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  • Michel Gay

    In a not-too-scary ghost story, Zee the Zebra gets mad when his parents won't let him watch a scary movie with them, so he dresses up like a ghost to show them that he is not scared, but things don't go quite as planned....



  • Eloisa James

    Helene, the Countess Godwin, knows there is nothing more unbearably tedious than a virtuous woman. After all, she's been one for ten long years while her scoundrel of a husband lives with strumpets and causes scandal after scandal. So she decides...



  • Naomi Nash

    Posing as a witch, outcast high school coed Vickie Marotti attempts to use street magic and a dangerous persona to make her life easier, that is, until popular upperclassman Gio Carson sees through her smoke and mirrors. Original....




  • Ben Pearson

    Rich Mullins was more than a musician. He was a poet and thinker who left behind a timeless legacy. As a columnist for Release magazine for nearly six years, Rich shared his musings on faith and life, conveying the wonder and awesomeness of his God w...



  • Tracy Price-Thompson

    Embracing the shattered pieces of the soul and championing the resilient nature of the heart, A Woman’s Worth takes readers on a journey of startling depth. From a speakeasy whorehouse in the bottoms of Alabama to a luxurious high-rise apartment in...



  • Tony Abbott

    A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon!Keeah, a junior wizard, has always dreamed of the day she would receive her Wizardbook. So when her mother presents her first one, Keeah is overjoyed. But what she doesn't realize is how...



  • Robert L. Wise

    The story of one family's struggle for survival in an apocalyptic world -- where one choice will determine their future....



  • Don J. Snyder

    A moving novel about love, loss, and an extraordinary lifelong passion for golf, by the acclaimed author of The Cliff Walk and Fallen Angel.Ross Lansdale never knew his mother and father and grew up at St. Luke's Orphanage for Boys in the 1950s. The ...



  • Jonathon Scott Fuqua

    In a poignant story of a family struggling against loss -- and a boy who would be a superhero -- Jonathon Scott Fuqua evokes, in rich detail, the long-ago era of the 1950s.

    He looked at her. "Minnie, have you ever wondered if maybe Mom’s...




  • Catherine Palmer

    Olivia Hewes has one dream: to make Chatham Manor's wool-producing venture profitable. When she meets Randolph Sherbourne, the heir of her largest competitor, the two are drawn toward a forbidden love that will mean betraying both their families and ...




  • Lucinda Rosenfeld

    You have to love her, even when you’re laughing at her -- Phoebe Fine, that is, the star of this hilariously eccentric and affecting new novel.

    On the cusp of thirty, Phoebe has fled the high life and, ultimately, the no life of trying and f...



  • Ali Smith

    From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made. What happens when you run into Death in a busy train stat...




  • Tori Carrington

    WALK. DON'T RUN.... Whatever was going to happen, Aidan Kendall had decided to stay and ride it out. The truth was, he was tired of running. Tired of packing up his suitcase and hitting the road to nowhere. Tired of being alone, keeping people at ...



  • Rosanne Bittner

    With rough miners stampeding to the Klondike's golden hills as her shipmates, Elizabeth Breckenridge sets sail for Alaska to find her brother in Dawson. But when Elizabeth falls overboard midjourney, she is rescued by a man very unlike her minister b...



  • Maribeth Boelts

    Desperately wanting the gold sticker for the last day of the school year, James is determined to do nothing wrong all day so that he can achieve his goal--even if that means no burping, spitting, or talking during Silent Reading....



  • Inez Snyder



  • Heather Tekavec

    When all the animals on the farm decide that the horrible smell is coming from the new baby piglet, they collectively decide to help rid him of his odor by washing him, covering him in hay, and even decorating him with flowers to help improve his nat...



  • Liz Maverick

    A novel about life, love, and the pursuit of the perfect pair of heels Hayley Jane Smith doesn't want much. Well she does want a new job, ever since she asked for a raise and was fired on the spot. And she wants a certain ruggedly handsome detecti...



  • Richard A. Knaak

    Many months have passed since the cataclysmic Battle of Mount Hyjal, where the demonic Burning Legion was banished from Azeroth forever. But now, a mysterious energy rift within the mountains of Kalimdor propels three former warriors into the distant...



  • Darcy Cosper

    SEVENTEEN WEDDINGS. SIX MONTHS. ON THE STRONG SURVIVE. Joy Silverman and her boyfriend, Gabriel Winslow, seem perfect for each other. Living together in New York City, they have everything they want and everything in common--most important, that nei...



  • Jane Feather

    In this dazzling finale to the latest trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather, the inimitable, anonymous Duncan sisters continue to earn a living--and a reputation--with their clandestine matchmaking service. But a handsome new cl...



  • Barbara Metzger

    When Robert Rothmore, Earl of Rockford, receives word that a neighbor has taken his son, he hastily vows to enforce the kidnapping laws. But he quickly discovers that widowed Alissa Henning is no criminal. Instead she is exactly the kind of woman who...



  • Jan Fearnley

    A little one’s unbridled enthusiasm is a mother’s special challenge in this tender, amusing story that offers a sweet final twist.

    Wilf is a little mouse who is bursting with energy and full of fun. He loves to run and skip and climb and j...



  • Claire Delacroix

    Dear Reader, Alluring and dangerous, the Hawk of Inverfyre came to rest at my father's house, his motives unknown. His seduction was breathtaking. I resisted him, this enigmatic warrior, but his kiss transported me to a time and place where his re...



  • Susan Verlander

    Alarms ring, birds sing. Traffic cops twirl, street sweepers swirl! It's morning in the city! This colorful picture book brings the sounds, sights and rhythms of the busy city to life. Its zingy text and zippy pictures make it perfect for very young ...




  • Aaron Hamburger

    The ten stories in The View from Stalin’s Head unfold in the post"Cold War Prague of the 1990s -- a magnet not only for artists and writers but also for American tourists and college grad deadbeats, a city with a glorious yet sometimes shameful h...



  • Laura MacDonald

    Saving Nurse Ryan After two years as a young widow, nurse Kate Ryan doesn't expect to find -- or want -- another man. She puts all her energy into her children and into the dramas and triumphs of the maternity department she runs. But then she ...



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

    Hlondeth A city populated by the humanoid serpents known as the yuan-ti, and ruled by House Extaminos The powerful House of Serpents, and the ultimate target of The Pox A human cult whose members worship the goddess of plague and disease, an...



  • Stella Cameron

    The Marquis of Granville's deadly efficiency makes him invaluable to the Crown. But his latest mission has nothing to do with his work for England and everything to do with avenging the murder of two members of his family. Killing would be too go...



  • Emma Chichester Clark

    Daisy is Arthur’s dog, and she’s devoted to him. But she’s very old, and lately she’s finding it hard to keep up with Arthur. One night, after she goes to sleep as usual, she wakes up in heaven. Heaven is a wonderful place, and Daisy loves it...



  • Lisa Higdon

    SHE RISKED HER VIRTUE Penniless and with her livelihood in jeopardy, American actress Laura Lancaster found herself stranded in London -- and faced with the degrading prospect of becoming a wealthy man's concubine just to survive. TO SAVE HI...



  • Andrew Taylor

    England 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city's notorious Seven Dials district. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of...



  • Jessica Bird

    She thought she had everything she ever wanted-- until she met the only man she'd ever need. . . . Forced into the spotlight by her fabulous wealth, heiress Grace Hall isn't always prepared for the consequences of her standing. When a string of ...



  • Timothy Harris

    Thomas Kyd is a recovering alcoholic still haunted by a terrible crime he committed in Vietnam involving a child. When 14-year-old Hugo Vine tries to hire him to spy on his movie star mother, Sally Vine, and her new husband, Kyd refuses to work for a...



  • Glenda Garland

    A MAN OF HONOR Though he fought bravely for King and Country, Lord Thomas Dashley lost a friend and fellow officer to a stealthy French attack...and it is whispered that he was to blame. He has returned to England under suspicion but determined to e...



  • Sasha Lord

    THEIR LOVE IS AS TUMULTUOUS AS THE WIND-WHIPPED SKY...AND AS TENDER AS THE SUN'S CARESS. She is Kalial, golden princess of a legendary forest. living among the trees, her female form disguised in male garb, a jaguar at her side, she has the power ...



  • Maryjanice Davidson

    From Just-Laid-Off Secretary to Queen of the Undead... It's been a helluva week for Betsy Taylor. First, she loses her job. Then, to top things off, she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites (besides waking up in the morgue dressed in ...



  • Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #428-434. What is the shocking secret behind Azazel and what does it have to do with Nightcrawler? Plus, Juggernaut and Northstar take on the Canadian Alpha Flight....



  • Nicola Marsh

    Hired...by an Australian tycoon! Kara Roberts has been roped into a speed-dating evening -- and is shocked to discover that one of her dates is Matt Byrne, her ex-boyfriend! Matt's now a successful -- and very sexy -- lawyer, and as he only requir...



  • Arlene James

    DEEP IN THE HEART Billionaire Lucien Tyrone could have any woman he wanted, anytime, from anywhere in the world. But the moment he met Avis Lorimer on a London-bound flight, he knew he'd met his match. For this million-dollar heiress didn't nee...



  • Cynthia Rutledge

    FROM PRINCESS TO PAUPER...TO WIFE? After a disappointing relationship, heiress Libby Carlyle needed to change her life. So she winged a prayer heavenward and traded places with her less privileged best friend. No sooner did she step into her new w...



  • Chris Haslam

    Martin Brock is living a wasted life. He wants to be happy. He wants to have a girlfriend who can stand to be near him. He wants his friends to respect him. Burned out and self-deluded, he takes each day as it comes, dealing low-quality cocaine to to...



  • Graeme Base

    In a far-off desert world, evolution has taken an unexpected turn. The dominant life form is a creature covered in fur with steel panels beneath. It gnaws on bones and sniffs lampposts but fills up on oil, brake fluid, and petrol to keep running. And...



  • Tom Dolby

    In the tradition of Bright Lights, Big City and Less Than Zero, Tom Dolby has written a searing debut novel about going after what you really want without losing yourself in the process. Powerfully written, keenly felt, The Trouble Boy heralds an exc...



  • Brian Freemantle

    When Moscow's Organized Crime Bureau chief Dimitri Danilov teams up once more with William Cowley, head of the FBI's Russian desk, their attempt to thwart a unified global mafia makes for Brian Freemantle's most unique and explosive Danilov/Cowley th...



  • Bob Budiansky

    The collections of the classic comic strips from the 80s continue with one of the most dramatic and searing slices of Transformers action ever put to print!

    As the Autobots unveil their new secret weapon, Omega Supreme, and the stage is set for th...




  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Torey Mitchell witnessed the cold-blooded murder of a man she didn't know - and her stepfather, who committed the crime, tries to convince her that what she saw makes her just as guilty as he. Terrified, she runs away - and ends up in the loving home...



  • Kirsten Hall

    My First Readers series is perfect for children who are learning to read.

    Easy-to-read text, a short-story format, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency.

    When he loses a too...



  • Sofie Laguna

    Lily the hippo discovers that there's a time and a place for her high-volume gifts in this delightful celebration of standing out from the crowd.

    Lily Hippo is too loud. She sings too loudly, she laughs too loudly, and everyone knows when she ...



  • Mindy Neff

    July 19, 1983... The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers--Seattle's Kennedys. Their "compound"--elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart. Twenty years later... Their children were reunited. Repressed ...



  • Inez Snyder



  • Georgina Gentry

    A Union Brave A Rebel soldier killed his brother. Now the fires of revenge burn in the soul of Creek warrior Yellow Jacket as he prepares to join his tribe in battle against his sworn enemies. To keep their plans secret, Yellow Jacket is forced to t...



  • Richard Croker

    It was the battle that altered the tides of war ... and the fate of a nation. On September 17, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Maryland, more than 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed or wounded, making the Battle of Antietam the bloodiest day i...



  • Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...



  • John Vornholt

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...



  • Adele Geras

    Tilly loves her ballet class.  What could be more fun?  She gets to wear special clothes, try out fancy new positions, and do her best cat impression.  But, when it's time for the big recital, Tilly learns another aspect of ballet: the preperfo...




  • Walter Simonson

    Spanning epic tales of heroism and treachery, love and war, writer/artist Walter Simonson's groundbreaking work on THE MIGHTY THOR is regarded as that long-running title's definitive run. From the majesty and mystery of Asgard to the gritty streets o...



  • Kasey Michaels

    One Crazy Summer If Molly Preston marches to the beat of a different drummer, it's probably a naked bongo player. Gorgeous and free-spirited, Molly's set for life--provided she stays employed ten months out of the year as stipulated in her parents...



  • Kate Silver

    She Picked His Pocket... Orphaned and penniless, Miriame Dardagny has learned to survive in the back alleys of Paris using her wits and quick fingers, desperately seeking any chance to escape her fate. Jaded as she is, however, she cannot leave a ba...



  • Francine Pascal

    The sight of blood makes my heart race. The slightest noise makes my palms sweat. A tiny spider makes my stomach drop. Everything frightens me. And I've never been happier....



  • Valerie Hobbs

    After her beloved Gran dies, fifteen-year-old Liv goes to California to live with the father she has never known and must adjust to his gruff ways and his life as an abalone diver, so different from her life in New York City. By the author of Car...



  • Jeff Rovin

    An experimental U.S. Submarine, the Tempest D, with a propulsion system five-times-faster than traditional drives is to be tested in the remote South Polar waters. Chinese intelligence learns of the test and sends their own submarine to observe. When...



  • Laura Wilson

    Alice Conway's world was shattered when her fiance, famous comic Lenny Maxted, committed suicide. Now it's seven years later, and Alice is living quietly on an isolated farm in Oxfordshire, trying to forget the pain of her past--until an anonymous cl...




  • Ann Halam

    A gripping, deeply moving adventure raises startling questions about what it means to be human. Taylor Walker seems like any ordinary 14-year-old. Ordinary -- if you overlook the fact that she lives on the island of Borneo, on a primate reserve run b...



  • Raymond E. Feist

    Evil has come to a distant land high among the snow-capped mountains of Midkemia, as an exterminating army wearing the colors of the Duke of Olasko razes village after village, slaughtering men, women, and children without mercy. And when the carnage...



  • Anne Perry
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    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...



  • Victoria Hinshaw
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    Practical Anne Talcott thinks she wants a staid, conventional husband to provide her with a home and children, but when the roguish Lord Dashworth sets out to prove that Anne secretly yearns for passion and adventure, he learns that he suddenly longs...



  • Emily Hendrickson

    Between the Covers Prim and proper, Tabitha Herbert seems to everything one would expect in a rector's daughter, but her passionate thirst for knowledge and adventure belies her appearance. So when she's asked to catalogue a collection of ...



  • S.W. Hubbard

    DECENT PEOPLE. DESPERATE MEASURES. The folks of remote, mountainous Trout Run, New York, are shocked when Mary Pat Sheehan's body is found in her crashed car. They're even more stunned when an autopsy reveals it wasn't the crash that killed her --...



  • Michael Robotham

    London psychiatrist Joseph O'Loughlin seems to have the perfect life. He has a beautiful wife, an adoring daughter, and a thriving practice to which he brings great skill and compassion. But he's also facing a future dimmed by Parkinson's disease. An...



  • Timothy Zahn

    A dangerous, mission to salvage a piece of Jedi past threatens to make Luke and Mara Jade Skywalker history.... After fifty years, the remains of Outbound Flight--a pioneering Jedi expedition viciously destroyed by the alien warlord Thrawn--have ...



  • Diane Wolkstein

    At the beginning of the world, it was dark and silent and nothing stirred anywhere, until a voice roused the sleeping Sun Mother in the sky, telling her it was time to wake up all the creatures of the earth.

    The indigenous people of Austral...



  • Mary Pope Osborne

    In a land lost in mist, in a time before time, there is a powerful Sword of Light. Now Merlin the Magician needs that sword for the good of all Camelot. But who can go on this dangerous mission? Merlin turns again to Jack and Annie - two modern kids ...



  • Naomi Hirahara

    Hiroshima 1945. Los Angeles 1999. A summer of war. A summer of secrets. A summer of revenge. In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese American gardener, his lawn mower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But whi...



  • Jean Barrett

    IF ONLY HE COULD REMEMBER... He called himself Shane, but Eden Hawke knew he'd made it up. The gorgeous stranger had collapsed at her door in the middle of the night, and it was selfishness that made her take him in. For in his pocket he'd carried...



  • Karen V. Siplin

    Karen Siplin, whose first novel, His Insignificant Other, earned her critical praise from her peers and fans, presents Such a Girl -- a sexy and engaging new novel. In Such a Girl, Siplin brings to vivid life the story of a woman who ends a love affa...



  • Kathe Koja

    Rachel is happiest when she's volunteering at the animal shelter, especially after she meets the feral collie she names Grrl; they're both angry and alone. When a teacher encourages her to write about it, Rachel finds another outlet for her pain and ...



  • Kristin Gabriel

    Josie's Scheme for Seduction 1. Sneak into Adam's apartment 2. Slip out of her clothes and under the sheets 3. Have the best sex of her life... with the wrong man? Librarian Josie Sinclair has never been wild or spontaneous...but she's about ...





  • Jill Esbaum

    A summer trip abounding in tomatoes and mischief

    Annabelle and her little brother, Willie, are spending the week at Granny's. Annabelle, who has promised to keep her brother out of trouble, can't decide which is worse: being responsible for Wi...




  • Caren Lissner

    Gert Healy thought she was finished with dating. She thought she'd never again have to worry about what to wear and what to say and whether she was pretty enough. She thought that she'd be picking out strollers and booties for the children she and he...



  • Lillian Stewart Carl
    in

    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...



  • Kelly Harte

    BIRDS OF A FEATHER? Tao Tandy can't wait to flee her sleepy life (safe fiance, dead-end job) and migrate to the big city to find fame and fortune as a food photographer. First, however, she has to find somewhere to live.... Luck is on her side ...



  • Marvel Book Group

    Including not one, but two titanic team-ups featuring everyone's favorite wall-crawler. Spider-Man goes to Japan to rescue a captured Wolverine, and it's up to the duo to solve a mystery in the land of the Rising Sun. Plus: Spider-Man and Daredevil t...



  • David Liss

    Moments after his conviction for a murder he did not commit, at a trial presided over by a judge determined to find him guilty, Benjamin Weaver is accosted by a stranger who cunningly slips a lockpick and a file into his hands. In an instant he under...




  • Susan Stephens

    The Ford family caused Xavier Bordiu's brother's death. Now Sophie Ford works for him! Tempted by her beauty, Xavier will take his revenge in the most pleasurable way... Sophie is still a virgin. But, as Xavier's skillful seduction awa...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    Featuring contributions by such noted science fiction authors as Timothy Zahn, Julie E. Czerneda, and Gregory Benford, fourteen stories center around space stations throughout the galaxy, controlled by both humans and aliens, that are meccas for prof...



  • Don Pendleton

    A customs bust in New York alerts Mack Bolan to a heroin smuggling operation run by Russian gangsters. His mission is three pronged: find the brain behind the enterprise, smash the network that stretches from New York to Moscow and protect the beauti...



  • Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

    A young man predicts a murder and identifies the perpetrator -- himself -- in this third entry in the critically acclaimed Brazilian crime seriesWhen a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story, Chief Espinosa of the Copacabana ...



  • Linda Bruckheimer

    Rebecca Jean Wooten St. Clair and her sister, Carleen, pack up their two teenage daughters and leave California via Route 66 for Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky, where they will celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of their mother, Lila Mae. Waiting for...



  • Steven Banks

    Squidward is doing some cleaning and gives SpongeBob SquarePants an old toy guitar to get him out of his tentacles for the day. But when SpongeBob and Patrick crank up the guitar, it breaks-and the guitar just keeps playing and playing....



  • Emily Giffin

    Meet Rachel White, a young attorney living and working Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl--until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend Darcy throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed w...




  • Patrick A. Davis

    Air Force investigator Martin Collins is used to bucking the system in the name of justice. But when he is called on to investigate the torture-style slaying of Major Franklin Talbot, Collins is embroiled in the most controversial case of his career....



  • Linda Conrad

    THE FORBIDDEN DANCE For an advice columnist, Lainie Gardner was suddenly without sound thought but on sensory overload when she found herself dancing in Sloan Abbott's arms. Theirs was an impossible relationship -- he, the Texas Ranger protector; ...



  • Jake Logan

    This squaw's got Slocum running from both sides of the law!A spunky squaw makes the injured Slocum an offer he can't refuse: her very special care for his protection against the angry Cayuse braves and the white bounty hunters on their trail....



  • Mary Packard

    Young children wil love larning to read with these storybooks. Once they can recognize and identify the words used to tell each story, the will be able to successfully read on their own. Features a word list....



  • Pamela Griffin

    A CAT BURGLAR IS AT LARGE... ...and he always leaves a yellow rose at the scene of his crime. Florist Marissa Hughes becomes suspicious of Wadleyville's newest resident, a handsome Latino who routinely requests a single yellow rose when he visits ...



  • Kate Constable

    Kate Constable's lyrical, acclaimed fantasy debut--now in paperback!

    Calwyn has never been beyond the high ice-wall that guards the sisters of Antaris from the world of Tremaris. She knows only the rounds of her life as a novice ice priestess,...



  • Shelby Lewis

    Shop owner Holly Hunter thought she liked the quiet life her antique lace business provided....Until sinewy Jake Fishbone walked in. A man clouded in mystery, he quickly captures her curiosity - and her heart. Their budding romance runs off course wh...



  • Amanda Stevens

    HE WAS THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY MALE The kind a small-town girl like Marly Jessop had rarely -- if ever -- seen in the flesh. Deacon Cage arrived in Mission Creek, Texas, like a specter in the night, stealthy and secretive. And his ability to stir M...



  • Don Pendleton

    DAMAGE CONTROL Coordinated strikes have begun against the governments of major Latin American countries. Simultaneously, Mexico City as well as key cities along the U.S. border from Miami to Los Angeles are being overrun in a massive incursion. To...



  • Philip Gulley

    “In a league with Jan Karon’s Mitford series . . . readers who seek pleasant, witty and occasionally poignant fiction will delight in this book.” -- Publishers WeeklyIt’s another bustling year in the lives of this quirky Quake...



  • Lucy Monroe
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    The Sicilian's most convenient bride... Hope Bishop is stunned when darkly sexy Sicilian tycoon Luciano di Valerio proposes marriage. Brought up by her wealthy but distant grandfather, she is used to fading into the background and being ignore...



  • Jo Manning

    The author of Seducing Mr. Heywood returns with another amazing romance.

    Jane Holland's mother warned her not to visit her relatives in Sicily when she went to Europe during college break, but when Jane reached Rome she found herself strangely dra...



  • Harper Allen

    A FATHER'S DUTY Former hostage negotiator Gabe Riggs wanted nothing to do with spoiled socialite Caro Moore, the ice princess who'd left him high and dry after one night of fiery passion. But a year later, she came begging for the rugged Navajo sp...



  • Jenna Mills

    SOMEONE WAS GOING TO DIE.... And it would be Ethan Carrington if Brenna Scott didn't warn him in time. But the handsome federal prosecutor didn't believe in her psychic gifts until it was too late and they were both plunged into mortal peril. E...



  • Gilbert Morris

    Book 31 of House of Winslow. Jennifer Winslow had known only the finest life had to offer--until her family lost everything in the crash of '29. Moving from New York to a small farm in Georgia, Jenny struggles to adapt to her tough new life. Then, th...



  • Susan Mallery

    "I'M WHAT...?" No, not pregnant, thank heavens. Emma would have known that. But married? Well, if the man standing before her -- the very love of her college life -- was to be believed, she was. And suddenly he was claiming to be a des...



  • Zakes Mda

    In a remote mountain village in Lesotho, the beautiful Dikosha lives for dancing and for song, setting herself apart from her fellow villagers. Her twin brother, Radisene, works in the lowland capital of Maseru, struggling amid political upheaval to ...



  • Laura Kinsale

    From Laura Kinsale, the New York Times bestselling author of For My Lady's Heart, comes the novel fans have been waiting for--an extraordinary tale of consuming love and fiery passion between a dashing, dangerous man and the beautiful woman who stand...



  • Beverly Swerling

    From the author of the acclaimed novel City of Dreams, the passionate story of Quentin Hale and Nicole Crane, set against the bloody and turbulent backdrop of the French and Indian War.1754. In a low-lying glen in Ohio Country, where both the French ...



  • Stephen Frey

    His novels of big money and murder in the world of finance have earned New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey a richly deserved reputation as a master of suspense who always delivers a high yield. Now he raises the stakes, and the risk factor...



  • Jane Blackwood

    LEAVE IT TO HER TO FALL FOR A DEAD GUY... So cooking for a recluse isn't exactly the dream job of the century. That's okay with Rose Pisano. The outrageous salary he's offering more than makes up for the boring factor--and just may make her dream ...



  • Katie MacAlister

    Allegra's Dictionary of the Paranormal Dark One n. [Origin Czech, also known as vampires.] A Moravian Dark One is doomed to spend his lifetime cruising the singles' scene in search of the one woman who can redeem his soul. You think dating is hard...



  • Janet Chapman

    The first in a dazzling duo of romances featuring two sisters from the ruggedly beautiful Maine coast...and the men who sweep them away. Rachel Foster wishes Sub Rosa -- the seaside mansion she helped her father build and the scene of a terrible ...



  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Finding Love In Holly Springs... Once upon a time, Janey Hart eloped... with the wrong man. Twelve years later the proud and feisty Janey is widowed, running a bakery, raising her son -- and fighting her reckless streak. Until she runs smack-dab ...



  • Elizabeth Harbison

    FROM PLAIN JANE TO PRINCESS? Amy Scott had been more at home sitting in her small-town bookshop than she'd ever be on the imperial throne of Lufthania. But according to heart-stoppingly-handsome Crown Prince Wilhelm, that is exactly where the stri...



  • George Edward Stanley

    ATTACKED! Someone knocked out Todd and Noelle's friend Pops Verner, the night watchman at the department store, and stole his treasured pocket watch. He's pretty sure the robber is one of three men who work in the storeroom. But how can he figure ou...




  • Lori Foster

    Jaded bounty hunter Bryan Kelly is head-over-hormones in lust with a woman...and what she does to his senses is criminal. Double Trouble Bryan Kelly has a few rules. Rule #1: Women are for fun, not commitment. Rule #2: He'll do anything for his tw...



  • Scott Westerfeld

    strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma. time freezes. nobody moves. For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. Only a small group of teenagers know about the secret hour...



  • Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    2005 Gold Medallion Award finalist!
    Be transported once again to the dark and tumultuous times of first-century Jerusalem. Return to the story of Peniel, the no-longer-blind beggar who still longs for the connection of home and family. Meet new ...



  • Irene Brand

    RAINBOWS ALWAYS FOLLOW THE RAIN College sweethearts Amelia Stone and Chase Ramsey had married right after graduation, but infidelity destroyed their young marriage. Now, more than a decade later, severe flooding in West Virginia had brought the...



  • Bette Nordberg

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    Hippolyta was Penthesilea, or ...



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  • Don Coldsmith

    A Quest Into Legend
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  • Thomas Fleming

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  • Peter Tremayne
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