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New Books List: 599 titles


  • Michael Palmer

    In Chicago, a pregnant cafeteria worker suffering nothing more malevolent than flulike symptoms begins hemorrhaging from every part of her body. In Boston, a brilliant musician, her face disfigured by an unknown disease, rapidly descends into a letha...



  • Gayle Callen

    TAMING A ROGUE Lady Emmeline Prescott is shocked when Sir Alexander Thornton, the most incorrigible scoundrel in England, suddenly notices she even exists -- and starts flirting with her! The dashing cad has a well-earned reputation for carousing ...



  • Julia London

    The passionate story of a man and a woman pursued by secrets, shadowed by scandal, and surprised by love... Eight years after fleeing England in the wake of a terrible scandal, Sophie Dane is no longer the trusting debutante betrayed by love. Now...



  • Stephanie Laurens

    "Marrying you will be entirely my pleasure." Amelia Cynster hears these words from the handsome, enigmatic, sixth Viscount Calverton and is stunned. It's near dawn and she's risked scandal by lying in wait for him just outside his London house. Bu...



  • Debra Mullins

    Rules Are Made to Be Broken... When Garrett Lynch bursts the glittering Raynewood ballroom a Wild mail, a hapless footman clinging to each powerful arm, Lucinda Devering is equally appalled and impressed. How uncivilized! How barbaric! How... stir...



  • Lisa Gardner

    What do you do when a killer targets the people you love the most? When he knows how to make them vulnerable? When he knows the same about you? These are the questions that haunt FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy. The police say his daughter's death ...



  • Holly Lisle

    THE MIRACULOUS BEGINNINGS OF AN EPIC ADVENTURE OF MULTIPLE UNIVERSES, SHARED DESTINIES. MAGIC AND DRAGONS...AND DOOM Lauren Dane discovers a doorway to another reality in Cat Creek, North Carolina--and she crosses over, driven by a strange compuls...



  • Keith Laumer

    IT'S A SERIOUSLY DERANGED UNIVERSE OUT THERE! Chester W. Chester IV had inherited his great grandfather's lifework: a super computer that could bring any situation or time to life. Chester and his shady pal thought that they could make a fortune, ...



  • Patricia Bray

    NO TIME TO DIE The once mighty kingdom of Jorsk is in decline, its borders beset by enemies, both worldly and otherworldly. The king has retreated to the capital, abandoning the far-flung provinces. The only hope of the people lies in their Chosen...



  • David Sherman; Dan Cragg

    The Marines were told it was a simple peasant rebellion -- but the mission proved to be far deadlier. . . . Gunny Charlie Bass isn’t the only Marine mystified by the order sending the entire 34th to put down a few seditious serfs on planet Kingdom...



  • Edith Layton

    WOULD HE CHOOSE LOVE ... OR REVENGE? Katherine Corbet abhors injustice -- and is happy to assist the disturbingly attractive Sir Alasdair St. Erth quash the brazen schemes of a marriage-minded opportunist. But appearing on the arm of the dark, das...



  • Elizabeth Lowell

    In the scorching heat of the Southwestern desert, a frightened old man knows his time is quickly running out ... as the lethal secret he protects can be hidden no longer. Risa Sheridan knows everything about gold -- its mysteries, its allure, its pe...



  • Harlan Coben

    As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman--a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspec...



  • Jean M. Auel

    The Shelters of Stone opens as Ayla and Jondalar, along with their animal friends, Wolf, Whinney, and Racer, complete their epic journey across Europe and are greeted by Jondalar’s people: the Zelandonii. The people of the Ninth Cave of the Zelando...



  • Tim Winton

    From award-winning author Tim Winton comes an epic novel that regularly tops the list of best-loved novels in Australia.After two separate catastrophes, two very different families leave the country for the bright lights of Perth. The Lambs are indus...



  • Cathy Hopkins

    Dear Squidge, I really like you but...I ripped the letter up. Pathetic. "How am I going to do this, Bec? Help me." Becca's face clouded. "He's going to be devastated. He really adores you." Cat's always been the perfect girl next door. Though...



  • Anne Ashley

    Demure vicar's daughter Robina Percival has relished her Season in Town -- a definite change for the better after her somewhat straitened situation at home. But what is she to make of Daniel, Lord Exmouth? A widower with two daughters to raise, h...



  • Julia Donaldson

    All fans of Julia Donaldson's should read the enchanting tale of The Dinosaur's Diary.Surviving and finding a safe place to lay her eggs is difficult for Hypsilophodon with dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex around. When she falls into a mysterious poo...



  • Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

    When the first star twinkles in the evening sky, Margaret squeezes her eyes shut and makes three wishes-one, for a sister; two, for a dog; and three, the most important of all, that Mama will let her study medicine.

    But Margaret knows it wil...



  • Anne Fine

    When Rupert's parents go to Great Uncle Perry's funeral, Rupert spends the day with his Great Aunt Ada, along with his unruly puppy, Roly. Great Aunt Ada is determined to teach Rupert some manners. Rupert thinks the day is going to be awful until hem...



  • Sharon Phillips Denslow

    Georgie Lee Lee is a cow. The sweetest, strangest, smartest, funniest, most inquisitive, and most mysterious black and white cow you will ever meet. You will love Georgie Lee.

    J. D. is a boy. J. D. loves adventure and hiking and the neighbor...



  • Jeremy Strong

    It's the first day at PIRATE SCHOOL for Ziggy, Smudge, Carkella and Flo and they have lots of new things to contend with. Their headteacher is the scary Patagonia Clasterbotton and they have to take lessons include walking the plank and hand-to-hand ...



  • Janet Hickman

    Jeremy's dog has slipped her leash and disappeared into the fog-filled ravine-to Jeremy's great frustration. His mother has made it very clear that the ravine is both dangerous and off-limits. Jeremy's best friend, Quinn, wants to play their favor...



  • Jose Marti

    José Martí (1853-1895) is the most renowned political and literary figure in the history of Cuba. A poet, essayist, orator, statesman, abolitionist, and the martyred revolutionary leader of Cuba's fight for independence from Spain, Martí lived in ...



  • Kenneth Oppel

    The forest heaves and splits in a terrible quake, and Griffin, a newborn Silverwing bat, is sucked down a fissure deep into the earth. Shade, Griffin's father, soon realizes that his son has been drawn into the Underworld and embarks on the most dang...



  • Avi

    "Asta's son" is all he's ever been called. The lack of name is appropriate, because he and his mother are but poor peasants in fourteenth-century medieval England. But this thirteen-year-old boy who thought he had little to lose soon finds himself wi...



  • Garret Freymann-Weyr

    The 10th Anniversary enhanced ebook edition of the Pritz Award Honor YA novel that explores essential questions about love in all its forms.   Fourteen-year-old Ellen loves her older brother Link -- and she really loves his best friend James. Th...



  • Jules Feiffer

    When young Richard doesn't stop fooling around in the back of the car, his father goes through with his threat of leaving him off by the side of the road, but when his family comes back to retrieve him, Richard doesn't want to leave and so sets up a ...



  • David Clement-Davies

    A stunning picture book captures the beauty of the American West as seen through the eyes of Spirit, the leader of a herd of wild mustangs, who must fight for freedom, with the help of a Native American boy, from the rustlers, soldiers, and railroad ...





  • Deborah Savage

    Charlotte Williamson Thorpe -- Wim -- comes from a long line of sea captains based out of Provincetown, Massachusetts. Since her best friend died the summer before, all Wim wants is to be left alone, to finish her senior year in peace and spend time ...



  • Kathleen Duey

    This full-length companion book to the movie, filled with inspiration, adventure, and excitement, follows Spirit, the leader of a herd of wild mustangs, from his childhood, through his capture, to his courageous return to freedom. 50,000 first printi...



  • Mary Hogan



  • Amy Schor Ferris

    Â"Not everyone needs a friend, Addie. Sometimes people just wanna be left alone. You’re just gonna have to start mindin’ your own business and let people be.”

    Remembering her dad’s words, Addie’s not sure what to do when she comes ac...



  • M.A. Harper

    "Actually, there were no men in Auletta except the married, the stupid, and the dead. In Auletta this worked out to be basically the same thing." Welcome to Auletta, Louisiana, where the typical bumper sticker reads: GOD, GUNS, AND GUTS MADE THIS CO...



  • Caiseal Mor

    Brave, copper-haired Aoife was the daughter of a king, a bold young woman full of life and mischief. But on one winter's night she and her brothers took part in an act of careless mischief with consequences they could never have imagined -- and a dea...



  • Greg Cox

    Alarmed by the potential dangers of the Chrysalis project, extraterrestrial secret agent Gary Seven teams up with human Roberta Lincoln to neutralize the growing threat of Khan Noonien Singh, an ambitious, teenage, artificially enhanced human who is ...



  • Susanna Tamaro

    Susanna Tamaro’s writing has deeply affected people throughout the world. Though her voice is unique and her stories firmly rooted in her native Italy, the power of her words and her understanding of human lives are universal. In 1994 her novel Fol...



  • David Almond

    These beautifully-written stories grow out of David Almond's childhood in the streets and fields of Tyneside. They're funny and sad, realistic and strange, and are suffused with a profound sense of mystery and wonder. They show that the ordinary worl...



  • Ginjer L. Clarke

    From sea horses to prairie dogs to gorillas, animal babies have dads that take care of them. Male sea horses give birth. Male penguins keep their eggs safe and warm under their bellies. This nonfiction Pictureback details the methods in which fathers...



  • Random House

    One restless night, Thomas looks out and sees a shooting star flash by. Determined to see where it went, Thomas sets out into the darkened countryside. The strange nighttime sights and noises add up to a wonderful after-dark adventure for Thomas....



  • Eric Arnold

    As a very special extension of our acclaimed and bestselling Step into Reading titles, Star Wars Jedi Readers feature vivid artwork and text that is carefully designed to help children learn to read. This Step 3 Jedi Reader focuses on the famous boun...



  • Robert Littell

    This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a multigenerational, wickedly nostalgic saga of the CIA -- known as "the Company" to insiders. Racing...



  • C.S. Adler

    Running away from her new stepfamily who doesn't seem to care about her, Tess begins walking to her mother's house and gets a companion in the form of a gray-striped cat who follows her along the desert road, but things don't go as planned when she a...



  • John Manders

    It’s a quiet night in the woods, and a group of campers is asleep. That is, until one frog, two owls, three geese, four fish, and a host of rambunctious animals get together to create a symphony of sounds -- and enough mischief to wake even the sou...



  • Richard Easton

    Eleven-year-old Nathan McClelland hates the fact that everything is changing in his small farming community, now that the countryside is turning into a coalfield. His best friend just moved away and immigrant miners have built shanties where his farm...



  • Gil Kane

    The wisecracking web-slinger Spider-Man teams up with the biggest stars of the Marvel Universe in these classic adventures, including the Incredible Hulk, the Uncanny X-Men, Ghost Rider, the Fantastic Four, and the Avengers!...



  • Francis Ray

    In her mind's eyes, she could see Wes, tall and elegant in his tailored tuxedo with a patterned vest, black tie, and snow white pocket square. Her red Valentino slip gown highlighted her honeyed complexion and chocolate brown eyes. The gown also pick...



  • Rosanne Bittner

    Set in I 750s Pennsylvania. Into the Wilderness depicts life in the Allegheny Mountains and the Northeast at the beginning of the French and Indian War. When sixteen-year-old Jessica Matthews is attacked by Ottawa Indians, she is saved by the darkle ...



  • Frederick J. Chiaventone

    By the summer of 1866, America was a changed nation. The Civil War has ended, and the West was calling as a place where the fresh wounds of a nation divided could heal. Many set out to heed that call and explore the land that the terrible war had not...



  • John C. Wright

    The Golden Age is 10,000 years in the future in our solar system, an interplanetary utopian society filled with immortal humans. Phaethon, of Radamanthus House, is attending a glorious party at his family mansion celebrating the thousand-year anni...



  • Roy B. Campbell

    As a first time writer, Baba Roy has made a significant step into the midst of quality children's literature. This is a book about entertainment and action, about mystery, about the natural world, and finally about values. We are hoping for a se...



  • Jim Grimsley

    Newell never really belonged in Pastel, Alabama. Ready for a change, he buys a one-way ticket to New Orleans. The year is 1978 and the rambunctious city beckons with its famous promise of bright lights, excitement, and men everywhere.

    Newell makes...



  • Amit Chaudhuri

    Amit Chaudhuri's stories range across the astonishing face of the modern Indian subcontinent. From divorcées about to enter into an arranged marriage to the teenaged poet who develops a relationship with a lonely widower, from singing teachers to ho...



  • Kathleen DeMarco

    Diana Moore, a thirty-something professional in New York City, is brooding over rumors about her ex-lovers beautiful new girlfriend, when the unimaginable happens: a terrible car accident in which her entire family is killed. Seeking refuge from her ...



  • Carole Matthews

    After her marriage to Damien ended in disaster, Londoner Josie Flynn -- thirtysomething and single again -- is flying across the ocean to her American cousin's "big mistake" wedding. In her present "love stinks" frame of mind, the last person she exp...



  • Isaac Adamson

    After an altercation with the director of Wildman for Geisha! -- a movie based on ace reporter Billy Chaka's life -- Chaka finds himself in Hokkaido on mandatory vacation. Trouble starts when the elderly porter of the Hotel Kitty stumbles into Billy'...



  • Diane Noble

    Filled with warmth and tender insights, Heart of Glass follows the unforgettable Fairwyn March from young adulthood through midlife during the final decades of the nineteenth century.

    A free-spirited beauty whose life brims with mountain lore ...



  • Sally Mandel

    Brash and bold, Bess Stallone is an ordinary girl with an extraordinary gift. Though she was born on the wrong side of the tracks, fate and a God-given talent join forces to catapult her from the humble shores of Rocky Beach, Long Island, to the spot...



  • Mary Higgins Clark

    Ellie Cavanaugh was seven years old when her older sister was murdered near their home in New York's Westchester County. It was young Ellie's tearful testimony that put Rob Westerfield, the nineteen-year-old scion of a prominent family, in jail despi...




  • Denys Cazet

    C-R-A-S-H!

    A spaceship falls at Minnie and Moo's feet, and a potato-shaped alien named Spud climbs out of the wreckage. Spud is transporting Anti-Bump Cream, and if he doesn't deliver it to outer space, the earth and all the...



  • David Frampton

    A is for alligator.Z is for zebra.And in between is a rollicking alphabet that turns the ABCs into a madcap zoo filled with surprises and laughter! For every child who has ever asked if a leopard has to wash off its spots or if a rhino's horn goes be...



  • Elspeth Morrison

    Dorothy Dunnett has earned worldwide acclaim for the masterful blending of historical fact and imagination in her two series of novels set in brilliantly reconstructed fifteenth- and sixteenth-century landscapes. The Dorothy Dunnett Companion II...



  • Julie Ortolon

    WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MR. SLOW AND STEADY... The forecast is smooth sailing for Oliver Chancellor, scion of Galveston's premier financier. Destined to take his place in the hallowed marble corridors of his family's bank, Chance is content with the futur...



  • Sara Douglass

    Axis is a true hero, in every sense of the word. On his shoulders lies the double burden of prophecy and war. Having fulfilled the first part of the prophecy by becoming the StarMan, he now must reunite the three races inhabiting his world. It is ...



  • Brenda Joyce

    As the heiress to a vast fortune amassed by her millionaire father, Francesca Cahill's life should be mapped out for her: find an eligible suitor, marry, and have children. But Francesca is an unconventional young lady who is not about to give up...



  • Anthony Horowitz

    TRAPPED! When an investigation into a series of mysterious deaths leads agents to an elite prep school for rebellious kids, MI6 assigns Alex Rider, fourteen-year-old reluctant spy, to the case. Before he knows it, Alex is stuck in a remote boarding ...



  • Stuart Woods

    BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE Hired by an odd client previously unknown to him, Stone arrives in London, on a mission he thinks he understands, but doesn't. Soon he finds himself not only out of his territory, but out of his depth as well. Baffl...



  • Dan Greenburg

    Mummies are cool, but they’re creepy, too! Zack has faced aliens, vampires, time-travelers, ghosts, and Bigfoot -- now find out what happens when he meets teenage mummy Ikhnaton (Icky for short)....




  • Marsha Hayles

    A young boy's backyard, pool, and sandbox are transformed into a jungle, ocean, and race course where he is the great hero, conqueror of all lands, and defender of others, in a colorful tale about the power of imagination. Jr Lib Guild....



  • Harriet Ziefert

    Children will love lifting the flaps of this bright and cheerful book to see all of the wonderful things that teachers do, such as giving juice and cookies when it is snack time and leading trips to the museum. Original....



  • Lise Haines

    Unable to forgive her sister, Amanda, for her unmerciful manipulations or for the role she once played in their father's mentally damaging games, Molly finds herself powerfully attracted to Amanda's lover, and uses her own skills of manipulation, dec...



  • Laura McGee Kvasnosky

    Athletic Steven Bennett has no intentions of listening to his mother regarding Lucinda, the prissy girl, that lives next door to their new home, yet when Steven finds an orphaned baby squirrel, Lucinda quickly offers a helping hand that leads to the ...



  • Kathleen Duey

    Adventure, drama, wild horses running free. The American West is brought to life through the eyes of the horses who were there in a new program of books inspired by Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, the new film coming May 2002 from DreamWorks.
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  • Marthe Jocelyn

    When Alyssa steals Billie's backpack, she also gets her hand on his vanishing powder and uses it on herself, but Billie knows that she has done this and must figure out whether to help her get back to normal or teach her a lesson by leaving her that ...



  • Bonnie Graves

    After he agrees to help his best friend's older sister watch a toddler, fifth-grader Joel learned quite a lot in just one afternoon and so stops worrying about passing his upcoming test in Emergency Preparedness....



  • Wendy Cheyette Lewison

    June 14 is Flag Day, but with so many American flags proudly displayed, every day seems like Flag Day. Perfect for reading together with a young child, F Is for Flag shows in simple terms how one flag can mean many things: a symbol of unity, a sign o...







  • Susan R. Sloan

    For more than half a century, a landmark Seattle clinic has provided full family medical services, including abortions, until one February afternoon when an extremist's bomb kills almost two hundred men, women and children. When the police arrest a c...



  • Mignon F. Ballard

    Meet Augusta Goodnight, guardian angel extraordinaire and the afterlife's best angel-sleuth. Always on call, she's resourceful, wisecracking--and literally down-to-earth... Minda Hobbs has returned to her hometown of Angel Heights, South Carolina ...



  • Frank Manley

    In True Hope Frank Manley eloquently limns the mysteries of the soul with the story of a man named Al, whose life has been defined by marriage, drunkenness, and prison -- in that order. When he is released from prison for good behavior, sobered up an...



  • Darleen Bailey Beard

    A novel told in a strong Southern voice

    Ruth Ann Tillman loves to sing, especially the solo in the annual Babbs Switch, Oklahoma, Christmas Tree Celebration. And no matter what Elden Larrs says teasingly, she’s good. But this year, 1924, Mom...



  • Jeff Long

    In his sensational novel The Descent, Jeff Long created a world of stunning terror and adventure, "an imaginative tour de force" (Jon Krakauer). Now he imagines a scenario so vivid, so haunting, it anchors his place among storytelling masters. YEAR ...



  • Julianna Baggott

    Pixie Kitchy was once Miss New Jersey. Now she's married to a dentist, an ex-quarterback in turtled golf pants. Her ten-year-old daughter, Mitzie, wears Bo-peep pincurls and twirls baton. Her sixteen-year-old son, Ezra, the person who knows her best,...



  • Parry Brown

    From the author of the national bestseller The Shirt off His Back comes a novel about love, family, and honoring loved onesDeath brings about strange emotions, and people’s true colors start to show. Glynda Naylor discovers this when she gets the c...



  • Ron Roy

    From popular A to Z Mysteries author Ron Roy comes a red, white, and blue mystery perfect for the election season! In the second book of the Capital Mysteries -- an early chapter book mystery series featuring fun facts and famous sites from...



  • Mark Crilley

    Akiko, the Earthling hero best known for helping rescue Prince Froptoppit of the Planet Smoo, has been back on her home planet for several months now. She’s just started fifth grade and has been made leader of the school safety patrol. But Akiko’...



  • Lurlene McDaniel

    Trisha Thompson and her best friend, Christina, are having a great senior year. Trisha and her boyfriend are making plans to attend Indiana University, and Christina received a scholarship to the University of Vermont. Everything would be perfect if ...



  • Philip Pullman

    Spring-Heeled Jack: The name evoked awe from both criminals and upstanding citizens alike. Some thought he was the devil, but he was actually the original superhero -- leaping over the buildings of Victorian England with the help of springs in the he...



  • Manya Stojic

    “Far away in the deep blue sea . . .”

    For one little girl this is how all stories begin. They are family stories of her mother’s childhood on a small island with a pebbly shore. And now the little girl is going to that island. It is her ...



  • Anne Gutman

    Gaspard is off to summer camp to learn how to windsurf. There’s just one problem -- he doesn’t know how to swim! After some lessons in the pool and a little help from his rubber
    float, Gaspard is ready to become a swimming champion....



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  • Keith Hernandez

    Baseball is fun and it takes hard work to be good. A little league composed of children diverse in age, race and gender learn what it takes to be a success on the field. They see how good sportsmanship, teamwork, real competition, and self determinat...




  • Susan Ford; Laura Hayden

    Eve and her family have barely settled into their new surroundings after the Inauguration when chaos and scandal erupt. White House photographer Michael Cauffman is taking Eve's picture in the Rose Garden when they stumble upon a corpse in the snow. ...




  • Colby Rodowsky


    A book for young readers about realizing one’s passion

    Jason Miller’s family is always on the go, and always for the same reason: ball games. Jason spends a lot of time on the sidelines, because he’s not much for playing sports. He s...



  • Ben Bova

    Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still...



  • Sylvia Andrew

    An Honorable Promise Lord Adam Calthorpe had been rash in his promise to look out for a fellow soldier's sister before the soldier was killed at the battle of Waterloo. For Miss Katherine Payne was a golden-eyed shrew who took genuine delight in f...



  • Amy MacDonald


    A sly rhyme about the pitfalls of being too bad â€" or good!

    Quentin Fenton Herter III . . .
    remembered always to say “Please,”
    to wash behind his ears and knees.

    He never ran but always walked,
    and sat quite still whe...



  • Beverly LaHaye; Terri Blackstock

    When Cathy Flaherty’s teenage son, Mark, is arrested for selling drugs, her neighbors once again show that Cedar Circle is more than a suburban cul-de-sac. It is a tightly knit circle of friends whose faith, love, and encouragement help each other ...



  • Pamela Walls

    Abby: South Seas Adventures is a fun, new series that is a surefire hit for 8- to 12-year-old girls. Lots of excitement will keep kids coming back for each new Abby title. In books 7 & 8, Abby, her family, and her best friend Luke have many adventure...



  • Jeanne M. Lee

    A tasty, original story

    This striking picture book ends with a new beginning for three people who never expected to be friends â€" an orphaned girl cast out by her siblings, a slave escaping from a mighty emperor’s ship, and a hunchbacked ol...



  • Julia Whitty

    Bringing a unique perspective and a singular voice to contemporary fiction, A TORTOISE FOR THE QUEEN OF TONGA features lush, poignant stories about the natural world. Here are mammals, historical figures, everyday people who discover the liberating p...



  • Karen Kingsbury

    You wept with them as they were Waiting for Morning... You shared their Moment of Weakness... Now watch them face the greatest struggles of their lives. Matt and Hannah Bronzan have found a new life in the face of devastating loss. Together ...



  • Rachel Gibson

    HAS EVERYONE SEEN TOO MUCH OF LOLA CARLYLE? When ex-supermoddel Lola Carlyle learns that some very -- ahem -- private photos of herself are being peddled on the Internet, she hides out where there's sun and -- she thinks -- safety, until the gossi...



  • JoAnn Ross

    Danielle Dupree, daughter of a prominent judge, was the closest thing to a princess the sleepy Louisiana town of Blue Bayou ever had. Her passionate teenage love affair with Jack Callahan was cut short for reasons that were never clear to Dani -- but...



  • Karen Ranney

    A stranger to his ancestral Scottish lands, the dashing nobleman came to the Highlands to reclaim his birthright -- only to find something more wondrous and unexpected awaiting him -- his bride! A MARRIAGE HE NEVER WANTED Though a descendant of p...



  • Stephanie Laurens

    Where are all the exciting men in London? After spending years in the glittering ballrooms of the ton, Amanda Cynster is utterly bored by the current crop of colorless suitors. Determined to take matters into her own hands, one night she shockingl...



  • Margaret Moore

    The Warrior's Bride Everyone knows that red-haired women are nothing but trouble! So when enchanting, flame-haired Fiona MacDougal rides into his castle courtyard announcing that she is willing to become his bride, Caradoc of Wales knows to be wa...



  • Jan Burke

    Edgar Award-winning author Jan Burke, acclaimed for her Irene Kelly novels, hits the ground running with a harrowing thriller featuring homicide detective Frank Harriman. When the wreckage of a small plane belonging to a Las Piernas Police Department...



  • Earlene Fowler

    Meet Benni Harper...a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs-and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cri...



  • Charlotte Douglas; Susan Kearney

    In the darkest hours of the Dominion War, as the Federation's downfall seemed ever more certain, Jem'Hadar and Cardassian forces conquered Betazed, the homeworld of Deanna Troi. Their victory sent shock waves through the Alpha Quadrant, and put the D...



  • Scott Ciencin

    SIXTEEN CANDLES Buffy's younger sister, Dawn, knows how it feels to be different. So when she overhears her classmates teasing a new girl, Arianna, she steps in, and the two become friends. But when Buffy comes home one afternoon to find her siste...



  • Victoria Thompson

    As a midwife-in the turn-of-the-century tenements of New York City, Sarah Brandt has seen suffering and joy, birth and death. Now she is thrust into a twisted case of murder -- when a seductress falls victim to her own charades... To Sarah Brand...



  • Mel Odom

    Since the beginning of time, the angelic hosts of the High Heavens and the demonic hordes of the Burning Hells have been locked in a struggle for the fate of all Creation. That struggle has now come to the mortal realm...and neither Man nor Demon nor...



  • Eric Flint; David Drake

    THE ONLY TWO WHO COULD SAVE THE PLANET WERE ON OPPOSITE SIDES IN A BLOODY WAR! The crumbling Empire on the north of planet Hafardine's single continent is brutal and corrupt--but if it falls, it will take with it the last glimmer of civilization i...



  • Catherine Ryan Hyde

    The author of Pay It Foward serves up a romantic story about a dead World War II soldier who transcends the barriers of time to touch the live of the people he loved in his life. 40,000 first printing....



  • Sharon Shinn

    There is only one Jenna Starborn... A baby harvested from the gen-tanks on the planet Baldus. A girl scorned by the only family she has ever known. A woman bold enough to seek her own way, strong enough to stay true to herself, and brave eno...



  • Katy Gardner

    This is the story of Gemma and me: how I lost her, I suppose. I don't usually tell it to anyone but myself;I save it for the darkest moments.Losing Gemma, Katy's Gardners debut novel about adventure, losing your best friend, and self-discovery,&...



  • Halldor Laxness

    From the Nobel Prize winner comes a captivating novel about an idealistic Icelandic farmer who journeys to Mormon Utah and back in search of paradise. • "Full of an earthy poetry...a style wonderfully wise and entirely Scandinavian in its combinati...



  • Shelley Jackson

    Amusing, touching, and unsettling, The Melancholy of Anatomy is that most wonderful of fictions, one that makes us see the world in an entirely new light.Here is the body turned inside out, its members set free, its humors released upon the world. He...



  • Maureen Holohan

    "I'm so sick of those two bullies!" Dawn Miller and Eddie Thomas must have "get under Molly's skin" at the top of their list of favorite things to do. But I'm not the only victim. They're out to terrorize everyone -- the meek, the mild, and of course...



  • John Whitman

    It's twelve years before Captain Leo Davidson of the space station Oberon crash-landed on the planet of the apes. Attar is a teen just coming up in the military, and Ari is his good friend -- sympathetic to the human cause, yet loyal ...



  • John Whitman

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  • Leona Karr

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  • Donna Kauffman

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  • Cheryl Bolen

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  • Shelley Bradley

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