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New Books List: 389 titles

  • Zoo Animal Surprise

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Zero City

    James Axler

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

  • You Made Me Love You

    Neesa Hart

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

  • The Year of Our Revolution

    Judith Ortiz Cofer

  • The Wrong Child

    Patricia Kay

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

  • The Wonder of Easter

    Matt Mitter

  • A Wish

    Marianne Willman

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

  • Wild Enough for Willa

    Ann Major

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

  • The Wild Colonial Boy

    James Hynes

    After years of violence, a tense calm pervades Northern Ireland, soon to be broken by Jimmy Coogan, an IRA veteran gone renegade. Jimmy has stolen ten pounds of plastic explosive, intending to destroy the parliamentary ambitions of the IRA leadership...

  • The Wife Seduction

    Margaret Mayo

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

  • The Wife Degree

    Aisha Ford

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

  • White Picket Fences

    Tara Taylor Quinn

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

  • White as Snow

    Tanith Lee

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

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • When Mules Flew on Magnolia Street

    Angela Johnson

    A new collection of stories by award-winning author Angela Johnson about Charlie and her adventures on Magnolia Street.

    It's summertime, and that means more adventures for Charlie and her friends on Magnolia Street in this collection of short ...

  • What a Wonderful World

    Golden Books

  • 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...

  • Weddings

    Ann Morris

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

    This photographic look at weddings invites children o...

  • Wedding at Waverley Creek

    Jessica Hart

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Viscount Who Loved Me

    Julia Quinn

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

  • A Very...Pregnant New Year's

    Doreen Roberts

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

  • 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...

  • The Veiled Bride

    Elizabeth Bailey

    Wanted: One Wife Why does Anton, Lord Raith, need to advertise for a wife? As she walks down the marriage aisle toward this stranger, Rosina Charlton feels her pulse race at the very question. But the truth is revealed as her new husband turns ...

  • Unfinished Business

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

  • Unexpected Angel

    Kate Hoffmann

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

  • Undercover Elf

    Kate Hoffmann

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

  • Undercover Angel

    Cynthia Rutledge

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

  • The Uncle's Story

    Witi Ihimaera

    Michael Mahana's personal disclosure to his parents leads to the uncovering of another family secret, about his uncle Sam, who had fought in the Vietnam War. Now, armed with his uncle's diary, Michael goes searching for the truth about his uncle, abo...

  • The Tycoon's Mistress

    Sara Craven

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

  • Twin Expectations

    Kara Lennox

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

  • Tug of Love

    Jenny Dale

    The day after King Street Kennels returns Jason, a Labrador found roaming the local dog show, to a loving family, Mr. Scott, a professional breeder, arrives with the papers to prove that Jason--or rather Junior--is his dog....

  • A True Prince

    Veronica Sattler

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

  • Tried & True

    Laura Peyton Roberts

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

  • The Tormentor

    Bill Pronzini

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

  • To Ruin a Queen

    Fiona Buckley

    The fourth novel in the fascinating series featuring Ursula Blanchard, loyal subject of Queen Elizabeth I and sleuth extraordinaire, finds our heroine torn between love and duty as she investigates treason of the highest order. Desperately missing...

  • 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...

  • To Cut a Long Story Short

    Jeffrey Archer

    A masterful collection of fourteen riveting tales of elaborate confidence tricks, political chicanery, immoral behavior, and dangerously illicit affairs, rendered with the breathtaking narrative twists that have become the Jeffrey Archer hallmark. ...

  • 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....

  • 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 Times They Used to Be

    Lucille Clifton

    Mama, Mama.
    Tell us about when you was a girl . . .
    tell us one of them stories
    about the olden days.

    So begins this tender story, set in 1948, when Satchel Paige was in the majors, Ralph Bunche was at the U.N., and each evening Sook...

  • Three Princes

    Lynn Mason

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

  • Thorne

    Lisa Jackson

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

  • This Child of Mine

    Darlene Graham

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • That Man Matthews

    Ann Evans

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

  • Temporary Husband

    Patricia K. Azeltine

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

  • Temple

    Matthew Reilly

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

  • Tell It To The Hangman

    James Rhodes

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

  • Taming Ben

    Colleen Faulkner

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

  • 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...

  • Sweet Temptation

    Francis Ray
    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... ...

  • 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....

  • 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 -- ...

  • Suite Seduction

    Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

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

  • The Strawberry Season

    Jessica Stirling

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

  • Strangers When We Married

    Carla Cassidy

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

  • The Story of Easter

    Jean Miller

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

  • Story

    Ann Charters

  • Start Here

    Scarlett MacDougal

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Special Report: Midnight Seduction

    Maggie Price

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

  • Special Report: Final Approach to Forever

    Merline Lovelace

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

  • Special Report: Cover Me

    Debra Cowan

    SPECIAL REPORT: Peril and passion over Texas Skies SAM HOUSTON INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, Texas (AP): U.S. Marshals' Flight 407 "Con Air" was hijacked before takeoff today, 108 aboard... Duty demands Marshal Spence Cantrall produce the hijacker's ...

  • 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 ...

  • Soul Mountain

    Gao Xingjian

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

  • Some Day Tomorrow

    Nicolas Freeling

  • Solitary Man

    Karen Drogin

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

  • 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...

  • Slow Fever

    Cait London

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

  • Slocum and the Ambush Trail

    Jake Logan

  • Sleigh Bells

    Judith McCoy Miller

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

  • Sky's Pride and Joy

    Sandra Steffen

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

  • A Sister's Quest

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A family scattered to the winds by the French Revolution struggles to find its destiny in a Europe threatened by Napoleon. Two sisters and a brother, separated as children, raised as strangers, discover the crest of the thunderbolt is the only clue t...

  • 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....

  • Simply Wonderful

    Shelby Lewis

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

  • Silent Salvo

    Joe L. Gribble

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

  • 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...

  • Shuttle Down

    Mack Maloney

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

  • Sheepfarmer's Daughter

    Elizabeth Moon

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Shadow Self

    Cheryl Zach

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

  • 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...

  • Setting the Pace

    Bonnie Bryant

    Carole Hanson never knew that falling in love could be so easy--as easy as falling off a horse! Cam may be setting the pace, but Carole's right in step, and now she wants everyone to share her happiness. Life just couldn't get any better, could it?

  • 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--...

  • Senses

    Neil Ardley

  • A Seductive Revenge

    Kim Lawrence

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

  • Seduced

    Janelle Denison

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

  • Secrets From Beyond

    David Benjamin

  • Secret Love Diaries: Chloe

    Francine Pascal

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

  • Second Chance

    Rochelle Alers
    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 Season for Love

    BJ James

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

  • Screwjack

    Hunter S. Thompson

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

  • Scooter Mania

    Jeremy Case

  • Scion's Lady

    Rebecca Bradley

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

  • Scandalous Lord Dere

    Stephanie Laurens
    in

    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 Scandalous Affair

    Donna Hill

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

  • 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...

  • Savage Desire

    Rosemary Rogers

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

  • Sandman Sleep

    Herbert Lieberman

  • The Romantics

    Peter Brandvold

    The Romantics is a thrilling adventure shot through with danger and heroism, with greed and jealousy, and with love and honor.The daughter of a Hispanic landowner, Marina Clark has been given a map that purports to lead the way to a hidden cache of S...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Reinventing Romeo

    Connie Lane

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

  • Reilly's Gold

    Elizabeth Keys

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

  • The Redemption of Althalus

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

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

  • Red Moon

    Michael Cassutt

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

  • 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 ...

  • Reach for the Stars

    Anne Mazer

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

  • Rachel and the M.D.

    Donna Clayton

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Psyduck Ducks Out

    Sarah E. Heller / S.E. Heller

    When Psyduck evolves into Golduck, Misty is thrilled! Golduck is the fastest swimmer of all. Besides, training Psyduck was one big headache. Psyduck was totally clueless and clumsy, except when it got a headache. Then its attacks were unstoppable -- ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Proof of Life

    David Robbins

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Prescription: Baby

    Jule McBride

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

  • The Pregnant Bride

    Catherine Spencer

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

  • Pray Hard

    Kevin W. Johnson

  • 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...

  • Polar Babies

    Susan Ring

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

  • Play Day! Level 1

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Play

    Scarlett MacDougal

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

  • Picador Book of African Stories

    Stephen Gray

    From Egypt to South Africa, from Senegal to Ethiopia, Stephen Gray introduces vital voices from the African continent and offers an insight into contemporary Africa in a series of stories that describe love, war, family and oppression.

    ...

  • 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... ...

  • Perfect Image

    Joanna Campbell

    Will Melanie save Image? Image is wild--perhaps too wild to train for the track. But she' s fast, and Melanie Graham wants nothing more than to be her jockey. If only Image's owner and trainer would let her work with the temperamental filly. Melani...

  • Peephole Rhymes

    Margaret Anastas

  • 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...

  • Patchwork Family

    Judy Christenberry

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Outsider's Redemption

    Joanna Wayne

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

  • The 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...

  • Our School: Level 1 Reader

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Orchid Isle

    Sally Fairchild

  • Operation No Man's Land

    Mike Martell

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

  • One Nation Under a Groove

    Jim Haskins

    Gr 4-9-While a number of books look at the current popularity of rap music, Haskins focuses on its roots and evolution, giving readers a real sense of how it is part of a long history of social commentary through art. He discusses the place of women ...

  • One Golden Christmas

    Lenora Worth

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

  • One Farm

    Melissa Blackwell Burke

  • 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...

  • Of Blood and Honor

    Chris Metzen

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

  • Now And Forever

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

  • 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...

  • Never Let Go

    Francine Pascal

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

  • Navajo Revenge

    Jon Sharpe

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

  • The Nameless Day

    Sara Douglass

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

  • 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...

  • A Mystery of Errors

    Simon Hawke

    Two travelers, Will Shakespeare -- a fledgling dramatist, and Symington Smythe, an ostler and aspiring thespian, meet at a roadside inn and decide to cast their lot together for fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of the London theater in Elizabe...

  • 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...

  • My Very First Disney 123 Counting Book

    Disney Book Group

  • My Summer with Julia

    Sarah Woodhouse

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

  • My 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...

  • Musicians of the Sun

    Gerald McDermott

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

  • 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...

  • Ms. Taken

    Jo Leigh

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

  • Mother in a Moment

    Allison Leigh

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

  • A Mother By Nature

    Caroline Anderson

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

  • Moonfire

    Judith Redman Robbins

  • Moon Rising

    Ann Victoria Roberts

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

  • Mood Swings to Murder

    Jane Isenberg

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

  • 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...

  • Montana's Feisty Cowgirl

    Carolyn Zane

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

  • 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...

  • Monahan's Gamble

    Elizabeth Bevarly

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

  • Modem Menace

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Mixing Business...With Baby

    Diana Whitney

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

  • The Missing Link

    Charlyne Dickerson

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

  • Miss Zukas Shelves the Evidence

    Jo Dereske

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

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Linda Randall Wisdom

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

  • Miracle of Love

    Gloria Alvarez

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

  • Midnight Wedding

    Sophie Weston

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

  • Medical Murders

    Kensington Publishing

  • 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...

  • May-December Souls

    Marissa Monteilh

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

  • The Matchmaker

    Pam Binder
    in

    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....

  • Masuto Investigates

    Howard Fast

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

  • Master Man: A Tall Tale of Nigeria

    Aaron Shepard

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

  • 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;...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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,...

  • 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... ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • 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...