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New Books List: 620 titles


  • Thomas Perry

    Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads people out of the wilderness--not the tree-filled variety but the kind created by enemies who want you dead. She is in the one-woman business of helping the desperate disappear. Thanks to her membe...



  • Mark Leyner

    A community theater's production of Special Yearnings triggers a string of underground nuclear explosions from St. Louis to Worcester, Massachusetts. A man frantically swats at the blaze that his girlfriend has ignited in his trousers, while her fami...



  • Marina Warner

    Is Jurassic Park a work of covert misogynist propaganda? Does romanticizing childhood lead to abusing children? What secret correspondence links Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to video games and Shakespeare's Caliban to Hannibal Lecter? in what ways do ...



  • Anne Perry

    Not since the bloody deeds of Jack the Ripper have Londoners felt such terror as that aroused by the gruesome beheadings in Hyde Park. And if newly promoted Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt does not quickly apprehend the perpetrator, he is likely to...



  • 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 ...




  • Jonathan Guy






  • 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. ...



  • Paddy Mounter




  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Jeff Noon

    Hailed as the novel that reinvented cyberpunk, The 30th Anniversary edition of Jeff Noon's award winning cult classic, Vurt.Scribble and his gang, the Stash Riders, haunt the streets of an alternate Manchester, chasing the immersive highs that come f...



  • 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....




  • 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...



  • Elizabeth Willey

    Once there was only the land of Phesaotois, with a cold and baleful Stone at its magical heart. Much later came the land of Pheyarcet, younger and hotter, with its Well of Fire inextricably bound up with its ruler, the great Panurgus. Then Panurgus d...



  • Bill Ransom

    From the New York Timesâ€"bestselling co-author of The Jesus Incident, this “fascinating†genetic engineering thriller has “plenty of flare†(Publishers Weekly).   The vivid and gritty sequel to Bill Ransom’s ViraVax  Burn takes t...



  • Janet Gortsema
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    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...



  • Janelle Burnham
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    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...



  • Elizabeth Murphy
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Before her marriage to minister Joel Bennigan, Val had beed seduced by the promises of a frightening religious cult. Now these deranged minds want her back, and they'll stop at nothing. Kidnapped and then imprisoned in a dank basement, Val is give...



  • 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...



  • Ann Bell
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    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 ...



  • Ann Bell
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    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...



  • Susannah Hayden
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    On the threshold of adult life, Julie Covington is filled with confusion and self-doubt. She knows that marriage to Dennis, a union that is wholeheartedly embraced by her family, would provide a safe and secure future for her. But deep within her ...



  • Connie Loraine
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    To Nurse Nancy Galbraith and Dr. Damon Barton of Seattle's Shepherd of Love Hospital, the miracles of physical healing are a daily occurrence. The scars of their past lives, however, are almost beyond repair. Can Nancy ever learn to forgive the da...



  • Norma Jean Lutz
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    After her grandfather's death, Kassier reluctantly keeps her promise to him and leaves Wyoming, hoping to rebuild her relationship with her older sister. But life in Virginia with Glorence is a stifling contrast to the wide open spaces if Kassie's fo...



  • Elizabeth Murphy
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    After her young husband's death, Dr. Brenda Rafferty seems poised to fulfill her lifelong dream of opening a pharmacy that operates on Christian values. But within twenty-four hours she meets two men and a little boy who threaten her well-laid plans....



  • Mary Louise Colln
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    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...



  • Phyllis A. Humphrey
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    When Kelly Marsh's job forces her into contact with Steven Barry, the dark, arrogant skydiver, Kelly is immediately skeptical. How will she be able to work with a man involved in such a dangerous and frivolous sport, not to mention someone who is ver...



  • Rae Simons
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Thrilled at the opportunity to work near Liam, the love of her life, Dorrie Carpenter has accepted a teaching position in a school for troubled children in upstate New Youk. In time, however, Dorrie finds herself in more and more diffuculty. Not o...



  • Brenda Bancroft
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    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...



  • Elizabeth Murphy
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Val Packard is bright, perceptive, and a courageous defender of the faith...in the grad school classroom where she is a student, that is. Outside, however, she is plagued by an increasing fascination with Joel Bennigan, the handsome assistant pastor ...



  • Yvonne Lehman
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Meera Briskin is determined to find out for herself whether the Maxwells are the unmitigated rogues she has been taught to hate. The long-standing feud between the two families that began three generations ago-the result of a chestnut tree blight bro...



  • Kay Cornelius
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    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...



  • Mary Hawkins
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Hilda Garrett has watched the man she loved marry someone else. Then her father died. Now she's discovered that her father wasn't her birth father after all. While she manages her family's sprawling farm in Australia, Hilda is determined to discov...



  • Mary Hawkins
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    When Laura Well's father is unable to accompany her on a much-anticipated cruise, Graham Kirkland, an acqaintance, agrees to chaperon Laura and her bubbly friend Kathi. Although Laura has trusted noone since her mother's death, as Kathi and Graham...



  • Susannah Hayden
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Julie has finished her studies, broken her engagement to Dennis, her college sweetheart, and relocated to her grandmother's childhood home in Seabridge, Maine...all in an effort to become the artist she longs to be. Plagued with self-doubt about h...



  • Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
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    Angeline Monroe can't resist a worthy cause. Not only does Angeline want to right wrongs, but she loves the attention it brings. The only one who doesn't applaud her activism is her lifelong friend, Gavin Lucas. When Angeline-or Angel, as Gavin calls...



  • Shirley Rhode
    • / Historical Romance
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    When Elise Waller returns home from boarding school, she hopes her family will become more filled with Christ's peace. Her father, however, thinks only of his business schemes, her younger sister is filled with rebellion, and her stepbrother has his ...



  • Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
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    Sent away from the man she wants to marry by her wealthy parents, Pamela Charbonneau now finds herself in a stifling small town in Missouri under the watchful eye of her strict grandmother. But trouble has a way of finding Pamela no matter where she ...



  • Janelle Burnham
    • / Historical Romance
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    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 ...



  • JoAnn A. Grote
    • / Historical Romance
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    Constance Ward's work as a Pinkerton agent requires secrecy and deception skills she will surely use as she travels form Chicago to River's Edge, Minnesota, to capture the notorious criminal Rasmus Pierce. Under the guise of delivering her orphaned n...



  • 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 ...



  • Mary Lapietra
    • / Historical Romance
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    As a child, Marnette Coulter went to sleep each night to the sounds of her father beating her mother. Now, her parents are both dead and she herself is about to be thrown out on Boston's harsh streets. As God's plan unfolds, Marnette finds herself...



  • Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
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    At twenty-three, Daughtry Lucas knows she will end up an old maid unless she can somehow escape her overprotective father. He refuses to trust her out of his sight, keeping all prospective suitors at a distance. A newspaper advertisement for a wif...



  • Vera Lee Wiggins
    • / Historical Romance
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    In as much as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Rachel Dorland lives by this Scripture. After giving birth to twins who keep her up all night, she cares for them and her eleven-month-old son joyfu...



  • Robin Chandler
    • / Historical Romance
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    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...



  • Cheryl Tenbrook
    • / Historical Romance
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    Erin Elizabeth Corbett is thrilled with her first teaching assignment. The Lost Creek Mission, Lost Creek, Missouri, is a poor and remote community of honest and hard-working citizens who desperately need her. Convinced God is leading her, Erin arriv...



  • Kay Cornelius
    • / Historical Romance
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    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...



  • JoAnn A. Grote
    • / Historical Romance
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    After being left at the altar, then becoming engaged to the notorious outlaw Rasmus Pierce, Marian Ames is happy to come to Minneapolis where no one knows her scandalous history. Losing herself in exciting work with needy children at a local missi...



  • Janelle Burnham
    • / Historical Romance
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    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...



  • 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...



  • Colleen L. Reece
    • / Historical Romance
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    The only daughter of Heather and Brian O'Rourke, Daisy is far from a coddled hot-house flower. Determined to be a Harvey Girl-a waitress at one of Fred Harvey's famous restaurants-she tumbles headfirst into a Wild West adventure. And adventure she...



  • Linda Herring
    • / Historical Romance
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    As newlyweds, Mary Anna and Daniel Thornton dream of carving out an empire on the Texas frontier. But that is before they discover their new home lies on the main Comanche route to Mexico, and before renegade Comanche begin stealing horses and food. ...



  • Norma Jean Lutz
    • / Historical Romance
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    When country girl Tessa Jurgen learns that her bootlegging father has promised her in marriage to a man she doesn't love, she seeks refuge in the supposedly progressive boom town of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The year is 1921. As governess to the children o...



  • Jane LaMunyon
    • / Historical Romance
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    Fueled by ambition and hard work, aviator, Meredith Bailey knows if she takes enought risks and makes enought money one day she'll have her very own flying school. Aren't independence and achievement better copilots that any man? But then there's ...



  • Colleen L. Reece
    • / Historical Romance
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    Bernard Clifton is on top of the world-thoughts of his upcoming medical school graduation with highest honors and his hoped for engagement to socialite Julia Langley. But, thanks to the revengeful plan of a misquided friend, Bernard is not to real...



  • Carolyn R. Scheidies
    • / Historical Romance
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    Faith waited for Carter, marquess of Aven, to return from the war against Napoleon and claim her as his bride. A petite beauty and the daughter of an earl, Faith would be a prize catch for any young man, but long ago she gave her heart to Carter. He ...



  • Susannah Hayden
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Living and working at the youth camp owned by Dillon Graves, Jenna seems happy. After all, she's hopelessly in love with the much-older Dillon, and he genuinely appreciates her work. Sill Jenna feels compelled to move on. But to what? What does Go...



  • Liza Hadley
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    She was right back where she'd started Cathy hadn't wanted to return to Italy, but when another feature writer for Cuisine for Cooks broke her leg, Cathy had to take her place covering the new cookery course in Florence. But nothing could have pre...



  • Quinn Wilder
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    She was bad luck personified Caroline Pickford--Fame magazine had named her one of the twenty most intriguing women in the world. Mainly because Elroy Pickford, probably the richest man in Canada, had once ended confirmed bachelorhood at the age o...



  • Mary Kruger

    Newlyweds Brooke and Matt Devlin are ensconced in a suite deluxe aboard the S.S. New York, sailing toward an idyllic month in England when fellow passenger J.P. Morgan asks the crime-solving duo to investigate the disappearance of another prominent f...



  • Mary Stewart

    Eager, burning, and young, Alexander sets off towards Camelot to seek justice from King Arthur for the murder of his father. But he is diverted from his quest by beautiful, sensual Morgan le Fay, who persuades the young prince to attempt a theft of t...



  • 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...



  • Gerald Hammond

    In the Scottish Highlands, foxes are a gamekeeper's worst enemy. Except, of course, for poachers. At first Deborah Fellowes and her Uncle Ronnie think they've caught the villain, but it soon emerges that they're on the trail of someone far more sinis...



  • Peter F. Hamilton

    Julia Evans: billionairess, owner of Event Horizon, for fifteen years the undisputed power behind England's economic renaissance. And in trouble. With her husband missing and rival companies suddenly claiming to have acquired a technology impossibl...



  • Roderic Jeffries

    In the isolated Canegot Valley on the languid isle of Mallorca, Spain, miserly spinster Dona Beatriz Ruig is found dead in her bedroom, doors and windows locked from the inside. The arrogant local police officer, Inspector Garicano, naturally conclud...



  • 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...



  • Salman Rushdie

    From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Midnight's Children and The Satanic Verses comes nine stories that reveal the oceanic distances and the unexpected intimacies between East and West. Daring, extravagant, comical and humane, this bo...



  • Robert Timberg

    Robert Timberg weaves together the lives of Annapolis graduates John McCain, James Webb, Oliver North, Robert McFarlane, and John Poindexter to reveal how the Vietnam War continues to haunt America. Casting all five men as metaphors for a legion of w...



  • Richard North Patterson

    Ricardo Arias is found dead, the gun still wedged in his mouth. It looks like suicide, but the physical evidence strongly suggests murder. The police investigation uncovers an estranged wife, Terri Peralta; an ugly custody battle over their six-year-...



  • 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...



  • Caryl Phillips

    Phillips examines the transitions of a Caribbean nation from colonialism to a dubious state of independence through the experiences of Bertram Francis, a young man who leaves St. Kitts at the age of thirteen to study law on a coveted scholarship in E...



  • 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...



  • Colleen L. Reece
    • / Historical Romance
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    "What about the sheep?" Benjamin's words seem to echo across the hills on this starry night in Judea. This night, proclaimed long ago by the prophets, has finally come and only he of all the shepherds seems to be concerned with his woolly charges! ...



  • Veda Boyd Jones
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Callie and Morgan Rutherford's courtship and marriage is a dream come true. They have everything two people could ever hope to attain...in short, life is good. Everything turns upside-down, however, when a freak accident sends Morgan to the hospit...



  • Vera Lee Wiggins
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Arriving intentionally unannounced, Fritzi has succeeded in disrupting the lives of her mother, her daughter Teddy, and Teddy's new husband Brand. Gram Marland's llama ranch is thriving and an imminent merger with Brand's ranchland is being herald...



  • Donna Leon

    A QUESTION OF MOTIVE Someone is killing Italy's prominent businessmen--but why? At first glance the murders appear unrelated. However, Venice's most charming and tenacious detective, Vice-Commissario Guido Brunetti, suspects a fatal link. Unraveli...



  • 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...



  • Charlotte MacLeod

    DODGING AN ARTFUL KILLER While her art detective husband, Max Bittersohn, chases Watteaus in Argentina, Sarah Kelling lunches with the feuding eccentrics of the Wilkins private museum. Then feisty administrator--and talented art forger--Dolores Ta...




  • 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...





  • Nicolas Kanellos

    Following a historical overview, this book presents works by Piri Thomas, Sandra Cisneros, Nicholasa Mohr, Robert Fernandez, Luis Omar Salinas, Angelo de Hoyos, Pat Mora, Sandra Maria Esteves, and Martin Espada, among others....



  • 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 ...







  • Eric Kraft

    In 1962, as a college sophomore, Eric Kraft fell asleep in the library. Among the books surrounding him, he began to dream...of a nameless boy, sitting on a dilapidated dock in the warm sun of a summer day, playing a game: He was trying to bring the ...





  • Glenn Patterson

    In the centre of EuroDisney's Magic Kingdom, the night that the Croatian city of Vukovar falls, a German canteen assistant and a Northern Irish construction worker are held at gunpoint in the cavernous interior of Big Thunder Mountain. Their attacker...



  • Robin Chapman



  • Susan Evans McCloud

    Take a step back in time, back to the 1830s, and meet a young girl whose experiences will capture your imagination as they also teach you about what life was like for Mormon girls nearly two hundred years ago....





  • Paul Magrs

    Welcome to Phoenix Court It's a weird mix of people round here on this housing scheme, but everyone's reasonably friendly. Everyone's got their secrets, though, and often there's real magic waiting just around the corner. Meet Mark Kelly-a man ta...



  • Susan Evans McCloud

    It began as an innocent excursion, a trip to get Laura's mind off the death of her husband. But as she and her daughter, Penelope, eagerly pursue their genealogical interests, they are also being pursued - by Callum MacGregor, an English police inspe...





  • Stephen R. Covey

    The New York Timesâ€"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...





  • L. Waterhouse

    Bonnie Fitch is back and it's going to be one hectic term. Lynda Waterhouse goes from strength to strength with this, her second novel, featuring the fat, funny, clever, kind heroine of our time, Ms Bonnie Fitch....










  • Beth Nadler
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    It's Broadcast Day in Ms. Frizzle's class. Ralphie promised everyone he'd figure out what kind of show they should put on. But, Ralphie is sick and can't come to school. So, everyone climbs aboard the Magic School Bus, because if Ralphie can't come t...






  • Jon Swain

    "A splendid memoir...a tale, at once tragic and beautiful, of love and loss, of coming of age and of witnessing the end of Indochina as the West had known it for more than a century." -- Los Angleles Times Book Review. From the writer immortalized in...



  • 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...










  • 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....




  • Barry Windsor-Smith

    Collects Marvel Comics Presents #72-84.  Wolverine's a lot of things to a lot of people, but to one infamous enclave he was nothing but a - weapon. And weapons kill people. They found that out well enough. This title presents a collection of 'Ma...



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Marion Lennox

    Could Nikki's home be a haven for Luke? As a general practitioner to Eurong on the Queensland coast, Dr. Nikki Russell deliberately led a quiet life with small daughter Amy. Needing three weeks to review for an exam, she took on a locum to all...



  • James Patterson

    First came the stunning number-one bestseller Along Came a Spider. Now comes the scariest, most unforgettable novel in several years. In Los Angeles, a reporter investigating a series of murders is killed. In Chapel Hill, North Carolina, a beautiful ...



  • Lewis Nordan

    ALA Notable Book; Mississippi Arts and Letters Fiction Award. Lewis Nordan's remarkable third novel, THE SHARPSHOOTER BLUES, is in part a meditation on America's love affair with blue-steel barrels and soft-tip bullets, and in part a look at the viol...



  • Jim Grimsley

    Struggling with sexual abuse from his father and his mother's denial of the situation, Nathan dreams of a life free from his family while fantasizing about a relationship with the young man next door, whose home represents a safe haven to Nathan...



  • J.D. Landis

    Morton Dauwen Zabel Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters. LYING IN BED begins with the voice of a strange, compelling speaker. The more we learn of his life and his most unusual marriage, the less we are sure of who he is and what he says. LYI...



  • Cheryl Moch

    Introduction by Allan Gurganus. Photographic historian and researcher Cheryl Moch has compiled hundreds of contemporary and vintage photographs and literary passages that perfectly evoke the various emotions and images associated with "home." Like A...



  • Charles Kenney

    For decades Gerta Wahljak has been haunted by a photograph of ten Nazi officers taken in the concentration camp where she was imprisoned during the Holocaust. Since emigrating to the United States, she has carefully traced and recorded the fates of n...



  • 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.



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    When a bad man with a nice cat was murdered during World War II, the police asked Dr. Franklin Couch for his assistance. Now, many years later, the old veterinarian tells his granddaughter about the investigation, which involved many cats and many cl...



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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...



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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...



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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...



  • John Lutz
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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...



  • Graham Masterton
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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...



  • 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...



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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...



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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...



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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...



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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...



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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...



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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...



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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...



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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...



  • 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...



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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...



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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...



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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...




  • John Varley

    A science fiction superhero anthology features Alan Dean Foster's "Earth Spirit," Roger Zelazny's "Hugh Glass," Lawrence Watt-Evans's "Captain Cosmos," Michael A. Stackpole's "Revenant," and John Varley's "Bolshoiman." Reprint....



  • 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,...



  • Gordon D. Shirreffs

    Responding to his government's orders to assist the invasion of New Mexico, estate owner and frontiersman Quint Kershaw finds his greatest challenge in his wife Lupita and her fierce loyalty to her Spanish ancestry. Reprint....



  • James Reasoner

    THE DEVIL'S BUSINESS

    When a crumbling piece of paper slides from the Bible of Juan Espina, the town drunk, the New Mexico territory settlement of Garrison is royally surprised. It appears to be a centuries-old land grant -- issued by the K...



  • Dusty Richards

    The popular Rice Sisters return in their second hilarous western adventure, enduring a misbotten stage robbery, a crazed trip to a mining town, and a gunfight outside the church where Stout Rice just got married. Original....



  • J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams paid a visit to the Florida Everglades to see his friend Buddy Braganbut when he got there he saw nothing but trouble ahead. Bragan's suspected of selling guns to the Seminole Indians...and now the bullets are flying faster than the rumor...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo steps in when a series of vicious murders terrorizes the Arizona mountains, but his search for the killers is undermined by a ruthless rancher, Indians who believe that ghosts stalk the region, and a magician and his two gorgeous daughters...



  • David Thompson

    Before the yoke of civilization had tamed the land, a man had to fight for his life in the Rockies. If hostile Indians weren't hunting for his scalp, ferocious grizzlies or man-eating mountain lions were after his flesh. And if the summer heat wasn't...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Candice Hern

    Anyone can arrange a marriage-but only the heavens can decree true love! Her grandson, the Earl of Bradleigh, had just announced his engagement to a thoroughly unlikeable chit -- and Lady Bradleigh was determined to do something about it. Why, just ...



  • Virginia Henley

    "YOU HAVE BELONGED TO ME, BODY AND SOUL, SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME." Mesmerized by the dark knight's turquoise gaze, Lady Brianna of Bedford tried to turn away. After all, she was betrothed to Robert de Beauchamp. And now this total stranger, Christ...



  • Lisa Kleypas

    A noblewoman of frail beauty and exotic mystery fakes her own death to escape the gallows. And now she must flee. In disguise and under a false identity, she finds unexpected sanctuary in the arms of a handsome and arrogant yet gallant British lord--...



  • Elyse Guttenberg

    Spirit Singer and Shaman. Elik was not like the others. She could not sew a seal skin with the tiny stitches that would make a kayak watertight. She could not set a trap as silently as drifting snow. Or throw the weighted strands of a bola into a flo...



  • Kate Hanford

    Landing a fabulous part in a TV mini-series was just the thing Faythe McBain needed to jump-start her career after twenty years. Not that she hadn't kept in practice: she deserved an Academy Award for acting the loving wife while her high-powered...



  • Carolyn Lampman

    THEIR MARRIAGE WAS A TEST--IN MORE WAYS THAN ONE South Pass City was a mighty tough town, even by Wyoming Territory standards. And although Garrick Swenson seemed like a tough man, his sensitive soul was plagued with guilt. Then one day he rescued...



  • 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...



  • Sandra Hill

    As tall and striking as the Valkyries of legend, Dr Rain Jordan was proud of her Norse ancestors despite their warlike ways. But she couldn't believe her eyes when a blow to the head transported her to a nightmarish battlefield and she had to save th...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    Vexing Valentine Miss Phoebe Thorpe had no idea why she had stirred the wrath of Valentine, Lord Latham, but she most certainly had. Now this devastatingly handsome and supremely well-connected gentleman was out to wreak vengeance on her with all ...