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New Books List: 575 titles

  • The Sleeping Giant of Goll

    Tony Abbott

    Lord Sparr has found a new weapon to use against the city of Droon. He's woken up a mean old giant that will now obey his every command! It's a good thing Eric, Julie, and Neal are around to help their friends try to stop Lord Sparr. It's a giant j...

  • The Poet Game

    Salar Abdoh

    In the wake of the first World Trade Center bombing, New York City is the center of an intricate web of betrayals and double-crosses in the shadowy world of Muslim radicals. Sami Amir arrives in Brooklyn via Iran, and into a world of militants, arms ...

  • A Kiss at Midnight

    Shana Abe

    Who will you be with when the clock strikes twelve? Midnight Abduction Ancient law proclaims that, as the year 999 draws to a close and the new millennium begins, the land of Alderich will be wrested from the Rune family by the clan of Leonhart...

  • Her Daughter's Father

    Anna Adams

    She didn't know how wrong the right decision could be. Her Daughter's Mother: India Stuart wants to know her child, but she gave up that right 15 years ago. Still, she feels compelled to make sure her daughter's safe and happy with her adoptive ...

  • Hellfire

    Luke Adams

  • Far from Home

    Rochelle Alers
    in

    Disappointed that her two children chose to spend the holidays with their father and his young wife, Erika Williams heads to St. Thomas alone, to drown her sorrows in the Caribbean sun. But a handsome senator threatens to intrude upon Erika's solitud...

  • Shadow Down

    David Alexander

    Like a dagger in flight, a black-hulled aircraft slices through the predawn darkness... Armed with a single AMRAAM missile, the MiG multirole bomber Shadow One is a top secret, state-of-the-art model of stealth technology. The mission: a joint und...

  • Sacred Trust

    Hannah Alexander

    CODE BLUE! E.R. Politics Collide With Workplace Ethics in a Compelling New Medical Thriller If you like the fast-paced energy of "E.R." or the medical drama of "Chicago Hope" but are seeking a positive message and uplifting characters, then SAC...

  • Falling for an Older Man

    Trisha Alexander

    Callahans & Kin: Together these Texans built a town -- but would they find love at Rainbow's End? Her brother's best friend -- that's all handsome hunk Jack Kinsella SHOULD be in Sheila Callahan's eyes. But she'd had an incurable crush on him fo...

  • Kiss of Darkness

    Belinda Alexandra

  • One Husband Needed

    Jeanne Allan

    Worth Lassiter had spent his life watching out for his sisters. But now they were all happily married and he was free. Free to have the adventures he'd always dreamed about. Until single mom Elizabeth Randall and her baby son entered his life... ...

  • Winning Isabel // Isabel, Mi Amor

    Gloria Alvarez

    Feminist physician Isabel Sanchez comes face to face with her own forgotten Mexican heritage when she's assigned to a South Texas clinic. Her outspoken values are in sharp contrast with the traditional Hispanic beliefs of the locals--particularly tho...

  • Genesis

    Poul Anderson

    Artificial intelligence has been developed to a point where human intelligence can be uploaded into a computer, achieving a sort of hybrid immortality. Astronaut Christian Brannock welcomes this technology, technology that will make it possible for h...

  • Hokas Pokas!

    Poul Anderson; Gordon R. Dickson

    They're Baaaack! When a human thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte, it's time to get out a straitjacket. But when a Hoka thinks he's Napoleon Bonaparte, you'd better believe it! Particularly since there'll be hundreds of other Hokas around who know for ...

  • Isn't It Romantic

    Shannon Anderson (1)

    A GAME OF HEARTS Pretty graduate student Nell Bradley has just gotten a big break -- a chance to stop waiting tables and add a little magic to a new computer game. But she can't believe her new boss is the regular customer she's smitten wi...

  • Be My Friend

    Joan Walsh Anglund

    An ideal Valentine's Day gift bookpackaged with a heartshaped locketcaptures the playful times of two small children who celebrate the importance of friendship through a poetic tale and gentle illustrations....

  • The Verificationist

    Donald Antrim

    With a New Introduction by George SaundersA New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearIt is early spring, and Tom has called together his fellow psychologists at the Krakower Institute for their biannual pancake supper -- a chance for likemi...

  • The Arrival

    K.A. Applegate

    Andalites have finally arrived on Earth. Ax and the other Animorphs now have allies willing to fight against the Yeerk invasion. But there are only four Andalites. Not nearly enough to defeat thousands of Yeerks. Not enough to stop humans from being ...

  • The Weakness

    K.A. Applegate

    When Jake has to leave town for a family thing, the other Animorphs and Ax figure life will pretty much be normal until he gets back. But when Tobias discovers Visser Three's newest feeding place, the kids decide they have to check it out. But the...

  • Trouble With Aaron

    Katherine Applegate

    Trouble with Aaron--so what's new! Claire's crazy about the guy, but it's still hard to forget that she once hated him. Everyone seems determined to break them up, and now it looks as if Aaron's secretly seeing someone else. It's time for him to deci...

  • Wedding Chimes, Assorted Crimes

    Christine Arness

    A society wedding photographer falls under suspicion in this “charming and exciting new tale of romance and suspense†(RT Book Reviews).   In Lake Hope and other posh suburbs of Chicago, the services of photographer Keely O’Brien are in hi...

  • Huggly's Pizza

    Tedd Arnold

  • The Captive

    Amanda Ashley

    They'd given him a number and taken away his name. Taken his freedom, his home, his family. Everything that made life worth living. But they couldn't take hope... and she came to him looking like an angel with hair the color of silver moonlight and e...

  • Pursuit

    Verne Athanas

    A masterful collection of seven stories that capture life on the American frontier includes "The Pioneers," in which Byron Martin, left for dead after an Indian attack, sets out after the men who have kidnapped his wife and son. Reprint....

  • Why on This Night?: A Passover Haggadah for Family Celebration

    Louise August

  • Delta Double-Deal

    Noreen Ayres
    in

    The crowned Queen of Suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, has no peer in the realm of stylish, sophisticated thrillers -- brilliant, breathtaking tales that delve into the deepest affairs of the heart, the darkest crimes...

  • The Marriage at Antibes

    Carol Azadeh

    The Country Road’ moves heartbreakingly through the days of Cathy, a lonely eight-year-old in a Northern Ireland populated by her elderly neighbours and the vague menace of the security forces. In ‘Bronagh’, the eponymous heroine is wrenched fr...

  • Husband on Trust

    Jacqueline Baird

    A marriage betrayed? Meeting sexy and dynamic entrepreneur Alex Solomos has transformed Lisa's life. In the seven weeks since their whirlwind wedding, her confidence and happiness -- both in and out of the bedroom -- have grown enormously. ...

  • Little Rabbits 1st Number Book

    Alan Baker

    With Alan Baker's playful little rabbits as their guide, very young children will learn readily as they enjoy the colorful mix of animals, objects, vehicles and explore the interactive games on each page. Can you find the seven penguins? Who has the ...

  • Mendoza in Hollywood

    Kage Baker

    This is the third novel in what has become one of the most popular series in contemporary SF, now back in print from Tor. In the 24th century, the Company preserves works of art and extinct forms of life, for profit, of course. It recruits orphans fr...

  • Sweet Sin

    Nina Bangs
    in

    SWEET ANTICIPATION... More alluring than Aphrodite, more irresistible than omen, the power of this sensuous seductress is renowned. It teases the senses, tempting even the most staid; it inspires wantonness, demanding surrender. Whether savored or...

  • Inversions

    Iain M. Banks

    ON A DISORDERED WORLD In Haspidus, Dr. Vosill serves as the personal physician to the king, an incredible achievement for a foreigner and--even more unthinkably--a woman. Sharp-tongued, independent, and full of dangerous ideas, Vosill has more enemi...

  • Round Is a Pancake

    Joan Sullivan Baranski

    At the royal festival for their beloved king, everyone is having a fantastic time dancing, drumming, twirling, and juggling, in a boldly illustrated tale which offers readers a chance to find the round items mentioned in the text within the drawings....

  • The Seven Songs of Merlin

    T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Young Merlin has freed Fincayra--the enchanted isle between earth and sky from the terrible blight, taking the first steps an the path to discover the power within him. , But the mystical land is still in danger and his true trials are just beginn...

  • The Chivalry of Crime

    Desmond Barry

    The Chivalry of Crime, is the story of one of America's most compelling figures, the outlaw gunslinger Jesse James. Bringing real and invented characters together in a dramatic and moving story, The Chivalry of Crime mingles the life of an imaginary ...

  • Your Cheatin' Heart

    Nancy Bartholomew

    JUST WHAT DOES A WOMAN HAVE TO DO TO MAKE HER DREAMS COME TRUE? Once upon a time Maggie Reid had a nice home, a rich husband, and an adoring daughter. But that fairy-tale life hit the skids when her no-good man left her for a busty bottle blonde, ...

  • His Noble Promise

    Adrienne Basso

    HIS GREATEST SURPRISE Mistaking Anne Paget, a beautiful artist, for her sister Nicole, an adventuress who has stolen his nephew's heart, Richard Cameron, Earl of Mulgrave, receives the shock of his life when he meets the woman in question. For...

  • All by Myself

    Ivan Bates

    Every day Maya's mother picks leaves for breakfast with her long trunk. Then one day Maya decides she wants to pick the leaves-- all by herself!

    One little elephant plus one tall tree can only mean one big problen. Luckily, Maya's mother thinks she...

  • Corporate Cowboy

    Pamela Bauer

    What Austin Bennett needed was a good swift kick! What Austin Bennett needed was a good swift kick! The arrogant CEO had been driving feisty filly Kacy Judd crazy with his excessive demands, blatant disregard of procedures, and toe-curling kisses...

  • Acts of Mutiny

    Derek Beaven


    In 1959, young Ralph travels to Australia on an ocean liner with his mother and her smooth-talking American lover, Mr. Chaunteyman. As the three journey from England, Ralph witnesses the beginning of another love affair--this one between two othe...

  • One Lucky Lord

    Kim Bennet

    Fearless English earl Thomas Wentworth scoffs at failure, trusting in the legendary Wentworth luck to safeguard his spy mission to Scotland. But a single encounter with saucy Scotswoman Fia MacLean turns Thomas's mission topsy-turvy-and tests his her...

  • Crisis Point

    Cherie Bennett

  • Rich Girl in the Mirror

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

  • To Galilee With Love

    Eileen Berger

    Fatherless and cast off as a baby by her mother, Micki Forrester's only family has been Gram, the energetic woman who raised Micki from birth. When, as as adult, Micki leaves for a long-anticipated tour of the Holy Lands, she never guesses that secre...

  • The Prize

    Martine Berne

    INNOCENCE UNDONE Adrianna was almost grateful to her Scottish abductor. At least now she was free of her dissolute brother and his efforts to force her into a wealthy marriage. But when Leith drew close to her on his steed, she began to tremble. The...

  • Silent Justice

    William Bernhardt

    When a powerful corporation is charged with dumping toxic chemicals into a community’s drinking water and killing innocent children, Ben Kincaid knows the class action suit is a suicide mission. Facing off against the small Kincaid staff is Tulsaâ€...

  • Cinnamon and Roses

    Heidi Betts

    THE HIGH COST OF LIVING A plain, hardworking seamstress, Rebecca had no business being attracted to wealthy Caleb Adams. Born fatherless in a brothel, Rebecca knew what males were made of. Caleb was clearly as faithless as they came, scandalizing th...

  • Collette

    Kristin Billerbeck
    in

    Friendship is forever as four modern women will discover in this collection of novellas. Amanda is waiting out a long engagement, Brittany is widowed with a young daughter, Collette is returning home from the mission field, Danielle is focused on sta...

  • Highway Robbery

    John Billheimer

    PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS Civil engineer Owen Allison is called home to West Virginia by his mother, who's convinced. that a skeleton unearthed by a construction crew belongs to Owen's late father--a highway commissioner believed drowned decades ...

  • Scream in Silence

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Beloved for both her complex mysteries and her fascinating main character, African-American female cop Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland is "one of today's most talented mystery writers" (Booklist). Now Marti is newly married, juggling domestic ...

  • Go Quietly Into the Day

    Eleanor Taylor Bland
    in

    The crowned Queen of Suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, has no peer in the realm of stylish, sophisticated thrillers -- brilliant, breathtaking tales that delve into the deepest affairs of the heart, the darkest crimes...

  • It's Heaven to Be Seven

    Judy Blume

    Gathers selections from stories by Judy Blume, Roald Dahl, Beverly Cleary, James Howe, Ann M. Martin, Patricia MacLachlan, Betty Horvath, Johanna Hurwitz, Suzy Kline, Susan Wojciechowski, Dick King-Smith, and Miriam Cohen...

  • It Takes a Rebel

    Stephanie Bond

    Bad boy Jack Stillman loves a challenge - and sexy workaholic Alexandria Tremont is turning out to be a big one! Still, he's sure that one dose of the Stillman charm will have Alex out of the office - and into his bed! Alex Tremont has never met anyb...

  • Loving Glory

    Geri Borcz

    SHE CHALLENGED HIM TO A SHOWDOWN. Five years after a shootout that left her injured and her uncle dead, Glory Carpenter has come back to Tombstone, Arizona, to reclaim the only home she's ever known. Only one thing stands in her way: a legendary gun...

  • Freeze Frame

    Della Borton

    EVEN A CLASSIC CASE OF MURDER
    ISN'T ALWAYS BLACK AND WHITE.

    A descendant of Hollywood players, Gilda Liberty has movies in her blood. It's her legacy--along with the old Paradise Theatre. But restoring her eccentric family's crumbling movie...

  • Evan and Elle

    Rhys Bowen

    Madame Yvette's arrival is causing a lot of excitement in Llanfair. Some are enraged at the fact that her new French restaurant sits on the site of an abandoned chapel. Others are thrilled about her sophisticated culinary skills. And Llanfair's men s...

  • Where You Belong

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Val Denning, a willowy war photographer, left her American family--and cruelly unloving mother--for a life abroad and a life of danger. But Val's dazzling world of work, risk, and love has suddenly come apart. An assignment in Kosovo left her lover d...

  • Traitor's Sun

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    THE POWER OF LARAN It has been fifteen years since Marguerida Alton returned to Darkover, discovered the terrifying powers of her special laran, and fell in love with Mikhail Lanart-Hastur, heir designate to the regency of Darkover. With the prope...

  • Gunman's Goal

    Max Brand

    THE HONORABLE OUTLAW James Giraldi is that most extraordinary kind of thief, one who steals only from other thieves. In fact, he's running away from one whose pocket he just picked when he meets Louise Asprey. Louise begs Giraldi to help find her ...

  • Afterimage

    Jay Brandon

    San Antonio District Attorney Chris Sinclair has never forgotten his first real love, Jean a college girlfriend from the era of free love, a wild young woman who introduced him to a world of sex, drugs and alcohol drastically unlike his own. She left...

  • Shadow Killers

    Matt Braun

    THE PREACHER WORE BLACK. BUT BENEATH HIS FROCK COAT WAS A HAIR-TRIGGER COLT IN A CROSS-DRAW HOLSTER -- TOOLS OF A KILLER'S TRADE ... The Reverend Titus Jacoby has come to Cimarron on a mission: to put himself up as bait for a shadowy coalition o...

  • Kari

    Libba Bray

  • Very Best Easter Bunny

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Raking in Revenge

    Guy Brewer

    Con man Dex Yancy intends to take down the Ku Klux Klan by going undercover and and destroying them from the inside out in the third novel in the Diamondback series....

  • Tangled Web

    Shirley Brinkerhoff

    Nikki's eighteenth birthday begins a series of problems which test her growing faith, including her parents' possible divorce, fear of losing the young man she loves, and a dangerous meeting with someone she meets on the Internet....

  • My Fallen Angel

    Pamela Britton

    HEAVEN SENT Handsome and fearless, Garrick Asquith-Wolf relished battling pirates on the high seas until one reckless fight cost him his life. But the daring sailor's place in heavan isn't guaranteed. To earn it, he has to return to earth to prote...

  • A Falling Star

    Carolyn Brown

  • Knight In My Arms

    Stacy Brown

    When Norman soldiers stormed her Saxon manor, Brianna fled to a nearby priory, never imagining she would be summoned home to tend a gravely wounded Norman lord. As she nursed him back to health, disguised as a nun, Brianna unexpectedly found herself ...

  • A Bride for Jackson Powers

    Dixie Browning

    Iced-in at the airport, cradeling the kicking, squealing infant daughter he'd only just discovered, Jackson Powers was fresh out of patience. And now he'd hooked up with fellow strandee Hetty Reynolds, a woman who didn't fit into any of his neat pige...

  • The Sporting Club

    Sinclair Browning

    BURIED SECRETS Private eye Trade Ellis, part cowgirl, part Apache, has her hands full running her Arizona ranch. But when Victoria Carpenter, the famous romance writer, shows up with gruesome stories about repressed childhood memories, all going b...

  • Catch Me If You Can

    Nina Bruhns

    CAUGHT BETWEEN DUTY AND DESIRE Simon "Beau" Beaulieux oozed sensuality -- from his bedroom eyes to his broad shoulders to his lilting Louisiana drawl. Kit Colfax knew the parish sheriff always got what he wanted, but to protect her future she coul...

  • Ground Training

    Bonnie Bryant

    Grounded! Carole Hanson can't believe it. No phone, no TV, no hanging out with friends, no job, and absolutely no Pine Hollow. One stupid, thoughtless act and everything has changed.

    Stevie Lake is an expert at being grounded. It seems as if ...

  • Dances with Werewolves

    Paul Buchanan

  • Firemask

    Chris Bunch

    PEACE IS A PIPE DREAM ON THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE The human Confederation government remains ominously silent during the post -- civil war cleanup on a far-distant planetary system. Short on supplies and support, the Cumbre system is left vulnerab...

  • Texas Midnight

    Caroline Burnes

    From enemies...to lovers? Proud Apache Anna Red Shoes had sworn revenge against Jeremy Masterson for the lies he'd written about her family. But when she confronted the famous author, the passion that burned in her wasn't anger, but the scorching ...

  • It Takes Two

    Adrienne Burns

    A warlock and his witchy wife have been sentenced to life behind bars--in a pet shop birdcage, that is. And there they will remain as caged birds until they stop squabbling and start doing some good. Surely matching two mortals is the sort of good de...

  • A Bride for McCain

    Mary Burton

    ROSS HAD HIS PRIDE... Ross McCain was determined to bring a schoolteacher to the town of Prosperity, even if he had to carry her all the way out West. There was no way that the children were going to miss out on learning to read. But he never exp...

  • Eliza's Gateau

    Lisa Cach
    in

    SWEET ANTICIPATION... More alluring than Aphrodite, more irresistible than omen, the power of this sensuous seductress is renowned. It teases the senses, tempting even the most staid; it inspires wantonness, demanding surrender. Whether savored or...

  • All Smiles

    Stella Cameron

    LONDON 1821 7 Mayfair Square, an elegant townhouse, during the glittering whirl of a London season. Here, with a little help form a most unusual matchmaker, anything is possible -- even unlikely love between a nobleman and a confounding parson&#...

  • Biggest Bed in the World

    Lindsay Camp

    "How am I supposed to sleep like this?"

    Ben's dad can't seem to get a good night's sleep. There are too many children in his bed!

    First, there's Ben, and then there's Ben's Brother Billy. Soon the twins, Beth and Bart arrive. And then....

  • Living Legend

    Joanna Campbell

    Can Christina measure up?

    Ever since Christina Reese won her very first race on Wonder's Star, she's been feeling pressure to live up to her mother's reputation as a great jockey. The racing press is full of articles with headlines such as "...

  • My Loving Familiar

    C.J. Card

    A talented herbalist supplies potions and elixirs to the lovelorn residents of St. Augustine, Florida. And when a handsome druggist falls under her spell, she uncovers the magic in his skeptical heart... Isabel Gomez yearns to continue her mother'...

  • Picture Perfect

    Reon Carter

    After discovering her lover's infidelity, Cassidy Adams leaves Mobile, Alabama, and moves to Cincinnati for a fresh start as a professional photographer and single career woman. She swears off men, but that proves difficult once she meets Bran Lassit...

  • Waiting for the Wedding

    Carla Cassidy

    They'd waited for their wedding night... ...the night that never happened. And five years later Sherry Boyd still held fast to her virginity. But it seemed her former fiance, Clint Grahan, had not - the 'evidence' lay nestled against his broad chest....

  • The Secret of the Sinister Six

    Adam-Troy Castro

    Peter Parker, the amazing Spider-Man, has made an astonishing discovery-he has a sister! Unfortunately, a manipulative super-villain known as the Gentleman-who had a hand in the deaths of Peter's parents-has somehow brainwashed her into becoming the ...

  • Thirst

    Michael Cecilione

  • The Moreau Factor

    Jack L. Chalker

    THE EVOLUTION OF TERROR

    A hard-living reporter long past his Pulitzer Prize-winning prime, Chuck Vallone is about to meet a renowned geneticist who needs to clear his conscience. But when Vallone arrives at their rendezvous, he finds the D.C. ...

  • Summer's Child

    Diane Chamberlain

    Twenty years after 11-year-old Daria Cato found a baby abandoned on a beach in Kill Devil Hills, N.C., she is still very much a part of the child's life. Daria's parent's had adopted the infant, but now they are dead and she has accepted responsibili...

  • Taming Angelica

    Alice Chambers

    WHERE THERE'S A WILL What was the point in having beauty and wealth if one couldn't do what one wanted because of one's gender? Angelica didn't know, but she planned on overcoming it. Suffragette and debutante, the Boston Blunderbu...

  • The Sword

    Deborah Chester

    Trapped in a world that is neither life nor death, the great king watches and waits... He sees the half-elver boy Dain earn his place at the court of the Crown Prince Gavril--and the enmity of Gavril, whose heart is poisoned by dark magick. He ...

  • The Daddy Salute

    Maureen Child

    Resist her charming neighbor's advances? No problem - even if Marine Sergeant Brian Haley's killer smile sent shivers up Kathy Tate's spine. No sir, Kathy had sworn off love and marriage, and nothing in the rugged marine's arsenal could break through...

  • A Trip to the Stars

    Nicholas Christopher

    “A large, lavishly inventive novel . . . an American descendant of The Arabian Nights . . . erudite and artful entertainment.†-- The New York Times Book Review   At a Manhattan planetarium in 1965, ten-year-old Enzo is whisked away from his...

  • Catching Kelly

    Sue Civil-Brown

    Crazy...in Love Eight years ago, ultra-sensible Kelly Burke left her zany family in a desperate attempt to lead a normal life. When she gets the news that a ruggedly handsome man has moved in on her grandmother--and the family finances--she rushes...

  • SSN

    Tom Clancy

    AMERICA IS AT WAR China has invaded the oil-rich Spratly Islands. The American response has been swift--and deadly. And the Third World War has begun... Captain Bartholomew Mackey is the skipper of the U.S.S. Cheyenne, a nuclear submarine that ...

  • Family Affair

    Cathleen Clare

    A CHANGE OF HEART The outrageous match between Adam, Lord Trowbridge, and his new bride Davina has the whole ton talking. Adam's clan is impeccably polite (some say stuffy), but bubbly Davina's bloodline, though quite blue, is famous for it...

  • The Night Awakens: Anthology

    Mary Higgins Clark
    in

    The crowned Queen of Suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, has no peer in the realm of stylish, sophisticated thrillers -- brilliant, breathtaking tales that delve into the deepest affairs of the heart, the darkest crimes...

  • Cat and the Countess

    Casey Claybourne

    She pilfered his most cherished possession. He's privy to her most shameful secret. Will he rob her of her dignity -- or steal his way into her heart? A widowed countess who's being courted by an eminently suitable but unbearably bori...

  • Sea Fighter

    James H. Cobb

    Packed with all the electrifying action and cutting-edge technology fans have come to expect from James H. Cobb, Sea Fighter sends Commander Amanda Lee Garrett into her most explosive mission yet. A renegade Nigerian general has invaded Sierra Leone ...

  • Belinda

    Colleen Coble
    in

    Friendship is forever as four modern women will discover in this collection of novellas. Amanda is waiting out a long engagement, Brittany is widowed with a young daughter, Collette is returning home from the mission field, Danielle is focused on sta...

  • Doc Holliday's Gone

    Jane Candia Coleman

    Two short novels in one volume follow Mary Katherine Horony, a.k.a. Big Nose Kate, who was the woman in Doc Holliday's life, and Viola Howell, who met with New Mexico governor Lew Wallace to plead the case of John Slaughter, the man she loves who sta...

  • Rough and Rugged

    Colleen Collins

    Liney Reed's recipe for a rugged man: 1 tsp bad-boy, 1 c dreamy, 1 sprinkle of dark and sexy. Bring to a rapid boil. Let simmer for three or four days over heated glances. Serves one sexually-primed female executive. When L.A. executive Liney 'Dragon...

  • One Little Prayer

    Kim Comeaux / Kimberley Comeaux
    in

    Love is in season as you journey into rural America’s history and witness the harvest of romance through six delightful stories. From Minnesota to Florida, New York to Kansas, and Ohio to Louisiana, heroic men and women make sacrifices in order to ...

  • Barjack

    Robert J. Conley

    When he arrived in Asininity, Barjack didn't intend to stay for long, let alone take on the job of sheriff, but soon enough he is doing both, and taking on the dreaded Benson brothers as well. Original....

  • Honour Redeemed

    Tom Connery

    Lieutenant George Markham braves spies, traitors, rivals, and a jealous husband as he leads a team of her Majesty's Royal Marines in a dangerous mission to seize the island of Corsica from the French. Reprint....

  • Maelstrom

    Matthew Costello

    Disturbed by a vision of a beautiful apparition, a priest seeks out the Legacy to help him deal with the terrible consequences of this supernatural event. Original. (Based on the MGM Worldwide Television series, starring Derek De Lint, Martin Cummins...

  • Lost in His Love

    Lyn Cote

    In Whispers of Love, Civil War widow Jessie Wagstaff must fend for herself and her son. When a stranger, Lee Smith, befriends Jessie's son, even though she recognizes nine-year-old Linc's need for a father figure, she's reluctant to let a new man ...

  • My Lady Governess

    Wilma Counts

    A REBELLIOUS RUNAWAY When Elinor Richards' guardian attempts to barter her in marriage to an unsavory gentleman, the desperate heiress can only see one solution. Disguising herself as "Miss Palmer," she takes the post of governess to the...

  • Glory of Unicorns

    Bruce Coville

  • Bruce Coville's Strange Worlds

    Bruce Coville

    A master writer of science fiction has collected an anthology of short stories about faroff and fantastic worlds by such noted fantasy writers as Arthur C. Clarke, Alethea Eason, and Jane Yolen. Original....

  • Danielle

    Carol Cox
    in

    Friendship is forever as four modern women will discover in this collection of novellas. Amanda is waiting out a long engagement, Brittany is widowed with a young daughter, Collette is returning home from the mission field, Danielle is focused on sta...

  • God's Children

    Harold Coyle

    It is from this Biblical saying that Harold Coyle has taken the title of his new novel, God's Children. Yet peacekeeping is not child's play. A tale of high-tech warfare set in near-future Slovakia, God's Children is the story of the 3rd Platoon, C C...

  • Max & Jane

    Elizabeth Craft

    Jane has fantasized about the prom for years. The perfect dress, the lovely corsage, the slow dances without end. So now, when the big night is just three weeks away and the guy of her dreams doesn't know she's alive, it's time for a major plan. She'...

  • A Gambler's Magic

    Emma Craig

    YOU GOTTA KNOW WHEN TO HOLD HER Gambler Elijah Perry is on a winning streak, until he is shot in the leg and fears his good fortune is at an end. Then he awakes to find the straight-laced Joy Hardesty scowling at him and he sees he's been dealt an...

  • Marriage by Deception

    Sara Craven

    Blind-date bride! Rosamund Craig wished she'd never let her stepsister persuade her to accept a blind date! Meeting Sam Hunter could have been love at first sight -- if only Ros hadn't been pretending to be someone else.... How could she a...

  • Freedom's Promise

    DiAnna Crawford

    Series premiere special price!

    After completing her years of servitude to a dairy farmer in North Carolina, Annie McGregor hears there is a man in town, Ike Reardon, looking for settlers to accompany him across the mountains to Tennessee. C...

  • Lord Rotham's Wager

    Ann Elizabeth Cree

    HIS BRIDE BY LOTTERY Lord Jack Rotham was not a betting man when it came to marriage. But when his great-uncle's will ordered Jack to marry, a bride by wager seemed the logical solution. And so Jack picked the winning wife out of a lottery. Howe...

  • The Inheritance

    Jasmine Cresswell

    A disk. A simple disk that named names. That was Isabella Joubert's inheritance from her father, a man she loved but could not trust. To right his wrongs, she was determined to turn the incriminating list over to the authorities. But danger was...

  • A Perfect Scoundrel

    Heather Cullman

    LORDS OF LOVE Once there was a shy young woman with no offers for her hand... Once there was a handsome rake who never gave her a second glance... In the costume of her lovely cousin, the shy young woman attended a masked ball. The handso...

  • Patch the Perfect Kitten

    Jenny Dale

  • Fiance Wanted!

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Desperately seeking eligible male! Katy Andrews was going to a family reunion where she knew her life just wouldn't be worth living if she didn't take a man. Trouble was, all the decent men she knew were too old, too young or too married, ...

  • Love Is All You Need

    Catherine Daly

  • Love at First Sight

    B.J. Daniels

    Karen Sutton never got in trouble, caused a scene--or got married. But when she witnessed a murder, good breeding went by the wayside as she set out to expose the murderer. Except when the killer got too close, Karen ended up with amnesia. The only t...

  • Look Homeward, Angel

    Peggy Darty

    Life for Angelique Boudreau has always been lovely and simple. She is content to live in her Nova Scotian fishing community; she is glad that she will soon have a new baby brother or sister; and most of all she is happy that she will soon be the wife...

  • Equal Love

    Peter Ho Davies

    “Touching and funny†short fiction about family, estrangement, and dislocation from the award-winning author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself  (Elizabeth McCracken, author of Bowlaway).   Featuring “stories about the...

  • Waterloo Sunset Stories

    Ray Davies

  • Mirror's Edge

    Carol Davis

  • Garfield Hogs the Spotlight

    Jim Davis

    Garfield is ready for his close-up!The witty kitty is back in the spotlight with a rollicking one-cat show! And this portly performer has an ego as big as his legendary appetite. So whether he's practicing his Volleydog serve on Odie, pantsing the un...

  • Newlywed Games

    Mary Davis

    It was just a little white lie--meant only to make her mother's final hours happy... Then a strange twist suddenly sends Meghann's life out of control. Her handsome boss, Bruce Halloway, is no longer just her make-believe boyfriend but her make-be...

  • Wake of the Hornet

    Val Davis

    A mission to murder....

    Fifteen miles long, bordered by pristine white beaches, Balesin is an emerald paradise in the blue waters of the South Pacific--and home to a bizarre religious cult. Since World War II, the people of Balesin have worshi...

  • The Marriage Basket

    Sharon De Vita

    The Blackwell Brothers: From bachelors to bridegrooms! WAY OF THE APACHE Hunter Blackwell was fiercely proud of his Apache heritage and intended to rear his orphaned godson according to tribal tradition. Trouble was, the boy's strong-willed ...

  • Diamond Deuce

    Dudley Dean

    Kelly Boyle's carefully constructed plans are shattered when his beloved's father, Major Ransom, sets his sights on Kelly's Diamond Deuce ranch and tries to force him into running illegal guns across the Mexican border in exchange for his daughter's ...

  • Squiggle's Tale

    Andre Dehan

    When Squiggle gets to spend his vacation in Paris he promises to be good. He sends a letter to his parents to assure them that he is keeping his word. But what really happened when Squiggle and his cousins, Snook and Puddin, spent the day at the Luxe...

  • The Baby Surprise

    Janelle Denison

    The baby she'd always wanted... Grace Holbrook had thought she couldn't have children. But now she was wondrously, amazingly pregnant after just one night with Ford McCabe. She was delighted by the news, but not so delighted when Ford ordered her ...

  • Mrs. Hen's Big Surprise

    Christel Desmoinaux

    Teased by her neighbors that her mysterious spotted egg will never hatch, Mrs. Hen begins to give up hope on the egg she found, yet when it suddenly rolls down the hill and life emerges, her feelings of motherhood are quickly revived....

  • Meltdown

    Thea Devine
    in

    SWEET ANTICIPATION... More alluring than Aphrodite, more irresistible than omen, the power of this sensuous seductress is renowned. It teases the senses, tempting even the most staid; it inspires wantonness, demanding surrender. Whether savored or...

  • The Remorseful Day

    Colin Dexter

    For a year, the murder of Mrs. Yvonne Harrison at her home in Oxfordshire had baffled the Thames Valley CID. The manner of her death--her naked handcuffed body left lying in bed--matched her reputation as a women of adventuresome sexual tastes. The c...

  • City of God

    E.L. Doctorow

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   With brilliant and audacious strokes, E. L. Doctorow creates a breathtaking collage of memories, events, visions, and provocative thought, all centered on an idea of the modern reality of God. At the heart of this sty...

  • The Sphinx

    Robert Doherty

    For thousands of years it has harbored mankind's greatest secret. Now someone or something has found the key to...The Sphinx. No place is safe from alien infiltration. Not even top secret Area 51. Scientist Lisa Duncan and Special Forces officer ...

  • Mail-Order Bride

    Sandra Donovan

    A GIFT-WRAPPED BRIDE Desperate to escape an arranged marriage, Charleston belle Camille Sinclair answers an ad for a mail-order bride which will lead her all the way to San Francisco. Taking a husband sight-unseen is better than wedding the old lech...

  • This Body

    Laurel Doud

    An unforgettable story of reincarnation and redemption in which a middle-aged woman relives her life in the body of a 22-year-old drug addict, this book signals an astonishing debut from an original writer....

  • Frontal Assault

    Keith Douglass

    The Middle East is in chaos. A string of coordinated terrorist attacks against U.S. interests and cargo ships is followed by violent military coups in several American-friendly countries. Within days, the Persian Gulf could explode like a powder keg....

  • Typhoon Season

    Keith Douglass

    RISING STORMS Off the coast of China, the storm clouds of war are gathering into a thunderhead. An American yacht has been attacked in international waters by a Chinese combat helicopter. Tensions are at a zenith. China staunchly denies they had a...

  • The Tie That Binds

    Susan K. Downs
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    Love is sweet as seen through the eyes of a child. In each historical novella, a couple is brought together by a child. God works wonders to find a child a new mother and a wife for his father, bring a couple to the point where their marriage can sus...

  • S.: A Novel about the Balkans

    Slavenka Drakulic

    "S. may very well be one of the strongest books about war you will ever read. . . The writing is taut, precise, and masterful." -- The Philadelphia EnquirerSet in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspe...

  • Pussy's Bow

    Neal Drinnan

    Murder, ghosts, and runway modeling. The basic ingredients: a wealthy 34-year-old gym junkie doctor with a taste for steroids; a pompous and tarnished English expat with a master's in expediency; a successful, sexy young Vietnamese artist; a glamorou...

  • Lucky Man, Lucky Woman

    Jack Driscoll

    Winner of Pushcart's Seventeenth Annual Editors' Book Award, this first novel about a marriage in crisis has evoked extraordinary praise from readers Pam Houston and Rick Bass. In presenting Lucky Man, Lucky Woman with the Editors' Book Award, publis...

  • Promo/slugger season

    Laura Driscoll

  • The Suburbs of Heaven

    Merle Drown

    What would drive easy-going, likable Jim Hutchins to pick up a twelve-gauge and head for his sworn enemy? The IRS threatening to garnish his mechanic's wages? His kids providing the police department full-time employment? His grief-sodden wife mak...

  • Sibling Rivalry

    Brendan DuBois
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    The crowned Queen of Suspense, #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, has no peer in the realm of stylish, sophisticated thrillers -- brilliant, breathtaking tales that delve into the deepest affairs of the heart, the darkest crimes...

  • Quanah Parker

    Bill Dugan

    After winning the Mexican War, white Texans turned their attention to expanding control over the vast lands of west Texas. To dominate this huge and forbidding land, they had to subdue everything, man and beast, that called it home--most notably the ...

  • Best of Friends

    Natalie Dunbar

    Mariah McCleary struggles to put her life and business back together with the help of friend, Ramon. When her ex-fiance appears, Ramon realizes that his feelings exceed their friendship. Can Ramon convince her to surrender her heart?...

  • I Walk at Night

    Lois Duncan

    As the night approaches, the friendly house cat is set free from his home whereupon he becomes a prowler of the night, yet when the morning comes, his adventure ends and the cat returns to be the friendly family pet once more....

  • Cattleman's Courtship

    Lois Faye Dyer

    The gossips of Colson, Montana, said Quinn Bowdrie was a rogue, and unfit company for a woman. That put newcomer Victoria Dunning in a very compromising situation. For Victoria didn't know much about men -- let alone an untamed, notorious cowboy --...

  • Savage Grace

    Cassie Edwards

    AN ANGEL'S GRACE From the moment he saw her, her lovely flame hair spread about her shoulders like a glowing halo, Standing Wolf thought of no other. She was a vision-an angel with beautiful blue eyes that looked deep into his and saw his ever...

  • Murder Can Spoil Your Appetite

    Selma Eichler

    Normally, pudgy private eye Desiree Shapiro would turn down a job no more than she would a second helping of chocolate mousse. But this case is decidedly unappetizing. Her new client is powerful crime boss Vito da Silva, and he wants her to find out ...

  • Questward, Ho!

    Ru Emerson

    Xena, once in love with conquest and destruction, now fights for the side of good. Though constantly haunted by her wicked past, Xena courageously battles mortals, gods, demigods, and monsters, and heroically protects the downtrodden from the forces ...

  • The Ranger and the Widow

    Lynn Erickson

    Secrets and lies... Jim Mitchell, chief park ranger of Canyonlands National Park, Utah, has his hands full. Not only is his rebellious teenage daughter giving him grief about living in the isolated park, but he's got a gruesome murder in his juris...

  • Longarm and the Mustang Maiden

    Tabor Evans

    Five killer outlaws, one killer beauty, and a night Longarm will never forget...Longarm's trapped up in the Ruby Mountains with a bad spell of amnesia -- and a woman too wild to ever forget. And until Longarm gets his senses back, he's got no choice ...

  • Deadly Analysis

    Ann C. Fallon

    FATAL MIND GAMES Psychiatrist Thomas Darcy should have seen the signs of madness. Yet, when he finds his favorite horse, a magnificent animal, dead in a pool of blood outside his Dublin stable, Darcy refuses to believe that one of his patients is ...

  • Jack of Hearts

    Marjorie Farrell

    Lords of Love Wanted: The Perfect Husband Anne Heriot, the daughter of a wealthy mill owner, already possesses a sizable fortune -- she just needs a title to make her life complete. So when her quest for the ideal husband takes her to London, Ann...

  • Highland Bride

    Colleen Faulkner

    To unite their clans, Kara Gordon is bound by a marriage contract to the Gordon family. So when her intended husband dies in a bloody mountain skirmish, she is forced to marry his heir and younger brother, Henry, a mere twelve-year-old boy. Trapped b...

  • Maggie's Baby

    Colleen Faulkner

    AND MOMMY MAKES THREE Shell-shocked after losing her husband and their cherished son, Dr. Maggie Turner finds herself dwelling on the past. She can't stop wondering about her other child, the baby she was forced to give up for adoption when she ...

  • The Dusk Fairy

    Keith Faulkner

  • Her Only Hero

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    CAN A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS... After several months of silence, Arielle Gardiner at last receives a letter from her fiance, imploring her to join him in Nicaragua. Even though Captain Stephen Lightenfield has refused to take Arielle to a land that is o...

  • An Unexpected Husband

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A LADY'S DESIRE Miss Bethany Whitcombe was most pleased to see a brightly painted wagon rattling up the country road to Whitcombe Hall. Sifting through a tray of tempting wares would be a pleasant diversion--especially with everyone on the shores of...

  • Still Waters

    Gina Fields

    Dr. Amy Jordan had it all...wealth, beauty, and a promising future in one of the most successful pediatric practices in Georgia. But when a clinical error results in the death of a young patient, Amy loses faith in her abilities as a doctor and walks...

  • The Maiden's Revenge

    Hillary Fields

    THE PIRATE One of the fiercest pirates on the Main, the legendary Captain Thorne can raid a ship and wield a cutlass with the best. Woe betide any man who desires to get past the tempered steel to the woman holding it. Lynnette Blackthorne a.k.a. Ca...

  • Mission from Zeus

    Daniel J. Fingeroth
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When Zeus orders Hercules on a mission to bring back the horns of the Minotaur, the fate of the Olympian gods depends on his success, so Hercules, eager for his father's love and approval, embarks on a perilous journey armed with weapons specially cr...

  • On Purim

    Cathy Goldberg Fishman

  • 1632

    Eric Flint

    FREEDOM AND JUSTICE--AMERICAN STYLE 1632 And in northern Germany things couldn't get much worse. Famine. Disease. Religious war laying waste the cities. Only the aristocrats remained relatively unscathed; for the peasants, death was a mercy. 200...

  • Habitus

    James Flint

    A woman born in an asylum, a son of Hasidic Jews, and a mathematical genius find their lives converging in a brief but earth-shattering encounter that will leave the woman pregnant with a very unusual child....

  • Dr. Mom and the Millionaire

    Christine Flynn

    Prescription: Marriage -- When three wedding-shy female physicians lose their hearts to three irresistible men, marriage may be just what the doctor ordered.... Dr. Alexandra Lawson wasn't the type to swoon over a handsome man. But then she h...

  • The Dragon Hour

    Connie Flynn

    As ruler of the land of Lochlorraine, Caryn finally has the power and freedom she'd always wanted. But a botched experiment has left her kingdom floating in a time bubble, where it is plagued by a terrifying dragon. The people of Lochlorraine despera...

  • Prince Charming

    Gaelen Foley

    Destiny casts its hand one perfect moonlit night when Ascencion's most elusive highwayman, the Masked Rider, chooses the wrong coach to rob. For inside is Rafael, the prince of the kingdom, renowned for his hot-blooded pursuits of women and other...

  • The Deader the Better

    G.M. Ford

    Seattle p.i. Leo Waterman isn't looking for trouble when he and his forensic pathologist girlfriend Rebecca escape into the Washington wilder for a few days of relaxation -- it just seems to find him. An old friend has purchased some choice property ...

  • The Heart Seeks a Home

    Linda Ford

    When Lydia Baxter arrives at the Twin Spurs Ranch, the "family" she is expecting to work for turns out to be Sam Hatten and Matt Weber, two young bachelors desperate for a housekeeper. Lydia agrees to stay temporarily, on the condition they provid...

  • In Too Deep

    Lori Foster

    HE WOULD HAVE TAKEN HER TO BED IN A HEARTBEAT... Private investigator Harry Lonnigan wasn't fooled by her disguise. The waif dressed as a boy, who was about to blow his cover and maybe get herself killed, was every inch a woman. So he saved her ...

  • Irish Roses

    Kathryn Fox
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  • Sullivan's Island

    Dorothea Benton Frank

    Born and raised in idyllic Sullivan's Island, Susan Hayes navigated through her turbulent childhood with humor, spunk, and characteristic Southern sass. But years later, she is a conflicted woman with an unfaithful husband, a sometimes resentful teen...

  • Smart vs. Pretty

    Valerie Frankel

    Out-of-work urban professional Francesca Greenfield has always known that she was the "smart" sister. Amanda was the soft and lovely one who, from the beginning, had always garnered most of the attention -- and all the dates. Now they've been throw...

  • Above the Law

    J.F. Freedman

    Federal agents have descended upon a safe house in a remote corner of the California wilderness. Their mission: arrest an informant in a drug cartel and bring him in alive. But within minutes eight men are dead. The resulting internal investigation i...

  • Almost Home

    Barbara Freethy

    TROUBLE IN PARADISE Katherine Whitfield hadn't left her seamless life in California to get mixed-up with a rough around the edges man like Zach Tyler. With his well-worn jeans and slow, seductive smile, he was nothing but a cowboy on the wrong sid...

  • Island Dreams // Suenos Islenos

    Erica Fuentes

    The last thing widowed mom Mickey Campos de Vasco needs is a man to complicate her life--no matter what her old-fashioned mother thinks! With a promising career and wonderful children, independent Mickey is determined to make it on her own. Then, on ...

  • The Heart of Myrial

    Maggie Furey

    From the dazzling imagination of Maggie Furey comes an astonishing new epic of a wondrous world on the brink of collapse...and the daring trio who will risk the deadliest odds to save it. The world of Myrial is racing toward apocalypse. For aeons,...

  • World's Best Mama

    Isabel Gaines

  • Distant Memory

    Alton Gansky

            SHE COULDN'T REMEMBER HER NAME,                            &#x...

  • Thunderbolt

    Cliff Garnett

    Seven specially trained members from the four branches of the U.S. Armed Services are given their first assignment to locate and capture one of the highestranking terrorist of the Iraqi Brotherhood. Original....

  • The Magic Dead

    Peter Garrison

    In the epic conclusion of The Changeling Saga trilogy, the Pale Man, the evil ruler of Castle, plots to resolve the conflict by merging Earth technology with Castle magic to annihilate his enemies, as the final confrontation that will determine the f...

  • Finding Isabella

    A.J. Garrotto

    Analisa Marconi has lost her family--for the second time. First, as a child named Isabella Maria Aguilada, when her birth mother gave her up for adoption. Then as a young woman, when her adoptive parents perished in a plane crash she alone survived. ...

  • Lower Than the Angels

    Chloe Gartner

  • Carthage Ascendant

    Mary Gentle

    THERE IS MORE THAN ONE HISTORY OF THE WORLD... In a brutal age of bloodshed and miracles where dark sorcery has extinguished the sun, the fate of Western Europe, Africa--and perhaps all the world--rests in the hands of a warrior woman named Ash. ...

  • A Vengeful Reunion

    Catherine George

    He'll get his answer -- by revenge! Leonie Dysart has been working abroad since breaking her engagement to handsome property developer Jonah Savage. But she misses her large, lively family. Leonie returns for her brother's 21st birthday...

  • Dangerous To Love

    Melanie George

    SHE SOUGHT REVENGE When Cat MacDougal's parents were slain by the feared MacPherson clan, she vowed to exact revenge upon their leader. Concealing her identity, she boldly ventured into hostile lands. But her resolve to murder Duncan MacPherson weak...

  • Maleka and the Sheik

    Layle Giusto
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    It's the moment that catches your breath and sends your world reeling; when you know your life will never be the same. It's the moment when you fall passionately, hopelessly in love. Experience that breathtaking feeling with these unforgettable Valen...

  • Lethal Measures

    Leonard S. Goldberg

    It's a quiet evening in Los Angeles when an explosion rips through a residential neighborhood, leveling half a suburban block, and leaving twenty people dead... Forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock is called to the scene, expected to make sense of t...

  • Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Carnival

    Golden Books

  • Peter Cottontail Easter Basket Fun Kit

    Golden Books

  • Lion King and the Lion King II Golden Books

    Golden Books

  • Meets the Eye

    Christopher Golden

    "There's no such thing as zombies. Of course I know that. But I also know what I saw with my own eyes, and until I find the truth of it, that's going to haunt me." Freshman year is supposed to be filled with new experiences, but Jenna Blake's not ...

  • Wolverine - Punisher: Revelation

    Christopher Golden