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New Books List: 568 titles


  • Brenda Joyce

    PASSION'S STORM She could outshoot and outride any man, but it was time for Storm Bragg to trade in her buckskins for a ballgown. Sent to sophisticated San Francisco, she was quickly pursued by every eligible gentleman in town, but took notice...



  • Jane Feather

    PASSION AND PERIL Sophia Alexeyevna was as tempestuous as the winds that swept the Russian steppes. A free-spirited heiress to Russian nobility, she was ordered into a loveless marriage that could bring her riches beyond description. But when dash...



  • Chris Adrian

    In the summer of 1863, Gob and Tomo Woodhull, eleven-year-old twin sons of Victoria Woodhull, agree to together forsake their home and family in Licking County, Ohio, for the glories of the Union Army. But on the night of their departure for the war,...



  • Allan Ahlberg

    Frances Foggarty, now in her fifties, remembers her childhood.. When she was nine her ten-year-old brother, Tom, was hit by a milk-float and killed. He returns after the funeral and Frances's story is of her new relationship with Tom, the ghost and '...



  • Rochelle Alers

    Successful journalist Emily Kirkland never expected that her long-time friendship with gubernatorial candidate Christopher Delgado would ignite a dangerously irresistible desire- and result in their secret marriage. Now, with scandal and a formidable...



  • Hannah Alexander

    A disturbing phone call sends Dr. Serena Van Buren into the nighttime wilderness in search of Kirby Acuff, a suicidal teenager. Serena discovers that Kirby is crying out against the abortion her parents forced on her two years ago--a procedure they w...



  • Hannah Alexander

    Dr. Mercy Richmond struggles to balance her roles as a single mother and busy physician whose patients have nowhere else to go. Her small Missouri town has no E.R. and Mercy is overwhelmed by the sick, the injured and the personal problems they bring...



  • Harper Allen

    HER GUARDIAN FBI agent Matt D'Angelo had always operated by logic, but now he was combing the streets like a madman in search of one woman -- Jenna Moon. Though Matt knew his disbelief at Jenna's wild story had caused her to run, he couldn't deny ...



  • Steve Alten

    For 32 years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel has investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma that predicts the end of humanity. Julius believes the sites of the ancients, placed all around the globe, represent ancient pieces of a puzzle li...



  • Susan Andersen

    A Man With a Past J.D. Carver learned life's tough lessons on the streets, so when an unexpected inheritance sends him to the Star Lake Lodge to claim his half, he's expecting trouble. Being greeted with open arms by the whole Lawrence gang--feist...



  • Gabriella Anderson

    His pride, Her prejudice, Can love conquer all? For generations, an ancient silver coin has passed from mother to daughter -- a talisman of luck joining those who dare to dream of love. Now three very different women will hold fate in their hand...




  • Robert Andrews

    Streetwise priest and prominent activist Father Robert O'Brien is dead--killed in a drive-by shooting. Assigned to the case are veteran D.C. detectives Frank Kearney and Jose Phelps, two hardened cops who've seen it all before, and know they'll see i...



  • Dawn Apperley

    Blossom the Rabbit and Boo the Bear are best friends. They play in the forest together, make gifts for each other, and giggle a lot. But when it comes time for Boo to hibernate, Blossom worries how she will get through the long winter alone. Dawn App...



  • K.A. Applegate

    David, the traitorous Animorph, is back. When the Animorphs decided to give another human being the power to morph, it was one of their biggest mistakes. David tried to destroy them all -- and almost succeeded. Rachel and the others thought they'd se...



  • Catherine Archer

    A Tempest Raged Inside Her Genevieve of Harwick had lived with her storm-tossed emotions ever since Marcel Ainsworth left to sail the seas, believing she d wanted him for his name alone. But now that Marcel had finally returned, she swore to use ...



  • Jennifer Archer

    In their nighttime dreams, two very different people who have nothing more in common than a property line--eccentric artist Robin Wise and nerdy scientist Alex Simon--are drawn together to fulfill each other's most seductive fantasies. Original....



  • Venero Armanno

    At fifteen, Sam Capistrano is a normal Australian teenager. The object of his desire is Gabriella, the Italian-Irish girl next door. Then one day Gabriella disappearsabandoning Sam. Bitter and resentful, Sam moves on with his life: into the shady sid...



  • Venero Armanno

    Sweeping from Sicily to Australia, spanning generations and very different worlds, The Volcano is a novel of power, passion and sheer blazing brilliance from one of our most talented and original writers. A fiercely original, beautifully written,...



  • Rilla Askew

    “A haunting, engrossing portrait of two families â€" one white, one Black â€" whose lives are woven together and then shattered†(The Washington Post) by the 1921 Tulsa Race MassacreOil-boom opulence, fear, hate, and lynchings are the backdrop fo...



  • Robert Asprin; Linda Evans

    IT'S HARD TO KEEP A GOOD PSYCHOPATH DOWNTIME... And it's harder to figure which psychopath to fear most! Senator John Caddrick hires a professional assassin to murder his own daughter and threatens to destroy the whole time-touring industry. Caddr...




  • Ben M. Baglio

    The Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic takes care of animals of all kinds. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need -- and sometimes eve...




  • Kage Baker

    Mendoza is a Preserver for The Dr. Zeus Company, living in the past to collect species for the future. But when she kills six people in California in 1863, The Company makes her disappear.Joseph, a senior Preserver, loves Mendoza as the daughter he n...



  • Shauna Singh Baldwin

    Introducing an eloquent, sensual new Canadian voice that rings out in a first novel that is exquisitely rich and stunningly original.Roop is a sixteen-year-old village girl in the Punjab region of undivided India in 1937 whose family is respectable b...



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    Warning: Laughter ahead! Liz Curtis Higgs delivers again with "Fine Print," where a businessman and the speech coach he's hired have no idea there are matchmakers at work on their behalf! Her novella is part of a delightful triple-header in Three Wed...




  • A.L. Barker

    A bewitching tale of the loves that comfort and the longings that haunt us. With sly humor, exquisite dialogue, smooth narrative, and a cast of wholly original characters, this new book by the widely acclaimed novelist and Booker-Prize nominee A. L. ...



  • Nevada Barr

    Straddling the border between Montana and Canada lies the Waterton-Glacier International Peace Park--Anna's home away from home when she is sent on a cross-training assignment to study grizzly bears. Along with bear researcher Joan Rand and a volatil...



  • Craig Bartlett

    After Arnold sends an elaborate Valentine to a sixth-grade girl, Ruth, asking her to meet him at a restaurant, Helga, pretending to be his pen pal, Cecile, sets up a meeting at another restaurant at the same time....



  • Ann Beattie

    A collection of striking short stories filled with memorable characters from award-winning author Ann Beattie.Peopled by characters struggling with second marriages, abandoning artistic aspirations, or coming to terms with the betrayal of their own e...



  • George Bellairs

    Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder

    "[W]orthy of Agatha Christie at her fiendish plotting best." ―Booklist STARRED review

    Two classic cases featuring Detective Inspector Littlejohn.

    In the winter of 1940, ...




  • George Bellairs

    Mystery crime fiction written in the Golden Age of Murder"Fascinating period detail from the blackout days, a plot that keeps surprising, and contemporary crime novelist Martin Edwards' insightful introduction add to the fun." -- BooklistMiss Tither...



  • Bertice Berry

    A ghost story with a beat . . . Bertice Berry follows her finely pitched Blackboard bestselling debut novel, Redemption Song, with a mesmerizing cautionary tale about urban hip hop culture.In ancient West Africa, the drum was more than a musical inst...



  • Heidi Betts

    She Was No Lady Pistol-packing Pinkerton agent Willow Hastings always got her man. Until handsome, arrogant railroad security chief Brandt Donovan "gallantly" interfered in an arrest, costing Willow a collar and jeopardizing her job. And n...



  • John Biguenet

    This brilliant debut collection of stories by O. Henry Award winner John Biguenet is as notable for the rigor of its intellect as for the sweep of its imagination. Whether recounting the predicament of an atheistic stigmatic in "The Vulgar Soul" o...



  • Deborah Bishop

    A lively collection of literary facts, excerpts, quotations, and quips for the chronic insomniac features words of wisdom on sleeplessness from Rudyard Kipling, Fran Liebowitz, Job, and Marcel Proust; fascinating trivia about famous insomniacs, a ton...



  • Sallie Bissell

    There are no rules but one: Survive. Mary "Killer" Crow is going home to North Carolina. There the tough young Cherokee prosecutor and her two closest friends will hike a beautiful but demanding wilderness trail. They will be followed into the ...



  • Terri Blackstock
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    Terri Blackstock, Elizabeth White, & Ranee McCollum

    Who would have thought that chocolate could be so good for your heart? This delightful anthology by familiar authors will appeal to readers of all ages. Each story is followed by a letter ...



  • Lawana Blackwell

    If the Truth is Revealed, Will She Lose All She's Grown to Love? An orphanage in the slums of London is the only home Sarah Matthews has ever known. When she is suddenly whisked away to a wealthy widow's home in the prestigious Mayfair district, S...



  • Stephen A. Bly

    Within the locket hanging near her heart is the secret that's broken it.

    A life of peace and seclusion as the unknown Miss Denison. It's what Grace longed for even before her father banished her from Washington, D.C.

    She just may hav...



  • Stephen A. Bly

    The scandalous death of Lixie Miller's husband has forced her to flee to Lordsburg, New Mexico. All she wanted to do at first was crawl in a hole and hide. But after a few months of dull routine, her safe hole is beginning to feel like her burial pla...




  • Della Borton

    FADE IN: BODY FLOATING IN SWIMMING POOL In a tranquil Midwestern suburb, retired filmmaker Leo Mayer is slipping into Alzheimer's, haunted by memories of World War II and of someone named Auggie. Leo's third wife, Shirley, hires a detective to tra...




  • Ernest Bramah

    Kai Lung's Golden Hours is a fantasy novel by Ernest Bramah. It was first published in 1922, and there have been numerous editions since. The first edition included a preface by Hilaire Belloc, which is also included in this ebook edition. Its import...



  • Rebecca Brandewyne

    When the mysterious package arrives on her doorstep, Bryony St. Blaze knows instinctively that her life is about to change forever. For inside, she finds her father's research, gathered from his years of devoted study to an ancient, magical book....



  • Michael Brandman

    "A terrific read. Buddy Steel is my kind of Sheriff." -- Tom SelleckMISSING PERSONS is the first book in the new Buddy Steel mystery series by New York Times bestselling author, Michael Brandman. Even in a town called Freedom, justice has its priceâ€...



  • Tom Brannon

    It's Valentine's Day and Kermit's mailbox is full, but none of his friends signed their cards, so readers are asked to help Kermit figure out which Muppet sent each of the silly riddles, rhymes, and love poems he has received. Original....



  • Lilian Jackson Braun

    The way Jim Qwilleran sees it, there's nothing worse than being left high and dry. But that's exactly where he's been ever since a record-breaking drought hit Moose County. He's bedraggled. Beleaguered. And, following a rash of fires at local histori...



  • Gary A. Braunbeck
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    The personals ads are certainly a prime source for people's private fantasies, some of which end in happiness, while others turn into total disasters. But what if there was something "special" about either the placer of the ad or the one who answered...



  • Helen Brooks

    Passion on the agenda... Conrad Quentin was equally famed for his ruthless business deals and devastating good looks. Seraphina Vincent encountered the full force of these charms from day one of her new job as Conrad's secretary! Sephy didn't...



  • Helen Brooks

    Kim Allen had been ecstatic when Lucas Kane offered her a job as his new secretary -- until she realized that her new boss was breathtakingly sexy. Could she stay true to her vow of avoiding an office affair? And Lucas wasn't just a powerful tycoo...



  • Sigmund Brouwer

    Samuel Keaton has been the target of bad intentions since he became the Marshal, but danger seems to be coming from the very officials who hired him to guide them through Sioux territory, and Samuel must risk a growing bond with a young Sioux woman i...



  • Sigmund Brouwer

    The town drunk's death is no surprise to Sam Keaton, until two Texas Rangers and the man's niece arrive and begin asking questions--leading Sam to realize that there is a large inheritance at stake, but he must be careful of his own life as he pursue...




  • Parry Brown

    “An animating, heartwarming look into the life of single parenthood.†-- Black Issues Book ReviewAfter a brief relationship in college, Catherine and Terry found themselves the parents of twin baby girls. A reluctant mother from the start, Cather...



  • Sinclair Browning

    Dying to earn her spurs... Even in sweltering June, there's plenty of work for Trade Ellis on her Arizona ranch, but right now her part-time P.I. practice is as dry as the desert -- until bull rider J. B. Calendar marries a candy heiress who's cra...



  • Bonnie Bryant

    A NEW RIDER IS STEALING CAROLE'S SPOTLIGHT. Zachary Simpson has only just started riding at Pine Hollow, but everyone is totally impressed by his natural talent. Everyone except Carole Hanson, that is. She's glad that he seems to love riding, but sh...



  • Jon Buller



  • Lynn Bulock

    WOULD THE FALLS COME TUMBLING DOWN? After 16 years of wedded bliss, Claire Jericho yearned to be more than just a housewife. God meant her to do something meaningful -- but what? When a ministry to help unfortunate women started up at church, Clai...



  • Pamela Burford

    Four high school friends and a pact -- every girl marries her ideal man by 30, or be prepared for matchmaking. The Bride-to-Be: Carlotta "Charli" Rossi, last of a dying breed -- the 30-year-old virgin. It's love at first sight when Grant takes ...




  • Kathy Burkett

    Introducing the series that makes science fun! Mad Science. Are you ready? It's class trip time at Einstein Elementary - and that means fund-raising to pay for it. Mr. Flask's sixth graders put their heads together and come up with a great idea: the...



  • Kathy Burkett

    Mr. Flask and his super science students believe in building bridges. That's why Mr. Flask applied for and got a special environmental grant. He and his class are going to use the money (and their muscles!) to help the Arcana Parks Department build a...



  • L.H. Burruss

    Clash of Steel is a fast paced, high-tech thriller, packed with air and ground combat in the Persian Gulf region in the waning weeks of the Soviet Union. As Russian armor invades Iran to gain a seaport on the Gulf, American special operations troops ...



  • Jim Butcher

    HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment Business has been slow. Okay, business has been dead. And not even of the undea...



  • A.S. Byatt

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes an ingenious novel about love and literary sleuthing: a dazzling fiction woven out of one man’s search for certainty.“Elegant ... witty ... intelligent.†-- The Washington PostHere is th...



  • Patricia Cabot

    Dr. Reilly Stanton, eighth Marquis of Stillworth, must mend his injured pride by proving himself a hero -- and not a drunken wastrel, as his former fiancee claimed. Against all sane advice, the Londoner takes a medical post in a tiny fishing village ...



  • Kathleen Cambor

    In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden is the story of a bittersweet romance set against the backdrop of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood -- a tragedy that cost some 2,200 lives when the South Fork Dam burst on Memorial Day weekend, 188...



  • Stella Cameron

    BYRON FRAZER'S PAST IS ABOUT TO CATCH UP WITH HIM All those years ago, he felt he had little choice. His wife's sudden death in childbirth and his own youth meant it really would be for the best if the baby were adopted by a stable, loving couple....



  • Elisa Carbone

    Twelve-year-old Ann Maria Weems works from sunup to sundown, wraps rags around her feet in the winter, and must do whatever her master or mistress orders--but she has something that many plantation slaves don't have. She has her wonderful family arou...



  • Peter Carey

    In True History of the Kelly Gang, the legendary Ned Kelly speaks for himself, scribbling his narrative on errant scraps of paper in semiliterate but magically descriptive prose as he flees from the police. To his pursuers, Kelly is nothing but a mon...



  • Melody Carlson

    Wrapping up her popular Whispering Pines series, awardâ€"winning author Melody Carlson presents a delightful, standâ€"alone romance.

    Maggie and her son have settled in Pine Mountain, where she has found love again. But trouble lurks as she ...



  • Carla Cassidy

    Jack Coffey had sidestepped romance ever since he'd stopped believing in love. Then he tripped over a diaper-clad cupid and fell hard...for the little guy's pretty mom. Now Jack had a broken leg -- and a heart that was in danger! All he had to do...



  • Mitchell Chefitz

    The Seventh Telling is a journey into the Kabbalah, a spiritual discipline hidden within the folds of Jewish history. Stephanie and Sidney have been studying with Moshe Katan, a kabbalist who shared his learning only when he perceived that a kabbalis...



  • Deborah Chester

    As the final confrontation with the darkness approaches, two mortal enemies will search for the key to life itself... The half-elven Dain, now recognized as the long-lost heir to the kingdom of Nether, prepares to fight for his throne. Suddenly hi...



  • Simon Clark

    It is a quiet, uneventful Saturday in Doncaster. Nick Aten, and his best friend Steve Price â€" troubled seventeen year olds â€" spend it as usual hanging around the sleepy town, eating fast food and planning their revenge on Tug Slatter, a local bul...




  • Mick Cochrane


    Mick Cochrane follows up his critically acclaimed debut novel, Flesh Wounds, with Sport, the story of a boy's search for order and belonging in a world where the rules keep changing.

    It is 1967. Harlan Hawkins is a wise and wily kid with a...



  • Robert Cohen

    These days, Bonnie Saks is lucky to gets four consecutive hours of shut-eye, what with her bed-wetting young son, her unfinished doctoral thesis, her meager teaching salary, and the fact that she’s pregnant by a lover about as reliable as her ex-hu...



  • Don Coldsmith

    John Buffalo, a Lakota Sioux, is taken from his family and his home as a young boy and is forced into the White man's world.

    Buffalo's teachers soon recognize his extraordinary athletic potential and push him to train for track and field event...



  • Judd Cole

    The U.S. Army calls in Wild Bill Hickok when an unknown enemy, intent on driving the Sioux from their lands, embarks on a terroristic campaign against the tribe, slaughtering animals and poisoning water, and Hickok must discover who is responsible be...



  • Michael Connelly

    It was a case some cops could live with: the torture killing of a man who spread horrors of his own. Yet one investigator believes the unknown assailant will strike again, and she persuades former criminal profiler Terry McCaleb to leave his quiet li...



  • Robin Cook

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this “infectious medical thriller†(Kirkus Reviews) from the renowned author of Coma, two young women, curious about their donated eggs, uncover a plot more sinister than either of them could have imagined. ....



  • Stephen Coonts

    An historic landmark work, depicting war as it is and soon will be-the shape of war to come.Featuring new short novels by:Larry Bond, who explores the wild frontier of space warfare, where American forces fight a tenacious enemy which threatens every...



  • Lori Copeland; Angela Elwell Hunt

    WELCOME TO THE ISLAND OF HEAVENLY DAZE Where Guardian Angels Keep Watch over a Community off the Coast of Maine. To a casual visitor, the island of Heavenly Daze is just like a dozen others off the coast of Maine ... decorated with graceful Victo...



  • T. Glen Coughlin

    Long Island loser Larry Louprino gets his friend Eddie Trottman in trouble with the law when he pushes his girlfriend's good will one step too far. By the author of The Hero of New York. 10,000 first printing....



  • Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader ... All the Sherbrooke clan are alive, well, and in rip-roaring spirits in August of 1815. Two months after Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo, Tysen Sherbrooke, the youngest of the three brothers, now thirty-one years old, a vicar, a widow...



  • Alexander Court

    An American doctor is sent by the American government to take out a fellow physician who is using his interest in eugenics and euthanasia to pursue a terrorist agenda of genetic cleansing to rid the world of ethnic diversity and create a pure race in...



  • Millie Criswell

    THE TROUBLE WITH MARY IS . . . She's unemployed. Her huge Italian family is driving her crazy. Her love life is nonexistent. In fact, she needs a life! So Mary decides to open a restaurant in Baltimore's Little Italy. And despite her mother's assu...



  • Peter Crowther
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    The personals ads are certainly a prime source for people's private fantasies, some of which end in happiness, while others turn into total disasters. But what if there was something "special" about either the placer of the ad or the one who answered...



  • Chet Cunningham

    They are the most talented -- and dangerous -- fighting force ever assembled, drawn from elite ranks of the FBI, the CIA, the Navy Seals, Britain MI-6, and Israel's Mossad. Handpicked by a reclusive billionaire-patriot, trained in the latest weapons,...



  • Stacey D'Erasmo

    On a spring day in 1968, eight-year-old Isabel Gold prepares tea for her mother, certain she will drink it and recover from her mysterious sadness. But the tea remains untouched. Not long after, her mother takes her own life. Struggling to understand...



  • Mary Daheim

    FOR SALE: LUXURY CONDOS, CORPSE INCLUDED Just a stone's throw from Judith McMonigle Flynn's thriving Hillside Manor, workmen are busy renovating the elegantly decrepit Alhambra Arms into pricey condominiums. But concerned contractor George Guthrie f...



  • Mary Daheim

    Murder is Relative Though they'd rather be boiled in oil, Judith McMonigle Flynn and her cantankerous cousin Renie have agreed to cater a seventy-fifth birthday bash for their batty old Uncle Boo Major, the billionaire breakfast mush magnate. Luck...



  • Mary Daheim

    FROM GROUCH TO GRINCH...TO GHOST Hillside Manor's neighbors all adored proprietor Judith McMonigle Flynn's festive suggestion to deck the halls and houses in their cul-de-sac with eye-catching Christmas finery-except Enid Goodrich. The grumpy old ...



  • Mary Daheim

    Deadly Dishing Fall has fallen upon Judith McMonigle Flynn, leaving her Hillside Manor nearly devoid of guests. And what better cure for the off-season blahs than a brief bout of B&B sifting for a friend amid the quiet rustic splendor of secluded ...



  • Mary Daheim

    UNHOLY MATRIMONY Ask not for whom the wedding bell tolls, it tolls for Judith McMonigle Flynn's son Mike--and the Hillside Manor b&b is packed to the rafters with relatives. However, Mama Judith's unrestrained joy is somewhat dampened when, during...



  • Jenny Dale

    Lights! Camera! Action! Neil and Emily are in Los Angeles where their friend Max is making a movie.Max's costar is Hollywood's hottest dog-Stripes, a canine champion. But Neil soon discovers that there's an enemy on the film set. When Max ends up mis...




  • Jack Dann

    Eleven acclaimed science fiction writers explore the possibilities and dangers of genetic engineering in an anthology of short stories by Frederick Pohl, Greg Egan, Cordwainer Smith, Eileen Gunn, Brian Stableford, Paul J. McAuley, John Brunner, Bruce...



  • Sheila Danton

    Finding the truth When Dr. Gail Peters arrived at St. Elizabeth's she had no idea that she would be working with newly promoted Dr. Matt Roberts. Gail's mother was sure Matt was responsible for the death of her beloved son, Matt's best...



  • Christopher Darden; Dick Lochte

    As a woman, Nikki Hill is trying to keep her sanity and build a steady love life with Detective Virgil Sykes. As an L.A. prosecutor, however, Nikki lives from crisis to crisis. Now, in the headline-grabbing trial of a rich man charged with killing hi...



  • Manoj Das

    In this collection of twenty-seven short stories, a novelette and a novel, there are many delightful tales, characters and situations to encounter and relish. The stories range from the light-hearted to the sombre. Many are laced with Manoj Das' char...



  • Kay David

    For the Negotiator, talk is never cheap. In a moment, he has to make connections with the crazed and the desperate and the lost. He has to promise, cajole and placate. Success is a rush. Failure would cripple a lesser man. Above all, he must stay det...



  • Peter David

    A harrowing new adventure featuring one of Marvel Comics' most enduring characters. Hounded by the U.S. Army for crimes he did not commit, the Hulk seeks refuge in an experimental procedure that will permanently transform him back to his human incarn...



  • Carolyn Davidson

    On the run from a nightmarish life, Maggie had the power to stir feelings of forever in rancher Beau Jackson's soul. From the first moment, he knew he loved this sweet-spirited gamin, but would she ever feel anything more for him than gratitude? S...



  • Dee Davis

    When Kacy Macgrath's life crumbled two years ago, she changed her name and escaped to her grandmother's cottage in Ireland. Here she lives anonymously, with no reminders of the past except the terrifying images that continue to haunt her dreams. Imag...



  • R. Davis
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    The personals ads are certainly a prime source for people's private fantasies, some of which end in happiness, while others turn into total disasters. But what if there was something "special" about either the placer of the ad or the one who answered...



  • Charles de Lint
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    The personals ads are certainly a prime source for people's private fantasies, some of which end in happiness, while others turn into total disasters. But what if there was something "special" about either the placer of the ad or the one who answered...



  • Edward Deangelo

    What defines fatherhood -- blood, legal obligation, or love? This exquisite novel about the complicated ties and ambiguities that irrevocably bind us to one another introduces an extrarodinary new talent in contemporary fiction.

    Business ex...



  • Claire Delacroix

    "I WAS BORN A WOMAN, THERE ARE BUT TWO COURSES FOR MY LIFE -- MARRIAGE OR THE CONVENT. I HAVE CHOSEN." Certain that she will never wed for love, sworn to let no man possess her for her beauty alone, Jacqueline de Crevy has vowed to become a brid...



  • Denny Demartino

    When the son of the emperor is found murdered by an alien, Terrapol Lieutenant Artemis Hadrien and forensic astrologer Philipa Cyprion team up to uncover the reason for the crime, in the first volume in a new science fiction crime series. Original....



  • Jamie Denton

    She can't wait to get her hands on him! Simon Hawthorne needs a new image fast or else he'll be looking for a new job pronto! Image consultant Jaycee Richmond is just the woman to make over this computer geek. She's convinced that beneath Simon's ...




  • Jacqueline Diamond

    Millionaire bachelor Jim Bonderoff is the envy of men and the fantasy of every woman. It isn t until he learns he's a dad that he realizes something has been missing from his life. But it's not this new spiky-haired addition that's the biggest surpri...



  • Jacqueline Diamond
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    It happened one weekend… Quinn and Molly Spencer are delighted to accept three bookings for their newly opened B&B, Breakfast Inn Bed, located in America's favorite hometown, Tyler, Wisconsin. Rebecca Salter has turned up at the Breakfast Inn...



  • Disney Book Group

    In this thrilling tale, Cruella De Vil is released from prison. And sooner than you can say "Get those puppies," the two-toned terror is plotting another fur-ocious scheme to make the ultimate Dalmatian coat. The fun and adventure shift into high gea...




  • Renate Dorrestein

    Ellen Van Bemmel lives with her parents and three siblings in an Amsterdam suburb. Her idyllic childhood is suffused with Americana, such as Coca-Cola, potato chips, and the moon landing. But when disaster strikes on her 12th birthday, Ellen's world ...



  • James D. Doss

    A lawman with a hardy appetite for life and an unshakable faith in the explicable, Southern Ute Acting Chief of Police Charlie Moon is not prepared to accept a purely supernatural explanation for the recent strange events of April 1. Nevertheless, so...



  • Cameron Dougan

    "Kim wondered: What had she ever truly sacrificed? She didn't believe in anything. Still, she had come this far. Had she ever relied on anyone? These men, their gifts-she had not asked for them. But she had accepted them. Wasn't it an accomplishment ...



  • L. Warren Douglas

    A MILLENNIUM IN PROVENCE A lost little girl weeps in the high wilderness, and her cries are heard ... Is her rescuer a crazy, lonely woodsman, or a timeworn Celtic god, and she his only believer? Does an ancient female deity live beside the pool,...



  • Laura Dower

    When Princess Morebucks becomes enraged at getting fewer Valentine's Day cards than the Powerpuff Girls, she sets a plan in motion to ruin Valentine's Day for everyone, yet the Girls won't let that happen and devise their own plan to put an end to he...



  • Sophie Dunbar

    At a swanky L.A. fashion show, the city's beautiful people gather to witness the bold new debut from Bonsai--a trend-setting company combining American and Japanese themes. All is glitz and glamour until one of the models, Miko, is found backstage, s...



  • John Dunning

    Widely acclaimed for his groundbreaking crime novels Booked to Die and The Bookman's Wake, award-winning author John Dunning triumphantly returns with a riveting new thriller that takes us back to the summer of 1942, when radio was in its prime, when...



  • David Anthony Durham

    When Gabriel Lynch moves with his mother and brother from a brownstone in Baltimore to a dirt-floor hovel on a homestead in Kansas, he is not pleased. He does not dislike his new stepfather, a former slave, but he has no desire to submit to a life of...



  • Marjorie Eccles

    While Abigail Moon investigates a probable case of arson and murder, Inspector Martin Kite probes a vicious attack on a vicar's wife, and Superintendent Gil Mayo stumbles upon a stolen art treasure that could link the two cases....



  • Cassie Edwards

    MOON SONG Wild and free, she stands poised on the brink of womanhood as she promises her heart to a handsome young warrior. But the virile brave is of the Mohawk tribe, ancient enemies of her own Oneida people. And when her turtle clan abandons th...



  • Martin Edwards

    “[A] superb . . . anthology of . . . short stories by British writers set in continental Europe. . . . Those unfamiliar. . . . will find this the perfect introduction.†-- Publishers We...



  • Patricia Elam

    In her dazzling debut novel, award-winning author Patricia Elam takes us into the lives of two completely different women whose friendship has helped them weather just about everything. But now they're at a crossroads where understanding may not be e...



  • Linda Ellerbee

    Trumbull Cheerleader Loses Her Cheer!

    Casey Smith is tumbling -- actually, stumbling -- into another story. Her best pal, Ringo, is about to make his competition debut with Trumbull's cheerleading squad, but someone's trying to sabotage one ...



  • Lyn Ellis

    On Rain Mountain lives a lady, Who she is they do not know. All she wants is to be left alone... No one knows the Crazy Woman of Rain Mountain. And that's just fine with Annalee Evans. She went to the mountains because they were a good place to ...



  • Garth Ennis

    Focusing on the world and environment of Spider-Man, a unique collection of stories offers a fresh, new glimpse into the realm of the superhero by combining today's most popular contemporary comics writers and artists. A Graphic Novel. Original....



  • K.J. Erickson

    Special Detective Marshall Bahr's hard years on the Minneapolis police force have taken their toll. A single father, he's sacrificed his marriage, friendships, and private life for the thrill of the hunt. But his flawless record is about to be challe...



  • Diane Escalera

    Banker Emilio DeLeon is captivated by his new secretary's exotic Latin beauty, certain that beneath her conservative business attire lies a passionate soul. What he doesn't guess is that her burning desire for him isn't the only thing Mia Hartmann's ...



  • Marcia Evanick

    She Vowed To Stand On Her Own... Rosaleen Tompkins is Wild Rose, Iowa's princess--the elegant, gorgeous daughter of the town's richest family. Quiet and obedient, she let her parents choose her boarding school, college, even the man she wed. But lif...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s making a special delivery…It’s a chilly Spring in the Arkansas mountains, where Longarm is tracking down a bandit who’s robbed a passel of postmen -- and just added murder to his bag of tricks. Longarm’s prepared to follow the tra...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm better settle a land dispute -- or someone might settle him six feet under…When a long-standing land dispute turns ugly down in New Mexico, the Feds send Custis Long to have a look. Somebody backshot old Tom McCabe. But just because Don Ale...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm GIANT novels...the biggest and best in Western adventure!In Ambush, Colorado, four men accused of murdering denizens of a local cat house are scheduled to be hanged. But the hangman’s daughter tells Longarm that one of the condemned di...



  • Erica Farber

    In the time-honored tradition of Holmes and Watson, a bulldog puppy (Paws) and a calico kitten (Claws) join forces to uncover the mysterious origin of a large green egg found in the barn where they live....



  • Jane Feather

    Dear Reader, When I first saw her, I realized that the miniature portrait I had shown to the king did not do her justice. Lady Guinevere Mallory's beauty transcended even a portrait painter's skill. It was nearly impossible to believe that this wo...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    A child had been stolen -- and only one man could save him. The assignment seemed straightforward: Track down the woman who had stolen the boy and return him to his father. But ChildFinders, Inc. had been duped, and Ben Underwood soon discovered ...



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  • Liz Fielding

    STOP THE WEDDING! For Willow, a simple wedding had conjured up visions of a small country church, a dress from the local bride shop, standard grey morning suits all round for the men, two bridesmaids. Two grown-up bridesmaids who could be relief u...



  • Gina Fields

    Although only one-quarter Cherokee, Ethan is loyal to his Native American heritage. For years he's watched the slow decline of the Cherokee nation; soon he'll see its complete demise when his people are forced from their homes. The last thing on his ...



  • Michael Flynn

    In the early years of the 21st century humanity has advanced step by slow step into space, but has discovered through constant monitoring of the heavens that certain asteroids have changed their orbits and are headed for horrifying impact with Earth....




  • Jeffrey Ford

    Jeffrey Ford's World Fantasy Award-winner The Physiognomy introduce Cley, master of a twisted and terming science in a nightmare city. In the brilliantly audacious Memoranda , the reformed physiognomist embarked on a surreal quest through the mind of...



  • Patricia Forsythe

    They came from different worlds, but sexy and sincere Jace McTaggart was exactly the husband regal Alexis would have chosen for herself. Every tender kiss they shared seemed to bring this commitment-shy bachelor closer...to a proposal? Marriage t...



  • Sharon Ewell Foster

    Penned in the same poetic voice introduced in her bestselling debut novel, Passing by Samaria, Sharon Ewell Foster's Ain't No River is a contemporary tale where the angst of modern life is seasoned with wisdom, humor, and a dash of African-American h...



  • Jennifer Frantz

    Reveals many fascinating facts about the legendary storytellers of the Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest, including how a totem pole was made, the different kinds of totem poles, what they mean, and more. Simultaneous....



  • Stephen Frey

    A deathbed reconciliation with his estranged father brings Bo Hancock home to make amends for the wild ways that turned him into a political liability. Once the black sheep of Connecticut's most influential clan, Bo is now back at the helm of Warfiel...



  • Eve Gaddy

    Their passion is one fire they can't put out. Nine years ago, he left her alone and pregnant. Now he's back. When hotshot firefighter Callie Kilpatrick gets a new partner, he's the last man she ever wanted to meet again: Rick Montana, the man s...



  • Sunil Gangopadhyay

    The sequel to the award-winning and critically-acclaimed Those Days, First Light is a magnificent novel set at the turn of the twentieth century in a Bengal where the old and young India are jostling for space. Prominent among its many characters are...



  • Cliff Garnett

    When radical extremists from the IRA jijack a Russian nuclear sub during joint maneuvers between the Russians and British and threaten to launch the missiles on board against Britain, the TALON Force is called in to stop the terrorists and regain con...



  • William Gay

    It’s 1952, and E.F. Bloodworth is finally coming home to Ackerman’s Field, Tennessee. Itinerant banjo picker and volatile vagrant, he’s been gone ever since he gunned down a deputy thirty years before. Two of his sons won’t be home to greet h...



  • Mike Gayle

    A bestseller in the UK, Mr. Commitment is an excursion into the world of a modern male that "delivers its punch lines directly to the heart" (Birmingham Evening Mail). Benjamin Duffy is a stand-up comic/temp who, like many men in their late tw...



  • James Gelsey

    Zoinks! Is the statue of the Golden Dolphin really cursed? Has it brought the horrible Seaweed Monster up from the ocean floor with it? Scooby and the gang must untangle this mystery at the aquarium before it's too late! And they need your help! ...



  • James Gelsey

    Scooby-Doo and his friends volunteer to help at a charity fundraiser at the Magic Palace, a theme restaurant run by magicians, but they find their work cut out for them when a valuable diamond necklace disappears during the Masked Magician's act....



  • Anne George

    It's hard to believe practical, petite ex-schoolteacher Patricia Anne and amiable, ample-bodied, and outrageous Mary Alice are sisters, yet sibling rivalry has survived decades of good-natured disagreement about everything from husbands to hair color...



  • Anne George

    ACHY-BREAKY NECK Buying the Skoot 'n' Boot makes perfect sense to oversized, overimpulsive multiple widow Mary Alice. Her serious, respectable ex-schoolteacher sister Patricia Anne thinks Mary Alice is out of her cotton-pickin' mind, but Mary Alic...



  • Ken Goddard

    And you thought first contact was terrifying....

    From New York Times bestselling author Ken Goddard comes a terrifying thriller that dares to pursue the truth behind a series of bizarre occurrences -- and a murderer whose identity even the a...



  • Olivia Goldsmith

    Tracie loves those musician types in leather jackets. She's got a weakness for classic bad boys who seem too good to be true ... and usually are. Jon, on the other hand, loves Tracie--and not "just as a friend." But Jon is no bad boy. He's about a...




  • Laura Gordon

    HE WAS A COWBOY COP, RUGGED, UNTAMED...AND FIT FOR A PRINCESS Lexie Dale was a princess, the possible heir to a throne, and she'd come to the Farrett guest ranch for a much-needed retreat. But it was in Lucas Garrett's arms that she discovered tru...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    It is September 21, 1959. The world's number-one Communist, Nikita Khrushchev, has landed in Iowa during the height of the McCarthy era, and in Black River Falls, someone has resorted to painting the town murderously Red. A high-profile writer with c...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    ED GORMAN Bestselling Author of Shadow Games “Gorman’s writing is strong, fast and sleek as a bullet. He’s one of the best.†-- Dean Koontz Seventeen stories. Seventeen slices of terror. Seventeen trips into the shadows. Whether i...




  • Susan Grace

    WILL A PAST REAVEALED... Once known as the fierce pirate "Lady Cat," Catherine Grayson finds bliss married to a man who shares her stormy past on the high seas. Only a handful of trusted people know of her secret identity -- until war with F...



  • Vanessa Grant

    MOMENTARY PASSION Arizona astronomer Claire Welland is anything but starry-eyed when it comes to romance. She knows her home on an isolated mountaintop observatory makes marriage to most men impossible, but that doesn't mean she can't have...



  • Andrew M. Greeley

    The New York Timesâ€"bestselling author takes fabulous Nuala Anne McGrail and her husband once again to Ireland for another thrill-packed adventure.Back on the Emerald Isle, Nuala and Dermot soon get the feeling that someone is out to get them. They ...



  • Crystal Green

    Tales of a Seventh-Grade Matchmaker Wow...this matchmaking business is pretty cool. All it took was some misbehaving in class to bring my gorgeous teacher and my bachelor dad together! But gimme a break, do they really expect me to believe that Ms...



  • Jennifer Greene

    THE COWBOY DOCTOR Legendary Texas surgeon Justin Webb faced his biggest challenge -- winning the heart of brash, bold, and beautiful detective Winona Raye. When Winona discovered a baby abandoned at her door, the bachelor doc saw his chance and of...



  • Deborah Gregory

    Chanel Simmons decides to make one last attempt to become a ballet dancer by trying out for the American Ballet Theater Junior Corps Division, even though she fears that she doesn't have the right body for ballet....



  • Thomas S. Gressman

    Torn from the universe by a cosmic vortex, Earth remains trapped in the Maelstrom, swirling toward ultimate destruction. Now, a company of Union Marines and medics, sent to find the survivors of a crash landing on an unexplored planet, find themselve...



  • Katherine Greyle

    A lady does not attempt to come out in London society disguised as her deceased half-sister. A lady does not become enamored of her guardian; even though his masterful kisses and whispered words of affection tempt her beyond all endurance. A lady may...



  • W.E.B. Griffin

    W.E.B. Griffin returns to the series that launched his phenomenal career-- in an explosive new novel that pits a team of Special Forces warriors against the legendary revolutionary Che Guevara....



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  • Patricia Guiver

    Sunny Southern California seems an unlikely place for a British widow to call home. But pet detective Delilah Doolittle is probably the least eccentric--if not the most civilized--of Surf City's resident population. With an astute Doberman pinscher n...



  • Pedro Juan Gutierrez

    Banned in Cuba but celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, this picaresque novel in stories chronicles the misadventures of Pedro Juan, a former Cuban journalist living from hand to mouth in the squalor of contemporary Havan...



  • Amy Gutman

    BREAK THE GLASS CEILING. BUT DON'T GET CUT... Just out of Harvard Law School, Kate Paine is on the fast track at the Manhattan offices of Samson & Mills, the nation's most powerful law firm. Naturally, she's thrilled to be hand-picked to work on a...




  • James W. Hall

    After the brutal murders of her parents, mystery novelist Hannah Keller quit the Miami P.D. to devote more time to writing, and to her eleven-year-old son Randall - still haunted by the discovery of his grandparents' bodies five years ago. But just w...



  • Danelle Harmon

    The bluest of blood; the blackest of rogues; the de Montforte Brothers will take your breath away. MEET LORD LUCIEN The head of his noble family, the dark and dangerous Duke of Blackheath spends his time manipulating other lives without giving...



  • HarperCollins

    How big isbaby giraffe?SOOO BIG!

    Lift the flaps, in this lively version of yourchild's favorite game, to find baby animals thatare so big. This interactive book is onechildren will be sure to read so many time...



  • Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    Love and mystery combine in a romantic anthology of fourteen original whodunits from Dorothy Cannell, Caroyn Hart, Nancy Pickard, Gar Anthony Haywood, Peter Robinson, Eve Sandstrom, Ed Gorman, Margaret Maron, Jean Hager, Robert J. Randisi, M. D. Lake...



  • John Hasse

    I love you when you're sick and when you're feeling better. And when I'm far away, I say I love you in a letter! I Love You When . . . is a poignant, but fun, rhyming text expressing a parent's unconditional love for a child....



  • Steven F. Havill

    Next book in the Posadas County Mystery SeriesPosadas County Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman has a lot on her plate -- but when her family is threatened by a criminal underworld, she'll stop at nothing to protect her ownGifted fifteen-year-old Fran...



  • Karen Hawkins

    SHE'D NEVER MARRY HIM! The last man Arabella Hadley ever wishes to see again is Lucien Deveraux, the handsome, dissolute Duke of Wexford--who broke her innocent heart years ago and disappeared to London. So when she finds an unconscious man on her d...




  • Lynne Hayworth

    On the bloody battlefield of Culloden, the mighty Scottish clans risked everything--and, like their kinsmen, the Maclean family was destroyed. Torn apart by betrayal, the three brothers Maclean will learn the price of vengeance...and sweet freedom in...



  • Shelby Hearon

    Shelby Hearon has been widely praised for the insight, wit, and subtlety with which her novels limn the complexities of marriage and family ("What Jane Austen is to courtship, Shelby Hearon is to marriage" --New York Newsday), and the ways in which p...



  • Christiane Heggan

    In her career, investigative reporter Kelly Robolo has seen it all. But when she gets a frantic call from an old friend, she embarks on an investigation that will put her to a test she's never faced before: survival. Jonathan Bowman, a loving hus...



  • Sarah E. Heller / S.E. Heller

    It's an ice-escapade for Ash and Pikachu! Ash, Misty, Brock, and Pikachu are hiking in the mountains. But then a big blizzard strikes, and Ash and Pikachu are separated from their friends. Now Ash and all his Pokemon are lost and cold -- and it...



  • April Henry

    Amateur sleuth Claire Montrose gets more than she bargained for when she attends her twenty-year high-school reunion and a secret admirer sends her a heart-shaped box marked with death, and she must uncover an elusive killer. Reprint....



  • Patricia Hermes

    In book one of this diary of life on the Oregon Trail, Pat Hermes tells the story of Joshua McCullough's family's experiences as they pack up their belongings and head west in a wagon train.

    It is 1848 when Joshua McCullough and his family lea...