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New Books List: 612 titles

  • Dead of Night

    Alex Abella

    Combination lawyer and private detective Charlie Morrell must face down not only an evil santero leading a cult in ritual torture, but his own bloody past that separates him from his wife and infant son...

  • Dead Man on Campus

    Tony Abrams

    In danger of flunking out, Josh Miller, in college on a pre-med scholarship, and his rich roommate, Cooper, who's only interested in having fun, decide they can take advantage of a suicidal student to keep them in college...

  • Annie's Wild Ride

    Alina Adams

    He'd stop at nothing to save his family. . . Her Only Love From their first meeting, Annie and Paul knew they'd be rivals, but nothing prepared them for the fiery passion they shared for flying--and each other. Together they embarked on...

  • Beware the Laughing Gull

    Lydia Adamson

    FIELD GUIDE TO MURDER Lucy Wayles, retired librarian and hawk-eyed leader of the Olmsted Irregulars, New York City's oddest birdwatchers, admires our fine feathered friends and sharply observes that humans often love unwisely, act unjustly, and en...

  • Mockingbird

    Allan Ahlberg

    The creator of the Jolly Postman books revisits the traditional lullaby, as Mama, Papa, Polly, Rosie, and Granny make it a special day for the family's new little baby, captured in warm, nostalgic color illustrations....

  • I Sweep the Sun Off Rooftops

    Hanan Al-Shaykh

    Since the U.S. publication of Women of Sand and Myrrh--which has now sold more than 35,000 copies and was selected as one of the Fifty Best Books of 1992 by Publishers Weekly--Hanan al-Shaykh has attracted an ever larger following for her dazzling ta...

  • Space Invaders!

    Sarah Albee

  • Fathom

    Steve Alten

    Astronomer Dr. Mick Gabriel's belief that a natural catastrophe is imminent comes true in the form of a primal, evil being lying in the sea, a creature foretold in Mayan legend. By the author of Meg. ...

  • Blackbird Singing

    Jay Amberg

    Famous athlete Sky Walker's world crashes down around him when his nine-year-old daughter Tonya disappears, and a stunned public finds out through an obsessed media that the genius who kidnapped her threatens the whole world...

  • The Extra Man

    Jonathan Ames

    Meet Louis Ives: well-groomed, romantic, and as captivating as an F. Scott Fitzgerald hero. Only this hero has a penchant for ladies clothes, and he's lost his teaching post at Princeton's Pretty Brook Day School after an unfortunate incident involvi...

  • A Recipe for Bees

    Gail Anderson-Dargatz

    Gail Anderson-Dargatz's evocative novel of one woman's simple but passionately lived life reminds of us of the pleasure to be found in human contact and simple, natural things.Raised by her silent but companionable father and a mother who kept bees, ...

  • Captive Heart

    Caroline Anderson

    Working holidays: new people, new places -- unexpected hot spots of love... Escorting her cousin's small daughter to join the family in Malaysia, nurse Gabrielle Andrews is taking time out for a holiday. The last thing she expects is Jed Dani...

  • Trouble on Cloud City

    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...

  • Raven

    V.C. Andrews

    ALL SHE WANTED WAS AN END TO BROKEN PROMISES.... Her Mama made it painfully clear that she wished Raven had never been horn. But even after she was sent to live with her kindly aunt and domineering uncle, humiliating secrets lurked--and threatened...

  • The Departure

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because they find us ... well we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in r...

  • The Discovery

    K.A. Applegate

    The blue box Elfangor used to create the Animorphs has been found by a kid named David. David has no idea what he has -- or what it can do. But Marco does. And when he sees David with it, he knows the Animorphs have to get that box. At any cost. B...

  • Fire Song

    Catherine Archer

    THE WRONG BRIDE To the dashing Roland St. Sebastian, a king-decreed marriage to the biddable daughter of his enemy was bad enough . . . but when the blushing bride turned out to be her spitfire sister, Meredyth, Roland's wrath was boundless. And...

  • Got Game?

    Robb Armstrong

    All That and Then Some!

    Patrick Ewing doesn't know what to do. His homey, Alonzo "Zo" Mourning, is acting totally wack!

    Zo and his friend Keith Van Horn used to hoop it together all the time. But ever since Zo joined the Bull...

  • Eyes of the Empress

    Camille Bacon-Smith

    THE DOWAGER EMPRESS' CRYSTALS were vanishing. Two of the three known crystals had already disappeared, despite the high level of security at the Smithsonian and University Museums. It was obviously only a matter of time until the unknown thief attem...

  • The Ranger and the Widow Woman

    Stella Bagwell

    A MAN TO TRUST She was wary of men--and the law. And then single mother Violet O'Dell and her son were rescued by Texas Ranger Charlie Pardee, who was guilty on both counts. But she needed a ride--and a job--so when Charlie offered her both, she w...

  • Inheritance

    Keith Baker

    The troubles in Northern Ireland have been over for twenty years, but for Jack McCallan they are just beginning. Inheritance is a timely and electrifying thriller of political violence by a veteran newsman who has covered Northern Ireland for years...

  • Sense and Sensuality

    Robert Barnard
    in

    A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...

  • The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

    Sebastian Barry

    Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the finest book to come out of Europe this year," The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty is acclaimed Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's lyrical tale of a fugitive everyman.Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days...

  • Hard Candy

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    He's crossed the line no homicide cop ever should. He's involved with a suspect. Emotionally and physically. And it's something he knows is wrong. But that's nothing. She's got a whole list -- a murdered husband, vicious threats, missing money...

  • The Necessary Cat

    Nicola Bayley

    Four years in the making, and reflecting the author's extensive collection of feline knickknacks, a finely illustrated album uses a variety of styles and media to depict a plethora of cat lore, literature, toys, plants, and kinds....

  • Agatha Raisin and the Wellspring of Death

    M.C. Beaton

    AGATHA IS AT IT AGAIN! This time, the feisty sleuth stumbles upon the victim of an unnatural death in a Cotswold village's famous natural spring. Who was the unlucky corpse? The Ancombe Parish Council chairman--and the only uncommitted member voti...

  • Sandy Paws Is Coming to Town!

    Alan Benjamin

  • Lift the Flaps...If You Dare!

    Alan Benjamin

  • The Surprise Baby

    Nikki Benjamin

    A PRACTICAL MARRIAGE Maybe that was all Jane Elliot's maddeningly attractive boss, Maxwell Hamilton, had to offer her, but blinded by love, Jane accepted nonetheless. And she hoped to have all the time in the world to change his mind about his no...

  • The Northeast Girls

    Cherie Bennett

    Four girls--Sierra, Kimber, Tamara, and Allison--confront family dramas, boyfriend problems, mutual envy, and even danger as they gear up to compete in the Northeast division of the first Miss Teen Spirit contest. Original....

  • The Door Through Washington Square

    Elaine Bergstrom

    Dierdre MacCallum is summoned to her great-grandmum Bridget's house to settle her affairs. She opens the sun room's french doors to the sunlight-- and finds a doorway to the past, seventy-two years ago.

    There she will meet great-grandmum as a you...

  • Perfect Timing

    Olga Bicos

    Dearest Cherish, Someone tried to kill me today. Watch your back. Contact Conor, he'll know what to do. P.S. You should have picked me, little girl They survived a deadly airplane crash. Conor took the blame, Alec disappeared and Cherish's life ...

  • The Surgeon's Daughter

    Campbell Black; Thomas Weldon

    When Andrea Malle is invited to her father's isolated home in the dead of winter, she finds his murdered body in the snow behind the house. From that moment on she's faced with menace and violence as she steps inside the shadowy and terrifying realit...

  • Baby Love

    Toni Blair

    TRY A LITTLE TENDERNESS Holly Blake never expected to raise her baby daughter Emily alone... but the young widow has learned to take life one day at a time. Holly is confident she can handle whatever happens next especially with help from her new ...

  • I Saw You First

    Cindy Blake

    Three very different couples find themselves caught up in an ambitious plan to launch the "Infomercial" in the UK. As the six characters interact in their business, social and romantic lives, each of them becomes much less straightforward than they f...

  • Cat and Mouse in the Night

    Tomek Bogacki

  • Twice Seven

    Ben Bova

    From the renowned author of Mars comes a collection of fantastical stories detailing situations involving famous figures, including the fate of John F. Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe brought to light by Howard Hughes, a futuristic time traveler w...

  • Say Goodbye to Daddy

    Susan Bowden

    Kiss daddy goodbye When Vanessa Marston met Colin Craigmore, the charismatic heir to a venerable Scottish estate, it was love at first sight. She reveled in their passionate whirlwind romance and high-society wedding that followed, never dreaming ...

  • Evan Help Us

    Rhys Bowen

    The residents of the Welsh village of Llanfair are used to peace and quiet. But when two recently arrived Londoners are killed, tranquillity is replaced by turmoil. Local constable Evan Evans tries his best to get the commotion under control--while t...

  • Visible Worlds

    Marilyn Bowering

    In Visible Worlds, award-winning Canadian poet and playwright Marilyn Bowering has created a beguiling, multilayered novel that brings together two seemingly disparate stories as it traces the shattering personal consequences of war.

     Visib...

  • Armadillo

    William Boyd

    From the award-winning author of A Good Man Africa and An Ice-Cream War comes Armadillo, a brilliant satirical noir set in contemporary London.

    To his colleagues, Lorimer Black, the handsome, mild-mannered insurance adjuster rising through the...

  • Room for a Single Lady

    Clare Boylan

    To Eugene Rafferty, girls are like money - they have to be saved. Despite living in 1950s Dublin, his three daughters, Bridie, Kitty and Rose, seem doomed to a Victorian childhood. However, as fortunes decline the Rafferty's are forced to take in lod...

  • Island of Ghosts

    Gillian Bradshaw

    Ariantes is a Sarmatian, a barbarian warrior-prince, uprooted from his home and customs and thrust into the honorless lands of the Romans. The victims of a wartime pact struck with the emperor Marcus Aurelius to ensure the future of Sarmatia, Ariante...

  • Chinook

    Max Brand

    GOLD FEVER! The great gold rush of 1898 drew many men to Alaska, each of them determined to find the mother lode and strike it rich. Joe Harney didn't have the experience some of the others had, but he was no less eager and he kept his eyes open. ...

  • Adhumbia

    Gary A. Braunbeck
    in

    Fresh from the fertile minds of some of today's most imaginative writers comes a collection of short fiction that takes readers behind the scenes to unmask conspirators and their plots, some of which may even be true. Original....

  • The Best Thanksgiving Day

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Once Around

    Barbara Bretton

    From the award-winning author of Maybe This Time, One and Only, and Sleeping Alone -- an unforgettable story of commitment, courage, loss and love... Molly Chamberlain's husband had abandoned her even as she carried his baby. He'd taken away the lif...

  • A Song for Caitlin

    J.E. Bright

    Eternal love... Brad Myers has never been happier. A junior at Webster High, he's madly in love with his girlfriend, Caitlin Dawes, his band is booking a lot of gigs, and he's doing great in school. With all the positive things going on, Brad has ...

  • Everyday, Average Jones

    Suzanne Brockmann

    THE GIRL NEXT DOOR When Melody Evans needed someone to rescue her, she knew that navy SEAL Harlan "Cowboy" Jones was just the man for the job. But afterward, when things got more intimate, she had to write it off to an adrenaline rush. After all, ...

  • Zones: Moonstone

    Damien Broderick

  • Sweet Words of Love

    Betty Brooks

    SHE NEEDED A LESSON IN DESIRE Rainey Watson is an innocent in the ways of men, but the feisty beauty knows what she wants: her handsome new teacher. Yet Robert Golden, the lucky object of her affection, barely knows she's alive. Now, Rainey h...

  • A Knight of the Word

    Terry Brooks

    Eight centuries ago the first Knight of the Word was commissioned to combat the demonic evil of the Void. Now that daunting legacy has passed to John Ross--along with powerful magic and the knowledge that his actions are all that stand between a livi...

  • Cobra Threat

    Sigmund Brouwer

    After discovering tainted water in the creek near his grandmother's cabin in the Kentucky hills, senior Roy Linden slowly uncovers a connection between his high school team's new star quarterback, his own football future, and the source of the pollut...

  • The Mystery of the Stolen Bike

    Marc Brown

    The Mystery of the Stolen Bike tells of Francine who acquires a bicycle once owned by her father. She's embarrassed by the bike, but when she reports that it's stolen, her friends rally to find the thief. Will Arthur and his friends discover the true...

  • Quarter Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Saddle Club is nearing the end of their Oregon Trail ride. It's been a long ride, and it's about to get longer: Stevie Lake's competitive nature is taking over. When a boy on the trail ride boasts that he can do almost anything having to do with ...

  • Shades of Justice

    Linda McKeever Bullard

    Determined to reach her goal of becoming a judge, Gwen Parrish believes she is willing to make any sacrifices needed, but when faced with having to give up her affair with a married man, she struggles with the decisions she is going to have to make t...

  • Summer Heat: July

    Pamela Burford
    in

    THOSE LAZY, HAZY, CRAZY DAYS OF SUMMER! A month of hot sand, romantic sunsets, a house on the beach. A sexy stranger to share it all... What more could you ask from a summer vacation?! Explore the possibilities.... In July, Molly Lamb turns ...

  • A Man of My Stature

    Jan Burke
    in

    A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...

  • Blood Lines

    William R. Burkett Jr.

    Man Meets Ball

    The all-brain cyborg known as Ball and I are old friends. We met as big-game hunters, stalking the most vicious creature in the Universe'the Pondoro Wolverine, also known as the greer.

    Now we're on the planet Pto...

  • Chicken-Fried Rat

    Cylin Busby

  • Whisper A Warning

    Christine Bush

    Fiery Willow Blake will go to any length to stand up for a cause, no matter what the cost. She's dedicated to her real estate career in the small town of Ryerstown, Pennsylvania, and volunteers with handicapped children in a horseback riding prog...

  • Tea from an Empty Cup

    Pat Cadigan

    "Now can you drink tea from an empty cup?" That ancient Zen riddle holds the key to a baffling mystery: a young man found with his throat slashed while locked alone in a virtual reality parlor. The secret of this enigmatic death lies in an apoc...

  • Don't Let Me Die

    Lindsay Caldwell

    After a horrific automobile accident leaves her in a wheelchair, unable to walk, Lucy struggles to cope with the bitter changes in her life--the painful surgeries, frustrating physical therapy, and abandonment by her friends. Original....

  • The Teeny Tiny Teacher

    Stephanie Calmenson

    An ingenious, humorous adaptation of a folktale follows a tiny teacher to the park, where she finds a tiny bone that brings havoc to her tiny classroom. By the author of The Principal's New Clothes. ...

  • French Quarter

    Stella Cameron

    The shocking death of her employer and patron Errol Petrie, the excesses suggested by the murder scene, and the investigation that is sure to follow are just some of the pieces of Celina Payne's nightmare. And the last man she trusts is now the only ...

  • Impetuous

    Candace Camp

    The Spanish Dowry... According to legend, it's a fortune in gold coins and jewelry. Even a solid gold statue of a leopard. With emerald eyes and a collar of rubies. The Spanish Dowry ... Lost. Because of a woman. In the late 1600s "Black Maggie...

  • Melanie's Last Ride

    Joanna Campbell

    Will Melanie have to leave Whitebrook?

    Melanie Graham loves spending time in Kentucky with her cousin Christina. She loves being away from New York City. And most of all, Melanie loves riding! That's why she's determined to win...

  • A Most Wanted Man

    Marilyn Campbell
    in

    Prepare to be Swept Away... To a place where the only sounds are the roar of the ocean and whispered promises of a lover... On a wave of desire where the deepest dreams are realized... On a journey where the only destination is ecstasy... Wheth...

  • For Kings and Planets

    Ethan Canin

    Ethan Canin is one of America's finest writers.  He has been called "brilliant" by the Los Angeles Times, "a tremendous talent" by the Chicago Sun-Times, and "dazzling" by Walker Percy.  The bestselling author of The Palace Thief ...

  • Groove, Bang and Jive Around

    Steve Cannon

    Steve Cannon's cult classic novel returns to printDespite decades of notoriety as one of the filthiest books in the world, Steve Cannon's first and only piece of longform fiction, Groove, Bang and Jive Around, has hardly been read since first being p...

  • Sleepers

    Lorenzo Carcaterra

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of four men who take the law into their own hands.   This is the story of four young boys. Four lifelong friends. Intelligent, fun-loving, wise beyond their years, they are ...

  • Heartfire

    Orson Scott Card

    Peggy is a Torch, able to see the fire - burning in each person's heart. She can follow the paths of each person's future, and know each person's most intimate secrets. From the moment of Alvin Maker's birth, when the Unmaker first strove to kill him...

  • Mistress of Time

    Joyce Carlow
    in

    A woman finds a cave and is transported back into 1758 where she comes face to face with a gorgeous smuggler; a man realizes he must stop a antebellum tragedy in Louisiana, and an art student confronts a male model in seventeenth-century England, in ...

  • The First Horseman

    John Case

    On the Norwegian sea, an icebreaker forges its way through frozen waters to a remote island in the Arctic, carrying a scientific team that hopes to unearth the bodies of long-dead miners. Washington Post reporter Frank Daly has the story of a lifetim...

  • Mickey's Class Play

    Judith Caseley

  • Patsy Kelly Investigates

    Anne Cassidy

  • Will You Give My Mommy a Baby

    Carla Cassidy

    WILL YOU GIVE MY MOMMY A BABY? Noreen Simmons couldn't believe her five-year-old was asking every eligible bachelor around to give his mother a baby! She knew Billy needed a father figure, but this was taking things too far. Still, there was one i...

  • The Book of Lamentations

    Rosario Castellanos

    Set in the highlands of the Mexican state of Chiapas, The Book of Lamentations tells of a fictionalized Mayan uprising that resembles many of the rebellions that have taken place since the indigenous people of the area were first conquered by Europea...

  • Take a Peek

    Linda Cave

  • Mike Likes Stripes

    Linda Cave

  • Big Box

    Linda Cave

  • One Snowy Eve

    Normand Chartier

  • Ingratitude

    Ying Chen

    Desperate to escape her domineering mother, Yan-Zi decides to commit suicide to remove the bonds of her mother's love, and, in the moments after her death, she recounts with a detached and keen eye the story of her last days...

  • Dead Beat and Deadly

    Margaret Chittenden

    After recovering from her last brush with murder, Charlie Plato, country-western club manager of Chaps, has decided it's time to take a break from teaching the Texas two-step and get lessons herself--in self-defense. The women's kung-fu course at Cha...

  • The Good Old Days

    Richard Chizmar
    in

    Fresh from the fertile minds of some of today's most imaginative writers comes a collection of short fiction that takes readers behind the scenes to unmask conspirators and their plots, some of which may even be true. Original....

  • The Best of Crank!

    Bryan Cholfin

  • Rainbow Six

    Tom Clancy

    Number-one bestselling author Tom Clancy goes beyond anything he has done before in Rainbow Six. It is his most shocking story to date -- and closer to reality than any government would care to admit ... At its heart is ex-Navy SEAL John Clark, now ...

  • Only Connect

    Douglas Clegg
    in

    Fresh from the fertile minds of some of today's most imaginative writers comes a collection of short fiction that takes readers behind the scenes to unmask conspirators and their plots, some of which may even be true. Original....

  • JUST BETWEEN GIRLFRIENDS

    Chrisena Coleman

    Warmly illustrated, this gift book written by and for African-American women explores the unique bond they share, both culturally and biologically, and resonates with themes of humor, loyalty, love, acceptance, and strength. 25,000 first printing. To...

  • Home for Christmas

    Mary Collins

    What does being home for Christmas mean to you? A huge, happy family gathering? A romp in the snow with friends? Carols by a crackling fire? Homemade cookies? These eight wonderful classic & contemporary stories remind us in different ways tha...

  • Saving Private Ryan

    Max Allan Collins

  • Flying Blind

    Max Allan Collins

    Nathan Heller is hired to protect Amelia Earhart after she begins receiving threatening letters, but is unable to travel with her during her flights, thus after her disappearance, Nathan is determined to find out what happened to her....

  • Dorothy Past and Present

    Michael Coney
    in

    A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...

  • Judy Garland and Ginger Love

    Nicole Cooley

    In her extraordinary debut novel, critically acclaimed poet Nicole Cooley takes readers on a humorous, achingly beautiful journey to a world of magical escapes and startling restorative truths. Judy Garland, Ginger Love is about motherhood and sister...

  • Major Dad

    Shelley Cooper

    BRADY ROSS ALWAYS DID THE RIGHT THING... And that meant finding the daughter he hadn't known existed. But when he encountered his child's guardian, he found himself wavering. Not just because Haven Adams wouldn't give up little Anna wi...

  • In a Mirror Dimly

    G. Roger Corey

    John Brindle, an American doctor working in the South China Sea, finds long-lost feelings of love when a young Vietnamese woman enters the refugee camp he is working in, but as violence erupts in the camp, John finds his newfound happiness in jeopard...

  • Heroes Free Reader's Companion with Other

    Robert Cormier

  • Best Friend Face-Off

    Emily Costello

    Tess and Tameka make a great team--on the soccer field and off. And they're planning to have a ball at soccer camp, practicing their teamwork against some tough competitors. But their plans go all wrong when the camp director places them on opposing ...

  • Q-Zone

    Greg Cox

    The puckish super-being called Q has bedeviled Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise since their first encounter at Farpoint Station. But little was known of Q's enigmatic past or that of the transcendent plane where he some...

  • Q-Space

    Greg Cox

    The unpredictable cosmic entity known only as Q has plagued Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterpriseâ"¢ since their very first voyage together. But little is known of Q's mysterious past or that of the unearthly realm from whic...

  • Silver Wings

    Lynn Crandall

    CLOUD NINE An experienced pilot like Francesca Kensey is expected to stay calm no matter what. But when she sees handsome Jarod Summerville make a forced landing and walk away from his damaged plane, she's knocked for a loop. Jarod is tali blo...

  • Cows in the Kitchen

    June Crebbin

    Tom Farmer wakes up to mischief in a sprightly read-aloud that children will scramble to participate in.While Tom Farmer naps in the haystack, his animals take over the farmhouse. There are cows in the kitchen, ducks in the cupboard, hens on the hat ...

  • Defiant

    Millie Criswell

    SHE'D NEVER FORGET Hannah Louise Barkley had no intention of seeing Travis Bodine when she came back to Misery, Texas. Five years before, he had demanded she choose between her legal career and their love. Her answer had been to walk away, nev...

  • His Seductive Revenge

    Susan Crosby

    GABRIEL a.k.a. THE LOVER He was out for revenge. Gabriel Marquez had a mission, and society princess Cristina Chandler was his pawn. Her engagement to a proper fiance would soon be announced, but Gabriel had every intention of seducing Cristina be...

  • The Last Highlander

    Claire Cross

    Scotland, 1314. After the Scots reclaim Edinburgh Castle, Alasdair MacAuley only wants to celebrate. But the revels are interrupted by an old crone who claims the castle's true owner is the legendary witch Morgaine le Fee. Dared by his fellow warrior...

  • Dei Gratia

    Peter Crowther; Simon Conway
    in

    Fresh from the fertile minds of some of today's most imaginative writers comes a collection of short fiction that takes readers behind the scenes to unmask conspirators and their plots, some of which may even be true. Original....

  • Slow Train to Oxmox

    Kurt Cyrus

    "When Edwin Blink misses the fast train to Oxmox he's forced to take the slow train instead. Never has Edwin experienced a ride as pokey as this one...Cyrus wonderfully conveys the difficulties the train encounters."-Kirkus Reviews...

  • Dream Baby

    Emily Dalton

    Dear Monica, No two people deserve a child more than you and the count. I'm giving you a baby... It's bad enough when fans confuse Maggie Stern with Monica Blake, the infertile character she plays on TV, but to leave her a baby -- a baby...

  • Exploding Toilet

    Catherine Daly-Weir

  • Treasure Hunt!

    Catherine Daly-Weir

  • The Space Sled

    Daniel

  • Riddle Play

    Daniel

  • Ferns Purple Birthday

    Daniel

  • Dangerous Ground

    Justine Dare

    SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE SHADOWY DEPTHS OF A KILLER'S MIND AND THE HIDDEN PLACES OF THE HUMAN HEART... Ten years ago Beth Russell's husband, Ian, died during a covert anti-terrorist mission. Now her fifteen-year-old son has vanished. Authorities believ...

  • The Ends of the Earth

    Kay David

    He knows where she lives... Michael Masters finds people who don't want to be found. His latest assignment: Find Eva Solis and her nephew Daniel -- the only two witnesses to a terrible crime. He knows they're desperate. He knows they're afraid...

  • Badge of Honor

    Justine Davis

    RANK HAD ITS PRIVILEGES... But they didn't include getting involved with a subordinate. Police chief Miguel de los Reyes had worked with Sergeant Kit Walker for years, but never this closely. Now he found himself looking for excuses to be near her...

  • Two for the Lions

    Lindsey Davis

    Marcus Didius Falco, bored with a tax collection job, longs for a good murder. Then someone stabs the Empire's executioner. Feared by all, Leonidas the lion doled out justice with a swift, sure blow... before he ate the offender. Joining the hunt for...

  • The Bad Luck Wedding Cake // The Scoundrel's Bride

    Geralyn Dawson

    SHE'S DEAD-SET AGAINST MARRIAGE... Claire Donovan came to Fort Worth to open a bakery and find independence, not a husband. For generations, a secret formula called "Magic" made Donovan family confections strangely irresistible ...unti...

  • Ghost Brand of the Wishbones

    Peter Dawson

    A trio of short novels set against the backdrop of the Old West includes Sagerock Sheriff, in which an elderly lawman confronts his toughest challenge; Hell's Half Acre, about a range war between cattle ranchers and a sheep-raising sy...

  • We're Acting

    Day

  • What Is Missing

    Day

  • Emperor Norton's Ghost

    Dianne Day

    Caroline Fremont Jones revels in her return to San Francisco, where a new city rises from the ruins of the 1906 earthquake. Even more rewarding is her business partnership and rekindled love with ex-spymaster Michael Archer Kossoff. But their private...

  • Anna and the Mirror

    Dianne Day
    in

    A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...

  • Act Like a Cat

    Mark Day

  • Huge Smile

    Mark Day

  • Simplicity

    Edward De Bono

    This text argues that in an increasingly complex world, "simplicity" is going to be a key value. The pace of change is not going to stop so we have to make a conscious effort to make things simpler. Edward de Bono shows that very often a lateral thin...

  • Baby and the Officer

    Sharon De Vita

    BEAUTY AND THE BADGE He had a secret son, being raised by a very unattached single mom! Shocked, Detective Patrick Sullivan could see that Tommy was his, from his sparkling blue eyes to his silky dark hair to the dimple in his chubby cheek. But co...

  • Time's Arrow: The Present

    Tom Defalco; Adam-Troy Castro

    MARVEL'S GRERTEST HEROES MUST FIGHT IN THE PRESENT TO SAVE THE FUTURE! Spider-Man and Bishop have been lost in the timestream--and with the time Displacement Core damaged, the X-Men have no way to retrieve them! To make matters worse, Kang has sen...

  • The Princess

    Claire Delacroix

    "I WILL WED ONLY MY ONE TRUE LOVE!" declared Princess Brianna despite King Henry's decree that she marry one of the sons of the man who had conquered her family's castle. So Brianna issued a seemingly impossible challenge: He who returned with a gift...

  • Texas Lady

    Donna Delany

    WANTED: TRUE LOVE Handsome photographer Mitch Sullivan is furious when he finds out that his best friend rented a billboard... telling every woman in Houston that he's the city's most available bachelor! But when Giselle Grant actually answers t...

  • The Martyr's Chapel

    D.J. Delffs

    Redemption and greed collide in the quaint town of Avenell. Griffin Reed is the widowed rector for the prestigious campus of Avenell University, nestled in the rolling hills of Tennessee. A man of deep spirituality with a penchant for classic lite...

  • Ready-Made Bride

    Janelle Denison

    Seven year-old Andrew Fielding wants a new mother, and a wife for his daddy. He thinks he's found the perfect woman for both of them: Megan Sanders. Which is fine with Megan. The Fielding men have their attraction -- one is cute as a button, the othe...

  • Too Easy

    Phillip Depoy

    On the marshy shores of the Georgia coast, the locals tell a story: of a woman who appeared from the sea, and of two gentle twin brothers who would do anything for her. But now a man is dead, the twins are missing, and a only a mediating private eye ...

  • 12 Drummers Drumming

    Diana Deverell

    When a plane explodes shortly after taking off from Europe, Casey Collins, a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, believes her lover was on the plane, but when she arrives in Europe to uncover the truth, she is plunged into a world of fear and is accused of...

  • Love Sessions

    Thea Devine
    in

    Prepare to be Swept Away... To a place where the only sounds are the roar of the ocean and whispered promises of a lover... On a wave of desire where the deepest dreams are realized... On a journey where the only destination is ecstasy... Wheth...

  • Danny's Picture

    Mike Dickinson

    Danny carefully draws a picture of himself at school. His teacher is very pleased and sticks the picture on the wall. But as the day goes on, Danny becomes naughtier and naughtier and his picture begins to change....

  • Noli's Story

    Peter Dickinson

    Just when her world is rocked by earthquakes and her tribe is stalked by a demonic lion, a prehistoric girl loses her power to contact the spirit of the Moonhawk, which comes to her in her dreams to guide her. Simultaneous....

  • Suth's Story

    Peter Dickinson

    When the leader of the Moonhawk Kin, a prehistoric people, leaves four orphans to die, Suth and Noli run away to save them from a rival tribe, a task that requires Suth to make the transition from boy to man. Simultaneous....

  • Steelheart

    William C. Dietz

    His name is Harley Doon. He is an android. He didn't set out to save the world. But now he may have to... On a planet called Zuul, in the year 2176, a battle is about to be fought. A battle against an alien race who hold all technology to be the u...

  • Memoirs of a Beatnik

    Diane DiPrima

    "Long regarded as an underground classic for its gritty and unabashedly erotic portrayal of the Beat years, Memoirs of a Beatnik is a moving account of a powerful woman artist coming of age sensually and intellectually in a movement dominated by a sm...

  • Rocky Road to Revenge

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Joe and Frank are vacationing in a Rocky Mountain resort, when suddenly a strange green light brightens up the sky. Three kidnappings follow. Are they alien abductions or the work of down-to-earth criminals?...

  • The Mourners' Bench

    Susan Dodd

    Thirty-year-old Leandra leads a solitary existence on an island in North Carolina, earning a modest living by fixing broken dolls. But her quiet, isolated life takes an unexpected turn when her sister's husband, Wim, appears, a man she has not seen f...

  • Into the Wilderness

    Sara Donati

    It is December of 1792. Elizabeth Middleton leaves her comfortable English estate to join her family in a remote New York mountain village. It is a place unlike any she has ever experienced. And she meets a man unlike any she has ever encountered--a ...

  • Mesmerizing Bertie

    Carole Nelson Douglas
    in

    A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...

  • Queen of Demons

    David Drake

    In the world of the Isles, the elemental forces of magic are rising to a thousand-year peak. A small band of companions has set forth across a world in the process of transformation in search of their destinies. Now their epic adventure continues....

  • Glove Puppet

    Neal Drinnan

    Vaslav is a boy with a sordid past and tenuous future. Born Johnny to a drug-addicted prostitute, Johnny becomes Vaslav when, at age seven, his mother dies of a drug overdose and a passing stranger befriends him and brings him to Australia to pass as...

  • Act of Valour

    Emma Drummond

    The Ashleighs of Knightshill, a talented British family who are proud of their ancestry, have their world turned upside down in the summer of 1914, when the black sheep of the family returns after 12 years. Act of Valour is the concluding volume in E...

  • Cat TV

    Mark Dubowski

    "Meow-y! Yum-my!" Salem can't stand that awful Tobias the Tabby, and his commercials for Pretty Kitty Cat Food. He could do a better job of acting, for cat's sake! And now Salem has his chance! The Pretty Kitty Company needs a spokes-cat for it...

  • Hope

    Glen Duncan

  • Full Tide of Night

    J.R. Dunn

    Once the Erinye were human, until they forsook their bodies for a timeless, virtual existence, then lashed out like jealous ghosts to destroy all they had left behind. One starship escaped the holocaust that consumed the Earth, and fled across the li...

  • Blood and Money

    Robert Olney Easton

    When the Civil War breaks out in the East, squatters in California find that the war involves them, creating new alliances and destroying old loyalties, in a conflict which would change California forever...

  • The Magnificent Marquess

    Gail Eastwood

    A Dangerous Temptation When dashing and spectacularly wealthy Reinhart Maycott unexpectedly returned to England as the new Marquess of Milbourne, he became the instant darling of the ton. Looking every inch the "Lion" he'd been dubbed in India, he...

  • Bell, Book, and Murder

    Rosemary Edghill

    Rosemary Edghill cast a keenly observant, friendly, yet faintly amused eye on an intriguing American micro-culture. The Bast novels offer a very new view of the practitioners of a very old faith. Edghill allows that there's still magic in the air.Ros...

  • Savage Wonder

    Cassie Edwards

    Hunted by the fiend who'd killed his illustrious cousin Crazy Horse, Black Wolf feared for the lives of his people, even as a flash flood forced him to accept the aid of gentle, golden-haired Madeline Penrod. The raging waters of the Ohio River made...

  • Blood Money

    Clive Egleton

    Operative Peter Ashton returns from an international assignment to find British Intelligence in the midst of an internal power struggle following the brutal murders of three agents at a Yorkshire SIS safehouse, and discovers that his own wife may be ...

  • Catfish Cafe

    Earl Emerson

    Everyone who knew Balinda could have told Seattle private eye Thomas Black that the ex-choir girl thumbed a ride with the devil a long time ago. Still, no one expected the pretty young woman to vanish off the face of the earth--leaving in her wake an...

  • Tried and True

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    "I'll be happy in any century, as long as I'm with you...." Grant Bradley was eager to stir up interest in his living history center, but getting talk-show host Vanessa Dare to film at the center for a week -- in costume -- was pro...

  • Diary of an Imotional Idiot

    Maggie Estep

    A slyly constructed semi-autobiographical story about a young woman skirting the edge of the '90s, dealing with relationships, her less-than-perfect past, and artistic angst, Diary of an Emotional Idiot is edgy and entertaining--a mesmerizing story o...

  • A Father's Promise

    Marcia Evanick

    A FATHER, ABOVE ALL EIlis Carlisle was a man on a mission of love. His objective: to save his son's life. His only hope lay hidden in the secrets of a small town. Secrets one woman could help him unveil... Sydney St. Claire couldn't den...

  • Love Runs True

    Rachel Evans

  • Longarm and the River Pirates

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm heads to San Francisco to rid the city from the secret, gold-digging gangs of thieves who run its Chinatown section, a daunting challenge which requires just the right combination of violence and cunning. Original....

  • Party Girl

    Lynne Ewing

    The room smells of sweat, smoke, beer, and longing.The music pulses, the lights flash, and Kata and Ana dance. For a moment the raucous crowd is tamed, and together the two girls soar above their lives. But then the deafening applause sends the dance...

  • A Model Marriage

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    SHE HAS THE FIGURE OF A GODDESS... How Miss Antonia Locke longs for an artistic soul mate, to share the passionate melodies she composes upon the church pianoforte! But such a union--or any other--seems unlikely. For her divine face and rhapsody o...

  • Cassandra

    Marie Ferrarella

    1783. Cassandra MacGregor had first seen Morgan's Creek, Virginia, in a dream. A haven from the danger and persecution she was running from, this young town promised new life for a young woman accused of witchcraft -- a woman who dared not trust ...

  • Suddenly... Marriage

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE UNCONVENTIONAL WEDDING Millionaire bachelor Grant O'Hara thought the pretend marriage ceremony was just another Mardi Gras festivity until he and Cheyenne Tarantino were pronounced legally wed. Grant wasn't ready to settle down, and he'd only...

  • Fire Racer

    Dennis Fertig

  • Timeless Masquerade

    Amy J. Fetzer
    in

    A woman finds a cave and is transported back into 1758 where she comes face to face with a gorgeous smuggler; a man realizes he must stop a antebellum tragedy in Louisiana, and an art student confronts a male model in seventeenth-century England, in ...

  • Gentlemen Prefer...Brunettes

    Liz Fielding

    The bachelor, the blonde and the brunette! There are two things Nick Jefferson can't resist: a challenge and a blonde! So when the latest platinum-haired woman to cross his path challenges him to cook her a romantic dinner, what else can he d...

  • Gus Is Such a Funny Bug

    Kathleen Fitzgibbon

  • You Cant Put Shoes on a Fish

    Kathleen Fitzgibbon

  • School Is Closed

    Kathleen Fitzgibbon

  • What Is Under My Bed

    Kathleen Fitzgibbon

  • Achilles' Heel

    Sean Flannery

    U.S. military intelligence analyst Bill Lane is on the trail of a Romeo-class Russian sub. The sub was supposed to be harmlessly scuttled at a submarine graveyard, and the mastermind behind its theft, an ex-KGB agent named Valeri Yernin, was supposed...

  • In the Heart of Darkness

    Eric Flint; David Drake

    HUMAN EVIL DIRECTED BY AN INTELLIGENCE FROM BEYOND TIME The Malwa Empire, using gunpowder weapons and ruthless terror, has conquered 6th century India and is forging the subcontinent's vast population into an invincible weapon of tyranny. The supe...

  • Mom and Me

    Miela Ford

    What's white and fluffy and curious about everything? A baby polar bear, of course! This cub is no exception -- and here is the exuberant, full-color, photographic proof. Under the ever-watchful, adoring eye of her mother, this youngster romps, froli...

  • Naked Soul

    Gwynne Forster

  • Good Mushrooms and Bad Toadstools

    Allan Fowler

  • Horns and Antlers

    Allan Fowler

  • Let's Visit Some Islands

    Allan Fowler

  • Really Big Cats

    Allan Fowler

  • Telling Tails

    Allan Fowler

  • Having It All

    Roz Denny Fox

    Love, family, success. Can you really have it all? Garrett Lock wants it all. He's a single father with a child he adores. He has a successful career. And now he wants a second chance at marriage, another shot at love - with Sherry Campbell. ...

  • Unsinkable

    Elizabeth Foxwell
    in

    A GOOD MYSTERY IS TIMELESS Crime Through Time was the remarkable first collection. Now, bestselling mystery authors Miriam Grace Monfredo and Sharan Newman present Crime Through Time II -- featuring even more never-before-published historical myster...

  • A Dark Devotion

    Clare Francis

    A childhood friend comes to Alex, now a criminal lawyer, for help when his "perfect" wife disappears and the police seem to have given up looking for her. When Alex discovers that her friend -- and others -- had a very good motive for murdering the m...

  • Shadows on the Aegean

    J. Suzanne Frank

    TO LIVE AGAIN... Once a thoroughly modern woman, Chloe Kingsley wakes in a strange, wondrous island civilization in the Aegean. Here, in the barely clothed body of a visionary priestess, Chloe sifts through her memories of the 20th century--and of t...

  • The Maiden's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    Sister Frevisse has made an unusual journey to London, to meet the new prioress of St. Frideswide's. At the urging of her abbot, she stays with her wealthy cousin Alice, lady wife of the earl of Suffolk. But Frevisse suspects more is involved than a ...

  • Hanna's Daughters

    Marianne Fredriksson

    Sweeping through one hundred years of Scandinavian history, this luminous story follows three generations of Swedish women -- a grandmother, a mother, and a daughter -- whose lives are linked through a century of great love and great loss. Resonating...

  • Gold

    Brian Freemantle

    As the first in line for the Saudi throne, Prince Tefwik Hassan cannot afford public embarrassment. So when he loses his fortune in a failed scheme to corner the world's reserves of silver, Hassan is left scrambling. To recoup his millions, he dev...

  • Mind Reader

    Brian Freemantle

    A cat-and-mouse thriller starring Claudine Carter as the profiler, the beautiful and brilliant psychologist who must stop a serial killer--before he stops her.Claudine Carter is a profiler, the first forensic psychologist ever appointed to Europol, t...

  • One True Love

    Barbara Freethy

    SHE WALKED BACK INTO HIS LIFE... The last place Lisa Alvarez expected to find herself was babysitting for her ex-sister-in-law's three rambunctious kids. But when Maggie called her up and begged for time alone, something in Lisa made her say yes--fo...

  • I Can't Wait on God

    Albert French

    "I Can't Wait on God" is an unforgettable story of crime, punishment, and loss, set in the back alleys of Pittsburgh's Homewood neighborhood during the summer of 1950. Jeremiah Henderson and his girlfriend Willet Mercer set their sights on New York C...

  • Pooh and the Storm That Sparkled

    Isabel Gaines

  • Rabbit Gets Lost

    Isabel Gaines

  • Pooh's Scavenger Hunt

    Isabel Gaines

  • Pooh Gets Stuck

    Isabel Gaines

  • Gold Rush Fever!

    Diana G. Gallagher

    When Alex and her friends are invited by the Driscoll family to help pan for gold on a newly acquired property, they find themselves pitted against a ghostly enemy intent on driving them off the land. Original....

  • A One-Woman Man

    M.L. Gamble

    SHE'D REPRESSED MEMORIES OF HER PAST Her hometown's annual celebration made the perfect cover for the real reason behind Elizabeth Monette's visit: she wanted to find the truth about her mother's murder. Instead, she found herself trapped--between...

  • Rotten Ralph's Halloween Howl

    Jack Gantos

  • Different Women Dancing

    Jonathan Gash

    SPARKS FLY WHEN THE BRILLIANT AND BEAUTIFUL DR. CLARE BURONALL FORMAS AN UNUSUAL PARTNERSHIP WITH A SUNSUAL MAN OF THE NIGHT NAMED BONN Heading home from the hospital, Dr. Clare Burtonall comes upon a fatal traffic accident. Eager to help, she arr...

  • Prey Dancing

    Jonathan Gash

    While working the late shift in a London hospital, doctor and sometimes detective Clare Burtonall hears the deathbed plea of a young woman--"forgive"--and sets out into the city's underworld to deliver the message to the woman's boyfriend. Reprint....