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New Books List: 385 titles

  • Abuela Mobile

    Arthur Dorros

  • The Academy

    Ed Ruggero

    When a senator launches a smear campaign against West Point as a means of landing the presidency, five people--including Major Tom Gates and his calculating wife--become caught up in the ensuing maelstrom, which exposes the academy's flaws. Reprint....

  • Action Stations

    William R. Forstchen

    THEY PLANNED ON A NICE WAR... There had been a century of peace, and the politicians of Earth and its colonies were running on platforms of cutting "wasteful" military spending--all while Earth's military tried to keep aging and obsolete ships fly...

  • Aftermath

    Levar Burton

    Now LeVar Burton achieves new renown in his widely acclaimed first novel--a powerful, thrilling adventure of human courage in a devastated, transformed America....

  • 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 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...

  • Alien Resurrection

    A.C. Crispin

    At the farthest reaches of the solar system, aboard orbiting space station Auriga, the unthinkable has happened. Ripley awakes. Her last memory is of her fiery death on the prison colony Fiorina 361. And yet she is alive. Her questions grow as ...

  • 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...

  • All I Need Is You

    Johanna Lindsey

    Headstrong Casey Straton inherited her mother's beautiful eyes and her father's stubborn temperament. So when she is denied the responsibility of running her grandfather's ranch despite her unladylike prowess at roping, riding and shooting the high-s...

  • Amalgam 97

    Marvel Book Group

  • Amalia

    Ann M. Martin

    Adjusting well to her new school, Amalia Vargas makes a new group of friends and is soon living by a new set of rules, but her life spins out of control when her boyfriend will not let her break up with him. Original....

  • Amistad

    Alexs D. Pate

  • Amistad

    Joyce Annette Barnes

    "Any man would do the same to get back to his family." In 1839, a young man named Cinque leads a group of illegally enslaved Africans in a revolt against their captors aboard the slave ship Amistad. All they want is to be free, to return to their ...

  • 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...

  • The Awakening Evil

    R.L. Stine

    Everyone thinks they know the story of the Evil that terrorized Corky Corcoran and the cheerleaders of Shadyside High. But the true story has remained hidden. Only Sarah Fear knows where the Evil began. What it wants. And why it kills. Read Sarah’s...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Baby-sitters' Christmas Chiller

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! As Christmas approaches, there's a chill in the air -- not from the weather, but from the mysterious goings-on in Stoneybrook. Someone is breaking into houses in Kristy and Abby's neighborhood...

  • 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 Time for Counting

    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...

  • 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 Bellows Falls

    Archer Mayor

    When asked to investigate a small-town police department in Bellows Falls, homicide detective Joe Gunther becomes determined to separate myth from reality as he delves deep into a world of deceit, domestic violence, corrupt cops, drugs, and murder...

  • Bells, Rings & Angels' Wings

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    HUMBUG! Libby Barnes wished Christmas would go away-along with her husband, Tyler. But would Santa answer a wish from Willow Hills, Indiana, population 400? Suddenly darkness fell, snow swirled and Libby could barely find her way home. But stra...

  • 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...

  • The Best of Sisters in Crime

    Marilyn Wallace

    Compiles some of the all-time best stories from the popular Sisters in Crime anthologies, with works from Elizabeth George, Nancy Pickard, Joan Hess, Joyce Carol Oates, Susan Dunlap, Sara Paretsky, Marcia Muller, Carolyn G. Hart, and Dorothy Cannell,...

  • Better Watch Out

    Dani Sinclair

    Christmas Stalking... J.D. Frost's kids fell in love with the lady in the ice-cream parlor. When he laid eyes on their new playmate, J.D., too, felt a sudden craving for sweets - a craving only Jackie Neeley could satisfy. But then the woman star...

  • Big Bird Color Game

    Golden Books

  • Black Mist

    Orson Scott Card

    Japan has long been one of the key players in business, technology, and culture...and now some of today's finest writers have created these all-new novellas envisioning how its influence will change the world! Calling on their expert knowledge of Jap...

  • 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

  • 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 ...

  • Bridget: The Fling

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    Setting out for college in Seattle, leaving her old boyfriend, Grant, behind while he copes with his father's death, Bridget soon discovers the problems of keeping a long-distance romance alive. Original....

  • Brighter Than the Sun

    Julia Quinn

    SWEETER THAN A DREAM Charles Wycombe, the dashing--if incorrigible-- Earl of Billington, needs a bride before his upcoming thirtieth birthday if he hopes to earn his inheritance. The vicar's vivacious, determined daughter, Miss Eleanor Lyndon, nee...

  • Broken Wings

    Terri Blackstock

    LIVES. LOVE. A GOOD MAN'S NAME. ARE THEY THE COST OF TELLING THE TRUTH? Among the 151 people who died in the crash of Flight 94 was Mick Hammon, the plane's captain and Erin Russell's close friend. Herself a pilot, Erin narrowly missed being on t...

  • The Burning Plain

    Michael Nava

    Still reeling after the death of his former lover, criminal defense lawyer Henry Rios unwisely falls for a young actor whom he had successfully defended on trumped-up burglary charges.

    But just hours after a date with Rios, the man is brutally...

  • Cade's Justice

    Pat Tracy

    Gideon Cade was bent on revenge Gideon Cade Was Consumed By One Desire, until the night the angelic Emma Step, all fire and fury, demanded entry to his home and transformed his life. But could she give the gift of her love to a man who harbored...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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....

  • Caroline's Promise

    Deborah Wood

    Love can fix just about anything... CAROLINE After the worst flood to ever hit Oregon City, her house was in desperate need of repair. But the December storm brought a bigger problem: two orphaned babies -- in desperate need of a mother's love. ...

  • Castor and Pollux: The Fighting Twins

    Laura Geringer

  • Catching Fire

    Wynema McGowan

    THEY MADE A BARGAIN THAT UNITED THEIR SOULS WITH FIRE... Thora Gunn had fought her way across the wilderness to return to the Minnesota town of Two Sisters. She had come back to rescue the brother her rapscallion of a father had abandoned, only to d...

  • 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-...

  • The Changeable Rose

    Jessie Watson

    CAN SHE OUTWIT THE TABBIES OF THE TN...AND LAND A LORD? Clare Winchester was once the talk of the ton--the belle of the beau monde and quite the scandal. Her dresses were daring, her antics outrageous, and she was called "The Changeable Rose&#...

  • Channel X

    Francine Pascal

    Don't touch that dial...

    SVU STUDENTS:  EARN CASH JUST FOR WATCHING TV!

    When Nina Harper and Bryan Nelson see the sign, they think it's too good to be true.  All they have to do is watch television with electrodes strapped to their ...

  • Chelli, Be Mine!

    Allen

  • 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...

  • Christmas Angel

    Kat Martin
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    Despite having been on opposite sides of the war, Yankee doctor Josh Coltrane is unprepared for the continued bitterness of long-lost love Angel Summers. Can these two former sweethearts learn to forgive and forget the past?...

  • 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 Magic

    Andrea Edwards

    THE PETS WHO SAVED CHRISTMAS "What kind of cat burglar brings her kitties?" groused tough state policeman Mike Burnette. Then Mike learned that his irrepressible intruder was actually Casey Crawford, his new -- unwelcome -- housemate...f...

  • Christmas Pie

    Emma Craig

    Pie in the Sky Unlike most girls her age, Polly MacNamara did not go out with friends to parties or on sleigh rides with charming beaux. She stayed home to take care of her ailing mother and only dreamed of a world of boundless riches and endless fu...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Circus F.R.E.A.K.S.

    M.T. Coffin

    Charlie and Jeanna think it is great fun to dress up as freaks for the school circus play, and when the circus comes to town, they rush down to meet some real circus freaks, but when they become a part of the F.R.E.A.K. show, they find themselves in ...

  • The Civilisation Game and Other Stories

    Clifford D. Simak

    This seventh collection to be assembled by the editor Francis Lyall, is mainly to show Clifford D. Simak's early use of ideas that fascinated him, and, with one exception, bring together stories which have been unavailable since they were first publi...

  • The Clark Gable and Carole Lombard Murder Case

    George Baxt

    While 1939 Atlanta is gearing up for the premiere of Gone With the Wind, Hollywood is experiencing a series of kidnappings targeted at star babies, with the dashing Clark Gable and his glamorous wife Carole Lombard on the case....

  • 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. ...

  • Come the Spring

    Julie Garwood

    Cole Clayborne had always walked a dark path and flirted with a life of crime. While his three brothers chose to settle into married life, Cole rebelliously refused to be tied down. Now, an elusive stranger draws him into a shadowy chase that will br...

  • 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...

  • The Confidential Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

    St. Martin's Press

    This long-awaited volume finally brings to light several cases of the world's most famous consulting detective that were originally suppressed to avoid scandal and embarrassment to the Crown, public figures, or to Holmes himself. Now, the truth is f...

  • 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 Country Gentleman

    Cindy Holbrook

    She Was Aghast At His Country Manners. The Incomparable Lady Sarah, the darling of the ton, not only broke off her engagement to Ravenwich -- that dreadful rake and libertine -- but struck an even deadlier blow! During a visit to his country estate,...

  • Creole Bride

    Deborah Martin

    Glittering New Orleans was a sultry city of intrigue and danger. Here Camille Giron, orphaned daughter of a famous buccaneer and a highborn Creole woman, was called the Pirate Princess. And here the proud regal beauty would find herself living in ser...

  • 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....

  • Crimson Lace

    Linda Francis Lee

    That night so long ago, New York's elite had stood in their elegant finest, quivering with shock, speechless, before the whispers had begun. Everyone, it seemed, had known that no good could come of Lily Blakemore. The scandal was devastating. The...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dangerous Waters

    Amy J. Fetzer

    THE DRAMATIC STORY OF A BEAUTIFUL, MODERN-DAY BOUNTY HUNTER IN SEARCH OF JUSTICE, AND HER DESTINY, IN THE ARMS OF A LAWMAN OF THE OLD WEST. Twentieth-century bounty hunter Victoria Mason plunges through a waterfall after a wanted man and finds her...

  • The Dark

    Andrew Neiderman

    A MASTER OF EVIL... Los Angeles psychiatrist Grant Blaine's biggest worry should be whether or not his stunning wife, Maggie, will make full partner at her law firm. But his new patient, Jules Bois, pervades his every thought. Despite Bois' delusion...

  • Dark Wager

    Mary Spencer

    Lady Clara Harkhams wasn't a great beauty, but men clamored for her hand. She practiced the art of flirting with gay abandon, but she'd long ago given her body and soul to Lucien Bryland, the viscount she was promised to at birth. Now, after years ab...

  • The Darkness of God

    Chris Bunch

    Joshua Wolfe has four sworn enemies: the Chitet cult, a power-mad baron, the Federation government, and the alien “virus” that is slowly invading the known universe.And he has one hope: the Ur-Lumina, the legendary power-enhancing crystal of the ...

  • 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...

  • Deadly Silence

    Jodie Larsen

    A rising young attorney and a public relations specialist believe their futures are assured at a prestigious Oklahoma City law firm. That is, until they're brought together on an important case, with their research revealing the firm's chilling link ...

  • 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...

  • Death Fires

    Ron Faust

    In this shocking thriller set in Baja California, a movie cast and crew on location becomes the setting for murder and depravity. The Director: Visionary and perverse, he coaxes and prods his cast and crew as he tries to bend them to his will in the...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Destroy The Liquidator

    Ryder Windham

    The Imperial Star Destroyer Liquidator is quickly approaching the Rebel base on Yavin Four. It is part of an Imperial plan to control hyperspace -- and crush the Rebellion. To prevent the Empire from carrying out this evil deed, the Rebels must loc...

  • 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...

  • A Distant Hero

    Emma Drummond

  • The Dog Ate My Homework

    Betsy Haynes

    When Azie Appleton discovers she can say a magic word and make any of her lies come true, she concocts a tale about the school being taken over by giant termites--but her scheme quickly backfires. Original....

  • 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 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...

  • Double Identity

    Steve Zettler

    Former Secret Service agent Joe Bradlee goes undercover for the FBI as a man who could pass for his double--the key witness in a high-profile trial and the target of an international team of assassins. Original....

  • 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....

  • Dragonseye

    Anne McCaffrey

    It's been two hundred years since the deadly Thread fell like rain upon Pern, devouring everything in its path. No one alive remembers that first horrific onslaught and no one believes in its return--except for the dragonriders. For two centuries the...

  • The Dream Wedding

    M.J. Rodgers

    Dreams can come true. Dream specialist Michael Sands couldn't have conjured a more perfect dream woman than the beauty that lay asleep in her wedding gown under his Christmas tree. Nor could he resist kissing her awake. Briana Berry wasn't dis...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Durango Duel

    Jon Sharpe

    Known among the Mexicans as "El Gato"--The Cat--a notorious killer holes up with his gang in the Colorado mountains, waiting for Skye Fargo and a young gunslinger called the Durango Kid to try to pry them out. Original....

  • Easy

    Phillip Depoy

    CHECK OUT THE MAJESTIC DINER AT 3 A.M. LOOK FOR A MAN NAMED FLAP AND A WOMAN NAMED DALLIANCE... Flap Tucker isn't like other private eyes. He's a mystic, a finder of lost things, a veteran of a foreign war who lives on the wrong side of town and ...

  • Easy Virtue

    Janice Kaiser

    LIFE IS NOT TURNING OUT HOW MARY MARGARET PLANNED. When her father was convicted of a violent murder she knew he didn't commit, Mary Margaret vowed to clear him. But now, eight years later, she is working as a showgirl in Reno and is in serious de...

  • 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...

  • An Embarrassment of Corpses

    Alan Beechey

    Scotland Yard is hunting the worst kind of serial killer -- one with a sense of humor.When children's book author Oliver Swithin, reluctant creator of the notorious "Finsbury the Ferret," finds an old friend's body floating in a Trafalgar Square foun...

  • 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;...

  • Every Dream Come True

    Barbara Benedict

    Desperate to save her family's plantation from financial ruin, Jude Latour hires bounty hunter Tucker Boone, a rascal with a reputation, to find her missing adoptive father and has her heart stolen in the process. EVERY DREAM COME TRUE Faced ...

  • Eyes of Night

    Beth Amos

    A woman is missing. There is no evidence of foul play, but certain small, disturbing signs indicate that the young mother didn't leave of her own volition. The only answer to the mystery lies locked in the mind of her terrified, silent child. When ...

  • 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....

  • Face Off

    Emma Brookes

    Face Off by Emma BrookesWhen Suzanne Richards fled Omaha, she left behind her old life--and her work as a police consultant, forging psychic links with the most brutal serial killers. But she cannot run from her talent. And she cannot resist the plea...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Final Orbit

    S.V. Date

    Space program veteran Santy Santich suspects a NASA cover-up when an astronaut dies horribly on a routine space shuttle flight, but his place on the next shuttle is in jeopardy, and the countdown to liftoff with a killer has already begun. Original....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Forbidden Summit

    Payne Harrison

    When NORAD intelligence officer Frank Hannon reports four unidentified aircraft in the skies over North America, he is puzzled by the lack of response from his superiors--until he realizes he has discovered the ultimate government secret. Original....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Galilee Man

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Golden One

    Deborah Chester

    Here is an epic set in a far distant universe--a saga of faraway planets and of races strange and more fantastic than any ever seen on our world. Yet their struggles are universal: for justice, for freedom, for peace. Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles is ...

  • 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 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

  • 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 ...

  • The Gypsy's Warning

    Cheryl Zach

    Science-minded Jamie and psychic Quinn put their heads together to find the ghost who communicates with a gypsy at an old mansion, and when valuables start disappearing, they suspect that something more sinister is going on...

  • 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...

  • Harmony

    Stef Ann Holm

    When prim deportment teacher Edwina Hungtington finds herself co-owner of a warehouse with rugged sportsman Tom Wolcott, togetherness in Harmony, Montana, is anything but. And as soon as they discover that they clash more than their choices of paint ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Heather's Change of Heart

    Zoe Cooper

    Heather has met the man of her dreams, but when her future mother-in-law completely takes over the wedding plans and her fiance+a7 Reggie refuses to stop flirting with other women, Heather starts to have second thoughts about her dream come true. Ori...

  • Her Father's House

    Emma Sinclair

    Travellan...Her father's ancient Cornish home is the only constant in Jennie Veryan's young life, and Mark Curnow is her only love--though it seems she must lose them both. A proud and old family, the Veryans break up her romance with the land agent'...

  • 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...

  • Hide and Seek

    Ian Rankin

    COME OUT, COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE... At night the summer sky stays light over Edinburgh. But in a shadowy, crumbling housing development, a junkie lies dead of an overdose, his bruised body surrounded by signs of Satanic worship. John Rebus cou...

  • 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...

  • His Secret Duchess

    Gayle Wilson

    Mary Winters harbored a secret deep within her heart. She'd borne the duke of Vail a child and was determined that no one -- not even the noble love of her life himself -- would ever uncover the truth. Afire with the passion of youth, Nick Stanton ha...

  • Hit and Run

    Christopher Newman

    Detective Joe Dante lives in a downtown loft and hangs with an uptown crowd.  A cop who doesn't act, talk, or play like other cops, Dante's got Brooklyn-bred street smarts and a half-finished Ph.D. dissertation on his bookshelf.  But when a man i...

  • Hit Men

    Lee Gutkind

  • The Holland Suggestions

    John Dunning

    Jim Ryan, the single father of a teenage girl, has a lot to live for. But something vital is missing from his life--a lost piece of his past, which haunts his dreams and robs him of sleep. When an anonymous delivery lands on his desk--a mysterious ph...

  • 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....

  • Home for Christmas

    Katherine Sutcliffe
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    Virginia Valemere is barely hanging on to her prized horses. Her father's desperate need for medical attention may tip her over the edge. Virginia's enigmatic new neighbor Dr. Neil Ellison could wind up being her hope for salvation, or her ruin....

  • The Homecoming

    Marion Chesney

    WILL THE LAST BEVERLEY DAUGHTER MARRY FOR MANNERLING? Lizzie is the sixth and youngest daughter of the late Sir Beverley, the patriarch who gambled away their beloved estate, Mannerling. Each of Lizzie's sisters had been entrusted by their ambitio...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Hot Temper

    Evelyn Rogers

    HOTHEADED With the way she stood up to men, Temperance Tyler had more than earned the nickname "Temper." A widow embittered by a loveless marriage, she had left the gambling halls of Texas, hoping for better luck as a cook at Buckingham Ranch. The l...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Hunters

    Thomas S. Gressman

    UNITE OR DIE "Carry the fight to the Clans!" has become the rallying cry for the armies of the Successor States. Now, as the Great Houses launch an offensive against the Clan Occupation Zone, a combined armed task force, drawn from across the Inner ...

  • A Husband in Her Stocking

    Christine Pacheco

    SANTA LEFT...WHAT? Meghan Carroll said bah-humbug to Santa Claus and Christmas, until Santa's elves deposited a very handsome stranger on her doorstep. She'd sworn off men and marriage, and Kyle Murdock looked like another heartbreak-in-waiting. B...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Illegal Alien

    Robert J. Sawyer

    When a disabled spaceship enters the Earth's atmosphere, fear is quickly replaced with awe. Seven members of the incredibly advanced Tosok race are welcomed by the world with open arms, and the people of Earth put their best face forward. Then a popu...

  • Imperfect Justice

    Catherine Arnold

    When criminal attorney Karen Perry-Mondori is hired by a big-time crime boss nabbed for drug possession, she assumes sheÆll once again be representing another client that she secretly feels is guilty. But he insists he was set up, and the incredible...

  • The Impossible Earl

    Sarah Westleigh

    Leonora wanted him to leave: Having been reduced to working as a governess, she was left her uncle's fortune and fine town house in Bath. But she also inherited the most infuriating - and most handsome - resident, Blaise, Earl of Kelsey! Blaise r...

  • 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...

  • In the Name of a Killer

    Brian Freemantle

    A Russian Militia Colonel and an elite FBI agent join forces to track down a serial killer on the loose in Moscow after a U.S. senator's niece becomes his latest victim. Originally titled The Button Man. Reprint....

  • In the Shadow of the Arch

    Robert J. Randisi

    Brooklyn-born Detective Joe Keough, arriving for a new job in St. Louis, quickly becomes drawn into two cases--one involving a little boy--and a trail of abductions and murder. By the author of Blood on the Arch. Reprint....

  • 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....

  • Isaac Asimov's Christmas

    Gardner Dozois

    A collection of stories from the pages of Issac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine about how Christmas might look like centuries in the future, in alien lands, and the cold vastness of space features works by Connie Willis,,, Michael Swanwick,...

  • Isabella: A Wish for Miguel

    Shirlee Petkin Newman

  • Jacey's Reckless Heart

    Cheryl Anne Porter

    She rode hellbent across the West to catch a thief... Jacey Lawless is a different kind of lady -- fast with a gun, a natural on a horse, and wild of spirit. Her father had once been a desperado; her mother a Boston heiress. Now driven by grief af...

  • Jeremiah: Terrorist Prophet

    Michael A. Smith

    In this first book of a trilogy, Jeremiah, who claims to be a modern-day religious prophet, attempts to create a following by killing the "evil ones"--pedophiles, bullies and rapists, prison inmates, stock market manipulators and crooked politicians....

  • 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...

  • Kept By a Countess

    Pat Cody

    When the Scottish terrier first fell into Meriel Welwyn's hands, the Countess knew she'd found a diamond in the ruff. But even more perfect was the pooch's owner, the Earl of Hadham. Tall, dark and handsome, Douglas Jonys had a smile that set Meriel'...

  • Knight's Rebellion

    Suzanne Barclay

    'Twas Said That The Sommervilles Love Only Once.... Yet Alys Sommerville was no heir to this legacy of passion, for the Fates had sent her along a different road. One that led straight into the arms of Gowain FitzWarren, the leader of a desperate reb...

  • Lad, a Dog: Best Dog in the World

    Margo Lundell

  • The Lady and the Knight

    Lois Greiman

    As children three cousins have made a wish for true love upon a magical dragon amulet, little realizing how daring their destinies will be as Highland Brides. Alone in the world Sara Forbes has little left to her but the dragon amulet's glow, and ...

  • The Lady Pinkerton Gets Her Man

    Jerrie Hurd

    HER WILL AGAINST HIS WIT Being a Lady Pinkerton detective gave Dayle Dobson an outlet for her restless energy and a whole other meaning to "getting her man." Smart and fearless, she arrived in a wind-whipped Wyoming mining town prepared to...

  • 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...

  • Left in the Care of

    Dinah Kung

    A Hong Kong novel like no other, Left in the Care Of is a sparkling tale of suspense about a mother's worst fear. Along a shaded residential lane overshadowed by Victoria Peak, a little English boy is discovered dead by his Filipina babysitter. When ...

  • 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...

  • The Long Hunters

    Dodge Tyler

    When Lansford Stratton decides the wilderness will provide him with enormous power and riches and wages war on anyone who stands in his way, including mountaineers, settlers, and the Cherokee, Dan'l Boone must try to stop the senseless slaughter and ...

  • Longarm and the Voodoo Queen

    Tabor Evans

    When half of a deputy federal marshal's body is pulled from a New Orleans swamp, Longarm is sent to investigate and discovers that the truth about the case may lie in the hands of a mysterious voodoo-practicing Cajun beauty named Claudette. Original....

  • 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...

  • Lord and Master

    Rosemary Stevens

    THEY WERE DRAWN TOGETHER BY FATE, FELICITY--AND FELINES! Miss Daphne Kendall, infuriated at the mistreatment of a lovely cat, rushed to save the poor creature. But for Lord Ravenswood--a man determined never to let any woman influence him beyond c...

  • 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 ...

  • Lost in Stinkeye Swamp

    R.L. Stine

    Readers are placed in a new home that proves to be a swamp house and the site of a hidden treasure, a sewer ghoul, and a swamp thing, in a spooky story with more than twenty possible endings. Original....

  • Lost Soul

    M.C. Sumner

    Your life is shaped by the memories of people you've loved in the past. But Scott and his friends Kenyon, Harley, and Dee will soon learn that trusting your mrmory is the worst mistake you can make in the Extreme Zone....