood, reality always teeters on the verge of ction. Outlandish paydays encounter outsize egos; fading beauties ght desperately to retain an illusion of youth; moguls plot and feud while bitter enemies air-kiss over lunch at the Ivy. The stake...

  • Coalescent

    Stephen Baxter

    When his father dies suddenly, George Poole stumbles onto a family secret: He has a twin sister he never knew existed, who was raised by an enigmatic cult called the Order. The Order is a hive--a human hive with a dominant queen--that has prospered b...

  • Midnight Angel

    Julie Beard

    Lady Lydia Beaumont may seem like the perfect lady, but she has a secret that could destroy her flawless reputation. She spends her nights disguised as a man, prowling through London's seediest parts to save unfortunate women from the dangers of ...

  • He's the One

    Timothy James Beck

    Arriving in New York City to realize his dreams as a web site designer, Midwestern jock-slash-computer geek Adam Wilson finds the perfect man in Jeremy, a gorgeous TV actor, and launches an all-out campaign to win his heart--an endeavor that teaches ...

  • Isolation

    Christopher Belton

    It was specially designed to kill. It's a biologically engineered bacterium that at its onset produces symptoms similar to the flu. But this is no flu. This bacterium spreads a form of meningitis that is particularly contagiousand over 80% fatal wit...

  • Powers, Volume 5: Anarchy

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Society is lashing out at its superheroes. anti-powers groups are rising up with a series of gruesome murders against the city's most powerful capes. With Walker retired, detective pilgrim teams up with a new partner to investigate this murderous sup...

  • Greed

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    When Clark Kent and his friends serve as counselors at a summer camp for children from Metropolis and Smallville, Pete urges Clark to use his powers to play Robin Hood, even as Clark helps a camper cope with his own special power....

  • Attack of the 50-ft. Cupid

    Jim Benton

    Franny's mom says every mad scientist needs a lab assistant. So for Valentine's Day Franny gets just that -- a Lab assistant. Except Igor isn't a pure Lab. He's also part poodle, part Chihuahua, part beagle, part spaniel, part shepherd -- and all thu...

  • A Visit to the Farm

    Lara Bergen

    Hello Friend
    Children love to learn and are always figuring things out about themselves and the world around them. And the more they know, the better equipped they are to handle the challenges of growing up.Little Bill encourages chil...

  • The Billionaire Drifter

    Beverly Bird

    Subject: Maxwell Strong, real-estate developer Family History: Self-made billionaire with blue-collar roots Deepest Secret: Keeping his identity hidden from the world Billionaire Max Strong was enjoying living under the radar on the remote i...

  • A Puree of Poison

    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 patrons happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam si...

  • Fatal Remains

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    When Marti MacAlister and her partner Matthew "Vik" Jessenovik respond to a report of skeletal remains found on a wooded piece of land, the pair has no idea it's just the first indication of a convoluted case of murder and conspiracy dating back hund...

  • Purgatoire

    Johnny D. Boggs

    Lauded in dime novels as the legendary gunfighter known as The Scottish Gun, a Texas Ranger, and Pinkerton agent, Ben Cameron is really a washed-up drunk, but somehow he must overcome his problems when he is forced to protect the townsfolk of the min...

  • Max Conquers the Cosmos

    Mark Bouton

    Former F.B.I. agent Mark Bouton has used his years of experience chasing real-life criminals in writing Max Conquers the Cosmos. Max Austin, an ex-F.B.I. agent-turned-private investigator, is hired by an attorney whose client is accused of killing he...

  • For the Love of Mike

    Rhys Bowen

    FOR THE LOVE OF MIKE A woman ahead of her time, Molly Murphy is determined to be a private detective. Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor, Paddy Reilly, she's following philandering husbands, tracking down a runaway Dublin debutante,...

  • Pretty Dead

    Gerry Boyle

    Family secrets will get out...And the ramifications get gruesome in Pretty Dead, the seventh Jack McMorrow Mystery. In this widely acclaimed addition to the popular series, veteran reporter Jack McMorrow and his partner Roxanne are sent to investigat...

  • Emma's Secret

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Barbara Taylor Bradford captivated millions of readers with her saga of the indomitable Emma Harte. Now her unforgettable story continues in this novel of the sacrifice and secrets that shadow her extraordinary heritage... A LEGACY FOR THREE WOMEN.....

  • The Christmas Children

    Irene Brand

    All she'd wanted for Christmas was to regain the faith she'd had as a child. Spending the holidays alone at a friend's home seemed the perfect answer for fortysomething Carissa Whitmore -- and what better town than Yuletide to help her find the holid...

  • Peter Blue

    Max Brand

    Peter Blue was one of the most feared gunmen in the West. But now he's holed up in a small shack, hiding from the world. For he doesn't want anyone to know about the bullet that's destroyed his right hand, his gun hand. He realizes it won't be long b...

  • Quotable Slayer

    Steven Brezenoff

    "Well, the slayer always says a pun or a witty play on words, and I think it throws vampires off!" -- Willow Rosenberg, "Anne"

    BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER CAN TOSS A ONE-LINER MORE LETHAL THAN HER RIGHT HOOK -- WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEA...

  • Sins of the Past

    Sandra D. Bricker

    In 2001's Change of Heart, Ray Martin was the cop who brought Sage and Ben through their adventure in one piece...but a lot has changed for Ray since then. A twist of fate drops Raine Sheridan, the runaway wife of a notorious mobster, right into the ...

  • The Surgeon // Mail-Order Sarah

    Kate Bridges

    A wife shouldn't be a surprise package. But Mountie surgeon John Calloway suddenly found himself saddled with a special delivery he hadn't signed for -- mail-order bride Sarah O'Neill. He had no room in his life for marriage! But why then did he feel...

  • Dangerous Waters

    Laurey Bright

    The shamelessly sexy man with the bold gaze and the wicked pirate's smile commanded Camille Hartley's attention from the moment she saw him. Rogan Broderick was just the sort of love 'em and leave 'em type she avoided at all costs, bu...

  • Too Tough To Tame

    Annette Broadrick

    MR. ICE She'd painted notorious corporate raider Dominic Chakaris as she saw him -- hard, ruthless, predatory. The man had destroyed her family, and now he set his sights on her: the woman who'd dared capture the truth on canvas. Kelly MacLeod had...

  • Bonnie and Clyde: A Love Story

    Bill Brooks

    She preferred guys with an edge to them. Bad Boys, her mama called them.

    Then one night she met Clyde and knew her mama was right. If there was ever a bad boy, it was Clyde Chestnut Barrow. He had that look: those dark secretive eyes that neve...

  • Velvet

    Carolyn Brown

    Velvet is about to breathe her last and doesn't even know it when Patrick O'Leary lays her on the bed in a very strange house. When she does awake from a fever-induced coma, she finds herself in a cabin with Dr. Hoyt Baxter, who's hateful, mean and s...

  • Social Graces

    Dixie Browning

    THE HEIRESS AND THE SCANDAL John MacBride would do anything to keep his stepbrother from being thrown into jail for a crime he didn't commit. Which is how he ended up in the Outer Banks, posing as a handyman for the young socialite who could clear...

  • Kelly's Chance

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Kelly McGregor says she'll never marry. . .not after what she's seen her father do to her mother. She's determined to escape her father's overbearing ways and the drudgery of driving the mules that pull his boat along the canal. Kelly dreams of ownin...

  • The Choking Doberman: and Other Urban Legends

    Jan Harold Brunvand

    "A wonderfully entertaining book of American folklore and humor." -- Elaine Kendall, Los Angeles Times Book Review Professor Jan Harold Brunvand expands his examination of the phenomenon of urban legends, those improbable, believable stories that alw...

  • Moon & Muldoon

    James David Buchanan

    Veteran author James David Buchanan is back with this harrowing tale of suspense and aerial acrobatics featuring two men who perhaps never should have worked together in the first place. Casey Moon, a one-time fleet carrier pilot, and Max Muldoon,...

  • Welcome, Suckers

    James David Buchanan

    "Soapy" Smith and his group of con artists move into Creede, challenging the domination of the town by camp boss Bob Ford, the man who shot Jesse James. Randolph Jefferson "Soapy" Smith and his group of con artists were driven out of Denver. It was o...

  • The Fugitive Queen

    Fiona Buckley

    It's 1568, and Mary, Queen of Scots, is Queen Elizabeth's captive. Forced to flee Scotland after her husband, Lord Darnley, dies mysteriously, Mary is now a "guest" at Bolton Castle in northern England, where she plots her escape and covertly pursues...

  • Clade

    Mark Budz

    IT’S A POST-ECOCAUST WORLD. WELCOME TO IT. In the San Jose of tomorrow, all of nature is gengineered -- from the warm-blooded plants to the designer people. But even in a rigidly controlled biosystem, with its pheromone-induced social order, the A...

  • Shanghai Station

    Bartle Bull

    A masterful storyteller at the top of his form, Bartle Bull follows the successes of his popular Africa trilogy -- A Café on the Nile, The White Rhino Hotel, and The Devil's Oasis -- with a rousing historical adventure. Shanghai Station is a compell...

  • Relative Interest

    Anita Richmond Bunkley

    From award-nominated author Anita Bunkley comes the riveting story of a young woman who has lost almost everything--and is determined to fight for the one meaningful thing she has left... Kira Forester has already lost her parents and only sister...

  • Royally Jacked

    Niki Burnham

    Valerie's life is pretty good. While she's not the most popular girl in school, she does have decent grades, great friends, and a potential boyfriend. All a girl could want. Then her mother announces that (1) she's gay, and (2) she's leaving Vale...

  • Snow Maiden

    Mary Burton
    in

    Dashing real estate magnate Adam Richmond is Bah Humbugging his way through the holidays when he is driven to distraction by Russian beauty Sophia Petrovnova. Are Yuletide wedding bells about to ring?...

  • Shooting the Sun

    Max Byrd

    Charles Babbage was an English genius of legendary eccentricity. He invented the cowcatcher, the ophthalmoscope, and the "penny post." He was an expert lock picker, he wrote a ballet, he pursued a vendetta against London organ-grinders that made him ...

  • Ill Wind

    Rachel Caine

    RIDER ON THE STORM The Wardens Association has been around pretty much forever. Some Wardens control fire, others control earth, water, or wind--and the most powerful can control more than one element. Without Wardens, Mother Nature would wipe human...

  • Unbridled Fury

    Joanna Campbell

    Perfect Image is recovering nicely from the heartbreaking injuries she sustained in the Kentucky Derby, but it seems clear to Melanie and Jazz that her racing career is over. It's time to invest in another horse. But when Melanie falls in love wit...

  • Dangerous Practice

    Judy Campbell

    Three years ago Iona Bellamy had gone on one very romantic date with Matt Carter. She'd never forgotten that night even though Matt had a reputation as the ultimate playboy doctor. Now, forced to work together in the high-pressure environment of the ...

  • The Chocolate Frog Frame-Up

    Joanna Carl

    CHOCOLATE CHICANERY The quaint resort town of Warner Pier, Michigan, is abuzz with preparations for the Fourth of July. Things are going swimmingly for Lee McKinney and her aunt Nettie, as they debut their latest confections at TenHuis Chocolade--...

  • Leaving Enchantment

    C.J. Carmichael

    Nolan McKinnon is shocked when he's named his niece's guardian. He knows nothing about taking care of a little girl -- especially an orphan -- but he still would have bet he knew more than Kim Sherman. Kim's a newcomer to Enchantment -- one who se...

  • Here Comes Trouble

    Kathy Carmichael

    In the town of Littlemouth, being naughty was never so much fun.

    Trouble was never so delightful!

    Five incorrigible women are members of a library reader's group, The Readers Organization Uniting Book-loving Littlemouth Elites. Their nickname...

  • Trace Evidence

    Carla Cassidy

    SOMEONE WANTED HER DEAD... But the only man who could keep proudly independent Tamara Greystone safe was brooding crime scene investigator Clay James, who insisted she do things his way if she wanted to see tomorrow. Terrified by a crazed stalker,...

  • Mona Lisa Smile

    Deborah Chiel

    In 1953, free-spirited Berkeley graduate Katherine Watson accepts a position as a teacher at Wellesley College, a women-only school where she finds students who are torn between their thirst for intellectual freedom and the repressive mores of the ea...

  • A Randall Returns

    Judy Christenberry

    A Match Made in Rawhide From the moment she meets the new sheriff, Dr. Caroline Randall knows her homecoming is a mistake. Not only does he arrest and cuff her at their first meeting, Mike Davis matches her feisty attitude. After years, Caroline's...

  • Long Time Coming

    Edie Claire

    Eighteen years is a long time to stay away from home. But when Joy Hudson left Kentucky, she was running from memories of one tragic night. Now family duties have forced her to return and make a new start in the town she thought she'd left behind fo...

  • The Nanny's Plan

    Donna Clayton

    MISS AMY + UNCLE PIERCE = LOVE When glamorous Amy Edwards agreed to be temporary nanny for unruly twins, she didn't expect to enjoy the adorable boys -- or fall for their handsome, brilliant uncle. But she knew that if Dr. Pierce Kincaid ever disc...

  • Highlights to Heaven

    Nancy J. Cohen

    Professional hair stylist and amateur sleuth Marla Shore lands a case close to home when her pet-loving neighbor, a man aptly named Goat, disappears, leaving his animals--and a dead body--behind. The corpse might be just another anonymous stiff excep...

  • Repentance Creek

    Tobias Cole

    THE DEAD CRY OUT Former Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells had vowed to give up killing after the war ended. Even after the last shot was fired, he continued to carry his hated sharpshooter's rifle as a grim reminder of what he once was. But while ...

  • Matchless

    Jane Candia Coleman

    A Spur Award-winning Author
    A Western Heritage Award-winning Author

    Matchless is a passionate, compelling, and magnificently authentic human drama based on the diary of Augusta Tabor, wife of Horace Tabor, the Colorado silver king. This is Aug...

  • By Temptations and By War

    Loren L. Coleman

    In the chaos of the interstellar communications blackout, the Capellan Chancellor has sent operative Mai Wa to help freedom fighter Evan Kurst liberate his homeworld. But Mai has betrayed Kurst before, and Evan’s biggest problem is knowing who to t...

  • Lambert's Pride

    Lynn A. Coleman; Rachel Hauck

    Elizabeth Lambert is on the fast track to success. Too bad she gets knocked off that track by one dashing, young forest ranger named Kavan Donovan. It seems the entire town of White Birch is pulling for Elizabeth and Kavan, but her goals don't inc...

  • The 37th Hour

    Jodi Compton

    On a chilly Minnesota morning, Sarah comes home to the house she shares with her husband and fellow cop, Michael Shiloh. Shiloh was supposed to be in Virginia, starting his training with the FBI. A seasoned missing-persons investigator, Sarah is used...

  • Wild Desire

    Phoebe Conn

    Nineteen-year-old Eliza has run the Trinity Star Ranch since she was a mere child. Though she is every inch a lady, she has no trouble standing up to any man. That includes the tough-looking drifter she finds camping on Bendalin land. Little did she ...

  • Honour Be Damned

    Tom Connery

    Lieutenant George Markham and his Marines must escort a group of French Royalists behind enemy lines on a secret quest. But Markham's mission is put in jeopardy with the unexpected arrival of a figure from his past......

  • Skeletons of the Atchafalaya

    Kent Conwell

    Tony Boudreaux's family had a saying that "good things happen in threes."

    However, instead of three days of rich Cajun food, dancing, and laughing over old times at his family reunion at Whiskey Bend in the middle of the Atchafalaya Swamp, Tony B...

  • Worm in the Bud

    Judith Cook

  • A Woman Like Annie

    Inglath Cooper

    Annie McCabe loves the town of Macon's Point, and she's ready to fight to save it. After her bitter divorce, Annie wanted to put down roots for herself and her son in the small community. As mayor, Annie works hard for the people she has grown to ...

  • An Honest Life

    Dana Corbit

    A preacher. A deacon. That was the kind of man nurse Charity Sims planned to marry. Which is why her lovesick behavior around Rick McKinley, the contractor building a family center for her church, so confused her. He refused to go to church, let alon...

  • Lionboy

    Zizou Corder

    When his parents are kidnapped, what's ten-year-old Charlie Ashanti to do? Rescue them, that's what! He doesn't know who has taken his parents, or why. But he does know that one special talent will aid him on his journey--his amazing ability to speak...

  • Tangled Threads

    Carol Cox
    in

    In a time when women find career options limited, four Chicago women get the chance of a lifetime - busting a ring of train robbers for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Working undercover in Windmere Falls, Colorado, they begin to unearth clues overlo...

  • A Catered Murder

    Isis Crawford

    Bernadette Simmons wasn't sure what to expect when she left L.A.--and her no-good, cheating boyfriend--to move back in with her family in New York. And her sister Libby had no idea what she was in for when she hired Bernie to work for her catering bu...

  • The Top Gun's Return

    Kathleen Creighton

    BACK...WHERE HE BELONGS? Eight years ago, Jessie Bauer's life had changed forever. Now it was about to change back. For the man she had loved with all her heart and soul -- the one she had finally learned to live without -- was coming home to her ...

  • The Neighborhood Mother Goose

    Nina Crews

    Every day, children the world over sing, shout, and celebrate Mother Goose rhymes. And now there's a new reason to cheer: Nina Crews has added her own remarkable, jazzy style of illustration to a collection of forty-one favorite verses. Whether i...

  • Christmas Bonus, Strings Attached

    Susan Crosby

    "I NEED A WIFE. YOU'LL DO." Lyndsey couldn't believe the man she'd been fantasizing about for months had actually proposed! It wasn't for real, of course. Sexy P.I. Nate Caldwell was in a jam and his shy secretary was only too happy to oblige. Unt...

  • The Impostor's Kiss // Seduced by a Prince

    Tanya Anne Crosby

    Merrick Welbourne never expected to discover a long-lost twin! Particularly one who'd rob him and leave him senseless on the road. Now living his brother's aristocratic life, he had new trials, tribulations...and temptations he'd never dreamed of. No...

  • 32AA

    Michelle Cunnah

    Emma Taylor wanted an engagement ring and a job promotion for her thirtieth birthday. What she got instead was the boot from her boyfriend, the heave-ho from his Manhattan loft -- and the indignity of having to work for the weenie who stole her posit...

  • Trojan Odyssey

    Clive Cussler

    At the end of Valhalla Rising, #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cussler shocked the world -- and his own protagonist -- with the introduction of Dirk Pitt's children. Born to a woman Dirk thought he had tragically lost more than twenty year...

  • A Sure Thing?

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    Ad execs Matt Davidson and Jilly Taylor have two things in common -- they hate to lose and they want each other...badly. Only, neither one is going to chance losing the upper hand by giving in to their mutual attraction. But when their boss sets them...

  • The Temptation

    Claudia Dain

    HER BODY WAS A BATTLEFIELD In England of 1156, a gently bred lady was taught to obey, first her father, next her bridegroom. But ever since Eve it has been in every woman to defy any lord. And Elsbeth of Sunnandune was determined to trade the subm...

  • Mistletoe Over Manhattan

    Barbara Daly

    Rule #1: Stick to plain black in cold weather Chicago lawyer Mallory Trent has always followed her mother's rules for being practical. But that won't attract attorney Carter Compton, the gorgeous package she'd love to unwrap this Christmas! Rul...

  • Edge of Night

    Cynthia Danielewski

    When a murder victim's body is discovered on the grounds of a local cemetery, NY Police Detective Jack Reeves embarks on an eerie investigation that hints at witchcraft. Needing assistance as he delves into unfamiliar waters, he reluctantly turns to ...

  • Mountain Sheriff

    B.J. Daniels

    TROUBLE ALWAYS ACCOMPANIED THE RAINY SEASON Rain and isolation could make folks crazy in these parts. Sheriff Mitch Tanner -- the most eligible bachelor in the county -- would have his hands full for sure. Bigfoot sightings and sundry strange happ...

  • Future Crimes

    Jack Dann

    Featuring contributions from Michael Stanwick, Harlan Ellison, and Tony Daniel, an intense collection of stories centers around a world where high-tech identity theft and crime take on a whole new meaning as mutant con men concoct a brilliant alien s...

  • Some Kind of Miracle

    Iris Rainer Dart

    Wonders can occur even after the last spark of hope has died.. When they were growing up, Dahlia and Sunny were more than cousins. They were best friends, bound by a shared love for making music, combining soulful lyrics with soaring melodies to c...

  • Imzadi Forever

    Peter David

    Imzadi: to the people of the planet Betazed, including Counselor Deanna Troi of the Starship Enterprise, it means "beloved" and denotes that which can never be truly broken. Yet to whom does Deanna's heart truly belong? Commander William Riker...

  • Daddy Patrol

    Sharon De Vita

    Connor and Cody's Daddy Wish List: 1) Must not be too old -- like Grandpa. 2) Must like 'rithmetic -- to help with homework. 3) Must like baseball -- a lot! Five-year-old twins Connor and Cody Maguire were as mischievous as their red hair and...

  • Honor Bound

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    The Order of the Bat'leth: founded after Kahless's ascension to Sto-Vo-Kor, the Order was tasked with rooting out dishonorable behavior and spreading the word of Kahless to the Klingon people. In the subsequent millennium, the Order has become more c...

  • Bluebird Rising

    John Decure

    In this brooding, atmospheric mystery, John DeCure once again brings the seemingly disparate worlds of law and surfing together with engaging results. For J. Shepard, prosecuting attorney with the California State Bar Association, only one thing in h...

  • My Life As a Snow Bunny

    Kaz Delaney

    Who needs thermal underwear when you've got lerve* to keep you warm! Lerve being love with a Swiss accent, of course. Who knew Colorado was Hunk Heaven? Not Jo Vincent. It's not like Jo's going to get any attention from her dad. He brought his own ap...

  • Colt

    Kathie DeNosky

    The Honorable Cowboy: Colt Wakefield His Profile: Intrepid, impassioned and irresistible His Soft Spot: His newly discovered daughter All it took was one glance at the toddler in Kaylee Simpson's arms for Colt to know the two-year-old was his. D...

  • Firefly

    P.T. Deutermann

    FIREFLY: A SMALL BUT CREDIBLE THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY. TICK According to the D.C. cops, the fiery destruction of an upscale plastic surgery clinic and its staff is just business as usual. With the whole city on high alert because of the upcoming...

  • All the Secret Pleasures

    Thea Devine
    in

    Corinna Woodholme is on the prowl. With her money, style, and connections, the beautiful young widow has no need to wed, but she does have needs--and very sensual ones at that. Among London's bachelors, she has the wanton reputation of giving everyth...

  • The Lord and the Mystery Lady

    Georgina Devon

    Guy, Viscount Chillings, had little choice. He could not deny an injured traveler time to recuperate in his home. Only this mystery guest upset his ordered life because he just couldn't ignore that she was a very beautiful, seductive woman.... ...

  • The Human Edge

    Gordon R. Dickson

    DANGER HUMAN The Universe is not a nice neighborhood, and the neighbors may be downright hostile--but you can't keep a good human down! A master of science fiction adventure looks at what happens when powerful aliens meet puny humans, with results...

  • My Crush-Tacular Book of Valentines

    Disney Book Group

    Cupid's arrow has never been cooler! Send your best friends and secret crushes special Valentine greetings with this book of 32 punch-out Lizzie McGuire Valentine cards. Plus, there's four pages of stickers so you can decorate them Lizzie style!...

  • Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

    Cory Doctorow

    Bursting with cutting-edge speculation and human insight, Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a coming-of-age romantic comedy and a kick-butt cybernetic tour de forceJules is a young man barely a century old. He's lived long enough t...

  • Barely Proper

    Shannon Donnelly

    A FUGITIVE ROGUE Ruggedly handsome Terrance Winslow has spent his happiest hours pursuing the fairer sex without regret or repercussion--until the day a jealous husband who had challenged him to a duel is found murdered. Convinced of a plot against ...

  • Dr. Wonderful

    Charlotte Douglas

    Paging Dr. Dashing... Rebecca Warwick has always loved living in the remote mountains of North Carolina, especially since it's the perfect place to raise her little girl. But her peace and quiet is shattered when hotshot Dr. Matt Tyler visits the ...

  • Love's Pros and Cons

    Susan K. Downs
    in

    When four women begin writing mystery books, they suddenly find themselves entering new lives of intrigue, danger - even love. Will their longing for adventure on paper take them to perilous places in real life? In this intriguing novella compilation...

  • Beyond Paradise

    Elizabeth Doyle

    IN SEARCH OF ADVENTURE... Although Sylvie's parents have betrothed her to a wealthy womanizer, she yearns for the dashing pirate hunter who promises adventure -- and takes her to the local jail to see what a real pirate looks like. But when Sylv...

  • All Wrapped Up

    Jennifer Drew

    All they want for Christmas... PR professional Olivia Kearns needs a change. Her company's become hipper and more with-it, and Liv simply...isn't. When she finds out her college ex, Nick Matheson, is back in town, she decides he'd be her best inst...

  • Deep Fire Rising

    Jack Du Brul

    Geologist-adventurer Philip Mercer--"a combination of Dirk Pitt and James Bond" (The Sunday Oklahoman)--returns in his latest adventure, beginning beneath fabled Area 51 and propelling us to the edge of prophesied global destruction.... Hired to l...

  • Good Morning Heartache

    Peter Duchin

    Heading for Los Angeles for their latest job, bandleader and amateur sleuth Philip Damon and his sax-playing friend, Hercules Platt, an ex-cop, confront the latest in a series of problems that have been plaguing them--including the murder of their su...

  • Good Morning, Heartache

    Peter Duchin; John Morgan Wilson

    Damon and his orchestra are in L.A. for a gig at the Cocoanut Grove. But when the body of his trumpeter is found washed up on the shore, he sets out with Hercules Platt, ex-cop-turned-sax-player, to find the hidden truth behind Hollywood's facade....

  • The Viaduct

    Grace F. Edwards

    "Everything started on that viaduct and that's where everything ends." Violence. Death. Despair. Suspense writer Grace F. Edwards presents a heart-stopping twister that follows the interconnecting lives of two shattered men. Marin Taylor, a Vietna...

  • Good Night, Copycub

    Richard Edwards

    Good night, goose.Good night, moose.Good night, hare.

    It's nighttime in the bear cave, but Copycub is not sleepy. His mother tells him a story about a sleeping goose on a lake, a snoozing moose in the shadows, and a snug har...

  • Dead Man's Touch

    Kit Ehrman

    What do you do when everything you've held to be true, when your entire life, in fact, turns out to be a lie? Do you run away? Start over? Create a new truth? This is the dilemma faced by what twenty-two-year old Stephen Cline. Bruised in body and ps...

  • Obsessed

    G.H. Ephron

    Dr. Peter Zak is obsessed with finding the stalker who is terrorizing his new intern Dr. Emily Ryan and sets out on a trail of escalating violence as it leads him into dark and deadly places too close to home. Obsessed with isolating a cure to a ...

  • Book of Esther

    David Esther

    When Esther David set out to write a novel that was loosely based on family history, she did not know that uncovering the past would reveal such a treasure trove of stories, or that the process would cut so close to her own life.

    Her story b...

  • Blueberry Hill

    Marcia Evanick

    There's a hill in Misty Harbor, Maine, covered in blueberry bushes and, atop it sits a ramshackle blue house. It may not look like much on the outside, but the inside glows with a family's laughter and love--plus one... Take a beautiful assistant ...

  • Billy Tibbles Moves Out!

    Jan Fearnley

    Billy Tibbles loves having his very own bedroom. He can play with his toys, read his books, ride his skateboard, and even bounce on his squeaky, creaky bed, without having to share with anyone.

    Until the day Billy's brother, Little Eric, mov...

  • Internal Affair

    Marie Ferrarella

    The Danger Zone Detective Patrick Cavanaugh survived by the skin of his teeth, and was one of the fiercest law enforcers west of the Mississippi. He wasn't friendly or popular, but he waged a war against crime with a ruthlessness that scared his p...

  • Oklahoma Bride

    Carol Finch

    "You're under arrest!" To a woman who was all fire, sass and temptation that was a hell of a hello! But army major Rafe Hunter had no choice. Karissa Baxter was a "Sooner" attempting to secure the homestead she wanted before the start of the Land ...

  • The Hatmaker's Sign

    Candace Fleming

  • Unforgettable

    Bette Ford

    Who needs love? Not Anna Prescott...she says. A smart, successful woman of substance, she is willing to be a friend to Gavin Mathis, who plays pro football for the Detroit Lions and is the finest specimen of the African-American male she's ever lai...

  • From Me to You

    Anthony France

    Know someone with a bad case of the bathrobe blues? For one lonely soul, an anonymous note changes everything - and shows that a little love can go a long way.

    Poor Rat, his friends haven’t called in ages. He sits in his bathrobe all day and...

  • Hell at the Breech

    Tom Franklin

    In 1897, an aspiring politician is mysteriously murdered in the rural area of Alabama known as Mitcham Beat. His outraged friends -- -- mostly poor cotton farmers -- form a secret society, Hell-at-the-Breech, to punish the townspeople they believe r...

  • A Landing on the Sun

    Michael Frayn

    From the bestselling author of Headlong and Spies, "an unconditional triumph" (The Washington Post Book World)

    For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, there have ...

  • The Conqueror

    Judith E. French

    It was a night never to be forgotten. A night that would forever change two lives . . . and the course of history. For two long years her father's tiny mountain kingdom had withstood the conqueror's sweeping forces, but now the barbarians had stormed...

  • Fitcher's Brides

    Gregory Frost

    The tale of Bluebeard, reenvisioned as a dark fable of faith and truth1843 is the "last year of the world," according the Elias Fitcher, a charismatic preacher in the Finger Lakes district of New York State. He's established a utopian community on an...

  • The Hanover Square Affair

    Ashley Gardner

    Cashiered cavalry officer Captain Gabriel Lacey of the 35th Light Dragoons lost much on the battlefield during the Peninsular Campaign. But he still retains his innate sense of right and wrong when faced with injustice... Hanover Square is one of ...

  • Cole For Christmas

    Darlene Gardner

    Merry Christmas to Anna... Anna Wesley can't bear anyone to be alone on Christmas Eve, not even her new marketing assistant Cole Mansfield -- the man who's after her job. Still, she invites him to dinner with her family. Big mistake. Anna's never ...

  • I Ain't Superstitious

    Laura Garner

    Rookie PI Maddie "Max" Maxwell battles ghosts, raging hormones, and a rival PI as she tries to figure out who's vandalizing a construction site. Suspects abound, from Max's blue collar buddies in Hawk Marsh, Massachusetts to their stinking rich neigh...

  • The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

    Henry Louis Gates Jr.

    Welcomed on publication as brilliant, definitive, and a joy to teach from, The Norton Anthology of African American Literature was adopted at more than 1,275 colleges and universities worldwide. Now, the new Second Edition offers these highlights....

  • I Wish Someone Were Waiting for Me Somewhere

    Anna Gavalda

    Hailed by Voici as "a distant descendant of Dorothy Parker," prize-winning Anna Gavalda has caused an international sensation with this dazzling collection of short stories selling over 700,000 copies in her native France. With arresting naturalism, ...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Witch Doctor

    James Gelsey

    SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past 3 generations. Scooby is in the midst of a huge popularity boom, with new TV episodes and a live-action movie on video.

    The gang from Mystery, Inc. is in Hawaii, ...

  • Dark Moon

    David Gemmell

    One awesome night, the sadistic, seemingly invincible Daroth vanished from the face of the earth. Gone were their cities, their armies, their reigns of terror. Not a trace of this conquering race remained. Until a thousand years later... . With th...

  • History of Joseph Smith

    Mikal Gilmore

  • Is It a Crime

    Roy Glenn

    Mike Black, whose violent rise to power earned him the name Vicious Black, is drawn to beautiful drug dealer Cassandra Sims, and when an attempt is made on her life, Mike seeks justice against the man responsible--a personal mission that leads to dan...

  • The Family Tree

    Jane Godwin

  • Fever Cell

    Leonard S. Goldberg

    In the men’s room at LAX, an unidentified passenger has been found murdered. Authorities suspect he has ties to a terrorist organization. But the answer to who killed him and why remains frustratingly out of reach. Called in by the FBI to perform t...

  • Let's Go

    Golden Books

  • Work of the Angels

    Kat Goldring

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

  • The Weaver and the Factory Maid

    Deborah Grabien

    Haunted by the ghosts of characters memorialized in their songs, a pair of lovers must uncover the truth behind the ghosts' deaths. When Ringan Laine, British folk musician, becomes the owner of a restored eighteenth-century cottage, he discovers ...

  • Happy Days

    Laurent Graff

    What kind of man buys his grave at the age of eighteen and chooses to spend the rest of his life in a rest home at thirty-five? Meet Antoine, the curious hero of Laurent Graff's Happy Days, an odd young man who somewhat prematurely acquiesces to his ...

  • Unit Omega

    Jim Grand

    While investigating a recent sighting of the Loch Ness Monster, Harold Collins, an investigator of bizarre scientific phenomena for the U.N., discovers an enemy of the likes the world has never seen. Original....

  • X-Men Evolution, Volume 1 Digest

    Devin Grayson

  • Spellbound

    Jane Green

    Jane Green, author the best-sellers The Beach House and Second Chance, follows happily married Alice who moves from London to the USA only to discover that her life is not as fairy-tale as it seems in Spellbound. Alice has everything. So why isn't sh...

  • Deathstalker Legacy

    Simon R. Green

    Owen Deathstalker sacrificed his life to save all of Humanity. In the two hundred years since his passing, the Empire has prospered in a Golden Age of peace among aliens, humans, and Ms. with hope and liberty for all. Now, on the human homeworld of L...

  • Where Is He Now?

    Jennifer Greene

    Where DO the men who dump you go? What is it with the men who are all over you one day and leaving you the next? No one has more reason to wonder than Jeanne Claire Cassiday. After all, Nate Donneli left her with nothing more than a note! Now...

  • Suspect of My Heart

    Pamela Griffin
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    When four women begin writing mystery books, they suddenly find themselves entering new lives of intrigue, danger - even love. Will their longing for adventure on paper take them to perilous places in real life? In this intriguing novella compilation...

  • Just Annoying!

    Andy Griffiths

    --Ever made up an imaginary friend to beat up another imaginary friend? --Ever taken a concrete garden gnome on vacation with you? --Ever tried to fill up an entire shower stall by plugging the drain? Andy has, and it's really, really annoying! His...

  • Escapade

    Joe W. Haldeman

  • With This Puzzle, I Thee Kill

    Parnell Hall

    Crime, cryptograms, and killer conundrums abound for the Puzzle Lady in the fourth installment of the series USA Today raves is "a fun series for mystery fans and cruciverbalists!" It looks like wedding bells again for the much-married Cora Felton...

  • Almost Perfect

    Denise Hampton

    An Almost Perfect Escape Cassandra Marston wagered a kiss in a card game with the incorrigible rake Lucien Hollier and willingly paid her debt when she lost. But now, desperate for funds, the beautiful lady challenges him again...and wins! Taking ...

  • Jilted by Death

    Lynette Hampton

    Happy with her new position as associate minister at the First United Methodist Church, Willa Hinshaw is ready for her first wedding in Liverpool, North Carolina. Unfortunately, the groom is left standing at the altar. The bride, Lee Ann Poole, elope...

  • Night Fires

    Karen Harbaugh

    Enter a midnight world of dark seduction and unquenchable desire, of sinful pleasure and breathtaking intrigue--where amid the flames of war and the immortal thirst of two irresistible lovers, an alliance is born that would burn forever.... Beauti...

  • The Fiddler of the Reels and Other Stories: 1888-1900

    Thomas Hardy

    The Melancholy Hussar/ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions/ The First Countess of Wessex/ Barbara of the House of Grebe/ For Conscience' Sake/ The Son's Veto/ On the Western Circuit/ An Imaginative Woman/ A Changed Man/ Enter a Dragoon The 11 short storiesin ...

  • Shadows on the Sea

    Joan Hiatt Harlow

    1942. The U.S. is at war with Germany. Fourteen-year-old Jill Winter's mother is traveling to Newfoundland and must pass through the treacherous North Atlantic, where German submarines -- U-boats -- stalk like wolves. Jill's father, a famous pop sin...

  • Rescuing Sydney

    Lisa Harris
    in

    In a time when women find career options limited, four Chicago women get the chance of a lifetime - busting a ring of train robbers for the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Working undercover in Windmere Falls, Colorado, they begin to unearth clues overlo...

  • Stars and Stripes Triumphant

    Harry Harrison

    America and England: For the two countries that share a language and a heritage, the conflict began at the dawn of the American Civil War. Just as America was about to tear itself to pieces, Britain itself committed an act of war by seizing a U.S. pa...

  • Heartburn

    Barbara Hart

    The first time Dr. Jack Harvey saw Dr. Anna Craven in the E.R., he thought he'd seen a ghost. She looked just like his wife, who'd died three years earlier. Jack's first instinct was to ask Anna out, hoping the initial shock would fade as he got to k...

  • The Merchant of Vengeance

    Simon Hawke

    Will, the fledgling playwright and poet, and Tuck, the would-be actor and rest-of-the-time ostler, have been enjoying their lives on and behind the stage...if only it wasn't for the occasional interruptions: plague, the closing of the theater for rea...

  • Fine Feathers

    Sandra Heath
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    Miss Molly Marriott has left the stifling confines of her aunt's home to live with her uncle and cousin at Underhill House and take her rightful place among the ton. But when she falls victim to a highwayman and is left for dead, she's rescue...

  • For Us, The Living

    Robert A. Heinlein

    From Grandmaster Robert A. Heinlein comes a long-lost first novel, written in 1939 and never before published, introducing ideas and themes that would shape his career and define the genre that is synonymous with his name.July 12, 1939: Perry Nelson ...

  • Buried Diamonds

    April Henry

    When former vanity license plate inspector Claire Montrose finds a valuable diamond ring embedded in an old stone wall, she's uncovered more than lost jewelry -- she's just unwittingly exposed a fifty-year-old murder. Claire's octogenarian housema...

  • A Warrior's Mission

    Rita Herron

    AGENT...WARRIOR...FATHER Colorado Confidential agent Night Walker could track like a wolf and gentle the wildest beast. But learning that his night of forbidden desire with Colorado's own society princess had produced a son, and that his baby had ...

  • The Deadly Ackee and Other Stories of Crime and Catastrophe

    Joan Hess

    Agatha and Macavity Award-winning Author

    In the title novel, The Deadly Ackee, retired florist Theo Bloom lucks into what appears to be a perfect situation -- escorting his teenage niece and her five friends to lush Jamaica, where he can study the...

  • Flash Point

    Metsy Hingle

    IS A PICTURE WORTH A THOSAND WORDS... New York photographer Kelly Santos hides behind her camera and her talent, where no one can know about her tragic past...or the visions that haunt her. ...WHEN IT EXPOSES A DEADLY TRUTH? Now the past is ...

  • Passionately Ever After

    Metsy Hingle

    HE'D TRACKED HER DOWN... ...in the snow-covered Montana mountains. But in his runaway lover's glistening eyes Steven Conti could see she still loved him, still wanted him. And from her rounded belly he could see she hid his unborn baby. Nothing woul...

  • Cautious Heart

    Cheris F. Hodges / Cheris Hodges

    Caprice Johnson is a highly respected detective. She's one of the few women in the Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department's elite Vice/Narcotics unit. But it wasn't always that way. When Caprice lived in Chicago, she was a police officer on the fast...

  • God Bless the Child

    Billie Holiday

    "Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child That's got his own! That's got his own."

    The song "God Bless the Child" was first performed by legendary jazz vocalist Billie Holiday in 1939 and remains one of her e...

  • The Devil's Acre

    David Holland

    It is 1833, and you are invited to enter the quaint, quiet world of Bellminster, a pretty cathedral town in the English countryside with secrets and shadows around every corner. Venture into a world of petty politics and malicious gossip, a world ...

  • Coming Home

    Dee Holmes

    Olivia Halsey has never met a rummage sale she could pass up. But one-of-a-kind antiques at bargain prices are about the only thing she can stand to commit to. The sexy man she's involved with wants marriage, but Olivia keeps pushing him away. That's...

  • The Coming of Conan the Cimmerian

    Robert E. Howard

    Conan is one of the greatest fictional heroes ever created"a swordsman who cuts a swath across the lands of the Hyborian Age, facing powerful sorcerers, deadly creatures, and ruthless armies of thieves and reavers.“Between the years when the ocea...

  • 'Til Death Do Us Part

    Diann Hunt
    in

    When four women begin writing mystery books, they suddenly find themselves entering new lives of intrigue, danger - even love. Will their longing for adventure on paper take them to perilous places in real life? In this intriguing novella compilation...

  • My Life Uncovered

    Lynn Isenberg

    Laura Taylor thought she had a done deal with a Hollywood producer. Turns out the only deal her agent closed was his own disappearing act. (Rumor has it he's in rehab somewhere in North Dakota.) But a chance encounter with a "guy who knows a guy" ope...

  • The Bodyguard

    Andrea Jackson

    This wonderful book: The Bodyguard, is a sensuous love story. What happens when a sophisticated business woman from an upper class family is forces to seek the protection of a rough-around-the-edges strongman. She is shocked when she becomes the targ...

  • Thorn's Challenge

    Brenda Jackson

    ONE SIZZLING KISS FROM... Thorn Westmoreland was not enough to convince Tara Matthews to risk her heart in love again...or was it? The beautiful pediatrician and the hard-riding motorcycle tycoon mixed like oil and water. Why, then, couldn't Tara ...

  • Ricochet

    Nancy Baker Jacobs

    Annabel Nettleton can no longer ignore the reality that her husband, Dylan, is a stranger...a secretive, volatile man who disappears frequently and forces Annabel and their young son to live a nomadic existence. On the day she intends to ask him for ...

  • Positive Lives

    Kalpana Jain

    In 1989, Ashok Pillai, a radio operator in the Navy, tested positive for HIV. Thirteen years later, he is among the few courageous men and women who have come ‘open’, in order to extend support to those living with HIV and to spread awareness abo...

  • Man in a Million

    Muriel Jensen

    Paris O'Hara is trying to find herself And her hometown of Maple Hill is where she's starting the search. It turns out her mother lied to her about who her father really is, and Paris needs to know the truth. Until she comes to terms with her past, ...

  • Ambush of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    One Man Has A Knife. Twenty Men Have Guns. And The Odds Are Just About Even... Smoke Jensen never wanted to kill, but fate had other plans, and the Mountain Man has left plenty of blood, tears and fury in his wake. Angus MacDougal, the father of...

  • A Fortress of Grey Ice

    J.V. Jones

    BOUND BY DESTINY Ash March knew Raif Sevrance was special from the moment he helped rescue her from the tyranny of her foster father in the city of Spire Vanis. Like her, Raif was an outcast. Though from different worlds, he from the clanholds, sh...

  • New Ghoul in School

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    And you thought your class was spooky! The new kid in Nina, Jeff, and Cassidy's class is strange! He's see-through. He floats above his chair. And he never seems to leave the classroom. Could the new boy be a new ghost? Nina and her friends are af...

  • Now or Never

    Penny Jordan

    Maggie, Nicki, Alice and Stella... For four close friends, it's the bonds of friendship that have seen them through life's ups and downs. Nothing can shake their support of each other -- until one of them drops a bombshell that will change their rela...

  • The Bachelor's Dare

    Shirley Jump

    To the survivor goes...the RV? That's what Claire Richards was banking on when she entered the "Survive and Drive" contest at the local mall. The forty-five-foot home on wheels was her ticket out of Mercy, Indiana. But first she had to beat out a bun...

  • Midnight Pass

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Edgar Award"Winning Author: A downhearted detective deals with missing persons and murder in the “psychologically acute and fast-moving crime series” (Booklist).Lew Fonesca is a guy just trying to get along. When his wife died in a senseless au...

  • The Last Light of the Sun

    Guy Gavriel Kay

    A powerful, moving saga evoking the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon and Norse cultures of a thousand years ago from the acclaimed author of The Fionavar Tapestry.“A historical fantasy of the highest order, the work of a man who may well be the reigning master ...

  • The Carousel Mystery

    Carolyn Keene

    A MERRY-GO-ROUND MISHAP! River Heights is getting a carousel! And the town is having a special ceremony to unveil it. Nancy, Bess, and George are dizzy with excitement for their first ride on the beautiful antique horses. All the kids who ride the c...

  • Music Across the Wall

    Thomas J. Keevers

    Thomas J. Keevers makes an assured debut in this tough look at broken lives and lost hopes in the inner city, featuring a new private eye hero with guts and baggage to spare.

    P.I. Mike Duncavan is twice divorced, an ex-cop, and a disbarred lawyer....

  • The Water Clock

    Jim Kelly

    A mutilated body found frozen in a block of ice. A second body perched high in a cathedral, riding a gargoyle -- hidden for more than thirty years. When forensic evidence links both victims to one crime, reporter Philip Dryden knows he's on to a terr...

  • Beneath the Thirteen Moons

    Kathryne Kennedy

    HE'S A RULER IN A DIVIDED WORLD... In the magical, watery world of the Sea Forest, the divide between the rulers and the people is an uncrossable chasm. Handsome, arrogant prince Korl Com'nder has lived a life of luxury that is nothing more than a fa...

  • No Condition Is Permanent

    Cristina Kessler

    This was a beautiful friendshipA once-in-a-lifetime friendshipWould their cultures, African, and American, so different, tear them apart?We were walking single file to the rice field three mornings later. As we went, Khadi tried...

  • The Last Victim in Glen Ross

    M.G. Kincaid

    Seth Mornay, an ex-Royal Marine, returned home two years ago to start a new life working for the Grampian Police Force. Now a detective sergeant with the Criminal Investigation Division, Mornay is more interested in seducing women than clearing his ...

  • The Astonished Eye

    Tracy Knight

    Tracy Knight's short fiction has been lauded by critics and audiences across the country. Five Star is pleased to present his first novel, The Astonished Eye, about the heartland of America, its people, both real and imagined, and its hopes and dream...