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  • 1776: Son of Liberty

    Elizabeth Massie

    America comes of age -- as seen through the eyes of its young founders "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..." On his farm in Maryland, sixteen-year-old Caleb Jacobson waits anxiously for news from Boston: rumor...

  • A-Z Murder Goes . . . Artful

    Philip R. Craig

  • Affirmative Reaction

    Aileen Schumacher

    MURDER IN WEST TEXAS On this particular Sunday, Las Cruces engineer Tory Travers actually wanted to spend her afternoon crawling through a storm drain in an unfinished housing development project. She was looking for a leak. Instead, she found a corp...

  • After Life

    Rhian Ellis

    In a debut novel of psychological suspense, Naomi Ash and her medium mother relocate to Train Line, a small town populated by spiritualists and mediums, where Naomi comes of age, struggling to come to terms with her own spiritual talents, until Peter...

  • Alice-By-Accident

    Lynne Reid Banks

    "It's just so stupid, Brandy asking us to write our lives for homework!

    I remember enough things on my life to keep me writing for about a million hours."

    As Alice struggles with her class assignment for Miss B...

  • All the Way from Texas

    Carolyn Brown

  • Always

    Lynsay Sands

    Bastard daughter to the king, Rosamunde is raised in a convent and wholly prepared to take the veil ... until good King Henry shows up with a reluctant husband in tow for her. Suddenly, she finds herself promising to love, honor, and obey Aric ... al...

  • Always My Hero

    Nora LeDuc

    Lady Jane Hamilton was snooping in her father's library-and she wasn't the least ashamed of it. To find her missing sister Cassandra, she would break into Westminster Palace if she had to. She never expected to find charismatic Robert Reed, the man s...

  • Anna and the Gentleman

    Kate Silver

    A GENTLE BEAUTY When her father died, leaving her alone with her ailing mother, Anna Woodleigh envisioned a life of bard work and precious little security. She never imagined an offer of help--and certainly not from such an unexpected patron. Dash...

  • The Applesauce War

    Ellen E. Kennedy
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    Harvesttime was once the climax of the average American's year. Each of the characters has a harvest to gather, but than a field crop will be gleaned from their labor. God is faithful in tending the hearts of his children and only He can see the true...

  • An Ardent Friendship

    Elizabeth Bailey

    Miss Timothia Dulverton had just finished mourning her dear departed father when she received a most unexpected proposal from her cousin, Mr. Leo Wetheral. Marriage? To Leo? Didn't they know each other too well for that? But Leo had a bargain for...

  • The Assistant

    J. Patrick Law

    A young Washington lawyer whose parents were mysteriously killed in an alleged hit-and-run accident, Ben Poltarek finds himself faced once again with sudden tragedy -- and unwittingly becomes a player in a deadly game of global intelligence. When a d...

  • The Awakening // Picture Perfect

    Debra White Smith

    A spineâ€"tingling tale, The Awakening highlights the power of love and God’s provision.

    Supermodel Kim Lan has beauty, wealth, an engagement to heartthrob Ted Curry, close friends, and a budding faith that seldom interferes with her plan...

  • The Awful Aardvarks Shop for School

    Reeve Lindbergh

    It's time to stock up on school supplies and the Awful Aardvarks are sure to be the first in line, in an amusing tale with lively, full-color illustrations from the creators of The Awful Aardvarks Go to School. ...

  • The Baby Bargain

    Peggy Nicholson

    IT SEEMED LIKE A GOOD IDEA... After seventeen years as a diligent single dad, Rafe Montana wants his freedom. Newly widowed and the mother of two, Dana Kershaw needs no additional burdens. But their teenagers have made a baby.... Rafe think...

  • Baby Bonus?

    Sandra Paul

    A BOUNCING DIVIDEND? Armed bank robbers were easy for security expert Mitch Flaherty. So were temperamental clients and beautiful women. What baffled him were five PREGNANT tellers and their lovely manager who refused to do things his way -- the r...

  • Baby Makes Three

    Daphne Atkeson

    GOING GA-GA Assistant Principal Zoe Balboa has no intention of getting involved with her new roommate, Alex Masters -- although the thought of running her hands through the handsome inventor's unruly hair is very tempting. Zoe's determined to kee...

  • Bachelor Doctor

    Barbara Boswell

    "Workplace romances are notoriouslay stupid" -Dr. Trey Weldon, the last stubborn Weldon bachelor This sexy, sought-after surgeon intended on staying single until he ws good and ready for marriage. And no woman-especially not one who worked for him-w...

  • Bachelor Father

    Jean C. Gordon

    Brett Cahill is a typical bachelor. Someday he’ll settle down with a wife and have kids -- but just not yet. Then, his sister and her husband are killed in an accident, leaving him with Jake, the Korean toddler they were in the process of adopti...

  • Battle Bismarck Sea

    Lex MacAvlay

  • Be Patient, Pooh

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

  • A Beary Merry Christmas!

    Random House

  • Beauty for Ashes

    Linda Goodnight
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    School has never been as fun as when some special teachers fall in love. Enjoy modern classroom settings in these four inspirational romance novellas by authors Kristin Billerbeck, Linda Goodnight, Kristi Hickman, and Yvonne Lehman....

  • Beneath the Ashes

    Sue Henry

    IN A BREATHTAKING LAND OF ICE AND COLD, DEATH HAS COME...BY FIRE. In the lingering chill of the early Alaskan spring, famed "musher" Jessie Arnold confronts the charred remains of a favorite local pub, destroyed by a suspicious blaze that claimed ...

  • Benetton

    Jonathan Mantle

    Benetton is the story of an extraordinary family and the business they have built from humble origins to a skilfully orchestrated worldwide phenomenon. No other team name has such an ability to charm and shock, to subvert and yet preach conformism, t...

  • Besieged

    James Lasdun

    James Lasdun's two collections of short stories, Delirium Eclipse and Three Evenings, have won him outstanding praise as one of the most distinctive British writers of his generation, both as a stylist and as a storyteller. His work has been describe...

  • Beyond the Gathering Storm

    Janette Oke

    Siblings seeking adventure find more than they bargained for... The love of Wynn and Elizabeth Delaney has healed their adopted son Henry's painful memories and helped him grow into a man of character. But when his job as a Royal Canadian Moun...

  • Beyond Varallan

    S.L. Viehl

    SANCTUARY FOR A SURGEON Dr. Cherijo Grey Veil Torin has had a bad year. With her identity as a genetically enhanced clone revealed, the Allied League of Worlds has declared her a non-sentient and demanded her return to Earth--where she will be han...

  • The Bifrost Guardians

    Mickey Zucker Reichert

    Now in one volume, the first three novels in the startlingly original Bifrost Guardians series: an epic saga of a Vietnam soldier sent through time and space.Godslayer: Torn away from the midst of firefight in Vietnam and catapulted to a time an...

  • Big Spooky House

    Donna Washington

  • The Billionaire and the Baby

    Rebecca Winters

    Hannah Carr had never dreamed she would meet a gorgeous billionaire like Dominic Giraud -- let alone marry one! But when Dominic discovered how much Hannah wanted to adopt her sister's baby, he whisked her away for a whirlwind wedding. Dominic...

  • Birthright

    Judith Arnold

    YOU ARE NOW ENTERING RIVERBEND, INDIANA Riverbend... home of the River Rats -- a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days ar...

  • The Bishop and the Missing L Train

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Millions of Blackie Ryan fans will be thrilled with his return in this exciting novel of mystery and suspense. The Vatican has just assigned auxiliary Bishop Gus Quill to the Archdiocese of Chicago over the violent protests of Blackie's boss Sean Car...

  • Black Justice

    Jason Elder

  • The Black Knave

    Patricia Potter

    Scotland's darkest hour gives birth to an unlikely hero -- and an unforgettable love... The Marquis After the massacre at Culloden, the new marquis of Braemoor, Rory Forbes, takes a Jacobite bride in a marriage of convenience. And though Rory r...

  • Blackmailed Bride

    Sylvie Kurtz

    In a dark and isolated mansion, he made her an outrageous offer... Dr. Jonas Shades needed someone to play his wife in order to secure the funds required for his critical research. Cathlynn O'Connell was the perfect candidate. Except with time run...

  • Blanche Passes Go

    Barbara Neely

    Tired of Boston and cleaning houses, maid-turned-sleuth Blanche White hads home to Farleigh, North Carolina, where she encounters the man who had once raped her and who is suspected in the murder of a young girl. By the author of Blanche Cleans U...

  • Blood

    Joseph Glass

    Dr. Susan Shader is the most fascinating -- and sexiest -- heroine to come along since Clarice Starling made her debut in The Silence of the Lambs. Introduced in Joseph Glass's widely praised first novel, Eyes, Susan is a renowned psychiatrist and cr...

  • Blood Brothers: Gabe/Randall

    Anne McAllister; Lucy Gordon

    DOUBLE TROUBLE That was what you got when cousins Gabe McBride, a Montana cowboy, and Randall Stanton, a British lord, traded places! What Gabe and Randall got was the challenge of their lives! Anything Randall could do, Gabe could do better--b...

  • Blood Trail

    Jack Hanson

    Barlow becomes a protector to an imperiled Indian band in the fourth Wild Gun novel....

  • The Blossom and the Nettle

    Diane Noble

    In her sweeping new trilogy, the California Chronicles, award-winning author Diane Noble combines love and laughter, poignancy and passion in a setting that brings to life the young and gloriously wild California of yesterday.

    California Ch...

  • Blue is My Name

    Angela C. Santomero

    Blue is the color of so many things! Preschoolers will delight in this romping story as they discover all the reasons Blue loves being blue!...

  • Blue's Best Rainy Day

    Deborah Reber

    Blue has the perfect indoor rainy day game, but first, Steve and all her friends must go on a scavenger hunt to unearth her favorite rainy-day activity, in a delightful book that invites youngsters to join in on the fun! Original....

  • The Blushing Bride

    Judith Stacy

    The last thing Jason Kruger needed was a city woman and her catalog of love! He ran a lumber camp, not a lonely hearts club. But Amanda Pierce, matchmaker extraordinaire, offered wedded bliss to his crew ...and made him crave a life he never dream...

  • Body

    Sharon Fiffer

  • The Book of Fire

    Marjorie Bradley Kellogg

    A DESPERATE CALL had united the dragons Earth and Water with their dragon guides: the girl named Erde, who had discovered Earth in the war-ravaged principalities of 913 AD Germany, and the boy N'Doch, who found Water on the African coast in the year...

  • The Borrowed Groom

    Judy Christenberry

    A SUDDEN ENGAGEMENT. It was her smile that caused all the trouble. Yep, ranch foreman Rob Hansen was sure he never would have agreed to be Melissa Kennedy's counterfeit fiance if she hadn't given him one of her killer smiles. And now he found himse...

  • Brave the Betrayal

    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. Jalil, David, Christopher, a...

  • The Bride's Best Man

    Laura Phillips

    SHE´S GOIN´ TO THE CHAPEL... ...with hunky Jack Rathert at her side. Naturally, Marcy Winters isn´t going to marry her old fishing buddy. She´s merely chosen him to be her honor attendant when she weds Roger Ashforth III, who--unlike carefree Jack--...

  • The Bride's Proposition

    Day Leclaire

    A practical marriage... Penelope believed in being practical. She needed a husband, so decided to investigate suitable candidates -- and propose! Stefano Salvatore was perfect, and their marriage would also combine their business assets. Surely St...

  • Brigham's Day

    John Gates

  • Cakes, Kisses and Confusion

    Lynn Collum
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    When the Earl of Sedgefield comes to pay a visit at the cottage of Miss Annabelle Hill's aunt, he invites the unsuspecting Annabelle to Exeter, where he has set a trap for her. It seems the Earl has confused the poor girl for a scheming social climbe...

  • Carp Fishing on Valium

    Graham Parker

    Garden gnomes mysteriously vanish from suburban lawns... a momentous force enters a 13-year-old boy from the third rail of a train line and gives him powers that he uses to harass a local fishwife... Mick Jagger is killed when a bus runs over him and...

  • Casey's Journey

    Marjorie M. McGinley

    The stranger calling out to Tom Casey, who sits in a dark canyon with a lonely fire, turns out to be a newly arrived Irishman on the run from a troubled past. As the stranger reveals his sad tale, Tom Casey reflects on his own troubles. Tom has vowed...

  • Catherine's Wish

    Joy Reed

    Legend has it that when a maiden looks into the Honeywell House well, she will see the face of her future betrothed. Join a reformed rogue and a rebellious lady as they turn a quiet English village during the Regency period into a cauldron of simmeri...

  • Cave

    Diane Siebert

  • Chimera

    Will Shetterly

    From the author of Dogland, a dark new vision of the future of gene-splicing and artificial intelligence

    Will Shetterly has created a dark and intriguing future for this novel, a world of genetic engineering and cloning where human and animal ...

  • Circle of Seven

    Clay Jacobsen

  • Civil War Fantastic

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A series of speculative stories offers a fresh look at America's bloodiest war, posing compelling "what if" scenarios for readers to contemplate, in an anthology featuring works by Nancy Springer, Catherine Asaro, Robert Sheckley, Mike Resnick, Josep...

  • The Clandestine Circle

    Mary H. Herbert
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Rose Knight Linsha Majere, working undercover for the Solamnics' Clandestine Circle, earns a place on the elite bodyguard of Hogan Bight, the mysterious lord governor of Sanction. She quickly learns the governor is not the only one who needs protecti...

  • Close Encounters

    Sandra Kitt

    Accidentally wounded in a police bust gone terribly wrong, African-American woman Carol Taggert finds herself re-evaluating her views on race and romance when one of the cops present that fateful evening--a handsome white man--begins to show interest...

  • Conditions of Faith

    Alex Miller

    Emily Stanton, an intelligent and ambitious young woman of the 1920s, discovers that her struggle for personal freedom challenges society's deeply cherished beliefs about motherhood and family, in a story revealed through a fragmentary journal, left ...

  • Condor Canyon

    L.J. Martin

    A veteran of the war for independence from Mexico, Clint Ryan has carved out a new life for himself on a homstead in the San Joaquin Valley, but his peaceful existence is threatened when he becomes trapped between ruthless Anglos out to drive the Cal...

  • Conquer the Night

    Shannon Drake

    Sir Arryn Graham had come to seek revenge against Kinsey Darrow for his bloody deeds against the Highland rebels. And he'd do it by claiming Darrow's bride, Kyra, for his own. But in the tangle of her lustrous hair and the emerald of her eyes, Arryn ...

  • Consequences

    Margot Dalton

    Welcome to Crystal Creek, Texas: If this is your first visit to the friendly ranching town in the Texas hill country, get ready to meet some unforgettable people. If you've been here before, you'll recognize old friends... and make some new ones....

  • Counterfeit Cowboy

    Carrie Alexander

    SOME THINGS YOU OVERLOOK... TIGHT JEANS ON A COWBOY, YOU DON'T! Signing on as lodge manager at the Triple Eight Dude Ranch was no doubt the craziest thing Molly Broome had ever done. The place was a disaster waiting to happen, with strange goi...

  • Cowboy for Keeps

    Kristi Gold

    COWBOY CHARISMA To Dana Landry, Will Baker looked as wild as a Texas tornado. Despite her cautious attitude toward men, Dana was mesmerized by Will. This cowboy's combination of dimples and sun-streaked golden hair lent him a boyish charm, but his...

  • Crisis Four

    Andy McNab

    British Intelligence agent Nick Stone has just been given a chilling ultimatum: find a missing agent who appears to have defected or lose the guardianship of his nine-year-old goddaughter. In Stone's mind, there is no choice. The "runner" is Sarah Gr...

  • Cruising for Murder

    Susan Sussman

    When the curtains open on Morgan Taylor's second adventure, the Chicago actress is Restless, capital R. Hard at work for eight months starring in "Rent," the run has been good, but grueling. Between Morgan's growing boredom and the fact that her year...

  • Curse of Gold

    A.D. Francis

  • Damned If You Do

    Gordon Houghton

    Hades is dead and the Agency needs a replacement, a new apprentice to carry on its good work. After a vote, corpse number 72 18 9 11 12 13 49 is selected and promptly yanked from his grave, to serve a seven day trial sentence. Each day our hapless ...

  • Dance From The Heart

    Louise Tucker Jones

    Jenni Lawson has always dreamed of being part of a metropolitan ballet. She's going nowhere dancing in Okklahoma City and, desiring a change of pace, has taken a summer position at a theater in Florida. On the flight into Orlando, Jenni meets spee...

  • A Dangerous Road

    Kris Nelscott

    It's February 1968, and tense race relations in Memphis are beginning to build into real conflict. The sanitation workers' strike has been going on for almost three weeks, and marches are beginning to turn into riots.

    African-American P.I. S...

  • Daniel Plainway: or, The Holiday Haunting of the Moosepath League

    Van Reid

    It is Christmas 1896, in snowy Maine, but holiday cheer eludes country lawyer Daniel Plainway as he contemplates the demise and disappearance of a neighboring family with whom he had shared countless happy times.When Plainway learns that a missing po...

  • Dantes' Inferno

    Sarah Lovett

    The clock is already ticking when Dr. Sylvia Strange is called in to help uncover the identity of a murderous bomber whose campaign of terror has ripped through the heart of Los Angeles. The prime suspect: John Dantes, whose intellectual brilliance i...

  • Dark Cities Underground

    Lisa Goldstein

    In her most ambitious novel yet, Lisa Goldstein tells the story of Ruthie, a young journalist sent to interview Jerry, an older man who as a child was the central character of a series of classic childrens books written by his mother, the Adventures ...

  • The Dark House

    John Sedgwick

    Meet Edward Rollins, scion of one of Boston's more notable families. A diligent but uninspired employee at one of the city's finest investment houses, he is a man of means -- and of secrets. Each night, armed with a hand-held tape recorder, he random...

  • Dark Magic

    Christine Feehan

    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light... WOULD SHE FIND MAGIC -- OR MADNESS IN HIS DARK EMBRACE? Young Savannah Dubrinsky is a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmer...

  • The Dark One

    Melinda Metz

    True love never dies. Isabel has run away from home, and Max knows her life is in danger. He has to find her and save her, but time is ticking away. Alex is back on Earth, and he's a changed man. He looks better, feels better, and is ready to li...

  • Dark Secret

    Elizabeth Atkins Bowman

    In the irresistible tradition of Eileen Goudge, Dark Secret is a compelling page-turner that tests the family bond between two very different sisters--and exposes a lifetime of deception.Karen Bradley has not seen her sister in years, not since Sharl...

  • The Dark Side of the Sun

    Elizabeth Palmer

    Growing up as the governess's daughter in the shadow of the Harding family's eccentric charm, Mary Fox can never hope to share their unshakable social confidence. Beautiful Godfrey, outrageous Nettie, and the twins, Jonathan and William, are born int...

  • Daughter Mine

    Herbert Gold

    Dan Shaper, bachelor, translator for the San Francisco courts, is a man who has worn the same raincoat for fifteen years, eats the same breakfast in the same coffeeshop every morning, occasionally sees a few long-time men friends and vaguely regrets ...

  • Dawn Rochelle

    Lurlene McDaniel

    Lurlene McDaniel's moving interconnected novels about Dawn Rochelle, who is diagnosed with cancer, are now available in one volume.

    Dawn Rochelle is 13 years old when she is diagnosed with cancer. Her journey through her first chemotherapy, he...

  • The Dawning

    Hugh B. Cave

    In a world where crime, drugs, and pollution have made the world uninhabitable, a small band of survivors heads off to the wilderness of northern Canada to make a new start, but the forces of nature are anything but welcoming....

  • Dayhunt

    Don Pendleton

    MAXIMUM IMPACT Mack Bolan is leading a joint government task force to bring down drug czar Don Jorge Luis Samosa. And Congress authorizes a fleet of state-of-the-art drug interdiction vessels to shut down the narcobaron's smuggling operation along...

  • Death Benefit

    Philip Harper

    A jogger falls to her death from a bridge in a Philadelphia park. A teenager dies when his bike collides with a bus. A young woman is found dead in a downtown office building. All the deaths can be explained. None results in the prosecution of a murd...

  • Death Spiral

    Clyde Linsley

    THIN ICE Washington, D.C., private investigator Leo McFarlin isn't rich or busy enough to turn away clients who don't really seem to have much of a case--clients like Irene Liston. A beautiful, cold-as-ice "skating mom," she has big plans for Debbie...

  • Death Train to Boston

    Dianne Day

    Autumn 1908 finds Caroline Fremont Jones and her partner in love and work, Michael Kossoff, traveling incognito, riding the rails from San Francisco to Boston. The railroad hired the sleuthing couple to investigate a series of accidents. But before t...

  • The Declaration of Independence

    Anne Mazer

    "All Men are created equal and are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights." - Thomas Jefferson Thursday-- If even unaliens have rights, then I should, too! I should be able to go to the Festival with my friends. I should be able ...

  • Deep Sound Channel

    Joe Buff

    The most dangerous weapons are the ones you can't see.... An electrifying new voice in military fiction, Joe Buff has written a spectacular tale set in the not-too-distant future -- when the United States is embroiled in a tactical nuclear war tha...

  • Denim & Diamond

    Moyra Tarling

    SHE WAS HIS HOPE Years ago Piper Diamond had sorely tempted Kyle Masters's rough-hewn masculinity. Though he'd ached to know the fulfillment of the promise he could taste on her lips, he'd manfully sent her on her way. Kyle was too honorable to sna...

  • The Detective's Undoing

    Jill Shalvis

    CADE McKNIGHT WAS A LONER... A man who liked his horizons open. Then the private investigator met Delia Scanlon. The sexy spitfire drove Cade to distraction and aroused his protective male instincts. He was supposed to uncover the truth about Delia...

  • Devil's Claw

    J.A. Jance

    A piercing ill wind blows hot out of the silent Arizona desert. A Native American woman is dead - an ex-con once jailed for the murder of her husband - and her teenage daughter has vanished info the long shadows of the night-still canyons. A dedi...

  • Die Vecna Die!

    Bruce R. Cordell

    In the Die Vecna Die! adventure, fans can match wits with one of the most powerful villains ever created for the Dungeons & Dragons(r) game. Loyal Dungeons & Dragons players will be thrilled at the chance for their heroes to face-and possibly vanquis...

  • Disney's Animal Stories

    Disney Book Group

  • Disney's Princess Collection

    Disney Book Group

  • Disney's the Kid Club

    Rebecca Gomez

  • Do Or Die

    Grace F. Edwards

    A songbird is silenced ... by murder. With her soulful voice and delicate beauty, Starr Hendrix seemed destined to live up to her name and hit it big as a jazz singer. But her career ended before it began, and Mali's father offered Starr a second ...

  • Doc in the Box

    Elaine Viets

    DEADLY DEDUCTIBLE It takes a truly sneaky person to keep a secret in a newsroom. St. Louis City Gazette columnist Francesca Vierling is just the woman to do it--especially to help hide her editor's bout with breast cancer. Now she's surreptitiousl...

  • Doctor and the Debutante

    Pat Warren

    IF ONLY SHE COULD REMEMBER Laura Marshall woke up in a stranger's cabin, with a colossal headache... and absolutely NO idea how she got there. All she knew was that there was a handsome doctor at her service. A girl could get used to this! Besi...

  • Don't Drink the Water

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    There is no love lost between novelist/sometime sleuth E.J. Pugh and her three sisters: four high-strung Texas redheads who have made sibling rivalry an art form. In an attempt to ease their stretched-thin family ties, the ladies and their respective...

  • Down to the Bone

    Karen Harper

    Deep in the heart of a small Amish community lies a secret someone thought was buried forever. But one woman may have just unknowingly uncovered it.... Rachel Mast is doing alt she can to keep her life together one year after the tragic death of h...

  • Dr. Nightingale Seeks Greener Pastures

    Lydia Adamson

    GOOD HORSE SENSE? Dr. Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale is finding the dwindling dairy industry hard on her practice--and her pocketbook. Thinking that racehorses might be the winning ticket to more business, she heads to a vet conference in Atlantic Cit...

  • Drip, Drop!

    Sarah Weeks

    Rain, Rain Go Away

    It's raining, and Pip Squeak's roof is leaking. He tries to catch the water with pots, pans, cups, and cans -- he even tries using a shoe! But the drips and the drops just won't stop. What will Pip...

  • Edwina Parkhurst, Spinster

    Patricia Lucas White

    Edwina Parkhurst has a guilty secret, one that she has lied, contrived, and connived to keep hidden. Knowing full well that what she does is denounced as a terrible sin, preached against in pulpits, seen as Satan's handiwork by the God-fearing people...

  • Egan Cassidy's Kid

    Beverly Barton

    He would do anything for the mother of his child... ONLY ONCE HAD HE LET DOWN HIS GUARD... Years ago, rock-solid mercenary Egan Cassidy had spent a night of sensual ecstasy with Maggie Douglas. Now, their son -- a child he never knew existed ...

  • Eli

    Bill Myers

    What If Jesus Had Not Come Until Today? Who Would Follow Him? Who Would Kill Him?A fiery car crash hurls TV journalist Conrad Davis into another world exactly like ours except for one detail--Jesus Christ did not come 2,000 years ago, but today.Start...

  • Elizabeth in Love

    Francine Pascal

    Everybody's shocked by Elizabeth's new love . . . especially Jessica. Neil won't tell a soul his summer plans . . . does he have something to hide? Chloe and Nina friends? Weirder stuff has happened . . . like what's going on behind closed doors at...

  • Ellipsis

    Stephen Greenleaf

    Against his better judgment, John Marshall Tanner takes a job as a writer’s bodyguard Somebody wants Chandelier Wells dead. After years churning out bestselling bodice-rippers, she’s the best-known author in San Francisco, and she’s no stranger...

  • Emilie

    Cherie Claire

    Amid the untamed forests and moss-strewn swamps of Louisiana Territory, the daughters of an Acadian exile discover danger...and desire. A PASSIONATE REUNION Strikingly beautiful and stubbornly defiant, Emilie Gallant was used to fighting her own ...

  • Emily's First Day Of School

    Claire Masurel

  • Escape from Disaster

    Peter Lerangis

    Trapped in Antarctic ice, Jack Winslow and his sons fight to get homeIt has been nearly a year since Jack Winslow and his two sons, Colin and Andrew, set out to conquer Antarctica. While Colin and most of the crew stayed behind on the ship, Andrew ma...

  • Escaping Into the Open

    Elizabeth Berg

    Writing advice from a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author who “knows how the publishing industry works . . . and why writers need to answer only to themselves† (C. Michael Curtis, senior editor, Atlantic Monthly). Both autobi...

  • Evening Star

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Everything in Its Time

    Dee Davis

    Years ago while vacationing in Scotland, Katherine St. Claire believed she'd found the love of her life. She shared a night of passion with a stranger, in a castle hotel called Duncreag. But come morning, her lover had disappeared. And she has sp...

  • Excavation

    James Rollins

    THE SOUTH AMERICAN JUNGLE GUARDS MANY SECRETS... and a remarkable site nestled between two towering Andean peaks, hidden from human eyes for thousands of years. DIG DEEPER... through layers of rock and mystery, through centuries of dark, forgott...

  • The Eye of God

    Susan Keegan

    This is a biography of the artist Oskar Kokoschka. Despite being badly wounded in the First World War, Kokoschka lived to paint, teach, write, exhibit, and engage the affections of a host of beautiful women. He founded a school of art in Salzburg and...

  • Eye of the Cat

    A.L. McWilliams

  • Fake Liar Cheat

    Tod Goldberg

    Lonnie Milton has all of life's essential accessory pieces: a 401(K) plan, a nice TV, a coffee table from Pottery Barn. The only thing missing is an actual life. Trapped in a dead-end job, Lonnie meets Claire, the perfect deliverance from his safe, b...

  • The Fall

    Garth Nix

    The sky will fall Tal has lived his whole life in darkness. He has never left his home, a mysterious castle of seven towers. He does not see the threat that will tear apart his family and his world. But Tal cannot stay safe forever. When danger str...

  • Falling for Grace

    Maddie James

    THEY WEREN'T LOOKING FOR LOVE... The owner of a successful, sophisticated boutique called Romantically Yours, Gracie Hart's nickname is the Diva of Romance. Who could have guessed that having once loved and lost, she has no intention of ever...

  • Falling for Grace

    Stella Bagwell

    OFF-LIMITS... The moment he saw his new neighbor, Jack Barrett was intrigued. Grace Holliday had a sweetness the cynical lawyer hadn't encountered in a long time. Yet he realized she was much too young for him. And very obviously pregnant... Bu...

  • Family Affairs

    Margaret Barker

    A loving compromise Amanda Grayson was really proud of the way she had turned her life around. She was bringing up her son alone, and now she had been promoted to overseeing the administration of the Outpatient Department. It had been a blast from t...

  • A Family in the Making

    Marcy Froemke

    Brynn Weston had long found fulfillment in loving other people's children, never daring to dream she'd have a family of her own -- until now. How could she ever leave behind the motherless girl, and orphaned boy she had befriended -- or the father wh...

  • Family Ties

    Jacquelin Thomas

  • Family Tree

    Carol Grace

    Home sweet home When struggling single mom Laura McIntyre sold her ranch and moved to town, she thought it would be a fresh start. But then her precocious son, Dylan, kept returning to his beloved tree house like a homing pigeon and ruffling the h...

  • Fantastic Four: Heroes Reborn

    Jim Lee

  • Feeding Christine

    B.A. Chepaitis

    In this deliciously charming novel, Barbara Chepaitis-a new and truly one-of-a-kind voice in women's fiction-skillfully explores the powerful camaraderie shared by four exceptional women. Reminiscent of Like Water for Chocolate and How to Make an Ame...

  • Firestorm

    John Peel

    This is it -- the final battle. Clone vs. clone. Good vs. evil. A fight to the death ... with the entire world at stake....

  • First Contract

    Greg Costikyan

  • First Day on a Strange New Planet

    Dan Yaccarino

  • Flightless Falcon

    Mickey Zucker Reichert

    Tamison is a flightless falcon: a worthless man who cannot even work to feed his family. Once a miner like the rest of his family, he lost his nerve after a cave-in trapped him and killed his father and brother. Discovering his wife and children have...

  • The Flip Side of Sin

    Rosalyn McMillan

    From bestselling African-American writer Rosalyn McMillan comes this extraordinary novel of how love can bring redemption and the ultimate salvation to any circumstance. The Flip Side of Sin takes readers on a journey through the lives of a group of ...

  • Fly Away Home

    Kimberly Cates

    Eve Danaher's eve for beauty has earned her renown in the fine-art community. But for all her success, her life fuels empty without the love of her estranged eighteen-year-old daughter. Determined to discover the peace and happiness that has been mis...

  • Follow the Dream

    Beverly Lewis

  • For Her Eyes Only

    Tori Carrington

    Jake McCoy--an immigration agent with an attitude. He's known for always getting his man. Only this time, he finds more woman than he can handle.... Michelle Lambert--a beautiful Frenchwoman. She's determined to stay in the country--and to convinc...

  • For the Sake of His Child

    Lucy Gordon

    Single father in need of a wife! High-flying businessman Carson Page loves his young son, but Joey is deaf -- and Carson is unable to communicate with him. Gina Tennison feels for Joey -- she was once in his position herself. So for his sake, ...

  • Forgotten

    Patricia H. Rushford

    Jennie McGrady is looking forward to a day spent hiking in the mountains with her friends. She's arranged to meet them at the trailhead but arrives a few minutes early and takes the opportunity to enjoy the solitude and cool mountain air. But lurking...

  • Foxs New Coat

    Jonathan Emmett

    Fox finds a beautiful new coat, which, though too long, feels as if it were made for her. As she leaves the clothes shop, a loose thread catches in the doorway and by the time she arrives home her coat has completely disappeared....

  • Freddi Fish the Big Froople Match

    Dave Grossman

  • Freedom's Hope

    DiAnna Crawford

    Jessica Whitman lives for one hope: reaching her mother's family, the distinguished Hargraves of Baltimore, far from the clutches of her drunken father. Noah Reardon, bitter over a broken betrothal, wants nothing to do with people. So why is he capt...

  • Full Recovery

    Bobby Hutchinson

    BROKEN BONES SHE COULD FIX. CASUALTIES OF THE HEART WEREN'T SO EASY... Dr. Joanne Duncan is a highly respected emergency room physician at St. Joseph's Hospital. Spencer Mathews was a highly respected detective with the RCMP, until a car crash ...

  • Gameprey

    Mel Odom

    A computer game convention becomes a hunting ground when the monsters from a new game escape--and attack the Net Force Explorers in virtual reality!...

  • Gemini

    Dorothy Dunnett

    With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccola series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid m...

  • A Ghost of a Chance

    Bill Crider

    THE MORE THINGS CHANGE... Though nostalgic for the good old days. Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas, knows that times may change, but people are still people, some good, some bad, and most things can be explained with a little common se...

  • The Gift

    Andrew Puckett

    When Sister Jo Farewell is persuaded to investigate a fertility scam at a well-respected clinic for the rich, she already knows it's not in her best interests. After all, her partner in crime will be Tom Jones - they'll be posing as an infertile marr...

  • Girl Reporter Snags Crush!

    Linda Ellerbee

     

    Strange Epidemic Infects School!

    Symptoms include constant hair flipping, eye batting, and the sudden use of hair gel. Diagnosis: First Dance Flu! Could everyone really be more interested in going to the dance then ...

  • Glass Houses

    Stella Cameron

    British photographer Olivia FitzDurham is running for her life--all the way to New York City and a man she's never met. The pictures she took for a London magazine seem harmless, but the man who tried to push her off the tube platform definitely m ...

  • The Glasswrights' Apprentice

    Mindy Klasky

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    Mind your caste....

    Rani Trader was born a merchant, but now she is an apprentice in the prestigious Glasswrights'' Guild. When Rani witnesses the murder of the Crown Prince, she''s accused of being the killer. On the run and labeled a tra...

  • Goblin Moon

    Kurt Busiek; Nathan Archer

    Playing Politics A paramilitary operation of thieves is on a city-wide crime spree that no one--not even Spider-Man--seems able to stop. Millionaire businessman and Daily Bugle co-owner Norman Osborn calls for action to stop this threat to New Yor...

  • God's Will, God's Best

    Josh McDowell

  • Going Gently

    David Nobbs

    Kate Thomas was beautiful, intelligent, witty, passionate and sexy. Now, at the ripe old age of ninety-nine, she is trapped in a hospital ward of sad, mad and bad old women. She escapes by playing to herself the video of her life. What a life it has ...

  • Going Out in Style

    Chloe Green

    Meet Dallas O'Connor, fashion stylist for the premier retail establishment in Texas, The Store. In her debut case, the savvy Dallas discovers that in the backstabbing business of fashion, jealousy, and revenge are suddenly in vogue. DRESSED TO KIL...

  • Gold Dust

    Chris Lynch

    If I ran things,. nobody would have names. We would just have batting averages. When star rookies Fred Lynn and Jim Rice, the Gold Dust Twins, join the Red Sox in 1975, Richard dreams of following in their footsteps. Napoleon Charlie Ellis arri...

  • Golilocks And The Three Bears

    Mireille LeVert

  • Grange House

    Sarah Blake

    From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels THE POSTMISTRESS and THE GUEST BOOK comes Sarah Blake's GRANGE HOUSE."Pleasing, intricate...[a] delightful book" -- New York Times Book ReviewMaisie Thomas spends every summer at Grange House,...

  • Grant Me Mercy

    Jill Stengl

    While British Lieutenant Warren Somerville recovers in an American army camp, his heart is changed by God's love. Encouraged in his new life by two godly men, he begins to appreciate the value of friendship and compassion. A Christmas letter from one...

  • Gravity Dreams

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    In Earth's distant future, Tyndel is both teacher and mentor, a staunch devotee to his conservative and rigidly structured religious culture. Then a rogue infection of nanotechnology transforms him into a "demon", something more than human, and he is...

  • Green Solitaire

    Mike Murray

    The Blacklight Team is called to arms to rescue group of international hostages held by a terrorist force that will stop at nothing to achieve their aims.... The South African locomotive Blue Train is one of the most luxurious in the world. But lu...

  • The Green-Eyed Hurricane

    Martin Hegwood

    Jack finds himself caught in the midst of a deadly struggle for control of Biloxi's waterfront. For his entire life, Casper Perinovich has shrimped the waters off Biloxi's Point Cadet. Pushing eighty, he's still one tough, smart guy who isn't afra...

  • The Guns of Valverde

    P.G. Nagle

    New Mexico: 1862

    The Texan Confederate army under General Henry H. Sibley, their supply train destroyed by 1st Colorado Union Volunteers at Glorieta Pass, have only one prize remaining: a battery of Union artillery captured at the Battle of Va...

  • The Halls of Stormweather

    Ed Greenwood
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The Halls of Stormweather, a novel in seven parts, is the first book in a series that explores the mean streets of a city where everything has its price and even the wealthiest families will do anything to survive! Ed Greenwood The creator of the ...

  • Hammerhead Ranch Motel

    Tim Dorsey

    There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on undercover c...

  • Harley, Like a Person

    Cat Bauer

    Fourteen-year-old Harley Columba is convinced she's adopted. She's nothing like her abusive, alcoholic father or her bitter, romance novel-reading mother. They have brown eyes, but Harley's eyes are blue. They argue and drink and thrive in dreary sub...

  • Harper's Moon

    Suzanne Judson

    As the dutiful wife of a wealthy investment banker, Annie Taylor lived a life of seemingly perfect luxury. But her pristine Park Avenue apartment was a place of abandoned dreams and stifling obligations. And nights that began with glamorous parties o...

  • Harvest of Love

    Janet Lee Barton
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    Harvesttime was once the climax of the average American's year. Each of the characters has a harvest to gather, but than a field crop will be gleaned from their labor. God is faithful in tending the hearts of his children and only He can see the true...

  • Heartbreaker

    Julie Garwood

    Bless me father, for I will sin.... In the still shadows of the confessional, a madman tauntingly reveals his plan for a murder he is going to commit, pulling Father Thomas Madden into a twisted game by disclosing his next intended victim: Tom's s...

  • Helen Hath No Fury

    Gillian Roberts

    In the stately nineteenth-century homes on Philadelphia's Delancey Street, the wilder passions scarcely ruffle the peace. Murder is unthinkable, particularly a murder involving an upscale book discussion group, of which schoolteacher Amanda Pepper is...

  • Helltracks

    William F. Nolan

  • Here Comes the Bride

    Pamela Morsi

    THERE COMES A TIME IN EVERY WOMAN'S LIFE WHEN SHE MUST GET HERSELF A MAN OR GIVE UP ON THE IDEA ENTIRELY... After three long years of patiently waiting for her reluctant, handsome, gentlemanly Amos Dewey, to pop the question, Augusta Mudd--owner o...

  • Hester Waring's Marriage

    Paula Marshall

    Rescuer...Protector...Husband? Miss Hester Waring's father was a wastrel and a drunkard, who had alienated most of Sydney society. When he died, Hester found herself destitute and alone, with no one to rely on. Her rescue came from a most unlik...

  • The High Flyer

    Susan Howatch

    “A gripping two-pronged tale of psychological terror and spiritual redemption.†-- The New York PostSuccessful London lawyer Carter Graham has power, sex appeal, and a well-ordered life. Everything has gone according to plan, including her rece...

  • Highland Princess

    Haywood Smith

    SHE REFUSED TO BE ANY MAN'S PRIZE The only sister to twelve warrior brothers, Princess Bera is more at home on the battlefield than at the hearth. Her heart and heritage lie with her Scottish clan's Castle Pitlanric, now under threat from a powerf...

  • Hired Bride

    Jackie Merritt

    The Fortunes of Texas: Membership in this family has its privileges... and its price. But what a fortune can't buy, a true-bred Texas love is sure to bring! THE DECOY Zane Fortune loved a conquest -- in business or in bed. But some matchmakin...

  • His Secret Son

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    "Hello, Father. I'm your bastard son." His whole life, Andrew Malone had been programmed to hate the man who'd abandoned his pregnant mother. But now, watching Robert MacAllister clutch his chest and crumple to the ground, Andrew felt compassion...a...

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    Golden Books

  • Home Truths

    David Lodge

    Adrian Ludlow, a novelist with a distinguished reputation and a book on the `A' level syllabus, is now seeking obscurity in a cottage beneath the Gatwick flight path. His university friend Sam Sharp, who has become a successful screen writer, drops i...

  • Horrible Harry Moves Up to Third Grade

    Suzy Kline

    It's back-to-school time, and Harry and Doug can't wait to start third grade. But when they get to school, so many things have changed that they feel like they're on Mars. At least two things remain the same: Harry is still gross, and Sidney is still...

  • Horse Love

    Bonnie Bryant

    Love takes a holiday . . .Lisa Atwood and her family are on vacation, but it isn't all fun in the sun. Something's wrong between her parents. She thinks it's serious, and she's worried. Then a handsome guy sweeps Lisa off her feet and all of her prob...

  • How I Spent My Last Night on Earth

    Todd Strasser

    Something strange is happening in the parking lot of Time Zone High: The established cliques aren’t in their usual gathering places. Instead, everyone has joined in one large, frantically interacting mass.Why? Maybe it’s because the world may end...

  • How to Be a Chicana Role Model

    Michele Serros

    Welcome to the life of a Chicana role model... She's recited poetry by the outhouses at Lollapalooza ... cleaned up after the Flygirls on the set of in Living Color ... seduced a love-struck fan with a plagiarized poem ... studied Spanish with a cli...

  • Hungry for Home

    Cole Moreton

    Chronicles the dramatic events that led to the inhabitants of the remote Blasket islands off the coast of Ireland to abandon their ancient homes and medieval way of life in 1953, following the lives and fates of this vanished people and of the Kearne...

  • Hunted

    James Alan Gardner

    For the children of Admiral Alexander York, perfection wasn't just expected, it was guaranteed--written into their DNA before they were born. But while Samantha grew into the physical and mental marvel their father had bought and paid for, her twin b...

  • The Husband Assignment

    Helen Bianchin

    When Stephanie accepted an assignment to publicize a major film, she found herself having to negotiate with Raoul Lanier, the powerful heir to a billionaire empire -- and a ruthlessly sexy man.... Stephanie simply had to stop fantasizing about Rao...

  • I Do! I Do!

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Maitland Maternity: Where the luckiest babies are born! BACHELOR DADDY TAKES BRIDE! . San Antonio, Texas Ladies, hang your heads and cry! One of the Lone Star state's most elusive bachelors has been hooked. Rancher Mason Blackstone, recently...

  • The Iceweaver

    Margaret Lawrence

    An intense, lyrical novel from the author of Hearts and Bones follows a man back to his family estate after a long absence, where he will become involved with a beautiful but mysterious woman. Reprint. 10,000 first printing....

  • Images of Ecstacy

    Loure Bussey

  • Imminent Danger

    Carla Cassidy

    HER REAL NAME WAS ALLISON WELCH... But he knew her as Cecilia Webster. Just weeks ago, she'd had everything. Then came the tragedy that stole it all - along with her eyesight. The blindness was only temporary. So were her new name and stay in rura...

  • In Name Only

    Janet Bieber

    A straitlaced spinster and a rugged ship's captain discover a passion that's anything but proper.... THE SAINT. When her sister dies, leaving four young children motherless, Valeriana MacPherson becomes determined to care for her nieces and nephew...

  • Innocent Sins

    Anne Mather

    Innocence betrayed... Memories of a long-ago summer night still taunt Laura Neill. With all the provocative innocence of youth, she stole into her stepbrother Oliver's bedroom, and discovered love and fleeting happiness in his arms. Drive...

  • Innocent Witness

    Leona Karr

    A child's only hope Little Penny Drake had witnessed a murder and would no longer speak. Only Dr. Steve Sherman could help bring the child out of her shell. Seeing her daughter respond to the psychologist brought tears to Deanna Drake's eyes--and ...

  • An Invisible Sign of My Own

    Aimee Bender

    Aimee Bender’s stunning debut collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, proved her to be one of the freshest voices in American fiction. Now, in her first novel, she builds on that early promise.

    Mona Gray was ten when her father contract...

  • Iris

    Jean Marsh

    An award-winning television writer and actress offers a portrait of London's social facades in the years after World War II, following Iris, a girl who comes close to prostitution, as she loses any pretext to innocence in an increasingly dangerous wo...

  • The Irish Rogue

    Judith E. French

    Annie Davis is in trouble. To save her reputation and avoid the wrath of her father, she needs to catch a husband as soon as possible -- and she's willing to pay. When she lands in the arms of a handsome stranger who agrees to exchange his name for t...

  • Is It Hanukkah Yet?

    Nancy Krulik

    "Is it Hanukkah yet?"
    "Not yet. We have to wait for the sun to set!"

    Families who celebrate Hanukkah will recognize this familiar refrain. And what better way to make the wait go faster than to read this sweet family story about how one ve...

  • Isabel: Jewel of Castilla

    Carolyn Meyer

    Segovia -- 12th of April 1466 After Mass this morning, I climbed the narrow, winding stone steps to a window high in one of the castle turrets. I often come up here to see what lies beyond my prison. Segovia is surrounded by four thick walls, each w...

  • Isabelle and the Angel

    Georg Hallensleben

    Isabelle is lonesome and bored. When she's not painting with pink cake and strawberry jam, she goes to the Museum where she gazes at her favorite paintingthe one of the little Angel. Isabelle is smitten. And when the object of her affection comes to ...

  • Island Magic

    Bette Ford

    With much diligence and patience, Cassandra Mosely turned a family rooming house into a popular California inn. But now she desperately needs a break from work--and from a long-standing relationship with wealthy businessman Gordan Kramer. Hoping to g...

  • It Could Happen To You

    Donna Hill
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    Specializing In Cuts, Weaves, Manicures, Pedicures. . . and Passion.

    Rochelle Alers' Sweet Surrender
    Manicurist Maria Parker can't help but notice when a hunky financial planner brings his niece into Della's for a manicure. And when he sta...