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New Books List: 389 titles

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Air

    Neil Ardley

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • All of an Instant

    Richard Garfinkle

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bart's Amazing Charts

    Dianne Ochiltree

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Bells of St. Mary's

    George Victor Martin

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Big Bed for Me

    Ann Braybrooks

  • 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...

  • Blood Nightmare

    Cade Merrill

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

  • Blood Red River

    Walter Lucas

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bordertown Justice

    Gary McCarthy

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Chalk's Woman

    David Ballantine

    David Ballantine's debut novel Chalk's Woman, is a story about freedom, liberation, and love. Set in the violent backdrop of the waning months of the Civil War, Chalk's Woman addresses violence and redemption as seen through the eyes of a girl maturi...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Christmas Stories

    Disney Book Group

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Color

    Neil Ardley

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Corpse First Class

    H. Paul Jeffers

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Crazy Eggs!

    Golden Books

  • Cross Train

    Kevin W. Johnson

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Deadly Hunter

    Jude Watson

  • Dealing

    Brian Lysaght

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Destiny's Song

    Kim L. Whiteside

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Emperor's New Groove Joke Book

    Rebecca Gomez

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • The Exchange Student

    Pamela Pollack

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Donna Hill
    in

    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... ...

  • Face Down Under the Wych Elm

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    Elizabethan England is swirling with panic and paranoia, as the enterprising Susanna, Lady Appleton, sets out to save her former nemesis from being burned at the stake... Face Down Under The Wych Elm Wealthily widowed and fiercely independent, Su...

  • Fall From Grace

    Jill Barnett
    in

    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!...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • The Floating Lady Murder

    Daniel Stashower

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

  • Fluffy's 100th Day of School

    Kate McMullan

  • 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...

  • Four Ace Reverse

    Gordon Hill

  • 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...

  • From Head to Toe

    Tekla White

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Gus & Gertie and the Missing Pearl

    Joan Lowery Nixon

  • 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...

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Dom DeLuise

  • Happy Birthday, Princess Lolly!

    Scholastic Inc.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Inside a Zoo in the City

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • Italy

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • 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.... ...

  • 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...

  • Just a New Neighbor

    Mercer Mayer

  • Just Camping Out

    Mercer Mayer

  • Just One Kiss

    Doris Johnson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • King's Captain

    Dewey Lambdin

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Kitchen Congregation Reading Group Guide

    Nora Seton

  • 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 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 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 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?...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Light Play

    N.D. Hansen-Hill

  • 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 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...

  • Longarm and the Mad Bomber's Bride

    Tabor Evans

    U.S. Marshal Long journeys to the small town of Gilead to find out what transformed mild-mannered Professor MacLennon into a mad bomber who is threatening to blow up the president of the United States. 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Main Agenda

    Brenda Jackson
    in

    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 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,...

  • 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 ...