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New Books List: 519 titles

  • 'Til There Was You

    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...

  • 100% Pure Cowboy

    Cathleen Galitz

    Pure Hunk How did Danielle Herte get mixed up in a zany trail ride with a gaggle of giggling teenage girls and a cowboy who gave new meaning to the term sexy? She agreed to the outing to bond with her rebellious daughter -- not become smitten with ...

  • 3 Quarters

    Denis Hamill

    Explosive, street-savvy, and authentic, acclaimed columnist Denis Hamill's novels are drawn in the gritty ink that can only flow from the pen of a native New Yorker...and a superbly talented writer. Now, blending sinuous prose with a hair-trigger del...

  • 55 Waverly Street

    Thom Black

  • Aaugh! a Dog Ate My Book Report

    Charles M. Schulz

    Snoopy, the daring World War I Flying Ace, follows a dangerous mission in which he is to steal a collection of secret papers--a book report--from the Red Baron's secretary, who is really Sally. Original....

  • Abby and the Best Kid Ever

    Ann M. Martin

    Everyone in the Baby-sitters Club remembers Lou McNally as the worst kid ever. But now she's back and, to Abby's surprise, acting a little too perfect....

  • About Time

    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...

  • Accidental Heiress

    Lauren Nichols

    INHERITED: ONE RANCH...AND ONE SEXY COWBOY Pampered city girl Catherine "Casey" Marshall never dreamed she'd be setting foot in a honky-tonk bar outside Comfort, Montana. But suddenly, all that stood between her and poverty was Jess Dalton's ranch...

  • Adventure of the Big Snow

    Nancy MacArthur

  • After Midnight

    Robyn Amos
    in

    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...

  • All Unwary

    Clare Curzon

    Mike Yeadings and his police team begin work on the disappearance of a powerful Japanese businessman's daughter and the murder of his chief executive, both of which have caused rising tensions in the industrial town of Thames Valley...

  • All You Need Is a Love Spell

    Randi Reisfeld

    Something is seriously wrong in Mortal-ville! Sabrina just can't figure it out. All of a sudden, her entire school has been bitten by the love bug. Everyone is pairing off--but with the wrong people! Even Libby, Miss Super Cool, has fallen head ov...

  • Amazon Run

    Mickey Friedman

  • Ambush in the Ashes

    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...

  • American Local Color Writing, 1880-1920

    Penguin Books

    The era in the United States between the Civil War and the end of World War I, was marked by increased nation-building, immigration, internal migration and racial tension. This period of time saw the rise of local colour literature, which described t...

  • An Angel for Emily

    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...

  • Animals

    T. Troughton

    Aylesbury's drug-dealer has just thrown himself out of a top-floor window, and the novel's narrator takes over the role of supplier. This leads him into a series of comic adventures involving characters such as the Chiltern Goose Strangler, menopausa...

  • The Anniversary That Never Was

    Elaine Fox
    in

    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.'...

  • Another Day, Another Dollar

    Warren Murphy

  • Anvil

    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 ...

  • Anything You Can Do...

    Roz Denny Fox

    'I contend that today's man could handle the rigors of pioneer life. Could a woman? -- Nolan Campbell. 'You bet! Anything he can do, she can do, too! -- Emily Benton. 'And probably better ! -- Sherry Campbell. There's only one way to find...

  • Applaud the Hollow Ghost

    David J. Walker

    The 'hollow ghost' haunting Chicago P.I. Malachy 'Mal' Foley's dreams is Lammy Fleming, one of Mal's high school classmates. Mal, a new kid in school, had befriended Lammy at first, but Lammy was slow, chubby, bad at schoolwork, and terrible at sport...

  • Armor Propre

    S.M. Stirling
    in

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • The Attack of the Avenging Virgins

    Elizabeth Ann Scarborough
    in

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Az Murder Goes . . . Artful

    Elizabeth Peters

    Raymond Chandler called it The Simple Art of Murder, a misleading title. It never has been simple to write mysteries. But it is an art, and often the crimes investigated are rooted in the worlds of art, architecture, and antiquities.
    Where there i...

  • Baba Yaga and the Wise Doll

    Hiawyn Oram

    In a retelling of the Russian fairy tale, Too Nice is tested by the witch Baba Yaga--if Too Nice passes, she gets the witch's jeweled toad, but if she does not, the toad gets her--and her only help is a wise doll, a gift from her mother....

  • Baby Play

    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!...

  • Bailiffs Powers

    John Kruse

  • The Barker Street Regulars

    Susan Conant

    A DIFFERENT BREED OF MURDER Every week Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter and her beloved Alaskan malamute, Rowdy, visit the Gateway Nursing Home to spread cheer among the senior residents. Yet shortly after meeting ninety-year-old Althea Battlefie...

  • Barney and Baby Bop Go to the Restaurant

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Barney and BJ Go to the Police Station

    Scholastic Inc.

    When BJ expresses an interest in becoming a police officer when he grows up, Barney arranges for them to visit a police station, where one of the officers shows them around and tells them about police work...

  • Barney's Great Adventure

    Guy Davis

  • Bed of Roses

    Katherine Stone

    He had never been in love until her... He is the stunning and powerful Chase Tessier, the gray-eyed maestro who creates the poetry that is Tessier wine. And she had never been loved at all until him... She is Cassandra Winter, the fierce yet fragi...

  • Best Actress

    John Kane

    It's Oscar time and five nominees for Best Actress anxiously wait for the big night. All of them have skeletons in their walk-in closets, but one has rummaged through hers to get a gun for her Chanel bag. Veteran Hollywood flak Kane keeps his eyebrow...

  • The Best and the Brightest

    Susan Wright

    Every year, Starfleet Academy in San Francisco attracts many of the most talented and ambitious young people in the Federation. They come from all over the Alpha Quadrant, from hundreds of worlds and species, to prepare themselves for the challenges ...

  • The Best Revenge

    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...

  • The Big Fellow

    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...

  • A Big Hand for the Little Lady

    Esther Friesner
    in

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Bitch Factor

    Chris Rogers

    Houston bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan is a legend in the jails and courtrooms for her combination of brains, cunning, and macho style. But she's about to learn that there are limits to even her toughness. Parker Dann, accused of killing a child in...

  • A Bitch in Time

    Doranna Durgin
    in

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Black and Blue

    Anna Quindlen

    For eighteen years, Fran Benedetto kept her secret. And hid her bruises. And stayed with Bobby because she wanted her son to have a father. And because, in spite of everything, she loved him. Then one night, when she saw the look on her ten-year-old ...

  • Blade Runner

    K.D. Wentworth
    in

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • The Blind Blonde with Candles in Her Hair

    C.K. Stead

  • Blood on the Brazos

    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...

  • Bloodlines

    Gerald Hammond

    After refusing to sign the necessary papers acknowledging the unwanted mating of his champion Scottish game-dog with corrupt official Ben Garnet's spaniel, John Cunningham becomes a prime suspect when Garnet is found half-dead...

  • Bloody Secrets

    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

    Luis is more than a Cuban refugee struggling to find a new life. He claims to be part of a formerly wealthy family, swindled out of their fortune by a prominent Cuban couple now living in Miami. And now that Luis has arrived in the states, he is sure...

  • Blowout in Little Man Flats

    Multiple Authors

  • Blue Ribbon Blues

    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...

  • A Bone to Pick

    Keith R.A. Decandido
    in

    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Borrowed--One Bride

    Trisha David

    Beth Lister will lose everything unless she marries Lyle. So, ever the sensible woman, she agrees to his proposal. But her husband is quickly forgotten when, on her wedding day, she's kidnapped by Kell Hallan, the wedding photographer! She thought he...

  • The Boyfriend Mess

    Francine Pascal

    Valentine's Day at SVMS has everyone seeing red!

    It's Valentine's Day and Sweet Valley is being treated to the dance of the decade, courtesy of Young Love, the hottest dating game show on TV.  But although the music is cool and the decoratio...

  • Brandon's Bride

    Alicia Scott

    HE'D BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO... Sure, single mother Victoria Meese knew that the Lady Luck Ranch was just temporary quarters for rugged ex businessman Brandon Ferringer. But each night, sitting around the fire, she inevitably saw her handsome t...

  • Breaking Away

    Francine Pascal

    Is this the beginning of the end?

    Elizabeth Wakefield is leaving SVU!  She and Scott Sinclair have been accepted to a journalism program that will take her far away from Sweet Valley...possibly forever.  Does Elizabeth really want to go? ...

  • Breeze

    Robin Allen

    Regal and stylish, soulful and sultry, Breeze Blackwell steps onstage and audiences burst into thunderous applause while chanting her name. The reigning queen of R&B, superstar Breeze has thousands of fans at her feet. But backstage, beneath her elec...

  • The Brennan Baby

    Barbara Boswell

    MR. FEBRUARY The Brennan Man: The very handsome and sexy Dr. Devlin Brennan, expertly skilled in the operating room ...and the bedroom. The Brennan Charm: His bedside manner could win over any woman -- except Gillian Bailey, the one who really...

  • Bride of the Bad Boy

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    WHAT A WEDDING! Angie Ellison had just married a gorgeous mystery man in a hastily arranged wedding ceremony. Clearly, the folklore about the comet passing by her small town was true -- it affected everyone's morals! Surely that was why she wa...

  • Bride of the Living Dummy

    R.L. Stine

    Goosebumps now on Disney+!IT'S A MATCH MADE IN HORROR!When Slappy, the world's most evil ventriloquist dummy, shows up after being abandoned by his previous owner, things start to go wrong around the house. But this time Slappy may have met his match...

  • The Bride's Secret

    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.... ...

  • The Bridge over Flatwillow Creek

    Lance Wubbels

  • Bringing Out the Dead

    Joe Connelly

    Perhaps only someone who has worked for almost a decade as a medic in New York City's Hell's Kitchen--as Joe Connelly has--could write a novel as riveting and fiercely authentic as Bringing Out the Dead. Like a front-line reporter, Connelly writes fr...

  • Bunny Isabel's Easter Egg Hunt

    Max Haynes

    Helping poor Mother Hen search for her lost egg, Bunny Isabel searches the homes of her friends, including an owl, little green frog, buzzing bee, and woolly sheep, and readers are invited to help in the search by lifting interactive flaps....

  • By King's Decree

    Shari Anton

    THE KING HAD GRANTED THEM A YEAR OF LOVE Gerard of Wilmont wanted nothing more than to make Ardith of Lenvil his cherished bride. But what if he and his Saxon flame were not blessed with the heir that would ensure their union would last forever? ...

  • Cache Canon

    Lauran Paine

    LAND OF LEGEND...AND DANGER Cache Cañon lies well outside Rock City in the Colorado high country. It was named for a legendary cache of gold hidden there, and now it's reputed to harbor a band of hold-out Indians. Although no one in Rock Ci...

  • A Capital Offense

    Gary E. Parker

    Life smiles on Connie Brandon: law degree nearly in hand, a loving husband and two wonderful kids, a vibrant faith in God in a quiet Missouri town.But her quiet family life is rocked when her husband, Jack, turns up dead in the Missouri River -- a...

  • The Caretaker

    Thomas William Simpson

    Samantha Henderson is a devoted wife and mother. But life as she knows it is about to change. Sam's about to have her every dream fulfilled--but, in return, she and her family will pay a price, a very high price, for all this love and luxury.... I...

  • Carrie: Heart of Courage

    Cameron Dokey

    Follow the travels of the hope chest created during the War of Independence as it continues its journey through American history and through the lives of generations of courageous young American women. Chicago 1871 Carrie can't believe she posses...

  • The Case of the Winning Skateboard

    Della Rowland

  • The Cat Who Sang for the Birds

    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...

  • Cat-Eyed Trouble

    Robert Skinner

    Miles from Angola State Penitentiary, the body of a New Orleans social worker has washed up on the riverbank behind Audubon Park. Lottie Sonnier would have been just another homicide victim if she hadn't been a long-ago lover of nightclub owner Wesle...

  • Catherine

    Theresa Michaels

    Widow Catherine Rose Hill had vowed she would never again answer to a man. But when a stuffy hardheaded banker with sexy eyes challenged her hard-won independence with soul-binding kisses, she wondered if her freedom was worth the price. Gregory ...

  • The Changeling Prince

    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....

  • The Chattering Chimp Caper

    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...

  • Cherished Wish

    Melody Carlson

    Fourteen-year-old Allison finds herself the center of a custody battle between her glamorous, but neglectful, movie star mother and her long-absent artist father who wants her to live with him in a small Oregon town...

  • Chinese Mother Goose Rhymes

    Robert Wyndham

  • The Cinderella Search

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Cinderella? In his search for the perfect woman, Steven Jackson had dated lots of candidates, but no one had quite fit the glass slipper. Then, while he was on vacation, his Cinderella came crashing through the ceiling of his hotel room, captured hi...

  • Circuit of Heaven

    Dennis Danvers

    The body is baggage. The soul is expendable.

    Nemo's mother and father left him behind to enter "the Bin"--joining twelve billion uploaded personalities who live in crime-free, disease-free and deathless virtual societ...

  • Code Red

    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...

  • Coffin Ranch

    Walt Coburn

    Known as "The King of the Westerns," "The Cowboy Author," and "The King of the Pulps," Walt Coburn ruled the roost for decades when it came to Western fiction. His work appeared in virtually every important Western magazine and became the standard by...

  • Cold Moon Honor

    Lauri Olsen

  • Comanche Country

    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....

  • Comanche Sunset

    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...

  • Computer Crunch!

    Patricia Barnes-Svarney

    Participating in a newsletter competition with members of her media class, Alex begins to smell a rat when her team falls way behind their rivals and suspects that a traitor may be in their midst. Original....

  • Cop of the Year

    Kathryn Shay

    The Cop and the Kids... Captain Mitch Lansing would like to help the troubled teens in Cassie Smith's high school class for students at risk. Unfortunately that means sharing his experiences with them. (Cassie's very big on sharing.) And Mitch has...

  • Corporate Groom

    Linda Varner

    MARRIAGE-MINDED MILLIONAIRE? Reo Sampson was too busy making money to think about playing house. But when his pretty new assistant, Rusty Hanson, accompanied him for weekend negotiations, Reo discovered he liked - a little too much - having the se...

  • Counterfeit Spies

    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...

  • Courtship in Granite Ridge

    Barbara McCauley

    WANTED: ONE HUSBAND Even tight-tipped loner Hugh Slater couldn't let a good woman marry a ranch-hungry stranger she'd met through an ad in the local paper! So he'd come back to Granite Ridge, Texas, the town he swore he'd never step foot in again....

  • Crucible: The Trial of Cyric the Mad

    Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Cyric the Mad Who betrayed his friends Midnight and Kelemvor and sought to destroy them. Who ascended to godhood and now spreads his lies and intrigues into every corner of Faerun. Who is the Lord of Murder, the Prince of Lies--and insane....

  • Crystal Clear

    Jane Heller

    KISSES ... KIDNAPPING ... KARMA Just another day in the life of Crystal Goldstein. No one is more surprised than pragmatic New York accountant Crystal Goldtein when at the urging of her best friend Rona--a New Age junkie--she suddenly finds hers...

  • Cupid's Ace

    Jeanne Savery
    in

    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...

  • Cupid's Arrow

    Victoria Barrett
    in

    Amanda Jensen wants to stand on her own two feet and make her card shop a success. Looking the other way when a local bag lady steals from her doesn't help, but she has a soft spot for the eccentric woman name Chatty. Besides, Chatty is not what ...

  • Cupid's Darts

    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 ...

  • Daddy's Home

    Pat Warren

    NOTHING TO FEAR, DADDY'S HERE... Scandalous, handsome and allegedly dangerous, renegade Sam Rivers was back in town. And gossip sizzled. Heiress Liza Courtland alone knew Sam was no criminal. Still, she trembled under the weight of her own preciou...

  • Damages

    Barry Werth

    Damages is the riveting true story of one family’s legal struggles in the world of medicine. At the urging of a friend, the Sabias filed a medical malpractice lawsuit against Dr. Humes and Norwalk Hospital. Barry Werth takes us through the seven-ye...

  • Danger at Deception Pass

    Stephen A. Bly

    Cody Clark keeps having nightmares about his worst fears. Trapped on a railroad track. Surrounded by wolves. Caught in a dark, long and narrow tunnel. And his friend Feather faces the challenge of a difficult family situation. Meanwhile, their 3-on-3...

  • Dangerous

    Millie Criswell

    He Had a Steel Will Texas Ranger Ethan Bodine slept with his gun, talked to his horse, and lived by an unbreakable code. Right was right, and wrong meant he brought a man to justice -- even if the outlaw was his brother Rafe. Now Ethan's only goal i...

  • Dangerous Passions

    Kat Martin

    When Elissa Tauber learns of her beloved brother's murder and that her native homeland is threatened, she is determined to expose the traitor. Posing as a recently widowed countess, she moves through the glittering world of the court, willing to bart...

  • Dark Angel

    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...

  • Darker Angels

    S.P. Somtow

    Nominated for the Bram Stoker Award, Darker Angels takes the reader from the bloodstained battlefields of Virginia to the slave auctions of Haiti. As Abraham Lincoln lies in state in new York, the widow of the famous abolitionist has a chance encount...

  • Dash to the Altar

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Ready, Steady, Married! Can Dara Linnell marry a complete stranger? In a word, yes! She needs a husband to get away from her bossy, manipulative grandfather. And Zane is perfect for the job -- he's young, free and single. So what if she's ...

  • The de Burgh Bride

    Deborah Simmons

    Sleeping With The Enemy It was the last thing Elene Fitzhugh intended. She only prayed her array of sharpened daggers was ample protection against Geoffrey de Burgh's gentle coaxing and honeyed lies, for she was determined to be no man's bride-kin...

  • Dead End

    M.C. Sumner

    Harley, Scott, Dee, and Kenyon are forced to make a difficult decision about whether they can trust Chloe, a situation that will either put an end to an ancient rivalry with Umbra or bring about the deadliest peace of all. Original....

  • Dead Girls, Dead Boys, Dead Things

    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...

  • Deadlock

    Malcolm MacPherson

    When a Chinese immigrant stands trial for the murder of a young woman, Judge Daniel Barr knows that the legal deck is stacked against the defendant. Even the man’s court-appointed attorney is incompetent. Now, an ominous suggestion that the real ki...

  • Death at Devil's Bridge

    Robin Paige

    Together they solved the murders at the Countess of Warwick's weekend house . . . and together they fell in love. Now newlyweds Charles and Kate Sheridan have moved into Kate's ancestral Georgian home Bishop's Keep, where Kate plans to devote herself...

  • Deceiving Daddy

    Susan Kearney

    THE DADDY-TO-BE WAS TO DIE FOR... Summer Warren had signed a contract to carry a stranger's babies inside her. A surrogate contract that specified that she and the man would never meet. Yet when a nameless, faceless stalker began to track her eve...

  • Deep Attack

    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...

  • The Deep Blue Sky Twinkles with Stars

    Cyndy Szekeres

    As a day of fun and laughter draws to a close and Little Bunny and his siblings begin their bedtime preparations--joining Papa Bunny for storytime, sipping hot cocoa, taking a hot bath, and drifting off under the stars....

  • Delirium

    Douglas Cooper

    The critically acclaimed author of "Amnesia" presents his second book--the first novel ever serialized on the Internet--a thrilling story of ideas than spans continents and centuries, a psychological tour de force encompassing murder, the history of ...

  • Desperate Dan

    Whitley Strieber

  • A Desperate Silence

    Sarah Lovett

    Forensic psychologist Dr. Sylvia Strange has matched wits with some of the most twisted minds in the American criminal system, and survived. Now, she finds herself struggling to reach a ten-year-old girl found by police who has been terrified into ut...

  • Devil's Advocate

    Martin Garbus

  • The Devil's Backbone

    Robert O. Greer

    THREE GRAND, TWO SHIRTS. ONE DEVIL OF A TIME… $3000 for Two Shirts. It seemed like a good deal at the time. All bail bondsman CJ Floyd had to do was mosey up the Colorado Diamond Breaks wilderness and bring back a skinny fireworks pusher named Bob...

  • The Devil's Garden

    Ralph Peters

    Relief worker Kelly Trost, the headstrong daughter of a prominent U.S. senator, came to a forgotten corner of the earth to make a difference. But now she has vanished into the dark heart of a lawless, oil-rich nation struggling through a violent rebi...

  • The Devil's Red Nickel

    Robert O. Greer

    SHAKE, RATTLE, AND DIE... They called him Daddy Doo-Wop: the one-time Chicago disc jockey who spun the vinyl that made a young CJ Floyd's heart soar all the way out in Denver. Now Daddy Doo-Wop has died on CJ's home turf, and the dead man's beauti...

  • Devlin

    Erin Yorke

    A rebel heart held her fast...and young noblewoman Alyssa Howett knew she had no choice but to release Devlin Fitzhugh, the wild Irish hero who had freed her woman's soul. A warrior walked alone. His fealty was only to his sworn chieftain--or so Dev...

  • Different angle

    Holly Morris

    "Many of these writers came to fly fishing in order to defy, or to wow, or to woo a man. But once the River speaks, the man becomes a superfluous distraction and a woman finds herself standing alone, in living water, defying and wowing and wooing the...

  • Digging Up Momma

    Sarah Shankman

    In her witty, southern-fried suspense novels, Sarah Shankman delivers nonstop action with a hilarious bite. Now she sends her acclaimed, irreverent heroine--New Orleans writer Samantha Adams--to a southwestern New Age hot spot, to unearth a secret pa...

  • Digital Fortress

    Dan Brown

    When the NSA's invincible code-breaking machine encounters a mysterious code it cannot break, the agency calls its head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher, a brilliant and beautiful mathematician. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors ...

  • Dinosaur Summer

    Greg Bear

    Remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, in which an expedition led by Professor George Edward Challenger discovered an Amazonian plateau where dinosaurs still roamed? In Dinosaur Summer, Greg Bear assumes that Challenger's expedition really...

  • Dodging Cupid's Arrow

    Kate Hoffmann

    ALASKA. A PLACE WHERE MEN COULD BE MEN...AND WOMEN WERE SCARCE! Perrie Kincaid, crackerjack reporter, couldn't believe it. Her editor was actually sending her to Muleshoe, Alaska, population twenty! Talk about Dullsville on ice. But then she met J...

  • Don't You Want to Be Beautiful?

    Laura Anne Gilman
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    Those Chicks in Chainmail are baaaack -- and They Are Not Amused! A Brief Word from the Characters: We seem to have a Failure to Communicate here. Hey, it's okay with us that Chicks in Chainmail was so popular, and reached #3 on the Locus bestsell...

  • Donnatalee

    Erika Tamar

    On a stifling summer day in the city, Kate’s family travels by crowded bus and subway to the cool, refreshing seaside. While splashing at the ocean’s edge, Kate’s mind wanders and she becomes Donnatalee, mermaid of the sea. Beneath the cool, cl...

  • The Dower House

    Annabel Davis-Goff

    Widely praised for her rich and elegant prose, Annabel Davis-Goff delivers the story of Molly Hassard, an Anglo-Irish orphan coming of age in a formerly privileged society. As the Protestant-Irish emerge from the postwar years, the refuse to face the...

  • Dr. Dad

    Julianna Morris

    REMEDY: WIFE? A baby was just not what the doctor ordered. But somehow Dr. Noah Bradley was sharing his home with his precocious orphaned niece and an ever-increasing menagerie of pets. He figured daddyhood was the hardest task he'd ever undertake...

  • Dr. Nightingale Races the Outlaw Colt

    Lydia Adamson

    DEATH IN DAPPLED GRAY Veterinarian Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale knows what made Aden Fox's cows sick. They wandered through a broken fence and grazed on poisonous Perilla Mint. What mystifies Didi is what smashed the fence: horse's hooves. There are...

  • Dragons of Argonath

    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...

  • Dream a Little Dream

    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 ...

  • Dry

    Max Marlow

    Summer 2023, and the Earth is experiencing devastating water shortages. Journalist Brett Manders, falls in love with Antonia Dariette, but when on a fact-finding mission in Africa, his plane crashes, Antonia is left alone. As she waits for news, she ...

  • Ducky

    Ann M. Martin

    Am I doing enough? Am I doing too much? Where exactly do I fit into all of this? I don't know. I SHOULD know, but I don't....

  • The Dying Town

    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...

  • Easter Lilly

    Tom Wicker

    When a white man is found with a knife in his heart and his pants around his knees, all signs point to a black woman as the killer. Sure enough, Easter Lilly Odum doesn't deny doing the deed-but, she claims, it was either that or getting raped.

    In ...

  • The Easter Promise Book

    Brian Cochran

  • The Egg and Other Stories

    Sherwood Anderson

    Published two years after the innovative, influential 1919 masterpiece Winesburg, Ohio, this collection of short stories solidified the author’s reputation as a major American writer. Despite their narrative simplicity (similar in style to the work...

  • The Eleventh Plague

    John S. Marr

    Two children die of a disease thought to be nonexistence in the United States. Within hours, thoroughbreds at the legendary Churchill Downs are dying of a virus that cannot be identified, even by the most expert veterinarians. Called in to solve thes...

  • Elizabeth & Lily

    Hilary Bailey

    Spanning 30 years from 1886 to 1917, this novel, first published in 1997, follows the lives of two women from different ends of the social scale. They are reunited as adults and find that their friendship helps them through the bitterness and crue...

  • Emperor's New Clothes

    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...

  • The Engagement

    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...

  • Eunice and Wally

    Joyce Harrington

  • Ever a Bridesmaid

    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.'...

  • Everyone Gets Gold Stars but Me!

    Charles M. Schulz

  • Excession

    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...

  • Extreme Justice

    William Bernhardt

    Disillusioned with both the legal system and his private life, criminal attorney Ben Kincaid abandons his practice for a less stressful pastime: playing with a combo at Uncle Earl's Jazz Emporium. The musician's life is bliss - until a corpse crashes...

  • The Eye of the Hawk

    P.A. Bechko

    Ethan Torregrossa is a town tamer on his way to Stillwater, California to help the Burr Stage and Freight Line out of a heap of trouble. Someone seems bent on destroying the line, and Ethan aims to remedy that. But one night on the River Hawks deck, ...

  • Fallen

    Dewey Gram

    An edge-of-your-seat supernatural thriller, this major motion picture starring Denzel Washington and John Goodman is sure to pack theaters everywhere this February! Based on the screenplay be Nicholas Kazan, this is the story of a serial killer and t...

  • A Father's Place

    Joan Kilby

    A man with a child needs a home.... Daniel had a young daughter with the flu and no place to live after flying to Vancouver from Australia. He thought he'd rented rooms from Karina, but Karina thought otherwise. A woman with a problem needs he...

  • Fear Nothing

    Dean Koontz

    WHEN YOU ARE DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE ELSE, THE NIGHT IS NOT YOUR ENEMY, THE DARKNESS IS NOT INTIMIDATING, THE SHADOWS ARE NOT TERRIFYING. AND IF YOU'RE DIFFERENT ENOUGH, YOU... FEAR NOTHING Christopher Snow is different from all the other resid...

  • Fed Up with the Fanny

    Franklin White

    Kahlil Richardson seems to have it all: a stellar career as a rising young advertising executive in his native Detroit, a serious commitment to community activism, a beautiful girlfriend to whom he's just become engaged, a loving family, and a great ...

  • Fertile Ground

    Rochelle Majer Krich

    Scandal has shaken the career of Dr. Lisa Brockman, a physician at a prestigious Los Angeles fertility clinic. First there's the murder of a young donor, then the allegations of egg switching, and finally the disappearance of Dr. Matthew Gordon, the ...

  • The Fifth Grave

    Martin H. Greenberg

    This book is titled after Jack Ritchie's classic tale of betrayal and is a collection that demonstrates that evil has no geographical limits....

  • Final Act

    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...

  • Flesh and Gold

    Phyllis Gotlieb

    A mature alien woman judge sees an amphibious human woman, obviously a slave, displayed in a tank in front of a sex palace. And so an interstellar plot of murderous proportions involving many races and planets, galactic corporations, exploitive sex a...

  • Flight of Fancy

    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...

  • Flotsam

    Erich Maria Remarque

    From the beloved author of All Quiet on the Western Front, Flotsam is a terrifying portrait of Europe as the Nazi shadow falls over the continent.   Political dissidents, Jews, medical students, petty criminals: Among the thousands of displaced ...

  • Fog Heart

    Thomas Tessier

    Two couples, both skeptical and desperate, are drawn together by a medium named Oona, a fragile, beautiful young woman who knows things that no other living person should know. Is her gift real, or is it the sign of a consuming madness? Can she lea...

  • For C., Who Changed My Life

    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......

  • Forgotten

    Lorena McCourtney

    DANGER LURKS IN THE SHADOWS AS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN STRUGGLES TO UNLOCK THE SECRETS OF HER PAST KAT CAVANAUGH She awakens in an Oregon hospital with a broken leg and no memory of her identity or her past. Who is she? How did she get here? Where d...

  • The Fourth Horseman

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

    Doc Holliday was thirty-six when he found out he had the same incurable tuberculosis that took his mother's life--and one year to live. The doomed Holliday quickly plunged himself into the hard-drinking, violent world of the gunslinger. He traveled f...

  • Freebirth

    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...

  • Freedom's Price

    Suzanne Brockmann

    Could a revolutionary used to running wild win the heart of a world-weary journalist? Liam Bartlett had nearly lost his life in San Salustiano, and for five years the correspondent had done his best to silence his ghosts. But when Marisala Bolivar...

  • Garden of Dreams

    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...

  • The Getaway Groom

    Molly Liholm

    1-800-Wedding Happy Endings Guaranteed! Need a wedding planned in only two weeks? Groom has cold feet? Bridal consultant Emma Delaney could solve any kind of wedding crisis, because she passionately believed in love and romance. She wanted ever...

  • Gib Rides Home

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    Gib Whittaker's life at Lovell House Orphanage in the early 1900s is pretty bleak. But along with hours of chores, bad food, and paddlings, the boys do get some schooling, and reading and writing are better than scrubbing floors. Still, Gib's fondest...

  • The Gloomy Ghost

    David Lubar

    Acclaimed author David Lubar's Monsterrific Tales return to life with this new edition of The Gloomy Ghost that is sure to appeal to fans of his Weenies short story collections.There's something strange going on at Washington Irving Elementary School...

  • Go for the Gold

    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....

  • The Godmother's Web

    Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    The award-winning author of the acclaimed Godmother novels featuring Felicity Fortune introduces a new Godmother -- a Native American woman, known simply as "Grandma," who will weave a web of unforgettable magic and change the life of one young woman...

  • Goodnight Kind of Feeling

    Tony Bradman

  • Granted: Big Sky Groom

    Carol Grace

    BEST-KEPT WISHES: Three high school friends, three heartfelt wishes made on prom night--three weddings to end all weddings! BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR.... Tally James wished for a ranch of her own. What she got was a long, tall groom! But tha...

  • A Groom of Her Own

    Irene Hannon

    GUESTS AT THE WEDDING Watching her best friend get married, lovely widow Samantha Reynolds wondered if she'd ever speak those solemn vows again. Though wary, part of her still longed for a husband and family. But it would take a very special man f...

  • Guilty Pleasures

    Lawrence Sanders

    Emmet Folsby found power in his publishing empire - and passion in his secret affairs. His wife, Constance, a dying invalid who was shielded from the truth. And their fiercely competitive children: a daughter and son with sexual secrets of their own....

  • Gun Law at Broken Spoke

    Terrell L. Bowers

  • Halfborn Woman

    Diane Woodbrown

    A poignant, breathtaking debut, Halfborn Woman is the story of Arlen, a painfully observant girl who comes of age in early '70s Tampa, Florida. When Arlen's charming rogue of a father walks out on the family, everything changes, and her mother, Olivi...

  • Halfway Human

    Carolyn Ives Gilman

    Tedla is young, beautiful, and blond--but it is neither he nor she. And Tedla has a remarkable story to tell of witchcraft, lust, and rebellion on a far-off closed world which has taken its own evolutionary path. There, an asexual class of "blands" e...

  • Happy Valentine's Day, Sweet Babboo!

    Charles M. Schulz

    Certain of Linus's mutual love for her, Sally looks forward to receiving a Valentine's Day card, but when her mailbox is empty on the awaited day, big brother Charlie Brown reluctantly steps in to help....

  • Have You Heard About Elizabeth?

    Francine Pascal

    It's all there in black and white. . . . Elizabeth Wakefield and Scott Sinclair have been profiled in a major national newsmagazine! Will Scott's suggestive comments about their relationship make Elizabeth turn red with embarrassment . . . or anger?...

  • Hazards of the Half-Court Press

    Stephen A. Bly

    It was the world's fastest summer. A summer of basketball. A summer of growing up. A summer of becoming best friends. School starts in a few days, but first comes the basketball league championship. The Lewis and Clark Squad is in the semifinals. The...

  • The Heart Breaker

    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...

  • Heart of the Falcon

    Francis Ray

    WHEN DREAMS IGNITE... Engineer Madelyn "Addie" Taggart was accustomed to going after what she wanted. But she never expected that a chance encounter with family friend Daniel Falcon would lead to a passionate night together--or that after the specia...

  • Heaven's War

    Scott Jones

    During the Six-Day War in 1967, Bethlehem and east Jerusalem were captured by the Israelis, and sovereign dominion of the holy city returned to the Jews for the first time in over two thousand years. At that time, a Dead Sea artifact, the Temple Scro...

  • Hell's Belle

    Jane Holleman

    Hardened homicide detective Rachel Collazo jumps on the case when the mysterious Kelly McLaughlin reveals clues about Rachel's sister's death, and the pair begins a deadly cat-and-mouse game that means death for the loser. Original....

  • Helmingham Rose

    Joan Hessayon

  • Henry and Mudge and the Sneaky Crackers

    Cynthia Rylant

    Henry and his dog Mudge put their spy skills to the test in this Ready-to-Read adventure.With his new spy kit and his faithful sidekick Mudge, Henry is ready to look for clues, steal secrets, and flirt with danger. One of the first things Henry and M...

  • Her Mother's Arms

    Kelsey Roberts

    Who would have thought that the search for Hannah Bailey's real mother could have turned so deadly? Certainly not Hannah. Shocked by the discovery that she'd been adopted, Hannah felt a strong pull toward the woman listed on her birth certificate as ...

  • Her Torrid Temporary Marriage

    Sara Orwig

    ONE RED-HOT HUSBAND Mattie Ryan had no illusions about her temporary husband. Long, lean, darkly compelling--Josh Brand was every woman's fantasy. And everyone in Texas cattle country was gonna wonder why in blue blazes he'd marry his gawky cowpok...

  • Hercules X-Posed

    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,...

  • The Hero's Son

    Amanda Stevens

    Her father was innocent... Valerie Snow was just a child when her father was convicted of the Kingsley kidnapping. All this time, she's believed him guilty...and been wrong. Now, out for justice, she is surrounded by danger. Only one man will lis...

  • Hide and Shriek Il

    Emily James (1)

  • High Crimes

    Joseph Finder

    Clair Heller Chapman has the perfect life. She's a star Harvard Law School professor and high-powered attorney. Her second husband, Tom Chapman, is a charismatic and successful money manager who adores her and her six-year-old daughter. But then o...

  • His Temporary Mistress

    Emma Richmond

    Women from nineteen to ninety have a habit of falling at Henry Sheldrake's feet. The cynical bachelor regards most of them as an inconvenience. Githa James is different -- from the moment Henry sees her, he wants her, and what Henry wants he gets...

  • Hit Man

    Lawrence Block

    Keller is your basic Urban Lonely Guy. He makes a decent wage, lives in a nice apartment. Works the crossword puzzle. Watches a little TV. Until the phone rings and he packs a suitcase, gets on a plane, flies halfway across the country... and kills s...

  • Hollow Skull

    Christopher Pike

    The citizens of Madison are besieged by a satanic force that enters their skulls and changes them into aliens with a drive to transform humanity into a nightmarish race that exists only to inflict pain. Original....

  • The Homecoming

    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....

  • Homecoming

    John Dalmas

    Seven centuries ago, Earth's infant first colony was mysteriously cut off without a ship of its own. For thirty generations the colonists have focused on survival, establishment, growth; their agrarian society evolving in an absence of war, with coop...

  • Homeless, Hungry, Please Help

    Stanley Cohen

  • Homicide: Violent Delights

    Jerome Preisler

    Detectives Kellerman and Lewis find a roadside corpse, identified as a guard at Central Maryland Psychiatric Center for the Criminally Insane, but the escapee-fugitive at large is one of the smartest and most vicious hit-men in the history of Baltimo...

  • The Honey Dipper's Legacy

    Myra Pannell-Allen

  • Honeymoon Ranch

    Celeste Hamilton

    LET THE HONEYMOON BEGIN! Pretty Paige McMullen came home to Amarillo, Texas, just in time to get hitched to widower True Whitman, the rugged cowboy she'd loved ever since she was a young cowgirl. But little did her groom-to-be know she'd been wait...

  • The House Gun

    Nadine Gordimer

    Nadine Gordimer's novel is a passionate narrative of the complex manifestations of that final test of human relations we call love. It moves with the restless pace of living itself; if it is a parable of present violence, it is also an affirmation of...

  • House Husband

    Linda Cajio

    Let's make a baby! Sara Johanson wanted a child and a family of her own more than anything. So when she showed up on her estranged husband's doorstep, she expected his signature on four-year-old divorce papers--not an enthusiastic offer to make ba...