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New Books List: 512 titles


  • Spencer Johns

    New Year's Eve, 1981.The year is coming to an end. But for one group of misfits, friends, and lovers, the party is just getting started. Celebrating New Year's Eve in New York City is always an adventure. This evening, however, is going to be strange...



  • 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....



  • Peter Hernon

    The New Madrid Seismic Zone is 140 miles, stretching across five states. In 1811 and 1812 enormous earthquakes erupted along this zone, effecting 24 states, creating lakes in Tennessee and causing the Mississippi River to run backward. In Peter Herno...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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 ...




  • Lucy Gordon

    She was about to say 'I do' to the wrong man...When the right one whisked her away! To save the neck of her ne'er-do-well brother, Kaye Devenham had agreed to marry a man she despised. But right before the ceremony, in raced Jack Masefield, the man s...



  • 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....



  • Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    The world holds its breath as the Tribulation Force ventures to Jerusalem for the great Meeting of the Witnesses, where tens of thousands defy the Antichrist to sit under the ministry of their pastor-teacher, Tsion Ben-Judah. Meanwhile, Rayford St...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Francis Ray
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    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 ...




  • Dick King-Smith

    Dirty pig, clean pig
    Wet pig, dry.
    Silly, soapy, sudsy pig,
    Time to say bye-bye!

    Now kids will be able to get sudsy along with Babe.  This simple rhyming bath book is guaranteed to make bath-time fun!...



  • 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...



  • 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-...



  • 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...



  • Judith Kelman
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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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...




  • Elmore Leonard

    GET SHORTY'S CHILI PALMER IS BACK. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY. After a smash hit in Get Leo and a flop in Get Lost, B-movie-producer Chili Palmer is looking for another score. Lunching with a record company executive, Chili's exploring a hot new idea--u...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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,...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Rochelle Majer Krich

    Caring and compassionate, LAPD homicide detective Jessica Drake isn't about to write off the death of an elderly man found dead in a secluded area of Rancho Park as simply a heart attack. The nonresident guest at an old age home was in vigorous healt...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...





  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Grace Green

    Bringing up baby! Luke Brannigan badly needed help bringing up his nine-month-old son, Troy. And he knew just the woman to rescue him from the trials of being a single father! Whitney McKenzie. But Whitney knew all about Luke's reputation a...



  • J.A. Jance

    The Seattle that Beau knew as a young policeman is disappearing. The city is awash in the aromas emanating from a glut of coffee bars, the neighborhood outside his condo building has sprouted gallery upon gallery, and even his long cherished diner h...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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......



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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, ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Sebastian Faulks

    From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes Charlotte Gray, the remarkable story of a young Scottish woman who becomes caught up in the effort to liberate Occupied France from the Nazis while pursuing a perilous mission of her own. In blacked-ou...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Joanne Harris

    Even before it was adapted into the Oscar-nominated film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp, Joanne Harris' New York Times bestselling novel Chocolat entranced readers with its mix of hedonism, whimsy, and, of course, choco...



  • 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....



  • April Henry

    Why did dear, departed Aunt Cady have an exquisite old painting buried beneath World War II paraphernalia? And how can a painting so dramatically shift Claire's perspective on everything from her uninspired love life to her ho-hum job in the Oregon s...



  • William Martin

    George Washington has just died and young Christopher Draper, whose uncle is publisher of the ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE, sets off to find out about Washington's real nature. Specifically, he goes off in search of people who might explain why Martha Washingt...



  • 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,...



  • 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...



  • 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, ...



  • Caren Jurina

    These colorfully illustrated picture books for children ages two through six will help children learn not only their colors, letters, and numbers, but will teach them that God is the creator of all things. As parents read the text that goes with each...



  • Jess Lebow
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The brothers' struggle for power has ended . . . Argoth is decimated . . . Tidal waves have turned canyons into rivers . . . Earthquakes leveled the cities . . . Dominaria is in ruins. Now the struggle for this war-torn world is to survive...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Charlotte Maclay

    READY... Career-driven Blake Donovan planned to score big time at the annual management retreat and become the new V.P. AIM... Then Eloise Periwinkle blew into the retreat on a breeze, knocking Blake right out of his polished wing tips. Who ...




  • 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...



  • Laura Gordon

    The McQuaids: Easy to love, hard to forget, they are brothers by blood, lawmen by choice. Up against the toughest cases--and the strongest passions--they live by THE COWBOY CODE. In black Stetson, leather jacket and Levi's, sheriff Cameron McQuaid...



  • 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...



  • 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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  • 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...



  • 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 ...





  • Lisa Kopper

    This is the third picture-book story about the escapades of bull terrier Daisy, now a mom with three darling pups. Toddlers will delight in the naughty lessons Daisy teaches her pups--and the family's human baby, who joins in with the other little on...



  • 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...



  • Anne Stuart
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    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 ...



  • Denise Little

    Bridging the genres of romance and fantasy, a collection of original stories by established storytellers includes a modern version of an ancient Celtic love affair and the story of a guardian angel who becomes too involved in a mortals' romance. Orig...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Wendi Lee

    MAXED OUT Boston is private eye Angela Matelli's beat as well as home to her large Italian family, including a mother who feeds her a steady diet of lasagna and blind dates. But she has little time for either as she investigates a case of credit car...



  • 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...



  • Mark Joseph

    On New Year's Eve 1999, a chain reaction of computer malfunctions turns what was to be a global gala into a catastrophe. When computers begin to fail along the international dateline, the infection moves westward, causing massive power failures, trai...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Barbara D'Amato
    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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Annie Jones

    The newest series to join the humor-filled Time for Laughter romance line, the ongoing tale of the Double Heart Diner begins with the story of a very different man and a woman who set out on their own personal quests, only to find that the treasure G...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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. ...



  • Judy Fitzwater

    ASPIRING MYSTERY NOVELIST JENNIFER MARSH IS BACK WITH A TASTE FOR DETECTING! Edgar's Down Home Grill is flourishing, but the reprehensible owner, Edgar Walker, is finito. Jennifer Marsh finds his body--and catches her dear friend Emmie, Edgar's fo...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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?...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • James Axler

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  • Suzanne Collins

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  • Muriel Jensen

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  • Nikki Rivers

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  • Michael Hetzer

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  • J.R. Roberts

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  • Evelyn Rogers

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  • Beverly Lewis

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  • Rosalind Miles

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  • Lynn Christopher

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  • Jill Henry

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  • William W. Johnstone

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  • Baba Wague Diakite

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  • Rae Muir

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  • Lois-Ann Yamanaka

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  • Kylie Brant

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  • Steven Gould

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  • Alyssa Dean

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  • Leigh Michaels

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  • Kimberla Lawson Roby

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  • Elizabeth Mayne

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  • Doreen Roberts

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  • Vella Munn

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