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  • Dr. Nightingale Seeks Greener Pastures

    Lydia Adamson

    GOOD HORSE SENSE? Dr. Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale is finding the dwindling dairy industry hard on her practice--and her pocketbook. Thinking that racehorses might be the winning ticket to more business, she heads to a vet conference in Atlantic Cit...

  • Sweet Surrender

    Rochelle Alers
    in

    Specializing in Cuts, Weaves, Manicures, Pedicures. . . and Passion. Rochelle Alers' Sweet SurrenderManicurist Maria Parker can't help but notice when a hunky financial planner brings his niece into Della's for a manicure. And when he starts to freq...

  • Counterfeit Cowboy

    Carrie Alexander

    SOME THINGS YOU OVERLOOK... TIGHT JEANS ON A COWBOY, YOU DON'T! Signing on as lodge manager at the Triple Eight Dude Ranch was no doubt the craziest thing Molly Broome had ever done. The place was a disaster waiting to happen, with strange goi...

  • The Marvelous Misadventures of Sebastian

    Lloyd Alexander

    From the Newbery Medal-winning author of The High King, comes the story of Sebastian, a boy never far from adventure -- or trouble!

    When fourth fiddler Sebastian loses his place in the Baron’s orchestra, he takes to the highway -- and soon ...

  • Quetzal And The Cool School

    Anderson

    It's almost the first day of school, but Max is afraid to go. So his big sister Emmy suggests that he practice going to school--in Dragon Land! Will Quetzal and the other dragons be able to help Max realize that school is cool?...

  • Lightning Strikes

    V.C. Andrews

    RAIN HAS SEARCHED FOR A PLACE TO CALL HOME. BUT THERE'S NOWHERE TO HIDE WHEN THE NIGHT SKY LIGHTS UP WITH TERROR.... Torn from the embrace of her poor but loving family, Rain Arnold now lives surrounded by opulent riches but feels more like an out...

  • Brave the Betrayal

    K.A. Applegate

    There is a place that shouldn't exist -- but does. There are creatures that shouldn't exist -- but do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real -- and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld. Jalil, David, Christopher, a...

  • The Journey

    K.A. Applegate

    Sometimes your worst problems are the ones you can't actually see. Like the Helmacrons. These less-than-an-inch-high aliens are back, and they want the morphing cube more than ever. Obviously Rachel and the other Animorphs can't let them take the cub...

  • Zoey's Broken Heart

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another...but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Zoey's broken heart. What can anyone say to make it feel better? Because the disaster that ki...

  • Birthright

    Judith Arnold

    YOU ARE NOW ENTERING RIVERBEND, INDIANA Riverbend... home of the River Rats -- a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days ar...

  • Putt-Putt the Great Pet Chase

    Laurie Bauman Arnold

  • Winter Garden

    Adele Ashworth

    Though a celebrated French beauty in 1849, Madeleine DuMais's cleverness is her greatest asset -- and one she puts to good use as a spy for the British. When her expertise is needed in the south of England to break up a smuggling ring, Madeleine will...

  • Robot City

    Isaac Asimov

    BEYOND AURORA AWAITS A BRAVE NEW WORLD...OF ROBOTS

    A man without a memory flees a city of robots gone wild. At his side, a mysterious young woman whose own identity is eroded by an insidious disease. Journeying to Earth, the two must find a way to...

  • Baby Makes Three

    Daphne Atkeson

    GOING GA-GA Assistant Principal Zoe Balboa has no intention of getting involved with her new roommate, Alex Masters -- although the thought of running her hands through the handsome inventor's unruly hair is very tempting. Zoe's determined to kee...

  • Leavin' Trunk Blues

    Ace Atkins

    It's been a year since Nick Traver's search for the lost recording of blues phantom Robert Johnson in Crossroad Blues. He has grown comfortable playing his harp at JoJo's in the French Quarter and teaching blues history at Tulane. A difficult case wa...

  • Night Winds

    Gwyneth Atlee

    TEMPTATION Ever since her mother vanished when she was a child, Shae Rowan's embittered father has kept her a virtual prisoner of their Gulf Coast home. To escape his tyranny, she reluctantly agrees to marry the selfish heir to a shipping fort...

  • The Serpent and the Grail

    A.A. Attanasio

  • Road to Home

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

    Thirteen-year-old Remembrance “Mem” Nye has had much more than her share of responsibility since her mother died. It’s too hard caring for her younger brother and baby sister, and Mem looks forward to returning to the family fold at her grandmo...

  • Kitten That Won First Prize and Other Animal Stories

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Falling for Grace

    Stella Bagwell

    OFF-LIMITS... The moment he saw his new neighbor, Jack Barrett was intrigued. Grace Holliday had a sweetness the cynical lawyer hadn't encountered in a long time. Yet he realized she was much too young for him. And very obviously pregnant... Bu...

  • An Ardent Friendship

    Elizabeth Bailey

    Miss Timothia Dulverton had just finished mourning her dear departed father when she received a most unexpected proposal from her cousin, Mr. Leo Wetheral. Marriage? To Leo? Didn't they know each other too well for that? But Leo had a bargain for...

  • Splendid You

    Lynn Bailey

    HISTORY OR CHEMISTRY? London, England, 1848. Egyptology has always fascinated Julia Hanson. A self-taught hieroglyphics expert, she is unable to pursue her occupation because of the societal prejudice against her gender. Her only hope is to attrac...

  • Alice-By-Accident

    Lynne Reid Banks

    "It's just so stupid, Brandy asking us to write our lives for homework!

    I remember enough things on my life to keep me writing for about a million hours."

    As Alice struggles with her class assignment for Miss B...

  • Family Affairs

    Margaret Barker

    A loving compromise Amanda Grayson was really proud of the way she had turned her life around. She was bringing up her son alone, and now she had been promoted to overseeing the administration of the Outpatient Department. It had been a blast from t...

  • Money, Love

    Brad Barkley

    Ever since sixteen-year-old Gabe Strickland can remember, his father, Roman, has believed in the sale: that magical moment on the customer’s porch, the deal about to close. But with each dizzying success comes an equally memorable failure, and Gabe...

  • Saturn's Race

    Steven Barnes; Larry Niven

    The future is a strange and dangerous place. Chaz Kato can testify to that. He is a citizen of Xanudu, a city-sized artificial island populated by some of the wealthiest men and women on future Earth. A place filled with hidden wonders and dark secre...

  • Wild Irish Rogue

    Suzanne Barrett

    Amid the untamed forests and moss-strewn swamps of Louisiana Territory,the daughters of an Acadian exile discover danger...and desire. A PASSIONATE REUNION Strikingly beautiful and stubbornly defiant, Emilie Gallant was used to fighting her own b...

  • Egan Cassidy's Kid

    Beverly Barton

    He would do anything for the mother of his child... ONLY ONCE HAD HE LET DOWN HIS GUARD... Years ago, rock-solid mercenary Egan Cassidy had spent a night of sensual ecstasy with Maggie Douglas. Now, their son -- a child he never knew existed ...

  • Harvest of Love

    Janet Lee Barton
    in

    Harvesttime was once the climax of the average American's year. Each of the characters has a harvest to gather, but than a field crop will be gleaned from their labor. God is faithful in tending the hearts of his children and only He can see the true...

  • Harley, Like a Person

    Cat Bauer

    Fourteen-year-old Harley Columba is convinced she's adopted. She's nothing like her abusive, alcoholic father or her bitter, romance novel-reading mother. They have brown eyes, but Harley's eyes are blue. They argue and drink and thrive in dreary sub...

  • Stacking in Rivertown

    Barbara Bell

    An intricately emotional and erotic debut and a haunting foray into the deepest recesses of a sexual underworld, Stacking in Rivertown is a novel of love, pain, and redemption. Young, beautiful, and happily married, Beth is finally learning to relax...

  • Spotlight

    Carole Bellacera

    January 6, 1972 Derry, Northern Ireland On January 6, 1972, ten-year-old Devin O'Keefe takes part in a peaceful demonstration march through the Catholic ghetto of Bogside, Northern Ireland--never suspecting that the demonstration is doomed to bec...

  • An Invisible Sign of My Own

    Aimee Bender

    Aimee Bender’s stunning debut collection, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, proved her to be one of the freshest voices in American fiction. Now, in her first novel, she builds on that early promise.

    Mona Gray was ten when her father contract...

  • Open House

    Elizabeth Berg

    BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Elizabeth Berg's Once Upon a Time, There Was You.In this superb novel by the beloved author of Talk Before Sleep, The Pull of the Moon, and Until the Real Thing Comes Along, a woman re-creates her life af...

  • Escaping Into the Open

    Elizabeth Berg

    Writing advice from a New York Times"bestselling author who “knows how the publishing industry works . . . and why writers need to answer only to themselves”  (C. Michael Curtis, senior editor, Atlantic Monthly). Both autobi...

  • A Perfect Rogue

    Martine Berne

    A SCOUNDREL Damien, the Marquis of Reston, is a silver-tongued devil who sends ladies clamoring for his affections. Until now, however, no determined female has ever thrown herself under his carriage to gain his attention. Though the lovely, quick...

  • A Promise of Roses

    Heidi Betts

    SHE SAID Spunky Megan Adams will do almost anything to save her struggling stagecoach line -- even confront the bandits constantly ambushing the stage for the payrolls it delivers. But what Megan wouldn't do is fall headlong for the heartbreak...

  • The Husband Assignment

    Helen Bianchin

    When Stephanie accepted an assignment to publicize a major film, she found herself having to negotiate with Raoul Lanier, the powerful heir to a billionaire empire -- and a ruthlessly sexy man.... Stephanie simply had to stop fantasizing about Rao...

  • In Name Only

    Janet Bieber

    A straitlaced spinster and a rugged ship's captain discover a passion that's anything but proper.... THE SAINT. When her sister dies, leaving four young children motherless, Valeriana MacPherson becomes determined to care for her nieces and nephew...

  • Love Lessons

    Kristin Billerbeck
    in

    School has never been as fun as when some special teachers fall in love. Enjoy modern classroom settings in these four inspirational romance novellas by authors Kristin Billerbeck, Linda Goodnight, Kristi Hickman, and Yvonne Lehman....

  • Man Behind the Voice

    Lisa Bingham

    His face was the last thing she'd ever seen... Determined to locate the accident victim he'd comforted as her eyesight waned, Jack MacAllister told himself he only wanted to know that she was all right. But when he found Eleanor Rappaport again, h...

  • Roan

    Jennifer Blake

    Sheriff Roan Benedict comes from a family of hardheaded men who have a habit of rescuing and falling for equally hardheaded women. And sure enough, he's falling for a woman he just shot.... This mysterious stranger just helped rob a convenience st...

  • Grange House

    Sarah Blake

    From the author of the New York Times bestselling novels THE POSTMISTRESS and THE GUEST BOOK comes Sarah Blake's GRANGE HOUSE."Pleasing, intricate...[a] delightful book" -- New York Times Book ReviewMaisie Thomas spends every summer at Grange House,...

  • Two Down

    Nero Blanc

    TWO DOWN ... UNDER Up, down, or across, S.O.S. spells the same thing danger! When a famous Hollywood actress and her friend set sail off the coast of Nantucket Island -- and never return -- everyone assumes they were victims of an accident. But wh...

  • A Noble Heart

    Sara Blayne

    LOVE LOST... Heiress Felicity Talbot's heart raced every time she saw William Powell, Viscount Lethridge. Unfortunately he was so infatuated with her flirtatious cousin Zenoria, he never even noticed her. So Felicity had immersed herself in good...

  • Monsters in Our Midst

    Robert Bloch

    Nothing is more frightening than the unspeakable acts humans commit upon one another. Edited by Robert Bloch, the award-winning author of Psycho, this collection of works by such writers as Ray Bradbury, Ramsey Campbell, Jonathan Carroll, Charles Gra...

  • Bachelor Doctor

    Barbara Boswell

    "Workplace romances are notoriouslay stupid" -Dr. Trey Weldon, the last stubborn Weldon bachelor This sexy, sought-after surgeon intended on staying single until he ws good and ready for marriage. And no woman-especially not one who worked for him-w...

  • West to Comanche County

    Doug Bowman

    When Kirb Renfro and his wife left Tennessee for the vast plains of Texas, they were looking for a place to call home. Kirb acquires a small ranch and finds his dreams coming true. Then during their first winter, that dream is shattered. Kirb finds h...

  • Dark Secret

    Elizabeth Atkins Bowman

    In the irresistible tradition of Eileen Goudge, Dark Secret is a compelling page-turner that tests the family bond between two very different sisters--and exposes a lifetime of deception.Karen Bradley has not seen her sister in years, not since Sharl...

  • Once More With a .44

    Peter Brandvold

    FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE SEXY, HARD-DRIVING ACTION WESTERN

    The legendary Sheriff Ben Stillman series continues...

    Things have heated up since the last time Ben Stillman brought peace to Clantick, Montana Territory. It's been two y...

  • Two Best Buddy Tales

    Ann Braybrooks

  • The Ravishing One

    Connie Brockway

    They are the Merricks, two brothers and a sister, restless, daring, proud. English by birth, they came to Scotland with their father to occupy McClairen lands. And there each would find a love as wild and glorious as the Highland isle they claimed as...

  • Evening Star

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • All the Way from Texas

    Carolyn Brown

  • Quickening

    Laura Catherine Brown

    Our lives all contain growth spurts--physical ones, most obviously, but intellectual and emotional ones as well. This acutely powerful debut novel focuses on just such a time in the life of a nineteen-year-old girl. Mandy Boyle is leaving home for th...

  • Pet Stories

    Marc Brown

    Meet a multiplying family of fish, and a cat whose every good intention goes wrong! Includes five stories and two poems, featuring Marc Brown, Cynthia Rylant, Syd Hoff, Jack Prelutsky, Lee Bennett Hopkins, Henry Cole, Sucie Stevenson, and more....

  • Once Wicked

    Sherri Browning

    His kisses taunted her for being a lady--and dared her to be a woman.... ONCE SHAMELESS When the highwayman galloped into her life, stole her precious ring, and left her with a searing kiss, Amelia Benedict swore to get justice. But suddenly th...

  • Horse Love

    Bonnie Bryant

    Love takes a holiday . . .Lisa Atwood and her family are on vacation, but it isn't all fun in the sun. Something's wrong between her parents. She thinks it's serious, and she's worried. Then a handsome guy sweeps Lisa off her feet and all of her prob...

  • Spytime

    William F. Buckley Jr.

    James Jesus Angleton was a legend in the time of spies. Founder of US counterintelligence at the end of World War II, ruthless hunter of moles and enemies of America, his name is synonymous with skullduggery and intellectual subterfuge. William F....

  • Deep Sound Channel

    Joe Buff

    The most dangerous weapons are the ones you can't see.... An electrifying new voice in military fiction, Joe Buff has written a spectacular tale set in the not-too-distant future -- when the United States is embroiled in a tactical nuclear war tha...

  • Who Killed Dorian Gray?

    Carole Bugge

    Still reeling from the shocking demise of an ill-fated romance, Claire jumps at the chance to teach a writing seminar at an artist colony in Woodstock. She thinks it will be the perfect opportunity to rest, relax, and recover--but instead of happy-go...

  • Only For A Year

    Ludima Gus Burton

    Brent Chambers finds himself in a quandary. In order to meet the terms of his uncle's will, he has to marry for love and stay married for a year. Unfortunately, his fiance elopes with another man--forcing him to settle for a marriage of convenience. ...

  • Goblin Moon

    Kurt Busiek; Nathan Archer

    Playing Politics A paramilitary operation of thieves is on a city-wide crime spree that no one--not even Spider-Man--seems able to stop. Millionaire businessman and Daily Bugle co-owner Norman Osborn calls for action to stop this threat to New Yor...

  • Images of Ecstacy

    Loure Bussey

  • Ready, Okay!

    Adam Cadre

    An unforgettable debut novel about thelives of a group of alienated teenagers insuburban California that Introduces astartling new voice in fiction.

    Meet Allen Mockery: "The day I turned sixteen years old I had no idea that in four...

  • Glass Houses

    Stella Cameron

    British photographer Olivia FitzDurham is running for her life--all the way to New York City and a man she's never met. The pictures she took for a London magazine seem harmless, but the man who tried to push her off the tube platform definitely m ...

  • Silent Children

    Ramsey Campbell

    Once upon a time there was a man who loved children. He loved them so much he tried to save them from their imperfect parents. Unfortunately, Hector Woollie didn't work for Child Protective Services . . . and the children he rescued, he murdered.Once...

  • Looking for You All My Life

    Melody Carlson

    Award"winning author Melody Carlson offers another heartwarming story of love new and renewed and of God’s redemptive tenderness.

    The small town of Pine Mountain has much to offer a big"city girl: clean air, beautiful scenery, a marve...

  • For Her Eyes Only

    Tori Carrington

    Jake McCoy--an immigration agent with an attitude. He's known for always getting his man. Only this time, he finds more woman than he can handle.... Michelle Lambert--a beautiful Frenchwoman. She's determined to stay in the country--and to convinc...

  • Red Wine Goes With Murder

    Paula Carter

    A Talent for Decoration--and Detection Meet Hillary Scarborough, a domestic artiste with a flair for design...and Jane Ferguson, an ex-law student who can't cook or decorate to save her life. Between the two of them, they solve more crimes--and de...

  • Imminent Danger

    Carla Cassidy

    HER REAL NAME WAS ALLISON WELCH... But he knew her as Cecilia Webster. Just weeks ago, she'd had everything. Then came the tragedy that stole it all - along with her eyesight. The blindness was only temporary. So were her new name and stay in rura...

  • Fly Away Home

    Kimberly Cates

    Eve Danaher's eve for beauty has earned her renown in the fine-art community. But for all her success, her life fuels empty without the love of her estranged eighteen-year-old daughter. Determined to discover the peace and happiness that has been mis...

  • The Sibyl in Her Grave

    Sarah Caudwell

    Julia Larwood's Aunt Regina needs help. She and two friends pooled their modest resources and invested in equities. Now the tax man demands his due, but they've already spent the money. How can they dig themselves out of the tax hole? Even more to th...

  • The Dawning

    Hugh B. Cave

    In a world where crime, drugs, and pollution have made the world uninhabitable, a small band of survivors heads off to the wilderness of northern Canada to make a new start, but the forces of nature are anything but welcoming....

  • Paragons

    Cliff Chandler

    Elizabeth Crainsworth, daughter of Ellis Crainsworth of Crainsworth industries found murdered in a Bronx apartment on Boston Road. The Murder is thought to be drug related. The crime-ridden area is known for, prostitution and drug dealing. The family...

  • Feeding Christine

    B.A. Chepaitis

    In this deliciously charming novel, Barbara Chepaitis-a new and truly one-of-a-kind voice in women's fiction-skillfully explores the powerful camaraderie shared by four exceptional women. Reminiscent of Like Water for Chocolate and How to Make an Ame...

  • Running Blind // The Visitor

    Lee Child

    Across the country women are being murdered, victims of an extraordinarily disciplined and clever killer who leaves no trace evidence, no fatal wounds, no signs of struggle, and no clues to an apparent motive. Even the elite team of FBI agents ass...

  • The Borrowed Groom

    Judy Christenberry

    A SUDDEN ENGAGEMENT. It was her smile that caused all the trouble. Yep, ranch foreman Rob Hansen was sure he never would have agreed to be Melissa Kennedy's counterfeit fiance if she hadn't given him one of her killer smiles. And now he found himse...

  • You Don't Have to Walk

    Chronicle Books

  • Reading Rainbow Readers: School Stories Your Dog Didn't Eat

    Chronicle Books

    Encounter two best friends' exciting first day of school, and a substitute teacher who has a most unusual way of teaching! Includes five stories, featuring Steven Kellogg, Peggy Parish, Jean Van Leeuwen, Jean Little, Amy Ehrlich, Tony Johnston, and m...

  • Reading Rainbow Readers: Silly Stories: To Tickle Your Funny Bone

    Chronicle Books

    Meet a fox who delivers mice instead of pizza, and a bumbling crew of animal friends who make a mess out of home improvement! Includes five stories and three poems, featuring James Marshall,William Joyce, Dav Pilkey, Mark Teague, X. J. Kennedy, Colin...

  • Please Don't Eat the Teacher!

    Scott Ciencin

    Patience McCray finds herself trapped by her new instincts. An impulsive tomboy with a secret crush on a popular boy, Patience finds that her usual obsession with getting Will Reilly's attention has just been replaced with a more pressing matter--try...

  • Emilie

    Cherie Claire

    Amid the untamed forests and moss-strewn swamps of Louisiana Territory, the daughters of an Acadian exile discover danger...and desire. A PASSIONATE REUNION Strikingly beautiful and stubbornly defiant, Emilie Gallant was used to fighting her own ...

  • Sheltie and the Runaway

    Peter Clover

  • Lethal Seduction

    Jackie Collins

    SECRET OBSESSION. DEADLY PASSION. Lethal Seduction Jackie Collins brings back her savvy heroine from the L.A. Connections series in this erotically charged, suspense-laced New York Times bestseller. Caught between two lovers, Madison Ca...

  • Cakes, Kisses and Confusion

    Lynn Collum
    in

    When the Earl of Sedgefield comes to pay a visit at the cottage of Miss Annabelle Hill's aunt, he invites the unsuspecting Annabelle to Exeter, where he has set a trap for her. It seems the Earl has confused the poor girl for a scheming social climbe...

  • Mamzelle Dragonfly

    Raphael Confiant

    A nostalgic and erotic story that is also a deeply sophisticated look at modern Martinique

    A tree cannot keep secrets because its roots discreetly meet those of other trees and share its thoughts. Adelise, a young girl trapped working in the c...

  • The Magdalen

    Marita Conlon-McKenna

    The wide open spaces of Connemara, filled with nothing but sea and sky, are all lost to Esther Doyle when she is betrayed by her lover, Conor. Rejected by her family, she is sent to join the 'fallen women' of the Holy Saints Convent in Dublin where, ...

  • Soldiers Live

    Glen Cook

    No Black Company member has died in battle for four years. Croaker figures it can't last. He's right. For, of course, many of the Company's old adversaries are still around. Narayan Singh and his adopted daughter--actually the offspring of Croaker...

  • Don't Drink the Water

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    There is no love lost between novelist/sometime sleuth E.J. Pugh and her three sisters: four high-strung Texas redheads who have made sibling rivalry an art form. In an attempt to ease their stretched-thin family ties, the ladies and their respective...

  • Die Vecna Die!

    Bruce R. Cordell

    In the Die Vecna Die! adventure, fans can match wits with one of the most powerful villains ever created for the Dungeons & Dragons(r) game. Loyal Dungeons & Dragons players will be thrilled at the chance for their heroes to face-and possibly vanquis...

  • Titanic Town

    Mary Costello

  • First Contract

    Greg Costikyan

  • Riptide

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Becca Matlock, a senior speechwriter for the governor of New York, is at the top of her professional game when she receives her first phone call. "Stop sleeping with the governor or I'll kill him." The thing is, she's not sleeping ...

  • The Way to a Man's Heart

    Wilma Counts
    in

    After sampling the poor fare at a soiree, Nicole Beaufort's cousins challenged her to do better. Disguising herself as a cook, Nicole finds work at a nearby estate, where the health of her new employer, the handsome Earl of Thornwood, depends on her ...

  • Too Many Aliens

    Bruce Coville

    Pleskit’s alien friend comes to visit in this seventh book in the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series Sixth-Grade Alien from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework and My Teacher Is an Alien, Bruce Coville.Maktel Geebrit, ...

  • Loving Lauren

    Sherry Crane

    RESCUE ME No doubt about it -- this was the stupidest plan Lauren Grimes had ever come up with. No one else would try to photograph a Louisiana swamp in the middle of a hurricane... no one except independent, gotta-get-that-shot Lauren. Now, with h...

  • Mistress on Loan

    Sara Craven

    As a teenager, Adrien was infatuated with Chay Haddon, and was devastated when her family banished him, claiming he'd betrayed their trust. Chay vanished vowing revenge.... Adrien is shocked when, years later, the tables are turned and she fin...

  • Freedom's Hope

    DiAnna Crawford

    Jessica Whitman lives for one hope: reaching her mother's family, the distinguished Hargraves of Baltimore, far from the clutches of her drunken father. Noah Reardon, bitter over a broken betrothal, wants nothing to do with people. So why is he capt...

  • Nowhere, Now Here

    Ann Howard Creel

    When her family moves from Florida to Colorado to become alpaca ranchers, twelve-year-old Laney must leave behind the ocean she loves and learn to accept the new landscape--and life--ahead of her. Simultaneous....

  • A Ghost of a Chance

    Bill Crider

    THE MORE THINGS CHANGE... Though nostalgic for the good old days. Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas, knows that times may change, but people are still people, some good, some bad, and most things can be explained with a little common se...

  • Lion Heart // Elizabet

    Tanya Anne Crosby

    HE TOOK HER PRISONER... The illegitimate daughter of a penniless English baron, Elizabet is determined never to relinquish her cherished independence by becoming some man's "property." But when she is kidnapped by a rugged clansman in the Scottish...

  • Sleeping Arrangements

    Laura Shaine Cunningham

    From the acclaimed novelist, playwright, and journalist Laura Cunningham, a coming of age story and enchanting memoir of childhood

    "Here is Lily Moore at 10, as judged by her fifth grade teacher: 'Unsatisfactory...Hair matted, uncombed, dishev...

  • Max the Muddy Puppy

    Jenny Dale

    Everyone loves puppies!Bouncy and cute, furry and huggable, what could be more perfect than a puppy? Max loves to get stinky and muddy. He doesn't want to look beautiful for the dog show. When Max visits the show he causes all sorts of trouble. Surel...

  • Consequences

    Margot Dalton

    Welcome to Crystal Creek, Texas: If this is your first visit to the friendly ranching town in the Texas hill country, get ready to meet some unforgettable people. If you've been here before, you'll recognize old friends... and make some new ones....

  • Who's Been Sleeping in Her Bed?

    Pamela Dalton

    FORGOTTEN MARRIAGE? Cattle breeder Mitch Reeves was handsome, protective, electrifying everything a woman could want in a husband. So why couldn't Katerina Reeves remember she'd married him? When a near-fatal blow knocked his detective wife un...

  • Night Fires

    Justine Dare

    A small town in the Pacific Northwest, Keating's Port is the only home Jodi Campion has ever known, the only place where she has ever felt safe. But it is also a place haunted by tragedy-where she will be forced to question what she has always believ...

  • Marrow

    Tiffanie Darke

    In the steamy kitchens of the restaurant world, the lore of the macho chef invariably holds sway, and there are few chefs more overbearing and arrogant than Seamus Bull. Then Genevieve arrives to rake up the past and turn his life upside-down....

  • Vanishing Acts

    Ellen Datlow

    “A diverse and thoughtful array of 16 stories written around the theme of endangered species -- be they human or animal, mythical or alien.” -- Publishers Weekly In this poignant yet uplifting anthology about extinction, science fiction stories ...

  • Everything in Its Time

    Dee Davis

    Years ago while vacationing in Scotland, Katherine St. Claire believed she'd found the love of her life. She shared a night of passion with a stranger, in a castle hotel called Duncreag. But come morning, her lover had disappeared. And she has sp...

  • Death Train to Boston

    Dianne Day

    Autumn 1908 finds Caroline Fremont Jones and her partner in love and work, Michael Kossoff, traveling incognito, riding the rails from San Francisco to Boston. The railroad hired the sleuthing couple to investigate a series of accidents. But before t...

  • Man's Best Friend

    Carole Dean

    PUPPY LOVE When burnt-out businessman Rand Fielding discovers a basket on his doorstep, courtesy of his prankish partner, his heart sinks. Sure enough, inside is a warm, tiny bundle that instantly tugs at his rusty heartstrings. Yes, Rand is the...

  • Springwar

    Tom Deitz

    From the author of Bloodwinter comes this epic tale of the clash of two rival kingdoms, as heroes, heroines, and rogues on both sides--and no side--vie for control of a world-altering magic.... As the realm of Eron sits frozen in winter's grip, tw...

  • Quest for Cthulhu

    August Derleth

    Brilliantly imagined by the late H. P. Lovecraft, the mythical cycle of Cthulhu is expanded and enriched in this one-volume edition of tales that only August Derleth, Lovecraft's friend and collaborator, could have produced. With the marvelously inve...

  • I Do! I Do!

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Maitland Maternity: Where the luckiest babies are born! BACHELOR DADDY TAKES BRIDE! . San Antonio, Texas Ladies, hang your heads and cry! One of the Lone Star state's most elusive bachelors has been hooked. Rancher Mason Blackstone, recently...

  • Liar's Game

    Eric Jerome Dickey

    In this sensational New York Times bestseller, Eric Jerome Dickey explores how real people come together and fall apart in a story about a love that starts with a lie....Dana Ann Smith has ditched New York -- and a relationship gone bad -- for Los An...

  • Some Deaths Before Dying

    Peter Dickinson

    The New York Times Book Review calls multiple-award winner Peter Dickinson "a stylist of subtle brilliance". Always surprising and incisive, the author of The Yellow Room Conspiracy and dozens of other unique novels returns with his first new book in...

  • Disney's Animal Stories

    Disney Book Group

  • Disney's Princess Collection

    Disney Book Group

  • Walt Disney's Santa's Toy Shop

    Disney Book Group

  • Walt Disney's Mother Goose

    Disney Book Group

  • Stolen Kisses

    Kate Donovan

    A LEGAL EAGLE As a tough criminal defense attorney, Josie Galloway keeps her feelings buttoned up. Her only weak spot is for her sweet, matchmaking Grandma Caroline. So when someone from the FBI takes the frail elderly woman downtown to answer quest...

  • Hammerhead Ranch Motel

    Tim Dorsey

    There's a different schemer or slimeball behind every door: cocaine duckpins who have survived only by the dumbest fortune, hard-luck gigolos desperate to score, undercover cops busting undercover cops who are running sting operations on undercover c...

  • Lt. Leary, Commanding

    David Drake

    INTO HARM'S WAY! Lieutenant Daniel Leary of the Republic of Cinnabar Navy commands the corvette Princess Cecile; his friend Signals Officer Adele Mundy has the latest in spy apparatus and the skill to prowl the most tightly guarded database. All t...

  • Conquer the Night

    Shannon Drake

    Sir Arryn Graham had come to seek revenge against Kinsey Darrow for his bloody deeds against the Highland rebels. And he'd do it by claiming Darrow's bride, Kyra, for his own. But in the tangle of her lustrous hair and the emerald of her eyes, Arryn ...

  • Meant For Me

    Kathleen Dreesen

    Lauren Dunn wants to be a TV producer in the worst way. To prove her mettle, she's got to get the notoriously private Mike O'Grady to reunite with his supermodel ex-girlfriend on national television. One look at his amazingly handsome face, and L...

  • The Shark Net

    Robert Drewe

    Written with the same lyrical intensity and spellbinding prose that has won Robert Drewe's fiction international acclaim, The Shark Net is set in the 1950s in a city haunted by the menace of an elusive serial killer. Drewe's youth in the middle-class...

  • Strangeling

    Cathy East Dubowski

    When Fi Phillips goes backstage at the dress rehearsal of "Macbeth," in which her Aunt Melissa has a role as a witch, she reads a spell from an old magic book her aunt uses as a prop, and a monstrous creature that only she and her cousins can see eme...

  • Gemini

    Dorothy Dunnett

    With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccola series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid m...

  • Seer's Blood

    Doranna Durgin

    When Blaine Kendricks discovers strangers in Shadow Hollers, she thinks they've come to trade. She couldn't be more wrong. When Dacey Childers comes to Shadow Hollers, Blaine's family thinks he's there to hunt game. They couldn't be more wrong. ...

  • Savage Devotion

    Cassie Edwards

    Sailing the deep, clear waters of the Puget Sound, beautiful red-haired Janice Edwards is bound for a new beginning. Leaving behind the wealth and luxury she's known in San Francisco, she hopes to find a simpler, sweeter life in the towering forests ...

  • Do Or Die

    Grace F. Edwards

    A songbird is silenced ... by murder. With her soulful voice and delicate beauty, Starr Hendrix seemed destined to live up to her name and hit it big as a jazz singer. But her career ended before it began, and Mali's father offered Starr a second ...

  • Black Justice

    Jason Elder

  • Tempt Me

    Elizabeth Eliot

    A TEMPTING SITUATION Kate Wilkes runs a successful restaurant, but it's her other career that really cooks: Kate is the author of bestselling erotic cookbooks written under the name "The Temptress." But now that the man she's adore...

  • Girl Reporter Snags Crush!

    Linda Ellerbee

     

    Strange Epidemic Infects School!

    Symptoms include constant hair flipping, eye batting, and the sudden use of hair gel. Diagnosis: First Dance Flu! Could everyone really be more interested in going to the dance then ...

  • After Life

    Rhian Ellis

    In a debut novel of psychological suspense, Naomi Ash and her medium mother relocate to Train Line, a small town populated by spiritualists and mediums, where Naomi comes of age, struggling to come to terms with her own spiritual talents, until Peter...

  • Foxs New Coat

    Jonathan Emmett

    Fox finds a beautiful new coat, which, though too long, feels as if it were made for her. As she leaves the clothes shop, a loose thread catches in the doorway and by the time she arrives home her coat has completely disappeared....

  • White Desert

    Loren D. Estleman

    Two Westerns in the Page Murdock series from Spur Award-Winning Author Loren D. Estleman!White DesertU.S. Marshal Page Murdock is a tough cynic -- and the last man you’d want on your tail. Though Montana-based, Murdock pursues a vicious gang into a...

  • Dark Magic

    Christine Feehan

    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light... WOULD SHE FIND MAGIC -- OR MADNESS IN HIS DARK EMBRACE? Young Savannah Dubrinsky is a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmer...

  • Not His Bread-and-Butter

    Jo Ann Ferguson
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    Working as a cook in order to help provide for her parents, Meredith Tynedale becomes quite fond of her employer, Lord Westerly. Hoping he will notice her, she brings breakfast to him every morning, baking him her favorite raisin-cinnamon bread. Not ...

  • Lady Captain

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    HER LIFE WAS HER OWN... No one told Eden Roberts what to do on the stern-wheeler she captained up and down the Cumberland River out of Nashville. It was her parents' only legacy; her only livelihood -- and she couldn't allow the war between ...

  • The Once and Future Father

    Marie Ferrarella

    SHE WAS IN LABOR And Lucinda Alvarez had to rely on detective Dylan McMorrow to deliver her baby Although she had vowed to forget the man who'd broken her heart, one glimpse of his irresistible blue eyes had her wondering if she could safeguard he...

  • A Stitch in Time

    Monica Ferris

    The art of needlecraft requires patience, discipline, and creativity. So, too, does the art of detection. Just ask Betsy Devonshire--who's learning that life in a small-town needlecraft shop can reveal an unexpected knack for knitting ... and a hidde...

  • Wife for Hire

    Amy J. Fetzer

    Nash Rayburn was shaken to his boots when Hayley Albright showed up on his ranch declaring herself his temporary wife for hire. Although he hadn't seen her in years, he still remembered how Hayley stoked his passion and riled his temper - and how his...

  • Body

    Sharon Fiffer

  • This Way to Heaven

    Tom Foley

    American soldier Robert Jackson joined the army to earn tuition for college; he wanted only to settle down with his high school sweetheart and start a family. He came to Bosnia to help the U.N. forces keep the peace -- only to find that there was no ...

  • Island Magic

    Bette Ford

    With much diligence and patience, Cassandra Mosely turned a family rooming house into a popular California inn. But now she desperately needs a break from work--and from a long-standing relationship with wealthy businessman Gordan Kramer. Hoping to g...

  • Morgan

    Lori Foster

    The Buckhorn Brothers: All gorgeous, all sexy, all single. What a family! MORGAN HUDSON commanded a lot of respect as Buckhorn's biggest, baddest sheriff. How one petite city woman could turn him on his head was a mystery, not to mention being do...

  • Jake's Angel

    Nicole Foster

    After dragging his wounded body halfway across New Mexico, Texas Ranger Jake Coulter desperately needed a doctor. What he got was the town 'witch,' Isabel Bradshaw. While she tended his wounds, Jake soon found that the townspeople were right. Isabel'...

  • Mom's the Word

    Roz Denny Fox

    She's all alone - and pregnant! Things have not gone well for Hayley Ryan. Her beloved grandfather is dead. Her no-good ex-husband not only abandoned her for another woman but stole Hayley's inheritance - and left her pregnant. All she has now is...

  • To Sniff a Thief

    A.D. Francis

  • Curse of Gold

    A.D. Francis

  • The Irish Rogue

    Judith E. French

    Annie Davis is in trouble. To save her reputation and avoid the wrath of her father, she needs to catch a husband as soon as possible -- and she's willing to pay. When she lands in the arms of a handsome stranger who agrees to exchange his name for t...

  • Space Dog Meets Space Cat

    Vivian French

    Deep in outer space, Space Mouse has heard a Meowling. What - or who - on earth can it be? Space Dog flies through the darkest, most dangerous part of space to investigate and who should he discover? Space Cat. Cats and Dogs are not a happy match - o...

  • A Family in the Making

    Marcy Froemke

    Brynn Weston had long found fulfillment in loving other people's children, never daring to dream she'd have a family of her own -- until now. How could she ever leave behind the motherless girl, and orphaned boy she had befriended -- or the father wh...

  • It's a Tea Party!

    Sonali Fry

  • Reality Check

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Always bee prepared! Now that Sabrina is a fully licensed witch, she is allowed to compete in the Other Realm spelling bee. She wins, and collects first prize...a reality check. It may be cashed at any time to change one instance of reality with no ...

  • Hunted

    James Alan Gardner

    For the children of Admiral Alexander York, perfection wasn't just expected, it was guaranteed--written into their DNA before they were born. But while Samantha grew into the physical and mental marvel their father had bought and paid for, her twin b...

  • Heartbreaker

    Julie Garwood

    Bless me father, for I will sin.... In the still shadows of the confessional, a madman tauntingly reveals his plan for a murder he is going to commit, pulling Father Thomas Madden into a twisted game by disclosing his next intended victim: Tom's s...

  • Brigham's Day

    John Gates

  • The Summoning God

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    Step back into the year A.D. 1263 ... and the secret lair of a kilter. He walks the ruins of a dying civilization, stalking the weak, the chosen, stalking them into terror. When War Chief Browser stumbles into the subterranean chamber filled with ...

  • Murder Carries a Torch

    Anne George

    Though unalike as snowflakes, sisters Patricia Anne and Mary Alice share a sympathetic heart for their distraught cousin Luke -- known affectionately in his boyhood as "Pukey Lukey," because of his penchant for getting sick in moving vehicles. Luke i...

  • Blood

    Joseph Glass

    Dr. Susan Shader is the most fascinating -- and sexiest -- heroine to come along since Clarice Starling made her debut in The Silence of the Lambs. Introduced in Joseph Glass's widely praised first novel, Eyes, Susan is a renowned psychiatrist and cr...

  • Daughter Mine

    Herbert Gold

    Dan Shaper, bachelor, translator for the San Francisco courts, is a man who has worn the same raincoat for fifteen years, eats the same breakfast in the same coffeeshop every morning, occasionally sees a few long-time men friends and vaguely regrets ...

  • Cowboy for Keeps

    Kristi Gold

    COWBOY CHARISMA To Dana Landry, Will Baker looked as wild as a Texas tornado. Despite her cautious attitude toward men, Dana was mesmerized by Will. This cowboy's combination of dimples and sun-streaked golden hair lent him a boyish charm, but his...

  • Take a Bow, Babies!

    Rebecca Gold

  • Fake Liar Cheat

    Tod Goldberg

    Lonnie Milton has all of life's essential accessory pieces: a 401(K) plan, a nice TV, a coffee table from Pottery Barn. The only thing missing is an actual life. Trapped in a dead-end job, Lonnie meets Claire, the perfect deliverance from his safe, b...

  • Holly Jolly Holiday Box with Book and Puzzle

    Golden Books

  • Dark Cities Underground

    Lisa Goldstein

    In her most ambitious novel yet, Lisa Goldstein tells the story of Ruthie, a young journalist sent to interview Jerry, an older man who as a child was the central character of a series of classic childrens books written by his mother, the Adventures ...

  • Disney's the Kid Club

    Rebecca Gomez

  • Beauty for Ashes

    Linda Goodnight
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    School has never been as fun as when some special teachers fall in love. Enjoy modern classroom settings in these four inspirational romance novellas by authors Kristin Billerbeck, Linda Goodnight, Kristi Hickman, and Yvonne Lehman....

  • Bachelor Father

    Jean C. Gordon

    Brett Cahill is a typical bachelor. Someday he’ll settle down with a wife and have kids -- but just not yet. Then, his sister and her husband are killed in an accident, leaving him with Jake, the Korean toddler they were in the process of adopti...

  • For the Sake of His Child

    Lucy Gordon

    Single father in need of a wife! High-flying businessman Carson Page loves his young son, but Joey is deaf -- and Carson is unable to communicate with him. Gina Tennison feels for Joey -- she was once in his position herself. So for his sake, ...

  • Superstar

    Victoria Gotti

    A secret kept can be like a poison, destroying love, life, and passion. In Superstar, Victoria Gotti -- author of two sensational thrillers, The Senator's Daughter and I'll Be Watching You -- reaches chilling new heights as she offers the story of Ca...

  • Family Tree

    Carol Grace

    Home sweet home When struggling single mom Laura McIntyre sold her ranch and moved to town, she thought it would be a fresh start. But then her precocious son, Dylan, kept returning to his beloved tree house like a homing pigeon and ruffling the h...

  • New Earth: Rough Trails

    L.A. Graf

    Captain Kirk's latest voyage has brought him far into the final frontier. His new mission: to help a determined band of pioneers colonize a harsh and unforgiving world, defend the vulnerable settlers from the constant threat of alien invasion, and pr...

  • Miss Hildy's Missing Cape Caper

    Lois G. Grambling

    It's Halloween night, and someone has stolen Miss Hildy's sleuthing cape and cap. This gives Miss Hildy the perfect opportunity to use her detective skills. So she sets out to look for clues, wearing an old witch costume and carrying a spyglass. What...

  • The Bishop and the Missing L Train

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Millions of Blackie Ryan fans will be thrilled with his return in this exciting novel of mystery and suspense. The Vatican has just assigned auxiliary Bishop Gus Quill to the Archdiocese of Chicago over the violent protests of Blackie's boss Sean Car...

  • Going Out in Style

    Chloe Green

    Meet Dallas O'Connor, fashion stylist for the premier retail establishment in Texas, The Store. In her debut case, the savvy Dallas discovers that in the backstabbing business of fashion, jealousy, and revenge are suddenly in vogue. DRESSED TO KIL...

  • Civil War Fantastic

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A series of speculative stories offers a fresh look at America's bloodiest war, posing compelling "what if" scenarios for readers to contemplate, in an anthology featuring works by Nancy Springer, Catherine Asaro, Robert Sheckley, Mike Resnick, Josep...

  • Ellipsis

    Stephen Greenleaf

    Against his better judgment, John Marshall Tanner takes a job as a writer’s bodyguard Somebody wants Chandelier Wells dead. After years churning out bestselling bodice-rippers, she’s the best-known author in San Francisco, and she’s no stranger...

  • The Halls of Stormweather

    Ed Greenwood
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Halls of Stormweather, a novel in seven parts, is the first book in a series that explores the mean streets of a city where everything has its price and even the wealthiest families will do anything to survive! Ed Greenwood The creator of the ...

  • To Kill a Wife

    J.M. Gregson

    It is a will-known fact that most murder victims know their murderers -- usually very well. So when Verna Hume is found strangled in her own home the police immediately turn to her husband, and when it becomes apparent that the couple did not get on,...

  • Sable

    Mike Grell

    Jon Sable had it all, including a lovely wife and family--until poachers took it all away from him, killing those he loved and leaving him for dead. But only the civilized part of him died, and a savage instinct and hunger for vengeance survived. Now...

  • Under Cover of Darkness

    James Grippando

    The youngest lawyer ever to grab the helm of Seattle's most prominent law firm, Gus Wheatley has found success - as well at money, power, and prestige. He thinks nothing can interfere with his meteoric rise to the top. Until his wife, Beth, vanishes....

  • Freddi Fish the Big Froople Match

    Dave Grossman

  • Johnny Hangtime

    Dan Gutman

    It's a bird, It's a plane--no, It's Johnny Hangtime!Jumping off the Empire State Building, fighting on the wing of a biplane, and parachuting onto the back of a horse are all in a day's work for 13-year-old Johnny Thyme, a stunt kid known in the movi...

  • Isabelle and the Angel

    Georg Hallensleben

    Isabelle is lonesome and bored. When she's not painting with pink cake and strawberry jam, she goes to the Museum where she gazes at her favorite paintingthe one of the little Angel. Isabelle is smitten. And when the object of her affection comes to ...

  • Sold Down the River

    Barbara Hambly

    Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New Orleans society, Benjamin January brought murderers to justice in A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust. Now, in Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he risks his life in a violent pl...

  • Loving a Legend

    Lori Handeland

    The story of a lifetime Newspaper writer Maggie O'Shea had always dreamed of writing a thrilling Western novel and when she saw the clipping about famous gunslinger Ethan King, she knew she'd found the perfect inspiration for her book. Yet when she ...

  • Outback With the Boss

    Barbara Hannay

    Grace Robbins and her new boss, Mitch Wentworth, had managed to deny their attraction until they got lost together in the Australian wilderness. Away from civilization, their lives potentially in danger, their true feelings surfaced. Then they were r...

  • Blood Trail

    Jack Hanson

    Barlow becomes a protector to an imperiled Indian band in the fourth Wild Gun novel....

  • Down to the Bone

    Karen Harper

    Deep in the heart of a small Amish community lies a secret someone thought was buried forever. But one woman may have just unknowingly uncovered it.... Rachel Mast is doing alt she can to keep her life together one year after the tragic death of h...

  • Death Benefit

    Philip Harper

    A jogger falls to her death from a bridge in a Philadelphia park. A teenager dies when his bike collides with a bus. A young woman is found dead in a downtown office building. All the deaths can be explained. None results in the prosecution of a murd...

  • Not a Day Goes By

    E. Lynn Harris

    John “Basil” Henderson has always played the field, both as a professional football player and as an equal opportunity lover. After retiring his jersey for a career as a sports agent, the dashing playboy is surprising everyone -- including himse...

  • Malcolm's Honor

    Jillian Hart

    Malcolm le Farouche felt his blood race at the thought. Yet, was rage or passion the reason? He knew only that though Elinore of Evenbough would share his bed by royal command, the warrior-trained beauty was NOT to be trusted... with his life OR his ...

  • The Shepherd's Voice

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    A Man with a Past... For ten years, Gabe Talmadge languished in prison, convicted of a horrible crime. Now, he is free once again but unable to find work in the midst of the Great Depression. In desperation, Gabe returns to Ransom, Idaho, hoping that...

  • Little Witch's Bad Dream

    Deborah Hautzig

    Little Witch is back, and this time she's mad! At her cousin Bossy, that is. Cousin Bossy has come for a visit and makes Little Witch feel as if she can't do anything right. When Little Witch has had enough, she dreams of turning her magic on Cousin ...

  • Prophecy: Child of Earth

    Elizabeth Haydon

    In Rhapsody, a fellowship was forged--three companions who, through great adversity, became a force to be reckoned with: Rhapsody the Singer; Achmed the assassin-king; and Grunthor, the giant Sergeant-Major. Prophecy continues their powerful epic. Dr...