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New Books List: 478 titles

  • Fear's Justice

    Marc Olden

    When Fear Meagher, an old-fashioned, middle-aged police officer, investigates the murder of his lover, Linda, a detective married to a corrupt cop, he discovers that the supposed culprit, a homeless Black man, may have been set up by fellow cops work...

  • Green Team

    Richard Marcinko; John Weisman

    In Portsmouth, England, an aircraft carrier has been sabotaged, killing the American Chief of Naval Operations, one of the few friends the Rogue Warrior had left in the Navy. Marcinko discovers a holy war is brewing--a violent religious movement, enc...

  • Hunting Cry

    Don Pendleton

    SPOILS OF WAR A new white slavery ring is being set up in Europe, and Mack Bolan's mandate is to shut down the operation, by any means necessary. His take-no-prisoners blitz begins in Bosnia, with and lightning pimps strikes who are against th...

  • Indiana Jones and the Dinosaur Eggs

    Max McCoy

    Fresh from a ride on a Nazi submarine, Indiana Jones is persuaded by a beautiful missionary to search for her missing father in Mongolia. Professor Angus Starbuck has discovered a dinosaur bone in the Gobi Desert. But unlike other such discoveries, t...

  • Toward the Sunrising

    Gilbert Morris; Lynn Morris

  • Act of Betrayal

    Edna Buchanan

    When Britt Montero begins to investigate the disappearance of a teenage boy, she discovers a pattern of missing youngsters of similar age and 1 appearance. As Britt probes this baffling cake, she meets people who once knew her father, and the mystery...

  • The Baby-Sitter Burglaries

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy tries to prove that a babysitter is being framed when three houses in River Heights are robbed -- and the only connection the police can find is that the babysitter was employed at each....

  • Breaking Point

    Liz Nickles; Martina Navtatilova

    A tennis promoter's assistant plunges to her death at a gala reception in Paris. And Jordan Myles, women's tennis-champ-turned-sports-therapist, is convinced it was no accident. While searching for clues, she clashes with her old archrival Kelly Kend...

  • Dead South

    Winona Sullivan

    MISSING IN MIAMI Last seen drinking Blue Lagoons in the Hotel Place St. Michel, CIA agent Bradley Locke has vanished into the steamy South Florida night. Soon thereafter the Miami underworld takes careful note of a beautiful nun driving a red F...

  • Devil's Workshop

    Kate Gallison

    DELIVER US FROM EVIL The cats were missing. Mother Lavinia Grey noticed the signs pleading for the return of "fluffy" and several other pets. But she was busy, planning her first wedding at St. Bede's Episcopal Church--for 'which she'd serve as th...

  • Dr. Nightingale Enters the Bear Cave

    Lydia Adamson

    DEATH CKAWS Veterinarian Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale is happily taking a break from her practice to join a research team tagging pregnant black bears in the northern Catskills. Awaiting her are the thrill of adventure, the fun of taking her friend ...

  • It's Your Move

    Carolyn Keene

    The Kappa sorority is thrown into turmoil when television star Casey Fontaine pledges right before she is investigated, and Nancy struggles to rescue her friend, Brian, from being blackmailed. Original....

  • Meadowlark

    Sheila Simonson

    Having recently moved with her professor husband from California up to the Shoalwater Peninsula in Washington state, Lark Dodge has been busy renovating their new home and setting up her bookstore, Larkspur Books. The former basketball player and occ...

  • Murder Among the Angels

    Stefanie Matteson

    The search for a plastic surgeon draws Hollywood legend and amateur sleuth Charlotte Graham to upstate New York, where she discovers a utopian community’s darkest secrets Zion Hill is paradise in the Hudson River Valley. A religious utopia founded ...

  • No Place Like Home

    Sherry Lewis

    When his headstrong son, Douglas, is accused of killing his ex-wife, seventy-three-year-old Fred Vickery turns to the local small-town gossip mill to help uncover the real culprit. By the author of No Place for Secrets. Original....

  • Remember Me, Irene

    Jan Burke

    MURDER MAKES THE GRADE In an unsettling encounter on the streets of Las Piernas, newspaper reporter Irene Kelly fails to recognize the homeless man who, without a trace of irony, declares, "I'm not who I used to be." Only later does Irene realize ...

  • Shore to Die

    Valerie Wolzien

    THE BODY IN THE BEACH HOUSE IS DEAD AS A DOORNAIL. Summer's coming, and Island Contracting's all-woman construction crew is working overtime, glitzing up the old house on the north end of the island. Then the firm's owner, redheaded Josie Pigeon, ...

  • The Sign of the Falcon

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy's father has been kidnapped in New York City, and Nancy may be his last chance to come out of it alive....

  • That Day the Rabbi Left Town

    Harry Kemelman

    The rabbi looks into a professor’s death, in the New York Timesâ€"bestselling series that’s “the American equivalent of the British cozy†(Booklist). Retired from his job at the synagogue in Barnard’s Crossing, Massachusetts, Rabbi Small no...

  • Underdog

    Laurien Berenson

    BEING AN UNDERDOG CAN BE MURDER. Amateur sleuth, single mother, and pedigreed poodle owner Melanie Travis returns to Connecticut's elite canine circles -- and unmasks a murderer lurking among the handlers and their prize-winning pets... When M...

  • Wicked Ways

    Carolyn Keene

    It’s Fashion Week at the River Heights Mall, and Bess is in heaven. She works at a boutique called Wicked and is about to make her modelling debut. But someone is taking designer jackets from the shop, and Bess has fallen for one of the top suspect...

  • The Fields of Glory

    Gilbert Morris

    Two families--the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans--are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. Linking the people and events through th...

  • The 7 Lb., 2 Oz. Valentine

    Marie Ferrarella

    Desperately seeking daddy.. . Erin Collins was a mother-to-be, but the daddy was nowhere to be found! "Brady, come home. Love, Erin." Erin had nothing to lose by placing the personal ad. And lo and behold, Brady Lockwood was found--months af...

  • Absolutely, Positively

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    Molly Abberwick, trustee of her late father's foundation, is furious with her new consultant, scientist-philosopher Dr. Harry Stratton Trevelyan. Harry is brilliant, sexy, and absolutely impossible-- and his outrageous suggestion of a scientifically...

  • Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground

    Annie Garrett

    A successful celebrity journalist in New York City, Tess Boone returns to her childhood home at the foot of the Ozarks on an assignment to interview Buck Campbell, a country music sensation and the love of her youth. Reprint....

  • Angel on a Harley

    Janis Reams Hudson

    Treasured Tales IV HE ROLLED INTO TOWN LIKE A THUNDERSTORM -- DARK, POWERFUL, AND MYSTERIOUS.... Faith Hillman wasn't at all what Dalton McShane expected when he faced the woman who claimed she was carrying his child. And Dalton McShane wasn...

  • Assignment: Marriage

    Jackie Merritt

    THE COP SAYS, "I DO?" Marriage wasn't in his job description, but officer Tuck Hannigan's latest assignment was playing husband to an extremely vulnerable--and incredibly beautiful--witness. He'd protect Nicole Currie from danger--he'd even share ...

  • The Bachelor Chase

    Emma Richmond

    Man trouble! Tano Cavallieri should have come with a government health warning: mad, bad and too dangerous to know. The Italian hunk was used to women chasing him! But when it came to pretty brunettes like Rea Halton, he was prepared to slow down!...

  • Bad to the Bone

    Debra Dixon

    Treasured Tales IV When he was good, he was very good -- but when he was bad, he was pure temptation... He was a brand of danger she'd never risked, with the most unforgiving pair of blue eyes that ever stared into her troubled soul, but Jes...

  • Because of the Baby

    Debbie Macomber

    Hard Luck, Alaska -- a town that needs women! Location: 50 miles north of the Arctic Circle. Population: 150--mostly men--but growing! Because the O'Halloran brothers, who run a bush-plane service called Midnight Sons, are heading a campaign t...

  • The Best Medicine

    Elizabeth Neff Walker

    LOVE IN THE SHADOW OF LOSS In San Francisco's prestigious Fielding Medical Center, Dr. Roger Janek was known as a brilliant, dedicated specialist in the operating room. But in his private life, he was locked in mourning for his beautiful wife, Ker...

  • The Bounty Hunter's Baby

    Jule McBride

    Had he been hired to track down the mother of his own child? Remy Lafitte was charismatic - a tracker of men, a seducer of women, a Cajun healer. But one steamy New Orleans night, it was prim attorney plain Jayne Wright who won the man's heart. M...

  • Buchanan's Bride

    Pamela Toth

    ONE LONELY COWBOY... What was it about that long, tall cowboy that wouldn't let Ashley Gray keep her distance? Sure, Taylor Buchanan was a whole lot of man, enough to cause any woman a few sleepless nights. But there was far more to it than that ....

  • Child of Midnight

    Sharon De Vita

    FOR THE CHILD'S SAKE Lieutenant Michael Tyler had a job to do--guard a little boy from a notorious killer. And it was up to Michael to find Gabriel and take him into protective custody. But that meant confronting the one woman he'd never been able t...

  • Cinderella Bride

    Christine Scott

    THE BRIDE OF HIS DREAMS VANISHED AT THE STROKE OF MIDNIGHT Millionaire bachelor Ryan Kendrick had every woman in town chasing him. But the playboy prince had eyes only for the mysterious woman he'd danced with at the ball. Though he didn't know he...

  • The Cowboy and His Baby

    Sherryl Woods

    A year and a half ago Melissa Horton made a mistake that cost the lovely single mother her one true love--and her baby girl a father. Now Texas rancher Cody Adams was back, shocked to discover he was a parent--and determined to make Melissa his wife....

  • The Cowboy and the Centerfold

    Debbi Rawlins

    A Trustin' Texan... One minute Cash McCloud was a fine, upstanding cowboy in Maybe, Texas, and the next he was guilty of harboring a centerfold. He thought he'd hired a matronly tutor for his teenage son, but beneath her baggy T-shirts and baseba...

  • Cupid's Bow

    Brenda Jackson
    in

    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...

  • Daddy's Choice

    Doreen Owens Malek

    SINGLE DAD NEEDS... Taylor Kirkland would do anything to win custody of his only daughter. So when captivating Carol Lansing moved into town, Tay was struck with a brilliant idea. What better way to get his little girl back than with a beautiful b...

  • Desperately Seeking Annie

    Patricia Knoll

    Thursday's child has far to go... Annie had only Flynn Parker's word that they were husband and wife. There was a period two years ago that remained a complete blank...six weeks in which Flynn claimed he had wined, dined and taken her to t...

  • Family Secrets

    Lynda Trent

    Caught up in a case in which a child's life is at stake, beautiful attorney Kirby Garrett finds her obsession threatening her relationship with her husband, while her sister, Mallory, trapped in a loveless marriage, seeks refuge in a series of love a...

  • Father Figure

    Rebecca Daniels

    DYLAN AND MARISSA HAD A PAST .... Small-town sheriff Dylan James had encountered his share of teenage troublemakers. But Josh Wakefield was different. He was Marissa Wakefield's nephew. Marissa--the woman who had broken Dylan's heart so long ago. ...

  • Flyboy

    Rosemary Grace

    He had the right stuff! Brave, built and with blue eyes to die for, Captain Blackjack McConnell was deadly in the air and a danger to female hearts. Only one thing scared the fearless flyboy - love! So when he found himself falling for scientist S...

  • Forever, Dad

    Maggie Shayne

    SECRET AGENT, SECRET SONS Secret agent Torch Palamaro had finally found her--the mysterious Alexandra Holt who'd disappeared six months ago with something he desperately wanted. The woman was his only chance for revenge against the man who'd taken...

  • Forsaking All Others

    Susanne McCarthy

    In name only... "You're the woman who stood at the altar with my cousin not more than a few hours ago, vowing to forsake all others. You - didn't manage to keep it up very long, did you?" Leo Ratcliffe had kissed his cousin's new bride and disc...

  • Friends, Lovers...and Babies!

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    THE BABY WAGER Sure, her best friend's brother was drop-dead gorgeous. But as long as Deedee Hamilton had known him, ex-cop Ryan MacAllister was also oddly aloof. So the matchmaking MacAllister clan might be wagering on Cupid, but Deedee knew ...

  • Going to the Chapel

    Alice Sharpe

    ALWAYS PLANNING A WEDDING, BUT NEVER HER OWN For jilted bride Elinor Bosley, romance was strictly business. Her days were spent running the Lakeside Wedding Chapel, marrying impulsive strangers in quickie ceremonies. But Elinor had sworn off "happ...

  • Guarding Raine

    Kylie Brant

    HE WAS AFRAID TO LOVE.... Macauley O'Neill had been hired to protect Raine Michaels--not to seduce her. No one knew better than he did what happened when a man let his guard down: the consequences could be deadly. But Raine filled him with desire--a...

  • Having His Baby

    Karen Young

    A marriage of convenience... It made perfect sense. Or so Dr. Talbot Rebichaux told Dr. Stephanie Sheldon. Since both had busy hospital practices, their baby would be much better off - and their own lives much easier - if they shared parental dut...

  • Heir to Stonemoor

    Kay Stephens

  • The Hero Trap

    Rosemary Badger

    The tenderest trap of all. Jack was the man who had ruined Kelly's business, and yet in fighting him she had come to love him. He had tried to make amends by offering her work as his cook -- OK, it wasn't exactly her usual line of business, b...

  • Home Fires

    Layle Giusto

  • Hot Blood

    Charlotte Lamb

    Burning with passion! Kit and Liam were business partners by day and lovers by night. But Liam was content to hold Kit at arm's length emotionally. Kit was frustrated--they were two mature people, for goodness' sake; surely by now they sho...

  • Hot Texas Nights

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A FAMILY... The Whitmore name in Austin, Texas, meant wealth, power, and ruthlessness. Run by patriarch Fletcher Whitmore, the family commanded respect--and fear. Then eldest son and senatorial candidate Phillip Whitmore was killed was shot and kill...

  • How Much Is That Couple in the Window?

    Lori Herter

    Mr. & Mrs. ... for a week Come see the couple living in the display window at Derring Brothers Department Store -- one week only! As sidewalk shoppers stare, Jennifer Westgate's job is to be the blushing bride who: whips up meals on state-of-...

  • The Husband Hunt

    Linda Lewis

    HE FINALLY POPPED THE QUESTION...BUT IT WASN'T THE RIGHT ONE! Sarah Brannan couldn't believe her ears. Jake Logan had asked her to live with him. But old-fashioned Sarah would be darned if she'd give Jake a wedding night without a wedding ring! ...

  • Husband Material

    Rita Rainville

    THE LAST MAN SHE'D MARRY! Libby Cassidy knew from experience that Matt Flint wasn't husband material ...and marriage was definitely on Libby's mind. Oh his long, hard body and hot kisses were enough to make her swoon, but if Matt wasn't ready to s...

  • Indiscretions

    Robyn Donald

    Compelled, charmed... and compromised! Mariel Browning loved Bride's Bay Resort, its Sea Island location, its friendly staff. She'd jumped at the offer to translate there again--but soon wished she hadn't. For one thing, working for a ...

  • Kids, Critters and Cupid

    Ruth Jean Dale

    THE CAMERONS OF COLORADO Cupid, Colorado. This is ranch country, cowboy country--a land of high mountains and swift, cold rivers, of deer, elk and bear. The first Cameron came to Colorado more than a hundred years ago, and Camerons have owned and ...

  • Kiss An Angel

    Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    WEDDING DAY Pretty, flighty Daisy Devreaux can either go to jail or marry the mystery man her father has chosen for her. Arranged marriages don't happen in the modern world, so how did the irrepressible Daisy find herself in this fix? Alex Mar...

  • A Kiss Before Dying

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica Wakefield promises eternal love to gang member Christian Gorman when the latter promises to never fight again, while Elizabeth and her friend Rosie Shaw scheme to end gang warfare once and for all. Original....

  • Leslie

    Jeanne Anders

  • The Loves of Ruby Dee

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    THE END OF THE ROAD The first moment Will Starr saw Ruby Dee D'Angelo step out of her Ford Galaxie, he knew she would have to go. Hired as a nurse for Will's ailing father, she was too young and beautiful to be stuck in the middle of nowhere with ...

  • Mackenzie's Pleasure

    Linda Howard

    HER HERO Barrie Lovejoy needed a savior. The terrorist group holding her hostage surely wouldn't tolerate her silence much longer. Instead they would silence her-forever. Then out of the darkness he arrived. Grizzled and dangerous, he led Barrie f...

  • Made in Heaven

    Felicia Mason
    in

    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...

  • Mail Order Wife

    Phyllis Halldorson

    WANTED: WIFE ROMANCE NOT REQUIRED Single dad Jim Buckley knew his daughters needed a mother. But he hadn't expected his meddling father to advertise for one. Now wife-candidate Coralie Dixon was stranded at his ranch, prepared to move in for good...

  • Make-Believe Mom

    Elizabeth Sites

    DO YOU TAKE THIS WOMAN--FOR LIFE? Marriage? Prim and proper Laura Gardiner was shocked by rancher Nick Rafland's scandalous proposal. Why, they barely knew each other! And since she wasn't planning on saying "I do," she had no business wondering w...

  • The Man from Forever

    Vella Munn

    WARRIOR FROM THE SHADOWS When she first came to the sacred tribal lands in the California wilderness, anthropologist Tory Kent paid little heed to the tales of a ghostly warrior keeping watch there. But then a dark figure appeared before her--and ...

  • The Man, the Moon and the Marriage Vow

    Christine Rimmer

    WHAT EVERY WOMAN WANTS... ...is what Evie Jones has wanted all her life--husband, children, the white picket fence. But these ordinary wishes have eluded her miserably...because Evie is far from ordinary.... ...IS ONE GOOD MAN Erik Riggins, with...

  • The Marriage Solution

    Helen Brooks

    Blackmail bride! Carlton Reef wanted a bride -- and Katie needed the money! His proposal was outrageous, but simple. He would pay her family's debts if Katie would agree to become his wife... But what possible reason could this ruthless, ...

  • Marriage Vows

    Rosalie Ash

    Becky and Matt had married because they had no choice; or so it seemed at the time. Two years later Becky wants her freedom, but Matt has other ideas! His kisses fill her with a deep longing for his love, and Becky realizes she yearns for a marriage ...

  • A Match Made in Texas

    Ginger Chambers

    The Parker Ranch, West Texas Long before the War Between the States, Parker sons and daughters ranched Parker land. Eighty-one-year-old Mae Parker aims to keep things that way. And as far as Mae--and almost everyone else on the ranch--is concerned...

  • Matchmaker

    Carla Fredd
    in

    ENJOY A COLLECTION OF STORIES THAT ARE IDEALLY SUITED FOR THIS SPECIAL SEASON OF HEARTS AND FLOWERS. IN ALL THREE TALES, LOVERS FIND EACH OTHER WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM CUPID. ONCE THEY DO, ROMANCE IS LIKE A BOX OF VALENTINE'S MY CHOCOLATES: SWEET; DE...

  • Megan's Marriage

    Annette Broadrick

    Mr. February The eager groom: Travis Kane, former heartbreaker of the country. The very reluctant bride: Megan O'Brien, hardest-working woman in Texas. The too-good-to-be-true proposal: Marry him, and save the ranch. The only thing st...

  • Midnight Heat

    Donna Kauffman

    Treasured Tales IV His gaze made her feel pinned, captive, as if he'd never let her go.... They called him The Predator, the investigator who never left a case unsolved, and now Dane Colbourne had set his sights on her! Adria Burke knew her qui...

  • Myth & Magic: Helen of Troy, New York

    Paula Detmer Riggs
    in

    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...

  • Nurses

    Marcia Rose

    "A fast-paced, unabashedly soap-operatic tale of love and betrayal in a hectic Manhattan clinic."
    --Kirkus Reviews

    As director of New York's first and only nurse-run inner-city clinic, Marty Lamb wages the daily fight to keep the clinic run...

  • Old Money

    Elizabeth Palmer

    In a witty and compelling commentary on money, family, and marriage, two unscrupulous but charming fortune hunters, Tom Marchant and Morgan Steer, each set out to marry a fortune. By the author of Scarlet Angel and Plucking the Apple. ...

  • Part-Time Father

    Sharon Kendrick

    Once wasn't enough Harrison Nash was convinced he only needed to make love with Kimberley once, and she'd be out of his system for good. Kimberley Ryan knew Harrison wasn't looking for commitment--but she couldn't help loving him. ...

  • Perfect Double

    Merline Lovelace

    NOT EXACTLY A NINE-TO-FIVE JOB... Maggie Sinclair has played everything from a nun to a call girl in her work for the supersecret OMEGA agency. But now she really had her hands full, impersonating the vice president of the United States. And more ...

  • Prisoner of Passion

    Lynne Graham

    P for predator, P for passionate, P for prey! These words came to mind when Bella thought of Rico da Silva. The international financier was definitely a predator -- hadn't he pounced when her defenses were down? Passionate? Their lovemaki...

  • Queen of the Dixie Drive-In

    Peg Sutherland

    Welcome to Sweetbranch, Alabama. Folks are friendly, children are safe and down-home hospitality abounds. Once in a while, though, things are not quite what they seem.... "VALENTINES ARE FOR SAPS!" And don't you forget it, fourteen-year-old Carso...

  • Reese: the Untamed

    Susan Connell

    AN ELIGIBLE BACHELOR... Reese Marchand always knew when a woman wanted him. And Beth Langdon did--or at least he sensed she wanted something from him. When it came to women, Reese thought he could handle it all, but beautiful Beth went to his head l...

  • Relentless Seduction

    Kim Lawrence

    "You will be mine ... on my terns ..." Nathan Audley was a powerful man. What he wanted he usually got ... and he wanted Annie! He'd branded her a gold-digger, a widow in search of a rich husband; yet he was determined to control her ...

  • Romance, Inc.

    Jocelyn Raines

    In one unexpected turn of fate everything changed. Her Marriage. Her Future. Her Heart. Caroline Shaw had been a poor rag doll of a girl in golden Palm Beach, Florida. But her dreams were rich, formed by her wide-eyed visits to her mother's place ...

  • Sara

    Eva Gibson

  • Sheik Daddy

    Barbara McMahon

    THE FATHER OF HER CHILD WAS A SHEIK? A decade ago Ben Shalik had disappeared from Megan O'Sullivan's life, leaving her with nothing but memories... and a baby. Now he was back, causing Megan to tremble with more than desire. For Ben was of royal ...

  • Spring Bride

    Sandra Marton

    When a will leads to a wedding... It's Kyra's turn: "My father's legacy allowed me to assert my independence after years of being the pampered Landon 'princess.' But I've discovered independence has its own problems....

  • The Stormchaser

    Rita Clay Estrada

    Cane Mitchell...born in the eye of a raging Texas storm, he's been raising Cain ever since. His job, his passion, is to go where the danger is--fires, floods, tornadoes, tidal waves. He's there. And then little bitty, vulnerable Bernadette Conrad ...

  • This Is My Child

    Lucy Gordon

    A FATHER'S DILEMMA Giles Haverill adored his adopted son, though he couldn't seem to show it. He knew the boy longed for his lost mother, just as Giles himself ached for a woman's gentle touch. But how did you tell a child that he'd ...

  • Tickle My Fancy

    Rebecca Paisley
    in

    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...

  • Tiffany

    Joyce K. Ellis

  • To Lasso a Lady

    Renee Roszel

    "There should be a law against kissing like that." Amy Vale was determined to be the best rancher's wife in Wyoming. She'd found someone nice to spend her life with; someone honest who could make her smile. Passion, as far as Amy ...

  • Valentine, Texas

    Kate Denton

    If you don't want to fall in love -- don't go to Valentine.... Jan had gone away and found family friends and seven-year-old BJ, whom she tutored at the Lazy M ranch. Valentine seemed just the haven she needed to recover from her recent ...

  • The Wedding Contract

    Kelly Jamison

    Marriage Contract Party of the First Part: Jake McClellan I promise to hold Laura when she cries at silly movies, pour tea for Molly and her friends at tea parties and be the official family mistletoe hanger. From this day forward Molly is my dau...

  • The Wedding Deception

    Kay Thorpe

    Stop that man -- or the wedding! Ross Laxton was determined to stop his brother's "shotgun wedding"! And the only person who could stop him was Claire Marcroft! The sister of the expectant bride to be, she had more reason than most for...

  • When Mona Lisa Smiles

    Carole Buck
    in

    MEET THREE WOMEN WHO HAVE SPENT YEARS UNLUCKY IN LOVE. NOT ONE OF THEM IS PREPARED FOR A PASSION OF LEGENDARY PROPORTIONS... With boyfriends ranging from a hypochondriac to a fiance who fancied himself as a kept man, spunky Southerner Cleopatra Mu...

  • A Wife in Waiting

    Jessica Steele

    Everything comes to he who waits.... Josy Fereday, widowed and wary, has decided that she isn't marriage material. But now that her twin sister, Belvia, is happily wedded, Josy must get on with her own life. Dacre Banchereau is offering her...

  • Wild at Heart

    Faye Hughes

    Treasured Tales IV His body would make an angel want to sin -- and she didn't have a prayer... He'd crashed the party looking for a scandal and maybe a chance at redemption, but when Maggie Thorpe dragged him into a closet to elude his pursu...

  • Winter Solstice

    Louise Brindley

  • Wish List

    Fern Michaels

    IF YOU HAD JUST ONE WISH, WHAT WOULD IT BE? A brilliant career, two adoring husbands--none of it is enough to erase the memory of Ariel Hart's one true love. Back when she was plain, starry-eyed Aggie Bixby, a dark-eyed boy touched her heart . ....

  • Above the Lower Sky

    Tom Deitz

    United by a strange shared experience in 2024, Kevin Mauney, his estranged sister Carolyn, and Thunderbird O'Conner are charged with resolving a multi-species conspiracy that has risen from the ocean's depths. Reprint....

  • Alien Island

    David Bischoff

    Assigned a temporary partner in a curvaceous lady cop from Earth, Brogan quickly finds his job and marriage compromised before he is called upon to save Demeter City from a life-sucking energy being. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Book of Dragons and Fabulous Beasts: Prospero's Library

    Chronicle Books

  • The Curse of Naar

    Joe Dever

    In an interactive role-playing fantasy adventure, Lone Wolf matches wits with the Dark God Naar to try to retrieve the powerful Moonstone, an awesome weapon, before Naar can use it to destroy the world. Original....

  • Delta City

    Felicity Savage

    The remaining survivors of the old order began to plan their rebellion against the god Pati - and only one person could lead this revolt - Humility Garden. She vowed to retake Salt from the Divinarch, even if it meant giving up the very thing which k...

  • The Gates of Twilight

    Paula Volsky

    In a fragile alliance, the natives are stirring uneasily under their foreign rulers. Rebellion is brewing, and at the heart of the conflict lies the bloody and powerful cult of the god Aoun, whose followers will stop at nothing to rid their land of a...

  • Heaven Can't Wait

    Cherie Bennett

  • Immortal Game

    Douglas Niles

    Queen Danis and farmboy-turned-knight Holton join their friends--a dwarf, a giant talking owl, and an absent-minded mage--on a quest to destroy the Crown of Vanderthan, a powerful artifact of the immortals, and save their world. Original....

  • Lammas Night

    Mercedes Lackey

    THE HOUR OF CHOOSING IS AT HAND.... In "Lammas Night" a young weaver of spells is persuaded to bide a while in a small village, to make-their village spells and keep the Dark at bay. As part of their persuasion, the villagers have given her the hous...

  • Looking for the Mahdi

    N. Lee Wood

  • Lost Valley

    Louise Ladd

    With a twist of her magical ring, Jenny, her little brother Danny, and Carly journey back in time to 1906 Colorado, where she encounters a young girl who not only looks strangely familiar but also possesses a similiar ring. Original....

  • Luthien's Gamble

    R.A. Salvatore

    Disguised as the magic-wielding outlaw called the Crimson Shadow, Eriadoran noble Luthien Bedwyr has struck the first blows for his people's liberation. But now his ragtag rebel army of elves, dwarfs, and humans must rally against the threat of a new...

  • The Parafaith War

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    A standalone military science fiction adventure from, L. E. Modesitt, author of the bestselling Saga of Recluce series, The Parafaith War combines hard science fiction adventure with an insightful examination of the relationship between the sacred a...

  • Protektor

    Charles Platt

    Trained to evaluate computer errors, Tom McCray serves as the Protektor to a pacifistic system that serves the entire known universe, but a band of hardcore cyberpsychos sabotage the system by turning virtual reality inside-out. Original....

  • Requiem of Stars

    Tracy Hickman

    Here's the long-awaited solo novel--the first of an imaginative interstellar trilogy--from the co-author of the New York Times bestselling Death Gate saga, Tracy Hickman.With more than ten million copies of the Death Gate novels in print, Tracy Hickm...

  • The Rod of Seven Parts

    Douglas Niles

    When the Rod of Seven Parts, a symbol of the conflict between law and chaos, gets broken and its pieces scatter throughout the land, an assortment of characters ranging from heroes to monsters compete to find the pieces...

  • Scimitar

    Ashley McConnell

    THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE... He is immortal. A Scottish warrior born four hundred years ago. He is not alone. For centuries he has fought others like himself. He can die only if a foe takes his head, capturing his life-force in an event known as the Qui...

  • Sea Without a Shore

    Sean Russell

    THE LODESTONE The secrets of the Mages had been lost with the passing of Erasmus Flattery, a man of Talent who had served the last known Mage. It seemed to be the dawn of a new era--a time of reason, science, and exploration. And Tristam Flattery,...

  • Shadow World

    Ian Hammell

    Swept into the perilous, magical world of Kulthea, the Shadow World, by a mysterious storm that rips through their house, Brion competes with his treacherous wife, Kella, for the safe return of their missing son. Original....

  • Siege of Shadows

    Lynn Abbey

    Aristocratic twin siblings--Kyle, a young Hart-lord, and his sister Kiera, haunted by a dream of Rapture--set out to solve the mystery of the Siege of Shadows, a golden throne rumored to hide the mystery of life. Original....

  • The Skystone // Excalibur

    Jack Whyte

    We all know the story - how Arthur pulled the sword from the stone, how Camelot came to be, and the power struggles that ultimately destroyed Arthur's dreams. But what of the time before Arthur? What were the forces that helped create him? And how di...

  • The Spirit Gate

    Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

    The magic of Polia is broken, the delicate connection between its male and female elements, sundered. Blame for this and other calamities both natural and political has long been laid at the feet of the White Mothers-rare adepts who can handle both m...

  • Strange City

    Staley Krause

    A collection of short gothic stories about vampires, werewolves, and changelings includes the writings of such popular authors as S. P. Somtow, Jody Lynn Nye, Richard Lee Byers, and Keith Herber. Original....

  • That Way Lies Camelot

    Janny Wurts

    Journey through time and space to alternate worlds and the near future in a beautiful collection of interconnected short stories. In the title story, Wurts poignantly addresses mortality and what it is to wish. Sandy is in the last throes of life wit...

  • Two Crowns for America

    Katherine Kurtz

    Bestselling fantasist Katherine Kurtz combines magic, Freemasonry, and revelation in this spellbinding tale of the American Revolution as it might have been... The year is 1775. In Europe, an unseen Master peers into a darkened mirror for the imag...

  • Warhost of Vastmark

    Janny Wurts

    Tricked once more by his wily half-brother, Lysaer arrives at the tiny harbour town of Merior, to find that his brother’s ship yards have been meticulously destroyed and abandoned. But where is Arithon? The forces of light and shadow circle and fei...

  • Born of the Night

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    BORN OF FIRE Awakening from a drugged sleep in a cold cell, the princess Kiara finds herself a prisoner of the merciless marauders who threaten her father's planetary kingdom. Miraculously, a rescuer appears, but behind his fearsome mask is the hands...

  • Adam Pig's Everything Fun Book

    Selina Young

    A treasury of stories and entertaining hands-on activities follows the days of Adam Pig as he shops with Mom, helps Grandma in the garden, and works on such easy-to-follow activities as building a cardboard car and making a sock puppet. Children's BO...

  • Adolf's Revenge

    Lynne Alexander

    Who is Adolf? Who is she? Big, hairy and hot for revenge. When an Englishman called The Prince carries off her favourite niece, Chick, the heat gets hotter. Aunt Adolf has her own reason for being mad at men. Like God, she makes prophecies ('a baldne...

  • Adrift in the Oceans of Mercy

    Martin Booth

    Space station "Mir IV" is on day 171 of its mission, encircling the Earth every 89 minutes. Yet, since day 36 it has carried only one passenger, the remaining cosmonaut from a 4-man crew. It is clear that ground control has abandoned his mission and ...

  • Amazing Tilly

    John Speirs

  • An American Betty in Paris

    Randi Reisfeld

  • American Story: The REA Award for the Short Story

    Michael M. Rea

    Established by the Dungannon Foundation in 1986 to honor living American writers who have made a significant contribution to the short story form, the annual Rea Award for the Short Story has become one of America's most prestigious literary prizes. ...

  • Among the Volcanoes

    Omar S. Castaneda

  • And This Too Shall Pass

    E. Lynn Harris

    A stellar quarterback, an ambitious sportscaster. What happens when rising stars collide?In And This Too Shall Pass, Harris takes us into the locker rooms and newsrooms of Chicago, where four lives are about to intersect in romance and scandal. A...

  • Ariadne's Children

    Roderick Beaton

    Ancient history, family past, present day - all collide in this intricately woven first novel about three generations of one family, set against seventy years of political turmoil in Europe. At the outbreak of World War I, renowned archaeologist L...

  • Babysitter Beware

    Linda Joy Singleton

  • A Bad, Bad Day

    Kirsten Hall

    A humorous rhyming story shows young readers how the worst of days can still turn out all right, in a simple first reader that is accompanied by sturdy flash cards and six pages of vocabulary-reinforcing activities. Original....

  • Barney and BJ Go to the Fire Station

    Mark Bernthal

  • Barney Says, "Play Safely"

    Margie Larsen

  • Beginners Bible: Lift-and-Peek into Noah's Ark

    David Prebenna

    A die-cut board book highlights more than fifty interactive lift-flaps that invite young readers to uncover their favorite animal friends aboard Noah's Ark while helping Noah count his supplies and learn the ABCs....

  • The Berenstain Bear Scouts Meet Bigpaw

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Trouble in Bear Country? It’s the Berenstain Bear Scouts to the rescue! When the Bear Scouts meet Bigpaw they can hardly believe their eyes. He's a King Kong-size giant of a bear! The grown-ups of Bear Country want to attack. But is Bigpaw re...

  • The Berenstain Bear Scouts Save That Backscratcher

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Trouble in Bear Country? It's the Berenstain Bear Scouts to the rescue! Grumbling Grizzlies! Mayor Horace J. Honeypot wants to chop down the most famous tree in Bear Country. It's older than the Great Bear War. And it's the best backscratcher in ...

  • The Better Brown Stories

    Allan Ahlberg

    An ordinary family of characters goes in search of their own author to demand that their story be both exciting and realistic, and throughout their subsequent adventures, they offer plenty of suggestions to keep the writer busy....

  • Between Sisters

    Nina Vida

    Lela begins her life a second time within a new adoptive family. Through their kindness she is able to hide from the horror that once embraced her. But when a strange man arrives with a neglected child who needs her love, Lela must again confront her...

  • Beware! This House Is Haunted

    Lance Salway

  • Bible Stories for Adults

    James Morrow

    Short fiction of biblical proportions -- and bent -- from the science fiction satirist and author of The Godhead Trilogy.   James Morrow, “the most provocative satiric voice in science fiction,†unabashedly delves into matters both sacred a...

  • Big Yellow Taxi

    Ken Wilson-Max

    An interactive, die-cut yellow taxicab book invites young readers to lift sturdy cardstock parts in order to check the engine, fasten seat belts, steer the car, check the meter, and go through a car wash....

  • The Biggest Fish

    Sheila Keenan

    When all the citizens of Littletown are swept up in a big fishing contest, the big fish stories abound, in a humorous early reader's story that introduces non-standard measurements and explains standard measuring and comparing. Original....

  • Birdsong

    Sebastian Faulks

    #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A mesmerising story of love and war spanning three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the 1990sIn this "overpowering and beautiful novel" (The New Yorker), the young En...

  • Bitter Bananas

    Isaac Olaleye

    Young Yusuf tries to think of a way to keep the baboons from stealing the sweet palm sap that he sells at market, in a story set in the African rain forest with illustrations by the Caldecott Medalist for Lon Po Po. Reprint....

  • The Bride of Texas

    Josef Skvorecky

    From the widely acclaimed author of Dvorak in Love and The Engineer of Human Souls comes an unusual Civil War novel based on the documented memories of Czech soldiers who fought for the Union in the 26th Wisconsin battalion under General William Tecu...

  • Broken Arrow

    Jeff Rovin

    Surviving after their stealth bomber crashes, a pair of co-pilots must do anything to recover the two devastating nuclear weapons that the plane was carrying, even if they are forced to kill each other. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Butterwings

    Stephen Cosgrove

  • The Captain's Fire

    J.S. Marcus

    In a comic, disturbing, intense, coming-of age novel that takes readers from the suburbs of Milwaukee to the ruins of the old Prussian capital of Konigsberg--and introduces them to skinheads, drag queens, and international hustlers--Marcus chronicles...

  • Cat Traps

    Molly Coxe

    For more than ten years, parents and educators have relied on Step into Reading books to help teach children to read. Early Step into Reading books are targeted specifically to emergent readers, emphasizing big type, m inimal text, and bold, bright i...

  • The Cat Who Lost His Purr

    Michele Coxon

  • The Cave Monster

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Caveman Dave

    Nick Sharratt

  • Changing Seasons: 1954-1980

    Betty Palmer Nelson

  • Chibi: A True Story from Japan

    Barbara Brenner

    When Oka-san, a brown-and-gold duck, selects the Mitsui Office Park as the perfect spot for her nest, people flock from downtown Tokyo to watch the ducklings hatch. A modern-day Make Way for Ducklings, set in Japan....

  • Choco-Louie

    Jeff Kindley

    Loving chocolate more than any other thing in the world, young Choco-Louie is forced to put his willpower to the test when his brother bets his skateboard that Choco-Louie cannot resist eating chocolate for one week. Simultaneous....

  • Connie Came to Play

    Jill Paton Walsh

    When her friend Richard refuses to share his toys, young Connie sets out to prove that her imagination is better than any toy and imagines herself a fairy castle and a locomotive that travels to distant lands....

  • Conquering the Valley

    Robert K. Krick

    Using accurate background information as well as anecdotal material, eyewitness accounts, and new primary sources, a historic narrative outlines the events surrounding the Civil War battles at Port Republic and Cross Keys....

  • Corey in the Saddle

    Bonnie Bryant

    Participating in a fundraising demonstration with her pony, Samurai, Corey is disgusted when Samuari acts up and performs badly, and Corey chooses to ignore the pony in favor of spending time with a motherless goat. Original....

  • The Crime Lover's Casebook

    Jerome Charyn

    A crime-lover's treasury of cutthroat murders and hairbreadth escapes includes the writings of such popular authors as James Ellroy, Lawrence Block, Sue Grafton, Tony Hillerman, P. D. James, and Sara Paretsky. Reprint....

  • Crystal Singer Trilogy

    Anne McCaffrey

    CRYSTAL SINGER
    Young and beautiful, Killashandra Ree was a trained musician with no prospects . . . until she heard of the mysterious Heptite Guild on the planet Ballybran, where the fabled Black Crystal was found. For those qualified, the Guild w...

  • The Curse Of Cleo Patrick's Mummy

    Gertrude Gruesome

    When terrible things happen to her every time she steps outside her door, Cleo Patrick realizes that her own mother has placed her under an ancient mummy's curse, and Cleo will stop at nothing to remove it. Original....

  • Damaged Fruit

    Eunice Chapman

  • Dancing After Hours

    Andre Dubus

    A New York Times Notable Book of the YearFrom a genuine hero of the American short story comes a luminous collection that reveals the seams of hurt, courage, and tenderness that run through the bedrock of contemporary American life. In these fourteen...

  • The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

    Chris Fuhrman

    The basis for the film starring Kieran Culkin. “Evoked with the rare, genuine sort of candor that made Holden Caulfield -- and J.D. Salinger -- famous.†-- Vogue   Set in Savannah, Georgia, in the early 1970s, this is a novel of the anarchic...

  • Dead Souls

    Richard Pevear

    Nikolai Gogol s "Dead Souls" is the great comic masterpiece of Russian literature a satirical and splendidly exaggerated epic of life in the benighted provinces. Gogol hoped to show the world the untold riches of the Russian soul in this 1842 nove...

  • Dear Gangster...: Advice for the Lonelyhearted from the Gangster of Love

    Gangster of Love

    He's the Ann Landers of anomie, the antidote for sniveling sensitivity, a caustic balm for our broken hearts--he's "The Gangster of Love." This collection of his columns features questions from anxious readers--with the Gangster's more or less helpfu...

  • Disney's Pooh...Guess Who!

    Caroline Kenneth

  • A Distant Episode

    Paul Bowles

    A Distant Episode conatins the best of Paul Bowle's short fiction, selected by the author. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and...

  • Don't Talk to Brian

    Francine Pascal

    Ostracizing local bully Brian Boyd, who has lived in a foster home ever since he had been taken away from his abusive parents, Elizabeth Wakefield experiences tremendous guilt when she helps get Brian kicked out of school. Original....

  • E-mail

    Stephanie D. Fletcher

    Cruising the "information superhighway" by way of electronic mail, Katherine Simmons eventually puts her own marriage at risk as an idle curiosity about two men develops into an obsession with a computer-generated Mr. Right....

  • Eagle Boy: A Traditional Navajo Legend

    Gerald Hausman

  • Easter Babies

    Roma Bishop

  • Easter Bunny's Wish

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Easter Counting

    Roma Bishop

  • Easter Egg Hunt

    Roma Bishop

  • Easter Sunday

    Roma Bishop

  • Elizabeth Hatches an Egg

    Francine Pascal

  • Eric carle's dragons, dragons

    Laura Whipple

    Beautiful full-color collage illustrations complement an anthology of poetry about such mythological creatures as centaurs, mermaids, and the yeti by Anne McCaffrey, John Gardner, Myra Cohn Livingston, X. J. Kennedy, and other notable writers. Reprin...

  • Eros in Boystown

    Michael Lassell

    Thanks to its inviting small format, appealing design, and involving selection of erotic poems, this is the perfect book for the gay gift market. It includes contributions by such authors as W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Hart Crane, Allen Ginsberg, Te...

  • Esther's Story

    Diane Wolkstein

  • Favorite Norse Myths

    Mary Pope Osborne

  • Fearless Joe

    John Speirs

  • A First Picture Book of Nursery Rhymes

    Elizabeth Harbour

  • Flight of the Crow

    Paul Clayton

    In the sequel to Calling Crow, Muskogee chief Calling Crow escapes Spanish slavery, is driven from his village by a deadly fever, embarks on a perilous journey in search of the woman he loves, finds a new home among the Coosa, and leads the s...

  • Fly Away Home

    Susan Berman

    After escaping their miserable childhood home, devoted sisters Paula Jean and Dana are wrenched apart when Dana suddenly disappears somewhere in Los Angeles, and Paula Jean, assuming a new identity, desperately searches for her. Original....

  • From Ice to Fire

    Helen Upshaw

  • Gaggle of Geese and Other Animal Groups

    Philippa-Alys Browne

  • Ghastly Guests

    Golden Books

  • Going Home

    Nicholasa Mohr

    In this sequel to Felita, Felita's going to Puerto Rico! It's like a dream to her, although she'll miss her friends. But Felita's summer isn't at all what she expected. Her uncle's small village is boring, and none of the girls wants to be friends wi...

  • Going to the Sun

    James McManus

    Seven years ago, Penny's boyfriend was savagely attacked by a bear, setting off a chain of tragic events. Now, fighting a debilitating illness and haunted by her past, she finds herself incapable of emotional or sexual intimacy. As a way to break dow...

  • The Green Hand

    Tessa Krailing

    Dom does not like his new school. His classroom is old, draughty and dark, and people say it is haunted by a green hand. Dom wants to know what the green hand is, and why it keeps writing rude things on the blackboard....

  • Green Thumbs, Everyone

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Accidentally trampling Mrs. Alonzo's prize garden, Richard "Beast" Best and Emily Arrow find themselves in a heap of trouble when Mrs. Alonzo offers a big reward for the names of the responsible culprits. Original....