Books Published in December 1999

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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A year 2000 computer glitch got her $1 million and a cowboy--and the wildest adventure of her life . . . P.R. whiz Tess O'Mara is burned out. She's looking for a change. Something wild and crazy. The year 2000 has arrived. And that's when the trou...

• Jan-2000
• / Space Opera
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Suspense
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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Leslie Collins, an African-American bank officer, is forced to flee her home town to escape a man who attempted to rape her. After three years in jail, he is seeking revenge. Leslie takes a job as a cook on the Saber Estate for Jordan Saber, a suc...

• Dec-1999
• / Legal Thriller
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Private Investigator
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Mystery
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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Arriving in Siam as governess to the King's royal children, the recently widowed Anna brings with her a fiercely independent spirit, a passion for justice, and a hidden loneliness.

As Anna learns more about her exotic students and their prou...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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"Are you the lady who is to teach the royal family?" She inclined her head slightly. "I am." "Have you friends in Bangkok?""I know no one in Bangkok at all."

When Anna arrives on a crowded dock in Siam in 1862, she...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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Based on the incredible true story of one woman’s journey to the exotic world of nineteenth-century Siam, the riveting novel that inspired The King and I.   In 1862, recently widowed and with two small children to support, British schoolteache...

• Dec-1999
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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The novels that introduced the Dragonlance line, collected in an annotated paperback.

This annotated version of Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning contains extensive notes by New York Times bests...

• Dec-1999
• / Historical Mystery
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In medieval Spain, the blind Jewish physician Isaac of Girona is revered for his skill as a healer. But it's Isaac's uncanny sense for what is flair and what is foul that proves to be the remedy in times of trouble... Girona, Spain, 1354. His Exce...

• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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Before novels like Mother of Storms, A Million Open Doors, Finity, and Earth Made of Glass, John Barnes was known for quirky, powerful short stories, many published by SF magazines in the late 1980s. Now the best of them are finally collected--along ...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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• Dec-1999
• / Action Adventure
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ALIEN SPECTER Though the devastation of the nukecaust has long passed, the unseen force that rules the earth's grim destiny watches over the polarized world of garrisoned cities and lawless Outlands. Once an enforcer of the New Order, Kane is a reneg...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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Molly McNeil has been named personal assistant to Ken Quinlan, the future vice president of Quinlan Enterprises. Her first "official" act is to fall, knocking Ken down a stairwell and breaking his arm. Ken is reserved and businesslike, while Molly...

• Dec-1999
• / Action Adventure
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An Antarctic whaler stumbles across an aged wreck--her frozen crew guarding a priceless treasure. A team of anthropologists is buried under a mountain by a deliberate explosion. A ship that should have died fifty-six years ago reappears, and al...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Science Fiction
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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"I'll be the daddy..." After he saved her life, hard-headed cowboy Matt McIntyre became the personal caretaker of Dr. Elizabeth Lee and her unborn child. For she might soon deliver the winner of Bison City, Wyoming's millennium baby contest. But a...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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A chubby-cheeked baby whose adorable rosebud smile could melt even Tony Marino's stone-cold heart. And even if her co-worker was a pain, natural-born nurturer Michelle Rozanski couldn't just leave Tony to face instant fatherhood alone. Not when brood...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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HE FELT LIKE A THIEF Little Georgie was HIS son and he had every right to claim him. But in the year Colin Garret had been searching for the boy, lovely Lauren Cole had been caring for his child... and loving him. And this exhilarating, warmhea...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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Miranda Irving and Joseph Wallace have it all figured out. If she doesn't have a baby before the millennium, the Irving trust, set up at the turn of the century by her great-great-grandmother, will expire. And that means the much-loved family...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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An electronic storybook features the popular Sesame Street character and the sounds of Baby Honk, Baby Ding, Hoots the Owl playing the saxophone, Elmo on the drums, Telly Monster playing an oboe, and more....

• Dec-1999
• / Space Opera
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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 ...

• Dec-1999
• / Space Opera
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Law Enforcement
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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Winner of the 2000 Book Award in Prose from the Association for American Studies and the Lannan Foundation Literary Award for 2002

The award-winning author of Pangs of Love triumphs with "a work that manages to be consistently funny, infinitely sa...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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A rhyming text celebrating the joys of music and the importance of living each day to the fullest accompanies the lyrics to the "ABC Song," "The Wheels on the Bus," "Do Your Ears Hang Low?" and other favorites of the big purple dinosaur and his frien...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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Presented in a format like its predecessors, Den of Thieves and College of Wizardry, this accessory presents an entire temple of priests that a DM can drop into any campaign with a minimum of effort. Included in this product are new priest spells and...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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Continuing from DETECTIVE COMICS #852, Catwoman's vengeance against Hush knows no bounds! After confronting the man responsible for nearly destroying her life, will Catwoman sacrifice her humanity in the name of retribution?...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Law Enforcement
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"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...

• Dec-1999
• / Romance
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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...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Paranormal Romance
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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The seer Alaundo prophesied that seven scourges would sweep Cormyr way in ruin. For centuries the royal family has stood watch against that day and devoted their lives to the protection of the realm. But in a time when their ancient guardians slum...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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In a new, larger size, these colorful, collectible, and entertaining Jellybean Books are sure to appeal to preschoolers with their favorite Sesame Street characters and simple stories just right for growing minds....

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Thriller
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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...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Historical Romance
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Paranormal Romance
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Science Fiction
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Mystery
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Romantic Suspense
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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 ...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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In this wonderful anthology of reflections on lying, attacks on deceit and whopping great lies, Philip Kerr has come up with splendid examples from the era of the Bible and Plato to slippery government spokesmen in today's Britain and America....

• Dec-1999
• / Mystery
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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Sophie Connell's minister grandfather was due to conduct his 2000th wedding -- the last one before he retired -- on the first day of the year 2000. Then Bryn Jasper persuaded the happy couple to get married at his Great Barrier Reef resort -- in ...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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A Christmas proposal... Gorgeous Zachary McGuire's last words to Abbi Gervais five years ago had been that he would be back as soon as he could and that nothing would keep them apart. That was the last she had seen of him, until recently, when...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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A marriage of convenience Five sisters...and Richard Seymour has to marry one to gain control of the Durant financial empire. Made to feel the ugly duckling by her glamorous family, and totally rejected by her father, Leigh Durant is stunned wh...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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Youngsters follow Elmo on a bright and early adventure and hear Ernie strumming his guitar, Bert honking his car horn, Telly Monster bopping down the street on his pogo stick, and many more fun sounds--including Elmo's alarm clock....

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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It's a wonderful life... Bachelor Joe Northwood had it made. He came home every night to find the pillows fluffed, his sheets drawn back.. .and his libido in overdrive, courtesy of his sexy housekeeper. As the New Year approached, Joe's only resol...

• Dec-1999
• / Romance
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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 ...

• Dec-1999
• / Legal Thriller
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Amateur Sleuth
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• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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THE ASSASSINS' DESCENT -- INTO DECADENCE... They are known as the Cloak and Dagger. The rookie assassins Jenifleur and Thibault barely survived their first official mission. Now they're looking forward to a change of pace: protecting life--instead...

• Dec-1999
• / Private Investigator
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Science Fiction
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Law Enforcement
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Historical Romance
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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HOLIDAY STRANGER? She was beautiful, aloof... and the only thing Sawyer recognized since the accident that had stolen his memory. Instinctively he knew they weren't strangers -- not when his emotions reacted so strongly, and not when he coul...

• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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Curse of the Wild Hunt

Three goddesses cursed them-this immortal band of princes, knights and commoners from different places and times who must spend eternity paying for the wicked acts of their mortal lives. Now they form the Wild Hunt, condemned...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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Christmas is a magical time filled with mistletoe--and miracles. In this trio of cozy romances, three Bouquet authors introduce strong willed heroines who unexpectedly discover the most precious gift of all--love......

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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Christmas is a magical time filled with mistletoe -- and miracles. In this trio of cozy romances, three Bouquet authors introduce strong willed heroines who unexpectedly discover the most precious gift of all -- love......

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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Christmas is a magical time filled with mistletoe--and miracles. In this trio of cozy romances, three Bouquet authors introduce strong willed heroines who unexpectedly discover the most precious gift of all--love......

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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FANTASY REQUISITION To: Austin McBride. Owner of Fantasy for Hire Client: Gorgeous Teddy Spencer. She's never bought a date before, but she plans to get her money's worth... Assignment: To be Teddy's lover...for one night. ...

• Dec-1999
• / Historical Romance
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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 ...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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A daddy is all two children want for Christmas. And the handsome man upstairs may be just the hero their mommy needs!...

• Dec-1999
• / Romantic Suspense
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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 ...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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All ex-rodeo cowboy Trace Honeycutt wanted for Christmas was to be left alone. He'd fallen off the wedding wagon once and had no intention of getting hitched again. All Winnie Becker wanted for Christmas was a chance to start over - without a man to ...

• Dec-1999
• / Urban Fantasy
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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THE SPY... Government agent Nick Ryan wanted nothing to do with Christmas-or family. But one glimpse of Juliet ignited an unfamiliar desire to belong. For the woman who'd been his brother's secret wife was a beauty-and so was her daughter. WHO LO...

• Dec-1999
• / Thriller
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Romance
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Space Opera
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Paranormal Romance
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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....

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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His plan was to make her his mistress... When Constantine Kiriazis reappeared after two years, Grace thought he'd finally forgiven her for her lack of trust in him - and for canceling their wedding. Certainly Constantine's desire for her h...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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What do you do when your world is falling apart? Robin Lee can't stand her parents' constant fighting, so she's glad to spend time with her grandmother in Chinatown. They've befriended a lonely cook and pretend to be his long-lost family. At Cook's r...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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A special valentine activity book which features the lovable Corduroy and his friends includes eighteen pressout valentines, forty stickers, a story, pictures to color, puzzles, a Valentine's Day recipe, and more. Original....

• Dec-1999
• / Suspense
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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Get ready for some fast-and-loose matchmaking from The McCabes of Texas John and Lilah McCabe have four of the sexiest sons Laramie, Texas, has ever seen--but no grandbabies! Now they're fixin' to get a whole passel of 'em. Cattle rancher Travi...

• Dec-1999
• / Historical
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LIFE CAN BE A WILD RIDE....SOMETIMES ALL YOU CAN DO IS JUST KEEP HANGING ON. THE OLD BULL Ex-rodeo champ Jack Lomas is a stubborn old rancher of the ornery sort. He does things only one way... his. A lifetime of hard work and regret has taught him s...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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DELIVERED BY CHRISTMAS... Lilly Baldwin knew all too well how irresistible rancher Nick Andrews was. After one unforEseen night of passion, she now was expecting a very special Christmas delivery. But if Lilly gave in to the rugged dad-to-be's con...

• Dec-1999
• / Suspense
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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One mother's son is killed in a tragic accident; another's daughter murders two people in a wild rage. From these bitter facts, Beverly Lowry--the first child's mother and an acclaimed novelist--has fashioned a memoir in which the objectivity of true...

• Dec-1999
• / Action Adventure
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Stephen Coonts' bestselling novels take readers into the heart of harrowing, pulse-pounding action, whether on land, on sea, or in the air. Now, this master of full-tilt, blockbuster suspense turns to a lush setting 90 miles from U.S. soil. In Cuba, ...

• Dec-1999
• / Christian
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• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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THE CHRISTMAS CHARADE Joe: You could tell your grandfather the truth. Alicia: I can't. I only lied because he was so sick. He's from the old school -- marriage is for a lifetime. If he finds out the truth, he'll worry and fus...

• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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How will the night end? Everyone at Riverside High is talking about the winter dance. Who will go together ... and who will leave together? Who will find love? Whose dreams will come true? It's the moment they've all waited for. And for three coup...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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How will the night end? Everyone at Riverside High is talking about the winter dance. Who will go together ... and who will leave together? Who will find love? Whose dreams will come true? It's the moment they've all waited for. And for three coup...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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How will the night end? Everyone at Riverside High is talking about the winter dance. Who will go together ... and who will leave together? Who will find love? Whose dreams will come true? It's the moment they've all waited for. And for three coup...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Legal Thriller
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Suspense
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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Darksong Rising, the third book in New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s epic fantasy series the Spellsong Cycle about a singer and music instructor at Iowa State University who gets far more than she expected when she is magically ...

• Dec-1999
• / Space Opera
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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Maggy O'Brien's ex-husband is getting remarried. Her daughter has dyed her hair purple. And for her thirty-fifth birthday, her sisters have arranged a weekend getaway -- complete with makeover and limo. It's all Maggy can do to hold on to...

• Dec-1999
• / Amateur Sleuth
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K.C. Carlisle was among the first wave of women to wash through the nation's law schools and proud of it after five years of facing down the lady lawyer stereotype. She fights for lesbians, mistreated Indians, and against big business. Pat, an aging ...

• Dec-1999
• / Action Adventure
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SHOW OF FORCE Mexico is in chaos, with the government under siege by revolutionaries and drug smugglers rampant along the borders. Mack Bolan's probe to discover who's behind the terror, assassinations and narcotics traffic turns hard when the Exe...

• Dec-1999
• / Law Enforcement
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Mystery
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Historical
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With the end of the beaver trade at hand, free trappers like Titus Bass must somehow make their way on a changing frontier. Drawn by the promise of adventure and wealth, Bass joins an expedition to Spanish California, where the ranchos have horses an...

• Dec-1999
• / Private Investigator
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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 ...

• Dec-1999
• / Space Opera
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Mystery
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Mystery stories by such authors as Max Allan Collins, Jeremiah Healy, Carolyn Wheat, Faye Kellerman, and Nancy Pickard ...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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Dr. Marsh Diamond had just offered Kate Turner almost everything she'd ever wanted. And although the nurse's memories of one fateful summer urged her to act otherwise, Kate couldn't deny her heart's desire. So she agreed to move out to his ranch temp...

• Dec-1999
• / Historical Mystery
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In 1897, New York City teems with hustlers and freshly made millionaires, fine artists and con artists, criminals and immigrants. Among them is a rabbi's son who calls himself Houdini. He is struggling to make it in the brutal entertainment business ...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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Wonder's Star has returned to Whitebrook Farm, and Christina Reese is thrilled to have him home again. But if Star doesn't win one of his first two races, Townsend Acres will take him back forever.

Christina isn't a jockey yet -- the thought of ...

• Dec-1999
• / Suspense
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• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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A tale of a young woman during the early nineteenth century chronicles how she falls in love with the mysterious Darius Elder, the man responsible for the court-martial of her father and the ruin of her family...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Science Fiction
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Mystery
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• Dec-1999
• / Romantic Suspense
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Horror
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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. "...

• Dec-1999
• / Historical Romance
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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...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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Toddlers will enjoy accompanying Elmo as he smells freshly cut grass, sees himself in the mirror, touches squishy finger paint, tastes a sardine-and-jelly sandwich, listens to lovely music, and much more. Charming illustrations add sweetness and humo...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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Living out her own fairy tale.... American Emma Lawrence knew she was too ordinary to ever have a British aristocrat fall in love with her! But when she found herself locked in the Earl of Palliser's embrace, her heart couldn't help but hope. Now e...

• Jan-2000
• / Space Opera
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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Bruce Murphy's Encyclopedia of Murder and Mystery is a comprehensive guide to the genre of the murder mystery that catalogues thousands of items in a broad range of categories: authors, titles, plots, characters, weapons, methods of killing, movie an...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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David Ray’s soul search, recounted in this powerful illustrated memoir, is a Dickensian tale � -- encompassing a childhood in an orphanage, an endless series of abusive �"uncles,” and an adolescence haunted by a sadistic guardian, followed by a ...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / Space Opera
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• Dec-1999
• / Amateur Sleuth
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A FAUX VAN GOGH When North Carolina antique dealer Abigail Timberlake makes a bid of $150.99 on a truly awful copy of Van Gogh's The Starry Night, she's just trying to win Mama's approval by supporting the church auction. Hopefully, she'll make her ...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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The new church of St. John's, on Fifth Avenue, was thronged the morning of the last Sunday of October, in the year 1880. Sitting in the gallery, beneath the unfinished frescoes, and looking down the nave, one caught an effect of autumn gardens, a sug...

• Dec-1999
• / Christian
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• Dec-1999
• / Paranormal Romance
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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......

• Dec-1999
• / Christian
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A three-in-one collection of historical romance. Amidst the trials and hardships of life, three courageous women learn to take God at His word and trust Him completely for their every need. Meet Judith, Key and Meredeth as they find everlast...

• Dec-1999
• / Police Procedural
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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IN THE FAMILY WAY. When lovely Loretta Santana signed on as Griffin Jones's temporary butler, the wealthy playboy discovered he suddenly had a few unexpected problems. One: his petite new butler was a she. Two: she was pregnant. Three: she was eigh...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Horror
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Romantic Suspense
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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THE CHILDREN OF HIS HEART Trenton Osborne knew that his beloved wife, Maggie, was made for raising little ones. But Trent secretly, desperately, feared failing at fatherhood. So even with Christmas coming and ten years of marriage at stake, he had...

• Dec-1999
• / Historical Romance
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Traditional Regency
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Traditional Regency
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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Introduced by Kate Mosse, lose yourself in an epic naval journey in the final novel in the Booker Prize-winning historical fiction Sea Trilogy by the author of Lord of the Flies.I think there has been death in my hands.On the last stretch of its epic...

• Dec-1999
• / Suspense
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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In "The First Noel" by Felicia Mason, Franklin Williams is determined to show Kia Simmons that the true wonder of the holiday lies in a love shining as bright as a Christmas tree star....

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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When Mike Galloway, a regular sort of guy for San Francisco, 2014, descends into the nightmare world of poverty and joblessness, he finds he must face more than starvation and homelessness. He's now at the mercy of a deadly world of political intrigu...

• Dec-1999
• / Science Fiction
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Romantic Suspense
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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 ...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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Everywhere hailed for its emotional intensity and unflagging narrative momentum, this magnificent novel transports us to the turn of the twentieth century, to the world of a prominent Boston family summering on the New Hampshire coast, and to the soc...

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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All work and no play... Laura Everett was serious, ambitious and nursing an embarrassing crush on office hunk Kyle Sanders. Kyle was charming, laid-back and inexplicably attracted to Laura. Their continuous fighting, however, got them shipped out ...

• Dec-1999
• / Romance
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• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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For Beth David, her greatest Christmas wish was to be free of her responsibilities - and it came true when she won the lottery. Now that she was rich, she could be sure that her eccentric aunt was looked after while she traveled the world and did wha...

• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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RANCHER TO THE RESCUE Rough-edged cowboy Matt Whitewolf knew that being a husband - or a father - just wasn't his style. But when he came across a little girl and her very pregnant mother stranded in the midst of a raging storm, instinct took over...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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For years, the intrepid crew of the NSEA Protector valiantly entertained millions of television viewers with their voyages through space. Now the crew is on another adventure-bravely touring the sci-fi convention circuit and making guest appearance a...

• Dec-1999
• / Space Opera
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Historical Romance
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Paranormal Romance
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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 ...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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A breezy and entertaining tale set in the days when school desks had inkwells features a renowned, but slightly nutty, doctor, a kidnapping, some notorious criminals, a lonely girl, and an extremely humongous baby....

• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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A bride was not what a Texas-Ranger-turned-rancher was expecting for the holidays. Will his quest for a home lead to love?...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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"Beautifully written and--extraordinarily moving."--The Sunday Times (London)From the author of the international bestseller Birdsong, comes a haunting historical novel of passion, loss, and courage set in France between the two world wars. This Vint...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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Set in prehistoric times, this novel of barbarians and goddesses visits a peaceful farming village where nomadic horsemen threaten from the north and the town must choose between two powerful women to represent them to the Great Goddess of the Earth....

• Dec-1999
• / Romance
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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 ...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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'Absolutely magical... Always intriguing' Richard Adams author of Watership Down.

Behind the realm of man lie the wild roads. Weaving through time and space, these hidden pathways carry the natural energies �" the spirits, the dre...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Contemporary Romance
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The Good: Preacher's daughter, Maddie Givens - but she's not that good. The Bad: Rebel Steve Jackson - but he's not that bad. The Cuddly' Maddie's infant nephew Luke - who would have been cuddly if he hadn't been kidnapped on the way to his first Chr...

• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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On the world of Athera, two half-brothers gifted of Light and Shadow defeated the Mistwraith. But its revenge left them cursed to life-long enmity, stirring war and deadly intrigue.,, Arithon s'Ffalenn, Master of Shadow, trained mage and masterbar...

• Dec-1999
• / Historical
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Just when Les Graves finally earns a chance at a respectable life in Cedar Rapids, his brother T. Z. shows up in town with plans to rob the bank where Les works, and loyalty to his brother lands Les in jail. Reprint....

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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“A storyteller without peer. He created worlds as colorful and exotic and memorable as any our genre has ever seen.”  -- George R.R. Martin

One of the most revered names in sf and fantasy, the incomparable Roger Zelazny was honored with...

• Dec-1999
• / Fantasy
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A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon! Brrr! Jaffa City is under a spell of ice and snow. Even Galen the wizard is frozen solid! Eric, Julie, Neal, and Princess Keeah have to figure out a way to break Lord Sparr's curse. Bu...

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Historical
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"Texas" John Slaughter was a legendary figure of the Old West, indelibly etched into its history as one of the ear's greatest heros-a lawman and cattle rancher with bravery to burn and the smarts to come out on top, even when the odds were stacked ag...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction
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Danielle is eager to follow Raven, who is now an official yearling, to South Wind, where he will begin serious training as a racehorse. Danielle's best friend, Julie, already has an after-school job at the state-of-the-art facility, and Danielle trie...

• Dec-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1999
• / Historical Romance
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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...

• Dec-1999
• / Historical Romance
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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. ...