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New Books List: 489 titles

  • 101 Ways To Get Away With Anything!

    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 ...

  • 10th Grade

    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...

  • Absolute Zero

    Chuck Logan

    In the icy jaws of an early winter, three big-city professionals joined Phil Broker on a canoe trip across Minnesota's remotest lake. Nature's unexpected fury battered and nearly killed them. But it was Man who left one of them worse than dead . ...

  • Achilles

    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...

  • Across a Thousand Miles

    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...

  • Adam and Eve and Pinch Me

    Ruth Rendell

    Minty’s boyfriend, Jock, was killed in the disastrous train wreck at Paddington, shortly after he borrowed all her savings. Now he has come back to haunt her. Zillah lost her estranged husband, Jerry, in that same accident. She is not convinced he ...

  • Ah-Choo!

    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-...

  • Air Ticket

    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 ...

  • Alternate Gettysburgs

    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...

  • Am I Big or Little?

    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...

  • The Analyst

    John Katzenbach

    Happy 53rd birthday, Doctor. Welcome to the first day of your death.When a mysterious letter bearing these threatening words is delivered to Dr. Frederick Starks, his predictable life is thrown into chaos. Suddenly, the psychoanalyst is plunged into ...

  • Andrew And Joey

    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 ...

  • Angel Fire

    Lisa Miscione

    The bloody murder of her mother when she was a teenager made Lydia Strong into a woman obsessed with bringing brutal killers to justice. Now thirty years old, she is a reclusive bestselling true crime writer and investigative consultant whose intuiti...

  • The Apprentice

    Lewis Libby

    The Apprentice takes place in a remote mountain inn in northernmost Japan, where a raging blizzard has brought together wayfarers who share only fear and suspicion of one another. It is the winter of 1903, the country is beset with smallpox and war i...

  • Are You for Real?

    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...

  • At Fault

    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...

  • Attack of the Apollyon

    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...

  • Bad Seed

    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...

  • The Banyan Tree

    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...

  • BarbieSummer Horse Camp

    Golden Books

  • Be Brown!

    Barbara Bottner

  • Beacon of Truth

    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 ...

  • Bearum Scarum

    Victoria Parker

  • Becoming Mary Mehan

    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...

  • Behind the Eyes of Dreamers and Other Short Novels

    Pamela Sargent

    In an untamed garden, a woman discovers the price of freedom Aniya is a perfect creature. Using the power of the Net, she has banished all of her painful memories, allowing herself to live in a state of perfect contentment on a far-future Earth. In o...

  • Belarus

    Lee Hogan

    It's a planet ripe for a new vision-of a glorious past that once was, and could be again. Andrei Mironenko, a powerful magnate in the Star republic, believes the pristine planet of Belarus is uninhabited and unspoiled.

    He didn't dig deep eno...

  • Beneath the Moors and Darker Places

    Brian Lumley

    In addition to his stellar Necroscope series, Brian Lumley is highly regarded for his short fiction, for which he has won the British Fantasy Award. Beneath the Moors and Darker Places, a companion to The Whisperer and Other Voices, collects nine len...

  • Bermuda Grass

    Keith Miles

    Alan Saxon is helping to design a golf course at a new hotel in Bermuda. When his daughter, Lynette, agrees to spend a week on the island with him, he envisages an idyllic holiday. He is soon disillusioned. To begin with, Lynette brings a fellow-stud...

  • The Big Bang Theory

    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....

  • The Big Day

    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 ...

  • The Big Egg Hunt

    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 ...

  • Bindings of the Heart

    Jennifer Peterson
    in

    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 ...

  • Bittersweet Passion

    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 ...

  • The Blackmail Baby

    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...

  • Blade 2: Bloodhunt

    Marv Wolfman

  • Blue's ABC Detective Game

    Deborah Reber

  • Blue's Sniffly Day

    Brigid Egan

  • Bob Books Wow!

    Bobby Lynn Maslen

  • The Body in the Bonfire

    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 ...

  • Bones of the Earth

    Michael Swanwick

    Modern technology is pitted against ancient dinosaurs in this scientific thriller James Rollins calls “Jurassic Park set amid the paradox of time travel.”   Paleontologist Richard Leyster is perfectly content in his position with the Smithso...

  • The Book of Fours

    Nancy Holder

    "We're Slayers, girlfriend. The Chosen." -- Faith From a place of nightmares -- which Buffy and Faith share -- a terrible evil invades Sunnydale, setting off disaster. Clearly, the big evil is linked to the Slayers' nightmares, which revolve arou...

  • Born for Each Other

    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...

  • The Broken Lands

    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...

  • Brothers of the Gun

    Cotton Smith

    When his brutal half-brother Star McCallister goes on a murderous spree of vengeance after he escapes from jail, killing two of John's friends and kidnapping his sister's children, former Texas Ranger John Checker travels into the heart of the wilder...

  • Buffalo Gordon

    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 ...

  • Built to Last

    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,...

  • Bunny Day

    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...

  • Burning Marguerite

    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...

  • The C.E.O.'s Unplanned Proposal

    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...

  • Cape Cod Stories

    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...

  • Captain Britain

    Alan Moore

  • The Captain's Return

    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...

  • Captive of the Harem

    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...

  • Carolina Pride

    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...

  • Carpetbagger's Wife

    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...

  • The Case of the Murdered Muckraker

    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...

  • Cash

    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 ...

  • Castle of Books

    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...

  • The Cat Next Door

    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...

  • Catch of the Day

    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...

  • Caution: Men in Trees

    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 ...

  • Cecil's Garden

    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...

  • Changer of Worlds

    David Weber

    WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR Lady Dame Honor Harrington--starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess--has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore. But it's a big universe, and Honor's actions affect a lot of live...

  • Channeling Cleopatra

    Elizabeth Ann Scarborough

    Powerful. Beautiful. Seductive. Cleopatra had it all. And soon any woman will be able to share her secrets, her wiles, her ways with men--for a price. Genetic research has advanced to the stage of "blending," the transplantation of cellular memory fr...

  • Charmed Again

    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...

  • Cherish the Flame

    Beverly Clark

  • The City of Ink Drinkers

    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...

  • Clifford's Loose Tooth

    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 ...

  • Coast of Coral

    Arthur C. Clarke

  • Coffins

    Rodman Philbrick

    Physician Davis Bentwood, making a lengthy housecall at the Coffin family mansion on the coast of Maine, finds the newborn grandson of Captain Cash Coffin, stiff and cold as a block of ice, in a cradle not ten feet from a roaring fire. Young Davis ca...

  • Coincidence

    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...

  • The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth

    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...

  • Combat, Volume 2

    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...

  • Come Midnight

    Veronica Sattler

    WHEN THE DEVIL CALLS THE TUNE... Love is hardly the problem when Adam Lightfoot, Marquis of Ravenskeep summons forth the devil. To save his young son's life, Adam is willing to do anything, and striking a reckless deal with Lucifer--otherwise kn...

  • Coming Up Roses

    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...

  • Confidence Woman

    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...

  • Conflict of Interest

    Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

    Joanne Kuhlman is a razor-sharp Assistant District Attorney, the kind of prosecutor who shows no mercy to the guilty and gets her conviction. That changes when she finds herself in the unfamiliar position of feeling sympathy for a defendant--a young ...

  • A Convenient Wedding

    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...

  • Cordina's Crown Jewel

    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...

  • The Cost of Cool

    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...

  • The Cottage

    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...

  • Cowboys and Cradles

    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...

  • The Cramp Twins

    Brian Wood

  • Crazy Love

    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...

  • Criminal Element

    Hugh Holton

    Chicago police sergeant Joe Donegan came to the department with a plan. To him the police badge was a license to steal, a free ride, and an easy way to get whatever you want, whenever you want--without suffering the consequences. And when City Counci...

  • The Crimson Brocade

    Susan K. Downs
    in

    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...

  • Crossroads

    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 ...

  • Cypress Point // The Shadow Wife

    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...

  • Daddy by Design?

    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...

  • A Dangerous Plan

    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...

  • Dark Magic

    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,...

  • Dark of the Night

    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, ...

  • The Darts of Cupid: And Other Stories

    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...

  • Dead and Buried

    J.R. Roberts

    GOLD MINER'S DAUGHTER No matter how hard Clint Adams tries to stay away from trouble, it always seems to find him. This time trouble is a group of ornery bushwhackers who've mistaken him for a hired gun. Even after teaching them the error of their wa...

  • Deadly Sources

    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...

  • Deadly to the Sight

    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...

  • Dearest Enemy

    Pamela Griffin
    in

    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...

  • The Death Artist

    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....

  • Death at Dartmoor

    Robin Paige

    "A sentence to Dartmoor Prison is a sentence to a living hell... " Lord Charles Sheridan and his American wife, Kate, have heard some truly awful things about Britain's most notorious prison. But Dartmoor and its mist-shrouded environs hold special a...

  • Death Rites

    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...

  • Deep in the Shade of Paradise

    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...

  • The Devil and Lou Prophet

    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...

  • The Devil's Trail

    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...

  • Diego's Journey

    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.

  • Dinner with the Dodos

    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...

  • Distance Runner

    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...

  • The Distant Beacon

    Janette Oke; T. Davis Bunn

    In a Time of Revolution, Even Hearts Can Be Overturned In England together at the Harrow estate, Anne and Nicole find themselves facing divergent futures. While Anne comfortably settles into British life, Nicole once again searches the far horizon. ...

  • Disturbing The Peace

    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...

  • Do Your Ears Hang Low?

    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...

  • Do-Wah Rocks!

    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....

  • The Doctor's Homecoming // Wyatt

    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 ...

  • The Doctor's House

    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...

  • The Doctor's Marriage

    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...

  • Dolphin Song

    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...

  • Don't Leave Me

    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 ...

  • Dr. Desirable

    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...

  • Dragon Bones

    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...

  • Drawn to the Rhythm

    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 ...

  • The Dream Factory

    Janet Leigh

    When Eve Handel, one of the few women in Hollywood with the power to make or break a star, is hospitalized due to a life-threatening illness, those closest to her become concerned for their reputations, because Eve's journal full of dark secrets is m...

  • Dream Island

    Josie Litton

    The legendary island nation of Akora has shunned outsiders for centuries, but fate is about to deliver a young Englishwoman into the arms of its prince -- and sweep them both into a daring love that knows no boundaries.... DREAM ISLAND Lady Joa...

  • The Dream of the Broken Horses

    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...

  • The Dream Room

    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...

  • Drinking Midnight Wine

    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...

  • Drop

    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...

  • E.T. and Me

    Kim Ostrow

  • E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Be Good, Gertie!

    Gail Herman

  • Easter: With Words from the King James Bible

    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....

  • Eat A Bowl Of Tea

    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...

  • Emma's Folly

    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...

  • Enemy Women

    Paulette Jiles

    For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family's avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and ...

  • Essential Wolverine, Volume 1

    Matt Idelson

    SC, TPB, in cello, Used-Like New, Featuring the talents of Chris Claremont, John Buscema, Peter David, Arvhie Goodwin, and John Byrne. Published in October of 2001. Softcover, 528 pages, B&W. Cover price $14.95....

  • Everything and More

    Sinclair LeBeau

  • The Extra-Terrestrial Movie Storybook

    Kim Ostrow

  • Falcon's Angel

    Judith E. French

    It would take more than an ordinary woman to save his soul. After his father's shocking suicide, Will Falcon began combing the Atlantic on a mission of revenge against the vicious scavengers who stole his family's fortune. But when a fierc...

  • Fantasy Lover

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Dear Reader, Being trapped in a bedroom with a woman is a grand thing. Being trapped in hundreds of bedrooms over two thousand years isn't. And being cursed into a book as a loveslave for eternity can ruin even a Spartan warrior's day. As a lov...

  • Far-Fetched Story Quilt

    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...

  • Fingersmith

    Sarah Waters

    Sue Trinder is an orphan, left as an infant in the care of Mrs. Sucksby, a "baby farmer," who raised her with unusual tenderness, as if Sue were her own. Mrs. Sucksby’s household, with its fussy babies calmed with doses of gin, also hosts a transie...

  • Fire Wind

    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...

  • Flight to Anywhere

    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...

  • For Whom Death Tolls

    Kate Kingsbury

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Comp...

  • Forever

    Timmothy B. Mccann

    In the sequel to critically acclaimed Until, Drew Staley, grieving over the death of his fiancT, finds a soulmate in Betty Robinson, who teaches him to believe in love again, but after a hasty marriage, they slowly drift apart and complicatio...

  • The Fourth Perimeter

    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...

  • The Fragile Flag

    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...

  • A Friend for E.T.

    Gail Herman

  • From the Heart

    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...

  • Fun with Mo and Ella

    Tui T. Sutherland

    Offers preschoolers two tales about best friends Mo the mouse and Ella the elephant as they attempt to make birthday presents for one another and meet a new friend who Mo is worried may take her special place in Ella's life. Original....

  • Gambler's Row

    Les Savage Jr.

    Three classic Western tales, from a master of Frontier fiction, are contained within this exciting volume that includes "Gambler's Row," in which a mysterious man known only as Drifter arrives at the Silver Slipper in Laramie, Wyoming Territory in se...

  • Gauchada

    C. Drew Lamm

    The gauchada offered in this story is a necklace -- a token made by a gaucho’s own hand and given with love. First it is given to a grandmother, who cherishes it until she feels moved to give an unexpected gift to someone else. In this way, the nec...

  • Get a Clue

    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...

  • Ghost Towns

    Betsy Thornton

    When former investigator Chloe Newcombe swapped her fast-paced New York City lifestyle for the solitude of the Arizona desert, she figured she was getting herself a peaceful life. But working as a victims' advocate has taught her that even the smalle...

  • Ghosts Don't Ride Wild Horses

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the mysterious man that the kids meet on a class trip really be the ghost of Coyote Pete, the toughest cowboy in the
    Wild West

    Mrs. Jeepers' class is taking a trip to a ...

  • Girl From the South

    Joanna Trollope

    Gillon Stokes - red-haired, intelligent, vulnerable - comes to London to escape from the demands of her wealthy, conventional, socially superior family in Charleston, South Carolina. An art historian, she has a chance meeting with Tilly, whose long-t...

  • Girls' Poker Night

    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...

  • The Glass Palace

    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...

  • The Golden Cord

    Judith McCoy Miller
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    Suey Qui Jin has been sold like livestock and taken across the Pacific Ocean to California. But mercifully, she is befriended by an American-born Chinaman who promises to help her. Can a symbolic ribbon from a Bible be the key to getting her out of s...

  • The Golden Orb

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Brackenrock Towering aloof and secure, the isolated fortress offers humankind a place to survive and flourish in the barren realm of Icereach. Even the elven Messenger Kerrick Fallabrine has made a home there, living among the humans and teaching ...

  • Good Job, Little Bear

    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...

  • Gramercy Park

    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...

  • The Greeks Have a Word for It

    Barry Unsworth

    When two men disembark from the same boat in Greece, their lives accidentally and frighteningly intersect. Kennedy, an opportunist, orchestrates a scam that will have some intended and some thoroughly unintended consequences. For Mitsos, an unresolve...

  • Green with Envy

    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 ...

  • Gruel and Unusual Punishment

    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...

  • Happily Ever After

    Jennifer Weinberg

    Join Ariel, Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Belle as each princess meets her prince for the first time -- then watch as they begin their new lives together! This big board book features a different Disney Princess on each of its five col...

  • The Happy Room

    Catherine Palmer

    Three adult siblings are reunited when one of them is hospitalized with a life-threatening illness. As Julia and Peter face the reality of their younger sister's condition, they are also forced to face unpleasant truths about growing up as missionary...

  • Haunted

    Jeff Mariotte

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... FEAR FACTOR Cordelia's getting her first big break -- as a contestant on yet another twist on "reality programming." The catch? She has to spend five days and four nights in a so-called haunt...

  • Having It and Eating It

    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...

  • The Hearse Case Scenario

    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 ...

  • Heart's Desire

    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...

  • Heaven Sent

    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...

  • Hen Goes Shopping

    Mark Birchall

  • Her Perfect Wife

    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...

  • Heraklion Blue

    Mike Lunnon-Wood

    40 Commando Royal Marines are professionals. When they are sent to the Democratic Republic of Congo to rescue European mineworkers and missionaries under threat from a rogue UNITA force, they arrive to find they are up against a considerable army wit...

  • Here We Go Round

    Shane Evans

    The year is 1946. Seven-year-old Roberta lives in Washington, D.C., with her parents -- but this summer they send her to live with her grandparents in rural North Carolina for one month while her mother is on bed rest for a difficult pregnancy.
    ...

  • The Heretic Kings

    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...

  • Hester Among the Ruins

    Binnie Kirshenbaum

    Yet Hester has her secrets, too, and the longer she remains in Germany the harder it is to keep them concealed. As she uncovers more of the Falk family's possible connection to Nazism, she finds herself reexamining her feelings about her own parents ...

  • The Hidden Dragon

    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...

  • His Healing Touch

    Loree Lough

    555...

  • His Lady Fair

    Margo Maguire

    How Could He Love This Daughter Of Treason...? Yet with his heart so full, his passion so afire, how could he not? Nicholas Hawken had never found a woman so attuned to his touch, his taste, his very being, as Lady Maria Burton. Though if her fat...

  • Hometown Girl

    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...

  • Homo Zapiens

    Victor Pelevin

    The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a huge consumer market, but how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one type of cola? When Tatarsky, a frustrated poet, takes a job as an advertising copywriter, he finds he has a t...

  • Hot as Ice

    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...

  • Hot on His Trail

    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. ...

  • House of Women

    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...

  • Hugs and Hearts

    Toni Trent Parker

    A soft padded cover, rhyming verse, and colorful photographs of young African-American children make up this warm celebration of Valentine's Day by Toni Trent Parker and photographer Earl Anderson.

    What do you think of when you think of Valent...

  • Hunting Season

    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...

  • Hunting the Snark and Other Short Novels

    Michael D. Resnick

  • I Dare

    Sharon Lee; Steve Miller

    Lee and Miller's eagerly awaited conclusion to the Agent of Change sequence of their Liaden Universe series. This long-awaited culmination of the Locus best-selling Agent of Change sequence of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller's internationally acclaimed ...

  • I Was a Rat!...or the Scarlet Slippers

    Philip Pullman

    "I WAS A RAT!" So insists a scruffy boy named Roger. Maybe it's true. But what is he now? A terrifying monster running wild in the sewers? The Daily Scourge is sure of it. A victim of "Rodent Delusion"? The hospital nurse says yes. A lucrative fai...

  • Ice Age: The Movie Novel

    Gene Hult

    Follow the road to adventure.

    Trail along with a trio of unlikely friends -- a moody mammoth named Manfred, a wisecracking sloth named Sid, and a scheming saber-toothed tiger named Diego -- on an exciting and sometimes dangerous quest to ret...

  • If the Shoe Fits

    Gary Soto

    Rigo doesn't like being the youngest brother. He always has to wear his big brothers' hand-me-downs. Plus, his brothers-Hector, Manuel, and Carlos-always seem to lose buttons, rip holes, and wear the clothes out before they get to Rigo! But Rigo's lu...

  • The Illuminated Soul

    Aryeh Lev Stollman

    Fleeing Prague in the wake of the outbreak of World War II, scientist Eva Laquedem wanders the world aimlessly, drifting rootlessly from place to place until she arrives in Windsor, Canada, at the home of a devout widow with two sons, carrying the Au...

  • Immersion and Other Short Novels

    Gregory Benford

  • Immortal Coil

    Jeffrey Lang

    He is perhaps the ultimate human achievement: a sentient artificial life-form -- self-aware, self-determining, possessing a mind and body far surpassing that of his makers, and imbued with the potential to evolve beyond the scope of his programming. ...

  • In Another Country

    Robert Silverberg

  • In Dante's Debt

    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...

  • In Good Hands

    Bill James

    Fear Grips The drug underworld after two principals in the trade are murdered, and even A.C.C. Desmond Iles is under a cloud of suspicion. Now the chief players start closing in on a fortune, while Iles, Chief Constable Mark Lane, and Detective Chief...

  • In the Bedroom

    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 ...

  • In the Blink of an Eye

    Julie Miller

    FROM OUT OF DARKNESS The mysterious explosion at the crime lab had cost one man his life, and had pitched Mac Taylor into perpetual darkness. Now, as the evidence mounted against the temporarily dismissed forensic expert, one person had dedicated ...

  • Indigo After Dark: Dance of Desire

    Cassandra Colt