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New Books List: 651 titles

  • A Kiss Gone Bad

    Jeff Abbott

    Award-winning author Jeff Abbott has shaded the modern crime novel with wry dialogue, unforgettable characters, and steamy Southern atmosphere. In this eagerly awaited new novel, a rookie judge with everything to lose discovers there's nothing more d...

  • The Mask of Maliban

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Move over, Lord Sparr -- there's a new bad guy in town. Prince Maliban is the creepy ruler of the Turtle City. And Maliban's mysterious mask maker, Hob, is crafting an awesome new ma...

  • Catching Water in a Net

    J.L. Abramo

    “Mr. Diamond,” my visitor said, walking through the door connecting the two small rooms. “Can I help you, Miss…?” “You can call me Evelyn.” “So, Evelyn. How can I help you?” “It’s my husband.” If I had ten cents for every time...

  • Hide and Seek

    Cherry Adair

    A steamy, heart-stopping thrill ride through the jungle as a woman living a lie is forced to trust the one man who can expose her secrets.... Posing as the spoiled girlfriend of an international crime lord, Delanie Eastman braves a remote mountain...

  • Cam Jansen and the School Play Mystery

    David A. Adler

    It's time for Cam Jansen's friend Eric to star as Honest Abe Lincoln, but first, Cam has a mystery to solve. The clues are in the story. Will you find them before Cam does? Can you solve the mystery? Test your memory with the quiz in the back of t...

  • Andy Russell, Not Wanted by the Police

    David A. Adler

    Andy Russell’s neighbors have asked nine-year-old Andy and his best friend, Tamika, to watch their house while they are away. But when Andy sees unexplained lights and movements, he becomes convinced there is an intruder next door! The problem is ....

  • Baby Santa's

    Julie Aigner-Clark

    Inspiring and delightful poems and songs are paired with gorgeous photographs in this picture-book introduction to the holiday. The simple pleasures of the season--glistening icicles, Christmas trees, snowflakes, stockings by a fireplace--will captiv...

  • A Place Called Home

    Judie Aitken

    Dear Reader, My Wyoming ranch was built on the land my ancestors pioneered, so it's more than my home -- it's my legacy. Unfortunately, hard times are forcing me to sell to a millionaire developer who's all business. His attorney Shaye...

  • I, The Divine

    Rabih Alameddine

    One of The Atlantic's Great American NovelsNamed after the "divine" Sarah Bernhardt, red-haired Sarah Nour El-Din is "wonderful, irresistibly unique, funny, and amazing," raves Amy Tan. Determined to make of her life a work of art, she tries to tell ...

  • Bloodroot

    Susan Wittig Albert

    Lawyer-turned-herbalist China Bayles returns to the Deep South, where her family’s legacy of silence is at last broken -- and the past finally, unforgettably, speaks the truth…A frantic phone call from her mother brings China back to her family...

  • The Promise

    Robin Allen

  • Portrait in Sepia

    Isabel Allende

    Completing the trilogy that includes her bestselling novels Daughter of Fortune and The House of the Spirits, Portrait in Sepia is a stunning novel about memory and family secretsSet at the end of the nineteenth century, Portrait in Sepia is a richly...

  • The Three Little Kittens

    Anna Alter


    A charming retelling of the beloved nursery rhyme about three little kittens in search of their mittens.

    The three little kittens
    lost their mittens
    and they began to cry . . .

    Young children have enjoyed and recited this belo...

  • A Step Beyond

    C.K. Anderson

    2021. Four years after the first manned mission to Mars ends in tragic failure, a joint U.S.-Russian mission blasts off in two ships, each crew equally determined to set foot...

  • A Special Kind of Woman

    Caroline Anderson
    in

    When single mother Cait Cooper sees her daughter off to medical school, she feels now's the time to do all the things she's yearned to do. Enter Dr. Owen Douglas, who sets about giving Cait more fun than she's ever had...until their affair puts her r...

  • The Perfect Christmas

    Caroline Anderson

    Emotional trauma... The trauma of their first meeting set the tone of their relationship and established their heated attraction even before new consulting surgeon David Armstrong reached Audley Memorial Hospital. Nurse Julia Revell felt acute...

  • Revenge of the Wrought-Iron Flamingos

    Donna Andrews

    Ornamental blacksmith Meg Langslow, her boyfriend Michael, and their extended families have dressed up in costume for a reenactment of the siege of Yorktown, complete with cannons and a crafts fair. Self-employed Meg fervently hopes her booth selling...

  • Honey

    V.C. Andrews

    In her music, she found sweet salvation.... Honey grew up on a farm under her strict, fanatically religious grandfather's disapproving eye. To him, everything is a sin--from her natural-born talent for the violin to her innocent interest in boys a...

  • The Dark Remains

    Mark Anthony

    Travis Wilder and Grace Beckett have returned to modern Earth to get medical help for Beltan, a knight from the otherworld of Eldh. But as Beltan lies the ICU of a Denver hospital, a shadowy organization plots to kidnap him, and sinister forces of da...

  • Swell Foop

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A MATTER OF GRAVITY Someone-or some thing-has kidnapped the dreaded Demon Earth. If he isn't found, the very fabric of our world will unravel, removing the Earth's gravitational field, and, incidentally, that of the magical land of Xanth as well! ...

  • Autumn's Bride

    Catherine Archer

    Annaliese Was But a Simple Maiden Yet her innocent curiosity about his warrior's body had aroused in Kendran Ainsworth an unfamiliar desire to protect and cherish. Though with her just suspicions of anyone noble, Annaliese would never accept ...

  • Bitten

    Kelley Armstrong

    Elena Michaels is the world’s only female werewolf. And she’s tired of it. Tired of a life spent hiding and protecting, a life where her most important job is hunting down rogue werewolves. Tired of a world that not only accepts the worst in her ...

  • Huggly's Christmas

    Tedd Arnold

    When Huggly accidentally leaves his star-shaped light beam in the people-child's closet, he thinks he's lost it for good, but then he and his friends Booter and Grubble find it in a most unlikely place. Original....

  • A Noble Man

    Anne Ashley

    Lady Sophia Cleeve dazzled all that Season, but she declared she would not marry a pampered man. Instead, she wanted a worthy man -- outside her privileged class! As shock rocked her entourage at this declaration, the sea-worn Duke of Sharnbrook, Ben...

  • Louisa May at Fruitlands

    Jeannine Atkins

    Offers a look at the nine months Louisa May Alcott and her family spent at Fruitlands farm where they lived their father's experiment of being "pure" from animal exploitation and financial need only to nearly starve to death in the end and return hom...

  • Second Contact

    J.D. Austin

    Mankind is attempting to contact alien life. Unfortunately, they’re screening their calls.Dangling on the edge of the galaxy is Kivlan, a planet reputed to be a gracious and accommodating paradise. Even its name means tranquility -- but apparently ...

  • The Missing Maitland

    Stella Bagwell

    He'd been in dangerous situations before.... But Luke Maitland had never put another person at risk -- until Blossom Woodward, the controversial TV reporter, happened into the line of fire meant for him. He had saved her life; then he'd had to take h...

  • The Italian's Runaway Bride

    Jacqueline Baird

    Wanted! His bride and their child Gianfranco asked Kelly to marry him, after her holiday affair with him left her pregnant! But, once married, Gianfranco was often away on business, and his family made Kelly's life a misery. Then she heard th...

  • Chase the Lightning

    Madeline Baker

    Amanda can't believe her eyes when the beautiful white stallion appears in her yard with a wounded man on its back. Dark and ruggedly handsome, the stranger fascinates her. He has about him an aura of danger and desire that excites her in a way h...

  • Where I'm Bound

    Allen B. Ballard

    When Joe Duckett flees his life as a slave to join the Northern Army as a cavalry scout, he becomes more than a free man -- he becomes a hero. Duckett and his regiment of black soldiers roam Mississippi, freeing slaves and keeping vital waterways ope...

  • Tears in a Bottle

    Sylvia Bambola

    Becky Taylor, a young woman burdened by great expectations, is lying on a cold recovery table in an abortion clinic when she hears a man's voice, then gunshots. She holds her breath and lies perfectly still behind the curtain. When the gunman is fini...

  • The Thief-Taker

    T.F. Banks

    June 1815. When Henry Morton is called to the scene at Portman House in Claridge Square, the Bow Street constable finds a man dead in a hackney coach -- ostensibly of asphyxiation. He was Halbert Glendinning, a gentleman of unsullied character. Then ...

  • Arnold's Christmas

    Richard Bartlett

    It's Secret Santa time and Arnold has picked Mr. Hyunh. But what does he give someone who always seems so sad? When Arnold discovers what would make Mr. Hyunh truly happy, he sets off to bring him a very special present. Will Arnold get it in time? F...

  • Rebecca's Tale

    Sally Beauman

    April 1951. It is twenty years since the death of Rebecca, the hauntingly beautiful first wife of Maxim de Winter. Twenty years since Manderley, the de Winter family's estate, was destroyed by fire. But Rebecca's tale is just beginning. Colonel...

  • It Had to Be You

    Timothy James Beck

    A hilarious debut novel follows Daniel Stephenson, a Midwesterner-turned-Manhattanite who decides to cast his alter ego Princess 2Di4 aside and delve into a administrative assistant position, working for Blaine Dunhill, the sexy neighbor he has been ...

  • My Brother, the Robot

    Bonny Becker

    When Simon, his new robotic brother, joins the family, Chip must try to outdo the amazing creation, which does everything perfectly and has grabbed all the attention by being the star performer at home and at school....

  • Noah, the Incredible Voyager

    Bill Bell

    Noted illustrator Bill Bell, whose work has won numerous awards and is considered the Franklin Mint's best selling artist, has retold the tale of Noah and the Great Flood, with magical four color art that vividly brings to life all the wonderful crea...

  • Special Interest

    Chris Benson

    Veronica Sutton came to Washington to do good"but she did even better. Tall, smart, beautiful, and Black, Veronica parlayed her brains, looks, and college activism into a top-notch, million-dollar consulting firm that greased the wheels of Washingt...

  • Presents for Everyone!

    Lara Rice Bergen

    Little Bill is so excited when Alice the Great returns home from a Caribbean cruise and brings back gifts for the entire family, and youngsters can join in the fun as they lift the flaps to find out what the presents are! Original....

  • To and Fro: Fast and Slow

    Durga Bernhard

    An energetic picture book captures the rhythms of a young girl as she goes back and forth between her mother's country home and her father's city apartment and realizes that even though her parents are no longer together, both homes are filled with l...

  • Grace in Action

    Kristin Billerbeck

    Grace Brawlins struggles to get by as a single mom. A solitary mistake created her greatest joy--her son--but it also tore her away from the Lord. Abandonded by the man she thought loved her, she has learned to be fiercly independent. Firefighter ...

  • Ten Ways to Win Her Man

    Beverly Bird

    She was the hotshot CEO of a multimillion-dollar company. But when it came to Maxwell Padgett, Danielle Harrington was lost. Though he was too arrogant, he was also too darn hot -- to let get away! What she needed to win this man was a plan.... Ma...

  • Making the Saint

    Isobel Bird

    In the circle ringed with fire, stand and meet your chosen one. dance among the laughing spirits, listen as their song is sung. A mysterious stranger shows Kate, Annie, and Cooper how to connect with the spirit world, but there are alarming eff...

  • The Pillars of the World

    Anne Bishop

    THE TREES WHISPER OF DANGER.... The youngest in a long line of witches, Ari senses that things are changing--changing for the worse. For generations, her kin have tended the Old Places, keeping the land safe and fertile. But with the Summer Moon, ...

  • Hurricane Season

    Karen Bjorneby

    From icy Berlin to the sweltering South, Hurricane Season examines what it means to want, to desire and ultimately what it is to experience the dark underside of human emotion. In beautiful prose, you will be submerged within the mind of a suicidal w...

  • A Family for Gillian

    Catherine Blair

    AN UNEXPECTED BRIDE Miss Gillian Harwell was sure that getting caught in a compromising position would thwart her family's scheme to marry her off for money. However, her plan worked all too well -- with her reputation ruined, her only recourse ...

  • An Improper Bride

    Sara Blayne

    SHE WAS DESTINED TO LOVE HIM... A firm believer in portents and prophecy, Lady Elfrida Rochelle is stunned by a premonition that the Earl of Shields, the man she is meant to love -- but yet to meet -- is in terrible peril. Heading for London straigh...

  • Hope to Die

    Lawrence Block

    The city caught its collective breath when upscale couple Byrne and Susan Hollander were slaughtered in a brutal home invasion. Now, a few days later, the killers themselves have turned up dead behind the locked door of a Brooklyn hellhole -- one app...

  • The Christmas Cobwebs

    Odds Bodkin

    A poor shoemaker and his family move from Germany to Chicago with only a box of glittering glass ornaments. But when a tragic fire destroys their new house and shop, the family has to move into an abandoned shack, with cobwebs dangling from the rafte...

  • Darkness at Foxglove Corners

    Dorothy Bodoin

    The little town of Foxglove Corners offers tornado survivor Jennet Greenway country peace and a new romance, but the secret of the yellow Victorian house across the lane holds a threat to her new life.

    Can Jennet solve its mysteries in time t...

  • Got Your Number

    Stephanie Bond

    TWO WOMEN ON THE RUN Roxann Readleman just received an ominous message that resurrects old secrets, and her debutante cousin Angora Ryder was just jilted at the altar. A road trip to accomplish things on a life list they made in college leads them...

  • My Soccer Mom From Mars

    Rita Book

  • Dancing With the Virgins

    Stephen Booth

    A “suspenseful and supremely engaging” police procedural featuring a detective team investigating ritualistic killings of women in the English countryside (Los Angeles Times).As winter closes in on the moors, so does death. The body of a young wo...

  • Screenscam

    Michael Bowen

    Rep Pennyworth faces the client from hell. She is Charlotte Buchanan, author of And Done to Others' Harm, a mystery of no particular merit. Charlotte contends the 1997 novel is the basis for the 1999 film Contemplation of Death. She wants to sue. Rep...

  • Murphy's Law

    Rhys Bowen

    Rhys Bowen, author of the much-loved Constable Evans mysteries, takes on the vibrant world of turn-of-the-century Ellis Island and New York in her newest series. With delightful humor and meticulous research Bowen transports readers to the gritty und...

  • Galloway Street

    John Boyle

    John Boyle was born and raised in Scotland but he could never feel Scottish. His parents were poor immigrants from the West of Ireland who came to Scotland to find work and eventually settled in Paisley, where John was the first of six children.Gallo...

  • A Christmas Promise

    Shelley Bradley

    Who Can Resist The Gift of True Love? Headstrong Lady Juliana Linford hadn't pictured herself widowed, penniless, and alone in India when she impulsively eloped with an Army colonel five years ago. But she believed life on her own terms was fa...

  • Executive Privilege

    Jay Brandon

    When young San Antonio attorney David Owens wins a big divorce case he hopes it will attract new business. But when the First Lady of the United States asks him to get her a divorce, he gets much more than he bargained for. Before he can even start w...

  • Once Hell Freezes Over

    Peter Brandvold

    When a murderous gang of outlaws takes refuge from the blizzard in a nearby mountain cabin, taking everyone inside hostage, it is up to Sheriff Ben Stillman to rescue the prisoners, but the situation is complicated when the lawman discovers that his ...

  • Hard to Handle

    Kylie Brant

    SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY... She had secrets in her eyes and lies on her lips, and Detective Gabe Connally knew that Meghan Patterson would give him more than a few sleepless nights. Still, with her young nephew a valuable witness, Gabe had to pursu...

  • A False Sense of Well Being

    Jeanne Braselton

    At thirty-eight, Jessie Maddox has a comfortable life in Glenville, Georgia, with the most responsible husband in the world. But after the storybook romance, "happily ever after" never came. Now Jessie is left to wonder: Why can't she stop picturing ...

  • Wedding Night Revenge

    Mary Brendan

    Rachel Meredith is beautiful, witty, an heiress -- and single! She's turned down every offer of marriage and jilted the most eligible bachelor, handsome Major Connor Flinte. When her father loses her family home in a game of cards, Rachel is f...

  • Clifford's Glow-in-the-Dark Christmas

    Norman Bridwell

    Little ones can join Clifford and his friends as they have a wonderful time frolicking in the snow, making snowmen, and listening to carols on Christmas Eve, in a charming story brought to life with glow-in-the-dark illustrations....

  • One Day You'll Know

    Lauren Brooke

    As Amy adjusts to life without her mother, she relies on her friend Ty, who shares with Amy the responsibility for maintaining Heartland, and when she's struck by another family crisis, it's to Ty that she turns for support....

  • The World of Shannara

    Terry Brooks

    The beloved Shannara series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Terry Brooks is universally acclaimed as a towering achievement, an unquestioned masterpiece in fantasy literature. Now, for the first time, all the wonders of Shannara have been gat...

  • Lily's White Lace

    Carolyn Brown

    Just moments before she heads down the aisle, Lily discovers her husband-to-be, Dylan, has been cheating. Knowing she can't marry a man she can't trust, Lily leaves Dylan at the altar and heads to Oklahoma to clear her head and mend her wounded heart...

  • Blue Horizons

    Irene Bennett Brown

    Meg Brennon knows that her new life at her road ranch, Paragon Springs, can't truly begin until she severs all ties with the abusive husband she'd fled years before. Although fearful, she returns to St. Louis determined to find him and obtain a divor...

  • 24/7

    Jim Brown

    On a small Caribbean island a woman joins the newest reality TV show: 24/7. For Dana Kirsten, winning the $2-million prize could mean saving her child's life. But only fifteen minutes into the first live broadcast, the show's host and crew die a ghas...

  • We Were There

    Eve Bunting

    On a winter night long ago, a baby boy was born in a stable with only the animals to witness his arrival. But it wasn’t just the cows and donkeys and soft little lambs who were present. Smaller, less loved creatures were there, too: the snake, the ...

  • Midnight Burning

    Caroline Burnes

    MAN OR MYTH? "Where he goes, fire follows..." At least, that's what Lacy Wade had heard about the elusive Turner McLeod. His story lured her like a moth to a flame. Now she'd been hired to track him down and expose his secrets.... Facing Turner...

  • Hushabye

    John Burningham

    A long day is drawing to a close, and several creatures are ready for sleep. A cat with a stroller full of kittens needs a place to rest, as does the baby who’s been sailing a boat on the sea. The man in the moon is exhausted, and three tired bears...

  • The Hole

    Guy Burt

    “[A] COMPELLING PSYCHOLOGICAL TALE . . . A QUICK AND INTRIGUING BOOK WITH A TRULY SATISFYING ENDING.”"Publishers WeeklyOn a spring day in England, six teenagers venture to a neglected part of their school where there is a door to a small window...

  • The Merry Wanderer

    Nancy Butler
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    Give the gift of love this holiday season with this special collection of Christmas stories from five beloved and bestselling Regency authors. Each tale touches on the "spirit" of the season and conjures a little mistletoe magic to bring love...

  • Hand-me-down Heartache

    Tajuana Butler

    New, from the author of Sorority Sisters, a novel about a young woman navigating the sometimes rocky terrain of family, career, and relationships.After graduating from college, Nina Lander moves back in with her parents as she temps and tries to secu...

  • The Wildest Shore

    Lisa Cach

    WILD Teasing the female passengers about the perils of the open sea was great fun, but once Horatio Merivale opened his mouth to laugh at danger, he wished he’d kept it shut. A storm dragged the Coventry under, and it was all the East India Compan...

  • Flying Forts

    Martin Caiden

    There is no such thunder in history -- nor ever will be again -- as the deep-throated roar of the mighty, four-engined B-17s that streamed across the skies in World War II. The long runways are silent now, the men and planes are gone. But out of the ...

  • The Fright Before Christmas

    Barbara Calamari

    'Twas the night before Christmas and Angela Anaconda has come up with a plan to ensure that she receives the very best Christmas present ever -- real, authentic arctic snowshoes! But when Gordy accidentally tells Angela's brothers to get her the wron...

  • Shepherd Boy's Christmas

    Mary Calhoun

    While searching for his lost sheep, Matthew discovers something special when he happens across a stable and finds a young couple with a new baby named Jesus amidst the sleeping animals, in an enchanting story filled with illuminating illustrations th...

  • Perfect Puppy

    Stephanie Calmenson

    Since Puppy is so happy in his new home with a girl who hugs him and rubs his tummy, he decides that he is going to be a perfect puppy, but he soon learns that everyone makes mistakes and that his owner loves him just the way he is!...

  • My Warrior

    Glynnis Campbell

    The Knights of de Ware: Wealthy and powerful, the de Wares are one of the most respected noble families in England. The heirs to the de Ware legacy -- Duncan, Holden, and Garth -- are true warriors...and reckless lovers... As one of the fiercest ...

  • Rising Star

    Joanna Campbell

    Is Wonder‘s Star a has"been?

    No one thought Wonder‘s Star would get well again 埥veryone was certain he would never run another race. The racing press was calling him a has"been.

    But Christina Reese never gave up hope. Slow...

  • Merry Christmas, from Biscuit

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

    Follow Biscuit and the little girl as they make a very special present for Grandma and Grandpa--a Christmas photo album filled with alll of their favorite Christmas memories! At the end of the book, there is a special section to add your own holid...

  • Broken Bow

    Diane Carey

    Before Janeway and Sisko, before Picard and Kirk... It Is the twenty-seoond century...and the dawn of mankind's boldest adventure. Thanks to the amazing breakthroughs in warp technology, an era of true Interstellar exploration is about to begin, an...

  • Diamond in the Ruff

    Emily Carmichael

    Can a pup with a nose for trouble collar two lovers who need a miracle? Lydia Keane figured she'd be heading for heaven after finding her best friend, Amy, the perfect husband. But instead the reluctant angel's still stuck here on earth, trapped i...

  • Homestake Lode

    G. Sam Carr

    It's 1878 in the wild American West, and people do what they can to make decent lives for themselves. Tuck Powells is a stoic Wells Fargo detective hired to protect a rich mine owner, George Hearst. Kelly Ryan is a spirited young actress headed West ...

  • The Wedding Party

    Robyn Carr

    Charlene Dugan started her day as usual -- single. Then, all in the space of a few hours: - Her daughter announced she doesn't want to "end up like her" - Her absentminded mother got lost in a parking lot - Her ex-husband accused her of being af...

  • The Woman for Dusty Conrad

    Tori Carrington

    SHE WAS HIS WIFE -- THE ONLY WOMAN HE HAD EVER LOVED.... Yet tragedy had torn Dusty Conrad from her loving arms. Now Dusty was back, and everyone in the small town of Old Orchard thought he'd come to stay. To be the man Jolie Conrad still loved....

  • Glory Goes and Gets Some: Stories

    Emily Carter

    How is a woman in her thirties, HIV-positive and fresh out of rehab, supposed to find love and work in contemporary, urban America? Emily Carter's critically acclaimed debut traces Glory's journey from her addictions to heroin and alcohol in New Y...

  • Falling Angels

    Tracy Chevalier

    A fashionable London cemetery, January 1901: Two graves stand side by side, one decorated with an oversize classical urn, the other with a sentimental marble angel. Two families, visiting their respective graves on the day after Queen Victoria's deat...

  • Last Virgin in California

    Maureen Child

    For years, Lilah Forrest had dodged her matchmaking colonel father's "bachelor bullets." But that didn't stop him from steamrolling Sergeant Kevin Rogan into playing Lilah's personal escort. She'd never marry military -- not even sexy soldier Rogan. ...

  • When the Lights Went Out

    Judy Christenberry

    To: Jen, Lauren, Julia, Maggie From: Sharon Davies Date: 10/01 RE: Due Date: 7 months! Remember my dream man? The one I met when trapped in the elevator? Well, he's back -- and he's our new client! The moment I heard his voice, I knew J...

  • Prey

    Scott Ciencin

    Author Michael Crichton created a blockbuster franchise with Jurassic Park, and these original digest novels continue the adventures for its millions of young fans!

    A band of teenagers armed with video cameras and what they think are “the ru...

  • October Suite

    Maxine Clair

    The debut novel by the author of Rattlebone. “Told in a melody all its own, this story touches many lovely and unexpected notes.” -- Elizabeth Strout, #1 New York Times bestselling author   It is 1950 and October Brown is a twenty-three-yea...

  • Never Kissed Goodnight

    Edie Claire

    CHEATERS NEVER PROSPER. Leigh Koslow may have found happiness in her new marriage -- but her cousin Cara's life seems to be nothing short of perfect. She has a knockout figure, an adorable son, and a rich, devoted -- not to mention gorgeous --...

  • Christmas Cattitude

    Cathleen Clare
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    Lord David Donnington's twelve-year-old charge is spoiled, arrogant -- and recently orphaned. Stranded during a blizzard, Eugenia's tantrums mount -- until she is befriended by delightful innkeeper Stephanie's equally charming cat, Fluffy...

  • The Surgeon's Secret

    Lucy Clark

    A forbidden desire... Dr. Alex Page wasn't quite sure how to handle gorgeous live wire Jordanne McElroy. The beautiful researcher was everything he had ever wanted in a woman, but he knew he couldn't risk getting involved. Jordanne, however, w...

  • Hook Man Speaks

    Matt Clark

    The infamous Hook Man, the terror of romantic teens parked on Lovers' Lanes across the country, speaks out for himself as he describes his own life, fears, and dreams, in a novel that brings to life a popular urban legend. Original....

  • A Devilish Husband

    Alana Clayton

    AN UNASSUMING LADY For newly married Cassandra Crawford, there was no courtship, simply a written proposal from Jared Moreland, Viscount Carisle, which her debt-laden stepfather quickly accepted on her behalf. And so she finds herself wed to a hands...

  • The Merchant of Marvels: And the Peddler of Dreams

    Frederic Clement

    What to give the person who has everything? This is the dilemma of Frederick Knick-Knack, who surely must have, somewhere in his bags and boxes, his chests and cases, his collection of collections, the ideal gift for his friend Alice. Published in Fr...

  • The Cattle Baron's Wife

    Colleen Coble

    After her parents died, Lucy Marsh took responsibility for her young sister and brother. She struggles to support them and tries to make a home for them. But somehow, she never makes ends meet. Just when their lives seem hopeless, a man named Luth...

  • Disney's Pop-Up: Animals

    Sue Cole

    Your favorite Disney characters are featured on the pages of these exciting interactive books. At every turn of the page, a bold, oversized character pops up! Bambi slips on the ice, Lady and the Tramp share spaghetti in the moonlight, the Aristocats...

  • Gigi, Julie de Carneilha, and Chance Acquaintances

    Colette

    Two volumes of Colette's most beloved works, with a new Introduction by Judith Thurman.

    Perhaps Colette's best-known work, Gigi is the story of a young girl being raised in a household more concerned with success and money than with the desi...

  • Benny and Babe

    Eoin Colfer

    'If you don't recognise yourself and a dozen friends somewhere in here, you're probably an alien.' RTE GUIDE When Benny meets Babe he has met his match! Benny may be a wise guy, but Babe is at least three steps ahead of him. And he's on her te...

  • Eyes of Elisha

    Brandilyn Collins

    The murder was ugly.

    The killer was sure no one saw him.

    Someone did.

    In a horrifying vision, Chelsea Adams has relived the victim's last moments. But who will believe it? Certainly not the police, who must rely on hard evi...

  • Windtalkers

    Max Allan Collins

    During the invasion of Sai-pan near the end of World War II, Marine Joe Enders is given the task of protecting Navajo radioman Ben Yahzee, called a codetalker, or killing him if he falls into enemy Japanese hands....

  • Surf's Up

    Terry Collins

    Otto Rocket finds the monster waves of a huge storm too tempting to pass up. But is he in over his head? Then in a second story, Otto¹s asked to be on the cover of a magazine. No problem, right? Wrong -- again!...

  • Medicine War

    Robert J. Conley

    George Panther, a respected medicine man within the Cherokee nation, kills a white man who brought bad medicine into the territory, and begins to use his medicine to elude United States marshals and wage war against the enemy....

  • For All Time

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Annie Lockwood is testing Time. She’s traveled through it before, but always at Time’s bidding. Now she is asking Time to take her to the year 1899, when Strat is in Cairo. But Time doesn’t like to be tested. In what feels like a cruel joke, An...

  • Promises, Promises

    Shelley Cooper

    "HAVE A WILD, CRAZY AFFAIR." Of all the promises Gretchen Montgomery was asked to keep after her friend's death, this one posed a problem. Gretchen was not wild or crazy. She didn't even know any eligible men -- except her tenant, Dr. Marco Gariba...

  • A Chocolate Affair

    Sheila Copeland

    Lovely, spiritual Keisha Johnson feels a divine purpose has guided her husband's trade to the Lakers, despite her fears about his growing fame and new chances to stray. Jade Kimura Ross has mixed feelings about getting pregnant on her honeymoon wi...

  • Rag and Bone Shop

    Robert Cormier

    Twelve-year old Jason is accused of the brutal murder of a young girl. Is he innocent or guilty? The shocked town calls on an interrogator with a stellar reputation: he always gets a confession. The confrontation between Jason and his interrogator fo...

  • Isle of Dogs

    Patricia Cornwell

    Chaos breaks loose when the governor of Virginia orders that speed traps be painted on all streets and highways, and warns that speeders will be caught by monitoring aircraft flying overhead. But the eccentric island of Tangier, fourteen miles off th...

  • Food to Die For: Secrets from Kay Scarpetta's Kitchen

    Patricia Cornwell

  • Christmas Joy

    Wilma Counts
    in

    To help his daughter Joy recover after the death of her mother, Justin Wingate brings her to a Christmas party. But the only ones to whom the girl will speak are a tiny white kitten--and bereaved widow Meghan Kenwick. Now it's up to an angelic ball o...

  • Maisy's Farm

    Lucy Cousins

    Maisy takes preschoolers to her pop-up farm for hours of fun!

    What’s more fun than a day on the farm? A day on the farm with Maisy! Maisy’s Farm is an amazing three-dimensional pop-up farm full of things to do and animals to love. The stur...

  • Butterfly Buddies

    Judy Cox

  • The Devil's Larder

    Jim Crace

    A sumptuous, scintillating stew of sixty four short fictions about appetite, food, and the objects of our desireAll great meals, it has been said, lead to discussions of either sex or death, and The Devil's Larder, in typical Cracean fashion, leads t...

  • Rome's Revenge

    Sara Craven

    For better, for worse -- for revenge... Rome d'Angelo could have his pick of women -- only, his fiancee had already been chosen for him, by his grandfather! A family feud meant Rome was being forced into a vengeful seduction: he must get engag...

  • About Face

    Cindy Crawford

    The first language every child learns to speak and read is body language. In this wonderfully playful picture book, one of the most recognized faces in America (along with her young son, Presley) shows us how to use our faces to say just about any...

  • A Deadly Change of Heart

    Gina Cresse

    Devonie has a knack for stumbling into trouble. After she successfully bids on a Ford Explorer at a U.S. Marshal's auction, she finds she's bought more than just an SUV. The surprise "extra" lands her in the middle of a police investigation into the ...

  • A Western Family Christmas: Christmas Eve

    Millie Criswell
    in

    A handsome drifter and a lonely spinster rediscover the joys of the season when they are snowbound during the holidays....

  • The Seeing Stone

    Kevin Crossley-Holland

    ONCE AND FUTURE. TWICE AND PAST. The year is 1199 and on the borders of England and Wales young Arthur de Caldicot waits impatiently to grow up and become a knight. One day his father's friend Merlin gives Arthur a shining black stone -- a seeing ...

  • Stable Rat and Other Christmas Poems

    Julia Cunningham

    What a gathering it was! There were the quiet ox, the clucking hen, a cow, six sheep, a horse, and other animals. But no one looked at the stable rat--except the baby, who not only looked but loved.

    In these startlingly powerful poems, Julia...

  • My Grandmother Is a Singing Yaya

    Karen Scourby D'Arc

  • The Alpine Nemesis

    Mary Daheim

    DEAD NEWS DAY Two months after an unlucky snowboarder vanished on the slopes above Alpine, his disappearance is old copy. Emma Lord, publisher of the Alpine Advocate, is back to writing about graduations and the latest outbreak of chicken pox--unt...

  • A Capital Holiday

    Janet Dailey

    "All I Want for Christmas..." Life in the White House means never having a moment to yourself. As the President's daughter and official hostess, Jocelyn Wakefield longs to escape the media circus that surrounds her every move for just...

  • Trick or Treat?

    Jenny Dale

    It's Halloween and King Street Kennels seems to be haunted! Dogs switch mysteriously from pen to pen, objects move by themselves, and Neil spots a strange shape in the night. But the kennel has another visitor, too- Trick, a bold and bright aband...

  • The Puppet Master

    John Dalmas

    THE PRIVATE EYE HAD A MIND, OF HIS OWN! In an alternate time line, a breakthrough in basic physics has catapulted technology centuries ahead in only a few years. Everyday life has become very different, but crime always goes on, and criminals have...

  • To Perish in Penzance

    Jeanne M. Dams

    LIKE MOTHER, LIKE DAUGHTER While Dorothy Martin loves nearly everything about England--especially her new husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt--she could do without September's incessant rain. The lure of the sunshine of Cornwall's pictu...

  • Math Man

    Teri Daniels

  • Amber Brown

    Paula Danziger

  • My Beloved Waits

    Peggy Darty

    First her brother died in battle. Then her father was lost, as well. Now, the War Between the States is over, but the ravages of the brutal conflict live on. Grace Cunningham, who left to care for her ailing mother, must keep their small Alabama farm...

  • Deep Water

    S.V. Date

    The Florida theme park giant Waldo Whipple has passed on, leaving his legacy to a few "yes" men -- and his last project unfinished. Whipple, creator of the world's most famous muskrat, had dreamt of a suburban Utopia -- a safe, self-sufficient neighb...

  • Peter Claus and the Naughty List

    Lawrence David

    Naughty or nice? Peter Claus thinks this yearly question is most unfair. As Santa’s son, he should know. For the second year in a row his name appears on the dreaded Naughty List. That means no presents for Christmas! But Peter doesn’t remember m...

  • Cold Wars

    Peter David

    Missing for two hundred millennia, the legendary Iconians have returned, bringing with them the secret of interdimensional teleportation across vast interstellar distances. Awakened once more, their ancient Gateways are rewriting the map of the galax...

  • Travels

    Jerry J. Davis

    In a near future United States where the subliminal power of television has been boosted to irresistible levels, Dodd Corely is a man increasingly at odds with the world. His live-in girlfriend, Sheila, is addicted to the popular Travels television s...

  • Tenebrea's Hope

    Roxann Dawson; Daniel Graham

    Andrea Flores has become one of the most valued agents of the Tenebrea, the elite fighting force of the star-spanning Alliance. Following the destruction of the Clone Welfare Institute run by the Cor Ordinate, Andrea is sent on a vital mission alongs...

  • The Onion Girl

    Charles de Lint

    In novel after novel, and story after story, Charles de Lint has brought an entire imaginary North American city to vivid life. Newford: where magic lights dark streets; where myths walk clothed in modern shapes; where a broad cast of extraordinary a...

  • Pafko at the Wall

    Don DeLillo

    "There's a long drive.It's gonna be.I believe.The Giants win the pennant.The Giants win the pennant.The Giants win the pennant.The Giants win the pennant."-- Russ Hodges, October 3, 1951On the fiftieth anniversary of "The Shot Heard Round the World,"...

  • The Defiant

    Paul Dengelegi

    In the medieval port of Venice, Casca, the immortal warrior cursed by Christ on Golgotha, becomes embroiled in a fierce blood feud between two powerful families when he rescues Marco, a young man desperately in love with the daughter of his archenemy...

  • Hot & Bothered

    Wendy Dennis

    Is it still all right to go all the way on the 1st date? Who brings the condoms? What is a politically correct blowjob? How do you ethically dump someone? What are the secrets of great sex in long-term relationships? Wendy Dennis has interviewed 100s...

  • Hannah's Bookmobile Christmas

    Sally Derby

    A warm-spirited Christmas story about friendship and generosity, with a touch of adventure.

    Snowflakes like dandelion fluff floated in the air.
    Christmas carols rang through the streets, and the
    sleigh bells on Blue Bird's door chimed m...

  • The Scandalous Summer of Sissy Leblanc

    Loraine Despres

    It’s okay for a woman to know her place. She just shouldn’t stay there. -- Rule Number 59, The Southern Belle's Handbook It's a steamy June afternoon in Louisiana, circa 1956, and Sissy LeBlanc is sitting on her front porch, wondering -- half s...

  • No Mercy

    Thea Devine
    in

    Seven years after her spontaneous marriage spontaneously combusted, Regan Torrance is a little older, a little wiser, and a lot smarter about what she wants--and doesn't want. So when her ex-husband, Bobby, comes sauntering back into her life, as dan...

  • Sullivan

    Linda Devlin

    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...

  • Good Harbor

    Anita Diamant

    Anita Diamant whose rich portrayal of the biblical world of women illuminated her acclaimed international bestseller The Red Tent, now crafts a moving novel of contemporary female friendship. Good Harbor is the long stretch of Cape Ann beach where ...

  • Disney's Pop-Up: Adventures

    Disney Book Group

    Inside this delightful music box, which plays the popular Christmas carol "Jingle Bells," you'll find five hardcover books with padded covers and a Mickey Mouse Christmas decoration. These holiday tales feature your favorite characters from 101 Dalma...

  • Cold and Pure and Very Dead

    Joanne Dobson

    Professor Karen Pelletier has made a name for herself as one of the leading scholars of literature at exclusive Enfield College. But when an offhand comment sets off a firestorm of controversy, she finds herself embroiled in a scandal that began with...

  • In My Wildest Dreams

    Christina Dodd

    Since she was a little girl, Celeste has had one burning desire: to marry Ellery Throckmorton. But what chance does a gardener's daughter have of capturing the heart of one of England's wealthiest gentlemen? However, the education she receives at the...

  • Famous Adventures of Jack

    Berlie Doherty

    It all starts when the storyteller tells Jill that it's high time she met Jack. The question is: Which Jack? "They're all called Jack around here," Mother Greenwood tells her. There's Great- grandfather Jack, Uncle Jack, Daft Jack, Jack the Giant ...

  • Under the Kissing Bough

    Shannon Donnelly

    A KISS WAS ONLY THE FIRST GIFT Shy Eleanor Glover is astounded when wickedly handsome Geoffrey Westerly, Lord Staines, asks for her hand. Yet he makes it plain that he wants nothing more than a sensible wife--and a Christmas Eve wedding to please ...

  • Harmless Error

    Kate Donovan

    To celebrated criminal defense attorney Derek Grainger, objectivity is the key to success. But how can he be objective when his new client, a convicted murderer, possesses information crucial to the welfare of Derek's five-year-old daughter and won't...

  • A Paradigm of Earth

    Candas Jane Dorsey

    Candas Jane Dorsey's first novel, the fantasy Black Wine, won three significant awards and got enthusiastic reviews across the United States and Canada. Now Dorsey returns with a literary SF parable about a woman named Morgan and her offbeat househol...

  • Chapel Noir

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    IRENE ADLER RETURNS Before Caleb Carr and Laurie R. King, Carole Nelson Douglas gave readers a compelling look into Victoriana with a bold new detective character: Irene Adler, the only woman to ever outwit Sherlock Holmes. An operatic diva and th...

  • Bought and Scold

    Laura Dower

  • Fishy Business

    Laura Dower

    Professor Utonium is at his wits' end with all the stray animals Bubbles has been rescuing, and when she shows up with a beached baby whale, Blossum and Buttercup decide it's Bubbles that needs rescuing now....

  • Bold Boy

    Malachy Doyle

    A playful folktale about a very bold little boy -- illustrated by beloved artist Jane Ray.

    One day, a bold boy entrusts an old woman to look after his pea.
    But when the old woman’s speckled hen eats the pea, the bold boy declares the hen...

  • Silvercloak

    Dave Duncan

  • Double Vengeance

    John Duncklee

    Undercover agent Joe Holly is sent to Fort Huachuca, deep in the heart of Apache territory, to find out who at the fort has been selling information to the gang of outlaws who have been stealing the Army's payroll deliveries. Original....

  • Rat Boys

    Thom Eberhardt

    Best friends Summer and Marci are in a quandry when they tell obnoixious Jennifer that they have dates for the Spring fling. Unfortunately for them, this is not exactly true. The only way to recover from the ultimate humiliation of getting caught in ...

  • Squeak's Good Idea

    Max Eilenberg

    The author of COWBOY KID and the illustrator of OWL BABIES offer a gentle read-aloud about trying out one’s independence.

    Squeak has a good idea -- he’s going outside. But to be on the safe side, he’ll need just a few things -- like mitt...

  • About-Face Space Race

    Robert Elmer

    Everybody knows you should love your neighbor and help those in need, but does that apply when you're in the middle of the biggest race of the year? That's what the ASTROKIDS find out in this book from Robert Elmer. It's time for the spacepod race an...

  • Wing on a Flea

    Ed Emberley

    Originally published 40 years ago, this book uses vivid illustrations and simple rhyming text by a noted author/illustrator to introduce the concept of shapes and sizes to curious young readers as he suggests how they can view the world in a new and ...

  • The Border Bride

    Elizabeth English

    The Stand-in Bride No one can remember a time when the Darnleys and Kirallens were at peace -- the neighboring clans have been at each other's throats for generations. At long last, however, it seems like peace is at hand -- Darnley's daughter Maude...

  • The Museum of Horrors

    Dennis Etchison

    A spinetingling collection, filled with all things gruesome and terrifying, features eighteen stories from such contributors as Peter Straub, Richard Laymon, Ramsey Campbell, Joyce Carol Oates, Charles L. Grant, and Lisa Morton. Original....

  • Longarm and the Denver Executioners

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm longs to send this posse a-packin’!Everybody in Denver remembers the ruthless massacre at a local bank ’round five years back, but not a living soul has seen hide nor hair of the posse since. The murderers scooted out of town with a good ...

  • Longarm and the Widow's Spite

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm heads to a town called Hardwater to find out why the dying is easy…When hard-livin’ bully Cracker Marner finally ran out of luck, dying came easy. A few shots to the chest by a smaller man with a bigger hat. That’s all anyone at the sal...

  • One True Vow

    Eva Marie Everson

    "For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health…"

    These words are spoken at almost every wedding ceremony. But what many couples hear on that special day is, "for better, for richer, and in health." What happens when th...

  • The Lost One

    Lynne Ewing

    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. What separates them from others...

  • Heart of a Hero

    Marie Ferrarella

    HER BABY HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED Former Las Vegas showgirl Dakota Armstrong was desperate when her son was stolen from her. He'd been taken by one of the most dangerous men in Nevada, and she had little hope of recovering him by herself. When handsome ...

  • Flinch

    Robert Ferrigno


    His last novel, Heartbreaker, was called by the Chicago Tribune “recklessly exciting and wildly funny. [It leaves the] reader gasping for air and begging for more.” With Flinch, Robert Ferrigno’s electrifying and darkly funny new novel, we ...

  • The Mistress Deal

    Sandra Field

    His mistress for a week! Media tycoon Reece Callahan would publish scandalous information about Lauren Courtney's stepfather -- unless she agreed to pose as Reece's mistress for a week.... It was a price Lauren was willing to pay to pro...

  • Grand Avenue

    Joy Fielding

    Looking back, it seemed like paradise: lives filled with the blessings of friendship, marriage, children, and career. For twenty years, four friends--Chris, Barbara, Susan, and Vicki--shared everything and faced the challenges of life and love head-o...

  • Mr. Predictable

    Carol Finch

    He was about to become a wild man... Thanks to his meddling sisters, J. T. Prescott's predictable life is about to change radically. They've booked him a two-week stay at Moriah Randell's ranch for stressed-out business execs. Soon J.T. finds that a...

  • Senseless

    Stona Fitch

    Kidnapped in Brussels by a group of international terrorists who accuse him of a terrible crime and demand justice, Eliot Gast learns that his imprisonment in a white room is being broadcasted on the Internet, and after cooperating with his captors, ...

  • Murder in a Minor Key

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    A FUNERAL IN NEW ORLEANS After attending a conference in New Orleans, Jessica Fletcher can't resist staying an extra week for the annual jazz festival. In her short time there, she gets a chance to sample everything the city has to offer, its delect...

  • The Bone Doll's Twin

    Lynn Flewelling

    DARK MAGIC, HIDDEN DDESTINY For three centuries a divine prophecy and a line of warrior queens protected Skala. But the people grew complacent and Erius, a usurper king, claimed his young half sister's throne. Now plague and drought stalk the land...

  • Pyramid Scheme

    Eric Flint; Dave Freer

    MUMMY DEAREST An alien pyramid has appeared on Earth, squatting in the middle of Chicago. It is growing, destroying the city as it does -- and nothing seems able to stop it, not even the US military. Somehow, the alien device is snatching people a...

  • Separation of Power

    Vince Flynn

    Newly appointed CIA director, Dr. Irene Kennedy, is the target of an inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the American President's term. To make matters worse, Saddam Hussein is close to entering the nuclear arms race--something Israel has ...

  • Stranger in Her Bed

    Suzanne Forster
    in

    Once on the cutting edge of her profession, software designer Kerry Houston is now a shut-in, terrified of the outside world. She works from home, and one day encounters the man of her fantasies--in a video game! What will she do when her sexy dream ...

  • Satisfy Me

    Lori Foster
    in

    When a sophisticated sex shop opens in their small town, Asia Michaels and her friends find themselves fascinated by its sensual possibilities. And now it's time for Truth or Dare...Asia is about to meet a man who holds the key to her fantasies--and ...

  • Treat Her Right

    Lori Foster

    MAYBE OPPOSITES ATTRACT... Paramedic Zack Grange was in the market for a wife, but not just any wife. He wanted the perfect role model for his little girl. When Wynn Lane moved in next door, he could state exactly what he didn't want in a wife. No b...

  • Cat and Mouse

    Diane Fox; Christyan Fox

    Peering through the die-cut, mouse-sized holes, young readers will find themselves in a madcap world in which a mouse wants some cheese and a cat wants the mouse. In staccato rhyming couplets and pictures that seem to move at the speed of a hungry ca...

  • Buttercup Baby

    Karen Fox

    Ariel of the Fae had never seen a baby before. But then why would she have? Children do not exist in her realm. So the moment she finally enters the mortal world and spies a sleeping child, Ariel falls instantly in love--and decides she wants one. Al...

  • Santa Visits the Big Blue House

    Kylie Foxx

    It's Christmas Eve! Bear and all his friends are very busy geting things ready until they start to worry and wonder if Santa will come. What can they do to make sure Santa stops by the Big Blue House this year? Find out in this heartwarming story...

  • Ironheart

    Emily French

    DESTINY WORE MANY DISGUISES -- but Lady Brenna, pledged as bride in a match more alliance than love affair, saw true when Caer Llion rode up to her castle gates. This valiant knight was surely her mysterious betrothed, for he was her past -- and F...

  • Bethlehem

    Fiona French

    A stunning picture book celebrates the wonder, joy, grace, and beauty of Jesus' miraculous birth with gorgeous images inspired by England's stunning stained-glass cathedral windows and with text taken from the Gospels of Matthew and Luke from the Kin...

  • Beto and the Bone Dance

    Gina Freschet


    A fantastic encounter on the Day of the Dead.

    Today is Beto's favorite holiday -- the Day of the Dead. First, he and his father craft an altar at home in honor of Beto's recently departed grandmother, filled with the things she loved in l...

  • Gus and Button

    Saxton Freymann

    When something bright green lands in Gus's monochromatic mushroom land, he and his dog Button travel far and wide--to the land of Cornucopia--to find the source of the green thing. By the creators of How Are You Peeling? ...

  • The Winter Child

    Wendy Froud

  • Kingdom of Shadows

    Alan Furst

    “Kingdom of Shadows must be called a spy novel, but it transcends genre, as did some Graham Greene and Eric Ambler classics.” -- The Washington PostParis, 1938. As Europe edges toward war, Nicholas Morath, an urbane former cavalry officer, s...

  • Operation Beauty

    Kristin Gabriel

    Sam T. Kane loves women -- but he doesn't want to be one! Unfortunately, Sam's mission is to infiltrate Ladybug Lingerie and steal its newest, top-secret bra design. So Sam reluctantly dons a wig and panty hose -- and ends up falling for Lauren McBri...

  • Operation Babe Magnet

    Kristin Gabriel

    Dexter D. Kane will do anything to take over the family business -- even if it means masquerading as a gigolo! But when publicist Kylie Timberlake offers him a job, Dexter happily jumps into his new role. Kylie desperately needs a man to impersonate ...

  • Her Boss's Baby

    Cathleen Galitz

    FROM BUSINESS TO BABY... Falsely accused of a crime, Jonas Goodfellow had already encountered enough mis-Fortunes since meeting his "family" without looking for more. But even common sense and a jaded heart couldn't make him resist sweet Tara Summer...

  • From the Horse's Mouth

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Sabrina has two weeks to learn how to ride a cranky and lame horse named Mission Impossible, or the horse will be sent off to a low-rental stable, but Sabrina has ways of solving the problem by getting Mission Impossible to talk....

  • With Hostile Intent

    Robert Gandt

    Meet the fighter jocks who fly the F/A-18 Super Hornets of the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan--in a novel of supersonic air combat so powerfully real, it could only have been written by a former Navy pilot. The Gulf War has been over for ten y...

  • Some Kind of Incredible

    Katherine Garbera

    THE NIGHT I DIDN'T JUST TAKE A MEMO... Nicholas Camden, my positively gorgeous boss, is a man who has occupied my dreams for nearly two years, a man who has never noticed me as a woman. Until the day we went from colleagues discussing a takeover to ...

  • Bitter Sugar

    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

    The dearest friend of Lupe Solano's beloved "Papi," Ramon Suarez was the owner of a prosperous sugar mill back in Cuba until Castro forced him into exile. Now an unnamed Spanish source wants to purchase the confiscated property at a fraction of its t...

  • Ascending

    James Alan Gardner

    Oar is the last of her kind -- a resident of the so-called "planet of no return," once the Admiralty's dumping ground for undesirables and those who had become expendable. Oar's transparent body is indestructible. Yet the mind it houses grows weary a...