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New Books List: 558 titles

  • The Real Tadzio

    Gilbert Adair

    In the summer of 1911, the German writer Thomas Mann visited Venice in the company of his wife Katia. There, in the Grand Hotel des Bains, as he waited for the dinner-gong to ring, the author’s roving eye was drawn to a nearby Polish family, the Mo...

  • The Seven Against Thebes

    Aeschylus

    Third play of a trilogy (the other two are lost) about the doomed family of Laius and Oedipus and his sons. After the city of Thebes has banished Oedipus, the former ruler's sons vie for the crown. The victor, Eteocles, expels his brother, Polyneices...

  • An Assembly Such as This

    Pamela Aidan

    "She is tolerable; but not handsome enough to tempt me." So begins the timeless romance of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen's classic novel is beloved by millions, but little is revealed in the book about th...

  • Due Process

    Ted Allbeury

    SIS officer James Boyd has just been given the most dangerous assignment of his career: the MKULTRA case. An obscure cocktail of mind-altering drugs, MKULTRA is being used by the mafia to hypnotise its unwitting accomplices in murder, theft and espio...

  • This Little Piggy's Book of Manners

    Kathryn Madeline Allen

    "This little piggy said 'please' and 'thank you.'
    This little piggy did not.
    This little piggy closed his mouth while he ate.
    This little piggy forgot.

    Oops!

    Just like little piggies, it's easy for young children to sometimes f...

  • The Baby Bonding

    Caroline Anderson

    A family to call her own... Surgeon Sam Gregory is the last person midwife Molly Hammond expects to see at Audley hospital. She'd once carried a child for him and his wife -- it had led to a special, and unspoken, bond between Molly and Sam. No...

  • Ever Yours

    Gabriella Anderson

    Could A Letter Change Her Life? Ivy St. Clair doesn't think so, but she's certain that the missive from eccentric Lord Stanhope, who has named her as one of his heirs, will at least provide adventure. And adventure is the one thing sure to b...

  • A Forest of Stars

    Kevin J. Anderson

    DEADLY FACTIONS Five years after attacking the human-colonized worlds of the Spiral Arm, the hydrogues maintain absolute control over stardrive fuel...and their embargo is strangling human civilization. On Earth, mankind suffers from renewed attac...

  • Pants

    Giles Andreae

    A rollicking, young, funny homage to underwear, Pants is a celebration of all things undergarment. Filled with hairy pants and scary pants, bunny pants and no pants, animals and people cavort across the brightly colored pages showing off their underw...

  • Colonel Ancroft's Love

    Sylvia Andrew

    BREAKING TROUGH HIS DEFENSES When Colonel John Ancroft is persuaded to escort an elderly widow to Yorkshire, he has no idea that the lady in question is beautiful heiress Caroline Duval. Her disguise is only revealed when he happens upon her, her ...

  • No Birds Singing

    Vivien Armstrong

    When Tansy Robotham called in to see hairdresser Sandy Prentice that autumn afternoon, the last thing she expected to find was her friend's long-dead body lying in the middle of the conservatory. Shocked and terrified by the evidence of decay, and by...

  • Heart On The Line

    Judith Arnold

    Long Island born and bred Loretta D'Angelo is a hip, savvy TV producer for a seriously fluffy New York daytime talk show. Josh Kaplan is a sexy thirtysomething lawyer for Manhattan's less fortunate, a devoted son who still mows his mother's lawn. ...

  • Object of His Desire

    A.C. Arthur

    Beautiful, ambitious Macy Glen is about to embark on her most challenging case yet - Jordan Blake. With his fine Italian lineage and black style and wit, he has become one of the world's youngest billionaires. But when he sees Macy, he knows that she...

  • Gridlinked

    Neal Asher

    GRIOLINKELI is a fast-paced science fiction adventure mixed with a dash of cyberpunk and a splash of espionage. Earth Central Security agent Ian Cormac is a legend, a protector of the Polity, hundreds of worlds connected together by instantaneous tra...

  • Sea of Plague

    James Axler

    THE CERBERUS WARRIORS FORGE A DEADLY ALLIANCE WITH TWO ARCHENEMIES. . . FUTURE MALIGNED The nine barons who kept post-nuclear America in chains have succumbed to a more profligate evil--an ancient interloper whose bid to destroy all remnants of h...

  • The Cat Who Wasn't a Dog

    Marian Babson

    A PURRFECT CRIME! Dame Cecile Savoy's "revolting floor mop" of a Pekinese has passed away at a ripe old age. Now, the aging British actress convinces her rivals on stage and screen, Trixie and Evangeline, to support her in her hour of grief...by a...

  • Family Reunion // Graphs

    Bonnie Bader

    Gary Graff doesn't want to go to his family's boring reunion, but when he surveys his family members to finish his math homework-a graphing assignment-Gary learns a lot about graphing and his family-and has a lot of fun, too!...

  • Graphs // Family Reunion

    Bonnie Bader

    Gary Graff doesn't want to go to his family's boring reunion, but when he surveys his family members to finish his math homework-a graphing assignment-Gary learns a lot about graphing and his family-and has a lot of fun, too!...

  • Hound on the Heath

    Ben M. Baglio

    The Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic takes care of animals of all kinds. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need -- and sometimes even ...

  • The Anvil of the World

    Kage Baker

    K age Baker's first fantasy novel is the tale of Smith, of the large extend- ed family of Smiths, of the Children of the Sun. They are a race given to blood feuds, and Smith was formerly an extremely successful assassin. Now he has wearied of his wor...

  • Race Car

    Liza Baker

    Race Car

    Toy cars are fun to play with, but Harold wonders what it might be like to zip around in a real race car. Follow along in Harold's latest adventure as he uses his purple crayon to create a racecourse, competition, and a sleek and ...

  • Digital Dead

    Bruce Balfour

    Bruce Balfour, the acclaimed author of The Forge of Mars, brings us to a future age in which artificial intelligence has blurred the line between he and death--with terrifying results, Elysian Fields is a new company promising eternal life. Simply...

  • The Major Meets His Match

    Blair Bancroft

    A Major Mismatch For anyone to think that Lady Vanessa Rayne might consider marrying someone as far beneath her as an engineer is simply preposterous. She has never heard anything as ridiculous as the match pro-posed by her well-meaning sire. And ...

  • Weaver

    Steve Barlow; Steve Skidmore

    A hilarious and thrilling conclusion to the intergalactic adventure that has middle-grade readers everywhere checking their computers, not for E-mail, but for alien technology!

    Their entire journey has led up to this moment. The final showdown...

  • The Big Dig

    Linda Barnes

    Carlotta Carlyle, the six-foot-tall redheaded private investigator, thought that working undercover searching out fraud on Boston's Big Dig would be a challenging assignment. After all, the Big Dig, the creation of a central artery tunnel running ben...

  • As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me

    Josef M. Bauer

    In 1944, German paratrooper Clemens Forell was captured by the Soviets and sentenced to twenty-five years of labor in a Siberian lead mine. In the Gulags, this was virtually a death sentence. Driven to desperation by the brutality of the prison camp,...

  • Birth of an Age

    James BeauSeigneur

    Combining the visionary thrills of Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins with the scientific accuracy and suspense of Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy, James BeauSeigneur continues the powerful, epic mystery of U.N. diplomat Christopher Goodman-the clone of...

  • When You Believe

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    Lydia "Lyddie" Porter has waited a long time to be happy. She loves everything about being a school counselor at Shadrach High School, and she loves everything about teacher Charlie Stains. Lydia truly believes that God answered her prayers when big-...

  • Sock Monkey Goes to Hollywood: A Star Is Bathed

    Cece Bell

    Calling all sock monkey fans! One-of-a-kind talent Cece Bell creates a quirky story like no other - a sudsy yarn about soaps and dreams, stardom, and good friends.

    The famous toy actor, Sock Monkey, has been nominated for an Oswald Award. But ...

  • The Tower at the End of the World

    John Bellairs

    After encountering the Ishmael Izard and hearing of his plans to destroy the world, Lewis, his uncle Jonathan, and their friends consider the threat serious and so, despite their own fears, quickly devise a plan to stop his evil plot. Reprint....

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 6: Venom

    Brian Michael Bendis

    After reuniting with his childhood friend Eddie Brock, Peter Parker discovers a terrible secret about their fathers' past, a secret which quickly results in a confrontation with Venom, Spider-Man's evil, dark twin. Collects Ultimate Spider-Man (2000)...

  • A Midsummer Night's Scream

    David Bergantino

    When two mismatched couples are paired off as part of a summer school "parenting" assignment, trouble erupts, a situation that is further complicated by the arrival of a mysterious carnival, complete with sideshow freaks, and by the machinations of d...

  • Junior Goes to School

    Samantha Berger

    Now all kids can spin their way back to school!

    Poor Junior. It's the night before the first day of school, and the young pig is tossing and turning in bed. What will the new school year bring? What if the bus pulls up...and it's really a t...

  • Baby Chase

    Hannah Bernard

    Being forced to share a house with a sexy -- but infuriating -- stranger isn't Erin Avery's idea of fun. Particularly since Nathan Chase seems to have an opinion on every aspect of her life...especially her determination to have a baby -- alone! Eri...

  • Their Accidental Baby

    Hannah Bernard

    When Laura discovers a break-in, her screams bring gorgeous neighbor Justin Bane running to help her. But the intruder is a baby -- left on Laura's bed without explanation! Laura can't help noticing the baby bears more than a passing resem...

  • The Amber Room

    Steve Berry

    Forged of the exquisite gem, the Amber Room is one of the greatest treasures ever made by man - and the subject of one of history's most intriguing mysteries. German troops invading the Soviet Union seized the Room in 1941. When the Allies started th...

  • When Catherine the Great and I Were Eight!

    Cari Best

    Readers are in for another rousing good time with Sara and Catherine the Great

    The unsinkable heroine of Three Cheers for Catherine the Great! is back!

    Sara’s Russian grandma, Catherine the Great, has promised to teach Sara how to fl...

  • Risking It All

    Beverly Bird

    This was the case that could make or break Grace Simkanian's career as a defense attorney, but her client, Aidan McKenna, wasn't making it easy for her. The charming cop enjoyed provoking and challenging her -- inspiring emotions that were anything b...

  • River Season

    Jim Black

    When thirteen-year-old Jim discovers Sam, an older black man, fishing in his favorite spot one day, he has no idea his life is about to change. The two form a remarkable relationship and as the summer unfolds, Jim learns there is more to his new frie...

  • An Echo of War

    Grant Blackwood

    Dinaric Alps, Bosnian region of Austrian Hungarian Empire, 1918. Four Allied soldiers stumble across a biological weapon that could wreak devastation on the world--and take a vow to keep it from falling into the wrong hands. Ever since the deadly sub...

  • What's Wrong with Dorfman?

    John Blumenthal

    Meet Martin Dorfman: cynic, hypochondriac, and burned-out screenwriter. In the midst of navigating his latest film script through Hollywood Development Hell--an agonizing journey even for a healthy person-- the forty-year-old Dorfman wakes up one ...

  • Alabaster Staff

    Edward Bolme
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    She didn't want to steal it. She didn't want to kill a Zhentarim agent. She didn't want to double-cross the thieves guild. She didn't want to owe a debt to the Red Wizards of Thay. She didn't want to anger the followers of the dragon God Tiamat. ...

  • The Song of an Innocent Bystander

    Ian Bone

    Ten years ago, nine-year-old Freda Opperman walked into a fast-food restaurant and lost control of her future. She was one of twelve people held hostage by a gunman protesting about corporate corruption. Two people died - the restaurant manager and t...

  • West of Glory

    Judith Bowen

    Daisy Sutherland was born in the Alberta town of Tamarack -- west of Glory and north of the Montana border. A burned-out, big-city reporter, she's come home to work on her father's weekly paper, writing about the familiar world of strawberry socials,...

  • I'm Kaitlyn

    Crystal Bowman

    Meet the Little Blessings kids by name for the first time in these four new books (I'm Kaitlyn! I'm Jack! I'm Zoë! I'm Parker!) in the popular series. Each book, in a fun new size and format, focuses on a skill the main character is learning. Toddle...

  • Sword and Sorceress XX

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    WITH PEN AND PAPER Marion Zimmer Bradley led so many of us on the brilliant, fascinating, and endlessly inventive roads of her imagination. But though Marion was primarily known as a beloved best-selling author, she had a secret passion to edit. H...

  • The Wrong Reflection

    Gillian Bradshaw

  • Justice Gun

    Lyle Brandt

    Rescued by the Carvers--a black family on their way to freedom--after being left for dead, Matt Price joins them on their journey to New Harmony, but upon their arrival, they soon learn that some folks do not take kindly to outsiders, sending Matt on...

  • Truth Or Lies

    Kylie Brant

    MAD, BAD AND DANGEROUS TO KNOW! Dr. Shae O'Reilly followed the rules -- but Cade Tremaine caused her to break them. With a criminal father and a brother in jail, she knew the last man she should ever get involved with was a cop. Especially one who...

  • The Other Side of Air

    Jeanne Braselton

    From Jeanne Braselton, author of the crtically acclaimed A False Sense of Well Being comes an irresistible new novel about the power of enduring love, poignantly told by an unforgettable narrator who’s watching from her place on “the other side o...

  • Pooh's Happy Halloween

    Ann Braybrooks

  • A Dark Way to Glory

    Chaz Brenchley

    As the Sharai tribes come together to prepare for the arrival of the Ghost Walker, Marron becomes possessed by an uncontrollable force that transforms him into a killing machine, and Julianne encounters the deadly Sand Dancers as she journeys to Rhab...

  • Animals on the Go

    Jessica Brett

  • Murder in the Museum

    Simon Brett

    The life of noted man of letters Esmond Chadleigh is celebrated in the halls of Bracketts House. However, most of Chadleigh's work remains of print--leaving the once-famous literary figure out of sight and out o mind...and Bracketts out of funds. ...

  • The Cowboy Who Came Calling

    Linda Broday

    THE WRONG TARGET Glory Day had the answer to her problems in sight -- the man who promised to solve all her troubles. Then an interfering stranger got in the way; he literally came between her and the outlaw she planned to bring in for the reward mo...

  • Jarka Ruus

    Terry Brooks

    Twenty years have passed since Grianne Ohmsford denounced her former life as the dreaded Ilse Witch. Fulfilling the destiny predicted for her, she has established the Third Druid Council and dedicated herself to its goals of peace, harmony among the ...

  • That Way Again

    Carolyn Brown

    Kitty Maguire and Preston Fleming fell head over heels in love the first time they saw each other. They were planning a wedding and the rest of their lives together. But Kitty's great-aunt put an end to all that in the course of one phone call, shatt...

  • Piranha

    Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    Hidden in the Nevada desert is America's most advanced aerospace weapons--testing facility. Dreamland is the place where the nation's top minds come to develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. And where the Air Force's top gu...

  • The Art of Selfishness

    Kori Nicole Brown
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  • Cowboy Enchantment

    Pamela Browning

    Cowboys...And Cradles? All work and no play had made Erica Strong's life dull. So when her sister forced her to take some much-needed time off to visit the Rancho Encantado spa, the successful banker longed for a little relaxation and a fling ...

  • The Lord of Castle Black

    Steven Brust

    The Interregnum is over. To everyone's astonishment, Zerika, a young Phoenix, has coolly emerged from the Paths of the Dead, carrying with her the Orb, which everyone had thought was lost in Adron's Disaster. The Orb is the heart of the Dragaeran Emp...

  • Record Breakers

    Jim Buckley Jr.

    Football is number one with fans and has more "avid" fans than any other sport in America. Now Scholastic brings the NFL alive in books that capture all the pulse-pounding action of the game.

    Who holds the current NFL record for Rushing? How a...

  • Transformers: New Order

    Bob Budiansky

    Amazon US Exclusive Edition! Face to face with a cultural icon! Inspired by the top-selling toy line, animated TV series and movie, these are the stories that thrilled a whole generation, classic tales re-presented for the first time ever in book for...

  • The Scoundrel Worlds

    Chris Bunch

    THE STAR RISK, LTD., TEAM IS BACK--AND THIS TIME THEY'RE PLAYING TO THE DEATH.... The planet...Trimalchio IV. Neutral. Uninvaded. Mild climate. No history, save for hedonism. Damn lucky. The team...Star Risk, Ltd., a mercenary outfit struggling...

  • Death Masks

    Jim Butcher

    HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment Harry Dresden, Chicago's only practicing professional wizard, should be happy ...

  • The Killer Hair

    Ellen Byerrum

    Home of the helmet hairdo and congressional comb-over, Washington, D.C. is a hotbed of fashion faux pas. If anyone should know, it's "Crimes of Fashion" columnist Lacey Smithsonian. She dishes out advice to the scandal-scorched and clothing-clueless,...

  • Dissolution

    Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    While their whole world is changing around them, four dark elves struggle against different enemies. Yet their paths will lead them all to the most terrifying discovery in the long history of the drow, and set them on a quest to save not only Menzobe...

  • Taking the Reins

    Joanna Campbell

    Now that high school is behind them, will Christina and Melanie be able to make the right choices about their futures and still remain friends?

    They're out of school and Christina and Melanie are taking a year off to make some big decisi...

  • The Doctor's Secret Baby

    Judy Campbell

    When Dr. Lucy Cunningham hires a new doctor for her country practice in the Scottish Highlands, she's not quite sure how her practical attitude will blend with Dr. Callum Tate's laid-back lifestyle. But, forced to live and work together, they find pa...

  • Truelove and Homegrown Tomatoes

    Julie Cannon

    When her beloved husband of forty-eight years dies, Imogene "Imo" Lavender takes solace in her tomato garden and finds her own life beginning to blossom. Raising two young women -- her rebellious sixteen-year-old daughter, Jeanette, and Lou, the thir...

  • First Meetings in the Enderverse

    Orson Scott Card

    Meet Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, the unforgettable boy-hero of Ender's Game-winner of the Hugo Award and the Nebula Award for Best Novel--and enter his Universe through this collection of stories. "The Polish Boy" is John Paul Wiggin, the future father...

  • The Dump Truck

    Craig Robert Carey

    Continuing the supercute new Tonka Tough Trucks 6x9 reader series, children will learn about all different kinds of dump trucks and the tough work they can do!

    Dump Trucks do lots of tough work! They haul heavy loads, deliver important supplie...

  • Secret Father

    James Carroll

    From a New York Times"bestselling author, a “gripping and beautifully written” novel of love and family set against the backdrop of Cold War Berlin (Bookpage). Berlin, 1961. Days before the Wall rises, three teenagers from an American school in...

  • Larrimore's Legacy: Baby 101

    Marisa Carroll

    When she receives a letter from the mother who gave her and her siblings up for adoption twenty-five years ago, Lana Lord decides that she wants nothing to do with her until she meets Dylan Van Zandt, a single father raising someone else's child who ...

  • Tangled Strings

    Adam-Troy Castro

    There are few authors who consistently turn out magnificent novella-length stories. Adam-Troy Castro is one of these authors. His stories are evocative and far-reaching. Among the stories featured in the collection are: The Funeral March of the Mario...

  • White Feathers

    Deborah Challinor

  • Love-40

    Anna Cheska

    As she gets to grips with turning forty, Suzi is more than happy to have settled for a part-time lover rather than a full-time husband. She relishes her independence and, what with the constant battle to keep her best friend, her life is busy enough....

  • Robota

    Doug Chiang

    Academy award winning artist Doug Chiang and best-selling sci-fi author Orson Scott Card join forces for an extraordinary publishing adventure: Robota. An original illustrated science fiction novel, Robota follows the fortunes of a strangely powerful...

  • English Breakfast Murder

    Laura Childs

    Indgo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is about to embark on her first turtle crawl -- and her latest murder investigation... It is a truly exhilarating experience for Theo -- helping Charleston's Sea Turtle Protection League shepherd hundred...

  • Beauty & The Beastly Rancher

    Judy Christenberry

    A REAL-LIFE FAIRY TALE Like her very own knight in shining armor, rancher Joe Crawford emerged from the mist to rescue Anna Pointer from a desperate situation. Widowed and raising two children alone, Anna could not refuse Joe's offer of assistance...

  • The Teeth of the Tiger

    Tom Clancy

    Tom Clancy brings Jack Ryan's son -- Jack Ryan, Jr. -- to the forefront in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.A man named Mohammed sits in a café in Vienna, about to propose a deal to a Colombian. What if they combined his network of Middle...

  • Nowhere to Run

    Mary Jane Clark

    WHEN THERE'S NO ONE TO TRUST... Anthrax, smallpox, plague: as medical producer for television's highly-rated morning news program, Annabelle Murphy makes her living explaining horrific conditions to the nation. So when a KEY News colleague dies with...

  • The Wunder War

    Hal Colebatch

    It's Howling Time in Known Space again! Back to the Frontlines of the Top Selling Space War in All of Science Fiction. The first colonists from Earth named the planet Wunderland. Generations later, the felinoid invaders called Kzin came and ...

  • Too Close for Comfort

    Colleen Collins

    WHEN IT'S THIS CLOSE... Jeffrey Bradshaw's well-ordered life has just taken a detour. Instead of being in L.A. making the pitch of his career, he's stuck in Alaska with a feisty bush pilot. Seductive, independent Cyd Thompson has him so captivated, ...

  • Florida Getaway

    Max Allan Collins

    Lieutenant Horatio Caine leads a crack team of forensic scientists who investigate crimes amid the tropical surroundings and cultural crossroads of Miami. Together, they collect and analyze the evidence to expose the truth and to bring justice to tho...

  • A Hanging in Hidetown

    Kent Conwell

    When Jace Quinlan rode into Hidetown, he was looking for work. Instead, he wound up in jail with a knot on his head, leg chains around his ankle and an invitation to a hemp party for murder and rustling.

    After he escaped, he learned the sheriff a...

  • The Marriage Renewal

    Maggie Cox

    To have and to hold! When her ruthless, handsome husband reappears after five years to ask her for a divorce, Tara is willing to give it to him; as far as she's concerned Mac Simmonsen chose money and success over her. But she's not willin...

  • An Echo of Hope

    DiAnna Crawford

    Readers will be delighted to return to the Reardon Valley in An Echo of Hope. When young widow Hope Reardon's childhood love, Michael, returns from war, old feelings are rekindled. But Hope and Michael must first overcome their past hurts so that the...

  • Moon's Crossing

    Barbara Croft

    A stunning, cinematic debut novel set at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, Moon's Crossing explores a unique time in American history, when the romantic heritage of the nineteenth century merged with the industrial temperament of the modern age. Jim Moo...

  • Charity at Home

    Lucy Daniels

    Josie is almost settled into her new home and school, but lately she misses her busy riding-school life at the old house. Then Josie gets the perfect idea. With Charity's help, she can become involved with the local stable, and even take part in the ...

  • Gathering the Bones

    Jack Dann

    A Chilling new anthology of all-original tales of horror

    Includes New Stories by:
    Ray Bradbury
    Graham Joyce
    Peter Crowther
    Kim Newman
    Sara Douglass
    Thomas Tessier
    M. John Harrison
    Gahan Wilson

    The anthology mark...

  • Amber Brown is Green with Envy

    Paula Danziger

    Amber Brown’s parents aren't acting the way she thinks parents should. Sometimes her dad goes on dates, or her mom goes on vacation ... without Amber. Then Mom and Max decide to move to a new house -- maybe even a new town! Some kids have pare...

  • No Strings

    Lilian Darcy

    E.R. Professionals: Dr. Byron Black / Paramedic Hayley Morris... Dr. Byron Black almost lost it when his little girl was rushed into E.R. But the crisis passed, his daughter was stabilized - and Byron realized the paramedic who'd brought her in was...

  • The Searchers

    Kay David

    After the birth -- and death -- of her child, Maya fled her hometown and made a new life for herself. Many years later, her lover's brother reveals she was told a lie. Her son is still alive. And now Maya is prepared to do whatever it takes to fi...

  • Tong Lashing

    Peter David

    It's hard to find a lesser man than Apropos: a con man, a knave, a scalawag...and those are his finer points. This time, Apropos winds up a stranger in a strange land called "Chinpan," populated by those who speak a different language and live by a c...

  • Starring Sherlock Holmes

    David Stuart Davies

    Sherlock Holmes has been portrayed on screen more often than any other character in history.This beautifully produced book is the definitive illustrated guide to the films and television series featuring the master detective, with an unprecedented co...

  • A Gathering of Shadows

    Russell Davis

    Set in the present day, A Gathering of Shadows introduces a new generation in the saga of the Noir and Derlicht families. Here we meet Mason Noir -- the great-grandson of Thomas Noir, and once again there is a Noir male who is a thirteenth son of a ...

  • If You Please

    Tish Davis

    Consumed by guilt over the life her aunt Olga gave up to raise her, Natalia Gordeeva has devoted herself to pleasing the bitter, vengeful woman. She knows that God would have her honor her aunt - but to what extent? Tony Santerimo has known Natali...

  • An Anthology of World Literature

    Wayne R. Davis

  • Spirits in the Wires

    Charles de Lint

    At a popular Newford on-line research and library Web site called the Wordwood, a mysterious crash occurs. Everyone visiting the site at the moment of the crash vanishes from where they were sitting in front of their computers. Christy Ridding's girl...

  • Imaginings

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Ten of the most fertile imaginations in science fiction and fantasy come together in one book to create new worlds, new universes, new times, new places, and new realities. Master of alternate history Harry Turtledove tells a story of the future tha...

  • The Scoundrel

    Claire Delacroix

    Dear Reader: It is true that I acted boldly, brazenly, wantonly...and I confess, I have only myself to blame. I knew what sort of man I was dealing with, knew Gawain Lammergeier was a rogue and a thief. Yet when I schemed to seduce him and reclaim...

  • Truth and Shadows

    Martin Delrio

    THE NORTHWINDS OF WAR The Highlanders defeated Anastasia Kerensky the last time she attacked Northwind-- although she retreated with most of her troops. Now dispersed among several planets, the Highlanders will need a bigger edge if they are to e...

  • To Catch the Moon

    Diana Dempsey

    Truth. Treachery. Temptation. Hang on to your heart. Bestselling authors Jayne Ann Krentz and Jane Heller raved about Diana Dempsey's debut novel, Falling Star, and Booklist called it "dishy and fun." Now she delivers a stylish and sexy new page-t...

  • Brant

    Kathie DeNosky

    The Gallant Cowboy: Brant Wakefield His Profile: Daring, dependable and devastatingly handsome His Soft Spot: Damsels in distress When Brant found a lovely lady knocking on his hotel balcony door, he was intrigued. And when he discovered tha...

  • Having The Tycoon's Baby

    Anna DePalo

    SHE NEEDED A BABY... and a sperm bank could be Liz Donovan's last chance. But instead of some anonymous donor, Quentin Whittaker was offering to father her child -- as long as she married him first. The sexy CEO's whirlwind courtship was setting off...

  • The Daughter-in-Law

    Diana Diamond

    FOR RICHER Marrying a millionaire was never on Nicole Pierce's agenda...or was it? From the moment she locked eyes with the impeccably pedigreed Jonathan Donner, she was captivated by the man-and by his money. Or so his formidable family chose to be...

  • The Tale of Despereaux

    Kate DiCamillo

    This is the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in darkness but covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a sl...

  • Kitty Princess and the Newspaper Dress

    Trevor Dickinson

    Two talented newcomers create a funny, fractured fairy tale - and an exuberantly illustrated lesson in manners - that will amuse even the most imperious little readers.


    Get me the best dress in the world for Prince Quince’s ball tonight....

  • The Conch Bearer

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    In a dingy shack in the less-than-desirable Indian neighborhood he calls home, twelve-year-old Anand is entrusted with a conch shell that possesses mystical powers. His task is to return the shell to its rightful home many hundreds of miles away. Acc...

  • Take a Chance on Me

    Susan Donovan

    THEY'VE GOT NOTHING IN COMMON... For animal behaviorist Emma Jenkins, romance has been at the bottom- of her daily "to do" list since making it through a messy divorce. But everything changes the day six-feet-of-gorgeous Thomas Tobin walks into her ...

  • Alligator Sue

    Sharon Arms Doucet

    "All you can do is be who you is."

    Suzanne Marie Sabine Chicot Thibodeaux (called Sue for short) lives on a houseboat deep in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Swamp. One lazy summer afternoon when the air grows heavier than a catfish's bath towel, a ...

  • Banjo's New Song

    Rosey Dow

    Twenty years ago, Banjo lost his wife and son. Since then he's been satisfied to act as surrogate uncle and grandfather to the families who live in Colorado's ranching country. That is, until Sally Newcomb rides into his life. She awakens feeling in ...

  • Antonio on the Other Side of the World, Getting Smaller

    Malachy Doyle

    Malachy Doyle’s fanciful "small" tale, illustrated in delightful detail by Carll Cneut, will bring smiles to anyone who has ever missed the comforts of home.When Antonio visits his grandmother on a tiny island on the other side of the...

  • Isn't It Romantic?

    Dianne Drake

    Charlie Whitaker's made the bet of a lifetime! If he can write a publishable romance, his sister will hand over their family's treasured heirloom. Unfortunately, Charlie doesn't have a truly smoochy bone in his body. But Liz Fuller knows what to do. ...

  • Desperately Seeking Sully

    Jennifer Drew

    Maggie Saunders couldn't be happier. She writes highly successful adventure guides for a small press, but never has to leave her desk. When the prospective new owner of the company wants to meet author "M. S. Stevens" -- and send him on tour! -- Magg...

  • Gazelle

    Rikki Ducornet

    As mesmerizing as a tale from the lips of Sheherazade, Gazelle traces the story of Elizabeth, a thirteen-year-old American girl whose adolescent passion is awakened in the exotic climate of 1950s Cairo. While her mother"whose beauty and sexual prow...

  • The Lie That Tells a Truth

    John Dufresne

    "This is the most practical, hard-nosed, generous, direct, and useful guide to writing fiction." ―Brad Watson

    Finally, a truly creative―and hilarious―guide to creative writing, full of encouragement and sound advice. Provocative and re...

  • The Dead Wives Society

    Sharon Duncan

    Scotia MacKinnon has a sailboat docked on San Juan Island in the Pacific Northwest, a sexy maritime attorney for a boyfriend, and a solid career as a private eye. Life for her has been pretty good, pretty calm. But there's a storm brewing somewhere n...

  • Too Close to Call

    Barbara Dunlop

    WHEN IT'S THIS CLOSE... Jordan Adamson is in a jam. His idyllic life in Alaska has never been the same since a chance encounter with a twin brother he hadn't known he had. Jordan has to impersonate Jeffrey in front of his closest colleagues, and in ...

  • Shaken and Stirred

    Doranna Durgin
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    Under orders to get their man. . . From their top-secret headquarters. . . Three women with brains, brawn, beauty -- and guns -- are ready for anything. . . but love. Three new, connected stories by authors Doranna Durgin, Virginia Kantra...

  • Spooky Surprise

    Amy Edgar

    The Littles have arrived in the country for some vacation fun, but things have not gone as planned. It won’t stop raining, the innkeeper has lost the Littles' reservation, and they cannot find Uncle Crenshaw! Even worse, George and Stuart think ...

  • Savage Hero

    Cassie Edwards

    To the Crow people the land was a gift from the First Maker, a place of snowy mountains and sunny plains, where elk and antelope grazed by brightly tumbling streams. But Chief Brave Wolf knew that proud heritage was threatened by the pony t diets und...

  • Millenial Glory Volume 2: Wars of Light

    Wendie L. Edwards

    Wars of Light is a highly symbolic journey through hard times on the earth beginning with the war in heaven. The novel continues the story begun in Volume I but brings to light that the spiritual war is still being fought by the faithful as well as t...

  • Cry Havoc

    Clive Egleton

    SIS agent Peter Ashton, currently the department head for the Eastern European desk, finds himself facing the touchiest - and most dangerous situation of his career as the SIS itself comes under siege from persons or groups unknown. Someone who is cl...

  • Coiled in the Heart

    Scott Elliott

    Having caused the death of a young neighbor years earlier, Tobia Caldwell, the last in a line of proud and declining Southern aristocrats, struggles with his guilty secret when he falls in love with the victim's sister, Merritt. A first novel. 15,000...

  • Kiss Lonely Goodbye

    Lynn Emery

    DARK, RICH AND BEAUTIFUL Nicole Summers Benoit is stunned. She has inherited the mega-profitable Summers Security firm from a late uncle she never liked. But she's a sister with brains as well as looks, and she's determined to prove she's got the ...

  • Judge Dredd: Muzak Killer

    Garth Ennis

    Muzak Killer is a razor-sharp pop culture satire from the pen of Garth Ennis (Preacher), illustrated by acclaimed artists Dermot Power and John Burns.

    When Mega-City One’s muzak stars fall prey to a deadly killer, Dredd must act to save muzak fr...

  • Distracting Dad

    Terry Essig

    MARRIAGE MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE Nate Parker had a plan. Find his widowed dad a wife, and keep the old man from butting into his life once and for all! But Nate never dreamed distracting Dad would put him face-to-face with his own Ms. Right. Not that Na...

  • The First Thing Smoking

    Nelson Eubanks

    In dazzling, jazzlike prose that pulses with the rhythm of the street, Nelson Eubanks traces the influences on and evolution of Maceo, from impressionable adolescent to twentysomething man -- each interconnected story is a snapshot of memory bursting...

  • Longarm and Town-Taming Tess

    Tabor Evans

    She may kiss like a woman. But she’s willing to fight like a man.When District Attorney Tess Hayward swept the crooked marshal out with the trash she made Buffalo Ford a peace-loving place to live. But a new election’s got the town-tamer nervous....

  • Shadows of Light

    Eva Marie Everson

    Katie Webster's life is finally settling down--or so she thinks. After nearly being killed by a shadowy character from her past, Katie decides she needs a break from her position as president and CEO of The Hamilton Place, an acclaimed hotel owned by...

  • When Kindness Fails

    Elizabeth Fackler

    El Paso detective Devon Gray is involved in a murder investigation that leads to kidnapping and his subsequent suspension from the police force. This emotionally catapulting sequel to the critically acclaimed Patricide proves once again, by following...

  • Shades of Scarlet

    Linda Fallon

    IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR Eve Abernathy and Lucien Thorpe may have -- finally -- walked down the aisle, but Eve isn't convinced that they're on the path to "happily ever after." Not when she aches to give Lucien a child, which seems to ...

  • The Beholder

    Thomas Farber


    In the words of Isabel Allende, “Here is a poet who writes with economy and precise beauty of desire, love, and the irrevocable loneliness of the heart.” In his first novel since the highly acclaimed Curves of Pursuit, Thomas Farber has creat...

  • Golden Ghost

    Terri Farley

    For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse. Sam discovers a lost palomino in a spooky ghost town. The horse looks like a mirage, but also looks well cared for, and even familiar. Could it be the missing horse from her...

  • Tuscon

    Nancy J. Farrier

    Travel back in time to the 1870s when a small fort protected settlers of the Arizona desert - and a small town called Tucson was beginning to flourish. Meet the women who made faith, hope, and love blossom under the blazing sun. Glorianna, a pampered...

  • Mummy with the Golden Mask

    Thea Feldman

    A trip to the Museum of Masked Wrestling turns out to be more of an adventure than Rikochet and his friends anticipated. Now, to win back the kidnapped Buena Girl, Rikochet must put his mask on the line in a match against the mummy of the Queen of...

  • Highland Fling

    Katie Fforde

    After a fight with her boyfriend, a business trip to Scotland is the perfect diversion for Jenny Porter, who works as a virtual assistant for a financial executive. Dispatched to assess a failing textile mill, Jenny instead finds herself determined t...

  • Lost

    Joy Fielding

    It's almost five o'clock. Where the hell are you? Losing Julia has become a constant in Cindy Carver's life. The first time Julia disappeared, she was five years old and vanished at the playground. That inspired motherly paranoia. The second was w...

  • Fit To Be Frisked

    Carol Finch

    TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT! Cowboy Vance Ryder is footloose and fancy-free -- until he plays a prank on gorgeous rookie cop Miranda Jackson. She fines him for his stupidity, but the police chief hits the roof and sentences both of them to a week in each o...

  • Mr. Cool Under Fire

    Carol Finch

    UNDER SIEGE! Gage Ryder, confirmed bachelor and mystery man, takes on a temporary assignment as a bodyguard. But Mr. Cool Under Fire is definitely rattled when he meets his client -- the feisty and playful Mackenzie Shafer must pose as his wife! S...

  • Seven Scary Monsters

    Howard Fine

    Best-selling illustrator Howard Fine teams up with Mary Beth Lundgren to create a not-too-scary bedtime book about monsters. When the lights go off and seven scary monsters come out to make mischief, a young boy uses his imagination to eliminate them...

  • The Getaway Girl

    Meredith Fletcher
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    Under orders to get their man. . . From their top-secret headquarters. . . Three women with brains, brawn, beauty -- and guns -- are ready for anything. . . but love. Three new, connected stories by authors Doranna Durgin, Virginia Kantra...

  • Missouri Gateways

    Aisha Ford

    From the land of the Gateway Arch to the City of Fountains, stirring romances occur in the bookend cities of Missouri. On the sophisticated eastern side of the state, two St. Louis career women aren't convinced that love will work for them: Dana, a t...

  • While She Was Sleeping

    Suzanne Forster

    He knows when you're alone... He abducts women from their beds at midnight, gagging and terrorizing them and then dumping them, drugged but alive, days later. None of the victims have been able to identify him, and the Seattle police have no leads--...

  • The Bang Devils

    Patrick Foss

    If you commit a crime and nobody catches you -- is it really wrong? For Chris Ryan and Jessica Romano, two Americans living in Japan, life is like a movie. Money comes easy when you're an "exotic" Westerner. Sex comes even easier. With every need i...

  • The Mocking Program

    Alan Dean Foster

    Inspector Angel Cardenas has seen murdered corpses like George Anderson's, but never a case like this. The victim's ID doesn't match his DNA, Anderson's wife and preteen daughter, Katla, are missing, their home has been turned into a time bomb--and m...

  • Say No to Joe?

    Lori Foster

    You met Joe Winston in Lori Foster's Wild. Now, the Winston brothers' seductive, bad-boy cousin is back and up against a woman who's immune to his considerable charms...or so it seems... IRRESISTIBLE FORCE--MEET IMMOVABLE OBJET Joe Winston has...

  • Married in Haste

    Roz Denny Fox

    Norah, Michael, Brad, Reed, Sam, Erin and Mollie -- seven little reasons to marry in haste. No, seven big reasons... Ben Galloway and Abby Drummond both work with children -- he's a pediatrician and she's a teacher -- and they've both ended up wit...

  • Get Some Love

    Nina Foxx

    Dark and lovely Angelica Chappee was brought up right by her loving grandparents. Still reeling from the shock of losing the two people she cared for most in this world, she's anything but ready for what's waiting for her in her dear departed "Pop-po...

  • Nights of Terror

    Steve Frazee

    Gail Landon is a young man who wants adventure and excitement, and life on his parents' ranch, the Hanging X, can't satisfy him. So he turns to the outlaw trail instead and saddles up with the notorious Trantler gang. But on the very night the gang i...

  • The Mommy Plan

    Susan Gable

    Even though her dad calls her Unsinkable Molly McClain, eight-year-old Molly knows he worries about her all the time. In her opinion, he needs someone else to think about. And Molly's found the perfect candidate -- Miss Rachel, the arts and crafts in...

  • Pooh's Halloween Pumpkin

    Isabel Gaines

    On a stroll through the Hundred-Acre Wood, Pooh stumbles upon a giant orange pumpkin. With the help of his friends, Pooh comes up with a perfect plan for the pumpkin. This shaped book with a braided cord handle is sure to become a favorite at Hallowe...

  • Ascension

    Steven Galloway

    The acclaimed author of Finnie Walsh turns from small-town hockey to the extraordinary intrigues of circus life during the heyday of the Big Top through the story of Salvo Ursari, undisputed master of the high wire.As the novel opens, it is the summe...

  • Zee

    Michel Gay

    Zee is allowed to climb into bed with his parents, but only after they’re awake. And this morning they are very, very sleepy. Zee knows just what they need . . . coffee! But when the coffee spills, he must find another way to wake his parents witho...

  • Mesozoic Murder

    Christine Gentry

    "Gentry's appealing heroine, who gets ample opportunity to display her resourcefulness and fortitude, and the intriguing milieu in which she operates, should ensure both a warm reception and a speedy encore." -- Publishers WeeklyAnsel Phoenix draws d...

  • The Librarian's Passionate Knight

    Cindy Gerard

    THE DAMSEL IN DISTRESS... When she saw the man who rescued her from a stalker ex-boyfriend, librarian Phoebe Richards couldn't believe her eyes. Only in books -- and in her fantasies -- had she seen a sexy-as-sin man like Daniel Barone. He was every...

  • The Sinner

    Tess Gerritsen

    Not even the icy temperatures of a typical New England winter can match the bone-chilling scene of carnage discovered at the chapel of Our Lady of Divine Light. Within the cloistered convent lie two nuns -- one dead, one critically injured -- victims...

  • All the Wrong Men and One Perfect Boy

    Spike Gillespie

    Some women have trouble with men. For Spike Gillespie, a widely followed online journalist, those problems started early with her father -- the first and most important man in any child's life. Spike's relationship with her emotionally distant parent...

  • Leadership

    Rudolph Giuliani

    Rudolph Giuliani demonstrates how the leadership skills he practices can be employed successfully by anyone who has to run anything. Opens with a gripping account of Giuliani's immediate reaction to the September 11 attacks, including a narrow escape...

  • Eric the Math Bear

    Caroline Glicksman

    Eric loves math.Eric loves counting.Eric loves numbers! He dreams about them all night and thinks about them all day. He even has a special job thinking up numbers to lock the safe at the Big Bear Bank.
    But one day, two robbers storm into the bank...

  • Pure Dead Wicked

    Debi Gliori

    Just when the Strega-Borgias think it’s safe to relax in their ancestral castle . . . it isn’t. First their roof collapses, forcing them into the Auchenlochtermuchty Arms -- the only local hotel that will accomodate three mythical beasts and one...

  • Happy Halloween!

    Golden Books

    The Morehead Collection. Celebrate Halloween with this spooktacular holiday tale featuring The Morehead Collection’s Teenie Halloweenies. Children will love the cute and creepy critters in this delightful Halloween rhyming story....

  • Married in a Month

    Linda Goodnight

    After being left with a baby boy on his doorstep, confirmed bachelor Colt Garrett was in desperate need of a nanny. Luckily Kati Winslow temporarily accepted the position -- but with one simple request: that Colt grant her a marriage of convenience i...

  • Breaking Her Fall

    Stephen Goodwin

    "Breaking Her Fall is a corker-- vivid, brilliantly marbled with harmonies and textures and people vibrant with life." -- Richard BauschJust before eleven on an ordinary summer night in Washington, D.C., Tucker Jones picks up the phone, expecting to ...

  • Come Closer

    Sara Gran

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefo...

  • Strontium Dog: Portrait of a Mutant

    Alan Grant

    From acclaimed writer Alan Grant (Batman: Anarky, JLA: Riddle of the Beast) and artist Carlos Ezquerra (Just a Pilgrim), comes a hard-hitting sci-fi saga!

    In the far future, Strontium-90 nuclear fallout has created a sub-race of mutants and freaks...

  • The Star Princess // Star Rogue

    Susan Grant

    Republished as Star Rogue A WILDER BLUE YONDER Ilana Hamilton isn't an adventurer like her pilot mother or a diplomat like her do-right brother; she's a brash, fun-loving filmmaker who'd rather work behind the camera than be a "Star Princess" i...

  • A Matter Of Trust

    Latwaan Green
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  • The Road to The NFL

    Tim Green

    Scholastic and the NFL are teaming up for books that bring football to life. Written by former NFL pro, NPR and FOX commentator, Tim Green, this reader is a real insider's look at America's game.

    Ever wondered how top atheletes got their start...

  • The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories

    Martin H. Greenberg

    More than 200,000 words of the best mystery and suspense fiction from around the world

    The world's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories

    Each year, editors Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg cast their net far and wide, across the seas, throu...

  • It's Itchcraft

    Dan Greenburg

    Zack is nervous about the fifth-grade Halloween dance. He doesn't know how to dance and he doesn't have a date! When Zack meets Prudence, a beautiful girl who speaks with a funny accent and dresses in old-fashioned clothing, he's smitten. He thinks h...

  • Lord Sandhurst's Surprise

    Maria Greene

    Will She Be Ruled By The Fates... Much to her family's chagrin, Miss Laura Endicott believes she is descended from an ancient line of witches. Accordingly, she's ready to accept a wise woman's prophecy that she will marry a man named Julian, and nu...

  • Mirror Lake

    Thomas Christopher Greene

    Hoping to escape painful memories about his recently deceased father, Nathan Carter journeys to rural Vermont, where bad weather prompts his meeting and subsequent friendship with seventy-nine-year-old Wallace Fiske, a social outcast with his own dif...

  • Grandparents Are the Greatest Because. . .

    Adele Aron Greenspun

  • Eggshell Days

    Rebecca Gregson

    Emmy, Niall, and Sita and Jonathan miss their train back to London from a Somerset wedding, escaping Britain's worst rail crash in sixty years. Upon reflection of their mortality, the friends reevaluate their lives, and come to a decision. They will ...

  • Heart Appearances

    Pamela Griffin

    Darcy Evans has spent much of her life scrounging on the streets of London. When she is dismissed from a girls' reformatory, she finds herself traveling to America at the invitation of an old friend. In the states, Darcy's uncouth mannerisms single h...

  • Foul Matter

    Martha Grimes

    The bestselling author of the Richard Jury novels delivers a razor-sharp and raucously funny send-up of the cutthroat world of publishing. And the praise is pouring in:"A hilarious and wicked caper-adventure on the evils of the book business." -- Pit...

  • Simpsons Treehouse of Horror Fun-Filled Frightfest

    Matt Groening

    The cryptkeeper of comedy, Matt Groening, the creator of 'The Simpsons', presents his newest collection of hell"arious humour.

    Join Matt Groening, the King of Comic Chaos and the creator of America's favourite family, 'The Simpsons', as ...

  • The Zigzag Kid

    David Grossman

  • By Dawn's Early Light

    David Hagberg

    From the USA Today bestselling author of Joshua's Hammer and High FlightOn the Bay of Bengal a civilian research vessel witnesses a submarine fire a laser into the sky. Before they can process what they see, the sub blasts them out of the water and c...

  • The Goose Girl

    Shannon Hale

    Some people are born with the first word of a language resting on their tongue, though it may take some time before they can taste it. Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee, Crown Princess of Kildenree, was born with her eyes closed and a word on her tong...

  • The Kissing Blades

    Jessica Hall

    Love like this can be dangerous. In her heart-pounding novels of romantic suspense, author Jessica Hall captures the thrill of desire on the edge of danger. Now, with The Kissing Blades, she takes passion to the point of no return... Los Angele...

  • A Lark on the Wing

    Phyliss Hamilton

    "Don’t cry when you ask a question and don’t get the answer that you want to hear. Whether or not you choose to believe it, this issue is not a question of love…love isn’t some magical spell than can change who I am, my basic makeup. My perso...

  • The Daddy Quest

    Lori Handeland

    Leaving Las Vegas... Thirteen-year-old Rayne Houston is on a quest. After discovering that her father is alive, she angrily packs her bag and goes off to find him, with only a six-year-old orphan named Tim at her side. Nicole Houston is frantic...

  • Together

    Again Hannon

  • Samantha's Gift

    Valerie Hansen

    THREE'S...A FAMILY? Though the gossips had them pegged as an item, teacher Rachel Woodward was merely helping Sean Bates, the new guidance counselor, learn small-town ways. But his looks and charm were almost irresistible. And it was a good thing ...

  • The Fortune Donut

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

    Rikochet, Buena Girl, and the Flea want to become the best Masked Wrestlers ever! If they study hard and live by the Code of Masked Wrestling -- Honor, Family, Tradition, Donuts! -- their dreams of success in the ring just might come true.

    A...

  • Big Bad Flea

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

    Rikochet, Buena Girl, and the Flea want to become the best Masked Wrestlers ever! If they study hard and live by the Code of Masked Wrestling -- Honor, Family, Tradition, Donuts! -- their dreams of success in the ring just might come true.

    A...

  • The Italian Doctor's Proposal

    Kate Hardy

    A doctor with a plan... Lucy Williams is hoping to get the new consultant post at the Cornish maternity unit where she works. But, no, the post goes to the all-male, half-Italian, drop-dead gorgeous Nic Alberici! Immediately sparks fly between ...

  • In Times of Siege

    Githa Hariharan

    At 52, Shiv Murthy is a New Delhi professor of history. He leads a mild, unremarkable life until, while his wife is away, things spin out of control. First, the young and passionate daughter of an old friend breaks her leg and moves in with him. Even...

  • Countdown to Halloween

    AnnMarie Harris

    Join Miss Plum's class on their trip to the pumpkin farm and a haunted house, where a special surprise awaits! From ten rows of pumpkins to one full Halloween moon, children will love counting down to this fun-filled holiday. With simple rhyming text...

  • When Perfect Ain't Possible

    Suzette D. Harrison

  • High Plains Wife

    Jillian Hart

    Montana's wide open plains were as empty as her newlywed heart. Rancher Nick Gray, once Mariah's girlhood crush, wanted a mother to tend his children, not a wife to warm his bed. Still, she'd made that bed; now Mariah had to lie in it. Yet could she ...

  • Dancing in the Rain

    Amanda Harte

    It's the fall of 1917, and the people in Canela, Texas are shocked when Carolyn Wentworth, believed to be nothing more than a beautiful social butterfly, volunteers to go to France as a nurse's aid. She'll be back in a month, they predict. But there'...

  • You Are Not A Stranger Here?

    Adam Haslett

  • Speak to Me of Love

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    When Faith Butler finds herself and her two children stranded in Dead Horse, Wyoming, she has no choice but to take employment with mysterious recluse Drake Rutledge. As Faith shines the light of hope and happiness in the dark halls of Drake's dismal...

  • Grass for His Pillow

    Lian Hearn

    Praised for its epic scope and descriptive detail, Across the Nightingale Floor, the first book of the Tales of the Otori, was an international bestseller and critical success, named by the London Times as "the most compelling novel to have been publ...

  • What Was She Thinking?

    Zoe Heller

    A lonely schoolteacher reveals more than she intends when she records the story of her best friend's affair with a pupil in this sly, insightful novelSchoolteacher Barbara Covett has led a solitary existence; aside from her cat, Portia, she has few f...