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New Books List: 576 titles


  • 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 ...



  • Brad Quentin

    Hearing strange reports of prehistoric monsters in the Venezuelan jungle, Jonny and the Quest Team find themselves in a primeval wilderness, desperately battling a half-man, half-dinosaur creature. Original....



  • William W. Johnstone

    Cannibal mutants endanger the future of a post-apocalyptic America in this explosive adventure from a USA Today"bestselling author.   After the apocalypse destroyed what was left of America, Rebel leader Ben Raines helped create the Tri-States...



  • Leonard B. Scott

    SOMETIMES IT'S HARD TO TELL WHERE RIGHT ENDS AND WRONG BEGINS.

    As punishment for putting the truth before the reputation of the Bureau, FBI agents Eli Tanner and Ashley Sutton have been exiled to the backwater of Columbus, Georgia. They are tr...



  • 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...



  • Mollie Hardwick

    TILL DEATH DO THEM PART... Doran Fairweather and her husband, ex-vicar Rodney Chelmarsh, are both secretly relieved when she decides to sublet a friend's London apartment for a while. Maybe the separation will put the spice back into their relatio...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Barbara Jaye Wilson

    MEET BRENDA MIDNIGHT She's a savvy young designer with her own hat shop, who has never even thought of chasing crooks. But when crime invades her cobblestone Greenwich Village neighborhood and the cops don't have a clue, Brenda has to drop everyth...



  • Deborah Woodworth

    SISTER ROSE IS ON A MISSION... TO CATCH A KILLER The peaceful Shakers, pledged to hard work, worship and nonviolence could scarcely believe there was a dead body in their herb house. The handsome young drifter known as a "Winter Shaker" had professe...



  • David Leitz

    It was spring in Vermont. The tree frogs were singing, the trout were stirring, and the biggest fish of all was coming to Whitefork Lodge... Call it a deal with the devil. Max Addams needed the money. And one very powerful man--the head of a Cosa ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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....



  • Alison Joseph

    While investigating the sudden and suspicious death of Gail Sullivan, Sister Agnes meets attractive artist Alexander Jaffe and agrees to sit for him, and the more she gets to know him and his violent tendencies, the more he seems capable of murder...



  • Carolyn Keene

    Her relationship with Jake strained when she dates Terry, Nancy wonders what is really going on with her friend George, while hospital volunteer Ginny receives suspicious attentions from handsome doctor Malcolm...



  • Karen Hanson Stuyck

    As a public relations professional, Liz James strives to keep the reputation of the Houston Mental Health Center spotless. But when a charismatic colleague is accused of murdering her own husband, Liz is painfully reminded that sometimes bad publicit...



  • David Handler

    A serial killer is showing Hoagy his novel in progress--and every chapter is murder....

    Once Stewart "Hoagy" Hoag was the toast of the publishing world and the husband of luscious Broadway beauty Merilee Nash. Now, reunited with Merilee in pro...



  • 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...



  • Lou Jane Temple

    WHEN HEAVEN LEE IS JUDGING THE BARBEQUE CONTEST, TROUBLE SEEMS TO STICK TO HER APRON. Although she's Kansas City's premier restaurateur and a helluva barbeque queen, this time around Heaven Lee is just a judge at the Barbeque World Series. But tha...



  • 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....



  • Sarah R. Shaber

    SHE HAD A CAMEO CHOKER AROUND HER NECK Eyebrows are raised as yellow crime-scene tape drapes across the once-distinguished Colonial Bloodworth House. For the mansion, nestled cozily amidst the tranquil academia of Kenan College, may have once been t...



  • Dolores Johnson

    IF THE SUIT FITS... Mandy Dyer is all business. She has to be. Left high and dry by her would-be-lawyer ex-husband, Mandy turned to her uncle's Denver dry-cleaning company--and soon found herself in charge. Now, amid the hissing presses, rattling ...



  • Polly Whitney

    WHO'S GOT THE SHOOTER When a shotgun blast drops basketball superstar the Big Chill at Madison Square Garden's center court, it's another murder for Ike and Abby, co-workers at TV's "Morning Watch." As the bickering ex-spouses dive into the world ...



  • Carolyn Keene

    WHEN CRIME CRASHES THE PARTY, IT'S TIME FOR NANCY TO GET CRACKING! Happily Ever After, Inc.: Making weddings beautiful and romantic is their business, and they're working overtime -- four in one weekend. The place: Heights House, an old mansion on...



  • Lyn Hamilton

    The co-owner of a Toronto antiquities store, Lara McClintoch is obsessed with finding rare and beautiful artifacts. Her travels take her to the ends of the earth, where history jealously guards its treasures--and where the mysteries of the past meet ...



  • Walter Wangerin Jr.

    Now the story of Genesis is told as you've never heard it before--with exciting detail and passionate energy. Reading like a historical novel, it dramatizes the sweep of biblical events, making the men and women of this book come alive in vivid detai...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • Kathleen Yapp

    Summer love - those two words conjure up memories for just about everybody. Readers are sure to delight in this inpspirational romance collection, featuring four never-before published contemporary novellas, all set in summer, by such well-known auth...




  • Amy S. Wilensky

    Dina Mazlin fell hard for gorgeous ski instructor Matt Harbison. After an intense week on the slopes, Dina believed Matt’s promise that they’d be together again. But that was a year ago. Dina hasn’t heard from Matt in months. And it doesn’t h...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Stephanie Howard

    Desert lover... Amber Buchanan didn't believe in love at first sight or happy-ever-afters. She certainly didn't believe that desert sheikhs still made a habit of kidnapping beautiful women and riding off into the sunset! And then she me...



  • Peg Sutherland

    A golden wedding usually means a family celebration. But the Hardaway sisters drifted apart years ago. And each has her own reason for wanting no part of a family reunion. As plans for the party proceed, tensions mount, until it even begins to look a...



  • Karen Rose Smith

    ROMANCE ON ICE When businessman Noah Gordon arrives in the quaint town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to sell off one of his "Roller Fun" skating rinks, no one is more surprised than the rink's manager, Francie Piccard. Because of her, Roller Fun is...



  • 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...



  • 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 --...



  • Susan Murray

    Birds of Bookhaven is Susan's fifth book in her AVALON series featuring exotic birds. The first four titles in the series, Birds of a Feather, Birds of Paradise, Love Birds, and Bird on the Wing are available now from AVALON....



  • Barbara McMahon

    Maggie Foster needs a job. Kyle Carstairs needs a housekeeper.... Problem solved: Maggie works for Kyle! Maggie knows she's in for a challenge: Kyle has had five housekeepers in almost as many months! And, sadly, Maggie has a way of constan...



  • Pamela Toth

    THE BUCHANANS ARE BACK! Kirby Wilson didn't know if she was more mad or grateful. In one shocking moment she had learned that she was adopted--and that she had two brothers she had never known about. The revelation brought her to brother Donovan's...



  • Lass Small

    JUST ONE OF THE BOYS Chancy Freedman had grown up on the Bar Q ranch. She had learned how to rope and ride, and the ranch hands had looked out for her 'best they could.' But they couldn't teach her the art of being a lady, and poor Chancy had made...



  • Lynsey Stevens

    A family scandal! Georgia had imagined becoming Jarrod Maclean's wife a hundred times -- until she'd found him in what seemed like a passionate embrace with his own stepmother.... Devastated by his betrayal, Georgia had convinced herself s...



  • 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. ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Sherryl Woods

    THOSE WATKINS BOYS! THAT WILDE WOMAN! When handsome single dad Slade Watkins came to town, all Riverton wagered that a wedding was in the offing. The hapless widower hadn't a clue about taming his two rambunctious sons--until pretty Danielle Wilde...



  • Margaret Watson

    HER LIFE WAS ON THE LINE.... Eagle Ridge was turning out to be far from the tranquil oasis Tory Falcon had envisioned. A serial killer was loose in the town, preying on single women, and the police feared Tory would be his next target. She could t...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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,...



  • 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...



  • Francine Pascal

    Fired! Elizabeth Wakefield has been booted from her magazine internship--for stealing an idea she thought up in the first place! With the help of her twin sister, Elizabeth sets out to prove she was framed. Her snooping leads her into terrible dange...



  • Sharon Sala

    MORE THAN JUST A DADDY Little Joey knew his father was absolutely perfect, but the toddler craved a mother too. Then he blundered into Molly Eden's backyard and knew he'd found the mommy of his dreams. Joseph Ross was entranced by his son's cho...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Sally Wentworth

    Can their marriage survive the truth? Lucie has everything. The perfect husband, a cherished son and a new baby on the way.... Her marriage is blissful--until a secret in her past returns to haunt her. How can Lucie tell her husband, a glamorou...



  • Susanne McCarthy

    Consenting adults... He had saved her life, but Lynne Slater had never expected to see professional bodyguard Rhys Gillam-Fox again. She certainly hadn't expected to end up living with him! Yet, circumstances had thrown them together, and desi...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Anne Mather

    He could still make her want him.... Maggie would never have made the journey to Northumberland to see her ex-husband if it hadn't been for their rebellious teenage daughter. Lindsey had formed a disastrous relationship and Neil was the only p...



  • 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...



  • Elizabeth Oldfield

    Single dad requires protection! When Lorcan Hunter is threatened by someone opposed to his latest business project, and leggy blonde Jess Pallister presents herself as the person to protect him, Lorcas is more than a little skeptical! But when his...



  • Debbi Rawlins

    Jolie Duval often leapt before she looked... That's how she wound up losing so many jobs. And needing this one badly enough to marry Mike Kramer to get it. Which led to Calamity #1 Maybe signing on as cook hadn't been such a hot idea. Well, a...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Alicia Scott

    MAGGIE FERRINGER WAS NOT HAVING A GOOD DAY... It was bad enough being called for jury duty - but being taken hostage...! Ok, maybe her captor appealed to her on a primitive level, but getting involved with a convicted murderer was hardly a sensibl...



  • Anne Weale

    Pride and prejudice! Holly knew she wasn't beautiful, but still hoped that one day she'd find a man who would love her and wed her! Trouble was, the only man she had ever really wanted was Pierce Sutherland! What chance did she have wit...



  • Charlotte Lamb

    Something worth fighting for! Sandra's first instinct was to burn the anonymous letter. Its malicious message couldn't be true: Do you know where your husband will be tonight? Do you know who he'll be with? Sandra adored Mark now as...



  • Lynda Simons

    How to Marry a Millionaire by Jeannie Renamo 1. Irk your boss, handsome magazine publisher Kyle Hunter, by creating controversial new column--"Marrying Well: A Practical Guide." 2. Accept Kyle's challenge to follow guidelines and land a rich h...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Valerie Taylor

    He was the perfect mom! Janet Resnick could juggle an appointment book with the best of Wall Street, but two days of caring for her sister's three kids stopped her cold. They'd already eaten her out of house and home -- including Vaseline, housep...



  • 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...



  • Barbara McCauley

    THE BACHELOR AND THE NANNY From the first moment Kat Delaney walked through his door, single dad Logan Kincaid knew his life was about to be turned upside down. There was something decidedly unsettling about his daughter's new nanny, but he vowed ...



  • 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...



  • Marilyn Jordan

    LOVE'S A TREASURE Palm Beach maitre'd Devon Stratter has just learned that she's the descendant of a wealthy Civil War bride. But the only way to collect her inheritance is by deciphering a series of mysterious clues. And who better to help her ...



  • Kathi Webb

    THE THRILL OF LOVE Divorced Kaitlin Ross is too busy launching her fashion consulting business and organizing a community charity event to even think about starting a new relationship. Then a rugged, world-famous stuntman called Blaze walks into ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    HOW TO MARRY... One hot cowboy! - Keep a lasso handy. - Saddle a fast horse - Chase him into the sunset. Maggie Porter planned to find a cowboy husband, not a job! Yet, when she rode onto Jake MacIntyre's ranch, she agreed to stay -- as nanny to Ja...



  • Francine Pascal

    Too young to die . . . Gin-Yung Suh is dying. A crushed Todd Wilkins is devastated -- especially since he's been rekindling his love for Elizabeth Wakefield instead of caring for Gin-Yung. Now he must take what little time he has to make it up to he...



  • Vicki Lewis Thompson

    The Game of Matchmaking The players--Maureen O'Malley and Bridget Kingsford Two mothers with marriage on their minds--for their kids. Little do they suspect that they have done their work too well.... The pawns--Daniel O'Malley and Rose Kingsf...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Maura Seger

    THEIR FUTURE HANGS IN THE BALANCE... First the argument ripped Shane Dutton and Brenna O'Hare apart. Now a plane crash has stranded Shane in the Alaskan wilderness. Miles apart, all they can do is wait. And hope. And remember... THEIR PAST IS ...



  • 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...



  • Jane Heller

    What happens when you put three divorced women and one desperate hit man on a ship bound for the Caribbean? You get Jane Heller's sparkling new novel of love, sex and murder... Every since they first met in divorce court, Elaine Zimmerman and her ...



  • 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...



  • Emma Richmond

    Just married? Gillan Hart was one of Nerina Micallef's two favorite people in the world. The other was her big brother, Refalo. He was an overprotective, cynical millionaire. Gillan was a feisty, independent female. Nerina--a romantic. If only...



  • Sara Wood

    An irresistible temptation! Tessa Davis came to France to visit her long-lost mother. Instead she found three cottages and Guy de Turaine, who clearly intended to charm her out of her mother's property! Well, his ploy wouldn't work, no mat...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Patricia McLinn

    A STRANGER TO LOVE Cully Grainger was the one who got away. Actually, it was worse than that--Jessa Tarrant had all but pushed the man out of her life. Men like Cully didn't show up in a town like Bardville, Wyoming, every day. Not that it matt...



  • Rebecca Winters

    IS IT POSSIBLE? During Desert Storm, Rosie Armstrong's husband went off to war. He didn't return. She was told that he was missing in action -- and presumed dead. For years, she couldn't accept that Nick was dead, couldn't believe it. But she...



  • 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...



  • Phyllis Halldorson

    TIME WAS RUNNING OUT . . . . Shane McKittrick wanted to hire a woman to be his wife and bear his child. Karen Muir, driven by her love for him and sure that she could win his love before the time limit on their marriage had expired, became his wif...



  • Dallas Schulze

    National bestselling author Dallas Schulze takes her Walker family saga to new heights. A WOMAN...PREGNANT AND ALONE On the run from a heartless past, Tessa Wyndham left her home for the open road. Then the fragile beauty found refuge from the st...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Patricia Ryan

    Emma was in for the adventure of a lifetime--or two. Emma Sutcliffe was content playing the "good" twin to her outrageous double, Zara. But after she walked a mile in Zara's killer spike heels and leather miniskirt--followed by the sexiest man sh...



  • Miranda Lee

    Bedding Bianca.... Adam had always been in love with Bianca, but his feelings weren't quite returned. Bianca did care for him, but as a best friend. His was the shoulder she'd cry on, and he never let her down... Until the day Bianca co...



  • 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 ...



  • Patricia Lynn

    WHERE IS LOVE? Jo Allison has spent the last ten years trying to outrun the painful past, and the unforgettable betrayal that turned her heart against the false promises of love. Until her car breaks down and she finds herself -- feverish and str...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Eileen Wilks

    HE WOKE UP NAKED, IN BED WITH HIS BEST FRIEND'S SISTER... One minute Gideon Wilde was lamenting his recent broken engagement. The next, he was saying "I do"--only, he'd married the wrong wife! Always in control, Gideon had no room ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Michael Marshall Smith

    They were raised for one chilling purpose.... A loner, an ex-cop, Jack Randall is the dangerous veteran of a savage war. All he's held dear has long been destroyed. For the last five years, he's been hiding out on a Spares Farm, guarding those who...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...




  • 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...



  • 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; ...



  • Neal Shusterman

    Jason is having a bad day. The kind of day when you just don't feel like yourself. Only for Jason, it's not just a feeling. He really isn't himself. Not any more. Who is he? That's the problem. Jason isn't sure. And it's not just him. Everyone ...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Holly Lisle

    In Devil's Point Amusement Park, customers flock to the site of such unusual attractions as the Extinct Species Petting Zoo, the waterpark and its real mermaids, and Desire Point, which requires a special fee for admittance. Original....



  • Shariann Lewitt

    In the ancient and future city of Venice, poised above the drifting tides of her canals, is House Sept-Fortune: a guild specializing in the making and breaking of data systems. Cecilie is a senior apprentice in Sept-Fortune, on the brink of her adult...



  • R.L. Stine

    Has he had a horrifying life? -Was RL Stine a SCARY kid? -Did he have a WEIRD family? -Did his friends at school think he was STRANGE? - Why does he like to TERRIFY his readers? -Where does he get the frightening ideas for his stories? All ...



  • 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...



  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    A LAND SCARRED BY WAR MUST FACE A CONQUEROR WITHOUT MERCY Twenty years after their first attempt, a new Fey invasion threatens Blue Isle, headed by the ruthless Black King Rugad. The island is more than a stepping-stone to conquest of the continen...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Michaela Roessner

    The story of Tomasso de Befanini, son of the astrologer to the Medicis, whose quest to become Catherine de Medici's master chef is interrupted by war, intrigue, and magic, includes a glossary and recipes for several of the dishes involved. Reprint....



  • 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 ...



  • Irene Haas

    One warm summer night, a frog jumped into Lucy's room with an invitation for her to a birthday party and a magic paper party hat. Lucy put it on, and out in the garden, when a moonbeam touched the hat, Lucy was as little as a leaf. So begins Lucy's w...



  • 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....



  • Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    In a realm where magic is life, Joram was one of the Dead. Born without power, he was denied his royal birthright and sentenced to the Turning--his mind to be imprisoned inside a husk of living stone. Yet at the last moment, Saryon took his place...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...





  • Robert Siegel

    n Siegel's remarkable debut novel, Lou Glasser, a New York criminal defense attorney, represents some of the city's finest drug dealers. When his best client is arrested, Lou comes to the rescue--and soon discovers that the DEA is after him, not his ...



  • Karin Lee

    From reading palms and using numerology to looking at the stars, there are many different ways of discerning the future. These and other methods of fortune-telling are presented in this fun, hip book that includes a set of tarot cards....



  • 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 ...



  • Jan Lawrence

    Unable to believe their luck when they read an ad that claims they can make $5000 in a month, Robert and Margaret Anne find themselves involved in a swindling operation selling cash-in-advance cookies. Original....



  • 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...




  • 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 ...



  • 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....




  • 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...



  • Angela Huth

    In this collection of stories, the ghost of a doomed romance haunts an Oxford undergraduate's summer affair, elderly ladies live out extraordinary fantasy lives, and betrayed wives wreak subtle revenge. Angela Huth brings to this exquisite collecti...



  • David Leavitt

    Three “sly, self-knowing, and hilarious” novellas from the highly acclaimed author of The Lost Language of Cranes (The New York Times). Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous. In “Sa...



  • Kit Pearson

    Theo and her young, irresponsible mother seem trapped in their miserable, poverty-stricken life. Theo dreams of belonging to a “real” family, and her dream seems to come true when she is mysteriously adopted by the large, warm Kaldor family. But ...






  • 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....




  • I.K. Swobud

    Learning about honey-making while his human friend Molly prepares to enter a recipe contest, Dex learns about Swarm, a martial arts force that attacks with shotgun sprays of deadly killer bees. Original....



  • Will Hobbs

    Spring has come to the muntains, and the bears have emerged from their winter's sleep -- all but the Great Bear, who sleeps on in his den. In the Ute village, a boy called Short Tail worries that the Geat Bear will starve if he doesn't waken. So Sho...




  • Barbara O'Connor

    Martin had always liked music -- liked to listen to it, liked to make up tunes in his head. More than anything, he wanted an instrument to play, but he knew that all he had to do was say the word "piano" to his father and all hell would break loose...



  • 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...





  • Sylvia Fair



  • Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the very large hairy man with huge feet really be the legendary Bigfoot? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! "Didn't you see his teeth when he smiled at Liza?" Eddie ...





  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Julie Schumacher

    "Four generations of us had occupied this space, argued in it and inexplicably blighted each other's days in it, all while looking out at the ocean, crashing and advancing every year."

    Three months pregnant after a two-night stand, Jane Haus resign...





  • Francine Pascal

    What's in a healthy breakfast? Juice, toast, milk...and identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield! That's right--the twins have been chosen to appear on a Corny O's TV commercial! But there's only one Corny O's girl, and the twins can't agree o...



  • 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....



  • Tracy Stern

    In love and ecstatic about their child on the way, Kerry is devastated to learn that Brad has been killed in an icy car crash and does not know what to do in the face of pressure to give up her baby for adoption. By the author of This I Promise Y...



  • 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....



  • Janine Ellen Young

    In twenty-first-century America, where reality is what one makes it, a young man with a supernatural affinity for computers and an armed revolutionary are pursued by the Virtuals, a group of online dictators. Original....



  • Joan Dahr Lambert

    In a saga that begins more than a million years ago, three wise women named Zena, born thousands of generations apart, experience romantic and spiritual adventures, from the African savanna to the Red Sea to the caves of the Pyrenees. Reprint....



  • Ann M. Martin

    At first, Claudia hated going back to seventh grade. But things are definitely improving. She's on top of her schoolwork, she's made some great friends, and her new classmates really look up to her -- so much that they nominate her to be Queen of the...



  • 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 ...




  • Nora Okja Keller

    Possessing a wisdom and maturity rarely found in a first novelist, Korean-American writer Nora Okja Keller tells a heartwrenching and enthralling tale in this, her literary debut. Comfort Woman is the story of Akiko, a Korean refugee of World War II,...



  • Matthew Fox