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New Books List: 489 titles

  • Splash Crash!

    Tony Abbott

    NED, ERNIE, ROOP, and Suzi are hot on Vorg’s trail. But when they plunge after him into a timehole, their surfies spin out of control and they’re forced to crash-land. They couldn’t have picked a better place: a tropical island! There are sandy...

  • Dr. Nightingale Rides to the Hounds

    Lydia Adamson

    BARKS, BLESSINGS -- AND BULLETS Taking her sow, horse, and assorted yard dogs to be blessed at Lubin's Field is one of the highlights of the Easter holidays for Deirdre Nightingale, D.V.M. Didi is looking forward to meeting many of her clients on th...

  • Her Blue Straw Hat

    C.S. Adler

  • Now or Never

    Elizabeth Adler

    SHE CAN KEEP THE DOORS LOCKED. THE LIGHTS ON. HER FINGERS CROSSED. BUT SHE CAN'T STOP THE MEMORIES OF A TERRIFYING CRIME. OR KEEP IT FROM HAPPENING AGAIN. The murderer took his time choosing his pretty victims. Then he took his time killing them. ...

  • St. Burl's Obituary

    Daniel Akst

    In this “outrageous, superb novel”(Philadelphia Inquirer), an obese, food-obsessed obituary writer witnesses a gangland slaying, which forces him to embark on a rollicking cross-country odyssey that will alter his eating habits, his weight, and, ...

  • Hearts of Gold

    Rochelle Alers
    in

    On this special day dedicated to romance, wonderful things can happen: secret desires may be spoken, roses can arrive with a card saying "I love you," or a dizzying kiss is exchanged for the first time. Now, three favorite Arabesque authors--with som...

  • Marry Me

    Heather Allison

    A Valentine proposal? This Valentine's Day, hit television show "Hartson Flowers" is filming three of the most romantic proposals ever to hit the airwaves. Presenter Alicia Hartson can't wait! Alicia's a romantic: she believes ...

  • Wyoming Renegade

    Susan Amarillas

    The Need for Vengeance Burned Inside Him Half-breed Josh Colter knew he'd never rest until he'd fulfilled his vow. Murder had been done. Justice must be served -- even if it meant betraying the woman fate had decreed as his true-bound brid...

  • Fly Trap

    Dina Anastasio

  • Ignition

    Kevin J. Anderson; Doug Beason

    An injured astronaut must save NASA from terrorists in this high-tech adventure by the bestselling authors of Lifeline and Ill Wind. Terrorists seize control of the Kennedy Space Center and hold the shuttle Atlantis and its crew hostage on the launch...

  • Barbie: Freckles

    Chris Angelilli

    Nicole does not want to make friends with the other girls in her new neighborhood because she is embarrassed about having freckles, so Barbie takes her to a fashion shoot to meet the professional models...

  • The Promised Land

    Mary Antin

    An extraordinary popular success when it was first published in 1912, The Promised Land is a classic account of the Jewish American immigrant experience. Mary Antin emigrated with her family from theEastern European town of Polotzk to Boston in 1894,...

  • Lady Thorn

    Catherine Archer

    Jed McBride Had Come to England in Search of His Long-Lost Son and instead found the heartfelt passion of the aristocratic Victoria Thorn. But the two came from different worlds, and his own sad history had proved that such an alliance was doomed ...

  • Blue Notes

    Stephanie Ash

    The struggling singer-songwriter of "Musical Affairs", Amelia Aston, has made it. But her success has taken its toll and her life is no longer her own. Returning to London, she decides to have some of her old-style adventures, including doubling as a...

  • Heartless Hero

    Judy Baer

    When a hotshot football star moves to Cedar River, students are buzzing with excitement. Roger Mason is one of the state's top-ranked players but is he worth the trouble? Egg and Binky McNaughton have dark memories of Roger from grade school, whe...

  • Secrets of Walden Rising

    Allan Baillie

    Discovering that the gold-mining town of Walden is beginning to emerge as the water level of the reservoir drops, Brendan begins a hunt for treasure, but as he learns of Walden's dark past and the bad feeling felt by those in the town, he wonders if ...

  • Mistaken for a Mistress

    Jacqueline Baird

    Playing the part.... Rocco Andretti mistakenly believed that Marlene had been the late Paolo Rossi's mistress, and that she had borne Paolo a child. Rocco thought he could seduce Marlene into handing over everything Paolo had left to his son. ...

  • Naming the New World

    Calvin Baker

  • Lives of the Monster Dogs

    Kirsten Bakis

    The twentieth anniversary of a postmodern classic, blending the gothic novel with bleeding-edge science fictionAfter a century of cruel experimentation, a haunted race of genetically and biomechanically uplifted canines are created by the followers o...

  • Selby: The Secret Adventures of a Talking Dog

    Duncan Ball

  • In the Wilderness

    Kim Barnes

    Poet Kim Barnes grew up in northern Idaho, in the isolated camps where her father worked as a logger and her mother made a modest but comfortable home for her husband and two children. Their lives were short on material wealth, but long on the riches...

  • Blind Spot

    Adam Barrow

    When Marshall Quinn discovers the terrible secret that lies behind his three-year-old son's kidnapping, he realizes just how far he will go to retrieve him--far enough so that there is no turning back. Reprint....

  • Courting Cassidy

    Stephanie Bartlett

    Jake Williams presides over the mill town of Maguire, Oregon with a firm hand. He hopes the new heir to Maguire Lumber will defer to his superior business sense and not bring in any new-fangled modern ideas. He's in for a surprise. Cassidy Maguire...

  • A A-Z Guide to Babylon 5

    David Bassom

    The highly rated, award-winning sci-fi hit Babylon 5 has captured the imaginations of millions of fans. Now, every detail of the show, from characters to concept, is highlighted and explained in this exciting encyclopedic reference. Fans can easily i...

  • Spires of Spirit

    Gael Baudino

    Three novellas of elven magic return to the world of the Strands of Starlight series and place the fate of humankind in the hands of Varden the Elf, while in another three stories, an ancient spirit stirs in contemporary Colorado...

  • The Pick-Up Man

    Pamela Bauer

    WEDDING DRESS FOR SALE Size 7, never worn. It's a masterpiece. He wasn't. Call Annie at 555-7255. After breaking her fourth engagement, Annie Jamison had a mountain of debts, a heap of white lace and a shoe box full of momentos. Why not sell ...

  • The Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers Murder Case

    George Baxt

  • Lone Wolf

    Frederic Bean

    When eleven settlers are butchered in Antelope Hill, in the Indian Territory, U.S. Marshal Sam Ault and his deputy do not believe claims that the Comanche are responsible and soon find themselves in a fight for their lives. Reissue....

  • Loverboy

    R.G. Belsky

    Dear Lucy, Hello again, my lovely. Here's a riddle for you: What has two arms, two legs, no face--and is red all over ATTENTION WOMEN OF NEW YORK CITY:I love you all. I really do.I love you to death. Now, due to circumstances beyond my control,I have...

  • A Family Wedding

    Angela Benson

    What was a marriage of convenience? Little Wendy Sanders needed a new mommy, and her hunky single dad, Kenny, could sure use a wife. So why not Wendy's 'Aunt' Patsy Morgan, who gave good girl talk and dressed real cool? After all, Patsy was Kenny's b...

  • Just Desserts

    Elizabeth Bevarly
    in

    Chocolate is the ultimate aphrodisiac. And these four enchanting stories of love, passion, and chocolate are guaranteed to melt your heart. Each story features a decadent chocolate dessert recipe to satisfy your sweet tooth and your hunger for romanc...

  • Roxy and the Rich Man

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    HE WAS CAVIAR AND CHAMPAGNE... Adoptee Spencer Melburne may have been raised with every conceivable luxury, but he'd been denied at least one part of his birthright -- his twin. He needed someone to find him, quietly -- and who better than Roxy Math...

  • Evening Class

    Maeve Binchy

    It was the quiet ones you had to watch. That's where the real passion was lurking. They came together at Mountainview College, a down-at-the-heels secondary school on the seamy side of Dublin, to take a course in Italian. It was Latin teacher Aidan ...

  • Valentine's Child

    Natalie Bishop

    THE SECRET BABY Fifteen years ago Sherry Sterling and J. J. Beckett made a child. But nobody in the small town of Oceantides was ready to see the golden boy marry the girl from the wrong side of the tracks. So Sherry left town, pregnant...and alon...

  • Miss Chocolate and the Law

    Rosanne Bittner
    in

    Chocolate is the ultimate aphrodisiac. And these four enchanting stories of love, passion, and chocolate are guaranteed to melt your heart. Each story features a decadent chocolate dessert recipe to satisfy your sweet tooth and your hunger for romanc...

  • Even the Wicked

    Lawrence Block

    Matthew Scudder knows that justice is an elusive commodity in the big city, where a harmless man can be shot dead in a public place criminals fly free through holes in a tattered legal system. But now a vigilante is roaming among the millions, execut...

  • The Brains of Rats

    Michael Blumlein

    In these twelve stories we enter the darkest corridors of America        s hospitals. Meet a scientist who discovers how to predetermine and alter the sex of a pregnant woman        s fetus, and proceeds to contemplate his own gender....

  • The Eye of the Ram

    Timothy Boggs
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Hercules possessed a strength the world had never seen, a strength surpassed only by the power of his heart. He journeyed the Earth, battling the minions of his wicked stepmother, Hera, the all-powerful Queen of the Gods. 0 Wherever there was evil, w...

  • Irresistible?

    Stephanie Bond

    Wanted: Single women of any age to take part in a four-week clinical study. Ellie Sutherland wasn't exactly desperate...yet. But after fourteen months, five days and two hours of being without a man, she was getting pretty close. So when she had a...

  • Notches

    Peter Bowen

    When the gruesome corpses of young women are discovered along a long Montana highway called the Hi-Lane, Gabriel Du Pre+a7 must journey inside a serial killer's mind as he follows a trail of mysterious messages that lead to a murderer. Reprint....

  • King Charlie

    Max Brand

    Striking fear in the hearts of anyone who hears his name and thus staying in control of his area of the Old West, outlaw and renegade leader Charlie sees his reign drawing to a close and decides to find a successor. Reprint....

  • The Stone That Shines

    Max Brand

  • The Cat Who Tailed a Thief

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    There's been a rash of petty thievery in Pickax--ever since banker Willard Carmichael and his flashy young wife, Danielle, moved in. But now Willard's been killed in a mugging Down Below...or so it seems. Qwill's suspicious, especially when Willard's...

  • Pooh: The Very Best Easter Bunny

    Ann Braybrooks

    LITTLE GOLDEN BOOKS are books to grow with. They entertain, they inform, they stretch the boundaries of the imagination. Their wide variety of stories and subjects and their lively, inviting illustrations have made them popular with children and pare...

  • Pooh and the Dragon

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Five Lost Chicks

    Jan Brett

  • Otherwise Engaged

    Suzanne Brockmann

    His lips made an offer no woman would dare refuse . . . Funny, charismatic, and one heck of a temptation, Preston Seaholm made a wickedly sexy hero as he rescued Molly Cassidy from tumbling off the roof! The pretty widow bewitched him with a smil...

  • As You Desire

    Connie Brockway

    HE WAS HER KNIGHT IN TARNISHED ARMOR... He galloped across the midnight-shrouded landscape, racing toward her on his steed of pure white. Her destiny... In her wildest fantasies Desdemona Carlisle could not have conjured a more dashing savior, and...

  • Rocky Road

    Margaret Brownley
    in

    Love and kisses, chocolate and romance -- it's a mixed assortment for those who can't resist the twin delights of passion and chocolate....

  • Devil's Food

    Anthony Bruno

    Anthony Award Finalist: A skip tracer chases an embezzler to Florida -- and finds herself entangled with bikers and the IRS -- in this thriller “packed with humor” (Booklist).   With her low-level law-enforcement career on the rocks, it’s ...

  • Freedom & Necessity

    Steven Brust; Emma Bull

    "HAVE WITH YOU, AT ALL TIMES, IRON THAT CUTS, POLISHED SILVER, A SPRIG OF MISTLETOE, AND A LOADED PISTOL. It is 1849. Across Europe, the high tide of revolution has crested, leaving recrimination and betrayal in its wake. From the high councils of...

  • Horse Capades

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Saddle Club's number-one practical joker, Stevie Lake, has decided to reform. The only problem is, nobody believes her. Things get worse for poor Stevie when she tries to shoot a movie for school -- Cinderella on horseback. After all, just becaus...

  • Virus

    Bill Buchanan

    In a near-future age of supercomputers and human-made intelligence, a devastating computer supervirus causes America's space-based missile defense system to shoot down commercial planes and renders the planet defenseless. Original....

  • The Last Six Million Seconds

    John Burdett

    It is April 1997, and all of Hong Kong is counting down to July 1, when Britain will hand over rule of the country to China. Public anxiety about the transfer of power is running high, but “Charlie” Chan Siu-kai’s biggest concern is a gruesome ...

  • Devil Dance

    Frank Burleson

    In 1858, while the U.S. Army fights to tame the Southwest and the Apaches fight for survival, Captain Nathaniel Barrington is torn between sides and is challenged by war leader Cochise to choose his loyalties...

  • Untold Tales of Spider-Man

    Kurt Busiek

  • Jackson

    Max Byrd

    In this sweeping, marvelously written novel, Max Byrd, the celebrated author of Jefferson and Grant, presents a superb portrait of Andrew Jackson, a President remembered for his strong will and tempestuous nature -- and regarded as “the most danger...

  • Doctor Valentine

    Linda Cajio

    February 14th The doctor is IN...love! The arrow--as if guided by radar, or maybe Cupid--pierced Peter Holiday's posterior. Only archer Mary Ellen Magnussen saw stars when she looked into the sexy doctor's milk-chocolate eyes. But with the feathe...

  • Dead Things

    Richard Calder

  • Sea of Fire

    Carol Caldwell

    KISS OF FIRE Raised in Regency Dublin by her doting father, a prominent judge, Elizabeth Corry distrusted most men. She'd waited until six-and-twenty to finally agree to wed, but all her caution was for naught: Her fiance -- along with her fathe...

  • Impulse

    Candace Camp

    Torn from the arms of the woman he loved, cast into the night by her highborn family, Cam Monroe vowed revenge on those who had wronged him. Fifteen years later, wealthy and powerful, Cam returns to England. Now the power is his, power to ruin the...

  • God Save the Queen

    Dorothy Cannell

    At gloomy Gossinger Hall, where the chill of centuries calls for three sweaters, Sir Henry Gossinger has just dropped a bombshell. He has announced to all that he has rewritten his will, bequeathing everything to his devoted butler, Hutchins. Not sin...

  • Miss Delwin's Delights

    Raine Cantrell
    in

    Love and kisses, chocolate and romance -- it's a mixed assortment for those who can't resist the twin delights of passion and chocolate....

  • The Redemption of Christopher Columbus

    Orson Scott Card

    IN ONE O'F THE MOST POWERFUL AND THOUGHT-PROVOKING NOVELS OF HIS REMARKABLE CAREER, ORSON SCOTT CARD INTERWEAVES A COMPELLING PORTRAIT OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS WITH THE STORY OF A FUTURE SCIENTIST WHO BELIEVES SHE CAN ALTER HUMAN HISTORY FROM A TRAGED...

  • Timeswept Passion

    Joyce Carlow

    Transported back to the eighteenth century, Julie Hart is targeted with suspicion by Revolutionary soldier Brady McCormick, who must protect Julie when she is threatened by a sinister enchantress with a traitorous secret. Original....

  • Tupsu: The Squirrel Who Was Afraid

    Melody Carlson

  • Redemption

    Annee Cartier

    THE BEAUTY . . . Lovely, talented actress Gabriela Rozina vowed to make her mark on the stage, to triumph over her wretched childhood as an orphan. No one understood the ambition that kept her rehearsing until midnight, alone in London's Drury Lane ...

  • Pop Goes the Question

    Carla Cassidy

    It began with a red helium balloon containing a note from a child desperate for a mommy -- and siblings. Now, Mary is head over heels for single dad Jonathan Taylor and his daughter, Annie. How does she confide her secret, especially one that might j...

  • The Hot-Wired Dodo

    Jack L. Chalker

    TRUMP CARD



    Reality wasn't what it used to be. Life after life, as man, woman, and child, Cory Maddox was trapped in an endless cycle of ever-changing realities, on the run from his ruthless companions *who were likewise trapped *and fr...

  • Daddy Next Door

    Ginger Chambers

    Raine is pregnant. For a dancer, that's a disaster. Especially when the father is more interested in being in the limelight than being a daddy. So she has run home to her mother, and her dear friend Gabe. Gabe is some sort of saint. That's...

  • Texaco

    Patrick Chamoiseau

    "Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) that he holds out his hand to the oral prehistory of literature."
    --Milan Kundera

    Of black Martinican pr...

  • Monkey King

    Patricia Chao

    Monkey King  tells the story of 28-year-old Sally Wang, a Chinese-American woman whose mental breakdown and sojourn in a hospital set her firmly on the path of memory. Her recovery takes place against a rich tapestry of culture and personality that ...

  • El Bronx

    Jerome Charyn

    In the emerald island of Yankee Stadium Isaac watches millionaires play baseball, while a few blocks away children smoke crack and wave kitchen knives in the air. This is the borough where wild dogs used to roam the parks. This is the land where an a...

  • The Loves of Lord Granton

    Marion Chesney

    'TWAS A MOST ODD AND UNSUITABLE FRIENDSHIP...AND VERY PRECIOUS INDEED! As the youngest of four unmarried vicar's daughters, Frederica feared her destiny was to die of tedium in the sleepy village of Barton Sub Edge. Her looks deemed "u...

  • Sudden Death

    Kate Chester

    When her friend Amy is found dead in Shadow Point Park, deaf sleuth Sara immediately suspects Amy's possessive and sometimes violent boyfriend, Mark, and becomes determined to identify the killer despite police beliefs that it was an accident. Origin...

  • Cowboy Surrender

    Judy Christenberry

    How to match a matchmaker... Redheads raiding his bunk, blondes batting eyelashes, brunettes bearing food...One by one they came after Jake Randall. Now, Jake had been known to stare down a charging bull at three paces, but these husband-hunting f...

  • There's a Tarantula

    Susan Clymer

  • Mirror, Mirror

    M.T. Coffin

    Jake's boring life turns exciting when he looks at his reflection in a spoon and sees a bizarre being, who talks with him and offers to take away all his worries, but Jake soon realizes that the creature is evil. Original....

  • If You Love Me

    Elaine Coffman

    He had done the right thing for the wrong reason... A man driven by despair and an unwillingness to forgive, William Woodville fled his native England, his title, and his duty. In the American wilderness he found the perfect vengeance: a woman. She...

  • Need

    Nik Cohn

    New York City is in the grip of a bad-moon heat wave, with the street-corner preachers running amok. Into the fray, four damaged lives come together at a pet store on the Upper West Side, each one consumed by a private hunger and driven toward an ine...

  • The Magic School Bus Ups and Downs

    Joanna Cole

  • Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge

    Jackie Collins

    When winning is all that matters, luck has nothing to do with it. Lucky Santangelo: in Chances she grew up in a top crime family. In Lucky she was married three times. In Lady Boss she bought Panther Studios. And now she's back, facing the bigges...

  • Family Values

    K.C. Constantine

    When a 17-year-old murder case rears its head, Balzic hears a variety of stories about a drug deal gone wrong and two bodies in a cabin. The fading, twisty trail leads him to a corrupt small-town police chief, now immobilised by a stroke....

  • The Last Good Man

    Inglath Cooper

    Re-released in 2012 as "Good Guys Love Dogs" A SMALL COUNTRY TOWN WAS THE LAST PLACE SHE'D EXPECTED TO FIND HIM! NOT A CHANCE! Ian McKinley was engaged to a suitable woman; Colby Williams had convinced herself there was no such...

  • The Truth About Boys

    Emily Costello

    Her relationship with Dixon jeopardized by the fact that he is only in the sixth grade, Stephanie decides to keep things mum, until snobby Cynthia Hanson discovers their secret and threatens to expose them. Original....

  • Secret Sins

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Twenty-seven years ago. A cold, snowy night in Cleveland... And a traffic pileup that left eight cars wrecked, at least four people dead. But in the midst of this ugliness and pain, a small miracle. A little girl was alive. Her parents weren't so ...

  • The Collected Stories of Amanda Cross

    Amanda Cross

    Amanda Cross is master of the American literary whodunit. In her delicately menacing short fiction, assembled here in one volume, dangerous impulses seize the most unlikely individuals, and everyday existence is fast eclipsed by the bizarre. Among th...

  • Regina Calhoun Eats Dog Food

    Lynn Cullen

    Shortly after Kate is invited by Regina and Margaret to join their club, Regina realizes that Kate is trying to place a wedge between Margaret and her by spreading lies, and Regina decides to retaliate. Original....

  • Elise & the Hotshot Lawyer

    Emily Dalton

    New Year's Resolution #2: Harass a Hunk! Dylan McAllister, Salt Lake City's hottest attorney-at-law, dripped masculinity like summer rain off a hot tin roof. But when Elise Allen used an inherited ticket to the New Year's bachelor auction to buy h...

  • The New Cabbage Soup Diet

    Margaret Danbrot

    Need results in a hurry?This dynamic diet plan lets you eat until your stuffed and lose up to 10 pounds!Have the holidays left you with too tight pants? Is there a dress you need to squeeze into for next week's special occasion? Are you planning on p...

  • Mind Over Marriage

    Rebecca Daniels

    A HUSBAND REMEMBERED When Kelsey Reed awoke from her coma, the only person she wanted was her husband, Cooper. So why was everyone looking at her as if she'd lost her mind? And why was Cooper acting like a stranger? Once she was out of the hospita...

  • Sweet Valentine

    Val Daniels

    Be my Valentine? Autumn is a busy woman. She doesn't have time for romance in her life -- she has a business to run. But her business is about to go bust, so she hires the expert advice of Brad Barnett. As well as being an expert in his field,...

  • Little Donkey's Day with Jesus

    Alice Joyce Davidson

  • Golden Dreams

    Anna De Forest

    After her father's sudden death left her penniless, Boston-bred Kate Holden arrived in Cripple Creek anxious to start a new life, her elegant upbringing a distant memory and her dream of going to college and becoming a history professor long-forg...

  • Pope Patrick

    Peter De Rosa

    The year is 2009. America has its first Catholic president since Kennedy. The planet's other superpower is the Federation of Islamic Republics, stretching from Morocco to Pakistan. And in Rome, the aging Polish Pope, obstinate and combative to the...

  • Boy Who Ate Words

    Thierry Dedieu

    A charmingly illustrated story tells of a boy whose unruly relationship with words forces him to learn instead the language of nature, which allows him to communicate with flowers and ants but not with the little girl next door....

  • Charlie the Chicken

    Nick Denchfield

  • Under the Burning Sun

    H.A. DeRosso

    WesternDescribed by Bill Pronzini as a poet of the Western shadowland, DeRossos characters are usually gunslicks, bounty hunters, drifters, hard-scrabble ranchers, and outlaws who are lonely and disillusioned neither all good nor all bad. In The Boun...

  • The Kronos Condition

    Emily Devenport

    When their evil mentors, The Three, force Sally and her telekinetic companions to help them in their quest for a true Olympus, Sally prepares an elaborate defense that takes them all through space and time. Original....

  • Death Is Now My Neighbor

    Colin Dexter

    Why would a sniper shoot suburban physiotherapist Rachel James as she sips her morning coffee? Inspector Morse's hunt for answers kicks off with a tabloid journalist, winds through the strip clubs of Soho, then returns to Oxford, where two senior don...

  • The Mistress of Spices

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    A classic work of magical realism, this bestselling novel by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni tells the story of Tilo, a young woman from another time who has a gift for the mystical art of spices. Now immortal, and living in the g...

  • Survival of the Fittest

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Testing their wilderness skills on the mountains of Utah, Frank and Joe experience a series of deadly accidents and realize that someone is trying to kill them, sending them on the trail of Butch Cassidy and his outlaw gang. Original....

  • Gould

    Stephen Dixon

    Draws a portrait of an American man through a collection of shorter stories documenting his romantic and sexual encounters over the course of forty years, showing the pain and wonder of love that are such a part of life in the modern world...

  • The Gap into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    Drifting in space, sabotaged by a crewman tainted with an alien mutagen, the starship Trumpet broadcasts to any ship in range the formula of the mutagen's antidote--a drug the United Mining Companies has suppressed for its own sinister purposes. Aboa...

  • Mind-Set

    Paul W. Doster

    Warned by kidnappers that his wife and son will die if he tells the police or fails to meet their demands, Simon Braddock considers doing what they say and decides instead to hunt them down. Original....

  • Alpha Strike

    Keith Douglass

    SUPERPOWER SHOWDOWN As China grows in power and boldness, the stage is set for a second Cold War. In the South China Sea, the situation heats up rapidly when the Chinese claim the internationally disputed and oil-rich Spratly Islands. Carrier Bat...

  • Fireships

    David Drake

    Fending off a Federation attempt to take over her ship, intergalactic pirate captain Sarah Blythe vows to make the Federation President pay for her cargo losses and plans to join the Venus rebellion. Reprint....

  • The Broken Blade

    William Durbin

    In 1800, thirteen-year-old Pierre La Page never dreams he'll be leaving Montreal to paddle a canoe twenty-four hundred miles. This is something older men, like his father, do. But when Pierre's father has an accident, Pierre quits school and enlists ...

  • Hospital Girls

    Joan Eadith

  • Savage Longings

    Cassie Edwards

    Kidnapped by vicious trappers, Snow Deer despaired of ever seeing her people again. Then, from out of the Kansas wilderness came Charles Cline to rescue the Indian maiden. Strong yet gentle, brave yet tenderhearted, the virile blacksmith was everythi...

  • King's Dragon

    Kate Elliott

    IT BEGINS WITH CIVIL WAR.... For though King Henry still holds the crown of Wendar, his reign has long been contested by his sister Sabella. There are many eager to flock to her banner, and there are ways to make even the most unwilling lord into ...

  • Ms Thang: Real Knights Dont Show Up at 3 in the Morning

    Max Elliott

  • Camp Vamp

    Elvira

  • Love Thy Neighbor

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    He gave new meaning to being neighborly... The moment she drove up in aflame-red Mustang to claim the crumbling house next door, Marshall Austin knew he'd been right. Linnea Bryan was bewitching, a fascinating puzzle who could easily hold him spel...

  • Rewind

    Terry England

    "WE DO THIS FOR YOU." The alien Holn came in peace...and stayed for six years. Never leaving their ship, they remained a mystery--communicating only occasionally, and only with scientists. Then, as abruptly as they arrived, they departed--leaving ...

  • The Case of the Mopwater Files

    John R. Erickson

    Hank discovers an elixir that gives him a huge burst of energy - Sally May’s bucket of root stimulator. It gave him such a kick, he challenges Rufus, the Doberman Pincher to a fight, only to discover that, in the meantime, Sally May has filled the ...

  • Walter's Tail

    Lisa Campbell Ernst

  • Victory Ride

    Allison Estes

  • Three To Get Deadly

    Janet Evanovich

    A saintly old candy-store owner is on the lam - and bounty hunter extraordinaire Stephanie Plum is on the case. As the body count rises, Stephanie finds herself dealing with dead drug dealers and slippery fugitives on the chase of her life. And wit...

  • You Must Remember This

    Karen Evans

  • Longarm and the Boardinghouse Widow

    Tabor Evans

    Trying to clean up the troubled town of Grit, where two cattle barons are stealing land and setting loose their men on the innocent locals, Longarm offers special assistance to the revenge-seeking widow Thompson. Original....

  • Come Back Dead

    Terence Faherty

    Hollywood sleuth Scott Elliott, a war hero and one-time actor, works for a company that provides security for movie studios. It is 1955, a time when filmmakers blame their ills on the nascent television industry. One in particular, Carson Drury, trie...

  • The Rakehell's Reform

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    Her Foolish Heart Selina Preston knew her father loved her and that he was determined that his hard-earned wealth buy her happiness in the form of a high-born husband. Unfortunately, the man he chose to press on her was everything she found hatefu...

  • Ring of Intrigue

    Jane S. Fancher

    THE PRIDE OF PRINCES Deymorin, Mikhyel, and Nikaenor were the descendants of Darius Rhomandi, the man who three centuries before had rebelled against the tyrannical ruling priesthood of Mauritum, and founded Rhomatum-a new city based upon his drea...

  • Fever Rising

    Maggie Ferguson

    Fever burning... Deep in the heart of Chicago Memorial, a deadly virus raged -- and Dr. Jeffrey Knight had run out of possible cures. As he tracked the fever's source, one name kept coming up -- Raven Delandy, a local herbalist...and the only wo...

  • My Phony Valentine

    Marie Ferrarella

    THEY'RE COUSINS...IDENTICAL COUSINS Theresa Jean -- T.J. -- Cochran might look like her cousin Theresa Joan, but that's where the similarity ended. Theresa Joan was sexy, vivacious; T.J. was...practical. Theresa Joan was the kind of woman men trippe...

  • The Bride, the Baby and the Best Man

    Liz Fielding

    Faith Bridges knew nothing about babies! She knew little about weddings, either, but in three weeks' time she was about to get married to safe, dependable, practical Julian. They didn't plan on children, just a nice, calm, platonic marriag...

  • Story of Easter

    Aileen Fisher

    With an informative text and glorious illustrations, this book explains both how and why people all over the world celebrate Easter. It tells the biblical story of Jesus’ Resurrection and then describes how people honor this day and the origins...

  • Stalking Darkness

    Lynn Flewelling

    A master of subterfuge, a rogue thief with a noble air, Seregil of Rhiminee has taught his young protege, Alec of Kerry, his greatest secrets of the trade. Together they've made their way with thieving jobs large and small, winning friends and enemie...

  • Romancing the Stones

    Janis Flores

    Lost and Found * Identity Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store: Grace, San Francisco. Dr....

  • 40 Tons of Trouble

    Connie Flynn

    Moving on down the highway... That's all Cat DeAngelo wants to do, but it's getting harder and harder. That's because someone's trying to ruin DeAngelo Transport. Cat's trucks have suffered a rash of break-ins, and a slimy...

  • Sound the Jubilee

    Sandra Forrester

    During the Civil War, Maddie, a young slave girl, and her family escape to freedom on Roanoke Island, where they and three thousand other former slaves develop an experimental community that ekes out a harsh existence as an island colony....

  • Innocence

    Suzanne Forster

    Innocence ...was the only word to describe Mary Frances Murphy. Expelled from a convent, her only sin was desire: For intimacy. For experience. For true carnal knowledge. Once forbidden, these things were now within her reach--as she searched for he...

  • A Legend Reborn

    Steven Frankos

    ONLY ONE MAN CAN BRING MAGIC BACK TO THE WORLD... For Aitchley Corlaiys, the quest nears its end. In his possession is the fabled Elixir of Life, spirited away from the Cathedral of Thorns. Armed with the sword of Procursus and a magical ring, Ait...

  • Give Me Your Answer, Do!

    Brian Friel

  • Tenderness and Fire

    Robert Funderburk

    After a knee injury ruins both Dalton's chance for a football career and his relationship with his girlfriend, he finds the strength to accept his disappointments when Justine Coday leads him to the healing power of God's love...

  • Frozen Stiff!

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Taking a job at the grocery store, Alex gets trapped in the store's freezer section with several blocks of ice that are intended for a Paradise Valley Chemical Plant experiment by Vince and Dave. Original....

  • White Sands

    Simon Gandolfi

    Former British secret agent Trent comes to the rescue of a young boy in the Bahamas, where the crash of a cocaine smuggler's plane sparks a war between an international drug cartel and the law, and makes the youngster a target for hired killers...

  • Those Days- A Novel

    Sunil Gangopadhyay

  • Bloody Shame

    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

    With her acclaimed debut mystery Bloody Waters, Carolina Garcia-Aguilera introduced Cuban, born PI Lupe Solano, "a woman to be reckoned with on the mystery scene" (New York Newsday). Now the sexy Miami sleuth returns, with a shocking new case that st...

  • The Empire Strikes Back: A Storybook

    J.J. Gardner

  • Star Wars: A Storybook

    J.J. Gardner

  • Return of the Jedi: A Storybook

    J.J. Gardner

  • The Beach

    Alex Garlad

    A rootless young Westerner believes he has stumbled upon paradise on a remote island off Thailand, a place known as "The Beach," until he discovers the deadly underside of the island's culture. A first novel. 150,000 first printing. $150,000 ad/promo...

  • Larkspur

    Dorothy Garlock

    A FIGHT FOR HER LAND... AND HER MAN Miss Kristin Anderson had never left home before, but no one was going to stop her from going to Montana to take possession of Larkspur, the ranch she had inherited. She was 23, "a spinster," but she stood up ta...

  • Warrior's Prize

    Georgina Gentry

    A LOVE WORTH FIGHTING FOR... Her Arapaho name is Singing Wind, but no one at the Boston ladies' academy knows of Wannie's Indian ancestry. Pretending to be Spanish royalty, she has concealed her past behind fine clothes and elegant manners. Now sh...

  • A Bride for Abel Greene // Leap of Faith

    Cindy Gerard

    A WIFE IN THE BEDROOM Mail-order bride Mackenzie Kincaid had prepared herself for a loveless marriage to loner Abel Greene. But now her would-be groom wanted out of their deal. Mackenzie was out of options: if she wanted to stay wedded she had to se...

  • Mona Lisa Overdrive

    William Gibson

    Enter Gibson's unique world--lyric and mechanical, erotic and violent, sobering and exciting-where multinational corporations and high-tech outlaws vie for power, traveling into the computer-generated universe known as cyberspace. Into this world com...

  • Lily's Crossing

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    As in past years, Lily will spend the summer in Rockaway, in her family's summer house by the Atlantic Ocean. But this summer of 1944, World War II has changed everyone's life. Lily's best friend, Margaret, has moved to a wartime factory town, and, m...

  • Starring Rosie

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    After landing a part in her favorite play, "Sleeping Beauty," Rosie discovers that she is responsible for more than just learning her lines and must work extra hard to keep the production moving forward despite its many various problems. Reprint....

  • Into Battle

    Michael Gilbert

    Luke Pagan is stationed in Portsmouth to keep an eye on Zeppelin flights. He discovers a British Naval officer doing exactly the same. Seemingly, there is a German spy ring operating with a view to directing the Zeppelins so they can keep an eye on t...

  • After the Flood

    Jenny Giles

    Running words: 210 ?This story is a humourous sequel to The flood. Once again Spot, the family dog, takes a key role. ?Prediction of events and "reading" the illustrations are both important skills. Enjoyment and satisfaction will be increased when t...

  • Cupid's Legacy

    Paula Tanner Girard
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    In "Cupid's Legacy," a wealthy spinster mistakes a nobleman for a handyman; while in "The Valentine Victorious" a woman is unaware of an earl's affection until she becomes engaged; and in "The Valentine's Day Husband," a notorious Marquis wins a woma...

  • Mommy and the Money

    Nancy Goldstone

    Set in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, a sequel to the critically acclaimed Mommy and the Murder follows Elizabeth Halperin and her small daughter on the search for the murderer of her latest beau, a wealthy real-estate developer....

  • Memories of You

    Jane Goodger

    Together in the Past... The last thing Army Lt. Claire Dumont remembered was her helicopter going down and Coleman Brennan, the new officer in her squadron, grabbing for her hand. When she awoke, she was a prisoner in the Civil War and the year was ...

  • The Senator's Daughter

    Victoria Gotti

    Taylor Brooke is a young and beautiful attorney assigned to defend Tommy Washington, a black youth accused of murder. Washington is on trial for the killing of union strongman Joseph Sessio, a crime that has shocked all of Boston. Soon Taylor finds h...

  • Winter Companions and Other Stories

    Neelum Saran Gour

  • Symphony

    Charles L. Grant

    When a preacher who has lost his faith suddenly discovers that he possesses the ability to heal and perform miracles, he becomes a reluctant participant in the battle against evil as he sets out to save a teenage girl and stop the occupants--who may ...

  • Wake Up to Nightmares

    C.C. Graves

    Lyle Fisher wakes up to a real-life nightmare when a simple history test turns into a torture trial, his teacher morphs into a poisonous reptile, and detention hall becomes Lyle's own private hall of horrors, and now he must find his way out of his n...

  • Blue Ribbon

    Jessie Gray

    Home of thoroughbred racing at the turn of the century. Louisville, Kentucky, was heaven on earth for twenty-year-old Darby Lynn Greene. She had always preferred horses to romance--and dreamed of owning a Kentucky Derby winner one day. When a local b...

  • Tarot Fantastic

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of tales encompasses the signs of the tarot deck and includes the story of a woman who gets more than she had bargained for when she turns to a street tarot reader for help in finding her missing brother. Original....

  • I'm Out of My Body... Please Leave a Message

    Dan Greenburg

    When Zack's friend Spencer brings a 60's-style hippie book on astral travel to a sleepover, Zack learns the ins and outs of out-of-body travel in a snap. Getting out of their bodies seems awfully easy for the boys. The problem is, how do they get bac...

  • Billy the Ghost and Me

    Gery Greer

  • Husband Next Door

    Anne Ha

    HUSBAND 101 With women throwing themselves at him, how could anyone expect Aaron Carpenter to settle down with just one? Yet Shelly was determined to transform her irresistibly handsome neighbor into the perfect man. Not for herself, of course. She ...

  • The Dead of Winter

    Patricia Hall

    When the body of realtor Linda Wright is discovered in her car and suspicion falls on her vanished escort and coworker, Jimmy Townsend, Inspector Michael Thackery must sort through mortgage scams, farm sales, and development plans to solve the case...

  • There's a Cupid in My Soup

    Gail Hamilton

  • The Mystery of Drear House

    Virginia Hamilton

    Thomas must keep the treasure of Dies Dear from landing in the wrong hands, but there are many secrets beneath Drear House, and not everyone can be trustedThomas Small and his best friend Pesty Darrow have been keeping the secret of the vast treasure...

  • The Green Girl

    Virginia Hamilton

    Twelve-year old Buhlaire Sims, a racially mixed child who feels out of place in her community, struggles to unearth her past and her family history as she gradually discovers more and more about her long-missing father. SLJ. K. PW. ...

  • Cupid's Mistake

    Karen Harbaugh

    The Suspicious Suitor Cassandra Hathaway had the good fortune to have both beauty and brains. But unfortunately for her, brains was the one thing that Paul Templeton, the Marquess of Blytheland, did not approve of in a woman. The Marquess was conv...

  • Becky and the Worry Cup

    Wendy S. Harpham

  • The Taste of Remembrance

    Alexis Harrington
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    Love and kisses, chocolate and romance -- it's a mixed assortment for those who can't resist the twin delights of passion and chocolate....

  • Crime of the Heart

    Allie Harrison

    TOO MANY SLEEPLESS NIGHTS. Erin Fleming couldn't live with her constant fear of losing Lee McGrey to his perilous police work. Yet living without him was torture...not to mention dangerous. Newly single, Erin had stumbled onto a murder mystery...

  • Death in Lover's Lane

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    A Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter and journalism teacher at ivy-covered Thorndyke University, Henrietta "Henrie O" Collins demands of her students the same steadfast dedication to the truth that was the cornerstone of her own illustrious career. S...

  • Marsh Light

    Kate Hatfield

    Helena and Irene Webton could not be more different.

    Thirty-year-old Helena is a successful restorer of the antique furniture; she is also watchful, damaged, and so private that even her lover has to be kept at a distance. Irene, her stepmothe...

  • Privileged to Kill

    Steven F. Havill

    "Havill...quietly continues a project virtually unique in detective fiction: anchoring his tales of crime and punishment as closely as possible in the rhythms of small-town friends, routines, and calamities." --Kirkus ReviewsRolling stone Wesley Croc...

  • Lady At Risk

    Barbara Hazard

    A Wealth of Temptation Suddenly Miss Sarah Eaton was richer than her wildest dreams. A legacy from a grandfather she barely knew not only made her mistress of a magnificent country manor but also made her into a woman of wealth that many a man wou...

  • Do the Windows Open?

    Julie Hecht

    Do the Windows Open? is a series of hilarious linked tales documenting the mania of the modern day in devastating detail-tales that have had readers of The New Yorker laughing out loud for years.

    The beguiling and alienated narrator-who finds nearl...

  • Young Man from the Provinces

    Alan Helms

  • Madselin's Choice

    Elizabeth Henshall

    WOULD SHE CHOOSE LOVE OR HONOR? The time had come for Lady Madselin de Breuville to marry, but she refused to shackle herself to some stuffy old duke, despite her brother's wishes. Thinking her cousin Richard, the head of the family, would give he...

  • Zorro and Quwi: Tales of a Trickster Guinea Pig

    Rebecca Hickox

  • Masquerade

    Donna Hill
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    On this special day dedicated to romance, wonderful things can happen: secret desires may be spoken, roses can arrive with a card saying "I love you," or a dizzying kiss is exchanged for the first time. Now, three favorite Arabesque authors--with som...

  • Lovechild

    Metsy Hingle

    AN UNFINISHED LOVE AFFAIR... Jacques Gaston had loved all women, until he'd found one woman he wanted with an urgent hunger. But the blond beauty had disappeared from his bed and his life. Now, reunited three years later, Jacques was determined to s...

  • The International Style

    Henry Russell Hitchcock

    The most influential work of architectural criticism and history of the twentieth century, now available in a handsomely designed new edition.

    Initially produced as the catalog to accompany a controversial and groundbreaking 1932 Museum of Mod...

  • The Tangled Web

    B.J. Hoff

  • His Secret Valentine

    Kate Hoffmann
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    Matchmaking shop owner Papa Valentine dispenses sinful desserts, mouth-watering chocolates...and advice for the lovelorn... Preparing the Valentine edition of the newspaper is a cakewalk for editor Charlotte Keats. Convincing cool-hearted publisher S...

  • Mystery of the Missing Tooth

    William H. Hooks

    Everyone in Kara's class loses a tooth...everyone except Kara. Then, when she finally loses her tooth, she can't find it anywhere! Will the Tooth Fairy still come? Will she bring Kara a gift? And what does she do with all those teeth anyway? Kara can...

  • Murder, Mrs. Hudson

    Sydney Hosier

    Triumphant after solving their first case, Emma Hudson and Violet Warner tackle a new mystery when young Winston Churchill asks them to trail a terrorist known as "Marco," an investigation that takes them into London's seedier locales. Original....

  • Get Jammed

    Tristan Howard

    Have you ever tried to shoot hoops with your arms crossed? Or to dribble down the court with crossed legs? Seems pretty weird, right? Well, it might seem weird, but the Rangers -- otherwise known as the Leftovers -- think their new game is much coole...

  • Noble and Ivy

    Carole Howey

    Ivy was comfortable being a schoolteacher in the town of Peaceful, Wyoming. She had long since given up dreams of marrying her childhood beau, and bravely bore the secret sorrow that haunted her past. But then Stephen, her cocksure brother, ran off w...

  • Cat's Don't Dance: Digest

    Francine Hughes

    Danny, a dancing cat who wants to be a movie star, loses his first role when he upstages the star, Darla Dimples, but determines to prove that he and all the other performing animals have the talent to become successful....

  • Gentle Touch

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    After losing her mother to breast cancer, Jacquelyn Wilkes finds solace in a career as an oncology nurse. But her dreams of the future crumble when new doctor, Jonah Martin, brings his flamboyant style to the clinic. He's exactly the opposite of wh...

  • Rage of Spirits

    Noel Hynd

    In 2003, the President of the United States inexplicably lapses into a coma, and with national security in question, Press Secretary William Cochran sets out on a mission that leads him into a shadowy world of truth, lies, and insanity. Reprint....

  • Mortal Fear

    Greg Iles

    By day, Harper Cole trades commodities over the Internet from his isolated Mississippi farmhouse. At night, he is systems operator of E.R.O.S., an exclusive, sexually explicit on-line service that guarantees total anonymity to its rich and famous cli...

  • River of Dust

    Alexander Jablokov

    Returning to Mars after a long visit to Earth, a politician learns that his younger brother has become involved in a dangerous underground cult movement that is responsible for a governor's assassination. Reprint....

  • The View from Here

    Brian Keith Jackson

    Brian Keith Jackson's acclaimed debut novel treads the same rich literary soil as the work of Alice Walker and Toni Morrison--with equally memorable results. Evoking a world of casual prejudice and commonplace poverty Jackson tells the haunting story...

  • BEE-ZARRE!

    David Jacobs

    When an aggressive swarm of Brazillian cross-bred bees flies into Rita Knight's hometown in Osbourne, Texas, the teenager and her friends are terrified as local factory smoke, mistaken by the bees for a stinger chemical, spurs a stinging frenzy...

  • The Outcast of Redwall

    Brian Jacques

    In legend could the truth be told, Of a warlord's son, a ferret bold, With blood-red paws, he was cast out But left a shadow of doubt... Many seasons ago, the evil ferret warlord known as Swartt Sixclaw abandoned his infant son and left him for...

  • An Accidental Marriage

    Judith Janeway

    THEY ELOPED! But when the bride's parents arrived, the startled newlyweds begged maid of honor Kit Kendrick and best man Ryan Holt to pretend they were the hastily married ones! Only, the new "groom" wasn't smiling... Granted, Kit knew the hand...

  • The Lady in the Car with the Glasses and a Gun

    Sebastien Japrisot

    A classic noir suspense novel back in print. Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including D...