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New Books List: 597 titles

  • A Rose in Winter

    Shana Abe

    At sixteen, Lady Solange had pledged her love to Damon Wolf, had dreamed they would be together forever. But when her ruthless father threatened Damon's life unless she agreed to marry another, Solange did the only thing she could: she scorned he...

  • The Book of Love

    Diane Ackerman

    Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memoirs, this lavish and fascinating anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime and obsession: love.

    How do we define love? "It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same...

  • The Love Child

    Meg Alexander

    They made an unlikely pair... Prudence and twelve-year old Dan were foundlings, and the dangers in northern mill had pushed them into escape. She also stripped a scarecrow for boy's clothes after a close encounter with a lustful farmer! It was sh...

  • Indian Killer

    Sherman Alexie

    A serial murderer is terrorizing Seattle, hunting and scalping white men. And the crimes of the so-called Indian Killer have triggered a wave of violence and racial hatred. Seattle's Native Americans are shaken and confused, none more so than John Sm...

  • Eternal Love

    Alice Alfonsi

    Newport, Rhode Island, 1998 She put her ear to the door and closed her eyes, trying to recognize voices or names. But after a few brief seconds, the sounds of the party faded. "It's gone..." whispered Hannah. The legend of private e...

  • Spirits Walking Woman

    Margaret Allan

    Worshipped by the ancient Olmec people of Mexico, Spirits Walking Woman, a prophetess, trades her destiny as the queen of an empire for a journey to enlightenment that exposes her to the machinations of her evil blood sister. Original....

  • Die Laughing

    Steve Allen

    Getting The Last Laugh Benny Hartman, 85-year old cigar-chomping veteran of vaudeville, radio, stage and screen, is still drawing crowds even though he's stone-cold dead. Every comedy superstar in Hollywood is present at his funeral. But the guest o...

  • Marry in Haste

    Heather Allison

    Marrying the boss... Parker Laird loves money, business and power -- in that order. His brother Jay just loves women: blondes, brunettes, redheads.... Every week Jay seems to be professing his undying love for a different girl. But this time Jay&#...

  • Night Train

    Martin Amis

    New York Detective Mike Hoolihan is called to the scene of an apparent suicide. Mike is a woman with a nicotine voice, dyed blond hair and is an alcoholic who had been abused by her father. The victim is Jennifer Rockwell, who Mike had known si...

  • Motley the Cat

    Susannah Amoore

    Looking for a home of his own, Motley, the tiger-striped cat, thinks his search is over when he finds two little girls and their tall house, but he must employ all his special powers to make his dream come true....

  • Desert Shadows

    Mulk Raj Anand

  • Night Dogs

    Kent Anderson

    Acclaimed crime writer Kent Anderson's "fiercely authentic and deeply disturbing" police novel, following a Vietnam veteran turned cop on the meanest streets of 1970s Portland, Oregon (Los Angeles Times).Two kinds of cops find their way to Portland's...

  • The Emperor's Plague

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Stone Fox

    Karen Anelli

  • To Love a Cowboy

    Barbara Ankrum

    NOWHERE TO TURN Lost, alone, desperate, Carly Jamison had returned to the Colorado high country, and to the only man she had ever loved -- a man she had walked away from years before .... Rafe Kellard's secluded ranch was a place of healing...

  • Spider Legs

    Piers Anthony

    At a time when Earth's hungry inhabitants demand more than even the ocean's endless boundaries can provide, strange things are born in the oceanic depths--things that the sea throws back up onto the land in retaliation of decades of pollution and abu...

  • The Change

    K.A. Applegate

    Tobias has pretty much gotten used to his life. He's a red-tailed hawk with the mind of a kid. It was weird when he first got trapped in morph. But now it's almost okay. After all, how many kids actually get the chance to fly? Now Tobias is about...

  • Deep Rivers

    Jose Maria Arguedas

  • Father of Two

    Judith Arnold

    Sometimes a man needs help learning to be a dad,,,That's what Daddy School is all about. Twin Tornadoes! Seven-year-old dynamos Erin and Sean are single father Dennis Murphy's pride and joy. Even though they're bank robbers. But Dennis is the b...

  • The Price of Failure

    Jeffrey Ashford

    Lord and Lady Awkwright, awakened in the night, lie bound and gagged in the dark while kidnappers carry their daughter away, holding her for ransom. It seems a typical kidnapping, yet in fact it is the kidnappers' intention that they should be seen t...

  • Shades of Gray

    Amanda Ashley

    Alexi Bound by chains of silver, the vampire had slept for a hundred years, locked in a world of pain and hunger, until the seductive scent of one woman's blood recalled him to ravenous life. Marisa Unnerved by the sight of the carnival's ca...

  • Hero of the Flint Hills

    Cassandra Austin

    He Hadn't Wanted To Like a City Girl -- Much Less Love One, but Christian Prescott found himself on the horns of a dilemma: his yearning for Lynnette Sterling, his brother's intended bride. But she had corralled his heart and spurred him to a deci...

  • Nightmare Passage

    James Axler

    Ryan Cawdor and his companions find themselves near what used to be Los Angeles, in a village whose ruling baron is Hell Eyes, a powerful, attractive man with a telepathic influence over people and deadly plans for the future. Original....

  • Chick Challenge

    Ben M. Baglio

    Mandy Hope loves animals. She knows all about them -- both her parents are vets! Mandy is always ready to help out her friends with their pet problems. Libby is a new girl in school. Mandy notices that she doesn't seem very happy. Poor Libby is ...

  • Gerbil Genius

    Ben M. Baglio

    Mandy Hope loves animals. She knows all about them -- both her parents are vets! Mandy is always ready to help out her friends with their pet problems. ANIMAL ARK IS FULL OF ANIMALS AND SURPRISES. When Mandy and James find a runaway gerbil by the ...

  • Checkmate

    Eric T. Baker

    Aaron Hudson is forced to choose between loyalty to a corrupt task force that has turned its mission to protect a colony ship to its own profit, and cooperation with the investigators trying to shut it down. Original....

  • Stargazer

    Laura Baker

    Can the power of love defeat time? SENT THROUGH TIME TO SAVE HIS TRIBE... For Lonewolf, the old ways were the only ways -- until a mysterious force pulled the Navajo stargazer one hundred and thirty years into the future. His enemy Kit Carson is...

  • Red Starrise

    Richard Baker

    Red Starrise is an ALTERNITY adventure that serves as a prelude to the STAR*DRIVE campaign setting. This spine-tingling, far-future space opera is designed for level 1 heroes and is a great introduction to the ALTERNITY game....

  • Dark Lady

    Michael Baldwin

  • Valentine Surprise

    Karen Ball
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    City girl Jayne Morgan takes a teaching job in the small eastern Oregon town where her fiancee is from. But after he jilts her, she's stuck. Determined to honor her commitments, she begins to get involved in the community and ends up winning an Arab ...

  • Unforgiven

    Mary Balogh

    Moira Hayes hadn't seen Kenneth Woodfall in nearly eight years. Nor did she want to see this man who stirred such feelings of anger in her. After all, their families had been rivals since their great-grandfathers' day. And he was the reason- though i...

  • Chastity

    Elaine Barbieri

    Chastity, Purity, Honesty -- They were the qualities she'd been raised to respect, but when Chastity Lawrence headed West to find her long-lost sisters of the same names, she discovered they could be... Dangerous Virtues How was a respectable...

  • Given the Crime

    Margaret Barrett

    Crime never sleeps. That's Susan Given's motto, and when she leaves her Upper East Side duplex and her two Salvadoran-born daughters to make that trip downtown, she's the very model of a modern crime-fighter - even if her designer suits and string of...

  • Jane and the Wandering Eye

    Stephanie Barron

    As Christmas of 1804 approaches, Jane Austen finds herself "insupportably bored with Bath, and the littleness of a town." It is with relief that she accepts a peculiar commission from her Gentleman Rogue, Lord Harold Trowbridge -- to shadow his niece...

  • Gabriel Hawk's Lady

    Beverly Barton

    THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN? Gabriel Hawk was every mother's worst nightmare and every daughter's secret fantasy. Unless that daughter was Rorie Dean! Unfortunately, the dark, brooding man with a heart of stone and a body that yelled sex was Rorie's o...

  • 101 Dalmatians: Rainbow Puppies

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • The Fairytale Wedding

    Janice Bennett
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    FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...

  • The Berenstain Bears' Comic Valentine

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • Barney and Baby Bop Go to the Library

    Mark Bernthal

  • Barney Goes to the Farm

    Mark Bernthal

  • The Last Dragonlord

    Joanne Bertin

    A MORTAL AFFAIR Dragonlord Linden Rathan, last-born of a race of immortal weredragons, has spent six hundred years alone, searching for his soultwin while his fellow Dragonlords watch over humanity's Five Kingdoms. When the Queen of Cassori die...

  • Detective Pony

    Jeanne Betancourt

    Do you love ponies? Be a Pony Pal! In the middle of the night, Anna hears Acorn's whinny in the Crandal paddock. There is a fire in Dr. Crandal's animal clinic. All the animals are in danger! The Pony Pals notice that a stray cat who was stayin...

  • Thomas

    L. Stafford Betty

                The queen of the great Chola Empire has taken the tall, light-skinned saint from the mysterious West for her guru and, as if predestined by some primordial karma that must play itself out, she falls in love with him. 

  • The Lord of Elphindale

    Jo Beverley
    in

    A lovely lady discovers she is half-faery, created to bind a special man to the faery realm. But when he claims to love another, she defies the might of faeries to try and set him free. ***** Faery Weddings anthology (e-book) Gwen Forsythe is ...

  • Love Me Tomorrow

    Rosanne Bittner

    Connecticut socialite Maggie Dumont's marriage begins with a grand wedding and great dreams. But her hopes for a happy life are soon shattered by her new husband, the bitter son of a wealthy New York businessman, who catches gold fever and insists th...

  • A Vow of Adoration

    Veronica Black

    With her friends Brother Cuthbert and Detective Sergeant Alan Mill both away, Sister Joan of the Order of the Daughters of Compassion must rely on her own wits when she finds the body of a homeless man in a creepy abandoned chapel high on the Cornish...

  • Caribe

    Evangeline Blanco

    Lushly, but simply told with the poetry of Martin Espada, the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the meticulous investigation of James Michener, Blanco weaves an intricate tale of love, race and history. Told through the eyes of various cha...

  • The Rock Child

    Win Blevins

    Asie Taylor is a half-blood Indian raised by Mormons, a gifted musician and a sharp-tongued philosopher; Sun Moon is a Tibetan nun who has been kidnapped and sold into prostitution in California. Each is on the run--Asie toward his heritage and the s...

  • Robert Bloch's Psychos

    Robert Bloch

    Twenty-two short horror tales collected by the Horror Writers Association include Stephen King's "Autopsy Room Four"; Richard Christian Matheson's "Please Help Me"; and Charles Grant's "Haunted." Original....

  • Was It Something I Said?

    Valerie Block

    When Justine and Barry meet during a plane crash just before the Christmas holidays, the relationship that follows is wild, turbulent, and maybe, just maybe, a keeper. Justine is a pretty, smart, ambitious lawyer who's tired of being set up on lou...

  • Spaces of a Life

    Ricardo Bofill

  • Kids is a 4-Letter Word

    Stephanie Bond

    How do you spell "terror"? K-I-D-S! Smart, savvy career woman Jo Montgomery had nothing against kids -- she just didn't want any. So when she found herself stuck taking three little darlings to the most important meeting of her career, she was fr...

  • American Icon

    Pat Booth

    Kate Haywood is at the top of her career. After years of hard work, the homemaking empire she struggled to build has made her a household name. Her top rated TV show and award-winning magazine inspire millions of women to emulate her beautiful world,...

  • Race the Wind

    Marie Bourdon

    DREAMBOAT Lila Cooke has the talent--and the nerve--to race a million-dollar boat in America's Cup. Much to the dismay of the Amazing Grace's irresistibly handsome--and skeptical-- designer who's already starting to make waves. For Lila, winning t...

  • Bunny Modern

    David Bowman

    The trade paperback edition of David Bowman's prizewinning first novel, Let the Dog Drive, has developed a cult following. Now Bowman's exuberantly praised second novel -- a hard-boiled comedy about love, abduction, and child care, set in a future wh...

  • Sword and Sorceress XV

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    WOMEN OF MAGIC AND MIGHT... An apprentice sorceress must pass through the realm of the dead to gain the power to save the life of her mentor.... A young fugitive must unravel the mystery of a deadly curse or her companion won't live long enough...

  • Follow That Easter Bonnet

    Ann Braybrooks

  • 3,2,1...Baby!

    Barbara Bretton
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    Tony and Kate were the biggest mismatched in town and everybody knew it. Everyone, that is, except their families. So how did Kate end up pregnant with Tony's baby, but the dad was nowhere to be found? Kate was determined to go it alone, till the Mar...

  • Love With the Proper Stranger

    Suzanne Brockmann

    NOTHING HE'D TOLD HER WAS THE TRUTH.... His name wasn't Jonathan Mills, and he wasn't vacationing on the idyllic island. FBI agent John Miller was on the trail of a notorious female serial killer, and he couldn't blow his cover to anyone. Not even...

  • Visitors

    Anita Brookner

    The extraordinary Anita Brookner gives us a brilliant novel about age and awakening. In Visitors, Brookner explores what happens when a woman's quiet resignation to fate is challenged by the arrogance of youth.Dorothea May is most at ease in the...

  • Dust on the Wind

    Bill Brooks

    Having returned home to Cheyenne only to find his best friend and partner murdered, Quint McCannon heads out into the dangerous frontier in search of a crazed killer, determined to stop him at all costs. Original....

  • Boot

    Bruce Brooks

    The Wolfbay Wings get a new weapon to use this season, bodychecking, and all the members in the league are using it, but Boot does not feel comfortable doing this to other players, decides to take a stand against it, and, in the process, risks his pl...

  • A Man Worth Waiting For

    Helen Brooks

    A once-in-a-lifetime man Keir Durrell was a very special sort of man. He made Catherine Prentice feel safe and needed, a feeling she craved ever since the discovery that her birth mother had abandoned her. Keir was the man she'd been waiting f...

  • Rose's Garden

    Carrie Brown

    Conrad and Rose met as children, fell in love as teenagers, and married young. Conrad earned a living as a gilder, raised homing pigeons, and worshipped Rose. Rose gardened. They lived together for more than fifty years, and then Rose died. At sevent...

  • The Small One

    Katherine Brown

  • The Metaphysical Touch

    Sylvia Brownrigg


    A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year

    In 1991 Emily Piper is a graduate student finishing her dissertation on metaphysics, when her home and work are destroyed in the Berkeley-Oakland fires. With her life's work in cinders, she retreat...

  • Horse Whispers

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Saddle Club is spending February vacation with the Devines at the Bar None Ranch. Colonel Devine has just bought some new horses and one of the mares reminds Carole of Cobalt, the first horse she really loved. Carole rides the mare and discovers ...

  • Jasmine and the Jumping Pony

    Bonnie Bryant

    Jasmine James is thrilled at the thought of taking her first real jumping class at Pine Hollow Stables. She and her pony, Outlaw, have done some jumping before, but now they are going to learn the correct way to get over those fences.



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  • Bloodsport

    William R. Burkett Jr.

    Me and my robot.

    We're big game hunters. And we're after the biggest game in the known universe.

    The Pondoro Wolverine -- also known as the greer.

    Smart. Fast. And deadly. The hunter who taught me to stalk them had to grow a new leg to replace ...

  • Familiar Fire

    Caroline Burnes

    THE HEAT WAS ON... Burning, scorching, searing heat. That's what new sheriff Kate McArdle felt every time she encountered Silver City's fire chief, Jake Johnson. Which was often, since a rash of arsons was forcing them to work together. Desper...

  • Lord Monteith's Gift

    Nancy Butler

    Love's Letter Evelynne Marriott, a gentlewoman born, had donned the disguise of a rough-and-tumble lad. With her family fallen on hard times, she toiled away at a man's job to keep a roof over all their heads. Not that she expected the wea...

  • The Deep Green Sea

    Robert Olen Butler

    “A wrenching love story” about the relationship between a Vietnam veteran and a woman who was orphaned when Saigon fell, by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author (Chicago Tribune).This is an incandescent tale of modern love between a Vietnamese woman, ...

  • The Unspeakable

    Charles Laird Calia

    The Unspeakable tells the story of two men, both priests, whose strange and divergent paths collide. Peter Whitmore, an administrator for the Diocese of St. Paul, is asked to investigate and ultimately discredit a priest who, it is rumored, possesses...

  • The Horse of Her Dreams

    Joanna Campbell

    Twelve-year-old Christina Reese is the luckiest girl in the world. She lives at the Whitebrook Farm with her dad, Mike, and her mother, Ashleigh Griffen, one of the most famous jockeys ever. And when Christina asked for a horse for her birthday she g...

  • Koestler Biography

    David Cesarani

  • Captive Heart

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Life was perfect, Devora thought. Assisting her Uncle Barnabas with his patients was exhilarating, and the thought of marriage to her beau, Edward, filled her heart with joy. Then the Countess of Radburn made a life-changing announcement: Devora must...

  • Counting Penguins

    Pamela Chanko

  • The Fear Principle

    B.A. Chepaitis

    During a dark period in history known as the Killing Times, Jaguar tries to rehabilitate the era's criminals using telepathic therapy but meets a dangerous challenge in a severely disturbed female assassin, who would teach Jaguar the true meaning of ...

  • Fortress of Eagles

    C.J. Cherryh

    CHILD OF WIZARDRY Tristen is both more and less than a man. A summoning, a shaping, he was brought to life by a wizard, to serve a king yet to be crowned. Now the wizard is dead. And young Cefwyn is king. Cefwyn has a dream: a united Ylesuin...

  • Soccer Scoop

    Matt Christopher

    Who’s making a fool of Mac? Mac Williams, goalie for the Cougars, is known as much for his upbeat game chatter as for his outstanding saves. But when an anonymous artist starts making fun of him with a weekly cartoon, Mac is anything but upbeat....

  • Baby, It's You

    Caitlin Clark

    SWEET HARMONY Beautiful Summer Gold had the talent and the desire to become the most popular singing sensation in the world. Now the man hired to make her dream come true was a handsome maverick record producer with a body that could melt vinyl. ...

  • The Fox, the Goat and Sack of Grapes

    Annie Cobb

  • Sea Strike // Stormdragon

    James H. Cobb

    Brimming with heat-of-battle action and state-of-the-art technology, Sea Strike plunges Commander Amanda Garrett, first introduced in Choosers of the Slain, and her stealth destroyer, USS Cunningham, into action. After suffering internal revolt, Comm...

  • The Purveyor of Enchantment

    Marika Cobbold

    Clementine Hope, a newly divorced, thirtysomething woman teaching music and working on a collection of fairy tales left to her by her great aunt, learns, in a moment of crisis, how to overcome the fear that paralyzes her life. BAKER & TAYLOR...

  • One False Move

    Harlan Coben

    Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. But Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life. Twenty...

  • My Dentist is a Vampire

    M.T. Coffin

    Brian enters a new realm of terror when he visits the dentist's office and is strapped to the chair, while eerie music wafts through the air, and when he breaks his restraints and tries to escape, he encounters vampire bats, centipedes, skeletons, an...

  • The Millennium

    Daniel Cohen

    An introduction to the millennium and all of its related activities discusses such topics as the Millennium Virus, the Doomsday Prophecy, and the calculations that make the year 2000--or maybe 2001--a special date...

  • Executive Sanction

    David Compton

    Betrayed by the political game, a brilliant, idealistic campaign manager now finds himself chosen by the CIA for an extremely sensitive and volatile national security operation. Caught in a world of clandestine affairs and high-tech espionage, he bec...

  • The Old Spanish Trail

    Ralph Compton

    An extraordinary saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who made their fortune driving cattle from Texas to the great frontier. Hard-riding Texans were braving mountains, desert and Indian war-- for the promise of a golden land called California...Over on...

  • Crush

    Ellen Conford

    "Tickets for the Sweetheart Stomp are still available at the student government office, Room 114, during lunch hours or half an hour after school."

    B.J. Green though, not for the first time, what a dumb name Sweetheart Stomp was for a Valentine's D...

  • Tall, Dark and Temporary

    Susan Connell

    AN UNLIKELY GROOM Widow Megan Sloan had already been a wife and was ready to be a seductress! So she decided to take rugged Nick Buchanan up on his offer of a brief, passionate affair.... Nick knew he had it bad for Megan from the moment he fir...

  • Super-fine Valentine

    Bill Cosby

    Great stories about great kids, just like you! Little Bill hates being teased. But now everyone is saying that he's in love! What can he do? Written by America's most beloved comedian and storyteller, Little Bill Books affirm the value of fri...

  • Assignment: Eternity

    Greg Cox

    Captain Kirk first encountered Gary Seven on twentieth-century Earth. Now Seven, a time-traveling operative for unknown alien forces, makes a surprise visit to the U.S.S. Enterprise. Kirk is on an urgent mission to bring relief to a disaster-ravaged ...

  • Make Mine to Go

    Elizabeth Craft

    Despite the cafe+a7's rule about avoiding relationships with co-workers, Dylan and Natalie travel to Portland together, while Jason and Blue fear their friendship is ruined, and Sam harbors his developing feelings for Natalie. Original....

  • Celebration

    Harry Crews

    Now from the author the Washington Post Book World calls "the dark chronicler of human vanity and folly" comes Celebration. The newest black comedy from Harry Crews is a biting, brilliant commentary set in a Florida rest-home gulag where the over-six...

  • The Puzzled Heart

    Amanda Cross

    Kate Fansler's husband, Reed, has been kidnapped--and will be killed unless Kate obeys the carefully delineated directives of a ransom note. Tormented by her own puzzled heart, Kate seeks solace and wise counsel from friends both old and new. But who...

  • Perfect Puppy

    Jenny Dale

    Dogs! Big or small, pedigree or mutt, Neil and Emily Parker love them all. And there are dogs of every kind at their home, busy King Street Kennels. Lucky is King Street Kennels' newest visitor, and she looks like the perfect puppy. Her cheeky ch...

  • Sam and Delilah

    Jenny Dale

  • Tuff's Luck

    Jenny Dale

    In their most dangerous case yet, Neil and Emily cross paths with a poacher who has set up traps and a secret hideout deep in the woods. With the help of Tuff, a Jack Russell terrier, Neil almost catches the culprits . . . but he is caught first. It ...

  • Red Alert

    Jenny Dale

    Red was the Parkers' first ever kennel guest -- and now he's back. The beautiful, friendly red setter is an instant hit with Neil and Emily. Before long, he's like one of the family. But disaster strikes when fire blazes through the kennels! Can any...

  • The Sheikh's Seduction

    Emma Darcy

    Who was seducing whom? With her family's future happiness in Tareq al-Khaima's all-controlling hands, Sarah Hillyard was persuaded to become the sheikh's traveling companion for a year. She remembered his gentleness toward her as a you...

  • The Song Within

    Megan Davidson

    SHE SURRENDERED HER HEART As innocent as she is lovely, raven-haired Una lives a simple life in the heather-covered moorlands of her beloved Glenfinnan -- unprepared for the man who will cast her destiny to the winds of love. When she discovers the ...

  • Barney's Easter Parade

    Guy Davis

  • Abuse of Process

    Rankin Davis

    With his acclaimed debut The Right to Silence, Rankin Davis established himself as a master of courtroom suspense. Now he presents a bold new thriller, the shattering story of a legal system as tainted as the killers it is bound to bring to justice.....

  • Little Boy Blue

    Suzannah Davis

    Switched At Birth: Four strangers are about to discover the true bonds of brotherhood with a little help -- and love -- from four terrific women! OF ALL THE DUMB LUCK. Bliss Abernathy was stranded in the south Texas Big Bend with old foe ...

  • The Golden Legend: Selections

    Jacobo de Voragine

    One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of c...

  • Summer Rose

    Carole Dean

    CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS Writer Rosie O'Hanlon has a way with words -- and when it comes to matters of the heart they're pure poetry. So what can go wrong by writing professional love letters for the lovelorn? Plenty, when a handsome stranger respon...

  • After the Thunder

    Genell Dellin

    TOO WILD TO TAME Cotannah Chisk-Ko is banished from the Texas ranch she has always known as home, to return to the Choctaw Nation where she must learn to behave like a proper maiden of her tribe. Cotannah continues her outrageous flirtations, yet sh...

  • Snow Inside the House

    Sean Diviny

    Snow, snow. Right out there! Snowy ground and frosty air. If it snowed inside here too, think of all that I could do.

    Haven't you ever wondered what would happen if it snowed inside instead of out?

    Snowmen in the living room, one in every chair.....

  • Dead in the Water

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Lady in Waiting

    Denise Domning

    Commanded by her grandfather to snare a wealthy husband, Anne Blanchemains enters the lavish court of Queen Elizabeth. But the beautiful, innocent Anne is a lamb among wolves, easy prey to treachery and an aging queen's jealousy. She never suspects t...

  • A Proper Match

    Dorothea Donley

    BOUND BY DUTY With her parents long-dead, Lady Charlotte had devoted herself to raising her only sibling Sydney, the Duke of Audley. But when the callow youth developed a tendre for the most unsuitable young woman, Charlotte turned to Sir Roland Mar...

  • The Prince and the Bogus Bride

    Jennifer Drew

    A Royal Wedding? Reporter Leigh Donovan couldn't believe her luck! The Handsome prince she'd been searching for had just run her car off the road, and now he was proposing the deal of a lifetime: one juicy interview in exchange for her hand i...

  • A Match for the Season

    Carola Dunn
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    FROM COZY INNS TO SPARKLING LONDON, SNOWFLAKES, AND LOVE, ARE IN THE AIR... Winter holds special delights for lords and ladies. Laughter rings like sleighbells in the snow, and a courtship by candlelight can melt the coldest heart. And what follow...

  • Jewel Surprises! a Heart for the Queen of Hearts

    Jennifer Dussling

  • Murder Can Spook Your Cat

    Selma Eichler

    AN APPETITE FOR CRIME... Well-rounded P.I. Desiree Shapiro brings as much gusto to solving an unsavory crime as she does to creating--and consuming--a savory salmon mousse. But the demise of Luella Pressman has her stumped. The well-known children...

  • Under the Snow

    Kerstin Ekman


    From the author of Blackwater comes this atmospheric and chilling tale of small-town secrets and jealousy set in the icy northern landscape of Lapland. When an artist named Matti is killed at a mah jongg party, Police Constable Torsson skis to th...

  • Footsteps of a Stuart

    Elizabeth Elgin

    When sweet Meg Weaver met young Master Kit Crispin in the hayfields at midsummer, neither had any way of knowing that the year's end would bring rebellion, charges of witchcraft, a birth, a death, and a new lord for the village of Albridge...

  • The General Against the Kremlin

    Harold Elletson

  • Prince of Dogs

    Kate Elliott

    HELD CAPTIVE BY THEIR DESTINIES SANGLANT--the Prince of Dogs, King Henry's bastard son; though believed dead by all who could succor him, he is being held captive in the city of Gent by Bloodheart, the Eika warlord. Cursed by his mother's blood wi...

  • Night Heat

    Lyn Ellis

    His night watch... For Tripp Anderson, protecting beautiful, sexy, rich Abby Duncan should have been easy. All he had to do was keep an eye on his gorgeous charge ... day and night. If only he could keep his hands off her.... ...turned into nig...

  • Three Nights at a Country Inn

    Monique Ellis
    in

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    Liz Fielding

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    Christine Flynn

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    Sandy Fraser

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    Hal Friedman

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    Virginia Gaffney

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    Susan Gates

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    Peter Gay

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    Mona Gedney

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    Maurice Gee

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    Anthony Giardina

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    Kahlil Gibran

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    Rachel Gibson

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    Diane Glancy

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  • Eyes

    Joseph Glass

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    Now the fran...

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    Miriam Glassman

    Ari and Danny have been inseparable friends and neighbors, living in their own world of magic kits, movies, and mythical games. When he moves away, she's left to face Marina, Queen of the fifth grade. Standing up to Marina shows Ari that she's spunki...

  • Second-Best Bride

    Ruth Glover

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  • Egg Decorating Day! - Paint with Water Book

    Golden Books

    Join Pooh and his friends as they get out the paint and decorate their eggs for Easter. Only you won't need paint in this paint with water book. Brush the illustrations lightly with water and the colors appear like magic....

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  • The Edge of Heaven

    Marita Golden

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  • Perfect Villians, Imperfect He

    Ronald L. Goldfarb

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    Karin Goodwin

    Bargain Books are non-returnable.

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    Louise M. Gouge

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    Alexander M. Grace

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    Carol Grace

    THE BRIDE WAS TOO YOUNG! Margaret Kidder was glad she hadn't waited till her wedding night. But when groom-to-be Cody Ralston took her to bed, Margaret discovered that though she'd longed to become a woman in the sexy cowboy's arms, she just wasn'...

  • Violets in the Snow

    Patricia Grasso

    He was her guardian, the duke of darkness--and desire. She tried to drive him away from Arden Hall. Instead, Isabelle Montgomery was charmed by the rakehell John Saint Germain, the handsomest--and most dangerous--man she'd ever met. He said she wa...

  • This Time Forever

    Abby Gray

    LOVERS' REUNION Single mother Tracey Walker has returned to her Oklahoma hometown to accept a teaching job, but she's the one put to the test. For a handsome man catches her eye, challenges every emotion, and brings back a flood of bittersweet me...

  • The Mercenaries

    Ed Greenwood

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  • The Investigators

    W.E.B. Griffin

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  • Errands

    Judith Guest

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  • Simply Irresistible

    Geri Guillaume

    Caught redhanded stealing her car back from her ex-boyfriend, Dara Lange reluctantly agrees to four weekends of volunteer work with executive Nick Bordeaux, only to find herself falling in love with him. Original....

  • Margaret's Peace

    Linda Hall

    After the death of her only daughter and the subsequent breakup of her marriage, Margaret Collingwood returns to her home in Coffins Reach, Maine, and to the seafront house she has inherited. She goes there to rest, to paint, and to find the God she ...

  • Suspense

    Parnell Hall

    ``I don't deal in danger,'' Stanley Hastings aptly tells his latest client. But Maxine Winnington, who obviously hasn't seen Stanley's r‚sum‚, hires him anyway to identify the person who's been harassing her with anonymous threatening phone calls...

  • Red Petals

    Debra Hamilton

    Jack Darlington was too handsome, too self-assured, too splendid by half for a plain, twenty-six-year-old diplomat's daughter from Edinburgh. Rosaline's one chance at love had been cruelly stolen, and now she had little choice but to be marri...

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    Karen Harbaugh
    in

    Stolen by Faerie to increase their powers, a beautiful changeling must choose between the lure of magic and the doomed mortal stranger who calls to her still-human heart....

  • The Hoover Files

    William Harrington

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  • An Unfortunate Prairie Occurrence

    Jamie Harrison

    BIG SKY, OLD BONES, AND MURDEROUS OBSESSION. BLUE DEER, MONTANA HAS IT ALL... A Cleveland hunter had just shot off his best friend's hand and the first blizzard of the season was blowing into Blue Deer, Montana, when a camper found an old skeleton...

  • The Order of the Star

    Evelyn Hart

  • All My Dangerous Friends

    Sonya Hartnett

    Louie has finished with her old life, and stepped into a world of sinners. For her, nothing is going to be the same again. This darkly funny, disturbing novel explores a lawless world where morality is a nuisance, everything can be bought, and the pr...

  • Deception

    Morgan Hayes

    Her mistake was falling in love with a cop. Now she's pregnant--and he's missing. Shelby Beaumont is madly in love with homicide detective Johnny Spencer. They've been together for the past year; they've just become engaged. And though Johnny doe...

  • Killer Clown of Kings County

    Betsy Haynes

    Unhappy at the prospect of having a clown at his birthday party, Zeke is amazed when clown Idris Zanzibar McFloot makes a baseball cap disappear and sets out to learn Idris's magical secrets, but if Idris successfully pulls of his next trick, the Box...

  • Right by My Side

    David Haynes

    Move over, Holden Caulfield, and meet Marshall Field Finney, in the 30th anniversary edition of Right by My Side, by a celebrated chronicler of Black middle class life in the American Midwest A Penguin ClassicWith wit and realism, David Haynes p...

  • Skull Session

    Daniel Hecht

    Paul Skoglund wasn't prepared for the horrifying condition of his aunt's estate. The rambling old house on the Hudson River had been vandalized so savagely, so violently, that it could only be the work of a dangerous, unstable mind. Paul himself was ...

  • Suspicion

    Christiane Heggan

    A YOUNG LAW CLERK IS KILLED. A HIGH-PRICED CALL GIRL IS STRANGLED. TWO MEN ARE FRAMED FOR THEIR MURDERS. AND ONE WOMAN INTENDS TO PROVE THEIR INNOCENCE. Defense attorney Kate Logan has become embroiled in two important murder cases. One is the def...

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    Kristen Heitzmann

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    Mary-Claire Helldorfer / M.C. Helldorfer

  • The Endless Sky

    Shirl Henke

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    Will Henry

  • Forbidden God

    Shane Lacy Hensley

    The seventh in our Weird Western Dime Novels finds Ronan Lynch crossing the Great Salt Flats of Utah when he stumbles across an ancient Spanish galleon miles from any ocean. Written by Tim Brown, creator of TSR's Dark Sun!...

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    Shane Lacy Hensley

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    Shane Lacy Hensley

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    Lori Herter

    ARE YOU GETTING NOWHERE WITH MR. RIGHT? The new self-help book HOW TO MARRY YOUR DREAMBOAT can fix that. It teaches you -- yes, you! -- how to win the man of your dreams. How? By turning yourself into the woman of his dreams... It certainly w...

  • Cupid's Chase

    Barbara Jean Hicks
    in

    City girl Jayne Morgan takes a teaching job in the small eastern Oregon town where her fiancee is from. But after he jilts her, she's stuck. Determined to honor her commitments, she begins to get involved in the community and ends up winning an Arab ...

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    Douglas Hirt

    Unprepared for the savagery of the frontier, newspaper reporter Nathaniel Jones, a special correspondent to General George Custer's military expedition, becomes a witness to the conquest of the West and finds adventure beyond his wildest dreams...

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    Martha Hix

    Certain he's fated to meet his bride on his thirtieth birthday, Texas rancher Jon Marc O'Brien arranges for the perfect woman to arrive on that day. He's never set eyes on sweet Beth Buchanan, a cattle buyer's daughter from Kansas, but after a two-ye...

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    Stuart Hoar

  • Ship of Magic

    Robin Hobb

    Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. The fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awaken...

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    Peter Hoeg

    These eight stories are linked by a date and a motif. All of them have to do with love. Love and its conditions on the night of March 19, 1929.In his second book and his only collection of stories, Peter Høeg proves himself to be a true storytelle...

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    William Hoffman

    The secret was buried deep within the high mountains of West Virginia. It spiraled down to a devastating legacy of betrayal, revenge, and rage that was destined to destroy a dynasty. Charley LeBlanc is the black sheep, a disgrace to the family nam...

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    Matthew Holland

    With his life plunging out of control, legendary rock star Dizzy Z struggles to cope with the crises of fame, long road tours, drugs and alcohol abuse, creative differences with his band, Blood Cheetah, and the increasing likelihood that he will not ...

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    Liz Holliday

  • A Stolen Tongue

    Sheri Holman

    “Part rollicking historical potboiler, part theological mystery” from the acclaimed author of The Dress Lodger and The Mammoth Cheese (Entertainment Weekly).A riveting mystery that recalls the work of Umberto Eco and Barry Unsworth, A Stolen...

  • The Damask Days

    Evelyn Hood

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    Evelyn Hood