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  • You Made Me Love You

    Jayne Addison

    Anything that can go wrong ... Single mom Caroline Phelps was a modern-day damsel in distress -- out of work, two small children and no place to call home. She hated relying on the kindness of strangers, but Jack Corey didn't seem the type of ...

  • Cam Jansen Fun Book

    David A. Adler

  • The Witch of Watergate

    Warren Adler

    Fiona FitzGerald, senator’s daughter turned Washington, D.C., homicide detective, is called in to investigate a murder with explosive consequences on Capitol Hill. An infamous Washing Post reporter whose poison pen has destroyed many a politicianâ€...

  • Blood Assassins

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY -- WOULD JOHN THOMAS ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE…? World War Ill has reduced the once-proud land of plenty to a battle-seared landscape of blasted rubble and toxic waste. A few tattered pockets of civilization ...

  • A Fit of Shivers

    Joan Aiken

    Ten short stories with elements of horror or the supernatural, including: Number Four, Bowstring Lane Earrings An L-Shaped Grave Something Birthday Gifts The Rose-Garden Dream Watkyn, Comma The Shrieking Door Cousin Alice The Leg...

  • The Young Dragons

    Peter Albano

  • When the New Baby Comes I'm Moving Out

    Martha G. Alexander

  • Nadia the Willful

    Sue Alexander

  • Jack of Hearts

    Heather Allison

    Red was her color. Hearts was his suit. Their wedding was in the cards! Flamboyant Laurel Hall was a failure as an actress. But when she returned to Dallas, she found herself with the toughest role of her life -- playing high-stakes poker agains...

  • Cause for Love

    Kerry Allyne

    Revel Ballard wanted to do something worthwhile, so when her friend suggested she learn about conservation, she was more than delighted to help in any way she could. And then she met Tyler -- and Tyler owned a logging mill. How could Revel reveal her...

  • Ballad for Sallie

    Judy Alter

    The Gunfighter... Longhair Jim Courtright had been both a marshal and a desperado - and in Hell's Half Acre, the roughest part of Fort Worth, he was a living legend. His skill with a gun had made him a hero in some people's eyes...and a killer in oth...

  • Maurai & Kith

    Poul Anderson

    The bestselling author of such classic novels as Brain Wave and The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson won just about every award the science fiction and fantasy field has to offer. He has won multiple Hugos and Nebulas, the John W. Campbell Awar...

  • Kids

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • The Color of Her Panties

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

    A merwoman and a goblin girl each take on dangerous quests in this hilarious fantasy adventure by a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author. In Xanth, almost everything is magic, and whatever isn’t is probably lying. The land is also more dangerou...

  • Horatio's Bed

    Camilla Ashforth

  • Catwoman

    Robert Asprin

  • Vanishing Points

    Thea Astley

    In The Genteel Poverty Bus Company, a lone man foils the capitalistic efforts of a developer-magnate, and the same developer's wife leaves her fat-cat husband for a mission at Bukki Bay in Inventing the Weather. ...

  • The Blue Boy

    Martin Auer

    In a poignant fable about the consequences of war, a little blue boy, orphaned and alone, who lives on a distant, war-torn planet, spurns the company of all living things as he searches desperately for someone safe from the horrors of war--and safe t...

  • Leviathan

    Paul Auster

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER •  A “compelling” (Los Angeles Times) novel of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday -- from “a literary original who is perfecting a genre of his own” (The...

  • Who Was That Masked Man, Anyway?

    Avi

    A fast-paced, madcap adventure from the always surprising raconteur, Avi!It's the spring of 1945 in Brooklyn, and while WWII rages in Europe, sixth grader Frankie Wattleson--inspired by the heroics of The Lone Ranger and other radio show idols--sets ...

  • Thomas' Big Railway Pop-up Book

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Thomas the Tank Engine and the Tractor

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Henry the Green Engine and the Tunnel

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Percy Takes the Plunge

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Thomas the Tank Engine Goes Fishing

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Matreshka

    Becky Hickox Ayres

  • School Isn't Fair!

    Patricia Baehr

  • More Than Friends

    Judy Baer

    Lexi Leighton was so excited she could hardly wait to tell the news to her friends at Cedar River. Her very best friend from Grover's Point was coming to visit, and they'd all finally get to meet the girl Lexi had told so many stories about! ...

  • Lonely Girl

    Judy Baer

    Lexi Leighton first noticed the pretty new girl in the dark hallways long after school had let out. Why would anyone hang around school so late? Seeing the same girl early the next morning getting ready for school in the restroom, Lexi's curiosit...

  • Midnight Fire

    Madeline Baker

    He was a hard-riding, hard-drinking drifter, a half-breed who had no use for a frightened white girl fleeing an unwanted wedding. He told himself he needed only the money she offered to guide her across the plains, but half-way between Galveston and ...

  • Fields and the Hills: The Journey, Once Begun

    Harald Bakken

    Considered a witch for his extraordinary powers of sight and hearing, thirteen-year-old Weyr sets off on his own and is drawn into the lives of the Agari, a people feared and hated by Weyr's own Tamish village....

  • Apache's Angel

    Karen A. Bale

    SHE COULDN'T FORGET HIS KISS Headstrong Aissa Gerard had never forgotten the bold Apache warrior who rescued her from captivity when she was fourteen. When her father the Sheriff, brought in a wounded Apache brave and locked him in a cell, Aissa rec...

  • The Notorious Rake

    Mary Balogh

    The Lady and the Libertine Lord Edmund Waite was everything that Lady Mary Gregg despised in a man. He was lewd, lascivious, mocking---the most notorious and successful rake in the realm. Happily, Mary had nothing to fear from this lord of liberti...

  • The Dark Rider

    Mary Balogh
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    "WHEN THE MOON IS FULL, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN..." Come with us on five journeys of the heart, where romance weaves its magic spell and things are not always as they seem. From some of the most beloved authors of romantic fiction come the tal...

  • Knight Dreams

    Suzanne Barclay

    Illusions of Love Out of her dreams and into the fray, The Knight rode to her rescue. Fantasy promised Gabrielle de Lauren a golden-haired savior, but reality gave her Ruarke Sommerville, a passionate war machine who denied the poet in his soul. A...

  • A Very Scary Ghost Story

    Joanne Barkan

  • O Caledonia

    Elspeth Barker

    In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-19th century -- featuring a new introduction by Maggie O’Farrell, aw...

  • Held Hostage

    Jean Barrett

    A NOT SO INNOCENT MAN Began MacLeod was a plain-Jane schoolteacher--small-town girl, smalltime dreams--the kind of woman who was never in the wrong place at the wrong time. Yet here she was, stranded in the snowy Canadian wilderness, doing her dar...

  • Cream Cake

    Chris Barton

  • Robert Bateman Naturalist Cal

    Robert Bateman

  • Tough Beans

    Betty Bates

  • The Little Green Dragon Steps Out

    Klaus Baumgart

  • My Bedtime Anytime Storybook

    V. Gilbert Beers

    This lovable band of animal friends with fun-loving wholesome spirits lead you and your children through a wealth of original stories by beloved storyteller, V. Gilbert Beers.You children will delight in the festive illustrations and be captivated by...

  • Eyewitness to Murder

    Sophie Belfort

    History professor Molly Rafferty investigates the murder of her mentor, an eyewitness to an act of genocide in the Ukraine during the Second World War, who was murdered shortly after films of the massacre were recovered from Eastern Europe....

  • Moon Was Tired of Walking on Air

    Natalia M. Belting

  • Sunset Whispers

    Cherie Bennett

    Return to Sunset Island in Sunset Whispers, the dazzling tenth book in the bestselling series about Carrie, Samantha, and Emma -- away from home in the ultimate summer job! Emma and I are going to be on stage together! Well, it's not official yet. F...

  • Coverup

    Jay Bennett

    "Quick and fun with a satisfying resolution."
    VOYA
    All Brad remembers about that party was that his friend Alden Whitlock drove him home. He also has the nagging feeling that while he was sleeping in the passenger seat, Alden hit something--or ...

  • Death in the Hills

    D.R. Bensen

  • Foot of Clive

    John Berger

  • Timmy Green's Blue Lake

    Donna Bergman

    When his friends go away for summer vacation, Timmy transforms an old blue tarp into his own private lake and sails to the cities of Slurpy Shores and Wheelyville, until Sherry Lou Sweet returns and forces him to invent brand new worlds...

  • Blind Justice

    William Bernhardt

    Out of corporate life and on his own, lawyer Ben Kincaid sees the seamy side of the law every day. There's no glamour and little reward when it comes to defending the lowlifes who beat down his door. But when a friend is set up for murder, Ben has no...

  • Summer's Vintage

    Gloria Bevan

    Impulsive as the devil. And determined into the bargain. That description fit Sarah perfectly. Which was why, without a second thought, she jumped on a plane to claim an unexpected inheritance -- a prosperous vineyard in the heart of New Zealand'...

  • Black-Tie Affair

    Jane Bierce

    PRECIOUS GEMS All Jeanellen Barbour wanted was to taste one evening of Palm Beach high society. So she crashed the charity ball wearing a borrowed gown and some pretty jewelry her grandmother had left her, hoping no one would notice they were made...

  • Love Cools

    W. Edward Blain

    Framed for the mysterious death of a faculty member's wife at Virginia's Montpelier School for Boys, student Richard Blackburn vows revenge, a promise that could make him the number one suspect in the sudden death at a summer theater soon after....

  • You're a Hero, Daley B.!

    Jon Blake

  • Coyote True

    Stephen A. Bly

    Nathan couldn't believe it. He and his dad and his friend Colin were going on a cattle drive. But as they set out, the trip began to take unexpected turns. Nathan's dad had to leave them to hunt down an escaped crook and would have to join the group ...

  • Maybe Later, Love

    Claire Bocardo

    Dorrie Greene was astonished! After thirty-five years of being "George Greene's lovely wife" she was now a whole new person. What a surprise to discover that she was a natural-born businesswoman -- and that running the family jewelry stor...

  • Beginner's Luck

    Jack Bodine

    Robbed shortly after arriving in lawless Titusville, Duane Braddock, the monastery-raised bastard son of an outlaw and a prostitute, must learn to ride a horse, shoot a gun, and defend himself against outlaws and ladies. Original....

  • Michael Bond's Book of Bears

    Michael Bond

  • The Image

    Daniel J. Boorstin

    First published in 1962, this wonderfully provocative book introduced the notion of “pseudo-events” -- events such as press conferences and presidential debates, which are manufactured solely in order to be reported -- and the contemporary defini...

  • The Creators

    Daniel J. Boorstin

    By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers wi...

  • Mister Touch

    Malcolm Bosse

    After a mutant offshoot of AIDS virtually destroys human life across the United States, a multi-racial group of ravaged survivors in lower Manhattan joins forces to face the grave new world that awaits them. Reprint....

  • Imperial Kelly

    Peter Bowen

    Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly becomes mixed up in new wild adventures with Teddy Roosevelt and a young Winston Churchill as he joins the Roughriders at San Juan Hill in Cuba, finds his true love in the Philippines, and participates in the Boer War....

  • Dark Satanic

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    The Curses It had started with a letter -- crude, block letters promising death. But neither Jamie nor Barbara Melford paid heed. They didn’t believe in curses…until Jock Cannon died, suddenly and mysteriously. He had been threatened and he ha...

  • Hot Arctic Nights

    Ramona Bradley

    HE WARMED UP TO HER...FAST Alaska was the last place Charlie Madison, efficiency expert and California girl, wanted to be in midwinter. Especially when her oh-so-attractive host was giving her the deep freeze. Nevertheless, she had a job to do in ...

  • Kaddish in Dublin

    John Brady

    A body washes up onto the beach in Killiney with three bullets in his head, bullets obviously fired execution-style. An unknown Palestinian organization claims responsibility for the assassination and identifies the dead man as Paul Fine, and investi...

  • Colors of the Day

    Ruth Gembicki Bragg

  • Devil's Keep

    Rebecca Brandewyne
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    Hired by a noble vampire to care for his son, a young governess' compassion for her handsome, tragic employer soon gives way to affection, desire... and heart soaring romance....

  • Touch of Heaven

    Michelle Brandon

    Somewhere across the Texas plains... Feisty young Susan Whitten tends her ranch with her faithful companion, her pet pig. She needs a loan to keep her land, and one man - the devilishly handsome Hunter Carson - can grant her wish and keep her fro...

  • The Cat Who Wasn't There

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Qwill's on his way to Scotland--and on his way to solving another purr-plexing mystery. But this time Kokds nowhere near the scene of the crime. He and Yum Yum are back in Pickax being coddled by a catsitter...but Koko wont sit still once Qwill's tra...

  • Clifford Counts Bubbles

    Norman Bridwell

  • Lost Souls

    Poppy Z. Brite

    SEX, BLOOD, AND ROCK 'N' ROLL At a club in children of the night gather, dressed in black, looking for acceptance. Among them are Ghost, who sees what others do not; Ann, longing for love; and Jason, whose real name is Nothing, newly awakened to a...

  • The Ghost from Beneath the Sea

    Bill Brittain

  • Love Texas Style!

    Annette Broadrick

    DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS ... Fifteen long years ago, Allison Alvarez had hightailed it out of town, leaving behind one hurt, disillusioned cowboy. Now the lady was back, with a son who had a Callaway smile, and a secret that Cole Callaway would ...

  • Before and After

    Rosellen Brown

    The New York Times bestseller from Rosellen Brown, Before and After -- the basis for the major film of the same name starring Meryl Streep Liam Neeson -- tells the extraordinary story of a family's struggle to survive the throes of a tragedy.Carolyn ...

  • The People V. Lee Harvey Oswald

    Walt Brown

  • Whispers of the Heart

    Megan Brownley

    EVERYTHING HAPPENED SO SUDDENLY . . . Brock Adams could only watch in horror as the truck jackknifed and bore down on the small van in which he and his two young children were traveling. In one split second, Brock's world was changed forever. T...

  • The Nine Gates

    Phillip Brugalette

  • The Initiation

    Robert Brunn

  • Dawn on a Jade Sea

    Jessica Bryan

    In the sapphire waters deep below the ocean's surface lived a wondrous race of beautiful men and women. Although they have walked among the people of the land, they have remained separate, their true natures hidden--until an exquisite woman bound her...

  • Contents Under Pressure

    Edna Buchanan

    Britt Montero is a crime reporter for a major Miami newspaper, and an oddity in a man's domain - a blonde, green-eyed Cuban-American woman tough enough to investigate even the most terrifying of homicides, but with a tender spot for the city's underd...

  • Mischief and Magic

    Patt Bucheister

    PHOENIX--His Bedroom Eyes Could Melt the Polar Ice Cap .... A friend's practical joke had sent him bleeding to the emergency room, but Phoenix Sierra forgot all about the pain when Dr. Deborah Justin arrived to mend his slashed arm! Deborah fough...

  • The Holybrooke Curse: A Novella

    Gayle Buck
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    "WHEN THE MOON IS FULL, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN..." Come with us on five journeys of the heart, where romance weaves its magic spell and things are not always as they seem. From some of the most beloved authors of romantic fiction come the tales of en...

  • Tucker's Last Stand

    William F. Buckley Jr.

    Dispatched by the United States government to Vietnam in the wake of the chaotic events of 1964, Blackford Oakes and a swashbuckling mercenary named Tucker stir up trouble along the Ho Chi Minh Trail and in the Gulf of Tonkin...

  • In Your Dreams

    Lynn Bulock

    A BRAND NEW BALL GAME Alex Langdon had been in St. Louis for the last six months. Meg Shepherd had seen him on the local news and read his popular sports column in the paper. Now Meg had to venture into Busch Stadium if she wanted to enlist one of...

  • The Amber Room

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    The official claim stated the priceless treasure was destroyed in the aftermath of World War II, but an obscure document in an East German file may tell another story for-The Amber Room It was a legendary room an ensemble of precious eighteenth-cen...

  • Caribbean Carnival: Songs of the West Indies

    Irving Burgie

  • Alma

    Gordon Burn

  • Revelations

    Sophy Burnham

    Eager to win the hearts, and souls, of his parishoners, Naughton, Virginia's new reverand, Tom Buckford, discovers that the hard-living, over-sexed members of the town do not care for his unorthodox methods....

  • Roman Shadows

    Ron Burns

    When the young Roman senator Gaius Livinius Severus marries into a fabulously wealthy family, he seems destined for a life of traditional ease and comfort. But his future is shattered when the illustrious Cicero casually asks Livinius to keep an eye ...

  • Busy People

    Nick Butterworth

  • Coast to Coast

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Thirteen-year-old Birch's grandfather has always  wanted to fly across the U.S. in his antique Piper  Cub. When her grandmother dies and her grandfather  decides to sell the plane, Birch discovers that  it's not so hard to convince Pop to tak...

  • The Moon and I

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

  • She-Hulk

    John Byrne

  • Heirloom

    Candace Camp

    A LOVE BEYOND ALL DREAMS Once burned by a beautiful woman, Amos Morgan vowed never to lay his heart bare again. At thirty-six he was one of the most prominent farmers in western Nebraska. He filled his life tending the land and caring for his youn...

  • Your Blues Ain't Like Mine

    Bebe Moore Campbell

    "Intriguing...A thoughtful, intelligent work...The novel traces the yeasr from he '50s to the ate '80s, from Eisenhower to George Bush....She writes with simple eloquence about small-town life in the South, right after the start of the great social u...

  • Child's Play

    Bethany Campbell

    The dead would come back and get you . . . The residents of Black Bear Lake thought that evil could never touch such an idyllic spot. But they were wrong. Thornton Fuller, a young man with the mind of a child, was paralyzed with fear when he to...

  • Femmes Fatal

    Dorothy Cannell

    Once Ellie Haskell's life was a fairy tale: the  one about the overweight, underpaid interior  designer who falls rapturously in love with a gorgeous  prince and lives happily ever after. But now, four  months after the birth of her twins, he...

  • Flux: Tales of Human Futures

    Orson Scott Card

    Here are seven tales of the possible futures open to humanity, including Card's brilliant story, "The Originist," set with permission in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe....

  • Snow Speaks

    Nancy White Carlstrom

  • One to One

    Marisa Carroll

    HAD HE FOUND LOVE TO LOSE IT? At age forty-eight, Ethan Connor never expected to be caring for his three young grandchildren. Luckily the oldest, eight-year-old Tiffany, had Chris Baldwin for her Big Sister to help her cope with her mother's d...

  • Mistress Mischief

    Susan Carroll

    HER GRACIOUS OFFER TO BE HIS MISTRESS HAD BEEN REFUSED! 'TWAS A PITY SHE FOUND THE GENTLEMAN SO VERY ATTRACTIVE.... Destitute and penniless, thanks to the evil machinations of her late husband's relatives, Frederica Barry put her wits and ...

  • Wolf Plays Alone

    Dominic Catalano

  • Dig Me Up

    Suzanne Chance

  • Chancay and the Secret of Fire

    Donald Charles

    In an original folktale inspired by an ancient Peruvian tapestry and accented with illustrations based on the motifs of preColumbian art, Chancay must face three perilous trials in order to win the gift of fire for his people....

  • School Ties

    Deborah Chiel

    A novelization of the upcoming film by the same name follows a class of young men attending a boy's prep school in the 1950s as they face their futures and the spectre of anti-Semitism. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Don't Wake Up Mama!

    Eileen Christelow

    Â"The five little monkeys are back, this time eager to bake a cake for their mother’s birthday. As she sleeps in blissful ignorance, the children demolish the kitchen, and the smoking cake attracts the fire department. She sleeps through the clamor...

  • Calico and Tin Horns

    Candace Christiansen

    Hannah's parents think that she is too young to be involved in their resistance against their unfair landlord, until the sheriff's posse comes after her father and Hannah is able to sound the warning signal...

  • Wacky Book of Witches

    Anne Civardi

  • A Neighborly Affair

    Amanda Clark (1)

    Casey Logan was going places But Barker Springs, New York, was definitely not what she'd had in mind. Casey had gone there -- reluctantly -- to look after her elderly aunt for a few days. She found herself staying. Because, somehow, nothing wa...

  • Man Who Lit the Stars

    Claude Clement

  • Mother Earth's Counting Book

    Andrew Clements

  • Obligations of the Bone

    Dick Cluster

    While undergoing a bone marrow transplant, Linda Dumars is shocked when her marrow is stolen during the procedure, and she must depend on Alex Glauberman, moonlighting detective, to get it back for her and save her life...

  • Somewhere Along the Way

    Elaine Coffman

    SHE WAS LIKE A FLOWER GROWN IN A WALLED GARDEN. A perfect lady, Annabella Stewart had had every rebellious impulse carefully cultivated out of her. That is, until she met Ross Mackinnon, wild and free as the wind, blowing a warm and tempting breeze,...

  • The Trouble with Uncle

    Babette Cole

  • Pat-a-Cake

    Joanna Cole

    What's the first game you ever learned? Chances are it wasn't hide-and-seek but pat-a-cake, the traditional play rhyme. This brand-new collection features step-by-step instructions for playing pat-a-cake and twenty-five other favorites. "A perfect gi...

  • Pat-A-Cake: And Other Play Rhymes

    Joanna Cole

  • Arrow Keeper

    Judd Cole

    When Matthew Hanchon, a Cheyenne Indian raised among Wyoming pioneers who has only known fear and distrust, discovers that his adoptive parents are in danger because of him, he flees into the wilderness where he must call upon his warrior's courage, ...

  • Tree of Life

    Maryse Conde

    It is impossible to read her novels and not come away from them with both a sadder and more exhilarating understanding of the human heart. - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWRapidly shifting between Guadeloupe and Harlem, moving from Haiti's desperate s...

  • The Alchymist's Journal

    Evan S. Connell

    Through entries in journals, Paracelsus and other sixteenth-century alchemists offer their views of Paracelsus, alchemy, and the world. By the author of Son of the Morning Star, Mr. Bridge, and Mrs. Bridge. Reprint....

  • Pedro's Journal

    Pam Conrad

    Destination Unknown... Pedro de Salcedo could not have known what adventures lay ahead! His incredible voyage as ship's boy aboard Christopher Columbus' Santa Maria would bring both danger and excitement. Pedro captured his experience between the pa...

  • Lost Sailor

    Pamela Conrad

  • Spider-Man: Fear Itself

    Gerry Conway

    The Cassidy Crystals were developed to benefit mankind. But something went wrong. Terribly wrong, Instead of curing irrational fears, the crystals induce them ... with deadly results. Now, the crystals have fallen into the clutches of a mysterious ma...

  • Dorrie and the Haunted Schoolhouse

    Patricia Coombs

  • Freshman Affair

    Linda A. Cooney

    Faith is falling fast for older man Eliot Potter. There's only one problem -- Mrs. Eliot Potter. Kimberly's dreamy secret admirer reveals himself--and comes up short ... very short. Is Kimberly letting size stand in the way of love? KC has be...

  • Aunt Abigail's Beau

    Amy Jo Cooper

    Afraid that her Aunt Abigail might change her mind about marrying Malcolm MacEwan, the old beau who has recently reappeared in Avonlea, Sara, with the help of Felicity, plays Cupid to ensure a speedy exchange of vows. Reprint....

  • Built to Last

    Lori Copeland

    BEAR--Big, Brash, and Bound to Drive a Woman Crazy... He had little patience with do-gooders who donated only a few hours to help him renovate houses for poor families, but Bear Malone had to admire Christine Brighton--nothing he said discouraged ...

  • Shampoo Planet

    Douglas Coupland

    Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide -- those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, "Global Teens." Raised in a hippie commune, Tyler Johnson is an ambitious twenty-year-old Reagan youth, living in a decaying n...

  • Maisy Goes to the Playground

    Lucy Cousins

  • Night Ride Home

    Vicki Covington

    On the eve of World War II in an Alabama mining town, Keller and Laura prepare for marriage, Laura's father threatens Keller, and Bolivia, a Portuguese woman, is about to give birth to a baby whose paternity remains a mystery. Reprint....

  • The Penguin Book of British Comic Stories

    Patricia Craig

  • Miss Seeton Rocks the Cradle

    Hamilton Crane

    The abandoned baby found in a telephone box turns out to be the missing Scottish heiress little Lady MacSporran. And while Scotland Yard hunts the kidnappers, Miss Seeton returns the infant to her royal home--and just happens upon a plot to topple th...

  • Comedy of Errors

    Diane Michele Crawford

    No laughing matter… Stephanie Stockwell’s eccentric family has always amused her -- until the night gorgeous Todd Cooper picks her up for their first date. Todd is put off by the family’s unconventional ways, and their first date becomes the...

  • Captive Angel

    Elaine Crawford

    MAIL-ORDER BRIDE Falsely accused and arrested in a brothel raid, innocent Rachel Chambers was given two options...marriage or jail. ROUGH-AND-READY GROOM Aroused by his new bride's scandalous past, frontiersman Jake Stone expected a wildcat...

  • Nowhere to Hide

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Some memories were deadly When Alyssa Humphrey was awakened in the hospital, she was bandaged from head to toe. But that wasn't the worst injury she'd incurred during the near-fatal plane crash. Alyssa had total amnesia. She was engage...

  • The Adventures of Dudley Dormouse

    Peter Cross

  • The Castle of Dreams

    Donna Fletcher Crow

    They came to the castle for their own reasons... Elizabeth to find adventure and fun Richard because Elizabeth insisted he go Gareth to play a part. Then they are caught up in a dangerous mystery. Now, as the lines between reality and fantasy gro...

  • Blood to Burn

    Jack Curtis

  • Evil on the Bayou

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    What is the secret of the bayou holds? Eternal life…or hideous death? Meg Dalton had been uneasy since the first moment she arrived in the back bayou country. Being volunteer nurse to the shriveled husk of a dying woman she hardly knows is bad e...

  • Beauty

    Brian D'Amato

    Jamie Angelo is part artist and part alchemist. His plastic surgery techniques are light-years beyond modern medicine. He can transform a haggard face into a masterpiece of ageless beauty. He is not God. But he is close. To ambitious models like Jai...

  • Gypsy Baron

    Mary Daheim

    Bohemian Intrigue Katherine de Vere would have given her life for king and country, but marrying a foolish fop to suit a whim of King James was another matter altogether. Especially after Kat had a taste of true passion courtesy of Stefan Dvorak, ...

  • Tangled Vines

    Janet Dailey

    NIGHTS OF WINE, DESIRE...AND DESPERATE SECRETS In an exquisite story of intrigue and romance, this is the contemporary story of a woman who craves glamour and nonstop excitement to escape her hidden fears. While television anchorwoman Kelly Dougla...

  • Lay It on the Line

    Catherine Dain

    For fun, she likes a game of Keno. To relax, she'll hang out with her cats. And for excitement, nothing beats piloting a plane. But when it comes to crime, in a gambling town like Reno, Freddie O'Neal is all business. Freddie figures she's got som...

  • At the Movies

    Catherine Daly

  • The Ideal Wife

    Joleen Daniels

    Marriage of Inconvenience Lacey Talbert was nothing but a two-timing waitress from the wrong side of town. At least, that's what wealthy rancher Sloan Burdett thought when he discovered she was going to marry his no-good brother! But when Sloan f...

  • In the Shade of Spring Leaves

    Robert Lyons Danly

    “The Danly-Ichiyo book is one of those works where the author and subject seem so perfectly matched that the style of each suffuses and inspires the other: Danly as translator and commentator picks up and transforms Ichiyo’s blend of formal an...

  • The Widowed Bride of Raven Oaks

    Peggy Darty

    The wind seemed to shout 'Go back - go back!' As a widowed Yankee moving South after the Civil War to live with her in-laws, Katherine Winfield didn't expect to be greeted with open arms. But Joel, her Rebel husband, had begged her, with his dyin...

  • Just Like Martin

    Ossie Davis

    The actor-playwright tells the story of a boy growing up in Alabama in 1963, a youngster who becomes torn between his idol, Dr Martin Luther King, and his father, a Korean War veteran who believes in fighting fire with fire....

  • Mountain Killer

    Clay Dawson

  • Aska's Birds

    David Day

    Spectacular artwork highlights an unusual look at the world of birds, from penguin waiters to flamingoes painting sunsets, as short poems intertwine with the illustrations to create a children's guessing game about birds....

  • Venom Trees of Sunga

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Embroiled in his field work in the arboreal world of Sunga, biologist Kirk Salazar must put up with hard-core tourists, an ignorant industrialist, and Alexis Ritter, the formidable high priestess of a Sunga cult dedicated to chastity. Original....

  • The Enchanter Reborn

    L. Sprague de Camp; Christopher Stasheff

    YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD ENCHANTER DOWN (At least not completely...) Magic spells masquerading as a college professor's symbolic logic will get you to some ridiculously dangerous land of myth and magic; but once you're there it will take fast talkin...

  • Mistress of Justice

    Jeffery Deaver

    Taylor Lockwood spends her days working as a paralegal in one of New York's preeminent Wall Street law firms and her nights playing jazz piano anyplace she can. But the rhythm of her life is disrupted when attorney Mitchell Reece requests her help in...

  • Blood Sugar

    Jim DeFilippi

    Ace Long Island homicide detective Joe LaLuna investigates the murder of a rich businessman found dead in his bed and faces the possibility that his own ex-lover, Audie McKenna, might be a killer. Reprint. K. LJ. ...

  • Lights, Action, Land-Ho!

    Judy Delton

    Here comes Hollywood! Moviemakers are coming to town to film the story of Columbus. Molly wants to be a star. So do all the other Pee Wees. But they have been cast as extras. Extras! Forget about fame. Forget about Holywood. Unless there's a way to m...

  • And Then a Harvest Feast

    George Dennison

  • Tales from Academy Street

    Martha Derman

  • Sweet Liar

    Jude Deveraux

    It was her father's dying wish that Samantha Elliot search for her grandmother, who'd disappeared from Louisville when she was a baby. So here she was, in big, dirty New York City ...her parents were dead, her divorce was final, and she was all alon...

  • Moontide

    Dianna Devlin

    The Schoolgirl...Cassandra yearned to escape her convent school. Haunted by childhood nightmares, the gray-eyed beauty ached to leave her girlhood behind - and become a woman. The Sailor...Her struggle landed her on board the Good Fortune - and in th...

  • Dirty Tricks

    Michael Dibdin

    A comedy of manners, a mystery thriller, and a sardonic satire whose deliciously unscrupulous narrator claims that everything he did regarding his victims was “market-led,” Dirty Tricks is pure entertainment from one of the most inventive writers...

  • Bootcamp 3000

    Gordon R. Dickson

    A collection of short stories set in a future of space-age wars features works by Christopher Anvil, Raymond E. Banks, Sonya Dorman, Joe W. Haldeman, Harry Harrison, Chad Oliver, and Jack Vance. Original....

  • Voyage of the Devilfish

    Michael DiMercurio

    The Kaliningrad stands as the last great triumph of Soviet submarine technology. Now it has put out to sea, lurking beneath the polar ice cap. In command is the most brilliant officer the Soviet fleet has ever produced--Admiral Alexi Novskoyy. And in...

  • Disney's The Jungle Book

    Walt Disney

    A full-length novel for independent readers calls on all the characters from the Disney animated film, as clever Mowgli, Baloo the bear, King Louie the monkey, and Bagheera the panther outwit the evil Shere Khan. Original....

  • Lethal Cargo

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Asked to sail a friend's yacht from Saint Martin's to the Florida coast, Frank and Joe Hardy escape a collision with a mysterious cargo ship whose presence on the ocean in the middle of the night arouses their curiosity. Original....

  • Footprints and Shadows

    Anne Wescott Dodd

    An evocative, poetic bedtime book filled with delicate, tranquil illustrations meditates in verse on footprints as they appear throughout the seasons and on shadows as they change over the course of the day, growing into dancing silhouettes at evenin...

  • Dear Nobody

    Berlie Doherty

    Eighteen-year-old Chris and his girlfriend Helen struggle to cope with two shocks that change their relationship and their plans for the future; the discovery that Helen is pregnant and the reappearance of Chris's mother who left the family when he w...

  • The Ghost of Castle Ravenswych

    Charlotte Louise Dolan
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    "WHEN THE MOON IS FULL, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN..." Come with us on five journeys of the heart, where romance weaves its magic spell and things are not always as they seem. From some of the most beloved authors of romantic fiction come the tales of en...

  • Sea Fires

    Christine Dorsey

    A RECKLESS DESIRE Spirited, impetuous Miranda Chadwick arrived in the untamed New World prepared for any peril. So when the notorious pirate Gentleman Jack Blackstone kidnapped her, she was certain she could somehow make the insufferable golden-hair...

  • The Gift

    Kirk Douglas

    Patricia Dennison's life is a chain of melodramatic events on the disastrous scale of the Titanic. Terrorists have executed her father on a passenger plane. She has inherited a multibillion-dollar empire that she doesn't want, & whose directors a...

  • I Can Do It, Rabbit

    Paul Dowling

  • Happy Birthday, Owl

    Paul Dowling

  • Vanquish the Night

    Shannon Drake
    in

    A beautiful Texas innocent falls under the mesmerizing spell of a dashing, exotic immortal...and is resucued from etermal damnation by the rapturous power of love....

  • Bride of the Wind

    Shannon Drake

    WINDS OF DESTINY The daughter of a wealthy Virginia planter, innocent Rose Woodbine curses cruel fate for leading her to the court of the British King Charles -- and into an unwanted marriage with handsome and dangerous Lord Pierce Deforte, a man...

  • Alex in Rome

    Tessa Duder

    In Rome to compete in the 1960 Olympics, Alex Archer takes in the sights in the Eternal City, begins a relationship with an expatriate New Zealander, and prepares for the biggest swim meet of her life....

  • One Mickey Mouse

    Richard Duerrstein

  • In - out

    Richard Duerrstein

  • Mickey Is Happy

    Richard Duerrstein

  • Puppy Love

    Betsy Duffey

    Evie and Megan, founding partners of the Pet Patrol, must find homes for a boxful of abandoned puppies--provided they can resist the temptation to keep them all for themselves, in the first volume of a delightful new series for animal lovers....

  • The Man in the Iron Mask

    Alexandre Dumas

    Deep inside the dreaded Bastille a twenty-three-year-old prisoner called merely "Philippe" has languished for eight long, dark years. He does not know his real name or what crime he is supposed to have committed. But Aramis, one of the original Thre...

  • Birth Marks

    Sarah Dunant

    In Birth Marks, private investigator Hannah Wolfe gets a case worthy of the great detective novels she so admires. At first glance, this one doesn't fit the bill: she's asked to find a missing ballet dancer, Carolyn Hamilton. When Carolyn's body is f...

  • The Cutting Edge

    Dave Duncan

    Beautiful Queen Inos married the loyal stableboy Rap and made him her king. They were very much in love, and they lived happily ever after. Fifteen years went by. Rap and Inos were comfortable, secure, and truly happy, raising their family in the lit...

  • Travelin' Man

    Lois Faye Dyer

    TEMPORARY BRIDE As a descendant of the proud, noble Benningtons, Katherine Bennington-Logan III had been taught to face a crisis with courage and composure. But not even a Bennington could stop flying bottles once a brawl had started. Suddenly, Ka...

  • Nobody's Bride

    Judi Edwards

    Ariel Johnson had sworn off love -- she'd lost one too many times. So she decided to bid farewell to civilization -- as well as the civilized male -- and head for a teaching job in remote Blackfish Bay. Scott MacKenzie had been sent to Blackf...

  • Clubbed to Death

    Ruth Dudley Edwards

    Robert Amiss is persuaded by his friend Detective Sergeant Pooley of the CID to take a job as a waiter in ffeatherstonehaugh's (pronounced Fanshaw's), a gentlemen's club in St James', London. The club secretary has allegedly jumped to his death from ...

  • Guilt-Edged Ivory

    Doris Egan

  • Quarantine

    Greg Egan

    It causes riots and religions. It has people dancing in the streets and leaping off skyscrapers. And it's all because of the impenetrable gray shield that slid into place around the solar system on the night of November 15, 2034.

    Some see th...

  • Class Play with Ms. Vanilla

    Fred Ehrlich

  • The Football Wars

    Scott Eller

    Teamwork. Team Jerks. Gabriel, Andy, and Pik. They're the jocks from Johnson. The super athletes. They'll play any game, anywhere, anytime. Right now the game is football. And the Johnson team is looking good. Until some of the guys get jealou...

  • Lone Star and the Gunrunners

    Wesley Ellis

    A range war is brewing -- and it's about to boil over!Hot on the trail of gun thieves who intend to sell their wares to an Indian nation, Jessie and Ki find their mission complicated when Chief Running Wolf steps up his campaign to wipe out white set...

  • Arrowpoint

    Suzanne Ellison

    WELCOME TO TYLER. THE AUCTION'S AT TWO O'CLOCK Tyler's annual crafts fair is in full swing. This year the theme is Native American art. Stroll among the tables and admire the handiwork of America's favorite hometwon. TORN BETWEEN TWO CULTURES ...

  • White Jazz

    James Ellroy

    The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy, James Ellroy, presents another literary noir masterpiece of historical paranoia.Los Angeles, 1958. Killings, beatings, bribes, shakedowns--it's standard procedur...

  • Like Water for Chocolate

    Laura Esquivel

    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance, bittersweet wit, and delicious recipes. This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, ...

  • Longarm and the Rebel Brand

    Tabor Evans

    Color illustration of four superimposed vignettes: profile of man wearing brown hat with cigarrette in his mouth; man wearing cowboy hat and red scarf brandishing rifle and standing behind large rock; man in cowboy hat and red scarf brandishing revol...

  • Hello Darling, Are You Working?

    Rupert Everett

    British actor Rupert Everett charmed his way into moviegoers' affections with his scene-stealing performance in "My Best Friend's Wedding."Everett is also the gifted writer of this scathingly funny novel of a down-and-out actor's zany misadventures a...

  • Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep

    Bonnie Faber

  • Live to Regret

    Terence Faherty

    Owen Keane returns, once again on the trail of human mysteries, hoping to find clues to the spiritual questions that haunt him. In this compelling new novel, Owen is struggling to recover from the sudden death of Mary Ohlman, the wife of his friend H...

  • Queen of Hearts

    Barbara Faith

    RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES! Beaten and imprisoned in a foreign land, history professor Thomas Thornton had a fair idea what his chances of escape were: slim to none. But that was before agent Amanda Bliss was assigned to his case. She knew how to use...

  • Stolen Kisses

    Sally Falcon

    THE ULTIMATE INDULGENCE Although it was a costume party, his outfit was outlandish. Yet somehow the rabbit ears in his thick brown hair and the bunny tail on the back of his chinos only enhanced the man's incredible charms. Jessie was enthralled b...

  • World's Greatest Dad

    Marie Ferrarella

    Tragedy had struck Flynn O'Roarke twice recently. He'd been widowed, and his eldest daughter and her husband had been killed, leaving Flynn to raise their orphaned son. Flynn was too emotionally raw to feel like the world's greatest anything - and at...