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New Books List: 683 titles

  • A Family-Style Christmas

    Carolyne Aarsen

    THE LONG ROAD HOME The swaggering stranger was every warning nurse Caitlin Severn had ever heard, all wrapped up in one handsome, dangerous package. Yet, from the moment she saw his motorcycle crash and his manly strength shatter, something about ...

  • Cristina's Secret // El Secreto De Cristina

    Rebeca Aguilar

    No one must ever know why Cristina really left El Salvador -- and her precious child -- for a fresh start as a nurse in America. Not even Eric, a courageous Latino cop whose eyes were injured in the line of duty. Though she spends hours at his beds...

  • A Love Beyond Time

    Judie Aitken

    Montana, 1999. Anthropologist Ryan Burke is between a rock and a hard place. She's thrilled to be part of a dig at Little Big Horn, but rumors of artifact theft make her question her commitment. And when news of the problems reach the ears of renowne...

  • Lynelle By the Sea

    Laurie Albanese

  • Watch Out For Banana Peels And Other Sesame Street Safety

    Tips Albee

    Be sure to buckle up--especially in outer space! Officer Grover and Safety Deputy Elmo share important safety tips. Whether in the house or far away from home, Grover and Elmo know how to stay safe. By the end of the story, readers will be ready for ...

  • When Feast Is Finished

    Brian W. Aldiss

    The writer Brian Aldiss provides an account of his wife's fatal illness and her death from pancreatic cancer in November 1997. The book describes how they first found out about the cancer, which was initially masked by a heart complaint. Margaret's i...

  • Despair: And Other Stories

    Andre Alexis

    The publication of André Alexis's award-winning first novel, Childhood, in 1998, marked the United States debut of one of Canada's most gifted young writers. Now, with Despair, Alexis offers further proof of his brilliance and displays a talent for ...

  • One Man to the Altar

    Jeanne Allan

    The reluctant bride Quint Damian was determined to prove that his grandfather's bride-to-be was a heartless gold digger. So he tracked down the daughter she'd abandoned as a baby--Greeley Lassiter--in the hope that the young woman's ap...

  • Elmo Says

    Allen

  • Let's Eat

    Allen

    Cookie is planning a party! There's a lot to do--make invitations, shop, clean the house, and cook. But Cookie's favorite time is when all of his Sesame Street friends are seated at the table and he says, "Let's eat!"...

  • I Am a Baby

    Constance Allen

  • Twice Tempted

    Harper Allen

    Twice the heat Bounty hunter Annie Ryan had seen everything -- until she started seeing double! Matthew Logan was a by-the-book FBI agent -- and the twin brother of the bounty Annie was after. Annie's hunt had compromised Matt's own invest...

  • Rails Under My Back

    Jeffrey Renard Allen

    An astonishing debut novel, exploring the bonds, boundaries, and bondage of an African American family.

    Rails Under My Back is a daring work of art that reveals its family theme in a stunning depiction of its paradoxically opposite: abandonmen...

  • The New City

    Stephen Amidon

    Newton, Maryland, 1973. The Vietnam War is winding down, the Senate Watergate hearings are heating up. And in this pristine and meticulously planned community, an innocent misunderstanding is about to set the two men who control its quiet streets on ...

  • Mountain Moonlight

    Jane Anderson

    IN THE HEART OF THE DESERT... Vala Channing can't decide which is more dangerous--the fact that she's about to take her troubled young son, Davis, trekking in Arizona's perilous Superstition Mountains or that the guide who will lead them is the one ...

  • By Queen's Grace

    Shari Anton

    Her Royal Blood Was A Curse Kidnapped by rebel forces in a mad plan to make her queen, Lady Judith Canmore could not wholly mourn her plight. For it reunited her with the Saxon knight of whom she'd dreamed as a young girl, the handsome Corwin of L...

  • Discover the Destroyer

    K.A. Applegate

    There is a place that shouldn't exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn't exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real -- and often deadly. Welcome to EVERWORLD. Senna. The one and only rea...

  • Never Trust Lara

    Katherine Applegate

    Lara's lost Jake to Kate, and now she's going to make everyone pay--especially Zoey. Lara knows secrets that can hurt Zoey--and Lucas--and despite all her promises, she's not above revealing them if it means revenge. Look out, Chatham Island, Lara's ...

  • In the Garden Secretly and Other Stories

    Jean Arasanayagam

    Each story in this collection captures a defining moment in the life of the narrator caught in a time of violent change. In the title story, set against the backdrop of the seventeen-year struggle between the state and the Tamil separatists, an aband...

  • The Bridegroom's Dilemma

    Lindsay Armstrong

    He wants her to be his wife! Nick Hunter had proposed to Skye Belmont believing her to be an independent career woman. When Skye admitted, three weeks before the wedding, that she longed for children, Nick was shocked! Faced with his reaction, Sky...

  • Cold Hazard

    Richard Armstrong

  • Baby Jane Doe

    Judith Arnold
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    After catching her fiance in the arms of another woman, the last thing Terry Galvin expected to also happen on New Year's Eve was to find an abandoned baby. Or to feel such an instantaneous connection to the little girl and to the handsome police det...

  • Spell Weaver

    Roxi Ashe

    A NOBLE ENEMY Lady Taras seeks to create a philter of love, but instead her subject becomes a frog. Then, summoned by her king to help defeat a Viking horde, Taras is told that only her potion can make things right. A Viking warrior is wreaking hav...

  • Dark Reckoning

    James Axler

    In the epic conclusion of The Baronies Trilogy, Ryan Cawdor faces his ultimate confrontation with the evil mastermind who is planning to use a hightech orbiting transformer to incinerate Front Royal. Original....

  • The Trouble With Rainbows

    Susan Aylworth

    When recently widowed Joe Vanetti moves his children home to Rainbow Rock, Arizona, he is seeking peace and a chance to rebuild his life. Finding love is not what he expects, especially not with Angelica DeForest, the high school ice queen who alway...

  • Goose on the Loose

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Looking af...

  • The Bridal Bargain

    Stella Bagwell

    An ice-cold marriage of convenience was the only way for Logan McNally to keep his family's home. Even worse, the bride-to-be was Nicole Carrington, the daughter of the woman who'd stolen Logan's father from his family. The tempting young girl had be...

  • Jedi Escape

    Liza Baker

  • Catch That Pit Droid!

    Liza Baker

    Watto is a junk dealer on the planet Tatooine who owns a slave named Anakin Skywalker. Crazy things are always happening in Watto's shop. Today a pit droid has escaped into the streets of Tatooine. How will Watto get it back?...

  • Trail Brothers

    Jack Ballas

    When cattleman Quint Cantrell receives word that the family who had fostered him as a boy is in terrible danger, he rounds up his brothers to destroy Manuel Soto, a vicious Mexican bandit and leader of a deadly gang of murderous outlaws from across t...

  • Her Forever Man

    Leanne Banks

    "Telling a Logan he can't do something is a surefire invitation for him to prove he can." -- Brock Logan, irresistibly rugged ranch owner All single dad, ranch owner, Brock Logan wants is peace. When Manhattan heiress, Felicity Chambeau, shows up...

  • Hawk

    Elaine Barbieri

    "How can you stand to let him touch you, Eden? He's an injun!" Those are the hateful words Eden's father flings at her when he tears her from the arms of her beloved. Young and idealistic, she believes passion will overcome the obs...

  • The Champion

    Suzanne Barclay

    AS THE MYSTERY UNFOLDED, SO DID THEIR LOVE... Newly returned from the Crusades, Simon of Blackstone had thought to confront his past, not find himself the prime suspect for a murder he didn't commit. Yet, to uncover the real killer he had no choi...

  • Getting Personal

    Beverly Barton
    in

    The countdown has begun. Three marriage-minded women have set their sights on becoming brides. And they're following Prominence magazine's surefire list of ways to meet the grooms of their dreams. How to hook a husband when time is of the essence: Pr...

  • Murdock's Last Stand

    Beverly Barton

    A MAN OF HONOR And honor was the only reason well-muscled former mercenary Aloysius Murdock agreed to be Catherine Price's bodyguard. For Murdock owed Catherine's father his life. But once Murdock laid eyes on his best friend's beautiful daughter, h...

  • The Testament of Yves Gundron

    Emily Barton

    A wonderfully imaginative and surprising debut novel about the inexorable approach of modernity."Imagine the time of my grandfather's grandfather, when the darkness was newly separated from the light. Society was only a shadowy image of what it would...

  • Lost Waters

    Rugh Bd

  • A Valentine Courtship

    Donna Bell
    in

    Just when Adam Hunter, the Earl of Marsden, has vowed to choose a bride on the eve of his thirtieth birthday, he finds himself being courted by a mysterious woman from afar. And when she reveals her identity at the St. Valentine's Day Ball, a night o...

  • War Bonnet

    Don Bendell

    LAWMAN NO MORE When a Minniconjou warrior starts slaughtering members of his own tribe, Deputy U.S. Marshal Chris Colt feels obligated to bring the man to justice. But a showdown with the killer results in the death of an innocent--leaving Chris to ...

  • 102 Dalmations

    Zoe Benjamin

  • Perfect Lies

    Liza Bennett

    A PERFECT LIFE The owner of a New York ad agency, Meg Hardwick learned from her '60s-era parents the dangers of leaving life to chance. But on a mad Manhattan night, Meg's carefully put-together world comes undone--with a vengeance. A PERFECT MAR...

  • Dalamar the Dark

    Nancy Varian Berberick
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A talent for magic runs like fire through the blood of Dalamar Argent. Yet he is only a servant in the house of an elvish lord, not worthy of the High Art of Sorcery and denied all but the most grudging teaching. As war simmers on the borders of S...

  • Redemption Song

    Bertice Berry

    Owner of a small African-American bookshop, Miss Cozy has an unique gift: Customers who walk through her door rarely leave without a book that speaks directly to their life. But when Josephine--"Fina"--and Ross arrive in search of an obscure, unpubli...

  • Cajun Heat

    Charlene Berry

    The murky depths of the Louisiana bayou beckon Detective Symone Rawlins to unravel the mystery of a string of serial killings. She is teamed with FBI agent Josiah La'mon, who ignites her passions. But when he becomes a suspect, Symone must choose bet...

  • All of Me

    Venise Berry

  • Dr. Mommy

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    Clearly this wasn't just another New Year's Eve, but if anything would have surprised obstetrician - yet baby-phobic-Claire Wainwright more than the little pink bundle on her snowy doorstep, it was who came when she called for help: Nick Campisano. t...

  • First Day in School

    Bill Binzen

  • Queen of the Darkness

    Anne Bishop

    THE DARK COURT HAS BEEN FORMED Jaenelle Angelline has made her Offering to the Darkness, and reigns as Queen of Ebon Askavi. The Shadow Realm lies under her protection. No longer will the corrupt Blood slaughter her people and defile her lands. Bu...

  • I, Che Guevara

    John Blackthorn

    When a strange man appears in rural towns around Cuba quietly advocating a new kind of politics he calls “the True Republic,” old-timers begin to suspect that the elderly stranger, who calls himself Ernesto Blanco, may actually be the martyr Erne...

  • Valentine Bride

    Catherine Blair
    in

    Margaret Fitzpatrick is set to become the toast of Dublin when she marries the dashing Captain Weldon on St. Valentine's Day But when Margaret's childhood beau and dearest friend Austin Bourke delivers the news that her fiance has cried off, ...

  • The Hero Returns

    Catherine Blair

    A MASTER IN BATTLE... Amelia Harrow has worshiped Viscount Hunter Westhaven since the schoolroom. Now, after three long years fighting Bonaparte, the famed hero has returned to claim his bride. But he is strangely changed -- the charming idol of Am...

  • Shadow of Legends

    Stephen A. Bly

    BRAZOS FORTUNE HAS LEFT A TOWERING LEGACY. HIS SON TODD NOW STRUGGLES TO PROVE HIMSELF AND FIND HIS OWN IDENTITY IN THE SHADOWS OF LEGENDS. Life in the shadows. It happens to all of us. We stand so close to a dominant personality that our reflection ...

  • Ten and Me

    Johnny D. Boggs

    They are unlikely partners: Jack Mackinnon, an even-tempered drifter and part-time gunsmith, and Tenedore Keogh, a consumptive dentist-turned-gunman looking for a quicker way to die. Recruited by the Texas Rangers because of their prowess with guns, ...

  • Moth and the Flame

    Dylan Bolduc

  • Ladies' Night at Finbars Hotel

    Dermot Bolger

    Seven beloved Irish writers join forces to describe the revival of a legendary Dublin hotel, in lively, interconnected stories by Maeve Binchy, Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Anne Haverty, +ilis Nf DHuibhne, Kate O'Riordan, and Deirdre Purcell. Origina...

  • Franklin Says Sorry

    Paulette Bourgeois

  • Coll Stories Paul Bowles

    Paul Bowles

    Short stories by an American expatriate deal with life in Morocco and Central America and focus on the themes of transference of personal identity, natural landscapes, and the perception of civilization by an outsider...

  • Let It Come Down

    Paul Bowles

    In Let It Come Down, Paul Bowles plots the doomed trajectory of Nelson Dyar, a New York bank teller who comes to Tangier in search of a different life and ends up giving in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence...

  • Cover Story

    Gerry Boyle

    One minute, Mayor John Fiore is standing before a bouquet of microphones, making promises left and right, making friends even faster. The next minute, he's dead -- murdered in a hotel restroom. For Jack McMorrow, a small-town reporter from Maine, it'...

  • One Wicked Night

    Shelley Bradley

    WAS IT ONE NIGHT OF PASSION... When Lady Serena Boyce's husband, the elderly duke of Warrington, could not give her an heir, he asked her to take a lover in order to produce a child. She never dreamed it would mean falling in love. One look at t...

  • Heart of Midnight

    Fiona Brand

    MAN WITH A PAST... For Special Air Service agent Gray Lombard, the past seven years had been a nightmare. Not only had he been unable to nab his brother's killer, he'd also lost Samantha Munro, the only woman he'd ever loved. Seven years ago they h...

  • Thunder Moon and the Sky People

    Max Brand

    The Thunder Moon series represents some of Max Brand,"s best work, originally published in 1927,“28 as a series of interlocking stories. The University of Nebraska Press is now republishing these stories uncut and in the sequence Faust intend...

  • Dakota Kill

    Peter Brandvold

    After a seven year absence, veteran of the Apache Wars Mark Talbot returns to the Dakota Territory to reunite with his brother on their family's cattle ranch to find some peace after fighting and bloodshed for over half of a decade. But when he retur...

  • Prosper's Mountain

    Henrietta Branford

    When Prosper, a young boy who sprouts wings, hatches from an egg in the barn of Felix the gardener, Felix is worried that Prosper will not be accepted by the villagers, and he desperately tries to hide Prosper's unique characteristics....

  • Lonesome No More

    Jean Brashear

    REFUGE IN HIS ARMS Wilderness guide Mitch Gallagher was hard as iron. Gruff as granite. A loner to the bone. Yet, fragile, fiercely maternal Perrie Matheson and her young son needed refuge from her ex, and from the Wyoming winter. And Mitch&#...

  • The Cat Who Robbed a Bank

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    As the Highland Games approach, Jim Qwilleran and the citizens of Pickax prepare to celebrate their Scottish heritage with such events as bagpipe skirling and tossing the caber. But the traditional revelry is marred by troublesome rumors when a visit...

  • Friendly Farm

    Jane Brett

  • Tall Dark & Texan

    Annette Broadrick

    "'Alone' does not include an uninvited live-in housekeeper!" --Dan Crenshaw, master love-avoider After a shocking betrayal, Dan Crenshaw left behind his corporate empire to live alone--forever. Then his Texas seclusion was shattered by Shannon Doy...

  • Identity: Unknown

    Suzanne Brockmann

    WHAT HE REMEMBERED His clothing size. WHAT HE DIDN'T REMEMBER Everything else. Navy SEAL Mitchell Shaw woke up one morning with no clue as to who he was. And the items hidden in his possession were no help -- an address, along with a .22 ...

  • The Reckless One

    Connie Brockway

    They are the Merricks, two brothers and a sister, restless, daring, proud. English by birth, they came to Scotland with their father to occupy McClairen lands. And there each would find a love as wild and glorious as the Highland isle they claimed as...

  • Undue Influence

    Anita Brookner

    In Undue Influence, acclaimed novelist Anita Brookner proves once again that even in the most closely circumscribed of lives, hearts can venture into unknown-and potentially explosive-territory.Claire Pitt is nothing if not a practical young woman, l...

  • Angels & Demons

    Dan Brown

    World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by...

  • Validate Me Quick, I'm Double Parked!

    Toni Sorenson Brown

    Shirley, you can do it!What do you get when you combine a mother, a wife, and a friend, with a helping of humor, a smidgen of self-help, and a dash of dead-on wisdom? You get Shirley, a woman just like you: looking for answers, trying to stretch the ...

  • Driving Team

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Saddle Club is gearing up to learn all about driving -- not cars, horses. Carole Hanson and Lisa Atwood have to do a report on the use of driving teams throughout history. The only problem is that they have too much information! Somehow, they hav...

  • Queen's Ransom

    Fiona Buckley

    The sharp-witted Lady of the Presence Chamber will need every ounce of her courage if she is to carry out her latest mission on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I without betraying her own heart.. Eager for a respite from intrigue and moral ambiguities U...

  • The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

    Charles Bukowski

    “The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.” -- Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.” -- Leonard Cohen, songwriterA book length collaboration between two underground legends, Charles Bukowski and Ro...

  • Days Run Away Like Wild Horses

    Charles Bukowski

  • The Rhythm Section

    Mark Burnell

    Her life was destroyed when the plane carrying her family crashed. Now Stephanie will do anything for revenge....Recruited by a covert intelligence organization, she makes a deal. Complete their lethal assignments and they'll let her kill the murdere...

  • The Avengers: The Morgan Conquest

    Kurt Busiek

  • Parable of the Talents

    Octavia E. Butler

    Lauren Olamina's love is divided among her young daughter, her community, and the revelation that led Lauren to found a new faith that teaches "God Is Change." But in the wake of environmental and economic chaos, the U.S. government turns a blind eye...

  • Say You Love Me

    Adrianne Byrd

    DESIRE REMEMEMBERED Atlanta novelist Christian Williams knew her husband Jordan was the only man she would ever want. But after fifteen years of playing second-best to her husband's successful software company, she'd had enough. Determined to get a ...

  • Family to Be

    Linda Cajio

    He had 'Daddy' written all over him...in crayon...on his briefcase! The idea was pure genius: The Daddy Club, created by a single father, for single fathers, to teach them everything a man should know about being a parent. Ross Steadwell was ...

  • Holy Smoke

    Anna Campion

    This is the gripping and erotic story of Ruth, a beautiful young woman, who travels to India in search of truth, happily falling under the spell of an Indian guru and his obscure cult. Desperate to rescue her, her family lures her back to Australi...

  • At Home

    Susan Canizares

  • Supermarket

    Susan Canizares

  • Restaurant

    Susan Canizares

  • Everything I Long for

    Melody Carlson

    Maggie Carpenter and her son, Spencer, are finally beginning to feel settled in their new community. Then one day Spencer discovers a runaway girl. Leah has been looking for her biological father and has come to a dead"end in Pine Mountain. In t...

  • Her Best Friend's Baby

    C.J. Carmichael

    One stormy weekend's indiscretion Mallory Lombard and Drew Driscoll are still best friends, even though Drew moved away from the sleepy town of Port Carling, Ontario, years ago to pursue a career as a foreign-affairs journalist in the power capita...

  • Same Place, Same Time

    C.J. Carmichael

    The only man she'd ever wanted... Detective Morgan Forester's resolve was as steely as his gun and the badge he wore with pride. And he'd belonged to Trista Emerson -- until a tragedy drove them apart. Now, two of Trista's clien...

  • Baby 101

    Marisa Carroll

    He had a lot to learn about being a father...and she was just the one to teach him. Dylan Vanguard wanted to do right by the tiny infant in his care, but he couldn't overcome the coldness and betrayal he'd felt ever since his wife told him the baby ...

  • The Inheritance

    Janice Carter

    A MYSTERY INHERITANCE -- WITH STRINGS ATTACHED! Roslyn Baines can't believe what she's hearing. A great-aunt -- someone she's never even heard of -- has left her a large estate in rural Iowa on condition that she give up her career in Chicago for...

  • The Texan

    K.N. Casper

    TALL, DARK AND TEXAN... And maybe her lifetime's adventure. After the failure of her marriage, Marcie Browder returns to the vast west Texas ranch she grew up on, to try to recapture her sense of self and security. But almost immediately she...

  • The Princess's White Knight

    Carla Cassidy

    He was older, jaded and far from the regal suitor his young charge deserved, but to protect the rebellious Princess Serena Wyndham's virtue, royal bodyguard Gabriel Morgan made her his bride...

    Only, Gabe hadn't realized the impulsive, charmi...

  • The Active Side of Infinity

    Carlos Castaneda

    "Ordinarily, events that change our path are impersonal affairs, and yet extremely personal. My teacher, don Juan Matsus, said this is guiding me as his apprentice to collect what I considered to be the memorable events of my life…. Don Juan de...

  • The Name Game

    Muncy Chapman

    Meg Donnelly has resigned her postition at a prestigious New York girl's school to teach in a primitive, two-room school near the Appalachian mountain cottage left to her by her beloved grandmother. When a financial crisis forces her to rent the uppe...

  • Baring It All

    Sandra Chastain

    SWEET TALKER #1 -- RYAN MALONE As his alter ego, Lord Sin, Ryan amassed a fortune by making women want him. But now that he's ready to put his past behind him, he can't keep his hands off the one woman determined to destroy him. Reporte...

  • Learning Fear

    B.A. Chepaitis

    In the sequel to The Fear Principle and The Fear of God, empath Jaguar Addams finds her jbo working with criminals undermined by an unknown enemy who is invading her own mind and stirring up longhidden fears. Original....

  • The Ojo-Lympics

    Janelle Cherrington

    Ojo can't decide which sport to play! What's an athletic bear to do? Why, make up her own version of the Olympics in the Ojo-lympics! With Bear as master of ceremonies, and with the stickers inside, you can help everyone go for the gold....

  • Girl With a Pearl Earring

    Tracy Chevalier

    The New York Times bestselling novel by the author of A Single Thread and At the Edge of the Orchard

    Translated into thirty-nine languages and made into an Oscar-nominated film, starring Scarlett Johanson and Colin Firth

    Tracy Chevalier tran...

  • Mr. Nice Guy

    Amanda Christie

    THERE’S NO GREATER FEELING...THAN THE LOVE OF FAMILY! Simon Camden never gives up. When he wants something, he goes for it, no matter how much work (or begging!) it takes. Sometimes his brothers and sisters get in the way and often he feels like hi...

  • Adopted Dad

    Donna Clayton

    When Ethan Kimball came to claim his new daughter, he discovered the adoption hinged on the impossible. Unless he found a wife immediately, the tiny orphan would be snatched away for ever. But before Ethan could abandon hope, a beautiful stranger pro...

  • Ramona the Brave

    Beverly Cleary

    Ramona Quimby can't wait to begin first grade! She'll finally be in the same grown-up school as her sister, Beezus. Though Ramona has high hopes, life in Mrs. Griggs's class is not what she thought it would be. On the very first day Ramona tells an ...

  • In the Doghouse

    Melissa Cleary

    "LIGHTS...CAMERA...WOOF!" In the dog days of an Ohio summer, Jackie and Jake's stint on a movie set lands them supporting roles--in a murder mystery! Jackie's keeping busy by acting as wrangler for Jake--she's signed him up as top dog in a film bein...

  • Miracles of the Heart

    Monica Cogles

  • Yuma Bustout

    Judd Cole

  • Amanda's Wedding

    Jenny Colgan

    From New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan comes the debut novel that made her the sensation she is today -- a hilarious, unforgettable story of one woman’s mad dash to put a stop to the wedding of her old school friend who’s the complet...

  • The Ruby Heart

    Lynn Collum
    in

    Lorissa Mathis has long been in love with her neighbor, Lord Justin Andrews. Now Justin is ready to choose a bride -- and custom decrees the heir to the Earl of Crossley present a ruby heart to his intended at the St. Valentine's Day Ball. Can Lo...

  • A Babe in the Woods

    Cara Colter

    INTO HER LONELY LIFE CAME A MYSTERY MAN WITH A BABY ON HIS BACK -- AND A GUN IN HIS BACKPACK! Vulnerable at first glance, a second look assured secret agent Ben McKinnon that Shauna Taylor could take care of herself. At least with anyone else...

  • I Want a Hat like That

    Tom Cooke

    For every different thing that Grover does, he wears a different hat. He is an astronaut, a fireman, and a baseball player all in one day! Whether it's a fire fighter's hat, a baseball cap, or an astronaut's helmet--Grover wants a hat like that!...

  • Sweet Surrender

    Janet Cookson

  • What Janie Found

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Janie's two families appear to have made peace. Life seems almost normal. Janie has even decided to speak to her former boyfriend, Reeve, again. But then Janie's Connecticut father suffers a sudden stroke, and this tragedy leaves her mother reeling. ...

  • Pearl // La Perla

    Cecilia Romero Cooper

    That's what Julia Fuentes hopes to find when she quits her accounting job and moves on board her newly inherited boat. She has every intention of tossing caution to the wind and letting her instincts rule her head--and heart. But Dan Powers causes mo...

  • The Courtship

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: You met Heatherington in The Sherbrooke Bride and Helen Mayberry in Mad Jack. Now the two get together to track down a mystical treasure that Helen calls King Edward's Lamp. Helen is a big girl -- only two inches shorter than Heath...

  • Miss Wyoming

    Douglas Coupland

    From the bestselling author of Generation X and Microserfs, comes the absurd and tender story of a hard-living movie producer and a former child beauty pageant contender who only find each other by losing themselves.Waking up in an LA hospital, John ...

  • Peanut Butter Lover Boy // Lunch Swap Disaster

    Bruce Coville

    Pleskit and Tim swap lunches, leading to unforeseen consequences in this fourth book of the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series Sixth-Grade Alien from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework, Bruce Coville.When Tim has a pean...

  • Puss in Boots

    M. Jean Craig

  • The Wedding Planner

    Millie Criswell

    Weddings were her business... When she began her bridal consultant business, Meredith Baxter expected to coordinate bouquets and bow ties, not receive a billionaire's surprise proposal! Her latest customer, wealthy bachelor Adam Morgan, was the catc...

  • Family Affairs

    Jillian Dagg

  • Creeps Suzette

    Mary Daheim

    THE REAPER'S AT CREEPERS The off-season blahs, a pyromaniacal mom, and a recently retired husband who is constantly underfoot have poor Judith McMonigle Flynn going stir crazy at Hillside Manor. So the harried R&B hostess leaps at cousin Renie's s...

  • Puppy Power

    Jenny Dale

  • Barney's Rescue

    Jenny Dale

  • Two's Company

    Jenny Dale

  • Willow's Woods

    Jenny Dale

  • Digger's Treasure

    Jenny Dale

  • Shane's Last Stand

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Every Man Has His Price! Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to Wyoming to put themselves on the auction block! ...

  • Shiny Treasures! Jewel Stick Stories Treasure Hunt

    Catherine Daly-Weir

  • Husband Wanted - Fast

    Rebecca Daniels

    SHE WAS PREGNANT. Dr. Olivia Martin was in quite a bind -- she needed a husband... fast! After selflessly offering to be a surrogate mother, an accident left her pregnant and alone -- just before her straitlaced family's reunion! BUT NOT WITH HER...

  • End of Days

    Dennis Danvers

    Decades after religious zealots destroyed a virtual reality paradise that was "home" to billions of people, a Christian soldier uncovers evidence that this alternate heaven still exists and finds himself immersed in a crisis of conscience. Reprint....

  • The Green Mile

    Frank Darabont

  • In the Gloaming

    Alice Elliott Dark

    From the author of Think of England and Fellowship Point, a captivating collection of stories -- the title piece successfully made into an HBO film -- about the complex relationships between lovers, spouses, neighbors, and family members. By turns fu...

  • Two Sisters

    Kay David

    THEY'RE DEFINITELY NOT TWO OF A KIND Elizabeth and April are identical twins. Except they don't look or act alike anymore. Elizabeth is reserved, quiet and hardworking. April isn't. When April disappears, Elizabeth can only think the worst....

  • The Bachelor Tax

    Carolyn Davidson

    The last thing he wanted was a home on the range! Rancher Gabe Tanner was content to ride herd on bachelorhood forever. And it if hadn't been for that blasted bachelor tax, he would have. Even if every glimpse he had of Rosemary Gibson, the preach...

  • Winter's Bride

    Sandra Davidson
    in

    Romance author Sheena Davis seems to have stepped into one of her own novels when she hurls headlong into the seventeenth century -- and the strong, protective arms of a handsome colonist. She's content to stay in the past and marry Michael Winte...

  • One Virgin Too Many

    Lindsey Davis

    A lost child in a deadly lottery . . .A frightened child approaches Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. Nobody believes Gaia's story that a relation wants to kill her - and neither does he. Beset by his own family troubles, by his ...

  • Simmer All Night

    Geralyn Dawson

    Transplanted Texans take England by storm. A CHILI QUEEN IN ENGLAND Independent daughter of socially prominent Texans, Christina Delaney stirs up scandal along with her spicy Texas Red when she's crowned Chili Queen of San Antonio. Her family reac...

  • Can You Keep a Secret?

    Lauren Day

    WELCOME TO ROCKETT’S WORLD Welcome to Whistling Pines Junior High School, where new girl Rockett Movado's figuring out who's who and what's what. She has to make some big decisions. Like who might be a friend for life and who's a full-time phony...

  • Valentine Fantasy

    Jamie Denton

    FANTASY REQUISITION To: Jordan McBride, co-owner of Fantasy for Hire Client: Sassy newspaper reporter Cait Sullivan. She smells a story -- and she'll do almost anything to get it. Assignment: To be Cait's Valentine -- in every sense of the word. ...

  • Fasting, Feasting

    Anita Desai

    Anita Desai's new novel, a finalist for the Booker Prize, brilliantly confirms her place among today's foremost Indian writers. Fasting, Feasting takes on Desai's greatest theme: the intricate, delicate web of family conflict. It tells the moving sto...

  • Scoundrel for Hire

    Adrienne DeWolfe

    A SECRET LIAISON Only desperation could drive Silver Nichols to strike a bargain with Raphael Jones. Their liaison is strictly business: she secretly hires the devilishly charming scalawag to save her beloved millionaire father from a nefarious go...

  • Captured by a Sheikh

    Jacqueline Diamond

    HE'D COME TO CLAIM HIS CHILD... For Holly Rivers, giving her sister's baby a home and a father were her only priorities. So a marriage of convenience seemed the only solution -- until a sensual stranger stole her and baby Ben and conquered her body ...

  • Doug Cheats School Market Edition Disney's Doug Chronicles

    Disney Book Group

  • Spike Snow

    Disney Book Group

  • 102 Dalmatians: Junior Novel

    Alice Downes

  • Precious Passion

    Elizabeth Doyle

    COULD SHE EVER LOVE A MAN... To please her widowed mother and ward off spinsterhood, Aurora Black resigned herself to an arranged marriage. After all, she could hardly wed her one true love--the piano. But just as she found herself betrothed to a s...

  • Baby Lessons

    Jennifer Drew

    One minute Becky Ryan was being busted by brawny lawman Nate Dalton, the next she was baby-sitting his bouncing beatific niece...and agreeing to be his pretend bride-to-be. But she owed Nate. He'd overlooked her innocent infraction..and darn, if he w...

  • Rebellious Heart

    Rachel Bryant Druten

    With her widowed mother buried in a pauper's grave and her two younger siblings shipped off to live with their aunt in Denmark, Sorina Larsen feels as if she has been abandoned by God. Determined to bring the children back, Sorina joins her friend Gr...

  • Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort

    Roger Martin du Gard

    A literary event: the long-awaited translation of one of the great masterpieces of twentieth-century fiction.

    Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort is Roger Martin du Gard's magnum opus, the crowning achievement of a career that included the Nobel Pri...

  • Peace, Love, and Revolution

    Cathy East Dubowski
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    What Terrible timing! Oh no! Witches have to deal with computer problems just like mortals do--and it looks like Y2K is going to be one big headache for Sabrina and her aunts! Something is very wrong with the Great Clock of the Other Realm; just l...

  • Houdini's Keys

    Mark Dubowski
    in

    What Terrible timing! Oh no! Witches have to deal with computer problems just like mortals do--and it looks like Y2K is going to be one big headache for Sabrina and her aunts! Something is very wrong with the Great Clock of the Other Realm; just l...

  • Rain Likely, Chance of Lava

    Mark Dubowski
    in

    What Terrible timing! Oh no! Witches have to deal with computer problems just like mortals do--and it looks like Y2K is going to be one big headache for Sabrina and her aunts! Something is very wrong with the Great Clock of the Other Realm; just l...

  • How I Discovered North America

    Mark Dubowski
    in

    What Terrible timing! Oh no! Witches have to deal with computer problems just like mortals do--and it looks like Y2K is going to be one big headache for Sabrina and her aunts! Something is very wrong with the Great Clock of the Other Realm; just l...

  • Cody's Secret Admirer

    Betsy Duffey

    The Valentine that thirdgrader Cody Michaels receives from a secret admirer is bad enough, but Valentine's Day keeps getting worse when Cody believes his parents are trying to put him into an arranged marriage. Reprint....

  • Sitting Bull

    Bill Dugan

    The Sioux StruggleWhen the gold-struck Northwest was opened up to settlement, westward expansion progressed from a trickle to a flood, devastating everything -- and everyone -- in its path. The Sioux and the Cheyenne knew that the hordes of settlers ...

  • The Outback Affair

    Elizabeth Duke

    Reunited -- down under. Natasha Beale was horrified when her tour guide turned out to be Tom Scanlon -- the man who'd jilted her. She would be spending the next two weeks alone with him, in the wilds of the Australian Outback. She still felt hurt...

  • Marriage of Agreement

    Judith Duncan

    HIS WIFE Holy matrimony! Jaded Mitch Munroe had never intended to marry again, but when beguiling Maria Rodriguez needed help in becoming a citizen, making her his wife seemed the logical thing to do. And his alluring new bride was giving Mitch on...

  • Wolverine's Daughter

    Doranna Durgin

    KELYN OF KETURA Daughter of a legendary warrior who left the mountains before she was born. Brave. Strong. Tempered by her struggle to survive in the hostile, craggy Keturan mountains. And plagued by moments of enormous and puzzling clumsiness. ...

  • Magical Adventures! Jewel Sticker Stories

    Jennifer Dussling

  • Thunder Heart

    Cassie Edwards

    SOMETIMES LOVE IS LIFE'S UNEXPECTED REWARD.... Against his will, Thunder Heart guided the Ponca tribe on a forced march from the Black Hills of South Dakota to a reservation in Missouri. Now, he must protect his people from whatever dangers await ...

  • Fallon's Wake

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

    Randy Lee Eickhoff is one of today's most treasured Irish-American scholar/authors. His translations of the Irish national epics The Raid and The Feast have won him praise as a poet and historian while his books on famous figures from America's past-...

  • Eating the Cheshire Cat

    Helen Ellis

    The debut novel from the author of Kiss Me in the Coral Lounge, a fast-paced and unforgettable reinvention of Southern gothic set in Alabama.In Tuscaloosa, Alabama, beauty is as beauty does, with axes and knives and killer smiles.Sarina Summers and h...

  • Owls

    Nancy Ellwood

  • Searching for Sarah

    Lynn Erickson

    The perfect witness. The perfect murder. Sarah Jamison's invitation to meet with presidential hopeful, Senator Scott Taylor, is a dream come true. It's a chance to put her old life behind her and do something that matters. But instead of a of oppo...

  • Million Dollar Valentine

    Rita Clay Estrada

    She was his - until Valentine's Day... Free-spirit Crystal Tynan's goal in life was to marry a millionaire. Too bad handsome, sexy mall manager Blake Wright wasn't rich. Still, if she could loosen him up, a fling might be fun... Everything changed fo...

  • Heat

    Wendy Etherington

    Dash Marlowe is built for speed...and loving women. the handsome race car driver has to fight 'em off after every event---but the one woman he wants is maddeningly out of reach. Alaina Graham is the new CEO of Graham Enterprises---and the new owner...

  • Longarm and the Blue-Eyed Squaw

    Tabor Evans

    DEAD DRUNK Moonshine or firewater -- whatever label is slapped on the jug, Longarm calls it trouble. Not that the buyers -- a bunch of liquored-up cowboys squatting on the Kansas border -- are a threat to anything other than clean living. The prob...

  • Longarm and the Redhead's Ransom

    Tabor Evans

    NEWLYWED...OR NEWLY DEAD? Fiona Palmer was abducted on her honeymoon and taken into Mexico. The culprit is none other than El Pico, the notorious bandit and revolutionary -- who will return Fiona to her husband if the wealthy Palmer family agrees...

  • The Game of the Foxes

    Ladislas Farago

  • Circle of Three

    Erica Farber

    The first volume in a thrilling new fantasy trilogy in which the characters must fight evil using only their wits . . . and nine special charms.

    Walker, ever the class clown, reaches into a fountain and finds the joke's on him when he wakes up...

  • Love Song

    Wilma Fasano

  • Surprise on the Farm

    Keith Faulkner

  • The Least Likely Bride

    Jane Feather

    Dear Reader, In my Brides Trilogy, three unconventional young women vow never to marry, only--one by one--to be overtaken by destiny. Scholarly Olivia is most certainly The Least Likely Bride-- One moment Lady Olivia Granville is strolling alon...

  • Dark Desire

    Christine Feehan

    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the lisght... The stranger silently summons her from across the continents, across the seas. He whispers of eternal torment, of endless hunger...of dark, dangerous des...

  • The Single Daddy Club

    Marie Ferrarella
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    The countdown has begun. Three marriage-minded women have set their sights on becoming brides. And they're following Prominence magazine's surefire list of ways to meet the grooms of their dreams. How to hook a husband when time is of the essence: Pr...

  • Stand-In Mom

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE FAMILY YOU'RE BORN TO... Gentlehearted Marta Jensen had come to the Alaskan wilderness to find herself, not to get involved with a bachelor dad in way over his head. So why had she agreed to care for Ike LeBlanc's orphaned niece? Because Mar...

  • Fort Apache

    James Ferro

  • Going...Going...Wed!

    Amy J. Fetzer

    THE MILLIONAIRE'S MARRIAGE BID... When Alex Donahue won Madison Holt's domestic services at a charity auction, he didn't know he'd need her help to secure the deal of his lifetime. Madison had no illusions about their pretend marriage, but her in...

  • The Best Man and the Bridesmaid

    Liz Fielding

    The bridesmaid was in love -- with the best man! Daisy Galbraith had always loved confirmed bachelor Robert Furneval, and the only way to stay a part of his life was to play down her looks. But, as chief bridesmaid at her brother's wedding, Daisy ...

  • Pilgrim

    Timothy Findley

    Carl Jung encounters a remarkable man who seems to have lived for millennia in this “exhilarating . . . mystifying and expertly crafted” novel (Publishers Weekly, starred review).On April 17, 1912 -- ironically, only two days after...

  • Code Blue

    Nancy Fisher

    A PERFECT SPECIMEN A plastic surgeon and recovering alcoholic, Dr. Taylor Barnes has a chance to revive her career as chief of cosmetic surgery at the luxurious Greenvale Hospital, a private facility where the wealthy and well-known check in for d...

  • New Pet

    Marjorie Flack

  • One of the Family

    Susan Floyd

    WHAT HAPPENS WHEN LOVE CAN'T LEAD TO MARRIAGE? The last thing Phoebe Douglas ever expected when she came to the isolated dairy farm was that she'd learn to like it. Farms were dirty, and she wasn't the kind of woman who was interested in dirty. B...

  • The Wedding Dress Mess

    Connie Flynn

    DO YOU TAKE THIS... THIEF? When Duncan Mulcahey discovered his sweet mom had pilfered an antique wedding gown, he did what any dutiful son would do: he covered for her. But insurance investigator Vicky Deidrich was on the case, determined to take ...

  • Stacy's Wedding

    Aisha Ford

    As a professional wedding planner, Stacy Thompson has seen the best, and the worst, in love-everything from the joyous couples to towering wedding cakes toppled by unsteady caterers. Then she meets Max Edwards, and finds herself in the whirl of roman...

  • Unbuttoning Emmalina

    Suzanne Forster
    in

    When a whisper of silk and the promise of lace is deliciously...Sinful Surrender to your fantasies. Submit to the pleasures of cool satin caressing warm flesh. Succumb to the arousing touch of lace, exposing every private need. Yield to the tender...

  • Tangled Images

    Lori Foster
    in

    When a whisper of silk and the promise of lace is deliciously...Sinful Surrender to your fantasies. Submit to the pleasures of cool satin caressing warm flesh. Succumb to the arousing touch of lace, exposing every private need. Yield to the tender...

  • Remembering Blue

    Connie May Fowler

    Emotionally neglected by her mother, abandoned by her father, Mattie O’Rourke spent her childhood starved for the one thing she thought she’d never find: love. When her mother dies and, at twenty-two, she finds herself completely without ties of ...

  • Compulsion

    Elaine Fox

    A LOVE THAT COULD NOT BE DENIED... On the smoldering Virginia night when she first meets Ryan St. James, Catra Meredyth knows nothing can douse the fire that the infuriating Yankee has ignited within her. With one caress the handsome seducer has ...

  • Welcome to My Family

    Roz Denny Fox

    FLINTRIDGE, MICHIGAN It's Kathleen O'Hallaoran's hometown. It's also Slater Kowalski's. And it's a town divided. Kat and her exuberant family live in the part of Flintridge known as the Hill; Slater is from the Ridge. Slater is the president of Fl...

  • Out of the ocean

    Debra Frasier

    Open this book and walk along the ocean shore. If you look carefully, you might find all kinds of things. Some--like shells and sea glass--will be small enough to fit in your hand. Others--like the sun and the sky and the waves--will be too big to ca...

  • Polly's Ghost

    Abby Frucht

    "I only wish I ever had the chance to hug and kiss him, teach him his letters and numbers, the colors and shapes, the animal sounds, all the starts of the ways of the world that accompany a person through life like rocks in a hard stream, put there a...

  • Baby, It's You

    Holly Fuhrmann

    JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED: There's no challenge a take-charge coporate exec like Ian Ryan can't handle -- except for caring for his newborn niece. His sister's temporarily in the hospital and the baby didn't come with instruction...

  • Miami Heat // Pasion En Miami

    Berta Platas Fuller

    There's nothing like a cousin's wedding to make you feel like an old maid. Career-minded Miriam Gutierez is in no hurry to get married--no matter what her mother says! But it sure would be nice to have a handsome, charming date for the big event. Her...

  • Nine Chains to the Moon

    R.B. Fuller

  • Undercurrents

    Frances Fyfield

    For twenty years, Henry Evans has been haunted by a blurred but shining memory of his lost love, Francesca Chisholm. Now this shy American has come looking for her, in her hometown on the English coast. What he discovers is not what he expects. Fr...

  • Fugitive Fiancee

    Kristin Gabriel

    BRIDE-TO-BE... OR NOT TO BE? MIMI CASVILLE is through with men. After a close call with matrimony, Mimi's not looking for a new romance. So how does a woman running from one man find herself living with another? When she wanders into Garrett Lord'...

  • The Cowboy Takes a Bride

    Cathleen Galitz

    BRIDAL BONUS When her beloved father fell ill, Caitlyn Flynn agreed to be the 'bonus' he'd promised his hardworking right-hand man. But the ruggedly Western Grant Davis was a far cry from the preppy schoolboys Caitlyn had known. For this broad-sho...

  • The Wizard of OR

    Diana G. Gallagher
    in

    What Terrible timing! Oh no! Witches have to deal with computer problems just like mortals do--and it looks like Y2K is going to be one big headache for Sabrina and her aunts! Something is very wrong with the Great Clock of the Other Realm; just l...

  • The Baron

    Juliana Garnett

    They were on opposite sides of the law -- but the heart knows no boundaries.... Let this enchanting author take you to medieval England, a land rich in legend and lore, where a nobleman must choose between losing his soul to a merciless monarch --...

  • Resurrecting Ravana

    Ray Garton

    RAISING THE DEAD With midterms looming, the students at Sunnydale High are predictably stressed-out. Even super-student Willow is feeling the pressure to succeed. And when her usual study buddies -- Buffy, Xander, and Oz -- decide they don't need ...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Groovy Ghost

    James Gelsey

    Wooooooooo! Is the old Palace Theater haunted? Things start rockin' when a guitar-playing ghost makes Scooby-Doo shake and shiver. If the ghost doesn't stop scaring people away, the theater will have to shut down. It's up to Scooby and his friends to...