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New Books List: 478 titles

  • Swept Away

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    Alone against the elements. Alone against a killer. THE DELUGE. A FLASH FLOOD--FIVE COMPANIONS--IS ONE OF THEM A KILLER? Jeanette just wanted to get away from it all. A six-day hike across the mountains with her best friend Neil and his girlfri...

  • Siege of Shadows

    Lynn Abbey

    Aristocratic twin siblings--Kyle, a young Hart-lord, and his sister Kiera, haunted by a dream of Rapture--set out to solve the mystery of the Siege of Shadows, a golden throne rumored to hide the mystery of life. Original....

  • Megatrends for Women

    Patricia Aburdene

    "Excellent and insightful. Aburdene and Naisbitt show how women are revolutionizing American society."
    U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PAT SHROEDER
    As women assume power in all facets of public and private life in the 1990s, the quality of every woman's li...

  • Pursuit

    Zach Adams

    Rescuing his young son from a ruthless child-snatching ring, FBI Special Agent Martin Walsh and his partner encounter a vicious backlash when a prominent politician's son and an entire classroom of preschoolers are kidnapped. Original....

  • Dr. Nightingale Enters the Bear Cave

    Lydia Adamson

    DEATH CKAWS Veterinarian Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale is happily taking a break from her practice to join a research team tagging pregnant black bears in the northern Catskills. Awaiting her are the thrill of adventure, the fun of taking her friend ...

  • The Better Brown Stories

    Allan Ahlberg

    An ordinary family of characters goes in search of their own author to demand that their story be both exciting and realistic, and throughout their subsequent adventures, they offer plenty of suggestions to keep the writer busy....

  • Adolf's Revenge

    Lynne Alexander

    Who is Adolf? Who is she? Big, hairy and hot for revenge. When an Englishman called The Prince carries off her favourite niece, Chick, the heat gets hotter. Aunt Adolf has her own reason for being mad at men. Like God, she makes prophecies ('a baldne...

  • Jalamanta

    Rudolfo A. Anaya

    Thirty years ago, Jalamanta and his people were exiled in the desert, banished from the Seventh City for challenging the monolithic dogmas of the Central Authority. Now, Jalamanta returns to his wife, Fatimah, and to his village full of new wisdom ab...

  • Leslie

    Jeanne Anders

  • All One Universe

    Poul Anderson

    “Themes of a colorful assortment of stories range from life on other planets to alternative history . . . a perfect introduction to his perennial genius.” -- BooklistPoul Anderson himself has put together a retrospective collectio...

  • Rosalie's Catastrophes

    Ginette Anfousse

    Growing up in a house with her seven aunts, nine-year-old Rosalie thinks that she will go crazy when every aunt seems to form a different opinion about what is best for her, with catastrophic results. Reprint....

  • Wacky Witch

    Chris Angelilli

  • Escape from Undermountain

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

    A Vast and Deadly Labyrinth... Beneath the city of Waterdeep lies a city of another sort, created by a mad wizard in ages past. Its subterranean byways are home to all manner of creatures, human and otherwise. When Artek the Knife is offered release...

  • Darling

    Ellen Archer

    A PAST SHE CANNOT REMEMBER... They told her that her name was Selena Vale, that she lived in a grand English manor in the scenic Maryland countryside -- and that she was the wife of a very wealthy man. But to Selena -- her memory shrouded in am...

  • Marriage Vows

    Rosalie Ash

    Becky and Matt had married because they had no choice; or so it seemed at the time. Two years later Becky wants her freedom, but Matt has other ideas! His kisses fill her with a deep longing for his love, and Becky realizes she yearns for a marriage ...

  • The Hero Trap

    Rosemary Badger

    The tenderest trap of all. Jack was the man who had ruined Kelly's business, and yet in fighting him she had come to love him. He had tried to make amends by offering her work as his cook -- OK, it wasn't exactly her usual line of business, b...

  • Love's Promise

    Karen A. Bale

    A GENTLEMAN Wild, free-spirited Rio McKinnon had known John MacGregor since childhood. Now, as her wedding to the wealthy rancher's son approached, she wondered if there was something missing from her life: Excitement. Danger. Passion... A GUNSL...

  • Angel Fire

    Jack Ballas

    Kurt Buckner reluctantly takes on the task of escorting Melanie Corbin through the dangers of the Colorado Territory, protecting her from the three men who would do anything to insure her death. Original....

  • The Famous Heroine

    Mary Balogh

    The Uncommon Commoner Miss Cora Downes was only a merchant's daughter. But when she saved a duke's son from drowning, her reward was entry into London high society. Cora had a style of beauty and mode of manners that made her a fish out of water i...

  • Lion's Legacy

    Suzanne Barclay

    Revenge Ran Hot in Kieran Sutherland's Veins For the betrayal of his clan had driven him to denounce love for war -- until he met the Lady Laurel. A Highland witch in chain mail who had the power to inflame him with a need more urgent than any...

  • Hot Texas Nights

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A FAMILY... The Whitmore name in Austin, Texas, meant wealth, power, and ruthlessness. Run by patriarch Fletcher Whitmore, the family commanded respect--and fear. Then eldest son and senatorial candidate Phillip Whitmore was killed was shot and kill...

  • Ariadne's Children

    Roderick Beaton

    Ancient history, family past, present day - all collide in this intricately woven first novel about three generations of one family, set against seventy years of political turmoil in Europe. At the outbreak of World War I, renowned archaeologist L...

  • Twice Upon Time

    Nina Beaumont

    A long-ago and forbidden love... Though Sarah Longford's days were marked by the sorrow of an ancient curse, her nights were filled with dreams of a life of privilege and passion. A life she had known in another time... and another body. ...

  • Shiva Descending

    Gregory Benford

    The first strikes destroyed Cleveland, Tunis, and parts of Alaska, Canada, and Australia. That was barely the beginning.

    The swarm-- a cloud of meteors and asteroids 50,000 miles across--was coming. Hundred of missiles put Earth under siege fo...

  • False Witness

    Patricia D. Benke

    Investigating the brutal murder of an affluent San Diego neighbor, Chief Assistant D.A. Judith Thornton finds her only clue in the work of a graffiti artist, whose spray-painted message claims that he witnessed the killing. Original....

  • Heaven Can't Wait

    Cherie Bennett

  • Underdog

    Laurien Berenson

    BEING AN UNDERDOG CAN BE MURDER. Amateur sleuth, single mother, and pedigreed poodle owner Melanie Travis returns to Connecticut's elite canine circles -- and unmasks a murderer lurking among the handlers and their prize-winning pets... When M...

  • The Berenstain Bear Scouts Meet Bigpaw

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Trouble in Bear Country? It’s the Berenstain Bear Scouts to the rescue! When the Bear Scouts meet Bigpaw they can hardly believe their eyes. He's a King Kong-size giant of a bear! The grown-ups of Bear Country want to attack. But is Bigpaw re...

  • The Berenstain Bear Scouts Save That Backscratcher

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Trouble in Bear Country? It's the Berenstain Bear Scouts to the rescue! Grumbling Grizzlies! Mayor Horace J. Honeypot wants to chop down the most famous tree in Bear Country. It's older than the Great Bear War. And it's the best backscratcher in ...

  • Fly Away Home

    Susan Berman

    After escaping their miserable childhood home, devoted sisters Paula Jean and Dana are wrenched apart when Dana suddenly disappears somewhere in Los Angeles, and Paula Jean, assuming a new identity, desperately searches for her. Original....

  • Barney and BJ Go to the Fire Station

    Mark Bernthal

  • Alien Island

    David Bischoff

    Assigned a temporary partner in a curvaceous lady cop from Earth, Brogan quickly finds his job and marriage compromised before he is called upon to save Demeter City from a life-sucking energy being. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Reckless Lover

    Carly Bishop

    She was vulnerable... Even the Witness Protection program couldn't hide Eden Kelley. When a dark and dangerous stranger blasted into her hideaway, she was imprisoned as much by the sorcery in his eyes as by the strength of his arms. But who was t...

  • Easter Counting

    Roma Bishop

  • Easter Babies

    Roma Bishop

  • Easter Sunday

    Roma Bishop

  • Easter Egg Hunt

    Roma Bishop

  • Too Long at the Dance

    Mike Blakely

    Mike Blakely again takes us on the trail with cowboy musician Caleb Holcomb. Caleb now becomes embroiled in Wyoming's Johnson County War, the Arapaho uprisings, the West's bloody cattle wars, the great cattle drives, and the wild, lawless land rushes...

  • The Spirit Gate

    Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

    The magic of Polia is broken, the delicate connection between its male and female elements, sundered. Blame for this and other calamities both natural and political has long been laid at the feet of the White Mothers-rare adepts who can handle both m...

  • Just Family

    Tonya Bolden

  • To Fear the Light

    Ben Bova

    Two hundred years ago, Adela de Montgarde, the brilliant astrophysicist, conceived the centuries-long plan to forestall the death of Earth's sun, thus preserving the original genetic material of the Empire of the Hundred Worlds-and of the Emperors wh...

  • A Distant Episode

    Paul Bowles

    A Distant Episode conatins the best of Paul Bowle's short fiction, selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and...

  • Lorna's Wish

    T.J. Bradstreet

    Wishing to be part of an exclusive clique after receiving a mysterious message, Lorna is thrilled when she is invited to become a member of The Quartet, until sinister things begin to happen. Original....

  • Guarding Raine

    Kylie Brant

    HE WAS AFRAID TO LOVE.... Macauley O'Neill had been hired to protect Raine Michaels--not to seduce her. No one knew better than he did what happened when a man let his guard down: the consequences could be deadly. But Raine filled him with desire--a...

  • Chibi: A True Story from Japan

    Barbara Brenner

    When Oka-san, a brown-and-gold duck, selects the Mitsui Office Park as the perfect spot for her nest, people flock from downtown Tokyo to watch the ducklings hatch. A modern-day Make Way for Ducklings, set in Japan....

  • Winter Solstice

    Louise Brindley

  • Megan's Marriage

    Annette Broadrick

    Mr. February The eager groom: Travis Kane, former heartbreaker of the country. The very reluctant bride: Megan O'Brien, hardest-working woman in Texas. The too-good-to-be-true proposal: Marry him, and save the ranch. The only thing st...

  • Incidents in the Rue Laugier

    Anita Brookner

    Maud Gonthier yearns for an escape from the cocoon of the bourgeois modesty. The splendid, caddish David Tyler appears to offer one. In this stylish, deeply knowing novel by the Booker Prize winning author of Hotel du Lac, Maud's seduction creates a ...

  • The Marriage Solution

    Helen Brooks

    Blackmail bride! Carlton Reef wanted a bride -- and Katie needed the money! His proposal was outrageous, but simple. He would pay her family's debts if Katie would agree to become his wife... But what possible reason could this ruthless, ...

  • Gaggle of Geese and Other Animal Groups

    Philippa-Alys Browne

  • Touch of Lace

    Margaret Brownley

    PINT-SIZED, PRETTY... Small as she is, Abby Parker holds her head high and her shoulders square. A real lady isn't supposed to throw a knife, swear like a sailor, or come-to Colorado alone -- Abby does all three. She is searching for her missing...

  • Corey in the Saddle

    Bonnie Bryant

    Participating in a fundraising demonstration with her pony, Samurai, Corey is disgusted when Samuari acts up and performs badly, and Corey chooses to ignore the pony in favor of spending time with a motherless goat. Original....

  • Riding Class

    Bonnie Bryant

    DON'T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER Emily has cerebral palsy, but she and her specially trained horse get around just fine. The Saddle Club girls make friends with Emily and even take her on her first trail ride. Unfortunately, Emily's wonderful outi...

  • Act of Betrayal

    Edna Buchanan

    When Britt Montero begins to investigate the disappearance of a teenage boy, she discovers a pattern of missing youngsters of similar age and 1 appearance. As Britt probes this baffling cake, she meets people who once knew her father, and the mystery...

  • When Mona Lisa Smiles

    Carole Buck
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    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...

  • Senora Honeycomb

    Fanny Buitrago

    When her womanizing husband's spendthrift ways force her to to leave her native Colombia to find work in Madrid, Teodora Vencejos takes a job with master chef Dr. Amiel, who gives her a sensuous education in both the culinary and erotic arts....

  • A Personal History of Thirst

    John Burdett

    From former British barrister John Burdett comes a psychosexual novel in the tradition of Damage and Presumed Innocent. At the heart of A Personal History of Thirst is an ill-fated love triangle where all hunger for something and are willing to risk ...

  • His Secret Side

    Pamela Burford

    There are secrets no amount of charm can hide... Noah Stewart was the first man Kit Roarke trusted when she came to tiny Pratte, Vermont, to investigate her best friend's murder - a murder that mysteriously mirrored the tiny town's only other one thi...

  • Remember Me, Irene

    Jan Burke

    MURDER MAKES THE GRADE In an unsettling encounter on the streets of Las Piernas, newspaper reporter Irene Kelly fails to recognize the homeless man who, without a trace of irony, declares, "I'm not who I used to be." Only later does Irene realize ...

  • The Joy Boys

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

  • Suddenly

    Candace Camp

    Simon "Devil" Dure is as cynical about love as spirited Charity Emerson is innocent of it. But she is certain she can meet his wifely expectations, and he is charmed and amused enough to believe her. Their ensuing engagement is as shocking as...

  • Too Tough to Tame

    Deborah Camp

    Framed and shot for a murder he did not commit, Blackfoot Storm-In-His-Eyes is rescued and nursed by beautiful Tess Summar, whom he resists because of her white heritage, until he hopelessly falls in love. She is Tess Summar, who dares to defy the...

  • See How They Run

    Bethany Campbell

    In this harrowing, pulse-pounding story of romance and danger by Bethany Campbell, two strangers race to save innocent children from a crime lord’s hit men.   A gifted teacher for special-needs children, Laura Stoner loves her charges, especia...

  • Keeper of the Rings

    Nancy Cane

    ON A DISTANT PLANET, FAR, FAR AWAY He was shrouded in black when Leena first laid eyes on him--his face shaded like the night. At first the lovely young archaeologist thought Taurin to be a farmer--but this man was no simple agrarian. With a comma...

  • Across a Moonlit Sea

    Marsha Canham

    THE PIRATE WOLF He was French by birth, half English by blood, and reported to be all larceny by nature. One of Queen Elizabeth's legendary sea hawks, the rogue nobleman Simon Dante nearly lost his life when his partner turned coward and betrayed ...

  • Mississippi Treasure Hunt

    Taffy Cannon

    THE DEEP SOUTH . . . A LONG, LONG WAY FROM MALIBU
    Vangie Bradley expects a lame vacation when she and her brother Jason fly from California to spend the summer with their dad. Minnesota isn't exactly a hotbed of fun for thirteen-year-olds, especia...

  • Equation for Evil

    Philip Caputo

    “Written with Caputo’s customary style and razor-sharp prose, Equation for Evil is the rarest of novels: one that makes the reader think profoundly at the same time that he is driven to devour pages. Unflinching, compelling and engaging, it stand...

  • Mystery Child

    Carla Cassidy

    The cries came night after night, a child's anguished sobbing, echoing through the halls on the mansion that was Julie Kingsdon's legacy. And there was no possible explanation for them, except perhaps the haunted eyes of the man she shared th...

  • Among the Volcanoes

    Omar S. Castaneda

  • A Match Made in Texas

    Ginger Chambers

    The Parker Ranch, West Texas Long before the War Between the States, Parker sons and daughters ranched Parker land. Eighty-one-year-old Mae Parker aims to keep things that way. And as far as Mae--and almost everyone else on the ranch--is concerned...

  • Damaged Fruit

    Eunice Chapman

  • The Crime Lover's Casebook

    Jerome Charyn

    A crime-lover's treasury of cutthroat murders and hairbreadth escapes includes the writings of such popular authors as James Ellroy, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton, Tony Hillerman, P. D. James, and Sara Paretsky. Reprint....

  • Scarlet Women

    J.D. Christilian

    It is 1871. A prominent New York attorney must go to a private investigator named Harp to find his missing young wife. She has vanished into the teeming underworld of crime and corruption beneath the city's respectable surface--a realm of sin and sav...

  • Book of Dragons and Fabulous Beasts: Prospero's Library

    Chronicle Books

  • Lost City

    Scott Ciencin

    The Only Place On Earth Where The Age Of Dinosaurs Never Ended ... DINOTOPIA! Here, on this hidden island, intelligent dinosaurs and shipwrecked humans have joined together to build a fantastic world. Once you visit this land of mystical ruins, sh...

  • Flight of the Crow

    Paul Clayton

    In the sequel to Calling Crow, Muskogee chief Calling Crow escapes Spanish slavery, is driven from his village by a deadly fever, embarks on a perilous journey in search of the woman he loves, finds a new home among the Coosa, and leads the s...

  • Wheels

    Annie Cobb

  • Purely Rosie Pearl

    Patricia A. Cochrane

    Working alongside her family of migrant farmers during the Great Depression, twelve-year-old Rosie Pearl Bush finds time at the end of her hard-working days to play with her friend Maggie, with whom she shares a special secret....

  • Three Moons in Vietnam

    Maria Coffey

    In 1944, Maria Coffery and her husband, travelled the length of the Vietnam coastline by sampan, a traditional hand-crafted boat, and this book tells of their journey. Starting from the south, a few miles from Ho Chi Minh city in the Mekong Delta, th...

  • HERE AND NOW

    Robert Cohen

    While watching his career and marriage disintegrate, Samuel Karnish meets a young Hasidic couple from Brooklyn and embarks on an unlikely friendship with them, a relationship that leaves him morally confused and doubting his own faith. Reprint. 15,00...

  • Becker's Ring

    Steven Martin Cohen

    Police Detective Brent Kramer has always loved bringing order to the chaos of New York City's streets. Taking down the Dad guys was the number one allure of the job. But now someone else is laying down the law: Paroled murderers are turning up as vic...

  • Fortune's Mistress

    Mary Chase Comstock

    Never one to give in to the vapors, spirited London beauty Marianne Gardiner regarded her scandalous predicament with accustomed aplomb. She was with child and, as the father was soon to wed another, Marianne was quite prepared to make her way alone....

  • Reese: the Untamed

    Susan Connell

    AN ELIGIBLE BACHELOR... Reese Marchand always knew when a woman wanted him. And Beth Langdon did--or at least he sensed she wanted something from him. When it came to women, Reese thought he could handle it all, but beautiful Beth went to his head l...

  • Good Sons

    K.C. Constantine

    Although months have passed since Police Chief Mario Balzic retired, his successor still has not been named. When a local businesswoman is brutally raped, the likely candidate faces an unexpected and gruelling test of his character....

  • Koki in Nothing but Trouble

    Gary Cooper

  • Winter Longing

    Christina Cordaire

    Lessons of love can be the hardest to learn... FRENCH Fired for being a suffragette, she thought she'd never teach again ... until her favorite aunt and uncle got her a job in Colorado. KYLE He thought he was hiring a tough young man to t...

  • Butterwings

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Prime Candidate

    Gordon Cotler

    Jock Caprisi lands himself a job as media consultant to the senior senator from New York, but when a woman is found stabbed to death in the backseat of the senator's car, Caprisi races against time to find the real killer to keep the senator out of t...

  • The Last Hotel for Women

    Vicki Covington

    In her fourth novel Covington threads the turbulent racial unrestof Civil Rights-era Birmingham into the already complicated fabric of onewhite family's life. On Mother's Day, 1961, a busload of freedom riders arrivedin Birmingham, Alabama, from &quo...

  • Cat Traps

    Molly Coxe

    For more than ten years, parents and educators have relied on Step into Reading books to help teach children to read. Early Step into Reading books are targeted specifically to emergent readers, emphasizing big type, m inimal text, and bold, bright i...

  • The Cat Who Lost His Purr

    Michele Coxon

  • Midnight Fantasy

    Jasmine Cresswell

    He was out of this world! Sensible, down-to-earth Ariel Hutton has always longed for adventure. For heart-stopping excitement...for soul-searing passion and romance. But being kidnapped by a sexy, blue-eyed stranger isn't exactly what she had...

  • Love Stories

    Lynn Curtis

    The world has as many love stories as it has beating hearts.

    Now you can experience the power of ageless love in this engaging collection of beautifully crafted and atmospheric stories...

    A lazy summer on the Cornish coast changeds Rosa...

  • Visitation

    Don Cushman

  • Kids, Critters and Cupid

    Ruth Jean Dale

    THE CAMERONS OF COLORADO Cupid, Colorado. This is ranch country, cowboy country--a land of high mountains and swift, cold rivers, of deer, elk and bear. The first Cameron came to Colorado more than a hundred years ago, and Camerons have owned and ...

  • To Kill a Cop

    Robert Daley

    The murders of two patrolmen by assassins from FEAR, the Freedom and Equality Revolution, has New York City Chief of Detectives Earl Eisheid racing against time to find and stop the killers before they can turn the cops' funeral into a massacre...

  • Father Figure

    Rebecca Daniels

    DYLAN AND MARISSA HAD A PAST .... Small-town sheriff Dylan James had encountered his share of teenage troublemakers. But Josh Wakefield was different. He was Marissa Wakefield's nephew. Marissa--the woman who had broken Dylan's heart so long ago. ...

  • We Will Remember

    Elizabeth Darrell

    In 1946, members of the Sheridan family--David, a pilot scarred by Japanese torture in Sumatra; his mother, Marion, widowed by the war; and his sister, Vesta, a noted war artist--struggle to rebuild their lives in the wake of the devastation of war. ...

  • What Falls Away

    Tracy Daugherty

    Hired to bring culture to the isolated Nevada town of Tilton, Jon Chase and his family encounter a conservative community built over land poisoned by years of underground nuclear testing and caught in an inertia over the loss of its economic base...

  • Child of Midnight

    Sharon De Vita

    FOR THE CHILD'S SAKE Lieutenant Michael Tyler had a job to do--guard a little boy from a notorious killer. And it was up to Michael to find Gabriel and take him into protective custody. But that meant confronting the one woman he'd never been able t...

  • The Strange Night Writing of Jessamine Colter

    Cynthia DeFelice

    Learning calligraphy from the town's mysterious record-keeper, Callie Williams is stunned when she is able to foretell the future with her fancy writing and learns a painful lesson about averting fate. Reprint....

  • Above the Lower Sky

    Tom Deitz

    United by a strange shared experience in 2024, Kevin Mauney, his estranged sister Carolyn, and Thunderbird O'Conner are charged with resolving a multi-species conspiracy that has risen from the ocean's depths. Reprint....

  • Make Way for Dumb Bunnies

    Sue Denim

  • Travis and the Better Mousetrap

    Deborah Dennard

  • Valentine, Texas

    Kate Denton

    If you don't want to fall in love -- don't go to Valentine.... Jan had gone away and found family friends and seven-year-old BJ, whom she tutored at the Lazy M ranch. Valentine seemed just the haven she needed to recover from her recent ...

  • Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream

    John Derbyshire

    This is a magical novel of a Chinese immigrant's coming to terms with himself, his marriage, and America--and the unlikely moral force that guides his life.

    Chai is middle-aged, a disillusioned formed Red Guard who escaped China for Hong Kong ...

  • The Curse of Naar

    Joe Dever

    In an interactive role-playing fantasy adventure, Lone Wolf matches wits with the Dark God Naar to try to retrieve the powerful Moonstone, an awesome weapon, before Naar can use it to destroy the world. Original....

  • Dark Specter

    Michael Dibdin

    In this majestically unnerving novel, Michael Dibdin, the creator of the acclaimed Aurelio Zen mysteries, explores themes that might have been ripped out of today's headlines, as he charts America's dual epidemic of religious cultism and random viole...

  • Barracuda, Final Bearing

    Michael DiMercurio

    A volatile new state calling itself Greater Manchuria emerges out of the political and military strife of Asia. Thanks to the connections of its brash leader, it boasts an atomic arsenal. Japan, threatened by its proximity to nuclear disaster, shocks...

  • Bad to the Bone

    Debra Dixon

    Treasured Tales IV When he was good, he was very good -- but when he was bad, he was pure temptation... He was a brand of danger she'd never risked, with the most unforgiving pair of blue eyes that ever stared into her troubled soul, but Jes...

  • Once A Knight

    Christina Dodd

    A LADY'S CHAMPION Only a threat to her life could have made strong-willed Lady Alisoun hire Sir David of Radcliffe to protect her castle. Although he had once been a hero and master swordsman, the good life had been a little too good to the lord, ...

  • Indiscretions

    Robyn Donald

    Compelled, charmed... and compromised! Mariel Browning loved Bride's Bay Resort, its Sea Island location, its friendly staff. She'd jumped at the offer to translate there again--but soon wished she hadn't. For one thing, working for a ...

  • Gentleman's Choice

    Dorothea Donley

    He was a perfect prospect...But for which young lady? Although Nelly is unquestionably plain and hopelessly practical, her parents entertain hopes of a brilliant marriage for her beautiful sister Verena. And indeed, Verena's London season is quickly...

  • A Dream Embraced

    Kate Donovan

    LOVE..for Molly Sheridan, descendant of a lost race of sorcerers, dreams were a doorway into supernatural worlds...opening places in the soul she never knew existed. When she met and married seductive mythology professor Matthew Redtree, she discover...

  • Splendor

    Christine Dorsey

    ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL QUEEN... ...who lived in a tiny European kingdom. But she wasn't happy. Cassandra, ruler of Breslovia, was much too young to be head of state and fur too lovely to be married off to a pompous, self-centered...

  • Dancing After Hours

    Andre Dubus

    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFrom a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen...

  • Courage Under Fire

    Patrick Sheane Duncan

    Major Nat Serling investigates the shooting down of a medevac helicopter during the Gulf War, a crash that takes the life of Captain Karen Emma Walden, who is up for a posthumous Medal of Honor, and uncovers more than he expected about the incident. ...

  • Sudden Exposure

    Susan Dunlap

    Berkeley cop Jill Smith is back in another adventure that could only occur in this brazen, eccentric town. Gym owner and former Olympic diver Bryn Wiley is in a turf war with sixties radical Sam Johnson, who owns a competing gym. When Bryn is shot, S...

  • Requiem for a Mezzo

    Carola Dunn

    In the third installment of her cozy mystery series, Carola Dunn charmingly recreates bohemian post World War I Chelsea, where the unconventional Daisy Dalrymple is up to her fashionable bob in temperamental artists -- one of whom is a cunning killer...

  • Flames of Rapture

    Lark Eden

    ANCIENT SECRETS...TIMELESS LOVE When Lyric Solei fled the bustling city for her summer retreat in Salem, it was a chance for the lovely young psychic to escape the pain so often associated with her special sight. She decided she'd use her free tim...

  • Savage Passions

    Cassie Edwards

    Secretly admiring the Ottawa chieftain Silver Arrow, Yvonne is enthralled by his mystical powers and seductive ways, but disputes between the warrior's tribe and the frontierspeople threaten to keep the couple apart. FIRST LOVE, WILD LOVE Y...

  • Tiffany

    Joyce K. Ellis

  • Michael's Angel

    Lyn Ellis

    HE HAD NOTHING TO LIVE FOR Michael Weldon had the perfect life, complete with a sexy, loving wife, Terri, and a terrific son, Josh. But then Josh died. And Michael walked out, leaving Terri to deal with her grief alone. AND THEN HE SAW AN ANGE...

  • Chasing the Wind

    Robert Elmer

  • The Stormchaser

    Rita Clay Estrada

    Cane Mitchell...born in the eye of a raging Texas storm, he's been raising Cain ever since. His job, his passion, is to go where the danger is--fires, floods, tornadoes, tidal waves. He's there. And then little bitty, vulnerable Bernadette Conrad ...

  • Birdsong

    Sebastian Faulks

    #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990sIn this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young En...

  • The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogoro

    Alison Fell

    This €œexquisite, exuberant, X-rated€ novel (Mirabella), set in feudal Japan, tells the story of a concubine who hires a stable boy to whisper erotic stories from behind a screen while she entertains her master, a samurai general....

  • Miss Charity's Case

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    SHE HAD FAITH AND HOPE... At six-and-twenty, Miss Charity Stuart, daughter of Bridgeton's late minister, was on the shelf. But she believed that her pretty younger sister could still snare an aristocratic suitor--especially when the invitation a...

  • The 7 Lb., 2 Oz. Valentine

    Marie Ferrarella

    Desperately seeking daddy.. . Erin Collins was a mother-to-be, but the daddy was nowhere to be found! "Brady, come home. Love, Erin." Erin had nothing to lose by placing the personal ad. And lo and behold, Brady Lockwood was found--months af...

  • Colorado Chippy

    Dirk Fletcher

    Secret Service agent Spur McCoy is torn in three directions when the government directs him to track down bank robbers, a gang of desperados tries to murder him, and a beautiful woman demands his attentions. Original....

  • E-mail

    Stephanie D. Fletcher

    Cruising the "information superhighway" by way of electronic mail, Katherine Simmons eventually puts her own marriage at risk as an idle curiosity about two men develops into an obsession with a computer-generated Mr. Right....

  • Easter Bunny's Wish

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • The Cave Monster

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Blush

    Suzanne Forster

    She was raised in a world of wealth and privilege. But that wasn't enough for Augusta Featherstone. It would take more than her family's trust fund to earn the freedom and respect she longed for so passionately. Her beauty could turn a man's head. He...

  • The Dig

    Alan Dean Foster

    When an asteroid out of nowhere threatens to hit Earth, a space shuttle is sent to nudge it into a safe orbit. Venturing to the surface, three crew members become trapped as the asteroid suddenly leaves orbit, transporting them to a strange planet li...

  • The Gospel Makers

    Anthea Fraser

    When the small English village of Middlemarch is invaded by an insidious religious cult called the Revelationists, whose tentacles reach even into the local police department, Inspector Webb searches for a connection between the sect and a murdered w...

  • Matchmaker

    Carla Fredd
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    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...

  • Illusion

    Emily French

    Sophy van Houton. Impetuous. Headstrong. Rich. The beautiful heiress needed to marry to access her fortune. But deep in her heart was a stubborn dream - to find a man who loved her for herself, not for her beauty or her money. In Seth Weston she ...

  • Sundancer's Woman

    Judith E. French

    A MOTHER'S SACRIFICE Pride, courage and a steadfast devotion to her two small children have kept Elizabeth Fleming strong throughout her years of captivity. And now a handsome stranger has appeared to free the stunning, copper-haired beauty from t...

  • La Muerte de Artemio Cruz

    Carlos Fuentes

  • The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

    Chris Fuhrman

    The basis for the film starring Kieran Culkin. “Evoked with the rare, genuine sort of candor that made Holden Caulfield -- and J.D. Salinger -- famous.” -- Vogue   Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic...

  • Mistaken Identity!

    Diana G. Gallagher

  • Devil's Workshop

    Kate Gallison

    DELIVER US FROM EVIL The cats were missing. Mother Lavinia Grey noticed the signs pleading for the return of "fluffy" and several other pets. But she was busy, planning her first wedding at St. Bede's Episcopal Church--for 'which she'd serve as th...

  • Dear Gangster...: Advice for the Lonelyhearted from the Gangster of Love

    Gangster of Love

    He's the Ann Landers of anomie, the antidote for sniveling sensitivity, a caustic balm for our broken hearts--he's "The Gangster of Love." This collection of his columns features questions from anxious readers--with the Gangster's more or less helpfu...

  • Bloody Waters

    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

    Lupe Solano's new case touched her heart: She'd been hired to find the biological mother of an illegally adopted baby. Her clients' child was dying, and the only way to save the girl's life was through a bone marrow transplant. What appeared to be a ...

  • Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground

    Annie Garrett

    A successful celebrity journalist in New York City, Tess Boone returns to her childhood home at the foot of the Ozarks on an assignment to interview Buck Campbell, a country music sensation and the love of her youth. Reprint....

  • A Treasury Of Pennsylvania Tales: Unusual, Interesting, and Little-Known Stories of Pennsylvania

    Webb Garrison

    Unusual, interesting and little known stories of the state of Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Tales is aimed at the target of familiarity-plus-novelty. These suspense-packed stories constitute "history for the ordinary person," and a few include really gr...

  • What the Deaf-Mute Heard

    G.D. Gearino

    When ten-year-old Sammy Ayers awakens in an empty bus after an overnight trip, it’s a moment of paralyzing disorientation: He doesn’t know where he is, his mother has disapperared, and he’s surrounded by strangers who don’t know quite what to...

  • Keeper of the Bride

    Tess Gerritsen

    She was a beautiful bride Or she would have been, had the groom bothered to show up. And then, at the exact moment Nina Cormier would have said 'I do,' the empty church exploded -- sending a loud message that someone was after the bride-to...

  • Sara

    Eva Gibson

  • Green Thumbs, Everyone

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Accidentally trampling Mrs. Alonzo's prize garden, Richard "Beast" Best and Emily Arrow find themselves in a heap of trouble when Mrs. Alonzo offers a big reward for the names of the responsible culprits. Original....

  • Home Fires

    Layle Giusto

  • Ghastly Guests

    Golden Books

  • Reboot: Food for Frisket

    Golden Books

  • Little Blessings

    Golden Books

  • The Murdered Sun

    Christie Golden

    When sensors indicate a possible wormhole nearby, Captain Janeway is eager to investigate, hoping to find a shortcut back to Federation space. Instead, she discovers a star system being systematically pillaged by the warlike Akerians. Janeway has no ...

  • This Is My Child

    Lucy Gordon

    A FATHER'S DILEMMA Giles Haverill adored his adopted son, though he couldn't seem to show it. He knew the boy longed for his lost mother, just as Giles himself ached for a woman's gentle touch. But how did you tell a child that he'd ...

  • Flyboy

    Rosemary Grace

    He had the right stuff! Brave, built and with blue eyes to die for, Captain Blackjack McConnell was deadly in the air and a danger to female hearts. Only one thing scared the fearless flyboy - love! So when he found himself falling for scientist S...

  • Prisoner of Passion

    Lynne Graham

    P for predator, P for passionate, P for prey! These words came to mind when Bella thought of Rico da Silva. The international financier was definitely a predator -- hadn't he pounced when her defenses were down? Passionate? Their lovemaki...

  • Thinning the Predators

    Daina Graziunas

    FBI agent Ira Levitt finds himself in a chilling alliance with cold-blooded murderer David Vandemark, a deadly serial killer who preys on the dregs of society--drug dealers, child molesters, other serial killers--to find the Latino Killer, a vicious ...

  • Lovecraft's Legacy

    Martin H. Greenberg

    H.P. Lovecraft is one of the most influential modern horror writers. Lovecraft's fiction is a category unto itself. Eschewing the traditional werewolves, vampires, and ghosts of most horror fiction, he wrote of dread Elder Gods and cosmic, earth-s...

  • The Curse Of Cleo Patrick's Mummy

    Gertrude Gruesome

    When terrible things happen to her every time she steps outside her door, Cleo Patrick realizes that her own mother has placed her under an ancient mummy's curse, and Cleo will stop at nothing to remove it. Original....

  • A Marriage Made in Heaven

    Patricia Hagan
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    Pennsylvania, 1850. With the assistance of her guardian angel, a wealthy spinster searches for the ideal husband. But she soon learns that earthly perfection is no substitute for a passion straight from paradise....

  • Writer's Reader

    Donald Hall

    Highly respected poets, Hall and Emblem have chosen classical and contemporary selections to make this a delightful writer's companion, now in it's ninth edition. A Writer's Reader is a collection of essays, short stories, and poems organized alp...

  • A Bad, Bad Day

    Kirsten Hall

    A humorous rhyming story shows young readers how the worst of days can still turn out all right, in a simple first reader that is accompanied by sturdy flash cards and six pages of vocabulary-reinforcing activities. Original....

  • Mail Order Wife

    Phyllis Halldorson

    WANTED: WIFE ROMANCE NOT REQUIRED Single dad Jim Buckley knew his daughters needed a mother. But he hadn't expected his meddling father to advertise for one. Now wife-candidate Coralie Dixon was stranded at his ranch, prepared to move in for good...

  • Shadow World

    Ian Hammell

    Swept into the perilous, magical world of Kulthea, the Shadow World, by a mysterious storm that rips through their house, Brion competes with his treacherous wife, Kella, for the safe return of their missing son. Original....

  • The Scottish Bride

    Peggy Hanchar

    SHE ANSWERED THE WILD CALL OF THE HIGHLANDS AND THE TRAITOROUS YEARNINGS OF HER HEART... The pawn in a game between greedy men, Lillias McGinnis had been abducted by a rival clan and made the child bride of the chieftain's rebellious son. Fina...

  • Atticus

    Ron Hansen

    Colorado rancher Atticus Cody receives word that his wayward younger son, Scott, has committed suicide in Resurrection, Mexico. When Atticus travels south to recover Scott's body, he is puzzled by what he finds there and begins to suspect murder. ...

  • A First Picture Book of Nursery Rhymes

    Elizabeth Harbour

  • Cold Medina

    Gary Hardwick

    The youngest black man ever to lead Detroit's elite Special Crimes Unit, Inspector Tony Hill confronts a vigilante killer nicknamed "The Handyman" because of his penchant for cutting off the hands of his victims. Reprint....

  • Ramar

    Darrel T. Hare

    Preparing for his first journey to Earth as a human being, a young winged rabbit from the World-in-Between, is befriended by a host of animal spirits who offer him guidance about his forthcoming journey. 75,000 first printing....

  • Dark Ride

    Kent Harrington

    A dissatisfied insurance salesman, Jimmy Rogers begins an intense, fantasy-fulfilling affair with his boss's wife and finds it surprisingly easy to eliminate his employer, in a tale of passion, addiction, and power. Reprint....

  • And This Too Shall Pass

    E. Lynn Harris

    A stellar quarterback, an ambitious sportscaster. What happens when rising stars collide?In And This Too Shall Pass, Harris takes us into the locker rooms and newsrooms of Chicago, where four lives are about to intersect in romance and scandal. A...

  • Arc Light

    Eric L. Harry

    A political thriller by a military expert with extensive first-hand knowledge of the Russian military describes an accidental nuclear holocaust that erupts between Russia and the United States. Reprint....

  • Eagle Boy: A Traditional Navajo Legend

    Gerald Hausman

  • A White Merc with Fins

    James Hawes

    The dazzling debut of a new voice in fiction, this is the funny, unexpected story of a balding, thickening 28-year-old who, having spent the bulk of his twenties avoiding a career in the quasi-black market of London's temp agencies, now finds himself...

  • Always to Remember

    Lorraine Heath

    The story of one man whose quiet strength in his convictions makes an entire town believe -- and of one woman who rebuilds a shattered life and a broken heart. Of one person fighting to forget the past. And one vowing... ALWAYS TO REMEMBER Refu...

  • Lord Barry's Dream House

    Emily Hendrickson

    The Best Laid Plans Lovely Lady Juliana Hamilton had bold plans indeed. She intended to follow in the footsteps of her late father, who not, only was a lord of the realm, but was also one of the finest architects in it. She would complete his grea...

  • There Is a Town

    Gail Herman

  • How Much Is That Couple in the Window?

    Lori Herter

    Mr. & Mrs. ... for a week Come see the couple living in the display window at Derring Brothers Department Store -- one week only! As sidewalk shoppers stare, Jennifer Westgate's job is to be the blushing bride who: whips up meals on state-of-...

  • The Music Of Dolphins

    Karen Hesse

    Mila becomes famous around the world when she is rescued from an unpopulated island off the coast of Florida. Years ago, Mila went missing from a boat crash, and she has been raised by dolphins from the age of four. Researchers teach Mila language...

  • Requiem of Stars

    Tracy Hickman

    Here's the long-awaited solo novel--the first of an imaginative interstellar trilogy--from the co-author of the New York Times bestselling Death Gate saga, Tracy Hickman.With more than ten million copies of the Death Gate novels in print, Tracy Hickm...

  • My First Phone

    Allison Higa

    An entertaining toy cellular phone with sound and light effects accompanies a helpful guide that teaches young children basic telephone facts and manners, with an interactive text that tells youngsters when to call home, how to make dates with friend...

  • Nevermore

    William Hjortsberg

    Though vaudeville is dying, Houdini still dazzles audiences--and wages war with corrupt mediums. At the same time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in America to lecture on the occult, only to face frequent visits from what appears to be the restless s...

  • Paths to Otherwhere

    James P. Hogan

    Attempting to save humankind from a genocidal threat, the scientists of the twenty-first century discover a vast alternative universe in which the wars of the twentieth century had different outcomes. Reprint....

  • The Last Sanctuary

    Craig Holden

    The woman was too beautiful, the man too hyped. But Joe Curtis, hitching from Detroit to Seattle, got into their Chevy Nova on a deserted stretch of Montana highway -- in a chance encounter that would plunge him into a nightmare of terror and survi...

  • Lord of the Dead: The Secret History of Byron

    Tom Holland

    The famed nineteenth-century poet and rake, Lord Byron, comes to life in a searing blend of fact and fiction, a shockingly brilliant novel with all the hypnotic power of Caleb Carr's The Alienist and the best of Anne Rice. Traveling in the mountai...

  • Here Comes Santa Claus

    M. Hover

  • Mackenzie's Pleasure

    Linda Howard

    HER HERO Barrie Lovejoy needed a savior. The terrorist group holding her hostage surely wouldn't tolerate her silence much longer. Instead they would silence her-forever. Then out of the darkness he arrived. Grizzled and dangerous, he led Barrie f...

  • Sheik's Glory

    Carole Howey

    Hoping to maintain ownership of her horse ranch, no-nonsense beauty Missy Cannon enters a battle of wills with Flynn Muldaur, who has won half the ranch in a gambling bet and seeks to obtain the rest. Wild at Heart Missy Cannon was a woman wh...

  • Cousin Susannah

    Hazel Hucker

    Unmarried and pregnant with the child of her aristocratic employer, Susannah Trotter, a young governess, marries ambitious curate Sedley Stacey, but her new life is threatened by her feelings for her former lover....

  • Angel on a Harley

    Janis Reams Hudson

    Treasured Tales IV HE ROLLED INTO TOWN LIKE A THUNDERSTORM -- DARK, POWERFUL, AND MYSTERIOUS.... Faith Hillman wasn't at all what Dalton McShane expected when he faced the woman who claimed she was carrying his child. And Dalton McShane wasn...

  • Wild at Heart

    Faye Hughes

    Treasured Tales IV His body would make an angel want to sin -- and she didn't have a prayer... He'd crashed the party looking for a scandal and maybe a chance at redemption, but when Maggie Thorpe dragged him into a closet to elude his pursu...

  • Izmir

    E. Howard Hunt

  • Privileged Conversation

    Evan Hunter

    Successful psychiatrist David Chapman decides to stay in the city and work while his wife and children vacation on Martha's Vineyard. All is not tranquil in the city, however. A chance meeting with a Broadway dancer evokes his every erotic fantasy. B...

  • Heaven on Earth

    Bobby Hutchinson
    in

    Indiana,1889. Divine intervention helps a country doctor and a rural beauty realize that, while duty is important, life is meaningless without laughter and love....

  • Cupid's Bow

    Brenda Jackson
    in

    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...

  • Somebody's New Pajamas

    Isaac Jackson

  • Original Sin

    P.D. James

    Innocent House, a mock-Venetian palace occupied by Britain's oldest book publisher. Here, after a spate of malicious pranks, someone killed Gerard Etienne, the ruthless managing director, and jammed the office mascot, a stuffed snake, in his mouth. ...