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New Books List: 548 titles


  • Jeff Abbott

    Plunge into the "sleazy, seductive world of crime in Houston" as Judge Whit Mosely schemes to save him mother from a gang of sophisticated killers from the New York Times bestselling author, Jeff Abbott (Publishers Weekly).She's a liar.She's a thief....



  • Alina Adams

    Figure skating is a cutthroat world. Just ask Rebecca "Bex" Levy, figure-skating researcher for the 24/7 network. In just one season, she's seen her share of meltdowns, bitter rivalries, and spoiled ice princesses. No one has to draw Bex a figure eig...



  • Anna Adams

    Sophie Calvert has planned every second of her life. That all changes after she meets Ian Ridley. Suddenly the woman who never wanted to get married is forgetting everything -- including her plans. Which is why she ends up eloping...and why she ru...



  • Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and ...




  • Victoria Alexander

    Identical twins, sensible Delia and mischievous Cassandra Effington were the most delicious debutantes to ever waltz across a London ballroom. They looked alike in every way...but no one ever expected Delia to be the one to get into trouble... Ho...



  • Harper Allen

    MISSION PROFILE THE AGENT: Conrad Burke, alias Connor Ducharme HIS MOTTO: "Always work alone." THE ASSIGNMENT -- AND COMPLICATION: Team up with one headstrong, pregnant woman to catch a criminal.... With a resolve as cold as steel and a thirs...



  • Elissa Ambrose

    Rachel Hartwell, just a kid when she gave up her daughter for adoption, now yearned to be part of Megan's life and fulfill her motherly role. But a run-in with Adam Wessler, Megan's smoldering -- and single -- adoptive father made her realize that he...



  • John Arcudi

    Looks at the "fight club" world of second and third-class former villains which is filled with bloody fights in abandoned warehouses, the lure of easy money, and the desperation of sweaty losers with nothing to lose but their lives. Original....



  • Catherine Asaro
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    In a world where kings married for magic, Iris Larkspur was required to wed the prince -- despite the spell that kept him deaf, mute and blind. Healing her bridegroom would take a power greater than any she'd ever known -- one only two bonded hearts ...



  • Amanda Ashley
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    Handsome and sensual, surrounded by an aura of danger, mystery, and the forbidden, a lover steps from the shadows. But is he mortal? Or is he an ancient god, a sorcerer, or a mythical beast who can possess a woman's heart... and her very soul? Fou...



  • Isaac Asimov

    Six clever, wonderfully writen "Black Widower" mysteries penned by the award-winning science fiction writer reveal the inner workings of a mind that was capable of crossing genres easily to produce some of the best mystery writing on the market. Repr...



  • Louis Auchincloss

    A New York Timesâ€"bestselling author puts a modern twist on the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic with this novel of wealthy 1950s society.   The year is 1953, and the coastal village of Glenville, on the opulent north shore of Long Island, is shaken...





  • Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    This compelling story of love and sacrifice follows the lives of two very different young women--one seeing the world for the first time and one who has seen too much already. One DECEIVED by a life of wealth and ease, the other DESPERATE to flee her...



  • James Axler

    PERNICIOUS ARCHETYPE More than two hundred years after Skydark, the hybrid barons cling tenuously to their waning influence, losers in an internecine war to control nuke-shattered America. A new threat has emerged, one whose intimate knowledge of pre...



  • Elizabeth Bailey

    Discovering a seriously wounded Frenchman near her home, Grace Dovercourt makes the dangerous decision to take him in and nurse him back to health. Her attraction to Henri Rouselle grows stronger by the day, but she is under no illusion that such a f...



  • Madeline Baker

    She'd come to Texas for a little R and R, but after meeting her sexy riding instructor, sophisticated Carly Kirkwood began experiencing sleepless nights filled with vivid dreams. For Zane Roan Eagle was like no man she'd ever met, and his chiseled La...



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  • Leanne Banks
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    Romance and happily-ever-after arent on Faith Donners Christmas list. But when a handsome oil mogul responds to her childrens plea for a new daddy, this top chef at the Mission Creek Cafe can't bring herself to turn him away....



  • Leanne Banks

    Thanks to her mother, who raised hell, and her father, who preached against it, Delilah Montague has a body to die for and a work ethic that won't quit. In a well-manicured snap, she's gone from shampoo girl to director of Houston's most exclusive sp...



  • Lynna Banning

    Expecting the unexpected was an army scout's job. Still, Major John Montgomery never anticipated finding love along the Oregon Trail. But Constance Weldon, outspoken, courageous and possessed of a quiet beauty completely at home under the wide Wester...




  • Philip E. Baruth

    A masterful blend of political satire and edgy social commentary, here is a wildly entertaining trip through recent American history and into the impending future. An incisive look at how we love and hate our political leaders, and how they love and ...



  • Brian Bates

    J.R.R. Tolkien claimed that he based the land of Middle Earth on a real place. The Real Middle Earth brings alive, for the first time, the very real civilization in which those who lived had a vision of life animated by beings beyond the material ...



  • Richard Bausch

    A 2004 PEN/Malamud Award winner, this collection celebrates the work of American artist Richard Bausch -- a writer the New York Times calls "a master of the short story." By turns tender, raw, heartbreaking, and riotously funny, the many voices of th...



  • Denise Becker

    Meg is a schoolteacher whose husband, Bill, was intent on killing her... but in a violent fight for her won life, she ended his. The murder is a secret, and Meg has moved back to her hometown to reunited with her adopted family. Meg's new life is won...



  • Rexanne Becnel

    THE LONDON TATTLER -- FEBRUARY 6 AN UGLY REMOR HAS ARISEN, ONLY TO BE PROVEN NO RUMOR AT ALL, BUT RATHER, THE UNADULTERATED TURTH. IT SEEMS THE PROPER LORD FARLEY HAS BEHAVED IN A DECIDEDLY IMPROPER MANNER... James Lindford, Viscount Farley, ha...



  • Nikki Benjamin

    HE WAS SEXY, POWERFUL...AND ABOUT TO PUT HER OUT OF BUSINESS! Bill Harper had to be stopped. Eloise Vale didn't care if he was the mayor of New York -- he was about to cut funding to her precious birth center! He was also her once-upon-a- time lov...



  • Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    They're rude. They're crude. They've just escaped from jail! They're the notorious Bogg Brothers, Bear Country's baddest bad guys. How bad
    are they? They're so bad they cross against the light. And they're headed straight for the priceless artifa...



  • David Best

    It starts with a successful liver transplant for a dying alcoholic. It ends with a virus that leaves its victims screaming in pain before they die. And the death toll is rising...

    In this timely medical thriller, author David Best taps into ...



  • John Gregory Betancourt

    Fel Blackmane is a pirate, rogue, and thorough scoundrel. But he also has a sense of adventure second to none, and every year he vows to do one impossible thing. This time he plans to sail his ship to the annual fair, sell ill-gotten booty back to it...



  • Helen Bianchin
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    This Christmas grab a steamy mug of hot chocolate, wrap yourself in a cozy blanket and join some of Harlequin's bestselling authors in three delicious tales of home and holidays. Curl up with Helen Bianchin's tale of a woman who returns home to fi...



  • Ilsa J. Bick

    THE YEAR IS 2336 For twelve years, she was captain of the Federation's flagship. But while her exploits as commander of the U.S.S. Enterprise™ NCC-1701-C are legend, little has been revealed about Rachel Garrett, her vessel, or the unusual men an...



  • Laurie Bishop

    Business and Pleasure Arriving in England to find herself a suitable husband, Catherine Prescott D'Eauville wants the entire business settled as quickly as possible. As the heiress of a wealthy American shipbuilder, she intends to find a man w...



  • Alice Blanchard

    A mammoth twister tears through the sleepy town of Promise, Oklahoma, and leaves behind three mutilated bodies in a ravaged farmhouse. Police Chief Charlie Grover believes the victims were impaled by flying debris... until gruesome evidence comes to ...



  • Mary Blayney

    A Shy Beauty, A Charming Rogue... Mariel Braedon Whitlow has spent most of her life caring for others, so when her ailing grandmother summons her to London, she immediately complies. But the Dowager Duchess of Hale has matchmaking in mind, and befor...



  • Lauralee Bliss

    Love can happen at any age...That's what spinster Daphne Elliot is about to discover. Forty years have passed since her first love died in a lumber mill accident, yet she refuses any other romantic involvements. Then one day an older farmer, Jack ...



  • Francesca Lia Block

    When you were a baby I sat very still to hold you. I could see the veins through your skin like a map to inside you. I stopped breathing so you wouldn't ... You were just a boy on a bed in a room, like a kaleidoscope is a tube full of bits of broken ...



  • Andrea Boeshaar

    Kylie had her life all planned out--with marriage to Matthew and a "happily-ever-after" in their sleepy Wisconsin hometown. But when she opens a wedding invitation and a decades-old faded photograph falls out, she uncovers a side of her mother Kylie ...



  • Stephanie Bond

    Good girls finish last... That's Belinda Hennessey's new philosophy in life, work, and love after moving to Atlanta to escape a disastrous six-hour marriage. Now she has a killer job, spunky carpooling gal-pals, and the velvety voice of a traffi...



  • Chaz Brenchley

    After the Knights Ransomer and the desert-dwelling Sharai are attacked by the djinni, the shapeshifting 'ifrit, and the ghul on the borders of Surayon, the survivors band together to march into the palace on the Mount of Ascariel to confront the King...



  • Alan Brennert

    Young Rachel Kalama, growing up in idyllic Honolulu in the 1890s, is part of a big, loving Hawaiian family, and dreams of seeing the far-off lands that her father, a merchant seaman, often visits. But at the age of seven, Rachel and her dreams are sh...



  • Barbara Bretton

    If home is where the heart is, then Ellen Markowitz might as well set up house in the delivery room of Shelter Rock Cove General. She loves being an OB-GYN--and she's fallen hard for the charming coastal village where she's lived for the last three y...



  • Kate Bridges
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    After two years of being thought dead, lawman Logan Sutcliffe had finally made it home -- only to discover that the wife he'd left behind on their wedding night was engaged to another man!...



  • Louise Brindley

    A wealthy London suburb is no protection against crime for bestselling novelist Geraldine Frayling, with her innate capacity for getting dangerously involved ... again. Gerry Frayling is desperately trying to get fit and beautiful before her wedding ...



  • Annette Broadrick

    MR. DESTINY He appeared from the mist -- formidable, feverish... and searching for her. Within moments he was in her bed, leaving Fiona MacDonald to wonder why an American man had traveled so far and to such personal expense to find a woman who ha...



  • Bill Brooks

    A Bullet for Buffalo Bill No one knows better than the great showman William Cody what a burden fame can be, especially when he has to move quickly to narrowly dodge an assassin's bullet. Organizing a hunting party for himself and some would-be i...



  • Rita Mae Brown

    Jane "Sister" Arnold may be in her seventies, but she shows no signs of losing her love for the Hunt. As Master of the prestigious Jefferson Hunt Club in a well-heeled Virginia Blue Ridge Mountain town, she is the most powerful and revered woman in t...



  • Rita Mae Brown

    Riding horseback, "Sister" Jane Arnold, the regal seventy-two-year-old master of foxhounds of the Jefferson Hunt Club, calmly surveys the peaceful rolling hills of Virginia, unaware that trouble is brewing. At the local train station a derelict is fo...



  • Dixie Browning
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    Ann Elise Baker hadn't looked back since she left for the bright lights of Dallas. Now, stranded in her hometown, her old flame comes to her rescue. Shed forgotten how hed made sleepy little Mission Creek sizzle, and now she longs for the chance to s...



  • Pamela Browning

    How do you expose someone else's secrets...and protect your own? Journalist Brooke Hollister has her next expose targeted -- Rancho Encantado, a luxurious ranch in the California desert that she's sure is a fraud. Ambitious Brooke goes there under...



  • Don Bruns

    Congressman Shapply, a former music insider who now leads the crusade against offensive lyrics in rap songs, is attacked and murdered in from of his Washington D.C. home. His son Nick is arrested and charged with murder. For veteran music journalist ...




  • Joe Buff

    Jeffrey Fuller is going back to war. Commander Fuller has distinguished himself in battle, becoming one of America's most inspirational heroes in its war with the Berlin-Boer Axis. Time and time again, Fuller has taken his crew of elite submariners...



  • Dorothy Butler

    O'Reilly is a much-loved teddy bear who lives with a little boy, a rabbit, a monkey and a furry brown mouse. But by night he dreams of real bears in caves among the rocks. One day he runs away and goes to live with the real bears who live in the fore...



  • Laura Caldwell

    A Clean Slate chronicles the days of Kelly McGraw, a Chicago woman who suddenly can't remember the last five months of her life, a time when she was dumped by her soon-to-be fiance and laid off by the company she thought would make her partner. Overw...



  • Nicole Camden
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    Things get even hotter in Nicole Camden's "The Nekkid Truth" when crime scene photographer Debbie Valley works more closely than ever with the detective who has fascinated her for years. After a harrowing accident Debbie finds her life forever change...



  • Stella Cameron

    Just weeks after inheriting Rosebank, a once-magnificent plantation on the banks of Bayou Teche, David Patin was killed in a mysterious fire, leaving his daughter, Vivian, almost bankrupt. With few options remaining, Vivian Patin decides to restore t...



  • Andrea Camilleri

    “You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in crime fiction, blasts the brain like a shot of pure oxygen. Ag...



  • Orson Scott Card

    Alvin has been trying to avert a terrible war that his wife Peggy, a torch of extraordinary power, has seen down the lifelines of every American. Now she has sent him down the Mizzippy to the city of New Orleans, or Nueva Barcelona as they call it un...



  • Peter Carey

    Fiendishly devious and addictively readable, Peter Carey’s My Life as a Fake is a moral labyrinth constructed around the uneasy relationship between literature and lying. In steamy, fetid Kuala Lumpur in 1972, Sarah Wode-Douglass, the editor of a L...



  • Liz Carlyle
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    In Liz Carlyle's "Let's Talk About Sex," Dr. Delia Sydney dishes out perfectly sound sex advice on the radio. So how is it that this slightly repressed divorcee is so easily seduced by her bad-boy neighbor? And just what is it about Nick Woodruff, a ...



  • Jimmy Carter

    The first work of fiction by a President of the United States -- a sweeping novel of the American South and the War of Independence.In his ambitious and deeply rewarding novel, Jimmy Carter brings to life the Revolutionary War as it was fought in the...



  • Michael Cassutt

    It's 2005, and the world has changed. International terrorists have released a genetically modified disease, called X-Pox, on the world. There is no greater challenge to medicine than finding a cure. Biochem billionaire Tad Mikleszewski (called T...



  • Linda Castillo

    48 INTENSE HOURS Lean, edgy former police detective Jack LaCroix had forty-eight hours to clear his name and keep his freedom. To do it, the escaped prisoner needed attorney Landis McAllister -- the woman he'd once thought would share his life. Th...




  • Barbara Chase-Riboud

    It is Paris, 1815. An extraordinarily shaped South African girl known as the Hottentot Venus, dressed only in feathers and beads, swings from a crystal chandelier in the duchess of Berry’s ballroom. Below her, the audience shouts insults and porn...



  • Giff Cheshire

    Contains three short novels--Comanche Prairie, in which a trail boss is falsely accused of murder; No Man's Range, in which a ruthless cattle baron turns away a man in need; and River of Gold, in which gold fever plagues a sma...



  • Deborah Chester

    It has been seven years since the half-elven Dain took his rightful place upon the throne of Nether, with the warrior-woman Alexeika beside him. Their rule has ushered in an unprecedented era of peace and prosperity. But Dain's legacy is not secu...



  • Matt Christopher

    Will Tim stick by his friend? Thirteen-year-old Tim Daniels can't wait to go to four weeks of summer basketball camp. A scrappy point guard, he's sure he'll shine on the court. But then he learns that his friend Billy will be going to camp with hi...



  • Matt Christopher

    Who's teaching the Badgers dirty tricks? Twelve-year-old Brent Mullen isn't sure he's seeing what he thinks he's seeing. Did his best friend and teammate just pull a dirty trick on the ice -- all for the sake of winning? And, if so, where did he l...



  • Jill Churchill

    One would never guess to look at suburbanite homemaker Jane Jeffry that she would be interested in murder, but she's practically an expert on the subject. Which is why, with best buddy Shelley Nowack in tow, Jane's booking down to a nearby mystery wr...



  • Meg Waite Clayton

    FINALIST FOR THE BELLWETHER PRIZE

    Nelly Grace is starting over. With her two young sons, Nelly has fled to the simple stone house built by her great-grandfather in the moneyed horse country of Maryland in order to escape the grief of her husba...



  • Caroline Clemmons

    REFORMING A ROGUE... Sarah Kincaid wants only the simple things: a home, a family, and a place in the community, where she can set a good example and lead a moral life. So when she discovers that the terms of her mother's will have made her the ...



  • Judith Ortiz Cofer

    La nina seria, the serious child. That's how Consuelo's mother has cast her pensive, book-loving daughter, while Consuelo's younger sister Mili, is seen as vivacious--a ray of tropical sunshine. Two daughters: one dark, one light; one to offer comfor...



  • Elaine Coffman

    What's an honorable Scot to do when a beautiful woman washes ashore beneath the family castle? Give her to his brother? When Tavish Graham stumbles upon the naked body of Sophie d'Alembert, he thinks she is dead. But it doesn't take him long to di...



  • Jane Candia Coleman

    New York critic R. Rabinowitz called this lyrical novel of misplaced desire and ambition, thwarted passion, and enduring love, “Beautiful, wondrous, and wise.†Coleman, who lived on a small Italian island for almost a year, an island that could h...



  • Roxanne Conrad

    Sheriff's Deputy Dan Fox doesn't expect trouble when he pulls over a speeder outside of the lonely West Texas town of Exile...but he gets it in the form of Megan Leary. Meg—an Exile native—was acquitted of her mother's brutal slaying 15 y...



  • Gloria Cook

      An “Edwardian soap opera†of divided family loyalties that “most will enjoy, especially those who have been following the Harvey family†saga (Booklist).   The Great War is over, and the Harvey family of Ford Farm are slowly picki...



  • Rick Copp

    "Baby, don't even go there!" That was Jarrod Jarvis's catch phrase as the adorable, girl-crazy moppet on the eighties sitcom, Go To Your Room! It was a great ride until the tabloids caught the popular teen idol kissing another guy at the L.A. gay ro...



  • Nicola Cornick

    Lord Robert Selborne intended to kiss the chimney sweep's daughter for luck at his cousin's wedding...not marry her! But of all the ladies assembled, she was the only one who captured his interest. And unless she became his wife in name only,...



  • Dick Couch

    After losing his son in the September 11 attacks, wealthy industrialist Joseph Simpson forms the Intervention Force (IFOR) -- a surgical strike team led by former Navy SEAL Garrett Walker. Officially, the group is a rogue operation with no government...



  • Audrey Couloumbis

    When twelve-year-old Casey came home to an empty apartment, she didn't think much of it. But when she wakes up the next morning, and her stepmother, Sylvia, still hasn't come home, she knows that something is wrong. Casey doesn't have any other famil...



  • Arthur Byron Cover

    Over the course of generations, the once mighty empire known as The United Republics of The Red Star (U.R.R.S.) slaughtered millions of its own people by the order of a single man. This man was their leader, Imbohl: a mighty sorcerer whose insanit...



  • Richard Edward Crabbe

    New York City, August 1889: within sight of Madison Square Park, a man lays dead in a darkened construction site. Jim Tupper, a Mohawk of the Iroquois nation, stands over the body. Within minutes he's seen. And as police whistles scream in the night,...



  • Jim Crace

    A major new novel about sex and the citizen by the award-winning author of Being DeadThe timid life of actor Felix Dern is uncorrupted by Hollywood, where his success has not yet been shackled with any intrusive fame. But in the theaters and the rest...



  • Melanie Craft

    Veterinarian Carly Martin is a soft touch when it comes to animals. And no animals need her more than the thirty-five pets left in her care after eccentric millionaire Henry Tremayne falls and slips into a coma. If only she weren't as susceptible to ...



  • John Dalmas

    MYSTIC EARTH WARRIORS VS. ALIEN CULTS OF CHAOS After a global war had crippled Earth's civilization, lizard-like aliens had thought they would have no trouble in moving in and taking over. That was a big mistake--secret galactic agents had been tr...



  • Emma Darcy

    The secret virgin... Rosalie James appears to have it all: looks, wealth and a successful modeling career. But no one knows the secrets of her past. And the passionate playboy... Adam Cazell lives life in the fast lane, too. And he's infuriate...



  • Lilian Darcy

    A love that can overcome all the odds? Delivering babies all day while knowing she would never have one of her own was hard enough for midwife Katherine McConnell. Harder still, on her first date with gorgeous obstetrician Gian Di Luzio she discov...



  • George Daugherty

    From acclaimed author Amy Tan comes an entirely different kind of character: She's curious and imaginative. She's inclined to get into mischief. She's Sagwa--the Chinese Siamese cat!

    In this story, Sagwa's cousin comes to visit the palace. The...



  • George Daugherty

    From acclaimed author Amy Tan comes an entirely different kind of character: She's curious and imaginative. She's inclined to get into mischief. She's Sagwa--the Chinese Siamese cat!

    Sagwa and Sheegwa enjoy playing hide and seek with their fri...



  • Carolyn Davidson
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    Though Honey Bell Morris claimed she was simply caring for the old man she'd found lost in a snowstorm, Zachary Bennett was sure she was after his grandfather's money. But Honey Bell had a nurturing warmth that could melt even the most hardened of he...



  • Freda Davies

    Detective Inspector Keith Tyrell must overcome the jealousy and ill-will of his senior officer, Detective Chief Inspector Whittaker, to investigate the deaths of four girls in the Forest of Dean, a case complicated by the discovery of the bones of a ...



  • Chip Davis

    Do you hear what I hear?

    From the founder of Mannheim Steamroller, the music group that has redefined Christmas with their innovative sound, comes a heartwarming novel about the spirit of the holidays -- complete with an exclusive Mannh...



  • Keith R.A. Decandido

    BEGINNING AN ALL-NEW SERIES OF KLINGON™ ADVENTURES! These are the voyages of the Klingon Defense Force vessel I.K.S. Gorkon, part of the mighty new Chancellor class. Its mission: to explore strange new worlds...to seek out new life and new civilizat...



  • Ed Dee

    Eddie knows Kate has been taken for something he's done. He knows the Russians are involved, and he knows where they live, how they work, and where their bodies are buried. But the cops and Feds will give Eddie more trouble than help, his tangled loy...



  • Martin Delrio

    In this gripping conclusion, Tara Campbell, the leader of the Northwind Highlanders, must save the planet of Terra from Anastasia Kerensky, the brutal leader of the Steel Wolves who will stop at nothing to gain control of Terra. Original....



  • Janelle Denison
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    Untamable, sexy, and a complete rogue, Adrian Wilde more than lives up to his name. The sports enthusiast loves any kind of adventure--especially with the opposite sex--and he's determined never to let any woman change his bad boy image. It's a feat ...



  • Kathie DeNosky
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    When Marilou Baker decides she can't face her sisters in her condition -- eight months pregnant and abandoned -- she enlists the help of a sexy stranger as her pretend fiance. But this holiday charade has more surprises than she expected!...



  • Jamie Denton

    The heat is on! OSHA investigator Jana Linney has never had good sex. So when she approaches hot firefighter Ben Perry in a bar, she's not sure what she's thinking. Having a one-night stand is totally not her, but if anyone can "help" her, he can....



  • Jacqueline DeSoignee

    A savvy, irresistible guide to being a princess in today's society follows Princess Jacqueline de Soignee as she adheres to the rules of royalty, while another bold, no-holds-barred guide introduces the world of "divadom" where self-confidence and sa...



  • Jude Deveraux

    A relentless campaign by phone, letter, and email has persuaded Hollander Latham's parents to purchase the home of her dreams: Spring Hill, a beautiful North Carolina plantation where Holly spent her memorable thirteenth summer. Now a successful arch...



  • Eric Jerome Dickey

    With all the humor, passion, and soul his fans have come to expect, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey has written a novel with enough spice to warm even the coldest winter nights.... “Just in time for the holidays...a very funny ...



  • Andy Diggle

    Judge Dredd is 2000 AD's most popular ongoing series Features the Aliens from the smash-hit movie series Full promotion with the 'Judge Dredd vs Judge Death' computer game Over 50,000 Judge Dredd collections sold in 2002 Sketchbook and covers gallery...



  • Cameron Dokey

    Earth, water, fire, air, Aid me in this task I dare. Where Cole wanders let me see. As I will, So mote it be. Cole is working late, and her sisters are having a girls' night in, so on the spur of the moment, Phoebe accepts what seems like an ...



  • Robyn Donald

    He wants her -- but she won't give in! Paige Howard has had a secret desire for New Zealand tycoon Marc Corbett ever since they'd met -- when he married her best friend! Six years later, still a virgin, Paige has never felt the same ...



  • Greg Donegan

    It has invaded before. Ten thousand years ago, when it destroyed Atlantis, leaving no trace of the civilization's existence aside from myth and legend. Across parallel dimensions, Earth after Earth has fallen before it. But one Earth has been able t...



  • Judy Donnelly

    In 1692, an earthquake buried an entire city full of pirate treasure! 300 years later the lost city and its wealth were found. But not all treasures have been found, many mysteries still remain. Learn about these fantastic true stories in this non-fi...



  • Charlotte Douglas

    FOR JESSICA, The note was accompanied by a single red rose on a white satin pillow. For Miami businesswoman Jessica Landon, the gesture was anything but romantic. She'd been in snowy Montana less than a day, and already she'd become the target of a ...



  • Keith Douglass

    NUCLEAR PIRACY Fifteen hundred miles west of Hawaii, the freighter Willowwind is hijacked with enough weapons-grade plutonium onboard to blast all the major capitals of the world into radioactive dust. These pirates are planning to sell the plutoniu...



  • Ty Drago

    THE PHOBOS BEAST Lt. Mike Brogue is one of a kind: the only native Martian to be a commissioned officer, he's the military's poster boy for relieving political tensions between Mars Colony and Earth. But wants nothing more than to do his job as a ...



  • Scout Driggs

    Neverland is a magical place. With Peter Pan to lead the way, Wendy, her brothers, and the Lost Boys are in for one adventure after another. Whether they are making friends with an Indian princess or escaping the clutches of the evil Captain Hook,...



  • Dave Duncan

    Elite warrior swordsmen, they are unequalled in any time or realm ... The King's Blades The King has decreed that new Blades must be sworn into the service of the Grand Duke Rubin, deposed by a foul usurper and currently on the run. But none of...



  • Stuart Dybek

    Major new fiction from an acclaimed masterFrom the prizewinning writer Stuart Dybek comes a superb new work: a novel-in-stories, eleven masterful tales told by a single voice with remarkable narrative power. In I Sailed With Magellan, Dybek finds cha...



  • Kate Egan

    Drawn from the live-action movie that will be released in December 2003, this exciting novel, featuring photos from the film, follows the Neverland adventures of Peter Pan, Wendy, and the Lost Boys. Original. 150,000 first printing....



  • Kate Egan

    From the moment Peter Pan flies into their home, life for the three Darling children is never the same. Follow along as they set off on a journey to a magical land. Only Peter Pan knows the way -- second to the right and straight on till morning!<...



  • Clive Egleton

    Major John Tarrant works for the British Military Intelligence handling information filtered in from Russia and the Warsaw Pact countries. His life is peaceful until a Russian agent known as Drabble kidnaps his son and demands a ransom of 500,000 in ...



  • Thomas Eidson

    The year is 1886 and old Samuel Jones, broken in body and soul, has ridden hard to reach his daughter’s remote New Mexico ranch -- ridden hard so that he can die there. But Maggie Baldwin, grown and with children of her own, wants nothing to do wit...



  • Lisa Eisenberg

    Provides early readers with a collection of amusing dinosaur-related riddles, such as "What do you get if you cross a dinosaur with a rabbit? Tricerahops!" and "What did dinosaur campers cook over the fire? Dino-s'mores!" Reprint....



  • Ronn Elmore

    He's the super-hot star of the first African-American-owned Christian television network. He's also attracted to two accomplished, brilliant, and godly women. But Dr. Dwayne Grandison's life is about to explode in a devastating scandal that could des...



  • Lynn Emery
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    The hilariously sexy chronicle of Five women at work, at play, and in love... Together, they make up Allheart.com, the online greeting card company where love often Falls apart, lives occasionally go awry--but friends are always there to put every...



  • Garth Ennis

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  • Lynn Erickson

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  • David Farland

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  • Terri Farley

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  • Howard Fast

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  • Christine Feehan

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  • Christine Feehan

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  • Maxence Fermine

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  • Marie Ferrarella

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  • Sandra Field

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  • Liz Fielding

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  • Sharon Fiffer

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  • Gerry Finley-Day

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  • Patricia Finney

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  • Elaine Flinn

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  • Alan Dean Foster

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  • Susan Fox

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  • Diana Pharaoh Francis

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  • Wendy French

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  • Laura Gale

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  • Robert Gandt

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  • Lea Gillespie Gant

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  • Katherine Garbera

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  • Brian Garfield

    Edgar Award-winning author

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  • Glenda Garland

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  • William F. Gavin

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  • Melanie George

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  • Art Ginolfi

    In this endearing new book by Art Ginolfi, Lacy, the tiny snowflake, searches for her special purpose in life. Carried through a quiet, wintry night with gentle nudges from the wind, Lacy discovers that God will make us all sparkle, if we only tru...



  • Dara Girard

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  • Victor Gischler

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  • Lynne Graham

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  • Jane Graves

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  • Keith Graves

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  • Devin Grayson

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  • Crystal Green

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  • Kim Green

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  • Simon R. Green

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  • Elena Greene

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  • Jennifer Greene

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  • Kristiana Gregory

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  • Katherine Greyle

    ALMOST THERE Carolly Hanson was training to be an angel, or so she believed. It was the only explanation for why she kept dying and reappearing in different places and times. Clearly she was intended to help people--and clearly the best way to hel...



  • Dan Gutman

    Johnny Moore lives in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina at the turn of the twentieth century. He is there to witness the Wright brothers make history by becoming the first people to fly. But Johnny's life changes years before the dramatic first flight...



  • Adam Hall

    Facing his nineteenth and final assignment for his top-secret British intelligence agency, Quiller endeavors to infiltrate the mafiya of post-Cold War Russia in order to take out a brilliant crime lord and British national, a mission for whic...



  • Parnell Hall

    'Tis the season to be jolly, but Cora Felton, shanghaied into "The Twelve Days of Christmas" as a most reluctant maid-a-milking, has every right to feel like a grinch. When someone steals the partridge from the pear tree and replaces it with a crypti...



  • Denis Hamill

    Christmas 1963. A nation mourns the loss of its president. A young boy mourns the life his Irish-Catholic, working-class father never had. Rory Maguire is a fourteen-year-old boy looking for a better life for himself and his family in Brooklyn, New...



  • Diana Hamilton

    Will she become the Latin lover's bride? Lisa Pennington will do anything to help her family -- even if that means accepting an indecent proposal from the man who broke her heart! For five years Diego Raffacani has thought of nothing but Li...



  • David Handler

    A VIEW TO DIE FOR It's the peak of the tourist season on the beautiful Connecticut gold coast. But this is no ordinary July for the picture-perfect village of Dorset--or for transplanted New York film critic Mitch Berger and his alluring love, Res...



  • Steven Harper

    The Dream has been shattered, and the majority of Silent who telepathically communicated through it have been cast out by the event known as the Despair, unable to reenter. Now the remaining Silent still capable of linking to the Dream have become a ...



  • Robert Harris

    All along the Mediterranean coast, the Roman empire's richest citizens are relaxing in their luxurious villas, enjoying the last days of summer. The world's largest navy lies peacefully at anchor in Misenum. The tourists are spending their money in t...



  • Robin Hathaway

    Dr. Fenniman has a surprised communication from a cousin he doesn't know, who lives in Prague, and she indicates that she and her family are having serious problems and needs help from him. Off he goes to Prague to help her in whatever way he can, an...



  • Steven F. Havill

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  • Karen Hawkins

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  • Mary Hawkins

    Populated by those unwanted by "proper" society - and by those willing to pursue love around the world - Australia began to flourish in the early 1800s. Now, lifelong Australian Mary Hawkins brings these brave Aussie characters to life: The convict a...




  • Lorraine Heath

    When Kelley Spencer moves back to her hometown of Hopeful with her sister, she hopes desperately to protect sixteen-year-old Madison from the trouble that seemed to find her in Dallas. Almost immediately, a brush with the law reveals that the police ...



  • Thomas Hettche

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  • David Hill

    Cory loves the mountain. He and his dad call it 'the sleeper'. Corey's dad works as a conservationist and spends a lot of time on the mountain. Together they feel its first trembles. Down in the town no one even wants to think about the eruption - un...



  • Donna Hill; Francis Ray

    Denise has always been the faithful wife and dutiful mother. As a matter of fact, it seems that is all she has been in the twenty-plus years she and her husband, Edward, have been married. But the kids are grown and out of the house, and she's ready ...




  • Victoria Hinshaw

    Will A Misguided Matchmaker... Happily devoted to running her school for local children, Miss Eleanor Milford could never forsake her independence for marriage. But her formidable grandmother insists that she find a husband for her flighty young co...



  • Ken Hodgson

    For years, Jake Crabtree, a luckless and lazy prospector, has been searching for gold. Coming out of a winter hibernation - a time when Jake goes on one long alcoholic binge - he learns that his benefactor Dr. MacNair is at death's door. The doc's la...




  • Emma Holly

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  • Thomas R. Holtz

    Was Tyrannosaurus rex a speedy and savage hunter, or was it a slow-moving scavenger, surviving on scraps left from other dinosaurs? World-renowned tyrannosaur expert Dr. Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. shares the evidence on both sides of the argument in this e...



  • Thomas Hoover

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