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New Books List: 532 titles


  • Lynn Abbey

    "It is long after the days of Jubal, Shadowspawn, and their contemporaries, and there is barely more than a single survivor who remembers the city's full history. Molin Torch-holder, the survivor at hand, has assassins on his trail (some things never...



  • Peter Abrahams

    Master of psychological suspense Peter Abrahams returns with an ingenious tale of an ordinary family that unknowingly invites the agent of their destruction into their own home.When Scott and Linda Gardner hire Julian Sawyer to tutor their troubled t...



  • Nita Abrams

    A Dangerous Deception 1813: Napoleon's empire is starting to crumble. And the drawing rooms of Vienna hold the key to the future of Europe... Disguised as a boy for her hazardous journey across the continent, then set upon by thieves in a da...



  • Jan Adkins

    Explore the childhood of founding father John Adams and find out why he’s an all-star in American history!John Adams was an American founding father, second president of the United States, and father of the sixth president, but what was he like as ...



  • Pauline Alama

    It is a magical world on the verge of collapse. In the North the Troubles rage. Cities and kings are being annihilated; the very earth is in upheaval, waking even the dead from their graves. All notions of time and space, of day and night, of seasona...



  • Sarah Albee

    One day at preschool, Elmo discovers that he has a new classmate"Lizzie. Elmo can’t stop staring because she’s in a wheelchair. But Elmo finds out that except for her disability, the two of them have more in common than not. Lizzie has a puppy,...



  • Roger MacBride Allen

    TIME IS UP IN A FAR-FLUNG UNIVERSE--WHERE HISTORY IS A TIMESHAFT AWAY--A MANHUNT BEGINS TO DETERMINE THE FUTURE OF A WORLD.... Oskar DeSilvo was the founder of the planet Solace. As the director of its terraforming project, he literally made th...



  • Gayla Amaral

    Farmer Barney has a dog and Bingo is his name. Oh! What fun Barney and friends have following Bingo on his romp through the farm. Barney's Sing-Along Stories brings a favorite tune to colorful life.

    Every dog has his day, and Bingo is having a...



  • Joye Ames

    Louisa Drayton has hit upon the perfect plan to save her brother's only child from being given to a wealthy and lecherous Viscount to pay her Mama's debts. She will masquerade as her elderly aunt, the Dowager Duchess of Roth. Plagued by fortune hunte...



  • Caroline Anderson

    The price of seduction Annie has been coping as a registrar and as a new single mom, but only just.Then she meets Max in the hospital corridor, after more than a year, and discovers he's her new boss. Now her senses and her emotions are comple...



  • Poul Anderson

    More than just a collection of some of Poul Anderson's most acclaimed works, Going for Infinity is both a celebration and a memoir of Anderson's distinguished sixty-year career in science fiction and fantasy. Alongside several Hugo and Nebula Award-w...



  • V.C. Andrews

    In the second novel of the thrilling De Beers series, readers will discover that it’s easy to get lost in a world of hidden dangers.After discovering her true identity, Willow De Beers leaves her North Carolina town to live with her real mother and...



  • Piers Anthony

    Piers Anthony tells his own remarkable life story in this candid autobiography, a volume that is sure to intrigue and entertain his many fans-and infuriate his critics. The book begins with a review of the author's early years, revealing new and tell...



  • Judith Arnold

    Welcome to Bloom's, where food is love and everybody loves food. The Blooms have run the family deli for generations, and Grandma Ida isn't about to let a culinary mishap change that. So when her son, the president, meets an untimely demise, the i...




  • Joani Ascher

    Wally Morris, a nursery school teacher, mother and new grandmother, has a penchant for solving puzzles. She has a desire to help people that borders on meddling and she hates loose ends. The murder of a college freshman and the disappearance of one o...



  • Dawn Atkins

    Renata Rose is supposed to help couples find happily-ever-after...not make them crash on the rocks of love! But she's lost her belief in marriage, jeopardizing her job hosting a TV relationship show. Enter too-charming, too-sexy co-anchor Hawk Hunter...



  • Curt Autry

    "[An] intriguing tale of espionage, murder and suspense" -- Publishers WeeklyNine surviving members of a U-boat crew captured during World War II gather in North Carolina for their 60th reunion, only to find themselves targets for a group kill.Meanwh...



  • Richard Bach

    The story of Stormy Ferret traces her turbulent mission from Seattle to Salinas flying her FDC-4 SkyFreighter through the roughest flight in the history of airway Victor 23, during which she survives by sheer determination, through the intervention o...



  • Richard Bach

    Follows the tale of Bethany Ferret, a kit from humble beginnings who joined the Ferret Rescue Service and rose to command the rescue boat Resolute before embarking on adventures to rescue animals aboard distressed human ships....



  • Ben M. Baglio

    With sales of more than 3 million books, this newest Animal Ark title will provide cozy reading for young animal lovers.One night, Mandy finds a distressed golden retriever tied up outside Animal Ark -- with no sign of her owner. The dog is expecting...



  • Lynna Banning

    Temporarily displaced Southern belle Jane Charlotte Davis was desperate to make enough money to return home. So when town banker Rydell Wilder, a Northerner through and through, offered her a loan to start her own business, she jumped at the chance. ...



  • Alessandro Baricco

    The author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative. Somewhere in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an intell...



  • Steven Barnes

    In an attempt to empower low-income youth, more than a thousand children are raised to become miniature copies of popular rags-to-riches politician Alexander Marcus, but they end up acquiring his bloodthirsty depravities as well as the brilliance and...



  • Adrienne Basso
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    Three independent women, three high-stakes wagers -- and three losses. Now these daring ladies set out to lose their maidenhood to the ton's most dangerous rogues -- but might find love where they least expect it . . . To wreck her domineering...



  • Stephen Baxter

    3000 A.D. Years ago, humans colonized Mars, bringing with them specimens of long-extinct Earth life for regeneration on this new frontier. But humankind has disappeared, and the animals have been left behind to fend for themselves. Icebones, daughter...



  • Greg Bear

    THE SMALLEST OF ORGANISMS. THE GREATEST OF TRANSFORMATIONS. SO BEGINS TOMORROW... VERGIL ULAM was the genius behind "biologic": the restructuring of cells. Cells that can think. When Genetron canceled the project, Vergil smuggled his life's work ...



  • John Beckman

    A sexy, hilarious novel of wayward young expatriates -- and the difference between doing good and feeling good.

    In 1990, a young man named Gurney abandons his newborn daughter in an Iowa delivery room and escapes into Krakow, Poland, where i...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    In a retelling of the Spider-Man saga that has been updated for the twenty-first century, teenager Peter Parker is bitten by an experimental spider from the laboratory of Osborn Industries, and develops super powers as a result....



  • Alan Bennett

    Clive Dunlop was a masseur of exceptional talents. His 'services' were much in demand amongst the great and the good and after his untimely death at the age of 34 they -- the film stars and politicians, the writers and publishers, the TV pundits a...



  • Raymond Benson

    EAST MEETS WEST NILE In Tokyo, a fatal strain of West Nile virus has infected--and killed--the head of the world's largest genetic research company and his family. Whoever is behind the murders is far more dangerous than the average assassin--dang...




  • Lara Bergen

    When the new head of the OSS gives his children, Gary and Gerti Giggles, a special assignment, Spy Kids Carmen and Juni Cortez take the job for themselves and travel to a mysterious island to recover the missing Transmooker device....



  • Irving Berlin

    This first illustrated picture book of Irving Berlin's classic song celebrates America and invites young readers -- and singers -- to experience all of her colorful glory, from the mountains to the prairies.

    Lyrics by America's most celebrat...



  • Michael Biehl

    In the third book of the Karen Hayes series, an elderly nursing home resident, who was once an Olympic champion swimmer with a murky background in the German army, drowns in a lake behind the home. Does anyone know how it happened? Does anyone care? ...



  • John Biguenet

    With comparisons to Flaubert, Chekhov, and Faulkner, O. Henry Award-winner John Biguenet earned wide acclaim for his debut short-story collection, The Torturer's Apprentice. In his astonishing first novel, Oyster, he demonstrates the same mastery...



  • Clifford Blair

    Troubleshooter James Stark, known as the Peacemaker, is hired by spirited lady attorney, Prudence McKay, to protect her clients--the widow Sarah Dunsmore and her daughter Donna. The women are being threatened by the renegade illegitimate son of Sarah...



  • J.H. Blair

    A collection of erotic fiction with a Latin American flair showcases excerpts from the works of such acclaimed authors as Rudolf Anaya, Isabel Allende, Julia Alvarez, Carlos Fuentes, Mario Vargas Llosa, Gabriel Garcfa Mßrquez, Junot Dfaz, Ana Castil...



  • Jennifer Blake
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    Jennifer Blake, Heather Graham and Diana Palmer, well-loved voices of romance fiction, bring you three new stories of sultry Southern romance. With a Southern Touch will renew your faith in the power of love. An eighth-generation Louisianian, Jenn...



  • Stephen A. Bly

    Retta Barre has faced a dizzying prairie storm, a stubborn buffalo, and a murderous Indian twice. But that's nothing compared to what happens when her family is left alone in the middle of the prairie. They face one life-threatening danger after anot...



  • Stephen A. Bly

    On the Oregon Trail in 1852, twelve-year-old Retta helps negotiate with a renegade Arapaho when he captures her new Shoshone friend, Shy Bear, and a girl from the wagon train, then she faces a wounded buffalo....



  • Alessandro Boffa

    In this wickedly hilarious collection of fables, Alessandro Boffa introduces us to Viskovitz and his never-ending search for his true love, Ljuba. As he changes from a lovelorn lion to a jealous finch, from a confused dung beetle to an enlightened po...



  • Gillian Bradshaw

    The might and power of Julius Caesar, the man who conquered the known world. The beauty of Cleopatra, the woman who conquered the conqueror. Together they could have forged an empire whose power had never been seen before. Tragically, it was not mean...



  • Peter Brandvold

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    FROM THE CURRENT KING OF THE VIOLENT, SEXY, HARD-DRIVING WESTERN

    The sixth novel in the hard-boiled, western classic Sheriff Ben Stillman Series.

    Maybe it was a moment of insanity. Maybe it was revenge. Or maybe the Metis Indian, Sha...



  • Jackie Braun

    Cam Foley was mad -- scratch that -- he was furious. The last thing the widowed father wanted was a dating service pestering him. True Love, Inc. owner Maddie Daniels never intended to infuriate the sexy single dad. But the irresistibly gorgeous C...



  • Annette Broadrick

    IN LOVE WITH HER BOSS Undistracted by love, brawny construction boss Brad Phillips had worked his way up from street kid to millionaire. Of course, Rachel Wood, his invaluable assistant, had believed in -- and secretly loved -- Brad from the begin...



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



  • Walter R. Brooks

    The delightful detective story about the beloved animal characters on Mr. Bean's farm, whose adventures have entertained so many children.

    Freddy the pig, stimulated by reading Sherlock Holmes, sets up in a business as a detective....



  • Irene Bennett Brown

    A Women of Paragon Springs Novel. #3 A hard, high plains life has turned refined southern lady, Aurelia Symington, into a work-toughened, capable woman determined to give her best to those she loves. Aurelia is chosen president of the town company wh...



  • N.M. Browne

    Two lives run in parallel. The life of a girl called Karen as she lies in a coma in hospital, and the life of a fox in an ancient and dark world. Those two lives are one and the same spirit. The girl trapped in the fox must uncover some deeply bur...



  • Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Is it wrong to hope for the impossible? Rachel Beachy wants something she can't have - her sister's boyfriend. Silas Swartley has been in love with Anna since they were children, and Rachel has desired Silas nearly as long. Like Job from the ...



  • Jennifer Brutschy

    The story of how Austin, who wants more than anything else to get two stories at bedtime instead of one, finally gets his wish.

    Dad plays the fiddle, Mom sings country-western, and Austin bangs the tambourine. They call themselves The Swamp Sn...



  • Frederick Buechner

    The Boston Globe calls Frederick Buechner "one of our finest writers." USA Today says he's "one of our most original storytellers." Now this acclaimed author gives us his most beguiling novel yet--a magical tale of love, betrayal, and redemption insp...



  • James Lee Burke

    New Iberia, Louisiana, is reeling from a one-two punch of brutal rape-homicides, and drug-addicted blues singer Tee Bobby Hulin has been tagged as the prime suspect. No stranger to bucking popular opinion, police detective Dave Robicheaux senses it's...



  • Mary Burton

    Keeping secrets and telling lies was no way to start a marriage. But what else, Jenna Winslow ruminated, could a woman running from scandal do? Who would ever want an unschooled virgin with a fatherless baby in tow? Certainly not rugged rancher Rowe ...



  • Rainelle Burton

    Terrified by the frightening world that surrounds her, from her family and school to the voodoo priestess who holds her mother in thrall, Ellen, an eleven-year-old African-American girl growing up in Detroit in the 1960s, desperately searches for a s...



  • Sandra Byrd

    In a fun, interactive format, Sandra Byrd presents a balanced approach to personal care. With sections like "More Than a Mirror," "Face the Facts," and "Tress Distress," Sandra offers personal care ideas, nutrition and health pointers, recipes for na...



  • Lisa Cach

    BEWARE OF THE DRAGON .. . The medieval village of Markesew was besieged, its virgins demanded in tribute, so when St. George the Dragonslayer arrived from modern times -- in his silver pants and lace-up boots -- his quest was clear. Being a professi...



  • Roberto Calasso

    Brilliant, inspired, and gloriously erudite, Literature and the Gods is the culmination of Roberto Calasso’s lifelong study of the gods in the human imagination. By uncovering the divine whisper that lies behind the best poetry and prose from acros...



  • Candace Camp

    For temporarily-relocated-from-Dallas hotshot defense attorney Lisa Mendoza, a year working for the public defender's office in tiny Angel Eye, Texas, was just a slight detour off the path she'd mapped out for her life. Then she ran smack-dab into ha...



  • Joanna Campbell

    Christina and Melanie are both heading for their first Kentucky Derby as jockeys. Can Ashleigh calm their nerves before the big race?

    Christina Reese is suffering from pre"Kentucky Derby stress. So is her cousin Melanie Graham. And thei...







  • Dorothy Cannell

    Reluctant best pals Ellie and Mrs. Malloy masquerade as detectives--can they find the killer before they kill each other? Ever since Mrs. Malloy started moonlighting in a detective's office her employer, Ellie Haskell, has grudgingly missed the ca...



  • Liz Carlyle

    Lady Catherine Wodeway knows that no true gentleman would presume to kiss a lady senseless without a proper introduction -- not even to save her life. Yet somehow, Maximilian de Rohan's dark good looks, brooding manner, and mysterious past make it al...



  • Stephen L. Carter

    ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • In his triumphant fictional debut, Stephen Carter combines a large-scale, riveting novel of suspense with the saga of a unique family. The Emperor of Ocean Pa...



  • Linda Lea Castle

    Betrothed But Loving Another...Or So He Thinks Desmond Vaudry du Lac is appalled when King Henry III commands him to wed Aislinn, who's been dubbed the Poison Flower of Seven Oaks, having buried four husbands in five years. But Desmond is loyal ...



  • Maureen Child

    DANGER AND DESIRE IN THE DESERT When a marine rescue mission went awry, Staff Sergeant Travis Hawks realized he was in for the fight of his life. He and Lisa Chambers -- the uppity heiress he was trying to save -- were stranded and forced to race ...



  • Kay Chorao

    Celebrate the beauty and wonder of summer by the bay.It is almost summer. The bay is calm, just brushed in the middle by an offshore wind. A family of swans glides by. Seagulls squawk and circle above the water-all but one gray.During one idyllic sum...



  • Kay Chorao

    Kate, the littlest elephant in her family, tries her hardest to be good all the time, but sometimes it just doesn't work and she suddenly finds herself in some type of trouble, in a charming easy reader with full-color illustrations....



  • Rita Ciresi

    Rita Ciresi earned blockbuster acclaim and legions of new fans with her tender and hilarious novel, Pink Slip, a story of family and career, love and longing. Here she brings us seven award-winning stories, vibrant slices of life that are at once pie...



  • Cherie Claire

    Amid the untamed forests and moss-strewn swamps of Louisiana Territory, the descendants of an Acadian exile discover danger...and desire. Raised by Captain Jean Bouclaire, Delphine Delaronde lost her heart to his partner Philibert Bertrand when sh...



  • Nicholas Clapp

    In this exhilarating archaeological adventure, Nicholas Clapp seeks the truth behind the legend of the Queen of Sheba. Ever since she swept into the court of King Solomon three thousand years ago, her story has been told and retold, often getting dil...



  • Alys Clare

    At the end of a dark and dreary market day, Goody Anne's inn at Tonbridge is finally settling down for the night. But while Anne's serving maid and boy finish up their chores, a man lies dying in the guest chamber -- poisoned by a piece of pie made b...



  • Colleen Coble

    Orphaned sisters Maggie and Fiona O'Keefe are on their own in a new country. In Wabash, Indiana, the nineteen-year-old Maggie struggles to balance her business - a bakery specializing in Irish pastries - with caring for her three-year-old sister. One...




  • Colette

    In My Mother's House and Sido, Colette plays fictional variations on the themes of childhood, family, and, above all, her mother. Vividly alive, fond of cities, music, theater, and books, Sido devoted herself to her village, Saint-Saveur; to her gard...



  • Jackie Collins

    Family secrets and hidden lives come to haunt Madison Castelli, the sexy, vivacious, and talented writer last seen in Jackie Collins's Lethal Seduction. As she digs into her father's past, trying to resolve the mystery that surrounds her mother's dea...



  • Max Allan Collins

    In 1950, when a congressional investigation into organized crime sparks an all-out mob war that claims the life of his partner, private detective Nathan Heller returns to his native Chicago to find the killer. Reprint....



  • Cara Colter

    Holly Lamb considers herself the proverbial plain Jane. She's always hidden behind her intelligence and business instincts -- definitely a plus for her career. Her boss, Blake Fallon, absolutely loves her...for her mind. But working with Blake makes ...



  • Robert J. Conley

    A novelization of the life of the revered Cherokee leader traces the major events and conflicts that occurred throughout his late-eighteenth-century life, from the expulsion and massacres, to the Indian wars fought at the side of Andrew Jackson, to t...



  • Linda Conrad

    THE STRANGER IN HER ARMS More than a year had passed since FBI agent Carley Mills's partner disappeared without a trace. Then, just when she'd almost given up hope, she found him, working as a cowboy on a Texas ranch. But, incredibly, he had no me...



  • Kent Conwell

    Martin Wallace had bucked the tiger, seen the elephant, fought with Nathan Forrest Bedford, battled Quanah Parker and his Comanches, skinned three thousand buffalo, and slipped unseen through Indian Territory, all with no more than a scratch or bad c...



  • Carla Cook

    Katherine Mayfield knows it is lunacy to allow Lucas Connelly into her home, to trust the magician who shows up on her doorstep in the dead of night. To save her mysteriously ill daughter, though, she would do anythingeven strike a deal with the dev...



  • Lori Copeland

    When Emma returns home to Serenity following her sister's untimely death, she must confront Sam and the feelings she never fully dealt with after their broken engagement. A strange clause in her sister's will forces Emma to stay and work with Sam to ...



  • Lori Copeland; Angela Elwell Hunt

    WELCOME TO THE ISLAND OF HEAVENLY DAZE Where Guardian Angels Keep Watch over a Community, off the Coast of Maine. The New Year brings challenges aplenty for the guardian angels of Heavenly Daze! Despite the blustery winter chill, love is in the ...



  • David Corbett

    Dan Abatangelo hits Vegas to test his luck and finds love instead: Shel Beaudry, a tomboy redhead with a wild streak. Dan’s no innocent himself; he captains a distribution ring for premium Thai marijuana. His credo: “No guns, no gangsters, it’s...



  • Nicola Cornick

    At twenty-three and a bluestocking to boot, Miss Lavender Brabant feels her chances of marriage have passed her by. But the problem isn't that she's never met a man to make her pulse race. It's that she's an admiral's daughter -- and the man of her d...



  • Mark Costello

    A scary, funny novel -- a riff on recent history and the American obsession with assassination.It's winter in New Hampshire, the economy is booming, the vice president is running for president, and his Secret Service people are very, very tense.Meet ...



  • Bruce Coville

    An anthology of eight humorous stories celebrating the slimy frog includes original tales by such authors as Robert J. Harris, Brian Jacques, Bruce Coville, Janet Taylor Lisle, and Jane Yolen. Reprint....



  • Philip R. Craig

    THE ART OF MURDER Violent crime is a rarity on the tranquil shores of Martha's Vineyard, which is why ex-cop J.W. Jackson turned in his Boston badge to retire to the idyllic isle. And that's what makes a six-month-old murder so troubling to the pe...



  • Sara Craven

    Miles Hunter had lived life on the edge. When he proposed marriage to Chessie, she knew it couldn't be because he loved her. They were practically strangers! He simply needed a social hostess and someone to look after his beautiful home. Chess...



  • Jenn Crowell

    In Letting the Body Lead, Jenn Crowell introduces us to gifted NYU graduate student Isobel Sivulka. Though her academic and personal lives seem perfect, she feels without direction. Making the first rash decision in her life, she heads to Iceland, wh...



  • Peter Crowther

    Seventeen intriguing science fiction tales journey to the "Red Planet" to explore the mysteries and wonders of Mars, in all original short fiction by Ray Bradbury, Gene Wolfe, Allen Steele, Alastair Reynolds, Michael Moorcock, Brian Aldiss, Stephen B...



  • Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos

    In Serpent and Blue Gold, Cussler introduced a hero for the new millennium in Kurt Austin, the leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team. In previous encounters, Austin and his colleague Joe Zavala have battled eco-extortionists and mad empire builde...



  • Julie E. Czerneda

    JASON AND SIRA-- he a human telepath and independent trader, she now Speaker for the Clan Council, as well as Jason's life partner--are trying to forge a life for themselves free of the demands of both the Clan and the Drapsk, a race determined to c...



  • Barbara D'Amato

    Dr. Dooley McSweeny and his wife, Claudia, dearly love the son they adopted from Russia four years ago. But when medical tests indicate that their little boy could not possibly have come from Russia, the couple is plunged into the dark, complex and e...



  • Debbie Dadey


    Lillie Mae's mama has just died, and with her father not back from the Great War that ended over a year before, Lillie is shipped by her mean Aunt Helen off to relatives she has never met. Although she misses her parents terribly, Lillie Mae feel...



  • Elizabeth Daish

    Sparks fly under the Arabian sun . . . After a year out recovering from the violent death of her boyfriend, Dr Sarah Brackley has returned to the international oil industry to take part in a conference staged in the sweltering heat of the Middle East...



  • Jenny Dale

    Everyone loves puppies! Bouncy and cute, furry and huggable, what could be more perfect than a puppy? Lily's family is moving. Jack, Lily's owner, tells her all about their new home. Then something terrible happens. Lily's family leaves her ...



  • Kara Dalkey

    Nia and Corwin have each fought their own battles. Now they are Joined together to face their most dangerous enemy yet: Ma'el, the evil Avatar. In order to defeat Ma'el, they must retrieve a magical sword from Atlantis. But after a treacherous journe...



  • Emily Dalton

    One Hard-Luck Baby Had the Whole Town Abuzz... When Liam McAllister, Lord Roderick, returned from England after 20 years, he landed on Dr. Allie Lockwood's doorstep -- with an abandoned baby boy! The townfolk knew the score: the playboy aristocrat...



  • Cory Daniells

    In a land of enchantment and betrayal, an empress sworn to a new future must face the world she left behind.... With her wine-dark eyes and silver hair, Imoshen is the last T'En empress--blessed with exotic beauty and an extraordinary gift for hea...



  • Craig Joseph Danner

    When Mary, a doctor still grieving over her husband, finds an abandoned mission hospital in the Indian Himalayas, she stops to care for a dying baby girl and becomes involved with a British traveler and his kidnapper and an abused young Indian woman....



  • Emma Darcy

    Emma Darcy's compelling Australian saga reaches a climax with a passionate marriage negotiation.... Matteo King is the last unmarried grandson of the King dynasty -- and determined to stay that way! When a writer is hired to explore his family...



  • Ellen Datlow

    Drawing on the mythology of the Green Man and the power of nature, Neil Gaiman, Jane Yolen, and others serve up “a tasty treat for fantasy fans” (Booklist).   There are some “genuine gems” in this “enticing collection” of fifteen sto...



  • James F. David

    Paralyzed by drink and despair since the accidental death of his young daughter, Shelby, Detective Kyle Sommers nonetheless must lead a task force to catch a brutal serial killer. Nicknamed the Cradle Robber, this murderer has methodically snuffed ou...



  • Lawrence David

    Something is amiss in Blootinville! Someone has replaced all the food in town with Chef Nibbles's disgusting ultra-chemical Snoodles and Cheaze. To make matters worse, a roving band of second graders calling themselves the Nibblettes have immobili...



  • Carolyn Davidson
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    Any man would be shocked to find that his new wife is already pregnant, but when a mail-order bride discovers that her overbearing new husband has a four-year-old secret of his own, it's the lonely little girl who gives her a reason to make their mar...



  • Delilah Dawson

    When Sharonda Williams can't find her daily journal, she assumes it's buried in one of the boxes left over from the move to her new apartment. She never expects James Cooper (a childhood acquaintance, now a handsome hunk of a man living right across ...



  • Jill Dawson

    In a dazzling act of literary license, the novelist and poet Jill Dawson has transformed the sensational true story of Britain’s infamous condemned adulteress into a dramatic novel of passion, murder, and scandal, as seductive as it is shocking. On...



  • Jacqueline Diamond

    The last thing Dr. Nancy Verano wants to do for the summer is be a nanny in Texas! When she finds herself on Max Richter's musty ranch with a bunch of cowboys, she knows there's no turning back. Besides, how hard can it be to take care of a c...



  • Michael Dibdin

    Aurelio Zen of Rome's elite Criminalpol is back -- but nobody's supposed to know it. After months in the hospital healing from wounds sustained in a bomb attack on his car in Sicily, he is lying low under a false name at a beach resort on the Tuscan ...



  • Athol Dickson

    After 25 years, the man Ruth and Kate helped lock away is released from prison, thrusting them into a horrible nightmare. Suddenly a series of bizarre crimes hits Ruth's Jewish community in New Orleans, reigniting the flames of age-old hatred. A page...



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



  • Robyn Donald

    Passion and the Prince... Prince Luka of Dacia is a man with a lot to lose if his secret leaks out too early. He trusts nothing and no one, least of all his unexpected desire for Alexa Mytton. She might be beautiful, but she's dangerous -- and...



  • Shannon Donnelly
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    Eloping to Gretna Green was the only way spirited Claire Roxburgh could escape an arranged marriage to the sour elderly gentleman her father had chosen. But she didn't count on her betrothed bringing along his best friend, army officer Alan Carlton. ...




  • Nikki Donovan
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    When Lord Blackhurst spies the alluring Esmay picking wildflowers in the forest, he knows he must make her his...but how can he break the terrible curse that prevents an exquisite beauty from knowing the ecstasy of being in his arms?...



  • Charlotte Douglas

    Five years ago, Catherine Erickson's world shattered the day she learned her fiance, Lieutenant Ryan Christopher, had been killed in an embassy explosion. She'd lost the man she loved -- and the father of her unborn child. And it wasn't until the mys...




  • Susan K. Downs
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    The Steadman Mill is the heart of industry in Eaststead, Massachusetts, weaving miles of cloth that is shipped throughout the country and abroad. The Kindred Hearts Orphanage is the pulse of the town's charity efforts...and, most recently, the focus ...



  • Emily Drake

    No one ever said having Magic would be easy.Summer is over but the attacks of the Dark Hand are not! Jason is back home, trying to navigate ordinary life and master his Magick. Worse, whenever the Magickers work their abilities, Chaos is unleashed al...





  • Doranna Durgin

    STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH Arlen of Anfeald is dead--or so his friends believe, for Camolen's Council of Wizards has been cut down in a treacherous ambush of twisted magic . . . and the only surviving witness is a palomino stallion named Ramb...



  • Thomas Dyja

    In the wake of a deteriorating career and marriage, Steven Armour joins a group of Civil War reenactors and throws himself into their weekend exercises with zeal, eventually becoming obsessed with his captain's wife before he begins losing his identi...



  • David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    “A story of murder and revenge . . . Outstandingly well paced and tightly plotted, the novel also stands out in its handling of various psychological themes.” -- Booklist Eerily attuned to one another, twins Regina and Renata are so identical t...



  • Cassie Edwards

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