Life never works out the way you planned: Not for Kate Manley, the young widow who thought she'd spend the rest of her life with her high school sweetheart. And not for Sam Gray, who ended up in a big-city hospital instead of the small country prac...
A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! An earthquake has brought a piece of the past back to life! It's a wicked city called Tarkoom, full of sneaky bandits with a plan to upset present-day Droon. Eric, Neal, and Julie nee...
Decisions that were once made by humans are now made by a machine. But what happens when that machine fails? The result of years of research, SINDAS is a computer system programmed to respond to nuclear threats. But something has gone wrong--ve...
WAS THE HUDSON FAMILY DESTINED TO LIVE IN THE SHADOWS OF THE PAST? OR WOULD LUCK SHINE ON THE NEWEST GENERATION? THE ANSWER LIES AT...The End of the Rainbow Rain's precious daughter, Summer, is about to turn sixteen. Her future lies wide open befo...
'Twas time to take a wife -- whether he wanted to or not! Stephen of Wilmont little desired a life bound to castle keep and crops, but, knowing his duty, marry he would. Yet when Fate reunited him with the proud and peerless Marian de Lacy, his first...
The Yeerks are finally starting to realize that the "Andalite bandits" are probably not aliens at all. That maybe they've been dealing with humans all along. And no one -- especially the newly appointed Visser One -- is happy about this revelation.Wh...
Really big trouble is an understatement these days. The war with the Yeerks is full on -- and it's definitely going to get worse. But Cassie and the other Animorphs have a lot more going on than just trying to stay alive. Now they've got to actively ...
This surprise bestseller set in the world of female bodybuilding is “a modern gothic comedy of obsession” (Vanity Fair). Aurora Jeanine Johnson is an unwed mother from Savannah, Georgia, desperate to sculpt a new life -- and a new body -- ...
FROM THE PAGES OF THE HEX-FILES Someone or something unseen has been attacking Fionna Kenmare, lead singer for the Irish acid-folk rock band Green Fire. Now she's on tour in the United States, about to play the biggest concert of her career--and s...
As the epic struggle for control of the baronies continues, Kane and his rebel forces are forced into a dangerous choice between factions, a decision that could affect the destiny of all humankind. Original....
Lissy Jablonski was fifteen during the summer of 1985. That was the summer her father, a soft-spoken gynecologist, up and left her mother for a redheaded bank teller. The same summer Lissy and her mother disappeared from their quiet New Hampshire liv...
Original Blurb: When gambling debts incurred by Sir Nicholas Kirwan's late father nearly sent the family estate into poverty, there was only one way to restore the fortune: marry an heiress -- not a likely find in 1816 Ireland... Until Nick...
Determined to leave behind her life as the Raven, an artifact thief, Rheada Samuels makes a living as a canyon tour guide in New Mexico, until her past comes back to haunt her when Kee Blackburn, a detective whose own younger sister had lost her life...
Some (young) people spend their days at day care. Some (slightly older) people spend their days at work. And despite the difference in their ages, what they do can be surprisingly similar. Whether you are a kid or a grown-up, you may build, or re...
In the midst of the vast, windswept Texas plains stood a ranch wrested from the wilderness with blood, sweat and tears. It was the shining legacy of Thomas McBride to his five living heirs. But along with the fertile acres and her of cattle, each wou...
Love or money? Amanda Shaw's life is almost perfect. She's about to make partner in her New York law firm, she has her own apartment, furnished to her taste and, best of all, she finally has financial security. Then Zach Porter -- her childhood frie...
From age ten. Harry has had just one ambition -- to find the one girl for him. Forty-three women and twenty-odd years later, he is still looking. He doesn't ask for much: just a beautiful intellectual who doesn't mind his constant infidelity. Harry'...
"When Mr. Simmons, Arnold's teacher, announces that next weekend is the annual Parent Day Tournament Weekend, all of the fourth-grade kids are excited. Everyone except Arnold, that is..."--P. [4] of cover....
From the journal of Miss Olivia Byrde: Lord H...Drinks too much. Ill-mannered and altogether too bold. Though rough-edged, he is tall and reasonably handsome. But he proves the rule that looks can be deceiving. Ill-suited for marriage. Since...
Everyone wants to get into the act when the farm animals put on a show!
Everyone is invited to join in the fun at the Rickety Barn Show. Jasper the cat will sing -- miiaaoow -- and Sniggle the pig will play his bugle -- toot toot. The hens wil...
Jacob Horowitz, a worn and bitter business tycoon, has never spoken to anyone about his experience of Nazi persecution during World War II -- not even his recently deceased wife, Liza. Suddenly stricken with terminal cancer, the aging Jew receives an...
In a futuristic world run by women, twenty-two-year-old Lisa is given the task of updating women's sexual fantasies, while Harmony, an underground men's movement, is plotting a violent revolution to put women back in their place. By the author of
Monty starts a seven-year prison sentence for dealing drugs and tonight is his last night of freedom. His father wants him to run. His drug-lord boss wants to know if he squealed. His girlfriend isn't sure what she wants but his two friends know that...
The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just beca...
Take a Walk on the Wilde Side High society wedding planner Lauren Remington is determined to prove her family wrong and make a success of her business, but a last minute disaster brings a glorious end to all her grand plans. Desperate for help, her...
When their maestro is kidnapped, an orchestra hires Jack LeVine to find himJack LeVine has been in a vicious funk since his father died in 1948. But after more than a year sulking in his apartment, joylessly listening to ball games, news reports, and...
“The value of Bad Timing as a cultural portrait, its subversiveness, is not in what it criticizes, but in what it celebrates -- the pride of losers, the volatility of deep friendships between women, the tribal bonds between blacks and Jew...
A Time of Myth and Legend...The epic saga of Jason and the Argonauts has endured for thousands of years. United under Jason's command, the Quest for the Golden Fleece brought together many of the greatest heroes of Greek mythology, including Atalant...
Sarah Rivers has it all: successful husband, healthy kids, beautiful home, meaningful church work. Corinne, Sarah's sister, struggles to get by. From Web site development to jewelry sales, none of the pies she has her thumb stuck in contains a plum w...
Four new novellas with characters in the rescue profession and characters who need rescueing of body and soul. From authors Lauralee Bliss, Wanda Brunstetter, Pamela Griffin, and Tamela Hancock Murray....
Pity Hannah Scott and Pete Belissari. Just when things should be settling down for our young heroes, along comes befuddled dime novelist L. Merryweather Handal with a job proposition too good to be true. So Hannah and Pete, along with sharpshooting B...
Michelle Tyler has plenty to be thankful for--a handsome husband, faithful friends, and a successful business. But with her husband away on a foreign assignment, she's once again facing Thanksgiving alone. As the holiday draws near, her thoughts turn...
A film crew--led by the smug, smarmy Grantley Smith--has descended on the tiny Welsh village of Llanfair, to document the raising of a World War II plane from the lake where it landed long ago. And Constable Evans is keeping order and helping them ou...
After an 8-year absence, Autumn Weaver was finally home for a brief stay, and hoping to find forgiveness and heal family wounds. She never thought she'd run into the man who'd captured her heart as a young girl, and who'd permeated every dream since....
Throughout his career, Max Brand created some of the West's most exciting and beloved characters. Surely one of these is Jim Tyler, an outlaw who has earned a reputation on both sides of the border for boldness and sheer guts. This volume collects, f...
When Carillon DeVries's parents send her to work at Yesteryear's living history farm as a last desperate attempt to reform their daughter, all she wants is a way to disappear--permanently. Burdened with guilt from a tragic accident, Carillon carries ...
Viscount Stratton had a reputation as an adventurer and a daredevil. He also kept the most beautiful mistresses of any man in the ton. So all of London was agog with the news that Stratton suddenly planned to wed Lady Elizabeth Rowe. Lady Elizabet...
Born in Southern California in the brightly cast shadow of the Cold War, Andrew Kelbow grows up in an average American family -- average until Andrew's father leaves his mother under a cherry tree in the Mohave desert. How the remaining Kelbows s...
Celebrate the joy, beauty, and magic of Christmas with this giant treasury of Jan Brett's best-loved, bestselling books. Universally renowned for her exquisitely framed, highly detailed picture books, Brett captures the essence of winter wonderlands ...
A classified ad written as a joke is the catalyst for the striking of a bargain…
Charlotte has unlimited travel benefits to offer in return for the extra income she needs to pay for her elderly father’s care…and Seth has a thriving bus...
When Scottish chieftain and sole shipwreck survivor George Grant awoke on the ice-crusted shore of a strange land, he knew his mission: return home in time to wed the dainty bride his king had chosen. But that was before he met his captor, a giant, b...
Four new novellas with characters in the rescue profession and characters who need rescueing of body and soul. From authors Lauralee Bliss, Wanda Brunstetter, Pamela Griffin, and Tamela Hancock Murray....
Everyone makes mistakes!
Carole Hanson is back at Pine Hollow full-time, so she can spend as many hours as she wants with the horses she loves. And that's perfect, because it's a great way to mend a broken heart. Who knew Cam would turn out to...
After seeing a bad horror movie filmed years ago in the coastal town where his father is the lighthouse keeper, thirteen-year-old Danny suspects that a sea monster has returned in real life to recreate the events of the film....
The Bride-to-Be: Sunny Bleecker, a woman who has waited tables at Wafflemania for 12 years...and waited the same amount of time for her knight in shining armor to rescue her from that. She's still waiting... The Prospective Groom: Kirk Larsen is ...
Starr Evans accidentally pours the whole bottle of a love potion on Eric Hammond's head, yet he continually insists he has not fallen in love with her.
Wishing for light relief from his stressful cancer research project, he persuades Starr to tes...
Barney the brown bear accompanies his owner to Harold Hinkel's birthday party, where he suffers several indignities at the hands of Harold's little sister Poppy. By the creators of
Friends to Lovers... Fabiola Crowe was terrified to let her secret out. She'd fallen in love with her best friend. But she absolutely couldn't tell him ...because she'd run the risk of losing him forever....
A moment of moonlit madness Nicola Falcourt had loved deeply once -- and lost. Now she is drawn by fate into a sinister mystery that will plunge her into great peril...and even greater passion. It begins with a breathless kiss from a notorious...
At last, Wonder's Star has begun to recover from the illness that halted his promising racing career so suddenly. The vet says he'll be back on the track in no time. But Christina Reese is convinced the colt has lost his spirit. She can't seem to ...
Born in the midst of tragedy and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family--the criminals who preside over early-twentieth-century New York. In his bloody ris...
Locked in the kitchen of an apartment where her baby-sitter has been murdered, and with her mother dead and her father traveling, a little girl is forced to rely on her own wits to escape from her prison before the killer realizes that he has left be...
She needs answers: With uncanny accuracy Amalie Fremont knows the exact moment her identical twin is swept away by an avalanche in the Canadian Rockies. What she doesn't know is what her timid, unathletic sister was doing up in the mountains in the f...
The Wooden Sea is the final novel in The Crane's View Trilogy from award-winning British fantasy author Jonathan Carrol.
From the moment a three-legged dog limps into the life of Police Chief Frannie McCabe and drops dead at his feet, McCab...
The spectacular space epic continues, as the techno-mages face the growing threat of the Shadows . . . As Elric and his student Galen watch with taut anticipation, dragons, angels, and shooting stars rain from the sky, heralding the arrival of the...
Eight-year-old ;Sophie Donohue just wants to be like everyone else in her Brownie troop. Which is why her mother, Janine, finally agrees to let Sophie go on a weekend camping trip with the other girls. But Sophie is no ordinary child--she suffers fro...
What really happened to Mother?Lauren has come home seven years after her famous mother's mysterious drowning. They said it was an accident, but the tabloids screamed murder. Her father, a senator, hadn't protected her. Aunt Jule was her only refuge,...
Choice and his partner, Paul Baumgartner, are security specialists for Silicon Valley executives.When Paul gets killed on the job, Choice and an inexperienced Bay Area reporter, Linda Maldonado, begin looking into the puzzling circumstances of the mu...
Poky, the little puppy who's endeared himself to several generations of readers by being his irrepressible self (always tardy, very curious, a wanderer to the beat of his own drummer, a food lover) is back in an all-new adventure sure to delight new ...
Georgia Skeehan is a New York City Fire Department marshal. As a rookie, and a woman, she's used to being sidelined by her peers. But investigating a recent blaze that engulfed fifty-four lives challenges her like never before. It's the incendiary wo...
Meet a crew of animals who dream of being football stars, and a spunky girl who calls her baseball mitt "Jaws". Includes five stories and two poems, featuring Leonard Kessler, Jean Marzollo, Jean Van Leeuwen, Barbara Ann Porte, Megan McDonald, Nancy ...
Laugh, fight, play, and forgive with five sets of friends going through the ups and downs of relationships, from a best friend craving time alone to two brothers who realize they can be friends after all. Includes five stories, featuring Arnold Lobel...
A mother and daughter see the news reports that a senator has been assassinated in the lobby of Boston's venerable Parker House. They hear that his killer, Robert Drummond, has escaped, prompting a nationwide manhunt. And yet Robert, wounded and suff...
Six decades of fascinating stories from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey gathered in one compendium (The New Yorker). Arthur C. Clarke, along with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Rob...
Jake recounts his second grade introduction to Link Baxter, SuperBully, who becomes his class project partner, with surprising results.When Jake was three years old at Miss Lulu's Dainty Diaper Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing...
Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. "Finely crafted short fiction that explores the aftermath of life-threatening events. . . . Sculpted prose." ―Booklist
Mary Clyde’s stories explore not so much what has happened al...Irina's father was killed by the Russian government, and now Irina goes to bed sad and hungry. Tatiana is despearate and decides that marriage to an American man will ensure her daughter's security. But when Tatiana arrives in the United States, s...
Hitchcock Sewell, Baltimore's hippest undertaker and civilian sleuth, is back in a second sly, original mystery. One of the most charming and offbeat amateur detectives to come around in years, Hitchcock Sewell does for the undertaking profession wha...
Though the white-skinned invaders wreaked havoc on the Cities-in-the-West, the tribes of the Grass have escaped invasion and slaughter. But tragedy of another kind strikes. Grandmother Weevil's granddaughter, Flute Dog, a young woman of the Buffal...
Deception Is Everywhere Laura left her Hopi self behind and came to Tucson hoping to start over, praying that her past would never find her. Now she works as a high-tech cyber-sleuth for Miguel Zepeda -- an aging private detective who lives on t...
Meet the Addingtons: two charming sisters and a dashing brother who have lost their fortune but not their dreams. Now, in a new trilogy by regency star Lynn Collum, one by one, the Addingtons will arrive in Britain after growing up in Italy, carrying...
The people of the small Western town of Asininity worry when a notorius gunfighter called the Widowmaker comes to town, especially when he and Marshal Barjack become pals, but soon more trouble arises....
Inheritance changes everything, as Ella Kennedy soon discovers when her father dies and the 100 acre farm she has grown up on and run for years in the Wexford countryside is no longer hers. Angry following a fight with her brother, Ella leaves her ho...
When Shan was fifteen years old, dark soldiers came out of the west, like a cloud of evil boiling over the soft hills of his homeland. They commanded terrible beasts, which killed with hook claws like scythes and cold eyes that dripped icy fire. The ...
HE WOULD RISK HIS LIFE... A hostage in Normandy for five long years, Adeline of Caerdoc, the daughter of a rebellious Welsh Chieftain, has been granted her freedom...at a terrible price. She is condemned to spy on Simon of Taillebroc, a traitorous N...
Will Cook has spun an epic as big as the Lone Star State itself, filled with memorable characters and nonstop action. Laredo, 1905. The wars with the Comanches and Kiowas have faded into history, but Col. Jim Gary and Texas Ranger Guthrie McCabe stil...
Set in the English countryside in the early twentieth century, Kate Hannigan's Girl is the story of Kate's eldest daughter, the lovely, free-spirited Annie Hannigan. Blessed with silver-blond braids and a lighthearted disposition, Annie enjoy...
Attacking society’s damaging rhetoric and stereotypes around male emotions, Six Days in January offers an answer to the question: what can happen to a man when he is damaged by love?William McCall finds himself making his way down icy streets, batt...
A LOVELESS WEDDING When the Honorable Trevor Jeffries loses everything at cards, there's only one way to cancel the debt--by marrying his opponent's unwanted ward, Miss Caitlin Woodbridge, a country girl fresh from the schoolroom. Their forced union ...
Morning deejay Carrie Jamison spouts the quirky brand of comedy Kansas City loves to wake up to. She's skyrocketing in the ratings, and her quick wit has won her the admirations of everyone at KUTE radio--except Kyle Harris. A serious, no-frills news...
EMERGENCY! Well, not of the medical sort. But one look at young, idealistic Dr. Ethan Brown and Joanna Dunn realized she had it bad -- and only the good doctor could cure her. And while she knew that dreams of white lace and wedding bells were not...
Place this quilt upon your bed and on one month you shall be wed... Pregnant and alone, Maddy Potter knew marriage wasn't in her near future -- certainly not to Pete Taggart. The rude, arrogant -- and she'd admit, protectively sexy -- rancher woul...
Mary and O'Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they'd come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not heale...
Is there such a thing as a match made in heaven? Find out in Heather Cullman's moving story of a man forced to choose between marriage -- and madness... Michael Vane, Earl of Sherrington, was once one of the most sought-after bachelors in Lon...
With her customary understated style and her keen ability to delve into the human psyche, Clare Curzon returns readers to Thames Valley and Superintendent Mike Yeadings. This time a case that at first glance looks to be open and shut proves more diff...
A bum hip has bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn limping off to Good Cheer Hospital -- a questionable "haven of healing" where two recent patients didn't make the cut after routine surgery. Judith's trepidation at undergoing the knife i...
Ting-a-ling-a-ling! Here comes the Good Humor® Man! He brings walnut whizzes and dairy dizzies, chocolate chips and strawberry splits"all while bringing friends together and finding a lost puppy! This bestselling Little Golden Book Classic is now ...
SHE WAS EVERYTHING HE WANTED...OR WAS SHE? The moment Will Sheridan met Samantha Murphy at a party, he knew she was the woman he'd been waiting for. Then a kiss, and suddenly she had disappeared. But Will hadn't given up looking for her, for he vo...
A WOMAN WITH NO NAME... Sheriff Joe Mountain found the mysterious young woman wandering in a thunderstorm, unable to remember even her name. So Joe called her "Rain" and set out to find out who she was. Although his Native American soul was stirre...
Best friends Amber Brown and Justin Daniels are taking a vacation together! There’s just one problem -- Justin’s little brother, Danny. He always wants to tag along. Can Amber find a way to make Danny go away so she can have Justin all to herself...
200 YEARS AGO: The expanding Klingon Empire found a frozen world rich in deposits of the mineral topaline. They named the planet taD -- Klingon for "frozen" -- and they called the people jeghpu'wI' -- conquered. FOUR YEARS AGO: The Klingon Empir...
A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award"winning author of White Noise and Underworld.Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls wh...
A Crime of Passion... For Charlotte Deems, the death of her husband was a mixed blessing. She was freed from a marriage without desire--but left with no one to help provide for little Oscar. Now her money dwindled and her boy needed a father--eve...
IF IT MOVES Edwin Kreiss is a retired FBI agent -- a manhunter whose specialty is making rogue operatives disappear. When Kreiss's daughter vanishes in the backwoods of rural West Virginia, and the FBI has no leads to follow, Kreiss follows his own -...
Now comes DEEP SPACE NINE, a thrilling new addition to the STAR TREK universe. Commanded by an embittered Starfleet officer and populated by a myriad of exotic aliens, the mysterious space station known as Deep Space Nine hovers on the edge of a worm...
THE HOLY GRAIL -- IS IT THE KEY TO A MIRACLE...OR A TERRIFYING TRUTH? The Great Wall of China, the immense carvings on Easter Island, Egypt's pyramids, UFOs. What is the chilling connection? The answer, unearthed by an elite band of soldiers and...
They have invaded before. Ten thousand years ago, when they destroyed Atlantis. Now, mankind's ancient enemy has returned. In Cambodia, the Shadows tried to break through and overthrow our world. Then they attacked from the Bermuda Triangle and al...
The peculiar and moving story of a Congolese boy's coming-of-age amid the political strife of postcolonial CongoHis nickname is Matapari, which means "trouble." He is an African child of the '90s--brilliant, mischievous, postcolonial, postmodern-caug...
Return to the rousing 1860s, where Chicago's Happily Ever After Co. is doing a brisk business in mail-order brides, and three spirited young women will risk it all on a once-in-a-lifetime chance at love... TAKEN BY STORM When Erica Lane's wealthy...
A grand passion and spellbinding adventure in a shimmering epic of Scotland's tempestuous past... Bold and beautiful, Lady Eleanor of Clarin--sole heir to her ancestral lands--chooses to marry an aging French noble rather than Edward I's choice of...
Tells the mythical tale of Arachne, a young girl who had such confidence in her weaving abilities that she beat the goddess Athena who then turned Arachne into a spider as punishment for her pride in her special gift....
One minute, Kim Grant was stuffing spilled lingerie into her busted suitcase. The next, her fingers connected with steel -- under silk -- as white knight Rick Taylor helped her to save face. Her rescuer was sexy, intelligent...and stood between her a...
“A gentle and winning” historical novel from the author of House of Sand and Fog and a “sympathetic and compassionate chronicler of ordinary lives” (Publishers Weekly).It is the summer of 1967 and Leo Suther is about to turn eighteen. This is...
Ntignano was a populated world with a perfect sun -- until the right technology fell into the wrong hands. Now the sun is failing quickly, and the "Starship Enterprise" has just one chance to evacuate the fleeing refugees. Captain Jean-Luc Picard mus...
"With this eruptive debut novel, Lee Durkee…has just kicked in the door of Southern literature." -- SalonMeet Mississippi teenager Noel Weatherspoon: ghost-seeing insomniac, endearing dopehead, wanna-be erotic photographer, and possible Baptist fa...
Kate Manning, the owner and manager of Golden Needles, a fabric shop, becomes distressed when Fabulous Fabrics, a large discount fabric chain, opens a branch in her neighborhood. Her distress turns to anger when she discovers that Roger Garrison, a h...
Marty Kalish is an investment banker in love with a married woman … until her husband is murdered, and Marty’s accused. After all, he was at the scene of a crime, he had a moticve, and he manipulated the evidence to hide his guilt. He’s even co...
The classic board book has returned!
From bold to bashful, this board book bursts with babies. With its invitingly simple, rhythmic text and stunning images of infants, readers will want to keep turning the pages. And on the last page, they wi...
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CAN THEIR LOVE REACH... Artist Nina Carpenter knows her marriage is in trouble--and part of her wants to blame the jazz club her handsome husband Tony Williams owns. Between Tony's late nights and her own early mornings spent painting, Nina suspects...
At fifty, Alice Adams isn't looking for love. Nor is she looking for a new home. She's settled into widowhood and anticipating the arrival of her only daughter's first child. Then she meets Leighton Walker, and love turns her world upside down. Giddy...
DEADLY PERSUASION As the new Chief of Staff to the tenacious Governor LeGrand Beckstead, Sam McKall finds himself in the middle of a heated controversy: a multibillion dollar deal to bring a nuclear waste dump to the Pishute Indian reservation in ...
Longarm looks to hog-tie a killer on the loose…Custis Long’s always been a loner, but now he’s got a partner to watch his back -- whether he wants one or not. There’s a killer leaving unlucky prospectors cut from ear to ear and it’s up to L...
Travel back to the tumultuous 1700s, as passion flowers and love blooms for three vibrant young women...each of whom must confront a thorny challenge to win her heart's desire. From the parlors of Colonial Williamsburg to the ballrooms of Regency Eng...
Glorianna Wilton's mother has died and now Glorianna is being forced to join her father at his Arizona army post. Leaving the comforts of a big eastern city--not to mention her only hope for marriage--has left Glorianna livid. Lieutenant Conlon Su...
A CHANCE MEETING LEADS TO... Free-spirited Lady Anice Kinloch has never considered the notion of a real home, especially after a dozen years traveling the world with her mother. Then she inherits Ardkinloch--a small castle in the Highlands of Scotla...
SOMEWHERE THERE WAS A CHILD WHO NEEDED HER... Eliza Eldridge saw through other people's eyes. And now her dreams of a missing little girl were becoming urgent. Eliza couldn't ignore them, and she vowed to reunite the child with her father. Whil...
Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London and sick of her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twenty-something Rosie Richardson decides to give up glitz for good deeds and escape to Africa to run a refugee camp. When famine strikes and a ...
CEO Daniel Grayson wanted to escape his frustrating corporate world. So he assumed a fake identity to go mingle with the masses. When store manager Mattie Roland hired Joe Gray, he seemed a godsend. And, against company policy, she was soon shameless...
Colin is in many ways an ideal citizen, holding down a responsible job, taking care of his elderly mother, and trying to keep his family together. But no one in his life knows about his other -- much more secret -- life, that involves a garden shed, ...
In her debut mystery, Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder, intrepid amateur sleuth and bakery owner Hannah Swensen proved that when it comes to crime, nothing is sweeter than a woman who knows how to really mix it up. Now, the flame-haired, tart-talking (an...
OTHERWISE ENGAGED? Indulgences never suited no-nonsense Amy Chapman. Practical and pragmatic, she'd loyally quelled her secret crush on rugged Nick Culhane -- her sister's fiance. And rightly so, since Nick mysteriously broke the engagement and en...
INSIDE THE RAINBOW! Evil, sadistic (and badly socialized) goblins have destroyed the pastoral kingdom of the Gowdlands. Blasting the land's greatest wizard into cinders, they cursed it with a dark hex no mortal can break. But the mage's death unle...
Three epic adventures in the trilogy “of tales within tales, like those of Sinbad and his many voyages . . . Foster at his best, thoughtful and fun” (Booklist). Follow a humble herdsman as he embarks on an honor-driven quest to res...
In a dark and not-so-distant future, whole populations are addicted to virtual sensation--and vast bureaucracies are using deadly force to rid themselves of troublemakers. Within this world, small, self-contained communities--called nodes, or cruces-...
Duke Merchon was light years ahead of co-worker Cami Jones in bedroom expertise. Still, the plain Jane stirred his fantasies -- but Duke vowed to keep a safe distance from her 1000-watt smile. Orphaned as a child, he'd learned to deny his boyhood ...
Iowa, 1958, Nelda Hanson, a successful young designer in Chicago, has come home to sell the family farm. Here, just eight years ago, she was a pregnant teenage bride, torn from the arms of her new husband minutes after the ceremony. Nelda wouldn't se...
As a ruthless extremist launches a fanatical campaign designed to split Turkey from its Western allies, the country teeters on the brink of total anarchy, and the TALON Force is called in to stop the terrorist and his fanatical organization before he...
Touching, insightful messages from children combine with colorful pictures to create a captivating and thought-provoking treasure. An activity page at the end of each chapter invites readers to explore peacemaking in their own lives....
When Sabina, the blind whoremistress of the Old PriorityGuesthouse, accepts the offer of Master Mainard to live exclusively with him, everyone expects that Mainards wife Bertrild would be glad to be rid of him since his face is horribly birthmarked, ...
Zoinks! The Scooby Gang needs you! Join them at a live enactment of a real medieval tournament. But, beware! A ghost knight has come back to enforce an ancient curse. He's after anyone who dares to wear the fabled crown of King Arthur. Uh-oh! Someon...
When Scooby and the gang head off on an old-fashioned steamboat, they find the predictions of the ship's fortune-teller too accurate, so Scooby Do must solve a mystery and uncover the fortune-teller's identity....
Wedded for convenience...or married for real? Rose was shocked when James turned up...long after their wedding of convenience. She'd loved James when they'd hastily married, and she'd fought hard to put their subsequent -- and just as ...
Every woman of quality knows that Damien Sinclair, Earl of Blackstone, is a notorious rogue. Every woman knows that he's called the Devil. Only one woman is about to discover that the... DEVIL MAY CARE Lady Eden Spencer has been educated in a...
Guadalupe Magdalena Molina Vásquez -- wife, scoundrel, courtesan, mother -- is full of contradictions: she believes in love but is suspicious of men; she rejects religion but admires the Virgin Mary; she respects tradition while breaking all the rul...
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND LOS ANGELES TIMES“A rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland -- a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our g...
Chenia Arnow is a Russian-Jewish immigrant in 1950s New York, a sharp-witted, Betty Grable look-alike whose accent and Old-World superstitions mask untapped passions and intellectual curiosity. Her husband Ruben is a handsome philanderer who has a k...
A PROTECTIVE URGE... His job was to keep Erin Brailey safe. But first, security expert Zach Miller had to convince the sultry beauty that she needed his protection...while keeping his desire for her hidden lest it lure them both into danger.... L...
"It's quite a mystery, isn't it? I mean, how do you burn someone to death in public, and not have anyone notice?" Two people burst into flame, burned alive in front of plenty of eyewitnesses with no obvious cause. Spontaneous human combustion is ...
Playing hard to get! Ambitious Nina Lombard did not want to be in the quaint village of Stepping Dearsley! A family crisis had brought her home--and into the clinic of gorgeous G.P Robert Carslake. Soon Nina realized she had another reason to stay...
A stalker, a journalist and a librarian converge in small-town Saskatchewan in this brilliantly quirky and entertaining novel of love, obsession and the pursuit of fame. Broken Head has only one famous resident, and Joan Swift, the local librarian, i...
THE SHEIK'S MARRIAGE PLAN When Sheik Tarik Oman stormed into wedding consultant Carolyn Evans's office to plan his sister's wedding, he found a virginal beauty exquisite enough to be a bride herself. But distractions were out of the question at this...
A husband who wants his wife...to be his mistress! Begging for Prince Tariq Shazad ibn Zachir's mercy was the last thing Faye wanted to do. She hadn't seen Tariq for a year...since their wedding. But Faye's brother, Adrian was imprison...
Wild Gunfire...Thundering Horses...A Careening Stagecoach -- Was This Any Way To Find True Love? Rede Smith didn't think so, yet the Texas Ranger hadn't counted on the brave and beautiful Addy Kelly, whose tender mercies and intoxicating touch y...
In the spring of 1946m Evelyn Sert stands on the deck of a ship bound for Palestine. For the twenty-year-old from London, it is a time of adventure and change when all things seem possible. Swept up in the spirited, chaotic churning of her new stran...
Faced with instant motherhood when she has care for her orphaned infant niece, Samantha Jones is determined not to let her new role interfere with her career, until her boss Cal Tremaine makes her an offer that will change her life forever. Original....
The magic, mystery, adventure, and peril of the sea form the backdrop to a collection of thirteen original fantasy tales by Tanya Huff, Mike Resnick, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, James M. Ward, Allen C. Kupfer, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Rosemary Edghill, Fi...
The man every girl dreamed of -- but every woman knew was dangerous. With his wicked sense of humor and sexy smile, Wade Matteo wreaked havoc on the average female. But struggling single mom Geneva Jensen prided herself on being strong. No way would ...
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1776 Hope’s story begins... As tensions rise between the Tories and Patriots in 1776, Hope's life becomes more and more confusing. She wonders if she will ever see Papa again. Her brother Ethan has proclaimed that he...
PRETEND MARRIAGE Austin Hughes has to get a wife--pronto! It's not that the happily single hotel consultant has any intention of actually walking down the aisle. He simply needs a female colleague to pose as his bride while he travels on business to...
Four new novellas with characters in the rescue profession and characters who need rescueing of body and soul. From authors Lauralee Bliss, Wanda Brunstetter, Pamela Griffin, and Tamela Hancock Murray....
One of the few to survive an Atlantic shipwreck, Charlotte Fontaneau spins a lie, hoping to escape the abusive con artist who forced her into a life of crime. She assumes the identity of a fellow passenger, the niece of a kind, ailing Irishman in ups...
Reed Wilder journeys to Far Enough, Texas, in search of a fallen woman. He finds an angel. Barely reaching five feet two inches, the petite brunette helps to defend him against two ruffians and then treats his wounds with a gentleness that makes him ...
A dented cup I'm sitting here where you left me hardly more than a week ago. Every day and nearly every night I've been here on the low stone wall by the spring. I sit near the little alcove where spring water runs from a pipe jutting out of the ...
Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers -- and two very dangerous men -- came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chan...
It's the first day of ballet school and these little dancers can't wait to get started. From packing their dance bags to leaping and spinning across the floor, they find that ballet school is all about having fun! The book comes with 20 ballet-theme ...
It's a rainy day, but one little girl is eager to go outside and play in her brand-new slicker and boots. Kids can join in as she discovers the fun and excitement that a bit of rain and sun can create-a beautiful RAINBOW! The book comes with an array...
A determined husband Overwhelmed by her sexy, brand-new Spanish husband, Cassie had let anxiety and inexperience ruin first her wedding night, then her marriage to Roman Fernandez. Now, after a year apart, Cassie has gained self-confidence. But...
The co-owner of a Toronto antiques store, Lara McClintoch is obsessed with finding rare and beautiful artifacts. Her travels take her to the ends of the earth, where history jealously guards its treasures--and where the mysteries of the past meet the...
Three rules govern Dr. Gwen Bartelt's life: No kids, no pets, no everlasting love. Veterinarian Dr. Elijah Drycinski, Gwen's next-door neighbor and best friend in the small Wisconsin town she'd fled many years ago, is on a mission to get Gwen...
Will a baby bring them together? Max Jardine always behaves like a bossy big brother to Gemma Brown. Except for one night five years ago -- a night they have never talked about since. But now Gemma is moving into Max's remote Outback home to help hi...
Every morning is the same-the same old thing in the very same way. Until the day that Sherman makes up a little dance while he's brushing his teeth. Before he knows it, he is on the go! In the adventurous chain of events that follows, Sherman discove...
After fighting a Mexican rebellion in Taos, Will Barlow and White Bear head for San Diego to search for Will's beloved daughter. After five hard years, they are finally close to the end. There is word that a child named Anna is living with a Mexican ...
Three years have passed since the original Digidestined first landed in DigiWorld, and now there's a brand new generation of Digidestined, fighting new foes, with new Digimon friends, and new, cool gadgets that make their Digimons digivolve higher th...
Jane Lawless is a woman at a crossroads - her lover has left, she has finally recovered from a vicious attack sustained last year, and the holidays are closing in. With no one to help her ring in the new year, Jane reluctantly agrees to accompany her...
Judith Barlow is a woman with a problem. She's close to getting a hard-earned promotion at one of the state's stodgiest banks when what was once a dream becomes a reality. The Regency romance that she wrote on a dare is so successful that her publish...
Minnesota, 1983 The Mostly Methodist Club met Saturday morning year-round, but was at its best in autumn and winter, when it helped steel the ladies for the Sundays their men spent watching TV sports with eyes glazed like so many holiday hams…The m...
SHE CAST A POWERFUL SPELL... Spirited Margot deVerona had travelled to the grand court of Versailles, not to marry as her family had planned, but to discover the natural wonders of the world. And yet, instead of a new plant or insect to snag her i...
From the moment Kit Montgomery walked into Ashton Robertson's life, she knew her heart would always belong to the dashing English rogue. Years later, her brother is determined to see Ashton married to Kit in order to fulfill her greatest dream. And t...
A decision is made. The president has selected the next Supreme Court justice. His choice is controversial, highly political, and about to become very public. For the U.S. Marshals who protect the judges, the situation presents the height of secu...
THE ANTIDATE My mom's getting remarried (again). Bad enough, right? Nope. She insists on finding me a suitable date to her la-di-da wedding. Why? Because my obnoxious stepsister-to-be is bringing her teen model/rock star boyfriend. Like I care. Ok...
There is a new order to the world. The first female President of the United States sits in the White House. Monster corporations wield the real global power And all the old rules have been changed. A military functionary toiling in bureaucratic te...
The Mouse That Roared Rosalind Lacey is a woman with a mission. Having sacrificed her youthful opportunities to family obligations, she's ready to make the most of her long-postponed London Season. Unlike most single ladies, Rosalind isn't husband...
BORN OF A NIGHT OF PASSION... Lindsey Payne's feelings for her former bodyguard had exploded in one passionate night. But Detective Gavin McCord had no room in his life for love or family. And so Lindsey kept her pregnancy to herself, only to have...
"Two brothers, one girlfriend, one fateful night at a New Hampshire pond where jealousy rages out of control, and suddenly the life of eight-year-old Lila Wheeler is forever changed.... Living in New York a decade later, Lila -- desperate to know wha...
For hundreds of years, the Rashid has flourished. Now, endowed with a mix of sturdy British and fiery Arab bloodlines, they have become a remarkable family of warriors--equally at home in the streets of London or under the desert sun. And now they ha...
What in the name of Thor could be making this Viking so blue? -- Eating haggis? -- Listening to those insufferable bagpipes? -- Traveling through Scotland with the world's worst poet? -- Searching for the infuriatingly inept witch who's c...
Allie Bennett knows all about heartbreak. Fifteen years ago, she and her mother ran away from the only home she'd ever known, from her loving father and the painful reminders of her sister's unexplained death. But now, Allie has decided to stop runni...