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New Books List: 612 titles

  • Trial Courtship

    Laura Abbot

    IT ISN'T EASY BEING A KID Life's a trial for nine-year-old Nick Porter. His grandfather wants him to be good at sports, but he's hopeless. His grandmother wants him to eat vegetables, but he hates them. His aunt Andrea -- who's his guardian -- is...

  • The Hidden Stairs and the Magic Carpet

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Underneath the steps leading down to Eric's basement is a hidden storage space. It's dusty and old - nothing special at all. But when Eric, Julie, and Neal all huddle inside the gr...

  • Journey to the Volcano Palace

    Tony Abbott

    Eric, Julie, and Neal have a problem. The nasty Lord Sparr has stolen a magic jewel from their friend Princess Keeah. The princessreally needs their help. The good news is the jewel is in Lord Sparr's secret palace. The bad news is the secret palace ...

  • The Truelove Bride

    Shana Abe

    The curse will last one hundred full years.... A notoriously fierce soldier, Marcus Kincardine wears his clan's tartan as a symbol of his heritage -- and a reminder of the curse that haunts his kin. To rid them of this evil, the legend says, M...

  • My Hero

    Kasey Adams

    The Hatfields and McCoys have nothing on the Matthews and the Stephensons! Melinda Matthews grew up hearing nothing good about the irksome clan next door. But what's a gutsy gal to do when her helpless little dog wanders over the property line? G...

  • River of Darkness

    Rennie Airth

    As rural England slowly emerges from World War I, a particularly vicious attack on a household in a small village leaves five butchered bodies and no explanation for the killings. Scotland Yard sends Inspector John Madden, still recovering from his o...

  • The Flower in the Skull

    Kathleen Alcala

    A riveting novel from acclaimed author Kathleen Alcalá, this second edition of The Flower in the Skull, from Raven Chronicles Press, begins in the Sonoran Desert in the late 19th century, where an "pata village is attacked by Mexican...

  • The Last Curve

    Margaret Allison

    When a crime occurs that bears a striking similarity to the rape and murder of her adored older sister, Jan Garret, assistant state attorney in Annapolis, Maryland--aided by handsome detective Max Hale--sets out to find a killer, regardless of the co...

  • A Time for Love

    Joye Ames

  • Trouble in Paradise

    C.J. Anders

    Here Comes Trouble... To promote tourism, Capeside has a new slogan, "Fall in Love in Capeside," and a new weekend romance festival, including a kissing marathon. Pacey can't wait, but Andie's not interested. Then there's the contest for best rom...

  • While He Was Sleeping

    Carolyn Andrews

    SHE MET THE MAN OF HER DREAMS... Hopeless romantic Daisy Hanover was desperate to find some happiness in her upcoming marriage of convenience. So, when she discovered a quaint country inn, boasting a bed that promised wedded bliss to the couple who ...

  • Gideon

    Russell Andrews

    Struggling writer Carl Granville is hired to turn an old diary, articles and letters - in which all names and locations have been blanked out - into compelling fiction. For this, and for his silence, he will be paid a quarter of a million dollars. B...

  • Midnight Champagne

    A. Manette Ansay

    April Liesgang and Caleb Shannon have known each other for just three short months, so their Valentine's Day wedding at a chapel near the shores of Lake Michigan has both families in an uproar. As the festivities unfold (and the cash bar opens), ever...

  • I Married the Boss!

    Laura Anthony

    To: The Single Woman in the Office From: Sophia Shepherd, Cinderella Secretary Re: The Mailman is a Millionaire! The man I thought was Mike Barr, office Mailman, is none other than new president and CEO Rex Michael Barrington III! How dare he...

  • Elfangor's Secret

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us...well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in...

  • Don't Tell Zoey

    Katherine Applegate

    Don't tell Zoey that gorgeous Kate has arrived on the island--and that she'll be living with Lucas. For it looks as if Zoey's about to get a taste of her own medicine. Is she going to lose Lucas just as she's finally realized how much she loves him? ...

  • Betrayal

    Randall Arthur

    From the author of the best-selling novel Wisdom Hunter comes this new page-turner. When an American missionary serving in Sweden mysteriously disappears, his wife's shocking discovery turns her world, her family and her faith upside down. This no...

  • Touched by Fire

    Gwyneth Atlee

    TAINTED BY SCANDAL Divorced, disgraced, robbed of her legacy and her pride, a desperate Hannah Shelton stages her own death and leaves the Pennsylvania home town that scorns her. Passing herself off as an innocent mail-order bride, she arrives in ...

  • The Feast of Stephen

    Rosemary Aubert

    Another compelling suspense novel featuring Ellis Portal, a homeless man who was once a respected judge.... The messages are brief, cryptic, and foreboding -- Bible verses that hint at death. At first, Ellis is frightened, but not terribly disturb...

  • Timbuktu

    Paul Auster

    Meet Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's (“One of America's most spectacularly inventive writers” -- The TLS) remarkable novel, Timbuktu. Mr. Bones is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, the brilliant, troubled, and altogeth...

  • Night Eternal

    James Axler

    Kane and his fellow Outlander survivalists are hurtled into an alternate reality in which the nuclear holocaust had never occurred and come to the aid of a small clandestine group conducting a battle against the forces of evil. Original....

  • A Rainbow in Paradise

    Susan Aylworth

    Eden Grant vowed never to go back home. A painful childhood growing up in Rainbow Rock made Eden swear off marriage and a family of her own. With a successful childcare business in Phoenix, Eden can lavish all the love she has on the children of othe...

  • Ladder Work

    Noreen Ayres
    in

    Filled with stories, memoirs, and photographs celebrating the special relationship between father and daughter, this unique collection offers the contributions of Faye Kellerman, Eileen Goudge, Carole Nelson Douglas, J. A. Jance, and other notable au...

  • One Saturday Afternoon

    Barbara Baker

  • Zero Point

    Richard Baker

  • The Secret Warriors

    Alex Baldwin

    Washington, D.C., 1942. The OSS, under FDR and "Wild Bill" Donovan, escalates its tactical war, and plunges into worldwide covert operations. With the help of Charles A. Lindbergh, ace OSS pilot Richard Canidy sets up an air maneuver that will drop a...

  • By Honor Bound

    Patricia Ballard

  • The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing

    Melissa Bank

    Hailed by critics as the debut of a major literary voice, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing has dazzled and delighted readers and topped bestseller lists nationwide. Generous-hearted and wickedly insightful, The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fish...

  • Taming the Lion

    Suzanne Barclay

    SUTHERLAND HONOR LAY IN HIS HANDS Ross Sutherland had one last hope to save his estates, and it meant stealing from Lady Catlyn Boyd. Yet he had no choice, for their common enemy was blackmailing him. But when Ross began to desire the winsome maid...

  • Blackheart Highway

    Richard Barre

    California P.I. Wil Hardesty is a man whose search for the truth always seems to draw him back into his own troubled past. Doc Whitney was country music star whose career had just gone platinum when he was convicted of brutally killing his wife and y...

  • Sovereignty of the Dragons

    Karen Hulene Bartell

    An unusual fantasy romance novel that integrates political intrigue as Hong Kong's David Chen meets with the President of China to discuss super-power status. Personal romances mix with assassination and clandestine activities involving a Sino-Americ...

  • When We Were Real

    William Barton

    Acclaimed for combining grand galactic concepts with realistic characters and penetrating insights, William Barton's award-nominated novels include When Heaven Fell, Acts of Conscience, and The Transmigration of Souls. Now William Barton creates an a...

  • Someone to Watch Over Me

    Richard Bausch

    "The essential mystery at the heart of every relationship is the subject of these twelve stories. What drives people together? What drives them apart? Revenge, boredom, sex -- they're all here. . . . The landscape of the heart depicted here is less b...

  • The Maiden's Heart

    Julie Beard

    A dashing knight errant, Sir Hugh de Greyhurst longs for the pleasures of home and hearth. He casts aside all thoughts of love to marry a baron's daughter... SIGHT UNSEEN. But Margrete Trewsbury is as beautiful as an angel -- and just as chaste. ...

  • If It Doesn't Kill You

    Margaret Bechard

  • Little Boy with a Big Horn

    Jack Bechdolt

  • Zack

    William Bell

    "But I don''t look like a Jewish Negro or a black Jew. I look like a black. I am of average height, of average build, with wavy hair that I wear very short, and very dark skin. Talk about an identity crisis."

    Ten years after Crabbe, ...

  • Footprints in the Sand

    Cynthia Benjamin

    An easy reader for preschoolers provides an informative introduction to a number of interesting animals, such as the lizard and woodpecker, through an review of the tracks they leave as they return to their homes. Original....

  • A Shocking Faux Paw

    Janice Bennett
    in

    Mischievous kittens meddle in the romantic lives of three couples in an enchanting collection of historical romances that includes Valerie King's "Trial by Kittens," in which a young lady rescues two starving kittens, and in turn, they save her from ...

  • High Time to Kill

    Raymond Benson

    The Union is a criminal organization with tentacles throughout the world, specializing in military espionage, theft, intimidation and murder. After one of its agents assassinates James Bond's friend, the Union becomes 007's priority target.Wh...

  • Tarnished Silver

    Lisa Tawn Bergren
    in

    In the face of constant time pressures and the juggling act of balancing countless tasks, there is nothing more soothing than taking the opportunity to slow down for a few moments, relax with a good story, and come home to romance.

    In Porch S...

  • Legal Briefs

    William Bernhardt

    William Bernhardt, author of seven bestselling novels featuring attorney Ben Kincaid, asked ten of his fellow lawyer/authors to contribute their most fiendishly clever short pieces for this anthology, and told them their imaginations were their only ...

  • Double Helix: Infection

    John Gregory Betancourt

    Like the twisted strands of mutant chromosomes, an insidious alien conspiracy winds its way through the entire Alpha Quadrant, just as it stretches across several years of Starfleet history--beginning near the very start of Captain Picard's command o...

  • A Convenient Bridegroom

    Helen Bianchin

    With just two weeks until the wedding, it was too late for Aysha Benini to back out of marrying Carlo Santangelo. Everyone expected her to be a radiant bride, blissfully entering a marriage of convenience that would unite two powerful families... Ays...

  • Lloyd: What Happened

    Stanley Bing

    Celebrated columnist Stanley Bing is an anthropologist of corporate culture, a satirist of corporate greed, a comedian of the libido. In his remarkable first novel, Lloyd: What Happened, Bing gives us the last word on business in America.
        ...

  • Behind the Mask

    Lauralee Bliss

    Gail Shelton thinks she knows everything about Keith Hampton, the man of her dreams. Little does she realize that beneath the loving image lies a deadly secret. The business that support his family's wealthy lifestyles could threaten their marriage-a...

  • Last Swan in Sacramento

    Stephen A. Bly

    They were supposed to be living happily ever after. Instead, Martina Swan, daughter of the legendary Wilson and Alena Merced, grapples to find peace in a marriage that is falling apart. Her husband is in Virginia City, Nevada, trying his luck at mini...

  • Hannah and the Horseman On The Western Trail

    Johnny D. Boggs

  • Keep Talking

    Lisa Bolind

    When it comes to romance, lovely and reserved school librarian Mel Swanson wrote a bestseller. However, the sweet dreams the talented author has put to paper can't match the wilder ones sparked by a radio interview with celebrity deejay, Mike Byrd, a...

  • Two Messy Friends

    Barbara Bottner

    Grace and her best friend enjoy their time together because they do things so differently from one another, yet when they have a sleepover party one night, they realize they are not as different as they thought when their normal roles suddenly revers...

  • Return to Mars

    Ben Bova

    The New York Times"bestselling and six-time Hugo Award"winning author’s epic Grand Tour adventure continues.   Jamie Waterman is returning to the red planet, this time in charge of an expedition in which he hopes to demonstrate that one c...

  • Collateral Damage

    Michael Bowen

    A dead body in a locked room in a affluent Virginia country house. Nine people present in the house. No confessions and no witnesses. And now a very important document has gone missing -- a document that might relate to a CIA scandal in the recent pa...

  • Brazen Temptress

    Elizabeth Boyle

    She came to betray him... No one could have known the truth: that the beauty who swept into the elegant ballroom was a pirate queen with a treacherous plan -- to save herself from execution by identifying an infamous privateer attending the ball ...

  • Sword and Sorceress XVI

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    FOR HONOR AND VALOR When a young woman gravely injures a powerful creature out of legend, can she find the courage to return to her victim and face redemption or death? Can an itinerant witch restore the power of a dying god? Will a woman's ...

  • The House That Ate the Hamptons

    James Brady

    Twice as big as the White House, larger than Bill Gates' spread, it's The House That Ate The Hamptons!

    Bestselling author James Brady returns to the scene of his Hamptons triumphs in this sly, rollicking romp-- the year's ultimate beach read. ...

  • Safety McTee

    Max Brand

  • The Geraldi Trail

    Max Brand

    James Geraldi, a thief who steals only from other thieves, is just about to settle down and marry when he rescues a friend in need, making him an outlaw and sending his future bride into hiding. Reprint....

  • Timber Line

    Max Brand

    Includes three of the author's best stories--Above the Law, the first Western story the author wrote; One Man Posse, in which a man named Sleeper survives the untamed frontier with his resourcefulness; and Timber Line, in whic...

  • The Lonely Only Dog

    Adele M. Brodkin

    When another dog came to visit, Harry was happy to have a companion, but not long after his visitor's arrival, Harry had to begin sharing his toys and the attention--resulting in Harry wanting to be the only dog once again. Original....

  • Mail Order Love

    Betty Brooks
    in

    Filled with magic, love, and wedding bells, a trio of historical romances includes Denise Daniels's "Wedlocked," in which a young woman finds herself ensnared in an arranged marriage to her former beau, as well as "The Widow Thief" by Linda Cook and ...

  • Vanishing

    Bruce Brooks

    Alice just can't stop crying. To her, it seems as if it should be simple. If your parents split up, you live with the one who understands you best. Alice's father had always been the one to "get" her. But somehow she had ended up living with her mom,...

  • Love Is

    Carolyn Brown

  • Dragonne's Eg

    Mary Brown

    BEQUEST REQUEST Life was hard for Sophie: tragically orphaned not so long ago, she eked out a living as a teacher in a poor-house school in a Dickensian London slum. Then her life was turned upside down when she was informed that a previously unsusp...

  • The Seduction Bid

    Amanda Browning

    Step one: seduction! Having lost one husband, Kari Maitland wasn't looking for another. But that didn't stop her having needs -- needs that playboy Lance Hersee was only too willing to fulfill.... Step two: marriage! An affair with Lance...

  • Murder on the Barbary Coast

    Kate Bryan

    In 1875, a single woman had to be tough. That was Maggie Maguire: smart, ambitious, and stubbornly adventurous. Born and raised with the carnival, she craved excitement. Even working for the Pinkerton National Detective Agency wasn't challenging enou...

  • Lisa: The Inside Story

    Bonnie Bryant

    Lisa's great aunt gives her a diary in which to record her feelings, like when she feels frustrated at being labeled a beginning rider, when her friends don't understand her desire to be the very best, or when her mother drives her crazy....

  • Sidesaddle

    Bonnie Bryant

    There's a new rider at Pine Hollow Stables. Her name is Tiffani, with an "i." Carole Hanson and Lisa Atwood think she's a good rider, but Stevie Lake can't get over her riding gear -- pink and covered in lace and frills. Suddenly Stevie's in competit...

  • Married on the Fourth

    Carole Buck
    in

    Can summer love turn into the real thing? When it comes to Maddy Malone and Evan Blake's Independence Day romance, the answer is a resounding "yes!"...

  • The Redhunter

    William F. Buckley Jr.

    From the celebrated conservative comes a rich and complex novel about one of the most conspicuous political figures in American history: Senator Joe McCarthy....

  • The Dream Voyagers

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    A Heart Song Goes Out Through the Darkness

    A lovely young woman thrust beyond

    the reaches of her own world.

    A brave young man searching

    for something he cannot explain.

    Together they travel the pirated routes

    of a ...

  • One Hand Clapping

    Anthony Burgess

    With film rights acquired by Francis Ford Coppola, this comic novel of instant riches is back in stock. From the author of A Clockwork Orange, One Hand Clapping is a comedy of game shows and greed, high stakes and the high life. The tragi-comedy of u...

  • I Promise

    Adrianne Byrd

    I PROMISE TO... Beautiful and brilliant, Christian McKinley could set the world on fire. Instead, this simple southern girl only dreams of returning to her family's ranch in Texas. But Malcolm Williams, son of one of Atlanta's most prominent African...

  • Rundown

    Michael Cadnum

    Driven by something she cannot understand, a teenager tells a dangerous lie In the last 16 days, 7 women have been assaulted by the South Bay rapist, and the students of UC Berkeley walk to class in fear. To the campus, he’s a terror. To Jennifer, ...

  • Diamond Daddies

    Linda Cajio

    Which Diamond will be a daddy first? Twin brothers Jeff and Julian Diamond were confirmed bachelors -- until their matchmaking grandfather made them a bet they couldn't refuse. Which Diamond will be a daddy first? Jeff had no prospects for a b...

  • Swept Away

    Candace Camp

    His eyes met hers, and for a moment they were frozen in time. She detested this man with a fury that threatened to swamp her. And tonight she had to make him want her more than he had ever wanted any woman... When Deverel Grey, Lord Stonehven,...

  • The Forbidden Stallion

    Joanna Campbell

    Ashleigh is torn.

    Ashleigh Griffen knows it's wrong, but she can't help it-she's jealous. Peter Danworth has everything: a huge Thoroughbred racing farm, money, and one of Ashleigh's favorite stallions, Aladdin.

    Then Ash...

  • A Clouded Sky

    Helen Cannam

    Cooped up with her placid sister-in-law and children while her brother is away fighting for Cromwell's cause, Mistress Richenda Farrell is secretly pleased when news comes that enemy Royalist forces are approaching Black Castle. Isolated and seemingl...

  • What You Leave Behind

    Diane Carey

    A powerful novel in the classic tradition of All Good Things... Seven years ago, Benjamin Sisko took command of an alien space station newly christened Deep Space Nine". There he met Kira Nerys, Odo, Miles O'Brien, Quark, Worf, Julian Bashir, and ...

  • A Bride in Waiting

    Sally Carleen

    THE SUBSTITUTE BRIDE Dr. Lucas Daniels viewed his bride-to-be's temporary disappearance with exasperation, fondness and resignation. After all, she felt the same way about him! Then a beautiful stranger strolled into town, looking exactly like his f...

  • Highland Fire

    Joyce Carlow

    As the Scottish clans prepare to battle England for sovereignty, two flame-haired Highland beauties -- born twins, orphaned and separated at birth -- are haunted by the eerie vision of a sister who seems more dream than reality. In HIGHLAND FIRE, we ...

  • Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come!

    Nancy Carlson

    The first day of kindergarten is finally here, and Henry can't wait to paint pictures, sing songs, and practice counting. When he gets to school, though, he's not so sure he's ready for kindergarten. But before long Henry discovers that the only thin...

  • Mr. Majeika and the School Book

    Humphrey Carpenter

    Class Three has fun during Book Week, when famous storybook characters suddenly appear! But there's trouble ahead with Wilhemina Worlock, the witch at the school's Olympic Sports Day. Will Mr. Majeika manage to magic up a solution?...

  • Winter Soldier

    Marisa Carroll

    Sometimes love isn't enough.... When Lieutenant Leah Gentry--nurse and soldier--goes overseas as part of a team providing medical care for those in need, she knows she's in for long days and hard work. What she doesn't expect is to fall for Dr. Ad...

  • The Big Time

    Shirley Carroll

    LET'S MAKE A DEAL Hotshot sports agent Mark Roberts finds himself banished to a tiny mid-western town -- and he can't leave until he's signed the talented Kelly Burnham as a client! Mark figures that'll be a snap until he meets the...

  • Giggle Bugs

    David A. Carter

  • Rodeo Dad

    Carla Cassidy

    A FATHER's VOW Johnny Crockett was hell-bent on clearing his name. His wrongful conviction had not only cost him his freedom, but also his sweetheart, Marissa Sawyer. The mayor's daughter was the one person he'd thought he could count on -- and he...

  • The Bride Quilt

    Pamela Quint Chambers

    A RUNAWAY MAIL-ORDER BRIDE A mail-order bride, Madeline Preston had fled from the horrid old man who'd paid her passage, only to lose her way in the Rocky Mountain wilderness. The isolated cabin she'd stumbled upon seemed deserted, until the...

  • Giving Up the Ghost

    Helen Chappell

    MURDER AT THE HEARTBREAK MOTEL As a reporter for a local newspaper on Maryland's East Shore, Hollis Ball sees more of life than most. As an amateur sleuth, she also sees more of death...especially since her partner is a ghost. Sam Wescott, Holl...

  • The Slave and the Free: Walk to the End of the World ; Motherlin

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    In these highly acclaimed and highly popular 1970s novels, Suzy McKee Charnas explores the Holdfast, where women are not women but fems enslaved to men, and the land of the Riding Women, where men are known only as a shadowy threat on the other side ...

  • Captain Kidd

    Jerome Charyn

    A portrait of World War II general George Patton is seen through the eyes of a member of his personal staff, Captain Roland Kahn, who walks the General's dog and runs a profitable scheme selling army supplies to underground customers...

  • Surprise -- You're a Daddy

    Judy Christenberry

    The cowboy is about to be a daddy! What happened to the Determined Bachelor of Cactus, Texas? Melanie Rule, that's what! Once Spence Hauk discovered that their one night of passion was about to produce a baby in a few months, he found himself hap...

  • Mood to Murder

    Joyce Christmas

    DANCE TILL YOU DROP . . . DEAD! It's spring, the daffodils are blooming, and the kids at East Moulton High are all revving up for their May Day prom. But Betty Trenka, temping in the principal's office, feels uneasy. If only the other kids didn...

  • Anything Goes

    Jill Churchill

    They Have Inherited a Lovely Upstate Mansion... The crash of 1929 has ended the party for high-living New Yorkers Lily Brewster and her brother Robert and takes them from the upper echelons of the idle rich and deposits them to the lowly depths of...

  • His Ten-Year-Old Secret

    Donna Clayton

    THE BONDS OF PARENTHOOD Her child was alive! For ten years Tess has believed her little girl was lost to her forever. Then an unexpected inheritance led the lovely doctor back home...to the man she'd always loved. There she discovered her beloved ...

  • The Serpent Club

    Tom Coffey

    Tom Coffey delivers a gut-wrenching debut, a sensational thriller that could be torn from today's headlines. Plunging deep into the morality of a city renowned for sin -- Los Angeles -- this edgy, piercing novel will carve its way into your psyche. ...

  • Bad Habits!

    Babette Cole

  • The Kinkaid County War

    Judd Cole

    A legend in his own lifetime, Wild Bill Kickok works for the law when he comes to Kinkaid County, Wyoming, but he did not expect to become involved in an all-out range war--one that threatened his own life. Original....

  • The Scandalous Bride

    Lynn Collum
    in

    Where better to celebrate the season of romance than Regency England, when well-bred young ladies may be swept away by unlikely suitors and find themselves whispering wedding vows. Come join the celebration in these three splendid stories of love... ...

  • A Good Day to Die

    James Coltrane

    A gripping novel of war set in the days following the death of Fidel Castro.  

    "Renders tense emotions in a tale of a doomed mission and a search for redemption."--Booklist

    In a Cuba of the near future, Castro is dead, but his crumbli...

  • Written by Herself V2

    Jill Ker Conway

    In this powerful new collection, the author of two of the most celebrated memoirs in recent years presents the autobiographical writings of 14 of her English-speaking predecessors and contemporaries. The women who tell their stories in Written By Her...

  • Blood Brothers - An Avalon Western

    Kent Conwell

    Blood Brothers is Kent Conwell's fourteenth book for Avalon, which include the recently published titles, Glitter of Gold, Texas Orphan Train, Painted Comanche Tree, Valley of Gold, and The Ghost of Blue Bone Mesa....

  • The Widow Thief

    Linda Cook
    in

    Filled with magic, love, and wedding bells, a trio of historical romances includes Denise Daniels's "Wedlocked," in which a young woman finds herself ensnared in an arranged marriage to her former beau, as well as "The Widow Thief" by Linda Cook and ...

  • Dead South

    Robert Coram

    Temporarily relieved from his homicide duties, police detective C.R. Payne is working undercover in Atlanta's seediest hangouts, until a bizarre murder leads him into a dangerous plot involving international arms dealers, the FBI, high-level politica...

  • New Man in Town

    Lyn Cote

    Peter Della has made a personal commitment to help others and his latest efforts find him trying diligently to open up a camp for underprivileged city children. However, the small conservative Wisconsin town has decided to fight him every step of the...

  • Fox Trot

    Molly Coxe

  • A Love Made in Heaven

    Francine Craft
    in

  • Body Language

    Michael Craft

    Stuck in a midlife slump as the holidays approach, gay journalist Mark Manning returns to his hometown to visit his cousin Suzanne and her teenage son, Thad, but his happiness is short-lived when Suzanne is brutally murdered, and Mark must confront s...

  • Eye Contact

    Michael Craft

    Gay Chicago investigative reporter Mark Manning and his young new assistant--and prospective amour--David Bosch try to catch the killer of a colleague, who was murdered after interviewing an astrophysicist claiming to have discovered a new planet. Re...

  • A Fatal Vineyard Season

    Philip R. Craig

    Storm Warning Martha's Vineyard is home to ex-Boston cop J.W. Jackson, his adored wife Zee, their toddler Joshua, and newborn daughter Diana. For others, the picturesque vacation spot is a relaxing escape from a world filled with trouble. But ther...

  • L.A. Requiem

    Robert Crais

    The day starts like any other in L.A. The sun burns hot as the Santa Ana winds blow ash from mountain fires to coat the glittering city. But for private investigator Joe Pike, the city will never be the same again. His ex-lover, Karen Garcia, is dead...

  • Irresistible Temptation

    Sara Craven

    He hadn't planned to fall in love... Declan Malone was convinced Olivia was a threat to his cousin's marriage. True, she didn't seem the type to steal another woman's husband, but there was only one way to make absolutely sure: Dec...

  • True Love

    Millie Criswell

    When a cowboy and a city girl meet, it's a showdown. New Yorker Emily Jean Barlett, author of dime novels about the Wild West frontier, is determined to save her career with a ripsnorting book based on Jess Murdock, "Legend of the West.&#...

  • Serpent

    Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos

    When Kurt Austin, the leader of a courageous National Underwater & Marine Agency exploration team, rescues beautiful marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco, he becomes the next target of Texas industrialist Don Halcon. A madman bent...

  • One in a Million

    Ruth Jean Dale

    LIKE TAKING CANDY FROM A BABY. NOT! Sophie Brannigan -- a four-year-old "penny pincher" -- is the prime suspect in the theft of a one-cent coin. Quint Sterling is hot on her trail, and that of her mother, Amber -- because both penny and woman are ...

  • Parents Wanted!

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Instant family? Jessica Reynolds has a wonderful daddy. Matt Reynolds is big, strong, handsome and kind. But when it comes to girl stuff he...well, he could use help! Her best friend, Zach, has a great mother. Laura Gilliam is sweet, pretty and si...

  • Death in Lacquer Red

    Jeanne M. Dams

    (1st in Hilda Johansson Mystery series)

    The year is 1900 and Hilda Johansson is a young Swedish woman working in the South Bend, Indiana, home of the Studebaker family. She faces the typical problems of an immigrant and the demands of a job that i...

  • Wedlocked

    Denise Daniels
    in

    Filled with magic, love, and wedding bells, a trio of historical romances includes Denise Daniels's "Wedlocked," in which a young woman finds herself ensnared in an arranged marriage to her former beau, as well as "The Widow Thief" by Linda Cook and ...

  • Dangerous Games

    Justine Dare

    GAMES OF PASSION The mysterious painting tore at Alison Carlyle's heart. A canvas layered with emotion -- and fraught with madness --it ws the work of a man who obviously lived life on the edge. To Alison, the artist's view of the world was dangerou...

  • Circling the Drain

    Amanda Davis

              Enter into the worlds of fifteen young women who, despite their vastly different circumstances, seem to negotiate an eerily similar and unavoidably dangerous emotional terrain. With a visceral bi...

  • Angel Peak

    Peter Dawson

    In the seven stories collected here, Peter Dawson captures the soul of the American West and the spirit that made its people legendary. Within these pages, a newly sworn deputy sheriff risks his reputation and his livelihood to defend a wanted man. A...

  • The Palace

    Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

    One of today's most imaginative and lyrical writers, Lisa St. Aubin de Teran weaves together passion, idealism, and adventures in this mesmerizing fable set against the ornate backdrop of nineteenth-century Italy. The palace is the vision of Gabri...

  • Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe

    Daniel Defoe's faith-filled The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe finds Crusoe bored with his prosperity and consumed by an irresistible longing to return to the island he left many years before. Along with his trusty servant and companion, Frida...

  • Secret Lover

    Shawna Delacorte

    A mysterious and sexy stranger Andrea Sinclair found herself inexplicably drawn to Jim Richards--mind and body--as if she already knew him. His hair and face were wrong, but there was something about the man... Was he the one she'd been searching ...

  • Send in the Clowns!

    Judy Delton

    To earn a new badge, the Pee Wees volunteer to help at the charity circus when it comes to town. But Molly is afraid of the trapeze, the animals and even the clowns. Magic is the only act left on the sign-up sheet, but Molly can't do any tricks. With...

  • The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft

    Thomas M. Disch

    Following The Businessman, The M.D., and The Priest, Thomas M. Disch, heralded by Newsweek as "the most formidably gifted unfamous American writer," now continues his masterful series of horror-fantasy novels set in his own "supernatural Minnesota."<...

  • Boy in the Water

    Stephen Dobyns

    Another bucolic fall in northern New Hampshire, and the semester is under way at Bishop's Hill Academy. But this year the start of school has been less than tranquil. The new headmaster, Jim Hawthorne, has liberal ideas that the staff find far from w...

  • Under the Kilt

    Christina Dodd
    in

    BOUND FOR THE ALTAR IN A LAND OF STRONG PASSIONS AND WILD BEAUTY Displaying the bold and breathtaking sensuality that is her hallmark, bestselling author CHRISTINA DODD enthralls us with the tale of a willful Scottish beauty--kidnapped by an arro...

  • Atlantis

    Greg Donegan

    Three areas on the Earth's surface defy explanation: the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea of Japan, and a small region of Cambodia. Inside these realms, planes have disappeared, ships have vanished, and, in Cambodia, an entire civilization has be...

  • A Doubting Lady

    Dorothea Donley

    SHE NEVER EXPECTED TO WIN A LORD The daughter of an impoverished gentlewoman, Dia Carlisle had no great expectations of the marriage mart, for all her beauty and charm. To make a good match, a young lady needed well-born beaux, and the men at the lo...

  • A Very Private Man

    Jane Donnelly

    An idyllic life. Isolda lived with her grandfather, Count Ivan Kosovic, and life was good. It got even better with the arrival of gorgeous Nathan Coleman. The long, hot summer days drew them together, and Isolda knew something special would happen ...

  • The Mammoth Book of Lesbian Short Stories

    Emma Donoghue

    An international cadre of outstanding lesbian authors offers a new collection of short fiction, including several original works, by Emma Donoghue, Tanith Lee, Jennifer Levin, Shani Mootoo, Dorothy Allison, Patricia Dunker, Sara Maitland, and others....

  • Shadows of My Father

    Carole Nelson Douglas
    in

    Filled with stories, memoirs, and photographs celebrating the special relationship between father and daughter, this unique collection offers the contributions of Faye Kellerman, Eileen Goudge, Carole Nelson Douglas, J. A. Jance, and other notable au...

  • Luna Marine

    Ian Douglas

    The revelations on Mars -- a half-million year-old legacy of the vanished star-traveling Builders -- have fed the flames of catastrophic war. A beleaguered United States and its Russian and Japanese allies struggle to hold their own against the indo...

  • Pacific Siege

    Keith Douglass

    Following World War II, Japan returns one of its northern islands to Russia; now Japanese General Nishikawa decides he wants it back. After he and his troops capture the Russian military post on the island and threaten to kill the Russian garrison, J...

  • The Stars Asunder

    Debra Doyle; James D. MacDonald

    At Last: How It Began The star systems of the Mageworlds are linked by magic. Only when trained Mages have found a Way to a new world can the great colonizing and trading ships follow. But beyond the furthest worlds is the great gap, beyond which,...

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Sixteenth Annual Collection

    Gardner Dozois

    The past through tomorrow are boldly imagined and reinvented in the twenty-five stories collected in this showcase anthology. Many of the field's finest practitioners are represented here, along with stories from promising newcomers, including:Willi...

  • Safe at Home

    Eileen Dreyer
    in

    Filled with stories, memoirs, and photographs celebrating the special relationship between father and daughter, this unique collection offers the contributions of Faye Kellerman, Eileen Goudge, Carole Nelson Douglas, J. A. Jance, and other notable au...

  • Charon's Landing

    Jack Du Brul

    Ivan Kerikov, ex-leader of the KGB's secret science division, has joined forces with a renegade Arab oil minister to control the supply of oil to the U.S. They plan to mount a coup in the minister's home country, blow up the Alaska pipeline, and cras...

  • Resurrection Day

    Brendan DuBois

    In the aftermath of the Cuban missile crisis, a full-blown nuclear war erupted. It decimated Russia and crippled the United States--now a second-rate power dependent on European allies for survival. Supplies are rationed. Martial law rules. And John ...

  • Virtual Cody

    Betsy Duffey; Ellen Thompson

    Cody Michaels is back! In this follow-up to Hey, New Kid!, Cody needs to research the origin of his name as part of a class report. His parents are too busy to give him a straight answer, so he takes matters into his own hands. That's when he discove...

  • The Eureka Trail

    Tracy Dunham

    The Eureka Trail is Tracy's sixth book about Mythmaker. The Trail to Medicine Lodge, The Trail of Mythmaker, The Long Trail Home, The Ghost Trail, and The Changing Trail, the first five volumes in the series, are also available from AVALON....

  • Gargoyles: Monsters in Stones

    Jennifer Dussling

  • The Only Cowboy for Caitlin

    Lois Faye Dyer

    HER HOMETOWN SWEETHEART Their first kiss was under the mistletoe, when Caitlin Drummond was little more than sweet 16. But years later, what started as a flirtation with Trey Weber grew into a fiery passion ... one the aloof cowboy seemed reluctan...

  • Magic Tree

    T. Obinkaram Echewa

    Children will cheer for Mbi, an orphan boy who lives in a Nigerian village, when he teaches the villagers a lesson they'll never forget. Overworked and mistreated, Mbi gets only scraps when it's time to eat. Then one day a magical fruit tree grows ju...

  • Juneteenth

    Ralph Ellison

    From the author of the classic novel Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison's Juneteenth is a powerful and brilliantly crafted tale that explores themes of identity, race, and ambition."[A] stunning achievement. . . . Ellison sought no less than to create...

  • The Dark Sleep

    P.N. Elrod

    For vampire detective Jack Fleming, stalking the mean streets of post-prohibition Chicago is a walk in the park compared to the jealousy he's feeling about his girlfriend. A famous radio star has promised to get her some airplay, but Jack's convinced...

  • Face Down Among the Winchester Geese

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    Newly transplanted from the English countryside to a splendid London townhouse, Susanna, Lady Appleton, tracks an elusive St. Mark's Day serial killer along a path that leads perilously close to home... A dedicated herbalist, Susanna is caught up ...

  • The Birchbark House

    Louise Erdrich

    Omakayas and her family live on the land her people call the Island of the Golden-Breasted Woodpecker. Although the "chimookoman," white people, encroach more and more on their land, life continues much as it always has: every summer they build a ne...

  • The Other Anna

    Barbara Esstman

    Three generations of women fall prey to the ecstasy and danger of desire.

    Anna Berter is a teenager growing up in a privileged home in Iowa just before World War I. Anna's life is dominated by two women: her stern mother and her adoring Scottish ...

  • One Wild Weekend

    Rita Clay Estrada

    BACHELOR AUCTION And you're invited . . Fifty fabulous heroes are up for sale-- Including Bachelor #46 Archer This sexy photographer knows all about what a man looks for in a woman. Melody Chase wants to find Mr. Right, and who better to t...

  • Words of Love

    Rachel Evans

  • Longarm and the Cursed Corpse

    Tabor Evans

    After a man tries to shoot him in the back for no apparent reason, Longarm takes on the identity of a dead man to go undercover to investigate a murderous Texas bail-bond outfit with a nasty reputation and an unhealthy interest in voodoo. Original....

  • Weekend Romance

    Wilma Fasano

  • Face of the Enemy

    Richard Fawkes

    THE PLEASURE OF THE KILL They strike without warning out of the interstellar depths, their only communication a burst of static--and then death. They are called the Remor, and they kill for the pure joy of killing. The brave fighting men and wo...

  • The Piper's Sons

    Bruce Chandler Ferguson

    I Love My Dad (Croatian edition). Fun bedtime story with important message. Jimmy the little bunny doesn't start off knowing how to ride a two-wheeler bike like his big brothers. In fact, sometimes he gets teased for it. When Dad shows Jimmy how not ...

  • No Price Too High

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    When British hospitaller Melissande Chapeleine joined the Third crusade, she was undaunted by the peril lurking in the war-torn Holy Land. Intent on keeping her sacred vows at any cost, she managed to survive a bloody battle, and save the life of a d...

  • The Piper's Sons

    Bruce Chandler Fergusson

    What if you discovered your past was a lie? What if the family you loved and trusted didn't exist? What if your birth father was a brutal killer...and still alive? That is the tantalizing premise of Bruce Chandler Fergusson's novel of unrelentin...

  • A Hero for All Seasons

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE DETECTIVE'S TEMPTING, TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT... Something in Savannah King's crystal-blue eyes spoke to Sam as she desperately pleaded for his help in finding her child. Detective Sam Walters knew he was this frightened woman's last hope, but he...

  • The Irish Princess

    Amy J. Fetzer

    BOUND BY DUTY With invaders at her gates, Siobhan O'Rourke, Princess of Donegal Keep, is determined to see that her people not suffer--even if she must sacrifice herself. When the legendary warrior, Gaelan PenDragon demands her surrender and her oat...

  • Dating Her Boss

    Liz Fielding

    FROM TEMP... TO TEMPTRESS! Reclusive widower Max Fleming needs a new secretary. Fed up with his sister's matchmaking attempts, he insists she send him a P.A. with more brains than beauty. Jilly Prescott seems perfect. And his plain-jane secre...

  • Best Friends Forever

    Louise Fitzhugh

  • Rain Man

    Leonore Fleischer

    Charlie Babbitt thinks he will get a lot of money when his father dies. However the money goes to someone he doesn't know - a man who lives in hospital and is the brother Charlie never knew he had. The two meet and so starts a surprising new life for...

  • McBroom the Rainmaker

    Sid Fleischman

  • Disney's Tarzan

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Bombay Ice

    Leslie Forbes

    A dazzling novel of murder and monsoons, of poison and seduction, of long-buried secrets and lethal betrayals... Rosalind Benegal is a BBC correspondent who has spent years distancing herself from surreal memories of a childhood spent in India. Bu...

  • Love for a Lifetime

    Gwynne Forster
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  • Phylogenesis

    Alan Dean Foster

    Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster takes us back to the unplanned beginnings of the extraordinary Humanx Commonwealth…In the years after first contact, humans and the intelligent insectlike Thranx agree to a tentative sharing of ideas and cultures...

  • Black Glass

    Karen Joy Fowler

    An early work from PEN/Faulkner Award winner and Man Booker finalist Karen Joy Fowler, reissued and beautifully repackaged for new fans and old. First published in 1998 to high praise, and now reissued with the addition of a prefatory essay, Bla...

  • The Impostor

    Elaine Fox

    THE MAN IN THE FOUNTAIN Melisande St. Clair knew who she was and what she wanted, and when Flynn Patrick stepped out of the water and into her life, Melisande knew that his was the face of which she'd dreamt. But despite his mesmerizing blue eyes...

  • To Claim a Wife

    Susan Fox

    REBEL BRIDES Two rebellious cousins -- and the men who tame them? Caitlin Bodine is the black sheep of her family. She's shunned by her cousin Maddie -- but no one's bad opinion of her hurts so much as Reno Duvall's. As a young gi...

  • Poachers

    Tom Franklin

    An Edgar Award winner, Tom Franklin’s Poachers collects ten stunning, bleak tales set in the woodlands, swamps and chemical plants along the Alabama River.Staking his claim as a fresh, original Southern voice, Tom Frankin’s lyric, deceptively sim...

  • Superman Lives!

    Michael Jan Friedman

  • Are You My Friend Today?

    Gyo Fujikawa

    From pet parades and imaginary zoos to backyard picnics, summer swims and running barefoot through the grass, Gyo Fujikawa captures the joy of childhood camaraderie and play. Her best friends sing, romp, dream and occasionally argue - but always make...

  • Soap Opera

    Eileen Fulton

    Real-life star of As the World Turns for over forty years, actress and novelist Eileen Fulton weaves a sizzling tale that could only come from someone with an insider's savvy about what happens on a TV soap--after the cameras stop rolling...Left at t...

  • The Spring of Our Exile

    Robert Funderburk

    A high-speed car chase along a bayou road shatters more than the late-night quiet. In a cypress cabin on the edge of the trackless Atchafalaya Basin, Dylan and Susan St. John have found a quiet refuge from the mean streets of New Orleans. Deep in...

  • A Stillness at the Heart

    Diana Gabaldon
    in

    Filled with stories, memoirs, and photographs celebrating the special relationship between father and daughter, this unique collection offers the contributions of Faye Kellerman, Eileen Goudge, Carole Nelson Douglas, J. A. Jance, and other notable au...

  • The Outlandish Companion

    Diana Gabaldon

    New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon has captured the hearts of millions with her critically acclaimed novels, Outlander. Dragonfly In Amber, Voyager, and Drums Of Autumn. From the moment Claire Randall accidentally steps through a magica...

  • Wild Goose Chase

    Mike Gaherty

  • The Wonders of the Invisible World

    David Gates

    The author of the highly acclaimed novels Jernigan (Pulitzer Prize Finalist) and Preston Falls (National Book Critics Cirlce Award Finalist) offers up a mordantly funny collection of short stories about the faulty bargains we make with ourselves to c...

  • Something Old, Something New

    Roberta Gayle

  • The Heiress Bride

    Mona Gedney
    in

    Where better to celebrate the season of romance than Regency England, when well-bred young ladies may be swept away by unlikely suitors and find themselves whispering wedding vows. Come join the celebration in these three splendid stories of love... ...

  • Murder Shoots the Bull

    Anne George

    Patricia Anne would swear that either she or her sister Mary Alice were switched at birth, except they were both born at home. Flashy, flirtatious Mary Alice is one foot taller, twice the body weight of Patricia Anne, and three times as likely to do ...

  • 30 Seconds

    Sam Giancana; Bettina Giancana

    Marty English, advertising executive, seems to be leading the perfect life-no one knows that he is really the estranged son of Chicago's Mafia Don. When he pulls in a multi-million dollar account with Isaac Arrow Pharmaceuticals to promote its new he...

  • Basket Weaver and Catches Many Mice

    Janet Gill

    Janet Gill spins a modern fable about a skilled artisan, Basket Weaver, and his lucky cat, Catches Many Mice. Basket Weaver makes all kinds of baskets, but when he makes one for a newborn baby, he chooses his materials carefully -- rushes that will b...

  • First Evidence

    Ken Goddard

    A down-to-earth forensics expert has just discovered a crime scene that is out of this world.

    In criminal forensics they train you to uncover evidence, no matter how brutal or bizarre the murder.

    But what if one night you make contact w...

  • Whales

    Golden Books

  • Fox Trot

    Golden Books

  • Frogs

    Golden Books

  • Sharks

    Golden Books

  • Gen13: Netherwar

    Christopher Golden; Jeff Mariotte

    Brought together by the mysterious covert operations group I/O to become its new super-powered operatives, five teenagers escape the clutches of the organization with the help of renegade agent John Lynch and set out to stop I/O from gaining access t...

  • Dark Cities Underground

    Lisa Goldstein

    In her most ambitious novel yet, Lisa Goldstein tells the story of Ruthie, a young journalist sent to interview Jerry, an older man who as a child was the central character of a series of classic childrens books written by his mother, the Adventures ...

  • One Last Dance

    Eileen Goudge

    The Seagrave sisters were about to come home to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of their parents' marriage. Instead, they are attending their father's funeral--and their mother's trial for his murder. The Seagraves had been pillars of the communit...

  • My Father the Communist

    Eileen Goudge
    in

    Filled with stories, memoirs, and photographs celebrating the special relationship between father and daughter, this unique collection offers the contributions of Faye Kellerman, Eileen Goudge, Carole Nelson Douglas, J. A. Jance, and other notable au...

  • Hayley's Heart

    Elizabeth Graham

    TO BED A STRANGER... When runaway bond servant Hayley Armstrong crosses paths with handsome Conn Merritt, she's in desperate need of a stranger's protection. Afraid to reveal her true plight for fear she'll be returned to her wicked master, Hayley c...

  • Kaspian Lost

    Richard Grant

    Not even Kaspian himself knows precisely what happened to him during his unaccounted-for ninety-six hours -- though he does remember a light, three evil leprechauns, his dead father, and a frighteningly seductive angel-like being. The adults who cont...

  • Triple Witch

    Sarah Graves

    triple witch n. The expiration of three different kinds of stock the same day. REMODELING IS MURDER Jacobia Tiptree saved her sanity--and her son, Sam--the day she abandoned Wall Street for the seacoast village of Eastport, Maine. In her new home...

  • For a Good Time, Call...

    Trish Graves

    IF A MAN ANSWERS...DON'T HANG UP Advertising executive Sherry Spencer is intrigued by the come-on: an invitation and a phone number that promises more than the twenty-dollar bill it's scrawled on. She hasn't a clue who wrote it, but Sh...

  • Color of the Wind

    Elizabeth Grayson

    A DEATHBED REQUEST To honor the promise she gave her dying stepsister, Ardith Merritt must take her niece and nephews to their father -- a continent away from her comfortable life as a children's book illustrator. But the perilous journey will b...

  • Tarzan Chronicles Deluxe

    Howard E. Green

    Scheduled for release in June 1999, Disneys newest animated film, Tarzan, is eagerly awaited by movie fans everywhere. This colourful adaptation of a Hollywood favourite tells the story of a young man raised by apes in the African jungle who must ...

  • In a Wink

    Lacey Green