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New Books List: 371 titles

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Heavenly Christmas

    Carole Mortimer
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  • Christmas Passions

    Catherine Spencer
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  • A Seasonal Secret

    Diana Hamilton
    in

    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...

  • Sugar

    Bernice McFadden

  • 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?...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Countdown to Valentine's Day

    Jodi Huelin

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • I Love You, Mama

    Isabel Gaines

  • 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...

  • 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!...

  • The Sweetest of Hearts

    RH/Disney

  • What Should I Do With My Life?

    Po Bronson

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Elektra, Volume 1: Introspect

    Greg Rucka

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • Where the Rain is Born

    Anita Nair

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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.

    ...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Found Dead in Texas

    Jan Grape

  • The Scent of Spiced Orange

    Les Roberts

  • Tales from the Dark Woods

    Brendan DuBois

  • 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...

  • The Bennie Arnoldo Files

    John Alfred Russo

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

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    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...

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    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...

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    Leigh Greenwood

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    Winnie Griggs

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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Cupid.Com

    Karen Lee

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  • Official Escort

    Jean Barrett

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  • A Summer Place

    Laura Abbot

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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • White Tiger's Fancy

    Tracy Cozzens

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  • Haunted Heart

    Francine Craft

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  • 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....

  • 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...

  • True Devotion

    Kim Louise

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  • Lord St. Leger's Find

    Jennifer Malin

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  • Dancing in the Dark // Reunited with the Billionaire

    Sandra Marton

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  • The Price of Moonlight

    Sylvia McDaniel

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  • My Lady Knight

    Suzanne McMinn

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  • Her Royal Pain in the Highness

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    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....

  • An Arranged Marriage

    Peggy Moreland

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  • It Had to Be You

    Peggy Moreland
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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • McCloud's Woman // Rebel Charm

    Patricia Rice

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  • 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...

  • Along Came Trouble

    Sherryl Woods

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  • She Went All the Way

    Meggin Cabot

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  • 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...

  • Next Victim

    Michael Prescott

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  • The Mantra

    Dmitry Radyshevsky

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  • Death's Door

    Michael Slade

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  • The Truest Power

    Rebecca Neason

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    J.M. Dillard

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    Christopher Rowley

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  • 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...

  • Wind of War

    Jess Lebow

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  • 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...

  • The Poison Master

    Liz Williams

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  • Servants of Chaos

    Don D'Ammassa

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    Keith R.A. Decandido

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  • Darker Masques

    J.N. Williamson

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    Arthur Byron Cover

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    Jack Ketchum

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    Robert J. Randisi

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    Keith R.A. Decandido

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    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...

  • Beyond Flesh

    Jack Dann

  • A Younger Man

    Rochelle Alers

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  • North Country Man

    Carrie Alexander

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    K.N. Casper

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  • The Doctor's Pregnant Proposal

    Donna Clayton

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  • Guess Who's Coming for Christmas?

    Cara Colter

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  • The Prince's Wedding

    Justine Davis

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  • 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

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  • 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...

  • Family Practice

    Judy Duarte

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  • A Whisper of Suspicion

    Jane Edwards

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  • Through the Storm

    Leslie Esdaile

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  • Undercover M.D.

    Marie Ferrarella

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  • Bounty Hunter's Bride

    Carol Finch

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  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Everlasting Moments

    Dorothy Elizabeth Love

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...