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New Books List: 509 titles

  • The Ties That Bind

    Warren Adler

    Fiona FitzGerald, senator’s daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in the investigate when the daughter of a prominent lawyer is found murdered. All clues begin to point to a revered Supreme Court Justice with a sadomasochi...

  • Hide-and-Seek

    Jez Alborough

  • Work: A Story of Experience

    Louisa May Alcott

    Published in 1873, this autobiographical novel has been called the adult Little Women. It follows the semi-autobiographical story of an orphan named Christie Devon, who, having turned twenty-one, announces “a new Declaration of Independence” and ...

  • The Story of William Penn

    Aliki

  • Shadow House

    Michael Allegretto

    When Nora's sister, Annie, dies in a bizarre accident in a small Colorado town, Annie's lover and Nora are threatened while searching for an explanation, and discover townspeople reluctant to talk, unexplained deaths, and a strange creature hidden in...

  • A Safe Haven

    Summer Allman

    Psychiatrist Katherine Allen retreats to a distant cabin in the Oregon Cascades to privately grieve the recent death of her husband. But what she finds is the past that has haunted her for her entire life. Can she somehow find the healing and the lov...

  • Homeplace

    Laurel Ames

    Justi Was Not All That She Seemed... Justi Mallory's future hinged on forever living a lie until Richard arrived. And suddenly the truth burned in her breast, demanding release. Here was a man who could topple her world. Yet for Richard alone she ...

  • The Russian Girl

    Kingsley Amis

    The award-winning author of The Old Devils returns with an academic satire that takes aim at art, literature, and political correctness as a respected scholar becomes involved in a romance with a visiting Russian poet. Reprint. NYT. ...

  • Dark Apprentice

    Kevin J. Anderson

    As the New Republic takes devastating losses in the ongoing war with the scattered remnants of the Empire, the galaxy's future depends on three small children--among them the Jedi twins--born to incredible powers and perils, as an extraordinary new S...

  • Tensleep

    Sarah Andrews

    Stuck on an oil-drilling rig in the Wyoming badlands with a bunch of roughnecks is a tough place for a woman. But feisty, sharp-edged Emily "Em" Hansen, working as a mudlogger, calls this patch of Tensleep Sandstone home. She is about to call it dead...

  • Claire Gets Caught

    Katherine Applegate

    Claire just can't mind her own business. It may be meddling, but she knows deep down inside, her friends desperately need her guidance. How would they every get by without her? The gang is going on a ski trip to Killington and everyone is sure they'l...

  • A Beautiful Feast for a Big King Cat

    John Archambault

    Although the little mouse outwits King Cat daily by teasing him and then running safely home, he soon runs out of luck as King Cat discovers a way to teach him a lesson by beating him to his front door and forcing the mouse to face up to his actions....

  • Kenyan Chronicles

    Shel Arensen

  • Laura of the Wild Rose Inn

    Jennifer Armstrong

    1898 On the eve of the twentieth century the world is changing rapidly, and Laura MacKenzie wants to be a part of the coming age. Her parents, forever entrenched in their old-fashioned ways, are running the Wild Rose Inn the same way their family...

  • Judgment Deferred

    Jeffrey Ashford

    When a particularly gruesome serial killer surfaces in London, Detective Constable Toby Ash and the rest of the department go on overtime trying to find him before he can select another victim. Ash is especially eager for a solution because each time...

  • Aurora Quest

    James Axler

    Returning from a deep-space mission to find a ravaged wasteland, the crew members of the U.S. space vessel Aquila make their way through the countryside, struggling to find surviving friends and family on their way to a top-secret base, Auror...

  • Final Viewing

    Leo Axler

    Bill Hawley joined the family business right out of college. He doesn't mind dealing with corpses, caskets, and grieving relatives. But he's ready for something more exciting--like moonlighting as an amateur sleuth. Because sometimes the death certif...

  • The Vanishment

    Jonathan Aycliffe

    Writer Peter Clare has bright hopes that a summer by the sea in Cornwall will renew his faltering marriage. But when his wife becomes the next victim of "the vanishments" of Petherick House, Peter is plunged into a battle with unspeakable evil. From ...

  • Guess Where

    Pam Ayres

  • Guess Why

    Pam Ayres

  • Price of Silence

    Judy Baer

  • Risky Assignment

    Judy Baer

  • Bad Boys

    Allan Baillie

    Wheels, Hulk, Sweet Eddie, and Nose head off for the summer, against their will, to Camp Mulleygrub, where they start a three-sided war of King of the Hill against a group of four girls and four brainiacs. Reprint....

  • Female Superior Position

    Susan Crain Bakos

    Welcome to the Nineties...where Nice Girls Don't and Sex is a Four-letter Word. From TV. talk shows to her national advice column, New York journalist Carolyn Steele, also known as "The Mother of Porn," is considered America's foremost expert on s...

  • A Lady of Fashion

    Rebecca Baldwin

    A DARING YOUNG WIDOW Lord Wellford had left his young widowed bride a veritable fortune with which she lived life as she pleased. Now the dowager Baroness Wellford was shocking fashionable society -- not only was her smart, stylish dressing a bit ...

  • A Stolen Bride

    Karen A. Bale
    in

    WELCOME TO A WORLD OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS, SATIN AND LACE...ARISTOCRATS AND ADVENTURERS, PENNILESS HEIRESSES AND IRRESISTIBLE ROGUES... MATCHES MADE IN HEAVEN AND MARRIAGES MADE RIGHT HERE ON EARTH... Journey down the aisle with A STOLEN BRIDE's M...

  • Feersum Endjinn

    Iain M. Banks

    Ever since his stunning novel The Wasp Factory set readers on fire, Iain M. Banks has been defying category and convention with his thrilling speculative fiction. Now he goes a step beyond his previous imaginative journeys to create his most exciting...

  • Lord Glenraven's Return

    Anne Barbour

    Danger in Disguise Beautiful young widow Claudia Carstairs did not mourn her late husband. During their brief marriage she had learned to loathe him. That nightmare ended with his sudden death -- and Claudia was left with the freedom she longed fo...

  • Dreaming

    Jill Barnett

    Most English girls meet their heart's desire across a crowded ballroom or in a genteel parlor. Letitia Olive Hornsby finds hers when she knocks him out of a tree. A curly-haired, blue-eyed hellion of only eleven, she decides even then that Richar...

  • Dead Dog Blues

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    You find a dead barking dog and maybe what you want is a nice cold beer. Three or four would be better. A dead barking dog's not a thing you can explain to anybody... Say you're Jack Track and you've been away from Pharaoh, Texas for fourteen years...

  • Aladdin

    Jean Barry

  • Sherman's March

    Cynthia Bass

    Autumn, 1864, and the Civil War has ground to a bloody stalemate. Frustrated by its slow and costly advance, the North looks for a way to cut the South in two and bring the war to an end. Told from the unique perspective of three participants, this n...

  • Honey Pot Picnic

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • Really No Big Deal

    Margaret Bechard

    Jonah Truman always has his hands full with avoiding the class bully, trying to get up the nerve to talk to girls, and struggling to earn money, and now he faces the ultimate challenge--his mother has started dating his principal....

  • Where Magic Dwells

    Rexanne Becnel

    A THORNY ROSE, SHE BLOOMED WITH PASSION No man dared touch the proud Wynne ab Gruffydd, Seeress of Radnor, whose heart belonged to the children she raised, five orphans, bastards of war. Awed by her magic, would-be suitors kept their distance. Unt...

  • School for Terror: Going to School Can Be Murder

    Peter Beere

    When a teacher at a boarding school for girls is found drowned in a pond on campus, Alison must decide whether the killer is the handsome English teacher, the riding instructor, sad little Susie, or the popular, bullying Lynsey. Original....

  • An Improper Pursuit

    Donna Bell

    A GAME OF KISS-AND-TELL Chastity Hartford simply hated her name. She was a most proper lady, but a few stolen kisses had made her the laughingstock of the ton and ruined her prospects for a suitable match. Now she was on the shelf at her parents&#...

  • The Mourning Show

    Dick Belsky

    LATE-BREAKING NEWS. HEART-BREAKING MURDER. It takes more than a failed romance to foil Jenny McKay...Her brief interlude with Jerry Meredith was over faster than you can change channels. But at least she can say she was dumped by a celebrity--Mere...

  • Wild Hearts Forever

    Cherie Bennett

  • Sunset Sensation

    Cherie Bennett

    With Diana out of The Flirts, talented but overweight newcomer Erin Kane becomes the new singer for the band, and her self-confidence and self-esteem force everyone to confront their prejudices toward overweight people. Original....

  • Too Many Boys!

    Cherie Bennett

    Fourteen-year-old twins Becky and Allie Jacobs take a summer job as counselors for the new day camp at the Sunset Country Club, and suddenly they are having the summer of their lives, meeting new friends and finding first loves. Original....

  • Across Forever

    Janice Bennett

    UP INTO THE AIR SHE SOARED... 1993. At a balloon convention in London, artist Kat Sayre steps into a hot-air ballloon...and descends into a world of horse-drawn carriages and gaslit streets. ONLY TO PLUNGE INTO A WORLD OF TREACHERY, DANGER... 18...

  • Sleepless Nights

    Andrew Bergman

    A provocative look at a family's psychological underside chronicles the fortunes of a Jewish family in which the parents are Holocaust survivors, centering on the incestuous relationships that develop between the son and his mother and his sister....

  • One Slimy Summer

    J.R. Black

    Max Harrison and his sister, Diana, discover that the sea monster which has been terrorizing their town was brought into their world by nearby drill testing, and they try to get the monster back into its own world before it's too late...

  • The Gemel Ring

    Sara Blayne
    in

    When Harriet Kendal agrees to pose as her cousin and marry the Duke of Lynton, she is sure that they couldn't be more ill-suited...until she discovers the dashing duke's seductive secret......

  • The High Missouri

    Win Blevins

    RIVERS WEST is one of the most exciting frontier series of our time...tales of mountain men and intrepid women, pioneer families and Native American warriors. Here is the story of North America in all its awesome splendor. THE HIGH MISSOURI They...

  • Primavera

    Francesca Lia Block

    Her voice brought life to the barren desert. Her songs made water flow and flowers blossom from the very moment she was born. But even in Paradise there are dreams that cannot be fulfilled. Primavera, in love with a man who can never be hers, knows s...

  • The Silent Angel

    Heinrich Boll

    Just days after the end of World War II, German soldier Hans Schnitzler returns to a bombed German city, carrying a dead comrade's coat to his widow-not knowing that the coat contains a will. Soon Hans is caught in a dangerous intrigue involving the ...

  • The Spinster Bride: A Novella

    Jane Bonander
    in

    For the sake of a motherless child, a proud spinster leaves Ohio for the Texas frontier and agrees to marry a man she detests -- only to discover that love truly comes from unexpected places....

  • Strike Zone

    Jim Bouton

  • Born to Be Wild

    Barry Bowe

    Recounts the criminal career of Bobby Nauss, a member of an infamous Pennsylvania motorcycle gang who was convicted of trafficking in drugs, killing a woman, and raping another, and who escaped from a maximum security prison....

  • The Price of Fear

    Randall Boyll

  • Rediscovery

    Marion Zimmer Bradley; Mercedes Lackey

    FIRST RECONTACT! Leonie Hastur, headstrong and lovely daughter of the Hastur Clan, most powerful of all the telepathic families who rule Darkover, is being escorted by her twin brother Lorill to Dalreuth Tower for training in the use of her psychi...

  • The Trap at Comanche Bend

    Max Brand

    FOOL'S GOLD Like a vulture descending on a rottin' corpse Jerry Aiken could smell gold nuggets from a mile away, and he'd do anything to keep his pockets full. A cardsharp, a cattleman, a hired gun -- he'd tried every legal means in the West to ...

  • Lonely Street

    Steve Brewer

    Bubba Mabry may not be Albuquerque’s most successful private investigator, operating as he does from the seedy Desert Breeze Motor Inn on Route 66, amid hookers and drug dealers. But when a man named Buddy, sporting pounds of gold jewelry, hires hi...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Takes Stock

    Emily Brightwell

    PINCHING PENNIES Mrs. Jeffries is keeping the household on a tight budget -- and the Inspector is suffering for it. Even worse, he's got a new murder case on his hands. The victim, a businessman, may have cheated his stockholders out of a princely...

  • Otherness

    David Brin

    From multiple-award-winning author David Erin comes this extraordinary collection of tales and essays of the near and distant future, as humans and aliens encounter the secrets of the cosmos--and of their own existence. In "Dr. Pak's Preschool" a wom...

  • Deep Cover

    Annette Broadrick
    in

    Melody Young was in for a shock when an injured Ryan O'Rourke convinced her to take him on her vacation. She allowed her childhood nemesis to hide out at her summer retreat, but not before vowing to use the opportunity to uncover Ryan's deep secret.....

  • Hero Under Cover

    Suzanne Brockmann

    LOOKING OUT FOR A HERO He came to her unexpectedly, and he changed her life. When Pete Taylor first offered his services as a bodyguard, Annie Morrow wanted nothing to do with him. She was sure the threats against her weren't serious. While the...

  • All My Worldly Goods

    Cassandra Brooke

    Janice Blakemore has fallen in love with Tom Brand, fresh from his fifth divorce. When Prawnography, their erotic seafood cookery book, is a best-seller, they can't keep their wealth a secret. Tom's ex-wives soon descend like vultures, determined to ...

  • The Dream Team

    Chelsea Brooks

  • Conroy's First Command

    Robert W. Broomall

    The attack of an angry group of Cheyenne and Sioux on the frontier stage stop at Buffalo Creek Station, Kansas, turns inexperienced Lieutenant Tom Conroy's first command into a terrifying struggle for survival...

  • Enemy Within

    Amanda Browning

    She had to harden her heart! A troubled childhood and a disastrous love affair had left Michaela older and wiser -- and vowing never to get close to anyone again. And that certainly included photographer Ryan Douglas with his legendary reputation ...

  • Summer Without Horses

    Bonnie Bryant

    When Stevie Lake injures herself and can't ride for a while, the other two members of the Saddle Club, Carole Hanson and Lisa Atwood, make a pact not to ride until Stevie has recovered. After all, they're the Saddle Club, and they always stick togeth...

  • No One Dies in Branson

    Kathryn Buckstaff

    DENIM AND DIAMONDS...AND DEATH. Pulling into Branson, Missouri to cover the Country Music Awards for the Tampa Tribune, reporter Emily Stone hardly recognizes the sleepy Ozark town of her childhood, now a booming mecca of sights and sounds. And then...

  • Granta 47

    Bill Buford

    This special issue of Granta is devoted to failure. It is a hymn to humiliation -- unmitigated public humiliation. A writer who can't write, a child who can't spell, a champion who -- like everyone else in this issue -- always seems to lose. What kin...

  • Gibraltar Passage

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    When Pierre Servais learns from a refugee that his twin brother, Patrique, might be alive, a search begins that leads Pierre and his friend Jake Burnes from France through Gibraltar to Morocco. Patrique, a leader in the French Resistance, had been pr...

  • Shades of Familiar

    Caroline Burnes

    The ghost and Mrs. Muir? Though Mary Muir had once dreamed of becoming William McEachern's bride, after their unexpected reunion she found his abrupt proposal of marriage surprising. And when her long-lost love insisted on a hasty wedding, sh...

  • Breathless

    Stella Cameron

    FALLEN ANGEL Angelica Dean has only one thing on her mind when she arrives at Sinjun Breaker's private island paradise--revenge. A respected journalist, Angel knows the enigmatic tycoon has to pay for his many sins--and she intends to exact a stee...

  • Flame Lily

    Candace Camp

    A LOVE BEYOND PROPRIETY AND PASSION From the fateful day Confederate officer Hunter Tyrrell discovered that beautiful Linette Sanders had wed another, he swore to rebuild his life amid Arkansas's tranquil hills and never again yield his heart to p...

  • Stolen Dreams

    Marilyn Campbell

    PASSION JOINED THEM BEYOND THE EDGE OF TIME Shara Locke, Innerworld's scientist, is a beautiful woman with important secrets. When handsome archeologist Gabriel Drumayne seeks her out, he is aware that she has a device to make travel into the pas...

  • Big Bear's Treasury, the Blue Collection

    Candlewick Press

  • Dark Journey

    Sandra Canfield

    HER CRIME WAS PASSION.... With her blond curls and sea-blue eyes, Anna Ramey didn't look like an adulteress...or a murderer. But that was what the good people of picturesque Cook's bay were calling her that summer. And all because Anna, lonely and a...

  • Gravestone

    P.M. Carlson

    Marty Hopkins, deputy sheriff for Nichols County, Indiana, is suddenly confronted with death threats, burning crosses, a kidnapping, charges of incest, racially motivated murders, and a possible Ku Klux Klan conflagration. Reprint....

  • Wedding Invitation

    Marisa Carroll

    KEEP YOUR LOVE FOR ETERNITY For generations, couples have been coming to Eternity, Massachusetts, to exchange wedding vows. Legend has it that those married in Eternity's chapel are destined for a lifetime of happiness. And the townsfolk are more ...

  • Women, Beware of Women

    William C. Carroll

    New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:

    The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
    Textual notes recording signi...

  • Till September

    Ginger Chambers

    A GUILTY CONSCIENCE When Robin Farrell was a child, a man drowned saving her life. Desperate to free herself from the guilt that still lingered after twenty years, Robin tracked down his six orphaned children and took a job as a chef in the seaside ...

  • The Mound Builders' Secret

    Eileen Charbonneau

    Readers join Tad Gist, his archaeologist father, and half-Cherokee site supervisor Linda Tassel as they investigate a Georgia archaeological dig that may hold the key to an ancient treasure and that has been jeopardized by sabotage and murder. Origin...

  • The Furies

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    In Book One of the Holdfast Chronicles, Aldera the Messenger, along with all other women, is a slave. In Book Two, Aldera the Runner lives in two worlds, both consisting entirely of women. Now in Book Three, The Furies, Aldera the Conquere leads an a...

  • The Cherry Pie Baby

    Kay Chorao

  • Infamous Bargain

    Daphne Clair

    What other choice did she have? "You're not so irresistible, you know?" Briar told Kynan. Wealth, good looks, power and sex appeal. Financier Kynan Roth had all the superficial advantages. Briar was looking for other qualities in a...

  • Rattlebone

    Maxine Clair

  • One Man's Law

    John Clarkson

    When the body of an old war buddy, the victim of a brutal killer, turns up in the forest and the police do not seem overly anxious to solve the crime, Jack Devlin embarks on a one-man quest for revenge. Original....

  • Summer Deception

    Alana Clayton
    in

    Six delightfully romantic regency short stories about love and marriage in the month of June. Featuring daring plots for the winning of hearts, unlikely partnerships which blaze into passionate fires, and intriguing choices between love and honor. Ju...

  • Ophelia's Bedtime Book

    Michele Durkson Clise

  • Gateway to the Heart

    Barbara Cockrell

    A lyrical and deeply moving novel of an indomitable woman who will win your heart and admiration--and make your spirit soar with the triumph of love in frontier St. Louis....

  • Second Culprit

    Liza Cody

  • Bride of the Black Scot

    Elaine Coffman
    in

    En route to Scotland to marry an earl, by order of the English king, Lady Juliette Pemberton is hopelessly smitten with her dark and dashing "barbarian" escort. But a shocking surprise awaits the loveswept bride....

  • Buffalo Hiders

    Judd Cole

    Vowing to protect the remaining herds of buffalo that provide the Cheyenne with food, clothing, tools, and skins, Touch the Sky encounters a new threat when their lands are invaded by two hundred killer mountain men--and the U.S. Cavalry. Original....

  • Hell, West and Crooked

    Tom Cole

    In this remarkable autobiographical accountâ Tom Cole tells the stories of his life in the outback during the 1920s and 1930s. With great humour and dramaâ he recounts his adventures as a drover and stationhand in the toughest country in Austra...

  • Eye Contact

    Stephen Collins

    Nicolette Stallings, a beautiful and independent actress, pursues her taste for daring sex despite its dangerous repercussions and finds her anticipated night-to-remember becoming an inescapable nightmare. Reprint....

  • Cherokee Outlaw

    Robert J. Conley

    Betrayal, a killing, and escape from a lynching turn Cherokee Civil War veteran Zeke Proctor into an outlaw; and, protected by his people, he strives to prevent a destructive war between the Cherokee and the United States. ...

  • The Way of the Priest

    Robert J. Conley

    In America prior to European settlement, the Cherokee people look to their priests to rescue them from famine, drought, and death, but the priests are only interested in preserving their own power, in a story based on Cherokee legend. Reprint....

  • The Concrete Blonde

    Michael Connelly

    THEY CALLED HIM THE DOLLMAKER... The serial killer who stalked Los Angeles and left a grisly calling card on the faces of his female victims. With a single faultless shot, Detective Harry Bosch thought he had ended the city's nightmare. Now, th...

  • Molly and the Strawberry Day

    Pamela Conrad

  • Old Ways in the New World

    Richard Timothy Conroy

    Only Richard Conroy, who has already brought us two chronicles of life behind the walls of the Smithsonian Institution (The India Exhibition and Mr. Smithson's Bones), could do justice to the chaos that ensues when that venerable museum, "The Nation'...

  • The Only Hope

    Jan Constant

    There was much more at stake than affairs of the heart. Miss Amy Standish could hardly refuse to help young, desperate Clarissa Dysart, whose autocratic brother, Sir Hugo, intended to marry her off despite her love for a young soldier. Now, as the gi...

  • Freshman Beach Party

    Linda A. Cooney

    While Winnie becomes involved with Walker Ingham, a charismatic spiritual advisor to Hollywood celebrities, Lauren, Melissa, and Liza pursue their individual romantic adventures on the beaches of Los Angeles. Original....

  • Over the Moon

    Betty Cothran

    Widowed real estate tycoon Elizabeth Roswell is happy living in the town of Willow Ridge, Georgia, and doing what she loves: hot-air ballooning and volunteer firefighting. She even has a secret garden behind her house -- complete with hot tub and lap...

  • While Angels Dance

    Ralph Cotton

    An epic drama follows the post-Civil War adventures of young Jeston Nash, the cousin to outlaws Frank and Jesse James, and chronicles his crimes, friendships, loves, and eventual rise to respectability. Reprint....

  • Silent Songs

    A.C. Crispin

    On the planet Trinity, Tesa, the deaf human ambassador, and a young telepath become Trinity's last hope of battling an alien race of dangerous amphibious beings that threatens to draw the planet into a deadly intergalactic war. Original....

  • Cover Story

    Robert Cullen

    Journalist Colin Burke may have escaped with his life at the end of Soviet Sources, but he hasn't gotten any savvier about protecting it; he's still snooping around Moscow. True, the regime has changed - his sources aren't Soviets anymore - but the m...

  • What Can a Giant Do?

    Mary Louise Cuneo

  • Moses Supposes

    Ellen Currie

    A collection of short works explores the high drama and unintended comedy of domestic life with the stories of a woman whose unexpected pregancy makes her marriage unbearable and an executive who predicts his own downfall. Reprint....

  • Inca Gold

    Clive Cussler

    A MYSTERIOUS ANDEAN TREASURE LOST FOR NEARLY FIVE CENTURIES ... TWO DIVERS MISSING IN A FATHOMS-DEEP PERUVIAN SINKHOLE ... A POWERFUL CRIME FAMILY BACKING A GANG OF ARTIFACT LOOTERS... When a tsunami hit a Spanish treasure galleon, all trace of a go...

  • Southern Nights

    Margot Dalton

    SOMEONE WAS WATCHING.... It was love at first sight when Lisa Croft arrived in Crystal Creek. Cynthia, Virginia and Lettie Mae figured they'd been blessed with the best mother's helper in the state of Texas. And Tony Rodriguez, the new veterinary ...

  • Bad Girl Blues

    Rex Dancer

    Burned-out photographer Andy Derain leaves New York City for his New Orleans home, searching for an easier lifestyle, but finds himself embroiled in a seedy string of murders--and targeted as the next victim....

  • A Wedding to Remember

    Emma Darcy

    Truth As far as her family was concerned, the worst thing Joanna had ever done was marry Rory Grayson. The best thing she'd ever done was divorce him. As far as Joanna was concerned, she never wanted to see him again. Or Consequences But if ...

  • Concerto

    Elizabeth Darrell

    Presents the tale of three young expatriates in World War II Hong Kong--a deceptively tough doctor; a gifted pianist, unsupported by her family; and a dissolute playboy convinced of his own meaninglessness...

  • The Incredible Hulk - Future Imperfect

    Peter David

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

  • Night Terrors

    Nicole Davidson

    Seeking relief from a recurring nightmare about a madwoman who chases her through the streets with a knife, Maggie uncovers a terrible secret in a hospital where elderly patients are being eliminated, and the killer thinks she knows too much. Origina...

  • The Raider

    Justine Davis
    in

    Former corporate whirlwind Gunnar Royce had left the cold business of takeovers for the warm sun, the surf...and Jill Brown. But could Gunnar avoid his former life for long, or would the remembered rush of power and success lure him from the woman he...

  • Minds Apart

    Margaret Davis

    UNDER PRESSURE The Michaelsons seemed to have it made: the newfound aliens called the Miquiri had established a diplomatic outpost on the edge of human space, and trusted no human craft to dock there except the trading ship crewed by Captain Kiley...

  • On Wings of Love

    Saranne Dawson

    UNEXPECTED TEMPTATION Jillian had the mind of a scientist, but the heart of a vulnerable woman. Wary of love, she had devoted herself to training the mysterious birds that served her people as messengers. But her reunion with the one man she would...

  • The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman

    Louis De Bernieres

    With the same ebullient storytelling, luxuriant prose, and irrepressible eroticism he brought to The War of Don Emmanuel s Nether Parts and Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord, Louis de Bernières continues his chronicle of Cochadebajo, the Andean village ...

  • Unicorn Bride

    Claire Delacroix

    For generations, legend has stalked the battlements of the fortress Monstsalvat. And now Alienor de Perpignan found herself promised in marriage to the man at the heart of the oft-whispered tales: Dagobert, Count de Pereille. A near-mythic being rumo...

  • Meant to Be

    Elizabeth DeLancey

    THEY FOUND A PLACE IN THE HEART -- WHERE LOVE IS THE GREATEST TREASURE OF ALL... JULIA On her own in a rough Montana mining town, the wealthy young widow carried on her late husband's medical practice... GIB A smooth-talking drifter...

  • For My Daughters

    Barbara Delinsky

    A poignant and unforgettable story of the enduring power of love and the tenacious strength of family. Estranged sisters Caroline, Annette, and Leah St. Clair have spent their lives trying to escape the legacy of their wealthy, aloof, social-climb...

  • Comanche Flame

    Genell Dellin

    Drawn by an ancient song into the life of tempestuous Ysidora Pretty Sky, Comanche-born Don Rafael, the adopted son of a proud Spanish aristocrat, cannot ignore the mystical visions that compel him to join Ysidora's quest to free her people. Original...

  • Jacob and the Stranger

    Sally Derby

    In exchange for generous pay, lazy Jacob agrees to care for a mysterious stranger's plant and to return everything when the stranger comes back, but the plant produces magical miniature wildcats that Jacob does not want to give up....

  • Adventures in Colors and Shapes

    Disney Book Group

  • From Whales To Snails

    Disney Book Group

  • Seasons and Holidays

    Disney Book Group

  • My First Word Book

    Disney Book Group

  • Rhymes and Riddles, Gags and Giggles

    Disney Book Group

  • Tell Me a Story

    Disney Book Group

  • The Lion King: Animated Flip Book

    Disney Book Group

    A delightful official flip book follows its predecessors Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin with two animated sequences featuring the Simba, the brave lion-cub hero, and his menagerie of friends. Original....

  • Inferno of Fear

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Waterworks

    E.L. Doctorow

    “An elegant page-turner of nineteenth-century detective fiction.”"The Washington Post Book WorldOne rainy morning in 1871 in lower Manhattan, Martin Pemberton a freelance writer, sees in a passing stagecoach several elderly men, one of whom he ...

  • Tiger Eyes

    Robyn Donald

    Love Trap... "He's tough and he's brilliant and he's got no weaknesses." That was how Leo Dacre's brother had described him. And Tansy Ormerod was about to find out just how accurate those words were! Leo intended to find o...

  • The Gap into Madness: Chaos and Order

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    They are a handful of fugitives from an outlaw world, old enemies trapped on a renegade spaceship in a desperate bid for survival. Among the unlikely crew of Trumpet are Morn Hyland, once a UMCP cop, now a prisoner of the electrodes planted in her br...

  • The MARZIPAN PIGEON

    Alyssa Donati

  • Shadow of a Tiger

    Jane Donnelly

    MARRIAGE IN MIND? PR consultant Alice Ashby had everything: beauty, brains and a sense of humor. The only thing she didn't have was a husband -- and she certainly didn't want one of those! If Ivan Blackmore intended to change Alice's ...

  • White Man's Grave

    Richard Dooling

    When Peace Corps volunteer Michael Killigan goes missing in West Africa, his father Randall and his best friend Boone Westfall begin separate quests to find him. Randall, a bankruptcy lawyer, is the warlord of his world, a shark in a fishbowl, exerc...

  • A Proper Victorian Wedding

    Christine Dorsey
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    WELCOME TO A WORLD OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS, SATIN AND LACE...ARISTOCRATS AND ADVENTURERS, PENNILESS HEIRESSES AND IRRESISTIBLE ROGUES...MATCHES MADE IN HEAVEN AND MARRIAGES MADE RIGHT HERE ON EARTH... Meet Eleanor Fiske, who secretly yearns for A PR...

  • Cannon's Orb

    L. Warren Douglas

  • Death Song

    Bill Dugan

    While trying to rescue a tenderfoot minister's young wife, kidnapped by a group of Lakota Sioux warriors, experienced Indian scout Scotty Horgan comes up against the opinionated, headstrong, and ambitious Lieutenant Harrison....

  • Death at Wentwater Court

    Carola Dunn

    In the first installment of this cozy mystery series, Carola Dunn transports readers back to the bygone era of 1923 Britain, where unflappable flapper and would-be journalist Daisy Dalrymple daringly embarks on her first writing assignment -- and pro...

  • The Mutiny Run

    Frank Eccles

    Vivid historical accuracy marks an exciting tale set in 1797, as Captain Brewster of the British ship Adamant must find a way to halt a French invasion of Ireland during a mutiny of Britain's Channel fleet....

  • A Year and a Day

    Marian Edwards

    "I HAVE FOUGHT THE ENEMY, AND KILLED THE ENEMY.. Alec Campbell swears a bitter oath of vengeance against his father's murderer, Angus Mactavish, laird of a rival clan. But the king has other plans for Campbell. In an effort to unite Scotland against ...

  • A Killing in Moscow

    Clive Egleton

    British agent Peter Ashton returns in a thriller that takes him from post-Cold War Russia to Helsinki and, finally, to London as he investigates a triple murder and finds a hotbed of corruption. By the author of Hostile Intent. ...

  • Haven's Call

    Robin Elliott

    MR. JUNE The Maverick: Call Shannon, secret agent turned cowboy. The Mission: To expose beautiful Haven Larson as an innocent pawn -- or a dangerous spy. The Method: Uncover her secrets -- and conceal his own. Call Shannon had left the wor...

  • There's a Troll in My Sleeping Bag

    Carol Ellis

  • Lone Star and the Deadly Vixens

    Wesley Ellis

    Hell hath no fury like a dozen women riding for vengeance!After witnessing the murders of their families, twelve women band together to seek revenge on the men responsible for the crimes, but when their blood lust rages out of control, it is up to Je...

  • Unquiet Hearts

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    Protector, friend, hero. Nick Carrier had been all these things and more to Thomasine Strangeways during her bleak childhood at Catsholme Manor. But that was before she and her mother had been sent away under mysterious circumstances. Now, years l...

  • Isobel

    Rosemary Enright

    AN ARTIST'S PASSION

    Young Englishwoman Isobel Jefferson is delighted to gain employment as an au pair to a couple in Milan, certain the history and romance of Italy will inspire her artistic talent. But instead of nurturing dreams, Isobel is t...

  • Housemates

    Terry Essig

    Playing House Getting married and setting up a home with Mr. Right was the last thing on Candace Barr's mind. So why was she buying a house with Mr. Wrong -- her office rival, Michael Cane? For an investment, Candy told herself: fix up the ...

  • Reunion

    Roger Essley

  • The First Duelist

    Rutledge Etheridge

    It was to be the first great galactic expedition. Nineteen days later, only one passenger was alive. His survival was the most significant event of the twenty-second century... Sixteen-year-old Simon Barrow was branded an intruder, and sentenced to ...

  • Longarm and the High Rollers

    Tabor Evans

    CALL ONE MURDER AND RAISE ANOTHER TWO... Riding Colorado's silver boom, the mining town of Holy Cross attracts all kinds of low-down trash...including the mysterious drifting gambler One-Eyed Jack McBride, a high roller who hates to lose. But when M...

  • Jim Dandy

    Irvin Faust

    Hollis Cleveland is a resourceful African American dealing with life in 1936--Harlem gangsters, the advancement of fascism and Nazism in Europe, the Italo-Ethiopian War--in a manner that raises moral questions about race, national interest, loyalty, ...

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Ellen Feldman

    Half of the New Yorkers Isobel knew would kill for Pete's baronial Fifth Avenue apartment. Dr. Peter Arlen, psychiatrist, inherited it. Isobel Behringer, architectural preservationist and director of Urban Heritage, married into it. Flush and faintly...

  • Windsong

    Kelly Ferjutz

    On Mackinac Island, where whites and natives live in mutual distrust, a native American woman and a white man fall in love, despite her family objections and his duty to his own people. As is the custom, Windsong, a young Native-American princess ...

  • Moonlight Surrender

    Marie Ferrarella

    Had she left the safety of her home in Virginia, crossed the wild Atlantic -- only to be stranded in England and beset by highwaymen? Stubborn, sensible Elizabeth Beaulieu was determined to reach Paris. Her aristocratic father had vanished into the t...

  • Baby in the Middle

    Marie Ferrarella

    Kelly Pendleton's biological clock was about to explode. But none of the men she knew were 'daddy' material. Except Thomas Sheridan. Sexy - when he wasn't arguing with her. Intelligent. Relatively sane. Good teeth. What more could she want? PROBL...

  • The Blue Woman and Other Stories

    Mary Flanagan

    In this delectable collection of stories that move sequentially through the ages of woman, dramatic twists surprise and unnerve the reader. From childhood violence to romantic ruin in a retirement home, mayhem and magic are never far away in this wor...

  • Kissed by the Sea

    Rebecca Flanders

    On a dark and stormy night... The man seemed to rise up out of the churning sea itself. In the swirling New England fog it was impossible to detect where the sea ended and he began. All Molly Blake knew was that his strong arms saved her from bein...

  • Last Mountain

    Robert C. Fleet

    Living in the hills above Los Angeles, the last Unicorn has become tired of his existence, until he comes to the aid of Nancy del Rio, a teenager from the city's gang-ridden streets, and risks his life to teach her to believe in herself. Original....

  • Motherhood Deferred

    Anne Taylor Fleming

    A successful columnist offers an account of her later-in-life attempts to have a child, including forays into a variety of fertility procedures, coupled with memories of her generation of women and the influence on their lives of the Women's Movement...

  • Over There

    Thomas Fleming

    Four very different men and women--Polly Warden, embittered surgeon Paul Lebrun, General Malvern Hill Bliss, and beautiful and manipulative expatriate Louise Wolcott--find their lives irrevocably altered by the horrors of World War I. Reprint....

  • Wallaby Track

    Aaron Fletcher

    A LAND WITH NO PAST Sprawling and magnificent, the outback was the territory of jackaroos and convicts, kangaroos and koalas. Many a man was captivated by the lure and mystery of the unending wilderness, but few possessed the strength and daring to ...

  • Wilderness Wanton

    Dirk Fletcher

    This adult western series provides more action than a frontier cathouse and more fun than a barroom brawl. In Wilderness Wanton the Secret Service sends top gun Spur McCoy to clean up the Montana territory. Can Spur handle all the robbers, hot women,...

  • Daughter of the Bride

    Christine Flynn

    IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN Single mom Abby Sinclair was back in town -- and so was her former high school crush. Unbelievably, the man was as irresistible as ever! More incredible still, bad boy Marc Maddox was now a min...

  • Stolen Treasure

    Catriona Flynt

    Betrayed by the man she loves, headstrong Cate Stewart battles to protect her family's mine from ruthless treasure seekers, but the arrival of her new "business partner," handsome Neel Blade, brings dramatic changes in her life. Fiery Cate Stewart...

  • Ocean Under the Ice

    Robert L. Forward

    INVASION When the first interstellar expedition reached Barnard's Star they found Rocheworld, and discovered therein the flouwen, giant amoeboids with a flair for math. Almost immediately, the medium-brained but high-tech humans from Earth forged ...

  • Stone Cold

    John Francome

    Blackmail, seduction and murder - there's more to horseracing than meets the eye John Francome explores the cut-throat world of international flat racing in his jaw dropping racing thriller Stone Cold. The perfect read for fans of Felix Francis...

  • Sable, Shadow, and Ice

    Cheryl J. Franklin

    FORTY-FIVE CARDS GUIDE THE MAGES OF AVALON-- There are five suits: Blood, Brass,Ice, Sable, and Shadow. There are nine faces: Prince, Mage, Dom, Cat, Everyman, Hound, Ghost, Mixie,...

  • Charlie's Apprentice

    Brian Freemantle

    Having outlived the Cold War, Charlie Muffin is put out to pasture by his director as a teacher of fledgling spies, until an apprentice is captured in Beijing, and Charlie is sent on the dangerous rescue mission....

  • Alien Pregnant by Elvis

    Esther Friesner

  • Obsidian Sky

    Guy Garcia

    Past and present mix in a fast-paced intellectual adventure, when Chicano graduate student Brian Mendoza discovers intrigue in Mexico City while researching the dark, mysterious religious journey of sixteenth-century shaman Xotl. By the author of

  • Demon Blade

    Mark A. Garland; Charles G. McGraw

  • Sins of Summer

    Dorothy Garlock

    Amid the lonesome pines of an Idaho logging camp, young Dory Callahan was like a burst of bright sunshine--even when she had to tolerate the scorn of her wealthy, mean-spirited half brothers each day of her life. Dory was proud, not ashamed of her to...

  • Knight's Corner

    Sibylle Garrett

    MURDER... Ex-agent Cord Knight knew that Simon Durand had been murdered, and he was determined to find the killer. And when Simon's lovely daughter came home to settle her father's estate, he realized he had to get her out of town -- fast....

  • Her Heart's Desire

    Rene J. Garrod

    A RELUCTANT BRIDE, SHE REFUSED TO MARRY... Half the men in the Wyoming Territory had proposed to Ella Singleton -- and she'd turned down every one. It wasn't that Ella had anything against them. She just had something more special in mind. But her s...

  • Prince Charming

    Julie Garwood

    1868. Only her beloved grandmother, Lady Esther, knew how devastated Taylor Stapleton had been when her fiance eloped with Taylor's cousin, Jane. Now that good lady -- one of London's richest and most formidable matriarchs -- lay dying. But first she...

  • The Sin Within Her Smile

    Jonathan Gash

    This time, Lovejoy's on the auction block When Lovejoy himself is put on the block among marmalades and lawnmowers at a charity auction -- and billed as "Slave for a Day" -- he's bought for an outrageous sum by a rich and luscious mystery lady...

  • Dazzling Brightness

    Roberta Gellis

    From the mists of timeless legend... an enchanting, unforgettable tale of passion, intrigue and adventure that brings two mythical lovers magnificently to life... HE was Lord of the Underworld, cast down by the gods into a kingdom of everlasting ...

  • Evidence of Sin

    Catherine George

    The Real Thing Successful barrister Piers Audley was a master of the art of persuasion. Handsome and sophisticated, he could charm his way into any woman's heart... except Chloe's. For years she'd cherished a secret passion for anothe...

  • In Their Footsteps

    Tess Gerritsen

    Old sins cast long shadows.... Paris, the City of Lights, illuminated a twenty-year-old scandal that Beryl Tavistock's reserved British family had long kept in the dark. Instantly, she was caught in a whirlwind of events that would bring the scand...

  • Deadly Practice

    Leonard S. Goldberg

    An open vein of terror is turning a prestigious city hospital into a dangerous place of secret sex, scandal...and serial murder. The first doctor dies in hideous pain, strapped down on an operating table. Another died from blows of an ax, then was ex...

  • Things People Do

    Golden Books

  • Muppet Babies Rhymes

    Golden Books

  • Christmas Songs with Holiday Sounds

    Golden Books

    Seasonal sounds such as sleighbells and Santa's laugh punctuate such Christmastime children's favorites as "Frosty the Snowman," "Jingle Bells," and "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth." Features an electronic keyboard which plays the son...

  • Lion King

    Golden Books

  • Of Saints and Shadows

    Christopher Golden

    THE EPIC VAMPIRE NOVEL THAT REDEFINES TERROR SAINTS (n.) Highly virtuous people, dedicated to holy pursuits. Like Father Mulkerrin, a man devoted to the total elimination of a hidden race of beings... SHADOWS(n.) Creatures of the night, who def...

  • For Men Only

    Sally Goldenbaum

    PETE -- A Brash Single Dad Whose Touch Took Her to Paradise... The first time they'd met, he'd been a blind date from hell and Ellie Livingston hoped never to see him again, but now Pete Webster looked good enough to eat! He definitely ha...

  • Uncaged

    Lucy Gordon

    SHE WANTED HER CHILD BACK Daniel Keller never should have handled that homicide case. Still grieving over the accident that had stolen his wife and son, the dazed policeman had nevertheless testified -- and unwittingly convicted -- an innocent wom...

  • Blood Moon

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    This is the first of the Robert Payne series, written in 1994. Payne is an ex-FBI profiler who gets offered $10,000 in an unmarked envelope to find the killer of a young girl. If only it were that easy. A Ramble House book...

  • Love Bite

    Sherry Gottlieb

    SHE CAN LOVE YOU TO DEATH... She is one who has explored the dark boundary between pleasure and oblivion. Her love bites leave men in ecstasy, and, most of the time, dead. And now this beautiful and dangerous vampire is hungry for the man who can ...

  • Traitor Winds

    L.A. Graf

    IT BEGAN WITH THE LOST YEARS, the long-awaited story of what happened to Captain Kirk and the legendary crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise when their original five-year mission ended. Now, it is more than a year later, and Kirk and his crew have settled i...

  • Always

    Ginna Gray

    As a freckle-faced tomboy, Meghan McCall discovered the pain of first love by foolishly falling for virile Rhys Morgan. It hadn't worked out. Now, years later, Rhys was filthy rich, fabulously famous, every woman's dream lover--and the one man Meghan...

  • Beau's Stratagem

    Louisa Gray

    THIEF OF HEARTS! Lady Allegra Ashley arrived in Bath to find the most attractive burglar rummaging through her aunt Lydia's affairs. Not only was Luc Fleetwood ever the gentleman, but he was also quite the risk taker. Allegra knew that her heart was...

  • Shadows Fall

    Simon R. Green

    Considered by the author to be his finest work yet, this is a novel of realistic detail, heartfelt emotion, and dazzling imagination that builds a world readers won't want to leave and spins a tale they won't want to end. In a town of amazing magicks...

  • Murder for Father

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Bewildered

    Jennifer Greene

    MEANT TO BE MARRIED In all my years as a matchmaking ghost, I've never seen two mortals so meant to be married as Michael Connor and Simone Hartman. But do they realize it? Michael thinks he's too sedate, though his body goes into overdrive wh...

  • Who Saw Him Die?

    J.M. Gregson

  • Reef

    Romesh Gunesekera

    The "incandescent" (New York Times Book Review) coming-of-age-story and debut novel by the acclaimed Booker Prize finalist Romesh Gunesekera

    Triton loved living in Mister Salgado's house. It was the biggest house he had ever seen--filled with ...

  • Blooming Murder

    Jean Hager

    HORTICULTURAL SHOCK A timely inheritance has enabled spunky, self-sufficient Tess Darcy to transform her late Aunt Iris's estate into a charming bed-and-breakfast inn. Aptly enough, among her first guests is a gaggle of gardening enthusiasts gathe...

  • High Steel

    Jack C. Haldeman

    No man, Mohawk or white, walks the high steel like John Stranger--the highest steel of all, industrial facilities under construction in orbit above Earth. Conscripted by the megacorps that have supplanted nations, unsure if he will ever see his tribe...

  • Sweet Treason

    Marie-Louise Hall

    The Traitor Bride Richard Durrant, Earl of Heywood, knew well the woes of marriage. But as a spy, he would do anything to smoke out traitors to Queen Elizabeth--even marry a woman suspected of treason! Try as Lady Seraphina might to play the innoc...