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New Books List: 620 titles

  • Balance of Power

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    When a famous Federation scientist dies, his son puts his inventions up for sale to the highest bidder--whether Federation, Klingon, Romulan or Cardassian. Among the items at auction are medical devices, engineering advances--and a photon pulse canon...

  • Presidents' Day

    Laura Alden

  • Arms of a Stranger

    Danice Allen

    A REBEL'S LOVE Tired of being pursued by shallow suitors in London, Anne Weston longs to find a virile, self-made man in New Orleans. Instead she meets Lucien Delacroix, the handsome ne'er-do-well son of a wealthy plantation owner, a charming dile...

  • Arthur, King

    Dennis Lee Anderson

    THROUGH THE WINDOW OF THE AGES Great kings have great enemies, and Arthur's is his bastard son Mordred, who has stolen the sword Excalibur. Worse, he has stolen Merlin's Book, and used it to flee to the far future. All of Camelot is at risk, un...

  • Sharing Sam

    Katherine Applegate

    How can you take the guy your best friend loves . . . when your best friend’s going to die? Alison Chapman has always believed she’d fall in love hard. And she does -- with Sam Cody, a new guy with a gorgeous face and brooding eyes, a guy who...

  • The God in Flight

    Laura Argiri

    In 1878, while attending Yale University and trying to escape his father's abusiveness, Simion Satterwhite meets art professor Doriskos Klionarios, and they begin a tumultuous love affair scorned by their society. Reprint....

  • Lord of the Last Days

    Homero Aridjis

    Placing readers within the context of Spain one thousand years ago, an epic work finds Alfonso of Spain, a Christian, and his Muslim twin brother, Abd Allah of Cordova, struggling for control over a divided nation....

  • False Promises

    Ralph Arnote

    Believing that his battle with the drug cartel is behind him, entertainment mogul Willy Hanson finds his peace of mind quickly snuffed by the appearance of an insanely vengeful woman who threatens Willy and his girfriend's lives. Original....

  • Antarctic Navigation

    Elizabeth Arthur

    'A classic heroic quest ... absolutely fresh and engrossing. Reading the book becomes a kind of quest itself, after which the world will never again look the same' San Francisco Chronicle 'A...

  • With an Everlasting Love

    Kay Arthur

    With its all-new cover, Kay Arthur’s captivating novel of love and trust is sure to attract readers. With an Everlasting Love (over 400,000 copies in print), a delightful, spellbinding love story with an intriguing twist, wil...

  • I.Asimov

    Isaac Asimov

    Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history ea...

  • Murder at the Galactic Writers' Society

    Janet Asimov

    When a meeting of the Galactic Writers' Society is threatened by a series of embarrassing, potentially deadly incidents, it is up to Arda, an android undercover agent, to solve the mystery and find the culprits before the crimes undermine interstella...

  • Ideal Dad

    Elizabeth August

    FATHER KNOWS BEST Murdock Parnell had come to the lake house looking for solitude. Instead, he found a ready-made-family. Pretty Irene Galvin and her son, Jeremy, filled his days with sunshine--and helped him forget painful memories. And when Jer...

  • Wonderful Farm

    Marcel Ayme

    "Two real little girls enter into magical adventures with talking animals of their farm and the nearby woods. Children will enjoy the trickery of the animals and the girls' mischievous behaviour." -- SLJ. "Unusually delightful (stories with a French ...

  • Sweet Desire

    Rosemary Badger

    "I'm no gold digger!" Catherine believed she couldn't possibly be anyone's idea of a gold digger, until she discovered that was exactly how Mike Donahue saw her. It hadn't helped that her mother had invited Catherine to vis...

  • Miriam

    Kjersti Hoff Baez

  • Frankenstein's Bride

    Hilary Bailey

    Includes Mary Shelley's Frankenstein -- two gothic novels in one!In this chilling sequel to Mary Shelley's famous horror classic, Hilary Bailey imagines what might have happened if Dr. Frankenstein had created a female companion for his monster.Years...

  • There's Always Tomorrow

    Brenda Bancroft
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Kristin Allen takes her well-meaning client's meddling in her private life lightly. Unitl, that is, she becomes the winner of an all-expense paid trip for two to the Circle K dude ranch in South Dakota. After Kristin has worked so hard to hide the sc...

  • Street Music

    Karen Barbour

    This jazzy paean to city life features original poems about skyscrapers, Sunday concerts in the park, and even honking taxis snarled in traffic jams -- all illustrated with exuberant paintings that sway with an infectious rhythm all their own.

  • Lion's Heart

    Suzanne Barclay

    THE TAINT OF MURDER LAY UPON CLAN SUTHERLAND Forced by the king's decree to wed Megan Sutherland, Ross Carmichael swore he'd not fall prey to any half-savage Highland charm the woman might possess. Though he could not foresee that soon he'd risk a...

  • The Shelter of Her Arms

    Jean Barrett

    Fugitive...and father? Richard Davis awoke to a nightmare. He was alone on a yacht with three lifeless bodies, one of them his ex-wife's. Because he had the motive and the smoking fun, he was bound to become suspect #1. So he jumped ship... J...

  • The Outcast

    Beverly Barton

    SHE HAD BEEN WAITING... For months clairvoyant Elizabeth Mallory had been tormented by visions of a desperate stranger. Now that man was here, on her isolated Georgia mountain. Wounded and on the run, he needed refuge. And Elizabeth needed him. Re...

  • Body Parts

    Michael Bates

  • Mesmerized

    Michael Bates

    Going into therapy with Dr. Desmond in order to recover from her mother's murder, Jane Blackwell appears to make progress until sudden personality changes cause her to behave violently toward the people closest to her. Original....

  • The Best Town in the World

    Byrd Baylor

    A nostalgic view of the best town in the world, where dogs were smarter, chickens laid prettier brown eggs, wildflowers grew taller and thicker, and the people knew how to make the best chocolate cakes and toys in the world....

  • Songs of Earth & Power: The Infinity Concerto and the Serpen

    Greg Bear

    The Song of Power opened the gateway to the Realm of the Sidhe, allowing young Michael Perrin to slip through. Now Michael faces years of captivity and deadly struggles for the future of the Realm and of Earth--leading finally to a terrible confronta...

  • A Child's Promise

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    Marrying the ex-marine who knows her only through her letters, Lisa Jo anticipates a rocky time when Johnny discovers that she is not the woman he thinks she is, and Johnny finds himself fighting for a future he never knew he wanted. Reissue....

  • The Early Reader's Bible

    V. Gilbert Beers

  • Scarhill

    Jane Beeson

    A novel about the effect on the local community of a London family moving to an isolated Devon farm. Kate has farmed Scarhill for 15 years. When she is forced to sell, Alec Deneuve sets about developing and exploiting the moor for aforestation. And h...

  • Distant Love

    Ann Bell
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    When a fiery tragedy strikes the close-knit community of Rocky Bluff, Montana, residents once again come together. At the center of the "support team" is Edith Dutton, who, with her husband, Roy, has shown family, friends, and strangers the strength ...

  • Healing Love

    Ann Bell
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    In just a few days, Angie Quinata, will graduate with honors as a beautician from Guam Community college and then she has an excellent chance for a prize job at the top salon in town. Not to mention she's dating the most eligible bachelor on the isla...

  • The Holiday

    Guy Bellamy

    The expensive Carlton Hotel at Cannes is beyond the reach of most English tourists, but for publishing tycoon Andrew Marner it is the only place to be. However, when others arrive and start enjoying Marner's patronage, an extraordinary adventure begi...

  • A Desperate Gamble

    Janice Bennett

    A DOWNSTAIRS HEROINE Annie Gooden had obtained a position as a maid in London's most notorious gambling hell to confront Sir Joshua Templeton, the rake who had seduced her poor sister! But alas, by the time she caught up with him, he was dead... wit...

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Showdown at Chainsaw Gap

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • A Pony for Keeps

    Jeanne Betancourt

    Do you love ponies? Be a Pony Pal! Anna loves her pony, Acorn. She knows that he is perfect for her. But her parents think Acorn is the reason why she is doing badly in school. If she doesn't get better grades, they will take him away. Pam and ...

  • Ultimate Star Trek Quiz Book

    Robert W. Bly

    Fans of the cult classic television show Star Trek can test their knowledge of trivia and little-known facts about the original series, its sequels, the films based on the show, and Star Trek books, events, and products. Original....

  • Children Are Civilians Too

    Heinrich Boll

    These twenty-six stories illustrate Heinrich Boll's finely nuanced storytelling at its best. In stunning portraits of ordinary people, Boll creates a rich tapestry of the dark years in postwar Germany. There are tales of soldiers on leave, listlessly...

  • The Day the Magic Stopped

    Baen Books

    What do you do when the foundation of your universe suddenly vanishes? In a world where magic works--and then suddenly stops working, all bets are off. Those who have magically enhanced their attractiveness must now live by their true appearance. Bui...

  • Magnet Magic

    Diana Bowles

  • The Redneck Way of Knowledge

    Blanche Mccrary Boyd

    This intoxicating book by the author of The Revolution of Little Girls combines autobiography, reporting, and the dressed-up lies we call fiction. An underground classic since its initial publication, it is the wildly funny personal testament of Blan...

  • Chevrolet Saturdays

    Candy Dawson Boyd

    Last year, Joey was the best science student in Miss Alder's fourth-grade class. But last year, he didn't have to deal with a teacher who didn't like him, a class bully, or a new stepfather. Mr. johnson seems to be a good man, adn Joey's mother loves...

  • Keeper of Cats

    Elizabeth Boyer

    VILE EXILE! When Jutta's mother sent her to tiny, windswept Bardhol to stay with their ancient female relations, she hinted slyly that those crafty crones might be hiding a fortune... But all Jutta found was boredom, toil--and cats! Her grandmo...

  • Cat Who Blew the Whistle

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Floyd Trevelyan's historic steam locomotive, newly restored, is the newest attraction in Moose County. But the excitement is eclipsed by shock when Trevelyan disappears ... along with millions of investors' dollars. Puzzled and suspicious, Qwill's tr...

  • I Suppose This Makes Me Sancho

    Gary A. Braunbeck
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    CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINES

    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...

  • Longevity Has Its Place

    Jon L. Breen
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    CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINES

    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...

  • On Leaving a Prague Window

    David Brierley

  • Bright, Deborah Gearing up for the Fast Lane

    Deborah Bright

  • Lamb among Wolves

    Bob Briner

  • Death of Virgil

    Hermann Broch

    It is the reign of the Emperor Augustus, and Publius Vergilius Maro, the poet of the Aeneid and Caesar's enchanter, has been summoned to the palace, where he will shortly die. Out of the last hours of Virgil's life and the final stirrings of his cons...

  • Embraced by Love

    Suzanne Brockmann

    Josie Taylor and Cooper McBride are the quintessential New York married couple. Attractive and ambitious, they have successful fast-track careers, a satisfying level of intimacy in their private lives, and a love that seems to grow stronger every day...

  • A Private View

    Anita Brookner

    Brookner explores the complications that arise when one solitary man comes up against a woman who seems determined to invade his solitude. George Bland is an aging bachelor whose existence has been virtually a mirror image of his name--up until now. ...

  • Capture the Wind

    Virginia Brown

    FROM HELL ON THE SEAS They call him devil of the high seas. Dark, dangerous, and sinfully seductive, he conceals his true identity and the past betrayal that has made him despise all women ... even the beautiful captive he vows to entice into his be...

  • Tragic Magic

    Wesley Brown

    Foreword by Ismail Muhammad Tragic Magic is the story of Melvin Ellington, a.k.a. Mouth, a Black, twenty-something, ex-college radical who has just been released from a five-year prison stretch after being a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War....

  • The World's Last Bachelor

    Pamela Browning

    NAME: Deke Washburn AGE: 32 STATUS: S.T.U.D. #4 OCCUPATION: Self-made Millionaire To his friends, Deke Washburn was the world's last bachelor-to single women, an impossible catch. But the playboy millionaire had just met his match .... Beaut...

  • Stable Witch

    Bonnie Bryant

    When Veronica diAngelo, a rider at Pine Hollow Stables, discovers that her stirrup leathers have been cut before an important hunter jumping exhibition, everyone assumes that practical joker Stevie Lake had something to do with it. After all, Stevie ...

  • The Messenger

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Ariel had dreamed about this chance, but she never thought it would come so soon, Only halfway through training came the surprise assignment: she was to be sent as an undercover messenger with a mission of hope to the city of Philadelphia. Expecting ...

  • Shake, Rattle and Roll

    Maire Buonocre

  • Beckoning Streams

    Janelle Burnham
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    The town of Dawson Creek, British Columbia, has a new schoolteacher, but not for long. Possessing neither certification nor seniority, as the school faces consolidation, Ruth McEvan faces unemployment. Should she accept her grandmother's offer of ...

  • Dancing in the Darkness

    Janelle Burnham
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Everything seems to be going great for Leslie Carlson and Dylan Stoddard: They're engaged, happy, and seemingly on the right path to fulfill their dreams. But the dreams begin to unravel when Dylan takes a job at the mill. With the combined pressu...

  • Winding Highway

    Janelle Burnham
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    When David Porter is called to be the first pastor in Dawson's Creek, British Columbia, his widowed sister, Jerusha, volunteers to accompany him as housekeeper and parsonage hostess. But very soon she regrest her decision: No longer the elegant pasto...

  • Slower Than a Snail

    Marilyn Burns

  • My Education

    William S. Burroughs

    My Education is William S. Burroughs's final collection, first published two years before his death in 1997. It is a book of dreams, written over several decades and as personal and close to a memoir as we will see. The dreams cover themes from the m...

  • Fields of Fire

    Carol Caldwell

    With her brother embroiled in an illegal smuggling scheme, Jalene Somerville finds herself deep in trouble and the victim of a kidnapping, until the arrival of Taylor Traynor, a dashing master of disguise and man of action, changes her life. hile ...

  • Stepping Out

    B.B. Calhoun

    Thrilled to be a fashion model working in New York, the last thing Russian-born Katerina Doeskev wants is her great-aunt from Russia meddling in her life--especially when she meets the guy of her dreams. Original....

  • Pure Delights

    Stella Cameron

    Headstrong artistic rebel Paris Delight doesn't expect Mr. Right to come charging up on a silver steed. High-powered dealmaker Tobias Quinn is Seattle's sexiest divorced man, and he needs Paris to save his fortune and possibly his life. Between these...

  • The Wizard of La-La Land

    Robert Campbell

    Kenny Gotch is a small-time doper and street hustler dying of AIDS in a Los Angeles hospice. Why would anyone bother to slit his throat when the disease would have finished him in a week or so? Vice cop Isaac Canaan hears that it may have been to pre...

  • The Ships of Earth

    Orson Scott Card

    The City of Basilica has fallen. Now Wetchik, Nafai, and all their family must brave the desert wastes, and cross the wide continents to where Harmony's hidden spaceport lies silent, abandoned, waiting for the command to make the great interstellar s...

  • The Fruit Cocktail Diaries

    Brian Carmody

    The diaries of two different New Yorkers--one a straight woman recently arrived from Ohio, the other a disillusioned gay man--portray parallel lives of dull jobs waiting tables, nights of meaningless partying, and a continuing search for some meaning...

  • Fire, Burn!

    John Dickson Carr

    Hurled back in time, a London police detective struggles to solve a nineteenth-century murder mystery in Golden Age master John Dickson Carr’s thrilling mystery novel A woman is killed in a well-lit corridor, dying before the eyes of three witne...

  • Valentine

    Carol Carrick

    Waiting for her mother to return home from work on Valentine's day, young Heather stays with her grandmother and is called upon to assist in the rescue of a newborn lamb. By the author of Patrick's Dinosaurs. ...

  • Beware the Ravens, Aunt Morbelia

    Joan Carris

    Todd Fearing and his best friend, Jeff, must protect an unwitting Aunt Morbelia during a trip to London and the Fearing estate, after a series of ominous events, sinister messages, and shady characters threatens the trio....

  • Sierra Passage

    Franklin Carter

    THEY CONQUERED MOUNTAINS TO BUILD THEIR DREAM... These thin ribbons of steel would one day unite a nation. But in 1867, the railroad was still a struggle and an adventure for the men who slowly forged its path -- mile by mile across the most rugge...

  • Games Lovers Play

    Rosemary Carter

    Breakfast at Tiffany's! Andrew Donaldson had been a close friend as well as an employer and had chosen to leave his entire estate in Zimbabwe to Tiffany. His reasons for doing so were a secret, which he had begged Tiffany to keep, and she had ...

  • 92 Queens Road

    Dianne Case

    Growing up surrounded by loving family members, including her mother, a fussing grandmother, a fun-loving uncle, and free-spirited Delores, a young girl struggles with the realization that her skin color causes outsiders to treat her differently....

  • The Painter

    Peter Catalanotto

  • Man, Myth and Magic

    Richard Cavendish

  • A Lakeside Season

    Cleo Chadwick

    THE HORSES GAMBOLED IN THE MEADOWS, THE BROOK BABBLED THROUGH THE HILLS, AND MAIDIE SWOONED...INTO THE ARMS OF A LORD! Miss Maidie Worthing should be wed. The gossips of the ton begrudgingly concede that her wardrobe is smashing, her face is angel...

  • Love in the Prairie Wilds

    Robin Chandler
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Forced by her late father's business debts to leave her Philadelphia finishing school, Holly joins her brother at his army camp in Nebraska. Her worst fears are realized when she discovers the camp is hundreds of miles from civilation and within sigh...

  • Wartimes

    Robin Chapman

  • Hot November

    Ann Charlton

    Fighting fire with fire He is Boss Mackenzie, bush fire fighter. She is Emma Spencer....suspected arsonist. For a brushfire to start three things have to be present--fuel, heat and oxygen. Two of the conditions could exist for a long, long...

  • Lord of Scoundrels

    Loretta Chase

    DETERMINED LADY Tough-minded Jessica Trent's sole intention is to free her nitwit brother from the destructive influence of Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain. She never expects to desire the arrogant, amoral cad. And when Dai...

  • The Dreadful Debutante

    Marion Chesney

    WHAT DID SUCH A SOPHISTICATED MARQUESS SEE IN SUCH A DREADFUL DEBUTANTE AS MISS MIRA MARKHAM? Arranging a season for an unruly miss who descended to drawing rooms by sliding down banisters was a challenge at best -- especially since the hoydenish ...

  • Like Father, Like Son

    Richard Chizmar
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    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...

  • Concubine's Children

    Denise Chong

    Drawing on letters, photographs, and reminiscences, the granddaughter of a woman who came from China as the concubine of a traveler to the New World describes her discovery of the Chinese family left behind and her reunion with them. 15,000 first pri...

  • Deadly Deep

    Nancy Christiansen

    The new public relations director for Thorpe Marine, Sharon Marshall discovers that her dream job has become a nightmare after she accidentally stumbles upon the deadly secret behind the company's revolutionary new line of superboats. Original....

  • Shortstop from Tokyo

    Matt Christopher

    Stogie Crane wants to play shortstop for the Mohawks, but a new boy from Japan is assigned to the position. Stogie tries not to become resentful of Sam Suzuki, but he can't help it. When Sam's glove is found ruined in Stogie's yard, it looks as thoug...

  • Midwinter's Bliss

    Cathleen Clare

    Seeking shelter from a snowstorm at the house of the notorious Marquess of Amberton, Lady Hope Blissfield and her companion unwittingly crash a raucous bachelor party and force their reluctant host to observe proper rules of conduct. Original....

  • Rama Revealed

    Arthur C. Clarke; Gentry Lee

    THE CONCLUSION TO ONE OF THE MOST HERALDED SCIENCE FICTION SERIES OF ALL TIME! On its mysterious voyage through deep space, a massive, alien starship carries its passengers to the end of a generations-long odyssey. The great experiment has failed,...

  • Calling Crow

    Paul Clayton

    Chief Calling Crow and the peaceful Muskogee, who lived in what is now Georgia and South Carolina, are enslaved by Spanish conquistadors, but Calling Crow refuses to submit and stages an incredibly strong and ultimately victorious rebellion. Original...

  • Brer Rabbit's Adventures

    Rene Cloke

  • Third Culprit

    Liza Cody

  • The Eagle Catcher

    Margaret Coel

    On the windswept plains of Wyoming's Wind River Reservation, Arapahos have gathered for the Ethete powwow. It is a sacred time to reaffirm the balance and harmony in life. But these feelings of unity quickly give way to fear when tribal chairman Harv...

  • A Time for Roses

    Elaine Coffman

    Driven apart by the very passion that brought them together, neither of them knew love could be so powerful or so painful.... She gave him love ... and he betrayed her. Then a shocking tragedy left Natasha Simonov shattered. Suffering and loss onl...

  • I Like Me!

    Deborah Connor Coker

  • The Magic School Bus Gets Baked in a Cake: A Book About Kitchen Chemistry

    Joanna Cole

    When the class tries to bake a cake for Ms. Frizzle's birthday, they wind up inside it and have some delicious fun learning all about mixtures and reactions that occur when ingredients are combined. Original. TV tie-in....

  • The Magic School Bus Meets the Rot Squad: A Book About Decomposition

    Joanna Cole

    The students in Ms. Frizzle's class embark on another journey when the Magic School Bus tours a decomposing log that introduces the latter end of the life cycle and teaches readers that there's more to rot than meets the nose. Original....

  • To Grandmother's House We Go

    Barbara Collins
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    CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINES

    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...

  • A Place for Love

    Mary Louise Colln
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    When Dr. Emily Richards returns to her hometown to set up her medical practice, she is burdened with guilt. The town has pooled its resources to set up an impressive clinic for her, but Emily has plans to leave after a two-year commitment to join her...

  • Rings on Her Fingers

    Susan Connell

    He had enough charm to make an angel tumble.... She sure filled her Christmas stockings, Steve Stratton decided upon seeing the long-legged brunette dressed as a holiday elf! Gwen Mansfield felt her heart racing when the gorgeous architect invite...

  • Nadador

    Gonzalo Contreras

    A physicist tries to exorcise the ghosts of past lovers by swimming away his mid-life crisis. With a rocky marriage and fantasies that threaten to overtake reality, Max suspects that a sea change is at hand. His wife withdraws, leaving him under her ...

  • Acceptable Risk

    Robin Cook

    Robin Cook has always been on the cutting edge of the latest medical controversies. In Acceptable Risk, he confronts one of the most provocative issues of out time: personality-altering drugs and the complex moral questions they raise. Neuroscientist...

  • Contagion

    Robin Cook

    After he loses first his midwestern ophthalmology practice to a for-profit medical giant and then his family to a commuter airline tragedy, Dr. John Stapleton's life is transformed to ashes. Feeling less the golden boy than a jaded cynic, Stapleton r...

  • Rotten Apples

    Natasha Cooper

    Death...and taxes Willow King, civil servant, and Cressida Woodruffe, author of sweeping romances, are one and the same. But it is the former who's called into play when she is asked to probe the case of Fiona Fydgett, a famous art historian whose ta...

  • A Matter of Security

    Kay Cornelius
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Her career on the rise, Leslie Christopher accepts a new, high-level position with a top NASA agency. Confident that she is preppared to handle the rigors of competition, Leslie nonetheless fears she may be in over her head. Her fears are not unfo...

  • Sign of the Spirit

    Kay Cornelius
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    The young life of Susannah McKay Campbell has been painted with layers of hatred and tragedy. As political outcasts, she and her husband, James, fled Carolina for the Kentucky wilderness, only to encounter there the rage of native Indians. As a wi...

  • The Heart of Justice

    William J. Coughlin

    HOPE SCOTT... She's a beautiful New York heiress who will do anything for love, including pulling strings with a ruthless power broker to advance her husband's judicial career. But she doesn't know the hidden price: blackmail, the rape of her trus...

  • Lord Harry

    Catherine Coulter

    Lord Harry, one of my first novels, was originally titled Lord Harry's Folly. I've rewritten the story extensively, adding to and changing dialogue, actions and descriptions, yet the original plot is still here. I'm convinced-and I'm sure your will b...

  • First Things First

    Stephen R. Covey

    The New York Times"bestselling time management book from the author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.   Stephen R. Covey’s First Things First is the gold standard for time management books. His principle-centered approach...

  • Desert Dreams

    Deborah Cox

    A Gambler's Daughter Anne Cameron's delicate features and poised manner belied her upbringing as a riverboat gambler's daughter. Her papa was now dead and she was alone, except for the strong, handsome stranger who mysteriously rescue...

  • Jen's Pride and Joy

    Neva Coyle

    Jen's life was neatly arranged, her future carefully planned--then one winter morning, everything changed. Women and teenaged girls will enjoy this story that combines a deftly written romance story line with lessons on love and forgiveness--in spiri...

  • Devoted

    Francine Craft

    Amid the sultry heat of the Louisiana bayou, Valerie Thomas and Delano Carter treasured every moment of their secret love. But they were both too young, and knew it couldn't last. Yet even after they went their divided ways, Val couldn't forget the t...

  • Eyewitness

    Kathleen Creighton

    SHADOW OF DOUBT A random encounter, a face in the crowd, had led Detective Doug MacDougal to the woman he'd been seeking for so long -- barely one step ahead of a ruthless killer. And keeping both her and himself alive meant cultivating the fr...

  • The Trouble With Going Home

    Camilla T. Crespi

    Simona Griffo expects chaos as usual from her eccentric family during her visit to her native Rome, but when she witnesses the murder of an American art student, her trip is off to an ominous start. And when the murder weapon turns out to belong to a...

  • The Easter Cat

    Bill Crider
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    CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINES

    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...

  • An Imperfect Spy

    Amanda Cross

    While guest-teaching a semester at Schuyler Law School, Kate Fansler gets to know an extraordinary secretary named Harriet, who patterns her life after John le Carre's character George Smiley. Harriet reveals that Schuyler has some serious skeletons ...

  • Splendor

    Charlene Cross

    Her abductor's name was Rolfe de Mont St. Michel, and Lady Catherine hated him. Already, with each stride of his horse, everything she had ever known was fast disappearing into the morning mist. Today she was to have married in a perfect match, u...

  • Heaven Sent

    Peter Crowther

  • The All-American

    Peter Crowther; Stewart Von Allmen
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    CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINES

    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...

  • Egg Is an Egg

    D C Heath & Co

  • Red Dancing Shoes

    D C Heath & Co

  • Shotgun!

    Kit Dalton

    Pursuing a ruthless gang of cattle rustlers who are out to capture every steer in Miles City, Buckskin Lee Morgan has his hands full ferreting out every vicious outlaw--and seducing every young cowgirl in the territory. Original....

  • The Heart Won't Lie

    Margot Dalton

    WHEN RUTH LOVED HIM, NOTHING ELSE MATTERED The Double C was awash in preparations for a Valentine's Day wedding, but Tyler took no joy in the proceedings. He and his wife might as well be on different planets. The wedding diverted her from her pai...

  • Show Business Kills

    Iris Rainer Dart

    Soap opera star Jan is nearing fifty and considering a face-lift. Ellen fought her way to the top of a Hollywood studio only to face menopause jokes from her male colleagues. Rose, a screenwriter, is finding it tough to pitch stories to executives yo...

  • Angel Valley

    Peggy Darty

    When lovely seventh grade teacher Laurel Hollingsworth accepts a summer tutoring position for a wealthy socialite family, she anticipates the enormous challenge of drawing out her sullen student, Anna Lisa Wentworth. Yet she has no idea of the real c...

  • Morning Mountain

    Peggy Darty
    • / Historical Romance
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    Suzanne Waters is one determined woman. She's confident she'll find a way to keep the family ranch, despite her father's ailing health. But she's not prepared to handle the wounded stranger she finds in the hills. His mysterious ways, the wedding rin...

  • One Shining Moment

    Sandra Davidson

    ONE MAN U.S. Army Lt. Blade McAmmon had his future carefully planned: a heroic military career, then marriage to a woman so respectable that no one would ever suspect the truth about his Indian heritage. But now, amid delicate peace negotiations bet...

  • Nest of Vipers

    Linda Davies

    Money is Sarah Jensen's playground. International markets. She's one of the most successful foreign-exchange traders in London: brilliant, beautiful, unpredictable-the perfect undercover agent to infiltrate the cutthroat Inter-Continental Bank and in...

  • Garfield's Magic Eye

    Justine Davis

  • Kiss Me No More

    Margaret Thomson Davis
    • / General Fiction
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  • A Christmas Cowboy

    Suzannah Davis

    All I Want For Christmas… Mac Mahoney was in deep trouble. The hard-nosed reporter had foolishly gotten snowed in with his ex-girlfriend Marisa Rourke. Now they had to ignore the sizzle that still flared between them. And to make matters worse, ...

  • Her Other Half

    Saranne Dawson

    Would her search for her other half lead to her better half? It began with a shiver. A cold sensation that shook Andrea Lockwood's mind and body. That's how she realized her twin sister was missing. She raced to Pennsylvania...and found herself fa...

  • Henry James' Midnight Song

    Carol De Chellis Hill

    “Henry James’ Midnight Song is so exciting that I got up in the middle of the night to finish it―I couldn’t sleep wondering what would happen next. Yet it is so intellectually complex that repeated readings only reveal richer meanings and ...

  • Mad About You

    Alyssa Dean

    SHE'D ENCHANTED HIM Or so P.I. Kent MacIntyre was forced to conclude. Because Faye (no last name) -- five foot nothing, an innocent, lost in the big city -- had charmed him into letting her into his high-security building, then knocked him out...

  • Baby Ringmaster

    Thierry Dedieu
    • / General Fiction
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  • Miracle Baby

    Shawna Delacorte

    WOMEN AND CHILDREN Rance Coulter was leery of both. Who could blame him? Thanks to a scheming female, his life had once nearly been ruined. And as for kids -- well, after what he had been through, Rance wouldn't be ready for fatherhood for a lon...

  • They Fly at Ciron

    Samuel R. Delany

    As this novel begins, the peaceful village of Çiron faces conquest and domination by the army of Myetra, as led by a cruel prince. The Myetrans subdue Çiron, killing many and enslaving the rest.

    But Rahm escapes -- and then befriends one of ...

  • Carry Me Home

    John Delvecchio

    A sequel to The 13th Valley finds a band of veteran survivors of Vietnam attempting to return to their American homes, where they are given a hostile homecoming and form an allegiance to one another in the hill country of Pennsylvania. Reprin...

  • Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Ted Dewan

  • The Paperboy

    Pete Dexter

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER     “An eerie and beautiful novel . . . Its secrets continue to reveal themselves long after the book has been finished.” -- The New York Times Book Review   The sun is rising over Moat County, F...

  • Dead Lagoon

    Michael Dibdin

    Among the emerging generation of crime writers, none is as stylish and intelligent as Michael Dibdin, who, in Dead Lagoon, gives us a deliciously creepy new novel featuring the urbane and skeptical Aurelio Zen, a detective whose unenviable task it is...

  • Doc Holiday

    Debra Dixon

    "Help me make some Christmas memories...." Drew Haywood needed an enchantress to help give his son a holiday to remember -- and no one did Christmas better than Taylor Bishop! She could transform a house into a home that sparkled with tin...

  • Illegal Procedure

    Franklin W. Dixon

    The Hardys go under cover to investigate the death of the San Diego Sharks' star player when the owner suspects foul play, but the boys must come up with a few tricks of their own--or face sudden death. Original....

  • Crazy Paving

    Louise Doughty

  • The Fourth Season

    Anne Douglas

    The Questionable Courtship Lovely young Lady Elizabeth Fortescue - best known as Bets - had little regard and less use for the gentlemen of the ton. Despite her mother's urgings to make a moneyed match, she had successfully evaded suitors for thre...

  • Ia Ia Ia-Ia! Cthulouie!

    Carole Nelson Douglas
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    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...

  • Jenny Come Along

    Debbie Driscoll

  • City of Beads

    Tony Dunbar

    Bored and yearning for some excitement in his life, lawyer Tubby Dubonnet is unprepared for what happens when professional and personal business involves him with a ton of shady money and variety of disreputable people, and he is left running for his...

  • One Bright Morning

    Alice Duncan

    A MAN AROUND THE HOUSE AGAIN Young widow Maggie Bright had her hands full raising a baby daughter and running a farm with no one to help except her lazy drunk of a hired hand. The last thing she needed was a bullet-ridden, half-dead stranger ridin...

  • The Two Killers of Rillington Place

    John Eddowes

  • Work in Progress

    Lisa Ede

  • Redeye

    Clyde Edgerton

    A New York Times Notable Book. Hang on to your ten gallon hats--Clyde Edgerton has taken his eye for detail, his ear for humor, and his nose for the odor of religious hypocrisy to the Wild West. In REDEYE, he leads us back to turn-of-the-century Colo...

  • The Tick: Seven More Exciting Adventures

    Ben Edlund

  • A Ring and a Promise

    Andrea Edwards

    Montana cowboy Jake MacNeill knew that only the land lasted, while love was as reliable as a grinning rattlesnake. Heck, prairie fires were easier to handle than a woman. So why was he heeding an eerie siren call from the city, seeking a lady with an...

  • Painted Lady

    Delia Ellis

    IT ALL BEGAN WITH A GOOD TURN FOR A LOVELY STRANGER. Miss Eleanor Needwood was about to married to a most unsuitable suitor when Philip Markham came to her rescue. He arranged for Eleanor to be in London for the Season, a guest of Markham's si...

  • This Is the Dreaming: Australian Aboriginal Legends

    Jean A. Ellis

  • Lone Star and the Temperance Army

    Wesley Ellis

    At the Liberty Saloon the blood's flowing faster than the whiskey!Jessie and Ki get involved in a showdown between the Liberty Saloon and Sister Angela's Temperance Army, and soon realize that an evil cartel plans to make America's freedoms into sins...

  • Whispering Woods

    Clayton Emery
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    HELP WANTED: WIZARD'S ASSISTANT Must be willing to relocate in space and time... Gull should have known better than to take the job. But with his village destroyed and a half-wit sister to look after, what choice did he have? At least the pay wa...

  • Born to Kill

    T.J. English

    The author of The Westies profiles the rise and fall of a violent street gang made up of young Vietnamese refugees, as seen through the eyes of Tinh Ngo, a gang member who eventually cooperated with authorities to destroy the gang. 15,000 fir...

  • A. J.'s Mystery

    Karla C. Erickson

  • Out of the Darkness

    Lynn Erickson

    Miguel Rivera had sworn revenge on the creature who had made him less than a man -- had sworn to strike him down. Then he met nurse Karen Freed, who reawakened all the best parts of his latent humanity. But Miguel knew he was putting her at risk -- a...

  • Frozen Woman

    Annie Ernaux

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA Frozen Woman charts Ernaux's teenage awakening, and then the parallel progression of her desire to be desirable and her ambition to fulfill herself in her chosen profession - with the inevitable conflict ...

  • Seasons of Love

    Shirley Eskapa

    FROM THE STREETS OF ROME, TO THE ELEGANT SUITES OF FIFTH AVENUE... CECILIA: She rose from a world of poverty and shame and found suffering and love in the arms of three men. But only one man knows the terrible secret she has carried with her all ...

  • The Heart Has Its Reasons

    Birdie L. Etchison
    • / Historical Romance
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    Emily, the simple Quaker, wants only a simple life. But things get complicated when her dashing friend Kate introduces her to handsome Ben Galloway. Although Ben is not of "The Friendly Persuasion," Emily finds herself attracted to him in a way that ...

  • Nell

    Mary Ann Evans

    A child found living alone in the woods becomes the subject of an intense battle between a lawyer and a social worker to determine her future as she struggles to protect her sense of self. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Longarm and the San Angelo Showdown

    Tabor Evans

    SOLDIER SLAUGHTER San Angelo is a town as dry as a whore's kiss--and equally sincere when a man's time is up. Even the Indians don't bother making trouble down that way. So Longarm doesn't understand why soldiers from Fort Concho are being picked ...

  • Bravo for the Bride

    Elizabeth Eyre

  • Might and Magic

    Bill Fawcett

    Diligence was the only daughter of one of the eight kings of the land known as the Wheel -- and of an immortal mother before whose power armies quailed. When earthquakes and raging firestorms threatened to destroy the Wheel, Diligence was dispatched ...

  • Valentine

    Jane Feather

    A quirk of fate has made Sylvester Gilbraith heir of his sworn enemy, the earl of Stoneridge. But there's a catch: to claim his inheritance he has to marry one of the earl's four granddaughters. The magnetically handsome nobleman has no choic...

  • Pitchfork Hollow

    Dean Feldmeyer

    IT SURE TURNED INTO ONE HELL OF A DAY OFF... though it started deliciously, with a mouthwatering heart-attack breakfast courtesy of May June Hall, the wife of the constable here in sleepy Baird, Kentucky. While I preach only to thirty or so people...

  • Husband: Some Assembly Required

    Marie Ferrarella

    IT TAKES AVERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! A silver tongue. A killer smile. Spectacular muscles. Handsome Murphy Pendleton had all the right parts to make any number of women swoon. But injured in an act of heroism, he suddenly craved...

  • The Saints' and Angels' Song

    John Fischer

    After the death of his best friend, Ben, Jonathan Liebermann is forced to face his grief when a series of strange occurrences and appearances lead him to believe celestial beings are helping him to face the world again...

  • Open Water

    Maria Flook

    In Open Water, Maria Flook explores the charged and eerie shoreline of Newport, Rhode Island, where Willis Pratt squanders his days running small cons. But his heart’s not in it -- he’s obsessed with fishing boat tragedies from his childhood and ...

  • Night Work

    Dennis Foley

    The Jungles of Vietnam, Where Nightmares Are Real And Daydreams Are Death

    For Captain Jim Hollister, operations officer for Juliet Company LRPs, Vietnam presented endless opportunities to fail, screw up, or die a grisly death. His job was to p...

  • For Always

    Bette Ford

    High school counselor Heather Gregory is ready and willing to fight uphill battles with her students. She knows what’s right and is prepared to stand up for what she believes in. When powerful Detroit attorney Quinn Montgomery comes into her offi...

  • Becoming Human

    Valerie J. Freireich

    The clone of a traitor, sub-human spy probe August is catapulted into the midst of an interplanetary war as the planet Neuland is threatened with alien annihilation and August himself confronts his dream of becoming fully human. Original....

  • Dangerous Relations

    Frances Galleymore

  • Yesteryear

    Dorothy Garlock

    Addie Hyde spent four years waiting to see if the high-spirited husband she had married in haste would come back after the South lost the war. Yet Kirby Hyde was never among the Confederates in rags and tatters straggling through Arkansas. Addie alwa...

  • Ruby

    Dick George

  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

    Edward Gibbon

    The complete 6-volume work, which covers from the reign of Marcus Aurelius to the fall of Constantinople in 1453.   Plus "Memoirs of My Life and Writing" by Edward Gibbon, and "Gibbon" by James Cotter Morison. According to Wikipedia: "Edward Gib...

  • Capitol Offense

    Tony Gibbs

  • No Ties

    Rosemary Gibson

    "Inconvenient! Is that how you regard William, too?" Until now, Cassie's life had been independent and carefree, so she was relieved that the secretarial job she'd taken on to help out her aunt Kate was only temporary-after all, c...

  • Blubb And The Chocolate Treasure

    Mel Gilden

    The star pupil from a school for evil geniuses transports the gang back in time to find pirate treasure, but no one counts on Blubb the purple blob and his incredible abilities. From the author of Beverly Hills 90210. Original....

  • Sins of Our Sons

    Sonny Girard

    For the sake of his wife and baby daughter, Mickey Boy Messina, the unexpected boss of the Calabra crime family, struggles to lead his Family out of crime and into legitimacy. By the author of Blood of Our Fathers. Original....

  • Trunk Show

    Alison Glen

    Amateur sleuth Charlotte Sams gets involved with murder when the elephant keeper at the Columbus Zoo is found dead just before Charlotte is scheduled to meet him and soon finds herself trapped in the zoo with a human predator...

  • A Present for Big Pig

    Debi Gliori

  • Easter Bunny

    Golden Books

  • Faith, Hope and Marriage

    Emma Goldrick

    Nobody's girl? 'I'm not your girl! I'm not anybody's girl!' As far as Faith Latimore was concerned, that was the way she wanted to stay! Why, then, did Lady Sunny seem so determined to throw her together with Harry Hols...

  • Stone of Tears

    Terry Goodkind

    Using his emerging arcane talents and the power of the Sword of Truth which only he can wield, Richard faces the ultimate evil, the dread Keeper of the Underworld, who has freed the spirit of Richard's nemesis, Darken Rahl, Unless Richard can control...

  • Mocking Bird's Song

    Janet Gortsema
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Sturdy, dependable Martha Hollins has always done exactly what's expected of her. But when she accepts a position as an interpretive guide at the National Seashore intstallation on Cape Cod, "Muffie" deepsixes her former dull lifestyle. When her v...

  • White Boys and River Girls

    Paula K. Gover

    From an exciting new voice in American fiction comes nine tales of barmaids and musicians, single mothers and burned-out businessmen--about lives lived a little too close to the edge and love longed for, lost, and sometimes regained....

  • Lonely Millionaire

    Carol Grace

    Dear Mr. Lonely... Personal ads weren't exactly Mandy Clayton's style. But one ad in particular was irresistible and now she was falling for a man she'd never met.... Seeking A Bride... Adam Gray was not interested in mail-order romance. But he'...

  • On Wings of Song

    Brenda Knight Graham
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Connie Jensen can't wait to turn her first graders into enthusiastic readers. Her principal, Maury Donovan, in no uncertain terms let Connie know that there is no place for her innovative teaching methods. Yet despite his stern, gruff manner, he h...

  • The Story of Myrtle Marie

    Carolyn Graham

  • The Story of the Fisherman and the Turtle Princess

    Carolyn Graham

    The story of The Fisherman and the Turtle Princess is a delightful wellknown Japanese folktale retold in English by Carolyn Graham and illustrated by John Himmelman. This story of a young fishermans adventure to the bottom of the sea is written in si...

  • The Heat of Passion

    Lynne Graham

    Untouched... Six years ago, Jessica Amory made the worst mistake of her life. The prospect of being Carlo Saracini's mistress was just too hot for her to handle, so she opted for the safety of marriage to Simon instead. Now Jessica is a wid...

  • How The July Fourth Cat Saved The Day And Ruined The Night

    Jan Grape
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    CELEBRATE THE HOLIDAYS WITH FAMILY AND FELINES

    In these nineteen original tail-twitching tales of mystery, cats from Maine coon to Scottish fold, tabby to Siamese, white Persian to calico crack all manner of holiday capers. Arbor Day reminds a...

  • Bride of the Wilderness

    Elizabeth Grayson

    Widowed at twenty-three, Celene Bernard had learned that men could not be trusted -- a woman needed a fiery spirit and a strong will to protect herself. So when she saw a trapper harassing a defenseless woman, she was so enraged that she pushed him i...

  • The Juror

    George Dawes Green

    Annie Laird is Juror 224. A sculptor with a career going nowhere. A single mother struggling to raise a son. A good citizen who has been summoned to what looks like a rountine tour of civic duty. But the trial she is called to serve on is no ordinar...

  • Back in Charge

    Mariah Greene

    This is the story of how Andrea, 29, leaves her boring lover, another manager in the design consultancy where they both work, and embarks on a passionate affair with a 19-year-old office boy. She also ensures that her vengeful ex-lover gets his comeu...