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New Books List: 589 titles

  • Mistaken Bride

    Brittany Young

    SECRET BRIDE, SECRET BABY... Kate and Carly Fairfax were the spitting image of each other...but there the similarities ended. And no one sensed their differences as acutely as Gabriel Trent, Carly's mysterious, brooding fiance, a man who regarded...

  • Publish and Perish

    Sally S. Wright

    Millions of mystery novels are purchased every year, and only the Bible has outsold the number of copies purchased of Agatha Christie's titles. Now, author Sally Wright introduces to the Christian marketplace an intriguing new mystery series which fo...

  • Publish and Perish

    Sally Wright

    INTRODUCING ACADEMIC SLEUTH BEN REESE A college professor dead under mysterious circumstances. A secretary who hates the victim with lethal ferocity. A vengeful former student. To university archivist Ben Reese, the sudden death of his old friend ...

  • Spitting Distance

    Jon Wright

  • Lords of the Seventh Swarm

    Dave Wolverton

    On a planet of strange and horrific alien creatures and plants, colonized by a few even stranger humans, the insectoid Dronons have cornered Gallen, Orick, and Maggie. They have come for Maggie because she is their Golden Queen. For the Dronon she is...

  • The Drummer Boy of Vicksburg

    G. Clifton Wisler

    Orion Howe, a fourteen-year old boy serving in the army as a drummer boy, receives the Medal of Honor for risking his life by running through a battlefield to tell General Sherman that his regiment is running out of ammunition....

  • Only You

    Angela Winters

    Ghostwriting a book for celebrated architect Tim Neil, editor Connor Jackson meets him in the fashionable ski resort of Aspen, but her professional relationship with the icy man is challenged by her strong attraction to him. Original....

  • Raven's Vow

    Gayle Wilson

    A SCANDALOUS ARRANGEMENT American merchant John Raven had stolen the toast of the London season out from under the ton's very nose! He had offered the lovely Lady Catherine Montfort freedom in exchange for marriage and she'd accepted --- despite her...

  • The Lady's Mummy

    Bess Willingham

    CAN AN ANCIENT CURSE BE LIFTED... Egyptologist Cassandra Russell was the proud owner of an unusual collection of ancient artifacts--along with an adorable pet monkey. But her most treasured possession was the priceless sarcophagus of an Egyptian Que...

  • City on Fire

    Walter Jon Williams

    Plasm: the shimmering substance that powers a world civilization Atah worked for the Plasm Authority, metering the shimmering substance that powered the world cite, until she fell in love with Constantine, the rebel Metropolitan lighting a war to ...

  • The Modern Fantasy by Women

    S. Susan Williams

    Fantasy long has been a vehicle that women have used to express their creative diversity and free themselves from a male-dominated literary establishment. This collection contains 38 short stories written by women from 1941 to the present. It include...

  • The Lady Rose

    Joyce Williams
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Rosamund Schmidden's ears burned at the conversation taking place in the scullery, a conversation she couldn't help overhearing. "I wonder how Miss Rosamund will like finding herself the prize for winning her papa's war?" Waves of confusing em...

  • The Sable Doughboys

    Tom Willard

  • The Magic Cornfield

    Nancy Willard

    Getting lost on his way to his cousin Bottom's 100th birthday celebration, Tottem finds himself in a Magic Cornfield that transports him to many unusual places, from which he sends Bottom postcard descriptions of his experiences....

  • A Night To Remember

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    Opposites attract Andrew Colton Tyler III needed a life. He had a stuffy job, an overbearing family and more social obligations than any sane person would commit to. What's worse, it looked as if the New Year was going to be the same. Then at the ...

  • Winter on the Farm

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    The Little House books tell the story of a little pioneer girl and her family as they traveled by covered wagon across the Midwest. Laura Ingalls Wilder's classic books, illustrated with Garth Williams' timeless artwork, have been cherished by mil...

  • Tomorrow's Rainbow

    Vera Lee Wiggins
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Perri has four growing boys who need a father-and, Lord knows, she needs a husband. But Perri knows that Mitch won't be able to handle the chaos of living in such a bustling household. To Mitch, such a sacrifice would grow old faster than her boys! ...

  • The Magic School Bus Spins a Web: A Book About Spiders

    Tracey West

  • Winter is Here!

    Kimberly Weinberger

  • On the Way to a Wedding...

    Ingrid Weaver

    She met Mr. Right. ON THE WAY TO A WEDDING...THEIR PLANE CRASHED! Lauren Abbot would have perished had it not been for handsome lawman Nick Strada. Though everyone claimed Nick had died in the crash, Lauren knew better. That hardheaded, sexy ...

  • The Firehouse 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 are helping to ...

  • The Growling Bear 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 visiting Yellows...

  • The Mystery at the Alamo

    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 are visiting th...

  • The Mystery in San Francisco

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Aldens are thrilled to be with their Aunt Jane and Uncle Andy in San Francisco. When they visit Fisherman''s Wharf, their friend Charlie invites them aboard a fishing boat. But strange things are happening on the wharf, and it seems as if someone...

  • The Mystery in the Old Attic

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Aldens are exploring an old house in Michigan. When they arrive at the mansion, they can't wait to start looking through all the rooms. They find an old diary that tells that a diamond and pearl ring is hidden in the house....

  • The Niagara Falls Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    This is the Boxcar Children's first trip to Canada, and they are very eager to explore Niagara Falls and all of the attractions in the area. They are even more thrilled when a friend of Grandfather's asks if they want to help out in his souvenir shop...

  • The Outer Space 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 are visiting an...

  • The Soccer Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Aldens are all on the same soccer team, and know that winning isn''t as important as having fun. But is someone trying to ruin the soccer league? Practice balls get deflated, a goalie''s gloves are ruined, and a player is locked in the locker roo...

  • Punia and the King of Sharks

    Lee Wardlaw

  • Mississippi

    Anthony Walton

      To most Americans, Mississippi is not a state but a scar, the place where segregation took its ugliest form and struck most savagely at its challengers.  But to many Americans, Mississippi is also home.  And it is this paradox, with ...

  • The Same River Twice

    Alice Walker

    Chronicles the experiences of Alice Walker in the aftermath of the publication of The Color Purple and its winning of the Pulitzer Prize, as illustrated by essays, journal entries, and the author's never-used screenplay. Reprint....

  • Walk in the Rain

    Sarah Vazquez

  • Blood on the Plains

    Robert Vaughan

    THE MEN SWARMED OUT OF THE NIGHT, BRANDISHING SWORDS OF BLOODY RIGHTEOUSNESS. WHEN THEY WERE DONE, INNOCENT LIVES WERE SHED, AND A NATION WAS ONE STEP CLOSER TO WAR... Blood on the Plains Between one man's mad dream and another's outla...

  • No Way Out

    Tina Vasilos

    She had secret reasons for entering his life... Bicycle courier Jenny Gray only pretended not to know Theo Zacharias. She'd entered his life determined to get to know the man--his habits, his haunts, his best-kept secrets. Jenny believed Theo m...

  • New Year's Wife

    Linda Varner

    Recipe for a Happy New Year 1 Bachelor pilot 1 Young widow 1 Memory of a midnight kiss 1 Oversize house 6 Assorted relatives Passion, hope and love as desired In oversize house, toss together pilot and widow. Fold in memory of passi...

  • Leap Year

    Etienne Van Heerden

  • Letting Loose the Hounds

    Brady Udall

    “Funny, unpredictable, and abounding with strange beauty . . . a fierce new voice of the American West.” -- Outside Exploding with an unsettling exuberance, Brady Udall’s stories traverse a geography of lost love, fragmented lives, and satisfyi...

  • Crash Course

    Kathy Hogan Trocheck

    MURDER GETS A GREEN LIGHT When Jackleen Canaday's newly bought dream machine--an '88 Corvette T-top--turns out to be a lemon, senior sleuth Truman Kicklighter comes to her aid. As they head for the dealership, they're spoiling for a fight but they...

  • Melchizedek: King Of Jerusalem

    Ellen Gunderson Traylor

    Melchizedek, King of Righteousness...upon his legacy a foundation was laid for the Holy City of Jerusalem. In the climactic days following the Great Flood, Noah and his descendants came forth from Ararat and set out to repopulate the earth. Some woul...

  • Young Goat's discovery

    Arline Warner Tinus

  • Blood and Wine

    Robert Tine

    In Blood & Wine by Robert Tine, Alex Gates spends his days as a wine merchant catering to a wealthy clientele. But with his eye on more than just their business, he sets in motion a scheme involving one of his wealthiest customers--whose one-mill...

  • First, Body

    Melanie Rae Thon

    The author of Girls in the Grass presents another collection of her short stories, including the tale of a privileged Florida girl who reveals that the secret dangers of her life include alligators and a crippled grandfather....

  • Here Comes the Parade

    Gare Thompson

  • Sioux Slaughter

    David Thompson

    Setting out with his rifle and an old friend on his journey into the Great Plains, an adventure-seeking Davy Crockett struggles with such challenges as a mammoth buffalo stampede and a Sioux ambush. Original....

  • Gingerbread Days

    Joyce Carol Thomas

  • The Road Home

    Eliza Thomas

    It occurred to Eliza Thomas when she hit her forties that home might be "someplace you made." A modest cabin in the woods of Vermont seemed like a good place to start. Thomas's funny, heartwarming experiences transform the weekend cabin into a real h...

  • Three Wogs

    Alexander Theroux

  • A Lawman for Kelly

    Myrna Temte

    KELLY, GET YOUR GUN! Deputy U.S. Marshal Steve Anderson wasn't all that handsome, Kelly Jaynes told herself, but... all right, the man was so magnetic, he made her toes curl up in her boots. So what was a Montana cowgirl to do? He was a lawman...

  • Caught in the Web

    Michael Teitelbaum

  • The park bench

    Fumiko Takeshita

  • Cutting Through the Mountain

    Immanuel Suttner

    A collection of interviews with prominent South African Jews who played key roles in the struggle against Apartheid. These include leaders of the African National Congress, Trade Union movement, South African Communist Party, and cultural figures lik...

  • The Infamous Earl

    Margaret Summerville

    A Perilous Pretense Georgiana Morely could see only one way to wed the devastatingly handsome but dismally penniless Lord Thomas Jeffreys. She had to convince her disapproving parents that she would otherwise make an even more disastrous match--wi...

  • On Wings of Love

    Ashley Summers

    JUST A FLING... Katy Lawrence wasn't the kind of woman who could have a meaningless affair. But her broken heart needed a distraction. And sexy Thomas Logan was there for the taking. He was mighty persuasive and wouldn't take no for an answer. ...

  • A Midnight Clear

    Anne Stuart
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    Kelly Malone wants commitment and stability. She needs a good father for her baby...but will she find him in a rough-and-tumble rancher?...

  • Transformation

    Whitley Strieber

  • Angels Unaware

    L. Elizabeth Storm

    A LEAPER EARNS HIS WINGS... September, 1981. A little girl named Teresa Bruckner is visited by an angel--a man in strange clothes, who says his name is Al. He sings her a lullaby and promises to come back someday, before vanishing in a flash of bl...

  • Sandwiches Sandwiches

    Jeffrey Stoodt

  • More & More Tales to Give You Goosebumps

    R.L. Stine

    "Will Aunt Vera's book of magic spells spell scary trouble for Kari? Is Jeffrey a musical genius or is the old guitar he stole really haunted? Are Mike and his brother Ray house-sitting for a monstrous ghost?"...

  • The Runaway

    R.L. Stine

    She can't run away from her past. Shadyside. It sounded like such a nice town, the perfect place for a runaway like Felicia. Nobody here would know about her dark powers. Nobody would know what she had done. For once, she could be a normal girl. S...

  • Scream of the Evil Genie

    R.L. Stine

    Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!As usual, it was a pretty long day at school. So before you do your homework you decide to grab a soda. But when you open the can, out pops a genie who offers you three wishes. She seems p...

  • Jury Double

    Edward Stewart

    NYPD homicide cop Vince Cardozo must unmask a cunning killer in bestselling author Edward Stewart’s powerhouse tale of crime and punishmentWhen it comes to the dark side of humanity, Vince Cardozo has already seen plenty. But his encounter with cul...

  • A Child of Promise

    Jill Stengl

    Harry Jameson, an itinerant joiner, longs to settle in one place, marry, and raise a family. So far, God has planned otherwise, but then Harry's latest woodcarving job brings him into the vicinity of Castle Trent...and into the desolate life of Ishma...

  • Finally, Love

    Jill Stengl
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Darlene Althorp idolizes Jake Edgewood, an air force lieutenant and "older" man, but he treats her like a child. She loves the attention Rick showers upon her at college, but he can't compare to Jake's maturity. She is looking for independence...and ...

  • Infinity's Child

    Harry Stein

    THEIR FIRST CHOICE Sally Benedict is having a baby. After years of trying, after scores of tests, Sally and her husband are thrilled. But someone is watching, someone who knows all about Sally's unborn child--right down to her unique genetic code. ...

  • Everyone Wears Wool

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • The Bacta War

    Michael A. Stackpole

    They are the galaxy's most elite fighting force. And as the battle against the Empire rages, the X-wing fighters risk life and machine to protect the Rebel Alliance. Now they must do the impossible: capture a hostile, fortified world--on their own. ...

  • Whose Death Is It Anyway?

    Elizabeth Daniels Squire

    After a lively family reunion, Peaches stumbles on some deadly secrets--starting with the news that her cousin's daughter, Kim, is missing, and her mother is convinced she's dead. Peaches is supposed to be promoting her book, How to Survive Without a...

  • The Promise

    Devra Newberger Speregen

  • Small Town Girl

    LaVyrle Spencer

    Eighteen years ago, young Tess McPhail left her tiny hometown of Wintergreen, Missouri, population 1,713. She headed for Nashville--and never looked back. Now one of country music's brightest lights, "Mac" McPhail is a millionaire many ti...

  • The Fiance Thief

    Tracy South

    Claire Morgan -- femme fatale? Alec Mason had a hard time imagining Claire as a hot babe, until he began masquerading as her fiance. And fighting off her potential suitors! He and Claire were supposed to be working together to get the inside st...

  • Heiress Seeking Perfect Husband

    Maris Soule

    SHANNON POWELL IS LOOKING FOR LOVE--IN ALL THE WRONG PLACES Or at least that's what my chauffeur, Clint Dawson, says I'm doing. Personally, I don't think I'm looking for love at all--I merely said I wanted love letters to read in my old age. The f...

  • Around Town

    Chris K. Soentpiet

    This vibrant, exuberant tour of New York City, illustrated in colorful, detailed watercolors, will delight children. A dark-haired girl and her mother walk through the streets and enjoy all of the fun the city has to offer on a summer day — stre...

  • Sacrifice

    Mitchell Smith

    When his daughter becomes the latest victim of a serial killer lurking in the Florida swamps, Tyler Pierce, a reformed criminal, devises a plan to circumvent the corrupt local authorities and catch the notorious Sweetwater Killer. Reprint....

  • An Infamous Proposal

    Joan Smith

    SHE DESIRED NOTHING MORE THAN A BIDDABLE HUSBAND... Emma, having gone at seventeen directly from her papa's home to her husband's arms, is now widowed at age twenty -- and quite naive in the ways of the world: in particular, how to find h...

  • Water Rites

    Guy N. Smith

    IN THE VILLAGE OF HOPWAS, THERE IS A BARBED WIRE FENCE AROUND THE OLD RESERVOIR. An elderly derelict living in the Hopwas woods has seen them gather under the chill of the moon. He has heard the haunting echoes of their strange midnight chants. A re...

  • The Neighbor

    Debra White Smith
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Allissa is ready for a vacation from her successful dentistry practice, and she has chosen her beautiful new home as the perfect spot. Well-stocked with painting and cleaning supplies, she is ready to work, but she can't seem to pull herself away fro...

  • The Lucifer Deck

    Lisa Smedman

    CONJURED KILLER RUNNING WILD ON THE NET Life on the streets of 21st-century Seattle can be tough, especially for a young ork like Pita. And it gets a lot tougher when she witnesses a corporate mage murdered by the violent spirit he just conjured fro...

  • The Coffeepot Inn

    Lass Small

    MR. JANUARY Bryan Willard: Head hunk at the Coffeepot Inn His dream date: The lovely Lily...his new boss His problem: He's in over his head! Nothing much ever happened 'round here till Lily came along. I was happy enough running the Coffeepot...

  • Sody Sallyratus

    Teri Sloat

    When an old woman promises her family bisquits and sends her little boy down to the store to fetch some baking soda, he is confronted by a hungry bear and vanishes, and as other family members are sent out and disappear one by one, their pet squirrel...

  • Skin Deep, Blood Red

    Robert Skinner

    Even At Ten Grand, The Price Of The Soul Is Never An Easy Sale... Chance Tartaglia, a cop with a nasty reputation for embezzling, pimping, and drug-dealing has been found shot to death. To nightclub owner Wesley Farrell--who knows all about secrets-...

  • A Blessing on the Moon

    Joseph Skibell

    Joseph Skibell’s magical tale about the Holocaust -- a fable inspired by fact -- received unanimous nationwide acclaim when first published in 1997. At the center of A Blessing on the Moon is Chaim Skibelski. Death is merely the beginning of Chaim...

  • Man Without a Badge

    Dani Sinclair

    He'd been stripped of everything... Detective Sam Moore had lost his badge, his job, his dignity. Now he was a fugitive, headed both for Marly Kramer's horse farm and for Marly's young charge, an eleven-year-old eyewitness to the murder of which ...

  • The Refuge

    Rae Simons
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    After loving Ryan Webster since she was a child, Becca Flinders has at last accepted that he is not God's will for her life. From now on, she decides, she will say yes to whatever God sends into her life, and she will stop longing for what she can no...

  • The Unlikely Spy

    Daniel Silva

    Catherine Blake: beautiful widow of a war hero, London hospital volunteer, Nazi spy. Her mission, under direct orders from Hitler: uncover the Allied plans for D-Day and seal the German victory. Alfred Vicary: fumbling history professor, Churchill...

  • The Weight of Water

    Anita Shreve

    "I wonder this: If you take a woman and push her to the edge, how will she behave?" The question is posed by Jean, a photographer, who in 1995 arrives on Smuttynose Island, off the coast of Maine, to research a century-old crime. As she immerses hers...

  • Mr. Mccready Clean

    Tracey Shilling

  • Embers of Death

    Stella Shepherd

    Baffled by a series of unexplained fires in empty properties, D.I. Montgomery and Sergeant Bird of Nottingham begin to see both a motive and pattern when a pharmacy is torched and a charred body is found in the wreckage....

  • A Husband in Time

    Maggie Shayne

    THE STRANGER The man had come to Jane Fortune from out of nowhere. He couldn't explain who he was, but Jane's young son could. The little boy insisted Zach was his imaginary daddy come to life, the father he'd always wanted. And even Jane couldn't d...

  • The Water Cannibals

    Paul B. Shaw

    The disappearance of a young Cherokee woman and an escalating battle over valuable land near Oklahoma City lead homicide detective Abe Rainfinch into the heart of a closed community with little or no reason to trust the police....

  • Vengeance at Dead Man Rapids

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo meets a wily female writer and a gang of savage killers in a godforsaken Arizona town called Nowhere and goes racing down the Colorado River on a trail of vengeance for a heinous crime. Original....

  • High Heel Blue

    Diane Shah

    With a serial killer stalking the women of Los Angeles, a smart and beautiful cop is assigned to be a decoy for the murderer, and when the killer starts calling her unlisted number and threatening her, she knows she is getting close. 20,000 first pri...

  • Lucky Bride

    Ana Seymour

    Parker Prescott had no intention of ever settling down, but Molly Hanks was the kind of woman who could stop a man in his tracks --- with or without her buffalo gun! Molly knew a smooth-talking drifter when she saw one. A man with charm like that ...

  • The Spice Islands Voyage

    Tim Severin

    'His dedication will enthrall, entertain and educate' - DAVID BELLAMY 'A fine reporter and a literate writer.' - New York Times This is a book about a journey and a quest: a journey among the Spice Islands of equatorial Indonesia aboard a tradition...

  • Premeditated Murder

    Slobodan Selenic

  • Groom on the Loose

    Christine Scott

    GROOM ON THE LOOSE Dr. Greg Lawton was a man used to getting what he wanted. So when his would-be bride left him high and dry, he was mad...really mad. BRIDESMAID ON THE WARPATH Cassie Andrews couldn't believe it--Mr. Blond and Perfect actually...

  • Dangerous Angels

    Amanda Scott

    A carriage accident leaves Miss Charlotte Tarrant clinging to the side of a cliff, holding on for dear life. In one terrifying instant, her safe, pampered world is gone. Until Le Renardeau--the Fox cub--becomes her unlikely savior. Looking like the ...

  • Traffic Jams

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Weird Worlds

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Remote Viewers

    Jim Schnabel

    Remote Viewers is a tale of the Pentagon's attempts to develop the perfect tool for espionage: psychic spies. These psychic spies, or "remote viewers," were able to infiltrate any target, elude any form of security, and never risk scratch. For t...

  • Black Hawk's Feather

    Carolyn R. Scheidies

    Lady Laurel Comfrey has every intention of avenging her father's murder-by herself. But that is before the plot thickens, and she discovers that her prime suspect may also be conspiring against her beloved king. Far worse than that revelation is L...

  • Harvest Moon

    Judith Saxton

    Laurie, son of a local ne'er-do-well lordling, and John, son of the well-to-do Hovertons, grow up like brothers on the Hoverton's Bees-wing Farm in England in the early 20th century. The boys revel in their country lifestyle, befriending Foxy Lockett...

  • Unforgettable

    Meryl Sawyer

    "I CAN MAKE YOU LOVE ME." They met at the edge of a Maui rain forest, at the far side of Paradise. In the midst of a raging tropical storm, Greg Braxton found her unconscious, at the bottom of a cliff. She clung to him fiercely, passionately, and ...

  • The Turquoise Sun

    Linda Sandifer

    SOMEWHERE IN TIME... 19th-century archaeologist Tanya Darrow is excavating the primeval cliff dwellings of the long-vanished Anasazi tribe -- and uncovers an expedition led by rival archaeologist and notorious playboy Keane Trevalyan. Determined to ...

  • Love's Ransom

    Lisa Samson

  • Shades of a Desperado

    Sharon Sala

    A LOVE THAT WOULDN'T DIE Night after night, the visions kept Rachel Brant from sleep -- a hard-eyed outlaw straight out of the old West, claiming her as his woman, taking her passion as his due. And though she knew it was madness, still she longe...

  • Marriage Bait

    Eva Rutland

    The perfect career move -- marriage! Scot Harding was stunned when Lisa turned down a dream promotion -- to get married! He was amazed not only because Lisa was a talented career woman -- but also because she didn't even have a particular hus...

  • Straight Man

    Richard Russo

    In this uproarious new novel, Richard Russo performs his characteristic high-wire walk between hilarity and heartbreak. Russo's protagonist is William Henry Devereaux, Jr., the reluctant chairman of the English department of a badly underfunded colle...

  • The Waiting Game

    Bernice Rubens

    At The Hollyhocks old people's home, the inhabitants are waiting for the scythe. As they do, Lady Celia runs a blackmail business on the side, Mr. Cross keeps a tally of residents' deaths, and Mrs. Bellamy decides she can't take it any more and slits...

  • Champagne and Moonlight

    JoAnn Ross
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    Shiloh Beauregard meets the man of her dreams on New Year's night, and with help from some matchmaking cherubs, a cozy twosome becomes a threesome....

  • Little Miss Strange

    Joanna Rose

    1997 Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Association Prize for First Novel. Sarajean is the child of love children. She lives with Jimmy Henry, a Vietnam vet she accepts as her father. Her mother, whoever she was, disappeared long ago. Sarajean scams her ...

  • The Last Man in Montana

    Kristine Rolofson

    Riding, loping and Ranching are part of cowboy life. Diapers, Pacifiers and Baby Bottles are not! Champion rodeo rider Will Cody is back at the Silver Valley ranch to sell his inheritance. Family life, staying in any one place for too long, jus...

  • The Case of the Missing Birthday Party

    Joanne Rocklin

    Dressed up and ready to attend a birthday party, Pauline is distraught to find that her hamster has chewed up the invitation, leaving the number 5 as the only clue to where the party is taking place. Original....

  • Up for Grabs

    Kristen Robinette

    He was rough denim to her cool silk .... Jesse McCain stepped onto her land without asking, a bold buccaneer who knew the stormy-eyed lady wouldn't deny him a chance to dig up her property -- and her post! Targeted by a grin full of promises, Laur...

  • Holding the Dream

    Nora Roberts

    Nora Roberts presents the second novel in a dramatic new trilogy. Margo, Kate, and Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Kate who soon discovered that her past was haunted by the darkest of sec...

  • The Challenge

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams was used to having a reputation, but the rumors coming out of Denver weren't the sort he was used to. A woman was telling folks that she had found him to be less than a legend. In all his days, he had never known such a woman. So who was ...

  • Romancing Annie

    Nikki Rivers

    "He wants me?" With ice blue eyes, silver-streaked hair and a diamond-studded ear, Edmund Winters was one magnificent male. And Ann Madison had only one question for him-why was he interested in her? Eddy was a man of the world, with expensive ta...

  • The Wagon Wars

    James A. Ritchie

  • Dream Girl

    Brian Rieselman

    Seeking help at the Albion sleep disorders clinic for recurring nightmares, Diana learns that her psychic powers become stronger when she is with fellow patient Catherine, and the friends uncover a terrible hospital secret. Original....

  • Against All Odds

    Barbara Riefe

    Excited about their upcoming trip to California, Lucy Scott Mitchum and her husband Noah never expected the many difficulties and great dangers they had to endure on their way to begin their new life in the West. Lucy Scott Mitchum was not sure ho...

  • Zero Tolerance

    Thomas Richards

    Twenty years after the Bureau of Reclamation fails to build the Mekong River dam that would have won the Vietnam War, four people try to put together what went wrong and learn the true mission of the Bureau. A first novel....

  • Crosswinds

    Shirley Rhode
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    The war may be raging in Europe, but Nettie Homes feels defeated within the safety of her once loving home. Her husband, Derrick, would rather fight in the frontlines than witness another traumatic miscarriage. Derrick and Nettie have lost two babies...

  • Curious George Wins a Medal

    H.A. Rey

  • Crystalina's New Pet Puppy

    Alexandra Reid

  • Gem Starr's Easter Egg Hunt

    Alexandra Reid

  • Glitter's Day at the Sky Carnival

    Alexandra Reid

  • Happy Valentine's Day, Sparkle!: A Press-and-Play Book

    Alexandra Reid

  • Sunbeam's Spring Picnic

    Alexandra Reid

  • Glowing Embers

    Colleen L. Reece
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    As nurse Nancy Galbraith becomes Dr. Damon Barton's wife in the brightness of a sun-glorified stained-glass window, Damon's love dims the searing memories of the flames that etched permanent scars on her body and spirit. Six months later, their idyll...

  • The Royal Bengal Mystery and Other Feluda Stories

    Satyajit Ray

    A man-eater in the jungles of the Terai. An ancient riddle. The lure of hidden treasure.

    Visiting the famous hunter and wildlife writer Mahitosh Sinha-Roy in his Jalpaiguri palace, Feluda is presented with a riddle that holds the...

  • The Murder Lover

    Ellen Rawlings

    DANGEROUS AFFINITIES



    Elspeth Goldman and Rachel Crowne have a lot in common. They are both young, divorced, and Jewish. They look alike and share the same suburban Washington, D.C. community. But there's one big difference: Rachel is a...

  • The Waiting Time

    Eugenia Price

    Bostonian Abby Banes thought marrying much older Eli Allyn would be a romantic dream: he would make her the pampered mistress of a plantation on Georgia's glorious seacoast. But she wasn't prepared for the realities of slavery or aching loneliness. A...

  • Great White Sharks

    Christine Price

  • Rock-a-Bye Moon

    Christine Price

  • Hero for Hire

    Cynthia Powell

    He looked unstoppable, unconquerable, a law unto himself.... Cade Jackson had a face too hard to be handsome, Martinique Duval decided, and a smile just lethal enough to make a good girl want to be bad! Tracking his quarry had led the tough bount...

  • My Runny Valenslime

    Pat Pollari

    Loves me, loves me snot!



    Who stuffed nose noodles into the Valentine's Day chocolate? That's what Janey Johansen wants to know. Her basketball team is selling the chocolate to raise money for new uniforms, but nobody wants to pay two b...

  • Babushka's doll

    Patricia Polacco

    Babushka's doll was special. She had played with it only once, when she was a little girl like her high-spirited granddaughter, Natasha. Now Babushka is going to the store and it's Natasha's turn to take the little doll down from the high shelf. When...

  • The Marriage in the Trees

    Stanley Plumly

    Many of the poems in The Marriage in the Trees, Stanley Plumly's sixth book of poetry, concern the passing of the author's parents. They have the power of the deeply personal, and are clearly, in their wisdom and mastery of form and language, the ...

  • SOG

    John L. Plaster

    Plaster (The Ultimate Sniper), a retired Army major, served three tours with the secretive "Studies and Observation Group," aka SOG, during the Vietnam War-a background he has put to good use in this authoritative and insightful look at the now defun...

  • The Evil House

    Christopher Pike

    Adam and his group of supernatural-fighting friends encounter a force of particularly potent power and begin a desperate struggle to save Spooksville--and themselves--from a fate worse than death. Original....

  • Execution of Innocence

    Christopher Pike

    Sharing a love that most people envy, Charlie and Mary find their lives shattered when Mary is unfaithful and Charlie turns murderous, a situation that has Charlie on the run and Mary ostracized by her peers...

  • Survival Instincts

    Marissa Piesman

    STARTING OVER IS MURDER.... Jonathan and L.A. are history. For Nina Fischman, there's nothing like that good old Manhattan malaise. She's back from the coast and moving in with Ida. Yes, Nina's coming home to Mama -- and murder. Sure, she remem...

  • Justice for Emily

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Emily Hasbrouck saw her 11-year-old friend die, and she knows the people responsible. But nobody will believe her because she is an orphan living on the goodwill of the townspeople, while the girls she accuses are the daughters of the richest men in ...

  • To Have and to Hold Floor

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

  • The French Mathematician

    Tom Petsinis

    While growing up in revolutionary France, Evariste Galois immersed himself in the study of mathematics, a pursuit that allowed him a welcome glimpse of order at a time when chaos consumed his country. Arrogant, ambitious, and brilliant, Galois dreame...

  • Crossroads

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Twenty-four-year-old Leslie Heyward eagerly looks to the future. But her dreams are shattered when a drunk driver crashed into her parents' car killing them instantly. Now she is responsible for her five-year-old brother, Travis, and the family's cof...

  • Logan's Lady

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
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    Traveling across the prairie with her father, sisters, and the man her father has promised her hand to in marriage, Lady Amelia Amhurst would have foregone spending the summer of 1875 in America and returned to their regal estate in England-if only h...

  • My Valentine

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    He is the son of a prominent New York family, his future and his wife-to-be secure and glittering. She is the daughter of a Jewish tailor, her future full of the hopes and dreams of any nice Jewish girl living in the teeming Lower East Side of the la...

  • Wings of the Dawn

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Cheryl Fairfield's life has been shattered. Poor choices made by Cheryl and her late father have left her in the middle of a drug enforcement investigation. Not fully recovered from the loss of her father, fiance, and unborn child, Cheryl has no o...

  • Twilight of Heroes

    Ralph Peters

    THE TRUTH CAN'T HIDE IN THE HEART OF DARKNESS A U.S military team on a mission of mercy is massacred in a remote Bolivian village --with no trace of the killers. A colonel awaiting retirement makes it his final mission to fight for the truth...onl...

  • Premature Infatuation

    Lynn Peters

    Gemma begins work as a temporary secretary, but her new job is quickly marred by her bullying boss, Ed. She soon discovers how to handle him and when she finds out that her partner is having an affair, she goes to Ed for comfort. The feelings between...

  • Moki

    Grace Jackson Penney

    Moki is tired of watching while the Cheyenne boys her age learn to fish and hunt, and have adventures. She wants to do something important, too -- but how can she, when girls are expected to take care of their little brothers and stay quiet? Moki rem...

  • Flashback

    Don Pendleton

    TAKE NO PRISONERS As the President's extralegal arm, Stony Man never draws a job that the U.S. armed forces could do just as well. The dedicated cybernetics experts and crack field commandos take on the black operations, the covert hit-and-run missi...

  • The Tale of the Zero Hero

    John Peel

    Moving back to their hometown and family home, Simon is frustrated when the old family curse promptly settles in, trapping him and the ghost of his great-grandfather in the middle of a World War I battle. Original....

  • Silent Witness

    Richard North Patterson

    Attorney Tony Lord left his hometown and the bitter memories of his girlfriend's murder behind. Now, twenty-seven years later, he's pulled back to Lake City to defend his closest high school friend against a charge of homicide. Sam Robb, the marri...

  • Finding Makeba

    Alexs D. Pate

    While at a bookstore signing copies of his first novel, an African-American author recognizes the teenaged daughter whom he had abandoned years earlier, and the two struggle to bridge the gap between them. By the author of Losing Absalom. Rep...

  • Big Brother's in Love Again

    Francine Pascal

    Steven Wakefield can't believe it: Beautiful, popular Jill Hale wants to go out with him! He knows that his girlfriend, Cathy Connors, will be heartbroken, but a guy's got to play the field. After all, he once had a killer crush on Jill, and going ou...

  • Bon Voyage, Unicorns!

    Francine Pascal

    A week of sun, fun, and parties--what could be more perfect? Having a boyfriend, thinks Ellen Riteman. She's the only Unicorn who doesn't have one. But she's lucky for two reasons. Curtis Bowman--the cutest boy ever--happens to be on board. And the U...

  • Jessica Takes Manhattan

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica Wakefield and Lila Fowler are headed for the Big Apple! They're psyched for a week of Broadway shows, superstretch limos, major shopping...and New York guys. Jessica's fun begins the moment she steps on the plane and finds she's sitting next ...

  • A Royal Romance

    Valerie Parv

    Norah Kelsey had been duped. Duped into marrying a prince -- His Royal Highness Prince Philippe Rasada, no less! There were, of course, worse things in life than marrying a prince -- unless you didn't love him. And Norah was quite sure she didn&#...

  • A Time to Love

    Carol Mason Parker
    • / Historical Romance
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    The people of Waterville, Maine, are getting on with life and love, but when will Emily and Robert ever have their own time to love? She never expected that God would lead Robert to serve in a small mission church far away in the wilds of Pennsylvani...

  • Treasure of the Keys

    Steve Papuchis
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    Why do so many people object to this condominium complex being built? Ann wonders. After all, it would be built by a reputable firm and would be good for Key West's economy. Only when she meets scuba diver and treasure hunter Nick Carmichael does ...

  • Odyssey of Love

    Melanie Panagiotopoulos
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Wealthy ship owner Paul Andrakos, one of the famed Golden Greeks, has come to San Francisco from Athens in search of his godmother's niece. But when at last he finds the captivating Kristen King, he is not relieved as much as confused. Paul Andrakos ...

  • Pardon of St. Anne

    William Palmer
    • / General Fiction
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  • Magnolia

    Diana Palmer

    A love as sweet and seductive as the magnolias and peach trees of Georgia... Atlanta in 1900 was a city of contrasts: a bustling place where commerce and high society flourished amid the languid rhythms of the sultry South. Claire Lang loved her ...

  • Deserters

    Chris Paling
    • / Contemporary Romance
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  • Gathering Bunker

    Kevin Pakenham

  • Live-In Mom

    Laurie Paige

    BOY WANTS MOM... Little Jonathan Macklin knew there was something special about Carly Lightfoot. Not only did she have pretty hair, she wasn't afraid of horses or frogs. She could also get his dad mad faster than any other woman around - and then ...

  • Hide-And-Seek Djali

    Mary Packard

  • The Fruits of Her Hands

    Jane Orcutt
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    After the death of her husband-a stay-at-home dad and househusand-Henrietta "Henry" Steelman finds herself in a contemporary dilemma. A career woman, she's a self-professed klutz at running a household! After yet another dinner is ruined, she signs u...

  • Mudd in Your Eye

    Jerry Oltion

    Mudd claims to be a changed man, but Kirk has his doubts. He knows that Mudd has to be running some sort of scam, but what is he up to? Kirk must find out soon - before the peace gives way to unending war. After millennia of warfare, the planets P...

  • The Devil's Footprint

    Victor O'Reilly

    Hugo Fitzduane had stared into the face of evil--and survived. An Irish ex-soldier and war photographer, he defeated the legendary Hangman and his vengeful Japanese lover, "The Lethal Angel." Now he must pay the price. In a congressional office in Wa...

  • Echoes of an Autobiography

    Nuala O'Neill

  • Maiden Voyage

    Judith O'Brien

    A journey across the sea to Ireland, where a young, thoroughly modern American woman has inherited a charming eighteenth-century townhouse, and an unforeseen destiny... Maura Finnegan is utterly taken with the quaint, romantic nature of her new h...

  • A Game of Universe

    Eric Nylund

    THE ULTIMATE CONTEST Germain is more than one man: a top-level corporate assassin in a cutthroat universe...the tormented guardian of his victims' souls...a powerful muse capable of casting spells both mundane and miraculous. In a Golden City c...

  • Lightning Song

    Lewis Nordan

    Leroy Dearman is twelve, and he lives on a llama farm in Mississippi. Life is perfect. It's true that his grandfather just died in the attic and that wild dogs kill a baby llama now and then, and it's true that one little sister curses him and the ot...

  • Destiny's Road

    Larry Niven

    2730 A.D., planet Destiny Wide and smooth, the Road was seared into planet Destiny's rocky surface by the fusion drive of the powered landing craft, Cavorite. The Cavorite deserted the original interstellar colonists, stranding them without hope o...

  • Killer

    Christopher Newman

    When maverick New York detective Joe Dante is ambushed in the middle of the street out of revenge, the lieutenant begins his hunt for killer who had come after him, following a trail of dead bodies closer to his quarry--and a shattering betrayal. Ori...

  • Normal

    Lucia Nevai

    You won't find storybook families in these twelve wonderfully daring stories by Lucia Nevai. Over and over, Nevai's characters, from an urbane ex-hippie in Manhattan to a disabled war veteran in rural Louisiana, miss in their attempts to connect wit...

  • Adam's Kiss

    Mindy Neff

    A face she'd never seen... Adam Walsh's chiseled features rivaled that of a sculptured god, his strength did, too. He'd bent steel with the power of fifty men - even shattered the king-size wall around Molly Kincade's heart. Eyes she'd always r...

  • Final Impact

    Yvonne Navarro

    Life As the World Knows It

    New York, Early October...
    [fade to Marti Nunciata]

    From the middle segment of the seven o'clock Cable News Network
    broadcast:

    "Excitement continues to build as astronomers around the world prepar...

  • On Guard

    Donna Jo Napoli

    Excited by a fencing demonstration he happens to see, fourth grader Mikey starts taking lessons in hopes that the sport will make him special like his brother and sisters. By the author of Zel. Reprint....

  • Medusa's Child

    John J. Nance

    At 10,000 feet, Captain Scott McKay gets the nerve-shattering news: aboard his Boeing 727 is a ticking time bomb--and not just any bomb. It's the Medusa Project, a thermonuclear monster that could wipe out every computer chip on the continent, oblite...

  • The Ghost of KRZY

    Bill Myers

    Madcap MYSTERIES with a MESSAGE! - What is that eeire glow inside radio station KRZY during the middle of the night? - Why is equipment mysteriously vanishing? - And what about those strange voices - human, but not quite? So begins the hilari...

  • Many Men and Talking Wives

    Helen Muir

    Verity is a compassionate girl, especially when it comes to animals. The hideous happenings in battery huts haunt her dreams and drive her onto the street with leaflets. However, she finds her lover, Christopher, hard to tolerate and when he becomes ...

  • Gone Fishin'

    Walter Mosley

    In the beginning, there was Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins and Raymond "Mouse" Alexander--two young men setting out in life, hitting the road in a "borrowed" Ford headed for Pariah, Texas. The volatile Mouse wants to retrieve money from his stepfather so he ...

  • A Heart for Home

    Norene Morris
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Once their dreams were as sweeping as the endless Texas landscape. But now, in the fall of 1889, on the Circle Z Ranch they call home, the three surviving Langdon brothers and their families face a more complex world than ever before. A world where d...

  • In the Twilight, In the Evening

    Gilbert Morris; Lynn Morris

    In San Francisco, Cheney—with the support of Shiloh—fights with the hospital staff of St. Francis for the fair treatment of their city’s “undesirables.” Then catastrophe strikes, and she discovers that none of her medica...

  • Over the Misty Mountains

    Gilbert Morris; Aaron McCarver

    A New Historical Fiction Series From an Exciting New Team!When Aaron McCarver met Gilbert Morris at the CBA convention in 1991, he never dreamed that those initial discussions would ultimately lead to his conceiving a historical fiction series that h...

  • Having Gabriel's Baby

    Kristin Morgan

    PARDON ME, BUT THERE'S A NAKED MAN IN MY BED... Joelle Ames had planned her vacation meticulously, but waking up with sexy tourist Gabriel Lafleur-and no memory of the night before--wasn't on the itinerary! Why, she hardly knew him, even though he...

  • Maya

    Nirmala Moorthy

  • Ten Christmas Tales

    Eva Moore

  • Edge of Destiny

    Darlene Mindrup
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Something in Chara's incredible eyes convinced Decimus that he had to do anything to free her from the bitter life of slavery from which he himself had recently been freed. But being tied to a slave will make his flight from Rome that much more diffi...

  • The Rising Son

    Darlene Mindrup

    Keiko Tochigi, the California-born daughter of Japanese immigrants, is looking forward to her high school graduation. That is until the death of her father's old friend brings his mysterious son to their farm to collect on a marriage contract the two...

  • Magnum

    Russell Miller

    This book is a biography of Magnum, told largely in the words of its photographers. It offers a unique perspective on half a century of world history from an extraordinary group of men and women who were front line witnesses at virtually every major ...

  • Threads of Love

    Judith McCoy Miller
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Her godly mother is dead and her bitter father wants his freedom. What's left for Delphinia Elizabeth Hughes? Hired to be a nanny for five orphaned children and a housekeeper for their uncle, Delphinia begrudgingly leaves her childhood home in Illino...

  • A New Year's Conviction

    Cassie Miles

    In steamy New Orleans, three people witnessed the same crime, testified against the same man and were then swept into the Witness Protection Program. But now there's new evidence, and these three witnesses are about to come out of hiding... EYE WITNE...

  • The Perfect Divorce!

    Leigh Michaels

    THEIR PERFECT DIVORCE WAS FALLING APART! Valentine's Day, the most romantic day of the year. It should have been the first wedding anniversary of Synnamon and Conner Welles -- instead, it was the day their divorce would be finalized! The arra...

  • All the Dark Air

    Livi Michael