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New Books List: 599 titles

  • A Game of Thrones

    George R.R. Martin

    In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the...

  • The Shimmering Door

    Katharine Kerr

    A collection of mystical stories explores the mysteries of the magical world and includes contributions by such authors as Esther Friesner, Charles De Lint, Diana Paxson, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Mike Resnick. Original....

  • 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...

  • Shield of Lies

    Michael P. Kube-McDowell

    The New Republic's triumph grows ever more precarious in the face of an arrogant race bent on war, as the bestselling Star Worse saga continues..., SHIELD OF LIES As Leia must deal with a new threat to the fragile alliance that binds the New Repu...

  • Lockwood

    Lauran Paine

    After working a number of years in Montana as a rangeman, Cuff Lockwood wants to move on to a warmer climate and sets his direction toward New Mexico where he encounters Shelly Harrison, a woman he finds hard to forget....

  • Raiders of the Rimrock

    Luke Short

    Determined to take over all of Tornado Basin, shrewd sheepman Sands realizes he has bitten off more than he can chew when he is confronted by a gang of angry men, a determined young woman, and range detective Tim Enever...

  • Death at Spanish Wells

    Dodge Tyler

  • Curse of the Grizzly

    Jon Sharpe

    Torn between the demands of hunting down a human-eating grizzly bear and fending off two beautiful women who demand his services, Skye Fargo stumbles across a lost mine that contains millions in bloody profits. Original....

  • 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 ...

  • Wedge Goes to Arizona

    J.T. Edson

    Inheriting an Arizona ranch from a long-lost uncle, Stone Hart, accompanied by a crew of fellow Texans and Confederate veterans, sets out to claim his legacy, only to discover that some of his new neighbors are out to claim the land for their own. Or...

  • Apache Sundown

    Hank Edwards (1)

    Raised by a white soldier who abandoned his army post to rescue him, the Apache Soldado eventually becomes a leader of the Apache people and faces a difficult choice when he learns of a plot to kill his adoptive father. Original....

  • San Diego Slattern

    Dirk Fletcher

    THE REAL MCCOY

    When Spur McCoy arrived in San Diego, he found that trouble came in all shapes and sizes. It seemed that a cunning forger had taken to passing funny money, and some honest-to-goodness hussies were willing to work overtime to keep ...

  • Ordeal of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    In this western by the USA Todayâ€"bestselling author of Spirit of the Mountain Man, a cowboy stops in the wrong town and soon faces double the danger. The Wyoming tinderbox of Muddy Gap is feeling none too friendly ever since the Grubbs gang tore th...

  • 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......

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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......

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Savage Shadows

    Cassie Edwards

    All her life, Jae lived in the mysterious region of Texas known as the Big Thicket. And even though the wild land was full of ferocious animals and deadly outlaws, the ebon-haired beauty never feared for her safety. After all, she could outshoot, out...

  • An Unlikely Hero

    Gail Eastwood

    Identical Opposites Lady Venetia and Lady Vivian St. Aldwyn were identical twins. Both possessed the same stunning beauty, but they were as different from each other as two young ladies could possibly be. Not for nothing were they called the Lione...

  • Mrs. Miracle

    Debbie Macomber

    Seth Webster, a widower with six-year-old twins, needs nothing short of a miracle to feel whole again. With his heart still scarred by the loss of his wife, he feels overwhelmed trying to care for his children, get dinner on the table, and keep his j...

  • A Fresh Perspective

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    A Surfeit of Suitors Miss Megan Breech was only a vicar's daughter, but her striking beauty and brilliant talent made up for her humble birth. The most Honorable, if most boring, Harold Burnham wanted her for his wife. The divinely handsome an...

  • 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 ...

  • Wicked at Heart

    Danelle Harmon

    The Beauty Lady Gwyneth Evans Simms, a fiery and independent young widow, is renowned for her campaigns to aid the unfortunate and the oppressed. Fearlessly determined, she turns her passionate energy upon the prison hulks anchored in England'...

  • At First Sight

    Cheryl Faye

    Instantly drawn to prosperous restauranteur Warren Michaels, Alexandra Jenkins believes she has found the man of her dreams, until another woman reveals a shocking secret that could destroy Alexandra's trust in Warren forever. Original....

  • Wishes in the Wind

    Andrea Kane

    Nicole Aldridge, daughter of England's most acclaimed jockey, Nick Aldridge, whisks her father into hiding to protect him from blackmailers who have threatened his life for refusing to throw a race. Desperate to keep her father safe and the two o...

  • White Diamonds

    Shirley Hailstock

    White Heat Sandra Rutledge is a woman who has never taken risks. Until, one fateful night in the secluded mountains of Pennsylvania, she stumbles upon a fortune in diamonds. Even more shocking is the man who is carrying those diamonds: handsome, cel...

  • Charity's Angel

    Elizabeth Graham
    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! A guardian ange...

  • Runaway Magic

    Deborah Gordon

    PASSION FORESEEN A young woman once revealed Susannah "Sukey" Stone's romantic fate to her. Now, years later, the fiery American schoolteacher still eagerly awaits the coming of her dream lover: a strong, honorable, intelligent man, as h...

  • Heart Craving

    Sandra Hill
    in

    Nicholas DiCello is desperate -- his wife Paula plans to divorce him. So when a fortune-telling floozy in a floozy in a flowered dress swears the only way to win back his wife's love is to discover her heart craving, he listens!!...

  • Coup de Grace

    Emma Jensen

    CUPID'S DART SEEMS TO HAVE TERRIBLE AIM.... After her ignominious Little Season and her subsequent banishment to the country, Lady Grace Granville (also known as Disgrace) lands in dire straits once again. Cursing his luck, Rafael Marlowe c...

  • Dangerous Love

    Catherine Lanigan

    Richard Bartlow was a man people noticed. He was ruthless when he needed to be and sincere when he wanted. He was sexy, ambitious and charming. He was dangerous. Three women know only too well how dangerous. Mary Grace. The woman Richard marrie...

  • Bride's Joy

    Elda Minger
    in

    Love letters in an English manor send a reluctant bride to a century past, where she must break a curse -- and return to the church on time......

  • Never Say Never

    Christiane Heggan

    TEXAS TWISTER Laura Spencer is as gutsy as she is gorgeous, a match for any man in the cutthroat newspaper business. She has taken over the failing Austin Sentinel from her aging stepfather and is saving it with nerve and know-how. But now she is cr...

  • My One

    Dara Joy
    in

    When Lois Ed pleads with the cosmos to help her through her hard times, she never expects her cry to be answered -- by a hunk of an alien with the wildest sense of passion she's ever experienced....

  • Loving Becky

    Kim Lewis

    HE TAUGHT HER HOW TO BE A WOMAN She was a spirited young beauty with sapphire eyes and an indomitable will. Becky Tallant refused to be pawn to her father's social ambitions. Yet he'd promised her to the son of an earl to settle a gambling debt. Leg...

  • The Wedding Gamble

    Cait Logan

    She Was Lady Luck, Playing The Men Like A Pro Cairo Brown felt a thrill of danger as she accepted the black-clad gunfighter's challenge. His predator eyes took full measure of the billiard playing queen who had beaten Montana's best. Then his gaze d...

  • Irish Linen

    Candace McCarthy

    SHE DESIRED ONLY HIM... Meghan McBride owes her life to the elegant stranger who saved her from a brutal attacker. Death had cruelly taken away her father on this long voyage to America, leaving her alone and prey to the dangers that lay beyond her ...

  • Saving Grace

    Constance Laux
    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! The pomp and sp...

  • Heaven Knows

    Doreen Owens Malek
    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! A mysterious an...

  • 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...

  • Time's Tapestry

    Joan Overfield

    Now, the incomparable author of THE DOOR AJAR sends a spirited modern-day policewoman back through time to teach a bygone society and a bedazzled lord about crimes of passion...and makes her own discovery about affairs of the heart. It took a toug...

  • A Dream Across Time

    Constance O'Banyon
    in

    When a lovely librarian chases her dream to a New Orleans plantation, she finds a faded bridal veil she swears she has worn before.....

  • Wish List

    Jeane Renick

    AS THE NEW YEAR DAWNS, SO DOES THEIR FUTURE TOGETHER Charlayme Pearce's new book assignment is a fantasy come to life-a chance to spend the New bear in the lush forests of exotic Nepal. Not to mention working beside the irresistibly sensual Jordan...

  • Lady of Fire

    Janeen O'Kerry

    After her boyfriend of six years dumped her, Christine Connolly thought the idea of being worshipped like a goddess wouldn't be so bad. Little did she know that a two-dollar torque bought at a tag sale would grant her divinity. No sooner had she put ...

  • Above All Others

    Karen Ranney

    The daughter of an impecunious baron --- and a woman with few llusions and even fewer assets --- Katherine Sanderson has just accepted the position of governess to the infant daughter of the Earl of Moncrief. The notorious, sinfully handsome nobleman...

  • The Greatest Gift

    Karen Ranney
    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! And in Karen Ra...

  • Absolute Angels

    Patricia McAllister
    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! A mischievous a...

  • An Enchanted Affair

    Barbara Metzger

    She was a most unusual miss, to be sure! Lovely Lisanne Neville had always found solace in the verdant beauty of Sevrin Woods. But now the woods were about to be destroyed in order to pay off the gambling debts of the Duke of St. Sevrin. Clearly, ...

  • The Brides of Prairie Gold

    Maggie Osborne

    FATE BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER ON A JOURNEY THAT WOULD TEST THEM, CHANGE THEM, AND GIVE THEM A CHANCE AT LOVE... The twelve women from Chastity, Missouri, meant trouble for wagon master Cody Snow. He was used to transporting guns and whiskey, not mail...

  • Defiant Hearts

    Melody Morgan

    Pioneering photographer Katie O'Rourke is infuriated by the intrusive protectiveness of Spence McCord, who accompanies her on the trail from New York to Colorado as a favor to her brother, until the two unlikely lovers unexpectedly fall for each othe...

  • Once More With Feeling

    Emilie Richards

    LIFE IS FULL OF SURPRISES Elisabeth Whitfield is restless. Her son doesn't need her anymore. She and her husband don't seem to connect the way they used to. And she's secretly envious of gorgeous, tempestuous Gypsy Dugan -- the superstar host of a...

  • The Seduction of Lady Carroll

    Joy Reed

    AFFAIR OF THE HEART The very young, very beautiful Lady Carroll was at loose ends in London. Recently widowed, she vowed never, ever to allow a domineering husband to tell her what to wear and what to do. Then her dearest friend and trusted confid...

  • Sometimes Forever

    Catherine Palmer

    It began as a joke - and became the scandal of the century. Ruel Chouteau, Marquess of Blackthorne, proposed to a common housemaid. Anne Webster called his bluff, shocking him and all of England... It was a scandal well worth enduring - for Ruel k...

  • Someone Like You

    Susan Sawyer

    Clashing throughout their childhoods and agreeing that they have nothing in common, flirtatious Kate Carey and widower Sam Springer are unexpectedly brought together when Kate moves in as a temporary nanny for Sam's small child. ...

  • A Deceptive Bequest

    Olivia Sumner

    A lord in love is seeing double -- when a lady has a secret twin! TWO LADIES, ONE GENTLEMAN...ONE MERRY MIX-UP Facing a deadly dull future as a governess, foundling Ashley Douglas hasn't an inkling that she has a twin sister named Alcida Bl...

  • Walking Rain

    Susan Wade

    Eight years with a new name and a new identity had not succeeded in wiping out the past. It was time for Ameba Rawlins to go home. Home to the New Mexico ranch where she had spent her childhood summers. Home to the place where she could feel her gran...

  • Miranda

    Susan Wiggs

    WHO WAS SHE? In Regency London, a woman escapes from a burning warehouse only to realize she doesn't know her own identity. Although the locket around her neck says her name is Miranda, she has absolutely no recollection of her past. Nor does ...

  • Once Upon A Tangled Tale

    Bronwyn Wolfe

    FOUR WEDDING AND A FAIRY GODMOTHER Only a storybook affair like the marriage of Cindy Ella Jones and Princeton Chalmers could lead to three such tangled romances -- and happily-ever-after ending. BELINDA Kidnapped from the wedding party, ...

  • Callie's Honor

    Kathleen Webb

    A PROUD WOMAN ALONE After her husband's unmourned death Callie Lambert looked forward to peaceful years of hard work on her isolated Oregon ranch, doing things her way. Yet all too soon a handsome stranger showed up, a man who slowly chipped away at...

  • Dreamer's Heart

    Lynn Turner

    Lately, Faith MacRae'sdreams are haunted by frightening images of a man striking out with flames and fury. And now her nightmares have just made headlines! Louisville, Kentucky is being turned upside down by a serial bomber, and Faith is the only hop...

  • For My Lady's Honor

    Jane Howard

    It was a time of passion and perfidy, of magic and mystery ... a time when desire went hand in hand with danger for a man and, woman who dared to love... Blessed with a loveliness that could tempt to sin, convent-bred Lady Cary Seton has been gran...

  • A Certain Justice

    John T. Lescroart

    In a city of tolerance and hope, everything came apart. One man died at the hands of another. The next victim was killed by a mob. Now fires burn in the night, helicopters throb through the air, and politicians, lawyers and cops vie for the remnants ...

  • Hammer and Anvil

    Harry Turtledove

    THE RED BOOTS
    Videssos was beset by enemies. A pretender held the throne--a despot who cared little that barbarian hordes and rival realms carved away at his empire, so long as the wealth and booty of the land satisfied his unbridled appetites.

  • Special Treatment

    Nancy Fisher

    When a mediocre baseball team suddenly starts winning big, an orthopedic surgeon and a reporter team up to uncover the horrifying medical secret that turns ordinary players into supermen - and corpses....

  • Nerve Endings

    William Martin

    A merger between two powerful corporate empires results in a breathless cross-country race by James Whiting and Jeanne Darrow when the pair discovers what is at stake if the merger is successfully completed. Reprint....

  • Target: Point Zero

    Mack Maloney

    FREEDOM KILL It's been five years since the Big War incinerated America in nuclear fire, and anarchists dealt liberty a final, savage blow. Now, out of the ashes of rebellion emerges an unstoppable military force of freedom fighters' determined to r...

  • Deep Terror

    Michael Kasner

    When a group of archaeological students, including the niece of the Secretary of State, are taken hostage by terrorists who enjoy torturing their victims, the Black Ops commandos plan a careful rescue mission. Original....

  • Tooth and Claw

    Don Pendleton

    RED TIDE The Chinese are ready to reclaim Hong Kong. but they're already delivering a grim vision of the future. While hit teams are working the island. world governments look the other way. Mack Bolan. the lone man who can make a difference, i...

  • The Conductor

    Jerry Kennealy

    One of the world's most ruthless terrorists plans a crime of unthinkable proportions against the unsuspecting people of San Francisco in Jerry Kennealy's tale of searing suspense. Mary Ariza knows all the ins and outs of the law and the lawless. It's...

  • Grayheart

    Tara K. Harper

    THE TIES THAT BIND Rezsia was a city girl, unequipped to face the dangers of the wilderness. Although she as a wolfwalker, her telepathic link with the wolves was too new to give her the strength and experience she needed to survive in the forest....

  • Where the Ships Die

    William C. Dietz

    In the vast reaches of space, there are natural means of intergalactic travel known as "gaps" or "wormholes." There are only four known wormholes in existence. Whoever controls the wormholes, controls the universe. The coordinates for the wo...

  • Camelot 30K

    Robert L. Forward

  • Wheel of Dreams

    Salinda Tyson

    FUGITIVE DREAMER Kiera was desperate. The dreams that threatened to steal her soul had grown stronger in the short time since her beloved mother had died. Only if she could escape her abusive father and make her way to the witches rumored to inhab...

  • Cast of Fate

    Allen Varney

    The Volcano City Karakto, home of the Morehl--the mad, corrupted lava elves. Decades ago, the forces of good conquered this evil city. The occupying forces of the Selumari, the coral elves, now live in an uneasy truce with their hated enemies. ...

  • Quantum Moon

    Denise Vitola

    In the wake of a powerful district councilman's wife's murder, detective Ty Merrick realizes that the truth will threaten the structure of the district's government and fights an unusual disorder that emerges during the full moon. Original....

  • Sister Blood

    Karen Haber

    Failing to capture the evil Yates Keller after conquering his empire, empath Kayla is forced to meet Keller when he claims to have captured her friends and fears she may be running into a trap. Original....

  • The Mage in the Iron Mask

    Brian Thomsen
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Volo Is Back... Mulmaster--a center for commerce and industry...where an innocent man is imprisoned, his identity obscured by a magically forged iron mask. Mulmaster--benevolently ruled by a council of nobles called the Blades...whose leader, the Hi...

  • Agent of Destruction

    Rutledge Etheridge

    For centuries, two bloodthirsty Fleets--one Silver and one Gold--fought a war for the domination of space. At the mercy of both Fleets, the planets were regularly pillaged and destroyed: their resources taken as supplies and their children taken as s...

  • Kingmaker's Sword

    Ann Marston

    SON OF A LOST KING The Skai and the Tyr were one people long ago. But that day is lost in the mists of time. And now the Skai have sent a warrior to find the Rune Blade that could slice through the darkness of blood and violence that had fallen ac...

  • The Dragon's Dagger

    R.A. Salvatore

    Gary had longed to return to the realm of Faerie ever since the day he left. In that mystical world hidden behind his house, life was very different. But at least there was beauty, and peace. But things have changed since Gary's last visit. The sa...

  • Far Edge of Darkness

    Linda Evans

  • Catfantastic IV

    Andre Norton

    Highlights the stories of clever feline companions of an alchemist, a princess, a planet-hopping lion tamer, and others, in a collection that includes works by Andre Norton, Mercedes Lackey, Jayge Carr, and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough. Original....

  • Virtual Zen

    Ray Nelson

  • City of Angels

    Chet Williamson

    I believe there's a place where the restless souls wander. Burdened bq the weight of their own sadness, they cannot enter Heaven... And so they wait, trapped between our world and the next, endlessly searching for a wag to rid themselves of their pai...

  • The Lost Guardians

    Ronald Anthony Cross

  • Operation Excalibur

    William H. Keith Jr.

    THE MERCENARY CODE was broken by the Gray Death Legion during their desperate fighting on the planet Caledonia. At least, that is the ruling of the courts. And the judges decide to hit below the belt--Grayson Carlyle, revered leader of the now outla...

  • Battlemind

    William H. Keith Jr.

    The Web, a vast machine intelligence of unbelievable power, is steadily consuming the galaxy, indifferent to any species that stands in its way. Fighting the Web brings together an alliance between disparate societies and alien civilizations that mus...

  • Tran

    Jerry Pournelle

    Finding himself on the distant world of Tran, which is populated by humans from all Earth times, former mercenary Rick Galloway, now known as Lord Rick, must unite the warring nations of the planet to survive the time of the Demon Star....

  • 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....

  • Touched by Magic

    Doranna Durgin

    UNICORN MAGIC Reandn was a guard in the high king's service. He had a respected position, a beloved wife, and a son who loved and admired him. Then little boys started disappearing from the castle keep. Reandn was put in charge of the investigatio...

  • Coffey on the Mile

    Stephen King

    A NOVEL IN SIX PARTS: COFFEY ON THE MILE Cold Mountain penitentiary has seen its share of death through the years. Now it's John Coffey's turn to take that final walk down the Green Mile. Yet prison guard Paul Edgecombe has uncovered a devastating tr...

  • Passage to Dawn

    R.A. Salvatore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Six years. Not so long in the lifespan of a drow. And yet--in counting the months, the weeks, the days, the hours--it seemed to me as if I had been away from Mithril Hall a hundred times that number, The place was another lifetime, another way of lif...

  • To Bring the Light

    David Drake

    AGAINST THE FALL OF NIGHT PADWAY: The Roman Empire had spread order, knowledge. and civilization throughout the ancient world. When Rome fell, the light of reason flickered out across the Empire. The Dark Ages had begun; they would last a thousan...

  • The Long Hunt

    Debra Doyle; James D. MacDonald

    THE HAZARDS OF WAR ARE SIMPLE AND DIRECT. THE HAZARDS OF PEACE...ARE MORE COMPLEX. Welcome to Khesat, glittering jewel of the Central Worlds. Khesat, where decadence is an art form and intrigue is a way of life--and where, more than twenty years a...

  • 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, ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • The Marrying Kind

    Beverly Bird

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    Debra Carroll

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    Sandra Canfield

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    Lori Copeland

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    Lacey Dancer

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    Susan Crosby

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    Evelyn A. Crowe

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    Jacqueline Diamond

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    Justine Davis

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    Shawna Delacorte

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    Thea Devine

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    Andrea Edwards

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    Barbara Faith

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    Mara Fitzcharles

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    Heather Graham

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    Lori Herter

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    Kathryn Hockett

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    Kate Hoffmann

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    Lisa Jackson

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    Kathryn Kramer

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    Donna Kauffman

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    Carolyn Lampman

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    Kathleen Korbel

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  • Pearl

    Ruth Langan

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    Adrianne Lee

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    Leandra Logan

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    Lisa Kaye Laurel

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    Charlotte Maclay

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    Melinda McRae

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    Lynn Michaels
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    Dana Lindsey

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    Lindsay Longford

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    Mary McGuinness

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    Barbara McMahon

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    Anita Mills
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    Cassie Miles

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    Meg O'Brien

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    Margaret Moore

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    Helen R. Myers

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    Mindy Neff

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    Jodi O'Donnell

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    Sara Orwig

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    Laura Parker

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    Fayrene Preston

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    Patricia Potter
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    Kimberly Rangel

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    Denise Richards

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    Nora Roberts

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    Patricia Rosemoor

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    Karen Rose Smith

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    JoAnn Ross

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    Renee Roszel

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    Sharon Sala

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    Dallas Schulze

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    Carolyn Seabaugh

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    Maggie Simpson

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    Antoinette Stockenberg

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    Laura Taylor

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    Raeanne Thayne

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    Vicki Lewis Thompson

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    Vivian Vaughan
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    Pat Warren

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    Linda Randall Wisdom

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    Shannon Waverly

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    Bronwyn Williams

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    Rebecca Winters

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    Carolyn Zane

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    Lydia Adamson

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    Neal Barrett Jr.

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    Barbara Block

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    Linda A. Cooney

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    Mary Daheim

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    John Francome

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  • Riding High

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    Margaret Frazer

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    Ruthe Furie

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    Andrew M. Greeley

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  • The Hoffa Connection

    William Harrington

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  • Animal Instincts

    Eleanor Hyde

    BEAUTY AND THE BEASTS
    As editor of a très chic fashion magazine, Lydia Miller is bone tired of hemlines and wrinkle cream. But when she takes a sabbatical to volunteer at a private animal shelter, she stumbles across a plot that leads right back ...

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    M.D. Lake

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  • Sex and Salmonella

    Kathleen Taylor

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    Lou Jane Temple

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  • Tribe

    R.D. Zimmerman

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  • Nucflash

    Keith Douglass

    In the New World Order there is only one fear: A renegade state will gain control of a nuclear weapon and incinerate a city of innocent people. Now a team of cold, psychotic renegades is about to pull off the unthinkable... It's up to Lieutenant B...

  • First Love: A Gothic Tale

    Barry Moser

    Haunting woodcut illustrations complement a dark tale of adolescent love, divided family loyalties, psychological manipulation, and betrayal in the story of eleven-year-old Josie and her relationship with an intriguing, twenty-five-year-old cousin, J...