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New Books List: 576 titles

  • Zero Hour

    Tony Abbott

    WHEN ROOP GOES missing on a routine mission, Ned, Ernie, and Suzi know they’ve got a big problem. Kurtz is back and meaner than ever. He’s evil. He’s nasty. And he’s 15. Deadly combination. But Ned is determined to save his friend. If only he...

  • Medicine Men

    Alice Adams

    “A painful and hilarious send-up of grandiose doctors and their barbaric medical miracles. . . . A postmodern Jane Austen romp.” " The Boston Globe   In a novel that brilliantly conjures up the resilience of the human spirit, Alice Adams d...

  • Hidden Agenda

    Rochelle Alers

    DANGER BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER.... Powerful, predatory, irresistibly male, Matt Sterling has been called a solider of fortune-and worse. But for Eve Blackwell, he's the perfect man for a dangerous job: to track down Alejandro Delgado, Eve's wealthy e...

  • Stop the Wedding!

    Trisha Alexander

    THE RIGHT BRIDE As her wedding day approached, Kristin Blair looked forward to it with feelings decidedly unbridelike. Her fiance was fine on paper, but his embraces left her cold--unlike another man who, years before, had ignited her passion and th...

  • How I Gave My Heart to the Restaurant Business

    Karen Hubert Allison

    A three-star cook presents a hilarious roman a+a6 chef about the cliquish, competitive world of the New York restaurant business, as seen by a young artist who decides to open her dream restaurant. A first novel....

  • One Heart

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    WHEN FAMILIES ARE DIVIDED... Widowed Brenna Nelson had to get to Peshtigo, Wisconsin before her mother died to help make a cherished dream come true. Her father's final Christmas present for the woman he adored was to build her a real frame ho...

  • Jennifer's Outlaw

    Karen Anders

    THE LADY AND THE LONER He was an outlaw. A rebel. A man she'd sworn to avoid. A drifter more comfortable roaming the range-alone-than taking a wife and building a family. But from the moment he became her protector, Jennifer Horn felt a connection...

  • Soul Mates

    Bridget Anderson

    With their marriage threatened by the hectic pace in their lives, Cheryl and Jamal Houston decide to take a Caribbean cruise to reignite the passion in their lives, but their new happiness is turned upside down by a stranger out to possess Cheryl, an...

  • Not Husband Material!

    Caroline Anderson

    Nurse Jill Craig was not easily impressed, especially when the flirtatious and very handsome surgical doctor Zach Samuels blew into her ward and proceeded to charm every single patient -- young and old! She was even more irritated with herself for be...

  • Simply Love

    Catherine Anderson

    SIMPLY WILD The wealthy owner of a Colorado mining empire, Luke Taggart has seen and done it all. Now, bored with saloons, gambling and loose women, he feels a restless yearning -- for what, he doesn't know. Until he meets a woman as fresh and p...

  • Diversity Alliance

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Look-Alike Bride

    Laura Anthony

    MISSING MOVIE STAR GETS AMNESIA? by I. Del Chatter, gossip columnist Hollywood honey Elizabeth Destiny is staying at ex-fiance and megamillionaire Kurt McNally's Texas ranch. Are wedding bells finally ringing for the starlet and the cowboy? O...

  • God's Fires

    Patricia Anthony

    In Portugal, where the Inquisition protects the true word of God, Father Manoel Pessoa has begun to hear strange confessions from the villagers of Quintas. Glowing lights in the sky. Angels who lie with village women. A virgin birth. Strangest of all...

  • Blessed Is the Fruit

    Robert Antoni

  • Volcano: the Coast Is Toast

    Jerome Armstrong

    Thirteen-year-old Kelly Roark is excited about spending vacation with her father, who is divorced from her mother. But when your dad is head of Emergency Management, the only think you can really count on is disaster. Watching your dad fight a molten...

  • Accidental Nanny

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Outback Cattle Station -- Father and Daughter in Need of Love How could Chessie prove to Raefe Stevenson that she wasn't spoiled? The handsome Outback cattle rancher needed a nanny for his small daughter, Jess, and suddenly Chessie saw her ch...

  • Yolanda's Yellow School

    Kelly Asbury

  • Earl of Rayne's Ward

    Anne Ashley

    "I WILL HAVE YOUR OBEDIENCE!" Though they had once been the best of friends, Rebecca Standish couldn't tolerate Drum Thornville's outrageous demands. How dare he return seven years after leaving her to join the army and expect her to bend to his w...

  • Magic

    Isaac Asimov

    Isaac Asimov and science fiction are one and the same to millions of readers. He was the field's transcendent genius, its reigning prophet, its genial patriarch, and its most prolific author. But Asimov also wrote fantasy, and invariably of an enduri...

  • The Dragon and the Unicorn

    A.A. Attanasio

    A QUEEN, A PILGRIM, AND A DEMON -- AND A KING WITH A WORLD TO SAVE Beneath every beloved legend there is a deeper legend still, etched in ancient stone. The Dragon and the Unicorn begins before the beginning of Time, as light first cools to matt...

  • Free Reign

    Rosemary Aubert

    On the day he graduated from law school, there was little doubt that Ellis Portal would have a brilliant future. He and five of his similarly gifted colleagues commemorated the splendor of their shared expectations with the presentation, to each, of ...

  • Triple Feature

    Louise Bagshawe

    Three women in the male-dominated, glamour town of Hollywood--supermodel-turned-actress Roxana, studio head Eleanor, and scriptwriter Megan--pool their resources to pull off the movie-making coup they have all been dreaming of...

  • The Sheriff's Son

    Stella Bagwell

    WHOSE BABIES WERE THEY? When single mother Justine Murdock found baby twins abandoned on her doorstep, she saw the Murdock chin and big green eyes in those sweet little faces. Oh, maybe she was just imagining the family resemblance. Or maybe she w...

  • The Black Flower

    Howard Bahr

    A Confederate soldier confronts the horror of battle and the power of grace in this “poignant, haunting, and important” novel of the Civil War (The Tennessean, Nashville).  A New York Times Notable Book and Winner of the William Boyd Award f...

  • Just Before Dawn

    Donna Ball

    In a quiet, resort community in Florida, a chilling scenario emerges--the parents of a missing teenage girl are receiving cryptic midnight phone calls from a young woman who sounds unmistakably like their daughter. Worse yet, they're finding they're ...

  • Lava

    Pamela Ball

    Five years after her husband abandons her for another woman, Kinua finds her life disrupted by Ivan's return and the new bonds of passion and leave-taking that he brings with him, in a story of one woman's obsessive love and how she frees herself fro...

  • Spider, Spider

    Kate Banks

    As a young boy watchers a spider crawl across the floor and tells his mother he will become a spider, he and his mother tease each other back and forth about what he will do once he becomes a spider, and what she will do to him....

  • Knights Divided

    Suzanne Barclay

    Though Emmeline Spencer captured Jamie Harcourt as her prisoner, the rogue adventurer stole kisses from her that were sweet beyond her wildest imagining. Yet how could Emma love the man suspected of the murder of her beloved sister? Heir to the So...

  • The Saint

    Burl Barer

    Hired by a corrupt Russian dictator to steal the formula for cold fusion from American nuclear physicist Emma Russell, international thief and master-in-disguise Simon Templar is challenged by his feelings for her. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror

    Clive Barker

    An illustrated volume compiled from the BBC television miniseries offers a personal tour of the real stories and people who inspired Barker's work, from serial killers and rebel artists to legendary monsters and Hollywood stars....

  • High Flyer!

    Patricia Barnes-Svarney

    Enjoying watching her friend Chris's father in his glider plane, Alex is excited to learn that Chris's father wants to start a flying school, and she is tempted to use her powers to stop a saboteur. Original....

  • Fancy's Baby

    Pamela Bauer

    Some lucky baby is about to be discovered by talent scout Kika Mancini, and hopeful parents in Tyler are all stirred up! The only baby she wants, though, belongs to Nick Miller. And he's not even tempted by what Kika is offering his daughter. W...

  • Out of Body

    Thomas Baum

    Recently paroled from prison for a rape he has no memory of committing, Denton Hake begins experiencing terrifying memory lapses, which he believes are caused by out of body experiences, and he becomes a prime suspect when his girlfriend is shot to d...

  • Sextet

    Sally Beauman

    Journalist Lindsay Drummond is about to re-make her life: she plans to move out of London, change her job, and above all cure herself of her hopeless love for her unfairly handsome colleague, Rowland McGuire. Deadline day is Hallowe'en - but an encou...

  • Surrender the Heart

    Nina Beaumont

    Christopher Blanchard was everything she'd ever needed... yet didn't want. Ariane de Valmont prized her independence above all else, and to secure it, she'd struck a seductive bargain with a tantalizing American. Now she feared that in this heart's g...

  • Matched Colts

    Don Bendell

    Aided by his friend, Nez Perce warrior Man Killer, Chris Colt, Chief of Scouts, sets out to to find Charley, his previously unknown sister, when she takes on the role of gunfighter to find and destroy her husband's killers. Original....

  • Jacob's Ladder: Wisdom for the Heart's Ascent

    Noah benShea

    his heartwarming and inspirational tale is the third in the bestselling Jacob the Baker series. Jacob, the world's most popular and beloved baker, takes in a young orphan named Jonah as a favor to an old friend. Through this sometimes difficult and a...

  • Joy School

    Elizabeth Berg

    In this exquisite new novel by bestselling writer Elizabeth Berg, a young woman falls in love -- and learns how sorrow can lead to an understanding of joy.Katie, the narrator, has relocated to Missouri with her distant, occasionally abusive father, a...

  • Spiderweb

    Susan Berman

  • The Sharp Teeth of Love

    Doris Betts

    After dumping her boyfriend in Reno on her way to California, Luna Stone hides out in the mountains near Donner Lake, where her solitude is invaded by the ghost of Tamsen Donner, a runaway boy fleeing a child-porn ring, and a young Lutheran minister...

  • Lucy and the Loner

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    MR. APRIL THE MASTER (FOR A MONTH): Boone Cagney. When irresistible Lucy Dolan cried pitifully about her trapped three-year-old, how was the hunk fire fighter to know she was talking about her...cat? Now he's spending his days -- and his nigh...

  • Fistful of Desire

    Nalinaksha Bhattacharya

  • Tainted Blood

    Andrew Billings

    Moving to the lumber town of Buckthorn after the death of his wife, Peter Cochran learns that the town and his family have been terrorized for years by an elusive murderer who is targeting young men. Original....

  • Compromising Positions

    Beverly Bird

    DEADLY DESIRES ... PASSIONATE ALLIANCES A prominent socialite had been murdered. And all the evidence pointed to District Attorney Jesse Hadley and Chief Medical Examiner Angela Byerly -- but they were both innocent. Now they had to work together ...

  • Texas Embrace

    Rosanne Bittner

    With her father murdered by renegade Apaches, Tessa Reeves feared she'd be their captive forever - that no one would ever find her. And even if she were found, she'd be scorned by those who called Indians savages...and their woman prisoners forever u...

  • Presumption of Guilt

    Terri Blackstock

    Just one person can save the children from a terrifying future. But to do so, she must master her past. Beth Wright, a newspaper reporter, is hot on the trail of a story that could expose something very ugly at the St. Clair Children’s Home. Someon...

  • Half Hidden

    Emma Blair

    Holly loses her fiance at Dunkirk and throws all her energy into nursing and hating the Germans who have taken away her beloved, and have invaded her home, Jersey. But she is forced to admit she respects and admires Dr Peter Schmidt and they begin a ...

  • This Side of Heaven

    Emma Blair

    When she was sixteen, Sheila Beattie knew exactly what her future would be. She would marry her sweetheart Eric, a fisherman like her father, and they would raise their family and dream their simple dreams in the village which they'd been born. Her l...

  • Tracks in the Snow

    Lucy Jane Bledsoe

    Erin and Tiffany are snowbound, with only one thought - survival!

    For fans of Gary Paulsen's Hatchet, a story of two girls who must rely on their wits to stay alive when they become trapped in the snow. When Erin goes looking for her babysitte...

  • The Secret of the Old Rifle

    Stephen A. Bly

    When the Lewis and Clark Squad discover a trunk full of old rifles--and one with a mysterious code written inside--they're off on their next adventure. What does the code mean? And who could have put it there? The Squad wants to know. Between basketb...

  • Treachery at the River Canyon

    Stephen A. Bly

    The Lewis and Clark Squad wasn't prepared for what teammate Cody Clark encountered in the canyon that day: an injured Chad Levine with his truck and money stolen. Could the unknown visitor who's come to town be to blame? Cody and his friends begi...

  • An Unspoken Promise

    Georgia Bockoven

    SHE MADE A VOW TO SAVE HER SISTER--NO MATTER WHAT. From the time her little sister first escaped her playpen, Diana Winchester has been Amy's only protector in a life filled with crises. But when Amy hits bottom at age twenty-four, Diana realizes ...

  • Closing Ranks

    Dirk Bogarde

    First published in 1997, this is Dirk Bogarde's sixth and final novel.

    The Grayles have lived at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are proud of the fact. Now they stand around the deathbed of their longest-serving nanny who is ...

  • The Remake: As Time Goes By

    Stephen Humphrey Bogart

    R. J. Brooks' parents left him little but a few memories and one of the best-loved movies of all time: As Time Goes By. It's unthinkable that anyone would ever attempt a remake. But in true Hollywood fashion, the unthinkable is now in the works....

  • Water Witches

    Chris Bohjalian

    One of the very first novels by the number one bestselling author of Midwives and The Flight Attendant: a prescient, environmentalist political drama in which a small-town lawyer finds himself torn between his career and his family, and between money...

  • The Little Ships: The Heroic Rescue at Dunkirk in World War II

    Louise Borden

    In May of 1940 -- the early days of World War II -- half a million British and French soldiers were trapped in France. Weak and wounded, they needed aid. Help came in the form of countless small craft, steered by brave young men, in the legendary arm...

  • The Garden Plot

    J.S. Borthwick

    Much to her dismay, Sarah has been roped into accompanying her abrasive Aunt Julia on a tour of Europe's most famous gardens. The trip, takes a bad turn when the tour's leader, garden expert Ellen Trevino, fails to meet the group for their departure....

  • American Owned Love

    Robert Boswell

    Moving to Persimmon, New Mexico, with her unconventional mother, a teenage Rita finds her life taking unexpected turns when she enters the local high school, acquires a boyfriend, and becomes involved in the revenge scheme of Rudy Salazar, a boy from...

  • Potshot

    Gerry Boyle

    "Boyle has a wonderful sense of place--in this case, Maine, where Jack McMorrow has fled to escape the workaholic drive that led him to become a top reporter for the New Yolk Times Now he works as a freelancer, which leads him into places most report...

  • Exile's Song

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    THE HERITAGE OF ALTON She was Margaret Alton, the daughter of Lew Alton, the Darkovan representative to the Terran Imperial Senate, but she remembered almost nothing about the planet of her birth, or her early and tumultuous childhood. What fleeti...

  • Gossip

    Christopher Bram

    Ralph breaks off an affair with Bill, a young Republican whose values clash with Ralph's own ideals and who is later found murdered, and as people begin to talk about the case, it becomes clear that Ralph is under suspicion. Reprint....

  • Wooden Guns

    Max Brand

    Working hard to establish himself as the fastest gun the Western mountains, Big Jim Conover is driven from his home only to return years later, a broken man facing a score of vengeful enemies. Reprint....

  • Chop, Simmer, Season: A Day at the Top Notch Restaurant

    Alexa Brandenberg

    Two chefs measure, mix, chop, simmer, and season their way through preparations for a sumptuous feast, baking bread, tossing salad, grilling fish, sauteing vegetables, and serving the tasty meal to their hungry guests....

  • Burn the Breeze

    Jack Brennan

    Returning from the Civil War to learn that not everyone thinks he is a hero, Abel Braddock wants to settle down to quiet ranch life but is soon fighting for his life against someone who also wants to destroy the Comanche nation. Original....

  • Sleeping Alone

    Barbara Bretton

    After years of lies, loneliness, and betrayal, she's finally left her wealthy husband in London -- and moved into her own house in the run-down resort town of Sea Gate, New Jersey, the place of her childhood dreams, and now, her grown-up hopes. ...

  • When Daddy Took Us Camping

    Julie Brillhart

    Captures the excitement of one family's first camping trip as a father exposes his two young children to everything from preparing their own place to sleep and hiking to studying nature and making shadow pictures on a tent....

  • Hot Fudge Hero

    Pat Brisson

  • Forbidden

    Suzanne Brockmann

    He was gorgeous as sin, but definitely off-limits.... He'd saved her from a drenching storm, had gently placed her in a steaming tub, and looked great in firelight, but was that reason enough for Kayla Grey to kiss a handsome cowboy with reckless ...

  • Rex and Lilly Playtime

    Marc Brown

  • Before They Rode Horses

    Bonnie Bryant

    Max's wife, Deborah, is about to have her baby, and the Saddle Club girls are keeping her company before she goes to the hospital. Stevie, Carole, and Lisa all recount -- in their own words -- what their lives were like before horses, and how they've...

  • May Goes to England

    Bonnie Bryant

    May and her family are spending two spring weeks in England.  Her big sisters, Dottie and Ellie, keep teasing May about the piskies--spirits who hide in the nooks and crannies of Cornwall and come out to make mischief.  The windy, wet region has ...

  • Lady Cecily's Scheme

    Gayle Buck

    The Undutiful Daughter Lady Cecily Lester had the best reason to be badly vexed with her daughter Vanessa. Though Vanessa was bright, beautiful, and charming, and excellent rider to boot, she refused to go to the London marriage mart to find a mat...

  • Cowards

    W.A. Burgess

    Dopers, dropouts, scenesters, and hipsters shark Seattle in search of the next big thing. Or they refuse to search and opt to slide down the dark ladder. No bottom there. No traps. No dead end. There heroin will tell you you're brilliant, you're...

  • Guilty Pleasures

    Stella Cameron

    Every woman has a past, but beloved television personality Polly Crow has one she must conceal at all costs. Every man has his breaking point, but ex-Navy SEAL Nasy Ferrito is about to discover how far he will go to protect what he believes in. ...

  • Wedding Pictures

    Jacqueline Carey

    Illustrated with plucky paintings, a wry novel about the obsessions of the thirty-something generation--relationships, faith, betrayal, and clothes--follows on one couple's halting trip to the altar. IP. ...

  • Porcupine Ranch

    Sally Carleen

    THE HUNGRIEST COWBOY IN TEXAS Clayton Sinclair ran the toughest ranch in Texas, and all he wanted at the end of a long day was a steak dinner and a tidy house. But his pretty new housekeeper couldn't boil an egg to save her life. Maybe the lad...

  • One Enchanted Night

    Debra Carroll

    ONE NIGHT WAS ALL THEY COULD EVER HAVE Lucy Weston didn't believe in romance or marriage ...until David appeared on her doorstep, half-dead from the winter storm outside. She kept him alive with the warmth of her own body, and reacted to him as sh...

  • Parker and the Gypsy

    Susan Carroll

    JUST LIKE A DAME... "!t was one of those days when life arrives on your doorstep, unannounced. A day full of weak coffee and bourbon-colored memories. A day, like every other. Until she walked in the door..." Private Investigator Mike P...

  • The Mice of Mousehole

    Michelle Cartlidge

  • The Genesis Code

    John Case

    A phone call in the dead of night brings Joe Lassiter shattering news. His sister and young nephew have died in a fire in their home near Washington, D.C. Yet Lassiter soon learns a chilling fact: His loved ones were brutally murdered before the blaz...

  • Bodies of Water

    Rosanne Cash

    With Bodies of Water, singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash delivers her first magnificent work of fiction--nine heartfelt tales of birth, passion, motherhood, transcendence, and the quiet transforming moments of a woman's life--sung in the rich and resonan...

  • Midnight Wishes

    Carla Cassidy

    Motive: To protect her son Everyone around Abby Connor believed she was guilty of killing her ex-husband. Now even she wasn't certain of her own innocence--or her sanity. She'd lost chunks of time, botched simple tasks, misplaced things .... Could...

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Carla Cassidy

    SOON YOU'LL BE MINE... A t first Ann Carson thought the notes were a prank. Then came more sinister threats... and the eerie awareness that someone was watching her. Ann dreaded the long, hot summer nights--until rugged policeman Clay Clinton beca...

  • Unabomber Handled With Care

    Marc Cerasini

  • The Project

    Zev Chafets

    It's ten years after the Gulf War and U.S. Speaker of the House Dewey Goldberg has been sworn in as President of the United States following the accidental deaths of his predecessors. But he soon discovers that Israeli Prime Minister Elihu Barzel may...

  • The Sultan's Daughter

    Ann Chamberlin

    Giorgio Veniero, once a Venetian sailor and now a eunuch, guards the life and honor of his beloved mistress, Esmikhan, the Sultan's daughter. When forbidden passion tempts her, Giorgio finds that he holds Esmikhan's happiness in his hands - and risk...

  • Escorting Alicia

    Victoria Chancellor

    CINDERELLA IN ST. LOUIS Alicia Myers is a bundle of nerves over the prospect of her fifteen-year high school reunion in St. Louis. Not even a makeover and a new dress can turn the shy, single financial manager into what she isn't: sexy, glamorous,...

  • The Ruby Tear

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    Nearly recovered from the auto accident that almost crippled her, beautiful actress Jessamyn Croft struggles to make a comeback, haunted by Nic, her former fiance+a7, who is doing everything he can to stop her, and by a mysterious foreigner who may b...

  • Wizard of Bones

    Robert N. Charrette

    THE LIGHT FROM TIME BEFORE The defeat of the drakkenree at Rastionne has given Yan Tanafres the solitude he needs. In a remote cavern far from the imperial city Sharhumrin, he broods over the Serpent's Eye, seeking to reawaken the mysterious orb a...

  • Touch of Texas

    Judy Christenberry

    THE TEMPERATURE'S RISING... Dr. Susan Kelly returned home eager to start a medical practice and enjoy a more relaxed, uncomplicated life. But she didn't realize how little had changed in the dusty west Texas town since she'd left so many years be...

  • Rebus Riot

    Bonnie Christensen

  • The Toady and Dr. Miracle

    Mary Blount Christian

    Luther brings crowds to Dr. Miracle's wagon for a demonstration of a magical potion that will cure Luther of swallowing a toad, in a tale in which a boy outwits a traveling medicine man. Simultaneous....

  • The Harlequin Tea Set

    Agatha Christie

    A priceless treasure for collectors and fans, The Harlequin Tea Set brings together nine brilliant Christie stories that have remained long out of print--until now. In "The Mystery of the Spanish Chest," featuring Hercule Poirot, the legendary detec...

  • Ancient Games

    Scott Ciencin

    Once Tom Keeper desired no more than to become a great painter. Now knowledge and power have set him on a different path--one that leads across a scourge-ravaged land into the darkest heart of the Realm of Shadows. For the natural orders have been di...

  • Lovers' Lies

    Daphne Clair

    The price of deceit... It has been twelve years since they met -- Felicia had been only a child -- no wonder Joshua Tagget doesn't recognize her. But Felicia remembers him and how he betrayed her stepsister. And now, by making his attraction t...

  • Chances of Love

    Cathleen Clare
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    Never is love so sweet as in Regency England! Whether it is a London season a-bloom with matchmaking mamas, stunning Incomparables and notorious rakes ready to be reformed by love...or a rustic romance for a charming country miss, romance is always i...

  • Thumbelina

    Emma Chichester Clark

    A retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale follows the story of the tiny Thumbelina, who is born of a magical grain of corn and who endures many challenging adventures in the outside world before finding other people her size....

  • Carnivore

    Leigh Clark

    In an Antarctic research outpost, a group of scientists made a discovery. For the first time, modern man would come face-to-face with the ruler of the prehistoric world, the king of the dinosaurs--the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Blinded by scientific zeal, th...

  • Nanny in the Nick of Time

    Donna Clayton

    DESPERATE DADDY: Widowed police officer Jason Devlin. Taking care of his baby girl was usually a piece of cake...till his housekeeper quit, leaving Jason desperate enough to hire the first qualified person who rang his doorbell. DAM!. t_ N DISTRE...

  • Edwina and Nehru

    Catherine Clement

  • The Broken Sword

    Molly Cochran; Warren Murphy

    Camelot in New York? Not long ago, Arthur was an ordinary boy. Now he knows that he is the legendary King Arthur, returned to lead not just Britain, but all mankind into a new era of justice, peace, and freedom. Accompanied by the wizard, Merlin; ...

  • Lights, Camera, Die!

    M.T. Coffin

    Running the Oddity Theater, the mysterious Mr. Faust plays horror films day and night, inviting youngsters to be special guests only to place them into the dangerous worlds of the on-screen monster movies. Original....

  • Three Yellow Dogs

    Caron Lee Cohen

  • Double-Blind

    Loren L. Coleman

    BATTLEMECH BLITZKRIEG Using fast and furious hit-and-run tactics, Marcus GioAvanti and his Avanti's Angels mercenaries have earned a tough reputation throughout the Inner Sphere. But the Inner Sphere isn't where their newest job is taking them--beca...

  • This Is the Place for Me

    Beverly Collins

  • The Almost-Perfect Proposal

    Toni Collins

    A LONG-LOST PROPOSAL My dear, I love you, and being apart from you has made me realize how much I really need you. I hope you'll be able to promise that I'll be coming home to you. Say you'll be my wife.... All my love always Amy ...

  • Batman and Robin

    Suzanne Colon

  • The Frog Princess of Pelham

    Ellen Conford

    One kiss from the most popular boy in school and Chandler turns into a frog! Once upon a time, there was a suburban "princess" named Chandler. She had everything money could buy -- except what she really wanted. An orphan since the age of nine, Ch...

  • The Boggart and the Monster

    Susan Cooper

    HE'S BACK -- AND HE'S UP TO HIS OLD TRICKS! It's been two years since Emily and Jessup Volnik visited ancient Castle Keep in Scotland, and made the acquaintance of the Boggart, a mischievous shape-shifting spirit who has lived in the castle for ce...

  • Papa!

    Phillipe Corentin

    Parents and children alike will recognize this familiar nightmare refrain. But who exactly is the monster? Readers will giggle as they learn that monsters come in all shapes and sizes and, that possibly, what we are afraid of in the dark, is just as ...

  • The Wild Baron

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Rohan Carrington, Baron Mountvale, proud scion of a family renowned for its philandering and charm, is bewildered. He has received a letter stating that his late, younger brother, George, ruined a young lady. But how could this be pos...

  • The Players

    Stephanie Cowell

    In 1564 a boy was born to a middle-class family in the little town of Stratford.Thirty-four years later he would write Hamlet.  In between was his both troubled and carefree childhood, his disastrous forced marriage and his early ...

  • Lovesong for the Giant Contessa

    Steven Tye Culbert

    A man looks back on one summer in his boyhood in a sleepy, dusty, hot town on the Gulf of Mexico, a summer spent working at a restaurant and roaming the highways with his friend, the son of junk dealers...

  • Postman Pat Makes a Splash

    John Cunliffe

    Postman Pat and Jess are going to Greendale Farm to meet the new baby, Paul. Suddenly a pig escapes from the farm and Pat is left to change Paul's nappy. He soon finds that it's not as easy as wrapping a parcel....

  • Postman Pat and Spring Cleaning Day

    John Cunliffe

  • Postman Pat and the Pet Show

    John Cunliffe

  • Postman Pat and the Bees

    John Cunliffe

  • The Harvest

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    NEW SCHOOL. SAME ASSIGNMENT. Something's wrong in Sunnydale, California...something more than the usual bad hair day. As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. One girl in all the world to find them where they gather and st...

  • Illusions

    Janet Dailey

    Delaney Wescott, a beautiful security expert, is urgently summoned to New York after Lucas Wayne, a rock star turned movie star, is attacked and almost killed in his hotel room. His assailant is Rina Cole, a sultry sex-siren actress - and an old flam...

  • Dead Man's Hand

    Catherine Dain

    When Freddie kills a teenage mugger, she tries to soothe her guilt by helping out his family. Instead she finds herself involved in a murder - and wondering if it's true that no good deed goes unpunished....

  • Bijapur

    Kara Dalkey

  • First Impression

    Margot Dalton

    The case: A parent's nightmare. The moment his mother turns her back, three-year-old Michael Panesivic vanishes. The cop: She grew up on the streets of L.A., so Detective Jackie Kaminsky understands the troubled kids and broken families she deals ...

  • Amber Brown Sees Red

    Paula Danziger

    With her mom and Max engaged, Amber has lots to think about. Her life is about to change in a big way. Then her dad says that he is coming back to the United States and he wants Amber to live with him. What will Amber do? Now her parents fight every ...

  • Mirror

    Christina Darling

    A seven-year-old girl becomes the temporary owner of a looking glass that serves as a gateway to adventure, allowing her to see tigers, mermaids, and circus horses and taking her on magic carpet rides and more. Jr Lib Guild....

  • Wrath of the Prophets

    Peter David

    When a fatal disease spreads over Bajor, threatening the entire planet with extinction, Captain Sisko must accept aid from an unexpected source: Ro Laren, Starfleet officer turned Maquis renegade. Major Kira and Ro reluctantly join forces to track th...

  • Onslaught - Eye of the Storm

    Peter David

  • McAllister's Baby

    Trisha David

    A rancher with a baby... Kern McAllister had admitted paternity of Toby, but he'd never expected to be alone with the baby on an Australian cattle station about to be isolated by floodwaters! He needed a nanny--fast. When Lucy Sefton turned up, ju...

  • The Wrangler's Bride

    Justine Davis

    Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE COWBOY He'd always been an outsider. And Grant McClure liked it that way. Stepson to the Fortunes, he'd made his own destiny...

  • Dr. Holt and the Texan

    Suzannah Davis

    THE GOOD DOCTOR Physician Mercy Holt always kept her cool in the E.R. Then rodeo rider Travis King showed up - half-naked and needing a strong dose of T.L.C. Suddenly, Mercy was seventeen again - longing for the one footloose cowboy she couldn't h...

  • The Refining Fire

    Wally E. Davis

    As Sheriff Matt Page's skills as a lawman grow, he wonders if he can keep the peace and still remain true to his spiritual commitments, and if it is possible to build a life for himself and his family and still be sheriff...

  • Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights

    N.J. Dawood

  • Reading in the Dark

    Seamus Deane

    Set in postwar Northern Ireland, where the unquiet ghosts of the Troubles walk alongside the warriors and changelings of Celtic legend, Seamus Deane's first novel is the transfixing story of a boy trying to uncover the secrets of the adult world. And...

  • Freya on the Wall

    Terry Degens

    This profoundly moving and imaginative novel takes readers on an intricate journey ending in the fall of the Berlin Wall. “The book’s non-linear format, heavy use of symbolism and dissection of complex philosophical concepts demands a certain sop...

  • Lover Unknown

    Shawna Delacorte

    He came to her in the night... Lauren Jamison sensed danger and secrets when Kyle Delaney entered her waterfront store. Not for a moment did she believe the dark stranger was an ordinary man. Instinctively she knew he lived on the edge, belonged t...

  • Plum Island

    Nelson DeMille

    Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen -- and at least one killer. Tom and Judy Gordon, a young, attractive couple Corey knows, have been found o...

  • Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction

    Ian Dennis

    Nationalism and Desire in Early Historical Fiction analyses a sequence of early-nineteenth-century British and American texts from a perspective informed by Rene Girard's theory of triangular of 'mimetic' desire. Jane Porter's The Scottish Chiefs, Sy...

  • The Wedding Escapade

    Kate Denton

    It should have been the wedding of the year... But if Amy thinks arranging millionaire Max Evans's wedding will put her wedding consultancy on the map, she's wrong.... The bride doesn't show up, the guests run riot and the groom falls ...

  • Million-Dollar Mommy

    Jacqueline Diamond

    The Prince and the Promise Kim Morris had more to contend with than a bump on the head when she woke up with amnesia ...and a new husband. Jack LeGrand was every woman's fantasy. Handsome, charming -- oh, and titled -- he was, in fact, Prince ...

  • The Lion Tamer's Daughter and Other Stories

    Peter Dickinson

    Four powerful stories of adventure and imagination -- in this world and beyond When Keith’s father dies, his mom sells their house and takes Keith with her to live in Scotland. He misses his dad and his home, but most of all he misses Melly, a girl...

  • River Rats

    Franklin W. Dixon

    While rafting on the Big Bison River, the Hardys are shocked when their friend Owen is nearly killed by a sniper, and Joe's relationship with Owen's attractive daughter is interrupted by a firebomb. Original....

  • The Lady Who Liked Clean Restrooms

    J.P. Donleavy

    Jocelyn Guenevere Marchantiere Jones, sometime resident of Scarsdale, educated at Bryn Mawr, has been brought up always to behave like a lady. But what with chiselling divorce lawyers, fraudulent financial advisors and importunate and oversezed suito...

  • Cat in a Flamingo Fedora

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    That rough-and-tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame-haired human companion, temple barr, think shooting a cat food commercial will allow them to play hooky from mayhem. But life is never easy for the vivacious pair, and Temple and Loui...

  • Moby Dick

    Allan Drummond

    Staying as true as possible to the language of Herman Melville's original saga, a picture-book adaptation of the immortal story of Captain Ahab's quest for revenge against the white whale features action-packed, detailed full-color illustrations....

  • Intellivore

    Diane Duane

    The Great Rift lies between the Sagitarius and Orion arms of the galaxy. Stars are scarce there, beyond the authority of the Federation, and legends abound of lost civilizations and of ancient monsters that prey on those who dare to venture into the ...

  • Blast off if You Dare!

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Mercury Beach

    Tessa Duder

  • Ellen Elizabeth Hawkins, Texas, 1886

    Kathleen Duey

    Mobeetie, Texas August 14, 1886 No rain yet. Almost no wind. How much longer can we last? Ellen wants to be a cattle rancher -- even if her father and grandfather don't think it's a proper life for a girl. Now the windmill is broken, and the d...

  • Gallows Hill

    Lois Duncan

    The crystal paperweight should have been clear, but it was not.

    Handsome, popular Eric Garrett decides that Sarah Zoltanne is just the right person to play a fortune-teller at the high-school fair.  Sarah is surprised and pleased.  After a...

  • Cop Out

    Susan Dunlap

    TIT FOR TAT In Berkeley, people don't just disagree, they make careers out of it. And in a city where anything goes, where burned-out sixties hippies haunt the shadows along Telegraph Avenue, no one can outrun the past. Now police detective Jill S...

  • The Aunt of the Ancient Mariner

    Carola Dunn
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    Never is love so sweet as in Regency England! Whether it is a London season a-bloom with matchmaking mamas, stunning Incomparables and notorious rakes ready to be reformed by love...or a rustic romance for a charming country miss, romance is always i...

  • Cody's Girl

    Lois Faye Dyer

    GIVING LOVE A CHANCE Feisty and self-sufficient, Rebecca Colter is still the most eligible woman in town. But since inheriting her uncle's ranch, she has only two dreams: becoming the best horse trainer in all of Idaho; and having a child. ...

  • The Lighthouse

    Linda Eberhardt

    There is a place that lives within every heart ...a special place where only love can bloom. And from the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find their home--and where true...

  • Savage Heart

    Cassie Edwards

    Christa and her brother David left Boston with hope of making a fortune in the timber country near Seattle, Washington. But cholera had taken their parent on the journey west, and now an isolated cabin near Puget Sound was all they possessed. Until...

  • If I Should Die

    Grace F. Edwards

    AN EX-COP'S HABITS DIE HARD.... Savvy, streetwise former cop Mali Anderson left the NYPD with a lawsuit and a lot of bitterness. Now she's on her way to a master's in sociology, living with her jazz musician father and mothering her orphaned nephe...

  • How Soon the Serpent

    Roger Elwood

    Without the Dawn, a novel in six parts, explores what would happen if the Black Death--bubonic plague--erupted again today, but this time not by accident. Facilitated by the virtually untraceable World Wide Web, a sinister plot threatening the surviv...

  • Daddy Material

    Marcia Evanick

    He'd awakened with a stranger in his arms--and a brand-new dream... Desperate to find the mystery woman with whom he'd shared the most passionate night of his life, Adam Young had searched for weeks, even hired a private detective! Now he stood in...

  • Longarm and the Indian War

    Tabor Evans

  • Folly's Reward

    Jean R. Ewing

    WAYLAID BY LOVE... Miss Prudence Drake sought to keep her young charge, six-year-old Lord Dunraven, from the clutches of his cruel guardian by fleeing with him to a Scottish seaside cottage. She has no time for a shipwrecked gentleman. But as he...

  • Big Talk

    Sylvia Fair

  • No Flying in the Hall

    Erica Farber

    Thistle Howl attends witch's school and unwitchingly turns Miss Prickly and Miss Prune into toads while trying to make Magic Potion Number Nine. Can Thistle save them? The fledgling socceress has her hands full trying to reverse the spell, especially...

  • To Love a Dark Stranger

    Colleen Faulkner

    In a moment of shattering violence, Meg Randall's life changes forever. Desperate to save her newborn son from her husband's murderous wrath, she kills this cruel, deformed tyrant she was forced to wed against her will. Now, with blood on her...

  • Dead in the Mud

    Connie Feddersen

    SHE'S GOT LAS VEGAS LEGS, BUT SHE'S HAD IT WITH LIFE IN THE FAST LANE. SHE'S AMANDA HAZARD--SAVVY CPA AND AMATEUR SLEUTH--AND SHE'S ABOUT TO STIR UP A TORNADO OF TROUBLE IN THE OKLAHOMA BOONDOCKS! A DIRTY WAY TO DIE Amanda is fit to be tied. To...

  • Rage of a Demon King

    Raymond E. Feist

    A loyal soldier and a wealthy merchant have served bravely in the flames of an enduring war that is ravaging their land. But swords, bows, wits and courage will no longer be enough to defeat the scourge that is descending upon their home. For a foul ...

  • Your Baby or Mine?

    Marie Ferrarella

    BOSS + BABIES = LOVE Her handsome boss was finally about to kiss her--until a baby began wailing at the top of its tiny lungs! And since single mom Marissa Rogers was the hired help, she had to leave those elusive lips to give his baby--or maybe h...

  • Scenes From Sistah

    Lolita Files

    Recounts the adventures and loves of two independent-minded, free-spirited African American women--Misty Fine and Reesy Snowden--who have been friends since childhood, as they make their way across the country...

  • The Masters of the Spirit

    Anne Kinsman Fisher

  • On Passover

    Cathy Goldberg Fishman

    Watching and taking part in the many traditions of Passover, including bringing out the Seder plate, preparing the meal, and participating in the Seder, a young girl asks many questions and discovers her personal feelings about the holiday....

  • The Best Man

    Mara Fitzcharles

    FIRST COMES LOVE... Attorney Cara Hilliard has good friends, a beautiful home, and a successful career. Yet there's something missing that would make her life complete: a baby. But the wary divorcee isn't looking to get married again --...

  • The Blue Flower

    Penelope Fitzgerald

    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize"winning novelist Fitzgerald's crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love for the simple Sophie.The Blue Flower is set in t...

  • The Highland Fling Murders

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    A SLAYING IN SCOTLAND Jessica Fletcher and a group of her friends from Cabot Cove, Maine, take off for the British Isles and end up at a castle in Scotland. It would be a great vacation -- except for the ghost. And the murders. Scotland's mos...

  • The Forest of Time and Other Stories

    Michael Flynn

    A collection of short fiction includes the stories "The Forest of Time," "Great, Sweet Mother," and the novella "Melodies of the Heart," which centers on the relationship between a two-hundred-year-old woman and a nine-year-old girl who is dying...

  • What Color Was the Sky Today?

    Miela Ford

  • Character Witness

    R.A. Forster

    Kathleen Cotter worked her way through law school, and all it got her was a shared cubicle in a strip-mall firm. Then her uncle, the legendary criminal attorney Gerry O'DouI, invites her to join his practice in Beverly Hills. But O'Doul's firm tur...

  • Outrageous

    Lori Foster

    He was totally outrageous! One minute, the sexy-as-sin cop was rescuing Emily Cooper from drunken hoodlums. Five minutes later he was tearing his clothes off in front of a group of voracious women. What kind of man was he -- and why couldn't Em...

  • Confessions

    Matthew Fox

  • Lone Wolf

    Kristine L. Franklin

    Perry Dubois and his dad live in the north woods. They don't see many people up there and Perry's dad likes it that way. With no one to talk to, Perry spends most of his time hiking in the woods. One day he hears the howl of a wolf and decides to fin...

  • Bogus Bride

    Emily French

    HE MARRIED THE WRONG SISTER . . . Ten years after he left England, Sam Jardine wrote home for a bride, but instead of the angelic beauty he remembered, the fiery Caitlin Parr had arrived on America's shores. A decade of silent infatuation had f...

  • Bad Vibes

    Alberto Fuguet

    A privileged teenager in Santiago, Chile, Matias seems oblivious to the benefits of being a member of the wealthy class, but underneath Matias's apathy lies an emotional turmoil that comes out as he grows up and becomes father to a child....

  • Sandman: Book of Dreams

    Neil Gaiman

    There is a dark king who rules our dreams from a place of shadows and fantastic things. He is Morpheus, the lord of dreams. Older than humankind itself he inhabits--along with Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair, and Delirium, his Endless si...

  • Room 13

    Henry Garfield

  • Arabella to the Rescue

    Mona Gedney
    in

    Never is love so sweet as in Regency England! Whether it is a London season a-bloom with matchmaking mamas, stunning Incomparables and notorious rakes ready to be reformed by love...or a rustic romance for a charming country miss, romance is always i...

  • The Etcher's Studio

    Arthur Geisert

    A young boy helps his grandfather, an etcher, prepare for a year-end studio print sale. The boy's most important task is to color each etching by hand. His work is tedious, and his mind begins to wander into the world of art as he imagines himself wi...

  • Animals at Play

    Tony Geiss

  • Baby Dinosaurs

    Tony Geiss

  • Ten Fat Hens

    Tony Geiss

  • The Jerusalem Man // Wolf in Shadow

    David Gemmell

    TRAIL OF BLOOD Jon Shannow, The Jerusalem Man, lived in a world that had toppled on its axis. Civilization had been re-placed by ruthlessness and savagery. Relentless in his quest for peace, Shannow followed a path that led only to bloodshed and s...

  • The Memoirs of Cleopatra

    Margaret George

    Bestselling novelist Margaret George brings to life the glittering kingdom of Cleopatra, Queen of the Nile, in this lush, sweeping, and richly detailed saga, the basis for the Cleopatra TV mini-series.Told in Cleopatra's own voice, The Memoirs of Cle...

  • Floating Home

    David Getz

    When eight-year-old Maxine becomes the world's youngest astronaut, she has no idea how much preparation it will take. For an astronaut, even getting dressed is no simple task. There's thermal underwear to keep her body warm and a cooling suit in case...

  • A Cry for Self-Help

    Jaqueline Girdner

    Kate Jasper and her fiance Wayne Caruso are witnessing an underwater wedding -- not as guests, but as students. They're taking a class called "Create Your Own Wedding Ritual"... but the lighthearted outing turns dark when self-help guru Sam Skyler ta...

  • Premlata and the Festival of Lights

    Rumer Godden

  • Heroes & Villains

    Ann Goetz

  • Disney's Mix and Match Villain's Book

    Eric Goldberg

  • Getting Lincoln's Goat: An Elliott Armbruster Mystery

    E.M. Goldman

    Elliot Armbruster is an average tenth grader with a dream--he wants to be a detective like his TV hero Dangerous Dan McGrew. Opportunity knocks when Lincoln High's mascot, a goat, disappears at a pep rally. Elliot decides to investigate. But finding ...

  • X Files Book of the Unexplained Volume II

    Jane Goldman

  • No Brakes

    Lois Gould

    A vintage car rally in Northern Ireland--a three-day race over rough country roads through hostile territory where armed patrols shoot to kill. An American woman of a certain age, clever and independent, is along for the ride, co-driver and navigator...

  • Best Worst Day

    Bonnie B. Graves

  • Elf Fantastic

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of original tales by such authors as Jane Yolen, Mickey Zucker Reichert, John DeChancie, Dennis McKiernan, Andre Norton, and Jennifer Roberson features the elfish exploits of wood sprites both valiant and mischievous. Original....

  • My Son, the Time Traveler

    Dan Greenburg

    After months of hoarding his allowance, Zack is on his way to buy a prized baseball card. But when he gets to the store, the owner tells him that someone else has just bought it. Who, you may ask, has beaten Zack out of the card? A boy named Mack, wh...

  • Past Tense

    Stephen Greenleaf

    When his friend, police lieutenant Charlie Sleet, breaks into sudden acts of violence, San Francisco PI John Marshall must unearth the repressed memories at the heart Charlie’s corruption and vigilantism to put an end to the killing....

  • Highland Wolf

    Lois Greiman

    A LADY'S SECRET Tara O'Flynn is hardly a woman that a man like diplomat Roman Forbes could become seriously involved with -- especially since he is on a mission to deliver a priceless necklace. Yet Roman cannot deny that he finds the lovely taver...