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New Books List: 631 titles

  • Stormy Affair

    Brenda Trent

    When Paige took a Caribbean cruise, she never dreamed that it would lead her from the dark, unhappy past into a tomorrow filled with hope. In Mac Lane's arms she found a peace she had never thought to know again--and a soul-stirring excitement tha...

  • Endgame

    Dafydd ab Hugh; Brad Linaweaver

    They left behind everything that mattered to them--friends, lovers, country--to journey to the stars. Now Sergeant Flynn Taggart and Pfc. Arlene Sanders, USMC, have reached their destination...the homeworld of the demon invaders who destroyed Earth. ...

  • Kangaroo Notebook

    Kobo Abe

    In the last novel written before his death in 1993, one of Japan's most distinguished novelists proffered a surreal vision of Japanese society that manages to be simultaneously fearful and jarringly funny. The narrator of Kangaroo Notebook wakes on m...

  • Blood of Patriots

    Neil Abercrombie; Richard Hoyt

    Terrorists storm into the crowded House of Representatives and open fire. Within minutes, more than a hundred members of Congress and staff lie wounded, dead, or dying on the floor of the nerve center of American democracy. The nation is shocked, the...

  • A Cat in a Chorus Line

    Lydia Adamson

    Two gorgeous Maine coon cats hold the clues to a killing as actress-turned-sleuth Alice Nestleton and her significant other, Tony Basillio, become eyewitnesses to the murder of the hateful wife of Broadway mogul Peter Nelson Krispus. Original....

  • Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Count Mystery // Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game

    David A. Adler

    A jar full of toy dinosaurs, a game of musical chairs, and a smudge of chocolate cake. Can Cam Jansen put the clues together to solve a birthday party puzzle?...

  • Assualt of the Super Carrier

    Peter Albano

    The disappearance of two nuclear attack submarines leads Commander Brent Ross, the "Yankee Samurai," and fighter pilot Commander Yoshi Matsuahara into a desperate and dangerous mission to stop a Libyan madman out to control the fate of the free world...

  • Appointment in May

    Neil Albert

    A disbarred lawyer now operating Garrett Investigations in Philadelphia, Dave takes on a domestic surveillance job in nearby Wayne. Lawyer Charles Preston hires him to follow Maria Winter, the estranged wife of Preston's client, Pat Winter. The latte...

  • The Princess and the Pea

    Victoria Alexander

    Once upon a time...they lived happily ever after. FEEL THE PEA THROUGH THIS BED AND WIN THE HEART OF THE MAN YOU'LL WED. A true American princess, Cecily White stood to inherit her father's business empire. And with the twentieth century right ...

  • I Do?

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    "I want to stop a wedding!" When you run a bridal shop, you don't hear those words very often. So when Sergeant Maxwell O'Roarke, United States Marine Corps, marched into my place and ordered me to lose his little sister's wedd...

  • Moving in With Adam

    Jeanne Allan

    Was he carrying neighborliness too far? Adam Treherne did the brave thing by catching a burglar breaking into the house next door. But this was no ordinary thief. She was pretty inept -- and pretty cute! Which was an odd admission because Adam usu...

  • Claudia's Shadow

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    As her sister's sole heir, Rowena Graham moves into Claudia's house - their old family home - and begins to sort out her sister's affairs. She also steps in as manager of Claudia's restaurant and gradually leaves her former life and successful career...

  • Shark Power!

    Cynthia Alvarez

  • Moby Lick's Revenge

    Cynthia Alvarez

  • Dragonheart: Movie Storybook

    Dina Anastasio

    Vivid, full-color photographs capture the fantastical adventures of Sir Bowen, Draco the Dragon, and their companions as they struggle to save the kingdom from the machinations of a tyrannical king. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Saturday Night Fever

    Helga Anderle
    in

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • Ruins

    Kevin J. Anderson

    Based on the Emmy-award winning tv series, special agents Mulder and Skully investigate ancient Mayan ruins for paranormal phenomena.Meet Mulder and Scully, FBI: the agency maverick and the female agent assigned to keep him in line. Their job is to i...

  • The Towers

    Robert Andrews

    A network of terrorists is about to unleash an invisible weapon capable of mass destruction, and it is up to former CIA agent Bradford Sims to extinguish the already-lit fuse before it is too late. Original....

  • The Friend We Have Not Yet Met

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • Knee-High Norman

    Laurence Anholt

  • The Fourth Estate

    Jeffrey Archer

    Lubji Hoch survived World War II on luck, guts, and ruthlessness. At the war's end, renamed Richard Armstrong, he buys a floundering newspaper in Berlin and deviously puts his competitors out of business. But it isn't enough. Meanwhile, on the other ...

  • Drew and the Bub Daddy Showdown

    Robb Armstrong

    When his cast is removed from his arm, Drew discovers that he can draw and creates a comic strip that makes him the center of attention at his school, but some people are not happy with his success, and Drew must deal with these strange and new attit...

  • Legs

    Mike Artell

  • Sweet remedy

    Linda Phillips Ashour

    After the break-up of her marriage, Polly Harrison spends her time writing country music lyrics and obsessing over her ex-husband's new love affair, until her grandmother's legacy and the lessons she learns as a single woman help her heal herself and...

  • Learn with Thomas

    Rev. W. Awdry

    Which engines are twins?  Which animal lives in a stable?  Who travels in the train's cab?  Children can answer these and dozens more questions by looking at the colorful scenes on each spread, while labeled spot art gives further, glossary-sty...

  • Circle Thrice

    James Axler

    Visiting the villa of a powerful Tennessee baroness and her mysterious advisor, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists learn of her skills in the dark arts and her ruthless ambitions to secure her future. Original....

  • Usurpers

    Francisco Ayala

  • Wake Up, Little Children

    Jim Aylesworth

  • Saluso's Game

    William B. Badke

  • The Suspect

    Judy Baer

    Egg and Binky McNaughton are thrilled to be named class managers for the School Store and when they take over, the little hole-in-the-wall shop becomes a top-notch retail store. Sales are way up and things are going great until money starts disappear...

  • Undercover Artists

    Judy Baer

  • Erased

    Jo Bailey

    Having won her sexual discrimination suit against Jackson County Medical Center, or "General Jack," Jan has nearly grown accustomed to the practical jokes of the hospital's disgruntled male staff. Her empty promotion to Security's Head of Special Pro...

  • Expectant Father

    Leanne Banks

    BABY ON THE WAY! In one shocking night, Glory Danson and Caleb Masters made a baby! Now Glory was in real trouble. Caleb was a brilliant -- and brooding -- scientist bent on saving the world -- certainly not father material! Could ten tiny fin...

  • And a Sixpence for Her Shoe

    Anne Barbour
    in

    A young woman counts on her lucky sixpence to bring her a marriage proposal from the man of her dreams....

  • Miss Gibson

    Linda Barnes
    in

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • The Head: A Legend Is Born

    Gordon Barnett

    THE HEAD Meet Jim and Roy.

    Please don't stare.

    Although you wouldn't be the first, Jim and Roy are the unlikely duo who have transformed the head into MTV's latest animated series sensation. Jim's the one with th...

  • The Deepest Sea

    Charles Barnitz

    Bran Snorrison, a young Irish Viking bard, journeys through the turbulence and uncertainty of his eighth-century world, as a confrontation erupts between the old magic and the rise of the new Christian religion. Original....

  • Beneath the Lilacs

    Nevada Barr
    in

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • Bluestown

    Geoffrey Becker

    Living in Brooklyn and working for a shady musical effects company, Spencer finds his life thrown into turmoil by an ugly labor dispute, a breakup with his girlfriend, uncertainty about his future, and the return of his father, Spider, after a seven-...

  • The Bluestocking's Beau

    Donna Bell

    SCANDAL WAS HER PROFESSION. No one at the Season's glittering soirees ever looked twice at the shy and retiring Lady Rhian Phillips. So how could they suspect that this most unprepossessing miss was actually eavesdropping on every tantalizing tidbit...

  • Biggie and the Poisoned Politician

    Nancy Bell

    THE FEISTIEST GRANDMA IN TEXAS Mrs. Fiona "Biggie" Wooten Weatherford is well-known for landing five-pound catfish, mowing down mailboxes when she drives, as well as owning half the county. Now she's mobilizing the local ladies against City Hall's n...

  • Seduction Theory

    Thomas Bellar

    Ten stories of romantic misadventures, sophistication foiled by adolescent foolishness, lust dampened by ambivalence, and moments of understanding and missed opportunities are seen through the eyes of a young boy named Alex. Reissue....

  • Only a Woman

    Amel Benaboura
    in

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • Eagle

    Don Bendell

    Chris Colt, the legendary Chief of Scouts, confronts his ultimate challenge as he tracks a savage killer responsible for a series of mutilation murders near his Sangre de Cristo mountain ranch. Original....

  • Heaven Help Us

    Cherie Bennett

    Assigned a job in a juvenile detention center for first offenders in order to save a troubled girl, reluctant teen angel Cisco has trouble feeling sympathy for the mean Caitlyn and fears that she will be trapped on Earth for good. Original....

  • Between the Lines

    Angela Benson

    A novel in the Sweet Passion series.Matchmaking fathers work their magic in Between the Lines.Businessman Jake Mason works hard and plays harder. He’s living a playboy lifestyle in New York until his father decides it’s time for him to settle dow...

  • If You Were a Bug: A Pop-Up Book about Bugs and You

    Dawn Bentley

  • The Berenstain Bears Cook-It!: Breakfast for Mama!

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Illustrated in full color. Brother, Sister, and Papa Bear prepare Mama a special birthday breakfast. The event is a dazzling success--especially when Mama discovers that the young chefs have even cleaned up the kitchen! The Do-It! section includes re...

  • The Berenstain Bears Grow-It!

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Illustrated in full color. Inspired by their neighbor Farmer Ben, Brother and Sister decide--with Mama's help--to plant seeds, cuttings, and tubers. The Do-It! section includes instructions for the propagation of numerous food plants in water and/or ...

  • Forbidden Affections

    Jo Beverley
    in

    Regency debutante Anna Featherstone's rented London townhouse is filled with intriguing Gothic details...and scandalous secrets. When the notorious Earl of Carne moves into the mansion next door, a secret connecting door becomes a passageway to dange...

  • The Shattered Rose

    Jo Beverley

    A magnificent tale that sweeps from a besieged medieval castle to the dazzling English court...as two knights vie for the heart of one woman -- and a love that can conquer all... She is the incomparable Jehanne, alone in a castle with a child wh...

  • Desert Mistress

    Helen Bianchin

    Bargain with the devil! Kristi's journalist brother was a hostage, and only one man could help: Sheikh Shalef Al-Sayed. He had power and influence at his fingertips -- but how could Kristi win his support? Shalef was way out of her league. His...

  • 7.62

    Pieke Biermann
    in

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • Soldier

    R.C. Binstock

    Phillip's insular artistic life borders on self-exile. He lives in the woods of New Hampshire in a centuries old farmhouse. He does not simply prize his privacy, he insists on it. When a young female relative arrives, to whom he has offered a tempora...

  • Undercover Cowboy

    Beverly Bird

    SWORN TO SERVE AND PROTECT Secret agent Jack Fain had chased his archenemy around the world to a small dude ranch in the heartland ...and to captivating Carly Castagne. Now Jack was the only thing that stood between the killer and is innocent woma...

  • The Soulmate

    Carly Bishop

    He seemed so familiar... When attorney Keller Trueblood died suspiciously during a high-profile case in Aspen, his wife, Robyn, was willing to turn anywhere for help -- even to Ezekiel, a sexy guardian angel whose hold over Robyn was so powerful ...

  • Justifiable Means

    Terri Blackstock

    A violent criminal with a knack for evading justice. A beautiful victim with a secret to hide. Between them stands one good cop, torn between justice and the law. This rape case is an exception: The victim is more than willing to testify. And there'...

  • Nightfire

    Eleanor Taylor Bland
    in

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • Magic! Against the Odds

    Howard Blatt

  • The Last Coin

    James P. Blaylock

    Thirty pieces of silver -- the price paid Judas to betray Jesus. Twenty-nine coins--are already in the hands of a very unpleasant individual who calls himself Pennyman. The Last Coin--all that stands between the world and doom. And this coin no...

  • A Sound of Leaves

    Lenore Blegvad

  • Splash!: Great Writing about Swimming

    Laurel Blossom

    An anthology of stories, essays, and poems about swimming features the works of Ray Bradbury, John Cheever, Doris Lessing, John Updike, Calvin Trillin, Anne Sexton, A. E. Housman, Jack London, and Dawn Fraser, among others....

  • Far From Home

    Georgia Bockoven

    THE END CAN BE A BEGINNING Miranda Dolan's world has been destroyed. Shattered, she retreats to the isolation of a rented cottage in a strange California town, searching for the peace that will make her forget her past. But the past won't stay ...

  • Winter Heart

    Jane Bonander

    Facing the somber silhouette of a cold stone house, Dinah Odell nearly lost hope when she arrived at the lonely ranch in the Sierra Nevada. But it was better than the dark place she had escaped from. Risking her precious freedom, she'd posed as a nur...

  • Living with My Stepfather Is like Living with a Moose

    Lynea Bowdish

    "Ten-year-old athletic Matt is mortified by his new, clumsy stepfather, Frank. Matt's mom arranges numerous activities designed to bring stepfather and son closer together, but Matt is embarrassed and disgusted by each turn of events...The story is l...

  • Tiger Man

    Max Brand

    The residents of the San Pablo valley fearfully anticipate a deadly showdown between a lone gunman who pursues his own brand of vigilante justice and a band of trigger-happy outlaws who seek to rule the territory. Reprint....

  • Hasten Down the Wind

    Rebecca Brandewyne
    in

    Elizabeth knows nothing of the Great Range Wars of the Old West...until she is suddenly swept back a hundred years in time...and kidnapped by the notorious Chaingo, a half-breed outlaw who rides with Billy the Kid. Is he just a cold-blooded desperado...

  • Kayla's Secret

    Marian Flandrick Bray

  • Lost on Catalina Island

    Marian Flandrick Bray

  • Big Girls Don't Cry

    Connie Briscoe

    "[An] empathetic portrait of a modern woman wrestling with issues of love, work, and family obligations."           --Publishers Weekly                      

    Born into a comfortable Washington, D.C., home, Naomi...

  • Daughter of Magic

    C. Dale Brittain

    IF HE'S LUCKY, SHE WON'T TURN HIM INTO A FROG.... It's not surprising that the daughter of a witch and a wizard has some innate magical aptitude, and Daimbert is more than willing to nurture her talent. But he's finding he also has to play dad to ...

  • What's a Dad To Do?

    Annette Broadrick
    in

    A confirmed bachelor becomes the father of twins in "What's a Dad to Do?," an unprepared couple gets a surprise in "Soul Mates," and a single man inherits an orphaned baby in "Wife Wanted..." Original....

  • Kiss and Tell

    Suzanne Brockmann

    Kissed by a phantom at midnight, she had no choice but to surrender.... When Dr. Marshall Devlin spotted Leila Hunt alone on the dance floor, he yearned to charm the violet-eyed Cinderella into his arms, but how could he court the lady when they f...

  • Southernmost and Other Stories

    Michael Brodsky

    Scattered throughout the novella "Southernmost" are allusions to the poets Hart Crane and Wallace Stevens. Here, Brodsky explores the tension between two types of artists, equally tormented. Stevens, an insurance salesman with an unhappy marriage, le...

  • Dream Wedding

    Helen Brooks

    A child that's born on a Sunday is bonny and blithe... Reece Vance has fought hard for his wealth and success -- and he's learned to be tough, cynical and ruthless. Miriam Bennett is a natural optimist, but her good nature is put to the te...

  • The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur

    John Gregory Brown

    Shelton Lafleur, an elderly artist, recalls growing up as a young Black orphan in New Orleans during the Depression, the accident that cripples him for life, and his encounter with Minou, who takes him into his home and helps him unravel his haunted ...

  • Lover's Leap

    Pamela Browning

    I'M GOING TO HAVE A BABY... Maybe it was the hormones of early pregnancy doing a number on her, but one minute Maggie Macintyre was paddling her canoe downriver and the next a half-naked man seemed to fall from the sky, toppling her into the chur...

  • Sometimes You Feel Like a Nut

    Margaret Brownley
    in

    If you crave romance and can't resist chocolate, you'll adore this tantalizing assortment of unexpected encounters, witty flirtation, forbidden love, and tender rediscovered passion... MARGARET BROWNLEY's straight-laced gray-suited ins...

  • And Mommy Makes Three

    Lynn Bulock

    ONCE UPON A TIME in the land of Missouri, there was a little boy named Jory. He loved his daddy, but something was missing: a mommy. So Jory set out to find one. THE PRINCE WAS RELUCTANT Matt wasn't looking for happily ever after--he was...

  • Starlight Passage

    Anita Richmond Bunkley

    Assisted by a handsome photojournalist, Kiana Sheridan traces her ancestors' route to freedom from slavery via the Underground Railroad, a quest that leads her and her companion to an isolated mountain village and into danger. ...

  • A Dead Man in Deptford

    Anthony Burgess

    In pitch-perfect and compulsively readable prose, Burgess recreates the world of Elizabethan England--from the court and its intrigue to the theater and its genius--in this life of Christopher Marlowe, murdered in suspicious circumstances in a tavern...

  • Beloved Lord

    Mallory Burgess

    HE WAS HER SWORN ENEMY Scotland, 1340. As the tyrannical English King Edward turns her beloved country into a place of terror and oppression, Anne Faurer is forced from her ancestral home and into servitude on her own lands. She knows little of th...

  • Lovers Forever

    Shirlee Busbee

    Under the cloak of darkness, Lady Tess escapes, a lone rider fleeing from her diabolical cousin -- only to fall into the hands of ruffians who rob her of her jewels...and her memory. Then in the shelter of a wayside inn, she meets the man the centuri...

  • Tornado

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    From Newbery Medal-winning author Betsy Byars comes a sweet, entertaining story that will touch the heart of dog lovers at any age.A tornado appears in the distance, and the family quickly gathers into the storm cellar. The storm rages outside, but P...

  • The Lion's Share

    Robert Campbell

    The rise of sewer inspector Flannery through Chicago's political ranks might be expected to stall with the death of his longtime mentor, Chips Devlin. The old man goes gently, in his bed, with a smile on his old Irish face and possibly after some pai...

  • Night Moves

    Sandra Canfield

    For one hot summer, Gray Bannon had carelessly broken all the rules when it came to love, and now, ten years later, he discovers the dangerous price of tasting passion so recklessly. The daughter he never knew existed has been kidnapped, leaving him ...

  • Class Reunions Are Murder

    Taffy Cannon

    When L.A. attorney Nan Robinson flies to Spring Hill, Illinois, for her twenty-year high school reunion, the last person she expects to see is Class Tramp Brenda Blaine. But there she is, in all her glory. The stars are out, of course: Class Clown...

  • The Secret Ingredient

    Raine Cantrell
    in

    If you crave romance and can't resist chocolate, you'll adore this tantalizing assortment of unexpected encounters, witty flirtation, forbidden love, and tender rediscovered passion... RAINE CANTRELL carries you back to the Old West where...

  • Parties Unknown by the Jury; or, The Valour of My Tongue

    P.M. Carlson
    in

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • Perfect Chance

    Amanda Carpenter

    Take a chance on love.... Mary Newman -- her life was safe, predictable and reasonably happy. Until the day he walked in! Chance Armstrong -- he had no respect for rules and regulations and cozy life-styles. But he was offering Mary the perfect...

  • An American Requiem

    James Carroll

    National Book Award winner: This story of a family torn apart by the Vietnam era is “a magnificent portrayal of two noble men who broke each other’s hearts” (Booklist).   James Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His ...

  • An Impromptu Proposal

    Carla Cassidy

    THE HARD NOSED DETECTIVE The Minute she walked in, he sensed trouble. Said her name was Colleen and that she was looking for someone named Sam Baker. Who was he? Her husband? Her Lover? Private eye Gideon Graves could smell a scandal a mile a way,...

  • The Last Piper

    Helen Cavanagh

  • The March Hare Network

    Jack L. Chalker

    GO ASK ALICE
    Time after time, life after life, Cory Maddox was being incarnated into worlds he found both familiar and strangely different. And it was only in his latest incarnation that, for the first time, Cory brought along knowledge, skills, a...

  • Slow Dancing with the Angel of Death

    Helen Chappell

    HOLLIS BALL JUST RECEIVED AN ODD REQUEST FROM HER EX-HUSBAND: FIND THE PERSON WHO MURDERED HIM. . . . When charming rich kid Sam Wescott dies in a fatal boating accident, few mourn his untimely death. But perhaps the person most shocked to shed a te...

  • Fatal Analysis

    Jack Chase

    As a psychiatrist at an exclusive Washington clinic frequented by the political elite, Dr. Jason Andrews knows his powerful clients' secrets. And when an innovative new drug - Pshychoden - promises to help relieve them of damaging past psychological ...

  • Just a Miracle

    Zita Christian

    Attempting to discredit a handsome traveling medicine man who has upset her small Montana town, pharmacist Brenna McAuley confronts Jake Darrow and learns that he is desperately trying to raise money for a sick friend. From the minute handsome med...

  • Watsons of Birmingham

    Curtis P. Christopher

  • Olympic Dream

    Matt Christopher

    Anticipating a boring summer before meeting energetic cycling enthusiast Red Roberts, Dough Cannon helps out with the construction of a new bike path and overcomes his personal demons in order to become a young athlete....

  • Shadow Over Second

    Matt Christopher

    Nicky is on his way to breaking the record for most runs batted in, but first he must overcome his superstitions, and someone who doesn't want to see the old record broken....

  • The Ways of Magic

    Scott Ciencin

    They came seeking sanctuary--bringing a fleeting peace and costly prosperity to a place like, yet unlike, their own dying world. And now humankind no longer rules the Earth. Young Tom Keeper yearns to paint. But in the 1 world he lives in, only th...

  • The Honeymoon Assignment

    Cathryn Clare

    LONG-LOST LOVE For private investigators Sam Cotter and Kelley Landis, going undercover at a honeymoon resort was bittersweet torture. Three years ago, they really had been engaged. But theirs had been the wedding that never happened. Now, pos...

  • The Case of the Anxious Aunt

    Anna Clarke

    DOSE OF DEATH Paula Glenning thought her Aunt Isobel paranoid. The elderly heiress claimed her nurse was trying to blackmail her and her husband was out to poison her. Before Paula could calm her aunt's fears, the nurse was brutally murdered. Now,...

  • Entranced

    Marion Clarke

    SACRED LOVE... Even on the stormy Atlantic crossing that carries Fiona Prescott from Europe to Massachusetts, it is whispered that her red hair and green eyes are the marks of a witch. But Fiona has such wondrous hopes of a good life in America that...

  • Heart's Deceit

    Alana Clayton

    Diana Harrington shared nothing with her twin sister Demanda... except their incomparable beauty. Diana was sweet and virtuous; Demanda was swept up in scandal from the moment she arrived in London -- wedding the Earl of Weston's younger brother onl...

  • An Uncertain Death

    Laura Coburn

    The murder of Susan Hammond, a bright, pretty, sixteen-year-old high-school athlete, leads homicide detective Kate Harrod into a dangerous confrontation with dark secrets that now threaten Kate and her family. Susan Hammond was pretty, bright and ...

  • Solar Zits

    Liza Cody
    in

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • Step on a Crack

    M.T. Coffin

    A single student is the only person in town who smells a strange fragrance in the air, notices the pieces of cement that are popping out along the cracks, and hears a pervasive growling sound. Original....

  • Belle du Seigneur

    Albert Cohen

    Set in Geneva in the 1930s, Albert Cohen's endlessly inventive satire of middle-class manners and ambition revolves around Solal, a man of remarkable gifts and disappointed ideals. As Under-Secretary-General of the League of Nations, he has become di...

  • Vengeance Quest

    Judd Cole

    Raised in the white man's world and scorned by his own people, powerful brave and mystical shaman Touch the Sky pursues a band of cunning rivals who killed his loyal friend in their quest to create a renegade nation. Original....

  • Mirror Image

    Andrew Coleman

    Dreaming of escaping from her deadbeat family in order to live a better life, hardworking teen Erika Marlow is falsely accused of murder and flees, but she lives in continual fear of discovery. Original....

  • Stud Rites

    Susan Conant

    MURDER IN THE FIRST PEDIGREE Everyone thought that dog show judge James Hunnewell was dead--after all, the aging and ailing man had been out of the dog show circuit for years. But he turns up, alive and ready to judge, at the Alaskan Malamute Nati...

  • Shangri-LA

    Eleanor Cooney

    In the remote unexplored highlands of Tibet there is a secret place called Shangri-La. Shadowed by mountain peaks and untouched by time, Shangri-La is a hidden utopia, open only to the most worthy of humankind. The curious and the bold all come searc...

  • Bridal Lace and Buckskin

    Lori Copeland

    DEARLY BELOVED When Beth Baylor announces her engagement to gorgeous rancher Adam Baldwin, seamstress Vonnie Taylor would rather choke than make the wedding dress -- because Adam is her husband. True, they were young and crazy, sharing a forbid...

  • Fear and Favour

    Judy Cornwell

    A devout Catholic priest, Father Peter had tried to forget the terrible summer of 1990 - the summer that almost cost him his faith. But the return of a stolen filofax stirs up haunting and painful memories of the crimes he witnessed, the friends he l...

  • Shotgun Wedding

    Neil Corry

    As they investigate an assassination attempt, the BUGS team are hired to protect the technological secrets of a futuristic car. They soon find themselves imprisoned in a nuclear-powered combat vehicle that's primed to self-destruct....

  • Price of a Horse

    Ralph Cotton

    Hoping to reclaim his prize horse from rustler Two Diamond Joe, Jeston Nash teams up once again with companion Quiet Jack and begins an adventure on the desert frontier that brings him up against a lawman and beautiful women...

  • Polaroids from the Dead

    Douglas Coupland

    Douglas Coupland takes his sparkling literary talent in a new direction with this crackling collection of takes on life and death in North America -- from his sweeping portrait of Grateful Dead culture to the deaths of Kurt Cobain, Marilyn Monroe and...

  • Melanie Jane

    Susan Arkin Couture

  • Bruce Coville's Book of Magic: Tales to Cast a Spell on You

    Bruce Coville

    A collection of spellbinding tales introduces readers to many unusual places where magic can be found and includes "Wizard's Boy" by Bruce Coville, as well as works by such authors as Janni Lee Simner, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Nancy Springer. Origina...

  • Sharon's Hope

    Neva Coyle

    Sharon Frances Mason Potter is only 26. But she must deal with problems that would overwhelm many an older and wiser woman. Recovering from an abusive marriage, she's now a divorced mom struggling to raise her two children. Sharon is sure that all sh...

  • Gift of Stones

    Jim Crace

    Set before the advent of the Bronze Age, The Gift of Stones centers around a community of stoneworkers who live in a village near the sea. Wealthy and complacent, they survive by the trade of their unrivaled skills, secure in the supremacy of thei...

  • Misty's Mothers

    Francine Craft
    in

    Shop owner Misty Raverland has her chatty parrot to thank for meeting the man of her dreams: handsome veterinarian Trask O'Quinn. But the road to happiness may not run smoothly-- unless Misty can win the love of Trask's mother, and young daughter......

  • Off Season

    Philip R. Craig

    TOURIST SEASON MAY BE OVER...BUT THE KILLING SEASON HAS JUSR BEGUN. J.W. Jackson loves these crisp Vineyard autumn days after the season has ended. Now that the "off-islanders" are finally off the island, the ex-Boston cop is free to relax, fish a...

  • Deceived

    Sara Craven

    The prodigal lover.... Lydie had grown up too close to Marius Benedict to remain immune to her step-cousin's fatal charm. But Marius had merely seduced and abandoned her, leaving town under a cloud of scandal. Five long years and, no doubt, a ...

  • A Dangerous Gift

    Claudia Crawford

    HER MOTHER'S DAUGHTER Nina Slocum is a beautiful bestselling author, celebrated for her stunning investigation into the private lives of historical giants. Her daughter J. J. longs to follow in her famous mother's footsteps. Now, as Nina's assi...

  • Into the Castle

    June Crebbin

  • The Chocolate Shoppe

    Nadine Crenshaw
    in

    If you crave romance and can't resist chocolate, you'll adore this tantalizing assortment of unexpected encounters, witty flirtation, forbidden love and tender rediscovered passion... In NADINE CRENSHAW's London of 1660, a reckless Pur...

  • No Sin Too Great

    Jasmine Cresswell

    She'll do anything -- Lie, cheat, steal--Caroline Hogarth will do anything to get her three-year-old son back. Her father-in-law will do anything to prevent it. Anything... Which may explain why Caroline wakes up in bed with a dead man. Or...

  • I'll Catch the Moon

    Nina Crews

  • The Baroness

    Amanda Cross
    in

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • Dispatch from a Cold Country

    Robert Cullen

    Gorky Park with an American protagonist and a nifty art-history element. *Third in the Colin Burke series *Enormously authoritative espionage; author was Newsweek's Moscow Bureau Chief for 15 years. *Critics have called the series better than Gorky P...

  • The Trick Shot

    Jack Cummings

    Devastated when a misfire in his trick shooting act ends the life of his fiance+a7e, John Drake retreats to the desert and encounters a young Native American woman who is being held captive by outlaws....

  • Sisters and Strangers

    Eileen Curtis

    Leaving behind an unfaithful husband in order to spend time with her pregnant sister, Eleanor Powers Fox is astounded when her sister's home is thrown into chaos by the discovery of ancient artifacts on the property. Original....

  • Past Mischief

    Clare Curzon

    BLOOD TIES Annette Briers shows up for work on Monday morning and finds a dead stranger in the chair of her boss, Miranda Gregory. Later she learns that Miranda herself was the victim of a hit and run, alive but barely. Detective Superintendent...

  • Castles in the Sand

    Janet Dailey
    in

    They were kids together on Southern California's Castle Sand Pier, a majestic wharf topped by a colorful carousel. Years later, Bridget and Reese met again...and find that time has rekindled a passion too powerful to deny....

  • Six-Gun Justice

    Kit Dalton

  • The Hiding Place

    Margot Dalton

    Laurel Atchison -- or Laurie Atkins, as she is now calling herself -- doesn't dare tell her new neighbors who she really is or why she's come to Wolf Hill, Alberta. Fortunately, the trusting folk of the small town don't ask too many quest...

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Audrey Daly

  • Elves and the Shoemaker

    Audrey Daly

  • Jack and the Beanstalk

    Audrey Daly

    'Ladybird Favorite Tales' are beautifully illustrated retellings that capture all the magic of the original stories. Children will enjoy reading them again and again. Let your child join Jack in his adventure at the top of the beanstalk....

  • The Gingerbread Man

    Audrey Daly

  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    Audrey Daly

    Once upon a time, there were three bears. There was a great big bear, a middle sized bear and a tiny little bear. One morning, the father bear made some porridge but it was too hot. So the bears went for a walk to allow the porridge to cool. Meanwhil...

  • Buried Lies

    Conor Daly

    For lawyer-turned-golf-pro Kieran Lenahan, the PGA championship at the prestigious Winged Foot Golf Course is a lifelong dream come true. Until a sudden fire destroys Kieran's Westchester Country pro shop, and a local fireman is killed in the blaze. ...

  • Silke

    Lacey Dancer

    WILDCAT IN SATIN Wealthy, well-bred Silke Brown-St. James was hardly an innocent. In fact, the amber-eyed redhead was rumored to have the morals of an alley cat. No man was immune to the fiery beauty and tempting sensuality that made her Philade...

  • Mischief and Marriage

    Emma Darcy

    When Ashley met Harry... Mischief was what Harry Clifton intended when he traveled to Australia in search of an heir. Marriage was the last thing on Ashley Harcourt's mind when she met Harry. But William, Ashley's enterprising young ...

  • Dying to Dance

    Nicole Davidson

    Winning every competition with her talented dancing, Carrie dreams of ruling the dance world, until her partner is kidnapped, her studio is broken into and robbed, her rival is killed, and a stalker begins to follow her. Original....

  • Miles to Go

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis
    in

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • Eyes of Love

    Katherine Deauxville

    IN A LAND OF ANCIENT MYSTERIES AND FORBIDDEN DESIRES, A LONG-AGO VISION REVEALED THEIR PASSIONATE DESTINY... Abandoned at a convent when she was just a babe, the Scottish lass named Edain has grown into a haunting golden beauty. So beautiful that...

  • Dreamseeker's Road

    Tom Deitz

    When the barriers between the human world and the Faerie world of myth crumble on All Hallows Eve, north Georgia college students David, Alec, Aiken, and Liz stumble into the middle of the treacherous Wild Hunt. Reprint....

  • To Marcy, With Love

    Henry Denker

    When successful, alcoholic salesman Willard "Pepper" Young crashes the family station wagon, sending his son, Bud, into a coma, Pepper, his wife Lily, his daughter Gwen, and Bud's therapist enter a battle to save the family and to save Bud. Reader's ...

  • Mulholland Falls

    Pete Dexter

  • The Cowboy and the Heiress

    Jacqueline Diamond

    COULD TWO ENCHANTED RINGS PLAY MATCHMAKER? WITH THIS RING I THEE...KIDNAP? One minute heiress Maddy Armand was trying on an antique wedding ring, and the next she found herself handcuffed to a stranger in a Stetson -- who just happened to be ...

  • Daddy, Would You Love Me if...?

    Carla Dijs

  • Mommy, Would You Love Me If...?

    Carla Dijs

  • Possession

    J.M. Dillard

    Eighty years ago, bodiless entities brought a plague of violence and bloodshed to the planet Vulcan. The nightmare ended only when the entities were trapped inside special containers. Now, on the eve of a galaxy-scale scientific exposition, the co...

  • City Girl

    Mary Lynn Dille

    CALAMITY KATE Day care worker Kate Templeton desperately needed a vacation. But after two flat tires and a long, bumpy ride into the Tennessee hills, she wondered how she'd ever thought this could be a relaxing getaway. Especially when she met dar...

  • James Peach

    Walt Disney

    James has lived with his two beastly aunts ever since his parents were eaten up outside London Zoo by an angry escaped rhinoceros. Then one day something very peculiar happens - something magic, that is to completely change James's miserable existenc...

  • Competitive Edge

    Franklin W. Dixon

    With someone out to sabotage the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta by turning the competition fields into a terrorist battleground, the Hardy boys chase after them in a deadly race to catch a dangerous saboteur. Original....

  • Bucking the Sun

    Ivan Doig

    This American historical novel “takes you over as you read it, invading your daydreams, lodging its cadences in your brain, summoning you back to the page” (The Washington Post).Bucking the Sun is the saga of the Duff family, homesteaders driven ...

  • Taste of London

    Dorothea Donley
    in

    In Taste of London, Dorothea Donley sends orphaned sisters Phoebe and Kate to the big city, where they become the Season's surprise sensation....

  • Cat in a Diamond Dazzle

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    MIDNIGHT LOUIE IS BACK! ...along with the human the black tomcat condescends to spend his days with: Temple Barr, a redheaded publicist whose love for expensive shoes is matched only by her affinity for trouble. This time trouble shows up on her ...

  • Taste of Man

    Slavenka Drakullo

    As the wife of a Resistance member in German-occupied Belgium, Claire Daussois has grown used to hiding strange men in her attic. By the end of 1943, the tiny room has housed dozens of Allied airmen, soldiers and other refugees, whom Claire nurses an...

  • Hey, New Kid!

    Betsy Duffey

    You only get one chance to make a first impression. Meet Cody. His father is an F.B.I. agent, his mom drives a red Jaguar, he's got a pet emu, and he's an ace on Rollerblades. At least, that's what Cody tells his third-grade class on the first day...

  • I'll Get Back to You

    Susan Dunlap
    in

    Crime and detection are women's work for twenty-six great writers in this second brilliant collection of mystery fiction edited by Sara Paretsky. From wicked irony and white-collar crime in Amanda Cross's "The Baroness," to the chilling "Only a Woman...

  • Bridge of No Return

    Mike Dunn

    When North Korea obtains nuclear technology, decades of hostile differences explode on a small concrete bridge and in the United States, throwing an intelligence officer and an ex-Navy pilot into deadly life struggles. Original....

  • Busy Day at the Factory

    Philippe Dupasquier

  • A Busy Day at the Harbor

    Philippe Dupasquier

  • Busy Day at the Train Station

    Philippe Dupasquier

  • Creep Show

    Jennifer Dussling

    While attending a series of free movie showings at the old Star Movie Palace, a young boy discovers that not only is he the only one in the theater, but he is also becoming a part of the films. Original....

  • This Promised Land

    Robert Easton

    Foreseeing the end of her people's known existence when foreign explorers come to their land, Chumash maiden Lospe is forced to choose between her tribe's powerful chieftain, a missionary, and a valiant soldier. Original....

  • On Mother's Day

    Andrea Edwards

    A MOTHER'S GIFT A baby's kiss. An infant's cry. Warm milk and nightly cuddling. Taking those first steps. These were all things that Fiona Scott had missed learning about her own daughter - moments that could never be recaptured. Then handsome...

  • Wild Whispers

    Cassie Edwards

    SHE TAMED THE PANTHER Beautiful Kaylene Shelton's home had always been her father's carnival, traveling across the frontier. Filled with loneliness and unspoken longings, she had no one to talk to except Midnight, the black panther she had raised fr...

  • The Time of the Vampires

    P.N. Elrod

    Eighteen chilling short stories--by Tanya Huff, P. N. Elrod, Lois Tilton, and other notable authors--journey into the dark world of the vampire, revealing the exploits of these creatures of darkness throughout history, from ancient Greece to the pres...

  • Sword Play

    Clayton Emery
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Wizard's Wager Thousands of years before the Age of Elminster, dragons rule the skies of Faeron, and elves dominate the huge forests that cover the land. Only in the mighty, magical empire of Netheril are men a force to be reckoned with. Bored and ...

  • Nell Nugget and the Cow Caper

    Judith Ross Enderle

  • The Baby Contract

    Lynn Erickson

    Pregnant. Broke. Alone. Late one night, Bettie Gay Bryson finds herself sitting in a police station in Tucson, Arizona. Her cowardly ex-boyfriend held up a store and took off, leaving her there to face the law. Leaving her with only the clothes o...

  • Amnesiascope

    Steve Erickson

    Erickson's funniest and most intensely confessional novel edges Los Angeles up against the next millennium and into a vortex of fire. The city is a surreal landscape overrun by abducted strippers, nomadic artists, reluctant pornographers, subversive ...

  • Longarm and the Grand Slam Heist

    Tabor Evans

    A thief has been following a traveling baseball team around the country, robbing local post offices while their games are in progress, and now Longarm will have to play by the rules when he joins the team in order to catch the bandit. Original....

  • Notorious Lord

    Jean R. Ewing
    in

    Jean R. Ewing's Notorious Lord, rakish Viscount Beaumarais disguises his true identity in order to woo a lady who, unbeknownst to him, plans a clever charade of her own....

  • Kill Me Again

    Terence Faherty

    August in L.A. is a miserable month no matter what year it is, but August 1947 was shaping up to be a singularly awful one. The House Un-American Activities Committee had come to town and was making everyone in Hollywood, the Technicolor heart of L.A...

  • Desert Hearts

    Marjorie Farrell

    Passion Under the Sun Their destinies collided in a rugged Southwestern fort in Navajo territory. Elizabeth Woolcott was the young widow of a kind but elderly cavalry officer. Sergeant Michael Burke was a handsome Irish immigrant looking for a lan...

  • Destined To Be Mine

    Colleen Faulkner

    In a moment of stark terror, ten-year-old Duncan Roderick, pampered son of the Earl of Cleaves, becomes the prisoner of the fierce Iroquois of Maryland. A captive in an untamed land, he soon turns more savage than civilized, more embittered than lovi...

  • Vice

    Jane Feather

    From the incomparable Jane Feather, author of national bestsellers Vanity, Violet, and Valentine, comes this enthralling new romance of daring deception and forbidden passion. Juliana drew the line at becoming a harlot. She had already begun the w...

  • Dancing Stones

    Catherine Feeny

    The village of Wyley prides itself on its ancient circle of standing stones. For Melanie Flowerdew, they are the only redeeming feature of the village. But with the approach of the summer solstice, the stones have become restless, and things will nev...

  • Let's Get Mommy Married

    Marie Ferrarella

    The marriage scheme... The Mom: runs a matchingmaking service and refuses to find herself a date! Her son wants her to find herself a husband, but Rosemary Gallagher wants to remain happily unmarried. The Kid: has the perfect plan and doesn't ...

  • Conflict of Hearts

    Liz Fielding

    "I have no intention of marrying you!" Lizzie was astounded when her widowed father decided to marry Noah Jordan's beautiful sister. It made her all the more aware that it was time she found a husband of her own! But that didn't me...

  • The Zero Hour

    Joseph Finder

    A breathtaking escape from a South African prison. A call girl found brutally murdered. A fugitive American billionaire obsessed with revenge. A digitally encrypted telephone call is intercepted by NSA's spy satellites high over Switzerland, and Spec...

  • No Limits

    Nigel D. Findley

    After the death of her beloved grandfather, hotshot, risk-loving pilot Samantha Dooley infiltrates the top-secret Virtual Geographic League, a clandestine government operation the uses advanced technology to visit strange alternate future worlds. Ori...

  • Step by Wicked Step

    Anne Fine

    Gathered together during one long, stormy night, five youngsters spend their time relating stories about their different families--feuding parents, off-the-wall sister, new stepmother--and learn valuable lessons about family, relationships, and perso...

  • Sign of the Dove

    Susan Fletcher

    Lyf has always been pampered, ever since she caught vermilion fever and drank dragon's milk to cure it. The milk turned her eyes green -- a sure sign that she could speak with dragons. But being able to communicate with dragons is not a coveted gift,...

  • The Reluctant Bride

    Janis Flores

    Weddings - Glamour -- Family Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store: DeWilde's, San Franc...

  • Firestar

    Michael Flynn

    It is the beginning of the twenty-first century and one woman is determined to bring America and the world back on track in the technological future. She has the strength, the intelligence, the money. It will be done. This is the story of the rebirth...

  • Hunchback of Notre Dame

    Justine Korman Fontes

    Here is the triumphant story of the Hunchback of Notre Dame, based on Disney's magnificent animated film. Quasimodo, the lonely misshapen bell ringer of Notre Dame cathedral, finds his life changed forever when he befriends the brave and beautiful gy...

  • Disney's the Hunchback of Notre Dame

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Quasimodo's New Friend

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Mama's Pearl

    Bette Ford
    in

    Once, Sarah Dean and Kurt Rogers were high school sweethearts. But circumstances beyond their control forced them to go their separate ways. Now, the secret Sarah has harbored for so long is about to be revealed as Kurt returns to rekindle their long...

  • Kenya's Family Reunion

    Juwanda G. Ford

    Preparing to attend the annual family reunion, which is being marked this year by the fiftieth anniversary of the building of her grandfather's house, eight-year-old Kenya and her young relatives plan a special surprise....

  • Killjoy

    Elizabeth Forrest

    Continually battling the persona of a serial killer implanted in his brain by a crazed psychiatrist, Brand soon discovers that he faces even more diabolic powers when he begins to witness the awesome strength of KillJoy, an unstoppable force of evil ...

  • Seasons

    Rebecca Forster

    Devastated when her husband walks away from their marriage, his job, and their young son, Elizabeth MacMillan is unexpectedly drawn to construction company owner Max Marino, a charming and handsome man desperate to escape his own unhappy private life...