For a parent, life gets easier once your kid's in college -- right? Once she hears the three little words "Mom, I'm pregnant," Caroline Talbot Manning knows just how wrong that statement is. True, Shelly's boyfriend wants to do...
Four young women learn that there is no hiding from God - and love - in small towns among the rugged bluffs and clear-water lakes of Arkansas and Missouri. Amity and Emily face the biggest transitions of their lives, while Andrea and Carla fight the ...
A DANGEROUS MAN... If Sophie Firle consented to Nicholas Hatton's outrageous request she would put her life -- and her son's -- in mortal danger. But could she refuse the opportunity to help trap the smugglers who had murdered her husband? Find...
INCOGNITO is a historical romantic comedy set in Regency England that should appeal to fans of Jane Austen, Georgette Heyer, or Oscar Wilde. From the back cover: Can a young lady allow her beloved sister to be sacrificed on the marriage altar? Emi...
Casey Rickert is in trouble. He's just lost his plane ticket back home to Kansas City in an unfriendly poker game. he has a Lit paper due on a book he's never read, and on top of everything else, even though he took off finals week to go surfing,...
Help Wanted: Miracle Worker Famed Manhattan child psychologist Victor Vega is a master at dealing with other people's children; it's his own rebellious six-year-old he can't handle. The heartbroken widower can see no alternative to sending his mot...
HE'S TOO HOT -- BUT SHE CAN HANDLE HIM Jasmine White is tired of people questioning her ability to do her job. She knows she's the best bodyguard in the business, and she'll tell anyone who asks. And now she's got to take sass from her new clien...
After a humiliating Season, Hester Perceval hid away and concentrated on stimulating her intellect -- since her heart was broken! Indeed, Hester was a beautiful genius who cracked codes and solved puzzles, arousing the interest of a pen pal, "Zeno." ...
In this moving medieval tale, a nobleman disguised as a troubadour falls in love with a beautiful innkeeper who can't resist his magical music....
Jobs, 2Face, Mo'Steel and the others discover that the planet they thought they had landed on is actually a ship capable of recreating human life to an almost believable extent, and now must learn the purpose of the ship's creators....
THE REBIRTH OF A DYNASTY Separated for decades by circumstance and political machinations, the Ruby Dynasty, hereditary rulers of Skolia, struggle to bring together the tattered remnants of their family in the shadow of a disastrous interstellar w...
One morning Jimmy Neutron and his friends wake up to find all the grown-ups of Retroville gone. And with no one to stop them, the kids go on a fun-filled free-for-all! But things turn sour when there's no one to soothe their stomachaches or tuck them...
VIRULENT DESTINY Eight generations after the atomic mega-cull, a shattered world still struggles to heal itself. The iron-fisted rule of the nine baronies is compromised by an intrepid group of warriors who have uncovered secrets as dark as they are...
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"A celebration of literary genius framed by 20th-century tragedy."--Richard Bernstein, New York Times
Finally in paperback, this "monumental collection; gathers all of Babel's deft and brutal writing, including a wid...TROUBLE JUST ROLLED IN... A WOMAN IN DESPERATE NEED OF RESCUE A deserted stretch of highway, a young woman stranded in a fancy car, and the sound of motorcycles in the black night....Tess Marsh's cross-country trip ends all too suddenly when Dall...
So it's kind of like a parlor game, then?... The question is apparently of Ancient Eastern extraction.... It seems to be a gut thing. The answer just feels right and then you come up with reasons.... Given a relatively level playing field -- i.e.,...
Because Tia has focused solely on her career, she really doesn't know herself, let alone the God who loves her. Tia's Story will touch the hearts of today's women with a message of hope and faith....
Bracken, the Bradmans' cat, has given birth to nine adorable kittens. Nine very different personalities each need very special homes. Can the Bradmans be sure they've found the right owners? Snow-white Daisy is adorable but quiet -- will her owners ...
Pregnant with twins, a young woman sets out to find the family she never knew -- and discovers the perfect father when she falls for a sexy cowboy....
Psychologist Meghann O'Neill specializes in treating abused women and children and is also a vampire, created by a sadistic creature named Simon Baldevar, who has now come back seeking revenge by murdering her patients, but Meghann refuses to play hi...
THE FIRST MAN IN ... Web London was trained to penetrate hostile ground and come out alive. Then ten seconds in a dark alley cost him everything: his friends, his fellow agents, his reputation. Among his super-elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team, Web wa...
When Maggie Gillian met Prince Michel Phillipe, his aura of command emanated from him like heat from the sun. His seeming perfection annoyed Maggie. Teaching His Majesty's young son was the reason she was in his kingdom, not the boy's surprisingly se...
On a raw February morning, Jane Austen first learns of the case of Captain Tom Seagrave, who faces execution for a murder he swears he didn't commit. Together, she and her brother Frank, a post captain in the Royal Navy, set out to uncover the truth....
In this novelistic romp that is by turns hilarious and brilliant, John Barth spoofs his own place in the pantheon of contemporary fiction and the generation of writers who have followed his literary trailblazing. Coming Soon!!! is the tale of two wri...
When Vincent Gambuzzo, the not-so-bright proprietor of the Tiffany Gentleman's Club in Panama City, Florida, loses his business playing poker, his headliner, exotic dancer Sierra Lavotini, faces a crisis. The new sign out front reads BIG MIKE'S HOUSE...
A young girl and her out-of-work father ride the rails during the Great Depression looking for a place to call home, but with Christmas approaching and no job, Poppa leaves her in a foster home, promising to return as soon as he can....
The last thing Peggy Jo Riley wanted this holiday was a hard-boiled charmer in her house 24/7. But if she wanted to stay alive, she needed Jack Parker. And once she was in Jack's well-muscled arms, she realized just how much she needed him.... Up ...
After being moved from Yugosalvia to a refugee camp in New York after World War II, one Jewish boy is befriended by a local girl, but when their special friendship turns to romance, their parents demand they end the relationship. Scott O'Dell Award W...
A marvelous collection of fiction by America's best new writers.
Upon its launch in 2000, Best New American Voices received acclaim for the range and originality of its selections, which represented the best writing from new American writers w...
Troublemaker: one who makes mischief, who torments; a malcontent; a provoker; a firebrand. Someone to avoid at all costs. A WOMAN RUNNING FROM TROUBLE Sarah Palmer, a reckless beauty with a penchant for trouble, has enraged her family for the las...
Nobel Prize-winner Saul Bellow has deservedly been celebrated as one of America's greatest living writers. For more than sixty years he has stretched our minds, our imaginations, and our hearts with his exhilarating perceptions of life. Now collected...
Winter's cold and winter's darkness, wraps us in these frozen hours. as the ceaseless wheel turns we call the sun to warm us with its power. Cooper, Annie, and Kate celebrate the winter solstice in true Wiccan spirit. The threesome joins practi...
"Jonah Black broke my heart"-- Cecily Lachoy"Dude's got integrity, and he dives like a king. He's my idol."-- Woodrow "Wailer" Contrad"Jonah Black cracked his skull open over a girl. You gotta admire a kid who does a thing like that." -- Herman "Pops...
This summer thirteen-year-old Isabel Ramirez, Izzie for short, has plans -- big plans. No more hanging out at the mall; no more lounging at the pool. She's launching her own lawn care business -- MEW. Her first job takes her up to a wealthy neighb...
When Jim Richards lost his wife and their unborn child to a sniper's bullet, he also lost something else: his precious faith. After a year, the only thing colder than the murderer's trail is Jim Richards' heart. When journalist Leah Hamilton requests...
Daughter of a mighty pagan queen, Guinevere has become a threat to her people and a prize to the dreaded sorcerer Merlin. Sent into hiding, she grows up under the protection of a shapeshifting man-wolf and an ornery Druid. But even on the remote coas...
Determined to repay the people who stood by him in his darkest hours, Ryan Fortune bestows on them three special gifts intended to bring love and the promise of family.... • The powerful sheik. Ryan gives wealthy sheik Nico Tan-efi his prized sign...
The Asteroid Wars have begun.... Dan Randolph is one of the richest men on Earth--a planet spiralling into environmental disaster. His bitter rival, Martin Humphries, is the fabulously wealthy heir to the Humphries Trust. Both men know that space-...
They met ten years ago, and they've been friends ever since. Zoey, Charlotte, and Lydia. At their last reunion, they all accepted a challenge: look up your first love. Find out what happened to him, what kind of man he became. Since Zoey's spendin...
She wanted no escape from her mind But they say she's a liability to the public. She could be dangerous, she could kill. Branded a pariah, a potential cloned-brain psychotic roaming the streets, Val Thornham's life is going to be turned upside down. ...
Walker James felt a rush of adrenaline when he was assigned to infiltrate a terrorist compound and discover the location of a deadly virus. However, the brazenly sexy spy was incensed to learn he would be partnered with Jasmine LeBarr on this perilou...
Once upon a time, Annie Galloway was a woman with boundless hopes -- and big, glorious dreams. There were so many good days, when everything she wanted seemed just a heartbeat away -- a career in art, a peaceful marriage, a house full of children. Bu...
Victorian England...a glittering world of titled society and scandalous secrets...the enchanting story of a woman who lives by her wits -- and who commits the most startling indiscretion of all: She falls in love.... Letty Potts has gotten into a ...
THE GAME ...is a weeklong retreat. It's located in a remote region of northern California. It's designed to build teamwork, establish trust, and increase awareness. THE PLAYERS ...are three ambitious executives -- one woman and two men, each pre...
A shocking scientific discovery. A conspiracy of staggering brilliance. A thriller unlike any you've ever read.... When a NASA satellite discovers an astonishingly rare object buried deep in the Arctic ice, the floundering space agency procl...
Sex makes monkeys out of all of us. If you don’t give in to it, you wind up a cold, unfeeling bastard. If you do, you spend the rest of your life picking up the pieces. . . .At the start of senior year at William & Mary, the six-foot-tall, rave...
Rocky Waters first met Sarah Jones when she was a shy teenager. Now scandal had followed the senator's daughter to North Carolina, and Rocky had to warn her. Sarah fiercely guarded her privacy -- and the child she secretly supported. But Rocky was ju...
Train travel promises speed, convenience, and adventure for Americans of the nineteenth century. But four young women are carrying excess baggage on their journeys. Uprooted from secure homes and forced to reexamine their positions in life, can any o...
It’s almost Christmas, and The Saddle Club is busily preparing for an exciting show. But part of their preparation involves raising money -- a lot of it! When Lisa realizes that Carole and Stevie are having a hard time coming up with the cash, sh...
The Congregational Church of Bent Creek, Vermont, badly needed funds, so decided to send one of their boys up to the Klondike gold fields. But it was Callie Fisk who won the chance to go, and her father was against the idea....
PART I London is in ruins, a once highly advanced city now a gated wasteland. Within its walls, a bloody war rages between two clans. Hope is sparse, but the people believe the gods have risen from the dead. Odin himself has come to play a part in ...
A powerful volume, collected from the current run of the comic, follows the Avengers, the Earth's Mightiest Heroes, as they battle against a vast array of threats and dangers with the help of long-time members Wonder Man and Vision as well as new her...
Orphaned when Magruder and his gang massacre his entire family, U.S. Marshal Hayden Tilden embarks on a lifelong quest for vengeance, risking everything and fiercely pursuing evildoers on her personal crusade for justice. Original....
Few have made an impression on the comic book industry quite like John Byrne, from his legendary run on the X-Men to his ground-breaking Superman: The Man of Steel. When he took over Fantastic Four in 1981, the First Family was never the same. With r...
Lady Caroline Linford is horrified to discover... her fiance, the Marquis of Winchilsea, in the arms of another woman. Unfortunately, Victorian society considers such masculine peccadilloes a trifle; canceling their imminent wedding would be unthi...
Dear St. Nicholas -- What we'd really like for Xmas this year is: An Irish Estate A Family Mountains of Sugarplums (Too fattening) A Quiet Elopement Someone to (burn) close down all the London clubs-- (like White's) ! Or Marriage to ...
Created by the incalculably ancient Iconians, whose transcendent technology is quantum levels beyond that of the Federation and its allies, the Gateways offer instantaneous transport across unimaginable distances. Throughout the known galaxy, from De...
Middle Terra Firma was home to an idyllic countryside and a wondrous variety of fantastical beings and magical inhabitants. It existed in peace and contentment, until the arrival of the creature known as The Dark Rider, and the havoc he wreaked as he...
Follows Charles Xavier as he draws together Scott Summers, Hank McCoy, Jean Grey, Bobby Drake, and Warren Worthington to form the X-Men amidst anti-mutant sentiment in the country and in their high school....
Gideon First has found the woman he loves, wants to marry and spend the rest of his life with. But wedded bliss may not be his after an ex-girlfriend charges that the child she secretly gave birth to is Gideon's. Of course the news that her husban...
JUST LIKE THE OLD DAYS... Johnna Delaney's hectic world stood still the moment she laid eyes on Jerrod McCain again -- and her heart instantly leapt into motion. He was back in tiny Inferno, Arizona, to request an impossible favor -- and to remind...
The electrifying space epic reaches an explosive climax when one techno-mage battles the ultimate evil As billions die and the flames of destruction rage unchecked, the Shadows seem poised for absolute victory. Soon the entire galaxy will fall to...
Provides the heroic tales of a space-traveling genius who is determined to bring his abducted parents and their friends back to Retroville while also teaching the evil Yokian aliens a lesson they won't soon forget. Original....
`Can it be true that Indian writing, that endlessly rich, complex and problematic entity, is to be represented by a handful of writers who only write in English . . . ? More importantly, is it possible to assess properly and appreciate the merits of ...
Angela Fytton -- wonderwife and supermother -- has been unceremoniously dumped by her husband. Like many a good wife before her, she has been replaced for a younger model. Now, divorced but determined, she rediscovers the iron in her soul and decid...
THE POLITICS OF SPACE It has been over two centuries since the starship Phoenix disappeared into space, leaving a colony of humans to fend for themselves on the world of the alien atevi. Since then humans have lived in exile using a single diplom...
Hugh Blake, soon to become stepfather to the Maitland clan, has produced three high-performing offspring of his own. But at the rate they're going, they're never going to make him a grandpa! There's Suzanne, a work-obsessed CEO whose Christmas spi...
Lily Brewster and her brother Robert were living high on the hog in Manhattan until the Crash of '29 took the family fortune south. Abruptly penniless, they have taken up residence in their late great-uncle Horatio's upstate estate on the ban...
In a spectacular feat of daring and magic, Elena and her army of outlaws and rebels have defeated evil's minions and released the mystic secrets of the Blood Diary. But the malevolent Dark Lord has unleashed the Weirgates -- black wells of ferocious ...
MEET JAKE DRAKE, TEACHER'S PET. Jake doesn't mean to be a teacher's pet. But somehow everything he does has his teachers singing his praises -- and his classmates rolling their eyes in disgust. Jake figures a little misbehavior should take care of h...
Born of tragedy and nurtured by scandal, Maresa Fairweather was a fifth daughter, all but abandoned by her widower father. Wild and headstrong, she was fortunate to have Percy Bronwell to keep her from harm's way. Now the childhood friends have grown...
Recently retired due to a freak accident, NYPD officer Moe Prager is lost. In pain and without the job he loves, Moe relunctantly settles on the notion of going into the wine business with his brother. When a suburban college student vanishes off the...
Set in India and South Africa, The Wedding joins Ismet Nassin, a clerk of modest prospects from Bombay, and Khateja, a village beauty he marries on the very day he spies her from the window of his train. Matrimony happens fast, love lags behind. Khat...
Lori Copeland, loved for her whimsical, folksy style, brings readers a feel-good Christmas story. A young widower with three needy children is snowed in at Henrietta Humblesmith's marrying parlor for the holidays. He has no idea what a special Christ...
Magical ponies create the first snowfall of winter
On a cold, gray day, Old Man Winter leads his snow ponies outside. "Are you ready?" he asks. Yes! Faster and faster the ponies gallop. Everything they touch turns white with snow as they bring...
A LADY'S SWEET REVENGE.... A little wild, a lot mischievous, heiress Annabelle Richardson set society abuzz by rejecting three suitors in one season. Two were disreputable rakes after her fortune. The third, Timothy Wainwright, was simply too foolis...
Sophie Madrigal tells the fortunes of anyone curious enough to pass the velvet curtain of her makeshift parlor -- and Gabriel Caine is just such a man. The black-clad bounty hunter is on the hunt for a murderer, and nothing will stop him from bagging...
Kate's marriage to Michalis Theodakis is in the past -- in all but name. She knows he married her only to cover up his affair with his mistress, so how dare he expect her to play the dutiful wife? And now Michalis wants to escort her to his siste...
"Dan Rhodes, the sheriff of Blacklin County, Texas, has seen more than his share of strange events during his time in office - most recently he exorcised a ghost from the county jail - but nothing could have prepared him for the group of writers that...
Bill Crider's Texas sheriff, Dan Rhodes, has his hands full with a "living" manger scene downtown when the body of the local councilwoman is found nearby. Rhodes has a suspect list as long as a string of Christmas lights -- but it's old-fashioned hor...
TWO SISTERS...ONE DISASTER What did James Coxwell ever see in my twin sister, Marcia (I mean, besides her sparkling good looks)? I know what she saw in him--money, prestige, and more money... Well, she's stolen the boy's rose-colored glasses th...
It started with a kiss, an explosion of longing that could not be contained. He was a young knight bent on winning his spurs; she was a maiden promised to another man; theirs was a love that could never be. But a year's passing and a strange d...
Dear St. Nicholas -- What we'd really like for Xmas this year is: An Irish Estate A Family Mountains of Sugarplums (Too fattening) A Quiet Elopement Someone to (burn) close down all the London clubs-- (like White's) ! Or Marriage to ...
Charlie Sarris is a "fix-it" man in Binghamton, New York, with a younger wife and a child and no prospects. John Stone is an alcoholic Indian medicine man on the road. In some unlikely manner they have discovered a bond between themselves. And they a...
Amber Brown wants a watch for her seventh birthday more than anything else. She knows she will feel more grown-up when she can see what time it is whenever she wants. Also, she will always know exactly how late Justin Daniels, her best friend, is. He...
Months ago, rancher Grayson McCall had impulsively married single mom Jill Brown to rescue her from a bad situation. They'd shared a brief, stirring kiss and then parted, sure they'd never meet again. Now Jill -- and her little boy -- arrived in M...
The woman he's loved for so long... Obstetrician Alec Rostrevor has burned his bridges; he's moved twelve thousand miles to Australia with his baby son to make midwife Erin Gray his bride. Just as everything is going right, Alec's baby contracts a...
Throughout the Star Trek: New Frontier saga, Mark McHenry, the navigator on the U.S.S. Excalibur, has demonstrated abilities beyond those of the somewhat odd human being he appears to be. When the inhabitants of an innocent solar system are confronte...
All she wanted was a kitchen to run and a garden to tend. But when Doc Gray offered his name to her and the baby she carried, Ellie Mitchum was overwhelmed. How could she, a girl of "a certain reputation," ever be the kind of wife he needed -- and de...
An ordinary day in Gloucestershire holds a half century of secrets and lies in this crafty and well-crafted mystery, when a skeleton turns up in a field outside the old village of Tolland. A dogtag beside it in the earth bears the name Ben Gordheimer...
THE RUNAWAY SHEIKH... Security specialist Ellen Sheffield had done the impossible -- beaten elusive Sheikh Rashid "Rudi" Qarif at his own hide-and-seek game and brought him home. But was she his captor...or captive? She'd expected a spoiled pla...
Embarking on a worldwide research trip after his first book on extinction becomes a raging success, Will Mendelsohn stops in Assam, India to visit his mother's friend Mim, an ailing Holocaust survivor, and finds himself drawn to Mim's mysterious neig...
A timeless anthology of the twentieth century's finest mystery, horror, and suspense stories encompasses contributions by Erle Stanley Gardner, Patricia Highsmith, John D. MacDonald, Stephen King, Sara Paretsky, Bill Pronzini, Ellery Queen, Mickey Sp...
Starfleet Corps Of Engineers After the events of What Lay Beyond, the Gateways crisis has finally come to a close and Starfleet can rest easy, knowing that another threat to the galaxy has been stopped. Except for the Starfleet Corps of Engineers w...
Nancy Gardner had carefully planned her Hanukkah celebration down to the last candle and was sure everything would be prefect. The last thing she wanted was for her first love, Mike Powers, to intrude on her well-laid plans.
But he has...and sudd...
Charles Dickens' classic Christmas morality tale has been turned into a major feature-length animated film, with the voices of Kate Winslett, Nicholas Cage, Jane Horrocks, Simon Callow and Michael Gambon. The novelization of the film brings to life e...
A boy with psychic powers struggles to save his loved ones When Davy’s mother deserts their family, Davy’s father packs his children into a rickety old car and takes them on a vacation. They drive to their mysterious old grandparents’ house in ...
In the summer of 1914, the celebrated young painter Oskar Kokoschka was in the throes of a passionate lov...
THE MISSION: UNDERCOVER HUSBAND No woman had ever looked more beautiful to Kyle Foster than the trembling female he rescued from the wreckage of an explosion. But he never dreamed he'd marry Laura Quinlan just days later! When traces of the bomb led...
On a bus tour through Mindanao, Philippines, sixty tourists expecting adventure get more than they bargained for. Separatist rebels from the Moro Islamic Liberation Front have taken them hostage--and won't release anyone until a ransom is paid. After...
When mankind moves out to the stars, the colonists of the future will remake the worlds they inhabit in their image. Included here are twenty stories from the most imaginative writers in the field:Poul AndersonCordwainer SmithArthur C. ClarkeRichard ...
Heart Trilby has no family. She lives a hard and lonely life in the dusty village of Ash Grove -- until she finds a scarred, skinny mare in the forest. Against the wishes of her guardian, mean-spirited Simon Pratt, Heart adopts the mare and names her...
After being horribly disfigured during the war and sent to a hospital on the outskirts of Paris, Officer Adrien F. forms a special bond with the other soldiers dealing with pain and reconstructive surgery, and when a gorgeous woman joins their group,...
HAS PAMPERED SOCIALITE IT O'BRIEN FINALLY MET HER MATCH? New York's most notorious, not to mention most beautiful, heiress, Kit O'Brien, is trying to get a reputation as a working girl -- that is, a journalist. And her first interview subject is n...
Step behind the scenes into the exciting early days of motion pictures. Meet intrepid producer Martin Tafft, driven to make Peerless Studios the biggest name in the new frontier of silent movies. Experience the action, thrills, and passion that creat...
WOMAN ON THE RUN The secluded cabin high in the snow-covered mountains was as far from Mallory O'Brien's glittering world of wealth and privilege as she could possibly have imagined. Yet this place -- and the proud, bitter man who lived there alon...
A Fateful Return Engaged to a man she does not love and loyal to a father who demands her complete devotion, twenty-three-year-old Janelle Coolidge has come back to her native Missouri looking for answers. What she finds is her destiny. One face f...
In a career spanning more than 50 years, Harlan Ellison has written or edited 75 books, more than 1700 stories, essays, articles and newspaper columns, two dozen teleplays, and a dozen movies.
Now, for the first time anywhere, Trouble...
The keep has fallen on hard times. Raiders hatter the outer walls. Hordes of goblins and ores roam the countryside, attacking trade caravans and killing merchants. A mysterious stream of dark-robed priests travels through the keep's walls, h...
Maggie Quinn thinks she has room in her heart only for the helpless orphans in her care--until Gordon Kincaid walks into St. Columba's. A proud Southern gentleman damaged by the Civil War, he has come to Baltimore to find the daughter he never knew--...
Train travel promises speed, convenience, and adventure for Americans of the nineteenth century. But four young women are carrying excess baggage on their journeys. Uprooted from secure homes and forced to reexamine their positions in life, can any o...
Longarm’s tracking a fugitive -- and treading on thin ice!If there’s one thing U.S. Deputy Marshal Long can’t stand, it’s a yeller witness who heads for the hills just when the law needs him most. Harrison Dodge is one such lily-livered sleaz...
Terence Faherty's metaphysical sleuth, Owen Keane, is working at a crisis phone line in New Jersey, where several alarming calls from a young boy coincide with vandalism at a local Nativity scene, bringing a thought-provoking mystery home for the hol...
Seasonal Sweets When her father the Baron died, Jane Nichol thought she had lost every chance at happiness--and her newly-widowed step-mother's plans for her made things frightfully worse. Now, having escaped the Baroness's clutches by...
Maggie Rome never expected to hear from her ex-husband, Gary Brady, and she certainly never dreamed that his late-night call would get her mixed up in a murder investigation involving an Arkansas cult.
Gary's younger sister Susan has been found d...
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalit...
Welcome to Nashville, Tennessee, Music City, U.S.A.-- a place where music makers and fakers are all out for the same thing... Eddie Long plans to become a country music star, but right now he's stuck touring the Mississippi casino circuit. While o...
Emily Goodman feels trapped in her Connecticut hometown. As the nineteenth century dawns, the country is growing westward, and Emily's sister is moving with husband's family to western New York to cust a new home out of the wilderness. Jonathan Mille...
When Danny Holman leaves the cornfields of Iowa for the bright lights of Chicago, he expects his life to change. He just can''t guess how much and how fast. A violent incident on the road brings Danny the favor of a man known only as Mr. Patrise, ...
NICK THOUGHT NOTHING WOULD EVER GET HIM IN A SLEIGH AGAIN. Nick doesn't want to be Santa. The sleigh makes him nauseous. The reindeer make him sneeze. And he's afraid of heights. But then some long-lost cousins come to town and challenge Nick's fami...
SHE NEEDED HIM FOR A GOOD CAUSE Amanda Barker had to have firefighter Josh Marshall. With his sexy body, killer smile, and incredible reputation as a lady's man, he'd sell a million of her fund-raising calendars. But Josh wasn't cooperating, and he ...
In just four days, Rena will marry Ford Harlow. Just imagining the ceremony fills her with intense excitement -- and trepidation! It won't be an ordinary wedding. Their union is a marriage deal: Ford wants her property; Rena will do anything to k...
Once in a great while a science fiction story is so visionary, yet so close to impending scientific developments that it becomes not only an accurate predictor, but itself the locus for new discoveries and development. True Names by Vernor Vinge, ...
? Sneak a peek at Jimmy Neutron's secret drawings
? Get a close-up look at never-before-seen photos
? Check out the blueprints for his most famous inventions
From Jimmy's incredible shrinking machine to his transforming robotic dog, get a behin...
Storyville, 1907: In this raucous, bloody, red-light district, where two thousand scarlet women ply their trade in grand mansions and filthy dime-a-trick cribs, where cocaine and opium are sold over the counter, and where rye whiskey flows like an am...
The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser's wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy -- a time-traveler's certain knowledge. Born in the year of Our Lord 1918, Claire Randall s...
I am going to show you what my life was like. I am going to make you feel the things I felt. You will find out, as I did, what the Honored Society is all about. A father's advice to his son. Never underestimate anyone. Always protect the weak. ...
How do you use your five senses, and what do you do if something goes wrong with them? The forest friends -- Hawk, Rabbit, Bear, Skunk, and Squirrel -- know, and their stories show children what happens when a sense needs a little help to work be...
In the swinging sixties, Las Vegas rookie cop Wayne Norton was a straight arrow--though not exactly the sharpest one in the quiver. Then his girlfriend's mafioso father threw him into an experimental cryogenic sleep chamber--and forgot to leave a wak...
Eight hundred years have passed since the Mogollon holy man was murdered in Flowing Waters Town. The threads of evil spun by Two Hearts are drawn across time to ensnare modern archaeologists Dusty Stewart and Maureen Cole. The 'Wolf Witch' has killed...
Gray Sinclair has spent a lifetime doing exactly as he pleases -- and women are one of the things that please him most. But a fiery Scottish lass is determined to show him that indulgence has a price, and it's time this handsome libertine pay... ...
Jolly, Mr. Mint, and Queen Frostine build themselves candy houses, only to find that Lord Licorice intends to eat up their sweet new homes, in a story for early readers with rebus clues replacing some of the words....
A veteran seaman drowns within yards of his yacht. A Russian immigrant is shot dead while digging an illegal grave. A politician succumbs to a rare cancer after receiving the best medical treatment money and power can buy. The cases seem unrelated â€...
HOMECOMING Joyce Summers is dead. Spike has been slain and Faith, rogue Slayer, is gone as well. Southern California has fallen under vampire rule. And Rupert Giles is Vampire King. Buffy can hold no one but herself responsible for this grim...
A NOVEL OF THE NOBILITY OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT As his beloved Kahlan lies close to death, Richard Rahl, who distrusts prophecy more than anyone, is confronted by a compelling vision--one that bears a terrible price. It would mean taking Kahlan away t...
A SPELLBINDING NOVEL OF HIGH ADVENTURE Ever since she was six, someone has been trying to kill Jennsen Daggett. Now she's 20. He just found her. Venturing into the sweeping world of New York Times bestselling author Terry Goodkind, we are held ...
A man worth fighting for! Alexa Howard had led a relatively contented life as a nurse in a sleepy village in England's Lake District -- and then Dr. Reece Rowlinson arrives and awakens feelings in her that she has never felt before.The new family ...
Gorgeous Sicilian Lorenzo Martelli had proposed to Helen in front of his whole family! How could she say anything other than...yes? Now the Big Day was getting alarmingly close -- and the bride-to-be was getting cold feet! The groom, however, was ...
Anne Sheridan would never have missed her best friend's wedding. It was the flowers she couldn't handle. And after taking one too many antihistamines, the allergy-ridden bridesmaid found herself being carried off by dashing groomsman Sheik Rafik Haru...
Centuries ago, in another lifetime, the man Jillian Llewellyn loved tried but failed to save her. Now, in this season of miracles, two lost souls are being given a second chance. Since her husband's death, jewelry designer Jillian Llewellyn has wi...
Raised in the Flint Hills of Kansas, Sarah Bryden has always dreamed of other places, of going to school and nurturing her talent for landscape painting. But a family tragedy brings her back to the town of Bazaar, to a life of waiting tables and hidi...
Will he take a stranger to be his wedded wife? Abandoned by her boyfriend and family after the birth of her son, Holly Sansom collapses in the street. Rio Lombardi, M.D. of Lombardi Industries, comes to her rescue. Rio insists that Holly stay a...
Ex-convict Danny Ocean and his team of talented con men come up with an ingenious scheme to rip off three of Las Vegas's biggest casinos, but his seductive ex-wife could turn the plan upside down. Original. (Novelization of the new film, releasing Wi...
Ian Hamilton considers himself a typical guy, a finance major who finds all the excitement he needs in the stock market and his Harley. Then his stepfather offers him the crown to an empire and the reins of a mission critical to world peace. What can...
PAYOFF OR PAYBACK? Jim McCutcheon and Jake Penn are down on their luck and in desperate need of work. Then an old friend of Penn's--millionaire Abel Blain--entrusts him with an important mission. Unfortunately this trust doesn't extend to McCutche...
NOTHING BEATS THE LOVE OF A SISTER... She's your best friend and sometimes your sworn rival...your childhood playmate and the maid of honor at your wedding... the one who stole your high school boyfriend and the one who gave you the best birthday pa...
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 LOOK UP IN THE SKY! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's . . . it's . . . a UFO filled with cows from outer space?!! The President ...
All he wanted for Christmas...was to get away from the hustle and bustle of another lonely holiday season. But when Tucker Maddock stopped at what he thought was a quaint country inn, he found himself at a reunion of the big, boisterous Marsh family ...
Determined to repay the people who stood by him in his darkest hours, Ryan Fortune bestows on them three special gifts intended to bring love and the promise of family.... • The powerful sheik. Ryan gives wealthy sheik Nico Tan-efi his prized sign...
Meet Hannah and Kiki. Hannah is quiet, modest, and introspective. Kiki is loud, tacky, and man-crazy. They're two sixty-something sisters with very little in common -- except when it comes to murder... Politics make strange deadfellows. When la...
Elthia Sinclare travels to Texas to become a governess. She arrives to find six children, not two; a man who had ordered a bride, not a teacher; and a household that needs someone to cook and clean, not read Latin. But worse than marrying Caleb Tanne...
TALBOT USKEVREN The second son of the Uskevren family fights a deadly battle within himself. Like most young men of his station, Talbot spends his days honing his swordfighting skills and, unlike the others, practicing the art of acting. Now, T...
Destiny has enough to do, such as taking care of her three younger siblings and trying to keep Mama from spending the last of their money on the lottery. But she needs a job, and reading to the mysterious Mrs. Peck pays well. While Destiny discovers ...
Goooooal! Whisper Nelson's mental videotape remembers everything -- including scoring a point for the opposing team in her last soccer match four years ago (yikes!). So when she wins a chance to kick a goal past a professional soccer player for a mil...
Their friendship forged during the bloody battles of the War Between the States, they are men with nothing left but their honor. When one calls, the others answer -- and this time they will gather in the tiny town of Rock Creek, Texas, where their br...
NEIGHBORLY LOVE Single dad Zac Frazier arrived in the close-knit town of Serenity expecting little more than a fresh start. But he never counted on having his wounded heart rejuvenated by his son's bubbly preschool teacher, who lived a few houses ...
To: Lauren, Maggie, Julia, Sharon From: Jen Date: 11/01 RE: Due date -- 1 month! You've got to help me! Since my fiance died, his ruthless father wants custody of my baby. It's true he's wealthy, but he won't love my son as I do...
...and a sleepy little town where secrets come to hide. Cleaning lady Lily Bard is a pro when it comes to keeping the exteriors of Shakespeare, Arkansas, absolutely spotless. But it's the dirt below the surface that really keeps her busy. Even Lil...
Victorian Dublin comes to life in Cindy Harris' delightful new quartet featuring four unforgettable ladies--all left penniless and without a shred of self-esteem. Brought together in friendship by a gentlemanly benefactor, each will find the courage ...
Four popular African-American authors--E. Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey, Colin Canner, and Marcus Major--come together in a bold new collection of original stories that explore the vast complexities of the human heart and the challenges of love in ...
A DEADLY ARRANGEMENT When Bretta Solomon -- recent widow, professional florist, and amateur sleuth -- is put in charge of an out-of-town florist convention, she knows that she will have to juggle many tasks while navigating the treacheries and petty...
The thrilling conclusion in the acclaimed Storyteller Trilogy weaves an intricate tale of two storytellers, the quick-witted female Qumalix and the silver-tongued man Yikaas, who vie to entrance their tribe with extraordinary and magical legends that...
Who is her Mr. -- or Dr. -- Right? Petra finds it hard to resist a man as gorgeous as her new practice partner, Dr. Adam Driscoll. But she has to--she's engaged to Mark. Besides, Adam appears to have his own family--she's seen him with a beatutiful ...
Gabriel Stearne might be a brilliant businessman -- but there's nothing on his illustrious resume about children! So the unexpected delivery to the office of a baby leaves him only one place to turn -- his personal assistant, Tess Gordon.... Gabri...
Linnea didn't dare dream of her future. Though she happily cared for her elderly mother, she secretly yearned for more. But no man, especially not one as fine as Seth Gatlin, could ever love a woman with a life as tainted as her own...! Seth's hea...
In stories that move deftly from the magical to the mundane, the simple to the surreal, The King of Limbo showcases a mature talent that calls to mind such greats as Alice Munro and Andre Dubus. Here are drifters, waitresses, horse trainers, housewiv...
Dr. Andrew Fenimore is an old fashioned doctor who is still willing to make house calls to his elderly patients. In his third adventure, a patient's call leads to more detection than medical care.Lydia Ashley, owner of a large farm in Southern New Je...
Dead End Bill Gastner, the reluctant sheriff of Posadas County, New Mexico, anticipates his last few days in office will be uneventful. Until local teen Matt Baca drives drunkenly into the back of Gastner's cruiser, then flees into the night. His ...
When Mark Twain arrives in the unfamiliar town of Missoula, Montana, for a lecture tour, he's surprised to find a familiar face: Tom Blankenship, his boyhood pal and the real-life model for Huck Finn. While Tom has made a respectable new life for him...
The bestselling author of Stones from the River and The Vision of Emma Blau renews her reputation as an extraordinary writer of short stories in this major collection that balances her reader on the magical border of laughter and sorrow.In Hotel of t...
NOTHING BEATS THE LOVE OF A SISTER... She's your best friend and sometimes your sworn rival...your childhood playmate and the maid of honor at your wedding... the one who stole your high school boyfriend and the one who gave you the best birthday pa...
From a spellbinding storyteller comes a highly original, inventive novel that transports us to another world. In the small Chinese town of Shaoyang, times are changing rapidly, and the villagers are struggling to keep up with a China that has transfo...
Isabella Trueblood made history reuniting people torn apart by war and an epidemic. Now, generations later, Lily and Dylan Garrett carry on her work with their agency, Finders Keepers. Circumstances may have changed, but the goal remains the same. ...
The only thing that can bring down a Quinn, is a woman. . . The third Mighty Quinn. . . Travel writer Brendan Quinn is known for charming women out of their clothes -- then leaving on assignment when things get sticky. But he's at a loss when a s...
THE KNIGHT IS A SAINT (with a twist!) At least you might think so if you read his curriculum vitae. You would swear in fact that this private eye of the future is honest, paying for what he gets, getting what he's paid for, with somehow a little ...
An international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novelâ€"part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary existence.Bruno and Michel are half-brothers aban...
Champion figure skater Omunique Philyaw has finally won the most precious gold of all: a wedding band. With her handsome new husband Kenneth Maxwell by her side, she's settling down to enjoy the blessings of newlywed life: passionate romance, a lavis...
Fun-loving bachelor Trey Wilder was in for the surprise of his life when he discovered he was the father and sole guardian of a two-week-old baby girl! But what did an alfalfa farmer know about babies? Luckily, teacher Laurie Oliver was more than hap...
For months, the town matchmakers had tried to set up stubborn single mom Libby McGuiness with every eligible bachelor in Erie, Pennsylvania. But Libby had sworn off men long ago and she wasn't about to give her heart to another member of the male spe...
The Great War has recently ended, and in the contiuing border conflicts, Elena's home city of Smyna has fallen. Placed on a refugee ship with her sister Sophia, Elena is accidentally pushed overboard and left alone at sea. She cries out to her Lord--...
Hugh Blake, soon to become stepfather to the Maitland clan, has produced three high-performing offspring of his own. But at the rate they're going, they're never going to make him a grandpa! There's Suzanne, a work-obsessed CEO whose Christmas spi...
Jacob Ganzson was a respected rancher who could deal with stampedes, blizzards, and even range wars. But how was he supposed to handle his little girls falling in love? LAUREL The most tomboyish of all the Garrison girls, Laurel dreads the thou...