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New Books List: 371 titles

  • A Summer Place

    Laura Abbot

    Have you ever ended up in strange town and felt as if you were home? The first time Laurel Eden sees Belleporte she realizes it's the perfect place to live. The dreams she's always had can finally come true. Little does she know that this simple d...

  • Mystery of The Jeweled Mask

    Linda Williams Aber

    Barbie is one of the top girls' properties - the world's #1 fashion doll. Now Scholastic is on the Barbie bandwagon with stories starring Barbie as a reporter with a nose for a mystery.


    Barbie's friend Kira has gotten her front-row seats t...

  • A Cat on the Bus

    Lydia Adamson

    Alice Nestleton, once mockingly referred to as the Cat Woman by the local law enforcement, is finally getting everything she wants: a juicy role in a slick new TV series, a debonair leading man on camera and off, and enough money to give up cat-sitti...

  • A Younger Man

    Rochelle Alers

    THE PERFECT RECIPE...FOR PASSION Kumi Walker never suspected that love was on the menu when he offered to fix Veronica's flat tire in exchange for a home-cooked meal. It was not long before the sexy-as-sin ex-marine realized that the wealthy widow...

  • North Country Man

    Carrie Alexander

    SOME CALL HIM HERMIT OTHERS CALL HIM HERO NOAH SAARI IS A NORTH COUNTRY MAN A few years ago, Noah left the woods of Michigan, ready to make a difference in the world. After a tragic accident, he came back -- blamed by some, pitied by others, mis...

  • Heart on a String

    Lois Carnell Alexander

    Fun-loving puppeteer Adrienne Madill is graduating from Arkansas University. With her Aunt Maida's help, Adrienne has successfully put herself through college conducting puppet shows for children and plans to turn the sidework into a full-time career...

  • Ben-Hur

    Blake Allmendinger

    One of the most popular American novels of all time, General Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur vividly reimagines the mighty Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. The saga of Judah Ben-Hur’s spiritual journey from slavery to vengeance to redemption is b...

  • In All the Wrong Places

    Donna Anders

    Home-shopping fans everywhere adore Carolyn Langdon: she's the beautiful, outgoing hostess of the Atlanta-based National Neighborhood Network. Gifted with a perfect look and a vivacious on-air personality, her phenomenal success is owed to one simple...

  • Assignment: Single Father

    Caroline Anderson

    The right man for Fran? Fran was thrilled with her new assignment. Working as a practice nurse for Dr. Xavier Giraud was blissfully calm after the high emotion and drama of the E.R. At least it was until Fran found herself falling for the intr...

  • Lord Trenchard's Choice

    Sylvia Andrew

    THE RAKE'S PROPOSAL No society beauty had been able to tempt Lord Ivo Trenchard to give up the single life. None, that was, until he met an enchanting innocent -- in boy's clothes -- who challenged him to teach her how to kiss! He watch...

  • Destiny's Truth

    James Axler

    TAINTED LEGACY America has been forever alter by the ravages of a nuclear attack that sent it spiraling toward a virulent new destiny -- and by the vestiges of the pre-dark world itself, where humanity's internecine battle between good and evil rages...

  • Bow's Boy

    Richard Babcock

    Every now and then, a small American town produces someone with such out-of-place talent that he seems to have come from a different world. In the 1960s hardscrabble town of Laroque, Wisconsin, seventeen-year-old Ginger Piper, a high school sports he...

  • Colt in the Cave

    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...

  • Wild River Adventure

    Steven Banks

  • True Witness

    Jo Bannister

    A peaceful evening of stargazing for math teacher Daniel Hood turns tragic when his telescope focuses on the brutal murder of a young man on the pier in front of his house. Daniel saw the killer's face and he knows it does not belong to the prime sus...

  • Christmas in Paris

    Margaret Barker

    When Dr. Alyssa Ferguson returns to work at the Clinique Ste Catherine in her beloved Paris, the last person she expects to see is her ex-lover, Dr. Pierre Dupont -- and now he is her new boss! As they begin to rekindle their passionate romance, P...

  • Official Escort

    Jean Barrett

    Mitchell Hawke had closed the doors of the Hawke Detective Agency to take some much-needed time off when a top secret delivery arrived on his doorstep just days before Christmas. This was no ordinary package, but a witness in desperate need of protec...

  • Daredevil, Volume 2

    Brian Michael Bendis

    A mystery man called Mr. Silke has inspired Wilson Fisk's lieutenants to rise up and take down the Kingpin of Crime, but when the FBI steps in to sort out the remains of the Kingpin's criminal empire, their investigation may change Daredevil's life f...

  • Flight

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    Before the legend...before the icon... there was a teenager named Clark Kent. Clark meets 15-year-old Tia Haines and knows she is different. He understands that Tia's father isn't kind to her, that her mother left years ago, and that she is painfu...

  • Plague

    Gary A. Birken

    No one can survive him. At Franklin Children's Hospital, an inexplicable disease is reaching terrifying proportions. One by one, the patients of pediatrician Annick Clement are dying. Tracing it to a strain of killer virus, she's made a chilling d...

  • Windy City Dying

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her husband Johnny MacAlister is long-buried, but now someone from Johnny's past is back, looking for him, a...

  • Death of Riley

    Rhys Bowen

    Molly Murphy can't seem to fit in anywhere. Not with the new immigrants pouring in from the Old World and certainly not with the society folks she envies from afar. After bungling a job as a lady's companion, Molly decides to become an assistant to t...

  • The Gun

    Lyle Brandt

    Matt Price is weary. His reputation proceeds him wherever he rides, drawing would-be gunfighters to challenge him like moths to a flame. No matter how many men he leaves lying in the dust, he knows it's only a matter of time before a bullet strikes h...

  • Parts Unknown

    Kevin Brennan

    As a young man, Bill Argus abandoned his wife, their young son, and his family's dairy farm in the Sonoma County hamlet of Pianto. Now sixty-three, the once-famous photographer is overcome with the need to find forgiveness from those he left behin...

  • Dragon Blood

    Patricia Briggs

    CALL TO REBELLION Ward, ruler of Hurog, is striving to restore his lands and people to prosperity, wanting nothing more than a quiet life. But when an old friend, escaping from High Hing Jakouen's torturers, seeks refuge in his keep, Ward can no l...

  • Meet the Rescue Heroes

    J.E. Bright

    Rescue Heroes are cool guys who are good guys - emergency workers who combat natural disasters. The property includes action figures and a hit TV show on Kids WB! Target audience: kids 3 and up.

    Rescue Heroes Reader #1 introduces the heroic em...

  • What Should I Do With My Life?

    Po Bronson

  • The Neighborly Thing

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Sinda Shull has secrets from her past which are the reason she feels she can never marry. When Sinda moves next door to widower Glen Olsen and his daughter, Tara, she struggles to leave the past behind. Sinda's home business keeps her hands busy, but...

  • The Paths of the Dead

    Steven Brust

    Two hundred years ago, Adron's Disaster destroyed Dragaera City, killed the reigning Emperor, and deprived the entire Dragaeran Empire of the ability to use the simplest low-level sorcery. Its been a rough Interregnum. The children of those great ...

  • A Pawn for a Queen

    Fiona Buckley

    A quiet life at Withysham with her young daughter is all that widowed Ursula Blanchard desires. But as the waiting woman and spy for Queen Elizabeth I, she forfeits her needs for the sake of those she is pledged to protect--even at her own peril... ....

  • She Went All the Way

    Meggin Cabot

    How far should a lady go for love? All the way! Success hasn't spoiled screenwriter Lou Calabrese -- it's just given her a taste for luxury. And it's put her in some bizarre situations -- like in a helicopter en route to the wilds of Alaska, sharing...

  • Hoofprints in the Snow

    Joanna Campbell

    Hoofprints in the Snow features a heartâ€"stopping mystery in Wyoming. Fans will be on the edge of their saddles!

    Lyssa Hynde knows the Wyoming winters are cold, lonely, and dangerous. But she wouldn't give them up for anything. There's n...

  • Honeymoon: and Other Stories

    Kevin Canty

    Kevin Canty is a master of the short story, a writer whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, but always with the understanding that Canty's is strikingly new, cool, and real. Now in Honeymoon, after two novels, K...

  • Reality Check

    Leslie Carroll

    IF LIZ CAN'T FIND "THE ONE" SHE'LL TAKE THE MILLION. Liz Pemberley is a smart girl with a weakness for bad boys, but for the first time in her life, her bad luck with men might just pay off. A hot new reality TV show called Bad Date is offering a...

  • First Love, Second Chance

    K.N. Casper

    Michael First seems to have everything a man could want -- a wife he adores; beautiful children he delights in; loving parents and siblings who live close by the west Texas ranch where he works. Then fate turns his world upside down. Clare, his wi...

  • Will You Be My Valentine?

    Denys Cazet

    It's Valentine's Day, and love is everywhere -- or at lest it will be if Minnie and Moo have anything to do with it. Donning cupid costumes, the intrepid duo sets out to deliver "love poems for the needy," determined to share the joy of this speci...

  • The Queen's Gambit

    Deborah Chester

    The throne was her destiny--until Princess Pheresa lost her groom, Mandria's heir, to the dark magic that consumed him. Now Pheresa's fate is uncertain, even when the great King Verence names her Princess Royal--because the title comes with one condi...

  • Utopia // Lethal Velocity

    Lincoln Child

    It's like nothing anyone has ever seen before. Utopia is the brand-new frontier of theme parks, a fantastic collection of Worlds each so authentic it takes the average visitor's breath away. Teeming with cutting-edge holographic and robotic technolog...

  • Randall Wedding

    Judy Christenberry

    Randal Rescue Gruff as a bear with a thorn in his paw, cantankerous loner Russ Randall simply didn't need the aggravation of playing hero to a stranded lady and her adorable toddler. Yet the code of honor held by all Randall men wouldn't allow him...

  • The Doctor's Pregnant Proposal

    Donna Clayton

    Dr. Grey Thunder's man-hunting female patients were on the prowl -- and he was their target! The handsome Native American had had enough. He came up with an unusual proposition for his nurse, Lori Young, who had problems of her own -- an unborn baby ...

  • Red River Bride

    Colleen Coble

    Margaret knows she's too plain, too tall, and too outspoken for any man to want to marry her. All she wants is to prove to her father that she can manage their ranch as well as any man could. But when her father hires Josiah Cutler as the new fore...

  • Body Wave

    Nancy J. Cohen

    Salon owner Marla Shore is pretty hard to shock, but she's truly stunned to learn that her hateful ex-husband, Stanley Kaufman, has been arrested for the murder of his third wife, Kimberly--and wants Marla to find the "real" killer. Stan's plenty of ...

  • Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?

    Cara Colter

    Yes, Jamie, there is a Santa Claus.... Or at least that's what Beth Cavell desperately needed her orphaned nephew to believe. Because the least Beth could do was fulfill his Christmas wishes. Besides, he only had two -- snow...and a daddy! What was t...

  • Pengarron Dynasty

    Gloria Cook

    The tangled lives and loves of the Pengarron family continue… Will the long-standing love triangle between Kerensa Pengarron, the beautiful wife of Sir Oliver, and her first love Clem Trenchard, ever be resolved? The christening of little Harry Pen...

  • Seizure

    Robin Cook

    Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential Southern demagogue whose support of traditional American values includes a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies. When he's called to chair a subcommittee introducing legislation to ban new...

  • Lord Sebastian's Wife

    Katy Cooper

    He had broken every promise he had ever made her.... And her heart with them! A reckless promise, made in the glow of first love, now bound Lord Sebastian Benbury to the Lady Beatrice. But though her beauty still stirred his inner fires, nothing co...

  • The Penwyth Curse

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: How would you like to be eighteen and four times a widow? If you live with a curse, sometimes things like this happen. And so they did. We have two sets of heroes/heroines; one set is in the present (1278 A.D.) and the other set is...

  • J. Michael Straczynski's Rising Stars, Book 2: Ten Years Aft

    Arthur Byron Cover

    Ten years after the meta-human Specials had their standoff against the government, they find themselves brought together once again, this time to stop the Special known as Critical Mass after she takes the city of Chicago hostage....

  • White Tiger's Fancy

    Tracy Cozzens

    She Craved Adventure... The eldest of her mother's three remaining unmarried daughters, Pauline Carrington is dismayed to find herself the object of endless matchmaking schemes. A natural athlete with a zest for anything new or exciting, marriage i...

  • Haunted Heart

    Francine Craft

    CAN A REKINDLED PASSION Annice Steele lost the love of her life he day Lucas Jones walked out and never looked back. Determined to move on and carve out a career for herself, the budding psychologist has accepted a job on scenic Paradise Island, hel...

  • What You Wish For

    David Cray

    To enthusiastic reviews David Cray staked out his gritty, darkly realistic territory in the field of crime fiction with the gripping police procedural Little Girl Blue. In it, he also introduced the tough-minded NYPD lieutenant Julia Brennan and disa...

  • Poseidon's Kiss

    Gail Crease

    Long, long ago, the sea tried to claim the life of a young mother-to-be. But a mysterious man rescued the woman--and a promise was made to the great god of the sea... Chelsea Porter doesn't believe the old family legend about her great-great-gran...

  • Servants of Chaos

    Don D'Ammassa

    The isolated little fishing village of Crayport, Massachusetts, might seem almost normal at first glance, but appearances can he deceiving. You would never be welcome there. Outsiders never are. The inhabitants of the village are unusually hostile to...

  • Tales of The Slayer Volume 2

    Kara Dalkey; Michael Reeves

    "Sacred duty, yadda yadda." -- Buffy Summers Buffy the Vampire Slayer has always held an irreverent attitude toward her calling, but ultimately she understands the ramifications of her destiny and is prepared to die to protect the world from Evil...

  • Flying High: Mission: Prepare to Party!

    Annie Dalton

    Even time-traveling angels need to relax! That's why Mel's been looking forward to her pal Lola's surprise party for weeks. And she's not pleased when she and her friends get sent off to medieval times at the last minute. Then she stumbles on a sca...

  • Body of Intuition

    Claire Daniels

    Meet Cally Lazar, Energy Worker. A "recovering attorney," Cally pulled a U-turn on her career path and set up shop as an alternative healer. Her sensory skills help her find the stress in her clients' auras. But once in a while, what she finds will m...

  • Beyond Flesh

    Jack Dann

  • Lime's Photograph

    Leif Davidsen

    Peter Lime is trained to hunt down his prey and catch them on film. But now he is the one being hunted. Whose prey has he become? And what is it that he has that these people will kill to get? Lime is a Danish paparazzo, living in Madrid. For more th...

  • A King Without a Country

    Carolyn Davidson
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    A long-lost king has been discovered. And the false ruler will never let "Alex Carr" claim his birthright. But Alex has sharply honed skills from his dangerous past...and sweet Rebecca Hale to give him the strength to claim a destiny too long denied....

  • The Prince's Wedding

    Justine Davis

    THE COMMONER BRIDE! Will Montebello's crown prince claim his Cinderella bride at last? Jessica Chambers stared into the deep blue eyes of her baby's father and saw a stranger. The ranch hand with amnesia whom she'd called "Joe" was gone forever. For...

  • Scam and Eggs

    Janet Dawson

    SCAM AND EGGS is a fine mystery anthology that contains mostly contemporary contributions, but also has two enjoyable historcials including a spin on First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln that will open readers' minds to this intriguing much maligned figure. ...

  • God's Mountain

    Erri De Luca

    This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open.He lives in Montedidio -- God’s Mountain -- a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a paycheck h...

  • The Brave and the Bold: Book One

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    AN ALL-NEW ADVENTURE SPANNING THREE GENERATIONS! The Malkus Artifacts: four deadly machines, wielded as weapons of absolute power by an interstellar tyrant thousands of years ago and scattered across the Alpha Quadrant when he was overthrown. Aft...

  • The Brave and the Bold: Book Two

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    CONTINUING THE ALL-NEW ADVENTURE SPANNING ALL OF STAR TREK HISTORY! Two of the Malkus Artifacts -- used as deadly weapons millennia ago -- have been uncovered since their discovery in the 22nd century. Now in the 24th century, two more artifacts li...

  • Darkness Falls

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    A hundred and fifty years ago, in the sleepy fishing village of Darkness Falls, Matilda Dixon would give the local children cakes and treats and accept their baby teeth as "payment." After her husband Sonny was killed in a boating accident and a kitc...

  • Deep Doo-Doo and the Mysterious E-Mail

    Michael Delaney / M.C. Delaney

    Instead of scooping a classmate who works on the school newspaper, Bennet and his friend Pete end up working with Elizabeth to find out who is responsible for putting a pumpkin on top of the town hall flagpole. Reprint....

  • Have You Seen Me?

    Laura Denham

    Laura Denham’s first novel about a young woman’s willful descent from part-time stripper, to self-employed prostitute, to low-rent S and M film star adroitly sidesteps the expectations inherent in sex-industry tell-alls, opting instead for an aes...

  • Thursdays with Moses

    Brad Densmore

    Moses is perceived by people the world over-regardless of age or religion-as one of the greatest prophets of all time. With this in mind, Brad Densmore freshly reinterprets the concept of Tuesdays with Morrie to appeal to an audience that knows no bo...

  • Darkside

    P.T. Deutermann

    At the US Naval Academy, the students refer to the administration as the Darkside, a nickname befitting the secrecy and manipulation that occur behind closed office doors. So when a first-year student falls to his death from a campus building, the Ac...

  • Calling All Glass Slippers

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Laura Ellison never thought her comic play about love would win an award. Now her alma mater is performing it...and her ex is directing! Ten years ago Jared Benton broke her heart, and she knows fairy-tale endings don't exist. When she notices that p...

  • Cindy and the Fella

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Cindy McChad can't believe it when her fiance breaks up with her...by email, no less! Never willing to accept defeat, she heads to California to win back her man. When she meets bumbling professor Hugh Bemling -- who's in love with her fiance's new g...

  • Death and the Jubilee

    David Dickinson

    Find a murderer - and save the Queen's Jubilee!It is 1897 and the London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. But a corpse is with no head or hands is dragged out of the Thames. The dead man was old and proserously dressed, but there ar...

  • Hour of the Gremlins

    Gordon R. Dickson; Ben Bova

    Filled with adventure, humor, and excitement, a thrilling trio of stories, by two science fiction masters, features Gremlins, Go Home, in which Baneen devises a plan so that he and his fellow gremlins can leave Earth and return to Gremla. Rep...

  • Nemesis

    J.M. Dillard

    Remus -- mysterious sister world to Romulus. A planet where hope surrendered to darkness long ago. A planet whose inhabitants have been without a voice for generations. But that's about to change. Earth -- home to Starfleet, where the crew of the U....

  • 101 Dalmatians

    Disney Book Group

    Disney’s animated classic 101 Dalmatians is retold in this 24-page, full-color storybook. The action-packed adventure tells the tale of the adorable Dalmatian puppies and Cruella De Vil, the evil woman who tries to capture them....

  • Patch's London Adventure

    Disney Book Group

    In this exciting sequel to the classic animated 101 Dalmatians, nasty Cruella De Vil tries once again to capture the spotted puppies. But little Patch and his hero, Thunderbolt the Wonder Dog, come to the rescue!...

  • Beauty Sleep

    Cameron Dokey

    "LITTLE PRINCESS, LOVELY AS THE DAWN, WELL-NAMED AURORE..." With these seemingly innocent words, the fate of a newborn princess is sealed. For years the king and queen despaired of ever having a child. When Aurore arrives, though the entire kingd...

  • Proper Conduct

    Shannon Donnelly

    Can a perfect lady and an impeccable lord risk their reputations for true love? Penelope Harwood has no patience for starry-eyed, romantic daydreams. It's that sort of foolish thinking that saw her father plunge the family into financial disaster, a...

  • Knock Me Off My Feet

    Susan Donovan

    WHEN YOU MIX ONE PART BUSINESS Autumn Adams never planned to follow in her mother's footsteps as Chicago's answer to Martha Stewart--she can't cook, doesn't clean, and would rather play soccer than discuss the joys of white bathtub grout. Then some ...

  • The Bride's Rescuer

    Charlotte Douglas

    IN SAVING CELIA Unconscious and wearing a torn wedding dress, Celia Stevens washed up on the shores of Solitaire and threw Cameron Alexander's peaceful seclusion into complete chaos. Not only did her presence force him to reexamine his reasons for h...

  • Deadly Force

    Keith Douglass

    FREEDOM FIGHT Mojombo Washington and his followers are willing to do anything to free their African country from a corrupt government of thieves and murderers. Even hold the Vice President of the United States captive until the U.N. listens to the...

  • Hitched for the Holidays

    Jennifer Drew

    Expert organizer Mindy Ryder could use some professional help! Her father has decided he's visiting for Christmas, and he wants to meet Mindy's "boyfriend." Trouble is, she doesn't have one! Now she needs a man, and not just any man -- a doctor. Eric...

  • River of Ruin

    Jack Du Brul

    In the heart of Panama, a volcanic lake feeds a serpentine river--its stone banks laid by the Incas, who took back the gold and jewels plundered from them by the conquistadors. Legend has it that the Twice-Stolen Treasure has been buried for centurie...

  • Family Practice

    Judy Duarte

    ALL OR NOTHING... After a very bitter -- very public -- divorce, high-society surgeon Michael Harper needed a vacation. But his plans for peace and quiet hadn't included falling in love with a stubborn, self-reliant cocktail waitress from the wrong ...

  • Tales from the Dark Woods

    Brendan DuBois

  • A Groom in Her Stocking

    Barbara Dunlop

    Lindsey Parker's financial career is looking up, up, up. And it's been how long since she's had a date? Forget dating -- during Christmas vacation at a luxury northern resort Santa delivers not one, but two fiances to ol' skinny Linney. But RJ Webste...

  • Mistletoe and Murder

    Carola Dunn

    When it comes to mischief and murder, no one covers the case more stylishly than the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple. The latest installment finds the ever-adventurous heiress dreading Christmas in Cornwall with her distant, faintly scandalous family. She ...

  • Betsy Zane

    Lynda Durrant

    In 1782, 13-year-old Betsy Zane’s bored with trying to act like a lady and being cooped up with her great-aunt. Her heart and soul yearn for the freedom of living with her brothers at the family homestead along the Ohio River.

    When her grea...

  • The Here and Now

    Gregg Easterbrook

    Carter Morris is a high-priced corporate lawyer, negotiating the class-action suit of a lifetime which will result in a massive settlement. As he ponders his sellout, he relives significant moments of his youth, literally. From air raid drills to his...

  • Storm Rider

    Cassie Edwards

    A STORMY BEGINNING A tragic accident leaves young Tabitha Daniel orphaned and alone in the wilderness, until she is rescued by an Indian tribe. Now grown up, this adventurous beauty has become a fearless warrior--with a spirit that is destined to ge...

  • A Whisper of Suspicion

    Jane Edwards

    Penny Farnsworth inherits money from an aunt and decides to seek out the boy who constantly defended her when she lived in an orphanage in San Francisco. Over the years she has wondered what happened to Matt Devlin and especially wants to share her g...

  • House of Chains

    Steven Erikson

    In Northern Genabackis, a raiding party of savage tribal warriors descends from the mountains into the southern flatlands. Their intention is to wreak havoc amongst the despised lowlanders, but for the one named Karsa Orlong it marks the beginning of...

  • Through the Storm

    Leslie Esdaile

    Freelance journalist Lynette Graves has always had a way with words, but the sight of Foster Scott Hamilton, Jr. leaves her speechless. After the recent breakup of her marriage--and seeing everything she owned washed away by a hurricane--romance is t...

  • True North

    Rachel Evans

    Lee Korchuk is just hitting her stride as a photographer for a large museum in Toronto. Now she and her boss, scientist Oliver Caldwell, have set out on the adventure of a lifetime, way up in northern Canada where a mysterious guide, Jackson Shea, ha...

  • Longarm in Paradise

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm sends Paradise straight to hell!Marshal Monty Kilpatrick was nobody’s fool. That’s why his killers had to take him by surprise. But with a bullet in his belly, Monty knew just how to right the last wrongs of his life -- he wrote a letter ...

  • Feathered Serpent

    Colin Falconer

    The triumphant, controversial life of the Aztec woman Malinali is one of the great and enduring legends of Mexico. A high-born Mexica heiress, she was sold into slavery as a child, and it was as a slave of the Maya that she met the Spanish conquistad...

  • Rexerella

    Keith Faulkner

    Meet Rexerella, a T. rex with two mean prehistoric stepsisters, in this dinosaur version of Cinderella. Will she ever make it to Prince Charmosaurus's ball? Turn the pages to see each dino-sized pop-up in this Jurassic twist on the classic fairy tale...

  • Undercover M.D.

    Marie Ferrarella

    When he began his mission at Blair Memorial, undercover agent Terrance McCall collided with the only woman capable of rattling his equilibrium. Dr. Alix DuCane had grown haughty over the years, and he'd been the one to put the ice in her soul. Their ...

  • Awful Advent

    Karl Fieldhouse

    'Tis the season to be jolly? Not for Pastor Abby Shaw, who finds a body in her Frederick County, Maryland, church four Sundays before Christmas. The dead woman, altar guild president Nancy Huff, has enough enemies to fill the pews at St. Luke's Ch...

  • Bounty Hunter's Bride

    Carol Finch

    Hanna Malloy was desperate to make her way west. And Cale Elliot was the perfect choice to launch her into a life of adventure. Now, since their hasty wedding, the legendary bounty hunter dared her daily to try new things. But would it be wise to fal...

  • Spadework

    Timothy Findley

    Lust. Infidelity. Betrayal. Murder.

    On a summer evening in Stratford, Ontario, the errant thrust of agardener’s spade slices a telephone cable into instant silence. The resulting disconnection is devastating. With the ...

  • On Edge

    Barbara Fister

    Konstantin Slovo knows his way through the dark. He knows what it's like to live on the edge--of tragedy, of sanity, of humanity. A Chicago cop, Slovo's own life had come violently apart with the shooting death of his partner. Here on the picture-per...

  • Busted Ride

    Mike Flanagan

    Texas, 1872. Looking to make enough money to start his own ranch, Will rode wild horses until they were fit for sale. But when folks started placing bets on who would be tamed-man or beast, Will discovered a gold mine that would become an American in...

  • Hornet Flight

    Ken Follett

    It is June 1941 and the war is not going well for England. Somehow, the Germans are anticipating the RAF's flight paths and shooting down British bombers with impunity. Meanwhile, across the North Sea, eighteen-year-old Harald Olufsen takes a shortcu...

  • Casey

    Lori Foster

    Sawyer, Morgan, Gabe and Jordan -- they're the sexiest men in Buckhorn, Kentucky. But meet Sawyer's son, Casy... Like father, like son! Emma Clark was back in Buckhorn. As a teen she'd been the girl with the bleached-blond hair, too much mak...

  • Kings of Many Castles

    Brian Freemantle

    Television audiences around the world witness in horror the Moscow assassination attempt upon the American and Russian presidents. The captured gunman is revealed to be the son of one of Britain's most infamous nuclear defectors, which brings the shu...

  • Shannon's Ride

    Charles E. Friend

    U.S. Marshal Clay Shannon is enjoying a new life as a New Mexico cattle rancher when rustlers invade his land, steal his cattle, and kill several of his men. Angrily, Shannon pins on his marshal's badge and starts after the rustlers. The trail takes ...

  • The Matchmaker

    Susan Furman

    Jill is a matchmaker, arranging marriages for the rich. When her friend Lisa is found dead, Jill turns to police detective Tony Rosetti for help. Together they will find out what really happened. At the same time they will be finding out that even a ...

  • The Baby Plan

    Susan Gable

    What he wants...is a baby. A child of his own. Jake Manning more or less raised his younger siblings; he loves kids and knows he's a natural father. However, he's had zero success as a husband. So he comes up with a baby plan, one that requires a wom...

  • I Love You, Mama

    Isabel Gaines

  • The Love Letter

    Shelley Galloway

    Strange things are afoot in the small mining town of Rocky River, Colorado during the spring of 1890. Millicent Drovers’ invitation to a picnic has fallen into the wrong hands. Marshall Bond, the local saloon owner, receives a mysterious letter ...

  • Matchstick Men

    Eric Garcia

    Roy and Frankie are matchstick men -- con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one, saves every penny. Frankie is the adventurous one, hungry fo...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Headless Horseman

    James Gelsey

    SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past three generations. The snack-sniffing sleuth and his pals are in the midst of a huge popularity boom.

    Scooby and his friends are up against one of their spookiest...

  • Death in Dublin

    Bartholomew Gill

    The theft of the Book of Kells -- an exquisite ninth-century amalgam of Christian doctrine and Celtic legend -- from the Trinity College library is, in itself, a most shocking crime. But it is the brutal slaying of a night watchman that throws Peter ...

  • Pincher Martin

    William Golding

    Experience a shipwrecked sailor's psychic disintegration into 'a naked madman on a rock' by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies.An hour on this rock is a lifetime.Glistening limpets. The claws of a lobster. Wild tangles of seaw...

  • Cautionary Tales for Children

    Edward Gorey

    "For readers of any age, a witty and strikingly irreverent collection of moral guidance Most notable among prolific English satirist Hilaire Belloc''s writings are the sharp and clever admonishments he composed for children. Collected here and i...

  • Everybody's Somebody's Fool

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    LADY KILLER When a beautiful corpse is found in a gazebo during a class reunion party, lawyer Sam McCain hopes to avoid involving himself in the ensuing complexities. However, the victim is the troubled daughter of a prominent family, and when loc...

  • A Restless Evil

    Ann Granger

    The officer on duty at Bamford police station is skeptical when he takes a call from Guy Morgan. Morgan claims to have stumbled upon human bones in Stovey Woods in the heart of the Cotswalds, but surely animal bones are more likely? Morgan, though, i...

  • Found Dead in Texas

    Jan Grape

  • Fashion Victim

    Chloe Green

    As a top fashion stylist, Dallas O'Connor has a reputation for putting it all together. But she's never had an assignment like this one, a chance to create the "look" of a new, all-girl band shooting their first music video on a private Caribbean isl...

  • Meet Super Sid, Crime-Fighting Kid

    Dan Greenburg

    THEY CHEER. THEY SHOUT! The crowd's gone wild! They can't get enough of the world's greatest superhero. He's loyal and brave. Mature and handsome. Smart, athletic -- Whoa! Wait just a second. Mature? Handsome? They're not cheering for our skinny elev...

  • Tell a Lie and Your Butt Will Grow

    Dan Greenburg

    Tell a Lie and Your Butt Will Grow Everyone at school knows that Andrew Clancy is a huge liar. But suddenly, everyone knows! Every time he tells another whopper, his butt grows bigger -- Will it ever stop?...

  • Texas Bride

    Leigh Greenwood

    NIGHT RIDERS They were a crack team of Confederate raiders, striking behind enemy lines under cover of darkness, operating with one mind, one heart. Until one of their number betrayed them all. In the aftermath of tragedy, they swore they would lire...

  • The Flame Within

    Pamela Griffin

    Raised the only child of an influential patrician in first-century Rome, Moriah has been sheltered from the worst excesses of her world. As Moriah mingles with the powerful elite, she hears whispers suggesting she is not her parents' child. Those ...

  • Whatever It Takes

    Winnie Griggs

    FLIRTING WITH PERFECTION To adopt the little girl she'd come to love, Maddy Potter needed a fiance, not a husband. Luckily, she'd found the ideal beau for her purpose: Clayton Kincaid had agreed to court her, propose marriage, and then lea...

  • My Man Blue

    Nikki Grimes

    Blue lost one boy to the streets and is determined that this time will be different. And Damon knows that even though he's the "man of the house," there's room for a friend like Blue in his life. At the end of the day, Damon has someone standing stea...

  • For a Father's Love

    JoAnn A. Grote

    Though eight years have passed, Mandy remembers as if it were yesterday the pain of turning down Jason's marriage proposal. But she knows her decision was right, and she's learned to live without him. But when his grandfather's heart attack brings Ja...

  • Drums Without Warriors

    Fred Grove

    After an absence of ten years, Sam Colter's homecoming to Red Mound, Oklahoma, is tinged by sadness. Many of his childhood friends are gone, and Sam's move to a large spread in Texas had cost him his old sweetheart. And now the discovery of oil on th...

  • The Last Guardian

    Jeff Grubb

    In the mist-shrouded haze of the past, long before the beginning of recorded time, there stood the world of Azeroth. Every kind of magical being strode the countryside among the tribes of man, and all was at peace -- until the arrival of the demons a...

  • Not So Innocent

    Laura Lee Guhrke

    Sophie Haversham would give anything not to have the gift of foresight. After all, her "talent" has already cost her one fiance. And reporting a crime that hasn't happened yet is no easy task -- especially when the future victim turns out to be the t...

  • Back in Time With Thomas Edison

    Dan Gutman

    Robert Edwards Stevens, nicknamed "Qwerty," likes digging in his backyard when he's in a bad mood. He doesn't dig for anything special -- he just digs to get his mind off things. One day, when he's really angry and has a lot on his mind, he starts di...

  • Time After Time

    Sue Haasler

    Cass Thompson is living in London with a decent job and a nice stable boyfriend. When an invitation to her 15th high school reunion arrives in the mail, her thoughts turn to the old days, with visions of big hair, Big Country, and an even bigger crus...

  • Guardian

    Joe Haldeman

    During the Alaskan gold rush, a woman pursues a destiny that will change the world in this alternate-history novel from a sci-fi legend. In the tradition of Robert Heinlein (Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land), multiple Hugo and Nebula Awa...

  • His Convenient Wife

    Diana Hamilton

    To have and to hold! Cat is furious when her grandfather insists she consider a marriage of convenience to wealthy Italian businessman Aldo Patrucco. But then it's love at first sight for Cat and lust at first sight for Aldo -- so the wedding ...

  • A Seasonal Secret

    Diana Hamilton
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    Carl Forsythe's return home is bittersweet -- newly divorced and without any family to call his own, there's not much to celebrate. When he suddenly finds himself at Beth Hayley's front door, Carl is stunned to discover that the passion they once sh...

  • The Farmer's Wife

    Lori Handeland

    Kim Luchetti couldn't get away fast enough from the Illinois farm she grew up on -- and from boyfriend Brian Riley. Now she's back. Her father is ailing, and so is Brian -- after his first sight of Kim causes him to tumble off a barn roof and brea...

  • Riding Lessons

    Julia Hanna

  • A Winter Marriage

    Kerry Hardie

    - A Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection.- The combination of pitch-perfect storytelling and pageturning suspense make this an ideal choice for book group discussions.- Hardcover ISBN: 0-316-07622-8...

  • A Deadly Bouquet

    Janis Harrison

    SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW... For Bretta Solomon, professional florist and budding sleuth, River City's wedding of the year is proving her biggest floral challenge. The impossible demands of the mother-of-the-bride are pushing Bretta, along with ...

  • Much Ado About Murder

    Simon Hawke

    Fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and Symington Smythe, ostler and would-be thespian, and are now firmly ensconced in their theater company . . . But due to the plague, all of London's theaters have been closed, its players now broke, forcing our...

  • A Pair Like No Otha'

    Hunter Hayes

    Smart, sexy Shemone Waters didn't let the very mean streets of Harlem drag her down. But Darnell Williams, her best friend from high school, made one critical mistake--and was sent to prison because of it. Now, at twenty-nine, Shemone's on th...

  • The Valdemar Companion

    John Helfers

    Fifteen years ago, Mercedes Lackey put pen to paper to write Arrows Of The Queen, her first novel about Valdemar, a fantasy kingdom replete with magical races and magical creatures, enemies and allies both sorcerous and mundane. This ancient land of ...

  • Once a Dreamer

    Candice Hern

    "The Busybody" counseled Eleanor Tennant's headstrong niece to "follow her heart" -- sending the impressionable girl racing into the arms of a notorious rake. And Eleanor is furious! The fiery Miss Tennant wants satisfacti...

  • Memories of Megan

    Rita Herron

    Cole Hunter had no memory of who he was or where he came from.Why did nothing or no one seem familiar -- except Megan Wells? And why did memories of passionate nights in her arms flash through his mind at the sight of her? Grieving widow Megan Wel...

  • The Glass Bead Game

    Hermann Hesse

    The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the author's last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. Setting the story in the distant postapocalyptic future, Hesse tells...

  • Retrovirus

    T.L. Higley / Tracy L. Higley

    Dr. Nicholas Donovan is a brilliant genetic researcher with little time for God. He's also damaged goods-and knows it-because one of his patients died in clinical trials for a genetic cancer therapy. So why would SynTech Labs be eager to hire the dis...

  • Behind the Mask

    Metsy Hingle

    "I'll pay you one million dollars to find my wife and son." Ex-cop turned bounty hunter Michael Sullivan doesn't think any woman is worth that kind of money, but a job is a job. All he has to do is make the phone call... Just drop in the quarte...

  • Gone Courting

    Willa Hix

    THE MOST DARING FEAT OF ALL... Lucy Conroy can't catch a break. Not only has her beau run off with a girl from a competing circus, he's absconded with Lucy's savings, as well. What's more, handsome, rakish -- and completely inexperie...

  • Princess Party Book: Favorite Happy Ever After Stories...and More

    Janet Hoggarth

    Six sparkling fairy tales are given a modern-day twist. Includes fun activities to help readers party like a princess!

    This royal treat of a book puts a funky new spin on such fairy tale favorites as "Cinderella," "Beauty and the Beast," and "...

  • Homemade Love

    Bell Hooks

    Her Mama calls her Girlpie-a sweet treat, homemade with love. And when Girlpie makes a mistake, the love of her mother and father lets her pick up the pieces and make everything right again. Shane W. Evan's resplendent artwork teems with "homemade lo...

  • Wild Earth: Avalanche!

    Lorraine Jean Hopping

    In this nonfiction book in the Wild Earth series by author/illustrator team Lorraine Jean Hopping and Jody Wheeler, readers will learn interesting facts and true-life stories about avalanches.

    The phenomenon of an avalanche can have devastatin...

  • The Angel with One Hundred Wings

    Daniel Horch

    The story opens in the City of Peace, as Baghdad was once called. It is a fabulously wealthy city, receiving tribute from an empire that stretches from modern day Afghanistan to Spain. Abulhassan Ibn Thaher is an old pharmacist and alchemist who is a...

  • Countdown to Valentine's Day

    Jodi Huelin

  • Gentleman Caller

    Bobby Hutchinson

    Love Line Giggle, groan--change the baby--pant, moan--flip the grilled cheese. Maxine Bleckner had the drill down. Twenty minutes on the phone, 8-10 times a day and she could pay for rent, groceries and diapers. But then she got a new client who jus...

  • Lover Boy

    Michele Jaffe

    LOVER BOY IS DYING TO COME OUT AND PLAY. The rules: Two weeks before he intends to slowly and sadistically kill his prey, Loverboy sends a collage of the future crime scene to the FBI. If the agents can solve the riddles of the collage in time, th...

  • Only Call Us Faithful

    Marie Jakober

    Richmond, Virginia, is the heart of the Confederacy, and for those whose hearts are still with the Union in 1861, it is a trying home. Li8za Van Lew has long been an outsider in Richmond. She never married, and at her father's death, she gave all of ...

  • Naked at the Window

    Bill James

    The latest dark suspense from "the Elmore Leonard of Britain's underworld" ―Kirkus Reviews.

    Big drug dealer Ralph Ember stumbles on a ghastly surprise when he and sidekick Beau Derek arrive at the house of yachtsman Barney Coss, his bulk sup...

  • Duchess in Love

    Eloisa James

    A DUKE IN RETREAT Gina was forced into marriage with the Duke of Girton at an age when she'd have been better off in a schoolroom than a ballroom. Directly after the ceremony her handsome spouse promptly fled to the continent, leaving the marria...

  • ABC Valentine

    Pamela Jane

    With rhymes from A to Z, it's hard not to fall in love with this charming Valentine's Day poem about a young girl making an extra-special Valentine for her new friend. 25 stickers make this a perfect Valentine's Day treat....

  • An Artful Death

    Roderic Jeffries

    Wealthy and rakish Keith Vickers has lived at Ca'an Mortice, a luxurious estate on the Spanish island of Mallorca, ever since he experienced a series of failed business attempts back in England. Living off his inheritance and the profits of his lates...

  • Mister Posterior and the Genius Child

    Emily Jenkins

    A Barnes & Noble's Winter Discover New Writers pick!   Woodstock was over. The Beatles had just broken up. Sesame Street was new. And people in Cambridge, Massachusetts were getting in touch with their feelings. It was 1970, the year Vanessa Brick w...

  • Lord Ruin

    Carolyn Jewel

    THE DUKE OF SIN The Duke of Cynssyr didn't believe in love. He planned to marry for beauty. But a night of unforgettable passion left him a changed man--a man tied to a bespectacled spinster. Anne Sinclair's long legs drove him wild with des...

  • Sisters Found // Breathless Seduction

    Joan Johnston

    Charity Beautiful, bold and uncertain of love after being abandoned as an infant, Charity is bewildered by Kane Longstreet's marriage proposal. Despite her misgivings, she agrees to go home with Kane for the holidays. But at his cousin's engagement ...

  • Trek of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    Johnstone Country. Where the Good Die Young. The Bad Die Sooner.Wanted: Smoke Jensen. Dead or alive.It didn't matter that the warrant was old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges -- A Texas bounty hunter wants that $10,000 reward. Wi...

  • Puppy Love

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    The local vet is hanging around Barkley School, and the dogs aren't too thrilled. Blondie thinks that the doc is there to see Fred -- it's more than puppy love for those two humans! But when Tazz gets hurt, having a doctor nearby is the best thing fo...

  • Swamp Monster in Third Grade

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    SLIME TIME! The new kid in third grade is weird! He can’t remember where he lives, he gobbles up cheeseburgers like he’s never seen them before, and oh, yeah, he has gills! Jake’s not sure why he changed from a swamp monster to a kid. Was it s...

  • Christmas Eve Wedding

    Penny Jordan

    Jaz Cavendish had shared an all-consuming passion with suave American business associate Caid Dubois -- but betrayal and disillusionment forced them apart. Back in England with the festive season approaching, Jaz discovers she has a new boss...Cai...

  • Not Quite Kosher

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    An Abe Lieberman mysteryAbe Lieberman is a strong, sympathetic character, an Everyman whose love for his family is only matched by his quiet, zealous commitment to justice. "A figure out of Talmudic lore-endearing, wise in his crotchets, weary with h...

  • Dreaming of You

    Dixie Kane

    When Big Apple Meets Big Easy... To Maggie Mayfair, a Bayou belle living in a French Quarter building whose residents are as eccentric as its architecture, nothing much comes as a surprise. Nothing, that is, except the news that her beloved home has...

  • Hidden Blessing

    Leona Karr

    The last thing Shannon Hensley expected when she rented a summer cottage was to be confronted with a life-threatening forest fire. Used to being in control in the high-powered corporate world, she'd come to the small Colorado town to find herself. In...

  • The Christmas Groom

    Debra Kastner

    Footloose and fancy free is the motto Colin Brockman yearns to live by. After years spent in the navy, Colin gets his chance to let loose while studying to be a navy chaplain. No haircuts, no ironing, no watches, no rules! Colin is determined to ligh...

  • Amy, On Her Own

    Marilyn Kaye

    Something is happening to Amy. It begins with the fading of the crescent moon mark on her shoulder. And as reports trickle in from sister clones who are encountering their share of sudden physical problems, Amy realizes that none of this bodes well. ...

  • Royal Pursuit

    Susan Kearney

    HER UNDERCOVER PRINCE Narrowly escaping an assassin, Prince Alexander fled the Vashmiran embassy in Washington, D.C., with only the clothes on his back. But the playboy bachelor was determined to take matters into his own hands. With the help of stu...

  • The Old-Fashioned Mystery

    Carolyn Keene

    It’s time for the Holiday Streetwalk in River Heights. That’s when the stores serve cider and cookies, carolers sing on street corners, and there’s face painting, clowns, and costumes for everyone to enjoy. But the best part is when the mayor t...

  • Everybody's Hero

    Tracy Kelleher

    Picture-perfect. That's what Claire Marsden thinks when she first photographs professional hockey star Jason Doyle. Little does Claire know that Jason thinks the same of the beautiful magazine photographer. It's not long before she has him masqueradi...

  • The Wedding Journey

    Carla Kelly

    Luck Follows Love Captain Jesse Randall has never expressed his intense love for Nell Mason--not even as she blossoms into glorious womanhood before his eves. Her beauty is a treasure as rare and welcome as roses in January. But if Jesse were to t...

  • Red

    Jack Ketchum

    It all started with a simple act of brutality. Three boys shot and killed an old man's dog. No reason, just plain meanness. But the dog was the best thing in the old man's world, and he wasn't about to let it pass. He wanted justice, and he'd make su...

  • Green Girls

    Michael Kimball

    A writer, a father, a husband, the owner of a strictly ordered life, Jacob Winter is not a man prone to violence -- until the day he walks in unexpectedly on his wife's affair. Awakening in a small-town Maine jail with no memory of his alleged ramp...

  • Dig Deep for Murder

    Kate Kingsbury

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Co...

  • More Naughty Than Nice

    Julie Kistler

    When plain, boring marketing drudge Stephanie Blanton reinvents herself as Stevie Bliss, the world finally takes notice! Her sizzling book, Blissfully Single, is soon rapidly climbing bestseller lists. Meanwhile, Stevie is sending men's libidos out o...

  • By the Light of the Moon

    Dean Koontz

    On the road, on a hot Arizona night, Dylan O'Conner is overpowered by a stranger who injects him with an unknown substance. All he's told is that he's the "carrier," not of a disease but of something wondrous that will transform his life in remarkabl...

  • The Cordelia Collection, Volume 1

    Nancy Krulik

    "Being popular is not just my right, but my responsibility, and I want you to know that I take it very seriously." -- Cordelia Chase Fashionista and leader of the pack, Cordelia Chase is known throughout Sunnydale High for her irrepressible ble...

  • Off to See the Wizard

    Nancy Krulik

    Sabrina's in for the shock of her life! When Sabrina is given a perplexing science assignment, her aunt Zelda suggests that she consult an old colleague of hers -- the Wizard of Menlo Park. Sabrina heads for the Other Realm Menlo Park, and discovers ...

  • Penguins

    Stuart Lafford

    Come FACE TO FACE with the wonders of the natural world with this entertaining new series, packed with fantastic facts, jokes, puzzles, and cartoons.

    Come FACE TO FACE with the world of penguins with this entertaining and informative book. You...

  • Badlands Heart

    Ruth Langan

    Kitty Conover was in for the surprise of her life... Kitty Conover was a familiar figure in Misery. Dressed in buckskins, with her yellow curls tucked under a wide- brimmed hat, she'd been known to follow a herd of mustangs for weeks. She felt as ...

  • Dreams Don't Last

    Joyce Lavene; Jim Lavene

    More like a nightmare… Diamond Springs sheriff Sharyn Howard is up for reelection and it's tough going for the no-nonsense lady lawman. With her good ol' boy opponent in the lead, a crime spree hits her small North Carolina town. First a popular...

  • Wind of War

    Jess Lebow

    The Steel Throne Sits Empty... Rokugan stands on the brink of chaos. As his brothers and sister seek the favor of the clans, the illegitimate son Akodo Kaneka forsakes grasping for power and takes up a new quest--defending the helpless and destroy...

  • Cupid.Com

    Karen Lee

    What happens when Cupid trades in his arrows for the Internet? Shot Through the Heart When E. Rose pitched Cupid.com to Chloe Phillips, she knew she had found the killer idea that would save her creative investment firm. A website that revealed...

  • Silly Sweetheart Celebrations

    Quinlan B. Lee

    Try tricking your tongue with these terrific tongue twisters!

    Join in the classroom chaos with these very vexing, valentine verses. Unfold the flaps and laugh along with some silly students and their hapless hamster, Harry.

    ...

  • The Bluebird House

    Rae Ellen Lee

    The place: Montana. The time: the present. After a nearly fatal encounter with a moose and a terrifyingly close brush with middle age, Molly reassesses her life. The result: she ends her stale marriage and moves to a small mining town where she purch...

  • Black Unicorn

    Tanith Lee

    It was big and beautiful and so black that it was like a hole in space, and it was completely impossible. Unicorns didn't belong in this world except in legends. But there it stood, radiating magical power, in the shattered wreck of the par...

  • Cole

    Ana Leigh

    The last time Cole MacKenzie saw Maggie O'Shea, the daughter of his gold-hunting partner, Pop, she was a scruffy kid with dirt on her cheeks. Now the tomboy is all grown up -- and how! -- and she's Cole's sworn responsibility, since the suspicious pa...

  • Sassy Cinderella

    Kara Lennox

    Prince Un-charming Jonathan Hardison didn't know whether to fire Sherry McCormick or take her to bed. Falling in love was not an option. Sure, she'd come to his ranch to help out with his kids while he recovered from a broken leg. But Sherry was a c...

  • Dr. Blake's Angel

    Marion Lennox

    A Christmas to remember Dr. Blake Sutherland is the sole G.P. in town. Overworked and exhausted, he needs a miracle. He gets one in the form of seven-months-pregnant Dr. Nell McKenzie, who announces that he is to have a holiday while she takes ove...

  • Renegade Canyon

    C. Jack Lewis

    When gold-miner Slim Jacobs rides into town dying of a gunshot wound, Marysville marshal Ben Carter vows to find his killer. But rumors begin to spread that Frank and Jesse James are headed for the small California town, and Carter worries that he ma...

  • Crocodile and Hen

    Joan Lexau

    Crocodile is determined to eat fat and juicy-looking Hen!

    But when he opens his mouth wide to swallow her, Hen calmly says, "My brother, don′t eat me," and Crocodile just can′t do it. What does Hen mean? How can Crocodile be her brothe...

  • Slocum and the Boomtown Bordello

    Jake Logan

    Second Impressions When Slocum first met his head honcho's daughter, Mariah, she was no bigger than a half-pint. More rambunctious than an untamed Appy, the little girl became fast friends with Slocum. But when the daring Mariah went missing,...