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New Books List: 638 titles

  • Lady of the Gun

    Faye Adams

    Some people in Twisted Creek, Wyoming, called Cassidy Wayne the prettiest woman in the west. All of them called her the fastest gun. but Cass ignored their whispers while she hunted down the men who murdered her family. For five years her desire f...

  • A Cat Under the Mistletoe

    Lydia Adamson

    Alice Nestleton--actress, cat sitter, and amateur sleuth--is ringing in the holidays with a new client: a lovely tortoiseshell cat named Roberta. But sometimes this fickle feline turns into the kitty from hell, which is where Manhattan animal therapi...

  • Alejandro's Gift

    Richard E. Albert

    This uplifting story about one man's gift to the desert and the gift he receives in return has a powerful environmental lesson. Plus, this is the fixed format version, which will look almost identical to the print version. Additionally for device...

  • My Ponies

    K.A. Alistir

  • Lonely Margins

    Ted Allbeury

  • Remember Me

    Danice Allen

    An Unforgettable Affair Daring Amanda Darlington is on a clandestine rescue mission when a drunken swell stumbles into the path of her onrushing carriage. Though he could be a rogue, wastrel or dangerous scoundrel, the high principled miss feels d...

  • New York Quest

    Judy Allen

  • A New Hope

    Cynthia Alvarez

    Can Luke Skywalker rescue Princess Leia from the evil clutches of Darth Vader?  The Force flows through every page of this action-packed intergalactic flap book based on the blockbuster motion picture.  Lift the flap of R2-D2's light beam to see ...

  • Jody and the Bully

    Elizabeth Anders

  • Annie's Song

    Catherine Anderson

    THE GIFT Annie Trimble lives in a solitary world that no one enters or understands. As delicate and beautiful as the tender blossoms of the Oregon spring, she is shunned by a town that misinterprets her affliction. But cruelty cannot destroy the l...

  • Listen to My Heart

    Katherine Applegate

    From two different worlds... Christopher and Roxana are as different as two people can be. Shy cowboy Christopher can't believe that Roxana is interested in him. Especially since he can barely form a complete sentence when she's around. Desperate to...

  • A Careful Wife

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Marriage merger! Honor was convinced Ryan Bailey was looking for a "careful," suitable wife. She was equally certain he'd never consider her an ideal candidate! And she was glad. Getting involved with Ryan would be a bad idea. For one ...

  • Jumpstart

    Robb Armstrong

    A graphic novel based on the syndicated comic strip covers the early years of main characters Joe and Marcie, from their mutual crush at age sixteen through their wedding plans and Marcie's pregnancy. Original. $40,000 ad/promo. Tour....

  • In Retrospect

    Eve Arnold

  • Evil's Fancy

    Ralph Arnote

    Willy Hanson, cagey entertainment czar who's seen his share of danger, is in the game again.But this time he's not the quarry, but the hunter. From the glitter of Las Vegas's casinos to the sleaziest dives in New Orleans, from Pacific Coast gin join...

  • Just like Daddy

    Frank Asch

    Little Bear wants to be like his dad -- but his mom has a fun skill to share too in this reissue of a classic picture book from celebrated and award-winning author and illustrator Frank Asch.Little Bear loves to do everything his daddy does. When Dad...

  • Moonbear's books

    Frank Asch

  • Masque of the Swan

    Rebecca Ashe

    While attending a dance, lovely Caralisa finds her life changed forever when she is swept into the arms of the seductive Count of Samothrace, who is rumored to be the devil and who tempts her to make a decision that will affect the entire country. Or...

  • The Bitter Bite

    Jeffrey Ashford

    When Penny Hurst is raped by one of the workmen at her parents' London home, the police investigation dead-ends quickly upon the suspect's seemingly rock-solid alibi. Though everything circumstantial points to his guilt, there is no real proof, and t...

  • Lost in My Dreams

    Faye Ashley

    SHE WAS A DREAMER Roseanna Bently Tait didn't know that something was missing from her Houston-society lifestyle --- until an ordinary trip to her walk-in closet turned her world upside down. She didn't find her favorite dress that she planned to ...

  • Magic: The Final Fantasy Collection

    Isaac Asimov

    A collection of original short fantasy stories assembles previously uncollected tales, stories about the two-centimeter demon Azazel, several fairy tales, and a humorous adventure about Batman's old age...

  • Behind the Scenes at the Museum

    Kate Atkinson

    The acclaimed author’s “startlingly original . . . poignant and beautifully wrought portrait” of a girl’s growing awareness of her dysfunctional family (The Seattle Times).Winner of the Whitbread Book of the YearRuby Lennox beg...

  • A Father's Vow

    Elizabeth August

    Daddy wants a wife Lucas Carver owed Felicity Burrow a debt he could never repay. She had miraculously transformed his son's silent world while adding joy to his own. And though they had never met before, Lucas felt Felicity was tied to him in uni...

  • Crossways

    James Axler

    Chains of Destiny Hard strength and resilience are needed to survive each new day in the treacherous world of postnuclear America. For Ryan Cawdor and his companions, honor, integrity and a willingness to kill are necessary as well, as they strug...

  • Even Yuppies Die

    Marian Babson

    Trixie Dolan and Evangeline Sinclair, Babson's feisty elderly heroines, are back, just as bickering, inquisitive, and delightful as ever. The two former film stars are at leisure (temporarily, of course) but they have, again of course, expectations o...

  • Eye of the Daemon

    Camille Bacon-Smith

    "CASES INVOLVING THE OCCULT HANDLED WITH DISCRETION." This was the part Of the ad which had drawn Marnie Simpson to the Philadelphia Ryan, and Davis. Private Investigators. All the wealthy Mrs. Simpson knew was that her half brother Paul was missi...

  • Hamster Hotel

    Ben M. Baglio

    Mandy Hope loves animals. She knows all about them -- both her parents are vets! Mandy is always ready to help out her friends with their pet problems. Mandy's grandparents are watching a friend's hamster. They don't know how to take care of the l...

  • Puppy Puzzle

    Ben M. Baglio

    Mandy Hope loves animals. She knows all about them -- both her parents are vets! Mandy is always ready to help out her friends with their pet problems. ANIMAL ARK IS FULL OF ANIMALS AND SURPRISES. There is a new litter of puppies! James and S...

  • Kitten Crowd

    Ben M. Baglio

    Mandy Hope loves animals. She knows all about them -- both her parents are vets! Mandy is always ready to help out her friends with their pet problems. ANIMAL ARK IS FULL OF ANIMALS AND SURPRISES. Mandy's friend Katie needs help. Katie is mov...

  • The Rose

    Jennifer Baker

  • The Lying Game

    Jennifer Baker

    Nikki plots revenge against Suzanne, who landed the starring role in the school play and lured away Nikki's boyfriend, and Deb, refusing to take sides, searches for her birth mother with the help of handsome Ian...

  • The Angel and the Outlaw

    Madeline Baker

    THE OUTLAW'S ANGEL An outlaw, a horse thief, a man killer, J.T. Cutter wasn't surprised when he was strung up for his crimes. What amazed him was the heavenly being who granted him one year to change his wicked ways. Yet when he returned...

  • Absolute Power

    David Baldacci

    In a heavily guarded mansion in a posh Virginia suburb, a man and a woman start to make love, trapping a burglar behind a secret wall. Then the passion turns deadly, and the witness is running into the night. Because what he has just seen is a brutal...

  • The Fennel Family Papers

    William P. Baldwin

  • Dangerous Secrets

    Audrey Barcus

    After receiving a mysterious envelope from Ricky, Erika begins to wonder if the envelope holds the key to Ricky's death a few days later and is horrified when she realizes that she is being stalked. Original....

  • Night Screams

    Clive Barker

    Twenty-three short horror stories include the works of such writers as F. Paul Wilson, Charles de Lint, Clive Barker, Lawrence Block, David Morrell, Rick Hautala, Katherine Ramsland, and Ray Bradbury. Original....

  • Ship Fever and Other Stories

    Andrea Barrett

    1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

    The elegant short fictions gathered hereabout the love of science and the science of love are often set against the backdrop of the nineteenth century. Interweaving historical and fictional characte...

  • Tender Scoundrel

    Linda Lang Bartell

    ANGEL Determined to forget the pain and humiliation of being jilted, Lady Meredyth St, Andrews ran as far from London as she possibly could. Now, living a chaste existence in a mission high in the hills of an exotic island, she resists all earthly pl...

  • Guarding Jeannie

    Beverly Barton

    TO LOVE AND PROTECT For six years, Jeannie Alverson had thought about Sam Dundee's haunting blue eyes, his warm touch. His was the face she saw in her dreams. He was the man she never expected to see again. But now he had returned...to protect her. ...

  • The Dove Looked in

    Gael Baudino

    Having her youth and beauty restored by the Goddess, Sari vows to bring her people back to the Caves of the forbidden mountains, but diplomats from the Righteous States of America also search for the mountains, hoping to overcome Napoleon. Original....

  • The William Powell and Myrna Loy Murder Case

    George Baxt

    Basking in the recent success of The Thin Man, William Powell and Myrna Loy stumble onto a situation so typically Hollywood that only the real-life incarnation of Nick and Nora Charles could take the case. A Hollywood madam publicizes that she's in n...

  • Love Never Dies

    Cherie Bennett

  • Dog Eat Dog

    Laurien Berenson

    Welcome to the elite Connecticut Kennel Club, where shocking secrets gnaw at the best of the breed and competition has a sharp--and deadly--bite. As if raising her son Davey, training her rambunctious poodle Faith for the show ring, and grooming ...

  • Treasure Hunt

    Lara Rice Bergen

    Twenty-five shiny jewel stickers and lots of hidden pictures lead kids on a treasure hunt--just like in the Muppet movie! From the Admiral Benbow Inn to the docks, through island jungles to a camp of wild boars, rhyming clues on each spread guide rea...

  • The Death of a Dancing Fool

    Carole Berry

    Believing her old friend, Fast Eddie Fong, has gone straight in his efforts to make his New York club a success, Bonnie Indermill accepts a part-time job from him only to become suspicious in the wake of a mysterious celebrity death. Reprint....

  • I Came, I Saw, I Lost My Luggage

    Peter Biddlecombe

  • Emma & Knightley: Perfect Happiness in Highbury

    Rachel Billington

    The irrepressible Emma is restless... And Mr. Knightley's apparently endless patience is tried, not only by her strong mind and high spirits but also by the problems of his brother John and the return of a widowed Frank Churchill. After a year of m...

  • Walk Into the Night

    Beverly Bird

    When a Fire-Star blazes across the night sky, a proud people will rise again. They will fight their enemy on the boundless Texas Prairie ... and one woman will heed the call of her star-crossed destiny. She is known as Storm Trail .... pledged to ...

  • Meltdown at the Wax Museum

    Betty G. Birney

  • Twice Dead

    Paul Bishop

    All of Los Angeles is thrust unto chaos when a professional basketball superstar is charged with a series of murders, and the evidence against the defendant seems overwhelming, until the possibility of an evil twin emerges...

  • Silver-Tongued Devil

    Jennifer Blake

    THE ANGEL -- He saved her life, then made her his prisoner. Now Renold Harden is demanding his due -- as Angelica Carew's new husband. How easy it would be to surrender to Renold's name, his protection, his passion. But there is something unreal abou...

  • Cupid's Arrow

    Sara Blayne
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    Expecting few surprises at his Valentine's Day gala, the Duke of Vail is captivated by the delightful antics of Miss Letitia Treadwell. Can he remain immune to her outrageous ways...or will Cupid's arrow pierce his well-protected heart?...

  • Moon

    Paulette Bourgeois

  • Western Tommy

    Max Brand

    Surrounded by the trigger-happy members of his former gang and the law, lone gunslinger Harry Grant enlists sidekick Tommy Mayo to offer him protection, but the untamed youth's wild spirit proves troublesome. Reprint....

  • The Cat Who Said Cheese

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    With the approaching Great Food Explo, there's lots of delicious activity in Moose County-restaurant openings, a cheese-tasting, and a bake-off are planned, among other events. But there's nothing as tasty as a morsel of gossip, so when a mysterious ...

  • Outlaw Kingdom

    Matt Braun

    In 1889, Bill Tilghman joined the historic land rush that transformed a raw frontier into Oklahoma Territory. A lawman by trade, he set aside his badge to make his fortune in the boomtowns. Yet Tilghman was called into service once more, on a bold, r...

  • The Plant That Kept on Growing

    Barbara Brenner

    Every book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages three to eight as they develop reading skins.

    Level 1 (PRE-K-GRADE 1) books are perfect for reading aloud with children who are getting...

  • Father and Son

    Larry Brown

    Father and Son tells the story of five days following Glen Davis’s return to the small Mississippi town where he grew up. Five days. In this daring psychological thriller, these are five days you’ll never forget.Convicted and sentenced on a vehic...

  • To Say I Love You

    Molly Brown

    CRACKER He drinks, gambles and can spot sin a mile away--in anyone but himself. `Dr. Fitzgerald is an overweight psychologist, broke and forced to freelance with the cops. In a rain- and blood-soaked alleyway Fitz shows exactly why he's the best--...

  • Things I like

    Anthony Browne

    "Browne brings a fresh perspective and his own witty visual imagination even to such simple-seeming books as these small catalogs of enthusiasms. Mass-market appeal combined with excellent quality."--"Kirkus "...

  • No Problem

    Eileen Browne

    Mouse's present from Rat contains so many pieces that Mouse and her friends puzzle over which construction they build is the right one, in a tale that includes a seven-piece kit for readers to make their own crazy machine...

  • Honeysuckle Song

    Lydia Browne

    First impressions don't always count in matters of the heart... GRACE Widowed, with two children and a small farm to run, she had little time for romance, but enough to help a man in need... LUCAS Unable to remember the past, Lucas found hims...

  • Sing to the Sun

    Ashley Bryan

    "Sing to the sunIt will listenAnd warm your words

    In this beautiful collection of art and poetry, Ashley bryan celebrates all aspects of life--from a rainshower at the seashore to a beloved grandmother gathering fruit.

    Perfect for reading alou...

  • Lion and the Ostrich Chicks

    Ashley Bryan

  • Pleasure Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    As it approaches time for Samson, the beautiful son of Cobalt, to be ridden for the first time, Stevie, Carole, and Lisa discover that it may take more time, patience, and skill than they possess to train the horse....

  • Peachy's Proposal

    Carole Buck

    A FAVOR BETWEEN FRIENDS Pamela "Peachy" Keene was determined to lose her virginity, and she knew of only one man for the job. Luc Devereaux was conveniently single and sexy as sin -- surely he'd agree to Peachy's proposal. After all,...

  • Love for Lucinda

    Gayle Buck

    A surfeit of suitors Lady Lucinda Mays wanted no more of marriage. The death of the libertine lord who had been the worst of husbands left her with a passion only for freedom. But the moment lovely Lucinda arrived in London, her single state came ...

  • Cetaganda

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Cetaganda is the latest installment of the Hugo-award winning adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, in which Miles and Cousin Ivan go to Cetaganda to play the part of sprigs of the nobility doing their diplomatic duty by good old Barrayar. The idea is that...

  • When Midnight Comes

    Robin Burcell

    CHIVALRY, ROMANCE, AND A TOUCH OF MURDER Miami detective Kendra Browning definitely lives for today. But as she investigates a baffling series of homicides, she suffers a freak accident that sends her back to the middle of nineteenth-century London...

  • Children of Enchantment

    Anne Kelleher Bush

    In a shattered land of warring nobles and forbidden lore, age-old magic directs a fratricidal struggle for the crown, and two young strangers discover that their destinies were decreed the night they were both conceived .. . A KING'S SINS SET THE ...

  • Literacy Place

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

  • Knight's Song

    Linda Cajio

    THE ABBEY WAS HER HAVEN... The village of Audham lay on England's borderland -- a wild, savage backwater where Welsh raiders roamed, heedless of royal law. But to widowed Isobel Bayeux, the abbey at Audham was a refuge from a cruel world. She felt s...

  • Animal Lore and Legend-Bear: American Indian Legends

    E.K. Caldwell

  • Baby Beat

    Sandra Canfield

    Lieutenant Jake Cameron, Detective Cole Bennett, and Special Agent Seth Norris find their high-action jobs taking a major turn when they become dads, forcing them to trade in criminal chasing for nappy changing, in a trio of romance tales. Reprint....

  • Frannie and the Charmer

    Ann Carberry

    Love Struck Mary Frances Donnelly's quiet reserve gives way to her white-hot Irish temper when her father provides her with a "partner" to run the Four Roses Hotel. Frannie hopes the handsome stranger will tire of the sedate ambience of a San Fran...

  • Pastwatch

    Orson Scott Card

    [MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.]

    [Narrators are: Scott Brick, Christopher Cazenove, Gabrielle de Cuir, Arte Johnson, Moira Quirk, Stefan Rudnicki, and Orson Scott Card]

    In a not-too-distant future that is not quite ours, there...

  • The Way to Win

    Will Carling

    Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles. Top performance in both depends on two key elements: maximizing potential and overcoming the barriers to achieving goals. This work is the result of a meeting of m...

  • Forever Yours

    Jeanne Carmichael

    SUCH ARROGANCE! Lord Blackthorn actually believed he could waltz back into her life five years after leaving it in shattered pieces! Well, Lydia Osborne, undisputed leader of the ton, had a bevy of ardent suitors and no need for his company. Nev...

  • Shark Attack

    Richie Cevat

    Trapped on the seafloor in a tiny two-person submarine, with the oxygen supply rapidly running out, the reader must find a way through a labyrinth of sea caverns filled with fantastic creatures of the deep to reach the surface. Original....

  • Winds of Allegiance

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    British-Russian Savana Rezanov Mackenzie is drawn to two different men--Baron Peter Sarakof, who promises to reunite Savana with her Russian grandmother, Countess Rezanov, and Captain Trace Wilder, an American whose ambition is to see the Pacific nor...

  • Honor to the Hills

    Eileen Charbonneau

    When the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 is passed, violence shatters the peaceful settlement of Stony Clove. For Lily Woods, the brutal horror of slavery takes on a terrifying reality when her friend--a free black woman--is captured by bounty hunters and...

  • Just Compensation

    Robert N. Charrette

    Becoming accidentally involved with the Shadowrunners, Andy and his disenchanted army major brother, Tom, uncover a sinister web of corrupt politicians and officers that threatens to dismantle the UCAS government. Original....

  • In My Father's Garden

    Kim Chernin

    Kim Chernin's mother was a leftist firebrand, an American Marxist at mid-century, when it was dangerous to be one. Her father, a quiet man, was no less radical. Why then, decades later, does their daughter--a liberal California psychoanalyst and writ...

  • If You Were Fozzie: Starring Jim Henson's Muppets

    Richie Chevat

  • Sabrina

    Deborah Chiel

    Arriving home from the sophisticated streets of Paris, a chauffeur's daughter finds herself having to make a difficult choice between two wealthy brothers who she has known since childhood. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • The Comeback Challenge

    Matt Christopher

    Mark Conway is staying with his grandparents while his parents fight over whom he will live with after they divorce. He's become a valued member of the middle school's soccer team and has made friends with everyone on the squad -- everyone, that is...

  • Veronica

    Nicholas Christopher

    On a snowy night in February, at the improbable point in Lower Manhattan where Waverly Place intersects Waverly Place, a photographer named Leo meets Veronica for the first time. Starkly beautiful, mysterious, aloof, she leads him into a world where ...

  • The Flight of the Osprey

    Ewan Clarkson

    Not since World War I have ospreys been seen in England. Now, however, the magnificent birds are beginning to reclaim their ancient territories. But as Isagair, a two-year-old osprey, soon discovers, survival is still quite difficult. The young bird ...

  • One Way Out

    John Clarkson

    Investigating the murder of an ex-lover's husband, Jack Devlin vows to do anything that is necessary to protect Annie from becoming the killer's next victim, even if he has to break the law. Original....

  • Crystal Heat

    Jo Clayton

    Hired to return an innocent creature to people who only wish to destroy it, psychic detective Shadith cannot bring herself to fulfill her mission and is forced to betray her strongest supporter while outwitting a smuggler. Original....

  • Winter Chill

    Jon Cleary

    It begins one rainy dawn: Orville Brame, prominent lawyer and president of the American Bar Association, is found shot through the heart, slumped in a monorail, silently circling downtown Sydney. The next day, the body of a security guard is fished o...

  • Murder Most Beastly

    Melissa Cleary

    CRIME IN CAPTIVITY The only zoo that Jackie usually has to deal with is her Friday film class. But when her friend Marcella goes undercover at the Palmer Wildlife Habitat to investigate alleged abuses, the bizarre death of a zookeeper turns a featur...

  • Branch Point

    Mona Clee

    A time traveler who started out from the year 2062 chronicles four alternate histories of Earth, in which she and her companions save the world from nuclear war in the 1960s before becoming trapped in the 1830s. Original....

  • The Magic School Bus Gets Ants in Its Pants: A Book About Ants

    Joanna Cole

    Ms. Frizzle's class decides to make a movie about ants for the school science fair. They follow an ant all the way into an anthill, and discover that it's crawling with activity. Join Ms. Frizzle and the Magic School Bus gang as they learn how ants w...

  • The Magic School Bus Out of This World: A Book about Space Rocks

    Joanna Cole

    When Walker Elementary is threatened by a hurtling space rock, Ms. Frizzle and her students launch a field trip into outer space aboard a transformed Magic School Bus space ship, where they learn about asteroids, comets, and more. Original....

  • Lethal Ladies

    Barbara Collins

    Sixteen suspenseful murder mysteries highlight the investigations of daring female sleuths and include the works of such writers as Sara Paretsky, Janet Dawson, Sue Dunlap, and Marcia Muller. Original....

  • The Bloody Ground

    Bernard Cornwell

    LEE'S ARMY INVADES THE NORTH FOR THE WAR'S BLOODIEST BATTLE, IN THE FOURTH VOLUME OF THIS ROUSING AND SPLENDID CIVIL WAR SERIES It is only weeks after Second Manassas in September 1862, and in General Lee's army the northern renegade Nathaniel Sta...

  • The Nurses

    Tyler Cortland

    CHANDLER MEDICAL CENTER -- HIT BY MEDICAL EMERGENCY AND SEETHING WITH SEX AND SCANDAL Chandler Medical Center faces its most brutal challenge as a plane wreck turns flight crew and passengers into patients fighting to survive. But even as doctors ...

  • Arc of Love: An Anthology of Lesbian Love Poems

    Clare Coss

    A wide-ranging collection of lesbian love poetry is divided into four sections under the headings "Light," "Order," "Vexation," and "Endurance," and includes contributions by Sappho, Audre Lorde. 15,000 first printing....

  • Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers: Tales to Make You Shiver

    Bruce Coville

  • Inside the Privet Hedge

    Neva Coyle

    For the Young Women in the class of '57 It Was a Time of Leaving Behind Nostalgic Memories of Jukeboxes and Summer Nights for the Hopes, Dreams and Uncertainties of the Future. Retta McCarron's dream upon graduation from Summerwind High was to help ...

  • The Black Pearl

    Francine Craft

    Enjoying sensual dreams about a man she only glimpsed once, Katherine Keyes throws caution to the wind when she meets him again and immediately agrees to become his wife, but their happiness is threatened by Martin's former lover. Intimate strang...

  • Hoofprints

    Laura Crum

    IN COWHORSE COMPETITION THE PRESSURE IS MURDER. Veterinarian Gail McCarthy has to have a strong arm and a strong constitution to care for the horses who are her patients. But walking in on the bullet-riddled bodies of two of her best human clients...

  • Charlie All Night

    Jennifer Crusie

    ALL NIGHT LONG... Dumped by her boyfriend and dropped from WBBB'S prime time, radio producer Allie McGuffey had nowhere to go but up. She planned to make temporary DJ Charlie Tenniel a household name -- despite his objections. Footloose Ch...

  • Uncle Foster's Hat Tree

    Doug Cushman

  • Shock Wave

    Clive Cussler

    A MYSTERIOUS PLAGUE IN THE ANTARCTIC... A DIAMOND EMPIRE RUN BY AN EVIL GENIUS... A DEVASTATING NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT THREATENS TO ANNHILATE MILLIONS! Tasman Sea, 1856. A British clipper ship bound for Australia's penal colony is crushed in a ragi...

  • Tangled Lives

    Margot Dalton

    THE NIGHTMARE BEGAN AFTER SHE WOKE UP... Meg Howell opens her eyes to find herself surrounded by strangers. She has no idea how she ended up in a hospital in Salt Lake City. Or why everybody is calling her Lisa and insisting she's the wife of weal...

  • Outlawed!

    B.J. Daniels

    A devil in blue jeans... Trouble blew in like tumbleweed -- the same time Delaney's new ranch hand, Cooper McLeod, showed up. His rock-hard, denim-clad body was enough to make her knees go weak. But sin itself danced in the cowboy's indigo...

  • Last Stop Marriage

    Emma Darcy

    Last stop marriage....first stop passion! Jayne THINKS she wants stability more than she wants Dan's love. Dan KNOWS that traveling the world from A to Z is more important than stability. Result: their marriage is over...or is it ? When Jayne...

  • Living on the Lottery

    Hunter Davies

    Good: A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact (including dust cover, if applicable). The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can...

  • Three Hands in the Fountain

    Lindsey Davis

    From spectacles at the Colosseum to sub rosa schemes in the Forum, Lindsey Davis "makes ancient Rome feel as real as ... L.A." says Publishers Weekly. This time, her series detective, the tough-skinned Marcus Didius Falco, must dive into a chilling c...

  • Expose

    Saranne Dawson

    He was daring, dangerous, devious -- and her ex-husband! Like a flash, wonderboy reporter Sam Winters stormed back into Kate Steven's life -- and under the conjugal roof. But Kate was on to the biggest story of her career, tracking a cunning...

  • Second Thoughts

    Shobhaa De

    Maya is pretty, young and eager to escape her middleclass home. Ranjan is handsome, driven, well born and wealthy. Their arranged marriage seems a match made in heaven until Maya discovers that underneath her husband's charming facade lies a cold-hea...

  • Shades of Grace

    Barbara Delinsky

    AN END OFFERS HOPE OF NEW BEGINNINGS Grace Dorian is a national treasure. She is The Confidante, America's favorite advice columnist. Her wisdom and guidance over two generations have helped millions, including her daughter Francine and grandd...

  • Red Sky Warrior

    Genell Dellin

    Refusing to enter into a marriage arranged by her scheming businessman father, Maggie Harrington proposes to convicted outlaw Cade Chisk-Ko, promising to rescue him from being hanged if he will marry her for one year only. Maggie Harrington isn't ...

  • A Place on the Water

    Jerry Dennis

    More than a collection of fishing stories, A Place on the Water is a passionate and eloquent exploration of subjects with broad appeal: love of land and water, informed and unsentimental appreciation of nature, and outrage at changes that threaten to...

  • Vampire Bugs: Stories Conjured From The Past

    Sharon Dennis

    Beware of conjurers and voodoo queens!  In their wake, strange things happen.  Witches shrink to the size of peas, and children are transformed into bugs or birds.  But if fear hides in the folds of the voodoo queen's cloak, so does power.  C...

  • The True Knight

    Susan Dexter

    The stallion, the swan, and the sorceress

    Titch had trained all his life in the ways of honor and of arms. Now he saddled his late father's warhorse, belted on his heirloom sword, and set off to win his knighthood. Unfortunately, his first cha...

  • Yours, Mine and Ours

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Mother of Three -- and Never Been Kissed! When Robin Lindstrom hired on as a nanny for Flint Harris's kids, she sure didn't expect to find that the eggs she'd donated back in college had hatched triplets -- and her lively charges were...

  • The Dragon and the Djinn

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Gordon R. Dickson continues his acclaimed saga of a twentieth-century American transformed into a Dragon Knight - and transported into a fantastic medieval adventure! The Dragon Knight's journey to the Holy Land is supposed to be a simple quest...but...

  • Scoundrel

    Debra Dier

    Scoundrel Original Version - January 1, 1996 BOLD IMPOSTOR Emily Maitland didn't wish to rush into a match with one of the insipid fops she met in London. But since her parents insisted she choose suitor immediately, she gave her hand to M...

  • Fast Break

    Franklin W. Dixon

    When their friend is aggressively targeted by two colleges that want him for his basketball talents, Frank and Joe find themselves in the middle of a deadly mystery when Bayport U's basketball coach is murdered. Original....

  • The Rock

    Robert Doherty

    IN AUSTRALIA... a U.S. Air Force computer operator receives a terrifying radio transmission that knocks out the world's communications. IN NEW MEXICO... a boozy college engineering professor is suddenly escorted into a waiting car by two armed m...

  • Angus Wilson

    Margaret Drabble

    Margaret Drabble, herself much influenced by Angus Wilson's writing, traces his early years as a librarian at the British Library, interrupted by a grim spell in the code-breaking huts at Bletchley Park, and then his meteoric rise as novelist, critic...

  • Muppet Treasure Island: The Movie Storybook

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Jim Hawkins's humdrum life is turned upside down when a dying pirate gives him a treasure map, and he joins the Muppets on a whimsical and wild adventure in search of the hidden gold and jewels. Movie tie-in....

  • A Busy Day at the Airport

    Philippe Dupasquier

    As Sylvester Dustpan, the airport cleaner, and his colleagues at a small airport prepare for takeoffs and landings, evacuate an injured mountain climber, and welcome a dignitary, young readers are asked to find items in the illustrations and solve ot...

  • A Busy Day at the Building Site

    Philippe Dupasquier

  • A Busy Day at the Garage

    Philippe Dupasquier

  • Bossy Kiki

    Jennifer Dussling

  • Muppet Treasure Island

    Jennifer Dussling

    In an easy-to-read novelization of the forthcoming Muppet movie, Jim Hawkins and his Muppet companions--Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, and the others--set out in search of a long-lost pirate treasure, in an adventure illustrated with full-color movie sti...

  • The Stupids

    Ben Edlund

  • Don't Cry, Leon

    Roberta Edwards

    When Leon brings his new toy to The Puzzle Place to share with his friends, they lose all the pieces, and when Leon cries over his lost game, his friends make fun of him by calling him a crybaby. Simultaneous....

  • The Case of the Basketball Video

    T.J. Edwards

    Videotaping a rivaling team's attempts to cheat during a game, Bryan O'Malley and the Sonics try to tell the skeptical referee, and when the tape is stolen, three sketchy clues are their only hope of proving their accusations. Original....

  • The Invisible Circus

    Jennifer Egan

    The highly acclaimed debut novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Good Squad follows two sisters in the 1970s -- one lost, one seeking -- on "a trip that takes the reader through stunning emotional terrain" (The New York...

  • Murder Can Stunt Your Growth

    Selma Eichler

    A HUNGER FOR JUSTICE Desiree Shapiro is no lightweight when it comes to crime. At five foot two and pleasingly plump, she always takes on cases she can sink her teeth into. That's why she is so reluctant to investigate the death of little Catherin...

  • Blackwater

    Kerstin Ekman

    On Midsummer''s Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she sumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder...

  • Cold Cold Heart

    James Elliott

    He's a Russian defector given a new life in America by the U.S. government. Now he's exploded into violence--driven by a mad lust to kill young women.

    An embarrassed CIA knows it must stop him--and that only one man can do the job.  But form...

  • Jericho Trumpet

    Olive Etchells

  • My True Love Gave to Me

    Marcia Evanick

    He was the perfect present: six feet two inches of pure hunk material, poured into one gorgeous mold.... When she awakened Christmas morning, Megan Lamaine gazed, astonished, at the pear tree -- with a partridge -- in her backyard! Then Tate Brad...

  • Two for the Dough

    Janet Evanovich

    Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is back, packing a whole lot of attitude - not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, and a .38 Smith & Wesson. This time around, she's on the trail of Kenny Mancuso, a boy from the working-class burg of Trenton, New Jerse...

  • Hunky Dory found it

    Katie Evans

  • Daughter of Fire

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    They are the daughters of destiny ... born of a kingdom forged in fire and blood, bound by a legacy of magic and love shrouded in the swirling mists of legend... She possesses a strange and mystical power - a gift of prophecy that allows her to mo...

  • Longarm and the Brazos Devil

    Tabor Evans

    NO SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL The Brazos Devil is a smelly, seven-foot-tall mankiller -- half-man, half-bear, and all hair. It tore four men limb from limb. It kidnapped the wife of the richest man in Cottonwood Springs. And it gave Longarm's prisoner...

  • Longarm and the Desert Damsel

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Daughters of Death

    Tabor Evans

    Becoming involved with the beautiful Hannah Diver, Longarm learns that Hannah and her nine sisters are repeatedly married off to outlaw land owners, who promptly die off shortly after the weddings. Original....

  • The Animals Waltz

    Cary Fagan

    Sheila Hersh is spending her early thirties leading a double life. She hangs out at the cool Firenze Bar at night, has a closetful of black clothes, and is even the reluctant star of an underground film. By day she writes ad copy for her father's ...

  • Game of Hearts

    Jo Ann Ferguson
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    Lucinda Hart arrives at a country lodge for a family visit...and finds an empty house and her brother's handsome best friend stealing about the premises. Soon she is swept up in a Valentine's Day game of romance that only a truly loving heart can win...

  • Happy New Year--Baby!

    Marie Ferrarella

    NICOLE LOGAN'S RESOLUTION: To deliver the twins who had her feeling like the eighth wonder of the world. And January was the perfect due date, because her babies signaled a beginning. Nicole's life would once again be hers. Free from the shadow of...

  • Wild Designs

    Katie Fforde

    ALTHEA FARRADAY IS A THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD divorced mother of three who's got a teenage son who's a Buddhist, a hypercritical sister who knows how to push all her buttons, a job on the endangered species list, and a love life to match. Just as she's ...

  • Surprise!

    Jane Fine

  • The Success of Caroline Jones, Inc.

    Robert Fleming

  • Dreams of the Centaur

    Montserrat Fontes

    Dreams of the Centaur brings to light for the first time in fiction the tragic enslavement of the Yaqui Indians by Porfirio Diaz's regime at the turn of the last century. Through the lives of the Durcalsa Mexican family who has created a ranch out of...

  • Impetuous

    Lori Foster

    WHEN SHE WAS BAD, SHE WAS BETTER! On the outside, Carlie McDaniels is a shy, no-nonsense schoolteacher. But on the inside, there's another Carlie -- a sultry, sexy femme fatale -- burning to get out. One night, she does. And lady-killer Tyler ...

  • Jeremiah Martin

    Robert H. Fowler

    A boisterous young Virginia aristocrat witnesses the Lexington Massacre, becomes an American spy, fights under Washington, and commands a group of privateers, nurturing all the while a seemingly hopeless love for Greta McGee...

  • Traveler

    Elaine Fox

    THE MAN FROM YESTERDAY With a thriving business and a stalled personal life, Shelby Manning never figured her life was any worse -- or better -- than the norm. Then a late-night stroll through a Civil War battlefield park led her to a most intrigu...

  • Outsider

    John Francome

    Refusing to throw a race that would make several powerful people a lot of money, world-class American jockey Jake Felton suffers a series of attempts on his life and must stop a killer in order to survive. Original....

  • The Texas Way

    Jan Freed

    The H&H Cattle Company, near Gonzales, Texas Scott Hayes--He's the owner. Scott's a hardworking cattleman who's got a reputation with the ladies. Not that he has any time for womanizing these days. Fact is, Scott's putting in twenty-hour stretches...

  • Wishing Season

    Esther Friesner

    Before graduating from magic school, Khalid, a young genie, is allowed to inhabit his first lamp, but he forgets to restrict his master to three wishes and needs a princess and the help of Boabdil, his master's cat, to save him from a lifetime of ser...

  • Leon's Antics

    Michi Fujimoto

  • Kyle Can, Can You?

    Michi Fujimoto

  • Go, Team!

    Michi Fujimoto

    Featuring the same adorable cast of multicultural puppets as seen on TV's The Puzzle Place twice a day, all of the Read-to-Me books will help kids learn about getting along with other children, and about dealing with the problems they face every day-...

  • I Can't Sleep!

    Michi Fujimoto

  • A Natural Death

    Ruthe Furie

    WHO WILL BE NEXT TO BUY THE FARM? A body in the barn and an insurance company holding the farm's accident policy bring P I. Fran Kirk out of the city for some country sleuthing. But when the death of Ben Grasse--impaled on his own pitchfork--turns...

  • Sophie's World

    Jostein Gaarder

    SOPHIE'S WORLD is the #1 international bestseller that has captivated millions -- a wondrous journey of intellect and imagination that will make you look at life through the eyes of a child again. One day Sophie comes home from school to find tw...

  • For Love and Honor

    Madeleine Garnett

    When the Civil War breaks out, Yankee beauty Loretta takes her infant son and flees her brutal husband, a Southern plantation owner, who hides his cruelties under brave acts, which include saving the life of the man Loretta loves. A time of Civil ...

  • Earthbound Angel

    Catherine George

    An angel in her background! Maybe her stepdaughter was right! Imogen was only a young widow; perhaps she did need to fall in love again. But she required a positive angel of a man to restore her faith in herself, and such men did not grow on trees...

  • Lucas: the Loner

    Cindy Gerard

    INDECENT PROPOSAL Lucas Caldwell knew Kelsey Gates was trouble! The loner cowboy sensed the bigcity reporter had gotten wind of his lifelong secret, but the red-haired spitfire claimed she wanted only one thing: him. Lucas was sure she was lying, ...

  • Happy Birthday, Anna, Sorpresa!

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Sarah Cole cannot wait for the birthday of her best friend, Anna Ortiz, and is busy planning a special surprise party, but her plans are threatened when her mother goes off on a trip and their baby-sitter, Sen+a1ora Sanchez, speaks very little Englis...

  • Why Just Me?

    Martyn Godfrey

  • Red Means Good Fortune

    Barbara Diamond Goldin

  • Husband Material

    Emma Goldrick

    Dream Lover... Though Rose Marie Chase told herself that she wasn't looking for another involvement, it would be nice if the man of her dreams swept her off her feet. But the trouble with daydreams about Mr. Right was that sometimes you found ...

  • Wildside

    Steven Gould

    Forget the lottery. Teenager Charlie Newell has just discovered something that will make him and his friends billionaires. What if a world existed in which no humans ever evolved? No cities. No pollution. No laws. A fantastic world filled with unimag...

  • Tremor

    Winston Graham

    A motley cast of colorful characters in search of adventure, romance, and refuge descends on the elegant Hotel Saada in Agadir, Morocco, but their lives are suddenly jeopardized by a devastating earthquake. By the author of The Loving Cup. ...

  • The Friends at the End

    Alvin Granowsky

  • Giants have Feelings, Too; Jack and the Beanstalk

    Alvin Granowsky

  • Brainy Bird Saves the Day!; Henny Penny

    Alvin Granowsky

  • The Little Red Hen

    Alvin Granowsky

  • Ten in the Bed

    Brita Granstrom

  • Devil's Dare

    Laurie Grant

    A GOOD MAN WAS HARD TO FIND... Especially for Mercy Fairweather, whose preacher father kept her well hidden. Mercy was innocence, smarts and beauty - tempting to the Devil himself. But even an angel deserved some fun. So when cowboy Sam Devlin ask...

  • The Standish Inheritance

    Louisa Gray

    To Max Earl of Rivington, coming home battle weary from the Wars Luciana Standish was an oasis of claim. Her loving easy handling of her two fatherless boys gave him hope that he might win his own small daughter's love -- and Luciana's. But as idylli...

  • Lin-Li and the Phoenix Fairy

    Ellin Greene

    In a lyrical retelling of a Chinese folktale, a poor but clever girl weaves and embroiders her own beautiful wedding robe, only to have the wealthy and proud Golden Flower steal it, but magpies take it away and lead Ling-Li to a magical encounter wit...

  • Seasons of Plenty

    Colin Greenland

    Space Captain Tabitha Jute is the hero of the solar system. She has defeated the Capellan overlords and liberated the gigantic alien spaceship known as Plenty. Now begins the first human voyage to another star -a journey that will take the strange sh...

  • Flesh Wounds

    Stephen Greenleaf

    IN A WORLD OF VIRTUAL REALITY, THE ULTIMATE EROTIC THRILL MAY BE MURDER Peggy Nettleton, detective John Marshall Tanner's former lover, has come back into his life, reopening old wounds. She's supposed to marry Ted Evans, a wealthy Seattle investm...

  • Kansas, Bloody Kansas

    Randal L. Greenwood

    Those who survived would always remember... The War Between the States was no longer thought of as a glorious conflict. Now everyone saw it for what it was -- an orgy of vengeance and blood. For the Kimbrough men -- Jesse, Calvin, and Ross -- ever...

  • Ride, Rebels, Ride

    Randal L. Greenwood

    When the Civil War tide turns in favor of the North, cutting off much-needed Confederate supplies, the die-hard Kimbrough family vows that they will fight to the death for the cause they believe in. Original....

  • The Gambler

    Lois Greiman

    Raven Scott was a man who liked to move in the shadows. In fact, everything about him was steeped in darkness -- from his jet-black hair to his dark, brooding eyes to his well-muscled body to the depths of his soul. He kept people -- and emotions -- ...

  • Behind the Lines

    W.E.B. Griffin

    BEHIND THE LINES is W.E.B. Griffin's powerful novel of World War II -- and the courage, patriotism, and sacrifice of those who fought it. By 1942, the Japanese have routed the outnumbered American forces and conquered the Philippines. But deep in the...

  • Burton and the Giggle Machine

    Dorothy Haas

    When his "growl multiplier" invention fails to cheer up his friends, who are burdened with such problems as a skateboarding traffic ticket and an irrepressible puppy, Burton invents the ultimate picker-upper. Reprint....

  • Grizzly Riddles

    Katy Hall

  • The Lunatic Cafe

    Laurell K. Hamilton

    "YOU DON'T VOLUNTEER FOR SLUGFESTS WITH VAMPIRES. IT SHORTENS YOUR LIFE EXPECTANCY" And you don't fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you're a preternatural expert, like me. My business brings me up close an...

  • Promise of Paradise

    Rosemary Hammond

    Jessica's only desire was to find out the truth about her husband's death...but everywhere she turned for help she met a brick wall of secrecy. Luke had been her husband's colleague, and clearly knew more than he pretended. But he conside...

  • A Taste of Heaven

    Alexis Harrington

    IN A LONELY LAND, LOVE CAME RIDING IN Libby Ross came to Heavenly, Montana, hoping for a new start, a family, children and a good place to raise them. What she found was terrible. The cowboy who duped her into being his mail-order bride had died, ...

  • I, Victoria

    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    A thoroughly researched and historically accurate fictionalized autobiography of Queen Victoria offers an intimate and moving chronicle of a woman whose life was marked by power, loneliness, and an all too brief love....

  • Wife-To-Be

    Jessica Hart

    The bridesmaid and the best man When Serena met Leo Kerslake at a wedding, sparks flew! Wearing a frilly bridesmaid's dress was bad enough, but coping with Leo, the devastatingly attractive best man, was sufficient to make her lose her cool. A...

  • His Wedding Ring

    Kate Hathaway

    SINGLE AND SATISFIED? Emergency room nurse Angel Martino confronted the effects of crime every day. But then her operating room became a crime scene, drawing her into the investigation -- and into the arms of Detective Matt Flanagan. The handsom...

  • Nightmare in 3-D

    Gloria Hatrick

    The ghosts of Fear Street - they'll haunt you forever! Do you believe in ghosts? Don't say no until you take a walk down Fear Street. Past the woods - where no birds sing. Past the lake - where something lurks beneath the water. Past the cemetery - ...

  • Who Goes Home

    Roy Hattersley

    Each night when the House of Commons rises, throughout the Palace of Westminster policemen shout, 'Who goes home?', a relic of the days when Members of Parliament were escorted safely to their beds. WHO GOES HOME? is Roy Hattersley's witty and charac...

  • My Soul to Keep

    Judith Hawkes

    When her own vague childhood memories propel her young son toward destruction, a divorced woman must penetrated the veil of her past and return to the scene of something terrible on a Tennessee mountainside. Reprint....

  • This is the bear and the picnic lunch

    Sarah Hayes

  • Brian Johnston

    Tim Heald

    DescriptionHow did it work, exactly, that Johnners magic? Brian Johnston was arguably the most distinctive and best loved voice in British broadcasting. Elder statesman of the Test Match Special team, he was also Britain's most entertaining comme...