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  • I'll Be Seeing You

    Diane Ackerman

  • By the Dawn's Early Light

    Karen Ackerman

    With their mother working nights, it is hard for Rachel and her younger brother, Josh, to find time to spend with Mom, except when they spend the early morning talking about work and school, sharing quiet time, and watching the sun come up....

  • Gambler's Lady

    Joyce Adams

    HE WAS HIRED TO STEAL HER MOONSHINE RECIPE... Ex-Confederate officer, riverboat gambler, or big-city scoundrel, Shane Delaney will do anything either side of the law for the chance to buy back Rive Belle, the beloved family home he lost to the Yanke...

  • The Bachelor Cure

    Pepper Adams

    Take One Free-spirited Man: Clay Cusak--a hometown hero eager for adventure and a girl in every port.... Add One Dedicated Woman: Dr. Molly Fox--just home to visit, but unexpectedly charmed by both the small town...and Clay. Once her worst night...

  • Mr Archimedes Bath

    Pamela Allen

    When Mr Archimedes takes a bath with three of his friends, Kangaroo, Wombat and Goat, the water always overflows and makes a mess. Mr Archimedes is determined to find the culprit. Using a measure and taking turns getting out, they finally discover wh...

  • Counterfeit Cowgirl

    Heather Allison

    Bluebonnet Ranch, in Texas Hill Country Lucas Chance -- One sexy cowboy. Cities aren't for him -- he just wants to spend his days riding the range. And Luke's the kind of man who always does what he wants. Olivia Faraday -- A quintessen...

  • Coolie

    Mulk Raj Anand

    Coolie portrays the picaresque adventures of Munoo, a young boy forced to leave his hill village to fend for himself and discover the world. His journey takes him far from home to towns and cities, to Bombay and Simla, sweating as servant, factory-wo...

  • Bless Me, Ultima

    Rudolfo A. Anaya

    A bildungsroman about a young Mexican-American boy, Antonio, in a New Mexican village during the 1940s. He faces a choice that will determine the course of his entire life: to follow his father's family's nomadic lifestyle, or to settle down to agric...

  • Death in a Promised Land

    Robert Andrews

    While negotiating with a Soviet man willing to exchange information for asylum in the U.S., CIA agent Bradford Sims discovers an explosive secret that links the FBI and the KGB to the assassination of Martin Luther King, jr....

  • Cold Allies

    Patricia Anthony

    Into the cross fire of the next world war comes an unexpected player...a force of aliens who appear as hovering blue lights over the battlefields of Earth. Sometimes they save lives. Sometimes they destroy them. And no one is sure which side they are...

  • Nina Won't Tell

    Katherine Applegate

    Nina won't tell... They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another. . .but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Nina won't tell that she's in love with Ben. Ben used to belong to her ...

  • That Terrible Baby

    Jennifer Armstrong

  • Emily of the Wild Rose Inn

    Jennifer Armstrong

    1858 Emily MacKenzie is content spending her days sailing and working at the Wild Rose Inn with Lucy, her best friend and adopted sister. The rift between the North and South is growing, but Emily has never given much thought to the troubling so...

  • Robots and Empire

    Isaac Asimov

    OLIVAW'S TWIST Two hundred years after his humiliating defeat at the hands of the Earthman Elijah Baley, Kelden Amadiro still dreamed of revenge. Now, finally, he set into motion a plot that would totally destroy the planet Earth. But Amadiro h...

  • Robots of Dawn

    Isaac Asimov

    A MOST DANGEROUS BALEYWICK A puzzling case of roboticide takes New York Detective Elijah Baley from Earth to the planet Aurora, where humans and robots have, till now, always coexisted in perfect harmony. Only the gifted roboticist Han Fastolfe...

  • Cold Asylum

    James Axler

    FUTURE SHOCK Generations after global annihilation, Kansas is a mutated landscape of dense, deciduous forest. Gone are the amber waves of grain, another hideous result of nuclear devastation that changed the face of the Earth forever. Now it's sur...

  • Nine Lives to Murder

    Marian Babson

    MURDER AND MEOWHEM... When Winstanley Fortescue, titan of the English stage and a notorious tomcatter, falls off a ladder onto the backstage cat Montmorency D. Mousa, man and feline are catapulted into each other's body. Win prowls the theater wit...

  • A Scary Story

    Peter Bailey

  • Flames of the Dragon // Straight On Till Morning

    Robin Wayne Bailey

    THE DOMAINS OF LIGHT had welcomed Robert and Eric--two brothers skilled in martial arts--when they were transported through a portal that linked the Catskill Mountains to a land where magic was real, where dragons soared the skies, where black unico...

  • The Overnight Ordeal

    Karen Ball

  • The New One

    Jacqueline Turner Banks

    Jury's first steps toward adulthood involve a plot to end his mother's relationship with her new boyfriend, the new girl in school winking at him, and his twin brother suddenly brooding. By the author of Project Wheels. ...

  • Spring Break

    Nick Baron

  • When the Frost Is Gone

    Miriam Bat-Ami

    Faced with the prospects of her thirteenth birthday, Natalie struggles to handle the pressures of adolescence, her own emotionally disturbed mother, and the departure of her best friend, Tasha, who moves away after her home burns down....

  • Lovers and Liars

    Sally Beauman

    Assigned to expose the story of a lifetime, photographer Pascal Lamartine and reporter Gini Hunter penetrate the perfect facade of John Hawthorne, the charismatic U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain, a man who is not what he seems.... But beyond the ...

  • Painted Devil

    Michael Bedard

    A visit from strange Aunt Emily invokes in Alice a foreboding sense of evil, as they find connections between the local library's collection of old puppets and a sinister magic show that took place twenty-eight years earlier...

  • As Max Saw It

    Louis Begley

    "[A] perfectly constructed novel.... The time is 1974, and Max, who is fleeing from the wreckage of his first marriage, is a summer-house guest on Lake Como, where he encounters the two characters who will shape his life over the next 20 years: Charl...

  • It all Adds Up

    Saul Bellow

    In this collection of more than thirty essays, published in The New York Times, Esquire and The New Republic, the vast range of Saul Bellow’s nonfiction is made abundantly clear. In Bellow’s capable hands, a single essay can range fluidly across ...

  • Snake Eater

    Don Bendell

    Charts the experiences of the Green Berets of A-Team Camp 242, a crack unit that operated on the Cambodian border, telling of missions behind enemy lines, comradeship, and other aspects of combat. Original....

  • My Baby, Your Child

    Nikki Benjamin

    It was six years since Tess McGuire had seen her baby...and now a courteous Texan stranger was bringing news of the son she'd never known. Soft-spoken, good-looking Will Landon was asking for her trust...asking for her help to save the life of a ...

  • Wild Hearts on Fire

    Cherie Bennett

  • Sunset Heart

    Cherie Bennett

    As her relationship with Billy grows ever more intimate, Carrie asks her boyfriend to take an AIDS test, but while the results come back negative for HIV, they also reveal that Billy may have leukemia. Original....

  • A Lady's Champion

    Janice Bennett

    Miss Daphne had always considered herself a logical sort of person, so she greeted the notion of ghosts haunting the Selwood Academy for Young Ladies with a large amount of skepticism. However, her position as art mistress at the Academy would be Jeo...

  • Talk Before Sleep

    Elizabeth Berg

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Unforgettable . . . Truth rings forth clearly from every page. . . . One minute you’re laughing, the next you’re crying. . . . You’ll want to give a copy to every good woman friend you have.” -- The Charl...

  • Black Phoenix

    George Bernau

    WHAT IF THEY DIDN'T DIE IN THE BUNKER? The time is April 1945. World War II is coming to a close--and a new war is beginning. Germany finally has a weapon--code name Phoenix--with an unlimited potential for destruction. Yet, at the same time, no o...

  • Taxi! Taxi!

    Cari Best

  • Souls Raised From The Dead

    Doris Betts

    The author of Heading West and Beast of the Southern Wild and Other Stories returns with a poignant, powerful novel of a small town in the tradition of Faulkner, O'Connor, and Welty. Reprint. 12,500 first printing. Tour....

  • The Back of Beyond

    Barbara Bickmore

    The Year is 1938. With the world poised an the brink of World War II, Dr. Cassandra Clarke journeys to Australia to become the first woman doctor in The Australian Flying Doctor Service. In this harsh, beautiful land of kangaroos, aborigines, and dar...

  • Brittle Innings

    Michael Bishop

    In 1943, with the country at war, seventeen-year-old shortstop Danny Boles joins a Class C baseball farm club and sets out on an odyssey into strange relationships, dramatic escapades, and lessons about life, dreams, desire, and growing up. Reprint....

  • The Princess of Coldwater Flat

    Natalie Bishop

    So Samantha Whalen figured the only way to save her mortgaged-to-the-hilt spread was to find herself a husband, huh? But who'd marry a spitfire like her? Sure, she was a fine-lookin' woman -- but everybody for miles around knew she was the o...

  • Good Night, Mummy

    J.R. Black

    Sure that she will be bored by her dull new hometown, Blaise finds her apathy transformed by the arrival of a mummy in search of his long-lost coffin and a vanished book of charms that can save him from the fearful Eater of the Dead. Original....

  • A Vow of Obedience

    Veronica Black

    VALERIE PENDON HAD A LATE DATE WITH DEATH. Sixteen-year-old Valerie vanishes from home in the small hours clad only in her robe and slippers. Three days later, Sister Joan finds her body abandoned in the convent's little Moor Schoolhouse. The dead...

  • Buried Treasure... In My Own Attic

    Cynthia Blair

    A trunk full of beautiful old dresses and hats sets Carla on a buried treasure hunt. The only clue is a poem stuck between the brittle pages of an old diary, but it's definitely a mission for the Bubble Gum Gang--three junior high school misfits who ...

  • Forbidden Moon

    Jane Bonander

    Desire ... Danger ... Destiny ... They met when she was only a girl ... but woman enough to stir a man's blood to fever pitch. Tawny-haired, fiery-tongued Molly Lindquist was a tempting Texas hellion. Buck Randall was the proud, arrogant half-br...

  • Fish That Wasn't

    Paul Borovsky

  • Living To Be A Hundred

    Robert Boswell

  • The Watchmen

    Ben Bova

    In Star Watchman, the human race reaches space and discovers that it had been preceded by its own ancestors, while in The Dueling Machine, a new machine allows people to settle differences in an imaginary world. Original....

  • Future Quartet: Earth in the Year 2042: A Four-Part Inventio

    Ben Bova

    Basing their projections on technological, scientific, environmental, and biomedical forecasts, four leading science fiction authors--Ben Bova, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, and Charles Sheffield--offer unique, vastly different views of the future....

  • Senator

    Richard Bowker

    Jim O'Connor, the Republican senator from Massachusetts, is a handsome, charismatic family man -- and a future contender for the presidency. But when O'Connor discovers his mistress brutally murdered in her apartment, he becomes a number-one homicide...

  • Gannon

    Doug Bowman

    Texas was a vast, lawless frontier after the Civil War...Gunslingers rode roughshod over scarce, often corrupt, lawmen. Into this Texas rode young Jake Gannon, a tough but peaceable man from Kentucky, skilled in tracking and shooting, who dreamed onl...

  • Smoke

    John Ed Bradley

    When fledgling novelist Pace Burnette heads home to Smoke, a quiet hamlet in Louisiana, he finds that the mom-and-pop businesses that gave the place its character and charm have been put out of operation by an enormous Monster Mart on the outskirts o...

  • The Forest House

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    The New York Times bestselling science fiction and fantasy author of the Avalon series introduces the prequel to the beloved and enduring classic The Mists of Avalon in this mesmerizing epic of one woman’s legendary role at a turning point in histo...

  • The Mountain Fugitive

    Max Brand

    A penniless fighter constantly in trouble, Lee Porfilo finds himself framed for murder by wealthy and powerful ranchers and, in a desperate bid to prove his innocence, flees into the wilderness, with the law and bounty hunters in hot pursuit. Reissue...

  • In the Dark

    Carol Brennan

  • Two Bushy Badgers

    Patience Brewster

    Tall badger Ollie and short badger Arthur, friends forever, have a falling out one hot and humid day, and it takes a roller-skating waitress, a humongous sneeze, and a small blob of pink goo to get them back together....

  • Mystery Wife

    Annette Broadrick

    IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! Since the mysterious accident that had taken her memory -- and almost taken her life -- Raoul DuBois scarcely knew his wife. This was not the selfish, willful Sherye who had been his obsession...

  • Power of Love

    Chelsea Brooks

  • The Tangle Box

    Terry Brooks

    OH, WHAT A TANGLED WEB... Everything should have been quiet and pleasant for Ben Holiday, former Chicago lawyer become sovereign of the Magic Kingdom of Landover. But it wasn't. Horris Kew, conjurer, confidence-man, and trickster, had returned ...

  • Lucky Town

    James Brown

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    """"Lucky Town"" is a beautiful piece of writing. Sometimes sad, sometimes funny, this novel is always accurate in its precise rendering of filial love and devotion. We are reminded, as art will do, that the human spirit is indomitable, and that ...

  • Crazy for Lovin' You

    Lisa G. Brown

    A FIRE IN CADE COUNTY Rilla Carroll's grandfather had been a Baptist preacher in Cade County. Jubal Kane's was a bootlegger. She marked time in a fancy boarding school: he served his in a Tennessee prison. They knew the rules: Carrolls and Kanes n...

  • Walt Disney's The Old Mill

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Wildest Heart

    Virginia Brown

    DRIVEN BY REVENGE Scarred by his shadowy past, Devon Conrad was the deadliest gunman in the west ... haunted by desperate memories of one woman even as he was irresistibly drawn to another... BRILLIANT AND BEAUTIFUL Maggie Malone had come to cat...

  • Tick-Tock

    Eileen Browne

  • Five Hundred Years After

    Steven Brust

    This is the story of the conspiracy against the Empire that begins in the mean streets of Underside and flourishes in the courtly politics of the Palace where Khaavren has loyally served in the Guards this past half-millennium....

  • You've Got It Made

    Marian Burros

  • Circus of the Wolves

    Jack Bushnell

  • Countrymen of Bones

    Robert Olen Butler

    The harsh Arizona desert, at the time of the first atomic bomb test during the 1940s, becomes the backdrop for a love triangle between physicist Lloyd Coulter, archaeologist Darrell Reeves, and Anna, the woman they both love...

  • Mouse and the Apple

    Stephen Butler

  • Fast One

    Paul Cain

    It's the last days of Prohibition and the first days of the Depression and East Coast crime bosses are vying for control of Los Angeles. Caught in the middle of the intrigues is Gerry Kells, a former New York enforcer now living a life of ease on the...

  • Seven Slayers

    Paul Cain

    Seven brutally ingenius tales of murder passionate and cold-blooded, written by a poet of the hard-boiled.

    There's Black, a stranger in town, who gets drafted into a gang war just because he had the bad luck to trip over a corpse on his way fr...

  • Henry the Sailor Cat

    Mary Calhoun

    That intrepid Siamese cat Henry is off on another adventure as he stows away for a sail. He not only gets to see the shiny sea, with its gulls and cormorants and dolphins, from a perch high atop the mast, but, when events take an unexpected turn, par...

  • Bigger

    Patricia Calvert

    In the spring of 1865 the Civil War has finally ended. Men are coming home. Families are being reunited -- except for Tyler's. His father is going with a band of men to Mexico, where they will regroup, rearm, and continue the fight against the Yankee...

  • In the Shadow of Midnight

    Marsha Canham

    IGNITED BY A TREASONOUS PLOT, A PASSION DEFYING A KING'S COMMAND Niece to the powerful Marshal of England, Lady Ariel de Clare was as skilled with the broadsword as any knight -- a fierce, headstrong beauty determined to disobey the King himself ...

  • Runaway Bride

    Ann Carberry

    WANTED WOMAN The bride-to-be vanished before the wedding -- fleeing the state of Texas to escape an arranged marriage. HUNTED HEART Micah Benteen was asked to go fetch the stubborn girl -- and drag her back home. RUNAWAY BRIDE He captured he...

  • Marry Me Again

    Suzanne Carey

    Marriage to a stranger He appeared, uninvited, at Laura's door, claiming to be her dead husband's brother. Though she'd never met Enzo Rossi, something about him was disturbingly familiar--and it was more than just a family resemblance. When En...

  • The Winter King

    Amanda Carpenter

    When ice meets fire, the ice melts... Yvonne Trent had it all. She was beautiful and talented, with famous parents and a glamourous life-style. But pretty soon Yvonne discovered that fame and fortune weren't enough... It took all of Adam Ru...

  • Conan, Scourge of the Bloody Coast

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

    Conan, hailed and feared as chief of the pirate brotherhood, has built an island kingdom on the stormy waters of the Vilayet. Wielding cutlass and oarblade with relentless skill, he plays off one mainland empire against another amid the stirrings of ...

  • Harem Wish

    Jan Carr

    Two exotic, erotic, and witty stories about love between women weave together toward a dramatic and liberating conclusion as Sari, a harem girl in ancient Arabia, and Codie, of modern New York, find their destinies. A first novel. 10,000 first printi...

  • From the Teeth of Angels

    Jonathan Carroll

    Offers a convergence of three characters and three fates: Ian McGann, whose life depends on Death's answers to his questions; Arlen Ford, who flees Hollywood into the arms of a war correspondent; and Wyatt Leonard, terminally ill in Vienna but able t...

  • Ghost Tiger

    Janice Carter

    The news clip from Thailand lasted only a moment. But what Meg Devlin saw was enough to convince her that her father - missing in action for nineteen years - was alive. Meg's best hope of learning the truth lay with Conor Tremayne, the report...

  • Try to Remember

    Carla Cassidy

    MYSTERY WOMAN Every night, Dr. Frank Longford had watched the beautiful stranger pace the beach. Every night, he'd felt more inexplicably drawn to her. And every night, he'd wondered who she was.... Now she was here, under his roof, tan...

  • Kingscote

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

  • Ballet for Charlotte

    Gabrielle Charbonnet

    Gr 3-4-A quiet sequel to Snakes Are Nothing to Sneeze At (Holt, 1990). Charlotte, 10, plans to go to gymnastics camp with her best friend, Annabel, but her mother and grandmother have other plans for her-ballet classes every morning for five weeks. E...

  • Perfect Cover

    Linda Chase

    Tina Paris, the first woman to work in the NYPD's Special Prosecutor's Office, must find evidence to convict a corrupt fellow officer while evading a serial rapist who seems to know everything about her. Reprint....

  • Rebel in Silk

    Sandra Chastain

    SHE WAS AN UNCONVENTIONAL BEAUTY WHO NEVER RAN FROM A CHALLENGE... Dallas Burke had come to Willow Creek, Wyoming, to find her brother's killer, and she had no intention of being scared off -- not by the roughnecks who trashed her newspaper offi...

  • The Sins of Lady Dacey

    Marion Chesney

    WHAT ARE A VICAR'S WIFE AND A YOUNG INNOCENT DOING WITH SUCH AS LADY DACEY? The ton could only speculate how a pair of turtledoves would cope as the guests of the scandalous Lady Dacey. Surely she would attempt to corrupt them an act that both Pa...

  • Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue

    Marion Chesney

    The aristocratic owners of the Poor Relation Hotel, favorite haunt of the London ton, juggle financial embarrassment and star-crossed romance... Peaceable Colonel Sandhurst must confront Sir Randolph Gray, who owes the hotel a vast sum. But when C...

  • Archibald Frisby

    Michael Chesworth

    Worried about her son Archibald's obsession with science, Mrs. Frisby ships him off to summer camp, where she hopes that he will learn to relax and have some fun. By the author of Rainy Day Dream. ...

  • The Enchanted Bride

    Margaret Chittenden
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    To escape from a ghostly existence and become a real woman. Rowan Fengelly died in a car crash five years ago, on the way to her wedding. Now she's trapped as a ghost-unless she can persuade a mortal man to marry her .......

  • A Tooth Fairy's Tale

    David Christiana

    A courageous young Tooth Fairy sets out to rescue her long-lost mother from the home of the giant who had turned her to stone, but the Tooth Fairy must also escape the trap that the giant has set for her. By the author of Drawer in a Drawer. ...

  • Dark Mirror

    Daphne Clair

    REFLECTIONS Of DESIRE... Fler was stunned at her eighteen-year-old daughter's attempt to take her own life...and guilt-ridden at not having foreseen the possibility of such a drastic response to a broken love affair. But mostly Fler felt enrag...

  • Irish Princess

    Mickey Clement

  • Heaven Knows

    Elaine Coffman

    A girl's dream becomes a woman's challenge... With her big dreams and flair for the flamboyant, Lizzle Robinson is a feisty child, besotted by the lazy charm of the most eligible bachelor on Nantucket. She had loved him forever. To Travis ...

  • Track of the Bear

    Don Coldsmith

    Beginning a spiritual journey after a stalking bear tells his tribe that a covenant of peace has been broken, Singing Wolf must make a difficult choice between exploring the broken covenant and keeping peace with his loved ones...

  • Contessa

    Richard Oliver Collin

    An epic tale set in post-World War I Italy against a backdrop of rising fascism follows Achille, a young nobleman, the passionate and ambitious peasant girl Rosaria, and the desperate love they have for each other...

  • Carnal Hours

    Max Allan Collins

    Investigating the background of a billionaire recluse's new son-in-law, detective Nathan Heller arrives at the Bahamas just in time to learn of his new client's death, and the son-in-law needs Nathan to save him from a murder rap. Reprint....

  • The Lady and the Outlaw

    Katherine Compton

    Longing to experience the excitement of the frontier land she read about in American dime novels, impetuous Kate O'Donovan leaves Ireland behind and travels to New Mexico to marry a man she has never met. But her grand adventure takes a turn for the ...

  • Freshman Road Trip

    Linda A. Cooney

    Winnie's flirting leads to trouble with a guy who won't take no for an answer. Now Lance wants Winnie and her meddling friends out of his way-- at any cost! Courtney's met a handsome policeman just in time....Or is he too scared of Lance to uphold...

  • Dead Moon on the Rise

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    Milt Kovak runs for sheriff of Prophesy County, Oklahoma, becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his only rival, copes with family problems involving his new bride, and investigates a series of animal kidnappings...

  • Gloria

    Mark Coovelis

    Marvin Stone, propelled by a desire to understand his late sister's complex personality toward the end of her life, unravels the truth about Gloria's sensationalized death and befriends a journalist who has had a similar experience. Reprint. NYT. ...

  • Daring Illusion

    Christina Cordaire

    A Rose By Any Other Name... How did Rosalind get herself into this madcap scheme? She has reluctantly agreed to masquerade as "Mrs. Rose," the housekeeper at Castle Winston, which has fallen on hard times. Odder still is the insistent gaze of the ...

  • Strange Gods

    John Cornwell

    Tells the story of a Catholic priest who has lapsed from his vows of chastity and fathered a child. He suffers an enormous spiritual crisis about his own loss of faith and society's decline and volunteers to join a Christian mission in deepest Peru, ...

  • Lord of Raven's Peak

    Catherine Coulter

    Merrick Haraldsson, the younger brother of Rorik, the Lord of Hawkfell Island, begins his journey in Kiev where he comes away with two slaves, but they're not who or what he thinks they are, not by a long shot. Then the question arises: Can a woma...

  • In Troubled Waters

    Beverly Coyle

    “What makes this a brilliant book is its ability to transcend the theme of latent small-town racism to become a resonant exploration of family relations.” " Bret Lott, The New York Times Book Review
     
    When 91-year old Tom Glover hires ...

  • A Night in Moonbeam County

    Alexander Cramer

    Two boys, Chas and Raul, join a mysterious group of hoboes sitting around a campfire as they narrate a series of chilling tales of magic, mystery, and murder, but the boys soon discover that their own tale may be the strangest of all....

  • Miss Seeton, Undercover

    Hamilton Crane

    Peculiar apples... and purloined antiques Plummergen is abuzz with excitement. A television crew has arrived in search of the Plummergen Peculier: a rare apple to be featured in a special show on British food. At the same time, the police are on a...

  • Love So Wild

    Elaine Crawford

    CARRIE... Daughter of a ruthless and vengeful sheriff, she learned early in life not to trust men -- not even her father, who had brought her first and only true love to a tragic end. She longed to get far away from her tormentor -- but a kidnapping ...

  • Classic Fairy Tales

    Helen Cresswell

    In a refreshing departure from the recent spate of slyly revisionist fairy tales, Cresswell ( Moondial ; The Secret World of Polly Flint ) here offers traditional versions of nine stories aptly described as ``classic.'' Deftly pared down for the targ...

  • Timeless

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Robyn Delaney is a '90s woman in every way except one: She's in love with her boss. So when he offers to take her to England on business, she readily accepts. But what she doesn't know is that her trip will take her back to 18th-century England . . ....

  • Marriage on the Run

    Jasmine Cresswell
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    To help out your eccentric aunt--and her sexy business partner. Laura's wacky Aunt Dot entangles her in a mysterious scheme involving a secret formula and a handsome Italian who happens to need a visa. Or a wife......

  • Silent Dances

    A.C. Crispin

    Deaf since birth and able to withstand the ear-shattering sonic cries of the Grus, Tesa is an ideal choice for ambassador to their planet, but other alien forces want to destroy the Grus and Tesa must make peace with them and save the inhabitants of ...

  • Viking's Prize

    Tanya Anne Crosby

    "YOU'RE MINE" In a fury of bloodlust and retribution, the Norse warriors storm Brouillard castle and take their vengeance as their leader claims his prize -- the breathtakingly beautiful Elienor. Carried onto the high seas by Alarik, her golden-hair...

  • Rafferty's Angel

    Caroline Cross

    THE RETURN OF CHASE RAFFERTY Widowed mother Maggie McKenna would know those cold green eyes and that long, lean body anywhere. Sprawled out on the jail cell floor was Chase Rafferty -- the federal agent she'd once thought belonged exactly where he w...

  • Almost a Whisper

    Charlene Cross

    After the mysterious death of her father, Leah Balfour Dalton was destitute -- and desperate to rescue her orphaned sisters and brothers. In one daring moment, she seized a chance to pose as the niece of a wealthy solicitor, hoping to discover the tr...

  • The Fairy Godmother's Magic

    Robbin Cuddy

  • The Locker

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    FINAL ASSIGNMENT After the nightmarish death of her parents, Marlee Fleming was starting over - a new school, a "happy life." But her new friends Tyler and Noreen acted strangely when they saw the locker she'd been assigned. They said ...

  • The Hummingbirds' Gift

    Stefan Czernecki

  • Restoration

    Sean Dalton

    A time traveler faces his duplicate in 17th-century England in the series from the “masterful” national bestselling author of Lucasfilm’s Alien Chronicles (Extrapolations).   In his attempt to return to the twenty-sixth century, historian ...

  • The Favourite

    Meredith Daneman

    As her own marriage falls apart, Rosalind, a witty and passionate woman, reminisces about the complex patterns of her life, in which she has played the roles of child, lover, wife, and mother. 15,000 first printing....

  • Warpath

    Tony Daniel

    As inhabitants of the earth spread throughout the galaxy, they discover that a group of Mississippi Indians from before Columbus's time had preceded them into space, and an interstellar Indian nation conflicts with the new colonists. Reprint....

  • Lawyers, Guns and Money

    Rebecca Daniels

    LICENSE TO DECEIVE... Once, Ash Cain had played knight in shining armor to a poor little rich girl named Jillian Hughes. He'd never forgotten his damsel in distress -- or the soul-shattering effect of the single kiss they'd shared. Yet the...

  • Breath, Eyes, Memory

    Edwidge Danticat

    At the age of twelve, Sophie Caco is sent from her impoverished village of Croix-des-Rosets to New York, to be reunited with a mother she barely remembers. There she discovers secrets that no child should ever know, and a legacy of shame that can be ...

  • Amber Brown is Not a Crayon

    Paula Danziger

    Even when her best friend is moving away, Amber Brown is always bold, bright, and colorful. #Amber Brown is out now on Apple TV+Amber Brown and Justin Daniels are best friends. They've known each other for practically forever, sit next to each other ...

  • Elizabeth's Gift

    Donna Davidson

    Vision of Love Miss Elizabeth Wydner knew her own mind -- and what she knew about her mind was remarkable. For Elizabeth had the power to read the thoughts of others, no matter how they masked them. She saw into the future as well, spotting lurkin...

  • Diamond Park Dinosaur

    Gibbs Davis

    Although the Diamond Park ballfield is slated to become a new mall's parking lot, team member Felix Smith seems unconcerned, but he soon discovers a dinosaur fossil and becomes an unwitting hero for the team. Original....

  • The Champions of Appledore

    Romayne Dawnay

    When a pack of bloodthirsty wolves, led by the great White Wolf and his sidekick, Snertle, terrorizes the village of Appledore, it is up to Tom, Scottish mouse Iona McClaren, lord of the manor Sir Pomfrey, and Grunwinkle, a retired dragon, to stop th...

  • Succumb

    Ron Dee

    MEET JAN. BEAUTIFUL TO BEHOLD. FANTASTIC IN BED, AND HAZARDOUS TO YOUR SOUL One, in his painfully distant rock ‘n’ roll youth, Martin had his freedom. Now he’s got a wife and two kids, a house in the suburbs, and no way out. But one night at...

  • The Magic Tapestry

    Demi

    The classic Chinese fairy tale, in which a poor widow's youngest son is the only one brave enough to reclaim her stolen tapestry, is illuminated with full-color, Chinese-inspired paintings accented with gold ink....

  • The Edge of Honor

    P.T. Deutermann

    A MAN ON THE BRINK OF HIS DESTINY... It is the height of the Vietnam War and young Lt. Brian Holcomb is about to embark on an eight-month tour of duty that will bring him one step away from commanding his own ship. A WOMAN TEMPTED BY DESIRE... ...

  • Midnight Hour

    Debra Dixon

    NICK -- A Take-Charge Cajun Who Made Her Think of Hot Bodies and Cool Sheets... Her voice grabbed his soul and turned him inside out before he ever saw her -- but when Dr. Nick Devereaux gazed at Midnight Mercy Malone, the town's N horror-mov...

  • Virtual Villainy

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Someone Is Hiding

    Dayle Ann Dodds

    Based on the hide-and-seek game Sardines, a delightful lift-the-flap book offers funny rhymes, clever watercolors, and an animal cast, as animals disappear one by one and the big clock counts from one to six....

  • The Colour of Midnight

    Robyn Donald

    "I'm Stella's sister..." And Minerva Robertson wanted to know why, with everything to live for, Stella had chosen to die. The only person who might be able to give her an answer was wickedly attractive Nick Peveril, Stella's hu...

  • New Orleans Requiem

    D.J. Donaldson

    In the tradition of Patricia Cornwell's Body of Evidence and Postmortem, D. J. Donaldson is back again with a new mystery featuring New Orleans Chief Medical Examiner Andy Broussard and criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn, the detective team whom the ...

  • My Savage Heart

    Christine Dorsey

    Left impoverished after the death of her father, English born Caroline Simmons journeys across the Atlantic to marry a man she's never met. But the dark, fierce looking stranger waiting at the dock is not her would be husband. He is Wolf MacQuaid...

  • A Whisper of Time

    Paula E. Downing

    LOST HORIZONS They found the child alone in a glade amid the magnificent ruins of an alien city. A hunt for others of the child's alien people turned up nothing--not even a clue to her origin, aside from some ambiguous markings that might indicate...

  • Igniting the Reaches

    David Drake

    His acclaimed novel Hammer's Slammers is considered one of the classics of military science fiction. Now David Drake once again takes us on an epic journey to the farthest reaches of space... A millennium after the great Collapse of the human empi...

  • Time's Angel

    Kathleen Drymon

    LOVE'S MAGIC It is the pickpocket's art that places the ancient watch in eighteen-year-old Angela's hand ...and inexplicable magic that sweeps the gypsy waif from the streets of modern-day London into a world of gaslight and horse-drawn carriages-...

  • Dead Sand

    Brendan DuBois

    Lewis Cole writes a column for Shoreline, a tourist rag in Tyler, New Hampshire. He lives in an old cottage by the ocean, commutes along the salt marshes on a ten-speed...and keeps a loaded .357 Smith & Wesson in his kitchen. Lewis Cole has a past--o...

  • The Stricken Field

    Dave Duncan

    Zinixo, the Almighty, may have overthrown the Impire and crowned himself, but there was revolt in the land. Next to Zinixo's, their forces were paltry, but each rebel leader carried the flame of freedom and was willing to go through any trial to save...

  • Yellow Umbrella

    Caitlin Dundon

  • The Dower House

    Carola Dunn
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    When handsome, distinguished Sir Gideon March and his dashing cousin Harry move into a nearby estate, the widowed Lady Catriona schemes to marry her daughter off -- only to find her matchmaking plans turned topsy-turvy by love!...

  • Hotel Animal

    Keith DuQuette

  • Rise the Euphrates

    Carol Edgarian

    A modern-day Armenian American girl, Seta Loon finds herself caught between her grandmother, a survivor of the Turkish massacre of Armenians, and her mother, and struggling with her own feelings of conflict and alienation...

  • Rise the Euphrates Sampler

    Carol Edgarian

  • Lady Outlaw

    Hank Edwards (1)

    Sent to Lonesome Pine, Nebraska, in order to help the local sheriff deal with the notorious Blue River Gang, Federal Judge Clay Torn has to deal with a deadly lady outlaw named Chancey Lane. Original....

  • A Betting Affair

    Marissa Edwards
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    Jessica and Lord Gordon Massey vow to show the ton a truly happy couple...until she finds him an insensitive cad and he declares her an unbearable shrew. Now, as a well-meaning mother-in-law takes matters into her own hands, society wags wager on whe...

  • There's a Troll in My Popcorn

    Carol Ellis

  • Dear John...

    Lyn Ellis

    LOVE...JENNY When Jenny Teale wrote to Captain John Braithwaite, it was as her good deed to the brave fighting men overseas. John's letters -- intimate, sexy, loving -- made her realize she'd found her soul mate. But Jenny didn't consi...

  • Lone Star and the Montana Marauders

    Wesley Ellis

    A ruthless killer leaves messages of doom -- but Jessie and Ki aim to write his epitaph!Jessie and Ki track a brutal cattle-rustling killer who is out to rid Montana of every rancher, only to find themselves the next target of the murderer....

  • Hollywood Nocturnes

    James Ellroy

    Set in Los Angeles from 1947 to 1959, Hollywood Nocturnes gives us an afterword and six stories set in the same crime-ridden, sex-crazed period of history of James Ellroy's L.A. Quartet novels (which include L.A. Confidential and The Big Nowhere).Dig...

  • Night Shadows

    Ron Ely

    Posh Santa Barbara offers everything money can buy, including solitude. Her Jake Sands, 'recover' of missing things, can mourn his tragic past and ignore the future. When Jake finds a murdered man in his own neighborhood, he covers his tracks and lea...

  • Where Are Wendy's Brothers?

    Ted Enck

  • City of Widows

    Loren D. Estleman

    Page Murdock has been sent to the tough New Mexico of 1881 to track down a man and bring him to justice. But more than a trail of revenge, Murdock finds himself on a desperate odyssey. For in the Southwest a friend can turn out to be one's cruelest e...

  • Interlude in Time

    Rita Clay Estrada

    SWEPT AWAY The last thing she remembered was the ocean...the storm...the man! Against all odds, lovely Parris Harrison had been caught swimming in the wild and turbulent surf, only to wash up on the shore of Cape May lying in the arms of the mo...

  • Keeper

    Patricia Gardner Evans

    HOOK, LINE AND SINKER CLEESE STARRETT: A businessman, cattleman and expert fisherman who thought the way to a good woman's heart was through an extra rod, dry flies and a ideal spot on the river. LAUREL DREW: A woman who knew being in trouble...

  • Longarm and the Last Man

    Tabor Evans

    As a cold-blooded killer stalks the members of the secret Last Man Club, Longarm sets out to warn the society's members of the threat, only to become embroiled with a lovely saloon girl and her brutally abusive boss. Original....

  • The Silent Suitor

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    Beauty or the Beast? Miss Sarah Wilkes Lyndle was stunningly lovely. Nonetheless, she was startled to have two of the leading lords of the ton drawn to her on her very first visit to London. One was the handsome, elegant, utterly charming Stewart ...

  • Miss Ware's Refusal

    Marjorie Farrell

    PRIDE BEFORE PASSIONS Lovely Miss Judith Ware was proud. Too proud to feel sorry for herself when her family's loss of fortune forced her to earn a living. And too proud to accept the marriage proposal of the handsome, wealthy Simon Ballance, Duke...

  • A Fish Story

    Keith Faulkner

  • The Smithfield Bargain

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    WED WITHOUT WARNING! Lady Romayne Smithfield's impetuous romantic plans turned to disaster when highwaymen overtook her carriage and stopped her elopement with the fashionable Bradley Montcrief. Narrowly escaping with her life, Romayne found an un...

  • Lord Chartley's Lesson

    Jo Ann Ferguson
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    Lord Chartley is aghast at the notion of sharing guardianship of his six-year-old ward with the vivacious Lily Armstrong, who upsets his proper life...and takes control of his heart!...

  • Flash and Fire

    Marie Ferrarella

    Determined to resist the advances of the persistent Pierce Alexander, Amanda Foster, a single mother and the news anchor at a Dallas television station, finds herself falling in love. By the author of Sapphire and Shadow. Original....

  • Thunder in the Heart

    Amy J. Fetzer

    PASSION SWEPT HER FROM THE ELEGANT SALONS AND GLITTERING BALLROOMS OF THE NATION'S CAPITAL... The daughter of an army colonel, Sable Cavanaugh led a gay life of preening, pampering and parties. But the celebrated Washington beauty was forced to le...

  • Headhunter

    Timothy Findley

    When Lilah Kemp, a schizophrenic, unemployed librarian and sometime spiritualist, accidently frees the evil Kurtz from the pages of "Heart of Darkness," she searches desperately for a Marlow to help her return him before it is too late...

  • The End of the Hunt

    Thomas Flanagan

    Volume 3 of Thomas Flanagan’s Irish History Trilogy This third volume of Thomas Flanagan’s best-selling Irish-history trilogy (which begins with The Year of the French and continues with The Tenants of Time) brings to epic life the events of the ...

  • San Francisco Strumpet

    Dirk Fletcher

    Fast on the heels of an elusive counterfeiting gang, Spur McCoy arrives in San Francisco where he is faced with a vast array of ruthless enemies, as well as a wealth of gorgeous women who are more than willing to succumb to his rugged charms. Reissue...

  • The Day After Tomorrow

    Allan Folsom

    "A page-turning whopper."-- Entertainment Weekly.The novel that took the nation by storm is now in paperback. Allan Folsom has created an international conspiracy of apocalyptic dimensions that interconnects three intricate and compelling stories spa...

  • The Xavier Files

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Vows

    Rebecca Forster

    SOME OARE MEANT TO BE KEPT... Beautiful, talented and fiercely ambitious, Dani Cortland has sacrificed everything in her rage to be the best--including her marriage. But her future in San Francisco's biggest ad agency is threatened when she rejects ...

  • River of Hidden Dreams

    Connie May Fowler

    "HEARTBREAKING...COMPELLING...The story carries you like a slow, implacable current."
    --San Francisco Chronicle
    Forty-something Sadie Hunter is a loner. But more than that, she is afraid of not being alone. Ever since her mother and Native Amer...

  • One Man, One Love

    Natalie Fox

    Did he belong to another woman? Never in her life had Christie felt so cheated. More than anything she hated Victor Lascelles for standing on that beach with his arms wrapped around her cousin, showing the world where his heart truly lay .... H...

  • The Shepherd Boy

    Kristine L. Franklin

    Ben, a young Navajo boy, tends his family's sheep each summer and, one night, must brave the terrors of the darkness to find a missing lamb. By the author of The Old, Old Man and the Very Little Boy. ...

  • Fortune's Bride

    Judith E. French

    As revolution's flames engulf the Colonies, fiery Caroline Steele must feign loyalty to the Crown in order to safeguard her Maryland plantation. But she is in danger of losing everything when an arrogant fugitive from British justice chooses her ...

  • The Orange Tree

    Carlos Fuentes

    In the five novellas that comprise The Orange Tree, Carlos Fuentes continues the passionate and imaginative reconstruction of past and present history that has distinguished Terra Nostra and The Campaign. From the story of Columbus's arrival in the C...

  • Perfectly Pure and Good

    Frances Fyfield

    Family fights, suicides, sirens, death, and even a ghost. Everything happens here …Attorney Sarah Fortune is dispatched to a small coastal town to straighten out the financial affairs of the eccentric Pardoe family. The three siblings and their mot...

  • Breaking Free

    Louann Gaeddert

    In 1800, Richard, a young city orphan, is sent to live with his uncle on a New York State farm, where he is forced to undertake difficult farmwork, cope with a cruel cousin, gain an education despite his uncle's disapproval, and free his uncle's two ...

  • Crooked Hearts

    Patricia Gaffney

    THE CON MAN Reuben Jones walks on the wrong side of the law -- a card shark, a master of deception, a man who long ago buried the truth of his life so deep that no one would ever find it... THE LADY Grace Russell has had to learn a few tricks he...

  • Roommates Again

    Kathryn O. Galbraith

    When her best friend, Kelly, comes down with chicken pox and cannot go to camp with her, Mimi suddenly finds herself sharing a room at camp with her younger sister, Beth. By the author and illustrator of Roommates. ...

  • Island Star

    Kit Gardner

    TROPICAL NIGHTS Man-beast, the islanders called Oliver Keane. Big, brash and powerful, Alexa Fairfield could sense his aura of danger. And was drawn to him despite it. For he was the one man who could help her expose a murderous secret --- and make ...

  • Summer of the Storm

    Catherine George

    The magic was still there But was the gap between them too wide to bridge after all this time? Alec Neville thought so, but Cassie wasn't sure what to feel. The overwhelming mutual physical attraction came flooding back - as did memories of th...

  • A Covenant of Justice

    David Gerrold

    REBEL BLOOD The Phaestor have established a reign of blood and terror. Now the genetically engineered predators have set in motion their final plan for the complete enslavement of the galaxy. But they will not go unopposed. For on numerous worlds,...

  • Let Me Do It!

    Janice Gibala-Broxholm

  • Starcarbon

    Ellen Gilchrist

    Three couples struggle through tricky relationships in a novel “shot through with an offhand lyricism, snippets of wisdom, and a ready humor” (Seattle Post-Intelligencer). After her first year in college, Olivia de Havilland Hand returns home to ...

  • Graduation Day

    Mel Gilden

    As the West Beverly High prom approaches, Brandon tries to get the nerve to ask Andrea, Brenda dreads having to watch Dylan and Kelly dance together, and Donna gets caught drinking. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Sworn Before Cranes

    Merrill Gilfillan

  • Kiss and Make Up

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    RAND -- A Hunk of an Ex-Husband Who Still Hungered for Her Heart... He'd never been around to help her when they'd been married, Kat Waddell fumed, but now, when she'd decided to hire a nanny to help with the kids, Rand insisted that h...

  • Tea-Totally Dead

    Jaqueline Girdner

    A BITTER BREW Kate Jasper loves Wayne Caruso. So she agrees to attend his family reunion--even though it means spending time with his abrasive mother, her UFO-obsessed roommate, and an assortment of dysfunctional relatives. Kate feels like she's s...

  • Great Big Scary Dog

    Libby Gleeson

  • Odds and Evens: A Numbers Book

    Heidi Goennel

  • Richard Scarry's Dingo, the Worst Driver Ever

    Golden Books

  • Thumbelina

    Golden Books

    Once upon a time there was a woman who was sad because she had no children.  One day she planted a magic seed and from the seed grew a flower.  Inside the flower was a tiny, exquisite girl no bigger than the woman's thumb.  Her name was Thumbel...

  • Simple Prayers

    Michael Golding

    In his debut novel, Golding makes sense of the current AIDS crisis as he envisions another time and place transformed by a fatal horror. Take a journey back six centuries to a secluded island in the Venice lagoon--a wondrous place where superstition ...

  • Money to Burn

    E.M. Goldman

    A long summer without jobs or money turns into a dream-come-true--or a nightmare--when Matt and Lewis stumble upon a suitcase full of cash, which they know must belong to a drug trafficker. By the author of Detective 10th Grade. ...

  • Back to the Titanic!

    Beatrice Gormley

    They’re really on the Titanic! Matt and Emily's great-grandfather is an inventor, and he's just created the greatest invention of all -- a way to travel through time. He plans to return to the Titanic, which he sailed on as a boy, and try to sa...

  • One Rainy Night

    Doris Gove

    On rainy nights, a young boy and his parents venture down into Horse Cove to view the creatures that live in its natural environment, collecting new specimens and returning others to their homes, in a story that teaches a message of conservation. Jr ...

  • Thunder

    James Grady

    Yesterday John Lang was a young CIA street dog fighting his country's invisible wars around the world. Today he strolls the quiet marble corridors of Washington. But when a bomb guts a New York skyscraper and an "officially" stray bullet kills Lang's...

  • Snow White: The Unfairest of Them All

    Alvin Granowsky

    After reading the classic tale of the beautiful princess who takes refuge from her wicked, jealous stepmother in the cottage of seven dwarfs, the reader is invited to turn the book upside down and read an updated version told from the point of view o...

  • A Woman's Place

    Linda Grant

    When private investigator Catherine Sayler is called in by the Systech corporation to find out who's sending lewd messages through the company's E-mail, the case seems merely routine. The situation changes for the worse when female employees start re...

  • Warriors for the Working Day

    Roland J. Green

    As the human-run Federation and the alien Coordination head closer and closer to an inevitable conflict, the crew of the Federation's starcruiser Shenandoah may be the world's last hope for peace. Original....

  • Bewitched

    Jennifer Greene

    MR. APRIL Zach Connor: Self-imposed recluse, struggling to avoid one talkative woman and her precocious little girl. Kirstin Grams: Dedicated mother, resigned to single parenthood and loving Zach from afar. Jock: Rapscallion pirate ghost and s...