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New Books List: 678 titles

  • Do Unto Others

    Jeff Abbott

    “One of the most fun mysteries I’ve read in years. Thumbs up to Jeff Abbott’s delightful debut novel.” -- Carolyn G. HartAfter a few good years of city life, Jordan Poteet returns to his small hometown of Mirabeau, Texas, to work as a librari...

  • Who the Hell is She, Anyway?

    Marisa Acocella

    Black-and-white and two-color illustrations chronicle the zany exploits of She--a gorgeous woman with a certain knowledge of who she is and what she wants--from birth through the defiance of her school years, escape from the world of corporate ...

  • Perfectly Matched

    Candice Adams

    SHE WANTED HER HUSBAND BACK! Jill Howard had made a fool of herself when she learned her ex-husband was dating other women, but she was sure she could win him back. What she needed was some time away from the small town she lived in, some time to ...

  • A Cat on the Cutting Edge

    Lydia Adamson

    Down on her luck and coping with a temperamental cat, Alice Nestleton contacts the Village Cat People for assistance, but when their representative is murdered on Alice's doorstep, the Cat People want Alice to investigate...

  • A Cat With No Regrets

    Lydia Adamson

    C'EST MEOW -- FOR MURDER Everything's coming up roses for Off-Broadway actress Alice Nestleton when she lands a part in a major motion picture. With her two finicky felines and the three Abyssinians owned by producer Dorothy Dodd tagging along, ...

  • They Followed a Bright Star

    Joan Alavedra

    This adaption of a German nativity story offers readers a brightly illustrated picture book about the shepherds and kings who were summoned to a Bethlehem stable to prepare for and witness the birth of Jesus Christ....

  • Hangman's Root

    Susan Wittig Albert

    A prominent animal researcher has been hanged. And suspicion has fallen on the Cat Lady -- a local biology professor whose obsession with rescuing strays makes her, in some people's minds, capable of murder in defense of animals. But China is a f...

  • It's the Bear!

    Jez Alborough

    The hilarious sequel to Where's My Teddy? features little Eddie, his teddy, Freddie, and the amazingly oversized bear he had discovered the last time he went into the woods--and this time, the bear is hungry....

  • Isaac Asimov's Inferno

    Roger MacBride Allen

    A second work in a trilogy that examines Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics finds Caliban, the only robot without guilt or conscience, suspected in the murder of a politician and challenged to lead the New Law robots in a rebellion that threatens humani...

  • The Candy Land Mystery

    Cynthia Alvarez

  • Comanche Magic

    Catherine Anderson

    HE WOVE A SPELL AROUND HER HEART Handsome and powerful, with enough Comanche blood coursing through his veins to make him a little bit dangerous, Chase Wolf was used to getting what he wanted. So when Chase saw Franny--a golden-haired angel with d...

  • Pearl in the Mist

    V.C. Andrews

    One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) continues an engrossing saga of psychological suspense with this second book of the Landry Family series -- soon to be a Lifetime movie! Fate has ...

  • Those That Mattered

    Barbara Angle

    Returning home from college to her West Virginia, coal-mining roots, Portia Crowe escapes a bad marriage and follows in her family's footsteps to become one of the first female members of the United Mine Workers...

  • Shame of Man

    Piers Anthony

    A magnificent epic of danger, desire, triumph and tragedy, Piers' Anthony's Shame of Man is nothing less than the story of humanity itself. It is the story of two lovers reborn throughout history--Hugh, a dreamer and musician, and his beloved Ann, a ...

  • Christmas with All the Trimmings

    Katherine Applegate

  • Duel of Hearts

    Helen Archery

    A BATTLE OF WILLS... AND A WILLFUL BRIDE TO-BE An arranged marriage was not what Hillary Astaire had hoped for, but she was honor bound to keep her promise to her late father. Until she learned that her betrothed, the viscount of Wolverton, known ...

  • Captain Hawaii

    Anthony Dana Arkin

  • Whittler's Tale

    Jennifer Armstrong

  • A Masterful Man

    Lindsay Armstrong

    "Mr. Irresistible... !" Steve Warwick makes it clear to Davina from their first meeting that he wants her in his bed! Davina has other ideas.... The last thing she needs right now is a tough, masterful man who thinks he can organize her li...

  • Day in the Life of a Police Officer

    Eric Arnold

  • Excuse Me for Asking

    Janis Arnold

    Janis Arnold's good-humored second novel is about big dreams, sweet dreams, and nightmares. As we follow two friends across more than two decades and watch their dreams collide with the realities of careers, husbands, families, and aging parents, we...

  • The Marrying Type

    Judith Arnold

    NAME: Steve Chambliss AGE: 33 STATUS: STUD #1 OCCUPATION: Carpenter When Steve Chambliss made a bargain with his three best buddies to remain bachelors forever, he had no idea he'd wind up on national TV--representing sexy carpenters. Overnight...

  • Grave Markings

    Michael A. Arnzen

    Living in pain, an insane, egomaniacal tattoo artist is obsessed with the mad images in his mind and the need for recognition, so he seeks new flesh to fulfill his ambition, until his art becomes death itself. Original....

  • Punch With Judy

    Avi

  • Midnight Ride of Thomas the Tank Engine

    Rev. W. Awdry

    Based on The Railway Series by the Rev. W. Awdry. Illus. in full color. Thomas finds himself on an urgent midnight run to deliver toys to a children's hospital. Along the way his headlights break! Luckily friends and neighbors light the way to help T...

  • Road Wars

    James Axler

    THE FUTURE UNCERTAIN Emerging out of the ashes of the nuclear apocalypse, no one has been more successful and determined than Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists. But if the wasteland's endless miles come 'between them, the odds for get...

  • Double Plot

    Leo Axler

    Reluctantly taking the case of a man whose fatal crash seemed accidental enough, undertaker and amateur sleuth Bill Hawley attempts to find the source behind what seems to be a faked suicide tape and the victim's strange life...

  • Friday Dreaming

    Elizabeth Bailey

    The Fantasies of Miss Friday Friday Edborough dreamed of her very own Paris falling in love with her, a plain and bookish Helen of Troy. She couldn't have been more surprised when her father -- determined to see his daughter wed -- arranged a ...

  • In the Dead of Winter

    Abbey Pen Baker

    Myrl Adler Norton was, by all accounts, one of the most remarkable women of the twentieth century. The daughter of the acclaimed opera singer Irene Adler, she was a respected professor of logic at Smith College as well as one of the most famous consu...

  • One Saturday Morning

    Barbara Baker

  • The Wolf

    Margaret Barbalet

  • Catkin

    Antonia Barber

    There once was a cat named Catkin who was so small he could sit on the palm of a child's hand. He was given to a farmer and his wife to keep watch over their baby girl, by a wise woman who had seen danger in the child's future. And when the merry, he...

  • Everville

    Clive Barker

    "Our most accomplished contemporary purveyor of horror fiction strikes again in Everville, a tale of worlds in conflict. . . . [Barker's] extravagantly unconventional inventions are ingenious refractions of our common quest to experience and understa...

  • The Fables of Aesop

    Frances Barnes-Murphy

    A collection of more than one hundred of Aesop's classic fables, designed to delight and instruct both adults and children, features clever pen-and-ink drawings on every page and thirty full-color paintings....

  • A Taxi Dog Christmas

    Debra Barracca

  • Free Fall

    Elizabeth Barrett

    Spending the summer with her grandmother while her parents try to sort out their troubled marriage, seventeen-year-old Ginnie grapples with unexpected romance, curiosity about sex, and the problems of growing up....

  • Free Puppies (To Loving Homes)

    Bobbi Barto

    Illus. in full color. When Samantha hears that the dog next door is having puppies, she begs her mother for one. She visits the pups every day--until the big moment arrives when she takes her own special puppy home.  ...

  • Three Bears Big Book

    Byron Barton

  • Father's Day

    John Calvin Batchelor

    Temporarily transferring power to the vice president while on disability in the year 2003, President Ted Jay is shocked when the vice president refuses to relinquish command five months later, an action that threatens to tear the nation in two. Repri...

  • O Beautiful for Spacious Skies

    Katharine Lee Bates

  • Irresistible

    Michael Bates

    An exotic new perfume attracts the attention of many teenagers with claims that it arouses desire, until it begins demonstrating some strange, potentially harmful side effects that cause wearers to experience twisted obsessions. Original....

  • Away in a Manger

    Ian Beck

  • Fine Lines

    Simon Beckett

    A wealthy, slightly sinister London art dealer develops a voyeuristic obsession with his assistant, Anna, and hires an amoral male model to seduce her while he watches from behind a screen--but his impulses lead to nasty surprises--including murder. ...

  • Passionate Kisses

    Cherie Bennett

    Jane McVay's country music band, Wild Hearts, continues to get better and better, but their success suddenly takes second place when Jane meets and falls head over heels in love with Travis Laramie, a handsome young fiddle player. Original....

  • Sunset Fantasy

    Cherie Bennett

    After getting into a terrible fight, Emma, Samantha, and Carrie have similar dreams about what the three of them will be doing ten years into the future, and what a mutual enemy will finally get as just desserts. Original....

  • Running the Halls: Middlefield Mayhem

    J.T. Bergen

  • Love's Darkness

    Cheryl Biggs
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    Randi Baines accompanies her fiance, Lane DuCroix, home to his Louisiana Plantation -- only to discover that their arrival has awakened dark forces in the shadowy bayau. Now, Randi must fight the century-old spirit of a beautiful woman named Liliand...

  • Hester

    Christopher Bigsby

    In his first novel, British scholar Christopher W.E. Bigsby provides a prequel to The Scarlet Letter, introducing readers to a younger Hester Prynne. He tells of her attempts to flee an oppressive marriage to Roger Chillingworth, her love affair with...

  • Sweet Dalliance

    Lisa Bingham

    When Micah St. Charles wakes up at the wrong end of a gun aimed by a women who has stolen his clothes, he decides to get clear of Eliza Wilder's barn fast. On the run from the Union army -- accused of treason by the one man who should have lo...

  • Festive Fun

    Roma Bishop

  • Christmas Nativity

    Roma Bishop

  • Christmas Songs

    Roma Bishop

  • Alien under My Bed

    J.R. Black

    Hayley is miserable. Her dad has just remarried and now she's stuck with a strange new stepfamily and a strange new house. Things go from bad to worse when she finds a space alien has chosen her new bedroom as his home away from home....

  • Molly and the Great American Family

    Cynthia Blair

    Molly loves her four sisters and parents, but there's no doubt they are different from everyone else's family. Yet when her mother goes to Japan for three months, Molly has to take charge of her sisters -- and her father, the original absentminded pr...

  • An Elusive Guardian

    Sara Blayne

    SHE TOOK THE TON BY STORM… Charity Wade had gone from impoverished miss to heiress, from a spinster-on-the-shelf to the talk of the ton. And she owed her good fortune to the masked rogue who’d saved her life! Charity had been sailing from Indi...

  • A Long Line of Dead Men

    Lawrence Block

    An ancient brotherhood meets annually in the back room of a swank Manhattan restuarant, a fraternity created in secret to celebrate life by celebrating its dead. But the past three decades have not been kind to the Club of 31. Matthew Scudder -- ex-c...

  • Bad to the Bone

    Jack Bodine

    Fleeing to Mexico to escape the law, Duane Braddock, the Pecos Kid, lands in hot water when he befriends a powerful Mexican aristocrat's lonely wife, with American bounty hunters on his trail, renegade Apache in the area, and an old flame in hot purs...

  • The Love of Highland Mary

    Jess Bolton

  • Angel Face

    Jane Bonander
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    A lonely schoolmarm fleeing a Minnesota blizzard seeks refuge with an embittered farmer and his half-breed son--and experiences a miracle of love by the Yuletide fire....

  • Flounder's Gift

    Rebecca Bondor

  • Just in Time for Christmas

    Louise Borden

    A celebration of the Christmas season features a family's century-old candy making tradition based on the author's own family stories. By the best-selling author of Caps, Hats, Socks, and Mittens and The Watching Game. ...

  • Edge of Heaven

    Caroline Bourne

    AN ENCOUNTER WITH DANGER The Donovans were cursed by bad blood. That's how Philadelphia heiress Mariette Donovan justified her cousin Roby's actions when he nearly killed his brother over a girl, then ran off with her into the untamed Alleghenies. N...

  • Separating

    Susan Bowden

    When her husband announces that he is leaving her for a woman half his age on their silver anniversary, Riona embarks on a journey that could lead to an unexpected new romance, but old bitterness may destroy her chances for a passionate future. Origi...

  • Sam Curtin

    Doug Bowman

    Times are hard for the Curtin clan. Farming and raising cattle don't bring in enough money, and payments on the ranch are due. Curtin is the best there is with a six-shooter--and there are more wanted men than the law can handle. To save the ranch, C...

  • The Whispering Outlaw

    Max Brand

    The Whisperer, a mysterious frontier bandit who never shows his face or speaks in his own voice, recruits a ragtag band of outlaws to assist him in a series of daring robberies designed to make them all rich. Reprint....

  • The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: 3rd Annual Edition

    Jon L. Breen

  • Mr. Tall and Mr. Small

    Barbara Brenner

    Charming new illustrations mark a reappearance of a popular, rhythmically rhyming tale about Giraffe and Mouse, who disagree over the advantages of height but who work together when their lives are threatened....

  • The Invisible Groom

    Barbara Bretton

    Jilted! Jenna Grey had been left at the altar not once, but three times. Now, at the debut of her Vegas wedding chapel, Jenna was hearing voices -- marriage proposals, to be exact. But there was no groom in sight! Cursed! Two years ago Chas...

  • An Interrupted Marriage

    Laurey Bright

    Magnus Riordan believed his wife could not possibly hurt him any more than she already had -- until she finally returned to the home they had shared. It was only then that he truly understood the pain of an undying love -- a love clouded forever by h...

  • Temptation Texas Style!

    Annette Broadrick

    MR. OCTOBER Tough Guy: Tony Callaway. Roughed-up rodeo cowboy--set in his wild ways. Tender Gal: Christina O'Reilly. Shy and sweet--but determined to find her roots. Together? Well, anything can happen.... When Christina O'Reilly showed u...

  • Anything for Love

    Connie Brockway

    Forever Venice Leiland, determined to overcome her spoiled rich girl reputation, has come to the most remote spot in the Rockies to save a small mining town from financial ruin. The last person she expects to find is Noble "Slats" McCaneag...

  • Lovers Not Friends

    Helen Brooks

    "You're mine, Amy, you'll always be mine!" For Amy, marriage to Blade Forbes had been a dream come true. And then one day her world collapsed around her when she discovered a secret that was about to destroy everything. She loved, ...

  • Strawberry Lace

    Amy Belding Brown

    Despising the snobbish attitudes of the Winters, whose barbecue she is hired to cater, Chelsea Adams finds herself falling for the family's son and accepts another man's proposal in order to run from her feelings. Original....

  • George Washington's Ghost

    Jane Clark Brown

  • Passing Fancy

    Lydia Browne

    HARMONY'S OWN BIT OF ROYALTY... ... is a misplaced Englishman, an earl's son, who's trying to run a farm. Unfortunately, he knows nothing about farming -- and must ask for help from a woman like no other he's ever seen: a sassy, sur...

  • Bad Apple

    Anthony Bruno

    A cops-and-mobsters crime thriller that “keeps us entertained with razzle-dazzle style” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times).   When an undercover FBI agent is murdered, the mob and the bureau race to nab the triggerman. The prime suspect ta...

  • The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends

    Jan Harold Brunvand

    America's premier folk detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant's mechanic. Jan Harold Brunvand -- ''Mr. Urban Legend" [Smithsonian] -- track...

  • Gift Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    Will Stevie Have To Say Good-bye To No-Name?Stevie Lake is ecstatic. After years of wanting a horse of her own, her parents have given her "No-Name," a beautiful Arabian-Saddlebred. And everyone can see that the frisky, sassy mare is the perfect matc...

  • Horse Trade

    Bonnie Bryant

    Accepting her boyfriend Phil's offer to ride the Arabian that his family is boarding, Stevie promises to provide the beautiful horse with the best of care and is alarmed by a mysterious allergy that it develops....

  • The Best of Granta Reportage

    Bill Buford

    Granta has long been recognized for its controversial and thought-provoking coverage of global issues. This collection of the best journalistic pieces written in the English language for Granta includes works by John le Carre, Ian Jack, James Fenton,...

  • The Poppy Seeds

    Clyde Robert Bulla

  • The Gift

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Grace had few regrets about her life or her world. A pinch of this, a dash of that, love and laughter in good measure, a few tears to soften her vision when what she saw was too much to bear. And she loved life like she loved her God rich in depth an...

  • Familiar Remedy

    Caroline Burnes

    The riddle Who hated Sarah Covington enough to frame her for murder? Or were the secret ingredients in her meals the way she disposed of her enemies? The romance It was Daniel Dubonet's job to get close to Sarah. And the sexy maverick agent...

  • Cannonball Simp

    John Burningham

  • Midnight Surrender

    Cordia Byers

    The touch of his lips made her want to forget her honor and her pride... For more than three centuries her family had fought and died for France. Now Dara Rochambeau is caught in a deadly plot and branded a traitor to the king. She is determined t...

  • Pack of Lies

    Matt Callaway

  • Gentle on My Mind

    Bethany Campbell

    HUTCH WAS TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR BETSY... But the two of them were so made for each other, it hardly mattered. They seemed to share not only passion, but genuine affection. They never ran out things to say, and Hutch understood Betsy Holden on...

  • Wonder's Sister

    Joanna Campbell

    Samantha McLean is ecstatic over finally owning her own horse and sets out to turn Shining, Wonder's difficult and neglected half-sister, into a winner, but then the parents of a little girl who cannot walk offer to buy Shining. Original....

  • Moonlight Rhapsody

    Nancy Cane

    SIREN SONG On a secret mission that took him to the far reaches of the galaxy, Lord Rolf Cam'brii was captured and enslaved. Sworn to escape at any cost, he vowed to destroy anyone who tried to stop him. But his plans went awry when he came face-t...

  • Good Morning, Pond

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

  • The Search

    Diane Carey

    The Dominion: The mysterious rulers of the worlds on the other side of the wormhole. The Dominion: a ruthless planet-conquering race unknown even to those they rule. The Dominion: the most dangerous foe the Federation may ever face. At the edge of t...

  • Pop-Up Cinderella Cat

    Margaret L. Carter

    A feline version of Cinderella features pop-up surprises and a Cinderella cat doll dressed as a princess, whose movable arms and legs enable young readers to play along with the story. By the author of Pop-Up Ballerina Bear. ...

  • The Raider's Daughter

    Kimberly Cates

    SHE HAD A FIERY SPIRIT ONLY ONE MAN COULD TAME... The vitality of colonial Virginia had transformed Lucy d'Autrecourt Blackheath into a defiant and self-assured young woman -- and made her restless and hungry for adventure. When a parcel arriv...

  • Gardens from the Sand

    Dan Cavicchio

    Perennial wisdom from a fresh, young voice in a smart, irresistible package! For readers of The Alchemist and other inspirational fables, this story of a young seeker warmly conveys the teachings of the world's great religious traditions in an enchan...

  • Loveless Fables

    Camilo Jose Cela

  • The Empire Builders

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Steel tracks and the lure of the sea led them to Washington Territory, but only a few would triumph. EMBER RIDGEWAY is the vivacious, pampered niece of railroad tycoon Mack Ridgeway. Orphaned at a young age, Ember's struggle for identity in a worl...

  • Brass Ring

    Diane Chamberlain

    Enjoying a satisfactory life as the director of a rehabilitation center, Claire Harte-Mathias finds her world shattered when she is unable to prevent a tragedy and searches through her past for enlightenment. Original....

  • After the Frost

    Megan Chance

    "SHE WAS BACK. SWEET JESUS, SHE WAS BACK." He was her worst enemy, her best friend, the childhood sweetheart and lover -- she couldn't escape. And now, after six long years, Belle Sault was back home in Ohio again, determined to claim ...

  • Let's Trim the Tree

    Bernice Chardiet

  • The Witch on a Windy Night

    Bernice Chardiet

  • The President's Daughter

    Barbara Chase-Riboud

    "Barbara Chase-Riboud writes with a quill of eloquence that is indeed a sword, sounding with the spirituality of Toni Morrison and the passion of Charles Dickens."
    --Elaine Brown
    Author of A Taste of Power
    Barbara Chase-Riboud made literary...

  • Literary Angels

    Harriet S. Chessman

    This unique collection wings us into the realms of literature where angels do not fear to tread. A luminous collage of angelic wonders drawn from the Bible, from the Koran, and from the work of writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Syl...

  • Gathering of Pearls

    Sook Nyul Choi

    Sookan's story, now in paperback for the first time, continues with her journey from Seoul, Korea, to New York City. As Sookan Bak, the heroine of "Year of Impossible Goodbyes" and "Echoes of the White Giraffe", travels the long distance between Seou...

  • Finding Daddy

    Judy Christenberry

    MAN WANTED: Intelligence, sense of humor and compassion a must! Good body a plus! For no-strings-attached assignment. That about described the perfect man for Kelly Abbott's secret mission. But Mr. Right had to have one more all-important qualific...

  • I See the Moon

    C.B. Christiansen

    Delighted when her sixteen-year-old sister Kari becomes pregnant, twelve-year-old Bitte is looking forward to becoming an aunt, but she is devastated when her sister plans to give the baby up for adoption....

  • Alphabet Parade

    Seymour Chwast

  • Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls & Unsolved Mysteries

    Joseph A. Citro

    Take a chilling tour of spooky New England legends . . .   Visit Vermont with this comprehensive collection of tales, legends, folklore, ghost stories, and strange-but-true facts -- and enjoy supernatural side trips to the surrou...

  • The Angel and the Renegade

    Cathryn Clare

    Where Angels Go...TROUBLE FOLLOWS And trouble was T.J. Madison's name. Once Jenny Alvarez's instincts had warned her against the irresistible rebel with the teasing grin. But her body trembled at one glance from his tiger eyes, and her soul had su...

  • Greatest Battles of the X-Men

    Chris Claremont

  • The New Mutants: Bookshelf Edition

    Chris Claremont

  • Sullivan's Law

    Amanda Clark (1)

    "Is that why you're marrying Philip?" Ben looked skeptical and vaguely disapproving as he spoke. "Because Chris needs a father?" "I'm not -- I didn't mean -- That's not the only consideration, you know." ...

  • Two Hearts Too Late

    Christie Clark

    INSTANT FATHERHOOD One moment Carl Tannon was a carefree bachelor; the next, he was a daddy. Not that he minded. He was perfectly willing to tackle bottles and diapers and ...whatever. All he had to do was retrieve his daughter from Kirby Gordon a...

  • Father Christmas and the Donkey

    Elizabeth Clark

  • The Hammer of God

    Arthur C. Clarke

    From one of the bestselling science fiction authors of all time comes this heart-stopping far future novel of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.   A century into the future, technology has solved most of the problems that have plagued...

  • Wife for a While

    Donna Clayton

    Desperate Bachelor Ben Danvers was about to lose everything -- unless he was married within the next few weeks. The terms of his grandfather's will were outrageous -- but airtight. Ben had just about given up hope when the last woman he ever exp...

  • Autumn Maze

    Jon Cleary

    When the Sydney police minister’s son falls twenty floors to his death, the politics of murder ripple the city like a boulder into a pool. Caught in the wash is Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, as he uncovers an elaborate financial scheme, a seri...

  • Lorelei

    Mark A. Clements

    An evil spirit takes the form of a beautiful woman who seduces anyone who may fulfill her dark purpose, and her search brings her to the man who may defeat her or enable her to rule all humankind. Reprint....

  • Harvey's Mystifying Raccoon Mix-up

    Eth Clifford

    The sound of mysterious prowler outside his window leads Harvey and Nora into a rollicking mystery involving a clever raccoon, a haunted attic, and a confrontation with two local, none-too-bright crooks....

  • Married by a Thread

    Kia Cochrane

    BARELY MARRIED Where Dusty McKay came from, wedding vows were forever and wives didn't just up and leave their husbands when the going got tough. But his own wife wanted out of their marriage, and nothing he said or did was working to change Tori'...

  • Young Ghosts

    Daniel Cohen

    A spooky collection of ghostly tales includes the story of a boy who brings a murderer to justice, the legendary and doom-predicting appearances of Radiant Boys, and more. By the author of Great Ghosts. ...

  • The Mummy's Curse

    Daniel Cohen

    A collection of some of the world's most baffling mysteries examines the truth behind the curse of King Tut's tomb, the Loch Ness monster, Stonehenge, and other tales of hauntings, strange phenomena, UFOs, and more....

  • The Warrior's Tale

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    Captain Rali Emilie Antero came from an illustrious family of traders, wizards, and adventurers. But Rali cared little for magic, and even less for journeying. She was a soldier, captain of the elite Maranon Guard, staunch defenders of the majestic c...

  • Jake's Promise

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Jake Winslow is back in town for one reason: he wants his son. After his wife's death, he'd thought it best to allow the child's grandparents to care for him. But Kenny's older now, and everyone knows a boy needs his father. Everyo...

  • Mr. Pam Pam and the Hullabazoo

    Trish Cooke

  • Freshman Spirit

    Linda A. Cooney

    As eerie happenings terrify K.C., Winnie, Faith, Courtney, and the rest of the Freshman Dorm crowd, the girls begin to wonder if the fraternities are playing pranks or if the spirit of a dead fraternity pledge has returned to seek revenge. Original....

  • The Intruders

    Stephen Coonts

    Landing an excruciating eight-month cruise on an aircraft carrier, Navy lieutenant Jake Grafton is ordered to teach his Marine charges about carrier aviation and is met with strong hostility. Reprint....

  • Funny As a Dead Relative

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    As the series featuring redheaded standup comic Kimmey Kruse continues, Kimmey returns to her East Texas Cajun home to satisfy her conviction that her cousin Letitia was murdered. By the author of Funny as a Dead Comic. ...

  • The Eighth Day of the Week

    Alfred Coppel

    When a nuclear warhead capable of destroying all of North America is planted in Hudson Bay by members of a Russian cabal, Colonel John Morgan pursues a trail of espionage from Moscow to Washington. Reprint....

  • Forgiving Hearts

    Christina Cordaire

    The heart holds the sorrows of the past -- and the secrets of forgiveness... CATHERINE: She lost her husband, a Union soldier, in the Civil War. Now she was headed to a Texas ranch with her young son, to make a fresh start... JONATHAN: The Re...

  • The Hospital

    Tyler Cortland

    A SURGEON UNDER SIEGE -- AND A MEDICAL CENTER ON THE SCALPEL'S EDGE OF SCANDAL Dr. Ellis Johnston is the star surgeon of the Chandler Medical Center. But now he is being sued by a woman out for more than money. This treachery threatens the doctor's b...

  • Tomorrow Sucks

    Greg Cox

    Journeying from the streets of old London to the decks of interplanetary spaceships, a new collection of science fiction vampire tales features short stories by Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Dean Ing, Spider Robinson, and other notable authors. Origin...

  • Miss Seeton Rules

    Hamilton Crane

    Royalty comes to Plummergen... The much-beloved Princess Georgina is due to arrive shortly, and the villagers are plotting to outdo their neighbors in Murreystone and make a grand impression. But at the same time, a much more sinister plot is brew...

  • Lady Alex

    Catherine Creel

    "You are no innocent, and I am no fool!" Alexandra Sinclair was no baseborn little doxy to be toyed with; she was a lady -- with no place here in Australia, in the factory prison at Parramatta ... or in the arms of an arrogant, green-eyed American...

  • Nekomah Creek Christmas

    Linda Crew

  • The Mating Game

    Susan Crosby

    HIS BACHELOR DAYS WERE NUMBERED Someone had sent Iain MacKenzie on an all-expenses-paid vacation--to a place where there was just one unmarried lady. But what a lady she was! And if his matchmaking friends' secret scheme worked, he'd be walking do...

  • Heaven's Gate

    Tanya Anne Crosby
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    Jack Curtis

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    Richie Tankersley Cusick

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    Brian Daley

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    David Daniel

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    Val Daniels

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    Dennis Danvers

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    Gibbs Davis

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    Justine Davis

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    Barthe DeClements

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    Henry Denker

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    Georgina Devon

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    Susan Dexter

    Book Two of "The Warhorse of Esdragon"
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    Debra Dier

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    William C. Dietz

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    Franklin W. Dixon

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  • Witch's Ring

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    Christina Dodd

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    Robyn Donald

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    Michael Dorris

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    Warwick Downing

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    Sharon M. Draper

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  • Turn Back the Night

    Jennifer Drew

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    Emma Drummond

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    Cathy East Dubowski

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    Eileen Dunlop

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    Thomas J. Dygard

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    Cooper Edens

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    Rosemary Edghill

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    Rachelle Edwards

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    Thomas Eidson

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    Kate Elliott

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    Kate Elliott

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    Wesley Ellis

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  • Christmas Countdown

    Steve Englehart

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    Elizabeth Ergas

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    Lynn Erickson

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    Cynthia Rogers Erkel

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    Tabor Evans

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  • An Undomesticated Wife

    Jo Ann Ferguson

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    Edward L. Ferman

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    Laura Ferraro

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  • Apache Knight

    Carol Finch

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    Lenore Fleischer

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