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New Books List: 485 titles

  • Doug's Itchy Situation

    Jeffrey Nodelman

    After getting a case of chicken pox, Doug tries to hide it from Patti because he still wants to take her on their first date, yet when Patti finds out, she puts his fears to rest by staying with him through his illness and postponing their special ou...

  • Celebrate the Year with Winnie the Pooh

    Disney Book Group

    Complete with instructions for easy-to-make crafts, this collection provides a different tale for each holiday throughout the year and shows how Pooh and his friends find different ways to show their affections towards one another with each passing e...

  • Child's Play

    David Malouf

    In a sunlit piazza on an April morning, women throw buckets of water over the cobbles and men deliver trays of pastry to trattorie. In a barren room above, a fanatic watches, engaged in the details of his life's most important project: the assassinat...

  • When We Were Wolves

    Jon Billman

    "If you could have been around a hundred and fifty years ago, and passed through the landscape as a beaver-trapping tough with Jim Bridger or Jedediah Smith, before coal barons, before soda ash and oil, before Mormons, before you could stand outside ...

  • The Hunters

    James Salter

    Captain Cleve Connell has already made a name for himself among pilots when he arrives in Korea during the war there to fly the newly operational Fâ€"86 fighters against the Soviet MIGs. His goal, like that of every fighter pilot, is to chalk up enou...

  • The Berenstain Bears in the Wax Museum

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Excitement comes to Beartown! It’s summertime and the cubs of Bear Country School are thrilled when Madame Bearsaud proposes to open her world-famous wax museum in Beartown. But some of the elder bears, especially Gramps, are skeptical of the c...

  • Grover's Guide to Good Manners

    Allen

  • My So-Called Life Goes On

    Catherine Clark

    An all-new novel based on the television series by Winnie Holzman.

    Some things never change... some things do.

    It's proving to be a long, hot summer for Angela Chase and her friends. Angela's back with Jordan -- sort of -- and working a...

  • God Bless the Gargoyles

    Dav Pilkey

    Gargoyles have been feared and misunderstood for centuries, but now Caldecott Honor artist Dav Pilkey tells the real story of these gentle stone creatures come to life.Behind their cold, stone faces, gargoyles have warm, loving souls -- yet most peop...

  • My Ultimate Pink Book

    Melinda Lilly

  • Secrets of the Past

    Melanie Stewart

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Leftover Lily

    Sally Warner

    Six-year-old Lily Hill is a medium sort of kid. She's medium smart, medium artistic, and has the medium number of best friends, which is two. Or it was two until she pushed her friend Daisy on the playground. It was an accident! Now Daisy won't play ...

  • Sort of Forever

    Sally Warner

    Sally Warner breaks new ground with a powerful story about the toughest test of friendship.         For as long as Cady Winton can remember, she and Nana Weber have done everything together, from cutting each other's hair to daring themselves...

  • Elmo Says, Don't Wake the Baby!

    Constance Allen

  • Zip! Pop! Hop! And Other Fun Words To Say

    Michaela Muntean

    Elmo and his friends have lots of fun saying oodles of words with interesting sounds -- and which sometimes feel a little funny in the mouth -- such as pop, zip, hopscotch, growl, snip, gurgle, squiggly, ticktock, and lots more. There are giggles g...

  • The Last Alchemist

    Colin Thompson

    Long ago in a kingdom far away, Spinifix, the king's alchemist, labored in the dank cellar of the castle to find the secret of turning base metals into gold. The king had promised to share the wealth with Spinifix if he could produce gold before the ...

  • Rise and Shine

    Allen

  • The Two Bullies

    Junko Morimoto

    Winner of Australia's Children's Book Council Picture Book of the Year Award (burst or headline)

    What happens with Ni-ou, the self-proclaimed "strongest fellow in Japan" rows to China to challenge his counter part, Dokkoi? Not what you'd expec...

  • No More Diapers

    Emma Thompson

  • 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!...

  • Nerdlandia

    Gary Soto

    A hip, funny, Latino rendition of Grease, this play features three cool muchachos who come to the aid of Martin, a chicano nerd who loves a beautiful, popular girl, Ceci, from afar.With the help of his friends, Martin changes his miage and impresses ...

  • 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....

  • Eyes Of Justice

    Jake Thoene

    After being rescued from the battle of Trafalgar, William Sutton arrives back home in England and tells his grandfather of the amazing encounter with a man who looked just like him. Meanwhile, his long-lost brother, now a spy for France, returns t...

  • Honk!

    Mick Inkpen

  • Snake Hair

    Stephanie Spinner

    Provides the tale of the once beautiful woman who was cursed by the gods for being vain and lived the rest of her life as a monstrous and feared creature who could turn others to stone from just one look at her face. Simultaneous....

  • Arnold

    Mick Inkpen

  • Sandcastle

    Mick Inkpen

    While playing on the beach, Kipper the dog finds the finishing touches to his sandcastle in an unlikely place, in a picture book based on an episode of the new Kipper television show on Nickelodeon. Original. TV tie-in. 75,000 first printing....

  • Splosh!

    Mick Inkpen

  • Beyond Mayfield

    Vaunda Micheaux Nelson

    When prejudicial acts begin to effect Meg's happiness at school, she starts looking forward to going back home, yet once there, she realizes that great changes are taking place and begins to see the world, including Mayfield, in an entirely new way....

  • 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...

  • Foreigner

    Nahid Rachlin

    "A rare, intimate look at Iranians. . . . I have read [this book] four times by now, and each time I have discovered new layers in it." -- Anne Tyler, New York Times Book Review "Nahid Rachlin has an intimate insider's knowledge of present-day every...

  • Wild Rosie

    Mary Morgan

  • Gentle Rosie

    Mary Morgan

  • The Face of Apollo

    Fred Saberhagen

    Ancient Greece has many heroes. Young Jeremy Redthorn, seemingly doomed to virtual slavery as a farm laborer, doesn't think of himself as one. But when he risks his life for a beautiful, wounded stranger, he soon finds himself on a perilous mission. ...

  • I Think I'll Just Curl up and Die

    Rosie Rushton

  • Wishes Comes True

    Golden Books

  • Puppy Book

    Jan Pfloog

  • Cinnamon Gardens

    Shyam Selvadurai

    Set among the upper classes in the gracious, repressive and complex world of 1920s Ceylon (Sri Lanka), this evocative novel tells the story of two people who must determine if it is possible to pursue personal happiness without compromising the happi...

  • 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...

  • Acts of Malice

    Perri O'Shaughnessy

    Amid the sparkling snow-swept mountains of Lake Tahoe, Nina Reilly has made a home, juggling the demands of her one-woman law practice and raising a teenage son alone. Now Nina has taken on a case that will threaten everything she holds dear, drawing...

  • Please Please Please

    Renee Swindle

    Babysister gets what Babysister wants. Always has. Always will. After all, she's been spoiled rotten ever since she witnessed her mother's death as a child, and she's made the most of it-especially with her dad. So when her oldest friend, Deborah, be...

  • The Odd Sea

    Frederick Reiken

    “A haunting first novel that takes a horrifying family calamity and turns it into a form of magic.” -- The New York Times

    On a sunny spring morning, sixteen-year-old Ethan Shumway walks down his gravel driveway, turns the bend, and vanishe...

  • Reach for Tomorrow

    Lurlene McDaniel

    Katie O'Roark is thrilled to learn that Jenny House is being rebuilt. After the fire last year, Katie thought she could never return to the camp, where she spent the summers with teens like her who faced medical odds stacked against them. But thanks ...

  • Doctor Dolittle Meets the Pushmi-Pullyu

    N.H. Kleinbaum

    Doctor Dolittle must sail to Africa with his animal family. The monkeys are sick, and they need his help. Doctor Dolittle has some amazing adventures on his journey, and even meets the rarest of all animals - the two-headed pushmi-pullyu!

    Base...

  • Doctor Dolittle and Tommy Stubbins

    N.H. Kleinbaum

  • Alien at St Wilfred's

    Adrian Plass

  • The Descent

    Jeff Long

    We are not alone. Some call them devils or demons. But they are real. They are down there. And they are waiting for us to find them. In a cave in the Himalayas, a guide discovers a self-mutilated body with a warning: Satan exists. In the Kalahari D...

  • Brought to You by the Number 1

    Sarah Albee

  • Instant Lives and More

    Howard Moss

    A classic artistic parody from two of the world's most satiric minds. Moss uncovers remarkable historical anecdotes, which are accompanied by Gorey's absurdly deadpan drawings. Although the insightful scenarios involving Emily Dickinson, Mozart, H...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 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,...

  • Too Soon for Flowers

    Margaret Miles

    AN OUTBREAK OF EVIL Spring, 1764. While the specter of smallpox stalks colonial Boston, much of the city seeks refuge in the burgeoning countryside. Restful, bucolic Bracebridge is one such haven, and young widow Charlotte Willett and her neighbor...

  • 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...

  • Hard Merchandise

    K.W. Jeter

    Feared and admired, respected and despised, Boba Fett enjoys a dubious reputation as the galaxy's most successful bounty hunter. Yet even a man like Boba Fett can have one too many enemies.... When Boba Fett stumbles across evidence implicating Pr...

  • Love: A User's Guide

    Clare Naylor

    Dressing waiflike models for British Vogue and appeasing the magazine's snooty staff is hardly the glamorous job Amy hoped it would be. But that doesn't stop her from fantasizing about the sensational life--and romance--she knows she's destined for. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Shell Game

    Carol O'Connell

    On live television, a man dies during the re-creation of a legendary magic trick in Central Park. Millions of New Yorkers believe it was an accident-but two people know it was not. One is an aged magician in a private hospital in the northern corner ...

  • Umbrella Man

    Doug J. Swanson

    Poor Jack Flippo. It's just his luck to stumble across a guy like Marty Dufrain--a big talker who claims to be in possession of a few black-and-white frames of history. The grassy knoll, the motorcade, the Book Depository. And something more. Someth ...

  • 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!...

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

    Laura Driscoll

  • Great Gonzos in the Galaxy

    Kiki Thorpe

  • Muppets from Space: the Junior Novelization

    Ellen Weiss

  • Muppets from space: the movie scrapbook

    Ben Eastman

  • Auntie Peggy's Windmill and Other S

    Jennifer Rees Larcombe

    These beautiful stories from Jennifer Rees Larcombe capture the adventures of childhood, but also the difficulties, bringing children to a realisation of where strength can be found. AUNTIE PEGGYĂ•S WINDMILL is the story of two children and their ...

  • 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...

  • Psi/Net

    Billy Dee Williams; Rob MacGregor

    On November 12, 1995 the CIA issued a report admitting that military and intelligence services had used psychics for spying or "remote viewing". Project Stargate, as it was called, is the premise of this nerve-jangling thriller.

    Former Air For...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Beaker's Dozen

    Nancy Kress

    Includes the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novella, Beggars in Spain"Every story of the thirteen reprinted in this volume has, in addition to the science--sometimes rigorous and detailed, sometimes extrapolated and fantastically ramified--compelling ...

  • 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...

  • 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 Angel Chronicles, Volume 3

    Nancy Holder

    "She's stronger than any Slayer you've faced. Force won't get it done. You gotta work from the inside. To kill this girl...you have to love her." For Buffy the Vampire Slayer, birthdays aren't all parties and cake -- hers tend to involve a life-or...

  • 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 ...

  • Marshal Festus

    Gary McCarthy

    With Marshal Matt Dillon laid up with a broken leg, Deputy Festus is in charge of the town, and now Festus has to face his first challenges--a gang of cowboys out to stir up trouble, and the townspeople of Dodge City who do not think that he is up to...

  • Slocum and the Yellow Rose of Texas

    Jake Logan

    Slocum gets distracted by a pretty little flower -- who comes with thorns...Slocum has his eye on the dangerous Rose Miller. Besides being a real American beauty, Rose is rumored to be the mistress of a notorious train robber. But the minute Slocum g...

  • Sioux Stampede

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo finds himself in over his head when he takes two dangerous jobs--delivering a herd of valuable Scotch Highland cattle to an ambitious rancher and training inexperienced troops as Indian fighters--either of which could get him killed. Origi...

  • Maximilian's Treasure

    J.R. Roberts

    When the mayor of a small Mexican village catches the Gunsmith's good friend Pete in a compromising situation with his daughter, Pete is forced to shoot the man in self-defense, and now Clint has only three days to rescue Pete from the hangman. Origi...

  • By Honor Bound

    Dodge Tyler

  • 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....

  • Longarm and the Lady from Tombstone

    Tabor Evans

  • To Tempt a Rogue

    Connie Mason

    Dreams and Desire Kitty O'Shay desperately dreams of marriage and a family. Yet whisked into the company of robbers when she finds herself orphaned, she sees no choice but to protect her virtue by dressing as a boy, until one man uncovers her ...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • A Taste of Magic

    Julia Hanlon
    in

    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,...

  • Kisses Sweeter Than...

    Jean Wilson
    in

    Jean Wilson's "KISSES SWEETER THAN..." sizzles with the crackling, down-home flavors of late 19th-century Texas. Reporter Laura Leigh Westbrook's assignment is to follow a new cookbook author. But instead of a Miss, the chef turns out to be downright...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Moonlight

    Miranda Jarrett

    As proprietor of the most fashionable shop in Boston, Amelie Lacroix knows all about creating the elegant style and glittering gowns her wealthy clients adore. But Amelie herself has no time for flirtatious games with eligible men - until a magical w...

  • The Soft Touch

    Betina Krahn

    A SOFTHEARTED BALTIMORE HEIRESS Lovely but disastrously tenderhearted Diamond Wingate has terrible trouble saying "No": to the poor and unfortunate who beg at her gates; to entrepreneurs with big plans and no money; and worse, to the silver-tongue...

  • Unveiled

    Jenni Licata

    THE BODY AT THE BALL When a disguised courtier delivered him a secret message from Queen Anne, Alexandre Rawlings had no idea that he'd later find the man murdered. Standing over the victim was a mysterious woman in white, and one look at her lus...

  • Loving Linsey

    Rachelle Morgan

    TEMPTING FATE The most superstitious lady in Horseshoe, Texas, Linsey Gordon is mistakenly convinced that she has less than three months to live, and she's determined to do one last good deed before she passes on. But playing matchmaker for her ti...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Fascination

    Judith A. Lansdowne
    in

    In Judith A. Landsdowne's story, Fascination is the only word to describe beautiful heiress Miss Priscilla Pritkin's emotion after her first encounter with the scoundrel, Lord Hawksworth. If spirit is what it takes to tame a black sheep, then the Haw...

  • Temptation

    Jeanne Savery
    in

    Jeanne Savery's tale Temptation tells of Miss Tenacious Smythe, who believes that Lord Brant has taught her all she needs to know about rakes. Once the wickedly handsome nobleman sets his sights on the innocent young lady, Tenny learns that a true ra...

  • Seduction

    Janice Bennett
    in

    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....

  • Highland Promise

    Hannah Howell

    Eric Murray was the youngest of his brothers, determined to gain his rightful inheritance after thirteen years of bitter dispute with his father's family. Starting out alone to confront his tight-fisted kinsmen, he encountered a chestnut-haired beaut...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • A Willing Spirit

    Cynthia Sterling

    What's a lovely widow to do when her dearly departed refuses to depart? Pony Springs, Texas. 1855. It's been nearly a year since Tessa Bright's husband passed away. But Will Bright never went away--and even with the guidance of the spirited compan...

  • Night Heat

    Simona Taylor

    While visiting Trinidad to do a true-to-life story about the island, American journalist Marcus Lucien meets tour guide Rhea De Silva, and when a hurricane hits, both must trust each other enough to save what they cherish ...

  • Bad Karma

    Theresa Weir

    SHE HAD NOT IDEA WHAT SHE WAS LOOKING FOR...UNTIL SHE FOUND IT. She's the most exotic thing Egypt, Missouri, has ever seen--and Daniel Sinclair mistrusts her instantly. A small-town cop with big-city suspicions, Daniel figures that Cleo Tyler, a p...

  • Before I Sleep

    Rachel Lee

    JUSTICE GONE WRONG Five years ago Carey justice was a young prosecutor who helped convict an innocent man. Today she's the hottest talk show host on radio and won't rest until he is cleared--no matter what it costs her. She has exactly three weeks...

  • The Fifth Proposal

    Juliette Leigh

    A PLUCKY HEIRESS CAUGHT BETWEEN SUSPICION...AND DESIRE With a gasp of dismay, Shelby read the letter informing her of her grandfather's grave illness. He had lived alone at Wychwood for years, with only his valet, his dog, and of course, the famou...

  • Long Way Home

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    When it comes to matters of the heart, you can always trust your friends... When Cira Valentino was turned away at Ellis Island and forced to return to Europe without her family, she never thought she'd ever set foot on American soil. But fate had...

  • 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...

  • Midnight on Julia Street

    Ciji Ware

    The sultry allure of New Orleans comes to dazzling life in this enthralling tale of romance and mystery that sweeps from the modern heart of the Big Easy back to the shimmering city of a century past. Reporter Corlis McCullough's search for the truth...

  • And the Groom Wore Tule

    Lynn Kurland
    in

    Scottish nobleman Ian Macleod falls asleep in a medieval dungeon --- and awakens in a room filled with long white dresses. Jane Fergusson longed to create great fashions, but instead toils in a bridal shop. Will their fateful meeting over dressmaker'...

  • The Con and the Crusader

    Maggie Shayne
    in

    Fleeing thugs, con man Jack McCain jumps into a well --- and into the past. Mistaken for a criminal, he's headed for prison, until he's freed --- with a wedding proposal! The widow Hawkins marries him to get help for her farm, but the attraction betw...

  • A Bride Most Common

    Angie Ray
    in

    A time machine hurtled Lucy Taylor back in time to Regency England --- and into the middle of a wedding to a dashing gentleman! Could she change history to save her future, without falling in love with a handsome new husband?...

  • Conyn's Bride

    Ingrid Weaver
    in

    On the eve of her wedding, museum curator Alanna Moore is cataloguing antiquities, when suddenly a Celtic warrior appears --- claiming to be her long-lost betrothed! Can she listen to her heart, and remember a love that was destined to be?...

  • Shadow of the Hawk

    Julie Miller

    A DANGEROUS FIELD TRIP Sarah McCormick had one last shot at adventure. Resigned to the life of a spinster, the prim schoolteacher planned to lead five teenage girls to the shadowy isle of Tenebrosa. There, in a tropical paradise, they would study an...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Fire and Desire

    Brenda Jackson

    Two years ago, geologist Corinthians Avery had brazenly sneaked into a hotel room to seduce Dex Madaris, head of Madaris Explorations and the longtime object of her affection. But the man who emerged from the shower to find Corinthians clad in next t...

  • The Perfect Sinner

    Penny Jordan

    Prominent lawyer Max Crighton has it all -- money, power, the perfect home life. But for a man add to the dark and dangerous side of sexual attraction isn't enough. He goes from affair to affair, seducing his grateful female clients, putting his ch...

  • Under Your Spell

    Marcia King-Gamble

  • Hope Everlastin'

    Mickee Madden

    ALIVE WITH LOVE In any other place it would seem impossible. But within the enchanting walls of Baird House, Beth and her beloved Lachlan are together again--reunited in another time, and in an embrace not even death can sever Blessed with a second ...

  • A Husband for Holly

    Kathryn Kirkwood

    LOVE'S SECOND SEASON Four years ago, one waltz with a handsome costumed "pirate" told Holly she'd met the love of her life. One kiss, and she promised to meet him the next afternoon for a romantic tet-a-tet,. But never did she see his face, for th...

  • Blue Moon

    Jill Marie Landis

    An innocent girl of nineteen, Olivia Bond is on the run from an ugly and dangerous past. She finds herself alone, lost deep in the frightening world of an Illinois swamp. Then, out of the mist, comes a man to save her. A reclusive loner, Noah LeCr...

  • Birds of a Feather

    Allison Lane

    A Brush with Passion Clad in spectacles and plain dresses, Joanna Patterson would make no impression at all on Lord Sedgewick Wylie, if she didn't keep running into him ... literally. The great arbiter of fashion for London society, Sedge had t...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Taste of Fire

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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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Gunslinger

    Connie Mason

    He blew into Trouble Creek on a raw April wind, a fast gun for hire to the highest bidder. But when Chloe Sommers offered him a job protecting her herd, she had no idea Desperado Jones had a hidden agenda as deadly as his Colt .45. All she saw was a ...

  • Sweet Tempest

    Patricia Werner

    AT THE CENTER OF THE STORM... Carrying on the work of her late father, legendary weather wizard Sherman Tucker, Florida meteorologist Kelly Tucker lives for the thrill of flying through howling gales to reach the calm, beautiful eye of a hurricane. ...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Magic and Moonlight

    Sharon Pisacreta

    Salome Hall would do just about anything to win her fiance back--even if that meant leaving behind her teaching job and the safety of Black Horse, Missouri, and working in a traveling magic act. But her small-town upbringing had not prepared her for ...

  • Bushwhacked Bride

    Eugenia Riley

    JUMPING JEHOSHAPHAT! YOU'VE SHANGAHIED THE NEW SCHOOLMARM!" Ma Reklaw bellowed at her sons and wielded her broom with a fierceness that had all five outlaw brothers running for cover; it didn't take a PH.D. to realize that in the Reklaw household...

  • Lone Star

    Evelyn Rogers

    It was as forthright and independent as the women who braved the rugged land, and sunset-haired Kate Calloway was as feisty an example of the breed as Cord had ever seen. A Texas woman. He had not dealt with one in a long time, but he recognized the ...

  • The Borders of Life

    G.A. Kathryns

    In the spellbinding tradition of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes, The Borders of Life captures the soul of a small town on the edge of reality, where nightmares shimmer in and out of focus--and the supernatural is just a step beyond......

  • Silent Invader

    Don Pendleton

    THE GUARDIANS The ultracovert arm of the U.S. Justice Department. Stony Man has an ongoing mission to keep the world's trouble spots from exploding, by destroying the agents of terror who threaten humanity. Now, as deadly nerve gas slaughters inno...

  • Black Dawn Rising

    Don Pendleton

    BLOOD RESURRECTION A soft probe turns hard with no time for prisoners when U.S. and German factions of the neo-Nazi group Black Dawn unite in an unholy alliance that promises hell on earth for millions. On a collision course with the enemy, Mack Bol...

  • The Cure

    Kip Langello

    Jodie Simms lives for two things: her job as one of television’s top investigative journalists and her father, Carl, who is slowly losing his mind to the scourage of Alzheimer’s disease. Almost beyond hope, the best Jodie can do is hold her fathe...

  • Operation: Shell Game

    James Watson; Mark Roberts

    At Firebase Loadstone, the SEALs went in with weapons blazing and saved the day--extracting a stranded Special Forces company from the middle of an all-out NVA invasion. Now, with a group of American prisoners being checked into the dreaded "Hanoi Hi...

  • 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...

  • Sips of Blood

    Mary Ann Mitchell

    Book OneHistoires de Le Vampire Marquis de SadeAs a vampire, the Marquis de Sade has survived the French Revolution, the two World Wars, and the swiftly changing centuries. However, for how long can he survive the taunting and heckling of his Dominat...

  • 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...

  • The Gnomewrench in the Dwarfworks

    Nick O'Donohoe

    At the height of World War II, Grady Cavanaugh, a young American engineer and draft reject working for an industrial furnace manufacturer in New England, receives an odd order that leads him to the discovery of an incredible underground world populat...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Corporate Mentality

    Steven Piziks

    In the sequel to Company of Mind, Lance Michaels is sent out to reprogram a rogue hive of microscopic nanobots before a disaster can occur, only to discover that the hive is under the control of a psychotic child with plans to send the nanobo...

  • 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 ...

  • The Compass of the Soul

    Sean Russell

    THE END OF MAGIC Lord Eldrich is the last mage. A mysterious and menacing figure, he has dedicated his unnaturally long life to eradicating all vestiges of magic from the world, for he has had an apocalyptic vision of a terrible cataclysm brought ...

  • The Alien Years

    Robert Silverberg

    It Was The Worst of Times...

    Fifteen feet tall, the Entities land in cities across Earth. Ignoring humankind, they wall themselves in impenetrable enclaves, enslaving a few willing collaborators with their telepathic ...

  • The Price You Pay

    Ashley McConnell

    In order to escape total annihilation, the people of M'kwethet pay homage to the evil forces of Apophis by providing their best and strongest specimens as host bodies to the Goa'uld for their young; when Colonel Jack O'Neill and his SG-1 team are str...

  • The Change

    John Peel

    These growing pains are...monstrous.

    Thirteen-year-old Lucas Wright is hiding out for his life. The space research station he and his family live on has been invaded by a dangerous alien. One by one each member of the station team has disappea...

  • 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 ...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • Somewhere a Rainbow

    Yvonne Lehman

    After her unfaithful husband is killed in an auto accident, Brooke Haddon faces the challenge of rebuilding her life. Most of her money is gone, so she must move with her five-year-old son to the honeymoon cottage on Hilton Head Island where her marr...

  • 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...

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  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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&#...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • For This Week I Thee Wed

    Cheryl St. John

    COME CLEAN... OR COME UP WITH A HUSBAND I, Francie Karr-Taylor, take thee, Ryan MacNair, in marriage to convince my grandmother and my tenth-reunion class that I'm happily married -- you provide the kids. A week should do it. You should pledge to ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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.....

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Sizzle!: Body Heat

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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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...