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New Books List: 389 titles

  • Bloodtide

    Cliff Garnett

    Amid the turmoil, horrors, and devastation of Kosovo, a gang of Serbian renegade creates a concentration camp to hold thousands of Albanian refugees fleeing the conflict, but when they campture a downed American NATO pilot, the TALON force is sent in...

  • 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...

  • Joint Operations

    Keith Douglass

    PEARL HARBOR--REVISITED While Vice Admiral "Tombstone" Magruder and his men are enjoying a little R & R in Hawaii, China prepares their Rising Sun vessel for a surprise attack on U.S. soil--or rather, sand. The beach explodes into devastation--and...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Silent Salvo

    Joe L. Gribble

    As North Korea prepares to launch an all-out attack on South Korea and Japan, tensions begin to mount in Washington, D.C., when it is discovered that some of those nuclear missiles can reach the mainland U.S., and former Air Force officer Lance Brand...

  • 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...

  • Zero City

    James Axler

    A FUTURE CONDEMNED The nuclear Armageddon of 2001 put the world on an odyssey of savage rebirth. Now, little more than a hundred years after the blast, the quest for power is viciously embraced by America's new masters, barons commanding fortresses ...

  • The Case of the Wandering Witch

    James Gelsey

    Scooby-Doo and the gang are at the screening of an exciting new movie called The Wandering Witch. They discover that there are people who don't want this movie to come out. And one of them seems to be a real witch! It's up to Scooby-Doo -- and you --...

  • 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!...

  • 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...

  • A Cat With the Blues

    Lydia Adamson

    Alice Nestleton is cat-sitting a beautiful Russian Blue--who also happens to be the center of a raging custody battle. Sidney and Beatrice Woburn are fighting over Frenchy, and just about everything else...so Alice, at the request of the lawyers, is ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hair Raiser

    Nancy J. Cohen

    Not just your average South Florida beachcomber, Marla's now a volunteer for Ocean Guard, a coastal preservation group. She's even in charge of their upcoming Taste of the World fundraiser. But when chef Pierre Chevalier's flaming Bananas Foster resu...

  • Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence

    Jo Dereske

    THIS AIN'T NO GARDEN PARTY In a boldly personal move, Police Chief Wayne Gallant has arranged a meeting between his children and Bellehaven's beloved librarian Helma Zukas. But the fates have not yet smiled on this pair, as the long overdue introd...

  • Mood Swings to Murder

    Jane Isenberg

    Dead Ringer for a Dead Singer Fifty-something New Jersey community college professor Bel Barret has had enough "changes of life" lately to last her a lifetime. Her daughter has cheerfully announced her pregnancy and her impending marriage in a sin...

  • Cross Train

    Kevin W. Johnson

  • The Island of Heavenly Daze

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    To a casual visitor, the island of Heavenly Daze is just like a dozen others off the coast of Maine. It is decorated with graceful Victorian mansions, carpeted with gray cobblestones and bright wild flowers, and populated by sturdy, hard-working folk...

  • Pray Hard

    Kevin W. Johnson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Baby Christmas

    Pamela Browning

    The year the Stork played Santa -- and Cupid -- for Christmas! Alone on Christmas Eve, Rachel Hirsch was astounded to find a cooing newborn outside her apartment door. With social services closed for the holiday, she had to take the baby home with h...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • By Marriage Divided

    Lindsay Armstrong

    The heiress bride and her rough, tough husband... Angus Keir, a self-made millionaire, considers Domenica to be a social butterfly. Her privileged background is in direct contrast to his own. But their fortunes are reversed when he saves her famil...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Daddy, M.D.

    Jacqueline Diamond

    "Doc, I lost my tonsils!" That was what precocious five-year-old Spike told bachelor doctor Chad Markham. It didn't take Chad long to figure out that the little orphaned boy merely wanted a "prescription" for unlimited amounts of ice cream...and m...

  • A Daughter's Place

    C.J. Carmichael

    Home is where the farm is Libby Bateson was seventeen and pregnant when her father kicker her off the farm. She never intended to go back. But now she and her daughter need a place to stay. So for the few months it'll take to get her life together...

  • 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 ...

  • Destiny's Song

    Kim L. Whiteside

  • 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 ...

  • Expectant Bride-To-Be

    Nikki Benjamin

    Single Mother-To-Be? Abby Summers, proud, pregnant...alone The Insistent Father: Handsome hometown hero Jack Randall The Pretend Engagement: If Jack could get Abby to pose as his fiancee, surely it would only be a short step to the altar. Kind ...

  • Expecting the Boss's Baby

    Leanne Banks

    "YOU'RE NO LONGER MY ASSISTANT. YOU'RE GOING TO BE MY WIFE!" CEO Michael Hawkins had made an executive decision. After making his secretary, Kate Adams, pregnant in an unexpected night of passion, Michael asked for her hand. Kate didn't want to be...

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Donna Hill
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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... ...

  • A Family at Last

    Carolyne Aarsen

    HEAVEN HELP HER... Cory Luciuk couldn't forget her painful childhood -- or forgive Matthew McKnight for his role in it. Now the man who stood for everything she loathed was back in her life, claiming to hold the key to Cory's future -- and...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Hearts at Risk

    Suzanne Barrett

    A GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS Tom McKittrick has had it with women. Pushed out of his own start-up company by a domineering "modern" female, he's ready to lick his wounds in private at the rural family estate he's inherited. But he isn't prepared...

  • His Special Delivery

    Belinda Barnes

    On the side of the road, about to give birth, Sara Jamison was in despair -- until he stopped by. A vision in a tux, with rough but tender hands, a slow drawl and enough confidence to calm her anxious mind, Sara couldn't do anything but trust Cal Tuc...

  • House on the Lake

    Julie Ellis

    Andrea's head is spinning as she journeys to visit her long-lost father at his home in Geneva. But though she receives a warm welcome on arrival at the beautiful chateau at the edge of the Alps, she soon realises that danger isn't far away. Someone h...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Irresistible You

    Barbara Boswell

    "I plan on staying single and carefree to the end of time." -- Luke Minteer, bachelor juror How could Luke Minteer be picked for a jury? And he was...glad? Maybe his happiness had to do with the sexy, single, nine months pregnant woman who sat be...

  • 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...

  • Just One Kiss

    Doris Johnson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Love's Funny That Way

    Pamela Burford

    Four high school friends and a pact -- every girl gets her ideal man by thirty or be prepared for matchmaking! The Bride-To-Be: Raven Muldoon, therapist by vocation and aspiring stand-up comic by desire, realizes her friends in the Wedding Ring ha...

  • 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...

  • Main Agenda

    Brenda Jackson
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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... ...

  • The Man She'll Marry

    Susan Fox

    Tracey couldn't believe she'd written off Ty Cameron's car, nor that he was insisting she pay for it -- by working for him! And that meant living with Ty, who seemed determined to get to know her.... But Tracey had learned to be wary ...

  • The Marriage Contract

    Anna Adams

    There's no place like home, but even ruby slippers won't get Clair Atherton there. For Clair, home is Fairlove, Virginia, and a Federal Era house built by her ancestors. Although the house still stands, it might as well be over the rainbow, because...

  • The Marriage Risk

    Emma Darcy

    If only Lucy's sexy boss, James Hancock, would see her as a desirable woman -- not just his sensible secretary! Unbuttoning Lucy's prim suits is indeed on James's mind....But will he lose the best assistant he's ever had? Lucy is ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Miracle of Love

    Gloria Alvarez

    More than a decade ago, Elena Santiago broke her engagement to David Moncloa, certain she couldn't be a police officer's wife. Now a widowed single mother, she's back in her hometown--and David's arms. Despite all their years apart, nothing has chang...

  • 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...

  • The Missing Link

    Charlyne Dickerson

    While they both try to deny the magnetism drawing them together. Craig's ex-wife arrives on the scene, using whatever means necessary, including her body and their son, to try to reclaim what once was hers....

  • 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...

  • Monahan's Gamble

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    THE LOVE BET? The bettor: Sexy Sean Monahan. At stake: dating beautiful -- if slightly flaky -- Autumn Pulaski, the new girl in town, for more than her prescribed four weeks. If he could only get her to go out with him for eight weeks, then she'd ...

  • 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...

  • A Mother By Nature

    Caroline Anderson

    A family worth fighting for At last--a man to share her life with, have kids with. And Adam Bradbury, the new pediatric surgeon, seemed to feel the same. He was a devoted father with a burning desire to seek sanctuary in Anna's arms. Their pass...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Now And Forever

    Rachel Gibson
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    She's attending her high school reunion as a newly formed ravishing beauty; he's now sexy, successful, and determined to give her her come-uppance. What will happen when the clock strikes twelve?...

  • 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...

  • Orchid Isle

    Sally Fairchild

  • Patchwork Family

    Judy Christenberry

    NEWS FLASH: TYLER PLAYBOY DATES ...A SINGLE MOM?! Rumor has it that our resident attorney Quinn Spencer has been offering Molly Blake more than legal advice these past cold winter nights. Does this sandy-haired stud, who has broken hearts all over...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Rachel and the M.D.

    Donna Clayton

    Dr. Sloan Radcliff was the first to admit he didn't know a thing about clothes, makeup -- or dating! And although he refused to succumb to the triplets' shameless matchmaking schemes, he was glad they charmed Rachel Richards into helping out. In fact...

  • 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...

  • A Scandalous Affair

    Donna Hill

    A dynamic Washington D.C. activist, Samantha Montgomery faces the controversy of a lifetime when she agrees to help handsome civil rights attorney Chad Rushmore take on a landmark police brutality suit. Not only does their sudden, fiery attraction en...

  • A Season for Love

    BJ James

    CAN THE SHERIFF KEEP HIS TRUE LOVE SAFE? Eighteen years ago, a terrible tragedy forced Maria Delacroix to flee Belle Terre -- and Sheriff Jericho Rivers, her first love. Now she was finally back in Jericho's warm embrace, but someone from the past...

  • Second Chance

    Rochelle Alers
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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... ...

  • 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?...

  • Seduced

    Janelle Denison

    NO RETREAT... Lawyer Ryan Matthews wanted sexy Jessica Newman the moment he saw her. And she seemed to want him, too, but something was holding her back. So now Ryan decides it's time to launch a sensual assault. He is going to have Jessica in his b...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Solitary Man

    Karen Drogin

    CAN ONE NIGHT OF PASSION... Boston cop Kevin Manning had promised to look out for the family of his mortally wounded partner. He didn't think that comforting his partner's grieving sister Nikki would lead to a night of blazing passion. B...

  • Special Report: Cover Me

    Debra Cowan

    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... Duty demands Marshal Spence Cantrall produce the hijacker's ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Strangers When We Married

    Carla Cassidy

    THE AGENT: Seth Greene, determined operative -- and estranged husband and father. THE MISSION: Infiltrate his ex-wife's home -- and gain her much-needed expertise. THE DEVASTATING DISCOVERY: Seth is still very much in love with his ex.... Their ...

  • 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....

  • 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... ...

  • Taming Ben

    Colleen Faulkner

    THE LAST BACHELOR... The remaining single holdout of her formerly no-marriage buddies, Ben Gordon is on a massive "just say no" campaign to long-term relationships. That is, until he registers a complaint with Mackenzie Sawyer, the owner of the hou...

  • Temporary Husband

    Patricia K. Azeltine

    All Stacey Williams wants to do is make her parents happy. Unfortunately, marriage seems to be the only answer. But as a journalist she doesn't have time to date--much less get married. Instead, she concocts a plan to place a personal ad for a tempor...

  • That Man Matthews

    Ann Evans

    Even the best father in the world needs a little help now and then ... Cody Matthews can't believe the recent changes in his daughter. Gone is daddy's little angel; in her place, the devil in blue jeans. As a last resort -- since Cody's a man who ...

  • This Child of Mine

    Darlene Graham

    He's chosen to keep his child She'd given her baby away Kitt Stevens has never really believed the old adage -- opposites attract. But she has to admit she finds Mark Masters very attractive, even if he disagrees with her on almost every topic they ...

  • Thorne

    Lisa Jackson

    The Millionaire CEO: Thorne McCafferty His Reputation: Rich, rugged and ruthless. He would rather lose his fortune than get caught at the altar. His Dilemma: Not letting a beguiling beauty take possession of his heart. Thorne had returned to...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Tycoon's Mistress

    Sara Craven

    A motive for marriage? Cressy was astonished when Draco Viannis proposed. From the moment she'd met the gorgeous Greek, Cressy couldn't get him out of her mind. The passion between them was mind-blowing -- but had it just been a holiday af...

  • 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...

  • Undercover Elf

    Kate Hoffmann

    Aspiring reporter Claudia Moore is looking for her big break. And when she hears about a store Santa who really grants children's wishes, she thinks she's found it. Only, she never dreamed she'd have to go undercover -- as an elf, of all things! A...

  • Unexpected Angel

    Kate Hoffmann

    Alex Marrin knows his seven-year-old son, Eric, wants a perfect Christmas -- the way it used to be before the divorce. Heck, the kid's even put in an order with Santa! But when beautiful Christmas consultant Holly Bennett shows up on their doorstep...

  • 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 - ...

  • Wedding at Waverley Creek

    Jessica Hart

    A WEDDING FOR THE BABY's SAKE... Jack Henderson was impossibly handsome, dangerously charming and way out of Ellie Walker's league! Women like her beautiful, outgoing sister were more the type to capture his attention... but now Jack had noticed E...

  • 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 Wife Degree

    Aisha Ford

    In the second grade, Madison Thompson fell in love with the boy next door. But Jordan Sanders never really noticed her. Oh, he used to tease her over her good grades. And in high school he and hsi friends made fun of her. But he never gave her the at...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • You Made Me Love You

    Neesa Hart

    Just who does this man think he is? Eli can't resist pretty, passionate Liza Kincaid, even though he's vowed he'd never take another bride. But Liza's tender touch makes him ache with long-forgotten desires, and he quickly decides that their lives...

  • The Babel Effect

    Daniel Hecht

    A stunning post-millennial thriller from the author of PUPPETS. Genius husband-and-wife team Ryan and Jessamine McCloud are founders of Genesis, an unorthodox problem-solving think tank. Commissioned by a billionaire corporate chief to study the caus...

  • Red Moon

    Michael Cassutt

    It begins in 1964 with the sudden and unexpected death of Sergai Korolev, the man who ran the Soviet Space Program. Young Yuri Ribko, an engineering student working for one of the Korolev's bureaus, is either fortunate or unfortunate to have an uncle...

  • 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....

  • All of an Instant

    Richard Garfinkle

  • Dinosaurs Ate My Homework

    Scott Ciencin

    Because of his family's many relocations, Aaron Aimes has always had an excuse for avoiding everything from gym to homework. After all, everyone overlooks "the new kid." But when Aaron is yanked back to prehistoric Nevada with his classmates, he's ou...

  • The Door in the Tree

    William Corlett

    Thirteen-year-old William Constant and his two younger sisters, Mary and Alice, have come to ancient, mysterious Golden House in Wales for the holidays. Their lives will never be the same once they enter the Magician's House -- and discover their des...

  • The Dragon and the Fair Maid of Kent

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Jim Eckert, the Dragon Knight, must now confront the three disasters that lie in wait for any visitor to the English Middle Ages: war, plague, and Plantagenets. The plague is caused by a covert invasion of shape-changing goblins with plague-tipped...

  • Flirt in the Mirror

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    When does a dream become a nightmare? Find out in Mirror Image as a teenage girl finds a glittering meteorite, places it under her pillow, and awakens to discover that her greatest wish has come true....

    Mirro...

  • Genpei

    Kara Dalkey

    Throughout the twelfth century, two rival clans, the Minomoto and the Taira, struggled for supremacy in Imperial Japan. Each attempted a rebellion and, for a time, the Taira gained ascendancy. But their rule turned despotic and at last, during the Ge...

  • If Whispers Call

    Don Bassingthwaite

    As a young woman lies in a deep and inexplicable coma in a Chicago hospital, investigators from the Hoffman Institute search for answers, finding a clue in a small cemetery, abandoned for nearly four decades, that holds the key to secrets from beyond...

  • The Keys to Avalon: The True Location of Arthur's Kingdom Revealed

    Steve Blake

    Avalon exists. It is a real place with geographical boundaries and a turbulent history. It is the treasure house of Arthurian legend, and the true birthplace of Arthur. It is the secret location in which the identity of an entire nation has lain buri...

  • King's Cure

    Daniel Hood

    KING'S CURE Liam Rhenford has traveled to the royal capital of Torquay to investigate new trade routes for the Duke. But Liam hasn't been told his true mission: to deliver a magical remedy to King Nicanor IV. That's why Liam is surprised when he d...

  • The Last Hot Time

    John M. Ford

    When Danny Holman leaves the cornfields of Iowa for the bright lights of Chicago, he expects his life to change. He just can''t guess how much and how fast. A violent incident on the road brings Danny the favor of a man known only as Mr. Patrise, ...

  • 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...

  • Lost Burgundy

    Mary Gentle

    THERE IS MORE THAN ONE HISTORY OF THE WORLD... In a barbarous age in a world now forgotten, an extraordinary figure stood formidable on the European battlefield--a remarkable female warrior and strategist without equal... save one. Dijon, the o...

  • The Nameless Day

    Sara Douglass

    According to the ancient pagan calendar of Europe, the Nameless Day is the one day of the year when the veil is thinnest between our world and the world of the spirits. In the Year of Our Lord 1377, the Black Plague is sweeping the continent, and Bro...

  • 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,...

  • The Redemption of Althalus

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    Althalus is an unrepentant rogue and scoundrel. Yet of all the men in the world, it is Althalus who will become the champion of humanity in its desperate struggle against the forces of an ancient god determined to return the universe to nothingness. ...

  • Scion's Lady

    Rebecca Bradley

    Tig never wanted to be a hero. And after using the powers of the magical artifact known as the Lady in Gil to destroy the barbarous Sherkin Empire, he is quite willing to return to his quiet and peaceful life as a scholar... Unfortunately for Tig,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Accidental Pope

    Raymond Flynn; Robin Moore

    The former US Ambassador to the Vatican and the bestselling author of The French Connection join forces to write an unforgettable, compelling novel about a humble fisherman who is elected as the next Pope.Locked in a stalemate after days of voting, t...

  • Air

    Neil Ardley

  • Alternate Realities

    C.J. Cherryh

    Port EternityTheir names were Lancelot, Elaine, Percivale, Gawain, Mordred, Lynette and Vivien, and they were made people, clone servants who worked aboard The Maid, an anachronistic fantasy of a spaceship. They had no idea of their origins, from tho...

  • The Angel and the Sword

    Cecelia Holland


    In the dark and bloody days of the Ninth Century, a courageous young woman took the guise of a gallant warrior to preserve the precious legacy of the past, and protect her people from destruction. Here is a bold retelling of one of Europe's great...

  • Angel Fire

    Ron Franscell

    Twenty-four years after war correspondent Daniel McLeod is killed in Vietnam, his only brother Cassidy is drawn by a mysterious phone call to their Wyoming hometown, where he must confront a lifetime of his own ghosts. A first novel. Reprint....

  • Bart's Amazing Charts

    Dianne Ochiltree

  • The Bells of St. Mary's

    George Victor Martin

  • Big Bed for Me

    Ann Braybrooks

  • 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...

  • 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

  • A Capeside Christmas

    C.J. Anders

    Stress Much? Two days into rehearsal, the director of the Capeside Christmas Winter Follies drops out, so Dawson volunteers to direct the town show. But he's finding out the hard way it's easier to direct a small cast film than a giant Christmas ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Christmas Stories

    Disney Book Group

  • Color

    Neil Ardley

  • Corpse First Class

    H. Paul Jeffers

  • Crazy Eggs!

    Golden Books

  • Dealing

    Brian Lysaght

  • 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...

  • Disney's to School & Beyond

    Disney Book Group

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

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

  • 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...

  • Ellen Gilchrist

    Ellen Gilchrist

    With the publication of 1983's The Annunciation, Ellen Gilchrist established herself as a teller of charming, bittersweet tales of the modern South. Since then, her works of fiction - sixteen in all - have built up a solid base of dedicated fans. W...

  • Emperor's New Groove Joke Book

    Rebecca Gomez

  • The Exchange Student

    Pamela Pollack

  • Farm Animal Sounds

    G.L. Read

  • Feelings

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Ferret Fun

    Ben M. Baglio

    Mandy Hope loves animals. She knows all about them -- both her parents are vets! Mandy is always ready to help out her friends with their pet problems. ANIMAL ARK IS FULL OF ANIMALS AND SURPRISES. Freddie, a stray ferret, is found under the shed ...

  • Fluffy's 100th Day of School

    Kate McMullan

  • Four Ace Reverse

    Gordon Hill

  • From Head to Toe

    Tekla White

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Got to be Real

    E. Lynn Harris

    Four popular African-American authors--E. Lynn Harris, Eric Jerome Dickey, Colin Canner, and Marcus Major--come together in a bold new collection of original stories that explore the vast complexities of the human heart and the challenges of love in ...

  • 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...

  • Grave Discovery

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • 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...

  • Gus & Gertie and the Missing Pearl

    Joan Lowery Nixon

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Dom DeLuise

  • Happy Birthday, Princess Lolly!

    Scholastic Inc.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Inside a Zoo in the City

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

  • Italy

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Just a New Neighbor

    Mercer Mayer

  • Just Camping Out

    Mercer Mayer

  • Kitchen Congregation Reading Group Guide

    Nora Seton

  • Little Rocket's Special Star

    Julie Sykes

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Lulu's Birthday

    Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard

    It's Lulu's birthday, and she can't decide if she wants to celebrate

    at the zoo at the beach at the ballet at the movies or at a ball game.

    Laurie and J. Matthew have their own ideas about how to throw a...

  • 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...

  • Masuto Investigates

    Howard Fast

    Masao Masuto is a Nisei detective on the Beverly Hills police force -- a cultured stranger in an even stranger land of traffic-clogged freeways, artery-clogging fast food...and brutal murders. Here, collected for the first time, are the two adventure...

  • Medical Murders

    Kensington Publishing

  • Modem Menace

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • 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

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • My Very First Disney 123 Counting Book

    Disney Book Group

  • One Farm

    Melissa Blackwell Burke