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New Books List: 620 titles

  • 92 Queens Road

    Dianne Case

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

  • A. J.'s Mystery

    Karla C. Erickson

  • Abiding Love

    Elizabeth Murphy
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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....

  • Absolute Truths

    Susan Howatch

    It is 1965, and Charles Ashworth has attained the plum position of biship of Starbridge, an honor that keeps him in a heady whirl of activity that would exhaust the most seasonal corporate executive. With the invaluable support of his minions and his...

  • Acceptable Risk

    Robin Cook

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

  • Acid Bath

    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...

  • The Adventurer

    Diana Whitney

    Devon Monroe had finally come home, home to a haunting memory that made him want to keep running. Home to a woman who made him want to stand still and stare into her eyes. For there was something about Jessica Newcomb that made him forget about his o...

  • After All

    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 ...

  • Against My Better Judgment

    Terence Maher

  • Air

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • All That Remains

    Robert L. Wise

    After 43 years of separation, David Richards is reunited with his birth mother, who tells him for the first time of his Jewish heritage. The news astonishes David, who was raised a Christian, and prompts a journey that takes him into the crossfire of...

  • All The Days And Nights

    William Maxwell

    From the American Book Award-winning author of Ancestors and Time Will Darken comes a masterful collection of stories, spanning more than 50 years--a tour of a world that engages readers entirely, and whose characters command the deepest loyalty and ...

  • The All-American

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

  • The American Cousin

    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...

  • American Knights

    Nick Pollotta
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    An exciting book that allows you to make decisions that determine the adventures outcome. In this book you face ruthless robots, animal mutants, vampire dentists, biker librarians, cyborg pirates and more....

  • Angel at Risk

    Leann Harris

    LOVE AND LIES Concern about her aunt's disappearance led Angeline Fitzgerald to the family home she'd always longed to visit. But in the tiny Louisiana town, the sultry summer air pulsed with an undercurrent of evil.... There, amidst ol...

  • Angel Valley

    Peggy Darty

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

  • Angel's Cause

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • The Angels Sing

    Susan Evans McCloud

  • Anna's Treasure

    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...

  • Antarctic Navigation

    Elizabeth Arthur

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

  • An Arcadian Death

    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...

  • Arms of a Stranger

    Danice Allen

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

  • Arousing Anna

    Nina Sheridan

    Anna is a secretary at a South London University, and unhappily wed. While husband Paul is away on another business trip, her boss asks her to act as unofficial hostess to a visiting French lecturer, Dominic Gerard. During his stay, he teaches her al...

  • Arthur, King

    Dennis Lee Anderson

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

  • As Shadows Haunting

    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-...

  • Asian-American Literature

    Shawn Wong

  • An Attic in Greece

    Austen Kark

  • Auld Lang What?

    Barbara Paul
    in

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

  • Autumn Tethers

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

  • Baby Ringmaster

    Thierry Dedieu
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • Back in Charge

    Mariah Greene

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

  • Balance of Power

    Dafydd ab Hugh

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

  • The Baronet's Song

    George MacDonald

  • Bear and Mr. Bear

    Frances Thomas

    Reluctantly visiting the local town on the day a carnival arrives, grumpy recluse Mr. Bear is appalled when he sees a dancing bear abused by his trainer and finds an unlikely connection with a fellow living creature....

  • The Bear Went over the Mountain

    Maggie Swanson

  • Beckoning Streams

    Janelle Burnham
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

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

  • Becoming Human

    Valerie J. Freireich

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

  • Belated Follower

    Colleen L. Reece
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    "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! ...

  • The Berenstain Bears and the Showdown at Chainsaw Gap

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • The Best Bride

    Susan Mallery

    With his sexy Stetson and X-rated grin, was Sheriff Travis Haynes Glenwood's leading lady-killer or Elizabeth Abbot and her daughter's knight in shining armour? Finally pulling her life back together, Elizabeth couldn't afford more heartbreak. Still,...

  • Best Friends

    Lynda Trent

    The relationship between two women, Chelsea Cavin and Karen Baker, best friends since childhood, is threatened by their mutual love for handsome, dynamic Ryan Morgan....

  • The Best of Friends

    Joanna Trollope

    Gina and Laurence had been the best of friends ever since they were teens - but never in love. Gina married Fergus Bedford, an antique dealer who bought the sophisticated and elegant High Place for them to live in. Laurence married Hilary, a down-to-...

  • Best of Marvel 1994

    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...

  • The Best Town in the World

    Byrd Baylor

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

  • Between the Memory and the Moment

    Susannah Hayden
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • Beware the Ravens, Aunt Morbelia

    Joan Carris

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

  • Bewitching

    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...

  • Bitterroot Landing

    Sheri Reynolds

    Moving in with the recently widowed deacon River Bill when he offers her a home, an orphaned Jael struggles with the voices that surround her, from those of her fellow incest support group members, to the words of the Virgin Mary. Reprint....

  • Black Cross

    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...

  • Black Night at Big Thunder Mountain

    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...

  • Blubb And The Chocolate Treasure

    Mel Gilden

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

  • Body Parts

    Michael Bates

  • Bold Legend

    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....

  • Born to Kill

    T.J. English

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

  • Boxing Day

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

  • Boys at Work

    Gary Soto

  • Branigan's Break

    Leslie Davis Guccione

    SINGLE DAD... DOUBLE TROUBLE Sean Branigan was a struggling single father, trying to understand the minds--and hearts--of his two teenage daughters. No easy task, since he grew up with five brothers and no sisters! All things considered, though, h...

  • Bravo for the Bride

    Elizabeth Eyre

  • Bred for War

    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...

  • Brer Rabbit's Adventures

    Rene Cloke

  • A Bride for Adam

    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...

  • Bride of the Wilderness

    Elizabeth Grayson

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

  • A Bride to Be

    Kristin Morgan

    Here comes the groom... Drew Naquin had always kept his distance from beautiful Brianna Stansbury. But that was about to change. Thanks to her grandfather's will, they had to get married. They didn't plan on staying married, but Drew had no complain...

  • Bright, Deborah Gearing up for the Fast Lane

    Deborah Bright

  • Broken Promise

    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...

  • Buffalo McCloud

    Cassie Miles

    Sexy dreamer... Buffalo rancher Russel McCloud was searching for the legacy of his Indian ancestors, but he was still missing one big piece of the puzzle - an Indian goddess! So, when a persnickety lady lawyer arrived, McCloud decided she just mig...

  • Burn

    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...

  • A Burning Passion

    Cathy Williams

    For the sake of their child... Marie Stephens had been young and naive when she'd first met charismatic Holden Greystone -- and had fallen head over heels in love. But their whirlwind romance had soon turned sour and Marie had walked out, vowi...

  • But Once A Year

    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...

  • By the Cut of Your Clothes

    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....

  • Call Me Cathy

    Margaret Meacham

    The story of An-Ying, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, reveals the clash between two cultures as she dreams of college, career, and a blond musician named Joey--and her parents plan her marriage to a nice Chinese boy...

  • Call Me Francis Tucket

    Gary Paulsen

    Francis Tucket now feels more confident that he can handle just about anything. A year ago, on the wagon train, he was kidnapped from his family by a Pawnee hunting party. Then he escaped with the help of the mountain man Mr. Grimes. Now that he and ...

  • Call Me Mom

    Sherry Lewis

    ABBY DRAKE. Being an instant mother was hard enough. But she'd certainly never planned to live in Pine Cove, Washington, a town so small, it didn't even appear on the map. She'd never expected to live in hiding, either, or to tell so many lies. But s...

  • Call Me Ruth

    Marilyn Sachs

  • Callie's Challenge

    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...

  • Calling Crow

    Paul Clayton

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

  • Can't Scare Me!

    Melissa Milich

    A rhythmic text and evocative illustrations spin a spellbinding tale in which Eugenia's father, whose ghost stories always scare their neighbor Mr. Haymon, creates a tale, with Eugenia's help, that cures Mr. Hayman of his fears....

  • Cannon's Revenge

    W.W. Lee

    Jefferson Birch joins forces with his boss, Arthur Tisdale, to search for a three-year-old girl who has been kidnapped by a man who is out for revenge against her father, the man the kidnapper holds responsible for his own son's death...

  • Capitol Offense

    Tony Gibbs

  • Capture the Wind

    Virginia Brown

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

  • Cargo Machines and What They Do

    Derek Radford

  • Carriage of Justice

    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...

  • Carry Me Home

    John Delvecchio

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

  • The Case of the Dude Ranch Rustlers

    Susan Saunders

    Investigating the disappearance of Annabelle and Brownie, their two favorite horses, Roxie Roper and Ross McArdle are unwilling to believe that one of their friends from the Double R Dude Ranch is a horse thief. Original....

  • Cat Who Blew the Whistle

    Lilian Jackson Braun

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

  • Celestial Seasonings

    Helen Muir

    The story of one woman's various entanglements with a series of unsuitable men. Roz fall in love with a musical performer, Ivor Mostance. After he goes on tour, Roz discovers she's pregnant. She tries to get on with her life but the image of Ivor is ...

  • Chain of Evidence

    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 ...

  • A Change of Heart

    Mary Hawkins
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • Charms

    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 ...

  • Chase the Lightning

    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...

  • Cheap Lives

    Antony Sher

    Yusuf is on Death Row for murder. Adrian had a lucky escape years earlier when he survived Yusuf's murderous assault during an afternoon of casual sex. The story contrasts their different experiences of a divided pre-Mandela country during its attemp...

  • Chevrolet Saturdays

    Candy Dawson Boyd

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

  • A Child's Promise

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

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

  • Children Are Civilians Too

    Heinrich Boll

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

  • The Chocolate Sundae 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 they're helping out ...

  • A Christmas Cowboy

    Suzannah Davis

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

  • City of Beads

    Tony Dunbar

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

  • Class Trip II

    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....

  • Clifford's Book about Me by Me

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Clock Strikes Sword

    Ian Hammell

    The Firozians with their magical swords and the Gnomons with their power over time must set aside their own war when a foreign power attacks the island and join spells and swords to defend themselves against a new enemy. Original....

  • The Clue in the Diary

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy and her friends, George and Bess, are returning from a country carnival when they witness the explosion and burning of a beautiful country mansion. Fearing its occupants may be trapped in the blazing building, they rush to the rescue -- and une...

  • The Coffin

    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....

  • The Cold One

    Christopher Pike

    The Los Angeles police are investigating two strings of gruesome deaths. One killer has left several horribly mangled corpses; the other murderer kills his victims seemingly without touching them. The investigators have only a single set of fingerpri...

  • Cold Turkey

    Graham Masterton
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  • Colorado Gold

    Jack Stanford

    Learning that a gold claim he filed with an old friend is about to prove out, Joel McCann realizes that he and Corky are in for trouble when the gunmen for a greedy railroad tycoon seek to jump their claim by any means necessary. Original....

  • Concubine's Children

    Denise Chong

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

  • Contagion

    Robin Cook

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

  • The Contrary Corinthian

    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 ...

  • Couples

    Kathryn Jensen

    Four people--Amanda, Robert, Caroline, and Frank--deal with a world of lost innocence, rebellion, and revolution that spans three turbulent decades of world history. By the author of Sing to Me, Saigon. Original....

  • The Court Martial of Robert E. Lee

    Douglas Savage

    On July 3, 1863, the massed armies of North and South met in fury near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. When silence fell, more than 22,000 Southern boys lay dead or wounded and their enemy stood unvanquished. It was General Robert E. Lee’s worst defeat; ...

  • Courting Valerie

    Linda Markowiak

    Jay Westcott -- the name spelled heartbreak Twelve years ago Jay Westcott had broken Valerie Brettinger's heart when he left Amsden, Ohio and the girl who loved him--to seek his fortune in the big city. Now he was back. The highly respected b...

  • Cradle and All

    Nancy Baker Jacobs

    Young, in love, and eight months pregnant with her first child, Karin Seaton had everything she could ask for. But a tragic car accident that put Karin in a coma for weeks and left her husband and unborn baby dead brought it all to an end. Ready to g...

  • Crazy Paving

    Louise Doughty

  • Cupid Doesn't Flip Hamburgers

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the new cook in the school cafeteria really be Cupid cooking up love potions for lunches? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! "I've never seen Cupid flipping hamburger...

  • The Curse

    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....

  • Curtain Going Up

    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...

  • D J and Stephanie Flipover Book

    Devra Newberger Speregen

    A flip-over format features observations of the Tanner clan by Stephanie on one side and D.J.'s opinions on the other, and includes sixteen pages of color photographs from the popular television series Full House. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Dagger's Point

    Anne Logston

    Jaellyn's mixed heritage gives her powerful magic, but a portion of her soul is missing, and she must risk her life to save her future, confronting bloodthirsty dragons and hideous shape shifters as she searches for her father. Original....

  • Dancing in the Darkness

    Janelle Burnham
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

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

  • Dangerous Discovery

    Laura Martin

    "You're the most infuriating, unpredictable woman I've ever had the misfortune to meet!" And with those devastating words Hunter Deveraux made his opinion of Estelle all too clear. She did her best to stay out of his way after that, even though sh...

  • Dangerous Relations

    Frances Galleymore

  • Dark Medicine

    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....

  • Dark Obsession

    Amanda Stevens

    Demon lover... Horror novelist Erin Ramsey's latest bestseller brought a dark and tormented vampire into her readers' world. But such dark and tormented heroes existed only in her imagination. Or so she thought. How wrong Erin had been. Now her...

  • Dawn and the School Spirit War

    Ann M. Martin

    Need a baby-sitter? Save time! Call: THE BABY-SITTERS CLUB and reach seven experienced baby-sitters. Kristy Thomas, President Mary Anne Spier, Secretary Claudia Kishi, Vice-President Dawn Schafer, Treasurer Shannon Kilbourne, Alternate Offic...

  • The Day the Magic Stopped

    Baen Books

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

  • Dead Lagoon

    Michael Dibdin

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

  • Deadly Contest

    Don Pendleton

    CLEAN SWEEP The island of New Amsterdam is fast becoming a major drug depot, money laundry and haven for criminals -- the effort of a Colombia-Cuba alliance. Elections are approaching, and the cartel wants its man in power. The opposition badly...

  • Deadly Deep

    Nancy Christiansen

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

  • Death and Judgment // A Venetian Reckoning

    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...

  • Death at the Table

    Janet Laurence

    FINAL COURSE The table is set, the wine is breathing, and television viewers are invited to delight in Darina Lisle's next episode of her top-rated food series, "Table for Four." Death was not on the menu until Darina's charming costar, Australian...

  • A Death in the Family

    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 ...

  • Death Of A Glamour Cat

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

  • Death of a Postmodernist

    Janice Steinberg

    At the Capelli Foundation for Postmodern Art, visitors expected the unexpected. One exhibit featured a hall of mirrors that trapped helpless viewers inside. Another artist was preparing an avant-garde performance piece -- which might or might not inv...

  • Death of Virgil

    Hermann Broch

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

  • Desert Dreams

    Deborah Cox

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

  • Desired

    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...

  • A Desperate Gamble

    Janice Bennett

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

  • Devoted

    Francine Craft

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

  • The Diablo Grant

    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...

  • The Diamond Age

    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....

  • Diamond in Disguise

    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...

  • The Dinosaur 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 a dinosaur myster...

  • Dishonourable Seduction

    Angela Wells

    "Every woman does have her price ..." Steel Anastasi's cynicism appalled Ginny -- but she knew she couldn't walk away from his offer. It was up to her to ensure that the company survived, even if that meant interference from the h...

  • Distant Love

    Ann Bell
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

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

  • Divine Right

    Richard Tomlinson

  • Doc Holiday

    Debra Dixon

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

  • Dogsbody

    Michael Molloy

  • Dolphins

    Stephen Spender

  • Dr. Couch Saves a Cat

    Nancy Pickard
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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...

  • The Dragons of the Rhine

    Diana L. Paxson

    Throughout the long winter, the Wolf and the Raven shared the warmth of their hearts and bodies. And when the time came for parting, the noble Wolf swore he would soon return for his beloved... The Dragons of the Rhine welcomed Sigfrid Sigmundson ...

  • Drak's Slumber Party

    Gertrude Gruesome

    Hoping to gain acceptance among his third-grade classmates by throwing a slumber party, Drak is dismayed by the arrival of his blood-sucking cousins and struggles to save the party, his new friends, and his own neck. Original....

  • The Dreadful Debutante

    Marion Chesney

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

  • Dream Boy

    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...

  • Dreams of the Pioneers

    Linda Herring
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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. ...

  • Drifter's Moon

    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...

  • The Eagle & the Nightingales

    Mercedes Lackey

    LET THE KING BE KING! Why is the High King of the Human kingdoms not doing his job--and thereby allowing the Church to fill the power vacuum in the human lands of Alanda? This is a matter of some concern to Nightingale and her friends: the Church ...

  • The Eagle Catcher

    Margaret Coel

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

  • The Early Reader's Bible

    V. Gilbert Beers

  • East, West

    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...

  • Easter Bunny

    Golden Books

  • The Easter Cat

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

  • Egg Is an Egg

    D C Heath & Co

  • Elmo under the Sea

    Jan Lebeyka

  • Embraced by Love

    Suzanne Brockmann

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

  • Emerald's Desire

    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....

  • The Empress and the Silkworm

    Lily Toy Hong

    Almost five thousand years ago, a young Chinese empress was having tea in the garden. A cocoon from a mulberry tree fell into her cup. Through a dream and her persistence, the first silk cloth was made....

  • Enchant the Heavens

    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...

  • Entertaining Angels

    Marita Van der Vyver

    Griet Swart is a recently divorced, 30-ish woman living out of a suitcase in a borrowed flat in Cape Town, South Africa. A collector of fairy tales for a children's book publisher, Griet soon finds herself viewing her own life in storybook terms. Whi...

  • Escape from Fire Mountain

    Gary Paulsen

    Thirteen-year-old Nikki Roberts tries to help two children trapped by a forest fire but finds her efforts blocked by poachers who want her to become one of the fire's victims....

  • Expectant Bachelor

    Sandra Steffen

    STRATEGY: Seduction It was shocking but true. Demure schoolteacher Gina Jenson planned to seduce--and abandon--Taylor Harris, the most desirable bachelor in town. Donning a slinky red dress, letting her hair down, she tantalized Taylor, savoring the...

  • Eyes of a Child

    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-...

  • Eyewitness

    Kathleen Creighton

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

  • Faith, Hope and Marriage

    Emma Goldrick

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

  • False Promises

    Ralph Arnote

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

  • Family Album

    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...

  • Farewell, Dawn

    Ann M. Martin

    Deciding that she wants to move back to California permanently, Dawn worries about what she will say to the rest of the baby-sitters, who do not understand when they hear the news secondhand....

  • Farther Along the Road

    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 ...

  • A Feather on the Breath of God

    Sigrid Nunez

    From Sigrid Nunez, the National Book Award-winning author of The Friend, comes A Feather on the Breath of God: a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love A young woman looks ...

  • Feels like Home: Fond Remembrances in Words and Pictures

    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...

  • Feluda's Last Case

    Satyajit Ray

  • Fields of Fire

    Carol Caldwell

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

  • Fire

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Fire Horse

    Bill Shoemaker

    Straight from the Winners Circle, the greatest jockey of all time draws on his vast experiences on and off the track to spin this suspenseful mystery starring jockey-turned-sleuth Coley Killebrew. . . .
    It all starts when Johnny Rousseau, Coley's ...

  • Fire Your Shrink!

    Michele Weiner-Davis

    Empowering readers to stop building on problems and start living solutions, the author of Divorce Busting offers revolutionary behavior strategies based on Solution-oriented Brief Therapy (SBT) for creating change in all areas of life. 75,000 f...

  • Fire, Burn!

    John Dickson Carr

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

  • First Things First

    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...

  • Flickering Flames

    Connie Loraine
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • Flower of the North

    Colleen L. Reece
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • Flower of the West

    Colleen L. Reece
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • Fly Away Home

    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 ...

  • Flying High

    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...

  • Fools on the Hill

    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....

  • For Always

    Bette Ford

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

  • For Love Alone

    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...

  • Forever Yours

    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...

  • The Fourth Season

    Anne Douglas

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

  • Frankenstein

    Maurice Hindle

  • Frankenstein's Bride

    Hilary Bailey

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