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New Books List: 589 titles

  • 'Chute Roll: Sky Diving -- To the Extreme

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • 1-900-Dead

    Tony Fennelly

    Gossip columnist and former topless dancer Margo Fortier tries to break into hard news by launching her own investigation into the brutal murder of the "Mystic Delphine," a New Orleans television psychic...

  • Abby's Twin

    Ann M. Martin

    Trying to cheer up her twin, Anna, who has been diagnosed with scoliosis, Abby fears that the condition is driving them apart when Anna seems to not want Abby's help and begins to do things on her own....

  • About That Kiss

    Jayne Addison

    SISTER OF THE BRIDE Joy Mackey is determined to see that her sister gets married without a hitch. But nothing is going smoothly -- and real trouble strikes when the bride's former fiance pops up. Joy is positive that dashing Nick Tremain plans...

  • Abuela's weave

    Omar S. Castaneda

    Esperanza's Abuela, her grandmother, is unmatched in her skill in weaving traditional Mayan tapestries. She has shared her gift with her granddaughter, and now they plan to sell their goods at the market. However, the birthmark on Abuela's face may s...

  • 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...

  • Afterglow

    Irene Brand
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    God must have a reason for sending Hester to Afterglow. As a freelance writer, Hester's six month assignment is to record the one-hundred-year history of a picturesque Appalachian town called Afterglow nestled in a deep valley. But in doing so, so...

  • 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...

  • Aiiieeeee

    Jeffrey Paul Chan

  • Albert's Destiny

    Birdie L. Etchison

    Albert Galloway is infactuated with Rosie Malone. His feelings for her give him hope that he may soon settle down and raise a family. But, Rosie's heart will not be tamed by any man, and before long Albert's hopes begin to fade. Albert is working ...

  • All That Glitters

    Jerry Kennealy

    Nick Polo's latest case finds him on familiar San Francisco turf where a Russian antiques dealer has hired him to locate Anna, the stunning holder of a valuable Mongol paitza - a dog tag of sorts originally worn by Ogodie Khan. Using no more than a d...

  • All the Blood Relations

    Deborah Adams

    "A series rich in provocative themes and artful plots."

    *Joan Hess



    THE TOWN FLORIST WILL SOON BE PUSHING UP DAISIES.



    For Meredith Bradley *Jesus Creek's most successful businesswoman *life has been no bed of rose...

  • All the Dark Air

    Livi Michael

  • All the Love

    Bette Ford

    Falling in love with photojournalist Ray Coleman, her brother's best friend, Amber follows his travels and prays for his safety, until he returns home injured, but their budding romance is tested by a shocking crime. Original....

  • Almost to the Altar

    Neesa Hart

    THE WEDDING THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN They'd almost made it to the altar, but fate and family had forced Elise and Wil apart. The lovers had not seen each other in ten years...until fate once more intervened. Suddenly, they were face-to-face -- ea...

  • The Alpine Hero

    Mary Daheim

    THE ALPINE ADVOCATE SCOOPS A MURDER Emma Lord, the Advocate's editor, finds the body in the facial room of Stella's Styling Salon--anonymous under a mud pack, throat slashed. The victim turns out to be the sister-in-law of Sheriff Dodge's girlf...

  • Altered States

    Anita Brookner

    Standing on a railway platform in a Swiss resort town, sensibly clad in his Burberry raincoat and walking shoes, a man thinks he may be looking at the woman for whom he ruined his life many years earlier. Alan Sherwood, a quiet English solicitor, rem...

  • And After That, the Dark

    Charlotte Hughes

    It's happening... again. As a teenager in a South Carolina backwater--on a night when the air was hot and as thick as amber--Emily Wilkop watched as a man was brutally murdered. For fifteen years she kept still ... and paid a devastating price for...

  • Andorra

    Peter Cameron

    For mysterious reasons, a man forsakes his American life and arrives in a strange country called Andorra. He settles into the grand--and only--hotel in its seaside capital, and gradually makes the aquaintance of this tiny city's most prominent reside...

  • Angel Face and Amazing Grace

    Lori Copeland

    While most of the women in town suddenly developed little ailments that needed the new doctor's immediate attention, April Truitt only developed a big urge to throttle him. The overbearing Gray Fuller represented everything she vowed to fight until ...

  • Angel's Child

    Kathryn Jensen

    THE MAN IN HER FUTURE Angel wannabe Zach Dawson had one last job to do on earth -- find Caroline North a man to father her child. For the child she was to bear was destined for greatness, and the man who would love Caroline needed to be someone very...

  • 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...

  • Anna's Hope

    Birdie L. Etchison
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Anna needs to be loved. Anna Galloway has arrived on the sparsely populated North Beach Peninsula in Washington State to continue her career in nursing, but there is no hospital and the only doctor, Dr. Wesley Snow, is brusque and judgmental. Anna...

  • Anne Frank and Me

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    In one moment Nicole Burns's life changes forever. The sound of gunfire at an Anne Frank exhibit, the panic, the crowd, and Nicole is no longer Nicole. Whiplashed through time and space, she wakes to find herself a privileged Jewish girl living in Na...

  • Annie's Song

    Andrea Boeshaar
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Annie Fetherton is at her wit's end. Annie was widowed five years ago and left to raise her two sons alone. Now her son Stephen is heading down the wrong road-one that may lead to prison or worse, death. Her younger son Josh may follow his brother...

  • Arizona Gun Law

    J.T. Edson

    When Stone Hart's wealthy ranch becomes the target for greedy outlaws, his only chance of defending his stretch of Spanish Grant County lies in the a hard-hitting, fast-shooting Texan crew that includes the Ysabel Kid and Calamity Jane. Original....

  • The Arizona Strip War

    Jake Logan

    WAR IS HELL Slocum's running hard and fast from bounty hunters -- a pair of no-good thugs who'd love to make a buck by bringing him down. And he'll hole up anywhere until things cool off -- even a ranch that's at the center of a brutal cattle war ...

  • 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...

  • Attack of the Killer Ants

    Betsy Haynes

    Disgusted by the multitude of red ants that threaten the school picnic, Ryan and Alex go on an ant-squashing spree only to be targeted by a huge, hairy monster of an ant that wants to make the boys into slaves. Original....

  • The Autobiography of My Mother

    Jamaica Kincaid

    From the recipient of the 2010 Clifton Fadiman Medal, an unforgettable novel of one woman's courageous coming-of-age Jamaica Kincaid's The Autobiography of My Mother is a story of love, fear, loss, and the forging of a character, an account of one w...

  • The Babe and the Baron

    Carola Dunn

    SHE WAS A WISTFUL WIDOW WITH A BABE ON THE WAY... It wasn't all that shocking when Lady Laura Chamberlain's ne'er-do-well husband met his untimely end. Far more scandalous was Laura's precarious predicament: She was left without a sp...

  • 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...

  • Bachelor Mom

    Jennifer Greene

    SINGLE MOM SEEKING EXCITEMENT Being as straitlaced as a saint was getting Gwen Stanford absolutely nowhere. just once she wanted to be positively wicked! So when Spense McKenna gave her a steamy kiss, she decided it was time to shake that good-gir...

  • 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. ...

  • Bag Men

    John Flood

    A priest lies dead on the tarmac of Logan Airport.  Hours later, first assistant DA Ray Dunn is standing in the well-appointed living room of his boss, sipping a Bushmills under photographs of the Cardinal, the governor, and Ted Williams, getting t...

  • Battle Hymn

    William R. Forstchen

    THE BLOODY PRICE OF FREEDOM Swept through a time-space warp at the height of the Civil War, the 35th Maine found themselves stranded on an alien world. Now William R. Forstchen has written an all-new Lost Regiment adventure with an even more treac...

  • The Bavarian Gate

    John Dalmas

    Returning to Earth in the hopes of settling down to a quiet farmer's life, mystic warrior Curtis Macurdy is dismayed when one of Hitler's psychic recruits discovers the Bavarian Gate and unleashes the militaristic Voitusotar on the Allied forces. Ori...

  • Because They Wanted To

    Mary Gaitskill

    A collection of startling and breathtaking stories about people struggling with the disparity between what they want and what they know.A New York Times Notable BookA man tells a story to a woman sitting beside him on a plane, little suspecting what ...

  • Bedford Reader

    Dorothy M. Kennedy

  • Beguiled

    Alice Borchardt

    Just as her sister, Anne Rice, makes vampires and witches come alive, Alice Borchardt brings the turmoil and splendor of medieval France to breathtaking life in a spellbinding epic tale of magic, passion, and destiny.... Elfin is a woman of the pa...

  • Best Older Sister

    Sook Nyul Choi

    There's always so much fuss over baby Kiju that Sunhi suspects her family doesn't have any interest in her anymore. Kiju is a sweet baby, but Sunhi can't help being jealous. Her grandmother understands just how Sunhi feels, and soon she and Sunhi h...

  • The Best Way To Play

    Bill Cosby

    Great stories about great kids, just like you! Little Bill and his friends want the new Space Explorers video game! But their parents won't buy it. How can Little Bill and his friends have fun without it? Written by America's most beloved comed...

  • The Better Man

    Sabrina Johnson

    And may the best man win.... Darcy Blair an authority on fantasy weddings? The last time Josh Cartwright had seen Darcy, she'd been a beautiful bride, he'd been a handsome best man ... and the groom hadn't shown up! Still, Josh would have used ...

  • 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...

  • Bitter Fruit

    James Axler

    AFTER SKYDARK In the nuclear-storm devastated Deathlands warrior survivalist of the twenty-second century leads the relentless fight to reclaim a lost world. STONE GUARDIANS Barely escaping from a marauding gang, Ryan Cawdor and his band of post...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Blind Pursuit

    Brian Harper

    A killer kidnaps a beautiful psychologist in the Arizona desert in the hopes she can cure him of his deadly compulsions, while her twin sister struggles to save her from a man who possesses a terrifying secret about their family. Original....

  • Blizzard

    Diane Hoh

    In the wake of a terrible blizzard, Kate vows to help a homeless family that seeks refuge at the hospital despite Callie's protests, Abby fears for her wheelchair-bound boyfriend, and Sam risks his life to help someone. Original....

  • Blood and Honor

    W.E.B. Griffin

    It is April 1943 in Argentina, where World War II rages in clandestine battles both sides deny - but neither side can afford to lose. Where a Nazi plot to overthrow the government in Buenos Aires may change the face of the war. And where three Americ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Blood Will Tell

    Terris McMahan Grimes

    FAMILY SECRETS THAT LEAD TO MURDER Her mother said there'd be days like this, but today's shock of her life is the red-haired stranger who moved into her mother's Sacramento home, claiming to be her father's "love child." Being an African-American...

  • Blue Limbo

    Terence Green / Terence M. Green

    Mitch Helwig is a renegade on the street with some heavy-duty hi-tech weaponry and a not quite sane determination to get revenge--even if he has to go beyond death to do it. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights ...

  • Blue Mondays

    Arnon Grunberg

    Expelled from school and estranged from his father, a cynical young man wanders the streets of Amsterdam, spending his remaining funds on prostitutes and surviving on the strength of his wit and humor...

  • 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...

  • The Bone Collector

    Jeffery Deaver

    Lincoln Rhyme was once a brilliant criminologist, a genius in the field of forensics--until an accident left him physically and emotionally shattered. But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With p...

  • Bonnie Belmont

    John Salisbury Cochran

  • The Book of Children's Classics

    Don Freeman

  • Book of Lies

    Agota Kristof

  • Both Sides of Time

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Imagine changing centuries -- and making things worse, not better, on both sides of time. Imagine being involved in two love triangles in two different centuries. Imagine discovering that, no matter which direction you travel in time, you must aban...

  • The Boy Who Went Away

    Eli Gottlieb

    Winner of the American Academy’s Rome Prize for Fiction and the McKitterick Prize, Eli Gottlieb’s tender, harrowing coming-of-age novel finally returns to print. Denny Graubart, child-narrator and “domestic surveillance expert,” is having som...

  • Brianna's Pardon

    Gloria Clover
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Brianna is a woman on the run. Fleeing from her past, she has spent years on the rodeo circuit, and now she wants to go home. But how can she find the courage to face the past when she can't even face her own guilt? Good Samaritan, Alaska Steele, ...

  • Brothers

    Ben Bova

    What if, instead of being transplanted, hearts, livers, and kidneys could simply be regrown like a lizard's tail? This turns out to be a faint possibility in Arthur Marshak's genetic lab. He encourages his research staff to pursue it, but political a...

  • Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts II: More Tales to Haunt You

    Bruce Coville

    In a collection of hair-raising tales guaranteed to haunt the imagination, a boy's ghost takes ever the body of a professional ball player, a monster-hunting librarian does some ghostbusting, and a sloppy boy is haunted by a ghost pig. Original....

  • Calling Crow Nation

    Paul Clayton

    When a rival tribe acquires guns from Spanish slavers, Calling Crow's own tribe is seriously threatened, and he considers approaching the English enemies of the Spaniards in the hopes of forging an alliance. Original....

  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin

    Loui Bernieres

    Following THE TROUBLESOME OFFSPRING OF CARDINAL GUZMAN, a novel set on a Greek island in 1940 about the eternal triangle that develops between a doctor's daughter, her fisherman fiance and a young officer who is billeted in the doctor's house....

  • Carn

    Patrick McCabe

    Patrick McCabe, whom the San Francisco Chronicle called "one of the most brilliant writers ever to come out of Ireland," presents another compelling novel of small-town Ireland that leaves its indelible mark on the canon of classic fiction. Carn is t...

  • Carnival

    Robin Ballard

  • Carried Away

    Sue Civil-Brown

    WHERE THERE'S A WILL... Danika Hilliard's eccentric old benefactor, Morris Feldman, carried his healthy sense of humor to the grave...and beyond, apparently. He left his opulent Florida villa to the pretty, if prissy, schoolteacher and aspiring au...

  • Carry Me Home

    Virginia Gaffney

  • Carry the Wind

    Terry C. Johnston

    Young Josiah Paddock, on the run from his past in St. Louis, didn't have much hope of survival. Winter was coming to the Rockies, and if the cold cutting through his city clothes didn't kill him, grizzlies or Indians would. Then his luck turned. He s...

  • 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....

  • The Cat Burglar

    Tessa Krailing

    Sam, Jo, Matthew, and Katie have a very important petsitting job. They must protect Sophia, a beautiful, valuable, pedigreed cat, from a mysterious cat burglar. But just who is the cat burglar? Who really owns Sophia? The kids begin to wonder what's ...

  • Caught in the Web

    Michael Teitelbaum

  • Cc Writers Presence

    Donald A. McQuade

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Changespell

    Doranna Durgin

    Returning to Camolen, where she struggles with her dual existence as a were-horse, Jess tries to come to terms with her feelings for her Rider and must confront the evil intentions of someone who is changing animals into humans. Original....

  • 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...

  • The Children's Book of Kwanzaa

    Dolores Johnson

    STRENGTHENING THE FAMILY AND THE COMMUNITY Each year on December 26, the African American holiday of Kwanzaa begins. What is the purpose of Kwanzaa? How did it get its start? Dolores Johnson's easy-to-follow guide gives detailed descriptions ...

  • Christmas Dreams Four Inspirational Love Stories From Christmas Present

    Rebecca Germany

  • 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 ...

  • Claudia and the Lighthouse Ghost

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! When the Hatts, old family friends of the Kishis, come to stay at Claudia's house, things get pretty cramped and tempers flare. The Hatts own the old Stoneybrook lighthouse, which has lately bee...

  • Clifford's First Valentine's Day

    Norman Bridwell

  • The Cloak of Night and Daggers

    Rosemary Edghill

    THE ULTIMATE TREASURE HUNT In the World of Iron, known to mere mortals as Earth, Holly Kendall, EMT, psychiatric nurse, and SCA warrior, has just arrived at Helicon, ready for a weekend away from the mundane world. But no one has warned Holly just...

  • Cloud Chamber

    Michael Dorris

    Ten years after his "dazzling" (San Francisco Chronicle), "unforgettable" (Newsday) bestselling debut novel, A Yellow Raft in Blue Water, Michael Dorris returns to the family at the core of that work to write the rich score of the "full-blown, comple...

  • 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...

  • Colorado Reverie

    Suzann Ledbetter

    A beautiful spitfire whose skill at cards and guns has made her a legend in the West, Dianna Redieu finds herself drawn into a deadly gambit to uncover a secret army of Confederate sympathizers, dominated by a handsome renegade. Original....

  • A Comfortable Wife

    Stephanie Laurens

    ANTONIA WAS NOT GOING TO DWINDLE INTO AN OLD MAID.... Miss Antonia Mannering had made plans, and Lord Philip Ruthven played a large part in them. They had been childhood friends, but had not seen each other for years. She knew Philip was popular w...

  • Companion into the Dawn

    S. Ericsson

  • Conan and the Death Lord of Thanza

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Few places are as desolate as the Thanza Mountains on the border of Nemedia and Aqilonia. few area are so remote, so dangerous, or so inaccessible...which is why Conan chose these mountains as the perfect spot in the world for Conan to be.

    Unf...

  • The Conversations at Curlow Creek

    David Malouf

    A new work of fiction by the author of Remembering Babylon. It is 1827, and, in a remote hut high on the plains of New South Wales, two strangers spend the night in talk. One, an illiterate Irishman, and ex-convict and bushranger, is to be hanged at ...

  • County Fair

    Ginny Aiken

    Love is a prize to share... WILLOW After a flood left her penniless, her only hope of survival lay in winning a prize for her ewe in the York, Pennsylvania, County Fair... DANIEL This handsome Irishman had his eye on Willow, but as the owner ...

  • The Courts of Sorcery

    Ashley McConnell

    When Jazen returns to Mirlacca to help fend off an imminent Demon War, the Guild of Exorcists is dismayed at the changes in his personality and discover that the demon of Eberly has taken over his body. Original....

  • Cowboy Groom

    Judy Christenberry

    The Cowboy Was Hog Tied! One minute there were no women on the Randall ranch and the next Brett Randall ws in knots over two! Brett chose his rightful place behind two of his married brothers, but when he snuck back home to share his news, he g...

  • 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...

  • A Crime in the Neighborhood

    Suzanne Berne

    A New York Times Notable Book. Set in the Washington, D.C., suburbs during the summer of the Watergate break-ins, Berne's assured, skillful first novel is about what can happen when a child's accusation is the only lead in a case of sexual assault an...

  • Crossroads

    Tracie Peterson
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • 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...

  • Crystalina's New Pet Puppy

    Alexandra Reid

  • Curious George Wins a Medal

    H.A. Rey

  • 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...

  • Dana and the Calendar Man

    Lisa Bingham

    New Year's Resolution #1: Find a Fiance! With a disastrous blind date left on her doorstep, Dana Shaw had no one with whom to ring in the New Year. Then fate stepped in, in the form of an inherited ticket to a New Year's Eve bachelor auction. ...

  • 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 ...

  • Daredevil and Batman: An Eye for an Eye

    Marvel Book Group
    • / Graphic Novel
    • Buy Buy

  • The Dark Descent

    Clive Barker

    Winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Anthology. A gigantic, superlatively edited historical overview of horror fiction.” ―Chicago Sun-Times

    In The Dark Descent, hailed as one of the most important anthologies ever to examine horro...

  • Dark Rage

    Lowell Cauffiel

    On the day before Thanksgiving, a madman rains terror on an airportLaurel Kring sits in his garage, blaring John Coltrane as he writes his manifesto. When he has every word in place, he returns to his living room, wraps his arms around his wife, and ...

  • Dark Rapture

    Michele Hauf

    DARK DESIRE California dreamer Scarlet Rose has a secret: she has fallen madly in love with seductive Sebastian DelaCourte. But the dark, gypsy-wild rock idol whose ravenous kisses send Scarlet's blood racing also harbors a secret...a consuming sec...

  • Daughter of Light

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    She possesses a strange and mystical power - a gift of prophecy that allows her to move freely through time and space. She is Cassandra of Tregaron, the third daughter of Merlin, fabled sorcerer and great friend to King Arthur. Blue-eyed, beautiful, ...

  • The Dead of Winter

    Paula Gosling

    When a fish-nibbled corpse floats up into a fisherman’s ice hole in the frozen wastes of Blackwater Bay one morning, the shock is enough to shake Jess Gibbons out of an idle reverie on the gloomy state of her life. And as soon as Sheriff Matt Gabri...

  • Dead Reckoning

    Mike Blakely

    After a botched confidence scam, swindler Dee Hassard begins a killing spree that covers half of the Colorado Territory. His first victim is the brother of rustler-turned-preacher Carrol Moncrief. Now Carrol must fall back on his former outlaw savvy ...

  • Deadly Games

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

  • Deadwood

    Bill Brooks

    A tale of the American West takes place in the town of Deadwood, where the elusive killer of three prostitutes runs free, in a story that brings together such characters as Doc Holliday, Wild Bill Hickok, and Calamity Jane. Original....

  • Death Orbit

    Mack Maloney

    Aboard the Zon space shuttle where he hopes to capture arch-criminal Viktor Robotov, Wingman Hawk Hunter fears time is running out when war breaks out on the planet below and a comet zooms into the atmosphere. Original....

  • The Defendant

    Gay Cameron

    Defendant and father... With her law degree in one hand and her little boy's in the other, Audrey McKenna excitedly returned to her hometown of Tabbs Corner, Virginia, to start fresh. But then she learned her first client would be none other than ...

  • Deserters

    Chris Paling
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

  • Desperate Escape

    Martyn Godfrey

    Garrett discovers that the mystery guest at his grandmother's bed-and-breakfast is young supermodel Leighla Livingston, who is trying to escape from mounting career pressures, he helps her steer clear of the danger that threatens to take her out of t...

  • The Destiny of Nathalie X: and Other Stories

    William Boyd

    This new collection of eleven stories by the author of The Blue Afternoon takes readers back in time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World War I in Vienna, introducing an unforgettable cast of characters. Artful, witty, moving, The Destin...

  • Destiny, Arizona

    Marty Crisp
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Destiny, Arizona, holds too many memories of Jessie Stewart's life as an orphan. But more than that, Destiny holds Sutton McAllister, her "foster" brother and the man she always wanted but never thought she could have. Now adjusted to the fast pac...

  • 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...

  • The Detainees

    Sean Hughes

  • 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...

  • Dewey Defeats Truman

    Thomas Mallon

    From a writer whose last book, Henry and Clara, prompted John Updike to declare Thomas Mallon one of the most interesting American novelists at work, comes a story that perfectly captures the delightful romance and wistful magic of our recent, and mo...

  • The Diamond Slipper

    Jane Feather

    Dear Reader, What comes to mind when you think of a diamond slipper? Cinderella, perhaps? That's what Cordelia Brandenburg imagines when her godparents arrange a marriage for her with a man she's never met--a marriage that will take her to Versail...

  • Die, Bug, Die!

    Les Martin

  • Direct Action

    Keith Douglass

    During an attack on a terrorist group in Port Sudan, Lieutenant Blake Murdock and his SEAL team uncover three million dollars in counterfeit currency. When officials link the money to an economic terrorism plot on the U.S. currency system, there is o...

  • DNAgers

    Steve Englehart

  • Don Juan on the Rocks

    Alistair Beaton

  • Donkey Rescue

    Tessa Krailing

    The Petsitters are taking care of Buster, the mad, chew-everything dog! But their minds are often elsewhere, thinking about Dillon, a sad, neglected little donkey last seen standing all alone in a field. When they find out that he's is going to be so...

  • Double Trouble

    Jenny Dale

  • Dr. Jekyll, Orthodontist

    Dan Greenburg

    Zack isn't thrilled about having to get a tooth pulled, but a trip to the orthodontist proves a lot hairier than he ever expected. Nice old Dr. Silver has been replaced by the fang- toothed Dr. Jekyll, a mouthwash-guzzling mad scientist whose secret ...

  • Dragons Don't Cook Pizza

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    THERE ARE SOME PRETTY WEIRD GROWN-UPS LIVING IN BAILEY CITY. Jewel's Pizza Castle is the hottest new restaurant in town. But there are rumbles coming from the basement and loud noises emerging from the kitchen. A moody chef is blamed for all the comm...

  • 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....

  • Dream Lover

    Virginia Henley

    He came upon her as she swam in her secret crystal cave, the rugged stranger who stole her heart, then haunted her dreams when he disappeared. Emerald FitzGerald Montague thought her life was over when she was forced to marry another man, a man she d...

  • 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....

  • Easter Yolks

    Katy Hall

    What is the best game to play on Easter? Basketball!

    What is an Easter egg's favorite kind of book? A yolk book like this one!

    These egg-cellent Easter riddles are sure to make readers crack up. Inside, lift the flaps to find out the answer...

  • Echoes of an Autobiography

    Nuala O'Neill

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • The Emperor's New Clothes

    Victoria Alexander

    COSTUMED BEAUTY Ophelia Kendrake had barely finished conning the coat off a cardsharp's back before she and her adopted sister stumbled into Dead End, Wyoming, and received a welcome fit for a queen. Mistaken for the Countess of Bridgewater, ...

  • The Error of Our Ways

    David Carkeet

    New York Times Notable Book: “The sorrows of Job [visit] a St. Louis nut salesman, with hilarious results . . . [A] wry updating of the biblical tragedy” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   In this “astute, entertaining nove...

  • Escape on the Wind

    Jane LaMunyon
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Amanda Chase, a Boston society reporter, would rather write hard-hitting stories that make a difference in the world than marry and have children. She has heard rumors that the rosy stories of Germany's new leader may not be true. She wants to go the...

  • Eternal Vows

    Alice Alfonsi

    1897, New Orleans French Quarter, Rosegate Mansion It was midnight, and the drums were beating near Congo Square. As the incessant, driving rhythms filled the sultry Louisiana air with primal yearnings, a beautiful young bride restlessly awaited ...

  • Every Wish Fulfilled

    Samantha James

    EVERY DREAM DENIED The Earl of Stonehurst's beautiful but lonely orphaned ward, Heather Duval has resigned herself to spinsterhood--devoting her energies solely to overseeing the earl's grand country manor. Then Damien Tremayne arrives to disrupt he...

  • Everyone Wears Wool

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • 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...

  • Fairy Tale Palace

    Maggie Bateson

  • Faith Came Late

    Freda Chrisman
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Julie needs faith to endure her broken life. Vice-principal of an exclusive Kansas City girl's school, Julie Richmond is fiercely independent. But she is the stabilizing influence for her younger sisters, Lisa and Colleen, in their broken and hurt...

  • Fall From Grace

    Megan Chance

    A WANTED WOMAN Lily lost her childhood the day the Sharpe gang murdered her parents and "adopted" her. They brought her into their world, and taught her how to be ruthless and smart. Soon, Lily the Cat was wanted by the law. But, in an act of reve...

  • Falling Water Valley

    Mary Louise Colln
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Bethany Andrews' father had finally found a place for them to call home. But that was before he was called to doctor the Confederate Army and before raiders regularly tormented the people of the beautiful valley, frightening away their minister and c...

  • Family Addition

    Rebecca Daniels

    ROOM FOR ONE MORE A fiercely protective single dad, cowboy Colt Wyatt was shaken to his spurs. His pint-size daughter suddenly had another hero to worship! It was Casey the carpenter this, Casey the carpenter that. Just what was with this carpente...

  • Far Above Rubies

    Becky Melby; Cathy Wienke
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    After once experiencing true transparency with a man, even if only in letters, Paige Stern is determined that living single is better than settling for anything less. But just as she thinks she has found her future in the eyes of three-year-old An...

  • Far from Home

    Charlotte Hardy

    Convinced that life offers more than she can find in her small Irish village, Brid Flynn is reluctant to marry local boy Garrett Doyle. He may be the most eligible bachelor in her village, but she is not sure she loves him. And his quiet, persistent ...

  • Fascination

    Leona Blair

    "Blair takes us behind the closed doors of the Victorian era" (Booklist) in this grand drama of passion and ambition.  Fascination unfolds aboard a sumptuous ocean liner bound for England, where three elegant women vie for the attention of magnetic...

  • The Fatal Englishman

    Sebastian Faulks

    In The Fatal Englishman, his first work of nonfiction, Sebastian Faulks explores the lives of three remarkable men. Each had the seeds of greatness; each was a beacon to his generation and left something of value behind; yet each one died tragically ...

  • The Feathery Touch of Death at the British Open

    John Logue

    DOUBLE BOGEY Barry Vinson could pulverize his tee shots and dazzle with his short game. But when it came to personality, the brilliant young American was strictly a duffer-until someone took him off the course. Vinson was found in the historic ...

  • Fever Dreams

    Laura Leone

    SHE's RICH, SOPHISTICATED, AND DEDICATED TO THE FAMILY BUSINESS. HE's RUGGED, SEXY, AND INTO RISKY BUSINESS. THEY'RE AS DIFFERENT AS TWO PEOPLE CAN BE. IT's A PERFECT MATCH. It would be just her luck to travel to tropical Montedora with the one man ...

  • 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...

  • Fierce Creatures

    Iain Johnstone

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Finders Keepers

    Marcia Leonard

  • 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...

  • Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams

    Avi

    The year is 1635, and Mary Williams and her family live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Her father, Roger, is on trial for preaching new ideas about freedom. When found guilty, he flees into the cold, telling Mary that she must trust in God's pro...

  • Fire Hawk's Bride

    Judith E. French

    A FORBIDDEN PASSION A squire's rebellious daughter, Katherine Miles's future is forever changed during a frantic chase through an English forest -- when she is rescued from a pack of wild dogs by a civilized Cherokee "savage." The ha...

  • Fire!

    Barbara Diamond Goldin

    Rosie's sister, Fredya, works for an unsafe factory in 1911 and tries her best to get the union organized so that it is safe enough for Rosie and others to work there, yet things do not happen quickly enough and a disaster finally occurs. Reprint....

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • Flame

    Connie Mason

    "I NEED A HUSBAND AND I NEED HIM NOW!" When her brother was accused of murder, Ashley Webster headed west to clear his name. Although the proud Yankee was prepared to face any hardship on her journey to Fort Bridger, she was horrified to lear...

  • 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...

  • Flesh and Bones

    Paul Levine

    Miami Dolphins linebacker-turned-lawyer Jake Lassiter returns in the seventh Lassiter mystery from acclaimed South Florida writer and former lawyer Paul Levine. In Flesh & Bones, Jake takes on a seemingly unwinnable case. When Miami model Chrissy B...

  • Flowers for Mei-Ling

    Lorraine Lachs

    Propelling readers through fifty years of turbulent history, an epic story follows Mei-Ling, who is born in China in 1949, flees to Europe and then America in 1969, and in 1997 returns to Hong Kong to find herself once more...

  • Fly Away Home

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    When they are not breaking the angel rules, Serafina and Peter, members of the Celestial Five, the best teenage angel team around, return to their own hometown to help a troubled girl cope with her parents' divorce. Original....

  • Forged by Fire

    Sharon M. Draper

    The flame of love burns bright in the second book of Sharon M. Draper’s award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy.When Gerald was a child he was fascinated by fire. But fire is dangerous and powerful, and tragedy strikes. His substance-addicted mother i...

  • Forsaking All Others

    Gail Link

    FOR RICHER OR FOR POORER Anthony Chambers would inherit half of his Great Uncle Cedric's sprawling Australian homestead on one condition: He must leave England behind and spend a year living at the homestead with his uncle's live-in companion, Annie...

  • The Freedom Tree

    William Bedford

    1874, and Matthew Lidgard is 22 and recently orphaned. A fisherman by trade, he works on a fishing smack in Grimsby, jumping ship when he finds its owner is corrupt and manipulative. Rescued by the mysterious Elizabeth, he joins her and her brother i...

  • 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...

  • Frisco's Kid

    Suzanne Brockmann

    ALL HE COULD SEE WERE CLOSED DOORS... Frisco Francisco's leg--and career--were shot, and he had every intention of wallowing in self-pity. But there were two complications with his plan: his five-year-old niece, whose sudden presence in his life a...

  • The Fruits of Her Hands

    Jane Orcutt
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    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...

  • Gallows Hill

    Lois Duncan

    The crystal paperweight should have been clear, but it was not.

    Handsome, popular Eric Garrett decides that Sarah Zoltanne is just the right person to play a fortune-teller at the high-school fair.  Sarah is surprised and pleased.  After a...

  • 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...

  • A Garden Folly

    Candice Hern

    The Fortune Huntress It was a stroke of luck that lovely Catherine Forsythe and her stunning sister, Susannah, were invited to a month-long house party on the estate of the Duke of Carlisle. It was their golden chance to snare spouses who would re...

  • Gathering Bunker

    Kevin Pakenham

  • Gem Starr's Easter Egg Hunt

    Alexandra Reid

  • Getting Even

    Sharon Kendrick

    It was time to even the score! Geraint Howell-Williams was sure Lola Hennessy had used her womanly charms to make sure of her inheritance--an exclusive house--by seducing another man, someone she barely knew. Lola was beautiful, so getting clos...

  • 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...

  • Gingerbread Days

    Joyce Carol Thomas

  • Glitter's Day at the Sky Carnival

    Alexandra Reid

  • Global Terror

    Martin Delrio

    When an everyday robbery gives way to a sinister plot to launch two nuclear missiles at Latveria and thus spark a Third World War, Spider-Man tackles his arch-enemy and the mastermind behind the plot, Dr. Octopus. Original....

  • Glory's Rival

    Joanna Campbell

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The great trash bash

    Loreen Leedy

  • Great White Sharks

    Christine Price

  • 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...

  • 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...