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New Books List: 576 titles

  • Batman and Robin

    Suzanne Colon

  • Heroes & Villains

    Ann Goetz

  • Dolphins at Daybreak

    Mary Pope Osborne

    IT'S SINK OR SWIM... for Jack and Annie when the Magic Tree House whisks them off to the middle of the ocean. Luckily, they find a mini-submarine on a coral reef. Unluckily, they are about to meet a giant octopus and one very hungry shark. Will the ...

  • 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...

  • Ali Child of the Desert

    Jonathan London

  • Under a Different Sky

    Deborah Savage

    Two teenagers of widely different backgrounds--Ben, born and raised in rural Pennsylvania, who spends much of his time working and riding his horse, Galaxy, and Laura, a troubled student at an exclusive boarding school--find each other and new meanin...

  • Animal Dads

    Steve Jenkins

    Explores the various roles of fathers in the animal kingdom, from the emperor penguin that watches over the eggs, to a wolf that leads his pack on hunting trips, to the male seahorse that incubates his eggs inside a special belly pouch....

  • Angela Weaves a Dream: The Story of a Young Maya Artist

    Michele Sola

    Vibrant photographs complement a portrait of ten-year-old Angela, who is learning the tradition of art weaving from others in her village while also become aware of the myths behind the symbols that are used, in a study accompanied by a glossary and ...

  • Unearned Pleasures and Other Stories

    Ursula Hegi

    In this stunning collection of stories, bestselling author Ursula Hegi focuses on the problems of love -- familial, parental, conjugal, and emergent. With compassion and her "unfailing immediacy of language," she raises the struggles of her character...

  • Ghost Canoe

    Will Hobbs

    A DANGEROUS MYSTERY AND A BOY DETERMINED TO SOLVE IT... After a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed Cape Flattery, Nathan McAllister, the fourteen-year-old son of the lighthouse keeper, refuses to believe the authoritie...

  • Heather

    Kathleen Leverich

    Lucky Heather! Her brother is marrying Regina Von Welt, the richest girl in town, and Heather will be the flower girl at the fanciest wedding of the year. There'll be a reception at the Von Welt castle, complete with champagne, caviar, and a duchess ...

  • Rose

    Kathleen Leverich

    Poor Rose has given up on being a flower girl. Then, finally, she gets her chance -- at her mother’s wedding! Rose’s friends think this is great news; but Rose is not so sure. Rose has been taking care of her mom for years. She doesn't want -- or...

  • Three Yellow Dogs

    Caron Lee Cohen

  • Division

    Graham Ison

  • Stories of Tobias Wolff

    Tobias Wolff

  • Animals at Play

    Tony Geiss

  • Baby Dinosaurs

    Tony Geiss

  • Ten Fat Hens

    Tony Geiss

  • A Woman's Heart

    Rosalyn West

    FROM THE STORMY SHORES OF SALEM... Suddenly stripped of her family fortune, Eliza Parrish is heartlessly rejected by the Montgomerys, her fiance's family, who then turn her into an indentured servant. Now she must accompany their spoiled daughter ...

  • Perfect Partners

    Joyce Marlow

    Joyce's first two books, A Basket of Lilies and Maggie's Man, both placed in the finals of the Romance Writers of America national writing contest and are available from AVALON. Perfect Partners is Joyce's third AVALON career romance....

  • 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...

  • 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

  • Zoo Dreams

    Cor Hazelaar

  • The Finer Things

    Brenda Joyce

    THE PRETENDER An orphan from London's East End, a fugitive from the poorhouse, Violet Cooper was tired of sleeping on stoops and being hungry and cold. But she dared to enter a world forbidden to her and her kind. Even marriage to a gentle, el...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Blue Flower

    Penelope Fitzgerald

    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prizeâ€"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 Deception

    Barry Reed

    A SUICIDAL PATIENT JUMPS FROM A BALCONY--AND ATTORNEY DAN SHERIDAN IS MAKING SURE SOMEONE TAKES THE FALL... A promising young tennis player with an overly demanding father, Donna DiTullio is hospitalized with suicidal manic-depression. Within week...

  • Mangaboom

    Charlotte Pomerantz

    Daniel is walking in the woods one day when he comes upon the biggest mango tree he's ever seen. But even more amazing is it occupant, a lady giant named Mangaboom. She's nineteen feet tall. She speaks Spanish and English. She like to skinny-dip a...

  • Surprise! Surprise! It's Grandfather's Birthday!

    Barbara Ann Porte

  • Watch William Walk

    Ann Jonas

  • Once Upon a Time This Morning

    Anne Rockwell

  • Belching Hill

    Morse Hamilton

  • Hot Fudge Hero

    Pat Brisson

  • 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...

  • This Little Piggy

    Nicholas Heller

    Everyone knows the rhyme of the five little piggies and what each one did, but do you know the story behind the story? Well then, sit back and listen to Donald's grandmothe's comical spin on a favorite nursery rhyme. It's guaranteed to tickle your...

  • The Harlot by the Side of the Road

    Jonathan Kirsch

    Sex. Violence. Scandal. These are words we rarely associate with the sacred text of the Bible. Yet in this brilliant new book, Jonathan Kirsch shows that the Old Testament is filled with some of the most startling and explicit stories in all of Weste...

  • What Color Was the Sky Today?

    Miela Ford

  • The Old Woman and Her Pig: An Old English Tale

    Rosanne Litzinger

  • Tangle Town

    Kurt Cyrus

    "One morning the mayor of Tangle Town gets himself stuck in his own office, while mayhem ensues outside. It's Roxy Toppler to the rescue! Much fun."-The New York Times Book Review"Good slaphappy wordplay."-Kirkus Reviews...

  • Young Wolf and Spirit Horse

    Janice Shefelman

    The action continues in the third book of the popular Young Wolf series! In this exciting tale of friendship and adventure, Young Wolf's beloved mare, Red Wind, is stolen by a magical wild stallion. Braving all sorts of danger, Young Wolf goes in sea...

  • 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...

  • Bug Boy

    Carol Sonenklar

    Charlie's love of bugs takes him a bit too far when he comes across "The Amazing Bug-A-View" gadget, which he uses to see life through the eyes of a bug and, in doing so, finds that he is transforming into a spider himself....

  • Suffer the Little Children

    Al Lacy

    Continuing with the adventures of Old West heroine Breanna Baylor, book five of the Angel of Mercy series finds Breanna once again facing danger and reaching out to those in need of love . . . and Christ. After accidentally learning of a planned assa...

  • 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...

  • Marvin and the Mean Words

    Suzy Kline

    Marvin Higgins, the Don Rickles of his second grade class, gets a taste of his own medicine, in the first illustrated novel in a new series by the author of the Mary Marony and Horrible Harry books. Reprint....

  • Place in the Sun

    Jill Rubalcaba

    When Senmut, a young stone sculptor, is exiled for life to the gold mines of Nubia, he must count on all his skills in order to survive. A novel of bristling intrigue, set against the dramatic historical backdrop of 13th century b.c. Egypt....

  • Starring Mirette & Bellini

    Emily Arnold McCully

    Mirette and the Great Bellini sweep all of Europe with their act on the high wire, but when Bellini is arrested after a performance in St. Petersburg, Mirette is challenged to master the Death Walk to save him from prison, in the sequel to the Caldec...

  • Season of Comebacks

    Kathy MacKel

    Molly is envious of her sister, Allie, the best softball pitcher in the state, but when Molly gets drafted to Allie's team, the Blazers, the pressure to perform becomes intense as she and Allie are now equally responsible for bringing home the champi...

  • Bad Baby Brother

    Martha Weston

  • We Sing the City

    Mary Beth Lundgren

  • Still More Scary Mysteries for Sleep-Overs

    Allen B. Ury

    Provides young thrillseekers with a collection of ten spine-tingling mysteries, including the story of the girl most likely to destroy the world and a tale in which one takes a flight to infinity. Original....

  • Even More Scary Mysteries for Sleep-Overs

    Allen B. Ury

  • Blue Haven

    Elaine Kagan

    A new, irresistible, emotionally compelling novel by the author of The Girls.        Three women — Mollie; her daughter, Gilliana; and Gilliana's daughter, Clare — take us into their lives. In the pas...

  • 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...

  • The Trouble With Trent!

    Jessica Steele

    Separate bedrooms? When Trent de Havilland waltzed into Alethea's life, it was a relief to have some adult male company for a change. Her mother, sister and three young nieces were driving her mad and she was desperate to leave home. Then Tren...

  • 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...

  • Black Light

    Stephen Hunter

    On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child. His tears are for the father taken from him four decades before in a deadly shoot-out. And his grief will lead him back to the place whe...

  • Spirit Seeker

    Joan Lowery Nixon

    For fans of Gillian Flynn, Caroline Cooney, and R.L. Stine comes Spirit Seeker from four-time Edgar Allen Poe Young Adult Mystery Award winner Joan Lowery Nixon.          Holly Campbell’s life has suddenly become a newspape...

  • 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...

  • Tie Your Shoes!

    Sue Hendra

    As a brightly-colored green shoelace wends its way through this innovative, interactive board book, a curious cat and mouse try to guess its identity: Is it a tightrope? Minty toothpaste? Green spaghetti?  To each silly guess, a playful monster res...

  • Tower to the Sun

    Colin Thompson

    One hundred years in the future, when the earth is so polluted that the sun can't be seen, the richest man in the world wants his grandson to experience the blue sky and orange sun he remembers from his childhood. So he spends 20 years and all of his...

  • My Friend's a Werewolf

    Pete Johnson

    When Simon moves in next door, he and Kelly become instant friends. But Kelly just can't help noticing that there's something very odd about her new friend. For one thing, he wears black gloves all the time - even to school. And could that be hair be...

  • Toad Takes Off

    Susan Schade

    "Roar down the runway, faster and faster, straight for the fence and TOTAL DISASTER." Come along to Eagle Airport with Toad, that bug-eyed, wide-mouthed jokester, his friends, Pig and Cow, and read all about why and how Toad learned to fly an airplan...

  • Annie Bananie, Best Friends to the End

    Leah Komaiko

    Annie Bananie is the new girl at Nichols school and every girl wants to be her friend. On the first day of school, the teacher announces that for Lucky Lunch Day the kids will visit someone else's house for lunch instead of eating at school. Libby re...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Above The Rim

    Hank Herman

    Derek Roberts usually keeps to himself. He lets his lightning-quick moves on the basketball court



    do the talking. But then his teammate on the Branford Bulls, David Danzig, is grounded--ruining a trip to the NCAA championship for ever...

  • Shoe Chew

    Pat Pollari

    Luckily, after the impeccably mannered Darci is warned by a fortune-teller that if she does not commit some act of bodily grossness in three days, she will die, she meets Nadine, queen of the vulgar. Original....

  • Fangs!

    Allen B. Ury

  • 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...

  • ABC Yummy

    Lisa Jahn-Clough / Lisa Clough

    Small children eat their way through the alphabet, from Alicia's Appetizing Asparagus to Zoe's Zesty Zucchini, in a zany alphabet book that combines lively illustrations with a fun-filled, tongue-twisting alliterative text....

  • The Ranch

    Danielle Steel

    They had been inseparable as roommates in college, Mary Stuart, Tanya, and Zoe. But in the more than twenty years that followed, the three had moved on with their lives. By chance, each would find herself alone for a few weeks one summer, wrestling w...

  • The Mice of Mousehole

    Michelle Cartlidge

  • The Brave Ones

    Tony Kerins

  • I Don't Care, Said the Bear

    Colin West

  • Leaving Missouri

    Ellen Recknor

    Follows the life of Chrysanthemum "Clutie Mae" Chestnut, who rises from life with her redneck family to travel across the country and abroad, befriend royalty, and establish herself as the "Duchess" of Dollar Creek. Original....

  • Assassin's Quest

    Robin Hobb

    From an extraordinary new voice in fantasy comes the stunning conclusion to the Farseer trilogy, as FitzChivalry confronts his destiny as the catalyst who holds the fate of the kingdom of the Six Duchies...and the world itself. King Shrewd is dead...

  • Bug Park

    James P. Hogan

    DON'T STEP ON IT -- IT MIGHT BE YOU When you're a teenager, even a teenager with a rich, indulgent parent, you don't have a lot of power. But when things get very small, the rules change. Physics changes. What everybody knows, ain...

  • The Big Picture

    Douglas Kennedy

    On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But along with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting - Ben hates it. He w...

  • The Awakening

    Thomas K. Martin

    Around the fires, in the cold of winter, the old tales of the Time of Madness are still told... Tales of the MageLords, sorcerers near godlike in their power, who looked upon ordinary men with contempt. Who fought great battles among themselves, v...

  • 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...

  • The Stone Prince

    Fiona Patton

    THE PRICE OF POWER-- The DeMarians, the royal line of Branion, have been blessed, or cursed, with the power of the Flame, a magic which--if wielded properly--none can stand against. But called upon by one untrained or not strong enough to control ...

  • Rocky Mountain Nightmare

    Jon Sharpe

    Gadding about in the farthest reaches of the Rockies, Skye Fargo runs right into a gigantic castle complete with a monstrous hunchback, a master with more gold than sense, and a mistress sizzling with sensuality. Original....

  • Slocum and the Lady in Blue

    Jake Logan

    When the beautiful Betty Welles acquires the title to a sprawling Arizona ranch, she is targeted by a brutal gang of killers and a schemer named Ralph Moore, and she hires John Slocum to protect her passage to Arizona. Original....

  • 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....

  • Homestead Law

    J.R. Roberts

    Around Truxton, Missouri, there's only one thing folks hate like death. And that's taxes. So when the Homestead Inspector is shot through the heart, no one cares--save for Clint Adams. The Gunsmith thinks he knows the cowards who did it. And he's abo...

  • Blood Hunt

    David Thompson

    With only his oldest friend and his trusty long rifle for company, Davy Crockett explored the wild frontier, looking for adventure ... and finding it. The courageous pioneer had the strength and cunning to get out of any scrape and face any enemy, no...

  • Longarm and the Indian War

    Tabor Evans

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Seduction

    Laura Lee Guhrke

    WHEN AN HEIRESS AND A ROGUE MEET... Although her father sent her to England to fin a titled husband, beautiful and headstrong Margaret Van Alden rejects every fortune hunter she meets. The only man who does excite her is Trevor St. James, an unsenti...

  • Harriet's Beau

    Emily Hendrickson

    Tempting the Teacher Miss Harriet Mayne clearly was heading for dismal disaster in her first London Season. Her clothes were frightful, her freckles unfortunate, her riding in the park scandalously uninhibited. In short, she represented a challeng...

  • 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...

  • Blaze

    Norah Hess

    HUNTER He was the last person Blaze Adlington wanted to see when her covered wagon pulled into Fort Bridger. The beautiful orphan was desperately trying to make a new life for herself in the wilds of Wyoming. But now she was face-to-face with the ma...

  • 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...

  • Damsel

    Debra Hamilton

    THEY HAD SHARED THE HOPES AND DREAMS OF CHILDHOOD As children they had played together -- Hunter Kinshella, a groomsman's son and Tamasin Cullen, a beautiful peasant girl who longed to be a lady. Her desperate need made her the perfect pawn in...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Silent Warrior

    Donna Kauffman

    Touching her was tempting fate--and tempting him to risk it all.... Her note read, "fin in trouble," and John McShane sensed the desperation in Cali Ellis's plea for help. He'd flown to the Caribbean on a rescue mission, but the woman whose defian...

  • An Unconventional Miss

    Alice Holden

    Love Scores A Hit Amanda Lofton, daughter of an exceedingly wealthy merchant, has fashionable clothes, impeccable grooming, and dreamy brown eyes. What she doesn't have is a suitor who wants her love, not her money. Meeting a blond stranger en...

  • If You Believe

    Nancy Kelly

    A WOMAN WITH A PAST Child psychologist Liz Havens has returned to her Washington State hometown for one reason only: To find the son she was forced to give up the day he was born. Finding Jesse can make her dreams come true ...or become a nightma...

  • Beast

    Judith Ivory

    THE BEAUTY An exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brilliant. . . and bored--which is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocrat abroad. Rumor has it her intended is a hideous c...

  • Skye Legacy

    Krista Janssen

    Journeying to the Dakota valley where her half-Sioux father had grown up, Skye MacKinnon is hired by Kyle Wyndford, who is unaware that she is related to the Native American tribe he holds responsible for his brother's death. Skye Mckinnon has...

  • Vignette

    Valerie King

    A desperate lady and an incorrigible rake become caught up in a scandalous game of intrigue and irresistible desire... FIRST ACT Treachery and seduction, magnificent entertainment and midnight assignations are part of Lady Somercote's elegant...

  • The Primrose Path

    Barbara Metzger

    'TWAS MORE THAN JUST A BONE OF CONTENTION BETWEEN NEIGHBORS! Seventh Viscount Knowle--a war hero, a rising star in politics, a nonpareil in tonnish circles-- has become a laughingstock. His legacy has gone to the dogs--literally. Primrose Cott...

  • The Earl's Revenge

    Allison Lane

    The Runaway Bride Elaine Thompson prayed she would never see the Earl of Bridgeport again. She had been barely past girlhood when she fled a forced marriage to this libertine lord who had wanted a wife only to produce an heir. Now, she was a stron...

  • Mountain Moonlight

    Elizabeth Leigh

    After the cruel fires of Civil War destroyed all that mattered most, Betsy Tyler retreated to the edge of town. Here, deep in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, she lives a life of self-imposed seclusion. Until the day a stranger comes calling - and offers...

  • Beneath a Crimson Moon

    Christine Michels

    Deep undercover to infiltrate a smuggling ring, Singai, a beautiful young warrior, had no time for anything except stopping the flow of banned Earth weapons - until she was attacked by deadly assassins. If it weren't for the timely help of a mysterio...

  • Home Again

    Lenora Nazworth

    A battle of wills between antiques lover Jody Calhoun and wealthy developer Chase Spence culminates in Jody's being sent back in time to the Civil War, where she and Chase play lovers in order to put a ghost to rest. Original....

  • Molly in the Middle

    Stobie Piel

    Sheep, sheep, sheep Ach! The bumbling boobs were everywhere, and as far as Molly was concerned, the stupid beasts were better off mutton. But Molly was a sheepdog, a Scottish Border collie, and unless she found some other means of livelihood for her ...

  • Petticoat Rebellion

    Joan Smith

    WHY MUST SEDUCTION BE A SPORT ENJOYED SOLELY BY GENTLEMEN? For Abbie Fairchild, an art teacher and aspiring artist, the opportunity to spend a week at Penfel Hall with its grand art gallery is a dream come true. But the field trip takes a scandalo...

  • A Cottage by the Sea

    Ciji Ware

    Some might call it running away... But after a scandalous Hollywood divorce, Blythe Stowe considered it damage control for body and soul. The pain, the humiliation, the daily tabloids shouting details as her famous husband dumped her for her own si...

  • In Too Deep

    Raeanne Thayne

    She was a sweet taste of heaven after a journey through hell.... He stopped her for speeding on a Wyoming back road, but when Andrea McPhee couldn't resist teasing Sheriff Will Tanner about his roadside manner, the green-eyed rebel really got unde...

  • Forever Enchanted // By Magic Enchanted

    Maggie Shayne

    Bridin’s destiny is to rule a faraway fairy kingdom, but another sits on her rightful throne, so the enchanting lady is forced to flee into the mortal realm. Bridin awaits for the man who can help her return home, but the stranger who shows up is ...

  • Fortune

    Erica Spindler

    A MOTHER'S ULTIMATE SACRIFICE... A BROTHER'S DARK OBSESSION... AND ONE WOMAN'S DESPERATE FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL... Something dark and dangerous had long shadowed Skye Dearborn's life. She had seen the fear of it in her mother's eyes. It was ther...

  • Some Like It Hotter

    Deb Stover

    Abigail Kingsley can't believe it! Hasn't she been through enough deprivation and heartache in the wake of the Civil War? Now a big, handsome Yankee has appeared uninvited in her great hall, insisting he's from the future.... For Natchez detectiv...

  • Change of Heart

    Violet Hamilton
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    Mothers and love go together, no matter what the century. This delightful Regency collection gathers together a beautiful bouquet of Regency romances selected especially for Mother's Day... Violet Hamilton's "Change of Heart" proves that a widowed...

  • A Gentle Kidnapping

    Valerie King
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    Mothers and love go together, no matter what the century. This delightful Regency collection gathers together a beautiful bouquet of Regency romances selected especially for Mother's Day... In Valerie King's "A Gentle Kidnapping," a concerned hous...

  • Sweet Companion

    Nancy Lawrence
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    Mothers and love go together, no matter what the century. This delightful Regency collection gathers together a beautiful bouquet of Regency romances selected especially for Mother's Day... In Nancy Lawrence's "Sweet Companion," a much too serious...

  • Darling Daughters

    Jeanne Savery
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    Mothers and love go together, no matter what the century. This delightful Regency collection gathers together a beautiful bouquet of Regency romances selected especially for Mother's Day... Jeanne Savery's "Darling Daughters" sweeps us away to a c...

  • Conspiracy

    Margie Walker

    Forced by circumstances beyond her control to walk away from her lover, Marcellus Cavanaugh, Pauline Sinclair returns as unexpectedly as she had left, only to become the prime suspect in the poisoning murder of the president of Marcellus's company. O...

  • No Angel's Grace

    Linda Winstead

    Falling in love with the sharp-tongued Grace Cavanaugh, who is in his charge and out of place on his western ranch, Dillon Becket tries to educate the European miss in the ways of frontier life. Grace Cavanaugh was no angel. Not as far as Dillon ...

  • Underneath the Lemon Tree

    Jenna Jones
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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...

  • Always In My Heart

    Donna Valentino

    SHOTGUN WEDDING One minute Matt Kincaid was negotiating the business deal of his career --- the next, he was getting married in North Platte, Nebraska, a century past, and with a bullet in his shoulder! It was an accident. Shooting him, that is. K...

  • Branded

    Vivian Vaughan

    "WHEN A MAN HAS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE, BEWARE." Five years ago, Jacy Kimble was devastated by the scandal that sent her brother to prison and destroyed her father's political career. Now, far from her pampered life in Arizona, near-destitute in El ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Arabella to the Rescue

    Mona Gedney
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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...

  • Country Comforts

    Virginia Lee

    Infuriated by the busybody preacher's wife who calls her a hoyden and threatens to take away her little sister unless she settles down, Josie announces her engagement to town newcomer Jack, much to the gentleman's surprise. The biggest gossip in ...

  • Dream Dancer

    Denise Dietz Wiley

    Struggling to keep her father's failing circus afloat in the face of her father's drinking problem, Calliope Kelly faces new disruptions when Brian O'Connor, a dashing animal tamer whom Calliope has long adored, returns and an unknown enemy sets out ...

  • Beggar's Banquet

    Daniel Hood

    A DRAGON FAMILIAR DOES NOT A WIZARD MAKE... Liam Rhenford possesses a wizard's familiar, but he's not a wizard himself. He's solved a few crimes, but he's no detective. Yet, when a priceless family heirloom--a magical jewel--is stolen from Liam's ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • The Clinic

    Kip Langello

    In the heart-pounding tradition of Robin Cook and Michael Palmer, a new master of medical terror inverts the wonders of fertility science to reveal its unthinkable possibilities. In this harrowing, suspenseful novel, Kip Langello crafts the tale of a...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Echoes of Issel

    Diann Thornley

    Reunited with his son, Tristan, and his wife, Darcie, who were marooned for years on a wild planet, Lujan Serege realizes that the war in which he has played a major role is not over when Tristan is called to return to action. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • An Exchange of Hostages

    Susan R. Matthews

    "Above all, do no harm."--The Hippocratic Oath "The Bench endorses the principle of swift and certain punishment for crimes against the judicial order."--The Inquisitor's Writ A promising young surgeon, Andrej Koscuisko has come, with great rel...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Personal Agendas

    Al Sarrantonio

    LINKS IN THE CHAIN G'Kar, once the Narn ambassador to Babylon 5, is a warrior's warrior. Now, with his homeworld enslaved by the Centauri, he is a prisoner on his enemy's planet. Despite the chains that bind him, he keeps the one freedom that fate a...

  • The First Casualty

    David L. Seidman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Hercules possessed a strength the world had never seen, a strength surpassed only by the power of his heart. He journeyed the Earth, battling the minions of his wicked stepmother, Hera, the all-powerful Queen of the Gods. Wherever there was evil, whe...

  • Atlantis Found

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    When four expedition teams go missing after undertaking a dangerous journey back to the Bronze Age, Jake Bento and his Argo rescue squad teammates are sent to discover what went wrong and undertake a history-threatening mission. Original....

  • Spiritride

    Mark Shepherd

    GHOST BIKERS IN THE SKY... Randolf "Thorn" Wilson died a long time ago. But that doesn't stop him from riding his ghost Harley through the sky, trying to help other bikers. Now he's caught in a battle between an elven King and his skateboard-ridin...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Wife for Dr. Sam

    Phyllis Halldorson

    HOW TO MARRY A DOCTOR... The gossip around town was that Dr. Sam Lawford would rather swallow his stethoscope than marry, but woman after woman faked sore throats and got stung by bumblebees just to have Sam's hands on their bodies. So what was an ...

  • First Prize

    Lynn Jacobs

    She'd won her dream date! Tamsin has dreamed about Nick Sullivan for years. She'd had a teenage crush on him, and when he'd left their small hometown to become a successful international journalist, she never stopped wanting him.. Now N...

  • What to Do About Baby

    Martha Hix

    HUSH LITTLE BABY Through a miracle of modern medicine, Caroline Grant's fifty-nine-year-old mother gave birth to a baby girl. Now, two years later, Caroline has "inherited" little Natalie. Caroline had always wanted a child of her own -- but rais...

  • The Mother of His Son

    Janis Reams Hudson

    THE WOMAN HE HAD NEVER STOPPED LOVING What under heaven had driven Bethany Martin from his arms? What had made her abandon their dreams, disappear without a trace? For years Luke Ryan had asked those questions--and cursed Beth's betrayal. But he'd...

  • The Miracle Baby

    Janice Kay Johnson

    If having a baby with a stranger is what it'll take to save her daughter's life...Beth McCabe is willing to have one. Is the stranger? Nate McCabe hasn't seen or spoken to his identical twin brother, Rob, for fifteen years. Now Rob is dead an...

  • Forever, My Love

    Linda Ladd

    ACT OF BETRAYAL Belinda Scott had no choice but to become a spy. An indentured servant threatened with losing the only family she had left, her four-year-old sister Annie, she was placed in the New York home of Gabriel Elliot and ordered to report...

  • The Rescued Heart

    Melinda McRae

    A HANDSOME STRANGER Beautiful young Bess Williams was resigned to living a quiet life of genteel poverty in the English countryside after her officer father died fighting Napoleon. Then one day a stranger arrived, the most handsome, irresistibly gall...

  • The Trouble With Tonya

    Lorna Michaels

    She was a walking disaster area! Tonya Brewster's life was a mess. Little things like holding down a job or driving within the speed limit baffled her. So why in the world had her grandfather found her a job at an inner city youth center? She knew n...

  • His Kind of Trouble

    Vivian Leiber

    The bodyguard The last person Austin Smith wanted to guard was a pregnant woman. Especially one he'd once been in love with. But he was duty bound to watch over Tarini Schaskylavitch; he'd promised his buddy - and Tarini's ambassador fiance - that...

  • The Other Amanda

    Lynn Leslie

    Amnesia was less than the painful truth! Amanda Braithwaite, pampered niece of hospital administrator Randall Chambers, is found badly hurt in a park, but can't remember how she got there. In fact, she can't even remember her own name. The only pe...

  • This Matter of Marriage

    Debbie Macomber

    If I want to get married & have a family (& I do) it's time for a plan!! Starting now. --From Hallie McCarthy's diary The alarm on Hallie's biological clock is buzzing. She's hitting the beg three-O and there's no prospect of marriage, no man in ...

  • Tallchief

    Dinah McCall

    A Dream...Or A Nightmare? Ever since the night Morgan Tallchief lost the only woman he would ever love, he has struggled to seal away the past. But now Kathleen Ryder is back in his life--still pursued by the deadly secrets that forced her to flee...