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New Books List: 462 titles

  • Fallen Heroes

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    When a troop of alien warriors demands the return of an imprisoned comrade--a prisoner no one on Deep Space NineTM knows anything about--Commander Benjamin Sisko has a deadly fight on his hands. Under sudden attack from the heavily armed warriors, Si...

  • Island

    Charles Abbott

    A portrait of Fred Fay follows an outwardly successful but selfish man's descent into alcoholism and failure and his slow, difficult recovery into a wholly new and meaningful life....

  • Bait

    Kenneth Abel

    Good cop-turned-drunk cop, Walsh agrees to help federal prosecutor Kate Haggerty get Mafia don Jimmy D'Angelo, who has ordered Walsh's death, and he enters a jungle of corruption, lies, and murder. Reprint....

  • Things Fall Apart

    Chinua Achebe

    “A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.”  -- Barack Obama 

    Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Gre...

  • Dragonspawn

    Mark Acres

    Even as the invincible armies of the Black Prince plunder and slaughter, laying waste to all lands between Parona and the Elvan Preserve, the vile wizard, Valdaimon, guards the golden eggs that will one day enable him to call fire from the heavens.In...

  • Rich Girl, Bad Boy

    Audra Adams

    SINGLE GUY SEEKS... INCRIMINATING PICTURES World-weary photographer Lucas Stratten scorned the rich and famous, but when he accidentally discovered runaway heiress Alexandra Beck's hideaway and caught her in a very revealing situation... Well, o...

  • Dr. Nightingale Comes Home

    Lydia Adamson

    GOING TO THE DOGS -- FOR MURDER Deirdre "Didi" Quinn Nightingale needs to solve a baffling mystery to save her struggling veterinary practice in rural New York state. Bouncing her red Jeep along country roads, she is headed for the herd of beautiful...

  • Drown All the Dogs

    Thomas Adcock

    "The case is yours, I fear," Police Captain Davy Mogaill said. "And what grander case may a detective crack than the mystery of his own makings?" Detective Neil Hockaday, hero of New York's elite S.C.O.M. (Street Crimes Unit-Manhattan) patrol, has...

  • A Tupolev Too Far: And Other Stories

    Brian W. Aldiss

  • Otis

    Paul Limbert Allman

    The rollicking tale of a modern folk-hero, rainbarrelmaker Otis Gully, begins in Braggadoccio, Missouri, when Otis's father sends him off to dry up the Mississippi River and ends up in New York City, where Otis goes in search of a lost goddess. A fir...

  • The Man Who Turned into Himself

    David Ambrose

    Rick Hamilton has the perfect life; a great career, a wonderful son and a beautiful wife. Until one day, everything changes. Something - a premonition? A terrifying fantasy? - happens to Rick. Who is the man in the horrifying fatal car crash? Why is ...

  • Jedi Search

    Kevin J. Anderson

    As the war between the Republic and the scattered remnants of the Empire continues, two children--the Jedi twins--will come into their powers in a universe on the brink of vast changes and challenges. In this time of turmoil and discovery, an extraor...

  • Ruby

    V.C. Andrews

    IN THE HEART OF THE BAYOU, RUBY LANDRY LIVES A SIMPLE, HAPPY LIFE. BUT INNOCENCE CAN'T LAST FOREVER.... The only family Ruby Landry has ever known are her loving guardian, Grandmere Catherine, a Cajun spiritual healer, and her drunken, outcast Gra...

  • Demons Don't Dream

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    “Series fans will find themselves right at home” as a computer game draws two players into the illusion-, pun-, and dragon-filled land of Xanth (Kirkus Reviews).   Sixteen-year-old Dug has yet to be impressed by a computer game, but that’s...

  • Zoey Fools Around

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another. . .but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Zoey fools around , and it turns their world upside down. New couples are formed, friends ...

  • An Unsuitable Wife

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Sidonie was a novice when it came to matters of the heart. Perhaps it was inevitable that when she met Mike Brennan she was immediately bowled over by his irresistible charm. Mike soon made it clear though that he wasn't interested in romance,...

  • Private Lies

    Judith Arnold

    A RELUCTANT HEIRESS... Though her millionaire father was dying, Hollis Griffin rejected his attempts to make amends. After all, he'd always refused to acknowledge her as his child -- and now she intended to make him pay... Her downfall came...

  • Full Spectrum IV

    Lou Aronica

  • Heartsong

    April Ashmore

    FROM A BRITISH BOARDING SCHOOL TO THE RUGGED CALIFORNIA FRONTIER, SHE FOUGHT FOR A DANGEROUS LEGACY OF LOVE. Clad only in a nightdress, her rifle aimed straight at their hearts, Savanna Storm defied Los Sombras, the notorious bandits who'd rid...

  • The Seeker

    Elizabeth August

    FOUND: One Tall, Dark Cowboy Intuition had led Amanda MacGreggor to the faraway land of cowboys and coyotes. Now, glimpsing the lone rider silhouetted against the South Dakota sky, she sensed that she was about to meet her destiny. An impulse h...

  • Deep Trek

    James Axler

    Returning to an Earth devastated by a deadly cancer, the crew of the spaceship Aquila match wits with a ruthless paramilitary group out to control the entire planet as they search for survivors of the disaster. Original....

  • Hour of the Manatee

    E.C. Ayres

    She calls him a "hippie deadbeat." He thinks she's a "hard-nosed yuppie." But they need each other to catch a killer from the past. Tony Lowell is a shaggy 1960s dropout, ex-hotshot press photographer and occasional P.I. In a shack on Florida's slee...

  • Guess What

    Pam Ayres

  • Guess Who

    Pam Ayres

  • Corporate Cowgirl

    Stella Bagwell

    Denim and diamonds Sophisticated Margo Kelsey hadn't known what to expect at the Silver Spur ranch -- certainly not a Iong, lean, laconic cowboy named D. B. Barlow who told her to go away! Undaunted by primitive conditions, hostile horses and ...

  • Staying with Grandmother

    Barbara Baker

  • The Fermata

    Nicholson Baker

    Having turned phone sex into the subject of an astonishing national bestseller in Vox, Baker now outdoes himself with an outrageously arousing, acrobatically stylish "X-rated sci-fi fantasy that leaves Vox seeming more like mere fiber-optic foreplay"...

  • Poky Little Puppy's Busy Counting Book

    Rita Balducci

  • Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp

    Rita Balducci

  • Dancing With Clara

    Mary Balogh

    A Lady Without Illusions Miss Clara Danford had no illusions about Frederick Sullivan. She knew that this magnificently handsome gentleman was a rake whose women were legion and whose gambling debts were staggering. She also knew why he wished to ...

  • A Real and Precious Thing

    Brenda Bancroft

    When coin collector Loralie Morgan meets Jonathan McGuire at an out-of-town coin show, he seems to be everything she ever wanted in a husband. Surely he must be the answer to her prayers, the man God wants for her male. Why is it then that angry D...

  • Zaanan: Conflict on Cada Maylon

    Barbour Publishing

  • Krystal Princess and the Grand Contest

    Joanne Barkan

  • Old Rhymes for All Times

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • Brambly Hedge Birthday Book

    Jill Barklem

  • The Streeter

    Scott Ian Barry

  • Sweet Justice

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    SOME BETRAYALS A WOMAN NEVER FORGIVES...OR FORGETS Kate Colson, seemingly too young to be a Texas judge, holds tremendous power to save the innocent and punish the guilty-even though her own need for personal justice smolders deep within her. Sepa...

  • Double Blind

    Philip Baxter

  • Mirror Maze

    William Bayer

    The ritual was always the same. First, she would visit the abandoned mirror maze from her broken childhood. Then, she would drive into the city, pick up a stranger, drug him, rob him, and humiliate him. Now one of her "marks" has been found murdered....

  • New Worlds of Literature

    Jerome Beaty

    An introduction to literature and also a text for courses in composition, multicultural, or contemporary American literature.

    Contemporary, Cross-Cultural, American Writing. With 28 stories, 30 essays and autobiographical narratives, 90 poem...

  • Autumn Love

    Ann Bell

    A bizzare incident at Rocky Bluff High School triggers Edith Harkness's retirement as a home economics teacher, and the start of her so-called golden years. While Edith, a widow, mother, and grandmother, is a crossroads in her life, her son Bob, t...

  • Love and Honor

    Barbara Benedict

    Exiled from society years before, Honor Drummond returns to London to take her place among high society, unaware that Geoffrey Stone, the earl of Lennox, has wagered that she will remain unwed at the end of the Season. Original....

  • Sunset Glitter

    Cherie Bennett

    Travel to New York City with Samantha, Emma and Carrie in Sunset Glitter for a fabulous Sunset Island Special! We kept telling Sam she could do it -- she has! She got a part in a Broadway show! Now the three of us are headed for the Big Apple togeth...

  • Wild Hearts

    Cherie Bennett

  • The Panther's Hoard

    Nancy Varian Berberick

    Garroc is the last of the first-born, the once-mighty race of dwarves. Gifted with a long life--and a battle-axe called Harm--he marches alongside human warriors to fulfill an ancient oath... In the bitter wars following Arthur's reign, the swords...

  • Robert Crews

    Thomas Berger

    From the author of Little Big Man comes a modern retelling of Robinson Crusoe that is an introspective look at the human condition only Thomas Berger could deliver. “Both a survival tale and a story of the redemptive power of love and nature, the...

  • Forbidden

    Jo Beverley

    ABOUT TO BE SOLD into a loveless marriage by her scheming brothers, Serena Riverton takes to the open road. In desperation, she accepts a carriage ride from a stranger. He is the handsomest man she has ever seen -- and the first to seem unmoved by he...

  • Friends of the Family

    Camilla Bittle

    Well-insulated from an outside world riddled by war, the children of a history professor romp through the campus of a Massachusetts private school and develop special friendships that will last for years to come...

  • Rites of Passage

    Tonya Bolden

  • The Hangman

    Randall Boyll

  • Let Us Prey

    Bill Branon

    In a world of governmental corruption and crippling taxes, a renegade citizen's group plans to overthrow the American IRS, unaware that two professional killers are plotting to bring down the government as well as the people. Reprint....

  • Rancher's Choice

    Kylie Brant

    THE RANCHER Jackson Lowell Roberts III is every woman's dream man. Tough and sexy, he knows exactly what he wants--and how to get it. HIS LADY Kalinda Scott is not his usual type. Beautiful and brainy, she has a mind of her own and isn't swa...

  • The Cat Who Came to Breakfast

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Qwilleran and the cats are visiting an island known by many names. Qwill has always called it Breakfast Island, but to the taciturn natives, its Providence Island. To the rich summer residents it's Grand Island--and to the developers and tourists who...

  • Promise Me Heaven

    Connie Brockway

    MASTER OF SEDUCTION To help her impoverished family, Lady Catherine "Cat" Sinclair must wed a wealthy man. So naturally, she seeks out a rake of mythic notoriety, Thomas Montrose, to instruct her in the fine art of seduction. Cat is stunned to disco...

  • Dolly

    Anita Brookner

    In her superbly accomplished novel, Anita Brookner proves that she is our most profound observer of women's lives, posing questions about feminine identity and desire with a stylishness that conveys an almost sensual pleasure.From the moment Jane Man...

  • Beloved Viking

    Betty Brooks

    A REBELLIOUS ANASAZI BEAUTY Banished from her tribe, tossed on the winds of rage and sorrow, Shala was desperate. Then she heard the mountain lion scream and found the wounded warrior. Eric, the great, golden-haired Viking, frightened her with his...

  • Miami, It's Murder

    Edna Buchanan

    Miami felony is red hot and hopping these days, leaving ace newspaper reporter Britt Montero--who has been known to beat the cops to local crime scenes--with an overflowing plate. The Downtown Rapist is assaulting unsuspecting women in office buildin...

  • Complete Plays, Lenz, and Other Writings

    Georg Buchner

    Collected in this volume are powerful dramas and psychological fiction by the nineteenth-century iconoclast now recognized as a major figure of world literature. Also included are selections from Büchner's letters and philosophical writings....

  • Finder

    Emma Bull

    Orient the Finder, a young man with a supernatural ability to recover lost objects, and a tough female cop named Sonny Rico, set out to cure the city of a mysterious plague and the advent of a deadly drug. Reprint....

  • Black Gold

    Anita Richmond Bunkley

    Leela Wilder, a proud and beautiful African American woman, is caught in the torrent of greed, ambition, and prejudice that turned oil-rich Texas farmlands into wellsprings of fortune in the tumultuous 1920s. Orphaned as a young girl, she makes a goo...

  • Islands of Tomorrow

    F.M. Busby

    Transported through time to an earth of the distant future, Luke Tabor discovers that a genetic disaster has led to overbreeding, and he is coveted to enhance the earth's weakening gene pool. Original....

  • Daughters of Africa

    Margaret Busby

    "A magnificent starting place for any reader interested in becoming part of the collective enterprise of discovering and uncovering the silent, forgotten, and underrated voices of black women."
    THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
    From all over the w...

  • Pecked to Death by Ducks

    Tim Cahill

    In his latest tour of the earth's remote, exotic, and dismal places, the author of Road Fever and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg sleeps with a grizzly bear, witnesses demonic possession in Bali, and survives a run-in with something called the Throne of...

  • Blueschild Baby

    George Cain

    “The most important work of fiction by an Afro-American since Native Son.” -- Addison Gayle, Jr., The New York Times Book ReviewA searing chronicle of the life of a young ex-convict and heroin addict in 1960’s Harlem, an unsparing portrait of ...

  • In the Palace of the Movie King

    Hortense Calisher

    Gonchev, schooled in Japan by disciples of Kurosawa, admits to only one citizenship: Film. As Director, making movies for a Balkan enclave, he, together with his vast movie lot and sets, is already a legend. He finds himself an honored prisoner, and ...

  • His Brother's Keeper

    Gay Cameron

    His brother was a criminal ... ...and he was the law. Just when Trevor Steele discovered he had a brother, he was assigned to investigate his criminal acts and suicide. And to get the information the Feds were sure his not-so-grieving widow posses...

  • Choctaw Trail

    Will Camp

    Redeputized after a murderer kills two people in Shacktown, retired U.S. Marshal Doyle Hardy follows a trail that leads from whorehouses, to moonshine shacks, to the Choctaw Trail to catch the killer. Original....

  • The Palace Thief

    Ethan Canin

    “Extraordinary for its craft and emotional effect . . . [Ethan Canin is] a writer of enormous talent and charm.”"The Washington Post“Character is destiny,” wrote Heraclitus"and in this collection of four unforgettable stories, we meet peo...

  • Tarnished Hearts

    Raine Cantrell

    BOUND BE PASSION To Trevor Shelby, Leah Reese was a beauty forbidden to him by class barriers: he was a Southern aristocrat and she was an overseer's daughter. Denied his dream of being a doctor Trev's tormented past showed him nothing of tenderness...

  • Homecoming

    Orson Scott Card

    Homecoming: Harmony is an omnibus edition of the first three books (The Memory of Earth, The Call of Earth, and The Ships of Earth) in Card's Homecoming Saga. It does not include the last two books (Earthfall, Earthborn) in the series....

  • Bride of the Night

    Tena Carlyle

    RECKLESS PASSION in the booming timber town of Astoria, Oregon, Dr. Rachel Thomas tended the sick, -while secretly plotting to bring down the corrupt officials who'd killed her father. High on her list was Grey Devlin, the irresistibly seductive...

  • Arrangements of the Heart

    Marisa Carroll
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    The arrangement is purely business. Lori Fenton needs someone to care for her young son while she undergoes surgery. Matt Damschroeder needs cash to save his business. Neither one ever imagines their marriage of convenience could become anything more...

  • The Valentine's Day Ball

    Susan Carroll

    A broken Engagement And A Broken Heart, "Twas a Combination Only St. Valentine Could Repair... Only Sir Jared Branden would be so flip as to tease Maria about the Valentine's Day she had left him standing at the altar. She had pursued her...

  • Black Lace and Linen

    Susan Carroll

    SINGLE GUY SEEKS...JUST A NICE GIRL NEXT DOOR But with a wild woman like Laura Stuart around, how could any man resist? Adam Barnhart didn't completely buy her act, but he was willing to play along, determined to make the infamous Ms. Stuart liv...

  • Dancing on Dark Water

    Alden R. Carter

  • Silent Screams

    Carla Cassidy

    Murder and Madness Decades ago, a silent-film legend had violently and inexplicably shattered his fairy-tale marriage. Now, inquisitive Dalton Waverly had returned to the scene of his famous grandfather's unspeakable crime, determined to unloc...

  • Uncertain Angels

    Kim Cates

    THE MILLIONAIRE'S DAUGHTER Allison Crawford dwelt in a wonderland of mansions and private jets, far from the gritty reality of the streets that J. T. James knew too well. But from the moment the seductive renegade careened into her privileged ...

  • The Raider's Bride

    Kimberly Cates

    By day Ian Blackheath was the most sensual, immoral rogue in colonial Virginia. By night he was secretly Pendragon, the ruthless leader of the patriot cause. He certainly had no time for a ward. The lovely Emily Rose d'Autrecourt knew only the rogue ...

  • Hotel Andromeda

    Jack L. Chalker

    A collection of short stories deals with the grandest hotel in the universe, where star-crossed lovers cross paths with the woman who rules the earth, a shape-shifting madame fulfills the needs of extraterrestrials, and a thin-skinned human fights co...

  • Mooncaller

    Patricia Chandler

    WHITNEY BALDRIDGE-BARRROWS She looked like a china doll, but was tough as nails inside. A competent, no-nonsense physician, she'd taken a year off the fast track to serve the community of Havasupai Indians living at the bottom of the Grand Can...

  • The Great Carrot Top Mystery

    Bernice Chardiet

    Young readers are encouraged to place stickers throughout a story involving the disappearance of the tops of all the carrots in Edward Rabbit's garden in order to fill in the missing clues of the mystery....

  • Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?

    James Charlton

    A collection of stories that end with a malaproped quotation or popular phrase features the writing of Roy Blount, Jr., John D. MacDonald, Peter Schickele, Elmore Leonard, Stephen King, Anna Quindlen, Tony Hillerman, and Peter Straub. Reprint....

  • In Their Footsteps

    Henry Chase

  • Honor

    Lindsay Chase

    SHE VOWED TO BECOME A LAWYER -- IN A TIME WHEN FEW WOMEN DARED TO FOLLOW THEIR DREAMS... Her father was falsely accused of murder -- and paid for the injustice with his life. It was a scandal that could have shattered Honor Elliott. Instead, it st...

  • Captives of the Night

    Loretta Chase

    Nine years earlier, lovely Leila Beaumont's criminal father died mysteriously. And now her cruel, profligate husband has been murdered -- with innocent Leila suspected of the crime. Determined to uncover the truth, no matter how unpleasant, the b...

  • Foreigner

    C.J. Cherryh

    It had been nearly five centuries since the starship Phoenix, lost in space and desperately searching for the nearest G5 star, had encountered the planet of the atevi. On this alien world, law was kept by the use of registered assassination, alliance...

  • A Perfect Day for Dying

    Joyce Christmas

    When a posh party in the Caribbean arranged by Lady Margaret's good friend and ne'er-do-well Paul Castrocani, for wealthy Lord Fairfane, provides the setting for two murders, Lady Margaret flies to the scene. An expert in upper-crust mruder, she pose...

  • The Class Menagerie

    Jill Churchill

    Crass Reunion Despite a full schedule, frazzled suburban single mom Jane Jeffry has agreed to help out during a two-day gathering of her friend Shelley's former high school girls' club. So while the reunited ladies are dishing dirt, Jane i...

  • Love in Disguise

    Alana Clayton

    When Giles, Earl Of Castleton, hired Mrs. Caroline Alveston to replace his ailing housekeeper, he had little idea just who he was bringing into his home. She kept a neat house and cooked a fine omelette, and for a world-weary soldier, that was enough...

  • Voices in the Dark

    Andrew Coburn

    Bensington, Mass., the Boston bedroom suburb that was the scene of Andrew Coburn’s acclaimed thriller No Way Home, is the setting of this new novel of thumbscrew suspense, explosive sex, and shattering revelation. Once again police chief James Morg...

  • MISSING PAGES, THE

    Cristina Comencini

    The well-to-do Forte family is at its wit's end when Federica Forte becomes mute, and as she communicates her thoughts in letters, her family attempts to find out what past tragedy has caused her silence. A first novel....

  • To Make a Killing

    Robert J. Conley

  • Looks Like Love

    Susan Connell

    DREW -- Prince Charming with a Scoundrel's Grin... She was a delicious early-morning surprise: a goddess in silky lingerie kneeling in his uncle's yard and coaxing a ball of fur into her arms -- but Drew Webster knew instantly she wouldn&#...

  • Like Father, Like Son?

    Lori Copeland

  • See How She Runs

    Matthew J. Costello

    After the stroke, Kate's husband was a different man... Cruel, abusive, violent. Divorce was her only salvation—but not for her daughter and son. By law, they were required to visit their father. And endure his terrible rage.So Kate decided to...

  • When Stars Collide

    Patricia Coughlin

    Rachel Curtis had given up everything to protect her niece Bonnie -- her home, her job, even her identity. Finally it seemed they were safe, miles and years away from the past. The sleepy New England town was their perfect haven -- until fate interve...

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

    Bruce Coville

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

  • Almost Home

    Debra Cowan

    LEAH To save her late husband's business, she would marry again. But that didn't mean she would love again... CABOT At first, he only wanted Leah to give him a child. But soon he dared to hope she would give him her heart as well... S...

  • A Wanted Man

    Kathleen Creighton

    DIRTY WORK Mike Lanagan: He knows that in Lucy Brown's eyes he's just a drifter, a hired hand who can move hay, pen pigs and kiss a lady breathless. Lucy Brown: She knows that in Mike's eyes she's just a plain-Jane farmer, a woman too unworldly...

  • Border Town Law

    David Critser

  • Promised Lands

    Elizabeth Crook

    Elizabeth Crook's vast yet intimate novel of the Texas Revolution takes us beyond the traditional setpieces of the Alamo and San Jacinto to the other places where the war was fought -- to the forest traces and prairies and Gulf Coast beaches, a...

  • Getting Rid of Bradley

    Jennifer Crusie

    BAD HAIR DAYS.... As a brunette, Lucy Savage married banker Bradley Porter. OK, he didn't set her pulse racing, but he seemed nice enough. Then she discovered he wasn't so nice after all when she found him with another woman...in her house...

  • Under the Bone

    Anne-Christine D'Adesky

  • Walk a Crooked Mile

    Catherine Dain

    SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET Freddie's been hired--by her mother. Mom's new husband is running for office, but her old husband--Freddie's father--is just plain running. Tracking down Danny O'Neal's biker buddies, she finds the trail's pretty cold after a...

  • White Lies and Valentines

    Margot Dalton
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    Divorcee Molly Clarke is a Seattle window dresser with an attitude. So when a company Valentine's Day draw pairs her with the boss's son, she spends her savings on a killer dress and lies through her teeth about her family and life-style. Her date bu...

  • Jilted!

    Joleen Daniels

    Speak now or forever hold your peace Rob Emory wasn't about to give up the woman he loved without a fight! Although he hadn't made his feelings for Jenny Landon official, everyone knew that they were meant for each other -- everyone buy Je...

  • The Spy Who Loved Her

    Sheryl Danson

    SPY SCHOOL HADN'T PREPARED HIM FOR THIS Tough, cynical special agent Alex Sullivan had dodged bullets, crawled through mine fields and played "spy wars" with the very best in the murky intelligence world. So a little assignment like rescuing blond...

  • The Literary Lover

    Larry Dark

    From pyrotechnic eroticism to fading passion, 20 contemporary writers explore love in this irresistible collection. Contributors include Harold Brodkey, Laurie Colwin, Nadine Gordimer, Rachel Ingalls, William Kotzwinkle, Joyce Carol Oates, Grace Pale...

  • Katie Kicks Off

    Gibbs Davis

    When several members of the Never Sink Nine baseball team sign up for soccer, Walter is delighted to be assigned to the same team as the talented and athletic Katie, but just before the first game, Katie decides to quit...

  • Bondage

    Patti Davis

  • Frank and Ernest on the Road

    Alexandra Day

  • Sultry Days

    Shobhaa De

    Nisha falls in love with God in the college canteen when she is an impressionable teenager and he a ragged, streetwise student. God's driving ambition leads him into journalism while Nisha lands a job in advertising. Sycophants, whores, fixers, prett...

  • The Big O

    David Debin

    Albie Marx, the irreverent columnist for the alternative newspaper, Up Yours, reveals some financial misdoings and implicates some powerful--and angry--figures. By the author of Nice Guys Finish Dead. ...

  • Honeyed Lies

    Claire Delacroix

    Sable-soft eyes set in a rugged, chiseled face marked the merchant Jacob as a man of vibrant contrasts. Instantly, Rebecca knew here was a man unafraid of passion. One who made her achingly aware of her own desires and ashamed of the deceit she had w...

  • The Bluestocking

    David Delman

    In a blend of historical fact and fiction, the story of a scandalous pre-Civil War divorce trial uncovers the skewed social mores of the nineteenth century and shows how they severed the ties between a young couple in love....

  • The Dumb Bunnies

    Sue Denim

    While Momma, Poppa, and Baby Bunny enjoy a day out on the town, Little Red Goldilocks makes herself at home in their house, in a fairy tale parody by the author of The Night Before Thanksgiving. ...

  • Scorpion in the Sea

    P.T. Deutermann

    MENACE On a calm night off the Florida coast, a fishing boat vanishes without a trace. Something deadly is hiding in U.S. waters, and the Navy brass would rather bury the truth than face it. MAVERICK It's Montgomery's war now. Brash and unconven...

  • Winter's Heat

    Denise Domning

    Her time in a nunnery had taught Lady Rowena many things, but not how to be a wife to the powerful Lord who claimed her as his bride. Meeting him on their wedding day, her blue eyes defiantly locked with his, she vowed never to submit to this aloof, ...

  • My Escape: Shipwrecked

    Judy Donnelly

  • The Shaman Sings

    James D. Doss

    Daisy Perika has no place in the modern world of cold, rational science. Hers is the realm of the spirit -- of ancient and sacred magic. But visions of Coyote and fire have awakened the aged Ute shaman once again to the Dark One's workings among the ...

  • Irene's Last Waltz

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Irene Adler (the only woman ever to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes), her dashing barrister husband Godfrey Norton and their companion, the indomitable Miss Nell Huxleigh, have cone home to Paris, to rest and recuperate after their latest adventures. ...

  • Countdown

    Keith Douglass

    As civil war rages in the Commonwealth of Independent States and the threat of nuclear aggression looms, Captain Matthew "Tombstone" Magruder and his men must launch marine assaults and aerial strikes on the Russians. Original....

  • Lessons in Survival

    Laramie Dunaway

    From the widely-acclaimed author of Borrowed Lives comes a hilarious, offbeat story of a woman forced to face her unusual upbringing. Trapped in the spotlight of unwanted fame, Blue Erhardt must make some life-changing decisions in this clever and un...

  • His Lordship's Reward

    Carola Dunn

    A MATTER OF RANK The distinguished Viscount Roworth of Kent hoped that his clandestine activities on behalf of the British Army would help restore his family fortune and gain him entry into Brussels' high society. The only fly in the ointment wa...

  • Anniversary Waltz

    Anne Marie Duquette

    Will this be their first anniversary -- or their last? Megan Kendall discovers that, thanks to their "best man," her marriage to Reed isn't legal. Now, a year later -- a year of living with a work obsessed husband -- she has a choice. Sh...

  • Tracks of Angels

    Kelly Dwyer

    Laura Newman flees her home in California, hoping to leave behind the sadness of her childhood. But as she tries to make a new start in Boston, Laura is haunted by painful memories. As she searches for her own personal and spiritual identity, she ima...

  • Here We Are in Paradise

    Tony Earley

    Set in the big cities, tiny hamlets, mountain hollows, and tourist towns of North Carolina, the acclaimed stories of Here We Are in Paradise are alive with the mysteries of the human heart. In the award-winning "Charlotte," the departure of the local...

  • La Divina

    Anne Edwards

    The fictional portrait of the passionate and tragic personal life of a world-acclaimed opera diva profiles Athena Varos, whose voice and charisma propel her to fame matched with a legendary private life. 50,000 first printing....

  • Savage Embers

    Cassie Edwards

    NIGHT FLAME Before him in the silvery moonlight, she appeared as if in a vision --- her hair a vivid shock of red, her eyes a blazing blue. And from that moment, a love like wildfire rushed through his blood. Not one to be denied, the mighty Arapaho...

  • Earthsong

    Suzette Haden Elgin

    On a future Earth in which all women except genetically bred linguists are treated as property, the female linguists plan for the liberation of their sex and plan to seize power to save the world from certain disaster. Original....

  • The Judas Rose

    Suzette Haden Elgin

    In this dystopian science fiction classic set in a world where women have no rights, the patriarchy sends a covert female agent to take down the resistance. In the second entry of the Native Tongue trilogy, the time has come for Láadan -- ...

  • Kiley's Storm

    Suzanne Elizabeth

    NEVER UNDERESTIMATE A WOMAN WITH A SHOTGUN...Daniella Storm is a force to be reckoned with. Few residents in Shady Gulch, Colorado, can stand up to the strong-willed beauty. When a gold nugget the size of a hen's egg is found in the creek dividing Da...

  • Lone Star and the Death Chase

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki meet an outlaw who's shottin' and lootin' his way into legend!After a violent stagecoach heist that leaves a family friend dead, Jessie and Ki join the chase for the killer, Reno Quant, an outlaw who has never been seen....

  • Longarm and the Train Robbers

    Tabor Evans

    When an explosion set by train robbers blows Longarm and his fellow passengers off the tracks, Longarm sets out to find the parties responsible, a mission that leads to the death of a man with dangerous friends in high places...

  • Extraordinary Powers

    Joseph Finder

    The news is shattering: Harrison Sinclair, director of the CIA, has been killed in a car accident. His son-in-law, Ben Ellison--an attorney at an old-line Boston law firm and an ex-agent himself--instantly hears rumors ... of sinister forces within t...

  • Lone Wolf

    Nigel Findley

    BLOOD AND MAGIC......rage in the streets of Seattle. The shift of a few blocks of gang turf costs lives, innocent and guilty, silenced forever and then forgotten in the city's deepest shadows.Lone Star, Seattle's contracted police force, fights a los...

  • Anti-Babysitter Plot

    Susan Fletcher

  • Passover As I Remember It

    Toby Knobel Fluek

  • Krystal Princesses Shake up the Day

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Shameless

    Suzanne Forster

    WHEN THE GOOD CITIZENS OF HALF MOON BAY, CALIFORNIA WHISPERED OF SCANDALS AND SEX, THE NAME ON THEIR LIPS WAS JESSIE FLOOD... They said she was common as dirt, so why did a multimillionaire ask her to marry him? They said she had a child -- a l...

  • The Rider from Yonder

    Paula Fox

    After inheriting a cattle ranch from Chance Corday, Melody Malone learns that he is the first man who has had the nerve to stand up to Quirt Hardin, who is trying to put a stranglehold on the ranch. Original....

  • The Darklight Grimoire

    Steven Frankos

    Matthew Logan is trapped in a land of all-consuming darkness and forced into the unlikely role of spellcaster. The time of apocalypse is at hand, so Matthew--with the help of a powerful priestess and an ancient, legendary book of secrets--must harnes...

  • The Outlaw's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    ACT OF MERCY, ACT OF MURDER On her way to a baptism, Sister Frevisse finds blood is thicker than water... and as easily spilled. Waylaid by a band of outlaws, she learns that their leader is her long-lost cousin Nicholas. He asks Frevisse's help t...

  • Fire in a Faraway Place

    Robert A. Frezza

    Six years after Lt.-Colonel Anton Vereshcagin's 1st Battalion, 35th Imperial Infantry Regiment (Rifle) quelled the revolt that marooned it on Suid-Africa, another fleet appears in the skies: Earth has not forgtten Suid-Afrika, nor has the Japanese co...

  • Riptide

    Mickey Friedman

    Returning to the Florida panhandle after the death of the aunt she'd fled from fifteen years earlier, Isabel Anders is greeted with hostility, threatening notes, and deadly snakes before a friend reveals the suspicious nature of Merriam's death. Repr...

  • Secrets to Tell

    Ann Gabhart

  • Special Victims

    Nick Gaitano

  • Nightmare Matinee

    G.G. Garth

    The arrival of a new horror film in Westlake spells terror for some of the town's teenagers, when Aaron, Katrina, and Coriander begin to mutate into some of the film's grotesque characters, while others notice only the teens' strange behavior. Origin...

  • Shock Rock II

    Jeff Gelb

  • Michelle

    Eva Gibson

  • Long Quiet Highway

    Natalie Goldberg

    The author of Writing Down the Bones recounts her journey awakening from the profound sleep of a suburban childhood, describing her fifteen years as a student of Zen Buddhism, her writing, and resistance to change....

  • Dinosaur Comes to Dinner

    Golden Books

  • Goose for All Seasons

    Golden Books

    After refusing to fly south with the other geese because he wants to see a northern winter, Waggles has mixed feelings about his decision. Includes an accompanying panel of sound effects for the reader....

  • Take Me out to the Ball Game

    Golden Books

  • The Enemy Within

    Christie Golden
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Sir Tristan Hiregaard is a nobleman in the dark land of Nova Vaasa, to all outward appearances a kind lord who would never harm anyone. Yet, Sir Tristan has a sinister secret, one that even he does not understand... . At times the nobleman transfo...

  • Moonlight on Monterey Bay

    Sally Goldenbaum

    SAM -- His Midnight Eyes Sent a Jolt of Heat Straight to Her Heart.... He'd expected the beach house to be empty, but instead he discovered a beautiful nymph who ordered him to leave at once! Shocked that the handsome intruder was her prospective...

  • The Passover Journey

    Barbara Diamond Goldin

    The author of Cakes and Miracles uses a question-and-answer format to place Passover Seder rituals in their historical context, while songs, games, and other activities make the story of the Israelites' journey accessible....

  • Tribal Shadows

    Gary Gottesfeld

    When a Beverly Hills earthquake uncovers an ancient Indian burial ground, anthropologist Dutch Van Deer discovers the skeletal remains of teenaged twin sisters, neither Indian nor ancient, and he begins an investigation. Original....

  • Tekworld

    Ron Goulart

  • A Vengeful Passion

    Lynne Graham

    A Desperate Plea Ashley Forrester had no choice but to plead with Vito di Cavalieri to drop the charges that would put her brother in prison. She expected Vito to exact a high payment in return. But what shocked her was his asking price.... A D...

  • Animal Brigade 3000

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Simply Irresistible

    Nicole Grey

  • A High Pressure System

    Ken Gross

    Jack Mann, an ex-cop-turned private eye-for-hire, and Bonnie Hudson, a television weather announcer and hopeful investigative reporter, try to discover who may have killed Bonnie's colleague in Central Park. Reprint....

  • Walt Disney's Lady and the Tramp

    Jon Z. Haber

  • The Patricidal Bedside Companion

    K. S. Haddock

    Evoking the rootlessness and casual cynicism of modern America, a tragicomic vision of today's younger generation follows the misadventures of Riley O'Donnough, who plans to murder his father, until he falls for the beautiful Tara, a Nietzsche lover...

  • Sea Treasure

    Johanna Hailey

  • Dead Heat

    Wendy Haley

    HOT FEAR His signature is gasoline, his game -- arson. Louise Maiota has seen his shadow, but not his face. And that's just the way he wants it... EXPLOSIVE TERROR Louise thinks she's safe. But he's everywhere. At work. At home. In that dark, in...

  • Sally Jane Got Married

    Celeste Hamilton

    IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN... Unwed mother Sally Jane Haskins was the scarlet woman of Willow Creek. So what did the town's most eligible newcomer see in her? Maybe fine, upstanding Cotter Graham just didn't believe the ...

  • Voyage to Enchantment

    Rosemary Hammond

    It was the vacation of a lifetime and shy Melissa was determined to make the most of it. That meant throwing off her inhibitions once and for all and, like some modern-day Cinderella, transforming herself completely! But it seemed that famous author ...

  • Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!

    Emma Harding

  • Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep

    Michael S. Harper

    Every Shut Eye Ain't Asleep is a rich collection of the work of post-World War II African-American poets. It brings together the voices of the most important African-American poets of our time, beginning with the highly influential Robert Hayden and ...

  • Fatal Magic

    Janice Harrell

  • Stainless Steel Visions

    Harry Harrison

  • Necrochip // Death to Go

    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    A MURDEROUS MIX Detective Inspector Bill Slider is puzzled when he's called to Dave's Fish and Chips Bar to investigate what appears to be a public health matter--a human finger mingled in with the fried potatoes. But when a stash of additional bo...

  • Irresistible

    Catherine Hart

    THE PASSION OF A BEAUTIFUL SINNER With courage and cunning, Jade Donovan has survived alone in a rugged new land -- though her dance hall career has earned her an undeserved reputation as a fallen woman. But now as she travels to Oregon in disrepu...

  • The Great Egg Mystery

    Margaret A. Hartelius

  • Wilderness

    Gerald Hausman

    Two larger-than-life men of the West--John Colter and Hugh Glass--define the spirit of wilderness survival, pushing their minds and bodies to the limit as they each narrowly escape the obstacles of nature and the threats of the western frontier....

  • Highland Hearts

    Maggie Hayes

    After years of dancing lessons, Shona Fraser finally gets the chance to compete in the upcoming championship highland dancing competition, but her intensive rehearsal schedule begins to interfere in her relationship with her boyfriend, Hugh MacKendri...

  • Days Gone by

    Sally Tyler Hayes

    A QUESTION OF TRUST Tucker Malloy wasn't looking for miracles when he returned to his hometown after six years, just a chance to get to know his son. And maybe, just maybe, a chance to make up for some of the damage he'd done when he, walked away ...

  • Beware the Shopping Mall

    Betsy Haynes

    Strange rumors about the Wonderland Mall--including the reported disappearance of a teen there--prompt Robin and her friends to investigate, but their trip to the mall could force them to shop until they drop. Original....

  • Life Estates

    Shelby Hearon

    In Her Most Searching and most accomplished novel to date, the author of Owning Jolene and Hug Dancing explores friendship and loss -- and what binds two women together and what separates them. Sarah and Harriet, now in their mid-fifties, have been f...

  • A Highland Conquest

    Sandra Heath

    The Innocent Abroad Miss Lauren Maitland was American born and bred, but felt quite at home in London society when she came to England to claim a vast inheritance. Only as a guest in Glenvane Castle in the Highlands did she learn how little she kn...

  • My Girl 2

    Patricia Hermes

    WHEN YOU'RE AN UNDERTAKER'S DAUGHTER, LIFE'S NOT EXACTLY NORMAL TO BEGIN WITH. Thirteen-year-old Vada Sultenfuss is being kicked out of her room because her stepmother, Shelly, is about to have a baby. Her friend Judy’s in love with a jerk. And ...

  • Trompe D'oeil

    Jane Stanton Hitchcock

    A specialist in trompe l'oeil art, Faith Crowell is commissioned to paint the ballroom of Frances Griffin's mansion and finds herself a captive of the old woman, who sees in Faith the daughter she lost years before. 10,000 first printing....

  • Wild Western Fire

    Kathryn Hockett

    IN A FIERCE UNTAMED LAND... A fire-breathing locomotive carries Faith Tomlins for the Oregon Territory. Behind her lies the safety and security of her Minnesota home; ahead is a new life on a rough-and-tumble frontier with the man she has promised ...

  • Second Nature

    Alice Hoffman

    A suburban woman discovers her own wild spirit in this “suspenseful...dark, romantic meditation on what it means to be human”(The New Yorker) from the bestselling author of The Rules of Magic.Robin Moore, coping with a divorce and a troubled...

  • The Experiment

    Diane Hoh

  • Shadow's Kiss

    Joan Hohl

    WHEN A WOMAN WITH A PAST... When Darcy Flynn left Philadelphia for Denver, the last thing she expected to find was a man. Yet before she could decide what to do with her new life, Darcy found herself face to face with a dark, handsome ghost who urge...

  • Wild Texas Blossom

    Arlene Holliday

    With a price on his head and searching for the person who accused him of a crime he didn't commit, the last thing ex-Texas Ranger Tyler Beaumont needs is to fall into the inviting arms of a woman like Sassy Mahoney. As tough and course on the outside...

  • Masquerade

    Kay Hooper
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    Weary of suitors who love only her wealth, Cassandra Eden flees London for her country home. When a snowstorm forces her to take shelter at the manor of a disreputable Earl, Cassie must hide her identity or risk a damning scandal. Only at a Valentine...

  • Drifting Snow

    James A. Houston

  • Slightly Shady

    Jan Hudson

    SHADE--A Mesmerizing Outlaw Whose Steamy Kisses Lit Her Fuse... He was the sexiest man she'd ever seen, a brooding desperado who knew when a lady needed a hug--and Maggie Marino was just aching to be comforted! Shade felt her despair and sensed sh...

  • Heidi

    L. Spencer Humphrey

    Heidi is a special story of family love and the brave little girl whose happiness made the world a better place for everyone around her. Children of today will want to hear this delightful re-telling of the heart-warming classic again and again.
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  • Bunnies' Ball

    Annie Ingle

    Illus. in full color. Come one, come all to the Bunnies' Ball! The forest is abuzz with excitement as cottontail, jackrabbit, lop-ear, and hare gather together for this wondrous moonlit event. Here is a rich and magical bunny story, with rhythmic tex...

  • The Birds and the Bees

    Liz Ireland

    Mother Mary Moore's brief affair with Kyle Weston was just a bittersweet memory ... until he popped back into her life twelve years later, as her boss! Daughter Twelve-year-old Maggie Moore thought her mother was hopelessly straitlaced. Then...

  • Werenight

    Eric Iverson

  • Deadman

    Jon A. Jackson

    Dogged Detroit detective “Fang” Mulheisen is on the hunt for an old nemesis in this “superb” entry in the hard-hitting mystery series (Booklist).   After waging a personal war of vengeance against the Detroit mob for killing her father, ...

  • Treasures

    Lisa Jackson

    THERE ARE SOME SECRETS... Adria Nash has come to Oregon to reclaim her life -- and prove that she is really London Danvers, the child kidnapped twenty years before from the wealthiest hotel dynasty in the Pacific Northwest. But the powerful Danvers ...

  • He's My Soldier Boy // Tender Absolution

    Lisa Jackson

    Dark, sexy and dangerous, young Ben Powell had stolen kisses as deep and stormy as Whitefire Lake. But then he'd cruelly accused Carlie Surrett of unthinkable sins - and left her in the dust of her shattered dreams. Now, steelier than ever after ...