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New Books List: 532 titles

  • 1, 2, 3 by Elmo

    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 thingsâ€"1 sun, 2 shoes, 3 candles on
    his birth...

  • Accidental Seduction

    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...

  • Adam

    Jennifer Blake
    in

    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...

  • After the Abduction

    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...

  • Air Ferrets Aloft

    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...

  • The Aliens Are Coming!

    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...

  • All That Glisters

    Janet Tanner

    Tara Murphy left Ireland with high hopes of a better future in the new country. But the harsh reality of the Australian goldfields destroyed her dreams and scarred her forever.

    James Hannay thought that in Tara he had at last found the woman who co...

  • Amazing Aircraft

    Seymour Simon

  • The Amazing Dr. Darwin

    Charles Sheffield

    NOT THAT DARWIN--HIS GRANDFATHER! 18th Century Europe: It is an age when superstition is beginning to give way to the force of human reason, and no man so fully embodies the spirit of the times as Dr. Erasmus Darwin. Thinker, healer, and explorer...

  • Among the Betrayed

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO SAVE YOURSELF? Nina Idi -- a third child in a society where families are allowed only two children -- has been betrayed by the boy she loved, and arrested by the Population Police for exposing other alleged third children. Ang...

  • Among the Chatterati: The Diary of a Page Three Hack

    Kanika Gahlaut

  • Anchor That Man!

    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...

  • And the Winner Gets...Married!

    Metsy Hingle

    "AM I JUST A PIECE OF...BEEFCAKE?" All-business exec Justin Connelly hated participating in a barbaric bachelor auction. But the cause was good, so in his black tux he swaggered down the runway, and the bids piled up. Until finally he was going, g...

  • And Then You Die

    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 ...

  • Angel of Mercy

    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...

  • Another Eden

    Julie Ellis

    The answer lies in the past...25 years ago Tim Cameron, the sole heir to his family's fortune, secretly married Daisy Jamison against the wishes of his father, Roy - but was tragically killed within hours of the wedding. The only two witnesses to the...

  • Anything You Can Do...!

    Darlene Gardner

    Lane Brooks and Clay Crawford know competition! As rival newspaper reporters, they live to scoop one another. Now they're rivals for a prestigious job at a hot new magazine, and things are really heating up. But onlookers wonder: could their huffy lo...

  • The Apple Orchard Bed and Breakfast

    Ron McAdoo; Caryl McAdoo

  • Ariel's Crossing

    Bradford Morrow

    Learning the true identity of her birth father, a Vietnam veteran who disappeared into Laos before she was born, Ariel Rankin, pregnant by a man who wants nothing to do with parenthood, heads west in search of her father and journeys through New Mexi...

  • Artemis

    Julian Stockwin

    With Kydd, Julian Stockwin introduced us to a young wig-maker from Guildford who was kidnapped and pressed into duty with the tempestuous crew of the Duke William battle ship. Now, Thomas Paine Kydd is back -- with a vengeance -- in the latest instal...

  • As Good As Dead

    Ralph M. McInerny

  • The Athenian Murders

    Jose Carlos Somoza


    The English debut of one of Spain's most dazzling younger writers -- a postmodern murder mystery set in ancient Greece.

    In this brilliant, highly entertaining, and intriguing novel, Jose Carlos Somoza intertwines two darkly compelling ridd...

  • August Nights

    Patricia Wallace

  • Austin City Blue

    Jan Grape

    IN HARM'S WAY When Austin police officer Zoe Barrow fatally shoots twenty-five-year-old Jesse Garcia during a standoff, Internal Affairs has some hard questions -- because the dead perp also happens to be the guy who put a bullet in Zoe's...

  • The Awakening

    Bertrice Small
    in

    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....

  • B-i-n-g-o!

    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...

  • A Baby for Lord Roderick

    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...

  • The Bachelor Takes a Wife

    Jackie Merritt

    THE ONE WHO GOT A WAY...? Texas millionaire Keith Owens loved his bachelor ways -- until elegant and sophisticated Andrea O'Rourke came back to town. Years ago the sparks between them had nearly seared them both -- but Andrea had left, swearing to...

  • Baptists at Our Barbeque

    Robert Farrell Smith

    At age 29, Tartan Jones has seen little of the world outside of Utah â€" and nothing by way of an eternal mate. Frustrated, and still single, Tartan makes a desperate bid to change his life and luck by accepting the first transfer that comes along at...

  • Bargain of the Heart

    Candice Poarch

    After suffering a heartbreaking loss, soft-spoken teacher Crystal Dupree is determined to end her marriage to Richard, who seems to love his work more than he loves her. Even when he persuades her to give their union three more months, she's convinc...

  • Be My Baby Tonight

    Kasey Michaels

    ...And Baby Makes Three? It seemed like a great idea at the time. Jetting off to Las Vegas to marry All-Star Phillies catcher Tim Trehan, the high-school crush she couldn't forget, was hands-down the most spontaneous thing Suzanna Trent had ever d...

  • The Beach House

    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...

  • Beast Master's Ark

    Andre Norton; Lyn McConchie

    DANGER ON ARZOR Beast Master Hosteen Storm has endured great perils to carve out a life for himself on Arzor, the colony planet he's called home since the destruction of Earth by the alien Xik. On a planet with alien life forms and untold secrets ...

  • The Bed Wins All

    Christina Dodd
    in

    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...

  • Before Gaia

    Francine Pascal

    Just found this old photo... Mom looks beautiful, seated at her piano. Dad's got his arms around her. Oliver does too. They look so happy. So normal. IF EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY, THEN HOW DID SHE END UP SO DEAD?...

  • Before the Cradle Falls

    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...

  • Beneath the Silk

    Wendy Rosnau

    He could go head to head with the devil. But fortunately that wasn't going to be necessary. Because detective Jackson Ward, the New Orleans P.D.'s loose cannon -- otherwise known as the chief's biggest pain in the butt this side of the Cabildo -- was...

  • Bertie Was a Watchdog

    Rick Walton

    A very small watchdog proves that size isn’t everything -- even when you’re up against a big bad robber.

    Bertie is a rather unusual watchdog. That’s because Bertie is, well, about the size of a watch. So when a horrible robber breaks in,...

  • The Best a Man Can Get

    John O'Farrell

    A hilarious and touching debut novel in the seriocomic Nick Hornby tradition.   Michael Adams is a composer of advertising jingles who shares a bachelor pad with three other guys. He spends his days lying in bed (a minifridge positioned perfectl...

  • Betrayal

    Clare Francis

    Betrayal takes many forms in this psychological mystery replete with murder, adultery, and scandal from international bestselling author Clare Francis Businessman Hugh Wellesley’s life takes an unexpected turn when he learns that the corpse of a mu...

  • Between Friends

    Debbie Macomber

    The friendship between Jillian Lawton and Lesley Adamski begins in the postwar era of the 1950s. As they grow up, their circumstances, their choices -- and their mistakes -- take them in virtually opposite directions. Lesley gets pregnant and marries...

  • The Big Burn

    Jeanette Ingold

    Three young people go after a wildfire, believing fire is something they can stop. IT IS SUMMER 1910 and the mountains are burning. Dozens of blazes dot the countryside, born of sparks thrown from trains, from campfires gone out of control, from li...

  • Big If

    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 ...

  • Big Monsters, Little Monsters

    RH/Disney

  • The Big Storm Clip Strip

    Robin Reid

  • Black Gold

    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...

  • Black Storm

    David Poyer

    With blistering action sequences and incredibly detailed military insight, Black Storm takes the reader along with the most covert Special Ops group straight to Saddam Hussein's stronghold, through harrowing instances of close-quarters combat, and in...

  • Blood Music

    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 ...

  • Blood of Others

    Rick Mofina

    In the broken heart of a cold city, a shy, solitary woman searches for her soulmate -- someone who will finally love her. Hidden away from a world that rejected him, a tortured man finds the one woman who can forgive his monstrous sins -- and red...

  • Blue-Ribbon Blues

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

  • Blue's World of Words

    Lara Bergen

  • Body Double

    Don Lasseter

    The horrifying true story of the brutal murder of one of Janet Leigh's "body doubles" in Psycho, and another murder a decade later -- committed by a real-life Norman Bates.On June 3, 1988, Myra Davis, 71, one of Janet Leigh's "body doubles" in Psycho...

  • Bohannon's Women

    Joseph Hansen

  • Border Bride

    Shannon Donnelly
    in

    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. ...

  • Break Point

    Michael Shea

    Britain is on the brink of collapse: law and order has broken down; extremist vigilante gangs loyal to the Commander and the Brother roam the streets; food is scarce; the Government is helpless; no one is safe. Into this bleak and violent world comes...

  • Breathing Room

    Susan Elizabeth Phillips

    She's Dr. Isabel Favor, America's diva of self-help. He's Ren Gage, Hollywood's favorite bad guy. Sometimes you just know that God has a sense of humor. She's lost her money to an unscrupulous accountant, her fiancé to a ...

  • Bride by Design

    Leigh Michaels

    A marriage of convenience is hardly the most romantic proposal Eve has ever received! But family circumstances, and Eve's conviction that she'll never fall in love again anyway, persuade her to say "I do" to a man she barely knows.......

  • A Brief History of the Flood

    Jean Harfenist

    Lillian Anderson is a strong-minded, backwoods-Minnesota girl, well-versed in the basics of survival. She can find air to breathe under a capsized boat, drive in a blizzard, or capture a wild duck. As part of a large struggling family, she tiptoes ...

  • Buffalo's Last Stand

    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....

  • But Not for Me

    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...

  • The Cabinet of Curiosities

    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...

  • Cable, Volume 1: Shining Path

    David Tischman

  • Caliente!: The Best Erotic Writing in Latin American Fiction

    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 MĂźrquez, Junot Dfaz, Ana Castil...

  • Camp Buccaneer

    Tom Lichtenheld

    AHOY MATEYS -- WELCOME TO CAMP BUCCANEER!

    The sign said learn to be a CARD-CARRYING PIRATE IN THREE WEEKS. Well, no one had to tell Marlon twice-she had only been dressing up as a pirate every Halloween since she could remember. And wha...

  • The Caretaker

    Kelly Eileen Hake
    in

    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 ...

  • Case of the Bear Scare

    James Preller

    Featuring friendship, school, family, and a diverse community, these early illustrated chapter book Jigsaw Jones Mysteries from James Preller have it all.Is there a bear loose in the woods by Jigsaw Jones' town? For once this second-grade detective a...

  • The Case of the Missing Bird Dog

    John R. Erickson

    Will Hank rescue the dog of Beulah's dreams? It's the first day of quail season, and Plato the Bird Dog is missing. At first, Hank is willing to let him stay lost. But when Beulah pleads for help, Hank caves in and takes off in search of Plato. Be...

  • Cathedral of Vampires

    Mary Ann Mitchell

    An immortal young woman, along with her half-vampire companion, searches the world for the Marquis de Sade, the perverse incarnation of evil who turned her into a vampire, to put an end to his reign of terror, but she soon discovers that killing a ma...

  • Cavern of the Fear

    Emily Rodda

    Welcome to the Shadowlands -- the terrifying and mysterious domain of the evil Shadow Lord. He has gone there to refuel his dark sorcery, taking thousands of Deltoran hostages with him. They will become slaves to darkness . . . unless they are save...

  • The Center Cannot Hold

    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...

  • Chalktown

    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...

  • Changespell Legacy

    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...

  • Charisma

    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...

  • Cheek to Cheek

    Willa Hix

    WOULD SHE EVER BELONG TO HIM? Olivia Marlowe should have known better than to trust her fate to her half-brother Jeremy. Leaving England for the United States and escaping an unwanted engagement was all well and good, until she learned Jeremy had ...

  • Chicago Confidential

    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....

  • Chloe and the Spy

    Justine Wittich

    Lady Chloe Lockwood's fascination with her aunt's groom puts her life and her heart in peril. The groom, a spy in a Victorian witness protection program, is defenseless against her beguiling charm. Adrian, Viscount Harding, must protect them both fro...

  • Circle at Center

    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...

  • City

    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...

  • Cleopatra's Heir

    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...

  • Cold Blooded

    Lisa Jackson

    HIS VENGENANCE WILL BE REPEATED... A woman's slashed, incinerated corpse is found in a seedy New Orleans apartment. Her killer is certain there were no witnesses, unaware that his every move was seen by a beautiful stranger--from her bed in a bayou ...

  • Cold Company

    Sue Henry

    Famed Alaskan "musher" Jessie Arnold thinks she's finally put her dark past behind her. But the excavations on her new cabin unearth a decades-old skeleton entombed in a crumbling basement wall--along with a butterfly pendant necklace worn by the all...

  • Cold Justice

    Jonnie Jacobs

    Attorney Kali O'Brien is no stranger to San Francisco's dark side, but death hits too close to home when her friend Anne's body is discovered, strangled and naked, in a dank alleyway. And when a yellow rose and a poem are sent to Anne's husband, Kali...

  • The Collection

    Bentley Little

    How far would you go with a hitchhiker who'd left behind an unimaginable trail of horror and destruction? How would you feel if your father's new bride was something dredged up from the bowels of hell? What would you do if you discovered an old lette...

  • A Compendium of Skirts

    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...

  • Confessions of a Sociopathic Social Climber

    Adele Lang

    After weasel-eyed tax inspectors question her work-related claims, Katya Livingston is forced to keep a financial diary. As well as documenting the cruel and parsimonious ways of her ad agency boss, Katya waxes lyrical about putting up with loser fri...

  • Conqueror

    Kathryn Hockett

    HER FIRST AND ONLY LOVE The daughter of an English lord, Gwyneth stands before the altar, thinking not of her hated betrothed, but of Selig, the golden-haired Viking her father enslaved when she was a child. The pendant she wears faithfully around h...

  • A Conversation with the Mann

    John Ridley

    What do you want? "I want the Ed Sullivan Show." At the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, like a lot of black Americans, comedian Jackie Mann wanted to be somebody. And for him there was only one way to achieve that: to make it big. Make it, no ma...

  • Cosmopolitan Culture

    Bonnie Menes Kahn

  • A Country Courtship

    Donna Simpson

    duplicity and desire prove a captivating mix... THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN... Lord Gerry Haven prefers the quiet beauty of his Yorkshire farm to the artifice of London and the marriage mart. Thus, his matchmaking family takes it upon themselves to fin...

  • The Courtship

    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. ...

  • Cowboy Protector

    Patricia Rosemoor

    Cowboy rancher Neil McKenna Farrell had never felt the power of his grandmother's legacy. He had no special gifts, unless calf-roping was included. But when he met sassy Annabeth Caldwell, a cowgirl at the Chicago rodeo where he was competing, he had...

  • The Cowboy's Baby Surprise

    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...

  • A Cowboy's Pursuit

    Anne McAllister

    "Let Celie get away? No, sir! That;s why cowboys invented lassos!" -- Jace Tucker, wife wrangler Rodeo heartthrob Jace Tucker fell for Celie O'Meara the day they met. But she was his buddy's girl. Then his buddy jilted Celie -- an...

  • The Crazy Carnival Case

    Carolyn Keene

    NANCY'S LOOKING FOR THE TRICKSTER WHO'S SPOILING ALL THE FUN! Nancy, Bess, and George are having a blast at the River Heights Carnival, sampling yummy snacks and trying to win prizes. Most of all, the girls can't wait for their favorite local singin...

  • Crossings

    Mel Odom

    THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME Buffy and Dawn are having difficulty settling into their new roles, now that their mother is gone. Buffy herself is reluctant to cross over to the role of parent, and the two are bickering more than usual. In fact, Buffy...

  • The Curse of Arkady

    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...

  • Daredevil Visionaries Frank Miller, Volume 2

    Frank Miller

  • The Dark Knight

    Tori Phillips

    "Come, Lord Death, and grant me life in your arms!" Such invocations sprang to Lady Tonia's lips when she beheld Sandor Matskella, the sworn agent of her eternal rest. Yet his raw masculine power instead roused her slumbering womanhood to the dawn...

  • The Dead Detective: A Sam and Vera Sloan Mystery

    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...

  • Deadly Embrace

    Jackie Collins

    International bestselling author Jackie Collins returns with another fast-paced and unforgettable tale of dangerous passion and suspense, both a prequel and sequel to her New York Times bestseller Lethal Seduction.Family secrets and hidden lives come...

  • Death a L'Orange

    Nancy Fairbanks

    Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning. She's finally decided to throw in the dishtowel -- and take on a dream job as food writer. Now her plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable foods, and even a dash of ...

  • Deep Water

    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...

  • Deeper Waters

    Mary Morgan

  • Delphine

    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...

  • Derby Fever

    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 preâ€"Kentucky Derby stress. So is her cousin Melanie Graham. And thei...

  • Desperate Alliances

    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...

  • The Devil's Redhead

    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...

  • The Diamond King

    Patricia Potter

    The fighting at Culloden nearly destroyed Alex Leslie. Once a Highland nobleman with a truly brilliant future, Alex left the battlefield with a scarred face and wounded spirit -- and a hatred of the British that still ravages his soul. As captain of ...

  • Disappearing Ingenue

    Melissa Pritchard

    This wildly imaginative collection presents the misadventures of unlikely heroine Eleanor Stoddard as she tries to lead an exemplary life but finds that things just keep going awry. In the summer after sixth grade, she dreams of being as courageous ...

  • Disney's Five Minute Adventure Stories

    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....

  • The Disobedient Mistress

    Lynne Graham

    To be, or not to be... his mistress! When Leone Andracchi offers to help Misty Carlton out of financial difficulty, she knows there must be a catch. There is -- the ruthless and sexy Sicilian tycoon needs her to pose temporarily as his mistress! ...

  • The Doctor's Love-Child

    Barbara Hart

    Her secret: he's a father After a whirlwind romance in New York, Dr. Helen Blackburn is pregnant with orthopedic surgeon Andrew Henderson's child! Only, Andrew has left the city to go to Chicago for some months on urgent, private business and can'...

  • Doctored Evidence

    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? ...

  • Does a Cow Say Boo?

    Judy Hindley

    Get ready to join in a joyful rendition of neighs, clucks, oinks, baas -- and boos!

    Does a toddler like to make animal sounds? Yes! Then follow Judy Hindley’s multicultural crew of little ones to the farmyard, where they gleefully peek throu...

  • Dog at the Door

    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...

  • Don't Look Back

    Amanda Quick

    In this most entrancing tale of mystery and romance by the New York Times bestselling author AMANDA QUICK, lovers and partners-in-crime investigators Lavinia Lake and Tobias March continue their exciting newfound relationship, with its delicious mix ...

  • The Door to December

    Dean Koontz

    Little Melanie had been kidnapped when she was only three. She was nine when she was found wandering the L.A. streets, with blank eyes. What had become of her in all those years of darkness ... and what was the terrible secret, clutching at her soul,...

  • Double Exposure

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    HE WAS THE BEST MAN... It should have been simple. But when Kate Cooper offered to pick up Harry Armstrong, the best man at her sister's upcoming wedding, at the airport, she never dreamed what she was getting into. How could she have guessed that Ha...

  • The Dowager Duchess

    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...

  • Dragonstar

    Barbara Hambly

    The novels of New York Times bestselling author Barbara Hambly have broken new ground in the realm of fantasy. With a sweeping cast of characters whose powers are both awesome and heartachingly limited, the Dragon series is built around the touching ...

  • The Dream of Scipio

    Iain Pears

    In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called "The Dream of Scipio," thr...

  • Drive Me Wild

    Elizabeth Harbison

    For Grace Bowes, going home again felt like facing disaster. While the town wondered how the golden girl had wound up a struggling single mom, Grace had to find a job -- fast! Worse, her first interview ever was with none other than Luke Stewart, the...

  • The Duke's Covert Mission

    Julie Miller

    A DUKE WITH A MISSION Dispossessed Duke Cadence St. John might be a maverick mercenary. He might have sold his soul to the highest bidder, but he wouldn't hurt shy, bespectacled royal secretary Ellie Standish -- had he recognized her that is! She ...

  • The Dutiful Rake

    Elizabeth Rolls

    The Rake's Redemption... The Earl of Rutherford was used to flirting with scandal. But when an act of charity placed his charge's spotless reputation in jeopardy, Marcus knew he must do the honorable thing. There was no point in pretending he was in...

  • Ebony Butterfly

    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 ...

  • Eclipse

    Richard S. Wheeler

    Lewis and Clark: forever paired for their epochal first crossing of the continent in 1804-1806, darlings of the young republic, and the pride of Thomas Jefferson because they made his dream of a nation between two oceans come true.Lewis and Clark: tw...

  • Eclipse

    Cate Tiernan

    Everything around me seems strange and dark. I am not who I thought I was. Danger is coming; I know this now. Everything I believed about my family is a lie. I can stop this. But I can't do it alone. How can I live with this knowledge? I need help...

  • The Emperor of Ocean Park

    Stephen L. Carter

    ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME â€˘ 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...

  • The Enchantment

    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?...

  • Endgame

    Michael Shea

    After the explosion of a radio transmitter in Scotland, the Bondi, a giant American telecommunications corporation, attempt a political coup. Ministers are seized and a puppet government installed as a front for Bondi. However, not everyone accepts t...

  • The Errant Earl

    Amanda McCabe

    A Clever Charade After the untimely deaths of his estranged father and actress stepmother, Marcus Hadley returns home for the first time in years. Desperate to make amends for protesting the doomed couple's marriage, he has decided to take charge of...

  • Essential Spider-Man, Volume 3

    Stan Lee

  • The Eternal Trust

    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...

  • Ethan's Temptress Bride

    Michelle Reid

    Tempted to make her his bride? Millionaire Ethan Hayes considered Eve Herakleides to be a spoilt little rich girl hell-bent on bringing men to their knees. But when she was senselessly attacked, Ethan offered to pose as her fiance to calm her elde...

  • Evening's Empire

    David Herter

    David Herter's first novel, Ceres Storm, was recently published to widespread acclaim. "Distinctive and imaginative, Herter's tale moves to its own disconcerting logic: a debut of immense promise," said Kirkus Reviews. Now Herter moves from SF to con...

  • Everything but Love

    Natalie Dunbar

  • The Exiles

    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...

  • The Eye of Night

    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...

  • Fair Exchange

    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,...

  • Falcon's Return

    Rebecca O'Connor

    With the whir of her camera shutter blending with the sound of her heart beating, Brooke focused on her most enigmatic subject to date. Marshall Anthony stood as regal and proud as the beautiful peregrine on his arm and his amazing green eyes seemed ...

  • The Fall

    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...

  • Falling Home

    Karen White

    You Know That Saying About How Sometimes You're The Windshield And Sometimes You're The Bug? It's true. Take me, for example. I shook the Georgia dust from my feet fifteen years ago, vowing never to leave Manhattan. I traded sweet tea for Chardonn...

  • Fallout

    Daniel Parker

    Dear Charles, I regret to inform you that I have expelled your son, Noah. This was not a decision that I made lightly. Indeed, it is particularly vexing to me, as you and your family have faithfully supported the Wessex Academy for so many years. ...

  • The Fantastic Journey of Pieter Bruegel

    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...

  • Fatal Voyage

    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...

  • The Fiance Fix

    Carole Mortimer

    Joanne Delaney will do anything to protect her beloved daughter from a custody claim including marrying for convenience! Only she receives two unexpected proposals one from handsome stranger Nick Mason and another from wealthy businessman David Banni...

  • Fighting Fires

    Seymour Simon

  • Final Cut

    Billie Sue Mosiman

  • A Fine and Bitter Snow

    Dana Stabenow

    Change never comes easy, but it comes just the same, and it's on its way to the Park, to Niniltna, in southeast Alaska. This time it concerns the possibility of drilling for oil in a wildlife preserve near there, near Aleutian P.I. Kate Shugak's home...

  • Fire Ice

    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...

  • Flanna and the Lawman

    Cathy Maxwell
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    Desperate for someone to help her protect her land, a female con artist saves an ex-lawman from the hangman's noose by claiming him as her husband. And when her "no-good spouse" turns out to be a hero, she longs to turn their charade into a real marr...

  • Flesh Tones

    M.J. Rose

    In such erotic thrillers as In Fidelity and Lip Service, acclaimed author M. J. Rose took readers to the darkest edges of desire. Now, in her most riveting novel yet, she leads us across the fine line separating passion and obsession, mercy and murde...

  • Flight Lessons

    Patricia Gaffney

    Anna has studiously avoided her aunt Rose -- the woman she once loved more than anyone else in the world -- ever since the night Rose betrayed Anna and her mother, Rose's own fatally ill sister. In the sixteen years that have passed, Anna has built a...

  • Food! By Cookie Monster

    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...

  • For Love or Country

    Kerrelyn Sparks

    The Scarlet Pimpernel meets The Patriot in Kerrelyn Sparks' debut novel, For Love or Country. With an army of wigs and a wardrobe that favors lavender, Quincy Stanton poses as a Loyalist fop by day. By night, he wages a secret war against the British...

  • For the Norden Boys

    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...

  • Fred & Edie

    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...

  • Freddy the Detective // Freddy Goes to Florida

    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....

  • From the Heart of Covington

    Joan Medlicott

    The three spunky ladies who so charmed readers in The Ladies of Convington Send Their Love and The Gardens of Covington welcome us back to the small Southern town of Covington, to their quaint white farmhouse with yellow shutters on Cove Road.Life le...

  • From the Horse's Mouth

    Kathy MacKel

    Troublemaker Nick Thorpe finds himself in a strange situation after he is suddenly thrown into the future and learns about an alien who is effecting the space-time continuum, in a space adventure from the author of Can of Worms. ...

  • From the Shadows

    Rebecca York

    SHE BROUGHT OUT HIS PRIMAL NEEDS... Much of Alex Shane's teen years were forgotten -- but his one intimate encounter with Sara Delaney was crystal-clear in his memory. Sweet Sara who'd been too good for the bad boy he used to be. But the tables had ...

  • Funny Money

    James Swain

    Tony Valentine has a gift for grift: He can walk into a casino and spot a cheater across a crowded floor. A man who still uses pay phones and won't spend more than a buck for coffee, Tony has protected Atlantic City gambling palaces for twenty years ...

  • The Future Homemakers of America

    Laurie Graham

    Six Women... Their Loves, Laughter, and Lifelong Friendship For five American Air Force wives, Norfolk, England, in 1952 is a long way from home. But Peggy Dewey and her friends are determined to make the most of their overseas mission. While th...

  • Game to Miss Cowan

    Frances Paige

    It is the summer of 1939 - the last, glorious summer before the war. In Craigton, a small Scottish seaside-resort, holiday-makers are enjoying a carefree season of tennis-parties, picnics and romance, untroubled by the clouds of war. Lisa Cowan is...

  • The Garden Behind the Moon

    Howard Pyle

    A lot of people wonder what's on the other side of the moon. Young David -- a dreamy young boy -- actually finds out. To get there, he has to walk on a shimmering moon-beam -- a rather daunting experience at first, but made easier with the help...

  • Gen13: Version 2.0

    Jeff Mariotte

    Five renegade teens with superpowers and their mentor, John Lynch, confront a new challenge when Caitlin's decision to leave the Gen13 team could leave the group fatally vulnerable to an attack by an enemy that knows all too much about their strength...

  • George & the Virgin

    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...

  • Getting Our Breath Back

    Shawne Johnson

    Follows the story of three African-American sisters and their witness to the chaos and optimism of the sixties, from would-be southern belle Violet, to ex-Black Panther and writer Lilly, to independent sculptor Rose. A first novel. Reader's Guide ava...

  • Getting Out

    Gwendolen Gross

    A young woman resisting the demands of her dependent family seeks escape in an increasingly dangerous outdoor adventure.When Hannah Blue joins the Adventurer's Club, she pictures campfires and star-filled nights. And she imagines a temporary respite ...

  • Ghosts

    Rhiannon Lassiter

    The exhilarating final blast of the Hex trilogy, the laser-powered sci-fi thriller, by a talented young writer.The city is a dangerous place for Hexes. The security forces are on the alert for any sign of Hex activity-any sign of a mutant presence. T...

  • Ghosts I Have Been and The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp

    Richard Peck

  • Giddy-Up! Let's Ride!

    Flora McDonnell

    Flora McDonnell’s joyful new rendition of an old rhyming game will inspire many a rousing ride on a bouncing knee.

    Trrrit-trrrot! Rumpetta-trump! Bang! Bang! Boom! Boom! Flora McDonnell takes the traditional "This Is the Way the Ladies Ride"...

  • The Glasswrights' Journeyman

    Mindy Klasky

    A KINGDOM IN RUIN No one can be sure how the fire started, but it ravaged the capital city of Morenia, leaving its resources in ruin and its people plagued, In the pursuit of aid and political strength, King Hal must seriously consider marrying th...

  • God Bless America

    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...

  • Going for Infinity

    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...

  • Grasshopper

    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...

  • Grayboy

    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...

  • The Green Man

    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...

  • Hard Eight

    Janet Evanovich

    HARD UP Fugitive apprehension agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn's estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. Finding ...

  • Harlem Redux

    Persia Walker

    Four years after dropping out of Harlem society, David McKay, a handsome young lawyer from a prominent Strivers' Row family, returns home, devastated by the news of his sister Lilian's suicide. What caused his once stable, gentle sister to take her o...

  • A Hasty Wedding

    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 ...

  • The Healer

    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 ...

  • The Heart Doesn't Lie

    Marcella Sanders

    Jay Lee's dream job has finally come true--she's on her way to Africa to do cultural research on African marriages. The pay is excellent, the landscape is breathtaking --and so is her supervisor, Trent Prescott. But when she discovers that he's fro...

  • Heaven Scent

    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...

  • Heirs of Prophecy

    Lisa Smedman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    LARAJIN In a household where everyone has a secret, why should the maid be any different? The unacknowledged daughter of Thamalon Uskevren, Larajin is a half-elf who finds herself embroiled in a bitter war between elves and humans. In an effort to ...

  • Her Marriage Secret

    Darcy Maguire

    Meg has fought hard for her independence, so she's stunned to find herself staring at a gorgeous stranger one day, wondering if there's more to life than a successful career. She's even more surprised to realize she's looking at her own husband! J...

  • Her Partner's Passion

    Carol Wood

    Conflict by day -- passion by night When Dr. Abbie Scott returns home to England from her glamorous career in the United States she discovers a sexy stranger living in her house! And whether she likes it or not, Dr. Caspar Darke -- her new partner! ...

  • High on a Hill

    Dorothy Garlock

    Annabel Lee Donovan may be a bootlegger's daughter, but she is also a lady. The slim, dark-haired young woman desperately wants her father to leave "the business" and settle down in one place. Instead, their latest move, done in the middle of the nig...

  • Himalayan Dhaba

    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....

  • His Convenient Marriage

    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...

  • His Insignificant Other

    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...

  • Home-Grown Husband

    Sharon Swan

    "It's time you took a lover." Take a lover? Seduce her mysterious new neighbor? Tess Cameron laughed aloud at her best friend's suggestion. Then she met Jordan Trask, aforementioned neighbor. Suddenly Tess began to wonder how a homebody, single-mo...

  • The Honeymoon Contract

    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...

  • The Hope Chest

    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 ...

  • Hoppy and Joe

    Betty Paraskevas

    When a little dog named Joe happens upon Hoppy, a one-legged seagull, a special friendship is formed, and when Hoppy explains to Joe that he needs help getting south for the winter, Joe is happy to help him in any way he can. Reprint....

  • Horse Thief

    Robert Newton Peck

    After losing two fingers in his first bull ride, seventeen-year-old Tullis Yoder worries he'll never have a chance to top another bull. Then the rodeo show he works for goes broke, and he learns that its thirteen horses, his only family, will be slau...