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New Books List: 515 titles


  • Linda Lael Miller
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    Feeling the chill of winter? Then grab a glass of egg nog, take a seat by the yule log, and warm yourself heart and soul with these four captivating tales of passion that make mistletoe seem so unnecessary... A matchbox advent calendar first brou...



  • Peg Kehret

    DON'T TALK TO STRANGERS... When Matt leaves his kindergarten class for a quick trip to the bathroom, he never imagines what will happen next. He suddenly finds himself in a stranger's car traveling to an unfamiliar place. But who is this man, and is...



  • Rick Copp

    They say bad news comes in threes. Jarrod Jarvis is about to test that theory. Bad news item #1. Former child actor (and constant comeback candidate) Jarrod Jarvis fails to convince the California parole board not to release Wendell Butterworth, ...



  • Valerie King

    WITH A LITTLE LUCK... Possessed of an ancient map that marks a smuggler's buried treasure, Lady Evelina Wesley has only to secure the cooperation of her neighbor, the Earl of Rotherstone, to find it--but he flatly refuses to permit her onto his ...



  • Kevin Ryan

    A gripping novel of suspense follows a master thief who, after retiring to a remote island paradise, matches wits with a relentless FBI agent and a gorgeous cop out to make sure that he stays out of the game. Original. (A New Line Cinema film, releas...



  • Stephen Baxter

    "This book, then, is the story of how a farmer's son from Scotland learned to peer into the deepest abysses of time. It is a drama of personality, landscape and ideas, of an intellectual revolution that shaped our world--and of a man whose vision, ro...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    SHE DIDN'T DATE COPS. HE DIDN'T DATE. Heck, the reclusive officer hardly spoke to anyone other than his faithful K-9 companion. So what harm could come from Patience Cavanaugh letting the haunted rebel protect her from a dangerous stalker? She mig...



  • Janice MacDonald

    Zoe McCann doesn't care much for doctors Especially eminent neurosurgeons who are too busy to attend to their patients. Like Dr. Phillip Barry, who wasn't available the night Jenny, the daughter of Zoe's best friend, was brought to the E.R. So ...



  • Jude Deveraux

    Darci has never given up searching for her kidnapped husband, Adam Montgomery. But her quest has taken her deeper into the world of psychic phenomena than she ever dreamed -- or dared to go. When the FBI enlists her help in locating the missing fathe...



  • Thomas Kinkade; Katherine Spencer

    Katherine is the daughter of the lighthouse keeper. She dreams of becoming a painter. But in 1905, a girl can't grow up to be a famous artist -- can she?Rose just moved to the town of Cape Light. She wants to fit in with her new friends, but Rose has...



  • Chris Achilleos

    Chris Achilleo's science fiction/fantasy artwork ranges from his acclaimed Doctor Who and Star Trek covers to the erotic pin-ups that made him famous. In Amazona, Achilleos brings together previously uncollected and unseen artwork....



  • J.C. Greenburg

    The evil Dr. Kron-Tox has kidnapped Uncle Al and whisked him away in his time machine! Luckily, Andrew has a time machine of his own. But like most of Andrew’s inventions, the Time-a-Tron doesn’t work quite right. It tumbles Andrew, Judy, and Thu...



  • Paul Ruditis

    Check out that scalpel-sharp dialogue and see how the intricate plotting of seasons 3 and 4 unfolds in this essential guide to the show and how it is made. This volume covers 44 episodes (22 per season) in detail, and is packed with behind-the-scenes...



  • Kent Conwell

    When Clay Morgan and his sidekick Twitch Mabry rode out of Texas for Kansas City to pick up Clay's orphaned nephew and niece, they planned to make the return trip in the debatable comfort of a stagecoach.

    They had no idea their return journey wou...



  • Jason Manning

    From the author of War Lovers- the historical series continues...

    With southern sucession from the Union looming in the East, the doomed Apaches in the West are determined to die fighting, taking with them as many of their hated enemy as the...



  • Maureen McKade

    When police officer Paddy Hawkins is found dead in his bedroom with a revolver in his hand and a note on the nightstand, all the evidence points to suicide. Case closed--except to one man. Ex-Army Ranger Nick Sirocco was the last person to hear from ...



  • Gary Russell

    A dual-edition full-color book for the millions of fans who have taken The Lord of the Rings to heart through the celebrated film trilogy. Many of the images included in this volume, depicting pivotal scenes and characters, were previously emba...



  • Allan Massie

    A thrilling and highly original retelling of the Arthurian legend with a twist!It is the aftermath of the Roman occupation of Britain. Kings are now jockeying for position, for title, for land and for power. A young boy confounds the most famous knig...



  • Paul Auster

    A timeless, utterly charming Christmas fable, beautifully illustrated and destined to become a classicWhen Paul Auster was asked by The New York Times to write a Christmas story for the Op-Ed page, the result, "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story," led to ...



  • John Edward Williams

    A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical figures through their letters, dispatches, and memoirs.

    A...



  • Margaret Way

    Bronte McAllister's had enough of rich, ruthless men -- she's just narrowly escaped marrying one! Now she's wary of all men, especially when six feet two inches of pure Australian male arrives on her doorstep with a business proposal.... ...



  • Julius Lester

    Rebecca Nachman is a Rabbi without a synagogue. Having resigned from her dwindling congregation, she now works as a college counselor at a small Vermont college advising students about private matters and offering the "Jewish perspective" on issues r...





  • Kate McMullan

    Hark, hark the dogs do bark, The babies are heading for home, Some with hats, and some with cats, And one with a brush and a comb. From beloved author Kate McMullan and illustrator Pascal Lemaître comes the perfect collection of nursery rhymes for t...



  • J. Lee Butts

    Lucius Dodge, now a renowned and feared Texas Ranger, revisits his life before he fought side-by-side with Deputy U.S. Marshal Hayden Tilden when he exacted his own brand of justice, without a badge, on the hired killers responsible for murdering his...



  • Jacqueline Carey

    IF ALL THAT IS GOOD THINKS YOU'RE EVIL...ARE YOU? Once upon a time, the Seven Shapers dwelled in accord and Shaped the world to their will. But Satoris, the youngest among them, was deemed too generous in his gifts to the race of Men, and so began...



  • Margot Livesey

    A couple begins an intense affair, only to be separated abruptly-and perhaps irrevocably-in this surprising, suspenseful love story Zeke is twenty-nine, a man who looks like a Raphael angel and who earns his living as a painter and carpenter in Londo...



  • Odo Hirsch

    The third book in the Bartlett series follows our regular cast of characters-Bartlett, Jacques le Grand, and their young apprentice Gozo-on what may be their strangest adventure yet. Plunging into a wild, unexplored jungle, they discover a forgott...



  • Diann Hunt

    Abigail loves her adoptive parents dearly. But she wants to know who would have left her in a basket on the O'Connor's doorstep. Titus Matthews has no such concerns. He knows who is responsible for his father's death and his family's financial rui...



  • Percival Muntz

    This early chapter book starring Batman and the Joker has forty pages and full color, comic-book style illustrations.

    Kids will love this adventure-filled story featuring a favorite and timeless superhero--The Dark Knight, Batman!

    The J...



  • Alex Hacke

    "When I was a little boy I had a little, silent bear called Sunday..."
    So begins a story in which a boy and his bear are inseparable. They do everything together, from morning till night. But one morning the boy wonders why Sunday never gives h...



  • Elizabeth Marek

    Psychologist Abby Cohen is still reeling from the loss of her beloved daughter when another young girl arrives in her life - twelve-year-old Miranda, who appears at Abby's hospital mute, terrified, and completely alone. As she struggles to connect ...



  • Matthew Hughes

    IN THE FAR DISTANT FUTURE, WHEN THE SUN IS BEGINNING TO DIE.. . Young security officer Boro Harkless, an idealist driven by the memory of his heroic father, and jaded Luff Imbry, a mountebank, swindler, and forger of the first water, form an uneas...



  • Francis Ray
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    Ayanna Hardcastle pretends that she is dating wealthy businessman Tanner Rafferty, in order to get her matchmaking friend off her back. But, she never imagined that Tanner Rafferty would show up to collect on that claim!...



  • Greg Cox

    BEFORE UNDERWORLD, THE WAR RAGED ON.... For untold centuries, a secret conflict has been waged between two immortal rivals: The vampires -- ageless aristocrats with a sensual appetite for blood and luxury. Among their ranks are the Death Deal...



  • Nora Roberts

    A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries- old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... Trying to escape the ghosts of ...



  • Charles de Lint

    World Fantasy Award winner Charles de Lint weaves a spellbinding contemporary fantasy that will leave you breathless.

    When Imogene, her mother, and her brother move to Newford, she decides to reinvent herself -- this time she won't go looking ...



  • Millie Criswell

    Some languages need no interpretation... Ellie Peters has a great apartment, a cool job as a UN interpreter, and a terrific dog. Now all she needs is the right guy to share it with and life will be perfect. But everything she's worked for is threa...



  • David Leavitt

    Denny is a secretary who has just begun an affair with her boss, while also maintaining a friendship with his wife. Invited to the family's house for Thanksgiving dinner, she enters into a chain of events that will change everyone's lives in ...



  • Bill Crider

    Sally's husband has been dead for eight years; his remote ancestor, the witch Sarah Good, died on the scaffold in Salem more than four hundred years ago. Yet the president of Sally's college is afraid the story will reflect on the institution. Sa...



  • Amanda Ashley
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    When Lady Shanara Montiori is taken hostage, she learns that the rumors about her captor are true. Lord Reyes is afflicted with the dark curse of the werewolf. Still, Shanara can't fight the attraction they both feel. Will their love break the curse-...



  • Donna Jo Napoli

    YOUNG XING XING IS BOUND. Bound to her father's second wife and daughter after Xing Xing's father has passed away. Bound to a life of servitude as a young girl in ancient China, where the life of a woman is valued less than that of livestock. Bound ...



  • Laura Childs

    From Laura Childs, author of the popular Tea Shop Mysteries, comes scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand, who delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But when a fiance winds up dead before the "I...



  • Nicole Burnham

    Five Steps to Happily Ever After... (by Katie Schmidt, chronically unmarried bridal shop owner) 1) Find down-to-earth divorced dad Jared Porter standing in your shop, looking like a bull in a china shop. 2) Try to ignore the sizzle in the ai...



  • Sally Farrell Odgers

    While staying in Australia, American Rowena Maven meets an amazing boy named Patrick whose creative flair leads to adventure, but whose need for secrecy sends her on a quest to find the truth about this mysterious Aussie. Original....



  • Michael Armstrong
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    Investigations of a Different Kind Conjured from the minds of today's most innovative authors, Powers of Detection features a dozen tales of mystery and fantasy, set in worlds where sleuths may wield wands instead of firearms--and criminals may be...



  • Merline Lovelace
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    As commander of her combat engineering team, air force reservist Abby Trent has a job to do -- and Special Ops major Dan Maxwell seems determined to get in her way. But as they work together on a crucial bridge, Abby discovers there is a lot more to ...



  • Bob Burton

    Bounty hunter Dev Shannon doesn't go looking for trouble. It's usually there when he wakes up in the morning... The Good This time, Shannon had his work cut out for him when the wife of an old friend disappears, and his buddy ends up facing a mu...



  • Sharon Fiffer

    THE WORLD'S LARGEST GARAGE SALE... MURDER INCLUDED Antiques picker Jane Wheel is going home, back to Kankakee, Illinois. In this little town that time forgot, a farmer friend of Jane's parents has dug up some mysterious old bones and relics. Jane ...



  • Kathryn Lasky

    A GREAT BATTLE is on the horizon and drawing near. In preparation, Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies and study the grim art of war. Meanwhile, St. Aggie's has fallen to the Pure Ones. If they are not st...



  • Doug Allyn

    An Edgar Award-winning Author

    After a stint in jail which cost him his wife and career, Dr. David Westbrook takes his battered Jeep, a one-eyed cat, and his troubled past to northern Michigan to start over. He plans to open a small country clinic ...



  • Eugenia Riley

    When Cole Reklaw offers a prime parcel of ranchland to the first of his five children to marry and produce a grandchild, his daughter Molly vows to win. She heads for Reklaw Gorge--where her pa had once "bushwhacked" his future bride off a stagecoach...



  • Sarah-Kate Lynch

    Love, loss, and the redemptive power of breadmaking are the irresistible ingredients in this warm, witty novel by the author of Blessed Are the Cheesemakers...



  • Jay Caselberg
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    Investigations of a Different Kind Conjured from the minds of today's most innovative authors, Powers of Detection features a dozen tales of mystery and fantasy, set in worlds where sleuths may wield wands instead of firearms--and criminals may be...



  • Sally Kahler Phillips

    Who wants some cake and pie? A hungry boy does! But when he sits down to enjoy these delicious desserts, he discovers his cat and his dogs have other plans. Will he ever get to satisfy his sweet tooth? This very simple reader has punchy text, appeali...



  • Celya Bowers

    STUBBORN HEARTS Fired from her high-profile job as an advertising director, Randa Stone joins a rival company as an assistant to top executive Justin Brewster. Justin is chauvinistic, irritating and way too attractive for Randa's peace of mind. Whe...



  • Lezlie Evans

    In this dynamic counting book you can learn to count in ten different languages: Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Tagalog, Russian, Hindi, Hebrew, and even Zulu! Amaze your teachers, impress your friends, and prepare yourself for world tra...




  • Dewey Lambdin

    Sailing in the Caribbean, Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, is once again pursuing a chimera.A rich French prize ship he'd left at anchor at Dominica has gone missing, along with six of his sailors. What starts as a straightforward search for it, and them, fr...



  • Genell Dellin

    PASSION'S CAPTIVE The powerful sensuality of Creed Sixkiller makes Raney's heart race ... the same as it did three years ago when he proposed to her. But she refused him then, for her family was too finely bred to allow her to marry an Indian. Now...



  • Lilian Darcy

    When Keelan Hunter's half-sister died in childbirth leaving twin premature babies, he was the obvious person to step in and become their new father. After all, he was a consultant pediatrician. But he needed help -- so he hired a nurse, Jessica Russe...



  • Ruth Dudley Edwards

    "The literary cognoscenti ('the superciliati,' she calls them) hold no terror for this ribald satirist." -- New York TimesWhen the chairperson of the prestigious Knapper-Warburton Literary Prize dies in suspicious circumstances, Robert Amiss (the tok...



  • Nancy Star

    Thanksgiving is just around the corner, and Fruitvale is abuzz with its yearly window-decorating contest. All the stores participate, and it's Casey, Dottie, and Leon's job to make sure Mrs. Calendar's bakery wins first place! As if the three frie...



  • Robert K. Massie

    In a work of extraordinary narrative power, filled with brilliant personalities and vivid scenes of dramatic action, Robert K. Massie, the Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and Dreadnought, elevates to its ...



  • Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

    The New York Times bestselling author of The Nine Emotional Lives of Cats and Dogs Never Lie About Love, Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson has given cat lovers a wonderful gift: a magical holiday story about a feline named Billi, who long ago, in ancient Ind...



  • Tina Leonard

    "You Haven't Dated a Real Cowboy Till You've Been a Jefferson's Girl." The only good things she'd ever gotten from a cowboy were her daughter and her son. And rodeo gypsy Olivia Spinlove had vowed she'd never again let an elusive, sexy cowboy corr...



  • Lisa G. Riley

    Tracy Adamson, the best friend from "At Last" is back in this novel by Lisa G. Riley. We meet the outspoken African-American again as she’s sneaking out of a Parisian apartment after indulging in a one-night stand with Jacques, a white Frenchman wh...



  • Marilyn Ross

    Wyndmoor Manor on the craggy Scottish coast seemed far removed from the shadows of the Stewarts ’'ancestral home of Stormhaven" but for the beautiful young Ardith Stewart, the dark fate of her clam seemed to be pursuing her to this isolated place. ...



  • Alastair Reynolds

    Three hundred years from now, Earth has been rendered uninhabitable due to the technological catastrophe known as the Nanocaust. Archaeologist Verity Auger specializes in the exploration of its surviving landscape. Now, her expertise is required f...



  • James Brant

    While investigating the attempted murder of scientist Nicolai Tarsove, homicide detective Harry Dymes exposes an international conspiracy, involving the FBI, the Chinese Triad, and the Russian mob, to unleash biological warfare on the world. Original...




  • Cheryl St. John

    After enduring so much tragedy, Meredith Malone celebrated her latest triumph -- delivery of a healthy baby girl! Meredith's dreams of motherhood had finally come true despite the fact that little Anna happened to be a different race than her mommy. ...



  • Esther Friesner
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    Featuring contributions by Diana L. Paxson, Rosemary Edghill, and Leslie Fish, among others, a powerful collection of original stories introduces a heroic cast of brave, strong-willed, and fiercely independant female characters, including a girl who ...



  • Margaret Mayo (1)

    Through tunnels rattling, at stations stopping. Clickety clack! Off they go! Young children will love travelling on an action packed journey through this busy book of vehicles, jam-packed with trains, planes, racing cars, sailing boats and more! Othe...



  • Jessica Hart

    The only thing Thea's looking for on her vacation on the Greek island of Crete is a little R and R -- she certainly doesn't expect to find herself roped in to being Rhys Kingsford's pretend fiancee! It definitely isn't relaxing being ...



  • Catherine Palmer
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    When Claire Ross visited her reclusive aunt Flossie upon moving back home, she never expected her gift of a holiday wreath to come sailing after her as she left. Nor did she suspect her aunt of harboring past secrets...and present mischief. But the g...



  • Gail Gaymer Martin
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    Caring for businessman Paul Stewart's twins was more than just a nanny job for Rose Danby, who longed for a family of her own. So when her employer, a widower, promised her the moon to relocate from sunny California to wintry Minnesota, Rose agreed, ...



  • Mary Higgins Clark; Carol Higgins

    The folks who picked a beautiful eighty-foot blue spruce from Stowe, Vermont, to be Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree don't have a clue that Packy Noonan, a scam artist just released from prison, hid priceless diamonds in it more than twelve...



  • Don Pendleton

    DRUGS. MONEY. BLOOD. Intelligence reports reach Mack Bolan of an alliance between a Russian mafiya chieftain and a Jamaican trafficker seeking to expand his drug empire into the streets of America. The partnership is getting some inside help from ...



  • Donna Andrews
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    Investigations of a Different Kind Conjured from the minds of today's most innovative authors, Powers of Detection features a dozen tales of mystery and fantasy, set in worlds where sleuths may wield wands instead of firearms--and criminals may be...



  • Maggie Shayne

    Seventeen years ago, government agent Joshua Kendall was part of the raid on the cultlike Young Believers compound. His own bullet killed an innocent girl, and he has lived with the guilt ever since. But a new assignment will reveal that the most sha...



  • Nina Bangs
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    Amanda Harcourt had one scorching night of incredible sex with Conleth Maguire on a Galveston, Texas, beach ten years ago. Then she’d left Con for a career in New York City. She’s back in Galveston now as the interior designer for the weird and w...



  • Patricia Jones

    A proud, strong African-American wife and mother, Antonia Racine Jackson raised two admirable children in Baltimore -- all the while taking silent note of a boy growing into manhood in a vastly different world. Reared in the bosom of wealth and privi...



  • Elmore Leonard

    A stellar collection of short fiction that spans the beloved master’s writing career

    The legendary New York Times bestselling author returns with another stellar collection of Western short fiction. In these classic tales that span more t...



  • Domenic Stansberry

    She Was Young...Beautiful... and DEAD! Jake Danser has it all: a beautiful wife, a house in the California hills, and a high-profile job as a forensic psychologist. But he's also got a mistress. And when she's found strangled to death with his nec...




  • Sandor Marai

    It is midnight, October 31st 1758 and Giacomo Casanova has escaped from a Venetian prison after sixteen months consigned to darkness and the underworld. Shaking off the enforced solitude, Casanova makes his way to Bolzano - the small village where he...



  • Lisa Jahn-Clough / Lisa Clough

    An honest and open look at a young girl experiencing and questioning her sexual awakening. Phoebe Sharp lives on a small farm in Maine, where she reads fairy tales to her goats and snaps pictures with her Instamatic camera. Phoebe doesn't have a s...



  • Michel Faber

    Three novellas filled with “gallows humor and a sense of real peril,” by the acclaimed author of The Book of Strange New Things (The New York Times). The bestselling author of The Crimson Petal and the White “draws his characters with assured c...



  • Joanne Pence

    MURDER MOST ENGAGING Normally dilettante chef and freelance food writer Angie Amalfi would rather be deep-fried than let her control-freak mother plan the party celebrating Angie's engagement to San Francisco homicide detective Paavo Smith. But th...



  • Barbara Pierce

    COURTING DANGER A scoundrel whose fame as an artist, libertine, and notorious seducer of beautiful women is ongoing fodder for the ton, Mallory Claeg has a secret obsession-Brook Meylan, Lady A'Court, a beautiful widow who abandoned London two years...



  • Naomi Ragen

    Living in terror-torn Jerusalem, Elise Margulies constantly fears for the safety of her loved ones. Confined to bedrest during a difficult pregnancy, she happily awaits the return of her husband and little girl from a ballet recital, only to find tha...



  • Mark Budz

    It’s a post-everything world, so how could everything possibly go wrong?When the ecotecture starts to degrade on the asteroid of Mymerciaâ€"killing a workgroup on the surfaceâ€"Fola Hanani miraculously survives. A former missionary, she’s hacked...




  • Karen Traviss

    Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a lost colony on a distant and dangerous planet -- a hostile world coveted by two alien races and fiercely protected by a third. But in the course of her mission, she overst...




  • Evan Marshall

    When murder strikes close to home and pretty young girls vanish from the privileged streets of Shady Hills, literary agent Jane Stuart finds herself in the midst of a real-life page-turner...with a deadly surprise ending... Jane couldn't say no wh...



  • Kirk Mitchell

    Badly wounded, Emmett Parker has come home. After thirteen years of assignments that took him to every Indian nation but his own, the veteran investigator has finally arrived in Oklahoma to heal. At once a son of the Nuhmuhnuh ("the People," as the C...



  • Lynn Kerstan

    "Exotic adventure, dangerous intrigue, and seductive passion" (Booklist) are the hallmarks of award-winning author Lynn Kerstan's novels. Now she presents a trilogy about a secretive fellowship dedicated to righting wrongs in the highest ...



  • Paula Marshall

    Sir Neville Fortescue MP comes from a long line of rakes and hell-raisers--and he's determined to live a decent life. He certainly doesn't associate with women like the notoriously unconventional Diana, Duchess of Medbourne. But when Nevil...



  • Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's vampire hero returns to Transylvania in Dark of the Sun, a novel in the Count Saint-Germain series

    It is the 6th century of the common era. The vampire Saint-Germain, known in this time as Zangi-Ragozh, is peacefully ...



  • John Lutz

    A killer dubbed "The Night Prowler" has turned the city that doesn't sleep into a town kept awake by terror. Unseen, he enters couples' homes. Unsuspected, he lingers until the perfect moment arrives. He leaves "gifts" for his victims--before taking ...



  • Alison Anderson

    "A love story, a war story, an ecological adventure, a biological poem, and a treatise on the fragility of life--Darwin's Wink has it all. The writing is so incantory that it almost floats off the page. In Fran, Alison Anderson has created a strong, ...



  • Hannah Bernard

    After a series of failed relationships, Hailey's made a New Year's resolution: No dating, no flirting, no men -- for an entire year! So what happens when you get six months into your no-dating year and then you meet temptation himself? Jordan Halifax...



  • Dana Kramer-Rolls
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    Featuring contributions by Diana L. Paxson, Rosemary Edghill, and Leslie Fish, among others, a powerful collection of original stories introduces a heroic cast of brave, strong-willed, and fiercely independant female characters, including a girl who ...



  • Maggie Shayne
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    MAGIC OF THE NIGHT... Every woman dreams about meeting the perfect man--the one whose power will spark her fiery passion and make her tremble with desire. Now, in this spellbinding collection, today's hottest authors present four devastatingly han...



  • Ron Benrey; Janet Benrey

    When Dame Elspeth falls over dead, presumably poisoned by a suspect creme brulee, can two pretentious prima donnas work together to solve this classically English crime--or will they end up victims of a tainted high tea themselves?...



  • Betsy Thornton

    Newly unattached Chloe Newcombe finds herself attracted to Terry Barnett, the carpenter she's hired to build some bookshelves for her home in the small desert community of Old Dudley, Arizona. But her hopes for a fling sink when Terry confesses he's ...



  • Michael Pearce

    From the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books, the first in a series introducing Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and Consulates of Europe in the early 1900s. Trieste in 1906 is one of the greatest seaports in the w...



  • Metsy Hingle

    Washington television reporter Tess Abbott is the best in the business, always getting the story and the truth. When the race for governor heats up in her home state of Mississippi, Tess jumps at the chance to cover it. Among the dozens of media c...



  • M.C. Beaton

    SHE'S OUTCLASSED, OUTMATCHED, AND OUTGUNNED Infuriated that her holiday was ruined by a mugging, Agatha Raisin decides to open up her own detective agency. The romance-minded sleuth is thrilled by visions of handsome fellow gumshoes and headline-m...



  • Don Pendleton

    MISFORTUNES OF WAR Nightwind, the military's best-kept secret, is the most lethal anti-missile aircraft in America's arsenal. Its solid-state laser system and advanced optics make it virtually indestructible and infinitely lethal. But, willing to ...



  • Stefan Chwin

    Germans flee the besieged city of Danzig in 1945. Poles driven out of eastern regions controlled by the Russians move into the homes hastily abandoned by their previous inhabitants. In an area of the city graced with beech trees and a stately cathedr...



  • Elizabeth Lowell

    Dear Reader, Sometimes, if you're very lucky, you can go home again. An earlier version of this book was titled The Diamond Tiger and came out in 1993 under the name Ann Maxwell. When my present publisher offered me the opportunity of going back t...



  • Mike Doogan
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    Investigations of a Different Kind Conjured from the minds of today's most innovative authors, Powers of Detection features a dozen tales of mystery and fantasy, set in worlds where sleuths may wield wands instead of firearms--and criminals may be...



  • Phil Dunlap

    In the dusty Arizona hamlet of Desert Belle, a mysterious explosion levels half of the adobe jail. It appears the notorious Bishop brothers have made good on their threat to escape before they could be brought to trial. At least it had looked that wa...



  • Indra Sinha

    In a family of storytellers, there was one tale never told ... "Call this story fiction if you want, but you must tell it because it is true, and at its heart is that murder of forty years ago which people in India still remember ... " The Death o...



  • Terry Goodkind

    A TALE OF THE POWER OF LOVE AND COURAGE IN A WORLD DESPERATE FOR BOTH A milestone of storytelling set in the world of The Sword of Truth, Debt of Bones is the story of young Abby's struggle to win the aid of the wizard Zedd Zorander, the most import...



  • K.J. Parker

    When an engineer is sentenced to death for a petty transgression of guild law, he flees the city, leaving behind his wife and daughter. Forced into exile, he seeks a terrible vengeance -- one that will leave a trail of death and destruction in its wa...



  • John R. Erickson

    Bored and tired with working the ranch during the long hot summer, Riley and Coy are excited when their friend Aaron Kaplan comes for a visit and begins to teach them about archeology and the great finds they may be able to find beneath their feet on...



  • Disney Book Group

    What a mess. First Kim’s best friend, Ron Stoppable, starts writing for the school paper. No big, right? But then he starts digging for dirt-and finds it. Adrena-Lynn, the big TV star known for her “ extreme” adventures, is nothing but a fak...



  • Sarah Morgan

    Consultant doctor Bryony Hunter is determined to fulfill her little girl's wish -- a daddy for Christmas. She is certain there must be someone out there who can answer the call, but time is running out. Jack Rothwell is a wonderful doctor in a...



  • Randall Ingermanson

    A start-up software company is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, and treachery is afoot from a rival firm. In a last-minute maneuver, the CEO hires researcher Rachel Meyers to employ a Manhattan Project approach to the development of a radical new...



  • Margaret Weis

    A collection of the best Dragonlance short stories from Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
    This anthology showcases 20 years of storytelling in the Dragonlance world by gathering into a single volume the most popular stories written by the New York ...



  • Philip Kunhardt

    The award-winning author of My Father's House pays tribute to the extraordinary life of his mother, Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt, a renowned Lincoln scholar, the author of the best-selling Pat the Bunny, and an inveterate observer of life...



  • William Wegman

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  • Janet Tronstad

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  • Janelle Taylor

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  • Eve Makis

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  • Jenna Ryan

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  • Stephen D. Sullivan

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  • Zondervan Publishing

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  • Michael DiMercurio

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  • Alison Baird

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  • Stephen Baxter

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  • Charles Stross

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  • Deborah Grabien

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  • Acton Figueroa

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  • Stanley Pottinger

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  • Jude Watson

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    in

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  • N.G.L. Hammond

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  • Marilynne Robinson

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  • Oisin McGann

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  • Les Daniels

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  • Andrew M. Greeley

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  • Francine Pascal

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  • Phyllis Root

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  • Julia James

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  • John M. Ford

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  • Maggie Alderson

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  • Terri Farley

    For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse.

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  • Jon Sharpe

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  • Candice Hern

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  • Kate Huntington

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  • Paul B. Thompson; Tonya Cook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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  • Melissa Glenn Haber

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  • Sarah Pinborough

    Rachel Wright woke up in the hospital one morning with no memory of who she was or how she got there. It took a while, but once she got over the shock she decided amnesia wasn't all bad. Piecing together her past, Rachel grasped this opportunity for ...



  • Lisa Renee Jones

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  • Amanda Scott

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  • Susan Kearney

    GRAB THE BRIDE AND RUN LIKE HELL Kidnapping Kendall Davis less than an hour before she said "I do" wasn't special operative Web Garfield's idea of a manly mission. But his assignment was clear: safeguard the bride-to-be until the threat against he...



  • Nancy Fairbanks

    Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning. She's finally decided to throw in the dishtowel--and take on a dream job as food writer. Now her plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable foods, and even a dash of cr...



  • Judith Pella

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