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New Books List: 535 titles


  • Nancy Holder

    EVERYONE'S GOT HIS DEMONS.... For Angel, life as a vampire was a constant thrill. Power, danger, cool clothes (never getting old, also a plus). But in the end, it was all about the kill -- until he killed the wrong girl. "Gypsies, in my exper...



  • Mo Hayder

    Some crimes shock. Some crimes horrify. And some defy the imagination. In her mesmerizing novel, Mo Hayder steers into a nightmarish world of victims and their victimizer.. . and of a cop crashing up against his own limits as a man. Detective Jack...



  • Stephen White

    It was a cold case…The unsolved double murder of two teenage girls. They vanished on a crisp autumn night more than decade ago. Their mutilated bodies were found the following spring beneath the melting snow of the Colorado Rockies. Now--at the req...



  • Gary Ciccarelli

    Luke Skywalker and his friend Windy are exploring Tatooine in Luke's T-16 skyhopper when they crash in remote Beggar's Canyon, where their efforts to escape its dangers are aided by a mysterious man in a hooded robe...



  • Susan Wright

    Located dangerously near the Cardassian border, the unstable region of space known as the Badlands has long been a hazard to interstellar navigation, characterized by violent plasma storms and other even stranger phenomena. Many starships have faced ...



  • Susan Wright

    Located perilously near the Cardassian border, the turbulent region of space known as the Badlands has been an interstellar hazard to navigation for at least two generations. Many starships have been lost amidst its violent plasma storms, but the tru...



  • Laurie Burns
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    Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and...



  • Jean Rabe
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    Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and...



  • Jude Watson

    Peace over anger. Honor over hate. Strength over fear. The Defenders of the Dead live in the past while they destroy the future. They face a revolt of the Young -- a band of rebels led by two teenagers, Cerasi and Nield. Thirteen-year-old Ob...



  • Golden Books

    Go on an out-of-this-world LEGO® Star Wars™ reading adventure!

    The rebels are under attack! Join them in their fight against the evil empire. Can brave Luke Skywalker defeat Darth Vader?

    Engaging topics and fun, interact...




  • Kathy Burdette
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    Written by some of today's leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and wa...



  • Chris Cassidy; Tish Pahl
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    Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and...



  • Timothy Zahn
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    Written by some of today's leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and wa...



  • Golden Books

    Luke Skywalker and Ben Kenobi go to the dangerous city of Mos Eisley in search of a pilot who will take them to the planet Alderaan to deliver stolen Imperial plans for a superweapon to the Rebel Alliance....



  • Paul Danner
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    Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and...



  • Peter David

    Bombed to the brink of oblivion, the planet Centauri Prime is starting the slow and painful process of rebuilding, under the watchful eye of Emperor Londo Mollari. But Londo is in turn being watched--and manipulated--by the conquest-hungry Drakh. The...



  • Patricia A. Jackson
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    Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and...





  • Paul Danner
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    Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and...




  • Chris Cassidy; Tish Pahl
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    Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and...








  • Patricia A. Jackson
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    Written by some of today’s leading science fiction writers, these tales sweep us into a world where the only laws are cunning, force, and power -- and only the bravest, craziest, and deadliest dare to tread. Here mercs and smugglers, gangsters and...



  • Saranne Dawson

    A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WHO LONGS FOR ADVENTURE IS WHISKED AWAY TO A STRANGE AND FASCINATING NEW LAND BY A HANDSOME STARSHIP CAPTAIN. SERENA HAD ALWAYS BEEN CURIOUS: Insatiable in her quest for knowledge and voracious in her appetite for adventure. No ...



  • Susan R. Matthews

    When her brother runs away to embrace a new faith that is based on heresy, orthodox believer Salli sets out to find him, facing in the process experiences that will cause her to question all she believes...



  • David Sherman; Dan Cragg

    Through three centuries of interstellar travel, intelligent alien life-forms had never been encountered... until now. When a scientific team exploring an obscure planet fails to make its regular communications check, the Marines of third platoon a...



  • Elizabeth Moon

    THEIR UNIVERSE IS FALLING APART! Rejuvenants fear the backlash caused by bad drugs; they want to ensure that nothing interferes with their pursuit of long life--or the profit that comes from promising it to others. Neighbor states fear the aggress...



  • William C. Dietz

    An interplanetary smuggler gets caught up with revolutionaries in this action-packed novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of Legion of the Damned. Even smuggling has rules. The first is: Don’t get caught. Meet Pik Lando, a con a...



  • Joe Haldeman

    A veteran of The Forever War, William Mandella lives on the snow-covered planet set aside for his kind, supporting his family by ice-fishing and teaching physics. But now Mandella's life has become obsolete. The denizens of Earth have evolved into...



  • Loren L. Coleman

    IN THE TRADITION OF THE BATTLETECH SERIES, ASPECT PRESENTS AN ACTION-PACKED ADVENTURE BASED ON THE UNIVERSE OF VOR, THE THRILLING NEW MINIATURE-BASED GAME. NO EXIT The world's two superpowers are at war--when suddenly even nuclear annihilation b...




  • Rick Shelley

    Lon Nolan has risen through the ranks of the DMC like none before him, consistently showing his courage under fire--and making his mark as a leader of men. Now, with a growing family of his own, Lon has begun to grasp the higher responsibility that c...



  • William R. Forstchen

    WHAT PRICE FREEDOM? It has been over a decade since Andrew Keane's Union regiment was mysteriously pulled away from the Civil War and marooned in time on a hostile alien planet. But now it appears as if everything the Lost Regiment has fought and ...



  • Everett Owens

    Head Hunting

    When Leonard Betts's body disappears from the morgue after being decapitated in a violent accident, Special Agents Mulder and Scully are called in to investigate the situation. Mulder has a theory that Leonard h...




  • Elizabeth Moon

    NATURAL ALLIES ... Esmay Suiza and Brun Meager should be friends--they're both bright, brave, likable and adventurous. But true friendship doesn't run any smoother than true love. Brun thinks Esmay's a stuck-up prig, and Esmay thinks Brun's a spoi...



  • Jack L. Chalker

    After three passengers--Ming, Ari, and Angel--embark on elite starship journey into the Realm, they unwittingly become ensnared in one man's bloodthirsty vendetta that will alter their very beings. That man is Jeremiah Wong Kincaid. He vows to destro...



  • S.D. Perry

    HumanturnedPredator Machiko Noguchi finds her loyalties confounded when she stumbles upon a trio of humans who are stranded on a planet seeded with Alien eggs, and Predators who intend to hunt the hatchlings, and anything else at moves. Original....



  • Anne Perry
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • William J. Coughlin

    THE CASES Nine Supreme Court judges will soon decide four history-making cases. Eight of them will split along party lines four to four. The ninth judge, holding the swing vote, will tip the scales of justice. He's a good man, a fine man, and, unkno...



  • Steve Martini

    A burned-out public defender from L.A., Joselyn Cole has opted for a quieter life in the San Juan Islands of Washington State. Barely making ends meet, she is pleasantly surprised when entrepreneur Dean Belden shows up in her office--tempting her wit...



  • Laurie R. King

    A respected university professor, Anne Waverly has a past known to few: Years ago, her own unwitting act cost Anne her husband and daughter. Fewer still know that this history and her academic specialty alternative religious movements have made her a...




  • Robert J. Randisi
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • Talmadge Powell
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • C.J. Songer

    Ex-cop-turned-P.I. Meg Gillis offers to stand in for her partner by serving papers to the abusive husband of a woman he knows, but trouble ensues and Meg finds herself on the run. By the author of Bait. Reprint....




  • Joe Weber

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    ""Primary Target is a chilling scenario of global warfare. The suspense never stops.""—W.E.B. Griffin

    “Weber weaves a frighteningly real story of international terrorism in America in his newest thriller.”—Publisher...





  • Francine Pascal

    Sam is gone. No. Not just gone. Someone's taken him. Kidnapped him to get to me. And I only have three hours to find him... Or Sam is going to die. All because of me. NO RULES. NO LIMITS. NO FEAR....



  • Robert J. Randisi

    A small slipup on the part of detective Nick Turner, a twisted serial killer, and some dogged police work reveal the mysterious motives behind a series of seemingly unrelated murders. Previously published as The Turner Journals. Reprint....



  • Katharine Clark

    Rachel Stark is about to live every parent's nightmare: Her nine-year-old son, David, is snatched off the street in broad daylight with no apparent motive and only one clue--his red bicycle lying on the side of the road. Now, already under the strain...



  • Barnaby Williams

    When an American nuclear submarine goes missing, the super powers move inexorably towards mutual annihilation. The Americans try to retaliate and plan a raid deep in the heart of the Soviet Union. Suddenly it comes to light that a third party is tryi...



  • Michael Connelly

    In L.A. Cassie Black is another beautiful woman in a Porsche: except Cassie just did six years in prison and still has "outlaw juice" flowing in her veins. Now Cassie is returning to her old profession, taking down a money man in Vegas. But the perfe...



  • Suzanne Brockmann

    YOU CAN LOOK... Threatened by underworld boss Michael Trotta, Alessandra Lamont is nearly blown to pieces in a mob hit. The last thing she wants is to put what's left of her life into the hands of the sexy, loose-cannon federal agent who seems to ...



  • Aimee Thurlo

    A PROTECTOR FOR HER CHILD... Mother-to-be Annie Sandusky witnessed a killer fleeing the scene of a crime. Now the murderer was after her. And only the victim's son, Jake Black Raven, was man enough to protect her.... Tall and proud, Jake Black ...



  • Gayle Wilson

    It had been three months, three weeks and four days since they'd made love... and made the baby that Robin McCord now carried. Back in New York, she could no longer avoid Jared Donovan...not when he was the only man who could keep her baby -- thei...



  • Caroline Burnes

    Fear Familiar: Join the coolest feline detective to ever take on mystery, mayhem and matchmaking! Kidnapped by a sexy Santa! Sylvie West had stopped believing in Christmas miracles. Then the sexiest Santa she'd ever seen took her captive -- a...



  • Susan Bowden

    What terrible secrets are hidden in Lisa Cooper's torrent of dreams? For years the thirty-one-year-old artist has been plagued by the same inexplicable fears. Fears that have stolen her nights since she was a little girl. Fears that have intensified ...



  • Carlene Thompson

    CROSS MY HEART AND HOPE TO DIE . They had been six teenage girls in Wheeling, West Virginia. Full of mischief. Acting wild. Having good times. And getting into trouble. They called themselves the Six of Hearts. Then one night things went too far. ...



  • Sharon Sala

    HE COULDN'T FORGET Clay LeGrand's heart shattered the day his wife, Frankie, disappeared. Had she run away? Been kidnapped? Or had she simply left him for another man? Two years later, he's still asking the same burning Questions when he comes hom...



  • Jenna Ryan

    Secrets and late nights were as much a part of the man as his badge and black leather Detective Riker was six feet tall with a lithe body and dark eyes that gave new meaning to the word seductive. He was an intriguing package, concealing something b...



  • Catherine Asaro

    WEB OF DECEIT Ballerina Lucia del Mar has two great passions: dance, which consumes most of her waking hours, and the World Wide Web, which brings the outside world into her tightly regimented life. Lucia's two passions collide when a White House pe...



  • Mona Gedney
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    Determined that her kittens will have both the master and mistress of her choosing, nothing escapes the notice of cunning mama cat, Ginger. Half the time, Graham Livingstone is read to throttle the mischief-making orange feline who seems to have ado...



  • Laura Matthews

    A Time For Love... Lady Caroline Carruthers was enjoying her visit to the Hartville home. But one thing made her life at the estate complicated -- Lady Hartville was intent on convincing her son Richard that Caroline would be a perfect wife for h...



  • Bess Willingham

    Would she marry for love or for money? Her mission was to wed... The disillusioned Lucinda Partridge knew there was only one reason for a woman to marry--money. About to lose all of hers, the desperate opera singer realized she must quickly find ...



  • Emma Jensen

    A SECRET IDENTITY Ailis O'Neill is not the average Dublin miss. She spends her time teaching English to the Gaelic peasants - and painting the local wildlife. But with her brother running for British Parliament on behalf of Ireland, Ailis is expec...



  • Mary Brendan

    Mrs. Victoria Hart, recently widowed, suddenly found herself impoverished. Her only hope of financial aid was David, Viscount Courtenay -- the man who'd loved and cherished her before abandoning her seven years previously. Suggesting a marriage o...



  • Carola Dunn
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    Injured war hero Damian Perrincourt never expected his homecoming would be turned topsy-turvey by an impish kitten! But Pirate has an uncanny sense of mayhem -- or is it being in the right place at the right time? For without his newfound friendship ...



  • Kate Huntington

    STAR-CROSSED... Lydia Whittaker's horrid Uncle Henry has cast her, her widowed mother, and sisters out of their Yorkshire home. Now Lydia must not only hand over the estate she has thriftily managed for years, but also enter the marriage mart...



  • Valerie King
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    Miss Grace Havistock and Lord Cheriton are in for quite a surprise when they attend a series of plays chosen and performed by their beloved nieces and their pets. In an unexpected turn of events - and with a little help from five darling kittens - G...



  • Evelyn Richardson

    Music and Mischief Mademoiselle Isobel de Montargis had a passionate soul, a strong will, and a proud determination to be more than the music tutor to the dashing Lord Christian Hatherleigh's niece and nephew. Her dream was to become an actrice de...



  • Lynn Collum

    AN UNASSUMING HEIRESS There was no question that Miss Emily Collins would agree to accompany Lord Carson's three motherless children from India to their uncle's estate near Bath. An orphan herself, Emily knew what it meant to be abandoned to the mer...



  • Peggy Darty
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    Introducing four brand-new novellas in modern settings that reflect on the anticipation of entering a new year--new calendar, new goals to accomplish, and a new chance at love. Rejoice in the transformation of a young woman in Remaking Meridith by Ca...



  • Amber Dana

    The local residents were convinced that the recluse on Lily Pad Lake was a jilted lover, or possibly a fugitive. Tom Grant's nearest neighbors were an older couple who lived across the lake. When their daughter Natalie, a beautiful young lawyer from ...



  • Cherie Bennett

    The S.C.R.U.B.S. teens are devastated when a terrible accident leaves one of their friends in a coma, but only Summer knows the truth about the victim, and must convince the others to take her seriously before another tragedy occurs...




  • Yvonne Lehman
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    Experience a family saga that begins in 1860 when the painting of a homestead is first given to a young bride who leaves her beloved home of Laurelwood. Then follow the painting through a legacy of love that touches down in the years 1890, 1969, and ...



  • Katherine Applegate

    Kate fins love with Jake--the guy she's wanted for so long. At last they're together, and Kate intends to make sure nothing ever separates them again. But Jake's got a problem. Somehow he's got to persuade Kate to stay away from him--or pay a high pr...



  • Pamela Kaye Tracy
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    Introducing four brand-new novellas in modern settings that reflect on the anticipation of entering a new year--new calendar, new goals to accomplish, and a new chance at love. Rejoice in the transformation of a young woman in Remaking Meridith by Ca...



  • Yvonne Lehman
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    Introducing four brand-new novellas in modern settings that reflect on the anticipation of entering a new year--new calendar, new goals to accomplish, and a new chance at love. Rejoice in the transformation of a young woman in Remaking Meridith by Ca...



  • Carol Cox
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    Introducing four brand-new novellas in modern settings that reflect on the anticipation of entering a new year--new calendar, new goals to accomplish, and a new chance at love. Rejoice in the transformation of a young woman in Remaking Meridith by Ca...



  • Andrea Boeshaar
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    Experience a family saga that begins in 1860 when the painting of a homestead is first given to a young bride who leaves her beloved home of Laurelwood. Then follow the painting through a legacy of love that touches down in the years 1890, 1969, and ...



  • Sally Laity
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    Experience a family saga that begins in 1860 when the painting of a homestead is first given to a young bride who leaves her beloved home of Laurelwood. Then follow the painting through a legacy of love that touches down in the years 1890, 1969, and ...



  • Robin Burcell

    Gruesome slasher murders are spreading terror in San Francisco. The pressure is on the police force to track down the killer before another young woman is found, throat cut, body abandoned. Homicide Inspector Kate Gillespie is picked to lead the sear...




  • Fred W. Hunter

    LOST YEARS Chicago detective Jeremy Ransom and his unofficial partner in crime, septuagenarian Emily Charters, arc facing a strange case of dark, desperate family secrets. Abigail Pearson has a weak heart, all the more worrisome since she fears...



  • Christine McGuire

    "New York Times" bestselling author Christine McGuire packs her riveting legal thrillers with authentic details drawn from her career as a criminal prosecutor. Now McGuire, who "expertly builds suspense" "(Publishers Weekly), " brings back her savvy ...



  • Debra Dier

    THROUGH THE MISTS OF TIME 1999. He appeared to her out of the swirling fog on the cliff's edge, a ghostly figure who seemed somehow larger than life. Dark, handsome, blatantly male, he radiated the kind of confidence that led men into battle and wom...



  • Jennifer Archer
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    Tory Beecham-Todd gains a closer understanding of her husband, and he of her, when they switch places, literally. He has a baby kicking him from the inside out and she has five o'clock shadow. But it will take the miracle of a new life for them to re...



  • Eugenia Riley
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    In his dotage, the disoriented bird has delivered Emma Fairchild's baby to the wrong time. And when the concerned mother travels to Victorian England, she finds her precious package in the arms of a dashing earl....



  • Nora Roberts
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    Wearing an ancient star pendant, an enchanting woman journeys to an otherworldly land -- and introduces a skeptical stranger to the magical powers of love......



  • Anne Kelleher

    A cry for help, echoing through the centuries, inspires a young teacher to rewrite history -- and rediscover a passion she only dreamed of... At first, everything seemed ideal for Katie Coyle. She was delighted with her new job as a professor of ...



  • Beverly Bird

    THEY WERE MEANT TO BE TOGETHER Gabriel Marsden was on a quest for the truth, and he didn't want anyone's help. This tall, dark, enigmatic man was used to living his life alone in the shadows. But then Shawna Collies fell into his arms--and she ref...



  • Shannon Waverly

    Circle of Friends -- May the circle be unbroken. CHRISTMAS. A TIME FOR FIRST LOVE... AND SECOND CHANCES. As a girl, Lauren DeStefano fell in love with Cameron Hathaway -- the golden boy of Harmony, Massachusetts. A rich man's son. The inn...



  • Kimberly Raye
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    Abracadabra, three winks and a kiss is all it takes to transform a baby doll into a real life bundle of joy. But as the infant tests out her lungs, Samantha Skye realizes it won't be so easy to placate the newborn. Luckily her handsome neighbor knows...



  • Lynn Bailey

    He's the only one who can put an end to the strife that's destroying the faery kingdom of May Mell. But his mission involves a mortal woman with a yearning heart--and a newly awakened passion will inspire him to risk his life for love... Beautiful...



  • Terri Brisbin

    Present Day, Scotland. A thoroughly modern man with a very busy schedule, Dr. Douglas MacKendimen has no patience for his family's legacy of time travel. But during a vacation at his beloved ancestral home in Dunnedin, he steps into the past -- a...



  • Constance O'Day-Flannery

    Something inexplicable has led Maggie Whitaker to the sixteenth century. Always a woman who has tried to do the right thing and live up to expectations, Maggie is beginning to learn the joy of following her own heart--even if it leads her across cent...



  • Susan Delaney

    Still distraught over the death of her husband, Peggy Millwright finds a delirious man lying on the beach outside her Jersey Shore home who claims to be a nineteenth-century sailor and rediscovers passions through his innocent eyes. Original....



  • Janice Bennett

    Regency readers were first introduced to Xanthe -- an irrepressible fairy godmother and friend to young hearts -- in THE CANDLELIGHT WISH. Now she's back to play matchmaker for another unlikely couple. All she needs to commence her spells is the ...



  • Gar Anthony Haywood
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • Maxine O'Callaghan
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • Orland Outland

    If Poirot preferred pUmps... If' Cagney craved cosmetics... If Nick and Nora both wore nylons... ...they'd still be no match for Doan McCandler and Binky Van de Kamp! With money pouring in from their successful detective agency, San Francisco's ...



  • Conrad Allen

    Murder Travels First Class.. In 1907, the world applauds as the Cunard Line launches a history-making ship. The magnificent Lusitania, hoping to capture the Blue Riband for the fastest crossing from Liverpool to New York, attracts both the beautif...



  • Laura Lippman
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • Wendi Lee
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • John R. Maxim

    Paul Bannerman was once his nation's deadliest weapon -- a top covert operative heading up the most lethal group of contract agents and network specialists in all of Europe. Now Bannerman is a liability -- an unpredictable loose cannon that could irr...



  • Michael Kahn

    "Bearing Witness grips you from the start. If you have not read Michael Kahn's terrific legal thrillers before, you are in for a treat." -- Philip Margolin, New York Times bestselling authorRachel Gold blames it on her mother, Sarah, who convinced h...



  • Tony Hillerman
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • Christopher West

    When the body of a Chinese official is found dead in Hong Kong's harbor, his wrists handcuffed behind his back, Inspector Wang Anzhuang is sent to investigate. What he finds is a link that connects the dead man to Triad smugglers and a black market i...



  • Jo Bannister

    MARKED FOR MURDER Detective Inspector Frank Shapiro and his two chief investigators, Liz Graham and Cal Donovan, probe a mysterious conspiracy, which may rob Castlemere of more than one of their finest. A young prostitute is found dead on a boat in ...



  • Janet Evanovich
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • Tony Dunbar

    It's a city of sin. And murder's only one of them. New Orleans Attorney Tubby Dubonnet is getting tired of his slow-moving, indolent city--with all its dirt and dancing, its colorful characters and corruption. For Tubby, a change of scenery might ...



  • Jonathan Kellerman

    A second-rate actor is found mutilated in a car trunk. Then a psychologist at a Los Angeles hospital for the criminally insane is murdered in a similar grisly fashion. Suddenly the incoherent ramblings of an inmate at the presumably secure institutio...



  • Stuart M. Kaminsky
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • Jennifer Rowe

    On the rambling country manse of Haven, Senior Detective Tessa Vance hopes to find a little piece of heaven. But instead she finds herself immersed in hell.

    A famous pop star lies dead in a toolshed, presumably from a suicide. The three angeli...



  • Frances Fyfield

    London lawyer Sarah Fortune masks a numbed heart with a string of lame-dog clients and a retinue of eccentric lovers. Now she finds herself protecting Cannon Smith, a man whose worst enemy turns out to be his own beloved twin brother, Johnny. Long ag...



  • Alton Gansky

    What sinister secret lies hidden in the town of Roanoke II? How did the entire population of this desert military instillation simply disappear? High-level Pentagon orders call J. D. Stanton, retired navy captain, back to active duty to investigate. ...



  • Catherine Dain

    Mariana Morgan, unraveled by her husband's "random" murder and the loss of her job, turns to the psychic world, not so much to find her husband's murderer as to regain some order in her life. She joins a meditation group, consults a psychic channeler...



  • Reggie Nadelson

    When the head of a Manhattan co-op is found beheaded, Artie Cohen begins an investigation that leads him from city to city, culminating in a look at the dark side of charities and a far-reaching conspiracy...



  • Don Flynn

    It isn't Brand Name celebrity news when New York Daily Press reporter Fitz's pal who plays piano at Elaine's is murdered......until Ed Fitzgerald digs into it. As usual he drives his City Editor, Ironhead Matthews, crazy, this time because he has bee...



  • Lawrence Block
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • Jonathan Kellerman

    Mystery stories by such authors as Max Allan Collins, Jeremiah Healy, Carolyn Wheat, Faye Kellerman, and Nancy Pickard ...





  • Dana Stabenow
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...




  • Les Roberts
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • Jerry Kennealy
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...




  • Michael Dahl

    Finnegan''s uncle receives an invitation to be a finalist in an international mystery writers'' award competition. Since the author must be present to accept the prize, that means exotic Saharan travel for Finn and Uncle Stoppard. The competition win...



  • John Lutz
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    Follow Tony Hillerman's Jim Chee as he investigates rumors of witchcraft in the steamy Southwest. Join Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan when she looks into a suspicious house fire in Baltimore. Compare the detecting tactics of Maxine O'Callaghan's pione...



  • Elizabeth Adler

    Lithe, leggy attorney and law professor Marla Cwitowitz is dying for some excitement in her life - that is, other than being the girlfriend of Al Giraud, private detective, sexy soul mate, and all-around best friend. So when she sees the potential fo...



  • Sarah Gregory

    A TRIAL OF CAPITAL PROPORTIONS The charismatic son of a political icon, Texas Congressman Will John Benedict falls from grace when he is accused of murdering an office intern with whom he was having an affair. With the Benedict power and money beh...



  • William Bernhardt

    Suffering from courtroom burnout, attorney Ben Kincaid heads to the picturesque Pacific Northwest for some much-needed R and R. But Ben's blissful getaway becomes a busman's holiday in the small town of Magic Valley, where a pitched battle between th...



  • Nuruddin Farah

    “With Secrets, Nuruddin Farah solidifies his reputation as one of the world’s great writers.” -- Ishmael ReedSet against the backdrop of the civil war in Somalia, this stunningly ambitious novel was a Los Angeles Times Book Review Best Fiction ...



  • Connie Mason

    He rode into Chirk Castle on his pure black destrier. Clad in black from his gleaming helm to the tips of his toes, he was all battle-honed muscles and rippling tendons. In his stark black armor he looked lethal and sinister, every bit as dangerous a...



  • Carol Finch

    Disguised as a man, Kat Diamond flees from her step father's murderous goons with a fortune in heirloom jewels. With fate on her side, her path crosses Judd Lassiter's -- a notorious bounty hunter she desperately wants to hire. When Kat offer...



  • Jean Wilson

    Though deserted by her husband years ago, Isabella Jordon inherits his entire estate when he dies-saving her, her daughter, and a rag-tag family of orphans from the street. Blessed with a home for the holidays, they pack up thier belongings to begin ...



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    TWELVE DAYS In the Year of' Our Lord, 1155, Menton Castle was the same as any other: It had nobles and minstrels, knights and servants. Yet from the great hall to the scullery there were signs that the house was in an uproar. This Yuletide season wa...



  • Carol Carson

    WANTED FAMILY MAN. MUST LOVE CHILDREN. PAYMENT NEGOTIABLE. Rider Magrane knew what "wanted" meant; he'd spent time running from the law. Those days were over now, and he'd come back to Drover to make amends. But the man he's wronged was no longer...



  • Deborah Hale

    A Secret Child... When Lucy Rushton's lover was killed in battle, she wed his brother, formidable viscount Drake Strickland, to protect her unborn child. The marriage tore her heart, yet after their vows were sealed, Lucy saw another side to her ste...



  • Cassandra Austin

    Men Were Just Plain Inconvenient! Jane Sparks had a business to run, and no citified doctor filled with Wild West fantasies was going to distract her. Even one as warm and handsome as Dr. Adam Hart, the only man who ever tempted her into nightly dr...



  • Colleen Coble

    With her beautiful face and glorious red hair, Jessica never met a single man she couln't wrap around her little finger. To her amazement, however, Clay Cole seems immune to her charms. In fact, he sees straight through them, and Jessica is furious. ...



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    Cassandra MacIntrye has no love for the English who killed her family and conquered her beloved country. Yet, for the sake of the clan she leads, she must obey the English king's order and marry Baron Drake. Over the twelve days of Christmas, she...



  • Joyce Carlow

    In HIGHLAND FIRE, Joyce Carlow gave us the stirring tale of highland beauty Edana McLean. Now in HIGHLAND FLAME, the second book of this series set in eighteenth-century Scotland, she weaves the story of Edana's identical twin sister, Aileena Cam...



  • Patricia Cabot

    A Stormy Heart Adventurous, outspoken, Payton Dixon has two passionate dreams... a clipper ship of her own and the love of Captain Connor Drake. But both seem impossibly out of reach, since her beloved captain is about to marry another, and worse,...



  • Rosemary Rogers

    Orphaned by a tragic accident, sixteen-year-old Amalie Courtland set sail from America for a new life in England with her godmother. What she didn't expect to find was Lady Winford's handsome rogue of a grandson, Robert Holt Braxton, Earl of Deverell...



  • Loree Lough

    Love Happened To Other People..... Not to a man wanted - dead or alive! For ten years, Jake Walker had been on the run from murder, marshals and memories. But now he'd found Bess Beckley, whose caring heart and depthless soul could stop any man i...



  • Kimberly Cates

    Caitlin of the Lilies was born to a terrible prophecy -- one day she would destroy Crom the Ever Truthful, the revered Irish chieftain. For his own protection, Crom sends her to be raised in a far-off convent. Knowing nothing of her destiny, Caitlin ...



  • Sheridon Smythe

    Wealthy Englishman and new arrival Cameron Hawke is creating a stir around town, but attempts to learn anything about his past--especially by the lovely teacher of his children, Polly Sutherland--turn up nothing concrete. When wealthy Englishman C...



  • Meagan McKinney

    THE BACHELOR... The way Rachel Howland saw it, Noel Magnus, wealthy publisher and New York's most eligible bachelor, had been seduced--by a legendary black opal and the lure of adventure. To conquer the Arctic, Magnus had traded Manhattan's elegan...



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    MORE THAN JUST KISSES UNDER THE MISTLETOE... On the anniversary of Nick's divorce from Holly, he's taken a sentimental journey to spend Christmas in the hideaway where he and she honeymooned. Holly, wanting to come to terms with her past, has the ...



  • Judith E. French

    Proud, iron-willed Tennessee widow Tamsin MacGregor is wanted -- dead or alive -- for a crime she didn't commit. But out West the law is shoot first, ask questions later. So she's running for her life -- with notoriously handsome bounty hunte...



  • Liz Carlyle

    When Elliot Armstrong, the dissolute marquis of Rannoch, pursues a spiteful mistress into the wilds of Essex to sever their relationship, he is surprised to find himself hopelessly lost -- in more ways than one. Inexplicably drawn to a warmly lit hou...



  • Constance Hall

    A TIME FOR GIVING... Meagan Fenwick hasn't had a happy Christmas since the death of her parents. Any hopes of this season being different are dashed when her stepbrother Harold informs her that he's gambled away their estate -- and her hand ...



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    Experience a family saga that begins in 1860 when the painting of a homestead is first given to a young bride who leaves her beloved home of Laurelwood. Then follow the painting through a legacy of love that touches down in the years 1890, 1969, and ...



  • Brenda Novak

    HE WAS A MAN WHO TOOK WHAT HE WANTED. AND HE WANTED HER. To escape her cruel stepfather, seamstress Alexandra Cogsworth envisioned sailing far from England . . . though not as a captive aboard a pirate's ship. Pirate Captain Nathaniel Kent's s...



  • Megan Gray

    A DANGEROUS REBELLION Promised to a man she will never love, lovely Flora Buchanan flees the genteel poverty of her father's Edinburgh home and plunges into the confusion of the Jacobite rebellion. Rescued from her father's fury by a Highland soldie...



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    A wounded nobleman falls in love with the brave, young woman who rescues him in Ruth Langan's Highland Christmas....



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    A noble knight uncovers the secrets of a lady who is disguised as his servant in Jacqueline Navin's A Wife For Christmas....



  • Lyn Stone
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    Two lonesly hearts find themselves the objects of an intrecate matchmaking plan in Lyn Stone's Ian's Gift....



  • Stobie Piel
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    TWELVE DAYS In the Year of' Our Lord, 1155, Menton Castle was the same as any other: It had nobles and minstrels, knights and servants. Yet from the great hall to the scullery there were signs that the house was in an uproar. This Yuletide season wa...



  • Ronda Thompson

    Camile hadn't earned the name Prickly Pear for nothing. Everyone knew that Camile could rope her way out of Hell itself. Now, Cam knew that her father was looking for a new foreman for their ranch - and she was sure she knew where to find one. Dad...



  • Judith Ivory

    No man, gentleman or otherwise, has ever looked at Lady Edwina Bollash the way the brash, handsome man standing before her is doing now. Edwina has accepted the challenge to transform incorrigible Mich Tremore into a gentleman in just six weeks. And ...



  • Kathryn Fox

    TORN BY TRADITION Unaware that Cara Tarakanov is the daughter of a foreign fur trader his clan despises, Tlingit warrior Tall Dancer saves the beautiful white slave from death at the hands of her brutal master. With her settlement so far away, and a...



  • Olga Daniels

    Charged to fetch Lady Margaret Thurton home from a nunnery, Sir Richard de Heigham never expects to find himself completely captivated with the beautiful heiress. Suddenly thrust into a new life, the innocent Meg is dazzled by the charming young knig...



  • Jill Henry
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    Passing through Moose Creek, Montana, Sara Mercer prays for a single glimpse of the infant girl she gave up for adoption four years before. Instead, she finds herself snowbound with little Mary and her widowed father, Sheriff Gabe Chapman. Sara never...



  • Elizabeth Graham

    A SEASON TO HOPE... Lovely schoolteacher Sarah Calder was looking forward to sharing in Little Bethlehem's joyous holiday festivities, until she discovered Hunter Winslow had moved back to town. Seven years ago, Hunter had jilted her and married...



  • Margaret Evans Porter

    No Woman could Marry Him. He was one of London's most notorious rakes-a man so skilled at seduction that no woman had ever told him no.or led him to the altar. When Kerron Cashin is suddenly called to his country home, the local misses admire him ...



  • Hannah Howell

    When it comes to enchanting her readers with sweeping tales of lasting love, there is no author more cherished than Hannah Howell. In these special holiday novellas, two spirited women embark on an incredible journey...and meet the two men who will m...



  • Katharine Kincaid

    HER UNTAMED HEART... As high-strung and beautiful as the horses she rode so skillfully, no one could tell Mercy Collier what to do. She had defied her father's wish to marry and was an outspoken supporter of the American revolution. At once bewitch...



  • Marsha Canham

    When a woman who's ready for love meets a dangerous, passionate man, she can easily get Swept Away... Bestselling, award-winning author Marsha Canham's breathtaking new novel transports readers to Regency England as a young woman rescues a...



  • Lynsay Sands
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    TWELVE DAYS In the Year of' Our Lord, 1155, Menton Castle was the same as any other: It had nobles and minstrels, knights and servants. Yet from the great hall to the scullery there were signs that the house was in an uproar. This Yuletide seaso...



  • Karen Marie Moning

    Only her love could gentle his savage soul.... A WOMAN'S TENDER TOUCH He was born to a clan of warriors of supernatural strength, but Gavrael McIllioch abandoned his name and his Highland castle, determined to escape the dark fate of his ancest...



  • Tina Runge

    When Amanda agreed to buy Amishman Josiah Miller's family quilt, she had no idea it would turn out to be worth a fortune. In fact, the pattern was a disguise for a treasure map As the two search for hidden riches, they discover the priceless treasure...



  • Flora Speer
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    TWELVE DAYS In the Year of' Our Lord, 1155, Menton Castle was the same as any other: It had nobles and minstrels, knights and servants. Yet from the great hall to the scullery there were signs that the house was in an uproar. This Yuletide season wa...



  • Andrea Boeshaar

    Bethany is only seventeen years old, but she has already had her heart broken twice. When Pastor Luke McCabe begins paying extra attention to her, Bethany takes his fine-sounding words with a grain of salt. She's heard sweet talk before. This time...



  • Deborah Simmons
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    The head of the mighty de Burgh family finds his quiet reserve shattered by the seductive young widow who stays at his keep for the twelve days of Christmas!...



  • Margaret Moore
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    Two wounded souls, a roguish mercenary and a stern beauty, teach each other how to live and love again during a yuletide blizzard......



  • Betty Brooks

    A WOMAN LOST IN THE PAST One minute she was headed for a vacation out west. The next, Anne Faraday was swept up by the force of a twister and tossed back in time to 1851 Wyoming. Wandering dazed through the land of blue skies and sagebrush, she's re...



  • Victoria Alexander

    SHE WANTED TO MARRY A HERO Maximillian Wells, the Earl of Trent, couldn't believe his ears -- or his eyes. Before him stood beautiful, unattainable Pandora Effington, the ton's most scandalous beauty. Max believed the fiery heiress would m...



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    Katherine Peters thought she knew everything there was to know about Tanner Barkley. He was a newspaper man and he was the handsome scoundrel who had broken her heart. His arrival in the small South Carolina town of Edgemont was enough to spoil her C...



  • DeWanna Pace

    When it comes to matters of the heart, you can always trust your friends... Where Heroes Sleep Thanks to her best friend Rose's generosity, Kenzy was able to fulfill her dream of becoming an architect. And when Kenzy returns home to build the orpha...



  • Rebecca Hagan Lee

    A passionate new story of danger, rescue, and a love that scandalized society... Lord Blake Ashford had long ago stopped believing in fairy tales, but the first time he sees Cristina Fairfax, it's clear she needs rescuing--from a real-life prince ...



  • Jaclyn Reding

    Lady Grace Ledys was sure her marriage to the handsome Christian Wycliffe, Marquiss Knighton, would fulfill all her hopes of love. But her innocent dreams are dashed when her husband proves cold and indifferent -- and harbors strange secrets. For ...



  • Katherine Sutcliffe

    Love Never Ends Childhood sweethearts Leah Starr and Johnny Whitehorse had nothing in common. She was a senator's daughter. He was the proud grandson of an Apache medicine man and the local "bad boy." But their passion made the rest of the world s...



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    A lord from a rival clan steals the wrong holiday bride for his brother, and discovers his own true love in the witty and wise captive maiden!...



  • Sharon Kendrick
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    MORE THAN JUST KISSES UNDER THE MISTLETOE... Once, Clemmie and Aleck were in love. And now they've found that they're both single parents, and next-door neighbors. Despite the undiminished sizzle between them, they decide they'd better be "just fr...



  • R.L. Stine

    I click the remote from channel to channel. On a fishing show, two men in a motorboat are pulling a strange two-headed fish from the water. On a game show, contestants are receiving jolts of electricity. I click again, and we see a news program. "...



  • Dean Koontz

    It's a fear more paralyzing than falling. More terrifying than absolute darkness. More horrifying than anything you can imagine. It's the one fear you cannot escape. No matter where you run...no matter where you hide. It's the fear of yo...



  • V.C. Andrews

    THEY BEGAN AS STRANGERS--FOUR TEENAGE GIRLS WITH NOTHING IN COMMON BUT THEIR MISERABLE CHILDHOODS. SOON, THEY WOULD REALIZE THAT THEIR SECRET PASTS HAD BOUND THEM TOGETHER FOREVER.... Misty, Star, Jade, and Cat first came together in Dr. Marlowe's...