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New Books List: 478 titles


  • Leo Kessler

    In this clever mix of fact and fiction, John Kerrigan starts a major new series detailing the rise of the SAS over half a century to become the world's most elite formation. North Africa, 1941: General Rommel, the commander of the German AFRIKAKORPS,...



  • J.D. Christilian

    It is 1871. A prominent New York attorney must go to a private investigator named Harp to find his missing young wife. She has vanished into the teeming underworld of crime and corruption beneath the city's respectable surface--a realm of sin and sav...





  • Dean Wesley Smith; Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Centuries ago, the Supreme Ruler of the planet Jibet fled a democratic uprising, taking with him many priceless works of art. Now Quark's greed leads Commander Sisko and his crew to the lost treasures--and to the Supreme Ruler himself, preserved in c...



  • Christie Golden

    When sensors indicate a possible wormhole nearby, Captain Janeway is eager to investigate, hoping to find a shortcut back to Federation space. Instead, she discovers a star system being systematically pillaged by the warlike Akerians. Janeway has no ...



  • Michael A. Stackpole

    JOIN THE MOST ELITE FIGHTING FORCE IN SPACE ON A DO-OR-DIE MISSION ONLY THE X-WINGS WOULD DARE! They are sleek, swift, and deadly. They are the X-wing fighters. And as the struggle rages across the vastness of space, the fearless men and women who...



  • Nancy Cane

    ON A DISTANT PLANET, FAR, FAR AWAY He was shrouded in black when Leena first laid eyes on him--his face shaded like the night. At first the lovely young archaeologist thought Taurin to be a farmer--but this man was no simple agrarian. With a comma...



  • Poul Anderson

    Poul Anderson himself has put together a retrospective collection of his recent writings, fiction and nonfiction, under the title All One Universe. This is the first major Poul Anderson collection in a decade. It encompasses all his strengths as a te...



  • Roby James

    The Sting was what made Ronica McBride special--that, and the years the interstellar government called the Corn had invested in teaching her how to use it. Class C talents could use the power called gathering to control their own bodies; the less com...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    When an asteroid out of nowhere threatens to hit Earth, a space shuttle is sent to nudge it into a safe orbit. Venturing to the surface, three crew members become trapped as the asteroid suddenly leaves orbit, transporting them to a strange planet li...



  • Norman Partridge

    Focusing on the world of drive-in theaters, B-movies, and steamy windows, a collection of first-run tales includes the titles "The Blood on Satan's Harley," "The Thing from Lover's Lane," and "59 Frankenstein." Original....



  • Julian May

    “Fascinating . . . May has cemented her position as one of this generation's foremost storytellers. . . .This satisfying end to a remarkable feat of the imagination is a necessary purchase.” -- Library JournalBy the mid-twenty-first century, huma...



  • James P. Hogan

    Attempting to save humankind from a genocidal threat, the scientists of the twenty-first century discover a vast alternative universe in which the wars of the twentieth century had different outcomes. Reprint....



  • Gregory Benford

    The first strikes destroyed Cleveland, Tunis, and parts of Alaska, Canada, and Australia. That was barely the beginning.

    The swarm-- a cloud of meteors and asteroids 50,000 miles across--was coming. Hundred of missiles put Earth under siege fo...



  • Donald G. Phillips

    STEFAN THE TERRORIZER An ancient evil has slumbered for centuries, passing from generation to generation, until one day a man discovers the truth of his genetic heritage--and proclaims himself Star Lord of the Inner Sphere. Disguising his army of ...



  • Ben Bova

    Two hundred years ago, Adela de Montgarde, the brilliant astrophysicist, conceived the centuries-long plan to forestall the death of Earth's sun, thus preserving the original genetic material of the Empire of the Hundred Worlds-and of the Emperors wh...



  • Eric L. Harry

    A political thriller by a military expert with extensive first-hand knowledge of the Russian military describes an accidental nuclear holocaust that erupts between Russia and the United States. Reprint....



  • David M. Pierce

    V. (for Vic) Daniel, Los Angeles private investigator, is back - six feet seven inches, wearing loud Hawaiian shirts, and driving a classic pink-and-blue Nash Metropolitan - and he is at the top of his form. Now his precious peace and quiet is threat...



  • Ron Hansen

    Colorado rancher Atticus Cody receives word that his wayward younger son, Scott, has committed suicide in Resurrection, Mexico. When Atticus travels south to recover Scott's body, he is puzzled by what he finds there and begins to suspect murder. ...



  • Michael DiMercurio

    A volatile new state calling itself Greater Manchuria emerges out of the political and military strife of Asia. Thanks to the connections of its brash leader, it boasts an atomic arsenal. Japan, threatened by its proximity to nuclear disaster, shocks...



  • Steven Martin Cohen

    Police Detective Brent Kramer has always loved bringing order to the chaos of New York City's streets. Taking down the Dad guys was the number one allure of the job. But now someone else is laying down the law: Paroled murderers are turning up as vic...



  • Barry Norman

    When Archie Beckway, a powerful London politician and notorious womanizer, becomes the target of a gang of blackmailers disguised as cartoon characters, he turns to old friend Donovan, a crime lord out to gain respectability, and ex-boxer-turned-priv...



  • Gary Hardwick

    The youngest black man ever to lead Detroit's elite Special Crimes Unit, Inspector Tony Hill confronts a vigilante killer nicknamed "The Handyman" because of his penchant for cutting off the hands of his victims. Reprint....



  • Patrick Sheane Duncan

    Major Nat Serling investigates the shooting down of a medevac helicopter during the Gulf War, a crash that takes the life of Captain Karen Emma Walden, who is up for a posthumous Medal of Honor, and uncovers more than he expected about the incident. ...



  • Margot Livesey

    A decent, harried young banker, already on the verge of distraction, hurries north to Scotland and his mysteriously troubled sister . . . A “foreign” mother struggles to make a home for her family in a society she only vaguely comprehends . . . A...



  • Kent Harrington

    A dissatisfied insurance salesman, Jimmy Rogers begins an intense, fantasy-fulfilling affair with his boss's wife and finds it surprisingly easy to eliminate his employer, in a tale of passion, addiction, and power. Reprint....



  • Michael Dibdin

    In this majestically unnerving novel, Michael Dibdin, the creator of the acclaimed Aurelio Zen mysteries, explores themes that might have been ripped out of today's headlines, as he charts America's dual epidemic of religious cultism and random viole...



  • Mario Vargas Llosa

    Set in an isolated, rundown community in the Peruvian Andes, Vargas Llosa's novel tells the story of a series of mysterious disappearances involving the Shining Path guerrillas and a local couple performing cannibalistic sacrifices with strange simil...



  • Catherine Lewis

    “Dry Fire captures the heat and streets of North Florida with admirable precision. The character of cop Abigail Fitzpatrick is a convincing mix of someone who is absolutely jaded and yet capable of utter astonishment. If Edna Buchanan has a long...



  • Philip Caputo

    “Written with Caputo’s customary style and razor-sharp prose, Equation for Evil is the rarest of novels: one that makes the reader think profoundly at the same time that he is driven to devour pages. Unflinching, compelling and engaging, it stand...



  • Patricia D. Benke

    Investigating the brutal murder of an affluent San Diego neighbor, Chief Assistant D.A. Judith Thornton finds her only clue in the work of a graffiti artist, whose spray-painted message claims that he witnessed the killing. Original....



  • Craig Holden

    The woman was too beautiful, the man too hyped. But Joe Curtis, hitching from Detroit to Seattle, got into their Chevy Nova on a deserted stretch of Montana highway -- in a chance encounter that would plunge him into a nightmare of terror and survi...



  • Seth Kindler

    Twenty years after a Nashville singing star is murdered, a serial killer continues to strike down the artist's look-alikes, and the grown son of the victims, a police detective, vows to solve the mystery. Original....



  • Stewart O'Nan

    After his wife leaves him, Larry Markham, a thirty-four-year-old Wonder Bread delivery man, battles his inner demons and his recurring memories of being a young medic during the Vietnam War. Reprint. Tour....



  • John Burdett

    From former British barrister John Burdett comes a psychosexual novel in the tradition of Damage and Presumed Innocent. At the heart of A Personal History of Thirst is an ill-fated love triangle where all hunger for something and are willing to risk ...



  • Gordon Cotler

    Jock Caprisi lands himself a job as media consultant to the senior senator from New York, but when a woman is found stabbed to death in the backseat of the senator's car, Caprisi races against time to find the real killer to keep the senator out of t...



  • Evan Hunter

    Successful psychiatrist David Chapman decides to stay in the city and work while his wife and children vacation on Martha's Vineyard. All is not tranquil in the city, however. A chance meeting with a Broadway dancer evokes his every erotic fantasy. B...



  • Bob Reiss

    One year after accidentally causing the death of his best friend, Antarctica research scientist Jack Amirault's sister is killed, and his subsequent unauthorized investigations result in his being charged with murder...



  • Zach Adams

    Rescuing his young son from a ruthless child-snatching ring, FBI Special Agent Martin Walsh and his partner encounter a vicious backlash when a prominent politician's son and an entire classroom of preschoolers are kidnapped. Original....



  • Daina Graziunas

    FBI agent Ira Levitt finds himself in a chilling alliance with cold-blooded murderer David Vandemark, a deadly serial killer who preys on the dregs of society--drug dealers, child molesters, other serial killers--to find the Latino Killer, a vicious ...



  • Robert Daley

    The murders of two patrolmen by assassins from FEAR, the Freedom and Equality Revolution, has New York City Chief of Detectives Earl Eisheid racing against time to find and stop the killers before they can turn the cops' funeral into a massacre...



  • Gilbert Morris; Alan Morris

    Dangerous mountain passages. A rough gang of laborers. A ruthless murderer. Katy Steele must overcome these obstacles on her quest for justice. With her partner, ex-gambler and actor Sam Bronte, Katy trails the saboteur of the Central Pacific Railroa...



  • Tom Savage

    Believing she has it all in a successful writing career, an attentive lover, and lots of friends, Jillian Talbot is stalked by a secret admirer who calls himself Valentine and who is hunting her down as the holiday approaches. Reissue. (A Warner Bros...



  • G.D. Gearino

    When ten-year-old Sammy Ayers awakens in an empty bus after an overnight trip, it’s a moment of paralyzing disorientation: He doesn’t know where he is, his mother has disapperared, and he’s surrounded by strangers who don’t know quite what to...



  • Suzanne Forster

    She was raised in a world of wealth and privilege. But that wasn't enough for Augusta Featherstone. It would take more than her family's trust fund to earn the freedom and respect she longed for so passionately. Her beauty could turn a man's head. He...



  • Pamela Burford

    There are secrets no amount of charm can hide... Noah Stewart was the first man Kit Roarke trusted when she came to tiny Pratte, Vermont, to investigate her best friend's murder - a murder that mysteriously mirrored the tiny town's only other one thi...



  • Tess Gerritsen

    She was a beautiful bride Or she would have been, had the groom bothered to show up. And then, at the exact moment Nina Cormier would have said 'I do,' the empty church exploded -- sending a loud message that someone was after the bride-to...



  • Carly Bishop

    She was vulnerable... Even the Witness Protection program couldn't hide Eden Kelley. When a dark and dangerous stranger blasted into her hideaway, she was imprisoned as much by the sorcery in his eyes as by the strength of his arms. But who was t...



  • Margaret St. George

    He was a great advertisement for heaven! The sexy blond guy who appeared before Brett Thatcher in the swirling Colorado snow looked anything but angelic. In tight jeans and a leather jacket, he almost made her forget she was the chief suspect in h...



  • Bethany Campbell

    In this harrowing, pulse-pounding story of romance and danger by Bethany Campbell, two strangers race to save innocent children from a crime lord’s hit men.   A gifted teacher for special-needs children, Laura Stoner loves her charges, especia...



  • Emma Jensen

    THEY COULD FOOL THE PUBLIC, BUT NOT THEIR HEARTS. . . . Lord Tarrant needed a woman. Aurelie Carollan needed a place to hide. Her advertisement and his offer seemed to ensure that both parties would get what they so desperately desired. He woul...



  • Jeanne Savery

    ROSES ARE RED, A LADY IS BLUE Lady Anne Montmorency is an enigma. She hides her magnificent hair beneath a dreadful cap, moves into the garret of her sister-in-law's elegant mansion, and refuses to attend a single London soiree. In fact, confirmed b...



  • Nadine Miller

    A Compromising Position Miss Emily Haliburton could not hope to match her cousin Lady Lucinda Hargrave in either beauty or social standing. Certainly she could never compete with the lovely Lucinda for the hand of the devastatingly handsome, daunt...



  • Mary Balogh

    The Uncommon Commoner Miss Cora Downes was only a merchant's daughter. But when she saved a duke's son from drowning, her reward was entry into London high society. Cora had a style of beauty and mode of manners that made her a fish out of water i...



  • Mary Chase Comstock

    Never one to give in to the vapors, spirited London beauty Marianne Gardiner regarded her scandalous predicament with accustomed aplomb. She was with child and, as the father was soon to wed another, Marianne was quite prepared to make her way alone....



  • Dorothea Donley

    He was a perfect prospect...But for which young lady? Although Nelly is unquestionably plain and hopelessly practical, her parents entertain hopes of a brilliant marriage for her beautiful sister Verena. And indeed, Verena's London season is quickly...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    The Best Laid Plans Lovely Lady Juliana Hamilton had bold plans indeed. She intended to follow in the footsteps of her late father, who not, only was a lord of the realm, but was also one of the finest architects in it. She would complete his grea...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    SHE HAD FAITH AND HOPE... At six-and-twenty, Miss Charity Stuart, daughter of Bridgeton's late minister, was on the shelf. But she believed that her pretty younger sister could still snare an aristocratic suitor--especially when the invitation a...



  • Barbara Metzger

    BALD LIES Audrina is desperate to ensure that Lord Blanford not only notices her beautiful cousin but marries her as well. However, Max's head is beset by larger worries than matrimony--though he is curiously diverted by the antics of the flame-ha...



  • Judith Pella

    Sky Killion, a half-Cheyenne seventeen-year-old torn between the two worlds of his heritage, finds acceptance when he is befriended by a rancher's son, but a horrible tragedy followed by an act of betrayal forces him to leave his home...



  • K.C. Constantine

    Although months have passed since Police Chief Mario Balzic retired, his successor still has not been named. When a local businesswoman is brutally raped, the likely candidate faces an unexpected and gruelling test of his character....



  • P.D. James

    Innocent House, a mock-Venetian palace occupied by Britain's oldest book publisher. Here, after a spate of malicious pranks, someone killed Gerard Etienne, the ruthless managing director, and jammed the office mascot, a stuffed snake, in his mouth. ...



  • Susan Dunlap

    Berkeley cop Jill Smith is back in another adventure that could only occur in this brazen, eccentric town. Gym owner and former Olympic diver Bryn Wiley is in a turf war with sixties radical Sam Johnson, who owns a competing gym. When Bryn is shot, S...



  • Sandra Marton

    When Manhattan businesswoman Kathryn Russell inherits Charon's Crossing, her first instinct is to sell it. A busy career woman didn't need a tropical island getaway. But destiny brings Kathryn to Charon's Crossing discovers that her new possession is...



  • Susan Sizemore

    A LOVE FOR ALL TIME Don't fraternize with the locals. Every member of the Time Search time knew that was the cardinal rule of team travel. But when Libby Wolfe was swept back to medieval England, she met the one man who could make her ignore it. Ba...



  • Charlotte Maclay

    He came to her in the night... Julianne Olson had heard rumors of ghosts walking the halls of her grandmother's Alpine castle. She shrugged them off...until the very real Erich Langlois woke her one night. He was dark and dangerous, sexier than any ...



  • Teresa Medeiros

    An enchantress from seventeenth-century Massachusetts collides with a future beyond her imagining...and with a handsome cynic who's about to learn a lesson in the power of love. AN EXQUISITE ENCHANTRESS LOST IN TIME Arian Whitewood hadn't qui...



  • Kate Donovan

    LOVE..for Molly Sheridan, descendant of a lost race of sorcerers, dreams were a doorway into supernatural worlds...opening places in the soul she never knew existed. When she met and married seductive mythology professor Matthew Redtree, she discover...



  • Lark Eden

    ANCIENT SECRETS...TIMELESS LOVE When Lyric Solei fled the bustling city for her summer retreat in Salem, it was a chance for the lovely young psychic to escape the pain so often associated with her special sight. She decided she'd use her free tim...



  • Connie Rinehold

    HE DEFIED THE BOUNDARIES OF TIME . . . He thundered out of the moonlit mist, out of her dreams, and onto the deserted English road leading to the inn she had crossed the ocean to claim. Dark and brooding astride his dappled silver steed, he watched ...



  • Lyn Ellis

    HE HAD NOTHING TO LIVE FOR Michael Weldon had the perfect life, complete with a sexy, loving wife, Terri, and a terrific son, Josh. But then Josh died. And Michael walked out, leaving Terri to deal with her grief alone. AND THEN HE SAW AN ANGE...



  • Jasmine Cresswell

    He was out of this world! Sensible, down-to-earth Ariel Hutton has always longed for adventure. For heart-stopping excitement...for soul-searing passion and romance. But being kidnapped by a sexy, blue-eyed stranger isn't exactly what she had...



  • Emma Merritt

    NOW . . . Seeking a cure for a mysterious new virus, devoted doctor Beth Balfour travels to a far-off Scottish castle to find a remedy described in an ancient text: a delicate, silvery flower called Nightlace. It exists, to her dismay, only in the p...



  • Nina Beaumont

    A long-ago and forbidden love... Though Sarah Longford's days were marked by the sorrow of an ancient curse, her nights were filled with dreams of a life of privilege and passion. A life she had known in another time... and another body. ...



  • Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    HE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN LOVE Dean Gates was burned out. His high-powered job and his ex-wife's demands were driving him crazy. On top of it all, he was fast approaching Black Wednesday--Valentine's Day. He needed to escape! When he first set eyes on ...



  • Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

    Lupe Solano's new case touched her heart: She'd been hired to find the biological mother of an illegally adopted baby. Her clients' child was dying, and the only way to save the girl's life was through a bone marrow transplant. What appeared to be a ...



  • Lawrence Sanders

    Sex, secrets, and suspense. Nobody lives for them like Archy McNally, the playboy-turned-Palm Beach P.I. Wealthy bird-store owner Hiram Gottschalk feels his life is in danger. And he's right - as McNally realizes when his mutilated body is found. Bet...



  • John Straley

    A defense investigator working out of Sitka, in the Alaskan coastal archipelago, Cecil Younger walks a narrow line between the truth and what his clients pay him to find.... Younger's got the child custody case from hell, and a client to match. Sh...



  • John D. MacDonald

    How do you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skillfully to the husband of Travis McGee's ex-girlfriend. McGee flies to Chicago to help untangle the mess and discovers that although Dr. Fortner Geis had led an exem...



  • John T. Lescroart

    For former San Francisco cop Dismas Hardy, Guinness Stout with Bass Ale is the drink of choice, but a straight Irish whiskey will do anytime. The news of young Eddie Cochran's death calls for a double. The cops think it's suicide, but even to a lapse...



  • Anthea Fraser

    When the small English village of Middlemarch is invaded by an insidious religious cult called the Revelationists, whose tentacles reach even into the local police department, Inspector Webb searches for a connection between the sect and a murdered w...



  • E. Howard Hunt



  • Jack O'Connell

    A young filmmaker with Mafia connections and an inquisitive photographer find themselves drawn into an adventure in the seedy underworld of a decaying New England town, the black heart of which resides in a lavish porn theater...



  • Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child

    Mount Dragon: an enigmatic research complex hidden in the vast desert of New Mexico. Guy Carson and Susana Cabeza de Vaca have come to Mount Dragon to work shoulder to shoulder with some of the greatest scientific minds on the planet. Led by visionar...



  • Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! When Abby signs the BSC up to help reopen a country club that's been closed for twenty years, the girls find more than just cobwebs to clear away. There's a decades-old mystery to solve, too: Th...



  • Gary Provost

    Baffled in Boston marks the debut of the most likable--and unlikely--sleuth to come along in years. Burned-out true-crime writer Scotty Scotland has been abandoned by his wife, ordered to give up coffee by his doctor, and according to his latest revi...



  • Eric Weiner

    Glimpsing a beautiful women in a painting, Hector and the Ghostwriter team stumble upon a murder plot that leads them to an eerie cruise ship where they are forced to identify a killer before midnight strikes. Original....



  • Shiva Naipaul

    Sharply observed, wryly comic yet touched with sadness, these eight stories were written between 1969 and 1974. 'A Man of Mystery' charts the tragic downfall of Mr Green, a shoemaker overtaken by commercialization. Other stories range from the hilari...



  • Elizabeth Levy

    When snacks begin to mysteriously disappear from classroom lunch bags, an invisible boy and his friends seek out the culprit, in a third installment in the Invisible Inc. Hello Reader series. Original....



  • Rochelle Majer Krich

    THE DEFENSE RESTS -- PERMANENTLY The practice of law is a cutthroat profession. When a glamorous, aggressive, and widely disliked L.A. lawyer is found with her tongue cut out, it's a gruesome, but apt, demise. The leading suspect is Debra Laslow, ...



  • Rochelle Krich

    Murder is always heinous, but when two Los Angeles women attorneys are found dead with their tongues cut out, it's downright gruesome. And for criminal defense attorney Debra Laslow the killings are even more horrifying ... because she's suspected of...



  • Barbara Parker

    A high-profile rape has drawn Sam Hagen, head of Major Crimes for Dade County, back into the moral twilight of South Beach - where his own teenage son died a year before. Hagen's investigation of the case only exacerbates his wife's ongoing grief ...



  • Graham Swift

    Four men -- friends, most of them, for half a lifetime -- gather in a London pub. They have taken it upon themselves to carry out the last orders of Jack Dodds, master butcher, and deliver his ashes to the sea. As they drive towards the fulfillment o...



  • Marsha Canham

    THE PIRATE WOLF He was French by birth, half English by blood, and reported to be all larceny by nature. One of Queen Elizabeth's legendary sea hawks, the rogue nobleman Simon Dante nearly lost his life when his partner turned coward and betrayed ...



  • Sue Rich

    Ten years have passed since the ruthless Boggs brothers massacred Jessalea Richardson's entire family. Now seventeen, the courageous beauty disguises herself as a boy and sets off to find the murderers and deliver her own brand of justice. Armed with...



  • Lorraine Heath

    The story of one man whose quiet strength in his convictions makes an entire town believe -- and of one woman who rebuilds a shattered life and a broken heart. Of one person fighting to forget the past. And one vowing... ALWAYS TO REMEMBER Refu...



  • Mandalyn Kaye

    When her dear friend Aiden, the Duke of Albrick, returns home from the Peninsular War, Lady Sarah Erridge realizes that the years apart have changed him. No longer the carefree youth she'd adored, Aiden is scarred by haunting memories of battle -- an...



  • Hazel Hucker

    Unmarried and pregnant with the child of her aristocratic employer, Susannah Trotter, a young governess, marries ambitious curate Sedley Stacey, but her new life is threatened by her feelings for her former lover....



  • Ellen Archer

    A PAST SHE CANNOT REMEMBER... They told her that her name was Selena Vale, that she lived in a grand English manor in the scenic Maryland countryside -- and that she was the wife of a very wealthy man. But to Selena -- her memory shrouded in am...



  • Katherine Sutcliffe

    Trey Hawthorne had once been the most eligible man in Northern England. A notorious rogue, the young Duke of Salterdon had a line of admirers that could stretch all the way around his magnificent estate. But after being wounded, Trey suddenly found h...



  • Ruth Langan

    The Jewels of Texas Diamond had him Dead in her Sights, And Adam Winter Didn't Even Flinch But she still hated him. It had to be hate, no matter what her newfound sisters claimed. For what else could make her blood burn as hot as a prairie fire? ...



  • Bobbi Smith
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    Tennessee,1865. A Yankee soldier and a Southern belle are ready to start their own civil war--until a heavenly visitor draws up terms of surrender that will bring them anal bliss....



  • Linda Madl
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    Colorado,1885. A rugged rancher and fiery filly have always longed for one another, but it takes a heaven-sent messenger to set them on a trail to fulfillment....



  • Bobby Hutchinson
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    Indiana,1889. Divine intervention helps a country doctor and a rural beauty realize that, while duty is important, life is meaningless without laughter and love....



  • Susan Macias

    THEY HAD A DEAL BUT FALLING IN LOVE WASN'T PART OF IT. Laura Cannon knew it was an unheard-of request, asking a cowboy she barely knew if she could join his cattle drive from Texas to Kansas. Asking him to marry her was even more outrageous. But i...



  • Emily French

    Sophy van Houton. Impetuous. Headstrong. Rich. The beautiful heiress needed to marry to access her fortune. But deep in her heart was a stubborn dream - to find a man who loved her for herself, not for her beauty or her money. In Seth Weston she ...



  • Suzanne Barclay

    Revenge Ran Hot in Kieran Sutherland's Veins For the betrayal of his clan had driven him to denounce love for war -- until he met the Lady Laurel. A Highland witch in chain mail who had the power to inflame him with a need more urgent than any...



  • Karen A. Bale

    A GENTLEMAN Wild, free-spirited Rio McKinnon had known John MacGregor since childhood. Now, as her wedding to the wealthy rancher's son approached, she wondered if there was something missing from her life: Excitement. Danger. Passion... A GUNSL...



  • Patricia Hagan
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    Pennsylvania, 1850. With the assistance of her guardian angel, a wealthy spinster searches for the ideal husband. But she soon learns that earthly perfection is no substitute for a passion straight from paradise....



  • Lauren Wilde

    Georgianna Mead fled the staid respectability of 19th-century England to seek adventure in Spanish Florida, an unsavory frontier where Seminole chiefs traded with smugglers. Now, with a dangerous raid imminent, she is forced once more to take to the ...



  • Kathryn Kramer

    She is Devondra, daughter of "Gentleman James", a highwayman who steals from the wealthy to give to the poor... But now, with James captured and condemned to death, Devondra enters into a desperate bargain. To save her father from the hangman's noose...



  • Christina Dodd

    A LADY'S CHAMPION Only a threat to her life could have made strong-willed Lady Alisoun hire Sir David of Radcliffe to protect her castle. Although he had once been a hero and master swordsman, the good life had been a little too good to the lord, ...



  • Sarah Westleigh

    THE Wild Widow OF LONDON After a long seclusion, Lexie Hamilton set out to enjoy a Season in London. And so she had, until one night she found herself swept up in the strong arms of the Marquess of Stormaston. Flirtation and fancy were delights in...



  • Laura Parker

    Transforming Madeline Foucant, an impoverished, convent-bred beauty, into England's most famous courtesan as part of a bet, Sebastian D'Arcy, the rakish Marquis of Brecon, is drawn despite himself to his own sensuous creation. Original....



  • Patricia Phillips

    The daughter of a nobleman and a common peasant, Rosamund believed she was doomed to marry a simple swineherd. Then a desperate ruse swept the feisty lass from her rustic English village to a faraway castle. And even as Rosamund posed as the betro...



  • Cassie Edwards

    Secretly admiring the Ottawa chieftain Silver Arrow, Yvonne is enthralled by his mystical powers and seductive ways, but disputes between the warrior's tribe and the frontierspeople threaten to keep the couple apart. FIRST LOVE, WILD LOVE Y...



  • Peggy Hanchar

    SHE ANSWERED THE WILD CALL OF THE HIGHLANDS AND THE TRAITOROUS YEARNINGS OF HER HEART... The pawn in a game between greedy men, Lillias McGinnis had been abducted by a rival clan and made the child bride of the chieftain's rebellious son. Fina...



  • Patricia McAllister

    THE RAVEN AND THE HAWK As proud and stubborn as the clan she springs from, as wild and unpredictable as the waters she sails, she is any man's equal on the high seas. Sworn to defend her homeland against English tyranny, she bravely confronts the ...



  • Mary Jo Putney

    FORBIDDEN DESIRE Honed by danger and haunted by the past, Lord Michael Kenyon finds it easy to risk his life for his country's sake. But in the shadow of war, he faces a far more dangerous threat --- the loss of his heart to the beautiful battlefi...



  • Carole Howey

    Hoping to maintain ownership of her horse ranch, no-nonsense beauty Missy Cannon enters a battle of wills with Flynn Muldaur, who has won half the ranch in a gambling bet and seeks to obtain the rest. Wild at Heart Missy Cannon was a woman wh...



  • Vella Munn

    It is 1872. American Expansionism is at its peak. Landso nce thought uninhabitable are coveted by white settlers, miners, and traders who are spreading throughout the West. The last of the Modoc tribe are being forced by the U.S. government to leave ...



  • Christine Dorsey

    ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A BEAUTIFUL QUEEN... ...who lived in a tiny European kingdom. But she wasn't happy. Cassandra, ruler of Breslovia, was much too young to be head of state and fur too lovely to be married off to a pompous, self-centered...



  • Candace Camp

    Simon "Devil" Dure is as cynical about love as spirited Charity Emerson is innocent of it. But she is certain she can meet his wifely expectations, and he is charmed and amused enough to believe her. Their ensuing engagement is as shocking as...



  • Judith E. French

    A MOTHER'S SACRIFICE Pride, courage and a steadfast devotion to her two small children have kept Elizabeth Fleming strong throughout her years of captivity. And now a handsome stranger has appeared to free the stunning, copper-haired beauty from t...



  • Connie Mason

    A PIRATE'S PASSION He is Morgan Scott, an English nobleman once held captive on the high seas by the brutal Spanish master and crew who murdered his family. Now he sails the seas as a British privateer, taking his revenge by attacking and plunde...



  • Mary Lou Rich

    In the heart of Texas lives a family as big and bold as the state itself The Daltrys are as different as they come, each with his or her own strengths--and weaknesses. Every time a Daltry turns twenty years old, they are presented with a task by thei...



  • Deborah Camp

    Framed and shot for a murder he did not commit, Blackfoot Storm-In-His-Eyes is rescued and nursed by beautiful Tess Summar, whom he resists because of her white heritage, until he hopelessly falls in love. She is Tess Summar, who dares to defy the...



  • Margaret Brownley

    PINT-SIZED, PRETTY... Small as she is, Abby Parker holds her head high and her shoulders square. A real lady isn't supposed to throw a knife, swear like a sailor, or come-to Colorado alone -- Abby does all three. She is searching for her missing...



  • Cathy Maxwell

    A DEPT OF HONOR A SCANDALOUS DUTY The reckless and impoverished heiress Phadra Abbott swore that no amount of scandal would stop her from finding her spendthrift explorer father. Not even her forbiddingly handsome guardian Grant Morgan could stand in...



  • Suzann Ledbetter

    LAND OF PROMISE The Wild West in the 1880's during gold rush fever. It is a time when fortunes are made overnight and hopeful immigrants flock to America. From the heart of Ireland comes the irrepressible Megan O'alley, whose spirit mirrors that o...



  • Maura Seger

    DARK MAGIC Conan, Baron of Wyndham, was a man dark of spirit. And he certainly wasn't pleased when the Queen commanded him to a mist-wreathed island in Glastonbury to investigate a monk's murder. There he found the accused, Alianor of the Lake, a wo...



  • Elizabeth Darrell

    In 1946, members of the Sheridan family--David, a pilot scarred by Japanese torture in Sumatra; his mother, Marion, widowed by the war; and his sister, Vesta, a noted war artist--struggle to rebuild their lives in the wake of the devastation of war. ...



  • Christina Cordaire

    Lessons of love can be the hardest to learn... FRENCH Fired for being a suffragette, she thought she'd never teach again ... until her favorite aunt and uncle got her a job in Colorado. KYLE He thought he was hiring a tough young man to t...



  • Nan Ryan

    FROM LOVE TO HATE She was a blue blood. His ran dirt poor and red. That didn't matter to them. But it did to those whose devious trap destroyed their young love. FROM INNOCENCE TO ECSTASY As the Civil War raged, a different kind of war exploded ...



  • Marc Laidlaw

    When Derek Crowe attempts to turn the unseen mandalas into guardian spirits to enrich his bank account, the cynical New Age charlatan uncovers the reasons past occult masters have left them alone. Reprint....



  • Christopher Pike

    Frozen enemies make for a chilling challenge in this fifth book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series -- now on TV!Adam and his friend are exploring the forest near Spooksville when they come across huge blocks ...




  • Tanith Lee

    Left homeless in the wake of a series of family tragedies, sixteen-year-old Annie Ember is shipped off to serve as a scullery maid on the exotic Smolte estate, where she is introduced to a dark, decadent, and perverse world. Reprint....



  • R.L. Stine

    They say something horrible happened that day, but Martha can’t remember any of it -- not even the smallest detail. They say it will come back to her in time. But someone wants her to remember now. She draws his face, over and over -- the face of a...



  • Tom Holland

    The famed nineteenth-century poet and rake, Lord Byron, comes to life in a searing blend of fact and fiction, a shockingly brilliant novel with all the hypnotic power of Caleb Carr's The Alienist and the best of Anne Rice. Traveling in the mountai...



  • Joanna Scott

    The Manikin is not a mannequin, but the curious estate of Henry Craxton, Sr. in a rural western New York State. Dubbed the "Henry Ford of Natural History," by 1917 Craxton has become America's preeminent taxidermist. Into this magic box of a world-fi...



  • R.L. Stine

    WHEN DUMMIES SPEAK...EVERYBODY LISTENS! Trina O'Dell's dad used to have a ventriloquist act. That's why he has all those dummies in the attic. He calls it his Dummy Museum. There's a dummy with freckles. And one with a sneer just like Rocky. Trina an...



  • Connie Laux

    Working at Pine Lake Park despite their fear of the local curse of the blood moon, Kate and her best friend Al find their nightmares coming true when a young man is killed just before the arrival of the evil magician Max Kettering. Original....



  • Barbara Steiner

    Anticipating the perfect spring break at the beach, Angie and her four best friends find the only available accommodations with creepy Mr. Jamison, whose old house harbors a terrifying family secret. Original....



  • Dafydd ab Hugh

    Alone against the elements. Alone against a killer. THE DELUGE. A FLASH FLOOD--FIVE COMPANIONS--IS ONE OF THEM A KILLER? Jeanette just wanted to get away from it all. A six-day hike across the mountains with her best friend Neil and his girlfri...



  • David Pierce

    Believing the pale-faced owner of the Total Body Renewal Center to be totally creepy, Charlie and Martha become worried by the owner's influence on Charlie's sister Gail, who has been acting like a vampire. ...



  • Michael Romkey

    "I HAVE FINALLY SUCCEEDED IN AWAKENING YOUR KILLER INSTINCT.... "There will be many opportunities for you to indulge in your wildest desires aboard the Atlantic Princess. But if you refuse to abandon yourself to my bloody bacchanals, I will find a...



  • Laura Joh Rowland

    Enter a magical world of warriors and mystics. A timeless place marked by tradition and desire. A lush, exotic land were honor--or death--is found at the end of a sword. Here you will discover the romantic splendor and epic mystery of seventeenth-cen...



  • William Hjortsberg

    Though vaudeville is dying, Houdini still dazzles audiences--and wages war with corrupt mediums. At the same time, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in America to lecture on the occult, only to face frequent visits from what appears to be the restless s...



  • Carola Dunn

    In the third installment of her cozy mystery series, Carola Dunn charmingly recreates bohemian post World War I Chelsea, where the unconventional Daisy Dalrymple is up to her fashionable bob in temperamental artists -- one of whom is a cunning killer...



  • Mark Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A Vast and Deadly Labyrinth... Beneath the city of Waterdeep lies a city of another sort, created by a mad wizard in ages past. Its subterranean byways are home to all manner of creatures, human and otherwise. When Artek the Knife is offered release...



  • Jack Ballas

    Kurt Buckner reluctantly takes on the task of escorting Melanie Corbin through the dangers of the Colorado Territory, protecting her from the three men who would do anything to insure her death. Original....



  • John Legg

    Swearing vengeance on the men who killed his trapping partners and stole their possessions, Alex Campbell pursues a cold trail in the dangerous high plains and finds help from legendary mountain man Kit Carson. Original....



  • Al Lacy

    Continuing with the adventures of certified medical nurse Breanna Baylor, book three of the Angel of Mercy series follows Breanna into the mountains west of Denver. There, she becomes the prisoner of outlaws who hope to use her medical expertise to p...




  • Dirk Fletcher

    Secret Service agent Spur McCoy is torn in three directions when the government directs him to track down bank robbers, a gang of desperados tries to murder him, and a beautiful woman demands his attentions. Original....



  • J.R. Roberts

    Lovely Deirdre Crawford is a woman of experience -- and to Clint Adams, that makes her a fine choice for showing him all the pleasures Seattle has to offer. But for some, the city offers only death. A young lady is drowned in Elliott Bay. A few days ...



  • Jason Manning

    Setting out across the harsh desert in order to forge a new path to 1837 California, daring mountain man Hugh Falconer leads his band of roughnecks and outcasts through the dangerous land against menacing odds. Original....



  • Lee Morgan

    Captain Boyd McMasters is sent in by the Cattleman's Protective Association when rancher Ben Allison is threatened by vicious rustlers who may have been hired by a powerful scoundrel from across the Rio Grande. Original....



  • Catherine Marshall

    Christy looked at David in surprise. Something in his expression sent a shiver of excitement mixed with uncertainty through her. Could it be. . . ? Christy should be thrilled when David, the handsome minister, proposes marriage. So why do thoughts o...



  • Elmer Kelton

    In the cattle drives of the Old West, pumpkin rollers were green farmboys, almost more trouble than they were worth. When Trey McLean leaves his family's East Texas cotton farm and sets off on his own to learn the cattleman's trade, he's about as ...



  • Jake Logan

    Hired by a wealthy professor and his gorgeous assistant to take part in an expedition to prove the existence of the legendary Bear Lake Monster, John Slocum begins to suspect that something is very wrong, especially when his old nemesis Haskell shows...



  • Mike Blakely

    Mike Blakely again takes us on the trail with cowboy musician Caleb Holcomb. Caleb now becomes embroiled in Wyoming's Johnson County War, the Arapaho uprisings, the West's bloody cattle wars, the great cattle drives, and the wild, lawless land rushes...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Lured into the desolate Unitas mountains by a beautiful woman's promise of a big payoff, Skye Fargo encounters a crew of mysterious murderers and a gang of religious fanatics called the Destroying Angels. Original....



  • Nelson Nye

    The Lost Dutchman was the most fabled gold mine of the Old West. Since Jacob Walzer struck gold in the Superstition Mountains of southwestern Arizona, hundreds of hopefuls had risked everything to comb the deadly mountains for it -- and many never ca...



  • Robert Vaughan

    They were soldiers young and brave in a war that would change America forever. Some came from the gray cliffs of West Point. Some came from the bloody caldron of the Civil War. By train and steamship they traveled West to fight against an enemy ba...



  • Carla Cassidy

    The cries came night after night, a child's anguished sobbing, echoing through the halls on the mansion that was Julie Kingsdon's legacy. And there was no possible explanation for them, except perhaps the haunted eyes of the man she shared th...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...





  • 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. ...




  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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....





  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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....



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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....



  • Sebastian Faulks

    Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the present. As the young Englishman Stephen Wraysford p...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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....




  • 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...



  • 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...