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New Books List: 365 titles


  • Lydia Adamson

    Actress and amateur sleuth Alice Nestleton thinks up the perfect anniversary gift for her elderly actor friends, Alex and Lila. She has a chef whip up a replica of the meal the couple shared on their first date. For better or worse, they eat every bi...



  • C.H. Admirand

    Irish-born Margaret Mary Flaherty leaves New York City for Colorado, carrying the signed proof her brother Seamus needs to keep greedy landowners from stealing his ranch. Joshua Turner, U.S. Marshal, is headed to Colorado to investigate charges of ...



  • Victoria Alexander

    Once upon a time there was a young debutante of means who dreamed of marrying a prince. So she traveled to London to become... As a poor but proud young lady, Jocelyn Shelton had but one dream: to marry a prince and bring comfort to herself and he...



  • V.C. Andrews

    All The World's A Stage -- but What If The Play Doesn't Go As Planned? Four talented girls from vastly different pasts share a dream of stardom: Cinnamon, the edgy actress; Ice, the phenomenal vocalist; Rose, the beautiful dancer; and Honey, the fir...



  • Judith Arnold
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    "You run the risk of making a fool of yourself today." Derek Palmer could hardly make a good first impression on Melissa Giordano when he claimed he'd been attacked by a homicidal squirrel!...




  • Adele Ashworth

    London is the place to be in 1851. The crisp spring air is vibrant and alive with excitement in anticipation of the unveiling of the magnificent Crystal Palace. But can a star-crossed love finally bloom in the midst of the tumult? Mimi Marsh has ...



  • Gwyneth Atlee

    Worlds Apart The war is over, and so are Rebecca Marston's duties as a volunteer nurse for Union soldiers in Mississippi. All the Philadelphia heiress wants is to return to the safety of her home. But the journey proves as dangerous as the bat...



  • James Axler

    PERMANENT ENTROPY After an atomic blast hurled the world into an uncertain future, the past still reaches out in hope . . . and damnation. In a kill-or-die world, one steadfast group of survivors possesses superior fighting skills and sense of fair p...



  • Brian Azzarello



  • Ben M. Baglio

    The Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic takes care of animals of all kinds. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist aiding any animal in need -- and sometimes even g...



  • Jo Bannister

    Brodie Farrell is a "finder of lost things," and that means everything from rare objects to missing ponies. Now she faces a disturbing and deadly mystery. Hired to find a young man accused of swindling, she locates the individual, gives her client hi...



  • Craig Bartlett

    Love is in the air and traveling fast (via E-mail, that is) at P.S. 118! When the school's computer department sets up a special bulletin board for the students to E-mail one another, Arnold, Helga, and all of their friends suddenly become obsessed a...




  • John Bayley

    With remarkable tenderness, John Bayley recreates his passionate love affair with Iris Murdoch--world-renowned writer and philosopher, and his wife of forty-two years--and poignantly describes the dimming of her brilliance due to Alzheimer's disease....



  • M.C. Beaton

    AGATHA RAISIN HAS FINALLY MARRIED THE MAN OF HER DREAMS, BUT NOW HER LIFE IS NOTHING SHORT OF A NIGHTMARE... The honeymoon is most definitely over for Agatha Raisin and her new husband, James Lacey. It's only been a short time since their wedding-...



  • Donald Beman

    Returning to his hometown to confront his past and deal with his feelings for a woman long dead, author Sean McDonald is plunged into a world of horror and evil when someone or something begins tormenting him, threatening to destroy him and those clo...



  • William Bernhardt

    First there was Naked Came the Stranger, a novel written round-robin by Newsday staff, then Naked Came the Manatee, a serial crime caper from Miami-based writers. Now, here's a legal thriller wherein each succeeding chapter has been created by recogn...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    Winona Thornbury, with her Victorian dresses and her equally old-fashioned ideas about love, had definitely been born into the wrong century. No man had ever tempted her to give in to wanton desire, until she met a mysterious stranger who made her ac...



  • Helen Bianchin

    Marriage on trial... For months, Katrina has tried to forget she's still married to Nicos Kasoulis! As newlyweds, they were bonded by desire. Then Katrina became convinced her powerful, sexy, property tycoon husband was having an affair.... ...



  • Isobel Bird

    Ever moving, ever changing, stars and planets come and go. Those who watch their movements say, "As is above, so is below." Astrology -- the study of the stars -- is said to reveal the truths of the universe. Cooper, Kate, and Annie find this t...



  • Gary A. Birken

    SHE HAS EVERY REASON TO TRUST THEM… Claire Weaver’s been admitted to a state of the art medical institute in Miami. It’s equipped with a brilliant staff devoted to the latest in cutting edge medical wizardry. Her life is in their hands. ...



  • Sonya Birmingham

    His duty is to transform a saucy, green-eyed laundress into a proper lady. The ravishing Galway spitfire he discovers upon his arrival has a long way to go before she can enter society, but it takes no time at all for her to gain entrance to his hear...



  • Terence Blacker

    Gregory Keays is a writer whose brilliant future is behind him. Corroded with envy, Gregory watches as his contemporaries produce better work and live happier lives while he teaches community college composition classes and compiles books about other...



  • Georgia Bockoven

    If you're lost and lonely...come in. The quaint little beach house perched on the Pacific's edge is a haven for those seeking refuge from life's tempests. This season the tenants renting the secluded cottage by the sea are different -- yet each is...




  • Judith Bowen

    Old friends, best friends...Girlfriends They met ten years ago, and they've been friends ever since. Zoey, Charlotte and Lydia. Charlotte's taken the Girlfriends' challenge: Find your first love. What's he doing? How's he doing? On a business tri...



  • Bruce Boxleitner

    The year is 1882. The enigmatic gunman known as Macklin has made a home for himself in Tombstone, Arizona. As his memory teens, he has come to realize that he is not human, but a being from another planet, sent to protect Earth from a coming invasion...



  • Kylie Brant

    District Attorney "AJ" Jacobs was finally closing in on the ruthless criminal she'd been tracking. But she couldn't take him down without help -- from the last man in the world she wanted in her life.... Nobody knew Chicago's dark side like crime ...



  • Patricia Bray

    A DUKE DESPERATE TO WED Marcus Heywood, the new Duke of Torringford, must take a wife in three weeks -- or lose the country estate he's unexpectedly inherited. But how can he possibly find a suitable mate in so short a time? His brother, Reginal...



  • Laurey Bright

    Marcus Crossan was dark, mysterious, controlling -- and Jenna Harper's savior when his younger brother came home engaged to another! Being a Crossan bride was orphaned Jenna's dream -- one she could no longer have. Until Marcus made a stunning off...



  • Alfredo Bryce-Echenique

    From the internationally acclaimed Peruvian writer -- winner of the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious literary award in the Spanish-speaking world -- a tragicomic story of improbable, inevitable love.

    At the center: a couple in love, in ex...



  • Fiona Buckley

    Ursula Blanchard, loyal lady of the Queen's Presence Chamber and gifted sleuth, is at home amid the glittering complexities of the royal court. Now, Ursula has a new part to play in the service of her Queen -- a role that exposes her to hidden danger...



  • Nicole Burnham

    ONCE UPON A TIME... Jennifer Allen had come to save refugees, not to be swept away by some pampered, fairy-tale prince of neighboring San Rimini. It was only when she saw the passion and caring behind Antony's glittering presence that she let hers...



  • Shirlee Busbee

    Haunted by tragedy and scandal, Thea Garrett guards her wounded heart by playing the role of notorious outcast for all it is worth, never giving a second thought to love. Then London's loveliest, wealthiest social pariah meets the cynical, handso...



  • Gwendoline Butler

    "Everyone has a few ghosts in their closets, but John Coffin, Chief Commander of the Second City of London's Police, believes that his are all safely tucked away. In fact, recently recovered from a gunshot wound, Coffin is hoping for a calmer life wi...




  • Ramsey Campbell


    Daniella Logan, daughter of a film impresario, is stunned to see a group of robed men performing a ritual above the newly-turned earth of her father's grave. Daniella's father and his friends--politicians, newspaper magnates, highly-paid actors, ...



  • Alyssa Satin Capucilli

    A Valentine's Day present from Biscuit

    Inside this package you'll find: Over two dozen assorted stickersTwelve Valentine's Day cards to decorate

    A brand-new heart-shaped book, featuring everyone's favorite puppy, to read with the one...



  • Orson Scott Card

    The War is over, won by Ender Wiggin and his team of brilliant child-warriors. The enemy is destroyed, the human race is saved. Ender himself refuses to return to the planet, but his crew has gone home to their families, scattered across the globe. T...



  • Orson Scott Card

    Born into a time and place where a woman speaks her mind at her peril, and reared as a motherless child by a doting father, Rebekah grew up to be a stunning, headstrong beauty. She was chosen by God for a special destiny. For Rebekah must leave he...



  • Viveca Carlysle

    Love Is Better... Nia Sebastian has no time for a social life. the California-based financial researcher puts all of her energy into her career, and it's about to pay off with a huge promotion when. out of the blue, Brett Faulkner walks back into ...



  • Jenny Carroll

    Summer of Terror It's Suze's sixteenth summer, but instead of spending it at the heach, she's trapped working as a baby-sitter at a swanky resort. Never mind that one of her charges turns out to be a budding mediator himself, or that his older bro...




  • Susan Charnley / Sue Charnley

    LIVE BY THE SWORD Sir Haven de Sessions was named a true and perfect knight by all: the ladies for his expertise in bed, the men for his battle prowess, and King Edward for his unfailing loyalty. But Genvieve Dreyford knew his armor disguised a co...



  • Robert N. Charrette

    FIRST BLOOD On planet Epsilon Eridani, young Tybalt Kelly dreams of one day becoming a MechWarrior--no matter how much his father hates the idea. When the local County Shu Militia starts recruiting for warrior training, Tybalt finally gets his wis...



  • Taylor Chase

    SHE WOULD DO ANYTHING ... FOR LOVE! They call Sir Adrian Thorne a dangerous man--and seek to jail him for untold crimes! Yet from the moment Lady Claire Darren feels the touch of his strong hand, she knows the lord is honorable. But as soon as the...



  • Maureen Child

    FIRST COME BABIES... Top-secret military maneuvers were routine to Gunnery Sergeant Sam Pearce, but babies were another matter -- especially when he'd just taken on twins! Up to his elbows in diapers, Sam couldn't refuse any offers of help -- even...



  • Judy Christenberry

    UNWED HEORESS EXPECTING TRIPLETS! Austin, Texas But the identity of the father is hush-hush. Although expectant mother Briana McCallum has fiercely guarded her secret, rumor has it that she had met someone on a trip out of town almost eight month...



  • John Clarkson

    Bill Reed has not seen or spoken to his cousin John, an adult suffering from Down Syndrome, for four years, until he receives a cryptic and disturbing letter from the mentally disabled man. The letter, composed entirely of pasted-together numbers and...



  • Jon Cleary

    Scobie Malone's job as a homicide cop is to try to keep murder at bay. His job as a father is to keep his family safe. Now, as the eyes of the world are turning toward his city, both of Malone's careers are in serious jeopardy. An important politicia...



  • Nancy J. Cohen

    Since beauty is her business, salon owner Marla Shore figures she can surely rid herself of a few excess pounds of holiday flab without joining a gym. Unfortunately, daily walks with her slowpoke poodle fail to whittle her waistline, so Marla relucta...



  • Kent Conwell

    Mesquite-post tough Howie Forrest just thought he'd seen the elephant when he reached Independence, Missouri with two thousand head of ornery Mexican steers despite tornadoes, hail storms, cattle rustlers, and Jayhawkers.

    If he'd been holding a s...



  • Wendy Cooling

    The Puffin Book of Christmas Stories is essential Christmas-time reading including classics from all eras. A new collection of Christmas stories, from traditional to real life, humour and most importantly, plenty of the magic of Christmas. Writers ra...



  • Bernard Cornwell

    In a time of treachery and brutality, a courageous warrior will face the fires of battle as he journeys on the ultimate quest: the search for the Holy Grail 1347. Five years have passed since Thomas of Hookton began his quest for justice . . . and...



  • Mat Coward

    BULL'S-EYE, IT'S MURDER Whether he's miserably depressed or buoyantly cheerful, a day with the delightfully unpredictable Detective Inspector Don Packham is never dull for his partner, DC Frank Mitchell--especially when it involves murder. When th...



  • Michael Craft

    Claire Gray is a much traveled, highly regarded and very successful theatrical director who, in the prime of her career, accepts an offer to head the Theatre Department at Desert Arts College near Palm Springs, California. Funded by enigmatic billion...



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

    On a dark spring night, nine weeks behind schedule, the MNS Indestructible, a Class C Submersible Deepswimmer, departs Sancrist Isle with a crew of twenty and a callous disregard for the inevitable. Armed with top-secret devices, a band of intrepi...




  • Barbara Daly

    SHE'D DO IT FOR HIM, IF HE'D DO IT HOR HER Marketer Hope Sumner was forever dodging matchmakers, especially during the holiday season. This time, it was her own sisters trying to set her up. Their Prince Charming was apparently a drop-dead gorgeou...



  • B.J. Daniels

    SHE HAD NO MEMORY AND NO PAST A year ago Holly Barrows had raced through a raging snowstorm -- convinced someone was trying to kill her -- into the arms of Slade Rawlins. She'd appeared before him like a beautiful apparition in the dark of night. Bu...



  • Justine Dare

    On the run and under suspicion, Shelby Wyatt is gambling with her life... Welcome to the Golden Phoenix Casino, Shelby. Here, amid the colorful spate of strangers, you can disappear. Anonymous in the feverish rush of the crowd, you'll be safe. In ...



  • Avram Davidson

    A New Collection of Long Out-of-Print Stories From One of the Greatest Fantasists of the Twentieth Century

    Avram Davidson, who died in 1993, was widely regarded as one of the most outstanding authors of short fantasy fiction in our time. This ...



  • Stephen Dedman

    Hungry L.A. Women

    Something is amiss in Los Angeles. A body vanishes from the morgue. The errant son of L.A.'s most notorious necromancer has unleashed demons that not even his father can control. Women hungry for more than love are suddenly...



  • Claire Delacroix

    "I will not wed a man who thinks to own me." Furthermore, Esmeraude of Ceinn-beithe declares that she alone will name the winner of her heart. To the knights gallant who ride from afar to do her bidding, she issues a challenge: a riddle that is b...



  • Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    For Evereska, the last elven refuge on Faerun, it's a battle for survival. For the Chosen of Mystra, it's a potent rival for their goddess's dominion over magic. For the human realms of Faerun, it's a permanent shift in the balance of power. For a...



  • Troy Denning

    BONUS: This short story also features an excerpt from Star Wars: New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest.As the forces of darkness threaten to engulf the galaxy, one last defiant spark remains.... Though the Yuuzhan Vong were victorious in the...



  • Jamie Denton

    Detective Blake Hammond wants some R & R -- what he gets is "Operation Honeymoon." Not only is his trip to Hawaii on hold now, but he has to deal with some stuck-up DEA agent. While the case is nothing out of the ordinary, he never thought he'd have ...



  • Teresa DesJardien

    A LOVELY CHARADE After a heated public debate ends her engagement, Lady Lucianne Gordon has to endure the humiliation of a fourth season. To save herself from her encroaching reputation as a spinster, Lucy must obey her godmother--who just happens...



  • Linda Devlin

    Their friendship forged during the bloody battles of the War Between the States, they are men with nothing left but their honor. When one calls, the others answer -- and this time they will gather in the tiny town of Rock Creek, Texas, where their br...



  • Pat Cunningham Devoto

    John McMillan was only eight years old when his mother died and he was ripped, without warning, from his sheltered world of books and gentility. Now on his aunt's run-down tenant farm in southern Alabama, abused by his alcoholic uncle, and completely...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    Do opposites really attract? They do when babies are in the picture! After spending two celibate years in the Peace Corps, Dr. Barry Cantrell is back in L.A. and ready to meet Ms. Right. But he never intended to spend a glorious night with a beautif...



  • Tracy Arah Dockray

    Dora Cottontail knows what it's like to feel left out-just read her diary. When her best friend Ally forsakes her for icky, doll-loving Babbette, miserable Dora is stuck playing pretend all by herself. But just when she thinks she'll have to play alo...



  • Cameron Dokey

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... Doyle is in the supermarket when the latest vision hits. Fear. Fire. Death. And an ornately engraved ancient amulet. As usual, the Powers That Be are none too specific. When he comes to, he is ...



  • Stephen R. Donaldson

    In the sprawling new novel The Man Who Fought Alone, Stephen R. Donaldson tells a tale of a hero's dark night of the soul.Mick Axbrewder has enough problems to kill any ten lesser men. He's a recovering alcoholic. He's also healing--painfully and slo...



  • Stephanie Doyle

    How would a Cosmo girl handle this...? Brooklyn-born nail artist Claudia Bertucci has never set one spiked black pump outside the Big Apple! Now suddenly she's hiding from the Mob at a peaceful Wisconsin dairy farm run by former FBI agent Ross Evans...



  • Doranna Durgin


    A Taelon experiment gone horribly wrong will decimate humanity unless Liam can uncover a secret buried in his past.

    GENE RODDENBERRY'S EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT

    From the popular television series by the creator of Star Trek (tm)



  • Glen Ebisch

    Summyr Fox has been working hard to make a success of her yoga studio, but when her lease is canceled and she loses her part-time job at Root and Branch, an organic food store, things appear grim. Just as her business life is becoming more difficult,...



  • Pamela Duncan Edwards

    When the sun goes down, it's time to rise and shine for many nighttime creatures. There's much to do as Owl, Opossum, and other nocturnal friends hurry about to wake their young.

    It's time to get busy, but not without those wake-up kisses!



  • Clayton Emery
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Revealing the previously untold story of one of the Magic: The Gathering game's most popular characters, this book will give fans a glimpse into the history of the Magic universe and provide an alternative storyline to the current stories being told ...



  • Diane Escalera

    Chance of a Lifetime As a reporter for StarGazer magazine, Nicole del Rio has traveled to her native Puerto Rico to land the ultimate celebrity interview. But the pop superstar she seeks isn't the only intriguing man on the island of sultry sunshi...



  • Leslie Esdaile

    Two friends divorce-each leaving their spouses to rekindle their high school flames in the midst of chaotic change and children. Antoinette Wellington once had it all - a beautiful home, solid career, handsome husband, and gorgeous little girl. But a...



  • Rita Clay Estrada

    The Wrong Brother The lowborn son of an English Earl, Benjamin Drake is exceedingly handsome, with a smile to melt glaciers -- everything his twin brother Anthony is...except rich. Denied a heritage and a legacy, he's come to Clear Creek, Texa...



  • Nancy Fairbanks

    Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning. She's finally decided to throw in the dishtowel--and take on a dream job as food writer. Now her plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable foods, and even a dash of cr...




  • Liz Fielding

    Wasn't it madness to marry his secretary to provide his baby daughter with a mother? Jane, Mark's secretary, didn't think so. She'd been secretly in love with Mark since she'd started working with him. But she wanted their marriage to be for love -- ...



  • Hillary Fields

    LOST She had once been a beautiful noblewoman called Lady Isabeau, betrothed at birth to the handsome squire Jared de Navarre. But all that changed when the Crusades began, and Isabeau was abducted, transported to the torrid climes of the Mideast, a...



  • Marilou Flinkman

    For nearly two thousand years a special ceremonial cup has changed the lives of Jews and Gentiles alike. Its beauty and aura of mystery compel those who hold it to seek out the meaning of its Hebrew inscription, "I will pour out my blood for you." Fo...



  • Samuel C. Florman

    The year is 2010 and the world as we know it has come to an end. A huge comet has smashed into the earth off the coast of California, vaporizing and generating a fiery rain that engulfs the globe in a destructive holocaust. But at the opposite pole ...



  • Susan Floyd

    Clem Wells has made a career out of screwing up. First she quit school to get married. Then she spent years being the perfect corporate wife -- only to get dumped. Finally she went home to manage her family's ranch, figuring even she couldn't wrec...



  • Ken Follett

    Day is approaching. They don't know where or when, but the Germans know it'll be soon, and for Felicity “Flick” Clariet, the stakes have never been higher. A senior agent in the ranks of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) responsible for sab...



  • Colin Forbes

    Colin Forbes' perennially popular and energetic team of characters, Tweed, Paula Grey and Bob Newman, are on the trail of five heads of state who are conspiring to cause massive civil unrest throughout the Western world. Dictatorship and martial law ...



  • Aisha Ford

    Who says change is a good thing? Dana Edwards doesn't think so. The familiar and the predictable define her comfort zone, especially where her job managing a bakery is concerned. As a gourmet chef, Ethan Miles is the opposite--always looking for a ne...



  • Linda Ford

    Preparing to travel west to begin a new life, Byler Crane has thought of everything. Everything, that is, except a wife. An impromptu ad placed in the local mercantile brings Maggie Malone--and a whole lot more than he bargained for--into his life...



  • William R. Forstchen

    From the bestselling author of The Lost Regiment series comes a factually based narrative of the black military experience in the Civil War.We Look Like Men of War"I was born a slave, as was my father before me, but I shall die a free man...."Thus be...



  • 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. She Was The Only Woman For Him Steven Gravel takes his position w...



  • Alison Fraser

    What is her big secret? Following unfounded accusations, Jack Doyle had been forced to leave his job at Highfield Manor. Now a millionaire, he's back and the new owner of the house that had been in Esme's family for centuries.... Living...



  • Eve Gaddy

    Being shot was only the start of his bad luck Mark Kincaid had two very good reasons for coming to the small Texas town of Aransas City -- to renovate the dilapidated house he'd inherited from his uncle and to recover from the gunshot wound he'd rec...



  • Shelley Galloway

    What should Joanne Reece do when her antique shop burns down, a local Underground Railroad house needs saving, and a certain new doctor in town needs a friend? Attempt to juggle it all, of course. Especially when the doctor is handsome Stratton Sa...



  • Jane E. Gerver

    While his parents are asleep, Little Fred goes out to ride his sled and play with his other friends, yet when he gets lost on the way home, Little Fred luckily hears the sound of his father's snoring in the distance and so follows it back until he re...



  • Gail Gibbons

    0nce people believed in unicorns, legendary creatures that were said to have magical powers. Today these one-horned creatures still have a special power -- the power to capture our imaginations.

    Using careful research and spirited illustrati...



  • Anna Gilbert

    Following the death of her beloved Aunt Belle, Lorna Kent abandons her life in the city to move to a small country town. Once an ancient valley settlement, Canterlow's surrounding countryside remains, even in 1919, virtually untouched by the passage ...



  • H.B. Gilmour; Randi Reisfeld

    RAVE’N Cam's and Alex's powers are getting in sync, and the twins can't help themselves. They're reading people's minds, using magick on the soccer field. It's bringing them closer together. But it's forcing Cam and her bff, Beth, apart. When Alex...



  • Christopher Golden

    After his best friend is murdered, nineteen-year-old Jack Dwyer has a ghostly encounter with him where he is given a warning about the Prowlers, a band of vicious beasts that disguise themselves as humans in order to secretly perform their evil deeds...



  • Jane Goodger

    For months, Rachel Best has been watching the ocean from the beaches of Cape Cod for any sign of her missing husband. Although a funeral service was held, Rachel refuses to believe he is truly gone and she must now raise their daughter alone. Her hop...



  • Lucy Gordon

    Don Sebastian Santiago's fiancee may have publicly betrayed him at the town's Christmas celebrations -- but that doesn't mean his wedding is off. He blames his fiancee's tutor, Maggie, for what has happened -- so it's Maggie who will be his stand-in ...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman


    In August 1898, Septemus Ryan is beside himself with grief after his young daughter is killed during a bank robbery. So when his sixteen-year-old nephew, James Hogan, celebrates his birthday by accompanying Uncle Septemus on a trip, it soon becom...



  • Darlene Graham

    Annie Fischer's come back to Medicine Creek, Oklahoma, to sell her childhood home. She doesn't plan to spend any more time than necessary in the place where her memories are all sad. Or are they? Suddenly -- with the help of Mike Kirkpatrick, Realtor...



  • Crystal Green

    THE ULTIMATE REVENGE? Like a haunted gunslinger intent on avenging old wrongs, bitter but now filthy-rich outcast Nick Cassidy was back in Kane's Crossing, seeking retribution from the conniving golden boy who'd once framed him and drove him from to...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    An anthology of original science fiction tales explores the vast possibilities and implications of artificial intelligence, robots, and androids in stories by Jane Lindskold, James P. Hogan, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Ron Collins, Jody Lynn Nye, Paul De...



  • Dan Greenburg

    Zack's Grandma Leah is back and peppier than ever in another hilarious escapade--now she's developed amazing batting skills....



  • Jill Gregory

    To the lawman, she was the greatest danger of all.... Did he steal her heart -- or did she give it away? A newcomer to Forlorn Valley, Emily Spoon vowed never to lose her family or her land again. Here was the future. Uncle Jake and the boys co...



  • J.M. Gregson

    When Liz Upson reports that her husband, Matthew, has gone missing, he's not exactly top priority for Detective Sergeant Bert Hook - he's just one of thousands of missing persons reported each year. Anyway, Mrs Upson makes it clear that her husband m...



  • Bettye Griffin

    When It Comes To Love... The course of true love never runs smoothly, and for Vivian St. James, it's positively accident prone. From freak injuries to fainting spells, her dates always seem to need a doctor. But what Vivian needs is a husband. Whe...



  • Diana Hamilton

    The hot-blooded groom! Knowing that the powerful Verdi family can easily take her baby son away if they wish, Portia Makepeace has no choice but to go with Lucenzo Verdi to his home in Italy. He obviously thinks she is a gold digger, but to her ho...



  • Peter F. Hamilton

    This collection of four novellas of humanity's struggle for survival in the far future features "Watching Trees Grow" by Peter F. Hamilton; "Reality Dust" by Stephen Baxter; "Making History" by Paul McAuley; and "Tendeleo's Story" by Ian McDonald....



  • Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    The stabbed body of a well-dressed man is found slumped on a swing in a children's playground in the heart of Shepherd's Bush--Detective Inspector Bill Slider's patch. From the seedy pubs of Shepherd's Bush through the brothels of Notting Hill to ...



  • Neesa Hart

    What do a plain-Jane professor and a handsome swashbuckler have in common? A passion that defies all the odds... Dear Diary, Women dream of a handsome man walking into their lives, but it usually doesn't happen. Well, it happened to me today! S...



  • Simon Hawke

    Will Shakespeare, Symington "Tuck" Smythe, and their band of thespian associates are contracted to provide entertainment at a rural estate as part of a large wedding pageant.

    When the headstrong bride turns up dead, and overheard conversations...




  • Rachel Hawthorne

    Him: Senior. Me: ... Liar? Guess who scored a date with the hottest senior guy in school? Me! I can't believe it. My friends can't believe it. And if Michael knew my real age, he wouldn't believe it. So I'm sure I did the right thing by telling hi...



  • Jeremiah Healy

    When General Alexander Van Horne's grandson, Kenny, is kidnapped, the general calls Matthew Langway, former FBI agent and current security advisor, to head the search. And to do it quietly - no police, no FBI. Something doesn't smell right, and Langw...



  • Robert Hellenga

    Growing up on his family's orchards in Appleton, Michigan, in the 1950s, Martin Dijksterhuis finds everything he needs in his extended family and in the land itself -- in the reassuring routines of growing and harvesting, spraying and pruning. Althou...



  • Diana Hendry

    Orphan Henry's stingy Aunt Agatha likes her boarders short, to fit in the tiny attic space she rents out, and small, so they won't eat more than two slices of toast in the morning. When Harvey Angell moves in, he fits the bill perfectly. He's small, ...



  • Joe L. Hensley

    Don Robak, once a defense attorney, is now a judge adjusting to life on the bench. But when he draws the strangest case in Indiana history a local near-do-well charged with arson and murder by one of the states most powerful families his old instinct...



  • Susan Hill (1)

    What could be more peaceful than spending an afternoon at the library? For Stuart Little, the library turns out to be anything but that after he meets Bookworm, the library's owl. Bookworm has plans to make Stuart his next meal -- unless Stuart ca...



  • Ken Hodgson

    Notorious bounty hunter Asa Cain, who has captured many men, finds his work getting personal when the Dolven gang destroys his family ranch in West Texas and kidnaps his mother and sister, forcing Asa to embark on a dangerous hunt that hurls him in t...



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    "Someone in a hat may bring you luck...." Could this enchanting creature in the black beret really be Francesca Peyton, the ugly duckling that Spence Reid remembered from childhood returned as a graceful swan?...



  • Joan Hohl

    A trio of romantic tales follow three reluctant brides--Anne Moore, who finds herself attracted to her childhood crush Jud Cammeron, even though she is engaged to someone else; Tina Merritt, who tries to deny her feelings for Dirk Tanger; and Tara Sc...



  • Cindy Holbrook

    TRULY MISMATCHED... Lucas Montieth, Earl of Kelsey, was simply being polite when he promised to take Lord Wrexton's sister into his household. Unfortunately, the lady in question is none other than the ton's infamous matchmaker, "Aunt Cl...



  • Craig Holden

    Cincinnati, 1927: a sensational murder trial captivates the nation. At stake: the lives of three men. There's the defendant, lawyer, and legendary bootlegger George Remus, whose crime of passion may seal his fate. Against him is the ambitious son of ...



  • Andrew Holleran

    "Nights in Aruba succeeds wonderfully at being at the same time a deeply serious revelation and very lively, very satisfying company."  --  New York MagazineAndrew Holleran's follow-up to Dancer from the Dance, Nights in Aruba ...



  • Fiona Hood-Stewart

    On the battlefields of World War I, twin brothers Gavin and Angus MacLeod are torn apart in one horrific instant that changes their lives forever. Believing his brother dead, a shattered, tormented Angus returns home to Scotland and takes his place a...



  • Nalo Hopkinson

    Nalo Hopkinson has gained universal acclaim as one of the most impressively original authors to emerge in years. Her debut novel, Brown Girl in the Ring, won the Locus Award for Best First Novel, became a finalist for the Philip K. Dick Award, and ga...



  • Dean Hughes

    SPENCER MORGAN AND DIETER HEDRICK ARE ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE WAR AND FIGHTING FOR THE SAME THING. At the age of fifteen, Dieter's blind devotion gets him promoted from Hitler Youth into the German army. Dieter's determined to prove his allegianc...



  • Walter H. Hunt

    The zor is just one of the alien races that humanity encounters when it travels to the stars, and from the very first meeting it has been all-out war. For many years the conflicts have been sporadic, usually ending with an Earth concession and a trea...



  • Bronwyn Jameson

    Horse trainer Tamara Cole knew all about Nick Corelli, the gorgeous black sheep of the Corelli clan. Now here he was, creeping about the stables in the dead of night! The sexy city entrepreneur might not be armed, but he was plenty dangerous.... N...




  • Cheri Jetton

    Megan Stallings has hit the road to escape the heartbreak one man brought into her life, only to land in the arms of another.

    Blue-eyed rancher Chad Winslow has a penchant for rescuing damsels in distress, especially spunky, independent ones with...



  • Barbara M. Joosse

    In the imagination of a young inner-city boy, police sirens sound like howling wolves, streetlights look like stars, and shots fired by neighborhood gangs sound like those stars cracking the darkness. But when his older brother joins a gang, he can n...



  • Penny Jordan

    The city girl and the country gentleman When elegant city girl Maggie Russell is caught in a flood, rugged Finn Gordon comes to her rescue. He takes her to his isolated farmhouse, laughs at her impractical designer clothes -- and sets about removi...



  • Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Stuart M. Kaminsky, the veteran author of more than forty novels and the creator of such wonderful characters as Abe Lieberman, Toby Peters, and Inpsector Rostnikov, has created a new PI: Lew Fonesca, a world-weary guy who got in a car and just start...



  • Patricia Kay

    THE RAINBOW'S END MATCHMAKERS WERE PLACING THEIR BETS! Twenty years ago Maggie Callahan was crazy in love with handsome Zachary Tate. Still, too young to tie herself down, she'd fled her small Texas town for glamorous Manhattan, secretly bereft that...



  • Marilyn Kaye

    Amy fears the organization is monitoring her every move. That’s what Andy tells her -- before he disappears. He says they’ve both been implanted with a chip. Is there anywhere Amy can hide?The answer seems to lie in a computer game. A game into...




  • Paul Kearney

    A land in chaos The once-great Fimhrian nations of the West are falling. From the east, Murduk hordes have taken the ancient Holy City of Aekir, burning the churches and slaughtering their defenders. A people divided Even as the war rages, milit...



  • Susan Kearney

    HE WAS BIG AND STRONG AND SEXY... But he was a complete stranger! So why was she lying in his arms on a public beach? He said he'd rescued her when a blue sedan had forced her car into the ocean, but she couldn't remember anything.... CIA analy...



  • Sheila Keenan

    When Lizzie arrives early at her cousin¹s birthday party, she thinks she is helping by rearranging the birthday table. But as the other guests arrive, confusion begins. You can¹t have a balloon race when the balloons are already inflated, and you c...



  • Carolyn Keene

    Nancy Wins A Holiday Party Raffle -- but Loses The Prize! Nancy and her Labrador puppy, Chocolate Chip, are enjoying the holiday party at the Dashing Dog salon. They even win the raffle prize -- a one-of-a-kind doggie collar with rhinestones shaped ...



  • Carla Kelly

    A Second Chance Benedict Nesbitt, the Seventh Duke of Knaresborough, has resigned himself to a life of solitude. The woman he'd loved for years just married one of his best friends. And so, in the noble tradition of resignation, he is heading back...



  • Elmer Kelton

    The Civil War has ended, and Texas is in turmoil as Rusty Shannon rides to his home on the Colorado River. But in a land overrun with murderous outlaws, vengeful Union soldiers, and ever-dangerous bands of Comanche, "going home" is just as difficult ...



  • Karen Kendall

    The Perfect...Wife? Tony Sinclair is looking for a sweet, Southern Hower of femininity to raise their 3.5 children in the "Leave It To Beaver" life he never had. So why is he so captivated by Jazz Taylor, a bold, sassy special effects artist who w...



  • 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. Was It Destiny...Or Desire? Meaghan Reilly's family insists that ...



  • Joan Kilby

    He raised one child who might be his own. Does he have it in his heart to do it again? Fire chief Nick Dalton has a lot on his plate. He's had to move to a small town in Washington to get his twelve-going-on-twenty-year-old daughter away from the ...



  • J. Robert King

    The Arthurian epic that began in Mad Merlin continues in Lancelot du Lethe, the story of the greatest knight, paramour, and traitor the Round Table has ever known. The story of Lancelot is one of striving for perfection only to fall short due to the ...



  • Donald Kingsbury

    A loving homage to Asimov, and dialogue with him--a triumph of galactic-scaled SF that is destined to be recognized as a classic in its own right

    Eron Osa had faced the ultimate penalty. Not death, but the removal of his fam. Without the augme...



  • Kathryn Kirkwood

    Tempting Fate Upon the death of her beloved grandmother, Tessa Lockhard receives a faded letter and a beautiful pendant--and learns the stunning news that she was adopted at birth. Shunned from her social circle by way of malicious gossip, she l...



  • Arthur Winfield Knight

    Sam Bonner is a household name. He spent his life within the best-known circles of Hollywood. His name on a film guaranteed a gross of millions. Every actor and actress wanted to star in a Bonner film, and Bonner's casting choices made or broke caree...



  • Dean Koontz

    In a dusty trailer park on the far edge of the California dream, Michelina Bellsong contemplates the choices she has made. At twenty-eight, she wants to change the direction of her troubled life but can’t find her way -- until a new family settles ...



  • Ruth Krauss

    Continuing a two-year program to bring back twenty-two Maurice Sendak treasures long out of print, our second season of publication highlights one of the most successful author-illustrator pairings of all time. A pioneer of great children's literatur...



  • Sylvie Kurtz

    He had the snarl of a wounded grizzly and the gentle touch of a healer. But who was the surly stranger next door? His blatant masculinity alarmed widow Beth Lannigen. Yet behind her neighbor's icy glare she saw a longing that warmed her own barely he...



  • Mercedes Lackey; Rosemary Edghill

    RETURN TO THE WORLD OF UNDERHILL. . . . Eric Banyon has settled into the New York whirl nicely: he's doing well at Julliard, he's made a lot of new friends, he's defeated a Lord of the Unseleighe Sidhe;. . or has he? Aerune mac Audelaine, whose...



  • Thomas Laird

    He's a cutter. He accosts unsuspecting young women, he overwhelms them with a pad of ether. Then he kills them. And eviscerates the corpses. The crime scenes he leaves behind are not pretty. Nor is the talk, in this tough, tautly plotted, and tersely...



  • Christopher Lane

    Who is buried in a frozen grave? The native hunter persistently stalks his prey onto the frozen Chukchi Sea. But it is not the bearded seal he pulls from under the ice -- it is a man. Called up from Barrow, Alaska, to investigate a bizarre double m...



  • Jane Langton

    When Eddy Hall receives five cards for his stereoscope, he and his sister, Eleanor, can't wait to see what exotic places they reveal maybe Stonehenge, or a centuries-old European cathedral. But instead, when they look through the stereoscope, Eddy...



  • Stephanie Laurens

    What would you do if you were kissed by the handsome stranger you'd ever seen? And what if that man was one of the notorious Cynsters? When a handsome man literally fell at her feet while she was walking through a moonlit convent courtyard, H...



  • Joyce Lavene; Jim Lavene

    By all accounts, it looked like Darva Richmond's death was simply a tragic accident. Her body, mauled by a bear, was found by her husband, Donald, near their campsite in Diamond Springs, North Carolina. To everyone's shock, the dead woman was the sis...



  • J.A. Layton

    THE DISCOVERY A technological advancement of such power and magnitude that whoever possesses it could change the way we live--and the way we die. THE DECEPTION... There are those in power who already have their own plans for the technology--and ...



  • Suzann Ledbetter

    Just another homicide to spice things up Life is anything but dull for Hannah Garvey, the resident manager for Valhalla Springs, an exclusive retirement community in the Ozarks. She's helped clear Sheriff David Hendrickson of a manslaughter charge...



  • Marie G. Lee

    Ellen Sung is taken unawares by Tamper Sandel, and when he kisses her, her whole world shifts. She doesn't have time for a boyfriend, especially one who's probably not going to college. She's completely absorbed in keeping her grades up to please her...



  • Miranda Lee

    A secret mistress, a secret revenge! It's been the most shocking moment of Luke Freeman's life. He's discovered that his late father, Lionel had a mistress! The information Luke receives about the identity of this secret lover leads hi...





  • Ted Lewin

    Even before Kum Kau Chinese Take Out opens, there's so much to do. The deliveryman arrives. The cooks clean the kitchen from top to bottom. Then chop, chop, chop, they slice and dice the fresh meat and vegetables. But when the customers arrive, Ku...



  • C. Jack Lewis

    Charlie Cougar finds himself in another assignment for Sam Light--which may be the oddest one yet. It seems that some teenagers in Santa Rio get their kicks out of putting wheels on the bottoms of unused coffins and racing them down hills. He pays a ...



  • Cathie Linz

    To: King Leopold From: Marine Corps Captain Mark Wilder Operation: Princess Vanessa Von Volzemburg Your Highness, I've been assigned to guard Princess Vanessa while she's traveling incognito in America. But I don't enjoy spying on her. Van...



  • Holly Lisle

    A magical war challenges the ingenuity of even the bravest of heroes in this thrilling saga of destruction, devastation, and disaster. When Hardin fails to destroy this new threat, the Calimekkans bring back the few surviving Wolves who know the mag...



  • Elizabeth Lord

    Henry Lett leaves a run-down restaurant to his widow who is only too glad to sell it. However, Henry's nephew is loath to let it pass it out of the Lett family's hands. This is the third book in a series that charts the fortunes of the Lett family....



  • Peter Lovesey

    Sarah Jordan, beautiful and clever, is a PhD researcher at a New York university. After Sarah had conquered her childhood arachnophobia, her fear turned into fascination and spiders became the focus of her studies. Captivated by their ritual of matin...



  • Nicole Luiken

    Angel had no memory of the secret message, but the writing was hers. It read, "Violet eyes lie." SILVER EYES In a world where humans work on Mars and loyalty is controlled by a brain chip, eighteen-year-old Angel Eastland can't retrieve her memory....



  • Brian Lysaght


    They are the gods of crime--a political bogeyman used to scare up votes come election time. They are cabal of international arms dealers, money launderers, and assassins, their identities and the location of their base of operations mysteries. To...



  • D.R. MacDonald

    This is the story of Innis Corbett, a young man born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, into a Highlander community whose inhabitants are held by ties of memory and blood. As a child Innis went with his parents to live in Boston. After his father was kille...



  • T.J. MacGregor

    THERE'S A THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE... For Jay Hutchin, the line blurs on a sultry night in a cheap motel on Tango Key. One moment's jealous rage is all it takes for the esteemed judge to murder Diane Jackson, a beautiful starlet whose fatal m...



  • Susan Mallery

    WHAT'S THE SECRET TO EVERLASTING LOVE? Taylor McGuire, a hardworking single mom with a Ph.D. in psychology, believes that compatibility is the key to a successful marriage. Bestselling relationship guru Jonathan Kirby believes it's sexual chemist...



  • Susan Mallery

    THE LONE WOLF OF WHITEHORN Detective Mark Kincaid was worn to the bone after his years on New York's tough city streets. Upon his return to Whitehorn, all he wanted was peace and quiet -- not some sweet, adorable do-gooder messing up the sanctity ...



  • Victoria Malvey

    Two sisters have promised their father that both will marry ... or neither will: Elizabeth Everley, shy and serious, endured a disastrous first Season, and she dreads being a wallflower forever. Catherine Everley, a starry-eyed optimist, dreams of ma...



  • Jason Manning

    Brewing troubles between the Cheyenne nation and the United States Army threaten Gordon Hawkes's peaceful life in the Colorado Rockies, but when he agrees to play peacemaker, he discovers that he is leading his Native American allies into a deadly tr...



  • Carol Marinelli

    Drama and passion … in the E.R.! Consultant Samuel Donovan is not best pleased. A film crew have arrived at Melbourne Central to do a twenty-four-hour documentary on emergency department. As if the cameras aren’t disruptive enough, Erin Casey ...




  • Paula Marshall

    Illegitimate and without dowry, Athene Filmer journeyed from Steepwood to a Season in London. She rejoiced in this chance to improve her life with a rich husband. By all accounts, she should have been satisfied with Lord Kinloch's attentions, for he ...



  • Paula Marshall

    Lovers Reunited Russell Chancellor, Lord Hadleigh, found the love of his life over a decade ago, but she was forced to marry elsewhere. When a chance meeting at a house party unites him with Mary Wardour once more, both realize that the feelings b...



  • Gail Gaymer Martin
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    The Victorian garden of Hampton Manor is an escape for Sarah -- from the demands of society. . .and her mother. When she falls in love with the orchard keeper and becomes the Apple of His Eye, can these two social opposites find hope for a future tog...



  • Gail Gaymer Martin

    Laine Sibley's life is entangled in secrets. Her younger sister, Kathleen, has died of cancer, leaving Laine to care for a five-year-old niece--and to solve a series of mysteries. Kathleen's friend Pat offers encouragement and support, but somethi...



  • Tom Mason

    Secret agent Max Steel finds himself up against a heat-seeking missile that's locked in and seeking him and a group of terrorists who are trying to steal a virus that could wipe out the entire human race. Original....



  • Tom Mason




  • Anne McAllister

    "I'M BACK! Let's get married." -- Charlie Seeks Elk, urban Native American turned Montana cowboy Three years ago, in a war zone on the other side of the world, Charlie had loved Cait Blasingame. Still, home and family weren't ...



  • Mary McBride

    Drop-dead-gorgeous cop Sonny Randle had enough charm and raw sex appeal to turn a woman inside out. Melanie Spears should know -- in the few months of their marriage, he'd blasted her perfectly planned life into chaos. Even with her dreams of white p...