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New Books List: 599 titles

  • Into the Zonk Zone!

    Tony Abbott

    SUMMER IS ALMOST here and there’s only one thing standing between Ned and freedom -- his duty as a Time Surfer. When Roop and Suzi arrive from the future and tell Ned his surfie’s been seen around MegaCity, Ned knows he’s in big trouble. And wi...

  • Dr. Nightingale Chases Three Little Pigs

    Lydia Adamson

    MURDER IN A PIG'S EYE! A lovely little milk cow is terribly sick, and looking around the rundown dairy farm, Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale, D.V.M., isn't surprised. She is, however, shocked when her favorite vet-school professor, the elderly Hiram Be...

  • After Effects

    Catherine Aird

    When Mrs. Galloway, who suffers from heart disease, finally passes away it comes as no shock to the staff at Berebury Hospital. Abel Granger's family had also been long prepared for his death that same morning. So why then has Mrs. Galloway's son c...

  • Cheaters and Other Stories

    Dean Albarelli

    The first collection of stories by an author twice cited as an Outstanding Writer by The Pushcart Prize contains tales about men and woman on the brink of making momentous decisions that will change their lives....

  • Chelli and the Great Sandbox Adventure

    Sarah Albee

  • Watery Grave

    Bruce Alexander

    "The year is 1769, and Jeremy Proctor, a manly, orphaned lad of fourteen, has been in the employ of Sir John Fielding for more than a year, lending his clear, observant eyes to the blind magistrate of the Bow Street Court in return for a thrilling ed...

  • All Shook Up

    Carrie Alexander

    WHEN THE HEART OVERCOMES THE HEAD... Kate Mallory: She's caught four wedding bouquets in two years, but no man. Being a science teacher, she decides to take the scientific approach to finding Mr. Right. Jamie Flynn: Being a lusty bartender, ...

  • Beowulf and Grendel

    Michael Alexander

    Beowulf battles to the death with the monster Grendel and Grendel's mother to ensure the safety of the kingdom. Michael Alexander's eloquent verse translation is published in full in Penguin classics....

  • A Bride for John

    Trisha Alexander

    Desperately Seeking Daddy Little Missy Broome really wanted a father. Her hardworking mom, Shelley, could also use a husband. And what better candidate than rich, handsome neighbor John Taylor? The widower's son was Missy's best buddy, his daught...

  • Eagle

    Judy Allen

  • Seal

    Judy Allen

  • Temporary Texan

    Heather Allison

    Branded! Claire Bellingham was allergic to Texas. Of that she was sure. She was a city girl born and bred. Unfortunately, to fulfill the requirements of her grandfather's will, she found herself having to stay deep in the heart of the state, w...

  • Peacham Place

    Bethany Amber

    Peacham Place: unlock your wildest desires.In the days of good King Teddy, when only ladies' corsets were strait-laced, the Edwardian upper classes knew how to handle their affairs. But Viridia, the new Lady Parker, has not yet learned the meaning of...

  • The Real Fantasy

    Caroline Anderson

    She was his living fantasy Dr. Matthew Jarvis advertised for a trainee GP, preferably female, for his New Forest general practice. To his total shock, one of the applicants was Dr. Linsey Wheeler, the girl he had rescued from drowning eight years ...

  • Jedi Under Siege

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta
    in

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new...

  • Ultimate Love

    Neil T. Anderson

    How far would you go for true love? Are you looking for the ultimate love? This may surprise you--the ultimate love experience isn't something you do. It's something God already did! Discover love with no strings attached....

  • Awesome God

    Neil T. Anderson

  • Cruel As the Grave

    John Armistead

    The killing of Naresse Clouse, mother of four, was the stuff of nightmares.  The pretty restaurant hostess was shot, stabbed, and left hanging in a rural barn, where some said she was meeting a lover.  Three years later her killer has not been fo...

  • Deeper Than the Night

    Amanda Ashley

    The townsfolk of Moulton Bay said there was something otherworldly about Alexander Claybourne. Some people whispered that with his dark, arresting features and mesmerizing eyes, the seductive stranger looked every inch a vampire. They never guessed h...

  • Baby Piggy Goes to School

    Lauren Attinello

  • Angel Child

    Jaqueline Austin

    Based on a true story, the account of Zoe Parry follows the life of a woman whose devastated childhood of abuse and incest led to her more than 150 multiple personalities, from a Civil War soldier to a witch priestess. Original....

  • A Dance on the Edge

    Anne Avery
    in

    When interior designer Marlis Jones battles with architect Jack Martin over e-mail, they discover a love powerful enough to blow their circuits....

  • Eclipse at Noon

    James Axler

    Finding themselves on board the remains of a Mississippi pleasure boat, Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists enjoy gambling with its genial captain, until the stakes escalate to human life proportions. Original....

  • Don't Promise Me Rainbows

    Susan Aylworth

    Chris McAllister enjoys teasing and flirting too much to settle down - until he meets Sarah McGill. The spunky, red-haired veterinarian has him charmed from the first time he witnesses her gentle and caring way with animals. Sarah is charmed, too, bu...

  • Pamela

    Judy Baer

    Pamela Warren is eager to make a name for herself when she takes a dream job as a sports reporter for a Canadian newspaper. Her first assignment: to interview Tyler "the Tiger" Evans, an arrogant hockey star with a less than stellar reputation. His g...

  • Faded Dream

    Judy Baer

  • Found: One Runaway Bride

    Stella Bagwell

    WHO'S THAT BRIDE? Farmer Cord Rawlins was used to finding strange things in his fields, but a woman in a wedding dress -- with amnesia, no less? Now, that didn't happen every day! WHERE'S THAT BRIDE? But soon the sexy woman -- wh...

  • Poet in the Gutter

    John Baker

    Sam Turner has always had a romantic yearning to be Sam Spade. So he tells his men's group in York that he's a private eye - it's better than admitting he's an unemployed alcoholic. But then one of his friends asks for help in tracking an erring wife...

  • The Heirloom

    Mary Balogh
    in

    A bewitching sapphire engagement ring leads a skittish groom to Regency Wales -- where he learns there is no love like the present......

  • Logan's Lady

    Becky Barker

    LOVE IS IN THE AIR Logan Bradford was everything Dee Prescott wanted in a man. He was a successful, independent rancher who loved the great outdoors; a virile, tender lover; and most of all, a true romantic. But that was before Dee's commitmen...

  • The Regeneration Trilogy

    Pat Barker

    The Regeneration Trilogy is Pat Barker's sweeping masterpiece of British historical fiction. 1917, Scotland. At Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland, army psychiatrist William Rivers treats shell-shocked soldiers before sending them back to ...

  • Man of the Midnight Sun

    Jean Barrett

    MAIL-ORDER MATES BUT NEITHER IS WHO THEY CLAIM TO BE! Cathryn McLean -- With nowhere else to turn, she accepted the handsome stranger's startling marriage proposal. But once in the isolated Alaska cabin with him, she realized her mistake: her "h...

  • Skinny Annie Blues

    Neal Barrett Jr.

    Wiley Moss has always given fate the benefit of the doubt. Even when fate sends his daddy crashing head-first into the aquarium in his Galveston home. Even when fate calls long distance warning Wiley to stay away from Daddy Moss's funeral--and stay t...

  • Maybe This Time

    Victoria Barrett

    IS IT REALLY POSSIBLE TO CHANGE THE PAST? They've been together through the ages -- whether it was Egypt at the time of the pharaohs, Regency England, or modern-day America. But New Orleans computer analyst Kevan Buchanan and ambitious busines...

  • Branch and Crown

    Gael Baudino

    Stranded in the sacred Library of the Three Kingdoms, Sara, an herbalist and woman of the Goddess, reluctantly teams up with a pretentious scholar and an argumentative crown prince turned thief in order to survive. Original....

  • Tears of Yesterday

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    TEARS OF YESTERDAY... But no tears for tomorrow. Paige and Lane Morgan had once shared the secret joys of marriage but had been unable to make the magic last. Given a second chance, they must find their way into each other's arms though a glitt...

  • Snow Puppies

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • Long Shadows in Victory

    Gregory Bean

  • Lost Mariner

    William Bedford

  • The Lady and Alex Payton

    Nikki Benjamin

    KIDNAPPED... Kari Gray had often dreamed that she'd see Alex again. In the ten years since he had walked out on her, she'd been tormented by memories, by questions without answers. Now, suddenly, Alex was back, but it was not the romantic reunion ...

  • For All Eternity

    Janice Bennett
    in

    Love is always a miracle, but sometimes it needs a little help from above. Now, seven authors of historical romance bring us stories sure to make us true believers in the divine intervention that unites hearts, souls...and bodies! There's an ange...

  • So Good

    Venise Berry

    Ph.D. candidate Lisa is a success in everything except finding a good man. When she meets Walter he seems perfect -- except for the scandal in his past. New bride Sundiata, spiritually independent, is not ready for the Nigerian traditions of her cons...

  • Father on the Brink

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    A BLIZZARD, A BABY ...AND A BRIDE? Being snowbound with a beautiful stranger was a bachelor's dream. Being snowbound with a beautiful stranger in labor was this bachelor's worst nightmare! Yet Cooper Dugan managed to deliver Katie Brennan's son. ...

  • Wrapped in Wishes

    Olga Bicos

    Sent back through time by an accident in hypnosis, attorney Chloe Plum falls in love with rogue adventurer Harrison Connors only to return to her own time, but his appearance in modern-day New Orleans offers Chloe a second chance to be with him. Orig...

  • The Marrying Kind

    Beverly Bird

    THE WRONG KIND OF MAN Since her husband's death, there hadn't been any room in by-the-books Detective Tessa Hadley-Bryant's life for anything but police work--and that was exactly the way she wanted it. Especially right now, when she was handling ...

  • Never Again Good-Bye

    Terri Blackstock

    Normally, Wes Grayson would have been attracted to the striking woman with the camera. But this woman has clearly been stalking Amy, his adoptive daughter and the center of his life. And a threat to Amy is a threat to Wes. Laney Fields has no desire ...

  • In Plain Sight

    Barbara Block

    It's raining in Syracuse. Amateur sleuth Robin Light half-wishes her pet store, Noah's Ark, would just get up and float away--business is that bad. A client finally comes calling--only to wind up dead a few days later...floating in the local reservoi...

  • The Bedroom Is Mine

    Jane Bonander

    WHO'S BEEN SLEEPING IN MY BED? No man was more determined to remain a bachelor than ruggedly handsome Ross Benedict--and there wasn't a single woman in the town of Twin Hearts who could change his mind. Until he arrived home one night...and fou...

  • Bull Hunter's Romance

    Max Brand

    Faced with the possibility of hanging for his crimes, outlaw Pete Reeve enlists comrade and retired gunman Bull Hunter for help, unaware that Hunter risks losing the woman he loves if he assists his friend. Reprint....

  • The Legend of Thunder Moon

    Max Brand

  • The Lightning Warrior

    Max Brand

    When Sylvia Baird, a proud woman determined not to marry Cobalt, a fierce warrior, tells him that she will consent to be his wife only if he brings her the pelt of the elusive white wolf also known as the "Lightning Warrior," he succeeds much to her ...

  • Pooh: The Sweetest Christmas

    Ann Braybrooks

    In the recover of this story, Pooh wants his friends to have a wonderful Christmas-- so he gives them the best gift he can think of--jars of honey! But now that he's given all his honey away, what will Pooh do when his tumbly gets rumbly?...

  • Rogue's Justice

    Thomas Gately Briody

    Michael Carolina just wanted to sail off to the South Seas and forget about Rhode Island and the world of TV news. But then Lilly Simmons, his on-again, off-again girlfriend, gets plowed - literally. It's time for Michael to come home and sort out th...

  • Exquisite Corpse

    Poppy Z. Brite

    From the author of Lost Souls, Drawing Blood, and Wormwood comes a thrilling and chilling novel that bestselling author Peter Straub says serves as a “guidebook to hell.”To serial slayer Andrew Compton, murder is an art, the most intimate art. Af...

  • Blood Ties

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Man of Her Dreams

    Virginia Brown
    in

    An antique wedding gown lures a Mississippi belle to the Civil War -- and into the arms of a rebel love......

  • Autumn Fires

    Lydia Browne

    NO ONE CAN PREDICT THE SEASONS OF THE HEART... BETHANY: She left her fiance in New York and moved back to MIssouri to help her grandfather recover his lost fortune... BRENT: He fell in love with Bethany at first sight. But she had yet to learn ...

  • Fredericka's Folly

    Gayle Buck

    Jumping the Fences London was the last place in the world that Miss Fredericka Hedgeworth wished to go, and marriage was most certainly the last thing on her mind. This beautiful, high-spirited young lady desired only to stay at home, where saving...

  • Evil Harmony

    Kathryn Buckstaff

    While in Branson, Missouri, on an assignment, writer Emily Stone falls in love with country singing star Marty Rose, but when Marty's associates begin dying mysteriously, Emily turns her talents to amateur sleuthing. Reprint....

  • Dog Eat Dog

    Edward Bunker

    Dog Eat Dog, Bunker's fourth novel, follows Troy Cameron, a reformatory graduate like Bunker. A terrifying and brutal narrative, the novel tracks his lawless spree in the company of two other reform school alumni, Diesel Carson and Mad Dog Cain. D...

  • New Ideas in the Alekhine Defense

    Graham Burgess

  • The Angel of Kilcallaugh

    Mallory Burgess
    in

    Love is always a miracle, but sometimes it needs a little help from above. Now, seven authors of historical romance bring us stories sure to make us true believers in the divine intervention that unites hearts, souls...and bodies! Mallory Burgess...

  • White Apache

    Frank Burleson

    Caught in the middle of a savage war between the Mimbreno Apaches and the blue-coated white soldiers of 1857 New Mexico Territory, former army soldier and Apache medicine man Nathanial Barrington is forced two choose between sides. Original....

  • The Cobweb

    Stephen Bury

    From his triumphant debut with Snow Crash to the stunning success of his latest novel, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson has quickly become the voice of a generation. In this now-classic political thriller, he and fellow author J. Frederick George tell a ...

  • Sex and the City

    Candace Bushnell

    WELCOME TO THE AGE OF UN-INNOCENCE... Enter a world where the sometimes shocking and often hilarious mating habits of the privileged are exposed by a true insider. In essays drawn from her witty and sometimes brutally candid column in the New York O...

  • Dead Letter

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    I don't want to die. He's going to kill me, I know it. He's back! Look inside . . . When super-sleuth Herculeah Jones discovers a mysterious letter hidden in the lining of a secondhand coat, she knows she's getting a lot more than she bargained f...

  • Tonio's Cat

    Mary Calhoun

  • True Bliss

    Stella Cameron

    Once upon a time, lonely privileged Bliss Winters and wild teenaged rebel Sebastian Plato were secret sweethearts, hiding their love from a hostile world. Until a rival's jealousy and shocking accusations shattered their dreams, forcing Sebastian to ...

  • Love Sex and Murder

    Sue Cameron

    With ingenious go-for-broke strategies and the help of a famous mentor, legal rising star Nikki Easterly is out to save an innocent client's life. But amid the Internet's realms of infinite promise, a mysterious stranger known as the Master is about ...

  • The One Safe Place

    Ramsey Campbell

    Don and Suzanne Travis and their adolescent son, Marshall, become involved in an escalating web of brutality, murder, and kidnapping after Don testifies against a man who attacked him after a minor traffic violation. Reprint....

  • Jericho

    Sandra Canfield

    Remember the Calloway women -- Mariah, Jo, Tess and Eden? For all the readers who loved Calloway Corners -- welcome back! And if you haven't been there yet, join us! Jericho. The eldest of the notorious Galloway boys has come home to visit his...

  • Daniel

    Mary Cappellini

  • Treasure Box

    Orson Scott Card

    A FAMILY SECRET BEST KEPT QUIET Quentin Fears is a certifiable recluse, moving restlessly from town to town, investing the millions he's made as a software creator and always avoiding companionship. Until one night he meets his dream woman, Madele...

  • Buried Alive

    D.l. Carey

    Trapped in a flooding basement with seven other people after a building collapses, emergency volunteer Gordon McKittrick despairs over his limited medical skills while a fellow volunteer struggles to rescue them...

  • The Other Family

    Jacqueline Carey

    Carey brings her sharp eye, humor and smooth, understated style to this accomplished first novel about a girl's careful look at the family she believes is so much happier than her own, fulfilling the promise of her enthusiastically received debut wor...

  • Pool Party

    Linda Cargill

    Planning the party of the year at her mother's exclusive new hotel, Sharon is surprised when a mysterious person invites people she hardly knows to the party and begins to fear that her guests are being set up. Original....

  • Jessica

    Melody Carlson

    JESSICA JOHNSON is bored and frustrated with her humdrum farm-girl existence until she starts hanging out at the town's new coffeehouse. Its trend-setting crowd and sophisticated atmosphere seem to offer the change of pace she is looking for -- espec...

  • Carlo Collodi's Pinocchio

    M.J. Carr

  • Melanie

    Carol Carrick

    Melanie, the blind shepherdess, is worried when her grandfather goes in search of a healer for her and fails to return. She follows him into the Dark Forest and rescues him from an evil troll who has cast a spell over Grandfather and countless other ...

  • An Inconvenient Passion

    Debra Carroll

    AN INCONVENIENT MARRIAGE Joanna and Reid had nothing in common but their divorce. Joanna's ailing mother, however, didn't know that and she wasn't going to find out. Joanna was willing to do anything to help her mother get better....including aski...

  • Bugs That Go Bump in the Night

    David A. Carter

    In a hilarious pop-up adventure, complete with a removable bug mask, young readers are exposed to frightening, nighttime creepy crawlies, such as the Dracubug, the Frankenbug, and the Haunted House Bug, through an array of brightly colored, three-dim...

  • The Infinite Sea

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    Since John Bandicut saved Earth from collision with a comet in Neptune Crossing and saved Shipworld from the boojum of Strange Attractors, his life has become one confrontation with chaos after another.

    No sooner has he survived a harrowing es...

  • Witch Mama

    Judith Caseley

  • Loverboys

    Ana Castillo

    “Seductive… full of infectious vigor… these stories demand, above all, to be listened to.” -- New York Times Book Review From Ana Castillo, the widely praised author of So Far from God and The Guardians, comes this collection of stories on t...

  • Hiding My Candy

    Lady Chablis

  • The Conquest

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    When a comet appears in the sky over England in the spring of 1066, it heralds a time of momentous change for Ailith, a young Saxon wife. Newly pregnant, she has developed a friendship with her neighbour, Felice, a Norman wine merchant's wife who is ...

  • The Last Time I Saw Mother

    Arlene J. Chai

    Caridad's mother never writes. So when a letter arrives for her in Sydney from Manila, Caridad doesn't even recognize her mother's handwriting. There is more distance than just miles between the two women. And that is why Caridad is called home. Her ...

  • The Changewinds

    Jack L. Chalker

    When the Changewinds blow across the worlds that they themselves created, they are at once random and consisten, obeying their own spectral meterology. Over this tumultuous sea of realities rule the Ahkbreed, whose sorcerers have mastery over physica...

  • Hot Summer Nights

    Elizabeth Chandler

    Carly McFarlane needs to find a guy--for someone else. Her plan is guaranteed to stop flirty Heather from going after every boy she'd ever dated. Carly decides to snare the perfect match for Heather, and then find her own true love. Carly McFarlane ...

  • Married to the Man

    Ann Charlton

    She needed a husband.... To secure her inheritance Lorelei Tate needed to be married by thirty. She was twenty-nine and three quarters.... It wasn't just her biological clock that was ticking! There was only one solution. She'd just have to ...

  • Missing!

    Kate Chester

    When a beautiful and popular girl disappears, intelligent deaf girl Sara Howell refuses to accept the police theory that the missing Kimberly is trying to get attention and launches a private search for her friend. Original....

  • The Sinister Six

    Richie Chevat

    In the first installment of a new adventure series, readers are placed in the character of Peter Parker, who must outwit the Sinister Six while defending Mary Jane in a story with several possible endings. Original....

  • The Kiss and Other Stories

    Kate Chopin

  • Executive Orders

    Tom Clancy

    The President is dead. Now, the weight of the world falls on Jack Ryan’s shoulders in this extraordinary #1 New York Times bestseller from Tom Clancy.At the climax of Debt of Honor, the most devastating terrorist act in the history of the world ...

  • A Ghost of a Chance

    Casey Claybourne

    She glared at him as he sat behind the desk flipping through a stack of papers. So unconcerned, so unaware... Oh, the boy deserved a comeuppance! And she was just the ghost to give him one. A speculative gleam sparked her gaze as she eyed him from...

  • Choosers of the Slain

    James H. Cobb

    A powerful scenario on the cutting edge of technology, Choosers of the Slain is set in the near future, in the icy waters of the desolate Antarctic. A lone British outpost is taken over by Argentinian forces. The world's only immediate defense is the...

  • Long Walk

    Amanda Cockrell

    Ending her years of wandering and facing separation from her mate, Night Hawk, when the time approaches for her to give birth, Others' Child faces a new calling that places her in a difficult position with her people. Original....

  • The Court of Love

    Denee Cody

    IN A TEMPESTUOUS AGE OF CLASHING STEEL AND BOLD HEARTS When Julianna Devereux, Countess of Rosmar, refuses to wed her young cousin, the willful beauty is banished to the court of England's Eleanor of Aquitaine. There, she is to await papal orders ...

  • Killer Computer

    M.T. Coffin

    When her computer is infected by Zippy the virus, who promptly takes over her entire house, young Jenny is shocked when the unplugged Zippy survives and demands that she become his round-the-clock companion. Original....

  • Werewolves

    Daniel Cohen

    A comprehensive look into the world of werewolves explores stories and accounts of their existence, from the ancient world to the present day, including detailed information on how to know a werewolf as well as how to contact a werewolf on the Intern...

  • The Bookseller

    Matt Cohen

    Paul Stevens enters a world of anxious curiosity as he struggles to know more about his new love, Judith, after discovering that his gambling brother, Henry, knows her through a mutual connection in her secret life...

  • A Game of Chance

    Lynn Collum

    LUCKYAT CARDS... Lydia Whitney, the daughter of a notorious gambler, guessed that she'd inherited her father's redoubtable luck when she tumbled out of a tree...and into the arms of the sixth Earl of Standford! Fortune smiles on her once a...

  • Toss the Bouquet

    Phoebe Conn
    in

    After her boyfriend falls short of the altar, bridal florist Regan Paisley spends her vacations days at the beach alone. Then she meets a seductive Italian cyclist who pedals his way into her bed -- and her heart....

  • Beloved Legacy

    Phoebe Conn

    Acadian healer Arielle Douville is about to lose everything she holds most precious -- because of one man. American aristocrat Byron Barclay has been sent by the invading British to tear her people from their beloved Nova Scotia homeland. Or has fate...

  • The Chatham School Affair

    Thomas H. Cook

    On a summer day, a young woman alighted from a bus in the small Cape Cod village of Chatham and took up residence in a cottage on the edge of Black Pond's dark waters. She was embarking on a voyage she could not foresee--one that would bring catastro...

  • Haven

    John Peyton Cooke

    Having just moved to the isolated mountain town of Haven, Idaho, doctor Cecilia Mak and her husband Mike find many people dying strangely, until finally Mike himself is killed, and Cecilia sets out to uncover the town's dark secrets....

  • Freeze Tag

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Jealousy turns deadly in this chilling story from the author of Whatever Happened to Janie? As kids, Meghan, West, and Lannie played freeze tagbut with Lannie, nothing was normal. With one touch, she could turn anyone as cold as ice, a human st...

  • Samantha Crane Crossing the Line

    Linda A. Cooney

    Sixteen-year-old Samantha Crane finds herself caught up in the dreams and rivalries of peers Tracy, Kristine, Jennifer, and Allison, aspiring Hollywood starlets who risk danger and each other for their ambitions. Original....

  • Growing up Lambert

    Amy Jo Cooper

  • Dates and Other Nuts

    Lori Copeland

    DATES FROM HELL Or at least that's what date number 867 -- and the other 866 -- felt like to Temple Burney. She'd promised her grandmother she'd make one last attempt to find Mr. Right, but she might as well have added or die trying! A...

  • Under the Black Flag

    David Cordingly

    “This is the most authoritative and highly literate account of these pernicious people that I have ever read.” -- Patrick O'Brian“[A] wonderfully entertaining history of pirates and piracy . . . a rip-roaring read . . . fascinating and unexpect...

  • The Hampstead Vegetable Heist

    Mat Coward
    in

    Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

  • Baby Fever

    Susan Crosby

    HOW TO CURE A CASE OF BABY FEVER Jasmine LeClerc had found the man to father her baby. Patrick O'Halloran was unattached, just passing through town ...and in perfect physical condition. In fact, the millionaire was simply scrumptious, and Jasmine ...

  • The Lost Guardians

    Ronald Anthony Cross

  • A Family of His Own

    Evelyn A. Crowe

    He's never met the woman he couldn't charm -- until now! Jason Van der Bollen is -- to put it bluntly -- a womanizer. Dashing and delightful, yes, But still a womanizer. Lately, though, he's been thinking there's something missing in his life. M...

  • The Midwife's Apprentice

    Karen Cushman

    “I am Alyce. Not Brat or Dung Beetle or Beetle. Alyce.” One frosty evening, a girl who knows no home, no parents, and no name but Brat finds shelter and warmth in a farmer's dung heap. There Jane the village midwife finds her. So it is that Br...

  • The Alpine Gamble

    Mary Daheim

    THE ALPINE ADVOCATE IS ON A ROLL. The big story is the five-million-dollar luxury spa that Los Angeles real estate developers want to build around Alpine's mountainside mineral springs--hot news and fierce controversy for Advocate readers, and for...

  • Good Investments

    Celia Dale
    in

    Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

  • Goa

    Kara Dalkey

  • Noelle

    Lacey Dancer

    ONLY LOVE CAN HEAL A HURTING HEART.... Noelle St. James learned years ago that giving in to that all-consuming and all-too-elusive emotion called love only leads to heartache. When men's kisses turned cold, men's promises usually turned to lies. ...

  • For Baby's Sake

    Val Daniels

    Yes it all for the baby's sake? Alicia Barnes fell head over heels in love with Dan Bridges, and when he proposed she was soon dreaming of happy ever after. She thought he felt the same, but when she caught him in the arms of another woman, Al...

  • Sundance

    Peggy Darty

    When ever-adventurous Robin Grayson hatches a plot to spend the summer cooking at the former homestead of her great-grandparents, the new owner - widower Craig Cameron - greets her unenthusiastically. Yet, for the sake of his two sons, he agrees to l...

  • Leader of the Pack

    Justine Davis

    SHE'D THOUGHT SHE WOULD NEVER SEE HIM AGAIN. Wounded and backed into a corner, Ryan Buckhart sought a temporary escape from months of undercover police work. He could go to only one place... find safety in the arms of only one woman. He'd neve...

  • Track of the Scorpion

    Val Davis

    DEADLY DISCOVERY Nicolette Scott is an archaeologist with an unusual specialty--the recent past--and an even odder passion--uncovering lost airplanes. But ancient civilizations are where the funding is, and the New Mexico badlands are where her fa...

  • The Forsytes

    Suleika Dawson

  • 3 NBs of Julian Drew

    James M. Deem

    Recording his thoughts in three spiral notebooks, teen Julian Drew learns how to express himself and come to terms with his bewildering circumstances through his fantasies of an imaginary recipient known as U. Reprint....

  • A Visitation of the Plague

    Daniel Defoe

  • Cowboy Dreaming

    Shawna Delacorte

    STRANDED When Melanie Winslow returned to the Colorado ranch where she was raised, she never expected to find herself stranded in a mountain cabin with Cody Chandler. The rugged ranch manager was the answer to every daydream Melanie had ever had a...

  • Pee Wee Pool Party

    Judy Delton

    Summer vacation is here and all of the Pee Wees are excited about their new swimming badge.  All, that is, except for Molly, who doesn't know how to swim and is afraid of the water.  Can Molly earn her badge without actually getti...

  • Sinful Secrets

    Thea Devine

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    Junot Diaz

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    William C. Dietz

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    Walt Disney

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    Robyn Donald

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    Keith Douglass

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    Debra Doyle; James D. MacDonald

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    David Drake

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    Madelaine Duke
    in

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    J.T. Edson

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    Cassie Edwards

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    Hank Edwards (1)

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    Clive Egleton

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    Clive Egleton

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    Carol Ellis

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    Judith Ross Enderle

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    S.K. Epperson

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    Barbara Erskine

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    Joe Ewers

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    Elisabeth Fairchild

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    Barbara Faith

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    Erica Farber; J.R. Sansevere

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    Erica Farber; J.R. Sansevere

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    Christopher John Farley

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    Ron Faust

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    Cheryl Faye

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    Keith Ferrell

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    Robert Ferrigno

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    Mara Fitzcharles

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    Gustave Flaubert

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    Dirk Fletcher

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    Lynn Flewelling

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  • Monster Motel

    Douglas Florian

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    Robert L. Forward

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    John Francome

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    Margaret Frazer

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    Marilyn French

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    Stephen Frey

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    John Fullerton

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    Robert Funderburk

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    Ruthe Furie

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    Frances Fyfield
    in

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    Timothy R. Gaffney

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    Diana G. Gallagher

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    J.J. Gardner

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    Julie Garwood

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    Jonathan Gash

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    Laura Geringer

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    Jo Gibson

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    Patricia Reilly Giff

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    Golden Books