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New Books List: 545 titles

  • The Ace of Hearts

    Kat Adams

    TWO OF A KIND The cards had dealt Nickie Sheridan a shameful secret, and resisting the charms of a cunning, all too capable lawyer with a penchant for snooping was a must. Down to her last dollar, evicted and alone, Nickie had become the reluctant...

  • Pep Rally

    Nicholas Adams

  • Sudden Death

    Nicholas Adams

    While investigating the story she is writing about steroid use among the high school's athletes, school newspaper reporter Lara Crandall is stunned when the athletes begin dying and shocked when she discovers that her own life is in danger. Reissue....

  • Private Lies

    Warren Adler

    When Ken and Maggie meet her client and wife, Eliot and Carol, Ken discovers that Carol is an old flame. Baffled by her non-recognition, he discovers her rich husband has no knowledge of her past. And, when the two couples share a safari to Africa, t...

  • Jane Fairfax

    Joan Aiken

    Here, headstrong, self-important Emma Woodhouse is pushed from center stage as the limelight falls on the childhood and maturation of her foil. Orphaned Jane is brought up by her shabby-genteel aunt and grandmother in Highbury, near the Woodhouse fam...

  • Changes

    Marjorie N. Allen

  • The Passionate Ghost

    Sheila Rosalynd Allen

    HARRY THE GHOST IS BACK In his lifetime, Harry was a rogue and a rake. Now he's a ghost -- visible only to those in love. He roams the halls of Steadford Abbey, atoning for his romantic sins by helping others find romance -- sometimes with the mos...

  • Ghost Cadet

    Elaine Marie Alphin

    Twelve-year-old Benjy, in Virginia visiting the grandmother he has never met, meets the ghost of a Virginia Military Institute cadet who was killed in the Battle of New Market in 1864 and helps him recover his family's treasured gold watch....

  • London Fields

    Martin Amis

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A blackly comic late 20th-century murder mystery set against the looming end of the millennium, in which a woman tries to orchestrate her own extinction -- from "one of the most gifted novelists of his generation" (TIME)....

  • Sun of the Morning

    Donna Anders

    Katie Aaland: From war-torn Japan, to the wilds of Alaska, to the elegant mansions of San Francisco's Pacific Heights, this is the story of one woman's courage and loyalty, and of the men who would never forget her love... -- Jak Kono: For him Kati...

  • Mari

    Donna Anders

    Taboo When she fled her grandfather's tyranny, Mari Webster knew she'd burned her bridges. But her life began anew the day she sailed into Honolulu harbor -- and saw her future in the eyes of Adam Foster. Half-Hawaiian Adam Foster was ...

  • The Night Fantastic

    Poul Anderson

  • Aren't You Lucky!

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Kindred Spirits

    Mark Anthony; Ellen Porath
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    MAGIC AND MURDER, When Flint Fireforge, dwarf and metal-smith, receives a wondrous summons from the Speaker of the Sun, he journeys to the fabled elven city of Qualinost. There he meets Tanis, a thoughtful youth born of a tragic union between elf an...

  • Black Dragon

    Victor Appleton

    SUPER HIGH TECH...SUPER HIGH SPEED...SUPER HIGH STAKES! He’s daring, he's resourceful, he's cool under fire. He's Tom Swift, the brilliant young inventor racing toward the cutting edge of high-tech adventure. But Tom's latest toy -- a high-flyin...

  • Negative Zone

    Victor Appleton

    WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE! Young inventor Tom Swift is determined to recreate in miniature one of the most powerful forces in nature: a black hole. But Tom loses control of the experiment. He's sucked through the hole into a parallel universe, exchanging ...

  • An Old-Fashioned 1 2 3 Book

    Elizabeth Allen Ashton

  • Rosie's Fashion Show

    Carrie Austen

    When a high fashion designer decides to preview her latest creations at Rosie's mother's posh boutique, Rosie is upset that her mother won't let her get involved, but an unpacking screwup sets the stage for Rosie to save the day...

  • Latitude Zero

    James Axler

    WELCOME TO THE NIGHTMARE Generations after a near nuclear annihilation, America is a radiation-ravaged wasteland swarming with a thousand horrifically mutated life forms. Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-holocaust survivors barely escape a self...

  • Vanishing Star

    Judy Baer

    Although Lexi doesn't like it, many of the kids in Cedar River have gotten into horror flicks, especially the not-so-nice Hi-Fives. Even her friend Binky is fascinated with them and has gotten hooked on the thrill. Cedar River is such a bore in compa...

  • Something Old, Something New

    Judy Baer

    Lexi Leighton's friend Peggy is returning to Cedar River, and only Lexi knows the reason why she left to have her baby and give it up for adoption Lexi wonders whether Peggy will have changed and whether they'll still be friends.Meanwhile, Le...

  • A Practical Man

    Stella Bagwell

    BEST-LAID PLANS... Running a boardinghouse had never been a problem for Claire Deupree -- until she rented a room to Madison McCrea. With his come-hither eyes and sexy drawl, this construction engineer made her feel more like a desirable woman tha...

  • Passionate Betrayal

    Jacqueline Baird

    Goldie's world had tumbled down But that was seven years ago and out of the ruins she had built a new life, with a new name. "Marie Doumerque" had no desire to be reminded of the past. So why had she fallen into Rayner Millard's...

  • Room Temperature

    Nicholson Baker

    From a New York Timesâ€"bestselling and National Book Critics Awardâ€"winning author comes a “small masterpiece” of fatherhood, childhood, and bottle-feeding (Publishers Weekly).   In a novel Entertainment Weekly called “intensely funny an...

  • The Widow's Woods

    Mignon F. Ballard

  • Yellow Ball

    Molly Bang

    Catch. Throw. Uh-oh. The yellow ball is forgotten at the edge of the water. Little by little, so no one notices, the ball floats out to sea. All alone, it travels and drifts into a storm. Tossed by waves all through the night, it sails ashore next da...

  • Clive Barker's Hellraiser: Collected Best I

    Clive Barker

    Collected here for the first time are some of Clive Barker's favorite tales from the chilling horror series based on his mythology - a compendium of hellish tales of terror the movies don't dare unleash....

  • Frame-Up

    Jessica Barkley

    TO LOVE AGAIN Years ago, Cassandra Malone had lost it all: her father, a prizewinning stallion and the respect of local vet Jarrod Fitzgerald. Jarrod had believed her late father had somehow caused the death of the champion steed--and nothing coul...

  • Little Dog for Vera

    Marjolein Bastin

  • Walking the Cat

    John Calvin Batchelor

  • Pirate's Angel

    Marsha Bauer

    A PIRATE'S CAPTIVE When her ship was captured by a pirate schooner, raven-haired Ivy was terrified that she would be ravished, then discarded, by the hordes of bloodthirsty buccaneers on board. To her relief, the captain imprisoned her in a cabi...

  • Circles

    Lauren Bauman

    He'd rescued her baby! Shanna Rhodes hadn't seen Derek Morgan since high school. But when Alicia, her newborn daughter, was snatched from her hospital room, Derek went into action. Within hours, he had tracked down and rescued the child. Shann...

  • Almighty Me

    Robert Bausch

    When Charlie Wiggins, a thirty-five-year-old car salesman, is given the power of God for one year, he sets out to put the world to rights, but he soon discovers that even omnipotence has its limitations...

  • Your Own Best Secret Place

    Byrd Baylor

  • Rescue of Brown Bear and White Bear

    Martine Beck

  • The Strange Death of Mistress Coffin

    Robert J. Begiebing

    New England. 1648. The Piscataqua Settlement. A young woman has been found dead, her violated body stripped naked and thrown in a river. Her husband, a reclusive and learned man, has mysteriously halted his legal proceedings against the most likely s...

  • Solitaire

    Norma Beishir

    Sloane Driscoll was an acclaimed novelist whose private life was far removed from the steamy fiction that made her an international star. Jordan Phillips was a world-class polo champion, a dynamic athlete who could have any woman he wanted. The...

  • Mission of Mercy

    Kate Belmont

    Lost At Sea ... By all rights, Captain Sam Starbuck should have let some other seaman ferry the Nantucket widow on her search. But he knew that Mercy Wright would find nothing more for her trouble than proof of her husband's perfidy, and he wanted...

  • Public Money and the Muse

    Stephen Benedict

  • On the Whispering Wind

    Nikki Benjamin

    Widower Mackenzie Harrow knew his Whispering Wind dude ranch could withstand the raging storm outside, but all hell would break loose inside if Maggie Connor didn't end her stay there soon. Her elegant voice and classy ways were just too attracti...

  • The Samaritan Woman

    Eileen Berger

  • Emily and the Dark Angel

    Jo Beverley

    TWENTY-SIX AND STILL UNCLAIMED Practical, capable and utterly unromantic, Emily Grantwich is spinsterhood personified. But her prim world goes scandalously atilt when she is inadvertently doused with perfumed powder hurled by a disreputable lady at ...

  • The Business

    Charlotte Bingham

    Meredith Browne came up the hard way, starting at the bottom as a child actress. Max Kassov, on the other hand, has always had everything. Despite their different backgrounds the two are very alike, and a mutual attraction deepens into a passionate l...

  • Mommy Club

    Sarah Bird

    At thirty-eight, Trudy Herring is a dreamer, a sculptor of whimsical clay figures, and a permanent temporary worker at the San Antonio Museum of Folk Art. But all that changes when she agrees to incubate a child for Hillary Goettler (her boss) and Hi...

  • A Charmed Betrothal

    Irene Loyd Black

    BETROTHED TO A RAKEHELL Midwifery was hardly a fitting endeavor for a noblewoman, but Lady Skylor nevertheless chose medicine over matrimony. Independence, in her opinion, was far preferable to life as a lawfully wedded wife, no matter the superstit...

  • The Tomcat's Wife and Other Stories

    Carol Bly

  • Sex, Drugs, Rock and Roll

    Eric Bogosian

    A collection of monologues uses characters such as a hypcritical rock star and a subway panhandler to comment on current issues, including man's vision of the world, the future, self-delusion, anxiety, and hatred...

  • Hangman

    Chris Bohjalian

  • The Wild Geese

    Bridget Boland

  • The Wooden Doll

    Susan Bonners

  • Beyond the Starlit Frost

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    RHIANNON, AN ORPHANED HUNTRESS, RAISED BY GREAT-HEARTED STRANGERS Her hair was flame, her eyes smoldering topaz, her fearsome gift a power waiting to be freed... ISKANDER: A SON OF THE ROYAL BLOOD, HIS QUEST WAS HIS DUTY -- AND HIS GLORY At d...

  • Passion Moon Rising

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    ILEANA: THE CHERISHED PRINCESS OF A BRAVE AND NOBLE LAND... Violet-eyed, silver-haired, she was graced with beauty, pride and passion... born with a great gift and a rare destiny... CAIN: A WARRIOR PRINCE WHO DENIED THE DANGER THAT COULD DESTROY HI...

  • The Princess

    Celia Brayfield

    Three remarkable women--friends from vastly different backgrounds who meet at Cambridge--vie for the heart of one of the world's most eligible bachelors, His Royal Highness, Prince Richard, Duke of Sussex. Reprint....

  • Date With a Dead Doctor

    Toni Brill

    MIDGE COHEN'S MOTHER HAS FIXED HER UP ... AGAIN What would it hurt to meet this nice Jewish doctor, a urologist even, and give him a try, she insists. But all Dr. Leon Skripnik wants from Midge, an erstwhile Russian scholar, is a translation of...

  • The Seven Sapphires of Mardi Gras

    Vickie Britton

    Orphaned and utterly alone, Louise Moreland had only one solace: she had inherited her mother's beloved Louisiana plantation, Evangline. Planning to restore the lovely old mansion and make it her home. Louise boarded a steamer for New Orleans. Sh...

  • The Sky Lords

    John Brosnan

    The Gene Wars have turned Earth into a blighted wasteland. Mile-long airships patrol the skies, exacting crippling tribute from the scattered ground communities. Threatened by mutant vegetation and predatory creatures, forced to the brink of starvati...

  • Ladino

    J.P.S. Brown

    Ben Cowden is no swaggering lover. He is a horseman, a stubborn son of Arizona. But now Ben is getting his lessons in the amorous arts--from the most beautiful woman he's ever laid eyes on. Margarita Elias Odoms is the unhappy new wife of the ex-Texa...

  • Across a Wine-Dark Sea

    Jessica Bryan

    From the far reaches of the Black Sea to the shimmering isle of Crete, men whispered of their extraordinary beauty and their formidable skill with sword and spear. They were the Amazons. And for the slave takers who stalked the Mediterranean coast, t...

  • Horse Games

    Bonnie Bryant

    THE SADDLE CLUB RIDES TO WIN! Stevie is excited about a great new sport--polocrosse. When she learns that the Horse Wise Pony Club will be playing against her boyfriend's team, she's thrilled. Now she'll finally have the chance to show him what a ...

  • Mutual Consent

    Gayle Buck

    The Pretty Pawn Beautiful young Miss Barbara Cribbage was all too familiar with being used by men. Her rich but common-born father used her as his means of entry into society by marrying her off to the eminent Earl of Chatworth. For his part, the ...

  • Granta 35

    Bill Buford

    Granta is a leading literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom. Initially founded in 1889 by students at Cambridge University as The Granta, it was successfully relaunched as a magazine of "new writing" in 1979. Granta is a literary quarte...

  • Bone Dance: A Fantasy for Technophilles

    Emma Bull

    Sparrow's my name. Trader. Deal-maker. Hustler, some call me. I work the Night Fair circuit, buying and selling pre-nuke videos from the world before. I know how to get a high price, especially on Big Bang collectibles. But the hottest ticket of all ...

  • The Image of Our Lord

    Edward Burman

    The inquisition of an imprisoned Knights Templar initiate leads an ambitious churchman, Brother Jacques Fornier, and Nicolas de Lirey, an aristocrat fallen on hard times, to a hidden relic and political intrigue...

  • Whisper to Me of Love

    Shirlee Busbee

    She is Pip, London's smallest street urchin and quickest pickpocket. He is Royce Manchester, a dashing American bachelor on holiday in London. When fate hurls them together in 1815, their lives are changed forever. A Whisper of Passion... She was...

  • Henny Penny

    Stephen Butler

  • Tell Me the Truth About Love

    Mary Cable

    Forty-two-year-old Alex Smithson finds her comfortable life threatened by prospects of a legal battle within her husband's wealthy family, as well as by memories of the past, the disaster of a youthful affair, and an old love...

  • Scandal's Darling

    Anne Caldwell

    Marriage or disgrace.... That was the choice offered high-born Danielle Wakefield -- to wed Lord Devon Stanton, the dazzlingly handsome Duke of Burnshire, or face the withering scorn of London society. The conniving rogue's help enabled Daniell...

  • Omega Sub

    J.D. Cameron

  • Command Decision

    J.D. Cameron

  • Undercurrents

    Stella Cameron

    More than meets the eye Mike Kinnear thought Susan Ackroyd was the pushiest woman he'd ever met. The nerve--trying to tell him how to care for his daughter. The woman clearly had some sort of problem. For her part, Susan had Mike pegged as irre...

  • The Empress File

    John Camp

    One stifling summer night in Longstreet, Mississippi, fourteen-year-old Darrell Clark ran home thinking about two things: the ice cream he couldn't wait to eat and an algorithm he was working on, a way to generate real time fractal terrain on his Mac...

  • Say It With Flowers

    Bethany Campbell
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    ONE WEDDING--FOUR LOVE STORIES FROM YOUR FAVORITE HARLEQUIN AUTHORS! The church is booked, the reception arranged and the invitations mailed. All Diane Bauer and Nick Granatelli have to do is walk down the aisle. Little do they realize that the mo...

  • For Keeps

    Donna Carlisle

    IN THE DOGHOUSE Lyn Sanders couldn't believe she'd thought working for her sister's pet-sitting agency would be easy. Now she was covered in dog hair and up to her ears in pet food. To make matters worse, she'd lost a client's ...

  • Too Tough to Hurt

    Mary Lou Carney

  • Conan the Outcast

    Leonard Carpenter
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The ancient hierarchs of the desert city of Qjara did not want the young man called Conan of Cimmeria inside their walls with his strange, northland ways.He did not even worship the One True Goddess. yet some would ensnare him in the city's intrigues...

  • Outside the Dog Museum

    Jonathan Carroll

    Harry Radcliffe is a brilliant prize-winning architect---witty and remarkable. He's also a self-serving opportunist, ready to take advantage of whatever situations, and women, come his way. But now, newly divorced and having had an inexplicable ne...

  • The Second Ring of Power

    Carlos Castaneda

    ENTER THE SORCERESS!Back from the abyss, Castaneda encounter his greatest test on the journey towards impeccability and freedom: to outwit and overpower the sorcery of Doña Soledad, herself transformed from a defeated and meaningless life to a warri...

  • To Catch a Flame

    Kimberly Cates

    Eyes snapping emerald fire, Isabeau DeBurgh -- alias the Devil's Flame -- sat motionless upon her fine black stallion. The most feared and notorious highwayman of them all was about to strike... But Lord Griffin Stone, her victim this night, feare...

  • Red Tape War

    Jack L. Chalker

  • Spindles and the Mystery of the Missing Numbat

    Barry Chant

  • Elsinore

    Jerome Charyn

    Eager to find his girlfriend, Fay Abruzzi, who has been secreted away by her district attorney father, former hitman Sidney Holden agrees to come out of retirement and help millionaire Howard Phipps bring down the D.A. Reprint. PW....

  • Child of the Air

    Grace Chetwin

    Mylanfyndra and her brother, Brevan, residents of a mesa ravaged by ice storms in the winter and fire storms in the summer, are made slaves to the townfolk following their grandfather's death, but their strange ability to rise in the air could help t...

  • Rebel's Captive

    Amy Christopher

    HE'D WON THE BET Loyalist Laura Hadley was shocked to find that her guardian had gambled her virtue in a card game -- and lost! No gentleman would force her to honor such an outrageous wager, but then Colby Roth was no gentleman. When the handso...

  • Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories

    Sandra Cisneros

    From the author of the widely acclaimed THE HOUSE ON MANGO STREET comes a story collection of breathtaking range and authority, whose characters give voice to the vibrant and varied life on both sides of the Mexican border. From a young girl revealin...

  • Nobody's Fool

    Marten Claridge

    Suspended from duty pending a Fatal Accident Inquiry, Detective Frank McMorran is reinstated to track down the Hangman, a vicious serial killer and psychopath who hides himself under the identity of seemingly model citizen Dominic Bain...

  • Loves Music, Loves to Dance

    Mary Higgins Clark

    New York's trendy magazines are a source of peril when a killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, using the peronal ads to lure his victims... After college, best friends Erin Kelley and Darcy Scott move to the city to pursue exciting careers;...

  • Neverland

    Douglas Clegg

    "Couldn't put it down!"â...â...â...â...â... "A gothic masterpiece.” â...â...â...â...â...  Page-turning suspense and supernatural horror blend in this classic novel of innocence corrupted. What lurks within the shack? What kinds of da...

  • Noah and the Ark and the Animals

    Andrew Clements

  • This Place Is Lonely: The Australian Outback

    Vicki Cobb

    Gr 3-5-- This entry in the series looks at the isolated outback area of Australia. The rich earth-toned illustrations provide a sense of the remoteness there, although some pictures are too stylized to depict accurately the unique animals of the regi...

  • Return of the Spanish

    Don Coldsmith

    Famous for his proficiency in all the weapons in the People's arsenal, Strong Bow is eager to prove his skill by capturing his people's highest glory--dying while battling Spanish imperialism. Reprint....

  • Escape!

    Clay Coleman

  • Deadly Justice

    Dale Colter

  • A Bite of Death

    Susan Conant

    DOGGED BY DEATH Holly Winter had her hands full with one dog: Still, when therapist Elaine Walsh is found dead, Holly eagerly adopts the orphaned Kimi--and vows to teach her some manners. But when questions arise about Elaine's death--following clos...

  • Mistress of the Moors

    Judith Conklin

    A SECRET PAST, A SHADOWY FUTURE Fiery and independent, Raven Elliot was enraged by her late father’s stipulation that unless she marry a complete stranger she would not inherit his money until her twenty-fifth birthday. And when she journeyed h...

  • Strange Company

    Robert J. Conley

  • Ned Christie's War

    Robert J. Conley

  • Twenty Pageants Later

    Caroline B. Cooney

    As the younger and plainer sister of a frequent beauty-contest winner, fourteen-year-old Scottie Anne has always had mixed feelings about such competitions, especially when she finds herself a reluctant contestant. Scottie-Anne's older sister is a...

  • Freshman Secrets

    Linda A. Cooney

    Winnie's flipping out! She's lost Josh, she's flunking her classes, and her friends have dropped her. Will someone hear her cry for help before it's too late? A gorgeous movie star making a film on campus has fallen for Faith. She knows it's a fling...

  • Sweet Hannah Rose

    Lori Copeland

    A STRANGER'S KISS Marriage seemed the only solution for Hannah Rose Brewster, whose fiery temper was the talk of four counties. So her family arranged a match and shipped her off to a one-horse cattle town on the Tex-Mex border. But fate had o...

  • Now and at the Hour

    Robert Cormier

  • Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher

    Bruce Coville

    If Howard Morton and Freddie the Frog Killer were trying to hold you down so that Mary Lou Hutton could kiss you, you might run as fast as Jeremy Thatcher did the day he stumbled into Mr. Elives' Magic Shop. And if you stumbled into that strange sho...

  • Miss Seeton Cracks the Case

    Hamilton Crane

    Your Money or Your Life! It was a perfect day for a motor coach tour--until a gang of highwaymen blocked the road and robbed the passengers! A strange case, indeed. Especially when Miss Seeton steps in. Her sketches of the bandits, based on eyewit...

  • Dark Window

    Linda Crockett-Gray

  • Frontier Fire

    Barbara Cummings

    Enduring harsh winters and British taxation, widow Constance Proctor had overcome the dangers of homesteading New Hampshire's wilderness with cool composure and quick thinking.. until the day she met Jean Luis D'Epier. The handsome French tra...

  • The Court Jesters

    Avigdor Dagan

    The story of four inmates in a Nazi concentration camp - a juggler, a dwarf, an astrologer and a hunchback. They survive the camp by amusing their tormentors. Then they must survive the shattered world after the war....

  • Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life

    Roald Dahl

    "Roald Dahl is one of the few writers I know whose work can accurately be described as addictive." -- Irish Times
     
    The sweet scents of rural life infuse this beautifully crafted collection of Roald Dahl’s country stories, but there is alw...

  • A Will of Her Own

    Christina Dair

    Charlotte Lambert always stuck to her guns, and she had no intention of wavering now. Her father's will gave her exactly eighteen days to find a husband or lose the family business -- and she wasn't about to do either! There just had to be a ...

  • The Rostma Lure

    Sean Dalton

    Rostma: The plague of the galaxy. A highly addictive drug that steals the soul of humans and non-humans alike. On the Hell-Planet of Kenzana it is harvested by slave labor whose live are held cheap by their brutal masters. Now t o rescue a beautiful ...

  • Main Street D.O.A

    Peter David

    WONDERWORLD IS THE SAFEST PLACE ON EARTH. CHUCK SIMON IS THE MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE. WHAT'S A GUY LIKE HIM DOING IN A PLACE LIKE THIS? The brainchild of controversial entertainment mogul Wyatt Wonder, Wonderworld is much more than an amusemen...

  • Mini-Mysteries Featuring Garfield

    Davies

  • Slugger Mike

    Gibbs Davis

    When Walter learns that ace powerhitter Billy Baskin is about to move, he desperately wants to be the team's new clean-up batter, but so does his best friend, Mike, and it takes the sage advice of Walter's older brother and grandfather to save the te...

  • The Glass Cockpit

    Robert P. Davis

    Lucky Doyle, resentful of how computers have been taking over the pilot's job, has been fighting a silent war against this "glass cockpit", but when his passenger plane is propelled at a nose-high climb by a collision with a private plane, the war be...

  • Babar's Picnic

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • The Stones of Nomuru

    L. Sprague de Camp

  • The Dark Watch

    Janifer C. De Vos

    Working with God's Guardians, Erin becomes involved in a plot by which Demont, one of the broken ones from behind the Purple Door, hopes to conquer Earth. Sequel to "The Purple Door" and "The Silver Glass."...

  • Captain Britain

    Jamie Delano

  • Father of the Bride

    Barbara Delinsky
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    ONE WEDDING -- FOUR LOVE STORIES FROM YOUR FAVORITE HARLEQUIN AUTHORS! The church is booked, the reception arranged and the invitations mailed. All Diane Bauer and Nick Granatelli have to do is walk down the aisle. Little do they realize that the ...

  • Cherokee Nights

    Genell Dellin

    He towered over her, his lean, hard frame dominating the room; his piercing eyes riveting her to the chair. Kingfisher Chekote was the most devastatingly handsome man Celina Hawthorne had ever seen. When King announced he was in need of a lawyer, it ...

  • A Birthday Bike for Brimhall

    Judy Delton

  • The Artist and the Architect

    Demi

    An artist working for the emperor becomes envious of the emperor's architect and plots his death, telling his king that a good architect is requested in Heaven, but the architect recognizes the trap and plots his revenge...

  • Sword of the Sun

    Joe Dever

  • The Harriers

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Earth is but a memory...the real action these days is in The Magnicate, a league of all the human worlds in the galaxy. At the center of the Magnicate is the Hub, a huge artificial world from which control of Human Space flows. The Hub government is ...

  • Specters

    J.M. Dillard

  • Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen

    Dyanne Disalvo-Ryan

    DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan's sensitive text and pictures show a bustling, friendly group of workers who welcome the young narrator into the caring world of the soup kitchen as she deals with the problem of hunger at the level for children to understand. Ful...

  • At Home

    Disney Book Group

  • In the City

    Disney Book Group

  • On Vacation

    Disney Book Group

    Young readers are encouraged to use the labelled drawings of vocabulary words to complete the sentences that recount the visits of the Disney babies to the beach, the zoo, and other vacation attractions...

  • Power Play

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • A Was an Angler

    Janina Domanska

  • The Best Laid Plans

    Gail Douglas

    Her Enemy...or Her Love? Clay Parrish was a troublemaker who'd come to the pretty town of Silver Rapids to bring change -- or at least Jennifer Allan suspected that the charismatic city planner was prepared to turn her world upside down! She&#...

  • Freddie's Spaghetti

    Charlotte Doyle

  • Blood Money

    Jack Drake

  • Emerald Embrace

    Shannon Drake

    Martise St. James journeyed to the brooding Scottish castle to uncover the secret of her friend's untimely death. Lord Bruce Creeghan was her late friend's husband, a man whose stormy eyes aroused Martise's darkest suspicions -- and wildest desi...

  • Hunger of the Beast

    John Driver

    In need of some time away from her married lover, Dianna books a room at a secluded Vermont inn, but Esau, a horribly deformed child secreted away at birth in the inn's basement, is plotting to shatter Dianna's newfound solitude...

  • Mass Murder

    John Keith Drummond

  • Way That Water Enters Stone

    John Dufresne

    Written with a truly original fictional voice, John Dufresne's powerful debut collection of stories is filled with quirky characters in hours of crisis and flashes of humor in moments of dark despair. A Louisiana farmer sees the image of Christ appea...

  • Hero!

    Dave Duncan

    Space opera at its finest and most action-filled, from the bestselling author of fantasy quests, epic tales, and swashbuckling adventures. Vaun, born a peasant in the stinking mud flats of Ult, a thriving colony planet, claws his way to survival and ...

  • Faery Lands Forlorn

    Dave Duncan

    THE COMMONER'S QUEST Inos, the late king's daughter, had been kidnapped through the magic casement even as the Impish legions overrunning her tiny kingdom were storming the castle tower. Now she was a prisoner in a desert land ruled by a dockside ...

  • Mortal Sins

    Dianne Edouard

  • Rapido Clint

    J.T. Edson

    After killing a Texas Ranger at a "chicken ranch," grizzled outlaw Rapido Clint and his partner Comanche Blood escape to a Mexican hacienda, where the law catches up with them and a bloody standoff with the Rangers ensues...

  • Gun Glory

    Hank Edwards (1)

  • Warpath

    Josh Edwards

    THE SEARCH BEGINSOnce, John Stone had everything a man could ever want: wealth, position, and a woman who loved him. But that was before the Civil War. Now he's lost his fortune, and his fiancee has disappeared. All he has left is his Colt, a picture...

  • Sweet Promised Land

    Patricia Edwards

    Basque marries Basque... Eight years ago, Teslyn O'Reilly left Bakers Creek, Oregon, to try to forget Zak de Neuville, who apparently wouldn't ignore his Basque heritage. Now she'd come home, hoping to save her estranged father's f...

  • Lord Trenton's Proposal

    Rachelle Edwards

    HOW HAD SHE BECOME SO DANGEROUSLY ATTRACTED TO A MAN WHO COULD NEVER BE HERS? Though Serafina D'Arblay agreed to accompany Miss Imogen Geddes to London for her comeout, she herself preferred books to husband hunting. Since she possessed neither t...

  • The Dark Card

    Amy Ehrlich

  • Lone Star and the California Gold

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki must stop a gold-hungry tycoon from turning a mountain paradise into a wasteland!A letter marked "urgent" summons Jessica to the California high country -- a fish-and-game paradise held hostage by the ruthless Tower family. To satisfy h...

  • Yellow Dog Party

    Earl Emerson

    No self-respecting P.I. would ever touch it: four successful businessmen want Thomas Black to track down the four women they've had secret crushes on for years and set up "dream dates" with them. Naturally, Black makes no bones about telling the butt...

  • Gino Badino

    Diana Engel

  • Biodegradable Soap

    Amy Ephron

  • Masters of Darkness III

    Dennis Etchinson

  • Guardian Spirit

    Marcia Evanick

    The Sheriff Who'd Been the Town Bad Boy... When he was a teenager, Josh Langley had been every girl's fantasy--and every mother's nightmare! But the boy who'd once skipped town in disgrace now ran the police department--and still set hearts on fir...

  • Longarm and the Bounty Huntress

    Tabor Evans

  • Longarm and the Denver Bustout

    Tabor Evans

  • Murder in Wrigley Field

    Crabbe Evers

    MURDER COMES TO BAT Picturesque, ivy-covered Wrigley Field, the Friendly Confines, has been the beat of veteran sportswriter Duffy House for decades. But the grand old shrine of baseball is not so friendly this June day for Dean "Dream" Weaver, th...

  • Snuff

    Kirby Farrell

    In Boston visiting his daughter Rachel, private detective Duncan Ames reluctantly agrees to find out who is threatening Dawn Ashland, an actress who also works as a call girl, a case complicated by an attack on Dawn's sister and the murder of Dawn's ...

  • The Amazing Voyage of Jackie Grace

    Matt Faulkner

  • Getting Mine

    Jean Femling

    From Mundane to Murder It begins as a routine case for insurance investigator Martha "Moz" Brant. Her client is involved in a minor rear-end collision. But when large claims are filed by the "victims," Moz gets suspicious. Especially when she meet...

  • A Flag Full of Stars

    Brad Ferguson

    It has been eighteen months since the Starship Enterprise completed her historic five-year mission and her legendary crew has separated, taking new assignments that span the galaxy. On Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk has married and started a new lif...

  • The Tree of Knowledge

    Eva Figes

  • The Most Embarrassing Mother in the World

    Peter Filichia

    Ashamed of his mother when she throws a party for his junior high graduation--and even sings a song for him, fifteen-year-old Alex meets Suzy, who shares his problem and who becomes his partner in reform and romance...

  • Alias Madame Doubtfire

    Anne Fine

    Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband....

  • The Leaf Boats

    John Fink

  • A Semi-Private Doom

    Richard Fliegel

    Just ask Detective Shelly Lowenkopf, who passed on to the other side - at least for a moment or two. It all began with a mob boss who was taking tennis lessons. His new stepson wanted in on the rackets, while his real son was on the lam - until an ex...

  • A Potter

    Douglas Florian

  • The Crystal Warriors

    William R. Forstchen

  • The Crystal Sorcerers

    William R. Forstchen

    Enemies on Earth and now allies in the world to which they have been transported, Mark Phillips and Ikawa Yoshio struggle against the magic of Gorgon, the demon-lord attempting to enslave both Haven and the worlds beyond...

  • Tasting Things

    Allan Fowler

    From friendly dolphins to giant pandas, from icebergs and glaciers to energy from the sun, from magnets to solids, liquids, and gases, Rookie Read-About Science is a natural addition to the primary-grade classroom with books that cover every part of ...

  • Double Dare

    Robin Francis

    "I double dare you!" It's a child's game of challenge--with adult consequences. The romantic reunion of a pair of amateur sleuths, writer Jenny Spaulding and lawyer Peter Darien, is interrupted when Peter is asked to locate a missing TV actress...

  • Don't Wake the Baby

    Jonathan Franklin

  • Symbols at Your Door

    Anthea Fraser

  • Cool Repentance

    Antonia Fraser

    A THEATRE COMPANY TAKES CENTER STAGE--WHILE MURDER WAITS IN THE WINGS.... After her well-publicized affair with an international pop star, a celebrated actress returned to her family and her career with no remorse. Now the leading lady must pay fo...

  • Hollywood Requiem

    Peter Freeborn

  • The Exact Image of Mother

    Patty Friedman

    Darby Cooper, the irrepressible survivor of Jewish guilt, Holocaust memories, and modern romance, narrates this dark comedy, set in Jewish New Orleans, about the complex relationships between mothers and daughters, love and betrayal, death and renewa...

  • Discovery at Coyote Point

    Ann H. Gabhart

    When twelve-year-old Ance spends a year at Coyote Point and frees a suffering coyote from a trap, he earns the wrath of the rancher who set the trap, and learns the truth about his father's disappearance years ago...

  • The Book of Embraces

    Eduardo Galeano

    "Eduardo Galeano''s is considered a passionate literary voice. In ""The Book of Embraces"", he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate, ironic and joyful world view. The world reveals ...

  • Homeplace

    Dorothy Garlock

    HOMEPLACE... is the story of Ana, a stranger on a lonesome Iowa farm, a young woman struggling to raise her late stepdaughter's child in a farmhouse filled with danger. There is Esther, the child's crazed aunt, and dark secrets and memories l...

  • Live from New York

    Alan Gelb

    When her mother runs off with a Dutch sea captain and instructs her to finish her romance novel, sixteen-year-old Chico Marx finds her assignment complicated by a crush on the editor, her friend's problems, and romance...

  • Unlikely Cupid

    Catherine George

    "You're not at all suitable for Miles." Janus Stanhope certainly didn't keep his opinions to himself -- he wanted Georgina to know he didn't approve of her engagement to his younger brother. Under the circumstances, Georgina...

  • Happy Endings

    Adele Geras

    When sixteen-year-old Mel lands a role in a summer production of Chekov's Three Sisters, she is immediately caught up in the exciting world of the theater. Mel forms close bonds with the cast and crew, especially Clare, the costume and set designer. ...

  • The Puffins Are Back!

    Gail Gibbons

    It happens every year, in the spring. After months of living on the open sea, far away from land, puffins return to the rocky coast of Maine. These colorful birds come back to shore for only a short time, to mate and to raise their young.

    No...

  • An Unequal Partnership

    Rosemary Gibson

    "I have no intention of selling." Mike had made her position perfectly clear. She could not abandon her share of Kingston Air, the business her grandfather had built. And especially not to a cold, calculating business machine like Luke Dun...

  • Once in a Lifetime

    Jacqueline Gilbert

    A moment of madness That's all it had taken Agnes to fall for Alexander Brandon, a man she'd met while vacationing in the Scottish Highlands. It would have been hard not to have been attracted to Alexander -- he was handsome, witty, car...

  • Hawaiian U.F.O. Aliens

    Mel Gilden

    "IT'S A MYSTERY, DUDE'.' The giant top hat on the beach was just the beginning. Because after it landed, someone started stealing blowfish spine necklaces, including one which had been a gift to Zoot Marlowe, hot shot alien detective. If the hat w...

  • Honour Thy Father

    Lesley Glaister

    In a remote, crumbling house in the Fens live four sisters—Agatha, Milly, and Ellen and Esther—identical twins so closely linked as to be almost one person. They have lived there all their lives, trapped still by the fear of their dead...

  • The Brutus Lie

    John J. Gobbell

    Reunited after thirty-five years of Cold War, brothers and bitter enemies Lofton and Dobrynyn pursue their individual goals of outwitting each other, unaware that their deaths have been ordered at the highest government levels. Reprint....

  • The Surprise Picnic

    John S. Goodall

  • Phoenix Rising or How to Survive Your Life

    Cynthia D. Grant

    Helen's death at eighteen from cancer shatters the lives of her parents and siblings, especially younger sister Jessie who tries to cope with her feelings of pain and confusion by reading pages from Helen's diary...

  • Once in a Lifetime

    Ginna Gray

    A totally terrorized vacationing Abigail Stewart grabbed her tiny terrier and ran-to David Blaine's bachelor boat. But the supposedly reputable U.S. agent gave his stowaways a salty reception, swilling beer and singeing Abby right down to her sensibl...

  • Just the Two of Us

    Jan Greenberg

  • To the Last Man

    Zane Grey

    The bloody, horrible feud between the Jorth and Isbel families puts generations six feet underground. Their viciousness went beyond understanding, their vengeance was unrelenting, and their violence was unforgiveable. Save for the hearts of two impos...

  • World around Midnight

    Patricia Griffith

    Reluctantly accepting the editorial helm of the smalltown newspaper run by her family in Midnight, Texas, Dinah Reynolds finds herself involved in the people and politics of a world she thought she had left behind...

  • The Theory Of Everything

    Lisa Grunwald

    A brilliant physicist, who's about to reveal his theory that unites all scientific theories, finds that, despite all his professional success, his life is unraveling. Then he takes a mystical journey and comes to terms with the two most important wom...

  • The Starwolves

    Thorarinn Gunnarsonn

    This story is the extreme technical advantage that the Starwolves have over the Union. If the technological difference is as big as they say, the Starwolves could have wiped the Union from the skies centuries before. Other than that, this book is inc...

  • Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

    Allan Gurganus

    Allan Gurganus's Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All became an instant classic upon its publication. Critics and readers alike fell in love with the voice of ninety-nine-year-old Confederate widow Lucy Marsden, one of the most entertaining and ...

  • Precious Blood

    Jane Haddam

    ASH WEDNESDAY, HOLY THURSDAY, DEADLY FRIDAY Former FBI agent Gregor Demarkian is doing a friend a favor when he shows up in Colchester, New York. The Cardinal Archbishop has a problem: A young woman has been most mysteriously murdered, and one of his...

  • Midnight Rose

    Patricia Hagan

    SHE WAS AN EXOTIC WILDFLOWER WHO DROVE MEN TO DANGEROUS DESIRES Breathtaking Erin Sterling was a glistening blossom among the pale debutantes of Virginia's gentry. The headstrong stepdaughter of a despised slave trader, she vowed she'd belong to ...

  • The Evening News

    Arthur Hailey

    Terrorists target a TV anchorman and his family in the #1 New York Timesâ€"bestselling author’s novel set in the high-pressure network news industry. Anchorman Crawford Sloane, a respected reporter who made his name as a Vietnam War correspondent, ...

  • Setting the Pace

    David Halecroft

  • Wild Pitch

    David Halecroft

  • Skin Deep

    Timothy Hallinan

    Hired to keep Toby Vane, prime-time's number one leading man, out of trouble, Simeon Grist is certain the job will be a piece of cake--that is, until Vane is framed for the murder of a nude dancer. Reprint....