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New Books List: 512 titles




  • 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....



  • 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 ...



  • Joanne Harris

    Set in and around Cambridge, this novel is a reworking of the classic vampire myth. The twin strands of the story alternate between the 1940s and 1980s. In each a woman appears to wreak havoc in the life of the men who want her....




  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Caledonia Kearns

    From Angela's Ashes to Riverdance, Irish literature and art are capturing the American imagination as never before. Ireland's literary legacy has taken root in American soil, and this dazzling anthology captures the spirit of this Celtic renaissance....



  • Shari MacDonald

    Lucy Salinger has always been brilliant at making matches--for everyone else. But though she is owner and leading "matchmaker" at one of the most prestigious dating services in Los Angeles, Lucy finds herself withdrawing from every man who might be i...



  • Angela Elwell Hunt

    "It is said that as Cahira, daughter of the great Irish king Rory O'Connor, lay dying of a wound from a Norman blade, she lifted her hand toward heaven and beseeched God that other would follow after her, bright stars who would break forth from the c...



  • Homer Hickam

    It was 1957, the year Sputnik raced across the Appalachian sky, and the small town of Coalwood, West Virginia, was slowly dying. Faced with an uncertain future, Sonny Hickam (aka Homer Hickam, Jr.) nurtured a dream: to learn how to build a rock...



  • 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...



  • Mark A. Garland

    Every day, Loro enviously watches caravans of armored Brachiosaurs leave his town and cross the bridge into the dangerous jungles of the Rainy Basin. Someday, he promises himself, he will go there too. Then a deadly storm sweeps over Dinotopia, and t...




  • Lewis Hyde

    In Trickster Makes This World , Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old storiesHermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote i...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Monica Kulling

    Even Eleanor Roosevelt was a little girl once. This inspiring Step into Reading tells the true story of how a shy little girl was able to conquer her fears and lead a life full of adventure.

    From flying with Amelia Earhart and hosting her own...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...




  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Michael Hetzer

    The year is 1984. The place, the Soviet Union. A struggling country awaiting the cure of "perestroika." For too many Russians, this land has become the Forbidden Zone. In the waning days of the Cold War, Victor Perov, a brilliant Soviet scientist, ...



  • Joan Johnston

    She was the reigning belle of the ton for the fourth Season in a row, but Lady Regina Wharton, the Duke of Blackthorne's daughter, was determined to avoid the perils of marriage. She had already seen enough to distrust all men. Then Clay Bannister, t...



  • 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...



  • Karen Harper

    The letter came in secret, with a pearl eardrop from an aunt long thought dead, resurrecting the forbidden past. Banished by her spiteful half sister, Queen Mary, to Hatfield House in the English countryside, twenty-five-year-old Princess Elizabeth c...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Susan Feldmann

    Creation and death, the wily trickster, wolves,  magic, and passion -- these are part of a rich  heritage of Native American mythology and folktales.  From tribes that vanished long ago, as well as  from great tribes like the Ojibwa and Zuni ...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Stephanie Jeffs

    The Bible records the timeless story of God and his people, and celebrates the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, born 2000 years ago. THE 21ST CENTURY CHILDREN'S BIBLE now celebrates that story for a new generation....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • George R.R. Martin

    A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six factions struggle for control of a divided land and the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms,...



  • Anne McCaffrey

    On Vega III, Lady Nimisha Boynton-Rondymense loves the challenging world of her father, Lord Tionel, owner and principal starship designer of the famous Rondymense Ship Yards. Precociously gifted, Nimisha becomes his secret assistant--and, in the aft...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Jake Logan

    Slocum takes on an army to save a beautiful Comanche Princess.Seven settlers -- including two women -- have been scalped, and the U.S. Cavalry is ready to make the local Comanche pay. But Slocum knows better. Comanche don't scalp women. And he'll fin...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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....



  • Tabor Evans

    GUNFIRE IN GALENA CITY Mallory's gang is heisting silver shipments -- and killing anyone who gets in their way. When Longarm hears they've killed his latest lady friend, he heads out to Galena City, gunning for revenge. But the deputy marshal ge...



  • Hamlin Garland

    The Captain of the Gray Horse Troop is a western novel first published in 1902.

    Winter in the upper heights of the Bear Tooth Range is a glittering desolation of snow with a flaming blue sky above. Nothing moves, nothing utters a sound, sa...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Lori Foster
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    Night after night, bar owner Cole Winston was seduced by prim and proper Sophie Sheridan's way with hot chocolate...until her sexy and outrageous twin, Shelly, walked into the bar......



  • 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...



  • Bette Ford

    BEING FRIENDS WAS NOT ENOUGH... When legal secretary Anthia Jenkins went through tough times, her friend Dexter Washington, director of a Detroit community center, was there for her. She could never have handled her teenaged son's troubles without D...



  • Suzanne Forster
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    Abigail's handsome boss, Max, wanted her to find him a wife! Then a sip of a delectable low potion made Max fall for his lovely assistant. But was his love forever, or fleeting?...



  • Karen Harbaugh

    A Love Immortal Psyche Hathaway had been courted by many a gentleman--and accepted none of them, to her mother's unceasing dismay. Lady Hathaway treasured her daughter and trusted her judgment ... but just how choosy could a flaming redhead, neari...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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....



  • 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....



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Carol Finch

    Eden Pembrook vows always to put the Patriot cause before her own happiness and so she turns the only man in colonial Virginia that she could love away. Of course, Sebastian Saber favors liberty, but as a double agent for the Patriots he has to pose ...



  • Sabrina Jeffries

    Devastating Passion Jordan Willis, the Earl of Blackmore, has played with the heart of many a society belle--yet one stolen kiss impulsively planted on the soft, irresistible lips of the preacher's daughter proves his undoing. The prim and proper Em...



  • Tess Farraday

    Christopher "Kit" Gallatin was a soldier for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth -- until a betrayal in battle struck him down and pinned on his name the undeserved label of traitor. In despair, Kit's brother made a box out of Kit's sword hil...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    A DESPERATE NOBLEMAN Lord Lorenzo Wolfe craved solitude. All be wanted from the isolated estate be inherited was peace and quiet to inspire his poetry. What be got instead were insufferable house guests! Lady Valeria Fanning and her mischievous neph...



  • Shirley Harrison

    Davina Spenser is shocked when her dying father reveals that he is actually Maceo James, the brilliant painter who went into hiding decades ago after being accused of murder. Determined to clear her father's name and protect his legacy, she decides t...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    The Outcast Alone in the world, Miss Persys Timothy has lived under the protection of her wealthy aunt, serving as her cousin's companion and confidante. But once her cousin is married, Persys is no longer needed -- or wanted. Summarily put ou...



  • Jill Henry

    Recently widowed Hannah Sawyer finds that running a Montana ranch is not easy for a woman alone. Debts to pay and a devastating fire that burned her barn to the ground have left her with no choice but to marry a man she hardly knows. For rugged bo...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Sandy Hingston

    The Lover's Touch He is the prodigal son returned from the Caribbean after the sudden death of his brother. As the new Earl of Avenleigh, "Devil" Jack Cantrell has to save the debt-ridden estate and rescue his eccentric family before he ...



  • Kathryn Hockett

    A WOMAN RUNNING FROM HER PAST Brandy Jacobs had come to Colorado with an eight-woman troupe of singers and dancers to build a new life for herself. The future she had planned didn't include an intruder, even if he was the handsomest devil she&...



  • 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...



  • Carola Dunn
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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... The frozen Thames River is the perfect place for a great fair on t...



  • 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...



  • Alice Holden
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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... Since her father's death has left the village without a physician,...



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  • Cassie Edwards

    Shanndel Lynn had lived all her life in the white world. Secretly named Rain Singing by her Iroquois mother, she had nothing of her Indian heritage but that name. Then a group of Shawnee stopped in town to spend the winter, and when she glimpsed thei...



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  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Fayrene Preston
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    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?...



  • Miranda Jarrett

    Captain Samson Fairbourne is a confirmed bachelor, a deep-water sailor happily wedded to his work. When he pens a description of the perfect, obedient wife, and hefts the missive overboard in a bottle, all he has in mind is a cutting joke to tech his...



  • 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......



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Martha Kirkland

    A DARING MISS Weary of domestic confinement, Rosalind Hinton resolved to visit Lieutenant Ashford, newly released from a French prisoner-of--war camp. But instead of the soulful youth of her childhood dreams, she found him a bold charmer whose tanta...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • William W. Johnstone

    In a dystopian America, a madwoman has replaced the president, and now an ex-mercenary must set things right -- from a USA Today"Bestselling author.   While Ben Raines and his Rebel army have triumphed in Africa, America has been consumed in t...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Clayton Emery
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Lurking in the ruins is a horrific tale of greed, power, and revenge. The Protector crawls forth, the shade of a dead city whose rulers refuse to die, and young companions in two distant epochs learn of a dreadful destiny they cannot escape . . . ...



  • Ann Marston

    THE SEEKER Gareth is the youngest and the last of the unfortunate lords of Skai. Called home from a lonely exile, he finds his father fallen into shadow. And worse. For the Maedun conquest of Gareth's homeland is complete. The standing stones a...



  • Steven Gould

    After global devastation, the last remnants of Earth sent a handful of colonists of a distant terraformed world to give humanity one last, desperate chance. Unable to provide the technology required for an advanced civilization, the founders instille...



  • William R. Forstchen

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