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New Books List: 557 titles

  • Darling Cat

    Joyce Adams

    Jake Garrett knew it wouldn't be easy to hang up his six-shooter and retire from gunfighting, not with every young gun from miles around waiting to challenge him. And seductive beauty Caitlan Parker posed an even greater distraction. There was someth...

  • Catch the Brass Ring

    Kasey Adams

    LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND... Self-made tycoon H. Kirk Forrester isn't sentimental about the magnificent antique carousel he's just bought an auction. He intends to sell the hand-carved horses to individual collectors and turn a profit on his ...

  • A Cat on Stage Left

    Lydia Adamson

    Alice Nestleton, off-Broadway actress and amateur sleuth, is between roles during a sweltering New York City summer-- until a strange feline plunges her into a case that's downright drilling. With her bank account nearly bare, Alice says yes when Mar...

  • Spirits of the Ordinary

    Kathleen Alcala

    This “strong and finely rendered book” (Larry McMurtry) takes us to the Mexican-american border in the 1870s, conjuring up a magical tale of faith, gold, and family passions that “echoes the style of Isabel Allende and Laura Esquivel” (Washin...

  • He's the One

    Nina Alexander

    Too many guys, too little time... Jill Gersten has never been a one-guy type of girl--after all, variety's the spice of life. So Jill's become a master at juggling dates. As long as she can get away with it, there's no need to commit to just one per...

  • The Man That Got Away

    Harper Allen

    SHE COULDN'T REMEMBER Her name, her past or how she'd been shot -- it was all a blank to Dana Smith. For five years, she built a new life, became a new person -- and dreamed of a man whose hands caressed her, whose kisses set her on fire ....

  • Baby, I'm Yours

    Susan Andersen

    A Ride On the Wild Side The last place Catherine MacPherson ever expected to find herself was sitting on a Greyhound bus, handcuffed to a surly bounty hunter, with only a suitcase of her twin sister's flashy, shrink-wrap clothing to wear! Just two...

  • Deception's Bride

    Jane Anderson

    A DESPERATE WOMAN On the Dutch Island of Formosa, Donella Livingstone, stood before the altar, tricked into marrying a man she didn't love. But a surprise pirate attack threw the wedding into chaos, and Donella found herself in the arms of a dashi...

  • Return to Ord Mantell

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Gargantua

    K. Robert Andreassi


    The sparkling waters around the tropical island of Malau attracts surfers, fisherman, and tourists from all around the world. Now they've attracted something else. Something big...and incredibly dangerous.

    It begins with an earthquake, and...

  • Only Flesh and Bones

    Sarah Andrews

    GEOLOGIST EM HANSEN UNEARTHS DARK SECRETS, DANGEROUS LIES--AND MURDER... Still recuperating from her father's death and her mother's recovery from alcohol addiction, geologist and amateur sleuth Emily "Em" Hansen is out of work and unhappily whili...

  • Anno's U. S. A.

    Mitsumasa Anno

  • Flanders

    Patricia Anthony

    Flanders is the breakout novel by Patricia Anthony, whose award-winning science fiction has transcended the genre through the sheer power of her storytelling. Flanders is Anthony's first true mainstream novel, a powerful evocation of the First World ...

  • The Underground

    K.A. Applegate

    What's tasty, good for you, and only takes about sixty seconds to make? Oatmeal. And it's making the Yeerks more than a little crazy. Now Rachel, the other Animorphs, and Ax have a new weapon against the Yeerks. Sounds good, right? Wrong. Because...

  • Downtick

    Regan C. Ashbaugh

    Considered one of the most powerful men in the financial world, Wall Street trader David Johnson finds his position--and his very life--threatened by someone with a taste for murderous revenge. Original....

  • Cassandra's Quest

    Veronica Ashley
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    In ancient Constantinople, high-spirited Cassandra honors her dying mother's request to disguise herself as a nun and go in search of a missing jeweled swan. But her mother also orders a bodyguard, the magnificent Nicephorus, never to let the "nun" o...

  • Gateway to the Stars

    Pierce Askegren

    The first novel based on the top-selling sf role-playing game. Navis Redling is resuming his career as an independent shipper and courier after a year in detox. Except, it really isn't Navis Redling, but rather a fugitive who has bought Redling's ide...

  • The Highwayman's Daughter

    Anne Avery

    The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor, And the highwayman came riding--Riding--riding, The highwayman came riding up to the old inn door. Though her father had been the legendary highwayman who lost his life for the innkeeper...

  • Paws for Alarm

    Marian Babson

    A WHISKER AWAY FROM DEATH... A summer in England sounds like a great idea for the Harper family--and the house exchange makes it so affordable. Now they've swapped their New England home for a lovely cottage in a village near London. Why, the hous...

  • Goat in the Garden

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Houdini th...

  • The Rancher's Blessed Event

    Stella Bagwell

    WITH BABY ON THE WAY... The very sight of Cooper Dunn still made Emily's pulse race, but the last thing she wanted was to let him back into her life...or her heart. What Emily needed was a man who would stay, a man who would love her more tha...

  • The Beginning of Everything Else

    Jennifer Baker

    It's the end of something simple. And the beginning of everything else. Sometimes life happens even when you're not sure you're ready for it. In Capeside, the sleepy New England coastal town where teenagers Joey, Dawson, Pacey, and Jen live, this...

  • Buoy

    Bruce Balan

    Meet Buoy and his friends at sea in this enchanting new picture book that will delight readers of all ages:

    Buoy lives in the middle of the sea, far from land and people. Some might think that Buoy would be lonely, but for him, the sea is home...

  • Thief of Dreams

    Mary Balogh

    On the eve of her twenty-first birthday ball, Cassandra would finally be free. Free from mourning her father's death, and free to begin a new life as Countess of Worthing. Cass had no intention of marrying--not yet. Instead, she planned to rule h...

  • Keeper of the Crystal Spring

    Naomi Baltuck

  • Lion's Lady

    Suzanne Barclay

    A BROKEN PROMISE --- A BINDING VOW Rowena Gunn was ever ruled by these echoes from the past to protect her son and safeguard his future. But the past was now embracing her in the very present form of Lion Sutherland, the Highland laird who alone cou...

  • No Place of Safety

    Robert Barnard

    Fifteen-year-old Katy Bourne and sixteen-year-old Alan Coughlan are missing. Though they are students at the same school, they hardly know each other, so it's strange that they should disappear together. Katy's mother, self-centered and unloving, doe...

  • The Kundalini Equation

    Steven Barnes

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    The coauthor of Beowulf's Children strikes out on his own with this novel of mystic revelation and martial arts.

  • Cupid and Diana

    Christina Bartolomeo

    Diana Campanella is the owner of a vintage clothing store in Washington, D.C., teetering on the brink of disaster. She and her blue-blood lawyer fiancé still have not set a date for their wedding. And it's becoming more difficult than ever f...

  • Castle of Ghosts

    Carol Barton

    Spending the summer with an aunt sounds dull to Abbie - let alone having to go to work with her too. But when Abbie finds out that Aunt Harriet works in a castle, it all starts to sound more exciting. Especially as the castle's full of ghosts with a ...

  • Though the Darkness Hide Thee

    Susan Wise Bauer

    Mike and Amanda Clement are going back to Little Croft, Virginia, the rural town where Amanda grew up. They hope to find a new beginning(a pastoral ministry for Mike, who has just completed his seminary training, and a start for Amanda's teaching car...

  • Let's Go to the Dairy Farm

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • Dust to Dust

    C.N. Bean

    A MISSING CHILD When twelve-year-old Angela Robles is kidnapped on her way to the school bus in suburban Texas, FBI special agent Kathryn Stanton is brought in to head the massive search. A ransom note suggests military terrorism, but Kathryn suspec...

  • Grave Victory

    Gregory Bean

    Grave Victory is a Harry Starbranch mystery by Gregory Bean. When Harry Starbranch left his stressful job as a Denver homicide detective behind to become sheriff of the sleepy town of Victory, Wyoming, he planned to spend more time fishing than walki...

  • Romance of the Rose

    Julie Beard

    When beautiful, quick-tempered Lady Rosalind Carbery inherits Thornbury Manor, she's determined to rule it alone and remain a virgin like the great Queen Elizabeth I. She longs for freedom and dreams of writing, like her friend William Shakespear...

  • Creature

    Peter Benchley

    At a small marine institute off the coast of Connecticut, only marine biologist Simon Chase realizes that a sixteen-foot pregnant Great White is feeding in the area. But even Simon doesn't know that a far deadlier creature is about to come out of the...

  • Curious Critters

    Alan Benjamin

    The first installment of a wacky new series by the creator of the Bug books combines word play, whimsical illustrations, and paper engineering to present such unique creatures as the Acrobaterpillar, Kangarooster, and Sopranosaurus....

  • Little Bird and the Moon Sandwich

    Linda Berkowitz

    In the sequel to Alfonse, Where Are You? Alfonse the gander and Little Bird the gosling return for another game of hide-and-seek where the moon--made of swiss cheese, of course--is the prize for Little Bird's imaginary sandwich....

  • Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories

    Doris Betts

    Back in print at last, the nine beautifully crafted tales in Beasts of the Southern Wild and Other Stories display Doris Betts at the top of her form: compassionate, witty, and unforgettable. "The Ugliest Pilgrim" takes you into the adventures and i...

  • Lord of Midnight

    Jo Beverley

    He entered her life in the midnight darkness of a storm, and in the shadow of her gentle father's death. A rebellion had left Clarence of Summerbourne dead -- his castle and his daughter, Claire, forfeit to the king's champion. Renald de Lisl...

  • A Field Guide to the Invisible

    Wayne Biddle


    In this witty and captivating blend of science, humor, metaphysics, and popular culture, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author catalogs the invisible sphere that surrounds us.

    Much of everyday experience takes place beyond the range of our sense...

  • The Shakespeare Stealer

    Gary Blackwood

    A delightful adveture full of humor and heart set in Elizabethan England!Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet"--or else. Widge has no choice but to follow order...

  • Summer Sisters

    Judy Blume

    In the summer of 1977, Victoria Leonard's world changed forever -- when Caitlin Somers chose her as a friend. Dazzling, reckless Caitlin welcomed Vix into the heart of her sprawling, eccentric family, opening doors to a world of unimaginable privileg...

  • Paddington Bear and the Busy Bee Carnival

    Michael Bond

    Paddington Bear and Mr. Gruber enter the Busy Bee Adventure Trail contest in which the winner is whomever finds the most objects starting with the letter "B," and the clever bear finds the most important B of all....

  • White Chocolate

    Elizabeth Atkins Bowman

    That's what Taylor James' first love used to call her, referring to her creamy skin, blond hair, and mixed heritage. But that was before he dumped her without any explanation.

    Now years later, Taylor is a hot TV journalist who made her mark by...

  • The Passion

    Donna Boyd

    On the eve of a brutal murder in contemporary Manhattan, Alexander Devoncroix finally reveals to his son and heir a tightly guarded chap-ter in the family history, which is known to no outsiders. In a world in which a superior race of werewolves h...

  • Gin Lane

    James Brady

    No one chronicles the hilariously haughty world of the Hamptons better than Parade columnist and bestselling author James Brady. Now, in his second novel of the Hamptons, Brady invites you to take a stroll along Gin Lane, where name-dropping, celebri...

  • The Lost Valley

    Max Brand

    A trio of western tales from the master of frontier fiction includes "The Whisperer," in which Reata soon discovers the deadly price one must pay when putting trust in the wrong person, as well as "The Stage to Yellow Creek" and "The Lost Valley." Re...

  • Unforgettable Bride

    Annette Broadrick

    SHE WANTED HIS NAME Casey Carmichael needed Bobby Metcalf to be her temporary husband. Just long enough to get away from her overbearing father and fulfill her dreams. She never planned on falling for this gruff renegade rancher, especially when the...

  • Shark

    Bruce Brooks

    Because Billy's father is overly involved in Billy's hockey training and continuously expects more from him, when the summer comes, Billy is told he must attend two weeks of training rather than only one and feels it is time for him to take a stand o...

  • The Tin Man

    Dale Brown

    Brown pits men and technology against impossible odds, in vividly realized stories. Now, in his eleventh novel, he brings aerial combat hero Patrick McLanahan out of retirement and plunges him into the most personal war he's ever fought. His old e...

  • Emergency

    Mark Brown

  • The Passionate G-Man

    Dixie Browning

    MR. MAY The G-Man: Secret agent Daniel Lawless... double-crossed by his own agency! The Woman: Brokenhearted beauty Jasmine Clancy ...betrayed by her fiance and best friend! The Passion: Suddenly trapped together in a remote hideaway, the tw...

  • Her Last Call to Louis MacNeice

    Ken Bruen

    The author of Blitz and the Jack Taylor novels delivers a “fast-paced, tough and explosive” tale of a killer couple (The Irish Times).   Cooper likes Ed McBain novels, action movies, and robbing banks. Released from prison, he’...

  • Horseflies

    Bonnie Bryant

    Carole Hanson has never considered school one of her favorite things. She isn't a bad student, but she'd much rather spend time with horses than with algebra equations until she starts doing a research project on famous horses in history and literatu...

  • Pulse

    Edna Buchanan

    If Daniel Alexander had not committed suicide, Miami businessman Frank Douglas would never have lived to see his forty-fifth birthday. Now, with a donated heart beating strong and sure in his chest, Frank has been given a second chance-but no peace. ...

  • Shooting Star

    Roberta Burditt

  • Liar

    Jan Burke

    Investigative reporting has its hazards, but trouble hits home for Irene Kelly when her estranged aunt is murdered--and Irene becomes the leading suspect. With the police hot on her trail, Irene sets out to find cousin Travis, her dead aunt's son, co...

  • Twist of Fate

    Loure Bussey

    When gentle and beautiful speech therapist Tianna Stuart helps his son, attorney Wesley Keyes can no longer deny the passion that flares between them and opens his bitter heart to the healing power of love. Original....

  • Pawprints in Time

    Philippa Butler

    Curling up with her cat at night, Anna hears the stories of the lives he has lived and the things he has seen, stretching back across thousands of years to ancient Egypt, ancient Rome, ancient China, and more....

  • Twenty-One Ponies

    Sandra Byrd

    BOOK TWO OF THE SECRET SISTERS SERIES
    Tess Thomas is an expert at getting into trouble. First, she secretly “borrows” her mother’s diamond wedding earrings to wear to the church Harvest Party. But when the earrings get lost, Tess has to conf...

  • Sterling's Second Chance

    Joanna Campbell

    Don't miss the exciting adventures of a new generation of Thoroughbred horses and riders at Whitebrook Farm! Does Christina have the heart of a champion? Christina Reese is sure she and her new horse, Sterling Dream, are ready for their first competi...

  • The Spring Cleaning Murders

    Dorothy Cannell

    Dust mops ... deadly? Ellie Haskell--Dorothy Cannell's heroine of the weight-loss wars and busy mother of twins--returns in a mystery that fizzes with deadly wit. When the ever-caustic Mrs. Roxie Malloy tearfully leaves her employ, Ellie Haskell i...

  • Speaking With Strangers

    Mary Cantwell

    From the author of American Girl, a “profoundly moving” memoir of single motherhood, loneliness, and finding one’s way home (The New York Times). After growing up in a small New England town and achieving professional success working for Manhat...

  • The Key to the Golden Dog

    Anne Capeci

    Pepper Pete’s is in big trouble! It's Oakdale History Month, and everyone wants to help celebrate the event! Even the mysterious Carl Ottinger pitches in by allowing Pepper Pete's Pizza Parlor to display his treasured antique model railroad system...

  • The Mermaids Singing

    Lisa Carey

    There is an island off the west coast of Ireland called Inis Murúch -- theIsland of the Mermaids -- a world where myth is more powerful than truth, and love can overcome even death. It is here that Lisa Carey sets her lyrical and sensual first novel...

  • Defiant Captive

    Joyce Carlow

    A MAGNIFICENT DESIRE... IN A WORLD OF DANGER Brand, the Viking, came to Ireland to conquer, not be conquered. Yet when Princess Deirdre first spied him, he was in a cage, brought back to her castle to be killed. As proud as she was passionate, as ...

  • Awakening Heart

    Melody Carlson

    Emma Davis is determined to break out of the isolation she's created for herself as the sole caretaker for her elderly grandmother. Although she's always been the "practical" one, a spur-of-the-moment visit to a travel agency sets her on a journey fa...

  • A Woman's Touch

    Bernadette Carr

    When a medicine man and a birthday wish cast Courtney James back in time to 1896 Montana, the headstrong woman finds herself on the ranch of Matthew Ward, a confirmed bachelor. But Matthew's happiness is incomplete--as is her own....

  • Reluctant Dad

    Carla Cassidy

    THE BEAUTY, THE BODYGUARD AND THE BABY Dominic Marcola was paid to guard Melissa Newman--not deliver her baby! But suddenly the cynical ex-cop was faced with the miracle of life--and love. Now the new mom and top suspect in a murder case had to...

  • The Champion

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    In the spring of 1193, Monday de Cerizay is smitten with young Alexander de Montroi -- the new hero among the jousting knights of Normandy -- until she finds herself another of his passionate conquests. Pregnant, confused and betrayed, determined to ...

  • Swift Thunder

    Tim Champlin

    Seeking adventure, nineteen-year-old Lance Barlow rides with a Missouri militia group known as the Border Ruffians, rescues his best friend from slavery, and courts the lovely Miss Jane Holland in a pre-Civil War tale of the American West. Reprint....

  • Little Farm by the Sea

    Kay Chorao

    The little farm by the sea is a bustling place, filled with animals to keep track of and visitors to attend to. All year-round Farmer Brown and his family are busy, cultivating plants in the greenhouse in wintertime, and planting and sowing the harve...

  • A Cowboy at Heart

    Judy Christenberry

    The cowboy was six feet of rugged maleness and animal magnetism.... When Liz Caine agreed to be a pretend princess for a week's stay at Lord Peter Morris's Montana ranch, she didn't know what he looked like in tight jeans and a Stetson pulled down...

  • The Catcher's Mask

    Matt Christopher

    Mudders' catcher Rudy Calhoun is having a bad season behind the plate until, at a yard sale, he buys a used catcher's mask that greatly improves his playing....

  • Name the Baby

    Mark Cirino

    After the shocking suicide of his girlfriend, a twenty-one-year-old struggles to figure out the mysteries of life and love. This extraordinarily intense novel follows a young man during a three-day odyssey that begins with a night of self-abuse in Ne...

  • Lord Montjoy's Country Inn

    Cathleen Clare

    BED, BREAKFAST... AND LOVE Lord Kevin Montjoy is heartstoppingly handsome, direly impoverished, and spoiled to death. Though he blithely bows to an engagement to an insipid heiress to recoup his finances, he is horrified when American Samantha Edwar...

  • Bailey's Journal

    Catherine Clark

  • You Belong to Me

    Mary Higgins Clark

    In this electrifying novel from the reigning diva of suspense, a psychopathic killer gives grisly new significance to the lyrics of a sweet old song... When psychologist Susan Chandler uses her call-in radio show to explore the problem of lonesome...

  • The Store of a Million Items

    Michelle Cliff

  • Clams All Year

    Maryann Cocca-Leffler

    During summer vacation all the brothers and sisters and cousins of one large family come to stay together at a big house by the shore. Each morning Grandpa wakes the sleepy children to go clam digging. Each day they return with hardly any clams at al...

  • Mommy's Day

    Max Allan Collins

    Jessica Ann's mommy has been away for a while…When the police found out what she had done to those people, they sent Mommy to a place where she couldn't hurt anyone – including Jessica Ann – anymore.But now Mommy's been...

  • Road to Perdition

    Max Allan Collins

    THEY CALL HIM THE ANGEL OF DEATH. His real name is Michael Sullivan, professional hit man bound to the criminal underworld of the 1930s and an enigmatic idol to his adoring young sons. He's a man who knows that loyalties vanish in the dark -- a viol...

  • Double Exposure

    Stephen Collins

    Television critic Joe McBride's personal life has crumbled overnight into ruins. Now he stands alone in the darkened kitchen of his large, new Manhattan apartment. Through the window, he sees a young woman in a neighboring apartment--a beautiful, ent...

  • Devil's Canyon

    Ralph Compton

    A crew of gunslingers take on a deadly challenge in this Ralph Compton western. They are four hired guns who haul freight for a price into the treacherous, untamed wilderness. Having already risked their lives for the Confederacy, now they’re ...

  • Rooster's Gift

    Pam Conrad

  • Uneasy Alliances

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

  • Secret Realms

    Tom Cool

    IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE NEXT CENTURY, A BAND OF WARRIORS IS RAISED FROM INFANCY IN IGNORANCE OF THE REAL WORLD, RAISED IN A VIRTUAL-REALITY ENVIRONMENT OF ENDLESS BATTLE WHERE THEY GROW INTO SUPERB SOLDIERS. BUT AS WAR BREAKS OUT IN THE REAL WORLD B...

  • Fortunes of War

    Stephen Coonts

    A novel of infinite power, chillingly portraying the madness that fuels destruction--and the courage to step into the heart of devastating war. THREE COUNTRIES. THREE MEN. A WORLD IN THE BALANCE. Four Japanese nationalists storm Tokyo's imperia...

  • Your Dad's a Monkey

    Judy Corbalis

    Robert's dad decides to move them out of their nice house into a tree-house in the park. Robert's not happy and his friends don't want to know him any more. How can he get his dad to move them back into their ordinary house and stop his friends from ...

  • True Colours

    Nicola Cornick

    The first person the Marquis of Mullineaux chanced to meet upon his return to England was the very last person he wanted to see -- Lady Carberry, the woman who had scandalized the haute ton by breaking off their engagement. She was just as displeased...

  • Soccer Stars

    Emily Costello

    Meet the Soccer Stars--seven girls who love to play soccer! A soccer team where winning isn't everything -- isn't even the most important thing? Superathlete Tess can't imagine anything worse. But on her new AYSO soccer team, everyone plays, even ...

  • The Rescue of Jenna West

    Debra Cowan

    NEVER GET INVOLVED WITH A PATIENT That was Dr. Linc Garret's motto. But Jenny West wasn't just another patient. She'd once saved him--and now he had the chance to rescue the vulnerable woman from the danger shadowing her every move .... NEVER G...

  • Hide-and-Seek

    Kathryn Cristaldi

  • Perfect in My Sight

    Tanya Anne Crosby

    COULD FATE HAVE THRUST HER INTO THE ARMS OF THE PERFECT MAN? When Peter Holland married Sarah Woodard's dear cousin, she was astonished. After all, contrary to turn-of-the-century convention, the two girlhood companions had vowed they would never ...

  • The Notorious Groom

    Caroline Cross

    HER HARD-BODIED TEMPORARY HUSBAND Almost thirty-four, still a virgin and with no marriage prospects in sight, town librarian Norah Brown was headed for the Old Maid Hall of Fame. Then Elijah Wilder, the baddest boy ever to roam the streets of Kiss...

  • The White Guardian

    Ronald Anthony Cross

    One of the Eternal Guardians, four people who have been made immortal by powerful stones that enable them to travel through time and dimension, has become lost, a crisis that freezes history and forces the elusive White Guardian to step forward to sa...

  • Tangled Webs

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Summoning a fireball spell, Liriel Baenre braced her feet and set off the small missile. She heard the fireball strike the enemy ship's unseen shield and counted rapidly until an answering flash exploded from the darkness that stretched between the b...

  • Blood on the Saddle

    Dan Cushman

    When John Gannaway is murdered, Billy Buttons is accused of the crime. Billy is also accused by the Omaha & Montana Cattle Company of being a cattle thief and a forger of legal documents. To the surprise of his mother and brother, Billy shows up at t...

  • The Silent Cradle

    Margaret Cuthbert

    Dr. Rae Duprey, vice-chair of Berkeley Hills Hospital's OB/GYN department, has capably met the challenges of being a rare black woman in her profession. But her life is thrown into turmoil when she learns that her department may be eliminated?largely...

  • Cupid's Revenge

    Ruth Jean Dale

    Cupid, Colorado. This is ranch country, cowboy country. Land is important -- family and neighbors are, too. You get to really know your neighbors here. Like the Camerons, for instance... The Camerons first came to Cupid more than a hundred y...

  • Run, Gus, Run!

    Patrick Daley

  • Falling for Jack

    Trisha David

    When Bryony met Jack... and Maddy Jack Morgan had tried for three months to win the loving trust of his small daughter, Maddy--he hadn't seen her since she was a baby. The only crack in her resistance was her love for Jack's champion collie. But w...

  • Lord Langcliffe's Lady

    Donna Davidson

    The Most Unsuitable Suitor Cambria Thorne was a sixes and sevens. Her latest suitor, the village vicar, had mysteriously left for a posting in India. And Cambria had to be married soon or forfeit the Thorne estates to the hated Langcliffes. The fa...

  • West of Paradise

    Gwen Davis

    Kate Donnelly, an aspiring writer, has made her way to Los Angeles intending to rub shoulders with celebrities and be a writer. She dreams of walking down the same streets where Alec Baldwin drops of his dry cleaning. She has come to Los Angeles to ...

  • Secrets of the Wolf

    Saranne Dawson

    Beautiful Amanda Traynor was being followed. As she embarked on a mission to unearth the lost civilization of the Kassids, the flame-haired beauty was rescued from an attacker by a seductive stranger with ice-blue eyes. His silver hair was as soft as...

  • Bounty Hunter's Daughter

    Phyllis de La Garza

    Delphinia Estes is left on her own when a group of outlaws kills her mother and her father, who was a bounty hunter, and she must make a difficult choice that is decided when the same group of outlaws tries to kill her....

  • Baby With a Badge

    Sharon De Vita

    COP DADDY? The moment Danny Sullivan discovered the blue-eyed, spiky red-haired bundle of joy in his patrol car, he knew he wouldn't rest until this precious little lady was safe and sound. But what did he know about hungry babies ...and dirty di...

  • Manhunting in Miami

    Alyssa Dean

    From the desk of Victoria Sommerset-Hays > check lab results > b'day card for Aunt Tillie FIND HUSBAND! Unfortunately, Miami doesn't have the blue-blood, MAYFLOWER type of people Victoria Sommerset-Hays's family marries, so Vicky hires detectiv...

  • Liar, Liar

    Barthe DeClements

    When Gretchen's friends suddenly turn on her and no one wants to sit with her at lunch, Gretchen does not understand what has happened, until she realizes that the new girl in town, Marybelle, has had something to do with it....

  • Clever Crow

    Cynthia DeFelice

    Surveying the land for something shiny that will make a perfect addition to his nest, Clever Crow flies off with Emma's mother's keys, prompting Emma's attempt to outwit the wily crow, in a story told with rhymes and mischievous art....

  • Pedal Power

    Judy Delton

    It's spring, and the Pee Wees are planning an exciting bike hike. But first, they have to learn some important safety rules. Molly enjoys using hand signals and wearing her shiny new helmet. Roger thinks rules are dumb. He likes to do wheelies and ri...

  • Mike Swan, Sink Or Swim

    Chris Demarest

    It's time for Mike Swan's first swimming lesson. But Mike doesn't want to go. He's afraid of the water. What if there are alligators? What if there's a hole in the pool and he swims to China? His best friend, Lizzie, tries to help, but she already kn...

  • Private Fantasies

    Janelle Denison

    His Fantasy... Kyle Stevens wanted Jade in his life and in his bed. But even though the sexual energy between them was almost out of control, something was holding Jade back. Then at a yard sale Kyle came across her journal of private fantasies. And ...

  • Someone Like You

    Sarah Dessen

    "Life is an ugly, awful place not to have a best friend." Halley and Scarlett have been best friends ever since they met. Halley has always been the quiet one; Scarlett braver and more outgoing. Halley has always turned to Scarlett when things get...

  • Promise Me

    Laura DeVries

    When Southerner Miranda Cauly Dare finds herself without a family or home at the end of the Civil War, her life of wealth and privilege comes abruptly to a halt. She knows she must travel from Georgia to Colorado to live with her only remaining relat...

  • Every Hidden Thing

    Athol Dickson

  • The Lion King

    Walt Disney

  • Forbidden Pleasure

    Robyn Donald

    His majesty's pleasure... Beautiful, vulnerable and courageous Ianthe Brown might be, but she was out of bounds. Alex had to make a major life decision -- not seduce the most wonderful woman he'd ever met. His future was such that she must...

  • Semper Mars

    Ian Douglas

    The year is 2040. The Marines have landed on Mars to guard the unearthed secrets " of an ancient and dangerous alien race: Ourselves. Scientists have discovered something astonishing in the subterranean ruins of a sprawling Martian city: startlin...

  • Isaac Asimov's Camelot

    Gardner Dozois

    Nebula Award-winning authors Roger Zelazny, Esther M. Friesner, Michael Swanwick, and others return to Camelot in ten tales of King Arthur, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table culled from Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Origin...

  • Armageddon

    David Drake

    Twelve Armageddon stories follow such plotlines as a small African country's Yuletide preparations, a phone company's direct-dial service to the world of the dead, and a war between Pharaoh's army and the Peoples of the Sea. Original....

  • Remembering the Roses

    Marion Duckworth

    After her mother's death and her ex-husband's betrayal, Sammie Sternberg trusts no one-including God and herself. Following an impulse to run away and try to forget the past, she lands in tiny, picturesque Pineville Beach on Washington state's Olympi...

  • Baby Bird

    Joyce Dunbar

    In a cheerful, cumulative tale, Baby Bird, determined to fly, refuses to let anything, including the bee, frog, cat, and dog, stand in his way, and he painstakingly works to reach his goal despite a menagerie of distractions....

  • Caprice and Rondo

    Dorothy Dunnett

    With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccol series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid m...

  • She's the Sheriff

    Anne Marie Duquette

    The Silver Dollar Ranch near Tombstone, Arizona Virgil Bodine. Oldest of the Bodine brothers. One-time sheriff of Tombstone and former bodyguard to the stars. He's come home from California, with his reluctant ten-year-old son in tow. Desiree H...

  • Tall Tale Trouble

    Jennifer Dussling

  • Waiting For Mom

    Kathleen Eagle
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    When a man and woman marry, they create dreams of a lifetime together and share the hope that their house will be filled with the proof of their love--in the laughter of their children. But the path to motherhood isn't always an easy one... . It w...

  • Last of the Joeville Lovers

    Anne Eames

    THE MOST WANTED MALONE BROTHER Tall, dark and very rich rancher Josh Malone's bachelor status was legendary. No one had ever been able to tempt the most wanted man in Montana to settle down. Until a tragedy changed Josh Malone's life forever... ...

  • Soul Kitchen

    Margot Early
    in

    Oh, the embarrassment of being thirty-one years old and having a mother who's still stuck in the sixties! Dany Wilde wants to escape everything Jenny represents. But Gabe Lucero, Dany's childhood friend, has always seen her eccentric mother as a true...

  • A Death of Distinction

    Marjorie Eccles

    As Gil Mayo and his assistant Abigail Moon look into the murder of a prominent citizen, they must deal not only with upheaval within the police department, but also with those who would keep the killer's identity a secret...

  • Stand for Children!

    Marian Wright Edelman

  • The Paternity Question

    Andrea Edwards

    DOUBLE WEDDING: After switching identities, twin brothers find themselves on the road to marriage! "Will you father my child?" Confirmed bachelor Neal Sheridan stared at Lisa Hughes in disbelief. What kind of a question was that to ask a fell...

  • Warthogs in the Kitchen

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

  • Adrenaline

    Bill Eidson

    Adrenaline explores the hunger for adventure that is as basic a need for some people as food, drink, or love . . . some people crave an adrenaline rush the way a heroin addict craves a fix. Two corporate opponents: One, Steve Dern, bec...

  • Good Fences

    Erika Ellis

    In this exciting novel, an upwardly mobile black family moves to the affluent suburbs--with dramatic,
    sexy, funny, and provocative results.
    Mabel Turner, born and raised in the small and all-black town of Lovejoy, Illinois, meets and marries ...

  • Dingo Creek Challenge

    Robert Elmer

    In late nineteenth-century Australia, as tension mounts between the white settlers and a band of aborigines at Dingo Creek, thirteen-year-old Patrick takes sides when he helps teach the aborigines how to play cricket...

  • Sight Unseen

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    His words had won her, heart and soul, but who was this man she'd agreed to wed? Chase Forster listed plenty of good reasons to marry Leslie Baynton -- her intelligence, their common interests, the understanding and compassion she showed him, ...

  • The Witchfinder

    Loren D. Estleman

    Jay Bell Furlong had everything. Now he's dying, and wants one thing back: the moment he turned against the woman he loved--based on a faked photograph and a heartbreaking lie. Furlong has hired Walker to find out who destroyed his love affair and sh...

  • Longarm and the Branded Beauty

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm rides in to defend his old friend, Stella, from an angry town when her fiance+a7--a minister--is found with a stiletto in his chest and Stella's past as a knife-wielding prostitute catches up with her. Original....

  • Longarm and the Calgary Kid

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm GIANT novels…the biggest and best in Western adventure!When three train robbers turn up dead in a saloon, the finger points to none other than the Calgary Kid--a sinister, hard-drinking cuss who can draw a gun quick as lightning and shoot t...

  • Sympathy for the Devil

    Jerrilyn Farmer

    JUST DESSERTS AT A FATAL PARTY Madeline Bean, caterer to the stars, is in the middle of the biggest job of her career. She and her partner Wesley have pulled off Hollywood's most outrageous A-list Halloween party for notorious producer Bruno Huntl...

  • Nothing Burns in Hell

    Philip Jose Farmer

    This one is for fans of Quentin Tarantino and of the ever-present gratuitous violence of Robert Altman. It is a direct descendant of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and the mystery action pulps epitomized by Black Mask. Philip José Farmer, now one of ...

  • Blues for Hannah

    Tim Farrington

    Struggling to keep his marriage to his college sweetheart alive, Jeremiah Mason finds his life turned upside down when he is informed of the death of a former love, a beautiful, rebellious blues singer, and journeys across country with his precocious...

  • Web Willy in Cyberspace

    Keith Faulkner

    Young computer whiz Willy Smith responds to a mysterious instant message and is hurled into cyberspace, where he becomes Web Willy, Cyberwarrior and, with his cyber-pal Mouse, pursues a fiendish virus....

  • God Bless the Child

    Ellen Feldman

    Bailey Bender doesn't think of herself as a failure, more like a case of arrested success. She's fled an enviable career as a hot-shot investigative reporter, an admirable marriage, and a hectic, New York City life. Now she's living a quiet, simple e...

  • Angus's Lost Lady

    Marie Ferrarella

    WHO WAS SHE? Private detective Angus MacDougall was used to finding missing persons. But the woman standing before him was a completely different story. She had absolutely no idea who she was. From the first, he wanted her. But he knew that the...

  • The Long March

    Marie-Louise Fitzpatrick

    In 1847, an impoverished group of Choctaw Indians collected $170 from their meager resources for the relief of Ireland's Potato Famine. "The Long March" is the story of Choona, a young Choctaw who must make his own decision about whether to answer th...

  • Murder in Moscow

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    PUBLISH AND PERISH Bestselling mystery writer Jessica Fletcher is embarking on the trip of a lifetime. The first stop is Washington, D.C.--and a series of lavish receptions, culminating in a meeting with the President. Then it's on to Russia, wher...

  • Retribution

    Elizabeth Forrest

    A painter tries to release herself from her terrifyingly realistic nightmares by putting them on canvas, little suspecting that she has been recording the crimes of a serial killer intent on making her his next victim. Original....

  • Dove in the Window

    Earlene Fowler

    Meet Benni Harper...a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs-and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cri...

  • Pray Love, Remember

    Elaine Fox

    Julian Coletun's wedding day was to be his happiest but in a shipwreck that claimed his father's life, the handsome aristocrat lost his memory. When he washed ashore, he found himself heir to the house of Northcliffe and betrothed to a beauty he coul...

  • A Wedding in the Family

    Susan Fox

    Lillian has a mission: to stop her wayward sister's wedding! Not only will her grandmother cut both sisters off without a penny if it goes ahead. . .but Rachel is also about to marry into the family of Texan rancher Rye Parrish. And he's just...

  • Will You Be My Brussels Sprout?

    Lucy Frank

    Sarah is nervous yet excited about her weekend trips to New York City for cello lessons. The other students at the music conservatory are intimidating, but Sarah knows she's talented. Sarah's also excited about her relationship with David, her friend...

  • Daughter of Troy

    Sarah B. Franklin

    IN AN AGE OF GODS AND HEROES, A LOVE BORN OF WAR BECOMES LEGEND The rightful-born queen of Lyrnessos, Briseis watched helplessly from the battlements as her husband and brothers were crushed by the invincible army of King Agamemnon. Taken into sla...

  • The Mirror Adds Ten Pounds

    Jan Freed
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    Lindsey Howard is marying Adam Sullivan in less than a month - and all she seems to do is fight her family in fitting rooms. Wedding preparations bring out the worst in everyone; Lindsey's thirteen-year-old daughter is doing her best to ruin the wedd...

  • Planet X

    Michael Jan Friedman

    On the planet Xhaldia, ordinary men and women are mutating into bizarre creatures with extraordinary powers. But is this a momentous evolutionary leap or an unparalleled catastrophe? The very fabric of Xhaldian society is threatened as fear and preju...

  • Friends in Deed Save the Manatee

    Alison Friesinger

    Instead of working on their animal reports for their third-grade class at Eaglewood Elementary, Jelly, Eva, and Mary Kate are working on their own special project: They've banded together to do good deeds. Grownups are always telling them they're irr...

  • House of Many Rooms

    Marius Gabriel

    No one is surprised when Michael Florio is suspected of setting the fire that killed his wealthy, estranged wife, Barbara. Michael arrived at the Pacific Heights mansion just in time to save his two daughters--but not Barbara. Handsome, charismatic, ...

  • Pooh's Pumpkin

    Isabel Gaines

  • Lotsa Luck

    Diana G. Gallagher

  • Snake Dreamer

    Priscilla Galloway

    Dusa Thrasman is 16 years old and in trouble. Snakes are haunting her dreams, leaving her afraid to sleep, exhausted and ill. Her doctor has tried everything, but the medications only make things worse. Then Dusa sees a television interview with two ...

  • Wanted: Dead or Alive

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    SPIDER-MAN FRAMED FOR MURDER! Brian Timilty is running for mayor on an anti-super hero ticket, and the amazing Spider-Man is his biggest target. But Timilty is secretly the pawn of Tyler Stewart, a wealthy businessman seeking to take over New Yor...

  • Quest for Camelot

    J.J. Gardner

    A digest novelization of the tale based on the Warner Bros. animated film is appropriate for beginning to middle readers and contains the full story as well as an original work of art on the front cover. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • My Father's Boat

    Sherry Garland

  • Pony Trouble

    Dale Blackwell Gasque

    At first, Amy is thrilled to ride horses with her visiting cousin Rebecca, but Rebecca's constant bragging makes Amy feel inferior and it takes a scary incident with the horses to bring the two cousins together. Simultaneous....

  • Whispers in the Sand

    LaFlorya Gauthier

    Against her family's wishes, Mississippi-born filmmaker Lorraine Barbette breaks her engagement to a man she doesn't love and flies to gorgeous Senegal to shoot a career-making cultural documentary. Then the devastatingly handsome diplomat Momar Dial...

  • The Gamble

    Roberta Gayle
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    An enchanting collection of stories celebrates the joys of motherhood and second chances at love and includes "The Gamble" by Roberta Gayle, "The Preacher's Wife" by Anna Larence, and Ronda Shepard's "What the Heart Knows." Original....

  • Rhino Romp

    Jean Craighead George

  • Giraffe Trouble

    Jean Craighead George

  • Rearranging

    David Gifaldi

  • The Sinaloa Story

    Barry Gifford

    The Sinaloa Story tells of DelRay Mudo and Ava Varazo, two down-and-outs looking for a reasonable life and maybe even a little redemption in a corrupt and violent world. Ava is a Mexican prostitute, beautiful and no victim of circumstance. When DelRa...

  • Angel Max

    Peter Glassgold

    Combining an intimate look at one family with an epic tale of the immigrant experience in the United States, a first novel follows the odyssey of Max Petrovich as he realizes his own American dream while trying to remain distant from communist relati...

  • The Little White Dog

    Laura Godwin

  • The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol

    Nikolai Gogol / Nicolai Vasilievich Gogol

    Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of t...

  • Dead Air

    Ed Goldberg

    FRESH AIR To New York gumshoe Lenny Schneider, Portland, Oregon, isn't half bad. After all, they have brew pubs. And he can actually see the sky, even from down-town. So what if he has to put up with a few comatose drivers, overly friendly locals, a...

  • Off-Line

    Lawrence Goldstone

    The year is 2020. Glynnis Rodman, brilliant and beautiful, a senior executive at MicroLink, one of the country's most powerful cyber companies, has been found dead in her apartment after an S&M encounter with a stranger. Veteran senior investigator P...

  • Faraday's Popcorn Factory

    Sandra Lee Gould

    A unique love develops between Willow, a black woman still recovering from a painful failed marriage, and her new neighbor Clement, who may be a little strange but who gives her the courting and attention she needs. Reprint. 15,000 first printing....

  • The Heiress Inherits a Cowboy // Welcome to Paradise

    Carol Grace

    COWBOY: INSTRUCTIONS NOT INCLUDED Chloe Hudson hadn't counted on finding a cowboy cozied up on her inherited ranch, but she was determined to make the best of her new life. All the pretty city slicker had to do was prove to Zeb Bowie that she ...

  • N Is for Noose

    Sue Grafton

    Tom Newquist had been a detective in the Nota Lake sheriffs office--a tough, honest cop respected by everyone. When he died suddenly, the town folk were sad but not surprised. Just shy of sixty-five. Newquist worked too hard, drank too much, and exer...

  • The Best-Laid Plans

    Elizabeth Graham
    in

    Serena Crane has no wish to marry, but she has decided that Jonas Mead is the perfect man for her widowed mother. Serena's mother is equally certain that Jonas's foster son, Gavin, is the perfect husband for Serena. But the two women's plans may go t...

  • Genesis

    Charles L. Grant

    WHEN YOU ELIMINATE THE IMPOSSIBLE... Black Oak Security is a crack team of private investigators led by brilliant, enigmatic Ethan Proctor. He takes on cases that range from the normal to the unaccountably bizarre. Now one of his people, Sloan Delan...

  • Challenges

    Sharon Green

    The competition has begun. The band of five which best combines elemental magics into the most powerful alchemy will be chosen to win the throne and ward doom for the kingdom. But the stakes are much higher than anyone suspects. Each magical adept...

  • Warrior Princesses

    Martin H. Greenberg

    In new stories by such popular female science-fiction writers as Anne McCaffrey, Elizabeth Moon, and Jane Yolen, young women risk spending their noble blood in battle, from a barbarian princess to a most unusual reincarnation of Arthur. Original....

  • Alien Nation: The Unofficial Companion

    Edward Gross

  • Ariel's Treasure Hunt

    Patricia Grossman

  • Man on a Red Horse

    Fred Grove

    Hired for a dangerous scouting mission in Mexico, a former Union officer turned mercenary discovers that he will also have a chance to avenge his wife's death while working undercover in Mexico. Reprint....

  • Reaching Dustin

    Vicki Grove

    Angry at having to interview the peevish, sullen Dustin for her sixth-grade writing assignment, Carly begins to discover the reasons behind Dustin's mean disposition, which include his mother's suicide and his father's criminal career....

  • The Brothers War

    Jeff Grubb
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Myth. The Magic. Dominarian legends speak of a mighty conflict, obscured by the mists of history. Of a conflict between the brothers Urza and Mishra for supremacy on the continent of Terisiare. Of titantic engines that scarred and twisted the ...

  • Five Fortunes

    Beth Gutcheon

    Witty, wise, and hope-filled, Five Fortunes is a large-hearted tale of five vivid and unforgettable women who know where they've been but have no idea where they're going. A lively octogenarian, a private investigator, a mother and daughter with an u...

  • Long, Tall Temporary Husband

    Anne Ha

    MR. AND MRS. ... FOR THE MOMENT Theirs was a whirlwind wedding -- but Jake and Taylor Cassidy's marriage hadn't lasted much longer than the honeymoon. Now the sexy but tight-lipped rancher needed his pretty wife -- who was not yet ready to...

  • Masked Dancers

    Jean Hager

    The murder of an Oklahoma wildlife officer assigned to investigate the killings of bald eagles sends Chief of Police Mitch Bushyhead after a band of hunters and an anti-government activist, in the Cherokee Nation mystery series. 12,000 first printing...

  • The Millionaire's Baby

    Diana Hamilton

    NANNY WANTED Finn needed a stand-in mommy for his little girl. He got a stand-in nanny! They need a nanny... When millionaire Finn Helliar walked into her nanny agency looking for help, Caro couldn't believe her luck! This was the man who'...

  • The Neutronium Alchemist: Conflict

    Peter F. Hamilton

    The Neutronium Alchemist continues the acclaimed, best telling saga of The Reality Dysfunction, as nano-augmented Adamists, genetically engineered Edenists, and ancient alien races confront a terror that transcends space and time. Seeking vengeanc...

  • Speaking Out

    Ken Hanes

    In this compendium of advice, gay men--from Tony Kushner to your high school gym teacher, from Andy Warhol to your plumber, from Paul Monette to your uncle who never got married--open their hearts and flex their wisdom and wit to explain everything y...

  • A Family to Call Her Own

    Irene Hannon

    WAS HE MR. RIGHT? When Rebecca Matthews saved an injured stranger, she never realized how her lonely life would be forever changed. For although reporter Zach Wright had been too confused to ask the name of his beautiful Good Samaritan--and despit...

  • The Doctor Digs a Grave

    Robin Hathaway

    AVAILABLE FOR HOUSE CALLS--AND HOMICIDE... When cardiologist Dr. Andrew Fenimore isn't mending weak hearts, he's solving crimes in Philadelphia's wealthy Society Hill. But murder is the last thing the good doctor expects when he befriends a teenag...

  • Doctor Bird

    Gerald Hausman

    Complemented by playful illustrations, an engaging collection of three trickster tales from Jamaica features Doctor Bird, a hummingbird gifted with wisdom and magical powers, who teaches Mongoose, Mouse, and Owl some important lessons....

  • New Hope

    Ernest Haycox