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  • Sally Beauman

    A reclusive couturiere of originality and passion, Maria Cazares is a legend shrouded in mystery. Around her swirl rumor and counterrumor, whispers of shocking secrets and taboos broken.... When the glitterati assemble in Paris for the new collec...



  • Alicia Baldwin

    Assigned to train Neely, a new lifeguard, Matt is forced to cope not only with her unwanted attentions, but also with her drinking problem, her unfair accusations of sexual harassment, and CJ's jealousy. Original....



  • Casey Brady

    When teenager Hobie Buchanan falls for Lauren, a vivacious junior lifeguard, he is in for heartache and grief because of her devastating illness, and together they organize a clinic for beached whales and porpoises. Original....



  • Casey Brady

    When a massive earthquake strikes the area, Hobie and the Baywatch lifeguards must contend with tidal waves, downed power lines, and uncontrolled fires, as they take on new leadership roles to cope with the disaster. Original....



  • Alicia Baldwin

    Mitch Buchanan finds himself tormented by the young heiress whom he rescued, while CJ Parker becomes infatuated with a former Navy SEAL and Matt Brody is attracted to Nikki Quinn, the younger cousin of his old flame, Summer. Original....



  • Henri Sorensen

    All at the same moment, wolf pups in Canada romp in the morning sun, young otters slide down mud banks in the English afternoon, lion cubs play as the sun sets over the Serengeti Plain, and a young child takes his very first steps. "Lovely, glowing p...



  • Ted Lewin

    Go on a trip around the globe and visit the marketplace! With gorgeous watercolor paintings, Ted Lewin’s Market! is a beautiful and child-friendly look at diverse cultures around the world.

    From the highlands of the Andes to the steamy j...



  • David F. Birchman

    "Potato farmer and fix-it man extraordinaire J. Jupiter Jackson is convinced by a smooth-talking puzzle peddler to parlay his lightning-quick jigsaw-solving skill into fame and fortune. The two hit the road, dazzling crowds...but despite the peddlers...



  • Caroline Ness

    A twelfth-century Sanskrit parallel to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Pea" is just one of the surprises in this unusual collection of fairy tales from the Indian subcontinent. There are animal fables that recall both Aesop and Uncle ...



  • Laura Krauss Melmed

    This is the yellow bird who sings each time the doorbell ting-a-lings when someone opens up the door- the sky blue door on Grandma's store, the Marvelous Market on Mermaid.

    And a marvelous market it is indeed, with all the hustle and bustle...



  • Joanne Reay




  • Liz Minister

    Delightful story told in rhymes (first lines: (Such a Mess) "My sister Jess makes such a mess. She likes to mix her dinner up with milk you give her in a cup") features African-American family of four (plus a cat) and their delights and challenges wi...




  • Laura Ingalls Wilder

    With the My First Little House picture book series, the youngest readers can share in the joy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House books in these illustrated adaptations of the beloved series!

    One spring day Pa has a wonderful surprise -...



  • Stephen Baxter

    Michael Poole's wormholes constructed in the orbit of Jupiter had opened the galaxy to humankind. Then Poole tried looping a wormhole back on itself, tying a knot in space and ripping a hole in time. It worked. Too well. Poole was never seen ag...



  • Debbie Macomber

    Dear Jack, I may be a rough, tough soldier of fortune but I've met my match! I'm in Central America on a no-win job and regretting every minute. A woman named Letty Madden hired me to find her missing brother. I'd figured this prim and proper...



  • Michael Grant Jaffe

    "Calvin eats dirt. He never actually swallows it, just places loose clumps onto his tongue and sucks, I think....He knows better, my son, but he is still young and needs to be watched."

    So goes the poignant journey of discovery for Gordon Nash...






  • Vicky Mitchell

    It?s the year 2057 and volunteer soldier Drew Griffin is humanity?s only hope for survival. Without iridium dioxide, nothing can save Earth from environmental Armageddon -- and the only source of iridium dioxide lies on the other side of an experimen...



  • Catherine McMorrow

    The rush to the American West was stimulated by the sight of shining metal. Beginning with the first discovery at Sutter's Mill, Catherine McMorrow gives a gripping, richly anecdotal account of those wild-and-woolly days when gold fever seized the na...



  • Colby Rodowsky

    "Annie is about to graduate from high school, an event that intensifies all her memories of another graduation two years before, when her sister was murdered...Present-day events intermingle with Annie's recollections of the past. The shock, denial, ...



  • Barthe DeClements

    When his neighbor and friend, Andy, continually misbehaves in class, Scott fears that Andy will be sent back to the first grade and launches a campaign to straighten out his friend's act. Simultaneous....



  • Catherine Siracusa

    Bernie Bunny, Bellville's best doorbell tester, is dumbfounded when every doorbell in town is stolen and replaced by brass door knockers, and his investigations lead him to a band of suspicious squirrels....



  • John D. MacDonald

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Lonely Silver Rain is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee has luck to thank for his reputation as a first-rate salvager...



  • Philippa Gregory

    This is a collection of three stories about Diggory. He is quite ordinary, so why do things keep happening to him? Like the incredible Boa Conductor, the fantastic desk that isn't a desk, and the very special, very unusual furry babysitter. Anyone wo...



  • Tony Johnston

    A young boy, originally embarrassed by the traditions of his Japanese grandfather, comes to an understanding one day as he observes him during a fishing trip and notes that the old man and his ways are not silly at all but are actually rather magical...



  • Christina Dodd

    A SECRET WORTH A KINGDOM She was tall and lovely, crowned with a flaming mane of red hair, but Lady Marian's delicate beauty lent no value to the powerful strength within her. When Elizabeth, her beloved queen and dearest friend since childhood, c...



  • Michael McGarrity

    For two years, Kevin Kerney has lived alone on a small ranch, nursing the wounds that retired him from the Santa Fe police department. But Kerney's solitude is shattered when his ex-partner, Terry Yazzi, arrives one afternoon to plead for Kerney's he...



  • Patrick O'Brian

    Having survived their adventure in the Great South Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin now return to England. For Jack it is a happy homecoming, but for Stephen disastrous: his little daughter appears to be autistic, incapable of speech or c...



  • Elizabeth Berg

    Dear Martin, I'm sorry the note I left you was so abrupt. I just wanted you to know I was safe...I won't be back for awhile. I'm on a trip. I needed all of a sudden to go, without saying where, because I don't know where. I know this is not like m...



  • Philip Pullman

    It was no ordinary life for a young girl: living among scholars in the hallowed halls of Jordan College and tearing unsupervised through Oxford's motley streets on mad quests for adventure. But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, th...



  • Mel Gilden

    After witnessing an online seance, Jason receives mysterious messages from his late mother that send him and Athena on a quest to uncover the secrets of MetaCorp, a company that has supposedly perfected computerized immortality. Original....




  • Mel Gilden

    Flamed by an obnoxious cybersurfer who calls himself Rebel, an outraged Athena sends back an equally unflattering message and becomes Rebel's target when he applies his hacking skills to ruining Athena's life. Original....



  • Dee Lillegard

    Taking a walk through an enchanted flower garden, young Camellia is a lucky witness to the wedding of Sweet William and his darling Columbine, who are attended by violets, daffodils, daisies, and a tiger lily....




  • Jane Yolen

    Fourteen poems celebrate the diverse and mysterious life that inhabits the sea, from a seahorse releasing his young to a flashing Pacific salmon, in a collection that is accompanied by a term glossary....





  • Andre Norton; Mercedes Lackey

    A Forgotten People The powerful magic of ruthless Elvenlord masters has for centuries ruled the world. Even Shana, the legendary Elvenbane prophesied to deliver the oppressed into freedom, is helpless before such power. She and her ragtag band of ...



  • Gregory Becker

    In the first chapter of Bluestown - which as a short story appeared in the 1995 Drue Heinz Prize-winning collection Dangerous Men - Geoffrey Becker emerges as a writer of unusual imagination and talent. Spencer Markus at fifteen wants to believe in h...



  • David Haynes

    As she struggles to move from antagonism to common ground with Miss Xenobia Kezee, her sick, elderly, cantankerous mother-in-law, Paula Johnson confronts her own mother’s death and her husband’s detachment from the emotional life of his family.



  • Anne Rockwell

    Monsters have played an important role in the myths of all cultures. "Everywhere in the world people have imaged monsters, made up stories about them, and tried, in art, to show us what they looked like," Anne Rockwell writes in her Author's Note.

    ...



  • Louise Erdrich

    A grandmother’s sudden departure leaves her family with an even more puzzling, and wondrous, surprise in this enchanting story from the National Book Award-winning author—at last back in print Grandmother was a mysterious woman. She could ...



  • Tana Hoban

    "Crisp color photographs provide food for a guessing game and a new way to look at the world. As in Look! Look! Look!, Hoban lets children peep through a cutout circle at a small portion of a photograph, giving them the opportunity to guess the subje...



  • Pat Hutchins

    "When Titch arrives at a party and doesn't find his friend Daisy among the guests, he refuses to participate in any of the activities. In fact, though, Daisy is in attendance, shyly hiding, wishing Titch were there. When the toddlers meet, they join ...




  • Jessie Haas

    "As Aunt Alice and Cousin Kate's visit draws near, Tess and her mother embark on an emergency cleaning program that leaves them exhausted, their pets banished to the yard, and their house too neat to feel like home. When Tess overhears Alice and Kate...



  • Emery Bernhard

    A storm rages. A branch breaks off a great willow tree and begins a fascinating journey through streams and rivers and finally out to sea. Then one day, it washes up onto a beach, weathered and smooth--now a piece of driftwood. A beachcombing boy bri...



  • William Irwin Thompson

    In this book, William Irwin Thompson explores the nature of myth. Acknowledging the persuasive power of myth to create and inform culture, he weaves the human ability to create life with and communicate through symbols with myths based on male and...



  • Marvel Book Group

    Beware the Brood!

    A vicious alien race intent on conquering the universe!

    Able to transform other species into their own kind, the Brood have infected each of the X-Men, and their metamorphoses will soon be complete.

    Now Wolverin...



  • Edward Myers

    Joining the Deserts `n' Dinosaurs summer hiking trip in Utah to study rock formations and fossils, Alyssa DiPietro and Rob Vogel are swept up in a dangerous adventure when they encounter a thief, who promptly kidnaps them....



  • Mary Pope Osborne

    The Ice Age is very cool...for two kids in bathing suits! Jack and Annie nearly freeze when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of cave people and woolly mammoths. But nothing can stop them from having another wild adventure -- not even...



  • Barbara Park

    Guess who's not invited? That meanie Jim has invited everyone in Room Nine to his birthday party on Saturday -- except Junie B.! Should she have her own birthday party six months early and not invite Jim? Or should she move to It's a Small World Aft...



  • Rebecca Wells

    “A very entertaining and, ultimately, deeply moving novel about the complex bonds between mother and daughter.” -- Washington Post

    “Mary McCarthy, Anne Rivers Siddons, and a host of others have portrayed the power and value of female ...



  • Richard Powers

    The magnificent second novel from the Pulitzer Prize"winning author of The Overstory and the forthcoming Bewilderment.“Accomplished . . . mature and assured. . . . A major American novelist.” -- New RepublicSomething is wrong with Eddie Hobson...




  • David G. Hartwell

    WORLD-ALTERING SCIENCE FICTION

    • Tales of wonder and adventure, set on distant planets or in the future of our own
    • Stories that go beyond the limits of Space and Time
    • David G. Hartwell has bro...




  • Elizabeth Peters

    A masked stranger offers to reveal an Egyptian queen's lost tomb ... and Amelia Peabody and her irascible archaeologist husband are intrigued, to say the least. When the guide mysteriously disappears before he tells his secret, the Peabodys sail to T...



  • Julian Barnes

    From the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending, his first collection of short stories explores the vast divide between England and France. • “A witty, playful and ironic writer at the top of his form." -- San Francis...



  • Cathryn Alpert

    Marilee journeys from Los Angeles to New Mexico to surprise her fiancé, Larry, who has taken a job on the Alamogordo Air Force Base to gain, in one of his antithetical Zen experiments, an understanding of peace. Sympathy for Enoch, a hitchhiking dwa...



  • Jean Hanff Korelitz

    As a little girl climbs off a school bus on the Upper East Side of New York, a man named Trent rushes from the shadows to stab her viciously, instantly becoming the city's latest pariah and setting into motion an increasingly bizarre chain of occurre...



  • David A. Adler

    Shhhhhhh! Someone is "borrowing" more than books from the local library. Can Herman "Houdini" Foster and his cousin, Janet Perry, crack the case... quietly? Solve a mystery! Learn a magic trick! ...




  • Elaine Clayton

    Illustrated in full color. On a visit to the museum with her class, Ella discovers what it's like to be in a painting, instead of just looking at it.  However, Ella's teacher, Mrs. Jasper, is convinced that Ella is merely goofing off. So Ella demon...



  • Geoffrey Hayes

    In Geoffrey Hayes's fifth Otto and Uncle Tooth mystery, Ducky Doodle discovers that Doctor Ocular and his floating laboratory of rare sea monsters are fakes!  But can he save the town hundreds of dollars in ticket sales--or will the mad doctor get ...



  • Jonathan Evan Maslow

    Recognized as one of the best natural historians writing today, Maslow employs his talents as a fiction writer for the first time to assemble this collection of short stories that range in time from the early 16th century to the present. All of them ...




  • John Darnton

    THE EXPEDITION OF THE CENTURY... In the remote mountains of central Asia, an eminent Harvard archeologist discovers something extraordinary. He sends a cryptic message to two colleagues. But then, he disappears. UNCOVERS THE FIND OF THE MILLENNIU...



  • Clara Vulliamy

    When big sister Ellen first meets her new baby brother, her beloved stuffed toy, Penguin, thinks that he does not care for the baby, who receives most of the attention, until he becomes pivotal in helping to stop the baby's crying....







  • Alan Baron

    Longing for the delicious feast that has been prepared by Little Pig and her friends, Red Fox hides behind a bush to wait for an opportunity to steal but becomes so wrapped up in the music and fun that he gives himself away....




  • Sally Carr

    "If I didn't know better, I'd say you were definitely a runaway." Caron had to admit that Ewan Cameron's suspicions about her were not altogether undeserved. Cold feet were one thing, but flying halfway around the world to avoid o...



  • Lucy Gordon

    A little girl in need of a mom... Carlyle Brackman is Briony's boss -- and what an ogre she finds him! Until she sees him in another light, as a tender father devoted to his daughter. This transformation in Carlyle almost melts Briony's he...



  • Lynne Graham

    "I am a close acquaintance of Crown Prince Razul's!". Rash worlds indeed... Bethany Morgan was desperate to stop her deportation from Datar, and only Razul could help her. But she'd tried so hard to forget him -- they'd been in...



  • Jessica Hart

    Saturday's child works hard for a living! Just when executive Phyllida Grant thought she'd hit rock bottom she met Jake Tregowan.... Having lost her job and her fiance all in one day, it looked as if Jake's offer was her only option. Jake knew...



  • Michelle Reid

    "You cannot be allowed to go on ruining lives simply because that body of yours drives men insane!" Cesar DeSanquez was right about Annie's beauty: it had made her into an international supermodel. But the only life about to be ruined...



  • Sara Wood

    White lies and dark secrets Mandy Cook set out for Saint Lucia with high hopes of finding her family. She found Pascal St. Honore, the handsome and impassioned son of the man who held the key to her search. Far from being helpful, he seemed intent...



  • Houghton Mifflin Company

    Excellent in all departments (Kirkus Reviews), Nebula Awards 30 continues a tradition of excellence by offering, alongside works by the winners in all Nebula categories, a generous selection of fiction, poetry, and essays not found in any other best-...



  • Robert Rankin

    Danny is not sad and lonely anymore, because Danny has "the voice", the voice of an imaginary dog called Demolition. The dog tells him what to do, like how to adjust the bar code reader in the shop, so he can read what people are thinking. Soon, Dann...




  • Arno Bohlmeijer

    The true story of a young girl's struggle to come to terms with a tragedy. This sober narration reveals the private voice of a girl as she copes with the aftermath of a car accident: her mother's death, the injuries of her father and sister, and her ...



  • Christina Dodd

    HIS POWER MATCHED HER PRIDE Fallen from grace and sheltered in a convent, Lady Edlyn is a skilled herbalist forced to secretly tend the wounds of Hugh de Florisoun. A knight renowned for his prowess on the battlefield and in the bedchamber, Hugh i...



  • Christina Dodd

    COULD HER LOVE HEAL HIS DAMAGED SOUL? Sylvan Miles dreaded the moment she'd see Lord Rand Malkin again. Once a dashing rogue, he'd returned from a battle a changed man. Sylvan, too, has suffered. Sharpened by scandal and tragedy, she vows to heal ...



  • Ben Neihart

    A debut novel starring Joe Keith, originally introduced in The New Yorker, finds the young man coming of age amidst the bawdy splendor of New Orleans, where his entire life changes in one night. Reprint....



  • Jeff Andrus

    With the help of a ragtag collection of in-laws, a pig named Alfred and a dog named Dog, the sleuthing Tracer Family sets out on their second comedic adventure. The search is for their next-door neighbor's elderly sister, Corinth, a one-t...



  • Kathleen Norris

    A reverent study of the monastic world assesses the meaning of the cloistered life in modern times, journeying through a liturgical year to capture the relevance and spiritual significance of the religious life....



  • Edwidge Danticat

    Arriving one year after the Haitian-American's first novel (Breath, Eyes, Memory) alerted critics to her compelling voice, these 10 stories, some of which have appeared in small literary journals, confirm Danticat's reputation as a remarkably gifted ...



  • Iris Johansen

    If fate suddenly made you more beautiful than you ever dreamed possible, would it be the beginning of a fairy tale, or your worst nightmare.... The brutal attack should have killed anybody, but Nell Calder did more than survive. She emerged a woma...



  • Judy Alter

    She was born on an Oklahoma ranch, where her father taught her to rope and ride. Filled with daydreams of joining Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, Tommy Jo Burns knew she was destined for greatness as a famous trick roper. At fourteen, she so impressed...



  • J. Robert King
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Underdark Beneath the surface of Faerim lies a whole different world. A world of drow, deep gnomes and other denizens of the dark. A world of cities like Menzoberranzan and Skullport, of warriors and rogues like Drizzt Do'Urden and Lirie...



  • James Reasoner

    Accused of killing his wife in 1790, farmer Davis Hallam becomes a fugitive and joins a labor crew that takes him from southwestern Virginia to Kentucky, where he finds adventure and love before he is forced to confront the past. ...



  • Will Henry

    In I, Tom Horn, originally published in 1975, Will Henry presents a fictional autobiography of Tom Horn that answers decisively the question—did Tom Horn kill fourteen-year-old Willie Kickell, or was he framed?

    Horn was a cavalry scout in Ar...



  • J.R. Roberts

    A lynch mob ranks just below a rattlesnake in the Gunsmith's eyes. And a lynch mob that would hang a woman doesn't deserve the dirt it would take to bury it. That's just the kind of low-down cowardice Clint Adams finds when he rides into Horizon, ...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Journeying through the cutthroat town of Hell's Picket, Skye Fargo is dismayed by the violence and cruelty he sees there before he is framed for murder and sentenced to hang, and his only help comes from a woman whose shooting skills rival his own. O...



  • Dodge Tyler

    Known to the colonists as "Boone" and to the Shawnees as "Sheltowee," Daniel Boone seeks revenge on his cousin's killers in the untouched wilderness and will stand alone against an entire army, until his revenge was complete or until he is faced with...



  • Max Brand

    Perfecting his skills in street fighting and gunslinging, New York-born Gregg heads west in the hopes of making his fortune and is disgusted by his subsequent job as a mustang herder, until a band of thugs offers him the adventure he craves. Original...



  • Will Camp

    A family feud sent Roy Huckaby to a dusty Texas prison for three years. Now he's out, vowing to follow the straight and narrow. But two things spoil his plans--a treasure map given to him by a dying vaquero and a beautiful woman caught up in a family...



  • Dirk Fletcher

    Spur McCoy, with guns blazing, arrives in the town of Kearney, Nebraska to stop a range war between cattle ranchers and sodbusters, and nothing--not even two beautiful, curvaceous women--can deter him from his mission. Reissue....



  • Steve Frazee

    THE UNFORGETTABLE WESTERN SAGA ABOUT ONE MAN'S STRUGGLE TO BRING JUSTICE TO THE UNTAMED WILDERNESS--AND TO WIN THE WOMAN OF HIS DREAMS

    Hired to find out why work on the Rocky Mountain and Pacific Railroad's Colorado tunnel was at a standstill, ...




  • Rita Boucher

    The Devil's Bargain Beautiful Lady Katherine Steele was in desperate flight from the loathsome lord who threatened even more than her virtue after her husband's death. Her only refuge was a castle deep in the heart of Scotland; her only sa...



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    He's dark, dangerous, and oh so dashing. No hero is more appealing than a Regency rake, as he cuts a swath through the ton with his wicked, wicked ways. Now, six acclaimed authors of outstanding Regency fiction bring us a collection of stories fe...



  • Lisa Bingham

    Augusta McKendrick's serene world is shattered in an instant when a shot rings out at the Billingsly School for Young Ladies and an influential United States senator lies dead in the middle of the library floor. Vainly, she strives to hide the ev...



  • Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    HOSTAGE The only thing left to escaped convict Ben Peshall is the daughter who has lived long years without him. He is determined to keep her safe, even if protecting her means holding at gunpoint a solitary woman whose mountain cabin offers them ...



  • Susan Andersen

    A tragic childhood and a doomed marriage have forced Emma Sands to do what she does best: run. Now, she and her young daughter have arrived in Washington States Port Flannery, a remote fishing village where no one knows who she is ... or where she is...



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    He's dark, dangerous, and oh so dashing. No hero is more appealing than a Regency rake, as he cuts a swath through the ton with his wicked, wicked ways. Now, six acclaimed authors of outstanding Regency fiction bring us a collection of stories fe...



  • Nancy Berland

    Creating stunning designs for Texas debutantes, talented seamstress Maggie Kincaid watches her ambitions flourish and falls madly in love with unlikely hero and arrogant photographer Jack Lewis. Original....



  • Geralyn Dawson

    IT WOULD TAKE MORE THAN A LITTLE LUCK TO BRING THEIR TEXAS HEARTS TOGETHER.... They were calling it the Bad Luck Wedding Dress, and Jenny Fortune knew that spelled trouble for her Fort Worth dressmaking shop. Just because the Bailey girls had met wi...



  • Cathleen Clare
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    He's dark, dangerous, and oh so dashing. No hero is more appealing than a Regency rake, as he cuts a swath through the ton with his wicked, wicked ways. Now, six acclaimed authors of outstanding Regency fiction bring us a collection of stories fe...



  • Colleen Corbet

    A LADY'S PASSION Lizzie Matthews was born in the Colonies and glows with the passion and spirit of an American patriot. Yet it is the tolls of revolution that have forced her to England to live within all the rigid expectations of her grandfather's ...



  • Monique Ellis
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    He's dark, dangerous, and oh so dashing. No hero is more appealing than a Regency rake, as he cuts a swath through the ton with his wicked, wicked ways. Now, six acclaimed authors of outstanding Regency fiction bring us a collection of stories fe...



  • Victoria Chancellor

    FLOWER OF DESIRE... In the Wyoming Territory -- a land both breathtaking and brutal -- bitterroots grow every summer for a brief time. Therapist Rebecca Hartford has never seen such a plant -- until she is swept back to the days of Indian medicin...



  • Elaine Crawford

    In the heart of Texas lives a family as big and bold as the state itself. TheDaltrys are as different as they come, each with his or her own strengths -- and weaknesses. Every time a Daltry turns twenty years old they are presented with a task by the...



  • Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: The Cove is a quaint little postcard town made up only of old folk who sell the World's Greatest Ice Cream--a secret recipe that brings lots of tourists into town. Into The Cove comes Sally Brainerd, daughter of murdered Amory St. ...



  • Debra Cowan

    The pain of the past yields a promise of love... JULIA After outlaws murdered her husband and injured her six-year-old son, Julia vowed to protect Pete -- at any cost... MARSH A detective, he was sent to Spinner, Missouri, to capture the gang...



  • Laura Lee Guhrke

    A COURAGEOUS WOMAN In the aftermath of the Civil War, beautiful and stubborn Olivia Maitland was determined to save her family and their near-bankrupt Louisiana plantation no matter what -- even if it meant taking in cynical ex-boxer Conor Braniga...



  • Dorothy Garlock

    Jane Love's hopes soared when she set out for Timbertown, Wyoming Territory. There, she thought, she'd be safe from her enemy and find the work and respect she so needed. The big problem turned out to be mill owner T. C. Kilkenny. Sitting hig...



  • Jane Feather

    She turned his life into chaos as she melted his heart... Sir Daniel Drummond had amazed himself by offering to many Henrietta Ashby to save her from her tyrannical father. Now the little hoyden had turned his household topsy-turvy with her unconv...



  • Jill Gregory

    She was an innocent beauty about to be wed...when a vengeful outlaw stole her heart. She was asleep when the stranger's hand clamped down hard across her mouth. Melora Deane struggled wildly, but she was no match for the kidnapper who dragged ...



  • Georgina Gentry

    TIMELESS LEGEND It is a painting with a ghost in it -- according to the guidebook in the Pawnee museum. Journalist Blossom Ann Murdock, in Oklahoma to research her family's roots, thought the painting might spark a good article. Now, as shadowy ...



  • Mona Gedney

    MISSING JEWELS, AN OMINOUS WARNING, AND A GENTLEMAN TO FEAR -- OR TO LOVE... In the wake of their father's passing, the orphaned Standish sisters appeal to their mother's wealthy friend, Lady Norwood, for help. In response, they receive a...



  • Dee Holmes

    TO LOVE AND HONOR Wheat Sarah married Jonathan Brennen, she made a vow before God, family, and friends. And nothing would induce her to betray that solemn oath. But when a thoughtless, reckless accident shatters her husband's body, Sarah's che...



  • Marti Jones

    SWEET PATIENCE Wealthy and handsome, Reese Ashburn was the most eligible bachelor in Mobile, Alabama. And although every young debutante dreamed co becoming the lady of Bonne Chance -- Reese's elegant bayside plantation -- none believed that i...



  • Robin Gideon

    IN ORDINARY TIMES, THEY WOULD NEVER MEET. BUT THESE ARE NOT ORDINARY TIMES Samantha Sanders - Born into a world of wealth and comfort, she is as innocent and free as the virgin Dakota territory that gave her life. Hawk Two Feathers - Raised to ...



  • Joan Johnston

    Lionel Morgan, Earl of Denbigh, had been betrayed once at the altar and vowed that no female would ensnare him again. Then Charlotte Edgerton burst into his life. He was to be her guardian. Her protector. But Denbigh wasn't prepared for this headstro...



  • Lynn Kurland

    Daydreaming of her wonderful castle, she imagined that it contained a handsome, brave knight -- Suddenly, her eyes flew open. She scrambled over her chair, looking with alarm at what was quivering in front of her, only an inch away from where her ...



  • Doreen Owens Malek

    The year is 44 B.C. Julius Caesar is dead. And as rebellion divides Italy and Britain, a Roman centurion and a Celtic princess forge a bond no woman or man can rend asunder... To ensure peace between her tribe and their savage conquerors, the exqu...



  • April Kihlstrom

    The Duke of Deception How could Lady Diana Westcott possibly pledge to love, honor, and obey a man who lied as easily as he made love? How could she trust her honor and her heart to a man who had neither? It was bad enough when Diana learned he...



  • Norah Hess

    SWEET CHARITY Stranded on the Western frontier, Lacey Stewart suddenly had to depend on the kindness of strangers. And no one showed her more generosity than the rancher who offered to marry her. But shortly after Trey Saunders and Lacey were pron...



  • Joanna McGauran

    Saving the life of the blue-eyed Ciel Valoir from two would-be attackers, Ian Stewart, laird of Scotland's Stewart Castle, becomes the object of the lady's affections but holds to his vow that he will never permit a woman to hurt him again. ...



  • Janis Reams Hudson

    The Apaches called him Fire Seeker, but what Chiricahua half-breed Pace Colton really seeks is a cure for the restlessness that has driven him from Geronimo and his people. What he finds is Joanna, the spirited, flame-haired beauty he rescues form br...



  • Valerie King
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    He's dark, dangerous, and oh so dashing. No hero is more appealing than a Regency rake, as he cuts a swath through the ton with his wicked, wicked ways. Now, six acclaimed authors of outstanding Regency fiction bring us a collection of stories featur...



  • Betina Krahn

    Betina Krahn has an enchanting wit and style all her own. Now her delicious new love story entangles a cynical rake with a selfless beauty whose good deeds lead to Scandal, intrigue, and passion. With her soft heart and angelic face, Madeline Dunc...



  • Judith A. Lansdowne

    HE COULD MAKE A MAIDEN BLUSH OR A LADY LOSE HER HEART Miss Olivia Willburton-Smythe was beautiful, proper, and on the shelf. The Duke of Abbercombe was handsome, proper, and a confirmed bachelor. She was the soul of charity; he was rumored to have...



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    He's dark, dangerous, and oh so dashing. No hero is more appealing than a Regency rake, as he cuts a swath through the ton with his wicked, wicked ways. Now, six acclaimed authors of outstanding Regency fiction bring us a collection of stories featur...



  • Martha Kirkland

    Love by the Book Miss Emaline Harrison was as innocent and ignorant of the ways of the world as only a vicar's daughter could be. But now she found herself in a position that no vicar's daughter should ever have to face. She was the widow of a lic...



  • Elizabeth Lowell

    Returning to her Nevada ranch at the Civil War's end. Elyssa Sutton finds it picked bare by scavengers and coveted by determined men. Yet the proud young woman vows never again to abandon her Ruby Mountain home -- though it means enlisting the aid of...



  • Catherine Lanigan

    Even amid the spectacle and splendor of the carnival in Venice, the masked rogue was brazen, reckless, and dangerously risque. As he stole Valentine St. James away from the costume ball at which her betrothal to a complete stranger was to be announce...



  • Jacqueline Marten

    Gabrielle Foote is a woman who's ahead of her time. She's a writer and a poet, a women's rights activist--and a willing spy for her country. She's also beautiful, unconventional, and ripe for adventure. Major Darcy Rhoads is a British officer in a fo...



  • Stephanie Maynard

    Beautiful Catrienne Lyly vowed to avenge herself on the powerful magistrate who had destroyed her noble family. Even if it meant that she must match wits with Nicholas D'Avenant, Queen Elizabeth's most mysterious agent. And even if his bold swordplay...



  • Pamela Morsi

    The last thing widow Althea Winsloe wanted to do was remarry. Unfortunately, her meddlesome mountain neighbors had other plans. So, one autumn night they banded together and gave Althea a shocking ultimatum: She was to find herself a husband by Chris...



  • Elisabeth MacDonald

    Joining her father in the Northwest Territory, where she is to practice as a healer to Native Americans, Kate Manginnis falls in love with the untamed wilderness and with half-Blackfoot outcast warrior Jamie Campbell. Kate Maginnis has followed he...



  • Kasey Michaels

    Miss Bryna Cassidy's journey to the New World holds anything but promise. Orphaned during the ocean crossing, Bryna is forced to travel alone through unsettled lands to reach her uncle's homestead in New Eden, Pennsylvania. She arrives to discover he...



  • Marilyn Pappano

    ONE MAN WAS REAL. ONE WAS AN IMPOSTOR. ONLY A LOVER WOULD KNOW THE DIFFERENCE. Still single and nearly thirty, Teryl Weaver is a successful literary agent. Yet somehow, her life seems unexciting, empty, loveless. Then she joins her agency's top wri...



  • Adrienne Ellis Reeves

    Returning to her hometown in the wake of disappointed big-city ambitions, Glennette Percy is surprised by her passionate feelings for childhood friend James Ellington, whose fear of intimacy threatens to keep them apart. Original....



  • Pam Rock

    THE BEST IN THE BUSINESS When it came to antiquities trackers, there was none better than Phoenix Landau. Independent and courageous, Phoenix had earned herself quite a reputation which was why she was approached about recovering the missing piece...



  • Coral Smith Saxe

    MIRROR, MIRROR, TELL ME DO: WHO'S THE MAN WHO'LL LOVE ME TRUE? Sensible Julia Addison never believed in fairy tales or thought she'd stumble from the modern world into an enchanted wood. But suddenly she finds herself in a Highland forest, capture...



  • Marylyle Rogers

    A lovely lady fell asleep in a charmed ring of flowers and dreamed of Comlan, king of the fairy realm. She spent a few magical hours by his side, enjoying the company of the handsome king whose golden hair and green eyes could turn the head of any mo...



  • Jo-Ann Power

    THE CAT Catherine "Cat" Farrell stood alone at the altar on her wedding day. Her beloved Spence had disappeared, leaving her to face the scrutiny of the unsavory London tabloids and the artful snubs of the rigid Proper Set. Only now, a year after he...



  • Shelly Thacker

    PASSION RUNS DEEP An impossible situation drives Samantha Delafield to commit a desperate act and forces the orphaned beauty to flee her world of privilege. But her fate takes a shocking turn when she is arrested for petty thievery and shackled to a...



  • Elizabeth Turner

    INNOCENT TEMPTATION In the custody of her tyrannical grandfather who preaches against the evils of sin, spirited Kincaid dreams of escape. And it is her innocent independence which thrusts her into danger, and into the seductive arms of her rescue...



  • Rochelle Wayne

    FROM A ROUGH-AND-TUMBLE WYOMING RANCH ... Many years ago, her mother died at the hands of the savage Sioux. Now, mystery surrounding her sister's death draws Maralee Ryan to the Dakotas. There, she finds herself drawing closer to a man with vengeanc...




  • Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    "It's me, your cat." "I had to split. I witnessed a crime and someone is following me. Trust me. When I get this sorted out, I'll be home. I am still your cat, and I guess I miss you..." Joe Gray jumped down to the floor without hanging up the ...



  • Donna Ball

    Jessamine Cray, the charming co-host of a popular Philadelphia talk show, is used to getting strange fan mail. But when her mail begins to include frightening threats, followed by items from her past, Jessamine realizes that someone knows way too muc...



  • Don Pendleton

    BLOOD SPORT Brazil is locked in the murderous grip of death squads targeting and executing innocent citizens as "subversives." Terror permeates Rio as the law.officials look the other way and allow the carnage to escalate. Bolan's offensive beg...



  • Bill Blum

    Appointed by the court to represent an African-American gang leader who has been accused of killing an LAPD vice cop, John Phillip Solomon is forced to confront his longtime nemesis, who represents the prosecution. Reprint....



  • William W. Johnstone

    It’s up to patriot rebels to save Europe from post-apocalyptic Nazis in the USA Today"bestselling author’s dystopian military thriller.   As America continues its struggle to rise from the ashes of apocalypse, Europe is slowly dying. Canni...



  • John Gideon

    Lewis Kindred, a Vietnam veteran cursed by the loss of his legs but blessed with the unearthly immortality of a vampire, senses the presence of others like himself, but unlike the rest of his kin, Kindred refuses to surrender the last of his humanity...



  • Tanya Huff

    SHE WAS A TRAINED ASSASSIN, HE KILLED SO HE COULD LIVE FOREVER-- It started with the bards, the kigh elementals, and a madman who could Sing the Fifth Quarter, who could Sing the dead out of their graves. But it really began with a brother and sis...



  • Janny Wurts

    LAST DEFENDERS Ivainson uric, heir to the Firelord's legacy, is caught in a life and death struggle to win his inherited powers. Taen Dreamweaver battles her evil brother, corrupted by demons to slaughter his own kind. If either one of them falls,...



  • David Wingrove

    A UNIVERSE LONG UNDER THE DOMINION OF A GREAT EASTERN DYNASTY IS ROCKED FROM EARTH TO THE MOONS OF 'JUPITER AS AGELESS DESIRES AND AMBITIONS UNLEASH A DEMAND FOR...FREEDOM. In 2211, the Seven T'ang, the ruling dictatorship of the solar system, is ...



  • Thorarinn Gunnarsson

    Although fate has inextricably entwined their futures, both Thelvyn Fox-Eyes and the dragons know their destiny has yet to take its final twist. If the strange prophecy revealed to Thelvyn is to be fulfilled, the Dragonlord will effect profound ch...



  • George Turner

    Beloved Son told how the world was given atomic power and chose the atom bomb, was given the key to genetic miracles and chose biological warfare.The world was lucky the first time; enough of it remained for salvaging in a few decades. It was simply ...



  • Harry Turtledove

    Just when he thought he could settle down to enjoy peace in his time, Gerin the Fox is told by the god Biton's new Voice (rather to Biton's annoyance, Gerin had married and so disqualified Biton's previous Voice) that: "Danger overhangs the Northland...



  • Carl Sargent

    IS THE WORLD READY FOR THE TRUTH? Michael Sutherland is a hardened decker who's been around. But when a panicked Renraku Corp enlists his services, he quickly realizes this is no ordinary crisis--he's up against a mysterious blackmailer, who's eng...



  • Gentry Lee

    To Sister Beatrice, a priestess of the global Order of St. Michael, the cloud of tiny white particles is a message from God.  To Johann Eberhardt, a German systems engineer, it is an anomaly of physics.  But to the Rama society, it may; be the lo...



  • Christie Golden

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    ""Take the lute. Be safe, be careful, trust no one, and live, my child, live to write a glorious ballad about your adventure..."" With these words, a dying elf gives young bard Gillien Songespynner a magical lute and changes her life forever. For...



  • Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch

    Fifteen tales of swords, magic, and conflict include the works of such popular fantasy authors as Tanith Lee, Andre Norton, Melanie Rawn, William F. Wu, Rebecca Ore, Pamela Sargent, and Jennifer Roberson. Original....




  • Emily Devenport

    THE KEY TO THE UNIVERSE lies in finding the ruins of the long-vanished race known as the Earlies and deciphering the glyphs , they left behind--a code that holds the secrets of a technology far beyond anything humans have yet achieved. For An, born ...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    Fourteen chilling tales of future warfare--by Poul Anderson, Brian Hodge, Joe Haldeman, Billie Sue Mosiman, and other notable writers--capture a world in which conflicts are determined by battles between a monstrous new breed of techno-killer. Origin...



  • Jack McKinney

    SHIP OF DREAMS!
    The second Robotech War ended without victors. The Masters had been defeated, but the Army of the Southern Cross had suffered devastating losses, with Earth's cities reduced to rubble.
    Then a heavily armed warship arrived from T...



  • Stephen King

    A NOVEL IN SIX PARTS: THE MOUSE ON THE MILE Cold Mountain Penitentiary has been home to many troubled souls. E Block, where the electric chair waits for those who must pay the ultimate price, has been home to the most troubled of all. And here, not a...



  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Fifty years after a young man dies in Devil's Churn, a tourist attraction that is credited with being the most evil place in the sea, the man returns, alive and well, and looking no older than the day he disappeared. Original....



  • Wm. Mark Simmons

    UNFORTUNATELY, THEY BELIEVE IN HIM... Christopher Csejthe doesn't believe in vampires. Not until he becomes one. He doesn't believe in witches or werewolves, either. Not until they make him an offer he can't refuse.......



  • Beverly Barton

    BLACKWOOD TERRITORY J.T. was a Blackwood, all right. Six feet four inches of whipcord-lean man, a Stetson shading those amber eyes, a glare that burned hotter than the New Mexico sun. A bodyguard, the handsome half-breed was the one man who could ...



  • Trisha Alexander

    A Bachelor's Last Vow Wedding bells in the air - but best man Luke Taylor refused to believe the bells were tolling for him! For years he'd leashed his rebellious streak, playing dutiful dad to his six fatherless siblings. Now it was time to shed...



  • Carolyn Andrews

    A ghost was one thing; a curse was another... Mattie Farrell's restaurant had a ghost...one who played the harpsichord and opened the front door to a few select people. Her gorgeous landlord, Grant Whittaker, was one of them. And he was very much...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    MR. APRIL The Groom Had a Secret: Rugged rancher Jeremiah Davis joined the bachelor auction to find a willing wife.... The Bride Had a Fit: The last thing Bridget Martin remembered was buying a sexy stranger at a fundraising auction...so how di...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    SURPRISE PACKAGE... Carver Venner got a double shock when he opened his door that morning: a twelve-year-old kid that he never knew he had--clutching the hand of the sexiest woman he had ever seen. And though Carver would have loved to concentrate...



  • Judith Bowen

    Westbank Ranch, on the western side of Wyoming FRASER McKENNA is the owner of Westbank Ranch. Strong, too silent, a still-grieving widower. MARTHA THOMAS is a woman at loose ends. Driving through the western states, looking for adventure, M...



  • Carla Cassidy

    WHEN WOULD RUSS BLACKBURN FIND A WIFE? "Never. I'm going to scare off any woman who comes within fifty feet of my dad...and make sure nobody hurts us again!" --Daniel Blackburn, age 8 "I don't know much about kids, but 1 do know that little 'd...



  • Cathleen Clare

    SCANDAL! INTRIGUE! LOVE! Lady Christina is creating a scene. The beautiful, infatuated debutante is chasing London's favorite dandy, Aubrey, Lord Standish, from routs to ballrooms...and he's running as fast as he can. The tabbies of the to...



  • Kay David

    SHE WAS GOING TO LOSE HER BABY! Rachel St. James's dream of having a baby was finally in her grasp. But the adoption contract stipulated that little Elizabeth had to grow up in a two-parent home. And Rachel would do anything to keep the little...



  • Lauryn Chandler

    COULD THE COWBOY ON HER DOORSTEP... Rose Honeycutt wasn't wishing for a husband when she blew out her birthday candles, but when a handsome drifter showed up on her doorstep, she began hoping for happily-ever-after! With his rugged good looks,...



  • Judy Christenberry

    "Hey, mister! I got money--and I need a daddy! "I know Mommy says we're just two girls on our own and we don't need no boys. But...I kind of told Teacher that my daddy would talk at show-and-tell. Do you think $3.67 is enough to bu...



  • Jasmine Cresswell

    Weddings - Glamour -- Family - Heartbreak Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store...



  • Ruth Jean Dale

    THE CAMERONS OF COLORADO Cupid, Colorado. This is ranch country, cowboy country--a land of high mountains and swift, cold rivers, of deer, elk and bear. The first Cameron came to Colorado more than a hundred years ago, and Camerons have owned and ...



  • Sandra Dark

    Have we met before? Anthropologist Amber Sheridan had come to the centuries-old mansion to unearth a mysterious discovery--not to fall under the spell of the home's handsome owner. But she soon found blue-eyed millionaire James Shockley impossible...



  • Anne Eames

    MR. AND MRS. WHO? Brand-new bride Catherine Mason was ready to cut the wedding cake when she caught her husband with a bridesmaid in the "Just Married" car. So, she announced his "little indiscretion" to the three hundred guests, t...