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New Books List: 704 titles


  • William Christie

    This is the gripping story of Marines bonding together as they learn the art of war. It is a story of leadership, brotherhood in battle, and courage in the midst of chaos. Second Lietenant Michael Galway is the commanding officer of 2nd Platoon, E...



  • Tom Morrisey

    A suspense-filled search for hidden treasure---and hidden truths. While University of Michigan graduate student Jennifer Cassidy is researching the family history of Cecilia Sinclair, a long-deceased Southern expatriate, she discovers that something ...



  • Don Pendleton

    DANCING WITH THE DEVIL Alpha Deep Six. Wet work specialists so covert, they were thought dead. Now this paramilitary group of black ops assassins and saboteurs has been resurrected in a conspiracy engineered somewhere in the darkest corners of mil...



  • Marlene Fanta Shyer

    Twelve-year-old Nicky and his family are delighted to discover that their neighbor's dog Fleabiscuit can howl along to Irish tunes. He joins their musical act in the New York City subways but then disappears, and Nicky must find him....



  • Don Pendleton

    ROGUE'S GALLERY A rescue mission in the South Pacific turns up a wild card that puts Mack Bolan on the trail of an elusive enemy mounting a horrific and ingenious attack against the U.S.--one that involves traitors deep inside one of the world's m...



  • Eugene Sullivan

    Tim Quinn, a Washington DC lawyer on the move, was flattered to be recommended by his friend Harry Winston to a vacancy on the bench caused by the unsavory death of one of the judges. He was also surprised to see how easy his nomination and confirmat...



  • Geronimo Stilton

    Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing adventure stories. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are funny, fa-mouse-ly funny. They are whisker-lick...



  • Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    The thrill of victory and the humiliation of defeat The Extreme Sports Network is the cash cow feeding off America's lust for blood, guts and sex disguised as competitive athletics. From Extreme Nude Luge to the excruciatingly gory Extreme Outback...



  • Donn Pearce

    Donn Pearce, the author of Cool Hand Luke, again revisits the subject of men under tremendous pressure, living and dying according to oppressive circumstances. Now, he brings you another tragic hero, thrust out of the only world he knew and forced to...



  • Charles W. Sasser

    The struggle against the terrorist jihad is a battle to the death. But the battlefield is shifting from the Middle East to America's doorstep. A nuclear device has been smuggled across the Mexican border, as a fiendish cabal of wealthy and dangerous ...



  • Steve Perry

    A NEW CENTURY. NEW SUPERPOWERS. A NEW BREED OF HOMELAND SECURITY. When a top-secret Pentagon wargame is shut down, only Net Force has the expertise to track down the hacker. The Department of Defense decides to strike while the iron is hot - and...



  • M.T. Anderson

    Lily Gefelty is just an average twelve-year-old girl. But her dad -- a normal-enough seeming guy -- just so happens to work for an evil genius who plans to unleash an army of extremely cranky, stilt-walking, laser-beam-eyed whales upon the world. ...



  • Barbara Burnett Smith

    Meet Kitzi Camden, former stateswoman. When she retired, Kitzi dreamed of doing what she loves best--beading. She certainly didn't plan to try her hand at amateur sleuthing. But lately, trouble seems to find her wherever she goes--even deep into the ...



  • Jan Burke

    The year is 1958. O'Connor, a young reporter with the Las Piernas News Express, is desperate to discover who has perpetrated a savage attack on his mentor, Jack Corrigan. In and out of consciousness, Corrigan claims to have witnessed the burial of a ...



  • Sarah Strohmeyer

    Debuting as a full-time reporter, Bubbles lands an interview with a woman accused of murdering a beloved high school principal. After the suspect keels over dead--in midrevelation--Bubbles's confidential notes become a life-threatening hot commodity ...



  • Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    "That Kit will be the undoing of us all." Aging film star Patty Rose came to Molena Point, California, to enjoy her golden years running an inn. She didn't come there to be murdered. But it's Patty's body a cat named Kit discovers after hearing th...



  • Rita Mae Brown

    With the holidays approaching, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her best friend, Susan Tucker, take a much-needed time-out at the mountain monastery of Mount Carmel. But their worldly worries are soon overshadowed when, before their eyes, a statue of...



  • Yasmine Galenorn

    Delicious blends of tea aren't the only draw at the Chintz 'n China Tea Room--Emerald O'Brien, owner and medium, also offers her customers a tarot-card reading. But Emerald, a single mother of two, never saw herself as a sleuth--which proves that eve...



  • Carolyn Keene

    When I scored tickets to the grand opening of a new spa in town, I knew I had to take Bess. George came along too, but she's been acting so weird. I knew this wouldn't be her idea of a total blast, but she's just been no fun at all. It's unlike her t...



  • Leann Sweeney

    With big dreams, a big heart, and a really big bank account, spunky Texas heiress Abby Rose thinks she's finally found her true calling as an adoption PI in Houston. But when marriage meets murder at the altar, her next case proves to be anything but...



  • Nora Charles

    Once a snowbird, now full-time resident and sometime sleuth Kate Kennedy "is a stylish and sophisticated Miss Marple, seeking justice in sunny South Florida instead of a rainy English Village, and meeting the moss delightfully eccentric suspects in t...



  • Karyn Henley

    Best-selling author Karyn Henley has designed this Bible storybook especially for a child's bedtime routine. Her stories are written in a soothing style that will help your child to relax and fall asleep resting on God's Word. Beautiful four-color ar...



  • Chris Auer

    Still haunted by recent events, twelve-year-old Dan Pruitt no longer trusts his instincts. Then he and his friends discover a riddle hidden in an ancient Chinese puzzle box, and Dan realizes his instincts were right all along. Someone is trying to ge...



  • Thom Lemmons

    In Daughter Of Jerusalem we will watch as Mary Magdalene, one who was lost, then found, reaches in compassion toward other wandering sheep of the house of Israel. We will observe how the women of the company of disciples function, if not as heads of ...



  • Danae Dobson

    Children will learn about God through these eight contemporary stories by Danae Dobson. Each story is based on a different biblical parable and is accompanied by full-color illustrations depicting the story's characters in a variety of realistic sett...



  • Stormie Omartian

    The Power of a Praying(R) Kid is a fun and kid-friendly approach to prayer for a very special audience. Written with young hearts in mind, this short, easy-to-read book for 7- to 12-year-olds will help your children learn to talk to God in a way t...



  • Chris Auer

    Many secrets lie within the walls of Eckert House, but no one is prepared when a stranger claiming to be the sole heir of Eckert House shows up. Dan and his friends aren't convinced. Things get complicated when accusation hits close to home. Can they...




  • Susanna Carr

    In these sinfully delicious tales, Susanna Carr introduces three former sorority sisters who are ready to let down their ladylike hair, pick up their pens, and jot down a few notes on the art of being oh-so-wicked... Six Weeks to Sensuality Amy ...



  • Allison Leigh

    Well, it looks as though steadfast single dad Cameron Stevenson may not be single much longer. The whole town has seen the smoldering looks he's directed at Faith Taylor, the rescue worker who saved Cam's son from a cave-in at the old Queen of Hearts...



  • Alice Wootson

    When helicopter pilot Jeanine Stewart popped in on her mechanic to have her chopper checked out, she had no idea she'd meet the man who'd win her heart: her mechanic's brother, Chris Harris. An architect with a serious fear of flying, Chris is more i...



  • Sheri Whitefeather

    SHE CAN READ MINDS, BUT CAN SHE SEPARATE TRUTH FROM LIES? Beneath the bright lights of Hollywood, women are being brutally murdered. The Slasher has come to L.A., and psychic Olivia Whirlwind is on the case. Brought in to help because of her abili...



  • Leigh Michaels

    Nikki is always happy to baby-sit for her friend Laura's adorable twins, Zack and Anna. But now the babies' mom is unavoidably delayed -- and Nikki needs help! The babies' uncle, Seth Baxter, comes to her rescue! But the man is gorgeou...



  • Pamela Bauer

    Who is Faith? That's what Adam Novak wants to know. She looks just like his ex-lover, now missing and presumed dead -- whose disappearance turned him from carefree bachelor into instant father to their six-year-old daughter, Megan. That&#...



  • Allie Pleiter

    What would you do with $1 million? That's a question Darcy Nightengale never thought she'd need to answer. But a sudden inheritance of just over $1 million begs a more immediate response. And when Darcy learns of her father's last request that ...



  • Cindy Gerard

    A tall, cool cowboy with a heartbreaker smile, J. T. Tyler had a line of women swooning in his wake. Then he met Alison Samuels, the town's new veterinarian, and found himself face-to-face with a challenge he couldn't ignore. J.T. wasn't interested i...



  • Cathy Williams

    At the boss's pleasure... Billionaire Curtis Diaz is determined to uncover why his new executive assistant, prim and proper Tessa Wilson, fuels his desire like no other woman. Is there life beneath her sensible, shapeless business suits? On...



  • Penny Jordan

    The Boss's Marriage Arrangement by Penny Jordan Everyone in her office thinks Harriet is boss Matthew Cole's fiancee! Harriet has to keep reminding herself it's all just for convenience -- but how far is Matthew prepared to go with their...



  • Raye Morgan

    In this secretary's opinion, Allman Industries' newest bigwig was a snake in the grass! After all, the feud simmering between the rival Allman and McLaughlin clans had divided Chivaree, Texas, for over a century. So why in tarnation had Kurt McLaughl...



  • Daphne Clair

    From mistress to mother... Italian tycoon Zandro Brunellesci's brother has died. Zandro has no hesitation in deciding that his brother's baby must be raised as a Brunellesci -- and taken away from the woman he considers a most unsuitable mot...



  • Shirley Rogers

    An impulsive bid at a bachelor auction had won Jennifer Cardon a romantic getaway with her sexy boss, Alex Dunnigan. Jennifer had always been incredibly attracted to Alex, but bedroom fantasies were one thing -- having her dreams come true in the fle...



  • Marcia Preston

    In clear, luminous prose, Marcia Preston brings readers the story of three women, connected by friendship, family secrets and a single moment that binds them together forever. As a child, Bobbie Lee found refuge from her lonely life at her best f...



  • Naomi Neale

    ReSUMe Name: Nan Cloutier Address: Follow the gang graffiti until you reach the decrepit bakery. See the rooms above that even a squatter wouldn't claim? That's my little Manhattan paradise. Education: (Totally useless) Liberal Arts degre...



  • Patricia Rice

    THE OPEN ROAD WILL OPEN THEIR HEARTS Free spirit Alys Seagraves and her elderly, eccentric friend Mame are about to embark upon an epic road trip along historic Route 66 when Mame suffers a medical setback that throws a wrench into their plans. Ne...



  • Susan Vaughan

    SHE FELT AS FALSE AS THE RING ON HER FINGER When legendary antiterrorist agent Vanessa Wade was assigned to impersonate the glamorous fiancee of international businessman Nick Markos, she reluctantly found herself on one last undercover mission. B...



  • Jean Brashear

    A house filled to the rafters with love. That was all Cleo Channing ever wanted. And when Malcolm Channing walked into her life and swept her off her feet, she soon had it all -- the house, an adoring husband, three beautiful children. But their ...



  • Cathy Yardley

    P.J.'s life is simple. Wake up at 2:00 p.m. In someone else's place, on someone else's couch. Shower. Clothes. Club. P.J.'s a punter -- someone who fills in if a DJ isn't able to make a gig. San Francisco is a hotbed of glam bands and alternative roc...



  • Christine Wenger

    A RODEO ROMANCE! Young widow Beth Conroy had long ago vowed never to lose her heart again. She spent all her time caring for her son, who had been in a wheelchair since the accident that killed his father. Then Kevin won a trip to the ranch of his b...



  • Maureen Child

    Lucas Gallagher is the geek who bought the land Michaela "Mike" Marconi wanted for her dream house. She thinks he's infuriating, annoying and totally rude. Yet, he gets to her more than any other man ever has. But though Lucas may be a scientist, he'...



  • Caroline Goode

    Dating in high school is like reality TV. It can get pretty surreal. Between the strict social ladder (geeks' lockers left, jocks' to the right), and silly, pointless rules (no hand-holding, no kissing, no breathing!), high school is the single wo...



  • Marin Thomas

    Unconditional Love, Yes -- But Not Surrender Ex-rodeo rider JD Gonzalez may be a poor Texas rancher, but he's not dumb. He knows that money can't buy love. So when Josephine Delaney arrives in Brandt's Corner and announces that her motherless nephew...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    PLAYING WITH FIRE Devil-may-care detective Jared Cavanaugh dove into his undercover assignment -- investigating a money-laundering operation in a popular restaurant -- but working in close proximity to his beautiful "boss" was sweet torture. With he...



  • Carla Cassidy

    Who can Lynn White trust when the man who raised her, her trusted godfather, might be lying to her face? How does she know what's real when she's used her highly unusual skills to retrieve stolen valuables from places no one else could enter -- u...



  • Alexandra Potter

    See the happy bride-to-be! Grace Fairley lives in South West London with her fiance, Spencer, a divorce lawyer. They've been engaged for two years and still haven't set a date, a fact that has started to irk Grace no end. In fact, things just hav...



  • Kate Hardy

    On the hectic Pediatrics' ward of London City General, love just isn't running smoothly for Dr. Brad Hutton and Dr. Zoe Kennedy.They may have been instantly smitten with each other, but the secrets they have kept locked away make their future togethe...



  • Joyce Livingston

    Keene believes there is no God. Jane Delaney knows differently, and when the famous opera singer plows into her car, God provides her with the opportunity to share her faith with the great Keene Moray. As his new personal assistant, she knows she can...



  • Sue Swift

    Dearest Godmother, I'm almost to my matchmaking goal. If I can get this couple to the altar... Of course, I should have known better than to match an expert heartbreaker like Selina Carrington with a sheik of legendary charm. The sassy exec's ...



  • Eileen Wilks

    After one sultry summer together, Dixie McCord's affair with Cole Ashton had grown chilly. Unable to stay with a man who put business before love, Dixie had left Napa, never expecting that one day she would return to Louret Vineyards -- and once agai...



  • Jacqueline deMontravel

    In this deliciously catty, romantically comical novel, you are cordially invited to join author Jacqueline deMontravel for an over-the-top trip through outrageous Bridedom, where every haute couture wedding preparation is guaranteed to go hilariously...



  • Meg Cabot

    To: Jane Harris Fr: Claire Harris Re: You Hi, honey! It's me, Mom. I know it's a big secret that your friend Holly and her boyfriend Mark are eloping in Italy, and that you and Mark's friend Cal La...



  • Mary J. Forbes

    Jon Tucker was doing just fine living by his lonesome, steering clear of pets and people. Until his neighbor's cat gave birth to kittens on his favorite shirt. But after returning the new family to its rightful owner, Jon was finding it hard to s...



  • Alexandra Sellers

    ROYAL AFFAIR The instructions were simple: seek out and return home with the long-lost princess of Bagestan now that her family had regained control of the throne. But when he found her, Sheikh Sharif Azad al Dauleh fell hard and fast for Princess...



  • Alison Roberts

    Jason Halliday is used to emergencies. But when an abandoned baby -- his baby -- is left at the station, the handsome firefighter is out of his depth.The only person he can turn to for help is paramedic Laura Green. Laura's not Jason's type -- he'...



  • Cecelia Dowdy

    A cruise around the Caribbean offered just what Rainy Jackson needed to get over her faithless ex-fiance -- sun, swimming and solitude. As the heat sank into her bones, she began to feel interest in the world again...and in handsome fellow passenger ...



  • Barbara Dunlop

    One missed flight and diamond buyer Erin O'Connell thinks her shot at a big-time promotion is over. Or is it? She needs to hop a plane to idyllic Blue Earth Island off the coast of Seattle to schmooze a mining billionaire. Her charter pilot is gone, ...



  • Kara Lennox

    Follow Your Heart... After a near-fatal car accident, Willow Marsden discovers she has a form of amnesia that prevents her from recognizing faces, including those of friends, family -- even her own. Adding to her shock is that the new man in her l...



  • Linda Warren

    Caroline Whitten has never met a man like Eli Coltrane. From the first moment he touched her, Caroline knew there was something special about him. But is she being honest with herself? Have her feelings for Eli grown out of love, or out of gratitude ...



  • Rhonda Nelson

    Zora Anderson, the confident, hard-as-nails founder of Chicks in Charge, has a secret that could ruin her -- her boyfriend refuses to sleep with her! At first she thought it was kind of sweet...but that got old fast. Desperate for a little action, Zo...



  • Kayla Perrin

    When L.A. sex therapist Dr. Lecia Calhoun writes a self-help book called The Big O there's no doubt what she's talking about. But this expert on making the right moves in the bedroom, known to the country as Dr. Love, has to admit to herself that it'...



  • Wendy French

    Jody Rogers thought she was taking charge of her life, so why does it feel like everything is spinning out of control? In the space of twenty-four hours, Jody has quit her dead-end job as a waitress at Dean's Ocean Galley, dumped her two-timing bo...



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    Charlotte "Charlie" Cuesta and Sam Ryan are rival P.I.'s -- and former lovers. But when she finds herself partnered with sexy Sam once more -- traveling cross-country in a reality show -- she can't help wondering if he'll get even before she falls fo...



  • Sabine Durrant

    Its not that Martha Bone doesn't like children. It's more that they don't fit into her world: her shop, with its succession of beautiful distressed antiques; her flat, with its creamy sofa, its unwashable linen scatter-cushions, its aura of oatmeal a...



  • Lynne Graham

    Greek billionaire Andreas Nicolaidis had never kept a mistress for longer than three months...until Hope Evans entered his bed. But now, even after two years together, Andreas has no intention of making Hope his wife. She knows it is time to leave...



  • Judy Duarte

    SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN HEROES Hailey Conway believed in making a good, predictable life for herself. Until San Diego detective Nick Granger saved her from a mugger and swept her off her feet -- and into bed. Their steamy one-night stand was almost en...



  • Katie MacAlister

    MEN IN TIGHTS... ...never looked so good. At least that's Pepper Marsh's first impression when she attends a jousting competition at the Renaissance Faire in Ontario. An unemployed and unattached software engineer, Pepper has had enough of the compu...



  • Victoria Pade

    FROM "FOR THE NIGHT"... After her last visit landed her in the arms of reformed bad boy Ben Walker, a now-pregnant Clair Cabot was attempting to push aside those vivid memories as she returned to Northbridge to reopen a school her father had owned. ...



  • Barbara McMahon

    Bridget Rossi isn't used to mingling amongst the seriously rich and famous. But through her cousin, Bridget has just been invited to stay with a powerfully sexy sheikh at his opulent desert oasis! Powerful, sexy Sheikh Rashid al Halzid is ever...



  • Anna Adams

    Abby Carlton was willing to give up her career for Thomas Riley -- until she realized she'd always come second to his duty to his country. So she went home and rejoined the police force, trying to catch up to her friends and classmates, but aware tha...



  • Dixie Browning

    Honestly, ladies, I had the perfect plan to catch a good man...until he showed up out of nowhere! With his come-hither, all-male looks, sexy stranger Kell Magee could melt the chrome off a bumper. But marriage material? Men like Kell are good for one...



  • Patricia Kay

    From the moment she began her new job, beautiful Claudia Hathaway had bewitched her colleague Philip Larkin. But Claudia's feelings for Phil left her cold. As opposed to the heartstopping romantic connection she'd made with a handsome stranger...even...



  • Emma Darcy

    He wanted her -- so he bought her! The instant Australian billionaire Hugo Fullbright sees Angie Blessing, he knows he has to have her. There's no doubt about the instant, sizzling sexual attraction between them! So why, at first, does Angie r...



  • Carole Mortimer

    It's Valentine's Day and a secret admirer is bombarding Tazzy Darling with gifts! Any woman would be delighted -- but not Tazzy. There's only one man from whom she wants to receive love tokens, and that's her boss, Ross Valentine.... ...



  • Helen Brooks

    A BRIDE FOR THE TAKING? Carter Blake just loves a challenge, and is used to getting his own way; he didn't become a millionaire by taking "no" for an answer! As soon as he meets Liberty Fox he knows he has to have her. However, to his amazement, L...



  • Kim Lawrence

    The Frenchman's love child It was one night of passion Megan would never forget -- Luc Patrick had skillfully taken her and used her...leaving her pregnant with his baby. Nevertheless Megan tracked down the sexy Frenchman and was left breathle...



  • Margaret Watson

    To escape from her hometown, Claire Kendall has to leave her past -- and her sister -- behind... Now her sister's sudden death has Claire going home to confront her past and her orphaned nephew -- who blames her for saving herself and not his mot...



  • Lynn Michaels

    Something old, something new -- sister one or sister two? After her parents' vast fortune is stolen in a shady wire transfer, Dory Lambert, armed with a hard-earned M.B.A. and a savvy entrepreneurial spirit, vows to clear the family name and recov...



  • Shawna Delacorte

    THE DANGER ZONE Filling in as a guide and companion for his best friend's kid sister was cramping Tyler Farrell's bachelor lifestyle. At least, until a drop-dead- gorgeous, very-grown-up Angie melted his bones with one searing kiss. She was supposed...



  • Donna Hill

    Rayne Holland is a woman who appears to have it all: a handsome, successful husband, a beautiful five-year-old daughter, and a rapidly rising film career. What everyone doesn't realize is that behind closed doors, the picture is not so perfect. And ...



  • Terry McMillan

    As Marilyn approaches middle-age, we follow her struggle to discover herself outside the constraints of a passionless marriage, a demanding family and an ever-growing list of dreams deferred. With three children in college, a husband who suffers from...



  • Raeanne Thayne

    After an unbelievable makeover gave her the confidence to strut her stuff at a charity ball, Kate Crosby went from harmless flirt to bedroom vixen. But she wasn't about to let a single night of oh-so-sultry passion with archenemy Peter Logan become a...



  • Melanie Milburne

    Back in his bed...with a vengeance! When it comes to Anna Stockton, Lucio Ventressi knows he has an offer she can't refuse.... Anna needs money -- Lucio has it! His deal? Become his mistress for three months and he'll pay for her son...



  • Sandra Steffen

    She can't start a new life without her old friends... On the surface, thirty-six-year-old Brooke Valentine has a picture-perfect life: a gorgeous, Main Line husband, a precocious pre-teen daughter, a great career in advertising, and a stunning house...



  • Lisa Wingate

    Karen Sommerfield has been hiding from the big questions of life-- immersing herself in a high-pressure job, ignoring the emotional distance it her marriage, avoiding memories of a sudden miscarriage and a bout with cancer that stole her chance of ev...



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    When Andrea Scarpini signs up for a bachelorette-style show with a twist -- she never realizes her virginity will be up for grabs! Contestant Zach Richards is an undercover journalist, determined to be the first to prove Reality TV isn't real at all....



  • Patti Hill

    Grieving is an odd occupation ... GARDEN DESIGNER MIBBY GARRETT can't seem to get her life back on track after losing her husband in a bicycle accident six . months ago. Mibby devotes her tinje to one goal: avoiding "whammies o grief," those painf...



  • Debby Mayne

    SHOULDN'T LOVE GO BEYOND APPEARANCES? Injured in a serious car crash, supermodel Shannon McNab's world is rocked by a prominent scar on her left cheek. Shaken by this "imperfection," Shannon's boyfriend abandons her. When an old high school friend ...



  • Elaine Overton

    After firefighter Martina "Marty" Williams rescues insurance investigator Cavanaugh St. John from a burning building, she begins a romance that goes beyond her wildest dreams. If only she could shake the thought that Cavanaugh is hiding something fro...



  • Joan Elliott Pickart

    Nevada Assistant D.A. Jesse Burke loved his parents enough to give up his career -- and his dreams -- to help run the family ranch. But then his parents are killed in a car accident. And Jesse discovers he isn't their son at all.... Jesse heads fo...



  • Sara Craven

    The Italian's reluctant bride! When aristocratic Alessandro Valessi discovers the existence of his love child, he is determined to be part of Polly Fairfax's life! But Polly has been raising the child alone -- and she doesn't want or n...



  • Linda Walters

    In this sequel to On a Wing and a Prayer, radio executive Michael Townsend finds himself engaged in a battle of wills with his new wife, flight attendant Lauren Traynor. Michael reluctantly consents to a special arrangement in order to get Lauren to ...



  • Adrianne Byrd

    Can Love Overcome a Lie? Payton Garner's big brother Flex means the world to her, and when he decides to move from San Jose to Atlanta after a bad break-up with his lover, her entire family is upset. The only consolation is the news that he's foun...



  • Sarah Morgan

    Obstetrician Tom Hunter last saw Sally Jenner when he broke off their relationship to concentrate on his career. Hurt and confused, Sally had left the Lake District. Now she's back -- working in Tom's department as the new midwife, and on ...



  • Wendy Markham

    A tale of two Mikes...and the one that got away Once upon a time in the 1980s, a girl named Beau was torn between two Mikes: did she prefer her high-school sweetheart or the sexy stranger she'd picked up in an airport bar? One she eventually marr...



  • Sally D. John

    Before Cara Fleming became a detective for the Chicago Police Department, she lived in the shadowy depths of homelessness. Now, when her apartment is set ablaze in an attempt to stop one of her investigations, she plunges undercover into street li...



  • Margaret Daley

    Young widow Jesse Bradshaw was content to be a loving mother to her son, a devoted granddaughter, a doll maker and the keeper of a gaggle of pets. She couldn't imagine having anything more in her already crowded life -- until jaded Nick Blackburn and...



  • Hannah McCouch

    Following college Betty Winters abandons the East for the ski slopes of the West, where she finds a new life as a ski instructor with her boyfriend Jack, until the realities of the ski-bum's world, the arrival of Jack's estranged wife, and a Christma...



  • Erin McCarthy

    In Love, There's No Such Thing As A Simple Plan Rule #1: Cops maintain their distance. It was just supposed to be your average stakeout. My partner and I would scope out both the coffee shop and Laurel Wilkins, the latest target of con man Trev...



  • Catherine Anderson

    Five years ago, Laura Townsend's life was nearly destroyed when a head injury impaired her ability to use language and forced her to abandon a brilliant career. Despite her difficulties, however, she never lost her vivacious spirit or sunny dispositi...



  • Barbara Phinney

    SECRET MISSION...SECRET BABY Warrant Officer Sylvie Mitchell had resolved to put her last top secret military assignment behind her. Then Jon Cahill, her unborn baby's uncle, showed up, demanding answers about his brother's death in the line of fire...



  • Jo Leigh

    Courage Bay, California... a community founded on bravery. Now meet the town's new generation of heroes -- the men and women of Courage Bay Emergency Services. Bold enough to risk their lives -- and their hearts. Fearless enough to face any emerge...



  • Jean Stone

    Can love, romance, and marriage really be better the second time around? That's what four best friends are about to find out in Jean Stone's sexy, smart, and poignantly funny new novel about saying "I do" all over again. It's an idea just crazy enou...



  • Charlotte Douglas

    A good man isn't so hard to find... Unless, as Jodie Nathan believes, that "good man" could lead to a broken heart. After all, Jodie's only experience with love had resulted in a pregnancy at the tender age of fifteen. Now, as the single mother of...



  • Kathryn Shay

    It all started with an autograph... Only her son, Kyle, can get Professor Jacelyn Ross anywhere near a sports arena. Especially when the celebrity in question is a boorish football jock. But Kyle means everything to Jacelyn -- and he wants the si...



  • Trish Jensen

    BUSTING OUT Who fares better in the workplace: the brassy bimbo or the plain Jane? Do blondes really have more fun? For her doctoral dissertation, sociologist--and lifelong nerd--Leah Smith intended to find out. Trading in her mousy brown hair and...



  • Kimberly Cates

    Finnoula O'Grady had never had a home. Growing up in foster care, Finn had spent her childhood longing for a little house with a white picket fence. Years later her dreams came true when she inherited the rundown March Winds. But someone else was in ...



  • Leslie Carroll

    Sex and the single mother ... doesn't exist! And I, Claire Marsh, should certainly know, because these days my to-do list looks like this: Bring daughter Zo to a birthday party, where twenty second-graders will be encouraged to play ice hocke...



  • Dianne Drake

    On-air, she's the radio shrink who tells lovelorn listeners to let their hang-ups go. And he's the dark chocolate-voiced caller who makes critical remarks about everything she says. He is so obviously suffering from subconscious P-envy -- P meaning p...



  • Carla Cassidy

    HER COWBOY BODYGUARD Princess Anna thought cowboys were the stuff of movies, but rugged, gunslinging Tanner West was living, breathing proof they existed. Just like she was a very real damsel in distress after her father's kingdom was overthrown and...



  • Joy Fielding

    Living a no-strings-attached life in glamorous Palm Beach, beautiful, steely-nerved criminal attorney Amanda Travis knows exactly what she likes: spinning classes, the color black, and one-night stands. Here's what she dislikes: the color pink, nickn...



  • Jennifer Coburn

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  • Christine Rimmer

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  • Kaitlyn Rice

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  • Jane Sigaloff

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  • Jane Green

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  • Karen Kingsbury

    Cody Gunner has no use for real love. Abandoned as a child by the person he needed the most, he swears he will never allow himself to love again. Ali Daniels denies love as well. Carrying a terrible secret, she lives life to the fullest, taking risks...



  • Sherryl Woods

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  • Arlene James

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  • Rachel Gibson

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  • Linda Winstead Jones

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  • Debra Kastner

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  • Kathleen Creighton

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  • Brenda L. Thomas

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  • Gloria Goldreich

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  • Laura Durham

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  • Stella Rimington

    A terrorist is targeting Britain. And to make matters worse it’s an “invisible”-- Mi5-speak for someone traveling under a British passport. Virtually impossible to find before it’s too late.

    The job falls to Liz Carlyle, the most res...



  • David Terrenoire

    WANTED: Private firm seeks former military personnel for overseas assignment. Must be proficient in firearms and explosives. Experience in special operations a plus. Successful candidate must also play piano. $1.5K/day. Compensation package includes ...



  • Terry Goodkind

    CRISIS After being gravely injured in a surprise attack, Richard Rahl awakes to discover his beloved Kaplan missing. To his disbelief, no one remembers the woman he is frantically trying to find. Worse, not even his closest friends believe that sh...



  • Mitchell Graham

    The power of the Ancients was once harnessed on the hand of young Mathew Lewin in the form of a rose gold ring. But the treachery of a cruel and beautiful enemy changed all that. For three years, the world has believed Mat Lewin dead, slain by Tea...



  • Ken Petti; John Amodeo

    I've always like the Astral Summer. Now that we all have our powers, Persuaja's promised to take us away so we can focus on our abilities. I'm nervous, though. I don't know how I will manage with two powers especially when I still haven't learned to ...





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    FEEL THE TOUCH OF DARKNESS... Follow a vampire hunter who can be as deadly as her prey. Meet a down-home southern girl who's found out, much to her chagrin, that vampires are her type. Feel the euphoria of fear in the shadow of a reluctant Queen o...



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  • Micol Ostow

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  • Celia Thomson

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  • John Shirley

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  • Anne Bishop

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    Sisters Serena and Meteora were once proud members of the high court of the Fairy Queen- until they angered her highness. Separated and banished to the mortal realm of Earth, they must find a way to survive in a strange world in which they have no po...



  • Jan Pienkowski

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    SOME ARE FAIR. SOME ARE FOUL. ALL ARE FANTASTIC... Here are six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy, all with one common thread -- The Fair Folk. A slob finds his world turned upside down when an eager brownie takes up residen...



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    SOME ARE FAIR. SOME ARE FOUL. ALL ARE FANTASTIC... Here are six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy, all with one common thread -- The Fair Folk. Kim Newman introduces an intrepid investigator whose latest case pits him agains...



  • S.L. Farrell

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  • Ian R. MacLeod

    To save her only son from the ravages of consumption, the Greatgrandmistress of the Telegraphers Guild, Alice Meynell, has made a bargain with her former lover-a changeling in the land of Einfell where magic may accomplish what science could not-to d...



  • Cornelia Funke

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    SOME ARE FAIR. SOME ARE FOUL. ALL ARE FANTASTIC... Here are six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy, all with one common thread -- The Fair Folk. In "The Kelpie," by Patricia A. McKillip, a bohemian artist is confronted by a w...



  • Stan Lee

    Field trip! That's "field trip" as defined in the Lee/Kirby dictionary, which means you'd better pack that bag lunch in unstable molecules and buckle up for a trip beyond your wildest imagination! First stop: a visit to the neighbor's place, Attilan,...



  • Steve Cash

    In every generation, a fantasy novel is published that captures something essential and enduring about life that no other book has expressed in quite the same way. Here unfolds a journey of discovery"in a story that surprises us on every page. . . ...



  • Diana G. Gallagher

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  • Suzanne Weyn

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  • Isobelle Carmody

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  • Vivian Vande Velde

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  • Clive Woodall

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  • Matt Ringler

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  • L.E. Modesitt Jr.

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  • Deirdre Bligh

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  • Judith Tarr

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  • Tony Abbott

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  • Catherine Feher-Elston

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  • Rachel Lee

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  • Barb Hendee; J.C. Hendee

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  • CLAMP

    A FAIRYTALE TURNED NIGHTMARE!

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  • E. Rose Sabin

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  • Sara Douglass

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  • Steph Swainston

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  • Scholastic Inc.

    Yugi has acquired the three all-powerful Egyptian God Cards and restored order to the world. But an ancient evil, a creature of darkness, is determined to destroy Yugi and take over the worls! Now Yugi must fight the greatest battle of his life. Join...



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