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New Books List: 658 titles

  • Sex and the Single Chocoholic

    Kylie Adams
    in

    Candace Rowley, plain Jane owner of a small chocolate shop, needs to win a featured spot for her "Passion Truffles" in an upcoming movie. Transforming herself into a sexy playgirl to promote her product quickly attracts the bachelor son of her compan...

  • Penguin Book of Gay Australian Writing

    Graeme Aitken

  • Strike Vector

    David Alexander

    Marine Force One. A special detachment of the Marine Corps whose prowess in combat and specialized training sets them apart from the average grunt. They charge where others retreat, and succeed where others fail. They are the best America’s got. &#...

  • Rules of the Game

    Ted Allbeury

  • Murder on the Minnesota

    Conrad Allen

    Fresh from a harrowing trans-Atlantic crossing aboard the Mauretania, and having recently earned a reputation as the best team of shipboard sleuths to sail the seven seas, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield hardly set foot on land before e...

  • Lucky Jim and the Rachel Papers

    Amis Amis

  • After School

    Dina Anastasio

  • Head over Heels

    Susan Andersen

    Who said "you can't go home again"? In Veronica Davis's case, who'd want to -- especially when you hail from Fossil, Washington? But now she's back among the good-ol' boys who think she's fair game just because she's in a waitress uniform. The tr...

  • The Baby Question

    Caroline Anderson

    Laurie had thought that she and Rob had the perfect marriage and that a baby would make their happiness complete. After several years of waiting Laurie has realized that things have changed. Rob now works so hard, Laurie wonders if her husband is rea...

  • Sweet Nothings

    Catherine Anderson

    Molly Wells is keeping a lot of secrets. Such as why she's stolen her ex-husband's expensive stallion, Sonora Sunset, and driven him hundreds of miles across Oregon to rancher Jake Coulter, a known horse whisperer. And why she arrives with no job, no...

  • Captain Nemo: The Fantastic History of a Dark Genius

    K.J. Anderson

    Revealed at last: the untold saga of Jules Veme's legendary hero!...

  • Masquerade

    Austen Andrews

    TIME OF WAR In the aftermath of a devastating, time-rending cataclysm, the splintered world of Sosaria is now a patchwork of nations ripped from moments in the distant past, the present, and the far future. Three great kingdoms now perch on the b...

  • Fault Line

    Sarah Andrews

    With the Winter Olympics approaching, Salt Lake City is trembling with excitement-literally. A real life earthquake has torn fissures into the city's preparations, and now forensic geologist Em Hansen has a rare opportunity to get some field work in ...

  • Where, Where Is Swamp Bear?

    Kathi Appelt

    Can you help Pierre find the shy swamp bear? She's sure to be somewhere close by?

    While engaging in a lively conversation with his patient grandfather, Pierre searches for the secret spaces, hidden nests, and hiding places that might shelter...

  • Good Night, Sleep Tight, Little Bunnies

    Dawn Apperley

  • Nowhere Land

    K.A. Applegate

    K.A. Applegate, best-selling author of the ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD series, presents an exciting and gritty new science-fiction series that combines a little 2001 and a little Survivor for mega-action.

    "His idyllic place into the sea like a san...

  • Dragon's Dower

    Catherine Archer

    Simon Warleigh and his brothers-in-arms had sworn to avenge the murder of their beloved foster father, the Dragon. But upon Simon's return from the Holy Land, the brave knight was falsely accused of treason and stripped of his lands. His only chance ...

  • Edward G. and the Beautiful Pink Hairbow

    Marsha Diane Arnold

  • He Kills Coppers

    Jake Arnott

    August 1966--the long hot summer of World Cup victory euphoria is abruptly shattered when three policemen are gunned down in a West London street. The bewilderingly senseless crime shocks a nation seemingly at ease with itself, and brings an end to t...

  • The Reluctant Marchioness

    Anne Ashley

    HIS RUNAWAY BRIDE RETURNS Julian Stapleford, Marquis of Wroxam, is confounded when his estranged wife reappears after an eight-year absence. After being caught in the arms of another man, Lady Jennifer vanished from his life without a trace. Julia...

  • The Colonel and the Kid

    Elizabeth Ashtree

    There's something about a handsome man who speaks with an accent and wears a foreign military uniform. Add an air of mystery and a young child he's raising on his own, and that man becomes irresistible.... But resisting him is exactly what Captain...

  • The Beothuk Saga

    Bernard Assiniwi

    This astounding novel fully deserves to be called a saga. It begins a thousand years ago in the time of the Vikings in Newfoundland. It is crammed with incidents of war and peace, with fights to the death and long nights of lovemaking, and with accou...

  • Bob's Egg Hunt: A Lift-the-Flap Story

    Annie Auerbach

  • Bob's Snowy Day

    Annie Auerbach

  • U.S. War Machine

    Chuck Austen

  • Spaniel Surprise

    Ben M. Baglio

    Summary: Will Ben Hardwick get the puppy he longs for this Christmas? Ben's mom is quite clear that she doesn't want a pet at all, but Mandy Hope is determined to convince Mrs. Hardwick that puppies aren't always noisy and messy....

  • The Curious Kitten

    Ben M. Baglio

    Shamrock is a tabby kitten, with bright green eyes and tiger stripes. Mandy thinks he's very cute - but also very nosy! When Shamrock goes outside for the very first time, he soon runs into trouble......

  • The Playful Puppy

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Marlene Dietrich Lived Here

    Eleanor Bailey

    For the last 150 years, Berlin has been a city of myth, dreams and possibility. For Erich, it has been home for over two decades. Yet even after two failed marriages and a stuttering career as a artist, he has little to show for it: a pair of dysfunc...

  • Prudence

    Elizabeth Bailey

    No one was more aware of their position in life than governess Prudence Hursley. Fresh from the Paddington Charitable Seminary, softhearted Prue expected to see little of her new employer, Mr. Julius Rookham, and was prepared for a life of lonely ind...

  • Bug Dictionary: An A to Z of Insects and Creepy Crawlies

    Jill Bailey

  • Lakota Love Song

    Madeline Baker

    A Daring Rescue When Kaylee Matthews finds a wounded Lakota warrior on her family's property, she knows she must help him--even though it means concealing him from her watchful stepfather. As she secretly tends to the stranger's injury, Kaylee feels...

  • Jake & Mimi

    Frank Baldwin

    Mimi Lessing's attraction to a seduction artist has thrown her marriage plans into chaos. She never imagined that the pleasures of sex could so overwhelm her imagination. Jake Teller's attraction to Mimi Lessing is causing him to rethink his greatest...

  • Tall, Dark & Royal

    Leanne Banks

    He stood before Erin Lawrence -- bare-chested, sleep-tousled, and sexy as sin. Could this be Daniel Connelly, the new king of Altaria? Erin knew she'd have her hands full teaching the American businessman royal etiquette -- and avoiding falling under...

  • Winter Ice is Nice

    Bob Barkly

  • Join Me for Tea Invitations

    Emilie Barnes

  • Backpack

    Emily Barr

    In the wake of her mother's death, Tansy, a disillusioned Londoner, abandons her miserable boyfriend, trendy friends, and hotshot media job to find herself on a backpacking trip through Asia. A first novel. Original....

  • Tarah's Lesson

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Already frustrated by the incorrigible students she teaches on the Kansas frontier, Tarah is further troubled when Anthony Greene, the one man she has always loved, returns to town. And she is certainly not ready to graciously accept his apparent pre...

  • 14 Valentine Place

    Pamela Bauer

    Things change. Coming home isn't easy for Dylan Donovan. He left 13 years ago, carrying a terrible secret about his father, and he can't believe what's happened since. His widowed mother is now a savvy entrepreneur, his family home has been turned in...

  • Manifold: Space

    Stephen Baxter

    The year is 2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, where he discovers a strange artifact left behind by an alien civilization: a gateway that functions as a kind of quantum transporter, a...

  • Vitals

    Greg Bear

    A harrowing thriller based on real-life discoveries in cell theory and the battle against aging and death by the bestselling author of Darwin’s Radio and War Dogs Scientist Hal Cousins is on the brink of success in his quest to determine the biolog...

  • The Black Tulip

    Milton Bearden

    “In this suspense-filled thriller, the man who ran the closing phases of the Afghan war for the Agency takes his readers on a stunning voyage of discovery through that clandestine world, from Kabul to Hong Kong and the Moscow of the Evil Empire.”...

  • Death of a Celebrity

    M.C. Beaton

    MURDER ON THE TELLY Lochdubh, a remote village reached only by a one-track lane, nestles serenely amid Scotland's hills...until well-known TV reporter Crystal French races into town in her bright BMW. And Constable Hamish Macbeth, dourly wed to duty...

  • Ninth Square

    Gorman Bechard

    When a man’s body is discovered in one of New Haven, Connecticut’s sleazier motels, it appears to be a simple case of a prostitute killing a john. A case that’s quick, clean, and easy -- just what the police chief likes. But, as William Shute a...

  • Lost in the Snow

    Ian Beck

  • Big Bears Can

    David Bedord

  • The Wedding Bargain

    Lisette Belisle

    Olivia DeAngelis needed a husband! According to her father's will, she had to marry within the next six months to keep her family's homestead, Stone's End. Would a handsome stranger be her salvation? Five years ago, Drew Pierce made a costly mista...

  • Bow Wow! Meow!: A First Book of Sounds

    Melanie Bellah

    By Amy Steele: Trina Schart Hyman's winsome, folksy illustrations go straight to your heart. Paired with the interesting, sometimes comforting, sometimes newly discovered sounds of everyday life (well, I am not sure about the snake, unless mom or dad...

  • Rookie Cop

    Nikki Benjamin

    Who'd left a baby on her doorstep? And what was solitary, small-town schoolteacher Megan Cahill to do? Naturally, she'd nurture the abandoned infant. But she'd need the police to help locate the real mom...before the tiny mite wiggled its...

  • A Family for Jana

    Eileen Berger

    Between struggling to balance school and parenthood, Jana Jenson's hands were full. The single mother was not in the market for romance -- especially after experiencing the heartache of having her son's father abandon her. Still, Jana was grateful fo...

  • Until the Shadows Flee

    Lisa Tawn Bergren
    in

    Lisa Tawn Bergren, Maureen Pratt, and Lyn Cote

    HeartQuest brings readers three original novellas. Each romantic story includes love letters in a popular historical setting.

    • Until the Shadows Flee by Lisa Tawn Bergren
    • Dear Love by...

  • Egg-cellent Painting Party

    Frank Berrios

  • Colored Sugar Water

    Venise Berry

    Despite their success, Lucy, the thirty-five-year-old fitness manager for a string of Texas health clubs, and Adel, vice president for human resources at American oil, struggle with the individual dissatisfaction, spiritual and emotional emptiness, a...

  • Walker's Widow

    Heidi Betts

    Between Heaven and Hell lies Purgatory, Texas -- a town with too few saints ... and too many sinners. TO CATCH A THIEF Clayton Walker had been sent to Purgatory ... but it felt more like hell. Assigned to solve a string of minor burglaries, the...

  • Malta Spitfire, the Buzz Beurling Story: Canada's WW II Ace

    George Beurling

  • And It Harm None

    Isobel Bird

    "and it harm none, do as you will," so says the ancient wiccan rede. Those who do not heed its words will learn the power of the Law of Three. Annie, Kate, and Cooper uncover what looks like a crime. When they look more closely, it is not. Know...

  • Ship of Ghosts

    David Bischoff

    Lost and alone in unknown territory, astronaut John Crichton has found a refuge of sorts aboard Moya, a vast living starship sheltering a fractious band of bizarre alien fugitives. Now Moya and her squabbling inhabitants have run afoul of a mysteriou...

  • Run, Jonah, Run

    Jonah Black

    "Jonah still doesn't know who I am, and it's driving me crazy."-- Northgirl999"Watch it, Jonah Black. You're a good diver, but you're not that good."-- Lamar Jameson"My son's diary is a testament to the fact that young people today need to be nicer t...

  • A World of Thieves

    James Carlos Blake

    In 1928 New Orleans, eighteen-year-old Sonny LaSalle is a top prep student and champion amateur boxer -- and he venerates his fraternal twin uncles, Buck and Russell, armed robbers who love their profession. Sonny secretly believes that he, too, is a...

  • His Heart's Delight

    Mary Blayney

    THEY WERE ONLY PLAYING AT ROMANCE... Morgan Braedon has plans for his future, and not one of them includes a wife. Yet his imperious father is demanding that he choose a bride from this Season's marriage mart -- or lose his financial support. Wh...

  • The Outlaw's Twin Sister

    Stephen A. Bly

    Her life was like a bad dream that kept getting worse. Until the Lord awakened her to a future of hope. Julianna Ortiz gave up her hopes for a perfect life long ago. She's 32, and alone, and she's accepted that. For how could she ask anyone to sha...

  • Risa's Rainbow

    Andrea Boeshaar

    Risa Vitalis once fancied herself in love with a decent Christian man--but then he remarried his ex-wife. So, trying to smother her pain, Risa launched into life with reckless abandon. While vacationing in Italy her carelessness catches up to her, an...

  • The Bride Wore Blue

    Cheryl Bolen

    A Bargain Isn't A Bargain...Until It Is Sealed With A Kiss Lacking the funds for a London season--yet determined to see her headstrong younger siblings suitably matched--lovely widow Felicity Harrison establishes herself in Bath, a grand dame at t...

  • Man for All Seasons

    Robert Bolt

  • The Legend of the Valentine

    Katherine Grace Bond

    Marcus, a nine-year-old African-American boy living in Alabama in the sixties, learns the true meaning of valentines as he is faced with whether or not to forgive his classmates and others who have hurt him and his family. His wise grandmother tells ...

  • Fox Tale Soup

    Tony Bonning

    When all the animals are too mean to share their food with Fox, he decides to make some stone soup....WHAT?! Soup from a stone? Impossible! But with a little bit of cunning, Fox makes the soup taste simply delicious! Fox Tale Soup is the perfect ...

  • Lydia Lane

    Judith Bowen

    Lydia Lane didn't take the girlfriends' challenge -- to find her first love -- seriously at all. But then, Sam Pereira finds her...or rather, his ex-wife does. Lydia runs a business called Domestica, organizing people's lives and teaching them hou...

  • Mom and Mr. Valentine

    Judith Bowen
    in

    Hearts, flowers...kids?! Who needs Cupid when you've got kids? In Debbie Macomber's ever-popular MY FUNNY VALENTINE, a mom runs from the matchmaking efforts of her children--right into the arms of a handsome stranger. A very persistent young m...

  • The Alchemist

    Donna Boyd

    In a sweeping epic of dazzling magic, soaring suspense, and dark longing three immortal souls are united by fate and a fearless ambition that will change the course of history--even as it destroys their own way of life. An elegant man sits in the ...

  • Consider Love: Its Moods and Many Ways

    Sandra Boynton

    Children and adults alike will adore this reissue of the playful, illustrated ode to love in its many forms from bestselling humorist Sandra Boynton. From the sentimental to the soulful, this delightful book explores the many and curious modes of ...

  • Sword and Sorceress XIX

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    WOMEN OF MIGHT AND MAGIC roam lands filled with danger, mystery, and sorcery. They are sword-wielding defenders or magical spell-casters -- roles too often considered the exclusive province of men. Handpicked by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, he...

  • Bessie Coleman

    Bruce L. Brager

  • True North

    Beverly Brandt

    HERE COMES THE BRIDE... Rustic Colorado is hardly Claire Brown's idea of a primo vacation spot, but the week-long getaway at a romantic mountain lodge promises to heal a rift with her increasingly detached fiance. Armed with her trusty laptop and co...

  • Hard to Tame

    Kylie Brant

    THEY HAD SECRET... Sara Parker was her real name -- but she'd changed it to hide from the murderer she'd seen. She had no one to turn to, no one to trust.... Nick Doucet was his real name -- but he'd used others while working undercover. Cynica...

  • The Cat Who Went Up the Creek

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Jim Qwilleran is enjoying his stay at the Nutcracker Inn in Black Creek. His two Siamese, Koko and Yum Yum, don't seem quite as pleased with the accommodations... though Koko does enjoy keeping a keen eye on the squirrels and other local wildlife. Th...

  • The Wild Ones

    Matt Braun

    In the 1870s the frontier was a battleground, where the U.S. Army fought Plains warriors, outlaws terrorized the land, and lawmen took no prisoners. Into the West came a family of New York City stage performers: a widowed father, his son, and a daugh...

  • Remembrance

    Theresa Breslin

    It was the largest conflict the world had ever known. It covered three continents and lasted five years. Millions of soldiers returned wounded, millions more never returned at all. In the summer of 1915, in a small village in Scotland, the Great War ...

  • The Mystery of the Kibble Crook

    Norman Bridwell

  • Kiln People

    David Brin

    In a perilous future, disposable duplicate bodies fulfill every citizen's legal and illicit whim. Life as a 24-hour "ditto" is cheap, as Albert Morris knows. A brash investigator with a knack for trouble, he's sent plenty of clay duplicates into dead...

  • Alien Lair

    William J. Broad

  • Her Secret Valentine

    Helen Brooks
    in

    Hearts, flowers...kids?! Who needs Cupid when you've got kids? In Debbie Macomber's ever-popular MY FUNNY VALENTINE, a mom runs from the matchmaking efforts of her children--right into the arms of a handsome stranger. A very persistent young m...

  • The Greek Tycoon's Bride

    Helen Brooks

    He has everything money can buy -- except a wife! Confronted with Andreas Karydis, Sophy Fearn is convinced arrogance is a Karydis family trait! Wealth, power, devastating looks -- no wonder Andreas has women falling at his feet.... Spending ...

  • Gold Rush Bride

    Debra Lee Brown

    Marriage to a Rough-Hewn Stranger Wasn't Part of Her Plan! Yet here Kate Dennington was, inconveniently married to closemouthed fur trapper Will Crockett -- just to secure her rightful inheritance. She couldn't wait to get home to Ireland -- so why ...

  • Pregnant and Incognito

    Pamela Browning

    Celebrity Mother-To-Be Vanishes! When daytime-TV darling Dana Cantrell disappeared from the spotlight to complete her pregnancy in peace, she never dreamed she'd want to catch a man's eye. But she hadn't counted on her sexy and intrigu...

  • Crack Shot

    Sinclair Browning

    ONE-WOMAN POSSE Part dirty-shirt cowgirl, part Apache, and part-time private eye, Arizona rancher Trade Ellis doesn't have time to waste chasing down bad boys like Eddy Gallegos. And besides, finding the runaway teen in the middle of a blistering ...

  • Talking for Two

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Her stuttering and lack of self-confidence have her locked in a trap she can't escape. She's faced these problems since childhood, when her pretty, outgoing sister was born. Wanting to serve the Lord--and show her family she can amount to somethin...

  • Lord Darlington's Darling

    Gayle Buck

    Their Own Tune Lord Darlington has been busy with the handling of his family's dwindling estate -- so busy, in fact, that he has made little time for society. When he absolutely must wed, he assumes, it should not be too hard to find a suitabl...

  • Romance of the Mango: The Complete Book of the King of Fruits

    Kusum Budhwar

    Tracing the journey of a humble wild species of the forest to its spread over the subcontinent, the author pieces together India's fascination with the mango and explores why the mango is more than a mere fruit to India. She talks about the appearanc...

  • The Story of Levi's

    Michael Burgan

  • Little Toot

    Mark Burgess

    Little Toot is the cutest, silliest tugboat around. But the other tugboats think he can't do anything but play! How will he ever prove that he can be a good tugboat too? Oversized edition perfect for classroom reading....

  • Searching for Intruders

    Stephen Raleigh Byler

  • My Life and Me

    Jean Camis

  • Winter Race Camp

    Joanna Campbell

    Before Thoroughbred, Ashleigh Griffen lived at Edgardale, her family's farm in Kentucky. Nothing could be more perfect than life on the farm with her family, her favorite horses, and her best friend, Mona. Ashleigh loves helping with the horses -- an...

  • Polar Bears

    Susan Canizares

  • Frogs

    Susan Canizares

  • The Viking Funeral

    Stephen J. Cannell

    If Detective Shane Scully's best friend, Jody Dean, committed suicide three years ago, then who did Shane just see for one fleeting moment on the Ventura Freeway? He's convinced it was his former colleague. Or was his mind playing tricks? Shane's lov...

  • The Scared Stiff

    Judson Jack Carmichael

    Masterfully devised, wildly comic, and nonstop suspenseful, this madcap tale maps the consequences of an amiable schemer’s notion that he might be better off dead -- and then the more alarming discovery that he’s not dead enough. Con artistry hav...

  • To Wed and Protect

    Carla Cassidy

    A MAN UNLIKE ANY OTHER Luke Delaney was the sexiest -- and most scandalous -- man Inferno, Arizona, society had ever bred. Though he'd broken all the rules, he was coming to terms with the past and moving on with his future -- until he met temptin...

  • Promise the Moon

    Linda Lea Castle

    The Last Thing They Expected Was To Fall In Love Held captive by Thomas Le Revenant, the man who destroyed her family, and betrothed against her will to his son, Rowanne Vaudry is doomed to a life of misery. Then fate -- in the tall, powerful for...

  • I Can See

    Jesus P. Cervantes

  • Alexandra's Scroll

    Miriam Chaikin

    A young girl’s account of life in Jerusalem in 165 B.C.

    When the hated Syrian-Greek king fills ancient Jerusalem with statues of Greek gods and destroys the Jewish temple, feisty Alexandra takes up reed pen, ink, and sheet of papyrus and tur...

  • Satisfy My Soul

    Colin Channer

    I have called you here to reveal to you a truth that has been calling to you for many years. . . . Since then your soul has been seeking rest.Playwright Carey McCullough is a close guardian of his privacy, haunted by a recurring dream and a damaged p...

  • Devdas

    Saratchandra Chattopadhyaya

    Devdas is a young man who is in love with Paro. They have been together since childhood, and their love spans their entire life. However, Paro s parents have other plans for her. They want to marry her off to another man, and this marriage will prove...

  • The Drum Beats On

    Janelle Cherrington

    Today's Native Americans honor their past by continuing to perform ancient dances and ceremonies, even though certain modern elements have become a part of them. Details about these dances are presented, along with many of the ways that traditions of...

  • The Very Big Potato

    Janelle Cherrington

  • The Virgin Blue

    Tracy Chevalier

    Meet Ella Turner and Isabelle du Moulin -- two women born centuries apart, yet bound by a fateful family legacy. When Ella and her husband move to a small town in France, Ella hopes to brush up on her French, qualify to practice as a midwife, and sta...

  • His Trophy Mistress

    Daphne Clair

    Her husband's mistress... They were no longer married. But unforgettable Jager Jeffries had returned to claim Paige all the same -- this time as his mistress! Jager had been a boy from the wrong side of the tracks when he'd made teenage...

  • Contest of Champions II

    Chris Claremont

    SC, TPB, NM/M, New, in cello, Written by Chris Claremont. Art by Oscar Jimenez and Michael Ryan. Published in December of 2001, Softcover, full color. Cover price $14.95. If you want additional books, I ship as many books as you want for a low fla...

  • Darker

    Simon Clark

    THE UNSEEN EVIL Richard Young is looking forward to a quiet week with his wife and their little daughter. Firing up the barbecue should be the most stressful task he'll face. He has no idea of the hell that awaits him, the nightmare that will begi...

  • Fire Bringer

    David Clement-Davies

    In a dark and troubled time, a prophecy is about to come true... . It is a dark time for the deer. A tyrannical new Lord of the Herd has ended the old way, the yearly play of antlers that ensured a change of leadership. At his command is a corps o...

  • Jake Drake, Class Clown

    Andrew Clements

    Meet Jake Drake. He's ten years old and he already has a full-time job. Because that's how he treats school. Like it's a job. And his teachers are his bosses. Up until now -- fourth grade -- Jake has lucked out in the boss department. All of his tea...

  • Appleseed

    John Clute

    No one knows more about science fiction than John Clute. He has proven that over and over as a prize-winning critic upholding the highest literary standards for the genre and as coeditor of (and major contributor to) The Encyclopedia of Fantasy and T...

  • Stalking Moon

    David Cole

    Death in the Borderlands Laura Winslow is hiding from the world in the Arizona desert -- escaping the violence of her past through false names and untraceable Internet phone technology. But by straying too close to Mexico at the same time as a large...

  • G. Hopper's Summer Fun

    Evelyn Coleman

  • Lord of the Iron Fortress

    Andy Collins

    Great Danger Wrought in Secrecy

    Legendary forgemasters now serve an evil warlord and his dark purpose. Their hammers ring upon anvils dedicated to remaking a terrible weapon that was destroyed in ages long past. As the very fate of the world i...

  • Miracle Woman

    Marita Conlon-McKenna

    A powerful rollercoaster of a novel about a woman who discovers she has the power of healing hands.

    Martha MacKenzie was an ordinary woman. Nothing extraordinary had ever happened to her, unless she counted her marriage to Dan and the birth...

  • The Way of Light

    Storm Constantine

    Ancient magics clash for control of a great empire in the spellbinding conclusion to Storm Constantine's Chronicles of Magravandias.The sudden death of the Emperor Leonid has plunged the empire of Magravandias into chaos. To preserve order, Valraven ...

  • Stolen Love

    Cecilia Romero Cooper

    Lost And Found Bryan Reeves is part Anglo, part Mexican--and all man. He's tough enough to run a ranch and tender enough to raise his adopted daughter by himself...and he doesn't need a woman around the place. Fortunately, photographer Lizette Ram...

  • Sharpe's Prey

    Bernard Cornwell

    RICHARD SHARPE AND THE EXPEDITION TO COPENHAGEN, 1807 The year is 1807, and Richard Sharpe is back in England, where his career seems to have come to a dead end, despite his heroics in Britain's recent victory at Trafalgar. Loveless, destitute, an...

  • Leo the Lop: Tail Four

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • Varina's Heart

    Lyn Cote
    in

    Lisa Tawn Bergren, Maureen Pratt, and Lyn Cote

    HeartQuest brings readers three original novellas. Each romantic story includes love letters in a popular historical setting.

    • Until the Shadows Flee by Lisa Tawn Bergren
    • Dear Love by...

  • Finally Found

    Lyn Cote

    When preacher's daughter Spring Kirkland left snowy Wisconsin for sunny Florida, a rekindled romance was the last thing on her mind. On a mission to save her beloved mother's life, Spring meant to uncover a well-guarded family secret. But in doing so...

  • Still the One

    Debra Cowan

    THE PAST IS A DANGEROUS PLACE The woman standing in Rafe Blackstock's office was beautiful -- unforgettably beautiful -- and desperate for his help. But this wasn't just another client who needed a private investigator. This was the only woman he'...

  • Love's Masquerade

    Francine Craft
    in

    When divorced health food store owner Maya Williams takes part in Francine Craft's "Love's Masquerade," she's unexpectedly reunited with an old high school friend, Christopher St. John. Now, as midnight nears, two people who have known heartbreak ma...

  • The Good Men

    Charmaine Craig

    In fourteenth-century France, a young woman from the mountain village of Montaillou was tried for heresy by the Catholic inquisition. Her name was Grazida Lizier and, by her own confession, her “joy was shared” with the wrong man: the village rec...

  • Little Girl Blue

    David Cray

    Everything changes for Lieutenant Julia Brennan, NYPD, on a frigid January morning in Central Park. The commander of a Manhattan North homicide squad, she inspects the body of an unidentified young girl. Naked, her skin blue from the cold, her feet c...

  • Noodlebug: Animal Friends

    Cricket Books

    For toddlers from the publishers of BABYBUG and CRICKET magazines. For the animal lover in every child, NOODLEBUG brings the delightful illustrations and activities of BABYBUG and LADYBUG magazines to life with engaging animations, silly puppets, cap...

  • The House Next Door

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    HAUNTED HOUSE On a whim, Emma Donovan bets her twin brother, Charlie, that she can spend the entire night alone at the spooky, abandoned house next door. The place is seriously creepy, but she's determined to overcome her fears and prove her ...

  • Fractured Time

    Michael D'Ambrosio

    Fractured Time is the first book in a trilogy. Humans are stranded on a strange and hostile world after a catastrophic phenomenon displaces several regions and time periods to an alien world. Survivors battle a variety of creatures as they fight for ...

  • The Coral Coffin

    Michael Dahl

    While searching for his missing archeologist parents in the Great Barrier Reef, Finn is separated from his Uncle Stoppard by a tropical storm and picked up by a ship led by the notorious female pirate, Blue Jade. Original....

  • Gym Rats

    Michael Dahlie

  • The Devil and Mr. Chocolate

    Janet Dailey
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    Kitty Hamilton is a successful art gallery owner engaged to a wonderful man -- who also happens to be heir to a Belgian chocolate empire. Now if her ex-husband, artist Sebastian Cole, would just disappear, perhaps she could stop thinking of him as th...

  • Only Thing Better Than Chocolate

    Janet Dailey

    A delectable combination of love and chocolate is captured in three passionate tales, including Janet Daily's "The Devil and Mr. Chocolate," in which art gallery owner Kitty Hamilton finds herself torn between her wealthy fiancT and her ex-husband, S...

  • Murphy's Mystery

    Jenny Dale

  • Orphan Puppy

    Jenny Dale

  • Crimes of Passion: The Lovebirds // Deadly Valentine

    B.J. Daniels
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    What do you give a mistress for Valentine's Day? In the case of Peggy Kane, an expensive box of chocolates. But who planted the strynchnine-laced sweets in the hotel penthouse? Hotel detective Tempest Bailey suspects there's more to this romantic tra...

  • Can I Call You Sweetheart?

    Peggy Daniels
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    A delightful collection of historial romances captures a range of emotions relevant to love, from amusement to sadness, and includes Peggy Daniels's "Can I Call You Sweetheart?" in which Amber Wade must learn to forgive Nicholas Parish for deserting ...

  • Finding Her Prince

    Lilian Darcy

    Duty-bound to serve his country, Prince Stephen Serkin-Rimsky readily agreed to marry a beautiful stranger to safeguard the throne. Stephen wasn't prepared for the consuming passion Suzanne Brown's innocent kisses aroused in him -- or that their marr...

  • Hide-and-Go Mojo

    Peter David

  • The Promise

    Dee Davis

    The mine called out to Cara from deep in Colorado's San Juan Mountains, near the town of Silverthread. It was rich in ore, overflowing with wealth that could make a family's fortune -- or destroy it. In it had begun the weaving of a web of de...

  • For Love of Audrey Rose

    Frank De Felitta

    The sequel to Audrey Rose takes Janice Templeton back to the death of Audrey Rose and the mystery of where she is if she was reincarnated as Ivy Templeton. Ivy, Janice's daughter, was also killed in a car crash. Janice is determined to find the truth...

  • Have Tech, Will Travel

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Need a gigantic, marauding starship explored? Is your global computer system starting to break down? Call in the crack team from the Starfleet Corps of Engineers. Overseen by Captain Montgomery Scott from his office at Starfleet Headquarters, the S.C...

  • Palladio

    Jonathan Dee

    In her small upstate New York town, Molly Howe is admired for her beauty, poise, and character, until one day a secret is exposed and she is cruelly ostracized. She escapes to Berkeley, where she finds solace in a young art student named John Wheelwr...

  • Magic Apple

    Corinne Demas

  • Painted Words: An Anthology of Tribal Literature

    G.N. Devy

    This is the first collection of its kind: writings in a rich variety of genres by Adivasis and denotified tribals. Culled from all over India, the selections include tribal versions of the Mahabharat and Ramayan, colourful legends, rhythmic epics, po...

  • Mewtwo Returns

    Howie Dewin

    The follow-up to the first blockbuster Pokemon Movie: Mewtwo Strikes Back-- starring one of the top ten favorite. Based on the 1201 Pokemon Direct-to-Video, Mewtwo Returns.

    Mewtwo Returns answers kids' burning questions about what happened t...

  • Mahayana Tantra: An Introduction

    Shri Dharmakirti

    A practitioner of the Mahayana Buddhist Tantra uses his intellect and moral discipline to attain Buddhahood, the highest state of existence. How to achieve this state was first shown by the Buddha and, after him, by various incarnations of Indian and...

  • Goodnight, Sweet Prince

    David Dickinson

    It is 1892, the fifty-fourth year of Queen Victoria's reign. Lord Salisbury serves as prime minister, Cavalleria Rusticana is the hit of the London season, and the Prince of Wales is embroiled in yet another scandal. Alexandra, the popular and much-a...

  • Hugs and Kisses

    Disney Book Group

    Everyone likes to get hugs and kisses from their friends, especially the Disney Princesses! The colorful tabs on each page of this circular board book lead to pages featuring Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Ariel, Jasmine, and Belle sharing ...

  • Super Sea Friends

    Disney Book Group

  • The Vine of Desire

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    The beloved characters of Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s bestselling novel Sister of My Heart are reunited in this powerful narrative that challenges the emotional bond between two lifelong friends, as the husband of one becomes dangerously attracted...

  • Three Fables

    Maryann Dobeck

  • The Shell Collector

    Anthony Doerr

    The "perilously beautiful" (Boston Globe) first story collection by the author of the acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All The Light We Cannot See and Cloud Cuckoo Land.The exquisitely crafted stories in Anthony Doerr’s...

  • Forgotten Sins

    Robyn Donald

    Aline was in bed with a handsome stranger! He claimed she'd made love to him. Her mind couldn't remember a thing, but her body was on fire. Jake accused Aline of conveniently faking her amnesia, of deliberately holding something back. ...

  • Veiled Threats

    Deborah Donnelly

    A WEDDING TO DIE FOR When love is in the air, Carnegie Kincaid is not far behind. A wedding planner who works out of her Seattle, houseboat, Carnegie makes magic--usually--with fractious families, brimming brides, and cantankerous caterers, to giv...

  • Silver Links

    Shannon Donnelly
    in

    Irresistible Romance... A not-so-harmless fib... A ruined ritual... A slip of the tongue... How will Cupid save these three delightful heroines this Valentine's Day? Silver Links, by Shannon Donnelly Lady Olivia Duncastle fears she has destro...

  • Star of the Sea

    Gail Donovan

  • White Shell Woman

    James D. Doss

    The two sandstone monoliths towering over the southern Colorado landscape are wrapped in ancient mystery. To the local tribes, they are the Twin War Gods, sons of the moon goddess, White Shell Woman. Legends tell of strange happenings in their shadow...

  • First Strike

    Keith Douglass

    HOT SPOT Though the Soviet Union has long been disbanded, a group of radical hard-line Russian military officers refuses to end the Cold War without one last blast. They've taken over an airfield in Bermuda--and are ready to launch a nuclear attac...

  • Three Girls and a Monster

    Laura Dower

    The Powerpuff Girls: Kick-But Kindergarten Crime-Fighters! the Powerpuff Girls, Cartoon Newtowrk's mega-hit series, are kicking butt all over the world!

    Uh-oh. Another ferocious monster is attaching the city of Townsville! Of course. The Power...

  • The Powerpuff Girls and the Valentine's Day Mix-Up

    Laura Dower

    "The Powerpuff Girls" is Cartoon Network's highest-rated show among kids 2-11. It's a mega-hit! And so are Scholastic's books -- last year's Valentine Book hit #9 on the NY Times Kids' Bestsellers.It's another Valentine's Day in Townsville. Everyone ...

  • Supermen: Tales of the Posthuman Future

    Gardner Dozois

    Mind-expanding explorations of the future of the human formOur bodies and minds are malleable, and only the imagination is the limit to the possible improvements. From genetics to artificial enhancements, humanity will alter the course of its own evo...

  • Dogs of War

    David Drake

    Military authors have entered the mainstream science fiction genre and continue to leave their mark. David Drake pays homage to his own sub-genre by collecting ten classic stories of men-at-arms by top writers including himself....

  • How to Be an Artist

    Bill Drummond

  • Hanging on to Home

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Eliza and her family are in the lush jungles of Sumatra, all set to film a documentary on the endangered orangutans. Their host, Panga, of the Adopt an Orangutan Society, seems very concerned about the plight of the apes. But Eliza soon finds out -- ...

  • The Crusader

    Michael Alexander Eisner

    A knight possessed by demons, an ambitious monk skilled in exorcism, and a bloody Crusade that ends in a terrible siege lie at the heart of Michael Alexander Eisner’s action-packed medieval adventure of Christian warriors and Muslim infidels in the...

  • Laird of the Mist

    Elizabeth English

    DREAM LOVERS Banished from his clan, Alistair Kirallen is a sword for hire and a man with a dream: to avenge his brother's death. 'Til a very different dream fires his imagination. She is his heart's desire, his one true destiny--but she is only a...

  • The Tiger by the River

    Ravi Shankar Etteth

  • Visions of Sugar Plums

    Janet Evanovich

    THE WORLD OF PLUM HAS NEVER BEEN MERRIER! It's five days before Christmas and things are not looking merry for Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum. She hasn't got a tree. She hasn't bought any presents. The malls are jam-packed with stagger...

  • Longarm and the Sidesaddle Assasin

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm locks horns with a lead-slinging lovely!While riding the plains of Utah, two census-takers venture deep into Mormon country -- and end up six feet deeper. Someone wants to keep the U.S. government in the dark about the local population -- and...

  • Killing Paparazzi

    Robert Eversz

    Nina Zero is a girl who attracts trouble. Serious trouble of the guns-a-blazing, knife in the back variety. After serving a prison sentence for single-handedly blowing up LAX airport - by mistake - she finds on her release that the world just won't a...

  • The Best Part of Me

    Wendy Ewald

    An award-winning photographer asked several children "What is the best part of you?", and presents their answers in this sometimes funny, sometimes moving, deeply personal book that includes striking black-and-white photographs taken by the author. I...

  • House of the Scorpion

    Nancy Farmer

    MATTEO ALACRAN WAS NOT BORN; HE WAS HARVESTED. His DNA came from El Patron, lord of a country called Opium -- a strip of poppy fields lying between the United States and what was once called Mexico. Matt's first cell split and divided inside a pe...

  • Highland Lord

    Colleen Faulkner

    The illegitimate daughter of Scotland's king, Robert the Bruce, Anne awaits her betrothal as a ward of the Forrests of Rancoff Castle. Then Tor Henneson storms the gates of the keep, a towering giant full of hell and fury. The powerful Viking warrior...

  • On Green Dolphin Street

    Sebastian Faulks

    Focusing on a richly significant time in our recent past, Sebastian Faulks, the bestselling author of Birdsong and Charlotte Gray, has written his first novel set in America. The year is 1960 -- a fascinating moment of transition in our country, when...

  • Dark Legend

    Christine Feehan

    GABRIEL He woke deep within the ground, and the first sensation he felt was hunger. An overwhelming hunger for blood that demanded satisfaction. But as he hunted the dark streets of Paris for prey, a voice called to him, soothing, calming, giving ...

  • Snowy Winter Day

    Estelle Feldman

  • The Midwife Bride

    Janet Ferguson

    Single parent partnership! Midwife Ella Fairfax and her young daughter have come to Easthaven for a fresh start. Ella has a challenging new job and a welcoming new home, but she isn't looking for love. At least, not until she sets eyes on her hand...

  • A Guardian's Angel

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    SHE DARED TO DREAM When Angela Needham accepts a position preparing a duke's ward for her come-out, she has no idea how complicated her life will soon become. The Rodney Abernathy, Duke of Oslington is cool and distant, but his neighbor, Justi...

  • A Triple Threat to Bachelorhood

    Marie Ferrarella

    He was long and lean and wore a star. And to Melinda Morrow's triplets, he was a wonderful pal. But to Melinda herself, well that was a different story! Sure, deputy sheriff Carl Cutler's calm strength made her feel safe -- but it also made her remem...

  • Death Wish

    James Ferro

    OVER THE DESERTS OF IRAQ The A-10A Warthogs are the final word in air-to-ground combat. Taking on any threat on land or in the sky, the only thing tougher than the machines are the men and women who fly them. BEYOND THE CALL OF DUTY When members...

  • The Eyre Affair

    Jasper Fforde

    Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can...

  • Call of the White Wolf

    Carol Finch

    A gunshot wound sent John Wolf straight to paradise. Paradise Valley, that is, where an Irish hellcat with the face of an angel had rescued five orphans...and offered him a life that was more than just duty and danger. But would the truth of his past...

  • The Blue Roan Child

    Jamieson Findlay

    A Magical Friendship. An Unforgettable Journey. Syeira is an orphaned girl with a special connection to horses -- especially to Arwin, a beautiful and willful mare who lives in the king's stables where Syeira works. When an evil ruler kidnaps Arwin'...

  • Weather

    Julian Fleisher

  • Lord of Fire

    Gaelen Foley

    After years of preparation, he has baited his trap well, luring the depraved members of Society into his devil's playground so he can earn their trust and uncover their secrets. Yet no one in London suspects that Lord Lucien Knight is England's most ...

  • How the Leopard Got Its Spots

    Justine Fontes

  • His Child

    Delores Fossen

    FATHER...HUSBAND?...STRANGER! After being abducted and artificially inseminated, Jessie Barrett was in danger and running for her life. And the one man she could turn to for answers was Jake McClendon -- the biological father of her unborn child. ...

  • The Approaching Storm

    Alan Dean Foster

    The Republic is decaying, even under the leadership of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, who was elected to save the galaxy from collapsing under the forces of discontent. On the tiny but strategic planet of Ansion, a powerful faction is on the verge of ...

  • Reunion

    Kathryn Fox

    Was Love Enough To Keep Them Together? As she journeyed across the northern frontier to join her fiance, Lauren often thought of the hardships she would face as the wife of a Canadian Mountie. But she never imagined that her first challenge would ...

  • The Clerk's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    St. Mary's nunnery is a place of prayer and healing for women so it is surprising to see a man sprawled out in the cloister garden. Dead. Less surprising, to Dame Frevisse, was the identity of the victim. Master Montfort was not particularly liked by...

  • A Visit to the Dentist

    Eleanor Fremont

    Worried about his first trip to the dentist, Little Bill's older brother and sister put his fears to rest after telling him about the good things that he will experience when he gets there, such as sitting in a big chair and getting a sticker for goo...

  • The Day Trader

    Stephen Frey

    Augustus McKnight senses his dead-end life is about to change when he makes a shrewd online investment and earns an impressive windfall. But before he can tell his wife about his success, she reveals an adulterous affair and demands a divorce. A day ...

  • Dots and Spots

    Orlando Frizado

  • Harlequin Valentine

    Neil Gaiman

    In this modern hardcover retelling of a classic commedia dell'arte legend of tomfoolery and hopeless, fawning love, creators Neil Gaiman (The Sandman, the Newbery Medal-winning The Graveyard Book) and John Bolton (Evil Dead) update the relationship o...

  • The Tycoon's Temptation

    Katherine Garbera

    BECOMING MRS. BILLIONAIRE Only two things had ever sliced through billionaire businessman Preston Dexter's razor-sharp focus on making money -- Lily Stone's legs! The sight of those shapely, mile-long wonders sent him charging past "go" in a high-...

  • The Husband Hotel

    Darlene Gardner

    The fix is in! Jay Overman, inventor of the Impeccabra, has a job to do: keep eligible fellas away from hotel manager Tara Patterson. No way was she to get distracted from climbing the corporate ladder. Sounds easy enough, but not for Jay! It turns ...

  • Harold and the Purple Crayon: The Birthday Present

    Valerie Garfield

    Harold wants to give his mother the nicest birthday present ever. But what would she like? Harold uses his purple crayon to help him find a present, and the search takes him far away from home. On his trip, Harold creates a forest of trees so larg...