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New Books List: 501 titles

  • Introduction to Dickens

    Peter Ackroyd

  • Kiet Goes West

    Gary Alexander

    Superintendent Bamsan Kiet, of the Indochinese kingdom of Luong, and his adjutant, Captain Binh, travel to the Pacific Northwest. By the author of Deadly Drought, Kiet and the Opium War, and Kiet and the Golden Peacock. ...

  • When Somebody Loves You

    Trisha Alexander

    The agony .. . His beloved brother's tragic accident reeled renegade Neil Cantrelle in from exile, back to the Louisiana bayou and face-to-face with Laura Sebastian. From the moment he saw her, he coveted this woman his brother hoped to wed... . ...

  • The Buddy System

    Diane Ames

    The perfect summer... Everyone at Camp Kissamee thinks of Junior Counselor Lisa Siegel as a shy, insecure loner. But Lisa has a plan: She's going to be more outgoing, sing in the all-camp Revue, and get Michael Horst to notice her. The other J...

  • Child's Year

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • The World's Best Jinx McGee

    Katherine Applegate

    Jinx McGee used to be the best runner in the second grade -- until the new girl came along. Now Jinx is only second best and that's just not good enough. Everybody wants to be the best at something. Jinx's friend Wanda is the best violin player. Alex...

  • Fire Biker

    Victor Appleton

  • Road to Tamazunchale, the

    Ron Arias

  • In the Light of Sigma Draconis

    Eleanor Arnason

  • The Simple People

    Tedd Arnold

  • Pirate Bride

    Elizabeth August

    DANGEROUS SEAS No man had ever stirred Kathleen. Until now. As Jonathan Ashford stood, proud and defiant, awaiting "justice" at the hands of his pirate captors, he had touched something deep within her. He could not, must not, die! With reckless cou...

  • Past Regret

    Marian Babson

    A TIME TO REMEMBER, OR DIE Through the mists of London's waterfront a young woman staggers, unable to remember who she is or how she got here. Across the Atlantic a career housewife boards an airplane, certain that her child is in trouble. For bot...

  • Scrapper John

    Paul Bagdon

    After witnessing a brutal stagecoach robbery and murder, Scrapper John and his Blackfoot sidekick, Seeks the Far Sky, ride into Burnt Rock in search of the outlaws and find danger and deceit. Original....

  • Emily Eyefinger

    Duncan Ball

    Born with an eye on the end of her finger, Emily is--despite the initial concerns of her parents--able to use this unique quality to do good deeds, such as finding lost objects and reforming the class bully....

  • Final Curtain

    Mignon F. Ballard

    Virginia Cameron travels to Fiddler's Glen to probe into the death of her great aunt and escape harassment from her ex-boyfriend, and as her aunt's spirit helps her dig up old clues, the murderer emerges to stop the investigation....

  • The Treasure Hunt

    Mary Balogh
    in

    Here is a wondrous new collection of original stories from five acclaimed Regency authors. Each tale celebrates the sweetness and excitement of a summer romance -- as handsome lords, bewitching ladies, and devilish rogues come together in revelry ...

  • A Counterfeit Betrothal

    Mary Balogh

    The Tender Trap Lady Sophia Bryant had no intention of ever marrying. However, her own parents had been estranged for some fourteen years, and her one desire was to bring them together again in love. Surely, if she were to announce her betrothal -...

  • Eyes of the Night

    Diana Bane

    An American professor discovers Branwen Tennant's inherited psychic abilities, and sweeps her out of her Welsh castle to begin a new life in the United States, where her gift serves to warn her against the evil intentions of her new husband. Original...

  • Post-Nuke Action

    Robert Baron

    Upholding his vision of freedom and democracy, maverick biker Tristan Hardrider escapes from the school that was brainwashing him and takes to the nuclear-ravaged American frontier to become Stormrider--legendary leader of the High Free Folk. Origina...

  • The Final Shot

    Richard Barth

    Indefinitely suspended from the New York police, Costas Agonomou takes a job as a security guard in a small Brooklyn Catholic college and becomes a reluctant detective when a college professor is found murdered....

  • Death from the Ladies' Tee

    James Y. Bartlett

    Who Said Girls Always Play Nice? Intrepid golf reporter Pete Hacker agrees to cover an LPGA event as a favor to an old friend, but when he arrives in Miami, he finds an organization that appears to be run as the private fiefdom of Wynnona Big Win Sti...

  • Highland Flame

    Stephanie Bartlett

    SHE WAS A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WITH THE COURAGE TO FIGHT ... Once Catriona Galbraith Macleod had roamed the fragrant moors and green rolling hills of the Isle of Skye. Then love drew her across the ocean to the sunbaked Texas prairie and a home filled ...

  • A Day in April

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A YOUNG GIRL'S SHAME... Beth Melbourne was only seventeen, hovering on the brink of womanhood, when her life was shattered. Tainted and ashamed, she fled Shawnee, Louisiana, leaving behind the hope-filled innocence of youth. A WOMAN'S DR...

  • Spell

    Lynn Beach

  • Death of a Prankster

    M.C. Beaton

    WHEN IT COMES TO MURDER, CONSTABLE HAMISH MACBETH CAN'T SEE THE JOKE. Admittedly there's a touch of black humor in the case. Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to remote Arrat House in the dead of winter for a deathbed farewell...

  • The Rose of Blacksword

    Rexanne Becnel

    CAST TOGETHER BY THE FATES... With glittering amber eyes and hair of gleaming mahogany, the beguiling, nymphlike Lady Rosalynde of Stanwood could entice a man to deeds of reckless daring. And none was so ruthless, bold, or dangerously seductive as...

  • Sunset Heat

    Cherie Bennett

    Return to Sunset Island in Sunset Heat, the surprising seventh book in the bestselling series about Carrie, Samantha, and Emma -- away from home in the ultimate summer job! Would you believe this small-town girl might soon be dancing in Japan?!! I d...

  • A Touch of Forever

    Janice Bennett

    An engraved locket and a recurring nightmare about a silver-handled dagger are Lexie Anderson's only link to her forgotten childhood. Alone in the world at 24, Lexie's research for her doctoral thesis brings her to a secret passageway leading...

  • Fool's Gold

    D.R. Bensen

    Still on the trail of the gang of men who slaughtered his wife and family, Cole Brandon, posed as Beaufort Callison, follows their trail to the town of Kampen in the Arizona territory, whose citizens have gone gold crazy. Original....

  • Mask of the Tracker

    D.R. Bensen

    Determined to track down and kill the gang who slaughtered his wife and family, Cole Brandon follows a lead into a Kansas cowtown and then into Texas, where he is forced to enter into a private war. Original....

  • Eagle Station

    Mark Berent

    For the fighter pilots, tanker drivers, and other pilots with reason to navigate in northern Laos, there are few pieces of real estate more valuable than Eagle Station and its radar. Now Eagle Station is in danger of being overrun, though by whom is ...

  • Meeting Evil

    Thomas Berger

    The author of the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"finalist The Feud blurs reality in this breakneck thriller following one man’s encounter with pure evil in high tops.   John Felton is a creature of habit. His job in real estate comes with no surprises; itâ€...

  • Heath Guide to Literature

    David Bergman

  • Fear the Condor

    David Nelson Blair

    As Bartolina Ch'oke's father goes off to fight in the Chaco War in the 1930s, Bartolina--an Aymara Indian of Bolivia--recognizes the power that writing will bring to her people, and she struggles to bring the skill to them. A first novel....

  • The Side of the Angels

    Leona Blair

    Kate Ballard, a strong, independent woman, finds herself strangely drawn to Polly, her indomitable grandmother, the power behind her lusty husband, a senator from South Carolina, and a woman who wants to relive her life through Kate. Reprint....

  • Wildest Dreams

    Jennifer Blake

    When Joletta Caresse's beloved grandmother dies, she takes with her the secret formula to a legendary perfume believed to have been worn by Cleopatra and Empress Josephine--that is now the most desperately sought perfume on the market. Joletta's only...

  • Riverboat Seduction

    Caroline Bourne

    Sable-haired Delilah Wickley had no idea what tomorrow would bring. Her beloved plantation, Shadows-in-the-Mist, had come under the auctioneer's gavel to an arrogant Yankee gambler! He'd ridden out to survey her lands and given her a look that would ...

  • Green Shadows, White Whale

    Ray Bradbury

    In 1953, the brilliant but terrifying titan of cinema John Huston summons the young writer Ray Bradbury to Ireland. The apprehensive scribe's quest is to capture on paper the fiercest of all literary beasts -- Moby Dick -- in the form of a workable s...

  • Captive to His Kiss

    Paige Brantley

    Accustomed since birth having her own way, headstrong heiress Madeline was determined to avoid and arranged marriage to the duke, even though that alliance might one day make her Queen of France. But the raven haired beauty found her escape plan thwa...

  • The Judas Tree

    Matt Braun

    A STRANGER NAMED STARBUCK -- IN A TOWN THAT RESEMBLED HELL Luke Starbuck rode into Virginia City expecting trouble. The town was built on gold, and greed had turned it into a mother lode of murder. Starbuck didn't know who was worse -- the trigger...

  • The Bounty Hunter

    Marian Flandrick Bray

    Although she knows that the wolverine invading her part of the San Gabriel Mountains is dangerous and destructive, twelve-year-old Reba Castillo decides to try to save it from the bounty hunter seeking to kill it....

  • Runaways

    Marian Flandrick Bray

  • Daddy's Girl

    Barbara Bretton

    ONE MAN AND A BABY Hunter Phillips never thought he'd fall in love, but when he saw her honey blond hair, sparkling blue eyes and adoring smile, his heart melted. Only problem was, she was eight months old. The niece he'd inherited certainly c...

  • The Valley Of The Kings

    Richard Brightfield

  • Blood Ties

    Alexa Brix

    Sandy, an ambitious senator's aide, is used to bailing her lovable younger brother out of trouble, but this time, she is the one who needs to be saved from a vicious plot designed to expose her family secrets...

  • East of the Moon

    Sharon Brondos

    SHE HAD THE WRONG PARCEL When Sarah Branson collided with a handsome stranger on the sidewalk of a busy Hong Kong market street, packages went flying. Now the gift she had bought for her young daughter was missing. In its place was a leather dog ...

  • The War of the Sky Lords

    John Brosnan

    Jan Dorvin, the Minervan, has overthrown the power of no less than five of the mighty airship colonies known as the Sky Lords that once terrorized the Earth and destroyed her people. Now, under her rule, the Lord Montcalm, the Lord Matamoros, the Pe...

  • Young Kangaroo

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Sally's Room

    Mary K. Brown

  • Best Man for the Job

    Dixie Browning

    MR. JUNE Groom: Rex Ryder's teenage brother, a bad boy young enough not to know better. Bride: Carrie Lanier's teenage sister, who obviously hasn't learned from Carrie's mistakes -- especially when it comes to the Ryder men. We...

  • Bad Moon

    Anthony Bruno

    A gangster runs his empire from behind the walls of an asylum in this witty crime thriller: “Bruno’s novels have been total pleasure†(People).   Mobster or mental case? That’s the question at the heart of FBI agents Mike Tozzi and Cuthb...

  • The Gypsy

    Steven Brust; Megan Lindholm

    Cigany is the gypsy, stalking the city in a cloud of magic. Stepovich is the seasoned cop, who keeps finding dead bodies in the gypsy's wake. The Fair Lady is Queen of the Underworld, drawing them both into her murderous web...until only the gy...

  • The Reluctant Heir

    Shirley Callander

    A Spirited Young Miss... Beautiful Karenza Coningsby may lack for worldly riches, but she has a wealth of wit and charm. Recently orphaned. Karenza and her four sisters find that a handsome but heartless stranger has been made their guardian. Prou...

  • Sultry Nights

    Charla Cameron

    Live Oaks Nothing in the world was as precious to Caramarena Cantrell than the early evenings at Live Oaks, the few moments after the last ray of daylight faded and stillness stole over the elegant plantation house. Just listening to the muted rhy...

  • The Count of Eleven

    Ramsey Campbell

    Just when he feels that his life is on the right track, Jack Orchard finds that a chain letter he has thrown away has brought him terrible luck, and he is determined to make things right again by keeping the chain going, no matter what. Reprint....

  • The Loving

    Sandra Canfield

    TORN BETWEEN TWO WORLDS It was a freak accident that almost cost renowned surgeon Roan Jacob his life -- a near fatal drowning that, in the space of a heartbeat, altered his successful, fast-track life forever. Troubled by strange visions and desper...

  • Happy As a Tapir

    Terry Carbone

  • True to the Fire

    Suzanne Carey

    THE FIRE WITHIN Miranda Burton's life was in the United States, but her roots were thousands of miles away on the tropical island of La Caridad. And she could hardly refuse a plea for help in her father's homeland's desperate struggle ...

  • A Moment of Madness

    Jeanne Carmichael

    SHE had never been more scandalized or more intrigued Miss Juliana Chevron knew that she was too young and pretty to be considered acceptable as a governess. However, the Earl of Granville did not hesitate to hire her, though he did seem oddly rel...

  • Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?

    Raymond Carver

    The first collection of stories from “one of the great short story writers of our time†(The Philadelphia Inquirer) breathed new life into the American short story, showing us the humor and tragedy that dwell in the hearts of ordinary people."[Ca...

  • No Heroics, Please

    Raymond Carver

    This volume of previously uncollected work represents the final legacy of one of the great and truly American writers of our time. It includes five of Raymond Carver's early stories (including the first one he ever published), a fragment of an unpubl...

  • Soul Snatchers

    Michael Cecilione

    There Are Worse Places Than Hell -- And Fates Worse Than Death. Welcome to Eden's Bluff... In an isolated farmhouse, an elderly man shoots his wife in the head, and saves a bullet for himself. On a darkened doorstep, a lonely widow sees the scarre...

  • Fourth Little Pig

    Teresa Noel Celsi

  • Bunny Runs Away

    Bernice Chardiet

  • Love Rules

    Ann Charlton

    "We all need the kiss of life from time to time, angel, to revive us when the going gets tough." Trapped in a cellar with the dishiest man alive, Charlie Wells thought she had finally found the answer to her dreams -- only it soon transpired,...

  • Lean Mean Loving Machine

    Sandra Chastain

    GAVIN--A Tall, Dark, Reckless Stranger in Boots and Tight Jeans... He'd come to the small-town garage to make its owner an offer, but instead Gavin Magadan found himself the object of a sizzling wager! Stacy Lanham gasped when she realized she'd ...

  • Yvonne Goes to York

    Marion Chesney

    Once again Miss Pym travels the English countryside in search of adventure and hearts in distress. With her ingenious wit and delightful charm, she can turn star-crossed lovers into a heavenly match! The shy Miss Yvonne Grenier, a beautiful fugit...

  • A Marriage of Inconvenience

    Marion Chesney

    THE ONLY SAVING GRACE OF THIS FORCED BETROTHAL WAS THAT LORD HARRY WAS A COMPLETE FOP. He stated quite bluntly -- and much to Isabella's relief -- that theirs would be a marriage in name only. But neither Harry nor Isabella was aware of the...

  • The Night Parade

    Scott Ciencin
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Caught in a war against the creatures of the Night Parade, a desperate ruler enlists the aid of the Harpers to win the battle -- and to rescue her lost heir For decades, the ghastly Night Parade has haunted the sleep of many in the Forgotten Rea...

  • Cody's Last Stand

    Kathy Clark

    WILD WEST He had the wildness of the prairie in his eyes. The gentleness of a lover in his lips. And on that fateful day at Little Big Horn, Cody took Elizabeth Lawrence captive without firing a shot. Elizabeth searched high and low for the rav...

  • How the World Was One

    Arthur C. Clarke

    A master of the science fiction genre chronicles the history of telecommunications, discussing submarine cables, and the development of fiber optics and communications satellites, and projects a future of neutrino, gravitational, and tachyon communic...

  • My Father in the Night

    Terence Clarke

    Dismissed from his job at Saints Peter and Paul Church, altar boy Patrick Pearse is torn between the lure of 1950s bohemian San Francisco, full of beatniks and poetry readings, and the influence of his conservative father. Reprint....

  • Wildfire

    Jo Clayton

    MAGIC'S CAPTIVE Return to the universe of Wild Magic, where rival gods, mischievous elementals, powerful sorcerers, clairvoyant sibyls and magical beings of all description play intricate games of power and wizardry. Forever separated from the on...

  • The Forever Machine

    Mark Clifton

    The government ordered it built: a thinking machine that could foresee catastrophe and eliminate human error. Reasearch trainee Joe Carter sees another possibility--create a machine that will make ordinary people telepathic--and immortal. "Full of ex...

  • Vortex

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    The Eternal Emperor had returned at last from the dead, to pick up the pieces of his crumbling Empire. But even that great leader could not halt the Empire's decline alone. And so Sten, master spy, military strategist, and assassin, found himself app...

  • The Rig

    John Collee

    Spence, an unemployed oil worker, accepts the job of taking inventory after a plane carrying a crew of oil workers from a Madagascar rig explodes, and struggles to unravel a bloody conspiracy that has made its next deadly mark--on him. Reprint. K. ...

  • Paradise Mountain

    Dale Colter

  • Gone to the Dogs

    Susan Conant

    THROWN A BONE--BY A KILLER Holly Winter's a Dog's Life columnist on the wrong side of thirty, a canine-loving detective sniffing out crime and corruption on the streets of Cambridge. Holly is a dog's best friend--and murder's worst enemy.... If...

  • Apache Caress

    Phoebe Conn
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    Haunted by her mother's tragic life, Arizona beauty Belle Casidy must choose between her cousin, Edwin Pierce, who promies love liberally laced with Southern charm, and Coyote, an Apache scout turned renegade whose passions sear her heart with the fi...

  • Last Dance

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Happiness and heartbreak are in the air. Eight months have passed since that special, memorable SATURDAY NIGHT. Now it is time for the last dance of the year: Anne, wiser and more beautiful than ever, just wants to survive it. Beth Rose, mor...

  • Saturday Night

    Caroline B. Cooney

    This was no ordinary Saturday night. Five girls. They couldn't have been more different, but they shared a common dream -- a perfect Saturday night at the Autumn Leaves Dance. For each of them, the night meant something different: It was a chanc...

  • Freshman Wedding

    Linda A. Cooney

    Will Melissa and Brooks finally make it to the altar? Winnie and Josh promised each other to abandon their outrageous ways. But their plan only leads to their wildest stunt ever! KC ditched her friends to run with wild Marielle. Where will KC t...

  • Playing Games

    Linda A. Cooney

  • The Cannibal Queen

    Stephen Coonts

    Stephen Coonts, Neu' York Times bestselling author of Under Siege and Flight of the Intruder, has been hailed as the best contemporary author writing about flying. Now he turns his storytelling genius to nonfiction in THE CANNIBAL QUEEN, an exultant ...

  • Sharpe's Devil

    Bernard Cornwell

    AN HONORED VETERAN OF THE NAPOLEONIC WARS. LT COLONEL RICHARD SHARPE IS DRAWN INTO A DEADLY BATTLE, BOTH O LAND AND ON THE HIGH SEAS 1820--Richard Sharpe, a peaceful farmer since Waterloo, comes out of retirement to undertake a perilous mission. H...

  • Double Minded Men // Vineyard Deceit

    Philip R. Craig

    Chaos is in the salt-imbued air as a Middle Eastern potentate and his entourage descend upon Martha's Vineyard--to reclaim ceremoniously an emerald necklace stolen from their nation a century earlier. Though Jeff Jackson would rather be fishing with ...

  • The Trouble With Too Much Sun

    Camilla T. Crespi

    It's January, and Simona considers herself lucky to shoot HH&H's ad campaign for a new sun product on the sandy beaches of a Club Med on Guadeloupe where she plans to sneak in the R&R she badly needs. Instead Simona finds a lost two-year-old ...

  • Temptation's Fire

    Millie Criswell

    DANCE OF DESIRE Though her mirror told her she was still enchantingly beautiful, Margaret Parker saw herself as a twenty-six year old spinster. There wasn't much chance for romance in the sleepy town of Purgatory, Arizona, so Maggie looked forward t...

  • Petunia Coloured Coat

    Elaine Crowley

  • Sahara

    Clive Cussler

    A CIVIL WAR GUNBOAT THAT VANISHED IN 1865...A WORLD FAMOUS AUSTRALIAN AVIATRIX WHO DISAPPEARED IN 1931...A DEADLY TIDE OF POISON THAT THREATENS THE WORLD WITH DOOM! 1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted...

  • Sunflower

    Margot Dalton

    Was she ready for the wild West? Robin Baldwin couldn't believe she'd become the half owner of a fabulous rodeo horse--Sunflower. But Sunflower came with strings attached. To take possession, Robin would have to travel the rodeo circuit with rough...

  • Diamonds and Denim

    Lisa Dane

    OPPOSITE ATTRACTION KRISTINE ... Occupation: former model, career woman, publicist to the stars. Habitat: the city, elegant apartment, skyline views. Interests: fine clothes, restaurants, resort hotels. ADAM ... Occupation: outdoorsman, reclu...

  • The Devil to Pay

    Mark Daniel

    Young jockey Nick Storr is scheduled to ride his father's prize horse in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, but he is suddenly replaced and uncovers fixes, frauds, mob connections, and possibly murder when he searches for an explanation. Reprint....

  • The Wedding

    Emma Darcy

    It was time out of time First, Tessa discovered her fiance in bed with another woman. Then she arrived at work to discover she'd been assigned to go on a three-day conference with the managing director. It would be a miracle if she didn'...

  • The Glove of Darth Vader

    Paul Davids; Hollace Davids

    THE DEATH STAR HAS BEEN DESTROYED. THE EMPIRE IS IN RUINS. BUT THE DARK SIDE LIVES ON. Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, and the Rebel Alliance have fought valiantly against the evil Galactic Empire. Together they have kept alive the hope...

  • Rosefire

    Sandra Davidson

    She risked everything for one night in his arms! SHE CRAVED HIS CARESSES Delicately lovely Arianna hated to hide her luxuriant blonde hair under a cap and her lush young body in boy's clothing, but her adopted parents assured her the disg...

  • Blossoming Love

    Deborah Davis

    "I'm not one-hundred-percent gentleman.... " Alexandra wasn't sure if Jay's warning was a threat -- or a promise! Still, sharing a handsome stranger's bed certainly wasn't how Alex had envisioned the start of her month&...

  • House of Secrets

    Patti Davis

  • The Fallible Fiend

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Ordered to spend a year's servitude on the human plane, Zdim the demon, a mild-mannered scholar of logic and philosophy, becomes the city of Ir's last chance when a barbarian armada threatens to attack. Reprint....

  • City of Gold

    Len Deighton

    In 1942 Cairo, escaped prisoner Jim Ross takes on the identity of his dead escort and finds himself searching for the spy in British Intelligence who is revealing top-secret data to Rommel and his German forces. Reprint....

  • Cherokee Sundown

    Genell Dellin

    He is Standingdeer Chekote, hero of the battle that was to save his beloved Cherokee nation. Inwardly the tender lover, outwardly the hardened warrior, he bears the scars of both war and love and vows to trust no man or woman. Until he meets the beau...

  • A Reluctant Bride

    Teresa DesJardien
    in

    Falling in love is quite an inconvenience when a young lady is scheming to break her engagement......

  • The Captives of Kaag

    Joe Dever

    Lone Wolf must undertake a dangerous mission to Kaag--an isolated, fortress-like city that boasts a bloodthirsty population of ex-soldiers--to rescue his friend, Banedon, who is being held captive. Original....

  • Drifter's Run

    William C. Dietz

    FACT: IF YOU KILL SOMEONE IMPORTANT, THERE'LL BE A PRICE ON YOUR HEAD. Lando was no stranger to trouble. It was his bush Smuggling. Conning. Running for his life. FACT: IF EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CYBORG IS LOOKING FOR.YOU, THEY'LL PROBABLY FIND YO...

  • Why Americans Hate Politics

    E.J. Dionne

    All over the United States, Americans are deserting the political process. Why? In this national bestseller, one of our shrewdest political observers traces thirty years of volatile political history and finds that on point after point, liberals and ...

  • Endangered Species

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Undercover in the African wild with their father, Frank and Joe Hardy investigate a multimillion-dollar smuggling operation that could have something to do with a missing U.S. Customs official. Original....

  • A Summer Escapade

    Charlotte Louise Dolan
    in

    Marigold Kinderley’s uncle kept her wrapped in cotton wool. So Lady Sylvia found a way to take Marigold home with her for summer break. When Terence Kinderley discovered Marigold missing, he assumed she had fled to the border with the dancing maste...

  • Armageddon Mode

    Keith Douglass

    GLOBAL HOSTILITIES. NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES. It's one of the Pentagons most dreaded doomsday scenarios come terrifyingly true: The Far East streaks past the flash point when India launches a preemptive strike against Islamic Pakistan. Nuclear host...

  • Mail-Order Maiden

    Kathleen Drymon
    in

    For Heather Collins, offering herself as a mail order bride to a Montana rancher was the only escape from a life of terror and servitude with her conniving stepfather in West Virginia. When she met her intended, Brett Saber, and his three year old da...

  • Rogue Wave

    Susan Dunlap

    SEA OF SUSPICION From her sunny La Jolla beach house replete with a fabulously handsome gourmet chef, feisty private detective Kiernan O'Shaughnessy embarks on one of her strangest cases to date. This one takes her up the Coast to Big Sur fogs . ....

  • Highland Hearts

    Sandra Dustin

    THE KNIGHT KIDNAPPED THE COUNTESS -- AND CAPTURED HER HEART... When Sir Revan Halyard stole the beautiful Contessa Tess from her uncle's castle with a knife at her throat, she couldn't know that this dangerous man would set her senses on fire. B...

  • Whispered Heat

    Anna Eberhardt

    CAPTIVATING INNOCENCE From the moment Lissa Jamison first saw Slader Reems, she knew they belonged to each other. The tenderhearted boy sparked her youthful infatuation, but the wild and wounded young man he became lit a blazing hunger within her. T...

  • Letters to a Devastated Christian

    Gene Edwards

  • Encino Man

    Nicholas Edwards

  • The Duke's Dilemma

    Rachelle Edwards

    Araminta Penrose had grounds for holding the Duke of Avedon in dislike. His Grace's behavior with regard to his nephew's betrothal was more than unfair. He didn't care a jot if he destroyed the happiness of two people desperately in love. Avedon was ...

  • Dakota Scouts

    Flynn J. Ell

    John Benson, a new scout for the army, sets out to trap Lone Deer, a cunning warrior of the Sioux, and his only hope in learning about the Sioux is a mysterious black man who had lived with the tribe....

  • The Claim

    Lucy Elliot

    Deadlock After a lifetime of keeping creditors at bay, Colonist Sarah Meade was determined to hang on to the valuable land her father had won. But her dreams of respectability were promptly dashed by Zeke Brownell, the irrepressible ruffian who ki...

  • Jaran

    Kate Elliott

    HEIR TO EMPIRE -- Tess had been cursed by an accident of birth, cursed to be the sister of the one man honored by the conquerors of human-run space. Her brother, Charles Soerensen, the leader of Earth's rebellion, had been given a dukedom after ...

  • Lone Star in the Timberlands

    Wesley Ellis

    A merciless killer stalks Jessie and Ki in California's redwood country!Jessie and Ki rush to a northern California redwood forest to save Ms. Starbuck's logging business from the Mendocino Monster, but when they get there, they realize that the mons...

  • Susannah and the Purple Mongoose Mystery

    Patricia Elmore

  • Blood on the Water

    P.N. Elrod

    MANHUNT AT MIDNIGHT There's a new crime boss in town and he's gunning for a vampire. So are the police. Lucky me. What's worse, my thirst for the red stuff is getting out of control. I'm not sure what scares me more: the mob ... or the darkness gna...

  • Duchess of Milan

    Michael Ennis

  • Longarm on the Devil's Highway

    Tabor Evans

  • Cricket and the Crackerbox Kid

    Alane Ferguson

  • Father Goose

    Marie Ferrarella

    FATHER... When policeman Del Santini pulled over a speeding van, he was prepared for excuses -- not for delivering a baby! But as the tiny infant came into the world, she stole his heart.... BABY... Being born was scary, but cradled in Del's...

  • Firedrake's Eye

    Patricia Finney

    Brilliantly written in language eerily reminiscent of Elizabethan English, this novel is set in 16th-century England and concerns a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I. When it was first published in 1992, the critics raved: "A talent for writing espionag...

  • Ardent Apparitions

    Ellen Fitzgerald

    When Arabella's father banished the incomparable beauty from London society and sent her to live in an isolated castle, she was determined to find romance and adventure to compensate her for the forbidden pleasures of the ton. After all, there ha...

  • Yesterday Comes Tomorrow

    Rebecca Flanders

    THE SEDUCTIVE LURE OF YESTERDAY It began as a simple mystery weekend. Then the present and the past merged, and Amelia Langston was back in 1870 on the Aury Plantation with Jeffrey Craig, the prime suspect in a murder. There she discovered everythin...

  • Mountain Madam

    Dirk Fletcher

    While on the trail of several missing government workers, Spur McCoy, along with the devilish Miss Angelina, encounters renegade religious fanatics who, on a mission from God, are determined to sacrifice anyone who crosses their path in an attempt to...

  • Pure Instinct

    Ellen Fletcher

    CINDERELLA'S LAST STAND Amie Phillips felt out of place among the wealthy guests who twirled through the grandest ballroom in Charlotte. As an advocate for the homeless, she spent her days soliciting donations from these people and trying to find ...

  • Beyond the Night

    Christine Flynn

    Mitchell Kincaid had spent his life racing about after reckless pleasure. The fly-by-night pilot never gave a damn about the things other people thought mattered: home, hearth...and love. His days were spent on the run, until the moment his thunderin...

  • Batman Returns: The Movie Storybook

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Jordan County

    Shelby Foote

    Before Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle -- "a landscape in narrative" -- of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock ...

  • Love in a Dry Season

    Shelby Foote

    Shelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy. Love in a Dry Season descr...

  • Secret Lives

    Regan Forest

    It wasn't possible! Dave Andrews was all too familiar with secrets -- after all, he was living on the Riviera under an assumed identity. But when he fell under beautiful Renie Lloyd's, he was in a situation he couldn't even begin to un...

  • Timemaster

    Robert L. Forward

    Billionaire industrialist Randy Hunter communicates with aliens, achieves interstellar flight, and explores the universe in a novel that explores the technological possibilities of the future. Reprint....

  • Alien 3: The Official Movie Novelization

    Alan Dean Foster

    Fury 161 is a wretched planet â€" a penal colony and industrial complex manned by violent prisoners. When an escape pod from the USS Sulaco crash-lands there, Ellen Ripley appears to be the only passenger left alive.   Then inmates begin to die...

  • The Phantom Spur

    Norman A. Fox

    Hired as troubleshooters, pardoned outlaw Rowdy Dow and his partner, Stumpy Grampis, are soon up against a stagecoach robbery, a sniper's bullets, and reports of dinosaurs terrifying the Chinese railroad laborers...

  • No Limit to Love

    Kate Freiman

    SHE WANTED A CHALLENGE Lisa Sutton jumped at the chance to prove she was good enough as an engineer to manage a construction project in British Columbias breathtaking Okanagan Valley It was a dream come true for a woman who hated the word can't. D...

  • Winter of the Wolves

    James N. Frey

  • Sudden Strangers

    Aaron Fricke

  • James Joyce's Ulysses

    David Fuller

  • A Death in Paris

    Dean Fuller

    The murder of Andrew Wilson, a prominent American statesman, whose body is found in the Parc de Monceau, leads urbane sleuth Alex Grismolet and his street-wise cohort, Alphonsas Varnas, into a labyrinth of political intrigue and old secrets....

  • All on a Summer's Day

    Judy Gardiner

  • Death Is Forever

    John E. Gardner

    The Cold War is over. But when two British agents die under mysterious and strangely old-fashioned circumstances in Germany, Bond is paired up with beautiful CIA agent 'Easy' St John. He's been assigned to track down the surviving members...

  • Whistling in the Dark

    George Garrett

  • In the Country of Desire

    Leslie Garrett

    With her grandmother dead, Willa Rheinman feels the time is right for her to seek out the mother she has never known, a decision that teaches her about her family history of brutality, drunkenness, and religion...

  • Wild Irish Embrace

    Rene J. Garrod

    A YOUNG IRISH LASS Meary O'Byrne had always delighted in traveling about the green Irish countryside singing and playing her harp for willing listeners. She was free to do as she pleased, which included accepting the invitation to play in the home o...

  • People of the River

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    A gripping new saga of pre-historic America that takes us to the Mississippi Valley and the tribe known as the Mound builders. It is a time of troubles. In Cahokia, the corn crop is failing again and a warchief--and the warrior woman he may never pos...

  • A Match for Marigold

    Mona Gedney
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    A musical miss takes London by storm, and finds her heart is not impervious to passion's melody....

  • Slow Burn

    Cindy Gerard

    ADAM--The Tough Renegade Whose Secrets She Longed to Uncover... He was a wanderer, a stray whose troubled gaze barely hid his anger and despair, but Joanna Taylor knew -- she'd offer Adam Dursky the handyman job at her Minnesota lodge. Drawn ...

  • Red Fox on the Move

    Hannah Giffard

    When a bulldozer wrecks their cozy home, Red Fox takes his family on the road to find a new home, encountering a snake, a fierce owl, and an angry swarm of bees on the journey. By the author of Red Fox. ...

  • Which Way to the Beach?

    Mel Gilden

    The surf's up and school's out for the kids at West Beverly High, and Brenda signs up for an acting class to get in touch with her emotions while Brandon struggles with his new job at The Beach Club. Original....

  • Summer Lover

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    GRAY -- He Made Her Blood Run Like Wildfire.... He sat across the desk from Donna Mailer, aching with a need to erase the distress in her beautiful eyes, but Gray Kincaid had no idea how much his family had done to destroy the lady's life! Stu...

  • A Perfect Mismatch

    Jacquelyn Gillis

    A north country gem... For dashing seafarer Richard Dunne, domesticity held no appeal --he was bound heart and soul to his prosperous trading business. He was distressed, therefore, to learn he had inherited the earldom of Rothbury and was to retu...

  • Murder Most Mellow

    Jaqueline Girdner

    After a messy homicide case involving her "ex" and a break-up with her new boyfriend, Kate decides to tap into some positive energy by hosting a support group--in the hot tub, of course. It's the perfect California scene. Until one of her New Age pal...

  • Clairvoyant

    Alison Leslie Gold

    A moving recreation of the tortured life of Lucia Joyce, the schizophrenic daughter of James Joyce, follows Lucia's struggle to survive despite the terrifying effects of this devastating mental illness....

  • Bully Pulpit, the

    Andrew Goldblatt

    The next Democratic presidential candidate, Jack Morgan decides to campaign on a radical environmental platform, foresaking the media blitz of the campaign trail and sitting at home on his Ohio front porch for heart-to-hearts with the nation...

  • Tootle the Train

    Golden Books

    Young ones can listen in as Tootle and the other little engines attend school to learn whistle blowing, puffing loudly, screeching to a halt, hugging the rails, and all the other skills it takes to be a big locomotive....

  • Mother Goose (Little Golden Sight 'n' Sound)

    Golden Books

    Sheep baa, cows low, wings flutter, feet pitter-patter, and Mother Goose slips down the slide and lands with a plop at the bottom in the sound recording that accompanies this edition of classic nursery rhymes....

  • Three Billy Goats Gruff

    Golden Books

    Hooves clatter over a rickety wooden bridge, the billy goats munch leaves, the evil knoll growls as he attempts to startle the clever goats, and the rest of the characters in this folktale can be heard in this edition....

  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    Golden Books

  • And Do You Remember Me

    Marita Golden

    "An engaging saga of unconditional friendship, love, and foregiveness...Golden's style is modern, refreshing and accurately captures a slice of African-American life." (St. Petersburg Times)In the exciting, yet frightening days of Freedom Summer in 1...

  • Outcast Woman

    Lucy Gordon

    Whispered rumors swirled like the bitter snow sweeping the desolate moors, cloaking Kirsty Trennon in scandal. Two men dead for love of her, the villagers grumbled, while she, notorious wanton, still cast her fatal enchantments. And now the shameless...

  • Coup!

    Alexander M. Grace

  • Drover and the Zebras

    Bill Granger

    ON THE LINE Jimmy Drover's alma mater finally has a Dream Team--a cinch to make the Final Four. But rumors of fixed games, point-shaving and recruitment violations suggest that basketball has turned ugly at St. Mary's. And the mysterious "suicide" o...

  • Sister Yessa's Story

    Karen R. Greenfield

  • Lost Pueblo

    Zane Grey

    Zane Grey evokes the feel and flavor of the Old West as no other author can, and millions of readers will thrill to this adventure of Phil Randolph as he vows to tame a pampered rich girl from back East. He succeeds--only to end up with a noose aroun...

  • The Last Vampire

    Kathryn Meyer Griffith

    First come the earthquakes, leaving flood and fire in their wake. Then come plague, and the endless stench of death. But in the shadows of man’s destruction, an ancient evil lived on. An unnatural horror that fed on human blood, thrived on human su...

  • Hell Bent

    Ken Gross

  • The Saturday Morning Murder

    Batya Gur

    From award-winning and internationally acclaimed author, Batya Gur, comes a hair-raising mystery in which Israeli investigator Michael Ohayon’s detective skills are put to the ultimate test.

    When Dr. Eva Neidorf is found dead on the mor...

  • Arabian Nights

    Husain Haddawy

    (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

    These stories (and stories within stories, and stories within stories within stories), told by the Princess Shahrazad under the threat of death if she ceases to amuse, first reached the West around 1700. They fir...

  • Critical Mass

    David Hagberg

    Kirk McGarvey--one-time CIA assassin--dreams of a peaceful life and marital bliss. One man will change all that. In 1945, Isawa Nakaruma lost his mother and father at Hiroshima, his wife and child at Nagasaki, and has been planning years to wreak his...

  • Fidelities

    Richard Hall

    A collection of short stories by the author of Family Fictions features tales of the constancy of lifelong gay relationships, in ethnicity, and in sexual enjoyment, including ""Diamonds Are Forever,"" ""The Cannibals,"" and ""Avery Milbanke D...

  • The Impersonator

    Diana Hammond

    A renowned scholar, a lonely divorce+a7e, a senatorial candidate, and others fall prey to the seductive powers of Theo Buckley, whose scandalous death is merely a prelude to an international drama. Reprint....

  • Circle of Gold

    Karen Harper

    When Rebecca Blake was orphaned, she was adopted by the industrious, well-educated Kentucky Shakers, and raised in their secretive, sexually repressed world. Little did she envision that one day a forbidden love would thrust her from her innocent lif...

  • For the Love of Robert E. Lee

    M.A. Harper

    In love with the long-dead Robert E. Lee, the man who tended to her great-grandmother's burned bottom during the Charleston conflagration, Garnet Laney recalls her obsession's life and family in a multilayered novel of southern history...

  • Aidan's Fate

    Jesse Harris

    After experiencing frightening visions of her boyfriend, Aidan, dying in a terrible automobile accident, psychic McKenzie sets out to help him avert his fate and, in the process, aids an abused ten-year-old boy. Original....

  • Fatherland

    Robert Harris

    It is twenty years after Nazi Germany's triumphant victory in World War II and the entire country is preparing for the grand celebration of the Fuhrer's seventy-fifth birthday, as well as the imminent peacemaking visit from President Kennedy. Meanwhi...

  • Strut

    Bruce Hart

  • The Turtledove's Secret

    Laura Hastings

    Poised on the brink of one of the most significant antiquities discoveries in history, Jocelyn Merriman must listen to her heart as she and antiquities specialist Riordan Nolan face passion and fame. Original....

  • Devlin's Promise

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    ANGELICA'S DEVIL He was a drifter, a loner, a hard-living, fast-drawing trouble maker -- but he was Angelica's last chance to get out of the little hole-in-the-wall town where her reputation had been shot to shreds. DEVLIN'S ANGEL With a two-ye...

  • Pirate's Kiss

    Diana Haviland

    She had left England far behind to join her brother on a Jamaican sugar plantation. But from the moment Sybilla Thornton set foot on the island and felt the hard stare of American pirate Gavin Broderick from under the wide brim of his hat, her world ...

  • Never Give Up

    Don Hawkins

    Don Hawkins introduces one of the indelible Christian Principles--perseverance. Your will * discover the resources which God has given us to help us 'keep on keeping on." * learn how others who have been to the brink of despair--and beyond--were ab...

  • Painted Dresses

    Shelby Hearon

    After a long, painful affair and a painful marriage, respectively, Nell Woodard and Nicholas Clark, both in their forties, move toward love via paths strewn with the exasperations of family and the confusions of the past...

  • Brighton Betrothals

    Sandra Heath
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  • Batman Returns

    Andrew Helfer

    It's Christmas in Gotham City... ...as a strange birdlike man called The Penguin emerges from the sewers below Gotham Plaza. He is joined by the mysterious feline creature known only as Catwoman, and the two embark on a campaign to get The Penguin e...

  • Tourmaline

    Jon Henderson

    A riveting novel of suspense and romance--page-turning entertainment from a Christian perspective. While covering the signing of an important Mid-East treaty in Cairo, photojournalist Jake stumbles into an assassination plot. After photographing the ...

  • Antics!: An Alphabetical Anthology

    Cathi Hepworth

    An word-play alphabet book features such famous ants as Rembrant and Santa Claus thinking up fantastic, flamboyant puns for each for each letter of the alphabet. All ages....

  • Our House in the Last World

    Oscar Hijuelos

    A first-generation Cuban son comes of age in the debutâ€"â€"and most autobiographicalâ€"â€"novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. Winner of the Ingram Merrill Foundation Award and the Rome Prize Hector Santi...

  • B-Four

    Sam Hodges

    The debut novel by a Southern author is written with a wry, sweetly comic voice and a perceptive eye for looking at where the Old South meets the New. "Our newest comic genius . . . the funniest novel about the South since A Confederacy of Dunces."--...

  • Fire Queen

    Jack Holland

  • Pinocchio

    Michael Horowitz

  • McConnell's Bride

    Naomi Horton

    MARRIAGE ACCORDING TO CHASE McCONNELL: As far as I'm concerned, one marriage was enough! But my daughter Sarah is depending on me, and I don't want to lose custody of her. I know blackmailing a stranger into marrying me isn't right, but I'm desperat...

  • There Is a Season

    Phyllis Houseman

    ON SHAKY GROUND While working near the crater of an active volcano, ecologist Beth Cristie was pleased to find signs of life along the ash-covered landscape. From tiny ants to shiny green ferns, nature had survived the eruption of Mount St. Helens...

  • River Runners: A Tale of Hardship and Bravery

    James Houston

  • The Falcon Bow: An Arctic Legend

    James Houston

  • Puffin at Sea

    Delia Huddy

  • Wild Texas Flame

    Janis Reams Hudson

    OUTLAW DESIRE Lovely Sunny Thornton was a proper young lady -- but when her ranch became the prize in a ruthless takeover, she realized she'd have to live by her own rules. It was her duty to take charge and save her property. And it was only ...

  • Promise

    Monica Hughes

    Princess Rania is forced to leave everything she loves when she is apprenticed to a desert-dwelling ascetic, but she soon develops a love for her new life that will conflict with her eventual return to the world....