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New Books List: 532 titles


  • 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...



  • Rosemary Wells

    Once Upon a Time, Yoko pretended she coudl neither read nor write. She was afraid that her mama would no longer read her stories is she knew she could read them by herself. Of course, when Yoko's secret is revealed, Mama promises they'll always share...



  • 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...



  • Jake Logan

    When a landowner gets greedy, Slocum marks his territory -- with bullets.Landowner Seth Draper bullied his way through town, buying up smaller ranches and adding the acreage to his own. But when rancher Ian MacTavish refuses to sell, Draper plays dir...



  • 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...



  • Kathy Reichs

    A commercial jetliner disaster has brought Tempe Brennan to the North Carolina mountains as a member of the investigative agency DMORT. As bomb theories abound, Tempe soon discovers a jarring piece of evidence that raises dangerous questions - and ge...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Kay Hooper

    Someone is stalking the little town of Silence. Three victims have fallen to a killer's savage vengeance. Each of the dead men was a successful and respected member of the community--yet each also harbored a dark secret discovered only after his murd...



  • Harry Turtledove

    The year is 1924. In the United States, the Socialist Party, led by Hosea Blackford, battles Calvin Coolidge to hold on to the', Powell House in Philadelphia. The Confederate States, victorious in the War of Secession but at last tasting defeat in th...



  • 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...



  • Danielle Steel

    As Diana Morrison laid the table for six at her elegant Central Park apartment, there was no warning of what was to come. Spending New Year's Eve together was a sacred tradition for Diana, her husband of thirty-two years, Eric, and their best friends...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Robin Maxwell

    ...a riveting portrait of Elizabeth I as a romantic and vulnerable teenager, dangerously awakening to a perilous liaison with the wrong man. England, 1547: King Henry is dead. Elizabeth's half-brother, nine-year-old Edward, is king in name only. T...



  • Random House

    Cookie Monster may eat just about anything, but he knows what’s good for you. To share his great love of food, Cookie has written his own little book (with just a little bit of help). In it, he shows us all his favorite healthy meals and snacks: fr...



  • Random House

    Elmo loves numbers! In fact, he has so much fun with 1, 2, 3 and many other numbers that he decided to write this cute little book about them (with just a little bit of help). He counts all kinds of things"1 sun, 2 shoes, 3 candles on
    his birth...



  • Alison Inches

    Cassie asks each of her friends to help her paint a mural for the playground, but everyone turns her down. They would all rather do something they’re good at. “Nobody wants to help me,” Cassie says sadly. But with a little pep talk from Quetzal...



  • Carol Pugliano-Martin

    Max can’t seem to get enough of anything! His mom makes some cookies and says Max and Emmy can only have one. But Max wants more! When he takes a trip to Dragon Land, Max meets the Wantmore Twins who allow him to overdo everything. He eats too much...



  • 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,...





  • Kiki Thorpe

    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....



  • 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....



  • Sarah Heller

    An oversized collection features five exciting all-new adventure stories starring favorite Disney characters such as Aladdin, Tarzan, and Buzz Lightyear, with each story designed to be read in under five minutes--perfect for busy families....



  • Hank Hanegraaff

    Now tweens and teens can also experience the power of praying Jesus' way! This 30-day prayer journal based on Hank Hanegraaff's The Prayer of Jesus, which has sold over 250,000 books, teaches foundational principles of prayer-but with fun, easy-to-un...



  • 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...



  • Laura Glen Louis

    Beautifully crafted and movingly told, the stories in Talking in the Dark read like small exquisite novels. From betrayal to sacrifice, obsession to abandonment, each tale speaks the truth of the underside of love, evoking images of lowered voices an...



  • 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...



  • Dorit Rabinyan

    Redolent with the scent of lilac and oleander blossoms, and bursting with the flavors of quinces and overripe plums, Strand of a Thousand Pearls is the story of the imagined and actual marriages of the Azizyan girls, their years of yearning, restless...



  • Stephen McCauley

    The inspiration for the film of the same name starring Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, this “very funny, exceptionally vivid first novel” (The New York Times Book Review) from Stephen McCauley is a “joyously comic” (People) story about a preg...



  • 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...



  • Elmer Kelton

    Lieutenant David Buckalew and his men had left Texas on a march westward to claim the entire Southwest for the Confederacy. But defeat after humiliating defeat at the hands of the Union army has stranded Buckalew and nineteen battle-weary survivors i...



  • Wendy Lindstrom

    HE WAS A BROKEN MAN... Former Union soldier Radford Grayson returns to his small hometown, looking for a stable and comforting place to raise his young, motherless daughter. Despite his troubled past, his hopes are to reconcile with his family and p...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Charles O'Brien

    The setting is Bath, England's most fashionable spa, during the spring season of 1787. Haughty aristocrats, wealthy upstart businessmen, social climbers, adventurers, courtesans, sharpers, addicted gamblers, and a representative sample of the dregs o...



  • Curt Autry

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



  • 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...



  • Kathleen Hills

    PRESENT TENSE A seasoned fisherman of hardy Norwegian stock, Nets Bertelsen is found dead on his boat, apparently from a bee sting to which he was highly allergic. No one questions the tragic randomness of this accident except John McIntire, a ret...



  • Neal Shusterman

    In this conclusion to The Star Shards Chronicles, powerful and terrifying invaders have arrived from a parallel dimension, and only the Star Shards can prevent the destruction of the human race.Six children were conceived at the exact moment that the...



  • Dayton Ward

    1969: Captain John Christopher of the U.S. Air Force has just returned from a most peculiar mission to investigate a UFO sighting. But even though the mission took only a few minutes, the captain has vague memory flashes of futuristic humans, a point...




  • Thomas E. Ricks

    Majors Cindy Sherman and Bud Lewis are the best young combat officers the army has, and they’ve both been tapped for plum positions as aides-de-camp for two of the Pentagon’s most senior generals. The Pentagon is a cauldron of careerist jockeyin...



  • Barbara Vine

    "They have sent me here because of what happened on the pylon." When Clodagh Brown writes these words at the age of nineteen, she believes that she is leaving behind the traumatic events of her youth. But Clodagh soon learns that you can never en...



  • Carol Muske-Dukes

    "Why don't you just die?" Boyd Schaeffer asks her husband, Russell, one night during a fight. The next day, he does just that. Russell was rich, sensitive, charming, but always unreliable and it is not clear to Boyd what emotional legacy his untimely...



  • Walter D. Wetherell

    When Alec Brown, a middle-aged biographer, takes as his subject broadcasting pioneer Alec McGowan, host of television's very first wake-up show, "Morning," the project is marked by a sinister obsession. For intertwined with McGowan's life and the bir...



  • Joseph O'Connor

    Roddy Doyle, Conor McPherson, Gene Kerrigan, Gina Moxley, Marian Keyes, Anthony Cronin, Owen O’Neill, Hugo Hamilton, Joseph O’Connor, Tom Humphries, Pauline McLynn, Charlie O’Neill, Donal O’Kelly, Gerard Stembridge, and Frank McCourtFifteen o...



  • Carol Pugliano-Martin

    Barbie shows her sisters -- and readers -- how to make up their own bedtime stories. Using objects in her bedroom as inspiration, Barbie weaves together a fascinating tale about Princesses Kelly and Stacie and an animal-filled forest adventure....



  • Frances Thomas

    Polly’s had enough: her hamster‘s gone missing, her best friend isn’t her best friend anymore, and the entire world is baby crazy! She’s going to run away once she’s saved up enough money and food. In the meantime, she’s got to cope with ...



  • Mercer Mayer

    When Little Critter isn’t invited to Billy Bear’s party at Fun City, he really feels left out! But, with the help of his family, Little Critter manages to turn this painful experience into a positive one. With humor and sensitivity, Gina and Merc...



  • Cathy Young

    Sex. It’s on the minds of every teenager, whether they’re having it, not having it, talking about it, or just thinking about it. In this powerful collection, 11 acclaimed writers for young people capture the various expressions of desire"from f...





  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Robin McKinley; Peter Dickinson

    Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson share tales of mysterious merfolk and magical humans, all with close ties to the element of water. From Pitiable Nasmith's miserable existence in a seaside town whose inhabitants are more intertw...



  • Philip Gooden

    'Highly entertaining' Sunday TimesMidsummer 1601. Nick Revill and his fellow actors in the Chamberlain's Men are journeying across the Wiltshire Downs for a country-house presentation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.It should be a pleasant...



  • Phyllis Moore

    Warmhearted humor, quirky relationships, and playful turns of plot distinguish this charming story collection from Phyllis Moore. So do the somewhat frivolous, somewhat valiant, and mostly misguided women of Moore's fractured world. Beautifully writt...



  • James Patterson; Peter De Jonge

    Jack Mullen is a driven student of the law. His brother Peter is a servant of the rich, parking the cars of the Hamptons' elite -- and perhaps satisfying their more intimate needs as well. Then Peter's body is found on the beach. Jack knows the drown...




  • Brad Sneed

    People, places, animals, and more come together to demonstrate the different words that can begin with a single letter, in a boldly illustrated, wordless alphabet book by the illustrator of Sorry. ...



  • 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....



  • Tony Johnston

    When Pa decides to leave New Hampshire for a new life in the west, the family packs up and gets on the move, but their journey becomes more treacherous than they had expected and they have to stay united to make the trip successful....



  • Anastasia Suen

    A "Bring Your Pet" birthday party gets out of hand when the pets show more interest in chasing each other than in celebrating, in an easy-to-read story based on the characters created by Ezra Jack Keats. Reprint....




  • 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...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Diana Hamilton

    He wanted to possess her! Cesare Andriotti was powerful, rich, sexy -- and always got what he wanted. Beautiful Bianca Jay was no exception, and though she hadn't been easy to win, he had finally made her his mistress. But Cesare realized h...



  • Simon Kerr

    The narrator of this harrowing and hilarious novel is Wil Carson, a former Protestant ex-thug from Northern Ireland. Wils adolescent hatred of Catholics is inherited from his bigoted father, but his sardonic twist on life as a no-hoper from the Backs...



  • Sabrina Jeffries

    What Happens When A Proper Young Lady Gives In To A Reckless Love? After two London Seasons -- and a score of resoundingly dull society suitors -- lovely Juliet Laverick still longs for only one man: Morgan Pryce, the dashing scoundrel who kidnap...



  • Suzanne Enoch

    Three determined young ladies vow to give three of London's worst rakes their comeuppance -- but when these rogues turn the tables, who truly learns a lesson in love? Once upon a time, the notorious Viscount Dare charmed Lady Georgiana Halley out ...



  • Lisa Kleypas

    London, 1839. Why is Lady Sophia looking for a lover? And could she seduce the most marriageable man in London? Lady Sophia Sydney would do anything to ensnare the unattainable Sir Ross Cannon. Her goal -- to ruin his reputation and cause a scandal...



  • Jeff Rovin

    On the surface it seems a simple case: A group of African militiamen have kidnapped a priest and ordered all Catholic missionaries to leave the nation of Botswana. But the Vatican thinks otherwise. At its urging, Op-Center investigates - and finds th...



  • 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...



  • Philip Jolowicz

    From his Manhattan office, Fin Border surveys his future with confidence. He's a hot young attorney bound for partnership in his prestigious law firm, his client list is the envy of his colleagues, and he truly believes that he's overcome the shame a...



  • Ayelet Waldman

    In between planning playdates and playing dress up, Juliet finally gets some much-needed kid-free time, working out at the local health club. It's going well. She's losing weight. She's even happy--until her personal trainer commits suicide. A che...



  • Reynolds Price

    A Moving Fable For Readers Of All Ages -- From National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning Author Reynolds PriceBen Barks loved elephants long before he'd seen one. He sometimes wondered how that love started....It's been a whole year since Ben's moth...



  • Russell Rowland

    Set in the vast and unforgiving prairie of eastern Montana from 1916 to 1946, In Open Spaces is the compelling story of the Arbuckle brothers:GeorgeA rising baseball star who mysteriously drowns in the riverJackA World War I veteran who abandons his ...



  • Melinda Haynes

    From the acclaimed author of Mother of Pearl comes the story of Chalktown, an eerily quiet village in George County, Mississippi, where folks communicate with one another solely through chalkboards hanging from their front porches. Sixteen-year-old H...



  • William T. Quick

    The starship Oberon is searching for its AWOL pilot when it crash-lands on an unknown planet, leaving all but a handful of its crewmembers dead. And those who remain are not alone in this strange, inhospitable world. A savage insectil...



  • Frank Rodgers

    Wilf's school ski trip has been cancelled because there's no snow. Wilf and his friends help the Ice Cream Wizard to find his stolen wand, and their reward is a covering of ice-cream over the whole hill. Wilf uses his magic to freeze the ice cream an...






  • 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...



  • Julia Richardson

    These fantastic storybooks are illustrated with colour photo stills from the film!

    Stuart Little's Big Adventure

    Stuart Little is having a big adventure! Whether he is rescuing a new friend, trying out for the soccer team, or flying ...



  • Laura Hunt

    When a sweet, lonely bird named Margalo falls into Stuart's life, he invites her into his home, but Margalo isn't as nice as she seems and Stuart must show her how important being nice can be. Original....



  • Julie Michaels

    Having saved Margalo's life from an angry falcon, Stuart Little is surprised to find his new friend and Mrs. Little's diamond ring gone one morning, thus Stuart sets out to get the ring back and find out if Margalo was involved in the theft. 150,000 ...



  • Robert Wise

    Sam Sloan is dead. But when his wife, Vera, receives the report of his plane going down, she flies to the site and finds no evidence of a crash. Unable to put the puzzle together, Vera and her daughter, Cara, struggle to accept the reality of Sam's d...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Elin Hilderbrand

    A FULL MOON, A TWENTY-YEAR-OLD FRIENDSHIP--AND A NANTUCKET NIGHT NO ONE WOULD EVER FORGET... For twenty years, Kayla, Antoinette, and Val have performed their ow~ special summer ritual. Once a year, the old friends put aside their daily, separate ...



  • Douglas Preston; Lincoln Child

    In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered.Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago.While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize...





  • David McPhail

    After being taught the secret recipe to Mrs. Todd's fantastic pancakes, Piggy gets an idea to open a pancake parlor and so turns to hungry Fox and the rest of his friends for help in getting his plan put into motion....



  • John Warren Stewig

    It's August in Minnesota. The cornstalks have grown taller than the cars, and the plums are ripe for the picking. For Jackie, a city kid on a visit to his three aunts' farm, the simple task of making plum jam becomes an adventure when they meet up wi...




  • 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....



  • 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....



  • Joan Holub

    2 books in one flip book: *Why do Dogs Bark?: This fun and fact-packed book takes a look at the history, characteristics, and ever-interesting antics of America's most popular family member-pet dogs. Ideal for on-your-own reading or school-time repo...



  • Anders C. Shafer

    When Peter Bruegel, a young painter from Antwerp, went on a journey to Rome in 1550 to study and see the art and ruins of Rome, he found himself facing unexpected dangers along the way that were later reflected in his work when he became known as the...




  • Melinda Rucker Haynes

    The love of a soulmate can be the death of you, again and again. Dorel Everly receives a legacy from her grandfather-a beautiful and beguiling samurai sword that brings the man she''s been waiting for and inescapable danger into her life. Michael Gab...



  • James W. Huston

    A small nation that bolsters the terrorist cause is flexing its military muscle in a far corner of the world. On a mission to the now-volatile Mediterranean, F/A-18 pilot Lieutenant Ed Stovic shoots down an Algerian MiG at the climax of a dramatic, h...



  • Francine Mathews

    WHO WAS JACK RODERICK? They called him the Legendary American: Trained by the OSS, Jack Roderick plummeted into Bangkok one rainy morning in 1945 and never left. He was feared and respected as a foreign spy, a business kingpin, and a trader in men's...



  • 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...



  • Virginia Ellis

    Julia and Victoria Atwater were barely brides before their husbands marched off to fight in the Civil War. Now alone, with scarcely enough money to see them through until spring, they embark on an impetuous mission to bring joy back into their younge...



  • Susan Johnson
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    A soaking downpour...a gamekeeper's remote hut...a night of unforgettable passion--vivid memories shockingly reawakened at the formal introduction of smolderingly handsome Prince Radovsky to his new stepsister, the fiery Lady Darlington......



  • Liz Madison
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    Victoria Woodville is any man's equal. Fabled knight Stephen de Burgh realizes this as he helps her to victory during a siege. She's a woman of unparalleled appeal who inflames his desires as never before, igniting a rapturous alliance as they face d...



  • Bertrice Small
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    Marguerite Abbott, the most enchanting courtesan at the most elegant brothel in Paris, has lost her heart to no man...until an irresistible visitor from New Orleans teaches her the true meaning of Eros' delights....



  • 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 ...



  • Tracie Peterson; James Scott Bell

    Could She Defend a Man Whose Innocence She Doubted? When Kit's old adversary is arrested on suspicion of murder, she is stunned when he insists she is the only one who can represent him. Torn between his desperation and her resolve to represent onl...



  • 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?...



  • Patricia Haley

    For eighteen years, Karen and Johnny Clark have been blessed with an enviable lifestyle, three bright children and the "perfect" marriage. But over the years, their idyllic relationship has slowly begun to unravel. And when Karen experiences a seriou...



  • Dee Henderson

    A flood brings them together... Rachel O'Malley is a trauma psychologist who works disasters for the Red Cross; her specialty is helping children. Captain Cole Parker has spent the last year fighting fires, investigating arsons--and falling in love ...



  • Brent Monahan

    In 1905, John Le Brun makes his first excursion to England to visit import broker Geoffrey Moore. Le Brun and Moore became friends six years earlier while Le Brun was Sheriff of Brunswick, Georgia and enmeshed in a perplexing murder case at the very ...




  • Patricia Wallace



  • Michele Roberts

    In the early 1800s in a small village in rural France, a peasant woman named Louise summons her priest. Fearing she is about to die, Louise begins her final confession to the bored cleric and reveals a lifelong secret involving a famous woman writer,...



  • Douglas Niles

    In the realm of the Seven Circles, all creatures live in harmony within their own sphere. The noble centaurs live in the forests. The goblins and trolls lurk underground. And in the tranquil center the most evolved beings of all--the elves and the dr...



  • 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...



  • Sherrie Krantz

    Meet Vivian . . .A small-town girl who conquers the Big City on her own terms . . . a sucker for happy endings with an attraction to all things fattening -- and a personality that oddly gets her in (and out of) trouble at lightning speed. This is her...



  • Marisa Mackle

    Set in Dublin, a sparkling romantic comedy in the bestselling tradition of Marian Keyes, Jenny Colgan and Cathy Kelly. Having just celebrated her thirtieth birthday, Anna Allstone is feeling high and dry on the shelf. Even worse, she has to face the ...



  • Karen V. Siplin

    Twenty-nine-year-old New York City film professor Casey Beck is at a crossroads. Employed but unfulfilled, she sees her professional aspirations slipping away. And the personal life she thought was finally coming together almost fell apart when she d...



  • Zane Grey

    This gripping collection captures the essence of the Wild West and includes two short stories, two short novels, and two first-hand accounts of the author's own adventures in the territories he writes about. Reprint....



  • Jeff Mariotte

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... NEVERENDING NIGHT When Wesley opens a package that arrives special delivery, he is instantly sent into a coma-like slumber. It's obvious he has fallen victim to a spell, and Angel sets off w...



  • Laura Anne Gilman; Josepha Sherman

    Shape-Shifters Willow's soft spot for critters finds her spending a cold winter morning along the coast as part of a volunteer rescue team, cleaning up an oil spill that has damaged the marine habitat. While climbing over some rocks, she discovers...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Tabor Evans

    These spooky strumpets don’t stand a ghost of a chance!There’ve been plenty of tall tales goin’ around about long-dead madams and passed-on pimps acting all too lively out near Animas Point.  And far be it from Deputy Custis Longarm to let...



  • John D. Nesbitt

    Tom Atkins is out of work. So when the Norden brothers ride into his camp one night and offer him a job, he figures he might as well accept. The Norden boys are nice enough and they just bought a small ranch nearby. All things considered, Atkins coul...



  • J.R. Roberts

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