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New Books List: 519 titles



  • Charlotte Zolotow

    Preschoolers are invited to greet the day in one half of an engaging flip-around picture book and invited to share the day's end in the other, depicted in lyrical, soothing verse designed to nurture young ones' language skills....




  • Charlotte Doyle

    Delighted in by toddlers everywhere, a familiar sport is captured in bold, full-color illustrations that prove that getting caught--especially in a reassuring embrace--is even more fun than getting away....




  • Ted Edwards

    Everyone knows Hercules is the toughest of the tough, but how well do you really know the star of The Legendary Journeys? You love this weekly dose of eye-candy, but do you know how it all began? The answers are all here. Now for the first time ever,...



  • Georgette Livingston

    The Chattering Chimp Caper is the twelfth book in the Jennifer Gray Veterinarian Mystery Series. The other eleven books, The Unlucky Collie Caper, The Dog Named Elvis Caper, The Deadly Dog-Bone Caper, The Black Cat Caper, The Telltale Turkey Caper, T...



  • Stephanie St. Pierre

    Come and join the fun! When real live babies get to play with their favorite Muppet pals, everybody has a good time! Honkers and Dinger provide the beat along with a drum banging baby, Ernie shares Rubber Duckie at bathtime, and more!...



  • Brian Jacques

    Escape into the land of Redwall with this beautifully illustrated full-color fold-out map. Explore the treacherous terrain, legendary landmarks, and wondrous sites which Brian Jacques has made famous in his Redwall tales. Then, test your Redwall know...







  • Rob Childs

    Worm's dreaming of joining an archaeological dig when suddenly the Time Rangers are flung back to Roman times. Captured, then sold as slaves, they're trapped in chains. Escape is essential, but making a break for freedom lands the lads in an ancient ...



  • Jack Finney

    From the author of Time and Again and From Time to Time comes a collection of twelve moving stories featuring time travel.About Time offers a delightful return to the world of time travel and light comedy that distinguished Jack Finney's all-time cla...



  • Francine Rivers

    In an ancient culture frighteningly similar to modern-day America, a young slave girl fights to save the family--and the man--she has grown to love....



  • Vern E. Smith

    An all-out drug war explodes in 1970s Detroit when a young Vietnam veteran decides to rip off heroin kingpin Willis McDaniel. In the chaos, rival outfits, the Mafia, and even junkies themselves try to step in to fill the void while one lone assassin ...



  • Bret Lott

    It started with a body, the head of it pretty much gone, the hands skinned. We found it the Saturday after Thanksgiving, out to Hungry Neck Hunt Club. Uncle Leland owns the Hunt Club, which might make him sound important, or rich. But he's not.Huger ...



  • James Baldwin

    A major work of American literature from a major American writer that powerfully portrays the anguish of being Black in a society that at times seems poised on the brink of total racial war."Baldwin is one of the few genuinely indispensable American ...



  • Alan Warner

    After the critical success of his first novel,  Morvern Callar, Alan Warner has written an extraordinary, stirring sequel to Morvern's odyssey, confirming him as one of the most original, uniquely gifted writers to have appeared this decade.



  • Jerry Spinelli

    Ever since her family moved to Aunt Sally's farm, Tooter's known that farm life is definitely not for her. There's no pizzeria  for miles, her nearest neighbor is a dumb boy, and even her own pet chicken hates her! So Tooter decides to show...



  • Stephanie St. Pierre

    In this oh-so-easy-to-read introduction to spatial relationships, Big Bird and Small Bird discover that sometimes it's not easy being big and sometimes it's not easy being small. But sometimes it is.  ...




  • John Grisham

    Michael Brock is billing the hours, making the money, rushing relentlessly to the top of Drake & Sweeney, a giant D.C. law firm. One step away from partnership, Michael has it all. Then, in an instant, it all comes undone. A homeless man takes nin...



  • Kage Baker

    In the twenty-fourth century, the Company preserves valuable works of art and extinct forms of life. It recruits orphans from the past, renders them all but immortal with drugs, hormones, and implants, and trains them to serve the Company down the lo...



  • Michael Cart

    Eighteen year-old Andy Logan has finally made it to his first year og college, but not without some struggle. As he tries to settle in this new environment, he cannot help but recall the events and experiences that have led him there.

    It is in...



  • Richard Calder

    This extraordinary trilogy depicts a future gender war that crosses the boundaries of software, wetware, time, and reality itself in its imaginative leaps and bounds. Only love holds the future together in this tale of star-crossed teens whose tra...



  • Frank O'Connor

    In 1916, a young man named Michael Collins returned to his native Ireland, after ten years in voluntary exile in London, to join one of the most impassioned and complicated revolutions in history. Playfully nicknamed "The Big Fellow," Collins began t...



  • George Garrett

    A reporter investigates a crime spree that shakes a small Florida town in the week Martin Luther King is assassinated. “There are few recent novels as thought-provoking, as witty, and as entertaining as this one” (Washington Post Book World). Wit...




  • Betsy Howie

    A darkly comic, absurdist, and highly original story of one woman’s quest to find herself. In the dead of winter, her marriage over, a young woman leaves New York City with her two cats and drives north with little more than a few cans of Spam and ...



  • Helen Brooks

    Should she confess to her husband? Marianne had been thrilled when Hudson de Sance proposed. But could she really go ahead with the wedding? She was being blackmailed, and the only solution seemed to be disappearing from Hudson's life.... ...



  • Miranda Lee
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    Will she become His Lordship's mistress? As an ordinary Australian, Marina knows she'll never be the love of James, Lord Winterborne's life. James is a blue-blood, but what he feels for Marina is red-blooded passion! Marina tries to de...



  • Stephanie Howard

    A kiss to remember. Two years before Jedd Hunter labeled Carla a gold-digger, but then he kissed her so passionately that she'd never been able to forget him. Now Carla's returned to Cornwall to work with disadvantaged children -- a role Jedd immed...



  • Bethany Amber

    Set free by desire...Lalitha's fate is pre-ordained. Trained for the exclusive pleasure of the male sex, she is destined to be sold as a plaything to the libertines of the Hell Fire Club. There, in the caves of debauchery, the instruments of pleasure...



  • Barbara Hambly

    Chaos reigned in the Eastern Lands: as the fearsome Alketch army mounted siege, the young Prince Tir was snatched from the heart of Dare's Keep. Behind the terror was the depraved, hook-handed General Vair na-Chandros. He had learned that the royal c...




  • Virginia Henley

    When Lynx de Warenne, Edward Plantagenet's most prized warrior, invaded Dumfries castle, he took possession of Jane Leslie's home--and soon wanted something more from the headstrong lass. Desperate for an heir, he proposed a handfasting: a Scottish c...



  • Francine Pascal

    Can Devon resist Jessica's charm? Is Jessica Wakefield losing her touch? Usually, she can wrap any guy around her little finger. But Devon Whitelaw, the sexy new guy in town, won't give her the time of day. Of course, his coldness makes him eve...



  • Miranda Harry

    Just between us... Dana Lipton has totally fallen for Chris Geller. Who wouldn’t? He’s sexy, funny, and smart--and he’s just as crazy about Dana as she is about him. But there’s one problem: Chris is her older brother Brian’s best friend, ...



  • Benjamin Anastas

    Meet William, a devout underachiever. He enters life as the firstborn of identical twin boys. It is the last time he will beat his overachieving brother Clive, or anyone else for that matter, at anything. This is William’s manifesto for the underac...



  • Ted Dewan

    How can the Sorcerer, a brilliant inventor, possibly clean up after himself when he spends all of his time working? His solution -- he invents a robot Apprentice to solve his clutter problem! But when the Apprentice is left to clean up the workshop...



  • Sucie Stevenson

    I love clothes, cries the Emperor, and he's not kidding. He doesn't care a fig for anything or anybody else—he doesn't have to, he's the Emperor. What a spoiled pig! He's so vain and stuck-up that he's the perfect target for two sly swindlers, w...



  • David Vozar

    Rapunzel--she's the spoiled girl in the tower, the one with the lo-o-o-ng hair and unusual flair.



    Witch--she's mean and getting meaner 'cause she's tired of granting Rap's every little wish.



    Fine Prince--this cool stru...



  • Ric Lynden Hardman

    The year: 1881.  The place: Odessa, Texas.  Seventeen-year-old Wylie Jackson lands a job as assistant cook on what will be his first cattle drive.  Before he departs, Wylie's friend Alice charges him with taking her pet cattalo, Roselle, to her...



  • Kate Cruise O'Brien

    Love is the common thread in nineteen powerful, moving stories from the finest Irish women writers. From rural villages to Dublin's suburbs to the streets of New York, women's hopes, dreams, and frustrations come alive in a unique anthology that mine...



  • Nigel West

    Since the end of World War II, many books have been published about the exploits of secret agents behind enemy lines. In this volume, the author examines nearly two dozen books, accepted as genuine contributions to Britain's secret history, and revea...



  • Stephanie Prince

    Sigma Phi Sigma is the coolest sorority on campus. But can four friends from different worlds turn their sorority into a winner?

    Molly knows the Spring Fever Charity drive is her chance to shine -- until she ends up in her perfect sister's shadow....





  • Suzanne Robinson

    A LADY WHO KNOWS TOO MUCH... There's nothing like witnessing a murder to shake up one's life. That's what Miss Primrose Victoria Dane discovers when she accidentally stumbles upon the scene of a deadly crime. Suddenly the well-bred spinster is on ...



  • Margaret Miles

    WITCHCRAFT...OR MURDER? 1763. With the end of the French and Indian War and a new king on England's throne, it seems the colonies have entered a peaceful and prosperous new era. And though the fashionable ladies of Boston might find Bracebridge al...



  • Iain M. Banks

    Diplomat Byr Genar-Hofoen has been selected by the Culture to undertake a delicate and dangerous mission. The Department of Special Circumstances--the Culture's espionage and dirty tricks section--has sent him off to investigate a 2,500-year-old myst...



  • Aaron Allston

    They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing pilots risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must go on a daring undercover mission--as the crew of an Imperial warship. ...



  • Lilian Jackson Braun

    As early spring comes to Moose County, Jim Qwilleran is looking forward to the peaceful beauty of nature's rebirth. What he gets instead is a chorus of noisy birds that constantly wakes him from a sound sleep ... especially when Koko insists on joini...



  • Cristina Kessler

    In this picture book for older children, Muhamad spends his first night alone in the desert tending to a new mother goat and her kid. Told in Muhamad's voice, the story reflects the culture of the Tuareg, a nomadic people with strong ties to family a...




  • Peter Clement

    LETHAL DISCOVERY St. Paul's Hospital. Buffalo, New York. Scandal rocks the medical community when someone murders the chief administrator, plunging a long thin cardiac needle into his heart with deadly precision. LETHAL PURSUIT Top ER physician ...



  • Jim Lewis

    After an astounding debut with his novel Sister, Jim Lewis once again proves his remarkable talent with Why the Tree Loves the Ax.Caroline Harrison is a young woman drifting across the country from a secret past to an uncertain future. Stranded by ac...



  • Spider Robinson

    Spider Robinson has won every major award that the science fiction field has to offer with his Heinlein-influenced, solidly scientific, warmly human stories. User Friendly is a new solid chunk of Spider's universe that is inimitably reader friendly....



  • Jane Killick

    A comprehensive episode-by-episode guide to the first thrilling season of Babylon 5! 

    Babylon 5: Signs and Portents, kicks off with a foreword by actor Michael O'Hare, better known to viewers as Commander Sinclair, and features a fascinating ...



  • Christopher Rowley

    A SORCEROR'S REIGN OF CHAOS Battle-scarred and weary, the mighty Bazil Broketail and dragoneer Relkin return home to cheering crowds, great feasts, and raging bonfires. But now, out of the mists and across the green valleys of their native land come...



  • Robert Thurston

    THE CONSPIRACY EXPERIMENTS Dispatch Horse to the planet Huntress! The orders to investigate the secret experiment being done by the Falcons on the Smoke Jaguar homeworld came down from the Jade Falcon Khan herself. But does the covert mission requ...



  • Arthur Byron Cover

    A History Lesson? As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. As if real life wasn't already over...



  • Wayne D. Overholser

    In "Steel to the South," Clay Bond finds himself in the middle of a range war brought about by the railroad, while in "Fabulous Gunman," gunslinger Bill Womack has to use his gun often as he attempts to hang it up for the last time. Original....



  • Jon Sharpe

    In order to collect a big reward and the heart of a beauty as a bonus, Skye Fargo must find the thieves who hijacked the swiftest stagecoach in the West, following a trail of terror through a wild country of unmarked graves and masked motives. Origin...



  • J.R. Roberts

    After Clint Adams wounds outlaw Pete Jensen and kills his two brothers in a shootout, the ornery outlaw is looking for revenge, but the Gunsmith has other plans to settle their differences--permanently. Original....



  • David Thompson

    Trying to cross the vast Western praries in their sixth adventure, Davy and his old friend Flavius brave a roaring wildfire and a stampede of buffalo, only to come face to face with the dreaded Comanches. Original....



  • B.J. Lanagan

    During the Civil War, they sought justice outside of the law, paying back every Yankee raid with one of their own. No man could stop them. No woman could resist them. And no Yankee stood a chance when Win and Joe Coulter rode into town.   All Wi...



  • Tabor Evans

    Relaxing in his favorite saloon, Longarm watches a woman gun down the drifter sitting next to him, and in his search for the vigilante, encounters a band of wild and dangerous Wyoming women who are pretty--and dangerous. Original....



  • Alan Le May

    A novel by the author of the classic western, The Searchers, takes place in an Arizona prairie town where the death of a powerful cattleman-banker threatens to ignite an all-out war on the range. Original....



  • Jake Logan

    ALL SLOCUM WANTED WAS A DRINK The saloons around the Brazos River boasted the finest whiskey and the prettiest ladies known to man. But Slocum hadn't even wet his whistle when a nasty varmint tried to shoot up an innocent boy. Never one to suffer co...



  • Rosemary Edghill

    In Salem, Massachusetts, Diana Crossways, a modern witch, sees an otherworldly figure exposed by lightning and tumbles back in time to 1647 England, where she comes face to face with a ruthless witch hunter with the power of life and death, who finds...



  • Joan Lord Matthews

    Ravenna Marisse didn't believe in curses, but something was wrong at Harlixton Hall. None of the wives of the four brothers who resided there had safely delivered an heir. And when Anne Pembroke lay dying giving birth to her son, Raven's renowned ski...



  • Niqui Stanhope

    SOME MOMENTS A WOMAN CANNOT FORGET Traveling home to visit family in Guyana, Dr. Alana Britton found herself fascinated by a tall, handsome man in the airport giftshop. Moments later, she was gazing into his warm charcoal eyes, and struggling to kee...



  • Cindy Holbrook
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    When Cupid wagers Venus she cannot bring two unlikely lovers together, the goddess of love finds herself faced with the Marquis of Waverly, a writer of love poems, and his lovely assistant, Amelia Thornton, who dispassionately analyzes the romantic n...



  • Jeanne Savery
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    Pretty little Charity Morris thought all her dreams has come true when she maried her childhood sweetheart, the dashing young Lord Crandle. But Timon is out of charity with his bride-for reasons she cannot guess.It's not until Cupid reveals the ace u...



  • Mona Gedney
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    The wastrel Earl of Glenwood had often pressed his daughter to wed a wealthy gentleman, but Lady Diana Crosswell turned down all offers as marriage meant leaving her happy-go-lucky younger brother to fend for himself. But when handsome John Derringer...



  • Elizabeth Ann Michaels

    A PASSIONATE MEDIEVAL SAGA OF A SPIRITED YOUNG WOMAN TORN BETWEEN A SACRED PLEDGE AND HER LOVE FOR A VALIANT NORMAN KNIGHT... Leah de Troyes is the daughter of The Savager, a ruthless land baron determined to use her as a political pawn--until she...



  • Betty Brooks

    He Made Her A Captive To His Will The rattlesnake struck Spotted Wolf just outside the white man's fort. Unable to save himself or free his Comanche brother held captive by the soldiers, he was at the mercy of the beautiful, ivory-skinned woma...



  • Kathleen Nance

    "YOU'RE SO SERIOUS ALL THE TIME. YOU DON'T LAUGH MUCH. YOU DON'T SEE ANYONE. FACE IT, MOM, YOU NEED A GENIE." No, thought Zoe Calderone, a genie was exactly what a hard-working, pragmatic, single mother like herself DIDN'T need. But when she went ...



  • Cassie Edwards

    Ever since the sweltering summer day when Zoe Hawkins pinned on her father's tin star, she'd sworn to uphold the law in rough-and-ready Gracemont, Oklahoma. But how could the lovely sheriff maintain order when she couldn't even subdue her own waywar...



  • Geralyn Dawson

    With just the right blend of laughter and romance, Geralyn Dawson weaves an air of enchantment in her tales of old-time Texas, with characters who charm their way right into our hearts. Now she pairs a handsome thief and an unconventional beauty to s...



  • Judy Veisel

    When Marcus Blackerby, Earl of Rexford, was sent in seach of carrier pigeons to replace those slaughtered by Napoleon's men, he was determined to ruffle no more than a few feathers. His plan was simple: He would secure and invitation with Miss Amanda...



  • Patricia Vaughn

    Between a man and a woman, there can be an arrangement... A young woman of color in 1800s French New Orleans had one destiny--to become the mistress of a rich Creole gentleman. For Sylvia Dupont, her exquisite beauty was a curse. She attracted males...



  • Rosalyn West

    The Men of Pride County When War began, the boys of Pride County went off to fight for honor and glory. They returned as men: war-ravaged, shattered, yet determined to find lore and rebuild their lives in a world that had crumbled around them. These...



  • Victoria Alexander

    So, You Think You Know Romance? You don't. Not unless you know Spencer St. Gregory and Philippa Morgan. Now theirs was a love for the ages. Just boy meets girl -- a story we've all heard -- or think we have. I had. I thought I'd heard ...



  • Bridget Anderson

    SHE RAN FROM DANGER... Lovely, educated Jade Bassett had married a handsome man who told her lies, took all her money, and then was found murdered. Reeling from her shattered world, she is running for her life on the streets of Atlanta, knowing that...



  • Jo Goodman

    Decker Thorne's carefree ways have done little to impress his employer, Jonna Remington, the poised and unflappable owner of Remington Shipping. But when he captains her best ship on a record-breaking voyage and saves her life in the same day, their ...



  • Kathryn Hockett

    THE LEGEND'S LADY Whack! He slapped her on the posterior and swept her into a passionate kiss. Then Clint Tanner told Stephanie Winslow he mistook her for a whore. This crude cowboy couldn't be the legendary gunfighter Stephanie immortalized in di...



  • Martha Kirkland

    Falling in Love is as Easy as One, Two, Three... Constance Mitchell had the beauty, her younger sister Felicity possessed the brains, and their cousin Regina Farrington, formerly a lady's companion, had the only money among them... five hundred po...



  • Allison Lane

    Country Affairs Penelope Wingrave was extraordinary -- from her flaming red hair to her scheme for raising ostriches. Alas, she was also on the shelf, too highborn to marry down, too poor to marry nobility. Her sister, on the other hand, was being...



  • Martha Schroeder

    Penniless Lady Margaret Enfield was given an option to save her home, Hedgemere. She could marry a wealthy stranger, Captain James Sheridan. The captain had spent his life at sea, escaping his past. And though Hedgemere satisfied his longing for a ho...



  • Alice Duncan

    He was irresistible. Handsome as sin. And he filled her nights with dreams no proper lady should enjoy.... HE WAS EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED -- AND COULD NOT TOUCH... By day she was Claire Montague, prim, demure housekeeper of Partington Place. B...



  • Nicole Jordan

    A CONVENIENT BRIDE Burdened by family debts, Heather Ashford has no choice but to exchange her dreams of romance and accept the proposal of ruggedly handsome cattle baron Sloan McCord. However the widowed rancher is more than she bargains for. Tor...



  • Stella Cameron

    RAE FAITH MOODY KNOWS SHE CAN BEAT DALLAS CALHOUN IF SHE CAN ONLY RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO JOIN HIM. Young Rae Faith fled her home. She ran from town to town, covering her tracks, until her trail was cold. Then she settled in tiny Decline, Georgia...



  • Karen Harbaugh

    Love Struck Pretty Miss Aimee was utterly dazzled by dashing Lieutenant Kenneth Hathaway. Then, without warning, he left for the Continent-and didn't return for years. Now Aimee hoped absence had made his heart grow fonder. Alas, absence had made ...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    The Unexpected Season Left without a farthing by her papa's untimely death, Sophie Garnett was quite resigned to being a genteel lady's companion. Then a letter arrived, summoning her to the reading of a relative's will. She never expected the sec...



  • Jenna Jones

    Sweet Serenity She thought he was a cad... As long as she lived, Miss Serenity Hoffenduffle would never forget the scene. Kidnapped in the middle of the night and brought to a house of ill repute, she was stunned to find her fiance, Randall Torre...



  • Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    A DESPERATE YOUNG MOTHER Rachel Stone's bad luck has taken a turn for the worse. With an empty wallet, a car that's spilling smoke, and a five-year-old son to support, she's come home to a town that hates her. But this determined young widow with a ...



  • Kimberly Rangel

    Tortured by nightmares twenty years after her slumber party had made national news when a killer butchered three of her friends and drove another insane, Darby Jayson worries that the killer may not have been executed after all. Original....



  • Constance O'Banyon
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    After being jilted at the altar, Abbie Taylor Hunt never thought she'd be ringing in the New Year with a dashing Frenchman, who teaches her to 'Go for the Gold' when his ski instruction turns to passionate lessons in love....



  • Bobbi Smith
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    When caterer Elise Matthews lands her biggest account ever, she finds herself torn between two handsome men, and realizes she holds the winning ticket in a "Lottery of Love"...



  • Marian Devon

    SHE HADN'T SET OUT TO STIR THINGS UP -- ESPECIALLY HER OWN HEART... Though recently jilted at age seven-and-twenty, Claudia Wentworth was about to embark on a whirlwind adventure. It all began when she enlisted the aid of Lord Thornton after h...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    The Scandalous Secret... Emily Talcott has enough to worry about, trying to see her lovely younger sister suitably married before their father's lamentable lack of skill in cards sends them to the poor house. Now this well-bred miss is fending ...



  • Kate O'Donnell

    Cian O'Connor watched Bronwynn Fitzhugh toy with her betrothed. Cian despised her conniving ways, but she was his only hope to escape from bondage at Castle Carrick. So the Irish rebel took her hostage, never reckoning that the fiery beauty would bec...



  • Robyn Amos
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    AT NEW YORK'S MOST ROMANTIC SETTING--VALENTINE'S DAY CAN BRING LOVE'S SPECIAL SURPRISE Amid Manhattan's most elegant restaurants, The Rainbow Room casts a golden glow with nights filled with fine dining, magical music and the splendor of dancing h...



  • Gwynne Forster
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    AT NEW YORK'S MOST ROMANTIC SETTING--VALENTINE'S DAY CAN BRING LOVE'S SPECIAL SURPRISE Amid Manhattan's most elegant restaurants, The Rainbow Room casts a golden glow with nights filled with fine dining, magical music and the splendor of dancing h...



  • Shirley Hailstock
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    AT NEW YORK'S MOST ROMANTIC SETTING--VALENTINE'S DAY CAN BRING LOVE'S SPECIAL SURPRISE Amid Manhattan's most elegant restaurants, The Rainbow Room casts a golden glow with nights filled with fine dining, magical music and the splendor of dancing h...



  • Katherine Sutcliffe
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    A life of petty crime kept bad boy Joe Norton far from the lovely Camille. Until a twist of fate leads him back to his secret love. Now finally, for her, he's ready to change his ways......



  • Rachel Lee
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    A widowed minister fights his attraction to his secretary, unaware that his daughter--with a little help--is determined to make their Valentine wishes come true....



  • Kate Freiman
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    When a professor runs into her prize student from ten years past, the attraction is instant. But when he doesn't recognize her, she pretends to be someone else. And now, their love is entangled in deception......



  • Suzanne Forster

    Sophie Weston was young and impressionable when she married Jay Babcock, a rich man with a wild heart. Everyone said he was wrong for her, but for Sophie, it was too late. She'd already surrendered to passion -- that suddenly turned to pain -- wh...



  • Donna Hill

    Nikita Harrell's drive and determination took her to the pinnacle of the New York publishing world. And it also swept her into the arms of Quinn Parker. A proud man with the soul of an artist and the strength to survive on the mean streets of Harlem,...



  • Sherry Lewis
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    For fear of ruining their friendship, David Randolph never confessed his love to Shawna. Now, seven years later, she reappears in his life. And it's finally time to be more than a friend......



  • Elaine Fox
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    When Gwyn comes home from her grandparents' golden wedding anniversary she doesn't expect to run into the man she almost married - or that together they'd toast 'The Anniversary That Never Was.'...



  • Kathleen Nance
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    An attendant at her best friend's wedding, Kristen Lucas meets tall, dark, and handsome Alex Devereaux, brother of the bride - who just might make her abandon her vow of being 'Ever a Bridesmaid.'...



  • Angie Ray

    SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, 1998 Handsome playboy Derek Sinclair didn't have time to go looking for love. Then one night, the ghost of Lady Allison Pelsworth appears, asking him to travel back in time and prevent her marriage to the wretched Wilfred. Now, ...



  • Patricia Rice

    A modern-day fairy tale set in Kentucky, featuring a spunky math teacher and a motorcycle-riding computer CEO in a sizzling adventure of danger, dueling wits, and steamy desire... JD Marshall is on the run with his sixteen-year-old son, his comput...



  • Erica Spindler

    THEY WERE ONLY WATCHING The mysterious lovers the three girls spied on were engaged in a deadly sexual game no one else was supposed to know about. Especially not Andie and her friends, whose curiosity had deepened into a dangerous obsession.... ...



  • Sue Civil-Brown

    EDEN IS NOT ALL IT'S CRACKED UP TO BE... Jillie McAllister escaped to Paradise Beach to start over somewhere beautiful and far away from her philandering ex-husband. But she's already lost her job, run over a mailbox, become embroiled in a heated ...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Emily Jane Todd has just found her guardian angel. Actually, the small-town librarian had just been stood up by her fiance when she ran into the errant angel with her car. And while he appears to be unscathed, "Michael" continues to insist that his p...



  • Alexandra Raife

    When Clare Sommerville gives up the London rat race to buy a rustic, isolated cottage in the Scottish Highlands, she finds herself drawn to Donald Macrae, a man of quiet strength who is fighting inner conflicts of his own. Original....



  • Tracey Tillis

    Framed for the murder of her stepson, Shannon LaCrosse turns to private investigator David Courtney--a former cop who helped put her in jail--to ask for his assistance in finding the killer who framed her and now seems determined to end her life...



  • Karen Ranney

    An Explosive Encounter Mary Kate Bennett was married too early, widowed too young, and left to fend for herself without a penny. Her path was never meant to cross with Archer St. John's, except for a terrible carriage accident with the wickedly h...



  • Donna Ball

    WHAT SHE REMEMBERS IS TERRIFYING. WHAT SHE CAN'T REMEMBER COULD KILL HER The lucky survivor of a freak accident, Virginia Beach teacher Ellen Cox is pulled from the wreckage of her car shaken...and deathly afraid. Her name belongs to a stranger. T...



  • Nancy Fisher

    A twisty, medical thriller that combines a deadly Ebola-like filovirus, art smuggling, and international intrigue, with a host of believable and engaging characters including a beautiful virologist, and the charismatic chairman of a medical aid organ...



  • Don Pendleton

    SILENT RUN A new drug conduit is funneling record quantities of cocaine through the Florida Keys to America's streets by means unknown. Mack Bolan's hard probe uncovers a threat that escalates the drug war to a disastrous new level: mini submarines d...



  • C.A. Mobley

    Female NSA agent Jerusha Bailey must prevent a full-scale war by going head-to-head with the commander of a German U-Boat, after attacks are instigated on a North Korean submarine and a U.S. command ship. Original....



  • William W. Johnstone

    A rebel patriot force goes to battle against a resurgent Nazi army in Africa in this post-apocalyptic adventure by the New York Times bestselling author.   After a nuclear strike decimates America, retired soldier Ben Raines refuses to let his o...



  • V.C. Andrews

    Laura Logan dreams of a glorious Cape Cod day when all the dark secrets are swept away....For Laura Logan, life on Cape Cod has been nearly perfect, full of magical days spent enjoying the sea with her beloved twin brother, Cary. But then, like the c...



  • Nicolas Van Pallandt

    ILLUSION IS THE LIE YOU SEE.... The city of Kyara is a wasteland made livable, a shining tribute to the future's unlimited technology. But not all is perfect in this perfect world, where one woman has already met a sudden, nasty death. Gabriel ...



  • Vivian Vande Velde

    Weiland, a changeling who can assume many forms, is desperate to escape the sorceress who uses him and others as tools for her vengeance, until he meets a thief named Shile, who offers to help free him from the grasp of the sorceress. Original....



  • Donald E. McQuinn

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    in

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    in

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    in

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