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New Books List: 620 titles




  • 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...



  • Jack Higgins

    The lost Temple of Sheba is not just a biblical legend. A German archaeologist has found it. The Nazis have claimed it. And one American explorer has stumbled upon their secret--a plot that could change the course of World War IL.. This elec...



  • Neal Stephenson

    Set in twenty-first-century Shanghai, it is the story of what happens when a state-of-the-art interactive device falls into the hands of a street urchin named Nell. Her life--and the entire future of humanity--is about to be decoded and reprogrammed....



  • 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...



  • Mark Cotta Vaz

    George Lucas has produced some of the most popular movies ever, including the classic Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies. Thanks to Lucas's foresight and the dedication of Lucasfilm archivists, the artifacts used in the making of his films have be...



  • 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....



  • Mark Gruenwald

    This compilation of work by some of the industry's best-loved writers includes stories by J.M. DeMatteis, Mark Gruenwald, Peter David, Bob Harras, and Larry Hama. The book features artwork by Adam Kubert, Andy Kubert, Gary Frank, and Dave Hoover. Col...



  • Michael A. Stackpole

    A PERILOUS LEGACY Along with the throne of the Federated Commonwealth, Prince Victor Steiner-Davion inherited a number of problems. Foremost among them is the Clans' threat to the peace of the Inner Sphere--and a treacherous sister who wants to su...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Alan Rodgers

    Resisting the governmental captors who have kept her existence a secret ever since her spacecraft crashed in the New Mexico desert, Pandora seeks revenge against the strange world and its unfriendly inhabitants. Original....



  • 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,...




  • Frederik Pohl

    Something Was Very Wrong, Out There Among The Stars...The interstellar transport had touched down on six other colony worlds - and all six had been devoid of human life. Where was everybody? It was almost as if humankind, when separated by cosmic dis...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Greg Iles

    It is January 1944--and as Allied troops prepare for D day, Nazi scientists develop a toxic nerve gas that will repel and wipe out any invasion force. To salvage the planned assault, two vastly different but equally determined men are sent to infiltr...



  • Ridley Pearson

    Can Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli uncover the truth? Or, more importantly, does he dare? Detective Joe "Dart" Dartelli made one critical mistake in his police career: He chose to ignore a piece of evidence in a case labeled a suicide that might have ...



  • 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....



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Preston Lerner

    When Washington, D.C., reporter Jeff Carmichael's predecessor and an ex-DEA agent who had a grudge against Jeff are both found dead, rogue CIA agents and Mafia thugs get involved, and suddenly Jeff's toughest assignment is staying alive. Original....



  • 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...



  • Stuart Woods

    STEP ONE: PERFECT THE PERFECT MURDER Sandy Kinsolving's once-glittering life hangs by a desperate thread; his future depends on his wife's inheritance and whether or not she's about to throw him out on his ear. What he wouldn't give for a solution...



  • 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 ordinary...



  • Del James

    With an introduction by W. Axl RoseDel James unleashes an extraordinary collection of snapshots from hell -- our hell. Here are spine-chilling stories of everyday people, all caught up in terrible urges -- sex and obsession, addiction and violence --...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Bob Mayer

    When a top-secret Pentagon research program explodes in the hills of Tennessee and a team of mutant soldiers--the SYNBATS--is unleashed, Dave Riley and his special forces must hunt them down in a deadly game of ambushes. Reprint....




  • Brian Harper

    As Donna Wildman, a profiler for the Los Angeles County Police Department, becomes embroiled in the search for a serial killer who is targeting prostitutes, the trail begins to lead ever closer to the police force itself. Original....



  • Michael Palmer

    Kate Bennett. A bright hospital pathologist with a loving husband and a solid future. Untl one day her world turns dark. A strange, puzzling illness has killed two women. Now it endangers Kate’s close friend. Soon it will threaten Kate’s marri...



  • Richard Hilton

    An ex-Vietnam jet fighter jockey and one of New World Airlines' best pilots, Emil Pate is a man with a grievance....



  • Jack D. Hunter

    Discovering that his estranged father has been murdered, Florida reporter Matt Cooper teams up with fellow journalist Tina Mennen in an investigation that links his father's killing to the assassinations of several prominent politicians. Reprint....



  • Margaret Woodward

    When a young Laura Spencer's sister and mother are murdered and her father's mistress is accused of the killings, she must confront the ugly truth about her family and deal with the lust and deceit hidden beneath the tranquil surface....



  • Steve Thayer

    It's the dead of winter. A serial killer of pretty young women has frozen a city in fear.... Andrea Lahore is a beautiful, ambitious TV newscaster. She's hungry for a story that could make her career. Now is her chance.... He's called The Weath...



  • 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...



  • Rebecca York

    In New Orleans everyone wore masks, everyone hid secrets.... Michael Rome: He was a master at assuming other identities, while never revealing his own. A sharp mind and deadly hands were his only companions. Until Jessica Duval scaled his defense...



  • Francine Pascal

    A creature of the night . . . Elizabeth Wakefield is falling in love . . . with Nicholas des Perdu, her boyfriend Tom Watts's new boss. Nicholas is tall, dark, dangerously handsome . . . and keeper of a deadly secret. Will Elizabeth abandon her frie...



  • Sheryl Lynn

    He was dangerously charming... Was he a ladykiller--for real? Policewoman Nadine Shell had been seduced by deejay Ben Jackson's voice on the nocturnal airwaves, but was the man of her late-night fantasies the murderer she was seeking? After all...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Karen Robards

    WAS HE DEAD, OR... The nude male body an the embalming table, battered beyond recognition. Gingerly, Summer McAfee, chairwoman, CEO, and sole employee of Daisy Fresh cleaning service reached out to touch an arm to reassure herself that she hadn't ...



  • Francine Pascal

    Wanted ... dead or alive. Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield set off on a road trip to the mountains of Colorado, ready for five days of skiing and the best Christmas break of their lives. Scott Culver is a guy with a broken-down car and a face to die...



  • Dawn Lindsey

    Outsider in Love Miss Sorrel Kent told herself that she felt no emotion except antipathy for the Marquis of Wycherly. He was an English lord, while she was an American who scorned all titles. He was as arrogantly dominating as she was fiercely ind...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Meg-Lynn Roberts
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    Victoria Colefax shocked the ton when she broke off her betrothal to the Marquess of Wexford. He wanted a dull marriage of convenience; she needed his passion and his heart! But cupid's arrow is ready to fly when they both take part in a Valentine's ...



  • Claudette Williams

    A mischievous mix-up turns a lady's love life topsy-turvy... TWO MR. WRONGS...MAY ADD UP TO THE RIGHT LORD TO LOVE! Lord Waremont was the very pink of the haut ton...too wild by half, and much too flirtatious. But what he had just done was ...



  • 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....



  • Lindsay Randall

    HE THOUGHT SHE WAS A RUNAWAY WAIF Heiress Marcelon Darlington simply bad to escape from Miss Cheltenham's School for Ladies...even if it meant stealing away in the dead of night--and nearly getting run down by the Mail Coach! She was aghast that the...



  • Olivia Sumner
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    On the eve of going to war, Lord Talland sweeps shy, sweet Juliet into his arms at the annual London valentine Ball. They pledge to meet there again the following year, but when Lord Talland returns to England, he is a bitter sightless recluse. Now J...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Valerie King
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    Had the haughty, handsome, and utterly impossible Lord Castleton sent governess Meg Woodville a valentine? Her heart soared...then plummeted. Of course not. The missive came from her pupil, Castleton's sister Hope, writing to say she had eloped! Now ...



  • 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...



  • Jill Parsons

    Senior Ashley Martin is thrilled to have the lead in her high school's production of Oklahoma, until she realizes that her former best friend, Daniel Stern, who had dropped her when he left for college, will be returning to direct the musical...



  • Paula Munier Lee

    Shattered by her mother's death and the revelation that she had been adopted, Emma Lambourne searches for the truth of her heritage with her best friend Sam, finding her only clue in a priceless Celtic bracelet. Original....



  • 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 ...



  • Janette Oke

    It wasn’t that Gran Thomas hadn’t taken on difficult challenges in her lifetime. She’d always met them head on before and fought her way through. But now. Now there seemed to be no reason to put in all that effort. What would she gain? With her...



  • Shari MacDonald

    When beautiful Celia Randall travels to eastern California for a short-term photography assignment, she unexpectedly locks horns-and falls in love-with the editor of the award-winning High Sierra magazine, Marcus Stratton. Yet, broken by recent losse...



  • Patricia Hickman

    The story of the Prentice family, torn apart by the English judicial system, is the saga of the colonization of Australia and the struggles of people in bondage to the white slavery of the penal colony. Original. IP. ...



  • Marian Wells

    Rebecca Still Had Her Mother's Wedding Dress. Would She Ever Wear It? There was little left from Rebecca's past. She had her mother's wedding dress, and her mother's Bible had been a source of truth and light and reality during those last, dark year...



  • Nancy Herndon

    Elena Jarvis is an officer in the Crimes Against Persons department of the Los Santos, Texas, police. She's got a sharp mind and a strong sense of justice. She's also got a condescending boss, a chauvinist partner, and an over-protective narc ex-husb...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Jennie Melville

    Original title: Baby Drop. Policewoman Charmian Daniels drove home from Slough to Windsor on the day the castle burned. Windsor may look picturesque and old-fashioned, but Charmian knows all too well that the charming village is not immune to the ...



  • 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 ...



  • W.E.B. Griffin

    A vice cop is shot dead in his home. A bar owner and his wife are gunned down during a robbery. And in a mansion, a young woman dies of a heroine overdose. The crimes seem unconnected. But these deaths are about to trigger a convergence of corrupti...



  • Dinah Lampitt

    KINDRED SPIRITS To attract the eye of England's young George III, all Lady Sarah Lennox had to do was smile. Enchanting, beautiful, and filled with passionate desires, she thought the glittering balls and flirtations of London Society were a game-...



  • Kathleen Morgan

    The daughter of a powerful Celtic chieftain, Rhianna longed to be as free as the wild hawk soaring above the mists of ancient Britain. Instead, her tribe trembled in bondage before the hated Roman invaders. And Rhianna was further bound: haunted by h...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Susan Krinard

    A beautiful woman risks the ultimate temptation -- love with the sensual vampire who's invaded her dreams.... PRINCE OF DREAMS San Francisco psychologist Diana Ransom can't take her eyes off the gorgeous, green-eyed stranger. But when she finally...



  • Trudy Thompson

    THE ICE QUEEN The last of her line, Thea possessed strange and inexplicable powers, yet she couldn't resist the charms of a virile captive. But with her frozen land facing annihilation, she had to trick the blond giant into risking a daring ruse tha...



  • Ann Williams

    SOMEWHERE IN TIME Far in the future, when love was unknown and freedom a crime, a lone rebel was desperate to learn what his world had lost. In a daring experiment, he reached into the past--and found a woman unlike any he had ever known .... M...



  • Jonathan Valin

    GOOD MEN DIE HARD The woman lived on Blue Jay Drive, and the love of her life had vanished into thin air. For Cindy Dorn, the man had been a safe haven, a good lover, and good friend. But Mason Greenleaf had his demons, and when Harry Stoner began...



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Susan Oleksiw

    Gwen McDuffy, a woman with a secret, panics when she realizes someone has found her out and no longer enjoys her work at Arbella Historical Society--where there are mysterious problems including disappearing paintings and a body in the attic...



  • Stuart M. Kaminsky

    When a former Russian advisor stands accused of murdering a female citizen in Cuba, Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is dispatched to the former Soviet Unions one-time ally on a criminal investigation-cum-diplomatic mission. With a watchful KGB agent on h...



  • D.R. Meredith

    WHO STASHED THE BODY IN THE COURTHOUSE BASEMENT?
    The folks in Crawford County, Texas, are silent as death about the dramatic discovery of the remains of a G.I. who was murdered in World War II. Sheriff Charles Matthews, feeling more an outsider th...



  • M.D. Lake

    Death by Mermaid The University staff is all agog over the arrival of Jens Aage Lindemann--the respected Danish scholar and irrepressible reprobate who has come to conduct a symposium on his country's most fabled storyteller, Hans Christian Anders...



  • Judith Van Gieson

    A FULL-TIME ATTORNEY AND A PART-TIME SLEUTH, SHE'S ALL BUSINESS WHEN A RARE BIRD FLIES THE COOP She may be a divorce lawyer, but Neil Hamel uses her PI's instincts when a millionaire's rare indigo macaw and newly endangered wife are kidnapped toge...



  • Jonathan Kellerman

    Dr Alex Delaware doesn't see many private patients any more, but for a young woman called Lucy Lowell he's prepared to make an exception. Referred to him by the police detective Milo Sturgis, Lucy had been a juror at the harrowing trial of a serial k...



  • Paul Levine

    Miami Dolphin linebacker-turned-trial-lawyer Jake Lassiter is a throwback, a 'brew and burger guy in a quiche and white wine world.' He has his own definition of chivalry - 'I help little old ladies cross the street ... and sometimes tall young ones'...



  • Marsha Landreth

    Dr. Samantha Turner is back in Wyoming, believing that her life is resuming normalcy, until the corpse she examines reveals death through smallpox and she must discover who has unleashed the remaining, once frozen virus before it turns into another p...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Harry Stein

    At thirty-one, Dr. Daniel Logan has gotten the biggest break of his career - a research fellowship at the prestigious American Cancer Foundation near Washington, D.C. The patients who come here know it is their last hope for survival. No matter how g...




  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they're helping out ...



  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather -- and a dinosaur myster...



  • Marilyn Prather

    When marine biologist Susan Miles moves to the picturesque seaside village of Gull Harbor, the last thing she expects to do is play detective in the perplexing case of a missing child. And the last thing she needs to do is fall in love. Yet both happ...



  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    Jessie and Violet are selected to play on the local baseball team, Henry gets a job helping the coach, and even Benny has a special role―as batboy. But at this ballpark, there's more than just a game going on―there's a mystery....



  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and are going on a trip ...



  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Boxcar Children are visiting Dragon Mouth's Cavern. Their plan is to explore the area and go rock hunting. But when Benny finds a way into secret underground caves, the children have even more to explore. The problem is, it seems like someone doe...



  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they''re fixing up their boxcar so they can ride it in the big Greenfield Founder''s Day parade. There''s just one problem: Someone h...



  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather -- and an orchestra is co...



  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. A super-special mystery for the Boxcar Children! Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a h...



  • Julian Symons

    Gathering for the thirty-year anniversary festivities of John and Eleanor, the Midway clan is sent into chaos when daughter Jenny Midway suddenly disappears, and Detective Superintendent Hilary Catchpole must seek out the truth. Reprint....



  • 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...



  • Laurence Shames

    When Vincente Delgatto, an aging Mafia godfather, heads down to I Key West to spend time with his half-Jewish bastard son, Joey Goldman, hee thinks that the worst thing that can happen is that he'll get a little too much sun.... But it's other peo...





  • 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-...



  • Sarah Gregory

    Sharon Hays is a beautiful Texas lawyer on a case that can make or break her career. But she's in harm's way - as a savage sexual psychopath targets her and her little girl. In court, Sharon must defend the daughter of a murdered Dallas millionair...





  • 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 ...



  • 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....



  • 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....



  • Jill Marie Landis

    She came to Last Chance, Montana... Eva Eberhart was looking for a way out of her dance hall life ... and found herself at Trail's End. Gruff rancher Chase Cassidy didn't think Eva had what it took to be housekeeper to a bunch of ranch hands, but ...



  • 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...



  • Dorothy Howell

    LOVE'S PRECIOUS SECRETS WERE HIDDIN IN THEIR HEARTS... ANNA: She lived alone on her North Carolina farm. when she came across a stranger on her land -- a muscular man bathing in her pond -- the sight of him took her breath away! SAM: Anna let h...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Colleen L. Reece
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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! ...



  • Gloria Dale Skinner

    Unemployed governess Cheval Worthington believed in the power of miracles when wealthy shipowner Austin Radcliffe rescued her from the dockside streets of Baltimore. But she'd learned that no act of kindness comes without a price. In exchange for Rad...



  • Muriel Jensen

    More Than He Bargained For Widower Adam Schofield had sent for Josie Cross to mother his girls and share his comfortable life. But the stubborn woman was not content to play the docile wife. In fact, she seemed determined to end their chance at ha...



  • 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...



  • Theresa (1) Scott

    Hunters of the Ice Age At the dawn of time a proud people battled for survival, at one with the harsh beauty of the land and its primal rhythms. Among the warring tribes, the jaguars were the mightiest, and the hunter called Falcon was feared l...



  • 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...



  • Kathleen Kane

    Leda James is a woman of many charms--including a lucky coin, a crystal ball, and a cluster of magic beads around her neck. She's determined to bring love and good fortune to the town of Tanglewood, Idaho. Even if-her `psychic gifts" leave something ...



  • Linda Winstead

    FLASH AND FURY Renata Parkhurst couldn't believe her luck. The proper young daughter of a Philadelphia doctor had run away to her cousin's Colorado spread hunting for love, and the day she arrived, a wounded rancher fell right into her arms. Al...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Elizabeth Hewitt

    Despite her own misgivings and the state of war that exists between England and America in 1812, English heiress Isobel Leyland falls for handsome American Adrian Renville, a rugged, self-assured stranger whom she suspects is a spy. Her Traitorou...



  • Linda Herring
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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. ...



  • Lisa Hendrix

    SPIRIT'S FLAME Mariah Hoag fought to keep her family's farm, not lose it to a greedy land baron like old John McKenzie... WANDERER'S HEART McKenzie's long-lost son came home to settle the past with his dying father, not fal...



  • 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 ...



  • Colleen L. Reece
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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...



  • Colleen L. Reece
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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...



  • Jane LaMunyon
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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 ...



  • Barbara Leigh

    Of Noble Heart Convent-reared and innocent. With a beauty eclipsing legend. So Mistress Bess appeared in the eyes of Griffith Beaufort, cousin to Henry VIII. The gentle woman risked much on his behalf. And for her, he would dare the unthinkable. H...



  • Tracie Peterson
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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...



  • Ann Justice

    LIFE MOVES A LITTLE SLOWER IN HARMONY.. ... but sometimes love happens a little too fast. When Mary Taylor sends for a mail-order husband, it seems like it's love at first sight--Matthew Hubbard steps off the train and into her arms. But in the he...



  • Juliet Landon

    A STRANGER'S ALLURE Ginevra Mallard had thought herself content with life at the Priory of Our Lady of Aire, until a chance meeting with a handsome stranger left her unsettled about her future. Then came the news that she was to return immediately...



  • Birdie L. Etchison
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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 ...



  • Tracie Peterson
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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 ...



  • Mary Lapietra
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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...



  • LaVyrle Spencer

    Principal Tom Gardner comes face-to-face with a past indiscretion when a new student transfers to his school: Kent Arens. Tom only has to look at him to see that this teenager is the son he never knew he had, the result of a one-night stand on the ev...



  • JoAnn A. Grote
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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...



  • Lori Wick

    “King Henry says I am to marry one of the daughters of Vincent of Stone Lake." For Bracken of Hawkings Crest, there could be no refusal. But could there ever be love? Eager to secure a permanent loyalty from this promising young knight, King Henr...



  • Sarah Westleigh

    A SIMPLE TRIP TO PARIS Miss Louisa Finsham thought it would be a casual affair--visiting the battlefields of Waterloo with her aunt Amelia. But from the moment their ship set sail, Louisa encountered all sorts of difficulties, including one Lord H...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Suzanne Robinson

    Clairvoyant Penelope Fairfax, self-exiled to a deserted castle on the isle of Penance, discovers a young man among the rocks on the beach, and is soon caught in a tangled web of deceit and assassination. A SHIPWRECKED RAKE Women had always been...



  • 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...



  • Cheryl Tenbrook
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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...



  • Robin Chandler
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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...



  • Susan Sawyer

    Deciding to take in boarders in order to help provide for her family, Georgia schoolteacher Julia Carey is astonished when her first guest, an unconscious gunshot victim, turns out to be the wealthy Tyler McRae--her father's sworn enemy. The sole ...



  • 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...



  • 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--...



  • Vera Lee Wiggins
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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...



  • Peggy Darty
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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...



  • Patricia McAllister

    ANGEL After her father's sudden death left her all alone in the world, Angel McCloud was faced with two terrible choices: surrender her innocence to the lecherous widower who'd won her home in a card game... or become the bride of the man who held t...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Mary Lide

    Hoping to help their North Cornwall community recover from the Second World War, cousins Emma Trevarisk and Lily Polleven struggle with Emma's disheartened fiance+a7 and threats to Lily's family home. By the author of Sea Scape. ...



  • Pat Muchmore

    Realizing that a claim in the Cherokee outlet of wild Oklahoma will force her into a life of harsh challenges, Amy teams up with reckless Colby Grant and finds in him the freedom to pursue her most intimate dreams. The wild Oklahoma land rush was...



  • Mandalyn Kaye

    Arren Grayland, fleeing in terror from ruthless men bent on destroying her. Duncan MacCraig galloping out of the dark Scottish night ... just in time to save Arren from certain death....



  • Karen Harper

    In the small town of Lockwood, Ohio, Amanda Wynne harbored special hopes for this first Christmas after the Civil War. Yet so much had changed. Her husband, Matt, had returned a broken man and would soon be lost forever. And while she took two war wi...



  • JoAnn A. Grote
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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...



  • Kay Cornelius
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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...



  • Sue Rich

    An enthralling tale of 1820s Florida weaves a spell from a long-past but still potent love, deep in the steamy mystery of the exotic Everglades... It's a place where flowers stretch toward the sun, and moss hangs from branches in gray-green spl...



  • Shirley Rhode
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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 ...



  • 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...



  • Judith Pella; Michael Phillips

    Stranger at Stonewycke is the first book in The Stonewycke Legacy and continues the Ramsey family story portrayed in the three previous books of The Stonewycke Trilogy. The Stonewycke fortune is being stretched to its limits as the family tries to...



  • 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...



  • Jaclyn Reding

    A PASSION FOR REVENGE. A HUNGER FOR LOVE. Beautiful, flame-haired Mara Despenser hated the English under Oliver Cromwell, and she vowed to avenge Ireland and become mistress of Kulhaven Castle again. She would lure the castle's new master, the inf...



  • 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...



  • Carolyn R. Scheidies
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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 ...



  • Norma Jean Lutz
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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 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...



  • Curtiss Ann Matlock

    Kindred Souls Cross McCree was mestizo - a half-breed man of the mountains. A man as rough as the land he loved. Yet passion pooled within him, and Lilly Blackwell feared the depths of his heated gaze. In her hoopskirts and dainty shoes, Lilly...



  • Janelle Burnham
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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...



  • Victoria Thompson

    When fate brought them together on the Florida coast during the Spanish-American War, Sean Tate and Maud Campbell knew they had found something special. The son of a wealthy Texan, Sean needed to find out what being Roosevelt Rough Rider could show h...



  • 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...




  • Bebe Faas Rice

    Becoming lost in an isolated mountain town, Hallie and her friends are charmed by Holyoake's old-fashioned customs and friendly ways until they realize that the people there have no intention of letting them leave. Original....



  • Diane Hoh

    Finding herself locked in a soundproof room by a madman, coed Tanner tries every means of freeing herself, causing her terrifying captor to lock her in a coffin-shaped box that offers a slim chance for escape--or eternal imprisonment. Original....



  • Richard Pierce

    Like a modern-day Frankenstein, Sarah Watkins brings her boyfriend back from the dead, but he is doomed because he has the blood of monsters, and Sarah must end the curse--even if it means destroying the boy she loves. Original....



  • Barry T. Hawkins

    While searching for a missing reporter, troubled New York detective Gil Beach is drawn into the underground laboratories of Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, where a group of prominent doctors is conducting grotesque nuclear experiments. Original....



  • 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...