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New Books List: 489 titles



  • 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 ...



  • Fred Grove

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



  • Joe Casey

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

    A wild, new ev...



  • Chris Claremont

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



  • John Burningham

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



  • Berkley Publishing Group

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Yvonne Vera

    Yvonne Vera's novels chronicle the lives of Zimbabwean women with extraordinary power and beauty. Without a Name and Under the Tongue, her two earliest novels, are set in the seventies during the guerrilla war against the white government.

    I...



  • 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 ...



  • V.C. Andrews

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



  • Lisa Jackson

    Every eye in the great hall was on Lady Apryll. In a clinging white gown, she floated through the revelers-like a wanton angel, inflaming the interest of Lord Devlynn. Brazenly he took her in his arms and promised her ecstasy. Before the night was ov...



  • Margaret Mayo (1)

    Waggle my fingers
    And wriggle my toes
    Waggle my shoulders
    And wiggle my nose.

    Here in one sumptuous collection are fun-filled stories and rhymes about teddy bears, tractors, animals, playtime, bathtime, and bedtime. Wiggle Waggle Fu...



  • Beth Henderson

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



  • Norma Seely

    Fog settles in and a leisurely drive turns frightening for mystery writer Annie Kirk when the car she's in is forced off the road. She and the driver, Brendan Marshall, are unhurt, but they're also unprepared for the bizarre events that take place as...



  • Kate Manning

    I was not always a white girl. I used to be just Charlotte. A person named Charlotte Halsey. But when I met Milo, when I fell in love with him, I became White, like a lit light bulb is white. In the mirror there is my skin the color of sand, hair the...



  • Janice Galloway

    VALENTINE'S DAY MAKES ME EMBARRASSED, writes Janice Galloway in the opening lines of Where You Find It. The collection deals with love in its many guises — the way relationships suddenly turn; how a look, a gesture, a word can heal or hurt. Love...



  • 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...



  • Arthur Dorros

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



  • Kathleen Kane

    It was strictly against the rules for Patience Goodfellow to fall in love with Brady Shaw, saloon wonder, ex-gunfighter, and ladies' man. But Patience knew he had a heart of gold. She should. She had been his guardian angel since he was eleven years ...



  • 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...



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



  • Steve Thayer

    "I am an old man in love with a ghost. "...That's the kind of line that can really grab a reader. Steve Thayer uses it at the beginning of The Wheat Field, a novel as haunting as its opening suggests.... The old man in this time-shifting narrative...



  • 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 ...



  • Sandra Benitez

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

    Sandra Bentez received international acclaim ...



  • Cassie Miles

    TIME WAS RUNNING OUT... Thea Sarazin thought she was attending her friend's wedding at a remote castle in the mountains, but when she arrived, destiny had other ideas. Her senses were on red alert when she discovered that one of the wedding guests w...



  • Marian Wells

    Two Beloved Novels in One Special Edition! Encounter the Bittersweet Story of a Young Woman Seeking Both Hope and Love

    Historical fiction at its finest, The Wedding Album captivates both the mind and the emotions as it brings to life an important ...



  • 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...




  • Scholastic Inc.

    "We are all alike...we all have hearts and brains. We are all different...we do not think or feel the same way." An important lesson -- for children, by children. WE ARE ALL ALIKE...WE ARE ALL DIFFERENT celebrates the multitude of differ...



  • Stephen White

    SOMETIMES THE WARNING SIGNS COME TOO LATE... The brutal slaying of Boulder's controversial D.A. strikes deep in the heart of everything clinical psychologist Alan Gregory holds dear: After all, Alan's wife, Lauren, worked for the dead man. When...



  • Lori Copeland; Angela Elwell Hunt

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



  • 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 ...



  • Jim O'Mara

    Carolina Steele built her ranching empire the hard way-with lies, lawyers, and outright murder. But as she takes the last steps to secure her power, a gunslinger with a grudge uncovers her dastardly plans-and prepares to shoot her empire to the groun...



  • 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...




  • Vince Passaro

    Will Riordan, lawyer, husband, and father, is a modern man, and this is the story of his awakening and return to humanity -- a powerful tale of New York City and of modern faith, family, and redemption....



  • Lee Kochenderfer

    A poignant story of a young girl desperate to do her part during uncertain times, and the loyalty, sacrifice, and friendship she finds in her community.It’s 1943, and everyone says the war will be over soon"World War II, that is"but Teresa...



  • 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 ...



  • Jeffrey Ames

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



  • Art Isberg

    Raffe Latimer spent five long years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Each day he dreamed of the moment when he could return to his ranch in Placer City, Oklahoma, and find the men who framed him for the crime. Eager to get their hands on the...



  • 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 ...



  • Maya Rasker

    In the realization that my language is powerless to describe what has happened in the seven years since I first met her, I am compelled to recount the story of my wife, the beautiful Raya Mira Salomon, who disappeared on the night of August 31, 1997,...



  • 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...



  • 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.... ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • Michael Ely

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



  • Indu Sundaresan

    An enchanting historical epic of grand passion and adventure, this debut novel tells the captivating story of one of India's most controversial empresses -- a woman whose brilliance and determination trumped myriad obstacles, and whose love shaped th...



  • Dee Henderson

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



  • John A. Miller

    "[Miller] draws the 1950s perfectly. . . [Tropical Heat] is a finely crafted, superbly written novel that deserves wide readership." -- Publishers Weekly, ** starred review ** When an army officer is found dead in the small Virginia town of Hopewell,...



  • Rebecca Kraft Rector

    Tria never, ever goes Outside -- that’s where germs are . . . and living, bacteria-breathing humans! She’d much rather stay inside her pod with her best friend, a hologram named Star. But now she doesn’t have a choice. Her mom has disappeared a...



  • Mo Hayder

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



  • Damien Broderick

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



  • Kathleen Mix

    The idea of spending the winter working in a tropical paradise is too tantalizing for Melissa Catterly to resist. On an impulse, she accepts a job as a gourmet chef aboard a sixty-five foot sailing yacht bound for the Caribbean.

    When the boat set...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Judith O'Brien

    THE MAGIC CHARM It was a lovely silver necklace with a strange antique charm--an early sixteenth birthday present from her parents. But now Samantha clutched the charm, desperate to disappear 'when her father discovered she'd wrecked his BMW . . . S...



  • 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...



  • Sharon Kay Penman

    It was medieval England's immortal marriage--Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II, bound by passion and ambition, certain to leave a legacy of greatness. But while lust would divide them, it was friendship--and ultimately faith--that brought bloodshed i...



  • Andrew Gutelle

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



  • 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...



  • Susan Slater

    CLOSE ENCOUNTER The fiery crash of a Stealth fighter on a New Mexico reservation and the disappearance of a young Navajo woman put psychologist Ben Pecos on a sinister trail leading into the world of military cover-ups, UFOs and aliens. Tribal ...




  • 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...



  • Bernice L. McFadden

    This powerful sequel to Bernice L. McFadden’s bestselling debut Sugar follows a young African-American woman back to her Arkansas hometown, where she must confront difficult truths about her parentage and a curse in her family’s past. When Suga...



  • Mitchell Chefitz

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



  • Keith DuQuette

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



  • Claire Masurel

    What a bad, bat cat! He tears the pillows, he eats the plants, and he even scratches the furniture. He just won't behave! But his family loves him anyway. The simple and repetitive text will provide new readers with a true sense of accomplishment whe...



  • Kate McCafferty

    Kidnapped from Galway, Ireland, as a young girl, shipped to Barbados, and forced to work the land alongside African slaves, Cot Daley's life has been shaped by injustice. In this stunning debut novel, Kate McCafferty re-creates, through Cot's story, ...



  • Kristen Heitzmann

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



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Luke Sutherland

    In London's Delphi Restaurant, Bohemond - black, French, obsese, lonely and a wondrously talented head chef - has drawn on mythological symbolism to begin preparing the perfect wedding meal for his boss Hermione and her womanizing fiance Paris. But w...



  • Doris Lessing

    “[Lessing] is a pro, writing at the top of her powers, realistically, passionately, accessibly…. a stirring novel” -- San Francisco ChronicleFrances Lennox stands at her stove, bringing another feast to readiness before ladling it out to the yo...



  • Corinne Everett

    A Love In Bloom With her parents on an extended trip to Boston, feisty Virginia beauty Violet Pearson is determined to prove she can manage the family concern, Tidewater Nurseries. And now, with the planned opening of a lavish new conservatory by ...



  • Brian Wood



  • 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...



  • John Grisham

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



  • 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...



  • 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? ...



  • Michele Slung

    A selection of original and classic tales of features chilling works of dark fiction by Patricia Highsmith, Edith Wharton, Ray Bradbury, Shirley Jackson, Thomas Tessier, Thomas M. Disch, Christopher Fowler, Lisa Tuttle, Jack Ketchum, Tabith King, Joh...



  • 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 ...



  • Marvel Book Group

    Collects Star Wars Tales (1999) #1-4. Collecting the first four issues of the anthology smash sensation, Star Wars Tales contains thrilling stories featuring Darth Vader, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Han Solo, Emperor Palpatine, C-3PO, R2-D2, Lando Calrissian an...



  • Frank Bonham

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



  • Carolyn Haines

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



  • Mary Pope Osborne

    It’s a new kind of adventure for Jack and Annie! Join them as they research space and find out the facts behind the fiction! ...



  • Anne Perry

    In Victorian England, a divisive election is fast approaching. Passions are so inflamed that Thomas Pitt; shrewd mainstay of the London police, has been ordered, not to solve a crime, but to prevent a national disaster. The aristocratic Tory candidat...



  • 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...




  • April Kihlstrom

    A Marriage of Convenience Lisbeth Barlow has never much cared for the notion of marriage--all duty and appearances and submitting to one's husband. But when Lord Thomas Kepley arrives one morning to ask for her hand, he has none of those conventio...



  • Candace Camp

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



  • Mitchell Smith

    Snowfall features another sharp-tongued, uncompromising heroine, Catania Olsen. She is the doctor for and spiritual guardian of a band of hunters who live at the edge of a great Wall of ice in what was once Colorado. In the country of the Trappers, b...



  • 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...



  • Loren D. Estleman

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



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Vicki Hendricks


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

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



  • 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-...



  • 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...



  • Loren D. Estleman

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



  • 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...



  • Catherine Cookson

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



  • 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...



  • David Weber; Steve White

    DEFEAT WAS NOT AN OPTION! The war wasn't going well. The "Bugs" had overrun planet after planet . . . and they regarded all sentient species as convenient protein sources. Defeat was not an option. The Grand Alliance of Humans, Orions, Ophiuchi, a...



  • Kim Comeaux / Kimberley Comeaux

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



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Joan Overfield

    Evil is the first word that comes to mind when Anne Garthwicke arrives at Castle MacCairn. Duty bound to help her father appraise the holdings, she has no choice but to stay. And her trepidation deepens after meeting the laird. Proud and powerful, he...



  • Stephen Overholser

    CAPTIVE!Ella Mae Campbell traveled west with her family in a wagon train in 1860. But she never made it to Denver City with them. During a terrifying attack on the wagon train, young Ella Mae was taken captive by marauding Indians. No one thought she...



  • Neal Shusterman

    The Shadow Club doesn't exist anymore. The group of second-best kids used to play anonymous practical jokes on their rivals, until things spiraled out of control. Now Jared and the ex-Shadow Club members are having a hard time shaking their reputatio...



  • Steven Heighton

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



  • Adam Mansbach

    At the age of nineteen, saxophone prodigy Latif James-Pearson boards a bus to Manhattan to find his aging idol, the great Albert Van Horn. The centers of Latif’s universe soon become a Harlem boarding house, where he spends his days practicing inte...



  • 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...



  • Andrea Barrett

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



  • 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...



  • Lawrence G. Townsend

    Freezer-wrapped sirloin tips, secret sauce, and info-tech giant ThinkSoft combine in this satirical novel, rife with tones of Vonnegut and Huxley. Lenny Milton, loyal user of ThinkSoft products, opens his mailbox one day to find a package marked “P...



  • Margaret Way

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  • Yolonda Tonette Sanders

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  • Amanda Stevens

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  • John R. Erickson

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



  • C.J. Carmichael

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  • Benedict Freedman

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  • James Gelsey

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  • Kayla Perrin

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  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

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  • Mary Kay Andrews

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  • Cassie Edwards

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  • Luanne Rice

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  • William X. Kienzle

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  • Jonathan Coe

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  • Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

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  • Donna Jo Napoli

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  • Tracie Peterson

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  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

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  • 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...



  • Dav Pilkey

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  • Marilyn Kaye

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  • Alan Dean Foster

    Using his enhanced empathic abilities, Flinx finesses his way into a top-secret security installation on Earth. Once there, he bamboozles a sophisticated AI program into releasing classified information about the Meliorare Society, the sect of renega...



  • Stobie Piel

    Melanie Ann Muessen rides through the sunburnt plains of New Mexico Territory to photograph its inhabitants in their natural surroundings. What she discovers is a village in crisis. Years before, Rafael de Aguirre became the Renegade and protected th...



  • Lynsay Sands

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  • John W. Dean

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  • Judith Freeman

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  • Alai

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  • William F. Nolan

    The year is 1936, and Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Erle Stanley Gardner have taken to solving crimes as amateur detectives. As narrated by Chandler, their latest adventure begins in East Los Angeles, with the discovery of what is apparentl...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Donna Simpson

    Can love reform a rogue? A GOOD DEED UNDONE? Phaedra Gillian, spinster daughter of a rural vicar, has found an unconscious gentleman by the roadside. Taught to be a good Samaritan, she takes into her home the greatest temptation of her life! Fo...



  • Sandra Pinkney

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    Red
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  • Carter Scholz

    Born from the threat of nuclear weapons comes a program to build an impenetrable defense against them. The technical obstacles are enormous, the costs exorbitant, and the results dubious. Philip Quine didn't come to the Lab to work on weapons, but...



  • Kim Lewis

    The creator of Floss stitches together a comforting new baby gift - and a gentle tribute to family and home.

    "There is a farm far away from the town, in a valley in the hills where
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  • India Edghill

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




  • Garth Ennis

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



  • A.B. Daniel

    In this #1 international bestselling historical adventure trilogy opener, Incan civilization is rocked by omens, civil war, conquest, and a destined love. In sixteenth-century Peru, Anamaya, daughter of an Incan princess, is summoned to the dying Hua...



  • James Axler

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  • Shana Corey

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

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



  • Jean Barrett

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  • Marilyn Pappano

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  • Malia Martin

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  • E.S. Mooney

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  • Katherine Noll

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  • Michael Lawrence

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  • Kathleen Gilles Seidel

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  • J.B. Cheaney

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  • Alexandra Sellers

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  • Delia Parr

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  • Catherine Blair

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  • Debra Kastner

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  • Melinda Metz

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  • Lynne Heitman

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



  • 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 ...



  • James Ellison

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

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



  • Christopher Anvil

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  • Ron Roy

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  • Toni Trent Parker

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  • Jon Sharpe

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  • John H. Ritter

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  • Laurie Paige

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  • Kathryn Hockett

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  • Katherine Deauxville

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  • Suzanne Brockmann

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  • Margaret Mayhew

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  • Carmen Green
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  • Elia Esparza

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  • Elizabeth Berg

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  • Jude Watson

    The second-to-last title in this hugely successful middle-grade series.

    After the death of his truest love, Qui-Gon is finding it hard to continue on as a Jedi knight. But when he and Obi-Wan are sent to protect awitness willing to testify aga...



  • Geri Borcz

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  • Lynn A. Coleman

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



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