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New Books List: 521 titles


  • Kobo Abe

    From the acclaimed author of Woman in the Dunes comes Secret Rendezvous, the bizarrely erotic and comic adventures of a man searching for his missing wife in a mysteriously vast underground hospital.

    From the moment that an ambulance appears ...



  • Lydia Adamson

    New York guidebook author Louis Montag can't seem to get any writing done--not with his hyper cat, Brat, pawing at words on his computer t screen. Enter actress and sleuth Alice Nestleton. For a few hours a week, she agrees to house-sit and look afte...



  • Elizabeth Adler

    She needed a life... Gemma Jericho is an overworked New York doctor with a handful of a teenaged daughter and a mother who worries that Gemma has no life. So when her mother receives a mysterious letter telling her about an even more mysterious i...



  • Meg Alexander

    HER ENEMY...OR HAD SHE JUST MET HER MATCH? The Earl of Rushmore might be the catch of the ton, but that did not stop Perdita from accidentally on purpose stamping on his toe! Well, in her opinion he deserved it! The Earl had secretly been rathe...



  • Elaine Marie Alphin

    A WAY OUT... Cameron Miller is the son of a murderer. All he has ever known is the stench of the locked cellar, where he can hear the blows and cries showering down from upstairs, and his father's torrent of terror and abuse. His life is a nightmare...



  • Steve Alten

    Commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the "unsinkable" naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from the depths and sunk. As Rocky struggles to stay alive, a monstrous mechanical steel stingra...



  • Judy Alter

    She was born Martha Baird, but history will always remember her as Etta Place, the woman who rode with the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang, the outlaws led by Butch Cassidy and Etta's lover, the Sundance Kid. Butch and Sundance are two of the most famous outla...



  • Sylvia Andrew

    When poor relation Deborah Staunton finds herself destitute, through no fault of her own, she is thrown on the mercy of the Percival family. Help presents itself in the highly eligible shape of Hugo Percival. Could he ever consider her as a possible ...



  • K.A. Applegate

    The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty new science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action!

    Three groups race to gain control of the ship and...



  • Vivien Armstrong

    Disbelieving the conviction of her boyfriend, Inspector Laurence Erskine, that a murder at an art club is the work of terrorists, Judith Pullen enlists the help of her former boss, Ralph Arnott, to uncover the truth....



  • Jim Arnosky

    A poignant story of a sea turtle mother who lays her eggs late one night, this is also a subtle story about how important it is for mothers to take care of themselves for their children's sake. Dramatic and perfect for beginning readers, this book te...



  • Kay Arthur

    Kay Arthur's popular Discover 4 Yourself® Inductive Bible Studies for Kids continues in this exciting exploration of the power of prayer.

    As members in God's Special Forces, kids train to be communication experts. Using the illustration of ...



  • Gwyneth Atlee

    The Truth Can Be The Hardest Thing To Tell June 26, 1862 I'm not sure I can go on with this, no matter what Michael says. He's my brother, not my conscience. How do I tell him that it seems my own name, Charlotte Randolph, has come to mean ...



  • Louis Auchincloss

    From a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, short stories of the privileged class, spanning a century of New York history:“Urbane, humorous . . . a treat to read.” -- Library Journal Sublime master of manners, exquisite criti...



  • Annie Auerbach

    After Wendy leaves, Muck and Dizzy are left on their own to finish building Mrs. Potts new garden path, but things go badly and soon Dizzy must reorganize in order to get things back on track to finish the job right. Original....



  • Anne Avery

    Marriage Should Not Make Headlines... But the day his wife threw his underwear out the window, reporter J. R. Abbott realized their rocky romance was banner news. Caroline Rhodes Abbott might as well have splashed the truth across the front page: ...



  • Stella Bagwell
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    The bride's big adventure was escaping her handpicked fiance in the arms of a hot-blooded cowboy! And from the moment Gloria Rhodes said "I do" to rugged Spencer Tate, she dreamed their wedded bliss would never end!...



  • Stella Bagwell

    BREAKING THE BACHELOR VOW Handsome playboy Jared Colton became town hero the day he saved a toddler trapped in a drainage pipe. The tot's mom was none other than Comanche beauty Kerry WindWalker, the only woman in the state of Oklahoma who was immun...



  • Roz Bailey

    LIFE'S A PARTY, IF YOU CAN GET IN Bestselling novelist Zoey McGuire is positive that the only man who will ever see her naked again is her gynecologist. It certainly won't be her conniving, lawyer ex-husband. The weasel has not only broken her hea...



  • Mary Balogh

    Kit Butler is cool, dangerous, one of London's most infamous bachelors--marriage is the last thing on his mind. But Kit's family has other plans. Desperate to thwart his father's matchmaking, Kit needs a bride ... fast. Enter Miss Lauren Edgeworth......



  • Steve Barlow; Steve Skidmore

    A wild ride through strange galaxies and unexpected adventures. But watch your step -- and don't step in anything gross or smelly along the way!

    The Outernet -- a web of intergalactic computer networks linked through Servers on different plane...



  • Steve Barlow; Steve Skidmore

    A wild ride through strange galaxies and unexpected adventures. But watch your step -- and don't step in anything gross or smelly along the way!

    The Outernet is a web of intergalactic computer networks linked through Servers on different plane...



  • Linda Barrett

    Apple picking in New England... For Abby MacKenzie, a few months working in an apple orchard -- far away from Los Angeles -- may be just what the doctor ordered. Hard physical labor, fresh air and nothing to remind her of the trouble at home. So sh...



  • Tanya Maria Barrientos

    Desperate to escape the pain of her past, a pregnant Dee Paxton leaves her affluent neighborhood for a job at Frontera Street Fabrics, a small shop in the barrio, where she finds a friend in Alma Cruz, a single mother who has her own secrets. A first...



  • Susan Bartlett

    The seven kids of Seal Island School are excited about the new family in town and their two children who will soon be attending their school, but when it is discovered that someone is damaging fairy houses around the island, their attention is redire...



  • Adrienne Basso

    Blessed with beauty, fortune, and noble birth, Lady Meredith Barrington puzzles the ton by choosing to remain single. Then a roguish bet placed by her younger brothers leads Meredith to impulsively flirt with -- and boldly kiss -- the handsome, brood...



  • John F. Bayer

    When Governor Patrick O'Brien is attacked and seriously injured, Lieutenant Governor William Benson appoints investigator Andrew Chapman to the case, because Chapman was once a member of a group which committed murder--a group known as the Brotherhoo...



  • M.C. Beaton

    'TIL DEATH DO YOU PART... Crankier than ever, Agatha Raisin wants to forget that her husband left her to enter a monastery--a turn of affairs more humiliating than when she caught him with a mistress. She feels abandoned, fat, frumpy, and absolute...





  • Madison Smartt Bell

    The only taste of life Jesse has known in his twenty years is bitter: his mother disappeared before he could talk, his father never got over being left, and Jesse’s presence seems only to kindle his father’s anger. Jesse’s talent is for music, ...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Meet Jessica Jones, one-time costumed heroine turned private investigator. After realizing that her powers were unremarkable compared to those of the icons in the Marvel Universe, Jones gave up being a super hero and eventually opened up a detective ...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    While on assignment to cover the murder trial of Wilson Fisk, the Kingpin of Crime, reporter Ben Urich finds himself spending more time with the catatonic son of Leap Frog, who is somehow connected to Daredevil....



  • A.H. Benjamin

    While watching the skies together, Mouse and Mole watch a falling star and then find it on the ground, but when they can't agree who rightfully owns the star, a fight begins and their special friendship is put to the test....



  • Heidi Betts

    Wade Mason has been to Hell -- and escaped. Shackled in iron manacles, the fleeing inmate arrives at Callie Quinn's house to claim his newborn son. But the beautiful angel who guards his child strips him defenseless by plopping the crying bundle ...



  • Jill Bialosky

    A novel by an acclaimed American poet, House Under Snow is a story of mothers and daughters, of sexual identity, of a family slowly disintegrating after the premature death of its patriarch. Anna Crane, soon to be married, reflects back on her c...



  • Helen Bianchin

    The marriage seduction! Ana had secretly hoped her marriage of convenience to Luc Dimitriades would turn into the real thing, yet one year after exchanging their vows he still seemed susceptible to the charms of his ex-mistress. Holding her head h...



  • Mark Billingham

    It is almost unthinkable that a single maniac would murder two women miles apart on the same day. Yet someone followed Carol Garner home from the train station and strangled her to death in front of her three-year-old son. And, afterwards, Ruth Murra...



  • Terri Blackstock

    Three socially mismatched teens are trapped in the school darkroom during a violent earthquake. Despite being raised in the same church, they consider themselves far too different to be friends - until they discover God had other plans. After being r...



  • Annette Blair

    An Unlikely Passion Widowed, penniless Sabrina Whitcomb isn't looking for romance. What she needs is a husband, and she knows well enough that romance and matrimony aren't always compatible. While providing for her twins and the child she ...



  • Nero Blanc

    DOWN THE WRONG TRACK Crossword editor Belle Graham and P.I. Rosco Polycrates are sharpening their pencils and their minds to solve this latest puzzler from the acclaimed author of The Crossword Connection... When Belle's deadbeat dad doesn&...



  • Stephanie Bond

    What's a little sibling rivalry... So there's some bad blood and bruised egos among the Metcalf sisters. At least they're reuniting. A cause to celebrate? Not for Justine, Regina, and Mica. Their parents are splitting up and the family business is go...



  • Baen Books

    LEADERSHIP MAKES ALL THE DIFFERENCE... . . . as history demonstrates. But there are other factors at work. Would Sir Francis Drake have as easily put paid to the Spanish Armada if a typhoon hadn't softened up the enemy first? What if history were gi...



  • Elizabeth Boyle

    THEY MET AT LONDON'S NOTORIOUS CYRPIAN'S BALL... Georgiana Escott has one night to find the perfect man to ruin her and leave her with a tattered reputation so she can avoid an arranged marriage to an aging, despicable roue. With a misstep...



  • Jean Brashear

    Ivy Parker is a woman who can't stop crusading. Now she's trying to save a dusty Texas town. She's also a woman who can't stop rescuing lost souls -- like Linc Garner, the impoverished carpenter who shows up one day at the cafe she...



  • Jimmy Breslin

    Fausti 'the Fist' Dellacava is the most feared mobster in all of Gotham. But running the family business is proving to be problematic as the Feds start closing in. So what's a mobster to do to stay out of the slammer? Fausti chooses to go down the in...



  • Rogenna Brewer

    She doesn't love a man in uniform. Professor Tam Nguyen knows that most women dream of a handsome, broad-shouldered military man. But she can never forget that the man who abandoned her pregnant mother in the middle of a war zone wore a uniform. Of c...



  • Connie Brockway
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    From two of romance fiction's most exciting and acclaimed authors comes the sizzling saga of a magnificent bed and the lovers who have shared it through the ages. Collaborating for the first time, Christina Dodd and Connie Brockway take readers o...



  • Sigmund Brouwer

    Postcard-perfect Hawaii proves to be anything but paradise when Ricky and the other Accidental Detectives stumble on an active volcano. This one threatens to destroy the hiding places of immigrants. What can the Accidental Detectives do to help -- wi...



  • Dale Brown

    Now, in Wings of Fire, the Air Force's General Patrick McLanahan--ostracized by the government, the military, even his own family--is near the end of his rope. And it's about to get worse. North Africa is in turmoil. The new Libyan president has h...



  • Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    Hidden in the Nevada desert is America's most advanced aerospace weapons-testing facility. Dreamland is the place where the nation's top minds come to develop artillery and aircraft that push beyond the cutting edge. And where the Air Force's top gun...



  • Marshall Browne

    Across Europe, a terrorist group opposed to globalization is killing executives who retrench large numbers of staff. The Italian Anders, with his extensive experience of terrorists, is called in to assist the French Police.

    It is not an assig...



  • Dixie Browning
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    Marrying a millionaire was exactly what Grace McCall was trying to keep her baby sister from doing. Not that Grace had anything against the groom -- it was the groom's arrogant uncle Chandler Daye who got Grace all hot and bothered. Hmm... maybe Grac...



  • Nina Bruhns

    LOVERS -- AND STRANGERS Grace Summerville's identical twin had disappeared without a trace in the shadows of New Orleans' French Quarter. And the only way to find her was to become her -- to masquerade as her wild, live-for-the-moment sister.... ...



  • D.W. Buffa

    A make-or-break case sends lone wolf lawyer Joseph Antonelli to the legal battlegrounds of San Francisco in this riveting novel from acclaimed legal thriller master D. W. Buffa. On a San Francisco street dark and dense with fog, somebody has shot ...



  • Robert Burleigh

    A young boy's interest in the great magician Harry Houdini takes him to the place of his latest escape trick where he soon begins to make the realization that confidence in one's own ability is the key to succeeding in anything one chooses to do....



  • Caroline Burnes

    Proud and fierce as the windswept sands he ruled, Omar Dukhan was sworn to protect his people and to guard their ancient secret. To keep lovely scientist Beth Bradshaw from exposing it, he became her desert guide. But when Beth's life was threatened,...




  • Bethany Campbell
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    Nothing much has changed in Crystal Creek... till now. Cindy Perkins and Teague Sloan Jr. have both been laid off from the Hole in the Wall Dude Ranch. Cindy is staying, but the man she loves insists he's leaving town....



  • Glynnis Campbell

    The Knights of de Ware Wealthy and powerful, the de Wares are one of the most respected noble families in England. The heirs to the de Ware legacy -- Duncan, Holden, and Garth -- are true warriors...and reckless lovers... Unlike his brothers, Gar...



  • Joanna Campbell

    Before Thoroughbred, Ashleigh Griffen lived at Edgardale, her family's farm in Kentucky. Nothing could be more perfect than life on the farm with her family, her favorite horses, and her best friend, Mona. Ashleigh loves helping with the ...



  • Catherine Cantrell

    Constance tells the compelling story of a writer hypnotized by the power of art and language, and about the woman who learns her secrets. The narrator, Morgan Clifford, is an editor at a prestigious New York publishing house whose youthful ideals and...



  • William Carman

    Beautiful illustrations accompany a spare text about a boy who hears a noise and bravely sets out to discover its source. Although he imagines terrible monsters (rendered in detailed black-and-white spreads that rival Chris Van Allsburg’s work) the...



  • Maud Casey

    Meet the college graduate working in a whole bodyâ€"donation clinic; a young woman obsessed with Benedictine monks; a middle-aged woman who becomes a stand-in talk-show guest; unlikely friends who meet in a domestic violence shelter; a young girl and...



  • Carla Cassidy

    "You're the one." Shy, scholarly Dr. Phoebe Jones blushed when sexy private investigator Kevin Cartwright uttered those words. But when the handsome ex-cop explained she was one of four lost siblings he'd been hired to find, she nearly fainted hea...



  • Mort Castle

    A collection of disturbing horror tales shows our world in a new, darker light, revealing the many terrifying things that await us in the shadows, around the corner, and in our very own homes. Original....



  • Ivan Cat

    On the beautiful world of New Ascension, a human colony desperately struggles to survive the fatal pathogen that affects all life-forms, human and alien, while Jenette Tesla, the daughter of the colony's ruthless leader, dedicates herself to finding ...



  • Sandra Chastain

    Poetry In Motion... Stunning Melissa Grayson, a veritable Helen of Troy in the Wild West, will do anything to satisfy her one burning passion -- teaching art and poetry to the children at Grayson Academy, the private school left to her by her belo...



  • Ted Chiang

    Previously published as Stories of Your Life and Others. Includes "Story Of Your Life," the basis for the major motion picture Arrival, starring Amy Adams, Forest Whitaker, Jeremy Renner, and directed by Denis Villeneuve.“A swell movie adaptation a...



  • Judy Christenberry

    A RANDALL THROUGH AND THROUGH One look at lovely Victoria Randall, and Dr. Jonathan Wilson knew he was headed for a showdown. She was sexy, smart and she lived right next door. Would the sassy singleton succeed in putting a wedding rope around his...



  • Joyce Christmas

    When Lady Margaret Priam and Betty Trenka take a Roman holiday, they discover a masterpiece of murder. A European vacation with her new friend, Lady Margaret Priam, is an excellent opportunity for suburban sleuth Betty Trenka to expand her horizon...



  • Mindy Starns Clark

    From award-winning author Mindy Starns Clark comes the fast-paced and inspirational Million Dollar Mystery series.

    Attorney Callie Webber investigates nonprofit organizations for the J.O.S.H.U.A. Foundation and awards the best of t...



  • Simon Clark

    Beneath the surface of the peaceful town of Leppington lurks horrifying creatures, thirsting for blood, who live in the shadows and only reveal themselves to their unlucky victims, but their evil existence is about to be exposed. Original....




  • Alana Clayton

    WILL THE SEARCH FOR SPIRITS TURN OF LOVE INSTEAD? Clearing Ellery Lawford, Lord Trent's country home, of ghosts is just another job for Miss Vanessa Grayson. After all, her ability to communicate with spirits is her only means of income -- and...



  • Jan Coffey

    A man awaits execution for a murder he did not commit... A woman returns to a place of scandal and death to save her brother... A small town's simmering secrets are about to ignite in a blaze of suspicion and deadly retribution... Twenty years ago...



  • Jane Candia Coleman

    This collection of 14 short stories is a journey of discovery and knowledge. From a young woman's first exposure to love to a woman facing the end of her long life, these stories envelop the reader in the metaphorical symbols of female life....



  • Cara Colter

    ONE DAY MY PRINCE WILL COME...BACK! Five years ago, all-American beauty Jordan Ashbury shared a long hot summer with Ben Prince -- a handsome European with much to hide. Yet when autumn arrived, Ben returned home, leaving Jordan with only sweet memo...



  • Claire Cook

    Voluptuous, sensuous, alluring and fun. Barely 40 DWF seeks special man to share starlit nights. Must love dogs. Sarah Hurlihy's second mistake is letting her sister write the personal ad for her. (Her first was answering one, and getting the su...



  • Ryanne Corey

    UNDERCOVER LOVER Wealthy Zack Daniels kept his fortune secret to ensure acceptance by his fellow cops. There was nothing Zack enjoyed more than fighting crime...until he found himself locked in a basement playing Truth or Dare with leggy blonde An...



  • Art Corriveau

    Set in a small Vermont town in the early decades of the twentieth century, Housewrights tells the story of Lily Willard, the town librarian, and her relationship with Oren and Ian Pritchard, housewrights who roam New England building houses for other...



  • Matthew J. Costello

    Freed from its long imprisonment, a malevolent force seeks the elimination of all humankind, and the only hope of survival lies in a few individuals who must brave the perils of a mysterious house which is intertwined with evil....



  • Catherine Coulter

    When Father Michael Joseph is viciously murdered in his San Francisco church, his identical twin brother, FBI agent Dane Carver, along with husband-and-wife team, Savich and Sherlock, is determined to find the monster responsible. There is a witness,...



  • Lucy Cousins

    Preschoolers are sticklers for playing with stickers - and who would they rather play with than Maisy?


    Loyal Maisy fans will love helping their favorite mouse and her friends at work and play - by completing these simple scenes with bright...



  • Lucy Cousins

    Preschoolers are sticklers for playing with stickers - and who would they rather play with than Maisy?


    Loyal Maisy fans will love helping their favorite mouse and her friends at work and play - by completing these simple scenes with bright...



  • Michael Craft

    During his distinguished career as a journalist, Mark Manning has seen it all--riots, murder, political corruption, and every manifestation of the dark heart of the human species. But even his proven emotional resources will be stretched when the hom...



  • DiAnna Crawford

    Set in Tennessee Territory in the early 1800s, A Home in the Valley is the story of widower Baxter Clay and Sabina Erhardt, an impoverished young woman desperate to escape an arranged marriage to a dangerous man. Expecting only to find safety, she fi...



  • Patrick Creevy

    Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in a nearly unanimous vote. Highest lifetime batting average in baseball. Highest lifetime number of runs scored. Second highest lifetime number of hits. The run of statistics goes on, making i...



  • Kathleen Creighton

    Thirteen years ago Eric Lanagan fled his tiny Iowa hometown with wanderlust in his heart and a vow never to return. And yet, all these years later, who should pull into the old family homestead but Eric -- now a world-renowned photojournalist -- with...



  • Barry W. Cunliffe

    In 320BC an expedition set out from what is now southern France on an unprecedented journey: to find out what lay beyond the pillars of Hercules (the mouth of the Mediterranean) in the mythological northern lands. Pythias' great journey was both the ...



  • William Cutrer; Sandra Glahn

    After a woman is rushed to the ER in shock from massive blood loss, second-year medical resident Julien “Red” Richison becomes suspicious about the procedures being practiced at the nearby “VIP” abortion clinic. Soon, with the help of Bet...



  • Barbara Daly

    CAN SHE HANDLE THE HEAT...? Sarah Nevins is beside herself. Twelve years ago, the love of her life vanished, and she never got over it. Then, out of the blue, Alex Emerson reappears, still as sexy as ever. The heat between them is intense, but Sarah...



  • Angie Daniels

    Former ugly duckling Keelen Brooks has been in love with his best friend Charity Rose since kindergarten. Back in school, he never felt he could measure up to the standards of Charity's high-school clique, the Cutie Pies, or to the smooth charisma of...



  • Jack Dann

    An entertaining anthology of short fiction by some of speculative fiction's biggest names--including Arthur C. Clarke, Kim Stanley Robinson, Michael Swanwick, Alastair Reynolds, Howard Waldrop, Jonathan Lethem, Ian McDonald, and Robert Reed--journeys...



  • Paula Danziger

    Amber awakes, ready for a perfect day at the county fair. She, her parents, and her best friend, Justin, and his family are in the Poconos on vacation. She's got it all planned . . . hot dogs, cotton candy, games, and wonderful rides. The morning tur...



  • Paula Danziger

    Amber Brown is excited to be starting second grade--and a little nervous, too. But Amber Brown decides she's ready for whatever happens, and second grade had better be ready for Amber Brown!...



  • Lilian Darcy

    HER SECRET HERO For months, heiress Lauren Van Schuyler didn't know the identity of the man who'd saved her life and that of her unborn child. He'd kept her calm and safe, then slipped away in the chaos of their rescue. But when she met her new bo...



  • Christine Davenier

    What makes Nina mad? Well, just the kinds of things that would make any kid mad -- Sometimes you talk about me like I'm not even there . . . When I want you fast and it takes you forever . . . When it's my turn to talk and nobody listens . . . that m...



  • Peter David

    They were dark and stormy knights...and when they had their way with a helpless tavern wench one terrible evening, they didn't know the product of that twilight brutality would be the rogue Apropos of Nothing. Through happenstance, Apropos becomes a ...



  • Carolyn Davidson

    U.S. Marshal Jonathan Cleary was a man with a plan: After one last undercover assignment, he'd claim a corner of the wide Texas sky and get hitched to the wild and carefree woman of his dreams. But Fate, disguised as Augusta McBride, came calling...



  • Diane Mott Davidson

    For Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz, business isn't just booming it's skyrocketing. Her friend Marla is constantly warning her, "Suceess can kill you." But Goldy doesn't take the warning literally until her next booking: a cocktail ...



  • Nageeba Davis

    It was to be the best night of Maggie Kean's life. Spotlights shone on her sculptures, on display for the public. The crowd was abuzz, the hors d'oeuvres delectable, and the room full--a total success. That is, until Maggie found a dead body in the g...



  • Patrick A. Davis

    After being unfairly denied promotion by a vindictive general, Air Force investigator Major Burton Webber resigned his commission in disgust. While working in his wife's shop outside South Korea's Osan Air Base, he's asked for help by an old friend f...



  • Elizabeth Dean

    C.J. Jansen, who works at a fledgling lesbian cable network run by her volatile ex-lover, Debbe Lee, is attracted to Maria Hernandez, her top writer, and when Debbe takes credit for their work, C.J. and Maria conspire to take over the network. Reprin...



  • Barbara Delinsky

    Lake Henry, New Hampshire, is buzzing over the annual maple syrup harvest...as well as the shocking revelation that longtime resident Heather Malone has been led away by the FBI, which claims the devoted stepmother and businesswoman fled the scene of...



  • Janelle Denison

    WHEN SHE WAS BAD, SHE WAS BETTER! Secretary Melodie Turner has languished in lust for her boss, P.I. Cole Sommers, for years...and now she's going to do something about it! Cole might be able to resist her sassy new hairstyle, barely there lingerie ...



  • Janelle Denison
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    Since they were teenagers, sparks have flown between Chloe Anderson and Gabe Mackenzie. Now, he's back in town to light a fire in the woman he's never been able to forget. When they sit down for a friendly game of poker, it turns into a game of seduc...



  • Traci DePree

    Weaving together the strong threads of family and friends in a pattern of grace, forgiveness, and kindness, A Can of Peas invites readers into a place where every day brings a new story and neighbors are more than just people who live down the road. ...



  • Teresa DesJardien

    Someone to Watch over Her Robinson Hollister, the sixth Earl of Rosegoode, inherited his title in a tragic fashion -- following the death of his older brother at Waterloo and his father's demise soon thereafter. Not accustomed to a gentleman&#...



  • Jude Deveraux

    She had a perfect life. Then she got a real life... For nearly twenty years, quiet, unassuming Lillian Manville has devoted herself to her self-made billionaire husband -- and enjoyed a luxurious life of splendid homes, trips, jewels, and clothes....



  • Thea Devine

    Decadence In the steamy Bliss River Valley of South Africa, a colony of aristocratic British citizens have given themselves over--body and soul--to a debauched and dissolute lifestyle. The stifling heat only intensifies their lust for every sin--a...



  • Howie Dewin

    TV's cutest kindergartners on are storming into theaters everywhere! The Girls' big-screen debut tells the story of how The Powerpuff Girls came to save the day for the very first time.

    From the creator of the Emmy-winning series comes a movie...



  • Matt Dickinson

    Deep beneath the Antarctic ice cap, scientist Lauren Burgess has discovered a secret that could change the face of human knowledge. Then a desperate mayday call comes in. Two explorers, one of them the legendary Julian Fitzgerald, are stranded out on...



  • Christina Dodd
    in

    From two of romance fiction's most exciting and acclaimed authors comes the sizzling saga of a magnificent bed and the lovers who have shared it through the ages. Collaborating for the first time, Christina Dodd and Connie Brockway take readers on an...



  • P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    Can the mysteries of Ancient Greece, and Alexander himself, be unravelled? Alexander the Great faces the challenge of the Persian Centaur in The Godless Man, the second novel in Paul Doherty's magnificent series. Perfect for fans of Gary Corby and Ma...




  • Nikki Donovan

    Passion Is A Powerful Ruler A madman's twisted ego brought them together. A king's command ripped them apart. But the single night of shattering erotic pleasure they shared has not dimmed in Fawkes de Cressey's memory. For three years he has waited ...



  • Lena Nelson Dooley

    Promises broken and hearts left bare. Olina Sandstrom is on her way to America to marry her fiancee, but in her heart, she carries a secret that stands like an insurmountable wall between her and God. Gustaf Nilsson is the eldest son, so he o...



  • Keith Douglass

    BOILING POINT The USS Jefferson is in the middle of the Pacific testing a top-secret missile defense system--while a Russian task force monitors every move they make. When the Russians are accidentally targeted, their retaliation is swift and seri...



  • Keith Douglass

    When local law officials investigate suspicious activity at an offshore California oil rig, one-by-one, they turn up dead. The situation calls for a covert underwater raid by the Navy SEALs. It turns out North Korea is secretly using the oil-rig plat...



  • Rosey Dow

    Angie has placed an ad for a mail-order bride. Angie McDonald's sister died three years ago, leaving Lane Phillips a widower and Angie in charge of her niece. But Angie wants to have her own life - marriage to Barry with a place and family of her...



  • Malachy Doyle



  • David Drake

    When the tariff dispute on Plattner's World exploded into war, the United Cities hired the best mercenaries money could buy: HAMMER'S SLAMMERS Lt. Arne Huber was old enough to be a veteran but still young enough to have principles. From his fir...



  • Sharon M. Draper

    Hope shines in the face of fear in this conclusion to Sharon M. Draper’s award-winning Hazelwood High trilogy.In her senior year, things are finally looking a little brighter for Keisha. Still haunted by the suicide of her ex-boyfriend, Andy, she f...



  • Jennifer Drew

    Whipped cream never tasted so good... Reporter Jeff Wilcox knows a juicy story when he hears it. But he never meant to get a cute pastry chef fired in order to get the facts. Now undercover at a chichi resort, he needs some inside information. The...



  • Laura Driscoll

    Ed is going to a family reunion. He will see all of his cousins and uncles there. There are lots of Eds in his family. There is Red Ed, Well-Fed Ed, and Little Ed, to name a few. But this Ed does not get a nickname. He sure wishes he did. But what wo...



  • Cathy East Dubowski

    It is crazy that Dean and I broke up. Things were going great between us. I mean, he tells me he loves me one minute, then the next minute he breaks up with me. My mom thinks I should wallow and stuff my face with junk food, but I'm n...



  • Michele Dunaway

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  • Glen Duncan

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  • Kathleen Eagle

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  • David Ebershoff

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  • Paul Eddy

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  • Julie Andrews Edwards

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  • Michelle Edwards

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    WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH

    AROO AROO AROO

    HOO HOO HOO

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  • Betsy Eliot

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  • Susan Middleton Elya

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  • Lynn Erickson

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  • Grubbs Ju Evans

    Performed by
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  • Tabor Evans

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  • Terri Farley

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  • Terri Farley

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  • Keith Faulkner

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    The Tooth Fairy has found a tooth, but she can't leave a surprise until she knows whos...




  • Jo Ann Ferguson

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  • Marie Ferrarella

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  • Jude Fisher

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  • E.M. Flanagan

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  • G.M. Ford

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  • Gwynne Forster

    With a young daughter to support, recently divorced Alexis Stevenson jumps at the chance to become home manager for wealthy businessman Telford Harrington and his two brothers. Though she knows it won't be easy turning their bachelor mansion into a ...



  • Lori Foster
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    Shy Becky Harte has a wild side--one she can't wait to explore. Which is how she ends up in her local sex shop buying bondage gear. She just never thought that someone she knew would see her--someone she's secretly desired, like George Westin. Twelve...



  • Elaine Fox

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  • Roz Denny Fox

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  • Heather Vogel Frederick

    October 1835. Patience Goodspeed, almost thirteen years old, departs from Nantucket aboard her father's whaling ship. Between kitchen duty and whale blubber stench, this voyage is far from a pleasure cruise. At least Papa lets Patience assist the shi...



  • Tor Freeman

    This whimsical day in the life of a young child is sure to bring smiles to every parent who has doubled as zookeeper - and to all children who like to pretend.

    ROAR! Lotte greets the day as a lion, just like the one in the book that her mom re...



  • Stephen Fry

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  • Cornelia Funke

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  • Lisa Gabriele

    At heart, Faith DiNapoli is a good Catholic girl. She's memorized all the prayers and hymns. She daydreams about her First Communion. She's pretty sure Jesus loves her. But she's angry. Angry with her father for leaving, her mother for never going an...



  • Neil Gaiman

    THE DAY AFTER THEY MOVED IN, CORALINE WENT EXPLORING.... In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors Thirteen of the doors open and close. The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until...



  • Alton Gansky

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    At first Marcus Stiller thought his telescope was playing tricks on him. It wasnâ...



  • Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

    A Brazilian bestseller, this sophisticated story of murder, sex, and corruption introduces a riveting new crime series.In a parking garage in the center of Rio de Janeiro, corporate executive Ricardo Carvalho is found dead in his car, a bullet in his...



  • Chris Gavaler

    TRAPPED IN HONEYMOON HEAVEN WITH GAME SHOW WINNERS AND A MOBSTER'S WIFE, ASHLEY FARRELL DIDN'T THINK THINGS COULD POSSIBLY GET ANY WORSE ... THEY JUST GOT WORSE. Spending long, languid weekends in St. Thomas would seem like a dream job for most...



  • Peter Gay

    A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction -- with some surprising conclusions. Focusing on three literary masterpieces -- Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Mada...



  • James Gelsey

    Scooby and Shaggy can't believe it when they hear their favorite restaurant, Louie's Pizza Parlor, is about to close down. It turns out a creepy karate creature has been scaring away all of Louie's customers. Now, for once in their lives, Scooby and ...




  • H.B. Gilmour; Randi Reisfeld

    SHE'LL NEVER TE-ELL. Cam's best, Bree, is unraveling, and Cam feels locked out. Not so for Alex, who has been breaking into people's minds. She knows all Bree's secrets. But before the twins can help Bree, she is taken away. To a private place, for h...



  • Kathleen Givens

    Twin brothers. Two warriors. And the Highland prophecy that bound them both to battle, glory, and the two fiery women they dared to love. Now the adventure begins in Kathleen Givens's sensual, pulse-quickening tale of seventeenth-century Scotland. ...



  • Christie Golden

    Having saved the Federation one more time in Star Trek®: The Undiscovered Countryâ"˘, Capt. James T. Kirk and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterpriseâ"˘ have finally gone their separate ways. Spock, McCoy, Sulu, and the others are spread out across the gl...



  • Christopher Golden

    DARKNESS AND LIGHT The Creature from the Black Lagoon's less attractive cousin has hit the Sunnydale scene, and Buffy and Co. are all over the new threat. So the Scoobs are stunned, naturally, when members of the Watcher's Council arrive, explaini...



  • Lucy Gordon

    Her husband's secret baby... On the night of the party, Kelly's estranged husband, Jake Lindley, had been as gorgeous and charismatic as ever. It had been impossible for Kelly to resist him -- and now she was pregnant! Kelly didn't want Jake back i...



  • Ron Goulart

    It could be said that in this episode Groucho Marx operates as a Hollywood-style Scarlet Pimpernel, with a repertoire of outrageous puns covering the steely, daring life of a counterspy. But, as Groucho might retort, his cover is at the dry-cleaner, ...



  • Philip Gourevitch

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  • Susan Grace

    In Victorian London, the children of Lady Cat's tempestuous union have grown up. Each is thrust onto the path of intrigue and deadly peril. And each will discover a special bravery that lies within...along with an extraordinary love to last a lif...



  • L.A. Graf

    Thanks to the accidental triggering of an ancient alien technology, Captain Kirk has been banished to his own past. During a brutal massacre on Tarsus IV, Kodos the Executioner entered the history books as one of the most genocidal tyrants of the twe...



  • Lynne Graham

    Bride on the run! Ione Gakis, one of the richest young women in the world, yearns for freedom. When her father orders her to marry Greek tycoon Alexio Christoulakis, Ione secretly plans to disappear without a trace on the wedding night.... But Ion...



  • Judson Gray

    Deciding to settle down with his beautiful fiancTe, Jim McCutcheon heads for the Ozarks to investigate a mysterious gunman who has been targeting members of the Caywood family after he discovers that the unknown shooter's description matches that of ...



  • Devin Grayson

    Collects X-Men: Evolution (2001) #1-9. Celebrate twenty years of EVOLUTION with the complete comic book adventures of the Bayville squad! Twenty years ago, the animated series X-MEN: EVOLUTION reinvented the Children of the Atom for a whole new gener...



  • Andrew M. Greeley

    "See to it, Blackwood," says the Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, and Blackie Ryan, the Cardinal's auxiliary bishop, doesn't exactly jump (he never jumps), rather he moseys down to Washington, D.C., where one of his friends, Jack Patrick McGurn, calle...



  • J.C. Greenburg

    When Andrew and Judy’s neighbor gives her dog a bath, microscopic Andrew and Judy find themselves washed off the dog and lost in the bathroom! They’ll have to use their witsâ€"and Thudd’s storehouse of factsâ€"if they’re to survive run-ins wi...



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

    A Vast Frontier Fraught with Endless Peril

    Haunted by malicious dragons, hordes of orcs, and other ferocious creatures, the relentless cold and unforgiving terrain of the Silver Marches promise undiscovered riches and unspeakable danger to tho...



  • Kate Grilley

    Good Morning. You're listening to WBZE, the breath of fresh music in the Caribbean... I'd gone from being strictly WBZE's weekday morning deejay, to morning deejay and general manager, and now I was the morning deejay, general manager, AND capo di...



  • Geri Guillaume

    You'll love them just like family MEET THE JOHNSONS, a large, proud family whose members have scattered across America, but whose bonds can never be broken. Now, as the clan comes together for a much-anticipated reunion, three Johnson cousins--onc...



  • Constance Hall

    Regan Southworth goes to the Isle of Skye in search of mythical treasures, but she finds a deadly family secret, and Lachlan MacGregor, the Mad Lord of Druidhean, who guards it. The moment they meet their passions erupt, but is their passion strong e...



  • Renee Halverson

    If Andre Du Bois were a betting man, he would lay odds that the woman in red is robbing his dealers blind. He can tell this beauty's smile disguises a quick mind and even quicker fingers. To catch her in the act he deals himself into the game, never ...



  • Kristin Hannah

    Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a future together. But after the children leave home, they quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job offer, Elizabeth pu...



  • Thomas Harlan

    Tom Harlan brings his Oath of Empire series to a shattering conclusion in The Dark Lord. In what would be the 7th Century AD in our history, the Roman Empire still stands, supported by the twin pillars of the Legions and Thaumaturges of Rome. The...



  • Emma Harrison

    By the powers above

    And by all things good,

    Bring me a love

    Who will always be true.

    The Halliwell sisters and their honeys are enjoying a rare afternoon off from fighting evil. Even though the two couples try to keep...



  • Peggy Harrison

    Five-year-old teammates Megan, Regan, and Camron love soccer! Join them on the field and off for their first exciting seasonâ€"from the banner day when they get their uniforms; through the practices, drills, and games that build skills and teamwork; ...



  • Ellen Hart

    Ray Lawless, prominent defense attorney and father of Minneapolis restaurateur Jane Lawless, tries his biggest case yet defending an accused serial murderer and arsonist whom the media has dubbed "The Fireman." Ray's client is eventually convicted an...



  • Jillian Hart

    Small-town mechanic Zachary Drake had no illusions about his longtime friendship with winsome, wholesome Karen McKaslin -- even after she called off her wedding to the local pastor. Zach simply intended to lend a grease-stained hand and a sympathetic...



  • Richard Hatch; Alan Rodgers

    After their world is destroyed in a surprise attack, a group of human stragglers flees the evil Cylon Empire in a convoy of space vehicles searching for a mythical homeland known only as "Earth," finding themselves trapped in a pocket of null-space i...



  • Sandra Heath

    Love Spell Although Lord Carismont is dashing enough to take any girl of the ton for his wife, the widower has only his daughter's best interests at heart. When Carismont interviews Kate Kingsley for the position of governess, he believes he&#...



  • Yael Hedaya

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  • Kristen Heitzmann

    Returning to her hometown was the last thing Laurie ever expected. But with two children in tow, she must begin anew... and face the life--and man--she turned her back on. Cal has been struggling with his own problems, but the arrival of Laurie bring...



  • Mike Heppner

    Olden Field is a solitary computer hacker, whose ultimate purpose is the destruction of the Gloria 21169, a monstrous router that has taken control of the Internet. Motivational speaker Derek Skye finds himself sickened by the advice he spews to his...



  • Richard Herman

    America is caught in the lethal center of an unwinnable two-front war -- in this gripping and explosive thriller from the master of geopolitical intrigue . . . The war on terrorism has borne bitter fruit, as the radical Islamic states forge an un...



  • Patricia Hickman

    While her father desperately searches for her, a troubled young wife and mother searches for the safety and spiritual transformation that can only be found in the healing touch of Christ. A modern-day parable inspired by the Ron DiCianni painting....



  • Lynn S. Hightower

    A mother's death. A daughter's intuition. A father's terrifying secret. Beaufort, South Carolina: When the matriarch of the Smallwood family dies of mysterious causes, everybody in town has their eyes on the widower. An ex-marine involved in a l...



  • Lorelei Hills


    When Lorelei Hills, the tough, vivacious character from TV's beloved "Guiding Light," wakes up in Mexico, she asks, "who am I?" What she wants and needs to know desperately is her name, where she's from and how she came to be in a stranger's bed....



  • Sandy Hingston

    Beautiful, wealthy Katherine Deveraux doesn't think she's better than everyone else -- she knows it. Her snobbish ways alienate whomever she meets -- and her parents fear her marriage prospects are ruined. Determined to uncover their hard-hea...



  • John Hockenberry

    On a night of torrential rain, a warrior appears near the Colombia River, where the Chinook people thrived before the hydroelectric dams came and changed their entire way of life. He has come to reclaim the river, to return it to its original majesty...