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New Books List: 389 titles

  • Doomsday Deck

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Arts and crafts...and evil It's that time of the year for the Sunnydale Sidewalk Art Festival, and Buffy and the gang have been enlisted to help Joyce pre-pare for the big event. In fact, Xander's especially eager to pitch in, due to the arrival o...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Tin Collectors

    Stephen J. Cannell

    IT TOOK ONE MOMENT TO CHANGE HIS LIFE It begins with a call in the middle of the night from a woman at the mercy of her abusive husband. It ends with a split-second decision for LAPD detective Shane Scully. But the man Scully brings down is also his...

  • The Deadly Hunter

    Jude Watson

  • The Quantum Rose

    Catherine Asaro

    Kamoj Argali is the young ruler of an impoverished province on a backward planet. To keep her people from starving, she has agreed to marry Jax Ironbridge, the boorish and brutal ruler of a prosperous province. But before Argali and Ironbridge are we...

  • Shadow of Heaven

    Christie Golden

    An imbalance of dark matter has placed two realities in jeopardy, causing the separate universes to merge and threatening the stability of both realms. To preserve reality as it is known, the crew of the U.S.S. Voyager must defy a cosmic conspiracy...

  • 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 Star King

    Susan Grant

    Careening out of control in her fighter jet is only the start of the wildest ride of Jasmine's life; spinning wildly in an airplane is nothing like the loss of equilibrium she feels when she lands. There, in a half-dream, Jas sees a man more powerful...

  • 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...

  • The Best of Fantasy and Science Fiction

    Edward L. Ferman

    Since its founding, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been acclaimed as one of the pinnacles of the field, the source of fantastic fiction of the highest literary quality. Now the magazine known to its readers as "F&SF" celebrates its f...

  • Candle

    John Barnes

    Currie Culver is about fifty-five years old, in good health, living in a comfortable retirement in the Rockies with his wife. In the wake of the Meme Wars that swept the planet two generations before, Currie, his wife, and almost everyone on Earth ha...

  • Centauri Dawn

    Michael Ely

    In a novel based on the hit computer game, the United Nations colonial starship Unity finally reaches the only habitable planet orbiting Alpha Centauri's primary star, but a mysterious malfunction destroys the ship, killing the captain and se...

  • The Coming

    Joe Haldeman

    Astronomy professor Aurora `Rory' Bell gets a message from space that seems to portend the arrival of extraterrestrial visitors. According to her calculations, whoever is coming will arrive in three months--on New Year's Day, to be exact. A crowde...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Devil to the Belt

    C.J. Cherryh

    C. J. Cherryh's upcoming new science fiction novel Hammerfall (Avon Eos, 7/01), is the perfect opportunity to revisit this author's strong backlist, including the latest book, Devil to the Belt (Warner, 12/00). Ranging from Earth to the asteroids and...

  • Down to the Sea

    William R. Forstchen

    FIRST CONTACT...OR LAST? Twenty years after the defeat of the alien Hordes, the human Republic has been exploring, mapping, and taming their new home. Encountering other human colonies while patrolling the great ocean, they hear rumors of a mighty...

  • Dreaming Down-Under

    Jack Dann

  • 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...

  • The Ends of Time

    Robert Silverberg

  • Eternity's End

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    THE STARSHIP LOST IN ETERNITY In the century since the devastating War of a Thousand Suns, humanity has stagnated, staying in the cocoon of the Centrist Worlds while the rapacious pirates of Galen Space prey on ships that venture too far into the ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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;...

  • 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...

  • The Naked God: Faith

    Peter F. Hamilton

    One of the most daringly brilliant, grand scale epics in years, THE NAKED GOD is the breathtaking climax to the acclaimed saga of The Reality Dysfunction and The Neutronium Alchemist, as nano-augmented Adamists, genetically engineered Edenists, and a...

  • P.E.A.C.E.

    Guy Holmes

    The New York City of the not-too-distant future is a surveillance state. Thousands of video cameras are mounted on street corners and in subways, and a special corps of elite NYPD officers roam the city undercover with high-tech tranq-guns. It's the ...

  • 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...

  • Path of Glory

    Randall N. Bills

    NEW ALLIES. OLDER ENEMIES. For MechWarrior Zane, allegiance to the Nova Cat Clan comes above all else. So when he sees his clan disgraced, cast out, and suddenly allied with the hated Inner Sphere, Zane's only desire is to see the Nova Cats return...

  • Phule Me Twice

    Robert Asprin

    YOU CAN'T MISTAKE JUST ANYONE FOR A PHULE. When the, planet Zenobia is invaded, Captain Willard Phule is made their military advisor. The first priority for Phule's Company: staying out from underfoot of the peaceful, dinosaurlike Zenobians... ...

  • The Right to Arm Bears

    Gordon R. Dickson

    HUMANS OR HEMNOIDS: AN UNBEARABLE CHOICE! Planet Dilbia is in a crucial location for both humans and their adversaries, the Hemnoids. Therefore making friends with the Dilbians and establishing a human presence there is of the utmost importance,...

  • Rogue Flyer

    Loren L. Coleman

    The planes are faster, the engines are bigger, the guns are deadlier, and the women are more beautiful... The year is 1937. The collapse of the old United States has made highways and railroads useless. Airlanes are all that connect the fractured...

  • Sandman Sleep

    Herbert Lieberman

  • There's an Alien in My Backpack

    Bruce Coville

    Pleskit and Tim meet a new alien friend in this ninth book in the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series Sixth-Grade Alien from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework, Bruce Coville.Pleskit has always said that he’s not neces...

  • 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...

  • Voyage to Eneh

    Roland J. Green

    Ehoma Tuomitti is the feisty deck-watch chief of the Kertovan battleship Bybur, at war on the high seas of the island planet Kilmoyn. Tuomitti has her hands full fighting both fog and enemy ships as well as juggling an upstart lover--and then Sean Li...

  • 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 ...

  • Authorized Personnel Only

    Barbara D'Amato

    For Chicago cop Suze Figueroa, home is a sanctuary, a quiet refuge from the crime, corruption, and tragedy she encounters everyday on the job. The creaky old Victorian house she shares with her little boy, her invalid sister, and her sister's family ...

  • Code to Zero

    Ken Follett

    January, 1958--the darkest hour of the cold war and the early dawn of the space race. On the launch pad at Cape Canaveral sits America's best hope to catch up with the Russians--the Explorer I satellite. But at the last moment, the launch is delayed ...

  • 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...

  • Final Acts

    Alex Abella

    When the decapitated bodies of young women appear along the California coast, Morell, hero of The Killing of the Saints and Dead of Night, returns to investigate what appear to be cult-related murders. After working for years as one of Los Angeles's ...

  • First Avenue

    Lowen Clausen

    A former beat cop, novelist Lowen Clausen sat down to write First Avenue when "there was no distance between the street and me." Filled with compelling authenticity, his debut novel is the passionate and powerful story of a Seattle cop who can't shak...

  • 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 ...

  • Light Play

    N.D. Hansen-Hill

  • Speaking in Tongues

    Jeffery Deaver

    Two men of words. One seeks only peace. The other, violence... Aaron Matthews is a man with a gift: he can talk anyone into doing almost anything. As a psychologist he used that talent to help people. Now he's using it against one man in a deadly ...

  • 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....

  • Vivienne

    Richard Hoyt

    February 1968. The Chinese New Year. The Tet Offensive. Vietcong ambush American units all across South Vietnam. Meanwhile, back home, reporter Jim Quint covers the escalating antiwar protests, writing stories the brand him a coward and a traitor in...

  • After Dark

    Beverly Barton

    WHEN A SHOCKING SCANDAL EXPOSES SOUTHERN SECRETS... As the blazing heat of summer gives way to sultry September, a shroud of suspicion settles over Noble's Crossing, a sleepy Alabama town. Nothing is as it seems--and never will be again. Lane Noble G...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • On Thin Ice

    Lynn Erickson

    Ellie Kramer has changed her name and concealed her past in a dogged pursuit of justice. But justice isn't all that's driven her for the last twelve years. She wants payback for every moment her father languished on death row, wrongly convic...

  • 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...

  • Tall, Dark and Wanted

    Morgan Hayes

    THE MAN SHE COULDN'T FORGET Policewoman Molly Sparling remembered everything about Mitch Drake -- his wild eyes and low, sexy voice, his touch...and that they had parted badly. Now Mitch, a protected witness, was missing and presumed dead. Moll...

  • To Die For

    Sharon Green

    HE WAS TALL, STRONG AND DETERMINED... And Mike Gerard was the best detective the police academy had ever bred. Tanda Grail desperately needed help finding answers about her brother's death, and Mike, with his virile magnetism and rock-solid manlin...

  • Belle's Beau

    Gayle Buck

    A Confusing Courtship Raised in seclusion in the country, Miss Annabelle Weatherstone is making her first foray into the gaiety of the London Season -- taking the place of her twin sister, Cassandra, who had lived with their aunt and uncle in Bath...

  • 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...

  • Captain Cupid Calls the Shots

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    Battles of the Heart Captain Alexander Shelbourne was known as Cupid to his friends for his uncanny marksmanship in battle. But when he accompanied a fellow soldier home and met the lovely Penny Foster, he himself became a target -of scorn and gos...

  • The Christmas Charm

    Lynn Collum

    Adriana Addington never met a stuffier man than Viscount Borland. Why her godmother sent this bookish gentleman to escort her to snowbound Scotland, she can't imagine. Despite his admirable physique, she is sure he can't fight off a flea let ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Extra-Special Gift

    Catherine George

    All Jessica wants is a baby, but her new husband, tycoon Lorenzo Forli, is reluctant to start a family. When he's delayed coming home on Christmas Eve, Jess wonders if their marriage has a future. But Christmas night brings them both The Extra-Specia...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Red Angel

    William Heffernan

    Anyone who brings grief to the people NYPD detective Paul Devlin loves is going to have to pay. That's why he's accompanying Adrianna Mendez, the lady of his heart, to Cuba, where Adrianna's aunt Maria has met with a serious "accident." A great hero ...

  • The Superintendent's Daughter

    Marjorie Eccles

    The disappearance of his daughter, Julie, and the brutal killing of her best friend since childhood, Kathryn Conolly, finds Gilbert Mayo ensnared in a very personal investigation of murder and kidnapping....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Prince of Charming

    Karen Fox

    OUT OF THE PICTURE...AND INTO HER HEART Kate Carmichael has not had an easy life. After her mother's death, her father left her in the care of a kind friend while he attempted to settle his debts, but he never returned. Now, twelve years later, Ka...

  • Scooter Mania

    Jeremy Case

  • Dead Run

    Leo Atkins

    He's Connor Gibbs, P.I. He's got a shady past--and a questionable future. But when it comes to solving crimes, he's killer... Sometimes you just know when something awful's about to go down. Call it instinct. Benella Sweet does. The second she lai...

  • Murder on the Mauretania

    Conrad Allen

    DEATH ON THE HIGH SEAS Only a few short months after crossing the Atlantic aboard the Lusitania, George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield are back in Liverpool to embark on the first voyage of the Mauretania. Again working undercover as priva...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Prey to All

    Natasha Cooper

    Barrister Trish Maguire has too much on her plate: not only is she swamped with work, but her father has just suffered a heart attack and he's not likely to pull through. The last thing Trish needs now is a seemingly unsolvable case, one closer to he...

  • Life Blood

    Thomas Hoover

    Perfect specimen... It lies hidden deep in the mist-shrouded rain forest of Central America. A place where a brilliant doctor fulfills dreams for some - and creates chilling nightmares for others. Now, filmmaker Morgan James is about to journey strai...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Resort To Murder

    Mary Ellen Hughes

    Baltimore high school math teacher, Maggie Olenski, feels burned out, and a resort in the mountains of western Maryland seems like the perfect get-away spot - until she stumbles on the body of a former student near the tennis courts. There's been mor...

  • Some Day Tomorrow

    Nicolas Freeling

  • 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...

  • Canyon Song

    Gwyneth Atlee

    FROM THE ASHES OF BITTER TRAGEDY... Skilled in the Mexican healing art of curanderismo, Anna Bennett lives a solitary life in the canyons of Arizona. But when a badly injured man is left to die at her doorstep, she is stunned to recognize Quinn Ry...

  • The Christmas Captive

    Patricia Cabot
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    PATRICIA CABOT leads a beautiful runaway to her kindred spirit-a Scottish lord who sweeps her away to the rugged shores of the Isle of Skye....

  • Cold Feet

    Geralyn Dawson
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    GERALYN DAWSON puts a rough-hewn Texas cowboy under the spell of a charming herbalist with some curious powers of attraction....

  • 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...

  • The Elusive Bride

    Deborah Hale

    MARRIAGE MEANT SAFETY To protect her home and people, Cecily Tyrell would marry the devil himself! And if rumor held any truth, she would mayhap do so! A royal command bound her to wed Lord Rowan DeCourtenay, a knight of some renown...but a widowe...

  • Fall From Grace

    Jill Barnett
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    National bestselling author JILL BARNETT decrees all is fair in love-when a rollicking Highland clan war leads an impetuous lass to kidnap the wrong man!...

  • The First Time

    Kathryn Fox

    In 1874, three men--loyal, brave, and true--rode into the lawless Canadian wilderness. Each would fight for justice...and for the right to claim the heart of the woman he loved. UNEXPECTED TEMPTATION Freshly graduated from medical school and eage...

  • 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...

  • Fortune's Treasure

    Carol Carson

    Nora-Leigh Dillon wants excitement. The schoolteacher of Steamboat Bend has already resolved herself to being a spinster, but despite that, she's vowed the summer of 1886 will be one to remember. She'll find herself some lost gold, a hidden t...

  • 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...

  • His Stolen Bride

    Shelley Bradley

    Return to an age of danger and chivalry, when three daring knights -- fostered together since boyhood in the same warrior tradition -- face their greatest challenge... winning the hearts of the women they love. CAPTIVES OF LOVE Wrongly accuse...

  • 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 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 Last Love Letter

    Victoria Alexander
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    When their midnight elopement is foiled, a handsome young earl and his dazzling debutante swear to love each other forever -- no matter what. Now it's midnight once again...can their love be rekindled with one perfect kiss?...

  • Luke

    Leigh Greenwood

    The freedom of the range, the bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky -- they get into a man's blood until he knows there is nothing better than the life of a cowboy...except the love of a good woman. VAL...

  • 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...

  • A Man of Steel

    Cindy Harris

    Seduce Him, Camilla Camilla knew she should be scandalized by the command to beguile Wickingham Castle's newest guest, but seeing as she'd already been pinned beneath the handsome knight's large body and felt his hot flesh pressed against her own,...

  • Marrying Walker McKay

    Lori Copeland

    Sara followed her dreams and discovered the love of her life. But will she have cause to regret marrying Walker McKay? The Rancher Takes A Wife The last thing Walker McKay wants to do is go courting--but it's time to settle down and raise some...

  • The Matchmaker

    Pam Binder
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    PAM BINDER flings a pretty Edinburgh baker and a computer-games designer into an adventure of passion and intrigue-inside the sixteenth-century palace of Mary, Queen of Scots....

  • Montana Born and Bred

    Alexis Harrington

    Harboring a dangerous secret, Sarah Kincade flees to Lame Horse, Montana, with her infant son, hoping to begin a new life. But her past follows swiftly behind, in the form of bounty hunter Zach Garrett, a man with a warrant to bring her little boy ba...

  • My Champion

    Glynnis Campbell

    The Knights of de Ware: Wealthy and powerful, the de Wares are one of the most respected noble families in England. The heirs to the de Ware legacy -- Duncan, Holden, and Garth -- are true warriors...and reckless lovers... Duncan de Ware has swor...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Outlaw Bride

    Sandra Chastain

    She'll fight for justice... Orphan Josie Miller was saved from a life of crime when a stranger rescued her off the street. Josie owes everything she has to Dr. Annie -- from her hard-won law degree to her impressive knowledge of medicine. So whe...

  • The Palace of Tears

    Alev Lytle Croutier

    The Incense Road--fabled and feared for centuries--runs from the North African coast to the southern gates of Arabia. Spices from the Orient, pearls from Ceylon, diamonds and ivory from India, gold from the Persian Gulf have travelled along this time...

  • Protecting Jennie

    Ann Collins

    Waitressing in the Arizona desert was a far cry from Jennie Andrews's high society background, but it couldn't be far enough from the future her father had planned for her -- even if it meant wasting her doctoring skills slicing bacon. As determined ...

  • Reilly's Gold

    Elizabeth Keys

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    Rosemary Rogers

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  • 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...

  • 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?...

  • A Sister's Quest

    Jo Ann Ferguson

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    Judith McCoy Miller

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    Veronica Sattler

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  • Unfinished Business

    Jude Deveraux
    in

    New York Times bestselling author JUDE DEVERAUX unravels a ghostly murder mystery in an ancient Scottish castle....

  • The Veiled Bride

    Elizabeth Bailey

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  • The Viscount Who Loved Me

    Julia Quinn

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  • A Wish

    Marianne Willman

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  • Blood Nightmare

    Cade Merrill

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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 -- ...

  • Face Down Under the Wych Elm

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

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  • The Floating Lady Murder

    Daniel Stashower

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  • 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.... ...

  • A Mystery of Errors

    Simon Hawke

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  • 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...

  • The Squire's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    Years ago, young Robert Fenner was forced into marriage with Lady Blaunche. Now, in 1442, he is being forced toward warfare over the property to which she wrongfully claims ownership. To make matters worse, a wealthy young heiress has captured hearts...

  • To Ruin a Queen

    Fiona Buckley

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  • The City of Ravens

    Richard Baker
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Ravens Bluff The City of Ravens For the first time, Jack Ravenwild's designs exceed his talents. His ambitions plunge him into the middle of a plot to destroy the city, a noble quest to find a lost hoard, and a conspiracy to seize the reins of ...

  • The Shattered Alliance

    Jeff Grubb
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    After the ice comes the peril The Ice Age has come to an abrupt end, but the world's troubles have not. Legions of undead still plague the living. The temporary peace in Kjeldor has come to an end, and an evil far more treacherous than Lim Dul has b...

  • The Thieves' Guild

    Jeff Crook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Palanthas, Jewel of Ansalon, City of Seven Circles, heart of the old Solamnic empire. For three thousand years she has shone as a beacon to the world. Even now, ruled by the Knights of Neraka, she glitters in the night. Yet at the core of the glea...

  • Blood Red River

    Walter Lucas

  • Bordertown Justice

    Gary McCarthy

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  • Chalk's Woman

    David Ballantine

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  • Final Ride

    Mike Flanagan

    IT'S ALL ABOUT HOLDING ON... For two years, Clay Tory has been tearing up the rodeo circuit under the guidance of veteran rancher Jack Lomas. Unfortunately, things aren't going so well back home at the ranch. Years of hard work and stress have taken...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Graciela of the Border

    John Duncklee

    Jeff Collins sets out in pursuit of the rustlers who had stolen his prized roan mare, pregnant with the foal of a great racehorse, which he had won in a high-stakes poker game, and ventures in to the perilous region near the Mexican border, where he ...

  • King's Captain

    Dewey Lambdin

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  • Longarm and the Mad Bomber's Bride

    Tabor Evans

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  • Navajo Revenge

    Jon Sharpe

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  • The Romantics

    Peter Brandvold

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  • 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--...

  • Sidetrip To Sand Springs

    Kent Conwell

    When Charley Bookbinder rode into Sand Springs, all he wanted was a thick steak, cold beer and a hot poker game. As the time, that didn't sound like much.

    What he got was a crooked poker game with five of the town's leading citizens; a twelve-foo...

  • 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....

  • Slocum and the Ambush Trail

    Jake Logan

  • Tell It To The Hangman

    James Rhodes

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  • 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...

  • 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

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  • 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...