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New Books List: 455 titles


  • Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Zoom! lt seems like all of Droon is competing in the Quest! And Princess Keeah wants to win the prize, since it might break the magic spell on her mother. But some people aren't playin...



  • Bonnie Adams

    ANYTHING YOU CAN DO... Katie Calhoun can run a car dealership all by herself, thank you. She doesn't need any help from her boss's know-it-all nephew. And Jace Donner seems to think he's perfect--although he might just be right. But Katie's not im...



  • Isaac Adamson

    Meet Billy Chaka, ace reporter for Cleveland's hottest-selling Asian teen magazine. He's brash, savvy, and prone to hair-trigger fits of karate. Billy's in Tokyo to cover the 19-and-Under Handicapped Martial Arts Championship and meet up with his f...



  • Elizabeth Adler

    ONCE SHE WAS HIS SECRET. NOW SHE IS HIS ONLY HOPE.... In a New York hospital, a powerful real estate developer lies suspended between life and death while police scramble to solve the mystery of his shooting. With Ed Vincent slipping in and out o...



  • Bruce Alexander

    Suspicion and fear are running high in London, as a gang of expert criminals terrorizes the town in a spree of robbery and murder. And in a time when slavery is still practiced in the colonies, there is but one peculiar clue to the identity of this g...



  • Lloyd Alexander

    A moving, magical tale about a spunky girl from the award-winning author of the Chronicles of Prydain.

    Quick-witted, bright, and sassy, Rizka the Gypsy girl is involved with everything that is happening in Greater Dunitsa, including runaway lo...



  • Martha Alexander

    When his mother gets angry over the mess he has made and he decides to run away with his friend, Blackboard Bear, Anthony discovers that the woods can be a very scary place, in a return of a classic with new, full-color art....



  • Ted Allbeury

    David Collins comes back from the War with new ideas about the old established certainties of class and culture. As the austerity of the forties gives way to the boom of the fifties, he grasps his opportunities and within a decade has left his drawin...



  • Robyn Amos

    THE AGENT: Tall, dark and devastatingly handsome Keshon Gray THE MISSION: To smoke out a deadly traitor--or die trying. THE OBSTACLE: The sweet temptation of the only woman he'd ever loved! Keshon Gray had never regretted anything he'd had to ...



  • C.J. Anders

    Disaster strikes when Bessie and Joey's plan to make money during the "Weekend of the Whales" festival fails when Bessie sprains her ankle, the cooks become sick from spoiled potato salad, and it pours all weekend....



  • V.C. Andrews

    IN THE WAKE OF A TERRIBLE LOSS, RAIN IS LEFT ALONE TO BEAR THE HUDSON FAMILY SECRETS--AS DARK AND FORBIDDING AS STORM CLOUDS ON THE HORIZON.... After the death of her beloved Grandmother Hudson, Rain found herself caught in a battle for the vast H...



  • K.A. Applegate

    There is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And 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. There are some things that ...



  • K.A. Applegate

    The Animorphs have managed to contact the Andalite home world, but the battle is far from over. Visser Two has arrived on Earth, and he's not happy about the state of things. He decides the best way to take over Earth is to have the humans destroy ea...



  • K.A. Applegate

    He is called the Ellimist. A being with the ability to alter space and time. A being with a power that will never be fully understood. He is the reason Elfangor came to Earth. He is the reason the Earth now has a fighting chance. And though his actio...



  • K.A. Applegate

    The Animorphs have to make the most important decision they've ever faced: Do they continue to fight the Yeerks in secret, or is it time to let everyone know there's a resistance? That the Animorphs exist and Earth does stand a small chance against t...



  • Eric Arnold

    In this colorful, fully-illustrated beginning reader, Darth Maul has been given a mission. The time has come for him to put his Sith skills to the test. He must track down a Jedi Master and his apprentice.  Maul lives nothing better than a good cha...



  • Judith Arnold

    Evan Myers, divorced father of two, needs a baby-sitter fast to get him through a work crunch just before Christmas. He also needs a few Daddy School lessons to help him cope with his kids -- their secrecy and odd behavior have really got him scratch...



  • Reed Arvin

    What lengths would someone go to bury a secret? What lengths would someone go to uncover one? Henry Mathews, a young, ambitious associate at one of the top law firms in Chicago, is a man on the move. As lethal in a courtroom as a shark in an aquarium...




  • John Aubrey

    With deft, picturesque prose, Aubrey presents biographical sketches for an intriguing and colorful parade of statesmen, poets, philosophers, and scientists, including Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, and...



  • James Axler

    With their tyrannical oligarchy facing extinction, the nine mysterious barons launch a new campaign to preserve their immortality against Kane and his fellow rebels, but an unseen force arrives to seek a final confrontation with those who seek to rul...



  • Katherine Ayres

    In 1885, unhappy living with her aunt and uncle in Pittsburgh, Valentine Harper disguises herself as a boy and runs away to Colorado determined to find her father who has gone there in search of gold....



  • Marian Babson

    PAWS FOR CAT-ASTROPHC... Eleven-year-old Robin wants to join a popular gang at school. They'll accept him, though only if he kidnaps the prize-winning cat of old Mrs. Nordling first. But when Robin sneaks into the Nordlings' house in the dark o...



  • Stella Bagwell

    They needed a miracle... Hope Logan wanted only two things for Christmas -- her husband, Drake, and the child he refused to give her. Drake had made it plain he had no desire to be a father...and it seemed his desire for Hope had disappeared as we...



  • Michele Bailey

    Matilda Haycastle, young, beautiful - and broke in Brussels - would never have thought that her routine temp assignment would indirectly lead to murder.Matilda has never met Connie Trevor - the woman is a friend of a friend - but when Connie fails to...



  • Lynna Banning

    Crazy Creek, Oregon, had never seen a lady lawyer before, much less one like Irene Hardisson -- and neither had Clayton Black, Texas Ranger. In fact, it had been over a year since he'd caught the scent of anything sweeter than gun powder. He was on t...



  • Neal Barrett Jr.

    Hooters, Hatters, and menacing evil Even in a mystical world where centuries ago animals were magically changed into humans, the land of Makasar is considered strange. Its two major religions are Hatters and Hooters. During the day, Hatters, weari...



  • Adrienne Basso

    CINDERELLA FOR A WEEKEND When Eleanor Graham's gorgeous boss asks her to be his date for a weekend at his father's estate, she's completely astounded. Wealthy, sophisticated, Joshua Barton is completely out of her league. There's no way a man li...



  • Bella Bathurst

    For centuries the seas around Scotland were notorious for shipwrecks.  Mariners' only aids were skill, luck, and single coal-fire light on the east coast, which was usually extinguished  by rain.  In 1786 the Northern Lighthouse Trust was estab...



  • Pamela Bauer

    She was pretty as a picture... but that certainly didn't mean Michael McFerrin would marry her! True, Cassie Carrigan had snared his interest, but she was the linchpin in his lovable-but-meddling mother's plan to garner a grandchild. The beautiful...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter

    One look at firebrand Katherine Mays, and Bryce Burnette's life went careening off its steady course. She was a party girl; he was a preacher. But their desire would not be dampened by labels. Underneath Katherine's sassy exterior lurked a depth of s...



  • Mary Lynn Baxter
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    Days before Christmas, a storm sweeps a small Colorado town.... Shocking secrets are revealed. Couples are united. Families and futures are made. A wealthy rancher delivers the baby of the vulnerable beauty he has always loved, in a captivating story...



  • Aiden Beaverson

    Does Linn possess the gift that can save the mythical lysefolk of Maether? Fantasy at its most appealing.
    Linn wants nothing more than to be left in peaceâ€"but her brutish stepfather has other plans. When he demands that she convert her faith an...



  • Carrie Bebris
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A malevolent pool. A diabolical cult. A horrific plan. A dracolich and his sorcerous queen have seized control of the Mythal, the ancient magic that once protected the war-ravaged elven capital. Once the elven ruin is completely in their thra...



  • Joanne Bertin

    In Dragon and Phoenix, the sweeping sequel to Joanne Bertin's hugely successful fantasy epic The Last Dragonlord, Linden and Muarynna must rescue a trapped dragon from an evil princess.Once every thousand years the phoenix of Jehanglan burns to death...



  • Renata Bini

    A collection of thirty myths and legends from many different cultures around the world includes those of ancient Greece, Scandinavia, Japan, India, Uganda, and the Great Plains Indians. BOMC, QPB, and Doubleday....



  • Terry Bisson

    Adam Gibson returns home from work to discover that a clone has replaced him, and finds himself separated from his family and pursued by assassins out to destroy him to preserve their secret as he struggles to reclaim his life and his family....



  • Terry Bisson

    Losing Faith Young Samuel has the gift of healing. With just a touch of his hand, the crippled walk, the blind see, and even the most fatal of cancers are miraculously cured. But when one of his followers suddenly collapses and dies in the pulpi...



  • Cindy Blake

    When Clare James, author and protege of a famous woman adventurer, answers a fan letter from American Carl Lioce, she begins a long-distance flirtation. But Clare already has a lover: Jeremy Letts, Britain's legendary sports superstar. What more coul...



  • Lawrence Block

    Keller is a regular guy. He goes to the movies, works on his stamp collection. Call him for jury duty and he serves without complaint. Then every so often he gets a phone call from White Plains that sends him flying off somewhere to kill a perfect st...



  • Joan W. Blos

    Having little interest in doing a report about the events of the turn-of-the-century, Rosey Sachs decides to tell her sixth-grade classmates what Jewish life was like in New York City before World War I. Reprint....



  • Andrea Boeshaar

    Since his wife, Nancie, divorced him, Wren Nickelson has felt like a failure. But finding himself with spare time, Wren decides to take up the one thing he's always wanted to do: write. One day as Nancie drops off their two daughters for a weekend...



  • Andrea Boeshaar
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    Visit heroic beacons along the shores of Florida, Oregon, Massachusetts, Texas, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, where their light keepers work tirelessly and long for love. Immerse yourself in the beauty and danger of lighthouse history as six roma...



  • Eric Bogosian

    From the award-winning avatar of contemporary urban theater and author of such modern classics as Talk Radio and subUrbia comes this outrageous novel about five suburbanites whose lives intersect in one violent and life-altering night -- at the local...



  • Stephanie Bond

    SINGLE FEMALE SEEKING SINGEL MALE FOR GOOD TIME... When lawyer Greg Healey answered a singles ad for his brother, he never expected to fall head over heels in love with the woman himself! Only, sexy, sassy Lana Martina hadn't placed that particula...



  • Stephanie Bond

    They're three women with one thing in common...Our Husband.

    When they found out about his cheating heart, they wanted to get even. But how even?

    Fate has just thrown a curveball at the women in Raymond Carmichael's life-- all three of t...



  • Judith Bowen

    A secret marriage Phoebe Longquist and Lewis Hardin got married on impulse, without a fancy wedding, without family, without fuss. Phoebe wants to keep things quiet and uncomplicated...for a while, anyway. A family secret Lewis would rather not...



  • James Brady

    Beecher Stowe couldn't be more pleased than to find himself spending that delicious season between Thanksgiving and Christmas in the Hamptons. On his first weekend back, East Hampton stages its annual ragtag, irresistibly corny, small-townish Santa C...



  • Irene Brand
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    The stories from bedtime fairy tales are not just for children. Enjoy inspirational romance woven around beloved fairy tale themes in contemporary settings from authors Irene B. Brand, Lynn Coleman, Yvonne Lehman, and Gail Gaymer Martin....



  • Peter Brandvold

    Sheriff Ben Stillman thought he'd finished dispensing hard justice in the town of Clantick in the Montana Territory. Then a courtesan and her latest client were found dead with their throats slit, and the citizenry demanded immediate action. With a r...



  • J.E. Bright

    Lost in DigiWorld!

    Yipes! Devimon has broken up File Island and the Digidestined are each trapped on a different mini-island, drifting in the ocean! Sounds pretty creepy, huh? Not when you've got a fierce digi-volving Digimon as your perso...



  • Emily Brightwell

    A BONE TO PICK Eccentric Annabeth Gentry pretty much keeps to herself. Besides her recent inheritance-and the attention her bloodhound gets for digging up the body of a murdered thief--her life is, in fact, rather dull. So why does she think that ...



  • Annette Broadrick

    WEDDING INVITATION? Mesmerized by her beauty and innocence, Steve Antonelli rescued stranded Robin McAlister and welcomed her to his island hideaway. The vivacious virgin was much too young for the world-weary homicide detective, but her yearning ...



  • Helen Brooks

    Race to the altar! Zeke Buchanan had swept Marianne off her feet, and their two-year marriage had been perfect -- until recently.... Their physical passion was as strong as ever, but was Zeke starting to regret their impulsive wedding? The beau...



  • Ruth Brown


    From a popular author/illustrator, the enchanting story of holly the cat -- ideal for Christmas and all year long.

    She was just a tiny kitten and she was abandoned. Someone found her and gave her to us. Because it was nearly Christmas, we ...



  • Stacy Brown

    A BARTERED BRIDE When it came to marriage, Olivia Parker knew better than to expect a love match, but she couldn't hide her outrage when her father bartered her to Brandon Wilde, Earl of Marlborough. Her father's money would satisfy Wilde&#...



  • L. Virginia Browne; Linda Elin Hamner

    Tyrone: "Never - but never - come when your name is called. In fact, the moment you hear your name, compress your body into the size of an olive, become as still and invisible as a salesperson at Bloomingdale's, and go back to sleep."Cleo: "...the...



  • Dixie Browning

    SLOW, SWEET SEDUCTION Hell-bent on revenge, navy SEAL Curt Powers set out to find the person who had stolen his heritage. But when innocent beauty Lily O'Malley turned out to be the object of his search, Curt disregarded his careful strategy and t...



  • Bonnie Bryant

    It's time for a new project at Horse Wise.  Everyone is being paired with a younger rider to learn all about competing in a horse show--everyone except Carole Hanson, that is. Carole's going to be the judge, and Veronica diAngelo doesn't th...



  • Nancy Butler

    Hostage Hearts It's Christmastime in London, but all is not merry for a former sea captain called MacHeath. Down to his last few shillings, he's nipping away the cold in a pub when he overhears a group of ruffians planning a kidnapping. Th...



  • P.D. Cacek

    Picture this: you're riding the bus home from work, with the very first newspaper article every published under your byline clutched in your hot little hand, when a coked-up idiot attempts to hold up everyone on the bus. He takes a dislike to you an...



  • 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 t...




  • Lisa Carey

    She came to them from the sea . . . On a stormy November night in 1848, a ship carrying more than one hundred Irish emigrants to America's shores ran aground twenty miles off the coast of Maine. Many were saved, but some were not--including a youn...



  • Liz Carlyle

    The daughter of London's wickedest widow, Helene de Severs has struggled to overcome her heritage. Renowned within Europe's emerging psychiatric field, Helene has a gift for healing children. When fate sends her back to England, the country s...



  • Carman

    Former cruiserweight champion of the world, Orlando Leone, Jr., must come out of retirement to redeem an impossible situation. In his night job as head of security, Orlando must subdue the current champion at a party. Cameras flash, and within min...



  • Caleb Carr

    Meet Dr. Gideon Wolfe, expert criminologist of the new millenium. A professor at New York's John Jay University in the year 2023, he lives in an era that has seen plague, a global economic crash, and the 2018 assassination of President Emily Forreste...



  • Tori Carrington

    THE BOUNTY HUNTER'S BABY Chad Hogan's tempestuous romance with Hannah McGee flatlined when he gave her a sports car instead of an engagement ring. The last thing the rough-edged loner wanted was to lose the only woman who made him feel alive again...



  • Jenny Carroll

    "You're dead. You don't belong here." Susannah just traveled a gazillion miles from New York to California in order to live with a bunch of stupid boys (her new stepbrothers). She hasn't even unpacked yet, she's made her mother practically cry alrea...




  • K.N. Casper

    THE MAN AND HIS FAMILY Adam First and his family have been running the Number One Ranch in West Texas for generations. But now his daughter, driven by spite and revenge, has sold controlling interest to the local bank. THE WOMAN WITH THEIR FATE I...



  • Linda Lea Castle

    Single women weren't permitted to live in the charter town of McTavish Plain, in the Wyoming Territory. So the three Green sisters invented husbands! But Addie, Charlotte, and Mattie never reckoned on the loves that awaited them in the wild, wild...



  • Linda Lea Castle

    SHE VOWED NO MAN WOULD CLAIM HER... Lady Elsbeth wanted no part of marriage! Fleeing her uncle's keep with a chest of her dower coin, she believed Lambeth Abbey would be glad to offer sanctuary -- with her treasure as payment. Elsbeth never im...



  • Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Wall Street, 1929 -- Sharlotte Ashford and her invalid sister have nowhere to turn. Their wealth and prestige have been lost in the Crash, and their father has mysteriously disappeared after heading west to rebuild the family fortune. As the cold, sn...



  • Freda Chrisman

    In the hope of beginning anew, Emily Anderson and her family risk a move to San Francisco. What Emily couldn't forsee is newspaperman Hank Garrett appearing in her life. She has no interest in a man who thinks her faith is foolishness. Drawn again...



  • Agatha Christie

    A classic from the original queen of mystery: Agatha Christie....



  • Joyce Christmas

    For the first time ever, Lady Margaret Priam and Betty Trenka join forces--to solve a high-tech Manhattan murder among the very rich. To her delighted surprise, suburban sleuth Betty Trenka finds herself ensconced in a luxurious New York City hote...



  • Jill Churchill

    Suburban mom Jane Jeffry and her equally green-thumbless best friend Shelley Nowack could kill plastic plants. But their scheme to improve themselves vegetatively dies on the vine when the celebrated botanist slated to teach a class at the local Comm...



  • Cherie Claire

    Amid the untamed forests and moss-strewn swamps of Louisiana Territory, the daughters of an Acadian exile discover danger...and desire. HEARTS DIVIDED Warm, vibrant, and exceedingly lovely, Rose Gallant vowed to keep alive her family's dreams...



  • Donna Clayton

    Although Dr. Travis Westcott wouldn't fall for any woman, he would do anything to adopt twin boys. Even welcoming the tribe's medicine woman into his home to teach them all about their Native American heritage. But what Travis hadn't expected was how...




  • Pat Cody

    The provocative lord who accosts Elizabeth Merriman on the street has to be the Angel of Ruin. He looks the part of a fallen immortal, with a face that can easily tempt unwary females into oblivion or worse -- and the one thing the prim miss has to a...



  • Elaine Coffman

    Set against the dramatic backdrop of 1785 Scotland, Elaine Coffman delivers her most breathtaking novel ever. In this unforgettable romance, a marriage that starts off to defy fate, just might end in love .... Lady Meleri Weatherby is desperate to...



  • Lynn A. Coleman
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    The stories from bedtime fairy tales are not just for children. Enjoy inspirational romance woven around beloved fairy tale themes in contemporary settings from authors Irene B. Brand, Lynn Coleman, Yvonne Lehman, and Gail Gaymer Martin....



  • Lynn A. Coleman
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    Visit heroic beacons along the shores of Florida, Oregon, Massachusetts, Texas, North Carolina, and Wisconsin, where their light keepers work tirelessly and long for love. Immerse yourself in the beauty and danger of lighthouse history as six roma...



  • Cassandra Collins

    It's pouring rain the night Scarlett first sees him standing outside the diner window, and when lightning illuminates his features, she knows the handsome stranger has come for her. Jake has been sent as a guardian, but there are powerful forces ...



  • Colleen Collins

    Ambitious editorial assistant Rosie Myers is finally getting her big break. When the writer of a Real Men column runs away with a stripper, Rosie is given the assignment. There's only one catch -- she has to write like a guy. No problem...until she s...



  • Laurel Collins

    A LEGENDARY TREASURE After years of studying ancient cultures, Boston bluestocking Jordan Alcott is determined to be taken seriously as a scholar. So when a letter comes addressed to Mister Jordan Alcott with an invitation to join a search for los...



  • Christopher Cook

    Two Texan ex-cons, Ray Bob and Eddie, have just killed a convenience store clerk over a penny. Now, with a pack of cigarettes, a stolen Caddy, and no plan, the two must think fast-and move faster, in this novel with "a lyric voice that sings itself r...



  • Robin Cook

    A mysterious transmission from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean leads a crew of oceanographers and divers to a phenomenon beyond scientific understanding - and a discovery that will change everything we know about life on Earth......



  • Donna Cooner

    The Most Important Story of All Time--Told in a Delightful Style Your Child Will Never Forget.

    This is the tale--
    that will charm the children--
    whose lives will be touched--
    by the story of Christmas.

    Building one delightful p...



  • J. California Cooper

    From the beloved author of Family and A Piece of Mine comes a dazzling new collection of stories featuring ordinary women who discover that love sometimes comes when you least expect it. Vinnie is an overworked and self-sacrificing single mother who ...



  • Shelley Cooper

    "WILL YOU HELP MY SON?" The beseeching words were spoken by the most enchanting woman police chief Carlo Garibaldi had ever encountered. But Samantha Underwood was off-limits, the widow of an officer he'd lost during his watch. Now she stood befor...



  • Richard Edward Crabbe

    May 31, 1883, 3:55 p.m. Twenty thousand men, women, and children, their faces shining in the late afternoon sun, are strolling the Eighth Wonder of the World. The Brooklyn Bridge is open just a week, its promenade a magnet for the teeming masses of...



  • Elizabeth Craft

    Follow four high school heroines- Kerri, Jessica, Erin and Maya- during the most exciting time of their lives. There's love, friendship, and huge life decisions ahead. It's all about to happen- just as they're turning seventeen.

    2...



  • Francine Craft



  • Amanda Cross

    Professor Charles Haycock is dead from a hearty dose of his own heart medication. The mystery is not why Haycock was murdered--very few could stomach the woman-hating prof--but who did the deed. Estelle "Woody" Woodhaven, a private investigator hired...



  • Caroline Cross

    HIS RELUCTANT BRIDE... Somehow Riley Fortune had managed to marry the only woman in Pueblo who didn't want to sleep with him. He and Angelica Dodd had once shared a night of burn-up-the-rafters passion. That was the night they made a baby. But the...



  • Claire Cross

    THE FIRST TIME I MET HIM HE CHANGED MY LIFE... How did I get over my crush on Nick? Cold turkey. Okay, I had no choice. He kept disappearing on me. So what did he have to offer anyway? Mystery? Adventure? A sexy grin and killer sense of humor? I hav...



  • Joseph Curtin

    A legendary vampire known as the Blood Countess journeys from her castle in the Carpathian Mountains to the glitter of the modern-day world of rock music, in search of a beautiful young woman named Chloe who is destined to become her faithful servant...



  • Jenny Dale

    Amy's kitten, Bob, doesn't like sitting still. He leaps up the curtains. He bounces around the yard. And he especially likes climbing trees. Will Bob ever stop bouncing? Amy hopes so, before he bounces himself into big trouble!...



  • James Dalton

    Washington, D.C., where our true history is made in the shadows. The corrupt and violent presidency of Richard Nixon. A country at war with itself. An era that crystallized around a third-rate burglary called Watergate. An era that slams into three g...



  • Jeanne M. Dams

    MURDER IN A SMALL TOWN Though a' opted Anglophile Dorothy Martin is quite content with her new life in a cozy English village, she looks forward to an unexpected trip back to her Indiana hometown. Sadly, it is the sudden death of a longtime friend...



  • S.V. Date

    After buying legislators and bullying senators, tobacco baron Bartholomew Simons is about to watch his billion-dollar glory days go up in smoke. A savvy Florida governor is pulling for a law that'll bring the CEO to his knees--until Simons fights bac...



  • Peter David

    The ever resourceful Captain Mackenzie Calhoun abruptly finds himself at a loss--marooned on the primitive outback world of Yakaba after his ship, Excalibur, is destroyed by deadly sabotage. He is separated from his loyal first officer, Shelby, who h...



  • J. Madison Davis

    Good evening, dear reader... Did Alfred Hitchcock the world-famous Master of Suspense have a secret life as a detective? Did his mordant humor hide a deductive mind worthy of a Hercule Poirot or Nero Wolfe? The year is 1957. The sun-tanned citizenry ...



  • Kathryn Lynn Davis

    French nobleman Antoine de Vallombrosa is lured to the Dakota Badlands by a fierce determination to build an empire in a forbidding frontier of rolling hills and fiery sunsets. By his side is his new wife, Medora, a New York heiress who shares his vi...



  • Don Debrandt

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... Angel has long since learned that earthquakes are usually not benign incidents, so when Doyle has a vision involving a seismic shift, everyone's guard goes up. Further investigation leads Angel...



  • Nicholas Delbanco

    They were privileged people, cultured and German to the core, a family that had been in Germany three hundred years. But that couldn't save them from Hitler. Some met death in concentration camps, some committed suicide, others escaped only to find t...



  • Nelson DeMille

    "The Lion" will be landing. And at New York's JFK Airport, an elite American task force waits as the notorious Libyan terrorist prepares to defect to the West. Then, aboard Flight 175, something goes eerily, horribly wrong -- a mere prelude to the te...



  • Georgina Devon

    The Rake Has Found A Bride... When Juliet Smythe-Clyde is forced to spend several nights in the devastatingly handsome Duke of Brabourne's house -- unchaperoned -- her reputation is in tatters. And despite his cynical nature, Brabourne can'...



  • Carl Djerassi

    A compelling novel based on the high-stakes biotech industry and the science behind Viagra from the internationally known “Father of the Pill.â€
     
    The fourth installment of Carl Djerassi’s pioneering “science-in-fiction†tetralogy t...



  • Shannon Donnelly

    An independent governess finds love with an irascible lord! Accustomed to depending on herself and not the kindness of others, Maeve Midden learned long ago to be sensible above all else. So when she is hired for a great deal of money as companion...



  • Keith Douglass

    Pearl Harbor has been attacked--again. America has two lines of defense: Seal Team Seven... and Carrier Battle Group Fourteen. There's trouble in paradise. The Chinese army has invaded the Hawaiian Islands and infiltrated the Navy's master communi...



  • Gardner Dozois

    A collection of short stories from the pages of Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine offer thought-provoking, fantastical visions of what an ideal world should be, in tales by Ursula K. Le Guin, Mike Resnick, Bruce Sterling, Brian Stablefo...



  • Diane Duane

    When Charlie Davis' friend Nick Melchior begins hanging out at a punk-rock Internet Web site to defy his overbearing parents, Charlie becomes worried when he learns that several suicides have been blamed on the site....



  • Niall Duthie

    Niall Duthie's triumphant third novel: a pillow book (designed to be read in ten-minute stretches before bed) about the nature of perception in the twentieth century Lobster Moth is two stories: that of a lepidopterist, Robert Gilmerton, a Scottish s...



  • Nicholas Edwards

    When an ice storm cripples their hometown and puts all its residents in danger, the Callahans turn to their incredible dog, Santa Paws, for help. By the author of Return of Santa Paws. Original....



  • Susan Edwards

    Dark Days Gone Forever Star Dreamer had sent much of her life in darkness. In those moments, she'd seen powerful things, yet many times had cursed her fate. Why had the Great Spirit given her the sight, an ability to see things that couldn't be ch...



  • Jason Elder

    When the Outcasts stumble upon a young boy, the only survivor of a brutal massacre, they set out to find the youngster a home, unaware that the killers are on the trail, determined to silence the only witness to their crime. Original....



  • Linda Ellerbee

    As students gear up for student government elections at Trumbull Middle School, Casey Smith, awesome girl reporter, is on the scene to document the madnes. She's got a new video camera and a list of questions. Why do the "popular" kids always get ele...



  • P.N. Elrod

    Vampire detective .Jack Fleming has made a good bit of money cleaning up the streets of post-prohibition Chicago--enough to realize his long-time dream of owning a nightclub where a man can get a legal drink, and where .Jack's songbird girlfriend can...




  • Vicki Erwin / Vicki Berger Erwin

    Zowie! It's a haunted holiday when Fred wins a weekend for the Scooby gang at a mysterious bed and breakfast. In the middle of a storm, a giant dog appears and Scooby and Shaggy disappear! Put your detective hat on and help the gang solve The Case...



  • Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s guarding some heavenly bodies…Longarm’s used to getting the toughest jobs, and an assignment to guard the president’s “do-gooder†granddaughter and her rich, spoiled cronies is no exception. His mission is to travel with the “...



  • Nuruddin Farah

    The second novel in Farah's acclaimed Blood in the Sun trilogy, Gifts tells the story of Duniya, a single mother working at the hospital in Mogadiscio, Somalia's capital city. Times are hard, but they get even more complicated when Duniya's rebelliou...



  • John Farris

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