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New Books List: 575 titles

  • 30: Pieces of a Novel

    Stephen Dixon

    In 30 Dixon presents us with life according to Gould, his brilliant fictional narrator who shares with us his thoroughly examined life from start to several finishes, encompassing his real past, imagined future, mundane present, and a full range of r...

  • Accidental Lily

    Sally Warner

    Lily is finally getting used to living in Philadelphia with her mother and older brother, Case. She's made friends with two of the most popular girls in her first-grade class -- LaVon and Daisy -- and she's been invited to LaVon's birthday sleep-over...

  • The Accidental Mrs. MacKenzie

    Bonnie K. Winn

    A PICTURE Only Brynn Magee knew the wedding photo of herself and playboy Gregory MacKenzie was a computer-enhanced fake. It was a harmless flight of fancy, until Gregory disappeared--and his sexy brother Matt, entered her life... WORTH Ma...

  • Accidental Parents

    Jane Toombs

    IT TAKES TWO... OR THREE... TO BE A FAMILY Iron-willed Jade Adams melted the minute she found a frightened, orphaned five-year-old. And she would do anything to keep the little tyke -- even cooperate with Nathan Walker, the disturbingly attractive d...

  • Act of Revenge

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    “Tanenbaum is one lawyer who can write with the best of them.” -- Joseph Wambaugh, New York Times bestselling author of Hollywood Hills“Tanenbaum is one hell of a writer.” -- New York Post“He has become a master of this genre, and Act of Re...

  • Addie's Knight

    Ginny Reyes

    York, Pennsylvania, 1885. Addle Shaw was always creating interesting lessons for her students. And reenacting the Battle of Bosworth was her best idea get. Until the children turn the history lesson into a chaotic war. As Addle leans against a tree t...

  • The Afrika Korps

    Alan Savage

    Cairo, June 1942. The Afrika Corps, apparently beaten out of sight at the end of 1941, has now counter-attacked, and even the long-held sally port of Tobruk has fallen. The British are desperate - the only way to win the war in North Africa is to eli...

  • Aladdin's Lamp

    Carola Dunn
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    There once was a threadbare young Oxford scholar named Alan Dinsmuir, who was enamored of a rich and beautiful lady of quality. Now only the genie who lived in an old brass lamp he'd bought could turn him into an eligible suitor....

  • Albie the Lifeguard

    Louise Borden

  • Alias Butch Cassidy

    Will Henry

  • All the Way Home

    Raynetta Manees
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    No woman is as loved or as loving as a mother. Here to honor that special woman are three beloved Arabesque authors, whose stories of extraordinary mothers in search of love will warm your heart... Juggling a career as a TV reporter and raising a ...

  • The Alleluia Files

    Sharon Shinn

    It has been one hundred years since the Archangel Alleluia and the mortal Caleb discovered the truth about the god of Samaria. Legend says they left a record of that truth, though no document has ever been found. In time, an underground cult arose, s...

  • The Alternate

    John Martel

    In an opulent San Francisco mansion, a beautiful woman lies dead. Her husband stands accused of her murder. And two ambitious lawyers step into the courtroom for the most challenging trial of their careers....Defense attorney Barrett Dickson represen...

  • Always Annie

    Liz Flaherty

    THE MORE THE MERRIER Annie Houston has a lot to celebrate this Christmas. Her bookstore is thriving, and she owns the coziest house in town. Still, something is missing from her life, until suddenly her single ex-husband comes back for the holidays...

  • American Front

    Harry Turtledove

    When the Great War engulfed Europe in 1914, the United States and the Confederate States of America, bitter enemies for five decades, entered the fray on opposite sides: the United States aligned with the newly strong Germany, while the Confederacy j...

  • Angel Spreads Her Wings

    Judy Delton

    With the excitement of her mother getting married and having a baby, Angel is ready for a nice long summer at home in Elm City, Wisconsin. But another change is brewing for poor Angel. Her stepfather is taking the family to Greece to meet their new g...

  • Anna of Byzantium

    Tracy Barrett

    Anna Comnena has every reason to feel entitled. She's a princess, her father's firstborn and his chosen successor. Someday she expects to sit on the throne and rule the vast Byzantine Empire. So the birth of a baby brother doesn't perturb her. Nor do...

  • Arthur, Clean Your Room!

    Marc Brown

    When Arthur's mother orders him to get rid of some of the old junk cluttering his room, Arthur decides to have a garage sale.  But when his first customer, Buster, doesn't have enough money for the toy he wants, a trade is worked out. Soon word spr...

  • At the Wish of a Fish

    J. Patrick Lewis

    While going out to collect water from the frozen lake one day, one brother accidentally catches a fish, yet fearing his life, the fish asks the man to let him live in exchange for a wish and so the man agrees and sets him free....

  • Attack of the Lethal Lizards

    Michael Teitelbaum

  • Aunt Ceecee, Aunt Belle and Mama's Surprise

    Mary Quattlebaum

    Mama's birthday is coming, and she says she doesn't want a big fuss. No presents, no party, no cake. But her daughter know better. She knows her mama loves a birthday and the fuss that comes just once a year. So what's the answer? A surprise party, o...

  • Austin Powers

    Michael McCullers

    Just in time for the third "Austin Powers" film installment--"Austin Powers in Goldmember"--scheduled for release by New Line Cinema on July 26, 2002, this ultimate how-to guide shows readers "how to go from square to swinger in just secs, " how to f...

  • Avengers Visionaries: The Art of George Perez

    George Perez

  • Babe's Farm School

    Dick King-Smith

    Packaged in an adorable carrying case, these four shaped board books introduce simple concepts: ABC's, colors, numbers, and sounds. A great value at $12.99, this set makes the perfect teaching tool as well as a wonderful gift for toddlers!...

  • The Baby Arrangement

    Moyra Tarling

    HER SISTER'S FAMILY... Gentlehearted Faith Nelson had willingly agreed to care for her identical twin's newborn as her own. But now she was living a lie. Because when a frantic Jared McAndrew had arrived to claim his son, Faith had stuck by her pr...

  • The Baby Claim

    Catherine George

    He laid claim to her body...and then to her baby... One night of passion and...she was pregnant! Dan Armstrong, the father of Joss's baby, insisted they should marry immediately, but Joss wasn't so sure. Dan had wanted her body, and now he...

  • Baby Fever

    Kasey Michaels

    What are these baby-craving women to do? Catherine didn't think she needed a groom for her diaper-pin deadline. Until a funny thin happened on the way to the sperm bank.... Abby wanted a man for just one night. Then she became "accidentally att...

  • Baby Talk

    Mark Graham

  • Bachelor Cowboy

    Patricia Knoll

    First-time father! Sworn bachelor Luke Farraday's stubborn resistance to help or friendship--least of all from a woman--had been an infuriating puzzle to Shannon Kelleher since their first prickly meeting. Until Luke's sister left him temp...

  • Back Room Girl

    Donna Baker

    Rachel Grant is thrilled to be appointed Assistant Designer at the prestigious firm of Quentin Motors. Talented and ambitious, she has fought hard to succeed in what is still so much a man's world, and this is her chance to be involved in design engi...

  • Bad Medicine

    Ronald B. Querry

    Dr. Push Foster takes a 2-year job at the Lukachukai Health Station with no thought that he will soon be plunged into a medical mystery and crisis: the outbreak of a pneumonia-like illness whose terrible swiftness makes it almost impossible to treat....

  • Battle Lines

    Greg Brodeur; Dave Galanter

    While exploring a sector of uncharted space, the U.S.S. Voyager is ambushed -- and forcibly pressed into service as part of the Edesian Fleet in their war against the enemy Gimlon. The Edesian commander claims that the Fleet is fighting only to defen...

  • Be Mine

    Geri Guillaume

  • Benny

    Bob Graham

    Although a uniquely gifted dog, Benny finds more heartache than appreciation after he is abandoned by his jealous master, thus Benny starts his search to find new owners who will show him the love and care that he has craved for so long....

  • The Berenstain Bears Lost in Cyberspace

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Computers in the classroom send the Bear Country cubs into cyberspace The cubs of Bear Country School are in for a real surprise when Squire Grizzly gives each student a computer. With the discovery of the Internet, everyone start to lose focus a...

  • The Best of Woof

    Danae Dobson

    Kids are sure to enjoy the exciting stories of Mark and Krissy Peterson and their dog, Woof. Each of the eight stories has discussion questions and a prayer that provide a quick way to bring out the spiritual message of the story. Author Danae Dobson...

  • Best of Young British Novelists

    Bill Buford

    Martin Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan and Julian Barnes were relatively unknown names in literature when Granta published its first Best of Young British Novelists list in 1983. They did not remain unknown for long. These writers --...

  • Betrayal

    Don Pendleton

    FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE America is headed toward the new millennium, but the dangers of the old world still loom. The endless quest for power and the visions of madmen continue to plague the cherished freedom of humanity -- and Stony Man continues the...

  • The Big Bug Ball

    Dee Lillegard

  • Big Jim and the White-Legged Moose

    Jim Arnosky

  • The Billionaire's Secret Baby

    Carol Devine

    SEDUCED... No woman on earth was immune to the devastating charms of billionaire bachelor Jack Tarkenton. Not even elegant beauty Meg Masterson. But after their passionate weekend tryst, Jack left her with something even more significant that a brok...

  • Biting the Moon

    Martha Grimes

    The girl's hair was white below the scarf, now a scarf of snow, and there was a fine rime of ice on her eyebrows. Her mouth was so numb she couldn't have spoken even if there had been someone to speak to. She wore the snowshoes she had found back in ...

  • The Black Swan

    Mercedes Lackey

    THE SHAPESHIFTER As the only child of a powerful sorcerer, Odile Von Rothbart has studied the magical arts under her father's stern tutelage all her life. Yet she feels only fear toward him. For considering his wife's untimely death the ultimate b...

  • The Blackmailed Bridegroom

    Miranda Lee

    Blackmailed...into bedding, then wedding her! If Antonio Scarlatti wanted to be CEO of Fortune Productions, he had to marry the boss's daughter! At first Antonio refused to give in to such blackmail, but then he reconsidered: would it be so d...

  • Blackwood's Lady

    Gail Whitiker

    Duty isn't all that drives him... David, Marquis of Blackwood, needs an heir, but his requirements in a wife are precise. Lady Nicola Wyndham appears to fit the bill -- she's older, likes country living, has managed her father's househ...

  • Blind Promises

    Diana Palmer

    SHE WAS THE LIGHT OF HIS WORLD Dana Steele loved her work. Her career in nursing had brought her great joy, a joy she tried to share with all her patients. Yet in all her years of caring for the sick, she'd never met a patient quite like Gannon va...

  • Blood Innocents

    Thomas H. Cook

    In Thomas H. Cook’s Edgar Award"nominated first novel, a weary detective tracks a blood-crazed psychopath Blood seeps into the gutters at the children’s zoo in Central Park. Two deer have been slaughtered, one stabbed fifty-seven times ...

  • Blue Blood

    Pamela Thomas-Graham

    Conservative Yale law professor Amanda Fox lived for controversy and academic celebrity--until someone decided she should die for them. For Harvard economics professor Nikki Chase, it starts with a desperate call from her old friend Gary Fox, now ...

  • The Bluestocking on His Knee // The Heiress Objective

    Regina Scott

    A proposal of marriage leads to love... THE BLUESTOCKING Wealthy heiress Eugennia Welch thought herself perfectly content, living alone with her treasured books. So why, pray, did she find herself wishing for companionship--male companionship at ...

  • Body Bags

    Christopher Golden

    When one of her professors ends up dead, college freshman Jenna Blake starts making discoveries even the police have not seen, discoveries that link the late teacher to a dead congressional aide and a terrifying disease. Original....

  • The Bodyguard

    Sheryl Lynn

    BROAD SHOULDERED AND IMPRESSIVE: EVERYTHING A BODYGUARD SHOULD BE -- AND MORE! J.T. McKennan was all a man was supposed to be. Loyal, strong, responsible and determined -- not to mention the way he could kiss. As a bodyguard he was the ultimate p...

  • Boundary Waters

    William Kent Krueger

    The Quetico-Superior Wilderness: more than two million acres of forest, white-water rapids, and uncharted islands on the Canadian/American border. Somewhere in the heart of this unforgiving territory, a young woman named Shiloh -- a country-western s...

  • Boy. Friend.

    Francine Pascal

    You shouldn't date your best friend--even if you really want to. Right? Kristin has had a crush on Brian Rainey since about...forever. Of course, she would totally die if he ever found out. Brian just thinks of her as a friend. That's why it's...

  • The Breaker

    Minette Walters

    "The Breaker holds its secrets to almost the final page. But this expertly crafted, classic story is even more of a tease than usual. Walters narrows the field of suspects in a woman's murder, and then proceeds to persuade you, in turn, of each one's...

  • Brianna's Gardens

    Viveca Carlysle
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    No woman is as loved or as loving as a mother. Here to honor that special woman are three beloved Arabesque authors, whose stories of extraordinary mothers in search of love will warm your heart... Seeking peace and quiet, and a much-needed break ...

  • Bride Included

    Janelle Denison

    The bride prize! Eleven years ago Seth O'Connor had left Josie McAllister brokenhearted -- and pregnant! Josie was convinced the good-looking cowboy had found it easier to believe the lies about her reputation than to accept the truth -- that he...

  • The Bridesmaid's Bet

    Christie Ridgway

    AND THE WINNER GETS...MARRIED? Always a bridesmaid, Francesca Milano bet her family that the next wedding she'd be in would be her own! So she started taking lessons in seduction from Brett Swenson -- the irresistible but brooding bachelor next d...

  • Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

    David Foster Wallace

    In this thought-provoking and playful short story collection, David Foster Wallace nudges at the boundaries of fiction with inimitable wit and seductive intelligence.Wallace's stories present a world where the bizarre and the banal are interwoven and...

  • Brotherhood of the Wolf

    David Farland

    THE EPIC OF THE RUNELORDS Raj Ahtan, ruler of Indhopal, sought to bring all of humanity under his rule--destroying anything and anyone that stood in his path, including many friends and allies of young Prince Gaborn Val Orden. But Gaborn has fulfi...

  • Bucket of Tongues

    Duncan McLean

    In this extraordinary collection of short stories, Duncan McLean shows us real life and real death in all its many guises. Equally adept at black farce, brutal rants, or tender epiphanies, McLean plunges us headlong into the lives of his characters: ...

  • Buckskin Man

    Tom W. Blackburn

  • Buffalo Before Breakfast

    Mary Pope Osborne

    Hello, buffalo! That's what Jack and Annie say when the Magic Tree House whisks them and Teddy, the enchanted dog, back almost 200 years to the Great Plains. There they meet a Lakota boy who shows them how to hunt buffalo. But something goes wrong...

  • The Bush League

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo becomes involved with the latest craze to sweep America, a new game called baseball, when he is hired by a wealthy Easterner to guide his baseball team overland to California, a job that is complicated by the man's scheming daughter. Origi...

  • Buxton Spice

    Oonya Kempadoo

    Lula grows up in a racially mixed family in the peaceful village of Tamarind Grove, Guyana, during the 1970s, until the repressive regime of Guyana's dictator spreads its tentacles into the town as tensions among the villagers begin to fester. A firs...

  • The Cactus Club Killings

    Nathan Walpow

    SERIAL SUCCULENT KILLER Joe Portugal likes people. But he likes plants better. That's why the former theater actor turned small-time L.A. commercial star is a prominent member of the Culver City Cactus Club. Unfortunately, so is a killer. The c...

  • Captive Angel

    Cheryl Anne Porter

    Only the miracle of love could set her free.... SHE WAS ONE MINUTE FROM HANGING... The day her mother died, Angel Devlin killed a man in self-defense. And a lynch mob put a noose around her neck. Then Wallace Daltry stepped forward to save her l...

  • The Case of the Measled Cowboy

    John R. Erickson

    Sally May and Loper head off to visit the relatives, leaving Slim in charge of Little Alfred. Hank’s sure trouble will come knocking. First, Slim is struck down with the measles. Then a blizzard hits the ranch, trapping them in the house with no he...

  • Catnip for the Soul

    Jane O'Boyle

    Cats finally let the truth out of the bag, in this collection of life lessons from the feline point of view. After all, anyone who gets to spend most of the day snoozing must be doing something right.'...

  • Cattleman's Promise

    Marilyn Pappano

    He always lent a neighborly hand. He was always kind to women, children and strays. But Oklahoma rancher Guthrie Harris had vowed never to lose his heart again. Then Olivia Miles arrived on his land, looking for a home for her twin daughters, bearing...

  • Cecil in Space

    Sid Hite

    Seventeen-year-old Cecil Rowe loves to write, to read, to think, and to amble about his tiny Tidewater town of Bricksburg, Virginia. Of course, if he had a driver's license, he'd rather drive. And if he could make up his mind which girl to choose, he...

  • Celeste: A day in the Park

    Martin Matje

    While Tim, a teddy bear, and Celeste dine on her special picnic for two, a duck comes by and snatches a sandwich, yet after a grand chase and a losing battle, Celeste gives up on the fight and invites the duck to join in the festivities....

  • A Celibate Season

    Carol Shields

    For Jocelyn and Charles, the demands of family and career mean a ten-month separation, during which they decide to communicate with one another by writing letters. Each finds this intimate and exhilarating, as they are able to reveal things that woul...

  • The Centurion's Empire

    Sean McMullen

    Winner of the Aurealis AwardIn the year that Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii, the Roman Centurion Vitellan set off for the twenty-first century as Imperial Rome's last human-powered time machine. He killed an unfaithful lover by just letting her gro...

  • Certain Prey

    John Sandford

    Clara Rinker is a southerner, trim, pleasant, attractive -- and the best hit woman in the business. She isn't showy, not like one of those movie killers; she just goes quietly about her business, collects her money, and goes home. It's when she's hi...

  • The Chameleon

    Sugar Rautbord

    A WOMAN WITH MANY LIVES, MANY MEN -- AND ONE FORBIDDEN LOVE. Born and raised in Marshall Field's department store, the daughter of an impoverished salesgirl, Claire Organ grows up surrounded by the trappings of fabulous glamour and wealth. When ...

  • The Charm School

    Susan Wiggs

    Let award-winning author Susan Wiggs sweep you away to romance and adventure when a Boston socialite and a swashbuckling sea captain dare to love... Isadora Peabody is an awkward misfit in her beautiful and accomplished family. Shunned by those sh...

  • The Chester Charade

    Gayle Buck

    A Question of the Heart A surprise guest had arrived at the houseparty of Miss Chastity Cummings -- Jeffrey Halston, a former suitor. As a youthful girl on the edge of womanhood, Chastity had regarded the handsome heir as a friend, but was not rea...

  • Chicks 'n Chained Males

    Baen Books

    AMAZONS 'R US Continuing a great tradition, Chicks 'n Chained Males is not what you think. That place is down the block, on another street, in another city. In fact, if that's what you're looking for one of our Ch...

  • Choice of Evil

    Andrew H. Vachss

    When his girlfriend, Crystal Beth is gunned down at a gay rights rally in Central Park, Burke, the underground man-for-hire and expert hunter of predators, vows vengeance. But someone beats him to the task: a shadowy killer who calls himself Homo Ere...

  • A Cinderella Affidavit

    Michael Fredrickson

    A routine drug bust goes awry in Boston's Chinatown, killing a police officer as he batters down the door to execute a no-knock search warrant. The police arrest the man, but he court orders them to produce the confidential snitch whose information w...

  • City of Ice

    John Farrow

    A college kid in a Santa Claus suit is tortured, murdered, and left hanging from a meat hook on Christmas Eve--a gift intended for one particular cop.
            
    Reminiscent of Smilla's Sense of Snow, this gripping debut thriller set in ...

  • City of Light

    Lauren Belfer

    The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning. Louisa Barrett has made this dazzling city her home. Headmistress of Buffalo's m...

  • City of the Dead

    S.D. Perry

    BRING ON THE NIGHT.... Leon Kennedy: an energetic and eager rookie cop looking forward to starting a new life in Raccoon City, only to find the town strangely deserted ... the eerie evening silence broken only by an occasional footstep in the shadow...

  • Claire Can't Lose

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another...but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Claire can't lose in the game of love. For once she's found her soul mate-a manipulative scheme...

  • Clay Yeager's Redemption

    Justine Davis

    Casey Scott was used to stray animals wandering onto her property. But stray men? A series of menacing, midnight calls had alarmed her senses, so the dark, rugged looks of the mysterious loner were enough to frighten her. If she were smart, she'd thi...

  • Close Range

    Annie Proulx

    From the Pulitzer Prize"winning and bestselling author of The Shipping News and Accordion Crimes comes one of the most celebrated short story collections of our time.Annie Proulx's masterful language and fierce love of Wyoming are evident in this c...

  • The Clue of the Gold Doubloons

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy and George are thrilled to take part in the filming of a pirate movie onboard the Swift Adventure, a reproduction of a centuries-old sailing ship. Twin brothers Andrew and Daniel Wagner are producing the low-budget film, and they’ve asked the...

  • Comanche Trail

    Will Camp

    Brothers in Arms

    It is 1859. In Santa Fe, Army Captain Jean Benoit cannot escape the dark rumors of war filling Fort Marcy's dusty air. The Louisiana-born soldier must soon decide: remain loyal to the Union Army or join with the Co...

  • Combat Swimmer

    Robert A. Gormly

    For the first time in trade paperback-a classic memoir of Navy SEALs in action. In gripping prose, Captain Robert A. Gormly tells about his days as a leader in the Navy SEALs- taking readers into the night, into the water, and into battle on some o...

  • Coming Home

    Willa Hix

    Sassy Maizie Olinger died in a car crash. But her eyes saved another's sight -- a handsome executive at her company, Max Kensington, who'd been blinded in a ski accident. Now Maizie has a new ghostly mission -- to guide the man whose sight she has sa...

  • Conditions of Love

    Ruth Pennebaker

    Ruth Pennebaker's first novel for teenagers was Don't Think Twice, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, which Kirkus Reviews labeled a "masterpiece." Praise for Pennebaker's biting wit, sharp insight, and appealing characters was unanimous.

    Now ...

  • Consuming Passions

    Michael Lee West

    "Every Sunday, the whole family gathered at Mama Hughes's house in Amite County, Mississippi. They were ferocious eaters and talkers, devouring rumors and innuendo with gusto. Food was their common language, and everyone understood the dialects."

  • Cookie Monster and the Cookie

    David Korr

  • A Corner of the Veil

    Laurence Cosse

    When Father Bertrand Beaulieu stumbles upon a handwritten document that proves the existence of God, his discovery has a profound impact on the church and the nation as both institutions move to suppress the news, fearing the repercussions of the doc...

  • Cougar

    Helen V. Griffith

    All Nickel wants is to play soccer with his new friends, and enjoy the feeling of being part of a family ... finally. But Robbo and his gang are there at every turn, provoking, taunting, bullying. It takes the ghost of a horse named Cougar and a my...

  • Coulter's Angel

    Jean Wilson

    A BEAUTIFUL TROUBLEMAKER Josie Clark came to Council City on a mission to rid the West of the evils of liquor. Caught in an altercation outside the local saloon, she blackened the eye of the deputy, who made her spend the night in jail. And when she...

  • Countdown: June

    Daniel Parker

    COUNTDOWN It''s 1999. Not even love can save you now. JUNE When the plague killed every adult on earth, the teenagers thought they had been spared. Now, one by one, they''re dying, too. Two people believe one thing can endure: their love....

  • Courage in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    "I have nothing but contempt for the lawless." -- BEN RAINES THE LAST FRONTIER Ben Raines -- rebel leader and America's greatest survival expert -- has a dream: to free the nation from the deadly grip of outlaw gangs and armies of terrorists overr...

  • The Cowboy and the Virgin

    Barbara McMahon

    VIRGIN TERRITORY All innocent Caitlin Delany wanted was to spread her wings away from home and begin life fresh. But from the moment she laid eyes on sexy, swaggering rancher Zach Haller, she lost her heart. She knew she had no business falling fo...

  • Cryptonomicon

    Neal Stephenson

    CRYPTONOMICON is really three novels in one, featuring healthy portions of World War II adventure, cryptography, and high-tech finance, with treasure hunting thrown in for good measure ... But that's only half of it." --USA Today A remarkable epi...

  • The Crystal Pool

    Geraldine McCaughrean

    With stories such as "The Silver Treasure," "The Golden Hoard," and "The Bronze Cauldron," a collection of more than twenty tales presents young readers with a collection of stories, legends, and myths from around the world....

  • Crystal Sage

    Kara Dalkey

    A STUDENT'S RESEARCH... Joan Dark, owner of a housecleaning company, is eminently practical, having long ago given up believing in the supernatural. That is, until now. Her client Gillian, a musicologist working on her master's thesis, has been turn...

  • Cuts

    Richard Laymon

    Obsessed with cutting pretty girls, Albert Prince leaves a bloody trail across the country as he encounters several woman who are looking for something special in their lives, and he is more than willing to give it to them. Original....

  • Da Wei's Treasure: A Chinese Tale

    Margaret Chang; Raymond Chang

    A shining light leads Da Wei, a young peasant boy, to an extraordinary mansion under the sea, where he is befriended by a magical kitten that he takes back to his farm and that leads him to the treasure of his dreams, in an enchanting Chinese folktal...

  • Daddy and Me

    Catherine Daly-Weir

    What to kids like to do with their daddies? Whether mowing the lawn or setting out on a fishing trip or just cuddling up with a good book, these adorable photographs of kids at work, rest, and play with their dads capture all the fun that comes from ...

  • Daddy Will You Miss Me?

    Jennifer Eachus

  • A Dangerous Friend

    Ward Just

    Well-meaning American civilians make an attempt at nation-building during the Vietnam War, in this “powerful” novel by a National Book Award finalist (Newsweek). Named one of the Best Books of the Year by Time and the Los Angeles Times   In ...

  • Dangerous Game

    Margaret Mayo

    From revenge to seduction... Adam Sterne needed a companion for his mother, and when Penny Brooklyn applied for the job he knew she was perfect. He was almost sure he'd met her somewhere before, but Penny denied it. By the end of the interv...

  • Dangers of the Core

    Jim K. Thomas

    The planet Naboo is being invaded! Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan have to get to Theed and warn the Queen.Jar Jar Binks knows the best way, but it's underwater! Will they make it through the core without being gobbled up by undersea monsters? Read this colorful...

  • The Dark Heart of Time: A Tarzan Novel

    Philip Jose Farmer

    At last--after decades--one of the most famous heroes in literature is back! Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, returns with a vengeance in this brand-new, action-packed adventure by Philip José Farmer, Hugo Award-winning author of the incredible Riverworld ...

  • Dark Matter

    Easton Royce

    A man disappears from a locked hotel room, and the only clue left behind is a strange black impression scorched onto the floor. When two other victims meet the same fate, FBI Agent Fox Mulder believes the deaths may be due to spontaneous human combus...

  • David and the Trash-Talkin' Giant

    Joel Anderson

  • Days of Defiance

    Maury Klein

    “Illuminating and well-written. . . . Deserves a place in the highest ranks of Civil War scholarship.” -- The Cleveland Plain Dealer In November 1860, telegraph lines carried the news that Abraham Lincoln had been elected president. Over th...

  • Dead Man's Fingers

    Barbara Lee

    A View To Kill For... Maryland real estate agent Eve Elliott has left Manhattan for a more peaceful life along the shores of the Chesapeake, land of blue crabs, stunning vistas--and danger, Eve discovers, as greed, corruption and murder rock the c...

  • Deadly Sacrifice

    Jack Kean

  • Death du Jour

    Kathy Reichs

    In the bitter cold of a Montreal winter, Tempe Brennan is digging for a corpse buried more than a century ago. Although Tempe thrives on such enigmas from the past, it's a chain of contemporary deaths and disappearances that has seized her attention-...

  • Death in Dodge City

    J.R. Roberts

    When his old friend Luke Short is cheated out of his livelihood and forced out of Dodge City by the tyrannical new mayor, the Gunsmith joins forces with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and others to set things right for their friend and to clean up Dodge ...

  • Death of an Addict

    M.C. Beaton

    LETHAL HALIBUTS Recovering addict Tommy Jarret rented a chalet to check on reports of a sea monster near the dour village of Drim. But when he turns up dead, apparently of a drug overdose, Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth finds the lad's demise t...

  • Death Rides a Chestnut Mare

    Ralph Compton

    WHERE THE LIVING IS HARD AND THE KILLING IS EASY... It's in the lawless Indian Territory that Daniel Strange meets his demise. Riding his chestnut mare to Texas to buy himself some cattle, the best gunsmith in St. Joseph, Missouri, gets waylaid by a...

  • Deceived

    James Koeper

    While auditing a huge corporation involved in extensive business with the Chinese, Nick Ford, a young government accountant, uncovers millions of dollars in overbilling, a discovery that embroils him in a deadly web of high-level conspiracy, cover-up...

  • Deep Play

    Diane Ackerman

    The national bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses tackles the realm of creativity, by exploring one of the most essential aspects of our characters: the ability to play. "Deep play" is that more intensified form of play that puts us ...

  • Designer Passion

    Dar Tomlinson

  • Desperate Characters

    Paula Fox

    One of The Atlantic's Great American NovelsOne of the New York Times' 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years "A towering landmark of postwar Realism…A sustained work of prose so lucid and fine it seems less written than ca...

  • Dial 'V' For Vengeance

    Elizabeth Cage

    The tantalizing trio is spying down to Rio! They're shaking their groove things in Brazil's spiciest clubs while dishing the dirt on a major drug-smuggling operation. Only Diva, the hip, young owner of Rio's hottest nightspot, can help the Spy Girls ...

  • The Diamond Princess Steps Through the Mirror

    Jahnna N. Malcolm

    Demetra, the Diamond Princess, comes face-to-face with the Ice Maiden, a girl who lives on the other side of her magic mirror, but when she and Demetra trade places, the girl doesn't want to switch back. Original....

  • Direction

    Honor Head

  • The Disney's The Little Mermaid

    Michael Teitelbaum

  • Distant Thunder

    F.M. Parker

    From the narrow streets of the French Quarter to wind-swept Ponchartrain and the vast bayou country, the battle of New Orleans plunged men and woman into chaos, tragedy, and a struggle for survival and revenge. Now, the acclaimed author of "Winter Wo...

  • Do You Want to Play?

    Bob Kolar

    A vibrant, fun, and humorous picture book introduces youngsters to the wonderful, yet sometimes difficult, world of friendship by showing them how to share, help, take turns, verbalize feelings, apologize, and more....

  • The Doctor's Daughter

    Judith Bowen

    Virginia Lake left town more than a decade ago - after a memorable night with a man her parents forbade her to see. Lucas Yellowfly, they said, was a troublemaker. Off-limits. Half-Native American and from the wrong side of town, he wasn't good enoug...

  • Don't Mess With Texans

    Peggy Nicholson

    Susannah Marck: The tabloids call her the most spiteful woman in America! Not only that-she's inadvertently destroyed R.D. Taggart's life in what appears to be nothing but a vendetta against her ex. R.D. Taggart: He's a veterinarian wh...

  • Double Trouble Monsters

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

  • Dragon Hunt

    Shi Tran Vu

    Over the years, writers such as Tim O'Brien and Michael Herr have written about the Vietnam War and its aftermath from an American soldier's perspective; Robert Olen Butler, on the other hand, performed a feat of cultural ventriloquism in A Good Scen...

  • Dragon Ride

    Helen Cresswell

    Jilly really wants a dragon so she asks for one for her birthday. None of her family take her seriously, but Mr Pink at the magic shop does and he helps her to get the pet dragon she has wished for for so long. Soon all Jilly's dreams come true on he...

  • Dream Groom

    Susan Mallery

    DESTINED TO WED... Cassie Bradley Wright knew the fantasy of being swept off her feet by her ultrasophisticated boss was just that - a fantasy. After all, Ryan Lawford was way out of her league. So the temporary nanny concentrated on bridging the di...

  • Dream Ship

    James Gurney

  • The Dream Spheres

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

    Welcome to Waterdeep Here, everything imaginable is for sale. Even dreams can be purchased if one is willing to pay the price. When the sale of dream spheres threatens the life of his newfound half sister, Danilo Thatin joins forces with Arilyn...

  • Dreaming of Castles

    Gail Gaymer Martin

    Spring Dalton has becomes entrenched in a rut in her hometown of Detroit. A cousin invites Spring to live with her in Heidelberg, Germany, while Spring pursues her dream of going to art school. Spring decides that now is the time to break out of her ...

  • The Drowning People

    Richard Mason

    My wife of more than forty-five years shot herself yesterday afternoon. At least that is what the police assume, and I am playing the part of grieving widower with enthusiasm and success. Of course I know that she did nothing o f the kind.... It was ...

  • The Duke's Lady

    Brenda K. Jernigan

    A MYSTERIOUS BEAUTY An American spy with a British birthright, Adam Trent is consumed with gathering information to use against England's navy. But, despite the intrigues of war, the mystery of the lovely young woman washed ashore near his Co...

  • The Earth Giant

    Melvin Burgess

  • Earthweb

    Marc Stiegler

    DOOMSDAY CAME ABOUT EVERY FIVE YEARS Someone Out There really hated humans. Twenty years have passed since Shiva I first swept aside Earth's crude defenses and rained down destruction. Now Shiva V has entered the Solar System, more powerful than a...

  • The Einstein Papers

    Craig Dirgo

    The Chinese government is on the verge of cracking Einstein's "Unified Field Theory," which would give allow them to develop a terrifying new weapon, and anti-terrorist agent John Taft is determined to stop them. A first novel. Reprint....

  • Elmo Saves Christmas

    Tom Brannon

  • The Elusive Embrace

    Daniel Mendelsohn

    Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profoun...

  • Emperor of Dawn

    Steve White

    THE EMPIRE WAS DOOMED-- AND ONLY AN ANCIENT LEGEND COULD SAVE IT Basil Castellan, centuries after his doomed struggle against the New Humans to preserve the Empire, had become a mythic figure and his legend insisted that when the Galaxy was again ...

  • The Emperor's Nightingale

    Judith A. Lansdowne
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    The ducal estate of Julius Caesar Crofton was overrun with visiting young ladies and their matchmaking mamas. But Julius didn't believe in love . . . until an enchanted nightingale gave him a change of heart....

  • Enticed

    Sara Blayne

    Born to an Indian mother and an English father, Chance True--Son Quincy Ridgeway, Duke of Rivenoak, was equally skilled at hunting as he was at pursuing the fashionable ladies of the ton. But when he received word from America that his parents had be...

  • An Equal Music

    Vikram Seth

    The author of the international bestseller A Suitable Boy returns with a powerful and deeply romantic tale of two gifted musicians.  Michael Holme is a violinist, a member of the successful Maggiore Quartet.  He has long been haunted, though, by ...

  • Erin's Baby

    Joyce Carlow
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    A trio of enchanting historical romances celebrates the joys of marriage and motherhood, from a young Irish widow who desperately searches for her son and meets a handsome widower to a man who enlists the help of a notorious gunslinger to protect his...

  • ESP TV

    Mary Rodgers

    Previously published as A Billion for Boris

    Annabel Andrews is back in her body, but life is still anything but normal. When her brother, Ape Face, and her boyfriend, Boris, discover a TV that airs its programs a day early, they're suddenly...

  • Eternal Outlaw

    Georgina Gentry

    A DEAL WITH THE DEVILKansas 189's. Riding in Coffeyville with the notorious Dalton Gang, Johnny Logan never expected a simple bank robbery to go so murderously wrong. Limping away from the carnage, he finds himself facing death. . .and the devil hims...

  • Every Dead Thing

    John Connolly

    Step into the tortured mind and gritty world of former NYPD detective Charlie "Bird" Parker, who is tormented by the brutal, unsolved murders of his wife and young daughter. Driven by visions of the dead, Parker tracks a serial killer from New York ...

  • existenz

    David Cronenberg

    A world where fantasy is more real than life itself.

    You are in a society where game designers are superstars and players can organically enter their favorite games. . . . A society where no one is more desired than Allegra Geller,...

  • Existenz

    John Luther Novak

    A science fiction novel based on the David Cronenberg film, featuring a shocking and violent tale of virtual reality that shatters the line between reality and imagination in a sophisticated, futuristic hi-tech game....

  • Expendable

    James Alan Gardner

    An exciting tale of deep space, alien worlds, and the select group of men and women whose mission is to make first contact with the unknown. They are...EXPENDABLE Under the benevolent leadership of the League of Peoples, there is no war, little cr...

  • The Experiment

    K.A. Applegate

    The Yeerks have decided to try a little experiment. They've decided that if they can develop a way to make people more "willing" to be infested, they can speed up Earth's invasion. So, the Yeerks try to invent a substance that will take away the huma...

  • The Extremes

    Christopher J. Priest

    In an effort to explain the eerie coincidence of two mass murders occurring on the same day halfway around the world, one of which killed her husband, Teresa Simon is drawn into the frightening virtual-reality world called Extreme Experience....

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Jayne Ann Krentz

    At a luxurious Arizona resort, a hard-edged businessman and a beautiful art consultant make a tantalizing mind-body connection--while a killer threatens their piece of paradise. After a career-stalling tangle with a fraudulent gallery owner, Art D...

  • The F*ck-Up

    Arthur Nersesian

    Arthur Nersesian's underground literary treasure is an unforgettable slice of gritty New York City life.This is the darkly hilarious odyssey of an anonymous slacker. He's a perennial couch-surfer, an aspiring writer searching for himself in spite of ...

  • Fairest of Them All

    Josette Browning

    MY FAIR LADY A true gentleman, Daniel Canty had worked furiously to achieve the high esteem of the English nobility. Therefore, it was more his reputation than the promise of wealth that compelled him to accept the ninth earl of Hawkenge's challen...

  • Fairy-Tale Family

    Pat Montana

    ONCE UPON A FAMILY Once, Ellie Sander had believed in fairy tales...until her illusions were shattered and she found herself single mom to four cherubic--though sometimes challenging--children. For them, she had to be strong--and smart. No cads in...

  • Family Affairs

    Sandra Kitt

    Gayla Patton owned a gallery in New York. She had a beautiful daughter--and a man who was willing to help raise her. Her life was under control.... Then David Kinney showed up. It had been so long since she'd seen the man who called himself Dak. H...

  • Far Horizons

    Robert Silverberg

    The universe of the mind is a limitless expanse of wonders, filled with worlds and secrets that cannot be fully explored within the pages of a single novel. Here, science fiction's most beloved and highly honored writers revisit their best-known worl...

  • Farelli's Wife

    Lucy Gordon

    Wanted: wife or mother? Joanne graciously stepped aside when Franco Farelli married her cousin four years before--her love for him kept a secret. Now Franco is a widower with an adorable little boy, Nico, and Joanne can't resist paying them a ...

  • Faster, They're Gaining

    Peter Biddlecombe

    Faster, They're Gaining is the sixth in a series of dispatches from all over the world, taking Peter Biddlecombe's total to 115 countries visited and described. Minsk, Valletta, La Paz, Mandalay, and Prague are among the 20 cities featured in this h...

  • Father in Training

    Mollie Molay

    He knew how babies were made But that was all Jeffrey Addams Logan III knew about fatherhood! He ran a billion-dollar business, handled employees and balanced budgets. What he knew about being a daddy could fit in a paper clip! But he couldn't ...

  • The Father's Day Murder

    Lee Harris

    FRIENDS UNTIL DEATH Every year, the Morris Avenue Boys--chums since childhood--gather for a Father's Day reunion dinner. Now late in middle age, these men can bask in the rewards of honest success. So which of them seizes the opportunity that fate...

  • The Fax of Life // Death Comes to a Retreat

    Leslie O'Kane

    Violets are blue. Roses are red. One of you bitches Will soon be dead. Those lines weren't quite what greeting-card entrepreneur Molly Masters had in mind when she encouraged her weekend workshop students to write a bit of verse, anonymously. E...

  • The FBI Killer

    Aphrodite Jones

    An FBI agent’s affair with his informant ends in murder in this true crime account of the notorious case by the New York Times bestselling author.   At twenty-seven years old, Susan Daniels Smith was a dirt poor, divorced mother of t...

  • The Fear of God

    B.A. Chepaitis

    On Planetoid Three, Jaguar Addams enters the minds of criminals. She lives in the shadows of their fears...and chases them into the light. The followers of the Revelation Sect are preparing for the Second Coming. Stockpiles of weapons were found w...

  • Felicity's New Sister

    Valerie Tripp

  • Ferryboat Ride!

    Anne Rockwell

    Ocean ferries, harbor ferries, river ferries, lake ferries--even children who don't live near one often experience them while on vacation.  As she did with air travel in I Fly, Anne Rockwell shows children what to expect when going on a ferry for t...

  • Find the Seashell

    Liza Alexander

    Elmo is at the beach, searching for the perfect seashell. Soon his bucket is full of all kinds of interesting things--except the perfect seashell. Elmo is disappointed, until he meets up with friends whose sand castle needs decorating. Now Elmo's buc...

  • The Fire at Mary Anne's House

    Ann M. Martin

    Need a baby-sitter? Save time! Call: THE BABYSITTERS CLUB When Mary Anne is woken up in the middle of the night by her cat, Tigger, she immediately knows something's wrong. Then she smells the smoke . . . and hears her father yelling her name. M...

  • The First Journey

    K.A. Applegate

    In this middle grade “choose your own adventure” story, the reader decides whether to take on animal morphing powers to help battle an alien invasion.Hey. We’re sure you already know the deal, but in case you don’t, there’s an alien invasio...

  • Flappy Waggy Wiggly

    Amanda Leslie

    Who has a snuffly pink snout and a curly whirly tail? A pig, of course! Little ones will delight in finding a funny new riddle on each spread of this lively book-and then turning the half-page panels to reveal a picture that shows them the answer. Wi...

  • Fleur De Leigh's Life of Crime

    Diane Leslie

    Tucked away in her parents' lavish Beverly Hills mansion, young Fleur de Leigh has all the benefits of a privileged and glamorous upbringing. Or so she is frequently told. Fleur's mother, a flamboyant, ambitious B-movie actress and eponymous star o...

  • Forbidden

    Janelle Denison

    SHE WAS HIS ONLY WEAKNESS... For years, Detective Josh Marchiano had fostered a forbidden love for Paige Montgomery--his partner's wife. So when he discovered Paige was a widow and the target of a very dangerous the urge to protect her overwhelmed...

  • Foreign Exchange

    Mel Glenn

    In the latest book by award winning poet Mel Glenn, a riveting mystery unfolds through a series of poems. When students from big-city Tower High School spend a weekend in rural Hudson Landing with the students of the local high school, an African-Ame...

  • A Forever Kind of Cowboy

    Doreen Roberts

    THE COWBOY AND THE VIRGIN She wasn't the kind of woman who would spend the night with a stranger, yet runaway bride Lori Ashford shared one night and so much more with sexy Cord McVane. The innocent beauty had only come to Cord's isolated cabin se...

  • Fortune's Hand

    Belva Plain

    HE LED A CHARMED LIFE UNTIL HE WANTED MORE. Robb MacDaniel was an idealistic young teacher engaged to his high school sweetheart--when a sudden windfall, tragically earned, offered him the opportunity to go to law school and pursue a brilliant car...

  • Foundation's Triumph

    David Brin

    ONE LAST ADVENTURE! Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. The monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline and a secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the coming Dark Age with tools of ...

  • Four Mothers

    Shifra Horn

    Shifra Horn's beautifully imagined novel tells the story of five generations of women in one family against the backdrop of one hundred years in Jerusalem.The story begins with the birth of the family's first boy to Amal, the last generation. Her mot...

  • The Friendship of Milly and Tug

    Dian Curtis Regan


    Milly and Tug are a cat and a mouse. Milly and Tug are the best of friends. In five short stories, these unlikely companions have fun playing off each other as they go about their day. Ever-determined Tug is quick to show up his pal in a spelling...

  • Garbage Monster from Outer Space

    John R. Erickson

    Someone has been raiding Sally May's garbage barrels! Hank knows the crime is the work of a notorious gang of raccoons, but in a tragic case of mistaken identity, the Head of Ranch Security is himself forced to take the heat. Even more trouble li...

  • Garnet's Treasure

    Jill Henry

    Garnet Jones journeys to rugged Montana Territory with one goal in mind; finding her ailing father and bringing him back home. Garnet plans to find her father quickly and leave on the next stage coach. She doesn't count on finding him in the care of ...

  • The Gazebo

    Emily Grayson

    The Gazebo is an elegantly written story of enduring love and loyalty, in the popular tradition of The Bridges of Madison County and The Notebook.Once a year for half a century, a man and a woman have been meeting at the gazebo in the square of a sma...

  • Get a Life!

    William Shatner

    Get A Life! with the possible exception of "Beam me up, Scotty," is clearly the most repeated catchphrase in the history of Star Trek®. Poking fun at Star Trek's gung-ho fans and conventions in a now infamous Saturday Night Live sketch, William Shat...

  • Giving Bear

    Isabel Gaines

  • Glorieta Pass

    P.G. Nagle

    It's called the "Gettysburg of the West,", the battle for control of Glorieta Pass, near Santa Fe. At stake is a route to Colorado's gold and San Francisco's unblockadable sea coast, two goals that would give the Confederate States a vital edge. Gene...

  • God Inside of Me

    Della Reese

  • Going Deep

    James Ferro

    The first in a new series of military action thrillers celebrating the exploits of the pilots who fly the A-10A Warthogs follows Lieutenant William James "B. J." Dixon and his commander, Major James "Mongoose" Johnson, as they prepare for action over...

  • Gold Rage

    David Thompson

    When destitute trapper Ben Frazier is led to a bevy of gold by a sympathetic Arapaho warrior, he becomes a target for a group of greedy renegade trappers, and mountain man Zach King is the only one who can save him. Original....

  • The Golden Legend: Selections

    Jacobo de Voragine

    One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of c...

  • The Good Son

    Todd Strasser

  • Graduation Day

    R.L. Stine

    In the suspenseful conclusion of the twelve-part saga, the surviving members of Shadyside High's senior class try to uncover the culprit responsible for the senior-class curse, as they begin to suspect that Count Clarkula is really a vampire. Origina...

  • The Groom's Revenge

    Susan Crosby

    Fortune's Children: The Brides Meet the Fortune Brides -- six special women who perpetuate a family legacy greater than mere riches! THE BEST REVENGE IS...FALLING IN LOVE Sweet Mollie Shaw's life began wheN Gray McGuire swept her off ...