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New Books List: 442 titles

  • Ever Faithful

    Carolyne Aarsen

    ONCE IN LOVE For years Amy Danyluk had been the sassy little tomboy from the ranch next door, innocently pledging Paul Henderson her undying love. But Paul had followed his dreams to the city, losing himself in a whirlwind of success. Still, some...

  • The Rooster Who Went to His Uncle's Wedding

    Alma Flor Ada

  • Heaven Sent

    Rochelle Alers

    BETWEEN DANGER AND DESIRE With her half-brother serving time in an American prison for a crime he didn't commit, Serena Morris-Vega returned to her childhood home of Costa Rica to help her influential stepfather obtain his freedom. But when a myste...

  • Gentle Yearning

    Rochelle Alers

    Rebecca Williams' life has taken a bad curve and all she wants to do is get back on the freeway to happiness. Her policeman husband, Michael, has been killed in a drug bust. Shortly after his funeral, she discovers she's pregnant with the child they ...

  • Black Velvet

    Carrie Alexander

    SHE HAS A SECRET LIFE THAT MUST REMAIN SECRET AMALIE DOVE: A shy librarian causes a sensation writing very sexy stories under the name Madame X. When the media turn on the spotlight, it's her glamorous friend Lacey who plays the role of the famo...

  • Blue and the Color Detective

    Liza Alexander

  • Believe

    Victoria Alexander

    Tessa St. James thought as little of love as she did of the Arthurian legend -- it was just a myth. But when an enchanted tome fell into the lovely teacher's hands, Tessa found that she had to rethink her curriculum. Suddenly in Merlin's ...

  • Dinosaur Cat

    Garrison Allen

    A BONE TO PICK When the discovery of a baby Seismosaurus fossil attracts a horde of media vultures to the town of Empty Creek, Arizona, the incredible find is shadowed by an even bigger sensation. A young scientist has been murdered at the site--her...

  • Iron Fist

    Aaron Allston

    They are the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force--sleek, swift, and deadly. For these X-wing fighters, no job is too dirty or too dangerous. Now they must rise to meet an impossible challenge: stop a powerful warlord by pretending to be his ally. ...

  • Lady Gold

    Angela Amato; Joe Sharkey

    Angela Amato is a former NYPD detective who left the force and became a legal aid attorney. Her reasons for going over to the other side are shared by Gerry Conte, the detective in Lady Gold who is assigned to baby-sit a young mobster-turned-informan...

  • Lethal Exposure

    Kevin J. Anderson

    At the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois, Nobel physics candidate Georg Dumenco is bombarded with a lethal dose of radiation, and must join forces with FBI Special Agent Craig Kreident to find his killers and protect America's most vi...

  • Brooke

    V.C. Andrews

    ALL SHE WANTED WAS A MOTHER'S WARM EMBRACE.... Brooke was an orphan, abandoned long ago by a mother she barely knew. And though her new family seemed to offer the promise of a fresh beginning, a dark voice in her heart told her that she was now mo...

  • Midnight Peril

    Vicki Andrews

  • Quest for the Fallen Star

    Piers Anthony

    Beneath the twin suns Ellistar and Deneob, the Realm of Infinitera is menaced by the Dark One and his minions, the Illcreatures. And in these strange times has come a thing never seen before: a star which has tumbled from the sky, holding a power of ...

  • The Eleventh Commandment

    Jeffrey Archer

    THE ELEVENTH COMMANDMENT. Connor Fitzgerald is a professional's professional. Holder of the Medal of Honor. Devoted family man. Servant of his country. CIA assassin. Days before his retirement from the Company, Fitzgerald comes face-to-face with an e...

  • Rath and Storm

    Peter Archer
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Gerrard's Legacy A collection of powerful magical artifacts is the only defense against the forces of evil that are arrayed against Dominaria. Gerrard, the heir to the Legacy, together with Sisay, captain of the flying ship Weatherlight, has sough...

  • In Bed with a Stranger

    Lindsay Armstrong

    The night before... The handsome stranger looked down on his luck. He'd arrived on Louise's doorstep looking distinctly disheveled and downright disreputable, claiming her brother Neil had invited him to stay. Yet something didn't quit...

  • Legacy of Secrets

    Judith Arnold

    The Delacroix held the key to her past...and her future Adoptee Katherine Beaufort was a woman with a mission. Where had she come from? What were her roots? And why did Philip Delacroix's name keep appearing in her great aunt's diary? Drew Del...

  • The Ideal Father

    Rosalie Ash

    The ideal father and the single mom Polly had been fooling herself to think that Marco wouldn't be at the family gathering in Tuscany. Facing him now, after four years, knowing she had kept their child a secret, had her on tenterhooks. It w...

  • Shakespearean Detectives

    Mike Ashley

    Wonderfully entertaining mysteries, murder and all-round mayhem abound in this second volume of stories set in the world of Shakespeare's plays. Following on the success of Shakespearean Whodunnits, editor Mike Ashley has put together another, equall...

  • Once More With Feeling

    Phyll Ashworth

    CAN'T BUY ME LOVE Jaime Campbell is the only female stockbroker in her firm -- and she's thoroughly professional The pretty young widow keeps her mind strictly on her work... until investor Marshall MacRae walks into her office, and Jaim...

  • Breakfast-Time for Thomas

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Way of the Wolf

    James Axler

    Trapped amid the hostile mountains and icy tundra of the Arctic Circle, Ryan Cawdor and his team of warrior survivalists face the ultimate challenge when they become trapped in an epic conflict between a group of Neaderthals and descendants of a stra...

  • Hedgehogs in the Hall

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy and ...

  • Hawk's Woman

    Madeline Baker

    John Walking Hawk, a half-Lakota man pursuing the marauders who killed his family, lies wounded in a convent in the Colorado territory, where he is found by a young nun who soon faces the decision of her life. Original....

  • Granger's Claim

    Jack Ballas

    After the brutal murder of his young ward, Nicholas, Colt Granger struggles to rebuild a new life for himself and Nicholas' little sister, only to find himself caught in a do-or-die confrontation with the killers in the untamed Montana Territory...

  • Fugitive Father

    Jean Barrett

    A DESPERATE FATHER... Only one thing mattered to Noah Rhyder. His son. Falsely accused, wrongly convicted, he'd held his little boy in his heart, his only wish to see Joel's face again. Now, freed by an instant's luck, he's on the run with nothing ...

  • The Miracle Strip

    Nancy Bartholomew

    A SEXY STRIPPE BARES IT ALL TO CATCH A COLD-BLOODED KILLER The whip-smart Sierra Lavotini is the hottest act on Panama City's strip scene. She's the headliner at the bare-all bar, the Tiffany Club. Other than this exotic evening activity, Sierra's...

  • The Shadowed Heart

    Nina Beaumont

    Luca Zeani Had the Face of a Fallen Angel... It was a face Chiara had never forgotten, for it belonged to the man who had ruined her sister -- the man she had vowed to destroy. But though she burned with vengeance, Luca's passionate kisses ignite...

  • Girl in the Flammable Skirt

    Aimee Bender

    "A collection of wistful, witty stories." --Esquire "Hilarious, deep and a little bit dirty." --Harper's BazaarA grief-stricken librarian decides to have sex with every man who enters her library. A half-mad, unbearably beautiful heiress follows...

  • The Midwest Girls

    Cherie Bennett

    NO PLASTIC BEAUTY QUEENS ALLOWED! What girl wouldn't want to be the first Miss Teen Spirit? Teen Spirit magazine wants a real girl to wear the crown, and thousands of real girls will compete for the scholarship, prizes, cash and fame that could laun...

  • The Wedding That Almost Wasn't

    Cherie Bennett

    To help brides-to-be with various wedding chores, Annie, Breezy, and Cassie start their own wedding service, ABC Weddings, but they wind up victims of Murphy's Law, in a light-hearted story by the author of Girls in Love. Original....

  • His Brother's Baby

    Connie Bennett

    A pregnant bride. A convenient marriage. The two brothers were as unalike as brothers could be. Now the one Meg Linley loved is dead, and the other wants custody of her unborn child. And what Nick Ballenger usually wants, Nick Ballenger usually ge...

  • Silent Wing

    Jose Bernardo

    A charismatic nineteenth-century poet, exiled from his native Cuba, offers to marry a lonely Mexican woman, only to fall in love with the daughter of a Guatemalan leader. By the author of The Secret of the Bulls. 20,000 first printing....

  • Mir : A Novel of Virtual Reality

    Alexander Besher

  • Never Alone

    Cheryln Biggs

    He was as far from innocence as the devil was from heaven... He didn't mind sleeping in the haunted tower rooms, Mace Calder informed Brianne St. John, because he didn't believe in ghosts! Even if she told him about the musketeers who'd come to L...

  • A Touch of the Grape

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate NewYork. 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 sist...

  • The Cinderella Scheme

    Toni Blair

    ONCE UPON A TIME... Cassie Turner was ready to quit her waitress job at the diner. For one thing, it wasn't a great place to meet her Prince Charming--until Evan Hunter, the devastatingly handsome CEO of a cosmetics empire, happened to walk in. Cass...

  • The Devilish Duke

    Sara Blayne
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    A deliciously wicked collection of naughty noblemen and the spirited women who tamed them includes Nancy Lawrence's "The Notorious Nobleman," Sara Blaynes's "The Devilish Duke," and "The Wicked Earl" by Lynn Collum. Original....

  • Tanner on Ice

    Lawrence Block

    Cold War superspy Evan Tanner lost the ability to sleep on a battlefield in Korea. So where the heck has he been since the 70’s? Frozen. Cryogenically. A Tanner-sicle. Which he never thought would happen when he walked into a basement in Union Cit...

  • The Face of Justice

    Bill Blum

    Justice has turned a blind eye to Los Angeles defense attorney David Nova. Embroiled in a bitter custody battle with his estranged wife over his young daughter, Nova now faces a far more dangerous adversary. He is Randy Sturgis, a convicted murderer....

  • Armageddon

    M.C. Bolin

    Timed to coincide with the July 4th release of the film starring Bruce Willis, this novelization of the science fiction fantasy film takes audiences on a suspenseful rollercoaster ride when the world faces complete destruction by an immense, scorchin...

  • Marsha Makes Me Sick

    Barbara Bottner

    Find out how far little Lulu will go to reclaim the attention of her mother when she spends all day tending to Lulu's sick younger sister Marsha, in this humorous tale designed for more confident readers....

  • My Dearest Enemy

    Connie Brockway

    Dear Mr. Thorne, I give you fair warning. I intend to do whatever I must to abide by your late uncle's will and win Mill House. Though I know he never expected me to succeed, and for whatever reasons is using me to shame you, I accept his ...

  • Falling Slowly

    Anita Brookner

    The brilliant Anita Brookner, praised by The New York Times as "one of the finest novelists of her generation," now gives us a stunning story of two sisters and the strange patterns of identity and love.        ...

  • Billy

    Bruce Brooks

    When Billy's overbearing, loud-mouthed, victory-obsessed father insists that his son spend twice as long at summer hockey camp as his teammates, Billy looks to his friends to help him finally stand up to his dad. Original....

  • The Way to Bright Star

    Dee Brown

    Ben Butterfield is living out his days in a small backwater town. He spends much of his time dwelling on the past, pondering his glory days and his first grand adventure--a fantastic journey across heartland America to the town of Bright Star, Indian...

  • Wonderful House

    Margaret Wise Brown

    There are so many wonderful houses! There are bird houses and barns, beehives and bunny holes, circus tents and snail shells, tree tops and tortoise shells. But who lives in the most wonderful house of all? Celebrated author Margaret Wise Brown and i...

  • Long Ride

    Bonnie Bryant

    Check out the first title in Books for Young Readers' great new series, Pine Hollow, by Bonnie Bryant, author of the popular series, The Saddle Club:

    Stevie Lake, Lisa Atwood, and Carole Hanson are best friends, and they share everything--incl...

  • Wagon Trail

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Saddle Club is heading west--on the Oregon Trail. They are taking part in a re-creation of the famous wagon train ride across the American West. Things may be a little easier for these modern-day pioneers, but they still have their fair share of ...

  • Azure Nights

    LaRee Bryant

  • The Rat That Ate Poodles

    Paul Buchanan

  • The Department of Correction

    Tony Burton

    In the Adirondacks, a grandfather is killed while deer hunting.   On New York City’s East Side, two boys are kidnapped and a retired doctor is gunned down in the getaway.   In midtown Manhattan, a former governor is abducted and viciously...

  • Lady of the Night

    Cordia Byers

    Prisoner of Love Manacled to a stone wall was not the way Katharina Fergersen had planned to spend her vacation. But a wrong turn in the right place and the haunted English castle she was touring was suddenly full of life -- and so was the man bat...

  • Accidental Angel

    Sandra Byrd

    Book Four: Accidental Angel Will Christmas bring Tess Thomas big fun and big money--or troubles that will change everything?

    It?s a week before Christmas and the Secret Sisters have plans to make money at the craft fair. Tess needs the cash to...

  • Starlight

    Sandra Byrd

    BOOK THREE STAR LIGHT Fall was supposed to be fun. Right? But Tess’s mom is sick and Erin's horse might die! Where can Tess turn when life gets tough?

    Tess Thomas has an awesome November ahead of her. She and her Secret Sister, Erin, have pl...

  • Marbleheart

    Don Callander

    Bored after his exciting career as Douglas Brightglade's Familiar and longing for the days when he had been wild and free, Marbleheart, a sleek sea otter, embarks on a dramatic new adventure when he joins young Prince Flowerbender on an important que...

  • Cold Justice

    Will Camp

    FRONTIER JUSTICE New Mexico Territory, 1858, a land of wild beauty where Justice comes at the end of a gun, and two vicious gangs -- one Chiricahua Apache, the other renegade U.S. Soldiers -- are headed for a showdown. One Who Hears Like a Coyote ...

  • Camp Saddlebrook

    Joanna Campbell

    Will Christina make a new friend at camp--or a new enemy?

    Christina Reese is so excited. She's going away to riding camp for three whole weeks! Christina is sure it will be a blast--until she meets Eliza.

    Eliza can't stand Chr...

  • Fire Ship

    Diane Carey

    THERE'S A BAR CALLED "THE CAPTAIN'S TABLE," WHERE THOSE WHO HAVE COMMANDED MIGHTY VESSELS OF EVERY SHAPE AND ERA CAN MEET, RELAX, AND SHARE A FRIENDLY DRINK OR TWO WITH OTHERS OF THEIR CALLING. SOMETIMES A BRAWL MAY BREAK OUT BUT IT'S ALL IN THE FAM...

  • Autumn Secrets

    Melody Carlson

    Allison O'Brian returns to Oregon, where she copes with her newcomer's jitters before starting high school, but as she's beginning to adjust, her father tells her a terrible secret that could destroy their future...

  • Inhuman Beings

    Jerry Jay Carroll

    Ex-cop-turned-private detective Goodwin Armstrong is baffled by the odd and dangerous things happening in San Francisco as his hotel mysteriously burns down, someone seems to know his every move, and a psychic warns him that something inhuman is abou...

  • Prison to Praise

    Merlin R. Carrothers

    Prison to Praise shows how God's power changed an angry young man into a powerful minister of the Gospel, and who found that the sacrifice of praise allows the Holy Spirit to fill our lives. To continually praise Him means a steady decreasing of self...

  • The X-Files: Fight the Future

    Chris Carter

    Beneath the surface of North Texas, something has been sleeping for more than thirty-five thousand years, since the last ice age until the present, when a group of young boys stumble upon something unspeakable deep inside a cavern. Their discover...

  • Look at You, Baby Face!

    Madeline Carter

  • Easter

    Catherine Chambers

  • Waiting in Vain

    Colin Channer

    Meet Fire--Jamaican-born, charming, poetic, and talented--a man who vows never to play "love-is-blind" games again. Then he meets Sylvia, a beautiful magazine editor who keeps her passions under lock and key. Together they must choose between the lov...

  • Ghost of a Chance

    Helen Chappell

    BONES OF A WOMAN On Maryland's salt-swept Eastern Shore, a woman reporter has a dilapidated old house, a dysfunctional family, and a talent for solving mysteries. How does wisecracking, love-burned Hollis Ball find out so much about other people's...

  • Die Trying

    Lee Child

    Jack Reacher is an innocent bystander--in the wrong place at the wrong time--when a woman is kidnapped. Now, he's at the mercy of a group of men demanding an impossible ransom, for this mysterious woman is worth far more than Reacher ever suspected. ...

  • A Time for a Change

    Rob Childs

    Pitching into the future, the Time Rangers find a human race mind-controlled by a sinister force that wants to trap them, for ever. Only football can save them, but first the Time Rangers must show the future that it's time for a change....

  • Black As Blood

    Rob Chilson

    TONGUE-IN-CHEEK HORROR It began with Bernie McKay (and his not-too-reliable wife, Angie). Uncle Albert was laid out in his coffin, dead as a doornail, and things were on a reasonably even keel. But then Uncle Albert sat up and accused Bernie of st...

  • My Daddy the Duke

    Judy Christenberry

    He's my dad -- the World's Most Eligible Bachelor! Ever since Grandma, the dowager duchess, told everyone on TV that my dad was in America looking for a wife, unmarried ladies chase him everywhere. We're trying to get to my uncle'...

  • Summer Seduction

    Daphne Clair

    In the heat of the summer... Sunny, sensitive and full of life, Blythe Summerfield was adored by everyone -- except her mysterious new neighbor. Jas Tratherne was the antithesis of Blythe's spirit and he seemed determined to keep her at arm...

  • X-Men Visionaries: Writing of Chris Claremont

    Chris Claremont

  • Earth Herald

    Jan Clark

    EARTH'S SAVIOR... OR HARBINGER OF DOOM? Centuries ago, Earth was decimated by an asteroid, leaving survivors long dependent on the charity of, the alien Commonwealth...until now. It is time for repopulation-and Humanity's inspiration is Captain Ri...

  • Drum Calls

    Jo Clayton; Kevin Andrew Murphy

    Once every generation, the two worlds of Clandair and Iomard magically move together, allowing people with special talents to walk between the worlds, but when young Cymel sees a strange wizard hovering in the air, she realizes the danger that threat...

  • Out of Love

    Victoria Clayton

  • The Wicked Earl

    Lynn Collum
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    A deliciously wicked collection of naughty noblemen and the spirited women who tamed them includes Nancy Lawrence's "The Notorious Nobleman," Sara Blaynes's "The Devilish Duke," and "The Wicked Earl" by Lynn Collum. Original....

  • Forbidden Legacy

    Phoebe Conn

    Williamsburg, 1774. Liana Scott adores and respects her Loyalist parents, but her lively intelligence and unrelenting spirit kindle her loyalty to the Rebel cause -- and to dashing and sensual Christian Barclay, a sworn enemy of her family...and the ...

  • The Farm

    Clarence Cooper

    "So much of what we know of ourselves is a lousy God Damn lie", maintains the narrator of The Farm (1968), the audacious and supercharged final novel by a writer of both prodigal gifts and tendencies toward self-destruction.

    The Farm is a Dante...

  • Point of Origin

    Patricia Cornwell

    The devastating fire tore through the horse farm, destroying everything it touched. Picking through the wreckage, Dr. Kay Scarpetta uncovers human remains--the work of an audacious and wily killer who uses fire to mask his brutal murders. And when Sc...

  • Tinytown Ball

    Kathy Couri

  • Taken in

    Beverly Coyle

    The entrance of a runaway and sometimes prostitute into the life of a Florida suburban family leads to murder, shocking marital revelations, and strange new alliances, in a dramatic novel by a critically acclaimed Southern writer. Reprint....

  • Lyrics of Love

    Francine Craft

    Tainted by scandal after the murder of his wife's brother, police officer Joe Dauterive asks his wife, Gina Campbell, a renowned vocalist, for a divorce, and when she flees to the tropical haven of Lyric, Joe follows her, determined to regain her tru...

  • A Hard-Hearted Man

    Melanie Craft

    LILAH'S TALL, DARK CHALLENGE Ross Bradford exuded wealth, power and sophisticated charm. He had a head for business, an eye for beauty, but it was his heart he never trusted and no one could ever breach. Until he encountered Dr. Lilah Evans, t...

  • My One and Only

    Sherry Crane

    LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL Leah Malone believes in organizing her life -- and finding the right man is definitely not part of her current five-year plan. Her executive day-planner is crammed with appointments and "To Do" lists. But when he comes al...

  • His Most Scandalous Secret

    Susan Crosby

    CHASE a.k.a. THE LONER No woman had ever gotten through his defenses, and no bright and bouncy do-gooder would ever make him open up. So why was lovely Tessa Rose hanging on Chase's every word, sending him sweet smiles and popping by his office ev...

  • Once upon a Kiss

    Claire Cross

    For over a thousand years -- so legend has it -- the brambles have grown wild over the ruins of Dunhelm Castle. Many believed that the thorns were a sign that the castle was cursed, so no one dared to trespass, and the secrets that they protected and...

  • In the Pipeline

    Carlo Curley

  • She's Leaving Home

    Edwina Currie

    Helen Majinsky is sixteen, Jewish and confused. She is also in love - like every Merseyside schoolgirl - with four mop-topped young men, seduced by the Cavern Club and the exciting sound of 1963. In the year The Beatles have the world at their feet, ...

  • Cottonwood Creek

    Margot Dalton

    He's in her bad books. Someone's been skimming profits from Clay Alderson's ranching operation, and now the government has sent an auditor to check the books. The very attractive Ms. J. C. McDenna is all business. She's prepared to stay at his ra...

  • Immortals

    Jack Dann

    Some of today's most acclaimed and original science fiction and fantasy authors--including Robert Silverberg, Jack Vance, Damon Knight, and Brian W. Aldiss--xplore the diverse possibilities and consequences of immortality. Original....

  • The Silent

    Jack Dann

    From the critically acclaimed author of The Memory Cathedral comes perhaps the most powerful, haunting, and unforgettable novel of the Civil War--or any war--ever written. Provocative, poetic, and disturbing, it introduces us to a young narrator, Mun...

  • Outback Heat

    Emma Darcy

    Taylor Maguire knew he'd made a dangerous mistake helping Angie Cordell. How long could a city sophisticate last at his isolated Outback cattle station? Every hormone in Taylor's body buzzed in her presence, but he couldn't afford to ...

  • The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

  • Thirdspace

    Peter David

    The last true hope for freedom, Babylon 5 is struggling to survive. The station has severed its ties with Earth--and has been quarantined in retaliation. Then, in the depths of hyperspace, a squad of starfuries makes an astounding discovery that c...

  • Three Little Kittens

    L. Obligado De Vajay

  • My Darling Dead Ones

    Erika De Vasconcelos

  • Time's Arrow: The Past

    Tom Defalco; Jason Henderson

    MARVELS GREATEST HEROES MUST GO TO THE PAST TO SAVE THE PRESENT! When Spider-Man finds a century-old picture of himself and the X-Men's Bishop at a museum exhibit, he decides to pay a visit to the X-Men. He arrives in time to hear of a shocking di...

  • The Tycoon's Son

    Shawna Delacorte

    HER FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD SECRET Years melted away the moment Vicki Bingham gazed into piercing blue eyes and took in the very gorgeous -- very grown-up -- version of the boy she'd once loved. The rich boy who had deserted her after a magical night...

  • Coast Road

    Barbara Delinsky

    When Jack McGill chose his career as an architect over his family, he returned home from yet another business trip to find that his wife Rachel had left him. But now six years later a car accident has left Rachel clinging to life, and she and their t...

  • Prince Valiant

    Martin Delrio

    In an age of dark sorcery and mighty deeds, an unlikely champion has arisen in the court of King Arthur--a lowly squire of unknown parentage who can defeat the King's best in jousting and swordplay. His past is a mystery, his courage and loyalty unpa...

  • Short Cut

    Jo Dereske

    They were sisters separated by distance, hurt and secrets.  Now murder is bringing them together....

    It was a long way from northern Michigan to the mountains above Albuquerque.  But the distance between Ruby Crane and her glamorous, succe...

  • The Dark Brand

    H.A. DeRosso

    When Driscoll is imprisoned for rustling, his fellow inmate divulges that he had robbed a bank and hidden the money but neglects to tell Driscoll where the money is before he is hanged, and the local townsfolk believe that Driscoll knows where the mo...

  • The Cowboy & the Shotgun Bride

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Final Wedding Details: 1) Call caterer 2) Pick up dress 3) Run off with handsome stranger! Kate Bingham was about to marry the wrong man, but she didn't realize it until sexy fugitive Mitch Connery swept her off her feet and out of the cha...

  • Saratoga Strongbox

    Stephen Dobyns

    I have always been the pal of easy money. What some people call temptation, I call opportunity." 5o begin the musings of Victor Plotz without whom, says the New York Times Book Review, "the world would be a much stuffier place." The shameless sidekic...

  • Cat on a Hyacinth Hunt

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Back in Las Vegas after a holiday trip to the big apple, feline detective Midnight Louie witnesses death on the Nile when the battling Egyptian barges outside the Oasis hotel bring a dead body to the surface. The soggy victim is well known to Louie's...

  • Caught in the Crossfire

    David Drake

    THEY WERE THE BEST--THEY WERE HAMMER'S SLAMMERS! In war, the only rule is survival. People on the side that hires Hammer's Slammers have the best chance of surviving. Mercenary leader Alois Hammer has created an armored regiment that wins battl...

  • Legend of Desire

    Kathleen Drymon

    LEGEND OF DESIRE She is called Desire, the golden-eyed medicine woman whose fabled beauty has driven two warriors into combat for her hand. Fiercely independent, she refuses to yield her heart to any man, even the victorious brave whose searing ki...

  • Comic Book Criminal

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Shelby Woo sets out to find a rising young cartoonist who may have been kidnapped by a mysterious fan following him in disguise, by his own agent as a publicity stunt, or by his mentor-turned-rival. Original....

  • Trapped

    Lois Duncan

  • The Magic Carpet Ride

    Jennifer Dussling

  • Flesh and Metal

    John Early

    Long consoling himself for his wife's death by isolation and by metal-working, a North Dakota lawyer is drawn back into life through a battle of wits with a ruthless insurance executive. A first novel....

  • Marriage a la Mode

    Rachelle Edwards

    It was a scandal, indeed! Lucian Carisbrooke, the nonpareil of every woman's dreams, is involved with Miss Arabella Trentham's own relation. But when Kitty Polstead, Society's most incomparable hostess, decides she is tired of Lucian's attentions, ...

  • Corruption of Power

    Brenda English

    The politics of murder... From the sharp end of her pencil to the sharp end of her tongue, reporter Sutton McPhee knows how to get a story. She's hard-nosed and levelheaded, and this time she's taking her sleuthing skills to the scene to solve the...

  • By Love Undone

    Suzanne Enoch

    A SCANDAL'S DAUGHTER. . . Madeleine Willits was shunned by London society for a scandal that was no fault of hers, and forced to seek a paid position in the country. So when Quinlan Bancroft, Marquis of Warefield, comes to direct the household duri...

  • Freezing

    Penelope Evans

    A psychological thriller involves a bizarre-looking photographer who is drawn out of his fantasy world, a world dominated by computer games and a troubled family, by his obsession with a girl found drowned in the Thames. Reprint....

  • Longarm and the Wicked Schoolmarm

    Tabor Evans

  • Breaking Even

    Elizabeth Fackler


    In this superbly detailed frontier novel featuring Texas outlaw Seth Strummer, our hero at last achieves a humble form of justice that allows him to break even with his past. When Seth falls in love with Hekuba Free, the sister of Joaquin's new b...

  • Barbara Lavette

    Howard Fast

  • True Hearts

    Maggie Ferguson

    HIS BODY TEMPTED HER, HIS EYES SEDUCED HER -- HIS WORDS STUNNED HER... All her life, Hailey Monroe had believed in the love and goodness of her parents. Then they suddenly died -- and security expert Sean Cassadine arrived to tell her everything...

  • Fiona and the Sexy Stranger

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE CATERER "No." It was the only word Fiona Reilly seemed capable of saying to the sexy stranger who had walked into her well-ordered life and turned it upside down with his endless invitations and heart-flipping, sultry smiles. And all because she...

  • Bridget Jones's Diary

    Helen Fielding

    129 lbs. (how is is possible to put on 4 lbs in the middle of the night? Could flesh have somehow solidified becoming denser and heavier? Repulsive, horrifying notion), alcohol units 4 (excellent), cigarettes 21 (poor but will give up totally tomorro...

  • Scenes from a Sistah

    Lolita Files

    Misty Fine and Reesy Snowden, best friends since second grade, share at least two common goals - having fun and finding Prince Charming. As their careers rise and fall and men come and go, they embark on a series of adventures across America....

  • Comanche Promise

    Carol Finch

    Moonlight Enchantress...Wild Mountain Honey... With each new historical romance, Carol Finch has created a unique blend of unforgettable sensuality, captivating humor, and wild adventure. Now, in Comanche Promise, a risky bargain is sealed with muc...

  • Nike

    Nicholas Flokos

    On the Greek island of Samothrace, the natives are born dispossessed. They mourn the loss of their Nike, the most beautiful of classical statues, the timeless embodiment of victory and grace. Buried in an earthquake, she was recovered in the 1860s by...

  • Hannah and the Hellion

    Christine Flynn

    MAN OF ICE MEETS HIS MATCH Everyone in Pine Point, Minnesota, knew that Damon Jackson was no good. Everyone but newcomer Hannah Davis. Stubborn and sensitive, she insisted there was decency and goodness beneath Damon's bad-boy image. That a hea...

  • Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist

    Laurie Foos

    A “baroque, surreal, and witty” novel (Ms.) about art, bowling, sex, and hairspray-”a mad tale of a mad genius, by a young author who may be a genius herself” (Kirkus Reviews).
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  • They Say You Should Follow The Rules...They Say...

    Michael Thomas Ford

    Marshall and Simon are tired of hearing what "they" say about everything, until an old woman reveals that "they" really do exist, and that somebody is trying to stop her and the rest of "them" from talking. Original....

  • The Witches of Eileanan

    Kate Forsyth

    'Twas a Time When Dragons Left Their Lair and Evil Shadowed the Land.... On the Day of Reckoning, the witches of Eileanan were outlawed--and violations of the new order were punishable by death. Eileanan's Great Towers, once meccas of magic and le...

  • The Target

    Sara Fraser

    Ruthless Spencer is a professional. Son of a prominent US politician, Alexander is the target; lonely in his English public school and ripe for blackmail. Hoffman is the link and a member of the British Secret Service. As the temptation to double-cro...

  • Baby Starts the Wedding March

    Amy Frazier

    THE MOM-TO-BE Pregnant and unwed, Julia Richardson now had to tell her proper parents the news. But she couldn't do it without the moral support of her dearest friend, Dallas Parker. So imagine her surprise when the ex-rodeo champ showed up announ...

  • Sappho: The Tenth Muse

    Nancy Freedman

    In this finely drawn portrait, Sappho of Lesbos narrates her extraordinary life, from her childhood in war-torn Mitylene to her later relentless search for passionate love. Driven by the all-consuming fever of her Muse-inspired poetic gift, Sappho...

  • The Legacy

    Stephen Frey

    Bond trader Cole Egan is on the edge of financial and professional ruin when he receives a surprising inheritance. His estranged father has left him a key to a safe-deposit box. Inside the box is a videotape of the John F. Kennedy assassination - fil...

  • Winter of Grace

    Robert Funderburk

    Driven out of the rugged mountains of eastern Tennessee, armed robbers steal more than Evangeline's winter serenity. Dylan and Susan St. John have settled comfortably into their life in the Cajun country of South Louisiana and are preparing to have ...

  • Death at the Crossroads

    Dale Furutani

    A Japanese errant, ronin-turned-sleuth Matsuyama Kaze must journey across Japan in search of his ruler's missing young daughter, but his quest is interrupted by his discovery by the corpse of a murder victim and a colorful, untrustworthy cast of susp...

  • Robotworld

    J.J. Gardner

  • Penguins!

    Gail Gibbons

    An illustrated introduction to those wonderful waddling water birds!Living only in the southern hemisphere, there are seventeen different kinds of penguins.  With bright watercolor illustrations and kid-friendly language, Gail Gibbons introduces...

  • Little Gus's Big Boo-Boo

    Golden Books

  • Blooded

    Christopher Golden; Nancy Holder

    THE KINDEST CUT Chirayoju, a vampire of Chinese lore, and Sanno, the legendary Japanese Mountain King, have been locked in deadly battle for centuries. Literally. An ancient curse imprisoned the spirits of these two warriors in an antique sword. ...

  • Dancing With Sin

    Jane Goodger

    In an America of soft gaslight and horse-drawn cabs, Rose Beaudette is an innocent in many ways. Raised to become a nun, she shocked her family by marrying Luke Beaudette, the handsome assistant prosecutor of Springfield, Massachusetts. But now Luke ...

  • Want a Ride?

    Bill Gordh

  • Speaking of Murder

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Provides a unique look into the minds of some of today's most popular storytellers, from Stephen King to Mary Higgins Clark, in which they candidly reveal their ideas, characters, early days as writers, and much more. Original....

  • I'll Be Watching You

    Victoria Gotti

    Full of the menace of long-hidden secrets and the darkness of the human heart, I'll Be Watching You is a chilling tour de force by Victoria Gotti, author of the critically acclaimed legal thriller The Senator's Daughter. Rose Miller is a...

  • The Heart's Haven

    Elizabeth Graham

    A GUARDED SECRET... When Shannon Brown opened her eyes, things were not what she expected. Lying in a wagon with a terrible, headache, all that was left of her memory was the haunting image of a bloody knife. The dark-haired stranger who found her...

  • The Duchess and the Desperado

    Laurie Grant

    Morgan Calhoun Was A Wanted Man! Morgan knew he would someday prove his innocence, but for now Sarah Challoner needed his protection, and he was determined to guard her with his life . . . even if it meant losing both his freedom . . . and his heart...

  • Hunter's Run

    Judson Gray

  • The Only Man to Trust

    Grace Green

    A MAN WORTH FIGHTING FOR Blair Enderby: Girl next door. Not the sort of woman a self-made millionaire like Matt Straith would ever want for a wife. But Blair never dreamed Matt had been harboring his passions for her. Nor did she ever expect to b...

  • The Diamond

    Ed Greenwood
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Counterfeit Cowgirl

    Lois Greiman

    The cowboy and the city slicker To Hannah Nelson the idea of roughing it meant using her gold charge card rather than Daddy's platinum one. Now, however, she had bad guys on her trail and she was forced into exile hiding out at the ends of the ear...

  • Ken Ward in the Jungle

    Zane Grey

    Zane Grey (1872 " 1939) was an American author best known for writing Western novels, with his most famous being Riders of the Purple Sage. That work is widely considered the greatest Western ever written, and Grey remains one of the most famous au...

  • The Blue Place

    Nicola Griffith

    The first of Nicola Griffith’s beloved Aud Torvingen crime series. It would be so easy -- a step, a smile, swift whirl and grab, and snap: done. I even knew how she would fall, what a tiny sound her last sigh would be, how she would fold onto the ...

  • Pride and Joi

    Gay G. Gunn

    Joi Martin knew what she wanted in a man: someone who could give her all the things she’d dreamed about from her working-class world~wealth, privilege and safety. Joe Pride was a solid, blue-collar factory worker: everything Joi was sure she didn...

  • My Darling Duke

    Constance Hall

    SOMETIMES THE ONLY PLACE A WOMAN CAN FIND HER DESTINY... Artist Kelsey Vallarreal entered magnificent Stillmore Castle to meet the one man on earth she despised -- Edward Noble, Duke of Salford, whose dalliance with her stepmother had destroyed th...

  • Sheepish Riddles

    Katy Hall

  • Spirit Catcher

    Elizabeth Hallam

    Boone was coming toward her. "Dance with me, Dallas." She looked down at the hand he was holding out toward her...then she lifted her own hand and let her fingers slip into his. She could feel his fingers, warm and strong and real. This time,...

  • Fever Season

    Barbara Hambly

    The summer of 1833 has been one of brazen heat and brutal pestilence, as the city is stalked by Bronze John--the popular name for the deadly yellow fever epidemic that tests the healing skills of doctor and voodoo alike. Even as Benjamin January tend...

  • A Husband's Price

    Diana Hamilton

    The betrayal Six years ago, Claudia believed Adam betrayed her love, and she'd ended their passionate affair little knowing she was expecting his baby. The marriage Now, Claudia is on the verge of bankruptcy and desperately needs Adam's ...

  • Attack of the Vampire Worms

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

  • I Who Have Never Known Men

    Jacqueline Harpman

    I Who Have Never Known Men is the first of Jacqueline Harpman's 10 novels to be translated from French. It is a chilling, surreal, speculative fiction as well as a novel of ideas. The story takes place after some unspecified great disaster--pandemic?...

  • Accidental Creatures

    Anne L. Harris

    Anne Harris returns with an outstanding look at the near future. Never before has her technological insight been so acute, or her portrayal of sex and gender issues more startling or insightful.

    A bio-technology corporation has created a new s...

  • Trusting a Texan

    Leann Harris

    THE AMNESIAC AND THE BODYGUARD With no memory and nowhere to go, "April" had to choose her protector carefully. And Texas Ranger Rafe Sanchez was her first--and only--choice. The beautiful stranger with amnesia spelled trouble, and Rafe...

  • Birthday Bride

    Jessica Hart

    Thirty--the age for marriage Sexy, glamorous...Claudia tried to think of three good things about being thirty as she sat on the plane on her way to celebrate her birthday. Well, her fellow passenger, David Cool-as-a-Cucumber Stirling, certainly wa...

  • Texas Jade

    Holly Harte

    HE WAS A MAN WHO DIDN'T NEED ANYONE... Eli Kinmont has spent the last six years in the mountain wilderness of far West Texas, an area where he thought his past couldn't reach him. He'd always been able to defeat any peril that came his w...

  • Keelboat Carnage

    Doug Hawkins

    On the wild and unruly frontier, Kit Carson faces yet another challenge when the bloodthirsty Blackfeet ravage the land, forcing Kit to escape via a riverboat, and finds himself attacked by the dreaded keelboat pirates, in an adventurous and suspense...

  • The Last Manly Man

    Sparkle Hayter

    On paper at least, things couldn't be better for Robin Hudson, the sassy, young Rita Hayworth-looking, sexy; and opinionated tabloid TV reporter for All News Network. Suddenly successful, she gets to boss other people around in her job, and she has m...

  • Road Hog

    Barbara Shook Hazen

  • The Fall Of A Sparrow

    Robert Hellenga

    Robert Hellenga, bestselling author of The Sixteen Pleasures, once again reveals his profound understanding of the strength and resilience of the human spirit in a compelling and masterful novel.
    Alan Woodhull ("Woody"), a classics professor at...

  • The Sands of Kalaven

    Carol Heller

    With the blood of dragons coursing through her veins, Shunlar--mighty warrior possessed of great magic and great beauty--was instrumental in killing the evil Lord Creedath in battle and ended the tyrant sorcerer's rule over ancient Vensunor, fair cit...

  • Quiet Storm

    Donna Hill

    Beautiful, talented Deanna Winters has taken the world by storm with her jazz performances and her equestrian skills. She believes she has found love. Then tragedy strikes - in more ways than one - casting dark shadows over her future.Three men, each...

  • On Beulah Height

    Reginald Hill

    With modernity raising its ugly head in Yorkshire, the grand idea of the Water Board was to flood a local valley to make a reservoir. Of course they had to bulldoze the homes of Dendale, the farming town inconveniently situated in that valley, first,...

  • The First Eagle

    Tony Hillerman

    When Acting Lt. Jim Chee catches a Hopi poacher huddled over a butchered Navajo Tribal police officer, he has an open-and-shut case--until his former boss, Joe Leaphorn, blows it wide open. Now retired from the Navajo Tribal Police, Leaphorn has been...

  • A Most Reckless Lady

    Sandy Hingston

    He was her guardian. But could he protect her from her own reckless desire -- for him? A MOST RECKLESS ENCOUNTER Without warning, Lucas Strathmere's horse threw him into a snowdrift -- at the feet of the most beautiful creature he'd ever ...

  • Shades of Gray

    Vicki Hinze

    SOMETIMES LOVE IS THE MOST DANGEROUS MISSION OF ALL... Laura Taylor had married Jake for the sake of his child--a gambit for security in a bitter custody battle. A veteran of Air Force intelligence circles, Laura knows her husband's clandestine w...

  • The Snowman's Song

    Jean Hirashima

  • Terrific Tom

    Martha Hix

    MR. WONDERFUL? Cowboy Tom Tillman had had it with heroics. His last act of courage had cost him plenty -- left him scarred, inside and out. Now he hid behind his Stetson and solitude, where no one dared trouble him to do the honorable -- and ter...

  • Don't Let Me Die

    Diane Hoh

    In one moment of pain, everything changes. Lacy slams on the brakes when she sees the truck hurtling toward her on the rain-slicked road. But the blinding headlights keep getting closer. Tires squeal. Glass shatters. Lucy screams. Everything goes ...

  • Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage

    Richard Holmes

    A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship. R...

  • Red Lightning

    Hugh Holton

    When scientist Jonathan Gault is fired from his high-paying job at a military research facility, he is desperate to find new sponsors for his bizarre experiments. Gault's new racket is a deadly home security business for the ultra-rich: booby-trappin...

  • Brown Girl in the Ring

    Nalo Hopkinson

    In this "impressive debut" from award-winning speculative fiction author Nalo Hopkinson, a young woman must solve the tragic mystery surrounding her family and bargain with the gods to save her city and herself. (The Washington Post)The rich and priv...

  • Highland Destiny

    Hannah Howell

    When destiny brought Sir Balfour Murray and his wounded brother down the same road as Maldie Kirkcaldy, she offered her services as nurse even as she tried to deny the desire this dark-eyed knight had ignited at first sight. Soon they discover that t...

  • Swimming Lessons

    Lynne Hugo

    Terrified of the water but needing to learn how to swim, Laurel convinces Marna, a former swimming champion who had given up her Olympic dreams for marriage, to give her lessons, a request that marks the beginning of an extraordinary friendship. Tour...

  • Falling for the Doctor

    Bobby Hutchinson

    The doctor is a patient! The unthinkable has happened. One second Dr. Greg Brulotte is the busiest emergency surgeon in Vancouver. The next, he's a patient in intensive care! If it takes a disaster to prove a man's mettle, Greg is faili...

  • Heart's Desire

    Monica Jackson

    Determined to destroy Senator Eastman--the father who had left her and her mother to pursue his political ambitions--Kara Kincaid joins his staff and decides to use Brent Stevens as her tool for revenge, but the tables turn as she falls in love and t...

  • Everyone and No One

    Mark Jacobson

  • American Dreams

    John Jakes

    From America's master storyteller and writer of historical fiction comes the epic story of the Crown family--first introduced in the New York Times bestseller Homeland. As the second generation comes of age, the Crowns strive to find their place in a...

  • Corpus Corpus

    H. Paul Jeffers

    A famed lawyer is implicated in the death of a New York mafia turncoat and then is murdered himself, leaving Sergeant John Bogdanovich with the task of making a connection between those murders and fictional detective Nero Wolfe....

  • Just Plain Folks

    Lorraine Johnson-Coleman

    By returning to the cotton fields, tobacco barns, and humble dwellings of her ancestral home in the rural South, this author learned firsthand what is missing from the history books between the pages on slavery and present-day African-American cultur...

  • Lost in Space

    Jennifer Johnson

    The year is 2050. The Robinson family have decided to leave Earth and head for planet Alpha Prime to establish a new colony. En route, their robot goes haywire and attacks the family and the spaceship's operating systems. Will Robinson manages to sav...

  • Battle of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    .44 CALIBER JUSTICE Smoke Jensen already has a good woman by his side -- now all he needs to make Sugarloaf the best damned cattle ranch in Colorado is John Chisum's prime steer. But getting Chisum's herd out of New Mexico territory takes a tough hi...

  • Valor in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    After nuclear war, an ex-soldier leads a band of rebels against evil cannibal mutants in New York City -- from a USA Today"bestselling author. A decade has passed since the nuclear nightmare of the Great War brought America to the brink of destruct...

  • Hiccup

    Taylor Jordan

  • The Perfect Storm

    Sebastian Junger

    October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles...

  • Blue Justice

    Jeannine Kadow

    One cop who lives by the law. Another who kills in the name of it. Sixteen NYPD officers are dead, their final bullets pumped from the blue steel barrels of their own guns. But thirty-year veteran Ed Gavin and his partner Jon Strega aren't sold on...

  • The Avengers

    Julie Kaewert

    Starring Ralph Fiennes as the indomitable Mr. Steed and Uma Thurman as the sexy but deadly Mrs. Peel, The Avengers combines a duo of sophistication, ruthlessness and grit with a healthy dose of humor. The premise; these two British operatives plan to...

  • The Dog Who Bit a Policeman

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    As Russian mafia members begin to be the targets of a series of murders, Inspector Rostnikov investigates, but two undercover agents are closer to the truth as they try to determine who is behind an illegal dog fighting ring in Moscow...

  • The Night the Scary Beasties Popped Out of My Head

    David Kamish

    A picture book written and illustrated by a kid?! Yes! (Along with his dad.) Dan has dreamed up a nightmare that takes on a life of its own, leaping right off his sketch pad and into his room. Thus begins a fantastic Technicolor/tm/ escapade where Da...

  • The Night Scary Beasties Popped out of My Head

    David Kamish

    A picture book written and illustrated by a kid?! Yes! (Along with his dad.) Dan has dreamed up a nightmare that takes on a life of its own, leaping right off his sketch pad and into his room. Thus begins a fantastic Technicolor/tm/ escapade where Da...

  • Babe, the Sheep Pig: Looking for Dash

    Molly Kates

  • Death Row

    Jon Katz

    Kit Deleeuw, the Suburban Detective, has carved out an improbable career as a private eye amid the shopping malls and soccer fields of New Jersey. But his world is rocked when his best friend and mentor, Benchley Carrolton, suffers a stroke--and is s...