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New Books List: 609 titles

  • Copperhead

    Bernard Cornwell

    It is the summer of 1862 and the northern army is threatening to capture Richmond, the Confederate capital. Captain Nathaniel Starbuck, born in Boston but a Confederate hero at Manassas, is again in the thick of Civil War action. Bloodied but vict...

  • Honor Bound

    W.E.B. Griffin

    October 1942. At a secret rendezvous point off the coast of neutral Argentina, a small merchant ship delivers supplies to Nazi submarines and raiders. The OSS is determined to sabotage the operation by any means necessary. But one of the key saboteur...

  • Lethal Agent

    Don Pendleton

    UNFRIENDLY PERSUASION Driven by revenge, an ex-Soviet major is staging a strike against Afghanistan. His weapon of choice is a deadly nerve gas, concocted at the jungle base of a Laotian drug lord. Local CIA agents don't want any interference, ...

  • Shifting Target

    Don Pendleton

    RISKY BUSINESS If Rosey Tosca can steal it, sell it or push it, he'll get a piece of it in Talville, Michigan. The small-time hood has turned major player in the flood of crime and corruption sweeping the nation. He's selling top-secret chemica...

  • Takedown

    Don Pendleton

    LEAGUE OF KILLERS War has come back to the Old World, carried out by a former Romanian Securitate chief and his army of professional killers. Konrad Lorenz's underground railroad for ex-East Bloc secret policemen had amassed a lethal force to back...

  • Twist of Cain

    Frank Rich

  • The Case of the Ludicrous Letters

    Anna Clarke

  • The Cross Bearer // Murder by the Quay

    Roy Lewis

    When Arnold Landon of the Department of Museums and Antiquities discovers an important forgery, a local politician invites him to join a secret society inspired by the fourteenth-century Knights Templar. Soon after Landon declines the invitation, the...

  • Death Among the Dons

    Janet Neel

    Gladstone College was a distinguished women's school, the very model of British higher education. But behind its serene facade, the institution was on the brink of financial ruin. A controversy raged over whether to admit men. A stalker violently att...

  • Death and the Oxford Box

    Veronica Stallwood

    A member of the Fridesley Runners, a jogging club, Veronica Stallwood finds herself getting in over her head with a fellow runner when she agrees to help the woman repossess some family heirlooms the woman's estranged husband has appropriated....

  • Hide and Seek

    Sherryl Woods

    MURDER ON THE RUN Amanda Roberts figured jogging was hard enough...the last thing she needed was to obsess about possible dangers lurking in the shadows of Atlanta's parks. How was she to know that on the night she braved the jogging paths alone, ...

  • Hook or Crook

    Gerald Hammond

    In this latest novel in Gerald Hammond's acclaimed Keith Calder mystery series, it is Calder's friend Wallace James who plays the (at first) reluctant sleuth.James, a master fisherman, and his young pupil Eric Bell are fishing for salmon when they tr...

  • If Looks Could Kill

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy journeys to an island of dreams set in a sea of beauty . . . and danger! Supermodel Martika Sawyer has invited Nancy Drew to the grand opening of Cloud Nine--her health spa and resort on a private Caribbean island. But there's serious troubl...

  • Murder in Retirement

    John Miles

    Laura couldn't believe it. Well, yes she could: Why shouldn't she suddenly be told that an acting troupe was coming to Timberdale to perform a mystery play, one in which the residents of the retirement center would participate by playing detectives. ...

  • Murder With a Twist

    L.V. Slyke

    Nightmare in a Hawaiian Shirt Max Bally tends bar in the big city. He serves beautiful dreamers and practiced scam artists who seek an alcoholic escape from the merciless New York night. Max isn't looking for any trouble--he just wants to keep the...

  • Skull and Dog Bones

    Melissa Cleary

  • Starring Miss Seeton

    Hamilton Crane

    Holiday Homicide Miss Seeton's playing a backstage role in Plummergen's annual Christmas pageant. But the real drama is behind the scenes. When she accidentally uncovers a collection of rare silver, the next act turns out to be murder. Miss Seeton...

  • Toxic Revenge

    Franklin W. Dixon

    When someone develops a sinister plan to poison the entire planet and a United Plastics security guard is crushed in a factory machine, Frank and Joe Hardy must investigate dirty dealings at the large corporation. Original....

  • The Trouble With Thin Ice

    Camilla T. Crespi

    Spending the Christmas holidays at a cozy Connecticut inn where friends are getting married; Italian-born Simona Griffo is tense enough about an entire week of togetherness with her sometime-lover, never mind the fact that he's brought his fourteen-y...

  • Viper Quarry

    Dean Feldmeyer

    STRANGERS DON'T COME TO BAIRD, KENTII(KY.... In fact, I almost missed it myself, and I was looking for it with some anticipation. The tiny town nestled among the splendid Appalachian Mountains represented my return to the Methodist ministry after ...

  • What's a Girl Gotta Do?

    Sparkle Hayter

    Nothing is going right for Robin Hudson, a spunky, sexy, "slightly rumpled, third-string reporter in Rita Hayworth's body." Her husband has left her for a prettier, and much younger woman; she's been demoted to the tabloidtesque Special Reports unit ...

  • Whiskey Jack

    J.F. Trainor

    ANGIE BIWABAN She's a tough Native American detective from Duluth--living by her wits and meting out her own brand off justice... What's a woman to do when she receives an urgent message from her cousin's oldest buddy...a man who's just been sent...

  • Escape of the Grizzly

    Mark Littleton

  • The Life God Blesses

    Gordon MacDonald

    In The Life God Blesses, author and pastor Gordon MacDonald asks the question, are we prepared to weather the storms of life? In this book, MacDonald steers us toward the disciplines, convictions, silence, beauty, and spirit that feed and prepare the...

  • Lost and Found Friends

    Ginny Williams

  • Maggie: Life at the Elms

    Eric Wiggin

  • Maggie's Homecoming

    Eric Wiggin

    In 1877 after living with her grandfather in the woods of northern Main for two years, fourteen-year-old Maggie must adjust to life with her mother, stepfather, and stepbrother and to going to high school in the town of Laketon....

  • A Matter of Trust

    Ginny Williams

    Although God has changed her heart, sixteen-year-old Kelly still finds it difficult to adjust to her father's remarriage, but when her beloved horse almost dies, it is Kelly's stepmother who becomes a source of support...

  • On the Edge

    F. Parker Hudson

    I believe that this book is a tremendous teaching tool. God has been most gracious in providing an avenue for me to teach This Present Darkness in the classroom (in a public school) and I can't wait to teach On The Edge. I believe it will cement what...

  • Rumors of Angels

    John Vincent Coniglio

    Fast-paced and unpredictable, Rumors of Angels combines riveting moments in the courtroom with compelling human drama, as a savvy trial lawyer takes on a case involving prayer in schools. Consumer ads in Today's Christian Woman, Moody Magazine, and o...

  • Second Chances

    Ginny Williams

    When her father decides to remarry, fifteen-year-old Kelly wonders why God has brought such turmoil into her life, but then a beautiful black horse and a special friend bring her new perspectives on those she loves...

  • The Accidental Princess

    Margaret St. George

    CINDERELLA IN JEANS When Duke Nicolas Rondo strode into the dingy diner where Jana Laskowski waitressed and proclaimed her heir to the throne of his mountainous homeland, Jana thought he was joking. But there was nothing funny about the duke's int...

  • The Adventuress

    M.J. Rodgers

    JUNGLE FEVER Tom Skye, rough-and-tumble pilot, was a man of action. But as his diving plane spiraled into a crash, he could only think of his timid passenger, librarian Pamela Gibson. How would she survive the black storm-tossed Hawaiian sea? B...

  • Animal Magnetism

    Bonnie Pega

    SEBASTIAN -- HE COULD CHARM ANY BEAST -- OR BEAUTY -- WITH A WHISPER.... He wasn't looking to be rescued, but Dr. Sebastian Kent was utterly intrigued by the curvy blonde sprite who had hired herself as his new assistant! Danni Sullivan insisted ...

  • Aunt Connie's Wedding

    Marie Ferrarella

    Always a bridesmaid... As a teenager, Carole Anne Wellsley had felt suffocated by her sleepy hometown -- and by the boy next door. She cared about Jeff...maybe too much. But she couldn't stay in Belle's Grove, Missouri, and become a countr...

  • Baby Trap

    Jule McBride

    HAD HE GOTTEN HIS ARCHENEMY PREGNANT? Roman Lawrence had everything-eyes as dark as midnight, raven waves streaked with silver, a pirate ancestry and his own island. The handsome horse trainer also had the power to get the one thing he didn't have...

  • Baby, Come Back

    Billie Green

    DAVID--A Shattered Hero Who'd Returned to Claim His Beloved... Even he wasn't sure how he'd survived, but David Moore was finally free after six years in captivity... a lonely man whose face and voice were unrecognizable as those of the husband a...

  • Beauty for Ashes

    Becky Melby; Cathy Wienke
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Karlee Merrick is struggling to recover her husband's death. She needs to be strong, both for herself and for her two children; she wants to stand on her own two feet. But two men are more than willing to help Karlee put her life back together. Al...

  • Between Love and Loyalty

    Susannah Hayden
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    The Old Homestead Youth Camp has transformed the lifes of hundreds of kids. When the property's new owner decides he is going to sell it to developers, Megan Browning and her friends work frantically to help keep the camp running. Then Megan disco...

  • Body Heat

    Elise Title

    ON FIRE... Fire, Wind, Earth, Water ...the four elements--but nothing is more elemental than passion. Rebecca Fox was all fired up over the hot role of an arson investigator. She knew she had to experience the heat of a real-life investigation. S...

  • Born to Be Bad

    Naomi Horton

    NEVER PICK UP STRANGERS:... The man at the truck stop didn't look threatening. And all he needed was a ride. Still, Holly Triano knew better than to trust a dark, handsome stranger .... Col Donovan couldn't blame the pretty young widow ...

  • The Bride of Santa Barbara

    Angela Devine

    An unmarried bride? How could you cope with a man who anticipated your secret fantasies even before you had them yourself...? Daniel Pryor had made a career out of turning people's dreams into reality. Now it was Beth's turn... He'd...

  • Build a Dream

    Quinn Wilder

    Dreams can come true... Janey might be small -- but she was tough! She was also determined to take revenge on Blaze Hamilton who, she was convinced, had caused her father's illness. But how could she prove Blaze's guilt? Drastic action was cal...

  • Caprice

    Fayrene Preston
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    a Loveswept Exclusive [1993] He was larger than life and sexier than any man had a right to be... Colby Brennan was outrageously handsome, utterly masculine, and had the coolest, darkest green eyes she'd ever seen -- but Noelle Durrell was f...

  • Cari's Secret

    Neva Coyle

    She's been in Minnesota, "helping a sick aunt." As she returns home to Redlands, California, she wonders how she can tell her grandparents the real reason she went to visit Aunt Hannah. She wonders how she can put the past year behind her and go on w...

  • Charmed Circle

    Barbara Whitnell

    Forced to live with her controlling grandmother, twelve-year-old Rachel finds refuge in her neighbors, the Rossiters, but as she matures, Rachel realizes the cold cruelty her "friends" posses. Reprint....

  • The Colonel's Daughter

    Rita Clay Estrada

    SHE WOULDN'T BE HURT AGAIN Casey Lund's father abandoned her and her mother for the air force years ago. So Casey was forced to learn how to make it on her own. And she'd done darn well. Including raising two sons. Now the Colonel was dying and as...

  • Commitment

    Julie Ellis

    Once again, bestselling author Julie Ellis enchants readers with a spellbinding novel that sweeps across the decades and into the heart of a remarkable woman... Carol Simon is nine years old when the Stock Market Crash of '29 plunges the nation i...

  • Cuts Both Ways

    Dee Holmes

    SECRETS IN THE MOUNTAINS Ashe Seager: A professional tracker hiding from his own past. Hard-edged, dangerous and suspicious. Erin Kenyon: A woman desperate enough to hire Ashe Seager - and strong enough to fall in love with him. Years ago,...

  • Dark Fire

    Robyn Donald

    Dancing with the devil... "You're certainly not in love with Paul. Because you want to go to bed with me." Devilish words indeed. But what made Flint Jansen so arrogantly assume that Aura would choose him over Paul -- his friend and Au...

  • The Dog from Rodeo Drive

    Risa Kirk

    NORA CARMICHAEL'S LIFE WAS NO LONGER HER OWN First came the puppy: Cute, adorable, demanding that she take him home. Then came Lane Kincaid: Gorgeous, sexy ...and equally demanding. And both were wrong for Nora. The pup would never fit into ...

  • Dreamskate

    Angela Cash

  • Elizabeth's Secret Diary

    Francine Pascal

    Elizabeth Wakefield has a confession to make. She's met a guy--an intelligent, caring, and unbelievably handsome guy. But it's not Todd Wilkins, her longtime boyfriend, whom she loves more than anybody. It's Sam. Elizabeth wouldn't even need to chang...

  • Family Blessings

    LaVyrle Spencer

    Out of the deepest grief comes the greatest love ... Lee Reston, a widow in her mid-forties, had a full and rewarding life with her three incredible children and a thriving florist business. And like most of us, Lee never imagined how she would cope ...

  • Far to Go

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Joe was a solitary man--always had been, always would be. A dangerous profession, and a lifetime's worth of hard lessons, had taught him not to get tangled up with other people--and that definitely included the brothers and sisters he'd never really ...

  • Finally a Father

    Marilyn Pappano

    HE HAD A DAUGHTER And he had to know. But it had been ten long years since the night Quin Ellis had, with a little help from Mac McEwen, started on the road to motherhood. Ten years of single parenthood, guilt at what she'd done -- and memories of a...

  • Fire and Rain

    Kathleen Eagle

    Priscilla came to the Dakota territories to help her missionary father "civilize" the Indians. But the Minnesota-bred beauty was enchanged by the ways of the Lakota Sioux ... and by a proud warrior called Whirlwind Rider, who awakened a magnificent p...

  • Fly With Me

    Jan Hudson

    SAWYER -- A Brash Renegade Who Wanted to Play for Keeps... Setting his helicopter down in her backyard, Sawyer Hayes arrived in Pip LeBaron's life like a whirlwind -- and promised to shake it up! Enchanted by the petite computer whiz who was t...

  • Freshman Suspect

    Linda A. Cooney

    KC is investigated for Brooks's death. Will anyone hear her pleas of innocence? Not satisfied with naming KC as the one who pushed Brooks over the cliff, Angela Beth stalks KC in order to drive her mad. Will KC go over the edge? Will Faith bump...

  • Gamble on Passion

    Jacqueline Baird

    A gentleman of fortune...? "The first man to walk through this door will be the one I date for a month." Jacy's bet with her friend Liz was reckless--especially when that first man turned out to be Leo Kozakis. Jacy had gambled on L...

  • Guilty Love

    Charlotte Lamb

    Nowhere to run Linzi York loved her husband -- but Barty had changed. His rage and growing despair since the accident had taken a brutal toll. Linzi was trapped in a nightmare. And Ritchie Calhoun knew it. Linzi and Ritchie's relationship ...

  • Hardhearted

    Bay Matthews

    IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN... Dylan Garvey's gruff exterior had sent Chantal Robichaux running - convinced that he would never find the gentleness to care that she was carrying his child. But when their newborn was abduc...

  • A Haven in His Arms

    Phyllis Halldorson

    Escape... that was Brittany Castle's only recourse. Pursued by a relentless admirer, she'd had to leave behind everything she cared about. But on the road to a new life, an unexpected storm changed her plans. A solitary farmhouse offered h...

  • He's So Shy

    Linda Cajio

    RICHARD -- A Green-eyed Heartbreaker of a Mystery Man... In buckskins or jeans, Richard Creighton was impossibly sexy, irresistibly gorgeous - and definitely out of her league! Penelope Marsh knew she was too old for a schoolgirl crush on the ha...

  • Iditarod Dream

    Janelle Jamison
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Confident and fiercly independent, Rita travels back to her hometown of Tok,Alaska. At the urging of her father, she enters the dogsled race of her dreams-the famed Iditarod-with a relentless pursuit. Although Mark Williams hopes to become more th...

  • If Wishes Were Horses // La Villa

    Francine Pascal

    Three weeks before her planned wedding, reporter Anna Green meets New York newpaper editor Nick Devlin, and their wild, passionate love affair steamrolls over everything in its path--including their own common sense. Originally published as If Wi...

  • Jo Jo's Journey

    Grahame Baker

  • Lady Willpower

    Pepper Adams

    Eligible bachelor Joe Morgan, mayor of Morgan's Point, hadn't really thought about marriage, though he'd always supposed he would find some nice, politically suitable woman to be his wife. But enterprising Rachel Fox was not a candidate for the jo...

  • Lair of the Dragon

    Catherine George

    When Naomi's journalist sister asked her to infiltrate the Lair of the Dragon, Bran Llewellyn's private Welsh retreat, she couldn't refuse. But she hated the deception of posing as Bran's secretary, especially once she discovered that...

  • The Last Buccaneer

    Lynn Erickson

    HE WAS A SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PIRATE! So what was Tess Bonney--a 1990's woman if there ever was one--doing in his world? Sucked through a whirlpool while diving for sunken treasure, Tess was transported back through time to a slave ship on the S...

  • The Law of Love

    Martha Schroeder

    Newly divorced, with two college-age children to support and a part-time job as a file clerk, Caroline Faulkner had her hands full before she enrolled in night school! Now, as a first-year law student, she's really overwhelmed -- especially when...

  • Love's Revenge

    Mary Lyons

    Louisa Thomas had come to Corsica on a business deal -- and to do a small favor on behalf of her wayward brother. She most certainly hadn't come to fall in love! But her meeting with Count Xavier d'Erlanger Cinarehesi hadn't left her wit...

  • Love's Silken Melody

    Norma Jean Lutz

    One night gigs in smoky dives have given way to SRO performance in Las Vegas nightclubs. Now her CD has made it on the top ten charts. Roshelle Ramone is a star. Yet deep, hidden memories of her childhood and fellings of guilt for one particular d...

  • Loving the Enemy

    Rebecca Daniels

    He was the last man on earth she wanted to be alone with.... When the wall of snow roared down the mountain, Kyle Gentry instinctively dived for cover, pulling another skier with him. Trapped with her, he realized the woman he'd saved wasn'...

  • Maggy's Child

    Karen Robards

    She was Mrs. Lyle Forrest now, the coolly elegant wife of Louisville's most prominent publisher, the slum girl whose dreams -- and nightmares -- came true the night she married the multimillionaire old enough to be her father. For twelve years Maggy ...

  • A Man Like Cade

    Barbara McCauley

    DOUBLE TROUBLE IN PARADISE His aunt Ida's house was a world away from the big city's streets, but ex-cop Cade Walker hadn't forgotten how to catch a thief. Make that thieves--and identical, pint-size ones at that! The mischievous little twins n...

  • Midnight Man

    Barbara Faith

    DESERT HEAT Her son had been taken from her, whisked away from everything he'd ever known. And Jenny Cooper Hurani swore she would get him back--even if she had to battle a desert inferno to do it! Only one man could help her now. A lone wolf, no ...

  • Midsummer's Dream

    Rena Eastman
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Hopefully, a year as a Christian Union Representative at Abingdon University in Abingdon, England, will help Salisa know what God wants her to do. But Salisa still has her doubts. Should she return to Michigan and accept Dale's proposal of marriag...

  • A Miracle for Bryan

    Jude Randal

    The son he never knew Seven long years ago, Brittany Hudson stormed out of Calgary, leaving Luke McCall high and dry--and carrying a secret that would last her a lifetime. Now she was back, desperate to find him. Their son's very life depended on ...

  • The Mother of My Child

    Beverly Barton

    BLACK SHEEP Spencer Rand may have been a member of the premier family of Marshallton, Tennessee, but he'd also been a classic teenage rebel. Not only had he dared to become passionately entangled with the housekeeper's daughter--he'd gone and fall...

  • Mr. Wrong

    Geeta Kingsley

    Wanted: One rich husband Kate Langdon's tragic childhood had taught her a bitter lesson. The man she married had to have ambition, drive and money. No way would she choose someone who couldn't provide for the children she desperately wanted. So...

  • A New Song

    Kathleen Yapp
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    When she fears her extraordinary voice may succumb to cancer, Serena withdrawls to a small northeast Georgia town to rest. As she contemplates her uncertain muscial future, the future of her heart becomes center stage. Steve Shepherd, a handsome, ...

  • New Way to Fly

    Margot Dalton

    NEW LOOK--TEXAS STYLE! Crystal Creek...where power and influence live in the land, and in the hands of one family determined to nourish old Texas fortunes and forge new Texas futures. APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING Rancher Brock Munroe is smitten ...

  • A New Year

    Lass Small

    DEVIL WITH A RED DRESS ON The New Year's Eve party was the last place John Brown wanted to be, and a woman was the last thing he was looking for. But his resolution not to have a good time was shaken by one very little red dress--and the maddening...

  • Not a Family Man

    Patricia McLinn

    Ranch foreman Tucker Gates was as uncompromising as Wyoming's granite mountains. No way would the Double Bar X's pretty new owner and her two kids muddy his solitude with some fool notion of making their home on the range. He'd soon send these city f...

  • Oasis of the Heart

    Jessica Hart

    Spoilt little rich girl! Max Falconer didn't have a very high opinion of Cairo. In fact, she was just the kind of woman that he wanted to avoid, Glamorous, beautiful, immaculately dressed... He couldn't think of anything worse! Cairo K...

  • One Fateful Summer

    Margaret Way

    That summer, everything changed. To begin with, Shelley Stuart found her father. For the first time in sixteen years, they were together again. And for the first time, Shelley learned the truth about why he'd left. Then there was Raf Conw...

  • The Parent Plan

    Judith Arnold

    SOME PARENTS ARE HARDER TO MANAGE THAN OTHERS Stephanie Webb and her arrogant, too-gorgeous boss, Ben Strother, reluctantly joined forces to bring their parents together. Not permanently, of course. Just to show both of them that they'd been datin...

  • Perfect Double // Charade

    Cindy Gerard

    LOGAN -- A Master of Seduction Whose Disguise Meant a Chance for Love... Saved by a stranger from a near fatal mugging, business mogul Logan Prince woke up in a strange bed -- and found a reluctant angel with a siren's body bandaging his woun...

  • The Pirate's Woman

    Madeline Harper

    A FANTASY...OR A NIGHTMARE? ADAM HAWKE, 20TH CENTURY As soon as he walked into her costume shop, Diana Tremont knew there was only one outfit for this tall, handsome man. She'd always had a secret fantasy about being swept away by a strappi...

  • Playing with Fire

    Neesa Hart

  • Prairie Light

    Margaret Carroll

    UNITED BY HERITAGES, DIVIDED BY PASSIONS Leaving her adoptive, prominent Boston family behind, Kat Norton arrives in Montana eager to learn about her Native American birth mother. She uses a false name to hide her background as she immerses hersel...

  • Private Reasons

    Justine Davis

    KYLIE THIS, KYLIE THAT Riding instructor Kylie Rainwood had been getting on Tyler West's nerves. His teenage daughter chattered about Kylie morning, noon and night, so why shouldn't Ty resent the woman who'd stolen his child's aff...

  • Promise Me Anything

    Meryl Sawyer

    SHE HAD EVERYTHING TO GAIN... Brett Lamonf ignored the tall, dark, laser-eyed stranger who sat behind her at a family wedding until she walked into her office and met Alex Savich, heir to Belage Diamonds, her new boss. He said her jewelry designs we...

  • Rebel Dad

    Kristin Morgan

    He had a son Linc Rider was determined to find the boy and take him back. But he found that Eric already had a home with his adoptive mother, Jillian Fontenot. The choice wouldn't be easy: take the boy from such a beautiful, loving woman or leave ...

  • The Road Before Me

    Susannah Hayden
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Life is one big question mark for Julie. She loves to draw, but is that the profession she should choose? Her boyfriend wants her to marry him, but does she love him enough for that? Her grandmother, whom Julie adores, is sick and can no longer advis...

  • Room for Annie

    Myrna Temte

    On the very eve of their heartrending divorce, Annie and John Miller forged anew the fierce, unshakable bond of love that joined them together, body and soul. But, come morning, Annie was mysteriously gone--for good--leaving her husband shattered, he...

  • Santanoni Sunrise

    Claire Coughlin; Hope Irwin Marston
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    The forest is threating to overtake one of the great camps of the Adirondacks if Alyce Anderson doesn't act fast. The beneficiary of the will of a former owner of Camp Santanoni, Alyce determines to restore the camp as a memorial to the owners, and t...

  • Scent of Betrayal

    Kathryn Ross

    An unforgettable passion At the age of eighteen, Belle had fallen heavily in love with Brady and, humiliatingly, been rejected. Now, eight years later, she has returned from Paris older and wiser. She has no intention of allowing herself to get in...

  • Secret Agent Man

    Diana Palmer

    The Man: Lang Patton, former secret agent, scarred-body and soul. His Mission: Adjust to everyday life and avoid romance at all cost. The Obstacle In His Way: Ex-fiancee Kirry Campbell, currently being stalked by one very angry admirer. L...

  • Separate Rooms

    Diana Hamilton

    Husband and wife...in name only! Ben Claremont made it quite clear that he was the only man in the world who didn't lust after Honeys body...but he asked her to marry him anyway! Honey wasn't in love with him, but accepted his offer in ord...

  • Shadow's Flame

    Alicia Scott

    SAVIOR--OR ENEMY? Fittingly, his name was Shadow. He'd crept swiftly and silently through the dense Burmese jungle to rescue Riley McDouglas from the wrecked plane, his silence and opaque gray eyes revealing only that he had secrets--deadly ones. ...

  • A Sign of Love

    Veda Boyd Jones
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Andrea Cooper learned that lesson well when, as a child, she watched her parents' painful divorce. Now twenty-six she is comfortable with her life as a high school history teacher, president of the local historical preservation society, and active ch...

  • Simply Irresistible

    Peg Sutherland

    THEY CALLED THEM "THE SUNNY SULLIVANS" But that was before Cal and Patrice had divorced and gone their separate ways. Patrice had left North Carolina to report news stories around the world. Cal had elected to stay at the local TV network-...

  • Sterling Advice

    Sandy Steen

    THE STALKER That busybody reporter Keely Ryan who wrote those articles on battered wives was going to find out--painfully--what happened to people who stuck their noses in his business. THE REPORTER Keely Ryan knew firsthand what a lover's f...

  • Suddenly

    Barbara Delinsky

    A COMPELLING NOVEL OF LOSS, LOVE, AND CHOICE An emotionally charged novel that reflects upon the consequences of one irrevocable act. In the idyllic small town of Tucker, Vermont, life flows at a rhythmic pace for pediatrician Paige Pfeiffer. ...

  • Summertime

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    And the living was easy. Or should have been. But Oren Breen couldn't keep his mind off Lorena Venable, his landlady--and next-door neighbor. He couldn't forget that she was upstairs, behind the lit window of her bedroom--or that he'd like to be ther...

  • The Tenderfoot

    Patricia Knoll

    The Diamond B Ranch near Fawn Creek, Arizona. SETH BRODY--All man. All cowboy. No nonsense. He's spent a lot of years trying to get back his family's ranch, and he isn't about to lose it again. JANNA WHITLEY--Daughter of a million...

  • That Special Summer

    Linda Swift

    When Paula's husband divorces her to find himself, she is devastated. Adding to her hurt and anger, he joins a band and dates a sexy young singer. Forced to start over in the job market, Paula returns to college for a degree in Special Education....

  • The Proposal

    Betty Neels
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    True love is never ordinary… Two mischievous dogs led Francesca Haley to a chance meeting with Dr. Renier Pitt-Colwyn, and a ragtag kitten won her his goddaughter’s heart. But the handsome Dutchman could hardly be interested in an ordinary gi...

  • The Three of Us

    Samantha Day

    Bad neighbors! Well, she did trespass, and her cat had attacked him. But Deanna didn't knowingly break up her neighbor's business meeting, and as for willfully damaging his house -- that was ridiculous. But this was the last straw! How dar...

  • A Time to Love

    Kathleen Bryant

    COULD THE PAIN OF THE PAST COST HER THE FUTURE? To Willa Mitterhauser, the fishing lodge run by her aunt on Minnesota's Pine Lake is the place of her happiest childhood memories. It was there that she and her late brother Rick spent each summer an...

  • To Be Strong

    Carolyn R. Scheidies
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Now that she can walk again, Kit Anderson longs for God's total healing. Instead He calls her to face still greater challenges. Her doubts seem to flee when Dr. Keith Long helps her understand the reality of God's love. But can the doctor protect ...

  • Triumph of the Dawn

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    Nicholas Dawidoff

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