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  • And Then There Were Ten

    Neil McGaughey

  • Bad News Travels Fast

    Gar Anthony Haywood

    Gar Anthony Haywood's wildly acclaimed new mystery sends Joe and Dottie Loudermilk to Washington, D.C., where they make the mistake of visiting their radical pacifist son Eddie. For as long as Joe and Dottie can remember, they've been bailing their k...

  • Closing Statement

    Tierney McClellan

    Shortly after a sleazy lawyer files suit against her for a home sale gone sour, sassy Kentucky realtor Schuyler Ridgway brings two clients to a Louisville house, where she discovers the lawyer dying on the living room rug...

  • Death of a Dream Maker

    Gallagher Gray

    In this third of the Hubbert & Lil "cozy with an edge" mystery series, written by Katy Munger using the pen name Gallagher Gray, Mungers examines the question, "Can a person love someone for fifty years, even when they never see them?"When the love o...

  • From Here to Paternity

    Jill Churchill

    Jane Jeffry, suburban sleuth extraordinare, and her friend, Detective Mel VanDyne, have braved a blizzard to join her friend Shelley at a Colorado ski resort. In spite of having all their kids along, Jane and Shelley imagine a few mindless days of re...

  • A Hobby of Murder

    E.X. Ferrars / Elizabeth Ferrars

    Retired professor Andrew Basnett had been at loose ends since finishing the book that was for so long his full-time occupation. A country visit with his old friends Mollie and Ian Davidge seemed like just the diversion he needed. And, indeed, the vis...

  • If Looks Could Kill

    Ruthe Furie

    DANGEROUS LOOKS An ugly divorce and the well-deserved death of her abusive ex has left Fran Kirk unfettered and unemployed. So when the fly-by-night owner of an insurance investigating firm/personal dating service offers work, the former housewife...

  • Love Notes

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY WITNESSES A VIRTUOSO PERFORMANCE PLAYED IN THE KEY OF D. . . FOR DANGER Nancy has come to Westbridge, Massachusetts, nestled in the Berkshire Mountains, to attend a world-famous piano competition. Soon after her arrival she discovers that one ...

  • Murder in the Marketplace

    Lora Roberts

    A SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE? It must be mere chance that puts freelance writer Liz Sullivan on the scene when the body of beautiful Jenifer Paston is discovered -- and coincidence that Jenifer happens to be a star at SoftWrite, the Silicon Valley compa...

  • No Place for Secrets

    Sherry Lewis

    In a little town like Cutler, Colorado, there's always time to stop and chat with a neighbor...to enjoy a glass of lemonade on the front porch...or to watch the sunset over Spirit Lake. But that doesn't mean there's no such thing as murder... Fred ...

  • Peak of Danger

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Frank and Joe are on the scene when Bayport High's newest soccer player, Carlos, is nearly killed, and when they discover that Carlos's father has been abducted, the Hardy boys become involved in a South American political conflict. Original....

  • A Piece of Justice

    Jill Paton Walsh

    Imogen Quy, the school nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, is intelligent, compassionate, and inquisitive - her last name rhymes with why. Imogen takes an active interest in her patients: In fact, trying to keep students out of danger has a ...

  • The Saints of God Murders

    Charles Meyer

    "I sing a song of the saints of God, patient and brave and true..." The Reverend Lucas Holt has just taken over St. Margaret's Episcopal Church in downtown Austin. As an ex-prison chaplain, he's made it his business to watch over his rehabilitated...

  • Twister

    Barbara Block

    Full of hairpin turns and gritty, non-stop action, Twister marks the second appearance of Barbara Block's hip, outrageous redhead, Robin Light--an amateur sleuth with a soft spot for puppies, parakeets, bunnies and boas...and a knack for finding hers...

  • Unsafe Keeping

    Carol Cail

    DEAD STOP When Maxey slammed on the brakes, the Genesis tape kicked on and a runaway van passed in front of her eyes. Who was sending cars rolling dean the hills of Boulder, Colorado? And had this one been aimed at Maxey? Maxey Burnell runs an alte...

  • The Villain of the Earth

    Simon Shaw

    British thespian Philip Fletcher faces another dead body and another showdown with Inspector Higginbottom as a modern production of Antony and Cleopatra goes terribly awry. By the author of Killer Cinderella. ...

  • A Vow of Devotion

    Veronica Black

    SACRED LOVE AND PROFANE MURDER Two new postulants -- sunny, eager Bernadette Fawkes and prim, anxious Magdalen Cole -- have arrived at the Convent of the Daughters of Compassion to dedicate their lives to the Lord. A rare and blessed event...but Si...

  • Bread upon the Waters

    Anne De Graaf

    The war that had brought them together was now pulling them apart. Would they forever be scattered like-Bread Upon the Waters?

    German by nationality, Polish by allegiance. Hanna Muller is involved with her family in the dangerous business of wo...

  • A Child's First Book of Virtues

    Emily Hunter

  • DJ's Challenge

    Lauraine Snelling

    DJ Randall and her mom, Lindy, are struggling to build a happy family life now that Gran has remarried and moved away, but the situation seems hopeless. Faced with an empty house and mounting responsibilities, DJ is nearly ready to run away again! ...

  • My Very First Bible

    L.J. Sattgast

  • Olympic Dreams

    Lauraine Snelling

    HIGH HURDLES Thirteen-year-old DJ Randall wants nothing more than to compete as a show jumper in the Olympics. After years of riding and working with horses, she's ready to start contending. Only one obstacle stands in her way -- she doesn't have a ...

  • Stonehaven

    Amanda MacLean

    Picking up in the years following Westward, Stonehaven follows Callie St. Clair back to the South where she has returned to reclaim her ancestral home. As she works to win back the plantation, the beautiful and dauntless Callie turns it into a statio...

  • All Our Lives

    Nancy Wagner

    DECEPTIONS OF THE HEART Theirs was a fairy tale marriage--complete with two wonderful children and a beautiful home in Stoneridge, California. But weakness led to a shocking act that severed a close-knit family's ties--and forced Caroline O'Donova...

  • Anything for Love

    Janelle Taylor

    As a naive college co-ed, Rachel Tims realized too late that Daniel Gaines had married her to spite his wealthy family. Although she learned to dress impeccably, speak softly, and smile like a lady, she'd never been accepted as a true Georgia ...

  • Anything for Love

    Sheila Rann

    Elizabeth, a beautiful and intelligent young filmmaker, returns to her once beloved home in Barcelona, where she is forced to confront the demons of an unhappy childhood secret that threaten to overwhelm her. A first novel....

  • Bachelor Blues

    Carolyn Zane

    THE BACHELOR NEXT DOOR... Single mom Lark St. Clair was starting a new life for herself and her daughter, Molly. Her gruff new neighbor, Cole Richardson, presented a surprising twist in her plan. For it seemed mischievous Molly was sticking to Col...

  • Body and Soul

    Felicia Mason

    Desire For too long, Toinette Blue has lived behind the wall she built around her heart after her husband abandoned her. Her world is her children and her successful career as the director of a women's counseling group... until devastatingly attract...

  • Boot Scootin'

    Mary Lynn Baxter
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    She's a headstrong woman looking for more than a one-night stand. He's a gorgeous cowboy long on Texas charm and short on staying with one gal. But on a sultry summer night, these two feel only the heat.......

  • The Bridal Shower

    Elizabeth August

    The Groom says, "I will." When Michael Flint learned that Emma Wynn was about to marry another man, he was determined to stop her. She'd turned down his proposal before, but Michael would get his "yes" this time. He knew what was best for Emma--he c...

  • A Captive Heart

    Sally Carr

    Lora was falling in love...with her kidnapper! Nothing had prepared Lora Seaton for a man like Luc de la Falaise! Faced with the man's devastating good looks and Gallic charm, Lora found it all too easy to forget that she was Luc's prisone...

  • The Case of the Maybe Babies

    Victoria Pade

    THE CASE: "Maybe" babies! THE CLIENT: Someone had left a very surprising gift in Graham Dunn's bedroom--two cherub-faced tots, unidentified except for a note that named him "Daddy"! The bewildered bachelor needed help--preferably before the little...

  • Cat's Cradle

    Christine Rimmer

    CAT BEAUDINE WAS NOBODY'S BABY And that's the way she liked it. She could take care of herself--and she knew that marriage and motherhood were for other women, not her. Until the stranger with the familiar face had her wondering if being alone was...

  • Charisma

    Laura Parker
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    She's a hopeful woman in love. He's a handsome widower in memoryville. And on a hot and dusty road trip to the Smoky Mountains, she hopes he'll overheat before the car does....

  • Chickadee

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    ONCE SHE LEFT HIM. BUT NEVER DID SHE FORGET HIM. Growing up in a small Wyoming town, Sarah Hayden knew two things: that she loved Jimmy Roice more than anything in the world, and that one day she would leave stifling Star Valley--and therefore Ji...

  • A Choice of Love

    Georgette Livingston

  • Chris

    Sally Wentworth

    The perfect match? Chris Brodey could have any woman he looked at--and he was looking at Tiffany Dean! On a strictly casual basis, though. As far as he was concerned, she was just another gold digger.... Tiffany had no money, no job and no chan...

  • The Club

    Jane Heller

    When a golf club’s first single female member is murdered, spunky club wife Judy Mills takes a swing at sleuthing in this “witty, well-plotted” mystery (Publishers Weekly).   Judy Mills has it all: A handsome husband, a thriving career, an...

  • Country Lovesong

    Charlotte Sherman

    Divorced, her children grown, Kate Duncan is delighted to be back home in Branson, Missouri, the sleepy little town in the Ozarks that has suddenly become the country music capital of the world. Footloose and free now, she loves her job as entertainm...

  • Cowboy Cop

    Rachel Lee

    Partners In Passion Clint Calloway's orderly life turned chaotic after he learned of his true parentage--and discovered his explosive desire for the gorgeous rookie assigned as his new partner. Dakota Winston was dangerous, all right, and the last...

  • Cowboy's Kiss

    Victoria Pade

    Proud, hard Jackson Heller had plowed his blood, sweat and tears into his father's rugged Wyoming ranch. And now the wispy city woman in his father's will aimed to plant her cute greenhorn butt smack on Jackson's precious acres! Why, he would rather ...

  • The Daddy List // The Wish List

    Myrna MacKenzie

    Re-issued by the author as - The Wish List CORY NEEDS A DAD... Someone he can bring to show-and-tell. Someone who isn't afraid of monsters. Someone who will love his mom, too, and make her happy. But it won't be easy to find the perfec...

  • Daddy's Little Matchmaker

    Nikki Rivers

    Love at first kidnapping After mistaking the diaper delivery lady for a baby-snatcher, single dad Bently Pierce then decided feisty Raine Rogers would make a perfect nanny. After all, she was a whiz with his baby daughter, and her saucy smile and ...

  • Dangerous Deceiver

    Lindsay Armstrong

    "Things were never destined to be anything but explosive between us..." Simon made no secret of the fact that he was still attracted to Martha -- even if he did think she was no lady! But Martha knew he was only amusing himself with her. H...

  • Dangerous to Love

    Carol Duncan Perry

    A VERY RELUCTANT HERO When Vicki Winslow refuses to do the sensible thing--enter the Witness Protection Program-Caine Alexander is stuck with the unenviable job of protecting her. Difficult as always, Vicki claims she has all the protection she...

  • Danny Boy

    Leigh Riker

    SHE MADE A LIFE FOR HERSELF WITHOUT HER HUSBAND. WAS THERE ROOM ENOUGH IN IT FOR HIM? For most of her thirteen-year marriage, Erin Sinclair has lived apart from her husband, Danny, a bull rider on the rodeo circuit. Virtual strangers to each other...

  • Dark Pirate

    Angela Devine

    When all is not what it seems... Rose had come to Cornwall full of hope and excitement and instead had found herself confronted with the greatest dilemma of her life! His name was Greg Trelawney. She thought he was a simple fisherman -- in fact he...

  • The Day I Met Him

    Catherine Clark

    Crash course in love.... Lilly Cameron is having a great time cruising around town in her father's car -- until she crashes. When arrogant Charlie Roark arrives with his tow truck, they hate each other on sight. But they quickly realize they need ...

  • The Disobedient Bride

    Joan Johnston

    MR. JULY HEARTLESS HUSBAND?: Texas rancher Zach Whitelaw advertised for a wife to bear his children -- but if she wasn't pregnant in a year's time, he'd divorce her. DISOBEDIENT BRIDE?: Six months into their marriage, Rebecca Littlewolf Whitela...

  • Dream Lover

    Adrienne Staff

    In a land of sun and shadow, he was the darkest mystery... Hard. Sexy. Dangerous. Cody Briggs was all that and more--quicksilver cowboy, desert renegade and a dare Carol Lawson couldn't resist. Seeing the spectacular mesa country through his eyes ...

  • Edge of Deception

    Daphne Clair

    I'M GETTING MARRIED! While Tara wished her ex-husband well in his intended marriage, she couldn't deny her attraction to him. There was just no future in it -- Sholto had made it clear that he couldn't forgive or forget her, and the ed...

  • Falcon's Lair

    Sara Orwig

    SHE COULDN'T REMEMBER... Her past was a mystery. She didn't know I name, or why she'd been driving through the mountains in a blizzard, or how the accident had happened. All she recalled was that she'd been looking for Ben Falcon. But he'd found her...

  • A Family Secret

    Catherine George

    A face from the past... Catherine had come to the glorious Minho region of Portugal to see her friend Ana married. She never dreamed that she'd find Ana's older brother, Conde Eduardo Barroso, so magnetic--or that she'd be a key player...

  • Fancy's Man

    Ann Major
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    He's a sexy single dad with a farm to run and kids to raise. She's country-bred, with the big city in her heart. But when long-lost lovers meet again, remembered passion sets off sizzling sparks!...

  • Father in Training

    Susan Mallery

    Single mom Sandy Walker came to Glenwood seeking a quiet, friendly place to raise her three children. No way was she looking for a walk on the wild side with notorious bachelor Kyle Haynes. So what if the impossibly sexy deputy enthralled her kids an...

  • Fire Dance

    Caroline Graham

    Anne's shy charm drew David, a young psychiatrist, to love her. He knew there was no other man in her life, yet she would have nothing to do with him. Why was she racked by terrifying nightmares, and who was the man in the photograph?...

  • Hearts Afire

    Monique Gilmore

    Souls Aflame When Celeste Dunbar discovers that her live-in lover is involved in computer espionage, it's just the excuse she needs to walk out on a relationship that was going nowhere fast. Then she moves into a new apartment across the Potomac.....

  • Here Comes the Bride

    Gayle Kasper

    He looked like a man who broke hearts for a living.... Nick Killian's underwear was as wicked as his grin, Fiona Ames thought as the silk boxers spilled all over the luggage carousel from his open suitcase! She'd flown to Las Vegas to talk her fa...

  • Here to Stay

    Kate Freiman

    A lonely Canadian road. A patch of black ice. And Miles Kent's vintage Corvette was history. So was his memory...his identity. All the bitter amnesiac had was a gentle woman to save him. Tender Sasha Reiss took him into her home, into her hea...

  • Home Fires

    Luanne Rice

    Anne Davis has returned to the house where she grew up, trading her glamorous Manhattan lifestyle for a harsh winter on a wind-whipped New England island. Her marriage has crumbled in the wake of a tragic accident. Now she has returned to the home on...

  • Hospital

    Marcia Rose

    "Poignant...Skilled writing and complex story lines."
    LIBRARY JOURNAL
    Marica Rose has won legions of fans with her dazzling storytelling. The NEW YORK DAILY NEWS praised her bestseller ALL FOR THE LOVE OF DADDY for its "real people operating in...

  • Impetuous

    Patricia Potter

    He couldn't say no.... Like an exotic gypsy, PR whiz Gillian Collins swept into Steven Morrow's office and began her crusade to win his consent for a splashier grand opening of his latest project! He'd always preferred practical, reliable, safe--b...

  • July's Promise

    Katherine Applegate

    Within her first week in the Florida Keys, Summer has found a waitressing job, a wild best friend, a cousin who hates her, three very cute guys, and a whole lot of trouble. Summer's falling for Seth, but so is her cousin Diana. Diana used to go out w...

  • A Kiss Too Late

    Ellen James

    There's a naked man in her bed! Even worse, it's her ex-husband. Sexy, handsome, exciting -- Adam Prescott's always been able to sweep Jen Hillard into bed. He's just never cared enough to sweep her into his heart. But now tha...

  • Love Game

    Mallory Rush

    To explore every forbidden wish and desire... A once-in-a-lifetime love affair-that's what beautiful widowed Chris Nicholson and dangerous attractive Major Greg Reynolds agree to. After years of loneliness, Chris has given up on her fantasies of the ...

  • Maid of Honor

    Leah Laiman

    From the author of the spicy Summer of Love trilogy--and acclaimed writer of such legendary television love stories as Luke and Laura from "General Hospital," Megan and Jake from "One Life to Live," and Patch and Kayla from "Days of Our Lives"--comes...

  • Make-Believe Marriage

    Renee Roszel

    Little white lies! Damon DeMorney was the last man on earth Mercy Stewart wanted to marry. He was arrogant, overbearing and, well, just plain grumpy! But her grandpa was determined to see her settled down with a husband, and telling him she had ma...

  • A Man for All Time

    Rebecca Winters

    SHE'S LOOKING FOR A HERO A man who's strong, self-reliant, courageous. An adventurer. A man who'll respect and cherish the woman in his life. Olivia Woodbury doesn't think such a man exists -- not in the twentieth century, anyway. Is that ...

  • A Man Without a Wife

    Beverly Bird

    A WOMAN WITH A LONG-LOST CHILD With a little finagling and a lot of fast talking, Ellen Lonetree could see the child she had given up. But she had to get past his adoptive father, Dallas Lazo--the most intimidating and virile man she'd ever met. A...

  • A Match for Celia

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    This vacation was supposed to bring a little excitement into Celia Carson's life, for heaven's sake! So why couldn't she shake her attraction to a staid, reserved accountant--or the suspicion that there was more to him than met the eye? Detective ...

  • The Miracle Man

    Sharon Sala

    FATHER OF HER CHILD... More than anything, Antonette Hatfield wanted a baby. But she'd long since given up on Mr. Right. He simply didn't exist. So rather than marry a good man, Toni planned to bear a good man's child. Then HE washed ashore - the ...

  • Mixed-Up Matrimony

    Diana Mars

    STOP THE WEDDING! When Tamara Hayward discovered that her teenage daughter planned to elope, she did what any concerned single parent would do. She joined forces with the enemy: Bronson Kensington, father of the groom-to-be. Surely two responsible...

  • Mother at Heart

    Robin Elliott

    MOTHER AT HEART Raising her late sister's baby had been a joy for Tessa Russell. But now her family's happiness was threatened by her unwelcome desire for an arrogant, impossible man -- a man who would never acknowledge this child as his.....

  • Never Love a Cowboy

    Kate Hoffmann

    DO YOU HAVE A SECRET FANTASY? America's sweetheart Josie Eastman does. An Olympic skating star, she's always been a role model, always done what she was told. And she's sick of it. So she dumps everything and jumps straight into the arms of the ba...

  • No Kids or Dogs Allowed

    Jane Gentry

    WHAT'S A DAUGHTER TO DO? Cara Fairchild thought her mother needed a man. And since Elizabeth was so young and beautiful Cara knew that any man in his right mind would be happy to have her. So how in the world had her mother settled on Steve Ri...

  • Not This Guy!

    Glenda Sanders

    NICE GUYS FINISH LAST! Mike Calder was fed up with women--that is, women who took him to the cleaners and then ran away with their ex-husbands. Vowing never to be left at the altar again, he made up a list of what he wanted in a woman. And this ti...

  • The One and Only

    Carole Mortimer

    She wore her heart on her sleeve! Valentine's night spent in the arms of Marcus Ballantyne! It happened to Joy--but not without the leading actor in the TV series "Pilgrim's Game" thinking that she was a married woman with a string...

  • Operation Mommy

    Caroline Cross

    THE SINGLE DAD Though Alex Morrison's three little sons had terrific taste in picking out a dream mom, he had no intention of marrying the woman they chose. The boys wanted a mother, but Alex wasn't getting hitched -- ever. THE MATCHMAK...

  • Prince of Lies

    Robyn Donald

    "I'm going to stick close to you...closer than a lover, but I'm not going to touch you... " He called himself Duke and, like a prince on a charger, he'd rescued Stephanie from a nightmare kidnap situation. Stephanie felt it ...

  • Promise of Passion

    Natalie Fox

    Playing with fire! Caroline Maxwell was a bright, intelligent single woman with a busy career and an adorable four-year-old girl in her care. Ellis Frazer, dynamic financier, was a confirmed bachelor with a sophisticated life-style. They wer...

  • Raleigh and the Rancher

    Laura Anthony

    LONELY COWBOY SEEKING... Dan McClintock had traded his desk job in Dallas for a ramshackle ranch -- and a whole lot of trouble. Could one pretty, sassy cowgirl really bail him out -- and leave his heart intact? A WILD WEST WIFE. Raleigh Travers ...

  • The Rebel and the Hero

    Helen R. Myers

    THE MAN SHE DIDN'T MARRY... Strong, sexy Logan Powers was a traditional man, precisely the type rebel Merri Brown could never understand. He stood for everything she was against-every reason she'd decided to leave her childhood home. It didn't mat...

  • Red

    Erica Spindler

    THEY DEFIED THE ODDS AND FOUND RED-HOT FAME Becky Lynn Lee was a nobody. Everybody told her so - the ladies who snubbed her at Opal's Cut 'n Curl, the boys who hurt her and used her, the family who didn't want her. but Becky Lynn had dreams. And...

  • The Return of Eden McCall

    Judith Duncan

    SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGED Eden McCall was still dazzled by the sweeping valley view from her parents' front porch. Still frustrated by her family's problems. Still crazy about rugged loner Brodie Malone... But Eden had another life row, and a d...

  • Rich in Romance

    Angela Cash

    Hating being looked down upon by the rich kids at an elegant resort where she works, stable hand Lexie Tucker pretends to be the wealthy resort owner's daughter but fears that her secret will spoil her newfound romance with handsome Max Bannemore. ...

  • So Little Time

    Doreen Roberts

    A LOVER FROM ANOTHER WORLD Corie Trenton knew next to nothing about the mysterious man she'd found lying unconscious, nearly on her doorstep. And he seemed to know scarcely more about himself, just his name and a few tattered memories that incredi...

  • Stranger in Her Arms

    Elizabeth Sites

    "What are you doing in my house?" the stranger on her porch demanded. Dominique had never seen the man before. He was tall and lean. But there was a latent strength in the breadth of his shoulders. His voice was husky and intense. "Your house?"...

  • A Stranger's Love

    Laura Martin

    'You may be sweet, but you're not innocent!'... Bethany told herself she didn't care what Chad Alington thought of her. He was a perfect stranger - too perfect, in fact - a tall, dark, handsome millionaire with a stubborn streak whi...

  • Taming a Tycoon

    Leigh Michaels

    "Her name is... Just call her Mrs. Caine." Savannah was just a working reporter, trying to get an interview with a famous tycoon.... Dexter Caine was a dynamic, elusive millionaire who liked his privacy and wanted to convince the world ...

  • Tears of the Shaman

    Rebecca Daniels

    A DESPERATE SEARCH... Mallory Wakefield was desperate to find her missing twin, lost in the merciless desert. Navajo medicine man Benjamin Graywolf appeared to be her last hope. But his heart seemed unjustly hardened against her. LEADS TO DESIR...

  • To Catch a Playboy

    Elizabeth Duke

    "Delia and Julius Branson invite Andrew Carstairs and friend to join them on board Mistique" Tess was thrilled when her boyfriend Andrew received an invitation to meet Julius Branson -- the man who, if her suspicions proved correct, was the f...

  • Twice the Trouble

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    She wasn't afraid to show her need -- or to enflame his... Maggie Adair was magnificent when riled, John Martin decided with admiration - no lioness could have protected her cub more fiercely! But once Maggie learned that her adopted daughter an...

  • Wedding Bells and Diaper Pins

    Natalie Patrick

    FIRST CAME BABY... All Dani McAdams ever wanted was to marry Matt Taylor and raise a family. Thanks to Matt's law career--and his cold feet--that hadn't happened. Now Dani had a chance at motherhood. But first, she faced a custody battle over her or...

  • Who's the Boss?

    Linda Turner

    THE HIDALGO COUNTY WAR Riley Whitaker had been sheriff of Hidalgo County for so long, he wasn't figuring on much trouble come election time. So it came as a heck of a shock for a Texas good of boy like him to find out he'd be getting the fight of ...

  • The Armor Trap

    Greg Cox

    When millionaire industrialist and scientist Tony Stark puts on his gleaming, high-tech armor, Le becomes Iron Man! When Stark is kidnapped, his corporation must turn to another armored hero, and Stark's best friend, War Machine, to fulfill the ranso...

  • Cinnabar Shadows

    Lynn Abbey

    Water. On Athas, it is life, it is currency, it is power... The watery caverns beneath Urik have become a haven for political refugees and runaway slaves, a place safe from the ravages of Athas and her defilers. Until one such defiler brings destruct...

  • Cross of Blood

    K.W. Jeter

    The pregnancy of Newcomer Cathy Frankel by her human boyfriend, Matt Sikes, ignites tensions city-wide as extremist groups who fear the implications of the birth of the first half-human/half-Newcomer child threaten Cathy's safety. The danger escalate...

  • Dragonking of Mystara

    Thorarinn Gunnarsson

    An uneasy peace has descended over the Highlands as the new Dragonlord must deal with contentious factions and ambitious rivals who threaten to undermine Thelvyn's pact with the rogue dragons. The dragons cannot forget their ancient fear and hatre...

  • The Floating Castle

    Craig Mills

    Daventry has known peace for a long time. Until now... A flying castle? It can't be true--but it is. The most vicious storm in years rages through a dark night, and dawn finds sunlight shining on an ominous black castle where there was none the...

  • Flowerdust

    Gwyneth Jones

    A companion novel to DIVINE ENDURANCE, Gwyneth Jones' FLOWERDUST follows the charismatic rebel leader Derveet.In a futuristic Malaysia, the matriarchy is being threatened by foreign technologies on great offshore ships. A political rebel, Derveet wat...

  • The Fountains of Mirlacca

    Ashley McConnell

    When his pyrokinetic powers threaten to name him a devil among his people, Jazen enlists the help of visiting sorceress Vettazen and follows her to the Exorcist School in Mirlacca where he is forced to confront the truth behind his ability. Original....

  • Ghostcountry's Wrath

    Tom Deitz

    There is a realm where the living are forbidden--an infernal place of shadows and souls that only the damned may enter. And now a spirit beckons from this land of terrible fire--challenging a courageous young Cherokee sorcerer to walk a world of dark...

  • The Hollowing

    Robert Holdstock

    A NOVEL IN THE WORLD FANTASY AWARD-WINNING MYTHAGO CYCLERyhope Wood, Mythago Wood, is the great forest steeped in mystery, whose heart contains secrets that change all who come there.Alex Bradley is a damaged and visionary child. Little does he know...

  • The Key of the Keplian

    Andre Norton; Lyn McConchie

    Now comes a new trilogy that reveals long hidden secrets of the mysterious Witch World. Battle Sisters For time beyond memory, the fire-eyed Keplian horses have lured riders to their death, sating the blood lust of the Dark Tower. All Witch W...

  • Mall, Mayhem and Magic

    Holly Lisle

    Learning of an imminent collision between the human and mythical worlds, bookseller Jim Franklin seeks assistance from a book of genuine spells, a group of larcenous elves, and a two-centuries-old virgin. Original....

  • Map of Tolkien's Middle Earth

    Brian Sibley

    Written by Brian Sibley, this slipcase features Tolkien's maps of "The Hobbit", Beleriand and Middle-earth. The maps, presented with individual books and wallets show Tolkien's mythical lands in detail - they are also bound with fewer folds, making t...

  • The Miracle Island

    Louise Ladd

    Stuck at home with a mean babysitter while her parents are off on a tropical vacation, Jenny puts on her great-grandmother's mysterious ring and fantasizes about getting away from it all with the boy of her dreams. Original....

  • A Prince in Camelot

    Courtway Jones

    CONDEMNED YET CELEBRATED...FAMED YET FEARED...REJECTED BY A KING, BUT EMBRACED BY A KINGDOM....MORDRED, BASTARD SON OF KING ARTHUR, HAS COME HOME AND COME OF AGE--AND A TIME OF RECKONING HAS COME TO CAMELOT! Saved from a shipwreck and raised in re...

  • Ravengers

    Stephen Billias

    A gang of rejects led by byteboi and bytegirl attempt to create a new world based on classical values and culture--but the corporate soldiers will tolerate no threats to the reigning pop culture of sex and violence. Original....

  • Ring of Lightning

    Jane S. Fancher

    "Today I looked into the Rings and saw a new and better world...." Those heretical words marked the beginning of a new era, not just for Darius Rhomandi and those who followed where he led, but for the entire civilized world. For when this young p...

  • Shroud of Madness

    Carl Sargent

    MORE MURDER, MORE INSANITY The globe-spanning Theran Empire protected the world from the ravages of the Scourge with its magical prowess and strength. The Scourge is over, but violence and horror are not so easily dissuaded... In the imperial c...

  • Waking the Moon

    Elizabeth Hand

    LOVE IS ANCIENT BUT EVIL IS ETERNAL Like all new students, Katherine Sweeney Cassidy moves with caution at Washington, D.C.'s University of the Archangels and St. John the Divine. It is a strange place of brooding shrines and gleaming towers, guar...

  • The Warlock's Companion

    Christopher Stasheff

    Fess was, indeed, the masters he served before Rod Gallowglass? What about the young, spoiled joyrider? Or the revolutionary hero? Or the crew of a pirate ship? The Gallowglass children are about to hear the truth...from the horse's mouth....

  • Waterworld

    Max Allan Collins

    In a future world of global warming that has covered all land masses with water, a single man learns of the possibility of dry land and challenges the remaining human survivors to help in the search. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Wildlife

    James Patrick Kelly

    Rebelling against her fashion drug designer father, freelance journalist and troubled clone Wynne Cage covers a data-heist that places her in the rank of a thief and must confront the forces of a world with unlimited bio-technological advantages. Rep...

  • Wind Whispers, Shadow Shouts

    Sharon Green

    Taking their rightful places as rulers of the land, shapeshifter Queen Alexia and warrior champion King Tiran are confronted by a terrible sorcerer who enchants the queen and threatens to enslave the kingdom. Original....

  • 13 Again

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Add It, Dip It, Fix It: A Book of Verbs

    Richard M. Schneider

    Add it, box it, climb it, dip it. . . . Each simple verb is illustrated by a picture that shows its meaning. A large, multicolored it is added (i + t = it), boxed, climbed (with a ladder), dipped (in a glass of liquid), eaten, and shown as part of 21...

  • Adios, Anna

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Saying goodbye for the summer to her Spanish friend, Anna, who is going away on vacation, Sarah plans to use a special library book to learn Spanish, but her plans are thwarted when the book is inadvertently left locked in Anna's house. Original....

  • Adventure on Phaedos

    Tony Oliver

  • The Amazing Jessica

    Francine Pascal

    Under The Big Top!

    The circus has come to Sweet Valley! Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield love watching the shows and eating lots of cotton candy. But the most exciting part for Jessica is finding out that their great-great-grandmother Jessamyn ...

  • The Amazing Panda Adventure

    Todd Strasser

  • The Amazing Panda Adventure

    Francine Hughes

  • Ambush

    Aristides Ruiz

  • Amelia's Story

    Erin Flanagan

    Resisting her little sister's advice to call on her guardian angel for help with her unexciting life, Amelia finds herself believing in angels when a series of miracles begin to fulfill her wildest dreams....

  • Arabists

    Robert D. Kaplan

  • Arranged Marriage

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    Although Chitra Divakaruni's poetry has won praise and awards for many years, it is her "luminous, exquisitely crafted prose" (Ms.) that is quickly making her one of the brightest rising stars in the changing face of American literature. Arranged Mar...

  • Babe: A Little Pig Goes a Long Way: The Movie Storybook

    Justine Korman Fontes

    In a storybook adaptation of the new motion picture, more than fifty photos from the movie accompany the story of a most amazing pig who teaches others to let go of hurtful stereotypes of others. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Belonging

    Nancy Thayer

    This spellbinding novel by New York Times bestselling author Nancy Thayer tells the fascinating story of a beautiful and successful woman who appears to have it all -- but gives it all up to find real happiness.   As the host of the successful t...

  • Blood Posse

    Philip Baker

    A harrowing and frightening novel, a modern-day morality tale that illuminates the many hypocrises of contemporary society. In the early 1970s, as newly arrived Jamaicans are settling uneasily into the Afro-American community in Brooklyn, a high scho...

  • The Book of Kings

    Robert Gilliam

    A collection of stories about kings and princes are told from the viewpoints of queens, servants, and mythical beings and includes the works of such authors as Stephen R. Donaldson, Jane Yolen, and Alan Dean Foster....

  • Childhood and Other Neighborhoods

    Stuart Dybek

    In Stuart Dybek’s Chicago, wonder lurks in unexpected places -- in garbage-strewn alleys, gloomy basement apartments, abandoned rooms at the top of rickety stairs periodically rumbled by passing el trains. Transformed through the wide eyes of Dybek...

  • Chimera

    Sebastiano Vassalli

    Offering a study of hypocrisy and evil, a comic novel of religious corruption and witchcraft in seventeenth-century Italy chronicles the fate of a young orphan named Antonia, who is burned at the stake in the town of Novara in 1610....

  • Cloud Nine

    Norman Silver

    Mom, Dad, baby Bubbles, and Chum the dog fill the house with their vacuuming, shouting, banging, and barking. Quiet little Armstrong only gets in the way . . . until he climbs a ladder to the clouds for some peace and quiet. Jan Ormerod's vivid pictu...

  • Cosette

    Laura Kalpakian

    Written by an authority on Victor Hugo's classic novel, this sequel chronicles the life of Cosette, the adopted daughter of Jean Valjean, and her romance with Marius Pontmercy, while revolution continues to envelop France. 100,000 first printing. $10...

  • The Crumbly Coast

    David Lyon

  • Darkness at Dawn

    John Hands

    Taras Stepaniak, a half-Russian, half-Ukrainian opportunist, is hired by the leader of Russian militant nationalists who want to seize the Soviet nuclear arsenal, but Taras's divided loyalties threaten to tear him apart. Reprint....

  • Daughter of the Sky

    Amanda Cockrell

    Deer Shadow, a young tribal member who is believed to possess mystical powers, pursues a forbidden love with a handsome, exiled warrior who bears maize seeds but whom the Yellow Grass People fear is a threat to their ancient ways. Original....

  • Daughters of Song

    Paula Huston

    An aspiring piano student at an exclusive Baltimore conservatory finds her musical education mirroring pivotal developments in her personal life and influenced by the experiences of her prestigious classmates...

  • The Deity-Father

    David Bischoff

    Finding himself in the tough Demeter City on the distant planet Altor, former New York City cop Patrick Brogan is forced to adapt to enormous changes while tackling his first case in a crime family with Earth roots...

  • Disney's Pocahontas

    Walt Disney

    A graphic-novel adaptation of the newest Disney animated film follows the tradition of its successful predecessors, combining the story of a Native American princess and her relationship with an English colonist with full-color Disney artwork. Origin...

  • Dostoevsky's Last Night

    Cristina Peri Rossi

    In this wonderfully provocative novel, gambling is both a powerfully erotic and a spiritual experience for one man, Jorge: a gambler addicted to the godlike sensation of mastering games of chance. Jorge's addiction leads him to a mysteriously sed...

  • The Dump Truck

    Arlene Blanchard

  • Education of Rick Green, Esquire

    Harvey Sawikin

  • Empty Summer

    Caryl Brooks

    Envying her friend Kimberley's beauty, intelligence, and otherwise ideal life, Maggie begins to suspect that something is very wrong with Kimberley and learns during one fateful summer about teenage mental illness. Reprint....

  • End of Summer

    John Lamb

    A deceptively simple spiritual story about the inevitability of death, the interconnectedness of life, and the redeeming power of love.When twelve-year-old Nick Harper loses his father in an automobile accident, he enters a period of mourning that th...

  • Flying Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    Phil Marsten isn't just Stevie Lake's boyfriend. He's a fellow rider and he knows how to push all Stevie's buttons. When he issues a riding challenge that she can't turn down, Stevie starts training Belle intensely. In fact, her workouts threaten to ...

  • For I Have Sinned

    Malcolm Ross-MacDonald

  • For Love of Sarah

    Angelica Scott

    The wife of a widely known New England sculptor, Georgie Hillman claims she fatally shot her husband to protect their daughter, Sarah, against his abuse, while prosecutors portray her as a disenchanted, delusive wife....

  • Free Willy 2

    Jordan Horowitz

    Reuniting with the beloved whale friend he once rescued, Jesse is called upon to save the day again when an oil spill threatens Willy's family and the oil company plans to put two younger orcas in an aquarium. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Free Willy 2 Picture Book

    Nancy Krulik

  • Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

    Todd Strasser

    Reuniting with the beloved whale friend he once rescued, Jesse is called upon to save the day again when an oil spill threatens Willy's family and the oil company plans to put two younger orcas in an aquarium....

  • Free Willy: Talking to Animals

    Nancy E. Levin

    Helping out at the Misty Oceanographic Institute, Jesse and whale Willy become caught up in an environmentally hazardous mining expedition, in which a dangerous machine is being used to mine gold ore. Original....

  • The Geographical Cure

    Michael Parker

  • Gothic Treasury of the Super Natural: Six Novels

    Random House

  • The Hallows

    Michael Scott

    One of the 13 Hallows - Dyrnwyn, the sword of Rhydderch - is discovered buried. For 51 years the Guardians have ensured that the magical relics will never be brought together, and their magical powers unleashed. But now the Guardians are dying, horri...

  • Hanging Up

    Delia Ephron

    "HILARIOUS. . . A CHARMING, ENTERTAINING READ."
    --Los Angeles Times
    "WONDERFUL. . . Eve Mozell is having a lousy day, and she hasn't even gotten past breakfast yet. Her father, a senile ex-alcoholic whose idea of a good joke is goosing his woma...

  • The Haunted Campground Mystery

    Dian Curtis Regan

    The ghost twins are excited when a troop of Mountain Adventure Club girls decide to have a camp-out near their vacation rental house and become unseen guests as fun, strange things start to happen. Original....

  • The Haunted Soccer Field

    T.J. Edwards

    Bryan, Corey, and the rest of the gang are amazed when their soccer tournament is pre-empted by the discovery of a stolen treasure, and the treasure's ghost owner seems to want revenge when a series of accidents plague the Sonics. Original....

  • A Heart So White

    Javier Marias

    ​​WINNER OF THE IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD • Widely considered a masterpiece, a breathtaking novel about family secrets that chronicles the relentless power of the past -- from the award-winning author of The Infatuations and "Spain's best writer" (Rob...

  • A Helpful Alphabet of Friendly Objects

    John Updike

  • Heroes

    Aristides Ruiz

  • An Honourable Defeat

    Anton Gill

    An assassination attempt on Hitler, which took place in July 1944, was the culmination of 11 years of untiring effort by members of the German Resistance, to topple the Nazi regime. This account of their campaign of propaganda and sabotage marks the ...

  • Horse in the House

    Ellen Weiss

    Hiding a miniature horse named Pegasus is more difficult than Abby expected after she rescues him from a deserted stable, so when he develops colic, Abby enlists the help of the Animal Rescue Squad to find Pegasus a new home. Original....

  • How to Hide a Parakeet and Other Birds

    Ruth Heller

  • If You Should Hear a Honey Guide

    April Pulley Sayre

    A honey-eating bird takes readers on a journey, illustrated in beautifully executed landscapes, through the East African bush and its fascinating inhabitants, in a story that shows the close relationship between people and animals there....

  • In Harm's Way

    Paul A. Breeze

    This is a gripping thriller that combines a medical detective story with political conspiracy, and confronts some of the most pressing moral issues posed by contemporary science today.Why did Steven Hable kill himself, and how is his death connected ...

  • It's Fun to Be a Bridesmaid

    Carol Thompson

  • Jessica's Cookie Disaster

    Francine Pascal

    Jessica Wakefield is a wonderful baker! At least, that's what her home economics teacher thinks when she tastes the cookies Jessica baked in class. They're so good, the teacher submits a batch to the producer of the television talk show Lifestyles of...

  • Karen's Movie

    Ann M. Martin

    Take five! Karen's grandad is sick. Karen wants to do something nice to cheer him up. So, she makes a movie for him. All Karen's friends are going to star in her movie. But uh-oh. Karen's having problems on the set. And now her friends are mad ...

  • Karen's New Bike

    Ann M. Martin

    Yikes, My Bike! Karen is learning all about bike safety in school. She is even going to enter a bike-a-thon. But Karen's bike is too small for her. So with Daddy's help, Karen buys a new bike. Then Karen's new bike is stolen. Can Karen catch th...

  • The Keeper of the Ferris Wheel

    Jack White

    Struggling to cope with his brother's death in the Vietnam War, teenager Itchy Shovlin falls in love with thirty-year-old Robin Debussy, and together they join in the chaos swirling about a small New Jersey town...

  • The Kings' Castle

    Ann Ruffell

    The kings in this story live in a castle that has its own dungeons, hundreds of rooms and corridors, and its very own ghost. Just a small ghost who lives behind a wardrobe. His job is to scare visitors, but problems start when he begins to do some sc...

  • Larger Than Life

    Robert D. San Souci

    Larger Than Life

    by Robert D. San Souci illustrated by Andrew Glass

    An American Bookseller Pick of the Lists

    "This collection will practically leap from the shelf into many an eager hand. Its large format, attractive layout, and ...

  • Laughing all the Way

    George Shannon

  • Literary Las Vegas: The Best Writing about America's Most Fabulous City

    Mike Tronnes

    In the middle of the desert, Bugsy Siegel gave birth to an "American Monte Carlo" for the masses. Once Elvis was king, now Wayne Newton shares the throne with Siegfried and Roy. But for some, the home of The Strip, sequins, boas, and neon is more tha...

  • Little Panda

    Ann M. Martin

  • A Little Too Much Is Enough

    Kathleen Tyau

    Filled with love and food, this story of the Hawaiian Wong family is an exuberant banquet of characters and stories. Mahealani Wong was named for the full moon she was born under as her Chinese grandmother believed it would bring her good luck. She h...

  • The Machiavellian's Guide to Womanizing

    Nick Casanova

  • Madeleine's Ghost

    Robert Girardi

    Brooklyn needs a saint. Ned Conti needs a stipend. So the struggling young historian agrees to trace the mysterious past of a Brooklyn nun for evidence of miracles. Trapped in a neighborhood of cheap rents and failed promise, in a rent-controlled apa...

  • Magic Dictionary

    Bruce Whatley

  • Magnificent Mummy Maker

    Elvira Woodruff

    Has a mummy’s spirit really moved into Andy's body?! What do you do when it seems like everyone in your family has done something magnificent -- everyone, that is, except you? That's Andy's problem. He just wants to do something special. So w...

  • Marriage

    Gloria Nagy

    40-plus marrieds Annie and Mickey Wilder have been best friends since childhood. Recently transplanted from New York to California, thanks to Mickey's stardom in a hit TV series, the Wilders and their two grown children are Hollywood's dream family, ...

  • May the Best Team Win

    Beth Cruise

    When a local TV station begins airing a new teen game show, Megan believes that she and her friends can combine their respective talents to form an unbeatable team, but competitive stresses quickly cause problems. Original....

  • Men in the Air

    Brandt Aymar

    An anthology of more than seventy accounts covers flight literature from Greek Mythology to the Space Age and includes The First Success for the Wright Brothers, First Flight to Paris, and Downing My First Hun. ...

  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie Scrapbook

    Tony Oliver

  • Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie Storybook

    Tor Books

  • The Mouse Bride

    Judith Dupre

  • Mrs. Donald's Dog Bun and His Home Away from Home

    William Maxwell

  • Night of the Avenging Blowfish

    John Welter

    Secret Service agent Doyle Coldiron gets into hot water before you can say, "Just the facts, ma'am." Soon he's swept up in an outrageous flood of events in this cockeyed look at Washington life and at the confusing business of falling in love in the ...

  • Night Tree

    Eve Bunting

    By moonlight in the quiet forest, a young boy and his family decorate their favorite tree with popcorn, apples, tangerines, and sunflower-seed balls as a gift for the animals of the woods. "Sure to become a Christmas favorite, this beautifully illust...

  • The Old Man Who Read Love Stories

    Luis Sepulveda

    “Gripping and passionate . . . keenly recounted . . . full of poetry.” -- New York TimesNow in a beautiful new edition, the spellbinding classic tale of man and nature, honor, and adventure, in which the peaceful life of an aging, book-loving wid...

  • Pancho and Black Jack

    Frederic Bean

    In the wake of Pancho Villa's alleged 1916 attack on an unsuspecting New Mexico town, General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing, beautiful Elisa Griensen, and rebellious cowboy Will Johnson come together in the harsh Chihuahuan terrain. Original....

  • Picture Perfect

    Beth Cruise

    Lisa's taking her dieting way too far, and the gang is worried something serious may be wrong. They're not sure what to do to help their friend until Screech does some research and comes up with a plan to convince Lisa that she's perfect just the way...

  • The Place of Lions

    Eric Campbell

    A plane crash strands thirteen-year-old Chris on the immense Serengeti Plain, and only he can save the two injured men whose lives depend on him. “The exciting action in a fascinating setting, coupled with the intriguing spiritual element, make...

  • Plane Song

    Diane Siebert

  • Provence: From Minstrels to the Machine

    Ford Madox Ford

    A cross-genre evocation of a writer's life in the Mediterranean, this account documents the happy years Ford Madox Ford spent living in the South of France with his young artist lover, Biala.. Blending fiction, history, memoir, travel, and cookery ...

  • Rainbow Pony

    Anne Crompton / Anne Eliot Crompton

  • Resurrection Man

    Sean Stewart

    After World War II, magic began leaking back into the world. By 1990, Dante Ratkay's father, a physician, gives charms to his patients as well as prescriptions, and cops investigate crimes with the help of angels, people who are possessed and chan...