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  • The Pit

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    Six months after their friend was killed on their mountain hike six months ago, Jeanette and Neil search Texas for the elusive Lalla, a suspected murderer, until Jeanette realizes that the killer may be closer than she had ever imagined. Original....

  • Mondo Meltdown

    Tony Abbott

    ERNIE HAS ARRIVED! And so has the future. Except it’s not the future Ned, Suzi, and Roop imagined. Vorg, the evil master of time, has traveled into the past and changed the future. MegaCity is no more. In fact, the planet’s a mess Kids everywhere...

  • The Winter's Hero

    Vassily Aksyonov

    In this epic novel of the U.S.S.R. in the 1950s, a new generation of Gradovs--whom readers first met in Generations of Winter--takes center stage. Boris has turned to womanizing to forget the devastation of his mother's defection. Yolka catches the e...

  • Home Sweet Home

    Rochelle Alers

    When Quintin Lord's new neighbor marched into his apartment and demanded that he turn down his music, he was surprised--and utterly enchanted. Though the celebrated photographer had had his fill of pretty faces, this lovely, graceful woman was differ...

  • Stable Cat

    Garrison Allen

    Chestnut steeds and silver spurs. High riding and good times. That's why folks in Empty Creek, Arizona, expect from the Great Arabian Horse Show. What they get instead are low blows and bad news. First, a magnificent prize stallion disappears. Then h...

  • Hidden Latitudes

    Alison Anderson

    When a near shipwreck strands a young couple on an uncharted island in the Pacific, they encounter a mysterious woman who may or may not be the legendary aviator Amelia Earhart but who has been stranded on the remote strip of land for more than forty...

  • The Darkest Knight

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born -- a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new...

  • Ndito Runs

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    Every day many children in Kenya run miles to school--so does Ndito. From her village in the highlands she runs barefoot, across ridges and down hills, under baobab trees and through tall grass. As she runs she calls up animal dreams to keep her comp...

  • Rosalie's Battle

    Ginette Anfousse

    When a schoolyard dispute escalates into all-out war, Rosalie learns some truths about real war from her Vietnamese friend and has other things to think about when her cat disappears and another friend becomes seriously ill. Reprint....

  • The Nature of Smoke

    Harris Anne

    Webster's paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running English-to-Thai thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare...

  • The Invasion

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us . . . well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone i...

  • Sand Surf and Secrets

    Katherine Applegate

    Summer Smith can't wait to get back to the white-hot beaches and brilliant sunshine of the Florida Keys. Even though Seth Warner, her boyfriend, isn't returning to Crab Claw Key, Summer knows she won't be lonely. They'll both be thinking only of each...

  • Velvet Touch

    Catherine Archer

    THE LADY FELLIS MADE HIS PULSE THUNDER --- YET SHE COULD NEVER BE HIS Indeed, Sir Stephen Clayburn knew all too well her destiny lay in the marriage bed of an enemy. And as the king's messenger, he would be forced to deliver the woman he loved...

  • Mystery of Poison Arrow Tree

    Shel Arensen

  • Test of Tribal Challenge

    Shel Arensen

    Drawing upon a local tribe's coming-of-age ritual, Dean's dad revises the rites into a special challenge for Dean's twelfth birthday. Yet the twelve tests of manhood are only the beginning as Matt, Dean, Dave and Jon investigate thefts around the mis...

  • The Hidden Treasure of Lamu

    Shel Arensen

  • To Fall Like Stars

    Nancy Asire

  • Operation Iceberg

    Gerald Astor

    Gerald Astor, author of The Mighty Eighth, draws on the raw, first-hand accounts of marines, sailors, soldiers, and airmen under fire to recount the dramatic and gripping story of the last major battle of World War II.“[Astor] is a master… This i...

  • A Handy Man To Have Around

    Elizabeth August

    SOMETHING STRANGE WAS GOING ON IN SMYTHESHIRE... Posing as Gillian Hudson's handyman was just a ploy Taggart Devereux had devised to bring them together. For he was having "visions" of Gillian in danger. And Taggart knew he was the only one who co...

  • The Lost

    Jonathan Aycliffe

    A preparatory school teacher from Boston travels to Romania to claim his grandparents' land in the Transylvanian Alps and meets an irresistible girl with ties to his family and to demons worse than vampires. Reprint....

  • Bub: Or the Very Best Thing

    Natalie Babbitt

    Wanting the very best thing for their prince son but not knowing what that thing is, a king and queen survey all of their royal subjects for suggestions, but the prince is the only one who knows the answer. Reprint....

  • Shark's Cove

    Alicia Baldwin

    Mitch struggles to cope with predatory Australian lifeguard Wiley while investigating the strange disappearance of an Olympic swimmer one night near Baywatch, a disappearance that everyone believes is the result of a shark attack. Original....

  • Girls Only

    Alicia Baldwin

  • Truly

    Mary Balogh

    Once branded the bastard child of the Earl of Wyvern, Geraint Penderyn returns home to Tegfan after a 10-year absence to find toll gates across public roads and many of his farmers living in squalor. As a ragged impoverished boy, he had been one with...

  • No Birds Sing

    Jo Bannister

    LIVE BAIT The canal town of Castlemere is the kind of hard-luck place that provides constant challenge to its crack team of detectives. Bu the skills of Superintendent Frank Shapiro, Inspector Liz Graham and the volatile Sergeant Cal Donovan are p...

  • Too Many Notes, Mr. Mozart

    Robert Barnard

  • Bearing Secrets

    Richard Barre

    Now Hardesty must face more than just his past when the discovery of the seventeen-year-old wreckage of a plane--and its illicit cargo--prompts the suicide of '60s radical Max Pfeiffer. But Pfeiffer's daughter knows it wasn't suicide. She wants Harde...

  • The Deer Pasture

    Rick Bass

    Rick Bass's first collection of essays captures the clear, passionate voice of this acclaimed author at the very beginning of his career.

    In The Deer Pasture, Rick Bass writes about a family tradition: each year, for more than fifty years, thr...

  • Substitute Engagement

    Jayne Bauling

    She couldn't win -- and she couldn't refuse. Lucia was furious. She'd been hurt, reject and now she was being compromised. Rob Ballard's sister had stolen her fiance and Lucia was being asked to protect her feelings! Her instinct w...

  • Soul to Take

    C.N. Bean

    Milwaukee homicide detective Rita Trible races against time to find a brutal serial killer stalking young boys only to uncover the secret life of a Catholic priest that the Church will do anything to hide and discover that her own child may be target...

  • A Dance in Heather

    Julie Beard

    Lady Tess Farnsworth bitterly accepted the royal decree to wed the man whom she detested above all. The gloriously handsome Earl of Easterby had failed her in a desperate time of need, and her only solace in wedding him was the promise of vengeance. ...

  • The White Boy Shuffle

    Paul Beatty

    Paul Beatty goes upside your head doing the white boy shuffle -- a simple side-to-side step -- and then down the other side with this exuberant and engaging debut novel. A Los Angeles Times best-seller, The White Boy Shuffle uses explosive humor and...

  • Wild Beauty

    Samantha Beckett

    A DESTINY OF LOVE Unlucky in love, free-spirited Katherine Pierce decides to let destiny -- and her beat-up convertible--take her as far away from her recent past as possible. She never imagined they would take her to New Mexico--and into a job ho...

  • The Seven-Year Atomic Make-Over Guide: Stories

    Christine Bell (1)

    A collection of stories reflects the author's tradition of using warm humor and the magic of everyday life to bring her characters a realism in dealing with everything from insomnia to the stillbirth of Elvis's twin brother....

  • Where Dreams Come True

    Barbara Benedict
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    Barbara Benedict's WHERE DREAMS COME TRUE sends Meg McCleary to Ireland to find an abandoned baby and meet the Prince Charming of her dreams....

  • Married to a Stranger

    Connie Bennett

    Bride's Bay Resort: A luxurious playground with a colorful past and a romantic present! Generations of Jermains have catered to the rich and famous at their exclusive, family-owned hotel. Madeline Hopewell -- if that's her real name -- has no mem...

  • Silvana

    Meg Berenson

    Silvana Levi, a beautiful Italian-born Jewish woman with a talent for cookery, pursues her dreams of opening a chic restaurant in America, but she finds her ambition and success are threatened by true love and by her carefully concealed past. Origina...

  • Wishes Come True

    Patti Berg

    A SMALL MONTANA MIRACLE Laurie Langtry ran far from Bunch Gulch, Montana, seeking fame and fortune. And now she's back--a beautiful, successful romance novelist who's had more than enough of the bad Big City. Home is where the heart is...and Ja...

  • The Risk of Heaven

    Bob Berger

    When Dr. Risk wakes up alone on a dock on the East River, he's got more than a bad hangover -- he's got a problem.  He can remember a party the night before on a yacht with his old friend Bill Golden, but nothing else.  He takes a cab home, grogg...

  • Promise of Love

    Ariel Berk

    NEVER BEFORE Carla Roche knew what it was like to be loved by a man. Hadn't she left her family and friends and risked everything to follow her husband to New York? And when Alec was gone, Carla was sure she would never feel as deeply about anyon...

  • The Body Shop

    David Berlinski

    Hired by the accounting firm of Plumbeck and Ergenweiler to investigate the disappearance of the partner’s shared mistress, San Francisco investigator Aaron Asherfeld finds himself embroiled in a sexual harassment suit and a drug dealer’s pursuit...

  • The Hag's Contract

    John Gregory Betancourt

    The legendary pirate king Ulrich gets more than he had bargained for when he enters into an unholy pact with The Hag, the Abomination, to free his kingdom from savage orog and goblin tribes. Original. 75,000 first printing....

  • Father of the Brood

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    BACHELOR FOR SALE Maybe you can't buy love, but in Annie Malone's case it wasn't for lack of trying! And though the housemother of twelve bids on Ike Guthrie for the sake of her "children," one look at his healthy physique and penetrating blue eye...

  • The Pearls of Coromandel

    Keron Bhattacharya

    Hoping to begin a career in the British government, John Sugden joins the Indian Civil Service during the final days of the Raj, but he risks his career--and his life--when he falls in love with Kamala, whose father will kill her rather than allow he...

  • Deep in the Heart

    Barbara Bickmore

    Carly Anderson left Verity, Texas--and her broken heart--behind and headed for Houston, where ambition and financial savvy have made her one of the most powerful and respected businesswomen in the city. Yet with each step up the ladder, she's tested-...

  • Fearful Symmetry

    Greg Bills

    Peter Keith moves into his new southern California condo and enters the intensely exotic and erotic world of neighbors Chaz and Muriel Lambent, from whose powerful allure and dark desires he may not be able to escape. By the author of Consider Th...

  • The Butler & the Bachelorette

    Lisa Bingham

    Butler . . . With a houseful of foster children, Michelle Worthington needed a handyman, security guard and temporary dad all rolled into one. Her help-wanted ad landed her a thief, a drunk and a cross-dresser! Surely, advertising for a butler wou...

  • Eagle's Song

    Rosanne Bittner

    Warriors and dreamers, pathfinders and rebels, the Monroes are a family divided between their Indian heritage and their white blood. At their head is the indomitable Abigail Trent Monroe, whose love for Cheyenne warrior Lone Eagle became a legend. No...

  • The Intruder

    Peter Blauner

    New York Times Bestseller: A lawyer is tormented by a destitute, emotionally unstable man -- until one shocking moment changes everything: “A great plot.” -- Los Angeles Times   Jacob Schiff has a good career, a beautiful home in New York C...

  • The Final Chapter of Chance McCall

    Stephen A. Bly

    In the high-flying, high-stakes world of New York book publishing, Atlantic-Hampton figures it has a sure bestseller. The novel, based on fact, holds a surprise ending--two pages of treasure maps to an actual hoard of gold. But just as the book is re...

  • Five Alarm Fire

    D.B. Borton

    CAT CALIBAN INVESTIGATES Suspicion is second nature to any woman who's raised three kids. So Cat Caliban figures she has what it takes to be Cincinnati's smartest snoop: an eye for evidence, a talent for spotting lies, the sharp wit of Erma Bombeck-...

  • Mission: Impossible

    Randall Boyll

    When agents of the former Soviet Union steal a top-secret decoded list of undercover American agents in Europe, CIA agent Ethan Hunt and the Impossible Mission team begin a daring adventure that is plagued by internal sabotage. Original. Movie tie-in...

  • Ruins of Civility

    James Bradberry

    Princeton architecture professor Jamie Ramsgill journeys to Cambridge, England, to research a new book and to visit his former mentor, retiring professor Rainer Grass, but his trip takes an unexpected twist when Grass, hated by most of his colleagues...

  • The Big Wipe-Out

    Casey Brady

    Determined to win the attention of Suzie, the gorgeous new girl on the beach, Hobie decides to compete against Logan in the charity surf-off, but both young men are in for a surprise when Suzie herself hits the waves. Original....

  • The Haunted Tower

    Casey Brady

    No one on the Baywatch team is superstitious about working Tower Thirteen. But then ghostly cries of phantom drowning victims start echoing across the beach. When Hobie learns that Australian hunk Logan Fowler has an aboriginal amulet that has the po...

  • Tour De Force

    Christianna Brand

    The vacationing Inspector Cockrill is on the job again when a fellow tourist is stabbed to death on a small Mediterranean island. The local police, in Cockrill's opinion, are illprepared for interrogating the tourload of suspects, she he takes it upo...

  • Way to Go, Simba

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Aliens Colonial Marines Technical Manual

    Lee Brimmicombe-Wood

    An official guide to the technology of the United States Colonial Marines shares detailed diagrams and technical schematics; a close-up look at the guns, vehicles, and ships of the USCMC; and a hypothesis of what could have gone wrong on the colony p...

  • Prince Joe

    Suzanne Brockmann

    A ROYAL PAIN The government wanted Veronica St. John to teach a tough, combat-hardened Navy SEAL how to impersonate a visiting European crown prince who'd been targeted by terrorists. But even if every gorgeous inch of him did look the part, this ...

  • Asylum for Nightface

    Bruce Brooks

  • Off the Wall: Scuba Diving -- To the Extreme

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Invisible Stanley

    Jeff Brown

    DISAPPEARING ACT One morning, after a terrible storm, Stanley Lambchop is nowhere to be found. His family can hear him and there is a lump under his covers, but no one can find him! Just where is that boy? Then they discover the truth -- Stanley ...

  • Glasses for D.W.

    Marc Brown

    D.W. wants to wear glasses, just like her big brother, Arthur.  After Arthur explains that without his glasses a hat looks like a bat and some string looks like a ring duck, D.W. sets out to prove that everything looks funny to her, too.  Finally...

  • West 47th

    Gerald A. Browne

    A New York jeweler becomes involved in the search for priceless emeralds stolen from the Iranian treasury and finds himself up against mobsters, a disillusioned cop, and vicious Iranian emissaries. Reprint....

  • Turnaway

    Jesse Browner

    A weekend sailor is shipwrecked on the beach of Turnaway, an island off Manhattan inhabited only by an elderly German-Jewish doctor and his ward, Elias Hutchinson, which leads an innocent Elias to be exposed to the temptations of Manhattan for the fi...

  • Children of the Longhouse

    Joseph Bruchac

    He has made powerful enemies. Can he face them on the playing field? When Ohkwa'ri overhears a group of older boys planning a raid on a neighboring village, he immediately tells his Mohawk elders. He has done the right thing?but he has also made ene...

  • The Baby

    Joseph Bruchac

  • Cutting Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    HOLLYWOOD HITS THE RANGE Teen star Skye Ransom is on location at the Bar None Ranch. He's hired the girls of The Saddle Club to be his technical advisers! Skye's character has to ride a cutting and roping horse, but the Hollywood-style steed he's be...

  • Dream Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    Recovering from a head injury in the hospital, Stevie Lake has a series of vivid dreams that surprisingly comes true and makes the Saddle Club friends wonder if Stevie has developed psychic powers....

  • May Rides a New Pony

    Bonnie Bryant

    May Grover has bad news. Her pony, Macaroni, has a sore foot, and she can't ride him until he's better. But May's dad has the perfect solution: She can help him train his new student--a smart pony named Zeus. Soon May is so busy with Zeus, she forget...

  • Wild Horses

    Bonnie Bryant

    Lisa Atwood thinks the fancy boarding school she visits for the weekend is nice enough, but she'd never want to leave Willow Creek--it's where her two best friends and her very favorite horse live! Then she learns that her mother has enrolled her in ...

  • The Triad Worlds

    F.M. Busby

    Captain Sam Gowdy and his crew are caught in the middle of a triplanetary war in which they learn of a conspiracy to steal the Habegger Gates, a revolutionary transport technology that can be used to manipulate time and space. Original....

  • Making Faces

    Nick Butterworth

  • Ravensdene's Bride

    Julia Byrne

    Nicholas, 5th Earl of Ravensdene, had rarely spent time in his ancestral home in Sussex, but now there was need. Somewhere in the area was a traitor, and Nick, as one of Wellington's spies was intent on finding him. What Nick hadn't bargained...

  • It's Bedtime!

    Alison Campbell

    A lift-the-flap book with full-color illustrations allows young children to explore various surroundings as Kermit goes on a search to find his friend, Robin, who has to get ready for bedtime but is nowhere to be found. Original....

  • Sweet Summer

    Bebe Moore Campbell

  • See How They Run

    Marilyn Campbell

    HUNTED BY HATE AND TRAPPED BY LOVE After nine years on the run, Barbara Johnson thought she was safe at last. Safe with her little boy, Matthew. Safe in a new city, with a new name. Safe from the abusive man she had broken with once and who wanted...

  • Alice and the Gunfighter

    Ann Carberry

    PASSION IN DISGUISE With a ruthless competitor determined to drive her out of business, spirited Mary Alice "Al" Donnelly has her hands full running the Four Roses Mine. So she eagerly awaits the help her meddlesome father is sending to Sa...

  • First Strike

    Diane Carey

    Long ago, before the days of myth and legend, our worlds belonged to them. Now they want them back…Captain Kirk is stunned when the Federation receives an urgent plea for help -- from the Klingon Empire. A mysterious starship has invaded Klingon sp...

  • Whose Baby?

    Suzanne Carey

    AN INNOCENT CHILD Sweet little Kassie had been abandoned before, and adoptive dad Jack Kelleher was determined that she wouldn't lose her family again. A DETERMINED FATHER Why should the death of his wife cause the authorities to take away t...

  • Gold Dust

    Emily Carmichael

    Katy O'Connell of Willow Bend, Montana, couldn't help herself. She told the handsome Chicago newsman that he'd be robbed blind, chewed up, and spit out before he got halfway to the Klondike Gold Rush if he didn't take her -- and her p...

  • Upside Down and Topsy-Turvy

    Jan Carr

  • Daddy on the Run

    Carla Cassidy

    WIFE IN WAITING... Ever since her husband disappeared, Julianne Baker found herself missing him - despite their strained marriage. She wanted to believe he would come home to her and their beautiful little girl. But when - and if - he did, would it ...

  • Abbie's Child

    Linda Castle

    Abigail's Child... Widow Abigail Cooprel had been devastated by the news that her daughter had died at birth and been "switched" with a healthy baby. Now, six years later, she cherished her son as if he were truly her own, and there was nothing sh...

  • Gather the Stars

    Kimberly Cates

    HE WAS A LEGEND OF THE HIGHLANDS, A MASKED RIDER NO SOLDIER COULD CAPTURE, HER SWORN ENEMY ... HER BELOVED Rachel de Lacey, the clever daughter of Lord General de Lacey, was about to embark on her own private war. She had been kidnapped in the m...

  • Waltzing in Ragtime

    Eileen Charbonneau

    Struggling to build her career as a journalist for the Gold Coast Chronicle in turn-of-the-century San Francisco, Olana Whittaker, the daughter of a lumber baron, finds her life changed forever by ranger Matthew Hart, an ardent conservationist out to...

  • The Devil's Menagerie

    Louis Charbonneau

    Fear is his favorite mediumFBI agent Karen Younger’s worst nightmare just came true. A vicious serial killer from a cold case has struck again -- his crimes spanning two different continents, eight years apart. But he’s only getting started, and ...

  • Sinner and Saint

    Sandra Chastain

    Nikolai Sandor didn't want to feel anything for the sleeping woman who resembled a fairy-tale princess, but only he could give Karen Miller a reason to live! Murmuring endearments, he tried to convince her they were more than strangers...until she aw...

  • Smithereens

    Susan Taylor Chehak

    The arrival of Frankie Crane, a girl with a past beyond her years, in the slow, small town of Linwood, Iowa, transforms sixteen-year-old May Caldwell's life, leading to sexual awakening, family ruin, and murder...

  • Reign of Shadows

    Deborah Chester

    POWERFUL MAGIC IS SWEEPING THROUGH THE LAND Caelan E'Non, son of the land's most powerful healer, is naturally expected to follow in his father's footsteps. Except Caelan has no interest in healing. Instead, he feels a burning desire for somethin...

  • Mainline

    Deborah Christian

    Bystanders, beware: Reva the assassin always gets her man, and anyone caught in the crossfire won't live to tell about it. Reva has the unique ability to see different lines of causality spread out before her. When she chooses any one of them, the ot...

  • Takedown

    Matt Christopher

    As he is helped by an assistant referee to prepare for a wrestling match with the neighborhood bully, Sean begins to wonder if his mentor could be his long-lost father....

  • Half a Life

    Jill Ciment

    Jill Ciment weaves an unforgettable tale of survival, compassion, and courage, in this haunting recollection of a child surrounded by confusion and madness, and her struggle to find an identity.Half a Life traces Jill Ciment's family from Toronto to ...

  • Grounds for Marriage

    Daphne Clair

    "Too handsome, too clever, too sure of himself, too everything." Lacey Kerr, at seventeen, had thought that of Tully Cleaver, before she'd made the mistake that had altered her life. And in ten years she hadn't changed her mind. Fo...

  • Iced

    Carol Higgins Clark

    SOLVING A CRIME AT A SKI RESORT CAN BE ALL DOWNHILL! P1. Regan Reilly has high hopes for her Aspen vacation -- such as meeting an unmarried man! But a mystery soon has the chic detective snooping rather than skiing. Million-dollar paintings have b...

  • Brighton Beauty

    Marilyn Clay

    Chelsea Grant hadn't planned to be a deceiver! She had been the prettiest -- and most penniless -- young lady at Miss Farringdon's Academy. Befriending spoiled Alayna Marchmont and telling her about a family scandal was a schoolgirl's nai...

  • High Island Blues

    Ann Cleeves

    IN A BIRD-WATCHER'S PARADISE, MURDER COMES HOME TO ROOST. Among the birders from around the world gathered for the dazzling spring avian migration on the Texas coast are three old friends from England -- Rob, Mick, and Oliver -- celebrating the tw...

  • Llama Pajamas

    Susan Clymer

    LLAMA WILDERNESS TREKKING--Come and Visit, You Hear? "There are only two rules," Gary the llama guide told us. "Number one...Never let a llama get loose. Number two...A loose llama on a rope is easier to catch than a loose llama without a rope." ...

  • By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

    Paulo Coelho

    A FABLE ABOUT OPENING YOURSELF TO MIRACLES Pilar, a young scholar feeling hopeless and worn down by the endless cycle of her days, is contacted by a childhood friend. She is surprised to discover that he is now a charismatic spiritual leader, consid...

  • The Dead Kid Did It

    M.T. Coffin

    Discovering a prank-playing zombie kid in his school locker, Dunning is unable to get anyone to believe his story--or stop blaming him for the pranks--until he meets Kim, a girl who had his locker the previous year. Original....

  • The Bride of Blackness Castle

    Elaine Coffman
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    In order to free her ailing father, the lovely Lady Anne must marry the 'beast' who holds her captive....

  • The Bad Good Manners Book

    Babette Cole

  • Shameless

    Judy Collins

    Working her way to the top of the rock photojournalism world surrounded by stars, concerts, and parties, Catherine Saint is horrified when she realizes that one of her closest friends is trying to kill her. Reprint....

  • Willfully Wed

    Toni Collins

    FAMILY SECRETS Danielle Vine was stumped: she'd been left a huge sum of money but she didn't know from who or why! She couldn't accept her inheritance until she found out where it came from, so she hired gorgeous private eye Mitch Newm...

  • Baby in Blue

    Cara Colter

    Assignment: Baby! Officer Hawk Adams had faced some pretty tough characters in his day. But nothing had prepared him for his latest assignment -- minding a twenty-pound rabble-rouser with an almost criminal record for spitting up and raising a fus...

  • The Killing Season

    Ralph Compton

    FAST GUN IN WILD TIMES It was the 1870s--and the West was at its wildest. Jesse and Frank James led their gang on daring raids on banks and trains. Doc Holliday's name struck dread in the hearts of men, and Wild Bill Hickok played poker with bulle...

  • A Daughter for John

    Phoebe Conn
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    In Phoebe Conn's A DAUGHTER FOR JOHN, Melody captivates a suitor --- but will he leave her once he learns that Maribelle isn't her baby sister, but her own child?...

  • Zoe Rising

    Pamela Conrad

  • Beach Music

    Pat Conroy

    Pat Conroy is without doubt America's favorite storyteller, a writer who portrays the anguished truth of the human heart and the painful secrets of
    families in richly lyrical prose and unforgettable narratives. Now, in Beach Music, he tells of the...

  • Samantha Crane on the Run

    Linda A. Cooney

    Things heat up with a killer on the loose on the streets of L.A. looking for Samantha Crane, a junior at West L.A. High, but as she tries to stop his killing spree, she leads him closer to his next victim, who may be someone she knows--or it may be S...

  • All About Eve

    Patty Copeland

    STRANDED! Eve Sutton was driving away from her past. Millionaire's daughter, society bride, Chicago heiress...she'd played so many roles, she'd lost touch with who she was. Spending quality time alone in her uncle's isolated cabi...

  • Spring Enchantment

    Christina Cordaire

    Jared St. Legere's ghost stood gazing out at the sea. He finally had the two unmarried people he needed. He had a surprising advantage in that he could talk to Lady Anne's twins. Perhaps they could even help him. He was happier than he'd been since h...

  • Close to a Father's Heart

    Neva Coyle

    For the Young Women in the class of '57 It Was a Time of Leaving Behind Nostalgic Memories of Jukeboxes and Summer Nights for the Hopes, Dreams and Uncertainties of the Future. Graduating with valedictorian honors from Summerwind High, Amy Weaver ha...

  • Death on a Vineyard Beach

    Philip R. Craig

    Bullets and Bouquets There is no room for murder on a honeymoon. When J.W. Jackson foils an attempt to terminate former mob boss Luciano Marcus on the steps of Boston's Symphony Hall, it puts a definite damper on Jackson's and bride Zee Madiera...

  • Twister

    Michael Crichton

  • Mourn Not Your Dead

    Deborah Crombie

    Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid and Sergeant Gemma James are sent to suburban Surrey to investigate the murder of a high-ranking police officer. Alastair Gilbert was bludgeoned to death in his kitchen, and the list of potential suspects i...

  • The MacKinnon's Bride // Page

    Tanya Anne Crosby

    THE WARRIOR'S VENGEANCE Fiercely loyal to clan alone, Iain MacKinnon will never be a slave to King or conqueror -- even when his son, Malcom, is taken hostage by a lackey of the English-loving sovereign. Answering treachery in kind, the proud Scott...

  • Ready, Set

    Lynn Cullen

    Hoping to take first place at the school talent show, ambitious ten-year-old Regina Calhoun never doubts she will win despite her multiple detention sentences and is amazed when her plans go awry. Original....

  • Tomorrow's Dreams

    Heather Cullman

    Yesterday's Love Beautiful singer Penelope Parrish -- the darling of the New York stage -- never forgot the night her golden life ended. The man she loved beyond all reason, handsome businessman Seth Tyler, hurled wild accusations at her and w...

  • Silver Shadows

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Arilyn Moonblade has always feared the elfshadow, the essence of her sword's magic. When she learns the terrible truth behind her inherited moonblade, she vows to find a way to escape her fate. What begins as a means to an end becomes a deeply per...

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    Michael Cunningham

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    Ruth Jean Dale

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    Lacey Dancer

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  • A Timeless Moment

    Annette Daniels

    A LOVE STRONGER THAN TIME 1867. To Pennsylvania heiress Aramanda Montclair, Roarke Macnair is the bold renegade who led a rebellion of miners against her wealthy family. Irresistibly drawn together, they surrender to a moment of breathless passion ....

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    Stephanie Daniels (1)

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    Keay Davidson

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    Dianne Day

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    Simone De Beauvoir

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    Tom De Haven

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  • Busy at Day Care Head to Toe

    Patricia Brennan Demuth

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    Troy Denning
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    An aspiring Harper agent finds that solving a poisoning -- and impressing her superiors -- is much harder than she imagined The Bedine witch Ruha has left the parched sea of Anauroch on her quest to become a Harper. That quest takes her to Evers...

  • Lunatics

    Bradley Denton

    Jack has been widowed for close to a year, and his behavior has his friends worried. Arrested for public indecency, Jack insists that he was meeting a moon goddess of desire named Lily. Furthermore, he claims that she can only find him if he waits ou...

  • The Bubble Factory

    Tomie DePaola

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    August Derleth

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  • Chuck and Danielle

    Peter Dickinson

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  • Star Trek Federation Passport

    J.M. Dillard

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    Disney Book Group

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    Debra Dixon

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    Franklin W. Dixon

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    Melvin Dixon

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    Danae Dobson

    The Sunny Street Kids' Club books combine all the fun of being in a club with valuable lessons about responsibility, honesty, friendship, and being kind to others. So come on.be a Sunny Street Kid! It's a zoo when the Sunny Street Kids' Club comes up...

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    D.J. Donaldson

    WHEN A MYSTERIOUS PLAGUE STALKS NEW ORLEANS, THE CITY'S MOST BRILLIANT FORENSIC TEAM STEPS IN.. Featuring the sleuthing duo of pathologist Andy Broussard and criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn, Louisiana Fever is forensic mystery at its most compe...

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    Chris Douglas

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    Stephanie Doyon

    LOVE ON-LINE... Rebecca Lowe's in love. The only problem is, she's never even met the guy. Or has she? After weeks of exchanging love letters by computer, Rebecca's finally going to have a face-to-face date with her cybercrush at the homecoming danc...

  • No Other Woman

    Shannon Drake

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  • Precious Amber

    Kathleen Drymon

    Upon her mother's death, Amber's cruel stepfather intends to sell her to the highest-paying fur trapper. But when a surly woodsman claims her, the flame-haired Missouri beauty is rescued by a magnificent Indian warrior named Spirit Walker. Fo...

  • Take a Hike!

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Participating in a weekend camping trip with the Science and Nature Club in order to earn extra credit, Alex is frustrated when her parents volunteer to chaperone the event, which is further complicated by the antics of Vince and Dave. Original....

  • Anisett Lundberg, California 1851

    Kathleen Duey

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  • The Camp Knock Knock Mystery

    Betsy Duffey

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  • Prospect of Death

    Margaret Duffy

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  • River Teeth

    David James Duncan

    In his passionate, luminous novels, David James Duncan has won the devotion of countless critics and readers, earning comparisons to Harper Lee, Tom Robbins, and J.D. Salinger, to name just a few. Now Duncan distills his remarkable powers of obs...

  • Night Terrors

    Lois Duncan

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    Lois Faye Dyer

    She saw the Stetson first. Then the tall, broad-shouldered body and tight, well-worn jeans. But it was the hard blue stare of Lucas Hightower that made Jennifer McCleary realize she was in over her head. The tight-lipped rancher had agreed to...

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    Thomas J. Dygard

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  • Waiting for You

    Margot Early

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  • Cure the Texas Fever

    J.T. Edson

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  • Hearts Victorious

    Marian Edwards

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  • Ten Lords A-Leaping

    Ruth Dudley Edwards

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  • Going Crazy in Public

    Earl Emerson

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  • The Tribes

    Ken Englade

    Despite Second Lieutenant Benoit's protests against his government's heartless treatment of the Indians, he carries out his military duties, until he is rescued from death by a Sioux warrior who teaches him the Native American way of life. Original....

  • Ghost of Thistle Ridge

    Allison Estes

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  • Blue Ribbon Friends

    Allison Estes

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  • His Chosen Bride

    Marcia Evanick

    AN INCONVENIENT MARRIAGE Tender-hearted Gillian Barnett agreed to marry a virtual stranger to fulfill a long-ago promise. Powerful Mason Blacksword was the epitome of Gillian's every fantasy, but although he knew as well as she did that the terms ...

  • Longarm and the Deadly Prisoner

    Tabor Evans

    Escorting convicted lawman killer Ford Oakley who is returning to Denver to be hanged, Longarm is injured by the prisoner's cronies, who help Ford to escape and threaten to kill Longarm if he interferes...

  • I Dreamed I Had a Girl in My Pocket

    Wendy Ewald

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    This unique book of photographs and text takes place...

  • High On The Hog

    Kimberly Olson Fahik

    When Trapp's family plans to move from Iowa to New York City, she stays behind on her great-grandparents' farm for the summer and discovers some family secrets that make it easier for her to leave the life she has always known....

  • Final Jeopardy

    Linda Fairstein

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  • Happy Father's Day

    Barbara Faith

    WITH BABY YOU GET NINE! Fernando Ibarra was a sexy, sophisticated, handsome lawyer. He was also the father of six adopted children! Kristen Fielding hadn't known how a bachelor could win a father-of-the-year award -- until she realized Fernando's...

  • Anonymous Tip

    Michael Farris

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  • Dead in the Dirt

    Connie Feddersen

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  • No Way!

    Paul Fehlner

    Resisting everything that she dislikes, from eating eggs to sitting in the back seat, a determined young miss makes a point of refusing every suggestion that is made to her until she is offered Grandma's cookies. Original....

  • Into the Wind

    Jean Ferris

    Reluctantly working at her father's tavern, which is frequented by loutish sailors, early 1800s teen Rosie finds herself without a family or livelihood after a brawl ends her father's life and is taken in by young sea captain Raider Lyons. Original....

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    Jean Ferris

    Holding on to the memory of troublemaker Captain Raider Lyons when she is abducted and tormented by the devious British Captain Lawrence, Rosie is rescued by Raider, who nearly loses his life in the process. Original....

  • Migraine Boy

    Greg Fiering

    Meet America's newest little hero, Migraine Boy--Charlie Brown's bi-polar second cousin, an existentially aware Richie Rich. Spawned in the pages of alternative 'zines and giveaway newspapers, Migraine Boy got his big break when R.E.M. chose cartooni...

  • River Moon

    Carol Finch

    SHE DARED TO DREAM .. . After a lifetime of being dominated, first by her father, then by her conniving husband, recently divorced Crista Delaney decided that the time had come to take control of her life. A new job as head of physical therapy in an...

  • Lullaby of Love

    Carol Finch
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  • Madame LaGrande and Her So High, to the Sky, Uproarious Pompadour

    Candace Fleming

    Pompadours have become the rage in Paris, and Madame LaGrande wants to get one in time for the upcoming opera season.  But since neither she nor her stylist know when to say "Enough!", her outrageous coif winds up housing two pigeons, three cats, f...

  • The Rebel's Bride

    Christine Flynn

    SHE'D BROUGHT TROUBLE TO TOWN... The citizens of Leesburg were aghast. Sweet, peaceable Lindsey Hayes had up and invited a new carpenter to town. And not just any carpenter, but scandalous Caleb Whitaker, renegade brother of Leesburg's richest ran...

  • The Most Wonderful Movie in the World

    Barbara Ford

    Wishing to see Gone With the Wind, a movie that is based on her favorite book, Moira, a Catholic, is unable to see the show as it has been declared objectionable by the church and struggles with coming of age during the second World War....

  • Twin Beds

    Regan Forest

    The Wrong Bed? The Wrong Twin? It was ten years since Emily Rose had seen "Chigger" Callister, but he'd grown up to be sheriff of Bluster County and a magnificent specimen of manhood -- just as she'd pictured him in her bedtime fantasies. Still, in...

  • Pie Magic

    Toby Forward

    Bertie is the fattest boy at school--and also the loneliest-- until a magical formula is given to him by one of his customers at the pie shop where he works that will supposidly help him lose the weight....

  • Cactus Cavalier

    Norman A. Fox

    Dave Larkin returns to his Montana hometown only to find it in the grip of lawlessness and violence and decides to take up the cause of justice, in a compelling story by a celebrated Western writer. Reissue....

  • Running Wild

    Alison Fraser

    In bed with her tutor! Kip was at an American college on an athletics scholarship. But she needed to be more than a good runner. She was severely dyslexic, and luckily her gorgeous tutor Whit Delaney offered to help.... Kip was grateful for his...

  • Waiting at the Altar

    Amy Frazier

    MEET THE JILTED GROOM: Jacob Matthews would have married his dream bride...except she left him waiting at the altar. Now he finally had the chance to win back the wife and child who should have been his! AND HIS ALMOST BRIDE: Single mom Cathryn...

  • Deadly Games

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Beautiful heiress Janna Leighton becomes the target of assassins when she reveals her plan to invest millions of dollars in Metropolis's disadvantaged communities, but she has Superman by her side, much to the dismay of Lois Lane. Original. TV tie-in...

  • Child of the Eagle

    Esther Friesner

    DRAMATIS PERSONAE JULIUS CAESAR died in bed at an advanced age. PTOLEMY was Caesar's youngest son--and hoped someday to inherit his father's empire. VENUS held the fate of the world in her hands--and Brutus in her arms. HEROD slaughtered ...

  • Old Familiar Places

    Robert Funderburk

    She Came to Memphis Looking for a Big Break, but She Finds So Much More. On a cold dark night in a ramshackle nightclub located across the river from Baton Rouge, Jessie Temple sees Elvis Presley perform and decides to go to Memphis, hoping to brea...

  • The Solitaire Mystery

    Jostein Gaarder

    The story of a boy and his father on a car trip through Europe, searching for the boy's mother, who left many years ago to find herself. Structured as a deck of cards -- each chapter is one card in the deck -- The Solitaire Mystery subtly weaves toge...

  • Travels with a Duchess

    Menna Gallie

    On her way to Yugoslavia in 1960s, Innes Gibson loses her luggage, her patience and her head. She spends the next fortnight trying on a different life as well as another woman's clothes. Reeling from sight to sight, drink to drink, and from man to ma...

  • Magazine Beach

    Lewis Gannett

    Crammed with environmental terrorism, murder, incest, mind control, and computerized mayhem, an apocalyptic thriller features a scientist who holds the world hostage as he prepares to flood the world by exploding bombs buried in Antarctica. Reprint....

  • Cold Fall

    John E. Gardner

    When a British-owned aircraft is destroyed at Dulles Airpot, killing the almost four hundred passengers on board, including his old lover, the Principessa Sukie Tempesta, James Bond embarks on a personal quest to find the fanatical terrorists respons...

  • Rogue Warrior

    Susan Gayle

    A LOVE TO FIGHT FOR Once, Mike Coburn was one of the Navy's finest Top Gunfighter pilots. Until an accident left him an embittered and battle-scarred recluse. Resigned to a life alone, Mike has given up hope of ever again experiencing the joys...

  • The Bride's Daughter

    Rosemary Gibson

    Enemies at the altar... Jordan Keston's father was about to marry Tamsin's mother -- and Tamsin was furious! As a teenager, she'd been obsessed with Jordan, dazzled by the glamour and sophistication of this rich playboy. But he had ...

  • Phantoms of the Night

    Richard Gilliam

    A chilling collection of twenty-seven horror tales about the mysterious and terrifying specters that haunt the night features works by Diana L. Paxson, George Zebrowski, Craig Shaw Gardner, Pamela Sargent, Peter Crowther, and other notable authors...

  • Who Killed Mr. Chippendale?

    Mel Glenn

    Nominated for the prestigious Edgar Allan Poe Award of the Mystery Writers of America

    An ALA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults

    Award-winning author and poet Mel Glenn presents a unique mystery told through a series of free verse poems....

  • Hunt for Buried Treasure

    Martyn Godfrey

    Wondering about a strange visitor to his grandmother's bed-and-breakfast at Pirate Cove, Garrett and his friend Del believe that Mr. McPherson knows something about local buried treasure and fear that their own discoveries have come too late. Origina...

  • Getting Lincoln's

    Maureen Goldman