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  • Judith Caseley

    "My grandpa is my pen pal." Annie tells her class at show-and-tell one day. It's true. Annie and Grandpa have written each other letters since the day Annie was born. When Annie was a baby, her mother answered Grandpa's letters. When she got a lit...



  • Graeme Base

    Lewis Carroll's classic and inventive verse comes to life in a series of ingenious dioramas, colorful three-dimensional renderings of the rhyme by the best-selling author-illustrator of Animalia and The Eleventh Hour. ...



  • Margaret Early

    Meticulously detailed paintings and beautiful, colorful borders bring to life the life and legend of the great English folkhero Robin Hood, Maid Marian, the evil Sheriff of Nottingham, and Robin's fellow outlaws, Little John, Friar Tuck, and Alan a'D...



  • Laurie Maerov

    A female cop is trying to track down a vicious serial killer, and the only person who can help her is an ex-detective, confined to her home by agoraphobia. The two women have to reluctantly work together to find the killer before he strikes again....





  • Jean Ferris

    When sixteen-year-old Brian arrives for yet another awkward summer vacation with his divorced and seemingly indifferent dad, Leo, in the Florida Keys, he discovers that they've been invited to join a scuba-diving expedition to help an eccentric under...



  • Robert Lopshire

    Illustrated in full color. Thirty-seven years after creating the breakthrough reader Put Me in the Zoo,  Robert Lopshire has brought Spot back. This time, Spot must perform new and exciting tricks in order to convince the circus folks to keep him o...




  • Erica Farber; J.R. Sansevere

    There's no April freshness at the Pinch family's house.  Their new cleaning lady smells disgusting.  But that's pretty normal...for a zombie!  And she's turning everyone else in Critter Falls into zombies, too.  It's up to the Howls to stop h...




  • J.B. Priestley

    When William Dursley finds his long-lost and ailing Uncle Baldwin on his doorstep one wintry night, his life is changed for ever. His uncle relates a story of an island in the South Pacific, filled with a precious uranium ore worth millions of pounds...




  • Craig Kee Strete

    Little chameleon sits on a brown branch, in the green leaves, in the tan sand, and on a golden rock. A snake, an owl, a fox and a boy all think they've seen him, but the chameleon never seems to be where they think he is. Craig Kee Strete and the pop...




  • Suzanne Freeman

    Mia Veery wants her family to behave like the families she reads about. They would never include a mother who flies airplanes and trades one husband for another. Or older sisters who dress all in black and read French novels. Or a father who moves...



  • Walter Wangerin Jr.

    Experience the Bible as a singular, powerful story and prepare to be swept away by Scripture as never before! Wangerin's "Bible storybook for adults" features brilliant settings, dramatized scenes, and added dialogue -- all gleaned from extensive res...




  • Debbie Notkin

    In the alternate Victorian world of New Europa, educated dragons, dwarf engineers, and evil steam lords scheme to enslave humanity. Tom Olam, ex-game designer turned ace secret agent after being spellnapped to this steampunk reality, finds his skills...



  • Nevada Barr

    An insatiable, unstoppable beast, the wildfire called Jackknife has already devoured 17,000 acres of California's Lassen Volcanic National Park. A devastating force of nature, it has brought out the very best--and worst--in those sworn to defeat it. ...



  • Terry Brooks

    The incomparable Terry Brooks takes us back to the beginning, in this spectacular prelude to the world's most beloved fantasy novels... THE SECOND WAR OF THE RACES Horrified by the misuse of Magic they had witnessed during the First War of the ...



  • Anne Perry

    The ritual murder of a prostitute named Ada McKinley in a bedroom on decrepit Pentecost Alley would ordinarily occasion no stir in Victoria's great metropolis. But, under the victim's body, the police find a Hellfire Club badge inscribed with the nam...



  • Martin Amis

    Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal -- they're all here in The Information, as one of the most gifted and innovative novelists of our time explores the question, How does one writer hurt another writer?"Satirical and tend...



  • Lisa Rojany

    Entertaining pop-up artwork, pull-tabs, a wheel with see-through windows, and more bring to life the developmental milestones in a small child's life, in an interactive picture book that contains space to record a youngster's "firsts."...




  • Joan Sweeney

    Illustrated in full color. In this playful introduction to maps and geography, step by simple step, a young girl shows readers herself on a map of her room, her room on the map of her house, her house on the map of her street--all the way to her coun...



  • Barbara Cohen

    Feeling outcast in a world of chocolate bunnies and ducks, a chocolate wolf realizes that his dream of being bought is more dangerous than he knew and runs away into the streets, where he must hide from unfavorable weather and other predators....



  • Robert J. Blake

    Hating his new home on Martha's Vineyard, Justin believes that his only friends are the wind and the sea and dreams of sailing away forever in his little dinghy, until a storm brings him face-to-face with his hero, Captain Slocum....



  • Ann Keay Beneduce

    A lavish young reader's edition of the classic Shakespearean tale follows the adventures of cast-out duke Prospero, who lives on an enchanted island with his daughter, Miranda, and the magical spirits helpful Ariel and evil Caliban....




  • Lynn Cullen

    Between his summer baby-sitting job, his anxieties about talking to girls, and his increasing sense that his family is, well, embarrassing, twelve-year-old Harris is having a stressful summer....



  • Julie Sykes


    Cat's making the rounds of the farm, borrowing "this and that" from each of her barnyard friends. The animals are curious, so they follow her to the stable, where they discover Cat's secret-newborn twin kittens named This and That!

    ...



  • Robert Crais

    L.A. private eye Elvis Cole is hired by popular television star Jodie Taylor to delve into her past and identify the biological parents who gave her up for adoption thirty-six years before. Cole's assignment is to find out their biological history an...



  • Larry Bond

    What it a foreign nation launched a war against the United States within its own borders? America's largest cities are in flames. Its majestic landmarks are in ruins. Electronic sabotage cripples its communications systems. Race battles against r...



  • Thane Rosenbaum

    With the publication of Elijah Visible, Thane Rosenbaum emerged as a fresh and important new voice on the American literary scene, a young writer in the great Jewish storytelling tradition of Isaac Bashevis Singer and Isaac Babel. In this haunting de...



  • Joan W. Blos

    In 1889, daredevil reporter Nellie Bly announced her intention to circle the world in seventy-two days. Nobody thought a woman could do such a thing, but, accompanied by a monkey named McGinty she acquired in Singapore, she did just that. "Beautifull...



  • Kathi Appelt

    As a mighty storm cascades down the mountains like a thundering herd, one fearless mustang gives chase. "Appelt's vivid yet lyrical prose meshes nicely with Sayles' dreamy pastel paintings. The comparisons between wild horses and a brewing thundersto...




  • Nancy Lee Charlton

    Derek likes chasing the cat and gnawing on slippers. He likes burying his brother’s toys and shaking himself dry after his bath. Derek wants to be a dog forever. But when school starts, Derek discovers that little boy activities can be fun, too. ...



  • Polly Powell

    Ever since dinner, all Patsy Apple can think about is that last piece of Super Yellow Cake with Fudge Frosting. So she sneaks out of bed for the long trek to the kitchen--and encounters a dark house full of scary creatures! Eye-catching illustrations...





  • Eth Clifford

    The youngest of five siblings, Sherm is tired of always being picked on and bossed around. With Mother away for two weeks, things get worse than ever. But enough is enough, and Sherm finally makes a declaration of independence that the whole family t...



  • J. Patrick Lewis

    Illustrated in full color. From poet extraordinaire J. Patrick Lewis, here is a splendiferous treat for kids who love riddles and rhymes--and who doesn't?  Each colorful page contains a riddle that is also a poem.  And every riddle-icious poem de...



  • Jonathan London

    Illustrated in full color. Forced from her home by bulldozers, baby Jackrabbit can't keep up with her family and finds herself frightened and alone. It's not long, however, before some humans discover her, and they're quick to do what they can to tak...



  • Angelo DeCesare

    Illustrated in full color. Anthony always does everything he's supposed to, from eating his spinach to wearing his raincoat--even when it's not raining! Then one day, Anthony cracks from the strain and, with one hiccup, becomes a horrible monster who...




  • John D. MacDonald

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, Dress Her in Indigo is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer even s...



  • John D. MacDonald

    McGee was too busy with his beloved houseboat, The Busted Flush, to pay attention to the little old man with his missing postage stamps. Except that they weren't ordinary stamps. No indeed. They were rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars' wor...



  • John D. MacDonald

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Turquoise Lament is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Funny thing about favors. Sometimes they come back to haunt you. And Travis ...



  • Elizabeth Duke

    Sandra knew about the tragedy that had claimed the lives of those dearest to Trent Corbin. But although her compassionate heart ached for him, she could never forget that he was her father's enemy... Yet, as an unexpected guest in his home, Sandr...



  • Alison Kelly

    Give a girl a bad name! Know as the Risque cosmetics girl, Jacqui Raynor is now finding offers of modeling work hard to come by. So when Patric Flanagan offers her a lucrative contract, she's forced to accept... Suddenly she's on a dangerous ...



  • Sharon Kendrick

    He'd returned to claim his wife! As young and reckless teenagers they had married in haste and separated just as quickly. Scarlett had put Liam Rouse behind her and moved on. Liam, too, had acquired a new sophistication, but underneath still b...



  • Anne Mather

    Whose baby? Sara Reed has a secret. Returning to her husband's family home after his death isn't easy for Sara. Her mother-in-law clearly despises her, but the person she most dreads seeing again is Alex. Her husband's brother, h...



  • Sam McBratney

    Three young mice, determined to find out if there truly is a monster living at the top of the cellar stairs, recruit one of their elders for guidance and go on an adventure to discover who, or what, really lives up there....



  • David Martin

    Mocked and called Silly Chicken Chicken by her flock for being different, Little Chicken Chicken proves them wrong when she is able to stand in the face of fear during a thunderstorm that has sent everyone else scurrying around in a panic....






  • Marcia Williams

    The tales of Camelot, including those of King Arthur, Merlin the Magician, Excalibur, Lady Guinevere, and more, are retold in a clear, concise, and exciting style with the addition of full-color, comic-strip-style art to enhance the legendary adventu...



  • Derek Cooper

    This is an account of Derek Cooper's journey across the Hebridean archipelago on his way to Mingulay, where his grandmother was born. Whilst travelling, he met all kinds of people and received every kind of opinion on the joys and trials of island li...



  • Lucy Ferriss

    Longing to escape her dreary Hudson River home, Gwyn Stickley finds the fabric of her life changing when her best friend becomes pregnant and a local storekeeper is accused of child molestation. 15,000 first printing....



  • Bill Shoemaker

    World-famous jockey-turned-mystery-writer Bill Shoemaker is back in the winner's circle with his newest racing mystery that begins and ends with the Triple Crown, the most famous and lucrative trio of races in the Thoroughbred business... . At the...



  • Lily Tuck

    The Woman Who Walked on Water is a beautifully crafted, dark fable, the story of a woman's search for meaning, from the author of The Double Life of Liliane.

    Adele leaves her comfortable life in Connecticut for India, to follow a guru she has...



  • Deepak Chopra

    The author of the million-copy best-seller Ageless Body, Timeless Mind emerges as a powerful new force in fiction with a luminously written novel about the final act of the Arthurian legend playing out in modern England. The Return of Merlin is a bri...



  • Alison Lester

    Here is a cheerful scrapbook of the small hurdles and accomplishments of childhood, featuring the familiar cast of characters from Clive Eats Alligators. The seven children are followed as they grow from age one to seven, each in their own special wa...



  • Sandol Stoddard Warburg

    Provocative poetry and pictures inspire the reader to ponder new levels of relationships and meaning in this lyrical exploration of things -- from a simple seed in a flowerbed to the whole expansive universe....




  • Lisa Mertins

    Ginkgo is in love with Moon, but Moon is too busy chasing dazzling Sun to notice quiet Ginkgo. Despite powerful Sun's attempts to overshadow the beauty of the little tree, Ginkgo finally captures Moon's attention....



  • Pamela J. Farris

    Young Mouse sets out to prove that he is the strongest animal around, not Elephant, as his grandfather suggests. Young listeners will eagerly join boastful Young Mouse's hunt for Elephant and cheer him on in his quest....



  • Tad Hardy

    When a cat owner loses his beloved pet, he puts signs up all over town, describing his wonderful cat. The person who finds the cat sees it quite differently, and can't wait to be rid of the wretched creature....



  • Colin Dexter

    It was only the second time Inspector Morse had ever taken over a murder enquiry after the preliminary--invariably dramatic--discovery and sweep of the crime scene. Secretly pleased to have missed the blood and gore, Morse and the faithful Lewis go a...



  • Lee Harris

    FINAL QUESTIONS Until someone killed her, the only mystery about adorable Iris Grodnik was why she had never married. But for sixteen years, her strange disappearance and murder during a Passover seder have remained a troubling piece of family his...



  • P.K. McAllister

    Preparing to launch his cloudship on its maiden voyage to the Orion Nebula, Pov Janusz uneasily witnesses the effects of the consortium alliance on his crew, which has been divided by former allegiances. Original....



  • Connie Willis

    Sandra Foster studies fads--from Barbie dolls to the grunge look--how they start and what they mean. Bennett O'Reilly is a chaos theorist studying monkey group behavior. They both work for the HiTek corporation, strangers until a misdelivered package...



  • Anne Perry

    Someone in the Colonial Office is passing secrets to Germany about England's African strategy. While Police Superintendent Thomas Pitt investigates this matter of treason, he is quietly looking into the tragic "accidental" death of his childhood ment...



  • Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new...



  • Barbara Walton

    WILL A LEAPER LEARN HIS LESSONS BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE? In 1983, in a small town in upstate New York, Sam Beckett has a problem. He's Leaped into a brilliant but troubled boy named Sean O'Connor who's part of a gifted students program called Olympic...



  • Lee Morgan

    Hired by the Cattleman's Protective Association, McMasters takes on a ruthless, deadly gang called the Hell Killers, outlaws who have been terrorizing and slaughtering the inhabitants of Montana's Blue Pine Hills...



  • Todhunter Ballard

    Sent to Nevada to investigate reports of Rebel activity around the Comstock Lode, Ken Kenglish finds himself in a region filled with miners, gamblers, heroes, killers, Union supporters, and Southern sympathizers. Original....



  • Norman Zollinger

    Driven by rage and pride, Sheriff Corey Lane goes to face an Apache war chief, while tenderfoot reporter Jim McPherson tags along, wondering if he is following the sheriff to glory or to self-destruction...



  • David Thompson

    Accepting a job to guide a rich Easterner across the untamed Rockies, master trapper Nathaniel King is directed to safeguard his charge from hostile Native Americans, renegade settlers, and greedy robbers at the cost of his own life. Original....



  • Jon Sharpe

    Torn in opposing directions when two beautiful women, who hate each other, seek his help at the same time, Skye Fargo is caught up in a struggle that quickly turns bloody and must discover which lady is telling him the truth. Original....



  • Tabor Evans

    After rescuing a local beauty from a barroom brawl, Longarm finds himself railroaded into jail and sentenced to hard labor in Mexico, until the fetching young lady whom he rescued sets out to break him out of the jail. Original....



  • Max Brand

    Finding himself on the wrong side of the law when he is accused of a crime he did not commit, renowned Old West gunslinger Lucky Bill swears that he will clear his name before he can be caught. Reprint....



  • J.T. Edson

    The Ysabel Kid was being followed as he rode the trail back to Rio Hondo Country. The three hombres behind him were robbing cowhands of their cattle-drive pay. And the Kid had been deputized to stop them. Riding out on his lonesome, he intended to br...



  • Victoria Barrett

    THE MAGIC OF THEIR LOVE LIVES ON Cecilia and Colin Freeport once lived, loved and died in the rambling clifftop house they named Seascape. Sea Haven Village remembers Cecilia's healing work and how, at death, her soul was carried away in the arms of...



  • Faye Adams

    Range boss Tish Walker and the arrogant cowboy Luke Bonner are thrown together when a stampede mixes her prize longhorns with his herd. On the drive together, their biggest obstacle is a passion that could break -- or forever bind-these two wranglers...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    A CHILD... Architect Leah Frazier had taken a great risk once -- when she went to extreme measures to conceive her child. She adored her son, Coty, yet it would take another daring move to turn her life around. Her husband, long an invalid, was dyin...



  • Carolyn Davidson

    Instead of the wedding day Lottie O'Malley had dreamed about, she found herself faced with a funeral. James Tillman, the Missouri widower who'd sent for her to be his bride, had just died in a freak farm accident. All that greeted the nineteen-year-...



  • Rebecca Brandewyne

    Years ago, their friendship had been private -- known only to themselves. Intense, passionate, dangerously good-looking Renzo Cassavettes wouldn't have fit in Sarah Kincaid's world. But one sultry summer afternoon, while the honeysuckle bloom...



  • Anne Avery

    THE DREAMER... Dayra Smith didn't know a flitter engine from a solar generator, but she was determined to turn a run-down piece of land into a working farmhold. And even though she had to slave day and night, the stubborn beauty refused to ask any...



  • Rexanne Becnel

    HE HAD THE SMILE OF A FALLEN ANGEL. SURE. EASY. SEDUCTIVE. He reached down and plucked her from the thick mud, then lifted her effortlessly into his lap, setting her crosswise on the tall gray horse. He was a total stranger, who thrilled her with ...



  • Annee Cartier

    Beautiful Gwen Marsh was one of 1890's London's luckiest debutantes... until she was attacked by the Lancer, a shadowy killer who targeted young society women. Scarred emotionally and physically, she tried to lose herself in charity work. But now she...



  • Anne Barbour

    A Timeless Dilemma It was had enough that Amanda McGovern's dreams were dashed by the man she adored in the 1990's. But romance offered even greater danger when she traveled back in time to Regency London and found herself being kissed by ...



  • Deborah Camp

    SWEET TEMPTATION Orphaned, penniless, and determined to keep her family together, Elise St. John hastily arranges to marry the half-Apache Missouri landowner who has agreed to adopt her young sister. It is a marriage in name only, intended to make t...



  • Karen Harper

    PASSION AND ADVENTURE IN AMISH COUNTRY Attorney Brooke Benton comes to the Maplecreek Amish community to escape the stalker who terrorized her after her last murder case. She feels safe running a friend's quilt shop, but the homespun Amish frown o...



  • Maria Corley

    Feeling lonely and vulnerable with her husband, a rising young singer, away for months at a time, Chaney faces a tempting choice when she encounters Taurique, her former high-school sweetheart, after many years of separation. Original....



  • Monique Ellis

    "Tis A Scandalous Season...When A Spinster Becomes A Femme Ftale! Lady Serena Duchesne had a reputation to uphold as a formidable, eccentric spinster. She also had a secret: she was the anonymous author of the most daring novel ever written about th...



  • June Calvin

    Duty and Desire The beautiful Viscountess Deborah Silverton never wished to wed again. The death of her hateful husband had ended an unspeakable nightmare. On the other hand, she desperately wanted to see her sixteen-year-old daughter Jennifer saf...



  • Judy Cuevas

    The dance of life is never danced alone... Years after fleeing to America -- from an arranged marriage -- Marie Du Gard returned to Paris a different woman. Slimmer and carefree, Marie vowed to protect her freedom at all costs -- regardless of wha...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    Traveling to newly conquered Wales, Lady Gizela de Montpellier seeks to join her husband only to encounter instead Rhys ap Cynan, a Welsh chieftain who has vowed to sacrifice anything in order to rid his country of the hated English. LOVE AND WAR ...



  • Carola Dunn

    A home in a harem simply wouldn't do for prim Miss Cordelia Courtenay. Her impetuous mama had created a scandal by dragging Cordelia along as she traveled the world. Now, her death had left Cordelia stranded in Turkey...where the pasha decreed sh...



  • Sue Deobold

    All her life, Catherine Clifford dreamed of finding a true and gentle love. And the spirited beauty was certain to find such a man at the elegant court of Richard II. But was the dashing knight who awoke her to passionate bliss really an arrogant...



  • Susan Edwards

    GOLDEN SPLENDOR When her beloved stepfather died, lovely young Sarah Cartier knew it was time to set out on her own -- to escape her evil guardian's clutches and perhaps to discover the father she'd never known. But Sarah didn't make it far before...



  • Linda Hilton

    Aurelia Phillips, Nethergate Hall's resident spinster -- a quiet, reserved miss whose inability to tell even a polite lie had made her unmarriageable in London society -- expected death to come calling. Her adopted grandfather, the Duke of Winter...



  • Alice Duncan

    SHE GAVE ADVICE TO EVERYONE -- BUT SHE COULD USE A BIT HERSELF Emily von Plotz barely eked out a living giving advice to readers of the San Francisco Call as "Aunt Emily." Then she chanced to meet the man who had signed himself "Texas Lonesome" -...



  • Kathleen Eagle

    IN THE DARKNESS OF YESTERDAY'S SHADOWS SHINES A GOLDEN PROMISE FOR TOMORROW A mixed-blood Lakota Sioux, Zane Lone Bull spent long years fighting -- on a distant foreign battlefield and in his own country -- and has vowed to fight no more. Now a t...



  • Laura DeVries

    Forfeiting half of her Montana ranch when her brother loses a gambling bet, Kathleen McBride becomes the reluctant partner of Chance Ballinger, who falls in love with Kathleen and invites her to take the ultimate challenge. It wasn't enough that h...



  • Suzanne Elizabeth

    STRANDED IN THE PAST Tess Harper was sure the little woman who appeared at her bedside wanted ransom from her wealthy parents. The last thing she expected was to be carted off to Kansas in the year 1885, where she found herself face-to-face with t...



  • Mary Gillgannon

    It is the sixth century A.D. Maelgwn, the Dragon of the Island is celebrated for his feats of heroism. But now he has been defeated: The tragic loss of his beloved Aurora has left him grieving and alone. But Maelgwn has a duty to his people -- an...



  • Elisabeth Fairchild

    Lovely, young Miss Prudence Stanhope was intimately acquainted with the danger of men's desires, and the devices and deceits designed to undo a lady's defenses. Already she had survived one such campaign of conquest with her illusions shatter...



  • Teresa George

    CAN SHE FIND THE PASSION SHE HAS ONLY DREAMED ABOUT... History professor Serena Brooks fears for her sanity. She has moved back into her ancestral Virginia home-only to be haunted by visions in which she is dressed like her great-grandmother... ...



  • Amy J. Fetzer

    The daughter of a powerful Scottish wiccan, she journeys across the Ottoman empire with only her magical arts to guide her. The son of an English nobleman, he has been stripped of his lands and title. Now he prowls the Mediterranean as a pirate K...



  • Barbara Freethy

    RECKLESS YOUTH . In her impetuous summer of love, Jenny St. Claire found Luke Sheridan--her dashing knight in intern's scrubs. But a fast-track future and rigid, ambitious parents drove passion out of Luke's life. And the summer ended, leaving Jenny...



  • Paula Tanner Girard

    TWO WRONGS... Baron Copley had a secret: He was bankrupt. He had Roxwealde Castle, a toothless lion, and an inebriated valet; what he needed was a rich wife. So he invited the most eligible ladies of the beau monde to a house party. But to transform...



  • Marilyn Jordan

    Dedicated to upholding the ancient ways of her race, Phada was loath to mix with the men of her world -- especially the hard-muscled brutes who protected her homeland. Yet, despite her resolve, the young Keeper couldn't understand her attraction ...



  • Lois Greiman

    PASSION'S FURY She is Flanna MacGowan, called The Flame for her fiery tresses and fierce leadership of her clan. Sworn to vengeance against the thieving Forbes, she has tricked one of their warriors and now holds the blue-eyed devil hostage. A R...



  • Samantha James

    JUST A DREAM Cheated out of her inheritance by a willful stepmother, Lady Elizabeth Stanton follows Nathaniel O'Connor to America -- eager to accept the dashing shipbuilder's proposal of marriage. But it is a stranger who greets the penniless miss a...



  • Nicole Jordan

    BRANDED BY DESIRE Lovers in the midst of a lawless Colorado range war, Jake McCord and Caitlin Kingsly boldly forsake their feuding families for a blazing, forbidden passion. Then Caitlin's brother is killed by her beloved--and the beautiful hellion...



  • Constance O'Banyon

    DANGEROUS LIAISON Since childhood, her true identity has been a kept secret. Now, Jilliana, queen of the idyllic country Talshamar, must produce an heir in order to save her subjects from the evil stranglehold of King Henry II of England. Princ...



  • Janice Kaiser

    WHEN IT COMES TO POWER, MONEY AND PASSION EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING IS... FAIR GAME. Dana Kirk is afraid. At first it seemed like simple harassment -- a few crank calls, some anonymous gifts. Then the threats become more specific and more direct. Be...



  • Sharon Ihle

    Liberty Ann Justice ran her family's newspaper in Laramie, Wyoming Territory, with all the fire of a born and bred journalist. When a handsome, silver-tongued stranger named Donovan came to town, Libby mistook him for her employer's son -- the man tr...



  • Katherine Kingsley

    He came to her in a dream. He was all fire and passion, the golden-maned lover who was her destiny. The Dream had given Serafina solace since childhood, through years of exile in Wales. And now, on the eve of her wedding, Serafina knew that the ma...



  • Laurel O'Donnell

    LADY KNIGHT... The daughter of a French nobleman, Ryen De Bouries wields a sword and rides a destrier as magnificently as the knights of King Charles VI. In place of glittering ballgowns, she wears shining armor; instead of practicing gentle arts, s...



  • Linda Madl

    IN A NEW ORLEANS PLANTATION HOUSE . . . Haunted by family scandal, orphaned Neilly Lind seeks refuge at Rosewood, a grand New Orleans plantation presided over by the eccentric Stirling women. Neilly doesn't realize that her position as a lady's comp...



  • Dana Ransom

    Kenitay -- the handsome, mixed-breed Texan who felt he didn't belong in the world of either the white man or the Indian. Leisha -- the headstrong, caring woman who loved him enough to show him the way to a place of his own. Leisha and Kenit...



  • Wendy Corsi Staub

    TO HAVE... On a windswept New England island, he waits, fingering the satin-and-lace wedding gowns he's had made for each of them...the dresses they will wear when he kills them. TO HOLD... Three women have come to the Bramble Rose Inn. For ...



  • Miriam Raftery

    APOLLO: 1: The Greek and Roman god of sunlight, prophecy, music, and poetry 2: A man of graceful beauty 3: The wrinkled Shar-Pei puppy belonging to beautiful young Taylor James Stubborn and tenacious, Apollo would lead Taylor on the romantic adven...



  • Rebecca Sinclair

    Gabrielle Carelton is one of Queen Elizabeth's most devoted ladies-in-waiting. But her loyalty is put to the test when Her Majesty commands her to marry Scotsman Collin Douglas. Then, on the eve of her wedding, Gabrielle is kidnapped by Collin's twin...



  • Mary Spencer

    DAMSEL IN DISTRESS Her marriage to a cruel baron had left Amica of Lancaster frightened. And when the king sent Sir Thomas of Reed to her defense, his rough ways chilled her heart. Yet, as she grew to know the knight, she discovered that beneath his...



  • Deborah Wood

    SHE WASN'T READY TO SETTLE DOWN. HE WASN'T WILLING TO LET HER GO. MAGGIE: Captain of her own steamboat, Maggie loved her rugged life on Oregon's Willamette River. She didn't think she had room in her life for a son ... until she f...



  • Penelope Stratton

    SHE BELIEVED LOVE WAS FOOLISH - UNTIL IT TAUGHT HER OTHERWISE! Diantha Halstow liked to declare that love was nothing but a mere illusion to trap fools. Rexford Lytham, Earl of Chartridge, couldn't agree more. He was, Diantha thought, a most sens...



  • Patricia Vaughn

    Attempting to support herself as a musician in 1890s Paris, headstrong Lauren Dufort attracts the attention of cultured Roget de Martier, whose family hides a troubled and evil history that eventually alienates Lauren. He gave her an illustrious n...



  • Lisa Ann Verge

    Rhys ap Gruffydd is a man accursed, his scarred face hidden behind a black leather mask. When he hears of a lass who can heal him, he acts without honor: he kidnaps her. But Aileen O'Conaire is no fey child; she is a woman, and she will resist--and a...




  • Claudette Williams

    THE LADY HAD MUCH TO LEARN... Before her guardian died, Christina had been a happy, high-spirited country beauty with no pretensions. She concealed her fair hair under a cap, wore britches, and rode to hounds like a hunt master. She didn't want...



  • Amanda Wheeler

    Ambition would never be enough for her
    Smart and ambitious, Nina Lewis was hurdling obstacles not only as a law student at Berkeley in the early '70s but as a black woman during a time of tremendous change, opportunity, and unrest. Though an inner...



  • V.C. Andrews

    GABRIEL LANDRY IS AS BEAUTIFUL AS HER BELOVED BAYOU Her high school graduation just days away, Gabriel is blissfully happy, despite the ever-widening rift between her Mama and her conniving, whiskey-drinking Daddy. Then rich cannery owner Octaviou...



  • Robert DiChiara

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  • Don Pendleton

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  • Chet Williamson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

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  • John T. Campbell

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  • Michael A. Stackpole

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  • David Weber

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  • Cynthia Blair

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  • Stella Bagwell

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  • Madeline Baker

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  • Lynna Banning

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  • Georgia Bockoven

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  • Annette Broadrick

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  • Dixie Browning

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  • Carole Buck

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  • Debra Carroll

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  • Lorraine Carroll

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  • Debra Dixon

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  • Charlotte Douglas

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  • Marie Ferrarella

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  • Marcia Evanick

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  • Carol Grace

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  • Diana Hall

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  • Sally Tyler Hayes

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  • Kate Hoffmann

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  • Muriel Jensen

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  • Ellen James

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  • Patricia Keelyn

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