The richest man in the world invites a trio of mediocre golfers to play at a secret course in Scotland. The result of their efforts will somehow affect the fate of the world. Can golf save the world?Fore? No, nine. That's how many literary grand mast...
A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! The sea witch Demither is stirring up a storm in Droon. Keeah has to stop her! This mission could make or break Keeah’s wizard training. And Eric, Neal, and Julie think they can help...
Roy Hill married the girl of his dreams, dotes on his eleven-year-old son, and is next in line for a big promotion in the Atlanta office of a global corporation. Then, almost imperceptibly, it all starts to unravel. A chance encounter with a group of...
THE RUNAWAY BRIDE Fresh from jilting her latest groom--hand-picked by her mafioso father, of course--savvy Sofia Rose Cardinella stumbles across Frank Sinatra wanna-be Ben Estes. Her first thought: Daddy would hate this guy. Her next: he must be t...
When David must leave school to recover from a severe illness, his unconventional Aunt Annie volunteers to tend to him, yet fearing the worse, David is completely surprised by her when they meet and soon comes to realize that he now knows with whom h...
Lucian flees the wrath of his king and joins a poet-turned-jackass and a girl with mystical powers; Prince Jen sets off for the court of Yuan-Min bearing six unusual gifts; and King Tamar embarks on a quest to recover his kingdom, which he lost in a ...
Lady Marianne has found romance only between book covers. But the dashing marquess is about to give her a lesson in love she'll never forget... LESSON #1: NEVER TEMPT A LADY Become a bride? Never! Lady Marianne Shelton has come to London ...
When Kyra Latimer loses her husband to a freak accident in Manhattan, she can't absorb the fact of his absence and can't imagine how she'll be able to move into the future without him. But on the day of his funeral, the unimaginable happens. A yo...
THE CONTINUING ADVENTURES of DOC SIDHE When fight arranger Zeb Watson meets his friends Harris and Gaby for the first time in several months, he decides there is something different about them -- and he's right. Their adventures on the fair world,...
A young, charismatic African-American pastor disappears from his local parish of Wâ,”, a comfortable bedroomcommunity in suburban New England. In the backlash and impending investigation, no satirical stone is left unturned, especially those wit...
After an unidentified flying object is shot down by Russian MiG fighters, a team of scientists from Project Proteus and their ship are reduced to a size smaller than a human cell and sent to penetrate the surface of the mysterious object and uncover ...
When a killer targets her book club friends, a small-town librarian sees a handsome visiting professor in a new light: is he her happy ending? Or a fatal attraction?...
The bestselling author of Gideon reinvents Hitchcock's classic thriller formula in this sophisticated and suspenseful novel about an innocent man caught up in events past and present way beyond his control, and thrown into a terrifying maelstrom of d...
There is a place that shouldn't exist -- but does. There are creatures that shouldn't exist -- but do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real -- and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld. April, David, Christop...
When lovely Topaz Birke discovers that she is with child, she sets out for England to find her lover, unaware of his true identity. It is only when she finds herself at the court of the newly restored monarch King Charles II that a dismayed Topaz rea...
In the aftermath of the Civil War, a shattered America begins to heal. Three Union soldiers -- once prisoners of war -- head home aboard the steamboat Sultana. For these brothers-in-arms, the war may be over...but the fight for the women they cherish...
GRIM FORBEARANCE The fate of humanity remains ever uncertain, dictated by the obscure forces that have commandeered mankind's destiny for thousands of years. The plenipotentiaries of these ancient oppressors -- the nine barons who have controlled Am...
"My name is Will Spencer. I come from a little town called Atwater, Ohio, and I bought this wagon to haul goods. But lately, I’ve been hauling more people than goods."
Will Spencer’s family has always helped runaway slaves passing through ...
All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy's de...
The ideal husband -- if only it were for real Amber's multimillionaire Greek boyfriend, Lucas Karadines, informed her that he was getting married -- to someone else.... Five years later, Amber has put Lucas behind her -- until she inherits ...
In the dark overlap between music and industry, there dwells a group of people whose lives and dealings are every bit as commonplace and fantastic, as high-flung and ridiculous, as noble and sordid as the stories they inspire. Don, Ross, and Chavez c...
When SpongeBob and Patrick take a tour of Sandy's rocket ship, they accidentally take off to the moon! But this moon looks strangely similar to Bikini Bottom. Will the "moon aliens" be safe from this blundering duo's plan? Will Sandy get her rocket b...
Margaret is the breadwinner in her family. She has a company car, a lavish expense account, a beautiful house -- and a husband who stays home to look after the baby. Then she is made redundant. Her one lifeline is Charles -- an ex-lover, full of symp...
HE WAS AS MYSTERIOUS AS THE NIGHT When a wounded stranger landed on her cabin doorstep on a rainy night, Shannon Garrett couldn't resist taking in the tall, dark, and dangerously attractive man. A lonely recluse with a painful past she kept hidden...
Beautician-turned-country singer Maggie Reid is getting too famous for her own good. Since her endearing if good-for-nothing former husband. "Satellite Dish and Mobile Home King" Vernell Spivey, vanished along with millions, everybodyseems to be inte...
WAITING FOR WHITELAW He was the man she had once offered her innocence to. The man who had heartlessly turned her away, claiming she was too young for him. Now Hunter Whitelaw, world-weary security agent with a body built for sin, was the man Mand...
Past and present collide when widower Jake Breland enters his grandmother's kitchen to find his baby daughter in the arms of Sara Tanner. Sara is Jake's first love--and his cousin's widow. Regret, longing, and guilt roll over him in waves as he reali...
When Dillon Reed strolls into Janey Mayfield's candy shop, the past opens up like a forbidden door. The imposing ex-marine turned high school principal is a shocking reminder of an affair that shattered all their lives. After the scandal that des...
WHAT IS THE SECRET OF THE NEPHILIM SEED? When lawyer Janice Ramsey’s young daughter is kidnapped in broad daylight, the Chicago police consider it just another case. But for Janice it soon becomes much more. When a bounty hunter with a dark past t...
From the pen of acclaimed writer M. Shayne Bell, winner of the Writers of the Future Contest, here are futures to make come true . . . and also futures that should never come true -- but will....
National BestsellerThe story of an obsessive love affair between a woman and an apartment.The publication of her sexy, offbeat, riotous first novel, Going Down, won Jennifer Belle comparisons from everyone from Dorothy Parker and Lorrie Moore to J. D...
DYING DREAM OR LIVING NIGHTMARE? James Bond, 007, finally comes face-to-face with his most cunning nemesis--the enigmatic, blind criminal mastermind behind the sinister organization known only as the Union. It begins when a police raid goes hor...
In the barren borderland between the kingdom of the elves and the land of the dwarves, outlaws seize an elven princess. Sustained by faith in her husband and her god, she waits patiently for the rescue that is sure to come. But waiting is a danger...
Farmer Ben’s prize watermelons are too big to steal. But the cash from his farmstand isn’t. Who stole it? Never fear"the Bear Detectives are on the case. They are hot on the trail of watermelon seeds. And where will it lead them? Read the lates...
When Eliza loses Debbie's CD player, Eliza begins her search with the help of Darwin and some local Floridian birds, but their plans take a sudden twist as they encounter a lone, lost baby manatee crying out for help. Original....
Life’s become a lot more complicated for Dr. Dolittle now that he can talk to animals. Sometimes they expect him to solve their problems! When a lumber company begins cutting down forest animals’ homes, the animals ask Dolittle for his help. “I...
He was a man of books, alright, but Rory Monahan had no explanation for his new reaction to lovely librarian Miriam Thornbury. Something was suddenly different about her. He'd never noticed that her legs were so long...or her lips quite so full. ...
THE EARL Con Somerford, the new Earl of Wyvern, arrives at his fortress on the cliffs of Dover to find a woman from his past waiting for him -- pistol in hand.... THE HOUSEKEEPER Susan Kerslake, the new housekeeper at Crag Wyvern, was drawn back...
Indecent proposal! There was only one way for Mikayla to clear her father's debt to powerful tycoon Rafael Velez-Aguilera: by offering herself in exchange! She knew it was crazy -- Rafael had his pick of glamorous women, and Mikayla was a virg...
Join brave women who take on wars, social injustices, and westward expansion, living to find love and build a legacy in these nine stories of historical romance. From Virginia west to Oregon, meet Lucy, a nurse; Helen, a bookkeeper; Permelia, a farme...
On the eve of fair midsummer, Longest day and shortest night, Faerie magic, fill these woods, With joyous song and laughter bright. Midsummer's eve finds Kate, Annie, and Cooper celebrating the most joyous sabbat with nature -- and a few not un...
When undercover cop Matt Guiliani arrived at the Bar Naught ranch in the dead of night to sting a vigilante leader, he got the biggest surprise of his career: His prey was already dead... and Matt was staring down the double-barreled shotgun of the b...
Sixteen acclaimed mystery writers--including Diane Mott Davidson, Tamar Myers, Edward Hoch, Mike Resnick, Valerie Wolzien, Claudia Bishop, and Bill and Judy Crider--serve up a taste-tempting array of suspenseful whodunits, in an anthology that comes ...
Celebrity Julian Ashby just wants women to leave him alone -- struggling actress Dixie Kingston just needs her first break. They hatch the perfect plan to get "hitched." When their news reaches Hank, Julian s manager and brother, and Chloe, Dixie's s...
When the sister of an outspoken police commissioner is found murdered, Fey Croaker and the crew of the LAPD's elite Robbery-Homicide division turn up a list of high-profile suspects, an underground abused child protection ring, and links to an unsolv...
Twins Todd and Tessa don’t always think alike, but there’s one thing they both agree on -- Gemini Jack’s is their favorite store in the mall. Where else can you find a remote control that works on people, or a mirror that sees 10 minutes into t...
The white buffalo is a sacred and holy creature to the Lakota. Buffalo Dreamer, a holy woman, and her husband, Rising Eagle, have not only been blessed to see the white buffalo, they have eaten of its heart and have been told by the sacred beast that...
When he becomes an eyewitness to a brutal assassination, veteran covert agent Briggs Tanner is determined to uncover the mystery of the killing, following a deadly international trail of espionage that takes him from the depths of the Pacific Ocean t...
In addition to running her Women's Center in downtown Boston, Episcopalian priest Lily Connor is serving on an ecumenical council studying anti-Semitism in the church. But when one of the council-sponsored events is disrupted by a vicious hate crime ...
Treasure this keepsake collection of nine historical romances. Faced with finding the right fit in life and love, nine young women seek the courage to stitch together romance. But when unexpected obstacles abound, will love unravel before their eyes?...
Being sent to a kennel, Spike is confused about where he is and what is happening, but when he meets other dogs on an evening walk, Spike becomes okay with the new situation and starts thinking that change, every once in awhile, is not necessarily a ...
Unenthusiastic real estate dealer and moonlighting P.I. Gil Yates gets a new client, a fine-looking but faux blonde whose third (and richest) husband has dropped dead of unnatural causes--leaving a fortune for his heirs to battle over. There's a cave...
Christopher Bram tells the story of Augustus Fitzwilliam Boyd, alias Dr. August, a clairvoyant pianist who communes with ghosts, and who finds meaning in his life through a strange love triangle with a righteous ex-slave and nervous white governess. ...
An exciting collection of stories, centering around the Old West, features such unforgettable characters as Skinny, a young teen who can outsmart any man in the West; Sleeper, who is searching for the man who saved his life; and Snoozer Mell who desp...
The West made legends of two men. Heaven help the fool who dared to risk their wrath.In a windswept campsite of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment, Russia's Grand Duke Alexis has arrived to experience the thrill of the buffalo hunt. His guides are Wild Bill ...
The tycoon -- and the temp! When Matt de Capistrano took over Georgina's family's business, there were fireworks! Although her family badly needed his support, Georgie longed to refuse point-blank to work with Matt. The man was arrogant, i...
This blockbuster contemporary mystery novel by best-selling author Sigmund Brouwer is now available in softcover. Nick Barrett is lured back to Charleston by a mysterious note to search for answers about why his mother abandoned him. Past secrets slo...
A deadly comet catapults toward Mars. Only one thing can break up the comet before it does damage: the new Hammerhead torpedo. Tyce Sanders only has two weeks to master it . . . and someone's trying to stop him. In this exciting, fast-paced series th...
When Tyce's best friend, Director Rawling McTigre, and three other scientists are buried alive on Mars, Tyce doesn't think things can get any worse. But he is sorely mistaken. Just when he thinks his life is over, help shows up in unexpected forms --...
Pilot hero, Patrick McLanahan, takes on an individual mission with international consequences... The country of Russia is collapsing--and oil magnate Pavel Kazakov seizes the opportunity to take control, using the Russian army to back him up with ...
Inspector Anders of the Rome Police force became a national hero when he closed down an anarchist group ten years ago. But in the action he lost a leg - and his nerve.
Since then he has made his moral compromises with the corruption of the Ita...
Joel Kendrick is the sexiest man Kathryn has ever met -- even though she knows he isn't interested in a permanent relationship. But never one to refuse a challenge, when Joel flirts with her she flirts back! Only, flirting turns into a genuine...
POSITION WANTED Hinest, hardworking man seeks job on ranch. Good with cattle and horses and babies. Bethany Burke was fascinated by her new ranch hand -- a man she'd ordered from a catalog! Strong, quiet Colt McClure had a way with animals and a ...
NIGHT OF PASSION The last thing Cole Lonetree expected to find at the Cardinal Ranch Powwow was the love of his life. But when he took the guilelessly sensual tourist into his arms, he knew she was exactly what had been missing from his lonely exi...
Lucinda Hammond, the cashier for a convenience store in Nova Scotia, copes with the store's declining sales and her middle-age anxiety as she is courted by a construction boss, in this story of three generations of women....
Pat Conroy said that R. Scott Brunner’s Due South “delivers the goods and delivers them Southern fried”; Rick Bragg said that Brunner “writes like people down here talk, with beauty.” Carryin’ On more than delivers on the promise of its p...
Stevie Lake’s a mom"to eight fuzzy goslings!Stevie Lake entered a contest to win a down comforter. Instead she got a new “family”"a nestful of goose eggs. But when the eggs hatch, it’s love at first sight for Stevie and the goslings. Now ...
Judge Calvin Jeffries is the first victim. Brilliant, power hungry, and hated, he's found murdered in a courthouse parking lot. In swift order, his killer is caught, confesses, and then commits suicide in his jail cell. The case is closed. Then a sec...
"Savagely funny....Never was Jewish wit put to better or more urgent use." -- Chicago Tribune, a Favorite Book of 2001 Blind, homosexual, Russian émigré speechwriter Nathan Kazakov has enough problems even before his left ear is obliterated by a bu...
SCOURGE OF THE SLAVE LORDS For years, the Linyati slavers have raided the coasts of Saros with impunity. But now swashbuckling captain Gareth Radnor has taken command of the carrack Steadfast...and of Destiny itself. For the exiled young sailor se...
William's new dog, Riley, is in trouble. He chased a neighbor's horse, and local law punishes any animal that chases livestock. William will do anything to save his dog's life. Riley has become the friend he's needed after his grandfather's sudden d...
In a land of lost, wandering souls, Journey with care on the River Styx. A prince of darkness plays his roles -- Protect the Charmed Ones from his tricks. Prue's editor at 415 magazine offers her a challenge: if she takes a really fantastic photo, he...
MYSTERY BABY ON THE DOORSTEP! Patience and calmness under fire always got police detective Mel Haskin what he wanted. But he was fast losing both -- because of Lily Markey. The fiery-haired, jade-eyed reporter refused to tell him what she knew abo...
When single mom Kennedy St. James stumbles across the brutal murder of an assistant district attorney, she narrowly escapes with her life. Certain that Atlanta's finest can catch the culprits without her help, she intends to fade into obscurity. But ...
When a gang-related crime gets personal, the paramedics of Night Angel 9 must pull together to help one of their own.
A hugely impressive series. (Don Donaldson, author of In the Blood)...
SHE'S ALMOST A "PAWPER".... It's Halloween, and Annie O'Hara would swear a black cat crossed her path. She has major appliances that need to be replaced, no customers in her antique store...and her ex-sister-in-law's monster dog, Claudius, to look...
“Take the advice of no one,” August Kleinman’s mother says to him while August is still a young boy in Germany, and with these words to guide him, he escapes Nazi Germany and goes on to build a fortune, a family, and life on his own terms in Am...
A promising research fellow for a venerable think-tank in Zurich has just filed his latest report, only to become the centerpiece of a grisly and sinister experiment. A seductive young woman named Nico travels to Florida and, from her hotel room wind...
WHO DO YOU TRUST? No one would meet Mark Delaney's eyes. After a devastating brush with death, he had changed dramatically -- and done so with one purpose in mind. He had a killer to catch and could no longer trust his own family. But one woman da...
A novel based on the life of a New England fishing village follows John and Chris, friends since high school, as they struggle to survive as fishermen in a dying town. Reader's Guide available. Reprint....
A Common Princess The woman was a fraud if ever Philip Rosemont, Viscount Wesley, had seen one. And not only was she masquerading as an aristocrat, the dark-haired beauty was posing as the Princess of Valdastok -- a tiny country that had been a duke...
That's the philosophy Claire Hannaford always followed. Left in a basket shortly after her birth, Claire's never had a family -- and she doesn't think she needs one. Being on her own means she's free to take nursing assignments wherever and whenever ...
Emily and Alice are sick of Chuckie Jones bragging about his perfect baby brother, who smiles only for him. The girls are sure they can get that baby to smile for them, too, and they know just how-they will become the best baby-sitters ever! But when...
Things get tough when other kids make fun of Alice's new hat and creepy things appear in the dark at Emily and Alice's first sleep-over. How will they work things out? Well, together, of course!
Originally published as Emily and Alice Again.
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Court-martialed and abanded by his family after refusing to disobey a direct order from his commanding officer, Thaddeus Cole finds his only solace in his friend Tom Merrit--also known as Swift Hawk--a Lakota caught between his own heritage and the w...
Eight years after serial killer Isaac Drum's capture and weeks before his execution, Drum smuggles a letter to the widow of a police detective he murdered, stating that if his execution goes forward, her son will be abducted and killed, and FBI profi...
Wealthy television producer Jocko Robinson falls in love with the Hurricane Lady, an ex-model calling herself Inertia, who serves a crime lord from Cologne, and finds himself drawn into a perilous and fantastical world of mayhem, crime, lust, and bet...
If someone had told her only yesterday that a perfect -- in every way! -- stranger would be delivering her baby, Annie Foster would never have believed it. But here she was, stranded on top of a mountain, with gorgeous Gunnery Sergeant John Paretti h...
Meet Theodosia Browning, owner of Charleston's beloved Indigo Tea Shop. Patrons love her blend of delicious tea tastings and southern hospitality. And Theo enjoys the full-bodied flavor of a town steeped in history -- and mystery... It's t...
“You can’t waste the truth on people who won’t understand.” At least, that's what Ant MacPherson thinks. How could she possibly tell her parents the truth all of the time? They never understand anything! The only member of her family Ant e...
Frightened by a movement in his room, James gets reassurance from Mom and Dad that it was simply a shadow and they then show him how he can manipulate shadows himself by making shadow shapes of his very own....
He promised to watch over her -- day and night Jake Maitland, FBI agent and black sheep of the Maitland clan, had finally come home. And he had a whole lot of trouble on his tail... Camille Eckart was Jake's latest assignment. He'd been chos...
Death is a daily, sometimes hourly, occurrence at St. Vincent's Hospital in Buffalo, New York. Now, in his pressure cooker career, Dr. Earl Garnet has broken the cardinal rule of modern medicine: he publicly blames a powerful HMO for practicing "no-f...
A family heirloom hope chest has been passed down the generations from 1858 to modern times. Authors Cathy Marie Hake, Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, and Gina Fields collaborated to make a unified collection that will tug at your heartstrings....
On the eve of World War II, Edgar Rice Burroughs is enjoying the peace of Hawaii, until he stumbles upon the body of Pearl Harada, a popular, young Japanese-American singer, on the beach, but his investigation into the crime is soon interrupted by th...
Time, tides, and the hand of God draw the hearts of four couples together in these delightful tales. Authors Kim Comeaux, Linda Goodnight, JoAnn A. Grote, and Diann Hunt weave four engaging stories of romance on the water. The Matchmakers won't leave...
This is the story of a single wedding dress and its remarkable journey throughout the ages. It is the story of the women with whom the wedding dress comes into contact as it is handed down from generation to generation, as it weaves a history, not on...
When a handsome drifter rescues Carrie Butler from her runaway buggy, she things he may be the fulfillment of all her dreams. But is John Thornton really the chivalrous "mysterious stranger" of Carrie's thoughts? Or does his sudden appearance have a ...
After years of hiding behind a successful career, E. J. finds her comfortable world threatened by a tragic event. Facing one of the hardest decisions of her life, E.J. heads home to Cullen's Corner to sort things out. As the warm arms of the town rea...
A MIRACLE IN THE MAKING... Jilted bride Hannah Kirkland had come to the small Wisconsin town to help her parents settle in -- and to find herself. Instead, she discovered that God had a larger plan for her. Because the carpenter who was building h...
Pleskit gets abducted in this twelfth and final book in the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series Sixth-Grade Alien from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework, Bruce Coville.All things must come to an end -- even sixth grade....
Eight hundred feet underground...and deep into danger. It started out as an innocent road trip to Carlsbad Caverns to unwind, but now Max, Isabel, Michael, Liz, and Maria are totally regretting their plan. Hundreds of feet underground, in the ...
When an unforeseen asteroid strikes Siberia with the force of a thousand Hiroshimas, it triggers Dead Hand, the ultimate defense mechanism developed by the Soviets at the height of the Cold War. The missiles are pointing at the United States and i...
Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and his partner Sergeant Gemma James return in another spellbinding novel of mysteries -- one contemporary, one ancient -- an investigation that will challenge them personally and professionally a...
A never-before-compiled collection from the most influential underground artist of our time.
Robert Crumb is a cartoonist with an instantly recognizable style who emerged in the 1960s with strips in the underground press. He founded Zap Comix ...
When A Down-On-Her-Luck Divorcee Nell Dysart's in trouble. Weighed down by an inexplicable divorce and a loss of appetite for everything, Nell is sleepwalking through life until her best friend finagles a job for her with a shabby little detective...
Bobby Jobe is a pro golfer whose swing is better than his attitude. When he bogies the last four holes and blows his lead in a major tournament -- again -- he berates his caddy, Henry "Greyhound" Mote. Jobe loses both Greyhound, who w...
Everyone loves puppies! Bouncy and cute, furry and huggable, what could be more perfect than a puppy? Spike is adorable -- but he never does what he's told. His owner, Karen, doesn't know what to do with him. Then one day, Karen notices something v...
Daisy's kitten Leo is constantly getting into and out of trouble as he falls out of a tree, gets stuck in a shed, and tumbles into a pond, but when Leo disappears, Daisy wonders if he will make another lucky escape....
SURRENDER WAS NOT AN OPTION After centuries of horrible high-tech wars, galactic humanity had at last emerged from The Time of Troubles, firm in the belief that nothing was preferable to war, convinced indeed that to believe otherwise was psychoti...
The Stormriders land their splendid winged stallions on the airy battlements of Isse Tower. Far below, the superstitious servants who dwell in the fortress's lower depths tell ghastly tales of evil creatures inhabiting the world outside, a world they...
A SWAT team is only as good as its weakest link. The Listener works hard to make sure that no link breaks. She's constantly watching the team, testing to see if anyone's getting too close to the edge. But she can't do much when her help is refused. ...
Martha "Marty" Rawlings is not the typical, graceful young woman of the 1880s. Having been reared by three older brothers, she is merely "one of the boys," and goes out of her way to prove it. When her twin nine-year-old nieces are kidnapped, Marty d...
Set against the untamed American West, a powerful collection of stories captures the triumphs and tribulations of such unforgettable characters as an outlaw father who tries to save his son and a shotgun guard who must choose between love and honor. ...
Haughty Bengals, faithful Maine coons, and feral strays: These are the haunting familiars that animate Nina De Gramont's critically acclaimed debut collection of short fiction. Prowling through every story, these enigmatic creatures expose the hidden...
When a sadistic hacker, code-named Phate, sets his sights on Silicon Valley, his victims never know what hit them. He infiltrates their computers, invades their lives, and -- with chilling precision -- lures them to their deaths. To Phate, each murde...
The pleasure planet Liantac was once the greatest gambling resort in the Uncharted Territories. Even now, having fallen on hard times, it remains a spectacle of glitz and greed. Astronaut John Crichton and his fellow interstellar fugitives see Lianta...
HER FANTASY After spending years making her computer company a success, Alexis Baylor is finally putting herself first! Through Fantasies Inc., she's arranged to indulge in a passionate, no-strings affair with a gorgeous stranger. Only, she never sus...
Have you ever wanted to rewrite your past? Three best friends, all with the same birthday, are about to turn forty. Celebrating this turning point at a summerhouse in Maine. Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott are taking stock of th...
One kiss ked to another and...! Lying blissfully in her dream lover's arms, Daisy Redford had the shock of her life. Her one-night-man was the Chance Foster -- King of the Conquest! So she darted out of bed and into hiding. But Daisy found out she...
Jane was too practical to believe in wishing on a star. But after she was forced to marry Dominic Stanbridge -- the most notorious rake in London -- she would try just about anything to find the true love she had read of in her romances. Steeling her...
What if God fell in love and the person was already married? A bitter story of the very first love triangle between a man, his wife, and their GodFirst came Adam, whose fall soured His quest for absolute authority, then Noah, whose dreary sense of du...
After a long stay abroad and a love affair that fell apart, Mitch Roberts is headed home. Back to his ranch, his horses, and maybe - or maybe not - to being a private eye again. But if Roberts is looking forward to an uneventful life, he has farther ...
From the Files of Madison Finn -Only the Lonely --Rude Awakening: I'm allergic to change. I mean, I know I'm allergic to pollen, grasses, and mold spores. But change makes me break out in big hives. Just the thought of seventh grade gave me a gian...
When alien broccoli stalks Townsville, Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup know that the best way to destroy their plan to take over Earth is to eat the broccoli troops, but they have to convince the kids of Townsville to help them eat....
"Add this title to your "Recommended Reading for Summer Camp" bibliographies"--School Library JournalCody's mom is pulling the plug and sending him off to camp. That means no TV, no video games, no computers-for one whole week! According to his wilde...
Dog Bites Man is a witty, tongue-in-cheek saga detailing the House-That-Jack-Built downfall of Eldon Hoagland, an innocent Columbia University professor who has become New York City's good-government mayor. The hilarious spiral begins when Hoagland, ...
Step behind the scenes into the exciting early days of motion pictures. Meet intrepid producer Martin Tafft, driven to make Lovejoy Studios the biggest name in the new frontier of silent movies. Experience the action, thrills, and passion that create...
SHE SHOULD HAVE LOCKED THE DOOR When she was a little girl, Brenna Fallon naively invoked an ancient Celtic deity to save a beloved pet--and inadvertently anchored the new-found power to a spring on her family's farm, thus creating a door between ...
Offers a collection of seven stories about young men and boys either moving to or from Pasadena, California, and making their way in a chaotic world as they expierence the tribulations of everyday life, identity, and sexuality. By the author of
A collection of short stories celebrates twenty-five years of publishing by Mysterious Press, with contributions from M. C. Beaton, Charlotte Carter, Jerome Charyn, Stuart M. Kaminsky, and many other notable authors. 18,000 first printing....
As a vicious serial killer stalks the streets of Los Angeles, leaving behind mutilated corpses meticulously arranged into grotesque forms, Detective Amiel "Touch" Benson joins forces with radio psychologist Teri Fields, the one person the murderer co...
QUINCEY P. MORRIS: EXPLORER, ADVENTURER--VAMPIRE .. . Rough and ready Texan Quincey Morris thrust his Bowie knife into Dracula's heart, bringing an end to the quintessential battle between the living and the Un-Dead. It also brought an end to Quin...
A MAN NAMED TROUBLE Smart, good-looking, and newly divorced, Andrea Noble thought coming home to Louisiana would be the perfect cure for her Big City Blues. But her new position as director of the floundering, badly disorganized Bayou Blue Health C...
Agreeing to escort the teenage niece of his former girlfriend to an overnight soiree, science teacher Will Buchanan is disturbed by the girl's hostility and seeming passion for her brother, a situation that erupts when the brother dies in a suspiciou...
Longarm’s looking to lasso a felonious female…Custis T. Long’s a sucker for a pretty gal, but he’s never let that cloud his judgment -- until now. When Miss Alvina Lockwood came along and begged him to bail her “innocent” brother out of a...
VANESSA, Catty, Serena, and Jimena seem like ordinary girls living in Los Angeles. But they each have a secret. Vanessa can become invisible. Catty travels back in time. Serena reads minds, and Jimena has premonitions. As the girls become friends, th...
After Thunder was chaos. The energy output of the inexplicable alien artifact that humans called Thunder Rift shattered the fragile links that held Earth's highly technological society together. And the only world young Taria Spears knew fell viol...
As Lady of Dunblane, Elen Burnard is determined to reclaim the land that was stolen from her family one hundred years ago by the Forrests of Rancoff Castle. And when her sister is kidnapped by her adversary's younger brother Elen leads the men of...
Angela Anaconda thinks that the irritating Nanette Manoir (her very best unfriend) is the single worst person alive - and she may well be right. These four stories about Angela and her Dim Nin Copycat-Clone-Club (in other words, her friends) will sho...
A family heirloom hope chest has been passed down the generations from 1858 to modern times. Authors Cathy Marie Hake, Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, and Gina Fields collaborated to make a unified collection that will tug at your heartstrings....
A MURDER-IN-THE-MAKING! Expecting her imminent demise, society matron Mary Bedford Ashton is paying novelist Jennifer Marsh $1000 a week to live in her historic mansion and record everything that happens there. The old lady, perhaps demented, beli...
To his friends, popular and handsome sixteen-year-old Nick Andreas has led a charmed life. But the guys in Nick's anger management class know differently. So does his ex-girlfriend Caitlin. Now it looks like the only person who doesn't realize just h...
A HANDS-ON LOW FANTASY ADVENTURE When the mighty Greyboar, professional strangler, discovers The Supreme Philosophy Of Life, he becomes a new man--but just how can a villain in good standing pay the bills with all this philosophical exploration ge...
Expatriate Claire Fleetwood is a forensic photographer adept at turning the bones of the dead into silvery, telling shadows. When she inherits an estate situated in London's East End, Claire finally feels rooted. Then one morning a friend is murdered...
ONCE A THIEF... After her adventures with the League of the Healing Hand, Finn the Cat finds life at Castle Rurach boring. Snowbound for the winter and faced with the prospect of being molded into "Lady Fionnghal" by her mother, she pines to be on...
Upset stomachs. The collapse of civilizations. Nervous Breakdowns. Blame them on a twist of fate, but archaeologist Cody Westcott knows differently. Something is causing these random acts of badness. Something ancient, something evil, something....
SHE DIDN'T WANT HIM TO GET THE WRONG IDEA... Shadow Callahan was simply trying to corral 10 to-die-for men when she propositioned Brent Bramwell. All the specialty shops in the mall agreed that hosting a "sexiest man" contest would bring in female...
Desperate to help her mother regain her health, she had taken on the older woman's identity as the alluring singer The St. Louis Songbird. She never dreamed as she entertained the crowds that she possessed her own special magic -- and an innocent all...
Loosely based in historical fact, Sister Noon is a wryly funny, playfully mysterious, and totally subversive novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Jane Austen Book Club.Lizzie Hayes, a member of the San Fran...
Those bones are the remains of Frannie Granger, beloved foster mother of Emerald Monday. After Fran's disappearance almost 20 years ago, Emmy was taken from her home in Uncertain, Texas, and placed in foster care elsewhere in the state. Now Emmy'...
"No one is allowed." Joey, Pacey, Dawson, and Jen shudder at the housekeeper's ominous words. It's dark and gloomy at one end of the Southern plantation where Jen's cousin Monique lives, and nothing's been touched in the off-limits wing since 1870. ...
Lara Croft is a tomb raider -- a smart, sexy adventurer who gets her kicks unearthing the mysteries of the ancients. Bryce is the rumpled techno-wizard who keeps her in cutting-edge equipment. Nowhere is the nature of their relationship more evident ...
Beautifully written and deeply compassionate, Rough Music is a novel of one family at two defining points in time. Seamlessly alternating between the present day and a summer thirty years past, its twin stories unfold at a cottage along the eastern c...
First, stranded beauty Lydia Kerr came rapping on his ranch house door. An unbidden sensuality clung to the mysterious damsel, and lawman Evan Powell couldn't resist getting closer.... Though he was rocked by the man-woman union he experienced with L...
Caught in a terrifying storm, Doctor Julia Huerta brings down her private plane on a remote landing strip that just happens to belong to ruggedly handsome Tony Carrera. The reclusive country singer is now a single dad raising two kids on a ranch, wan...
"Kids aren't my specialty." U.S. Air Force Combat Controller Rich Larsen could parachute into danger in a moment's notice. But being besieged by his convalescing sister's two demanding children was an entirely different matter. Well, desperate means...
Sam Creighton has responded to his brother's SOS, only to find him missing, his P.I. agency shut tight, and the only case this would-be detective has is a case of the hots for his brother's fiancee. Sam and Mallory team up to locate the absent brideg...
Set in 1967, nineteen-year-old Cyrus Nygerski's summer will be like none he has ever had as he encounters werewolves, a psychic named Cassandra, and other interesting characters along his exciting and sometimes dangerous adventures. Reprint....
Sir Stephen Fitzhugh has never really believed in legends. But like legions of men before him, he is desperate to find the ancient and elusive Holy Grail -- for a wealthy collector has promised him a considerable fortune if he succeeds. Following a t...
When Scooby and the gang go to Fowler's Fun House they find the counterfeit life-size version of the new toy sensation Calico Carly wreaking havoc in the store, and it's up to the gang to stop the counterfeit toy and restore order....
The child was taken in broad daylight, on a warm June morning, in a crowded shopping area in downtown Pittsburgh. Marina Benedict first saw the baby with his mother. Then, just minutes later, she saw him again, in the arms of a man she was certain...
A DELICIOUSLY EROTIC TALE ABOUT FOUR PEOPLE ENTANGLED BY LUST, VOYEURISM, AND TECHNOLOGY. Dean Chance is as straight and narrow as a man can be. A segment producer for a popular syndicated talk show, he provides just the right combination of stabilit...
THE GRIMMEST OF WARS IS ABOUT TO GET WORSE. The siege of Troy has lasted almost ten years. Inside the walled city, food is scarce and death is common. From the heights of Mount Olympus, the Gods keep watch. But Aphrodite, Goddess of Love, is...
In this hip and expressive fairytale, a dog named Rufferella, whose owner would like to turn him into a female! Their outrageous adventures teach readers to appreciate others for who they are. Told with wit, warmth, and an unusually keen sense of fas...
Local benefactress and celebrated biographer Mary-Jo Stanton is a supplicant to death -- left lifeless on her knees in a patch of daffodils, a barbaric religious implement wrapped tightly around her neck. A clergyman has approached Peter McGarr, requ...
After facing down hijackers on a flight to the Middle East and saving the lives of the passengers on board, a young American woman steps off the plane in Damascus in a blaze of celebrity and disappears. The CIA believes Amanda Pym was kidnapped, poss...
A family searches for the perfect vacation spot-and finds perfect horror-when their daughter's disappearance is attributed to a legendary creature who lives in the woods.
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Zachary, a young bear, says that when he grows up he is going to live with his mother, but she encourages him to think about the many other things he could do, such as being a footballer, pilot, or cowboy....
“A marvelous book with rich teachings that particularly touch the heart of death -- and, thus, life itself.”--Thom Hartmann, author of The Last Hours of Ancient SunlightCarlos Castaneda comes back from the dead in a true-life spiritual adventure ...
Time, tides, and the hand of God draw the hearts of four couples together in these delightful tales. Authors Kim Comeaux, Linda Goodnight, JoAnn A. Grote, and Diann Hunt weave four engaging stories of romance on the water. The Matchmakers won't leave...
Escaping her family and the man she was once betrothed to against her will, Zeena and the one she loves, British officer Captain Alan Lyall, set off on a challenging voyage from the warmth and rich colours of India to the grey clouds of a Scottish wi...
Enjoy the precious influences of a grandmother's love in these touching stories, compiled by Alice Gray. Filled with poignant heartwarming moments and enhanced by lovely artwork from Paula Vaughan, it will surely be a treasure you'll return to, again...
WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A...WEDDING? When ruggedly sexy cowboy Zach Mahoney set foot on her beloved ranch, feisty Willa Simmons saw red. How dare her stepfather's will dictate that she, this mesmerizing stranger and his long-lost brothers al...
WHO CAN SEE THROUGH WALLS, GLOW IN THE DARK, AND SAVE THE PLANET BEFORE 10 P.M. (9:30 on school nights)? It's MAXimum Boy! Who is he? He’s Max Silver. Ordinary eleven- year-old by day. Superhero by, um, afternoon. Yes, Max was just a regular ...
When Bob Greene went home to central Ohio to be with his dying father, it set off a chain of events that led him to knowing his dad in a way he never had before -- thanks to a quiet man who lived just a few miles away, a man who had changed the histo...
The only thing that characterises the murders committed by the Lancashire Leopard is that he leaves no clues. He's killing young women, and it looks like he's gaining confidence. Detective Inspector Peach has hit a brick wall -- and it seems that the...
"You'll want to scratch." These spoken words open to us the strange and beguiling world of young Rudy Spruance, forced to join the military due to a mysterious past, and sent for some inexplicable reason to a top-secret military hospital in Greenland...
Early eighteenth-century London, and two doctors are crisscrossing the boundaries of morality in the heady pursuit of scientific progress. This challenge leads Sir Edmund Calcraft, an eminent and notorious anatomist, and Joseph Bendix, his ambitious ...
Just two years out of law school, Nick Rey is on the career fast track at a hot Miami law firm when he is suddenly plunged headfirst into a dangerous bid to save his father. Matthew Rey has been kidnapped while on business in Columbia's exotic port c...
Time, tides, and the hand of God draw the hearts of four couples together in these delightful tales. Authors Kim Comeaux, Linda Goodnight, JoAnn A. Grote, and Diann Hunt weave four engaging stories of romance on the water. The Matchmakers won't leave...
Three hapless friends-- nervous Ewald, impetuous Broccoli, and seductive Elvira-- are down on their luck, slightly unhinged, and determined to make it in bohemian Amsterdam. Together, they hatch a daring and foolish string of plots and schemes in ...