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New Books List: 565 titles

  • The Broken Boy

    Karen Ackerman

  • The Hunt

    Tamas Aczel

    Summoned for undisclosed but increasingly menacing reasons to an ancient manor, three recently deposed state officials are forced to confront deeply private memories and their individual roles in the country's turbulent history...

  • Target Iran

    James B. Adair

    Target Iran Its forces shattared In Germany, the bally mauled Third Army has stitched together an all-new Fourth Rangar Battalion...far a lite-or-daath flrafIght on the oil fields of Iran. The linchpin of the battle plan Is Jinx's solo mission to del...

  • Night Moves

    R.S. Adams

  • A Cat of a Different Color

    Lydia Adamson

    BODY OF A DEAD CAT LOVER Beautiful Off-Off Broadway actress-sleuth Alice Nestleton gasps as a sinister shadow looms at the top of her apartment house stairs. But it's only a moonstruck student from her acting class who comes bearing a gift-a gorge...

  • Murder Game: There's a $10,000 Reward for Solving the Crime. It Could Be Yours

    Bill Adler

  • Mismatched Summer

    C.S. Adler

    Serious, sensitive Meg is already worried about her mother, who has a terrible history with men and is now dating her boss, when mischief-making Micale arrives in Cape Cod and must share a room with Meg...

  • Flashpoint

    Richard Aellen

    Katherine Cahill's life is shattered forever when her three young children are killed on an airplane that is blown to pieces by a terrorist bomb in the skies over Italy. Determined to make the terrorists pay for this savagery, Katherine circumvents t...

  • The Mysteries of Zigomar; Poems & Stories

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Mystery Tour

    Allan Ahlberg

    Mystery Tour is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers! One dark dark night the three sk...

  • The Destruction of Pompeii and Other Stories

    Vassily Aksyonov

  • Rembrandt's Beret

    Johnny Alcorn

  • How to Get to Sesame Street

    Liza Alexander

  • My Cat Maisie

    Pamela Allen

  • Ozzy on the Outside

    Richard E. Allen

  • Date with Danger

    Mickey Alman

    When Monster, the school's star wrestler, begins hanging around with troublemaker Zach Pomeroy, Dan and Alex begin to worry that their friend is involved in the crime wave that has hit their community...

  • Silent Night

    Gary Amo

  • Pass the Peas, Please

    Dina Anastasio

    A delightful offering for children ages four to seven, Pass the Peas, Please, is a lavishly illustrated picture book that introduces the concept of manners through a cast of lovable animal characters....

  • Stina's Visit

    Lena Anderson

  • Texas Drawdown

    Patrick Andrews

    BRANDED BY HOT LEAD After starpackin' for a spell in Benton, Rawley Pierson and his pard Chaw Stevens reckoned it was high time they got back to some honest work like cow punching. So, they handed in their tin stars and headed north through the Di...

  • Last Spy Out

    Robert Andrews

    Several chase and spy scenes hint that Andrews (author of Center Game , former CIA officer and current arms-manufacturer lobbyist) could write a thriller superior to this paean to right-wing elitism, should he relinquish his role of self-appointed CI...

  • Good Days, Bad Days

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • As the Crow Flies

    Jeffrey Archer

    The Honest Trader... When Charlie Trumper inherits his grandfather's fruit and vegetable barrow, he inherits as well his enterprising spirit, which gives Charlie the drive to lift himself out of the poverty of Whitechapel, in London's East End. Succe...

  • A Scandalous Lady

    Helen Argers

    THEIR WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN... The Hartford women are utterly flabbergasted to learn that the late Mr. Hartford was, in reality, Lord Standish! The revelation of his double life has left them in a tizzy... snubbed by society and bedeviled by deb...

  • Leave Love Alone

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Philippa mistrusted the male sex -- with reason And nothing Mark Learmonth could say would make any difference. In fact, he was just the kind of arrogant, womanizing man she despised. It was a pity she had to work with him, even temporarily. Wi...

  • A> Loverboy

    Judith Arnold

    "I crave your body." Seeing this message on her computer screen, Lucy Beckwith wondered if she'd finally gone mad. It had to be a mistake; at the very least, someone's idea of a bad joke. "I want you, Lucy Beckwith." Her ad...

  • Full Spectrum 3

    Lou Aronica

    The third book in the award-winning series of speculative fiction anthologies, crowning a reputation for excellence with more that twenty new stories by both established and fledgling authors--all on the cutting edge. The stories in the first two vol...

  • Full Spectrum III

    Lou Aronica

  • The Man from Natchez

    Elizabeth August

    THE TAURUS MAN Waving a red flag to tempt the Taurus man will surely send this stubborn, bullheaded hunk charging in the opposite direction. Instead, woo him gently and let him think it was his idea! ONE TAURUS MAN IN PARTICULAR Rough-and-rugged...

  • The Stormy Night

    Sanna Anderson Baker

  • Mercenaries

    Bill Baldwin

    As the ravaged postwar Imperial Fleet stands helpless, nearby worlds fall to the League of Dark Stars. Commanding a squadron of Starfuries, Wilf Brim sets course to save the star kingdom of Fluvanna. If he fails, the Empire is doomed....

  • Bold Montana Bride

    Karen A. Bale

    HE AWAKENED HER PASSIONS. High-spirited Maddie Broderick refused to follow her father's advice and marry a rich man -- even though that was the only way to save the Broderick ranch. She would manage on her own before she'd marry for money...

  • Cry Of The Peacock

    Gina Barkhordar-Nahai

    "A dizzying melange of history, myth, and magical realism."
    -- Library Review
     
    "A haunting novel which has considerable power."
    -- Publishing News
     
    From France
    "A rich, colorful novel, in the tradition of the Thousand and One...

  • Death Is a Two-Stroke Penalty

    James Y. Bartlett

    Death Stalks The Fairways Behind the scenes of the Carolinas Open, golf writer Pete Hacker is confronted with the death of an up-and-coming star. Was his death an accident? Or was it murder? A drug-dealing caddie, a desperate golf groupie and a stra...

  • Dragonsword

    Gael Baudino

    THE DRAGON'S CALL had come again. And Solomon Braithwaite, an aging UCLA professor specializing in Arthurian Britain, was ready to return with the Dragon to a land that could not be found on any map, the kingdom of Gryylth. Here the scholar would be...

  • What Was Mine: & Other Stories

    Ann Beattie

    A collection of short fiction, twelve works in all, including two never-before-published novellas. Here are disconnected marriages and uneasy reunions, nostalgic reminiscences and sudden epiphanies--a remarkable and moving collage of contemporary liv...

  • Secrets & Surprises

    Ann Beattie

    These fifteen stories by Ann Beattie garnered universal critical acclaim on their first publication, earning Beattie the reputation as the most celebrated new voice in American fiction. Today these stories -- "A Vintage Thunderbird;" "The Lawn Party,...

  • Cloud Dancer

    Peggy Bechko

    Woman Warrior As the Spanish put their mark on the "New World," young Cloud Dancer's peaceful life at Acoma Pueblo crumbled before her eyes. Alone and bitter, the beautiful maiden learned the fierce Apache ways of her lost love White Haw and vowed...

  • Thief of My Heart

    Rexanne Becnel

    SHE WAS NO PRIM AND PROPER SCHOOLMARM From the columned veranda of Sparrow Hill, the dark silhouette of a stranger could he seen approaching astride a huge black stallion. Lovely Lacie Montgomery felt a warning chill. Her secret must be kept if sh...

  • Wartime Lies

    Louis Begley

    "Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity."THE WALL STREET JOURNALAs the world slips into the throes of war in 1939, young Maciek's once closetted existe...

  • Mojo and the Pickle Jar

    Douglas Bell

    A DEMON IN A PICKLE JAR?That's what Juanita claimed, but to Mojo the thing in the jar looked more like a diseased crab apple. But that was before Grandmother called the Dark Lady of Guadalupe--and blue lightning struck and the Hounds of Hell came out...

  • Silent Day in Tangiers

    Tahar Ben Jelloun

  • Phantom Leader

    Mark Berent

    Aerial combat--it's not just headlines and computer graphics. It's a high-pressure reality of war that only a fighter pilot could describe. And no one has captured it as vividly as veteran Mark Berent, whose electrifying new novel puts you in the coc...

  • Dreams to Keep

    Nomi Berger

    Tania Mickiewicz was just a child when the Nazis marched into her beloved Warsaw and brutally shattered her whole world. Orpaned and alone, she vowed to escape the poverty and persecution of her past, living only for the day she would exact her devas...

  • Moments of Favor

    Daniel Bergner

  • If Fancy Be the Food of Love...

    Jo Beverley
    in

    WHEN A QUARTET OF VIVACIOUS YOUNG LADIES VISITS A VILLAGE NAMED FOR ST. VALENTINE, CUPID IS THE UNINVITED GUEST. February 14 is unforgettable at the estate of the widowed Cressida Trent, as five acclaimed Regency authors follow the romantic advent...

  • Overhead

    Jack M. Bickham

    In Montana to help his buddy, whose tennis and golf resort is on the brink of bankruptcy, CIA operative Brad Smith is ordered to find our who has been smuggling data out of a secret Air Force laboratory. Reprint....

  • Superconductivity

    Charlene W. Billings

    A look at superconductivity--the flow of electricity through cooled mercury--describes what it is; its structure and features; and its potential uses in computers, medicine, transmission of power, and communication...

  • Theo and Matilda

    Rachel Billington

  • Slow Motion Riot

    Peter Blauner

    On an urban battleground dangerously divided along racial lines, probation officer Steve Baum is desperately struggling to hold on to the last remaining shreds of his idealism - until Darryl King invades his world. A deranged young sociopath, one of ...

  • Matrix Cubed

    Britton Bloom

    Affirming his loyalty to the Desert Dancers, Mercurian prince Kemal Gavilan struggles to secure his planet's future by overcoming his family's treachery and solving his father's murder. But he must save the inner planets as well. RAM has its own sola...

  • Finding Foxes

    Allison Lee Blyler

  • Man of Steele

    Judith Bowen

    HOOK, LINE AND SINKER A female deckhand was the last thing Mike Steele wanted right now. As far as he was concerned, women and fishing boats didn't mix. And pretty, petite Kimberly Bowring was no exception. Oh, he liked women all right -- but ...

  • Fielder's Choice

    Michael Bowen

  • The Revolution of Little Girls

    Blanche Mccrary Boyd

    No matter how hard she tries, Ellen Burns will never be Scarlett O'Hara. As a little girl in South Carolina, she prefers playing Tarzan to playing Jane. As a teenage beauty queen she spikes her Cokes with spirits of ammonia and baffles her elders wit...

  • The Cat Who Knew a Cardinal

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    All the world's a stage--and now Jim Qwilleran's apple orchard has become the stage for a real-life murder scene. The much-disliked director of the Pickax Theatre Club's Shakespeare production, Hilary VanBrook, is found dead after the closing-night c...

  • Southern Oaks

    Brenna Braxton-Barshon

    NECESSITY BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. PASSION TORE THEM APART. Desperation forced her to buy a husband. In order to receive her birthright and save the family plantation from a corrupt uncle, the beautiful Brandelene Barnett had to marry. Yet she loved...

  • Walt Disney's One Hundred One Dalmatians

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Martha and Mary of Bethany

    Gloria Howe Bremkamp

  • Ups and Downs with Lion and Lamb

    Barbara Brenner

    FROM AMERICA'S MOST TRUSTED NAME IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATIONEvery book in the Bank Street Ready-to-Read series is targeted at the individual abilities of children ages four to eight. The three interconnecting levels of the series are structu...

  • Good News

    Barbara Brenner

    Canada Goose has just laid four eggs, and she can't wait to spread the news. But as her message is passed from animal to animal, the facts become far-fetched--the results are monstrously funny!About The Bank Street Ready-To-Read Ser...

  • Mrs. Pargeter's Package

    Simon Brett

    With the help of some unsavory associates, Mrs. Pargeter investigates the bizarre death of the recently widowed Joyce Dover, tracing Joyce's supposedly dead husband from South America, to England, to Corfu. Reprint....

  • The Witch's Vacation

    Norman Bridwell

  • Presumption of Guilt

    Herb Brown

    This is one of the most powerful and controversial courtroom dramas of our time. The subject is sexual abuse. the victim is a bright, charming seven-year-old named Charles. The accused is Howard Landis, his teenaged babysitter. Besieged by questions,...

  • Just Say Yes

    Dixie Browning

    BE MINE Daisy Valentine had taken her newly attained look-but-don't-touch attitude south of the border for some sun, surf and solitude. Four years as a not-so-gay divorcee had left her wary of any and all relationships -- especially those that...

  • What Lucinda Learned

    Beth Bryan

    Her future had been settled until she discovered love Lucinda Neville had hit upon a famous idea. By proposing marriage to her childhood friend and country neighbour, she would save him from the sponging house and he would save her from the Marria...

  • Hot Pursuit

    Patt Bucheister

    Denver Sierra was a man who went after what he wanted--and he wasn't taking no from the elusive Courtney Caine! Shed defied his searching gaze, and offered her devastatingly rugged suitor no encouragement. Drawn to the lady whose warm smile and wary ...

  • May You Be the Mother of a Hundred Sons

    Elisabeth Bumiller

    "The most stimulating and thought-provoking book on India in a long time..Bumiller has made India new and immediate again."THE WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLDIn a chronicle rich in diversity, detail, and empathy, Elisabeth Bumiller illuminates the many wo...

  • The Loving Swords

    Marjorie Burrows

    Caught in a Trap of Her Own Making Clemma Wells had only meant to buy time with the desperate story that she was carrying Will Brandt's child. She never suspected that Tom Cord would offer to marry her and give her a way out. If she told the truth...

  • Coffin and the Paper Man

    Gwendoline Butler

    The brutal murder of a sixteen-year-old girl polarizes the inhabitants of the newly gentrified London neighborhood under the jurisdiction of police chief commander John Coffin, seen before in Coffin in the Museum of Crime . Victim Anna Mary Kinver be...

  • The Seven Treasure Hunts

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    THE HUNT IS ON! On Saturday, Jackson and his best pal, Goat, hide treasures for each other to find. It's the Hunt for the Secret Treasure -- and it's so much fun that the boys decide to do it all over again. This time, the hunts will be trickier, an...

  • Saint Peter's Wolf

    Michael Cadnum

    Art collector Benjamin Byrd has added a curious and most startling artifact to his collection: a set of fangs embedded in silver. He is mesmerized by his latest treasure, obsessed with looking at the fangs, holding them. Feeling their strange power. ...

  • Cookie McCorkle and the Case of the Emerald Earrings

    Sharon Cadwallader

    When her friend, Walter, nearly breaks a tooth biting into an emerald earring baked into her corn muffins, Cookie must try to find out who has hidden an expensive piece of jewelry in her muffins, and why...

  • Cookie McCorkle and the Case of the Polka-Dot Safecracker

    Sharon Cadwallader

  • Curse of the Vampire

    Geoffrey Caine

    DEATH STALKS THE NIGHT--AND THE DAY. Andover is a quiet town. No screams disturb its slumber, although maybe they should--when the bones of the dead are dug up from their graves, and the children begin to disappear... But who could guess that b...

  • Earth Angel

    Linda Cajio

    Miles Kitteridge looked up at the beautiful hellcat he'd wanted for years--and felt his breath leave his body! Spirited, sensual Catherine Wagner was fighting a losing battle in trying to make her family improve its record on the environment. Catheri...

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Stella Cameron

    JACK IRVING WAS DANGEROUS... ...and cute. He flirted outrageously with Lauren Taylor and made a nuisance of himself until she agreed to date him. But what did Jack really have in mind? Lauren tried her hardest to ignore his romantic overtures.....

  • Castaway Heart

    Colleen Campbell

    RESCUED WITH A CARESS After many long years alone shipwrecked on an uncharted desert island, beautiful Honey James had no memory of her past or even her name but the resourceful castaway knew her own mind! When handsome sea captain Christopher Ames ...

  • The Full Catastrophe

    David Carkeet

    A New York Times Notable Book: “A comic chronicle of marital misunderstandings . . . Eccentric, hilarious, wildly inventive†(Los Angeles Times).   Linguist Jeremy Cook knows how language works, but he doesn’t know how marri...

  • A Time for Silence

    Philippa Carr

    As a way of life vanishes, Lucinda still dreams of love and happiness. Even Madame Rochere's exclusive Belgian finishing school cannot shelter wealthy young ladies from trouble. Lucinda is distressed by her friend Annabelinda's reckless romantic e...

  • Backward Glance

    Robyn Carr
    in

    News of her "ailing" mother sent Leigh Brackon and her twin toddlers rushing home. But once there, she found her spry mom sipping medicinal wine and old flame John McElroy knee-deep in landscaping the backyard! Coincidence? Leigh suspected maternal m...

  • Lead With Your Heart

    Lorraine Carroll

    Even through the shimmering New Orleans haze, Kenley Farrell sensed the stranger's powerful sensuality. She soon discovered his name -- Blane Crawford -- a man whose haunting voice could make her forget her lessons in male treachery, a man whose ...

  • Mister Johnson

    Joyce Cary

    A temporary clerk, still on probation, Mister Johnson has been in Fada, Nigeria, for six months and is already in debt. Undaunted, he not only entertains on the grandest scale with drums and smuggled gin, but also intends to pay a small fortune for a...

  • The Black Pearl

    Laura Cassidy

    Accepting her cousin Margaret's invitation to join Queen Anne Boleyn's court, Bess de Cheyne was leaving her Devon childhood behind. Blessed and cursed with second sight, Bess knew on first meeting Sir Harry Latimar he would influence her life. For H...

  • Three Blind Mice

    Lorinda Bryan Cauley

  • Elaine and the Flying Frog

    Heidi Chang

  • Raw Data

    Sally Chapman

    USER-DEADLY Julie Blake is the youngest vice-president at ICI--a major player in the Silicon Valley computer arena. Between swigs of Maalox, an occasional date with her fiance and managing a crew of eccentric computer wizards, life is, well, busy....

  • Hawk's Flight

    Carol Chase

  • Tales of Enchantment: Eric

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  • Heavy Time

    C.J. Cherryh

    Two asteroid miners find a dead, drifting ship--but its pilot, Paul Dekker, is alive, insane from shock, and screaming... screaming dues to a mystery that no one wants solved ... WHAT IS MAMA HIDING? Paul Dekker, a kid with a dream, wakes to a ...

  • His Lordship's Pleasure

    Marion Chesney

    SHE HAD BUT ONE THING OF VALUE LEFT TO OFFER...HERSELF! Annabelle Carruthers could only dream of being kissed by such a dashing man as Lord Darkwood. For she herself was locked in misery -- married to a rake who drank and gambled their lives in...

  • Skateboard Tough

    Matt Christopher

    As soon as Brett Thyson steps on "The Lizard," the mysterious skateboard he unearthed in his backyard, he can feel its power. The board glides smoothly, almost effortlessly, and Brett finds he can do more tricks on it than he ever could with his old ...

  • A Mind to Murder

    Anna Clarke

  • Beyond the Fall of Night

    Arthur C. Clarke; Gregory Benford

    Arthur C. Clarke's brilliant novella, Against the Fall of Night, takes us billions of years into the future. A young man named Alvin rebels against the machine-fed ease of his existence, discovers the long-hidden truth about human history, and forces...

  • Harvey's Wacky Parrot Adventure

    Eth Clifford

  • T.J.'s Ghost

    Shirley Climo

    While staying with her eccentric aunt and uncle on the foggy California coast, T.J. finds herself involved in an unusual adventure when she helps the ghost of a nineteenth-century stowaway find a ring that will help free him to his future...

  • Bronco Dogs

    Caron Lee Cohen

  • Duet

    Patricia Collinge

    TALK OF THE SEASON As a visiting professor at one of Canada's most prestigious conservatories, Marina Prohaska had expected to spend the year teaching and performing with the chamber music ensemble. She had no desire to go on tour -- especiall...

  • Shared Ground

    Marion Smith Collins

    THE SECRET GARDEN The little village of Shared Ground, hidden away in the mountains of Tennessee, was an enchanted place, where ancient knowledge was preserved in a centuries-old tradition. Beck MacDomhall was one of Shared Ground's chosen ...

  • Stolen Away

    Max Allan Collins

    March 1932. After the recently incarcerated Al Capone offers to negotiate the return of the kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh, Nathan Heller of the Chicago P.D. is sent to Hopewell, New Jersey, as a police liaison. As a part of Lindbergh’s inn...

  • Ariel above the Sea

    Stephanie Colmenson

  • Mishmash and the Robot

    Molly Cone

  • Prairie Visions

    Pamela Conrad

  • Mutation

    Robin Cook

    On the forefront of surrogate parenting and genetic research, this is the explosive tale of a brilliant doctor who sought to create the son of his dreams - and invented a living nightmare......

  • Freshman Schemes

    Linda A. Cooney

    Tri Beta president Courtney Conner has always been the perfect sorority sister. Now, one reckless escapade with a wild freshman guy may destroy her reputation -- and the Tri Betas! The more KC sees of laid-back Peter Dvorsky, the more she likes him....

  • Mysteriously Yours

    Deirdre Corey

  • The Pied Piper of Hamelin

    Sara Corrin

  • Seal Team One

    Dick Couch

    This now-classic tale of SEAL combat action in Vietnam marked Dick Couch's debut as a novelist in 1990 and sold more than 100,000 copies. Hailed for its authenticity, it was the first novel about Navy SEALs to be written by one of their own. Couch, a...

  • Lizard

    Dennis Covington

    Sent by his guardian to live at a Louisiana school for retarded boys, Lizard, a bright, deformed youngster, escapes with the help of a visiting actor who gives him a role in his repertory company's production of "The Tempest"...

  • Blood Marks

    Bill Crider

    He's smart, he's attractive, and he has a special vision: whenever he sees the blood marks on a Goman--marks only he can see--he knows what he must do. Kill her. Brutally. And not leave a trace of himself behind. Nine women have died so far. An...

  • Dead on the Island

    Bill Crider

    Ex-P.I. Truman Smith of Galveston, Texas, is painting houses, trying to forget the disappearance of his sister Jan a year ago and his all-out, failed efforts to find her. Tru's high-school football teammates Dino and Ray live in Galveston too. Dino i...

  • The Snow Pony

    Anne Crompton / Anne Eliot Crompton

    Janet Stone is new in town and lonely. Stuck-up Marigold Stass has snubbed her. No one wants to be her friend -- until she meets Mr. Flower, "the mad hermit of Winterfield." Mr. Flower offers Janet a job: helping him tame and groom his wild p...

  • Babies, Babies, Babies

    Tessa Dahl

  • Masquerade

    Janet Dailey

    New York Times bestselling author Janet Dailey takes readers to the sultry French Quarter of New Orleans, where a woman must uncover the greatest masquerade of all... Awakening in a hospital room in Nice, Remy Jardin is shocked to discover she's b...

  • Ask Me Anything

    Margot Dalton

    He'd make her lose a million dollars Every other contestant on Ask Me Anything ignored the rules and studied between shows. Not Jennifer D'Angelo. She had a watchdog appointed by the show's sponsor, Forbes Motorcycles. And Charlie Mitc...

  • The Seventh Sleeper

    William R. Dantz

  • Beaches II: I'll Be There

    Iris Rainer Dart

    IN BEACHES CEE CEE BLOOM FORGED A FRIENI SHIP THAT LASTED A LIFETIME ... AND A BOND S STRONG THAT SHE WAS GIVEN THE PRECIOL GIFT OF RAISING HER BEST FRIEND'S CHILD. THAT CHILD WAS NINA, A PROUD, HEARTBROKE LITTLE GIRL. NOW 1MPUISIVE, GUTSY, SUP...

  • Raise the Red Dawn

    Bart Davis

    When an aging Soviet submarine becomes caught under the polar ice cap while being escorted by one of the best submarines in the Soviet Navy, a high-tech game of cat and mouse involving the US ensues to see who can get to the submarine -- and the dang...

  • The Pete The Magnificent

    Gibbs Davis

  • Bloody Marko

    J. Madison Davis

  • Garfield Goes Camping

    Jim Davis

  • Blood Hunt

    Clay Dawson

  • Silver Glass

    Janifer C. De Vos

    Erin slips through a silver mirror and meets a Spanish Jew who has escaped from the Inquisition in Spain, but is experiencing turbulent times under Henry VIII in sixteenth-century England. Sequel to Purple Door....

  • Castle Murders

    John DeChancie

    At Castle Perilous, a magical party ends in murder and the hunt begins for whodunit in this “fast-moving and funny” fantasy novel (Barbara Paul, author of Kill Fee). Partying to death? A parlous party at the Castle Perilous comes to a dea...

  • Spider-Man: The Saga of the Alien Costume

    Tom Defalco

    It all began on Battleworld, where the Amazing Spiderman's world-famous red-and-blue costume was destroyed while he was fighting in the Secret Wars. Advanced technology was employed to create a new black-and-white costume that would respond to Spider...

  • A Woman Betrayed

    Barbara Delinsky

    THEY WERE THE PICTURE PERFECT FAMILY With a twenty-year marriage, two terrific kids, and a successful career, Laura Frye has everything she could ask for... until her husband Jeff mysteriously disappears. Beside herself with worry, Laura mainta...

  • The Voice of America

    Rick DeMarinis

    Nearly every page in this wonderful collection of stories offers a revelation about some aspect of human experience, often hilariously funny or, simply, brilliantly observed. In most of these 15 stories, DeMarinis ( The Year of the Zinc Penny ; Under...

  • Coming Triumph of the Free World

    Rick DeMarinis

    Rick DeMarinis possesses a power and an originality unique in contemporary American fiction. The Coming Triumph of the Free World, his second story collection, puts his flamboyant gifts on display: an amazing verbal energy, a blackly comic vision of ...

  • Romantic Notions

    Roz Denny

    It wasn't just the underwear When Sam Court came raging into Brynn Powell's lingerie shop, Romantic Notions, to return the frivolous undies his thirteen-year-old daughter had bought, he was shocked to find himself attracted to the propriet...

  • Firm Commitment

    Kate Denton

    "Just like a real family!" Ben Weston's four-year-old daughter wanted a "real family," complete with mommy. And the mommy she'd chosen was Anne Marshall. Anne was the newest architect on Ben's staff, a thirty-seven-y...

  • Dirty Henry

    Lucy Dickens

  • The M.D.

    Thomas M. Disch

    After coming into possession of a caduceus gifted with extraordinary powers for good or evil as a child, Billy Michaels becomes increasingly addicted to the power as he learns to use and control the caduceus...

  • Pious Secrets

    Irene Dische

  • In the Country

    Disney Book Group

    Young readers are encouraged to use the labelled drawings of vocabulary words to complete the sentences that recount the visits of the Disney babies to the beach, the zoo, and other vacation attractions...

  • Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians: A Counting Book

    Walt Disney

  • Disney's Pop-up Book of Shapes

    Walt Disney

  • Disney's Pop-up Book of Colors

    Walt Disney

  • Disney's Pop-up Book of Opposites

    Walt Disney

  • Disney's Pop-up Book of Numbers

    Walt Disney

    Introduces numbers from one to ten as Mickey Mouse and his friends do some cleaning and find a variety of items from one old radio to ten scratched records. Includes pop-up and pull-tab illustrations....

  • Choke Hold

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Three Little Pigs

    J. Ellen Dolce

  • What Do You Want From Me? And Fifteen Other Storie

    Doris Dorrie

    In sixteen short stories, the author probes the mysteries of human behavior, ranging from Germany to southern California in an insightful exploration of the longings, emotional turmoil, and offbeat struggles of the characters...

  • Love, Pain & the Whole Damn Thing

    Doris Dorrie

  • Birds of Prey

    David Drake

    In A.D. 262, imperial secret agent Aulus Perennius stands alone against the imminent collapse of Rome's empire, until a visitor from the distant future engages him in a mission of utmost secrecy and significance...

  • At Any Price

    David Drake

  • The Warrior

    David Drake

    THEY WERE THE BEST COLONEL ALOIS HAMMER. He welded five thousand individual killers into a weapon more deadly than any other in the human universe. LUKE BROGLIE: His brilliant mind could have succeeded in any business; but war was the business he...

  • True Colors

    Dixie Dubois

    THE WOMAN INSIDE From his thick black hair to his silvery eyes, Julian Archer was every woman's dream-come-true. His compelling presence stirred Nikki's senses like a warm summer breeze. But Nikki Colomb had to fight his irresistible charms and de...

  • Polly and the Prince

    Carola Dunn

    Polly Howard, an absentminded artist, is saved from a fall by a shabby Russian vagabond. Kolya Volkov turns out to be a gentleman and a friend of her brother's employer. Exiled from Russia, penniless, he must make his own way in England. He has nothi...

  • A Maid at Your Window

    Carola Dunn
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    WHEN A QUARTET OF VIVACIOUS YOUNG LADIES VISITS A VILLAGE NAMED FOR ST. VALENTINE, CUPID IS THE UNINVITED GUEST. February 14 is unforgettable at the estate of the widowed Cressida Trent, as five acclaimed Regency authors follow the romantic advent...

  • Extreme Prejudice

    Guy Durham

    THREE MASTER SPIES. ONE DEVASTATING CONSPIRACY... A Japanese agent strikes a devil's bargain with U. S. intelligence. Is it treason--or the ultimate Japanese takeover? A Russian plots to restore his government's military power. Is it a nation's...

  • Captains' Honor

    David Dvorkin

    A series of vicious attacks by the enigmatic M'Dok Empire has devastated the planet Tenara -- bringing the U.S.S Enterpriseâ"¢ and another Federation starship, the Centurion, to the planet's aid. The Centurion's captain is Lucius Sejanus -- a powerfu...

  • Isaac And His Devils

    Fernanda Eberstadt

    “Enchanting . . . Bursting with talent and love of life,†said the Washington Post Book World of Fernanda Eberstadt’s extraordinary first novel, Low Tide.  Now her exuberant gifts are even more abundantly evident on a larger scale. &#...

  • Savage Dance

    Cassie Edwards

    SECRET PLEASURES She was half-Indian and half-white, raised as the adopted daughter of a Pawnee chief. Now on the verge of womanhood, the beautiful Kiriki yearned to know the pleasures, adventures and secrets of life. If only she realized how deeply...

  • A Glancing Light

    Aaron Elkins

    Mild-mannered and law-abiding, Chris Norgren, curator of Renaissance and Baroque art for a Seattle museum, is an unlikely undercover investigator, but when a priceless stolen-masterpiece is discovered in a shipment of reproductions, Chris reluctantly...

  • An Alphabet of Rotten Kids!

    David Elliott

  • Mystery of the Missing Bagpipes

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    While at a bagpipe camp on an isolated Maine estate--where her father is attending a bagpipe school run by an eccentric millionaire--Kim must solve a mystery involving a stolen set of valuable, antique bagpipes...

  • The Two in Hiding

    Ru Emerson

    STRANGE AND WONDROUS RUMORS ... spread through the kingdom of Rhadaz concerning the young duke Aletto and his sister Lialla, fled from the household of their uncle Jadek, who had ruled the land of Zelharri since the suspicious death of his brother y...

  • Welcome to Vietnam

    Zack Emerson

  • Hunter on Arena

    Rose Estes

    From Rose Estes, the bestselling author of Master Wolf, comes a thrilling tale of intergalactic fantasy. In the this second installment to the Hunter series, Braldt the Gladiator must battle feral horrors from the stars....

  • Sudden Country

    Loren D. Estleman

    13-year-old David Grayle's mother owns a boardinghouse. A strange visitor, Jotham Flynn, fresh out of jail, has come to tell his story to Judge Blod, a writer of dime novels and a boarder at the Grayle home. As it turns out, Flynn has a treasure map ...

  • Randall's Wall

    Carol Fenner

    Artistically talented but socioeconomically underprivileged, a fifth-grade boy has built a wall of defense to protect himself from the pain of human relationships--a wall which begins to crumble when a dynamic and compassionate classmate decides to i...

  • Henry Miller

    Robert Ferguson

  • A Time for Trust

    Karen Field

    Paul Cooper knew Elaine Malden's life was in danger But could he shield her from the truth -- that her brother had involved her in a conspiracy to kill a man on race day at the Indianapolis 500? And how could he overlook the fact that Elain...

  • See Jane Run

    Joy Fielding

    Waking up in a pool of blood with ten thousand dollars in her pocket and no memory of her past, Jane Whittaker finds her only link to the truth in an unsettling stranger who claims to be her husband. Reissue....

  • A Maiden All Forlorn

    Ellen Fitzgerald
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    WHEN A QUARTET OF VIVACIOUS YOUNG LADIES VISITS A VILLAGE NAMED FOR ST. VALENTINE, CUPID IS THE UNINVITED GUEST. February 14 is unforgettable at the estate of the widowed Cressida Trent, as five acclaimed Regency authors follow the romantic advent...

  • The Iron Master

    Rachel Ford

    Molten desire Like it or not -- and she didn't -- Carly was stuck with Nick Bradley as part of a local teacher-awareness program. The ill-tempered, roguish owner of the area's massive iron foundry made Carly long for the difficult fifteen-...

  • A Special Sort of Man

    Natalie Fox

    Easier said than done Though Fran couldn't refuse her injured sister's plea to hand deliver some vitally important disks to her boss in Paris, she could hardly be expected to take Helena's place as his private assistant. But Jordan ...

  • Blood Stock

    John Francome

    Learning of his trusted father's involvement in treacherous scams that include insurance fraud, Fergus Drumgarrick faces financial ruin and finds his only allies in a beautiful lawyer and a rival investigator. Reprint....

  • Get Real Jennifer!

    Melanie Friedman

    When the cast of her favorite soap opera arrives in Wellbie, daring Jennifer is determined to become its newest star, but down-to-earth Willi lands a job instead, and the two girls' friendship is endangered...

  • The Autobiography of F.B.I. Special Agent Dale Cooper

    Mark Frost

    Beyond the coffee and doughnuts--the real Agent Cooper. Beginning with his 13th birthday, Cooper's autobiography is a unique portrait of a man who is complex and elusive, yet hard-working and generous for a rare glimpse into the private life of the G...

  • The Death of Artemio Cruz

    Carlos Fuentes

    A ruthless Mexican tycoon surveys his past from his deathbed as he navigates between dreams, memories, and reality in this literary classic.“With virile, honest writing in a stream of ebbing consciousness, the author of Where the Air is Clear has m...

  • The Summoned

    Steven Ray Fulgham

    The spawn of sinful monks and a terrified young nun in the sixteenth century, a hideous incubus takes the form of a demonic lover, a preacher's wife, and a tormented teen in order to satisfy its lust for vengeance...

  • Promise Not to Tell

    Jane Futcher

    Living in Maine with his cousin, troubled teen Simon falls for Laura, who confides in him about her employer's sexual advances, a secret he has trouble keeping when he is arrested while breaking into Laura's employer's home in an attempt to rescue he...

  • Anna, Mister God, and the Black Knight

    Anna Fynn

  • My Heart is Broken

    Mavis Gallant

  • Love at Second Sight

    Kara Galloway

    He was no kindred spirit Psychic Charlie Yost knew all about skepticism. It was written all over Ross Davies's face when she announced she was his birthday gift. But she had a job to do--help him locate the long-lost family treasure. And whether t...

  • Lark in the Morning

    Nancy Garden

    Seventeen-year-old Gillian, finding that the thieves who broke into her family's vacation house are two young runaways terrified of being sent back to their abusive parents, decides to help them hide out from the authorities...

  • The Incubator Ballroom

    John Rolfe Gardiner

  • Monkey Grows Up

    Rita Golden Gelman

  • Wake Up, Emily, It's Mother's Day

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Oh, no! Mother's Day is almost here and Emily Arrow's plans are a mess. She can't think of a good present. Even the marigold she planted at school won't grow. How can she give her mother an old milk carton full of dirt? Luckily Emily gets the best...

  • Red Fox

    Hannah Giffard

    In search of food to feed his mate, Red Fox encounters angry guard dogs in a barnyard, a swift rabbit, and other things, and then returns home to discover that his mate, Rose, has given birth to a litter of pups...

  • The Locker Thief

    Shannon Gilligan

  • Sticks and Stones and Skeleton Bones

    Jamie Gilson

  • Blood of Our Fathers

    Sonny Girard

    "An authentic thriller from a mob guy who's obviously been there." -- Nicholas Pileggi, Author of Wiseguy (Film name: Goodfellas) With razor-sharp honesty, Sonny Girard, an ex-mobster himself, tells the story of "Mickey Boy" Messina, just paroled fro...

  • A Death for a Dancing Doll

    E.X. Giroux

    Hired to determine the reason for ballerina Thalia Holly's death, British attorney Robert Forsythe and his secretary, Sandy, must attempt to extract the truth from Thalia's handsome second husband, her grandmother, her Aunt Harriet, and others. Repri...

  • Romancing Susan

    Theresa Gladden

    First Matt Martinelli stole her parking space. Then he tried to charm her into going out with him. But Susan Wright was determined to resist Matt's knock-'em dead grin and his gypsy eyes! He decided that this slightly frazzled mom was all wor...

  • Ruby

    Maggie Glen

  • The Grown-Ups

    Victoria Glendinning

    'There are no grown-ups.' Everyone in this wickedly entertaining novel, whatever their age, bullies or deceives or adores someone else, in the merciless playgrounds of London flats, country villages, television studios and conferences. At the centre...

  • The Penguin Book of First World War Prose

    Jon Glover

    Selections from the letters, memoirs, autobiography and fiction of the World War I. Edmund Blunden, Vera Britain, Oskar Kokoschka, Hasek, Paul Klee and Hemingway are among the contributors to this anthology, which contains several specially translate...

  • Tiger Lilies

    Judith Glover

    Flora Dennison and Rossen O'Connor are linked by a secret.A strange and painful secret, powerful enough to bring their lives together again and again from their childhood in Wolverhampton through the tragic romance of the First World War and on into ...

  • Mickey's Treehouse Adventure

    Golden Books

  • Bugs Bunny in the Big Race

    Golden Books

  • Minnie's Sleepover Adventure

    Golden Books

  • Mickey's Birthday Surprise

    Golden Books

  • Teenage Mutent Ninja Turtles - Invasion of the Robobugs

    Golden Books

    Authors: Sidelines Publisher: Golden Pr Keywords: deluxe, sound, story, robobugs, invasion, mutant, ninja, turtles, teenage Published: 1991-05 Language: English ISBN-10: 0307740099 ISBN-13: 9780307740090 Binding: Hardcover...

  • The Burglar

    David Goodis

    For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In The Burglar (1953), first published like all his later novels as a paperback original, ...

  • Nightfall

    David Goodis

    For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In Nightfall (1947), David Goodis explores the theme of the innocent pursued, as artist Ji...

  • Street of No Return

    David Goodis

    For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. In Street of No Return (1954), David Goodis presents a skid row odyssey in which a famous ...

  • In Days Of Awe

    Eric Goodman

    With his life torn apart by gambling allegations, a suspension from baseball, the breakup of his marriage, and facing the scorn of fans, former star pitcher Joe Singer holes up in Southern California trying to put his life back together...

  • H Is for Homicide

    Sue Grafton

    THE LADY CAN WRITE . . . Any reader who needs a smart and sassy P.I. would do well to hire Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone. . . . 'H' is for Homicide continues to show the author in strong storytelling form. . . . [It] finds Kinsey Millhone working on ...