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  • Nora Roberts

    IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT The calls came like clockwork -- a cold, hate-filled voice telling late-night radio announcer Cilla O'Roarke that she was going to die. The never-ending threats had finally made her a believer. She was desperate -- desp...



  • Diana Palmer

    MR. JANUARY Man: Gene Nelson Description: Lean, rugged rancher and head honcho of the sprawling Triple N spread -- until he made a shocking discovery. Reputation: Love 'em and leave 'em a man whose heart was made of ice...until myste...



  • Sandra Brown

    ALL HE WANTED WAS ENOUGH WHISKEY TO FORGET Ravaged by grief after a car crash took his cherished wife and unborn child, Chase Tyler had abandoned his family business. He'd hit the rodeo circuit and the bars with equal disregard for his life, unwilli...



  • Julie Garwood

    England, 1816. A child bride, Lady Sara Winchester had grown into a winsome beauty, joyfully anticipating the day when her husband, Lord Nathanial Clayton, Marquess of St. James, would return to claim her at last. Charmingly innocent, she dismissed t...



  • Mary Balogh
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    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......



  • Karen Robards

    A SHADOW... The bold intruder crept through the silent mansion, determined to claim the fortune that was rightfully his. But Julian Chase was undone, his daring scheme thwarted by a bewitching silver-blond beauty with eyes that sparkled like preciou...



  • R.L. Stine

    WELCOME TO FEAR STREET Don't listen to the stories they tell you about Fear Street. Wouldn't you rather explore it yourself... and see if its dark terrors and unexplained mysteries are true? You're not afraid, are you? Snowbound! "Red" Porter wa...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    THE CAPRICORN MAN The sexy, sensible Capricorn man doesn't fall in love overnight. He'll wait for a woman with warmth, sparkle...and patience. And just when you think he'll never be yours, the mysterious Capricorn's sensuous side slo...



  • LaVyrle Spencer

    There's a place in every heart for forgiving.... SARAH She came to Deadwood, a rough and tumble western town, with an ambitious dream of starting a newspaper. But her journey had another purpose--to find her sister and mend the family tie t...



  • Patricia Wilson

    Lucy didn't trust Guy an inch The Comte de Chauvrais was the rudest and most insensitive man she had ever met. What had possessed her Aunt Wanda to accept an invitation to stay at his chateau? And why was he so interested in them? The whole...



  • Robert B. Parker

    "What did it matter where you lay once you were dead? In a dirty sump or in a marble tower on top of a high hill. You were dead, you were sleeping the big sleep..." Raymond Chandler wrote those immortal words on the final page of his first Marlowe t...



  • Dean Koontz

    In Portland, he saved a young boy from a drunk driver. In Boston, he rescued a child from an underground explosion. In Houston, he disarmed a man who was trying to shoot his own wife. Reporter Holly Thorne was intrigued by this strange, quiet savio...



  • Anne Stuart

    TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES Though Katharine Lafferty was engaged to be married, her heart was still in mourning. Katharine had been nineteen and a college coed. Danny McCandless had been twenty-four and a well-dressed, coolheaded criminal. And his ef...



  • W.E.B. Griffin

    Battleground - Book IV - continues the saga of The Corps with the story of one of the epic conflicts of the Pacific, the bloody months spanning Midway and Guadalcanal. From aviators to Raiders, officers to dog soldiers, no quarter is asked, and none ...



  • Christine Rimmer

    Casey Clinton was in a bind. Custody courts didn't favor single fathers, and he seemed perilously close to losing his beloved nephew. What he needed was a wife. And since his childhood buddy Joanna Vail had always stood by his side through thick and ...



  • Robin Cook

    Where life begins, terror lurks... In the eyes of her envious peers, Marissa has it all: a superb professional reputation, a flourishing pediatrics practice, even a fairytale marriage with the man of her dreams - Robert Buchanan, an entrepreneur invo...



  • Nicole Jordan

    Night's Beauty... When sea captain Kyle Ramsey met Selena Markham on a moonlit beach, her ethereal beauty left him stunned. But when he discovered that she wanted him to make love to her, he was flabbergasted. Selena's fiance was betraying her...



  • Anne Weale

    Champagne and caviar--she had it all .. . Health, a challenging, successful career, her own comfortable home, holidays abroad, designer clothes, lots of friends. But Rosie Middleton didn't have a man. Rosie had lost her heart once--with dis...



  • Leanne Banks

    ALWAYS A BRIDESMAID... When Joshua Daniels agreed to be in his friend's wedding, he had no idea he'd be paired off with a blue-eyed, golden-haired beauty. But Cassie Warner was every guy's dream come true: bright, clever, and sweet ecstasy in his ...



  • Lori Copeland

    The Best-Looking Guy in Town... Dex Matthews was back, and Carly Winters still thought her ex-fiance was too handsome for his own good...and hers! The brilliant marketing director had challenged and charmed her like crazy when they'd first met, st...



  • Charlotte Hubbard

    SHE VOWED ETERNAL VENGEANCE Her lush beauty hidden by a disguise, eighteen-year-old Emily Burnham came to the rough-and-tumble mining town of Cripple Creek determined to catch the murderous scoundrel who'd shot her father. Then devastatingly han...



  • Joan Wolf
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......



  • Orson Scott Card

    THE WAR FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THE PLANET LUSITANIA WILL BE FOUGHT IN THE HEART OF A CHILD NAMED GLORIOUSLY BRIGHT. On Lusitania, Ender found a world where humans and pequininos and the Hive Queen could all live together; where three very different i...



  • Janette Oke

    It had all turned out to be so strange, so ironic. Angela Peterson's family had moved west because her mother had not been well and the doctor said the cooler, clear air of the region might be easier on her lungs. Her father sold the farm and loaded ...



  • Harry Turtledove

    COIN OF THE REALM Videssos was beset by enemies abroad and had fallen into decadence at home. But on his first night in' the imperial capital, The Empire's health mattered less to Krispos than finding a dry place to sleep. Driven by crushing ta...



  • Amanda Scott

    Two Could Play at the Marriage Game Lovely Lady Sybilla Calverton refused to show her rage when she spied her husband, the devastatingly attractive Earl of Ramsbury, in the arms of the notorious Lady Fanny Mandeville. Instead Sybilla chose to show...



  • Elizabeth Adler

    THE MAGNIFICENT IVANOFF EMERALD It surfaced at Christie's in Geneva, "The Property of a Lady" -- a lady now sought by powerful men intent on seizing a legacy that could tilt the world balance of power... THE TERRIFYING IVANOFF SECRET She lived l...



  • Arlene James

    BRIDE TO BE...OR NOT TO BE? When had Corinne Terral become engaged? She remembered accepting her friend's offer to use his home while he was away -- not his marriage proposal! But that was what he'd told his old-fashioned boss and next-doo...



  • Jose Saramago

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author: "A capacious, funny, threatening novel" of wandering souls and political upheaval in 1930s Portugal (The New York Times Book Review). The year is 1936, and the dictator António de Oliveira Salazar is establ...



  • Bobbi Smith

    HE BOUGHT A BRIDE Wealthy Louisiana planter Dominic Kane was in a bind: according to his father's will, he had to find a wife within six months--or forfeit his inheritance and his plantation, Riverwood. When he caw the beautiful bondservant on the d...



  • Patricia Rice

    Love Passionate Promise Alyson Hampton was a scorned love child...until a vast legacy made her the fabulously wealthy Lady Hampton, pursued by the most rapacious fortune hunters in the realm. This exquisite innocent was in desperate need of rescue...



  • Patricia Rice
    in

    The unique joys and passions that surround St. Valentine's Day are captured in an extraordinary collection of all-new stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. Fair ladies ... courtly gentlemen ... romantic intrigue......



  • Don Pendleton

    UNFINISHED BUSINESS There's vermin on the streets of Chicago, and Mack Bolan is sent in as exterminator. He's got the right equipment... a .44 Magnum Desert Eagle and a lifelong vendetta against men like Hector Gurrola. The drug lord rules an e...



  • Dav Pilkey

    From Dav Pilkey, creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series, comes Dragon, the heartwarming hero adored by Dav's youngest readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line...



  • Max Brand

    THEY MADE HIM AN ORPHAN. BUT HE MADE HIMSELF A MAN... The Brett clan had killed his family in a night of brutality and bloodshed that was little more than a blur in Paul Torridon's memory. Then they had adopted him for their own -- the spoils...



  • Joy Fielding

    Lynn Schuster didn't expect the phone call from Marc Cameron, the "other" woman's spouse. She certainly never expected to feel such a strong sexual attraction to him when he stepped into her living room that night ... and offered her the perfect way ...



  • Barbara Boswell

    The Arrogant Tyrant with a Wicked Grin... Jack Blackledge was sexy, tough, and hard to handle - and Colleen Brady knew she'd have her hands full working as assistant to the difficult columnist! She'd come all the way to Buffalo to escape her overp...



  • Norah Hess

    From the moment she laid eyes on him, Rue thought Hawke Masters the most insufferable man she'd ever met. Proud, arrogant, overbearing, he made it insultingly clear that although her grandfather's shotgun had forced him to wed Rue, nothing would make...



  • Catherine Palmer

    Buried Treasures Archaeologist Kitt Tucker had spent her life studying the past, but she'd never been able to make sense of her own. And now she had to, because Garth Culhane, the husband who'd walked out on her so many years before, was back in ...



  • Amanda Browning

    "Morgan's coming home!" her stepfather cried Those three words should have released a flood of warm memories for Leigh. Instead, thoughts of their last disastrous encounter blotted out the rest. Just when she'd been coming to te...



  • Dana Fuller Ross

    A pioneering spirit marked the hardy mountaineers of North Carolina, but an ugly violence ravaged this land of laurels and hills. A dread disease was killing rich and poor alike, and cruel blame fell on the proud Cherokee, the last great Indian tribe...



  • Emma Goldrick

    Dr. Frank Wylie was in a class by himself Beth Hendley had to concede that no one else had ever shattered the hard-won peace she'd found as a schoolteacher. What had she done to deserve this husky ex-professional football player? He hated h...



  • Lurlene McDaniel

    The party was supposed to be a celebration for the cast of the school play. For sisters Amy and Erin the night turns into a nightmarish tragedy. Erin and her family must find the courage to accept that Amy's life is hanging in the balance. Will Amy s...



  • John Le Carre

    The acclaimed novel featuring George Smiley, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies and The Night Manager, now an AMC miniseries  The rules of the game, and of the world, have changed. Old enemies ...



  • John D. MacDonald

    Events are set in motion by the death of Lucille Hansen who drowns in a lake. The cause of death is a mystery. Some claim it was accidental, although Lucille was a strong swimmer, while still others believe it was a suicide as she was on the verge of...



  • John D. MacDonald

    American bachelor Miles Drummond, living in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and running out of money, half-heartedly places an ad in a few US newspapers announcing a summer art workshop. Much to his surprise, thirteen students write for details, and arrive in Cu...



  • Elizabeth Peters

    The last camel is dead, and Egyptologist Amelia Peabody, her dashing husband, Emerson, and precocious son, Ramses, are in dire straits on the sun-scorched desert sands. Months before, back in cool, green England, Viscount Blacktower.had approached th...



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