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  • The Mountain

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    ON THE MOUNTAIN, THE ONLY LAW IS: SURVIVE! What started as an adventure hike to Hag's Tooth Mountain soon turns into a nightmare for Jeanette Taylor and her four friends. Caught by a flood, crossed by a killer -- the struggle turns deadly. Is Jean...

  • The Rise and Fall of a Dragonking

    Lynn Abbey

    “I, Hamanu…” Hamanu the Innocent -- his parents killed by an invading party of trolls. Hamanu the Survivor -- enlists as a soldier, forging himself into the same heartless mercenary that killed his parents. Hamanu the Victorious -- powerful...

  • Space Bingo

    Tony Abbott

    Ned Banks is miserable.  He's the new kid in school--and he sticks out like a sore thumb.  His life is going downhill fast.  Until something happens.  Ned's not  sure how he did it--but he beamed two kids from the year 2099 into his bedroom...

  • Song of the Vampire

    Carmen Adams

    Believing that peace has returned to sleepy Blue Mesa after dispatching the vampire members of the The Band, Megan and Iris find their lives disrupted again when a group of the undead invades the beach town of Turo. Original....

  • The Goodnight Loving Trail

    Faye Adams

    Range boss Tish Walker and the arrogant cowboy Luke Bonner are thrown together when a stampede mixes her prize longhorns with his herd. On the drive together, their biggest obstacle is a passion that could break -- or forever bind-these two wranglers...

  • Common Clay

    Brian W. Aldiss

    A collection of stories considers themes of life, death, and transformation and includes such titles as "Making my father read revered writings," "Headless," and "If Hamlet's uncle had been a nicer guy"...

  • Farewell the Heart

    Meg Alexander

    LORD ASHBY WAS NO GENTLEMAN! While staying at her brother-in-law's estate, Harriet Woodthorpe had no idea what was in store for her or her sister. It soon became clear that the family thought the Woodthorpe women beneath them. Harriet bristled...

  • The Information

    Martin Amis

    Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal -- they're all here in The Information, as one of the most gifted and innovative novelists of our time explores the question, How does one writer hurt another writer?"Satirical and tend...

  • Virtual Destruction

    Kevin J. Anderson; Doug Beason

    Virtual reality is the technology of the future. Groundbreaking. Dangerous. Almost limitless in its potential. It could replace nuclear power as the most coveted knowledge on the planet. And in a supersecret installation in California, under the most...

  • Lightsabers

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new...

  • Tarnished Gold

    V.C. Andrews

    GABRIEL LANDRY IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS HER BELOVED BAYOU Her high school graduation just days away, Gabriel is blissfully happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Then rich cannery owner Octaviou...

  • The Jigsaw Woman

    Kim Antieau

    Created from the bodies of three different women as a mistress for her evil doctor, Keelie sets out on a quest to find her true self and the earth's primordial truths, journeying to the paradise of the Amazons. Reprint....

  • Thunderherd

    Kathi Appelt

    As a mighty storm cascades down the mountains like a thundering herd, one fearless mustang gives chase. "Appelt's vivid yet lyrical prose meshes nicely with Sayles' dreamy pastel paintings. The comparisons between wild horses and a brewing thundersto...

  • Married to the Man

    Judith Arnold

    WHAT IF YOU THOUGHT YOU WERE DIVORCED -- AND FOUND OUT YOU WERE STILL MARRIED TO THE MAN? If you're Jane Thayer, successful Boston Lawyer and highly organized person, you hightail it to New Orleans, where your ex-husband lives. Well, he's not...

  • Eggs Mark the Spot

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

    In a companion volume to The Easter Egg Farm, Pauline, a hen that can lay an egg with an image of whatever she is looking at, becomes a heroine when her special talent provides the vital clues to a burglary....

  • Far Star

    Anne Avery

    THE DREAMER... Dayra Smith didn't know a flitter engine from a solar generator, but she was determined to turn a run-down piece of land into a working farmhold. And even though she had to slave day and night, the stubborn beauty refused to ask any...

  • The Escape From Home

    Avi

    Maura O'Connell, 15, and her brother, Patrick, 12, escape Ireland's brutal poverty with only the belongings in their bundles and tickets for ocean passage. Sir Laurence Kirkle, 11, flees a life of privilege to seek justice. When fate brings them toge...

  • Keepers of the Sun

    James Axler

    Jumping through a secret gateway from their pre-nuclear world, Ryan Cawdor and his survivalist group find themselves in a fallen nation that is shadowed by samurai rulers that threaten Cawdor's world. Original....

  • Wanted: Wife

    Stella Bagwell

    KEEP YOUR HANDS WHERE I CAN SEE THEM, MISTER! Tall, dark, rich and powerful, Lucas Lowrimore was one of the most eligible bachelors in town. Usually, women just fell at his feet! So when he couldn't even sweet-talk his way out of a speeding ti...

  • Apache Runaway

    Madeline Baker

    APACHE CAPTIVE Ruthless and cunning, Ryder Fallon could deal cards and death in the same breath. Yet when the Indians took him prisoner, he was in danger of being sent to the devil --- until a green-eyed angel saved his life. APACHE RUNAWAY ...

  • Incident at Sun Mountain

    Todhunter Ballard

    Sent to Nevada to investigate reports of Rebel activity around the Comstock Lode, Ken Kenglish finds himself in a region filled with miners, gamblers, heroes, killers, Union supporters, and Southern sympathizers. Original....

  • Ridge: the Avenger

    Leanne Banks

    SHE WAS THE MARRYING KIND... Ridge Jackson's plan was simple: protect lovely Dara Seabrook and get revenge on her godfather at the same time. Ridge was professional; he knew the dangers of mixing business with pleasure. How then had the voluptuous...

  • Western Rose

    Lynna Banning

    The Schoolmarm Needed a Lesson.... And Jake Bannister was just the man to teach Sally Maguire a thing or two. Especially if it would win him the grassland he needed to save his ranch. But would staying after school get him more than he'd bargained f...

  • Step in Time

    Anne Barbour

    A Timeless Dilemma It was had enough that Amanda McGovern's dreams were dashed by the man she adored in the 1990's. But romance offered even greater danger when she traveled back in time to Regency London and found herself being kissed by ...

  • Firestorm

    Nevada Barr

    An insatiable, unstoppable beast, the wildfire called Jackknife has already devoured 17,000 acres of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. A devastating force of nature, it has brought out the very best--and worst--in those sworn to defeat it. ...

  • The Touch of Your Shadow, the Whisper of Your Name

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    Babylon 5, designed to be a place of peace in a troubled universe, has erupted into rioting as visiting cultures clash and passions explode.  Security chief Garibaldi must use all his skills to quell the violence between races.  But the troubles ...

  • Beyond the Misty Shore

    Victoria Barrett

    THE MAGIC OF THEIR LOVE LIVES ON Cecilia and Colin Freeport once lived, loved and died in the rambling clifftop house they named Seascape. Sea Haven Village remembers Cecilia's healing work and how, at death, her soul was carried away in the arms of...

  • The Man in the Moon

    Andrew Barrow

    Are all aspiring stand-up comics as tragic as Baby Reindeer? If William is anything to go by, the answer is possibly ‘yes’. Nostalgic, razor-sharp and deliciously peculiar, this is a weird but wonderful comedy of manners by the award-winning auth...

  • Intimate Journals

    Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

  • Priceless

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A CHILD... Architect Leah Frazier had taken a great risk once -- when she went to extreme measures to conceive her child. She adored her son, Coty, yet it would take another daring move to turn her life around. Her husband, long an invalid, was dyin...

  • When Lightning Strikes

    Rexanne Becnel

    HE HAD THE SMILE OF A FALLEN ANGEL. SURE. EASY. SEDUCTIVE. He reached down and plucked her from the thick mud, then lifted her effortlessly into his lap, setting her crosswise on the tall gray horse. He was a total stranger, who thrilled her with ...

  • Bad Angel

    Helen Benedict

    Told in shifting first-person narratives, this compelling novel vividly evokes the the lives of the women and children in one of New York City's toughest barrios, showcasing a variety of memorable characters. "An authentic account of hardship and fai...

  • The Tempest

    Ann Keay Beneduce

    A lavish young reader's edition of the classic Shakespearean tale follows the adventures of cast-out duke Prospero, who lives on an enchanted island with his daughter, Miranda, and the magical spirits helpful Ariel and evil Caliban....

  • Death at Buckingham Palace

    C.C. Benison

    MURDER MOST ROYAL... Jane Bee came to Europe for adventure, only to end up with the job of a lifetime: housemaid at Buckingham Palace. Now her greatest challenge is removing gum from State Room carpets--until she comes across a nasty accident righ...

  • Angel Kisses

    Cherie Bennett

    Leaving behind her otherworld boyfriend in order to perform intervention services, teen angel Melody is charged with helping transform spoiled rich girl Scarlett Whitmore into a nicer person. Original....

  • Secret of the Bulls

    Jose Bernardo

    From an exciting new Cuban-American writer comes a lively, lusty novel that moves from the turn of the century to the late 1930s, alive with passion, romance, machismo, and the unerring wisdom of women....

  • Don't Leave an Elephant to Go and Chase a Bird

    James Berry

    A rhythmically told, brilliantly illustrated tale from the award-winning author of Ajeemah and His Son. When Anancy Spiderman calls a morning greeting to the Skygod, a corncob appears in his hand. Can Anancy turn the corncob into something even bette...

  • The China Garden

    Liz Berry

    Moving to the historical English estate of Ravensmere with her mother, seventeen-year-old Clare Meredith is unable to shake her feeling that the local residents already know her and begins to experience psychic visions....

  • Dragon Naps

    Lynne Bertrand

    Ordered to take a nap, two young dragons have difficulty obeying when they discover how many wonderful things there are to do, see, and count, in a tongue-in-cheek counting storybook that appeals to energetic children....

  • Grandma Went to Market

    Stella Blackstone

    A grandmother goes shopping around the world, in such exotic places as Instanbul, Thailand, and Mexico, taking readers on an educational adventure that teaches basic counting skills and offers a first look at geography and cultural diversity....

  • Once More With Feeling

    Cynthia Blair

    While planning her fifteenth wedding anniversary party, Laura Briggs turns on Donahue to discover her husband confessing his "secret life" to millions of TV viewers. By the first commercial break, Laura decides her marriage is over. Yet her life ...

  • Spray

    Robert J. Blake

    Hating his new home on Martha's Vineyard, Justin believes that his only friends are the wind and the sea and dreams of sailing away forever in his little dinghy, until a storm brings him face-to-face with his hero, Captain Slocum....

  • Nellie Bly's Monkey

    Joan W. Blos

    In 1889, daredevil reporter Nellie Bly announced her intention to circle the world in seventy-two days. Nobody thought a woman could do such a thing, but, accompanied by a monkey named McGinty she acquired in Singapore, she did just that. "Beautifull...

  • Stay Away from That City..They Call It Cheyenne

    Stephen A. Bly

    Just when Pepper thought life settled down to a normal pace, she had to prepare for a rocky ride, now that she was hitched to the unpredictable Tap Andrews. Married life isn't turning out quite the way they planned. The ranch is gone. They've moved t...

  • Alone in a Crowd

    Georgia Bockoven

    Love's Sweet Harmony Once the legendary Cole Webster reached the top of the country music charts he stayed there, thanks to his talent and his father's expert management. But when a near-fatal motorcycle accident temporarily alters his appearance,...

  • A Wagonload of Fish

    Judit Z. Bodnar

  • The Enemy Within

    Larry Bond

    What it a foreign nation launched a war against the United States within its own borders? America's largest cities are in flames. Its majestic landmarks are in ruins. Electronic sabotage cripples its communications systems. Race battles against r...

  • The Passion of Dellie O'Barr

    Cindy Bonner

    Everybody in McDade thought of Dellie O'Barr as "the good little sister." Dellie has always done what her father wanted her to do; she even married the suitor her older sister refused -- an earnest man with a college education, a big ranch and fine h...

  • Sister Dellie

    Cindy Bonner

  • This Is Me, Laughing

    Lynea Bowdish

    A young girl begins to laugh, and her laugh becomes contagious as spreads throughout her home, onto her block, and through all the streets of her small town, affecting everyone in her community with smiles and joy....

  • Wolf, No Wolf

    Peter Bowen

    Du Pre remembers when you could send animal skins to Sears Roebuck and get merchandise in return. Now the wolves are gone from the mountains, and outsiders want them back. The trouble is, a tussle over wildlife is getting people killed. First, two...

  • Ashes of the Sun

    Hanovi Braddock
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    NOTHING TO LOSE? Ayesh knows that danger lurks in the Miritiin Mountains, and danger is just what she wants. With her beloved cities of Neah turned to dust and rubble in the goblin wars, with even their memory fading to legend, what reason does sh...

  • Gun Gentlemen

    Max Brand

    Finding himself on the wrong side of the law when he is accused of a crime he did not commit, renowned Old West gunslinger Lucky Bill swears that he will clear his name before he can be caught. Reprint....

  • Dust Devil

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    Years ago, their friendship had been private -- known only to themselves. Intense, passionate, dangerously good-looking Renzo Cassavettes wouldn't have fit in Sarah Kincaid's world. But one sultry summer afternoon, while the honeysuckle bloom...

  • True Confessions

    Mary Bringle

    Grace Peacock longs for the world of true romance stories as she struggles with the absurdities of modern life as she copes with ex-husbands, raffish friends, a loving mother, a disapproving ex-mother-in-law, an imaginary daughter, and unfulfilled dr...

  • Instant Mommy

    Annette Broadrick

    A COWBOY AND A BABY... Horses and cattle were one thing, but when it came to baby bottles and diapers, widowed rancher Deke Crandall was a real greenhorn. He didn't want to raise his baby daughter alone, but what was a cowboy to do? NEED A WI...

  • First King of Shannara

    Terry Brooks

    The incomparable Terry Brooks takes us back to the beginning, in this spectacular prelude to the world's most beloved fantasy novels... THE SECOND WAR OF THE RACES Horrified by the misuse of Magic they had witnessed during the First War of the ...

  • Thunderbird Spirit

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Hockey stars Mike "Crazy" Keats and his new friend, Dakota, are caught in a web of violence which makes winning a championship the least of their concerns. Dakota Smith is in trouble. But Mike "Crazy" Keats doesn't care. He is new...

  • Winter Hawk Star

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Tyler is a good, solid hockey player, but not a great one. That honor belongs to the obnoxious Riley, a sixteen-year-old spoiled superstar who makes Tyler's life miserable. When Tyler and Riley are sent to volunteer at a local youth program, Tyler fi...

  • Audrey Hepburn's Neck

    Alan Brown

    Offering a unique perspective and unusual insight into modern Japan and its wartime past, Audrey Hepburn's Neck is also a shrewd study of cross-cultural obsessions, and of erotic, romantic and familial love. The American author Alan Brown crosses bo...

  • Riding Shotgun

    Rita Mae Brown

    In a delightful contemporary farce with a riotous twist, Rita Mae Brown welcomes you to Virginia's horse country, where a fox hunt is about to lead a 1990s woman, Cig Blackwood, into a 1690s adventure of the heart. Infidelity, single motherhood, fami...

  • The Beauty, the Beast and the Baby

    Dixie Browning

    MR. MARCH The Beast: Gus Wydowski, a brooding bachelor with a weakness for beautiful women--but not for bouncing babies! The Beauty: Mariah Brady didn't need a man who knew nothing about babies--especially when she was juggling a newborn! T...

  • Orca

    Steven Brust

    HAVE JHEREG, WILL TRAVEL Granted, walking around with two jhereg on your shoulders is not the best disguise for an ex-assassin wanted all over the Empire. But a young boy saved my life and now he needs my help. And Vlad Taltos always pays his debt...

  • Horse-Sitters

    Bonnie Bryant

    Forming a horse-sitting business to earn some extra money, Lisa, Carole, and Stevie believe that their skills will make the business a breeze, but soon find themselves in way over their heads....

  • Zoe and the Best Man

    Carole Buck

    WANTED: BRIDAL BLISS Zoe Armitage was on the lookout for her pt husband. He had to be stable, sincere...anyone but thrill-seeking, smooth-talking Gabriel Flynn! Sure, they'd shared steamy kisses at their best friends' wedding, but Zoe had decided th...

  • The Wind After Time

    Chris Bunch

    BLAST FROM THE PAST Ten years had passed since mankind had won the Great War. The dreaded Al'ar, loathsome aliens who killed by mere sight or touch, had been vanquished. Now they were gone. forgotten. and humanity was free to expand throughout the...

  • My Brother Ant

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Meet Ant, the little brother who's big on laughs. In four upbeat stories, Ant and his big brother confront the monster under the bed, recreate the story of the three little pigs, and write a letter to Santa -- in July! Sometimes funny, always endeari...

  • The Judas Glass

    Michael Cadnum

    Richard Stirling is a successful lawyer who specializes in defending the rights of the underprivileged. He falls in love with the pianist Rebecca Pennant, and as their romance develops, a tragic event takes Rebecca out of his life. In the wake of thi...

  • The Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories

    Abraham Cahan

    A collection of short works follows the adventures of Jewish immigrants who come to the New World in search of the promised land and instead find lives of grinding poverty, grueling work days, and challenges to their traditional values. Reprint....

  • Dead Boys

    Richard Calder

    A sequel to Dead Girls finds the human race beleaguered by a war between the Lilim, a sensual and destructive female species, and the Elohim, a male nanotech-created fanged-angel super-humanoid race....

  • The Duke's Desire

    June Calvin

    Duty and Desire The beautiful Viscountess Deborah Silverton never wished to wed again. The death of her hateful husband had ended an unspeakable nightmare. On the other hand, she desperately wanted to see her sixteen-year-old daughter Jennifer saf...

  • Lonewolf's Woman

    Deborah Camp

    SWEET TEMPTATION Orphaned, penniless, and determined to keep her family together, Elise St. John hastily arranges to marry the half-Apache Missouri landowner who has agreed to adopt her young sister. It is a marriage in name only, intended to make t...

  • Sub Zero

    John T. Campbell

    When a heavily armed assault team is dispatched from North Korea and prepares to grab the United States's most devastating military secrets, an undertrained, outgunned band of servicemen, scientists, and civilians becomes the nation's only hope. Orig...

  • The Bat in the Boot

    Annie Cannon

  • To Catch a Thief

    Debra Carroll

    TO CATCH A THIEF Luke Dalton: Tough, mysterious, incredibly sexy and charming. But why is he so intent on seducing -- Claire Sterling: Beautiful, vulnerable, determined. She's searching for her father -- not a handsome but dangerous lover...

  • Playing Daddy

    Lorraine Carroll

    ONCE A FATHER... When Cable McRay opened his home to singe mother Sara Nelson, he hadn't expected to play daddy to her three-year-old son. But beautiful Sara needed his help, and Cable couldn't deny this compelling woman anything. Even if ...

  • Tender Captive

    Rosemary Carter

    Getting even. Fraser Donaldson believed Stephanie was to blame for Timothy's accident, and he was in no mood to listen to reason. Stephanie couldn't remember the details -- it had all happened so fast. Convinced that she had no choice, Stepha...

  • Surrender to the Dawn

    Annee Cartier

    Beautiful Gwen Marsh was one of 1890's London's luckiest debutantes... until she was attacked by the Lancer, a shadowy killer who targeted young society women. Scarred emotionally and physically, she tried to lose herself in charity work. But now she...

  • Eye of the Fortuneteller

    A.G. Cascone

    Shaken by the prophecies of Madame Valda, who tells her that her fearless ways are foolish, life-long Fear Street resident Kelsey Moore finds her worst nightmares coming true when spooky incidents begin to plague her. Original....

  • Dear Annie

    Judith Caseley

    "My grandpa is my pen pal." Annie tells her class at show-and-tell one day. It's true. Annie and Grandpa have written each other letters since the day Annie was born. When Annie was a baby, her mother answered Grandpa's letters. When she got a lit...

  • Slumber Party!

    Judith Caseley

    An amusing, heartwarming tale about the classic childhood get-together describes how Zoe throws a slumber party and invites all her friends over to spend the night, but when bedtime comes, the excitement and fun really begins....

  • Deputy Daddy

    Carla Cassidy

    WHO SHOULD RAISE THE TWINS "Me, their godfather Just because I'm a mars doesn't mean 1 can't warm up formula or read bedtime stories. Besides, I love those two little rascals--and love doesn't come so easily to me." --Beau Randolf "Me, their g...

  • Bowker's Bonfire

    Tony Caxton

    Three months after members of a family living over a small shop die in an arson fire, Inspector Bowker is assigned to solve the baffling case and embarks on an investigation that leads to newpaper harassment, anonymous threats, and the murder of a po...

  • Cyberkiss

    Sally Chapman

    MURDER ON-LINE One look at Bernie Kowolsky told Julie Blake that he was a computer geek. He also looked scared to death. Bernie arrives at Julie's computer investigations office with a tale of kinky cybersex turned lethal--with promises to love......

  • Derek's Dog Days

    Nancy Lee Charlton

    Derek likes chasing the cat and gnawing on slippers. He likes burying his brother’s toys and shaking himself dry after his bath. Derek wants to be a dog forever. But when school starts, Derek discovers that little boy activities can be fun, too. ...

  • Timespell

    Robert N. Charrette

    FACING THE DARK TOWER The long apprenticeship was over. Yan was certified in the light magics, and warned to avoid the dark. He had won the right to wear his claviarm, the amulet that was the tool, weapon, and sign of every mage. But did he rea...

  • A Season of Knives

    P.F. Chisholm

    In 1592, Sir Robert Carey, a handsome courtier fleeing his creditors, his father's wrath, and the close scrutiny of his Queen, came north to Carlisle to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the West March. The presence of his true love, the marri...

  • Return of Merlin

    Deepak Chopra

    The author of the million-copy best-seller Ageless Body, Timeless Mind emerges as a powerful new force in fiction with a luminously written novel about the final act of the Arthurian legend playing out in modern England. The Return of Merlin is a bri...

  • The Wedding Assignment

    Cathryn Clare

    RAE-ANNE BLACKBURN IS GETTING MARRIED... She's always fantasized about the day she would walk down the aisle. In her dreams, her groom was Wiley Cotter. In real life, it's someone else. But she's going to live happily ever after--no matter what. ...

  • Family for Sale

    Eth Clifford

    The youngest of five siblings, Sherm is tired of always being picked on and bossed around. With Mother away for two weeks, things get worse than ever. But enough is enough, and Sherm finally makes a declaration of independence that the whole family t...

  • World Without End

    Molly Cochran; Warren Murphy

    Trapped in the turmoil and panic Atlantis's destruction is a modern-day man, Sam Smith. In the 1990s, he finds himself the target of an international network of conspirators bent on destroying anyone who has found a clue to the location of the lost c...

  • Don't Go to the Principal's Office

    M.T. Coffin

    The students at Crosswell Elementary School are terrified by their new principal when thunder and lightning shake the building every time he enters it, and rumors credit him with inflicting creepy punishments on disobedient kids. Original....

  • The Chocolate Wolf

    Barbara Cohen

    Feeling outcast in a world of chocolate bunnies and ducks, a chocolate wolf realizes that his dream of being bought is more dangerous than he knew and runs away into the streets, where he must hide from unfavorable weather and other predators....

  • Where's the Fly

    Caron Lee Cohen

  • A Killing in Quail County

    Jameson Cole

    GROWING PAINS It is the summer of 1957 and Bob White, OklahoMA, a dry rural town. Illegal moonshine is the name of game, and fifteen-year-old Mark Stoddard decides going to find a local bootlegger's still and win the of his older brother Jake, the...

  • Infamous

    Joan Collins

    A novel of romance and suspense introduces a wildly popular Hollywood soap opera actress who falls for Mr. Wrong, yet somehow manages to overcome those who would destroy her, personally and professionally. Reprint....

  • Chase the Dream

    Constance Colson

    Four young people entered the world of high school rodeo, never foreseeing that their paths would diverge and come together again. In Chasing the Dream, the four friends find their way through complicated lives to discover the rewards of professional...

  • The Wizardry Quested

    Rick Cook

    WIZ ZUMWALT ON THE INGREDIENTS OF THE PERFECT QUEST: GOOD COMPANIONS: "Malkin's a kleptomaniac adrenaline junkie, June's crazy, Danny's still kind of wild and the dwarf, Glandurg, is just plain dangerous." MAGIC WEAPONS: "The sword Blind Fury...

  • Sarah on Her Own

    Karen Mueller Coombs

    Surviving a tortuous sea journey to the New World, fourteen-year-old Sarah finds herself orphaned and facing marriage or servitude if she is to survive and vows to save enough money to return to England. Original....

  • The Road to Mingulay: A View

    Derek Cooper

    This is an account of Derek Cooper's journey across the Hebridean archipelago on his way to Mingulay, where his grandmother was born. Whilst travelling, he met all kinds of people and received every kind of opinion on the joys and trials of island li...

  • Glory's War

    Alfred Coppel

    The second installment of the Goldenwing Cycle and the sequel to Glory continues the epic saga of the Wired Starmen aboard their orbiting space station, their refuge from an uninhabitable, hostile planet that once was Earth. Reprint....

  • Choices

    Maria Corley

    Feeling lonely and vulnerable with her husband, a rising young singer, away for months at a time, Chaney faces a tempting choice when she encounters Taurique, her former high-school sweetheart, after many years of separation. Original....

  • Baby Angels

    Jane Cowen-Fletcher

    Full-color, warm pastel illustrations and gentle rhymes present the possibility that guardian angels for babies, known as baby angels, watch, keep and protect the little ones from harm during those odd times when they stray from a watchful eye....

  • Eclipse

    Richard Hubert Francis Cox

    When a ruthless gang of Somali poachers begins a killing spree in Kenya, the Cawston settler family enlists the help of a beautiful American diplomat to preserve the endangered animals that roam freely on their farm....

  • Voodoo River

    Robert Crais

    L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history an...

  • The Italian House

    Teresa Crane

    “A wonderfully rich web of intrigue and romance, love and betrayal” set in 1920s Tuscany -- from the author of Freedom’s Banner (Barbara Erskine).   When Carrie Stowe unexpectedly inherits her eccentric grandmother’s Italian villa, she s...

  • Sweet Laurel

    Millie Criswell

    Fiercely determined to become an opera singer, innocent Laurel arrives in Denver where a bawdy saloon is the only place she can find work. Suddenly she is wearing shockingly low-cut gowns, singing to drunken hooligans, and feeling more than a little ...

  • Dance

    Judy Cuevas

    The dance of life is never danced alone... Years after fleeing to America -- from an arranged marriage -- Marie Du Gard returned to Paris a different woman. Slimmer and carefree, Marie vowed to protect her freedom at all costs -- regardless of wha...

  • The Three Lives of Harris Harper

    Lynn Cullen

    Between his summer baby-sitting job, his anxieties about talking to girls, and his increasing sense that his family is, well, embarrassing, twelve-year-old Harris is having a stressful summer....

  • Tapes of the River Delta

    Peter Cunningham

    Committing a murder after thinking about doing so for most of his life, Irish fugitive Theo Shortcourse remembers the events that led up to his act, in a chilling saga that spans three generations of a nineteenth-century town. A first novel....

  • Auntie Mayhem

    Mary Daheim

    Bad Manors Though lurching through London is ever so jolly, hostess on-holiday Judith McMonigle Flynn and her cantankerous cousin Renie are looking forward to an unharried weekend at a real English country manor. They find the estate taxing, howev...

  • The Luck of the Draw

    Catherine Dain

    Hired to track down Darla Hayden after she leaves her therapist with a pile of unpaid bills, Reno P.I. Freddie O'Neal finds herself up to her ears in murder when Darla turns up dead in her former lover's office...

  • The Cupid Conspiracy

    Ruth Jean Dale

    CUPID, COLORADO This is ranch country, cowboy country--a land of high mountains and swift, cold rivers, of deer, elk and bear. The first Cameron came to Colorado more than a hundred years ago, and Camerons have owned and worked the Straight Arrow ...

  • A Simple Texas Wedding

    Ruth Jean Dale

    "Friday's child is loving and giving." It began simply enough, when Trace Morgan hired Hope to organize his sister's engagement party. But when the bride-to-be asked Hope to plan the wedding as well, then things got complicated--Te...

  • Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit

    Paula Danziger

    AMBER BROWN is in deep trouble. No matter what she does, it isn't enough. Her room is a mess, her homework is late, and her mom is dating someone! What can Amber do? She has to get some credit for trying, right?...

  • Wild Hawk

    Justine Dare

    THE OUTCAST RETURNED TO CLAIM HIS LEGACY -- AND HER HEART When Jason Hawk, bastard son of industrialist Aaron Hawk, came to his father's funeral, he stunned Aaron's greedy widow, Alise, and transformed the life of Aaron's executive a...

  • Pawpaw Patch

    Janice Daugharty

    At forty, Chanell Foster is proud and popular in her hometown. Her beauty shop is more than her business--it is the town's social hub--and one's status in Cornervill is ensured by a standing weekly appointment in Chanell's book. But life in a small s...

  • Homespun Bride

    Carolyn Davidson

    Instead of the wedding day Lottie O'Malley had dreamed about, she found herself faced with a funeral. James Tillman, the Missouri widower who'd sent for her to be his bride, had just died in a freak farm accident. All that greeted the nineteen-year-...

  • Lover Under Cover

    Justine Davis

    Trinity Street West: Where danger lies around every corner -- and the biggest danger of all is falling in love. In a world of shadows... BENEATH THE SURFACE... Running away had never been Caitlin Murphy's style, especially when a child'...

  • The Gathering Storm

    Wally E. Davis

  • The Proving Ground

    Wally E. Davis

  • How Snake Got His Hiss

    Marguerite W. Davol

  • The Ivory and the Horn

    Charles de Lint

    In the city of Newford, when the stars and the vibes are right, you can touch magic. Mermaids sing in the murky harbor, desert spirits crowd the night, and dreams are more real than waking.

    Charles de Lint began his chronicles of the extraordi...

  • The Return

    Joe de Mers

  • David and Goliath

    Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

  • Anthony, the Perfect Monster

    Angelo DeCesare

    Illustrated in full color. Anthony always does everything he's supposed to, from eating his spinach to wearing his raincoat--even when it's not raining! Then one day, Anthony cracks from the strain and, with one hiccup, becomes a horrible monster who...

  • Castle Fantastic

    John DeChancie

    Sixteen short stories that take place within legendary castles include the writings of such popular authors as Roger Zelazny, Charles de Lint, Jane Yolen, David Bischoff, and Nancy Springer. Original....

  • The Love Knot

    Sue Deobold

    All her life, Catherine Clifford dreamed of finding a true and gentle love. And the spirited beauty was certain to find such a man at the elegant court of Richard II. But was the dashing knight who awoke her to passionate bliss really an arrogant...

  • Gambler's Daughter

    Laura DeVries

    Forfeiting half of her Montana ranch when her brother loses a gambling bet, Kathleen McBride becomes the reluctant partner of Chance Ballinger, who falls in love with Kathleen and invites her to take the ultimate challenge. It wasn't enough that h...

  • King of the Dead

    Gene DeWeese
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    With virtually unlimited powers as King of the Dead, Azalin still cannot find peace. Tortured by the death of his son., the unwilling ruler has come to despise the world of darkness and horror over which he reigns. From his previous life as a powe...

  • The Daughters of Cain

    Colin Dexter

    It was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murder enquiry after the preliminary--invariably dramatic--discovery and sweep of the crime scene. Secretly pleased to have missed the blood and gore, Morse and the faithful Lewis go a...

  • Alibis

    Robert DiChiara

    A SHATTERING DEATHBeautiful home, beautiful wife, beautiful life. To the casual observer, prosperous real estate executive Carl Rodman lives a perfectly ordered existence in the chic seaside town of Hollowsport. But scratch the surface and the pain o...

  • A Place to Fall

    Roger Director

    The executive producer of Moonlighting and a writer for Hill Street Blues presents a funny, often poignant novel. Transplanted New York writer Billy Ziff, after conceiving a phenomenally successful show, learns just how little Hollywood success often...

  • The True Prince

    Walt Disney

    Accepting an invitation to dinner, the lovely Belle finds herself dancing in a grand ballroom with the Beast and enjoying the first stages of a blossoming friendship, in a colorful storybook that features interactive pull tabs....

  • Slow Hands

    Debra Dixon

    A hold-your-breath-handsome professor who taught her the pleasure of play... Sam Tucker wasn't the kind of man to wait for an invitation, not when his mission was to help Clare McGuire learn the joys of losing control! Convinced Sam wanted onl...

  • Moment of Truth

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Attending a friend's bullfighting demonstration while on vacation at South Padre Island, the Hardy brothers are horrified when the triumphant matador is kidnapped by his rich uncle's greedy enemies. Original....

  • Twin Pickle

    Ann Doro

    Identical twins Jenny and Ivory are always in the thick of the fun, spending each day jumping on beds, standing upside-down, and playing outdoors, and readers are challenged to guess which twin is which....

  • Bringing Up Baby

    Charlotte Douglas

    Would they form an instant family? Devon Clarke, author of the popular column "Bringing Up Baby," was America's best-loved baby expert. That's why two fans bequeathed her a tiny tyke named Amanda. How were they to know that Devon w...

  • Heartless Stranger

    Elizabeth Duke

    Sandra knew about the tragedy that had claimed the lives of those dearest to Trent Corbin. But although her compassionate heart ached for him, she could never forget that he was her father's enemy... Yet, as an unexpected guest in his home, Sandr...

  • Texas Lonesome

    Alice Duncan

    SHE GAVE ADVICE TO EVERYONE -- BUT SHE COULD USE A BIT HERSELF Emily von Plotz barely eked out a living giving advice to readers of the San Francisco Call as "Aunt Emily." Then she chanced to meet the man who had signed himself "Texas Lonesome" -...

  • Scandal's Daughter

    Carola Dunn

    A home in a harem simply wouldn't do for prim Miss Cordelia Courtenay. Her impetuous mama had created a scandal by dragging Cordelia along as she traveled the world. Now, her death had left Cordelia stranded in Turkey...where the pasha decreed sh...

  • The Death of Blue Mountain Cat

    Michael Allen Dymmoch

    In this “exciting” sequel to The Man Who Understood Cats, psychiatrist Jack Caleb and cop John Thinnes must solve the murder of a Native American artist (Library Journal).   Native American artist Blue Mountain Cat seems determined to provok...

  • Sunrise Song

    Kathleen Eagle

    IN THE DARKNESS OF YESTERDAY'S SHADOWS SHINES A GOLDEN PROMISE FOR TOMORROW A mixed-blood Lakota Sioux, Zane Lone Bull spent long years fighting -- on a distant foreign battlefield and in his own country -- and has vowed to fight no more. Now a t...

  • Texas Kidnappers

    J.T. Edson

    The Ysabel Kid was being followed as he rode the trail back to Rio Hondo Country. The three hombres behind him were robbing cowhands of their cattle-drive pay. And the Kid had been deputized to stop them. Riding out on his lonesome, he intended to br...

  • White Wind

    Susan Edwards

    GOLDEN SPLENDOR When her beloved stepfather died, lovely young Sarah Cartier knew it was time to set out on her own -- to escape her evil guardian's clutches and perhaps to discover the father she'd never known. But Sarah didn't make it far before...

  • Metropolitan Cow

    Tim Egan

    Bennett Gibbons is a very fortunate calf. His parents are prominent members of their herd and noted socialites. They live in a beautiful apartment and give Bennett everything he could want. Indeed, young Bennett is the luckiest little calf in the nei...

  • Destiny Awaits

    Suzanne Elizabeth

    STRANDED IN THE PAST Tess Harper was sure the little woman who appeared at her bedside wanted ransom from her wealthy parents. The last thing she expected was to be carted off to Kansas in the year 1885, where she found herself face-to-face with t...

  • The Stalker

    Carol Ellis

    Performing in a school production of Grease, Janna is delighted when her talents win her much praise and the attentions of an apparent fan, until the harmless token gifts of flowers and notes become the threatening moves of a stalker. Origina...

  • The Lady and the Spy

    Monique Ellis

    "Tis A Scandalous Season...When A Spinster Becomes A Femme Ftale! Lady Serena Duchesne had a reputation to uphold as a formidable, eccentric spinster. She also had a secret: she was the anonymous author of the most daring novel ever written about th...

  • Dance of Death

    P.N. Elrod

    In the sequel to Death and the Maiden, vampire Jonathan Barrett encounters an engaging four-year-old boy, the mortal son he never knew he had, but his enemies plot to use the child to destroy him. Original....

  • City of Diamond

    Jane Emerson

    The newly appointed Protector of an intergalactic city-ship, Adrian Mercati is urged by his predecessor to strengthen his position by locating the Sawyer Crown, an alien artifact that will give him superiority over his enemies. Original....

  • People of the Plains

    Ken Englade

    Tony Hillerman endorses this richly evocative new series that portrays the day-to-day lives of Native Americans in the west during a volatile time of betrayals great and small. The Fort Laramie Treaty of 1851 called for a reallocation of tribal lands...

  • The Case of the Kidnapped Collie

    John R. Erickson

    Plato, the bird dog, has come to visit the ranch, delighting everyone with his quail-pointing skills and impeccable manners. But Plato's biggest fan happens to be Hank's dream girl, Miss Beulah the Collie. Hank's true test of devotion comes when he m...

  • Swift as the Wind; The Cheetah

    Barbara Juster Esbensen

  • Stress

    Loren D. Estleman

    A young black cop goes head-to-head with Detroit’s elite undercover squad when one of its officers is accused of a racially fraught murderFor Paul Kubicek and the city of Detroit, 1972 ends in a haze of blood. A police officer in need of extra ...

  • Family First

    Marcia Evanick

    Sexy as sin, and twice as hot... James Stonewall Carson didn't look like a grade-school teacher, Emmy Lou McNally decided, with his muscled body and shoulders broad enough to carry the world. But when he teased her in his deep, seductive voice, sh...

  • Longarm and the Angel of Inferno

    Tabor Evans

    After rescuing a local beauty from a barroom brawl, Longarm finds himself railroaded into jail and sentenced to hard labor in Mexico, until the fetching young lady whom he rescued sets out to break him out of the jail. Original....

  • Axe for an Abbot

    Elizabeth Eyre

    Popes, cardinals, whores, and thieves are among the players in this fifth Renaissance mystery featuring the enigmatic knight Sigismondo and his sidekick Benno.Tricked into a murder, Sigismondo finds himself in the middle of a no-holds-barred politica...

  • Fabulous Four Skunks

    David Fair

  • Lord Ramsay's Return

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    Lovely, young Miss Prudence Stanhope was intimately acquainted with the danger of men's desires, and the devices and deceits designed to undo a lady's defenses. Already she had survived one such campaign of conquest with her illusions shatter...

  • Grandpa Putter And Granny Hoe

    Kimberly Olsen Fakih

    Twins Jazz and Koo are frustrated when their beloved grandparents fight over the twins every time they visit, and when their parents leave the twins with their grandparents for the weekend, fireworks erupt. Reprint....

  • Point Man Devotional

    Steve Farrar

    Building upon the crucial topics addressed in Steve Farrar's best-selling Point Man, Farrar's new Point Man Devotional walks men through the Scriptures, asking the question: What does God say about these subjects that are so critical to men? This eas...

  • Young Mouse and Elephant: An East African Folktale

    Pamela J. Farris

    Young Mouse sets out to prove that he is the strongest animal around, not Elephant, as his grandfather suggests. Young listeners will eagerly join boastful Young Mouse's hunt for Elephant and cheer him on in his quest....

  • The Shadowsmith

    Bill Fawcett

    MAGIC AND MENACE Mountain boy Hitch had no plans beyond reaching the palace of the Dreamwright and delivering Princess Diligence up to her mother, the immortal Amonwelle of the Unseen Wall. But when they arrived, they found the palace besieged by ...

  • Fisherman's Hope

    David Feintuch

    THE SEAFORT SAGA There is nowhere to hide from the deadly night. Even our human ark, our Earth, is only a fragile raft adrift in the infinite darkness. But with the strength of the blessed, and the courage of the damned, can one hero set humanity's ...

  • Seafort's Challenge

    David Feintuch

    This exciting omnibus volume brings together two complete novels of military adventures: Prisoner's Hope and Fisherman's Hope. Drawing on the strength of the blessed and the courage of the damned, one man must try to set a safe course for the human r...

  • Wake Not the Dragon

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    Traveling to newly conquered Wales, Lady Gizela de Montpellier seeks to join her husband only to encounter instead Rhys ap Cynan, a Welsh chieftain who has vowed to sacrifice anything in order to rid his country of the hated English. LOVE AND WAR ...

  • Husband: Optional

    Marie Ferrarella

    MISTAKEN PATERNITY? Jackson Cain refused to believe Joshua wasn't his. Mallory Flannigan's "claim" of an absentee lover had way too many holes, and anyway, her baby boy looked an awful lot like him. Besides, Jackson couldn't imagine Mallory with a...

  • Against Gravity

    Lucy Ferriss

    Longing to escape her dreary Hudson River home, Gwyn Stickley finds the fabric of her life changing when her best friend becomes pregnant and a local storekeeper is accused of child molestation. 15,000 first printing....

  • Lion Heart

    Amy J. Fetzer

    The daughter of a powerful Scottish wiccan, she journeys across the Ottoman empire with only her magical arts to guide her. The son of an English nobleman, he has been stripped of his lands and title. Now he prowls the Mediterranean as a pirate K...

  • The Rose Revived

    Katie Fforde

    Joining a team of housecleaners as a means of supporting themselves, recently unemployed May, single mother and hopeful artist Harriet, and star-seeking Sally find themselves in hotter water than they could have expected....

  • F2F

    Phillip Finch

  • Kicks

    Janet Fitch

    LAURIE THINKS CARLA IS THE LUCKIEST KID IN LOS ANGELES
    After all, Carla has parents who let her do anything she wants. Laurie's mother keeps her on a short leash, demanding that she keep the house clean, cook for her sick father, and stay out of t...

  • Dateline: Troy

    Paul Fleischman

  • You have the Wrong Man

    Maria Flook

    Maria Flook’s novels have garnered the higher praise from writers and critics alike. The New York Times called her first novel “jolting,” her writing “ethereal, spare, and erotic.” Novelist E. Annie Proulx placed her “in the front ranks o...

  • Kente Dress for Kenya

    Juwanda G. Ford

    Participating in a special show-and-tell program for Parents' Night, Kenya is asked to bring in something that represents her family's favorite activity and dislikes every suggestion, until her grandmother tells her the kente cloth story. Original....

  • Mad Amos

    Alan Dean Foster

    MOVE OVER, PAUL BUNYAN--MAKE WAY FOR MAD AMOS MALONE!

    Strange things lurk up in the mountains and out in the plains and deserts of the West, but few are as unique as the giant mountain man named Amos Malone, the man some call Mad Amos, though...

  • Cuckoo's Child

    Suzanne Freeman

    Mia Veery wants her family to behave like the families she reads about. They would never include a mother who flies airplanes and trades one husband for another. Or older sisters who dress all in black and read French novels. Or a father who moves...

  • Daniel's Gift

    Barbara Freethy

    RECKLESS YOUTH . In her impetuous summer of love, Jenny St. Claire found Luke Sheridan--her dashing knight in intern's scrubs. But a fast-track future and rigid, ambitious parents drove passion out of Luke's life. And the summer ended, leaving Jenny...

  • Death of a Critic

    Dean Fuller

    Paris's most widely read -- and universally detested -- theatre critic falls dead just as the curtain rises on a new production. What first appears to be a heart attack is soon revealed to be something more sinister, yet there are no clues, no murder...

  • Jaded

    Nick Gaitano

    Although Jake Phillips had recently been the golden boy of Chicago's elite homicide division, now he finds himself on the verge of suspension. Having recently put everything on the linerisking his job, his marriage, and everything he held most dearto...

  • Tracks

    David Galef

  • Future

    Bill Gates

  • In the Presence of the Enemy

    Elizabeth George

    Hailed as the "king of sleaze," tabloid editor Dennis Luxford is used to ferreting out the sins and scandals of people in exposed positions. But when he opens an innocuous-looking letter addressed to him at The Source, he discovers that someone else...

  • Yesterday's Promise

    Teresa George

    CAN SHE FIND THE PASSION SHE HAS ONLY DREAMED ABOUT... History professor Serena Brooks fears for her sanity. She has moved back into her ancestral Virginia home-only to be haunted by visions in which she is dressed like her great-grandmother... ...

  • Mountain Wedding

    Faye Gibbons

  • Good Dog, Bonita

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Attending an art show with artist Sen+a1ora Sanchez, where she is featured in one of the artist's paintings, Sarah is dismayed when Sen+a1ora Sanchez's dog runs away in the middle of everything, setting off a search through New York City. Original....

  • When Darkness Calls

    Janet E. Gill

    Trying to fit in as the new kid in town, Ellie is delighted when she is singled out by the most popular clique in school until she learns of the group's ugly cult membership and its devotion to murderous secrets. Original....

  • Dragon's Dream

    Mary Gillgannon

    It is the sixth century A.D. Maelgwn, the Dragon of the Island is celebrated for his feats of heroism. But now he has been defeated: The tragic loss of his beloved Aurora has left him grieving and alone. But Maelgwn has a duty to his people -- an...

  • Nathan's Run

    John Gilstrap

    Nathan Bailey knows life is unfair. He knows how cruel people can be, even in the face of innocence and youth. He knows how sometimes you have to kill to defend yourself; and that when you do, you'd better be ready to run--fast and hard. Now, fleeing...

  • Genie in the Jar

    Nikki Giovanni

    In verse influenced by jazz, folktales, and nursery rhymes, a small African-American girl celebrates the freedom of a long afternoon, the joy of being with her friends, and the love of her mother's open arms....

  • Charade of Hearts

    Paula Tanner Girard

    TWO WRONGS... Baron Copley had a secret: He was bankrupt. He had Roxwealde Castle, a toothless lion, and an inebriated valet; what he needed was a rich wife. So he invited the most eligible ladies of the beau monde to a house party. But to transform...

  • Mystery of Hole's Castle

    Martyn Godfrey

    Bed-and-breakfast resident Garrett becomes suspicious when the cantankerous old Mr. Pickering announces that he hates nosey kids, and Garrett is forced to save the elderly man's life when the latter wanders into danger. Original....

  • Past Continuous

    Denise Goff

    The lives of Emily, Alice, and May are seen through the eyes of their impressionable great-niece, Megan, who visits them for a day of knitting, baking, and card-playing and learns a special secret about her own mother....

  • Deadly Care

    Leonard S. Goldberg

    Dr. Joanna Blalock's specialty is death - but now the fiercely dedicated forensic pathologist has more of it than even she can handle. She has a murder victim without a face to identify, a lengthening list of sudden and suspicious patient mortalities...

  • Race around the World

    Golden Books

  • Rivers of the Black Moon

    Andrew Goliszek

    Richard Zarnoff, the world's leading AIDS researcher, has been brutally murdered in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the eve of making a world-shattering announcement. Speculation runs rampant--what did Zarnoff know that made him a target? Somehow, it all tie...

  • How the Leopard Changed Its Spots

    Brian Goodwin

    Applying the laws of physics to the study of life and the growth of complex forms, the author proposes a powerful source for the origin of species and offers an alternative to modern Darwinism and twentieth-century genetics...

  • The Frog Who Wanted to Be a Singer

    Linda Goss