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New Books List: 504 titles

  • The Simbul's Gift

    Lynn Abbey
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The perfect gift. Is it the one given or the one received? The Simbul, Storm-queen of Aglarond, is unhappy. Though she has triumphed over her enemies, she lacks an heir to her throne -- a child to love and nurture. But now she's found the perfect fa...

  • The Ice Pick Artist

    Harold Adams

  • The Real Mother Goose Merry Christmas Music Box

    Lynn Adams

    A medley of three Christmas carols plays each time this adorable Christmas box is opened. Inside are four tiny board books filled with Christmas carols and Mother Goose rhymes, and two books of colorful punch-out ornaments ready to hang on the tree. ...

  • Courtyard Cat

    C.S. Adler

    Having moved to a shabby city apartment, eleven-year-old Lindsay blames herself for the accident that caused her little brother's hospitalization, until a friendship with a homeless cat helps her to find a new outlook. Reprint....

  • Ms. Cliff The Climber

    Allan Ahlberg

    This is the story of ups and downs, and tangles, in the life of the keen mountain climber, Clara Cliff. She marries, has children, divorces, remarries, has more children and all in all has more than the usual quota of family fun and adventure....

  • Cheaters: and Other Stories

    Dean Albarelli

    An intense, humorous, and sophisticated compilation of tales portrays the intricacy of relationships and details the betrayals, passion, destructiveness, and other aspects of burgeoning love affairs. Reprint....

  • Love Lies Bleeding

    Susan Wittig Albert

    As a Texas Ranger, Roy Adcock outwitted plenty of dangerous characters. But now the retired Ranger has been shot dead--with his wife's gun. The case hits close to home for China, since Dolores Adcock had been at the herb shop just that morning. But w...

  • Ice-Cream Bear

    Jez Alborough

    The ice cream-loving Bear thinks his wildest dream has come true when it begins to snow ice cream, but the miracle brings with it unexpected results, in a humorous tale that promises plenty of giggles. Original....

  • Switchback

    David Alexander

    Amarillo Sherriff Buck Olmstead and rogue F.B.I. agent Frank Crosse pursue a serial killer who has left a trail of victims from Texas to the Rocky Mountains and soon learn the killer is no longer traveling alone. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Shakespeare and the Three Kings

    Victoria Alexander
    in

    After inheriting three unbearable dogs from his great aunt, Oliver Stanhope was relieved she'd made arrangements for a trainer. But when D.K. Lawrence appeared at his door, enormous Great Dane in tow, Oliver was in for the Christmas surprise -- a...

  • Christmas Magic

    Margaret Allison
    in

    Home for the holidays, an artist proves opposites can attract -- and make sparks -- when she falls for an unconventional doctor....

  • Wild Card

    Susan Amarillas

    JUSTICE WAS A HARD MISTRESS And one who demanded all of Jake McConnell's devotion. Until the day Clair Travers insisted that the straight-arrow lawman remove himself from her saloon. The day he knew his life would never be the same. CLAIR TRAVER...

  • Imani

    Bridget Anderson
    in

    MISTLETOE IS ONLY ONE INGREDIENT FOR ROMANCE. Candlelit trees, caroling voices and hearts full of hope celebrate this special time of year, as three of your favorite Arabesque authors bring you stories brimming with the merry magic of the holidays...

  • Day the Computers Broke Down

    Lori Anderson

  • Harvest the Fire

    Poul Anderson

    In the far future, a conspiracy emerges against a powerful AI in a novel that “spellbindingly demonstrates the complex rivalry between human and machine†(Booklist).   Many centuries in the future, no great destiny for humankind exists on Ea...

  • Unfinished Symphony

    V.C. Andrews

    Melody Logan had only just found a safe harbor when a new storm set her adrift all over again.... Melody had always believed her mother, Haille, and dear stepdaddy had died in tragic accidents -- that's why she'd come to stay with her secretive Loga...

  • The Stranger's Surprise

    Laura Anthony

    STRANGER ON HER DOORSTEP Perpetual do-gooder July Johnson's latest cause was no straggly alley cat but six feet of pure male. And though the stranger was surely hiding secrets, something told July that beneath Tucker's gruff exterior was a...

  • A Murder in Macedon

    Anna Apostolou

    BEWARE OF GREEKS BEARING KNIVES... In the summer of 336 B.C., Philip of Macedon has summoned all of Greece to join him in celebration in the old capital of Aegae. As he enters the arena filled with his loyal subjects, he is brutally stabbed by the...

  • An Alien Dies

    K.A. Applegate

  • Wildcat Wife

    Lindsay Armstrong

    The Australians: He's big, he's brash, he's brazen... he's Australian! Sultry, sensual and ruthless... SAFFRON SHAW, a successful designer in Queensland, was able to pick and choose her clients, and she thought nothing of turn...

  • All the Trimmings

    Lindsay Armstrong
    in

    To a relationship in which Brendan has always treated Merryn like a kid sister, add a Christmas celebration the two are forced to share. Garnish with all the trimmings!...

  • Father Found

    Judith Arnold

    Baby on the Doorstep! Jamie McCoy is the ultimate guy. His syndicated column, "Guy Stuff," keeps thousands of men in a macho frame of mind. But the day Jamie finds Samantha on his doorstep, his life changes drastically. Samantha is a baby and...

  • A Fragile Marriage

    Rosalie Ash

    Annie should have said no! Josh Isaac had never entirely trusted her since that stupid misunderstanding over his sister's fiance two years ago on Skiathos. Yet here they were again, right back where they'd started on that romantic and steamy ...

  • Norby and the Terrified Taxi

    Janet Asimov

  • Cinderella Story

    Elizabeth August

    A desperate mother fights to save her family.... A child's life hangs in the balance... A powerful man offers a surprising solution.... They shared one moonlit dance before she disappeared into the night, leaving Alex Bennett with no clue to the...

  • Reilly's Return

    Amelia Autin

    HE'S NEVER MEANT TO ENDANGER HER.... But Reilly O'Neill knew good intentions weren't worth a damn. For a year he'd stayed away from Mandy Edwards. He'd changed his face, his job, his life. But he hadn't been able to resist another glimpse of the v...

  • What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything? and Other Stories

    Avi

    In this extraordinary collection, Newbery Medalist Avi charts the turning points in the lives of seven young protagonists. Among others in these stories, you will meet William of "What Do Fish Have to Do with Anything?," who wonders why he shouldn't ...

  • Watersleep

    James Axler

    THROUGH FIERY HELL In the altered reality of the Deathlands, America's coastal waters haven't escaped the ravages of the nukecaust, but the awesome power of the oceans still rules here. It's a power that will let Ryan Cawdor, first among postholocau...

  • Never Look Back

    Judy Baer

    Angela Hardy seems like the least likely person to cause trouble. Quiet, sincere, and always sweet, Angela is one of Lexi Leighton's favorite friends. But almost without warning, Angela's behavior begins to change. Her boyfriend, Egg McNaughton, noti...

  • Saint

    Mark Roger Bailey

    In a biogenetic laboratory in California, a scientist injects his own DNA into a test subject - and discovers that human knowledge and memories can be absorbed on a molecular level. In the Vatican in Rome, the Pope makes a crucial decision in the na...

  • The Reluctant Fiancee

    Jacqueline Baird

    Second-time seduction! Bea has been reunited with Leon Gregoris, her ex-fiance. But this time Leon won't mesmerize her with his dark Greek-Cypriot good looks. Bea is older and in charge of herself now; she won't be captive to sexual chemis...

  • As Though I Had Wings

    Chet Baker

  • Midnight Blues

    Jill Baker

    INTERRUPTED MELODY Struggling singer Addie Raintree finally has a chance at success. But it's in the hands of one man from her past she can't forgive: a legendary singer who once turned her song into his hit single. How can Addie expect to trust h...

  • The Bond Street Carolers

    Mary Balogh
    in

    Hark, the herald angels sing as five of Signet's favorite Regency authors bring you a melodious collection of stories to make the season even brighter. Lush with the magic of the holiday, the stories in this Christmas Regency collection capture the t...

  • A Christmas Bride

    Mary Balogh

    The Wrong Lady At six-and-thirty, the very wealthy Edgar Downes had finally decided to take a bride. Although not to the manner born, Edgar had promised his aging father that he would wed a titled lady by Christmas. Edgar came to London to review ...

  • Melody

    Anne Barbour
    in

    Hark, the herald angels sing as five of Signet's favorite Regency authors bring you a melodious collection of stories to make the season even brighter. Lush with the magic of the holiday, the stories in this Christmas Regency collection capture t...

  • The Knights of Christmas: Kara's Gift

    Suzanne Barclay
    in

    A pagan healer falls in love with the Christian knight who is destined to save her dying clan....

  • Boxing Day

    Jill Barnett
    in

    A gentle woman shows a rugged man the meaning of love in this Victorian New York of gaslit streets and snowy sleigh rides......

  • A Man Like Morgan Kane

    Beverly Barton

    REBEL HOMECOMING Morgan Kane was the baddest boy Birmingham society had ever bred. But years as a Navy SEAL had sculpted the hard muscles of his body and reinforced the wall around his heart. A heart that had once loved Bethany Wyndham. And a body...

  • The Face on the Wall

    Carol Barton

    Jeremy is annoyed about having to go on holiday to France - nothing will happen there. Then he sees the face on the wall - what does it mean and why does it frighten Jeremy? But as he gets drawn into the story behind the face, he realizes the holiday...

  • Manhunt

    Wayne Barton; Stan Williams

    When the sheriff of Willow Springs, Texas, is killed, Jefferson Davis King is determined to sift through the list of suspects--all competitors for a rich piece of grazing land--to catch the man who killed his friend. Original....

  • The Sky, the Stars, the Wilderness

    Rick Bass

    “Two appealing short stories and an exquisite novella†about the relationship between humans and the natural world around them (Kirkus Reviews). This is a “wondrous†(GQ) collection of short fiction exploring the subtle interplay between pred...

  • Titan

    Stephen Baxter

    HUMANKIND'S GREATEST -- AND ALST -- ADVENTURE! Possible signs of organic life have been found on Titan, Saturn's largest moon. A group of visionaries led by NASA's Paula Benacerraf plan a daring one-way mission that will cost them everything. ...

  • Black Gold

    Frederic Bean

    Texas Ranger Lee Garrett is assigned to investigate the claims of a small-time speculator during the 1930s oil boom, finds the Texas town in the grip of the Mafia, and becomes involved with a prostitute, risking his own life in the process....

  • The Red River

    Frederic Bean

    Elias Mcbee and Seth Booker have fought and killed more than their fair share of river pirates while piloting flatboats on the Mississippi. Tired of the life, they set out on the Red River following vague rumors of riches to be had west, beyond the f...

  • We Interrupt This Broadcast

    K.K. Beck

    Alice Jordan's dentist husband has just run off with his hygienist and she is desperate for a job. Because Alice has done some volunteer work for the symphony, she manages to talk herself into a job as a commissioned ad rep for a Seattle classical mu...

  • Dangerous To Love

    Rexanne Becnel

    A SPINSTER Spirited scholar Lucy Drysdale has long dreamed of London -- the stimulating lectures, the intellectual banter. But first she must chaperone Lady Valerie, a tender young girl embarking on her first social season. A RAKEHELL Before Lu...

  • The Evil Twin

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    The series about interns who work for the trashiest TV talk show in history continues as Chelsea's terrible secret is aired on national television--and Karma's family asks her to make a scary sacrifice. Original....

  • Hair of the Dog

    Laurien Berenson

    The dog days of summer have just begun, and Melanie Travis is looking forward to savoring each lazy afternoon. And where better to enjoy herself than at her Aunt Peg's Fourth of July barbecue? It sounds ideal, until an uninvited guest proves that eve...

  • The Berenstains' A Book

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Now joining forces with The B Book and The C Book is the reissue of The Berenstains' A Book--an astonishing album with almost any A word children can say. It's guaranteed to make learning to read a bundle of fun!  ...

  • The Berenstains' C Book

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • The Death of a Dimpled Darling

    Carole Berry

    Bonnie Indermill has to stop being such a good friend -- because her latest act of generosity has got her into some high-class trouble. It all starts when Bonnie's friend Amanda asks for her "moral support" in her new job as a wedding pl...

  • Secret Obsession

    Charlene Berry

    Intrigued by the romantic attentions of two men, Wes and Gabriel, Allysse Dobson comfortably shares her love with both. But Wes and Gabriel have secrets that, if revealed, will shatter this triangular love affair....

  • Only Fifteen Shopping Days Left

    Elizabeth Bevarly
    in

    When the jolly matchmaking ghost of a department store Santa makes his Christmas gift list, he has a very special present planned for the busy store manager: one of Santa's elves!...

  • Beyond the Promise

    Barbara Bickmore

    While on vacation in Cougar Valley, Oregon, with her best friend Annie, Boston lawyer Cat Browning meets charming Scott McCullough and marries him, but amidst the joy and wonderment, dark family secrets threaten their love and force Cat to make choic...

  • Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman

    Terry Bisson

  • Picture Perfect

    Marie Bourdon

    ADVENTURE IN FLORENCE It doesn't take much for lovely Amanda Seaton to agree to the deception. After all, posing as her incorrigible identical twin sister, Amy, on a European modeling assignment will give Amanda a summer in Italy she'll never f...

  • Evans Above

    Rhys Bowen

    Constable Evan Evans was glad to trade city life for idyllic Llanfair, a Welsh village that time forgot. But this little town has its share of eccentric characters--two ministers vying for the souls of their flock, one lascivious barmaid, and three o...

  • The Sword and the Miracle

    Melvyn Bragg

    Melvyn Bragg's acclaimed epic novel is set at  the tumultuous dawn of Christianity in Britain and Ireland.  It is a stunning story of adventure and spirituality, war and romance, but it is deeply rooted in Bragg's historical studies of the Dark A...

  • The Fugitive's Mission

    Max Brand

    THE BEST OF THE WEST

    Max Brand has long been considered one of the finest chroniclers of the Old West. Under his pen, the West and all its characters come alive in full color. Collected here are three of his greatest short novels. The title stor...

  • The Springs of Affection

    Maeve Brennan

    The twentyâ€"one stories collected here -- the very best stories of one of The New Yorker's most celebrated writers -- trace the patterns of love within three Dublin families. Love between husband and wife, which begins in courtship and laughter, los...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Questions the Answer

    Emily Brightwell

    A FRIEND FOR DEATH It was true. Hannah Cameron was not well-liked. But were her friends or family the sort to stab her in the back? To almost everyone, the answer is clear: She was killed by a burglar. And since Inspector Witherspoon is not a burgla...

  • Time Enough For Love

    Suzanne Brockmann

    Could a love deeper than time be enough to erase the past? The sinfully handsome stranger kept calling out her name, but how could Maggie Winthrop believe the wild things he told her -- especially when he stood naked outside her back door? Chuck D...

  • Cody

    Bruce Brooks

    When Zip and Cody--the coach's son, Wing's captain, high scorer, and guitar player--are hired for a musical gig the night before an important hockey game, Cody is forced to decide between team morale or a lot of money. Simultaneous....

  • Soldier's Aim

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • The Dogs

    Rebecca Brown

    Presents the story of a woman living with her Doberman pinchers, who alternate between being brutal attackers and loyal companions, and between being real or otherworldly, and the woman's thwarted efforts to please the pack of dogs. Tour....

  • Murder, She Meowed

    Rita Mae Brown

    The annual steeplechase races at Montpelier, once the home of James and Dolley Madison, are the high point in the social calendar of the horse-mad Virginians of cozy Crozet. The race meet offers a cracking good time with old friends and a chance to g...

  • Snowflake Wishes

    Lydia Browne

    Life's sweetest lessons aren't taught in school... RACHEL A schoolteacher in Brooklyn, Missouri, she was too smart to tall for a smooth-talking city slicker... HAL A newspaperman from New York City, he wanted the story on the pretty s...

  • Corey's Christmas Wish

    Bonnie Bryant

    Corey Takamura wants only one thing for Christmas: for her parents to get back together. However, Doc Tock, Corey's mom, has been spending a lot of time with their neighbor, Kyle Lee. Now Corey is afraid that Mr. Lee may be ready to propose. Corey ha...

  • Holiday Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    It's New Year's Eve and The Saddle Club is baby-sitting so that Max and Deborah Regnery can have a night off. The Saddle Club think it will be a peaceful evening, full of Monopoly, New Year's resolutions, and talking. They didn't count on 6-month-old...

  • To Shield the Queen

    Fiona Buckley

    In this compelling debut of her historical mystery series, Fiona Buckley introduces Ursula Blanchard, a widowed young mother who has become lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I. Armed with a sharp eye, dangerous curiosity, and uncanny intelligence, U...

  • Jacks Are Wild

    Pamela Burford

    The situation was wild...but Jack was wilder A violent storm had stranded Megan Wolf on an island with some wacko relatives, her three little girls and her brand-new fiance. But that wasn't what caused her to consider swimming for shore; it was he...

  • Most Of All

    Loure Bussey

    After finding her boyfriend in the arms of another woman, Elandra Lloyd takes a well-deserved vacation in the Bahamas to visit her sister, but when she arrives, her sister is missing and she runs into gorgeous millionaire Bradley Davenport, who helps...

  • Defenseless

    Adrianne Byrd

    When gorgeous Sonya Walters's sister stands accused of murdering her husband, she hires the enigmatic Dwayne Hamilton to defend her sister, and she finds herself falling for him as they enter a world of lies and betrayal to prove her sister innocent....

  • Mister Christmas

    Linda Cajio

    A Christmas Countdown 'Twas four weeks before Christmas.... And Holly had to help Raymond Holiday find his heart by December 25--or he'd lose it for good. No small task, given that Raymond had dodged love for years, from his family, friends, wo...

  • Indiscreet

    Candace Camp

    THEIR NEED FOR EACH OTHER HAD BECOME LESS THAN DISCREET... Benedict Wincross appears in Camilla Ferrand's life as quickly as the gunfire pursuing him. Is he a kidnapper? A thief? Or worse? What had Camilla so innocently become part of? Though ...

  • A Tough Man's Woman

    Deborah Camp

    AN ANGRY PASSION She is Cassie Dalton widow of a wealthy rancher. Young, beautiful, and on her own, she keeps her rifle handy in case of trouble--and the rugged stranger riding tall in the saddle looks like big trouble. But just as she's orderin...

  • Grace and Favor

    Thomas Caplan

    Thomas Caplan's luminous spell-casting novel tells a tale of bi-national loyalties, family secrets, banking scandals, and murder set in the surprisingly still-enchanted world of England's landed gentry.
    ...

  • The Gospel of the Beloved Disciple

    James P. Carse

    In spare but evocative language, the acclaimed author of Breakfast at the Victory conjures up a Jesus with a still presence of mind who is a pool of wisdom for his frenetic and hostile world. As he wanders and learns, he is praised, recruited, vil...

  • Baby Bug Pop up Book in and Out

    David A. Carter

  • Pregnant With His Child

    Carla Cassidy

    TRAVIS AND FRANNIE SITTIN' IN A TREE... K-I-S-S-I-N-G.... Well, maybe not a tree, but there'd been plenty of times they'd snuck out their bedroom windows to share kisses in the cornfields. That was five years ago. Before Frannie left f...

  • Deadly Season

    Tim Champlin

    When Jay McGraw helps his friend Detective Fred Casey investigate the flow of opium into San Francisco's Chinatown and the murder of a squad member, they enlist the aid of Sherlock Holmes to unravel the mystery. Reprint....

  • The Way Home

    Megan Chance

    Eliza Beaudry was determined to get out in the big, wide world -- even if it meant trading a few kisses for her freedom. When she met traveling gambler Cole Wallace, she thought her fantasies had come true. But Cole's daydreams didn't include...

  • Across the Rainbow

    Victoria Chancellor

    For seasoned pilot David Terrell, nothing seemed wore foolish than flying into a rainbow to wish for a wife. But the down-to-earth widower would do anything for his little girl, Jamie, and she would settle for nothing less than a fairy tale princess ...

  • Back In My Heart

    Judy Chapman

    KISS ME AGAIN Divorcee Alexa Gordon was smart enough to admit she'd make mistakes when it came to men. A little older and a lot wiser, the loving single mother was determined not to let it happen again. But it still didn't stop her heart from ye...

  • A Ghost of a Chance

    Rob Childs

    Thrust back in time to a ghostly Victorian mill, the Time Rangers meet a group of kids who are virtual slaves, hardly seeing sunlight. It's time for some Time Rangers action - could organizing a match save the mill workers, or are things so grim that...

  • In Papa Bear's Bed

    Judy Christenberry

    Once upon a time... Tucked way out in the woods, runaway Jessica Barnes found a tiny cabin after she wrecked her car in a freak snowstorm. There was nobody home, so she rested in a downy chair that was too big, ate some leftover macaroni and chees...

  • Downsized to Death

    Joyce Christmas

    IT'S A CRIME THE WAY THE OFFICE IS RUN THESE DAYS.

    Between the murder of frail Mr. Takahashi, who owned the greenhouse near Betty Trenka's home, and the stroke that incapacitates her retired boss Sid, Betty's not in the best of spirits.

  • Fear of Frying

    Jill Churchill

    When Jane agreed to accompany her best friend Shelley into the wilds of Wisconsin to check out a summer camp for suburban kids, she wasn't warned just how wild the little adventure might be. A lack of electricity, ranting from a local loony, and ...

  • A Daddy for Christmas

    Katherine Chute
    in

    Victorian America -- a time when life was uncomplicated, faith was sincere . . . and love was a gift to be cherished forever. A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS TEA will take you there . .. to the mountains of New Mexico, where mistaken identities nearly dera...

  • Godzilla Invades America

    Scott Ciencin

    From the author of several bestselling Dinotopia children's novels comes a tale of courage, friendship, and adventure! A young Japanese boy is having trouble fitting in to his new American home. So when Godzilla arrives on America's shores, the boy d...

  • Reckless Engagement

    Daphne Clair

    While he was sleeping... She knew it was reckless; she shouldn't have gone to see him in the hospital. But since meeting Zachary Ballantine at the charity dinner Katrien had been unable to get him out of her mind...or out of her dreams. It was...

  • A Priceless Acquisition

    Cathleen Clare

    The art of falling in love... Miss Victoria Livingstone, who was left without a farthing when her ambassador father died, has accepted a position as governess to the Duke Of Netherwood's eight-year-old daughter. But when she arrives at his ele...

  • The Man Next Door

    Mary Higgins Clark
    in

    Joining together for a good cause brings out the best in today's top mystery and suspense writers! For this marvelously entertaining anthology, these outstanding contributors rose to a unique literary challenge: each penned a tale that ingeniously fe...

  • Dragon Light

    Shaun Clarke

    Set during the Gulf War, this is the story of a daring mission and rescue by six Special Forces troops, who have to free captured American pilot Alice Davis before she is used for propaganda purposes. The problem is that they are imprisoned themselve...

  • Keeping Faith

    Casey Claybourne
    in

    When a little orphaned girl is befriended by a ghost and saved from the streets of Regency London, she proves to be a Christmas miracle for a grieving couple....

  • Lizard People

    M.T. Coffin

    On a dare, Michael enters an empty old house and finds himself in a nightmare world where everyone is a lizard, including himself, and he struggles to find his way back home or facing being a lizard forever. Original....

  • Tale of the Souvenir Shop

    Alice Eve Cohen

  • The Anne of Green Gables Christmas Treasury

    Carolyn Strom Collins

  • Comfort and Joy: Christmas Present

    Lynne Collins

    Rediscovering lost loves brings a special comfort, and helping to deliver a precious bundle is a remarkable joy in a quartet of holiday love stories by Lynne Collins, Marion Lennox, Laura MacDonald, and Sharon Kendrick. Original....

  • Mommy

    Max Allan Collins

    As violence and death erupt around her, young Jessica Ann begins to suspect that her loving mother will do anything – even murder – to keep her daughter at the top of her class.She’s pretty, she’s perfect, she’s June Cle...

  • A Purrfect Christmas

    Lynn Collum
    in

    Sometimes it takes a "cat"alyst to spark a match between lonely lords and winsome ladies. In these brand new Christmas tales by three delightful Zebra Regency authors, the holiday shines even brighter as a trio of irresistible kittens create mischief...

  • Athena's Christmas Tail

    Nina Coombs
    in

    Mercy wanted her marriage with the Viscount Brockton to be a true match of the heart. But breaking through Robert's cold shell seemed truly impossible, until she found the magic of the holiday season --- with the help of Athena, her very determined d...

  • Atlanta Heat

    Robert Coram

    A rookie detective investigating a double homicide relies on Atlanta's most famous crime reporter for help and inside information, but seasoned journalist Colin Biddle may turn out to be the killer--with access to the crime scene, the trust of the en...

  • Blue Ribbon Christmas

    Emily Costello

    Given horseback riding lessons for Christmas, Stephanie brags about her skills to an intimidating classmate and fears she is putting herself and her horse in danger when her bluff is called. Original....

  • I'll Have What He's Having

    Elizabeth Craft

    Waiting for the perfect moment to confess to Natalie his feelings for her, Dylan realizes that things have become more complicated when his friend Sam confides that he, too, is in love with her. Original....

  • Love Bytes

    Elizabeth Craft

  • Tea for Marie

    DiAnna Crawford
    in

    Victorian America -- a time when life was uncomplicated, faith was sincere . . . and love was a gift to be cherished forever. A VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS TEA will take you there . .. to the mountains of New Mexico, where mistaken identities nearly dera...

  • Shadow Man

    Jordan Cray

    Readers enter the world of the Internet, where there are no rules, where you can be whomever you want, where you can discover exciting new places and meet people from the around the world, and where you can follow Annie as she struggles to escape a t...

  • Go to Your Tomb-Right Now!

    Carolyn Crimi

  • For Kaitlyn's Sake

    Dani Criss

    JAKE RILEY WASN'T HER HUSBAND... Yet Kaitlyn Adams' rugged bodyguard -- and former love -- acted as if he had every right to barge into her home and keep a bedside vigil, night after night. The feisty beauty knew she needed his protection ...

  • Marriage on His Mind

    Susan Crosby

    CINDERELLA IN WAITING With just one look Jack Stone could tell that Mickey was a princess living in a self-imposed ivory tower. But he wasn't one to let a few flights of stairs keep him from what he wanted. And he most definitely wanted the re...

  • Heirs of the Fire

    Robert Cullen

    When veteran Washington reporter Colin Burke sinks his teeth into a story, he won't let go until the ink dries. So when Burke learns that the president, despite official denials, plans to sell advanced weapons to Saudi Arabia, he runs a story exposin...

  • Flubber: Special Collector's Edition

    Lucy Dahl

  • Earthling

    Tony Daniel

    Orf is an intelligent drilling machine, designed to probe to the very center of the Earth. What he finds deep under the Earth's crust is a living force so radically unexpected that our life on the surface is altered by its discovery. But as the world...

  • Merry Christmas

    Emma Darcy
    in

    A daughter she doesn't know and the lover who doesn't know her! As a pregnant teenager, Meredith Palmer had been devastated to discover from Nick Hamilton's sister that he'd had an accident and had no memory of their golden summer ...

  • A Light in the Window

    Justine Dare
    in

    Brings the heartwarming tale of a man who seesd shelter on an isolated Wyoming homestead...and discovers an orphan and a beautiful woman who need a miracle as badly as he needs foriveness and love....

  • The Ninth Garfield Treasury

    Jim Davis

    Be prepared to laugh out loud as Garfield leads you on a riotous romp through his hilarious haunts. It''s a full-color ride of nonstop fun and thrills—with plenty of laughs (and snacks) along the way!...

  • Turtle Truths

    Cecil Dawkins

    WHEN HOLLYWOOD COMES TO SANTA FE, MURDER SOON FOLLOWS.

    It's a glitzy group that gathers at Tony Quayles's Santa Fe home to finalize plans for his new movie. The guest of honor: feisty Dame Charlotte Saxe-Ogilvy, whose Jamaican plantation will ...

  • Bruises

    Anke De Vries

    Judith is a battered 12-year-old who blames herself rather than her mother for her mother's constant and increasing physical abuse. Michael, one of her classmates, recently suffered from the emotional abuse of his severely critical father. When Micha...

  • Workout

    Jeremy Dean

  • Wyoming Wife?

    Shawna Delacorte

    SNOWBOUND WITH A WYOMING COWBOY! Samantha Burkett knew microwave meals, rush-hour gridlock and men in three-piece suits. But an ill-fated trip to Wyoming in the midst of a blizzard set her reality on its ear.... Jace Tremayne had literally swoo...

  • A Marriage Worth Keeping

    Kate Denton

    "For better, for worse... So much for wedding vows! Leslie Campbell had had enough of her husband, Hugh, putting his career before their marriage, and had left. Now she was back in Texas, with no money and nowhere to live. There was only one p...

  • The Teacher

    Jude Deveraux
    in

    A spirited Irishwoman comes to a rugged Colorado town to govern a young ruffian and learns a love lesson from the boy's father: there is more to the man than meets the eye....

  • Spider-Man: Savage Land Saga

    Todd Dezago

  • Sandra and the Scoundrel

    Jacqueline Diamond

    From Bad... On her thirty-second birthday wealthy socialite Sandra Duval discovered she no longer lived a charmed life. First, another guest at a charity fund-raiser wore a more spectacular, more outrageous hat. The mayor snubbed Sandra. And then sh...

  • Error of Judgement

    Dexter Dias

    Behind a four-inch plate glass window in the hospital wing of an uncompleted prison, a man sits in silence, his hair burned off his skull, his eyes fluttering in a dream state. His lawyer, Nick Downes, waits for his client to speak, to explain why he...

  • Friends and Lovers

    Eric Jerome Dickey

    When Debra meets Leonard, she has just gotten off the sex-before-marriage merry-go-round. Leonard, a successful comedian, isn't laughing when he confronts that crucial moment in every man's life when he has to decide whether he's ready for the love o...

  • Mackenzie's Magic

    Sharon DiMeglio

    DREAMHOUSE Lovely divorcee Amanda Stanfield has a dream: to build a cozy hideaway in the secluded California hills for a little hard-earned peace and quiet. But her blueprint for happiness didn't include her new neighbor. To make matters worse, he...

  • Cinderella

    Walt Disney

  • Little Mermaid Book and Sebastian Plush

    Walt Disney

    The magic of The Little Mermaid is brought to life with this book-and-toy package. Children will love snuggling with their new pal Sebastian as they embark on an amazing voyage to Ariel's ocean home....

  • Katherine: Heart of Freedom

    Cameron Dokey

    Rescuing a handsome young stranger who is fleeing the loyalists, sixteen-year-old Katherine learns that her father is secretly involved in American patriot activities and disguises herself as a boy to help the cause of freedom. Set against well-kn...

  • Charlotte: Heart of Hope

    Cameron Dokey

    Capture the magic as the beautiful hope chest passes through a new generation, and a young woman discovers her destiny in a freedom fighter's love... Baltimore 1812 Charlotte has been sent east from the Indiana Territory for her own safety, but a...

  • Sumptuous Bliss

    Christine Dorsey
    in

    With a recipe from Queen Victoria's personal chef, lovely and headstrong Cinnamon is determined to bake her own wedding cake. But when she meets the dashing sea captain Ian McGregger--and forgets about her betrothed--things really start to heat up....

  • Barney Goes to the Dentist

    Linda Cress Dowdy

  • Owner's Guide to the Gink

    Dr. Seuss

  • Alligators and Others All Year Long: A Book of Months

    Crescent Dragonwagon

  • The Savage Sky

    Emma Drummond

    Rob Stallard, the son of a farmer, is sent for training to a Florida airbase in 1941. There he encounters James Theodore Benson III - socialite and son of a senator. A flying incident creates bitter enmity between the two men, which is exacerbated wh...

  • Empire's End

    Diane Duane

    A COSMIC. ADVENTURE WITH THE FATE OF THE GALAXY AT STAKE! Professor X, the X-Men's founder and mentor, and Shi'ar Empress Lilandra have been forced to love each other from afar -- he remaining on Earth to lead the X-Men, and she with the Shi'ar to...

  • Truth Trap!

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Discovering to her surprise that she is literally unable to tell a lie, an alarmed Alex becomes increasingly worried when a goon from Paradise Chemical begins snooping around and asking questions. Original....

  • Disney's Flubber: Junior Novel

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Based on the feature film starring Robin Williams, the story of absentminded Professor Phillip Brainard follows his invention of a gravity-defying substance that turns uncontrollable when it is discovered to be alive. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Flubber Junior Novel

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Flubber

    Edmund Dulac

  • Radical Mansfield

    Pamela Dunbar

    A perceptive new evaluation of Katherine Mansfield. Reveals her as an original and highly subversive writer preoccupied with issues like sexuality and the irrationality of the human mind. Offers original interpretations of many stories, and deals wit...

  • The Honeymoon Man

    Suzanne Dye

    HERE COMES THE GROOM How can jilted Texas bride Hayley Beck keep her pride and the Hawaiian honeymoon she'd won in a local contest? Find a friend to pose as the groom. And there was only one man game enough, handsome enough, and willing enough t...

  • The Writer's Life

    Carol Edgarian

    PAUL AUSTER  ¸  CHARLOTTE BRONTE  ¸  WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS  ¸  NOEL COWARD  ¸  GUSTAVE FLAUBERT  ¸  ANNE FRANK  ¸  FRANZ KAFKA

    Ambition. Fame. Sex. Envy. Gossip. Money. Death. They re all here, in this dazzling bo...

  • Flaming Arrow

    Cassie Edwards

    Valerie Ross, a beautiful young woman, rides off into the wilderness alone, where she unexpectedly comes face to face with Flaming Arrow -- an Indian warrior who has every reason to hate her. Her kind has driven his people from their home, and the la...

  • A Prayer and a Promise

    Marian Edwards

    Set against a backdrop of clashing steel and heroic hearts, here is the sweeping tale of a Scottish noblewoman and a Norman mercenary who fight to claim their passionate future... In exchange for land of his own, mercenary Guy de Bellemare agrees ...

  • Flubber: My Story

    Vanessa Elder

    Invented by an absentminded professor, Flubber, a gravity-defying substance come to life, adjusts to his new life and is aided by Weebo-the-Robot in saving the day for the Professor. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Nasty Breaks

    Aaron Elkins; Charlotte Elkins

    The Agatha Award-winning team presents the third of their light-hearted mysteries featuring pro golfer and amateur sleuth Lee Ofsted, whose job at a golf school on a New England island puts her in the midst of murder. 20,000 first printing....

  • Second Time Around

    Julie Ellis

    Janet Ransome moves to New York with her children to become a hack writer when her husband leaves her, and when she meets and falls for Dan Tempest, a fellow writer in her apartment block, she must find out about the secretive man he lives with and d...

  • Popcorn

    Ben Elton

    Bruce Delamitri makes movies about killers. Great movies, stylish movies. Bruce's movies are hip. Post-modern cinematic milestones, dripping with ironic juxtaposition. His killers are style icons. They walk cool; they talk cool. Getting shot by one o...

  • Without the Dawn

    Roger Elwood

  • Relative Strangers

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    A dreamboat so tall, dark, and handsome, he stole her heart from across the room.... By firelight and dressed in period clothes, Lucas Sinclair resembled a dangerous heartbreaker of a less civilized age -- and Corrie Ballantyne was stunned by the ...

  • Corruption of Faith

    Brenda English

    Reporter Sutton McPhee always gets the story. But today, the story gets her... Hard-nosed and levelheaded, Sutton McPhee writes for one of Washington, D.C.'s most prominent newspapers. She never lets a story get personal. But the latest murder ca...

  • Longarm and the Rebel

    Tabor Evans

    The Civil War has been over for some time now, but somebody out there has not heard the news and all over the West, Union war heroes and their families are turning up dead, until Longarm's army sets out to put an end to the Rebel executioner. Origina...

  • The Mistletoe Kiss

    Elisabeth Fairchild
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    Hark, the herald angels sing as five of Signet's favorite Regency authors bring you a melodious collection of stories to make the season even brighter. Lush with the magic of the holiday, the stories in this Christmas Regency collection capture the t...

  • Fire Dancer

    Colleen Faulkner

    A WOMAN, A WARRIOR AND A FORBIDDEN LOVE THAT SETS TWO HEARTS AFLAME A wildness raged in Mackenzie Daniels that drove her to explore the American frontier before she settled down. An artist and a woman of unbridled dreams, she had never desired any...

  • Spiderman and Fantastic Four Wreckage

    Eric Fein

    Having found a way to wield world power, Dr. Doom breaks Dr. Octopus out of prison as the final move in his latest plan, but Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four are on the move to stop the devastation. Original....

  • Ride of Courage

    Deborah G. Felder

  • Haunted Cleats

    Kieran Flynn

    Your next goal could be your last.... When Shane McGuinness finds a pair of magical cleats, his soccer game magically morphs from awful to awesome. But suddenly, the cleats turn bad. . . . They kick a ball into his sister's face! They splash...

  • Long Journey to Deep Canon

    T.T. Flynn

    Filled with drama, mystery, and suspense, four short novels in one volume capture the pride and adventure of the Old West and include Long Journey to Deep Ca±on, in which a man must find out who is trying to frame him for murder. Original....

  • Scandalized!

    Lori Foster

    He wanted a baby, not a lover. Tony Austin had no desire for a wife, but he longed for a baby of his own. What he needed was someone to carry the child and then vanish from his life. She wanted a lover, not a baby. The last thing Olivia Ande...

  • Christmas Present

    Elaine Fox
    in

    When Susannah Murphy returned home for Christmas, a late-night savior taught her the secret to happiness, and the meaning of true love. But was his appearance the hand of fate, or something a little more wonderful?...

  • Cuckoo Child

    Suzanne Freeman

    Wishing that she lived in the "normal" American family of her ideals, Mia frowns on all of the things that make her family members unique, until her parents' disappearance causes her to be sent to live in her aunt's small-town home. Reprint....

  • Earth Angel

    Kate Freiman

    The figure standing in the basement was tall. A white T-shirt clung to his torso under a black leather jacket that hung open, suggestively framing his impressively flat midsection. His dark hair dipped over his forehead in a James Dean-like wave. ...

  • Imposter

    Valerie J. Freireich

    STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND Marcer Brice, an academic researcher in the Polite Harmony of Worlds, is an Altered Human, possessing an echo-locating ability that makes him the subject of suspicion and fear. But he never expected to be banished to the...

  • Day of Honor

    Michael Jan Friedman

    B'Elanna Torres has no intention of celebrating the Day of Honor. A day of glory for others of Klingon heritage, the day for Torres has always been a dark one, for reasons that stretch back to childhood memories she has tried to forget. This Day o...

  • To Storm Heaven

    Esther Friesner

    When Lelys, ambassador of the plague-ridden colony planet of Orakisa, approaches the Federation seeking help for her dying world, the U.S.S. Enterprise speeds to the rescue. Captain Picard and his crew escort the Orakisan delegation to its long-lost ...

  • Dhiammara

    Maggie Furey

    Bearing the Staff of Earth and the Harp of Winds, the Lady Aurian secretly returns to the holy city of Nexis--ten years in the future. Now its marbled towers are desolate, its river port ravaged, its magefolk a mere legend. Here she must begin the se...

  • The Untamed Heart

    Kit Gardner

    Tomboy Willie Thorne Had the Face of an Angel Despite the fact that she could outdrink and outshoot most of the men in the Colorado Territory. And Sloan Devlin was damned if she wasn't the closest thing to Paradise he'd seen in a long time. Wilh...

  • Trial by Error

    Mark Garland

    Following a suspicious business deal orchestrated by Quark, Deep Space Nine is placed at the center of a shooting war between multiple hostile alien races including the Klingons and the Ferengi. Original....

  • Intimations of Mortality

    Susan M. Garrett

    He has walked the night beat for centuries. He is one of the finest homicide detectives in Toronto. But Nick Knight wishes he could shed the curse of his true calling. The burn of the thirst. The thrill of the kill. The endless nights longing to be h...

  • People of the Mist

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    With People of the Mist, bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear take us to the Chesapeake Bay of six hundred years ago, when the unprovoked and brutal murder of a young woman on the eve of her wedding threatens to turn the entir...

  • The Fat Man

    Maurice Gee

    In 1933, Herbert Muskie returns to his rundown hometown of Loomis, New Zealand, and uses a combination of cunning and psychological threats to take control of the lives of twelve-year-old Colin Potter and his family. Reprint....

  • Baby in the Boardroom

    Rosemary Gibson

    The Boss -- James Fenner might be totally irresistible but Beth had her feelings for him well and truly in check. The PA -- From the moment Beth Sinclair walked into his office, James knew he wanted her; the question was, how was he going to break...

  • Romantically Correct

    H.B. Gilmour

  • A Husband for Christmas

    Paula Tanner Girard

    SHE WANTED A SPLENDID MATCH...NOT A WAIF, A BANDIT, AND AN ABDUCTION! Lady Caroline Cavendish is the ton's Incomparable -- the greatest beauty of the Season, even is she is a charming schemer, and an irrepressible flirt. Alas, none of her she...

  • Double Blind

    Ken Goddard

    Henry Lightstone, the Fish and Wildlife Service's top undercover agent, has been sent with his team on a sting operation to the Pacific Northwest. Posing as corrupt animal smugglers looking to bag some illegal game, they are hoping to bag some illega...

  • Battling the Empire

    Golden Books

  • Bat Mitzvah

    Barbara Diamond Goldin

  • Anything For Love

    Jane Goodger

    SOMETIMES ONE LIFE.TJME ISN'T ENOUGH... A terrible fire leaves supermodel Victoria Ashford injured and longing for death...until she hears about a mysterious doctor with the power to give her a new life. But in order to save herself, Victoria must b...

  • Just Play Dead

    Dan Gordon

    When Nora Wolfe tires of her millionaire husband Jack, she orders her stoned surfer boy-toy to handle his elimination, but when Jack approaches Chad with his own murderous plot, things become both complicated and funny. Reprint....

  • In the Land of Winter

    Richard Grant

    Pippa Rede--a contemporary witch and devoted mother of nine-year-old Winterbelle--struggles for subsistence in a frigid northeeastern corner of America. When her daughter is stolen from her by bigots and zeealots who have labeled Pippa an unfit paren...

  • Shores of Desire

    Tracy Grant / Teresa Grant / Anna Grant

    Robert Lescaut is a colonel in Napoleon's army. His estranged wife, Lucie, has been murdered and he is determined to find her killer to somehow ease his guilt for having not loved her as he knew he should. His search takes him to Scotland where h...

  • Miss Moo Goes to the Zoo

    Kelly Graves

  • The Bishop at Sea

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Bishop Blackie Ryan is feeling more than a bit out of place on the USS Langley, an aircraft carrier on duty hundreds of miles from the nearest dry land. But the ship is in trouble--several of her crew have disappeared without explanation, and one dea...

  • Wizard Fantastic

    Martin H. Greenberg

    An all-original volume offering wizards of all kinds--from sorcerers and geomancers to witchdoctors and shamans--features a collection of stories by Andre Norton, Jane Yolen, Diana Paxson, Mickey Zucker Reichert, John De Chancie, and other notable wr...

  • Bah, Humbug!

    Leigh Greenwood
    in

    Advertising exec. Nate Jerome wanted to go somewhere hot for Christmas, but when his beautiful neighbor, Milly Thurston, offered holiday cheer, their passion and the spirit of the season made the tropics look postively arctic....

  • Action

    Lois Griffith

    From New York's hottest showcase for new poets, playwrights, and performers comes a dynamic collection of more than 30 original works of drama--all published here for the first time. All of the pieces--produced at the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe and other ...

  • Warp

    Lev Grossman

    The lost literary origin story of #1 bestseller Lev Grossman - including a new foreword about how and why he wrote his first novel: "It is the intense, concentrated, boiled-down essence of the unhappiest years of my life."Twenty-something Hollis Kess...

  • Plays Well with Others

    Allan Gurganus

    In his widely read, prizewinning Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan Gurganus gave fresh meaning to an overexplored American moment: 1860-65. He now turns that comic intensity and historical vision to another war zone: entry-level artist...

  • The Dark Canyon

    Micah S. Hackler

    NEW BLOOD ON AN ANCIENT GROUND... In an air-conditioned university office, a man lies dead, brutally bludgeoned. A hundred miles away, in the high, arid New Mexico mountain country that Sheriff Cliff Lansing is sworn to protect, an animal is devas...

  • Leaving Fishers

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    Dorry is unbearably lonely at her new high school until she meets Angela and her circle of friends. She soon discovers they all belong to a religious group, the Fishers of Men. At first, as Dorry becomes involved with the Fishers, she is eager to fit...

  • Spicy Lovin'

    Patricia Hagan
    in

    Pepper is as spicy and saucy as the dishes she serves in her New Mexican cantina. Yet it's not until bounty hunter Brand Austin rides into town that she's ready to add a dash of love into her life....

  • The Wizards of Odd

    Peter Haining

    Featuring the masters of science fiction and fantasy at their whimsical, humorous best, a treasury of delightful tales includes unexpected offerings from such luminaries as Arthur C. Clarke, Ursula K. LeGuin, Terry Pratchett, H. G. Wells, C. S. Lewis...

  • Child of the Wolves

    Elizabeth Hall

    Granite, a Siberian husky puppy, is all alone in the Alaskan forest after escaping from his kennel. Each moment of his life is threatened until Snowdrift, a great white wolf, welcomes him into a wolf pack. But Granite must earn his place among the wo...

  • The Faithful Wife

    Diana Hamilton
    in

    Husband and wife reunited? Coming home to his wife on Christmas Eve to celebrate their third wedding anniversary, Jake Fox found Bella with her boss. Assuming she'd been having an affair while he'd been working out of the country, Jake did...

  • A Quantum Murder

    Peter F. Hamilton

    Peter F. Hamilfon returns to the future world of Mindstar Rising with an engrossing new adventure of Greg Mandel; a freelance operative whose telepathic abilities give him a crucial edge in the high-tech world of the twenty-first century. Profess...