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New Books List: 586 titles

  • Shipwrecked

    Katherine Applegate

    Sharing a beach house for the summer, Kate and Justin find themselves stranded on a tropical island, Chelsea pursues Antonio against her better judgment, and Grace must decide between the bookish Wilton and the hunky Carr....

  • Rule of the Bone

    Russell Banks

    In the tradition Huckleberry Finn and The Catcher in the Rye, Russell Banks’s quintessential novel of a disaffected homeless youth living on the edge of society “redefines the young modern anti-hero. . . . Rule of the Bon...

  • Devil's Hole

    Bill Branon

    Arthur, a former Vietnam sniper and modern-day assassin, kills his contracted hits by causing them to die in the same way they victimized others, but when he accepts a job in Las Vegas, he falls in love and fears he will be destroyed. Reprint....

  • Escape from Silverton

    Will Camp

    Fleeing his ruined fortunes, Blake Corley agrees to drive the Durango stagecoach out of town, carrying a cargo of two dead railroad workers killed in a holdup, a prostitute gone straight, and a black laborer. Original....

  • Cindy's Runaway Colt

    Joanna Campbell

    When Lavinia Townsend accuses her of stealing, Cindy Blake fears she will have to leave Whitebrook Farm for yet another foster home, and when she kidnaps a mistreated horse, she knows her days are numbered. Original....

  • Fortress in the Eye of Time

    C.J. Cherryh

    IT WAS A SHADOW AGE AND SHADOW PLACE Deep in an abandoned, shattered castle, an old man of the Old Magic muttered almost forgotten words. His purpose--to create out of the insubstance of the air, from a shimmering of light and a fluttering of shad...

  • Freshman Summer Special

    Linda A. Cooney

  • The Between

    Tananarive Due

    “An extraordinary work of humane imagination . . . call it magic realism with soul.” -- Locus“Finely honed . . . always engages and frequently surprises.” -- New York Times Book ReviewA man risks his soul and his sanity to save his family fro...

  • Night of the Apocalypse

    Daniel Easterman

    Investigating the murders of four British MI5 agents by British-assisted Irish terrorists, weary agent Declan Carberry oversees a crucial peace conference and is horrified when the woman he loves is kidnapped. Reprint....

  • Final Sacrifice

    Clayton Emery
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy

    Years of fighting have come and gone--but now the last battle must be faced! From frozen mountains to an ocean-drowned forest, from war-torn battlefields to the glowing crypts of Lat-Nam, the Archdruid Greensleeves travels with her ragged troops s...

  • Say You Love Me

    Patricia Hagan

    SHE LEFT IT ALL BEHIND Jacie Calhoun could have become the mistress of a Georgia plantation, married to a man who worshipped her. Instead she was driven to know the truth about her mother. Was she really alive and a captive of the Comanche? HE WA...

  • Safe in America

    Marcie Hershman

    Three generations of the Eichenbaum family are forced to face the same crucial question: How can we keep our loved ones safe when the world at large is beyond our control? In the 1930s, Evan Eichenbaum and his wife, Vera, try to save their Jewish rel...

  • The Jew in the Lotus

    Rodger Kamenetz

    While accompanying eight high"spirited Jewish delegates to Dharamsala, India, for a historic Buddhist"Jewish dialogue with the Dalai Lama, poet Rodger Kamenetz comes to understand the convergence of Buddhist and Jewish thought. Along the way he e...

  • Hostile Witness

    William Lashner

    HE WANTED A WAY OUT...AND A WAY UP, BUT WHEN THE BIG OFFER CAME...IT CAME WITH A PRICE Victor Carl is sick of his loser life. After six thankless years hanging on to his sinking private law practice, the debts are king-size, a partner has flown t...

  • In the Land of the Big Red Apple

    Roger Lea MacBride

    Meet Rose Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder's daughter, and the last of the Little House Girls. Rose is turning nine years old, and it's an exciting time on Rocky Ridge Farm. The Wilders have settled into their new home in the Ozarks, and Rose is helping...

  • Sun Song

    Jean Marzollo

  • Stitches in Time

    Barbara Michaels

    When an antique bridal quilt appears under mysterious circumstances at the vintage clothing shop where Rachel Grant works, she is fascinated. She has never been able to resist handmade textiles from the past, for she believes that through the ages, w...

  • The Great Longing

    Marcel Moring

    When he was 12, Sam van Dijk's parents were killed in a mysterious car accident, and since then he has lost all memory of his childhood. Now in his 30s, alienated from society and adrift in life, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery -- one that ...

  • The Story of the Three Kingdoms

    Walter Dean Myers

    Long ago, when the earth had not settled in its turning and the stars had not found their places in the night sky, there were three kingdoms.

    The first was the kingdom of the forest, ruled by the mighty Elephant. The second was the kingdom o...

  • The Killer

    Chris North

  • Promises to Keep

    Liz Osborne

    A Question Of Trust... Cassie McMahon had always dreamed of a reunion with her father, whom she hadn't seen since she was a child. But her hopes were dashed when she found that his new life in California held no place for her. Hurt and confused, ...

  • Sweet Deceiver

    Angie Ray

    DESIRE'S MASQUERADE It was a risky game, spying for English and French intelligence at the same time, but Hester Tredwell would do anything to keep her struggling family out of debtor's prison. Her inventive duplicity was no match for the boldly s...

  • Lucky

    Sharon Sala

    LUCKY AT CARDS... The one thing Lucky Houston knows is dealing cards. So when she and her two sisters split up, the gambler's youngest daughter heads for Las Vegas. She is determined to make it alone in that legendary city of tawdry glitter, but t...

  • The Terminal Experiment

    Robert J. Sawyer

    Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. But they all have escaped from Hobson's computer into the web-and one of them is a killer....

  • Squire

    Peter Telep

    EVERY KNIGHT NEEDS A SQUIRE, EVEN THE GREATEST KNIGHT OF ALL TIME! WARRING RANDS OF MARAUDIIRS RAVAGED THE LAND. YOUNG CHRISTOPHER HAD SERVED BOTH SIDES, AS SQUIRE TO SAXON AND CELL. ONLY FIFTEEN, HE HAD WADED WITH THE KNIGHTS INTO BATTLE--INTO TH...

  • A Wild Justice

    Craig Thomas

    A NEW KIND OF WAR An American executive in Siberia is murdered. A few days later, at a glittering Washington party, ex-CIA agent John Lock celebrates his sister Beth's birthday. By the next morning, Beth and her husband, Billy Grainger, an importa...

  • Happy Never After

    Kathy Hogan Trocheck

    NUMBER 1 WITH A BULLET Callahan Garrity is a former Atlanta cop, a part-time sleuth and full-time owner of House Mouse, a cleaning service that tidies up after Atlanta's elite. She and her coterie of devoted helpers can ransack a house for clues f...

  • Prairie Knight

    Donna Valentino

    WHAT AN ABSURD FLIGHT OF FANCY... ... A knight in shining armor on the Kansas prairie of 1859! Ever since her young husband's tragic death, Juliette Walburn had denied her sensuous nature and her dreams of love, struggling to be a prim, practi...

  • My Little House Songbook

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Now little listeners can sing along with all of Laura's favorite songs! The happy music of the Ingalls family's evenings come alive in this package that includes My Little House Songbook and a musical tape of 14 songs. Full-color book....

  • Thief of Hearts

    Laurence Yep

    Stacy has always felt she is just like all her friends. She never thought much about being Chinese American, even with her great-grandmother, Tai-Paw, living at home. Then Hong Ch'un came along. Newly arrived from China and paired reluctantly with St...

  • Jackal's Flying Lesson

    Verna Aardema

  • The Only Good Yankee

    Jeff Abbott

    Mirabeau, Texas, is a dynamite little town -- especially when toolsheds, doghouses, and mailboxes mysteriously begin to explode. So far, the sole victim is local librarian Jordan Poteet, struck by a chunk of his girlfriend's mailbox. Yet Jordy gets a...

  • Bonkers Joke Book - Disney's

    Linda Williams Aber

  • A Cat on a Winning Streak

    Lydia Adamson

    COME 7, COME 11, COME, KITTY, KITTY Out-of-work actress Alice Nestleton is willing to go as far as Atlantic City for a gig. Relaxing in a fabulous suite, she is startled by a slinky cat crawling up to her sixteenth-floor window. Alice's quest for ...

  • No Hickory No Dickory No Dock

    John Agard

    Caribbean renditions of nursery rhymes apply the lilting, musical beats of the region to familiar favorites and are accompanied by colorful scratchboard illustrations that highlight such images as Mother Goose playing the marimba....

  • Beirut Blues

    Hanan Al-Shaykh

    With the acclaim won by her first two novels, Hanan al-Shaykh established herself as the Arab world's foremost woman writer. Beirut Blues, published to similar acclaim, further confirms her place in Arabic literature, and brings her writing to a new,...

  • Hideaway

    Rochelle Alers

    NO SECRETS ARE SAFE... Parris Simmons has spent the last ten years hiding. Hiding from her ex-Husband's deadly threats. Hiding from her ex-lover, Martin Cole. Forced to flee West Palm Beach because of another man's evil designs, Parris would never ...

  • Tabby

    Aliki

    Tabby the kitten has a brand-new home, a warm bed, and best of all, a little girl to play with. The pictures tell the story in this wordless book, so even the youngest reader can share Aliki's affectionate look at Tabby's first year with her new fami...

  • Two-by-Two-by-Two

    Jonathan Allen

    A behind-the-scenes look at how all the animals on Noah's Ark spent their rainy days, from penguins bowling to dolphins waterskiing, with more than 150 animals identified with labels and captions. By the illustrator of The Great White Man-Eating ...

  • Doc Sidhe

    Aaron Allston

    THE DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU NOW... Former Olympic athlete Harris Greene's career as a professional kickboxer has just self-destructed, and both his manager and his fiancée Gaby have dumped him Things couldn't get worse, he thought -- but not only did...

  • Jessie

    Judy Alter

    Strong, impulsive, and as daring as any man of her day, Jessie Benton was her father's daughter, and never so much as when she defied him. At seventeen, against Senator Thomas Benton's express wishes, she eloped with the handsome young explorer John ...

  • Five Minutes in Heaven

    Lisa Alther

    The author of Kinflicks narrates the story of a Tennessee woman who comes of age in the fifties and sixties, suffers the early death of her mother, and has relationships with a gay man and a married woman. 35,000 first printing. Tour....

  • Cajun Gingerbread Boy

    Berthe Amoss

  • Taken for Granted

    Caroline Anderson

    After twelve years of marriage, surely Sally wasn't expecting too much that her husband, Dr. Sam Alexander, should remember her thirty-ninth birthday? Yes, he was busy GP, but her life was hectic too! And no, this time he wouldn't win her rou...

  • Sun, Snow, Stars, Sky

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

    Lively, full-color artwork and a question-and-answer format invite children to explore the seasons as they see them change right outside their front door, helping them become aware of the fascinating face of nature....

  • Sam's Wild West Show

    Nancy Antle

  • Dreams of Innocence

    Lisa Appignanesi

    A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN... A MISSING LOVER... A CRYPTIC LETTER.. A DARKLY EROTIC REVELATION The letter arrived unsigned, but it is the only hope journalist Helena Latimer has that her beloved Max Bergmann is still alive. Now driven to search for him,...

  • Wan Hu Is in the Stars

    Jennifer Armstrong

  • Sweet Myth-Tery of Life

    Robert Asprin

    LOVE IS IN THE HEIR When it reigns, it pours all over well-meaning magician Skeeve. Romance, that is. He's a drowning man, fending off a relentless array of suitors. What to do? Should he hop away with Bunny, his beautiful assistant? Drink all nig...

  • Rushing to Paradise

    J.G. Ballard

    "[A] chilling . . . tale about humans who gamely follow their own worst instincts.” -- Chicago Tribune Led by a charismatic and slightly unhinged woman, a group of environmentalists wrest control over a small South Pacific island in hopes of cultiv...

  • Gun Boss

    Jack Ballas

  • A Taste for Burning

    Jo Bannister

    OUT OF THE ASHES A pyromaniac hands the police force of Castlemere a case that becomes more personal and more devastating than any other. Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro, respected for his quiet authority and sound judgment, is suspended from the...

  • Athena

    John Banville

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea comes a mesmerizing novel that is both a literary thriller and a love story as sumptuously perverse as Lolita. • "A strange and dreamlike book ... Banville has a breathtaking style." -- The...

  • Kaleidoscope Century

    John Barnes

    Joshua Ali Quare wakes in 2109 at the age of 140 in a strong youthful body with no memory of his past, to find he is at the center of a vast and deadly conspiracy. The only clues to his identity are the records he has left--messages from the man he o...

  • Wee Little Woman

    Byron Barton

    In rhythmic text and striking pictures, Byron Barton retells the classic story of the wee little woman who lives in a wee little house with a very mischievous wee little cat.

    Mr. Barton's simple words, bold images, and imaginative use of color have...

  • Big Bad Bruce

    Dianne Bates

  • O Greenest Branch!

    Gael Baudino

    A tiny kingdom, frought with internal conflicts and three centuries of drought, embraces the promise of relief by diplomats from the Righteous States of America, and three special people find their lives changed forever. Original....

  • Fine-Feathered Friend

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • The Wager

    Donna Bell
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    When Serena Blessed wins a wager that she will be the first woman to wed, she is pleasantly surprised. Then she discovers that her fiancee is not the man she thought he was ... and is happy to admit defeat in order to win the hand of her true love....

  • Seduction Theory

    Thomas Beller

    "A touching collection of stories about love in the city....[An] exceptionally memorable...spirited collection."―Time

    In Seduction Theory, Thomas Beller writes of lonely friends and groping lovers, of awkward dates and dreamy yearnings of yo...

  • Toads and Diamonds

    Robert Bender

    In a retelling of a classic Perrault fairy tale, Merth is slave to her cruel mother and sister but receives a marvelous talent from an unusual creature, while her greedy sister receives her own reward. By the author-illustrator of....

  • Unjust Death

    Richard Berman

    New York City defense attorney David Cohen must fight to prove the innocence of his client, an urban youth accused of murdering his well-known mother, in the face of myriad powerful forces against him. Original....

  • Barney's Big Balloon

    Mark Bernthal

  • Forgotten Husband

    Helen Bianchin

    They said he was her husband.... But Elise didn't feel married. Nor did she feel pregnant.... The accident had destroyed all memory of the past few months for her and, no matter how hard she tried, she couldn't remember pledging her heart ...

  • Homecoming

    Barbara Bickmore

    Pursuing the career of her dreams, Sydney Hamilton faces disinheritance when she marries against her father's wishes, and after she later is divorced, she returns to her beloved home to defend her legacy. Reprint....

  • White Deer

    John Bierhorst

    "This rich compendium combines Lenape (Delaware) history, an introduction to several storytellers, and storytelling beliefs with a diverse collection of tales....The tales presented here are twentieth-century renderings from many locations, demonstra...

  • A Man Without a Haven

    Beverly Bird

    A WOMAN WITH A MISSION When headstrong Shadow Bedonie set out to uncover the mystery of the artifacts missing from her land, she never expected a confrontation with Mac Tshongely--or the sizzling attraction she felt. Yet despite her suspicions about...

  • Heart Throb

    Carly Bishop

    No one had ever died at her hands... Until now. It wasn't just any patient but Rose Memorial's Chief of Staff who died during surgery. And as the youngest and most inexperienced anesthesiologist, Dr. Joanna Cavendish became the conveni...

  • The Framing Game

    Paul Bishop
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  • The Skeleton in the Closet

    J.R. Black

    Riley and Matt find their routine lives turned upside down by the discovery of a human skeleton behind the wall of their house, bones that somehow they just cannot get rid of, no matter what they do. Original....

  • An Easter Courtship

    Sara Blayne

    HATS OFF...TO LOVE When tragedy ended her engagement seven years before, Lady Jane Ashely left London to live in the country. Now her world was as gray as her unfashionable gown...until a late spring snowstorm brought a knock on her door, a plea f...

  • Ned's New Old Sled

    Robin Bloksberg

  • Annabel Again

    Janice Boland

  • The Savage

    Parris Afton Bonds

    THE VIRGINIA COMPANY OF LONDON SEEKS MAIDS FOR MARRIAGE TO BACHELOR PLANTERS -- MUST BE YOUNG, HANDSOME, AND HONESTLY EDUCATED. Fleeing from arrest in London, Modesty Brown headed for the safety of wedding bliss in the New World. But the saucy wen...

  • Four Elements of Murder

    D.B. Borton

    "Mel had explained to me the whole concept of organic gardening, all about nature and balance and natural enemies. So if the Japanese could send us their beetles, why couldn't they send us a Mothra to eat them? Import quotas?"Death does a land office...

  • In the Face of Death

    Randall Boyll

    Challenging a rogue CIA agent who wants to use Darkman technology for his own evil purposes, the Darkman learns of the agent's plan to impersonate the president of the United States and take over the world. Original....

  • The Modern British Novel

    Malcolm Bradbury

    An account of the development of the British novel in the 20th century, and a companion volume to the author's "The Modern American Novel". The various main lines are laid out, and the book includes a detailed survey of post-war writing and the scene...

  • Local Rules

    Jay Brandon

    The old county courthouse casts the longest shadow in Green Hills, Texas, and when former San Antonio Assistant D.A. Jordan Marshall is ticketed for speeding, he's hauled before the bench of Judge Richard Waverly. His Honor has a job for a city lawye...

  • The Last Photograph

    Stephen Bransford

  • Holy Orders

    Thom Braun

  • Chill of Summer

    Carol Brennan

    The Orchards once belonged to Emily Silver's grandmother. Now Emily thinks the long-empty house will be the perfect place to find solitude and peace, to contemplate her acting career and her relationship with Dev Hannagan. But the house is not as emp...

  • The Mystery Machine

    Herbie Brennan

  • Singled Out

    Simon Brett

    TV producer Laura Fisher sets out to have a baby before her 30th birthday. But on the day of her son's birth, she discovers something about her child's father that shocks her to the core. Twenty years later, Laura's past begins to close in on her and...

  • Maybe This Time

    Barbara Bretton

    A moving story about two people struggling to overcome their bitter past together -- and opening themselves to a second chance at love... Intelligent and outgoing, Christine Cannon was television's hottest new celebrity. Soon she would anchor ...

  • Operation: Husband

    Barbara Bretton

    A woman with a purpose... Martina Wilde had once known passion. For one night ten years ago in the impulsive arms of dangerous Trask Benedict. But their white-hot passion turned to ash when he disappeared. That's why when forced by her father to m...

  • Mysterious Mountain Man

    Annette Broadrick

    MR. MAY Name: Jake Taggart Address: No Man's Land Occupation: Cowboy loner Alone on his Texas mountaintop, the only things keeping Jake Taggart up at night were the sounds of the surrounding wilderness ...and the beating of his lonely heart...

  • The Last Law There Was

    Bill Brooks

    Seeking revenge against the infamous outlaw that killed his father, young Ivory Cade and his best friend Albert Sand seek help from Augustus Monroe but fear that his legendary reputation as a lawman may exceed his actual abilities. Original....

  • Boys Will Be

    Bruce Brooks

    An award-winning writer presents a series of essays in which he examines the likes and dislikes, fears and attractions, hopes and worries of boys everywhere, as well as the nature of courage, heroism, and maturity. Reprint....

  • On Fire

    Larry Brown

    NOW WITH A FOREWORD BY RON RASH AND AN APPRECIATION BY DWIGHT GARNER"One of the finest books I know about blue-collar work in America, its rewards and frustrations . . . If you are among the tens of millions who have never read Brown, this is a perfe...

  • Vegetable Show

    Laurie Krasny Brown

    A host of animated vegetables introduce children to the basics of healthy eating while performing circus acts with Eeny-Weeny Zucchini, the strongest squash on Earth; Bud the Spud, a magician; and the acrobatic Tip-Top Tomato Twins....

  • Rex and Lilly Family Time

    Laurie Krasny Brown

  • Let's Go Camping with Mr. Sillypants

    Mary K. Brown

    In this companion to the Reading Rainbow review book Let's Go Swimming with Mr. Sillypants, Mr. Sillypants oversleeps on the day of his camping trip. As he trys to catch up, Mr. Sillypants soon gets lost. With his quirky behavior and colorful clothes...

  • The Long Drift

    Sam Brown

    At a time when western towns exploded with settlers and the days of the open range and the great cattle drives were coming to a close, Casey Wills, a true cowboy, must decide whether to pursue a mysterious new career he calls the Long Drift. Reprint....

  • You're Dead, David Borelli

    Susan M. Brown

    After his mother dies and his father disappears with company funds, David moves from wealth and comfort to a foster home, an inner-city school, an environment of bullies and uncaring teachers, and new opportunities....

  • Secret of the Stallion

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Saddle Club is in England for a show on the grounds of an old estate where a past duke and his beloved stallion died and where, legend has it, the duke buried treasure....

  • Berlin Encounter

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    They must escape Stalin's notorious blockade or face certain death on charges of espionage! Colonel Jake Burnes had never imagined himself a spy. But the acclaim he won for rescuing a French Resistance hero and bringing a traitor to justice lead to a...

  • Familiar Tale

    Caroline Burnes

    Fear Familiar: Join the coolest feline detective to ever take on mystery, mayhem and matchmaking. Once upon a time... scandal rocked a Southern town. When Mobile's favorite son was accused of kidnapping, reporter James Tenet scooped the story...

  • Model Sister

    B.B. Calhoun

  • Promise Me Magic

    Patricia Camden

    With a fury born of fear Katharine had taken aim at the bandit who dared to trespass on her land, and fired -- only to discover that the powerful warrior she had felled was a man she thought long dead...a man who had stolen her fortune...a man she de...

  • Joseph Campbell Companion

    Joseph Campbell

    Celebrated scholar Joseph Campbell shares his intimate and inspiring reflections on the art of living in this beautifully packaged book, part of a new series to be based on his unpublished writings.

    ...

  • Straight for the Heart

    Marsha Canham

    "The Game Is Called Cutthroat Gentlemen. Quick and Vicious... Just The Way I Like It Sometimes." She risked everything to play a man's game in a man's world. As the elusive, mysterious Montana Rose, she was known as the queen of...

  • Earthborn

    Orson Scott Card

    High above the Earth orbits the starship Basilica. On board the huge vessel is a sleeping woman. Of those who made the journey, Shedemai alone has survived the hundreds of years since the Children of Wetchik returned to Earth. She now wears the Cl...

  • By Love's Command

    Helen Carras

    From a remote castle in the Scottish highlands to the wine-drenched splendor of the French court to the intrigue-filled palaces of Elizabethan England, bestselling author Helen Carras spins a tale of dangerous irresistible love... Lady Jean Hamilt...

  • The Knight of the Flaming Heart

    Michael Carson

    Sir Roger Casement died a traitor's death in 1916 but was, and remains, a hero in Irish eyes. 80 years on, he appears to Boma Hephernan. The village of Ardfert and Brid McCarthy's b&b in particular, are transformed. Sir Roger has returned to force bo...

  • Carry Me Home

    Lee Carter

    Nothing about Leroy Evans' family is typical and neither is his friendship with Woody, an elderly barber shop custodian who lives on the other side of the river. During the toughest part of his growing-up years, Leroy comes to rely on Woody. They dev...

  • Stealing Heaven

    Kimberly Cates

    TALL, DARK AND DISREPUTABLE, HE WAS EVERY WOMAN'S NIGHTMARE -- OR HER MOST SECRET DREAM... A rakehell. A scoundrel. Sir Aidan Kane was both and not the sensitive, lonely widower Norah Linton had expected to find. She had been tricked into comi...

  • Pigtown

    William J. Caunitz

    The murder of small-time hood Beansy Rutolo in the Brooklyn neighborhood dubbed 'Pigtown' has a special significance for Lieutenant Matthew Stuart: the deceased's unexpected testimony once saved Matt's father from being kicked off the job for politic...

  • Molly's Heart

    Gabrielle Charbonnet

    In a series based on the original story by Frances Hodgson Burnett, a kind-hearted girl who has all the advantages of wealth attends a prestigious boarding school in Boston until she hears the news of her beloved father's death. Original....

  • Invader

    C.J. Cherryh

    The second novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…Nearly two centuries after the starship Phoenix disappeared into the heavens, leaving an isolated colony of humans o...

  • Die Hard 3: With a Vengeance

    Deborah Chiel

  • Windchaser

    Scott Ciencin

    A storm at sea washes a young pickpocket, Hugh, and a surgeon's son, Raymond, overboard.  Landing on the strange island world of Dinotopia, Raymond and Hugh learn the meaning of real courage and true friendship, with the help of a reclusive Skybax ...

  • Sophie the Circus Princess

    Stig Claesson

  • Bad Behavior

    Mary Higgins Clark
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    A varied, suspenseful collection of stories, published in collaboration with the International Association of Crime Writers, features the work of Lawrence Block, P. D. James, Joyce Carol Oates, Sara Paretsky, and many others....

  • Fire in the Sky

    Jo Clayton

    Emerging from her centuries-long imprisonment inside an alien artifact, Shadith learns that she has developed an empathic musical skill, and is called upon to delegate a mission with a musically communicating alien race. Original....

  • The Maltese Puppy

    Melissa Cleary

    BITTER MEDICINE Linus Munch was once a great doctor and scientist -- but lately he's just a nasty old man with an ax to grind. During his visit to Palmer, he manages to tick off plenty of people... in fact, one of them gets ticked off enough to kill ...

  • Deal Breaker

    Harlan Coben

    BONUS BABY, BLUES Myron drinks Yoo-Hoo and never forgets to call his mom. His assistant is a diminutive beauty who was once a Fabulous Lady of Wrestling. And his number-one client, a golden-boy quarterback, is tainted by suspicion of murder. Hard...

  • Bucket Nut

    Liza Cody

    Eva Wylie may not be beautiful, but she's big and smart and tough. Working as a wrestler called the London assassin, all she wants is wrestling superstardom and to find her long-lost sister. She does a little investigating on her own, and ends up in ...

  • Monkey Wrench

    Liza Cody

    SHE'S BIG, BAD AND PROUD OF IT "The London Lassassin" in the ring, Eva Wylie is now going wild in the streets. The big part-time wrestler, nighttime security guard, and full-time bruiser has run into a pint-sized friend from her past, a tiny, tena...

  • My Teacher's a Bug

    M.T. Coffin

    Ryan's allergy medication enables him to see the teachers in his new school for what they really are: a terrifying army of insects who are putting the town under their evil spell, one kid at a time. Original....

  • Two's Company

    Amanda Benjamin Cohen

    Even though they still cuddle up together in the morning and at night, Maddy senses a certain distance in her mom when Simon, with his funny stories, enters the scene, and she turns to her toy lizard for sympathy....

  • A Night to Remember

    Ellen Conford

    Four stories, both humorous and moving, by four leading young adult writers, capture the trials and troubles of finding the right date for the prom, with some help from the school newspaper, a little science, and the boy next door. Original....

  • Outside the Law

    Robert J. Conley

    Investigating the surprising murder of a well-liked schoolteacher, Sheriff Rider an Deputy Tanner begin to suspect that the killer is not among obvious suspects and delve into the victim's past. Original....

  • Call Me Ahnighito

    Pam Conrad

    "In 1894, Robert Peary's explorers discovered a car-sized meteorite in Greenland and hauled it off to New York's [American Museum of Natural History]. An intriguing story if conventionally told, Conrad makes it unforgettable by choosing the meteorite...

  • King Pinch

    David Cook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy

    The king is dead, long live the king. Meet Pinch, a man of many titles: scoundrel, thief criminal extraordinaire, . . . heir to the throne? Manferic III, Pinch's guardian and the former ruler of Ankhapur, has died without a direct heir. By anci...

  • The Chimney Sweeper

    John Peyton Cooke

  • Someone to Love

    Lori Copeland

    Maggie Fletcher took one look at the mine she'd come thousands of miles to inherit and decided that once she adjusted to the vile living conditions, life wouldn't be so bad. It would be worse. If that weren't enough, no man in the town of...

  • The Winter King

    Bernard Cornwell

    It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent The Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell unveils the story he was born to write: a bril...

  • The Doctors

    Tyler Cortland

    Chandler Medical Center, a Texas facility that maintains its technologically advanced status on the funds of a rich matriarch, is at the heart of a human drama that is comprised of ruthless ambition, greed, lust, and murder. Original....

  • One Quest, Hold the Dragons

    Greg Costikyan

    On the road with the statue of King Stantius in tow, the motley adventurers of Another Day, Another Dungeon--including Timaeus the wizard, pickpocket Nick, and Kraki the barbarian--confront the thieving Broderick of Biddleburg. Original....

  • Deadly Diet

    Vincent Courtney

    Despairing of losing weight, Trisha Hall takes mysterious weight-loss pills that are recommended to her by a strange foreign exchange student, but after reaching her target weight, she is horrified when she continues to get thinner....

  • Texas Wedding

    Catherine Creel

    SHE BELONGED TO HIM BODY AND SOUL -- IF SHE DIDN'T SHOOT HIM FIRST! Rand Logan had left Claire Parmalee heartbroken and alone on her wedding night -- an abandoned bride whose scandalous, hastily arranged marriage made her the object of cruel scor...

  • One Good Man

    Kathleen Creighton

    Wanted: One Hero Christine Thurmond needs a rescuer. But this physical therapist with the...complicated past has long despaired of finding one. And she's so used to pretending she's somebody she's not, that covering up has been second nature to h...

  • Fireside Manners

    Beth Cruise

    When the gang agrees to chaperone some 10-year-olds on a camping trip, Zack thinks the best place to seal his love for Kelly is beside a fire under the stars. Unfortunately, he soon discovers camping with these kids won't give him much time to make r...

  • Lights, Camera, Action!

    Beth Cruise

    When two cute teen stars visit Bayside in order to film their latest TV movie, all the girls are swooning except Megan, who is worrying about her forthcoming SAT and her puppy's lack of success at obedience school. Original....

  • Letters from the Other Side

    Will Cunningham

    Small-town mail carrier Walter Conniston used to deliver more than the mail; he also spread the joyous word of God to all he met. But that was before the deaths of his daughter and son. Angry and bitter, Walter has turned his back on God, and unwitti...

  • Termination

    Sean Dalton

    Renaissance Italy becomes the final destination in the time travel series from the "masterful" national bestselling author of Lucasfilm's Alien Chronicles (Extrapolations).   In Renaissance-era Italy, as rival houses of nobility use ...

  • Local Knowledge

    Conor Daly

    Blood On The Green From its wooded fairways to its salt-water inlets, Westchester's Milton Country Club is posh and peaceful. With the exception of the PGA Tour, it's the place lawyer-turned-golf pro Kieran Lenahan would most like to be in his life-...

  • Why the Sun and Moon Live in the Sky

    Niki Daly

    There was once a time when Sun and Moon lived on the earth--but that was before the rapturous Sun invited the never-ending Sea to visit in this playful version of an eastern Nigerian (Ibibio) creation myth. "This delightful story is outfitted in humo...

  • Sleek Bodies

    Mark Daniel

    When Philip Glaister's self-imposed exile in the South of France is called to a halt by urgent family business, he has to return to a family and a business he'd tried to write off long ago. But his brother lies in a coma, the victim of a vicious atta...

  • Harvest of the Cold Months

    Elizabeth David

    Long recognized as the doyenne of English culinary writing, David here displays the witty and well-furnished mind that made her famous. From sixteenth-century Italy and the splendor of the Medici banquets to seventeenth-century France and the Sun Kin...

  • Road to the Isle

    Megan Davidson

    Facing a life as a prostitute in 1715 Scotland when her husband dies and leaves her penniless, Abby Fields plans to escape her fate with the help of renegade soldier Calum Og MacDonald....

  • Farewell Kiss

    Nicole Davidson

    Crew member Carol Walters struggles to identify the killer of two passengers aboard the luxury cruise ship, Mystique, wondering whether it could be the man she shared a moonlight kiss with and whether she will live to find out. Original....

  • Out of the Dark

    Justine Davis

    THE LADY AND THE LONER Horse trainer Victoria Flynn had learned the hard way that good-looking men just plain couldn't be trusted. But she was in big trouble, and she had nobody to turn to but a man who was too damn handsome for HER own good -- a...

  • All We Hold Dear

    Kathryn Lynn Davis

    During the spring of 1988, on a small Scottish island battered into stark beauty by the sea, eighteen-year-old Eva Crawford leaves her childhood home to unearth the truth about herself, her mother, and her family. In a spare Glasgow bedroom, Eva find...

  • Ten's a Crowd

    Judy Delton

  • Prize-Winning Private Eyes

    Judy Delton

  • Moving Up

    Judy Delton

  • Winning Ticket

    Judy Delton

  • This Child Is Mine

    Henry Denker

    A timely, moving novel traces a couple's courtroom struggle to get back the son they gave up for adoption and explores the impact of laws favoring the claims of biological parents on their children. 10,000 first printing....

  • Journey To Ithaca

    Anita Desai

    As so many other young Westerners did in the 1960s and '70s, Matteo leaves his home on the Italian lakes to search for spiritual enlightenment in the ashrams of India. Practical, down-to-earth Sophia accompanies him, but does not find the mysterious ...

  • The Runaway Bride

    Jacqueline Diamond

    MAIL-ORDER BRIDES! A HUNDRED RED-BLOODED MEN NEED WOMEN, COME TO OUR MIXER AT THE HIDDEN HOT SPRINGS CONSTRUCTION SITE. After fleeing the altar once, was Samantha Avery desperate enough to march down the aisle again? Desperate enough to answe...

  • A Bone from a Dry Sea

    Peter Dickinson

    On a prehistoric shore, a young girl fights to help her tribe survive She is at home in the ocean, as comfortable in the water as she is on dry land. The child's people have made their homes by the bay for as long as anyone can remember, diving f...

  • Try, Try Again

    Debbie Diller

  • Pocahontas: An Animated Flip Book

    Disney Book Group

  • Pocahontas Giant Paint with Water

    Walt Disney

    Giant Paint with Water books have more pages than Golden Book's standard Paint with Water format. Children will enjoy the bright colors that bring the many delightful scenes to life, just by using a brush and water! Colors are non-toxic, and pages ar...

  • Simba Wants to Play

    Walt Disney

  • Frame Up

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Visiting New Orleans for the annual computer convention, the Hardy Boys watch things go from bad to worse when Joe gets into a fight at a local club and then is arrested when the guy he fought with is killed the next day. Original....

  • Interstate

    Stephen Dixon

    In the author's first novel since Frog, a nominee for the National Book Award, a father mentally replays, in eight variations, the shooting of his daughters on an interstate highway. 15,000 first printing. $12,500 ad/promo....

  • My Heavenly Heart

    Christine Dorsey

    Ebenezer, an apprentice angel, screws up when he allows Lady Rachel Elliott, ward of George III and lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte, to drown. As Rachel's soul waits in the traditional dark tunnel with the radiant light at the end, the angels tell...

  • Cat in a Crimson Haze

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Midnight Louie, the best tomcat in the crime-solving business, and his human partner, petite redheaded publicist Temple Barr, are once again in the thick of things in the city of sin. The manager of the Crystal Phoenix, one of Las Vegas's premier vac...

  • Happy Birthday Baby Bop

    Linda Cress Dowdy

  • Judgment Night

    Debra Doyle

    In the sequel to Bad Blood and Hunter's Moon, Valerie Sherwood, an unwilling werewolf, is haunted by the Wendigo, an ancient force that calls to her from the mountains and thrives on her fear. Original....

  • The Conformable Wife

    Carola Dunn
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    Lord Clifford seeks a compliant wife, and Lady Eleanor seems the ideal candidate. However, the quietly unconventional Lady Eleanor is soon leading her suitor a most merry chase. Will conformity or love win in the end?...

  • The Winter Garden Mystery

    Carola Dunn

    In this second installment of Carola Dunn's cozy mystery series set in 1923 England, plucky Daisy Dalrymple embarks on another assignment for Town and Country magazine and discovers that daffodil bulbs aren't all that's buried in a countr...

  • Finding Father

    Anne Marie Duquette

    A FATHER LOST Nina Delacruz, age ten, refuses to believe that her father's never coming back. Even though her mother, Mercedes, says it's the truth. Even though, in her heart of hearts, Nina knows it's the truth. April Montgomery,...

  • A Secret and a Bridal Pledge

    Andrea Edwards

    Although in a witness-protection program, Amy Warren fought to keep her independence - a battle that pitted her against U.S. Marshal Mark Miller. His protective instincts warmed Amy's heart and made her think of long-lost dreams. But Mark's steely ga...

  • Matricide at St. Martha's

    Ruth Dudley Edwards

    "The clever plot takes second place to the ebullience of the writing and spot-on inventiveness of the satire." -- The TimesSt. Martha's College, Cambridge, had been staggering along on a shoestring for decades. Then alumna Alice Toon leaves her old s...

  • Swimming with the Whales

    Ella Thorp Ellis

    Reaching the age when his father promised to teach him to swim with whales, Paolo is crushed when it is announced that he will go away to school instead and feels unsupported by his friends and uncertain of his future....

  • Lone Star and the Mountain of Fire

    Wesley Ellis

    The triumphant final ride of the Lone Star legend!Jessie and Ki are on a train to Laredo with Jessie's new thoroughbred, Lucifer, when the train is ambushed. Ki is wounded and left for dead. Jessie and Lucifer are taken to a hacienda at the foot of E...

  • The Black Duke's Prize

    Suzanne Enoch

    ILL FORTUNE Exiled to London by a disreputable uncle, Katherine Ralston arrives for the Season in despair -- certain that her scheming guardian intends to sell the family manse in her absence. Helpless to prevent the outrage, she is caught up in t...

  • Longarm and the Silver Mine Marauders

    Tabor Evans

  • The Impossible Bridegroom

    Jean R. Ewing
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    Lost in London, Beth Lindsay is delighted to be rescued by a handsome stranger. But when she discovers that he is the reluctant fiance of her young cousin, she finds herself in a fix. If she aids and abets this improbable marriage, she will lose the ...

  • Comanche

    Fabio

    He stands, noble and strong, torn between two worlds -- the blood of warring races running through his veins. He is called "half-breed" and "savage." But the hatred and scorn of others cannot extinguish the fire that burns behind his ...

  • Sweet Awakening

    Marjorie Farrell

    ONE MAN'S POWER, ANOTHER MAN'S LOVE Soon after lovely Lady Clare Dysart met Lord Justin Rainsborough, the darkly handsome aristocrat won Clare's heart and hand. He dazzled her with his charm and intoxicated her with his passion. Only w...

  • Challenger's Hope

    David Feintuch

    THE SEAFORT SAGA The silent hell of deep space holds certain death for the unwary. The innocent. The untrained. It is the task of the U.N. Navy to defend the starways, no matter the danger...the cost in lives. Facing light-years of travel between Ea...

  • Yolonda's Genius

    Carol Fenner

    WHAT IS GENIUS? Yolonda is smart, tough, and big for her age. Back in Chicago where they used to live, everyone knew better than to mess with her or her little brother, Andrew. Andrew doesn't talk very much and he can't read, but he can create unbe...

  • The Wolfe Wager

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    EENY, MEENY, MINEY..LOVE! All London is abuzz with the news: the beautiful but willful Lady Vanessa Wolfe refuses to wed! With her father, the Marquess Wulfric, recently deceased and her brother missing in battle, she is sole heir to the Wulfric f...

  • Father in the Making

    Marie Ferrarella

    AMATEUR DAD It wasn't Blaine O'Connor's fault he'd never learned how to be a full-time father. But now that his son had nobody else, he intended to do his best. Trouble was, that meant taking "helpful advice" from a breathtakingly beautiful woman ...

  • If Once You Slept on an Island

    Rachel Field

  • Fatal Flaw

    Phillip Finch

    A real-life account of a miscarriage of justice details the conviction of Tommy Ziegler for the murders of his wife, in-laws, and a bystander and presents evidence that could reopen the case, clear Ziegler, and save him from death row. 25,000 first p...

  • Mabel Murple

    Sheree Fitch

    What if there was a purple planet with purple people on it? Sheree Fitch answers this question with a zany tongue-twister of a poem featuring Mabel Murple, a daredevil who rides a purple motorbike through purple puddles, skis on purple snow, and on h...

  • Who in Hell Is Wanda Fuca?

    G.M. Ford

    ...AND JUST WHO IS LEO WATERMAN? A soft-hearted sleuth with a rebellious streak left over from the '60s, Leo Waterman seems to get entangled in, every oddball situation from Seattle to Puget Sound. So when he's hired to locate Caroline Nobel, an e...

  • The Man from Shadow Valley

    Regan Forest

    DO YOU HAVE A SECRET FANTASY? Small-town waitress Ellen Montrose has dreams -- lots of them. She dreams of the Whitfield mansion and its ghost and of a very special man who knows all of her secrets. A man who loves her. Unfortunately, her nighttim...

  • Dreams

    Rebecca Forster

    A story that sweeps from Los Angeles to Alaska to Ireland--a powerful tale of passion, loss, and enduring love... At the peak of her Hollywood career, actress Sass Brandt had everything she could ever want. Until a haunting novel about an Irishwom...

  • Sleep On, Beloved

    Cecil Foster

    When Cecil Foster's No Man in the House was published, E. Annie Proulx proclaimed that he shows the brave characters of West Indian women as no one else has. Now, in Sleep On, Beloved, Foster tells the moving story of a Caribbean immigrant woman who ...

  • Thorson of Thunder Gultch

    Norman A. Fox

    In the heat of a gold rush in the high Montana country, young Tod Thorson learns about the many wrongdoers who will hurt others for profit and joins a band of vigilantes to restore order and bring justice to a town that has gone mad. Original....

  • Taking Apart the Poco Poco

    Richard Francis

    Witnessing the tearing down of the dance hall where they first met, John and Margaret watch their marriage also crumble, until a whimsical act by the family dog sets off a series of events that affects the couple and their two children...

  • Suburban Guerillas

    Joseph Freda

    Portraying a community poised between tradition and development and revealing the darker side of suburban domestic life, a whimsical, poignant novel takes readers into the community of Hurley, New Hampshire, and into the lives of its residents. A fir...

  • Holly

    Albert French

  • Trust With Your Life

    M.L. Gamble

    He had her in his sights... His face haunted her memories. His Australian accent and trim, tanned body taunted her dreams. But when Alec Steele reappeared in the flesh, Molly Jake's life became a living nightmare. He claimed he'd escap...

  • Dinner at Magritte's

    Michael Garland

    Colorful paintings inspired by Magritte complement the story of a young boys's escape from boredom to the house of his neighbors, Rene+a7 Magritte and his wife, and the world they share with Salvador Dali+a7 and other artists....

  • The Grace in Older Women

    Jonathan Gash

    Investigating the murder of his friend, Tryer, Lovejoy teams up with Tryer's girlfriend and a pair of wizened spinsters to discover how the torching of Tryer's mobile "Sex Museum" is linked to the dying village of Fenstone. Reprint....

  • Sunshine and Shadows

    Roberta Gayle

    THEY SOUGHT FREEDOM... Raised among the Ute, Roses Jordan was born to be different...from her sultry beauty and hair-trigger temper to her healing arts. Living in the small town of Cedar Valley, Colorado, she had won the hearts of the townspeople wi...

  • Search for Zini

    Tony Geiss

  • Shimmering Splendor

    Roberta Gellis

    EROS, God of Love From the moment he beheld the exquisite Psyche, his heart was no longer his. To win her, he would even battle the powerful Aphrodite herself. PSYCHE, As Beautiful as a Goddess The object of desire, she swore only to wed the man...

  • Selected Writings Of Jean Genet

    Jean Genet

    Excerpts from the novels, plays, and poems of the French convict, prostitute, and literary artist join notes from his film, The Penal Colony, letters, essays, and a rare interview, all edited by a contemporary biographer.

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  • Midnight Surrender

    Nancy Gideon

    UNDYING HUNGER On the streets of turn-of-the-century New York, a savage killer is stalking beautiful women. For ambitious publisher Cassie Alexander, solving the case isn't just a story--it's an obsession. But she's about to learn that when fresh bl...

  • Look Out, Washington, D.C.!

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    The Polk Street kids run into plenty of surprises on a two-day class trip to the nation's capital and all its sites, complete with two maps and a children's guide to museums, monuments, and other Washington attractions. Original....

  • The Age of Miracles

    Ellen Gilchrist

    In her exuberantly funny, bittersweet new collection, 'The Age of Miracles, ' ordinary events start the wheel of fate spinning in unexpected directions: a deluge of dust motes leads a socialite to seek a healthier climate, where she finds romance ins...

  • Love Song

    Sharon Gillenwater

    When famous country singer Andrea Carson returns to her hometown to recuperate from a life-threatening illness, she seeks nothing more than a respite from the demands of stardom that have sapped her creativity and ability to perform. Yet shortly afte...