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New Books List: 498 titles


  • Lynn Abbey

    She can travel to any place--or any moment--in time. But the one person she wants, she can't find.... Emma Merrigan was living the most ordinary of lives. But then her long-lost mother, Eleanor, gave her access to another world and to powers she n...



  • Tony Abbott

    Somebody has robbed the Lumpies' village! And it can't be Lord Sparr -- because he has mysteriously disappeared. The rumor is that a terrible beast is behind the crime. So Eric, Julie, and Neal set off with Khan and Princess Keeah to find the creat...



  • Anna Adams

    Cate has decided her marriage is over. Much as she loves her husband, she can no longer live with him. But after she tells him she's going -- and before he can even start to win her back -- an accident robs her of her memory. Amnesia is frighteni...



  • Lydia Adamson

    When the body of her free-spirited friend Rose turns up in a shallow grave alongside her two dogs, veterinarian-turned-sleuth Deirdre Nightingale sets out to find the killer, but she soon discovers that Rose may have been leading a double life as a w...



  • Elizabeth Adler

    Paris: the most romantic city on earth. A place of second honeymoons and newly discovered passions. A banquet of tastes, sounds, sights, and smells. And for Lara Lewis, it is the place where she and her husband once experienced love at its best. Now,...



  • Ginny Aiken

    Outgoing, compassionate, young widow Camellia Bellamy Sprague finds her peace of mind shattered when her trusted doctor retires--in the final trimester of her pregnancy. Worse yet, his replacement is altogether too attractive for Camellia's comfort. ...



  • Carrie Alexander

    ZACK IS BACK... Legendary bad-boy Zack Brody comes home and the women of Quimby are on the warpath. The charming rogue has broken every heart in town...except one. Newcomer Cathy Timmerman is just the bait they need to get even -- they'll give her...



  • Meg Alexander

    A young woman disappears. A husband is suspected of murder. Stirring times for all the neighborhood. In this quiet village neighboring Steepwood Abbey, India Rushford had a decision to make -- consent to be Anthony, Lord Isham's reluctant brid...



  • Harper Allen

    "SHE'S OURS." No words could terrify Julia Stewart more. After two years of hiding, of dreaming about darkly sensual police detective Cord Hunter, and the life she'd left behind, Cord had found her. And he'd brought their orphaned goddaughter -- a...



  • Cynthia G. Alwyn

    Brenna Scott is the founder of a volunteer search team in Sacramento, California, a group of people with their specially trained dogs ready when needed. When a series of children go missing, however, the team is pitted against an especially clever an...



  • Caroline Anderson

    An emotional emergency In the seven years since their breakup, Sally has had to come to terms with some strong emotions. When Nick Baker suddenly turns up at the Audley emergency department, Sally cannot face having him in her personal life again....



  • Catherine Anderson

    One glance. That's all it takes. Wealthy rancher Ryan Kendrick falls hard - and fast - for lovely Bethany Coulter. A beguiling mix of sass and shyness, naivete and maturity, she shares his passion for horses, has a great sense of humor, and can light...



  • V.C. Andrews

    Cinnamon loves the shadows, because that's where no one can find her.... For Cinnamon, dreaming of imaginary worlds and characters is her only escape from her mother's breakdowns. Her grandmother's overbearing control. Her family's turmoil. But Ci...



  • V.C. Andrews

    FOUR GIRLS TOUCHED BY SPECIAL GIFTS. FOUR STUNNING NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS -- - TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME Cinnamon...She escaped her family''s turmoil by dreaming of imaginary worlds. But it''s her talent for the theater that gives Cinnamon a ch...



  • K.A. Applegate

    No one ever thought it would come to this. Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, Marco, and Ax know that even if they could have warned people in the beginning, no one would have believed their story. A story about an invasion of parasitic aliens. So for all...



  • Lindsay Armstrong

    The only solution to blackmail -- was marriage! Aurora poured her most intimate secrets into her diaries, so she was horrified that, by accident, Luke Kirwan now had them! He'd only return them on condition that Aurora agreed to date him.... ...



  • Judith Arnold

    Sometimes a father and his daughter have things to work out. Sometimes a woman can help, as widower Kevin Medina learns when he and one-year-old Alex meet Natalie Baines. Can Natalie be the mother Alex needs -- and the wife Kevin wants?...



  • Anne Avery

    GRAND HOUSE It was a huge old mausoleum, a place where p's and q's mattered more than people did. Kate had escaped it once, though it still haunted her dreams, along with bitter memories of the boy she'd loved. Now she was back to claim a forgotte...




  • Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy's been s...



  • Darice Bailer

    Mia Hamm has scored more goals than any other soccer player in the world. Shannon Miller has won the most medals of any American in the history of gymnastics. Women athletes are making headlines everywhere these days! You’ll read the inspiring, exc...



  • Beryl Bainbridge

    Bainbridge’s brilliantly imagined, universally acclaimed, Booker Prize-longlisted novel portrays the inordinate appetites and unrequited love touched off when the most celebrated man of eighteenth-century English letters, Samuel Johnson, enters the...



  • Christine Balint

    The sensuous evocation of a young woman's sea journey from refined England to the wilds of Australia. It is 1854, and with the certainty of land behind her, Sarah flees her home for the uncertainties of life in the new colony. In steerage, she joins ...



  • Mignon F. Ballard

    “. . . a compelling story, deftly and artfully told by a writer at the top of her form.” -- Robert Inman, author of Dairy Queen Days

    In the beginning, God created Sallie's Station. He molded it from red Georgia clay and Cherokee-brown rivers...



  • Nina Bangs

    Stranded by the side of a New York highway on Christmas Eve, hairdresser Kathy Bartlett wishes herself somewhere warm and peaceful with a subservient male at her side. She finds herself transported all right, but to Scotland in 1542 with the last man...



  • Leanne Banks
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    A royal wedding is in the works when a mix-up at the sperm bank leaves a smart-but-shy beauty pregnant with a prince's child in reader-favorite Leanne Banks's sexy story The Monarch and the Mom....



  • Linda Barrett

    Katherine Kirby has a new home and a new job. Houston, Texas, is a long way from Chicago, and teaching adults -- high school dropouts, most of whom haven't sat in a classroom for years -- is a far cry from teaching English at a prestigious university...



  • Neal Barrett Jr.

    Obeying a royal command can be hazardous to your health.... In a magical world where animals have been given human form and chaos can often be the nature of the day, some universal truths remain. Like the futility of war and the foolishness of lea...



  • Karen Grigsby Bates

    Who killed Ev and why? The three most likely suspects are Ev's competitors -- publishers of the country's other popular black magazines who all had plenty of good reasons to make sure Ev never received his Journalist of the Year award. With the he...



  • Donna Bell

    A Tale Of Love Sincerity Hartford's best intentions had run away with her again. Intercepting the letter announcing her Great Aunt Prudence's death and her inheritance of the lady's home in Bath seemed the perfect way to escape her mot...




  • Jeff W. Bens

    On a humid evening on the streets of New Orleans, Albert Fitzmorris thinks he sees an angel - a woman in a pale dress with a shimmering halo of golden hair. Watching as she floats up the steps of a French Quarter hotel, Albert imagines a new life, fr...



  • Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    In this 112-page illustrated chapter book, the Bear Family is looking forward to a fun-filled vacation at the lighthouse on Rocky Point Island. But shortly after arriving, events of a strange and spooky nature begin to unfold! Could there be ghosts l...



  • Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    There’s a new cub in Sister’s class. He’s a goofy, goony-looking guy. His ears stick out. His teeth stick out. His fur sticks out. Everything sticks out. He’s the goofiest, gooniest-looking guy you ever saw. Even his name is g...



  • Patti Berg
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    Sinfully Scottish, by bestselling novelist Berg, pits a handsome connoisseur of fine whisky--and willing women--against a cookbook author seeking scenic photo sites for her decadent desserts ... and finding an altogether different kind of sensuous fe...



  • Adria Bernardi

    A fictional account of the lives of sixteenth-century Italian artisans, artists, and peasants explores their different responses to similiar life-and-death experiences as they deal with the demands of fame, family, and art against the backdrop of a p...



  • Olga Bicos

    Sydney Shanks has never run from trouble and she's not going to start now. With plans for an art center underway and her divorce final, she's got everything to gain. But with her vengeful ex-husband, Russell Reck, out of jail, she's also got a lot to...



  • Kristin Billerbeck

    Nathaniel Pemberton left his Mississippi plantation upbringing to seek a golden fortune in California. He assumed nothing at home would change--that the place he remembered and the people he loved would endure forever. But then the War Between the...



  • John Billheimer

    HOME FIRES Transportation expert Owen Allison returns for a family emergency and is plunged into scandal, scams and murder down home in West Virginia. His eccentric aunt Lizzie claims to have shot a man in a truck on Dismal Mountain, where developer...



  • Beverly Bird

    The beautiful Philadelphia socialite with the drop-dead attitude wasn't exactly the kind of murder suspect Fox Whittington was used to. He couldn't figure out whether he should haul her off to jail -- or just take her in his arms and kiss her sensele...



  • Isobel Bird

    Ancient moon, O ageless traveler, sailing on the sea of stars, as once more you come to fullness, turn your shining face to ours. The second full moon of the month -- the blue moon -- is a time when powers are heightened, with unpredictable res...



  • J.H. Blair

    A collection of erotic short fiction by a number of leading contemporary authors features tales of sexual fantasy and sensuality by Russell Banks, E. L. Doctorow, Susan Minot, David Foster Wallace, Don DeLillo, Sue Miller, Gish Jen, Robert Stone, Fre...



  • Jennifer Blake

    How far will a mother go to save her child? What will a man do to protect the woman he loves? Janna Kerr's eight-year-old daughter is dangerously ill and she knows her last hope is an unscrupulous doctor who -- for the right price -- will help he...



  • Nero Blanc

    DOWN THE AISLE.... P.I. Rosco Polycrates and crossword editor Belle Graham are back for more puzzle and crime solving. This time they discover the ups and downs of married life -- and death... Everyone's favorite puzzle lovers -- Belle and...



  • Barbara Block

    Getting involved with the rich and their problems is never a good idea, as far as amateur P.I. Robin Light is concerned. But when the mercury is rising to a steamy level, the bills are unpaid, and the investigation promises real money, the only answe...




  • Norman Bogner

    Michel Danton, the brilliant investigator-hero of To Die in Provence, is back with a vengeance. Badly wounded the summer before, he is getting ready to marry Jennifer Bowen, the beautiful American art professor who saved his life. But then a girl's d...



  • Stephanie Bond
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    Michael Pierce has always considered costume shop owner Rebecca Valentine no more than an associate--until he drops by her shop one night and witnesses the mousy wallflower's transformation into a seductive siren. Suddenly, he's desperate to know he...



  • Geri Borcz

    HE WAS THE KIND OF MAN A SENSIBLE WOMAN WOULD STAY AWAY FROM... Long, lean, and dangerously attractive, Nick Colter isn't fit company for a lady, but Jamie Donovan can't afford to care about that. When her father died, he'd left behind too many ye...



  • Doug Bowman

    Doug Bowman, a staple of the western for decades, takes the genre to new heights in this story of a young man seeking fame and fortune in the wide open plains of Texas.Eli Pilgrim gave up his simple life as a pig farmer in Ohio to chase his dream on ...



  • C.J. Box

    "When a high-powered bullet hits living flesh, it makes a distinctive -- pow-WHOP -- sound that is unmistakable even at tremendous distance." And so it begins for Joe Pickett, a Wyoming game warden who, with the shot of a rifle, is thrust into a race...



  • Elizabeth Boyle

    INNOCENCE LOST A notorious rake, the Marquis of Bradstone stole young Olivia Sutton's heart... and then ruined her life. For seven years she has been forced to hide her past behind a false identity. And now the dashing scoundrel has returned a dif...



  • Laura Bradley
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    When summer reaches its peak, temperatures rise... Truth or Dare by Laura Bradley Undercover P.I. Shay McIntyre takes on the guise of a reporter to uncover who's behind the suspicious deaths of two bullriders, and finds herself locking horns ...



  • Marion Zimmer Bradley; Deborah J. Ross

    THE ERA OF THE HUNDRED KINGDOMS High in the mountainous Hellers, Corin Leynier, adolescent son of a minor nobleman, wakes from a nightmare of ravening forest fire, only to find that the fire is real. Running toward the fire lines, Corin fights to ...




  • Suzanne Brockmann

    THE RIGHT MAN FOR THE JOB? When it came to protecting the innocent, Bobby Taylor was your man. But when his best friend, Wes, asked him to keep an eye on his little sister, Bobby desperately wanted to pass. Because to him, gorgeous redhead Colleen...



  • Connie Brockway
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    Lassie Go Home, by award-winning and New York Times extended list bestselling author Brockway, tells the story of an American woman who flies to Scotland to collect a champion Border collie...and lands in a dogfight with the sexy laird who claims he&...



  • Steven Brust

    Okay, so maybe I've been living in the woods too long, where you can't even get a decent cup of klava first thing in the morning. So who should turn up but Lady Teldra, the courtly servant of my old friend the Dragonlord Morrolan? Teldra wants my he...



  • Bonnie Bryant

    Lisa’s on the trail ride of her life!Lisa Atwood and Carole Hanson are going to the Bar None Ranch to see their friend Kate. Of course, the Bar None means horses, but this year there’s also a cool archaeological dig going on nearby, and the girls...



  • William F. Buckley Jr.

    This is a novel about friendship, a novel that spans the decades that changed America forever.

    Orson is a young boy whose mother works at a U.S. Army base in Germany in the 1950s. There, he becomes a fan of a G.I. stationed at the base, one E...



  • Joe Buff

    Thunder in the Deep picks up where Deep Sound Channel left off, bringing to life a frightening seascape where technology pushes warriors to new extremes, and warriors push technology to the max. This time the difference between victory and defeat hin...



  • Lynn Bulock

    Laurel Harrison longed to return to Missouri, and when her sheriff father fell ill it seemed to Laurel to be a message from above telling her to leave California behind. And she hoped that by moving back she would finally find a home for her restless...



  • Mary Burton

    Cole McGuire needed a good reason to return to White Stone, Colorado -- and when he learned that he had fathered a son, it was time to return and claim what was rightfully his. But the town was hiding something, and he had a feeling he knew who was b...



  • Howard Buten

    “[A] graceful and brilliant novel . . . leads the reader on a journey through childhood autism that proves enlightening as well as fascinating.” -- ForeWord Magazine   Burton Rembrandt has the sort of perspective on life that...



  • Pat Cadigan

    Detective Lieutenant Doré Konstantin is up against it.

    Konstantin is Chief Officer in charge of TechnoCrime, Artificial Reality Division. It sounds better than it is - in fact, the AR Division consists of three people and a case load of nearl...



  • Barbara Calamari

    Angela Anaconda can't believe her luck. For starters, Nanette Manoir is absent from school, and Angela gets to be in charge of the Spring Fling decorating committee! Find out why being in charge isn't all it's cracked up to be. Then, in a second stor...



  • Gayle Callen
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    When summer reaches its peak, temperatures rise... Compromised by Gayle Callen Country baron John Malory nobly offers to wed Lady Elizabeth Stanwood when they are caught together alone in a garden. Elizabeth never expected to be compromised -- or...



  • Kate Cann

    Dear Mike, Arrived at the old villa 3 days ago. It's all blue shy, white walls and heat here -- you'll see. Jade's's already heading for trouble and I can't suss Sarah out. Hope you and your mates are having a blast on your trek, especially witho...



  • Diane Carey

    STAR TREK CHALLENGER Dangerous remnants of an extinct interstellar civilization, the Gateways connect the Alpha Quadrant with the farthest reaches of the galaxy. Hidden away in various corners of the universe, the ancient portals could be the future ...




  • Melody Carlson

    “We’ll always be best friends!” "That afternoon Mr. Jones read to them from Torn Sawyer, and when he reached the part about blood brothers, Judith knew just what she and Jasmine should do. Hidden behind an oak tree, the little girls jabbed the...





  • Tori Carrington

    Connor McCoy -- Strong. Serious. He's the last McCoy bachelor -- and he intends to keep it that way.... Bronte O'Brien -- Smart. Savvy. She's lusted after Connor for years. And now she has him right where she wants him.... U.S. Marshal Conno...



  • Jacqueline Carrol

    While spending a week in Chicago on their senior class trip, Kerri learns some surprising things about Matt's relationship to her stalker, and Jessica finds out that her sister has dropped out of college and fears she may be on drugs....



  • Jenny Carroll

    Ghosts aren't dogs. They don't come when you call them. But sixteen-year-old Suze sure wishes that Jesse--the hot guy ghost who won't quit haunting her bedroom would show up right now. Because Suze -- a mediator, someone who helps guide wayward sp...



  • Hugh B. Cave

    HAITI IS HOME TO THE MOST POWERFUL AND MOST EVIL, VOODOO MASTER. MANY THOUGHT HE TO BE DEAD AFTER A FIREY ATTEMPT TO DESTROY HIM, BUT HE SURVIVED, SCARRED, DEFORMED AND AS POWERFUL AS EVER. NOW, WITH THE AID OF DARK FORCES AT HIS COMMAND, HE SETS IN ...



  • Jeanne Cavelos

    The explosive space epic continues, as the techno-mages come face-to-face with the devastating evil of the Shadows . . . War against the Shadows is inevitable, and the ruling Circle has ordered the techno-mages into hiding. Many are unhappy with t...



  • Victoria Chancellor

    Love is Blind Folks in Ranger Springs know Gray Phillips is the perfect blind date -- they just can't persuade the gallant, sexy entrepreneur to date the same woman twice! Then Dr. Amy Wheatley's father gets in cahoots with the town matchmakers to...



  • Dan Chaon

    In this haunting, bracing new collection, Dan Chaon shares stories of men, women, and children who live far outside the American Dream, while wondering which decision, which path, or which accident brought them to this place. Chaon mines the psycholo...



  • C.J. Cherryh

    Marak has suffered the madness his entire life. He is a prince and warrior, strong and shrewd and expert in the ways of the desert covering his planet. In the service of his father, he has dedicated his life to overthrowing the Ila, the mysterious et...



  • Lee Child

    Hitching rides is an unreliable mode of transport. In temperatures of over a hundred degrees, you’re lucky if a driver will open the door of his air-conditioned car long enough to let you slide in. That’s Jack Reacher’s conclusion. He’s adrif...



  • Maureen Child

    U.S. Marine Jeff Hunter never anticipated the five words Kelly Rogan greeted him with upon his homecoming. Learning he was a father shook him clear down to his military boots. But once he held his little girl in his arms, he knew he'd do anything to ...



  • Chronicle Books

    Emergent readers can explore the Arctic tundra with a pack of sled dogs or go sailboating into the middle of a wild storm in five exerpts taken from exciting picture books by Betsy Byars, Arnold Lobel, and others. Simultaneous....



  • Chronicle Books

    New readers can meet two grandmas who disagree about everything and two siblings who scramble to cover their tracks before Mom and Dad get home, in a collection of easy-to-read tales by Marc Brown, Cynthia Rylant, and others. Simultaneous....



  • Robert Claiborne

    A colorful compendium of everyday words and phrases and where they originated. The English language is a treasury of splendid mysteries, among them the many words and phrases whose origins we no longer know. Often the original meaning was literal, pe...




  • Lucy Clark

    The consultant's wife? Dr. Sally Bransford had her work cut out trying to impress her new boss, orthopedic surgeon Jed McElroy. He couldn't see past the powerful Bransford name, even though everything she had achieved in her career had been on her...



  • Robert Clark

    A beautifully written story of love, idealism, and our recent history. Amid the crises of the summer of 1968, two teenagers become lovers. Emily is a good Catholic girl, for whom an incarnate God means joy and contentment in the life of the body. Wil...



  • Pearl Cleage

    Since Joyce Mitchell was widowed five years ago, she's kept herself occupied by running the Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services to young women at risk, many of whom are single mothers. But some nights, home a...



  • Peter Clement

    On an isolated stretch of highway in Oahu, a woman cradles her dying son in her arms. In the days that follow, an autopsy draws a shocking conclusion: the boy, his lungs filled with blood, died of a disease previously found only in birds. On the othe...



  • Andrew Clements

    MEET JAKE DRAKE, KNOW-IT-ALL Jake Drake is excited about Despres Elementary School's first science fair. He wants to win the grand prize: a brand-new Hyper-Cross-Functional Bluntium Twelve computer system. And he really wants to beat the third-gra...



  • David Adams Cleveland

    Common sense dictates that it simply cannot exist -- the "Leopardi Madonna," a glorious treasure by the fifteenth-century master Santi Raphael. All the reference books and reliable scholarship indicate that the painting was destroyed in 1945, when th...



  • Jan Coffey

    Attorney Sarah Rand returns home from abroad to discover she is a dead woman. In shocked disbelief she realizes the murder victim mistakenly identified as her was really her best friend. No one knows Sarah's still alive -- except the killers still hu...



  • Henry Cole

    The companion to Warthogs in the Kitchen: A Sloppy Counting Book introduces readers to primary and secondary colors as a pack of warthogs do some wild painting in order to entertain themselves on a rainy day....



  • Jane Candia Coleman

    2001 Five Star hardcover, Jane Candia Coleman (The White Dove: A Celebration of Father Kino). Sara Marcello, a writer with roots in Italy, is invited to the island villa of Ugo and Olivia Bellini, two wealthy and worldly antiquarians. In this place o...



  • Lynn A. Coleman

    The past has left deep scars on Lizzy an Mo... Daniel "Mo" Greene wears those scars in ugly stripes across his back--where his master once beat him again and again. Lizzy Hunte was born free and never suffered under slavery's dark curse--but she l...



  • Cara Colter

    Due to a mysterious bequest, Abby Blakely had just inherited her dream house -- complete with a cranky ex-cop her little girl decided would make a perfect daddy! Ruggedly handsome, Shane McCall was husband-material. Except he had a little problem wit...



  • John Connolly

    Haunted by the murder of his wife and daughter, former New York police detective Charlie Parker retreats home to Scarborough, Maine, to rebuild his shattered life. But his return reawakens old ghosts, drawing him into the manhunt for the killer of ye...



  • Monte Cook

    The Dark-Matter books are set in a world of paranormal conspiratorial horror. Fans of horror will find these books edgy, unique, and engaging, and the series design emphasizes the contemporary nature of the books.

    Escorting a mystic computer h...



  • Wilma Counts

    When Tempers Flare And Sparks Fly... Once Harriet Kingsley was an impoverished, starry-eyed schoolgirl. Now, a little older and much wiser, she is a young widow with vast riches--and a life of her own. No high-and-mighty gentleman, not even Lord M...



  • Joy Cowley

    A delicately layered story about a man remembering an amazing childhood adventure with three elderly nuns in an old car. It portrays Catholicism as it is rarely seen: mysterious, quirky, but ultimately nurturing....



  • Greg Cox

    "The most critical period in Earth's history." -- Gary Seven, Supervisor 194 Even centuries later, the final decades of the twentieth century are still regarded -- by those who know the truth of what really happened -- as one of the darkest and most...




  • Ann Howard Creel

    The inspiration for the beloved film that became a TikTok sensationAn extraordinary tale of one woman’s journey of resilience, courage, and self-discovery amidst the turmoil of World War II.Olivia Dunne, a studious minister’s daughter who dreams ...



  • Kathleen Creighton

    PARTNERS IN CRIME? When agent Ellie Lanagan's "husband" was suddenly taken ill, she knew she needed a replacement, pronto. The least likely candidate for the job: seeming drifter McCall -- no last name, just McCall -- who had saved her neck three ti...



  • Laura Crum

    Veterinarian Gail McCarthy has been working with horses for years and will in fact take over the practice when her boss retires. She has seen many different problems, but nothing could have prepared her for her newest call.

    Early on a Saturday...



  • Jacquie D'Alessandro

    Ryan Monroe is finished with women! After giving his latest girlfriend, Ms. You-mean-I-cant-sleep-around?, her walking papers, he heads off to the mountains for a little R & R. The last thing he expects to find in his friend's backwoods cabin is a wo...



  • Chris D'Lacey

    Though reluctant to correspond at first, Guy and Annabelle become fast cyber-friends, but their budding relationship creates havoc when they start to speculate about what caused the feud between their fathers. Original....



  • Cory Daniells

    In a world of treachery and magic, a warrior princess must face an unknown Mitre--while her past conies back to haunt bee... Fair Isle was once a lush and lovely land, renowned for its wealth and elegance. Now its fields lie blackened by barbarian...



  • Lilian Darcy

    In-flight attraction... From what paramedic Anna Brewster had heard about Finn McConnell, her new colleague on Tasmania's air ambulance service, she didn't think she would even like the man. When a powerful attraction flowed between them she knew ...



  • Ellen Datlow

    Ellen Datlow has been nominated for the Hugo Award for best editor and has won the World Fantasy Award. In Vanishing Acts she has gathered together an extraordinary group of stories, including a long novella by Ted Chiang, that cohere around the idea...




  • Betty Davidson

    Seduction is...A Knight in Shining Armor Dear Reader, I am an Earl in title alone. My lands were taken from me in a war between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists. By allying myself with the former, swearing allegiance with Henry VI, I have be...



  • Dee Davis

    Former CIA agent Matthew Broussard came to Vienna to catch a killer. But when his only lead is shot dead, he is left without answers and with an injured witness in his arms. The enticing young woman may be his last chance to resolve the tragedy that...



  • Nageeba Davis

    Meet artist Maggie Kean, an amateur sleuth from the high country of Colorado who has to deal with some very low people. Art teacher and sculptor Maggie Kean thought she was having a rotten day--by eight a.m., she'd burnt her toast twice and stubbe...



  • Patrick A. Davis

    Retired Air Force investigator Martin Collins is called in when Colonel Margaret Wildman and her two young children are found brutally slain, and as he wades through a morass of clues, he uncovers a deadly conspiracy leading to the highest levels of ...



  • Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

    What can you do with a shoe? You can put it on your ear or wear it on your head, or butter it like bread or use apple jam instead. On every page of this playful book there are questions and laugh-provoking answers, in a game played by a little girl a...



  • Roxann Delaney

    Cowboys! Ellie Warren had met enough arrogant men on the rodeo circuit to last her 10 lifetimes. She had plans -- and they didn't include a hard-bodied, blue-eyed distraction named Chace Brannigan. But with just one kiss from the bronc-riding champio...




  • Denny Demartino

    Terrapol Lieutenant Artemis Hadrien and forensic astrologer Philipa Cyprion join forces to investigate the bizarre death of Duriken Sunteel, a woman who had been murdered while attempting to bring a dead world back to life. Original....



  • Georgina Devon

    The Earl of Ravensford was used to getting what he wanted. Yet his mother's enchanting new companion, Mary Margaret O'Brien, turned down his offer -- twice! -- to make her his mistress. How could he convince her to be his -- mind, body and so...



  • Diana Diamond

    IS SHE A DREAM COME TRUE... Gordon and Ellie Acton are the ultimate power couple: beautiful rich pillars of New England society. As a congressional candidate, Gordon is on the verge of political triumph and too well aware that his wife longs to e...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    He's the main dish! Shy and quiet doctor Mimsy Miles is positive she's going to be single for the rest of her life. All the good men in Nowhere Junction are married and there's no way she's going to settle! When a mysterious and sexy stranger rides ...



  • Charlyne Dickerson

    Jennifer Johnson, has a problem with men, pigeon-holing them according to her past disillusionments. She meets Michael, the dazzling lawyer, at a party. He's irresistible, polished, and too much of a man for Jennifer to ignore. But after seeing him l...



  • Eric Jerome Dickey

    Nicole made a bold move by dumping her fiancé at the altar. From there, she's built a successful career, relocated north to Oakland, and fallen in love all over again -- this time with a woman. But Nicole's still not entirely happy. Don't get her wr...



  • Debra Dier
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    The Maddening Highlander, by the incomparable Dier, features an absentminded American professor who discovers that she has a lot to learn on the trail for a hidden Scottish treasure. And lain Matheson is just the man to do the teaching!...



  • Stephen Dobyns

    In his first collection of stories, Stephen Dobyns, one of our most accomplished writers, examines the lives of men and women challenged by their own uncontrollable, illogical natures: poets with free floating guilt, spouses with unacceptable sexual ...



  • Tim Dorsey

    A megatwisted tale of politics in the land of the hanging chad... The Republicans' "golden boy" -- and a loyal, unquestioning tool of the powerful special interests -- handsome, unthreatening, Florida governor-by-default Marlon Conrad seems a virt...



  • L. Warren Douglas

    LIFTING THE VEIL OF YESTERYEAR The young apprentice mage, Pierette, discovers that the pages in the history books are fading away. Like stars going behind a passing cloud, the events that define the sunny world she loves are winking out one ...



  • Keith Douglass

    DOUBLE TROUBLE Without warning, China and Pakistan launch offensives against Nepal and Bangladesh. The U.N. Security Council is baffled--why would China ally itself with India's northern neighbor? Then they learn that the Chinese are secretly plan...



  • Teresa Edgerton

    The ensorceled gems that once held all humans in sway now power a hundred small kingdoms, but the monarchy of Mountfalcon is suddenly in dire peril.  For the Queen has unwittingly lost the realm-sustaining, jeweled Chaos Machine -- a castastroph...



  • Cassie Edwards

    Shawndee Sibley longed for satin ribbons, fancy dresses, and a man who would take her away from her miserable life in Silver Creek. But the only men she ever encountered were the drunks who frequented her mother's tavern. And even then, Shawndee's mo...



  • Susan Edwards

    BRAVEST OF THEM ALL White Dove had been raised to know that she must marry a powerful warrior. The daughter of the great Golden Eagle was required to wed one of her own kind, a man who would bring honor to her people and strength to her tribe. Her...



  • Robert Elmer

    The fighting between Jews and Arabs before the British withdrawal from Palestine in 1948 brings hardship and danger to both Dov, the young Jewish refugee from Poland, and Emily, the daughter of a British officer....



  • John R. Erickson

    It's bad enough when Hank accidentally gets trapped in a cattle trailer and ends up stranded in town. Then he gets picked up by the local dog catcher and locked in a cage. But just when it looks like things couldn't get any worse, Hank meets up with ...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s looking for guns in all the wrong places!Longarm is assigned to recover a cache of Army rifles stolen out of Texas and smuggled across the border into Mexico. A wild bandit named Mendoza and a faction of insurgents known as Los Ninos de L...




  • Erica Farber

    Zoe is living the life of a princess in a world she never knew existed, far from her father and stepmother and her California school. The ice-blue charm she found in a fountain back in her old neighborhood must have something to do with her new life ...



  • Howard Fast

    “Howard Fast is fiercely American, he is one of ours, one of our very best.” -- The Los Angeles TimesOne battle will determine the fate of BostonThree thousand soldiers from the world’s greatest army are cornered in Boston, surrounded by farme...



  • Marie Ferrarella
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    An expectant single mom rescues a sexy widower's infant daughter and discovers the grateful dad has growing feelings for her and her unborn child in RITA Award-winning author Marie Ferrarella's heartwarming tale The Baby in the Cabbage Patch....



  • Marie Ferrarella

    Connor O'Hara had a family now. At least, he had a son. And a mother. And a whole mess of relatives he hadn't even known were his close kin. And then there was Lacy. Sweet Lacy Clark. Who'd suffered so much for bringing little Chase, his son, int...



  • Rosario Ferre


    The story of a prima ballerina and her acolyte, set in Puerto Rico in 1917.

    Flight of the Swan is the compelling story of a world-famous Russian prima ballerina who finds herself stranded on a Caribbean island in 1917, due to political uph...



  • 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...



  • James Ferro

    When they hear that Saddam Hussein is headed for a village right behind enemy lines, the A-10A Warthogs head into enemy territory to take out the Iraqi leader, rescue one of their pilots who is on the ground in the vicinity, and stop the Gulf War wit...



  • Katie Fforde

    PERDITA IS HAVING A VERY BAD DAY... For years, things have run quite smoothly for Perdita and her organic gardening business. So what if her hair needs a complete overhaul, her sweater has more holes than Swiss cheese, and there's no hope of a boyfr...



  • Christina Fitzpatrick

    Meet Tanya, Gwen, Emma, Mia, and Claire, five girls from the same hometown whose lives intersect under unforgettable circumstances. Tanya grows up with an abusive brother and a prostitute's daughter for a best friend. Gwen dreams of being a super-mod...



  • Marilou Flinkman

    Hope has not time for God. Why should she? When her mother was dying, God didn't answer Hope's prayers. Now, Hope immerses herself in science, where the world is concrete and definite, unwilling to entertain faith ever again. Hope is dismayed to ...



  • Eric Flint; David Drake

    AN EVIL The creators of the monster called Link once were human, but that was distant ages in their past. Now, from the far future, they have sent their creation back to shape the world of the 6th century AD into the form that will make their ...



  • Kitty B. Florey

    Wynn Tynan, a young woman growing up in rural Maine, has been raised by her accomplished parents to be an artist. When Wynn's idyllic life takes a brief wrong turn--she becomes pregnant as a teenager--her loving but dominating mother is determined th...



  • Linda Ford

    Chastity LaBlanc has lived her whole life in the Willow Creek boardinghouse, watching people come and go. Only her mother's presence has remained steadfast, and Chastity counts on that security. She never knew the father who abandoned her and her mot...



  • Gwynne Forster

    Out of deep affection and loneliness, schoolteacher Melinda Rodgers married a wealthy older man. Now, a widow at twenty-nine, she is stunned to learn that his will requires her to set up a charitable foundation and remarry within the year--or lose he...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    His wallet stolen by a one-night-stand, Bohannon still believes her to be the girl of his dreams. This weary world traveler decides as a matter of honor that he must pursue her. Recruiting a scout from the roughneck Caucasian castoffs of the New Guin...



  • Lori Foster
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    When summer reaches its peak, temperatures rise... Luring Lucy by Lori Foster All Lucy was looking for when she went to her vacation home was an innocent fling to quell the yearning she had felt since her husband died four years ago. She never ex...



  • Roz Denny Fox

    They call him "the baby cop" Ethan Knight, a detective in Desert City, Arizona, believes in putting children first. He's created an unofficial network of foster care for abused and abandoned kids; he's done this by calling on family and friends, c...



  • Dorothea Benton Frank

    Frank evokes a lush plantation in the heart of modern-day South Carolina -- where family ties and hidden truths run as deep and dark as the mighty Edisto River... Caroline Wimbley Levine always swore she'd never go home again. But now, at her brothe...



  • Lucy Frank

    Lucy's just started high school and already her life is a mess. She can't seem to find a date who resembles a human being. Ever since her great-uncle Max moved into her family's tiny apartment, Joy has had to share a room with her little brother, and...



  • Erica Fuentes

    Widowed single mom Valentina Vallardares is certain it's going to take more than an extended vacation on her godmother's Hawaiian ranch to heal her heartache. Warmly embraced by the fun-loving Saaverdra family, a reluctant Valentina is soon captivat...



  • John Fulton

    The stories in John Fulton's striking debut collection are set in cars, laundromats, motels, ranch houses, androadside diners, where his characters struggle with and against the demands of family loyalty, love, loss, andsexual desire. A teenage girl ...



  • Jane Gardam

    The Whitbread Award"winning author of the Old Filth trilogy captures a moment in time for three young women on the cusp of adulthood. Yorkshire, 1946. The end of the war has changed the world again, and, emboldened by this new dawning, Hetty Fallow...



  • Sally Gardner

    From wands, wings and fairy things to beauty products, fairy food and dream houses, The Fairy Tale Catalog takes care of all your fairy needs. Create and customize your very own fairy tale, attend a glamorous fairy wedding, raise a magical fairy gard...




  • John Gates

    Brigham Bybee, introduced in John Gates's acclaimed Brigham's Day, has withdrawn from the routine practice of law and purchased Piute Villa, a motel in Kanab, Utah - not because he particularly wants to own a motel with a large, concrete tepee in the...



  • Nancy Geary

    IN A WORLD OF WEALTH AND LIES, KEEPING UP APPEARANCES CAN BE A KILLER. Star prosecutor Frances Pratt returns to the Hamptons to a privileged community as darkly secretive as ever -- and to murder within her own family. Beneath gilded surfaces and be...



  • Roberta Gellis

    KISS ME, HEKATE! Hekate's father is the most powerful mage in Ka'anan, so when he commands her to murder the queen of Byblos and marry the king, she must obey or flee. When she learns from the seer Dionysos, whom she had bound herself to protect whe...



  • David Gemmell

    Eight hundred years have passed since King Connavar of the Rigante and his bastard son, Bane, defeated the invading army of Stone. Now the Rigantc have lost the freedom and culture so many gave their lives to preserve. Only one woman remains who foll...



  • Spirin Gennady

    Lavishly illustrated by award-winning artist Gennady Spirin, this spectacular collection gathers together six of the most beloved stories by master storyteller Hans Christian Andersen. The characters in these tales, from the loyal little mermaid to t...



  • Anne George

    A King-sized tale of hip-shakin' mayhem and murder most tacky. Oversized, outrageous Mary Alice and her prim sister Patricia Anne have been looking forward to the gala benefit being staged to raise money for the restoration of Vulcan, Birmingham's...



  • Melanie George

    It is whispered that Nicholas Sinclair is rogue enough to put his notorious brothers to shame. But one spirited female will discover that a passionate heart is hidden beneath the wicked charm of this... HANDSOME DEVIL Boston-bred Sheridan Dela...



  • Micaela Gilchrist

    Inspired by actual letters, The Good Journey breathes life into history with a richly imagined chronicle of twenty tumultuous years in the marriage of two American pioneers. Strong-willed Southern belle Mary Bullitt abandons her life of luxury in Lo...



  • Paula Gill

    Welcome to the passionate adventure of the Hope Chest series-- in which five irrepressible women find themselves swept back in time to the elegant Chesterfield Hotel, where they must perform one important task--a task that will unite their hearts wit...



  • Kathleen Givens
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    Castle in the Skye, by acclaimed tale-spinner Givens, introduces us to Maddie Breen, a thoroughly modern American about to collide with a Highlander whose romantic ideals are as ancient as the castle he's restoring ... where Maddie may just be able t...



  • Christine Goff

    The trouble couldn't have come at a worse time. Lark Drummond's luxury hotel is packed with hundreds of birding convention-goers. Her employees are driving her crazy. And now her friend and business partner, Esther, has cancelled the hotel's coffee s...



  • Christopher Golden; Rick Hautala

    When Jenna and Yoshiko hit Florida for a little fun in the sun during spring break, they become involved in a series of suspicious deaths, each of which prove to have some kind of mutation and had once worked for the government. Original....



  • Ron Goulart

    In Ron Goulart's well received series featuring comedian-cum-amateur sleuth Groucho Marx, Groucho and his writer Frank Denby have made a name for themselves as detectives. In fact, in their last case, they were able to outsmart Sherlock Holmes, or at...



  • Iris Gower

    When Kessie Danton travels to Norway to manage the Sonefjord Hotel she is shocked by the instant antipathy between herself and the owner's son. But is there a powerful attraction simmering?...



  • Patricia Grasso

    They were mortal enemies... But when he sought vengeance, she disarmed him, enticed him, and made him wonder how he could ever set his lovely captive free... She is Lily Hawthorne -- the only daughter of a Boston tavern owner, a delicate raven-hai...



  • Emily Grayson

    Twenty years ago he'd disappeared without a word, leaving her alone on their wedding day . . . Now Will Combray has returned, older, but still handsome and unpredictable, throwing Casey Becket's ordered life into chaos. After his cruel and mysteri...



  • Andrew M. Greeley

    Not just an ordinary priest but a priest/television superstar, idolized by the people of France, loved by everyone except, of course, the French hierarchy, the Church, the state, and the Paris television community. The Archbishop of Paris, famili...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of original fantasy tales follows the exploits and adventures of trained assassins and killers for hire in works by Tanya Huff, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Josepha Sherma, P. N. Elrod, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Rosemary Edghill, Jane Lindskold...



  • Robert Grossbach

    When Zack Zaremba graduates form engineering school, he wants little more from his career than to do useful, interesting work. It is not long, however, before life becomes more complicated: He's assigned to an Air Force contract with impossibly diffi...



  • JoAnn A. Grote
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    Join brave women who take on wars, social injustices, and westward expansion, living to find love and build a legacy in these nine stories of historical romance. From Virginia west to Oregon, meet Lucy, a nurse; Helen, a bookkeeper; Permelia, a farme...



  • Geri Guillaume



  • James Gunn

    A tragicomic novel about nostalgia, addiction, and 1970s action figures.

    The Toy Collector is a wickedly funny portrait of a young man who sells stolen pharmaceuticals to finance his growing addiction to memorabilia. An orderly at a Times Sq...



  • Denise Hamilton

    The victim is found dead in a chic shopping center parking lot, her two-carat engagement ring still on her finger. To the cops, it's a routine carjacking gone bad. But L.A, Times reporter Eve Diamond thinks there's more to the story. Searching for...



  • Elizabeth Harbison

    Once Upon a Time...struggling waiter Nick Chapman woke Megan Stewart's sleeping passions with tender kisses, capturing Megan, heart and soul. Then she learned the truth -- Nick was Lord Nicholas Chapman, heir to the Earl of Shrafton...and promised to...



  • E. Lynn Harris

    When her wedding to John “Basil” Henderson didn’t come off as planned, Yancey Harrington Braxton flew off to L.A. and remade herself as mega-diva Yancey B. And Basil started concentrating on his career as a high-powered sports agent. But the...



  • Jillian Hart

    MATTHEW SHERIDAN WAS THE ANSWER TO HER PRAYER... Contrary to her matchmaking Nanna's belief, Hope didn't long to land a husband -- and her old pal wasn't looking for a wife. But that didn't stop Hope from secretly wondering what if...? What co...



  • Sonya Hartnett



  • David G. Hartwell

    Tales As Deep As Legend And As New As Dawn Acclaimed editor David G. Hartwell has gathered a harvest of shimmering beauty and powerful writing in this inaugural volume of the very best fantasy from the last year. Established masters rub elbows wit...



  • Richard Hatch; Stan Timmons

    The battlestar Galactica and the colonial fleet are still are in serious trouble. Their last encounter with the Cylons have left them crippled and exhausted and depleted of food and fuel. And they are still in Cylon space. But Commander Apollo's next...



  • Robin Lee Hatcher

    A realistic portrayal of a woman committed to God despite her circumstances. Miriam's unwavering faith throughout the decades of her life not only sustains her, but also impacts the lives of those around her in miraculous ways. Fans of Francine River...



  • Kate Hawks

    An enigmatic stranger arrives at Bess' father's tavern hiding a bullet wound and two secrets: that he is the notorious highwayman sought by the king's soldiers, and that there is a noble purpose behind his crimes. The love that overcomes them is ...



  • Patrick Nielsen Hayden

    Starlight 3 is third volume of in Patrick Nielsen Haden's original anthology series, which includes short stories from Susanna Clarke, Cory Doctrow, Stephen Baxter, Maureen F. McHugh, and Jane Yolen.Since its debut in 1996, Starlight has been recogni...




  • Sarah E. Heller / S.E. Heller

    Team Rocket follows Ash and Pikachu as they visit the city of Florando, but as Team Rocket tries to steal all the performing Pokâemon in the city, Pikachu and his new friend Bellossom, a Flower Pokâemon, must stop them....



  • Dee Henderson

    Women are missing. Amy Ireland disappeared twenty years ago without a trace. For U.S. Marshal Quinn Diamond, it's a case that has never closed. He's still searching--determined to learn the truth. They are turning up dead. Lisa O'Malley is a...



  • Virginia Henley

    1514. Raven Carleton is every inch the English lady. But on this glorious morning, as she gallops along the seacoast, Raven is thinking about her freedom, not her imminent betrothal to aristocratic Christopher Dacre. Suddenly Raven is forced to draw ...