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New Books List: 389 titles

  • Disney's: Winnie the Pooh's - Big Book of First Words

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

  • Montana's Feisty Cowgirl

    Carolyn Zane

    It had taken one second for ranch foreman Montana Brubaker to realize Syd Mac, gruff cowpoke, was really Sydney MacKenzie, all woman. The feisty female had corralled herself a position on the Brubakers' Texas spread...and was now Montana's blushing n...

  • Shadow Self

    Cheryl Zach

    While researching a report on protest movements, Emma Carter sees a photograph of a young woman who could be her double, fugitive environmentalist and bank robber Leigh Grimble, and feels compelled to find out more....

  • The Girls

    Helen Yglesias

    The youngest of four sisters, a noted New York writer and critic, eighty-year-old Jenny has flown to Miami Beach to help her flamboyant sister Flora (the Sandra Bernhardt of the senior set) deal with their ailing older siblings. Eva, ninety-five, is ...

  • Soul Mountain

    Gao Xingjian

    In 1983, Chinese playwright, critic, fiction writer, and painter Gao Xingjian was diagnosed with lung cancer and faced imminent death. But six weeks later, a second examination revealed there was no cancer--he had won "a reprieve from death." Faced w...

  • One Golden Christmas

    Lenora Worth

    For too long, Nate Welby had gone through the motions of fatherhood, numbed by sorrow and anger. Now another lonely yuletide season loomed -- and with it, the knowledge that he'd never be able to give his youngest daughter the one gift she wanted mos...

  • The Jewel of Covent Garden

    Wayne Worcester

    From the never-before-published journals of Sherlock Holmes's companion and chronicler, Dr. John Watson: a tale of nefarious doings that nearly brought down London's wealthiest woman--and made its most famous sleuth Scotland Yard's most wanted.... ...

  • The Delacourt Scandal

    Sherryl Woods

    REVENGE IS SWEET... The wealthy, powerful Delacourts had destroyed her family, and Maddie Kent wanted revenge. So she cozied up to Tyler Delacourt, the dynasty's youngest son. SEDUCTION IS SWEETER... But who knew the last Delacourt bachelor ...

  • My Summer with Julia

    Sarah Woodhouse

    Portrait artist Annie Somerville is living a happy life in the English country with her husband David and teenage children Sam and Gina. She just received a new commission, and her biggest worry is whether or not her mother-in-law is visiting for Eas...

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    WHAT SHE SAW: Fear. Heiress Dana Madison couldn't explain the disturbing things happening to her -- dresses she didn't own appearing in her closet, strangers greeting her on the street. Was she being impersonated? Desperate, she hired a man to watch...

  • My Wild Irish Rose

    Rachel Wilson

    Determined to live life to the fullest, adventurous Rose Larkin, accompanied by her eccentric aunt Kate, sets sail from New York to Ireland, where she meets her soulmate, roguish Cullen O'Banyon. WILD HEART ... OR IS SHE? When comely lass Rose...

  • A Wish

    Marianne Willman

    A BEAUTIFUL COMMONER--OR THE MISSING HEIRESS TO A FORTUNE? Lovely Perdita, an orphaned girl at an inn on the wilds of Dartmoor, has no memory of her past or life beyond the dark confines of her world...except in strange and beguiling dreams. A DI...

  • When Stars Begin to Fall

    Denise Williamson

    Widow and single mother Mayleda and Joseph, her father's former slave who practices medicine in Philadelphia, face prejudice and tragedy in the midst of violence after the Fugitive Slave Law is enacted in 1851....

  • Mixing Business...With Baby

    Diana Whitney

    Successful, handsome Rick Blaine wanted to know everything about his lovely new employee Catrina Mitchell. What did she like? What made her laugh? But when Rick learned Catrina's daughter was the source of joy in Catrina's luscious brown eyes, his ra...

  • Destiny's Song

    Kim L. Whiteside

  • Pray and Die

    Stella Whitelaw

    Someone has to investigate the mean streets of Latching, West Sussex - and that someone is Jordan Lacey, ex-policewoman, now advertising her services as a private investigator in the local paper and working out of a junk shop in the quiet part of tow...

  • From Head to Toe

    Tekla White

  • Going Home

    Richard S. Wheeler

    It is 1832, six years after he deserted the Royal Navy, when Barnaby Skye has a chance to return to England to clear his name and take up employment with the Hudson's Bay Company. But "Mister Skye," as he insists on being called, is as much a magnet ...

  • Midnight Wedding

    Sophie Weston

    A secret wedding! Holly Dent needs protection -- but Jack Armour's suggestion isn't quite what she had in mind. Although they've only just met, Jack insists the best way to keep Holly safe is by making her his wife! He claims his motives are purel...

  • The Case of the Wrestler's Ghost

    Tracey West

    Scooby-Doo and the gang can't wait to see the big wrestling match. Good guy Babyface Foster battles bad guy Simon Blackheart. When a creepy ghost kidnaps Babyface, it's up to Scooby-Doo and the gang to solve the mystery! Only you can help them do it!...

  • Heart's Command

    Meredith Webber

    Danger, duty and desire All that stands between torrential floodwater and the outback town of Murrawarra is Major Harry Graham and his team.The only obstacle to Harry carrying out his job with minimum hassle is Dr. Kirsten McPherson. Neither will ...

  • The Outsider's Redemption

    Joanna Wayne

    THE MISSION: ESCORT AN EXPECTANT MOTHER...TO THE ENEMY? Cody Gannon had never belonged anywhere until he'd joined Texas Confidential, but now even that haven had become uncertain. Cody was alone again, and determined to prove himself.... But w...

  • The Deadly Hunter

    Jude Watson

  • The Country Mouse

    Jessie Watson

    Can a demure spinster find true bliss with a notorious rake? A CAPABLE COUNTRY MOUSE The noise, pretension, and insalubrious odors of London have driven Miss Lavinia Taylor to a Cotswold village--and a larger residence to accommodate her collecti...

  • A Desert in Bohemia

    Jill Paton Walsh

    It is 1945. Somewhere in Central Europe, in the aftermath of violence and confusion, a terrified and bloodstained young woman, Eliska, emerges from the forest to take refuge in an apparently abandoned castle. Soon she is joined by others-the idealist...

  • The Bonehunters' Revenge

    David Rains Wallace

    When dinosaur fossils were first discovered in the Wild West, they sparked one of the greatest scientific battles in American history. Over the past century it has been known by many names -- the Bone War, the Fossil Feud -- but the tragic story of t...

  • The End of Emerald Woods

    David J. Walker

    John Michael Hurley, an unscrupulous commercial real estate developer, wants to turn pristine Emerald Woods, in Miracle City south of Chicago, into a megamall. Eudora Ragsdale, a former public housing resident in Chicago, joins with others in Miracle...

  • Hell Heart

    Robert E. Vardeman

    This fifth book of a six-part series tying in with the VOR adventure game is set on a future Earth trapped in another universe. A meteor has crashed into the Central American jungle, radiating intense and deadly energy. Two deadly aliens are hurtling...

  • Cugel

    Jack Vance

    Jack Vance is one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his Mazirian the Magician (previously titled The Dying ...

  • Mazirian the Magician:

    Jack Vance

    Jack Vance was one of the most remarkable talents to ever grace the world of science fiction. His unique, stylish voice has been beloved by generations of readers. One of his enduring classics is his Mazirian the Magician (previously titled The Dying...

  • Abe Lincoln Remembers

    Ann Turner

    I told Mary that tonight is a time to be happy. As we wait to go see a play, I think again of that little house, the small window, the piece of sky with two birds and one squirrel. How much has come to pass since then.

    One evening in 1865 Pr...

  • Scandalous

    Ronda Thompson

    A Virtuous Maid Christine is shocked that she's agreed to marry. Her intended, Gavin Norfork, is a notorious lover, gambler, and duelist. It is rumored he can seduce a woman at twenty paces. The dissolute aristocrat is clearly an unsuitable ma...

  • Screwjack

    Hunter S. Thompson

    An almost unnaturally poignant love story from the father of “Gonzo” journalism and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson.What makes the romantic short story Screwjack so touching, for all its queerness, is the aching melancholy in it...

  • The Westward Tide

    David Thompson

    THE TRAIL TO DANGER Life in the majestic Rockies is hard. Only the hardiest and bravest of pioneers can survive the never-ending dangers of the frontier. Still, young Zach King can't wait to return there with his bride-to-be. For the frontier is h...

  • Everything but a Husband

    Karen Templeton

    WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS? At thirty-one, widow Galen Granata was a veteran of such an unhappy marriage that she had never dared to long for what every woman dreamed of. Like a man to love...and children. So she'd built a wall around herself that no ...

  • Daring To Love Again

    Mary Anne Taylor

    When tragedy robs Jessica Roberts of both the love of her life and her means of financial support, she forms a single-minded resolve: to develop financial and emotional independence, while never allowing herself to love so completely again. She en...

  • Little Rocket's Special Star

    Julie Sykes

  • Absolute Truth

    Edward Stourton

    Drawing on interviews with every level of Catholic Stourton tells the story of the revolution in the world's oldest and biggest institution. It is a story of politics and intellectual struggle and intense personal passions covering topics from contra...

  • The Strawberry Season

    Jessica Stirling

    Since the dawn of time, the Isle of Mull, off the Scottish coast, has had to fend off ferocious winds and a ravenous ocean intent on swallowing the island whole. Roughened by ceaseless storms and chill, Mull remained a quiet community, set in its way...

  • Liar Liar

    R.L. Stine

    That tall boy walking so confidently into the party is Ross Arthur. This isn't a surprise party, but Ross has a frightening shock in store. You see, standing across the room is Ross's identical twin. The problem? Ross doesn't have a twin. It looks as...

  • Sky's Pride and Joy

    Sandra Steffen

    Loner Sky Buchanan was sure that his encounter with beguiling Meredith Warner was just a beautiful memory -- until the day she returned to town, expecting his child! Sky had never planned on kids -- nor wanted a wife. Still, the thought of his ba...

  • Feelings

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Grave Discovery

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Italy

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Modem Menace

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Zoo Animal Surprise

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • The Floating Lady Murder

    Daniel Stashower

    Now You See Her...Now You Don't It's difficult to gain the public's attention in turn-of-the-century New York--even if you are the greatest escape artist the world has ever seen. So the young performer who calls himself Harry Houdini must be conte...

  • Chances

    Pamela Leigh Starr

    In FATE you met Vanessa Lewis, a young woman from a strong, black Southern family. She was destined to fall in love with Scott, a man so different from, yet so perfect for her.

    CHANCES continues this family's story with Vanessa's strong no nonsens...

  • The Last Bride in Texas

    Judith Stacy

    She had one last chance... The Center of Attention... Again! Elizabeth Hill cursed the luck that cast her in the drama of a daring daylight bank robbery. As if the town hadn't gossiped about her enough already, now they thought she was som...

  • The Pregnant Bride

    Catherine Spencer

    Jilted bride gets pregnant! Getting jilted at the altar was bad enough, but falling for the sympathetic stranger at her honeymoon hotel was much worse! Jenna Sinclair didn't regret it, though; one passion-filled night with Edmund Delaney proved sh...

  • To Bury the Dead

    Craig Spector

    Paul Kelly is a good man, a firefighter and paramedic facing death and danger daily, selflessly risking his own safety for the sake of strangers. Paul has seen tragedy a thousand times, but it has never been his own. Until now... A shocking crime....

  • Shadower

    Catherine Spangler

    THE HUNTER Sabin had been in every hellhole in the galaxy. In his line of work, hives of scum and villainy are nothing to fear. But Giza's was different, and the bronze-haired beauty at the bar is something special. Not only could she sweep a man of...

  • The Ends of Time

    Robert Silverberg

  • The Kill Artist

    Daniel Silva

    Once a key operative in secret Israeli-intelligence missions, Gabriel Allan is on the run from his past, assuming a quiet life as a meticulous restorer of priceless works of art. But now he is being called back into the game. The agent with whom he i...

  • Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria

    Aaron Shepard

    Shadusa is strong. In fact, he figures he's the strongest man in the world. He tells his wife, Shettu, "From now on, just call me Master Man." But Shettu says, "Quit your foolish boasting. No matter how strong you are, there will always be someone st...

  • Flatwater Firebrand

    Jon Sharpe

    After tangling with the local sheriff over his attentions to a local lovely--who happens to be the sheriff's fiancTe--Skye Fargo finds himself in jail, just when Merciless Ma Purdy and her vicious gang of murderous butchers is heading for town for a ...

  • Navajo Revenge

    Jon Sharpe

    With women and children disappearing all over the New Mexico Territory and accusations of a slave trade in the air, tensions reach a boiling point, but the Trailsman is determined to find the bottom of this poisoned well and cap it forever. Original....

  • Hug Me, Holly!

    Jill Shalvis

    Sheriff Riley McMann couldn't believe his ears when Holly Stone announced that she'd be taking over the only cafe in Little Paradise. She looked as if she hadn't worked a day in her life, and besides, he had to eat there! But he was soon working up q...

  • Kiss Me, Katie!

    Jill Shalvis

    All Katie Wilkins wanted for Christmas was to get Santa Claus under the mistletoe, because beneath that Santa suit was her ideal man -- or so she thought. But it wasn't nice, safe Mr. Perfect who kissed her senseless. Horrors! It as Bryan Morgan -- w...

  • Maid of Midnight

    Ana Seymour

    A BEAUTIFUL SECRET Bridget had called St. Gabriel's monastery her home since her mysterious appearance years ago. Kept far from prying eyes amidst the gentle monks, the maiden was happy to care for her protectors. But after reading fanciful ta...

  • Kitchen Congregation Reading Group Guide

    Nora Seton

  • Ventus

    Karl Schroeder

    After terrifying and titanic struggles, a godlike Artificial Intelligence gone rogue has finally been destroyed. But not before it scattered seeds of itself throughout the galaxy. On the terraformed planet Ventus, benign Als--the godlike Winds--wh...

  • Happy Birthday, Princess Lolly!

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Our School: Level 1 Reader

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Play Day! Level 1

    Scholastic Inc.

  • The Montauk Steps

    Diane Sawyer

    Ripe for large-scale development, Big Shell Island is locked in a battle between preservationists and construction companies. Currently, the historic and mysterious island is the site of an archaeological dig for lost Native American artifacts. Artis...

  • A True Prince

    Veronica Sattler

    A RAKISH PRINCE Crown Prince Deverell, the royal heir to the tiny country of Baravia, has earned a reputation as a spendthrift, a libertine, and a rogue--all to deceive a traitor with designs on the crown. He never imagined that the day would come w...

  • Almost Twins

    Gail Sattler

    When a car accident strands Dennis Bancroft in a snowstorm, he desperately needs help--fast. As the snow cover rises and the temperatures drop, a saving angel happens by on her way to her family's mountain cabin. Adelle Wilson's plans for celebrat...

  • Night of Fire

    Barbara Samuel

    Lady Cassandra St. Ives had sworn off marriage ever since becoming a happy widow, but lately her affections have been engaged by a mysterious, long distance correspondent. Cassandra has shared her soul with her far-off admirer, and whe he invites her...

  • Undercover Angel

    Cynthia Rutledge

    ANGEL IN DISGUISE... Police officer Angel Morelli was on a mission to save teens from a local drug ring. Posing as a high school student, Angel never expected to fall in love with her history teacher, handsome green-eyed Jake Weston. Suddenly, kee...

  • The Best Bet

    Hebby Roman

    When shy Professor Raul Escobedo has a chance to interview for a job in Las Vegas, he reluctantly agrees to pose as his high rolling twin brother in order to take advantage of the casino's perks. It's hard enough to pass himself off as a self-assured...

  • Savage Desire

    Rosemary Rogers

    The fire of their passion sparks as Steve and Ginny reunite in London. Their years apart have taken a toll, but nothing can change the fierce emotion that burns between the two. The lovers have made a pact to look beyond the hurts of yesterday and lo...

  • Solace for a Sinner

    Caroline Roe

    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 fair and what is foul that proves to be the remedy in times of trouble... Girona, Spain, 1354. As a sc...

  • Gallows View

    Peter Robinson

    Meet Inspector Alan Banks, a civilized detective with a zest for life and a fascination for opera, Tudor history, and bright and beautiful women, one of whom happens to be his wife. Newly arrived from London, Chief Inspector Alan Banks finds himse...

  • Heart of the Sea

    Nora Roberts

    Darcy Gallagher has always believed in the pull of fate, the magic of legend ... and the importance of money. She longs to find a rich man who will sweep her away--into a world filled with glamour and adventure, and the exotic life that is her destin...

  • The Looking Glass

    Michele Roberts

    A lushly imagined, sensual novel about memory, desire, and the power of storytelling, from a Booker Prize nominee.Geneviève is an outsider, raised in an orphanage, now living an isolated existence as a maid to the widowed Madame Patin in a small Fre...

  • Tried & True

    Laura Peyton Roberts

    Leah and Miguel have been through everything together: his mom's kidney transplant, their broken engagement, even a friend's death. Their love has been tried and has triumphed over and over again. But now they're graduating and things are changing fa...

  • The Sioux City War

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams journeys to Sioux City, Iowa, to protect fire-and-brimstone, prohibitionist preacher George Channing Haddock from the killer trying to stop Reverend Haddock's determined campaign to close the saloons of the city. Original....

  • A Very...Pregnant New Year's

    Doreen Roberts

    FAMILIES FEUD ON NEW YEAR'S EVE...A GIANT AVALANCHE STRIKES...TWO ENEMIES ARE TRAPPED IN A SNOWBOUND CABIN... When fate stranded them together, Anne Parker fought her attraction for roguish Brad Irving. She couldn't possibly want this scoundrel - ...

  • Moon Rising

    Ann Victoria Roberts

    Who was Bram Stoker - and why did he write Dracula? Through the words of Damaris Sterne, daughter of an old seafaring family, we meet a man escaping to Whitby from the pressures of his life in London. As business manager to the great Shakespearean ac...

  • Moonfire

    Judith Redman Robbins

  • Proof of Life

    David Robbins

  • Polar Babies

    Susan Ring

    This super-simple story about two polar bear cubs and what they learn from their mother is both adorable and informative. There's also plenty of humor: one of the "polar babies" throws himself into learning to swim, walk on ice, and fish, while the o...

  • Alibi for Isabel

    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Isabel Eaton was intending to murder her horrible husband--and she didn't plan on getting caught. So she needed an airtight alibi. She knew just the person to supply it: the highly respectable and respected socialite Sally Fielding. Isabel hadn't see...

  • Embers of Time

    Eugenia Riley

    A Romance of Old Charleston Children lost in time ... In the aftermath of the second great war, two lonely people were destined to meet in the splendor of Charleston, South Carolina. He was a handsome RAF pilot whose soul had been tortured by bat...

  • Lara's Lover

    Penny Richards

    UNDER SUSPICION At 18, banker's daughter Lara Grayson had secretly, daringly dated the son of the town drunk, proving her love in his arms, in his bed. But when rough-hewn Donovan Delaney was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, he brutally cu...

  • Servant of the Law

    Dusty Richards


    Blinded by Blood.
    Wanted by the Law.

    Bobby Budd rode out of Colorado with one killing behind him and dozens yet to go. From New Mexico to Indian Territory, Budd became one of a rootless army of half-crazed, half-drunk killers for hire--...

  • Tell It To The Hangman

    James Rhodes

    Lance Gordan is on a mission: to bring his Uncle Ephraim and the money he stole back to the small New Mexican town they live in. His search leads him to Jubilee, Arizona, the last place his uncle can be traced. Because he has no further leads, Lan...

  • Temple

    Matthew Reilly

    TO ANCIENT CIVILIZATION IT WAS A GOD Four centuries ago, a precious idol was hidden in the jungles of Peru. To the Incan people, it is still the ultimate symbol of their spirit. To William Race, an American linguist enlisted by the U.S. Army to deci...

  • Farm Animal Sounds

    G.L. Read

  • Sweet Temptation

    Francis Ray
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    Welcome to Leo's -- Where Anything Can Happen A proper lady lets loose on Open Mike Night -- and opens her heart to a different kind, of man.. A Texas Ranger and a candy shop owner have a blind date--with a deliciously unexpected outcome... ...

  • White Picket Fences

    Tara Taylor Quinn

    Come home to Shelter Valley where love lasts and families matter Miranda Parsons is content with her life. She has a great job, a wonderful family, a lovely house. She has good friends. And she lives in a town where people know her, care about her...

  • The Viscount Who Loved Me

    Julia Quinn

    1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the ...

  • The Tormentor

    Bill Pronzini

    After the death of his wife in a freak accident, Dix Mallory is tormented by a series of anonymous telephone calls, a campaign of terror that continues to escalate into a nightmare of violence, suspicion, and death. Original....

  • Special Report: Midnight Seduction

    Maggie Price

    SPECIAL REPORT: Peril and passion over Texas Skies SAM HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Texas (AP): U.S. Marshals' Flight 407 "Con Air" was hijacked before takeoff today, 108 aboard... After two days on the job, Airport Director Christine Logan ...

  • Educating Emily

    Mona Prevel

    HE TAUGHT HER THE WAYS OF THE WORLD Refusing to be sold into a loveless marriage, Emily Walsingham runs away--only to be rescued from ruffians by dashing James Garwood, Lord Northwycke. Immediately, James's mother recognizes Emily and suggests her a...

  • Improper Advances

    Margaret Evans Porter

    Pursued by many Darius Corlett assumed the beautiful woman paying him a late night visit was a lady of dubious reputation sent by his friends. But when he learns that Oriana Julian is a respectable widow on holiday in the countryside, he suspects ...

  • The Italian Groom

    Jane Porter

    The Italian Solution... Soon Meg's secret would show -- she was pregnant! However, she was determined to keep it to herself while she visited her hometown in California and came to terms with her future as a single mom. But there was no foo...

  • The Exchange Student

    Pamela Pollack

  • The Littlest Matchmaker

    Laura Phillips

    WILL YOU MARRY US? The instant Justine Shaw lays eyes on the squirt-gun-toting cherub in blue jeans, she's smitten -- and the feeling is obviously mutual. In fact, little Lindsey Latimer wants Justine to marry her daddy, who just happens to be Ka...

  • The Littles Go Around the World

    John Peterson

    Tom and Lucy Little have an incredible adventure when they accidentally get taken to school with Henry Bigg's gerbil, in an early reader adaptation of a chapter book featuring the Little family. Original....

  • The Littles Make a Friend

    John Peterson

    All is peaceful in the house owned by the Bigg family until the slovenly Newcomb family and destructive mice threaten to ruin the secret existence of the Little family, who live in the walls of the Bigg house. Original....

  • Freedom Force

    Don Pendleton

    ENEMY OF THE STATE A Polynesian guerrilla force, determined to sever all ties between the U.S. Government and Hawaii, is getting ready to turn paradise into hell on earth, courtesy of nuclear weapons -- unless the government returns the islands to...

  • Judgment in Blood

    Don Pendleton

    In the shadowy fringes of the government-sanctioned Strategic Operations Group, Stony Man closely monitors world hot spots, ready for immediate action when danger strikes. Sophisticated computer and defense systems, as well as elite combat teams. are...

  • Caroline Masters

    Richard North Patterson

    Long estranged from her blue-blooded New England family, attorney Caroline Masters is summoned home to defend her niece against charges of murder. Police found twenty-two-year-old Brett Allen blood-splattered and incoherent near the scene of the crim...

  • Protect and Defend

    Richard North Patterson

    A newly elected president faces the unexpected chance to nominate a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. His first choice is a nationally respected Court of Appeals judge, a woman whose nomination faces two serious obstacles: a long-held personal...

  • Clueless

    Francine Pascal

    Everyone says it's impossible to just be friends with a guy. But that's exactly what Blue and Elizabeth are. He lets her use his surfboard--the one no one else can touch. And he calls her all the time! It's cool being just friends with Blue....

  • Never Let Go

    Francine Pascal

    Jeremy's never been one for drama. But that's all his life has been about lately. Jessica, Jade, Jade, Jessica, neither, both, neither. . . . It's time for him to make a choice. Unfortunately, when he does, the REAL drama is going to start....

  • Secret Love Diaries: Chloe

    Francine Pascal

    From the journal of Chloe Murphy: The most popular guy at SVU is finally mine--for real this time! But he's making me keep it a secret. Hello? What's the point of dating Tom Watts if no one knows about it?...

  • The Cowboy's Gift-Wrapped Bride

    Victoria Pade

    A COWBOY'S CHRISTMAS Texas cowboy Matt McDermot was craving his first white Christmas on his family's Wyoming ranch. But a blizzard delivered more than Matt bargained for: a petite, pretty motorist stuck in a snowbank, a bump on her head, her memo...

  • Bart's Amazing Charts

    Dianne Ochiltree

  • Can't Let Go

    Rosalind Noonan

    Follow four high-school heroines--Kerri, Jessica, Erin, and Maya--during the most exciting time of their lives. There's love, friendship, and huge life decisions ahead. It's all about to happen--just as they turning seventeen.

    Can't Let Go

  • Gus & Gertie and the Missing Pearl

    Joan Lowery Nixon

  • Destinations

    Tamela Hancock Murray

    Lavonia Penn promised her dying mother that she would follow her dream--to go to America to become a missionary. She has plans to live with a missionary family and help them care for their children--but her sister's chronic health problems and the sa...

  • Gabriela

    Earl Murray


    The year is 1846, a time of great turmoil for America. Claire McFarlane is a young Englishwoman traveling in the United States with her fiance, Sir Edward Garr, a supposed big game hunter who is actually a spy for the British-owned Hudson Bay Com...

  • Cat Spitting Mad

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    While Joe Grey has played tricks on Max Harper, Molena Points head lawman, he's never had anything but respect for the dedicated sheriff. Now Harper's in trouble, suspected of murdering two friends, and the only witness, a young girl named Dillon, ha...

  • The Greatest

    Walter Mosley

    It was never proven that Fera Jones was the product of SepFem-G, the outlawed genetics program that came out of the feminist studies program at Smith College. But one thing was absolutely certain: When it came to boxing, Fera Jones floated like a but...

  • Whispers in the Dark

    Walter Mosley

    Ptolemy Bent--"Popo"--is different. At an age when most babies are cooing "Mama, " Popo was speaking in complete sentences. He was reading college textbooks when he was still too young for nursery school. Popo may just be the smartest human being on ...

  • Weddings

    Ann Morris

    Whether it's a Shinto rite in Japan, an Orthodox Jewish service in Russia, a Catholic mass in Slovakia or a short ceremony at city hall in Los Angeles, a wedding is a special celebration.

    This photographic look at weddings invites children o...

  • Groom of Fortune

    Peggy Moreland

    THE BODYGUARD STEALS A BRIDE.... Link Templeton had sworn he'd never marry, yet he was now carrying a bride across the threshold. But Isabelle Fortune wasn't his bride, and it was his duty to protect the violet-eyed beauty from her intended groom....

  • Against the Odds

    Elizabeth Moon

    WHEN YOUR WORLD IMPLODES .. . The worst has happened: Fleet is tearing itself apart. Some of the mutineers see injustice in the unequal spread of the rejuvenation drugs that offer virtual immortality to the rich; others are simply thirsty for powe...

  • Heris Serrano

    Elizabeth Moon

    WELCOME TO A SWEET DELIGHTHeris Serrano was an officer from a family with a long tradition of distinguished service in the Fleet. So when a treacherous superior set her up and forced her to resign her commission, she thought life had lost all meaning...

  • Sheepfarmer's Daughter

    Elizabeth Moon

    Paksenarrion--Paks, for short--refuses her father's orders to marry the pig farmer down the road and is off to join the army. And so her adventure begins--the adventure that transforms her into a hero remembered in songs, chosen by the gods to restor...

  • May-December Souls

    Marissa Monteilh

    Mariah Pijeaux is about to turn the big 4-0. Although she has always dreamed of becoming a broadcast journalist, she is working as a temporary assistant in Hollywood. She is a tall, striking mother of three with a honeysuckle complexion and a funky h...

  • The Wonder of Easter

    Matt Mitter

  • Cry Republic

    Kirk Mitchell

    On an alternate Earth still ruled by the Romans two thousand years after Pontius Pilate, the present leader, Caesar Germonicus Agricola, attempts to transform the empire into a republic in the face of heavy opposition. Reissue....

  • Sleigh Bells

    Judith McCoy Miller

    The betrayal and embarrassment of a broken engagement is something Teddi Yorke can't bare to repeat. Not surprisingly, she is apprehensive when Captain Phillip Hamilton--whom she once cared about deeply--comes marching back into her life. Amid the...

  • The Story of Easter

    Jean Miller

    This is the basic story of the life and death and resurrection of Jesus that became the Christian holiday of Easter. It covers the latter part of his life when he attracted a following as he taught about the love of God and then was betrayed to the R...

  • Of Blood and Honor

    Chris Metzen

    The paladin Tirion Fordring had always believed the Orcs were vile and corrupt, but an unexpected act of honor and compassion sets in motion a chain of events that will challenge his most fundamental beliefs and force him to decide, once and for all,...

  • Blood Nightmare

    Cade Merrill

    Frank Hunter takes a wrong turn down a dark, winding road and finds himself in a strange, silent town that seems to exist only in his dreams. Then he meets a beautiful young woman who shares those dreams--but in hers, Frank is marked for death....

  • Hunter's Vow

    Susan Meier

    Abby Conway spent the past seven years in Brewster County waiting for her first love, Hunter Wyman, to ride back into town. Her fantasies painted him as a knight on a white horse. Reality revealed a polished businessman. Either way, Abby knew that wh...

  • Firewall

    Andy McNab

    If he hadn't needed the cash so badly, Nick Stone would never have messed with the Russian mafia. But the lucrative offer was one he couldn't refuse. The job seemed simple enough for a man of his particular talents: kidnap a ruthless, money-launderin...

  • Fluffy's 100th Day of School

    Kate McMullan

  • Musicians of the Sun

    Gerald McDermott

    A colorful picture book provides the Aztec legend of how the musicians of the sun were freed from their captive with the help of the mighty wind. By the illustrator of the Caldecott Medal book, Arrow to the Sun. Reprint....

  • Bordertown Justice

    Gary McCarthy

    Glen Collins confronts some dangerous opposition in his campaign to be elected the first sheriff of San Diego in the person of a gunfighter supported by a powerful, ruthless rancher, as well as some stiff competition in he courtship of the beautiful ...

  • The Case of the Stolen Stallion

    Jesse McCann / Jesse Leon McCann

    Ace Ventura and Spike the wonder monkey take on the search for Sheik Baba-Ben-Louie's valuable Arabian stallion, Starlight, only to discover they must follow the thief back into the world of the Arabian Nights....

  • Prescription: Baby

    Jule McBride

    They'd handled hundreds of babies together...and now they'd made one of their own! Ford Carrington had everything -- a sterling reputation as Maitland's finest pediatric surgeon, beautiful women on his arm and enormous wealth. He didn't realize he w...

  • Reach for the Stars

    Anne Mazer

    Spend the day with Abby! Reach for the stars. -- Working Woman's Wisdom Calendar Tuesday Yes, my mother said it again this morning! Is it true? Am I tall enough to touch the stars? Or will I have to settle for watching them? Maybe I'll jus...

  • The Wife Seduction

    Margaret Mayo

    Separate rooms? Not in this marriage! Anna and Oliver Langford had married in haste, and now everything was falling apart. Oliver had a made a fateful mistake and lost his wife's trust. Now he seemed to think he could seduce her into forgiving hi...

  • I'm Sorry

    Mercer Mayer

    Mercer Mayer's Little Critter learns it’s important to say “I’m sorry!” in this humorous storybook!Mercer Mayer's Little Critter is having a very bad day! He used his brother's blanket as a cape, and he forgot his sister's jump rope at t...

  • Just a New Neighbor

    Mercer Mayer

  • Just Camping Out

    Mercer Mayer

  • All Night Long

    Anne Mather

    A night of desire, a lifetime of passion? Ally Sloan's flattered when a gorgeous stranger seeks her out. Single again, after years in a loveless marriage, a heady night of desire is just what she needs to boost her confidence and remind her th...

  • The Chosen Child

    Graham Masterton

    A murderous creature with the face of an angel.
    Sarah Leonard is supervising the construction of an international hotel in post-Cold War Warsaw. If the job doesn't come in on time and under budget, Sarah will be out of a job.

    Shoc...

  • Three Princes

    Lynn Mason

    PRINCE CHARMING? Sometimes he's the cutie you've been crushing on since ninth grade. Sometimes he's disguised as the guy you'd never notice in a million years. And sometimes he's the best friend who's been right beside you all along ... THREE P...

  • The Bells of St. Mary's

    George Victor Martin

  • Graduation Day

    Ann M. Martin

    From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation!It's the day the members of the BSC had thought would never come-- the day they graduate from Stoneybrook Middle School. Kristy is...

  • Operation No Man's Land

    Mike Martell

    A mission to the dirtiest of little wars The Briefing: Six SEALs have a covert meet with their CIA contact in the middle of a D.C. slum. Twenty-four hours later, they're parachuting into Kosovo. The Preparations: Everything is top secret, stric...

  • His One Woman

    Paula Marshall

    Civil war in a nation...and in a family! Jack Dilhorne was in Washington, D.C., on business just as war was being declared between the North and South. It was not the best of times to meet someone as intriguing as Marietta Hope. Marietta's repu...

  • Fortune's Bride

    Victoria Malvey

    Victoria Malvey, the exquisitely talented author of A Me Chase, Temptress, Enchanted, and Portrait of Dreams, takes her readers once again to Victorian England, where a defiant lord and a daring lady struggle to forge a new destiny... together. La...

  • Shuttle Down

    Mack Maloney

    Welcome to No-Man's-Land... Under strict secrecy, the Pentagon launches a shuttle intended to capture a classified space camera and bring it back to Earth. But the shuttle disappears upon reentry. When satellite reconnaissance spots the craft in w...

  • Wild Enough for Willa

    Ann Major

    ONE NIGHT WILLA LONGWORTH FOUND A FORTUNE... AND A MAN What does a woman do when she finds cold hard cash at her feet? With a family against her, a son to nourish and a passion to extinguish, Willa did what any woman would do -- she took the money...

  • Play

    Scarlett MacDougal

    Having learned from Clarence Terence, their fairy godmother, what their lives will be like ten years in the future, Zola, Olivia, Min, and Sally rely on each other to help them make sure things will turn out differently....

  • Start Here

    Scarlett MacDougal

    Motorcycle-riding male fairy godmother Clarence Terence shows four girls on prom night what their lives will be like ten years in the future--an unsuccessful model, a flight attendant, a woman whose marriage is failing, and a high school teacher who ...

  • Dealing

    Brian Lysaght

  • The Heir

    Henry Luk

    In this thrilling sequel to Henry Luk's acclaimed China Bride, an all-American woman gets caught up in a deadly struggle to preserve her Chinese husband's ancient family empire amidst clashes of mores and customs, both business and private.Beth O'Con...

  • Blood Red River

    Walter Lucas

  • Beautiful Dreamer

    Elizabeth Lowell

    Rewrite of Valley of the Sun Nevada's rugged, majestic beauty is a balm for the aches of Hope Gardener's heart. But the ranch she loves is dying of thirst, thanks to the worst drought the area has ever seen. Hope needs a miracle--and one day it co...

  • Special Report: Final Approach to Forever

    Merline Lovelace

    SPECIAL REPORT: Peril and passion over Texas Skies SAM HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Texas (AP): U.S. Marshals' Flight 407 "Con Air" was hijacked before takeoff today, 108 aboard... A daring midair transfer puts pilot Suzanne Delachek at the ...

  • Infinity Hold

    Barry B. Longyear

    The first work of the Infinity Hold trilogy. They named the planet Tartaros after the deepest of Hell''s hells. This is the story of a man and murderer, Bando Nicos, who was condemned to Tartaros and became the planet''s first police officer....

  • Slow Fever

    Cait London

    THE FIREBRAND OF FREEDOM VALLEY Since Kylie Bennett's return to her hometown, Michael Cusack had been painfully conscious of her metamorphosis from girl to lush woman, and of his need to belong to a close family like the Bennetts. Kylie's teenage ...

  • Slocum and the Ambush Trail

    Jake Logan

  • The Summoning

    Bentley Little

    “I have dreamed five nights of the cup hu girngsi.” Sue Wing listened to her grandmother’s Cantonese words and shivered with fear. Cup-hu-girngsi. Corpse-who-drinks-blood. Like the desert that surrounded the dusty Arizona town of Rio Verde -- ...

  • Sandman Sleep

    Herbert Lieberman

  • Simply Wonderful

    Shelby Lewis

    Sudden Chance Garden shop owner Daisy Rogers always had a weakness for tending people in trouble. So, when she discovers an injured stranger with no memory of who he is lying in her greenhouse, she jumps at the chance to help him rediscover his true...

  • Twin Expectations

    Kara Lennox

    The Pregnancy Pact Identical twin sisters Bridget and Liz Van Zandt wanted families. And no way would their vacant ring fingers thwart their girlhood pledge to have babies -- hubbies or no hubbies -- by age 30. So when the birthday bell tolled, th...

  • Ms. Taken

    Jo Leigh

    SINGLE FEMAL IN LOVE WITH THE BOSS. PLEASE RETURN FAVOR... This is the ad secretary Jane Dobson secretly wanted to place in "The Personal Touch!" column. Instead, shy but sexy Charles Warren has her tracking down his old college girlfriend with th...

  • Mother in a Moment

    Allison Leigh

    Runaway heiress Darby White thought she knew nothing about family, but suddenly she was caring for a passel of orphaned children. And while they weren't her own, Darby couldn't turn her back on desperate new dad Garrett Cullum's pleas for help -- not...

  • White as Snow

    Tanith Lee

    Once upon a time there was a mirror. . . .So begins this dark, unusual retelling of the story of Snow White by the writer reviewers have called "the Angela Carter of the fantasy field" -- a whole novel based on a beloved story, turning it into a dark...

  • Renovating Love

    Mary Leask

    David Reid has two projects he needs to work on in his life: renovating his house and finding a wife. He decides to work on the easier one first--renovating his house--and finds just the right man to do the job, or so he thinks. But Jim Thompson, who...

  • The Constant Gardener

    John Le Carre

    John le Carre's exquisite new novel opens in northern Kenya with the gruesome murder of the young and beautiful Tessa Quayle. Her husband, Justin, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive, and what he learns makes him...

  • A Seductive Revenge

    Kim Lawrence

    An intimate vendetta! Josh Prentice has a broken heart, and there's only one way to mend it: revenge! He plans to seduce Flora, and then jilt her. But he hadn't expected to find it so hard to walk away.... Locked into an intensely sensu...

  • Scandalous Lord Dere

    Stephanie Laurens
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    A new year brings new scandal when a rake awakens in the bed of the flame-haired temptress who had seduced him years before. All of society has them bedded, but can he convince her to become wedded?...

  • Do Unto Others

    Kristin Hunter Lattany

    Zena (short for Zenobia) Lawson honors all things African--art, culture, history. So when fortune hands her a twenty-year-old Nigerian girl in need of temporary housing, Zena and her husband, Lucius, jump at the chance to help. To Zena, Ifa Olongo is...

  • Reinventing Romeo

    Connie Lane

    Anything can happen when the world's sexiest bachelor and a beautiful FBI agent become "husband and wife"... In a normal world, they never would have met. Millionaire Alex Romero leads a fantasy life filled with money, women, and excitement. FBI A...

  • Mars Crossing

    Geoffrey A. Landis

    By the middle of the 21st century, humanity has finally landed men on Mars--only to watch helplessly as the first two missions end in catastrophe and death. With resources running out, a third--and perhaps4inal--mission to Mars is hastily mounted;...

  • Pandora's Children

    Kathryn Lance

    The fanatical anti-science Traders kidnap Evvy, the beautiful bride of the Principal, brilliant leader of the last citadel of technology, and Zach, the Principal's faithful courier, attempts to rescue Evvy...

  • King's Captain

    Dewey Lambdin

    Following the footsteps of Horatio Hornblower and Jack Aubrey, whose ripping adventures capture thousands of new readers each year, comes the heir apparent to the mantle of Forester and O'Brian: Dewey Lambdin, and his acclaimed Alan Lewrie series....

  • Glutton for Punishment

    Cecile Lamalle

    BAD STOCK, JUST DESSERTS, AND MURDER The winter holidays are over, and Chef Charly Poisson and the staff of La Fermette, the finest French restaurant in Van Buren County, New York, are settling down for a quiet season--or so they think--when a rin...

  • From the Corner of His Eye

    Dean Koontz

    THIS IS THE STORY OF A BOY WHO LOSES HIS SIGHT. AND THEN MYSTERIOUSLY REGAINS IT. IT IS THE STORY OF A COURAGEOUS BAND OF SEEKERS. AND A RELENTLESS KILLER. IT IS THE STORY OF ALL THAT IS RIGHT WITH THE WORLD. AND ALL THAT IS TERRIBLY WRONG. IT ...

  • Dykstra's War

    Jeffery D. Kooistra

    ONLY DYKSTAR CAN SAVE US NOW! Humanity had thought itself alone in the Cosmos. By the end of the 21st century, it had filled the Solar System and begun warring with itself. But then the aliens came -- swift, silent, and deadly, possessing enigmati...

  • Dancing With Mr. D.

    Lisa Kleinholz

    A REPORTER'S DEADLY BEAT Ex-Rolling Stone writer Zoe Szabo thought she'd left the mean streets and bad times behind when she and her musician husband, Billy, moved to Greymont, a leafy New England college town. But Greymont is suddenly a hotbed of...

  • Changing Lives

    Maggie Kingsley

    Restoring faith in love... Peggie O'Neill is thrilled to be appointed resident, working for Gareth Davies, for his surgical skills are legendary. But he is convinced she's too flippant to be dedicated, and she thinks he's too overbearing. Gareth abr...

  • A Brighton Flirtation

    Valerie King

    A HEROIC YOUNG WOMAN. . . Katherine Pamberley loves life in Brighton--in spite of Captain Evan Ramsdell trying to spoil her fun. He's entirely above being pleased--and his old-fashioned ideas about women drive her mad! How he managed to engage her a...

  • Reilly's Gold

    Elizabeth Keys

    Follow the spirited Reilly clan back to the middle of the 19th century, when a legendary family "blessing" forces its sons and daughters to question destiny...and fight for love. FATEFUL JOURNEY Young Irishman Devin Reilly had just arrived in Am...

  • The Lesser Kindred

    Elizabeth Kerner

    The Lesser Kindred is the stunning sequel to Elizabeth Kerner's haunting first novel Song in the Silence, continuing the story of Lanen Kaelar, a young woman who fearlessly embarked on a search for the great dragons of legend and in her travels disco...

  • Medical Murders

    Kensington Publishing

  • Suite Seduction

    Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

    THE WRONG BED... Ruthie Sinclair is having one of those days. First she discovers she has to wear the bridesmaid's dress from hell to her cousin's wedding. Then her lackluster boyfriend runs for the hills when she suggests they get a little "closer....

  • Dr. Death

    Jonathan Kellerman

    A brutalized corpse discovered in a remote region of the Hollywood Hills plunges psychologist-detective Alex Delaware into a landscape of rage and madness as he struggles to solve this most baffling of homicides. To some, Eldon Mate was evil perso...

  • Love's Labyrinth

    Anne Kelleher

    England 1999. When best friends Olivia Lindsley and Alison O'Neill put on 16th century dresses and entered the labyrinth at Talcott Forest, they thought it would be fun to make believe they were Elizabethan ladies. But when they finally left the maze...

  • The Chinese New Year Mystery

    Carolyn Keene

    WHAT'S CHINESE NEW YEAR WITHOUT A DRAGON? The third-grade classes at Nancy's school are learning about Chinese culture, and they'll celebrate the Chinese New Year with a special parade. The highlight of the parade will be a dragon costume. Nancy's c...

  • Lullaby and Goodnight

    Susan Kearney

    WHEN HE LEFT HER BED, RAFE SUTTON DIDN'T KNOW SHE WAS PREGNANT.... After seeing the heartache love could cause, Rafe had sworn himself to bachelorhood. But that was before Rhianna McCloud knocked this cowboy for a loop. And though he suspected he'...

  • The Wrong Child

    Patricia Kay

    What would you do if you discovered that your beloved child wasn't yours at all? Patricia Kay presents a compelling, tender story of a bond that is stronger than blood--and of the difficult choices that can only be with the heart... With her jet-b...

  • Mad Dog and Annie

    Virginia Kantra

    HER DARK KNIGHT He was everything she didn't want. Possessive, demanding, intense. Maddox "Mad Dog" Palmer wouldn't be ignored or forgotten. But Annie had to stay away. He was a cop -- though on medical leave -- and her ex-husband's best friend. H...

  • The Big Silence

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Abe Lieberman is a strong, sympathetic character, an Everyman whose love for his family is only matched by his quiet, zealous commitment to justice: "A figure out of Talmudic lore-endearing, wise in his crotchets, weary with his wisdom." says The Was...

  • Pu-239 and Other Russian Fantasies

    Ken Kalfus

    The acclaimed short story and novella collection by “a virtuoso of the dismal comedy of Soviet life” -- and the basis for the HBO film PU-239 (The New York Times).Ken Kalfus traverses a century of Russian history in tales that range from hair-rai...

  • Glamour Puss

    R.J. Kaiser

    Glamour Puss Was Buried Under a Pool in Hollywood….Mac McGowan knew exactly where Aubrey St. George was buried, because he'd put the famous film star -- known to all of Hollywood as Glamour Puss -- there himself. It had all been a terrible accident...

  • Cross Train

    Kevin W. Johnson

  • Pray Hard

    Kevin W. Johnson

  • Just One Kiss

    Doris Johnson