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  • The Time Bike

    Jane Langton

    The new bike isn‘t pretty...

    Not like the slick, red, twenty"one"speed bike that was stolen the very night Eddy had received it as a birthday present. The bike that Prince Krishna sent is old"fashioned and has a wicker basket "...

  • Starbright and the Dream Eater

    Joy Cowley

    There is a new deadly illness on Earth.

    Starbright Connor is beginning to wonder why everyone in Claircomb has gone so wuzzling mad over some mysterious sickness that is probably just a media scare.

    Early sympt...

  • Bruce Coville's UFOs

    Bruce Coville

    Keep Watching the Skies!Featuring A Lot of Saucers by Harlan Ellison, plus other tales of first contact with some of the strangest aliens ever imagined!Snnslt Gyrlhpt Michael MarkiewiczShadow of the Pyramid Noreen DoyleThe Toy Room David M. Honigsber...

  • I'm Not Going to Chase the Cat Today!

    Jessica Harper

  • Luke on the High Seas

    Bonnie Pryor

    When Luke Reed left his prairie home to accompany Uncle Eli to Boston, he passed hordes of fortune seekers heading west to join the Gold Rush. It seems there's money to be made out there, and Uncle Eli doesn't want to miss out on any of it. In thi...

  • Rebel

    Cheryl Aylward Whitesel

    In the closed society of turn-of-the-century Tibet, the outside world is a threatening place. But not to Thunder. Ever rebellious, he longs to become a trader and visit faraway places.

    But when he has forbidden contact with a foreign explorer, Th...

  • If You Ever Get Lost

    Barbara Ann Porte

    Meet Julia and Evan, two siblings who greet each day's escapades with an uncommon mixture of curiosity and common sense. Whether they are lost in a crowd at a marathon, filling a grocery cart with pet supplies for the dog they don't have, or findi...

  • The First Victim

    Ridley Pearson

    In this gripping novel, Lou Boldt is back and entering dark new territory. A shipping container washed ashore leads Seattle television news anchor Stevie McNeal and her reporter friend, Melissa, on the trail of a scam involving the importation of ill...

  • Been Here and Gone

    David Dalton

    Can I tell you about the blues?Baby, I was born with the blues...

    So begins the fictional memoir Been Here and Gone, the extraordinary story of an all-but-forgotten bluesman, Coley Williams. A backup musician to some of the most famous and...

  • Adventures on File Island

    John Whitman

    It all began when Planet Earth suddenly started spinning way too fast! Before anyone knew what was happening, seven kids were mysteriously swept away from summer camp to File Island -- where no humans had ever been before.

    Think that's weird? Well,...

  • Dovey Coe

    Frances O'Roark Dowell

    "My name is Dovey Coe and I reckon it don't matter if you like me or not. I'm here to lay the record straight, to let you know them folks saying I done a terrible thing are liars. I aim to prove it, too. I hated Parnell Caraway as much as the next pe...

  • Heights of the Marvelous

    St. Martin's Press

    In the cutting-edge manner and method of Verses that Hurt and Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poet's Café, this anthology gathers recent work by many of New York City's most daring young poets. Contributors to this eclectic, exhilarating collection...

  • Hannibal

    Thomas Harris

    You remember Hannibal Lecter: gentleman, genius, cannibal. Seven years have passed since Dr. Lecter escaped from custody. And for seven years he's been at large, free to savor the scents, the essences, of an unguarded world. But intruders have entere...

  • The Indwelling: The Beast Takes Possession

    Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    The members of the Tribulation Force face their most dangerous challenges. Some are murder suspects; others test the precarious line between subversion and being revealed. It's the midpoint of the seven-year Tribulation. A renowned man is dead, and ...

  • Civil War on Sunday

    Mary Pope Osborne

    Cannon Fire! That's what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is their hardest journe...

  • Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket

    Barbara Park

    E-I-E-I-O! It's almost the end of the year, and Room Nine is taking a field trip to a farm! The whole class is very excited . . . except Junie B. Jones. 'Cause farms have scary ponies, that's why. And scary roosters, too. Will Junie B. find anything ...

  • Mole in a Hole

    Rita Golden Gelman

    Little Mr. Mole is lonely as only a mole can be. He prefers his cozy, dark hole under an apple tree to the bright outdoors. But try as he might to have friends over, he finds that his hole is not well suited to the frog, the bee, and the mouse. Poor ...

  • Missing Piece in Greece

    Linda Lowery Keep

    Hannah's next mission lands her in the ancient city of Athens, where Icarus crashed when his wax wings melted. Hannah hopes that doesn't happen to her angels, because she really needs them! Her new friend Alexis is a gymnast who's trying out for the ...

  • Raptor Without a Cause

    Scott Ciencin

    Thanks to Bertram Phillips's crazy science fair project, Will Reilly's mind is catapulted back millions of years and into the body of a Raptor. But he is not alone. Three other students are dropped into the predator-infested swamp that is prehistoric...

  • Ten Thousand Islands

    Randy Wayne White

    Government-agent-turned-marine-biologist Doc Ford sails an endless sea of questions when he agrees to investigate a death from the past. Years ago, off Florida's Gulf Coast, a teenaged girl found an ancient gold medallion. Then she began having night...

  • The Issa Valley

    Czeslaw Milosz

    Thomas, the child-protagonist of The Issa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and sometimes enchanting, sometimes brutal timbre of village life. There are the deep pine and spruce forests, the gr...

  • Queen's Own Fool

    Jane Yolen; Robert J. Harris

    ONCE SHE WAS A TRAVELING PLAYER ... Now called La Jardiniere, a resourceful and clever jester to the queen's court, Nicola was a most unlikely person to end up "fool" and friend to Mary, Queen of Scots. But Nicola isn't an ordinary comedian tumbli...

  • The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot

    Dan Greenburg

    Zack's first trip to sleep-away camp gets a little hairy when legends of a mysterious creature lurking in the woods turn out to be more than just campfire tales. Is it the missing link? Yeti? Sasquatch? Bigfoot?...

  • Butterflies

    Emily Neye

    Young children can try out their reading wings as they learn about the life cycle of a butterfly. The simply written text goes hand-in-hand with the striking cut-paper artwork of Spider's Lunch artist Ron Broda to create a colorful introduction to th...

  • Brave Potatoes

    Toby Speed

  • Alfred's Party

    David Ellwand

  • Have You Got My Purr?

    Judy West

    What's a kitten to do--she's lost her purr, and neither the dog, the cow, the duck, or the pig can make the sound that Kitten misses most, until she returns to snuggle with her mother, and finds her purr has been right there, all along....

  • Princess Chamomile's Garden

    Hiawyn Oram

    Princess Chamomile's new interest in gardening perplexes the king, queen, and Nanny Nettle, but they soon give in to her wishes, and with the help of Melchior the gardener, Chamomile soon has a garden of her very own to tend to....

  • Lab Coat Girl: Cool Fuel

    Margie Palatini

  • The Book of Prefaces

    Alasdair Gray

  • Doggie Dreams

    Nancy Kapp Chapman

  • Chicken Run

    Lawrence David

  • Humpty Dumpty

    Daniel Kirk

  • Kiss It Better

    Hiawyn Oram

  • A Pup Just for Me // A Boy Just for Me

    Dorothea P. Seeber

  • A Parting Gift

    Ben Erickson

    Josh is 17 years old when he is enlisted to help an old man write his memoirs. Beautifully evoking ordinary life, A Parting Gift explores such fundamental puzzles as how to live one's life, the reason for existence and the nature of God....

  • Sinatraland

    Sam Kashner

    Meet Finkie Finkelstein: businessman from New Jersey, lovingly obsessed fan of Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra. To Finkie, Frank is the model of a man -- elegant, sophisticated, talented, with charm to spare. Finkie has modeled his life after his idol; ...

  • Diamond Dust

    Anita Desai

    Upon the recent publication of Fasting, Feasting, critics raved about Anita Desai: "Desai is more than smart; she's an undeniable genius" (Washington Post Book World). The Wall Street Journal called Fasting, Feasting "poignant, penetrating . . . a sp...

  • Tiger Book

    Jan Pfloog

  • Something Blue

    Jean Christopher Spaugh

    When Judy's sister Tina Lee becomes engaged, the swirl of activity as they plan for the wedding jolts Judy out of her routine.

    She begins to realize that things aren't quite right in her life: her cozy trailer now seems shabby and small; a red...

  • Penelope Jane

    G. Brian Karas

    Tall as an eyelash, quick as a planewas the tiniest fairy,Penelope Jane.

    Penelope Jane de la Fesser, a flying French fairy, is just the perfect size to live in the right-hand dresser drawer of her very best friend, f...

  • Toddler Two-Step

    Kathi Appelt

  • Shooting Hoops

    Sue Macy

    When best friends Crystal and Hannah end up on different teams for a charity basketball game, it is up to Barbie to convince them that they owe it to themselves, their teammates, and the sponsor to play all out against each other, and that they can d...

  • Katrina's Wings

    Patricia Hickman

    A rich, reassuring, coming-of-age tale for the dreamer in us allFor every woman who has come into her own or is striving to find her way in the world, Katrina's Wings honors and explores the desire to break free from childhood constraints and soar in...

  • Goodbye Without Leaving

    Laurie Colwin

    An insightful domestic comedy, at once hilarious and extremely moving, Goodbye Without Leaving is the story of a woman's attempt to remain true to herself in a world of diminishing returns. As a bored graduate student, Geraldine Colshares is pluck...

  • Erogenous Zones

    Lucretia Stewart

    Travel, like sex, is the search for the unknown. What, after all, could be more unknown than a sexual experience in a strange land, or with a stranger? This question, or preoccupation, informs much of the most insightful and eloquent travel writing w...

  • Heaven Cent

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Heaven Cent continues the Xanth saga from New York Times bestselling fantasy author Piers Anthony. In the mind of Xanth's precious shapeshifting Prince Dolph, the perfect way to see the world is to search for the missing sorcerer, Humfrey. Setting of...

  • Let's Share

    Michelle Foerder

  • Stonedial

    George Konrad

    The year 1993. Janos Dragomán, a wandering scholar, a world-famous and world-weary Hungarian writer, returns to his native town to visit three old friends. They are Aba Kuno, the almost saintly, highly respected rector of the university; Antal Tombo...

  • Headlock

    Adam Berlin

    A powerful debut novel. --Booklist, starred review"The crowded bar had made space an I could hear other people screaming byt no one came near me. It was a smaller circle than the one I had wrestled in but it was a circle and I went to work. I turned ...

  • Remembrance Day

    Henry Porter

    A terrifying plot to unleash destruction in London and a very unlikely spy from "one of our most accomplished thriller writers" (Financial Times).Constantine Lindow is waiting for his brother Eamonn outside a central London tube station when a bus tu...

  • Peru

    Marion Morrison

  • All-Bright Court

    Connie Rose Porter

    A New York Times Notable Book: A novel spanning two decades in the lives of an African American family as their upstate New York steel town slowly decays.   Set just outside Buffalo, New York, during the 1960s and ’70s, All-Bright Court paints...

  • Backstabber

    Francine Pascal

    We've been friends forever. We've been there for each other through everything. I always knew I loved Conner as a friend. I never realized I loved him. Elizabeth is going to kill me....

  • Portrait of Lies

    Dandi Daley Mackall

    Jamie (e-name: rembrandt) Lives for art… ... now she's painted herself into a real dead-end. *** van_gogh -- It started with a stupid portrait. You know how I said I'd do anything to win that art camp scholarship? I did --and now I may be...

  • The Empty Chair

    Jeffery Deaver

    Lincoln Rhyme, the renowned criminalist from The Bone Collector and The Coffin Dancer, faces his ultimate opponent: a kidnapper and murderer dubbed the Insect Boy. But Rhyme is in for a surprise when he learns that catching a criminal is one thing .....

  • The Boomer

    Marty Asher

    Meet the boomer.

    He's smart, successful, well-adjusted, and on the brink of total despair.

    Sound like anyone you know?


    boom-er (bü'mer), n. 1: a person or thing that booms. 2: a person who settles in area or towns that are b...

  • Tuff

    Paul Beatty

    From Paul Beatty, the author of the Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, comes Tuff, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays.Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay is an East Harlem deniz...

  • The Deep Field

    James Bradley

    One of Australia's "most ambitious and talented younger writers" (Sydney Morning Herald), delivers a gripping novel about a young woman's emotional awakening against the backdrop of global conflict and political chaosJames Bradley exploded onto the l...

  • Sammy Keyes and the Curse of Moustache Mary

    Wendelin Van Draanen

    Moustache Mary: legend, curse, killer, or savior? When Sammy and her friends meet Lucinda Huntley walking her 200-pound pig down the middle of the road, their quiet weekend in the country quickly becomes an adventure. Lucinda tells them a true tal...

  • Angel of Hope

    Lurlene McDaniel

    In this compelling sequel to Angel of Mercy, Amber Barlow finds herself following  in her sister footsteps to Uganda for missionary work.  She quickly realizes upon arrival that transitioning from her wealthy lifestyle in Miami to the shock...

  • My Friend John

    Charlotte Zolotow

    What makes someone a best friend?

    John knows everything about me, and I know everything about him. So begins the heartwarming story of two young boys who together experience fun times, sad times, happy times, hard times, secret times, and all ...

  • Land of Hungry Armadillos

    Lawrence David

    Gus won't share crayons and paper with his little sister, Wendy. So, after being sent to his room, Gus angrily wishes upon a star for his very own drawing supplies. A creature named Zub appears, ready to grant Gus his wish for the right trade. Why no...

  • Black Belt

    Matt Faulkner

    Bushi is menaced by the bullies who call themselves Bullfrogs. One day, when he's running away from them, he hides in a dojo (karate school), where he sees a belt that once belonged to a karate master hanging on the wall. When he tries on the belt, h...

  • Pignapped!: A Cobtown Story

    Julia Van Nutt

    Missing: One Little Striped Pig!

    Oinkey has been pignapped! Three men of science arrive in Cobtown to collect new and rare plants, minerals, and animals. They are eager to take their discoveries back to the big city of Ploomajiggy. But their e...

  • Ticklemonster and Me: A Play along Book

    Max Haynes

    The laugh-aloud fantasy of Tough Teddy and the Ticklemonster comes alive in this innovative book that encourages parent-child interaction.

    Tough Teddy isn't afraid of anything . . . except being tickled. He's not even afraid to camp out in the...

  • Easy Prey

    John Sandford

    In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that's demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city...

  • Safe House

    Diane Duane

    To save a prominent scientist and his son from a corrupt government's agents, the Net Force Explorers embark on a terrifying virtual hunt for their enemies--before it's too late....

  • The Train Now Departing

    Martha Grimes

    A pair of thematically connected novellas-about loneliness-by the author of the Richard Jury mysteries (The Stargazey, 1998, etc.) and, most recently, Biting the Moon (1999). At the center of each is a woman leading a life in gunmental gray. Diss...

  • Stories of the Stars

    Tui T. Sutherland

    Describes how people have seen patterns in the stars, and recounts some of the ancient Greek stories about the constellations, including the myths of the Great and Little Bears, Cygnus, Pegasus, Leo, the Corona Borealis, and Orion....

  • Cinderella

    Sonali Fry

  • Touchdown Mars

    Peggy Wethered

  • Heroes Like Us

    Thomas Brussig

    Provocative and hilarious, Heroes Like Us was the first novel to comment on the downfall of East Germany by an author who had grown up with the Berlin Wall. Klaus Uhltzscht, born in 1968 in East Germany, grows up across the street from the Ministr...

  • Mystic Visions

    Rosanne Bittner

    In Mystic Dreamers, best-selling author Rosanne Bittner began a compelling saga with the meeting of Buffalo Dreamer, a holy woman, and Rising Eagle, a warrior whose powers were unmatched, for he had been blessed by the Feathered One. Now, in a new st...

  • Soul of the Sacred Earth

    Vella Munn

    THE CONQUERORS HAVE COME It is 1628. The Spanish Church has sent missionaries, accompanied by small military forces, to civilize the savages who populate the desert lands of what will one day be the American Southwest. The drive to save souls from...

  • Murder With Puffins

    Donna Andrews

    A romantic getaway was what Meg Langslow had in mind when she and her boyfriend planned a trip to the tiny island of Monhegan off the coast of Maine. They would spend their days hiking the trails and their evenings by the fire. But in this remote pla...

  • A Suspicious Proposal

    Helen Brooks

    One wedding leads to another... Essie Russell met millionaire businessman Xavier Grey at a wedding: she was the chief bridesmaid; he was a distant relative of the bridegroom. They were strangers, yet for some reason Xavier clearly disapproved of Ess...

  • Tom Bradley's Babies

    Marion Lennox

    A ready-made family Tom Bradley definitely isn't happy to be stranded with a heavily pregnant woman in the middle of nowhere! Although Rose Allen keeps trying to reassure him that she isn't due to give birth for three weeks, it seems the b...

  • Bachelor in Need

    Jessica Steele

    Could she resist him? Jeger Urquart was in need...of a woman! A millionaire executive, he could command almost anything, but this time only a woman's touch - and, more particularly, Fennia's - would do. Jeger needed a temporary nanny for his ...

  • The Dragon's Eye

    Joel Champetier

    A couple of hundred years in the future, there is a struggling Chinese colony on the planet of a double star not too far from Earth. One of their suns is the blinding and carcinogenic Dragon's Eye, which requires them to cover up and wear hats when ...

  • Beneath the Skin

    Nicci French

    Zoe. Jenny. Nadia. Three women of varying ages and backgrounds with little else in common but for one thing: Someone has sent them each a note informing them that they will be killed. A cruel joke? A hoax? The police don't seem to think so. Now, with...

  • Sunshine Showers and Four O'Clock Flowers

    Pauline Stewart

    Davina lives in a mixed race family, at a time when it is not acceptable. She and her grandmother plant seeds in the garden and wait. As they grow so does Davina and she finally makes friends with children of other races. This story carries a message...

  • The Absentee

    Maria Edgeworth

    Just before coming of age, Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a re...

  • Ragweed

    Avi

    The first book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medal"winning author Avi, with illustrations from Caldecott Medal"winning artist Brian Floca, is available as an ebook for the first time!A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. Ragweed is d...

  • The Case of the Cheerleading Camp Mystery

    Lisa Fiedler

    Mary-Kate and Ashley are psyched to spend a whole week at cheerleading camp! It looks as if Ashley has a serious shot at being chosen as team captain; but two days before tryouts Ashley's favorite pom-poms disappear! Is someone trying to sabotage Ash...

  • Hurry!

    Jessie Haas

    "Nothing's more important on this farm than hay," Gramp tells Nora. The hay is cut now and drying in the field. But the sky turns milky white. Then it's gray, and then it's grayer. Rain is coming and that could spoil the hay. Can Nora and Gramp and G...

  • That's Mine, Horace

    Holly Keller

  • Happy Birthday, America!

    Marsha Wilson Chall

    A family reunion, a parade, a Jell-O mold in the shape of the United States, fireworks-- it must be the Fourth of July! From picnic preparations to the final starburst floating down through a midnight blue sky, Marsha Wilson Chall and Guy Porfirio se...

  • You're the Best, Hannah!

    Mindy Warshaw Skolsky

    It's springtime in Grand View!

    And as always, there's a lot going on. As well as serving square hamburgers and pie a la mode at her family's restaurant, Hannah is getting her new dog, Skippy, ready for the dog show, listing to her favorite r...

  • The Mighty Skink

    Paul Shipton

    I thought about it so often that it made my head itch on the inside. What's it like out there...out in the land of humans?

    Sure, Kaz has questions about life beyond the Fence. Yet aside from the occasional scrapes with Block the bully, he d...

  • Key Is Lost

    Ida Vos

    What would it be like to lose your home, your family, and even your name?

    Eva and Lisa Zilverstijn find out. When they go into hiding from the Nazis during World War II, they lose everything but each other.

    As they move from attic to...

  • Angel Baby

    Pat Cummings

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    "Amanda Lynne," said her mother,"Come help me feed your baby brother.Grab that towel and Mr. Bear.Oops! There's oatmeal in his hair.Wipe off his face. Now look, you seeWhat an angel he can be"

    In Mother's eyes, Aman...

  • And the Cow Said Moo!

    Mildred Phillips

    One sunny morning a very young cow set out across the barnyard and demands, in a bossy way, that all the other farm animals say Moo.

    But...

    Does a pig say Moo? Can a sheep say Moo? Will a dog say Moo? Maybe a horse says Moo? And what ...

  • Girl Reporter Stuck in Jam!

    Linda Ellerbee

    Girl Reporter Charged with First-Degree Nosiness

    Call the perky patrol! Real News editor Megan O'Connor has gone too far. She's started a new advice column called JAM ("Just Ask Megan"), and Casey Smith, girl reporter, is...

  • Minnow on the Say

    Philippa Pearce

    It''s a great discovery. Right there, at the bottom of the garden, bobbing on the river, is a canoe. The Minnow. David can''t help wishing he could keep her . . .The Minnow leads him to Adam, and an extraordinary summer begins. Armed with a myste...

  • Noddy Makes a New Friend

    Enid Blyton

    Strike up the band!The circus is in town, and Noddy makes a funny new friend called a Bunkey. The Bunkey just loves to help out his pals in any way he can. But as Noddy soon finds out, there is such a thing as being too helpful! Fans of the televisio...

  • The Seduction

    Nicole Jordan

    As the most notorious rakehell in Regency London, Lord Damien Sinclair sought only his own pleasure, until his beloved younger sister, Olivia, was injured and her reputation ruined during a forbidden tryst. Now Damien will do anything to destroy the ...

  • Baby, Don't Go

    Susan Andersen

    Rule One: Don't Let Him In When photographer Nick Coltrane saunters into Daisy Parker's office, all she sees is the man who broke her heart nine years ago. Never mind that he wants to hire her as his bodyguard--ah, security specialist -- or that h...

  • Legendary Lover

    Susan Johnson

    Dear Readers, I had heard the gossip. Who in London hadn't? But whether or not the elusive Venus Duras would favor one of her numerous suitors didn't concern me. After all, I had a surfeit of obliging lovers. And then I bumped into her. Literally....

  • Armies of Light and Dark

    Peter David

    The Drakh have assaulted Earth with deadly Shadow technology--but the worst is yet to come in this stunning continuation of the Babylon 5 epic adventure... Centauri Prime has been infiltrated by malevolent allies of the Shadows, creatures known as...

  • Standoff

    Sandra Brown

    TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation when she hears the news on the radio: The teenage daughter of Fort Worth tycoon Russell Dendy has been a kidnapped. Immediately, she abandons her holiday plans to chase down w...

  • Places in the Dark

    Thomas H. Cook

    It is autumn 1937 when a mystery woman appears in Port Alma, a sea village nestled on the chilly coast of Maine. A fragile, green-eyed beauty, the woman arrives with little more than the clothes on her back and a wealth of unspoken secrets. Before a ...

  • Eater

    Gregory Benford

    Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist's beloved wife and partner--ex-astronaut-turned-astronomer Channing--is dying. ...

  • Fortress of Dragons

    C.J. Cherryh

    THE WALLS BETWEEN THE WORLDS ARE DOWN, A NEW UNFOLDING HAS BEGUN.. . It started long ago, as a war between the shadowy Immortals that persists today, as the wizard Mauryl's Shaping confronts the Shadows summoned from Chaos. Tristen is that Shaping...

  • Dracula Cha Cha Cha

    Kim Newman

    Written by award-winning novelist Kim Newman, this is a brand-new edition, with additional 40,000 word never-before-seen novella, of the popular third installment of the Anno Dracula series, Dracula Cha Cha Cha.Rome. 1959. Count Dracul...

  • Rogue Planet

    Greg Bear

    MASTER AND APPRENTICE The Force is strong in twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker ... so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted young Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan--like his slain...

  • The Night Inspector

    Frederick Busch

    An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jess...

  • Witch's Dog And The Crystal Ball

    Frank Rodgers

    Wilf, the Witch's Dog, is full of magic ideas that help Weenie to think of something to make for the Witches' Fun Day. But in the sports, disaster strikes and Wilf is accused of cheating. It's not true of course, but how can he prove it? Wilf remembe...

  • The Fountains of Youth

    Brian Stableford

    This is a science fiction novel of enormous scope and ambition, filled with wonders that expands Brian Stableford's on-going future history series. Hundreds of years in the future, further ahead than the settings of Inherit the Earth and Architects o...

  • Redemption

    Mel Odom

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... DEJA VU DEMON When their investigation agency books a walk-in client, Angel, Cordelia, and Doyle couldn't be happier. Whitney Tyler is a beautiful, widely adored actress who plays a vampire o...

  • Here Be Monsters

    Cameron Dokey

    EVIL TIMES TWO Something icky is brewing, as usual, in Sunnydale. This time it's in the form of two clean-cut, prep school-type boys. Buffy's suspicious from the start -- their fashion statement is so old it's dead, and it seems they have a slight...

  • Idaho Ghost Town

    Jon Sharpe

    VANISHED... While helping a brassy young lady locate her lost cousin in the wilderness, Skye Fargo stumbles onto a landgrabbing scheme that will pit his every nerve against hostile Indians, ferocious wildlife, and a ruthless frontier kingpin who rule...

  • Slocum and the Undertaker

    Jake Logan

    Slocum's quest for revenge leads him to Lost Soul, Nevada, where he discovers a marshal who does not carry a gun, a very strange and powerful undertaker, and a woman worth sticking around for. Original....

  • Dangerous Breed

    J.R. Roberts

    THE RIDE HAS JUST BEGUN...  All Clint wanted was a new horse. But when he returns to a horse breeder's ranch after a test ride, he gets a new mission -- hittin' the trail for justice. The breeder and his men have been gunned down, the ranch is a...

  • Savages

    David Thompson

    In the untamed Rockies, Zach King coexists peacefully with hostile Indians who share the same desire to live free in the glorious mountains, but when Zach sets off for St. Louis with his fiancTe to visit her relatives, they encounter savages of a dif...

  • Me and Johnny Blue

    Joseph A. West

  • Longarm and the Pistolero Princess

    Tabor Evans

    THE CONSUMMATE LAWMAN There's something rotten behind the scenes of Colonel Jasper Pettigrew's Wild West Show, and U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long is ready for his big entrance. The Bureau of Indian Affairs believes that the show's Indian sharpshoot...

  • Game of Chance

    Guy Brewer

    In the fourth Diamondback novel a case of mistaken identity turns con man Dex Yancy into a rich man -- a ploy which soon has him running for his life....

  • Lawless

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Aspiring outlaw Sam Conagher has traded in his guns for a new life in a quiet town, but when he uncovers a plot against the woman he loves, the old gunfighter's blood begins to boil in his veins. Original....

  • Blood of Eagles

    William W. Johnstone

    WHERE EAGLES DARE The Oklahoma Panhandle is one hundred miles of lawlessness and danger: a no man's land designed to separate Texas from pro-Union Kansas. Through this desolate strip rides legendary gunslinger Falcon MacCallister, a young Indian boy...

  • Seducing Alicia

    Tracy Cozzens

    AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE Top scientist Alicia Underwood has dedicated her every waking minute to life-saving research. Hiding her beauty -- and her broken heart -- behind a microscope feels much safer than taking a chance on a man who would only leave ...

  • A Mother's Love

    Courtni Wright
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    There is nothing like a mother's devotion--or a mother's heart. In Courtni Wright's "A Mother's Love," sales manager Jackie Peterson has always been there to help her husband and son build their successful, yet busy, lives. But when she is forced...

  • Maternal Instincts

    Kayla Perrin
    in

    There is nothing like a mother's devotion--or a mother's heart. In Kayla Perrin's "Maternal Instincts," young widow Lexy Sinclair has devoted her whole life to raising her ten-year-old daughter, Shauna. But a handsome friend and the feisty Shauna...

  • Love's Bounty

    Rosanne Bittner

    LOVE'S SWEET REWARD Bent on revenge, Callie Hobbs hires a bounty hunter to chase down the outlaws who took her mother's life, stole her means of survival and destroyed her innocent trust in the good of mankind. She does not know that the m...

  • For Love Alone

    Shirlee Busbee

    Tempestuous young widow Sophy Marlow vowed she would never wed again ... except for love. Proud, brooding Viscount Ives Harrington swore he would never shed his bachelor ways ... except for revenge. Then Ives chose to save the fearless Sophy from a s...

  • The Rebellious Bride

    Catherine Blair
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    A trio of delightful Regency romances celebrates the joy of matrimony and includes Cathleen Clare's The Impossible Bride, in which a woman destined to be a spinster through family tradition must choose between being a dutiful daughter or elop...

  • The Brambleberry Bride

    Hayley Ann Solomon
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    Left heartbroken at his wedding altar, Viscount Waverly has decided it is up to his brother, Captain Bertram Ralston, to carry on the family name, and he believes Anastasia Richmond will make the perfect bride. But upon arrival at the Richmond estate...

  • The Impossible Bride

    Cathleen Clare
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    A trio of delightful Regency romances celebrates the joy of matrimony and includes Cathleen Clare's The Impossible Bride, in which a woman destined to be a spinster through family tradition must choose between being a dutiful daughter or elop...

  • Adam's Kiss

    Patricia Ellis

    ONE KISS IS ALL IT TAKES... Inheriting a Wisconsin farm gave Amelia Appleberry plenty of room for her menagerie of pets. The rent-free house and a small legacy also allowed her time to think about her future and what direction she should take. But w...

  • Wife in Name Only

    Marcia Evanick

    THE BRIDE Sue Ellen Fabian is a beautician with a secret dream she knows will never come true in the small-town of Wild Rose, Iowa. Still, if she can't have a family of her own, she'll channel her love of children toward her cherished godsons. After...

  • More Than You Know

    Jo Goodman

    MORE THAN HE KNEW Rand Hamilton vows to rebuild his Charleston plantation with the only means left to him: a long-lost treasure that has lured and cursed two families for centuries. But to finance his expedition, he must agree to the terms of his we...

  • Destiny's Lady

    Susan Grace

    AN ALLURING PIRATE Beautiful and brazen, Catherine O'Banyon sailed the high seas as the infamous Irish outlaw, Lady Cat. But as she strode the deck of her ship, she was unaware of her true identity -- and of the existence of Lady Victoria Carl...

  • Promise Me Love

    Elizabeth Graham

    PROMISE ME TENDERNESS Penniless with two young siblings in tow, Damask Alden arrived in Goose Creek, Pennsylvania, only to find that the beloved aunt who'd urged her to leave Tennessee and help run the family inn had died suddenly. Now Damask is...

  • Bull God

    Roberta Gellis

    MOMMA DOESN'T TALK ABOUT THAT PARTY ... ;-) When gods still walked the Earth, a king could pray for a sign and have a white bull rise from the sea to confirm his claim to the throne. But a god's price was high, and when Minos did not keep his prom...

  • Robert's Lady

    Nicole Byrd

    He returned home only to find his betrothed had married another... After rotting away for years in a French prison, Lord Robert Manning wants nothing more than to return to the life -- and fiancee -- he had left behind to fight Napoleon. but belie...

  • Kiss the Cook

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    JUST ADD ROMANCE... Bubbly, off-beat beauty Melanie Gibson has her hands full. Not only is she caring for her beloved grandmother, she's also working desperately to secure a bank loan for her fledgling gourmet catering service. The last thing sh...

  • The Sorceress & the Savage

    Saranne Dawson

    Set on a futuristic planet, this tale is about a charming sorceress who returns to her people's homeland and uncovers the love of a lifetime with her ancient enemy--a disarmingly dangerous and purely male savage. He stood amidst the stones, purely...

  • Sun Hawk

    Cassie Edwards

    Sun Hawk was adopted by the Ojibwa after his family was slaughtered by a renegade Indian band. He soon rose in prominence and became chief of his tribe. Then a chance encounter with a beautiful woman -- in need of rescue from villianous trappers -- c...

  • Tykota's Woman

    Constance O'Banyon

    The Lady Or The Legend? Tykota Silverhorn had lived among the white man long enough. It was time to return to his people. Time to fulfill his destiny as the legendary tribal chieftain he was born to become. So what need had he for the pretty whit...

  • Buried Secrets

    Anne Barbour

    The Scandalous Spinster Love was for poets. Marriage was for fools. The philosophy of dashing rake Christopher Culver, the Earl of Cordray, would never melt a woman's heart. But that wasn't his desire. Nor was adhering to the restrictive tastes of...

  • Lady Serena's Surrender

    Jeanne Savery

    Would her heart surrender to liberty or love? AN UNWILLING BRIDE Lady Serena Dixon believes all men are not to be trusted. Thus, she does not wish to shackle herself to a husband. But her wicked father has arranged for her betrothal to Jamie McM...

  • A Dangerous Dalliance // Secrets and Sensibilities

    Regina Scott

    A COLONIAL LORD David Tenant, a Boston-bred master of fine leatherwork, has just unexpectedly inherited the rather sizable English estate of Brentfield Court--and a conniving widow in the process. For Lady Sylvia Tenant is determined to control the ...

  • Silver Rain

    Barbara Sheridan

    New Orleans, 1797. A beautiful bride dies before reaching the altar, and her lover, Alain Devereaux, vows to do anything to be with her again--even if it means drinking a sorceress's potion to put him in an indefinite sleep... New Orleans, 2000. D...

  • On a Long Ago Night

    Susan Sizemore

    He Vowed She Would Marry Him... Years ago, Honoria Pyne was forced to make a devil's bargain with a mysterious rogue. Now one of the ton's greatest heiresses, her world is shattered when the devil comes to claim his prize. Though she longs to scor...

  • Timestruck

    Flora Speer

    AT THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN... On the eve of the new millennium, one misplaced keystroke thrust computer analyst Gina McCain back to the eighth century--and into the dashing lord Dominick's bed. Awestruck by his courtly manner,...

  • Just Before Dawn

    Rochelle Alers

    SUDDEN PASSION After prosecuting the biggest case of her career, New York district attorney Sara Sterling was looking forward to relaxing amid starry desert nights in her childhood home in New Mexico. Then she met her enigmatic neighbor Salem Lassit...

  • The Keys to My Heart

    Janice Sims
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    There is nothing like a mother's devotion--or a mother's heart. Nurse Kiana Everett in Janice Sims' "The Keys To My Heart," is determined to give her young niece a happy home after Courtney is orphaned. She never expected that her stern brother-i...

  • Stryker's Bride

    Joyce Adams

    RELUCTANT BRIDE Jacey Forester had pulled her sister Jeanette out of scrapes before, but this was the worst! Her flighty twin had temporarily flown the coop, leaving Jacey to fulfill her contract as a mail order bride -- or face jail for fraud. Masq...

  • Innocent Betrayal

    Mary Campisi

    SHE WANTED HER FREEDOM Headstrong Emily St. Simon longed to escape the stifling confines of her English noblewoman's life. So, dressed as a boy, she daringly stowed away on a ship bound for America -- unaware that her dreams of independence wo...

  • The Burning Point // Stirring the Embers

    Mary Jo Putney

    Kate Corsi always dreamed of working for her family's world-famous explosive demolition business -- a wish her old-fashioned father denied her until the day he died. According to his will, Kate will receive a fortune, while her ex-husband, Donovan, w...

  • Drew

    Leigh Greenwood

    The freedom of the range, the bawling of the longhorns, the lonesome night watch beneath a vast, starry sky -- they get into a woman's blood until she knows there is nothing better than the life of a cowgirl...except the love of a good man. A...

  • Counterfeit Kisses

    Sandra Heath

    Love's Fortune When Susannah Leighton left London, she was a young lady whose means had been reduced by her brother's foolish card playing. But when she returned, the deck was in her favor. Now a wealthy woman, she was ready to reclaim her family'...

  • Against His Will

    Trish Jensen

    FBI agent Jake Donnelly is not a happy camper. His favorite aunt is gone and he's gained...not the childhood retreat he loves, but custody of a bulldog. Worse still, the terms of the will require him and Muffin to spend two weeks at a dog spa own...

  • Illusions of Love

    Marcia King-Gamble

    Mysterious Through sheer persistence, Skyla Walker has turned herself from high school outcast into a respected journalist. Now her hard-won success will be tested in the heart of Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, where famous illusionist Creed Benne...

  • That Scandalous Heiress

    Martha Kirkland

    AN UNCHAPERONED LADY When a total stranger bequeaths her a dilapidated manor house in the village of Chemford, Miss Marianne McCord plans to live in it alone. Despite the ill wishes of the townsfolk, who believe her to be nothing more than a light...

  • East of Peculiar

    Suzann Ledbetter

    Somewhere just east of Peculiar... Hannah Garvey is about to run smack into her new life. One morning Hannah Garvey woke up and decided she'd had enough: of the fast track, the corporate ladder and chronic love-gone-wrong. So she traded in the rat...

  • Josh

    Ana Leigh

    Pinkerton agent Josh MacKenzie always gets his man...but he's never been up against a woman like runaway heiress Emily Lawrence! She Was Trouble...and Temptation Emily had fled her wealthy home and the boring society men who courted her, lookin...

  • The Nabob's Daughter

    Dawn Lindsey

    An Irrepressible Heiress Anjalie Cantrell arrives in London to much fanfare. Though her father is a mere merchant, he is also one of the richest men in Jamaica--making Anjalie the most sought-after heiress of the season. Though her success in L...

  • A Taste of Sin

    Connie Mason

    A Scottish bride meets her absent groom... Come hell or high water, Lady Christy would have her long-awaited wedding night at last. But first she had to seduce the dashing rogue who has claimed her as bride -- in name only! A SCORNED WIFE'...

  • The Return

    Dinah McCall

    THE DAUGHTER OF A FORBIDDEN LOVE COMES HOME.... As a legacy of hatred erupts in a shattering moment of violence, a dying mother entrusts her newborn daughter to a caring stranger....Now, twenty-five years later, Catherine Fane has come home to Cam...

  • The Dreamer

    May McGoldrick

    When her late father was branded a traitor to the king, Catherine Percy found sanctuary in Scotland. But a case of mistaken identity put her in a compromising position with the Highland earl sworn to protect her. Marriage to him saved her reputation,...

  • The Tombstone Rose

    Annie McKnight

    Charlotte has returned to Tombstone a famous singer and actress, but her memories still haunt her every move. She knows that while she has managed to put the past behind her, there is one memory she can't shake: Jake Cottrell. The rugged rancher is t...

  • In Trouble's Arms

    Ronda Thompson

    Loreen Matland knows good-looking men are trouble, so when Jake Winslow answers her ad for a mail-order husband to help save the family farm, she is very cautious, until she realizes that he is just what she needs--for her farm, her family, and her h...

  • Secrets of the Heart

    Marilyn Tyner

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    Amanda Reynolds sees a platonic marriage to Drew Conners as her only escape from an abusive father, not expecting to fall in love with him. Believing he doesn't return that love, she leaves to make a life on her own. When a chance encounter bring...

  • A Promise Given

    Anita Wall

    BREAK HIS PLEDGE... Jeanne O'Shea has no time to grieve for her dead mother. The unwanted advances of her violent stepfather have sent her and her young brother fleeing into the freezing night. If it weren't for Leon, the handsome shepherd who has g...

  • Sky Fire

    Cliff Garnett

    DEATH FROM ABOVE. Even as the Communist Bloc recedes into memory, some of its most fanatical supporters in the aerospace community known as the Frateco have retreated to a hidden base in the mountains of central Asia...planning for the day when th...

  • Precision Play

    Don Pendleton

    LINE OF FIRE The Vice President and his teenage daughter have been abducted by a small-time militia group and held hostage somewhere deep in Hell's Canyon. As internal rivalries of the combined federal task force threaten a standoff where everybod...

  • King of the Grey

    Richard A. Knaak

    The Grey are the legends of our imagination—but now, through one man, they seek to live.From New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Richard Knaak comes a tale of the Grey. They are the shadows we see out of the corner of our eye...

  • Hostile Instinct

    Don Pendleton

    INFILTRATION From the peaceful Virginia countryside, America's most covert action team battles the scourge of terrorism wherever it strikes. Now = the West faces devastation on two fronts: a deadly biological war and a traitor prepared to blow the...

  • The Return

    Buzz Aldrin; John Barnes

    A NOVEL OF TODAY -- ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES OF TOMORROW Former astronaut Scott Blackstone's dream of opening outer space to visits from everyday people is under attack. His pilot program has been marred by a fatal accident, he's out of a job, and ...

  • Night Freight

    Bill Pronzini

    A horrifying collection of twenty-six chilling horror stories spanning nearly three decades in the author's award-winning career, includes several tales of horror and suspense that have never before been published in book form. Original....

  • The Town

    Bentley Little

    Bram Stoker Award-winning horror author Bentley Little proves why you should never go home again in this terrifying novel.Welcome to McGuane, Arizona. Population: 200...199...198...197... Gregory Tomasov has returned with his family to the quaint Ari...

  • Nailed by the Heart

    Simon Clark

    Chris and Ruth Stainforth are living their fantasy, turning the old Sea-fort at Manshead " purchased at a steal after the previous owners abandoned building work " into a hotel, and living on the coast with their son, David. But as work begins, a...

  • Ripping Time

    Robert Asprin; Linda Evans

    Settle Back for a Hot One: IT'S RIPPING TIME When terrorists gun down Jenna Caddrick's fiancee, the only daughter of Senator John Caddrick is trapped in a desperate struggle to stay alive. With a pack of killers on her trail, Jenna plunges throug...

  • Architects of Emortality

    Brian Stableford

    Brian Stableford launched an ambitious future history series with Inherit the Earth, to widespread praise. "Stableford has created in this novel a totally believable world, and wrapped it around a series of mysterious events, surprise revelations, do...

  • The Incompleat Nifft

    Michael Shea

    THIS TIME, THEY WOULD MAKE A KILLING Join master thief Nifft the Lean with his companion-atarms, mighty barbarian Barnar Hammer-Hand, as they trust to their wits and their luck. Once Nifft and Barnar were hired by the ghost of a dead woman to kidn...

  • Sea Devil's Eye

    Mel Odom
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Iakhovas has caused more destruction than any force since the Time of Troubles, but his true objective has been a mystery . . . until now. When a young sailor's journey is complete, an aging bard's final song is sung, and a malenti priestess faces...

  • The Eternal Ice

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

    After the darkness comes the ice Thousands of years after the explosion at Argoth that ended the Brothers' War, ice has covered the world of Dominaria. The strong have turned to barbarism. The weak have died. Now Lim Dl, a necromancer with a tast...

  • The Cursed Towers

    Kate Forsyth

    Magic--and Glory--Come with a Price.... A new age dawns in the kingdom of Eileanan, but not without resistance. Now the Righ, Lachlan the Winged, overturns his dead brother's decrees against witchcraft. But sixteen years of hatred and superstition...

  • Downfall

    Jean Rabe
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    How far can a hero fall? Far enough to lose his soul? Dhamon Grimwulf, once a Hero of the Heart, has sunk into a bitter life of crime and squalor. Now, as the great dragon overlords of the Fifth Age coldly plot to strengthen their rule and to des...

  • Broken Time

    Maggy Thomas

  • Vivia

    Tanith Lee

    In medieval Eastern Europe, Vivia is claimed by a dark lord who weds her, seduces her, and makes her a vampire. Then Vivia's mentor abandons her and she is found by Zulgaris, a handsome prince. He marries her but he cannot cure her hunger for blood. ...

  • Calculating God

    Robert J. Sawyer

    An alien shuttle craft lands outside a museum. Out pops a six-legged, two-armed alien named Hollus who says, "Take me to your paleontologist." The paleontologist, Tom Jericho, helps Hollus investigate Earth's evolutionary history. It seems that Earth...

  • Ancients of Days

    Paul McAuley

    On an artificial world created and seeded with ten thousand bloodlines by the long-vanished Preservers, young Yama's ancestry is unique, for he appears to be the last remaining scion of the Builders, closest of all races to the worshipped architec...

  • Invasions

    Nancy Holder

    When the puritanical League of Decency outlawed gambling and other vices on Earth, Moonbase Vegas became just about the only place left to have a good time. The six Mafia families who ran the lunar casinos wanted to keep it that way. But then the...

  • Illusions of Victory

    Loren L. Coleman

    LET THE GAMES BEGIN... Solaris VII is known as the Game World--where entertainment is king, money is power, and MechWarriors from every corner of the Inner Sphere come to make war against one another in the ultimate sporting event. Michael Sear...

  • Lieutenant Colonel

    Rick Shelley

    Mercenary Lon Nolan returns in a mind-blowing, far-future military science fiction thriller from the national bestselling author of Major. The year is 2804 AD. Humanity has colonized the universe. But the authority of the Confederation of Human World...

  • Grandma Tells A Tale

    Donna Ball
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Nola's Ashes

    Deborah Smith
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • From Whence We Come

    Debra Dixon
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Uncle Clete's Bell

    Nancy Knight
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Solemn Oath

    Hannah Alexander

    Dr. Lukas Bower is the temporary director at Knolls Community Hospital, but he's a doctor first. As an E.R. surgeon he took a solemn oath to put his patients' needs ahead of anyone else's -- his own, the insurance companies' or the hospital's. Yet no...

  • Small-Town Dreams

    Kate Welsh

    JOSHUA DANIELS was a man without a past... But with a Higher Power to sustain him, he'd found contentment in the present. Then Cassidy Jamison, bright, beautiful and beset by a deep-buried sorrow, entered his life, making him yearn for a future he fe...

  • Like Gold Refined

    Janette Oke

    Will her heart ever find the peace she yearns for? AFTER YEARS OF TURMOIL, Virginia Lewis is finally satisfied with her life. God has blessed her with the love of her husband Jonathan and four wonderful children, one of which is the daughter of her ...

  • Come Home to My Heart

    JoAnn A. Grote

    Having seen convincing evidence that her husband is having an affair with a coworker, Ellie Carter flees to her hometown in North Carolina, determined to start a new life for herself and her unborn child. But as she grows closer to God, Ellie is conv...

  • Never a Bride

    Denise Hunter

    God either has a cruel streak or a peculiar sense of humor. At least that is what "Plain" Jane Cooper thinks. Why else would He have stuck her smack in the middle of the beautiful Cooper family? And why did she have to get duped into minding house fo...

  • The Cowgirl's Man

    Ruth Jean Dale

    BEAUTY Of course, Niki Keene had followed her sisters to Hard Knox, Texas--the Keene triplets were inseparable. And yes, she helped run their fledgling dude ranch. But when the townsfolk entered her in the Queen of the Cowgirls contest, she had to...

  • Good Girls Do!

    Julie Elizabeth Leto / Julie Leto

    GOOD GIRLS DO... The Most Virtuous Woman on Campus. How in the world did Miranda Carpenter, professor of sexual education, find herself nominated for that? Now everybody thinks she's an innocent, including her sexy-as-sin colleague Noah Yeager. Wh...

  • Neither Bond Nor Free

    Nina Pykare

    Pinkerton agent Calvin Sharp has come from Chicago to Virginia to investigate a couterfeiting ring. When he finds himself at a slave auction, what can he do about the pathetic seven-year-old boy on the block? Calvin decides to purchase the boy and so...

  • In a Cowboy's Embrace

    Charlotte Maclay

    "Who's been sleeping in my bed?" A simple question, yet Cliff Swain knew his reaction to the slumbering beauty couldn't be easily explained. After all, he hadn't looked, let alone thought twice about a woman in years. And here, temptation lay in h...