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New Books List: 432 titles

  • The Final Fury

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    For ages they have sought to claim our worlds. Now, at last, we take the battle to them. . . . Far from the Federation's desperate war against the invading Furies, the crew of the U.S.S. VoyagerTM encounters something they never expected to hear aga...

  • Tried by Fire

    Bassam Abu-Sharif

  • Pig, Horse, or Cow, Don't Wake Me Now

    Arlene Alda

    Morning time means waking up. But sometimes it comes too soon! In this lively companion to Sheep, Sheep, Sheep, Help Me Fall Asleep,  Arlene Alda's playful verse and original photographs explore a world of little ones who need some coaxing to open ...

  • Encounter With Tiber

    Buzz Aldrin; John Barnes

    Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin shared perhaps the greatest moment in history when he and Neil Armstrong became the first humans to set foot on another world. Now this renowned futurist teams with multiple award -- finalist john Barnes, whom the Wash...

  • Indiscretion

    Margaret Allison

    Katherine Wells is bright, beautiful -- and Benson Corporation's youngest marketing director ever. Michael Benson is driven, ambitious, attractive -- and Benson's president. Ready for a new beginning, Katherine Wells leaves the heartland for t...

  • Love's Image

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    A JOURNEY TO THE PAST... One minute, photographer Jenny Langford is taking a picture with her great-grandfather's camera; the next, she is standing in his studio in Oklahoma in 1896 -- just in time to see his killer run out the door... .....

  • The Perfect Stranger

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    THE MAGIC OF THEIR LOVE LIVES ON... Cecelia and Collin Freeport once lived, loved and died in the rambling clifftop house they named Seascape. Sea Haven Village remembers Cecelia's healing work and how, at death, her soul was carried away in t...

  • Trapped in the Underworld

    Cynthia Alvarez

  • Family Matters

    Gloria Alvarez

    KISS OF A STRANGER Carolina Bradford thought it rather odd when the midnight drifter ambled into her restaurant after closing. Yet the more she talked to him, the more drawn she was to his free spirit and unabashed sensuality. Her dreams of roma...

  • One Step at a Time

    Caroline Anderson

    Even the best of intentions can go awry ... Dr. Dominic Heywood had broken his leg in a car accident, which was a disaster, for who would run his private clinic? The only person he could trust was his ex-wife, Kate. They had an amicable relationsh...

  • Keegan's Lady

    Catherine Anderson

    WOUNDED BY VENGEANCE Caitlin O'Shannessy survived years of abuse at the hands of her alcoholic father. Now he is dead -- leaving the strong, courageous miss with a Colorado ranch, an unwavering devotion to her brother, a lasting mistrust of me...

  • A Million Tomorrows

    Marylee Anderson

    TO: Commander Mark Edwards, USN, USS Silvership: "...I'm sure you understand why I must withdraw my acceptance of your marriage proposal [STOP] Thanks for making my Thanksgiving cruise one I'll always remember [STOP] Wishing you the best life ...

  • Come Back, Jack!

    Laurence Anholt

  • Sister

    A. Manette Ansay

    "When my brother disappeared in 1984, I began to see myself in the third person as if my life were a story being told to someone else."Abigail Schiller lives a seemingly normal childhood in a rural Catholic commuinity in Wisconsin. But that life is s...

  • Undercover Honeymoon

    Laura Anthony

    Conveniently Wed "I do," the bride and groom said... without love they wed -- or so they thought! "What's the point of going undercover as a groom if i can't even kiss my 'bride' in private?" -- Nick Nickerson ...

  • The Visitor

    K.A. Applegate

    If someone told you Earth was under a silent attack, there's a good chance you'd think they were pretty strange. If that same person said Earth's only means of defense depends on the actions and powers of five kids, you'd probably start to look for a...

  • Out of the West

    Jane Archer

    Seeking her parents' killer in the Wild West, St. Louis belle-turned-bounty hunter Summer meets the mysterious gambler Talon, while Nokoni, a beautiful African-American bounty hunter, pursues her own trail of vengeance that leads to Buffalo soldier S...

  • Playboy Lover

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Rory Jones was dazzling. Handsome, charismatic and a man of immense charm and glamour. Dominique Lindwall was gorgeous and successful -- in everything but love. She just always seemed to fall for Mr. Wrong. When Rory and Dominique met at a pa...

  • Wagers of Sin

    Robert Asprin; Linda Evans

    When a disaster nearly destroys the universe, survivors from the planet Earth carefully rebuild their changed world, which has become susceptible to shifting time lines and challenges the wits of mischievous Skeeter Jackson...

  • Catch Your Breath

    Jessica Auerbach

    "Gripping . . . Fast-paced action and finely tuned tension . . . A meaty domestic thriller."          
    --Kirkus Reviews

    Rosie Sloan is scared to death. Her husband moved out, her two-year-old son has developed terrifying asthma...

  • Hidden Heart

    Anne Avery

    Reluctant heir to the Controllership of the planet Diloran, Tarl preferred the danger of working undercover to the drudgery of attending state functions. Yet he never dared hope that his midnight forays would land him in the room of a beauty who was ...

  • Darcy's Story

    Janet Aylmer

    When Elizabeth Bennet first met Mr. Darcy, she found him proud, distant, and rude-despite the other ladies' admiration of his estate in Derbyshire and ten thousand pounds a year. But what was Mr. Darcy thinking? Jane Austen's classic Pride and Pr...

  • Snow in Winter

    Margaret Bacon

    From the early days of her childhood in the Yorkshire Dales, Nell Thorpe learnt through bitter experience that she shouldn't allow herself to become reliant on any man. So when she meets Gregory Nansen on a skiing holiday, she refuses, despite her gr...

  • Raul's Revenge

    Jacqueline Baird

    Raul's reason for revenge... Penny seized her opportunity to save the love she and Raul shared, and proposed marriage -- but he turned her down flat! The misunderstandings of the past few weeks had left there mark and now Raul had got his revenge,...

  • Iron Horse Warrior

    Jack Ballas

    Hunting his brother's killer for three years left Chance Tenery trail weary and short of cash. So, when he rode into the Wyoming Territory, he found work on the Union Pacific Railroad. With Indians and outlaws around every bend, it was not a job for ...

  • Death on the Diagonal

    Carolyn Banks

    BEAD, TEXAS, IS A DEAD END. Little white houses, the yard-of-the-week competition, new hanging files in the insurance company--that's about it for Bead. Not even the hit-and-run death of the editor of the Bead Weekly rouses this Texas backwater fr...

  • For the Love of Sin

    Leanne Banks

    His smile said come and get me if you dare... . Troy Pendleton was too big, too rugged, and well over six feet of unapologetic masculinity. on a mission. He'd followed Senada Calhoun all the way to Texas, and he didn't plan on leaving without her-...

  • Harry the Poisonous Centipede

    Lynne Reid Banks

    MEET HARRY Harry's mother warns him of the terrifying dangers lurking above the earth-tunnels where centipedes live. Furry-biters, belly-crawlers, flying-swoopers...But there's something even worse, and that's Up the Up-Pipe! Never, never must he ve...

  • Hidden Secrets

    Audrey Baracus

    When her mother disappears months after her brother is killed by a hit-and-run driver, Allie is unwilling to believe local suspicions that her mother has run away and vows to discover the truth. Original....

  • Born to Fly

    Becky Barker

    THE HEART SOARS As a charter pilot for her private family-owned airline, Sharla Prescott had no intention of letting romance come between her and her career. She certainly wasn't about to risk everything on someone as arrogant, stubborn...and irre...

  • On With the Story

    John Barth

    Using the venerable literary device of the bedtime story, which links fictions as different as The Arabian Nights and Charlotte's Web, John Barth ingeniously interweaves stories from an ongoing, high-spirited but deadly serious nocturnal game of tale...

  • American Falls

    John Calvin Batchelor

    This apocalyptic novel of the Civil War chronicles the clash of two agents of the rival Secret Services--John Oliphant and Union Captain Amaziah Butter--like brothers in their love of the country they serve and in their determination to do their duty...

  • Krazy 4 U

    A. Bates

  • Prism

    Austin Bay

    In the near future, Texas multibillionaire Coleman O. Mosley hires a retired psychic government agent to assassinate the President of the United States while the President's own psychics seek to defend him. Reprint....

  • Cold Smoked

    K.K. Beck

    FISHING FOR CLUES What would you expect at a seafood convention in Seattle? A lot of cold fish? Certainly not a red-hot murder... and another hopeless case for detective Jane da Silva to solve. Jane--who can only collect on her trust fund by investi...

  • Acts of Revision

    Martyn Bedford

  • The Mystery of Men

    Guy Bellamy

    Four middle-aged men concoct a scheme which involves them insuring their lives, so that if one of them dies the others inherit a tidy sum. Suddenly fate throws a darkly comic chain of mishaps their way: more than one of the men will have a nasty acci...

  • Going Down

    Jennifer Belle

    National Bestseller“A funny, sad, nasty little gem of a novel.” -- Jay McInerneyIn bestselling author Jennifer Belle’s debut novel, Going Down, Belle introduces readers to Bennington Bloom, a coed working her way through college. As a call girl...

  • Gulliver's Travels

    Ann Keay Beneduce

  • The Bridesmaids

    Cherie Bennett

    Picture-perfect bride Fawn hides a grim secret that she fears could ruin her life, while Austin, her fiance+a7, considers whether Fawn is really the girl he loves, and their bridesmaids pursue personal challenges. Original....

  • Nightmare in Heaven

    Cherie Bennett

  • Devil of a Chance

    Cheryln Biggs

    His lips captured hers in a duel of danger and desire . . . Chance Reitchelle's eyes reminded Kelly Garriston of midnight fog, their depths a shadowy world where a rookie private eye could get lost forever! Raised in a family of cops, she didn't b...

  • Murder Well-Done

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sis...

  • Tigress

    Jennifer Blake

    Only one man dared trap and tame her... It begins on a dark, scented patio in Rio, with the rich rhythms of a samba... and the warm caress of a masked stranger with magic in his touch. It sweeps from Rio to New Orleans in an erotic haze of seduction...

  • Keep Still

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Crime veteran Marti MacAlister has put her husband's killer in jail and her heart on hold while she juggles life with two teenagers and eighteen-hour days as the only black woman cop in a Chicago suburb.

    In a summer of drugs, gangs, guns, and ...

  • The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart

    Lawrence Block

    Even burglars fall in love, and in this case, it's Bernie doing the falling, with the lovely and alluring Ilona. Night after night, sharing popcorn in the flickering shadow of a Bogie movie, Bernie finds himself tongue-tied - sometimes literally. It ...

  • Spider, Spin Me a Web

    Lawrence Block

    The craft of writing is a lot like spinning a web: You take threads and weave them skillfully together, and only you know where the intricate network of twists and turns begin and how it will end. Now, with Lawrence Block’s expert advice you can le...

  • Birthday Shoes

    Barbara Boswell
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    Black suede pumps -- and a broken gypsy curse -- open a practical lady law assistant's eyes to the sensual charms of her work-obsessed boss -- and turn office politics into a desk-top sizzle....

  • A Different Beat

    Candy Dawson Boyd

    Jessie soon discovers the difficulties of studying acting at Oakland Performing Arts Middle School, as she copes with a full schedule, the need to keep up her grades, a prejudiced teacher, and an eloquent rival. By the author of Chevrolet Saturda...

  • Lifeline

    Gerry Boyle

    The tendency toward mayhem that follows Jack McMorrow like a shadow finally sends his girlfriend Roxanne fleeing to the relatively stable urban center of Portland, leaving Jack to nurse a sore heart and mull an ultimatum alone in the wilds of Maine. ...

  • Sword and Sorceress XIII

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    WITH SWORD AND SHIELD, SPELL AND CURSE.... Even at the risk of losing her one true love, a young mage must put aside all she holds dear to achieve a higher goal.... A benevolent shapechanger is all that stands between her village and the bloody...

  • Bull Hunter

    Max Brand

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Max Brand, ‘Bull Hunter.’Hunter was a man who could rip a tree trunk from the ground with his bare hands or tame the wildest stallion with his kind manner. Nobody west of the Pecos would have dared...

  • Fugitive's Fire

    Max Brand

    Imprisoned by the Cheyenne, Paul Torridon is nevertheless revered by his captors for his supposed spiritual powers, but suspicious members of the tribe are trying to prove him an imposter, and Torridon must fight to stay alive...

  • Hired Husband

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE DEAL With eyes as dark as night and a gaze that laid all secrets bare, Nick Valkov was the kind of man any smart woman would av...

  • Eeyore, You're the Best

    Ann Braybrooks

  • No Justice

    James D. Brewer

    The third installment in the acclaimed Reconstruction era series finds Baldridge and Williamson--the Pinkerton Detective Agency's top detective team--traveling the Mississippi in the wake of the Civil War on the lookout for a murderer....

  • A Dangerous Man

    Connie Brockway

    A Dangerous Bargain Standing in the English drawing room, Hart Moreland, the Earl of Perth, seemed the quintessential aristocrat: remote, imperious, sophisticated. But Mercy Coltrane had last seen him six years earlier in Texas. There they called hi...

  • Dr. Drabble and the Dynamic Duplicator

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Dr. Drabble's funny machine can duplicate anything--even doubles to clean your room and do your chores. What a great idea! That is, untli P.J. and Chelsea break a promise and use the machine on their own. This very funny book has a wonderful message ...

  • Shadows of Steel

    Dale Brown

    THE NEW GULF WAR IS ERUPTING... And this one will be far bloodier than the first. A newly powerful Iran is flexing its military muscle in the Middle East. The Iranians have declared the Persian Gulf their territorial waters--and an American ship h...

  • Exclusive

    Sandra Brown

    Barrie Travis is not famous: she's just a damn good reporter stuck at a low-budget television station. Then the First Lady calls her...and offers her the story of a lifetime. The president's wife, stunned by grief after the loss of her infant son, hi...

  • The Baby Notion

    Dixie Browning

    THE BABY MAKER? Rugged cowboy Jake Spencer liked how babies were made-but wasn't about to make one himself! Then he heard that the sexiest single gal in New Hope, Texas was planning to visit the sperm bank. Suddenly, convincing Priscilla to do her...

  • Tight Rein

    Bonnie Bryant

    Stevie Lake has been grounded. No hanging out with the other members of the Saddle Club.  Even worse, Stevie's not allowed to ride! It's going to take all her wackiness, and a little help in the scheming department from Carole Hanson and Lisa At...

  • Cupid Wears Combat Boots

    Carole Buck
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    Combat boots --- and a matchmaking teen --- convince a sex-kitten actress with a home-seeking heart that there is something far more important than her next action flick: going one-on-one with her virile combat instructor --- on a permanent basis....

  • Falcon

    Emma Bull

    His life is a race against time. And time is winning.He was a prince, until his world was plunged into civil war. He was a son, until he discovered his mother’s secret. He was an exile, until he became Niki Falcon, piloting a ship linked to his ner...

  • Cadillac Jukebox

    James Lee Burke

    James Lee Burke has been hailed as a “national treasure” (Tampa Bay Times) and in his ninth Dave Robicheaux thriller, it’s easy to see why. This taut, twisted tale of corruption in the Louisiana bayou truly brands Burke as “America’s best n...

  • If Two of Them Are Dead

    Carol Cail

    Co-owner of a small Colorado newspaper, reporter Maxey Burnell is taking a well-deserved vacation - her first in years. While visiting her only relatives, Aunt Janet and Cousin Curtis, she makes a startling discovery. Not only is her father still ali...

  • The Book of Mercy

    Kathleen Cambor

    In a novel that “will grab your heart” (Library Journal), a mother’s absence continues to reverberate in the lives of the husband and two children she abandoned. A PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.
    ...

  • Vinnie Got Blown Away

    Jeremy Cameron

    Nicky finds his mate Vinnie at the bottom of a block of flats, feet sawn off, pushed from the 14th floor after getting on the wrong side of the local drug dealers. Nicky calls his mates from the manor and together they draw up a plan to get vengeance...

  • Glory in Danger

    Joanna Campbell

    Will Glory ever race again? Cindy Blake's champion Thoroughbred, Glory, is winning every race he enters. With Ashleigh as his jockey, he burns up the track. When he wins an important race by over ten lengths, track officials become suspicious. The...

  • Just In Time

    Marilyn Campbell

    SHE MADE A LEAP OF FAITH INTO THE FUTURE -- AND INTO HIS ARMS Ever since her young husband's tragic death in the Korean War, Beverly Newcastle hadn't been living, just existing. A visit to a gypsy fortuneteller for her birthday had been her girlfr...

  • The Anniversary

    Rachel Canon

    Melanie Lombard, the first female President of the United States, had only held office for three days when an assassin's bullet ended her life and dreams. Now, on the first anniversary of Melanie's death, her best friend Nora discovers that Melanie m...

  • Children of the Mind

    Orson Scott Card

    THE DESTRUCTION OF LUSITANIA DRAWS NEAR The planet Lusitania is home to three sentient species: the Pequeninos; a large colony of -humans; and the Hive Queen, brought there by Ender. But once again the human race has grown fearful; the Starways Co...

  • Twist of Fate

    D.l. Carey

    Believing that she is prepared to handle anything in her duties as an emergency volunteer, teenage Yellowjacket Lydia Malcolm confronts unexpected feelings of self-doubt when someone close to her is critically injured...

  • The Fortunate Fall

    Raphael Carter

    Maya Andreyevna has a virtual reality camera planted in her head, allowing millions of people to see, feel, and hear along with her as she investigates the coverup of a massacre in a futuristic Russian society...

  • Serendipity

    Jacqueline Case

    TROUBLE IN PARADISE When Sarah Window arrived on the shimmering tropical island of San Ricardo in the Caribbean, she thought she'd found paradise. It was completely different from the conservative world she'd known as a small-town minister's daugh...

  • Passion in the First Degree

    Carla Cassidy

    He'd always been her hero... Years ago Shelby Longsford had sought comfort in Billy Royce's strong arms -- but she regretted it ever since. Nobody knew better how cold his blood ran...or how hot. In one night he'd branded her his fore...

  • Daddy Candidate

    Maureen Caudill

    He never dreamed he'd make the perfect father. . . . She wasn't waiting a moment longer, Lyssa Cooper decided--it was time to find a husband, have a baby, and settle down! But locating the man who'd match up with her list of virtues seemed impossi...

  • No Bananas

    Peter Cave

  • Dancing Gods

    Jack L. Chalker

    BEYOND THE SEA OF DREAMS
    Life had never been kind to Joe and Marge. Now, according to Throckmorton P. Ruddygore--a stranger who met them on a road that wasn't there--they were due to die in nineteen minutes. But across the Sea of Dreams lay a new ...

  • A Heart Divided

    Megan Chance

    THERE ARE SOME BETRAYALS A WOMAN CAN NEVER FORGIVE... Sarilyn Travers trembled when she spotted the lone rider crossing the high Colorado plains. Conor Roarke was back. It had been only a year since he'd loved her and used her to betray her husband ...

  • Gertie's Not Alone

    Normand Chartier

  • Raven and the Cowboy

    Sandra Chastain

    He first came to her in a dream: a sleek and tawny cougar with the power to protect her. So when Raven Alexander awoke to find herself lying beside the rugged stranger, she wasn't afraid. He might be an unruly cowboy with a checkered past but Ra...

  • Death in the Afternoon

    Kate Chester

  • Dying to Sing

    Margaret Chittenden

    Polish your snakeskin boots and grab your Stetson. Just south of San Francisco is Chaps, California's hottest country-western bar. And living right upstairs is Charlie Plato, a red-headed divorcee with a swingingly upbeat attitude about life-and a de...

  • A Knife to Remember

    Jill Churchill

    Lights! Camera! Murder! At first it seems like a glamorous dream, having a Hollywood movie company right in her own backyard. But suburban housewife Jane Jeffry soon finds that the rich and famous have brought their dirty laundry right to her door...

  • Silence of the Hams

    Jill Churchill

    This Little Piggy Went to Murder Pompous, pig-headed attorney Robert Stonecipher is a major pain in the ham hocks. So no one is terribly upset when he's fatally mashed by a falling rack of hams at the new deli where suburban single mom Jane Je...

  • Wilde Heart

    Daphne Clair

    Weddings -- Glamour -- Desire -- Deceit Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store: De...

  • The Baby Assignment

    Cathryn Clare

    TEMPORARY DADDY After her husband's death, Shelby Henderson didn't trust any law enforcement agency to keep her--or her daughter--safe. But suddenly FBI agent Jack Cotter barged into her life to warn them of trouble ...and brought a more personal ...

  • Shadow Moon

    Chris Claremont

    Thirteen years have passed since the epic battle of Nockmaar freed the land from a tyrant's yoke. But in the time since, the countryside has been wracked by war and chaos. According to prophecy, there is but one hope of deliverance: the Princess Elor...

  • X-Men: Annuals

    Chris Claremont

  • Daddy Down the Aisle

    Donna Clayton

    Conveniently Wed "I do," the bride and groom said... without love they wed -- or so this FABULOUS FATHER thought! CONFIRMED BACHELOR POPS THE QUESTION -- ALL FOR THE LOVE OF A TODDLER! Jonas Winslow knew nothing about fatherhood, yet w...

  • Fly By Night

    M.T. Coffin

    Helping a friend locate a missing dog, Ty ventures into a graveyard and unwittingly disturbs the spirits of Mrs. Crow's ancestors, who, Mrs. Crow says, feed on fear and are preparing for the biggest feast of all time. Original....

  • Screaming Skulls

    Daniel Cohen

    A collection of terrifying ghost stories, unexplained phenomena, and mysterious mishaps is accompanied by possible alternative explanations that invite readers to draw their own conclusions. Original....

  • Warrior Fury

    Judd Cole

    Lured from his Cheyenne camp by a message that his pioneer father is dying, Touch the Sky is shocked when his wife and son are kidnapped and must rely on all of his warrior skills in order to save them. Original....

  • Attitude Problem

    Andrew Coleman

    Seventeen-year-old Eric Munson is a rebel with a history of being kicked out of school, but when he meets the ""zombie-like"" students at his new school, and one of them is found dead, Eric and his new friend, Debbie, must rely on their bad att...

  • Safe Harbor

    Patricia Collinge

    SAFE HARBOR There was nothing better than the tranquil crystal waters off Puget Sound for letting the pain of the past ease away. Until a boating accident leaves Susan Gagliardi fighting for her life. Her rescuer is an enigmatic man named Nick Dou...

  • Off Key

    Claudia Cooper

  • Kill the Angels

    Robert Coram

    As Atlanta prepares itself for the Summer Olympics, a madman rages through the streets, raping two women and murdering a third, bringing veteran detective Nigel Trent onto the case, whose daughter quickly becomes the lunatic's new target. Original....

  • Cause of Death

    Patricia Cornwell

    It is New Year's Eve, the last day of Virginia's bloodiest year since the Civil War. Dr. Kay Scarpetta plunges into the murky depths of a ship graveyard to recover the very human remains of Ted Eddings, an investigative reporter. What kind of story w...

  • Borrowed Bride

    Patricia Coughlin

    THE UNINVITED GUEST He was goin' to the chapel, but getting married was the last thing on Connor DeWolfe's mind. He'd sworn to protect his best friend's widow -- even if that meant riding up on his motorcycle and kidnapping bride-t...

  • Rosehaven

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Come back to England in the year 1277 and meet Hastings of Trent and Severin of Langthorne, two strangers joined in marriage. Hastings is an heiress and Severin is the warrior whom the dying Earl of Oxborough has selected to assume ...

  • A Case of Vineyard Poison

    Philip R. Craig

    A TOAST TO THE HAPPY COUPLE...WITH HEMLOCK Vineyard wedding bells are about to chime for ex-Boston cop-turned-island-fisherman J.W. Jackson and his lady Zee Madieras. And Zee's Automatic Teller tells them rather substantial "present" has been depo...

  • Pleasing the Ghost

    Sharon Creech

    A GHOSTLY VISITOR Ever since nine-year-old Dennis's dad died, a veritable parade of ghosts has been passing through his bedroom. When the ghost of his Uncle Arvie blows into his room on a warm breeze, Dennis isn't surprised, but Uncle Arvie is the fi...

  • The Prairie Chicken Kill

    Bill Crider

    The fourth mystery in the series featuring Truman Smith finds the half-hearted investigator away from his customary soda pop and Faulkner novel, skulking through Galveston's back alleys on the trail of a cold-blooded killer....

  • Ancestor's World

    A.C. Crispin

    On the planet Na-Dina, in Ancestor's Valley, the tombs of forty-one dynasties have lain undisturbed for six thousand years.

    But with the visitors from the stars has come progress, threatening the Valley and its treasures.

    The human archeologist...

  • The Wildflower Pony

    Anne Crompton / Anne Eliot Crompton

    Delighted when her pony gives birth to a beautiful foal, Alice fears that her father will say she cannot afford the foal and hides it from him, hoping to gather money by winning a cash prize at an upcoming fair. Original....

  • Gavin's Child

    Caroline Cross

    THE SECRET BABY Gavin Cantrell had a son! An adorable baby boy who looked just like him. The new father would celebrate and pass out cigars, but there was one hitch--Gavin's child was two years old. And his estranged wife had some explaining to do...

  • A Noisy Noise Annoys

    Jennifer Curry

  • Matilda's Movie Adventures

    Lucy Dahl

    A complete companion to the feature film Matilda includes Matilda's survival tips for school and a behind-the-scene look at the star of the movie, Mara Wilson, how she got the part, and her reaction to working with the other stars....

  • Leora

    Lacey Dancer

    LOVE DREAM For the first time in her life, sheltered Leora Mason-St. James was enjoying her newfound freedom. But when a family crisis forced her to return home, she feared that her homecoming would stir up painful memories. She never dreamed th...

  • A Ranch, a Ring and Everything

    Val Daniels

    Reluctant bride.... Samantha Yeager: unemployed teacher, seeks a job for the summer. Mark Chandler: wealthy rancher, doesn't intend to help her out. But Mark has reckoned without his grandmother. Elizabeth Chandler is just as stubborn a...

  • The Father of Her Child

    Emma Darcy

    They acted on impulse! Falling in love again... Lauren hadn't wanted or expected to. Yet when Michael Timberlane smiled at her across a crowded room, all her good resolutions went out of the window. Michael had also vowed never to fall in l...

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Ninth Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

    The ninth installment of this popular annual series features horror and fantasy stories by some of the genre's most noted writers, including Stephen King, Terry Bisson, Jane Yolen, and Scott Bradfield....

  • Hero in Hiding

    Kay David

    MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR... When Mercy Hamilton agreed to serve as doctor to the needy people of Ciudad Bravo, she never dreamed that three days later she would wake up to find a sexy, mysterious and wounded stranger holding a knife to her thro...

  • Loving Katherine

    Carolyn Davidson

    Roan Deveraux Could Gentle Any Filly With A Look And A Touch -- but Kate Cassidy presented a real challenge. With her coltish grace and mile-wide stubborn streak, she was more woman than most men could handle --- and exactly what he needed. ...

  • Dreams Don't Wait

    Carole Dean

    WHAT THE HEART KNOWS World-famous architect Lincoln Stewart needed a part-time nanny for his daughter, and Evangaline North needed a home for herself and her teenaged son. The charming, rustic cabin on Stewart's sprawling estate in Victoria, Cana...

  • Innerverse

    John DeChancie

    Twenty years after the eastern third of the United States is mysteriously cut off and transformed into a police state of passive humans ruled by a ominous technology, agent Frank Sutter becomes the region's only hope. Original....

  • My Lady's Champion

    Claire Delacroix

    SHE SWORE NEVER TO WELCOME HIM TO HER BED Yet when the Lady Melissande looked upon the rugged face and form of the knight she'd been forced to marry, her resolve melted. For Quinn de Sayerne stirred her in the most unexpected ways, and therein lay t...

  • The Skeptical Heart

    Teresa DesJardien

    Lady Augustine Wayfield, whose rather staid husband had expired soon after their arranged marriage, could have become a merry widow. Instead, she became a merry matchmaker! Augustine simply adored romance, and the ton marveled at her talent for Findi...

  • Red Crown

    P.T. Deutermann

  • A Is for Apple, W Is for Witch

    Catherine Dexter

    Apple is teased by the kids at school because her mother is a witch, so, one day, to teach mean spirited Barnaby a lesson, Apple attempts to use a tiny spell she really does not know and quickly finds herself in serious trouble due to the results....

  • Sky High

    Franklin W. Dixon

    The upcoming Lift Challenge, organized by the International Ballooning Club, is overshadowed by a dangerous extortionist who demands $100,000 in exchange for his not causing a terrible accident. Original....

  • Dream Maker

    Charlotte Douglas

    A near death experience changed his life... And Jared Slater vanished into the North Carolina mountains. Living in an isolated cabin, he told no one about the terrifying dreams of a killer stalking women. Or that those dreams had turned to nightm...

  • The Wells of Phyre

    L. Warren Douglas

    Another installment in the "hard" science fiction Arbiter series continues the story of a human outcast's struggle to survive in a future universe in which genetically engineered humans inhabit alien worlds. By the author of Stepwater. Origin...

  • Afterburn

    Keith Douglass

    ACROSS THE LINE Hostilities with the United States have ended, but the Russian Civil War rages on. Carrier Battle Group Fourteen is ordered into the Black Sea as a show of American strength. Now it's up to Captain Matthew "Tombstone" Magruder and ...

  • Bunk 3, Teddy and Me

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Hating sleep-over camp from the minute she arrives, a disappointed Michelle finds herself at the mercy of Brenda the bully, who puts salt in Michelle's cereal and steals her teddy bear, and Michelle devises a plan to get even. Original....

  • Skin Crawlers

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • She Caught the Sheriff

    Anne Marie Duquette

    The Silver Dollar Ranch, near Tombstone, Arizona: Rancher Wyatt Earp Bodine is a third-generation rancher here--and he's also the local sheriff. But he's never had a case like this before! Someone's left a skeleton in Boot Hill, Tombstone's fam...

  • All-Around Cowboy Blues

    Kathleen Eagle
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    The best-looking cowboy in South Dakota has marriage on his mind in bestselling author Kathleen Eagle's wonderful story, All-Around Cowboy Blues....

  • Awesome Truth

    Eddie Eddings

    A fun and interesting combination of trivia that will astound the most astute. This is a combination of trivia not only from the Bible, but also from nature, animals, and history--a fascinating collection that compels readers to give God the glory....

  • Kazaam

    Nicholas Edwards

  • Here, Kitty, Kitty

    Winifred Elze

    Enormous creatures from the Pleistocene Age invade a quiet Adirondack town, and these early mammals attempt to inflict ancient terrors on modern humankind. From Winifred Elze, the author of The Changeling Garden, comes Here, Kitty, Kitty....

  • Cowboy Angst

    Jasen Emmons

    Dropping out of law school and defying his father in order to pursue a music career with his country band, Dennis McCance finds himself in a hostile world that mirrors his own inner struggles. Reprint. 15,000 first printing....

  • Love Me, Love My Bed

    Rita Clay Estrada

    He was the missing half of her wildest fantasy... Beth McGruder's new bed was everything she'd imagined in her secret, wanton dreams - wildly sensual, opulent, ostentatious, luxurious. But it have arrived with something extra... She now had a...

  • Hot & Bothered

    Ann Evans

    SHE'S HOT Alexandria Sutton's hot on the trail of Hunter Garrett. But every time she gets close, he ducks. He is -- without a doubt -- the most infuriating man she's almost met. HE'S BOTHERED Hunter Garrett's bothered by the pesky Ms. Sut...

  • Daughter of the Mist

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    They are daughters of destiny ... born of a kingdom forged in fire and blood, bound by a legacy of magic and love shrouded in the swirling mists of legend ... A rare and dangerous power is her birthright. She is Brianna of Scotland, second daughte...

  • Longarm and the Counterfeit Corpse

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Big Fifty

    Tabor Evans

    Guarding convict Harmony Drake during a train ride to Colorado, where the outlaw is scheduled to hang, Longarm begins a fast-paced pursuit when his charge escapes, a situation that is complicated by the attentions of a beautiful and devious nurse...

  • Longarm and the Lusty Lady

    Tabor Evans

    Going undercover to expose a customs inspector who has been permitting tick-infested cattle to enter from Mexico, Longarm is unaware the the beautiful Dulcima is actually the girlfriend of his enemy. Original....

  • Dangerous

    Fabio

    Once upon a time, Lexi Sinclair and Emmett Bradigan were lovers. But he was wild and reckless, end unable to settle down. Then a terrible fire took him away forever...on the very night Lexi gave birth to their child. Without money and facing life alo...

  • The Sheik's Woman

    Barbara Faith
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    A sexy, mysterious sheikh is her only protector in an unfamiliar land in bestselling author Barbara Faith's captivating tale, The Sheikh's Woman....

  • Weather the Storm

    Jean Ferris

    Sailing to England in the hopes of reuniting with her kin, Rosie is saddened when she learns that she is alone in the world and enters into a marriage of convenience with Raider, whom she grows to love and fears she will lose. Original....

  • The Shaman Bulldog

    Renaldo Fisher

    He was seventy pounds of purebred English bulldog with one tough mug, a sturdy body, and a penchant for keenly observing human nature. With heartfelt affection, Renaldo Fischer offers an adoring, amusing, and moving celebration of his pet's short but...

  • Eyes

    Joanne Fluke

    A mild-mannered car salesman…a womanizing bartender…a beloved minister with a devoted family. Except for the fact that each of the murder victims is male, Minnesota police can't find a connection between the crimes. But that's because what links ...

  • Vampire Cat: My Substitute Teacher's Gone Batty

    Louise Munro Foley

    What a week. It's bad enough that fifth-grader Tracey Wilson is starting a brand new school where she doesn't have any friends, her teacher is a grouch, and (gulp!) it looks like she just flunked her first math test. But things get really weird when ...

  • Bird-Brained Fiasco!

    Louise Munro Foley

    Tracey Wilson's life has not been the same since Omar escaped from his vampire community and "adopted" her as his protector. Now news has come through the Feline Underground Network that the vampires want Omar back--and fast! So far, Tracey has been ...

  • Renegade

    Pamela K. Forrest

    CHERISHED FRIEND, SWORN ENEMY...TENDER LOVER On the eve of her Richmond wedding, Henrietta Hanson is abducted by a mysterious stranger. But by dawn, she recognizes her captor. The years have changed a boy into a man...a man who looks like a Viking...

  • The Marriage Contract

    Cathy Forsythe

    CONVENIENTLY WED "I do," the bride and groom said without love they wed -- or so they thought! WHY THE BRIDE REALLY SAID "1 DO" Become Mrs. Cole Blackmore to save her family business? Of course! Darci Bradley had fantasized o...

  • Hand and Heart of a Soldier

    Elaine Fox

    REBEL LOVE Emma Davenport hated Yankees, and she considered one particular Union soldier her greatest enemy of all. Years ago, the Richmond belle had promised William Darcy her hand -- until the turncoat gave his loyalty to the Northern cause. Then ...

  • The Shift

    George Foy

    CROSSING THE LINE... Alex Munn is a burned-out television writer for a soap opera called Pain in the Afternoon. Then he's introduced to Virtix, a virtual reality technology so good that the viewer can't tell the difference between real life and Re...

  • A Good Groom Is Hard To Find

    Amy Frazier

    Welcome to Sweet Hope, Georgia--where weddings come to those who least expect them! INTRODUCING THE RESIDENT BACHELOR Rhune Sherman had met his match! The rebel doctor was thinking marriage, and w hearts all over town were breaking. But once Te...

  • A Dwarf Kingdom

    Nicolas Freeling

    The final Henri Castang mystery confirms the Edgar award"winning author’s “mastery of character and imagery in a superlative study of people and power (Publishers Weekly, starred review).After the murder of dear friends and an attack on his wif...

  • The Bachelor and the Baby Wish

    Kate Freiman

    HAVING HIS BABY... A baby. That's all Hope Delacorte wanted. She dreamed of holding her tiny bundle, sharing first smiles and first steps. But when her wedding plans were shattered, so were her dreams. Now time was running out on Hope's chances fo...

  • Under the Southern Moon

    Virginia Gaffney

    Never before had she been so drawn to a man. Vividly, she recalled the pleasure of dancing with him, the feel of his hand on hers. But dramatic changes were taking place in the South. And soon her heart would be tested by fire....

  • The Magic

    Juliana Garnett

    SHE CAST A SPELL OF PASSION IN A DANGEROUS DUEL OF HEARTS... At first Rhys ap Griffyn thought the lady with the raven-dark hair was on an enchanted creature, for the locals warned him not to ride on Beltane Eve. But Rhys had hurried back from King R...

  • The Morning River

    W. Michael Gear

    During the winter of 1825, Richard Hamilton--a timid Harvard philosophy student--arrives in St. Louis on business for his father. Robbed and beaten, desperate to save his life, he reluctantly joins the crew of the Maria, a fur trader's keelboat. Boun...

  • The Cure

    Carlo Gebler

    A hundred years ago, in a land of myths, a woman named Bridget Cleary was in need of curing.Married for over a year now, with pregnancy still eluding her, Bridget hoped that a renowned fertility rite would bring an end to her barren spell. But as fur...

  • The Bride Wore Blue // Out of the Blue

    Cindy Gerard

    IT'S A BIRD! IT'S A PLANE! Only J.D. "Blue" Hazzard would crash his plane into a lake just to get Maggie Adams's attention. Her gawky high-school swain had grown into an irresistibly tempting god, but Maggie had returned to Minnesota for some peace ...

  • In the Shadow of the Moon

    Scott G. Gier

    HEART OF GENELLAN
    Hotshot pilot Sharl Buccari was a living legend. She had led her crew of civilians and space marines to safety on the raw frontier planet Genellan. She had engineered peace with both alien races that claimed Genellan as their own...

  • Stepford Husbands

    Jane Gordon

    This is the story of how four very different women married to four different men meet up to discuss their husbands with their best friend, Nicola. A scientist, she has returned from the USA with a new drug that claims to revolutionize male behaviour ...

  • Beguiled and Bedazzled

    Victoria Gordon

    COLLEEN FERRAR, a beautiful and talented Sydney fashion designer, is a woman who always gets what she wants. And what she wants is to buy her father the birthday present of his dreams. The only man who can arrange it is the dazzling handsome DEVON BU...

  • Time's Enemy

    L.A. Graf

    Millenia ago, an apocalyptic battle was fought in the Alpha Quadrant. The losers were banished, but what became of the victors? The Federation is threatened by this ancient mystery when a battered and broken version of the Defiant is found, frozen...

  • Courting Eden

    Elizabeth Graham

    COURTING TROUBLE... The war had left Eden Clayborne penniless and pregnant. All she had left was the Yankee pride that had driven her to defy her family and marry a despised Southerner. Now he was dead, and Eden blamed the man who had sent him into ...

  • Knights of the Rose

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Knights of Solamnia were the greatest order of chivalry in the history of Krynn. After a knight had achieved the Order of the Crown and the Order of the Sword, he must then begin his training in the virtues of wisdom and justice in order to ac...

  • Deathstalker Rebellion

    Simon R. Green

    REBEL DEFIANT -- Owen Deathstalker--outlawed, with a price on his head and a mighty warrior lineage in his veins--had no choice but to embrace the destiny that befell him. With nothing to lose, only he had the courage to take up sword and energy...

  • Sleeping Partner

    Mariah Greene

    Emma Fox, an investment banker, gives up her position on Wall Street and returns to England to work under the guise of a junior at a London property agency in which she has become a silent partner. In the process, she has a succession of sexual encou...

  • Cormyr

    Ed Greenwood; Jeff Grubb
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Epic Historical Saga of the Most Powerful Nation in the Realms Cormyr has been ruled by the Obarskyr family since its inception one and a half millennia ago. Now its king, Azoun IV, lies on his deathbed, and the vultures are circling, hoping t...

  • Supporting the Sky

    Patricia Browning Griffith

    A single mother living in Washington, D.C., tries to balance her roles as a public relations consultant, a volunteer for a neighborhood watch group, a single woman, and a parent of a sexually active sixteen-year-old daughter....

  • Coyote Returns

    Micah S. Hackler

    Sheriff Cliff Lansing and his deputy, Gabe Hanna, battle cover-up efforts surrounding the murder of a Navajo leader and discover a link between the victim and a multi-million dollar timber deal. Original....

  • Touched

    Carolyn Haines

    The Deep South never gets any deeper than 1920s Jexville, Mississippi, of Carolyn Haines' novel Touched. Dirt poor Mattie is the arranged bride of the town's barber Elikah, who is prone to deliver vicious beatings to his young wife. When a little gir...

  • Rogues Gallery

    Peter Haining

    In this celebration of man's darker side, Peter Haining presents collection of short stories guaranteed to chill and intrigue. All in human life is here - an ominous vision of Hell on earth; a convincing argument that some terrors are simply unnamabl...

  • Warlock

    Oakley Hall

    Oakley Hall's legendary Warlock revisits and reworks the traditional conventions of the Western to present a raw, funny, hypnotic, ultimately devastating picture of American unreality. First published in the 1950s, at the height of the McCarthy er...

  • X-Men: The Origin of Generation X

    Larry Hama

    Humanity is helpless against the onslaught of the assimilation the Phalanx brings. Those creatures that are genetically different, known to us as mutants, possess the ability to defend themselves against the Phalanx. Of those, the group known as the ...

  • When Mac Met Hailey

    Celeste Hamilton

    He needs a wife. No -- he needs a Saturday-night sexpot! Shame on you! -- he needs a mom for his daughter! What single dad Mac Williams really needs is for his nosy friends and family to butt out! But he does flip through his very dusty, ver...

  • Full Moon Dreams

    Lori Handeland

    Moon Of Desire Though born into the magic and mystery of the circus, Emmaline Monroe was not prepared for the frightening reality of a dark myth. Fellow performers had met suspicious deaths on nights when the moon shone full and bright, and Emma...

  • Shakespeare's Landlord

    Charlaine Harris

    TO SEE OR NOT TO SEE To Lily Bard, the sleepy town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, was the perfect place to hide from the violence that nearly destroyed her life years before. Today Lily is strong, confident in the martial arts she studies, her looks di...

  • Part-Time Wife

    Jessica Hart

    I need a wife! If only Homer hadn't broken Ran Masterson's antique vase...but the devoted mongrel wasn't to know that his mistress couldn't afford to pay for the damage, except by offering her services to the new owner of Kendrick Hall. This would...

  • The Ambivalent Magician

    Simon Hawke

    Trying to discover time travel, genius scientist Dr. Marvin Brewster accidentally transports himself to a parallel universe where magic really works and reality is ... a little different. His knowledge of science causes him to be mistaken for a sorce...

  • Make-Believe Bride

    Alaina Hawthorne

    Conveniently Wed: "I do," the bride and groom said... without love they wed--or so they thought! "MARRY ME?" (FOR THE MOMENT) Amber Oakland had loved her handsome boss from afar for months. But what would a millionaire like Bradley Ackerman e...

  • Chance of a Lifetime

    Laura Hayden

    Boutique owner Stacy Reardon finds herself falling in love with Chance Johnson, a kindly ghost stranded between the world of life and death, whom the local children adore, especially since she is the only adult who can see him. Original....

  • If Wishes Were Horses...

    Tim Hemlin

    HARD TIMES IN HOUSTON Neil Marshall is a graduate student in the University of Houston's creative writing program. He is also a poet. Graduate student and poet--hardly the world's most lucrative endeavors, especially for someone who has just embar...

  • Oliver's Wood

    Sue Hendra

    In an amusing story of day and night, Oliver, the owl, decides to stay up one time past dawn and, in doing so, experiences a whole different world as his nighttime friends are all away in bed, having been replaced with new and interesting daytime cre...

  • The Debonair Duke

    Emily Hendrickson

    A Dangerous Gift Young and captivating Lady Pamela Taylor had a necklace of stunning sapphires-and a most perplexing problem. Who had sent her these jewels fit for a queen? How had he gotten them? What did he expect in return? Or was it all a mons...

  • An Affair of Honor

    Candice Hern

    The Captive Rake Meg Ashburton was a disaster her first Season in London, a tall and awkward ugly duckling out of her depth in the social swim. Her only moment of delight was a brief dance in the arms of the dazzling Viscount Sedgewick, the most i...

  • Lethal Statues

    Nancy Herndon

    Elena Jarvis is an officer in the Crimes Against Persons department of the Los Santos, Texas, police. She's got a sharp mind and a strong sense of justice. She's also got a condescending boss, a chauvinist partner, and an overprotective narc ex-husba...

  • Take Heart

    Lisa Higdon

    There is a place that lives within every heart...a special place where only love can bloom. And from the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find their home -- and where tru...

  • Deception

    Donna Hill

    Is love worth the risk… An unhappy marriage taught Terri Powers never to trust again. Instead, she put all her energy into developing her inner strength and independence -- creating the successful New York advertising agency she'd always dreamed o...

  • Frankly, My Dear...

    Sandra Hill

    LOST IN THE BAYOU Selene had three great passions: men, food, and Gone With The Wind. But the glamorous model always found herself starving -- for both nourishment and affection. Weary of the petty world of high fashion, she headed to New Orleans ...

  • Virus

    Diane Hoh

    No one is safe. A lethal virus has taken over Grant, Massachusetts. And no one knows where it comes from. The staff of Med Center is struggling to save lives and find answers for panicked families. The volunteers are at the center of it all--bu...

  • Gone Fishing

    Joan Hohl
    in

    Brilliant in the boardroom and bedroom, he's entry-level at instant daddyhood in bestselling author Joan Hohl's dramatic story, Gone Fishing....

  • Witch-Light

    Nancy Holder

    Returning to her New Mexico village hometown to be with her dying father, Valerie is mesmerized by the mysterious and handsome Gabriel Luz, who tries to initiate Valerie into his dark world. Original....

  • Ancient Echoes

    Robert Holdstock

    The author of the Mythago Wood series presents the story of Jack Chetwin, a man haunted by visions of a fantastical parallel world that suddenly becomes reality when a stranger appears and threatens his family's safety. Reprint....

  • His Runaway Son

    Dee Holmes

    Burke Wheeler. Undercover cop. Devoted father. Ex-husband. For the past few years Burke's had very little to do with his ex-wife, Abbie - except insofar as she's the mother of his sixteen-year-old son, Justin. Then comes a day every parent fears ...

  • The Sunday Spy

    William Hood

    Taken together, William Hood's books present what may be the most accurate, unvarnished look ever at the real world of espionage.

    Alan Trosper reluctantly returns to the world of post-Cold War espionage when a State Department secretary, com...

  • Wild Blood

    Naomi Horton

    FAMILY TIES One long-ago sultry summer had forever changed Jedd Kendrick's life. One minute he was riding rodeo and loving sweet Kathy Patterson with all his cowboy heart. The next, he was fighting for the son whose young mother had cruelly ab...

  • Shades of Twilight

    Linda Howard

    Roanna Davenport was raised a wealthy orphan on her grandmother's magnificent Alabama estate, Davencourt, where she had a passion for horses, a genius for trouble, and a deep love for her cousin Webb. But everyone expected Webb to marry their ravishi...

  • Belated Bride

    Charlotte Hughes

    He wouldn't let her deny what they'd once shared.... Heartbreak and lies had driven Lucy Odum from her small town, a newborn in her arms -- and only a photo of her fiance to remember him by. But when she returned several years later, she d...

  • Once upon a Crime II

    Janet Hutchings

    Paris at the time of the terror comes alive in the hands of Anne Perry. Lillian de la Torre presents a classic tale of Dr. Sam: Johnson. Robert Barnard delightfully evokes Victorian England in a story featuring the Prince of Wales, and Steven Saylor ...