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New Books List: 485 titles

  • The Cowboy's Bride // Western Blessings

    Carolyne Aarsen

    JOE BREWER DID NOT BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT.... Still, the cowboy's lonely heart skipped a beat at first sight of Rebecca Stevenson. With her warm smile and sky blue eyes, this beautiful stranger was Joe's dream come true. He had to know mor...

  • The Weight of Dreams

    Jonis Agee

    At seventeen, Ty Bonte has already learned some of life's harshest lessons. Abandoned by his mother after the accidental death of his beloved younger brother, Ty spends his days working on the family ranch with his violent, sadistic father and his ni...

  • The Perv

    Rabih Alameddine


    A provocative first collection of stories by the author of Koolaids

    Following the publication of his critically acclaimed first novel, Koolaids, Rabih Alameddine offers a collection of stories that explores the experience of a number of Le...

  • Koolaids

    Rabih Alameddine

    “Daring, dazzling . . . A tough, funny, heart-breaking book” by the National Book Award"nominated author of An Unnecessary Woman (The Seattle Times).   Detailing the impact of the AIDS epidemic in America and the Lebanese ci...

  • Brought to You by the Number 1

    Sarah Albee

  • Ozark Sunrise

    Hannah Alexander

    Once, Kimberly Bryant was a sixteen-year-old runaway rebelling at life after her parents were killed in a car wreck. Now, at twenty-two she is coming back to Sunrise Christian Retreat to try to rectify her past by working with troubled teenagers. But...

  • Rise and Shine

    Allen

  • My Name Is Big Bird

    Constance Allen

    Just right for toddlers, Junior Jellybean Books feature simple stories and pictures, sing-song text, and beginning concepts, guaranteed to nurture a lifelong love of reading. Featuring the popular Big Bird character from Sesame Street....

  • Shake A Leg!

    Constance Allen

    Okay, everybodee (as Grover would say), it’s time for some exercise! So shake a leg -- and every other limb -- to get warmed up for some fitness and fun. Toddlers will have a good giggle as the Sesame monsters try different routines to get in...

  • Elmo Says, Don't Wake the Baby!

    Constance Allen

  • Tayopa!

    Henry Wilson Allen

  • Starfighters of Adumar

    Aaron Allston

    The X-wing fighter pilots have earned their reputation as the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force by overwhelming enemies with their rapid-fire assaults. But now they are about to embark on a diplomatic mission that will prove to be even more haza...

  • Wild, Wild West

    Dina Anastasio

  • Misty

    V.C. Andrews

    “We lived in such a perfect world. Why were we so imperfect?” All Misty ever wanted was a normal family. But like so many others, Misty’s parents didn’t stay together. Now they use Misty to hurt each other, to deliver tiny cruelties in an en...

  • Land of Loss

    K.A. Applegate

    There is a place that shouldn't exist -- but does. 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. David, Jalil, April, and Chr...

  • Search for Senna

    K.A. Applegate

    There is place that shouldn't exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn't exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all your dreams and nightmares are very real -- and often deadly. WELCOME TO EVERWORLD. David's life was pretty...

  • The Reunion

    K.A. Applegate

    Marco's mom is back. But she's not Visser One anymore. Marco's not even sure if she's still a Controller. But he's determined to find out. No matter what it takes. No matter what might happen. Marco wants his mom back. Jake, the other Animorphs, a...

  • Aaron Lets Go

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another...but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Aaron lets go and gets into a fight at Ben's party because he's so desperate to win Claire's ...

  • In the Garden of Papa Santuzzu

    Tony Ardizzone

    The Santuzzus are poor Sicilian farm laborers at the turn of the century who endure back-breaking work in the fields of a tyrannical landlord. Wanting more for their children and grandchildren than a lifetime of servitude, Papa Santuzzu and his wife ...

  • A Comforting Lie

    Linda Phillips Ashour

    Helen Patterson, a lonely single mother who runs an interior design shop, begins a relationship with customer Ray Richards, refusing to recognize the distrust her teenage son feels for him and blind to Ray's aura of potential violence...

  • Not Ready for Prime Time

    Brent Askari

    Twenty-two-year-old singer Justine Nichols sings with a hard-rock girl's band every Thursday night and spends the rest of her week coping with her so-called-life--abandoned by her parents at three, raised by an alcoholic aunt, and now making her own ...

  • Baldur's Gate

    Philip Athans
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Bhaal Must Be Stopped! Someone is sabotaging the iron mines of the Sword Coast, pushing powerful toward a bloody war, and a young mercenary toward an unimaginable secret. Evil gods, giant spiders, murderous doppelgangers flesh-eating ghouls, an...

  • The Baby Bargain

    Kathryn Attalla

    CAN ONE NIGHT OF DESIRE... On the eve of a yearlong transfer to Singapore, fabric designer Caitlin Adams threw caution to the wind. Spending a soulful night in the arms of sexy Andrew Sinclair made her want to put hard-won cynicism aside and believe...

  • Noah's Aardvark

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

    When Lester the aardvark, not knowing that Noah is choosing the animals in alphabetical order, arrives too late to be taken on the ark, he determines to get aboard anyway by trying to disguise himself as some other creature...

  • Gemini Rising

    James Axler

    Rumors of trouble bring Ryan Cawdor home to West Virginia, where he'd left his nephew Nathan at the head of the barony. But a welcoming committee is waiting for him with a band of sec men, and a usurper of the Cawdor name. Unable to help a mysterious...

  • Owl in the Office

    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. Mandy has ...

  • Penny Parker's Pregnant!

    Stella Bagwell

    HAVING HIS BABY... Hardly a soul in Lincoln County believed any man could get near enough to kiss Judge Penelope Parker -- let alone get intimate! But someone had gotten a heck of a lot closer -- because Penny Parker was pregnant! Yep, Penny ...

  • Eternally Yours

    Jennifer Baker

  • Maxi, the Star

    Debra Barracca

  • Syrup

    Max Barry

    Now a major motion picture starring Amber Heard, Shiloh Fernandez, Kellan Lutz, and Brittany SnowScat (formerly known as Michael Holloway) is young, underemployed, and trying to make it in Los Angeles. When he comes up with the idea for the hottest n...

  • Keeping Annie Safe

    Beverly Barton

    SHE WAS HIS WOMAN.... Dane Carmichael was the last of a dying breed -- a gentleman through and through. And he was the only man who could keep Annie Harden safe. From the moment he laid eyes on stubborn, beautiful Annie, he knew she would be his.....

  • One Summer Evening

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    ONE SUMMER EVENING, A RECKLESS ACT OF LOVE CHANGED HER LIFE FOREVER... Now, nine year later, Cassie Wortham has returned to Louisiana, to the lush home of her parents, to the roots left behind in the wake of desperate acts. She's been living a nig...

  • A Head for Poisoning

    Simon Beaufort

    The second book in the critically acclaimed medieval mystery series featuring Sir Geoffrey MappestoneIn the year 1101, Sir Geoffrey Mappestone returns to his home at Goodrich Castle on the Welsh border. He is travelling in the company of a knight who...

  • The Knight of Rosecliffe

    Rexanne Becnel

    In the dangerous, passionate times of the Welsh Border Wars, when sworn enemies locked in battle discover love can be more dangerous than hate.... In the wildwood surrounding Rosecliffe Castle, Welsh rebels plot to destroy their English interloper...

  • Cruel Justice

    Patricia D. Benke

    Until Proven Innocent Deputy District Attorney Judith Thornton has a full-time job before she ever gets to work. Every day she struggles as a single parent and caregiver to her critically ill mother, giving all she can and still feeling guilty tha...

  • The Haunted Heart

    Cherie Bennett

    When inexperienced Gina and her family move into the haunted house called Canterville Chase, she's stunned to find herself torn between the irrestible, aristocratic Jonathan Canterville and his archenemy, the moody, sensitive Thomas.Thomas happens to...

  • The Candlelight Wish

    Janice Bennett

    The first in an enchanting new trilogy introduces Xanthe -- an irrepressible fairy godmother and friend to young hearts. All she needs to commence her spellcraft is the ripple of water in a mirrored bowl and a gigantic white cat named Titus... Xa...

  • Seduction

    Janice Bennett
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    In Janice Bennet's spicy story of Seduction, Miss Amanda Grieves will do anything to save her brother from debtor's prison, even deal with the infamous Lord Rivenhall. When she wagers her honor with the dashing peer, she loses her heart as well....

  • Until the Real Thing Comes Along

    Elizabeth Berg

    Patty Murphy is facing that pivotal point in a woman's life when her biological clock ticks as insistently as a beating heart. Will she find Mr. Right and start a family? But Patty is in love--with a man who is not only attractive and financially sou...

  • Chi: A Novel of Virtual Reality

    Alexander Besher

  • Her Man Friday

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    That Man is Up to Something! When investigator Leo Friday is sent to unravel the shady goings-on at the Kimball family mansion, he never dreamed his primary suspect would be pretty Lily Rigby, the eccentric family's social secretary. Everyone just...

  • The Wedding Wager

    Elizabeth Bevarly
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    He is friend, lover, provider and protector. He's as sexy as sin. And he's all yours! DO YOU TAKE THIS MAN? Say "I want!" to one seductive Stetson-toting reluctant father, from bestselling, award-winning author Diana Palmer. Say "I will!" to a...

  • Secrets of the Night

    Jo Beverley

    1760's Yorkshire, England Young Rosamunde Overton is forced into a daring deceit when her elderly husband's inability to sire an heir threatens everyone she cares for. Fleeing a scandalous masquerade, she rescues an injured nobleman, who just migh...

  • And Babies Make Ten

    Lisa Bingham

    Baby Boom! Stephen Dubois was sexy, gentle, funny... and the instant dad of quintuplets left on his doorstep! He was overwhelmed by endless diaper changes and bottle feedings, so his new assistant was the answer to his prayers--and the embodiment ...

  • A Steak in Murder

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate NewYork. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, now runs the Palate Restaurant. Her sister, Meg, keeps the patrons happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam si...

  • Murder in the Marais

    Cara Black

    Aimee Leduc, the half-French, half-American detective in Paris, is approached by a rabbi to decipher a fifty-year-old encrypted photograph and deliver it to an old woman in the Marais, the old Jewish quarter. When she does so, she finds a corpse on w...

  • The Burglar in the Rye

    Lawrence Block

    Bernie Rhodenbarr, bookseller by day, burglar by night, is on the prowl again. Pretty Alice Cottrell has hired him to infiltrate the crumbling old Paddington Hotel and steal back the letters of reclusive author Gulliver Fairborn from his once-upon-a-...

  • Beneath a Dakota Cross

    Stephen A. Bly

    IN SEARCH OF A NEW LIFE OUT WEST, BRAZOS FORTUNE FINDS HIS FAMILY ENDANGERED BY THE VERY QUEST HE HOPED WOULD SAVE THEM. With these simple words, Brazos Fortune sets out on his journey in the first of Stephen Blys new Fortunes of the Black Hills seri...

  • Mother Goose Math

    Emily Bolam

  • Without Stopping

    Paul Bowles

  • Blood Mountain

    Peter Brandvold

    Stranded in the rugged region of the northern Rockies, a wagon train of settlers falls prey to a vicious gang of outlaws, until one man who has nothing left to lose risks his life to stop them. Original....

  • Catdog's Big Idea

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Come Play at Home

    Susan Breen

    Baby Mickey has all his friends over for playgroup. The babies choose lots of fun toys from the big toy box. But Baby Daisy has trouble reaching a toy since she is so little. Baby Daisy goes off to play in another room where the toys end up finding h...

  • Come Play at the Park

    Susan Breen

    The Disney Babies head to the park for a day of fun. They swing on the swings, play in the sandbox, read books, and enjoy a picnic lunch. By the end of the day, they are sad to leave but they know tomorrow will be another fun-filled day!...

  • Water Around, Earth Below!

    Richard Brightfield

    Beware of Illusions...

    Now it is Ivar and Angus's turn to earn their mystical armor. In order to do so, Ivar must defeat Forgal Mac Riog, the Sea Serpent, and Angus must overcome Bane Morfan, the Rock Wolf. These fearsome...

  • A Long Way from Home

    Connie Briscoe

    Spanning more than sixty years, A Long Way from Home is the story of Susie; her daughter, Clara; and her granddaughter, Susan--house slaves born and reared at Montpelier, the Virginia plantation of President James Madison. Proud and intelligent, t...

  • Rent-A-Husband

    Annette Broadrick
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    He is friend, lover, provider and protector. He's as sexy as sin. And he's all yours! DO YOU TAKE THIS MAN? Say "I want!" to one seductive Stetson-toting reluctant father, from bestselling, award-winning author Diana Palmer. Say "I will!" to a...

  • The Passionate 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...

  • Loose Lips

    Rita Mae Brown

    If you crossed Mitford, North Carolina, with Peyton Place, you might come up with Runnymede, Maryland, the most beguiling of Southern towns. In Loose Lips, Rita Mae Brown revisits Runnymede and the beloved characters introduced in Six of One and Bing...

  • Penalty Points

    Bonnie Bryant

    When Carole Hanson tells Alex a secret, he brakes up with Lisa, but Carole can't fret over Lisa's anger because she is worried about her slipping grades that could keep her out of the big horse show. Original....

  • Perfect Love

    Elizabeth Buchan

    How far would she go for the Perfect Love? Many things can disrupt a twenty years marriage. Prue Valour, 41, has spent her adulthood keeping house, making meals for her older widower husband, Max, and being a mother to their preadolescent daughte...

  • The Prosecution

    D.W. Buffa

    A superstar defense attorney, Joseph Antonelli has made his reputation by winning at any cost, watching the wheels of justice turn, outguessing every turn and every lurch. Now he's come out of retirement to win again. Only, this time his job is not t...

  • At the End of the Day

    Anita Richmond Bunkley
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  • Nark

    John Burns

    Max Chard is despatched - in great discomfort - to a couple's secret hideaway to get the exclusive on how their evidence convicted members of a safe-deposit robbing gang. But once there he quickly realizes there is more to this particular story then ...

  • Knight, the Harp, and the Maiden

    Anne Kelleher Bush

    Lady Juilene of Sylyria is cursed. THE SONGS THE GODDESS SENDS When Lady Juilene rejects a marriage proposal from the evil thurge Lindos, the wizard casts a spell that forces the young noblewoman to flee her family, friends, even kind strangers...

  • Coffin's Game

    Gwendoline Butler

    PLACES IN THE MIND A series of random terrorist acts have struck the heart of Commander John Coffin's Docklands area. The body of a dead woman, rendered unidentifiable by her killer, is at first believed to be that of Stella Pinero, Coffin's wife....

  • If Looks Could Kill

    Elizabeth Cage

    The Spy Girls are hightailing it to Asia to scope out "Luscious" Lucien West, a hypnotically hot guru with a way-devoted following. Lucien and his young American recruits are turning the tiny depressed country of Kinh-Sanh into a land of peace and ha...

  • Siege of Hearts

    June Calvin

    An Unexpected Courtship Amanda Garfield's beloved sister Penelope was a well-known beauty, and would surely be the first to marry. So when handsome Lord Jack Maitland arrived for a shooting party, Amanda assumed he had come to woo her sister. ...

  • Fantastic Tales

    Italo Calvino

    The acclaimed author presents “a rich and wide-ranging anthology” of 19th century fantasy and horror stories -- with an original introduction for each (Library Journal).   Vampires, ghosts, and other horrors abound in this collection of nine...

  • Dead Heat

    Joanna Campbell

    Melanie Graham is thrilled. She loves exercise riding, and she's good at it, too! Her aunt Ashleigh says Melanie would make a great Jockey-she's really thriving at Whitebrook.

    But Melanie's not alone. Her friend Kevin McLean also wants to ex...

  • Double Helix: Red Sector

    Diane Carey

    Like the biological weapons they employ, a sinister conspiracy has spread across the Delta Quadrant and across many years of Starfleet History. Now the mysterious menace surfaces again--to strike at the heart of the Romulan Empire. An artificial v...

  • A Gift for the Groom

    Sally Carleen

    BORROWED BRIDE Dark and devastating RI. Nick Claiborne's love 'em and leave 'em policy was suddenly in jeopardy. Because his new client, Analise Brewster, not only insisted on "helping" him uncover the mystery of her fiance's past, her irrepressib...

  • The Paris Pilgrims

    Clancy Carlile

  • A Taste of Fire

    Joyce Carlow
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    In Joyce Carlow's "A TASTE OF FIRE," Bostonian Michael Hamilton discovers the tantalizing delicacies of New Orleans. The year is 1803, and the sultry, decadent French Quarter is teeming with exquisite food and gorgeous women, but none more captivatin...

  • A Place to Come Home to

    Melody Carlson

    Maggie Carpenter, hardworking and successful news reporter for the Los Angeles Times, laughs when she first spots the quaint job posting on the Internet. But when the violence of gang activity hits her neighborhood and her teenage son begins to withd...

  • Jessie's Father

    C.J. Carmichael

    Jessie has a father. She wants a mother, too! Grace Hamilton is an unflappable businesswoman whose self-discipline helped her build a successful company and brought her a glamorous life. But even she is momentarily unhinged when fourteen-year-old ...

  • The Baby Due Date

    Teresa Carpenter

    THERE WAS A MIXUP AT THE SPERM BANK.... And now Lisa Langdon was expecting millionaire Jared Steele's baby. The dashing executive was determined to be an exceptional father, and Lisa couldn't deny her unborn baby his love. However, she ne...

  • License to Thrill

    Tori Carrington

    Marc McCoy: Secret Service agent extraordinaire. His mission: to stop the woman he loves from marrying another man. And to save her life, if she'll let him. Melanie Weber: Marc's former partner and ex-lover. She's determined to give her unborn chi...

  • Briar Rose

    Kimberly Cates

    Rhiannon Fitzgerald never knew her true heritage -- or if her talent for healing was bequeathed by fairy magic, as her father believed. The gentle lass who roamed the hills of Ireland knew only that she must help creatures in need. But her sweet, she...

  • The True History of Paradise

    Margaret Cezair-Thompson

    It is 1981. Jean Landing secretly plans to flee her beloved Jamaica"the only home her family has ever known, a place now rife with political turmoil. But before she can make her final preparations, she receives devastating news: Lana, her sister, i...

  • Monday's Child

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    For Krista von Buren, a beautiful model whose fair face has opened doors all over Europe, life seems perfect. Until Jorden Keller appears. Jorden, a member of the Israeli secret police, is working with a journalist to uncover an international banking...

  • Leaving Eden

    Ann Chamberlin

    Leaving Eden brilliantly brings to life that watershed moment in our history when man -- and woman -- turned their backs on the most ancient of laws in order to strike out in independence. Told from the point of view young Na'amah, Adam's daughter by...

  • Saint Errant

    Leslie Charteris

    The female of the species is supposed to be deadlier than the male.... Simon Templar is about to find out if that's true.

    In this collection of stories, the Saint encounters nine fascinating women. Whether they need help, to be avenged, or ...

  • Don't Forget to Die

    Margaret Chittenden

    Having ditched a cheating husband, Charlie Plato has had it with romance and is determined to dodge the advances of her business partner Zack Hunter, even if he does look devilishly handsome in the tuxedo he's wearing at her best friend's wedding. Th...

  • Knock at the Door and Other Baby Action Rhymes

    Kay Chorao

    Through easy-to-follow diagrams, toddlers can actively follow the lively rhymes provided in this colorfully illustrated picture book for preschoolers and beginning readers. By the author of The Baby's Bedtime Book. ...

  • Daddy Unknown

    Judy Christenberry

    The Baby Is His! The minute Alexandra Logan made a grand reentrance into Cactus, Texas, Tucker Langford sensed a change. Seems that though Tuck could never forget the woman who'd stolen his heart, she couldn't remember him. Nor how she got pregna...

  • The Tripods

    John Christopher

    The Tripod trilogy and its prequel--The White Mountains, When the Tripods Came, The City of Gold and Lead, and The Pool of Fire--are boxed in this collection of tales about the mysterious visitors from outer space who take over the Ea...

  • A Cajun Dream

    Cherie Claire

    AN UNLIKELY PAIR Amanda Rose Richardson was compromised beyond repair! Fearing she'd become an old maid, she had thrown herself at the town rogue. Now she was standing in front of a priest pledging marriage to Rene Comeaux, a darkly handsome Ca...

  • Birdsong Road

    Mary Louise Colln

    The war Between the States has torn the small valley community apart, with residents' still holding allegiances to both sides of the conflict. Charity Morgan, too, has strong feelings, hating the Yankees for what they've done to her family and home-b...

  • Guardian Groom

    Shelley Cooper

    PROTECTOR As far as security specialists went, Steve Gallagher was the best. Driven and downright tenacious, he'd never lost a client. And he refused to let harm befall the woman who'd once been his wife. LOVER With just a look, Kate owned his h...

  • Crime Zero

    Michael Cordy

    What if the plague of violent crime could be eradicated from the earth forever? What if the cure was more lethal than the disease? The death penalty is no deterrent. Prison reform has proven useless. With violent crime on a steady rise, a powerful ca...

  • Eden Springs

    G. Roger Corey

    In the sleepy midwestern town of Eden Springs, life moves at an easy pace. You can count on the local diner for home-cooked specials. Sturdy old residences house generation after generation of families with the same name. And nothing but routine stor...

  • Lost and Found

    Greg Cox

    The X-Men--mutant protectors of a world that fears and hates them. The Avengers--Earth's mightiest heroes, the greatest super-team ever assembled. When the Scarlet Witch of the Avengers and Rogue of the X-Men all disappear under mysterious circumstan...

  • A Gentle Magic

    Emma Craig

    LABOR OF LOVE Cattleman Cody O'Fannin has never shied away from an adventure in his life, so when a high-pitched scream rings out across the harsh New Mexico Territory, he rides straight into the heart of danger, expecting to find a cougar or ...

  • Love Potion #9

    Claire Cross

    Italy, August 1420. A gypsy named Lilith sees her lover hanged for a crime he didn't commit. On the gallows, he swears to return to her. Convinced that one day he'll be reborn, she searches for a fabled elixir -- rumored to grant immortality....

  • Safe Haven

    Evelyn A. Crowe

    Not so long ago, Avery Jensen had it all... A beautiful home. An interesting career. Family and friends. Power, money and even a fiance. But that's in the past, in the life she lived before her brother framed her and she was sent to jail. Now all...

  • Moon Shots

    Peter Crowther

    In honor of the thirtieth anniversary of Apollo 11's landing on the moon, a collection of original science fiction tales explores the moon once again, in tales by Brian Stableford, Alan Dean Foster, Robert Sheckley, Brian Aldiss, Gene Wolfe, and othe...

  • The Longest Single Note

    Peter Crowther

    From a shape-shifting serial killer wreaking havoc in a police station, to a dust-bowl werewolf roaming the streets during the Great Depression, a gripping collection of tales, ranging from fantasy to horror, introduces readers to many different worl...

  • Calder Pride

    Janet Dailey

    Cat is a Calder, through and through: proud, headstrong, intelligent, and beautiful. When her fiance is accidentally killed, she vows never to love again. But one reckless right with a handsome, gray-eyed stranger changes everything, giving her a son...

  • Golden Anniversary

    Ruth Jean Dale

    It's fifty years since the Lyon family of New Orleans ventured into what was then an exciting new business--television. Despite objections from some in the family, Margaret Hollander Lyon believed it was the wave of the future. . .and the past fifty ...

  • Instant Daddy

    Emily Dalton

    He'd fathered her son -- and didn't know it. Yet! The guy with the sexy smile staring at Cassie Montgomery from Single Men of Alaska magazine wasn't just fantasy fodder -- but the answer to Cassie's personal mystery. Cassie didn&#...

  • Broken Vows

    Cory Daniells

    IN A WORLD OF DANGER AND DARK ENCHANTMENT, THE MOST TREACHEROUS MAGIC IS DESIRE.... Trained in the arts of war and possessed of extraordinary healing gifts, Imoshen was one of the last of the legendary T'En, an ancient race who'd ruled Fair Isle ...

  • Vitorious Passion

    Elizabeth Darrell

    Soon after Victoria Castledon marries Major Charles Stanford, she discovers how unprepared she is for the demands of marriage. In distress she turns to the dashing renegade Hugo, igniting a sibling feud which will follow the trio to the battlefields ...

  • Song of the Exile

    Kiana Davenport

    In this epic, original novel in which Hawaii's fierce, sweeping past springs to life, Kiana Davenport, author of the acclaimed Shark Dialogues, draws upon the remarkable stories of her people to create a timeless, passionate tale of love and survival...

  • The Man from High Mountain

    Kay David

    Cole Reynolds is an outsider. He's lived in High Mountain all his life but never felt he belonged. That's okay, though. He's a man who likes his space -- and in West Texas there's plenty of it. But everything changed the day he met Ta...

  • She Came to Stay

    Simone De Beauvoir

    "One of the most acute and thoughtful achievements of French fiction at mid-century." ― New York Times

    Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the s...

  • The Mandarins

    Simone De Beauvoir

    "Salty, frank, and realistic." ― San Francisco Chronicle

    In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories o...

  • Jack of Kinrowan

    Charles de Lint

    Jack of Kinrowan
    An acknowledged classic of contemporary fantasy, Jack of Kinrowan brings together in one volume Charles de Lint's rollicking saga of wild faerie magic on the streets of the city.

    Jack, the Giant Killer
    A faceless gang ...

  • The Maias

    Eca de Queiros / Jose Maria Eca De Queiros

    One of the key classics of Portuguese literature, by an author compared to Proust, Flaubert, Stendhal, Dickens, Balzac, and Tolstoy.

    Eca de Queiros was Portugal's greatest nineteenth-century novelist, whose works brilliantly evoke--and conde...

  • 50 Clues He's Mr. Right

    Alyssa Dean

    LOOKING FOR LOVE IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES Reporter Tara Butler is thrilled with her assignment from Real Men magazine: updating "Forty-Nine Things You Need To Know About a Real Man" from the first issue of the magazine in 1949. This is a chance to ...

  • Enraptured

    Katherine Deauxville

    A SURPRISE INTRODUCTION The twelfth duke of Westermere was enjoying a peaceful drive until an Amazonian beauty with disheveled golden-brown curls tossed herself into his coach. That alone would not have flummoxed Sacheverel deVries, but when the str...

  • Night on Fire

    Diana Deverell

    NO DARKNESS TO HIDE IN A U.S. Foreign Service officer specializing in counterterrorism, Casey Collins is in Denmark to locate and recover missing Stinger missiles that are being offered on the black market. But a dead body deposited in her Copenha...

  • All I Desire

    Thea Devine

    DECEIVED BY BEAUTY Alexander Deveney, the Earl of Mere, was on an undercover mission to ferret out secrets from his deceased brother's wife, an enemy to Queen and country, and a courtesan available to any man for a price. He fully expected the ...

  • Cheaters

    Eric Jerome Dickey

    Stephan Mitchell and his best friends Jake and Darnell are living well with good jobs, fine clothes, and beckoning futures. For Stephan and Jake, who attract plenty of beautiful sisters, variety is the spice of life. But Darnell is different: He has ...

  • By Blood Alone

    William C. Dietz

    PART HUMAN. PART ALIEN. ALL HERO. In a Ton gone ax, Colonel Bill Booly, with his mixed-blood and by-the-book attitude, is a misfit. So when he steps on some important toes, the brass is quick to make him pay. His punishment: assignment to the ...

  • Someday My Prince

    Christina Dodd

    THE PRINCESS MUST MARRY Princess Laurentia leads a fairy-tale life, attending glittering balls and wearing beautiful gowns. But after the ball is over, Laurentia finds herself getting into bed...alone. She dutifully agrees to choose a husband, but...

  • Hindenburg,1937

    Cameron Dokey

    "Anna, promise me..." Her grandfather never finished his last wish as he died clutching their tickets for a trans-Atlantic voyage of the Hindenburg. But Anna Becker is certain he would want her to take the tickets and leave Germany before her rut...

  • Lottie's Princess Dress

    Doris Dorrie

    Despite it being a regular school day, Lottie awakes with the need to wear her golden princess dress to school because she knows something special is going to happen, yet trying to convince her mother of the pending event doesn't turn out to be an ea...

  • The Cat and the King of Clubs

    Carole Nelson Douglas

  • Brink of War

    Keith Douglass

    GOODWILL GAMES? It's America vs. Russia in an airmanship contest. A friendly mission, all fun and games...until Russia starts playing rough... Admiral "Tombstone" Magruder and the USS Jefferson are sent in to win the post-Cold War by cozying up...

  • Master of Destiny

    Angela Drake

    Gable is far more involved with Tessa than she'd ever guess - yes, he sees her as the woman who could destroy his career, but more than that. To him she is the woman who could save him from a genius that borders on madness, and he will go to any leng...

  • Cross the Stars

    David Drake

    THE LONG WAY HOME Hammer's Slammer Don Slade is coming home to the planet Tethys, to his son and the woman he loves. But the space between is dark and cold. And the stars he must pass shine their light on planets which beckon to the weary traveler...

  • With the Lightnings

    David Drake

    A FRIENDSHIP FORGED IN HELL! Daniel Leary is a lieutenant in the republic of Cinnabar Navy with no money and no prospects since he quarreled with his ruthless, politically powerful father. Adele Mundy is a scholar with no money and no prospects...

  • Gonzo's Book of Out-of-this World Puzzles

    Laura Driscoll

  • Sammy Sosa

    Laura Driscoll

    A thrilling biography of the celebrated baseball superstar who broke Roger Maris' record of sixty-one homers details his amazing '98 season, his childhood in the Dominican Republic, his batting style, and much more. Original....

  • Perfect Partners

    Karen Drogin

    TO HEAL A LITTLE GIRL'S HEART... For the first time in her career, attorney Chelsie Russell wants to lose a case. Representing her parents in the custody battle over their two-year-old granddaughter, Alix, has been a mistake, and only added to her ...

  • Her Own Ranger

    Anne Marie Duquette

    In Florida's Everglades, Carson Ward is the law. As a ranger, he's sworn to protect the land. But Carson's taken a private oath, too - that he will track down the poachers who killed his father. Alisha Jamison is a well-known wildlife photogra...

  • What the Heart Knows

    Kathleen Eagle

    Helen Ketterling thought she had left the Bad River Sioux Reservation in South Dakota behind her thirteen years ago. Once an idealistic and spirited schoolteacher, Helen was swept into the lives of the Sioux people and the arms of Reese Blue Sky. The...

  • Muppets from space: the movie scrapbook

    Ben Eastman

  • Chump Change

    David Eddie

    David Henry, a young man in New York City bent on literary stardom, finds himself a complete failure and must decide how low he will sink when the opportunity to make some big money presents itself. A first novel. Original. Tour....

  • A Floating Life

    Simon Elegant

  • Against the Giants

    Ru Emerson

    Vengeance will be served A village burns while its attackers flee into the night. Enraged, the King of Keoland orders an aging warrior to lead a band of adventurers on a retaliatory strike. As they prepare to enter the heart of the monsters' lair,...

  • Daughter of Camelot

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    A SORCERER'S LEGACY Orphaned by the only mother she had ever known, the fiercely independent Rianne had grown to womanhood outside Camelot's circle of wealth and power--unaware that she was heiress to a legacy of magic forged in the mists of Avalon....

  • Longarm and the Lady from Tombstone

    Tabor Evans

  • Orion Rising

    Terence Faherty

    In the spring of 1969, a young nurse is raped and brutally beaten in a quiet suburb of Boston called Cleveland Circle. Twenty-six years later, a ne'er-do-well Boston accountant, James Courtney Murray, is murdered and a yellowed newspaper clipping des...

  • Ports of Call

    Sally Fairchild

    From the sun-drenched hills of Tuscany to the shimmering seaport of Miami, from the cutthroat business of rival shipping empires t the passionate battles of the heart comes a novel of desire, ambition and deadly betrayal. Known affectionately as t...

  • Wild Spirit

    Steven Farley

    It's shaping up to be the best Christmas ever for Danielle. With both her dad and her horse, Redman, home for the holidays, the farm couldn't be busier. But Raven, the spirited colt with whom Danielle has been working, doesn't want to share her atten...

  • The Homecoming

    Steven Farley

    Danielle is thrilled to be helping Alec Ramsay escort a vanload of racehorses from New York to Florida. She'll also get to visit her horse, Redman, who has been earning his oats at a riding camp up north. When an extra stall unexpectedly becomes avai...

  • Solar Eclipse

    John Farris

    Bruised and bleeding stuntwoman Shay Waco and her eleven-year-old daughter have just survived a car crash and a sixty-foot drop through a nest of conifers. They enter a lone house for help and instead find a family sitting around a dinner table--with...

  • Redemption

    Howard Fast

    Finding a love that he has never known with much younger Elizabeth, a woman he saved from killing herself, seventy-eight-year-old Ike Goldman is stunned when she is arrested for her husband's murder, in an intricately woven tapestry of suspense, love...

  • The Accidental Bride

    Jane Feather

    The tale of an awkward young woman perched reluctantly on the verge of marriage. Soon she finds herself truly falling in love with her intended, and in the process discovers a daring new attitude within herself. Three unconventional women take a...

  • The Mother of His Child

    Sandra Field

    A child who needs a mother... Years ago, Marnie Carstairs had been forced to give up her baby for adoption -- but it had broken her heart.Then Marnie found a vital clue leading her to find Kit, her little girl.... It also led her to Cal Hunting...

  • Tiger in Sky

    Sheila Finch

    In the year 2345, young heroes have been yanked from 1999 to battle an alien menace. Soon they must seek help from the more distant past....

  • Sons of the City

    Scott Flander

    The streets of Philadelphia are meaner than most ... A city on the edge is about to explode. The killing of a cop in a rundown Philly crack house has stoked racial tensions to the boiling point -- as angry police strike out in force, rounding up ...

  • Traitor's Moon

    Lynn Flewelling

    Master spies Seregil and Alec are no strangers to peril. Their assignments, nightrunning for wizards and nobles, have led them into many deadly situations. But sometimes the greatest danger can lurk beneath a TRAITOR'S MOON Wounded heroes of a cat...

  • Destiny's Shield

    Eric Flint; David Drake

    EVIL FROM BEYOND TIME The Malwa Empire squats like a toad across 6th century India, commanded by ruthless men with depraved appetites. The thing from the distant future that commands them is far worse. AN ADVISOR WITHOUT A BODY Those who oppose ...

  • Transfer of Power

    Vince Flynn

    On a busy Washington morning, the stately calm of the White House is shattered by a hail of gunfire. A group of terrorists has descended on the executive mansion and gained access by means of a violent slaughter of dozens of people. Through the quick...

  • Vicksburg

    John T. Foster

    If he always has the headache, why should you suffer?

    In the bestselling tradition of Bridget Jones's Diary comes this outrageous, hilarious look at love, marriage, and sex, introducing Anna Shapiro, who believes that surely there must be more...

  • Sizzle!: Body Heat

    Lori Foster
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    Melanie Tucker found herself trapped on the same party boat with nemesis Adam Stone! He was still too smooth, too sexy. And it was too much when they both fell overboard--and wound up stranded together! What could they do about all that delicious bod...

  • Silver Anniversary

    Roz Denny Fox

    It's fifty years since the Lyon family of New Orleans ventured into what was then an exciting new business--television. Despite objections from some in the family, Margaret Hollander Lyon believed it was the wave of the future. . .and the past fifty ...

  • To Tame a Bride

    Susan Fox

    Two rebellious cousins -- and the men who tame them! Maddie St. John knows that Lincoln Coryell has dismissed her as a spoiled, glamorous socialite. He seems alternately amused and annoyed by her, which infuriates Maddie, as she badly needs his he...

  • Cradle and All

    Zachary Alan Fox

    When strange accidents begin happening to their eight-month-old son Alex, Kate McDonald--a social worker--and her husband Paul--a deputy D.A.--are accused of child abuse and are plunged into a nightmarish world that forces Kate to confront dark secre...

  • Killing Me Softly

    Nicci French

    Alice Loudon has it all: a devoted boyfriend, a marvelous circle of friends, a challenging job as a research scientist. Then one morning, on her way to work, she exchanges a lingering look with a man so devastatingly attractive he takes her breath aw...

  • A Family Man

    Marcy Froemke

    When Margaret Gould returns to Chattanooga with her young son to nurse her estranged mother, Rhonda, she is instantly reunited with her old boyfriend, Adam Morgan. Adam has recently lost his wife and is struggling to raise his teenage daughter. Maggi...

  • Jade Palace Vendetta

    Dale Furutani

    In the second installment in the series, noble ronin Matsuyama Kaze continues the search for his lord's missing child, but when he saves a helpless merchant from a gang of killers, he realizes that everything is not what it seems....

  • Saving Graces

    Patricia Gaffney

    Meet The Saving Graces, Four Of The Best Friends A Woman Can Ever Have. For ten years, Emma, Rudy, Lee, and Isabel have shared a deep affection that has helped them deal with the ebb and flow of expectations and disappointments common to us all. Ca...

  • Wyoming Born & Bred

    Cathleen Galitz

    FROM WYOMING RENEGADE... Cameron Wade reveled in the solitude of mountain vistas and a cloudless Wyoming sky. He was a man of the land, but his life was about to be invaded by three ornery kids and their single mom, Patricia Erhart. His bachelor ins...

  • The Other Daughter

    Lisa Gardner

    WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW CAN KILL YOU In Texas a serial killer is executed, taking to his grave the identity of his only child. In Boston a nine-year-old girl is abandoned in a hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Twenty years later,...

  • The Tesseract

    Alex Garland

    An intricately woven, suspenseful novel of psychological and political intrigue, The Tesseract follows the interlocking fates of three sets of characters in the Philippines: gangsters in a chase through the streets of Manila; a middle-class...

  • Can You Wave Bye, Bye, Baby?

    Elyse Gasco

    Daring, tough, and darkly humorous, these linked stories have at their centre the relationship between parents and children. As devastating in their emotional honesty as they are poignant and wise, these stories map the intricate terrain of adoption ...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Howling Wolfman

    James Gelsey

    Hey Scooby-Doo! Looks like there’s a mystery to solve! Yee-haw! It's Lone Wolf Ranch's 100th birthday! Scooby-Doo and the gang are ready to celebrate. But when the full moon rises, things start to get hairy. A wolfman steals the ranch's prized g...

  • Women Who Loved God

    Elizabeth George

    Take an exciting devotional journey through the lives of women of the Bible! Each day, you'll read one woman's story that chronicles her amazing walk with God, receive a Scripture to ponder, and discover new ways to apply spiritual truths to your own...

  • Summertime: From Porgy and Bess

    George Gershwin

    Summertime and the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin', and the cotton is high... Nothing captures the feelings of summer better than the much-loved song from Porgy and Bess, Summertime. Its majestic imagery and deep spirituality touch listeners today ...

  • Starcrossed

    A.A. Gill

  • A Code for Tomorrow

    John J. Gobbell

    In this eagerly awaited sequel to John J. Gobbell's The Last Lieutenant, Lieutenant Todd Ingram returns to find himself fighting to win the war and save the woman he loves... NATIONS LOCKED IN DESPERATE BATTLE... As the war in the South Pacific ...

  • Creepy Creations

    Golden Books

  • Wishes Comes True

    Golden Books

  • Shagadelically Speaking

    Lance Gould

    Announcing the definitive guide not only to the second Austin Powers movie, but to the whole Austin Powers craze. Find out what Austin thinks of life in the '90s versus the '60s; his thoughts on world leaders, from Moses to Margaret Thatcher; the his...

  • Tall, Dark and Deadly

    Heather Graham

    MARNIE LIVED FOR PLEASURE. DID SHE DIE FOR IT, TOO? She was a high-powered attorney with beauty, brains, and a brand-new dream house. Men found her irresistible. Women called her out-of-control. And when Marnie Newcastle disappeared one fateful ni...

  • Cuttings

    Anne Underwood Grant

    SMELL THE ROSES The card was unfinished. The flowers were perfect. And both were found near a dead man in the crowded Charlotte Convention Center. The occasion was a world-class gathering of floral. designers. The deceased was a leading practition...

  • Prophecy

    Sharon Green

    "Beware and be warned. In three hundred years will come a time of greatest crisis. In this crisis there will appear a Chosen Blending. They will stand against the reemergent evil, and will do their utmost to triumph." The Chosen Five--wielders of ...

  • First to Fight

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Hang a Left at Venus

    Dan Greenburg

    When Zack and his dad come upon an alien whose spacecraft is running on empty in Central Park, it's easy enough to find more fuel. (Mayonnaise!) But retrieving the abandoned spaceship from the NYPD is quite a different story!...

  • Evil Queen Tut and the Great Ant Pyramids

    Dan Greenburg

    Uh-oh! Thanks to a heaping helping of a new dietetic sugar substitute, Zack shrinks down to the size of a bug. It's not all that bad--until he discovers an army of ants who are building an ant pyramid for their despotic pharaoh-queen!...

  • Prince Charming's Child

    Jennifer Greene

    "I am a man of honor. If she's carrying my child, she will be my wife!" -- Mitch Landers, the Prince Charming no woman could forget It wasn't the flu. Nicole was pregnant. And darned if she could remember sleeping with a man in the past four years...

  • The Winner's Circle

    Leigh Greenwood

    SHE LET PRIDE GET IN THE WAY OF LOVE... Owner of a Kentucky horse farm, Courtney Clonninger is determined to succeed in a world dominated by men-even when she finds herself crushed by debt. Though Idle Hour Farm is her legacy and her life, pride won...

  • Malice Aforethought

    J.M. Gregson

    A body is found in Broughton Ash churchyard - male, middle-aged, well-dressed, but with no identification. Only one fact is certain - he was murdered. Superintendent John Lambert and Detective Sergeant Bert Hook are engaged in a battle of wills on th...

  • The Requiem Shark

    Nicholas Griffin

    A young man forced into apprenticeship with a former slave trader who now captains a pirate vessel tells the vivid story of his life sailing to the ends of the earth during the eighteenth century. A first novel. Reprint....

  • Chickie Riddles

    Katy Hall

    From the author of Sheepish Riddles and Snakey Riddles comes a hilarious assortment of forty-two easy-to-read jokes and riddles about chickens, complemented by amusing, full-color illustrations. Reprint....

  • The First Immortal

    James Halperin

    In 1988, Benjamin Smith suffers a massive heart attack. But he will not die. A pioneering advocate of the infant science of cryonics, he has arranged to have his body frozen until the day when humanity will possess the knowledge, the technology, and ...

  • Graveyard Dust

    Barbara Hambly

    It is St. John's Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January--Creole physician and music teacher--is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympe--mystical and...

  • A Taste of Magic

    Julia Hanlon
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    Set in the wilds of frontier Montana, Julia Hanlon's "A TASTE OF MAGIC" unveils the simmering romance between two kindred spirits. Searching the countryside for asparagus, a plant with deep roots that express the commitment and security of true love,...

  • The Shadow of Ararat

    Thomas Harlan

    In what would be A.U. 600 in our history, the Roman Empire still stands, supported by the twin pillars of the Legions and Thaumaturges of Rome. Now the Emperor of the West, the Augustus Galen Atreus, will come to the aid of the Emperor of the East, t...

  • Roots of Murder

    Janis Harrison

    A PERFECT ARRANGEMENT...FOR MURDER Now that she's a widow, and has given up recreational eating, Bretta Solomon has made The Flower Shop her whole life. But for the newly svelte Bretta, the flower business in River City, Missouri, is more than jus...

  • Known Dead

    Donald Harstad

    The ambush exploded in an Iowa marijuana field. The weapons were high caliber. The pot was high grade. And the reporters said afterward: "We have two known dead...." Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman knew the dead all right: One was a small-time doper, th...

  • Texas Indigo

    Holly Harte

    A HEALER'S TOUCH With the marriage of her dreams over, free-spirited Sheridan Kinmont vowed never to let another man into her heart and set out to make a fresh start by accepting a job as physician in Shafter, Texas. In a town this desolate, She...

  • Centaurus

    David G. Hartwell

    An original anthology of works from writers living down-under includes pieces by Peter Carey, Terry Dowling, Rosaleen Love, Sean McMullen, George Turner, Lucy Sussex, Greg Egan, Phillippa C. Maddern and A. Bertram Chandler. 15,000 first printing....

  • Taking Care of the Twins

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    DOUBLE TROUBLE... Thanks to his mischievous twin nieces, it didn't take long for cattle rancher Ian O'Connell to reach the end of his rope. But he thanked his lucky stars when his lovely neighbor Shayla Vincent helped restore order to his trouble-pr...

  • The Lovers

    Kate Hawks

    In a historical novel based on the ancient Celtic legend of Trystan and Yseult, Gareth becomes a member of King Arthur's court and the best friend of Trystan, whose love for his uncle's beautiful wife, Yseult, traps them all in a fateful web of love,...

  • Spies, Lies and Lovers

    Sally Tyler Hayes

    LOVE ON THE LAM? Though he was on the run for a crime he hadn't committed, Alex Hathaway had never been able to walk away from a damsel in distress. And that was precisely what secret agent Geri Sinclair had counted on. But the Alex Hathaway she'd...

  • Midnight Waltz

    Barbara Hazard

    An Invitation to the Dance...and More In the short time Constance Ames had been at Moreston House, the proper country miss had found herself bedeviled by the most unusual circumstances. First were the anonymous, threatening letters hinting at her ...

  • Big Easy Backroad

    Martin Hegwood

    Martin Hegwood brings Dixie grit and flavor to a novel of a Florida Gulf mob murder that twists faster than a back swamp road. After drowning in a barmaid's sea-green eyes, P .I. Jack Delmas agrees to track down her missing pal--only to find him m...

  • A Woman of Passion

    Virginia Henley

    Young Bess Hardwick knew that the only way to escape a commoner's life was to serve in a noble family and marry well. So the headstrong beauty set out for London and the Tudor court, the arena for the richest, most ambitious men, none more powerf...

  • Sea Devil

    Richard P. Henrick

    Renegade Admiral Igor Starobin leads a new submarine to penetrate and destroy a U.S. Navy base that is the strategic core of NATO's defense advantage. The formidable "Sea Devil" becomes locked in a desperate battle against the super attack sub USS "B...

  • Lissa's Groom

    Jill Henry

    HE LOST HIS PAST Marshall Jack Emerson awoke to find himself injured and in a strange bed with a beauty claiming to be his fiancee. How could he remember proposing to Lissa Banks if all he could recall was his first name? Nothing seemed right exc...

  • Murder on the Yukon Quest

    Sue Henry

    Jessie and her team of dogs are competing in the toughest dog sled race in the world--the Yukon Quest. Alone in the vast white wilderness, she's suddenly facing a danger worse than anything Nature has to offer. A young novice racer she met at the sta...

  • Edge of Honor

    Richard Herman

    Madeline Turner, the first female U.S. President, has already weathered global crises during the first months of her administration. But the balance of power has suddenly shifted dangerously and dramatically in Europe--the Russian government has fall...

  • Her Eyewitness

    Rita Herron

    Her Alibi... Blinded in the line of duty, police officer Collin Cash received a transplant to regain his eyesight -- and woke to a vision of murder. He alone knew that the beautiful woman accused of the crime was innocent -- but who would believe he...

  • Solstice

    David Hewson

    With the new millenium's arrival, the climate on Earth is getting progressively hotter, a phenomenon that is driving the population to near mass hysteria. For a man and a woman drawn into the upper echelons of a worldwide scientific search, the appar...

  • Pieces of Dreams

    Donna Hill

    A SECOND CHANCE... Tragedy brought Maxine Sherman and Quinten Parker together years ago, until another woman stole Quinn away from her. For as long as Maxine could remember, her nights were filled with dreams of his return. That was then. Now Quinn ...