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New Books List: 568 titles

  • Safely Home

    Randy C. Alcorn

    Is this the day I die? QUAN STIFFENED at the shout behind him. The voice rang with the authority of the Gong An Ju, the Public Security Bureau. "You meet in the night like the criminals you are. How dare you defy the law? In three minutes," Scarbrow...

  • Love With the Proper Husband

    Victoria Alexander

    Distressed over the current widespread disinterest in matrimony among their eminently marriageable offspring, the formidable matriarchs of the ton have taken matters into their own meddling hands with the formation of The Ladies' Society for the Bett...

  • The Discrete Charm of Charlie Monk

    David Ambrose

    'It was some moments before Charlie turned his gaze back to Control. When he did, there were tears in his eyes. "What have you done?"' "Something that evolution wouldn't have accomplished in a million years, left to itself," Control replied calmly. "...

  • Hot Summer Nights

    Bridget Anderson

    Bobbi Cunningham's tough childhood has left her determined to improve her life. At night school, she meets Quentin Brooks, whose upright, honorable ways and killer good looks make for an irresistible combination. Although their mutual attraction ig...

  • Spellbound in Seattle

    Garthia Anderson

    Petra Field didn't have a magical bone in her body, but it didn't take a crystal ball to see disaster loomed. With enchanted blood on her carpet, a house full of Merlin-wannabes unable to clean it up, a petulant cat, and houseguests scheduled to arri...

  • For Love and Glory

    Poul Anderson

    On the uncharted planet Jonna lies the archaeological find of a lifetime. An immense artifact left behind by the mysterious race known as the Forerunners, who predate all the known cultures in the seafaring galaxy and had long vanished before any ...

  • Hidden Leaves

    V.C. Andrews

    The truth could not be revealed -- until now.... A fter the tragic death of her adoptive father, Willow De Beers receives an unexpected gift: a family diary that unlocks all the secrets of her world -- and shatters the life she's known in glitzy ...

  • Dream Storm

    K.A. Applegate

    The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action!

    Be careful what you wish for.
    After what seemed li...

  • The Magic Toolbox

    Mie Araki

    Everything Lulu builds with her blocks is perfect a boat, a dragon, a train. Everything Fred builds falls down; that is, until he finds a magic toolbox. This endearing story is perfect for any child who loves to build and who doesn t? whether or not ...

  • Eye of Eternity

    Chris Archer

    When George and his friends find an ancient map hidden in his house, they think they're in for a modern-day treasure hunt -- but they soon discover that there's more at stake than buried riches.



    Now that George and his friends have exp...

  • Specky Magee & the Great Footy Contest

    Felice Arena

  • Hidden Treasures

    Judith Arnold

    Wanna-be earth mother... Erica Leitner knows all about big cities and culture -- after all, she grew up in Boston and went to Harvard University. But her idea of the good life is owning a small farm in New Hampshire and digging a garden. So she's co...

  • The Moon's Shadow

    Catherine Asaro

    At the age of seventeen the young nobleman named Jaibriol Qox became ruler of a vast galactic empire -- and lost everything he had ever valued. Born of a clandestine liaison between a renegade daughter of the Skolian Imperialate and a scion of th...

  • Aunt Dimity Takes a Holiday

    Nancy Atherton

    A new will wreaks havoc at a grand Palladian country house -- and everyone s favorite supernatural sleuth is just in time to set things right When Lori Shepherd's husband, Bill, is summoned to the reading of a will at the resplendent country e...

  • The Call of Duty, Volume 2: Precinct & the Wagon

    Chuck Austen

    Ordinary New York City cop Frankie "Gunz" Gunzer now has a new call to duty -- not just to uphold the law, but to save all humanity. Plus: Emergencies on the brink of disaster are around every corner when you're riding the Wagon, and saving lives in ...

  • The Three Railway Engines

    Rev. W. Awdry

    This very first book about the now famous engines was originally published in 1945. Here are the original four stories about kind, hard-working Edward, proud Gordon, and fussy Henry. Watchful readers will recognize a very popular little blue engine h...

  • For All the Wrong Reasons

    Louise Bagshawe

    Diana Foxton is the toast of New York. She's rich, British, and beautiful, with a designer wardrobe to die for. Recently married to the head of a publishing empire, she fills her days with shopping, gossiping, and hosting the hottest parties in town....

  • Little Martin

    Barbara Baker

  • Mama's Coming Home

    Kate Banks

    Mama’s back from work!

    “Mama’s coming home,” says Papa. And that’s all it takes to get this rambunctious household " two boys, a baby, a dog, and a cat " to settle down. As they pitch in, preparing dinner and straightening up the...

  • Through Thick and Thin

    Leslie Esdaile Banks

    Sometimes the recipe for a good marriage needs a few new ingredients. Maxine and Kenny love each other very much, and nothing can tear them apart. So why do they feel so distanced from one another? Maybe it's because Maxine wants to spread her wings...

  • The Angel of Devil's Camp

    Lynna Banning

    A widow before she'd even been a wife -- Mary Margaret Hampton was in big trouble! Lonely loggers. One genteel lady. A dangerous combination, Tom Randall thought. He was trying to run a business, not a tea party! And if obstinate Meggy Hampton di...

  • Alison's Automotive Repair Manual

    Brad Barkley

    A widow in her mid-thirties, Alison has been mourning for two years. Now living in small town West Virginia with her sister Sarah and brother-in-law Bill, Alison is unable to move on with her life. Finally, she promises Sarah and Bill that she will s...

  • Finding Caruso

    Kim Barnes

    When Buddy and Lee Hope find themselves orphaned and broke in 1957, the brothers set off for the logging camps of northern Idaho. Though seven years apart, the young men are very close-that is, until Lee, the older of the two, falls hard for an older...

  • A Promise Made

    Janet Lee Barton

    When Emma Hanson's young friend, a single mother, dies and leaves baby Mandy to Emma's care, the town of Roswell takes sides. Most of the men say Emma can't manage - after all, she has a restaurant to run - but the townswomen have rallied to her caus...

  • Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota, 1873

    Marion Dane Bauer

    After following her father from their home in England to the plains of Minnesota, Mary must summon the strength to face the challenges and heartbreaking losses that she and her family encounter.

    "Land of the Buffalo Bones" is the diary of Mary...

  • W3 Women in Deep Time

    Greg Bear

    Three short works including "Sisters," "Scattershot," and the Nebula Award-winning "Hardfought" introduce readers to the inhabitants of multiple universes and feature a theme of the female psyche, multiplied and divided. Original....

  • Death of a Village

    M.C. Beaton

    TOWN WITHOUT PITY...OR A GOOD PUB Trouble is afoot in the remote Scottish fishing village of Stoyre, where the inhabitants are acting, well, fishy. On a routine visit, Constable Hamish Macbeth finds the pub empty, the church unexpectedly full, and...

  • The Winter of Our Discotheque

    Andrew W.M. Beierle

    Tony Alexamenos's life is forever changed when wealthy Dallas Eden, determined to mold Tony into a perfect addition to his ever-growing "harem," sends Tony to college, where he falls for his drama teacher--an infatuation that leads Tony to New York C...

  • Restored to Death

    Nancy Bell

    TEXAS TOAST Between raising his precocious teenage daughter and dodging the matchmaking of the local busybodies, Jackson Crain devotes himself to the curious peccadilloes of being a judge in tiny Post Oak, Texas. Aside from the occasional brawl or...

  • Gravel Queen

    Tea Benduhn

    I look behind me as we walk toward the parking lot, gravel crunching and spraying beneath our feet. "Whatcha' lookin' at, Aurin? I thought you weren't interested in those guys," Kenney says. "I'm not," I say. There is a carefully constructed...

  • Loving Leah

    Nikki Benjamin

    Years ago, Leah Hayes selflessly stepped aside when John Bennett fell for her vivacious stepsister. Now the man she still secretly cherished was ravaged by grief and struggling to raise his fragile little girl all alone. Unable to deny the lure of th...

  • Terms and Conditions

    Peter Benjamin

    A powerful thriller that looks into the heart of a cynical, greedy world where everything - and everyone - has a price. Wall Street is soaring and so is the share price of Trident Drug, an economic giant that dominates the world pharmaceutical stage....

  • Arbor Day

    Kelly Bennet

  • Once He Loves

    Sara Bennett

    The Perfect Lover Legendary English knight de Vessey is entranced by the golden voice of a beautiful singer entertaining the guests. Standing in for his liege lord at a nobleman's great hall, he can't take his eyes off her. Who is this angel who me...

  • Too Small For The Team

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Sister Bear is a super soccer player. She’s fast on her feet. She dodges and dribbles like a pro. She kicks the ball with the power of a cub twice her size. She’s a shoo-in at soccer tryouts . . . except for one little problem.Everyone thinks Sis...

  • Catch and Keep

    Hannah Bernard

    Jake Benford quickly discovers that being best friends with an eccentric genius can be trouble when Sarah Hamilton turns him into her very own guinea pig. Especially when she's researching human sexuality! And what's even more confusing is that he's ...

  • In the Absence of Men

    Philippe Besson

    'An astonishing love story, beautifully told' Time Out'I am sixteen. I am as old as the century'It is 1916. Vincent is sixteen, on the brink of manhood. ...

  • Playing by the Rules

    Beverly Bird

    RULE#1: POSITIVELY NO FALLING IN LOVE ALLOWEDSam Case had a killer smile and a laid-back charm that had women swooning at his feet and crying their hearts out over his playboy ways. Suave on the outside, but vulnerable on the inside, Sam wanted out o...

  • Into the Valley: The Settlers

    Rosanne Bittner

    Into the Valley is the moving story of one woman torn between two brothers who have drastically different visions of the future of their country. In 1780, during the turbulent days of the American Revolution, Annie Barnes is engaged to stable, loving...

  • The Deed

    Keith Blanchard

    A hip and hilarious debut novel about a twentysomething guy searching for love, for meaning...and for a long-lost deed that could make him heir to the island of Manhattan Meet Jason Hansvoort, a single New Yorker with a curious knack for survivi...

  • The Secret House

    David Bodanis

    The author of E=mc2 presents in accessible language a tour of an everyday home and the science surrounding it, from radio static and pillow mites to the electric fields of a light bulb and the colors in a garden rose. Reprint....

  • The Last Mustang

    Frank Bonham

    With rousing action, well-developed characters and colorful backgrounds, Frank Bonham is regarded as one of the best Western storytellers. And the eight tales in this collection perfectly showcase Bonham's vast talent. In the title story, a good-humo...

  • The Newsboys' Lodging-House: or The Confessions of Willilam James--A novel

    Jon Boorstin

    Considers what happened in the life of foremost nineteenth-century American psychologist William James in the months after he suffered a devastating mental collapse, in a story that takes him to the side of street urchins in New York, where he works ...

  • Trouble with Girls

    Marshall Boswell

    Trouble with Girls features Parker Hayes--a likeable guy looking for love and sex--at various points in his life in ten interconnected stories, from junior high and high school to post-grad and thirtysomething living in the real world. He's strugglin...

  • Evan Only Knows

    Rhys Bowen

    Welsh constable Evan Evans knows that village life is not as peaceful as it seems--and in the latest entry of this "charming series" (Library Journal), his job takes a turn toward the tragic... When Constable Evans and his new fiancee decide to tr...

  • Everybody's Best Friend

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • Flag for All

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • The Pet Show: The Corner Kids

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • Nana's Fiddle

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • Every Nine Seconds

    Joseph Brockton

    Flashback to 1989 with your favorite characters from Queer as Folk in this novel from the Queer as Folk book series, based on the record-breaking Showtime series hailed as "wonderful" (Newsweek), in which Brian Kinney and Michael Novotny must get thr...

  • The 6th Lamentation

    William Brodrick

    Based partly on the author's own life and family history, THE SIXTH LAMENTATION is an intelligent thriller full of twists, turns, and surprises that moves effortlessly back and forth in time between occupied France and modern day England. Edward Schw...

  • True Enough

    Lauren Brooke

    Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it's much more than that. Heartland is a place like no other -- a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again. Whe...

  • Camp Craziness

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Book 3 of WATCH OUT FOR JOEL! Joel is frightened of the old camp outhouse, but even he can’t put off a visit forever. When Tom plans a cruel surprise for Joel, his fears quickly go from bad to worse. Can Joel and his brother, Ricky, stop Tom withou...

  • Fly Trap

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Book 4 of WATCH OUT FOR JOEL! For Joel's mom's birthday, he and his brother want to make her special gifts. The boys get to work, but what could Joel possibly create with Popsicle sticks and a jar of frozen flies? Leave it to him to come up with a bi...

  • The Da Vinci Code

    Dan Brown

    While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve...

  • Kit's Railway Adventure

    Harriet Brown

    While traveling west by train to Montana's Glacier National Park, Kit Kittredge and her Aunt Millie attend the 1934 World's Fair in Chicago, stay overnight at a cattle ranch, and meet President and First Lady Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt....

  • Sheep Don't Count Sheep

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • The Tail of the Tip-Off

    Rita Mae Brown

    When winter hits Crozet, Virginia, it hits hard--and hangs on for months. That's nothing new to postmistress Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her friends, who keep warm with hard work, hot toddies, and rabid rooting for the University of Virginia's w...

  • Sins of the Father

    Nina Bruhns

    Like a leather-clad warrior astride a Harley, FBI agent Roman Santangelo roared into town with a mission: solve the years-old mystery of his father's death -- and seek forgiveness from old flame RaeAnn Martin. One would satisfy his need for justice; ...

  • The Afterword

    Mike Bryan

  • The Harbor of His Arms

    Lynn Bulock

    Ever since Holly Douglas's husband had been killed, she and her twin sons had lived on borrowed time. Now her husband's killer was back on the streets -- and investigator Alex Wilkins was the only man she could count on to protect her. Accustomed to ...

  • Quarantine

    Laura J. Burns

    No One Is Safe. There's a new corporation in town -- Meta-chem -- and Liz is psyched to land a scholarship program working in the lab. But when the giant pharmaceutical company creates a disease that accidentally infects the town, Liz is among the...

  • Victoria and the Rogue

    Meg Cabot

    VICTORIA Growing up in far-off India, wealthy young heiress Lady Victoria Arbuthnot was accustomed to handling her own affairs -- not to mention everyone else's. But in her sixteenth year, Vicky is unceremoniously shipped off to London to find a hus...

  • Princess in Waiting

    Meg Cabot

    Never before has the world seen such a princess. Nor have her own subjects, for that matter. Mia's royal introduction to Genovia has mixed results: while her fashion sense is widely applauded, her position on the installation of public parking mete...

  • Princess Lessons

    Meg Cabot

    All you need to know to be a princess -- Or Just live like one Compiled by Mia Thermopolis aka Princess Amelia Mignonette Grimaldi Thermopolis Renaldo of Genovia...

  • Henry Kidd, Outlaw

    Will Cade

    In the waning days of the Civil War, a Unionist farmer is brutally murdered, leaving behind a wife and three daughters--and his only son. The family gives young Marsh Perkins a grim duty. He is to track down Henry Kidd, the man who killed his father,...

  • Aria of the Sea

    Dia Calhoun

    On the island of Normost, in the kingdom of Windward, 13-year-old Cerinthe Gale is a folk healer who dreams of being a dancer. When her mother falls ill, Cerinthe fights to save her -- but fails. She blames herself for her mother’s death, gives u...

  • About Adam

    Stella Cameron

    Adam Chillworth is a hard man. The mysterious and talented portrait artist of 7C Mayfair Square is passionately in love with Princess Desiree, of Mont Nuages, though he has consistently refused her ardent adoration, convinced that he's too old an...

  • Alva & Irva

    Edward Carey

    Alva and Irva Dapps are identical twin sisters brilliantly portrayed living in an imaginary -- but altogether imaginable -- city. In this inventive tale of creativity, obsession, and passion, Edward Carey touches deftly on the fine line we all walk b...

  • Small-Town Girl

    C.J. Carmichael

    After her son is seriously injured in a car accident, Julie Matthew wants two things: for him to regain his health and for her family to return to normal. What a shock when she learns that Russell, her husband, sees normal as a rut. His solution? To ...

  • Brownsville: Stories

    Oscar Casares

    "Terrific stories...Just about perfect" (Entertainment Weekly): Brownsville is the collection that established Oscar Casares as one of the leading voices in the literature of the modern Southwest. At the country's edge, on the Mexican border, Brownsv...

  • Love Letters

    Anne Cassidy

    Vicky and her mate Jen have always said that they're not into immature blokes who just want a quick grope in the corner at a party. But now Jen has a steady boyfriend (plus a few little extras) and Vicky's starting to feel a bit left out. It's not th...

  • Beyond the Sacred Page

    Jack Cavanaugh

    Meg Foxe has stumbled upon a book so powerful that it changes her life. Its words comfort and soothe her troubled mind like nothing else. But there’s a problem. The book is banned throughout England. And Pernell, her husband, the man she loves more...

  • Saturday's Child

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

  • The Deep End of Fear

    Elizabeth Chandler

    LET SLEEPING GHOSTS LIE Twelve years ago Kate's family left the Westbrook estate on a stormy night, just after young Ashley Westbrook drowned in an icy pond. Now kate, alone in the world, has returned to the estate to tutor another spoiled Westbrook...

  • The Bastard King

    Dan Chernenko

    Lost for more than four hundred years, the Scepter of Mercy lies beyond the reach of the kingdom of Avornis, in the lands corrupted by the Banished One. Cast from the heavens to an earthly exile, the Banished One seeks to use the scepter to reclaim h...

  • Age of Unreason

    Scott Ciencin

    In the wake of the catastrophic events of Wildfire, Carol Abramowitz, Bart Faulwell, and Soloman are sent on a special mission to Vrinda, where the S.C.E. must introduce new technology to the world while avoiding getting embroiled in the political st...

  • Claiming His Bride

    Daphne Clair

    The wedding that never was... Four years ago Sorrel fled to start a new life and left her fiance, Blaize, standing at the altar with no explanations. But now she's back, and as beautiful as ever. And seeing her again brings back all his memori...

  • Sweet Release

    Pamela Clare

    For five pounds in cash, the convict was hers. Though Cassie hated the slave trade, her Virginia plantation demanded the labor, and she knew this fevered man would surely die if she left him. But as his wounds healed and his muscled chest bronzed fro...

  • The Doctor's Gift

    Lucy Clark

    When redhead Dr. Kelly O'Shea roars into the small Australian village, Dr. Matt Bentley's heart flips. But he knows what it is to be burned by love and he intends to keep away. Yet their sizzling attraction culminates in one earth-shattering kiss....

  • Wild Moms!

    Ginjer L. Clarke

    A sea otter mom teaches her baby to crack open a crab. Meerkat moms send up a dust cloud to hide their babies from a hawk. This simple, sweet, nonfiction Pictureback is full of fun facts about animal babies and their moms. A great Mother’s Day gift...

  • Second Watch

    Lowen Clausen

    Katherine Murphy is new to Seattle's Second Watch and the Ballard Avenue beat. Her partner, Grace Stevens, grew up in the small Scandinavian neighborhood and introduces Katherine to its rhythms, its people, and its dangers. When the body of a young...

  • The Amazing Love Story of Mr. Morf

    Carll Cneut

    Mr. Morf is a circus dog who walks the high wire every night. He’s very good at his job, but he’s lonely -- everyone in the circus has someone to love except for him. So he sets off in search of a companion, but none of the animals he encounters ...

  • Warrior of the Light

    Paulo Coelho

    Warrior of the Light: A Manual is an inspirational companion to The Alchemist, an international bestseller that has beguiled millions of readers around the world. Every short passage invites us to live out our dreams, to embrace the uncertainty of li...

  • What's Cookin'?

    Nancy Coffelt

    In a sunny kitchen, the clock tick-tocks, the faucet drip-drops, and the cook grabs a spoon. But hes not alone for long. One by one, ten roly-poly chefs arrive in the kitchen to bake a birthday surprise. This rollicking one-to-ten-and-down-again coun...

  • Capture the Wind for Me

    Brandilyn Collins

    One thing I have learned. The bonfires of change start with the merest spark. Sometimes we see that flicker. Sometimes we blink in surprise at the flame only after it has marched hot legs upward to fully ignite. Either way, flicker or flame, we'd bet...

  • Crumbtown

    Joe Connelly

    Some might say that Crumbtown isn’t a place. It’s a state of mind. And for the residents of this sinking, stinking, carcinogenic, potholed neighborhood, “There’s bad luck in the world, and then there’s crumbluck.” But for Don Reedy, a tru...

  • City of Bones

    Michael Connelly

    On New Year's Day, a dog finds a bone in the Hollywood Hills - and unearths a murder committed more than twenty years earlier. It's a cold case, but for Detective Harry Bosch, it stirs up memories of his childhood as an orphan. He can't let it go. As...

  • X-Men 2

    Ted Conner

    In this sequel to the 2000 box office hit, the mutants return to the silver screen to continue their quest to defend a world that hates and fears them. When villainous human William Stryker turns a sinister eye on Xavier’s operation after an attemp...

  • The White Road

    John Connolly

    After years of suffering unfathomable pain and guilt over the murders of his wife and daughter, private detective Charlie Parker has finally found some measure of peace. As he and his lover, Rachel, are awaiting the birth of their first child and set...

  • See You Soon Moon

    Donna Conrad

    It's time for an evening trip
    to Grandma's house.
    Bye-bye bedroom, bear, and blanket.
    See you soon, moon.
    Into the car and up the hill.
    But look--over the trees--
    The moon is coming with us!

    Who doesn't remember spotting the ...

  • Fifteen Love

    Robert Corbet

    Mia thinks boys are immature. They only talk about cars and sports. They only think about sex.

    Will has no idea what girls talk about. He wishes he were a fly on the wall. He wishes he had a tape recorder and a hidden microphone ....

    F...

  • Maisy's Easter Egg Hunt Sticker Book

    Lucy Cousins

    Hunt no further! Here is the perfect Easter book for preschoolers, who will adore helping Maisy search for treats - and then sticking them on each page to complete the picture.


    Go ahead - lend Maisy a mixing bowl so she can whip up some ch...

  • Philip Jose Farmer's the Dungeon

    Bruce Coville

    The return of a classic "shared world" fantasy series created by Philip Jose Farmer, award-winning author of the Riverworld saga! Plunging into a vast prison that spans a planet, Clive Foliott faces a fantastic world of dwarves, cyborgs, and alien...

  • Twelfth Night

    Bruce Coville

  • Agapanthus Hum and Angel Hoot

    Joy Cowley

    When she loses her first tooth, Agapanthus discovers her new talent of being able to hoot through the space in her teeth and so, with the accompaniment of her dog, Major Bark, she sets forth to show everyone her new skill....

  • In a Dark Wood

    Amanda Craig

    Thirty-nine, recently divorced, jobless, Benedick Hunter is an actor heading in the exact opposite direction of happily ever after: everything from spending time with his own children to the prospect of dating brings him down. So when he comes across...

  • Lady of the River

    DiAnna Crawford

    Wilderness explorer Max Bremmer's dreams are shattered when he suffers a severe injury that forces him to settle in Reardon Valley. When he catches sight of the mysterious Belinda Gregg, he is driven to uncover the secrets of her family's secluded li...

  • Paper Mage

    Leah Cutter

    In a small Chinese village during the Tang Dynasty, an unsure young woman defies the rigid conventions of her society to become a gifted paper mage--one who creates magic with the ancient art of paper folding. Because her skills are in demand for the...

  • In Over His Head

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    WET...AND WILD Lexie Webster needs a fling -- badly. She's not looking for a relationship -- her former fiance, a daredevil with a death wish, cured her of that! But that doesn't mean she has to live like a nun, either. Especially since her newest c...

  • A Kiss to Die For

    Claudia Dain

    A KILLER Women were dying. Pretty women, lonely women, women who gave their hearts to a man who promised happily ever after, but delivered death. A STRANGER He steamed into Abilene on the locomotive, a loner with a legend attached to his name. ...

  • Professor & the Pregnant Nanny

    Emily Dalton

    THE BOY WHO GOT AWAY WAS ALL MAN NOW Once Melissa Richardson had been the most popular girl in school and Charles Avery had been the shy brain with a hopeless crush. Now Melissa was alone, pregnant and in need of a job -- and her new employer was ...

  • Once Upon a Time

    Niki Daly

    A struggling young reader triumphs

    There is something worrying Sarie at school. Every time her teacher says, “Children, take out your reading books,” Sarie feels sick. The letters in the book all run together, tripping her up so that she s...

  • White Rabbit

    David Daniel

    The Sixties -- San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury, the Summer of Love. It's a wistful memory for some, and it brings envious sighs for those too late to experience it. David Daniel vividly recreates that world and its legends in White Rabbit - and then in...

  • Torso

    Denise Danks

    Steven and Stella are an English couple in Laguna -- debauched, illegal, and on the run. She works in a gallery and he has affairs. When she thinks she has a stalker, he congratulates her on having "this year's must-have accessory." The cop they call...

  • Visitations

    Jack Dann

    Australian author Jack Dann has received the Nebula Award, the World Fantasy Award, the Australia Aurealis Award, and has been honored by the Mark Twain Society. Now, in his first collection in more than two decades, Five Star is pleased to present V...

  • The Blind-Date Bride

    Emma Darcy

    Catherine's blind date with Zack Freeman, a notoriously charming Australian tycoon, was the last thing she needed! The second they met, Catherine recognized sexual challenge in Zack's eyes. Their date led to one unforgettable night -- with...

  • The Surgeon's Proposal

    Lilian Darcy

    Sister Annabelle Drew had been shattered when one of her guests cried, "Stop the wedding" -- just as she'd been about to say "I do." Surgeon Dylan Calford had no regrets -- he was convinced that Annabelle's groom was completely wrong for her -- until...

  • Tempting a Texan

    Carolyn Davidson

    SUDDENLY...Fatherhood! Or close enough, anyway. Wealthy banker Nicholas Garvey was stunned to learn he was now the legal guardian of a niece he hadn't known he had. But the bigger surprise was the child's beguiling nanny, Carlinda Donnelly, a woman...

  • Body of Evidence

    Justine Davis
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    A powerful man is murdered in his home, and not even his wealth and privilege can hide the trail of scandal he left behind. A scandal that is about to be unmasked by Chicago's top agencies.... Reunited over a corpse, forensics detective Josh Ben...

  • Vanished Man

    Jeffery Deaver

    It begins at a prestigious music school in New York City. A killer flees the scene of a homicide and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. When a scream rings out, followed by a gunshot, they break down the doo...

  • The Point of Return

    Siddhartha Deb

    Set in the remote, northeastern hills of India, The point of return revolves around the father-son relationship of a willful, curious boy, Babu, and Doctor Dam, an enigmatic product of British colonial rule and Nehruvian nationalism. Told in rever...

  • Crispin and the 3 Little Piglets

    Ted Dewan

    Crispin is the pig who has it all to himself. And the last thing he wants is to share it with little piglets. But like it or not, three little piglets have just joined his family: making noise, making messes, and making Crispin miserable. Will Crispi...

  • Diagnosis: Expecting Boss's Baby

    Jacqueline Diamond

    IN LOVE WITH THE BOSS...AND PREGNANT WITH HIS BABY! Irony didn't begin to describe it! Natalie Winford, secretary for an infertility clinic, had become pregnant after one night of lovemaking with her sexy boss, Dr. Patrick Barr. Natalie planned to...

  • I Am Madame X

    Gioia Diliberto

    An intriguing and absorbing novel about the life of Virginie Gautreau, the subject of John Singer Sargent's most famous portrait Madame X, which scandalized the 1884 Paris Salon -- perfect for fans of the bestselling Girl with a Pearl Earring.When Jo...

  • Surak's Soul

    J.M. Dillard

    You are alone in the dark reaches of space, surrounded by aliens who do not understand who you are and what you are, and who will not accept your beliefs. Under such circumstances, an emotional human would feel lost, cut off, adrift, but Sub-Commande...

  • Disney's Princess Theater

    Disney Book Group

    Dim the lights and set the stage! Now every little girl will have the chance to become a real Disney princess while acting out different scenes from some of the most beloved Disney movies-including Aladdin, Cinderella, and Snow White and the Seven Dw...

  • Surprise Inheritance

    Charlotte Douglas

    Welcome to Millionaire, Montana, where twelve lucky souls have won a multimillion-dollar jackpot. And where one millionaire in particular has just received a...SURPRISE INHERITANCE. Looks as if not everyone in town is wild to welcome home "Main St...

  • Star Corps

    Ian Douglas

    IN THE FUTURE, EARTH'S WARRIORS HAVE CONQUERED THE HEAVENS. BUT ON A DISTANT WORLD, HUMANITY IS IN CHAINS... Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An--a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until the...

  • The Isle Beyond Time

    L. Warren Douglas

    GOOD AND EVIL... She defeated a demon and imprisoned a mad druid in a crystal serpent's egg. She changed the course of history, and never doubted which side she was on. Now the rules have changed. In the shifting landscapes Celts call the otherwor...

  • Cassie's Rose

    Elizabeth Doyle

    A CRIME OF PASSION... Accused of a crime she didn't commit, Cassandra has come to Australia's balmy shores as a convict, no longer fit to become any man's bride. Her only comfort is serving out her sentence as a housekeeper to a kind and handsome do...

  • With a Vengeance

    Eileen Dreyer

    IN THE DARKNESS OF A SILENT CONSPIRACY... Maggie O'Brien is tough. She has to be - as a tactical emergency medic for the St. Louis SWAT team and a trauma nurse at Blymore Memorial. The daughter of a violent ex-cop, she prefers wits over weapons. T...

  • The Birth of Venus

    Sarah Dunant

    Alessandra Cecchi is not quite fifteen when her father, a prosperous cloth merchant, brings a young painter back from northern Europe to decorate the chapel walls in the family's Florentine palazzo. A child of the Renaissance, with a precocious mind ...

  • Sweeping the Bride Away

    Michele Dunaway

    A PREMARITAL MESS! Cassidy Clayton had a case of the hots for Mr. Toolbelt, aka Blade Frederick, her contractor. But Blade wasn't the man she was supposed to marry. Bad-boy Blade wasn't even in her league...but their combustible chemistry made the...

  • Rosie's Roses

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

    As is a present for Aunt Ruth's birthday, Rosie Raccoon is determined to offer four roses tied with a rainbow ribbon. As she and her big brother, Robert, ramble through the forest toward Aunt Ruth's house, Rosie's flowers mysteriously disappear, r...

  • Murder Can Rain on Your Shower

    Selma Eichler

    Desiree Shapiro's niece, Ellen, will soon be saying, "I do." So Manhattan's pudgiest P.I. teams up with Ellen's future mother-in-lain to give the bride-to-be a truly memorable shower. And memorable, it is. After all, when a guest takes a few bites of...

  • Night Lives

    Phyllis Eisenstein

    From time-viewing to teleportation, from secret worlds to dream worlds, from the medieval to the modern, these stories explore the yearnings of the human heart. In these pages you will meet Edward, Jane, and Stephen, whose dreams are more real than t...

  • Eight Animals Play Ball

    Susan Middleton Elya

  • Into the Inferno

    Earl Emerson

    In the freezing heart of the Pacific Northwest winter, a group of firefighters from North Bend Fire and Rescue responds to a freeway accident. Two trucks have collided on the icy pavement. One of the trucks was transporting livestock; the other carri...

  • The Far Side of Evil

    Sylvia Engdahl

    THE FATE OF TORIS RESTS IN ELANA’S HANDS.... Elana, newly graduated from the Federation Anthropological Service Academy, is sent immediately into danger on the planet Toris -- a Youngling world poised on the brink of nuclear war. She is ordered to ...

  • Judge Dredd: Death Aid

    Garth Ennis

    Judge Dredd: He is the law! In the vast, over populated sprawl of the future metropolis Mega-City One, the Judges are all that stand between order and chaos. Their unswerving dedication to upholding the law is epitomised by stone-jawed Judge Dredd as...

  • The Case of the Shipwrecked Tree

    John R. Erickson

    Hank and Drover are just beginning an investigation when a pirate suddenly appears on the front porch! They soon realize that the pirate is just Little Alfred in disguise. Alfred chooses Hank as his first mate, and Hank enthusiastically agrees to be ...

  • Hex

    Maggie Estep

    Having drifted through thirty-three years of life, Ruby Murphy has put down roots in a rootless place: Coney Island. A recovering alcoholic who is fanatical in her love for animals and her misanthropic friends, Ruby lives above a furniture store and ...

  • Longarm and the Lady Hustlers

    Tabor Evans

    To catch these cons, Longarm will have to play by their rules.   Rumor has it that Deputy Marshal Custis Long is now riding on the other side of the law -- swindling ranchers and taking bribes, just as cool as you please. But if folks’d o...

  • God Breathes His Dreams Through Nathaniel Cadwallader

    Charlotte Fairbairn

    In a remote village in the heart of a distant valley, unease, despair, and depression hold sway, until the arrival of a mysterious stranger, Nathaniel Cadwallader, who exerts a benign but distant influence on the valley as he devotes himself to his c...

  • The Challenger

    Terri Farley

    For Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse. Wildcats have been spotted nearby, but they haven't hurt the ranch horses -- yet. So Samantha is outraged when a neighboring rancher vows to kill the cats on sight. Her family'...

  • Lucrezia Borgia

    John Faunce

    “A fascinating story, rich in detail. In every case, Faunce portrays [Lucrezia] believably, with wit and sensitivity.”--Library JournalHundreds of years after her death, Lucrezia Borgia remains one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of his...

  • Yesterday's Enemies

    Erika M. Feiner

    1945. It's the last days of World War II and the Americans are advancing to the Rhine and on into Germany itself. Andrew Morrell, son of a Texas rancher, marches into a small German village, rifle in hand, ready to shoot to kill. Instead he falls in ...

  • Invitation to Trouble

    Jo Ann Ferguson
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    When Lord Foxington receives an invitation to a private masquerade ball at Almack's, he also receives a warning that someone will not survive the evening. The nobleman can't possibly escort a lady into such a volatile situation. But matchmaking frien...

  • A Billionaire and a Baby

    Marie Ferrarella

    "Will you deliver my baby?" Reporter Sherry Campbell thought she might be asking too much, but her baby was coming and the only one in sight was enigmatic corporate raider St. John "Sin-Jin" Adair. Despite his generosity, he disliked her because s...

  • French Kitty in Kitty Goes to Paris

    Mighty Fine

  • Heart Seizure

    Bill Fitzhugh

    Shockingly ethical lawyer Spence Tailor loves his mama Rose. Mama--with her advanced cardiomyopathy and rare blood type--is finally scheduled for a heart transplant. But AB-negative U.S. President Webster needs one also, after his ticker craps out du...

  • Souvenir of Cold Springs

    Kitty Burns Florey

    The world of this novel moves back in time as the layers are peeled away to reveal the truth about a long-ago family tragedy that impacts the characters’ lives for years after. Beginning with a young college student haunted by her own choices and e...

  • Lemon Meringue Pie Murder

    Joanne Fluke

    The residents of Lake Eden, Minnesota, are planning to paint the town red, white, and blue to celebrate the Fourth of July--but the fireworks are already going off at Hannah Swensen's bake shop, The Cookie Jar... Lemon Meringue Pie Murder Hanna...

  • In the Country of the Blind

    Michael Flynn

    In the nineteenth century, a small group of American idealists managed to actually build Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine and use it to develop Cliology, mathematical models that could chart the likely course of the future. Soon they were working ...

  • Lizzie

    Linda Ford

    The Great War has left deep wounds in the heart of Caleb Hughes. He battles nightmares and memories of his time on the battlefields of France; and even the love of Lizzie, the young wife he met while stationed in England, isn't enough to ease his suf...

  • Blues from Down Deep

    Gwynne Forster

    Arriving in North Carolina to meet the extended family she never knew she had, Regina Pearson is unwittingly pulled into their pain, secrets, and betrayals, until she meets a special man who shows her the true meaning of family and love. Reprint. 30,...

  • Protecting the Princess

    Patricia Forsythe

    Reeve Stratton's new assignment was proving to be anything but typical. Yes, Crown Princess Anya Chastain of Inbourg had a regal stare that would reduce a lesser man to ashes in seconds, but she wasn't the pampered, spoiled brat he'd been expecting. ...

  • Marching Orders

    Delores Fossen

    MARRIAGE UNDER FIRE Anna Caldwell hadn't planned on spending her honeymoon dodging bullets in the Texas chaparral with a husband who couldn't even remember her! Or their unborn child... Combat Rescue Officer Rafe McQuade had saved Anna's life, fath...

  • The Bachelor and the Bean

    Shelley Fowles

    A Jewish folktale from Morocco

    When a grumpy old bachelor loses his last bean down a well, he is hopping mad. To his amazement, a devilish imp leaps out of the well and gives him a magic pot to keep him quiet. After hearing what the pot can do...

  • Conch Shell Murder

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

    For newly licensed private investigator Katie Hassworth, it's both, but that's a long story. The short of it is now she's been hired to find the killer of Alexa Chitting, owner of a prosperous marina, bludgeoned by conch shell. While the ...

  • The Accidental Virgin

    Valerie Frankel

    From: Venus, Goddess of Love, 120 Main, Mt. Olympus To: Stacy Temple, lapsed temptress Stacy, Stacy, Stacy. You were so promising at the beginning: Sexy, smart, personable and funny. Great on dates and really great afterward-if you know w...

  • Transformers: Fallen Angel

    Simon Furman

  • Transformers: Target 2006

    Simon Furman

  • A Disagreement With Death

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    Strange have been the travels of Wuntvor in his search of a cure for his master the mighty mage Ebenezum's malady of magicks. Yet, stranger still the road that lies ahead.For Wunt has caught the cold eye of Death himself, who seeks to add the Eternal...

  • Kidnapped!

    Larry Mike Garmon

  • The Scent of Wet Earth in August

    Feryal Ali Gauhar

    A lyrical exploration of desire and loss set in present day Lahore. Kuchan Miran Shah had seen better days. Filled with built centuries ago by courtiers for courtesans, it is now a place frequented by drug addicts and dropouts. Here, set amidst Charl...

  • Murder Most Indiscreet

    Mona Gedney
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    Few tears are shed the night the debauched Lord Palmering is poisoned at Almack's, his finger pointing toward his astonished wife in accusation. Rose Battinger is certain her shy sister is no assassin, and she's determined to prove it by re-enacting ...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Deep Sea Diver

    James Gelsey

    SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past three generations. The snack-sniffing sleuth and his pals are in the midst of a huge popularity boom.

    Ahoy there, Scooby! The famous dog detective and his mates a...

  • Shadow of the Storm

    Kurt R.A. Giambastiani

    Third in the highly acclaimed Fallen Cloud Saga...

    President George Custer is prepared to wage war against the Indian nations of the Cheyenne Alliance for possession of the unsettled frontier-unaware that his only son lives among them and fi...

  • Fallam's Secret

    Denise Giardina

    A master storyteller delivers an historical novel with a twist-what will become of a modern American woman in Cromwell's England? Returning home to West Virginia after her beloved Uncle John's death, Lydde finds that he has left her an odd legacy: a ...

  • The Destiny

    Kathleen Givens

    Twin brothers. Two warriors. The Legend introduced the Highland prophecy that bound the MacCurrie men to battle, danger, and the fiery women they dared to love. Now the adventure continues in Kathleen Givens's tale of strangers whose lives are destin...

  • Over His Dead Body

    Leslie Glass

    Cassandra Sales is a woman with a gift for nurturing things--her husband, the successful wine importer; her two adult children; the fabulous flowers in her garden. After twenty-six years of marriage, however, Cassie's husband, Mitch, is spending more...

  • Flight

    Victoria Glendinning

    From the award-winning author of Electricity - an absorbing and finely-drawn tale of professional and personal romance in modern Europe. Martagon, a young and talented engineer and a loner by nature, has devoted his life to his career -- occasionally...

  • Renegade Millionaire

    Kristi Gold

    A stranger's kiss on New Year's Eve had Joanna Blake nearly swooning -- the last thing the struggling midwife needed. She never dreamed they'd meet again in a hospital delivery room, where she'd be working at the side of sexy-as-sin Dr. Rio Madrid, a...

  • Monster Island

    Christopher Golden; Thomas E. Sniegoski

    "You never know until you're tested." -- Doyle, "Hero" Since he arrived in Los Angeles, Angel's mission has been to help the helpless. He has saved countless innocents in his city. However, one escaped his grasp: Doyle, the half-demon who came to ...

  • The Last Witness

    Joel Goldman

    Kansas City trial attorney Lou Mason is back ... and this time, it's personal. Hired to defend the accused murderer of local lawyer and political fixer Jack Cullan, he finds himself putting everything on the line to exonerate none other than his frie...

  • Everything I Ever Wanted

    Jo Goodman

    Bestselling author Jo Goodman weaves breathless sensuality, colorful history, and a dash of suspense into her captivating new quartet featuring the daring gentlemen of the Compass Club. Now follow Matthew Forrester, Earl of Southerton -- otherwise kn...

  • Widow of Jerusalem

    Alan Gordon

    1204 A.D. The Fools' Guild is on the run from an increasingly intolerant Church. Arriving too late at the Guildhall to join them, the jester couple Theophilos and Claudia and their newborn daughter Portia must now flee the Papal army, having first ri...

  • A Good Night's Sleep

    Sharon Gordon

  • Keeping Clean

    Sharon Gordon

  • Picture Me Dead

    Heather Graham

    Ashley Montague is nearing the end of her police training -- but nothing has prepared this rookie for the rite of passage that will take her on a deadly ride into the underbelly of Miami's drug world. It begins with the shocking discovery of a body o...

  • Dark Angel

    Lynne Graham

    KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR...OR AVENGING ANGEL? Five years ago Luciano de Valenza had rescued the Linwood family's failing wine business. In the process, he'd swept young, impressionable Kerry Linwood off her feet. But shockingly, when money wa...

  • Abigail Muchmore

    Lois G. Grambling

  • Beneath a Silent Moon

    Tracy Grant / Teresa Grant / Anna Grant

    London, 1817: Under cover of night, a cloaked stranger steals into the city to perform a grim task that began in the shadows of the past... On the same evening, amid the splendor that is Glenister House, London's beau monde celebrates, still flush...

  • The Fifth Angel

    Tim Green

    Jack Ruskin believed in the letter of the law. Until a criminal shattered his life and walked out of court a free man. Now, in his big, empty suburban house, Jack must act on his grief, anger, and outrage. A former prosecutor, Jack is sure he can get...

  • The Nightspinners

    Lucretia Walsh Grindle

    "Without so much as a motion or a sound, Marina and I are weaving words. We are sliding them along the bar of light from the hall that filters under the door. We are sending phrases, paragraphs, laughter, faster and faster, like flights of moths acro...

  • Lord of Stormweather

    Dave Gross
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    THAMALON USKEVREN II The heir to the Uskevren fortune never expected in herit so much so soon. After a sorcerous attack on Stormweather Towers cuts the family in half; Tamlin must learn to lead the survivors before a deadly assassin finishes the jo...

  • Minnesota

    JoAnn A. Grote

    In 1877, the citizens of Chippewa Falls, Minnesota, are recovering from the devastation of a five-year grasshopper infestation. Throughout the years that follow, countless hardships, trials, and life-threatening dangers will plague the settlers as th...

  • Tropic of Night

    Michael Gruber

    Jane Doe was a promising anthropologist, an expert on shamanism. Now she's nothing, a shadow: after faking her own suicide, she's living under an assumed identity in Miami with a little girl to protect. Everyone thinks she's dead. Or so she hopes. ...

  • Operation Ocean Watch

    S.M. Gunn

    America's most elite fighting force, the U.S. Navy SEALs are on the move -- taking the war to a fanatical enemy intent on the total annihilation of freedom. TARGET: TERROR! Death is riding the waters. An enemy stockpile of virulent biological w...

  • Animal Surprise!

    Christopher Gunson

  • Gaspard and Lisa's Rainy Day

    Anne Gutman

    Gaspard and Lisa, best friends, are stuck inside Lisa’s grandmother’s house one rainy afternoon with nothing to do. They try to bake a cake, until Grandma sees the mess they’ve made in the kitchen. Then, they start a game of tennis in the dinin...

  • Mickey & Me

    Dan Gutman

    When Joe Stoshack's dad ends up in the hospital after a car accident, he has two words to say to his son: Mickey Mantle. For Stosh has a special power -- with a baseball card in hand, he can travel back in time. And his dad has a rare card -- Mantle'...

  • Sugar Skull

    Denise Hamilton

    When a distraught father breaks past security to beg for her help, Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond can't refuse. His daughter, caught up in the rough "squatter" lifestyle, is missing - and Eve, sensing a scoop, wants to know why a privileged t...

  • The Spaniard's Woman

    Diana Hamilton

    Sebastian Garcia is shaken by the overwhelming attraction he feels for Rosie Lambert. Maybe it's because she seems innocent and trustworthy, so unlike the many fortune hunters who've pursued him before? Soon Sebastian makes Rosie his woman...

  • The Trouble with Normal

    Charise Mericle Harper

  • The Irish Bride

    Alexis Harrington

    SHE VOWED NEVER TO SURRENDER TO HIM. Farrell Kirwan thought she was in love with Liam O'Rourke, not his wild and unpredictable brother Aidan. But when a family crisis forces her hand, she finds herself Aidan's wife, boarding a ship bound for Ameri...

  • Something Wiccan This Way Comes

    Emma Harrison

    Sister Wiccas gather round. By our power we are bound. Hand in hand and heart to heart, force all evil to depart!

    Paige Matthews is new to the whole "Power of Three" thing, and looking to explore her powers. So when she reads of a Wiccan conv...

  • The Monster in Me

    Mette Ivie Harrison

    In a small town near Salt Lake City, Utah, a caring foster family and her love of running help twelve-year-old Natalie Wills feel that she can be part of normal life, despite having been raised by a drug addicted mother....

  • Engaged to Die

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    Love is in the air -- but alas, so is murder When wealthy, widowed art patron Virginia Neville officially announces her engagement to Jake O'Neill--her handsome, charming, and much younger fiance--at a gala gallery opening, not all the gathered fr...

  • A Love Worth Waiting For

    Jillian Hart

    Jaded jet-setter Noah Ashton arrived in Montana with the sole purpose of making sure his beloved grandmother was not marrying a man out to steal her fortune. However, when he experienced a life-threatening crisis, the last person he expected to lean ...

  • Geography Club

    Brent Hartinger

    Russel Middlebrook is convinced he's the only gay kid at Goodkind High School. Then his online gay chat buddy turns out to be none other than Kevin, the popular but closeted star of the school's baseball team. Soon Russel meets other gay students...

  • One Last Mirror

    Andrew Harvey

  • Earthquakes

    Deborah Heiligman

    Learn more about these destructive forces! The Scholastic Science Readers series was created especially to bring exciting nonfiction to beginning readers. Illustrated with full-color photographs.

    From faults to plate tectonics, this simple int...

  • Cloak and Dagger

    John Helfers

    Net Force Explorer Daniel Sanchez finds himself in a wealth of trouble when a game of hide-and-seek on the Web leads to a breach of confidential Net Force files involving the CIA, forcing the Explorers to find the real culprit and clear Daniel's name...

  • The Rescuer

    Dee Henderson

    He's running away... Stephen O'Malley is a paramedic. He's been rescuing people all his life. But he's on the run now--from the burden of his profession, from the grief of losing his sister, from a God he doesn't want to trust. He paused to help ...

  • Thorn in My Heart

    Liz Curtis Higgs

    In the autumn of 1788, amid the moors and glens of the Scottish Lowlands, two brothers fight to claim one father's blessing, two sisters long to claim one man's heart. Leana slipped beneath the woolen covers, leaving one taper burning high on the ...