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New Books List: 481 titles

  • No Badge, No Gun

    Harold Adams

  • Lead, So I Can Follow

    Harold Adams

    Carl Wilcox joins forces with his new wife Hazel to investigate a bizarre mystery after they stumble upon a corpse on the bluff overlooking their favorite fishing spot, in an entertaining mystery set in the Depression-era northern plains....

  • The Lonely Gun

    Luke Adams

    They called him half-breed. And a lot worse. The only time Mitch Frye ever felt at home was as a scout for the 6th Cavalry. But when the scouts were cut loose, Frye was a man without a home. Then fate -- or bad luck -- drew him to Paxton, a wide-open...

  • Dr. Nightingale Traps the Missing Lynx

    Lydia Adamson

    A SNAKE ON THE LOOSE? For a rural vet, business is sparse in midwinter months. So Dr. Deirdre "Didi" Nightingale leapt at the chance to earn a fat fee by appearing at a posh local fundraiser. Six mixed-breed bobcat kittens were to be auctioned off...

  • Harvest Moon

    Rochelle Alers

    SHINING STAR... In a few short years, young actress Regina Cole achieved overnight success in Hollywood, and then stunned the world by giving up her career to marry a man much older than she out of deep affection. After his death, she knew that d...

  • Blackboard Bear

    Martha G. Alexander

    When a little child is left out of all the good games and fun, he heads off to find his own friend and soon becomes the envy of all those in school when he approaches with his new companion, in this touching tale of friendship and understanding....

  • Paradise Bay

    Victoria Alexander

    HEAVEN In the early seventeenth century, a group of women were transported to an uncharted island as punishment for crimes ranging from poor housekeeping to promiscuity. Within several years of their arrival, a British ship, under the command of m...

  • Starlight Wedding

    Alice Alfonsi
    in

    A holiday collection for the millennium offering joy, hope, and romance... As they followed a star from the East, the ancient Magi of the Christmas Story carried with them a beautiful star sapphire -- blessed with the eternal power of love. Throu...

  • One Mother Wanted

    Jeanne Allan

    Two-parent family? Allie Lassiter takes pity on the shy little four-year-old at her sister's wedding. Then she discovers who the child's father is: the man Allie has spent years trying to avoid. The man who betrayed her. The man she loved-...

  • Kit's Wilderness

    David Almond

    "It was very deep, Kit. Very dark. And every one of us was scared of it. As a lad I'd wake up trembling, knowing that as a Watson born in Stoneygate I'd soon be following my ancestors into the pit." The Watson family moves to Stoneygate, an old co...

  • Life and Love

    Marty Ambrose

    COLD SHOWERS, HOT KISSES Even an on-again, off-again hot water heater can't convince Madison Kincaid to leave her old apartment building. When a new handyman arrives to make a few, repairs, she figures things are looking up -- in more ways tha...

  • Don't Scream

    C.J. Anders

    LIGHTS, CAMERA, SCREAM Has Dawson's dream finally come true? A low-budget teen horror film is shooting in Capeside and Dawsom deeperately wants to work on the set. This could be the professional break he's been looking for an he's really excited....

  • This, Our Lofty Scene

    John Andrews

  • Cookie Cutter

    Sterling Anthony

    If you see him you will not know him. If you greet him, it may be too late. For every image you have of a murderer--he will defy it. And he will make you pay. . .

    A woman haunted by a tragedy in her own past, homicide lieutenant "Bloody Mary" ...

  • Realm Of The Reaper

    K.A. Applegate

    There is a place that shouldn't exist -- but does. There are creatures that shouldn't exist -- but do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real -- and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld. Things have gotten way beyon...

  • Visser

    K.A. Applegate

    In an hour or so, once I was out of sight of land, I would lower my sails and wait for a Bug fighter to come lift me off the deck. The engine backwash of the Bug fighter would capsize the boat. Or / might put the Taxxon pilot to the test and see if h...

  • Zoey Speaks Out

    Katherine Applegate

    Zoey speaks out when she dares to tell Jake the truth about his ruined evening with Kate. Choosing between loyalty to her sister or to her friends, Zoey faces a terrible delemma. But sometimes the right decisions are the hardest ones.... They've a...

  • Marriage Ultimatum

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Marriage or nothing! Neve was used to difficult assignments, but interviewing millionaire Rob Stowe was her toughest yet! Her first challenge was Rob's obvious dislike of talking about himself. Her second was far worse: Rob was incredibly good...

  • Class Action

    Catherine Arnold

    It started out a simple pro bono case: one homeless man charged with murdering another. When the victim's son surfaces with questions of medical inaccuracies that cast a more sinister shadow on his father's death, Karen delves deeper. But her finding...

  • Her Secret Lover

    Judith Arnold

    DREAM LOVER She knew it was ridiculous, but Martha Cooper was in love with her boss. She, however, was a mousy accountant while Blake Robey was gorgeous, sexy, a dream-come-true. In fact, Martha had had a very unusual, very erotic dream about the tw...

  • Truly, Madly, Deeply

    Elizabeth August

    A WILLING WIFE? Sweet-natured Minerva Brodwick knew that Judd Graham would stop at nothing to protect his beloved little brood, but never had she imagined the protective father would go so far as to propose a marriage of convenience! Falling for h...

  • The Talisman

    Jonathan Aycliffe

    A statue, unearthed in ancient Babylon during the course of an archaeological dig, is transported to London. Once there, it quickly exerts an evil influence over those with whom it comes into contact; an influence which threatens to spread throughout...

  • Whatever Love Means

    David Baddiel

    Like most, Vic - amoralist extraordinaire - can remember where he was and what he was doing on the day of Princess Diana's death: at home, beginning an affair with his best friend's wife. As things become more complex between the two, tragedy - this ...

  • Merry Christmas, Teletubbies

    Bonnie Bader

  • Misfit Maid

    Elizabeth Bailey

    Lady Mary Hope, known as Maidie, refuses to allow herself to be pushed into marriage with a man she dislikes. So she presents herself to Laurie, Viscount Delagarde, and asks him to sponsor her for a Season. Laurie is flabbergasted -- as a bachelor he...

  • Broken in Two

    Laura Baker

    Black Mountain, Arizona. Mysterious, hauntingly beautiful, a land pulsating with ancient magic and the enduring strength of a proud Native American people. A place where sun-baked mesas and majestic canyons possess secrets that foretell destiny... ...

  • Saving Faith

    David Baldacci

    BELIEVE THE POWER In a secluded house not far from Washington, D.C., the FBI is interviewing one of the most important witnesses it has ever had, a young woman named Faith Lockhart. For Faith has done too much, knows too much, and she'll tell too mu...

  • Museum at Purgatory

    Nick Bantock

  • A Familiar Feeling

    Margaret Barker

    Dr. Caroline Bennett can't resist the chance to work at the Chateau Clinique. The chateau used to belong to her grandmother, and Caroline still has fond memories of spending time trailing after Pierre, the local boy whom she adored. What a shock and ...

  • Everything We Know

    John Barlow

  • Heart of Texas

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    "Cozying up to the enemy makes sense." --- Clark Garrison, urban cowboy and ruthless capitalist. Clark Garrison had his reasons for returning to River Oaks and wasn't about to let anyone stand in his way -- especially not Dr. Sara Wilson. Hell, she ...

  • Agatha Raisin and the Witch of Wyckhadden

    M.C. Beaton

    EYE OF NEWT, TOE OF FROG..AND MURDER Left with bald patches thanks to the wicked doings of a murderer from a previous investigation, Agatha flees to Wyckhadden to grow her tresses back in privacy. When a local witch provides her with hair tonic (a...

  • A Highland Christmas

    M.C. Beaton

    In the dark, wintry highlands of Lochdubh, Scotland, where the local Calvinist element resists the secular trimmings of Christmas, the spirit of Old St. Nick is about as welcome as a flat tire on a deserted road. Nor is crime taking a holiday, as Con...

  • Words of Love

    Donna Bell

    THE GOVERNESS IS A LADY Lady Henrietta is the despair of her family. As she pursues her avocation, teaching elocution and etiquette to children of the middle classes, she dashes all hopes of her making a suitable, aristocratic marriage. Then she is ...

  • A.D. 999

    Jadrien Bell

    "He will rule them with an iron rod and like clay jars he will break them to pieces..." -- Revelation 2:27 Great Britain's King Edward is dead -- murdered by order of his stepmother, the queen, so that her son Ethelred can assume the throne. Un...

  • The Sagebrush Rebellion

    Mary Reeves Bell

    The sabotage runs far deeper than they expected. . . . Leaving behind Vienna, Austria, for the wilds of Wyoming, Constantine Rea is looking forward to spending summer vacation with his grandparents and six girl cousins on the sprawling family ranch....

  • A Doctor in Her Stocking

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    THE DOCTOR CAME GIFT WRAPPED Single and pregnant, diner waitress Mindy Harmon might have been a little down on her luck, yet she'd still managed to keep her holiday spirit. But she was more than a little surprised when she opened her door on Chris...

  • Day of Wrath: A Novella

    Jo Beverley
    in

    A holiday collection for the millennium offering joy, hope, and romance... As they followed a star from the East, the ancient Magi of the Christmas Story carried with them a beautiful star sapphire -- blessed with the eternal power of love. Throu...

  • Lying With the Enemy

    Tim Binding

    "A novel of exceptional style and momentum, sustained at a high emotional pitch, and beautifully constructed." - Alan Furst, New York Times Book Review. At once a thriller and a moral tale, this taut, heart-stopping novel explores the deadly perils o...

  • When Night Draws Near

    Lisa Bingham

    A handful of survivors, a killer among them--and two former lovers caught in the cross fire .... Elizabeth Boothe was grateful to be alive after the wreckage of her ill-fated flight. But even as she and pilot Seth Brody waited for a rescue plane, ...

  • No Baby But Mine

    Carly Bishop

    Her life -- and her son's -- were in his hands. For single mother Kirsten McCourt, small-town life changed instantly the night she overheard -- on her baby monitor! -- thugs ordering a hit. But she could never imagine the undercover cop on the...

  • Galaxy Quest

    Terry Bisson

    Twenty years after the end of the "Galaxy Quest" television series, the cast members are mistaken for real space explorers by a group of aliens, and are whisked off into outer space to save them from obliteration...

  • Ravenshadow

    Win Blevins

    In following the white man's road, Joseph Blue Crow has lost his Lakota heritage and is haunted by the loss. After the inexplicable suicide of the woman he loves, and as he sinks into alcoholism and despair and stands on the precipice of suicide, his...

  • Violet and Claire

    Francesca Lia Block

    This is the story of two girls, racing through space like shadow and light. A photo negative, together they make the perfect image of a girl. Violet is the dark one, dressed in forever black, dreaming Technicolor dreams of spinning the world into her...

  • Franklin and the Baby

    Paulette Bourgeois

    When Franklin's best friend gets a new baby sister, Franklin also feels like a proud big brother, in a new series designed for fans of the charming new daily cartoon show on Nick Jr. Original. TV tie-in....

  • His Brother's Bride

    Judith Bowen

    She's pregnant--and she's his brother's wife-to-be. She met Jesse Winslow at a cattle show. They had a brief affair--and now Abby Steen is pregnant. Jesse, a rancher from Glory, Alberta, offers to marry her, and Abby accepts. She leaves her home...

  • Frontier Earth

    Bruce Boxleitner

    An alien sent to warn Earth of an invasion lands in Tombstone, Arizona, in 1881--right in the middle of the OK Corral gunfight--with two bounty hunters on his tail and war about to break out in this frontier town. Reprint....

  • Bloodsport

    Matt Braun

    Dan Stuart is a sporting man from Dallas with a scheme as big as Texas. He plans to stage the prizefight of the century and reap a million-dollar gate. But Stuart finds the path to riches strewn with obstacles. Outraged politicians block him at every...

  • Texas Two-Timing

    Guy Brewer

    It takes a fast horse to cross a finish line, but it takes a stupid man to cross a con man like Dex Yancey...   In the second book of the Diamondback western series, a simple bet on a horse race turns into a mission for revenge after Dex is accu...

  • Rogue's Regatta

    Thomas Gately Briody

    When Hunter Worthington III, the young winner of a prestigious sailing competition, is found dead the morning after his race, news reporter Michael Carolina quickly starts to conduct a murder investigation all his own. The father of the victim is a w...

  • The Admiral's Bride

    Suzanne Brockmann

    HIS MISSION... ...was to pretend that Zoe Lange, beautiful young scientist--nearly half his age!--was his new bride. Former Navy SEAL Jake Robinson was sure that his romantic years were behind him, but for God and for country he would look into Zo...

  • Mistress to a Millionaire

    Helen Brooks

    Tempted by a tycoon! When a sexy Italian tycoon offered Daisy Summers a job as live-in nanny, her first instinct was to refuse. How could she share a secluded villa with Slade Eastwood without becoming involved -- intimate -- with him? Only, Sl...

  • Battle Born

    Dale Brown

    Patrick McLanahan is back--and this time he faces his most difficult challenge. He must pull together a team of aggressive, maverick young pilots to face a world on the brink of massive nuclear conflict. It begins with a joint U.S.--Japanese--South K...

  • Copycat

    Ruth Brown

    Buddy, a young cat with a penchant for imitating everyone and everything around him, copies his mom, his sister, the squirrels, and the birds in the trees, but problems arise when he copies Bessie the dog....

  • The Bride-In-Law

    Dixie Browning

    LAST-CHANCE BRIDE... Single father and marriage cynic Tucker Dennis was sure his too-romantic dad had been roped into saying, 'I do'. So, he hightailed it down to the Blue Flamingo Motel to halt the honeymoon and talk some sense into elder...

  • Carole: The Inside Story

    Bonnie Bryant

    Stevie, Lisa, and Carole form a club to share their love of horses. Only two rules govern the club. Members must always be horse crazy and members must always help each other. Together the three girls embark on many horse-centric adventures....

  • Riding to Win

    Bonnie Bryant

    Carole Hanson is sure she can win at this year's Colesford Horse Show, while Stevie Lake would be satisfied with just a simple ribbon, in a recent edition to the Pine Hollow series for young adults. Original....

  • Garden of Evil

    Edna Buchanan

    In the intense heat of an oppressive Miami summer, crime reporter Britt Montero is ice cold, her writing relegated to the inner pages of the daily that employs her. But now there's a hot story she's just dying to get her hands on. A female serial sla...

  • If I Told You Once

    Judy Budnitz

    In her utterly original novel about mothers, daughters, and love, Judy Budnitz gives the traditional folktale an electrifying twist as she follows four generations of women from an Eastern European village to the tenements of an American city. Elena,...

  • Who Killed Blanche DuBois?

    Carole Bugge

    New York mystery editor Claire Rawlings spends her days scrutinizing the motives and methods of fictitious criminals--but her precocious thirteen-year-old friend Meredith Lawrence has a keen eye for the cold, hard facts of crime. So when Meredith com...

  • Yachting Yarns

    Tony Bullimore

  • Gifts of Grace

    Lynn Bulock

    When Carl Brenner had saved a struggling widow and her small children from spending Christmas in a cold, ramshackle farmhouse, he'd never realized how his lonely life would be forever changed. Then storekeeper might have given Grace Mallory a fresh s...

  • Miss Thornrose and the Rake

    Geraldine Burrows

    In the Hands of a Rakehell She has the face of an angel, the gall of an adventuress, and the vocabulary of an Oxford don. She dresses like a Quaker and has some radical ideas about society. She is Verity Thornrose, the last in a philanthropic, ref...

  • Playing the Game

    Ian Buruma

    Buruma's prismatic, fascinating first novel is a portrait of Ranji, the cricket player who was "not simply the greatest cricketer of all time, but a fairy tale prince . . . so famous that children sang songs about him, and grown men wept when they sa...

  • An Independent Lady

    Julia Byrne

    The Earl of Hawkbridge's grandmother had the unfortunate habit of collecting lame ducks who invariably took her for a ride. When Marcus heard about the new companion, widowed Mrs. Amaris Chantry, he went hotfoot to Devon to eject her -- only to b...

  • My Lord Destiny

    Eve Byron

    He wasn't looking for a wife Gavan St. Aldan, the Earl of St. Aldan, appeared in Priscilla Whitmore's millinery shoppe wanting only to purchase fripperies. He never expected that his orderly world would be turned upside-down by a beautiful, blue-e...

  • The Changeling Bride

    Lisa Cach

    A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S PRAYER In order to procure the cash necessary to rebuild his estate, the earl of Allsbrook decides to barter his title and his future: He will marry the willful daughter of a wealthy merchant. True, she is pleasing in form an...

  • Derby Day

    Joanna Campbell

    Before Thoroughbred, Ashleigh Griffen lived at Edgardale, her family's farm in Kentucky. Nothing could be more perfect than life on the farm with her family, her favorite horses, and her best friend, Mona. Ashleigh loves helping with the horses--...

  • I'm Not Moving, Mama

    Nancy White Carlstrom

    Fighting every step of the way, Little Mouse refuses to leave his new home, yet after his mother explains that the rest of the family will not be staying behind with him, Little Mouse quickly realizes that being with them is what truly makes a house ...

  • A Season in Eden

    Megan Chance

    For a time, Lora Cameron was a happy young woman married to a loving husband with dreams of one day having a beautiful, prosperous farm and living with simple joys. But her dreams turned to dust as harsh conditions, drought and backbreaking work robb...

  • Precursor

    C.J. Cherryh

    The fourth novel in Cherryh’s Foreigner space opera series, a groundbreaking tale of first contact and its consequences…Over three years have passed since the reappearance of the starship Phoenix, which two centuries before left an isol...

  • Long-Arm Quarterback

    Matt Christopher

    Cap Wadell loves football; unfortunately, living in a rural town of 1,223 people makes putting together a team a little difficult. His grandfather suggests that Cap organize a local six-man team and play with other surrounding small towns. Recruiting...

  • Dinoverse

    Scott Ciencin

    I was a teenage T. Rex! Survival of the fittest has always been the rule at Wetherford Junior High. So when Bertram Phillips's science fair project sends his mind back 67 million years, he's well prepared. After all, as the class brain, he's learned...

  • The Letter

    Cherie Claire
    in

    Love has a way of bringing people together.Orphaned and alone in antebellum New Orleans, Fiona Riley promises a dying friend she will raise the woman’s child as her own. But without a job and a roof over their heads Fiona fears for their lives....

  • Never Sorry

    Edie Claire

    LIONS AND TIGERS AND MURDER... OH MY. When unemployed copywriter Leigh Koslow gets the opportunity to become a partner in her own agency, she leaps at the chance. But she still needs one thing to get her fledgling business off the ground -- cash. ...

  • Frozen Music

    Marika Cobbold

  • Disgrace

    J.M. Coetzee

    After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing ...

  • Twentieth Century Dreams

    Nik Cohn

    Who introduced Babe Ruth to Albert Einstein, and why? Who was privy to the pact between Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, the romance of the artist formerly known as Prince and Princess Di, and the fate of Marilyn Monroe?

    Behold Max Vail (...

  • 20th-Century Dreams

    Nik Cohn

    Who introduced Babe Ruth to Albert Einstein, and why? Who was privy to the pact between Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, the romance of the artist formerly known as Prince and Princess Di, and the fate of Marilyn Monroe?

    Behold Max Vail (...

  • Weddings Do Come True

    Cara Colter

    THE RIGHT HUSBAND... In two weeks, Lacey McCade was supposed to walk down the aisle and say "I do" to the man of every woman's dreams...except her own. So when she heard about a short-term position at Black's Bluff Ranch, Lacey kne...

  • Skeleton Lode

    Ralph Compton

    THE SUNDOWN RIDERS They're ex-cowpunchers looking to strike it rich -- and not having much success. When they deliver a wagon of scotch to a shantytown saloon, the bartender drops dead before paying. No sooner do they take over the bar as payment tha...

  • Texas Lullaby

    Phoebe Conn
    in

  • The Gold of Black Mountain

    Kent Conwell

    The Gold of Black Mountain is Kent's fifteenth book for AVALON. Other recently published titles include Blood Brothers, Glitter of Gold, Texas Orphan Train, Painted Comanche Tree, Valley of Gold, and The Ghost of Blue Bone Mesa....

  • Unguarded Hearts

    Lynda Sue Cooper

    SHE WAS HIS FIRST LINE OF DEFENSE... A professional bodyguard, Nina Wild had been forced to leave the Secret Service after being embroiled in a sexual harassment scandal. Now she had a golden opportunity to save her tarnished reputation. Pro-basketb...

  • Not in My Backyard

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    NEIGHBORHOOD BLIGHT Romance writer, suburban mom, and sometime sleuth E.J. Pugh is certainly not thrilled to have Michael Whitby for a neighbor. A convicted criminal, Whitby served his time in prison and now has moved to the quiet Texas community ...

  • Babe the Brave

    Shana Corey

    Babe loves everything on the farm. Everything, that is, except the scary, echoing cellar! But after Farmer Hoggett gets lost in the cellar, Babe must face his fears. Everyone's favorite pig must get brave and go to the rescue!...

  • I Lost My Grandfather's Brain // Missing-One Brain!

    Bruce Coville

    Pleskit loses his grandfather’s brain in this third book of the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible Sixth-Grade Alien sci-fi series from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework, Bruce Coville.Some kids lose their homework. Some kids lose...

  • Merry Gentlemen

    Emma Craig
    in

    Christmas Is Coming... And the streets are alive with the sounds of the season: "Silver Bells" and sleigh rides, jingle bells and carolers. Choruses of "Here Comes Santa Claus" float over the snow-covered landscape. bringing the joy of the holiday...

  • Bartaldi's Bride

    Sara Craven

    Kidnapped to the altar! Clare usually ran a mile from powerful, sensual men like Guido Bartaldi. Only, she'd agreed to live under Guido's roof as companion to his wayward ward, the young woman clearly destined to become Guido's wife......

  • Eve's Wedding Knight

    Kathleen Creighton

    THERE GOES THE BRIDE All her life, Eve Waskowitz had imagined what her wedding day would be like, but jumping into a Dumpster, with train in hand and veil askew, to escape her prospective groom was not it. If she lived, there would be time enough ...

  • Maria Ceniczienta

    George Crespo

  • Timeline

    Michael Crichton

    In an Arizona desert a man wanders in a daze, speaking words that make no sense. Within twenty-four hours he is dead, his body swiftly cremated by his only known associates. Halfway around the world archaeologists make a shocking discovery at a medie...

  • Happily Ever After

    Tanya Anne Crosby

    A GIRLHOOD DREAM Sophia Vanderwahl had always dreamed a knight in shining armor would sweep her off her feet, but she knew this only happened in fairy tales. And when she discovers the truth about her philandering fiance, she decides to track the ...

  • Tilly the Tidy Puppy

    Jenny Dale

    Tilly can't help cleaning things up. She comes from a family of sheepdogs, and sheepdogs always round up strays! Tilly's tidying often gets her into trouble. But one day, her top-notch tidiness is rewarded in an unexpected way....

  • Felix the Fluffy Kitten

    Jenny Dale

    Jodie has always wanted a kitten -- and Felix is the cutest, fluffiest kitten she has ever seen. But Felix's fabulous fur gets everywhere -- even in the bathtub!

    Will Jodie's mother learn to live with fluffy furniture, or will Felix have to f...

  • The Omega Sanction

    Joe Dalton

    Major Thorpe and Lieutenant Colonel Parker are back, in The Omega Sanction by Joe Dalton.Thorpe, a Special Forces agent, and Parker, a beautiful missile specialist, barely thwarted a nuclear holocaust in The Omega Missile. This time, from the Persian...

  • Great Genes!

    Barbara Daly

    BABY -- MADE-TO-ORDER Offbeat, klutzy fashion designer Cleo Rose plans to "design" her baby. Her family consists of a bunch of kooks, and she wants to give her child a chance for a regular life. Enter supernormal, brilliant scientist Bryce Hampton...

  • Armageddons

    Jack Dann

    A collection of millennial apocalypse scenarios by science fiction masters offers frightening, and sometimes plausible, glimpses into the end times, with contributions by Frederik Pohl, Larry Niven, William Barton, and nine others. Original....

  • Snowflakes and Kisses

    Victoria Dark
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  • Like a Sister

    Janice Daugharty

    It is 1956, and thirteeen-year-old Sister must raise her three siblings on her own, as her mother, Marnie, has a new boyfriend who isn't interested in kids.  Taking charge of her life, Sister befriends  a kindly neighbor named Willa, who ap...

  • Dark Allies

    Peter David

    The continuing voyages of the Starship Excalibur! Many years ago, a bizarre alien life-form known as the Black Mass consumed and destroyed an entire solar system in what was then the Thallonion Empire. Now the Black Mass has returned and its target ...

  • The Quiet Place

    Peter David

    Ever since the fall of the Thallonian Empire, Si Cwan has been searching for his younger sister, the only other survivor of the royal family. His quest has been a hard one, filled with many disappointments, but now it may be nearing its end.... On t...

  • Marriage for Maggie

    Trisha David

    All Maggie Cray wants is a quiet life on her own private island. After an unhappy marriage, independence and freedom is what she craves. And that's what she has until Devlin Macafferty and his small son literally crash-land into her haven. They&#...

  • The Walking Tour

    Kathryn Davis

    Two couples -- businessman Bobby Rose and his artist wife, Carole Ridingham: his partner, Coleman Snow, and Snow's wife, Ruth Farr -- have gone on a walking tour in Wales, during which a fatal accident occurs. The question of what happened preocc...

  • A Midnight Carol

    Patricia K. Davis

    A novel based on the true story of the struggle Charles Dickens faced during the winter of 1843 while writing his now-classic holiday tale, A Christmas Carol1843, London. Though the approaching Christmas looks bleak at the home of the Dickens family,...

  • The Daddy Search

    Shawna Delacorte

    RANCHER DAD? When Lexi Parker first set foot onto Nick Clayton's dude ranch, she had one goal in mind: to vacation undercover and find out if Nick really was the father of Lexi's precious, now-motherless nephew. It seemed like a perfect pl...

  • Molly for Mayor

    Judy Delton

    Believing that she would be a good mayor of the imaginary town Peeweeville, Molly declares her candidacy. Yet when Roger enters the race and promises everyone free candy for their votes, Molly must come up with a creative campaign to win the race....

  • King Bob's New Clothes

    Dom DeLuise

    When the king orders a new suit from two mischievous tailors, he gets a magical outfit that no one can see, yet since no one will tell him that he is roaming around naked, one boy feels obliged to let the king know the truth and put an end to the tai...

  • The Liberator

    Paul Dengelegi

    Casca Longinus. Cursed by the Christ on Golgotha. Condemned to outlive the ages and wander the globe a constant soldier. Forever fighting, surviving, waiting for Him to return. When pirates sink the merchant ship he's traveling on, Casca becomes t...

  • Substitute Father

    Janelle Denison

    A LITTLE BOY'S WISH... Lauren Richmond is determined to help an orphaned boy whose only wish -- besides longing for a family -- is to meet his hero, rodeo champion Rafe Dalton. But Rafe isn't ready to be anybody's hero. When Lauren tracks him...

  • Dancing Made Easy

    Phillip Depoy

    For the beautiful victims, it was the last dance. For a psychic detective, the waltz has just begun. LESSON ONE: THE TARANTELLA She had been young, pretty, a budding ballerina. Now, beneath a streetlight in the cold Atlanta dawn, she's pirouetting ...

  • High Tide

    Jude Deveraux

    A rising corporate star, Fiona Burkenhalter is a New Yorker through and through. When her boss sends her to the Florida Everglades to accompany a wealthy new client on a rustic fishing expedition, it may as well be another planet to city slicker Fion...

  • Lady in White

    Denise Domning

    A Widow with Nowhere to Go
    Commanded by Queen Elizabeth into marriage with a Catholic, Protestant Lady Arabella Purfoy dares not refuse. Belle must give fortune, family and even her body into the care of her new husband's steward, Master James Wy...

  • Just One Kiss

    Tina Donahue

    Promised by her father to a nobleman's son, Catalina Fernandez de Velasco knew her carefree days were almost over. So when she happened upon a handsome horseman during a ride alone through the woods, she didn't think it was wrong to give in to a pass...

  • A Lady Decides

    Dorothea Donley

    A MISS WITH TWO SUITORS... Hired as a companion to a dowager she's never met, Clio Caldicott arrives to find that Lady Linville has died that very evening in a tragic fall. None of the deceased matriarch's relatives has any notion that their mother ...

  • Cat in a Jeweled Jumpsuit

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Midnight Louie, jet-black sleuth with an attitude, is on the prowl again--and this time to a rock 'n' roll soundtrack. Louie's human partner, Temple Barr, learns that the remodeling of a local hotel is being held up by a ghost--and no ordinary ghost ...

  • Broken Wings

    John Douglas; Mark Olshaker

    When his former boss, the director of the FBI, turns up dead, former profiler John Chase comes out of retirement to investigate and finds himself facing off against a ruthless and clever opponent. 100,000 first printing. Tour....

  • Chuckie's Big Wish

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • The Fan-Maker's Inquisition

    Rikki Ducornet

    "A fan is like the thighs of a woman: it opens and closes." And so begins this lush, historical novel--a mixture of imagination and conceit, passion and suspense. In a tense courtroom during the French Revolution, a young fan-maker, renowned all over...

  • Geronimo

    Bill Dugan

    The Apache WarsThe blood of Geronimo's people is being brutally spilled by white invaders. Now, the proud Chiricahua Apache war chief prepares for the greatest and most desperate conflict of all--the final battle against the cruel might of the U.S. A...

  • Sir Stalwart

    Dave Duncan

    Before They Could be BladesThey Were the King's Daggers Young Stalwart, known as Wart to his fellow students, is expelled from the academy for King's Blades, only to be plunged into a current of breathless intrigue and danger. Together with Emerald,...

  • Genevieve of Tombstone

    John Duncklee

    Nov. 1999 Leisure Books mass market paperback, John Duncklee (Quest for the Eagle Feather). Tombstone in the 1880's was the toughest town in the West, and it took a special kind of grit just to survive there. Ask the Earps or the Clantons. But among ...

  • Pregnant & Practically Married

    Andrea Edwards

    KNIGHT... IN WHITE STETSON? One minute, pregnant and single Karin Spencer was daydreaming about being swept away by a white knight, and one wallop-to-the-head later she was. But her rescuer was no knight -- he was a cowboy! Surely rock-solid rod...

  • Heaven's Reward

    Marian Edwards

    No one understands the transcendent power of love more than Regan Carmichael and Drew Daniels, two passion-bound souls who met in the twentieth century but found endless passion in the distant past. Now, in this enthralling sequel to Heaven Sent, Mar...

  • Copy Me, Copycub

    Richard Edwards

    Through spring, summer, and autumn, through streams, swamps, and up and down trees, a mother bear and her cub play an important game of follow the leader. You're my own little Copycub! mother bear exclaims. Little does the cub know that each time he ...

  • White Flame

    Susan Edwards

    A Woman Captured Searching for her missing father, the determined Emma O'Brien set out for Fort Pierre on the Missouri River, but when the steamboat upon which she was traveling went aground, she was forced to travel on foot. Braving the wilder...

  • Diaspora

    Greg Egan

    In a new world of digital beings, an Orphan is born, and humans have chosen to be forever digitized, have selected renewable robotic bodies, or remain flesh on Earth, until a devastating event occurs, causing the Orphan go to Earth to protect the Fle...

  • Dead Reckoning

    Clive Egleton

    A victim of brutal mass murder is discovered to have been using the identity of SIS agent Peter Ashton's wife. It quickly becomes clear that someone has breached the top secret SIS personnel files and that an all-too-deadly game is being played out. ...

  • Kiss Me Quick

    Sara Elliot

    GETTING TECHNICAL Elianna Stanton is used to getting what she wants, and what she wants is Joe Bryant. Sure, she needs his help to find the corporate spy who's been stealing high-tech secrets from her father's computer company. But she still hasn'...

  • One Love

    Lynn Emery

    Lanessa Thomas is proud of her life. She recovered from addiction and started her own successful business. She wants to repair the damage she did to those who loved her most. When Lanessa uncovers seedy white-collar crime, ruthless businessmen set ou...

  • Thunder City

    Loren D. Estleman

    A novel of Detroit Harlan Crownover, scion of a great family of carriage makers, battles with his father to invest in a company run by Henry Ford. Desperate for funds, Harlan turns to Big Jim Dolan, the Midwest's most powerful political boss, and ...

  • Finding Courtney

    Birdie L. Etchison

    Courtney Adam's life in Oregon has been happy. She has wonderful loving parents but is haunted by the desire to know who her birth parents were. A mysterious illness during high school weighs heavily on Courtney-she feels she can't marry and have chi...

  • Somewhere in the Night

    Marcia Evanick

    DREAMS OF FEAR Flame-haired Bridget McKenzie has always had "the sight" -- she foresees the future in her dreams. Five years ago, Bridget saw a harrowing crime that she was helpless to prevent -- even with the help of the police. Now that he...

  • Dream Baby

    Ann Evans

    Millennium Baby! When a friend -- pregnant and desperate -- suggests that Nora Holloway adopt the baby, it looks as if Nora's dream of celebrating the millennium with a family of her own may come true. Then the baby's uncle shows up with a plan tha...

  • The Holly and the Ivy

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    A Merry Mary Mary Rivers's elderly Gran has predicted a wonderful London Christmas --- and a wonder is what it will take to soothe Mary's heart, lonely for her country relatives. So when their neighbor, the dashing, though usually prickly, Lord Balf...

  • Last Kiss at the Loving Cup Saloon

    Tess Farraday
    in

    A holiday collection for the millennium offering joy, hope, and romance... As they followed a star from the East, the ancient Magi of the Christmas Story carried with them a beautiful star sapphire -- blessed with the eternal power of love. Throu...

  • Blue Rain

    Tess Farraday

    Kasey treasured her turquoise and shell necklace, left to her by her birth mother. From childhood, it has guided her with its magic. But now Kasey will meet the spirit behind the magic, who will send her on a dangerous quest, and into the arms of a p...

  • Nitpicker's Guide for X-Philes

    Phil Farrand

    The truth is, the nits are out there....What's weird about Samantha T. Mulder's birthday? (She has two of them: January 22 and November 21.)What's amazing about Mulder's cell phone?(It operates inside a metal boxcar, buried in a canyon, out in the de...

  • The Crossing

    Howard Fast

    Nobody has written more passionately or more vividly about the American Revolution than Howard Fast. The legendary living author of Freedom Road and Citizen Tom Paine, the Academy Award-winning screenwriter of Spartacus and the triumphant survivo...

  • A Test of Time

    Cheryl Faye

  • Krondor: The Assassins

    Raymond E. Feist

    Prince Arutha--newly returned from battle--is concerned about a rash of unexplained assassinations that plagues his capital city. And so he commissions his most trusted agent, Squire James--formerly the thief known as "Jimmy the Hand"--to discover th...

  • Beneath the Kitten Bough

    Jo Ann Ferguson
    in

    Lord Snoclyffe's niece and nephews thought their Uncle Andrew needed a wife for Christmas and that pretty Rosemary Burton was the ideal lady to be their new aunt. And what better way to bring them together than with the sudden delivery of a misch...

  • Expecting...in Texas // For Her Baby's Sake

    Marie Ferrarella

    The Fortunes of Texas: Membership in this family has its privileges ...and its price. But what a fortune can't buy, a true-bred Texas love is sure to bring! THE SECRET Cruz Perez believed in family honor. And the handsome wrangler always protec...

  • The Baby Plan

    Liz Fielding

    She wanted a baby! A successful businesswoman nearing thirty years of age, Amanda Fleming's biological clock was ticking furiously. When she met Daniel Bedford, owner of a sexy, lopsided smile and gorgeous blue eyes, she began to fantasize abo...

  • Hours of Gladness

    Thomas Fleming

    A volatile mixture forms in the town of Paradise City, New Jersey, when members of the Irish Republican Army smuggle missiles to shore, causing conflict with the Irish community, fueled by a British agent posing as a priest. Reprint....

  • Magical Moments

    Donna Fletcher

    Witch Dagon Rasmus returns from a business trip to find his ancestral Scottish castle in chaos. A clumsy new servant has nearly destroyed his home. Sarina is a witch mysteriously lacking in powers, though her pale blue eyes impart a disarming wis...

  • The Devil's Lode

    T.T. Flynn

    Since the Golden Age of Western fiction, the name T. T. Flynn has been a guarantee of excitement and adventure. His classic novels The Man From Laramie and Two Faces West were both made into equally classic movies. Now, for the first time in paperbac...

  • Rex to the Rescue!

    Ron Fontes

  • The Phantom of Manhattan

    Frederick Forsyth

    More than two decades have passed since Antoinette Giry, the mistress of the corps de ballet at the Paris Opera, rescued a hideously disfigured boy named Erik from a carnival and brought him to live in the labyrinthine cellars of the opera house. Soo...

  • Deadly Nightshade

    Mary Freeman

    Rain Country Landscaping is her life, but as Rachel O'Connor sows seeds and creates new surroundings in the town of Blossom, she also unearths dire motives for murder... Rachel has just scored a bid for a city landscape contract--just the kind of ...

  • Joy to the World

    Kate Freiman
    in

    A holiday collection for the millennium offering joy, hope, and romance... As they followed a star from the East, the ancient Magi of the Christmas Story carried with them a beautiful star sapphire -- blessed with the eternal power of love. Throu...

  • Leprechauns

    Craig Shaw Gardner

  • With Heart

    Dorothy Garlock

    Tillison County, Oklahoma, 1938. Though scarcity and hardship have taken their toll on the spirit of the nation, one young woman still dares to dream. Kathleen Dolan has high hopes for her investment in the Rawlings, Oklahoma, Gazette. But the feisty...

  • Hello Cat, You Need a Hat

    Rita Golden Gelman

    A young girl tries to convince a grumpy cat to try on a variety of hats, as well as shoes and other apparel, in a timeless tale first published twenty years ago and presented here in a new format with new illustrations. Original....

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Carnival Creeper

    James Gelsey

    Games, rides, popcorn, cotton candy, snow cones! Scooby and the gang can't get enough of Pop's Big Top Carnival. Until the mysterious Carnival Creeper shows up. Now the rides are empty and the games are closed. It's up to Scooby and the gang to catch...

  • The Wild Rose of Kilgannon

    Kathleen Givens

    In her unforgettable novel Kilgannon, Kathleen Givens brought to vivid life the tempestuous romance of Mary Lowell, an English aristocrat, and the Scottish chieftain Alex MacGannon, who claimed her as his bride. Swept into a world of ancient customs,...

  • Darker Than Night

    Owl Goingback

  • Mewtwo Strikes Back: Movie Storybook

    Golden Books

    From the popular Pokemon" series comes a brilliant storybook based on the first-ever Pokemon" movie, Mewtwo Strikes Back. Cloned from Mew, the most powerful of all Pokemon", Mewtwo plans to use its psychic powers to take over the world. Find ou...

  • Sins of the Father

    Christopher Golden

    Stone-Cold Killer One night while on patrol, the Slayer and her friends are outnumbered and receive aid from a totally unexpected source: Buffy's old flame, Pike. He and Buffy had a complex relationship back in Los Angeles, when the Chosen One ...

  • Soul Survivor

    Christopher Golden

    "There's nothing magical about murder...." Santeria markings. Hindu magick. Druidic runes. Japanese mysticism. The latest series of murders in Somerset has everyone confused, including the local police and the Medical Examiner's office. They seem ...

  • Toy Story 2: Junior Novel

    Leslie Goldman

    Based on the feature film, this junior novelization retells the whole wonderful story of TOY STORY 2....

  • Rico's Secret Child

    Lucy Gordon

    An Italian man... Julie Hallam is in Rome to work-but she's shocked to discover the identity of her new boss. Surely Rico Forza has brought her here for other reasons -- perhaps to make her pay for the past... Eight years ago they'd bee...

  • Storm Riders

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    While en route to offer an amnesty deal to Billy Pecos--the most wanted man in the country--U.S. Marshal Earle Conlon witnesses a murder that will make Billy's exoneration, and ending the range war he is embroiled in, difficult at best. Original....

  • Pure Pulp

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Celebrates American pulp fiction in this volume which anthologizes 1920s and 1930s innovators such as John Jakes and Robert Bloch alongside later masters of the form, including Mickey Spillane, Ed McBain, and Donald Westlake...

  • Rhapsody

    Judith Gould

    Misha...a world-famous pianist blessed with a devoted wife, an adoring son, and the adulation of millions. Then on a street in Vienna, he sees the woman he once loved with all his heart.... Serena...an internationally renowned photographer who los...

  • Expectant Bride

    Lynne Graham

    A wedding, a baby... but what about love? Ellie Morgan hoped to buy the bookshop where she worked, so evenings she moonlighted as a cleaner at Alexiakis International... Until she overheard Dio Alexiakis discussing a top-secret deal, and he insist...

  • Yikes! Grandma's a Teenager

    Dan Greenburg

    A trip to New York City to celebrate her 89th birthday--and participate in a Rockettes reunion at Radio City Music Hall--leaves Zack's Grandma Leah feeling younger than springtime. And she's looking that way too, since a strange trip through an airpo...

  • Here Comes Santa Clause

    Leigh Greenwood
    in

    Christmas Is Coming... And the streets are alive with the sounds of the season: "Silver Bells" and sleigh rides, jingle bells and carolers. Choruses of "Here Comes Santa Claus" float over the snow-covered landscape. bringing the joy of the holiday...

  • Who's Bout to Bounce?

    Deborah Gregory

    Dorinda has a difficult decision ahead when she is offered a chance to audition as a back-up singer for a superstar because, if she gets the job, she will have to leave her friends and family behind in order to travel with the show. Original....

  • The Termination Node

    Lois Gresh

    Twenty-something Judy Carmody is a total hacker, the best in the Internet security business. But even Judy has never seen anything like this--a cyber-heist that instantly vaporizes the assets of a major bank. Penetrating all state-of-the-art defenses...

  • A Love of Her Own

    Bettye Griffin

  • The Sandglass

    Romesh Gunesekera

    Already hailed as "intricate and compelling" by the Times Literary Supplement, The Sandglass is a striking novel by Sri Lankan author Romesh Gunesekera, a 1994 Booker Prize finalist for his first novel, Reef.Set in London where the Sri Lankan narrato...

  • The Kid Who Became President

    Dan Gutman

    Meet Judson Moon -- President of the United States of America On January 20, 2001, Judson Moon, age thirteen, was sworn in as President of the United States. The following are excerpts from his Inaugural Address. My fellow Americans, When I...

  • Funny Boy Meets the Airsick Alien from Andromeda

    Dan Gutman

    Funny Boy is a different kind of hero who was sent to Earth for throwing spitballs at his brother, and during his stay on the planet, he realizes that he must save this world with his humor, but no one knows if his jokes will defeat the airsick alien...

  • Weigh Dead

    Jean Hager

    A Ton of Trouble It's March, and Tess Darcy has her hands full, planning both her own June wedding and the renovation to Iris House that will turn her living quarters into a lovely home for herself and Luke. Now she has a house full, and a weighty o...

  • Them Bones

    Carolyn Haines

    Meet Sarah Booth Delaney... an unconventional southern belle whose knack for uncovering the truth is about to make her the hottest detective in Zinnia, Mississippi ... if it doesn't make her the deadest. No self-respecting lady would allow hersel...

  • A Clue for the Puzzle Lady

    Parnell Hall

    Cruciverbalists, rejoice! Pick up a pencil and get ready to solve a puzzling murder--and an actual crossword puzzle--in this sparkling debut of a unique amateur detective: Miss Cora Felton, an eccentric old lady with a syndicated puzzle column, an ir...

  • Bought: One Husband

    Diana Hamilton

    Her hired husband was a millionaire! Jethro Cole had loved Alissa Brannan at first sight -- but, wary of men, she'd proved extremely elusive... until the day she needed his help. Thinking he had no money, Alissa offered him a temporary marriag...

  • The Wish to Kill

    Janet Hannah

  • The MacLean Groom

    Kathleen Harrington

    Married by Decree He is her family's ancient foe, but never has Lady Joanna Macdonald seen a man she wants more. Still, she hides from Rory MacLean -- the dashing laird whom King James has ordered her to marry -- hoping to save her family'...

  • Under a Blue Moon

    Shirley Harrison

  • The Convenient Fiancee

    Jessica Hart

    Two-week fiancee! Family 'friends' Polly Armstrong and Simon Taverner had never seen eye to eye! She'd grown up thinking he was a stuffed shirt, and he'd always disapproved of her reckless ways. When Simon tried to rescue her from a...

  • Cooper's Wife

    Jillian Hart

    Sheriff Braddock's Proposal Seemed Too Good to Be True A new life dawned for Anna Bauer and her daughter under the wide Montana sky. The past was finally behind them, and the future meant a home and the welcoming arms of a loving father in search...

  • Silver Bells

    Amanda Harte
    in

    Christmas Is Coming... And the streets are alive with the sounds of the season: "Silver Bells" and sleigh rides, jingle bells and carolers. Choruses of "Here Comes Santa Claus" float over the snow-covered landscape. bringing the joy of the holiday...

  • Tame Me Not

    Michele Hauf

    HER PASSION FOR LIFE... Growing up in the shadow of her three outlaw brothers, Mignonne Saint-Sylvestre has lived a life of freedom and adventure. But now her siblings have plans to rein in her spirit by sending her off to a convent. Rather than giv...

  • Dawnflight

    Kim Headlee

    Gyanhumara “Gyan” nic Hymar is a Caledonian chieftainess by birth, a warrior and leader of warriors by training, and she is betrothed to Urien map Dumarec, a son of her clan’s deadliest enemy, by right of Arthur the Pendragon’s conquest of he...

  • Sharpshooter

    David Healey

    1864, General Ulysses S. Grant's Army of the Potomac is positioned across the trenches from the remnants of General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. One major Union campaign will put the Confederate capital into Yankee hands. Lucas Cole is ...

  • Dead Man's Broth

    Tim Hemlin

    TOO MANY COOKS Houston's culinary luminaries all know each other . . . much too well. Perry Stevens is the city's hot caterer. Magazine publisher Agnes Berryman dishes up the last word on cuisine. And the city's most celebrated kitchen artist is T...

  • Blood Memories

    Barb Hendee

    For ages, they have lived among mortals, in the shadows, hiding their true selves from the eyes of humanity -- until now. Eleisha.Clevon is no angel, although she has the face of one. A vampire, she's far older than she looks -- and she makes men ye...

  • Storm

    Kathy Henderson

  • Sunlight and Shadows

    Jill Henry

    Ever since her husband, Richard, was killed, Nettie Picketing had been struggling to hold her life together. But when a vengeful neighbor brutally attacked Hank Callahan, the man responsible for Richard's death, she couldn't just let him die. What sh...

  • Raven

    Norah Hess

    ANTE UP When Raven's two-bit gambler husband ordered her to entertain a handsome cowboy at dinner, she didn't dare refuse, not even when she learned that he had promised the good-looking stranger a night in her bed for $1,000. GAME OF CHA...

  • Pay the Devil

    Jack Higgins

    Published more than 30 years ago under a pseudonym, this novel is available for the first time in America. A Confederate colonel escapes to Ireland after the Civil War, only to get caught up in a conflict over there. Taking the guise of a legendary o...

  • A Soldier's Book

    Joanna Higgins

    In the spring of 1864 all prisoner-of-war exchanges between the North and the South had been halted. For captured soldiers, being condemned to the increasingly overcrowded prison camps was tantamount to a death sentence. A Soldier’s Book opens as I...

  • The Moaner's Bench

    Mars Hill

    Sun Hughes, the youngest child of a middle-class family, must learn to deal with life's harsh realities when the Depression reverses his family's fortunes. Sent to live with his Uncle Pet, a proud and zealous Baptist determined to bring religion ...

  • Hunting Badger

    Tony Hillerman

    Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!  The fourteenth novel featuring Leaphorn and Chee by New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman, now reissued in the Pre...

  • Secret Agent Dad

    Metsy Hingle

    The Texas Cattleman's Club: Five wealthy Texas bachelors -- all members of the state's most exclusive club -- set out on a mission to rescue a princess... and find true love. THE UNDERCOVER FATHER His memory lost, secret agent extraordinaire Bl...

  • The Sea-Thing Child

    Russell Hoban

    Washed upon the beach one evening, a frightened and shaken sea-thing child is fearful of returning to the ocean, yet with the help of the new friends he meets along the way, he gains confidence in himself once again and returns to the waters he knows...