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New Books List: 489 titles


  • 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...



  • Don Pendleton

    DEATH CLAUSE A black ops project has gone rogue, sending Mack Bolan into the world of shadow players and classified games as traitors in high places prepare to sell out America to terrorism and mass murder. In a mission where everyone has somethin...



  • Michael Salazar

    Front-line, behind-the-scenes military adventure that will steal your breath and take you deep inside the world of the nation’s most lethal human weaponsâ€"from an Air Force Combat Crewmember who’s seen the light . . .Whether on a call to rescue...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Christopher Nicole

    Sophie Gallagher drives a tour bus on the island of Guernsey, with nothing more important to consider than how to show off the sleepy little island to its best advantage, and perhaps her eventual marriage to her partner, Assistant Harbormaster James ...



  • Don Pendleton

    HUNTER/KILLER Stony Man monitors threats to the free world--and delivers swift action when crisis strikes. Deep inside the compound's war room, an elite group of warriors engages in state-of-the-art cyber battle--while the hard force in the field ta...



  • David E. Meadows

    When all hope is lost, keep fighting. The rebel coup in Algeria has crippled the U.S. military position and taken fifty Americans hostage. A botched rescue mission has trapped a team of American soldiers far behind enemy lines to face a group of d...



  • Beth Saulnier

    Hip, sexy, and sassy, Alex Bernier dazzles as a big-idea reporter for a small-time paper in upstate New York. But when fierce protests erupt at the local university over genetically engineered crops, she finds herself in a maelstrom of explosions, po...



  • Katherine Hall Page

    Caterer and small-town minister's wife Faith Fairchild might never have accepted the job teaching a course on Cooking for Idiots at Mansfield Academy had it not been for Daryl Martin. An African-American student at the prestigious prep school, Daryl ...



  • Judith Van Gieson

    When Claire Reynier becomes the victim of credit card fraud, she's stunned to discover that Evelyn Martin, an old college friend and sorority sister, is the culprit. She's even more shocked when Evelyn turns up dead. According to the police, Evelyn a...



  • Edward Sklepowich

    Back in Venice after a long absence, Urbino Macintyre pursues a blackmailer For two years, Urbino Macintyre has been away from his beloved city, wandering the streets of Morocco in search of material for his next book. When he steps off the train and...



  • Tamar Myers

    At Magdalena Yoder's PennDutch Inn, the meals are drop-dead delicious. When imprisoned con man Clarence Webber meets his Maker after sampling a bowl of gruel laced with arsenic, it's cruel and unusual punishment indeed. And since Magdalena provide...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • William X. Kienzle

    EXPLOSIVE OFFERINGS Precisely when the solemn ceremony receiving renegade Episcopal priest Father George Wheatley into the Roman Catholic priesthood is set to begin, a bomb explodes under the altar. Fortunately Father Wheatley arrives late, but po...



  • 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......



  • 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...



  • Carolyn Keene

    "SUGAR IS SWEET, SNOW IS NICE. TURN THIS PESTY DOG INTO ICE!" Nancy's friend Rebecca Ramirez wants to be an actress when she grows up. Now that she has the part of the Snow Queen in a play, she claims that with a wave of her magic wand she really ca...



  • Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    Created by leading designers and artists of graphic novels for the general market, Left Behind graphic novels are an entirely new and exciting format for Christian product. These are not the comic books you remember, but a modern way to communicate! ...



  • Hilda Stahl

    This series has been popular with young girls for over two decades, and the updated series is sure to be a favorite of this generation too. Elizabeth Gail Dobbs ("Libby") is a foster child and the newest member of the Johnson family. Libby's new Chri...



  • Nadia Nichols

    Rebecca Reed and Bill (Mac) MacKenzie have nothing in common...except their desire to run the Yukon Quest. She's an experienced musher who knows only too well how humbling the northern landscape can be. She understands that the Quest -- from White...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Jennifer Peterson
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    Lisa Perdue may have some Chinese heritage in her blood, but she is an all-American girl. She is unprepared for the harsh realities of a mission trip to China. And in the midst of eye-opening lessons, she may have to make a choice between two men in ...



  • Peggy Webb

    When minister Daniel Westmoreland met Skylar Tate, he knew he'd found paradise. She was a drop-dead-gorgeous singer with a voice that sent the angels swooning. But Skylar's father was also a preacher... and their rocky relationship had caused her to ...



  • Penny Jordan

    More than three million dollars to sleep with her husband -- and have his baby! Imogen had wanted nothing more than to be Dracco Barrington's bride! But a shocking revelation on their wedding day changed everything. She ran right out of her br...



  • Cynthia Scott

    Though it will break ties with the only place she has ever been happy, Marilyn Waters, an executive recruiter, decides to sell her great aunt's Victorian home to gain start-up capital for her own agency. Unfortunately, the house requires restoration,...



  • Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Cinderella by Mistake! When a case of mistaken identity landed Katie Canton in the Braddock world of wealth and power, she couldn't resist the temptation to mingle with the famous family. Especially fascinating eldest brother, Adam. Getting the co...



  • 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...



  • Marcia Evanick

    HOOKED ON LOVE Misty Harbor, Maine, is awash in eligible bachelors--and as the only single gal in town, newcomer Gwen Fletcher is surrounded by potential suitors. The trouble is, she's got a restaurant to renovate, and the carpenter she's hired se...



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  • 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...



  • Nora Roberts

    RUNAWAY PRINCESS For a few blessed weeks, Her Royal Highness Camilla de Cordina could be just plain Camilla MacGee. And working for Delaney Caine in Vermont's backwoods offered a perfect refuge from the press. But as her irritation toward the cant...



  • Danielle Steel

    A gleaming Rolls-Royce pulls through the gates of the magnificent Bel Air estate known as The Cottage. The man behind the wheel is Hollywood's ageless wonder, Cooper Winslow. A star of the silver screen for decades, a man whose allure to women is leg...



  • Sharon Swan

    Get along, little...babies? The Creedence Creek had once been a bustling cattle ranch...until Ms. Eve Terry bought the place out from under foreman Ryder Quinn and turned it into baby central. Who could blame Ryder for being so distressed at seein...



  • 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...



  • Cheryl Anne Porter

    Mechanic Trey Cooper has been in some tight spots before -- but he's never been stuck in an elevator with a woman about to give birth! Luckily they're rescued before he discovers if changing diapers is anything like changing tires. Still, beautiful C...



  • Nancy Newman

    Sarah is smart, sexy, talented, and funny ... and less than satisfied with her life. She has a career that she absolutely adores and true romance on the horizon. But there's something missing -- something that has her restlessly scanning the faces in...



  • Leah Martyn

    He wants his wife back! When Dr. Riley Brennan decides he wants to work abroad as a volunteer doctor, he wants his wife, Jane Rossiter, to go with him. But Jane wants to start a family -- and when they can't agree, Riley goes alone, leaving Jane f...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Francine Pascal

    Tia Ramirez's to do list: 1. Haircut 2. Study for French 3. Call Andy 4. Pick up cheese for mom's enchiladas 5. Decide what to do with the rest of my life...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Felicia Mason
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    Lucia Heart Allen arrives in the Bahamas seeking peace after a messy divorce. She absolutely does not want to get involved, especially with a widowed father of three small children. But the man makes Lucia's heart sing and her body soar. Maybe it's i...



  • Kate Thomas

    Busy Dr. Melinda Burke requires more than a housekeeper to get her hectic life in order. She needs a stay-at-home wife! But she never expects a stud like Jack Halloran to sign up to do her dirty work. The only hitch: Marry him! That's because Jack ne...



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  • Mary Jane Meier

    There's no place like home Lauren Van Horn, a big-city environmental lawyer, isn't as tough as people think she is, or as content with her life as she pretends. So when her sister, Becca, begs for Lauren's help in dealing with a personal crisis, L...



  • Merline Lovelace

    They called him Project Iceman. The U-2 pilot who, incredibly, hadn't aged since the day his top-secret mission went south into the Arctic Ocean...45 years ago. Biologist Diana Remington had the duty of monitoring the scientific marvel, but her OMEGA...



  • Karen Hughes

    Isabella Trueblood made history reuniting people torn apart by war and an epidemic. Now, generations later, Lily and Dylan Garrett carry on her work with their agency, Finders Keepers. Circumstances may have changed, but the goal remains the same. ...



  • Jane Porter

    Count Dante Galvan was ruthless. Though it broke Daisy's heart to hand over control of her family's horse farm to him, she had no alternative -- she was in Dante's debt up to her ears! Part of the deal included Daisy relocating to Dant...




  • 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...



  • Merrill Markoe

    “In the coming year,†she said, hoisting her blindingly clean and gleaming glass into the air, “may half of all your dreams come true.†“Mom,†I said to her, “isn’t that kind of pathetic?†“Well, it’s realistic.†It’s her th...



  • 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...



  • Rachel Lee

    A searing tale of love and redemption... Deputy Sheriff Sam Canfield is a man shouldering too many burdens. He defied his demanding father to become a cop and marry the woman he loved, never for an instant regretting his choice. Then his wife's tr...



  • 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...



  • Cheryl St. John

    "A LIFE WITH YOU JUST ISN'T POSSIBLE." Heather Johnson had never intended to return to Whitehorn, Montana. But restoring an inherited ranch seemed the perfect way to pass the summer with her three kids. The moment she hired carpenter Mitch Fielding,...



  • Jackie Merritt

    WILDCAT IN WHITEHORN After a rodeo accident, barrel-racing queen Maddie Kincaid was hotter than a fireball and wilder than tumbleweed. She sure didn't take to convalescing as well as she should have. Neither did she want handsome-but-uptight Dr. N...



  • Janice Kay Johnson

    More than anything, Officer Nell Granstrom wants to stop history from repeating itself. Born to a 16-year-old mother, Nell had her daughter, Kim, at the same age. Now Kim's 16 and has a serious boyfriend. But how much weight can Nell's words have?...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Mary Anne Wilson

    Will a weekend getaway in a secluded cabin rekindle the sparks between new parents Adam and Maggie McCallum?...



  • Mindy Neff

    After sharing a tantalizing kiss with his loyal nurse, can Dr. Zachary Beaumont remain immune to the fierce passion Annabelle Reardon's presence arouses?...



  • Kasey Michaels

    When Madeline Sheppard gets a birthday makeover, will her best friend and secret crush, Ian Russell, finally see her for the woman she is?...



  • 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...



  • Jennifer Taylor

    A child to save a marriage Morgan rushed to his next case and discovered the woman he’d missed for the past four years lying injured with a child in tow. As Morgan stood by her bed with Tomas in his arms Katrina felt her dream of adopting Tom...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Jule McBride

    SHE WAS IN THE WRONG BED... Reputed bad girl Vanessa Verne is ecstatic when Morgan Fine seduces her -- even if it is a case of mistaken identity. After all, she's been trying to get the sexy bodyguard in bed for weeks! She'd even sent herself steamy...



  • 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...



  • Barbara Samuel

    Voluptuous Jewel Sabatino kicked over the traces of her Catholic Italian family and ran off with a guitar player when she was only 17--shaking the dust of Pueblo, Colorado, from her fast-moving feet. Her furious father disowned her while her mother a...



  • Meg Lacey

    Undercover cop Shay O'Malley has the toughest assignment of his career. He, a Yankee, has to bring down one of the most prestigious families in New Orleans. Worse yet, he's unknowingly slept with Juliette Fortier -- Princess Juliette Fortier -- who m...



  • Rachel Solar-Tuttle

    In this powerful novel, an accomplished young woman, suddenly seized by self-doubt, falls headfirst into a fervent exploration of the merits and pitfalls of being good. Rebecca Lowe is an upbeat coed, the one who gets straight A's, the one friends a...



  • Jessica Matthews

    A life-and-love decision! E.R. nurse Rachel Wyman has come back to Hooper to get over a tragedy -- and think about a new career. Dr. Nick Sheridan adores Rachel and knows she's a brilliant nurse. He needs her and so does Hooper General Hospital. If...



  • Marcia King-Gamble
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    A relaxing cruise with her best friend sounds perfect to hard-working Kitt DuMaurier. The last thing she wants is the attention of a sexy ship's officer. A painful past has left Kitt wary of men, but when she finds herself on the exotic island of Aru...



  • 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...



  • Gail Gaymer Martin
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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. Though Once a Stra...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Laurie Paige

    "WHAT BETTER WAY TO CONQUER YOUR OPPONENT THAN TO GET EXTREMELY CLOSE TO HIM?" Hope Baxter had teethed on stories of Kincaid family corruption. So when her ruthless father demanded his lawyer daughter wrench prime land from the Kincaids' grasp...s...



  • Nancy Morse

    Rennie Hollander ran from her loveless engagement -- straight into the heart of darkness. Under storm-filled skies, her plane went down and she awoke temporarily blinded -- and in the arms of a mysterious stranger.... From the moment John Panther ...



  • Debra Kastner

    She was goin' to the chapel...and she was going to get married -- to the dashing new minister. At least, that was Julia Evans's plan. Convinced holy matrimony should be based on more than romance, Julia was caught off guard when old-fashioned firewor...



  • Alexandra Sellers

    "You're mine and no other man's." -- Jafar al Hamzeh, Royal Advisor Extraordinaire Savoring the look on his ex-lover's face, he swept her astride his regal steed, then raced toward his desert domain. Once, he'd envisaged Lisbet Raine as mother to...



  • Kathleen Gilles Seidel

    HOME...SUNLIT MEMORIES AND SHADOWED SECRETS It has always been a burden for quiet, level-headed Tess Lanier to be the daughter of Nina Lane -- the gifted and tormented author who died soon after Tess's birth. Determined to be nothing like her exub...



  • Marilyn Pappano

    Tyler Ramsey's mission was to follow the trail of Montebello's missing crown prince to Montana, not to guard a pampered princess. But when Princess Anna Sebastiani insisted on joining the search for her brother, Tyler became her reluctant bodyguard. ...



  • Sue Swift

    Who was he...this sexy but injured amnesiac cowboy who'd sought out her cabin, then staked a claim on her soul? From Stetson to boots, he looked like an upstanding lawman. But was he an enemy from her imprisoning past? Or a sweet, loving rescuer unlo...



  • Rebecca Russell

    Revenge had brought Tanner Fairfax to the small town of New Haven, Ohio...and Cassie Leighton gave him ample reason to stay. The terms of his grandfather's will stated Tanner needed just 30 days in the old man's house before he could sell his unwante...



  • Luanne Rice

    AFTER EVERY STORM THERE IS A PLACE TO RETURN TOE YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO FOLLOW YOUR HEART.... Artist Dana Underhill has always been a free spirit, traveling the world, filling her canvases with the mysterious colors of the seas she and her sister...



  • 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...



  • Kayla Perrin

    Double Trouble... "Mr. Right" was WRONG! Lovelorn librarian Serena Childs was destroyed when Cecil Montford -- the fine-looking charmer she thought was "The One" -- snuck out of her life with her savings and a priceless diamond necklace. And now h...



  • 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...



  • Yolonda Tonette Sanders

    Natalie Coleman has always done whatever she needed to survive--even if it meant stealing another woman's husband or trading her favors for money. But now, with a steady job, a rekindled bond with her grandmother Big Mama and a promising new relation...



  • Margaret Way

    Jewel Bishop grew up in the Outback, and she feels defined by it. Then she makes a devastating discovery -- she's not who she thought she was. There are secrets in her past, and they affect her present life. Keefe Connellan becomes part of Jew...



  • Kristin Gabriel

    Can a skirt really act as a man-magnet? Kate Talavera is a true believer. After all, the skirt has already snared husbands for her two best friends! So when seriously sexy Brock Gannon storms back into her life after 12 years, and makes it plain that...



  • Bonnie Gardner

    Desperate times call for desperate measures! So when general's daughter Darcy Stanton abruptly balked at marrying a macho military man, she shamelessly fled her wedding and hit the road running. But fickle fate delivered Darcy into the arms of...



  • Jeanne Sumerix

    Tears escape the young woman's eyes and with her dying breath she pleads,"Please don't let them take my baby." Forest ranger Penny Hart and FBI agent Mack Holsey, witnesses of a hit and run accident, are thrust into a whirlwind of mystery, crime and ...



  • Raye Morgan

    To: Sharon, Jen, Lauren, Julia From: Maggie Date: 2/02 RE: The boss's little secret... It's true -- I'm pregnant! I've kept it quiet because I wasn't sure how you'd react to my visiting a sperm bank. You know all the ...



  • 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...



  • Shelby Lewis

    Note to Self: Track Down Murderer Florist Daisy Rogers was hoping that her very first flower show would gain her garden shop national exposure. But not the kind that comes from the murder of her guest speaker--celebrity horticulturist Kandi Kane. Da...



  • Linda Randall Wisdom

    TROUBLE IN WARM SPRINGS The sleepy little town in the California desert was supposed to be a sanctuary for Detective Bree Fitzpatrick -- a place of refuge from the big-city crime that had left her a widow with three children to raise. But somet...



  • 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...



  • Deborah Smith

    Proud and powerful, the Hardigree family was as unyielding as the Carolina marble that had made them rich. Ruled by her grandmother, ten-year-old Darl learned that privilege demanded distance from others. Yet nothing could keep her from Eli Wade, an ...



  • 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...



  • Kate Little

    Lovely physical therapist Rebecca Calloway might not actually be residing with a fire-breathing dragon, but at times it seemed that way. For corporate mogul Grant Berringer, who'd once possessed the golden touch in business -- and with women -- had s...



  • Cait London

    DEAREST ENEMY... For two decades, Adam Tallchief's heart had insisted on no other woman but Jillian O'Malley. Now his first love had returned to Amen Flats, but not to kiss and make up. Jillian was on a revenge mission to destroy the Tallchiefs, a...



  • 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...



  • Carol Steward

    Just when Adam MacIntyre answered his true calling at last, putting down roots on his Colorado ranch, along came footloose Lisa Berthoff to turn things upside down. His siblings might have marched down the aisle with hers, but Adam wasn't about to fa...



  • Courtni Wright

    Will a Friendship Rediscovered... Denise Dory has proven herself as a top-flight detective with a suburban Maryland police department. Now her unique skills have landed her a prestigious position on the Special Task Force investigating the death of ...



  • 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 ...



  • Sara Wood

    She wanted to be more than just his mistress... They are complete opposites. Cassian is gorgeous, wealthy -- he exudes charisma and confidence. But Laura is penniless and painfully shy. Unexpectedly, Cassian finds he's attracted to her.... ...



  • Raeanne Thayne

    Certainly he had been bewitched by women before, but for rancher -- and single father -- Matt Harte, this was the last straw! Because of his daughter's shenanigans, he'd gotten roped into planning the annual Valentine's Day dance. And his partner in ...



  • Laura MacDonald

    Unexpected emotions… Maggie Hudson’s busy life as a single mother of two children and a local family doctor meant that things weren’t always easy. But she was a survivor, whose strength and determination won her many admirers. Yet she never ...



  • Karen Hughes

    "WE HAVE TO GET MARRIED -- OR YOU'LL DO HARD TIME!" When Jackson Colton became a suspect in his uncle's attempted murder, the handsome loner had to risk it all to prove he was being framed. But he wasn't alone for long. For he found sweet solace w...



  • Teresa Southwick

    The man behind the badge... He had a secret -- and it was a doozy! Sheriff Grady O'Connor's twins -- the girls he loved more than anything -- were actually fathered by Jensen Stevens's late husband. And now their uncle wanted to claim them for their ...



  • Tamara Sneed

    One of San Francisco's most eligible bachelors, Police Inspector Logan Riley is handsome, charming, and never lacking for dates. But anyone who knows Logan also knows that his relationship with women only amount to"five-weekers"--unions that end abr...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Meredith Webber

    Emergency Reunion After five years Ginny is still the beautiful, caring woman Max remembers, and a wonderful emergency nurse. In her eyes he can still see the longing he shares, but she clearly hasn’t forgotten him. It takes a murder investigatio...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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 LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    As freezing temperatures envelop the earth, Judd tries to figure out his next move. Lionel struggles to help a friend. Back at the schoolhouse. Vicki pulls the kids together in the midst of the worst judgment yet. Mark prepares to meet a mysterious f...



  • Elizabeth Lenhard

    CHARMED AGAIN

    In this night and in this hour

    I call upon the Ancient Power.

    Bring back my sister,

    Bring back the Power of Three.

    Piper and Phoebe Halliwell are devastated by the loss of their big sister, Prue...



  • Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    Amid screams of agony from the scores of people affected by the latest judgment, the Young Trib Force struggles to stay alive as terrifying demons take over the earth. In Israel, Judd, Lionel, and Samuel hatch a plan to tell Sam's father the truth...



  • Patricia Briggs

    PLAYING THE FOOL Most everyone thinks Ward of Hurog is a simple-minded fool--and that's just fine by him. But few people know that his foolishness is [very convincingly] feigned. find that it's all that's saved him from death at the hands of his a...



  • 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...



  • Jane Langton

    Everything depends on them....

    When Georgie Hall decides to walk from Concord, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C., with a letter to the President and an old flag capable of producing magical visions, no one doubts that she h...



  • 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...



  • Paul Kearney

    In times of chaos, when everything familiar is made strange and nothing remains secure, the future of all people is shaped by the actions of a few... The resisters of terror When the power-hungry and fanatical Pius won himself enough allegiance e...



  • Irene Radford

    IT WAS A TIME FOR LEGENDS TO BE BORN.... Operating on the wrong side of interstellar law one time too many, the three O'Hara brothers found themselves in a life-or-death flight from the forces of the Galactic Terran Empire. In a last desperate man...



  • Rhiannon Lassiter

    A Supercomputer Brain In A 15-Year-Old's Body...Meet Raven, The Most Dangerous Teenager In The World....Tomorrow has come. And now, in 24th-century London, the CPS, a secret government agency, is on a mission to seek and destroy the Hex-human mutants...



  • L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    The Shadow Sorceress, concludes New York Times bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr.'s epic fantasy series the Spellsong Cycle begins a new story arc for a new cycle of tales starring a new heroine who must face a series of deadly political and mili...



  • Kate Forsyth

    Remember the words of the Soul-Sage: The fastest route is not always the straightest. In the land of Eileanan, the Pact of Peace has not meant the end of unrest. Isault and Lachlan must continue to deal with their military position in Tirsoilleir-...



  • Cate Tiernan

    Frightening things are happening around me. Someone's magick is being used for violence. My friends think it's me. They're wrong. I'm not the one who's out of control. But how can I prove it -- before it's too late? ...



  • Tom Deitz

    In this stirring sequel to the epic dramas Bloodwinter and Springwar, a new king must strive to heal a war-torn land, master a dangerous and world-altering magic, and defeat a secret and fanatical religious sect that will stop at nothing to gain tota...



  • Jennifer Roberson

    The sixth book in the Sword-Dancer saga continues the legendary adventures of Tiger and Del, magic wielders and skilled warriorsThe South had always been Tiger’s home. Left as an infant to die in the desert, his real origins were unknown. When he w...



  • 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 ...



  • Mel Odom

    Meow mix-up While at a traveling Chinese circus, Sabrina can't help but notice Jian, a cute, young animal tamer and acrobat. Meow! To her surprise, Sabrina is chosen to join him in the ring as his assistant. To impress Jian, Sabrina "borrows" a famou...



  • Michael Hoeye

    When the watch stops...the adventure begins! Hermux Tantamoq is an average mouse who works in his watch shop by day and spends evenings at home with Terfle, his pet ladybug. Nothing extraordinary has ever happened to him. That changes when Linka P...



  • Keith Francis Strohm

    Kaerion Whitehart was once a mighty paladin, but sins of the past have cast him far from the light. Together with an elf mercenary, he now survives by the might of his sword alone. In exchange for a hefty purse, the two friends agree to accompany ...



  • 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...



  • Andre Norton

    Witches Rule on Warlock!Andre Norton called by Time the Grande Dame of science fiction, has created one of the most memorable worlds in SF in the planet humans call Warlock, secretly ruled by the matriarchal Wyverns, an alien race of witches who are ...



  • David Levithan

    I got away with it and you can too!* NEED USEFUL TIPS ON DRIVING YOUR PARENTS CRAZY? Or advice on talking to someone you like without making a total fool of yourself? How 'bout a how-to on dealing with an off-the-wall teacher? Ever needed to fake ...



  • Joseph Weisberg

    Jeremiah Reskin has big plans for tenth grade -- he wants to make some friends and he wants to take a girl’s shirt off. It’s not going too well at first, but when he meets a group of semibohemian outcasts, things start to change. Soon he’s nego...



  • 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...



  • 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-...



  • 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...



  • Jamie James

    When Joey, a hot-blooded Cajun choreographer, is awarded a grant to fund a year of study and dance in Bali, he spirits Andrew, his reluctant lover of fourteen years, to Bali, but when Joey engages in a bevy of steamy indiscretions, Andrew is crushed ...



  • Kate Chopin

    Thérèse Lafirme, a beautiful and resourceful Creole woman, is widowed at age thirty-two and left alone to run her Louisiana plantation. When Thérèse falls in love with David Hosmer, a divorced businessman, her strong moral and religious convictio...



  • Christopher Nolan

    Covering the eighty-plus years of the life of Minnie O’Brien, The Banyan Tree is a rich saga of rural Ireland in the twentieth century. In prose as lushly layered as the land it describes, Nolan lovingly details the triumphs and tragedies of this s...






  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Barry Unsworth

    It was a big day for Cuthbertson's Regional School, and it would go off like a bomb. Donald Cuthbertson prided himself on being a model for his students and teachers, but he had lately begun to lose his focus. Degree Day is approaching, along with a ...



  • Suzanne Weyn

    T-Bone learns how much his friends really care about him in this original easy-to-read story that is illustrated in the style of the Clifford PBS-TV series.

    It's the day of Birdwell Island's people-and-pups egg hunt. People and their pooches ...






  • Sinclair Lewis


    The first novel in an ambitious new series, a fictional history of the west as seen through the eyes of runaway slave Nate Gordon. He has returned to Louisiana as Sergeant Major Nate Gordon of the Tenth United States Cavalry. His job, to recruit ...



  • Rick Walton

    Spend the day with a lovable bunny family from eight o'clock in the morning, when Father Rabbit wakes up his little bunnies, to eight o'clock at night, when Mother Rabbit tucks them into -bed. Every hour bunnies are busy doing something new: at el...



  • Elizabeth Inness-Brown

    One winter morning James Jack Wright finds ninety-four-year-old Marguerite Deo -- the woman he has always known as “Tante†-- lying dead in the woods outside his cabin, clad only in a flowered nightgown. With this arresting scene, Elizabeth Innes...



  • Tim Smith (2)

    From the drifting sand dunes and quaint shops of Provincetown to Nantuckets whitewashed verandas and craggy beaches, Cape Cod Stories evokes all the rustic beauty and history of this picturesque area in the words of Americas best writers. With a stri...



  • 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...



  • Darrell Spencer

    "Terse, fast-paced prose, compressed, vivid, and precise."―Kirkus Reviews

    Darrell Spencer writes wonderfully textured stories of men and the turning points in their lives. His rich storytelling style, full of details and asides, emotion and ...



  • Holly Keller

    Jake carried the hoe. Posey brought the watering can. And Cecil held the seeds. It was time to plant the garden. But then the trouble started. No one could agree on what to plant, and soon it was too hot to work. Sadly, Cecil went off to visit the...



  • Eric Sanvoisin

    It’s moving time for the ink drinkers Odilon, Carmilla, and Draculink. They need to find a new cemetery in which to plunk down their coffins -- and quickly! Otherwise Draculink will crumble into dust and Carmilla will leave for good. Can Odilon com...



  • Wendy Cheyette Lewison

    Clifford is worried about his loose tooth. Emily Elizabeth reassures him that, when it falls out, a bigger tooth will replace it, and that he will get a treat from the tooth fairy. Clifford and his friends try to take the tooth out early so Clifford ...




  • Joseph Roth

    The Collected Stories, in its variety and force, is the essential introduction to the fiction of Joseph Roth.

    Appearing in English for the first time, The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth includes seventeen novellas and stories that echo the in...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • David Lozell Martin

    Joseph Long, known locally as Bear, is a farmer ridiculed by neighbors for his strangeness. Lonely nearly to the point of madness and so desperate for human touch, he leans against the hands of the barber giving him a haircut. Katherine Renault is...



  • Jenny Markas

    Britney Spears is the ultimate pop star of "generation now". CROSSROADS is her first major feature film--a coming of age "dramedy" with music.


    By turns poignant and playful, CROSSROADS is about three childhood friends, grown apart. One is ...



  • Edith Templeton

    When Edith Templeton’s stories began appearing in The New Yorker in the late 1950s, she quickly became a favorite of the magazine’s discerning readers. Her finely honed writing, honestly drawn heroines, and distinctive themes secured her reputati...



  • 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...



  • 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.



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Marcel Moring

    Set in the 1960s, The Dream Room is the story of a family's dissolution, as witnessed through the eyes of twelve-year-old David. An only child, he is fascinated by the culinary arts -- making the family's dinner nightly and reading cookbooks as if th...



  • Mat Johnson

    A passionate and original new voice of the African-American literary tradition.

    Chris Jones has a gift for creating desire-a result of his own passionate desire to be anywhere but where he is, to be anyone but himself. Sick of the constrain...



  • Kim Ostrow




  • 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....



  • Louis Chu

    At the close of the Second World War, racist immigration laws trapped enclaves of old men in Chinatowns across the United States, preventing their wives or families from joining them. They took refuge from loneliness in the repartee and rivalries exc...