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New Books List: 527 titles

  • Four Fur Feet

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • When Grampa Kissed His Elbow

    Cynthia DeFelice

    Grampa introduces Maggie to the magic of the natural world during her visit to the country, during which she witnesses hailstones in the summer, dancing mayflies, and a wren's nest lined with her own hair....

  • The Best Bug to Be

    Dolores Johnson

  • The Golden Deer

    Margaret Hodges

  • Dirty Kurt

    Mary Serfozo

  • Sex, Death and God in Los Angeles

    David Reid

    A patchwork of pop culture--with eleven unusual pieces of reportage, memoir, and fantasy--attempts to capture the elusive spirit of Los Angeles, a city growing "at a rate comparable to supercities of the Third World."...

  • Andrew Wants a Dog

    Steven Kroll

  • A Treasury of Mother Goose

    Elizabeth Falconer

    A collection of thirty-nine Mother Goose nursery rhymes, accompanied by full-color illustrations, three-tiered pop-ups, and busy border designs, features "Jack Sprat," "Three Blind Mice," and many other favorites....

  • Maggie's Whopper

    Sally Hobart Alexander

  • James Bear's Pie

    Jim Latimer

  • A Visit to Amy-Claire

    Jane Mills

  • Great Days of a Country House

    John S. Goodall

  • Little Nina Plays Ball

    Nadja

  • Little Nina and Baby Bear

    Nadja

  • My Grandfather's Hat

    Melanie Scheller

  • Silent Prey

    John Sandford

    Once, Bekker indulged his brilliant obsession with death; now he is in prison. Once, he was hunted by a man who understood the genius of murder; now he wants revenge. . . . Lieutenant Davenport should have killed Bekker when he had the chance. . . ....

  • Knick Knack Paddywack

    Marissa Moss

  • Animal Stew

    Shen Roddie

    Once in the caldron, the animals in Eva the Enormous Giant's stew eat one another, until finally only Bear is left. Too much pepper makes him sneeze, and everyone escapes, leaving Eva with only pepper soup. A lift-the-flap book with large, simple art...

  • Treasure Nap

    Juanita Havill

    Mama tells Alicia a story about Mama and her family when she was a little girl in Mexico. After napping, Alicia awakens to find that the Mexican treasures of that past time are a very special part of her own life....

  • How the Stars Fell into the Sky

    Lisa Desimini

  • I Know a Place

    Karen Ackerman

  • Hickory Dickory Dock

    Carol Jones

  • The Garden in the City

    Gerda Muller

  • The Fantastic Stay-Home-from-School Day

    Nancy Hayashi

    Leona and her best friend and conspirator, Eddie, plan to cut school together with a package of Fig Newtons, but when Eddie's mother finds out, Leona is left on her own to tackle a disastrous day of truancy....

  • Tarzana

    Babette Cole

    Tarzanna meets a boy in the jungle, who invites her to live in his world for a while, but Tarzanna hates it in the concrete jungle and, after freeing the animals in the zoo, persuades the president to send her home on Jungle Airways....

  • The Mouse Bride

    Linda Allen

  • On a Hot Hot Day

    Nicki Weiss

  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    Penny Ives

  • Jenny's Bear

    Michael Ratnett

  • The Mystery of Pony Hollow

    Lynn Hall

    Sarah Elgin doesn't believe in ghosts--until she explores her family's new farm and hears a frantic whinnying from an empty old stone house. Determined to rescue the animal trapped inside, Sarah breaks open the door and is shocked to find a dusty old...

  • Shoot for the Moon

    Norma Howe

  • Moon's Wish

    Anna Grossnickle Hines

  • Poor Monty

    Anne Fine

  • Gertrude, the Bulldog Detective

    Eileen Christelow

  • First Grade King

    Karen Lynn Williams

  • Hurray for the Fourth of July

    Wendy Watson

  • Bea's 4 Bears

    Martha Weston

  • Jim Hedgehog and the Lonesome Tower

    Russell Hoban

  • Long Spikes

    Jim Arnosky

    A persistent mouse accompanied by a purple umbrella embarks on many adventures, from leaving his zero-shaped entrance and climbing two hills to encountering a fish with ten really sharp teeth, in an adorable introduction to counting....

  • The One That Got Away

    Percival Everett

  • Nightingale

    Michael Bedard

    Long, long ago there was an Emperor of China whose palace was quite the most wonderful in all the world. But when visitors came from afar, it wasn''t the palace that impressed them. Instead, they spoke of the song of the nightingale that lived i...

  • Rhinos for Lunch and Elephants for Supper!

    Barbara Spurll

  • Coney Tale

    Paul Ratz de Tagyos

  • Who Is the Boss?

    Josse Goffin

    Two arrogant, pompous men riding in a little striped boat on the calm blue sea are so busy arguing that neither notices the iceberg that threatens them, and it is up to a self-possessed duck to come to the rescue....

  • Starting Over

    Jesse Maguire

  • The Mixquiahuala Letters

    Ana Castillo

    Focusing on the relationship between two fiercely independent women--Teresa, a writer, and Alicia, an artist--this epistolary novel was written as a tribute to Julio Cortázar's Hopscotch and examines Latina forms of love, gender conflict, and fem...

  • Peek-a-Boo Family: My First Photo Album

    Diana Laufer

    A simple, rhyming text and colorful illustrations depict different kinds of animal families--including elephants, monkeys, bears, and monkeys--and provides special openings in which parents can slip photographs of their own children....

  • Jumping Ship and Other Stories

    Kelvin Christopher James

    A collection of stories set in Trinidad introduces readers to a colorful cast of characters, ranging from a pair of hapless tourists at a witchcraft ceremony to a hunch-backed shoemaker feuding with a one-armed butcher....

  • His Master's Voice

    Robert Kotlowitz

    As the war rages in Europe, a disgruntled faction within Sigmud R. Safer's House of Israel congregation threatens to break away from the old timers and start a less stringent congregation of its own. By the author of Somewhere Else. ...

  • The Vanished Child

    Sarah Smith

    "Someone killed Richard. Now Richard wants to know why."New England, 1887. The millionaire William Knight is brutally murdered. His grandson, Richard, the only witness, is shocked into silence, then disappears, presumed kidnapped and killed.Switzerla...

  • A Busy Year

    Leo Lionni

    A charming exploration of the seasons with some of Caldecott-winner Leo Lionni's beloved mice.In January, two mice, Willie and Winnie, make a new friend: a tree. The tree tells them her name is Woody, and the mice promise to visit her all year ro...

  • Krindlekrax Or How Ruskin Splinter Battled a Horrible Monster and Saved His Entire Neighborhood

    Philip Ridley

  • Psyched!

    Dean Hughes

  • The Girl with the Green Ear

    Margaret Mahy

  • Yamato

    Ken Kato

  • Wild, Wild Wolves

    Joyce Milton

    Illus. in full color. A fascinating introduction to the world of wolves, one of nature's most enduring and misunderstood creatures. Wolf-pack behavior, body language, and the meaning of howls are all demystified in this natural history. "Nonfiction a...

  • Rough Tough Rowdy

    William H. Hooks

  • Group Soup

    Barbara Brenner

    The Bank Street College of Education presents a lesson in working together, in which Rhoda Rabbit, who says she is too hungry to help make lunch, learns the hard way that the secret ingredient in Group Soup is sharing....

  • The Animal that Drank Up Sound

    William Stafford

  • What Bunny Loves

    Cyndy Szekeres

  • An Improper Duenna

    Paula Marshall

    THREE GRACES AND THE APPLE OF DISCORD Miss Chloe Transome, the impoverished dependent of her cousin Serena, Lady Marchingham, was forced to take employment in her household. Little did she guess that she, her cousin and her charge, Marianne, would...

  • Borderland

    S.K. Epperson

    Not much had changed in remote Denke, Kansas, since the pioneer days: descendants of the same families still walked the streets; the same customs still held the residents together; the same fears still forced the people to hide their dark secrets fro...

  • Point No-Point

    David Willis McCullough

    Ziza Todd, the feisty reverend and amateur sleuth, returns to the Hudson River Valley to take up her new church assignment in Quarryville, an incestuous town full of quirky characters and deep dark secrets. Soon after her arrival, the town has two mu...

  • The False Mirror

    Alan Dean Foster

    For millennia, the alien union called the Weave had ben at war with evil Amplitur. When its new elite fighting unit appeared, it became frighteningly clear that Amplitur was subjecting humans to vile genetic manipulations. The Weave could reverse the...

  • Split Image

    Michael French

    Newly arrived in Los Angeles to live with his father, a virtual stranger to him, seventeen-year-old Garrett Murchinson is shocked to discover that his photographer father's secret trips to Korea could be endangering the United States. Reprint. VY...

  • Monkey Soup

    Louis Sachar

  • Fish Fry Tonight

    Jackie French Koller

  • Wild Iris Bloom

    Mavis Jukes

    Independent-minded and angry at being left at home while her parents travel on business, twelve-year-old Iris gives her babysitter the slip; but a disturbing incident makes her realize that she does need her family and friends...

  • Good Morning, James

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • What Comes in Spring?

    Barbara Savadge Horton

  • Thomas' Big Book of Words

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Howard Huge Comes to Stay

    Bunny Hoest

  • The Cherry Tree

    Daisaku Ikeda

  • Nightseer

    Laurell K. Hamilton

    SORCERER, HERB-WITCH, PROPHET, ENCHANTER...DEMON-TOUCHED Keleios the Half-Elf was but five years old when she saw her mother murdered by the evil witch Harque. For years she has asked the gods for the strength she'll need to avenge this foul death...

  • The Elf Queen of Shannara

    Terry Brooks

    The End of a Quest "Find the Elves and return them to the world of Men!" the shade of the Druid Allanon had ordered Wren. It was clearly an impossible task. The Elves had been gone from the Westland for more than a hundred years. "There was not...

  • Dreaming In Cuban

    Cristina Garcia

    “Impressive . . . [Cristina García’s] story is about three generations of Cuban women and their separate responses to the revolution. Her special feat is to tell it in a style as warm and gentle as the ‘sustaining aromas of vanilla and almond,...

  • By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

    Elizabeth Smart

    Originally published in 1945, this book of poetic prose encapsulates former journalist Elizabeth Smart’s relationship with poet George Barker. Instantly, upon picking up a book of his poetry while browsing through a London bookshop, Smart fell in l...

  • Other Voices, Other Vistas

    Barbara H. Solomon

    A selection of short stories includes the work of Nadine Gordimer, Bei Dao, Anita Desai, Kobo Abe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Chinua Achebe, Wange Anyi, R. K. Naryan, Yukio Mishima, and fifteen others....

  • The Dragon of an Ordinary Family

    Margaret Mahy

  • The Twins: Two by Two

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Little Dracula at the Seashore

    Martin Waddell

  • Lunch with Aunt Augusta

    Emma Chichester Clark

    Jemima, a ring-tailed lemur, sets off with two siblings to lunch with Aunt Augusta, and despite her father's cautions not to eat too much and sit with tail straight, the vivacious Jemima cannot help getting into trouble....

  • Little Dracula Goes to School

    Martin Waddell

  • Back in the Blue House

    Jeff Giles

  • Christopher and Alexandra

    Maggie Gee

  • Look What I Found!

    Nick Sharratt

  • It Came from Outer Space

    Tony Bradman

  • Pins and Needles

    John Talbot

    Jean Pierre the elephant and his sidekick Bonsoir the mouse try to cope with a very uncomfortable problem--Jean Pierre's trunk has fallen asleep. In a seemingly endless series of visits to a variety of family and friends, the two are offered a succes...

  • The Firebird

    Robert D. San Souci

  • Over the Moon

    Charlotte Voake

  • My Old Teddy

    Dom Mansell

  • Baby Animals: Five Stories of Endangered Species

    Derek Hall

  • The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen: A Traditional Tale

    Anonymous

  • Red Bear

    Bodel Alan Stamaty

  • The View

    Harry Yoaker

    When the man in house Number Six builds an addition to get a better glimpse at the ocean, everyone in the neighborhood follows suit, in a crazed building bonanza that leaves the town with nothing but brick walls to look at....

  • White Rhino

    Bill Dolan

    In the valley, vicious Equinox Women perform deadly mating rituals with captive men. In a cave, an ancient man longs for the return of the mystical White Rhino, and in a prison, a killer who wants Creighton's blood escapes. Before AfriKorps can sprea...

  • Storming Iraq

    Greg Walker

    Bo Thornton must take on another of the dirtiest jobs on earth when he is commissioned to stop the ruthless Iraqi colonel who instigated the invasion of Kuwait and who is now crushing a Kurd rebellion. Original....

  • Darktraders

    Eluki Bes Shahar

    Butterfly St. Cyr, an honest darktrading smuggler, must bring Tiggy, the young hellflower heir to the chief diplomat of the AlMayne mercenaries, back to the Starbringer family's home world fortress. Original....

  • Track Down

    Dan Mason

    Hired to track down a former slave accused of murdering a popular and prominent rancher, Lex Cranshaw finds himself playing bodyguard when an angry mob threatens to murder the suspect in cold blood. Original....

  • Range War

    Will McLennan

  • Mountain Men on the Santa Fe Trail

    Jess McCreede

    BLOOD CANYON With the beaver trade played out up north, weren't much left for trappers like Zack McClendon and his pard Peck Overstreet 'cept trailblazing for greenhorns headed West. Guiding a wagon train of muleskinners and settlers to Santa Fe, ...

  • Blood Bounty

    Jon Sharpe

  • The 600 Mile Stretch

    Jim Miller

    For ex-Texas Rangers Wash and Chance Carston, Charlie Goodnights’ first cattle drive spelled danger and making it through alive turns out to only be half of the fight in this Western novel based on the real Charlie Goodnight and his legendary f...

  • Desert Death

    Jon Sharpe

    HELL BY ANY OTHER NAME Jornada del Muerto meant Journey of the Dead. But Skye Fargo had another name for this New Mexico desert that no one in his right mind tried to cross. That name was Hell, and the Trailsman headed into its searing center to r...

  • Five Against Death

    J.R. Roberts

    The town of Los Alamos is about to be swallowed whole by the notorious bandit El Gigante. Only four dare to fight back -- but they know it will be a losing battle unless Clint Adams agrees to step in. The Gunsmith isn't about to sell his hide for a p...

  • The Whip

    Luke Short

    With a smoking rifle and a stinging lash, it was Gannon's job to cut a path through the outlaw gangs grown thick as a mesquite over the Midland stage route. The final challenge came when a hardcase crew knocked over one of his coaches carrying a heav...

  • World of Silence

    Don Coldsmith

    The only survivor, along with his granddaughter, of an attack by the Forest People, Hunts-Alone and the young girl journey forward toward a new destiny, carrying with them the seeds of their ancient heritage. Original....

  • Lone Star and the Horse Thieves

    Wesley Ellis

    The outlaws have left a cold trail for Jessie and Ki -- but things are starting to heat up in the one hundred and fifteenth Lone Star novel!They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck -- a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice...

  • Longarm in the Sierra Oriental

    Tabor Evans

  • Pyramid of Dreams

    Marilyn Campbell

    FORBIDDEN FRUIT She was a stranger to his futuristic world, an outsider in the rainbow-hued crystal city who must not be allowed to return to her home. Yet though Aster would never be accepted by his people, Romulus found himself irresistibly draw...

  • Love Me 'Til Dawn

    Phoebe Conn

    He was a fugitive masquerading as a lawman. She was an innocent sentenced to die for a crime committed in self-defense. And once destiny brought them together, nothing could tear them apart. Not the shadows of their pasts, not the uncertainty of thei...

  • An Uncommon Intrigue

    Georgina Devon

    A BEWITCHING MISS Of noble birth on her father's side, Miss Mary Elizabeth Sinclair was decidedly startled to have the British Home Office employ her as a spy. While she did not mind rejoining her mother's gypsy family, nor posing as "Ta...

  • The Time of Her Life

    Marjorie Eatock

    Evelyn Cass's old friends whispered about her behind her back; they felt sorry for poor Evelyn -- alone at fifty-five, having to sell her house and go to work! So brave! Funny though, how all of a sudden she was looking ten years younger... -- ...

  • Kansas Kiss

    Christine Dorsey

    DEFIANT PASSION Young Samantha Lowery cautiously examined the handsome Confederate officer she'd wounded. A band of ex-Rebel marauders had sworn to drive her from her land, and she was certain this man was one of them. Although she was mesmeri...

  • Sweet Silver Passion

    Pamela K. Forrest

    HE SAW DISASTER ABOUT TO STRIKE Just looking at the woman called Apache Sam filled Cooper with longing. She was a breathtaking sight with her long silver blonde hair and curves in all the right places. But to hire this woman to guide his wagon train...

  • Deeper Than Roses

    Charlene Cross

    Emerald eyes wide with terror, auburn hair streaming, exquisite Kristiana Harcourt fled into the night. Her noble father lay dead. With his murderer, Edward MacHugh, in hot pursuit, she galloped wildly to freedom only to fall into the arms of a golde...

  • Long Virginia Nights

    Lindsey Hanks

    Ginny was struggling to hold onto her family's tobacco farm, until her next door neighbor called in his deed on the land. Now her long hot days in the sun were over, but her long cool nights began, as she made the social rounds to keep an eye on that...

  • Damsel in Distress

    Shannon Drake

    A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS An enemy of ruthless and powerful noblemen who would usurp the English crown, beautiful headstrong heiress Katherine de Montrain is forced to marry for her own protection-vowing to wed but never to submit to her handsome virile ...

  • Savage Surrender

    Colleen Faulkner

    FEARLESS CAPTIVE Determination and a will to live were all that kept Lady Rachael Moreover from giving up in the first days after her capture by the Iroquois. She'd never surrender to those savages, no matter what they threatened! But the broad shou...

  • Moonlight Rebel

    Marie Ferrarella

    She needed a safe haven Coming to the colonies and living on a Virginia plantation in the midst of a brewing revolution was not the life Krystyna would have chosen. But she had been offered no choice when she fled her native Poland, just ahead of ...

  • Cherished

    Jill Gregory

    A wild land... A rough-riding bounty hunter... A spirited belle turned outlaw... A love that could only come with trust... Riding hell-bent through Colorado, Juliana Montgomery felt only outrage. Events had transformed her from a beautiful St. Lo...

  • Where Eagles Soar

    Peggy Hanchar

    SHE WAS AS PROUD AND FREE AS THE EAGLE SOARING IN THE OPEN SKIES OF THE GREAT FRONTIER. Daughter of an American fur trader and a beautiful Crow Indian woman, Raven was bold and headstrong -- the equal of any warrior brave. She did not share the ...

  • Emerald Enchantment

    Patricia Grasso

    A WOMAN'S PRIDE Vulnerable young widow of a hot-tempered Irish chieftain, Kathryn Devereux sought her children's safety in marriage to her late husband's ambitious nephew, Hugh O'Neill -- who won an earldom with their union. Now Countess Tyrone, Kat...

  • Stowaway for Love

    Glenna Finley

    STORM AT SEA Paige Collins was ready for the exciting unknown as a passenger on a cargo ship across the Atlantic. But she found herself asea in a way she did not expect when she met her lone fellow passenger, John Winthrop. Beautiful Paige wa...

  • The Easter Charade

    Mona Gedney

    A FASHIONABLE HOLIDAY Andrew Norville regarded the high-handed Miss Harrington with astonished outrage. Not only had she convinced her impressionable young cousin to avoid his marriage proposal, she had swept the girl off to revel in the frivolous r...

  • Roses After Rain

    Louann Gaeddert

    SHE' HAD EVERYTHING SHE WANTED...SO WHT WAS SHE SO RESTLESS? Meg -- a rising star at a high-powered New York law firm, she has a terrific career as an attorney, and a gorgeous, successful fiance. What more could she ask for? Rick -- he wants ...

  • Moondancer

    Judith E. French

    WORLDS APART Fleeing a life of dire poverty, lovely, strong-willed Fiona O'Neal comes to America as an indentured servant -- only to be traded to a pair of rough and lustful backwoodsmen. But what the flamed-haired Irish miss fears most of all is th...

  • Lady Arden's Redemption

    Marjorie Farrell

    The Unbending Beauty Lady Arden Huntly was beautiful, highborn, and wealthy. Her entry into the marriage mart should have been a stunning success. Instead it was a disaster. For Arden was as arrogant as she was exquisite. No lord was good enough f...

  • Caroline and the Raider

    Linda Lael Miller

    Holding her lovely head high, Wyoming schoolmistress Caroline Chalmers did what no lady should: she marched right into the local saloon to sec the dashing and reckless Guthrie Hayes. Worse still, she went to ask him for help. She needed the former Co...

  • House of Four Seasons

    Abigail McDaniels

    Subject of myth and legend, the wisteria-shrouded mansion stood derelict, crumbling into the Louisiana bayou until architect Lauren Hamilton rescued it from the encroaching swamps. She swore the Padgett House would open a new chapter in her unhappy l...

  • A Maddening Minx

    Mary Kingsley

    A WOMAN OF MISCHIEF Finding herself quite literally in Philip Thornton's arms after a curricle accident, Sarah was more than a little intrigued by her rescuer, especially by his mysterious eyepatch. Fortunately her injuries were minor, and her...

  • Secrets

    Katharine Marlowe

    Struggling to recover from the trauma of her husband's death, Emma Bellamy was shaken anew when her friends and family began receiving vicious letters signed by her--letters that she swore she hadn't written--letters that revealed horrible truths abo...

  • To Love Again

    Marian Oaks

    Empty Nest...Empty Heart... That seemed to be Libby's agenda for the rest of her life. She filled her days with work, kept her house sparkling and her garden blooming, and learned to do alone all the things she and Jim had done together. Yet at n...

  • Promise Me Forever

    Cara Miles

    A ROGUE'S ARMS Lily Montague had no plans to wed any of the suitors gathered at her coming-out ball -- especially not Captain Matthew Hawke. With the merest glance from his smoldering eyes, the audacious American privateer dared her to resist his br...

  • Lady Sarah's Charade

    Nancy Richards-Akers

    A CONTRIVED COURTSHIP Lovely Sarah Clement-Brooke wants no part of romance. She prefers, instead, to pursue the ghosts that reputedly haunt her "grace and favour" apartment at Hampton Court--a predilection that makes for diverting evenings, but do...

  • The Falcon and the Swan

    Diane Gates Robinson

    YANKEE'S BOLD KISS High-spirited Ariane Valcour's mettle was tested when she brought her wounded father back from the Shiloh Battlefield, but that was only the first of the Confederate belle's daring escapades. When Memphis fell to the Union Army A...

  • Sweeter Than Sin

    Sara Orwig

    DADDY'S GIRL: Dazzlingly beautiful, Cheramie was the daughter of San Francisco's richest business tycoon, the wife of a charismatic senator -- and a woman with a secret lover she would do anything to keep. -- SUPERSTAR: A retired baseball great, Je...

  • Touched by Magic

    Patricia Rice

    Nothing could break passion's spell SEDUCED AND CONQUERED Lady Cassandra Howard was nearly ruined. He rakehell brother forced her to frequent the London demimonde, then tried to sell her into a marriage with a dissolute lord. Though the world belie...

  • The Barefoot Baroness

    Joan Smith

    AFTER ONE DISASTROUS SEASON, LAURA HARWOOD HAD NO DESIGNS FOR SNAGGING A HUSBAND... She hardly felt qualified to accompany her cousin Olivia, Baroness Pilmore, to London for her debut. However, Olivia's fears of social failure proved unfounded...

  • Louisiana Heat

    Jennifer Stevens

    A spectacular novel of a grand plantation in the days before the Civil War! MAGNOLIA ROAD There was perhaps no place in history more filled with romance and beauty than the old South in the days before the Civil War. Now, journey down Magnolia R...

  • Madam Mystery

    Rebecca Ward

    HOW LONG COULD SHE KEEP HER IDENTITY -- AND HER FEELINGS -- IN DISGUISE? With an eccentric family to support, Damaris Cardell -- alias Desmond Winter -- was a mystery writer of great popularity. Of course no one realized that "he" was ...

  • Till the End of Time

    June Flaum Singer

    Today, her name is Andrianna DeArte. Gorgeous and seductive, she runs only with the ultrarich, is seen only at the pleasure capitals of the world. They would all be shocked to learn that there is no Andrianna DeArte... only a woman haunted by a deadl...

  • Noble Deception

    Eileen Winwood

    A brief encounter...and a lasting love Lady Juliana Westlake lived a staid and secluded life...or so it seemed. For the green-eyed beauty had a secret life as a spy - and it was while she was disguised as a French barmaid that she carried out the ...

  • Viking Passion

    Flora Speer

    VIKING CAPTIVE Her spirit unbroken despite the terrifying raid that destroyed her home, Lenora vowed she would hate all Norsemen. But her vow proved difficult to fulfill when she was given to Erik the Far-Traveler. Unlike his brother, who had captur...

  • Fire on the Wind

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    The flames of revolution sweep relentlessly through India, threatening the life of free-thinking Sarah Faulkner. Fleeing the impending holocaust, the sheltered Victorian beauty is irresistibly drawn to Damien Coleridge, the renegade son of an English...

  • Beauty

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Drawing on the wellspring of much-loved, well remembered fairy tales, Tepper delivers a thought provoking and finely crafted novel that thoroughly involves the reader in the life of one of the most captivating heroines in modem fantasy -- Beauty. On ...

  • Fortune's Mistress

    Michele Stegman

    Raven Winthrop had thought her troubles were over when a swashbuckling seaman rescues her from a band of vicious pirates, but her hero is really a Winthrop family nemesis whose revenge is sweet indeed. When swashbuckling Jeffrey Fortune rescued he...

  • Blazing Texas Nights

    Victoria Thompson

    A FIERY HEIRESS Strong-willed Leah Harding had her hands full protecting her family's vast ranch from scheming landgrabbers. So when ruggedly handsome gunslinger Calhoun Stevens suddenly showed up with an unproven claim on her family, she swore to t...

  • White Roses of Brambledene

    Joyce C. Ware

    "DRAW THE CURTAINS, MISS GRAYSON. SHE'S STILL HERE, YOU KNOW." Yearning for a few days' respite from her work as assistant to an austere New York physician, delicate Violet Grayson accepted the invitation to a weekend houseparty at Brambledene. ...

  • Midnight Lovestorm

    Linda Windsor

    He haunted her dreams. Then awakened her desires. She dreamed his caress: Dr. Catalina McCulloch was proud of her newly-earned medical degree and eager to begin her new job in Los Reyes, California. On her trip from East Texas, a masked bandit robbed...

  • Storm Warning

    Don Pendleton

    DESERT RUMBLES America has destroyed the Iraqi war machine in the Mideast. Now It's payback time: Terrorist atrocities against the US. have citizens paralyzed with fear. Mack Bolan and Phoenix Force are dispatched to the Persian Gulf, while Able T...

  • Call to Battle

    Jerry Ahern

    IF CIVILIZATION WERE DESTROYED TODAY -- WOULD JOHN ROURKE BE ABLE TO SURVIVE... ? Once vital and proud, America has been reduced to a toxic wasteland in the aftermath of World War III. Buried in the poison ruins of nuclear attack, its spirit all b...

  • Bad Brains

    Kathe Koja

    Still reeling from his divorce, would-be painter Austen takes a fall in a 7-Eleven parking lot that leaves him with brain damage and strange visions, a madness that sends him on a cross-country odyssey of debauchery and pain. Original....

  • Night Sounds

    Warner Lee

    “CHOOSE,” THE VOICES SAID. “CHOOSE NOW.” AND DAVE GUTHRIE CHOSE.” From the flaming wreckage of the jetliner that crashed over one hundred souls, only Dave Guthrie was alive. Everybody hailed Dave’s miraculous good luck. It was more ...

  • Hunting the Ghost Dancer

    A.A. Attanasio

    In order to be accepted into a new tribe, Timov and Hamr, two survivors of a doomed people, must hunt the savage ghost dancer, a vicious Neanderthal that has been terrorizing the tribe. By the author of Radix and Wyvern. Reprint....

  • Cybernetic Jungle

    S.N. Lewitt

    His family destroyed and his dreams crushed by the corporation that controls his Brazilian home through technology and drugs, Paulo seeks revenge, aided by Zaide, a woman with a computer implant in her brain that provides access to government data. O...

  • The Hunter Victorious

    Rose Estes

    HUNTER AT BAY Once he was chieftain of a stone age land ... then a captive battling monsters on planet Arena. Now Braldt the Hunter, his woman Keri, and his kinsman from Earth are trapped on Valhalla, a doomed world of shapeshifters and science...

  • The Stone of Time

    Rose Estes

    Swordsman Caltus Talienson, sorceress Bith, Hathor the troll, and the elf Endril band together to battle the forces of the Dark Lord of Mistwall, an evil force that has so far decimated the defenders of the Westwoods. Original....

  • Spell of Fate

    Mayer Alan Brenner

    The author of Spell of Catastrophe and Spell of Intrigue delivers “a winner . . . An off-the-wall kind of fantasy” in the third Dance of Gods adventure (Interzone).   Trouble is converging on the imperial city of Peridol, and ...

  • The Master of White Storm

    Janny Wurts

    GALLEY SLAVE, MERCENARY, MASTER OF WHITE STORM -- His past a mystery even to Haldeth, fellow galley slave and the one man he'd allow to name him friend. Korendir had sworn that the future would give him the wealth to build an unbreachable citade...

  • The Bones of Haven

    Simon R. Green

    Haven is an old city, but still growing, with new houses built on the bones of the old. Down below the surface, the remains of older structures stir in their sleep--and dream dark thoughts of the way things used to be. These are the graves of the dea...

  • Born to Run

    Mercedes Lackey; Larry Dixon

    There are elves out there. And more are coming. But even elves need money to survive in the "real" world. The good elves, intrigued by the thrills of stock car racing, are manufacturing new, light-weight engines (with, incidentally, very little "c...

  • The Jewel of Fire

    Diana L. Paxson

    With all but one of the four jewels of the Power recovered, Prince Julian, claimant and true heir to the throne of Westria, must summon his strength to retrieve the final jewel and save the kingdom. Original....

  • Rehearsal for a Renaissance

    Douglas W. Clark

    Traveling to Venice with the hopes of bringing some of the Englightenment back to his backward town of Pomme de Terre, Corwyn stumbles upon a terrible plot to sink the city of Venice into the sea. Original....

  • The Meri

    Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff

    Witness to her parent's murder, Meredydd-a-Lagan is taken in by a teacher of the Divine Art and eventually apprenticed to the Meri--a bridge to the Spirit of the Universe--but she never forgets her vow of vengeance. Original....

  • Free Radicals

    Jack McKinney

  • The Glory That Was

    L. Sprague de Camp

    When the World Emperor of the 27th century seals off Greece behind a force wall and Wiyem Flin''s wife soon disappears, Knut Bulnes agrees to help look behind the wall for the woman. The two soon find themselves in Classical Greece.

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  • Prophet of Moonshae

    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Ffolk have forsaken their goddess, the Earthmother, and have turned to the new gods to protect them. Now, capricious and malevolent, one of the new lords has turned the worship of the Ffolk against them. It falls to the royal daughters of High Ki...

  • Partnership

    Anne McCaffrey; Margaret Ball

    Victim of a catastrophic prenatal accident that left her nothing but her brain functioning, Helva thought her life would amount to nothing. But Helva wanted to be more than a body in a box, drifting through life like a ghost in a machine. if she coul...

  • Trust Me

    Judith Arnold

    PROCEED WITH CAUTION Will Turner was reputed to be man at his finest. But Chloe Verona's experience with blind dates was bad luck at its worst. Would tonight be any different? It was -- when calamity capped the evening. Will eagerly offered...

  • Keep My Heart Forever

    Katherine Arthur

    From their first encounter Gale launched an offensive Maggie and Galen had been childhood friends. But when Maggie returned home to West Virginia, Galen treated her as his sworn enemy. Was it her success as a model, or her relationship with mi...

  • Knight and Day

    Carole Buck

    NO LAUGHING MATTER As a counselor at a center for abused children, Donna Day knew what secrets could do to a person -- and comedian Martin Knight was chock-full of secrets. Strong, sexy and blessed with a sense of humor that could make the saddest...

  • Fair Winds

    Helen Carras

    SUMMER ENCHANTMENT Eve Marsdon's friends thought she'd gone crazy. First they couldn't believe a schoolteacher from suburban Maryland had the grit to spend a summer in New York City studying sculpture. Then Eve announced that she'd been unable to ...

  • Dark & Dangerous

    Marsha Canham

    Torn between desire and duty Assistant DA Megan Worth knew her Justice Department-paid vacation had too many strings attached -- specifically identifying Michael Vallaincourt, casino manager. She recognized him immediately. Michael had been her firs...

  • Navajo Wedding

    Suzanne Carey

    A BRIDAL PRICE Lara Stone's stepfather was in trouble, and the only person who could possibly help was his illegitimate son, Zack Silverheels. Lara knew Jack had never overcome the pain of being scorned by the man who refused to acknowledge him as...

  • Cast Adrift

    Donna Carlisle

    SWEPT AWAY... Tall, lean, overbearing Jess Seward wasn't exactly scientist Kelsey Morgan's fantasy in the flesh. But Kelsey had sacrificed a lot for two weeks at sea to complete her dolphin research. And she wasn't about to let any las...

  • Love and a Blue-Eyed Cowboy

    Sandra Chastain

    HUNTER -- He Was Dangerously Sexy, His Eyes Full of Sinful Promises... He was bruised, broke, and brash enough to think he could win the top prize in the motorcycle scavenger hunt, but Hunter Kincaid hadn't counted on a smart-mouthed half-pint...

  • House Guest

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Dangerous relations . . . Abducted, accosted and then accused of murder--what a welcome for Londoner Anne Clarence on her first trip to the United States. In Denver to meet her grandfather for the first time, Anne discovered that the wealthy patri...

  • Loving Arms of the Law

    Mary Curtis

    From the moment he set eyes on Carol Jeffries, lawyer Steven Arnold was knocked off his feet -- literally. She was a regular Calamity Jane, and all her escapades somehow directly involved him. They were complete opposites, but he was drawn to the bea...

  • Suspicion's Gate

    Justine Davis

    BADDER THAN BEFORE Years ago, teenage Nikki Lockwood had been the only one in town to see past Travis Halloran's bad-boy leather jacket and tough talk -- until she'd seen just HOW bad he was. He'd carelessly caused her father's death, then lied a...

  • Dance of Deception

    Suzannah Davis

    Amid the unrest of the Napoleonic wars, Genevieve Maples struggles to keep her grandfather's theatrical troupe afloat, unaware that Bryce Darcy Cormick, an actor in the troupe, is actually a spy. During an uneasy pause in the Napoleonic wars, lov...

  • The Outsider

    Barbara Delinsky

    Cameron Divine -- The roguish research scientist came from light-years away on a mission. A flesh-and-blood woman changed everything. Summer VanVorn -- A simple folk healer. Sexy, vulnerable, she'd been waiting all her life the right man to co...

  • The Suitable Suitor

    Alicia Farraday

    She was like a breath of fresh air Only just turned eighteen, Melody Maitland had had little choice but to become a runaway in order to avoid a loveless marriage. When discovered by Lord Dake, who in no uncertain terms advised her he meant to ...

  • Better Than Before

    Judith Duncan

    FAMILY SECRETS... Years ago, an adolescent crush and an unplanned pregnancy sent Carlie straight into the arms of Derek Pearson, the steady schoolmate who'd always loved her. Forgiving, dependable, it was Derek who picked up the pieces of her ...

  • Never Say Die

    Tess Gerritsen

    Friend...or foe? Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of Southeast Asia, Willy Jane Maitland was taking a trip through hell. Saigon was teeming, hot and dangerous. But her search for the truth about that fateful flig...

  • Arabesque

    Kit Gardner

    A Match Made In . . . If she agreed to suffer one insipid season in radon society, Trista Fitzgerald would be free to urn to her beloved countryside--that was the deal e had made with her father. Then the infamous "Boudoir Murderer" frightened her...

  • Heaven in a Wildflower // Forbidden to Love

    Patricia Hagan

    It was in the sultry heat of a Louisiana summer that they came together for the first time -- the plantation owner's headstrong daughter, Anjele Sinclair, and the bronze-skinned, muscular Cajun worker known only as Gator. In the secret darkness o...

  • Call Back Our Yesterdays

    Phyllis Houseman

    LAURA'S WORLD As a boy, Miguel O'Brian had tried to fit in with the Pueblo people on the New Mexico reservation. The jet black hair and coppery skin he'd inherited from his mother marked him as one of their own, but the green eyes and the tall fra...

  • Gabriella

    Brenda Hiatt

    She turned his consequence into his conscience Gabriella Gordon knew that she would have to agree to a London Season sooner or later or her Society sister would plague her to death. After only a few days in Town, the celebrated Duke of Ravenham...

  • Taken By Storm

    Tami Hoag

    STORM -- He Was All Muscle, All Heart -- and All Hers His smoky drawl made her think of rumpled sheets and long, deep kisses that lasted half the night, but Julia McCarver was furious when Storm Dalton threw her over his shoulder and vowed he ...

  • Call Me Sin

    Jan Hudson

    ROSS--He Was Rough, Rugged, and Rowdy Enough to Drive a Woman Wild .... He was drop-dead handsome, a desperado whose gaze made her dream of steamy nights, but Susan Sinclair never expected a real-life hunk to move in next door! Texas Ranger Ross ...

  • Ariana's Magic

    Judy Kaye

    "LEAH LOVE MARC" Ariana Adams was leaving love notes all over the house. She wanted Marc, her "handsome stuffed shirt" of an older brother, and Leah Brock, her spirited irrepressible nanny, to fall in love. Which wasn't difficu...

  • Vagabond Hearts

    Bobby Hutchinson

    Paradise ... Billy Reece and her mother-in-law were delighted to win a trip to Hawaii. After their husbands were killed in an accident, neither woman had ever expected to see much sunshine again. And they certainly never thought that a mix-up in the...

  • In the Market

    Day Leclaire

    There's only one thing a Thorsen does better than fighting ... "And that's winning!" Or so Rainer Thorsen claimed, flashing his ruthless I-always-get-what-I- want smile. And what Rainer wanted this time was her Uncle Cletus's p...

  • Flannery's Rainbow

    Julie Kistler

    WHO WAS SLEEPING IN HER BED? Nothing could shock Flannery O'Shea--or so she thought. So when she returned home from a trip and found a naked, gorgeous, sexy man sleeping in her bed--she could only stare, openmouthed. Was the luck of the Irish fina...

  • Steal the Stars

    Miranda Jarrett

    On the eve of revolution. WHAT PRICE LOVE? Blessed with the devil's own luck, Captain Gardner Griffin had outrun King George's fastest schooners as he smuggled guns to the American colonists preparing for revolt. Yet with a disreputable past an...

  • Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career

    Carla Kelly

    School For Scandal Beautiful and brilliant Miss Ellen Grimsley considered it a scandal and a shame that she as a female could not attend Oxford, while a dashing dunderhead like her older brother Gordon could. On the other hand, society would reel ...

  • Summer's Knight

    Virginia Lynn

    An innocent heiress, a notorious rake...and a passion that demanded total surrender ONE RESTLESS HEART A New Orleans heiress, Summer St. Clair never dreamed that fleeing from an arranged marriage would leave her stranded, penniless and alone, in ...

  • Marriage of Inconvenience

    Debbie Macomber

    Rich Manning had known Jamie Warren forever. And he loved her--strictly as a friend. But all that changed the day Jamie asked him to be the father of her as-yet-unconceived child! Rich agreed on one condition: they marry. Suddenly, Rich was discov...

  • Old School Ties

    Leigh Michaels

    However the cookie crumbles... The closing of the school in Archer's Junction had been a blow to the fiercely proud neighborhood. Now the abandoned building was a disgrace and cookie-store proprietor Heather DeMarco was determined to do someth...