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New Books List: 531 titles

  • Bruja

    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...

  • The Burning Time

    Stephen Kenson

    Programmer Roy Kilaro dreams of becoming an elite corporation operative until a routine business trip to Boston plunges him into the battle between a group of 'runners, anti-elven terrorists known as the Knights of the Red Branch, and a sorcererss se...

  • Magic Like Heat Across My Skin

    Laurell K. Hamilton
    in

    Love, Supernatural Style Love is the universal language. And nowhere is this more apparent than in these extraordinary stories from four of today's hottest authors. From a futuristic cop caught in a crisis of the heart to a smoldering vision of a...

  • Prophecies

    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...

  • Bird's-Eye View

    J.F. Freedman

    Fritz Tullis has lived a little too hard, erred a little too frequently and now his plan to turn around a life gone wrong goes dangerously awry. Hiding out from the world after a failed affair in the cutthroat world of academia, he witnesses somethin...

  • Mourning Glory

    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...

  • Split Second

    Alex Kava

    They dubbed him the Collector, so named for his ritual of collecting victims before disposing of them in the most heinous ways possible. FBI Special Agent Maggie O'Dell tracked him for two years, finally ending their game of cat and mouse. Now Albert...

  • Doors into Chaos

    Robert Greenberger

    More than 200,000 years ago, the ancient Iconians created a network of interdimensional Gateways providing instantaneous transportation across unimaginable distances. Once known as the "Demons of Air and Darkness," the Iconians mysteriously vanished ...

  • House Harkonnen

    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 ...

  • Look to Windward

    Iain M. Banks

    Eight hundred years after the most horrific battle of the Idiran war, light from its catastrophic, worlds-destroying detonations is about to reach the Masaq' Orbital, home to the far-flung Culture's most adventurous and decadent souls. There it will ...

  • The Ties That Bind

    Jude Watson

  • A Suspension of Mercy

    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...

  • Augur's Teacher

    Sherwood Smith


    Cece Robin is a simple fourth-grade schoolteacher. A chance meeting with a splinter group of the Resistance changes her life. She would never dream of getting involved in their plot to assassinate the Taelon leader Zo'or she'd never kill anyone-n...

  • Brother John

    Rutledge Etheridge

    Hoping to join the Duelists, a group of the finest warriors ever produced by humankind, a rookie, a freak on his own planet, heads for the Academy, where he must confront a grueling series of tests in order to join and soon discovers that the price o...

  • The Chronoliths

    Robert Charles Wilson

    Scott Warden is a man haunted by the past--and soon to be haunted by the future. In early twenty-first-century Thailand, Scott is an expatriate slacker. Then, one day, he inadvertently witnesses an impossible event: the violent appearance of a 200...

  • Dragon Sun

    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...

  • Dreamcrusher

    Marilyn Kaye

    A sudden storm at an end-of-summer, back-to-school party sends Amy scrambling for coverâ€"but a bolt of lightning hits her as she runs. Next thing she knows, she wakes up in a hospital emergency room. Everything’s fine. Or is it? Suddenly Amy can h...

  • Empty Cities of the Full Moon

    Howard V. Hendrix

    Venturing into a universe different from where his previous novels -- Lightpaths, Standing Wave, and Better Angels -- were set, Howard V. Hendrix tackles one of life's most enduring questions: What does it mean to be human?In a dramatically altered n...

  • Essential X-Men, Volume 3

    Chris Claremont

  • Fantastic Four: Flesh and Stone

    Carlos Pacheco

    As Reed faces bankruptcy and Ben--the Thing--experiences great personal turmoil, they, along with Sue and Johnny, must fight to protect the world against supervillains including Diablo, Super Skrull, and the Grey Gargoyle....

  • The Free Lunch

    Spider Robinson

    PERIL IN PARADISE Under the facade of the world's finest theme park lies a secret which could alter the course of human history. Mike and Annie, refugees from the world outside, find a home underground, behind the scenes of Dreamworld, a theme pa...

  • Homefall

    Chris Bunch

    NO NEWS IS BAD NEWS Against all odds, the Legion has just restaked its claim on the volatile Cumbre star system--not an easy win. The isolated and highly outnumbered Legion had to fight this civil war guerrilla-style--and without any help from the h...

  • Master of Life and Death

    Robert Silverberg

    By the 23rd century Earth's population had reached seven billion. Mankind was in danger of perishing for lack of elbow room--unless prompt measures were taken. Roy Walton had the power to enforce those measures. But though his job was in the service...

  • Mission 6: Moon Racer

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Set in 2040, the Mars Diaries feature 14-year-old Tyce Sanders, the only child ever born on Mars. He lives under a dome on the red planet with 200 scientists and techies, including his mother, Kristy Sanders, a biologist and a believer. Tyce is confi...

  • Mission 7: Countdown

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Set in 2040, the Mars Diaries feature 14-year-old Tyce Sanders, the only child ever born on Mars. He lives under a dome on the red planet with 200 scientists and techies, including his mother, Kristy Sanders, a biologist and a believer. Tyce is confi...

  • Mission 8: Robot War

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Set in 2040, the Mars Diaries feature 14-year-old Tyce Sanders, the only child ever born on Mars. He lives under a dome on the red planet with 200 scientists and techies, including his mother, Kristy Sanders, a biologist and a believer. Tyce is confi...

  • The Mutant Files

    Multiple Authors

    Traces the sometimes offbeat paths of human evolution in sixteen original tales of genetic mutation, evolutionary errors, and superhuman powers by such authors as Charles de Lint, Tanya Huff, and Alan Dean Foster....

  • No Good Deed

    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. ...

  • Planet of the Apes

    William T. Quick

    Trillions of miles from an Earth in political and ecological turmoil, Captain Leo Davidson has crash landed on a different world -- a terrifying place where people are in chains...and apes rule. Here, beneath twin suns, humans are lower creatures to ...

  • The Procedure

    Harry Mulisch

    Internationally renowned novelist Harry Mulisch's The Procedure is a haunting and fascinating novel about two men who try to create life but fail. In the late sixteenth century, Rabbi Jehudah Löw, in order to guarantee the safety of the Jews in Prag...

  • Project Aura

    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...

  • Second Chances

    Susan Shwartz

    In a departure for this very well-reviewed fantasist, Susan Shwartz has returned to her science fiction roots with a riveting novel of honor and its loss, love and its betrayal, and the exploration of what it means to be a true hero. What Susan Shwar...

  • The Star Fraction

    Ken MacLeod

    WINNER OF THE PROMETHEUS AWARDBritain in the 21st century is a Balkanized mess. Moh Kohn is a security mercenary unaware that he holds the key to information which could change the world. Janis Taine is a scientist who needs Mohs help. And a rogue co...

  • All the Dead Were Strangers

    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...

  • Betrayed

    Rosey Dow; Andrew Snaden

    Laura McIvor is living a lie. The daughter of parents incarcerated for selling computer technology secrets, she is living under an assumed name, trying to make a life for herself--alone. But when it's discovered that the software her father sold harb...

  • Black Water Transit

    Carsten Stroud

    Jack Vermillion is seeing red. So is Earl V. Pike. So is a smart, beautiful NYC detective named Casey Spandau. For Jack, it began when Earl asked for a little favor--one former soldier to another. With Jack's son in serious trouble with the law and h...

  • Company of Thieves

    Gil Roscoe

    One Last Con... Ex-grifter Warren Allison has it all. A legit job, cash in the bank, and a loving girlfriend. His whole future is ahead of him--until a shady woman from his past offers him the con of a lifetime. But Warren's about to learn, the ha...

  • The Da Vinci Deception

    Thomas Swan

    Celebrated thriller writer Thomas Swan introduces Scotland Yard Inspector Jack Oxby in The Da Vinci Deception -- an exhilarating thriller set in the art world. Racing from London to New York to Lake Como, Inspector Oxby is on the hunt for an art forg...

  • Drummer in the Dark

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Wynn Bryant is an ordinary man given an extraordinary opportunity. He's been tapped by his brother-in-law, the new governor of Florida, to replace fallen Congressman Graham Hutchings. Bryant has one single duty: help overthrow Hutchings's pet legisla...

  • The Grand Complication

    Allen Kurzweil

    Penzler Pick, August2001: Most avid readers love everything about books--not only the words,but also the paper, the edition, the age, the texture of the binding, all ofwhich become part of the fascination for the printed word that makes a truebibliop...

  • Hostage

    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...

  • The Huntsman

    Whitney Terrell

    The "searing" ("New York Times" Book Review) first novel by Whitney Terrell, author of" The Good Lieutenant" A "New York Times "Notable Book When a young debutante's body is pulled from the Missouri River, the inhabitants of Kansas City-a metropolis ...

  • Junior's Leg

    Ken Wells

    Fifteen years after he tormented fellow students at Catahoula Bayou School, Junior Guidry is broke, drunk, one-legged, and living in a wreck of a trailer on the edge of a snake-infested swamp. He's survived an oil-rig accident that would've killed mo...

  • The Last Vampire

    Whitley Strieber

    Miriam Blaylock knows the secrets of civilization, the mysteries of life--and the agony of undeath. For centuries she has traveled the world undetected. Until now. Interpol agent Paul Ward has cleansed continents of vampires, orchestrated the extermi...

  • Lonely Quest // The Search for Love

    Claire Lorrimer

    At seventeen, beautiful green-eyed Beverly Bampton knew just what she wanted. She was madly in love with Jonnie Colt and dreamt of nothing more than being his wife, lover and best friend. And once she became mother of his five children, their world w...

  • Lost Soldiers

    James Webb

    Brandon Condley went to Vietnam and never quite came home. Instead, he fought and lost a war, loved and lost a woman, and fell in love with a country he could not save. Now Condley has returned to the teeming, tangled world of postwar Vietnam to sear...

  • Miami Twilight

    Tom Coffey

    Tom Coffey's The Serpent Club was hailed as "hypnotic" (Publishers Weekly). Now, he returns with this sultry tale of sudden violence, overpowering lust, and brutal retribution -- all under the shadows of a Miami Twilight. Slick public-relations exec...

  • Minutes to Burn

    Gregg Hurwitz

    In the year 2007 the world is not what it was... Powerful earthquakes and hurricanes have left most of South America in ruins--and solar rays pouring down through holes in the depleted ozone layer can burn human flesh to a crisp in minutes. An imp...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Playing for Keeps from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.          Rose Ann can’t believe her good luck. Her grandm...

  • The Red Room

    Nicci French

    The first time London police psychiatrist Kit Quinn interviews a homeless sexual predator named Michael Doll, he slashes her face with a broken mug. Months later, after the emotionally vulnerable Kit is asked to question Doll about the killing of a t...

  • Secrets

    Melinda Metz

    Rae Voight has a problem. Thoughts are running through her mind that aren't hers. Is she going crazy? Or could something else-something even stranger -- be going on? As Rae unravels the mystery of where these thoughts are coming from, she also unlock...

  • The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith

    Patricia Highsmith

    The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith presents five of Highsmith's classic short story collections in a single masterful volume. Compelling, twisted, and fiercely intelligent, this landmark collection showcases Highsmith's mastery of the shor...

  • Angel Face

    Suzanne Forster

    She looks like she's from heaven. But she's leading him straight to hell... They call her Angel Face. She is as beautiful as her killings are brutal. Her victims are doctors. Her list of targets is long. And Jordan Carpenter is next. The CIA...

  • Envy

    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...

  • Guarding Jane Doe

    Harper Allen

    RENEGADE HEARTS If he hadn't received a letter from a dead woman who'd once saved his life, Quinn McGuire wouldn't have agreed to help a frightened Jane Doe to honor his unpaid debt. As her 24-hour protector, this burned-out soldier for hire would g...

  • His Only Desire

    Adrianne Lee

    HER ONLY HOPE For Desire Hamilton, the mysterious death of her twin sister had left too many questions unanswered...and one obsessed stalker intent on claiming her as his own. Scared and alone, Desire had no place to turn -- until her old flame, h...

  • Hot Blooded

    Lisa Jackson

    FIRST ONE BODY... A prostitute lies strangled in a seedy French Quarter hotel room. Miles away, in a rambling plantation house on the sultry shores of Lake Ponchartrain, popular late-night radio host Dr. Samantha Leeds receives a threatening crank...

  • The Man from Texas

    Rebecca York

    HE HAD COWBOY CHARISMA THAT OUGHTA BE CRIMINAL He'd woken up weeks ago in a seedy hotel room -- with no memory and a suitcase filled with cash. "Luke" knew nothing of his past, the money, or the killers who wanted it back. But with the reflexes of...

  • Over the Edge

    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...

  • Sacred Love

    Shelby Lewis

    Hidden Passion Stunned by her husband's unforgivable betrayal, art gallery owner Miranda Evans walked away from their upper-class life. Now, she wanders the back roads of Oklahoma as an itinerant artist, determined to stay free of commitments--and ...

  • Season of Storms

    Susanna Kearsley

    In the early 1900s, in an elegant, isolated villa called Il Piacere, the playwright Galeazzo D'Ascanio lived for Celia Sands. She was his muse and his mistress, his most enduring obsession. She was the inspiration for his most stunning, original ...

  • The Tempted

    Amanda Stevens

    FORBIDDEN LOVER The frightened woman standing before millionaire Jared Spencer hardly looked like the housekeeper's spirited daughter who'd once captured his heart then betrayed him. But the moment their gazes met, he felt the same fiery, forbidde...

  • The Widow

    Anne Stuart

    Aristide Pompasse is dead. But the evil in the great artist's soul still haunts the vineyards and lurks in the corners of his Tuscan villa. Known as much for his fabulous portraits as his penchant for young mistresses, Pompasse had not let anyone go ...

  • The Blue Devil

    Melynda Beth Skinner

    On the hunt for a spy, he found love instead... NO MISSION HAD EVER BEEN AS TEMPTING... When Kathryn St. David arrives in London for a season under her formidable aunt Ophelia's patronage, her first surprise is a masked ball in honor of her a...

  • Dear Impostor

    Nicole Byrd

    Dear stranger... There's only one way for Miss Psyche Hill to gain control of her inheritance: marriage. Unfortunately, potential suitors have been run off by her uncle, who would like nothing better than to keep Psyche's money in the famil...

  • The Incomparable Miss Compton

    Regina Scott

    He sought the perfect wife -- until love broke all the rules. AN INDEPENDENT LADY Tired of being beholden to relatives, Sarah Compton jumped at the chance to gain a life of her own -- even if, in exchange, she had to guide her beautiful, headstro...

  • Lord Huntington's Legacy

    Emily Hendrickson

    Counting on Fate Shortly before his death, the Earl of Huntingdon altered his will--leaving the bulk of his fortune to his distant cousin, Marcus. Now the earl's daughter, Charis, is virtually penniless-and absolutely heartbroken. Her only hop...

  • The Missing Brides

    Cindy Holbrook

    WHO NEEDS A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE... For Matthew Severs, Earl of Raleigh, a marriage of convenience--to a bride with the funds he so sorely lacks--is the only sensible course of action. What's become quite inconvenient, however, is the way his pro...

  • The Scent of Lilacs

    Barbara Hazard

    Apparitions Siblings Katharine and Edwin Whittingham have just inherited a mansion from a great-uncle they never met. But before Edwin can sign the deed to Bryce House, his uncle's will requires him to spend one full month there, nights included....

  • The Sinister Spinster

    Carolyn Madison

    Affairs of State spark and affair of the heart... A PASSIONATE SPIRIT... Adam Darrach, Marquess of Falconer, is on a mission to enlist the wealthy Earl of Derring's support for a diplomatic cause. Duty has its limits, however, and spending time w...

  • The Spanish Bride

    Amanda McCabe

    Star-Crossed Lovers It has been six years since Carmen de Santiago y Montero, a Spanish countess, and Peter Everdean, Earl of Clifton, fell desperately in love on a Spanish battlefield. With only a soldier as witness, the two were blissfully marr...

  • Dates, Double Dates and Big, Big Trouble

    Karen McCombie

    Ally's feeling inadequate. Why is it that her only romantic experience amounts to a burping-in-mouth scenario with Keith Brownlow? Kyra's only been in Crough End two seconds and she's got a boyfriend already! Even Ally's dad seems to be 'dating'-whic...

  • The Free Fall

    Jane Ratcliffe

    When her family begins to fall apart, sixteen-year-old Let is torn between two interesting and unconventional boys, as she slides into the dark side of alcohol, illegal drugs, and sexual activity in the wealthy suburbs of Detroit. A first novel....

  • Gracelin O'Malley

    Ann Moore

    Trapped in a loveless marriage to the cruel local English landlord, Gracelin O'Malley becomes caught up in the political unrest that sweeps across Ireland in the wake of a devastating famine, risking everything to aid the desperate and starving peopl...

  • The Highwayman

    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...

  • Letters to Cupid

    Francess Lantz / Francess Lin Lantz

    All I can do is wait and hope that someday soon my Secret Admirer will walk up and introduce himself. And when he does, Cupid, I hope your arrow will be ready. Bridgette's heart is set on falling in love--if only she could figure out what love is!...

  • The Chalon Heads

    Barry Maitland

    When Scotland Yard detectives David Brock and Kathy Kolla are summoned to Cabot's, a venerable dealer of rare stamps, they expect a simple case of theft and a pleasant digression from the usual sort of wrongdoing encountered in the Serious Crimes Bra...

  • Definitely Deceased

    Roderic Jeffries

    Alvarez was reluctant to help Miguel Munar, suspected of smuggling. And trouble did indeed blossom. There was the man who had to be identified if Munar were to escape arrest, but he had vanished; there was the headless, handless corpse which was foun...

  • Fire Angels

    Christine Green

    A young woman is found hanging from a noose in a burnt-out barn . . . but who is she?

    Sara Bolten is the wife of a headmaster, mother of a baby son -- she has abandoned them both. Marie is a London-based prostitute, who has also recently given birt...

  • The Forgotten

    Faye Kellerman

    Rina Lazarus and her husband, LAPD Homicide Lieutenant Peter Decker, are shocked by an outrage that cuts close to the spiritual heart of their family. Rina's small storefront synagogue has been desecrated with anti-Semitic graffiti and grisly Nazi de...

  • Hemlock Bay

    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...

  • Interlude in Death

    J.D. Robb
    in

    In early spring of 2059, Lieutenant Eve Dallas is called off-planet to face a grueling ordeal - giving a seminar at the largest police conference of the year, to be held in a swanky resort. A resort which just happens to be owned by her husband, Roar...

  • Maggody and the Moonbeams

    Joan Hess

    A youth trip turns deadly, and Chief of Police Arly Hanks must catch the killer while serving as chaperone, in this hilarious small-town mystery. Arly Hanks has caught all sorts of killers since she returned home to Maggody, Arkansas, population 759,...

  • Money, Money, Money

    Ed McBain

    It slips through the hands of a lady Gulf War pilot, a careless second-story man, a pair of angry Mexicans, and two shady Secret Service agents. Detectives Steve Carella and Fat Ollie Weeks are unwrapping the mysteries behind the body that was fed to...

  • Paradise Lost

    J.A. Jance

    One late night in the Arizona wilderness, two young girls stumble across something they should not see. Now both will have to pay. The desecrated body of a missing Phoenix heiress lies naked, lifeless, and abandoned in the desolate beauty and lone...

  • Sex and Murder.Com

    Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    Craig Lenzati, the rich and powerful CEO of Chicago's answer to Microsoft, is found brutally murdered with stab wounds all over his body. The murder is reported anonymously, and a quick and quiet resolution to the case is demanded by City Hall. Meanw...

  • Sleepyhead

    Mark Billingham

    Detective Inspector Tom Thorne now knows that three murdered young women were a killer's mistakes -- and that Alison was his triumph. And unless Thorne can enter the mind of a brilliant madman -- a frighteningly elusive fiend who enjoys toying with t...

  • Stormy Weather

    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...

  • Across a Moonswept Moor

    Julie Moffett

    A Love Match An enchanted dagger bearing a mysteriously familiar inscription pointed Fiona Chancellor to Ireland in search of her missing cousin. Then a midnight visit to Celtic holy ground slid her into the seventeenth-century--and into the arms ...

  • Dark Fire

    Christine Feehan

    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light... "THERE IS ALWAYS A PRICE TO PAY." So Darius warned her when she accepted a position with his traveling troupe. And gazing mesmerized at the merciless s...

  • The Enchantment

    Pam Binder

    Eilen Dougan, a modern-day woman with uncanny psychic talents, is drawn back to fourteenth-century Scotland and into the middle of a power struggle between Crusader Conor McCloud and his cousin, who has seized control of Inverness, the McCloud castle...

  • Grand Design

    Karen Fox

    The historic Chesterfield Hotel once offered visitors the graceful charm of its sumptuous rooms and the healing waters of its nearby hot springs. In the present day, as five people unearth the hotel's century-old hope chest, each will be transported ...

  • Immortality

    Maggie Shayne
    in

    Love, Supernatural Style Love is the universal language. And nowhere is this more apparent than in these extraordinary stories from four of today's hottest authors. From a futuristic cop caught in a crisis of the heart to a smoldering vision of a...

  • The Wolf King

    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...

  • Death on a Casual Friday

    Sharon Duncan

    She has a sailboat docked on San Juan Island, a maritime attorney for a lover, and a flourishing career as a private eye. Life is as good as it gets for Scotia Mackinnon. But there's that destiny thing. This time her name's Elyse Montenegro, a parano...

  • Smoke-Filled Rooms

    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...

  • Enemy Within

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    New York: The city erupts in chaos when a black man is shot in the back by an NYPD "golden boy" street cop. As chief assistant district attorney Butch Karp soon discovers, certain higher-ups would rather whitewash the truth than lose votes in the upc...

  • The One That Got Away

    Naomi Rand

    It may be the hottest summer in New York history, but for forty-year-old Brooklynite Emma Price, the heat is only starting to rise. After a dozen years, her husband is bailing on their marriage. To complicate matters, she's pregnant again. The her lo...

  • Gargoyles

    Alan Nayes

    In the tradition of Robin Cook and Richard Preston, Alan Nayes has written an absorbing, terrifying novel about what happens when human beings have the ability to save their own lives … but only by changing the face of humanity. Brilliant pre-me...

  • Cases

    Joe Gores

    Seeking the freedom of the roads in the 1950s, Notre Dame graduate Pierce Duncan finds strange, fateful meetings: with a redneck guard on a Georgia chain gang, with a killer on a lonely Texas road, with a corrupt Los Angeles cult leader, and with a h...

  • A Golden Trail of Murder

    John Paxson

    Montana winters are cold, icy and unforgiving. But when a tough old rancher freezes to death in the teeth of a savage Montana blizzard, only his grandson believes it was murder. He enlists the help of former newshound and sometimes-carpenter Ben Trip...

  • The Scam of the Screwball Wizards

    Bill Myers

    Are There Really Such Things as Witches and Wizards? What's going on in the abandoned theater on the outskirts of Midvale? Have monsters really invaded Mrs. Tubbs' home? Is Slobs, the trusted bloodhound, next? Likeable, easy-going Bear isn't ...

  • Unwanted Inheritance

    Glen Ebisch

    When Heather Martinson, a professional interior painter, takes on the job of redecorating the dining room of the Compton House for the new owners, she quickly discovers that the job involves more risks than just choosing the wrong paint color. The...

  • Wave and Die

    Stella Whitelaw

    In the sequel to Pray and Die, off-the-wall private investigator Jordan Lacey has progressed to cases of an entirely different class: from missing tortoises to stolen water lilies and vandalism at the Women's institute. But Sussex wives will be carel...

  • The Wolf Girls

    Jane Yolen; Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple

    In this eerie book from the nonfiction An Unsolved Mystery from History picture book series, travel to an Indian orphanage where two new arrivals are so wild that some claim they were raised by wolves.In 1920 a missionary brought two young girls to a...

  • The Associate

    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 ...

  • Billy Strobe

    John Martel

    Ambition and intelligence carry Billy Strobe to the top of his law school class and into a stock market scam gone south. After a stint at a high-security prison, he finally takes on the fight of his life: clearing the names of the two men he respects...

  • Suspicion of Vengeance

    Barbara Parker

    Years ago, the brutal murder of a young wife and mother rocked the quiet coastal town of Stuart, Florida, and a local troublemaker was sentenced to death for the crime. Now new evidence has come to light, and Miami attorney Gail Conner agrees to take...

  • Arresting God in Kathmandu

    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...

  • Amarantha

    Melanie Jackson

    "O, I forbid ye, maidens a', that wear gold in your hair, To come or go by Carterhaugh, for young Tamlane is there." 'Twas not Robert Burns's legendary elfin knight who greeted Amarantha upon her arrival at her folklorist...

  • As Good As Gold

    Bronwyn Williams
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    Bestselling authors Susan Mallery, Bronwyn, and Carolyn Davidson bring you three brand-new stories about Montana's most popular family -- the Kincaids, men and women who carved out lives in Big Sky Country and found true love in Whitehorn, Montana. ...

  • Ashes and Ice

    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...

  • Celtic Bride

    Margo Maguire

    Chivalry Demanded He Cherish And Protect Any Woman In Need Yet Marcus de Grant had never felt this more strongly than when he laid eyes upon Keelin O'Shea. Though driven by a sense of honor to rival his own, this Irish princess was sore in need of...

  • A Companion of Quality

    Nicola Cornick

    A young woman disappears. A husband is suspected of murder. Stirring times for all the neighborhood. When Captain Lewis Brabant returned from the open sea, all thought he meant to choose a bride. As eligible females readied to meet the dashing Cap...

  • The Conquest

    Edith Layton

    A heart must be won...and cherished A BODY BROKEN Many times Alexandria Gascoyne has been called upon to nurse forest animals back to health-but never before have her brothers brought her a wounded man! Though pale and grievously injured, the unc...

  • Devil in a Kilt

    Sue-Ellen Welfonder

    Hell was never so sweet... A FIERY ANGEL, A COLDHEARTED DEVIL, AND A MARRIAGE HOTTER THAN HELL! Linnet MacDonnell was the youngest of seven sisters, and not the family beauty. With her flame-bright red hair, sharp tongue, and strange gift of s...

  • Eagle Dancer

    Theresa (1) Scott

    Bound and helpless, the blue-eyed prisoner is an enemy of her people. One who is going to die. But his powerful gaze tells Hope his spirit is strong, and suddenly she knows this man has a part in her future. Baron's will to live had fled during the C...

  • Enemies of the Heart

    Susan Grace

    A WILD DAUGHTER Daughter of an infamous lady sea pirate and a swashbuckling nobleman, Diana Grayson is a free-spirited beauty who happily defies convention. But she never thought she'd find herself running from the law, until an accidental shooting ...

  • The Gamble

    Carolyn Davidson
    in

    Bestselling authors Susan Mallery, Bronwyn Williams, and Carolyn Davidson bring you three brand-new stories about Montana's most popular family -- the Kincaids, men and women who carved out lives in Big Sky Country and found true love in Whitehorn, M...

  • An Honorable Thief

    Anne Gracie

    To Catch A Thief The dashing Mr. Hugo Devenish had come to London on an important mission: to prevent his innocent nephew from marrying an unsuitable young heiress. He'd never expected to be trounced upon by the most infamous thief in town! ...

  • Just West of Heaven

    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...

  • A Lady's Mischief // The No Good Irresistible Viscount Tipton

    Barbara Pierce

    A Man's Heart Fifteen years ago, a strange twist of fate made Rayne Wyman both the Viscount Tipton and a notorious outcast. Now a practicing surgeon, even Rayne's vow of revenge has not tempted him to reenter the polite world, and he is certain that...

  • The Lawman Takes a Wife

    Anne Avery

    Big And Tall -- And Bashful Sheriff DeWitt Gavin was quite an assortment of surprises to merchant Molly Calhan. Saddled with a scandalous past and a giant-size sweet tooth, he also had a truly giving heart. Now if only she could convince him to g...

  • Lilies on the Lake

    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 ...

  • The Loner

    Evelyn Rogers

    In the midst of the vast, windswept Texas plains stands a ranch wrested from the wilderness with blood, sweat and tears. It is the shining legacy of Thomas McBride to his five living heirs. But along with the fertile acres and herds of cattle, each w...

  • Lord of the Plains

    Velda Sherrod

    To save her sister, saloon singer Kate Hartland plays the hundred-dollar whore. Trembling in her innocence, she seduces a handsome outsider who appears safe, kind, and Irish. But the virile stranger turns out to be anything but safe. He awakens a dan...

  • Lottie and the Rustler

    Linda Lea Castle

    Single women weren't permitted to live in the charter town of McTavish Plain, in the North Dakota Territory. So the three Green sisters invented husbands! But Addie, Charlotte, and Mattie never reckoned on the loves that awaited them in the wild ...

  • Love Only Once

    Brenda K. Jernigan

    BITTER BETRAYAL Elizabeth Trent knew she was meant to marry Jonathan Hird, the dashing soldier who had miraculously returned from war, wounded but alive. And though his kisses thrilled her and his tender touch made her feel completely loved, she was...

  • A Most Unseemly Summer

    Juliet Landon

    MORE THAN A GUARDIAN! Sir Leon Gascelin was completely unprepared for Lady Felice Marwelle's arrival to oversee the final preparations to her family's new home. The handsome surveyor knows he must take drastic steps to prevent her from distracting...

  • My Wicked Earl

    Linda Needham

    A DANGEROUS LORD Forced to live with her enemy! Hollie Finch is horrified when the forbidding Earl of Everingham Lord Charles Stirling, places her under house arrest in his manor. Well, he may suspect her of sedition, but to her it's just freedom ...

  • No Man's Mistress

    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...

  • Spirit of the Wolf

    Susan Mallery
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    Bestselling authors Susan Mallery, Bronwyn Williams, and Carolyn Davidson bring you three brand-new stories about Montana's most popular family -- the Kincaids, men and wom...

  • A Stranger's Kiss

    Maria Greene

    Against the glittering opulence and lush intrigue of Georgian England, passion and adventure go hand in hand--and gentlemen with secrets go to daring lengths to claim the hearts of the women they love. THE FACE OF A STRANGER When Rafe Howard ret...

  • Summer Moon

    Jill Marie Landis

    RANCHER SEEKING WIFE. For Kate Whittington, the modest words of a newspaper ad are the answer to her prayers. She has no prospects in the unforgiving Maine village of her birth and correspondence from the lonely Texas widower sparks tempting dreams o...

  • To Wed a Viscount

    Adrienne Basso

    HER DESPERATE PROPOSAL When pampered Faith Linden's father and her titled fiance, Viscount Dewhurst, die, she suddenly finds herself in a desperately precarious position. The only way Faith can hold on to her beloved family home is to convince...

  • An Unlikely Lady

    Rachelle Morgan

    WHO IS HONESTY MCGUIRE? That's what undercover Pinkerton agent Jesse Justiss wants to know. Honesty claims to be a helpless innocent alone in the big bad West -- but Jesse's been conned by the best of 'em...and this sassy beauty is the best he's e...

  • The Very Daring Duchess

    Miranda Jarrett

    Escaping the invasion of Napoleon's army, Francesca Robin seeks to flee Italy on an English ship. When Francesca--an artist whose risque paintings are much desired by wealthy gentlemen buyers--learns of Admiral Lord Nelson's decree that no lady may g...

  • Viking Pride

    Darlene Mindrup

    Viking raids and political turmoil mark Arietta's early years, but after King Alfred defeats the Norsemen, relative peace settles over her small coastal village. Promised in marriage to Edwynn, the village smith, Arietta is content to spend her days ...

  • When Tomorrow Comes

    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....

  • White Lion's Lady

    Tina St. John

    In this captivating tale of forbidden love and star-crossed destiny by award-winning author Tina St. John, a dangerous knight on a rogueââ,¬â"˘s mission is reunited with the virtuous young lady who once adored him. . . .

    She was promised to a...

  • The Widow's Little Secret

    Judith Stacy

    Lawman Jared McQuaid Was At The End Of His Rope! Mattie Ingram -- the love of his life and the mother of his child -- was the most stubborn, independent, contrary woman in Nevada. And in the lonely months since he'd seen her, he'd discove...

  • Wolf at the Door

    Cindy Harris

    Victorian Dublin comes to life in Cindy Harris' delightful new quartet featuring four unforgettable ladies--all left penniless and without a shred of self-esteem. Brought together in friendship by a gentlemanly benefactor, each will find the courage ...

  • Ambrosial Flesh

    Mary Ann Mitchell

    Jonathan has always been very spiritual...in his own way. He was raised to believe in the sacraments, and even as a child his favorite was always Communion, the eating of the body of Christ. Since he was taught that we are all made in the image of Go...

  • Candle Bay

    Tamara Thorne

    DARK SECRET Perched on a fog-shrouded hillside high above an isolated California coastal town, the once-opulent inn was neglected for decades. Now restored to its former glory and filled with well-heeled guests, The Candle Bay Hotel and Spa owes its...

  • Friday Night in Beast House

    Richard Laymon

    When Mark and Alison sneak into Beast House, a place once home to unspeakable acts of brutality and murder, they soon discover that the gruesome legends surrounding this evil place are real. Original. 200,000 first printing....

  • Ghost Soldier

    Elaine Marie Alphin

    The ghost of a young soldier from the Civil War haunts a troubled teen."I sat up. The jagged trenches were only soft grassy depressions in the sunny battlefield park. I felt tears burn my eyes, the relief was so strong, and then the misery of losing ...

  • Ghostkiller

    Scott Chandler

    He killed with great cunning, greater brutality, and no mercy. His spree of terror seemed unstoppable until his execution six weeks ago at the hands of the cop who tracked him down. Detective Harry Paladin believed the worst was over. He believed the...

  • House of Pain

    Sephera Giron

    The house looks so normal. Just a charming home in a small town--perfect for a young couple starting out together. But this house was built on the site of an unspeakable series of murders, butchery so savage that the brick walls of the basement seeme...

  • More Than Mortal

    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...

  • Night of the Bat

    Paul Zindel

    When Indian workers begin to disappear from an expedition into the Amazon, fifteen-year-old Jake fears that his father, a bat biologist, is in great danger. Against his dad's wishes, Jake flies to Brazil and joins his father's research team, working ...

  • No Survivors

    R.L. Stine

    Twelve ultra-smart, ultra-competitive kids have been selected to take part in a survival competition called Life Games.Not only will they have to overcome the dangers of life on a tropical island, they'll also have to face the evil presence that live...

  • Shadows over Innsmouth

    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...

  • Skeleton Man

    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 ...

  • Death Is in the Air

    Kate Kingsbury

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Comp...

  • Face Down Before Rebel Hooves

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    The Rebellion of 1569 gains another player as the intrepid Susanna, Lady Appleton, infiltrates a ring of conspirators in an effort to thwart a plot to overthrow Queen Elizabeth's monarchy... The moment her friend Sir Walter Pendennis comes to call...

  • A Few Minutes Past Midnight

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Toby Peters is an unusual private eye. He's already cracked cases involving Humphrey Bogart, the Marx Brothers, John Wayne and Mae West, and now is gumshoeing for the celebrated screen star Charlie Chaplin. Welcome to Hollywood. Chaplin has cause...

  • The Great Game

    Michael Kurland

    Labeled the "Napoleon of Crime" by an obsessed Sherlock Holmes, Professor James Moriarty is a prominent scientist, a keen analytical mind, and a dabbler in less than savory doings. Two friends and former associates of Moriarty - Benjamin Barnett and ...

  • The Jewel of the North

    Peter King

    From critically acclaimed author Peter King-a brand-new historical mystery series featuring Jack London, the legendary adventurer and author of The Call of the Wild. In his early days as a struggling writer, Jack lived on San Francisco's infamous Bar...

  • Pale Shadow

    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...

  • Saintly Murders

    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...

  • SPQR // The King's Gambit

    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...

  • The Tinner's Corpse

    Bernard Knight

    A decapitated body, a missing person, a devastating betrayal…1195. When county coroner Sir John de Wolfe is summoned to the bleak Devonshire moors to investigate the murder of a tin miner, he has little idea how difficult this new investigation wil...

  • Brother of the Dragon

    Paul B. Thompson; Tonya Cook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    On the ancient plains of Krynn arise new perils. The village of Yala-tene is flourishing. Twelve years of peace and plenty have allowed the little settlement to grow into a thriving town. But its peace is threatened--from within by an ambitious pr...

  • The Dragons of Magic

    J. Robert King
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    What beasts rule our dreams? Ancient Primevals enslaved our ancestors, and modern dragon engines enslave us. Plains dragons defend humans, and undead dragons destroy them. And all dragons hold mysteries deep within. Uncover the secrets of the d...

  • Magic of Faerun

    Sean K. Reynolds
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    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 ...

  • Bucking the Tiger

    Bruce Olds

    An American Library Association Notable Book

    John Henry Holliday was an Ivy League-educated dentist from a genteel Georgia family when at the age of twenty-one he was diagnosed with consumption and given six months to live. Instead, over th...

  • Cherokee Justice

    Jon Sharpe

    When an old friend is shot down while tracking a gang of vicious outlaws, a vengeful Skye Fargo sets out to even the score with the man responsible, a dangerous desperado named Mustang Jack McGhee. Original....

  • Cheyenne Summer

    Vella Munn

    Summer, 1800. There is no rain. Heat bakes the prairie. What little game survives on the trickles of water in the shrinking creeks is fiercely hunted not just by the Cheyenne, but by their enemies, the Pawnee. In the midst of a buffalo hunt that beco...

  • Devil's Due

    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 ...

  • Friday's Station

    Kent Conwell

    Gabe Harrison wanted no part of the Civil War. He took the stationmaster's job for the Pony Express at Friday's Station on the south shore of Lake Tahoe for the winter, planning on using his pay as down payment on a ranch in Wyoming.

    Then he was ...

  • A Good Town

    Douglas Hirt

  • Letters to Callie

    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...

  • Longarm and the Gunshot Gang

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm rides south to rein in some outlaws… Longarm’s looking forward to some way-overdue R&R -- but his boss has other ideas. Seems a gang of rowdy outlaws is stirring up trouble in the most untamed part of the West -- a wild little se...

  • Moon Medicine

    Mike Blakely

    When Honoré Greenwood sits down to tell his tale, people listen. Friend of such stalwarts of the West as Kit Carson, Thomas Fitzpatrick, John Hatcher, and the Brent brothers, Charles and William, Honoré, at ninety-nine, has lived the life that h...

  • Slocum and the Friendly Foe

    Jake Logan

  • Trackdown

    David Thompson

  • Winter Kill

    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...

  • Year of Wonders

    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...

  • ... and for Starters

    Victoria Routledge

  • ABC Pop!

    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....

  • About the Author

    John Colapinto

    Awardâ€"winning and New York Timesâ€"bestselling writer John Colapinto’s About the Author is “a thriller worthy of Hitchcock at his best” (Stephen King).Despite a severe case of writer’s block, Cal Cunningham dreams of writing a novel that wi...

  • Abracadabra

    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...

  • The Adventures of Bert

    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...

  • Almost

    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...

  • The Amazing Halloween Maze Book

    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...

  • Ants in my Pants

    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....

  • Any Kind Of Luck

    William Jack Sibley

    Manhattan hand model Clu Latimore, along with his lover Chris, returns to his hometown, where he is faced with a variety of dilemmas, from his dying mother and her impending marriage to a Mexican-American evangelist to a production of "Agamemnon--the...

  • The Apple and the Arrow

    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...

  • Arresting God in Kathmandu Pa

    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...

  • Aztec Blood

    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...

  • Bats

    Lily Wood

    In a close-up look at the flying creatures of the night, kids will learn where bats live, what they eat, how they find prey by using echolocation, how they help people, and how people can help them. Original....

  • Beyond Valor

    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...

  • Big and Noisy Simon

    Joseph Wallace

  • Bobby the Hopping Robot

    Louise Gikow

  • Bonaparte's Avengers

    Richard Howard

      As Napoleon prepares to invade Prussia, a war-weary sergeant is pushed to his limit in this epic military adventure series.  France, 1806. Napoleon Bonaparte’s Grande ArmeĂ© is poised for war. But this is no ordinary mission. Having cru...

  • Brave Little Monster

    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'...

  • The Broken Places

    Susan Perabo

    Susan Perabo's short-story collection, Who I Was Supposed to Be, was named a Best Book of 1999 by the Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Boston Globe proclaimed the debut "a stunning introduction to a fresh new ...

  • Bub Moose

    Carol Wallace; Bill Wallace

    You think it's easy being a moose? Think again! Even though I'm big, I'm just a baby. I love my mother and my friends. Like Dudley, the beaver, who named me. And Snow, the little wolf, who loves to play tag. His family's another matter. What really ...