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New Books List: 482 titles


  • Laura Abbot

    Life never works out the way you planned: Not for Kate Manley, the young widow who thought she'd spend the rest of her life with her high school sweetheart. And not for Sam Gray, who ended up in a big-city hospital instead of the small country prac...



  • Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! An earthquake has brought a piece of the past back to life! It's a wicked city called Tarkoom, full of sneaky bandits with a plan to upset present-day Droon. Eric, Neal, and Julie nee...



  • David Alexander

    Decisions that were once made by humans are now made by a machine. But what happens when that machine fails? The result of years of research, SINDAS is a computer system programmed to respond to nuclear threats. But something has gone wrong--ve...




  • V.C. Andrews

    WAS THE HUDSON FAMILY DESTINED TO LIVE IN THE SHADOWS OF THE PAST? OR WOULD LUCK SHINE ON THE NEWEST GENERATION? THE ANSWER LIES AT...The End of the Rainbow Rain's precious daughter, Summer, is about to turn sixteen. Her future lies wide open befo...



  • Shari Anton

    'Twas time to take a wife -- whether he wanted to or not! Stephen of Wilmont little desired a life bound to castle keep and crops, but, knowing his duty, marry he would. Yet when Fate reunited him with the proud and peerless Marian de Lacy, his first...



  • K.A. Applegate

    The Yeerks are finally starting to realize that the "Andalite bandits" are probably not aliens at all. That maybe they've been dealing with humans all along. And no one -- especially the newly appointed Visser One -- is happy about this revelation.Wh...



  • K.A. Applegate

    Really big trouble is an understatement these days. The war with the Yeerks is full on -- and it's definitely going to get worse. But Cassie and the other Animorphs have a lot more going on than just trying to stay alive. Now they've got to actively ...



  • Katie Arnoldi

    This surprise bestseller set in the world of female bodybuilding is “a modern gothic comedy of obsession” (Vanity Fair).   Aurora Jeanine Johnson is an unwed mother from Savannah, Georgia, desperate to sculpt a new life -- and a new body -- ...



  • Robert Asprin; Jodi Lynn Nye

    FROM THE PAGES OF THE HEX-FILES Someone or something unseen has been attacking Fionna Kenmare, lead singer for the Irish acid-folk rock band Green Fire. Now she's on tour in the United States, about to play the biggest concert of her career--and s...



  • James Axler

    As the epic struggle for control of the baronies continues, Kane and his rebel forces are forced into a dangerous choice between factions, a decision that could affect the destiny of all humankind. Original....



  • Julianna Baggott

    Lissy Jablonski was fifteen during the summer of 1985. That was the summer her father, a soft-spoken gynecologist, up and left her mother for a redheaded bank teller. The same summer Lissy and her mother disappeared from their quiet New Hampshire liv...



  • Lynn Bailey

    Original Blurb: When gambling debts incurred by Sir Nicholas Kirwan's late father nearly sent the family estate into poverty, there was only one way to restore the fortune: marry an heiress -- not a likely find in 1816 Ireland... Until Nick...



  • Laura Baker

    Determined to leave behind her life as the Raven, an artifact thief, Rheada Samuels makes a living as a canyon tour guide in New Mexico, until her past comes back to haunt her when Kee Blackburn, a detective whose own younger sister had lost her life...



  • Robin Ballard

    Some (young) people spend their days at day care. Some (slightly older) people spend their days at work. And despite the difference in their ages, what they do can be surprisingly similar. Whether you are a kid or a grown-up, you may build, or re...



  • Elaine Barbieri

    In the midst of the vast, windswept Texas plains stood a ranch wrested from the wilderness with blood, sweat and tears. It was the shining legacy of Thomas McBride to his five living heirs. But along with the fertile acres and her of cattle, each wou...



  • Linda Barrett

    Love or money? Amanda Shaw's life is almost perfect. She's about to make partner in her New York law firm, she has her own apartment, furnished to her taste and, best of all, she finally has financial security. Then Zach Porter -- her childhood frie...



  • Mark Barrowcliffe

    From age ten. Harry has had just one ambition -- to find the one girl for him. Forty-three women and twenty-odd years later, he is still looking. He doesn't ask for much: just a beautiful intellectual who doesn't mind his constant infidelity. Harry'...



  • Craig Bartlett

    "When Mr. Simmons, Arnold's teacher, announces that next weekend is the annual Parent Day Tournament Weekend, all of the fourth-grade kids are excited. Everyone except Arnold, that is..."--P. [4] of cover....



  • Rexanne Becnel

    From the journal of Miss Olivia Byrde: Lord H...Drinks too much. Ill-mannered and altogether too bold. Though rough-edged, he is tall and reasonably handsome. But he proves the rule that looks can be deceiving. Ill-suited for marriage. Since...



  • Jemma Beeke

    Everyone wants to get into the act when the farm animals put on a show!

    Everyone is invited to join in the fun at the Rickety Barn Show. Jasper the cat will sing -- miiaaoow -- and Sniggle the pig will play his bugle -- toot toot. The hens wil...



  • Mark Behr

    Embrace is the story of the awakening of Karl De Man, a thirteen-year-old student at the Berg, an exclusive academy for boys in South Africa in the 1970s. The events of Karl's school life are interwoven with memories from his childhood and first yea...



  • G.K. Belliveau

    Jacob Horowitz, a worn and bitter business tycoon, has never spoken to anyone about his experience of Nazi persecution during World War II -- not even his recently deceased wife, Liza. Suddenly stricken with terminal cancer, the aging Jew receives an...



  • Cheryl Benard

    In a futuristic world run by women, twenty-two-year-old Lisa is given the task of updating women's sexual fantasies, while Harmony, an underground men's movement, is plotting a violent revolution to put women back in their place. By the author of



  • David Benioff

    Monty starts a seven-year prison sentence for dealing drugs and tonight is his last night of freedom. His father wants him to run. His drug-lord boss wants to know if he squealed. His girlfriend isn't sure what she wants but his two friends know that...



  • Alan Bennett

    The Clothes They Stood Up In is Alan Bennett's first story. Like Charles Dickens' novels which were first published in magazines, it originally appeared in the London Review of Books - which the author says 'seems to me (and not just beca...




  • Patti Berg

    Take a Walk on the Wilde Side High society wedding planner Lauren Remington is determined to prove her family wrong and make a success of her business, but a last minute disaster brings a glorious end to all her grand plans. Desperate for help, her...




  • Andrew Bergman

    When their maestro is kidnapped, an orchestra hires Jack LeVine to find himJack LeVine has been in a vicious funk since his father died in 1948. But after more than a year sulking in his apartment, joylessly listening to ball games, news reports, and...



  • Betsy Berne

    “The value of Bad Timing as a cultural portrait, its subversiveness, is not in what it criticizes, but in what it celebrates -- the pride of losers, the volatility of deep friendships between women, the tribal bonds between blacks and Jew...



  • John Gregory Betancourt

    A Time of Myth and Legend...The epic saga of Jason and the Argonauts has endured for thousands of years. United under Jason's command, the Quest for the Golden Fleece brought together many of the greatest heroes of Greek mythology, including Atalant...



  • Terri Blackstock

    Sarah Rivers has it all: successful husband, healthy kids, beautiful home, meaningful church work. Corinne, Sarah's sister, struggles to get by. From Web site development to jewelry sales, none of the pies she has her thumb stuck in contains a plum w...



  • Lauralee Bliss
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    Four new novellas with characters in the rescue profession and characters who need rescueing of body and soul. From authors Lauralee Bliss, Wanda Brunstetter, Pamela Griffin, and Tamela Hancock Murray....



  • Johnny D. Boggs

    Pity Hannah Scott and Pete Belissari. Just when things should be settling down for our young heroes, along comes befuddled dime novelist L. Merryweather Handal with a job proposition too good to be true. So Hannah and Pete, along with sharpshooting B...




  • Susan Bowden

    Michelle Tyler has plenty to be thankful for--a handsome husband, faithful friends, and a successful business. But with her husband away on a foreign assignment, she's once again facing Thanksgiving alone. As the holiday draws near, her thoughts turn...



  • Rhys Bowen

    A film crew--led by the smug, smarmy Grantley Smith--has descended on the tiny Welsh village of Llanfair, to document the raising of a World War II plane from the lake where it landed long ago. And Constable Evans is keeping order and helping them ou...



  • Irene Brand

    After an 8-year absence, Autumn Weaver was finally home for a brief stay, and hoping to find forgiveness and heal family wounds. She never thought she'd run into the man who'd captured her heart as a young girl, and who'd permeated every dream since....



  • Max Brand

    Throughout his career, Max Brand created some of the West's most exciting and beloved characters. Surely one of these is Jim Tyler, an outlaw who has earned a reputation on both sides of the border for boldness and sheer guts. This volume collects, f...



  • Gloria Brandt

    When Carillon DeVries's parents send her to work at Yesteryear's living history farm as a last desperate attempt to reform their daughter, all she wants is a way to disappear--permanently. Burdened with guilt from a tragic accident, Carillon carries ...



  • Mary Brendan

    Viscount Stratton had a reputation as an adventurer and a daredevil. He also kept the most beautiful mistresses of any man in the ton. So all of London was agog with the news that Stratton suddenly planned to wed Lady Elizabeth Rowe. Lady Elizabet...



  • Leslie Brenner


    Born in Southern California in the brightly cast shadow of the Cold War, Andrew Kelbow grows up in an average American family -- average until Andrew's father leaves his mother under a cherry tree in the Mohave desert. How the remaining Kelbows s...



  • Jan Brett

    Celebrate the joy, beauty, and magic of Christmas with this giant treasury of Jan Brett's best-loved, bestselling books. Universally renowned for her exquisitely framed, highly detailed picture books, Brett captures the essence of winter wonderlands ...



  • Sandra D. Bricker

    A classified ad written as a joke is the catalyst for the striking of a bargain…

    Charlotte has unlimited travel benefits to offer in return for the extra income she needs to pay for her elderly father’s care…and Seth has a thriving bus...



  • Debra Lee Brown

    When Scottish chieftain and sole shipwreck survivor George Grant awoke on the ice-crusted shore of a strange land, he knew his mission: return home in time to wed the dainty bride his king had chosen. But that was before he met his captor, a giant, b...



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter
    in

    Four new novellas with characters in the rescue profession and characters who need rescueing of body and soul. From authors Lauralee Bliss, Wanda Brunstetter, Pamela Griffin, and Tamela Hancock Murray....



  • Bonnie Bryant

    Everyone makes mistakes!

    Carole Hanson is back at Pine Hollow full-time, so she can spend as many hours as she wants with the horses she loves. And that's perfect, because it's a great way to mend a broken heart. Who knew Cam would turn out to...



  • Paul Buchanan

    After seeing a bad horror movie filmed years ago in the coastal town where his father is the lighthouse keeper, thirteen-year-old Danny suspects that a sea monster has returned in real life to recreate the events of the film....



  • Pamela Burford

    The Bride-to-Be: Sunny Bleecker, a woman who has waited tables at Wafflemania for 12 years...and waited the same amount of time for her knight in shining armor to rescue her from that. She's still waiting... The Prospective Groom: Kirk Larsen is ...



  • Ludima Gus Burton

    Starr Evans accidentally pours the whole bottle of a love potion on Eric Hammond's head, yet he continually insists he has not fallen in love with her.

    Wishing for light relief from his stressful cancer research project, he persuades Starr to tes...



  • Dorothy Butler

    Barney the brown bear accompanies his owner to Harold Hinkel's birthday party, where he suffers several indignities at the hands of Harold's little sister Poppy. By the creators of My Brown Bear Barney. ...



  • Stella Cameron
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    Friends to Lovers... Fabiola Crowe was terrified to let her secret out. She'd fallen in love with her best friend. But she absolutely couldn't tell him ...because she'd run the risk of losing him forever....



  • Candace Camp

    A moment of moonlit madness Nicola Falcourt had loved deeply once -- and lost. Now she is drawn by fate into a sinister mystery that will plunge her into great peril...and even greater passion. It begins with a breathless kiss from a notorious...



  • Joanna Campbell

    At last, Wonder's Star has begun to recover from the illness that halted his promising racing career so suddenly. The vet says he'll be back on the track in no time. But Christina Reese is convinced the colt has lost his spirit. She can't seem to ...




  • Lorenzo Carcaterra

    Born in the midst of tragedy and raised in the shadow of a shocking secret, young Angelo Vestieri chooses to flee both his past and his father to seek a second family--the criminals who preside over early-twentieth-century New York. In his bloody ris...



  • Patricia Carlon

    Locked in the kitchen of an apartment where her baby-sitter has been murdered, and with her mother dead and her father traveling, a little girl is forced to rely on her own wits to escape from her prison before the killer realizes that he has left be...



  • C.J. Carmichael

    She needs answers: With uncanny accuracy Amalie Fremont knows the exact moment her identical twin is swept away by an avalanche in the Canadian Rockies. What she doesn't know is what her timid, unathletic sister was doing up in the mountains in the f...



  • Jonathan Carroll

    The Wooden Sea is the final novel in The Crane's View Trilogy from award-winning British fantasy author Jonathan Carrol.

    From the moment a three-legged dog limps into the life of Police Chief Frannie McCabe and drops dead at his feet, McCab...



  • Bob Cary



  • Jeanne Cavelos

    The spectacular space epic continues, as the techno-mages face the growing threat of the Shadows . . . As Elric and his student Galen watch with taut anticipation, dragons, angels, and shooting stars rain from the sky, heralding the arrival of the...



  • Diane Chamberlain

    Eight-year-old ;Sophie Donohue just wants to be like everyone else in her Brownie troop. Which is why her mother, Janine, finally agrees to let Sophie go on a weekend camping trip with the other girls. But Sophie is no ordinary child--she suffers fro...



  • Elizabeth Chandler

    What really happened to Mother?Lauren has come home seven years after her famous mother's mysterious drowning. They said it was an accident, but the tabloids screamed murder. Her father, a senator, hadn't protected her. Aunt Jule was her only refuge,...



  • Leonard Chang

    Choice and his partner, Paul Baumgartner, are security specialists for Silicon Valley executives.When Paul gets killed on the job, Choice and an inexperienced Bay Area reporter, Linda Maldonado, begin looking into the puzzling circumstances of the mu...



  • Norman Chartier

    Poky, the little puppy who's endeared himself to several generations of readers by being his irrepressible self (always tardy, very curious, a wanderer to the beat of his own drummer, a food lover) is back in an all-new adventure sure to delight new ...



  • Suzanne Chazin

    Georgia Skeehan is a New York City Fire Department marshal. As a rookie, and a woman, she's used to being sidelined by her peers. But investigating a recent blaze that engulfed fifty-four lives challenges her like never before. It's the incendiary wo...



  • Chronicle Books

    Meet a crew of animals who dream of being football stars, and a spunky girl who calls her baseball mitt "Jaws". Includes five stories and two poems, featuring Leonard Kessler, Jean Marzollo, Jean Van Leeuwen, Barbara Ann Porte, Megan McDonald, Nancy ...



  • Chronicle Books

    Laugh, fight, play, and forgive with five sets of friends going through the ups and downs of relationships, from a best friend craving time alone to two brothers who realize they can be friends after all. Includes five stories, featuring Arnold Lobel...



  • Carolyn Chute

    A mother and daughter see the news reports that a senator has been assassinated in the lobby of Boston's venerable Parker House. They hear that his killer, Robert Drummond, has escaped, prompting a nationwide manhunt. And yet Robert, wounded and suff...



  • Arthur C. Clarke

    Six decades of fascinating stories from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey gathered in one compendium (The New Yorker).   Arthur C. Clarke, along with H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Rob...



  • Andrew Clements

    Jake recounts his second grade introduction to Link Baxter, SuperBully, who becomes his class project partner, with surprising results.When Jake was three years old at Miss Lulu's Dainty Diaper Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing...



  • Mary Clyde

    Winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. "Finely crafted short fiction that explores the aftermath of life-threatening events. . . . Sculpted prose." ―Booklist

    Mary Clyde’s stories explore not so much what has happened al...



  • Colleen Coble

    Irina's father was killed by the Russian government, and now Irina goes to bed sad and hungry. Tatiana is despearate and decides that marriage to an American man will ensure her daughter's security. But when Tatiana arrives in the United States, s...



  • Tim Cockey

    Hitchcock Sewell, Baltimore's hippest undertaker and civilian sleuth, is back in a second sly, original mystery. One of the most charming and offbeat amateur detectives to come around in years, Hitchcock Sewell does for the undertaking profession wha...



  • Amanda Cockrell

    Though the white-skinned invaders wreaked havoc on the Cities-in-the-West, the tribes of the Grass have escaped invasion and slaughter. But tragedy of another kind strikes. Grandmother Weevil's granddaughter, Flute Dog, a young woman of the Buffal...



  • David Cole

    Deception Is Everywhere Laura left her Hopi self behind and came to Tucson hoping to start over, praying that her past would never find her. Now she works as a high-tech cyber-sleuth for Miguel Zepeda -- an aging private detective who lives on t...



  • Lynn Collum

    Meet the Addingtons: two charming sisters and a dashing brother who have lost their fortune but not their dreams. Now, in a new trilogy by regency star Lynn Collum, one by one, the Addingtons will arrive in Britain after growing up in Italy, carrying...



  • Robert J. Conley

    The people of the small Western town of Asininity worry when a notorius gunfighter called the Widowmaker comes to town, especially when he and Marshal Barjack become pals, but soon more trouble arises....



  • Marita Conlon-McKenna

    Inheritance changes everything, as Ella Kennedy soon discovers when her father dies and the 100 acre farm she has grown up on and run for years in the Wexford countryside is no longer hers. Angry following a fight with her brother, Ella leaves her ho...



  • Storm Constantine

    When Shan was fifteen years old, dark soldiers came out of the west, like a cloud of evil boiling over the soft hills of his homeland. They commanded terrible beasts, which killed with hook claws like scythes and cold eyes that dripped icy fire. The ...



  • Linda Cook

    HE WOULD RISK HIS LIFE... A hostage in Normandy for five long years, Adeline of Caerdoc, the daughter of a rebellious Welsh Chieftain, has been granted her freedom...at a terrible price. She is condemned to spy on Simon of Taillebroc, a traitorous N...



  • Will Cook

    Will Cook has spun an epic as big as the Lone Star State itself, filled with memorable characters and nonstop action. Laredo, 1905. The wars with the Comanches and Kiowas have faded into history, but Col. Jim Gary and Texas Ranger Guthrie McCabe stil...



  • Catherine Cookson

    Set in the English countryside in the early twentieth century, Kate Hannigan's Girl is the story of Kate's eldest daughter, the lovely, free-spirited Annie Hannigan. Blessed with silver-blond braids and a lighthearted disposition, Annie enjoy...




  • William Fredrick Cooper

    Attacking society’s damaging rhetoric and stereotypes around male emotions, Six Days in January offers an answer to the question: what can happen to a man when he is damaged by love?William McCall finds himself making his way down icy streets, batt...



  • Wilma Counts

    A LOVELESS WEDDING When the Honorable Trevor Jeffries loses everything at cards, there's only one way to cancel the debt--by marrying his opponent's unwanted ward, Miss Caitlin Woodbridge, a country girl fresh from the schoolroom. Their forced union ...



  • DiAnna Crawford

    Morning deejay Carrie Jamison spouts the quirky brand of comedy Kansas City loves to wake up to. She's skyrocketing in the ratings, and her quick wit has won her the admirations of everyone at KUTE radio--except Kyle Harris. A serious, no-frills news...



  • Kathleen Creighton

    EMERGENCY! Well, not of the medical sort. But one look at young, idealistic Dr. Ethan Brown and Joanna Dunn realized she had it bad -- and only the good doctor could cure her. And while she knew that dreams of white lace and wedding bells were not...



  • Millie Criswell

    Place this quilt upon your bed and on one month you shall be wed... Pregnant and alone, Maddy Potter knew marriage wasn't in her near future -- certainly not to Pete Taggart. The rude, arrogant -- and she'd admit, protectively sexy -- rancher woul...



  • Justin Cronin

    Mary and O'Neil frequently marveled at how, of all the lives they might have led, they had somehow found this one together. When they met at the Philadelphia high school where they'd come to teach, each had suffered a profound loss that had not heale...



  • Heather Cullman

    Is there such a thing as a match made in heaven? Find out in Heather Cullman's moving story of a man forced to choose between marriage -- and madness... Michael Vane, Earl of Sherrington, was once one of the most sought-after bachelors in Lon...



  • Clare Curzon

    With her customary understated style and her keen ability to delve into the human psyche, Clare Curzon returns readers to Thames Valley and Superintendent Mike Yeadings. This time a case that at first glance looks to be open and shut proves more diff...



  • Mary Daheim

    A bum hip has bed-and-breakfast hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn limping off to Good Cheer Hospital -- a questionable "haven of healing" where two recent patients didn't make the cut after routine surgery. Judith's trepidation at undergoing the knife i...



  • Kathleen N. Daly

    Ting-a-ling-a-ling! Here comes the Good Humor® Man! He brings walnut whizzes and dairy dizzies, chocolate chips and strawberry splits"all while bringing friends together and finding a lost puppy! This bestselling Little Golden Book Classic is now ...



  • B.J. Daniels

    SHE WAS EVERYTHING HE WANTED...OR WAS SHE? The moment Will Sheridan met Samantha Murphy at a party, he knew she was the woman he'd been waiting for. Then a kiss, and suddenly she had disappeared. But Will hadn't given up looking for her, for he vo...



  • Rebecca Daniels

    A WOMAN WITH NO NAME... Sheriff Joe Mountain found the mysterious young woman wandering in a thunderstorm, unable to remember even her name. So Joe called her "Rain" and set out to find out who she was. Although his Native American soul was stirre...



  • Paula Danziger

    Best friends Amber Brown and Justin Daniels are taking a vacation together! There’s just one problem -- Justin’s little brother, Danny. He always wants to tag along. Can Amber find a way to make Danny go away so she can have Justin all to herself...




  • Keith R.A. Decandido

    200 YEARS AGO: The expanding Klingon Empire found a frozen world rich in deposits of the mineral topaline. They named the planet taD -- Klingon for "frozen" -- and they called the people jeghpu'wI' -- conquered. FOUR YEARS AGO: The Klingon Empir...



  • Don DeLillo

    A stunning novel by the bestselling National Book Award"winning author of White Noise and Underworld.Since the publication of his first novel Americana, Don DeLillo has lived in the skin of our times. He has found a voice for the forgotten souls wh...



  • Teresa DesJardien

    A Crime of Passion... For Charlotte Deems, the death of her husband was a mixed blessing. She was freed from a marriage without desire--but left with no one to help provide for little Oscar. Now her money dwindled and her boy needed a father--eve...



  • P.T. Deutermann

    IF IT MOVES Edwin Kreiss is a retired FBI agent -- a manhunter whose specialty is making rogue operatives disappear. When Kreiss's daughter vanishes in the backwoods of rural West Virginia, and the FBI has no leads to follow, Kreiss follows his own -...



  • J.M. Dillard

    Now comes DEEP SPACE NINE, a thrilling new addition to the STAR TREK universe. Commanded by an embittered Starfleet officer and populated by a myriad of exotic aliens, the mysterious space station known as Deep Space Nine hovers on the edge of a worm...



  • Robert Doherty

    THE HOLY GRAIL -- IS IT THE KEY TO A MIRACLE...OR A TERRIFYING TRUTH? The Great Wall of China, the immense carvings on Easter Island, Egypt's pyramids, UFOs. What is the chilling connection? The answer, unearthed by an elite band of soldiers and...



  • Greg Donegan

    They have invaded before. Ten thousand years ago, when they destroyed Atlantis. Now, mankind's ancient enemy has returned. In Cambodia, the Shadows tried to break through and overthrow our world. Then they attacked from the Bermuda Triangle and al...



  • Emmanuel Dongala

    The peculiar and moving story of a Congolese boy's coming-of-age amid the political strife of postcolonial CongoHis nickname is Matapari, which means "trouble." He is an African child of the '90s--brilliant, mischievous, postcolonial, postmodern-caug...



  • Kate Donovan

    Return to the rousing 1860s, where Chicago's Happily Ever After Co. is doing a brisk business in mail-order brides, and three spirited young women will risk it all on a once-in-a-lifetime chance at love... TAKEN BY STORM When Erica Lane's wealthy...



  • Shannon Drake

    A grand passion and spellbinding adventure in a shimmering epic of Scotland's tempestuous past... Bold and beautiful, Lady Eleanor of Clarin--sole heir to her ancestral lands--chooses to marry an aging French noble rather than Edward I's choice of...



  • Blair Drawson

    Tells the mythical tale of Arachne, a young girl who had such confidence in her weaving abilities that she beat the goddess Athena who then turned Arachne into a spider as punishment for her pride in her special gift....



  • Jennifer Drew

    One minute, Kim Grant was stuffing spilled lingerie into her busted suitcase. The next, her fingers connected with steel -- under silk -- as white knight Rick Taylor helped her to save face. Her rescuer was sexy, intelligent...and stood between her a...



  • Neal Drinnan



  • Andre Dubus

    Bluesman is a stunning early novel from the critically acclaimed writer Andre Dubus III, whose House of Sand and Fog became the basis for the major motion picture.It is the summer of 1967 and Leo Suther is about to turn eighteen. This is the summer t...



  • Doranna Durgin

    Ntignano was a populated world with a perfect sun -- until the right technology fell into the wrong hands. Now the sun is failing quickly, and the "Starship Enterprise" has just one chance to evacuate the fleeing refugees. Captain Jean-Luc Picard mus...



  • Lee Durkee

    "With this eruptive debut novel, Lee Durkee…has just kicked in the door of Southern literature." -- SalonMeet Mississippi teenager Noel Weatherspoon: ghost-seeing insomniac, endearing dopehead, wanna-be erotic photographer, and possible Baptist fa...



  • Glen Ebisch

    Kate Manning, the owner and manager of Golden Needles, a fabric shop, becomes distressed when Fabulous Fabrics, a large discount fabric chain, opens a branch in her neighborhood. Her distress turns to anger when she discovers that Roger Garrison, a h...




  • David Ellis

    Marty Kalish is an investment banker in love with a married woman … until her husband is murdered, and Marty’s accused. After all, he was at the scene of a crime, he had a moticve, and he manipulated the evidence to hide his guilt. He’s even co...



  • David Ellwand

    The classic board book has returned!

    From bold to bashful, this board book bursts with babies. With its invitingly simple, rhythmic text and stunning images of infants, readers will want to keep turning the pages. And on the last page, they wi...



  • Norrie Epstein

    The author of The Friendly Shakespeare offers a lively, gossipy guide to the life, work, and times of Charles Dickens, rife with humor, expert opinion, eye-catching illustrations, quotations, and plenty of fascinating sidebars. Reprint....



  • Leslie Esdaile

    CAN THEIR LOVE REACH... Artist Nina Carpenter knows her marriage is in trouble--and part of her wants to blame the jazz club her handsome husband Tony Williams owns. Between Tony's late nights and her own early mornings spent painting, Nina suspects...



  • Birdie L. Etchison

    At fifty, Alice Adams isn't looking for love. Nor is she looking for a new home. She's settled into widowhood and anticipating the arrival of her only daughter's first child. Then she meets Leighton Walker, and love turns her world upside down. Giddy...



  • Eric C. Evans

    DEADLY PERSUASION As the new Chief of Staff to the tenacious Governor LeGrand Beckstead, Sam McKall finds himself in the middle of a heated controversy: a multibillion dollar deal to bring a nuclear waste dump to the Pishute Indian reservation in ...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm looks to hog-tie a killer on the loose…Custis Long’s always been a loner, but now he’s got a partner to watch his back -- whether he wants one or not. There’s a killer leaving unlucky prospectors cut from ear to ear and it’s up to L...



  • Corinne Everett

    Travel back to the tumultuous 1700s, as passion flowers and love blooms for three vibrant young women...each of whom must confront a thorny challenge to win her heart's desire. From the parlors of Colonial Williamsburg to the ballrooms of Regency Eng...



  • Nancy J. Farrier

    Glorianna Wilton's mother has died and now Glorianna is being forced to join her father at his Arizona army post. Leaving the comforts of a big eastern city--not to mention her only hope for marriage--has left Glorianna livid. Lieutenant Conlon Su...




  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    A CHANCE MEETING LEADS TO... Free-spirited Lady Anice Kinloch has never considered the notion of a real home, especially after a dozen years traveling the world with her mother. Then she inherits Ardkinloch--a small castle in the Highlands of Scotla...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    SOMEWHERE THERE WAS A CHILD WHO NEEDED HER... Eliza Eldridge saw through other people's eyes. And now her dreams of a missing little girl were becoming urgent. Eliza couldn't ignore them, and she vowed to reunite the child with her father. Whil...



  • Helen Fielding

    Disillusioned with life as a literary publicist in London and sick of her hotshot TV presenter boyfriend, twenty-something Rosie Richardson decides to give up glitz for good deeds and escape to Africa to run a refugee camp. When famine strikes and a ...



  • Carol Finch

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  • Todd Hannert

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  • Jack Hanson

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  • Cynthia Hartwick

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  • Michele Hauf

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  • Dee Henderson

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  • Emma Henry

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