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New Books List: 531 titles


  • Robyn Donald

    SHE REFUSES TO BE DOMINATED...! Hope's stubborn independence had been threatened when she'd first met Keir Carmichael and sensed the strong attraction between them. She had refused to succumb to his charms, and set off instead to travel A...



  • Jean Fritz

    Ann Hamilton's family has moved to the western frontier of Pennsylvania, and she misses her old home in Gettysburg. There are no girls her age on Hamilton Hill, and life is hard. But when the Hamiltons survive a terrible storm and receive a surprise ...



  • Patrick K. O'Donnell

    The thrilling story of the Airborne and Ranger troops that saw the worst of WWII action -- told for the first time in the voices of the soldiers themselves.From the first parachute drops in North Africa to the final battles in Germany, U.S. Ranger an...



  • Philip Ridley

    Ruskin Splinter is small and thin, with knock-knees, thick glasses and a squeaky voice, and the idea of him taming a dragon makes the whole class laugh. Big, strong Elvis is stupid but he looks like a hero. So who is more likely to get the big part i...



  • Elizabeth Benedict

    Almost, Elizabeth Benedict's fourth novel, is "her most spirited to date" (New York Times Book Review). Forty-something narrator Sophy Chase has just begun a lighthearted, romantically adventurous life in New York City when she learns that her almost...



  • Stephen Jones

    Enjoy some “good, slimy fun” with this horror anthology that pays tribute to H.P. Lovecraft’s eeriest creation -- featuring 16 “genuinely frightening” stories from Neil Gaiman, Ramsey Campbell, and more (San Francisco Chronicle).   Ins...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    Her passion is flying. As one of the best helicopter pilots in the naval reserves, Lieutenant Teri Howe is strong, dedicated, and highly skilled--until a past mistake surfaces, jeopardizing everything she's worked for. Rock steady Senior Chief Sta...



  • Marilyn Pappano

    A MAN WITH NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE Rebel. Hell-raiser. Seducer in blue jeans. Ben Foster has been called many things--except father. His twelve-year-old daughter Alanna has never seen him, and he's starting to think that coming to Bethlehem to meet h...



  • Jane Graves

    SHE PICKED THE WRONG MAN... On the run for a robbery she didn't commit, Rene Esterhaus is stuck in the middle of Texas with a broken car, and a sadistic bounty hunter hot on her trail. Desperate for a way out, Renee decides to make a promise she n...



  • Dean Wesley Smith; Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    "Save my child. Save Katie." Michael has been taken, kidnapped by a frantic father in a desperate move to save his dying daughter. Chad Newcomb is sure Michael was the one who performed last Christmas' miracle, healing ill children in a hospital. ...



  • Michael Ely

    When a rebellion threatens Sheng-ji Yang's dreams of immortality and Lady Deirdre Skye's life is at risk, thanks to the machinations of the Planetary Council, the two enter into an alliance to take on the forces that could destroy them both, with the...



  • Alice Borchardt

    The armies of Charlemagne are poised to conquer Italy. The human side of shapeshifter Maeniel owes allegiance to Charlemagne. But the wolf acknowledges no master. Still, it is as both wolf and man that he embarks on a hazardous mission for the empero...



  • William X. Kienzle

    UNHOLY DEATH For years, a little group of priests and nuns has struggled together to recover from the rule of virtual slavery imposed upon them by tyrannical Father Angelico, now thankfully gone to his reward. But for some of them the group is no ...



  • Valerie Wolzien

    GONE WITH THE WIND With a signed contract in hand for remodeling the grandest old house on the island, contractor Josie Pigeon figures her summer is made. But before she can lift a hammer, she finds her new employer--wealthy New Yorker Cornell Hud...



  • Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson

    As Shaddam sits at last on the Golden Lion Throne, Baron Vladimir Harkonnen plots against the new Emperor and House Atreides--and against the mysterious Sisterhood of the Bene Gesserit. For Leto Atreides, grown complacent and comfortable as ruler of ...



  • Ethan Black

    After a ten-year separation, Conrad Wort meets his childhood pal Meechum Keefe for drinks in Greenwich Village, and finds him frightened and depressed. Within hours, Meechum disappears--and the only clue Voort has is a napkin upon which Keefe has scr...



  • Sandra Brown

    When New York publisher Maris Matherly Reed receives a tantalizing manuscript from someone identified only as P.M.E, its blockbuster potential--and perhaps something else--compels her to meet its author. On an eerie, ruined cotton plantation on a rem...



  • Megan McCafferty

    "My parents suck ass. Banning me from the phone and restricting my computer privileges are the most tyrannical parental gestures I can think of. Don't they realize that Hope's the only one who keeps me sane? . . . I don't see how things could get any...



  • Orhan Pamuk

    The Nobel Prize winner and one of today's most prominent contemporary Turkish writers delivers a novel that is a fiendishly devious mystery, a beguiling love story, a brilliant symposium on the power of art, and a “modern classic … rich and essen...



  • Fran Manushkin

    In a new and very different approach to the traditional Hanukkah story, one family’s celebration of the joyous Jewish winter holiday is seen from the perspective of the family menorah! From the first night and the first candle, the menorah describe...



  • RH/Disney

    When Christopher Robin announces that Winter is coming, Pooh decides to throw a welcome party for the new visitor. Soon everyone in the Hundred -- Acre Wood is preparing for Winter's arrival -- that is, until Christopher Robin explains that winter is...



  • RH/Disney

    The King has invited everyone in the kingdom to a masked ball. Cinderella’s stepsisters don’t want her there, but Cinderella hopes to attend unnoticed. She has a wonderful time -- until everyone is asked to remove their masks!...



  • Irene Trimble

    Max and Emmy can’t wait to see the fireworks show in Dragon Land, but the stadium is far away. Max insists on taking a “shortcut” through a knuckerhole leading to Zak and Wheezie’s home, but their friends aren’t there. Suddenly the shortcut...



  • Margaret Snyder

    Max just loves dinosaurs! One day while in Dragon Land, he happens upon an egg that’s about to hatch. When it hatches and a baby dragon appears, Max wonders if maybe it just might be a baby dinosaur. Ord helps him figure out that it’s a baby drag...



  • Sarah Albee

    Cookie Monster is befuddled when his nephew, Little Max, doesn’t want any cookies. No cookies? How can this be? Maybe he’s not feeling well, or maybe he’s not hungry. But he is hungry for a healthy lunch of a sandwich and fruit. Cookie Monster ...



  • Allan Ahlberg

    Meet Bert.
    Say hallo to Bert.

    Bert is a friendly chap who has many strange and exciting adventures. For instance, one morning as he struggles to put on a shirt, Bert falls down the stairs, out the door, and into the back of a truck, which t...



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  • Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

    Pooh’s friends are searching the Hundred-Acre Wood for him. But where, oh where, is that silly old bear? Lift the flaps to discover lots of surprises along the way to finding the ever-lovable Winnie
    the Pooh!...



  • Mary Buff; Conrad Buff

    The year is 1291, and Walter is the twelve-year-old son of William Tell, the greatest bowman in the land of Uri. Walter lives happily in the remote heights of the Alpine Mountains, caring for his family’s goat herd and practicing his marksmanship i...



  • Joan Abelove

    For fans of Lurlene McDaniel, this is a heartwrenching chronicle of a teen girl's experiences with her mother's brain cancer, based on the author's own life

    Mindy has always relied upon her mother-to listen to her, to ease the tension between ...



  • Mark Todd

    What will you be for Halloween? Mark Todd answers that perennial question with eleven clever poems and illustrations.

    A mysterious mummy, groaning and moaning, bandaged from head to toe.
    What he looks like, only his mummy knows.

    A wi...



  • Rachel Isadora

    Paying homage to pop art masters Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Oldenburg, an alphabet book packs a good deal of punch with its bright depictions of everyday objects, from "airplane," to "Zing! Zoom! Zap!" Reprint....



  • Mary E. Lyons

    The mortals of Knockabeg have suffered through potato famines before, but never one caused by a Destruction Curse. Now the selfish faeries hold the fate of the village in their wee hands. Only they can defeat the silver-winged enemies who laid the cu...



  • C.L. Grace

    In the late summer of 1472, medieval physician and apothecary Kathryn Swinbrooke is summoned to investigate yet another puzzling situation in Canterbury. She is appointed by the Archbishop as Advocatus Diaboli-the Devil's Advocate-to argue against th...



  • John Maddox Roberts

    FOR THE SENATE AND PEOPLE OF ROME... They were evil times for the great Republic of Crassus and Pompey-- when vicious gangs ruled the streets, routinely preying on plebeian and patrician alike. So the garroting of a lowly ex-slave and the disembow...



  • Lisa Jahn-Clough / Lisa Clough

    Simon and Molly were the best of friends, just the two of them. Until Hester moved in. Hester doesn’t want to ride the two-wheeler, like they always do; she wants to make paper airplanes instead. And the toast Simon makes for her is too boring;...



  • Phillip Margolin

    A poster boy for the American Dream, former blue collar boy turned high-powered lawyer Daniel Ames is on easy street as an associate at Reed, Briggs, Portland's most prestigious law firm. Until one man...and one case...changes everything. When ...



  • Joseph Bruchac

    FRIGHTENING QUESTIONS, TERRIFYING ANSWERS... Ever since the morning Molly woke up to find that her parents had vanished, her life has become filled with terrible questions. Where have her parents gone? Who is this spooky old man who's taken her to ...



  • Lark Carrier

    Five little goblins on Halloween nightSaw a very, very scary sightThe first one saw...

    Follow these five trick-or-treating goblins as they sneak along on Halloween night. Each cleverly die-cut page reveals another piece of the spooky surpri...



  • Ken Baker

    Albert lies in bed one night. Goose bumps cover his hairy little arms. His fangs chatter with fright. Albert is sure there's a scary little girl lurking in his closet. He's convinced there's a mean little boy hiding under his bed. But when Albert'...



  • Stuart J. Murphy

    Captain Invincible and his intrepid space-dog, Comet, are on a perilous journey back to Earth!

    Throughout their mission, the fearless captain and his canine sidekick encounter asteroids, poisonous gas, and alien bei...



  • David Ives

    The Great And Glorious Coastal city of MacOongafoondsen (population twenty-one) lies sheltered from the world. Some citizens, like Fierfl the Tailor and Miss Darkniss the Candle Maker, have never even seen the sea. Then a ship washes up with a lon...




  • Michel Faber

    Michel Faber's short stories are markedly diverse-the voice of each is so distinct that the book reads like an anthology of different writers. But Faber's radically inventive style fastens all fifteen stories into a compelling collection deserving of...



  • Allison Samuels

    With original stories by Debbie Allen, Halle Berry, Jamie Foxx, Whitney Houston, D.L. Hughley, Monica, and more. In this collection of poignant and witty original stories, African American celebrities recount their favorite childhood Christmas memori...



  • Gary Jennings

    The third volume in Gary Jennings' historical epic that began with the Aztec and Aztec Autumn. Now comes the thrilling Aztec Blood.In this colorful and exciting era of swords and cloaks, upheaval and revolution, a young beggar boy, in whose blood run...



  • Robert S. Levinson

    Imagine This-Manhattan. December 8, 1980. 10:50 P.M.

    A crazed fan steps out of the shadows of the Dakota apartment building and shoots dead his idol, John Lennon. Young Niel Gulliver, an aggressive reporter, races to New York. He falls in with...



  • Mel Odom

    Edgewick Lamplighter (Wick to his friends) is a humble librarian in the isolated halls of Greydawn Moors until dreams of wanderlust and a bit of dereliction in his duties result in his being shanghaied to a far-off land.Captured by pirates, sold into...



  • Patricia Highsmith

    A major new reissue of the work of a classic noir novelist. With the acclaim for The Talented Mr. Ripley, more film projects in production, and two biographies forthcoming, expatriate legend Patricia Highsmith would be shocked to see that she has fin...



  • Margaret Watson

    Secret Agent Griff Fortune faced his greatest challenge when charged with the task of protecting Willa Simms. Her life was in his hands and to make certain she stayed alive, Griff moved her to a remote hideaway. Trapped together,Willa managed to pene...



  • Barry Unsworth

    Booker Prize-winning author Barry Unsworth's first novel, published for the first time in the United States. Foley and Moss are partners in a successful small business, making plaster pixies for the tourist trade. Foley is the artistic member of the ...



  • Robert Bausch

    At the heart of this compelling novel about why men act the way they do is the profound and affecting story of a family, of what tears them apart and what can bring them back together.
    Henry Porter's summer begins when his daughter Nicole-whom he...



  • Neil Philip

    These beautiful and tender lullabies combine Native American themes with universal concerns of parenthood. Collected from the Native American peoples of the Northeast (Ojibwa), the Plains (Arapaho, Kiowa, Pawnee, Crow), the Southwest (Hopi, Acoma, Yu...



  • Wendy Mould

    While reluctantly getting ready to go shopping with his mother, Jacob is happy to find creatures of all shapes and sizes in every piece of clothing because it causes one amusing delay after another. A first picture book....



  • Robert Skinner

    Autumn, 1940 -- Linda Blanc is found tortured to death in her Gentilly home. New Orleans' Police Sergeant Israel Daggett can't make anything of the black woman's death until a Treasury Agent arrives on the scene. He lets Daggett know that Linda was t...



  • Kris Nelscott

    It's a long, hot summer in 1968. After escaping Memphis with Jimmy, a ten-year-old boy who witnessed the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., P.I. Smokey Dalton hopes to start a new life in Chicago. Their new beginning is shattered by the events...



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  • Mercer Mayer

    Renowned author/illustrator Mercer Mayer presents his loveable characters in a Critter Christmas that's sure to be fun for everyone. In this classic, Little Critter is doing all he can to get ready for Christmas! From Building snow critters to visiti...



  • Mona Miller

    A scrapbook of Barbie's experiences on stage -- as a ballerina, actress, TV reporter, fashion model, and more. A picture frame magnet, with fun Barbie icons, is securely attached to the cover of the book....




  • Chris Bohjalian

    From the bestselling author of The Flight Attendant comes a thought-provoking story about gender, love, and new relationships.When Allison Banks develops a crush on Dana Stevens, she knows that he will give her what she need...



  • Dave Wolverton

    A cursed mummy looking for revenge . . .

    Alex O’Connell returns to Egypt for another exciting adventure that’s sure to please readers. It’s the fight of Alex’s life"and he’s determined to win....



  • Suzanne C. Johnson

    A frog goes from the backyard into the house and causes havoc in every room. With engaging sound effects, rhythmic text, and just the right amount of repetition, this is a fantastic family read-aloud. And Debbie Tilley's infectiously funny art shows ...



  • L.M. Lynch

    When a favorite climbing tree is mysteriously cut down from the town nature preserve, everyone begins whispering that the Holyfields, a new family in town, are the “tree-killers.” Laurel is at first devastated, but finds herself inexplicably draw...



  • Brian Wilcox

    For my birthday, Grandma sent me a crystal globe of the city where she lives. “If you look carefully, maybe you can see me,” she wrote. Late that night, I woke to find a full moon glowing in a starry sky. “To Grandma’s,” I shouted.

    S...



  • Kathleen Kane

    COULD SHE LIVE OUTSIDE THE LAW... Ridge Hawkins doesn't take the job of sheriff lightly -- and Tanglewood, Nevada's transformation from outlaw outpost to civilized small town is proof of his respect for the law. Ridge doesn't expect tr...



  • Clive Cussler

    It is July 2003. In the middle of its maiden voyage, the luxury cruise ship Emerald Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why didn't the alarms go off? What was its connection to the revolutionary new engines powering the ship? NUM...




  • Monique Peterson

    This cherished holiday classic takes readers on a nostalgic trip back to Toyland. Originally published as a Golden Book in 1961, Babes in Toyland features artwork created by Earl and Carol Marshall of the Disney Studios. Based on the operetta by Vict...



  • Disney Book Group

    Minnie is very excited becasue her good friends Agatha and Emilio Ruby are in town for a visit. But Mickey thinks the Rubys are up to no good. Ever since Emilio performed his magic act for some of the richest people in town, valuable jewels have been...



  • Stephen Chambers

    On a planet decimated by plague and political upheaval, young Vel has survived by living on his wits. A seasoned con man who has learned to think only of himself, Vel is forced to choose sides in a civil war. But the choice is made more complicated w...




  • Paula L. Woods

    Despite her education and training, Charlotte Justice has concluded that being a black female in the Los Angeles Police Department is no day at the beach. Instead, the elite homicide detective's days are filled with incompetence, bigotry, and the may...



  • Amy MacDonald

    A wild and funny celebration of individuality!

    Eleven-year-old Simon is mortified to discover that his eccentric Aunt Mattie -- with her mismatched shoes, huge flowered hat, and incorrigibly rude parrot, Runcible (whose favorite phrase is "Shu...



  • Katherine Kingsley

    The tale of a woman who scandalizes Victorian London ... and the man who'd follow her to the ends of the earth if it would make her love him .... As the port of Alexandria came into view, Portia Merriem trembled with excitement. Here she was, the ...



  • Marcia Talley

    The bride thought they'd live happily ever after -- until a murderer struck.... The guests were off the wall. The would-be groom was off the wagon. And the bride certainly wasn't blushing. Aside from that, it was the perfect occasion: a party f...



  • Robert Doherty

    THE ULTIMATE ENEMY. CAN'T BE SEEN. CAN'T BE STOPPED. EXCEPT BY THE COMMANDO CALLED .. . PSYCHIC WARRIOR. Bright Gate. HAARP. Remote Viewers. U.S. military operations so top secret that not even the president knew they existed. Now they have pr...



  • Mary Balogh

    Ferdinand Dudley is accustomed to getting what he wants...that is, until he appears at the door of Pinewood Manor, attempting to claim his rightful estate, and is met by the bewitching fury of Lady Viola Thornhill. She refuses to cede him the home sh...



  • Warren Adler

    Rules For The Second Wife: 1. It doesn't matter if you lie, cheat, or steal - get the ring. 2. See rule #1. Grace Sorentino has had better days. Her sixteen-year-old daughter is driving her crazy. Her bank account is lower than the tide. And she's ju...



  • Isobel Bird

    North and south and east and west, earth and fire, air and water, And the fifth path, center's spirit, on it walks the searching daughters. The five-pointed star is the Wiccan symbol of the Spirit, and that's how Cooper wears it. Those not vers...



  • Diana Wynne Jones

    It is eight years after the tours from offworld have stopped. High Chancellor Querida has retired, leaving Wizard Corkoran in charge of the Wizards' University. Although Wizard Corkoran's obsession is to be the first man on the moon, and most of his ...



  • Lolita Files

    Everybody knows everybody else's business in Downtown, Tennessee. Neighbors while away afternoons at the local bar, swapping rumors about voodoo, incest, and illegitimate children. Usually they're gossiping about the Boten clan. In this epic family ...



  • Kuwana Haulsey

    “The moon was red on the night my mother died. Fat, fairly bursting, as I remember, it rode so low in the sky that it grazed the backs of the leopards who hissed and spat and cursed it for interrupting the hunt. It caressed the thorny tips of th...



  • Kate Christensen

    From the author of the highly acclaimed In the Drink, a smart and sexy exploration of New York and its customs through the eyes of a disillusioned, yet secretly hopeful, gay man. Jeremy Thrane is a thirty-five-year-old writer in love with a marrie...



  • Robert Crais

    Three young men gunning for action rob a minimart in a sleepy suburb north of Los Angeles. When things get out of control, and with the police on their tail, they flee the scene and invade a home in an exclusive gated community, taking a panicked fam...



  • Michael Baisden

    The secret is out: Men have issues too! Derrick has a thriving business, good looks, and charisma to spare, but his success seems empty without a special lady to share it with. Tony was an unredeemable ladies' man until Tracie caught his heart. B...




  • Anne Rockwell

    Morgan Brownbear's new friend Nina Jane Monkey loves soccer so much that soon Morgan is sure he wants to play too. But soccer has a lot of rules, and Morgan keeps breaking the most important one of all: He can't seem to stop catching the ball with...



  • Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Hemlock Bay is the sixth novel in the FBI series, and I'm hoping it will make your hair stand on end. Meet Tammy Tuttle and start praying. She becomes the nemesis of FBI agent Dillon Savich. If this isn't enough, Savich learns that hi...



  • Cate Tiernan

    Wicca has changed my life. I've lost old friends, made new ones. Discovered my true heritage. Found love -- and betrayal. But there's so much more to learn. I know Wicca can be used for good or for evil. The hard part is knowing which is which. ...



  • Geraldine Brooks

    When an infected bolt of cloth carries plague from London to an isolated mountain village, a housemaid named Anna Frith emerges as an unlikely heroine and healer. Through Anna's eyes we follow the story of the plague year, 1666, as her fellow vil...



  • Bebe Moore Campbell

    Sweeping across fifty years of family, friendship, betrayal, and reconciliation, What You Owe Me is Bebe Moore Campbell's most ambitious achievement in storytelling. When Hosanna Clark -- a hotel maid in post-World War II Los Angeles -- first meets h...



  • Joanna Ferrone

    Angela Anaconda's friend Johnny Abatti has unlimited access to the best pizza in town. The pizza parlour is Angela's favourite hangout and is the setting for four adventures that feature ancient feuds, a cool baseball pitcher, an uncle who lets the f...





  • Pamela Conn Beall

    Picture a camel playing the clarinet and a squirrel on the sax. On each page a letter of the alphabet is pictured in both upper and lower case, and features an animal and instrument for that letter-Book and CD....




  • Pamela Mayer

    When Thea decides to dress as a monster for Halloween, her parents have totally different ideas for their daughter's costume, yet when her grandmother enters the picture, diplomacy is the key to everyone's happiness and satisfaction....






  • Pamela Conn Beall

    Travel under the sea for some fabulous fun with numbers. Meet colorful characters-from one giant whale to twelve tiny angelfish. Each page features a number that can be read aloud as children count that number of animals on the respective page, makin...



  • Jessica Spanyol

    This engaging story celebrates the joy of learning to read.

    "Carlo reads to Crackers the cat.
    Carlo reads with his friend Nevil.
    Carlo reads to a baby."
    Carlo the giraffe likes reading -- and wherever he goes, Carlo reads everything h...



  • Jerry Smath

    Maya dresses as a princess and her brother Tim as a knight, and the two join the other neighborhood children in a parade to show off all the different kinds of costumes and in other Halloween festivities....



  • Price Stern Sloan Publishing

    Bring the Scooby-Doo gang along for your Halloween adventures! Back for another round of MAD LIBS(r) fun, Scooby, Shaggy, and the rest of the gang team up with MAD LIBS(r) for their funniest Halloween adventures yet!...



  • Ruth Hearson

    This bright novelty book takes a look at all the weird and wonderful things that a busy grandmother knits for the residents of an entire town, complete with lift-the-flap pages and a removable paper hat....



  • Scott Sullivan

    This amazingly intricate maze book will delight puzzle fans of all ages as they make their way through each twist and turn. With original mazes featuring Halloween designs and other images appropriate for the season, this is a perfect gift for any pu...




  • Emma Darcy

    He wants her back -- on his terms... When hotshot financier Carver Dane attends a masked ball, he isn't expecting a fiery encounter with a woman who ignites the same compelling desire he once knew with Katie Beaumont.... Katie is stunned ...



  • Samrat Upadhyay

    From “a major new talent” come short stories set in modern Nepal, about arranged marriages, forbidden desires, and the universal yearning for human connection (Amitav Ghosh).   Set in a city where gods are omnipresent, privacy is elusive, an...



  • Upadhyay

    From the first Nepali author writing in English to be published in the West, Arresting God in Kathmandu brilliantly explores the nature of desire and spirituality in a changing society. With the assurance and unsentimental wisdom of a long-establishe...



  • Eileen Spinelli

    Having had a busy day scaring mice and swatting at yarn balls, Kittycat settles down to purr a drowsy purr and go to sleep, in a lyrical poem that will help little kitties and children drift into peaceful slumber....



  • Valery Leith

    In a land torn apart by evil and time, a woman warrior emerges as the only hope for survival...

    Everien is in chaos, ravaged by a voracious timeserpent that can tunnel through earth and time itself -- calling forth terrifying monsters from t...



  • Patrick Sanchez

    This wickedly witty, urbane novel tackles the ups and downs of female friendship, and the ultimate question for every young woman searching for the perfect job, apartment, and man--or woman--in the big city: What's a nice girl like you doing with a l...



  • Edwin Howard Simmons

    A Marine who wielded both pen and sword in a long, distinguished career captures the heroism and horror of the early days of the Korean War in this gripping novel. As a young man -- with his own experiences in the war still vivid in his mind -- Simmo...



  • Karen Kingsbury

    EVERYTHING IS ON THE LINE . . . for Faith Evans. an up-and-coming newscaster. A woman of honor and integrity, who finds herself making a stand against the one man she never imagined would be her enemy... . . . for Jordan Riley, a powerful attor...



  • Roslyn Carrington

    As Rory and Odile, childhood friends who were separated by a tragic event which changed their lives forever, lead separate lives, they realize that they are forever linked by the events of their past and when they finally confront each other, they fi...



  • Tracie Peterson

    WILL THE FAITH THAT HAS BROUGHT HER SO FAR SUSTAIN HER IN THE FACE OF TRAGEDY? When heartache and loss invade Karen Pierce's care-fully ordered world, she is devastated. Her plans and dreams for the future seem distant and unattainable, and she is...



  • Donna Hill

    After the sudden and tragic death of her parents, Cora Harvey has nothing left except her incredible voice and her dream to share it with the world. But her dream will never come true in Rudell, Mississippi, especially if she marries the man she ador...



  • Janette Oke

    Christine and her older brother, Henry, grew up in the Delaney family as loved and nurtured as if they had been born to Elizabeth and Wynn. Now adults, they are ready to make new lives for themselves. Henry has found love and is planning a wedding....



  • Joe Gores

    Ephrem Poteet is a dancing bear at Universal Studio's tourist trap--and a pickpocket on the side--until somebody puts a knife through his fur suit right up his gut. Even as the police search for Ephrem's beautiful Gypsy wife, the men and women of the...



  • Peter David

    While adjusting to being joined with Genis, the son of the original Captain Marvel, Rick Jones battles a Hyssta calling itself Captain Marvel and rescues Marlo from the Canadian woods, after which Moondragon and her father further complicate his life...



  • Sean K. Reynolds
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Discover the Power and Master the Art

    Magic pervades Faerun. This guide explores the hidden lore and secrets of magic in the Forgotten Realms game setting. From the history of magic to magical variants (including gem magic, spellfire, and the ...



  • Mick Farren

    Victor Renquist, centuries-old nosferatu leader, is called to England. Some archaeologists are excavating a burial mound, but what they will uncover is no Saxon warrior but the being once known as the Merlin. And he's not the kindly old duffer of The...



  • Judith Gould

    Valerie Rochelle is a successful veterinarian. But beneath her independent, self-sufficient façade is a lonely little girl who yearns for affection and love. Then, one stormy evening, she is called to a nearby estate to tend to an ailing horse. No o...



  • Anne Kelleher

    THE NOBLEMAN...OR THE HIGHWAYMAN? Lord Wentworth has brought his daughter Elizabeth to Ireland in 1718 to show her the country estate that will be her dowry upon marriage to a young Lord Neville. With the wedding only two weeks away, Lady Elizabe...



  • Mel Odom

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... The Witching Hour Los Angeles is stunned when a priest is attacked by a woman who confesses to having murdered her own son. At the same time, Angel Investigations turns up reports of a madwoman...



  • Christopher Golden

    Buffy Summers' adjustment to life at U.S. Sunnydale has not gone smoothly. She feels awkward, insecure, and a bit jealous that Willow's all over the college life. So when the spirit of deceased Slayer Lucy Hanover appears to Buffy in a dream with new...



  • Kathleen Taylor

    BLAME CANADA? Ample-bodied, salty-tongued waitress Tory Bauer is no longer taking orders from anyone -- now that she has become co-owner of the only cafe in tiny Delphi, South Dakota. And since corpses on the premises are bad for business, Tory is...



  • Dawn Miller

    From the author of the acclaimed frontier novel The Journal of Callie Wade comes a magnificent chronicle of courage, trial, and triumph... Montana Territory, 1864: Jack Wade had nothing to lose when he left the wagon train that carried his sister Ca...



  • Frank Roderus

    They thought he was too old to fight back. They thought he was too tired to care. They thought wrong. Old Jug had been a ranch hand for more years than even he could remember -- and he wasn't getting any younger. Though not as quick or tough as he u...



  • Angela Benson

    Award-winning author Angela Benson brings HeartQuest readers realistic characters, touching romance, and an inspirational faith plot. In this sequel to Awakening Mercy, Angela hits on the tough issues in life as a married couple struggles to rekindle...




  • Ralph Cotton

    In the sequel to Hangman's Choice, Deputy Sullivan Hart is delighted to have finally arrested J. T. Priest, leader of the outlaw gang Los Pistoleros and the man who had killed his father, but he is forced to head back into action when Priest ...




  • Melynda Beth Skinner

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