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New Books List: 512 titles

  • Life at Sixteen

    Cheryl Zach

    When her uncle gives her a job baby-sitting his son, Lauri is delighted to finally be able to help her financially struggling mother, until she begins to suspect that the child is being abused. Original....

  • My Bunny

    James Young

    A girl who has momentarily lost her stuffed bunny asks her father questions about all of the bad things that might happen to it, and he reassures her that he will always protect both her and her bunny. Original....

  • Heads by Harry

    Lois-Ann Yamanaka

    You can always count on a crowd outside Heads by Harry, the Yagyuu family's taxidermy shop in Hilo, where the regulars gather every day to drink beer, eat smoked meat, and pontificate into the pau hana hours.  But above the shop, where the family li...

  • Everything She Wants

    Angela Patrick Wynn

    Facing the Challenge Driven, with a stubborn streak a mile long, Rena Peaks is sure she can take care of her fourteen-year-old brother, Brian, finish college, and launch her career. But her well-ordered plan doesn't factor in her brother's arrest ...

  • Simply Irresistible

    L.K. Wright

    Amanda Shelton is losing her family's restaurant due to her lack of cooking skills, when a mysterious old man not only turns her into a great chef but also brings her the affection of trendy Tom Bartlett, who is about to open a gourmet restaurant...

  • Wedding at Wildwood

    Lenora Worth

    THE WEDDING OF HER DREAMS... Isabel Landry hadn't intended to set foot on the Wildwood Plantation ever again. But now she'd come home-and it seemed like only yesterday that small-town ways had sent her running from love. For the very idea of a farme...

  • Thunderwoman

    Nancy Wood

    Waiting on the rebirth of his dear wife Thunderwoman, Kobili is thrilled to learn that she has been born to the chief of the Pueblo, but he must patiently wait as she grows to discover whether or not she will help him on their final mission....

  • The Pretenders

    Joan Wolf

    Gentle Reader, At the time it seemed like a good idea. Reeve and I had been friends since childhood, so when he needed to persuade his trustee to turn over his inheritance, we decided to pretend to get engaged. Reeve was the Earl of Cambridge, af...

  • Under the Black Hills

    G. Clifton Wisler

    A legacy from his long-lost, disgraced father leads Tory Bratton on a dangerous quest in search of a fortune in gold and a chance to reconcile himself to the painful secrets of the past. By the author of Massacre at Powder River. Original....

  • How Will the Easter Bunny Know?

    Kay Winters

    Mike is excited to visit his grandmother for Easter, until his friend Tony tells him that the Easter Bunny only visits houses where kids live, so Mike comes up with a plan to let the Bunny know where to find him. Simultaneous....

  • Dedicated to Deirdre

    Anne Marie Winston

    GETTING REACQUAINTED... Ronan Sullivan needed a place to stay, and old acquaintance Deirdre Patten had a room to rent. But close proximity could ignite passion they had once denied, and for this single mom, opening her home--and heart--could prove...

  • Embryo

    Charles Wilson

    In Mexico...the charred remains of a medical clinic hold a clue to an experiment that can change the world. In Los Angeles...a famous model, desperate to have a baby of her own, sends a detective to track down a legend...and a doctor is missing for t...

  • A Reluctant Wife

    Cathy Williams

    Husband not required! Sophie had been a trophy wife -- once -- and was never going to make that mistake again! She had her beautiful daughter, Jade, and she was a happy, fulfilled single mother. She simply didn't need a man! And she wasn...

  • The Marriage Takeover

    Lee Wilkinson

    The groom's revenge Cassandra was determined to impress Lang Dalton, her fiance's high-powered boss -- and his glamorous party seemed the perfect opportunity. Only it turned out to be a setup -- Lang wanted Cassandra for himself! Cassan...

  • Defense for the Devil

    Kate Wilhelm

    In her three previous novel appearances, attorney Barbara Holloway has taken on the sort of cases no one else wants -- hopeless messes, all of them -- and with the help of her father, Frank, she has pulled through each time. But even from the star...

  • Little House in the Highlands

    Melissa Wiley

    Meet Martha... . . . the little girl who would grow up to be Laura Ingalls Wilder's great-grandmother. It's 1788, and six-year-old Martha lives in a little stone house in Glencaraid, Scotland. Martha's father is Laird Glencaraid, and the life of a l...

  • The Princess

    Lori Wick

    She's so special already, Lord, Dania Parker prayed. Now she has You; and I can't help but wonder if You might have something very remarkable and unfamiliar for our Shelby. IN THE LAND OF PENDARAN, LIVELY, AFFECTIONATE Shelby Parker was born to a...

  • A Is For Adams

    Carolyn Wheat
    in

  • Cheyenne Justice

    Charles G. West

    A scout must rescue a woman from hostile territory in this classic western from Charles G. West...When the daughter of a prominent Chicago newspaperman runs off to experience the wild frontier for herself, the U.S. Cavalry calls on Jason Coles to tra...

  • Black on Black

    K.D. Wentworth

    Frankly, He Preferred Humans Rescued from a slave market by a human trader and raised as his son, one question has haunted Heyoka Blackeagle through the years: who -- and what -- is he? He feels human, indeed he feels like a somewhat alienated me...

  • Castro's Curveball

    Tim Wendel

    Recently widowed and now retired, Billy Bryan is "coming to the end of many things." Then a long-forgotten scrapbook stirs memories of a distant past--and beckons him and his grown daughter on a reluctant journey to relive his role in history. In 194...

  • Boardroom Proposal

    Margaret Way

    THE BOSS's SECRET... Prospective employee Eve Copeland looked too buttoned up and prim for the tough world of Australian big business. But somehow, despite her obvious disapproval of him, the vulnerability that Drew Forsythe had glimpsed bene...

  • No Go the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock

    Marina Warner

    An exciting new work, richly illustrated, on the age-old images and stories about frightening men.

    In this provocative new work, Marina Warner goes beyond the terrain she covered in her widely praised From the Beast to the Blonde. She explores...

  • Eye of the Great Bear

    Bill Wallace

    Dubbed a "coward" by the bullies in his school, Bailey will prove his courage when his family moves from Texas to Montana and he faces down a grizzly bear in order to save his own sister, in a turn-of-the-century adventure. Original....

  • The Divided

    Katie Waitman

    Katie Waitman's award-winning first novel, The Merro Tree, heralded the arrival of an exciting new science fiction talent. Now the exceptional promise of that acclaimed debut is more than met in a powerfully original story of love, loss, and transfor...

  • A Deepness in the Sky

    Vernor Vinge

    After thousands of years of searching, humans stand on the verge of first contact with an alien race. Two human groups: the Qeng Ho, a culture of free traders, and the Emergents, a ruthless society based on the technological enslavement of minds. ...

  • The Sisters

    Cynthia Victor

    Cynthia Victor, bestselling author of The Secret and What Matters Most, unravels the hidden passions that drive a picture-perfect family toward the brink of destruction--in a sexy and suspenseful novel of the ties that bind... Elizabeth and Joey R...

  • Untamed Love

    Judy Veisel

    Falling in love at first sight with Caro Fenton, born a white woman but adopted by the Shawnee, Taggart Asherton, Earl of Elmgrove, finds himself unwillingly married to the wild blonde woman, whom he struggles to teach proper English behavior. Origin...

  • Second Contact

    Harry Turtledove

    Now he expands his magnificent epic into the volatile 1960s, when the space race is in its infancy and humanity must face its greatest challenge: alien colonization of planet Earth. Yet even in the shadow of this inexorable foe, the United States,...

  • Playboy Book of Science Fiction

    Alice K. Turner

  • Other People's Children

    Joanna Trollope

    For eight-year-old Rufus, life has become complicated. His parents, Josie and Tom, have divorced and are setting off on separate paths. But now, other people have had to become involved, like his mother's new husband Matthew and his father's new frie...

  • Never Question the Miracle

    Rose-Mari Toussaint

  • Once Upon a Mattress

    Vicki Lewis Thompson
    in

    Amelia Townsend's Bedroom Fantasies store is a tremendous hit, but being the boss has definite drawbacks. Though she feels a bit awkward indicating any personal interest in her deliveryman, Will Murdoch, the guy makes her salivate every time he muscl...

  • It Means Mischief

    Kate Thompson

    Young Dublin actress Deidre O'Dare has just landed her first big role and desperately wants to shine - and to impress David, the director she has fallen madly in love with. But while Deidre loves David, David loves the leading lady, Eva. Meanwhile, S...

  • Winds of the Cumberland // Cumberland Crossing

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    It's 1862 and the Civil War has swept over the Cumberland Mountains into the heart of Tennessee. Jesse Dodson and his wife, Alcie, want only to farm the land and raise their children in peace. But instead the cataclysmic forces of war have torn their...

  • Baby, Our Baby!

    Patricia Thayer

    HIS BABY'S MOTHER Jake Hawkins had returned to town to face his past -- and had come face-to-face with a nine-month-old daughter he'd never known about. Now he wanted the best for Daddy's little darling. And that meant his baby girl needed a full-...

  • Wedding? Impossible!

    Karen Templeton

    HER MISSION, SHOULD SHE ACCEPT IT... Was to get her well-meaning matchmaking mother and meddlesome sisters off her back. So exasperated wedding planner Zoe decided to say yes, just this once, to the blind date everybody else was so nuts about. Becaus...

  • The Mitt Man

    Mel Taylor

    When small-time hustler and preacher King Fish gets caught while trying to steal a rich white man's wallet, he is convicted and sent to jail, where he encounters Jimmie Lamar, and together they devise a clever heist of epic proportions...

  • Lakota Dawn

    Janelle Taylor

    Cloud Chaser was merely a boy of ten when a cruel twist of fate took him away from his family and changed his life forever. Now, after twelve years, he has returned home. Struggling to gain the trust and acceptance of his tribe, Cloud Chaser is ready...

  • Great Wing: A Parable about the Master Mind Principle

    Lou Tartaglia

    The story of a young goose's transformation from fledgling to Grand Goose during the migration of his flock demonstrates how such attributes as honesty, courage, trust, perseverance, and service connect our own potential into the power of the common ...

  • Cyndy Szekeres' I Can Count 100 Bunnies And So Can You!

    Cyndy Szekeres

  • Hope and Glory

    Katherine Sutcliffe

    Can a man who wins a war also conquer a woman's heart? Village and nation alike tremble under the wrath of Roland de Gallienne, also called the Black Flame, loyal mercenary soldier to Henry II of England. Now, weary of war, he seeks peace for his ...

  • Dangerous Lover

    Anne Stuart
    in

    Emma O'Bannion has been entertaining herself with romantic daydreams about the mysterious, gorgeous Frenchman who's moved into her New York apartment building. On a whim, she decides to act on her instincts for once, and ends up in water so hot that ...

  • Token of Remorse

    Michael Stone

    A DOUBLE DOSE OF NOIR IN STREETER'S BADDEST OUTING YET In this third walk on the wild side with Denver's finest -- and sexiest -- private eye, ex-linebacker and bounty hunter Streeter tangles with the nasty, sultry, and the dim-witted as only ...

  • Totally Dead

    Michael Stone

    STREETER, DENVER'S FAVORITE EX-LINEBACKER AND P.I., BATTLES A WHOLE NEW SET OF LOWLIFES IN NIS LATEST ADVENTURE In the gritty underworld of unsavory thugs, Streeter finally has an innocent client in Nicky "Space" Lucci. Getting the kid off ingrati...

  • Thief of Hearts

    Katherine Stone

    World-renowned thriller writer Jesse Falconer lives on a clifftop estate in remote Hawaii. But temptation -- and torment -- will arrive on his doorstep: the chance to save his twin's life...and the allure of the woman who comes to plead that dying br...

  • Tides of the Heart

    Jean Stone

    I am your baby---the one you gave up. Isn't it time we met? The unsigned letter, postmarked Martha's Vineyard, arrives like a thunderbolt out of the blue, instantly sweeping Jessica Bates back thirty years. It was 1968 when young Jess went to Larc...

  • It Came From the Internet

    R.L. Stine

    In a story that offers twenty different endings, the reader contracts a computer virus and can receive help from such characters as a bizarre teenage computer hacker or a doctor who prescribes computer chips and dip. Original....

  • Jekyll and Heidi

    R.L. Stine

    The locals call Heidi's uncle--the eccentric Dr. Jekyll--a mad scientist and Heidi thinks they are all crazy until she catches her uncle drinking a strange concoction and hears terrifying animal sounds in the middle of the night. Original....

  • Prom Date

    R.L. Stine

  • Spring Break

    R.L. Stine

  • Wicked

    R.L. Stine

    Marla Newman is worried that her dream of becoming valedictorian of her senior class is slipping away, until she meets two juniors who offer her the power to get anything she wants, but she soon discovers that this power comes with a horrific price. ...

  • Patchwork Hearts

    Cynthia Sterling

    From the first time she laid eyes on handsome Yankee Trace Abernathy, Lucy O'Connor felt an undeniable thrill between them. Her friends noticed, too, and urged Lucy to finish the traditional bridal quilt that would ensure a loving marriage. But Lucy ...

  • Messiah

    Boris Starling

    A stunning, shocking, wonderfully well written debut reminiscent of James Patterson and one that will catapault Boris Starling to the front rank of thriller writers.London is in the grip of a heatwave: airless days, strange steamy nights and a ki...

  • The Space Race

    Judith Bauer Stamper

  • Turtle and Snake at Work

    Kate Spohn

  • Cause for Alarm

    Erica Spindler

    Kate and Richard Ryan have the perfect marriage - marred only by their inability to have a child. The adoption agency's call fulfills that dream...and opens the door to a nightmare.... Julianna Starr has chosen Kate and Richard to be more than the...

  • A Vow, a Ring, a Baby Swing

    Teresa Southwick

    Rosie Marchetti is planning on getting married without her family, but is surprised to see long time family friend Steve Schafer show up. Rosie has always loved Steve. She is even more surprised when he tells her that her future groom will not be com...

  • The Night Before Baby

    Karen Rose Smith

    MEMO TO: The Single women in the Office FROM: Olivia McGovern, Expectant Mom-to-Be RE: Guess What Happened at the Company Christmas Party? Yes, I am pregnant! Thanks to a passionate encounter during the company Christmas party, I'm expecting...

  • My Favorite Martian Junior

    Dona Smith

  • The Green Saliva Blues

    Dean Wesley Smith

    In a universe full of scum, their job has just begun. They are all that stands between us and the terrifying truth. They are the men--and women--of a supersecret organization formed to police, monitor, and conceal alien life on Earth. But first and ...

  • Secrets of the Ancient Goddess

    Brenda Gates Smith

    Two prehistoric women, one a priestess taken captive by a gang of horsemen, the other a young mother banished from her tribe as a jinx, fight to regain their rightful place within the cult of the Great Goddess. Original....

  • The Seductive Sheik

    Tracy Sinclair

    PRINCELY. PASSIONATE. PERSUASIVE. Sheik Jefri of Jalameer believed he could seduce any woman into sharing his bed -- until he met the unattainable Holly Barnett. This innocent was not used to his worldly ways and left Jefri little choice but to whis...

  • Lady's Man

    Suzanne Simmons

    IN THE WRONG PLACE A blue-blood with a impeccable pedigree, Georgiana Burne-Jones earns her living as one of the small, elite group of butlers for the opulent Phoenician resort in Phoenix... a hideaway for the very rich... and ruthless. She is discr...

  • Daisy and the Egg

    Jane Simmons

  • The Baddest Bride in Texas // Lone Star Lonely

    Maggie Shayne

    THE BLACKMAILED BRIDE Two years ago, Kirsten Cowan had married the richest, meanest man in Texas -- for reasons she had to hide from Adam Brand, the man she'd left standing at another altar.... Even now, Kirsten had to keep her secret, though s...

  • A Distant Shore

    Kathern Shaw

    An innocent charade... When scheming Emily Worth found herself with two suitors on the same day, her gentle twin, Elizabeth, foolishly agreed to impersonate her. Convinced that an afternoon with breathtaking Randall Thorpe was harmless, Elizabeth p...

  • Step into Chaos

    William Shatner

    After defeating the dreaded Hunzza fleet, Jim Endicott wants a "normal" life. But his wish is not to be, for a new and even more terrible conflict is stirring. Earth's former ally, the Alba Packlord, suspects that humans are about to "Leap"--transcen...

  • Chimney Rock Burial

    Jon Sharpe

    BURIED DREAMS...OR BURIED TREASURE? Fargo doesn't care if her story is true or not. Grace Viola's paying him to find the grave of her son, and that's what he aims to do. On the other hand, the Lacy brothers reckon that Grace will lead them to some h...

  • The Cracked Earth

    John Shannon

    Her name is Lori Bright. You might remember seeing her in A Week in Palm Springs, lounging enticingly in the bathtub while an aging and flustered Cary Grant tries to find her a suitably revealing towel. Jack Liffey remembers, and even now he can't he...

  • You Run

    Sarah Shankman
    in

  • Caucasia

    Danzy Senna

    From the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career“Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take … Haunting.” -- The New York Times Bo...

  • Dangerous Lady

    Amanda Scott

    DANGEROUS LADY Accompanied by her chaperone, dresser, and pet monkey, Lady Letitia Deverill had arrived in London to take up her new duties as maid of honor to Queen Victoria. Loyalty to her Majesty came above all. So when Letitia unexpectedly inh...

  • The Magic School Bus Answers Questions: A Book of Questions and Answers

    Anne Schreiber

  • Barney What A World We Share

    Scholastic Inc.

    Barney is about to embark on a journey around the world and you can share in the fun! Stella the Storyteller has lost her suitcase and Barney and his friends must travel to Frace, Mexico and Canada to return it to her....

  • Predator: Big Game

    Sandy Schofield

    The Slayer and the Slain--

    A modern Navajo warrior follows the trail of his people's most savage legend come to life.

    Deep in the rugged New Mexico desert, a strange aircraft has landed. In response, the commander of a nearby army base ...

  • The Family Haggadah

    Ellen Schecter

    A book interweaves original writing with traditional Haggadah, prayer book, music, and biblical texts, as well as with midrash (rabbinic stories and commentaries) in order to enhance the understanding of the rituals of the Passover Seder....

  • There Really Is an Easter Bunny

    Richard Scarry

  • A Man for Megan

    Darlene Scalera

    There was nothing he wouldn't give her... For Megan Kelly, the small town of Shady Hook offered the comfort of kind neighbors, and the safety of long-time friends - it was enough. Then there was Gino, who with the commanding air of an Arabian ari...

  • Blue's Big Treasure Hunt with Poster

    Angela C. Santomero

    When Steve finds a treasure chest, a mysterious voice from within tells him to go on a treasure hunt, and he invites a group of his friends to set out to find whatever it is that lies at the end of the search. Original....

  • The Key

    Lynsay Sands

    Iliana Wildwood would do anything to escape from the depraved baron who sought her lands -- including marrying a barbarian. Fleeing to the Highlands, Iliana was wedded to Duncan, laird of Dunbar Castle. Certainly, there was something about the virile...

  • Reunion

    Sharon Sala

    The facts are public knowledge: five people have recently been murdered. Each has died from a blow to the head. And the killer--the press has named him Prince Charming -- has left a "calling card" with each victim. A rose. But there's another fact...

  • Children of God

    Mary Doria Russell

    In Children of God, Mary Doria Russell further establishes herself as one of the most innovative, entertaining and philosophically provocative novelists writing today.The only member of the original mission to the planet Rakhat to return to Eart...

  • Jackie-O

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch; Kristine Grayson
    in

  • Dragon Ultimate

    Christopher Rowley

    He is Called Many Names -- Deceiver, Dominator, Burner of Men, Lord of Evil... Plague after plague has decimated the Empire of the Rose. Sensing its vulnerability, a terrible army amasses for a final onslaught against its age-old enemy--a battle...

  • Beaver

    Glen Rounds

    With his stark, bold drawings and concise, accessible text, Glen Rounds introduces these endearing animals. As he follows one through an active day of searching for food, gnawing at trees, building dams, and even squeezing in a little swim, it's easy...

  • Boardroom Bridegroom

    Renee Roszel

    Debbie Macomber's classic story about the romance between the housemother to a trio of male college students and the stepbrother of one of her charges is accompanied by Renee Roszel's original novel about ambitious Joshua Raven, whose purchase of Max...

  • MacKenzie's Woman

    JoAnn Ross

    BACHELOR AUCTION And you're invited . . Fifty fabulous heroes are up for sale -- Including Bachelor #23 Alec Mackenzie Rugged and sexy, this adventurer isn't about to be easily captured and sold. But he hadn't counted on Kate Campbell'...

  • Vengeance!

    Dana Fuller Ross

    They are bold men and women who chase their dream from the cities of the East to the wild vastness of the West. Daring and determined, they seek their fortune in a rough-and-tumble new land, forging their destiny along with that of the great American...

  • Not Exactly the Three Musketeers

    Joel Rosenberg

    Introducing the heroes of Castle Cullinane: Kethol--The pretty fellow, a long and lanky redhead with an easy smile and an easygoing attitude that his clever eyes deny. He is quick with a quip...and quicker with a sword. Durine--The big man, a h...

  • Metal Heart: The Frontiline Of Digital Art

    Anders F. Ronnblom

  • Golden Man

    Evelyn Rogers

    Steven Marshall is the kind of guy that makes a woman think of satin sheets and steamy nights, of wild sex involving handcuffs and whipped cream-and then brass bands, waving flags, and Fourth of July parades. All-American terrific, that's what he is;...

  • Rage Factor

    Chris Rogers

    Bounty hunter Dixie Flannigan is well acquainted with the difference between law and justice. But not even she can believe a sleaze like Lawrence Riley Coombs, on trial for a sadistic rape, will walk--especially after jumping bail and attacking her w...

  • Suspicion

    Barbara Rogan

    Emma Roth, successful novelist, never imagined living anywhere but New York City, until she finds the perfect house. It's a beautiful coastline mansion on Long Island, with a glassed-in tower library any writer would kill for. But no sooner does Emma...

  • Cure for a Charlatan

    Caroline Roe

    In medieval Spain, the blind Jewish physician Isaac of Girona is revered for his skill as a healer. But it's Isaac's uncanny sense for what is fair and what is foul that proves to be the remedy in times of trouble... Girona, Spain, 1353. Isaac is ...

  • Strudel Stories

    Joanne Rocklin

    A lively and evocative novel full of sweet, sad, and funny moments in the history of a Jewish family.

    Imagine a cozy kitchen in another time and place. A family is baking apple strudel together, and while they work, they tell each other storie...

  • Here and Now

    Kimberla Lawson Roby

    In the tradition of Waiting to Exhale and Big Girls Don’t Cry, HERE AND NOW is a captivating, emotionally powerful story of two sisters at the crossroads of life, from the acclaimed, bestselling author of BEHIND CLOSED DOORS, named Blackboar...

  • Blood Run

    Leah Ruth Robinson

    Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe works and thrives in an urban warzone--battling death everyday in the Emergency Room of Manhattan's University Hospital. But even her superior skill cannot save Shelley Reinish--a fellow doctor, a close friend and apparent suicid...

  • River's End

    Nora Roberts

    Olivia's parents were among Hollywood's golden couples...until the night a monster came and took her mother away forever. A monster with the face of her father... Sheltered from the truth, an older Olivia only dimly recalls her night of terror--bu...

  • The Flower Boy

    Karen Roberts

    An accomplished debut, The Flower Boy is the tragically romantic story of people from two cultures, one ruling the other, and the human passions that defy and nearly overcome social taboos.In the colonial society of 1930s Ceylon, the separation betwe...

  • The Gambler's Girl

    J.R. Roberts

    WANTED WOMAN Howard Haskell's beautiful daughter, Beatrice, has disappeared, and his old friend Clint Adams is on the case. But when the Gunsmith finally locates the headstrong heiress in San Francisco, he's not so sure he wants to separate her fr...

  • Goodbye, Dolley

    Gillian Roberts
    in

    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...

  • To Be a Somebody

    Gareth Roberts

    The latest investigation for police psychologist Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, from the popular Cracker television series, concerns an apparent racial murder by a skinhead, a case that develops some disturbing complications....

  • Home Is Where the Cowboy Is

    Doreen Roberts

    Daddy was a cowboy... Denver Briggs was the last of the untamed cowboys. Years ago April Briggs had been powerless to resist his tender seduction. But now that she was a woman - and the mother of his child - she knew it was madness to give herself to...

  • For Better, for Bachelor

    Nikki Rivers

    Sexy Stranger Found In Local Girl's Bed! And it wasn't just any stranger Rachel Gale woke up to, but 'the helicopter hunk,' worldly TV reporter Marcus Slade. He'd mistaken her room for his at her inn - and discovered her secret: the spinsterish R...

  • Taming the Night

    Paula Detmer Riggs

    Dr. Summer Laurence knows the horror of addiction from the wrong side. But after life-changing therapy, she becomes a drug counselor, hoping to help young kids before they get into trouble. When Summer's dear friend Dottie offers her an old house to ...

  • Birds of a Feather

    Mary Lou Rich

    STICK TOGETHER Take one winsome widow, a cute kindergartener, a zany senior citizen, and an exotic, six-foot-tall bird. What do you get? A peck of trouble -- as far as Grant Ferguson is concerned. It's bad enough that his eccentric mother, Ivy,...

  • Face the Music

    Elizabeth M. Rees

  • Captain Kate

    Carolyn Reeder

  • Faithless Angel

    Kimberly Raye

    Disillusioned by the death of her young ward, Faith Jansen retreated from the world and vowed never to love again. Then a handsome stranger with a dark secret showed up on her doorstep. She found herself reaching out, drawn by his brooding intensity ...

  • The Awakening

    Francis Ray
    in

    ROSIE'S CURL AND WEAVE: Four Novellas

    STEP INSIDE FOR A DAY OF BEAUTY, LAUGHTER...AND LOVE.

    Whether you want a cut, weave or braid; a facial, manicure, or massage; there's always a helping hand-and a sympathetic ear-at Rosie's Curl and ...

  • Perfect Ten

    Bonnie Purcell

    A SPORTING CHANCE Young athlete scores big win for high school football team! For lovely Bo Bohannon, single-and-loving-it sports announcer at a small Alabama TV station, the local news event is a golden opportunity. The boy's father, Major Mitc...

  • Sleuths

    Bill Pronzini

    For over thirty years, Bill Pronzini has created fictional sleuths. The most famous dubbed the Nameless Detective appeared in twenty-five novels. But there are many others like Fergus O'Hara who, with his wife Hattie, plies his trade at the time of C...

  • Ecstasy

    Fayrene Preston
    in

    Brenna's fudge recipe was a huge hit at her cafe, and tycoon Hayden Garrett wanted it - and Brenna. But how far would he go to make them both his own?...

  • Comes the Dark

    Michael Prescott

    An art dealer must make a final reckoning with the savage crime that shattered her childhood, when her mentally unstable, isolated brother is suspected of murdering a local girl and she sets off on a frantic journey to find him and uncover the truth....

  • Battlestar Galactica

    Byron Preiss

  • Letters to Lorenzo

    Amanda Prantera

    Juliet, the English wife of a Roman industrialist, Lorenzo Gherardi, is woken in the middle of the night by a telephone call to learn that her husband has just died in a bomb explosion to the north of the city while at the wheel of his car. Due to...

  • The Wedding Betrayal

    Elizabeth Power

    Secrets and lies When Lydia accepts a job in Bermuda as a nanny, she is stunned to discover her young blind charge's father is none other than Blaine Caldwell. She and Blaine had shared a strong, sensuous bond thirteen years earlier, before th...

  • The American Girls Short Stories

    Connie Rose Porter

  • You're the Top

    Cole Porter

    A Valentine keepsake, this greeting-card sized package brings to life the loving and tender words of one of Porter's most popular and poignant songs, with lyrics complemented by beautiful black and white photographs. 75,000 first printing....

  • Untamed Time

    Susan Plunkett

    The Bolivian Jungle, 1998. Hardened by violence, Rafe Stricter was a career soldier dedicated solely to his missions and his men. When one of his comrades was seriously wounded during a covert mission, Rafe prayed for a miracle--and was sent by an ex...

  • Outlaw

    Lisa Plumley

    HE STEPPED OUT OF THE PAGES OF A NOVEL... Mason Kincaid didn't have time to rescue the fancy fluff female stranded in the middle of Arizona territory. He was hell-bent on a mission to reclaim his young son and his good name from the men who stole bo...

  • Captain Underpants and the Attack of the Talking Toilets

    Dav Pilkey

    George and Harold are usually responsible kids ... whenever anything bad happens. George and Harold are usually responsible! And it looks like they're up to their old tricks again! First, they ruined the school's science fair with a series of sill...

  • The Witch's Gift

    Christopher Pike

    The Witch invites the Spooksville gang to her castle as part of her farewell to the town, offering to grant each of them a wish, but they soon discover that the Witch's gift may have unexpected and dangerous repercussions. Original....

  • Apache Valentine

    Stobie Piel
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    Standing up for his people puts an Apache Indian brave on the wrong side of the law, but sends an arrow straight into the heart of a fort commander's lovely daughter....

  • The First Ladies' Secret

    Nancy Pickard
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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...

  • Hexes

    Tom Piccirilli

    Returning to his family hometown when his best friend is placed in a hospital for the criminally insane--after committing unspeakable crimes--Matthew Galen, the only person who knows the true source of his friend's problem, faces a sinister evil forc...

  • Lady Be Good

    Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    Lady Emma Wells-Finch, oh-so-proper headmistress of England's St. Gertrude's School for Girls, is a woman on a mission--she has two weeks to lose her reputation. Arriving in Texas with skirts flying, umbrella pointing, and beautiful mouth issuing ord...

  • Net Force

    Steve Perry

    In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who controlthem, control the world. To enforce the New Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: Net Force. When the director of Net Force is assassina...

  • Virtual Vandals

    Steve Perry

    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 sometimes know more about computers than their adult superiors. They are th...

  • Madame President

    Anne Perry
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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...

  • The Perfect Fantasy

    Kayla Perrin
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  • Dungeons of Despair

    Christopher Perkins

    he quest for honor and the search for treasure sometimes leads to death and despair. Herein are featured six adventures originally presented in Dungeon Adventures magazine: Caermor by Nigel D. Findley: True evil walks among the villagers of Caermor. ...

  • Planet of Darkness

    Christopher Perkins

  • Doomsday Conspiracy

    Don Pendleton

    HARD FORCE A major international conspiracy between U.S. military traitors, former KGB agents and international organized crime has begun a campaign of selective human annihilation. The most advanced weapons of mass destruction are poised to unleash...

  • Initiation

    Don Pendleton

    INTO THE FIRE Millennial Truth, also known as the Path, is a cult with an apocalyptic vision for the year 2000. Predicting a violent end to the millennium. they're using terror to light the fuse. One defector knows the lethal power of the cult ...

  • Beware the Metal Children

    John Peel

    Welcome to the seventh grade...again. And again.Fitting in at a new school is tough for any kid. But what if you were a robot? Roger is one of the new children—sophisticated androids created to act and talk and think just like normal kids. Only ...

  • When Nighttime Comes Near

    Judy Pedersen

  • The Book of the Sword

    Diana L. Paxson

    The Arthurian saga is one of the most enduring legends of Western civilization--a stirring tale of destiny, duty, faith, and majesty that has been told and retold by some of the greatest storytellers of all time. In her sweeping and magnificent multi...

  • The Secret president

    Barbara Paul
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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...

  • Wither

    J.G. Passarella

    The college town of Windale, Massachusetts is proud of its colonial heritage -- including the legend of a dark witches' coven dating back three hundred years. No one in Windale actually believes in witches, or imagines that the blood-chilling history...

  • Can't Stay Away

    Francine Pascal

    The twins are seniors! New faces, old friends, and Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, right in the middle of things. Elizabeth Wakefield jumps into senior year, ready to devote herself to the newspaper, homework and her writing. Trouble is, she can...

  • Deadly Terror: The Return of William White, Part II

    Francine Pascal

    Immortally yours... Elizabeth Wakefield thought she was seeing things when William White came back into her life. But William actually survived the accident she believe had killed him--and he's changed. His handsome face is heartbreakingly scarred...

  • Don't Let Go

    Francine Pascal

    Can Jessica find a way to go on without Nick? The shocking murder of Nick Fox has left Jessica Wakefield shattered. After enduring the burial of her lost love, she must face the pain of going on without him. No one really knows how badly Jessica...

  • One 2 Many

    Francine Pascal

    What's up with Jessica? Elizabeth doesn't get it. Lately Jessica wants to hang out with her all the time, 24/7. She doesn't mind--Jessica is her twin and her best friend. But when Jessica asks if Liz wants to wear the same outfits to school, it...

  • Countdown: March

    Daniel Parker

    In the third book of the Countdown series, a group of teenagers assume they are the only ones left alive after a brutal plague strikes, but as something evil lurks in the shadows, they soon discover they’re not alone. It’s 1999 and the ov...

  • Survivor

    Chuck Palahniuk

    Tender Branson -- last surviving member of the so-called Creedish Death Cult -- is dictating his life story into the flight recorder of Flight 2039, cruising on autopilot at 39,000 feet somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. He is all alone in the airplan...

  • Divorce Can Be Murder

    Victoria Pade

    TILL DEATH DO US PART... With her newly permed hair and eyes only for her ex, Linda Kraner is a walking advertisement for the heartbreak of divorce. Jimi Plain knows. She has been where her friend is now: lost in the madness and denial of a freshl...

  • Lady in Gray

    Patricia Oliver

    The Art of Love Lady Sylvia Sutherland was a young woman of many talents--and painting was her passion. Many were the days she would carry her easel and paintbox to the Cornish cliffs, trying to capture the windblown beauties of nature on her can...

  • The Stones Cry Out

    Hikaru Okuizumi

    The Stones Cry Out is the story of an amateur geologist and bookseller who is collapsing under the burden of his own history. Tsuyoshi Manase learned his first geology lesson from a dying soldier in a cave at the end of World War II. The soldier, a c...

  • Spunky's Circus Adventure

    Janette Oke

    Spunky's young master is on the verge of making his dream of working in the circus come true, until a nasty prank makes him hated by everyone, and Mark and Spunky have to prove that he was not involved in the prank in order to set things right once m...

  • Out of the Woods

    Chris Offutt

    From the critically acclaimed author of the novel The Good Brother and memoir My Father the Pornographer, Out of the Woods is Chris Offutt’s fiercely original short story collection the New York Times calls “a magical book”.Arriving seven years...

  • Run Hard, Die Fast

    Mel Odom

    To save his former partner and present lover, Andi Sencio, from an intelligence operation gone sour--thanks to a reckless megacorporation--Argent the shadowrunner dons his steel armor and samurai weapons to forestall her doom. Original....

  • Forever Sisters

    Claudia O'Keefe

  • Enter the Valley

    Christopher O'Brien

    Renowned UFOlogist Christopher O'Brien blew the lid off the San Luis Valley--now he takes you even deeper into the world's most mysterious locale.The picturesque patch of land that stretches from Southern Colorado into Northern New Mexico, known as t...

  • To the Rescue

    Caragh O'Brien

    TO THE RESCUE by CARAGH O'BRIEN Everyone is busy preparing for the festival of Sukkot -- everyone, that is, except Mr. Levy. Then, a mysterious wind and some friendly neighbors change everything. Mass Market Paperback: 171 pages Publisher: ...

  • Just Josie

    Jennifer Niles

    THEY'RE PLAYING OUR SONG Successful software designer Josie Grady can think of a hundred reasons not to attend her high school reunion in Oregon. But if her childhood pal and business partner Stephen Danner can convince her to accompany him to th...

  • The Puppet King

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Treason within, war from without. Torn asunder by the nightmares of a mad king, the elven realm of Silvanesti has nearly been restored to its former grandeur. But the elf Porthios, returning to his homeland, launches a rebellion against young Gilt...

  • A Lady Follows

    Holly Newman

    Carolina Harper is bound to traverse the Santa Fe trail in the spring of 1846. War with Mexico is imminent, and Santa Fe, the Jewel of New Mexico, lies at the heart of the contested territory. Still numb from the deaths of her son and her husband, Ca...

  • A Rose at Midnight

    Jacqueline Navin

    Dire Need Had Driven Caroline Wembly Into the Arms of the Infamous Earl of Rutherford But though she was his lawfully wedded wife, Caroline was certain the desires Magnus aroused couldn't possibly be legal. This marriage of convenience was fast be...

  • Hot Poppies

    Reggie Nadelson

  • Fredy Neptune

    Les Murray

    A riveting, beautiful novel in verse by Australia's greatest contemporary poet, winner of the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize.I never learned the old top ropes,I was always in steam. Less capstan, less climbing,more re-stowing cargo. Which could be hard and s...

  • Failing Marks

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    GOLDEN MIRAGE The losers of World War II and their descendants have carved out their own little slice of heaven in the mountains of Argentina. this staging area to the Fourth Reich, the promise of the dream reborn dawned is bright as a new German...

  • Blackfeet Season

    Vella Munn

    Winter is coming, but the Blackfeet have not yet begun the journey to their southern hunting grounds, stalled while Chief Sleeps Too long and the shaman, Bunch of Lodges argue whether spirituality or a warrior's wisdom is the best was to guide the tr...

  • Home To Stay

    Vella Munn

    WHERE THE HEART IS For social worker and single mother Kristen Childers, it begins as a simple assignment: find a good home for a twelve-year-old boy. The problem is, young Brent wants one particular home -- with his uncle, an unmarried, full-bl...

  • Hawken's Wife

    Rae Muir

    Could A Man Who'd Lost His Past Offer A Woman A Future? Until he saw Meggie MacIntyre riding bareback before the wagons like some Amazon of the prairie, Hawken hadn't pondered the question. Now life on the trail eking out an existence as a mountai...

  • Great Drives in Lakes and Dales

    Stirling Moss

    This book features 15 one-day and half-day drives through the landscape of one of the most varied regions of England. The national parks of the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales form the core of the book, but less visited areas such as the Eden Valle...

  • The Sound of Trumpets

    John Clifford Mortimer

    The Sound of Trumpets is the third installment in The Rapstone Chronicles, and John Mortimer's social savvy dazzles once again. With the literary brilliance of Anthony Trollope and the savage wit of Christopher Buckley, Mortimer skewers political fri...

  • The White Hunter

    Gilbert Morris

    Peril and Adventure in the Land Once Called the White Man's Graveyard. John Winslow is a restless young man who drops out of college, tries many jobs, and finally goes to Africa to visit his missionary relative, Barney Winslow. Uninterested in relig...

  • Secret Dad

    Raye Morgan

    SECRET MARRIAGE? She called herself "Charlie Smith," and only Denver McCaine remembered her as Adrianna Charlyne Chandler. But Charlie was no longer the aloof-but-beautiful heiress a rugged mercenary like him could only dream about. Now she was a ...

  • Book About Ned Harrigan and Tony Hart

    Rick Moody

  • In the Bear's House

    N. Scott Momaday

    "Let me say at the outset that this book is not about Bear (he would be spoken of in the singular and masculine, capitalized and without an article), or it is only incidentally about him. I am less interested in defining the being of Bear than in try...

  • Bastion Falls

    Susie Moloney

    ON A. SEPTEMBER DAY IN A TOWN CALLED BASTION FALLS, IT STARTED TO SNOW AND SNOW Young, pretty, and divorced, Marilyn was nobody special in Bastion Falls, a town like any other: People had affairs, cheated on taxes, and kept their secrets. But on t...

  • Bone Music

    Lee Moler

  • Mama, If You Had a Wish

    Jeanne Modesitt

  • Forbidden Colors

    Yukio Mishima

    From one of Japan''s greatest modern writers comes an exquisitely disturbing novel of sexual combat and concealed passion, a work that distills beauty, longing, and loathing into an intoxicating tale.
     
    An aging, embittered novelist set...

  • Buried in Her Heart

    Elda Minger
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    A luxurious bed-and-breakfast hosting a chocolate convention wasn't the standard business lodging for Abby and Jack. But one tast of the convention's delights, and they were tantalized - with each other......

  • My Enemy, My Love

    Darlene Mindrup

    Amidst the splendid walls of Jerusalem, a fateful encounter between a young Jewish man and a young Samaritan woman sets the stage for a tempestuous courtship that will transcend strong barriers of racial prejudice. When Barak, a devoted follower of J...

  • Tight Rope

    Deanie Francis Mills

    In south-central Texas, an imprisoned electronic surveillance expert is granted an early release from prison--with a catch. The FBI has arranged for her early parole in exchange for her services as an informant. Her job is to infiltrate the organizat...

  • While I Was Gone

    Sue Miller

    Jo Becker has every reason to be content. She has three dynamic daughters, a loving marriage, and a rewarding career. But she feels a sense of unease. Then an old housemate reappears, sending Jo back to a distant past when she lived in a communal hou...

  • Springwater Seasons: Rachel

    Linda Lael Miller

    Montana Territory, Spring 1874
    Springwater Seasons takes place in the tiny stagecoach stop called Springwater, as it blossoms into a bustling Montana town. For a pretty schoolteacher who is new to Springwater, an unexpected love turns up i...

  • Springwater Seasons: Savannah

    Linda Lael Miller

    Montana Territory, Summer 1875
    Springwater Seasons takes place in the tiny stagecoach stop called Springwater, as it blossoms into a bustling Montana town. For a dance hall girl who's never had much luck with dreams, Springwater may hold t...

  • Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country

    Rosalind Miles

    LAST IN A LINE OF PROUD QUEENS ELECTED TO RULE THE FERTILE LANDS OF THE WEST, TRUE OWNER OF THE LEGENDARY ROUND TABLE, GUARDIAN OF THE GREAT GODDESS HERSELF ... A WOMAN WHOSE STORY HAS NEVER BEEN TOLD -- UNTIL NOW. Raised in the tranquil beauty of t...

  • Where to Choose

    Penny Mickelbury

    Carole Ann Gibson: She used to uphold the law. Now she fights for justice.

    Life isn't fair, but former D.C. Lawyer Carole Ann Gibson believes it should be just. A year ago, catching her husband's killer strained her faith in the legal system t...

  • The Boss and the Baby

    Leigh Michaels
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    His secret baby Molly desperately needed a job, and she'd prayed for a miracle. She hadn't expected it to take the form of Lucas Hudson! Four years ago, he'd dismissed her feelings for him as infatuation--how could Molly now work for t...

  • Her Husband-to-Be

    Leigh Michaels

    The husband inheritance Deke Oliver was definitely not Danielle's idea of husband material. So it was infuriating that he believed she was trying to manipulate him into marriage. It wasn't her fault their joint inheritance forced them to l...

  • Missing Girls

    Lois Metzger

    Carrie Schmidt is a missing girl.
     
    It’s the summer of 1967, and the newspapers are full of stories about “missing girls” -- teenagers who run away, looking for freedom and thrills in New York City. Carrie Schmidt feels like she’s mi...

  • The Watcher

    Melinda Metz

    Life will never be the same... Max is dying. No one wants to believe it, but he knows it's true. And as the end grows closer, he can only think of one thing: Who will protect Liz if he's not there? Liz can't stand watching Max suffer. She's d...

  • Warmth in His Heart

    Deborah J. Merrill

  • Pipsqueaks! Maze Party: A Book of Beginning Mazes

    Patrick Merrell

  • Pipsqueaks! Maze School: A Book of Beginning Mazes

    Patrick Merrell

  • The Killer

    Patricia Melo

    "Melo's prize-winning novel (Matador) is a thriller about a man who accidentally becomes a hired killer and a local hero. Once again Landers achieves an excellent result: colloquial, entirely readable, and authentic, with just the right tone for its ...

  • Valentine Murder

    Leslie Meier

    It's Valentine's Day in Tinker's Cove. And while the cupcakes Lucy Stone is baking for her children will have pink frosting and candy hearts, Lucy's thoughts aren't centered on sugary sentiments. She's barely arrived at her first board meeting of the...

  • The Seagull

    Dot Meharry

  • Untamed Heart

    Maureen McKade

    The Man with a Future Everytime Tyler Ashburn sees pert Gabby Wade sashaying down the streets of Sawtooth, Wyoming his righteous blood begins to boil. He's ready to clean up this booming town, and women like Gabby--who owns a gambling salon--make it...

  • Indiana Jones and the Secret of the Sphinx

    Max McCoy

    It is the most coveted of all ancient artifacts. In it is written the history -- and the fate -- of every human being. And he who owns it writes his own destiny. Now Indiana Jones follows a trail of danger, magic, and archaeological mystery through t...

  • My Friend Chicken

    Adam McCauley

    A young girl ponders where her friend Chicken might be. Did he fly off to the moon? Take a canoe down the Amazon? Without Chicken, things just aren’t the same. The teeter won't totter. The merry won’t go round. Chicken better ?come home soon! Ada...

  • Mountain Bride

    Candace McCarthy
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    A rugged west Virginia farmer is determined to dislike the "uppity" new school teacher... until hearts carved in a tree reveal his true feelings for her....

  • Sweet Possession

    Candace McCarthy

    A BALTIMORE BEAUTY As innocent as she is idealistic, Amelia Dempsy arrives in Michigan knowing nothing of life in this untamed land or of the Indian people she has come to help. It's no wonder she immediately clashes with Daniel Trahern, a rugged bl...