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New Books List: 574 titles

  • A Cat by Any Other Name

    Lydia Adamson

    A CAT'S EYE FOR MURDER Alice Nestleton, beautiful off-off Broadway actress-turned-amateur detective, has been forced into a life of crime--sleuthing that is--with some cat-sitting on the side. But this hot summer in New York she has taken a hiatus...

  • The Trial of Anna Cotman

    Vivien Alcock

    New to town, Anna is happy to find a friend, even if it is the bossy and quarrelsome Lindy, and is pleased to be allowed to join the secret society run by Lindy's older brother until she commits a "crime" that the society won't forgive...

  • Some Things Never Change

    Kurt Aldag

  • Nomad

    David Alexander

    Combining the best of bare-knuckle brawn and computer-generated weapons, Nomad, a member of an ultrasecret terrorist force, battles a techno-messiah poised to prevent the deployment of a satellite system that could provide humanity with limitless ene...

  • Hometown Man

    Jo Ann Algermissen

    WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS It had taken Caroline Noble years to shake the dust of Graceville, Georgia, off her shoes. She'd left a scared seventeen-year-old with a pocketful of ambition and not much else. She returned a wealthy woman determined to e...

  • Disney's Big Book of Puzzlers

    Karen C. Anderson

  • Through the Ice

    Piers Anthony

  • Tom Swift the Microbots

    Victor Appleton

    UNDER THE MICROSCOPE...AND UNDER THE GUN! Tom Swift has developed a powerful new kind of nanotechnology -- incredible shrinking robots reduced to the size of a pinpoint with his revolutionary molecular compressor. But the tiniest miscalculation can h...

  • The Age of Elegance

    Helen Archery

    "YOU ARE THE VERY DEVIL OF A CHIT! I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE, AND MAY WE BOTH BE DAMNED!" Docile Miss Emmalie Marlowe was a mere garden-variety weed who had just received a proposal, courtesy of her beautiful mother's clever tactics, from the greatest...

  • Like Father, Like Son

    Elizabeth August

    CHILD OF PASSION Rebecca Worthen had been swept away by dashing Texas rancher Tanner Lathrop -- but fled when she'd discovered she was carrying his baby. Certain that what Tanner felt for her was passion, not love, she'd set him free and t...

  • Chill Factor

    James Axler

    WHEN HELL FROZE OVER... America's legacy of annihilation continues for Ryan Cawdor and his band of post-apocalypse survivors on a quest to find a peaceful new life. Trekking through the ruins of a devastated America, they search for secrets of the...

  • Naomi's Room

    Jonathan Aycliffe

    Tormented by grief after his four-year-old daughter is murdered, Charles hears sinister whispers as he tries to discover the truth about Naomi's death. But long-buried secrets threaten to take Charles to a place where he could lose his very soul. Ayc...

  • Lost and Found

    Judy Baer

    Peggy Madison had been through an incredible year, but all her friends hope that the worst is behind so that she can get a fresh start on life. The facts soon become obvious though: Chad's death has left hurts that aren't yet healed. Her behavior has...

  • Unheard Voices

    Judy Baer

    Lexi Leighton thinks she knows all about how tough it is to be the new girl in town until the late fall day when Ruth Miller is introduced to her class. So sweet looking, so pale and frightened, Lexi's heart aches for her. Then it turns out that ...

  • Women and Horses

    Candida Baker

    Always considered the responsible one by her family and friends, Deborah Jefferies--tired of her parents' troubles and her husband's jealousy--abruptly abandons normal life and curls up under her desk, refusing to come out....

  • Granny and Me

    Robin Ballard

    Annie and Granny love spending time together baking cookies, going to the beach, and playing dress up, but Annie's favorite times are spent looking at the family photographs and learning all about her interesting relatives...

  • All Through the House

    Janice Bartlett

    ---- republished July 2013 by Janice Kay Johnson DREAM HOUSE When Abigail McLeod landed the listing for the Irving House, she thought her luck had changed. Between the demands of her job as a real estate agent and her active four-year-old daugh...

  • Anna and the Little Green Dragon

    Klaus Baumgart

  • Stranger in the Mirror

    Lynn Beach

    When Stacey is pulled into an antique mirror and into the world of a lonely girl and her evil grandmother, her twin sister Tracy must pretend to be both herself and her sister until she can get Stacey back. Original....

  • Trees

    Harry Behn

  • Sunset Secrets

    Cherie Bennett

    During their road trip to Sunset Island, Carrie, Emma, and Samantha encounter adventure when their car breaks down, they hit a spell of bad weather, and Carrie snaps some photos that send them all on the lam. Original....

  • A Child of Elvish

    Nancy Varian Berberick

  • The Tattered Cloak

    Nina Berberova

  • Orrie's Story

    Thomas Berger

    Thomas Berger puts his signature spin on the Greek myth ORESTEIA in this brilliant story set in small-town America. “Gripping and funny, and, like the Greek tragedies, it leaves us thoughtful” -- San Francisco Chronicle When Augie leaves to join...

  • One Day, Two Dragons

    Lynne Bertrand

  • Up Close

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    The way reporter Mason Thorne saw it, Halouise Lofton was like a transplanted flower in need of careful nurturing. And since he'd been responsible for uprooting her from rural Hack's Crossing, he'd be the one to protect her. Never mind that Lou was b...

  • Temple of the Moon

    Ching Yun Bezine

  • Brother Billy Bronto's Bygone Blues Band

    David Francis Birchman

  • A Vow of Chastity

    Veronica Black

    Evil has crept into the peaceful lives of the Daughters of Compassion. At first there are only small signs of its presence. The unnatural docility of Sister Joan's pupils at the little convent school on the moor. The disappearance of holy water, c...

  • Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

    Eric Bogosian

    "Mr. Bogosian is a hilarious wit: there is one line after another that you will quote to friends. He is a born storyteller with perfect pitch for the voices of various ethnic, racial and economic backgrounds. Using every powerful means available to a...

  • Heart of the North

    Judith Bowen

    ONCE BURNED, TWICE SHY Christa Hutton had had enough of predatory male bosses to last a lifetime! So working for an old family friend at a remote fishing lodge seemed ideal. The only trophies that interested these men could be found at the end of ...

  • Planets

    James Finney Boylan

    Lovesick Edith Schmertz's leap out of an airplane has fateful implications for a married bank president romancing an office temp, a little girl whose birthday is turned upside down by a pet rabbit, and a family kidnapped by a hardware-store bandit...

  • Chiller

    Randall Boyll

    Made a guinea pig in an unscrupulous doctor's sick experiment, Darbi Kaye is alive yet trapped in a clinically dead body, and it is up to her frantic father to bring her back to life before that body decays. Original....

  • Sword and Sorceress IX

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • Ark Liberty

    Will Bradley

    Refusing to allow his government to complete its destruction of the Earth, Stefan Li activates Liberty, an undersea ark, staffing it with as many refugees as he can before the ports are sealed. Original....

  • Fashion Show Or, the Adventures of Bingo Marsh

    James Brady

    In this sparkling comic novel by one of the most "inside" of fashion insiders, journalist John Sharkey recounts his career under that legendary tyrant of the fashion press Bingo Marsh. Heady as champagne, arch and funny as the best dinner partner you...

  • Noah and the Flood

    Barbara Brenner

  • Corporate Bodies

    Simon Brett

    CURTAINS Surviving thirty years of an actor's fluctuating fortunes, Charles Paris had played many roles. But until now, a starring role as a forklift driver in a corporate - video had yet to grace his resume. Costumed in de rigueur coveralls, he r...

  • I Do, I Do

    Barbara Bretton
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    For Sunny Talbot and Robert Holland it was love at first sight -- for the second time. Years after their hasty elopement and divorce, they were about to marry each other again. And this time they wanted the most elaborate wedding Bucks County had eve...

  • Angel

    Leigh Bristol

    IN A SOUTHWEST BLAZING WITH DANGER A COWBOY RODE A THOUSAND MILES TO CLAIM A HELLION CALLED...ANGEL She looked as innocent as her name, but Angel Haber was a struggling young woman who played a mean game of poker and carried a knife through the du...

  • Blind Faith

    Maureen Bronson

    Kevin Royce was one tough gray A big, strapping ex-marine, he seemed immune to pain. And when Kevin single-handedly tackle a burglar outside Julie Bennett's dental clinic, Julie was impressed -- until Kevin came in for his appointment and fain...

  • Comanche Passion

    Betty Brooks

    HE'D BE HER GUIDE Auburn-haired Serena Graves had grown up wanting only one thing: to find and rescue her younger brother who'd been taken by the Comanche and raised as an Indian. Now that she was eighteen, it was time to make the journey. B...

  • Martians, Go Home

    Fredric Brown

    THEY WERE GREEN, THEY WERE LITTLE, THEY WERE BALD AS BILLIARD BALLS AND THEY WERE EVERYWHERE!Luke Devereaux was a science fiction writer, holed up in a desert shack waiting for inspiration. He was the first to see a Martian - but he certainly wasn't ...

  • David's Little Indian

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • The Dream Book

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Hidden Touch

    Virginia Brown

    SHE NEVER INTENDED FOR THE DECEPTION TO GO ON AS LONG AS IT HAD... And once Alyssa met the penetrating green-eyed gaze of her guardian, the Duke of Deverill, she knew her secret was no longer her own. Deverill, furious at her charade, was tempted ...

  • All Tutus Should Be Pink

    Sheri Brownrigg

    Two little girls attend ballet class and eat strawberry ice cream afterwards. ...

  • Man in the Moon in Love

    Jeff Brumbeau

    When Man-in-the-Moon falls in love with a woman on Earth and marries her, his new-found bliss is interrupted by Man-in-the-Sun, who insists that the new bride cannot move to the moon to be with her husband....

  • Body

    Bill Buford

  • A Stained White Radiance

    James Lee Burke

    Cajun police detective Dave Robicheaux knows the Sonnier family of New Iberia--their connections to the CIA, the mob, and to a former Klansman now running for state office. And he knows their past, as dark and murky as a night on the Louisiana bayou....

  • Cutting Stone

    Janet Burroway

    Escaping from a loveless marriage, Eleanor heads west and meets up with Frank, a rugged rancher who desires another man's wife; Lloyd, Frank's hot-headed younger brother; and Maria, a Mexican woman. Reprint....

  • Tail Toes Eyes Ears Nose

    Marilee Robin Burton

  • Coffin on Murder Street

    Gwendoline Butler

    In Butler's latest procedural, ominous threats to a child galvanize the police of the fictional Second City of London and their commander, John Coffin, who is being investigated by an overzealous MP. Nell Casey, an American soap opera star who is app...

  • Ferngully: The Last Rainforest

    Mark Butler

  • Gentle Conqueror

    Julia Byrne

    ALAIN HAD STOLEN HER LIVELIHOOD -- AND HER HEART Lisette had been horrified when Alain of Raverre had laid claim to the estates left in her care, but knowing how little control she had over her own fate, she had soon resigned herself to an allianc...

  • Island Kill

    Robert Cain

    When a drug kingpin abducts a U.S. Congressman from his yacht off the coast of Florida, Cybernarc, a robot designed to fight drug dealers, and his human partner, Lt. Christopher Drake, race against time to save him. Original....

  • While I Sleep

    Mary Calhoun

  • A Man for Easter

    Stella Cameron

    HE WANTED HER... But on his own terms. Dr. Dominic Kiser was a man who needed a challenge, and Briar Lee was just the woman to give it to him. But every time he remembered what she did for a living, he found it harder to live by his one rule: Don'...

  • Spellbinder

    Bethany Campbell

    Settling her Uncle Jimmie's estate was heart-wrenching for Kelly, but spending time at his home on a beautiful lake in Arkansas meant she'd have the peace and quiet she needed to work on her next book. She hadn't counted on the presence o...

  • Big Bear's Treasury

    Candlewick Press

    Stories, poems, and illustrations by some of the world's most popular children's authors and artists feature the work of Quentin Blake, Martin Waddell, Helen Oxenbury, Martin Handford, and Charlotte Voake, and others...

  • The Changed Man

    Orson Scott Card

    These eleven chilling tales from bestselling author Orson Scott Card, including the author's introductions and afterword comments, provoke the dreaded dark side of the reader's imagination. The Changed Man, the first volume of stories in the Maps in ...

  • The Mystery of the Missing Mermaid

    M.V. Carey

    MISSING: 5-YEAR-OLD BOY Name: Todd Stratten. Last seen with pet dog at Fourth of July parade, Venice Beach. Boy known for wandering off, mischief. Could be anywhere. Kidnapping not ruled out. Mother frantic. Investigator with gift for gab needed to ...

  • Steel Albatross

    Scott Carpenter

    When hard-line Soviet elements build an underwater power plant that can paralyze the U.S. defense systems, scandal-plagued Navy pilot Rick Tallman is given command of the Albatross, an undetectable submarine, in order to destroy the system. R...

  • Montana Sunrise

    Margaret Carroll

  • Dragons in the Stars

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    Jael LeBrae finally gets the chance to navigate a ship through hyperspace, but when the co-pilot tries to enslave her, she kills him in self-defense and is left alone to battle an evil population of dragons. Original....

  • Starring Dorothy Kane

    Judith Caseley

  • Whatever Alex Wants...

    Carla Cassidy

    ARIES MAN Aggressive Aries businessman Alexander Donaldson III needed a vacation -- peace and quiet, sleeping until noon...Instead, he was rudely awakened by a huge sheep butting its head against the bedroom window! The woolly trespasser could onl...

  • The Last Rite of Hugo T.

    J.N. Catanach

  • Only Forever

    Kimberly Cates

    Ashleen O'Shea looked like a blue-eyed angel ... and indeed she believed in making miracles. She stole a precious chalice from the convent that had sheltered her and escaped famine-struck Ireland, with four little orphans in tow. Landing in America, ...

  • Squanto and the First Thanksgiving

    Teresa Noel Celsi

  • Martin and the Teacher's Pet

    Bernice Chandiet

  • Love's Children

    Judith Chernaik

    Drawn to Percy Bysshe Shelley's creed of love, freedom, and justice, three women--Mary and Fanny Godwin and their step-sister Claire--surrounded by a circle of writers and radical thinkers, enjoy a revolutionary way of living that includes free love ...

  • Dark Chant in a Crimson Key

    George C. Chesbro

    In Mongo's latest mystery, the dwarf detective pursues the world's most vicious terrorist, leading to a showdown between the terrorist and Mongo and his crew at Lake Geneva....

  • The Wainwright Secret

    Margaret Chittenden

    Who was the murderer? When she arrived at Farrington Hall to meet her relatives, Kate Wainwright was greeted by an empty table set for tea, a knocked-down umbrella stand and Andrew Bradford -- a man who wouldn't reveal his identity. And when a...

  • The Wolves of Autumn

    Scott Ciencin

    With humanity menaced by the hollow, a new race of hideous monsters born to women and born without souls, the merchant prince Trevelyan, the warrior Shantow, and the witch Ariodne must join forces to save their race. Original....

  • To the Fourth Generation

    Janet Kotsel Clarke

  • Impossumble Summer

    B.W. Clough

    Certain that a summer spent in Alexandria, Virginia, will be unexciting, Rianne, Abe, and Shannon are pleasantly surprised by the arrival of the Impossumble, a talking opossum who can grant them wishes....

  • Walt Disney's Pinocchio

    Eugene Bradley Coco

    Geppetto is a lonely woodcarver who makes a boy puppet and wishes, with all his might, that the puppet was alive. As Geppetto sleeps, Pinocchio is given life by the Blue Fairy. There's a catch, though. Pinocchio is alive, but he won't be a real boy u...

  • Good Night, Sigmund!

    Nancy Coffelt

  • The Long Way Home

    Barbara Cohen

  • Don't Tell the Whole World!

    Joanna Cole

  • The Jade Garden

    Laurel Collins

    Claire -- She was a beautiful dreamer whose sheltered heart longed for adventure. Yearning to escape her sheltered life as package store clerk in nineteenth-century New York, Claire Pennington finds release when her long-absent father summons her f...

  • Cassandra in Red

    Michael Collins

    This is the last book in the award-winning Dan Fortune mystery series. In it, the private detective surprises himself and comes to some conclusions about his life - his relationship with model Kay Michaels has passed through the novelty stage, and th...

  • Contagion

    John D. Connor

  • Freshman Feud

    Linda A. Cooney

    With Peter gone and her father suddenly ill, KC's world is crumbling. Marielle Danner promises she can cure KC's blues. Has KC's enemy really changed, or is she laying a dangerous trap? Kimberly has had it with Derek's jealous streak. It's time to t...

  • Staying Cool

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Forever, Ashley

    Lori Copeland

    HE WAS FATE'S SWEET REVENGE, THE PERFECT LOVER...TWO HUNDRED YEARS TOO SOON! When Ashley Wheeler fell through the ceiling of the Green Dragon Tavern on April 15, 1775, not even her digital watch could convince the cabal of revolutionary patri...

  • A Taste of Temptation

    Lori Copeland

    TAYLOR--He Was Hot Stuff in the Kitchen--and He Spiced Up Her Nights.... He was Hollywood handsome with a playboy's reputation to match--not at all the kind of partner Annie Malone had hoped for in cooking class--but she was stuck working with Tay...

  • Body of Evidence

    Patricia Cornwell

    Another thrilling novel from the bestselling author of Postmortem and Black Notice After months of menacing phone calls and feeling that her every move is being watched, successful writer Beryl Madison flees Key West when a terrifying message is scra...

  • The Sherbrooke Bride

    Catherine Coulter

    Douglas Sherbrooke, Earl of Northcliffe, is a man besieged. He must have an heir. Thus, he must first provide himself with the requisite bride. Alexandra Chambers, youngest daughter of the Duke of Beresford, has loved Douglas Sherbrooke since she was...

  • Jennifer Murdley's Toad

    Bruce Coville

    MEET BUFO -- A TOAD WITH A PAST Jennifer Murdley had no idea what she was getting into the day she bought the big toad from the strange man who ran Elives's Magic Shop. The thing didn't even start talking to her until she had it out of the store. An...

  • Trial by Fire

    Harold Coyle

  • Reflections in Time

    Elizabeth Crane

    ENTRANCED BY A STRANGER When practical-minded, no-nonsense Renata O'Neal began to have trouble sleeping, she decided hypnotism was the obvious answer to her problem. But when the doctor put her under, and she found herself in another time and place,...

  • Dark Ransom

    Sara Craven

    She was living on the edge of torment Charlie Graham had come thousands of miles across the world -- the Amazon promised excitement, adventure and new hope for her bedraggled soul. But she hadn't counted on being kidnapped by one of Brazil'...

  • Beaver Ball at the Bug Club

    Mike Craver

  • Wild Texas Loving

    Catherine Creel

    IF SHE COULD MAKE HIM FALL IN LOVE WITH HER, SHE COULD SAVE HER BROTHER'S LIFE Georgia belle Lorelei Montgomery would have done anything to save her brother from the hangman's noose in Fort Concho, Texas -- and if that meant seducing the b...

  • Angel of Fire

    Tanya Anne Crosby

    DEFIANT BEAUTY Devastated by her father's death, Norman noblewoman Chrestien de Lontaine seeks the refuge of a nunnery, vowing to give her love to no man. But that pledge is made before she encounters the towering legend they call the Silver Wolf.....

  • All the Fun of the Fair

    Robert Crowther

    Pop-up illustrations, ingenious flaps, wheels, and pull-tabs help youngsters enjoy all the sights and sounds of the fair, in six panoramic spreads that include a ferris wheel, a carousel, a bumper car ride, and other delights....

  • The Rainbow Runner

    John Cunningham

    Soldier-of-fortune Jack O'Donohue must escort a rare religious shrine through Mexico in order to pick up a cool twelve thousand dollars in cash, a trip that takes him smack into the hordes of Pancho Villa. Original....

  • Grandma's Baseball

    Gavin Curtis

  • Holy Terrors

    Mary Daheim

    HARE TODAY, DEAD TOMORROW Catering the annual pre-Easter brunch and egg hunt is a hare-raising hassle for Judith McManigle, hard-working hostess of the Hillside Manor. And this year's egg scramble gets particularly messy when the reclusive wife of...

  • Out of the Ordinary

    Annie Dalton

  • Babysitter's Nightmare

    Kate Daniel

  • High Risk

    Emma Darcy

    The risks were high, but she had no choice Only illness could have forced Carrie to give up her son. Now she wanted Danny back, and Dominic Savage was the only one she could turn to. She hadn't seen him in eight years, but he had the power ...

  • 1959

    Thulani Davis

    Mickey and Sylvia, two black girls living in a small Virginia town, find their lives turned upside when the civil rights movement arrives in town in the form of eight courageous black college students. Reprint....

  • Witness to My Life

    Simone De Beauvoir

    A collection of letters written by Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir offers a candid, provocative study of Sartre's literary, philosophical, and political evolution and of the social and cultural institutions of prewar Europe....

  • Tam Lin

    Pamela Dean

    In the ancient Scottish ballad "Tam Lin," headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh . . . and then must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover’s body and soul. In this version of "Tam Lin," masterfully cr...

  • Castle Dreams

    John DeChancie

    Everyone is in line to the throne of Castle Perilous in the series that’s “thought-provoking . . . crazy . . . weird . . . [and] unexpected” (TV Tropes). Who will claim the throne now that Lord Incarnad...

  • Sea of Dreams

    Elizabeth DeLancey

    Two hearts on a journey of desire ... NORAH Tragedy had taught Norah Paige to cherish her stable and satisfying life in Boston. Only her sense of duty persuaded the proper young beauty to sail to England, leaving behind all she held dear. Yet, o...

  • The Crimson Legion

    Troy Denning

    A dream born from tyranny. Tyr: The Free City. After a millennium of sorrow, it has cast off the yoke of the brutal sorcerer-king. The new ruler, Tithian of Mericles, has liberated the slaves--and plunged the city into chaos. Tyr's triumph may...

  • The Plague Lords of Ruel

    Joe Dever

    YOU ARE LONE WOLF --Kai Grand Master of Sommerlund Sole survivor of the Order of Kai, you have defeated the Darklords of Helgedad and avenged your ancestors. But now you must battle a silent and sinister killer... The evil Cener Druids of Ruel...

  • Home At Last

    David Devries

    On the run in the streets of New York since his mother's death five years before, thirteen-year-old Billy is finally arrested for thievery and sent on the Orphan Train to live with a farming family in Nebraska. Original....

  • The Dragon on the Border

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Gordon R. Dickson returns to one of his most beloved creations--a fantastic medieval world in which a twentieth-century American is transformed into a knight... and a dragon. In THE DRAGON ON THE BORDER, Sir James, the Dragon Knight, faces his mos...

  • Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians

    Walt Disney

  • Final Gambit

    Franklin W. Dixon

    In Las Vegas to take part in the National Computer Chess Championship, Frank and Joe soon find themselves the prime suspects in the kidnapping of a ruthless businessman's daughter, and the two must free the girl to clear their names. Original....

  • To Play the King

    Michael Dobbs

    The #1 International Bestseller from the Executive Producer of the hit Netflix series House of Cards.Francis Urquhart is back and the newly elected Prime Minister continues his climb to power. This time he will take on the King himself, threatening t...

  • Color Box

    Dayle Ann Dodds

    Alexander the monkey finds an ordinary-looking box with spots of color inside, through which he journeys to many bright landscapes of different colors. Each page has a hole revealing the next color he will find....

  • Kid Curry's Last Ride

    Warwick Downing

  • Justice

    David Drake

    ARMORED APOCALYPSE A world of eight warring planes, where gods and men battle for mastery of the Matrix, a high-tech bridge through space and time. A world where weaponry is the supreme art. Where peace can be crueler than combat. Where a single b...

  • Uncle Shamus

    James Duffy

    Gr 4-6-- After spotting smoke coming from the chimney of a vacant Shanty Town shack, Akers Johnson soon makes friends with the old, blind, black man known as Uncle Shamus, who recently moved there. Along with ten-year-old Marleena, another resident o...

  • Loop the Loop

    Barbara Dugan

    "I'm Methuselah, and I'm nine hundred and sixty-nine years old. Who are you?" Anne shrugged. "Nobody." "Nobody!" Mrs. Simpson shouted. "That's good!"

    Mrs. Simpson is like no one else Anne has ever met. She travels in a wheelchair and ...

  • Wild Temptation

    Elizabeth Duke

    He was a rogue and a philanderer That's how Mia James described her employer, Bram Wild. The man was wealthy and arrogant, and his reputation as a womanizer was legendary. Obviously he was incapable of deep or sincere feeling. And he was pa...

  • The Frog Earl

    Carola Dunn

    Fleeing the London marriage market for the tranquility of the countryside, Simon masquerades as a gamekeeper in the hope of finding peace, but the arrival of a beautiful princess disrupts his life as never before...

  • Walk in the Light

    Charles Durham

    The Scottish Highlands in the eighteenth century have little to offer Rachel Calhoun and her brother. Their abusive father and grinding poverty make them long for another life. Idealistic young doctor Drew Wolfe befriends and tries to protect Rachel,...

  • Conduct Unbecoming

    Dale A. Dye

    The most highly decorated officer in the 2nd Marine Division, Captain Thurmond Becker learns the penalty of breaking the Corps' Code of Ethics when he enters an affair with a married lieutenant in his division. Original....

  • More Than a Memory

    Lois Faye Dyer

    ONCE UPON A TIME ... It was a summer straight out of a fairy tale. The sultry air of the Iowa nights was laced with the heavy scent of summer roses and the distinctive flavor of lake water. The silvery moon was reflected on the lake as Cole McFadd...

  • To Each His Own

    Kathleen Eagle

    Witchcraft! The townspeople of Glover, North Dakota, had little doubt that was what was happening at the old schoolhouse! They believed Lavender Holland, with her Gypsy clothing, herbal potions and black cat, must be some kind of witch. Wyatt Archer,...

  • Woodsman

    Thomas A. Easton

    In a twenty-first century where bioengineering has gone berserk--plants and animals have been genetically transformed into transportation systems, garbage disposals, and even homes--the rebel Engineers attempt to halt plans to crossbreed plants and a...

  • Maxwell's Birthday

    Jane Eccles

  • Nineteen Hats, Ten Teacups, an Empty Birdcage, and the Art of Longing

    Cooper Edens

  • Art of Longing

    Cooper Edens

  • Fleeting Fancy

    Rosemary Edghill

    WHAT SORT OF WOMAN WOULD MARRY VISCOUNT SEVERN SIGHT UNSEEN...? But Primula Greetwell had seen him before -- seen him, loved him, and married him, ten years ago. It had been a cruel trick, of course, a false marriage crafted by a young and thought...

  • Alef-Bet

    Michelle Edwards

  • From the Dreamtime: Australian Aboriginal Legends

    Jean A. Ellis

  • Lone Star and the Deep Water Pirates

    Wesley Ellis

    It's sink or swin when Jessie and Ki take on a gang of deep-sea raiders!With the Oceana Fish Company in danger of going under, Jessie and Ki take to the open seas to stop rival trader Boone Vermillion and his gang of seafaring crooks from ruining the...

  • Stedfast

    Roger Elwood

    Stedfast, who had been Adam's guardian angel in Eden, is called from his place in Paradise to minister and ease the passage of dying souls into heaven, and he recalls the loss of his first battle with Satan eons before...

  • A Woman's Story

    Annie Ernaux

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable Book"A deeply affecting account of mothers and daughters, youth and age, and dreams and reality" (Kirkus Reviews)Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Ernaux embarks on a da...

  • Bride on the Run

    Rita Clay Estrada
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    Wedding gown in hand, winning lottery ticket in her shoe, Kathi Baylor cut and ran. She commandeered Hannibal Saunders to drive her to collect her prize. Playing hooky in his friend's pickup truck, the conservative lawyer took this hellion on the rid...

  • Gretchen and the Big Bad Wolf

    Marcia Evanick

    JORDON -- Tall, Dark, and Too Good to Resist... When his car crashed in a snowdrift, Jordon Winters wondered if he was seeing things -- or was he really being rescued by a snow angel in a horse-drawn sleigh? With eyes the color of Tahiti skies and...

  • Naughty Neighbor

    Janet Evanovich

    PETE -- Trouble in His Eyes, and in His Wicked Grin.... He was a handsome hell-raiser, a reckless crusader in low-slung jeans -- and he was driving Louisa Brannigan crazy! Pete Streeter made terrible coffee, snatched her newspaper, and listened th...

  • Longarm and the Gunslicks

    Tabor Evans

  • Uplink

    Jane S. Fancher

    Investigating some disruptions in the vital interstellar data 'Net, Admiral Loren Cantrell must rely on information obtained from Stephen Ridenour, the hostile young genius in charge of solving HuteNamid's mysteries.

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  • Running Mates

    John Feinstein

    When Washington Herald reporter Bobby Kelleher investigates the assassination of Maryland governor Barney Paulsen, he initially wonders whether Jamelle Touretta, leader of the radical Females for Freedom, may have engineered the murder so that a woma...

  • Mistress of the Empire

    Raymond E. Feist; Janny Wurts

    The world on the other side of the Rift: Kelewan, a land seething with political intrigue and deadly conspiracies. Following the opulent panoply of Daughter of the Empire--and the dazzling pageantry of Servant of the Empire comes the resounding concl...

  • Taken by Storm

    Sandra Field

    Out in the cold Liane Daley desperately vowed to do anything to protect her son from her own father -- even though her father had the money and the power to take Patrick from her. Then Jake Brande swept into her life, flooding her senses with h...

  • Strategies for Success

    Stona Fitch

  • High Plains Princess

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Broomtail Basin/Trail to Gunsmoke

    Lee Floren

  • The Boy Who Sailed with Columbus

    Michael Foreman

    Leif, orphaned son of a Viking seafarer, joins Columbus and his crew on the voyage to the New World, only to discover the cruelty of European explorers and to be captured by natives, in a beautifully illustrated, provocative account of the voyage....

  • The Reckless Ones

    Rebecca Forster

    Deeply affected by her mother's abandonment of her for a wealthy husband, Ricky Blair vows revenge on the rich, becoming the top female executive of an insurance company by day, and commanding two larcenous sisters in a jewel thievery ring by night. ...

  • The Devil's End

    D.A. Fowler

    Idyllic Sharon Valley becomes the site for satanic slaughter when popular, pampered Nancy Snell stumbles upon a seventy-year-old legacy of evil and decides to make Lana Bremmers, the new girl in town, her victim. Original....

  • Secret Bride of Crannoch Castle

    Kate Frederick

    'There are those who are wishing you ill, Mistress Della.' Devastated by a broken engagement, orphaned heiress Adella Sarne accompanied her guardians to the wilds of Scotland for a restful holiday. But when a sudden storm came up over dark Cranno...

  • The Seventh Stone

    Nancy Freedman

    After her husband dies a hero's death as a kamikaze pilot during World War II, a young widow, Momoko, and her son, Akio, struggle to rebuild their lives in postwar Japan, in a story that spans three generations of a Japanese family...

  • No! Said Joe

    Vivian French

  • The Original Sin

    Marius Gabriel

    Eden van  Buren lies chained to an iron bedstead in a homemade  cell. Her captor is a handsome tormented young  sculptor who lives alone in the Arizona desert. He  is honest, compassionate, and uninterested in  money. Why then has he kidnap...

  • The Meadow

    James Galvin

    An American Library Association Notable BookIn discrete disclosures joined with the intricacy of a spider's web, James Galvin depicts the hundred-year history of a meadow in the arid mountains of the Colorado/Wyoming border. Galvin describes the seas...

  • Song of the Buffalo Boy

    Sherry Garland

    Seventeen-year-old Loi, whose father was an American soldier, is ostracized by her fellow villagers because she is con-lai, a half-breed. Loi has been promised to a cruel older man, but rather than marry him, she flees to Ho Chi Minh City, and along ...

  • One White Sail: A Caribbean Counting Book

    S.T. Garne

  • Dark Channel

    Ray Garton

    Arriving at the Universal Enlightened Alliance's retreat to investigate the disappearance of a reporter, Jordan Cross meets Lauren Shroeder, present at the retreat to locate her missing four-year-old son, kidnapped by her Alliance member husband. Ori...

  • Villains!

    Mary Gentle

  • The Tower Room

    Adele Geras

    In a scene that echoes "Rapunzel," Megan looks down from her tower room at a cloistered all-girls boarding school in England and observes the arrival of the new laboratory assistant, Simon Findlay.

    As soon as their eyes meet, their love blos...

  • Shelter

    Wesley Gibson

  • Lord of the Troll-Bats

    Alexis A. Gilliland

    Wizenbeak's comfortable life is gone now that he is wed to the twelve-year-old princess who holds the essence of her dead mother, Queen Shaia, and when Shaia's spirit disappears, Wizenbeak is left alone to battle the Troll-Bats. Original....

  • Asleep, Asleep

    Mirra Ginsburg

  • The Shepherd

    Joseph Girzone

    A bishop attempts to turn the hierarchy of the Catholic church into a simple, democratic Christian community with the help of Joshua, a young man who came to him in a dream and became his mentor and friend. By the author of Joshua. Reprint....

  • Trick or Treat

    Lesley Glaister

    Eight-year-old Wolfe watches as the innocent antics of Halloween and the roaring fires of Guy Fawkes Day take a frightening turn, and girlhood rivalries, whispered affairs, and shameful secrets explode in an act of violence. Reprint....

  • The Tiger and the Brahmin

    Brian Gleeson

  • It's Not My Department!

    Peter Glen

  • Circus

    Heidi Goennel

  • Walt Disney's Cinderella

    Golden Books

  • Star Baby

    Amy Gordon

    An original approach to a common childhood concern tells how Allie--an only child--wishes for a baby sister but gets Star Baby--a baby boy whose supernatural abilities distract the family from the real important things, like Allie's birthday....

  • Big Dog

    Dale Gottlieb

  • Regency Quartet: Frozen Hearts

    Janet Grace
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    Harriet Ogbrook learns that marrying for position means less than nothing if the reasons for that marriage break her heart. Hero: Maximilian Trenarth, third Earl of Trevereux Heroine: Harriet Ogbrook, Lady Trenarth, third Countess of Trevereux...

  • And One Wore Gray

    Heather Graham

    HER YANKEE PRIDE IGNITED HIS REBEL PASSION With her sunset hair and gray eyes that flashed silver, Callie Michaelson's wild beauty stirred the Confederate colonel's senses just as her courageous spirit touched his soul. Unequaled on the field of bat...

  • A Season for Murder

    Ann Granger

    MISTLETOE AND MURDER Pook's Common in the Cotswolds is a perfect place for Meredith Mitchell to return after several years abroad with the British Foreign Service. And Christmas promises to be a lovely time thanks to the warm welcome from her old ...

  • Hidden Memories // The Truth About Trish

    Vanessa Grant

    Promises in the dark In the depths of despair, Abby had spent one rapturous night in Ryan Marsdon's arms. Then she'd fled home to a lie. The lie that began during her marriage to Benedict Stakeman and continued as she, his widow, raised an...

  • Death Off Stage

    Richard Grayson

    The Dashkova Ballet Company - a visiting Russian troupe led by Inspector Gautier's charming Soviet mistress, Princess Sophia - is about to become the toast of Paris when the famous Judge Prudhomme is found with a bullet in his heart in a squalid hote...

  • Conan the Relentless

    Roland J. Green
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    At first all Conan wanted was the width of a path through the Border Kingdom, that northern land full of bandits and brawling and sorcery. But that was before he encountered Raihna, a swordswoman as beautiful as she was dangerous. She alone is reason...

  • Emily and the Crows

    Elaine Greenstein

  • Rainbow of Love

    Kay Gregory

    Tyrant! Working for Gray McGraw wasn't easy. Especially when the man with the love-'em-and-leave-'em reputation made it clear to Ashley that coffee wasn't the only thing he wanted from her. But Ashley needed the job. Besides, sh...

  • The End of the Pier

    Martha Grimes

    In a small, sleepy resort town where the lake divides the rich from the just-folks, and where secrets are almost impossible to keep, Maud Chadwick waits tables at the Rainbow Cafe. Her only confidant is the town sheriff, Sam DeGheyn, and what they sh...

  • Almost Perfect

    Roberta Grimes

    SAVVY GOT HER TO THE TOP. STRENGTH GOT HER THROU H THE PAST. NOW KIM BONNER HAS TO FULFILL THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF HER LIFE--HER HEART... She was born poor and was determined to make something of her life. An overnight success story, Kim Bonner...

  • Season's End

    Tom Grimes

  • Drowned Man's Key

    Ken Grissom

    Trying hard to keep away from Jamaican rum and beautiful women, John Rodrigue, a one-eyed Creole salvager and ex-diver, allows a pretty face to involve him in an international spy ring that is plotting to sabotage the NASA space shuttle...

  • Shadow of My Brother

    Davis Grubb

  • The Soul of the Silver Dog

    Lynn Hall

    As Cory's family rallies around her sister to help her fight cystic fibrosis, Cory is left to find comfort in the family of her best friend and regains her strength and spirit through training their blind dog for competition....

  • Emma Chizzit and the Napa Nemesis

    Mary Bowen Hall

    The discovery of a Robert Louis Stevenson manuscript ends in bloodshed in a deserted country home, and in her attempts to solve the crime, Emma Chizzit encounters a pair of wealthy and eccentric brothers with a deadly rivalry...

  • You Could Love Me

    Phyllis Halldorson

    Once upon a time in L.A., Briana Innes had surrendered to Prince Charming -- and was abandoned in the cinders of secret shame. Surely in sleepy Whispering Pines, Wyoming, she was safe from suave seducers, impossible dreams.... Then forthright Hank...

  • Single Father

    Celeste Hamilton

    Bachelor father Seth Hardy refused to let his teenage son make the same mistakes he had -- especially where a pretty face was concerned. But when Taylor Cantrell turned up at their Alaskan lodge, supposedly to make peace with her estranged, ailing gr...

  • In Camera

    Gerald Hammond

    During a slow summer at the gunshop, Keith Calder begins interviewing a new job candidate, but a series of questions about the applicant's references reveals a sinister past and an assassination plot....

  • Escape from Camp Wannabarf

    Peter Hannan

  • The Complete Guide to Sherlock Holmes

    Michael Hardwick

  • The Wolf

    Madeline Harper

    He never backed down from a fight Jake Forrester--As sheriff, he ran his territory his way Julia Shelton--A research biologist with a passion for wolves. But not the two-legged kind. Jake's authority was unquestioned--until beautiful Julia S...

  • The Fear Experiment

    Jesse Harris

    When one of the participants in a self-hypnosis experiment conducted by a visiting psychology professor is injured in a bizarre accident, young psychic McKenzie Gold begins to suspect a sinister brainwashing scheme. Original....

  • The Good Friday Murder

    Lee Harris

    HOLY DAY...UNHOLY MURDER Christine Bennett has just left the cloistered world of nuns but soons finds herself volunteering to investigate a forty-year-old murder. Pursuing this mission with her old religious zeal, she'll move heaven and earth in n...

  • Angels on Roller Skates

    Maggie Harrison

  • Woman at Willagong Creek

    Jessica Hart

    Born and bred in the outback! A hard man, a typical outback man -- that was Guy Richardson. And he had no intention of letting David, his cousin's orphaned son, be uprooted and dragged off to some strange country. Olivia Bridewell might have b...

  • Westward Ho Ho Ho!: Jokes from the Wild West

    Victoria G. Hartman

  • Off Minor

    John Harvey

    The author of the Frank Elder Mystery, Body & Soul, delivers “a powerful, first-class police procedural” (Kirkus Reviews).   Raymond Cooke is looking for revenge, not corpses. It’s been six weeks since the gang of four young pu...

  • Captive

    Clint Hawkins