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  • The Angels Weep

    Wilbur Smith

    At the dawn of a new century, a bold adventurer and his proud missionary sister, establish a legacy that will dominate Rhodesia for centuries to come. But in the hills, the Matabele indunas are already preparing for the bloody rebellion which will sc...

  • Avenging Angel

    Frank Rich

  • Behind the Great Wall

    Richard Brightfield

  • Capitol Hit

    Don Pendleton

    D.C. DEATH ZONE Washington DC is rocked by sudden violence that's linked to a group of Vietnamese believed to have brought their freedom fight to American soil. But Mack Bolan's hard probe uncovers a conspiracy orchestrated by someone high up in t...

  • End Game

    Robert Cain

    In the almost-human robot's latest adventure, the United States military utilizes Cybernarc in Operation Takedown, a pivotal attack against the sources of the drug trade, but Cybernarc suddenly becomes the target of the drug kingpins. Original....

  • The Last Dragon

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    ENDANGERED SPECIES The good news was that a huge dinosaur was alive in darkest Africa, and a beautiful female cryptozoologist was looking after it. The bad news was that a fast-food king saw it as a mouthwatering chance to make quick cash -- and a...

  • The Leopard Hunts in Darkness

    Wilbur Smith

    BLOOD LEGACY He is the son of Ballantynes, the powerful dynasty that had conquered a continent. Today, amid the violent conflicts of emerging Africa, Craig Mellow confronts a bloody colonial past... and a perilously uncertain future. New rul...

  • Maelstrom

    Keith Douglass

    MASSIVE INVASION. INSTANT RETALIATION. A Soviet invasion force strikes, obliterating Finland... occupying Norway ... threatening Sweden. The European land mass is vulnerable--and the U.S. President authorizes DEFCON 2. Outnumbered, Carrier Battle ...

  • Men of Men

    Wilbur Smith

    When the stone falcons fly, then war will come. So ran the prophecy for a part of Africa glittering with the promise of diamonds and raging with the fever of human hearts. In this dangerous land where only the strongest and luckiest survive, a pow...

  • Smart Bomb

    David Alexander

    Nomad is an elite commando fighting machine armed with technologically superior weaponry whose latest mission is to stop evil planners from launching a deadly weapon of the future on an unsuspecting world. Original....

  • Sunbird

    Wilbur Smith

    A Journey of Wonder and Terror It all begins with a blurry, black-and-white aerial photograph. To the trained eyes of Dr. Benjamin Kazin, it is the archaeological discovery of a lifetime: evidence of an unknown ancient African civilization and the...

  • The Cat Who Went into the Closet

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Qwill's moved into the old Gage mansion--and the cats are on a treasure hunt! The house's fifty closets are crammed with several generations of junk, and while Qwill investigates two recent deaths--those of the mansion's former occupant and a local p...

  • Courting Disaster

    Carolyn Keene

    AMERICA’S TOP TEEN DETECTIVES TEAM UP WHEN A LOVE MATCH TURNS INTO A DEADLY GAME It's spring break, and the sparks are flying in Charleston, South Carolina. Terry Alford, a top television veejay, is starring in the hot new Broadway-bound rock mu...

  • Crime in the Queen's Court

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY SERVES A QUEEN OF ENGLAND AS SHE SEARCHES FOR A KING OF CRIME! An Elizabethan festival has come to River Heights, and Nancy has joined the troupe as a lady to the queen's court. Aside from the music, dancing, costumes, and feasts, there are ...

  • Dangerous Relations

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy goes behind the scenes at the circus and finds big trouble under the big top.Nancy’s in Sarasota, Florida, winter site of the Grand Royal Circus, to help trapeze artist Natalia Petronov look into her heritage. Adopted as an infant, Natalia is...

  • Date With a Plummeting Publisher

    Toni Brill

    There are meddling mothers and then there is Pearl Cohen. All she wants is the best for her daughter and, of course, some grandchildren. So what's the harm in a few blind dates? Although her previous attempt to fix her daughter up with a nice doctor ...

  • Death and the Dogwalker

    A.J. Orde

    FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY, FRED FORET HAD NOTHING TO SAY--NOT EVEN THE NAME OF HIS KILLER. Fred Foret looked so natural lying in the Denver park that only Jason Lynx's dog, out with his master for an early stroll, noticed that he was dead. Jas...

  • Death Echo

    Kerry Tucker

    Professional photojournalist and amateur sleuth Libby Kincaid is never one to turn down a terrific opportunity. So when Pam Bates, an old friend, asks her to find out who is blackmailing her mother, Libby agrees. In return, Libby's magazine gets an e...

  • Death of a Dunwoody Matron

    Patricia Sprinkle

    LIFE-STYLES OF THE RICH AND FATAL Dunwoody is the kind of place where opulent homes and luxury cars are the measure of a person's worth...where the veneer of suburban serenity and gracious hospitality is rarely shaken. But behind the tennis dates ...

  • Death on Wheels

    Robert Nordan

    THE DEBUT PERFORMANCE OF THE MERRY MAKERS STALLS BEFORE IT CAN START. The Merry Makers are just getting into their "Hooray for Hollywood" routine when Miss Luna Dixon's wheelchair slides inexplicably into the lake. Could Jesse Dixon have pushed his...

  • Fear in Fenway

    Crabbe Evers

    THREE STRIKES, YER DEAD! Every loyal Beantown fan knows the ever-chokeable Sox have had a long, hallowed tradition of booting away championship opportunities. And now it appears as if some irate rooter has finally had enough--as two former Bosoxer...

  • Happy Are the Peacemakers

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Rich, beautiful, seductive ... and suspected of murder. Nora MacDonaugh had bad luck with husbands: they both died under mysterious circumstances. Her latest, an Irish millionaire, had changed his will in her favor a week before the bomb went off in ...

  • Hard Women

    Barbara D'Amato

    A DAY IN THE LIFE Does anybody care about a dead hooker? That's the question Chicago journalist Cat Marsala is wrestling with. The hooker, Sandra love, is sleeping on Cat's couch in exchange for the Inside scoop on life as a prostitute. Now she's ...

  • Mrs. Pargeter's Pound of Flesh

    Simon Brett

    Although she's never felt the need to change her own ample form, Mrs Pargeter could see nothing wrong with joining her weight conscious friend at Brotherton Hall Spa. While Kim strained to lose her excess inches, Mrs P would enjoy a luxurious rest...

  • Pussyfoot

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Midnight Louie is aprowl again--and the game is definitely afoot when petite public relations freelancer Temple Barr finds herself at a striptease convention, up to her spike heels in muscle-bound males, siliconed females...and murder. As Temple trac...

  • Quiet Murder

    Nancy Livingston

    It looked like a burglary gone wrong... And it left a harmless old-age pensioner dead. However, burns and gashes on the man's face told a different story: Ernest Clare had been tortured. As fear hangs heavily about the residents of Inkerman Str...

  • Right on the Money

    Emma Lathen

    A GOLDEN CORPORATE MERGER...OR A PARTNERSHIP IN CRIME? To John Putnam Thatcher Sloan Guaranty Trust's intrepid VP, the merger looks from the outset to be a golden opportunity. ASI, a large water-fixture company is prepared to enter the lucrative r...

  • Road Pirates

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Sorrowheart

    M.K. Lorens

    Sorrowheart, an old mansion just off the campus of DeWitt Clinton College, holds the key to a mystery involving a serial killer and the new college president's effort to attrition older teachers, professor cum amateur sleuth G. Winchester Hyde is cer...

  • A Call to Honor

    Gilbert Morris

  • The Class Project Showdown

    Rick Blanchette

  • The Color of the Star

    Gilbert Morris

  • The Counterfeit Collection

    Ann Wald

  • The Discovery

    Judy Baer

    Everyone is excited when Todd's older brother, Mike, announces his engagement to Nancy Kelvin. A pediatric nurse at the Cedar River Hospital, Nancy is bubbly and outgoing, just the opposite of her husband-to-be. Mike and Nancy's spring weddin...

  • Hannah and the Daring Escape

    Hilda Stahl

  • Holly's First Love

    Beverly Lewis

    Thirteen-year-old Holly is dealing with the major concerns of every preteen and teenage girl: boys, family, and school. But with the help of her friends and her faith in God, Holly is able to survive her first boyfriend and her first breakup, a crus...

  • In His Hands

    Mack Thomas

  • The Journey With the Golden Book

    Lela Gilbert

  • Never Too Late

    Judy Baer

    Todd's older brother, Mike, has a new girlfriend and it shows! The body shop he owns has become a disaster area, and Todd's been left to organize the mess and juggle both of their responsibilities. Lexi thinks Nancy's really great, but To...

  • The Quest for the Silver Castle

    Lela Gilbert

  • Saint Ben

    John Fischer

  • Secret Summer Dreams

    Beverly Lewis

    This summer should be one to remember... Holly Meredith has the perfect summer planned. Her dad has asked her to stay with him in California for a few weeks, and Holly is super excited. She's looking forward to getting to know her dad better, and ...

  • The Silverlake Stranger

    Sally Marcey

  • South Wind Blew Softly

    Ruth Livingston Hill

    Nancy Lansing boarded the plane for Pine City, Florida, reluctantly. The idea of spending six months in a small town--even if it meant collecting a $25,000 inheritance from her uncle--seemed bleak to the vivacious young New Yorker. -- But life in P...

  • Star Light, Star Bright

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    When Cassie and her best friend, Andrea, enter the Prestige Model Search, they do it just for kicks. But Andrea wins! And asks Cassie to go with her to New York. At first the trip is a lot of fun. Then things change--Andrea's attitude, for example. S...

  • The Tall Ship Shakedown

    Neil S. Wilson

  • The Unicorn and Other Poems

    Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  • Add a Little Spice

    Bethany Campbell

    She was a princess frozen by a spell At least, that was how Connor Munroe described Gina Calvino. Gina refused to believe that her hometown was dying. She refused to sell her family's secret combination of spaghetti sauce spices -- no matter h...

  • American Star

    Jackie Collins

    “‘Here is a woman who not only wanted to entertain her readers, but also to teach them something; about the world and about themselves.” - Isabelle Broom, author of The Wedding SpeechWhat does it take to become a superstar? In one of her most r...

  • And Baby Makes Three

    Muriel Jensen
    in

    Passion! Kye and Brenda Stuart's honeymoon was one they'd never forget. Their courtship was a whirlwind affair, so Brenda was determined to make every waking day--and night--of their marriage unforgettable. But there was one minor detail Brenda didn'...

  • Bay of Rainbows

    Dana James

    The rumors were true! When Polly met Nathan Bryce for the first time, she immediately knew that everything she'd ever heard about him was fact, not fiction! He was handsome, fascinating and ruthless. But falsely accused of drug smuggling, Poll...

  • The Beckoning Flame

    Jessica Hart

    "I didn't realize how far you'd go for a story." Strachan McLeod's words stung. After all, Gisella was only doing her job. A journalist, her assignment was to spend a night in the supposedly haunted Candle Tower of Kilnacroish Castle to see if a g...

  • Bedroom Eyes

    Becky Barker

    Skinny-Dipping When Liana awoke to the scent of freshly mown alfalfa hay, the beauty of a country morning came rushing back to her. She was glad to be back in the big white farmhouse that had belonged to her family for more than a century. During ...

  • Beguiled Again

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    A THIEF IN THE NIGHT... When Emma Wilson tackled the man in her shrubs, he turned out to be a burglar...one who had stolen her heart. Unfortunately, Emma would rather have gone to jail herself than come face-to-face with Joe O'Reilly again. Joe...

  • Bermuda Quadrangle

    Garda Parker
    in

    When divorced Maureen Dixon accompanies her vivacious mother on a trip to Bermuda, she never dreams that a bout of seasickness will lead to romance with the ship's charismatic doctor. Or that her mother will meet a longlost love of her own....

  • The Best Woman

    Elise Title
    in

    Wildlife photographer Zach Jones fell head over heels in lust with gorgeous Kendall Morgan. They were ready to mate for life ... until the marital mayhem started. Zach and Kendall barely lived through the ceremony, somehow survived the reception, but...

  • Billy Bob Walker Got Married

    Lisa G. Brown

    HERE COMES TROUBLE Shiloh Pennington knows that Billy Bob Walker is no good. The whole town knows it. Just one look at his insolent walk and smoothly rippling muscles tells you he's nothing but trouble. So why, four years after her father broke th...

  • Breathless

    Diane Pershing

    TONY--A Take-Charge Trial Lawyer Who Was All Muscle, Fire, and Power... He strode into her sweet-scented gift shop, a tall, dark, and sensual knight who made the air sizzle with his wildfire energy, but did Hollis Blake dare yearn for Tony Stelli...

  • Built to Last

    Leigh Roberts

    HE'D HAVE TO MOVE IN TO KEEP HER SAFE Mary Ellen Saunderson's life had been going very well since she'd put her relationship with Ramsey MacIver behind her. Now she had to live with the man! Which wasn't exactly what her eccentric Aunt Alma had...

  • Checks and Balances

    Rebecca Forster

    As executor of her father's estate, Nicole decides to take the thieves who stole one of his inventions to court, with the help of a handsome attorney who has desired her from afar for years. Original....

  • Cold Fire

    Helen Brooks

    "I am answerable to no one!" Jay de Rojas made his own rules, and Beth knew he'd be difficult to work for. But she needed an escape from the painful memories of her past, and the post of tutor to Jay's little nephew came as a godse...

  • Cold, Cold Heart

    Ann Williams

    TO SAVE A CHILD Jake Frost -- FBI agent. Specialty: Finding missing children. Status: Self-imposed exile, in hiding -- from himself. Rachel Dryden -- Single mother of kidnapped child. One step away from falling apart completely. After being ...

  • Coriander

    Barbara Victor

    After learning that her husband has apparently died in a charter plane crash, Coriander Wyatt, a surgeon, agrees to help special investigator Adam Singer clear up charges that her husband was an embezzler...

  • Cowboys and Cabernet

    Margot Dalton

    RAISE A GLASS--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and to forge new Texas futures. A TOAST TO NEW IDEAS Tyler McKinney is out to prove y...

  • Dad Galahad

    Suzanne Carey

    A fairy-tale father Ned Balfour had never considered himself chivalrous. Then Jenny McClain showed up--pregnant with his brother's child--and Ned felt honor-bound to rescue the fair damsel. A marriage of convenience seemed like the perfect answer....

  • Dancing in the Dark

    Linda Cajio

    JAKE--A Virile, Muscled Wild Man Who Broke All Her Rules... He was primitive, savage, engaged in a sacred ceremony--and naked in the woods! Charity Brown couldn't believe it was Jake Halford, her company's new vice president, and she wondered how...

  • Dangerous Waters

    Vida Devlin

    She risked everything for paradise...and passion. A glamorous South American cruise (with a dashing Latin purser aboard)...a million dollars...all lavished on Cindy by the cruise line on whose ship her aunt had a fatal accident. She set sail for Rio....

  • A Different Kind of Mom

    Jane Bierce
    in

    The students Laura Parsons nurtures along in her college classroom are like the children she never had. Until a retired intelligence officer enrolls in her Freshman Comp. And when his daughter starts playing Cupid, Laura discovers tha heartstirring w...

  • A Disruptive Influence

    Lass Small

    RISQUE BUSINESS It all started with a pair of French silk unmentionables. Who but lively department store buyer Sally Yoder would be brazen enough to feature the flimsy briefs on a mannequin in quite that way? She'd planned her display to draw a c...

  • Dr. Hunk

    Glenda Sanders

    Live the Fantasy Our deepest and dearest romantic fantasies are rooted in fairy tales, myths and legends. In these beloved stories of destined love, of true love conquering all, we recapture me magic of romance. Once upon a time there was a lov...

  • Extreme Provocation

    Sarah Holland

    Opposites attract! From the moment Randal Marlborough and Lucy Winslow met, they were on a collision course! Randal made it clear that he found her attractive and, even though he represented danger; Lucy wasn't immune to the passion he aroused...

  • Fair Warning

    Catherine Sellers

    A Second Chance Kendall Jamison was surprised when Sheriff Jacob Sentell offered her the job. Not every man would hire an ex-convict to work as a live-in housekeeper and nanny for his five motherless children. Jake had serious reservations abou...

  • Falling for Rachel

    Nora Roberts

    IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! Landlocked in Manhattan, rough-and-ready seaman Zackary Muldoon needed a street-smart, two-fisted attorney to save his kid brother's delinquent hide. What he got was a long-legged lady lawyer ...

  • Fire and Rain

    Diane Chamberlain

    A COMPELLING DRAMA THAT DELVES INTO THE DEEPEST REACHES OF THE HUMAN HEART TO REVEAL ITS DARKEST SECRETS Valle Rosa, a small southern California town,-has been withered by drought and ravaged by wildfires that race through the canyons, destroying ...

  • Fools Rush in

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    A BAD MOVE When Kyla Finnegan threw herself at Pete Beckett and demanded they make love, she had only one thing on her mind--help! Hiding from two thugs in Pete's arms seemed like a good idea at the time. But now she wished she'd kept her troubles...

  • For Better, for Worse

    Rebecca Winters
    in

    Kit Spring and Rafael de Mendez wanted to have their wedding at his family's estate in Spain. Instead, the ceremony took place in a hospital room in Idaho, with Rafael about to undergo emergency surgery. To Kit's profound relief, lie survived the ope...

  • Freshman Taboo

    Linda A. Cooney

    Will the Tri Beta sorority survive civil war between ex-best friends KC and Courtney? Lauren's magazine internship brings her more than journalism experience! Will coming face-to-face with death give Faith's life new meaning?...

  • Good Golly, Miss Molly

    Nancy Martin

    WILD AT HEART Dash O'Donnelly. The very name made Molly Pym's blood boil. Dash was part of the horrible, hateful Donnellys who had destroyed her father! Needless to say, she never dreamed she'd be facing Dash himself, standing knee-deep in the ove...

  • Goodbye, Desperado

    Kathy Clark

    HE MET HIS MATCH AT HIGH NOON Though known to millions as a 'cowboy's cowboy,' city slicker Matt Montana was secretly getting his first real western experience at the Rocky K Ranch. And Jamie Kimball was a burr in this macho man's saddle. Back in ...

  • Hannah's Hunk

    Sandra Chastain

    DAN -- A Risk-Loving Rebel with a Melt-in-Your-Mouth Southern Drawl... The man exiting the prison was going to be the perfect cover model for her new Fantasy Romance, but when the sexy ex-con pulled her into his arms and kissed her breathless, th...

  • The Harder They Fall

    Doreen Owens Malek

    CHILD OF LOVE Helene Danforth had loved her late fiance, though he'd never stirred the passion she knew was in her. So when she found herself alone, unmarried and pregnant with his unborn child, she realized she had to do something to make things ...

  • Hardworking Man

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Ranch hand Jared Walker was a man who worked hard and looked after his own. He damn sure didn't need any help from anybody--not even his long-scattered brothers and sisters. The way he saw it, he and his son were doing just fine, all by themselves......

  • The Hawk and the Lamb

    Susan Napier

    FLIRTING WITH DANGER The allure of a dangerous liaison fired Elizabeth Lamb's passions and nearly made her forget the real reason behind her visit to the South Pacific island. She thought only of J. J. Hawkwood. His dark sex appeal made her hunger...

  • Hazards of the Heart

    Dixie Browning

    MR. APRIL Grumpy Man: Construction engineer Jake Hatcher -- long, lean loner. Rarely smiles. Doesn't talk much, either. Reason to Frown: A bittersweet memory of a family that no longer is. Reason to Smile: Single mom Libby Porter and ...

  • Heavenly

    Carol Bogolin

    Temptation Wealthy, handsome, and successful, David St. John had mastered the high-stakes game of the business world. He possessed the skill and power to topple corporate giants, but these days his work left him with a hollow feeling. He needed a ...

  • The Hired Husband

    Sandra Canfield
    in

    Grammy Bradford's dying wish was to see her granddaughter, Laura, married. So dutiful Laura reluctantly bought herself a temporary husband. Who'd have thought Grammy would take an instant shine to James Callahan, make a miraculous recovery--and want ...

  • Hunting the Wolfe

    Kay Hooper

    WOLFE--A Man of Danger Who'd Always Be Untamed... Security expert Wolfe Nickerson towered over her, but Storm Tremaine wasn't easily intimidated! She was the best at what she did--designing state-of-the-art security systems--even if her fierce gr...

  • Joe's Miracle

    Helen Conrad (1)

    A SMALL TOWN WITH A BIG SECRET Carly Stevens was back -- and nobody was talking. Everyone in Amereville, California, assumed she'd returned to look for her father. But she hadn't. For Joe Matthews, who had hired Carly to care for his t...

  • Just Like Romeo and Juliet

    Judith Arnold

    "GO AHEAD...TOUCH IT." Two years ago, on a hot day in Verona, Italy, Gillian Chapell found love in the arms of a stranger. She hadn't believed that touching Juliet's statue would bring her luck in love, but as her friend had teased her, what did s...

  • Just the Way You Are

    Elise Title

    CAN'T LIVE TOGETHER, CAN'T LIVE APART... Lucy Warner doesn't know why she married Mike Powell--an uptight, pompous, smug stuffed shirt. Mike's had it with Lucy's extravagance, irresponsibility and fiery temper. The minute Lucy signs the divo...

  • A Kiss to Remember

    Helen Playfair

    For the past ten years Lucia Morgan hasn't had time for love or romance. Since her husband's death, she has been raising her two sons, working at a dead-end office job, and designing boutique clothes to make ends meet. Then one night, Mitch C...

  • Lifesaver

    Janice Bartlett

    ---- republished as "Dangerous Waters" by Janice Kay Johnson - July 2013 Mermaid in Disguise The sun was setting over Devil's Lake when Megan spotted a boat offshore. She couldn't make out the faces of the two men aboard, but sh...

  • Listen to Your Mother

    Martha Gross
    in

    Cajoled by her mother and teenaged daughter into taking a cruise, widowed Maggie Bliss reluctantly boards the ship...never expecting to find romance and adventure with a risktaking computer whiz who's gambling on winning Maggie's love....

  • Live, Laugh, Love

    Ada Steward

    Proud, intelligent and sensual beyond imagining, Dillon Ruiz was one of Texas's most eligible bachelors - and the object of Jessica Carder's long-ago unrequited passion. With warmth, wit and irresistible desire, Dillon now opened her mind and heart t...

  • Lost.. and Found

    Marian Oaks
    in

    Celia Hamlin seems to have had it all: a happy marriage, successful career and a loving son. But she secretly grieves over the daughter she was forced to give up for adoption many years before. Then a kindly stranger comes along, bearing a precious g...

  • Love in Bloom

    Karen Rose Smith

    Never Look Back Fresh from a clinic in Africa, Dr. Paige Conrad wasn't quite sure what to make of Langley, Maryland. With its square dances, Little League games, and holiday picnics, the town was hardly a cultural mecca, but the people appealed to...

  • Love on Wheels

    Sandy Jones

    Rolling toward romance. . . Holly Benson wishes handsome and talented Kyle Evans was her partner in the upcoming roller-skating competition. Kyle, a brilliant skater, refuses to compete and won't say why. Even after he and Holly begin dating, she can...

  • Lyon's Pride

    Maris Soule

    The Lyon and the Lamb Cartoonist Greg Lyon--and his alter ego, Leo--made a healthy living at satire, with doctors among their favorite targets. But when Greg took a tumble in nowheresville, Indiana, he needed more than Leo's mockery to mend his br...

  • Made for Each Other

    Chareese Darter

    Victoria Bennett is fully prepared to leave her painful past behind after helping build a fashion empire from the ground up, but a man from her past will not let her forget all that is really important in life. Original....

  • Man of the Family

    Andrea Edwards

    Police detective Mike Mancini thought he knew everything about kids, dogs and things that go bump in the night. But he never counted on his daughter showing up for an unexpected visit, the presence of a huge dog named Fudge...or finding that his buil...

  • Man of the Hour

    Maura Seger

    NOWHERE TO HIDE Escape... With every mile she put between her and the city, Lisa Morley breathed a bit easier. Surely in her sleepy midwestern hometown she'd find sanctuary from the stalker menacing her and her little boy. And never again would sh...

  • Married in Haste

    Lucy Gordon

    A MATCH MADE IN...HEAVEN? Blazing passion had brought sexy industrialist Demetrio Corelli and fiery reporter Reva Borden to the altar. But pride and ambition had pulled them apart -- sending Reva away, heartbroken, and leaving Demetrio alone and f...

  • More Than Friends

    Barbara Delinsky

    FRIENDSHIP, LOVE AND FORGIVENESS The Maxwells and the Popes are two families whose lives are interwoven like the threads of a beautiful, yet ultimately delicate, tapestry: the women were college roommates, their husbands are partners in the same l...

  • My Prince Charming

    Molly McGuire

    ONCE UPON A TIME As a child, Peggy Shilling dreamed of fairy godmothers, magic wands and handsome princes. But as an adult, she never dreamed she'd be courted by the man some claimed was the closest one could come to Chicago royalty. But there was...

  • Not My Baby!

    Judith McWilliams

    THERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU NEVER FORGET... When a fifteen-year-old runaway landed on Marry Handley's doorstep claiming to be her daughter, Marry was confused. Surely, she --a psychologist!--would remember giving birth! Her next surprise came when s...

  • Obsessed!

    Amanda Stevens

    POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL... Since childhood, Laura Valentine had struggled to be someone she wasn't. Finally she'd created a comic-strip alter ego-a sleek, sophisticated fictional heroine who never faltered. Now Laura's editors demanded a love intere...

  • Outside the Rules

    Linda Hughes

    Web of Danger W hen Jamie Royale arrived in Los Angeles for the insurance conference, she had a full itinerary. If she was going to open her own agency back home in Baton Rouge, she needed to soak up 'every bit of information offered in the semina...

  • Paradise Lost

    Robyn Donald

    Tide of passion Blair Doyle had set off in search of paradise--or at least a refuge from the real world, a place where she could pick up the pieces of a failed marriage and learn to feel again. On a strip of beach she met Hugh Bannatyne, a man ...

  • Passing Strangers

    Margaret Calaghan

    "No one says no to me, Melanie. No one." Chase Banister was the most stubborn man in all of England, as far as Melanie Sandford was concerned. He wanted Melanie's little house--which had been willed to her by his aunt Hilary, who'd...

  • Passionate Adventure

    Karen Van Der Zee

    "Dr. Grant, I presume?" Sasha had come to Africa in search of adventure, and to visit her niece Vicky, a nursing teacher in remote Obalabi: She hadn't quite expected the adventure to begin when Dr. Ross Grant met her at the airport. ...

  • Poseidon's Daughter

    Jessica Hart

    Was he a twentieth-century pirate? It had been a dream come true -- until Callie discovers that the villa she's supposed to house sit on the tiny Greek island of Pikos is already occupied. Not that Jack Kingsley minds sharing the place.... It&...

  • The Rancher and the Runaway Bride

    Joan Johnston

    SHOTGUN WEDDING With three bossy, overprotective brothers looking over her shoulder, Tate Whitelaw was finding it impossible to become a woman. They still thought of her as a pigtailed little girl. So Tate hightailed it off the homestead--right in...

  • Repeat Performance

    Stacey Dennis
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    Things are finally looking up for Mary. Alone now after twenty-seven years of marriage - and four great kids - she's ready to sample life's heady freedom. But that's before a charming veterinarian and his irresistible grandson win their way into her ...

  • The Right Man

    Marie Ferrarella

    Once upon a time... Leanne Sheridan used to believe in romance -- but a painful divorce had cured her of those longings. Now she got her fill of fantasy doing voice-overs for cartoons where her happily-ever-afters only lasted from nine to five. Le...

  • Sheriff's Lady

    Dani Criss

    THE WOMAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH Sheriff Chris Ryker figured he knew people. A man had to, when he was the only law for miles around. But nothing about the hauntingly beautiful young woman stranded in his town made any sense - least of all the fear that ...

  • Siren Song

    Janis Flores

  • Snap Judgement

    Sandra Canfield

    WOMEN WHO DARE Kelly Cooper Feisty. Independent. Stubborn as they come. And in no mood to be taken hostage. Will Stone Alias The Stone Man. Convicted of murder. Escaped from Fulsom prison. A desperate man with one thing on his mind--find ...

  • Some Kind of Wonderful

    Susan Connell

    ALEX -- A Gorgeous Greek God Whose Mouth Promised Pagan Pleasures... He was as mysterious and exciting as the Greek islands Sandy Patterson was seeing for the first time, but Alex Stoner wasn't exactly what she'd expected! Her husband had ...

  • Sorry, Wrong Number

    Patricia Ellis

    Please hang up and try your call again.... Meg Porter was starting to think there wasn't a worthwhile person of the masculine persuasion left in Brooklyn Heights -- not to mention the rest of New York City. And she knew it wasn't very brig...

  • Still Married

    Diana Whitney

    LAST CHANCE FOR LOVE When Kelsey Manning first met Luke Sontag, the air crackled, charged with an excitement neither could deny. But time - and tragedy - had destroyed any chance of lasting love. Yet Kelsey knew her estranged husband, though rough a...

  • Summer Gloves

    Sarah Gilbert

  • Taboo

    Elizabeth Gage

    Kate Hamilton journeys to Hollywood during the golden era of the 1930s and 1940s, seeking stardom but unable to escape her dark past, and encounters Eve Sinclair, a ruthless former child star, and charismatic producer Joseph Knight...

  • Talisman

    Jillian Dagg

  • Temporary Arrangement

    Shannon Waverly

    She didn't want to be there. He didn't want her to stay. The arrangement was temporary -- but their marriage was for keeps! The last thing high-powered Colorado lawyer Mark Johnson wanted was to be saddled with Kim Wade, his only sister&...

  • Temptation

    Cynthia Blair

    "A wonderful voice, fresh and poignant and funny, stingingly real and magically readable."
    Anne Rivers Siddons
    Feisty Rachel Swann is doing her best to juggle the pieces of her life. She's a struggling writer looking for a "big break," a divorc...

  • Tomorrow's Man

    Sue Peters

    Another knight in tarnished armor? Now a widow, artist Kit Fielding was "finished with men." Her experience with her unfaithful, irresponsible husband, Paul, had left her content to live a quiet life alone. She felt no desire to risk love or marriage...

  • Too Much, Too Young

    Carolyn Bridgwood

  • Too Scared to Love

    Cathy Williams

    Passion against all odds... Roberta was looking for a fresh start -- she wasn't looking for romance! But as soon as she arrived at Grant Adams's home in Toronto, she knew she was heading for trouble.... As au pair to Grant's headstr...

  • Touched by Desire

    Lynsey Stevens

    Within reach Todd Jerome might have been Kris's matchmaking sister's hunk of choice, but Kris wasn't interested. In fact, she really didn't like the man--especially after his unenlightened comments regarding female pilots. She'...

  • The Trouble With Magic

    Mary Kay McComas

    PAYTON--An Enigmatic Loner Who Held the Key to Her Happiness... She'd persuaded him to visit the great manor house on Jovette Island convinced that once Payyon Dunsmore saw it, he'd help her save the place. But when Harriet Wheaton understood he s...

  • True Blue Hearts

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    From the moment he met petite, headstrong Zoe Yarberry, cowboy Rory Breen was a changed man. Well, he didn't exactly meet her--he just happened along in time to help her steal a horse. And he wasn't completely changed--he would always be a restless c...

  • Two Against the World

    Mary Anne Wilson

    BODY HEAT Steven Rider was in the witness protection program, hiding in a Colorado mountain cabin. And no one was supposed to find him! But he found an unconscious, frostbitten redhead. Who was this sultry stranger? Was she as innocent as she look...

  • Unforgettable

    Leigh Riker

    A First Love, A Second Chance When novelist Jessie Simon returns to her small hometown to get over her divorce and what seems to be terminal writer's block, she is unpleasantly surprised to learn that Nick Granby is also back in town. Her older br...

  • Victoria's Conquest

    Laurie Paige

    Calculated risk Victoria Broadrick, the mayor of Paradise Falls, was as resourceful as she was beautiful. The lovely widow's plan to lure business tycoon Jason Broadrick back to his hometown was unemotional and entirely official--until she met her...

  • Viking Magic

    Angela Wells

    Destination: Denmark Attractions: Elsinore Castle, Tivoli Gardens...and Rune Christensen Gina Price had gone to Copenhagen on a mission -- to find her willful teenage sister. She hadn't planned on the help of a gorgeous Viking -- especially o...

  • A Warning of Magic

    Kate Kingston

    She had a secret purpose.... Merrill had only gone to Luke Travis's office to pay a bill because she was in the process of settling her cousin Elise's estate. At least that's what she'd told Luke. But then he unexpectedly offered h...

  • When Lilacs Bloom

    Clara Wimberly
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    About to tie the knot the second time, Georgia Lee drops everything when she receives an urgent letter form her ailing former mother-in-law. But when she arrives in Alabama, an old flame is rekindled...as a magical first love blooms anew....

  • Whispers

    Belva Plain

    Robert and Lynn Ferguson are a picture-perfect couple with two beautiful daughters and a lovely home in an exclusive, Connecticut community. Robert is on the fast track of a major corporation; Lynn is devoted to her family and good works. But the Fer...

  • Who's That Baby?

    Kristin Morgan

    Mystery man Whitney Arceneaux never considered herself a nosy neighbor--until a sexy stranger came to town. Whitney just couldn't resist keeping an eye on the mysterious man or his darling daughter. Her first encounter with the not-so-nice newcome...

  • Wildest Hearts

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    Annie Lyncroft knew her scheme was outrageous. She'd come to the elegant penthouse to meet Oliver Rain, the richest and possibly the most dangerous man in the Pacific Northwest. Annie needed this sensual, secretive corporate maverick for what she wa...

  • Worth the Wait

    Risa Kirk

    SHE SHOULD HAVE TAKEN HER OWN ADVICE Stay the hell out of Kentucky! Instead, Maggie Gallagher came charging home to find out why Jack Stanton was trying to buy her family's farm. Jack was as handsome - and just as seductive - as she'd reme...

  • Your Child, My Child

    Jennifer Mikels

    The moment they placed her newborn baby in her arms, Anne LeClare knew she'd found the only love she could trust in an otherwise treacherous world. She'd face any odds, defy any danger, to keep her daughter safe. But her late husband's father wanted ...

  • Mrs. Malory and the Festival Murder

    Hazel Holt

    THE CASE OF THE DEAD LITERARY LION Character assassinations take place daily in genteel Taviscombe, particularly between long-time residents and upstart newcomers. But genuine bloody murder almost never happens in the cozy English Village--until t...

  • Berlin Game

    Len Deighton

    BRAHMS FOUR WANTS OUT This alarming signal means that one of Britain's most reliable, most valuable agents behind the Iron Curtain is urgently demanding safe passage to the West. It sends a ripple of panic through the highest levels of the British...

  • Mexico Set

    Len Deighton

    THE STAGE IS SET Now, on the shadowy East-West battlefield of Mexico City, British intelligence agent Bernard Samson must entice his opposite number, a disaffected KGB major, to take the final, dramatic step-and defect. But the price of one Rus...

  • Quiller Meridian

    Adam Hall

    Following the trail of a missing Russian spy, Quiller travels into the heart of post-Cold War Russia, seeking allies among his former adversaries, in order to solve the violent death of a British agent. Reprint....

  • Athyra

    Steven Brust

    THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN A bit of an overstatement. Minus six, actually. Which leaves one. Me Vlad Taltos, sorcerer (sometime witch) and (ex-)assassin. Plus my two faithful jhereg. Which makes three, sort of. But even we can have a hard time when we ...

  • Child of Thunder

    Mickey Zucker Reichert

    THE EIGHTH TASK OF WIZARDRY His duties in the world of mortals seemingly done--the Renshai safely established in a community of their own, Sterrane ruling peacefully in the kingdom of Bearn--Colbey must face the Seven Tasks of Wizardry and learn whe...

  • The Darke Crusade

    Joe Dever

  • Departures

    Harry Turtledove

    From the undisputed master of Alternate History comes an original collection of twenty provocative stories springing from the imaginative reinvention of history. Traveling down ancient roads and into far-off futures, Harry Turtledove poses the what i...

  • The Devil You Say

    Elisa DeCarlo

    Hired to bid for the mysterious Book of Shadows at Sotheby's auction house, London psychic Aubrey Arbuthnot discovers that his possession of the work has put a demon on his tail and two maidens in danger. Original....

  • The Dragon's Tomb

    D.J. Heinrich

    Fain Flinn lies dead, his ashes blowing in the spring winds. Johauna Menhir takes up Wyrmblight, Flinn's fabled blade. Embittered, Jo vows vengeance on the three villains who wrought her beloved master's death. But the squire's duty lies first to ...

  • Dreadful Sorry

    Kathryn Reiss

    The author of Time Windows “has crafted a fine tale of psychological time travel . . . this well-executed story transports readers into the plot” (School Library Journal, starred review).Seventeen-year-old Molly’s recurrent nightmares become wa...

  • Dream of Glass

    Jean Mark Gawron

  • The Elvenbane

    Andre Norton; Mercedes Lackey

    Two masters of epic fantasy have combined in this brilliant collaboration to create a rousing tale of the sort that becomes an instant favorite. This is the story of Shana, a halfbreed born of the forbidden union of an Elvenlord father with a human m...

  • Fortress of Frost and Fire

    Mercedes Lackey; Ru Emerson

    ONCE A NECROMANCER ALWAYS A NECROMANCER At least that's what all the other elves are telling the young human Gawaine about his master, the Dark Elf Naitachal. Of course Gawaine doesn't believe them; Naitachal has always treated him well and honora...

  • Hidden Echoes

    Mike Jefferies

    Three strangers are pulled into a parallel world, where they encounter menacing obstacles as they try to prevent the impending destruction of Earth as predicted by Nostradamus. By the author of Shadows in the Watchgate. Original....

  • Keeper of the Universe

    Louise Lawrence

    Renegade Galactic Controller Ben-Harran brings together three witnesses before the council--Christopher, a teenager from Earth; Kysha from Erinos, ruled by a benevolent dictatorship; and Mahri, from a primitive warrior planet--to debate the issue of ...

  • The Kingdom of Kevin Malone

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    To escape the abuse of his now-dead father, Kevin Malone has created his own magical world, the Fayre Farre, and he is Prince Kavian. Amy, a former classmate, arrives in the final days before the epic battle between Prince Kavian and his nemesis. “...

  • Lady of Mercy

    Michelle Sagara

    Freed from the amnesia brought on by her long sleep, Lady Sara has reclaimed her true name, Erin of Elliath, and escaped her betrayer, Stefanos, the First Servant of the Dark Heart -- Sara’s husband and Erin’s sworn enemy. But the world has ch...

  • The Last Arabian Night

    Craig Shaw Gardner

  • Moon of Ice

    Brad Linaweaver

    Thirty years after the Nazis win World War II, Hilda Goebbels, the daughter of Hitler's propaganda minister and now a world-famous anarchist, threatens to release her father's long-suppressed diaries--which could destroy the Reich. Reprint....

  • The Nomad Queen

    James Gordon White

    The acclaimed screenwriter of such Hollywood cult classics as The Thing with Two Heads and Bigfoot turns his creative talent to this epic sword-and-sorcery adventure. Armed with sharp steel and iron resolve, the deposed Queen Sheela sets out for the ...

  • Predator

    William F. Wu

    When the MC Governor breaks itself down into six component robots and launches its parts into the remote past, only an experimental robot named Hunter and a hastily assembled team of human experts have a chance to retrieve them. Original....

  • Son of Spellsinger

    Alan Dean Foster

    Bucking destiny's call, Buncan decides to form a wildly magic, and totally hip, rap band instead of becoming a spellsinger, and he and his band are soon trying to stop an invasion of hybrids. Original....

  • The Steel Kings

    John Maddox Roberts

  • A Sword for a Dragon

    Christopher Rowley

    THE 109TH DRAGONS The most loyal bunch of dragon warriors and human attendants ever to march on campaign had just been reformed when Bazil Broketail and his human boy, Relkin, returned from a fruitless search for Bazil's beloved green dragoness. E...

  • Trust Territory

    Janet Morris; Chris Morris

    FIRST CONTACT -- OR LAST? In the twenty-fifth century only the privileged few can set foot on Earth, and most human activity centers around Threshold Terminal, where special interest groups play out their power games of interstellar politics. No...

  • The Twilight Gate

    Rhondi Vilott Salsitz

    En route to the home of their father, a troubled Vietnam veteran, George and his siblings discover that a gate has opened between the real world and the world that young George has created in his bedtime stories....

  • Twisted Dragon

    Kevin Stein

    Jaeme, new lord of Castle Elfwood, Decutonius, an unpredictable mage, the druidess Laela, and the venerable knight Cedric must confront the evil that threatens to crush Elfwood in only three days. Original....

  • The Unicorn Peace

    John Lee

  • Warlord of Heaven

    Adrian Cole

    An alien warlord embarks on his final purge in the third novel in the epic Star Requiem fantasy series following Thief of Dreams. Adrian Cole’s acclaimed Star Requiem series welcomes readers to Innasmorn, a planet where the elements are worshi...

  • The Wolf and the Raven

    Diana L. Paxson

    They were children born to rival kings in a land cruelly ravaged by tribal warfare. At a tender age they were taken from their homes to be groomed for greatness--the Hun princess Brunahild entrusted to the mystical Walkyriun to study the ancient arts...

  • Wren's Quest

    Sherwood Smith

    Yearning for adventure, Wren journeys to find her family, but her travels are threatened by an assortment of shady characters, as well as by her traveling companion's preoccupation with magic. Reprint....

  • 13th Gen

    Neil Howe

  • Africa Brothers and Sisters

    Virginia Kroll

  • After Henry

    Joan Didion

    In her latest forays into the American scene, Joan Didion covers ground from Washington to Los Angeles, from a TV producer's gargantuan "manor" to the racial battlefields of New York's criminal courts. At each stop she uncovers the mythic narratives ...

  • Alex, the Kids With Aids

    Linda Walvoord Girard

  • All for Money

    Glenn Kaplan

    Sometimes the price of good fortune is too high. When giant media conglomerate American Communications offers Bob Macallan ten million dollars for his magazine, Elixir, he thinks all his worries are over. From a poor and loveless childhood he has scr...

  • All Kinds of Love

    Carl Reiner

    In a tale of unconventional love, Fred and Sharon Cox are each separately having an affair with their alluring Japanese tutor, Hana Yoshi, while their son is plotting to run away with one of the twin Salvadoran housekeepers...

  • All Pigs are Beautiful

    Dick King-Smith

    A great resource for teachers!

    Introducing READ, LISTEN, & WONDER!
    This vibrant book-and-CD series brings the best of our Read and Wonder nature stories to life.

    Each paperback title in the series includes a CD that features:
    ...

  • All's Faire

    Pamela F. Service

  • Alphabet Garden

    Laura Jane Coats

  • Alphabet of Animals

    Isabelle Brent

    Twenty-six colorful portraits, illuminated with gold, present an alphabetical look at exotic mammals, birds, and insects from around the world and are accompanied by a brief text filled with facts about each animal....

  • The Amazing Fate of Raoul Raccoon

    Agnes Couderc

    Determined to become famous and escape his parents' fate as clothes washers, ambitious raccoon Raoul tries his hand at various careers, including that of a sailor, a pilot, and a New York City police officer....

  • Ambushed in Africa

    Peter Reese Doyle

  • America by Land

    Robert Olmstead

    Juliet and Redfield, two confused, star-crossed cousins, help each other find a sense of purpose and identity as they journey together across the country in search of the baby Juliet gave up for adoption...

  • Among the Dead

    Michael Tolkin

    “An amazing novel” that plunges into the all-too-gray area between the public and private in contemporary American life (Los Angeles Times Book Review).   Michael Tolkin’s acclaimed second novel, Among the Dead, is an arresting examination...

  • Amphigorey Also

    Edward Gorey

    "Amphigorey Alsois an anthology of alphabetical, nonsensical verse and macabre illustrations from Tony Award-winning storyteller Edward Gorey.These imaginative drawings ??—?? including thirty-two pages in color ??—?? capti...

  • Angel Kiss

    Kelley Wilde

  • Angels & Insects

    A.S. Byatt

    In these two “astonishing” novellas (The New Yorker), the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession returns to the landscape of Victorian England, where science and spiritualism are popular manias, and domestic decorum coexists with brutality and...

  • Anna is Still Here

    Ida Vos

    With the end of World War II, Anna, a young Dutch Jew who had been in hiding during the Nazi occupation, can safely emerge from concealment, but she experiences great difficulty in adjusting once again to a normal life....

  • Annie's Promise

    Sonia Levitin

  • Ariel the Spy

    Walt Disney

  • Arista's New Boyfriend

    Walt Disney

  • Author's Day

    Daniel Pinkwater

  • Baby

    Patricia MacLachlan

    Larkin's family welcomes Sophie into their home, caring for her and teaching her games and new words. They come to love this baby as their own, all the while knowing that eventually Sophie's mother will return one day to take her from them....

  • Bad Week for the Three Bears

    Tony Bradman

  • Bar-20 Days

    Clarence E. Mulford / Clarence Edward Mulford

    "Keep your hands where I can see them!" Marshall Edwards has shouted at the outlaws across the bar. "The first man I see move, I'll drop."But he couldn't see everything. He couldn't see the outlaws behind him or the bullet he took in the back.But Hop...

  • The Battle for the Castle

    Elizabeth Winthrop

    As William turns twelve, he wonders if Jason is still his best friend. In the past year Jason has grown a foot taller while William is still a shrimp. When Jason challenges William to "jump the trains," William is terrified. How else can he prove him...