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  • All the Blood Relations

    Deborah Adams

    "A series rich in provocative themes and artful plots."

    *Joan Hess



    THE TOWN FLORIST WILL SOON BE PUSHING UP DAISIES.



    For Meredith Bradley *Jesus Creek's most successful businesswoman *life has been no bed of rose...

  • Tempting Tess

    Joyce Adams

    A DANGEROUS WOMAN Attractive as she was, Tess Fontana was not going to ensnare Texas Ranger Zack Mackinzie in her seductive web. Not a woman who could also be a cold-blooded killer. Mackinzie had followed her father's traveling carnival to Virgi...

  • About That Kiss

    Jayne Addison

    SISTER OF THE BRIDE Joy Mackey is determined to see that her sister gets married without a hitch. But nothing is going smoothly -- and real trouble strikes when the bride's former fiance pops up. Joy is positive that dashing Nick Tremain plans...

  • Love Letters

    Arnold Adoff

  • County Fair

    Ginny Aiken

    Love is a prize to share... WILLOW After a flood left her penniless, her only hope of survival lay in winning a prize for her ewe in the York, Pennsylvania, County Fair... DANIEL This handsome Irishman had his eye on Willow, but as the owner ...

  • The Emperor's New Clothes

    Victoria Alexander

    COSTUMED BEAUTY Ophelia Kendrake had barely finished conning the coat off a cardsharp's back before she and her adopted sister stumbled into Dead End, Wyoming, and received a welcome fit for a queen. Mistaken for the Countess of Bridgewater, ...

  • Eternal Vows

    Alice Alfonsi

    1897, New Orleans French Quarter, Rosegate Mansion It was midnight, and the drums were beating near Congo Square. As the incessant, driving rhythms filled the sultry Louisiana air with primal yearnings, a beautiful young bride restlessly awaited ...

  • Mr. Fix-It

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    TEMPTATION WEARS A TOOL BELT Texan Moly Winsome was through with macho males. Never again would she attempt to trade her work boots for dainty Cinderella slippers. Instead, she'd stand tall -- six feet tall -- in a man's world. And she'...

  • The Sun at Midday

    Gini Alhadeff

  • The Perfect Gentleman

    Danice Allen

    TEACH ME... Samantha Darlington's father had been a model of respectability, but Samantha was his secret shame, the illegitimate daughter he'd kept hidden on a remote island for all of her seventeen years. Now rescue by her legitimate half-sister Am...

  • His Cinderella Bride

    Heather Allison

    She had the wedding dress all she needed was the man! Rose Franklin is fed up with kissing frogs -- she wants to marry Prince Charming.... And then she finds Duncan Burke's personal organizer and realizes that she's met the perfect man -- ...

  • Yo!

    Julia Alvarez

    "Charming and funny . . . Mesmerizing . . . Wonderful.” -- USA Today   Yolanda García--Yo, for short--is the literary one in the family. Her first published novel, in which uses as characters practically everyone she know...

  • Shards of Alderaan

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Little Angels' Alphabet of Love

    Joan Walsh Anglund

    Endearing angels illustrate each letter of the alphabet with accompanying words of love and comfort beginning with Always, Beloved, and Caring, in a hand-sized mailable book that comes with its own decorated envelope....

  • A Marrying Man?

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Georgia on his mind. Georgia Newnham was astonished! She didn't know whether to call in blackmail, kidnapping or coercion, but, whatever it was, she found herself agreeing to go to Sydney with journalist William Brady. The journey was certainly e...

  • Twilight Warriors

    Martin C. Arostegui

    Every army has them. Every nation needs them. Now enter the world of...Twilight Warriors.

    Deadly Scud hunts in the Gulf War. Daring hostage rescue missions at London's Iranian Embassy and the Japanese Embassy in Peru. Special Forces go where...

  • Sunlight, Moonlight

    Amanda Ashley

    TWO HEROES AS DIFFERENT AS NIGHT AND DAY... TWO LOVE'STORIESAS DIFFERENT AS DAWN AND DUSK... SUNLIGHT He came from across the universe -- a tawny, powerful stranger more perfect than any mere mortal. Yet when Micah crash landed on earth, not eve...

  • Slow Reckoning

    Tom Athanasiou

  • The Hokey Pokey and Other Party Rhymes

    Steve Augarde

  • The Itsy Bitsy Spider and Other Hand Rhymes

    Steve Augarde

    Illustrated hand rhymes enable young readers to make the "Itsy Bitsy Spider" climb up the water spout by following pictograms that demonstrate hand and body movements, in a rhyme collection that also includes "Round and Round the Garden."...

  • The Latino Reader

    Harold Augenbraum

  • Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams

    Avi

    The year is 1635, and Mary Williams and her family live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her father, Roger, is on trial for preaching new ideas about freedom. When found guilty, he flees into the cold, telling Mary that she must trust in God's pro...

  • Bitter Fruit

    James Axler

    AFTER SKYDARK In the nuclear-storm devastated Deathlands warrior survivalist of the twenty-second century leads the relentless fight to reclaim a lost world. STONE GUARDIANS Barely escaping from a marauding gang, Ryan Cawdor and his band of post...

  • Lamb Lessons

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Rabbit Race

    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. Jack isn't sure he ever wants another pet. Mandy knows that taking care of a baby rabbit would ...

  • Total Control

    David Baldacci

    TOTAL HEAT Sidney Archer has the world. A husband she loves. A job at which she excels, and a cherished young daughter. Then, as a plane plummets into the Virginia countryside, everything changes. And suddenly there is no one whom Sidney Archer can ...

  • Carnival

    Robin Ballard

  • Indiscreet

    Mary Balogh

    A beautiful, young widow seemed like easy prey for the Viscount Rawleigh. In the country visiting his twin brother, Rex longed for a little diversion. But Catherine Winters was a lady of virtue, and she roundly rejected his improper proposal to becom...

  • The Paper Crane

    Molly Bang

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    A beautifully illustrated retelling of an ancient Japanese folktale by Molly Bang, the celebrated creator of numerous picture books including the Caldecott Honor Books Ten, Nine, Eight; The Grey Lady and the Strawberry Snatcher; and When Sophie G...

  • Schwa

    Bill Barker

  • The Dark Descent

    Clive Barker

    Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. A gigantic, superlatively edited historical overview of horror fiction.” ―Chicago Sun-Times

    In The Dark Descent, hailed as one of the most important anthologies ever to examine horro...

  • Junkyard Jitters!

    Patricia Barnes-Svarney

    Helping Ray with his paper route, Alex thinks the task will be fun, until she discovers how much hard work is involved, but when she uses her powers to speed things up, she risks exposure by an eccentric inventor. Original....

  • Patton's Spaceship

    John Barnes

    A mysterious foe wages a war of mutilation, annihilation, and extermination across a million alternate Earths, bent on the ultimate goal of enslaving the universe, with only the Crux Ops team, a Pittsburgh private eye, and a ten-year-old child standi...

  • Intimate Lies

    Barrett

  • Jane and the Man of the Cloth

    Stephanie Barron

    Jane and her family are looking forward to a peaceful holiday in the seaside village of Lyme Regis. Yet on the outskirts of town an overturned carriage forces the shaken travelers to take refuge at a nearby manor house. And it is there that Jane meet...

  • The House on Brooke Street

    Neil Bartlett

    A gay man named Mr. Page reminisces about his association with a wealthy young man named Mr. Clive, a relationship that took him from Turkish bath steam rooms to Mayfair dining rooms and released him from his previous humdrum life...

  • The Tender Trap

    Beverly Barton

    ME? MARRY YOU? It took just one brief touch of Adam Wyatt's lips to Blythe Elliott's mouth to ignite a fire so hot neither could deny it. And now, thanks to that one reckless night of passion, Blythe has an unplanned surprise for Adam...and ...

  • Fairy Tale Palace

    Maggie Bateson

  • Voyage

    Stephen Baxter

    In this sci-fi alternate history, JFK’s planned mission to Mars embarks on an intrepid journey -- “a wonderful, patriotic tale of lost possibility” (Kirkus).In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America mi...

  • Quasimodo the Hero

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • Don Juan on the Rocks

    Alistair Beaton

  • The Freedom Tree

    William Bedford

    1874, and Matthew Lidgard is 22 and recently orphaned. A fisherman by trade, he works on a fishing smack in Grimsby, jumping ship when he finds its owner is corrupt and manipulative. Rescued by the mysterious Elizabeth, he joins her and her brother i...

  • Sweet Tranquility

    Donna Bell

    A daring escapade lands a lady in trouble... and in love! Tranquility Hartford yearned for romance and adventure. Instead, her mother decreed she must be married -- within two weeks! Tranquility, who was anything but serene, always had the ton a...

  • Anne Frank and Me

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    In one moment Nicole Burns's life changes forever. The sound of gunfire at an Anne Frank exhibit, the panic, the crowd, and Nicole is no longer Nicole. Whiplashed through time and space, she wakes to find herself a privileged Jewish girl living in Na...

  • A Crime in the Neighborhood

    Suzanne Berne

    A New York Times Notable Book. Set in the Washington, D.C., suburbs during the summer of the Watergate break-ins, Berne's assured, skillful first novel is about what can happen when a child's accusation is the only lead in a case of sexual assault an...

  • Naked Justice

    William Bernhardt

    As Tulsa's first black mayor and a former college football hero, Wallace Barrett was a city treasure - until he became the prime suspect in the gruesome murder of his wife and two daughters. Seen splattered with blood and fleeing his house after the ...

  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin

    Loui Bernieres

    Following THE TROUBLESOME OFFSPRING OF CARDINAL GUZMAN, a novel set on a Greek island in 1940 about the eternal triangle that develops between a doctor's daughter, her fisherman fiance and a young officer who is billeted in the doctor's house....

  • Pretty in Pink

    Jonathan Bernstein

    Jon Bernstein, film critic for Spin magazine critiques his favorite teen movies from the golden age of the'80s. The Brat Pack and their contemporaries have grown up, but celluloid has them flickering forever, angst-ridden, haunted, guileless, cocky, ...

  • Something Wicked

    Jo Beverley

    It was a night of danger and intrigue. Disguised as the mysterious beauty Lisette, Lady Elfled Malloren anticipates only fun and flirtation at the Vauxhall Gardens Masquerade. Instead, the dark walkways lead to an encounter with treason, a brush with...

  • The Return of the Cowboy

    Cheryl Biggs

    THE WAY HE GENTLED HORSE ...HIS STRONG, COMFORTING ARMS ...THE PASSION THAT BURNED BETWEEN THEM... Laci James could never forget Brant Garrison, especially since she had only to look at her son--their son--to be reminded of the man she'd loved....

  • Dana and the Calendar Man

    Lisa Bingham

    New Year's Resolution #1: Find a Fiance! With a disastrous blind date left on her doorstep, Dana Shaw had no one with whom to ring in the New Year. Then fate stepped in, in the form of an inherited ticket to a New Year's Eve bachelor auction. ...

  • With Every Breath

    Beverly Bird

    Fleeing from her deranged ex-husband, Maddie Brogan returns with her child to an island off the coast of Maine where she spent her early childhood. Although Maddie has no memory of the tragedy that made her leave so long ago, the islanders will never...

  • Tequila Mockingbird

    Paul Bishop

    When a highly decorated detective of the LAPD's ultra-secretive Anti-Terrorist Division is murdered by his wife in broad daylight, it appears to be an open-and-shut case of domestic violence turned deadly. But Fey Croaker discovers circumstances are ...

  • Truth or Consequences

    Sheila Black

    Four very different people from four dissimilar neighborhoods, Sara, Max, Dagger, and Kyle, teen volunteers at an urban hospital, learn that friendship and hard work can overcome any problems and unhappiness in life. Original....

  • When Dreams Cross

    Terri Blackstock

    Justin Pierce's brainchild, Khaki Kangaroo, is exactly the cartoon theme Andi Sherman needs for her world-class amusement park, Promised Land. In turn, Andi's park is the opportunity that can rocket Justin from obscurity to success. For both of them,...

  • Fascination

    Leona Blair

    "Blair takes us behind the closed doors of the Victorian era" (Booklist) in this grand drama of passion and ambition.  Fascination unfolds aboard a sumptuous ocean liner bound for England, where three elegant women vie for the attention of magnetic...

  • Quentin Blakes Book Of Nonsense Verse

    Quentin Blake

    Ever eaten Poodle Strudel? Slain a Jabberwock? Bathed in Irish Stew? Quentin Blake is one of the best loved of children’s illustrators. In this brilliant book he has selected and illustrated his favourite comic verse, making it pure entertainment f...

  • Dead Reckoning

    Mike Blakely

    After a botched confidence scam, swindler Dee Hassard begins a killing spree that covers half of the Colorado Territory. His first victim is the brother of rustler-turned-preacher Carrol Moncrief. Now Carrol must fall back on his former outlaw savvy ...

  • Wilson's Island

    Stephen Blanchard

  • Mountaintop

    Lauralee Bliss

    Dorrie Shelton has planned a vacation in the beautiful White Mountains hoping to rekindle a relationship with her sister Gail. Dorrie loves the peaceful landscape while Gail would rather be almost anywhere else. Can Dorrie humble her own desires long...

  • Love Invents Us

    Amy Bloom

    A sharp and funny, rueful, and uncompromisingly real tale of growing up -- from National Book Award finalist Amy BloomA chubby girl with smudged pink harlequin glasses and a habit of stealing Heath Bars from the local five-and-dime, Elizabeth Taube i...

  • My Foots in the Stirrup...My Pony Won't Stand

    Stephen A. Bly

  • Beguiled

    Alice Borchardt

    Just as her sister, Anne Rice, makes vampires and witches come alive, Alice Borchardt brings the turmoil and splendor of medieval France to breathtaking life in a spellbinding epic tale of magic, passion, and destiny.... Elfin is a woman of the pa...

  • The Would-Be Witch

    Rita Boucher

    A Bewitching Young Lady Miranda Wilton had everything a young lady needed to shine in society -- birth, beauty, and breeding. But though she cast her spell on a swarm of suitors, both her proud mother and powerful brother demanded the final say in...

  • Brothers

    Ben Bova

    What if, instead of being transplanted, hearts, livers, and kidneys could simply be regrown like a lizard's tail? This turns out to be a faint possibility in Arthur Marshak's genetic lab. He encourages his research staff to pursue it, but political a...

  • Hungry for Home

    Asta Bowen

    Transforming the territorial conflict between humanity and animals into a remarkable work of fiction, Hungry for Home is the story of Marta, a cunning wolf mother of the Western United States, and her struggle to protect her family. "Rescued" and rel...

  • The Destiny of Nathalie X: and Other Stories

    William Boyd

    This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World War I in Vienna, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters. Artful, witty, moving, The Destin...

  • Schoolteacher in Old Alaska

    Hannah Breece

    When Hannah Breece came to Alaska in 1904, it was a remote lawless wilderness of prospectors, murderous bootleggers, tribal chiefs, and Russian priests.  She spent fourteen years educating Athabascans, Aleuts, Inuits, and Russians with the ...

  • Inside Edge

    Christine Brennan

    Figure skating is the most beautiful and mysterious of all sports. When the skaters are on the ice, every twitch of a muscle and every slip of a skate blade is visible for the world to see. In Inside Edge, Christine Brennan chronicles--for the first ...

  • Sicken and So Die

    Simon Brett

    Things are going suspiciously well for Charles Paris. He's moved back in with his wife, Frances, and although he's not yet a permanent fixture in her bed, he has hopes. What's more, he's got a proper part in a proper play: Sir Toby Belch in a festiva...

  • Clifford's First Valentine's Day

    Norman Bridwell

  • Frisco's Kid

    Suzanne Brockmann

    ALL HE COULD SEE WERE CLOSED DOORS... Frisco Francisco's leg--and career--were shot, and he had every intention of wallowing in self-pity. But there were two complications with his plan: his five-year-old niece, whose sudden presence in his life a...

  • Altered States

    Anita Brookner

    Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, rem...

  • Deadwood

    Bill Brooks

    A tale of the American West takes place in the town of Deadwood, where the elusive killer of three prostitutes runs free, in a story that brings together such characters as Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane. Original....

  • 'Chute Roll: Sky Diving -- To the Extreme

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Skydiving to the Extreme

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Skydiving--one mistake, and you fall like a piano.until, SPLAT! You're a blob of jam. Jeff Nichols works at a local flight school--just to pay for his skydiving. Then he hears of a plan to put his biggest rival into a 'chute roll, which he knows n...

  • Scuba Diving to the Extreme

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Scuba diving--there's a lot more to worry about than sharks! "I can't breathe!!!" Ian Hill spends his Florida summers helping his uncle run a dive shop. But just when he thinks it's going to be another boring summer hehind the counter, Ian hears that...

  • Ready, Aim, Fire!

    Brian Brown

    All the danger, excitement, and drama of the lives of early Christians in Rome come alive for young people ages seven to 10 in these quality books. Full-color adventures from the popular video series draw readers to the stories and teachings of Jesus...

  • Starlight Escape

    Brian Brown

    An adventure with a young Christian family trying to escape from the persecutions of Nero gives special meaning to the stories of Baby Jesus, the Magi, the shepherds, and the flight to Egypt in this Christmas drama....

  • Sink or Swim

    Brian Brown

    Ben and the gang are in for adventure on the high seas when they try to rescue Christians from a Roman slave ship. Includes stories of the Pharisee and tax collector, the house on a rock, and healing the paralytic....

  • Stable Hearts

    Bonnie Bryant

    Stevie, Carole, and Lisa are having a blast making plans for the Valentine's Day barn dance at Pine Hollow. Unfortunately, Stevie's boyfriend wants her to go to the dance at his school on the same night. Now Stevie has to figure out how to be in two ...

  • Resolved to (Re)Marry

    Carole Buck

    FIT TO BE TIED -- UP! Lucy Falco couldn't believe her luck. First, her former husband, Christopher Banks, waylaid her at the office on New Year's Eve -- asking for another chance. Then, before she could turn him down flat, a trio of inept th...

  • Deadly Games

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

  • Interspace

    Stephen Bury

    A near-future thriller in which a shadowy coalition bent on controlling the world economy attempts to manipulate the president of the United States through the use of a computer bio-chip implanted in his brain....

  • The Misbegotten King

    Anne Kelleher Bush

    In a battle-scarred future America of seduction and sorcery, a final prophecy unfolds .. . A SECRET LEGACY WILL BAIT THE TRAP. A TWISTED FATE WILL SPRING IT. PRINCE RODERIC RIDENAU: Charged with the preservation of the old order, he must overc...

  • Luxury of Exile

    Louis Buss

  • My Summer Vacation Diary

    Stephanie Calmenson

    Welcome to summer vacation! Are you going away? Staying Home? No matter where you are, you can take this book along! It has pages to write in, jokes, puzzles, games, stories (some are funny, some are scary) ... lots of fun summer days and nights. It'...

  • The Defendant

    Gay Cameron

    Defendant and father... With her law degree in one hand and her little boy's in the other, Audrey McKenna excitedly returned to her hometown of Tabbs Corner, Virginia, to start fresh. But then she learned her first client would be none other than ...

  • Andorra

    Peter Cameron

    For mysterious reasons, a man forsakes his American life and arrives in a strange country called Andorra. He settles into the grand--and only--hotel in its seaside capital, and gradually makes the aquaintance of this tiny city's most prominent reside...

  • Glory's Rival

    Joanna Campbell

  • Out of Time

    Marilyn Campbell

    HE MADE A PACT WITH THE DEVIL It was 1965. Newspaper reporter Luke Templeton, convicted for a murder he did not commit, was waiting to be put to death. Desperate, Luke was willing to do anything to live, even sell his soul to the devil. SHE HAD T...

  • Promise Me You'll Stop Me

    D.l. Carey

    Comforting rookie pitcher West Rideout when he injures his shoulder, Yellowjacket volunteer Lydia Malcolm is astonished when West confesses that he has fallen in love with her and will not take no for an answer. Original....

  • The Error of Our Ways

    David Carkeet

    New York Times Notable Book: “The sorrows of Job [visit] a St. Louis nut salesman, with hilarious results . . . [A] wry updating of the biblical tragedy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   In this “astute, entertaining nove...

  • Raven and River

    Nancy White Carlstrom

    As the Raven calls the sleeping Arctic animals to wake for spring, one by one they appear, but the River remains still, until it finally begins to move, stretching and cracking and coming to life once more....

  • An Inconvenient Marriage

    Jeanne Carmichael

    SHE HAD NO INTENTION OF REMAINING IN ENGLAND--MUCH LESS MARRYING AN ENGLISHMAN! An American miss with a mind of her own, Gillian Prescott was miserable in England, homesick, and heartsick at her father's admonition to find a proper English gentlem...

  • Mystery Valentine

    Barton Carol

    Sophie has just moved to a new area and she doesn't know who to send a Valentine's Day card to, or who will send her one. Sophie then gets a visit from a mystery Valentine. Who is he, how did he get into the house, and will she be able to heed his wa...

  • No Place to Hide a Novel of the Vietnam War

    Gerry Carroll

    Attempting to evacuate a Navy SEAL team stranded in the enemy-infested jungles of 1975 Vietnam, pilots Tim Boyle and Mike Santy must outrace the oncoming North Vietnamese army before it reaches Saigon. Reprint....

  • The Reconstruction

    Claudia Casper

    While meticulously creating a life-sized model of "Lucy," humankind's ancestral link to the primate world, Margaret, a sculptor, finds herself exploring more deeply her own life, her loveless marriage, and her feelings of decay and despair...

  • Abuela's weave

    Omar S. Castaneda

    Esperanza's Abuela, her grandmother, is unmatched in her skill in weaving traditional Mayan tapestries. She has shared her gift with her granddaughter, and now they plan to sell their goods at the market. However, the birthmark on Abuela's face may s...

  • The Return of Chase Cordell

    Linda Castle

    Chase Cordell Was Coming Home Linese had long awaited her husband's homecoming, but the hero that returned from the war was not the dashing rogue that had captured her in a whirlwind courtship. Who was this man with haunted eyes who could stil...

  • Dark Rage

    Lowell Cauffiel

    On the day before Thanksgiving, a madman rains terror on an airportLaurel Kring sits in his garage, blaring John Coltrane as he writes his manifesto. When he has every word in place, he returns to his living room, wraps his arms around his wife, and ...

  • Aiiieeeee

    Jeffrey Paul Chan

  • Fall From Grace

    Megan Chance

    A WANTED WOMAN Lily lost her childhood the day the Sharpe gang murdered her parents and "adopted" her. They brought her into their world, and taught her how to be ruthless and smart. Soon, Lily the Cat was wanted by the law. But, in an act of reve...

  • Shadow War

    Deborah Chester

    For nine centuries the Emperor Kostimon has ruled the land. But this wondrous immortality stems from a bargain with the very source of evil itself--the Dark lord Beloth. Notit; as Kostimon's tenth and final lifetime begins, the shadow god is growing ...

  • Best Older Sister

    Sook Nyul Choi

    There's always so much fuss over baby Kiju that Sunhi suspects her family doesn't have any interest in her anymore. Kiju is a sweet baby, but Sunhi can't help being jealous. Her grandmother understands just how Sunhi feels, and soon she and Sunhi h...

  • The Jade Peony

    Wayson Choy

    The winner of Canada's Trillium Award, this first novel explores the lives of three young Chinese children coming of age in 1940s Vancouver, alongside their elders, who share in the hard times and heartbreak that lead ultimately to a new life. Reprin...

  • Cowboy Groom

    Judy Christenberry

    The Cowboy Was Hog Tied! One minute there were no women on the Randall ranch and the next Brett Randall ws in knots over two! Brett chose his rightful place behind two of his married brothers, but when he snuck back home to share his news, he g...

  • Carried Away

    Sue Civil-Brown

    WHERE THERE'S A WILL... Danika Hilliard's eccentric old benefactor, Morris Feldman, carried his healthy sense of humor to the grave...and beyond, apparently. He left his opulent Florida villa to the pretty, if prissy, schoolteacher and aspiring au...

  • Wilde Man

    Daphne Clair

    Family Legacies -- Crocodile Tears Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store: DeWil...

  • Shadow Dawn

    Chris Claremont

    The momentous Ascension of Princess Elora Danan should have brought peace to the Thirteen Realms. Instead, an intense Shadow War rages, spearheaded by the evil Mohdri. He has dispatched his dread Black Rose commando assassins to capture Elora and her...

  • In the Deep Midwinter

    Robert Clark

    November, 1949: In the aftermath of his brother James's death, Richard MacEwan's life is suddenly rocked by secrets involving his wife Sarah and daughter Anna. Among his bachelor brother's papers, Richard discovers a letter from Sarah that hints a...

  • Calling Crow Nation

    Paul Clayton

    When a rival tribe acquires guns from Spanish slavers, Calling Crow's own tribe is seriously threatened, and he considers approaching the English enemies of the Spaniards in the hopes of forging an alliance. Original....

  • Who Owns the Cow?

    Andrew Clements

    Simple, playful text and colorful paintings in an American primitive style explore the many ways the farmer's cow can be owned: by the neighbor girl who thinks about her, the milkman who buys her milk, the garden growing richer from her manure, t...

  • Where Leads the Heart

    Colleen Coble

    Everyone in Wabash, Indiana, is rejoicing in the aftermath of the Civil War-except for Sarah Montgomery. The war has taken what she held most dear. Receiving official notification that her fiance' Rand Campbell, is dead, Sarah agrees to marry Ben Cro...

  • Bonnie Belmont

    John Salisbury Cochran

  • The Monster Channel

    M.T. Coffin

  • The Poet

    Michael Connelly

    Death is reporter Jack McEvoy's beat: his calling, his obsession. But this time, death brings McEvoy the story he never wanted to write--and the mystery he desperately needs to solve. A serial killer of unprecedented savagery and cunning is at la...

  • Trunk Music

    Michael Connelly

    Following on the heels of his extraordinary New York Times bestseller, The Poet, Edgar Award-winning author Michael Connelly brings you Trunk Music, his most electrifying Harry Bosch novel to date-a taut, complex thrill ride that confirms Connelly...

  • Those Baby Blues

    Helen Conrad (1)

    A new baby doctor has come to Tyler to start a practice and raise some kids of his own. But first he needs a wife. A nice old-fashioned girl. A stubborn tenant in his newly inherited home refuses to vacate his property, messing up his well-laid pl...

  • Infectress

    Tom Cool

    Arabella, war-name Infectress, is beautiful, smart and sexy--and she has a solution to the world's overpopulation problem. She's a high-tech terrorist who intends to hack human DNA to create a supervirus: New Age Dawn. It will kill 98% of humanity. B...

  • Both Sides of Time

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Imagine changing centuries -- and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time. Imagine being involved in two love triangles in two different centuries. Imagine discovering that, no matter which direction you travel in time, you must aban...

  • Angel Face and Amazing Grace

    Lori Copeland

    While most of the women in town suddenly developed little ailments that needed the new doctor's immediate attention, April Truitt only developed a big urge to throttle him. The overbearing Gray Fuller represented everything she vowed to fight until ...

  • Sharpe's Tiger

    Bernard Cornwell

    RICHARD SHARPE AND THE SIEGE OF SERINGAPATAM, 1799 The year is 1799, and Richard Sharpe is just beginning his military career. An inexperienced young private in His Majesty's service, Sharpe becomes part of an expedition to India to push the ruthl...

  • Hornet's Nest

    Patricia Cornwell

    Meet the police department of Charlotte North Carolina. And find out why they call it the 'Hornets Nest of America.' Andy Brazil, an ambitious young reporter for The Charlotte Observer and an eager - sometimes too eager- volunteer cop; Police Chief J...

  • Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts II: More Tales to Haunt You

    Bruce Coville

    In a collection of hair-raising tales guaranteed to haunt the imagination, a boy's ghost takes ever the body of a professional ball player, a monster-hunting librarian does some ghostbusting, and a sloppy boy is haunted by a ghost pig. Original....

  • It takes a village

    Jane Cowen-Fletcher

  • Ultimate Temptation

    Sara Craven

    Must be able to handle children and one particular Italian male... Giulio Falcone needed a willing woman, and Lucy was in his debt...and his house! Only, his interest in her was as much practical as sexual--he needed a nanny to look after his sist...

  • Stronger Than Magic

    Heather Cullman

    SHE WAS ENCHANTED Five hundred years ago beautiful Alys Faire was taken captive by fairies. Now she was being offered a chance for freedom by saving the soul of Lucian Warre, the cold- hearted Marquess of Thistlewood. All she had to do was match h...

  • The Alpine Hero

    Mary Daheim

    THE ALPINE ADVOCATE SCOOPS A MURDER Emma Lord, the Advocate's editor, finds the body in the facial room of Stella's Styling Salon--anonymous under a mud pack, throat slashed. The victim turns out to be the sister-in-law of Sheriff Dodge's girlf...

  • Teacher's Pet

    Jenny Dale

    Dotty the Dalmatian is the most disobedient dog Neil has ever met. And her owner just happens to be Neil's new teacher at school! Spotty Dotty is so bad she's already dropped out of four dog training schools. Can Neil and his family work a miracle -...

  • Double Trouble

    Jenny Dale

  • Runaway Honeymoon

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Her five-year-old secret... On a holiday of a lifetime, youthful Jenny Wolf had pretended to be sophisticated beyond her actual experience and had fallen madly in love with a man beyond her wildest dreams. But the dream had ended abruptly and Jenn...

  • The Bavarian Gate

    John Dalmas

    Returning to Earth in the hopes of settling down to a quiet farmer's life, mystic warrior Curtis Macurdy is dismayed when one of Hitler's psychic recruits discovers the Bavarian Gate and unleashes the militaristic Voitusotar on the Allied forces. Ori...

  • Lonnie's Secret

    Margot Dalton
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    Lonnie James plans to become pregnant by midnight on New Year's. But what happens after the masked ball...when her secret paramour thinks he got someone else pregnant?...

  • Wanted: Mom and Me

    Kayla Daniels

    Elise Grant Had A Secret In dusty Tumbleweed, Arizona, a single mom and her daughter wouldn't draw much attention -- or so Elise hoped. But she hadn't bargained on a chance encounter with the sexy and single local sheriff. Cole Hardesty&#...

  • Family Addition

    Rebecca Daniels

    ROOM FOR ONE MORE A fiercely protective single dad, cowboy Colt Wyatt was shaken to his spurs. His pint-size daughter suddenly had another hero to worship! It was Casey the carpenter this, Casey the carpenter that. Just what was with this carpente...

  • Jack's Baby

    Emma Darcy

    Surprise father! Nina in a maternity hospital? Jack Gulliver was in shock! This was the woman who had walked out on him eight months ago. Eight months! Could she have had his baby? He still missed and wanted Nina -- with a passion -- and now wa...

  • Hair of the Dog

    Brett Davis

    When a possible cure for lycanthropy is announced, investigators Durban and Savik are distraught when the effort's chief researcher and her assistant are murdered, an event that places suspicion on the cause's foremost supporter. Original....

  • Nest Egg Nightmare

    Gibbs Davis

    President's daughter Molly Wright becomes alarmed when the visiting Soviet minister's priceless jeweled egg is stolen, and she tries to contact the ghost of Thomas Jefferson, who has been haunting the White House, for help in solving the mystery. Ori...

  • Meeting the Minotaur

    Carol Dawson

    An audacious modern-day retelling of an ancient Greek myth. "A sinister, slapstick thriller."--USA Today; "An abundant feat of imagination deftly executed."--The Dallas Morning News; "An exhilarating, self-assured novel with brains, muscle, and an ec...

  • The Long Loneliness

    Dorothy Day

    The compelling autobiography of a remarkable Catholic woman, sainted by many, who championed the rights of the poor in America’s inner cities.When Dorothy Day died in 1980, the New York Times eulogized her as “a nonviolent social radical of lumin...

  • The Woolu Hat

    Alexis De Veaux

  • The Lone Ranger

    Sharon De Vita

    THE LONE RANGER NEEDS A PARTNER Renegade Texas Ranger Cody Kincaid returned to Silver Creek to make peace with his birthright--and to capture his father's murderer. Someone wanted his land--and Savannah Duncan, his father's tenant, was in jeopardy...

  • The Bone Collector

    Jeffery Deaver

    Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics--until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With p...

  • Runaway Fred

    Rosemary Debnam

  • A Woman's Place

    Barbara Delinsky

    HOW HIGH A PRICE MUST A WOMAN PAY FOR SUCCESS? Everything Claire Raphael has she's earned. On her own. The hard way. She built her part-time business up from nothing and made it successful through her imagination, creativity, and hard work. Sh...

  • Global Terror

    Martin Delrio

    When an everyday robbery gives way to a sinister plot to launch two nuclear missiles at Latveria and thus spark a Third World War, Spider-Man tackles his arch-enemy and the mastermind behind the plot, Dr. Octopus. Original....

  • Substitute Bride

    Angela Devine

    The bride was pretending... To help his sister out of a tricky situation Laura Madison had agreed to step into her shoes to view the house her fiance's uncle had bought as a wedding gift. It should have been easy. But Uncle James had ideas of ...

  • Punchline

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Whose bed was she sleeping in! The setup: To her horror, magazine editor Belle Martens discovered it wasn't all a bad joke when she woke up naked next to an equally naked rival editor, Darryl Horak. Why, she loathed the arrogant male chauvinist--a...

  • Together Forever

    Cameron Dokey

    Dean Smith is at the top of Natalie Taylors crush list. Tall and intelligent, with a bit of a stubborn streak, Deans an ideal Taurus...and horoscope junkie Natalie’s perfect Valentine. After one magical night--one amazing kiss under the stars--Nata...

  • Living With Marc

    Jane Donnelly

    Love thy neighbor? Things had a way of happening around Robin Johnson. She always seemed to be in the middle of some scrape or another! She could understand why the cool, discerning lawyer Marc Hammond should have reservations about hiring Robin ...

  • Husbands and Wives

    Liza Donnelly

    After the heartfelt "I do's," the wedding cake in the face, and the eclipse of the honeymoon comes the greatest challenge known to humankind: the marriage. And nobody captures that sometimes rocky, sometimes hysterical terrain like New Yorker cartoon...

  • Cloud Chamber

    Michael Dorris

    Ten years after his "dazzling" (San Francisco Chronicle), "unforgettable" (Newsday) bestselling debut novel, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris returns to the family at the core of that work to write the rich score of the "full-blown, comple...

  • Direct Action

    Keith Douglass

    During an attack on a terrorist group in Port Sudan, Lieutenant Blake Murdock and his SEAL team uncover three million dollars in counterfeit currency. When officials link the money to an economic terrorism plot on the U.S. currency system, there is o...

  • The Night Journey

    Paul Dowling

    Nicky is going on a mystery journey in the car with her dad. As darkness falls, they see shimmering light brighten the landscape around them. As they drive through a town, lights stream out from windows and flicker in advertisements, and fireworks ex...

  • Modern Classics of Fantasy

    Gardner Dozois

    While humanity has been telling fantastic stories for millennia, fantasy fiction has only come into its own as a genre in the latter half of the twentieth century, as the works of such writers as J.R.R. Tolkien and Robert E. Howard have found a wide ...

  • Forged by Fire

    Sharon M. Draper

    The flame of love burns bright in the second book of Sharon M. Draper’s award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy.When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. His substance-addicted mother i...

  • Last Comes the Egg

    Bruce Duffy

  • Love Warps the Mind a Little

    John Dufresne

    Lafayette Proulx is affectionately called Laf by his friends, and with good reason. As the likeable narrator of John Dufresne's terrific new book Love Warps the Mind a Little, Laf has an eye for the comic elements that can be found in the everyday ev...

  • Gallows Hill

    Lois Duncan

    The crystal paperweight should have been clear, but it was not.

    Handsome, popular Eric Garrett decides that Sarah Zoltanne is just the right person to play a fortune-teller at the high-school fair.  Sarah is surprised and pleased.  After a...

  • The Babe and the Baron

    Carola Dunn

    SHE WAS A WISTFUL WIDOW WITH A BABE ON THE WAY... It wasn't all that shocking when Lady Laura Chamberlain's ne'er-do-well husband met his untimely end. Far more scandalous was Laura's precarious predicament: She was left without a sp...

  • Murder on the Flying Scotsman

    Carola Dunn

    In the fourth installment of Carola Dunn's cozy mystery series set in 1923 England, diligent Daisy Dalrymple sets out for Scotland on assignment for Town and Country magazine--and finds herself sharing a rail compartment with squabbling would-be heir...

  • Changespell

    Doranna Durgin

    Returning to Camolen, where she struggles with her dual existence as a were-horse, Jess tries to come to terms with her feelings for her Rider and must confront the evil intentions of someone who is changing animals into humans. Original....

  • Nick's Kind of Woman

    Margot Early

    Day Sutter doesn't consider herself adventerous. She's kind and creative, yes. She has a great sense of style. And she's a competent businesswoman, running Rapid Riggers, the Colorado river-rafting company she co-owns with Nick Colter. In fact, D...

  • Where Trouble Sleeps

    Clyde Edgerton

    1. How would you characterize Stephen's relationship with each of his parents? With his church and his religion? 2. What prospects of stability are offered to the community by the church? Instability? 3. How is the church important to Jack Umstead? 4...

  • The Cloak of Night and Daggers

    Rosemary Edghill

    THE ULTIMATE TREASURE HUNT In the World of Iron, known to mere mortals as Earth, Holly Kendall, EMT, psychiatric nurse, and SCA warrior, has just arrived at Helicon, ready for a weekend away from the mundane world. But no one has warned Holly just...

  • Arizona Gun Law

    J.T. Edson

    When Stone Hart's wealthy ranch becomes the target for greedy outlaws, his only chance of defending his stretch of Spanish Grant County lies in the a hard-hitting, fast-shooting Texan crew that includes the Ysabel Kid and Calamity Jane. Original....

  • Texas Warrior // Is-A-Man

    J.T. Edson

    Comanche warrior Annie Singing Bear must represent her entire tribe by using her extraordinary fighting skills and possibly her life to avenge a young maiden who was brutally raped and murdered. Reprint."...

  • The Thing Under the Bed

    Daniel Ehrenhaft

    After Otis finishes eating under his covers, he throws his garbage under his bed, but when it begins to stink, makes weird noises, and something slimy slithers across his floor and slides back under the bed, Otis worries that he may be the thing's ne...

  • Murder Can Wreck Your Reunion

    Selma Eichler

    A CRAVING FOR THE TRUTH Private eye Desiree Shapiro has as much a talent for murder as she does for whipping up--and polishing off--a cold lemon souffle. And New York's chubbiest detective is certainly putting all she's got into solving the death ...

  • Twenty Blue Devils

    Aaron Elkins

    REMAINS OF THE COFFEE MAN Gideon Oliver, the Skeleton Detective, is in Tahiti for a case that is not exactly his cup of... well, tea. After two close calls, an "accident" has killed the manager of the Paradise Coffee plantation. producer of the wo...

  • An Uncommon Woman

    Julie Ellis

    Heartbroken by the events of World War II, Munich-born Vera Mueller flees to the United States and discovers her strong will to survive, and her subsequent challenges include her marriage to a soldier and motherhood in the 1960s. Original....

  • New Year's Knight

    Lyn Ellis

    'Twas the Night Before New Year's... And all through the house, everybody was celebrating...except Gina Tarantino. Ringing in the New Year only made her realize how lonely she was. But at the stroke of midnight, she found herself in a passionate e...

  • Keeper of the King

    P.N. Elrod; Nigel Bennett

    Centuries after serving the king of England as his vampire protector, Richard, now a highly paid anti-terrorist consultant to the Canadian government, is drawn into a deadly race to save his creator, the Lady Ardis, and with her all humanity....

  • The Huntress and the Sphinx

    Ru Emerson

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

  • DNAgers

    Steve Englehart

  • Night Whispers

    Lynn Erickson

    THE PREY: Anna Dunning is walking a fine line between security and mind-numbing terror. The phone calls are becoming more frequent -- a stranger whispering horrible, obscene promises. She knows he is watching her...stalking her. And he's gett...

  • Companion into the Dawn

    S. Ericsson

  • Mad for the Dad

    Terry Essig

    DO YOU TAKE THIS DADDY? What luck! The sexiest man had just strolled past Rachel Gatlin's window. Newly single, Rachel was all set to welcome her handsome new neighbor -- and see if he had any plans for the rest of his life. But was that a ba...

  • Albert's Destiny

    Birdie L. Etchison

    Albert Galloway is infactuated with Rosie Malone. His feelings for her give him hope that he may soon settle down and raise a family. But, Rosie's heart will not be tamed by any man, and before long Albert's hopes begin to fade. Albert is working ...

  • Tangled Up in Blue

    Marcia Evanick

    He made a tomboy on a motorcycle feel like a gorgeous enchantress... He'd expected a gray-haired house sitter who played bingo when she wasn't baking cookies or dusting, but instead Matt Stone returned unannounced to discover a golden-haired nymph s...

  • Daughter of Light

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    She possesses a strange and mystical power - a gift of prophecy that allows her to move freely through time and space. She is Cassandra of Tregaron, the third daughter of Merlin, fabled sorcerer and great friend to King Arthur. Blue-eyed, beautiful, ...

  • Longarm and the Whiskey Woman

    Tabor Evans

    Going undercover to bring down the Coltons, who ship moonshine whiskey, evade taxes, and have the law under their thumb, Longarm attracts Sally Colton and is disgusted when her family insists they get married. Original....

  • A Story of Scorpions

    Gabriel Everett

    "A BREATHTAKINGLY ACCOMPLISHED NOVEL, A PASSION PLAY FOR OUR TIME."
    --Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

    Alex Leonard entered Alson Pierce's home with a rope, a knife, and a gun and savagely murdered Pierce's wife and child. Now, Reverend Pierce ...

  • The Fatal Englishman

    Sebastian Faulks

    In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically ...

  • Handling It Devils

    Joe Clifford Faust

    Meet Boddekker, a typical mid-21st century advertising copywriter-underpaid, overworked and absolutely frantic. His wants are few: a dream house in Princeton (if the bank would just approve his 100-year mortgage), the beautiful Honnicker in Accountin...

  • The Diamond Slipper

    Jane Feather

    Dear Reader, What comes to mind when you think of a diamond slipper? Cinderella, perhaps? That's what Cordelia Brandenburg imagines when her godparents arrange a marriage for her with a man she's never met--a marriage that will take her to Versail...

  • 1-900-Dead

    Tony Fennelly

    Gossip columnist and former topless dancer Margo Fortier tries to break into hard news by launching her own investigation into the brutal murder of the "Mystic Delphine," a New Orleans television psychic...

  • Stately Pursuits

    Katie Fforde

    "YOU'RE NOT DOING VERY MUCH AT THE MOMENT, DARLING. I DON'T SUPPOSE YOU'D CARE TO HOUSE-SIT FOR A WHILE?" Thus begins the irresistible story of two fixer-uppers--an old house a woman--and their efforts to recapture their true luster. When Hefty...

  • Bag Men

    John Flood

    A priest lies dead on the tarmac of Logan Airport.  Hours later, first assistant DA Ray Dunn is standing in the well-appointed living room of his boss, sipping a Bushmills under photographs of the Cardinal, the governor, and Ted Williams, getting t...

  • All the Love

    Bette Ford

    Falling in love with photojournalist Ray Coleman, her brother's best friend, Amber follows his travels and prays for his safety, until he returns home injured, but their budding romance is tested by a shocking crime. Original....

  • Battle Hymn

    William R. Forstchen

    THE BLOODY PRICE OF FREEDOM Swept through a time-space warp at the height of the Civil War, the 35th Maine found themselves stranded on an alien world. Now William R. Forstchen has written an all-new Lost Regiment adventure with an even more treac...

  • Jed the Dead

    Alan Dean Foster

    New York Times"bestselling author Alan Dean Foster’s Jed the Dead is a comedic science fiction buddy road trip of interstellar proportions.   En route from Texas to the West Coast, Ross Ed Hager has an encounter of the most unusual...

  • Sword of MacLeod

    Karen Fox

    AN OLD FASHIONED MAN When his daughter left their antiquated world to find the legendary sword that could save them from doom, Beckett MacLeod was forced to go after the wayward lass, leaving his planet for the first time. To find her, Beckett enli...

  • My Russian Love

    Dan Franck

    My Russian Love opens in the present as Luca, a successful 40-year-old screenwriter, is returning to Paris from newly renamed St. Petersburg, where he intends to shoot a film based on a short story by Pushkin. In the dining car of the train, five tab...

  • Political Death

    Antonia Fraser

    When the wayward lady Imogen Swain summons journalist Jemima Shore to her home, Jemima once again finds herself in the thick of love affairs--old and new--intrigue, and betrayal. For the colorful Lady Imogen kept diaries documenting her passionate af...

  • The Book of Children's Classics

    Don Freeman

  • Patches of Fire: A Story of War and Redemption

    Albert French

    Personal, lyrical, and extraordinary, Patches of Fire is a memorable exploration of the black soldier's experience in Vietnam, the plight of the Vietnam veteran, and the redemptive power of writing.

    With the same passion for truth and stunning...

  • Fire Hawk's Bride

    Judith E. French

    A FORBIDDEN PASSION A squire's rebellious daughter, Katherine Miles's future is forever changed during a frantic chase through an English forest -- when she is rescued from a pack of wild dogs by a civilized Cherokee "savage." The ha...

  • Redeem The Time

    Sue Frost

    In a story which spans the century and weaves between Paris, Hollywood and Northumberland, two women face triumph and misfortune, success and despair. Each finds happiness only to lose it, and each must negotiate betrayals and mistaken beliefs before...