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New Books List: 371 titles

  • A Younger Man

    Rochelle Alers

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

  • 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 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...

  • A Winter Marriage

    Kerry Hardie

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

  • Windy City Dying

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Wild River Adventure

    Steven Banks

  • Wild Earth: Avalanche!

    Lorraine Jean Hopping

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

    The phenomenon of an avalanche can have devastatin...

  • 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...

  • White Tiger's Fancy

    Tracy Cozzens

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

  • A Whisper of Suspicion

    Jane Edwards

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

  • Where the Rain is Born

    Anita Nair

  • Whatever It Takes

    Winnie Griggs

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

  • What You Wish For

    David Cray

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

  • What Should I Do With My Life?

    Po Bronson

  • What a Great Idea!

    Liane Onish

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Undercover M.D.

    Marie Ferrarella

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

  • 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...

  • True Witness

    Jo Bannister

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

  • True North

    Rachel Evans

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Time After Time

    Sue Haasler

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

  • Thursdays with Moses

    Brad Densmore

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

  • Through the Storm

    Leslie Esdaile

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Texas Bride

    Leigh Greenwood

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

  • 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, ...

  • 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?...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tales from the Dark Woods

    Brendan DuBois

  • The Sweetest of Hearts

    RH/Disney

  • 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...

  • A Summer Place

    Laura Abbot

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

  • 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 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...

  • Sugar

    Bernice McFadden

  • 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...

  • Storm Rider

    Cassie Edwards

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

  • A 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...

  • 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....

  • Spadework

    Timothy Findley

    Lust. Infidelity. Betrayal. Murder.

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

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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.

    ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • She Went All the Way

    Meggin Cabot

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

  • 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'...

  • Shannon's Ride

    Charles E. Friend

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

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Servants of Chaos

    Don D'Ammassa

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

  • Seizure

    Robin Cook

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • A Seasonal Secret

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Headless Horseman

    James Gelsey

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

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

  • 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...

  • The Scent of Spiced Orange

    Les Roberts

  • Scam and Eggs

    Janet Dawson

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Riding Lessons

    Julia Hanna

  • 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...

  • Rexerella

    Keith Faulkner

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

  • Retrovirus

    T.L. Higley / Tracy L. Higley

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

  • A Restless Evil

    Ann Granger

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Red River Bride

    Colleen Coble

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Randall Wedding

    Judy Christenberry

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

  • The 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...

  • 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 Queen's Gambit

    Deborah Chester

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

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

    Janet Hoggarth

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

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

  • The Prince's Wedding

    Justine Davis

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

  • 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...

  • Poseidon's Kiss

    Gail Crease

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Pengarron Dynasty

    Gloria Cook

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

  • A Pawn for a Queen

    Fiona Buckley

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

  • 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...

  • The Paths of the Dead

    Steven Brust

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

  • 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!...

  • Parts Unknown

    Kevin Brennan

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

  • 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...

  • Only Call Us Faithful

    Marie Jakober

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • On Edge

    Barbara Fister

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

  • 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...

  • Official Escort

    Jean Barrett

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

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • North Country Man

    Carrie Alexander

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

  • 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...

  • 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. ...

  • Nemesis

    J.M. Dillard

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

  • The Neighborly Thing

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

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

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mystery of The Jeweled Mask

    Linda Williams Aber

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


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

  • My Reading Buddy

    Manya Weg

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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!...

  • Much Ado About Murder

    Simon Hawke

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

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Mistletoe and Murder

    Carola Dunn

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Meet the Rescue Heroes

    J.E. Bright

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

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

  • Meet Super Sid, Crime-Fighting Kid

    Dan Greenburg

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

  • 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...

  • 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 Matchmaker

    Susan Furman

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

  • The 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 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 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Love Letter

    Shelley Galloway

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

  • Lord Trenchard's Choice

    Sylvia Andrew

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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Lime's Photograph

    Leif Davidsen

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

  • 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...

  • The Last Guardian

    Jeff Grubb

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

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Kings of Many Castles

    Brian Freemantle

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

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

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

    Arthur Byron Cover

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

  • 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...

  • It Had to Be You

    Peggy Moreland
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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 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...

  • 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...