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  • Firestorm

    Keith Douglass

    The first mission is simple. Lieutenant Blake Murdock and his SEALs must infiltrate a Chinese beach house and acquire top secret information from a CIA informant. During the raid, the spook goes belly-up, but the package is delivered. Mission accompl...

  • Hot Pursuit

    Jordan Cray

    Ran finds himself wanted by both the FBI and a cyber terrorist group when he starts bragging about his abilities to hack into the United States Defense Department's highest security computers. Original....

  • Medal of Honor

    H. Jay Riker

    It is the highest award a grateful nation can bestow upon its fighting men. To earn it, a soldier requires more than courage, more than dedication--valor that far surpasses that of his brothers-in-arms. Twenty years after the first Navy UDT frogman ...

  • Politika

    Jerome Preisler

    IT IS 1999. The sudden death of Russia's president has thrown the Russian Federation into chaos. Devastating crop failures have left millions in the grip of famine, and an uprising seems inevitable. One of Russia's provisional leaders asks the ...

  • Savage Sun

    James Axler

    THE UNPROMISED LAND Time hasn't stopped after the apocalypse. After the long nuclear winter, a few continue the struggle for survival in the irradiated wastelands. Then, a new order emerges, with a directive to destroy whatever freedom remains in it...

  • The Company of Knaves

    Simon Shaw

    Furious that a hated rival is up for knighthood in the New Year's Honors List, Philip Fletcher takes advantage of the untimely death of a fellow actor to use blackmail and get on the List too, but things do not go quite as smoothly as he had intended...

  • Crime at the Ch@t Cafe

    Carolyn Keene

    Journeying to Santa Monica to help Lydia open a new restaurant, Nancy, Bess, and George investigate a saboteur, who has knocked out the computer system and targets Nancy for asking too many questions. Original....

  • A Dance in Deep Water

    Doug Allyn

    When deep water diver Michelle "Mitch" Mitchell decides to repair her broken ties to her estranged young son, she finds herself immersed in an emotional journey during which she must face some disturbing facts about her mother's death...

  • Death Dines Out

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sis...

  • The Door-to-Door Deception

    Carolyn Keene

    The police suspect some of the junior high kids in Nancy Drew’s after-school program of breaking into houses. But when Nancy sets out to find the truth, she finds herself in danger. The real crooks are determined to shut her down -- before she shut...

  • Hung Up to Die

    Dolores Johnson

    DIRTY BUSINESS For Mandy Dyer, who had put away her painter's easel, cut her hair, and donned the life of a dry-cleaning entrepreneur, things were taking a turn for the best, and the worst, at the same time. Her main competitor, a man who played dir...

  • The Last Noel

    Jean Hager

    MURDER STEALS THE SCENE Peace and goodwill go out the window at Tess Darcy's Community Church in Victoria Springs the minute out-of-town drama professor Sherwood Draper walks in the door. He's been asked to replace the former director of the annua...

  • Mama Stalks the Past

    Nora Deloach

    DEADLY LEGACY When my mama receives an angry visit from Nat Mixon, she learns some startling news. Nat's mother and Mama's neighbor, spiteful recluse Hannah Mixon, has just died and left a large parcel of land to Mama! Nat is convinced Mama stole ...

  • Muddy Water

    Sally Gunning

  • Murder in the Air

    Ellen Hart

    SERIAL MURDERThe yuletide revival of a vintage Twin Cities radio serial isn't just for fun--dealing as it does with the scandalous unsolved 1950s murder of beautiful Kay Collins. But an even deeper mystery intrigues radio personality Bram Baldric and...

  • No Place for Sin

    Sherry Lewis

    A man is lucky to live his life in a place like Cutler, Colorado. At least that's what Fred Vickery thinks--and he ought to know. A lifelong resident, Fred is seventy-three and still going strong. He plans to live in Cutler for the rest of his life--...

  • The Ordained

    Terence Faherty

    LOST IN RAPTURE Ex-seminarian Owen Keane, a man still wandering in the circle of his own past, returns to Indiana to attend the parole hearing of a killer he helped convict. Here, in the isolated town of Rapture, Owen is drawn into a mystery with ...

  • Perilous Relations

    Carole Epstein

  • Royal Revenge

    Carolyn Keene

    Despatched on a secret mission to track an international hit man in the Little Panaslava section of River Heights, the Hardys try to uncover the assassin's identity--and his target--while penetrating a disturbing wall of silence. Original....

  • Shakespeare's Champion

    Charlaine Harris

    THERE'S SOMETHING ROTTEN IN SHAKESPEARE... Lily Bard was running from shattering memories when she moved to Shakespeare, Arkansas. Now cleaning houses pays her bills. Working out helps her heal. Still protecting her scars, she hides a hard body an...

  • Sign of Foul Play

    Penny Warner

    UNNATURAL DISASTER Last night's earthquake has the California Gold Country town of Flat Skunk buzzing; and over her morning mocha, deaf newswoman Connor Westphal is shaping it into a lead story for her local paper, the Eureka! Then her TTY phone b...

  • Unbound

    Julie Kaewert

    PUBLISH AND PERISH! Plumtree Press is about to launch a bombshell of a book--a fact-based novel about one of Britain's most revered authors, Marcus Stonecypher, a member of Virginia Woolf's Bloomsbury Group. Angela Mayfield's shocking book reveals...

  • The Baby Came C.O.D.

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE BABY IN HIS IN-BOX Workaholic Evan Quartermain had no time for love. So when someone left a baby on his secretary's desk, claiming it was his, he was in shock. What did he know about babies? Single mother Claire Walker could see her handso...

  • A Baby for Christmas

    Lisa Jackson
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    Lonely Annie McFarlane is having a blue holiday...until a baby in a basket is left on her doorstep. When a handsome man appears to claim the child, Annie faces losing the most precious gift she's ever been given...or getting another Christmas surpris...

  • Beauty and the Boss

    Lucy Gordon

    Craig Locksley thought he couldn't be charmed by his beautiful business associate, Delia, because he couldn't see. However, temporarily parted from his young daughter and his beloved dog, Craig was forced to accept Delia's offer to act as...

  • The Best Little Joeville Christmas

    Anne Eames

    THE LITTLEST MONTANA MALONE... Jenny was pregnant! And the father-to-be had taken off for the hills - before she could tell him the news. Why had Shane Malone suddenly hightailed it off the Malone ranch? After their night of passion and all that h...

  • Bride Required

    Alison Fraser

    The price of a bride... Baxter Ross had asked Dee to become his wife of convenience in return for a very large sum of money. Dee decided she had nothing to lose, and agreed to go ahead with the wedding. But why did such a good-looking man need ...

  • Captive Star

    Nora Roberts

    LADY ON THE LAM It should have been a piece of cake. All he had to do was pick up some pretty little bail jumper who wasn't even bothering to hide. But cynical bounty hunter Jack Dakota soon discovered there was nothing easy about spitfire M.J. O'...

  • Caught Under the Mistletoe!

    Kate Hoffmann

    Alaska. A place where could be men ... and women were scarce! For Tanner O'Neill, that was the whole charm of it. He'd had it with pushy females trying to con him to the altar. Then an eight-year-old stowaway named Sam showed up ... with his oh-so-...

  • A Child's Christmas

    Eva Rutland

    One child. One Christmas. Ten-year-old Eric Archer finds himself at a new school and living a new life. He's still despondent over the loss of his grandparents, and none of his teachers--except Monica Powell--seem to understand him. Eric's fath...

  • The Christmas Gift

    Laura Taylor

    He was the kind of man any woman would love to find under her tree... Jack Howell had been an outsider all his life in a world full of families, but when he returned to Kentucky to reclaim his past, he never expected to find a woman whose loneline...

  • Christmas in the Country

    Muriel Jensen

    He'll be home for Christmas... Jeff James survived capture inspired by the memory of Liza deLane's apricot-glazed ham. And her luscious red lips. Now he's a free man, with one Christmas wish--to meet Liza, the new Martha Stewart, heroine of hearth, ...

  • Christmas Rose

    Lacey Springer

    Her gentle love blossomed -- despite his cold heart. A SEASON OF HOPE Although Abby Wilson's hometown was decked out in holiday cheer, she could hardly revel in the season when her brooding boss, Gabe Kendall, had lost all hope. She was drawn...

  • The Cop and the Cradle

    Suzannah Davis

    ANYTHING FOR FAMILY Jake Lattimer couldn't believe that his newly discovered twin brother had dumped a wacky, feisty woman on his doorstep for safekeeping! From her snooping and unearthing heirloom cradles to her subtle sexiness, she was driving t...

  • The Dad Who Saved Christmas

    Karen Rose Smith

    A CONVENIENT CHRISTMAS FATHER He claimed he was no Santa, so why had Nick Clark made Faith Hewitt's Christmas wish come true? After charming her son, single-handedly saving the Christmas pageant and making the usually staid Faith swoon at the most...

  • Desperately Seeking Twin...

    Marie Ferrarella

    A small, faded photograph had turned Blair Stephens' world upside down. She'd suddenly learned she was adopted -- and that, somewhere, she had a twin sister who was her spitting image! With nowhere else to turn, she hired the services of hunky Devin ...

  • The Disobedient Wife

    Elizabeth Power

    Love, honor and disobey? Kendal was devoted to her husband and baby son Matthew, but there was room in her life for a career, as well, wasn't there? Jarrad didn't think so. He expected Kendal to be a dutiful wife and mother -- while he had...

  • Don't Say Goodbye

    Diane Schwemm

    Charlotte Kennedy and Jared Colburn are the perfect couple. Everyone at Parker High School thinks so--except Charlotte. Jared has taken her for granted too long. Charlotte's been waiting for the right opportunity to break up with him. Then Jared is s...

  • The Drifter's Gift

    Lauryn Chandler

    Star light, star bright, first man I see tonight... When a sexy drifter showed up at Danielle Harmon's farm, the struggling single mom suddenly dreamed of riding off into the sunset with this ruggedly handsome man. But though Sam Mclean was as c...

  • A Family for Christmas

    Rina Naiman

    IT MUST HAVE BEEN THE MISTLETOE.... Why else would Julia Rourke be dreaming of sharing a home - a life - with a handsome cowboy and his beautiful baby girl? Why else would confirmed bachelor Tony Pellegrino be adding a nursery on to his ranch ...

  • Father and Child Reunion

    Christine Flynn

    A mother and child are held hostage .... A father searches frantically for clues .... Rio Redtree had never recovered from his teenage sweetheart's betrayal. Eve Stuart had left him without a word of explanation, and though six years had passed...

  • Father Christmas

    Judith Arnold

    SOMETIMES A MAN NEEDS HELP LEARNING TO BE A DAD...THAT'S WHAT THE DADDY SCHOOL IS ALL ABOUT. Cops, kids and Christmas. When John Russo showed up at Molly Saunder's Daddy School carrying a not very well concealed weapon, she thought the worst....

  • A Father for Christmas

    Meredith Webber

    Where was his quiet country retreat now? Dr. Richard Cunningham needed peace to complete his latest "How to" book on child rearing, but when he moved next door to midwife Marnie Ferguson and her four kids, he didn't get it. His early ...

  • Fight Fire with Fire

    Francine Pascal

    this scorching miniseries. Jessica Wakefield cannot believe that her big brother, Steven, has fallen for her best friend, Lila Fowler. It's disgusting! Even Jessica's twin sister, Elizabeth, thinks Steven is making a big mistake. So the twins devis...

  • Fireworks

    Raeanne Thayne

    She was his forbidden desire, a flame in his heart and under his skin... . Too late for a quick getaway, Sam Wyatt groaned when he saw Rachel Lawrence's car drive toward the ranch house. She hadn't been back to Wyoming since her husband died fight...

  • From Humbug to Holiday Bride

    Zena Valentine

    HER MIRACLE MAN Brenda Jane Dolliver didn't believe in much. Certainly not Christmas, or miracles...or love. But when she desperately needed a haven around the holidays, her one hope was a very unconventional minister.... Hamish Chandler was no...

  • The Ghost

    Danielle Steel

    With a wife he loves and an exciting London-based career, architect Charles Waterston's life seems in perfect balance. Nothing prepares him for the sudden end to his ten-year marriage -- or his unwanted transfer to his firm's New York office. Christm...

  • The Grinch Makes Good

    Alison Kent

    HO-HO-HOLD ME! At the age of thirty-one, Brooke Bailey still believed in Santa Claus. She was determined to spread joy throughout her apartment building ... whether a certain neighbor wanted it or not. Indeed, for Dr. Duncan Cox, Christmas was ...

  • Her Secret Santa

    Day Leclaire

    Five-year-old River Sierra wants a mother - a mother just like the beautiful fairy in her storybook. So when J.J. Randell turns up on her daddy's doorstep it seems her wish has come true. Only River's daddy is less convinced. Raven Sierra has...

  • His Brother's Intended Bride

    Carolyn Zane

    "I never met a woman I couldn't have...then I met my brother's intended bride!" --Buck Brubaker She had to land a wealthy Brubaker bachelor, so Holly Fergusson pretended to be engaged to one. But it wasn't her "fiance" who made Holly hot and bothe...

  • Hunter in Disguise

    Kathy DiSanto

    A MYSTERIOUS HUNK WHOSE LETHAL SMILE PROMISED "DANGER AHEAD..." Candy Johnson was convinced the new gym teacher had more on his mind than volleyball! Sure, George Price had a face and body to die for, but what was a man with his muscles and moves ...

  • I Married a Prince

    Kathryn Jensen

    SECRET BABY HEIR TO A THRONE! How could a small-town librarian with her nose in books - not the tabloids - know that the man she'd fallen for years ago was literally a prince? Or that their love child was heir to a royal throne? All Allison knew was...

  • I Saw Daddy Kissing Santa Claus

    Debbi Rawlins

    Santa wears a skirt? Noah Spenser felt like a fool sitting on Santa's lap. But his seven-year-old daughter, Mindy, had insisted. However, when he noticed that this Santa had padding in unexpected places, he wasn't so anxious to leave. Especially w...

  • In the Bride's Defense

    Kelsey Roberts

    She needed this marriage to prove her innocence... and this love to save her life. LUCAS HENDERSON is a man with a mission. He'll stop at nothing to solve a friend's mysterious death by poisoning--even when his investigation leads him straight int...

  • The Littlest Angel

    Sherryl Woods

    MOTHER-BY-ACCIDENT Angela Adams refused to have anything to do with her unborn baby's reluctant father, much less marry him! True, her pregnancy was unexpected, but Clint Brady didn't have to act so dazed when she announced her impending motherho...

  • Look What the Stork Brought

    Dixie Browning

    Instant Father: former detective Joe Dana had a weakness for beautiful women - not pudgy babies! Earth Mother: Sophie Bayard knew all about natural childbirth - she just didn't expect a handsome stranger to practically deliver her baby in a vegetab...

  • Love Happens

    Elizabeth Chandler

    Although Jeff Danzig and Quinn Eaton come from entirely different worlds, they look so much alike that people at Maplecrest Prep think they're brothers. So when Quinn's parents ask him to cancel his ski trip to spend winter break with some old family...

  • Marley and Her Scrooge

    Emily Dalton

    Talk about the Christmas spirit! When Carl Merrick fell asleep at his desk on Christmas Eve, his business partner made an unexpected appearance in his dreams -- in baby-doll pj's and a come-hither grin! Now he was looking at Marley Jacobs in a...

  • The Marriage Pact

    Elizabeth Duke

    Bride for hire? Money couldn't buy love, but would it buy Adam Tate a wife? Claire needed a plane ticket home, and money to help her sister. Adam promised to help -- on the condition that Claire became his wife and mother to his two-year-old s...

  • A Matter of Trust

    Cheryl Wolverton

    SHE REFUSED TO BE FIRED... Elizabeth Jefferson wasn't like the other. The young sassy therapist refused to be fired and merrily defied Rand Stevens's demands. Since the accident that had robbed him of his sight, the handsome millionaire had a...

  • Midnight Skies

    Crystal Barouche

    Finding that their attraction is mutual, Sela Clay, host of a top-rated nature show, and Jonathan Mokane, an African safari operator, embark on a romance together, only to discover that their newfound passion is threatened by a clash of cultures. Ori...

  • The Millionaire's Baby

    Phyllis Halldorson

    THERE WAS SOMETHING FAMILIAR... about the man Kate Brown had rescued from the ditch on that stormy night. But he couldn't even tell her his name. Kate had no idea that she had fallen for handsome millionaire Burk Sinclair -- a man who had spent...

  • A Miracle for Christmas

    Grace Green

    Damian McAllister didn't do Christmas. No presents, no carols, no mistletoe kisses. Christmas was just another day. Without the family he'd lost, what else could it be? It would take a miracle for him to fall in love again. Stephanie Redm...

  • Mistletoe Mischief

    Alyssa Dean

    A Christmas Elf? It happened to Josh Larkland every year. He'd be happily running his multimillion-dollar company, when the whole world would just go...nuts. It meant only one thing...Christmas! Not that Josh really minded Christmas -- h...

  • My Jingle Bell Baby

    Leandra Logan

    What Alec wanted for Christmas... was some peace and quiet and an isolated Wisconsin inn. Saving a gorgeous damsel in distress, and her baby, was not part of the plan. What he got... was beautiful, passionate Sara Jameson in his arms. But there w...

  • One Christmas Knight

    Kathleen Creighton

    FA LA LA LA... LABOR! Okay, maybe driving solo cross-country in her eighth month wasn't the most brilliant idea Mirabella Waskowitz had ever had. And maybe she should have turned back when she heard the blizzard warnings. But the feisty mom-to-be ce...

  • One Night Before Christmas

    Catherine Leigh

    She wants the man... Carly Underbrook loves the holiday season; to her it's always been more about giving than receiving. Only, Carly meets Jonah St. John at a party and decides that this year she does want a present -- a tall, handsome tycoon.....

  • Paternal Instincts

    Elizabeth August

    MARRY ME... For Romance-weary Roxanne Dugan, another loveless marriage seemed out of the question. But desperate to win custody of a special little boy, she proposed a marriage in name only to a virtual stranger with surprisingly paternal instincts...

  • Reluctant Father!

    Elizabeth Oldfield

    The father of her child... So what was Gifford Tait doing here in the Seychelles? Was he really arrogant enough just to walk back into Cassandra Morrow's life after ignoring her for' eighteen months? He soon made it clear that he still wan...

  • A Rumored Engagement

    Catherine George

    Scandalous seduction? Luke Armytage can't get over the change in Saskia. The hostile, ugly-duckling teenager whom he went out of his way to avoid has grown up into a very desirable swan. Saskia is surprised at her intense feelings for Luke....

  • Santa Cowboy

    Barbara McMahon

    COWBOY GIVES GOOD LOVIN' THIS CHRISTMAS! Prim Deb Harrington didn't ask Santa for a tall, handsome stranger to charge into her office and tell her how to do her job! The too-sure cowboy made her feel in need of strong, masculine hands caressing her ...

  • Santa in a Stetson

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Santa never looked so good! Jo Cassidy had always had a weakness for cowboys - especially strapping, sexy devils like Russ Gibson. In one short night, he'd done more than make her weak - he'd love every inch of her...and then walked out. That was ...

  • The Santa Suit

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    The man in the red suit... had a lot to answer for, in Kat Harmon's opinion! He'd let her down and now her twins' head were filled - not with visions of sugarplums but kittens, dogs and a daddy! It'd be a cold midnight clear before that Christmas...

  • Santa's Special Delivery

    Val Daniels

    Lori found the best Christmas present she could ever hope for lying on her doorstep -- an adorable baby girl! And as Lori couldn't have children of her own, the question was, would she be able to keep little Kris? She sought advice from her lawye...

  • Season for Miracles

    Marilyn Pappano

    Emilie Dalton didn't mean to lie. After she fled with her two nieces and nephew from Boston, her car broke down in a small New England town, and the only shelter was a deserted house waiting for its new owner. So Emilie began a desperate deception th...

  • Second Chance Dad

    Angela Benson

    Five months before Christmas, his old love gave to him...a child he never knew he had. But Dillon Bell had been betrayed once before by this woman; dare he believe Monique's son was truly his? Three months before Christmas, Dillon was embraci...

  • Second Love

    Judith Gould

    It is the most important evening of her life: the grand opening of the San Francisco Palace, the newest jewel crowning her dazzling hotel empire. As Dorothy-Anne Hale Cantwell awaits the arrival of her husband, she allows herself to be swept into the...

  • Seducing Santa

    Beth Henderson

    ALL SHE WANTS FOR CHRISTMAS... Is Santa Claus. But not just any old Santa Claus. Roxanne Mercer wants the most beloved Santa for miles around to advertise her Christmas store. Unfortunately, she isn't the only person in town who thinks only on...

  • Sleeping at the Magnolia

    Lisa G. Brown

    IF THE SHADOWY WALLS COULD TALK For 100 years, the Tennessee moon had shone down on the Magnolia Inn, the old hotel that Lainie Thorne's family has always owned. Nowadays the place is crumbling to nothing. Its walls hold only memories and secrets....

  • Staying Cool

    Catherine Todd

    MATCHMAKER MATED WITH MURDER When the guilty verdict came in, forty-something juror Ellen Santiago Laws was relieved. After all, she helped convict the murderer of Natasha Ivanova, a flashy matchmaker who brought love to overworked Southern Califo...

  • Stranger by Her Side

    Susan Sizemore

    SHE WASN'T IN KANSAS ANYMORE.... And the stranger standing beside Carrie Robinson was looking for more than just Oz. With eyes the color of amber and a body honed to smooth granite, he oozed sex appeal, power ... and danger. And she needed him! ...

  • The Surprise Christmas Bride

    Maureen Child

    ON THE FIRST DAY OF CHRISTMAS... Finding herself in bed with her childhood love after being jilted at the altar by another man wasn't exactly Casey Oakes's idea of a merry Christmas. But she knew she wouldn't have wanted to spend her &...

  • The Taming of Reid Donovan

    Marilyn Pappano

    THE ORIGINAL BAD BOY Reid Donovan had heard himself described that way so many times that it was impossible to think of himself as anything but. Then he met Cassie Wade - a woman who believed in him, and whose love made him almost believe in himse...

  • Tender Touch

    Lynn Emery

    Concentrating on her high-profile career rather than her broken heart, Jade meets Damon, wary of women after his wife's infidelity, and together they must try to clear Jade's name from involvement in a tabloid scandal and begin to build trust again. ...

  • Texas Baby

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    TEXAS BABY When Margaret Madison cuddled little Alison in her arms, she knew she wanted to be this needy child's mother. It didn't matter that she'd just turned forty-six. It didn't matter that she'd just married off her other "baby." But is ...

  • Too Hot to Handle

    Francine Pascal

    Look out, Sweet Valley--a new bad boy is heading your way in Book Two of this scorching miniseries! Cool, brilliant, and intensely handsome, Devon Whitelaw had a perfect life. But his parents died in a senseless accident, leaving him totally alone....

  • Under the Mistletoe

    Elaine Coffman
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    When widow Holly Noel Winter, along with a nanny, housekeeper, six little girls and one baby boy, moves next door to resident scrooge Dr. Stan Levine, it's time for a war between the sexes. Unless Christmas brings peace on earth and a time for even a...

  • Undercover Angels

    Francine Pascal

    Murder, country club style...

    Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield have each been investigating the same murder at the Verona Springs Country Club.  They've kept their undercover schemes a secret from each other...and their true identities a secr...

  • Up Close and Personal!

    Sandra Field

    A gorgeous stranger... It was simply by chance that Morgan Cassidy had stumbled across Riley Hanrahan -- lying injured in the desert after being shot. She couldn't leave him there -- but after three days in his company, Morgan was beginning to...

  • Upon a Midnight Clear

    Catherine Mulvany

    He'd vowed to guard her body, but did he want to keep her safe--or keep her? Dixon Yano studied the woman who'd entered his office in a wig and dark glasses, and knew the obituary was a fake. Alexandra Roundtree wasn't dead, no matter what the pap...

  • Upon a Midnight Clear

    Lynn Erickson

    Bless the beasts and the children...especially at Christmas! After nearly a hundred years, there are wolves in Colorado again. And Brigitte Hartman, a field biologist working with the Fish and Wildlife Service, is one of the people responsible. Th...

  • Vows

    Rochelle Alers

    From This Day Forward... On a well-deserved vacation in exotic Mexico, sensible, practical accountant Vanessa Blanchard allows a maelstrom of desire to turn her world upside down. She's not sure why she dared to trust gorgeous, mysterious Joshua K...

  • The Wedding Quilt

    Lenora Worth

    WEDDING DREAMS... The handmade quilt had been stored with care--along with Rosemary Brinson's cherished dreams. The wedding was called off and Rosemary vowed she'd never marry. Then Kirk Lawrence arrived, hired to renovate the historic town chu...

  • What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day

    Pearl Cleage

    This New York Times"bestselling novel is “lively, topical, and fantasy filled. Watch out, Terry McMillian. Cleage is on your tail” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).After a decade of elegant pleasures and luxe living with the Atlanta brothers an...

  • When Lightning Strikes Twice

    Barbara Boswell

    AFTER HIS HEATED CROSS-EXAMINATION... Dubbed the "Freezer Queen" for her cool professional reserve, attorney Rachel Saxon effectively uses her glacial demeanor to ward off everyone--from clients to suitors. But even at her frostiest, she is no mat...

  • Who's Afraid of the Mistletoe?

    Margot Early

    Who's afraid of the mistletoe? Sarah Calder, that's who. Why is she afraid? She can't really say... The answer is that Christmas means family, emotion, remembering the past. And kissing can mean the same things... But now Sarah nee...

  • Yuletide Bride

    Rebecca Daniels

    HE HAD GIVEN HER LIFE'S MOST PRECIOUS GIFT... Marcy Fitzgerald could never forgive Cruz Martinez for leaving her. Yet she couldn't forget him, either. The proof of their long-ago love lived on in her cherished child. A child who was now in danger....

  • Havana Strike

    Jim DeFelice

    When Fidel Castro dies, his children fight for supreme reign but are deterred by guerilla rebels and the U.S. military, which offers technologically advanced tools to restore stability, until it is discoverd that Castro left behind a secret that coul...

  • Alien Influences

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Bountiful is a sun-scorched, inhospitable planet, offering only one comfort to its small band of human colonists: the powerful intoxicant they create from native plants an export to other worlds. But an unspeakable disaster devastates the colony. Six...

  • Axiomatic

    Greg Egan

    A collection of science fiction stories that looks at the possible future includes stories of genetically altered dolphins that speak in limericks and a software program that allows users to design their own child...

  • Barney's Time for Counting

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Captives of Blue Mountain (Novelization)

    Wendy Pini; Richard Pini

    The saga of Cutter and the Wolfriders continues in the story of the Bird Spirits, creatures worshipped by humans, that are actually real, giant winged creatures who attack the tribe and carry away four of their kin to Blue Mountain. Reprint....

  • Demon Rider

    Ken Hood

    The Hob Europe lies under the heel of the Khan, who swept across the West in 1244. And the Scottish outlaw Toby Longdirk lies under an even harsher rule--he is possessed by a hob, a demonic spirit neither good nor evil, but murderous as a child. ...

  • The Electric Kid

    Garry Kilworth

    In the year 2061, Hotwire, a girl, and Blindboy, a boy, live in the city dump, surviving by their wits and their extraordinary talents, but when their talents are noticed, they are kidnapped and pressed into service by a master criminal of the underw...

  • Fabulous Harbors

    Michael Moorcock

    Eleven richly detailed and interrelated stories take readers into a remarkable expanding multiuniverse, soaring at dizzying altitudes from London squares and across turbulent seas to distant places where anything and everything can happen. Reprint....

  • Four & Twenty Blackbirds

    Mercedes Lackey

    A FINE FEATHERED FIEND A magical maniac is loose in Alanda. The victims are always women, always lower-class, and the weapon is always a three-sided stiletto, most often found among Church regalia. But the killers are never churchmen, and they alw...

  • Fox and Empire

    Harry Turtledove

    THE RELUCTANT EMPEROR Ever since the devastating Werenight that spelled the end of the Elabonian Empire, Aragis the Archer has been saying he doesn't want war with Gerin the Fox, also called King of the North. But the Archer is ambitious and feels...

  • Galilee Man

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • The Gratitude of Kings

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Packaged for gift giving, a fantasy yarn by the author of The Mists of Avalon follows a centuries-old female wizard who must disguise herself as a male to survive the intrigue and black magic of the court....

  • The Lost

    John Peel

    Brainwashed teenage zombies? Or just another day in the 'burbs?

    Stacy can't understand what's going on with the kids in her neighborhood. They just aren't acting normal. Her best friend Amy has thrown away her collection of Doc Martens and is ...

  • Mississippi Blues

    Kathleen Ann Goonan

    The journey of Verity across the wonderfully altered landscape of mid-America began in Queen City Jazz: "A dizzying novel that takes full advantage of the creative potential of nanotech," said The New York Times. Now it continues down the river in Mi...

  • The Reaction

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us ... well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in...

  • The Red Wyvern

    Katharine Kerr

    Katharine Kerr's richly imagined cycle of novels set in Deverry and the Westlands has earned a devoted following--and a reputation as the finest Celtic fantasy being written today. Now she returns to Deverry's war-ravaged past.. In a kingdom torn ...

  • Santa's Little Helper

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Christmas Magic Sabrina's down in the dumps. Everyone else has the holiday spirit...even Libby Chessler! Sabrina's aunts, Hilda and Zelda, are trying to give her a happy holiday, but their best spells fall flat. And Harvey seems so busy and secret...

  • Steel Rose

    Kara Dalkey

    FAERIE TALES DO COME TRUE... Once upon a time, performance artist T.J. Kaminski would have done anything to be a success. Then she discovered the way to jumpstart her career: by conjuring something up in a secret corner of Pittsburgh's Schenley Park...

  • The Trokeville Way

    Russell Hoban

    The revered author of books for all ages, from Bread and Jam for Frances to Turtle Diary, gives the literary performance of a lifetime in this taut psychological thriller about a boy who tries desperately to stop failing. Things are already looking a...

  • Waking Beauty

    Paul Witcover

    In a land where Beauty is comprised of many meanings, two strong and spirited women--one who considers Beauty as marriage and the other, who yearns for the desire and passion of Beauty--are loved by the same man, in an erotic and sensual retelling of...

  • Abuela Mobile

    Arthur Dorros

  • Agape Agape

    William Gaddis

    William Gaddis published four novels during his lifetime, immense and complex books that helped inaugurate a new movement in American letters. Now comes his final work of fiction, a subtle, concentrated culmination of his art and ideas. For more than...

  • Alien Scream

    Chris Archer

    In the third book of this middle grade sci-fi series, a teen suddenly fluent in multiple languages discovers he is part alien, and someone wants him dead.   At Metier Junior High, Jack Raynes is usually the class clown, but lately he has one pro...

  • Amistad

    Alexs D. Pate

  • Anthology of American Literature

    Paul Lauter

    A best-selling anthology since its first edition, this premier survey of American literature has influenced the manner in which the American literary canon is taught in classrooms across the nation. In response to readers' requests, the editors of th...

  • Attack of the Killer Potatoes

    Peter Lerangis

    Accidentally spilling Humongasaurus Dinosaur growth hormone on a sack of potatoes, Arnold and Max are shocked when the spuds sprout all over the subway system, invade the baseball stadium, and attempt to destroy the city. Original....

  • Autumn Thunder

    Michael Kosser

    Even as he becomes linked in friendship through a woman and an act of war to a white cavalryman, Autumn Thunder resolves to defend his fellow Kiowa--pushed to the brink of starvation and death--against the white men...

  • Barbie Loves Her Sisters

    Scott Fujikawa

  • Barbie Loves Spring

    Willie Lew

  • Barney Goes To The Doctor

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Barney's Book of Hugs

    Sheryl Leach

  • Barney's Easter Egg Hunt

    Stephen White (2)

  • Barney's Halloween Party

    Scholastic Inc.

    It's Halloween night and Barney is having a party for Baby Bop, BJ, and other costumed friends. Children can join Barney and his friends as they carve a pumpkin, go trick or treating, and make tasty Halloween treats. This simple, rhyming story featur...

  • Barney's Happy Valentine's Day

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Barney's Trick or Treat

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Be Mine

    Justine Wittich

    Mining inspector Sabina Hanlon despises surface mining, so it's disconcerting to find herself attracted to Chad Peters, manager of Calico Mining. Before long, she's admiring what he accomplishes--and finds herself involved not only in his life, but i...

  • Big Bird Color Game

    Golden Books

  • Black Mutiny

    William A. Owens

    Set in 1839, this is the true story of a revolt on the Spanish slave ship Amistad, whose cargo of 53 Africans rebelled against their captors. When their desperate attempt to sail home failed, the Africans are forced to stand trial for the murder of t...

  • The Brentford Chain-store Massacre

    Robert Rankin

  • Call Me

    P-P Hartnett

    Call Me by P-P HartnettWhen Liam decides to begin answering the personal ads of London's gay papers, he is at first bemused and fascinated. After all, it is simply a way to entertain himself and pass the time.What Liam doesn't bargain for, however, i...

  • Castor and Pollux: The Fighting Twins

    Laura Geringer

  • Chelli, Be Mine!

    Allen

  • Christmas with Kathie Lee

    Kathie Lee Gifford

  • Cindy's Honor

    Joanna Campbell

    Honor Bright, one of Cindy Mclean's Favorite horses, is old enough for her first racing season! Cindy can't wait to be her jockey. So Cindy is terribly upset when she has an accident during a training session and the doctor says she wont be able to r...

  • Clark The Toothless Shark

    Corinne Mellor

  • Cody and Quinn, Sitting in a Tree

    Kirby Larson

    Cody and Quinn are the best of friends. It's no big deal to Cody that Quinn is a girl. But it's a big deal to Royce, the class bully who likes to sing "Cody and Quinn, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Cody loses his temper and gets angry at Quinn. ...

  • The Custodians

    Nicholas Jose

    In the scarred landscape of contemporary Australia, eight childhood friends seek their individual destinies: Alex, ambitious but melancholy; Cleve, snatched by the state from his Aboriginal parents; Danny, his twin brother, who has spent more of his ...

  • Deadline

    James Reston Jr.

    An award-winning journalist offers an illuminating memoir that reveals the pivotal events of the twentieth century and of his own life, his role as a newspaperman, and the course of American journalism...

  • Desire

    Hugo Claus

    United in their considerable desire for drink and cards, Jake, an overweight, slow-witted yet gentle man, and dark, brooding Michel have become fixtures at The Unicorn, a local Belgian watering hole. Suddenly aware that their wants have outgrown the ...

  • A Distant Hero

    Emma Drummond

  • Doug's Secret Christmas

    Jan Carr

    Featuring the animated character created by Jim Jinkins and Joe Aaron, a Christmas story finds Doug making solo holiday plans when the impending birth of his baby sister takes up all of his parents' time....

  • The Dreaming Tree

    C.J. Cherryh

    The classic fantasy duology, combining The Dreamstone and The Tree of Swords and Jewels in an omnibus for the first timeIt was that transitional time of the world, when man first brought the clang of iron and the reek of smoke to the lands which befo...

  • Empire of the Soul

    Paul William Roberts

    Paul William Roberts's journeys through India span twenty years, and in Empire of the Soul, he creates a dazzling mosaic, by turns tragic and comic, of the subcontinent and its people. From the crumbling palaces of maharajas to the slums of Calcutta;...

  • The Fairy Lair

    Anne LeMieux

    A packet of mail-order seeds involves Sylvia Widden in a desperate battle to preserve a fairies' habitat threatened by drought, finding an unexpected ally in a neighborhood bully with problems of her own. Simultaneous....

  • Faithful Are the Wounds

    May Sarton

    A professor’s suicide is the catalyst for this novel about politics and ideals set at Harvard during the 1950s When Harvard professor Edward Cavan commits suicide by throwing himself under a subway train, his death sets off shock waves both across...

  • Gehenna

    Lewis Gannett

    The second novelization of the phenomenally popular Fox television series, Millennium.

    Besides topping the Nielsen's each Friday night, Chris Carter's Millennium is quickly growing a loyal following and a remarkable presence on the Web. HarperPrism...

  • A Gift of Love

    Jude Deveraux

    Nothing is more precious than the gift of love. In this dazzling new collection, two leading ladies of romance, New York Times bestsellers Judith McNaught and Jude Deveraux, along with the rising stars Kimberly Cates, Andrea Kane, and Judith O'Brien,...

  • The Great American

    Alex Abella

    Involved in a romance with Laura, a young revolutionary, Ohio Marine William Morgan, stationed in pre-Castro Havana, becomes caught up in the turbulent struggle against Batista, only to be faced with disillusionment, loss, and betrayal in the afterma...

  • Great Race

    David McPhail

  • Happy New Year! Kung-Hsi Fa-Ts'Ai!

    Demi

    Pop! Pop! Pop! Set off firecrakers! Enjoy the feasts and join in the Dragon Dances!Chinese New Year has arrived and these are just a few of the customs included in Demi's newest book, Happy New Year! Kung-Hsi Fa-Ts'ai!. The activities and traditions ...

  • Happy Valentine's Day, Miss Hildy!

    Lois G. Grambling

    Miss Hildy is a detective, sort of - with a cape, a magnifying glass, and a little black book for taking notes.  So when a strange Valentine's Day gift appears on her doorstep, Miss Hildy smells a mystery.  Luckily, her secret admirer is a terrib...

  • The Haunted Spaceship

    Brad Ferguson

    Accused of seeing things until another cadet also witnesses the ghostly image, Geordi La Forge meets the ghost of their spaceship's former captain, who bears an important message as the ship nears an asteroid belt. Original....

  • Hit Men

    Lee Gutkind

  • Home Alone 3

    Todd Strasser

    "This is my neighborhood and this is my house..." Eight-year-old Alex Pruitt gets stuck at home with the chicken pox. There's nothing to do except play with his telescope, or mess around with the stupid toy car that his cranky neighbor gave him as...

  • Home Alone 3

    Nancy Krulik

    In a picture book adaptation of the film, young Alex must outwit four mobsters who are after the secret microchip inside of his toy car, and he sets some amazing booby traps for them. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Horse Guest

    Bonnie Bryant

    Pine Hollow is boarding some horses from a neighboring stable. One of the horses has special problems that require help from The Saddle Club. But first they have to figure out how to get the horse to tell them what's wrong.Meanwhile, Stevie's grandmo...

  • If Looks Could Kill

    Francine Pascal

    The Wakefield sisters are determined to keep their New Years resolution.  Even if it kills them.

    Identical twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield have always considered themselves best friends, but lately they've been acting more like best en...

  • Into the Deep

    Paul Moore

    Details the former Episcopal Bishop of New York's service in World War II, his calling to the ministry, his creation of a new form of urban ministry, and other accomplishments that reveal his devotion to God, his family, and the people he helps...

  • The Invisible Day

    Marthe Jocelyn

    Billie's family believes there should be no secrets between them ever, but Billie feels she needs some privacy, so when she comes up with a magic make-up bag that allows her to be invisible, she feels all her dreams have come true....

  • Iole: The Girl with Super Powers

    Laura Geringer

  • Is Your Teacher an Alien?

    Bruce Coville

    Susan, Peter, and Duncan return in an adventure that invites readers to help the trio conduct their alien investigations through Mad Lib-style activities that include crosswords, secret messages, word searches, alien trivia, and more. Original....

  • Isabella: A Wish for Miguel

    Shirlee Petkin Newman

  • Juliet: Midsummer at Greenchapel

    Lynne Marshall

  • Kai: Lost Statue

    Leona Nicholas Welch

    In the third installment of the growing series, Kai, a young girl living in fifteenth-century Africa, is determined to find the person responsible for stealing the cherished sculpture of her father. Original....

  • Karen's Paper Route

    Ann M. Martin

    From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!Karen is a papergirl!Karen really wants Moonbeam, the new video game system. But Daddy won’t buy it for her. So Karen decides to...

  • Karen's Sleigh Ride

    Ann M. Martin

    From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!Dashing through the snow...Karen is happy that Christmas is coming. Then she hears some sad news: The Stones’ barn has burned do...

  • Lad, a Dog: Best Dog in the World

    Margo Lundell

  • Love You to Pieces

    John R. Sansevere

    "Thistles are sharp...Roses are dead...I can't seem to get you...outof my head!" Kids who find the icky sentimentality of Valentine's Day revolting will savor sending these gleefully gruesome greetings. Includes a full set of punch-out valentines--fe...

  • Loving Tea

    Jane Resnick

    A tea lover's comprehensive guide to teas features a look at the different types of tea, brewing tips, facts about tea ceremonies, and information on pots, balls, and infusers, and a special section on herbal teas. Original....

  • MacBeth

    Bruce Coville

    When Macbeth encounters the witches upon a misty heath, he is intrigued by their predictions of royalty and fame. Urged on by his ambitious wife and his own greed, Macbeth is determined to become King of Scotland. But a rebellion is brewing....

  • Marie: Summer in the Country, Paris, 1775

    Jacqueline Dembar Greene

  • Mask of the Night

    Mary Ryan

    Two very different women find themselves united by a huge, haunted ruin of a manor home, where they discover a mask that binds them together and links them to a handsome stranger who appears only in their dreams...

  • Monster Hunters

    Joyce Milton

  • Mr. Magoo: A Novelization

    Nancy Krulik

    A junior novelization based on the live-action film starring Leslie Nielson pits the nearsighted vegetable king, his shy nephew, and his faithful bulldog against one of the world's slickest jewel thieves. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • My Awesome Holiday Friendship Book

    Linda Williams Aber

    An activity guide packaged with stick-on earrings shows readers how to make friendship bracelets, holiday cards, hair ribbons, and more, while offering party ideas and suggestions on how to be a good friend. Original....

  • My Evil Twin

    Thomas McKean

    Bad Is Good! Jellimiah John Jensen just found out that it's fun to be bad! Before he changed schools, Jellimiah had always been polite, neat, well-behaved...and a "nerd." The other kids even nicknamed him Jelly-Belly. Now he's in a new school, goi...

  • My Ishmael

    Daniel Quinn

    An extraordinary and startlingly original sequel to Ishmael  “Enthralling, shocking, hope-filled, and utterly fearless, Daniel Quinn leads us deeper and deeper into the human heart, history, and spirit. In My Ishmael, Quinn stri...

  • Never Too Late for Christmas

    Jane McBride Choate

    Brother and sister, Drew and Ashley Hunter seem to belong to completely different families. Drew is a well-respected newspaper reporter, and Ashley is a punk teen on the wrong track. After a session with Lauren Roberts, owner of Imaginations, a makeo...

  • New Year's Revolution!

    Diana G. Gallagher

  • Once on This River

    Sharon Dennis Wyeth

    It is 1760. Monday de Groot and her mother, Lesley, a midwife, sail from their home in Madagascar to New York, to testify on behalf of Lesley's brother Frederick, who has been falsely imprisoned and taken as a slave. Because Lesley has the only paper...

  • One Dog Twenty Stars

    Carolyn Otto

  • One Snowy Day

    Jefffrey Scherer

  • The Operator's Manual for Planet Earth

    D. Trinidad Hunt

  • Ozzie the Elf; How I Put Santa Online

    Debra Mostow Zakarin

    WELCOME TO THE NORTH POLE! Ozzie the elf is so excited about his new job in Santa's workshop--until he sees how old-fashioned the place is! Old-fashioned toys, old-fashioned phones, even old-fashioned reindeer. Ozzie decides that the North Pole needs...

  • Paradise

    Toni Morrison

    The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner challenges our most fiercely held beliefs as she weaves folklore and history, memory and myth into an unforgettable meditation on race, religion, gender, and a far-off past that is ever present -- in prose that soars ...

  • Pooh's Christmas Box

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

  • The Pot of Gold with Sticker

    Jerry Smath

    Young readers are invited to help Lucky, a young leprechaun, find the magic clovers that will enable him to earn his own pot of gold by marking the plants hidden in the illustrations with the accompanying stickers...

  • The Pure Product

    John Kessel

    An outstanding collection of nineteen works includes two poems, an award-winning play, and sixteen short stories--including the never-before published "Gulliver at Home"--by one of science fiction's most acclaimed authors and the winner of the Nebula...

  • A Question of Character

    Thomas Reeves

    No issue is more hotly debated than how, or even if, a politician's private life affects his public competence. In A Question of Character John F. Kennedy's two lives -- public and private -- are examined to answer this timely question. Respected his...

  • R Is for Radish!

    Molly Coxe

    Radish is a wRiter, a Rapper, a jump-Roper, and a Raspberry pie eater. She is also a hysterically funny problem solver, à la Ramona Quimby. With wit, humor, and a style all her own, Molly Coxe has created an alluring, alliterative story!  ...

  • Rebound!

    Hank Herman

    Jo Meyerson has snagged the lead in her school play. But it means she'll miss basketball practice three times a week! Her teammates are not happy, even though Jo promises she can handle both the play and the team. No problem.But when the Bulls actual...

  • Red Queen

    Dirk Draulens

    In a world in which men are thought to be no longer needed for reproduction, female warriors hunt down the only man to survive their genetic weapon, unaware that he is in fact necessary to keep the gene pool safe from parasites. A first novel....

  • Rise of West Indian Cricket

    Frank Birbalsingh