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New Books List: 570 titles

  • 1945

    William R. Forstchen; Newt Gingrich

    The year is 1945. In Europe, the Third Reich reigns triumphant. The Soviet Union is a fragment of its former self, and Britain has accepted a dictated armistice. In the Pacific, after a brief, sharp war with Japan, America is the only significant mil...

  • Abiding Love

    Melody Morgan

    THE SPINSTER No one in the sleepy town of Grand Rapids, Ohio, would have ever expected to see shy Irene Barrett tearing up the local barroom. But after joining a women's temperance group the spinster schoolteacher found herself face-to-face with the ...

  • Abilene Gamble

    Margaret Conlan

    Southern Belle. Living in the war-torn South, beautiful widow Samantha Winchester did all she could to keep hope alive for her family. Now she was heading west to be a bookkeeper in Abilene, Kansas. Northern Soldier. Stripped of his rank during t...

  • Afternoon on the Amazon

    Mary Pope Osborne

    Vampire bats and killer ants? That's what Jack and Annie are about to run into when the Magic Tree House whisks them away to the Amazon River. It's not long before they get hopelessly lost. Will they be able to find their way back to the tree hous...

  • Alien Harvest

    Robert Sheckley

    ALIEN TREASURE: A MISSION IMPOSSIBLE This time the humans are taking the offensive! Stan Myakovsky is a once-famous scientist fallen on hard times. Now he dodges spaceship repo men and dreams of the marketability of his cybernetic ant. Then a woma...

  • American Knees

    Shawn Wong

    Coping with the usual challenges of love and relationships, divorced Chinese-American Raymond Ding and Japanese-Irish Aurora Crane are further challenged by age-old family traditions and the expectations of their own generation. Reprint. 15,000 first...

  • Amethyst Moon

    Janice Bennett

    ON AN EXOTIC PLANET OF ENDLESS OCEANS... The beautiful Princess Dia swims for her life through the violet seas of Kerrian. A savage uprising has killed her father and all but destroyed her beloved planet. Now Dia is her people's only hope for freedo...

  • The Amulet

    Zoe Daniels

    Part human, part beast, they rule the night. But this year, on prom night, the hunters will become the prey... HOLLY Divided by her human love and her animal hunger, she waged a war against the cult of the panther -- even if it meant destroying ...

  • Ancient Enchantresses: Fantasy Anthology

    Kathleen M. Massie-Ferch

    A collection of tales highlights the adventures of famous and infamous enchantresses and includes the works of such authors as Melanie Rawn, Jennifer Roberson, Harry Turtledove, Andre Norton, and Tanith Lee. Original....

  • And Ladies of the Club

    Elizabeth Moon
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Angel by My Side

    Erin Flanagan

    Trying to overcome the loss of her best friend, young Amelia is amazed by a series of strange events that make her suspect that she is being helped by a guardian angel, and her thoughts are confirmed by the appearance of Lily. Original....

  • Animal, Vegetable or Mineral?

    Tana Hoban

  • Anonymity

    Susan Bergman

    In 1983, award-winning poet and essayist Susan Bergman lost her father to AIDS. This gripping memoir of her family's struggle to cope with the loss of a husband and father--and come to terms with the shocking revelation that he had been secretly gay-...

  • Antiques

    Sharon Gillenwater

    Deeply wounded by the infidelity of his late wife, widower Grant Adams for years stuck to his vow to avoid all women-concentrating on his quest to regain the family land his father once lost. But when bright, bubbly antiques dealer Dawn Carson enters...

  • Apache Fire

    Theresa Michaels
    in

    “Raine Cantrell is a powerhouse writer whose emotional intensity keeps you enthralled.” -- Kathe Robin, RT Book Reviews Widowed and childless, Angie is named The Woman of Sorrow by Niko, a noble warrior of the Apache. But as passion ignites betw...

  • Apache Springs

    Lynn Erickson

    The lawman was captured by another man's wife! Two high-profile guests die under suspicious circumstances at the Zimmermans' resort in Apache Springs, Arizona. Deputy U.S. Marshal Jed Mallory comes home to investigate, only to find that his old fl...

  • Armor-Ella

    Holly Lisle
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Armor/Amore

    David Vierling
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Ashleigh's Diary

    Joanna Campbell

    Discovering a diary that she kept as a girl while growing up on her parents' farm, champion rider Ashleigh Griffin relives memories of the horses she once loved, including a spirited colt stolen by horse thieves.

    ...

  • Aspen

    Lynn Erickson

    RULED BY WEALTH, FUELED BY PASSION Matt Connelly--A charismatic, scandal-ridden senator who'll do anything to protect his family. Lee Connelly--Matt's gracious wife, who deals with the clan the only way she can--through the numbing effects of a...

  • At Midnight

    Jennifer Baker

    A contemporary retelling of "Cinderella" finds high school junior Ella at the mercy of a rich and cold-hearted stepmother after the death of her father, until intervention by a fairy godmother helps her discover true love. Original....

  • At the Midnight Hour

    Alicia Scott

    A CHILD'S KEEPER Elizabeth Guiness had her work cut out for her. Her precocious young charge quoted morbid statistics twenty-four hours a day, desperately seeking just one ounce of his father's affection. But brilliant scientist Richard Keaton see...

  • August Magic

    Katherine Applegate

    Summer Smith is soaking up the rays of the hot August sun in the Florida Keys. But this summer's about more than just hanging out at the beach. It's a time to fall in love, and Summer's sure she's met the guy of her dreams...only which one is he? A...

  • Australia Lane

    Janet Broomfield

  • Baby Talk

    Julianna Morris

    When Cassandra met Jake... She knew he was trouble. Her solo baby-making plans just couldn't include the carefree bachelor. Besides, Jake had way too much sizzle for a daddy candidate. So why couldn't she stop daydreaming about babies who had Jake...

  • The Baby-Sitters Club

    A.L. Singer

  • The Baby-Sitters Club: The Movie

    Ann M. Martin

  • The Bachelor Party

    Paula Detmer Riggs

    THE LAST BACHELOR Sheriff Ford Maguire had no time for romance. Keeping the peace in Clover, South Carolina, kept him busy, while reminding him that most people weren't to be trusted. Then single mom Sophie Reynolds came to town, testing Ford's no...

  • Back-To-School Cool

    Devra Speregen

    Teaming up with handsome newcomer Justin, a Hollywood teen, for a class video, Stephanie becomes the envy of every girl in the class, until she is called upon to deliver an original rock song for their tape. Original....

  • Backstage Pass

    Erica Farber

  • Bad News Babysitting!

    Ken Lipman

    Hoping to get Scott's attention at Nichole's party, Alex is crushed when she remembers that she has promised to babysit the nine-year-old sons of her father's boss, and her ensuing struggles threaten to expose her secret powers. Original....

  • Barbados // Silver Sea

    Cynthia Wright

    He promised to protect her, but he seduced her instead.... 1818: Adrienne Beauvisage was both outraged and intrigued by the dashing rogue hired to be her protector. She knew little of the danger that lurked in the beautiful English countryside.....

  • A Basket of Wishes

    Rebecca Paisley

    "I AM CALLED SPLENDOR WHILE I AM WITH YOU I WILL DO WHATEVER YOU DESIRE." Clad only in her ankle-length copper tresses, Splendor lay atop the twelfth Duke of Heathcourte, who was speechless at having been thrown by his horse and caught by a violet...

  • Bearer of the Pipe

    Don Coldsmith

    From his auspicious birth, Wolf Pup has demonstrated an instinct for the ways of the wild. Yet it is in the lodge of his grandfather Singing Wolf that he seeks his true calling medicine man and future bearer of the Story Skins, the pipe, and the sacr...

  • Beauty vs. the Beast

    M.J. Rodgers

    And then there was one... When psychologist Damian Steele killed off the nasty half of his dual-personality patient, he never expected that the 'widow' would file a wrongful-death suit. Nor did he expect that a breathtaking beauty would be his sav...

  • Because You're Mine

    Nan Ryan

    STOLEN LAND, CAPTURED HEART Golden-haired Sabella Rios knew that she was the rightful owner of the Lindo Vista ranch in the lush cattle country of Southern California. But her legacy had been stolen by the father of handsome Burt Burnett, who now ...

  • Bed of Roses

    Suzanne Simmons

    AN ANGELIC LADY The last thing the beautiful and determinedly unmarried Lady Alyssa Gray wanted at her ancestral home was a man. Yet the Queen had heard about the "haunting" of Graystone Abbey and was sending an emissary to investigate. Since Alyssa...

  • Before I Wake

    Terry Lawrence

    In boardrooms throughout Chicago, the traders call him the Vampire, for Gabriel Fitzgerald never sleeps. Instead the darkly handsome financier works deep into the night, parlaying his brilliance and energy into a rapidly growing fortune. But Gabe kno...

  • Behind the Scenes of the Indian in the Cupboard

    Lynne Reid Banks

  • Belgarath the Sorcerer

    David Eddings

    Bestselling authors David and Leigh Eddings welcome readers back to the time before The Belgariad and The Malloreon series. Join them as they chronicle that fateful conflict between two mortally opposed Destinies, in a monumental war of men and kings...

  • The Best Baby-Sitter Ever

    Richard Scarry

  • The Best Man

    Phoebe Gallant

    ONE WOMAN -- Sometimes, a woman has to risk being daring and outrageous. For Esty Foster, that means getting out of her rut. Her job and her long-time relationship are going nowhere, her daughter has grown up... even her own mother has fallen in lo...

  • Bewitched

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    If there's one thing successful career woman Suzanne Griffin and her New Age friend Leslie agree on, it's that chivalry is dead and men aren't what they used to be. Until Leslie offers to conjure up a lover from yesteryear. Suddenly, there he is: Ian...

  • Beyond Ragnarok

    Mickey Zucker Reichert

    THEY'VE SURVIVED THE END OF THEIR UNIVERSE.... But now, nearly three hundred years after the time of Ragnarok--the death battle of the gods--humankind faces a new and potentially fat trial. The balance between Law and Chaos has long been maintaine...

  • Beyond Uhura

    Nichelle Nichols

    The personal story of Nichelle Nichols, a well-recognized cast member from the original Star Trek series, covers such areas as her love affair with Gene Roddenberry, career, the historic interracial kiss, and personal relationships. Reprint....

  • Billy the Kid: The Legend of El Chivato

    Elizabeth Fackler

    "When young Englishman John Tunstall arrived in Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory, in 1876, he felt he had found the true frontier at last. Here was the toughest little spot in America, and he jumped eagerly into the game of getting rich. Lawyer M...

  • Bird in a Cage

    Lee Martin

    To celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, Harry and Deb Ralston go out to dinner at the Bird Cage, a restaurant in downtown Fort Worth. Its fancy dinners are complemented by a floor show featuring a young woman on a flying trapeze, remindi...

  • A birthday basket for Tia

    Mora Pat

  • A Bittersweet Promise

    Grace Green

    After her fiance's betrayal, Jonquil made a promise -- never to fall in love again! But when Slade Alexander starts taking more than a casual interest in her, she's intrigued. The man is an enigma. Wealth and success have made him tough, yet ...

  • Black Trump

    George R.R. Martin

    Exposed by a reporter and her joker sidekick, the Cardshark Conspiracy plots to unleash the Black Trump, a biological weapon that destroys anyone with a wild card genetic structure, and time is running out for ace Mark Meadows. Original....

  • Blood and Thunder

    Max Allan Collins

    Journeying to New York to protect a controversial presidential candidate from a death threat, Nate Heller is unable to succeed in his task and confronts the local authorities as well as the political elite during his investigation. Reprint....

  • Blood Calls to Blood

    Elisabeth Waters
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • The Blood Countess

    Andrei Codrescu

    A “brilliant” novel of Elizabeth Bathory, the notorious sixteenth-century Hungarian aristocrat who bathed in the blood of virgins (St. Petersburg Times). Turmoil reigns in post-Soviet Hungary when journalist Drake Bathory-Kereshtur returns from A...

  • The Blood of the Covenant

    Brent Monahan

    A tale of unholy passion and unearthly surrenderPrinceton University librarians Simon Penn and Frederika Vanderveen have rescued an ancient document from dark, destructive forces. But to reveal its dead prophecy they must decipher a dead vampire's di...

  • Blueberry Train

    C.L.G. Martin

  • A Book of Opposites

    Walt Disney

    A book about opposites pits Percy, the pampered pug, against his mischievous nemesis, Meeko the Raccoon, as the rivals pair share ups and downs and ins and outs on the setting of the movie, Pocahontas. ...

  • Born in Ice

    Nora Roberts

    When the harsh storms of winter descended upon western Ireland the locals stayed indoors--and visitors stayed away. Brianna Concannon's bed-and-breakfast became a cold and empty place. But that was fine with Brianna. She enjoyed the peace and quiet, ...

  • Bowman's Line

    Brian Andrew Laird

    An adventure writer who loves the beauty and danger of the desert stumbles on illicit activities while on assignment, his photographer is killed, and he escapes--only to find himself surrounded by murders and next in line....

  • The Boy's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN... Who could ever want to harm two young boys, ages five and six? When the boys are half brothers to Henry VI, King of England, the list is long and distinguished. A lady in their mother's household flees with the boys t...

  • Bra Melting

    Janni Lee Simner
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Brandy & Bullets

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    MURDER BY THE BOOK Cozy Cabot Cove, Maine, has a country luncheonette, but not much high culture. Mystery author Jessica Fletcher is the only writer in residence, but the renovation of the local Worrell mansion into an art colony may bring scores ...

  • A Breach in the Watershed

    Douglas Niles

    AND THE. PURE WATER SHALL RUN FOUL... For centuries, the pristine lands of the Watershed were at peace: Dalethica, the land of life; Faerine, the realm of magic; and Duloth-Trol. land of death and decay, where the Darkwater flows. But now, the Wat...

  • Breach of Trust

    Preston Pairo

    Baltimore lawyer Harry Walsh has been protected by mobster Sam Giardino since Harry's father was killed by a bullet meant for Sam, but now Harry's police-officer brother is dead and Harry cannot figure out which side Sam is on...

  • Bride of the Lion

    Elizabeth Stuart

    In an age of chivalry tainted by bloodshed and betrayal, two unlikely lovers are swept up by a passion strong as steel, sensual as velvet; and eternal as the stars... JOCELYN MONTAGNE Reckless, exotic daughter of a Celtic noblewoman and a Norma...

  • The Bride Price

    Ginna Gray

    NOT THE MARRYING KIND... Hell would freeze before a mere female brought proud Wyatt Sommersby to his knees. The macho millionaire always got what he wanted -- and then moved on. But Maggie Muldoon proved immune to Wyatt's money, and indifferen...

  • The Bridesmaid

    Leah Laiman

    Oscar-winning movie star Melinda Myles has left Hollywood behind to wed the charismatic rebel leader Diego Roca in San Domenico. But her husband's newly acquired lust for power is stirring up trouble in paradise--and threatens to shatter their marria...

  • Brigid the Bad

    Kathleen Leverich

  • Brittany Butterfield and the Back-To-School Blues

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    Dreading the new school year and struggling with a poor self-image, Brittany Butterfield is befriended by Nathan, a teenage guardian angel, who encourages her to think positively and pursue her dream of becoming a writer. Original....

  • Bronx Angel

    Ed Dee

    A wall in the Bronx has suddenly started seeping holy water, and the faithful mob the place, lining up for their share. When a car containing a dead local mobster pulls up in front of the crowd, the case seems simple. But in New York, nothing is easy...

  • Brothers No More

    William F. Buckley Jr.

    Bestselling author William F. Buckley, Jr., offers a terrific new novel -- in the gloriously gripping tradition of Howard Fast, Irwin Shaw, and Jeffery Archer -- of men and women caught between the force of history and the power of their ow...

  • Burn Out

    Alan Scholefield

    Dr. Anne Vernon has recently taken a job as the only woman in an all-male prison. Her role there is twofold: She must cater to the physical well-being of the prisoners and also investigate their mental problems - a job description that is as challeng...

  • Burning Angel

    James Lee Burke

    A gangster’s journal and a property dispute spell trouble for a Louisiana deputy in this hard-boiled murder mystery by a New York Times"bestselling author.The Fontenot family has lived as sharecroppers on Bertrand land for as long as anyone can r...

  • Call It Paradise

    Mary Jane Lloyd

    Molly and Porter Drummond: the ideal engaged couple. Never was a man so suitable. So eminently acceptable. So...appropriate. Molly feels a lot of tenderness for Porter; she thinks it might even be love. But...no fireworks. Then two surprising and ...

  • Camping Out

    Richard Scarry

  • Candy Corn!: Scratch and Sniff Fun!

    Bea Sloboder

  • Canyon Moon

    Carol Finch

    SHE WAS RISKING EVERYTHING FOR A MAN... The accident that killed her father brought Elyssa Rawlins Cutler to a crossroads in her life. She took a fresh look at her fabulous corporate job in Oklahoma City and her on-and-off fiance who had the scruple...

  • Cara and the Terrible Teeners

    Elaine L. Schulte

  • Career Day

    Margaret Ball
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Carnival

    Vincent Courtney

  • Carriers

    Patrick Lynch

    A sudden outbreak occurs deep in the rain forest. A team of American biological-warfare experts is brought in to discover its source. They find only corpses - and riddles without answers. Because this virus feeds on its victims quickly silently, merc...

  • The Case of the Accidental Heiress

    Victoria Pade

    THE CASE: An "accidental" heiress THE CLIENT: Maggie Morgan was dead. At least, that's what everyone told her. But as she pursed her lips and moved her muscles, she knew she was very much alive.... And in a heap of trouble! THE DETECTIVE: Viril...

  • Castle of Horror

    Don L. Wulffson

  • Cat-Dogs

    A. Finnis

    A collection of seven short tales includes the title story, in which a hybrid creature that is part dog and part cat seems to be the ideal household pet, until it is discovered that the animal likes to hunt people. Original....

  • Catch Me If You Can

    Victoria Leigh

    Just because she didn't know it didn't means she wasn't his.... Intrigued by Abigail Roberts's mysterious invitation, Tanner Flynn faced the woman who was his fiercest rival -- and vowed to explore the heat that still sparked between them! He'd a...

  • Cattail Moon

    Jean Thesman

    Hearing a musical, enchanting voice coming to her from across the marshes, Julia rushes out and briefly glimpses a beautiful, white-clad figure and is drawn into the mystery of the unknown girl and a boy named Luke. Reprint....

  • Cave of Fear

    Don L. Wulffson

    While hiking in the mountains, the reader is lead into a mysterious cave full of gold, odd fauna, and human remains, and is presented with more than twenty possible ways out, in an interactive novel. Original....

  • Celia

    Lois Menzel

    SHE THOUGHT SHE'D FOUND THE PERFECT HUSBAND. BUT LOVE CAN THWART EVEN THE BEST-LAID PLANS. ... Celia, the last of the five Demming daughters to appear on the Marriage Mart, made the match that would be the envy of her elder sisters. For soon she w...

  • Charlie and Tyler at the Seashore

    Helen Craig

  • Cherokee Dawn T

    S. Dellin Genell

    With her seventeen-year-old hormones running amok and propriety and good sense consequently abandoned, Lacey Longbaugh heads into the Oklahoma Territory of the 1860s and finds dangerous romance with part-Cherokee Ridge Chekote. A PASSION BEYOND HE...

  • Cheyenne Challenge

    William W. Johnstone

    BLOOD ON THE SNOW Mountain men are skilled at survival. Preacher, the greatest of all those warriors of the forest, will kill anything--beast or man--that threatens his survival. Ten years ago, he taught this violent lesson to gun-crazed Ezra Peas...

  • Chickamauga and Chattanooga

    John Bowers

    Revisiting two Civil War battles that helped turn the tide to the North's favor, this rich, evocative history of Chickamauga and Chattanooga recalls the violence and valor shown on this important battlefield. Reprint....

  • Children of Rebecca

    Vivien Annis Bailey

  • A Christmas Gift

    Glendon Swarthout

    A youngster relates how his grandparents donated a valuable family heirloom, their melodeon, to the church in an unselfish act of giving one Christmas during the Depression when they had nothing to give each other...

  • Christmas Story

    Golden Books

  • City of God

    Tom Grimes

    The murder of two policemen in a turn-of-the-millennium city sparks violent riots and multimedia controversies, and when it is revealed that the murders were spurred by an underground gangsta rap tape, the tape soars to the top of the charts on the r...

  • Claudia and the Recipe for Danger

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! When a big baking contest comes to Stoneybrook, Claudia can't wait to enter. Her excitement is catching, and soon the whole BSC is involved. But Claud's very first cake falls, even though she...

  • Cloud Castles

    Michael Scott Rohan

    The Spiral: where past and present meet, where myth and legend infiltrate the mundane world, where Hy Brasil and Babylon are but a short voyage away - via the cloud archipelagos...You can't always find it - but it can always find you.And when it find...

  • Cold Light

    John Harvey

    Struggling through the daily beat during the Christmas season, police inspector Charlie Resnick investigates a woman's disappearance and realizes that it is linked to a sinister chain of events. Reprint....

  • Come Back, Amelia Bedelia

    Peggy Parish

    In this vibrant edition, newly recolored by the original illustrator, Amelia Bedelia's job search gets her into another ‘homonym hot seat because she does what she's told'literally. For example, she gets a job as a file clerk, only she takes out a ...

  • Come the Dawn

    Christina Skye

    Dearest Reader, If you like adventure--along with a heady blend of passion--I'm certain you'll enjoy this second book in the exploits of the eccentric and aristocratic Delameres. Handsome, cynical, and exquisitely charming, the twelfth earl of ...

  • Conflicts of Interest

    John Martel

    Maverick small-town lawyer Seth "Cowboy" Cameron thinks he's struck gold when he and sweetheart Rosie Wheeler make it to San Francisco and he lands a job at the prestigious firm Miller & McGrath. Surviving on adrenaline and broken promises, he's soon...

  • Conquer the Night

    Selina MacPherson

    He is tall and lean, and shockingly sensual; a devilishly handsome charmer with the look of a fallen angel. Lovely, sensible Fallon Deane is stunned and totally captivated by the man who boldly presents himself as the new minister. But he is not wh...

  • Conquerors' Heritage

    Timothy Zahn

    In Conquerors' Pride, Timothy Zahn, Hugo Award -- winning author of the New York Times bestselling Star Wars trilogy, unfurled an epic tale of drama and courage as the interstellar Commonwealth faced savage invasion by alien starships of unknown orig...

  • Conspicuous Consumption

    Stewart Von Allmen

    Pursuing anonymous existences as normal American teenagers, a group of individuals know as the ""Lost Pups"" is summoned by their Garou parents to fight the evil Wyrm, who has abducted the Garou champion. ...

  • Counterfeit Husband

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    TO DO: - Get a haricut - Cancel appointments - Hire husband? It was the only way Chloe Sumner could protect herself from a lecherous business rival on a luxury cruise. But what "husband" could Chloe trust to spend every day -- and every night -...

  • The Cousin War

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are psyched when  their favorite cousin, Robin, comes to visit. They  can't wait for Robin to meet their friends_and  maybe even find a date for the Girls-ask-boys dance  at Sweet Valley Middle School.

    ...

  • The Cowboy and the Cossack

    Merline Lovelace

    THE RELUCTANT RULER Alexandra Jordan was hardly thrilled to be appointed leader of her late grandfather's ancient Russian tribe, but she had to help her people, who were long on troubles and short on everything else, especially weapons -- and men!...

  • Cowboy for Hire

    Dorsey Kelley

    Cowboy Wanted: For Bent Murray, winning the world rodeo championship had happened in another lifetime--one he wanted to forget. But sassy cowgirl Kate Monahan forced him to recall his glorious past--and other pleasures he'd long since set aside .....

  • Cowboys Don't Quit

    Anne McAllister

    ROUND 'EM UP, COWBOY! Lu Tanner wasn't afraid of looking danger rip in the eye. He'd wrestled his way through his share of ornery situations, and he'd never run from anything--or anyone--in his life! Except once.... Jillian Cran...

  • Creepy Kokey

    Sally Kindberg

    A hilarious picture book warns readers of a spooky place that no one dares to visit during the full moon, when creepy creatures get together for a dance, and an attached sound button plays a ghostly rendition of the "Hokey Pokey."...

  • Crime of Passion

    Lynne Graham

    Her crime was to have loved him... "You go to pieces when I touch you.." However hard she tried, Georgie Morrison couldn't deny how physically attractive she found Rafael Bernaza. But four years ago he had devastated her emotions ...

  • The Crystal Heart

    Katherine Deauxville

    IT WAS A TIME OF POMP AND PAGEANTRY, ILLICIT DESIRE... Emmeline gave herself to a sensual stranger in a night aglow with candlelight and mystery. Then she sent him away. Wed by arrangement, Emmeline desperately needed to provide her aged husband wit...

  • The Cursed Land

    Teri McLaren
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    DARK LEGACY Centuries ago, hungry for power, the wizard Nohr destroyed the Clan Tree of Cridhe, trying to harness its magic for his own uses. Nohr's deed brought a curse upon his family, divided the Clan--and plunged the island of Cridhe into gene...

  • Dance of the Mongoose

    T.J. Phillips

    Journeys into the private world of Joseph Wilder, a struggling novelist whose approach to criminal evil is strictly literary, until a trip to the Virgin Islands becomes his first case as a real-life detective. Reprint....

  • Dance on the Wind

    Terry C. Johnston

    Sixteen-year-old Titus Bass feared one fate more than any other: never to experience the great wilderness or the wildness inside himself. So late one night he snatched a squirrel gun and a handful of biscuits, fled into the woods, and never looked ba...

  • Danger in D.C.

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Dangerous Dr. Octopus

    Michael Teitelbaum

  • Dangerous Minds

    LouAnne Johnson

    She bullied, bluffed, and bribed her students into caring about school.

    And if that didn't work, the pretty, petite ex-marine told them she'd been trained to kill with her bare hands.

    They were called the class from Hell-thirty-four inn...

  • The Dark Son

    Denise Lang

  • Dark Star

    Sheryl Lynn

    The greatest danger was her own memory Fact: Twenty-five long years ago, Star Jones's parents had vanished. Now Star was haunted by dark images--were they nightmares or actual memories? With no real evidence, no family and no friends to help her, ...

  • Dark Trail

    James Reasoner

    Struggling to maintain order in the face of the transcontinental railroad, rivaling miners, and a justice-seeking marshal, Cole Tyler and Billy Casebolt encounter more trouble in a vengeful stranger from New Orleans. Original....

  • Daughter of the Drow

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The child's mother will be leaving this house," Gromph Baenre told the elf-size golem. "See to it, and inform her family that she met with an unfortunate accident on the way to the Bazaar." The stone servant bowed and then disappeared into the wal...

  • Daughters of the Grail // Children of Destiny

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    Thirteenth-century France. Bridget has grown up mastering the mystical gifts of her ancestor, Mary Magdalene, whose unbroken female lineage has kept a legacy of wisdom alive for a thousand years. But the all-powerful Catholic Church has sworn to dest...

  • Dawn of Liberty

    Michael Phillips

    Political unrest shakes the foundations of a war-torn country -- and of the McCallum family as they fight for their faith in the Secret of the Rose series.   Many years after their daring escape from a divided Germany, Sabina and Matthew McCallu...

  • Deadly Pursuit

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

    On the verge of turning fifty, Silas Pine defies advice to tend to his bad heart and travels to Grafton, Wyoming, determined to set things right with his son, but the reunion is not quite what he had planned when he arrives in the middle of a bank ro...

  • Death at Gallows Green

    Robin Paige

    A Body in McGregor's Garden An American living abroad in Victoria's England, Kathryn Ardleigh spends her days penning pseudonymous "shilling shockers" for an eager, sensation-hungry populace. But now that she is sole mistress of Bishop's Keep, Kat...

  • Death Au Gratin

    Richard Grayson

    When a young chambermaid is found dead, bitten by a cobra concealed in the bed of notorious libertine Armand de Périgord, Inspector Jean-Paul Gautier is certain that she was not the intended victim. The charismatic de Périgord is very wealthy and h...

  • Death Dream

    Ben Bova

    It's the ultimate adult playground. Cyber World  will use the latest technology in computer produced  virtual reality to provide thrills and chills  beyond any ever experienced at a theme park. Here  children of all ages will live out their w...

  • Defiant

    Patricia Potter

    Only the desire for vengeance had spurred Wade Foster on, until the last of the men who had destroyed his family lay sprawled in the dirt. Now, badly wounded, the rugged outlaw closed his eyes against the pain...and awoke to a tender touch. He'd neve...

  • The Diamond Cat

    Marian Babson

    THE CAT WHO SWALLOWED MORE THAN A CANARY... A lifetime of craving more cuddly companionship than her hectoring mother has led fortyish Bettina Bilby to board her neighbors' felines for a long' holiday weekend: an expectant tabby, a pampered blue-e...

  • The Diary of a Rapist

    Evan S. Connell

    This unnerving work is a contemplation of the middle"class existence in a changing world, narrated by an unstable man held hostage by his deteriorating mental state.The story begins with the unhappy marriage of junior clerk Earl Summerfield to the ...

  • The Difference

    Suzanne Goodwin

    Eleanor finds herself pregnant by an old friend, Hugo, while at Oxford. The couple marry and settle in Brazil where Eleanor is tempted into a passionate affair with a handsome Brazilian. She realizes too late how important her husband and child are t...

  • Disney's Pocahontas: Nature Guide: Woods and Wildlife

    Gina Ingoglia

  • Disney's Winnie the Pooh's Nightmare

    Dennis Durrell

    Letting his imagination run wild with such colorful and menacing creatures as jagulars, woozles, and heffalumps, Winnie the Pooh is in for a very scary nightmare and wakes up just in time to avoid getting eaten up....

  • The Ditched Blonde

    Harold Adams

    When amateur sleuth Carl Wilcox wanders into Greenhill, South Dakota, intent on earning enough money to get out of town, he finds himself investigating the "accidental death four years earlier of the lovely and popular Genevieve Sinclair...

  • The Dollhouse

    David Pierce

  • Dolly Is Dead

    J.S. Borthwick

    EVERYBODY LOVES DOLLY BEAUGARD... At least that's what Maine college professor and amateur sleuth Sarah Deane always thought. But when Dolly's bloated body washes ashore on the same spot as the drunken Gattling brothers the day before, the police ...

  • Don't Give up the Ghost: The Yearling Book of Original Ghost Stories

    David Gale

  • Done Driftin'

    Janis Flores

    The Dunleavy Legacy Octavia Whitworth Dunleavy - formidable matriarch of the family - wants to hand over once-renowned Dunleavy Farm to her three grandchildren. Will they accept her offer? And will they be able to overcome old fueds and betrayals ...

  • Double Dumped

    Betsy Haynes

  • Dr. Nightingale Goes the Distance

    Lydia Adamson

    ON A HIGH HORSE ... FOR MURDER Intending to forget about her sick cats and ailing cows for one night, Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale, DVM., is all dressed up for a champagne-sipping pre-race gala at a posh thoroughbred farm. She never expects death to...

  • Dragonslayer's Return

    R.A. Salvatore

    THE FINAL BATTLE It's been four years since Gary Leger slew a dragon and returned home from Faerie. And almost half a year since his father died. Ever since that fateful day, he's been aching to take his wife, Diane, leave Earth behind, and go bac...

  • E-Mail Mystery

    Erica Farber

  • Eight Classic Stories

    Golden Books

  • Embrace the Night

    Amanda Ashley

    MASTER OF DARKNESS, MISTRESS OF LIGHT A creature doomed to wander the earth in eternal darkness, he searched the ages for someone to share the endless night of his existence, for that one woman who would recognize the man within the monster. An...

  • Emerald Flame

    Patricia Hickman

    Having fulfilled a seven-year sentence in the wilds of Australia, Rachel Langley finally obtains her freedom, but when her only friend is murdered by an unknown assassin, Rachel must flee for her life...

  • Enchanted

    Lucinda Edmonds

    At just 17, Madelaine Vincent is tipped as the most promising young ballerina of her generation. But in the bright and giddy world of 1980s London, when anything seems possible, Maddy's triumph suddenly turns to tragedy. Only courage will allow her t...

  • The End of Evolution

    Peter Ward

    In a highly praised study, a paleontologist explores the clues to the extinctions of the past and shows that another great extinction is underway now due to the destruction of the environment. Reprint....

  • An English Alliance

    Dawn Lindsey

    At war with love Proud and beautiful Sorcha MacKenzie had been taught by her Scots father to hate the British with all her heart. That deep dislike flamed into fury when English troops invaded her family's new homeland in America and burned the na...

  • Every Mother for Himself

    Ed Jones

  • The Evil Moon

    R.L. Stine

    Overwhelmed by his desire to own a particular sleek, white Cataluna car, Bryan becomes willing to steal and eventually kill for the object of his desire, unware that the vehicle harbors an evil nature that threatens to destroy him. Original....

  • Exchange Program

    Susan Shwartz
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    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • The Eyes of Derek Archer

    Vickie York

    Derek Archer had been called a killer.. . He'd been hunted, stalked and pursued as a fugitive--until he'd vanished altogether. Shortly after the case against Derek Archer was closed, the man managed to escape and create a new identity. Then he set...

  • Faithful Heart

    Al Lacy

    Angel of Mercy Series: Book TwoFOR SOME SOLDIERS, THE BATTLE never ends. Dottie Harper fears for her children's safety. Her husband, Jerrod, is struggling with dementia brought on by shell shock during the Civil War. It's as though there are two...

  • Fallen Skies

    Philippa Gregory

    PEACE HAS COME -- IT IS TIME TO LIVE AGAIN Singer Lily Valance wants to forget the war. She vows to live for the present and enjoy the music and glitter of the frantic 1920s. Captain Stephen Winters joins in on the post-war frenzy, and falls in lo...

  • False Truths

    Ryan Ann Hunter

    Haunted by the death of a mother she never knew, Cajun-raised artist Bonnibelle Sarvaunt begins an apprenticeship with an eccentric master in New Orleans and realizes that she is being stalked. Original....

  • A Family of Her Own

    Ellen Tanner Marsh

    A sweet little girl, all alone in the world, had been entrusted to Jussy Waring's care, and she was determined to shelter her from any more heartache. But Jussy hadn't counted on the big-city stranger who came to small-town South Carolina to take awa...

  • Fantasia

    Golden Books

  • Fantasy Wife

    Julie Kistler

    He'd been blacklisted by baby-sitters everywhere Single dad Alex Thornhill could manage multimillion-dollar deals, but he couldn't manage his own children ... nor could anyone else! What his two little girls needed most was a mommy. What Alex need...

  • A Far and Deadly Cry

    Teri Holbrook

    BURIED SECRETS The crime scene showed that a cunning mind and a passionate hatred lay behind the killing of Lisa Stillwell. But New Scotland Yard would not have been called to this remote Hampshire village if the baby-sitter's employer hadn't been...

  • Far from the Storm

    Robert Elmer

  • A Faraway Drummer

    Robert Bristow

  • Farenheit 666

    Andrew Harman

    Everybody needs a holiday, and demons are no exception. There may be an important election going on in the hellish city of Mortropolis, but most minds are on forthcoming breaks -- maybe possession of a teenage nymphomaniac for a fortnight, or canoein...

  • Felicity's Pastimes

    Valerie Tripp

  • Fever Pitch

    Elizabeth Neff Walker

    Neurologist Dr. Nan LeBaron and emergency room chief Dr. Steven P. Winstead, are fighting for their medical lives. They are co-defendents in a malpractice suit after their best efforts failed to save a patient's life. But even as the drama of their l...

  • Field Trip

    John Peel

    After talking their teacher into organizing a field trip to the other side of the Wormhole, Jake Sisko and his classmates become alarmed when a Cardassian raider shoots down their runabout, trapping them on a planet run by plants. Original....

  • Fifth Quarter

    Tanya Huff

    THE SONG OF DEATH Bannon and Vree, brother and sister, they are assassins of the highest caliber who have long plied their trade for the Havalkeen army. But all their skill and experience cannot save them from a magic-sprung trap that will see the...

  • Fire Beneath the Ice

    Helen Brooks

    He wanted passion, not commitment! Lydia's new boss was a powerfully charismatic man. But Lydia dared not surrender to the dangerously sweet attraction she felt toward Wolf Strade.... He might be icy cool on the outside, but he was all fire an...

  • Fire in the Dark

    Susan Macias

    SHE FOUGHT FOR WHAT WAS HERS As head of her family's ranch, Regan O'Neil didn't have time to think about her heart--not when she was busy fighting a bitter range war. And besides, frivolous things like romance were for pretty ladies who never muddie...

  • Firehand

    Andre Norton

    Preparing to travel through time in order to face a band of predatory aliens, Ross Murdoch plans to leap into the feudal period of Dominion, where he can help win a war that will bring defeat to the aliens. Reprint....

  • First Frontier

    Diane Carey

    While testing a new shielding device, the U.S.S. Enterprise is caught in the middle of a Klingon/Romulan battle. When the Enterprise crew rescues a lifepod, they are confronted by a Klingon who claims to know nothing of human existence. Convinced the...

  • Flood Fish

    Robyn Eversole

  • The Flying Ship

    Andrew Lang

  • Follow Your Heart

    Susanna Tamaro

    Fearing her encroaching death, an elderly woman decides to write a long letter to her granddaughter, in the shape of a diary. Part love-letter and part confession, it is a bequest of advice from an old woman who acknowledges that she has always bowed...

  • For All Time

    Angela Benson

    When their happy dreams are challenged by the unexpected loss of a job, newlyweds Joshua and Gloria Martin find themselves confronting unexpected stresses that threaten to break up their happy marriage. Original....

  • For Destiny or Desire

    Angela Devine

    This is the story of Cleopatra, and of a love that changed history. It is a story of divided loyalties and frustrated ambition; the dilemma of a ruler who has to sacrifice her very self or sacrifice the identity of her country....

  • Fortune's Wheel

    Lisanne Norman

    MIND-LINKED They had been brought together by mutual need when both their peoples were faced with the threat of the warlike Valtegans, an enemy bent on conquering any other race it encountered. She was Carrie, the daughter of the human governor...

  • Francesca

    Sally Wentworth

    Poor little rich girl.... Francesca Brodey had the best of everything: beauty, clothes, even men! But, however much she had, it didn't alter how empty she felt inside. She wanted a man who could love her for what she was, not what she possesse...

  • Franklin and Me: A Book about Me, Written and Drawn by Me

    Paulette Bourgeois

  • Fraternity

    John Galsworthy

    Famed English playwright and novelist John Galworthy, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932, first gained critical and popular acclaim for a series of novels and short stories called The Forsyte Saga, which followed multiple generati...

  • Free Willy: Cry of the Dolphin

    Steve Korte

  • Frog Power

    Beverly Lewis

    Can Stacy Master Her Fear Of Frogs In Time For Easter?It's the annual Pet Day at school, and Stacy Henry isn't very happy! Jason Birchall has brought his new bullfrog, Croaker. He's sitting on the desk behind Stacy's, breathing on her hair!Stacy hate...

  • From This Day Forward

    Deborah Cox

    MAIL-ORDER BRIDE Caroline Marshall had taken a terrible chance in marrying a stranger by proxy. Of course, Jason Sinclair wasn't really a stranger -- hadn't she fallen in love with him through his touching letters? But here, on a remote co...

  • Frontier Justice

    Don Hepler

    A determined young girl loses her entire family in a single snap of a tiny piece of metal. A guilty cowboy roams the wilderness in an effort to confront his own personal demons. A cocky rich boy from the East learns some hard lessons while becoming a...

  • Gentle Rain

    Evelyn Rogers
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    Set in different parts of the U.S. in the 1800s, each story focuses on a different season and each heroine's personality reflects the season's temperament. ELAINE BARBIERI - WINTER MOON Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again...

  • Ghost and Pete

    Dayle Ann Dodds

    The very friendly ghost Pete meets in the attic of his family's new house is more than willing to join him for a night of trick-or-treating.  And although Ghost is a terrible trick-or-treater, he turns out to be a terrific friend.  "A surefire ho...

  • Ghost Invasion

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    It’s almost Halloween, and the Castle Court Kids are ready to raise some ghostsThe old Anderson barn is haunted. According to sixteen-year-old Bettina Katzenbach, the ghosts of Addie Anderson and her bandit boyfriend return every Halloween. Ent...

  • The Ghost of Goose Island

    Erica Farber

  • Ghostlight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    What is the Truth? Truth Blackburn's father thought he knew what it was. Thorne Blackburn and his followers settled at Shadow's Gate, a magnificent old house in upstate New York, and sought the Truth about life through ritual and magic. One night,...

  • The Ghosts of Sleath

    James Herbert

    Can a ghost haunt a ghost?Can the dead reach out and touch the living?Can ancient evil be made manifest?These are the questions that confront paranormal investigator David Ash in James Herbert's The Ghosts of Sleath, when Ash is sent to the picturesq...

  • The Gift

    Rosalyn Alsobrook
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    Trapped in a car wreck, Crissy Townson makes a plea for deliverance -- only to awaken in a frontier town, where a handsome sheriff accuses her of helping to rob a bank.......

  • Gillian

    Laurel Oke Logan

  • The Girl from Addis

    Ted Allbeury

  • The Girl, the Fish, and the Crown

    Marilee Heyer

  • The Glass Angels

    Susan Hill (1)

  • Goddess for a Day

    Harry Turtledove
    in

    Here they come, and they're out for blood. For too long, they say, have hot blooded babes in brass bras and chain-link bikinis been held up to scorn as the embodiment of male fantasy wish-fulfillment and non-functionality. You think their swords won'...

  • Golden Harvest

    Lori Copeland
    in

    Set in different parts of the U.S. in the 1800s, each story focuses on a different season and each heroine's personality reflects the season's temperament. ELAINE BARBIERI - WINTER MOON Judd McBain was a widower, certain he would never love again...

  • Gone to Texas

    Jason Manning

    Called upon by President Andrew Jackson, Flintlock Jones and his grandson Christopher Groves join the fight for Texas's independence from Mexico and encounter kidnappers, river pirates, cutthroats, and bounty hunters. Original....

  • Grandma's Smile

    Elaine Moore

    "Kim and her grandma take their huge, homegrown pumpkin to the annual fall festival. After fun and food at the fair, Kim carves a smiling face on her pumpkin, inspired by her grandma's special smile. All the experiences of a country fall festival are...

  • Great Writers and Kids Write Spooky Stories

    Martin H. Greenberg