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New Books List: 479 titles


  • Joyce Adams

    Kate Danville is the most irritating, meddlesome woman Marshal Lucas Brannigan has ever met. Still, he can't understand why the low-down varmint she'd run off with dumped her right here in Deadrange, of all places ...except that she can drive a man c...



  • Lydia Adamson

    MURDER AND THE GLAMOUR PUSS Alice Nestleton is putting on the dog: posing in elegant duds for a New York boutique's new ad. But she's surprised to find Bobbin, tie clothes designer's once-beloved cat, exiled to the loft where the fashion shoot is ...



  • Jayne Addison

    Josh Spencer, Meet Your New Partner... Carly Gerard showed up on Josh Spencer's doorstep, like a long-lost wife, claiming to own half of everything -- including his Wild West Show. But Josh didn't need -- or want -- a partner. Especially a s...



  • Susan Wittig Albert

    Now, in her most intriguing case yet, China discovers that business can be murder when her accountant, Rosemary Robbins, is killed. With an abusive ex-husband and plenty of former clients in the picture, there's no shortage of suspects. And China mus...



  • Meg Alexander

    A JOURNEY OF THE HEART Things couldn't possibly get any worse! When Edward, Viscount Lyndhurst arrived on Georgiana Westleigh's doorstep, he had the sorry task of telling her that her brothers had fled to France not to avoid creditors, but...



  • Thelma Alexander
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    An unusual Hanukkah present--enrollment in a dating service--brings a wonderful man into Jean's life during this very special Festival of Lights....



  • Jeanne Allan

    Redheads have more fun! Eight-year-old Tim Thorneton had decided he wanted a mom, and a baby sister -- a baby sister with red hair.... Charlotte Darnelle wanted to make one thing clear -- she was not a redhead. She was a strawberry blonde, and ...



  • Heather Allison

    A Global celebrity exclusive! The magazine had promised Kate photographs of actress Fiona Ferguson's latest publicity stunt -- her wedding to a seventy-three-year-old millionaire. But Kate wanted more. She wanted revenge for the shameless way ...



  • Bonnie Altenhein

    Together at last--our feline friends have finally merged with these special heavenly messengers to provide a whimsical and delightful celebration of the charms of both. For cat lovers and angel lovers alike, Angel Cats is a "purr-fectly" wonderful gi...



  • Donna Anders

    Part-time actress and full-time mother Britt Hinson thought that most of her life’s drama was confined to the stage. Then a threatening presence entered her world, a mysterious stranger that no one but her pretty nine-year-old, Katie, had seen. Kat...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    Where truth is sacred, a false accusation spells doom. A cosmic crime thriller from the New York Timesâ€"bestselling author of The X-Files novels.   Atlas is a struggling colony on an untamable world, a fragile society held together by the Truth...



  • Kevin J. Anderson

    Luke returns home with Han Solo, hoping to make contact with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Instead, what they find is disturbing news: the Hutts, criminal warlords of the galaxy, are building a secret superweapon, a reconstruction of the original Death Star superl...



  • Laura Anthony

    THE LADY Savannah Markum's busy days were filled with single-handedly raising a toddler and running her ranch. Her lonely nights were filled with longing for what might have been ...if Matt Forrester hadn't shattered her heart. And now Mat...



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

    Mari Al'Marin and Caledan, the unlikely pair of heroes from The Crypt of the Shadowking, return to match wits against the revived legacy of the Shadowking, which threatens all of Faerun. Original. 75,000 first printing....



  • Judith Arnold

    Move over, Melrose Place! Apartment for rent. One bedroom. Bachelor Arms. 555-1234. Come live and love in Los Angeles with the tenants of Bachelor Arms. Meet colorful neighbors you'll bump into again and again. When Blythe Fielding planned her ...



  • James Axler

    RITES OF PASSAGE In the aftermath of the apocalypse little remains except age-old evils of greed. perversion and force. But a small group of survivalists cherishes the legacy of human courage and hope. Led by the charismatic Ryan Cawdor, they perseve...



  • Jennifer Baker

    After breaking off her secret relationship with Luke Martinson, who is her best friend's boyfriend, Suzanne begs Nikki for forgiveness, but Victoria, who knows secrets about Suzanne and Nikki, hopes the girls will become bitter enemies. Original....



  • Mary Balogh
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    Make your Christmas merry with these delightful stories from some of the most wonderfully talented Regency authors. Mary Balogh tells of three orphans who bring together their estranged aunt and uncle for the holidays. Jo Beverley spins an intriguing...



  • Mary Balogh
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    When a mysterious old lady and her young grandson offer their cottage to an estranged couple who got lost during a blizzard, it's a gift that will last a lifetime....



  • Linda Barlow

    A WOMAN OF VISION Warm, generous Annie Jefferson, talented architectural designer, is determined to put tragedy behind her and rebuild her future. Designing a fabulous California cathedral can be her ticket to the top--until betrayal and suspicion e...




  • Steven Barnes

    Streetfighter, fugitive, hero...Aubry Knight is now a powerful man with powerful friends. And someone wants to kill him.

    Their opening shot is the death of one of Aubry's dearest friends. Their next attack is on Aubry's child. Knight is drawn ...



  • Stephanie Bartlett

    Despite her hatred for the Confederates who had left her alone with a rundown Oregon farm and a young son to raise, widow Victoria Pruitt finds herself attracted to former Rebel Stephen Beaumont, a man with his own tragic past. Victoria Pruitt was...



  • Rexanne Becnel

    A BID FOR FREEDOM... The lush, misty island of Madeira seemed a perfect escape from an unwanted bridegroom for shy, bookish heiress Eliza Thoroughgood. AMBUSHED BY DESIRE... But barely have they arrived when she and her frail young cousin Aubre...



  • Don Bendell

    Saved from a band of murderers by a stranger known as Tora, Texas Ranger Justis Colt offers to help his rescuer when Tora's family is killed by vengeful outlaws, and he embarks on an adventure in the untamed West...



  • Cherie Bennett

    Spending the holidays at Emma's aunt's vacation house in the Vermont White Mountains, the band members of Flirting With Danger are hired to perform a promising gig, until Erin's laryngitis places Diana on lead vocals. Original....



  • Bob Berger

    SMOKERS GET INTO MORE ACCIDENTS. 20,000 MILES OF BIKE RIDING IS DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH. AND IF YOU WANT TO KNOW THE RISK OF MURDER, JUST FOLLOW DR. RISK.... As a syndicated columnist, Dr. Risk calculates everything from the dangers of drinkin...



  • Lou Berger

    Big Bird's big bash will ring in the New Year with a bang when Sesame Street stays up late for the Monster News Network's global TV party.  Whether they're skiing on the slopes of Norway or munching sweet grapes in Portugal, Muppets 'round the worl...



  • Diane Bernard

    THEIR DESIRE LIVED AGAIN... The St. Louis townhouse had been built by a Yankee officer for the woman he adored...and from the moment attorney Kendall Roberts purchased the Civil War-era mansion, she had the overpowering feeling of coming home. But...



  • John Gregory Betancourt

    Tracking a shuttle's distress signal to the nearly deserted Arbuk System, the U.S.S. Voyager crew encounters an unusual weapon a thousand times more powerful than the Starship. Inside the shuttle, the crew discovers an unconscious alien and no more i...



  • Jo Beverley
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    Make your Christmas merry with these delightful stories from some of the most wonderfully talented Regency authors. Mary Balogh tells of three orphans who bring together their estranged aunt and uncle for the holidays. Jo Beverley spins an intriguing...



  • Jo Beverley

    A story that sweeps from the seething turmoil of Ireland to the mystery and intrigue of Regency England -- an enthralling tale of long-buried secrets, scandalous passion, and a love that will last forever... She is a beautiful, rebellious heiress...



  • Betty G. Birney

    Illustrated with colorful stills from the upcoming Disney film, an exciting adventure about talking toys features Woody, the cowboy doll; Buzz Lightyear, the space action figure; and the rest of the crazy toy gang. Original. Movie tie-in....



  • Baxter F. Black

    The bestselling novel from America’s premier cowboy poet.
     
    Cowboys Lick and Cody are on a quest to qualify for the rodeo national finals -- and their widely entertaining, often hilarious adventure includes a smattering of sex, violence, i...



  • Terri Blackstock

    The plane crash nearly ended Lynda’s life. Was it an accident or sabotage? Lynda Barrett, a young lawyer, hates to sell her plane, but she can no longer afford to keep it. Enter Jake Stevens: wealthy, arrogant, and interested in buying Lynda’s be...



  • James P. Blaylock

    “Blaylock is one of the most brilliant of that new generation of fabulist writers: All the Bells on Earthmay be his best book . . . Enthralling” (The Washington Post Book World).   In the dead of night, a man climbs the tower ...



  • Edward Blishen

    With commentary interwoven among extracts from some of his books, Charles Dickens is presented in terms of a well-known performer as well as a famous novelist, in a study that provides information on the unique literary talent that kept audiences cap...



  • Dermot Bolger

    This dazzling anthology, edited and introduced by Dermot Bolger, is a splendidly comprehensive and up-to-the-minute collection of the finest recent fiction from a nation of master storytellers. This collection of astonishing breadth reveals a literat...



  • Hank Bostrum

    Greedy billionaire industrialist Paul Deride will do anything to mine a priceless motherlode of manganese, even if he has to set off a series of nuclear detonations that could trigger a massive earthquake along California's San Andreas Fault. Origina...



  • Barbara Boswell

    The story of two powerful people who dare to mix business arid pleasure... Bold and beautiful, Sierra Everly was a woman used to being in charge. For years, she had run her family's Everly Wine Company on her own, answering to no one. But when a d...



  • Marion Zimmer Bradley

    This second volume of The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine serves up a smorgasbord of magic and adventure. Encompassing a range of fantasy from classical to modern settings, this collection begins with an introduction by Bradley herse...



  • Emily Bradshaw

    A warlord bent on conquest of a Saxon stronghold. A Saxon healer and reputed witch who wants only peace, but has visions of war. Amid the enchantment of the Dark Ages, Rutgar and Gisela discover that love is stronger than the iron of a sword. His ...



  • Max Brand

    Max Brand is generally regarded as the author of superior westerns like his Destry Rides Again, but Brand also wrote the Dr. Kildare series and numerous detective stories as well. St. Martin's Press is delighted to be publishing Murder Me!, a 1937 Br...



  • Emily Brightwell

    STICKY FINGERS, HELPING HANDS... Minerva Kenny is a dear woman, but her tendency to "borrow" things without asking has finally caught up with her. William Barrett has learned Minerva's shameful secret, and he's holding it over her head. Mrs. Jeffrie...



  • Polly Schoyer Brooks

    A chronicle of the life of one of history's most famous women shows how Cleopatra, distantly related to Alexander the Great and worshipped as a goddess in Egypt, became a major figure in the ancient struggle for power in the Mediterranean...



  • Mary Brown

    Poor Summer; After so many journeys, her tale was draggin'. At the end of Pigs Don't Fly, Summer had just found that the hearthbreakingly handsome knight whom she had helped return to his home was not the Great Love of Her Life after all. No, her ...



  • Dixie Browning

    For her thirty-seventh birthday, JeanAnn's friends place a personal ad for her.... THE THREE BLIND DATES: Bachelor #1: Nice enough -- except for that little problem. Bachelor #2: Talked nonstop about his ex-wife. Bachelor #3: Gorgeous and a...



  • Victoria Bruce

    HER FATHER SMELLED OF THE SEA... HER MOTHER SMELLED OF VIOLETS... A faint scent, a distant memory, and an age-old hurt weren't much to go on, but lovely Maggie Westshire had no other recollections of her missing father. Now she found herself on ...



  • Bonnie Bryant

    When Veronica diAngelo, a spoiled rich kid, receives a new horse for Christmas she forgets all about Garnet, her beautiful Arabian, making the Saddle Club girls determined to find a new home for the lonely mare....




  • Jack Cady

    Joel-Peter, an itinerant preacher, and a dark gray cat arrive in Point Vestal, a cursed town on the edge of the Pacific, where ghosts walk among the living and time behaves strangely. By the author of Street. ...



  • Michael Caine

    The internationally acclaimed stage and screen actor invites readers to share his life's motto, "Been there, done that," in a self-portrait that describes his climb from London's East End to the heights of the film industry. 125,000 first printing. $...



  • Italo Calvino

    From the acclaimed, genre-bending Italian fabulist author, a posthumous collection of career-spanning stories previously unavailable in English. “Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . ....



  • Kate Cameron

    For centuries the brave Calusa and fiery Timucua tribes lived in harmony with their gods and with nature. Then from across the eastern ocean came white men, Spanish explorers determined to wrest from the indigenous people of beautiful la Florida not ...



  • Joanna Campbell

    Will Cindy and Glory both be able to stay at Whitebrook Farm? Cindy Blake couldn't be happier, now that she lives at Whitebrook Farm. When her adoption is final, Cindy will finally have a loving home with the McLean family. And Glory, the stolen c...



  • Marilyn Campbell
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    It takes a little angel mischief to unite a handsome young mayor and a fiery widow by Christmas....



  • Diane Carey

    What begins as a sticky political problem soon evolves into full-scale chaos for Commander Sisko when a tomb of Cardassian soldiers is discovered on Deep Space Nine â"˘. While Sisko searches for a diplomatic way to return the soldiers to Cardassia, t...



  • Jimmy Carter

    Fresh from the success of his highly praised volume of poetry, Always a Reckoning, former president Jimmy Carter now pens his first children's book, illustrated by his daughter Amy. Young Jeremy, who cannot walk, is abandoned at the seashore one day ...



  • Sarah Caudwell

    HELL IS OTHER HEIRS... It seemed the perfect way to avoid three million in taxes on a five-million-pound estate: change the trust arrangement. Everyone in the family agreed to support the heiress, ravishing raven-haired Camilla Galloway, in her co...



  • Jack L. Chalker

    EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW IS WRONG...
    That was the strange message left on Cory Maddox's e-mail--just at the moment when years of work on a revolutionary subspace computer system were about to pay off. Nothing would be the same for Cory again....



  • Victoria Chancellor

    AN AGELESS LONGING . . . A TIMELESS LOVE When Linda O'Rourke returned to her grandmother's South Carolina beach house, it was for a quiet summer of tying up loose ends. And although the lovely dwelling charmed her, she couldn't help but remember the...



  • Sandra Chastain

    McKenzie Kathryn Calhoun didn't mean to rob the bank in Promise, Kansas. But when she accidentally did, she didn't think, she ran. Suddenly the raggedy tomboy the town rejected had the money to make a life for herself ... if she didn't get caught. Bu...



  • Lynne Cherry

    Valerio the dragon and Allegra the unicorn have always lived happily and in harmony among the beautiful trees and plants of the ancient Ardet Forest. But when King Orlando begins cutting down trees, it is up to the king’s daughter to convince the k...



  • Deborah Chiel

    This is a magical romance about a soldier returning from war in 1945 to a broken marriage, who meets a woman sobbing by the side of the road. She is pregnant, her boyfriend has left her and she doesn't know how she is going to face her parents and fa...



  • Margaret Chittenden

    Searching for the past to find the future... Cornwall 1943 The world is torn apart by war. But in the countryside, Bliss Turner is falling in love with wounded American airman Paul Carmichael. When the war intrudes on their idyllic affair, he l...



  • Donna Clayton

    BRIDE OF FORTUNE Laura Adams got the surprise of her life when she inherited a fortune from a stranger! But the matchmaking millionaire had a secret request: Laura had to teach her benefactor's son, Dylan Mitchell, how to enjoy life -- and ope...



  • Douglas Clegg

    Returning from Baltimore with his wife and children, a successful writer is haunted by an accident that should have claimed his life, and a girl who has been missing for thirteen years mysteriously returns. Original....



  • M.T. Coffin

    Beginning classes in a new hometown and sitting at a desk that once belonged to a local troublemaker, newcomer Alexander begins to suspect that the desk is haunted by its late owner when he receives mysterious messages. Original....



  • Elaine Coffman

    There is a time to be born, a time to die... Some men are born with a clear destiny. Fletcher Ramsey is such a man. His father murdered, his birthright stolen, he was forced to flee to America with his mother, Maggie Mackinnon. Since boyhood he h...



  • Larry Collins

    Idealistic DEA agent Kevin Grady locks horns with Jack Lind, a tough CIA operative, as they find themselves on opposite sides of the violent and deadly world of drug smuggling in Manual Noriega's Panama. Reprint....



  • Michael Collins

    An Edgar Award-winning author follows occasional private eye Langford "Ford" Morgan as he tangles with his ex-wife, who will stop at nothing to clear her son's name from the taint of a murder. By the author of Cassandra in Red. 15,000 first p...




  • Christa Conan

    STILL MARRIED When Rhone Mitchell's worst enemy threatened to harm someone he loved, Rhone knew who he meant. Shannen--the woman who had walked out on him two years ago. The woman who haunted his thoughts and dreams. The woman who was still his wi...



  • Robert J. Conley

    The seventh novel in a series focusing on the author's own Cherokee heritage centers on a young Cherokee called Young Puppy, who witnesses the death of his brother at the hands of another tribe and seeks revenge. By the Spur Award-winning author of <...



  • Jane Leslie Conly


    "A truly riparian book, with surging rapids and reflective pools, challenging whitewater and quiet sunny coves. Its denizens are thorny, believable, and sympathetic, it solutions authentically untidy. Use ... as a lure for young readers." --Bulle...



  • Will Cook

    Setting up a trading post to take advantage of passing cattle herders, Elizabeth Retting finds the land plagued by harsh weather, Native Americans, and lawless men, and she finds further challenges in a long line of unwanted suitors. Original....



  • Caroline B. Cooney

    Will the California wildfires bring Danna the summer excitement she craves? In the Southern California suburb of Pinch Canyon, among the swimming pools and tennis courts, fifteen-year-old Danna Press finds her summer life so dull she longs for som...



  • Melrose Cooper

    At twelve, Janelle wants nothing more than to be a writer. "Write what you know," advises her aunt Barbara. That seems like a riddle to Janelle: all she knows is her mama and her two little sisters, playing Pioneers when the electricity gets cut of...



  • Francis J. Costello

    [MacSwiney, Terence] Costello, Francis J. Enduring the most - The life and death of Terence MacSwiney. Dingle, Co. Kerry, Brandon, c1995. 24 cm. 253 pages with 8 pages of plates with illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excelle...



  • Betty Cothran
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    Karen joins her best friend on a Hawaiian cruise, where she meets a man she once dated...and thought she never wanted to see again. But things have changed!...



  • Ralph Cotton

    Outlaw Jeston Nash, the look-alike cousin of Jesse James, and his partner plot to kill Chief Red Cloud on behalf of the U.S. Cavalry, but soon they reject being tools of manifest destiny and decide to help the Native American side...



  • Catherine Coulter

    THE DUKE is a rewritten historical version of the originally Regency entitled THE GENEROUS EARL.... So come back to the beginning of the nineteenth century to Scotland, to Penderleigh Castle, home of the Robertsons, who have just been dealt a terr...



  • Kathleen Creighton

    WANTED: SOMEONE TO LOVE Dixie Parish will never have a family of her own. Not now, not after everything she's lost. But when bachelor dad Rhett Brown asks her to be a temporary nanny to his motherless children, she can't refuse. They need her just...



  • Harry Crews

    Determined to win Soaps for Life's annual sales contest, Hickum Looney is thrilled when he finds the perfect customer in a little old lady, but he still has to contend with the Boss, who outsells his salesmen every year. Reprint. 15,000 first printin...



  • Evelyn A. Crowe

    A FAMILY OF STRANGERS Matt Bolt. A top homicide detective before he made one--almost fatal--mistake and ended up with a bullet in his chest, another in his leg. And now to complicate matters, his son-- a child he's seen only twice in ten years --i...



  • Jack Curtis

    In the Sawtooth Valley of Montana, Clint Derby and his younger brother Lee plan to work for Big Jim Ralston and his buddies, but Lee soon discovers evidence of Big Jim's plot to buy Crow Reservation land...



  • Barbara D'Amato

    When journalist-turned-sleuth Cat Marsala finds shady dealings on the DeGraaf Christmas tree farm and a fresh corpse turns up, she is sure that the family closet is full of other skeletons and becomes determined to get to the bottom of it all. Reprin...



  • Janet Dailey
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    A motherless little girl's Christmas wish brings love home for the Holidays....



  • Kit Dalton

    Traveling to the dangerous town of Cripple Creek, Colorado, a pampered millionaire's daughter finds herself at the mercy of outlaws, claim jumpers, and worse, until Buckskin Lee Morgan comes to the rescue. Original....



  • Justine Davis

    DESTINY CAN BE DANGEROUS A brief, fated moment at a wedding, and Cassie Cameron was hooked. She'd been unable to forget Dar Cordell, though months had passed. Who could explain it? She was surrounded by handsome, glamorous men every day, and yet ...



  • Miguel de Cervantes

    One of the world's great novels, Don Quijote chronicles the adventures of that bumbling, infinitely compassionate knight, Don Quijote, and his shrewdly simple squire, Sancho Panza, in all their splendiferous humor. Part parody and part cautionary tal...



  • William L. Deandrea

    Matt Cobb, TV network vice president in change of special programming, finds himself lethally involved in a new mystery when his network's most popular talk-show host is suddenly murdered. By the author of Killed in the Ratings. ...



  • Jim DeFelice

    Escaping to the north from a Patriot jail, American spy Jake Gibbs is charged with going undercover to prevent a British invasion, but when his cover is blown he must fight for survival along the Hudson River. Original....



  • Claire Delacroix

    Drawn Together By Destiny Genevieve de Pereille's music echoed in the hollows of Wolfram's heart, pulling him into an unfamiliar world where his knightly vows faded to a distant murmur. The secret heir to an ancient legacy, she held him fast with ...



  • Judy Delton

    Commissioned by the president of the United States to sculpt animals for display on the White House lawn, Mr. Green and his family head to Washington, D.C., for an installation ceremony, which Aunt Ivy disrupts by falling into her soup. Original....



  • Stacey Dennis
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    Refusing to sit around feeling blue during her first Christmas as a divorcee, Lillian jets off to Miami--alone. Yet 'tis the season for miracles......



  • Marian Devon

    "Ms. Devon's sharp eye and light touch are a constant source of reading delight to her many fans."

    --Romantic Times

    THERE WAS MORE BEING EXCHANGED THAN GIFTS!

    Sir Jervis, taking to his annual holiday deathbed, demands the attenda...



  • Dexter Dias

    In the idyllic town of Stonebury, 16-year-old Molly Summers is murdered - stabbed 43 times without any sign of struggle. One year later, Richard Kingsley, a crippled celebrity pulp novelist, faces trial for her murder. To the media the case is a sens...



  • Debra Dier
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    England 1887. A mysterious governess uses her heavenly powers to help a lovely spinster reform her mischievous niece and win the heart of the peer she has always desired....



  • Walt Disney

    An imaginative and colorfully illustrated interactive pop-up book features the whole cast of characters from the animated film Toy Story, capturing all of the magic, fun, and ingenuity of the screen version. Movie tie-in....



  • Franklin W. Dixon

    THE KILLING GAME Frank and Joe Hardy are bound for the jungles of Borneo, and the journey may be one of the most desperate and dangerous of their lives. Following a cryptic map sent to them by their father, the boys head into the heart of darkness, w...



  • Denise Domning

    A MAN'S FIRE Released from an unhappy marriage by her husband's sudden death, Lady Elyssa of Freyne hoped she and her young son were safe at last. The arrival of Geoffrey FitzHenry dashed her hopes. Tall, golden-haired, his battle-scarred face sti...



  • Carole Nelson Douglas
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    To prove he's bad enough for hell, a devilish rogue becomes a rock star out to ruin an innocent young girl--unless he gets foiled by some Yuletide magic....



  • Shannon Drake

    Skylar Connor was widowed before she met the man she married by legal proxy. Now she has come to the Dakota badlands for the home and goldmine left her by her late husband. But it is a painted savage who welcomes "Lady Douglas" to the Black H...



  • Cathy East Dubowski

    When Cowboy Woody, a pull-string doll, and Buzz Lightyear, an action figure, become separated from their owner Andy, they must settle their differences and find their way back home, in a novelization featuring color stills from the upcoming film. Ori...





  • Ann Dukthas

    A ROYAL MYSTERY Paris, 1815. As a defeated Napoleon is carried to exile, France at last sees the restoration of a Bourbon to the throne--Louis XVIII, brother of the doomed Louis XVI. But a shadow of uncertainty hangs over the nation's future as long...



  • Sarah Dunant

    In Under My Skin, private investigator Hannah Wolfe's cushy new assignment takes her to the sumptuous Castle Dean health spa. While being plucked, crimped, steamed, and oiled, Hannah is ideally placed to probe some reported cases of sabotage -- fish ...



  • Margot Early

    keeper. n. 1. one who protects, guides, cares for 2. person or object worth keeping 3. a "hole" in a river rapid 4. a romance novel the reader's going to put on her "keeper" shelf! Zachary Key married Grace Sutter because he loved her--and because...



  • Gail Eastwood

    The Friendly Enemy Perhaps if bold and beautiful Merissa Pritchard had not grown so tired of country life, it would not have happened. Perhaps if her cocksure suitor; the blueblooded Harlan Gatesby, had not been so boring, it would not have happen...



  • Anna Eberhardt

    This is the tale of two people who find love where they least expect it. The only child of celebrated photo-journalists, Chloe Pembrook has been a world-class traveler ever since she can remember. All she wants now is to lead a peaceful, conventional...



  • Allan W. Eckert

    An award-winning author chronicles the settling of the Ohio River Valley, home to the defiant Shawnee Indians, who vow to defend their land against the seemingly unstoppable.They came on foot and by horseback, in wagons and on rafts, singly and by th...



  • Umberto Eco

    A 17th century Italian nobleman is marooned on an empty ship in this “astonishing intellectual journey" by the author of Foucault’s Pendulum (San Francisco Chronicle).   In the year 1643, a violent storm in the South Pacific l...



  • Rosemary Edghill

    Rosemary Edghill's Bast (a.k.a. Karen Hightower) is a modern-day witch and amateur detective whose investigations lead her through the colorful and exotic world of New York's occult underground. In Book of Moons, a series of puzzling thefts serves as...




  • Suzanne Elizabeth

    HE NEVER INTENDED TO STAY SHE COULDN'T BEAR TO LET HIM GO Rachel Ann Warren's first mission as a Union spy was to prevent a fortune from reaching the hands of the notorious pirate Scott Ramsey, a seductive rogue who proved as impossible to outwit a...



  • Aaron Elkins; Charlotte Elkins

    PRO-GOLFER AND AMATEUR SLEUTH LEE OFSTED KNOWS MURDER TO A TEE... AT TWENTY-THREE, LEE OFSTED HAS HER FIRST SHOT AT WINNING ON THE WOMEN'S PRO CIRCUIT AT A MATCH IN NEW MEXICO. UNFORTUNATELY HER CHANCES ARE SHORT-CIRCUITED WHEN SHE FINDS A BODY ON T...



  • Winifred Elze

    In The Changeling Garden by Winifred Elze, when Annie and Mark and their five-year-old son, David, move into a grand old Victorian house surrounded by a jumble of gardens, they are not prepared for the terrifying adventure that awaits them. Little Da...



  • Paul Engleman

    It is December 1972. J. Edgar Hoover is dead, Richard Nixon has been newly reelected, and Private Investigator Mark Renzler is just settling in for another miserable Christmas season in New York City.But even this dismal prospect fades when he is con...



  • Suzanne Enoch

    A HEAVENLY PLOT Impatient Angelique Graham is certain she will perish if forced to wait nine months before wedding her beloved Simon. Fortunately, the young miss has a plan. She will have her fiance' ask his cousin, the disreputable Lord James F...



  • S.K. Epperson

    Abra Ahren's new neighborhood seems like an average American small town, but her discovery of the grotesque secrets that lie beneath the white picket-fence exterior make her more reluctant to welcome her neighbors. Original....



  • Boomer Esiason

    An year in the early life of NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason follows his January instruction by his father on how to catch a football through his receiving the best Christmas gift ever in December. Original....



  • Terry Essig

    Temporary togetherness... Lenore Pettit would do anything for her little boy. But a cross-country trip with her boss, Paul McDaniels? No way! Paul was too much like her ex-too stubborn, too strong...and too handsome! Spending her days -- and night...



  • Marcia Evanick

    UNREQUITED REVENGE They said he was the best wolf tracker around, that Delaney Thomas was a loner who would eat, sleep and breathe the woods until he'd done his job. And that was what Laura Kincaid was afraid of. She couldn't let him harm ...



  • Max Evans

    In "The Hi Lo Country," two best friends work side-by-side as rugged cowpunchers until they fall in love with the same woman, while in "Bobby Jack Smith You Dirty Coward!" a power-hungry cowboy studies the Napoleonic art of taking over the world. Ori...



  • Patricia Gardner Evans
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    A couple expecting a bundle of joy shows Scrooge-like lovers the meaning of Christmas....



  • Richard Paul Evans

    The second book of The Christmas Box trilogy, Timepiece is the unforgettable story of hope and the source of the wisdom MaryAnne Parkin shared with Richard in The Christmas Box. Timepiece traces the loves of David and MaryAnne Parkin as they discover...



  • Tabor Evans

    Tracking down the lawless Dan Marlow, who has killed fifteen men and survived at least a dozen bullet wounds, Longarm believes that he has put the outlaw six feet under, but rumors claim that Marlow is still alive. Original....



  • Jean R. Ewing

    KISS... `Twas a scandal that a stranger had boldly kissed Eleanor, the eldest daughter of the Earl of Acton. 'Twos sinful that she enjoyed it. But 'twould be her ruin if he spread the tale throughout the ton...right in the middle of her very first L...



  • Fabio

    His flame-licked blue eyes burn into the depths of your soul. His thick, golden mane shines like a halo -- yet he is no angel. He is a knight without mercy, gravely wounded by the ultimate betrayal. And he has vowed to love no more. Six warriors h...



  • Elisabeth Fairchild

    The Man-Hunting Maiden Miss Aurora Ramsay had set her sights on a moneyed marriage to save her family estate -- and had found the perfect target. Not only was Lord Walsh wonderfully wealthy, he was her ideal of masterful masculinity and rugged goo...



  • Phil Farrand

    A follow-up to the first, best-selling Nitpicker's guide ferrets out the plot inconsistencies, scientific inaccuracies, and other foul-ups in the seventh, final season of the TV series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Original....



  • John Feinstein

    When reporter Bobby Kelleher visits Shelter Island in the dead of winter, he is surprised to find the little vacation town bustling with activity. And when he takes in a local high school basketball game, he is shocked to find the stands packed with ...



  • Raymond E. Feist

    Surviving the wrath of the fearsome Sauur--a hideous race of invading serpents--noble Erik and cunning Roo have delivered a timely warning to the rulers of the Midkemian Empire, and are now free to pursue their separate destinies. Erik chooses the ar...



  • Maggie Ferguson

    Secrets of the heart... Attorney Taylor Quinlan was a perfect study in leather and lace - soft and beautiful on the outside, tough as nails on the inside. All her life, she'd kept a devastating family secret, which had effectively pushed aside all...



  • Liz Fielding

    Buchanan's woman! Elusive celebrity Chay Buchanan had made it only too plain that trespassers weren't welcome at his secret hideaway in Malta -- but Sophie's precious sister was missing, and she'd run any risks to find her! Driven ...



  • Sharon Fiffer

    Nineteen of America's finest writers shape a "home" of essays, each contributing a different "room" to a collection that gives readers a spirited and eclectic look at the ideals and realities of family, childhood, memory, and the simple notion of she...




  • Anne Fine

    Somehow Mr Kelly always gets the job of putting on the school nativity play which he does extremely well, if reluctantly. This year, Mr Kelly and his class, and especially Maya, combine to put on a show which is truly a triumph....



  • Kate Flora

    Thea Kozak is a young, dynamic businesswoman who is no stranger to success...or death. Having survived her husband's death, Thea's world crumbled again when her sister was murdered. Thea found her sister's killer and is putting the pieces of her life...



  • Christine Flynn

    TO MARRY AT THANKSGIVING... Rugged loner Logan Whitaker craved wide-open spaces, not wide-eyed romance. So he ranched solo, raised his son single-handedly -- and steered clear of fickle females. Until Samantha Gray hit west Texas .... Samantha'...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    Pip and Flinx meet Midworld!Where Flinx and his flying minidrag Pip went, trouble always followed -- that law had governed their lives through years of unsought danger and galactic intrigue. Now an evil rich man was out to kidnap the minidrag for his...



  • Patricia Foster

    Sister to Sister includes essays and stories by:Meena AlexanderRobin BehnLouise DeSalvoErika DuncanMaria FlookPatricia FosterBonnie FriedmanDonna GordonLucy GrealyJoy HarjoBell HooksPam HoustonJesse Lee KerchevalLori Hope NorrisLetty Cottin PogrebinM...



  • Phoebe Gallant
    in

    When divorce ends Lucy Allen's marriage, she plans a most untraditional family Christmas on Sanibel Island...never guessing that a handsome Santa is also heading South....




  • John E. Gardner

    She is beautiful. She is Russian. And she is very, very dangerous. Once Xenia worked for the KGB. But her new master is Janus, a powerful and ambitious Russian leader who no longer cares about ideology. Janus's ambitions are money and power: his ...



  • Sherry Garland

    Twelve-year-old Dusty has an overwhelming fear of drowning. While on a cruise to the Caribbean with his father, stepmother, and stepsisters-a cruise he did his best to avoid-Dusty discovers the ghost of Tahni, an Arawak Indian girl, in the cabin next...



  • Juliana Garnett

    A hostage for a hostage...

    All his life, the notorious Rolf of Dragonwyck, known as the Dragon, had taken what he wanted by the strength of his sword and the fierceness of his spirit.  But now his enemies have found the chink in his armor: h...



  • Wendy Garrett

    SHE OFFERED HER BODY TO SAVE HER SOUL.... Celebrated for the loveliness that excites desire in men and envy in women, Cari Fremont is unprepared for the sudden tragedy that takes her husband and son. Grief-stricken, alone, and at the mercy of her ...



  • Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    People of the Lightning takes us to ancient Florida, to a village of fisher folk who must face their deepest fear: Pondwader, now a lanky boy of fifteen summers. He is the White Lightning Boy--the first of his kind to be born in tens of tens of summe...



  • Catherine George

    A damsel in distress... As a teenager, Elinor had worshiped Miles Carew from afar. But even though Miles was now back in her life and wanted a relationship, she couldn't believe that, at last, she'd won his love. She was half afraid that h...



  • Patricia Reilly Giff

    Christmas look pretty bleak for Benjamin Bean until he meets his new neighbor, Sen+a1ora from Ecuador, who is trying to learn English, in an easy-to-read tale that offers nine simple Spanish lessons. Original....




  • Ellen Gilchrist

    A fiction collection, including two new stories, from the award-winning author: “Rhoda is a fully realized creation. And not one to be dismissed lightly.” -- Entertainment Weekly   From Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner and “na...



  • Parke Godwin

    He Sought His Destiny and His God in a World Where the Old Magics Ruled A young priest burning with the fire of his faith, Padrec came willingly to the pagan isles to spread the word that would save men's souls. Though the future would name him sa...



  • Jo Goodman
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    Christmas in San Francisco brings a make-believe betrothal to a reluctant bridegroom and an even more reluctant bride. It will take faith, trust and the magic of love to heal two wary hearts...and make a cherished dream come true......



  • Laura Gordon

    Reunited... Dark and dangerous, bounty hunter Reed McKenna bore little resemblance to the man Tess Elliot once loved. Now, stranded on Grand Canyon Island after cousin's mysterious disappearance, Tess was surrounded by enemies...and Reed appeared ...



  • Gary Goshgarian

    The Hazzard family becomes increasingly horrified when a genocidal experiment gone wrong results in their son's transformation into a feral and dangerous beast, and the government is determined to cover up the facts...




  • Vanessa Grant

    When Jonathan Halley had rejected her, Cynthia had sworn never again to ask him for anything. But suddenly here she was, seeking his help to bail out her brother. Cynthia knew that Jonathan would make her pay for his help, but the price turned out to...



  • Alasdair Gray

    A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the Ettrick Forest in the 23rd century. Wat Dryhope, son of the Ettrick chief, is unhappy with his clan's violent and permissive lifestyle. Only when challenged by the seductive Delilah Puddock do...



  • Gloria Greene

    Sweeping from Paris to New York, from the cold world of the fashion business to the warm depths of the heart, LOVE UNVEILED is a burning novel of an enduring love that will not be denied. . . .

    Photographer and fashion magazine art director Ju...



  • Jennifer Greene
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    A tiny tot turns a confirmed bachelor into daddy material....



  • Jennifer Greene

    SHE WASN'T LOOKING FOR A HUSBAND Kansas McClellan was looking for her brother, and Paxton Moore was the only man who could help her. She'd heard he knew the tough, Western landscape like the back of his callused hand, so it didn't matter that he s...



  • Leigh Greenwood
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    Arizona Territory, 1880. Delivering a young widow's baby during the holiday season transforms the heart of a lonely drifter....



  • Nicholas Guild

    A brutal Ohio motel murder captures the attention of Connecticut lawyer James Kinkaid, but as he begins a hellish journey to find the beautiful and seductive murderer, Angel, he becomes the next target in her series of grisly killings. Reprint....



  • Karen Haber

    When her own powers are drained by a dark empath, Kayla John Reed assumes an alias and seeks refuge on a Free Trader ship, but an evil magnate is attempting to control all free trade, forcing Kayla to join the War Minstrel rebel troops. Original....



  • Micah S. Hackler

    Attempting to discover the truth about a murder in the desert ridges among ancient Native American sites, Sheriff Cliff Lansing travels to the Anasazi Strip, where he encounters a second murder involving a United States senator. Original....



  • Robert Lee Hall

    In the fourth book in a hilarious mystery series, crafty old Franklin and his sidekick, Nick Handy, find themselves awash in intrigue and murder in Bath, England's famous spa, where a seemingly innocent girl hides a terrible plot....



  • Celeste Hamilton

    A 'daddy candidate' was sitting in single mom Holy MacPherson's living room a tall, dark and total stranger. Her young son was on a quest, and police office Brooks Casey was the boy's first choice for a father. But Holly's husband...




  • Janice Harrell

    He’s the still-human half of the once-perfect couple -- for now -- in this sequel in the undead high school horror Vampire’s Love series.   James Ryder just learned that his girlfriend, Chelsea, has turned into a vampire, and now she’s out...



  • Lee Harris

    A CELEBRATION OF ABUNDANCE BECOMES A DAY OF LOSS. More than a year ago Natalie Gordon went to buy a balloon at the Thanksgiving Day Parade and dissolved into thin air. The police and a private investigator still have no leads. So when Natalie's desp...



  • Ellen Hart

    "INTELLIGENT AND ENGROSSING . . . A VERY COMPLEX PUZZLE."

    --Publishers Weekly



    Everyone knows Arno Heywood. He's been a Minneapolis TV personality for years. So when he jumps to his death from a downtown high-rise, it's a shocker...



  • David G. Hartwell

    A collection of holiday chillers--by Charles Dickens, Gene Wolfe, Michael Bishop, and others--follows the stories of a doctor who makes a house call to a ghost, a psychic detective who must exorcise a well-known holiday icon, and a boy who learns a f...



  • Betty Headapohl

    Sparks fly when Kerri Andrews meets Austin Parker, but not romantic ones. Kerri thinks Austin is selfish and insensitive -- until he reveals the problems he's facing at home. Kerri knows where he's coming from because she has family troubles, too. ...



  • Dermot Healy

    In a wind-battered Mayo cottage, playwright Jack Ferris tries to salvage something from his broken love affair with Catherine Adams. Drink and despair drove her away; can his imagination call her back? But as he summons up her past, Jack finds he has...



  • Sandra Heath
    in

    Make your Christmas merry with these delightful stories from some of the most wonderfully talented Regency authors. Mary Balogh tells of three orphans who bring together their estranged aunt and uncle for the holidays. Jo Beverley spins an intriguing...



  • Sandra Heath

    Lucy Was No Angel Miss Lucy Trevallion might be an innocent young lady -- but that innocence was in the gravest of danger. The infuriating but undeniably attractive Lord Geoffrey St. Athan was stirring her senses in a way that she would do anyt...



  • Jean Heller

    The press calls him the Heartbreak Killer because of his apparent compulsion to mutilate the hearts of his victims, but he thinks of himself as the Handyman. At first he targeted prostitutes, but lately he's been going upscale--a teacher, a doctor--s...



  • Laura Hendrie

    A nominee for a PEN/Hemingway Award, an acclaimed novel brings to life the quintessential--and quirky--American small town of Stygo, Colorado, where one man dreams of moving to Alaska and a woman dreams of love. 15,000 first printing....



  • Virginia Henley
    in

    Snowbound on Lake Michigan, a devout feminist discovers that a macho firefighter has something to teach her about the wonder and joy of being a woman... in love....



  • Patricia Hermes

    Under the gun after nearly setting fire to the family beach cottage, a girl and her cousin have to raise their own money in order to go to a carnival at the boardwalk but must hide their methods from disapproving parents. Original....



  • Joan Hess

    Chief of police Arly Hanks usually handles all the crime that comes her way in Maggody, Arkansas (pop. 755), with the ease that Ruby Bee at Ruby Bee's Bar & Grill gets out her blue plate specials. But that's before televangelist Malachi Hope rolls in...



  • Norah Hess

    As fresh and enchanting as a new snowfall, Laura had always adored Fletcher Thomas. Yet she feared she would never win the trapper's heart -- until one passion-filled night in his father's barn. Lost in his heated caresses, the innocent b...



  • Karen Hesse

    OUT OF THE BLUE When war separates Hannah from her parents in 1918, she moves to her aunt's crowded tenement in Boston's West End. Together, Hannah and Tanta Rose struggle to protect Hannah's two young sisters, but when a deadly influenza epidemic st...



  • Oscar Hijuelos

    Mr. Ives has a successful career in advertising, a wife and two children, and believes he has achieved the typical American dream. But that is shattered when his son Robert, who is studying for the priesthood, is killed at Christmas. Overwhelmed by g...




  • Will Hobbs

    THE MAGIC HAD ALWAYS BEEN THERE. Tep Jones has always felt the magic of Picture House, an Anasazi cliff dwelling near the seed farm where he lives with his parents. But he could never have imagined what would happen to him on the night of a lunar ...



  • John C. Hocking

    When the evil Stygian sorcerer Ethram-Fal casts a spell on Conan, harnessing the Cimmerian's skills for his own purposes, Conan must ally himself with the sorceress Zelandra at a heavy price. Original....



  • Diane Hoh

    Annie is terrified when she learns the truth about her friend, whose split personality includes an evil half that believes every girl he meets is the reincarnation of a girl he once murdered, and Annie may become his newest victim. Original....



  • Ali Hokin

    A hilarious pocket-size collection of words to live by contains the whimsical wisdom of the characters from the animated film Toy Story, including the friendly Cowboy Willy, the practical Buzz Lightyear, and others. Original....



  • Kay Hooper

    A spellbinding tale of contemporary suspense that begins with a mysterious homecoming and ends in a shattering explosion of passion, greed, and murder. And all because a stranger says her name is... AMANDA Others have claimed to be Amanda Dault...



  • Charles Hough

    Combines eighteen true cases of paranormal activity as experienced by members of the United States Air Force, from a grounded crew member who shared the same fate as his airborne mates, to UFO sightings by military pilots....



  • Houghton Mifflin Company

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  • Houghton Mifflin Company

    Be your own Frankenstein with this CD-ROM, the new character-creation laboratory. Designed to stretch the imaginations of kids ages three and up, this unique program includes hundreds of wiggling, squirming, flapping and pulsing animated parts for bu...



  • Charlotte Hughes

    She might be more woman than he could handle ... Riley Locke only wanted a wife to be a mother to his children, but when Savannah Day arrived on his doorstep he got that and more! The beautiful spitfire made him yearn for what he'd never had, a lo...




  • Bobby Hutchinson
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    e-book edition Ever wonder what it might be like to be a mail order bride? Or the groom, already married to a woman he's never laid eyes on? On the Canadian prairies in 1886, having a mail order romance wasn't unusual. Noah Ferguson d...