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New Books List: 512 titles


  • Christina Dodd

    Two lovers ignite a world of darkness with their wild, breathless passion. Raven-haired Lady Saura of Roget was the love lest maiden in all Christendom, unrivalled in face and figure. Yet her fortune and her day-to-day existence were controlled by...



  • Dafydd ab Hugh

    When Captain Sisko leads the Defiant on a dangerous mission into the Gamma Quadrant to liberate a conquered world, the Bajoran government insists that Kai Winn, the Federation's longtime nemesis, assume complete control of the space station. Left beh...



  • Dafydd ab Hugh

    Kai Winn, the supreme spiritual leader of the Bajoran people, has never divulged what she personally did during the harsh and perilous days of the Occupation. But now, as alien warships fight to reclaim Deep Space Nine, she cannot help recalling thos...



  • Linda Williams Aber

    Michelle introduces a collection of creative ideas for six terrific sleepover parties, including party themes, innovative invitations, food ideas and menus, decorating tips, and a host of great party games and activities...



  • Alice Adams

    “Sophisticated, charming, often nostalgic, and so artfully written that half the time you don’t know that you are reading on of the best writers around.”  ­--The Boston Globe   In her final collection, Alice Adams ranges from San Fra...



  • Lydia Adamson

    When Amanda Avery decides to adopt a cat, she turns to her old friend Alice Nestleton--who quickly matches her up with an unusual-looking feline named Jake, and kindly offers her assistance with the intricacies of litterbox behavior, finicky eating, ...



  • Rochelle Alers
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    Rochelle Alers gets the sparks flying, as a high-maintenance banker finds herself falling, against her better judgement, for a handsome delivery man who walks into Rosie's......



  • Carrie Alexander

    Three blazingly sexy stories to set the mood for the most romantic day of the year: "SECRETS OF THE HEART" Sensuous, arousing black velvet valentines sent by a stranger. At first Charlotte Colfax was shocked, then intrigued... then determined...




  • Aaron Allston

    Wraith Squadron: they are the Rebel Alliance's ultimate strike force. Sleek, swift, and deadly, they are the first in battle, the last line of defense. Now they must find and destroy a wily enemy more powerful than the Empire itself. Their covert ...




  • Robyn Amos

    SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN LOVE Toni Rivers has always lived her life by the books. But the expert advice in the self-help books she's always depended on have never fixed her disastrous love life. So when her sister announces that they've won the lottery...



  • Robyn Amos

    HOW TO BEAT THE BACHELORETTE BLUES. 1. Find Mr. Right * Carefully make list of qualities needed * Narrow down choices to three polished, professional men * Ignore Max Winston's charms! 2. Date Mr. Right * Attend social functions * Dress properly * Av...



  • Rudolfo A. Anaya

    Wheelchair-bound by day, Alburquerque P.I. Sonny Baca is tormented by night with strange dreams: One by one, his female ancestors are abducted before his eyes. Soon Sonny learns the worst. His old archenemy, Raven, is controlling the nightmares and p...



  • Shannon Anderson (1)

    PUTTING DOWN ROOTS... That's what life is all about for green thumb Jack Kendrick. The rugged loner cherishes stability: his farmhouse, his land, and his flower business. He's none too pleased to find out that his new tenant is a jewelry d...



  • Judie Angell

    A losing horse who suddenly begins to win every race seems to suspicious to Shirley, as does the strange new behavior of headmistress Ms. Stratman, who appears to be under the spell of a swindler secretly out for her money. Original....



  • Judie Angell

    Shirley Holmes is on the case in these thrilling new mysteries, using the cunning and logic that she inherited from her famous ancestor, Sherlock Holmes.

    In "The Case of the Burning Building", the new kid in school, Bo Sawchuk, is accused of c...




  • K.A. Applegate

    “We can’t tell you who we are. Or where we live. It’s too risky, and we’ve got to be careful. Really careful. So we don’t trust anyone. Because if they find us...well, we just won’t let them find us. The thing you should know is that eve...



  • Katherine Applegate

    Zoey plays games with Aaron and sets off a wave of broken hearts. Because Lucas is in love with Zoey, Claire has vowed to make Aaron her own. But the island is too small for big secrets. Zoey's playing games with Aaron, and Lucas is still in love wi...



  • Ann Arensberg

    Dry Falls, Maine was a simple farming town. Its residents lived innocently in sync with the seasons--honest churchgoing folk who looked to the land for a living and to tiny St. Anthony's church for spiritual sustenance. Until the spring of 1974, when...



  • Tedd Arnold

    When he ventures out from under the bed one night, Huggly tries to figure out the use for various items in the bathroom including toothpaste and bubble bath, in a follow-up story to Huggly Gets Dressed. ...




  • Russell Atwood

    When Payton Sherwood takes a wrong turn on a Manhattan East Village side street, he stumbles into trouble--in the form of three bull-necked heavies and a tough sixteen-year-old runaway named Gloria.  After taking a savage beating, Payton is robbed ...



  • Margot Austin

    All little Growl Bear can say is “Grr...grrr.” And though he doesn't mean to, he scares away all the other animals in the forest. What is Growl Bear to do?

    Originally published as a picture book in 1951 and recently reillustrated, this...



  • Avi

    The young raccoon is going places -- even if it's in the wrong direction. When Amanda decides she wants to be a professional thief, it's up to her brother, Phillip, to keep her from a life of crime. To do so, he's going to need the help of every anim...



  • Avi

    Awesome! That's the only word Amanda the raccoon can think of to describe the circus, and she's determined to join it as a clown. Her brother, Phillip, wants to join the circus, too. But the two raccoons don't know there's someone who plans to close ...




  • Rev. W. Awdry

    Here are a trio of Thomas the Tank Engine favorites: Thomas and the Pony Show, Thomas Goes to School, and Henry Goes to the Hospital. Filled with charming art and wonderful adventures, this collectible three-in-one treasury book is sure to become a m...



  • James Axler

    War wagon convoy leader Trader, whose reputation in the badlands of post-holocaust America has grown legendary, opposes Levi Shabazz's attempts to build his own empire out of the wastelands, an event that becomes a rite of passage for young Ryan Cawd...



  • Lynn Bailey

    It has been called the Land of the Living, the Land of Promise, the Land of Fragrance. This Faerie world has many names--a place of unsurpassed beauty that no mortal has ever witnessed--until now... In the twilight of the forest, faerie Sira stum...



  • Kage Baker

    Facilitator Joseph is quite a guy. He's sailed with the Phoenicians, and he's been an Egyptian priest, an Athenian politician, and secretary to a Roman senator. After all, his employer, the twenty-fourth-century Company, sends immortal cyborgs like J...



  • J.G. Ballard

    "Compulsively absorbing: the white heat of its images seems to burn off the page, and the surreal landscapes linger on in the mind." -- Independent On the arid, war-plagued terrain of central Africa, a manic doctor is consumed with visions of transf...



  • Alessandro Baricco

    "Exotic...erotic... Ocean Sea is highly romantic and breathtakingly lyrical."--The New York Times Book Review

    With Silk, his first novel to appear in English, Alessandro Baricco immediately proved himself to be a magical storyteller. With Ocea...




  • C.N. Bean

    Captain Rita Trible, head of Wisconsin's Criminal Investigation Division, prayed she would never be assigned to cases involving child victims. But the photos of 26 missing children that land in her office remind her of the grim reality of her job. Fa...



  • Kathleen Beck
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    Valentine's Day -- a time when the first spring flowers bloom in the chill spring air, the song birds choose their mates, and ladies and gentlemen discover special moments of love... Intrigued by rumors of a curse that compels Miss Gowland Del...



  • Martyn Bedford

    "Unusually deft and witty dialogue--. With great aplomb, [Bedford] has brought off an erotic thriller."--The New York Times Book Review

    In The Houdini Girl, award-winning mystery writer Martyn Bedford explores the pulsing spiritual chaos that ...



  • R.G. Belsky

    It's been eleven years since David Galvin terrorized New York City with a series of gruesome murders. He picked his victim at random and stalked her silently, taking pleasure in a game of pretend until he captured his prey, played out his sick fantas...



  • Gregory Benford

    After an accident in a brilliant young physicist's most ambitious experiment, it appears: a wondrous sphere the size of a basketball, made of nothing known to science. Before long, it will be clear that this object has opened a vista on an entirely d...



  • Nikki Benjamin

    ONE LAST CHANCE For four years Major Sam Griffin had stayed away from Serenity, Texas, gruffly avoiding the fact that he was till heart achingly in love with the woman who almost married his brother. Now home on leave, the devastatingly handsome ...



  • Cherie Bennett

    As the newly crowned Miss Teen Spirit and her runner-up tour America, they visit contestant reunions across the country and become caught up in the continuing dramas of their friends, including Pepper, who struggles to cope with a secret pregnancy, a...



  • Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    One bear goes up. Two bears come down. But when one bear goes down the up, chaos ensues! From Stan and Jan Berenstain, masters of the super-simple, comes an Early Step into Reading/tm/ book that features those marvelous magic moving metal stairs so f...



  • Thomas Berger

    Jack Crabb, hero of Little Big Man and beloved chronicler of the Wild West, is back in the saddle again. This time he meets, drinks with, and rides with Bat Masterson, Annie Oakley, and Doc Holliday, and even travels with Buffalo Bill Cody to meet Qu...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    Fortune's Children: The Brides: Meet the Fortune Brides -- six special women who perpetuate a family legacy greater than mere riches! IT WAS A BAD TIME TO BE A GOOD GIRL... Debutante Renee Riley's getaway weekend at the Final Destinat...



  • Cheryl Biggs

    WORTH WAITING FOR? Three years ago she'd returned his ring ...and he'd kept her heart. Kate Morgan had loved long, lean bull rider Shane Larrabee more than anything in the world --except being a cop. And when forced to choose, she'd stubbornly cho...



  • Ethan Black

    They meet every week in the dingy back room of a bar in New York City. An informal group of men with one thing in common: They all suffer the sting of a broken heart. But soon the anger turns to hate. The rejection turns to rage. And the Broken Heart...



  • Terry Blain

    Left widowed in Philadelphia, April Williamson vowed to make a new life for herself. Her first stop was to make the difficult journey to her childhood home in Kentucky. But the days on the trail were nowhere near as torturous as the desire April bega...



  • Eleanor Taylor Bland

    The blissful aftermath of Marti MacAlister's second wedding doesn't last long when her longtime partner Matthew "Vik" Jessennovik interrupts the honeymoon with some disturbing news. Two murders-one recent and another decades old-shock a wealthy Chica...



  • Stephanie Bond

    THIS YEAR, VALENTINE'S DAY IS... Workaholic Frankie Jens had no time for romance let alone a vacation. So whit was she doing spending Valentine's Day stranded in Key West with sexy-as-sin Randy Tate? The gorgeous bar owner tempted her to let loose, ...



  • J.S. Borthwick

    New England English teacher Sarah Deane, with husband Alex and feisty Aunt Julia in tow, is getting ready to board the Queen Victoria for a luxurious transatlantic cruise. But before they even set sail, two passengers are killed-both members of the B...



  • Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Some secrets are too terrible to share--even with your best friend. Nothing hurts like the truth. A truth that has haunted Claire Benson all her life. A truth that Claire has revealed to no one, not even her best friend, international art dealer L...




  • Max Brand

    He would never know who his parents were or from where he had come. His name is Spanish, but he's an American. After being captured in battle, he is apprenticed to outlaw Matias Bordi. Once a master of weapons, he must kill his mentor. ...



  • Kylie Brant

    A COWBOY'S DESIRE... Rancher Jed Sullivan was ruthless about getting what he wanted -- and he'd just set his sights on Julianne Buchanan. The sparks between them had always been kept under Jed's tight control, but now that Julianne had come home,...



  • Annette Broadrick

    SLEEPLESS IN THE WHITE HOUSE Never falter. Never flinch. And never let anyone get too close. Steely Special Agent Nick Logan knew the rules for protecting the First Family. What he didn't know was why Ashley Sullivan, the president's...



  • Peter Brooks

    A moving novel about a young eighteenth-century Frenchman who is forced by circumstance to examine the world beyond his nobility delves into such classic themes as European exploration and civilization versus savagery as it describes his journey to T...




  • Marc Brown

    Arthur must report to the principal's office first thing tomorrow morning for telling Mr. Ratburn his dog ate his homework. That night, Arthur dreams about the weird town of Pickletown and its peculiar pickle citizens. He is chased by the pickle poli...



  • Dixie Browning

    "I'm not a family man but I sure as hell am willing to try." --Travis Holiday, former Coast Guard officer When Travis learned he had a son, he'd gone into emergency mode: build a home, become a dad, settle down. No more heroics. But when he came u...



  • Bonnie Bryant

    Stevie Lake, Carole Hanson, and Lisa Atwood are hoping to compete in a prestigious horse show. To that end, they are doing everything they can to stay on stable owner Max Regnery's good side -- including doing extra chores around Pine Hollow such as ...



  • Molly Bull

    When Suzann Condry is faced with a personal crisis, she agrees to assume her long-lost twin sister's role as a sweet church librarian. The last thing she wants, or needs, is to fall in love. But Suzann can't help feeling an emotional connection with ...



  • Lynn Bulock

    Nothing prepared Cody for Bree's arrival -- but now she's missing, and nothing seems right without her. Bree Trehearn discovered computer files she wasn't supposed to see. Now she's on the run, hiding from a criminal with murder on his mind. Whe...



  • Chris Bunch

    The Seer King’s mighty empire of Numantia has become a living nightmare -- especially to the loyal general who helped the wizard Tenedos to power. The wizard has returned to command hellish demons in his drive for absolute power.Only Damastes, impr...



  • Caroline Burnes

    Fear Familiar -- Meet the coolest feline detective to ever take on mystery, mayhem and matchmaking! Follow her. In the midst of an undercover operation, Dan Carson should never have listened to a seeming message from -- a cat! But when a beauti...



  • Richard Lee Byers

    Belasco, the demon lord who is one of the X-Men's deadliest enemies, has found a way to destroy the barrier that keeps the evil Elder Gods from overrunning the Earth--by using the X-Men's Rogue! When Rogue is kidnapped by Belasco and possessed by his...



  • Robert Byrd

    With the help of the brains and magic of his brave and clever wife Oonagh, Finn MacCoul bests the fearsome giant, Cucullin, in a retelling of an ancient Irish folktale. By the author of The Bear and the Bird King. ...



  • Pat Cadigan

    This is a book of science fiction - without galactic fleets or plucky scientists' daughters; a book of fantasies - without elves, barbarians or wizards; a book of horror - without clichéd mad slashers in hockey masks.If one must categorize this coll...



  • Joanna Campbell

    Can any horse replace Lightning?

    Giving up Lightning was the hardest thing Ashleigh Griffen has ever done. Nothing can replace her beloved mare, and nothing anyone can say or do will make Ashleigh fell better. How can Ashleigh ever fulfill her drea...



  • Laurie Campbell

    THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT...FAMILY She had wanted to give her husband his first child, but it hadn't worked out that way for Meg McConnell. Now she was opening her home to a boy with Joe's eyes--a child he'd known nothing about. And though ...



  • Donna Cantor

    According to Joanna Barron's mother the criteria for success should include: earn a credential, marry a man with potential, improve yourself, and surround yourself with culture.Unfortunately, the life that twenty-seven-year-old Joanna has carved out ...



  • Henry Carlisle

    With the collapse of the Czar in 1918, democracy seems inevitable in Russia, and an exile family returns buoyed by hope only to encounter the rising tyranny of the Marxists. Reprint. 10,000 first printing....



  • Melody Carlson

    In 1948, while her mother is off making yet another movie, fourteen-year-old Allison O'Brian has settled in to a new life in Tamaqua Point, Oregon and is eagerly looking forward to her first traditional family-style Christmas until a phone call from ...



  • P.M. Carlson
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    Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...



  • Emily Carmichael

    IT TAKES A HEAVENLY DOG TO MAKE A HELL OF A MATCH Right before her untimely death, Lydia Keane made one terrible mistake--she had an affair with her best friend Amy's husband. Barred from the afterlife until she makes amends, Lydia has been ordere...



  • Jerry Jay Carroll

    William "Bogie" Ingersoll, a bloodthirsty corporate raider who made his mark on Wall Street with the people he destroyed, awakens one day to the world as a big, shaggy dog who must make his mark in another way. Reprint....



  • Marisa Carroll
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    Nine-year-old Dani Jenson and her little sister think Christy, their new neighbor, and their dad would be a really good match, and Dani has figured out a perfect plan to get them together. Unfortunately, the anonymous cards the girls have been sendin...



  • Charlotte Carter

    WHEN BOHO SLEUTH MEETS THE HOT LIFE, IT'S MURDER ON THE DOWN LOW... She's "the most charismatic crime fiction heroine to appear in the last decade," a jazz-playing, freewheeling sleuth with a knack for living cool...and landing in hot water. She's...



  • Paula Carter

    A Talent for Decoration -- and Detection Meet Hillary Scarborough, a domestic artiste with a flair for design ... and Jane Ferguson, an ex-law student who can't cook or decorate to save her life. Between the two of them, they solve more crimes -- ...



  • Rosemary Carter

    Instant daddy. To bachelor Sterling Taylor it seemed only natural to rescue a damsel in distress. What he hadn't reckoned on was that saving Sara, the pretty waitress at his favorite restaurant, from unwelcome attentions from one of her customers w...



  • Diane Chamberlain

    Laura Brandon's promise to her dying father was simple: to visit an elderly woman she'd never heard of before. A woman who remembers nothing -- except the distant past. Visiting Sarah Tolley seemed a small enough sacrifice to make.But Laura's promise...



  • Tim Champlin

    Jay McGraw, a messenger for Wells Fargo, must protect the express box he’s been charged with and unravel the mystery of the message contained within, as he’s hotly pursued by highway robbers....



  • Elizabeth Chandler

    Jane isn't looking forward to being the maid of honor in her cousin Stacy's wedding. Stacy is shallow and superficial, and Adam, the biggest jerk at Tilson High, is going to be the best man! The last thing Jane wants to do is walk down the aisle with...



  • Jon Chardiet

    Even though his team is the worst in the school, Parker Penguin cares only about winning the Winter Games until his father shows him that winning isn't everything, in a simple story for beginning readers about team spirit. Original....



  • Ann Charlton

    RILEY TEMPLETON was a hot-shot Queensland lawyer with a reputation for ruthlessness and a weakness for curvaceous, exciting blondes. ALEXANDRA PAGE was neither blonde nor curvaceous. And nothing exciting ever happened to her. But then she found a...




  • Judy Christenberry

    HAVE BABY, NEED WIFE When Josh McKinley appeared on Maggie O'Connor's doorstep with a baby in his arms and an irresistibly helpless expression on his face, Maggie's maternal--and womanly--smarts wouldn't let her turn him away. But that one good de...



  • Lynn Christopher

    They were at war. Braving the war-ravaged countryside to return to her Missouri home, Lila found her house occupied by Confederate soldiers under the command of Captain Sander McCormack. The brooding officer was not the murderous savage she'd expecte...



  • Sue Civil-Brown

    SOMETIMES OPPOSITES READLLY DO ATTRACT! Jake Carpenter has traveled all over the world, living a neat, orderly life. Now he's come to Paradise Beach, Florida, intending to stop his globetrotting ways and settle down with a tidy woman. But barging ...



  • Randy Sue Coburn

    Having grown up Jewish in the South, Marcia Rose, in Seattle the summer of 1989 with her lover, wonders if she can escape her past, until she finds her childhood friend, Jody, who is mentally disturbed--a condition for which Marcia feels responsible-...



  • Andrei Codrescu

    When two extraordinary young women--Felicity, a Creole orphan, and Andrea, an escapee from a Serbian POW camp--meet in New Orleans in December 1999, they realize that together they are destined to embody the Messiah as Armageddon rages across the Wor...



  • Joanna Cole

    Liz learns all about colors when she and her friends paint a rainbow on a garden wall, in a simple story for the youngest Magic School Bus fans featuring the pet lizard from Ms. Frizzle's class. Original....




  • Judd Cole

    When Wild Bill Hickok, a marshal, gunfighter, stage driver, and scout, is hired to protect an eccentric inventor on a train ride through the worst badlands of the West, he goes up against paid assassins, angry Sioux, and a jealous Calamity Jane. Orig...



  • Jane Candia Coleman

    Joanna O'Keefe journeys to New Mexico to meet up with her husband at the Circle MC, but when she arrives she finds her husband has been murdered, and it is up to Joanna to drive the cattle across the Mojave Desert to San Diego....



  • Lynn A. Coleman

    Dr. Alexandra Tucker has come to Martha's Vineyard for sabbatical-to pray and grow closer to the Lord, who appears to want her single for life. God, however, has a few surprises in store for Alex on the Vineyard. They start one evening when a powe...



  • Laurel Collins
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    A tale of a Colorado spinster's transformation into the belle of a Valentine's ball -- and the object of an admirer's hidden desire....



  • Suzanne Collins

    In London as part of a student cultural exchange program, Shelby Woo and her friends, Vince and Angie, find themselves investigating a strange case of arson after a fire breaks out during a performance of Romeo and Juliet and shuts down the t...




  • Sarah Booth Conroy
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    Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...



  • Storm Constantine

    Back in the mid-90s the UK music scene was rocked by the mysterious disappearance of Richie Edwards from the Manic Street Preachers. Author Storm Constantine was intrigued by this story and found herself thinking ''What if...?'' Thin Air is the novel...



  • Paul Cook

    DAWN IN SPACE COMES FROM THE FIRE WITHIN... For hundreds of years, humans have used the great Engines of the alien Enamorati to propel their biggest starships, enabling millions to travel--and live--among the stars. As part of this alliance, the E...



  • Robin Cook

    New York City cabbie Yuri Davydov is a disgruntled Russian emigre poised to lash out at the adoptive nation he believes has denied him his American dream. A former technician in the Soviet biological weapons system, Yuri possesses the knowledge to wr...



  • Caroline B. Cooney

    This bestselling author explores the destructive nature of hatred, the crime of indifference, and the power of accepting love and responsibility.

    Fifteen-year-old Macey Clare has always loved her quiet, beautiful Connecticut hometown. It's the...



  • Louise Cooper

    It's only an armchair.So why does Opal, Rhoda's cat, hiss and spit and refuse to go anywhere near it? Rhoda's baffled - until she discovers, that the chair is haunted by the ghost of a cat called Sheba. And Sheba's not just going to sit down quietly....




  • Kay Cornelius

    LOVE AND ADVENTURE... Graduating from her prim Philadelphia finishing school, Anna Willow McKnight eagerly heads west to the wilds of the Kentucky territory where she will see her father, a Scots fur trader, and visit the place her lovely Delaware I...



  • Emily Costello

    Caught shoplifting, Lacey must pay the price by refereeing her little sister's soccer games early on Saturday mornings, and she finds it is a tough job in more than one way when a nasty spectator gives her a hard time. Original....



  • Mike Couillard

    It was a cold yet breathtakingly beautiful day in January 1995 when Mike Couillard, a United States Air Force officer on assignment in Turkey, took his son Matthew skiing. As they rode the T-bar to the magnificent peaks of the 7,300-foot-high Kartalk...



  • Sara Craven

    SEDUCING ADAM... After a disastrous relationship, career girl Tara Lyndon had almost given up on men. But then she met Adam Barnard... The devastatingly sexy hunk could have stepped straight out of her fantasies. Unfortunately, it also seemed as ...




  • Barbara D'Amato
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    Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...



  • Ruth Jean Dale

    Name: Cody James Age: 30 Occupation: Rancher Looking for: A wife and mother for my children The Yellow Rose Matchmakers claimed to be able to match any woman with her Mr. Right. And Emily couldn't deny that the man she'd been matched w...



  • Achmat Dangor

    "Dangor writes lyrical...beautiful prose. Kafka's Curse is....full of cries that go on ringing in the head." --The New York Times Book Review

    From the award-winning South African poet Achmat Dangor, an extraordinary American debut and an imagi...



  • Gurcharan Das

    This majestic novel by the author of India Unbound is the extraordinary chronicle, rich in passion and incident, of a Punjabi family that is uprooted from its settled existence in Lyallpur by the violence of Partition and forced to flee to India. Eve...



  • Kay David

    Would you do the smart thing or the right thing? Late one night, a little boy approaches Abbie Franklin. He doesn't know his name or where he lives. Abbie has no choice but to help him - any way she can. Even if that means dealing with her ex-husband...



  • Janet Dawson
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    Nineteen of today's finest mystery writers--including Anne Perry, P. M. Carlson, John Lutz, Judith Kelman, Gillian Roberts, and Sarah Shankman--offer an entertaining selection of original mystery stories centered around America's First Ladies. Origin...



  • Saranne Dawson

    IT WAS A NIGHT OF PASSION NEITHER OF THEM COULD FORGET... Michael Quinn's tenacity made him an extraordinary cop. It also made him an exceptional lover. And Amanda Sturdevant remembered everything, every caress and kiss, of her one night with him...



  • Alyssa Dean

    Lacy Johnson's ranch was on the verge of bankruptcy -- a marriage of convenience to Morgan Brillings was the only solution. Suddenly Lacy found herself looking at her fiance with new eyes, noticing the sexy cowboy's smiles and wicked way of kissing. ...



  • Keith R.A. Decandido

    "This is new territory for me. My valentines are usually met with heartfelt restraining orders." Unfulfilled crushes. Awkward first conversations. A date who wants you...dead. Having a Y-chromosome in Sunnydale is never easy. But Buffy the Vamp...



  • Deborah Decker

    LOVE, SUITE LOVE The quaint Royal Inn isn't exactly a four-star hotel but it's where architect Steve Preston had planned to stay -- until Dusty Thomas, the charming but dizzy owner, informs him that she can't find his reservation. Now there's no ...



  • Phillip Depoy

    Deep in the hollows of Georgia's wild Appalachians, the ghost of a young girl can sometimes be seen in the moonlight, still wandering the paths of Black Pine Mountain, where she vanished more than fifty years ago. Now another little girl has gone mis...




  • Baba Wague Diakite

    Everyone familiar with the popular story, Caps for Sale, will immediately recognize this authentic African tale. Readers will love the mischievous monkeys that steal the peddler's caps. And they will laugh at the monkeys' funny antics as the peddler ...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    STUD SERVICE? Lisa De La Pena needed a baby fast! To avoid her family's attempt at an arranged marriage, she was determined to find a man to father her heir. And Ryder Kelly met all of her requirements: Gorgeous, independent and sexy. But how ...



  • Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    From the award-winning author of Mistress of Spices, the bestselling novel about the extraordinary bond between two women, and the family secrets and romantic jealousies that threaten to tear them apart.Anju is the daughter of an upper-caste Calcutta...



  • Christina Dodd

    MASQUERADE English orphan Miss Evangeline Scoffield has spent her life contenting herself with dreams. But with an unforeseen inheritance, she can afford one perfect summer--a summer she will spend the rest of her life remembering. She buys hersel...



  • Gaylord Dold

    When lawyer Jack Darwin, whose career and life have seriously hit the skids, finds himself accused of a brutal rape and murder, he feels lucky to accept the proffered help of fellow attorney David Avila, until Jack becomes suspicious of Avila's true ...



  • Carole Nelson Douglas
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    "sheer joy!"--January magazine review Meet Alice Roosevelt Longworth, the “other Washington Monument,” in this short story from a mystery anthology edited by Nancy Pickard. (BONUS: A free sample of a legal thriller by Carole Nelson Douglas's form...



  • Keith Douglass

    When Iran starts building nuclear devices, it's up to Lt. Blake Murdock and his SEALs to stop them. Problem is, they have to find the nuclear complex and destroy it--all without causing a five-hundred-mile death zone. Murdock and his team don't know ...



  • Gardner Dozois

    Ten leading science fiction writers--including Robert Silverberg, Terry Bisson, Connie Willis, Lisa Goldstein, and Nancy Kress-explore the mysteries of love and the human heart, in an anthology of short stories originally published in Asimov's Sc...



  • Crescent Dragonwagon

    Having spent the afternoon preparing a special dinner for her husband, Ned's dedicated wife is shocked when he decides to throw a party and sudenly appears at the door with a large group of his friends in tow, in a humorous, rhyming, cumulative tale....



  • Diane Duane

    In the future, computers rule the world. The Net Force was formed to protect America from any and all criminal activity on-line. But there is a group of teenage whiz kids who sometines know more about computers than their adult superiors. They are...



  • Andre Dubus

    The National Book Award finalist, Oprah’s Book Club pick, #1 New York Times bestseller and basis for the Oscar-nominated motion pictureA recent immigrant from the Middle East -- a former colonel in the Iranian Air Force -- yearns to restore his fam...



  • Elizabeth Duke

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  • Cheryl Ford

    1992 Gold Medallion Award winner!
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  • Bennett Foster

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  • Lori Foster

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  • Diana G. Gallagher

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  • Hugh O'Neil Gallagher

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  • Hamlin Garland

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  • Mark A. Garland

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  • Julie Garwood

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  • Catherine George

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  • Cindy Gerard

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  • James C. Glass

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  • Leslie Glass

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  • Laura Gordon

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  • Lucy Gordon

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  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    When Stephen Payne rides into Favor to investigate the death of his younger brother, Art, he figures he'll have his work cut out for him. The rumor spreading through town is that Art had robbed a stagecoach and then hanged himself. Art had a history ...




  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Years after Reeves double-crossed him after a bank robbery, Chase is out of jail and out for revenge, and to carry out his vengeance, he journeys to the town where Reeves is setting up his next bank heist. ...



  • Steven Gould

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  • Anne Gracie

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  • Heather Graham

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  • Grace Green

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  • Grace Green

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  • Sharon Green

    Once the five elements--Earth, Wind, Air Fire and Spirit were One, when five i gifted people joined their magical talents into One. When these five forces--embodied by three men and two women--are Blended, they are the ultimate power against the evil...



  • Stephen Greenleaf

    While recovering from a gunshot wound, John Marshall Tanner meets a woman worth fighting for John Marshall Tanner left most of his blood in a vacant lot on Twentieth Street, along with the body of his closest friend. Tanner and Charley Sleet shot eac...



  • James Grippando

    WAS IT A DREAM... Single mother Amy Parkens feels trapped by a boring job, low pay, and no time for her young daughter. But that's before $200,000 in cold hard cash arrives in an unmarked box. Desperately needing the money, Amy fears a setup, or a c...



  • John Grisham

    HEART OF DARKNESS In a plush Virginia office, a rich, angry old man is furiously rewriting his will. With his death just hours away, Troy Phelan wants to send a message to his children, his ex-wives, and his minions, a message that will touch off ...



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  • Kirsten Hall

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  • Denis Hamill

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  • Karen Harbaugh

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  • Bill Harlow

    A retired Navy captain pens a fast-paced military thriller about two brothers who have made their share of political faux pas and yet are chosen to lead a delicate, high-level operation to thwart a chemical weapons attack. A first novel. Reprint....



  • Sharon Harlow

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  • Karen Harper

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  • Joanne Harris

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  • Leann Harris

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