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New Books List: 495 titles

  • Dream Thief

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Eric is tossing in his sleep. And his wild dream can only mean one thing -- Droon is calling him back. But when Eric, Julie, and Neal arrive, they find that something is very wrong. ...

  • The Face of Another

    Kobo Abe

    Like an elegantly chilling postscript to The Metamorphosis, this classic of postwar Japanese literature describes a bizarre physical transformation that exposes the duplicities of an entire world. The narrator is a scientist hideously deformed in a l...

  • Mystery Unplugged

    Linda Williams Aber

    Barbie is one of the top girls' properties - the world's #1 fashion doll. Now Scholastic is on the Barbie bandwagon with stories starring Barbie as a reporter with a nose for a mystery.

    Barbie's got a great new assignment. She's going backstag...

  • The Granite Cliffs

    Rosemary Aitken

    Love, life and loss in Edwardian England Victoria Flower, motherless and nearing womanhood, is beginning to chafe against the restrictions of her life as the vicar's only daughter in a remote Cornish mining town. Her honourable and well-meaning fa...

  • The Kitchen Boy

    Robert Alexander

    HE'S THE ONLY ONE ALIVE WHO KNOWS WHAT REALLY HAPPENED. WHAT DARK SECRETS WILL THIS ANCIENT RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT REVEAL ABOUT THE FINAL DAYS OF NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA? Though the events are almost a century old, the imprisonment and execution of Tsar N...

  • Diary of a Djinn

    Gini Alhadeff

    The all-knowing djinn of ancient lore can adopt many forms, but there are times when it chooses the limits of one body, one life. In this bewitching first novel, a djinn takes up residence in a restlessly brilliant woman, guiding her choices in life ...

  • The Networks

    Ted Allbeury

  • Hello Kitty's Fun Friend Day!

    J.J. Allen

  • Lethal City

    Jeffrey Ames

    IN THE STREETS... A stolen BMW is recovered with a stash of cocaine, lurid photos--and a charred, dismembered body. Two three-time losers are ready to rat each other out--but Detective Benno, the new man on the Dallas Metro squad, knows they're bo...

  • Dolphin Friendly

    Jessica Andersen

    When Cape Cod innkeeper Maddy Jamison takes in a group of marine biologists called Dolphin Friendly, she has no idea that they--and particularly their handsome leader Brody Davenport--will turn her life upside down. Ever since the deaths of her marin...

  • The Guardian of the Amulets

    Jessica S. Andersen

  • Getting Lucky

    Susan Andersen

    LUCKY YOU! Lily Morrisette wants roots, respect, her own business, and independence. So what is she doing on a road trip with a good-looking marine who's carrying her into the heart of serious peril? It started out as an impulsive lark fueled...

  • Crouching Buzzard, Leaping Loon

    Donna Andrews

    As a favor to her brother, Meg agrees to tend the switchboard at his computer game company Mutant Wizards. For companionship, besides a crew of eccentric techies, she has a buzzard with one wing and her boyfriend's mother's nightmare dog. Not to ment...

  • Killer Dust

    Sarah Andrews

    Forensic geologist Em Hansen might finally be falling in love again. But just as she's getting closer to FBI agent Jack Sampler, he takes off on a mysterious assignment. When he doesn't return Em believes he's in trouble but only knows two things abo...

  • The Secret City

    Chris Archer

    Spies. Underground tunnels. Old maps. New enemies. Pirate oaths. Hidden treasure. Endless danger.
    This series has real boy appeal. It has a fast pace, adventure, international intrigue, and more.

    George is fascinated by his family's legacy,...

  • His Convenient Proposal

    Lindsay Armstrong

    The sexual tension between Ellie and wealthy Australian Brett Spencer is overwhelming, but Ellie is dismayed when he proposes a marriage of convenience. How can she marry a man she is so sure could never love her? At first Ellie refuses to put her...

  • In the Electric Eden

    Nick Arvin

    From the electrocution of Topsy the Elephant at Coney Island in 1903 to the rekindling relationship of two high school sweethearts in a stolen SUV, each story in Nick Arvin's remarkable first collection reveals a world where people struggle against t...

  • After Sundown

    Amanda Ashley

    HE HAS BECOME WHAT HE ONCE DESTROYED Edward Ramsey has spent his life hunting vampires. Now he is one of them. Yet Edward's human conscience--and his heart--compel him to save beautiful Kelly Anderson, and soon their growing love is his reason for...

  • The Wild Irish West

    Joan Avery

    Nothing can stop the furious Kathleen Callahan from seeking the groom who's deserted her -- not even the dirty cowboy to whom she finds herself handcuffed. Sage Duross is less than thrilled with the redheaded hellion on his arm. While she is clea...

  • Equinox Zero

    James Axler

    While Kane, Grant, and Brigid Baptisite confront the possibility that there is a traitor in their midst, an age-old enemy joins forces with Viking warriors and unleashes the ancient prophecies of Ragnarok to bring about a new apocalypse - one of deat...

  • Macaroni Boy

    Katherine Ayres

    During the Great Depression, a boy who faces bullying stumbles upon a mystery and comes of age in this novel that integrates fact and opinion and has a rich 1930’s vocabulary. Extra material: An Author’s Note is included in the back of the book.M...

  • Rancher Ferrets on the Range

    Richard Bach

    The ground thudded and trembled, the echoes again, as Cheyenne Jasmine Ferret cut a half-circle to stop, breathing hard, by Montgomery and his trusted mount Boffin. It was a familiar sight to all who lived beneath Montana's Sweetroot Mountains, these...

  • Once Two Heroes

    Calvin Baker

    A black former Frenchman and an older Mississippi family man serve together in World War II only to confront the painful post-war realities of American racism, which they experience in the wake of a murder, a police chase, and a desperate bid for fre...

  • Dude Ranch Bride

    Madeline Baker

    Sexy Native American Ethan Stormwalker vowed never again to speak to his ex-flame, Cindy Wagner. But when she showed up at his dude ranch wearing a wedding gown -- without a groom! -- all promises were off. Gone was the girl who had broken his heart,...

  • Crimson Shadows

    Trisha Baker

    Decades have passed since Meghann O'Neill fell in love with Simon Baldevar, a vampire who bestowed upon her his gift of immortality...and bound her to him with the birth of their twin children... Separated At Birth My name is Elizabeth, and I ha...

  • A Better Class of Person

    Tessa Barclay

    An elaborate birthday party for Elissa Paroskolos on a Greek millionaire's island turns sinister when Elissa shows signs of madness, and ex-Crown Prince Gregory of Hirtenstein searches for explanations and uncovers a plot involving three nations....

  • Flower Fairies Secret World

    Cicely Mary Barker

    Enhanced with brilliant illustrations, offers an in-depth look at Flower Fairies through a review of what they look like, the special clothes they wear, the different jobs they do, and the fun games they play when they have time off from watching the...

  • Dr. Michaelis's Secret

    Margaret Barker

    An emergency rescue in the sparkling blue waters surrounding Ceres Island has recent arrival Staff Nurse Sara Metcalfe working as a team with local doctor Michaelis Stangos -- and from the moment she sees his fantastic athletic body diving into the w...

  • Time Out

    Steve Barlow; Steve Skidmore

    World Wide Web? Ha! This is the Outernet. Log on to the electronic highway that takes you out of this world... And into another galaxy.

    Jack, Merle, and Loaf have been planet-hopping across the galaxy ever since they discovered the Server. It ...

  • Gemini

    Mike W. Barr

    Captain James T. Kirk and the Starship Enterprise have been sent to the planet Nador to participate in a watershed event: the Nadorians' first true election, to vote on whether or not to join the United Federation of Planets. Supporting the Federat...

  • Flashback

    Nevada Barr

    Running from a proposal of marriage from Sheriff Paul Davidson, Anna Pigeon takes a post as a temporary supervisory ranger on remote Garden Key in Dry Tortugas National Park, a small grouping of tiny islands in a natural harbor seventy miles off Key ...

  • The Inn at Oak Creek

    Linda Barrett

    She was on top of the world Molly Porter was on her way to the Olympics, a member of the women's downhill ski team. A horrific accident left her, after years of recovery, alive and well, but carrying a lot of scars -- not all of them visible. Beca...

  • Jennifer Government

    Max Barry

    A wickedly satirical and outrageous thriller about globalization and marketing hype, Jennifer Government is the best novel in the world ever."Funny and clever.... A kind of ad-world version of Dr. Strangelove.... [Barry] unleashes enough wi...

  • The Stars Can Wait

    Jay Basu

    In this powerful debut set in 1940s German-occupied Poland, a young Catholic boy unearths the secrets of his brother's mysterious life.Fifteen-year-old Gracian Sofka is a stargazer. Every night for the past year he has broken curfew to view the const...

  • His Touch

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    When a string of deadly warnings convinces Dallas mayor Jessica Kincaid that she needs a bodyguard, she hires Brant Harding. The former secret service agent takes the job for one very personal reason -- and it has nothing to do with this tempting wom...

  • Evolution

    Stephen Baxter

    Stretching from the distant past into the remote future, from primordial Earth to the stars, Evolution is a soaring symphony of struggle, extinction, and survival; a dazzling epic that combines a dozen scientific disciplines and a cast of unforgettab...

  • Agatha Raisin and the Case of the Curious Curate

    M.C. Beaton

    Wretched after being dumped by her husband, bored with pottering about Carsely, and wishing every man would sod off, including her neighbor John Armitage, Agatha Raisin is unmoved by news of the captivating new curate. But when she meets the golden-h...

  • The Knight of the Burning Pestle

    Francis Beaumont

    New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:

    The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
    Textual notes recording signi...

  • A Greater Glory

    James Scott Bell

    Her calling to pursue justice in its purest form to the very best of her ability. The realm of law has long been in the hands of men, but Kit Shannon is determined to forge her way and represent truth-for those who most desperately need it. Her city ...

  • On This Day

    Nathaniel Bellows

    Orphaned at the age of eighteen when his father dies of cancer and his mother commits suicide, Warren and his twenty-year-old sister, Joan, face such challenges as the approaching holidays, their father's ruthless business partner, relatives who woul...

  • I Dream of Dexter

    Meg Belviso

    Since its debut in 1996, DEXTER'S LAB has been one of Cartoon Network's top-rated shows. Now Scholastic teams up with the boy genius and his pesky sister Dee Dee for original chapter and picture books

    Oh no! Dexter's archrival Mandark is at it...

  • A Joyous Heart

    Carrie Bender

  • Daredevil, Volume 5: Out

    Brian Michael Bendis

  • Hamlet II: Ophelia's Revenge

    David Bergantino

    When his father is murdered under strange circumstances, college football star Cameron Dean begins to suspect that his mother and aunt may have had something to do with it, but when he travels to Denmark to visit an unexpected inheritance, an ancient...

  • The Falling Nun: and Other Stories

    Pamela Rafael Berkman

    In this collection of twelve dazzling and sensual stories, Pamela Rafael Berkman explores the perplexities of contemporary life through the eyes of women searching for love, truth, and faith. In the title story, a group of coworkers who order miniatu...

  • Doing the Heart Good

    Neil Bissoondath

    The burning down of his house propels Alistair, now living with his daughter, her husband and child, to reflect on the causes and effects of life: how momentary impulses change the course of direction, how unexpected horrors still haunt him, how frie...

  • The Buffalo Soldier

    Chris Bohjalian

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • With his trademark emotional heft and storytelling skill, the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant presents a resonant novel about the unconventional family that forms after Terry and Laura Sheldon, a Vermont storm troop...

  • The Terror

    B.M. Bower

    Among the finest stories collected here are "From Hell to Kilpatrick" set against the background of a raging prairie wildfire. "The Sheepherder" offers a dramatic confrontation during a deadly Montana blizzard. "The Deserter" points out the drawbacks...

  • Any Human Heart

    William Boyd

    William Boyd’s masterful new novel tells, in a series of intimate journals, the story of Logan Mountstuart -- writer, lover, art dealer, spy -- as he makes his often precarious way through the twentieth century....

  • Restoration

    John Ed Bradley

    When journalist Jack Charbonnet meets Rhys Goudeau, a beautiful art restorer, he is soon caught up in intrigue more fascinating than any news story. She is determined to find a lost painting by the great, controversial Southern artist Levette Asmore...

  • Song of Her Heart

    Irene Brand

    LOST DREAMS As a teenager, Norah Williamson believed she had a calling from God, but she had put everything on hold for the sake of her family. Now her obligations were over, and she was finally ready to pursue her own dreams. Widower Mason Kin...

  • To Die For

    Rebecca Brandewyne
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    Attending a society party was to be Paul and Lily Clothier's last act as a married couple, until their participation in a parlor game ended in murder -- with Paul as the leading suspect! Only together could they find justice -- and love....

  • Once upon a Dead Man

    Peter Brandvold

    A MURDERED LAWMAN Sheriff Ben Stillman knows that every lawman could face sudden death. But that doesn't ease his anger over Marshal Boomhauer's brutal murder. And old Charlie's shoes have already been filled by his brash, young deputy--who i...

  • Half Moon Lake

    Una Brankin

    An exceptionally evocative first novel of young love and nostalgic regret 'Sometimes it takes a long, long time to know that love and hate can co-exist quite comfortably in the soul, but I learned quickly.' Grace grew up in the shadow of her widowed ...

  • The Cat Who Brought Down the House

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Dear Reader, Twenty-five years ago, Jim Qwilleran walked into my life...huffing into his large moustache, spelling his name oddly, drinking black coffee at the Press Club bar. He was tall but seemed world-weary. His entire earthly possessions fit ...

  • Easter Bear

    Ann Braybrooks

  • The Sword of the Land

    Noel-Anne Brennan

    After pledging her loyalty to her cousin Sithli, princess Rilsin Sea Becha, heir to the throne, realizes that she has made a grave mistake as she, unable to experience life and love, watches her cousin slowly destroy the kingdom, forcing Rilsin to ri...

  • The Midwife's Secret

    Kate Bridges

    If Amanda Ryan's secret past were known, her fresh start in life would come to a dead stop. No one would readily accept a divorced, barren midwife. Not even, she feared, Tom Murdock. For though he'd roused her slumbering womanhood, she could never be...

  • What Makes You Happy

    J.E. Bright

    The first in the Care Bears 8x8 storybook series re-introducing the popular Care Bears and their caring and sharing world of Care-a-lot!

    In What Makes You Happy, children will learn what brightens each and every Care Bear's day.

    Childre...

  • First Rider's Call

    Kristen Britain

    GHOSTLY RIDERS Karigan G'ladheon had been a Green Rider, one of the king of Sacoridia's elite magical messengers. Being a Green Rider was more perilous than Karigan had ever imagined, for a rogue Eletian had cracked the magical D'Yer Wall which ha...

  • The Parisian Playboy

    Helen Brooks

    Name: Jacques Querruel Occupation: Self-made millionaire Reputation: The ultimate playboy Jacques Querruel appeared regularly in society magazines with a string of women.When he decided that he wanted shy, sexy Holly Stanton as his personal assi...

  • Serpent's Dance

    Larry Brooks

    FIND HIM. Bernadette Kane never believed that her sister committed suicide. And what she heard about her sister's mysterious--and sadistic--lover, Wesley Edwards, made her suspect the worst. With his good looks, private jet, and successful career, he...

  • Great Adventures

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Tweens will enjoy 15 weeks of devotions filled with fast-moving stories that will keep them engaged. In this devotional, kids get the chance to ask parents the spiritually challenging questions! These devotions urge a high level of Christian commitme...

  • Maggie's Mistake

    Carolyn Brown

    Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can't laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Jackson Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and ...

  • Stanley, Flat Again!

    Jeff Brown

    Heroes come in all shapes and sizes Any Doctor will agree that people are not flat. They are born round and stay that way their whole lives. But not Stanley Lambchop! He has been flat once before, after a bulletin board fell on him. When his brother...

  • Catch As Cat Can

    Rita Mae Brown

    Spring fever comes to the small town of Crozet, Virginia. As the annual Dogwood Festival approaches, postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen feels her own mating instincts stir. As for tiger cat Mrs. Murphy, feline intuition tells her there's more ...

  • Fran's Friend

    Lisa Bruce

    One day, Fran refuses to play with her doggie best friend, Fred. She is very busy making something and Fred can't figure out why she is behaving so strangely. Why doesn't Fran want to play? It turns out Fran is making a special present for Fred an...

  • Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman

    Elizabeth Buchan

    Get ready to cheer for Rose Lloyd, a woman of young middle age who proves that starting over doesn't have an age limit. After twenty-five years spent juggling husband, career, and kids with admirable success, Rose suddenly finds both her marriage and...

  • Deadly Legacy

    Robin Burcell

    A DEATH IN THE FAMILY San Francisco P.D. Homicide Inspector Kate Gillespie's investigation into a bizarre apparent murder/suicide is threatening to careen out of control. A dead man might not be dead. The families of the deceased are hiding someth...

  • While You Slept

    Wendy Burge

    A NOTORIOUS LORD For years, cynical Sion Sinclair has been trying to forget his past in the bottom of a bottle. Ostracized from the haute ton, and isolated in his country estate, he sees no reason ever again to behave in a civilized fashion--especia...

  • A Memory of War

    Frederick Busch

    Psychologist Alexander Lescziak savors a life of quiet sophistication on Manhattan's Upper West Side, turning a blind eye to the past of his Polish émigré parents. Then a new patient declares that he is the doctor's half-brother, the product of a u...

  • Dr. Yes

    Lisa Cach

    A desperate man. A dastardly plan. In... DR. YES Dr. Alan Archer didn't seem evil. With his boyish good looks and shy demeanor, he seemed more a mom's fantasy than every woman's nightmare. But Rachel Calais knew the insidious truth: The doc was do...

  • Gunfight at Santa Angela

    Tom Calhoun

    Meet J.T Law: the most relentless, and dangerous, manhunter in all Texas. Where sheriffs and posses fail, he's the best man to bring in the most vicious outlaws--for a price. And once he's on the job, his quarry can never ride fast enough or hide far...

  • Secrets of the Heart

    Candace Camp

    SHE NEVER EXPECTED TO LOVE AGAIN... On the eve of her wedding to Michael Trent, the Earl of Westhampton, Rachel Aincourt tried to elope with another man -- only to be unceremoniously returned to her fiance by her strong-willed father. Burdened by gu...

  • The Marriage Campaign

    Susannah Carleton

    Hero's Return Robert Symington has recently inherited the title Marquess of Elston, but a codicil to his father's will requires that he marry within a year or face unknown consequences. Worse still, Robert must choose from among twenty lad...

  • Little Girl Lost

    Marisa Carroll

    Did Faith Carson steal his sister's baby? Hugh Damon is convinced that Faith's daughter is actually his sister Beth's missing baby. Just after Beth gave birth she was in a terrible car accident that caused her to lose her memory. Her newborn infant w...

  • If the Stick Turns Pink...

    Carla Cassidy

    THE BABY BARGAIN It was the perfect plan. Melanie Watters wanted a baby badly, so she proposed marriage to the most confirmed bachelor in town -- her best friend, Bailey Jenkins. In return for getting Melanie pregnant, frustrated pageant-judge Bai...

  • What If I'm Pregnant...?

    Carla Cassidy

    Colette Carson didn't need a man in her life, but she wanted a baby more than anything. So she headed to the local sperm bank to make her dream come true. Then handsome rancher Tanner Rothman arrived in town and turned Colette's secure world upside d...

  • Framed

    Whitney Chadwick

    This novel introduces Charlotte Whyte - a San Francisco art historian whose research takes her from art to murder - in a mystery of lost wartime art treasures, long-buried secrets and deadly betrayals....

  • Tomorrow's Treasure

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    A powerful diamond dynasty. A long-forgotten murder. A love that will not be denied. Raised by her aunt and uncle at the rectory in the small English village of Grimston Way, lovely Evy Varley remembers little of her parents and nothing of South A...

  • Kiss River

    Diane Chamberlain

    Gina Higgins has come to the Outer Banks of North Carolina--a stranger with a secret. But secrets are a fact of life in the close-knit community of Kiss River... Kiss River's historic nineteenth-century lighthouse has all but fallen into the sea, ...

  • A Prayer for Deliverance

    Christopher Chambers

    Never try to outrun your past . . .

    Tough-minded FBI special agent Angela Bivens is just beginning to put her life back together. Still reeling from the bloody showdown where she took the lives of two serial killers, one of whom was her lover,...

  • The Prince's Texas Bride

    Victoria Chancellor

    WAITRESS PREGNANT WITH PRINCE'S LOVE CHILD! Is Kerry Lynn Jacks's unborn child heir to the Belegovian throne? That's the rumor around the Ranger Springs water cooler. When Prince Alexi of Belegovia visited the small town a scant few months ago he ...

  • George Washington's Teeth

    Deborah Chandra

    A tongue-in-cheek dental history of our first President"Poor George had two teeth in his mouthThe day the votes came in.The people had a President,But one afraid to grin."From battling toothaches while fighting the British, to having rotten teeth rem...

  • Miss Corpus

    Clay McLeod Chapman

    Will has just returned home from sea to find his wife lying dead on the kitchen floor. Four states away, Phil has been waiting for his son to return home, only to discover his body decomposing at the bottom of a nearby swamp. Will's wife always wante...

  • Rest Area

    Clay McLeod Chapman

    This edgy, darkly humorous short story collection will take hold of your imagination and won't let go.

    Sharply tuned, haunting, and darkly humorous, these stories take readers from the country fair to the suburban home to the boy scout camp...

  • Charming the Highlander

    Janet Chapman

    A feisty beauty tempted by a bold highlander's touch... When a plane crash strands brilliant scientist Grace Sutter on an icy mountaintop in Maine, she finds herself alone in the wilderness with the only other surviving passenger -- Greylen MacKea...

  • Little Old Big Beard and Big Young Little Beard

    Remy Charlip

    Two cowboys--Little Old Big Beard and Big Young Little Beard--in search of their lost cow, Grace, are delighted when she finally finds them, in a tongue-twisting tale enhanced with vibrant illustrations....

  • In Too Deep

    Maureen Child
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    Assistant D.A. Gina Palermo was a nice girl -- with a gangster family. And when a threat to her life put this law-abiding daughter under the protection of one of her dad's mob men, Gina wondered if she could resist the tempting embrace of sexy Nick F...

  • Kiss Me, Cowboy!

    Maureen Child

    While pastry chef Nora Bailey perfected the art of baking a cinnamon roll, she'd somehow wound up the last virgin in all of California. Now it was time for this old-fashioned girl to become an ex-virgin. Only, just as she was about to embark on her b...

  • The Last Bachelor

    Judy Christenberry

    LSCC Guest Member: Rich, talented architect Joe Turner Social Status: The last eligible bachelor of the Texas Turners Method of Seduction: Convincing someone to be his wife shouldn't be a problem...even if it's only temporary Thanks to some past...

  • Patent to Kill

    April Christofferson

    A NEW CRIME FOR A NEW CENTURY Biopiracy: the theft of the healing secrets of isolated, indigenous peoples. Rapacious pharmaceutical companies swoop down on remote Third World tribes, steal their folk medicine, native cures, and even human blood, t...

  • The Riccioni Pregnancy

    Daphne Clair

    Zito and Roxane Riccioni were still married when they accidentally conceived their baby. But they hadn't lived together for over a year! Roxane's unexpected announcement left Zito in no doubt -- the marriage was definitely back on. Roxane ...

  • My Gal Sunday

    Mary Higgins Clark

    A dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride become an irresistible sleuthing duo in four acclaimed stories from the #1 New York Times bestselling Queen of Suspense.Henry Parker Britland IV -- wealthy, worldly, and popular -- is enjoying ...

  • The Hills at Home

    Nancy Clark

    WHILE ALWAYS WELL-STOCKED WITH CLEAN SHEETS, Lily Hill is not expecting visitors. At least not in the numbers that descend upon her genteelly dilapidated New England ancestral home in the summer of '89. Brother Harvey arrives first, thrice-widowed an...

  • Thunder in the Night

    Donna Clayton

    All Conner Thunder wanted was to be alone, yet he couldn't ignore the cries of a woman in the woods near his cabin. The stranger with hair as pale as moonlight and secrets in her eyes needed a shoulder to cry on, but after a kiss meant to soothe turn...

  • The Naked Season

    Kira Cochrane

  • Murder in the Hearse Degree

    Tim Cockey

    A full-time undertaker and part-time sleuth investigates a suspicious death in this darkly humorous mystery by the author of The Hearse You Came In On.Libby, a former flame of Baltimore’s most eligible mortician Hitchcock Sewell, has returned to to...

  • A Call to Arms

    Loren L. Coleman

    Months have passed since the interplanetary communications net was destroyed, isolating planets across the Republic of the Sphere. Achernar is one of the few worlds still in possession of a working Hyperpulse Generator Station, a device that enables ...

  • Death Tidies Up

    Barbara Colley

    It's October in New Orleans, and most residents of the city's historic Garden District are rejoicing in the beautiful colors and crisp breezes--and relishing what promises to be a truly beautiful fall. But murder-solving maid Charlotte LaRue isn't on...

  • Lightning Strikes

    Colleen Collins

    The first time Blaine Saunders spies the antique brass bed, she has to have it. Practical in every other way, she's suddenly discovered a weakness for sensuous beds where dreams come true. But the chances of her beautiful bed being delivered to th...

  • Skin Game

    Max Allan Collins

    The saga of Dark Angel continues!

    Someone is killing normal humans in the fog-enshrouded city of Seattle. The murders are brutal and grisly, but inside Terminal City they barely cause a ripple of concern. The transgenics who live there have p...

  • The Dogfather

    Susan Conant

    It's an offer dog handler Holly Winter can't refuse: train wiseguy Enzio Guarini's new Elkhound puppy, Frey. But can she ignore the fact that Guarini's killed so many people even the FBI's lost count? Hardly. One day into training and Guarini's right...

  • The Gambling Man

    Kent Conwell

    "You got a choice. Hang as a horse thief or teach our schoolkids."

    That was the decision facing Mage Casebolt, a decision that made him wish he had never disembarked the riverboat at New Orleans.

    Bound for San Francisco to join his brothers i...

  • Liberty

    Stephen Coonts

    THE THREAT IS CLOSING IN. For sale: four nuclear warheads offered to the highest bidder by a rogue Russian general. The buyer: the Sword of Islam, a Mideastern anti-American network. The warning: one by one, they're to be detonated on unknown homela...

  • Star Spangled Summer

    Ilene Cooper

  • Octopus Alibi

    Tom Corcoran

    The murder of a long-missing woman, the death of a mentor, and the suicide of Key West's mayor are revealed on a warm April day. Alex Rutledge, a freelance photographer with ties to city and county law enforcement, first must help friend Sam Wheeler ...

  • Vengeance Is a Bullet

    Ralph Cotton

    VENGEANCE OR JUSTICE? Carl O'Bannion was only a boy when his parents were mercilessly gunned down by a gang of outlaws led by Jamison "Wolf" Avrial. Now, after ten years of perfecting his skills as a gunslinger, O'Bannion is huntin...

  • Do the World a Favour and Other Stories

    Mat Coward

  • Desert Winter

    Michael Craft

    After 30 some odd years of success as a director on Broadway, Claire Gray has accepted her first academic position - that of a theatrical director at the richly funded Desert Arts College in Palm Springs. Having lived a largely peaceful life in Manha...

  • Indigo Slam

    Robert Crais

    Life in the California sun suits Elvis Cole--until the day a fifteen-year-old girl and her two younger siblings walk into his office. Then everything changes. Three years ago, a Seattle family ran for their lives in a hail of bullets. Hired by thr...

  • The Last Detective

    Robert Crais

    P.I. Elvis Cole's relationship with attorney Lucy Chenier is strained. Then the unthinkable happens. While Lucy is away on business and her ten-year-old son Ben is staying with Elvis, the boy vanishes without a trace. When the kidnappers call, it's n...

  • The Disappearing Duke

    Andrew Crofts

    Shortly after the fourth Duke of Portland died in 1854, the fifth duke began construction of a fantastic underground palace beneath the family's estate. Was it a physical representation of a secret underground life he was living as a London businessm...

  • Sleeping Beauty's Billionaire

    Caroline Cross

    REVENGE IS SWEET... A Barone wedding? He would be there! Gavin O'Sullivan couldn't wait to show Colleen Barone just what she'd been missing since she and her family had kicked him to the curb. He was no longer the rebel from the wrong side of town, ...

  • Hayburner

    Laura Crum

    Nothing calls more urgently for a vet than a burning barn full of penned animals. Gail McCarthy has to push her way through the crowd around the Bishops' barn, repeating, "I'm a veterinarian." She's doing triage in her head--which one is the most ser...

  • Long Way Home

    Gena Dalton

    The only man Jo Lena Speirs had ever loved had finally come home. And though she hadn't seen Monte McMahan for years, she recognized him the instant she saw him. She would have known him anywhere, just by the way her heart left her body. Jo Lena knew...

  • The Terror of the Pink Dodo Ballons

    Lawrence David

    When his entire town goes bald as a result of some mischievous plot, Horace Splattly is eager to solve the mystery, but his little sister is the only one who has the recipe for his power-inducing cupcakes and so Horace must make a deal with her--one ...

  • Wonder When You'll Miss Me

    Amanda Davis

    A teenage girl navigates trauma and revenge on a journey to the circus in this “marvelous modern-girl odyssey, dark and comic and poignant and smart” (Susan Orlean, author of The Orchid Thief).At fifteen, Faith Duckle was lured under the bleacher...

  • One of These Nights

    Justine Davis

    Corporate security guard Samantha Beckett knew that sexy electronics genius Ian Gamble would balk at having her as his bodyguard, so she decided that posing as his neighbor was the best way to keep her eye on him. Professionally speaking, of course.....

  • Period Pieces

    Erzsi Deak

  • At the Tycoon's Command

    Shawna Delacorte

    Working for Jared Stevens was not how teacher Kim Donaldson wanted to spend her vacation, but doing so would pay off her father's debt and end the long-standing feud begun by their grandfathers. If only Jared hadn't matured into a handsome man with a...

  • Jinn

    Matthew B.J. Delaney

    It is May 1943. On the remote island of Bougainville, in the South Pacific, a squad of United States Marines beats their way through the thick jungle. They've landed to do battle with the Japanese soldiers on the island, but in short order, they begi...

  • A Forest Apart

    Troy Denning

    BONUS: This original novella includes an excerpt from Star Wars: Legacy of the Force: Betrayal and an interview with the author. LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON Growing up in the shadow of his heroic father, Lumpawarrump, son of Chewbacca, feel...

  • Things Will Never Be the Same: The War Years

    Tomie DePaola

    After receiving a diary for Christmas, Tomie spends the next year recording all the wonderful things he has done as the months roll by, but when he hears of the attack on Pearl Harbor on the radio, Tomie immediately knows that everything in the world...

  • Magic Gourd

    Baba Wague Diakite

    Coretta Scott King Honor author/artist tells a tale from Mali about a magic gourd that can fill itself with whatever its owner desires. And hidden within is a powerful lesson about generosity.

    Draught and famine have come to the parched forest...

  • A Mighty Love

    Anita Doreen Diggs

    Mel and Adrienne Jordan have the kind of marriage most couples only dream about. Mel feels lucky to have the smartest, sexiest wife a man could want, while caring for their infant daughter and tending to their lovely home in New York City keeps Adrie...

  • Stanley In a While Crocodile

    Disney Book Group

    Stanley is the only one in his class who hasn't lost a tooth yet, and he's getting a little worried. So he and Dennis take a trip into The Great Big Book of Everything to find out about the toothsome crocodile!...

  • Stanley Gorilla Sleepover

    Disney Book Group

    Stanley's pal Lester is sleeping over for the first time, and Lester is feeling a bit nervous. Stanley's room isn't his room. Stanley's bed isn't his bed. And Stanley's mom and dad aren't his mom and dad. Stanley's house is great. It's just - differe...

  • Stanley Tyrannosaurus Wrecks

    Disney Book Group

    Stanley wishes he were a dinosaur so that his big brother, Lionel, would pay attention to him. But when Stanley actually becomes a T.rex, the mightiest of the dinosaurs, he realizes that is is much better to be loved than feared....

  • Stanley Dolphin Party

    Disney Book Group

    It's Harry the dog's birthday, and Stanley and his friends are planning a surprise for him. Now, if only they had a way to communicate with one another secretly. What they need is a special code! They turn to The Great Big Book of Everything to get a...

  • Maltese Manuscript

    Joanne Dobson

    In classic noir tradition, English Professor Karen Pelletier gains a client when her office door opens and a famous Private Eye novelist enters. The author is dogged by Trouble (a Torrweiler) and by a problem. And since Sunnye Hardcastle (a Patricia ...

  • Scandalous Again

    Christina Dodd

    Two exquisite cousins must exchange identities in a scandalous deception. Madeline de Lacy, the duchess of Magnus, prides herself on being one of the most sensible young women in England, which is why she can't believe that, in a turn of the card...

  • Dog's Noisy Day

    Emma Dodd

  • Grimmer Than Hell

    David Drake

    YOU DON'T NEED SAINTS TO FACE RUTHLESS ENEMIES--YOU NEED HEROES! THE FLEET The Khalians are weasel shaped and weasel vicious; their main concern with humanity is the way humans taste. Behind the Khalians are others: stronger, smarter, and mor...

  • The Good Patient

    Kristin Waterfield Duisberg

    Brilliant, acerbic, funny, and relentless, Darien Gilbertson appears to have it all: a successful career, a husband who loves her absolutely, and all the material comforts of a New York life. But Darien is in trouble " on the run from her emotions,...

  • Strong Spirits

    Alice Duncan

    Welcome to sunny Pasadena, California, just a stone's throw from Hollywood. The twenties are in full roar, Prohibition isn't stopping anybody...and Daisy Gumm Majesty is getting by the best way she knows how-- catering to the rich and famous as a med...

  • Impressions

    Doranna Durgin

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... ROCK SOLID An otherwise peaceful day at Angel Investigations is disturbed by the arrival of a desperate man -- and the demon at his heels. The gang quickly disposes of the monster, only ...

  • Dangerous Attractions

    Colleen Easton

    The Sweetest Taboo July 27th, 1855 I can't believe it--my childhood friend Eli Blaylock is alive! I had thought--and my mother had insisted--that he died in the Seminole Indian attack that killed my father eighteen years ago. Now he has rescued ...

  • If You're Afraid of the Dark, Add One More Start to the Night

    Cooper Edens

    "If you're at the end of your rope...untie the knot in your heart." Such are the delightfully unconventional solutions offered in this long-awaited follow-up to the perennial If You re Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow, which has sold ov...

  • Savage Destiny

    Cassie Edwards

    What would make a wealthy Louisiana planter marry an Indian woman? the townsfolk ask. And when he raises his two copper-skinned sons as though they are white, some whisper that only trouble can come of it. Red Feather grew up sensing there was a vita...

  • Funny Bunny

    Lisa Eisenberg

    What's a bunny fur?Fur petting!

    Ready for some Easter egg-citement? Hop along with Pupcorn, the mischief-making mutt, and his friends on a hare-brained adventure with the Easter Bunny. Lift the flap in the middle of each p...

  • The Gathering Storm

    Kate Elliott

    THE LONG DREADED CATACLYSM is about to descend on the world as the lost land of the Aoi returns to the Earth from which it was cast forth millennia ago. And though Liath has at last found her way back to Earth, she knows disaster will soon follow he...

  • Life Sentence

    David Ellis

    In Life Sentence, Ellis brings us a second legal thriller, again evocatively set in an unnamed Chicago, in a Byzantine world of big-city politics full of payback and promise, ambition and disgrace. Jon Soliday is legal counsel to a powerful politicia...

  • Punisher, Volume 3: Business as Usual

    Garth Ennis

  • The Master Butchers Singing Club

    Louise Erdrich

    Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for A...

  • Can't Help Falling in Love

    Wendy Etherington

    Skyler Kimball has actively avoided daredevil men her whole life, and even secretly appreciated her overprotective brothers' meddling to keep them at bay. But when sexy Cajun firefighter Jack Tesson moves into town, Skyler may have to rethink her pos...

  • Hunka Hunka Burnin' Love

    Wendy Etherington

    Interior designer Monica O'Malley is used to men falling at her designer-shoe-clad feet. So what gives with stuffy fire chief Ben Kimball's aloof attitude? She's been trying her flirtatious best to get his attention while remodeling the town firehous...

  • Full Tilt

    Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes

    Dear Reader: With Full House, my good friend Charlotte Hughes and I teamed up to create an exciting new series. Now we bring you the second book, Full Tilt, which is filled with even more fast-paced action, crazy characters, steamy sex, suspense, ...

  • Longarm and the Rancher's Daughter

    Tabor Evans

    KILLER LOOKS Rutherford Peacock has it all, looks, brains, money--and a history no one seems to know about. He's about to become the new town Marshal of Reno, Nevada, and it's up to him and Longarm to find out who murdered the last one. ...

  • Blue Poppies

    Jonathan Falla

    Jonathan Falla weaves a powerful tale of love and war, exile and homecoming...and of one man’s desire to lose himself in a foreign land, only to find himself caught in a time of chaos and change.Blue PoppiesThe year is 1950 and, as the world recove...

  • Mumbo Gumbo

    Jerrilyn Farmer

    "PEOPLE DIE EVERY SECOND OF THE DAY .. . That's part of life. But how many times in the history of the world do we have a chance to create a game show as perfect as Food Freak?" So speaks TV producer Artie Herman, as murder meets Hollywood when a...

  • Precious Jewels

    Nancy J. Farrier

    On a trip to the barn during a winter storm, Megan Riley stumbles over a nearly frozen man. She helps Jesse Coulter into the house and nurses the stranger back to health as she anticipates her parents' and brother's return from town. But several days...

  • The Fury and the Power

    John Farris

    Eden Waring has known fear in her life. She is an Avatar, a talented young psychic with the ability to produce at will her doppelganger - her mirror image, who calls herself "Gwen" and possesses remarkable powers beyond even Eden's gifts. Gwen can be...

  • Kissed by Shadows

    Jane Feather

    Lady Philippa Nielson had no memory of what took place in her bedchamber in the dead of night--nor knowledge of the dangerous plot that put her life in jeopardy. But with a brief touch of his hand and one glance of his knowing gray eyes, Pippa felt a...

  • A Nasty Bit of Rough

    David Feherty

    Over the years, readers of Golf magazine have come to know and love Major General (Ret.) Sir Richard Gussett, the raucous imaginary uncle featured in David Feherty's column "Sidespin." In this first volume of his misadventures, Gussett sets his sight...

  • A Nasty Bit of Rough Display

    David Feherty

  • On The Tycoon's Terms

    Sandra Field

    Luke McRae's dark good looks made him a magnet for women, but no one had managed to break in to his heart...until he met the beautiful and alluring Katrin Sigurdson. However, making Katrin his mistress soon forced him to consider that he might...

  • The Bridesmaid's Reward

    Liz Fielding

    Dodie has just been asked to be chief bridesmaid at her sister's huge celebrity wedding! She's always felt inadequate next to her slim, beautiful, famous sister -- so there's only one thing for it: Dodie's going on a diet and she needs a personal tra...

  • Love Me Forever

    Donna Fletcher

    Let Donna Fletcher sweep you back to 16th-century Scotland and a passionate tale of love under the most poignant circumstances... Just when it seems she is finally free -- free of a bleak future with her contemptuous husband, that is -- Brianna C...

  • Easter Cub

    Justine Korman Fontes

    Pip, a very curious bear cub, learns all about spring and Easter from his wise friend, Evergreen, in this very sweet, easy-to-read holiday story illustrated by the esteemed Lucinda McQueen.

    One morning, bear cub Pip wonders, "What is spring?" ...

  • The Deputy Gets Her Man

    Delores Fossen

    NYC cop Rayanne Garrett has a lot to live down when she returns to Longhorn, Texas, to get Aunt Evie -- her only relative -- out of jail. Unfortunately, the current sheriff is the one Rayanne has to live down! An embarrassing moment with Rios McKay e...

  • Drowning World

    Alan Dean Foster

    “A fast, fun read for fans of Foster’s fantastic alien worlds . . . Driven by political intrigue and wilderness adventure, this is SF of noble vintage.” -- Booklist Fluva, the Drowning World, is a rain-drenched planet on the fringes of the Comm...

  • Diuturnity's Dawn

    Alan Dean Foster

    In nearly two dozen novels about the Humanx Commonwealth, Alan Dean Foster has fascinated readers with his brilliantly imagined interstellar realm"where humans, thranx, AAnn, and other species strive to work together to put the common good above se...

  • The Battle of Milroy Station

    Robert H. Fowler

    What is the nature of true courage? In March of 1896, Andrew Jackson Mundy, a senator from the Deep South, is secretly urged by Marc Hanna, the rich kingmaker, to become William McKinley's running mate in the upcoming presidential election. Hanna arg...

  • Pirate PiggyWiggy

    Diane Fox; Christyan Fox

    Yo-ho-ho! The appealing little pig and his friends are swashbuckling through the seven seas!PiggyWiggy, who’s always exploring new career paths, now adds pirate to his adventures fighting fires and exploring outer space. He and his friends, includi...

  • The Patience of Rivers

    Joseph Freda

    “Joseph Freda is a remarkably gifted storyteller.” ―Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls

    An irresistible novel about an upstate New York river community and a never-to-be-forgotten summer of change. It's the summer of 1969, and it feels...

  • Four Corners

    Diane Freund

    "I was ten the summer we drove my mother crazy." And so starts this captivating debut novel, narrated by ten-year-old Rainey Dougherty. It's August 1953 in Four Corners, New York, when Rainey's mother is hospitalized for mental instability--or, as Ra...

  • The Sergeant's Secret Son

    Bonnie Gardner

    AFTER THE STORM Air force sergeant Alex Blocker thought he knew everything a man needed to know about bravery. But it took a special kind of courage to return to help rebuild his tornado-ravaged hometown -- because it meant working with the only w...

  • A Difficulty With Dwarves

    Craig Shaw Gardner

  • An Excess of Enchantments

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    Once upon a time, a brave young lad named Wuntvor, hapless apprentice to the mighty mage Ebenezum, journeyed from Vushta, City of Forbidden Delights, to the far distant Eastern Kingdoms in search of a cure for his master's malady of magicks (which ha...

  • Come What May

    Tracee Lydia Garner

    In the wake of a scandal that forces her to flee her Virginia hometown, Trisha Jameson gratefully accepts a position at an elementary school in Macon, Georgia. Here, she hopes to make a fresh start far from the tragedy that haunts her heart and soul....

  • Hot Blood XI: Fatal Attractions

    Michael Garrett

    This eleventh volume in the award-winning series journeys into a darkly erotic world of fantasy, sex, death, and unimaginable horror, featuring contributions by such modern masters of the genre as P.D. Cacek, Bob Ingersoll, John Edward Ames, Sephera ...

  • All Tomorrow's Parties

    William Gibson

    The flow of information is about to be disrupted... Colin Laney, sensitive to patterns of information like no one else on earth, currently resides in a cardboard box in Tokyo. His body shakes with fever dreams, but his mind roams free as always, a...

  • Pattern Recognition

    William Gibson

    Cayce Pollard is a new kind of prophet -- a world-renowned "coolhunter" who predicts the hottest trends. While in London to evaluate the redesign of a famous corporate logo, she's offered a different assignment: find the creator of the obscure, enigm...

  • Dead Girls Don't Write Letters

    Gail Giles

    Things had been getting a little better until I got a letter from my dead sister. That more or less ruined my day. When Sunny's older sister, Jazz, ran away to New York, Sunny was secretly relieved. Everyone loved Jazz, talked about Jazz, wished the...

  • Kindred Spirits

    H.B. Gilmour; Randi Reisfeld

    MIZZUNDERSTOOD Coventry Island. A lush, hidden world of magick and sorcery. It's where Cam and Alex were born. And it's where they're headed now. At last. But Coventry doesn't fell much like home. A group of cooler-than-thou teen witches and warlock...

  • Dying to Tell

    Robert Goddard

    Lance Bradley, idling his life away in the little Somerset town of Glastonbury, suddenly receives a call for help from the eccentric sister of his old friend Rupert Alder. Rupe appears to have vanished without trace. Reluctantly, Lance goes to London...

  • Arthur's Tractor

    Pippa Goodhart

    A charming picture book starring a hapless farmer who is struggling with what he thinks is a broken down tractor. But behind him, a resourceful princess is being pursued by a dragon who is being persued by a rather useless knight. In the end it's ...

  • A Maze of Murders

    C.L. Grace

    A violent past haunts Sir Walter Maltravers, the wealthy lord of Ingoldby Hall. As a commander during the War of the Roses, he fought alongside Edward IV at the bloody, fratricidal Battle of Towton. Decades earlier, and thousands of miles away, he se...

  • The Life of David Gale

    Dewey Gram

    David Gale sits on death row, awaiting execution by lethal injection -- an irony not lost on the imprisoned death penalty opponent. Charged with and convicted of the rape and murder of a fellow activist, the former university professor contacts a har...

  • Atlanta Live

    Carmen Green

  • Deadly Echo

    Christine Green

  • There Goes the Bride

    Crystal Green

    STOP THAT BRIDE! Instead of heading down the aisle toward a man she didn't love, ex-beauty queen Daisy Cox hightailed it out of the church, landing at the feet of brooding loner Rick Shane. When Rick begrudgingly helped Daisy flee Kane's Crossing an...

  • Forever Wife and Mother

    Grace Green

    Gabe Ryland knew he was attracted to Caprice the moment she arrived at his rural resort. But she was beautiful and sophisticated -- exactly the sort of woman he refused to let into his heart again! Caprice was equally determined not to fall for Ga...

  • Murder Most Celtic

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Celtic culture is full of deep tradition and intense passion--from the legends of ghosts and banshees to blood feuds, these are the ingredients of great story-telling. In Murder Most Celtic: Tall Tales of Irish Mayhem, you will find thrilling tales o...

  • Just Add Water...and Scream!

    Dan Greenburg

    When Zack and Spencer get the late-night munchies at a sleepover, they curb their hunger with some freeze-dried food that Zack got at the Air & Space Museum. After devouring freeze-dried ice cream and pizza, they come across an extra package of f...

  • Ariel And Emily

    Adele Aron Greenspun

  • Family Merger

    Leigh Greenwood

    For the first time, international businessman, local millionaire and widower Ron Egan was faced with a dilemma that he couldn't negotiate his way out of. His teenage daughter was pregnant. Soon Ron was jetting from a boardroom in Geneva back to his h...

  • The King of Torts

    John Grisham

    The office of the public defender is not known as a training ground for bright young litigators. Clay Carter has been there too long and, like most of his colleagues, dreams of a better job in a real firm. When he reluctantly takes the case of a youn...

  • Featherstone

    Kirsty Gunn

    Kirsty Gunn's spellbinding third novel is a portrait of the small town of Featherstone and the interior lives of its inhabitants. Over the course of one weekend, years after the beautiful and spirited Francie Johanssen fled town, rumors of her return...

  • Troubled Waters

    Rene Gutteridge

    Attending her estranged father's funeral seventeen years after leaving home, TV anchorwoman Macey is attracted to a neighbor and is haunted by painful memories in her efforts to help her mother out of a difficult financial situation....

  • Mrs. Kimble

    Jennifer Haigh

    “Beautiful, devastating and complex.” -- Chicago TribuneThe award-winning debut novel from Jennifer Haigh, author of BakerTowers, The Condition, and Faith, tells the story of Birdie, Joan,and Dinah, three women who marry the same charismatic, pr...

  • A Father's Fortune

    Shirley Hailstock

    Tough, rugged carpenter Digger Clayton was good at avoiding his past -- he stayed far away from kids and pretty women. Until nursery school teacher Erin Taylor offered him a job he couldn't refuse, in a sweet, sexy voice that took his breath away...a...

  • The Deepest Edge

    Jessica Hall

    Growing up on the streets of New Orleans has given Valence St. Charles nerves of steel--sharp enough to risk her reputation and her life sneaking into the Parisian compound of the reclusive T'ang Jian-Shan. But the art curator will stop at nothing t...

  • Ambrose Bierce & the One-Eyed Jacks

    Oakley Hall

    Consulted by a wealthy client whose mistress has been scandalously photographed, Ambrose Bierce and his sidekick, Tom Redmond, follow a trail that pits them against a ruthless pornography ring. 10,000 first printing....

  • Flesh of the God

    Lauren Haney

    A young, untested policeman confronts deceit, treachery, and deadly peril in an ancient and magnificent world. Author Lauren Haney dazzles with a spellbinding "prequel" -- the first investigation of the brilliant Egyptian, Lieutenant Bak. A proud ...

  • Oregon Trail

    Jack Hanson

    A Jack-of-all-trades Mountain man and hired guide Will Barlow has his hands chock-full. He's leading a caravan of downright ornery pioneers. He forages for the group's food. He breaks up fights among his charges. And it's not easy to keep his...

  • Princess Takes a Holiday

    Elizabeth Harbison

    All Princess Teresa of Corsaria wanted was a break from the "glamorous" world of society galas and gossip columns. But when her car broke down in a little North Carolina town, she found something far more valuable. She found a place that welcomed a s...

  • The Thorne Maze

    Karen Harper

    The vibrant pageant of Elizabethan England comes vividly alive in Karen Harper's fifth novel in her acclaimed Elizabeth I mystery series. In the gardens of Hampton Court, Elizabeth proudly shows a famed visitor her huge maze. But the intricate labyri...