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New Books List: 531 titles



  • Jo Leigh

    Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to W...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Robert Ellis

    When his business partner is brutally murdered, ruthless image maker Frank Miles is pitted against a deadly psychopath whose cleverness rivals his own, and he must race against time to uncover the truth, a quest that will take him from the seedy unde...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Kat Goldring

    Schoolteacher Willi Gallagher is a regular kind of gal in a not-so- - regular town. The next-door neighbors read palms and hold seances, and the town investigator haunts her with cryptic riddles. All the education in the world couldn't prepare this t...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Pamela Griffin

    Four years ago, Keith Travers turned his back on God and his family to pursue a secular music career. But despite the fame and fortune, years of wild living have left Keith feeling empty. When he learns the winner of a "dream date with Keith Travers"...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • Shirley Rogers

    WOOING A WIFE... Justin Bond knew all about forging steel ties, but human bonds were another matter -- especially when it came to winning back his wife! And with Heather agreeing to accompany him to Texas to meet his Fortune relatives, he'd reluct...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    The Evening Star's Police Blotter: WANTED! Small-town reporter Lindsey Gray is being charged with stealing police chief Dan Meadows's heart. Ten years her senior, Chief ...




  • 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....



  • Mickey Zucker Reichert

    When grad student Benton Collins tries to recapture an escaped lab rat, he's led through a maze into a world not his own. Just how different the land of Barakhai is Ben doesn't discover until he's been arrested for a horrific crime. For Barakhai is p...



  • Ashley Summers

    When Clint Whitfield returned to his Texas estate after two years away, he didn't expect to find a sultry redhead cooking in his kitchen. All love-wary Clint wanted was som...



  • Sandra Chastain

    HE WAS THE PERFECT LOVER ON PAPER... Anne Harris needs a man -- fast. As the only single executive at Bundles of Joy baby products, she'll never get ahead. So, through the Bachelor-in-a-Box agency, she buys an imaginary fiance. Only, when her boss in...



  • 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...



  • Susan Holtzer

    Newlyweds Anneke Haagen and Police Lieutenant Karl Genesko are enjoying their honeymoon in San Francisco when they receive an invitation from Richard Killian, Anneke's friend, to watch the University of Michigan game at his sports bar, Maize and Blue...



  • Constance M. Burge

    When wishes give dark powers life

    Stark disaster becomes rife.

    Danger, chaos, evil rise

    Before our unsuspecting eyes!

    While photopgraphing Stephen Tremaine, a wealthy businessman running for public office, Prue notices an ancient stone statue...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Christopher J. Priest

    Sent to pick up King T'Challa of Wakanda, a.k.a. the Black Panther, U.S. State Department employee Everett Ross recounts his journey from Brooklyn to Hell and back again as the king tries to stop a conspiracy that could destroy his kingdom....



  • 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...



  • Jill Shalvis

    Two unsuspecting men run into trouble -- double trouble! -- when they tangle with the unpredictable Anderson twins... BLIND DATE DISASTERS WHEN ONE IS MORE THAN ENOUGH! As an interior designer and an identical twin, Cami Anderson wants her home ...



  • Harry Turtledove

    World War 1--The Great War--has ended, and an uneasy peace reigns around the world. Nowhere is it more fragile than on the continent of North America, where bitter enemies share a single landmass and two long, bloody borders. In the North, proud Cana...



  • 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...




  • Charlotte Maclay

    FIREMAN REPORT Name: Jay Tolliver Status: Relieved of duty to recover from injuries sustained in heroic rescue An earthquake had left celebrity Kimberly Lydell's once-flawless face permanently scarred. And though she withdrew from the world, K...



  • 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...



  • Carla Cassidy

    "FAILURE ISN'T AN OPTION!" -- Kyle Ramsey, top-gun pilot The tension between Montebello and Tamir was escalating when Firstborn Son Kyle Ramsey embarked on a special operation to patrol the skies between the two feuding territories. His mission? W...



  • Mary Anne Taylor

    Soon after young widow Samantha Richards and her son return to her hometown, she encounters Brad Davis, the boy who lived next door during her childhood. She had a mad crush on Brad while growing up and now finds him more attractive than ever. But th...



  • 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'...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Iain Lawrence

    "There's pirates in the West Indies. Cannibals. They cook you alive," says Mr. Spencer to his son. These words will haunt seventeen-year-old John as he embarks on his first voyage to foreign lands. Carrying cargo destined for Jamaica, John and his cr...



  • 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...



  • Abraham Rodriguez

    Dinky, Jose, and Barbara are teens living in the Bronx. Dinky wants to put his father's drug dealing reputation behind him; Jose has just been dumped by his girlfriend who's moved on to the neighborhood's new drug dealer, Angel; Barbara's the smart g...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • John Williams

    A page-turning mystery as funny as it is darkly atmospheric.

    Returning to the same territory that made his short story collection so compelling, John Williams explores the dark side of city life-the prostitutes, the drug dealers, the crooked...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Diana Wynne Jones

    In which a humble young carpet merchant wins, then loses, the princess of his dreams Far to the south of the land of Ingary, in the Sultanates of Rashpuht, there lived in the city of Zanzib a young and not very prosperous carpet dealer named Abdul...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Joanna Campbell

    What will Cindy do now?

    When Cindy McLean goes to Belmont to clean out her apartment, she finds her old diary and is taken back to the days when she started racing in New York, after she fled Dubai...



  • 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 ...




  • Curtiss Ann Matlock

    Marilee James has a complicated life, caring for a special-needs son, playing surrogate mother to her abandoned niece, and temporarily running the local paper until the new managing editor arrives. She's so busy attending to everyone else that her ow...



  • Mardi Mcconnochie

    A beautiful and mesmerizing debut, Coldwater is the tale of three sisters, the dangers of isolation, and the explosive repercussions when seemingly absolute power is challenged.

    Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Wolf live on Coldwater, a penal colon...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Sandra Steffen

    When Cale Wilder crashed his Cessna into Dawsons Hollow, Georgia during a thunderstorm, it seemed as if another piece of his life had shattered. His beloved wife had died and his grieving son, Daniel, had run away, yet Cale wasn't about to give in to...



  • J.S. Borthwick

    Freshly minted Ph.D. Sarah Deane is hired to teach English at Miss Merritt's, only to land in the epicenter of legendary French professor Grace ("Mme Guillotine") Carpentier's reign of terror. Mme's peckish passion tiff excellence has inspired univer...



  • Dianne Castell

    Sentenced To Marry! Marry Brice McCormack to end their families' feud? Prudence Randolph would sooner wed a snake! The arrogant, know-it-all rancher might be a handsome devil and the sexiest man in Serenity, Texas, but he'd been the bane of Pruden...



  • Sherryl Woods

    FOE...OR FIANCE? Karen Hanson's oldest friends, the Calamity Janes, urged her to sell her struggling ranch and pursue her lifelong dreams of travel. But the only bidder for her land was brooding, enigmatic Grady Blackhawk -- her late husband's wor...



  • Jo Leigh

    Isabella Trueblood made history reuniting people torn apart by war and an epidemic. Now, generations later, Lily and Dylan Garrett carry on her work with their agency, Finders Keepers. Circumstances may have changed, but the goal remains the same. L...




  • Lois McMaster Bujold

    A man broken in body and spirit, Cazaril has returned to the noble household he once served as page, and is named, to his great surprise, secretary-tutor to the beautiful, strong-willed sister of the impetuous boy who is next in line to rule. It is a...



  • 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 lifeâ€"and he’s determined to win....



  • 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...



  • Elaine Alonso-Cruz

    Rhythm Of The Heart Marco De Cordova came to south Florida seeking the Cuban culture he'd been denied in suburban Philadelphia. Now he finds himself smitten by a Flamenco dancer--hardly the kind of woman he'd envisioned bringing home to his traditio...



  • 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...



  • Robin Jarvis

    In the British tradition of Redwall comes this first novel of a trilogy that is sure to capture fans both young and old. In the sewers of Deptford, there lurks a dark presence that fills the tunnels with fear. The rats worship it in the blackness and...



  • 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...



  • Diane Wolkstein

    Long ago, when Sun and Moon still lived on earth, they invited their new friend Ocean to visit their home. After many protests (after all, there was a lot of her), Ocean finally agreed to come. Sun and Moon worked and prepared for many days, but when...



  • Achy Obejas

    On New Year's Day 1959, as Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, Alejandra San José was born in Havana, entering the world through the heart of revolution. Fearing the conflict and strife that bubbled up in the streets all around the new family, her pa...



  • Chet Cunningham

    They show no mercy and take no prisoners -- wherever trouble strikes, they hit first, hard, and last.

    They are the best of the best, the deadliest of the deadliest -- an elite fighting force drawn from the ranks of the FBI, the CIA, Navy S...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Allana Martin

    The stark Chihuahuan Desert of the Rio Grande borderlands stands in blunt contrast to the influx of movie stars and cameras as a film crew arrives to make a documentary for the anniversary of a movie about Pancho Villa. Trading post owner Texana Jone...



  • 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...



  • Simon Brett

    Exploring the South Downs of the well-to-do town of Weldisham, Carole Seddon is caught in a sudden rainstorm. She finds refuge in an old barn--but relief turns to revulsion when she discovers the bones of a human skeleton packed inside two bags. S...



  • 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...



  • K.A. Applegate

    After waking from their five-hundred-year sleep, the eighty remaining members of the human race have awoken, and Jobs, 2Face, Mo'Steel and the others are not sure if they have arrived on another planet or if they are still dreaming....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Debra Kent

    "You're wild tonight," Roger said. But it was hate, not lust, that made me want to tear his flesh away. Countless fans have delighted in the sexy confessions of V--suburban mom, wife, and psychotherapist--in the scandalously popular serial on the ...




  • 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...



  • Dianne Drake

    Meet Dr. Jack Sutton and nurse Lacy Archer -- they're SUPPOSED to be running a small-town medical practice, but the craziest things keep happening. Jack can't wait to get back to the big city, while Lacy's making Sunstone her home. And in the midst...



  • Karen Rose Smith

    TO BEGIN AGAIN A tragic accident had taken everything from Dane Cameron -- his wife, his child, even his skill as a surgeon -- so he'd come here to the New Mexico desert to practice a different kind of medicine. He was searching for a new beginnin...



  • Betty Neels

    Loveday West was thrilled when Dr. Andrew Fforde offered her a job as his temporary receptionist. She hadn't expected to fall in love with him -- but he was just so handsome and charming! But was her place in his life as temporary as her contract?...



  • Anna Schmidt

    WHAT NEXT, LORD? Torn about her future, gospel singer Rachel Duke had asked God to send some sort of sign to guide Her on a new path. Enter Paul McCoy, a world-weary doctor who had found his way back home from strife-ridden Kosovo, but not back to...



  • 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...



  • Arthur Bradford

    Tender and satiric, hilarious and humane, Dogwalker plunks readers down in a land of misfits and the circumstantially strange -- where one young man buys drugs from a dealer who locks his customers in a closet, while another lands a cat-faced circus ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



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  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Emily Rodda

    Deltora is a land of monsters and magic… The Shadow Lord dominates the land of Deltora. Only Lief, Barda, and Jasmine can save it from his evil powers. To do this, they must restore all seven gems to the magic Belt of Deltora. Four gems have been...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Lynne Graham

    For love...or for his baby son? Only days before she was about to give birth, Emily left her husband, Duarte de Monteiro. She'd heard from a friend that he wanted to keep their baby -- but not his wife.... Now Duarte has traced Emily and hi...



  • 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...



  • Carole Bellacera


    Can you ever justify cheating on your husband?

    This is the question that Leigh Fallon is faced with when she learns that her marriage to Congressman Bob Fallon is not as honest as she's always assumed. It feels like Bob has been all but ig...



  • Jill Shalvis

    Two unsuspecting men run into trouble -- double trouble! -- when they tangle with the unpredictable Anderson twins... EAT YOUR HEART OUT NOW WE'RE REALLY COOKING! Dimi Anderson may be a TV personality, but she's never had the pizzazz possessed b...



  • Francesca Lia Block

    Maybe I would become a mermaid....I would live in the swirling blue-green currents, doing exotic underwater dances for the fish, kissed by sea anemones, caressed by seaweed shawls. I would have a dolphin as a friend. He would have merry eyes and the ...




  • Abigail Gordon

    Back in her life! Jumping out of a helicopter into a busy London street to save lives was nothing out of the ordinary for Dr Hannah Morgan, until the day she came face-to-face with her new boss, Dr Kyle Templeton the man she'd loved and lost eight...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Monte Killingsworth

    Autumn struggles to keep her fractured family from leaving their island home -- and each other -- until she learns that love and change grow side by side."There are some things you don't have to think about, things that are simple and solid. Leaving ...




  • Susan S. Kelly

    A move to Asheville reintroduces Hannah Marsh to Daintry O'Conner, her best friend from childhood, her nemesis as an adult. Seeing her ex-friend opens old wounds, forcing Hannah to revisit the past and try to make sense of what went wrong....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Ferdinand Mount

    This ingenious and inventive novel -- nominated for the Book Prize Long List for 2001 from the award-winning author of Jem (and Sam) -- at once comprises an autobiography of Aldous (Gus) Cotton, an English civil servant with breathing problems and ch...




  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • K.N. Casper

    The first daughter just might have a second chance Nineteen years ago, when she thought she knew everything, Kerry First ditched Craig Robeson at their high school prom and ran off with the class bad boy. It was a mistake -- one of many she would ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Kayla Perrin

    Let Go of the Past... Monique Savard's flawless dark skin and sculpted cheekbones may have made her one of New York's hottest fashion models, but she came to the city with an entirely different goal in mind. Desperate to unravel the sixteen-year-old...



  • Kate McMullan

    Indomitable Fluffy experiences a solo school bus ride, purple goo, a lollipop, glitter, and even a greasy bus engine, as he saves the day! When Jasmine forgets to bring Fluffy home with her for the weekend, the fun begins. On a school bus to Jasmine'...



  • Matthew Hughes

    After returning from his quest to save the world from his uncle, Filidor Vesh now stumbles blindly through an attempt to squelch the machinations of a would-be political usurper. As a result, he must contend with evil agents as well as his true love....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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....




  • 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 ...



  • Stephanie Calmenson

    When principal Mr. Bundy is accidentally turned into a frog by a visiting magician, the students of P.S. 88 are quite disgruntled, especially when he starts swimming in the kindergarten sink and eating students' fly collections, in a hilarious pictur...



  • 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...



  • Gill Sanderson

    Tender loving care Ben Franklin knows that Jo Wilde needs support and friendship. She's recovering from 'a broken heart as well as an accident. If he's to convince this beautiful woman to love again he must be very patient. He succeeds. Eventually ...



  • Carolyn Davidson
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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 women who carved out lives in Big Sky Country and found true love in Whitehorn, M...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Cynthia DeFelice

    Just a few short weeks ago, sixth-grader Allie Nichols realized that she must be some kind of ghost magnet when she met the spirit of a murdered girl. Now, a new ghost has appeared to her, a handsome young man, and he's pointed her in the direction o...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...





  • 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...



  • Kate Waters

    Told by Dancing Moccasins, a 14-year-old Wampanoag boy, and Resolved White, a 6-year-old English boy, a fascinating historical book brings to life the harvest celebration between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people in 1621....



  • Fred Saberhagen

    When Proteus crawls from the sea, brain dam-aged from a fight with a terrible giant, all he can put together from his shattered memory is that he was sent to aid Jason and the Argonauts on their incredible mission. As he joins them on their quest, Pr...



  • Fiona Patton

    CAMDEN DEKATHRINE had been destined by birth and tradition to serve the Flame, the supreme power in the kingdom of Branion. But it was not the Flame which called to him, it was the Wind. Drawn to this Aspect yet forced to keep his talent secret, Cam ...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...




  • 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 ...



  • Jane E. Gerver

    A rollicking rhyming book shows young readers how pumpkins grow when the air becomes chilly and the leaves fall off of the trees, and how, with the help of sugar and spices, pumpkins can be made into a delicious treat! Original....



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Annette Broadrick

    "My assignment does not include making love to Elena Maldonado!" -- Joe Sanchez, undercover army intelligence agent No one messed with Joe Sanchez. But one little slip of pure, delicious woman could bring him to his knees. He'd taken the shy beauty...



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  • Amy J. Fetzer

    A powerful, primal longing to be a mother enveloped Angela Justice. But her best friend, Dr. Lucas Ryder, intercepted the strong-willed unwed beauty at the sperm bank door, insisting some things be left to passion. At his touch, her body became a map...



  • Robert S. Stone

    Long ago, a brutal war between the countries of Chaldus and Yndor left the mages with blood on their hands. To rid the world of destructive magic, they performed the Binding--and vowed that never again would a magical war be fought upon the land. But...



  • Cara Colter

    Brittany Patterson came to Miracle Harbor eager to start her new life as a brand-new business owner. So what if she dreamed of inheriting a boutique and instead got a bakery? And so what if she had to marry to keep it? She was determined to have it a...




  • 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...



  • Terese Ramin

    HE WAS BIG AND DANGEROUS AND SAFE-LOOKING ALL AT ONCE. Six foot plus of hard-hewn Native American, Guy Levoie was a tracker -- a man with a hunter's instinct -- and Hazel's only hope. FBI Special Assistant Hazel Youvella had known returning to ...