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New Books List: 489 titles


  • Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Max is missing! The furry spider troll has been mysteriously captured and no one knows where he is. Is it the work of the nasty Lord Sparr -- or someone else? All aboard the Jaffa Wind...



  • Alai

    This suspenseful saga of Tibet during the rise of Chinese Communism “conjures up a faraway world . . . panoramic and intimate at the same time” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times). A lively and cinematic twentieth-century e...



  • Rochelle Alers

    As the driven executive director of The Sanctuary, a program dedicated to reaching out to victimized women, Jolene Walker has neither the time nor the energy for a personal life...until she meets United States Army Captain Michael Kirkland, a sexy, p...



  • Rochelle Alers
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    Architectural historian Aimee Fraser accepts a research project on St. Simons Island off the coast of Georgia, where her greatest discovery is a devastatingly handsome local. What was supposed to be a month of tedious work is suddenly something far m...



  • Carrie Alexander

    Sophie Ryan was a girl from the wrong side of town, pregnant, uneducated, and alone. Now she's a sheriff's deputy and has managed to put the past behind her. It's been a long time since the gossips of Treetop, Wyoming, have speculated on the ident...



  • Lois Carnell Alexander

    Delia Annette Stripling grew to girlhood as a shepherdess in the beautiful Cotswold Hills of England, knowing nothing of her true heritage or how she came to have a small nick in one ear. She was adopted by Bera and Hut Stripling, who raised her as t...



  • David Ambrose

    A wrong number here, a case of mistaken identity there, a chance meeting with a stranger who knows your best friend. Most people dismiss such things as trivial, unimportant. Mere coincidence. Or could there be a hidden pattern in these seemingly rand...



  • Jeffrey Ames

    COME INTO MY PARLOR To those hunting him, he is the Fiddleback--an inhuman predator with a taste for human prey and an appetite for torture. SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY To his victims, he is a nightmare come to life at the moment of death. His mo...



  • Mary Kay Andrews

    A Novel of Divorce, Revenge, and Great Antiques Landing a catch like Talmadge Evans III got Eloise "Weezie" Foley a jewel of a town house in Savannahs historic district. Divorcing Tat got her exited to the backyard carriage house, where she has la...



  • Robert Andrews

    Two women have been found stabbed to death in a public park. Washington homicide detectives Frank Kearney and Phelps want to close the case quietly without a media circus. Impossible. Victim #3 has just turned up--like the two before her--with a fing...



  • V.C. Andrews

    High society was too much for her. One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) layers psychological suspense with seductive glamour in this provocative first book of the classic De Beers Fam...



  • Christopher Anvil

    IS IT TOO LATE TO NEGOTIATE A SURRENDER? The Centran Empire was both benevolent and complacent. Benevolent, even as it overwhelmed every new inhabited planet it encountered with its military might -- but once the planet was pacified, its inhabitan...



  • Jennifer Armstrong

    Jennifer Armstrong’s two masterful novels about Mary Mehan are now together in one volume. Set against the pivotal events of the American Civil War, The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan depicts an Irish immigrant girl and her family, struggling to find their...



  • Amanda Ashley

    ANALISA... He whispers her name, and it echoes back to him on the wings of the night. She is so young, so alive. She radiates warmth and goodness, chasing the coldness from his being, banishing the loneliness from his soul. In four centuries of prow...



  • James Axler

    DESTINY'S HOSTAGE The treacherous new frontier of future America is plagued by civil war among the nine mysterious barons who rule with absolute power. As this race of human hybrids struggles to keep the eons-old yoke of true humanity's slavery in...



  • Marian Babson

    A suspenseful tale of murder and mystery in a dysfunctional British family: “Babson is as easy to read as ever” (Kirkus Reviews).   Margot has come back to England from America to show solidarity with her extended family in the midst of a sc...



  • Elizabeth Bailey

    In a village near Steepwood Abbey, a captain -- thought lost in the war -- returns to his home. But things are not quite what they seem.... Captain Henry Colton is stunned to find his lost love living the quiet life of a widow -- with a small dau...



  • Gerry Bailey

    When Do-Wah Diddy lands a spot on TV, B.Bop, 2-T, and the kids must stop him before anyone discovers that he is an alien, but Dr. Damage's spy robot Klator and alien hunter Stoat Muldoon have other plans for the Butt-Ugly Martians. Original....



  • Gerry Bailey

    Young readers can meet Do-Wah Diddy, B.Bop-A-Luna, and 2-T-Fru-T as they wreak havoc on Earth and make new friends, including Cedric, Angela, and Mike, as well as enemies such as the wicked Emperor Bog, his dreaded sidekick, Dr. Damage, and dim-witte...



  • Gerry Bailey

    After the shape-shifting alien Gorgon steals Dr. Damage's latest weapon, the Molecular De-atomiser, and kidnaps the Butt-Uglies and Mike, Angela and Cedric set out to rescue their friends and retrieve the device....



  • Steven Barnes

    In ancient times, Carthage destroyed Rome, Europe remained tribal, and the New World was colonized by Islam. Now in 1863, bordered by fierce Azteca to the south and the red men's nations of the west, Bilalistan is a vast, rich land of mosques, kraals...



  • Nevada Barr

    Park Ranger Anna Pigeon returns to face her most duplicitous foe--human nature--in the latest entry in Nevada Barr's bestselling, award-winning series ... The quiet beauty of autumn on Mississippi's Natchez Trace is swiftly shattered when Anna ans...



  • Andrea Barrett

    "Gemlike stories that sparkle with intelligence and fire." -- O, The Oprah Magazine A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, this wonderfully imagined collection from the "genius enchantress" (Karen Russell) author of Ship Fever, winner of the National Bo...



  • Jean Barrett

    TALL, DARK AND...DETERMINED TO "INVESTIGATE" THE GIRL NEXT DOOR! With his slow, seductive smile, broad shoulders, and massive chest, Dallas McFarland was a threat to any woman's heart, especially plain-Jane P.I. Christy Hawke's! Except Christy's pro...



  • Susan Barrie

    Could their new love compete with the old? After lonely years of raising her daughter, Caro was free to begin a new life. Her quest for change led her to Switzerland -- and to tentative bliss in marriage to the handsome Dr. Lucien Andreas. Her ...



  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
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    Always the obedient daughter, Zhao Hanshi has defied her parents by accepting Christianity. Now she must leave her homeland or be forced into a godless marriage. Stowing away on a merchant ship carrying Chinese silk and other treasures, she quickly r...



  • Stephen Baxter

    “One of the best SF writers in the business . . . [Manifold: Origin is] filled with marvelous scientific speculations, strange events, novel concepts, and an awe-inspiring sense of the wonders of the universe.” -- Science Fiction Chronicle In ...



  • William Bayer

    One hot summer afternoon a quarter century ago, a wealthy socialite and her young lover were gunned down in a cheap motel room on the outskirts of the Midwestern city of Calista. Forensic sketch-artist David Weiss has been haunted by the notorious...



  • Ann Beattie

    An impeccable ear for language, an eye for the smallest shifts in the cultural landscape, and a preternatural understanding of motivation and behavior -- Ann Beattie's renowned storytelling abilities are on dazzling display in The Doctor’s House.Th...



  • Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    Every summer visitors come to Bea Bartling's home in Ash Hollow, Nebraska, to see the historic yellow rosebush that had been a famous trail marker for wagons on their way west. And every night Bea prays she will find a special face among those at her...



  • Adam Beechen

    Reggie can't believe it: The Scrunchies, the most popular girls in Ocean Shores, want her to join their in-line skating team! Reggie has no problems with the skating test, but when the girls want her to do something she feels is wrong, what is she go...




  • Sandra Benitez

    "Bentez's third novel seamlessly blends fact with imagination, evoking the trauma of war more vividly than any newspaper account . . . beautifully illuminating." (Publishers Weekly starred review)

    Sandra Bentez received international acclaim ...



  • Elizabeth Berg

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “An extraordinary short story collection that deserves our closest attention.” -- Detroit Free Press“Elizabeth Berg’s gift as a storyteller lies most powerfully in her ability to find the extraordinary in the ordi...



  • Patti Berg

    Wilde Thing Charity Wilde didn't come all the way to Wyoming just to be saddled with some cowboy! The leggy showgirl only wants a quiet time with family before she heads back to Vegas. So why do Mike Flynn's emerald eyes make her knees go weak? Fame...




  • Catherine Blair

    SHE AIMS TO BE HIS PERFECT MATCH... Celia Jordan has loved Lord Dorian Leydon for as long as she can remember -- and now that he's been jilted by a social climber, she's ready to set her sites on him in earnest. Since he's never paid the...



  • Janet Boling

    Undersheriff Mark Browning and newspaper editor Sarah Carpenter have enough on their hands trying to keep their romance a secret. They're supposed to be adversaries, not sweethearts. But when the sheriff is murdered in their Michigan resort town shor...



  • Frank Bonham

    Working on a stage trail isn't just a job for Grif Holbrook, it's in his blood. Grif's a hard-bitten but soft-hearted veteran who's worked as a troubleshooter and shotgun guard for the Butterfield line for years. These four exciting novels recount Gr...



  • Geri Borcz

    NOT EVEN A RANGER CAN RESIST A PERFECT ROSE Roselyn O'Neill's mother--a saloon singer with unfortunate taste in men--may have ensured her daughter's childhood was a colorful adventure, but after years of one-horse towns and embarrassing scrapes, R...




  • Irene Brand
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    Love soars beyond castle turrets. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany a tradition begins and continues across many generations. The "dance of love" is timed to the beat of ancient customs, and hearts are drawn to its rhythms. As a Hessian soldi...



  • Max Brand

    When Billy Newlands abandons his young bride following a train wreck, he vows to go straight and takes work in a mining camp, but when a woman arrives seeking revenge, Billy will have to own up to his past. Reprint....



  • Peter Brandvold

    As bounty hunter Lou Prophet searches for gorgeous showgirl Lola Diamond, the missing prime witness in a murder trial, he soon discovers that he and his lovely quarry have become the target of some dangerous men who will do anything to ensure that Lo...



  • Kate Bridges

    Coming home was hard, but Emma Sinclair feared leaving again would be even harder. Returning had resurrected all the joy and pain of her girlhood when she'd loved -- and lost -- rancher Wyatt Barlow. Was their renewed acquaintance a second chance at ...



  • Margaret Park Bridges

    Can a little girl be both big and little at the same time? Of course she can! Big or little, she's the present Mommy always wanted-a big present in a little package. Cheerful text and cozy illustrations are sure to strike a familiar chord with little...



  • Damien Broderick

    Aleph is a machine mentality overseeing a future Earth largely bereft of humans, most of whom have sublimed into a virtuality.Remaining are the smug but cautious adherents of science. Amanda, still a teen at age 30, is a skilled violinist and mathema...



  • Carolyn Brown

    Arriving in Guthrie, Oklahoma, from Atlanta at the same time that the local sheriff is asking about a tall blond from Georgia, Emma quickly finds herself married to Jed Thomas, a farmer who answered her pleas for help. Emma Maureen Cummins is flee...



  • Margaret Wise Brown

    Well-loved for her books for young children, Margaret Wise Brown excels in bringing attention to the smallest details in a child's world. Here she introduces the concept of color to children with a wonderfully playful, lyrical text. Loretta Krupinski...



  • Dixie Browning

    THE MARRYING MILLIONAIRE Businessman William Bradford hadn't thought wedding bells were tolling for him until he met secretary Diana Foster, who was vulnerable, alone -- and just a little bit pregnant...with another man's child. His protective insti...



  • John Burningham

    Internationally renowned author-illustrator John Burningham offers this hilarious book of choices for anyone who's ever wanted to do something completely out of the ordinary. In a series of challenges inspired by the childhood game "Top That!," Burni...



  • Barbara Calamari

    For once Angela Anaconda can't wait to go to school. She's just gotten a brand-new jacket in her very favorite color: highway-worker orange. Too bad everyone else in her class is stuck wearing disgusting green clothing. Too bad Angela just found out ...



  • Dana Cameron

    DIG SHE MUST Brilliant, dedicated, and driven, archaeologist Emma Fielding finds things that have been lost for hundreds of years -- and she's very, very good at it. A soon-to-be-tenured professor, she has recently unearthed evidence of a seventee...



  • Candace Camp

    Generations ago, the Aincourt family was given a title and land for their loyalty to the king. But the former abbey they received came with a price -- a curse that no family member would ever know happiness. Devin Aincourt, Earl of Ravenscar, make...



  • Joanna Campbell

    A competitive bug is sweeping through Whitebrook Farm. Image, Star, and Gratis are all contenders for the Triple Crown races, which begins with the Kentucky Derby, a little over a month away.

    Christina can‘t stand the pressure. So, when...



  • Judy Campbell

    Dr. Irresistible A ‘bonding’ course certainly isn’t Dr. Rosie Loveday’s idea of fun -- until she meets her gorgeous instructor, Dr. Andy Templeton. Their mutual sparks of attraction are impossible to ignore and lead to a wonderful night of p...



  • C.J. Carmichael

    He's back! Two years ago, almost everyone in Canmore, Alberta, thought Dylan McLean was responsible for the death of a teenage girl on his father's ranch. Only Cathleen Shannon believed he was innocent. Then he left her at the altar and fled to...



  • Joe Casey

    The X-Men have survived hatred, loss of life, and along the way helped save the world more than once. Still, they can never find peace as they all strive to achieve Professor Xavier's dream that man and mutant can peacefully coexist.

    A wild, new ev...



  • K.N. Casper

    When Julie First's boyfriend proposes on the condition that she devote herself to him and his banking career, she can't flee fast enough. She's going to put all her energy into working for the school district, instead, now that she's received her mas...



  • Karin Cates

    Despite having plenty of wood for the winter ahead, a worried grandmother sends the family out to gather even more, and when all five return with nothing but interesting tales, grandmother knows she has to get to the bottom of things in order to find...



  • Diane Chamberlain

    Mara Sommers and Joelle D'Angelo have been best friends for several years. They have shared everything, including the joy over Mara's first pregnancy. But when something goes terribly wrong during the delivery, Mara is left with brain damage. Alone a...



  • J.B. Cheaney

    The year is 1597. Elizabeth is queen. Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain’s Men are packing London’s Globe Theatre. And the severed heads of Catholic insurgents are impaled on the Tower’s gates. One 14-year-old boy should arouse no one’s int...



  • Mitchell Chefitz

    The Thirty-third Hour opens at midnight Saturday, in the study of Rabbi Arthur Greenberg, the leader of the largest synagogue in Miami. The Rabbi has until 9 a.m. Monday morning, thirty-three hours, to investigate a sex ethics charge brought against ...



  • Lauren Child

    An enchanting pop-up book takes little ones on a fantastical journey through eight extraordinary bedrooms, detailing a child's dream bed, from a fragrant bed of daisies in a garden to sleeping on the back of a swaying elephant....



  • Judy Christenberry

    The kiss was desperate, passionate, leaving Kelly Hampton no alternative but to smack the sinfully sexy cowboy who'd taken liberty with her lips. Didn't matter that Pete Crawford was her best friend's brother. Didn't matter that he'd handpicked her t...



  • Dianne L. Christner
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    Love soars beyond castle turrets. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany a tradition begins and continues across many generations. The "dance of love" is timed to the beat of ancient customs, and hearts are drawn to its rhythms. Christian, a knigh...



  • Caroline Jayne Church

    A joyful picture book about making friends and falling in love, based on the familiar, fun-filled children's song.

    Do your ears hang low,
    Do they wobble to and fro?
    Can you tie them in a knot?
    Can you tie them in a bow?

    Two swe...



  • Chris Claremont

    The body count rises higher than ever as the X-Men and their allies face war on every front! X-Factor comes up against their deadliest challenge in Apocalypse. The New Mutants lose one of their own! And after the Marauders slaughter the Morlocks, the...



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  • Bernard Clavel

    Benjamin dreams of building a castle. His father dreams of writing a poem. As father and son work independently to turn their dreams into reality, they discover that only with each other's help will they succeed. This whimsical tale, paired with beau...



  • Andrew Clements

    THIEF! When Phil sees another kid wearing his brother's jacket, he assumes the jacket was stolen. It turns out he was wrong, and Phil has to ask himself the question: Would he have made the same assumption if the boy wearing the jacket hadn't been A...



  • James H. Cobb

    After a series of successful tests, an industrial research satellite falls to the Indonesian sea and disappears--along with its international recovery team and ship. NATO and U.S. military officials believe that it has been stolen, but by whom and wh...



  • Tim Cockey

    Baltimore's sexiest undertaker, Hitchcock Sewell, is once again cruising for trouble. A childhood friend has been charged with the murder of a local nightclub owner, but Hitch, in his heart, knows she didn't do it. Problem is, the friend has gone ...



  • Jonathan Coe

    Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings. Four friends: a class clown who stoops very low for a laugh; a confused artist enthralled by guitar rock; an earnest radical wit...



  • Paula Cohen

    New York City, 1894. To Gramercy Park, bordered by elegant town houses, cloistered behind its high iron fence, comes Mario Alfieri, the world's greatest tenor. Poised for his premier at the Metropolitan Opera, the summit of society, the handsome Al...



  • Lynn A. Coleman

    Isabella's parents are traditional, conservative Cubans. They would never dream of letting their daughter speak privately with a man; they would be furious to know he had held her hand and once nearly kissed her. Isabella doesn't want to dishonor ...



  • Barbara Colley

    In New Orleans' historic Garden District, life is all about attending the right parties, impressing the right people, and making the right amount of money (a lot!) It's an attitude fifty-nine-year-old Charlotte La Rue has never really understood. She...



  • Colleen Collins

    SHE'S HAVING THE RIDE OF HER LIFE... Corinne McCourt is starting over...the right way! After discovering her fiance with another woman, she's determined to be more daring, spontaneous...sexy. And what better way to begin than by swiping her fiance's...




  • Kim Comeaux / Kimberley Comeaux

    Nothing much ever happens in the peaceful East Texas town. But Billy Ray's simple, well-ordered life is forever complicated by his first arrest of a thief who turns out to be a young woman disguised as a boy. At her trial, Victoria "Tori" Nelson's...



  • Robert J. Conley

    He lit out of Texas with ten dollars and a swayback horse, a wanted man at age 13. Kid Parmlee's crime--he shot the man who shot his dog, Farty. Now, in the town of Fosterville, the Kid has found a hideaway--until his legend finds him. The West's scr...



  • Elizabeth Cook

    This powerful, passionate, and beautifully crafted retelling of the epic tale of Achilles re-creates Homer's fated hero in a new and striking reality. Born of the Sea nymph Thetis by the mortal King Peleus, and hidden as a girl until Odysseus discove...



  • Catherine Cookson

    The woman who presented herself at the offices of the respectable firm of London solicitors was, the receptionist decided, clearly a vagrant who had been sleeping on the streets. The clothes that hung on her frail body were filthy, and she seemed una...



  • Stephen Coonts

    An historic landmark collection, Combat, Vol. 2 depicts war as it is and soon will be-the shape of war to come.Featuring: Stephen Coonts, who tells the tale of an unlikely partnership between an ex-Marine sniper and a female military pilot who team u...



  • Lori Copeland; Angela Elwell Hunt

    WELCOME TO THE ISLAND OF HEAVENLY DAZE…Where Guardian Angels Keep Watch over a Community off the Coast of Maine. The guardian angels of Heavenly Daze Island really have their hands full when two of the town's quirkiest citizens, Vernie and Salt, t...



  • Shana Corey

    A stellar new story in Shana Corey and Mark Teague's irresistible Martina chronicles--perfect for beginning readers.

    A special visitor is coming to Pod 1! Everyone is excited. Except for Pelly...she may have been normal on her native Phobus, b...




  • Clare Curzon

    "When Daniel Winterton's ambitious wife, Caroline, went missing from their country home, leaving her daughter with her nanny, Mike Yeadings was involved as a sergeant in the investigation. He had hopes that the case would advance his career, however ...



  • Margery Cuyler

    Follow a sneeze from the farmer to his wife--and then to all of the barnyard animals--in this humorous, original paperback that the youngest children will adore!

    What do the farmer, his wife, and the farm animals all have in common?

    AH-...



  • Barbara Daly

    Cabot Drennan might be the sexiest man travel agent Faith Sumner has ever met, but she's not at all impressed by his idea of a romantic honeymoon. The jungle fantasy suite? Cameramen filming everything? And he has the gall to demand that Faith stand ...



  • Barbara Daly

    Charity Sumner is a scientist, not just another pretty face, and she intends to prove it! Disguising herself as a plain Jane, she ventures to win a position with the brilliant Dr. Jason Segal. But the only position Jason is interested in at the momen...



  • A.B. Daniel

    The New World and the Old clash in this bestselling epic of the Conquistadors and the Incas.In sixteenth century Peru, Anamaya, daughter of an Incan princess, is summoned to the dying Huayna Capac, ruler of the Incan empire. Huayna makes her gua...



  • Elizabeth Darrell

    This sequel, complete in itself, takes up the story of 646 Helicopter Squadron, in the air and on the ground.

    Dashing Flight Commander Randal Price is back in charge, miraculously walking again after his near-fatal accident, but with his marriage i...



  • Dee Davis

    When she was only eight years old, Riley O'Brien survived the unimaginable: the deaths of her mother and sister. As a result she vowed never to desert her father, a brilliant young congressman whose star was on the rise. Now, twenty-one years later, ...



  • Jill A. Davis

    Dissatisfied both with writing a “Single Girl on the Edge/ Ledge/Verge” lifestyle column and with her boyfriend (who has a name for his car and compulsively collects plastic bread ties), Ruby Capote sends her best columns and a six-pack of beer t...



  • Sharon De Vita

    Armed with a new name and an icy facade, reporter Rebecca St. John returned to Saddle Falls to bury her shameful past -- and unearth the secrets that had haunted her since childhood. But she'd have to investigate the publicity-shy Ryan family, still ...



  • John W. Dean

    The explosive, never-before-revealed story of how William Rehnquist became a Supreme Court Justice, told by the man responsible for his candidacy....



  • Katherine Deauxville

    Maryellen isn't sure whether to call the Men in Black or the men in white coats -- all she knows is that she is having an incredibly alien experience. The voice that comes out of her mouth isn't hers (she certainly wouldn't swear like tha...



  • Keith R.A. Decandido

    Need to build a subspace accelerator while under attack by a deadly local predator? Need to rescue a starship from interphase without getting trapped there yourself? Call in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team, specifically the crack team from the ...



  • John DeChancie

    Her name is Sara Pezzini. A New York City homicide detective with a deadly secret: A few years ago, she came into the possession of the Witchblade, a mystic weapon of unknown origin that has existed for centuries. Grateful to have first used it when ...



  • Kathie DeNosky

    Brett Connelly loved women -- and he liked kids as much as the next guy. Still, the playboy tycoon wasn't about to trade his Jag for a minivan. Why, then, his sudden urge to rescue pregnant detective Elena Delgado? The fiercely independent Elena r...



  • Linda Devlin

    A Face From His Past To the folks in tiny Rock Creek, Texas, Daniel Cash was a ladies' man with a smile as quick as his draw. Yet the infamous gunslinger with the legendary charm harbored painful memories of the girl he'd left behind when ...



  • Eric Dezenhall

    Jonah Eastman, disgraced Presidential pollster, is summoned home to Atlantic City by his ailing grandfather Mickey Price--a legendary Atlantic City gangster and owner of the Golden Prospect casino. When Mickey dies, Jonah is "persuaded" by mob boss M...




  • Robyn Donald

    Tempted... Wolfe has been looking for Rowan Corbett for five long years. She is the only one who knows the truth about his brother's death. But the woman he encounters is not the temptress he expected. In fact, Wolfe can hardly resist the l...



  • Shannon Donnelly

    WILL A NOTORIOUS RAKE BE HER KEY TO RESPECTABILITY? Glynis Chatwin has dreamed of becoming a respectable lady for as long as she can remember. Uncovering evidence of her stolen birthright is her only aim when she hides in a deserted bedchamber--bu...



  • Arthur Dorros

    Having always been eccentric, it is expected by the customers at Don Carlos's restaurant to get huge platters of interesting food, but when he introduces snails to the menu, things go awry and soon the whole town is in an uproar....



  • Susan K. Downs
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    From the day Han Shiren first learns of her arranged marriage to Shin Dewan, she dreams of the time when her betrothed will return to China and take her for his bride. Yet she fears her father's desire to see her wed to a Christian man may come to na...



  • Andre Dubus

    The seven stories collected here"including “Killings,” the basis for Todd Field’s award-winning film In the Bedroom"showcase legendary writer Andre Dubus’s sheer narrative mastery in a book of quietly staggering emotional power.

    A ...



  • John Dufresne

    "A comic opera…tuneful, playful." -- New York Times Book ReviewIn Shiver-de-Freeze, Louisiana (population 375), friends and family have gathered for the impending nuptials of Grisham Loudermilk and Ariane Thevenot. This will be no ordinary wedding...



  • Alice Duncan

    Let Me Call You Sweetheart Rose Ellen Gilhooley didn't get to be a star in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show for nothing. Bareback riding and shooting, along with some pretty sharp instincts, have taken her worlds away from the sleepy Kansas t...



  • Carola Dunn

    Now, 1923 New York, with its speakeasies and sharp wits, comes to vibrant life, as dauntless sleuth Daisy Dalrymple discovers that a guest at her honeymoon hotel has checked out...permanently. The Honorable Daisy Dalrymple, now Mrs. Daisy Fletcher...



  • Keith DuQuette

    Simple text and bold illustrations introduce young readers to the animal world by demonstrating how an animal's name can provide great information about their look, origins, and eating habits, such as the rat snake and African elephant. Jr Lib Guild....



  • Sabine Durrant

    The debut novel from the author of Under Your Skin, Remember Me This Way, and A Life With Me, a page-turning and comedic story about a woman on the brink.Maggie Owen has given up her day job and resigned herself to a life of playground moms and soile...



  • India Edghill

    The only woman in the Bible who is noted to have loved a man, Queen Michal was King David's childhood sweetheart, his first wife, and daughter of his great friend and greater enemy, King Saul. Married to and then abandoned by David at age 14, Michal ...



  • Robert Edric

    The Broken Lands-a treacherous labyrinth of ice through which the fabled Northwest Passage was sought for centuries. Cabot, Frobisher, Hudson, Parry and Ross were all defeated, and the names on the maps testify to their despair: Bay of God's Mercy, t...



  • Cassie Edwards

    Night after night she saw him in her dreams. A warrior, his body golden bronze, his hair raven black. He knew he was the one destined to make her a woman, the one who would bring her the love she'd lost so many years before. As a mere child of ten...



  • Pamela Duncan Edwards

    Zara, Ziggy and Zoe are three little witches who live in the magic wood. Join them in their magical world, where signposts give directions out loud, calendars sing, cookbooks have minds of their own, and party inviations fly out on wings. Together wi...




  • Bruce Elliot

    A woman's nightmare Night after night, Michelle Ransom is trapped in a terrifying dreamworld where the faceless bodies of murdered women haunt her, drawing her ever closer to the edge of madness. Is it all in her mind...or all too real? A cop's r...



  • James Ellison

    They have no way in. You have no way out.

    When recent divorcée Meg Altman and her ten-year-old daughter, Sarah, move to New York City to start fresh, they buy the former Upper West Side home of an eccentric millionai...



  • Michael Ely

    In the conclusion of the trilogy based on the popular computer game, set a century after the events of Dragon Sun, civilization braces itself for a final reckoning between the fanatical Believers of Sister Miriam and the technological power o...



  • Garth Ennis

    A white skull on a field of black. In the Marvel Universe, no symbol inspires fear in the hearts of criminals like the stark calling card of the Punisher. His wife and children killed in a mob shootout, former serviceman Frank Castle wages a one-man ...



  • John R. Erickson

    Suspicious sounds coming from near the clothesline, leads to a midnight investigation of the ranch. Before he knows it, Hank finds himself caught up with his old friend Eddy the Rac -- and face-to-face with one of a dog’s greatest enemies: the drea...



  • Diane Escalera

    Paradise Found A head-to-toe makeover by her hairdresser pal? Sure. Even a shy science teacher like Nina Nieves couldn't say no to a birthday present like that. Decked out in a devil-red dress, high heels, and a flirty ponytail, she's ready to par...



  • Elia Esparza

    Vision In White Daisy Magdalena O'Neal just got lucky--she found the perfect wedding dress in a thrift store! The antique gown is in pristine condition and it fits as if it had been made just for her. However, there's one small complication: Daisy...



  • Loren D. Estleman

    In Estleman's latest novel, Amos Walker is back on the streets of Detroit as he investigates the mysterious death of an ageing pulp fiction writer....



  • Loren D. Estleman

    Detroit PI Amos Walker steps into a lethal family feud when the beautiful widow of a powerful industrialist hires him to find her late husband’s illegitimate children Leland Stutch was building automobiles before Henry Ford ever dreamed up the Mode...



  • Dennis Etchison

    A thrilling collection of twelve stories, filled with the author's trademark terror and suspense, plunges readers into a nightmare world of the cursed and the damned where nothing is what it seems. Reprint....



  • Marcia Evanick

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  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s in for a cauldron of trouble with these ladies!Lawman Custis Long is in town on the trail of some no-good owlhoots. An easy enough chase, he reckons, but after a visit with the town’s most infamous lady of the night, Longarm realizes th...



  • Corinne Everett

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  • Wilma Fasano

    Cass Chase loves her job running a dolphin show in a Los Angeles marina. Ever since she broke up with Australian Jack “Digger” Coady, her work has been her only life. Digger shared her passion for dolphins, and she can’t imagine falling in l...



  • Colleen Faulkner

    Never in a million years had Grant expected this. His late wife, Ally, speaking on a memory videotape she'd left behind, was actually suggesting he start dating. "Date?" Grant thought aloud. "Who would I date? Who wants a widower w...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    When a bomb ripped through the Lone Star Country Club, all of Mission Creek, Texas, was shaken. Who was responsible? Was it the Mercados, Mission Creek's answer to the mob? The Carsons or the Wainwrights, two of the club's founding families? Or an ev...



  • Barbara Firth

    While exploring in the forest with Big Bear, Little Bear sets out all by himself to find a rock to climb and an old bendy tree to bounce on. Every step of the way, Big Bear is there to praise him for a job well done. But when Little Bear tries to cro...



  • Charles Fleming

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  • Richard Ford

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  • Gwynne Forster

    In all the world, only two things are important to Marge Hairston: her work as a journalist, and the three children she raised alone after her husband's death. Handsome Drogan, tempestuous Cassie, and gentle Sharon share a warm affection for each oth...



  • Kate Forsyth

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  • Terry Fowler

    Liza Stephens couldn't be more delighted to be rescued by a truly nice guy--until she discovered his real identity. Suddenly, he's not exactly the enemy, but he's certainly not...well, she can't be sure what he is. How can she deal with a new boss wh...




  • Lynn Freed

    Notable Book of the Year, New York Times Book ReviewHouse of Women is the story of three unusual women " seventeen-year-old Thea, her mother Nalia, an opera singer and Holocaust survivor, and Maude, their dour and religious housekeeper. It is the s...



  • Benedict Freedman

    In this long-awaited sequel to the “unforgettable” (Boston Herald) bestseller Mrs. Mike, Benedict and Nancy Freedman paint a portrait of the World War II era -- as seen through the eyes of a young Cree woman on her own for the very first time…W...



  • Judith Freeman

    In 1857, at a place called Mountain Meadows in southern Utah, a band of Mormons and Indians massacred 120 emigrants. Twenty years later, the slaughter was blamed on one man named John D. Lee, previously a member of Brigham Young’s inner circle. Red...



  • Fiona French

    With words from the King James Bible and bold illustrations inspired by stained-glass cathedral windows, this holiday gift book offers the complete tale of Easter from Jesus' arrival into Jerusalem through His ascension into heaven....



  • Judith E. French

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  • Kristin Gabriel

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  • Janice Galloway

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  • John Galsworthy

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  • Bonnie Gardner

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  • Darlene Gardner

    Annie Kubek is heartily sick of her mother insisting that she and Michael Reeves were born for each other. The ludicrous becomes the preposterous when Michael visits Annie's beloved rural community twenty-five years after they shared a crib.

    No w...



  • James Gelsey

    Scooby-Doo is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past three generations. The snack-sniffing sleuth and his pals are in the midst of a huge popularity boom right now.

    Ohhh Scooby! We need a little help from you now......



  • Amitav Ghosh

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND LOS ANGELES TIMES“A rich, layered epic that probes the meaning of identity and homeland -- a literary territory that is as resonant now, in our g...



  • Jimmy Gleacher

    With a cinematic wit and some emotional insight (rare from the male perspective), Jimmy Gleacher delivers his debut novel, a clever and heartfelt tale of a twentysomething guy's trip through love and relationships. Jack Wilson's got a few problems. ...



  • Kristi Gold

    Michelle Lewis had had her fill of smooth-talking healers. But Dr. Nick Kempner was hard to resist...especially when the sexy single father invited her to his scenic lakefront home for some much-needed R & R. Beneath the PR guru's all-work-no-play...




  • Joel Goldman

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  • Leslie Goldman

    What do human babies eat, anyway?

    Manny, Sid and Diego need to get Roshan back to his family. But before that they need to find him some dinner. Will the dodos get in their way? Find out in this hilarious story featuring all the great charac...



  • Lucy Gordon

    It was a grand white wedding that would make the society pages the world over -- handsome British aristocrat Jarvis Larne was marrying beautiful American oil heiress Meryl Winters. But behind the lavish ceremony, their vows were a sham. Marrying f...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    SNAKE IN THE GRASS W hen presidential candidate Richard Nixon decides to make Black River Falls, Iowa, a campaign stop during the summer of 1960, the county's most powerful judge, Esme Ann Whitney, wants the town to gleam like polished silver. So...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    In the small New England town of Hastings Corner, several women, including Dr. Abby Stewart and Greer Morgan, the daughter of Abby's closest friend, are targeted by a secret society of witch hunters that is out to destroy these few a selective, endan...



  • Carmen Green
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    Toni Kingsley is looking forward to an all-expense paid week at a luxurious resort on the island of St. Croix until she learns her gorgeous business rival is part of the vacation package. Toni's convinced work and romance don't mix but a week of more...



  • Grace Green

    Jordan dotes on his little daughter and can't refuse her anything. When she begs for Felicity Fairfax as her live-in nanny, Jordan gives in -- despite having a grudge against the Fairfax family! Both are astonished when their enforced intimacy...



  • Simon R. Green

    Toby Dexter is a slave to his own daily grind -- nine to five at the local bookstore. One evening he gets a reprieve in the form of a beautiful woman riding the same train. A woman he follows through a rainstorm. A Woman who opens a door in a wall th...



  • Tim Green

    A former Secret Service agent turned high-tech entrepreneur, Kurt Ford couldn't be more proud when his son Collin follows in his footsteps. But elation turns to despair when Collin is found dead in his apartment and the police rule the case a suicide...



  • Dan Greenburg

    Who can see through walls, glow in the dark, and save the planet before 10 P.M. (9:30 on school nights)? It’s MAXimum Boy. IS TWO TOO MUCH? That's what Max Silver is about to find out. Because his sister, Tiffany, is the newest superhero flying th...



  • Leigh Greenwood

    DANGEROUS GAMES This assignment was the most difficult of nurse Maggie Oliver's career. In order to save a sick baby, she had to go undercover. And the hardest part was that her cover was a make-believe honeymoon -- with the man who'd once been her ...



  • Stephen Gresham

    FROM OUT OF THE PAST IT BECKONED… Unspoiled by the hand of civilization, the raw, savage swamplands of east Alabama radiate life forces both natural and supernatural. On the edge of this murky landscape reside the Fossor sisters -- Tina, Gretta,...




  • Pamela Griffin
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    Love soars beyond castle turrets. Deep in the Black Forest of Germany a tradition begins and continues across many generations. The "dance of love" is timed to the beat of ancient customs, and hearts are drawn to its rhythms. Brigetta is surrou...



  • Pamela Griffin

    On the rocky and isolated coast of Maine, private investigator Julie Rae Daniels goes undercover to solve one last case, becoming a nanny of two children whose lives are filled with secrets. The children's father, Jonathan Taylor, is thought to have ...



  • John Grisham

    Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling...



  • Berkley Publishing Group

    This ingenious anthology of legal drama and suspense features all-new tories by some of the top writers in the field, featuring:
    Perri O'Shaughnessy
    Margaret Maron
    Margaret Coel
    Jonnie Jacobs
    Taffy Cannon
    Michael A. Kahn
    C...



  • Berkley Publishing Group

    An anthology of twelve original short stories and four essays explores the role and implications of the Battle of Gettysburg in American history as it presents an alternate history approach to the subject in works by Harold Coyle, Doug Allyn, Jim DeF...



  • Fred Grove

    During the roaring twenties, the oil rich Osage Indians of Oklahoma were among the wealthiest people in the US. Every can man and no-account drifter had a plan to get their hands on some of that money....



  • Andrew Gutelle

    A legend in his time! Tiger Woods has been a fixture in the world of golf since playing in his first professional tournament in 1992 at the age of 16. Since then he was won 37 tournaments, including all four majors. On April 8, 2001, at the age of 25...



  • Scott Guy

    After Stoat Muldoon turns Dog over to Dr. Brady Hacksaw, Do-Wah Diddy, 2-T-Fru-T, and B. Bop-A-Luna set out to rescue it, but things turn very hazardous when the Butt-Uglies' human allies unknowingly set loose an explosive alien....



  • Patricia Hagan

    Tragedy had left Carlee Denton to raise her best friend's baby, and her search for the little boy's father had led straight to Nick Starke. But she couldn't risk telling the handsome, wealthy orange grove owner that her new baby was his, too, until s...



  • Carolyn Haines

    She may be a Mississippi belle, but Sarah Booth Delaney is no pampered daddy's girl. Unwed and over thirty, Sarah has her own set of problems--like coping with regular hauntings by her great-great-grandmother's nanny, a busybody of a ghost who's set ...



  • Deborah Hale

    What did she really know of this stranger who'd rescued her home and thawed her ice-hard heart? Caddie Marsh was a proud Confederate, a widow for the Cause...or was she? For Manning Forbes bore a disturbing, dangerous, desirable resemblance to the hu...



  • Sara Hall

    The inspiring story of one woman's journey of healing and transformation.

    Sara Hall's life seemed perfect: a wealthy husband, a big house in an affluent suburb, three healthy children. But the surface of Hall's life hid a marriage filled with ...



  • Denise Hampton

    A KNIGHT'S DUTY... When dashing Josce FitzBaldwin gallops into Knabwell in search of revenge, he never expects to find...a bride! The beauty and grace of Elianne du Hommet -- the penniless daughter of the local sheriff -- entices Josce as no w...



  • Clea Hantman

    Three goddesses, banished to earth by their dad, Zeus (yeah, that Zeus)... Era, on mortal boys: "Look at him. Even the gods back home aren't that cute." Polly, on Nova High gossip: "I'm simply not in the mood to chatter on about silly spiteful girl...



  • Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

    This book is a thrilling retelling of the movie's story from Diego's perspective - his journey from bully to best buddy.

    Perfect for middle-grade readers, with language young fans can read themselves and packed with colour illustrations.



  • Mo Hayder

    Now a major motion picture: A boy’s abduction reawakens a haunted past for British detective Jack Caffery in this “deliciously chilling thriller” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   In a quiet residential area in London, a couple is dis...



  • Steven Heighton

    This is the story of Sevigne Torrins, poet and boxer, who sets out to make it in the world but whose sexual and professional misadventures take him from a demanding, muscular boyhood on the shores of Lake Superior to the trendy, bohemian life of Toro...



  • Lynne Heitman

    Black market airplane parts put countless lives at risk in this terrifying thriller: “The best white-knuckle ride I’ve taken in a long time” (Lee Child).   Alex Shanahan has accepted a new job with a Detroit start-up airline when the death...



  • Kristen Heitzmann

    They hoped their return would offer the chance for a fragile love to grow... Carina DiGratia Shepard longs to leave behind the painful memories represented by the town of Crystal, Colorado, and start anew in the California vineyards of her youth. ...



  • Beth Henderson

    Working as an amateur photographer in San Francisco's sordid Barbary Coast, Lilly Renfrew stumbled upon the grisly stabbing of a prostitute. Fleeing the murder scene with the killer fast in pursuit, she crashed into a man as handsome as sin who vowed...



  • Dee Henderson

    Air Force pararescueman Bruce "Striker" Stanton spends his life rescuing pilots downed behind enemy lines, and Grace Yates flies an F/A-18 Hornet for the Navy. On their dangerous jobs away from home, they exchanged love letters. Now a fight between S...



  • Vicki Hendricks


    Desperate, lonely, and dying for a thrill, Destiny Donne is perfect prey for a risk-taking skydiver in sexy noir master Hendricks' best novel since Miami Purity.

    Destiny-Desi for short-is a large animal vet in the sticks of central Florida...





  • Anne Herries

    Sold to Suleiman Bakhar after being taken prisoner on the high seas, Eleanor Nash is fearful of what will become of her. The all-powerful Suleiman will not allow her to leave Constantinople, while Eleanor is adamant that she will not willingly become...



  • Tobias Hill

    Burrowing through the goldsmiths' quarters and hidden archives of London, Tokyo, and Istanbul, Katharine Sterne is on the trail of a ruby, diamond, and pearl brooch once worn by Queen Elizabeth I. Interwoven with the tale of her hunt is that of a pai...



  • Kathryn Hockett

    She Met Her Match Though she's never laid eyes on him, flame-haired Erica of Clan MacQuarrie is defiantly proud that her father was a Viking Jarl. Around her neck she wears the garnet pendant he gave to her mother, and vows someday to follow her V...