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New Books List: 576 titles


  • 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...



  • Randy Wayne White

    White's newest thriller takes Doc Ford to Havana, where a friend is being held by the Cuban government. Still haunted by his suspected involvement in a plot against Castro, Ford leaves Florida and ventures to Cuba--where he finds himself entangled in...



  • Nelson DeMille

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



  • Stephen White

    A shocking act of violence plunges Boulder, Colorado, clinical psychologist Dr. Alan Gregory into the most challenging and dangerous case of his career. At the heart of the sensational crime are two women trapped by the furies of fame. One is the ...



  • John Whitman

    Takes young Star Wars fans behind the scenes of the Empire's most devastating weapon as it hurtles through space on a mission to destroy the secret Rebel base, in an interactive pop-up book that is packed with high-adventure details....



  • Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

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



  • Diane Duane

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



  • Peter David

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



  • 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...



  • 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....




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

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



  • 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...



  • James White

    It's a massive hospital space station on the Galactic rim--384 levels, a staff of thousands--where human and alien medicine meet.

    But Patient Hewlitt, new to Sector General, doesn't want to meet alien medicine--or alien doctors, or alien nurse...



  • Patricia Anthony

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





  • 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...




  • Steve Perry

    Legendary actor, director, and author Leonard Nimoy has created a grand, galactic adventure saga incorporating concepts developed by SF master Isaac Asimov. Now New York Times bestseller Steve Perry brings Leonard Nimoy's Primortals to life in... ...




  • 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...



  • Glenn Meade

    Glenn Meade, the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Second Messiah, delivers unrivaled suspense, unforgettable characters, and a brilliantly absorbing story as a British agent and a German woman find themselves unraveling a plot to bring about the ...



  • Lois Duncan

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

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



  • Christopher Bram

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



  • Agatha Christie

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



  • 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 ...



  • Joel Rose

    After his unprecedented success as a Broadway playwright, an incarcerated Joey wants nothing more than to create a good Hollywood script for a big-time producer, but things get violently out of hand when Joey falls for the producer's wife. Reprint....



  • John Sandford

    Bestselling author John Sandford takes all the action and suspense of his acclaimed Prey novels and heads west to the dark gleam of L.A. - where the Night Crew works. A mobile unit of video freelancers, they prowl the midnight streets for news to sel...



  • Thomas Baum

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



  • 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...



  • Zev Chafets

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



  • Chris Petit

    In the explosive city of Belfast, where senseless, violent death is a daily affair, Detective Chief Inspector Cross discovers the grisly handiwork of a serial killer. A man obsessed by homicide, Cross--both British and Catholic--finds working among h...



  • Stephen A. Bly

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



  • Doris Betts

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




  • 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...




  • 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....



  • Pierre Ouellette

    Theorizing that a bacteria of unprecedented power will kill sixty percent of the global population within one year, Dr. Elaine Wilkes is horrified to see her prediction coming true and races to find a cure. Reprint....



  • Brian Andrew Laird

    On the way back to the O'odham reservation from Los Angeles, Gary Napoleon is shocked when the dead body of his dear friend Ryder, whom he is bringing home for an Indian burial, disappears and realizes he must find the body to fulfill his promises...



  • Stephen A. Bly

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



  • Jon Land

    American Ben Kamal is a Detroit police detective whose police training makes him valuable to the new Palestinian police force on the West Bank. He's glad to help--but hooking up with the Israelis to find a serial killer was not part of the deal. Dan...



  • Clay Harvey

    In the sequel to A Flash of Red, former special operative Tyler Vance hopes to return to a quiet retirement with his family, but millions of dollars from illegal gun deals are still floating around, and Vance finds himself charged with gettin...



  • Francine Pascal

    Time is running out for Bruce Patman. He has fewer than 48 hours to find out who poisoned him. . . and why. Forty-eight hours before the deadly toxin in his body takes his life.



    Everyone around Bruce has a secret. Everyone seems suspic...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Gayle Wilson

    A man without a name... Deke Summers was a man on the run, with no possessions, no connections. Caring about another person was his most forbidden luxury. A woman without a heart... Becki Travers was the kind of woman who always set an extr...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Francine Rivers

    In one horrific, terrifying moment, Dynah Carey's perfect life is shattered by rape, her future irrevocably altered by an unwanted pregnancy, her doting family torn apart. Her seemingly rock-solid faith is pushed to the limits as she faces the mos...



  • Michael Phillips

    A wedding is on the horizon for the preacher woman and the cowboy -- if evil-doings don’t separate them first. Second in the faith-filled Western series. After a visit to her family in Louisville, young evangelist Mercy Randolph returns to her new ...



  • Gilbert Morris

    New York City Had Left Its Scars. Would Los Angeles and Hollywood Prove to Be a Better World? All of her life Priscilla Winslow had yearned for what she now had -- the theater, New York City, fancy clothes. But despite all of the adoring audiences, ...



  • Jeanne Williams

    Tells the story of Cap and his adopted daughter, Julie, who travel around the Heartland erecting windmills, but when they stop to help three boys living on their own, tragedy strikes and Julie must go on alone...



  • Susan Dunlap

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



  • Joan Hess

    MURDER PAINTS MAGGODY Chief of Police Arly Hanks is the law in Maggody, Arkansas (pop.755), a peaceful little Ozarks town snuggled in the heartland of America. Until a group of camouflage-clad patriots march in with maneuvers--and murder. It be...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Jay S. Russell

    A former TV teenage heartthrob, fortysomething P.I. Marty Burns begins investigating the brutal murders of Hollywood's street girls, a search that takes him to the very bottom of Tinseltown's cold and dangerous heart...



  • Catherine Dain

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



  • John Straley

    Ninety-seven-year-old William Flynn is none too clear on what's happened this week, but he's razor-sharp on the events of eight decades past. What's happened this week is the murder of Angela Ramirez, a young woman who used to visit Flynn in the nurs...



  • Stephen Humphrey Bogart

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



  • Parnell Hall

    The good news is Stanley Hastings has a real, paying client. The bad news is his client, Cranston Pritchert, cant seem to tell him anything more than that he’s being set up. And after some initial sleuthing to try to unravel the alleged set-up, all...



  • Mary Wings

    It's autumn in San Francisco. The Castro is holding a Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. The whole city is talking politics, caught up in a nasty three-way mayoral race. And behind the scenes, Emma Victor is performing her own lucrative brand of public s...



  • Robert Sheckley

    The owner of the Alternative Detective Agency, Hob Draconian, embarks on an investigation that takes him to Paris, London, and the island paradise of Ibiza in search of a powerful new narcotic, a quest that leads to a deadly confrontation with kidnap...



  • Parnell Hall

    Hall's latest one-word title describes the further adventures of Manhattan investigator Stanley Hastings. Attorney Richard Rosenberg, the personal injury specialist who usually employs Stanley, has him investigate the alibi of his latest client, a ri...



  • 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...



  • John A. Miller

    Refusing to take any case that does not interest him, former Vietnam paratrooper and lawyer Claude McCutcheon becomes involved with the intriguing lumber businesswoman Margaret Tikkanen, while a non-client uses Claude's name to stir up trouble. Repri...



  • Grace F. Edwards

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



  • Stephen Greenleaf

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



  • 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...



  • Leah Ruth Robinson

    Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe's world is a place chaos, violence, and, sometimes, miracles. Now terror has followed her into the emergency room of University Hospital.

    A tough professional addicted to the adrenaline rush of life-and-death emergency medicine...



  • John Case

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



  • John Wagner

    Bringing down a pair of local thugs, family man and diner owner Tom McKenna becomes a small-town hero but is tormented by his secret past which thrusts him into an odyssey of heists, killers, and suspense...



  • Mike Phillips

    Street-smart reporter Sam Dean finds himself embroiled in another whodunit when the television producer who offers Dean the onscreen job of investigating a murder is himself murdered, leaving Dean to solve both mysteries....



  • Cynthia Manson

    Fourteen short mysteries are culled from the pages of Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine and include contributions by Jonathan Kellerman, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, and other notable writers....



  • Seymour Simon

    America's favorite science sleuth is back! Seymour Simon is not only the award-winning author of the best-selling solar system series, he is also the creator of a brilliant series of brainteasers starring Einstein Anderson, a twelve-year-old whiz ...



  • Sebastien Japrisot

    The task of finding the killer of a beautiful young woman found sprawled in the sleeping car of the night train from Marseilles to Paris is handed to an overworked, crime-weary police detective named Pierre Emile Grazziano, who would rather play hide...



  • Elizabeth Levy

    On vacation in New Mexico, Gwen and Jill discover an old barn believed to be haunted by a wild horse, and as strange happenings begin to occur, the girls find themselves curious and decide to take a look behind the barn's padlocked doors....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Ann Lewis

    A book for gardeners, travelers, and anyone who loves the lush landscape of the deep South, Confederate Jasmine and the Fat Tuesday Tree is an exquisite combination of delicate images and rich memoiran illustrated volume that is as beautiful as it is...



  • Anastasia Hobbet

    Disillusioned with her urban California existence, a woman returns to her uncle's western ranch and finds herself caught between her aunt's environmental activism and a neighbor's desire to raise his livestock....



  • Greg Hollingshead

    A collection of short fiction, a winner of Canada's Governor-General's Literary Award, includes the title story about a boy whose life is changed after his parents take into their home a tough, adolescent drifter. Reprint. 25,000 first printing....



  • Jacqueline Carey

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



  • Amanda Quick

    Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex. Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives--an arresti...



  • Janette Oke; T. Davis Bunn

    THE WORLD IS AT WAR. A young man bravely kisses his weeping bride goodbye at the train station, leaving her all alone. Then the dreaded telegram, and a decision nearly tears her apart… A LITTLE GIRL GROWS into young womanhood, unaware of the force...



  • 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...



  • May McGoldrick

    CRUEL BETROTHAL Maria, had been forced to marry at 17, then was left widowed shortly thereafter. Now 5 years later, her brother had chosen another husband for her sight unseen--the boy king of Scotland. Maria, who had never known passion or love, re...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Lynsay Sands

    Lady Emmalene Eberhart was dying to DO IT. She even begged the King to make her husband do it to her--because she wanted to be a good wife. But then her husband died, and Emmalene was still as much a virgin as on the day she wed. Suddenly, the in...



  • Anne Ashley

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Judith Stacy

    Of All the Rotten Luck! Kelsey Rodgers was already in trouble up to her elbows. The last thing she needed was a U.S. Marshal staying at her hotel. Especially one as sharp, sexy and dangerous as Clay Chandler was turning out to be! Clay just kn...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Haywood Smith


    He thought she was as cold as ice.

    With her pale face and black mourning gown, Elizabeth, Countess of Ravenwold, was completely emotionless as she stood over the body of her dead husband. But Edward Garrett, Viscount Creighton, had no idea...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Julie Tetel

    When the mismatched Miss Sedgwick and Mr. Winthrop find themselves cast adrift together on a beautiful Caribbean island, the adventure begins, and the sparks fly. How can our heroine not fall in love with a hero who is willing to walk across burning ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Clive Barker

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



  • R.L. Stine

    Summoning the dark powers of their family to bring back their dead daughters, Angelica and Simon Fear unflinchingly begin an act of black magic that calls for the sacrifice of two innocent girls....



  • M.C. Sumner

    Knowledge is power, but ignorance has a strength of its own. Through accident, blind searching, and faith, Noah and Harley have stumbled upon the world's most carefully guarded secret. They are about to witness the truth of the Extreme Zone....



  • R.L. Stine

    IT'S A NO-SNOOZE SITUATION! Matt hates his tiny bedroom. It's so small it's practically a closet! Still, Matt's mom refuses to let him sleep in the guest room. After all, they might have guests. Some day. Or year. Then Matt does it. Late one nigh...



  • Julian F. Thompson

    Moving to her parents' new country inn in Vermont, Anna is discouraged by all the hard work she must perform there, until she meets the ghost of young Roxy Cray, who died in 1817 and who saves Anna from an unsavory photographer....



  • Julian F. Thompson


    Now in hardcover for the first time, a book that has been hailed as a classic: As part of their high school orientation, a group of students hikes into the woods. What they don’t immediately realize is that their parents do not plan for them to...



  • M.T. Coffin

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



  • 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...



  • Bebe Faas Rice

    Spending a week alone at creepy Stoneycraig, Marnie and her cousin Peter become increasingly alarmed at the strange sounds and unexplained events that take place, and they learn about a tragic event from sixteen years earlier. Original....



  • Linda Nevins

    The strikingly glamorous Selene Catcher, an American scholar renowned for her books on Italian Renaissance art, is obsessed by a fierce devotion to the ancient Moon Goddess, Artemis. Selene's domineering father, who both worshiped and betrayed the G...



  • R.L. Stine

    Fear Street -- Where Your Worst Nightmares Live... Emma and her best friend Sydney always share their secrets. And now they have a big one: They found a duffel bag filled with cash and swore never to tell anyone. But Sydney broke her promise -- she ...




  • R.L. Stine

    Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!Your parents are going away so your super-cool grandma is coming to stay with you. But when you go to meet granny at the train station you start seeing double -- double grannies!There's on...



  • L.J. Smith

    ETERNAL LOVE Hannah Snow's life was so together. Friends, terrific grades, dreams of a career in paleontology. Everything was perfect . . . until the notes started appearing. Notes in her own handwriting, warning of the danger that was coming. Dea...



  • Susan Sizemore

    When a string of decapitated murder victims is discovered, vampire detective Nick Knight suspects a recently released former inmate who had killed his wife the same way, but he wonders if one of his own kind is really responsible. Original. TV tie-in...



  • Troy Soos

    It is early spring. 1920, and all Mickey Rawlings wants is a .250 batting average, twenty stolen bases, and a regular place in the Tigers' lineup. But when Emmett Siever, an old-time baseball player trying to organize a players' union, is killed at a...



  • 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...



  • Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Join Laura's animal adventures! Laura Ingalls and her family were always surrounded by wild animals. From bears and deer to badgers and panthers, Laura always managed to find herself caught up in some kind of adventure! ...



  • Howard Bahr

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



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Elmer Kelton

    In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, a...



  • Kathleen Duey

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Louise Borden

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




  • 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....



  • Wally E. Davis

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



  • 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....



  • Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Come to school with Laura! School was always exciting for Laura Ingalls and her sisters. Laura knew that learning could be fun and that there would be many new friends to play with at recess! ...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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....