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New Books List: 528 titles

  • Out of Time

    Lynn Abbey

    University librariar Emma Merrigan's peaceful existence is turned upside down when she give sanctuary to a terrified young girl found hiding in the library, a commendable act that unleashes the nightmares of her childhood and reawakens the untapped m...

  • The Golden Wasp

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Oops! Julie made a big mistake when she brought a bracelet home from Droon. Now she's upset the balance between worlds--and strange things are starting to happen. Eric's dad has disapp...

  • Intimate Enemies

    Shana Abe

    Lauren MacRae is only a woman. But her father's death has left her the leader of the Clan MacRae. Now it is up to her to defend her beloved Isle of Shot from the invading Northmen, even if it means going to her clan's sworn enemy, the powerful Englis...

  • Outlaw Town

    Luke Adams

  • The Blazing Tree

    Mary Jo Adamson

    Police reporter Michael Merrick journeys into the dark underbelling of nineteenth-century Boston as he investigates a series of deadly arson fires within a local Shaker community. By the author of May's Newfangled Mirth. Original....

  • A Gathering of Spies

    John Altman

    By 1943, the U.S. had rounded up every Nazi spy on American soil--except one... She is Germany's greatest weapon-a cunning spy and a merciless killer wrapped in one dangerously seductive pack age. Now, she is racing home with vital information abo...

  • In the Name of Salome

    Julia Alvarez

    "Original and illuminating." -- The New York Times Book Review In her most ambitious work since In the Time of Butterflies, Julia Alvarez tells the story of a woman whose poetry inspired one Caribbean revolution and of her daughter whose dedication t...

  • Molly's Hero

    Susan Amarillas

    OUT WEST HE'D FOUND A LIFE... AND A WIFE! Unfortunately, Molly Murphy was married to another man, a man who'd abandoned her at the first sign of trouble. Still, the real and aching need to have her at his side made railroad entrepreneur Ethan Wil...

  • Heat Wave

    Marty Ambrose

    Margaret Spenser is a no-nonsense accountant who likes to do everything by the book and keep everything under control. That's what she explained to Mr. Riley Sheridan when she signed on to help him straighten out the financial concerns of his charter...

  • Tough Enough

    C.J. Anders

    North...by Northwest? When Principal Green introduces a mandatory new program called "SpringPlan" at Capeside High, Jen, Joey, Pacey, Jack, Andie, and Dawson all sign up for projects that interst them. But Princpal Green has other ideas, and they...

  • The Best Tea Party Ever!

    Dawn Apperley

    Sarina and her mom decide to turn a gloomy, rainy day around by having a wonderful tea party. To prepare for the event, they make sandwiches, pick flowers, put out the fancy china, and more. In the end, they prove that planning a tea party can be as ...

  • Don't Forget Lara

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another...but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Don't forget Lara. As if anyone could! She's lied, schemed, and manipulated herself into ever...

  • A Theft of Honour

    Aileen Armitage

    Who was he, this Colonel Thomas Blood? Troublemaker, Irish upstart, unscrupulous rogue, or one of the most loyal subjects Charles II could wish for? He certainly became notorious during the years of the Restoration for his conspiracies, intrigues and...

  • The Rattlesnake Dance

    Jim Arnosky

  • Bluestem

    Frances Arrington

  • Emotionally Weird

    Kate Atkinson

    Emotionally Weird is a thoroughly original and hilarious novel about mothers, daughters, and love, by the author of Behind the Scenes at the MuseumOn a weather-beaten island off the coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother, Nora, take refuge in the la...

  • Worth the Wait

    Kathryn Attalla

    CAN A BLAZING NEW LOVE... Abandoned to foster homes as a child, beautiful Charlotte "Charlie" Lawson is steel and velvet on the outside, but on the inside, she's vulnerable and lonely. Even though, deep down, she longs for romance, Charlie decided l...

  • Wings of Refuge

    Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    Nothing in her life as a wife, mother, and teacher had prepared her for this. At forty-two, Abigail MacLeod is about to realize a lifelong dream -- participation in an archaeological dig in Israel. Crushed by her husband's decision to end their marri...

  • Pandora's Redoubt

    James Axler

    Stumbling upon a hidden cache of weapons in Ohio, Ryan Cawdor and his fellow survivalists take possession of a powerful armored tank called Leviathan, but the weapons draws them into a dangerous confrontation with lady Ward of Novaville, an ambitious...

  • Shadow Scourge

    James Axler

    DARK PROPHECY Two centuries after Armageddon, the eternal battle between order and chaos continues. Pockets of fortified city states are ruled by powerful barons, plenipotentiaries of humanity's secret enslavers. Half-human hybrids, these inheritors...

  • The Year of Jubilo

    Howard Bahr

    A “sweeping, cinematic story of rebellion, loyalty, revenge, and reawakened romance” set in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War (The New York Times Book Review).  A New York Times Notable Book   The last time Gawain Harper saw Cumb...

  • Giovanni's Room

    James Baldwin

    From one of the most brilliant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groundbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris, about love and the fear of love -- “a book that belongs in the top rank of f...

  • The Devil Finds Work

    James Baldwin

    James Baldwin At The Movies...  Provocative, timeless, brilliant.

    Bette Davis's eyes, Joan Crawford's bitchy elegance, Stepin Fetchit's stereotype, Sidney Poitier's superhuman black man...  These are the movie stars and the qualities that...

  • He Said, She Said

    Blair Bancroft

    All Vicki Kent wants is a few days of off-season isolation at her parents' windswept Cape Cod home. But instead of blissful solitude, she's greeted by a gun-toting stranger -- and a sudden, fierce attraction she can definitely do without. Tha...

  • The Angel on the Roof

    Russell Banks

    "At his shattering best. . . Banks offers answers that are tough, honest, and inevitable without being simple. . . . A book that is not to be missed." -- New York TimesWith The Angel on the Roof, acclaimed author Russell Banks offers readers an asto...

  • Night Raven

    Elaine Barbieri

    With his fierce golden eyes, Raven saw a vision of the future that torments him, drove him to seek vengeance against the white man. Famed for his fearless exploits, sought after by the women of his tribe, he has sworn to show no mercy to the enemies...

  • Something Old

    Elaine Barbieri
    in

    FOUR WEDDINGS...AND NO FUNERAL!

    Is there anything more beautiful than a bride? Anything more emotional than a wedding? Here to capture that shimmering excitement, to bring to life the matrimonial mantra of 'Something old, something new,' are four ...

  • The Castaway

    Anne Barbour
    in

    THE GRAND HOTEL... The most fashionable place to rest your head -- and warm your heart Brand-new and breathtakingly stylish, London's Luxurious Grand Hotel is the perfect setting for romantic rendezvous, glittering celebrations -- and C...

  • A Cat of a Different Color

    Steven Bauer

    An amazing cat and a clever young girl help save their troubled village in this rollicking, humor-filled tale.

    A remarkable cat was once born in the little town of Felicity-by-the-Lake, a cat with fur that seemed to shift color in the slightes...

  • Sultry

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    Things are heating up... HOT AS A SUMMER NIGHT Since her mother's tragic suicide, Lindsay Newman has watched her wealthy Mississippi family spin out of control. Tired of being a pawn in men's games, Lindsay is determined to become a rebel in h...

  • My Fair Lord

    Julie Beard

    Dear Reader: I own that I've fallen in love with my new husband! And I knew very well I shouldn't. Though handsome and charming in a rakish way, Lucas Davin is a cutpurse from one of the worst criminal districts in London. I married him in a d...

  • Agatha Raisin and the Fairies of Fryfam

    M.C. Beaton

    DANCING LIGHTS, DISAPPEARING VALUABLES....AND MURDER--A FANCIFUL MYSTERY FOR THE INDOMITABLE AGATHA Feeling jilted, cross and desperate to reclaim James, the love of her life, Agatha Raisin follows a fortune-teller's advice and rents a cottage in...

  • Heiress to Love

    Donna Bell

    ON HER HIGH HORSE... Never having met a man she could rate as highly as her racing horses, Missy Lambert wanted nothing to do with the stronger sex and certainly possessed no plans to marry. At just three and twenty years, she had the famous Lambert...

  • Navohar

    Hilari Bell

    Survival at any cost? To save the world from an alien invasion, humanity altered their children's genetic code--but now they're paying the price. Earth's younger generations are dying, slowly succumbing to a terrible disease...a disease without a ...

  • The Sleep-Over Artist

    Thomas Beller

    "In the same way Salinger carved out the niche of male adolescence ....Beller approaches that mutable boy-to-man territory." -- San Francisco Chronicle Writing with the sparkling wit and insight of his highly praised debut, Seduction Theory ("Brillia...

  • The Moonlight Wish

    Janice Bennett

    Xanthe, the irrepressible fairy godmother who befriended young Regency hearts in THE CANDLELIGHT WISH and THE STARLIGHT WISH, smooths true love's rocky course once more. All she needs to commence her spells is the ripple of water in a mirrored bo...

  • Doubleshot

    Raymond Benson

    The criminal conspiracy known as the Union has vowed its revenge on the man who thwarted its last coup - James Bond. Now, the Union's mysterious leader sets out to destroy 007's reputation and sanity by luring the agent into a dangerous and v...

  • X-Men

    Lara Rice Bergen

    Professor X. Jean Grey. Cyclops.
    Storm. Wolverine. Rogue.

    They are the X-Men, and together they
    must save the human race--and  
    themselves--from destruction.

    Magneto, the evil leader of a group of mutants, is planning a ter...

  • Unnatural Causes

    Janet Bettle

    In Janet Bettle's Unnatural Causes, London solicitor Geri Lander is a figure designed to appeal to professional women--sure of herself, outspoken, and secretly a victim of crippling self-doubt: Geri had been known to reduce a company hatchet man to...

  • How to Trap a Tycoon

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    How Do You Trap A Tycoon? Dorsey MacGuiness wrote the "foolproof" how-to guide to marrying a millionaire that everyone's talking about. And now her runaway bestseller is running away with her life! By day she's a staid sociology professor, but oth...

  • The Short, Hot Summer

    Elizabeth Bevarly
    in

    When Mars meets Venus ... When day clashes with night ... When love sparks the hottest battle of the sexes since Adam said yes to Eve... Man and woman. Right off the bat it spells trouble. But sometimes love at first sight needs a second glance--a...

  • The Heart Reader of Franklin High

    Terri Blackstock

    When Jake Sheffield, a typical Christian teenager, awakens to discover that he can hear the deepest spiritual needs of those around him, the reality of the deep needs of the world hits him. And the lives he touches, through the help of the Holy Spiri...

  • Fool's Gold

    Stephen A. Bly

    O. T. Skinner and his family have no intention of staying more than a day in the gold rush town of Goldfield, Nevada. But next to their tent is a starving family with a drunken father, and nearby an old woman insists she's sitting atop a gold mine an...

  • Southern Sympathies

    Andrea Boeshaar

    The last thing Alec Corbett wants is another romantic relationship. Hoping to escape a recent heartache, he moves to North Carolina to begin anew. But then he meets his next-door neighbor. Lydia Boswick, a widow with two children, seems more like the...

  • A Lady by Chance

    Cheryl Bolen

    Driven by fierce patriotism to England, the Marquess of Haverstock will do anything to reclaim the money his best friend lost at cards, money that was to purchase battle plans from a French official. The bewitchingly beautiful but illegitimate Anna D...

  • Gone in 60 Seconds

    M.C. Bolin

    Legendar car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines is sucked back into a life of crime when his younger brother tries to follow in Randall's footsteps. Original. (A Touchstone Pictures film, written by Scott Rosenberg, directed by Jerry Bruckheimer, starrin...

  • Too Hot to Sleep

    Stephanie Bond

    THE DAYS WERE HOT... Nurse Georgia Adams can't sleep - and it's got nothing to do with the local heat wave. She's got a lukewarm boyfriend, a nonexistent love life - and she's frustrated, really frustrated. So she decides to take the edge off by c...

  • Debt of Love // Dueda de amor

    Luz Borges

  • River Boy

    Tim Bowler

    She didn't know how fast the current was moving her. It could take many more hours yet, perhaps more hours than she had the strength for. But she must not stop. She must keep going. She must try to catch the river boy, even though she was frightened ...

  • Cloak and Dagger

    Eric L. Boyd

    Cloak & Dagger provides Forgotten Realms(r) fans with the complete details of the city of Westgate.

    The Forgotten Realms setting is one of the most well-known fantasy environments in the world of adventure gaming. Fans love exploring the mysteriou...

  • The Marines of Autumn

    James Brady

    War has been the inspiration of such great novels as The Red Badge of Courage and A Farewell to Arms, and daring feats of courage and tragic mistakes have been the foundation for such classic works. Now, for the first time ever, the Korean War has a...

  • The Outlaw Redeemer

    Max Brand

    This thrilling volume collects two of Max Brand's best short Western novels, restored from the author's original manuscripts. "The Last Irving" tells of a daring and surprising scheme by a young man to regain the valley lost by his family. And in ...

  • Kinch Riley

    Matt Braun

    THE YOUNG DRIFTER HAD A TASTE FOR LIFE. THE OLD GUNFIGHTER HAD A DATE WITH DEATH. THEIR FRIENDSHIP LED TO A KILLING STORM -- AND A TRUE LEGEND OF THE FRONTIER. He was young and hungry for life -- a scarecrow kid alone in a lawless land. Something...

  • What God Wants

    Lily Brett

    An award-winning collection of interrelated stories, first published in Australia, brings together middle-class men and women who share a community and the same terrible childhood memory--their parents were all Holocaust survivors....

  • The Unsung Hero

    Suzanne Brockmann

    SOMETIMES LOVE IS THE GREATEST VICTORY.... After a near-fatal head injury, Navy SEAL lieutenant Tom Paoletti catches a terrifying glimpse of an international terrorist in his New England hometown. When he calls for help, the navy dismisses the dan...

  • Coming Home

    Lauren Brooke

    Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it's much more than that. Heartland is a place like no other -- a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again. Amy...

  • A Convenient Proposal

    Helen Brooks

    The terms of engagement... Candy Grey was wary whem Quinn Ellington suggested it would be mutually beneficial for them to marry. She knew her uncle had asked Quinn to look after her while she recovered from an accident. But wasn't marriage taking it...

  • But for the Grace

    Patricia Brooks

    Private investigator Molly Piper, a four-foot-nine ex-cop from Chicago, is hired by an irate Washington State politician, Edmond Bercain, to find the people responsible for papering the town of Grace, on an island in Puget Sound, with flyers accusing...

  • A Daring Deception

    Amanda Browning

    Deception leads to seduction. Rachel Shaw had been in love with Nathan Wade for two years, but, despite her protestations of innocence, she knew he was convinced that she was the kind of woman he'd always despised: a scheming, cold-hearted gold-d...

  • Cinderella's Midnight Kiss

    Dixie Browning

    "WILL YOU DANCE WITH ME?" Orphaned Cindy Danbury's heart beat faster when John Hale Hitchcock invited her into his arms. He was back -- the handsome prince she'd adored from afar -- and still beyond her reach. In fact, she should be serving at he...

  • Ten Women Who Shook the World

    Sylvia Brownrigg

    Across a series of vivid, untamed landscapes Sylvia Brownrigg’s characters wander in search of the obviousâ€"love, fame, a good recipe for canapesâ€"as well as the less obvious. In “Hussy from the West” the narrator undertakes a ...

  • Back In The Saddle

    Bonnie Bryant

    Who knew relationships could be
    so tough?

    Stevie Lake, ace reporter! She's joined the Fenton Hall school paper and she's ready to go undercover and break big stories, but her editor has other ideas. Stevie's first assignment is to cover the...

  • In a Pig's Ear

    Paul Bryers

    Milan, a cynical ex-professor of psychology, escaped from the bleak Czechoslovakia of the 1960's to become a Hollywood psychiatrist to the stars. The Prague he knew fades into memory, and with the end of the Cold War seems to disappear altogether....

  • Cassandra's Deception

    Gayle Buck

    The Beautiful Pretender A family tragedy caused Cassandra Weatherstone to be separated from her twin sister, Belle, at an early age, and a family scandal then insured they would forever live apart. But no family dissension could ever break the sis...

  • The Great Divide

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    When attorney Marcus Glenwood resigns from a prestigious corporate law firm to retreat to a small town in North Caroline and rebuild his life after a devastating personal tragedy, he suddenly finds himself in the biggest and most emotionally difficul...

  • Familiar Obsession

    Caroline Burnes

    Every night, he slipped into her dreams Millionaire Duke Masonne had vanished years ago and was presumed dead. But Liza Hawkins never forgot her lover's face, his touch, and never gave up hope he would return. She saw Duke everywhere -- in her dre...

  • Dandelion Clock

    Guy Burt

    From the author of AFTER THE HOLE and SOPHIE, a novel set in London and Southern Italy, telling of a grown man who revisits the scenes of his childhood, recalling situations that altered his destiny and the loss of childhood innocence....

  • Timons Tide

    Charles Butler

    When Daniel finally becomes accustomed to the changes in his life since his brother Timon's death six years earlier, his brother reappears and Daniel is plunged into a world of intrigue and danger as he tries to unravel the mystery surrounding Timon'...

  • Lilith's Brood

    Octavia E. Butler

    The acclaimed trilogy that comprises LILITH'S BROOD is Hugo and Nebula award-winner Octavia E. Butler at her best.

    Presented for the first time in one volume with an introduction by Joan Slonczewski, Ph.D., LILITH'S BROOD is a profoundly evoc...

  • Me Tarzan

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Ahh-Ahh-Ahh-Ahhhh!

    Dorothy knows she could make a great Tarzan in the class play, even if she is a girl. When she gets up to introduce the world to her primal yell, something comes over her -- something wild and untamed. She...

  • A Little Scandal

    Patricia Cabot

    A WOMAN OF UNCOMMON SPIRIT When beautiful Kate Mayhew is hired as chaperone to Burke Traherne's headstrong daughter Isabel, the Marquis finds himself in an impossible predicament. Torn between the knowledge that she is exactly what Isabel needs bu...

  • Love in Bloom

    Michaila Callan

    FROM THEIR VERY FIRST KISS... Seventeen years ago, America's premier young model, Eva Channing, ran from the glamorous world of New York fashion to small-town Texas, where she could forget her passionate, doomed affair with photographer Carson Brand...

  • My Lady's Guardian

    Gayle Callen

    SHE SWORE NEVER TO MARRY Lady Margery Welles has the uncommon privilege of choosing her own husband -- but it's a decision she has no desire to make, and the king wants an answer soon. Pursued by noblemen eager for a wealthy bride, Margery finds...

  • Close Call

    Joanna Campbell

    Parker's Olympic dream is at risk...

    Parker Townsend and Christina Reese haven't seen much of each other lately. Parker is competing in the Olympic trials in combined training and Christina is racing Thoroughbreds. When Parker meets Lyssa Hy...

  • An Honourable Man

    Helen Cannam

    Charged with high treason Philip Blount is sent to the Tower of London, leaving behind his beautiful fiancee Honoria Somervill. The king's favourite courtier, Gavin Hamilton offers her Philip's life in return for her honour. On her rejection he vows ...

  • Bridesmaids Revisited

    Dorothy Cannell

    "Rosemary, Thora, and Jane, lived at the end of the lane, one was thin, one was fat, and one was very plain." This is how Ellie Haskell remembers her grandmother's three friends, known collectively as "the bridesmaids." Ellie once asked her mother...

  • Hit the Dirt

    Craig Robert Carey

  • Below Zero

    Craig Robert Carey

  • New Earth: Wagon Train to the Stars

    Diane Carey

    After saving Earth from the threat of V'Ger, James T. Kirk is called again to the final frontier. His new mission: to lead a valiant group of settlers to a distant world, to defend the struggling colony from alien threats, and to explore the diverse ...

  • Sabazel

    Lillian Stewart Carl

    The warrior women of Sabazel merge their strength, wits, and love with the warrior men of Sardis in a desperate attempt to stop the encroaching forces of the cruel Bogazkar and his army of black wizards...

  • The Winter King

    Lillian Stewart Carl

    First print-published by Ace Books in 1986.What if an Amazon queen had a love affair with Alexander the Great?What if their son had to defend his lands from the Mongol Horde?What if his sister was the priestess of a bull-cult on Crete?What if her son...

  • Unquiet Night

    Patricia Carlon

    Nine-year-old Ann and her Aunt Rachel are the only witnesses who can connect Mart to the girl he strangled at a nature reserve, so he begins to stalk them, sending a wave of terror through the inhabitants of a small Australian town. Reprint....

  • Pride and Prejudice

    Emily Carmichael
    in

    When Mars meets Venus ... When day clashes with night ... When love sparks the hottest battle of the sexes since Adam said yes to Eve... Man and woman. Right off the bat it spells trouble. But sometimes love at first sight needs a second glance--a...

  • Callisto

    Lin Carter

    THE CLASSIC FANTASY SERIES FROM THE CO-AUTHOR OF CONAN THE BARBARIAN! At the height of the Vietnam War, Jon Dark is a helicopter pilot for the International Red Cross, flying numerous rescue missions...until the day his helicopter crashes in the Camb...

  • Madrilene's Granddaughter

    Laura Cassidy

    Hal Latimar could see it in Rachel's shy, quiet smile and patient stance. At a raucous celebration of wedded bliss, the secretive young woman was upstaged by her beautiful cousin. But Hal knew that outward beauty was sometimes hidden and deceptiv...

  • Mystery at the Big Blue House

    Janelle Cherrington

    What happens when things start disappearing at the Big Blue House? The Big Blue House detectives must crack the case! Join Bear and the supersleuths Ojo and Tutter as they track down clues and get to the bottom of it all. Try to guess whodunnit in th...

  • Dying to See You

    Margaret Chittenden

    Charlie Plato has her hands full trying to keep her country-western bar, CHAPS, in the black and her attraction to her business partner, former TV hunk Zack Hunter, under control. The last thing she needs is to host a twenty-year high school reunion....

  • Never Let You Go

    Judy Christenberry

    JED KNEW MEN AND HORSES. AND HE UNDERSTOOD A LITTLE ABOUT WOMEN. But born illegitimate, a lifelong loner, what the cowboy didn't understand--would probably never understand--was families. Which meant that the attraction he felt for rich, pr...

  • Dying Well

    Joyce Christmas

    A CRIME DE LA CREME Everybody who is anybody is bending an elbow at Dr. Dale Reeve's fiftieth-birthday bash. But Lady Margaret Priam is uneasy--the glittering crowd includes not only Dale's wife but also his mistress; not just his spoiled children...

  • Bound by Love

    Beverly Clark

    Lesley Wells has made a new life for herself as a successful designer. Everything is perfect until Darren Taylor her former fiance, plans to buy the company she works for and dredges up the past. When he discovers that they share a child, he insists ...

  • Truth or Dairy // Banana Splitsville

    Catherine Clark

    Has he called? No. I half expected to see him at Truth or Dairy today. He's sort of addicted to Coconut Fantasy Dreams. We both are. It was like . . . our drink. I was all ready to give him the cold shoulder, easy to do when working around ic...

  • Darkest Fear

    Harlan Coben

    Edgar Award-winner Harlan Coben brings us his most astonishing-and deeply personal-novel yet. And it all begins when Myron Bolitar's ex tells him he's a father. .. of a dying thirteen-year-old boy. Myron never saw it coming. A surprise visit from ...

  • In Bed With the Pirate

    Colleen Collins

    Bed-and-breakfast owner Kate Corrigan had always been fascinated (all right, make that a little obsessed) with pirates. But lately, one man had blazed his way into her secret pirate fantasies -- her neighbor Toby Mancini. But that didn't make sense...

  • The Hindenburg Murders

    Max Allan Collins

    IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE HINDENBURG TRAGEDY, ONLY ONE SURVIVOR KNEW THE FRIGHTENING TRUTH. The date is May 3, 1937. The legendary Hindenburg has just left Frankfurt on its final, fateful voyage across the Atlantic. And passenger Leslie Charteris ha...

  • Grievance

    K.C. Constantine

    James Deford Lyon, CEO of one of Pittsburgh's greatest steel companies, has been gunned down by a sniper, and detective "Rugs" Carlucci is the man lucky enough to receive the call. Quickly besieged by the demands of media figures and sifting through ...

  • Stonehenge

    Bernard Cornwell

    Discover a time of ritual and sacrifice .. . A land steeped in blood and glory ... A family of brothers whose deadly rivalries and glorious ambitions will forever mark the world....

  • Echoes of Mercy

    Lyn Cote

    When her friend, an African-American jazz musician, is accused of murder, San Francisco native Meg Wagstaff heads to the Big Easy to clear his name, and finds love there in the arms of a wealthy local. Original....

  • Friend or Foe?

    Greg Cox

    The X-Men--mutant protectors of a world that fears and hates them. The Avengers--Earth's mightiest heroes, the greatest superteam ever assembled. Now they have joined forces with the incredible Hulk against the deadly Leader, having traced him to his...

  • Bookworm

    Molly Coxe

  • Flight Dreams

    Michael Craft

    Seven years ago, Chicago socialite Helena Carter disappeared from her fashionable North Shore estate. The newspapers have been humming with rumors of foul play--and worse. And now the headlines are blazing even hotter because in three months she will...

  • Name Games

    Michael Craft

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    Mark Manning, once a prominent journalist at a major daily newspaper in Chicago, is now the owner and publisher of the Dumont Daily Register, the daily paper in a small Wisconsin city. Here the biggest news is the impending city council report on...

  • Vineyard Blues

    Philip R. Craig

    THE MUSIC OF MURDER A surprise visit from a dear old friend only adds to the joys of good weather, great fishing, warm breezes and loving family for J. W. Jackson this idyllic island summer. The ex-Boston cop is thrilled to see accomplished bluesm...

  • The Baby Gift

    Susan Crosby

    The very pregnant woman standing before J. T. Ryker couldn't remember who she was - or the name of her unborn baby's father. But Gina Banning was the one woman J.T. would always remember. The last time he'd seen her she'd told him she hated him - and...

  • The Rancher and the Nanny

    Caroline Cross

    Livestock? John MacLaren had all the answers. But little girls? On that subject he was clueless. What did an orphan know about creating a home, expecially for a delicate child like Lissy? He needed help. And help came...in the most unexpected, most u...

  • Of Course You Know That Chocolate Is a Vegetable and Other Stories

    Barbara D'Amato

    A powerful short story collection from Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Award-winning Barbara D'Amato. Playwright, novelist, and crime researcher Barbara D'Amato currently writes two mystery series. One features Chicago patrol officers Suze Figueroa a...

  • Death of the Party

    Catherine Dain

    HIGH ON MURDER Actress turned therapist Faith Cassidy knows that dreams are born and broken every day in Los Angeles, and only the strong survive. So when her bungalow south of Sunset is burglarized, and an impromptu block party gets an uninvited ...

  • The Clouded Mountain

    Elizabeth Daish

  • Abandoned!

    Jenny Dale

    Jessie is the most unusual dog Neil has ever met. Left at the kennels late one night by her mysterious owner, she soon proves to be expertly trained and an excellent tracker dog, too! Neil suspects Jessie's owner is up to something sinister. Will ...

  • Aliens Among Us

    Jack Dann

    A provocative anthology of short fiction by some of the world's leading science fiction authors explores the secret world of the aliens who live among us, featuring contributions from Robert Silverberg, Theodore Sturgeon, Gene Wolfe, Avram Davidson, ...

  • The Playboy King's Wife

    Emma Darcy

    The marriage game Samantha Connelly finally knows what it is to feel sexy, elegant--and desirable. Playboy Tommy King, the man she has secretly loved for years, is amazed by her transformation. Up to now, Sam and Tommy have clashed head-on. Su...

  • Enterprise Logs

    Peter David

    In the annals of adventure and exploration, few names shine as brightly as those of the various vessels bearing the noble appellation of Enterprise. Equally distinguished are the many brave captains who have led their respective ships into battle, da...

  • A Killing at the Track

    Janet Dawson

    Investigator Jeri Howard is fascinated by the beautiful horses and the zealous spectators at stylish Edgewater Downs. But behind the scenes, where the owners, trainers, jockeys, and grooms mingle, life is not so pretty. Someone is terrorizing owne...

  • Claiming of the Deerfoot

    Peter Dawson

    Two short novels in one volume, capturing the excitement of the wild frontier, include "Barbed Wire," in which Jim Lance attempts to occupy a homestead he won in a poker game, but a devious rancher has other plans for him. Reprint....

  • Forests of the Heart

    Charles de Lint

    In the Old Country, they called them the Gentry: ancient spirits of the land, magical, amoral, and dangerous. When the Irish emigrated to North America, some of the Gentry followed...only to find that the New World already had spirits of its own, cal...

  • Once and Always

    Alyssa Deane

    Alone in a strange land, one woman will meet the only man who can claim her heart... A clandestine love affair is the last thing Roxane Sheffield expects from her trip to India--a reunion with her long-estranged father is troublesome enough. But w...

  • Brother's Keeper

    Jim DeFelice

    A MISSING BROTHER F.B.I. agent Jack Ferico has never gotten along with his estranged older brother, Daniel. In their father's eyes Danny was always the standard by which Jack was measured--and Jack always came up short. But now their father is dying...

  • Mama Pursues Murderous Shadows

    Nora Deloach

    With Mama on the case, murder meets its match....A tryst with a deadly twist.All I'd wanted to do back home in Otis, South Carolina, was whip up a wonderful thirty-fifth anniversary party for my parents. But we'd hardly picked the baker before Mama f...

  • Lines in the sand

    Anne Deveson

    A powerful and disturbing novel woven around the lives of workers in international disaster areas. Set in the Ethiopian famine of 1975 and the Rwandan civil war of 1994, this is a timely expose of how the UN stood by while a people was slaughtered. A...

  • A Ride in the Neon Sun

    Josie Dew

    It's not easy landing unprepared in a country like Japan. The eccentricities of the calendar, the indecipherable postal system, not to mention the alien alphabet, language and culture, have all to be confronted before the disorientated traveller can ...

  • Lili

    Abigail Dewitt

    "Lili's hold on a reader will be no less ferocious than her grasp on life."―Susan Dodd, author of Mamaw

    Lili is the intimate story of a passionate woman poised against twentieth-century Paris. Coming of age prior to the First World War, Lili ...

  • Conspiracy of Hearts

    Helen Dickson

    Serena Carberry first met Lord Christopher Brodie when he saved her from assault by the wretched Sir Thomas Blackwell -- who vowed revenge on them both. Horrified to learn that Kit is to stay with her father at Carberry Hall, Serena is unable to forg...

  • By Force of Arms

    William C. Dietz

    Colonel Bill Booly earned a promotion and well-deserved hero treatment for his troops after they stopped a mutiny against Earth's government. But now they face the ultimate challenge... A DIFFERENT RACE A "new" alien race, the Thrakies, has app...

  • Fiance for Real

    Jane Donnelly

    The right man for Clancy When Fergus McKenzie found Clancy Lindhurst leaning perilously over the parapet of a bridge, he naturally thought the worst. Cold, wet and suffering from flu, Clancy found it hard to explain that she was really throwing aw...

  • Saving Elijah

    Fran Dorf

    When her son falls into a deep coma, psychologist Dinah Rosenberg Galligan faces a terrible choice--submit to the sexual advances of a man who can save her boy's life or watch the child die. 12,500 first printing....

  • The Cat and the Jill of Diamonds

    Carole Nelson Douglas

  • Flashpoint

    Keith Douglass

    After a successful mission in Iran, Lieutenant Commander Blake Murdock and his team of Navy SEALs get some new toys to play with. The Bull Pup is the most advanced infantry rifle ever, able to shoot around corners with a range up to a thousand yards....

  • Lisa's Broken Arrow

    Rosey Dow

    Lisa Feiklin has not been known for making wise choices. Her latest attempt to follow her fancy just landed her penniless in a strange town. A job cooking at the hotel pays only her room and board-so how will she save money to return home? John Bo...

  • The Right Choice

    Karen Drogin

    THE BEST ADVICE... Advice columnist Carly Wexler is planning her wedding the same way she has planned her life -- perfectly, with no room for loose ends or real passion. Though her heart doesn't leap when she thinks of her fiance, she's cert...

  • Rocky and Bullwinkle: The Movie

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Rocky and Bullwinkle must stop Fearless Leader as he, along with Natasha and Boris, attempt to achieve world domination through Really Bad Television, Fearless Leader's global television network, in a hilarious tale based on the movie starring Robert...

  • The Black Rose

    Tananarive Due

    “One of the most exciting novels of the year . . . The dramatic story of Madam C.J. Walker, America’s first black female millionaire.” -- E. Lynn HarrisBorn to former slaves on a Louisiana plantation in 1867, Madam C.J. Walker rose from poverty...

  • On The Edge

    Lois Duncan

    A collection of powerful stories reveals what it is like to live life on the edge and features such contributors as Terry Davis, Margaret Peterson Haddix, Alden R. Carter, Rich Wallace, and Ellen Wittlinger. Reprint....

  • The Pirate

    Carola Dunn
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    Twenty years ago, 'Pirate' Pendragon abandoned his sweetheart Lady Alicia in favor of captaining a privateer. Now, he is reunited with Alicia at Almack's...yet their shared secret could ruin her....

  • Rattle His Bones

    Carola Dunn

    Critics hail Carola Dunn's Daisy Dalrymple mysteries as clever and charming whodunits that make 1923 England come alive in vivid, cozy color. Now, in this latest outing, the Honorable Daisy is at it again, exhuming a murderer hiding among the bon...

  • Jim the Boy

    Tony Earley

    Both delightful and wise, Jim the Boy brilliantly captures the pleasures and fears of youth at a time when America itself was young and struggling to come into its own....

  • Grant Speaks

    Ev Ehrlich

    Whether putting Generals Burnside, Hooker, and Robert E. Lee in their place, or listening to foul-mouthed General Sherman, Hiram Ulysses S. 'Useless' Grant offers an amusingly warped perspective on the Civil War....

  • Cowboy Kid

    Max Eilenberg

    Yesiree! A bright new bedtime book illustrated by the creator of the award-winning COWBOY BABY.

    Cowboy Kid loves Texas Ted, Denver Dog, and Hank the Horse with all his heart. Yes sirree! Before Sheriff Pa tucks him in, Cowboy Kid gives each t...

  • Cool Crazy Crickets to the Rescue!

    David Elliott

    A first chapter book for any kid who's ever started a club, joined a club, or wished he were in a club. (ages 6-8)

    What do you do on a wide-open summer day, sitting on a porch swing with your best friend? Leo and Marcus decide, on this particu...

  • Chances of the Heart

    Roger Elwood

  • Hot Six

    Janet Evanovich

    HOT DAY Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is faced with her most daunting task yet: bring in the mysterious former Special Forces agent Carlos Manoso (aka Ranger). He's the man who taught her everything about fugitive apprehension, and Stephanie knows ...

  • Longarm and the Church Ladies

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm tangles with some bad Samaritans when he goes undercover!Longarm goes undercover to lead a group of Christian Cherokee down Mexico way in search of some missionaries rumored to be stranded there. He reckons it won’t be easy, what with nosy ...

  • Longarm and the Black Widow

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm investigates a web of deception surrounding a Senator and his deadly wife -- a notorious Black Widow with a bite as poisonous as her namesake. ...

  • Love Will Find a Way

    Elisabeth Fairchild
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    THE GRAND HOTEL... The most fashionable place to rest your head -- and warm your heart Brand-new and breathtakingly stylish, London's Luxurious Grand Hotel is the perfect setting for romantic rendezvous, glittering celebrations -- and Cupid...

  • Sixpence Bride

    Virginia Farmer

    WORTHLESS Jilted by her fiance, Tanner had to struggle not to believe that her own value had been somehow diminished. Still she knew better than to let that fear ruin her tour of England. But no one had explained to her that there would be a mock br...

  • Borrowed Light

    Anna Fienberg

    A 16-year-old girl faces the toughest decision in her life in this breakthrough young adult novel.

    Sixteen-year-old Callisto May feels a deep connection to astronomy. She can name all the moons of Jupiter and even tell you the dimensions of t...

  • Bad Dreams

    Anne Fine

    The thrilling story of a young girl with an extraordinary power.

    Melanie is less than happy when her teacher asks her to help Imogen, the new girl in their class, to settle in. Mel would rather have her nose in a book than in a conversation. ...

  • William Tyndale

    Bruce Fish

  • Side Effects

    Nancy Fisher

    Genelife is a breakthrough drug that restores youth and vitality with stunning speed. But when Dr. Kate Martin joins its marketing team, she is plunged into a nightmarish labyrinth that takes her from the board room to the Rain Forest, from the inner...

  • A&R

    Bill Flanagan


    The business of A&R (artists and repertoire) people at a record company is to sign new acts and nurture their careers, and lately no one in the industry has been hotter than Jim Cantone. Now the big time calls, and Jim accepts an offer to become ...

  • Rigged to Ride

    Mike Flanagan

    FALLING ISN'T A PROBLEM, AS LONG AS YOU CAN GET BACK UP... Under the guidance of veteran cowboy Jack Lomas, young rodeo rider Clay Tory has slowly but steadily risen in the ranks. Everything is coming together for this unlikely partnership. But the ...

  • Lost! a Story in String

    Paul Fleischman


    A Newbery-winning author and a brilliant new artist create a story that young readers will read and perform for years to come.

    Watch and listen as a grandmother recounts a tale of a resourceful farm girl lost in a blizzard, searching for h...

  • Fortune's Stroke

    Eric Flint; David Drake

    EVIL FROM BEYOND TIME RULES THE GREATEST EMPIRE ON EARTH! Link, the supercomputer from a future that should not exist, has used terror and gunpowder weapons to forge the Malwa Empire on the Indian subcontinent. No power on Earth in the 6th century...

  • Mr. Elliott Finds a Family

    Susan Floyd

    Surprising Mr. Elliott Christian Elliott has a lot to learn! Christian knows about money, million-dollar contracts and hard-line negotiations. But he doesn't know anything about family, babies or love. Then some unfinished business takes him to t...

  • The Baby Quilt

    Christine Flynn

    LOVE'S PATCHWORK Block by block, stitch by stitch, the baby quilt told its story of love. And Emily Miller swaddled her precious newborn within it to provide protection...and to remember the family she and her child were forbidden to see. To...

  • The Next President

    Joseph Flynn

    One bullet can change everything... Who's the cat and who's the mouse? J.D. Cade was trained to kill by his country. He did his duty and put the past behind him. Or so he thought. Now someone is using his only son as a pawn to force him to k...

  • Animist

    Eve Forward

    Alex, a recent graduate of the College of Animism, is talented but naive in the ways of the world. He embarks on a quest to acquire his Anim: the animal with which he will bond for life; an animal with which he'll share an empathic link that will all...

  • Sawyer // Finally Home

    Lori Foster

    Sawyer Hudson, being the only doctor in Buckhorn County, took it upon himself to rescue the beautiful but enigmatic woman who came literally crashing into his life. Though he knew he should keep things platonic and professional, around her his body h...

  • Titan A. E. Storybook

    Jennifer Frantz

    A storybook about the new animated movie being released this summer offers the younger end of the audience a look at these awesome intergalactic adventures with the help of stills from the amazing animated feature. Original....

  • The Last Man in Texas

    Jan Freed

    Cameron Malloy is handsome, successful and single... But Elizabeth wouldn't have him if he were the last bachelor in Texas. It doesn't matter that she's loved her boss for years - he takes her for granted. If she's ever going to have ...

  • Dead Men Living

    Brian Freemantle

    "Top-flight spy fiction." - Kirkus ReviewsIn Siberia, a sudden thaw uncovers two fifty-year-old murder victims as well as a host of disturbing questions. Since each is dressed in the uniform of a WWII Allied officer, Russian authorities decide to inv...

  • Privileged Communications

    Pat Frieder

    Secrets you tell a shrink go with her to the grave... or do they?

    It looked like a double suicide-in more ways than one. Besieged by bankruptcy and disease, Alan and Denise Prather topped a dose of carbon monoxide with an exploding gas tank th...

  • Shadows of the Past

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Long ago, the alien Quistalian leadership ordered its agent, Lucifer, to conquer Earth. A young Charles Xavier stopped him, but the victory cost him the use of his legs. Now, Professor X claims he has evidence of a massive secret Quistalian invasion ...

  • All of Me // Todo de Mi

    Berta Platas Fuller

    After a less-than-professional first meeting with Felipe Rodriguez, Alina Marquez hides behind the guise of a secretary, unwilling to reveal that she is actually the vintner who has transformed a dilapidated Georgia vineyard into a prestigious winery...

  • Beauty and the Bachelor

    Kristin Gabriel

    Whether you're looking for lattés or love, you'll find both at Café Romeo... Noah Callahan was a charming playboy who loved beautiful women -- at least for a night or two. But as tempted as he was by gorgeous Sabrina Lovett, he wasn't taking any ...

  • Circle of Three

    Patricia Gaffney

    Newly widowed, Carrie is overwhelmed by the guilt of knowing her marriage died long before her husband's fatal heart attack. Struggling to go on for the sake of her teenaged daughter, Ruth, and her overly possessive mother, Dana, Carrie slowly emerge...

  • Secret Weapon

    Cliff Garnett

    When an American F-16 pilot is forced to bail out over Iraq, knocked out of the sky by cutting-edge radio technology masterminded by international terrorist Osama bin Laden, the TALON Force goes into action to destroy the terrorist's new weapon and r...

  • All the Anxious Girls on Earth

    Zsuzsi Gartner

    All the Anxious Girls on Earth marks the debut of a startingly original literary voice. Zsuzsi Gartner's exuberant prose gives voice to unforgettable characters who survive by their wits as they cope with indifferent relationships, lackluster jobs, a...

  • Broken English

    P.L. Gaus / Paul L. Gaus

    The peaceful town of Millersburg, Ohio, in the heart of Ohio’s Amish country, is rocked by the vicious murder of one of its citizens at the hands of an itinerant ex-convict. When a local reporter covering the story ends up dead as well, with the c...

  • Mad About You

    Roberta Gayle

    Bright Lights Through hard work and an eye for opportunity, Regina Primm has turned her small public relations firm into one of the West Coast's hottest. So, when she's hired to publicize a big-studio film, she jumps at the chance. But Regina soon...

  • Winter Warriors

    David Gemmell

    Winged demons gather, silent and unseen, above the city of Usa, their talons long and sharp. Their purpose is clear, as is the prophesy: Upon the deaths of the three kings, the demon riders of the Krayakin will become flesh, free to slake their thirs...

  • Lorenzo's Reward

    Catherine George

    Rewarded by passion -- or marriage? What did handsome Italian businessman Lorenzo Forli mean when he said that Jess would be his "reward"? When Lorenzo proposed, Jess thought she understood: to make her his wife was what he ultimately w...

  • Small Brown Dog's Bad Remembering Day

    Mike Gibbie

  • Stern Men

    Elizabeth Gilbert

    On two remote islands off the coast of Maine, the local lobstermen have fought savagely for generations over the fishing rights to the ocean waters between them. Young Ruth Thomas is born into this feud, the daughter of one of the greediest lobsterme...

  • The Sooterkin

    Tom Gilling

  • Wild Life

    Molly Gloss

    In 1905, a cigar-smoking, feminist writer of popular adventure novels for women encounters Bigfoot in Molly Gloss’s best loved novel -- ­­“never has there been a more authentic, persuasive, or moving evocation of this elusive legend: a masterpi...

  • Mama, across the Sea

    Alex Godard

    A gentle story of a young island girl waiting for her mother to come home from work, far away on the mainland.

    Cecile lives on an island in the West Indies with her grandparents while her mother looks for work on the mainland. Much as she love...

  • Head Games

    Christopher Golden

    "They were my friends. I've known them almost my entire life. Maybe they both just lost it. But I think something's going on here, and I have to take a closer look." Home from college on break, Jenna Blake is horrified to discover that a childhood...

  • Love's Song // Canto de amor

    Ivette Gonzalez

  • The Second Silence

    Eileen Goudge

    Noelle Van Doren has never forgiven her mother for putting her career ahead of her family responsibilities. Left in her grandmother's care for much of her childhood, Noelle always swore that things would be different with her own daughter. And they w...

  • The White Bone

    Barbara Gowdy

    A thrilling journey into the minds of African elephants as they struggle to survive. If, as many recent nonfiction bestsellers have revealed, animals possess emotions and awareness, they must also have stories. In The White Bone, a novel imagined ent...

  • Long, Lean and Lethal

    Heather Graham

    New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham presents the first novel in a thrilling new trilogy. Set against the glittering backdrop of a popular daytime soap opera, Valentine Valley, it creates a world where fantasy and reality are sometimes fa...

  • Hunting Ground

    Charles L. Grant

    Ethan Proctor, the brilliant, enigmatic head of Black Oak Security, reluctantly submits to his employees' orders to take some R&R in Atlantic City. But his vacation soon develops into something entirely different -- a web of murder, lies, and...vampi...

  • A Man Apart

    Ginna Gray

    HE WAS THE MOST MAGNIFICENT MAN SHE'D EVER ENCOUNTERED Maude Ann knew she was in trouble when wounded detective Matthew Dolan was sent to Henley Haven to recuperate. The nurturing foster mom couldn't afford to fall for another man in blue, yet Ma...

  • The One I Love

    Joan Eden Gray

    Widowed after a disastrous year of marriage, Lily Monroe vowed to never again relinquish her freedom to any man, until a deadly band of comancheros rode onto her ranch. Their leader, the tall, powerful half-breed, Shadow Hawk Quinn, coolly informed h...

  • Rescue Me

    Gigi Levangie Grazer

    A compelling novel about a young woman's struggle to remain true to her heart while navigating through the heady atmosphere of 1980s Los Angeles, from the bestselling author of Maneater.It was the year she fell in love... Fresh out of college, hungry...

  • The Baby Project

    Grace Green

    Should they marry for the baby's sake? Mallory had given up a high-powered job to look after her orphaned nephew, and no way was she going to let Jordan Caine walk in and steal custody! It was true he had a valid claim to baby Matthew, but Mallor...

  • Jemima J

    Jane Green

    Jemima Jones is overweight. About one hundred pounds overweight. Treated like a maid by her thin and social-climbing roommates, and lorded over by the beautiful Geraldine (less talented but better paid) at the Kilburn Herald, Jemima finds that her on...

  • O Beautiful

    Jesse Green

    Martin takes the day off from work to make an elaborate meal for his friend Stella and the blind date who could be Martin's match. Matt certainly is charming and good-looking, but -- as both Martin and Stella discover before the entree is served -- h...

  • Star Colonies

    Martin H. Greenberg

    ROBERT J. SAWYER * JACK WILLIAMSON * ALAN DEAN FOSTER * ALLEN STEELE * ROBERT CHARLES WILSON * PAUL LEVINSON * EDO VAN BELKOM * TOM PICCIRILLI * ERIC KOTANI * MIKE RESNICK & KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * DANA STABENOW * PETER ULLIAN * PAMELA SARGENT From...

  • How I Went from Bad to Verse

    Dan Greenburg

    Zack goes on a class trip, gets an insect bit, and suddenly can't speak a single word that isn't in rhyme. Talking like a modern-day Shakespeare may be fun at first, but not when you can't turn it off! What could be verse? How did this happen? And ho...

  • The Farthest Seeking

    Gayle Greeno

    In Gayle Greeno's highly anticipated return to her most successful and beloved series, a new generation of human Seekers and their catlike ghatti companions journey to a dangerous wilderness-- while in the tunnels beneath Marchmont's Capital a deadly...

  • An Unsuitable Death

    J.M. Gregson

    When the body of a young woman is found on the Lady Chapel altar in Hereford Cathedral, it appears that serial killer The Sacristan has set the grandest stage yet for his unholy tableaux, and the newspapers waste no time in stoking up public fear and...

  • Death Dances to a Reggae Beat

    Kate Grilley

    KELLY RYAN TO RUN WBZE That's the headline I rated in a Caribbean tabloid. Big news for the locals here on St. Chris. Big promotion for me as general manager of the top-rated radio station. A healthy raise, a generous bonus, and the ocean spray sure...

  • Chasing Shadows

    Lucrecia Guerrero

    Lucrecia Guerrero's shimmering debut collection paints a vivid, beautiful, and haunting portrait of life in a fictional U.S./Mexican border town as it traces the crossed paths of a cast of characters whose lives intersect in surprising ways. By turns...

  • Tales of the Haunted Deep

    Brenda Z. Guiberson

    A fascinating collection of scary sea stories that includes haunted lighthouses,
    shipwrecks, pirates and sea monsters.

    Did Blackbeard's headless body really swim three times around his ship before sinking beneath the waves? Does a monster ...

  • What the Heart Knows

    Geri Guillaume

  • Until Tomorrow

    Robin Jones Gunn

    Christy Miller is now an independent nineteen-year-old college student living in Switzerland, where she's been attending an international university. After being on her own for nearly a year, Christy is surprised and delighted when her two closest fr...

  • Joshua's Hammer

    David Hagberg

    When a one-kiloton Russian nuclear demolitions bomb the size of a suitcase ends up in the hands of Saudi multimillionaire Osama bin Laden, the entire world sits up and takes notice. And when the United States launches an attack on the terrorist's bas...

  • The Professor and the Nanny

    Phyllis Halldorson

    THE BOSS AND THE BEAUTY Brittany Baldwin was helplessly in love with her sexy, much older boss. But the sophisticated college professor wanted nothing to do with an innocent like her. Well, she wasn't going to let that stop her, especially since ...

  • Mother of the Year

    Lori Handeland

    All about Evie! Evie Vaughn is a struggling but devoted single parent of three boys. She has quips to spare but never any cash. She's about to spend a summer working with brawny but brainy ex-football hero Joe Scalotta. He's a single parent, too,...

  • Absence

    Peter Handke

    A “challenging and rewarding novel”* from Nobel Prize-winning author Peter Handke.The time is an unspecified modernity, the place possibly Europe. Absence follows four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- as ...