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New Books List: 371 titles

  • My Funny Valentine

    Harriet Ziefert

    It's almost Valentine's Day, and James puts a very special Valentine in the mail. The little card has to travel a long way. It rides in a truck, in a van, and even in an airplane. When it finally arrives at 4 Crestwood Drive, a little girl runs outsi...

  • Magic Time: Angelfire

    Marc Zicree; Maya Kaathryn Bohnoff

    THE WORLD HAS CHANGED--FOREVER Across America, technology has been eclipsed by magic, as ordinary people become the embodiments of their darkest desires, deepest fears--and purest selves. Searching for the source of this terrifying phenomenon--and...

  • Big Science Fair

    Dan Yaccarino

    Both Blast Off Boy and Blorp have science fair projects to complete, but while Blast Off Boy struggles to even come up with a project, Blorp is confident his groundbreaking contraption will be a hit. Simultaneous....

  • Baby & the Beast

    Laura Wright

    Caught in a raging snowstorm, imminent mother-to-be Isabella Spencer had never imagined that Michael Wulf, the sensual hero of her teenage fantasies, would come to her rescue. Now Isabella was ensconced in his high-tech mansion, secretly craving the ...

  • A Spinster's Luck

    Rhonda Woodward

    Lady Luck Luck has always eluded Celia Langston. When her parents passed away ten years ago, she had to make her own way in the world, forsaking a come-out Season in London and any chance at marriage. But Celia, now a governess, was never one for...

  • Along Came Trouble

    Sherryl Woods

    Trinity Harbor's sheriff Tucker Spencer has seen some action...but finding an almost-naked woman asleep in his bed leaves him speechless. Especially because this same woman -- Mary Elizabeth Chandler -- broke Tucker's heart six years ago by marrying ...

  • Blood Lake

    K.J.A. Wishnia / Ken Wishnia

    Wishnia transplants her New York City private detective Filomena Buscarsela back to the swampy town of Guayaquil in her native Ecuador in a mystery that successfully serves up exotic atmosphere, complex family relations, social unrest, and dazzling c...

  • Almost Strangers

    Delsa Winer

    How two women seek and embrace freedom is at the heart of Delsa Winer's stunning first novel "At fort, Ursula Korfield Gant believes she is independent of the usual pleasure people seek and connections they covet. She lives alone, although th...

  • Montana Miracle

    Mary Anne Wilson

    Marooned In Montana Why had handsome, celebrated Dr. Mackenzie Parish vanished at the height of his career? Jaded writer Katherine Ames sensed a story, and headed into the wilds of Montana to find him. But when a blizzard trapped Katherine, Mac foun...

  • My Dress-up Party

    Sarah Willson

    Blue from Blue's Clues can't wait for her dress-up party. All her friends are coming, but what are Blue and Joe going to be? You'll see!...

  • Darker Masques

    J.N. Williamson

    BE AFRAID Terror hides its true form in the blackest of shadows, patiently waiting to unleash a neverending nightmare upon hose foolish--or daring--enough to uncover its evil visage. From the farthest reaches of twisted imaginations to the deepest, ...

  • The Poison Master

    Liz Williams

    Liz Williams is one of science fiction's boldest new writers and this novel is one of her most profound speculations on freedom, love, and human destiny. On a distant world ruled by an alien race, humanity is enslaved, having forgotten its own past a...

  • Cherokee Marriage Dare

    Sheri Whitefeather

    "I dare you to fall in love with me." The press labeled coed Maggie Connelly young, reckless, impulsive. Actually, she was a woman in love. With Lucas Starwind. But the hardened Cherokee P.I. hid his battered heart behind a macho bravado. Maggie h...

  • Are There Bears in Starvation Lake?

    Gloria Whelan

    The kids from Starvation Lake are all excited about their trip to the ecology center . . . all of them, that is, except Baylor. Just the thought of being outdoors makes Baylor sick. The cold and the germs are bad enough, but no one said anything abou...

  • The Longest Night, Volume 1

    Joss Whedon

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... FROM DUSK UNTIL DAWN December -- sure, 'tis the season and all that, but evil generally isn't up for a holiday. And December 21 -- well, that's usually the winter solstice. A.K.A. the ...

  • Shadowmakers

    Ralph Wetterhahn

    This thriller by a distinguished military writer vividly brings to life the search for the truth about Vietnam War POWs, an unresolved national tragedy. When Major Will Cadence, a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, visits his father’s grave, he is appro...

  • The Pepperdogs

    Bing West

    The Serbs behind them were preparing to attack, and in front of them lay open ground, flat and white as a shroud. We've run a hundred miles, Lang thought, to come up a football field short. When a fellow Marine is kidnapped, Captain Mark Lang a...

  • My Reading Buddy

    Manya Weg

  • Ithanalin's Restoration

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    Despite several years of study, Kilisha, an aspiring young apprentice wizard, has much to learn. After gathering ingredients for a lesson, she returns home to find her master, Ithanalin the Wise, transformed into a statue. A tax collector interrupted...

  • The Prize in the Game

    Jo Walton

    Set in the world of Jo Walton's previous novels, The King's Peace and The King's Name, The Prize in the Game takes us to a shining era of dark powers, legendary heroes and passionate loves-all of them ruled by the hand of Fate. When a friendly compe...

  • The Christmas Baby's Gift

    Kate Walker

    The gift of an unexpected baby... They had both longed for a child. That was enough for Peta and Liam to decide to get married. Love would never have to enter the equation. But one year later, Peta is devastated to realize that she's fallen...

  • Diamond in the Rough

    Patricia Waddell

    Olivia St. John Is In For The Adventure Of Her Life News of an inheritance in far-off South Africa is a dream come true for a governess who spends her few idle hours imagining exotic locales and exciting people. While a boardinghouse in a mining ...

  • Baby Love

    Hope Vestergaard

    Delightful short poems and charmingly detailed watercolor illustrations celebrate the unique attributes of babies--as told by parents, grandparents, and siblings--such as the way they sleep, play, move, and grow....

  • The Riddle of the Deplorable Dandy

    Patricia Veryan

    Elspeth Clayton's family has been living in considerably reduced circumstances, and to improve their finances, her brother Vance becomes a soldier of fortune. His assignments take him to France, where he is caught up in political intrigues. Inj...

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumantra

    Alan Vanneman

    With a case as confounding as any in the original Holmes canon and a tale so terrifying it lay hidden for more than a century in Dr. Watson's dispatch box, Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra begins familiarly enough. Elizabeth Trent, a bere...

  • The Big Tour

    Robert Upton

    The Big Tour is an authentic, behind-the-ropes tale of a young golfer’s arduous quest to become, and succeed, as a professional golfer....

  • The Gryphon's Skull

    H.N. Turteltaub

    Menedemos, the dashing young sea captain, and his helper (and cousin),  the scholarly Sostratos, are back in a new adventure.Soon after their successful return to Rhodes, the two cousins find that  Greece is a dangerous place after the deat...

  • Just Before Daybreak

    Elizabeth Turner

    Secret Dreams Born on the wrong side of a prosperous Lake Michigan lumber town, Claire Sorenson works as a maid for handsome lumber baron Cole Garrett, and daydreams about his charmed life. With his fine home and beautiful family, he seems to lead a...

  • Tank Girl 1

    Titan Books

    From the depths of the outback comes a wildly anarchic, in-your-face heroine for a new age of madness...maverick British creators Alan Martin and Jamie (Gorillaz) Hewlett present Tank Girl!

    Join everybody’s favourite beer-swilling, chain-smoking...

  • Cable, Volume 2: End

    David Tischman

    When the Macedonians plan to "cleanse" their Albanian ethnic rivals from their shared country, Cable, a freedom fighter with allegiances to no faction but the innocents caught in the crossfire, uses his powerful philosophy of peace to put an end to t...

  • Mountain Man

    David Thompson

    ALONE ON THE PRAIRIE Rosemary Spencer is a woman alone. All alone, except for her young children. She and her husband and their two boys sold their farm, bought a Conestoga wagon and some oxen, and joined a wagon train heading for a new life in Or...

  • Morrison's Jetty

    Francois Theron

    Champion swimmer Frank Fernandez has had a classical education from Jesuits and has the opportunity of going to America on a swimming scholarship. Yet he finds himself working for Nick Georgiades as a crew member of the Delos, a leaky trawler....

  • Their Instant Baby

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Just Add Baby Amy Deveraux's biological clock was tick...tick...ticking! To make matters even worse, she had agreed to look after her three-month-old godson while his mother was out of the country. Except, sharing the baby-sitting responsibilities...

  • Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story

    Emma Tennant

    Adele, the daughter of a celebrated Parisian actress, is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, her mother's former lover. Lonely and ill at ease in the unfamiliar English countryside,...

  • The Dragon Isles

    Stephen D. Sullivan
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Dragon Isles: abandoned home of the good dragons, land of amazing adventure and legendary treasure. The trouble is, no one knows how to get there. Now Mikal Vardan and his crew have found the hidden route, but they're not the only ones interes...

  • In Harm's Way

    Lyn Stone

    Maybe it was the whole Southern comfort thing -- the sinfully rich accent, that lazy smile, his heated touch, kindness that nearly disarmed her. But Robin Andrews knew better than to trust a man...especially this one. Did Detective Mitch Winton reall...

  • Snow

    Manya Stojic

    Moose, bear, fox, and hare frolic in a snowy, glowy winter wonderland from the creator of Rain. Winter is coming to the north woods and the animals are all getting ready for the first big snow. The owl hears the wind whistle, but the moose sees the f...

  • The Wolf's Surrender

    Sandra Steffen

    When a powerful storm blew through town, attorney Kelly Madison found herself stranded at the courthouse -- and going into labor in Judge Grey Colton's chambers! The handsome, no-nonsense bachelor revealed a surprisingly tender side as he delivered h...

  • Ghost War

    Michael A. Stackpole

    A DARK AGE HAS DESCENDED... For generations, the Republic of the Sphere has known a Golden Age of peace. Mighty BattleMechs, once kings of the battlefields, now aid the reconstruction of war-torn worlds. But when terrorists destroy the interstella...

  • Who Left That Body in the Rain?

    Patricia Sprinkle

    Sixty-something Southerner MacLaren Yarbrough keeps busy as a county magistrate, a co-owner of Yarbrough's Feed, Seed and Nursery, and a loving wife and mother. But her penchant for snooping around in other people's business often lands her up to her...

  • Death of an Innocent

    Sally Spencer

    'Superior work from a best-selling British author' - Library Journal A man and a young woman are found blasted away by a rifle in a remote farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. But where is the farmer, why did he have such swanky furniture in his livi...

  • Christmas Passions

    Catherine Spencer
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  • The Summer House: Courtin' Cassandra

    Teresa Southwick

    Marrying Mandy by Susan Mallery Eight years ago, Mandy Carter and Rick Benson shared a whirlwind romance -- and a painfully short-lived marriage. Now that Rick was back in her life...back in her arms...would history repeat itself, or would their fut...

  • Housebreaking a Husband

    Lori Soard

  • Flash Flood

    Susan Slater

    Dan Mahoney, insurance investigator, lands in Tatum, New Mexico where several prize cattle on the famed Double Horseshoe Ranch have mysteriously died. The claims put a lot of money at stake for Dan's company. But that just scratches the surface of...

  • Death's Door

    Michael Slade

    A mummy has been stolen in London. Authorities believe the motive is the treasure hidden in its fetid wrappings. They're wrong. Mutilated bodies of young runaways are discovered washed ashore on Vancouver beaches. Authorities think they're victims...

  • Name & Address Withheld

    Jane Sigaloff

    Dear Lizzie, My marriage is in dire straits. I know you must get hundreds of people writing to you with this problem, but I think my husband may be having an affair.... -- Name & Address Withheld Lizzie Ford is an urban sexpert, and her hip...

  • Secrets and Lies

    Maggie Shayne

    Former Secret Service agent Alex Stone was the best of the best, so impersonating missing foreign dignitary Thomas Barde seemed easy. Convincing the world that rough-and-rowdy Melusine Brand was actually Katerina, Thomas's ultrafeminine bride and the...

  • Nebraska Gunrunners

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo heats up a hellhound hideout!In the town of Helldorado, bullets buzz through the air like flies, and any two-bit bandit is welcomed with open arms -- for a price. So when a shipment of army rifles is stolen, Skye Fargo knows just where to ...

  • Serving Up Trouble

    Jill Shalvis

    A PRECIOUS SECOND CHANCE Hardened cop Sam O'Neill knew a meddlesome woman when he saw one. He'd saved cocktail waitress Angie Rivers during a bank holdup, but he couldn't get her pretty face or the feel of her silky skin out of his head. She made ...

  • Maid of Killarney

    Ana Seymour

    The untold love story of John Black, the doctor-turned-rebel from Ana Seymour's acclaimed Riordan Brothers trilogy... People called them witches. But Lily O'Farrell and her daughter tried to ignore the whispers and keep to themselves in a ...

  • Frogs

    Scholastic Inc.

    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 frogs with this entertaining and informative book. You'l...

  • Insects

    Scholastic Inc.

    Come to 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 insects with this entertaining and informative book. Y...

  • Night Creatures

    Scholastic Inc.

    Come to 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 creatures of the night with this entertaining and informative b...

  • Sharks

    Scholastic Inc.

    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 sharks with this entertaining and informative book. You'...

  • BigPig Saves Valentine's Day

    Cecile Schoberle

    You silly, willy, BigPig!

    Pauline knows just how to get ready for the big Valentine's Day party at school -- make Valentine's Day cards, bake cookies, and most importantly -- watch out for BigPig!

    Lift up the flaps t...

  • The Eagle's Conquest

    Simon Scarrow

    When Centurion Macro and his young subordinate, Optio Cato arrive on the shores of Britain to take part in the Emperor Claudius' invasion in AD 43, Macro knows the desperately outnumbered Roman army will be facing one of the toughest campaigns eve...

  • Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction

    Al Sarrantonio

    A revolutionary anthology of remarkable works of speculative fiction encompasses contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin, Joyce Carol Oates, Larry Niven, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford, Michael Moorcook, Joe Haldeman, Stephen Baxter, Catherine Asaro, a...

  • Got Mick?

    Amy Sandrin

    Andrea has been in love with Mick since she was 12. Mick sees her as his friend Brian's sister. But when Mick needs Andrea's help in a matchmaking scheme, they enter into a pretend engagement. Will Mick finally see Andrea for the woman she is?...

  • My Husband, My Babies

    Debra Salonen

    Jenny, Andrea and Kristin Sullivan are much more than sisters -- they're triplets! Growing up as one of a threesome meant the days were never lonely...or dull. Now they're adults -- with separate lives, loves, dreams and secrets. But undernea...

  • Artists on Comic Art

    Mark Salisbury

    In-depth interviews with comics art legends reveal the secrets of translating comics script to graphic storytelling for the first time. Technique, style, layouts, approach, pencilling, inking... no facet of the artist's craft is left unexplored, and ...

  • Sudden Danger

    Sharon Sala
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    This is going to be our year! Love, Your Secret Admirer It's just a simple note, but for the three women who receive it, it has very different consequences.... HEART-POUNDING DANGER! A bouquet of flowers from a secret--and deadly admirer send...

  • The Bennie Arnoldo Files

    John Alfred Russo

  • Elektra, Volume 1: Introspect

    Greg Rucka

  • Spider-Man: Quality of Life

    Greg Rucka

    When red tape, bureaucracy, and a corrupt corporation block Dr. Curtis Connors' bid to help cure his cancer-stricken wife, he unleashes his deadly alter ego, the Lizard, on humankind and Spider-Man. A Graphic Novel. Original....

  • Doom's Break

    Christopher Rowley

    This is the fifth summer of the war. The fifth summer in which the sounds of battle ring out beneath the trees and on the beaches. The fifth summer of burials of the fallen, both mots and men. By now, the watermots no longer wonder why an army of men...

  • Patron of the Arts

    William Rotsler

    Brian Thorne was a billionaire. There were only two things he really cared about: women and art. And because he could afford it, he had paid the world's finest artist to combine the two-to make a work of art of the unforgettable, incomparable woman M...

  • A Little Help From Above

    Saralee Rosenberg

    Saralee Rosenberg's compelling debut novel, told in a warm, wise and endearing voice, is about sisters, mothers and daughters, and loss, sacrifice and love. When Shelby Lazarus returns home to Long Island in the midst of a family crisis, she is f...

  • A Montana Christmas

    Kristine Rolofson

    What Child Is This? Melanie Briggs and her baby daughter create quite a stir when they suddenly arrive to stay at the Stone Ranch. She'd make the perfect wife in Jared Stone's opinion. Not that he has any intention to marry or become an instant dad...

  • Her Texan Temptation

    Shirley Rogers

    Rodeo star Deke McCall was back in town, and Mary Beth Adams wanted nothing to do with the love-'em-and-leave-'em cowboy who'd vanished two years earlier. She was too busy trying to save her family's ranch, but she needed help. Enter sexy-as-all-get-...

  • An Honorable Man

    Rosemary Rogers

    Beautiful, headstrong Cameron Campbell knows her privileged life as a Mississippi senator's daughter is about to be shattered. Her fine Southern family has its share of secrets and scandal, and as her father decides to stand with the Union, long-held...

  • The Ghost of Carnal Cove

    Evelyn Rogers

    "I AM A MAN WITHOUT CONSCIENCE." So claimed the dark stranger who accosted her amid the pounding surf and tearing winds of Carnal Cove. Taunting her with Legends of the place--stories of illicit trysts between the village girls and sailors--Captai...

  • Her Scandalous Intentions

    Sari Robins

    DID HE SAY "BETROTHED"? Miss Charlotte Hastings may be an innocent, but she is uncommonly prudent, which is why she will settle for nothing less than absolute integrity in a husband. But when James Morgan, the devastatingly seductive Duke of Girar...

  • The Scent of Spiced Orange

    Les Roberts

  • The Making of a Bad Man

    J.R. Roberts

    MAD DOG The Yellow Dog Saloon in Clark, West Virginia, is as welcoming a place as any for a gunfighter. It's the kind of bar where a man can catch up with his old friends and keep track of his worst enemies--all in one night. But when C...

  • The Marshal of Kingdom

    J.R. Roberts

    As the marshal of a town called Kingdom, Sam Lance had a good life. Until he and his new bride found themselves suddenly caught between two gunmen. A few shots fired and Lance was the only one standing. Now, five years later, Clint Adams finds th...

  • Emergency: Christmas

    Alison Roberts

    Mark Wallace, the new E.R. doctor, started out as Penelope Baker's "Plan B." Dating him might make her "Plan A" man take notice. But when Penelope and Mark witnessed a terrible car accident, and risked their lives to free the injured occupants, a str...

  • Scrooge and the Single Girl

    Christine Rimmer

    All I want for Christmas: 1) A good bottle of champagne 2) A free-range turkey 3) A cozy snow-covered cabin With that list, lifestyle columnist Jillian Diamond was making a statement about what she didn't want for Christmas -- a man. Of cours...

  • Cold Water

    Gwendoline Riley

    Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile and full of longing: a 20-year-old working nights in a dive bar in Manchester, England. Cut off from her family, she forges odd alliances with her customers, daydreams about escaping to Cornwall, her own Elysian Fields...

  • Fighting for His Wife

    Paula Detmer Riggs
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    This is going to be our year! Love, Your Secret Admirer It's just a simple note, but for the three women who receive it, it has very different consequences.... HEART-POUNDING DANGER! A bouquet of flowers from a secret--and deadly admirer send...

  • McCloud's Woman // Rebel Charm

    Patricia Rice

    A lot has happened to Mara Simon since she was a teenager. And although on the inside she's still the sweet, sensitive girl she was back then, the face she shows the world is that of a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood producer with a movie to make a...

  • The Sweetest of Hearts

    RH/Disney

  • Tentmaker

    Clay Reynolds

    With the end of the Civil War, Gil Hooley heads West, hoping to build a new life for himself on the open frontier with the aid of his hand-crafted tents, but when his wagon breaks down in the middle of nowhere, a community begins to grow around him, ...

  • The Arabian Love-Child

    Michelle Reid

    Half Arab prince, half French, Rafiq Al-Qadim wears his pride like a suit of armor...as Melanie Portreath had discovered when she fell in love with him years ago. Then Rafiq chose to believe ugly lies about her, and blew her out of his life like a gr...

  • The Irresistible MacRae

    Karen Ranney

    To avoid a scandal that would devastate her family, Riona McKinsey has agreed to marry the wrong man -- though the one she yearns for is James MacRae. Had she not been maneuvered into a compromising position by a man of Edinburgh -- who covets her fa...

  • Curtains of Blood

    Robert J. Randisi

    London, 1888. A knife flashes in the fog. A madman has begun the most notorious and shocking series of murders in history. With each new discovery of a woman's mutilated body, the citywide panic grows. The police seem unable to stop the killer, even ...

  • A Convenient Marriage

    Debbie Raleigh

    After forty years of devoted service, Vicar Humbly is eager to retire to his pleasant cottage and tend to his garden. But before he can live in peace, he must salve his conscience by traveling to the homes of three couples whose marriages have troubl...

  • Just for You

    Doreen Rainey

    A Head Made for Business... Event planner Alexis Shaw's booming company, Just For You, plans everything--except weddings. As far as Alexis is concerned, marriage is a waste of time, heart, and money. The policy hasn't hurt her any--she's even named ...

  • The Mantra

    Dmitry Radyshevsky

    Hear It His music is intoxicating. An incantation pumping every drumbeat into the blood. Every rhythm, every word, enslaving listeners into a blissful paralysis of the will. No wonder TuneRa has become the most popular performer in the world. ...

  • The Rag and Bone Shop

    Jeff Rackham

    An intriguing debut historical novel presents a fictionaled account of the secret thirteen-year love affair between author Charles Dickens and actress Ellen Ternan, as told in the alternating voices of Dickens's sister-in-law Georgina Hogarth, myster...

  • The Dowager's Daughter

    Mona Prevel

    A Lady With A Fortune Althea Markham is a young woman with responsibilities, not the least of which is providing her family with a male heir. Of course, that would entail marrying, and for a lady too proud to entertain a sparse collection of gold-d...

  • Next Victim

    Michael Prescott

    He calls himself Mobius--and he's a serial killer who has eluded the FBI for years. Catching him is an obsession for Agent Tess McCallum. He murdered her lover. And now he's resurfaced in a new state with a new identity. And a new means of killing. ...

  • Cosmo And The Pirates

    Daniel Postgate

    Amateur ghostbuster Cosmo Jones is called in to Mario's Pizza Restaurent to investigate claims of spooky goings on. He hears strange noises coming from the jukebox and soon faces a ghost ship complete with pirates! This is the second book in THE SPOO...

  • Everybody Pays

    Maurice Possley

  • Dr. Dee Dee and Dexter Hyde

    Pam Pollack

    Since its debut in 1996, DEXTER'S LAB has been one of Cartoon Network's top-rated shows. Now Scholastic teams up with the boy genius and his pesky sister Dee Dee for original chapter and picture books

    Dexter is determined to continue his quest...

  • Platinum Pohl

    Frederik Pohl

    Frederik Pohl, the bestselling author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever, is famous for his novels, but first and foremost, he is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF sto...

  • Lord of the Dark Sun

    Stobie Piel

    HER DARKEST HOUR Ariana awoke in chains, a captive. Her ship had been disabled and her friends hurt, and she was to blame. She had cajoled them into braving the outskirts of space, the uncontrolled areas beyond her father's rule. And now they were t...

  • Tall, Dark and Irresistible

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    COURTING CAROLYN... Adoption specialist Carolyn St. John had given up on ever holding her own baby. For Carolyn knew the handicap that distanced her from others barred a future for her and any man. And then she met Ryan Sharpe.... The architect was...

  • 100th Day

    Alayne Pick

    Building on the sucess of Hello Reader!, the Hello Writer! books have been created especially for new readers, with stories and hands-on activities to provide practice with reading and writing skills.

    It's the 100th day of school in Miss Hill'...

  • Angels Watching Over Me

    Michael Phillips

    A STORY AS FULL OF EMOTION AND DRAMA AS THE CHARACTERS THEMSELVES... Born within a year of each other and in the same North Carolina county, Mayme and Katie had grown up in two separate worlds. Mayme was a member of a slave family, and her future ...

  • The Playboy

    Carly Phillips

    It takes a very special woman to catch a Chandler man... Meet the Chandlers--a trio of sexy brothers and the most eligible men in town ... until their mother falls ill. As her three sons gather at her side, she' makes two desperate demands: "Get marr...

  • Simply Sexy

    Carly Phillips

    What do men want? That's what newly hired advice columnist Rina Lowell intends to find out. And, on a personal level, she really needs to know...because she definitely wants her new boss, sexy Colin Lyons. After years of living for others, she's tak...

  • Keeper of the Light

    Patricia Curtis Pfitsch

    After the 1872 death of her father while trying to rescue drowning sailors from a sinking schooner, Faith takes over his job as a lighthouse keeper on Lake Michigan, until her mother decides to move into town, where Faith soon finds herself stifled b...

  • Dead Aim

    Thomas Perry

    Robert Mallon has lived for ten quiet years in affluent Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach with a mysterious young woman shatters his peaceful, carefully constructed life. Despite Mallon's desperate attempts, he loses her, and be...

  • A Time to Forgive

    Marta Perry

    Some men were just unforgettable. And Adam Caldwell was never far from Tory Marlowe's thoughts. Now that she was back in town, Tory hoped that their one magical night might help Adam remember her...and help her fulfill a promise made. Adam wasn't ...

  • Second Advent

    Tony Perona

    Fatal Vision The shocking suicide of the beloved and wealthy patriarch of his Indiana hometown lures investigative reporter Nick Bertetto briefly out of his new role as a stay-at-home dad to take a closer look. The dead man left a will that bequea...

  • All About Obedience

    Frank E. Peretti

    No kid likes to follow all the rules, but Mr. Henry has a funny way of showing that it's totally cool to obey the Lord. Children will come to see that the garden's bananas taste a lot better than the snake's baloney, that it's no fun ...

  • Deep Rampage

    Don Pendleton

    As America stands firm in its resolve to stamp out terror across the globe, the country's most covert defense team works 24/7 to stop the free world's worst nightmares from becoming reality. At the heart of the Stony Man's fortified nerve center in t...

  • Vendetta Force

    Don Pendleton

    Deadly Force Law-enforcement officers are being assassinated by a brutal, invisible killing machine. Coast-to-coast, this operation seems efficient -- and untouchable. Mack Bolan goes undercover with the Houston PD to penetrate the heart of this e...

  • The Marquis and the Mother-To-Be

    Valerie Parv

    Back in her lush, beloved Carramer, Carissa Day purchased the perfect B and B for raising her babies-to-be. Trouble was, an aristocratic "intruder" proved she'd been swindled -- her new home was actually his royal lodge. Worse, he proved ...

  • A Wanted Man

    Nancy J. Parra

    Brianna McGraw ventures out West to find and rescue her brother from bandits who will sell him illegally to the highest bidder. Separated after they were orphaned a few years ago, Brianna has worked hard as a librarian to save money for the trip. But...

  • The Lives of Dax

    Marco Palmieri

    THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS. NINE LIVES. ONE SOUL. Mother, father, engineer, ambassador, scientist, statesman, serial killer, Starfleet officer: At one time or another, Dax has been all of these things and more. The near-immortal part of a compos...

  • Lionhearted

    Diana Palmer

    HIS WINTER BRIDE...? As the holiday season approached, the residents of Jacobsville were whispering about Janie Brewster's hopeless crush on Leo Hart. Up till now, all her efforts to lasso the dynamic cattleman had crumbled quicker than those mout...

  • A Season to Believe

    Elane Osborn

    Who am I? She asked. But no one knew. A near-fatal accident had stolen Jane's past, and now she struggled daily with her new life. Only the knowledge that policeman Matt Sullivan was rooting for her kept her going. But when flashes of her memory retu...

  • One Tough Cowboy

    Sara Orwig

    What was a cowboy to do? When Josh Kellogg had rescued a stubborn damsel in distress from her burning car, he figured that was the last he'd see of her. But without any ID or memory of who she was, and with trouble on her tail, it looked like Ms. "La...

  • What a Great Idea!

    Liane Onish

  • Atlantis Endgame

    Andre Norton; Sherwood Smith

    THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS On the island of Crete--the reputed site of legendary Atlantis--the Time Patrol that guards Earth's history from potentially world-ending change has discovered evidence of time travel dating back to the time before Atlantis ...

  • Heresy

    Sharan Newman

    Catherine LeVendeur is a creature of twelfth-century France. Her life is a mirror of that time but she is a unique spirit, determined to make her way in the world and armed with a keen mind and a curiosity that often puts her in peril. Her life is bo...

  • Under Abduction

    Andrew Neiderman

    THEY DON'T WANT HER MONEY. THEY WANT SOMETHING FAR MORE PRECIOUS.... In broad daylight, Anna Gold is abducted at gunpoint in a supermarket parking lot. Her kidnappers -- a deranged man and woman -- drive off with her and hold her captive, shackled i...

  • The Truest Power

    Rebecca Neason

    THE TRUEST POWER THE HEART OF THE SCEPTER Rulerless Aghamore totters on the brink of catastrophic civil war, even though the blind seer Lysandra, her wolf companion (loud Dancer, and the priest Renan have found Sella, the young girl who possesses...

  • Where the Rain is Born

    Anita Nair

  • Last Stop Vienna

    Andrew Nagorski

    Germany in the 1920s, in the early days of Hitler and the Nazi party, was a country plunging into darkness and violence. Andrew Nagorski has written the story of a doomed generation, of evil, hopelessness, sexual perversion and murder that set the st...

  • Quick Strike

    Mike Murray

    Major Joe Mears, leader of LEOPARD 1, an elite team of American Special Operations forces, is called in to investigate the mystery behind the hijacking of an American oil tanker, the spread of a lethal new virus, and a fortune in money laundered by a...

  • The World Below

    Kevin Andrew Murphy

    Drawn from the highly popular comic book series, an enthralling novel follows marine biologist Aspen Matthews, who has no memory of her life before the age of eleven, as she unexpectedly discovers that the truth surrounding her existence lurks in the...

  • The Indian Lover

    Garth Murphy

    With a sweeping sense of history and landscape that contributed to making Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove a classic, and the precise sense of character and passion that made Cold Mountain so successful, Garth Murphy has written a brilliant saga about ...

  • Pharoah Fantastic

    Multiple Authors

    A collection of original short tales explores the magic and mystery of ancient Egypt in a series of fantasy tales by Tanya Huff, Jody Lynn Nye, Rosemary Edghill, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Bill McCay, Alan Dean Foster, Fiona Patton, Jane Lindskold, and ...

  • A Heavenly Christmas

    Carole Mortimer
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  • An Arranged Marriage

    Peggy Moreland

    LSCC Member: Jaded Texas Ranger Clay Martin Social Status: Embarking on an arranged marriage with a spoiled socialite Method of Seduction: Introducing his virgin bride to the pleasures of lovemaking while trying to rein in her wild spirit....

  • It Had to Be You

    Peggy Moreland
    in

    This is going to be our year! Love, Your Secret Admirer It's just a simple note, but for the three women who receive it, it has very different consequences.... HEART-POUNDING DANGER! A bouquet of flowers from a secret--and deadly admirer send...

  • The Lady Godiva Murder

    Laurie Moore

    In this crisply written and witty novel, the day arrives when homicide detective Cézanne Martin achieves her goal and passes the state bar exam. When her partner is charged with murder, Cézanne won't resign from the police department until she know...

  • Blood War

    Russell Moon

    There are enemies within and without... The coven took my mother, because of me. They killed my dog, because of me. You'd think there could be nothing worse than this -- but you'd be wrong. My family and me being torn to shreds by a horde of witc...

  • Eyes of the Virgin

    Thomas F. Monteleone

    THE PROPHECIES The eyes of the Virgin Mother gaze out of the piece of stained glass, their expression wise and protective. From time to time, the Virgin "blinks," and words appear in the glass--cryptic prophecies which the Vatican decodes and disclo...

  • April Fools!

    Else Holmelund Minarik

  • I Miss You Father Bear

    Else Holmelund Minarik

    Little Bear decides to stay up all night and watch the sunrise--just like Father Bear does when he is fishing--but Mother Bear doesn't think that's such a hot idea, because little bears need their sleep! Original....

  • The Scheme for Full Employment

    Magnus Mills

    From Magnus Mills, the acknowledged master of the working-class dystopic parable -- a genre he practically invented -- a new work of comic geniusThe whole idea is simple yet so perfect: men drive to and from strategically placed warehouses in Univans...

  • Her Royal Pain in the Highness

    Kasey Michaels
    in

    A new queen is to be crowned. And a mysterious assassin is hell-bent on stopping it. But Captain Devon Montcalm will see Princess Kelly Carradigne ascend to her throne as queen, even if it means throwing himself in front of a bullet....

  • Training Tommy

    Barbara Meyers

    An irresistible guy. A mischievous dog. And a by-the book schoolteacher. Sabrina Talbott loves her disciplined routines, her flower garden, and her home filled with a collection of teapots and antiques. She's even...

  • More than a Gift

    Josie Metcalfe

    After waiting forever to find love, Laurel was devastated when she had to leave specialist Dmitri Rostropovich behind without even telling him why. Now, eight months pregnant, trapped in a snowbound car, she can only wonder whether she'll ever...

  • Shockproof Sydney Skate

    Marijane Meaker

    Sydney Skate has dubbed himself "Shockproof": He decoded his mother's gossip with her glamorous lesbian girlfriends at age eight (but has never let on to her that he knows she's gay). He easily shrugs off his father's demands to skip college and join...

  • My Lady Knight

    Suzanne McMinn

    SHE COULD FELL ANY MAN WITH HER SWORD...COULD SHE CAPTURE ONE WITH HER KISS? As untamed as the wildflowers in the meadows beyond Castle Wulfere, Gwyneth knew that womanly pursuits such as embroidery and song suited her brother's new wife, Belle. G...

  • The Warrior's Bond

    Juliet E. McKenna

    Einarinn's greatest warrior, the swordsman Ryshad, has sworn to protect his lord, Messire D'Olbriot, even if it means watching his love, the beautiful thief Livak, embark on a dangerous quest to find the lost aetheric magic on her own. But shadow and...

  • Celt and Pepper

    Ralph M. McInerny

    Martin Kilmartin is a popular young Notre Dame professor and a promising poet, and as far as everyone on campus knows, he's off to visit his ancestral Ireland over winter break. It's a shocking moment when Professor Kilmartin is discovered dead in hi...

  • Assassin's Blade

    Scott McGough
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    ASSASSINATION HAS ITS PRICE! Scheming, intelligent, and power-hungry, the emperor's assassin moves always in shadow. He kills whom his master wishes and plans his own rise to power. Against him, one man stands on his honor, determined to end the c...

  • Sugar

    Bernice McFadden

  • Child of My Heart

    Alice McDermott

    In Alice McDermott's first work of fiction since her best-selling, National Book Award-winning Charming Billy, a woman recalls her fifteenth summer with the wry and bittersweet wisdom of hindsight.

    The beautiful child of older parents, raise...

  • The Price of Moonlight

    Sylvia McDaniel

    When Jean Cuvier was murdered, he left a legacy of scandal and betrayal that rocked New Orleans. For the wealthy Creole businessman had not one wife to mourn him, but three. Much to Nicole Rosseau Cuvier's shock, she was the second of the three Cuvie...

  • The October Horse

    Colleen McCullough

    In her new book about the men who were instrumental in establishing the Rome of the Emperors, Colleen McCullough tells the story of a famous love affair and a man whose sheer ability could lead to only one end -- assassination. As The October Horse ...

  • Royally Pregnant

    Barbara McCauley

    His dangerous edge hidden behind a playboy persona, Prince Dylan of Penwyck unexpectedly rescued a lovely damsel. But in saving sweet Emily, he had brought an unforeseen danger into the royal palace. Emily claimed to have amnesia, yet she was actuall...

  • The Cowboy's Christmas Miracle

    Anne McAllister

    A CHRISTMAS SURPRISE Deke Malone got an early Christmas present -- an almost-two-year-old son! Parenthood had never been among Deke's priorities, but being a dad was the hardest -- and best -- thing he'd ever done. It took him home to Mont...

  • Aloha Reunion

    Debby Mayne

    College senior Leilani is blind-sided by the emotional impact of Jeff Sorenson's arrival in Hawaii. Her physical attraction to him is evident from the moment he steps off the plane with his sister Betty, who has returned for a reunion of old school r...

  • Dancing in the Dark // Reunited with the Billionaire

    Sandra Marton

    Welcome to Twin Oaks -- the new B and B in Cooper's Corner. Some come for pleasure, others for passion -- and one to set things straight... Check-in: When Wendy Monroe had left Cooper's Corner she'd been an Olympic hopeful in skiing......

  • The Arraignment

    Steve Martini

    After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend th...

  • The Maquisarde

    Louise Marley

    Near the end of the 21st century, the murder of her husband and daughter by terrorists drives Ebriel Serique to venture beyond her charmed life to confront the truth about the world. And while she never would have suspected it, Ebriel discovers that ...

  • The Sea Lark's Song

    Diana Marcellas

    Young Brierley was a healer, until she was betrayed by one she trusted, and her secret heritage as a Sh'ari healer was exposed. On the run from those who would destroy her as they did the rest of her race, Brierley discovered the shocking truth about...

  • The Girl With the Persian Shawl

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    In Suffolk, every unmarried young lady knows that, if she ever wants to find a match, she must walk, speak, eat, even laugh properly. A young woman looking to marry is always sweet and demure, charming and gracious, and, of course, deferential. But n...

  • Trail Town

    Jason Manning

    Ethan Payne has drifted across the rugged American West, hungry to settle. From the wilds of the Missouri to the jungles of Panama, he left his destiny to the gods, and left Gil Stark--his best frined-turned-outlaw--to the devil. Now, acting as Abile...

  • The Summer House: Marrying Mandy

    Susan Mallery

    Eight years ago, Mandy Carter and Rick Benson shared a whirlwind romance -- and a painfully short-lived marriage. Now that Rick was back in her life...back in her arms...would history repeat itself, or would their future hold a passion powerful enoug...

  • Lord St. Leger's Find

    Jennifer Malin

    THEIR GREATEST DISCOVERY... Melpomene Lowery cares not a whit for Society, but her archaeologist father is willing to indulge her unseemly passion for a nearby ruin only so far. With just two weeks to unearth a valuable antiquity before traveling to...

  • A Cowboy & A Gentleman

    Ann Major

    "She'll have to run farther than the Big Apple to forget that night." -- Anthony Duke, rugged cowboy with marriage on his mind Anthony Duke knew he was in trouble when he made love to the sexiest woman of his dreams. All sweetness and sass, Zoe talk...

  • Norwyck's Lady

    Margo Maguire

    Would the rescued maiden prove to be his downfall...or his desire? Women Could Not Be Trusted Bartholomew, Earl of Norwyck, had well learned that bitter lesson from his traitorous first wife. What, then, should he make of "the Lady Marguer...

  • Risky Business

    Suzanne Macpherson

    Thirty Days ... That's how long Tom Riley is supposed to keep beautiful Marla Meyers from falling on her heavily insured face. But how on earth is he supposed to look after -- but not touch -- a drop-dead gorgeous dame like this one? She may be easy...

  • The Billionaire Borrows a Bride

    Myrna MacKenzie

    Billionaire Spencer Fairfield hired Kate Ryerson to play the perfect wife-to-be at his grandmother's party. Kate was attractive, caring and -- most important -- temporary. But the confirmed bachelor's growing desire for his borrowed bride soon had hi...

  • This Time Love

    Elizabeth Lowell

    Joy Anderson was innocent, young, and trusting when she met Gabe Venture. An aspiring journalist with worlds to conquer, Gabe came to New Mexico to explore the natural wonders of Lost River Cave, with Joy acting as his guide. Surrounded by staggering...

  • Everlasting Moments

    Dorothy Elizabeth Love

  • True Devotion

    Kim Louise

    THE ART OF LOVE The pain of broken love affairs and lost loved ones has shaped Marti Allgood into a gifted artist who paints for healing, not for profit. But fabulously wealthy art collector Kenyon Williams believes Marti may be the next great Afr...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

    ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...