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  • Zanna's Gift

    Scott Richards

    When the Pullman family lost their eldest son to an unexpected illness just before Christmas, it was devastating to all of them, but especially to four-year-old Suzanna. She shared a special bond with her big brother. A strangely gifted child, Zan...

  • Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

    Sean Stewart

    As the Clone Wars rage, Jedi Master Yoda must once again face one of his greatest adversaries: Count Dooku. . . . The savage Clone Wars have forced the Republic to the edge of collapse. During the height of the battle, on Jedi Knight escapes the c...

  • The Year of Living Famously

    Laura Caldwell

    Clothing designer Kyra Felis has never been one to worship celebrities -- she'd rather read a good book or make a blouse out of an old tablecloth. She marries Hollywood up-and-comer Declan McKenna for love, with no inkling of how his newfound notorie...

  • The Year Is '42

    Nella Bielski

    Wehrmacht officer Karl Bazinger is living the high life in Occupied Paris. But with his glamorous dinner companions and his open disdain for the Nazis, he begins to attract the attention of the SS. He is drawn into further trouble when he receives a ...

  • Wyoming Woman

    Elizabeth Lane

    Her passion was as boundless as the land she prized... She Hated Him On Sight Cattleman's daughter Rachel Tolliver believed that sheep ranchers like Luke Vincente had no business out on the open range. Yet despite his troubled past, he was an h...

  • Wyoming Wedding

    Nancy J. Parra

    Shay Morgan has never met a woman he can't charm - ever. When old Ben Edwards asks Shay to bring his stubborn daughter Jenny home for one last visit before he leaves this world, Shay is sure she'll gladly come home with him. Rumors fly and Shay is wa...

  • Wrapped Up In Crosswords

    Nero Blanc

    Holiday jitters abound this season when crossword editor Belle Graham and her PI partner Rosco Polycrates must catch a criminal to restore peace on earth ... Rosco's search for Belle's Christmas present may finally be over. Or at least that's wha...

  • Worth Dying For

    Beverly Barton

    Sometimes love is stronger than death... Security agent Dante Moran can't afford the luxury of love -- in his line of work, emotions can get you killed. Besides, he's never recovered from the pain of losing his high school sweetheart to a serial r...

  • A World of Hurt

    David Sherman; Dan Cragg

    After a series of unexplained deaths on a lonely outpost on the frontiers of Human Space, the battle-hardened Marines of 34th Fleet Initial Strike Team (FIST), the military's unofficial alien first-contact force, are dispatched to investigate--and er...

  • The World is Too Darned Big

    Maryjanice Davidson
    in

    Play nice? Play fair? Not on your life. But with these bad boys and their expensive toys, it's so much more fun to play dirty... The name's Dyson. Benjamin Dyson. Genius engineering geek by day....and unfortunately, genius engineering geek by nig...

  • Wonderdog

    Inman Majors

    Meet the unlikely Dev Degraw, son of the iconoclastic governor of Alabama and former child actor on the historically bad television drama Bayou Dog. In Tuscaloosa--home of the University of Alabama, ferocious wiener dogs, butter-eating contests, jack...

  • The Woman's Place

    Susan Urbanek Linville
    in

    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 ...

  • A Woman of the World

    Genie Chipps Henderson

    The stirring saga of one woman's indomitable spirit--and the passion that drove her to succeed in a world dominated by men... From the time she was a young girl, Kate Goodfellow let nothing stand in the way of her dreams--not those who were threat...

  • Wolves Eat Dogs

    Martin Cruz Smith

    In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created an iconic detective of contemporary fiction. Quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical, and haunted by melancholy, Arkady Renko survived, barely, the journey from the Soviet Union to the N...

  • Wolf Captured

    Jane M. Lindskold

    Raised by sentient, language-using wolves, then later plunged back into human society, young Firekeeper has found that her training as a pack animal stands her in good stead amidst deadly political intrigues. When Firekeeper and her Royal Wolf co...

  • The Wizard

    Gene Wolfe

    A novel in two volumes, The Wizard Knight is in the rare company of those works which move past the surface of fantasy and drink from the wellspring of myth. Magic swords, dragons, giants, quests, love, honor, nobility-all the familiar features of fa...

  • The Witness

    Linda Style

    She had vowed never to return to Houston's crime-riddled East End. But Detective Crista Santiago's promotion to the Chicano Squad has put her right back in the violence of the barrio. Determined to transfer out as fast as possible, Crista first has t...

  • With Every Breath

    Maureen Smith

    Dedicated English Literature professor Imani Maxwell may not know everything that she wants in a man, but she knows exactly what she doesn't want. She doesn't desire a man whose job is as dangerous as her father's was. An FBI supervisory special agen...

  • The Winter Oak

    James A. Hetley

    In the sequel to The Summer Country, Maureen Pierce has come to terms with her magical heritage and decided to remain in the enchanted land with her new love, Pendragon warrior Brian Albion, but first she must once again take on the sorceress...

  • Winter Born

    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    in

    Two enemy Were-Panthers discover that fate has destined they become lovers. Pandora must learn to trust Dante's foreign nature. But as she slowly succumbs to the truest passion she has ever known, dark forces have already set out to reclaim her......

  • The Wingman's Angel

    Catherine Mann
    in

    There's just one thing keeping air force officers Joshua and Alicia Rosen from finalizing their divorce -- the Arctic survival course they have to pass together. But when they find themselves chased across the frozen tundra by armed pursuers, even th...

  • The Windmill

    Stephanie Gertler

    Olivia and Carl's perfect life with their children and jobs as professors at Belvedere College in picturesque Willow, Massachusetts, begins to unravel when Carl, a seemingly stable and dependable man, vanishes without a trace, leaving behind only a c...

  • Wildfire

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Whenever there's a need to fix, repair, or salvage, Starfleet calls in the crack S.C.E. team on the U.S.S. da Vinci. Under the command of Captain David Gold and Commander Sonya Gomez, the S.C.E. solves the unsolvable, from finding a Starfleet vessel ...

  • Wild Card

    Jerome Preisler

    PARADISE ISLAND When an anonymous E-mail alerts UpLink International's operatives to suspicious activity on an exclusive island resort, Pete Nimec goes undercover to investigate. Located off the coast of Trinidad, Rayos del Sol is not just a pl...

  • Wifey

    Kiki Swinson

    Essence bestselling author KiKi Swinson offers up a scandalous street lit tale--and shows that no one else stands a chance when wifey runs the hustle. From the looks of things, Kira's got it all. She owns a profitable hair salon and is livin' the ...

  • Why Not?

    Shari Low

    SHE SHOULD HAVE LOOKED BEFORE SHE LEAPT. The man Jess has fallen in lust with is not only married, he's her boss. He's also famous -- a high-ranking government official who is all business by day, and all-out kinky by night. And when his photo -- hi...

  • Whiteout

    Ken Follett

    A lab technician bleeding from the eyes. Twelve missing samples of a deadly virus. Toni Gallo, the security director of a Scottish medical research firm, knows she has problems, but she has no idea of the nightmare to come. As a Christmas Eve bliz...

  • White Deception

    Susan Edwards

    TRUE SIGHT Mathilda's world changed the day the barn burned, for that day she lost her vision. She could still see what was right, however: continuing to ranch, chasing her murdered parents' dream, here in the Dakota Territory. But she neede...

  • White Bikini Panties

    Kelly James-Enger

    When she catches her boyfriend with another woman, Trina Elders, arming herself with the self-confidence she never knew she had, transforms herself into an adventurous, irresistible woman with a penchant for thongs, push-up bras, and the wild life. O...

  • While You Were Out

    Judith Irvin Kuns

  • When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer

    Loren Long

    Leave time for wonder. Walt Whitman's "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer" is an enduring celebration of the imagination. Here, Whitman's wise words are beautifully recast by New York Times #1 best-selling illustrator Loren Long to tell the story o...

  • When He Was Bad...

    Jane Sullivan

    She plays by the rules... Psychologist Sara Davenport wrote the book on bad boys. Literally. When her publicist arranges for her to speak on Nick Chandler's radio show, Sara quickly refuses. But going head-to-head with the famous bad boy would be gre...

  • When Everything's Said and Done

    Eboni Snoe

    Brenda, the brainy oldest of the Robinson girls, longs for a father and tries to win her mother's approval by being good in every way. Fellow college student Michael Dawson becomes her first reason to be bad, as she decides to win him -- from her sis...

  • When Christmas Comes

    Debbie Macomber

    Emily Springer, widowed mother of one, decides to leave her hometown of Leavenworth, Washington, to spend Christmas with her daughter in Boston. Charles Brewster, history professor, seasoned curmudgeon and resident of Boston, wants to avoid Christ...

  • West of Rock River

    John D. Nesbitt

    Vance Coolidge always said a man should have a chance to get even when he's been done wrong. And he's certainly been done wrong in his life. So when his friend Tip asked for his help in going after the men who killed Tip's brother, Vance agreed to jo...

  • The Wealthy Man's Waitress

    Maggie Cox

    His waitress mistress! Piers Redfield, billionaire businessman, is the ultimate predator -- in the boardroom and the bedroom -- and he's way out of Emma's league. But when Emma bravely stands up for a friend, Piers knows he has to have ...

  • The Way to a Woman's Heart

    Carol Voss

    When widow Nan Kramer was forced to confront her son Justin's delinquency, she didn't know where to turn. Two years as a single mom had pushed her to her limits. But then an old friend arrived on her doorstep, offering a shoulder to cry on and much, ...

  • Wanting What You Get

    Kathy Love

    In her delightful novel, Getting What You Want, Kathy Love introduced the Stepp sisters, three unique women with wildly different ideas about love and life. Now, meet Ellie, the romantic middle sister who's about to take a chance on having what she's...

  • Wanted: One Father

    Penny Richards

    THE FAMILY PLAN? Ex-cop-turned-writer Max Murdock was at his wit's end. Taking care of his baby daughter while trying to meet the deadline for his latest novel had left him exhausted and overworked. What he needed more than anything was some peace a...

  • Wanted Man: The Lost Story of an American Outlaw

    Tamsin Spargo

    One September night in 1892 the Wild West went east. A masked man boarded the American Express Special train as it sped through New York State and single-handedly stole a fortune. His name was Oliver Curtis Perry, and he instantly became the count...

  • The Wages of Sin

    Matt Braun

    With outlaws wrecking havoc left and right, a cow town in Texas is on the brink of becoming a ghost town. That's when it's time to call in Chicago-based Pinkerton agent Ash Tallman and his partner Vivian Valentine. Going undercover as a handsome, cha...

  • Voyages of Captain Cook

    Nicholas Thomas

    Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and M...

  • The Vagabonds

    Nicholas Delbanco

    Born and raised in Saratoga Springs, New York, the three Saperstone siblings have drifted apart and lead very separate lives. On Cape Cod, Joanna manages a B&B and a teenage daughter, feeling vulnerable and alone. In Ann Arbor, Claire flirts with bec...

  • Ursa

    Jenn Reese
    in

    WITH SPELL AND BLADE... They roam through fantasy landscapes -- women who wield a sword in their sisters' defense or work magic passed down through generations. They are the many heroines of Sword and Sorceress -- brave women who have adopted the da...

  • Unwrapping Mr. Wright

    Michele Dunaway

    The Wrong Mr. Right Keeps Showing Up! Lauren Brown has had it with being a "gal pal," and she's taking matters into her own hands. Slinky black lingerie and a complete makeover ought to wake up the apparently oblivious Jeff Wright to the fact that...

  • The Untamed West

    Louis L'Amour

    The Untamed West collects three of the finest short novels by some of the greatest and most influential Western authors of all-time: Louis L'Amour, Zane Grey and Max Brand. Brand's brilliant Black Sheep, restored and corrected, is published here in p...

  • Unsuspecting Gourmet

    M.E. Rabb

    When Wilda enters Sophie's matzo ball soup recipe in a cooking contest and wins first prize, trouble soon arrives in town in the form of a television cooking show crew and the insistence of Wilda for Sophie to appear on camera with her. Original....

  • Unlaced

    Kristina Cook

    Wanted: A Biddable Bride Henry Ashton, the Marquess of Mandeville, knows precisely what he needs in a wife: a docile, conventional female from a wealthy, powerful family to further his political aspirations. Certainly a gentleman of his stature can ...

  • Under the Gun

    Lyn Stone

    FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE... After escaping the bullet that killed his twin, Special Agent Will Griffin awakened from a six-day coma seconds before the assassin struck again. Now he's on the run with the one woman who'll stop at nothing to keep him aliv...

  • Uluru Destiny

    James Axler

    OMNIPOTENT FORBEARANCE The bid for supreme power in a postnuclear world grows increasingly uncertain as the weakened hybrid barons struggle to protect their territories from a mysterious Imperator who remains a force to be reckoned with. The quest f...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 11: Carnage

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Spider-Man 60-65. One of the most ruthless villains in the history of the Marvel Universe, the fan-favorite Carnage, gets the Ultimate treatment! And though young Peter Parker has proven himself time and time again on the field of b...

  • The Two Marys

    Katherine Hall Page
    in

    An unexpected visitor is about to arrive with an unexpected gift ... Will it be something wonderful or woeful, rueful or romantic... or a little bit of everything? In the expert hands of four unsurpassed storytellers, "the season of giving" takes ...

  • Two for the Money

    Max Allan Collins

    To wipe the slate clean with an old enemy, professional thief Nolan agrees to pull one last bank heist -- but when he's double-crossed, he'll stop at nothing to get back what's his. Fortunately, Nolan has a couple of things going for him: an uncanny ...

  • Twisted

    Jonathan Kellerman

    With her energies focused on a baffling, vicious gang slaying and her personal life in shambles, Hollywood homicide detective Petra Connor has a full plate. The last thing she needs is a whiz-kid grad student claiming to have stumbled upon a bizarre ...

  • The Twelve Frogs of Christmas

    Judi McCoy
    in

    An unexpected visitor is about to arrive with an unexpected gift ... Will it be something wonderful or woeful, rueful or romantic... or a little bit of everything? In the expert hands of four unsurpassed storytellers, "the season of giving" takes ...

  • Turn the Other Chick

    Esther Friesner

    THOSE RAMBUNCTIOUS CHICKS IN CHAINMAIL ARE BACK--AND BOTH THEIR WIT AND THEIR SWORDS ARE AS SHARP AS EVER! One good turn deserves another and those unpredictable amazons are in action again, swords sharpened, chainmail polished, and makeup in ...

  • Troubled Waters

    Claire Lorrimer

    Glasgow, 1961. At the age of twenty-one, Alison Craig lives a quiet, unassuming, but boring life. When her father died and her mother became bedridden with arthritis, Alison was forced to drop out of university and start working in a biscuit factory....

  • Trimoni Twins and the Changing Coin

    Pam Smallcomb

    Beezel and Mimi Trimoni are eleven-year-old twins and magicians. They love doing tricks, but what they love even more is ka-poofing: real magic that allows them to change people and animals into other animals. Only they have this gift, through the...

  • A Treasury of Christmas Songs

    Dan Fox

    Celebrate Christmas with a song!

    A Christmas songbook illustrated with spectacular
    art from the Metropolitan Museum

    A Treasury of Christmas Songs pairs twenty-five well-loved holiday classics with exquisite art from the collection ...

  • Treason Keep

    Jennifer Fallon

    R'shiel stands on the brink of death. Her only hope is the healing powers of the Harshini--magical beings long-thought extinct. Even they will be hard-pressed to save the Demon Child of prophecy... On Medalon's northern border, Tarja and the Defe...

  • Traitors

    Andrew Snaden

    FBI agent Sam Perkins races against time to crack a dangerous international drug and human smuggling cartel. Matters become more complicated when a key witness is killed by a sniper, who Perkins believes was tipped off by an FBI leak....

  • A Touch of Harry

    Susan Sizemore
    in

    When the injured wolf Dr. Marjorie Piper takes back to her kennel turns into a man, Marj is stunned, and keeps his subsequent escape a secret. The only thing more difficult to hide is the burning desire she feels for Harrison Blethyin, a stranger in ...

  • To the Last Man

    Jeff Shaara

    Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastat...

  • To Love a Princess

    Patricia Grasso

    An illegitimate daughter of the Russian Czar, Amber Kazanov knows time is running out. Her stunning beauty has made her prey to nefarious schemers, and she flees to England to find a husband before her uncle can sell her to the highest bidder. Here s...

  • To Home and Ehvenor

    Joel Rosenberg

    IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE JUST A ROLE-PLAYING GAME . . . Professor Deighton smiled from around the stem of his pipe. "You have a vague, unexplainable feeling that what you are looking for is something called the Gate Between Worlds." "... althoug...

  • To Collar a Killer

    Lee Charles Kelley

    DON'T FETCH THE REAPER One of Maine kennel owner Jack Field's favorite pastimes is spending quality time with a fun-loving pooch -- which is why he's playing fetch with a corgi named Tipper instead of mingling at a July 4th shindig. But when Tippe...

  • A Title to Murder

    James C. Work

    It is déjá-vu for David McIntyre. Not only is he back to teach another summer seminar at Western Nebraska Community College in Alliance, but he is flooded by memories of the seminar he had taught the previous summer when Cass Deering had enrolled i...

  • Tinker, Tailor, Mutant Spy

    Brian K. Vaughan

    The end of the series about the ambiguous shapeshifter Raven Darkholme, and her dangerous games. There are a few shorter stories here, of the more self-contained variety. An interesting series that unfortunately didn't continue, and probably should ...

  • Time Wars

    Martin H. Greenberg

    How would ancient Vikings react to a gun-wielding giant with flaming red hair? What would a modern cop do in a feudal world where gunpowder was considered a benediction of God? What if Scipio Africanus never lived to challenge, or kill, Hannibal a...

  • Till the End of Tom

    Gillian Roberts

    Traditionally, Old Philadelphians keep a low profile. They associate with one another and leave life as discreetly as they have lived it. So Philly Prep English teacher Amanda Pepper, who thinks her only current problems are keeping her well-meaning ...

  • The Thrill of It All

    Christie Ridgway

    Celebrity Scope and Scoop... YOUR SECRETS AREN'T SAFE WITH US! Which shopping network honey has been incommunicado for days? This cutie was last seen hightailing it out of Vegas in her brand spankin' new convertible. Close friends report she's off ...

  • This Place in the Snow

    Rebecca Bond (1)

  • The Thirteenth Santa

    Joanne Pence
    in

    An unexpected visitor is about to arrive with an unexpected gift ... Will it be something wonderful or woeful, rueful or romantic... or a little bit of everything? In the expert hands of four unsurpassed storytellers, "the season of giving" takes ...

  • Third Watch

    Bodie Thoene; Brock Thoene

    Journey back to first-century Jerusalem, a dark and hopeless time, when citizens are searching for their promised Messiah to return. Meet new characters Zahav, a Jewish woman who is very strong in her faith, and Alexander, a Greek with a past. Can th...

  • A Texan's Luck

    Jodi Thomas

    Captain Walker Larson received the shock of his life when a beautiful stranger boldly walked into his office--claiming to be his wife. His father may have bought Lacy Larson for him in a wife lottery, but Walker had no desire for a bride--even one as...

  • A Test of Mirrors

    Ken Petti; John Amodeo

    Even though I broke my gazing ball, I still managed to find the first ten of my musings. But school ends tomorrow and unless I can get my last two musings tonight, I won't be able to attend the gazing ball ceremony with my friends. But right now I am...

  • Territorial Rough Rider

    Tim Champlin

    Peter Ormond just wanted to help herd some wild mustangs, but as a result of fleeing an attack by bushwhackers, Peter and his friends escape via a military train and end up joining Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders. Reprint....

  • Terms of Surrender

    Shirley Rogers

    A PASSIONATE LEGACY The terms of the will were explicit: Tanya Winters and David Taylor were to live at Cotton Creek Plantation for one year or lose their inheritance. Cotton Creek was the only home Tanya had ever known. She'd come to the plant...

  • Tattoo for a Slave

    Hortense Calisher

    A "tattoo" is a bugle call, a summoning that lingers in the ear. Although Hortense Calisher's family eventually migrated north to New York City, the echoes of their days as a slave-owning Jewish family in the South still resonate with this acclaimed ...

  • Tangled Up in Daydreams

    Rebecca Bloom

    Sweet, funny L.A. hipster Molly has a blossoming new business and a supportive family. When she and Liam, a talented up-and-coming musician, meet, their attraction is instant, their connection unparalleled. But when Liam's recreational dabbling in th...

  • Tales of the Slayer, Volume 4

    Simon Spotlight

    "I can't be...just a person, I can't be helpless like that...." -- Buffy, "Helpless" At eighteen, each Slayer must face a terrifying trial: the Tento di Cruciamentum. This time-honored, albeit cruel, rite of passage forces each Watcher to dra...

  • Taking The Wrap

    Dolores Johnson

    After an accidental coat switch at a popular Denver restaurant, dry cleaner Mandy Dyer is tasked with finding the person who walked off with her cousin Laura's coat using an old dry-cleaning slip. When Laura, a photographer anxious to retrieve the un...

  • Taken by You

    Dorothy Elizabeth Love

    Taken By You is the third and final novel in the Ryan Family's collection. The Ryan family reunites in Take By You for the wedding on Parker Ryan and Chi. Leila Chamberlain is the maid of honor. Reese McCoy is the Best Man. Running from hurt: A troub...

  • Sword And Sorceress XXI

    Marion Zimmer Bradley
    in

    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 ...

  • Sword and Sorceress

    Jennifer G. Tifft
    in

    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 ...

  • Sweet Justice

    Shirley Harrison

    Aislyn St. Clair is a beautiful, single-minded career woman who never considered marriage... until now. Real estate broker Eric Morgan has swept her off hr feet. But learning that Eric's brother was involved with her recently murdered best friend cou...

  • Sunrise with Sea Monster

    Neil Jordan

    Imprisoned in Spain during the Spanish Civil War, Donal Gore is sustained by memories of setting fishing lines on the beach with his father, back home in Ireland. Released from the Spanish prison by a German officer who expects political intelligence...

  • Sun Thief

    K.A. Laity
    in

    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 ...

  • Strike the Harp!

    Owen Parry

    Five Yuletide stories spanning a century of American life include the tales of a policeman who must choose between starving strikers and their employer, a World War I army colonel who hosts dinner for war orphans and his troops, a bootlegger who find...

  • Strike Force Charlie

    Mack Maloney

    Burned by their government, the Superhawks must take down traitors and terrorists when the global war on terror returns to America in the third book in this action-packed series by bestselling author Mack Maloney Preparing to unleash a seri...

  • Strange Bedfellows

    Jeff Gelb; Michael Garrett

    Capturing the sensual side of horror, this spinetingling and electrifying collection of tales takes readers into a realm of darkness where anything can happen, from a stripper who performs for an insatiable client from hell to the last man alive in a...

  • Storm Chaser!

    Cecile Schoberle

    In simple language just right for beginning readers, an action-packed story catches the excitement as storm trackers risk their lives to learn about the weather in order to keep us safe from the ravages of gale force winds or the blizzard of the cent...

  • The Stone That the Builder Refused

    Madison Smartt Bell

    The Stone that the Builder Refused is the final volume of Madison Smartt Bell’s masterful trilogy about the Haitian Revolution"the first successful slave revolution in history"which begins with All Souls' Rising (a finalist for the National Boo...

  • Step by Step

    Catherine Soto
    in

    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 ...

  • Star Maps

    Liz Tigelaar

    Meg Pryor's plans to spend as much time as possible alone with Drew are undermined when Bandstand announces that it will be doing a road show in Los Angeles in which all of the regular dancers have been invited to perform. Original. (An NBC T...

  • The Staggerford Murders

    Jon Hassler

    Filled with his trademark humor and warmth, Jon Hassler’s The Staggerford Murders and The Life and Death of Nancy Clancy’s Nephew offer a welcome return to the town that has captivated readers for years.In The Staggerford...

  • Springer's Fortune

    W.L. Ripley

    The word is that Jesse Robinson is dead. But when Cole Springer goes to Vegas at the behest of Jesse's father, he finds Jesse very much alive. Unless Springer can figure out what's going on--he won't be alive for very long. Jesse believes that whoeve...

  • Spirited

    Nancy Holder

    War. Rage. Magic. Love. In May 1756 war is formally declared between the British and the French. During this highly dangerous time, Isabella Sevens is travelling with her father to the British stronghold Fort William Henry. In the forest, Wusamequi...

  • Spell of the Sparrow

    Jim C. Hines
    in

    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 ...

  • Sparking His Interest

    Wendy Etherington

    It's not police lieutenant Wes Kimball's imagination. Cara Hughes, the big-city arson investigator from Atlanta, is hot, hot, hot. She's slender, curvy -- and rumored to sleep with a six-inch switchblade under her pillow -- and Wes is forced to fight...

  • The Sorensen 4 Incident

    Gary Crookes

    Divisions erupt in the newly formed Unified Government over the costs of continuing with the colonization of other planets, a situation complicated when communications fail on the Sorensen 4 mining colony under suspicious circumstances, and the counc...

  • The Sorcerer's Assassin

    Sharon Shinn
    in

    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...

  • The Songwriter

    Barbara A. Huff

  • Song of the Heart

    Helen Wiggin

    1939. A compelling romantic saga set on a remote Hebridean isle As children on the island of Phetray, Minn Macfee, a cottar's daughter, and Ewan Mackinnon, the Minister's son, are bound together by the accidental drowning of Ewan's sister. Ewan is bl...

  • Somebody to Love

    Kate Rothwell

    ABOVE ALL OTHERS Everything Griffin Calverson ever touched turned to gold, but his worldly success has only isolated him. Despite his millions, he is essentially alone and sworn to remain so--until he meets Araminta Woodhall, whose sultry beauty set...

  • Snowed In

    Christina Bartolomeo

    No job. No heat. The wrong shoes. The wrong clothes. Discover if true love can be far behind. Imagine having always lived in Washington, D.C., and suddenly being stuck in Portland, Maine, for a year. With the pipes freezing---inside the house. And a ...

  • Snow in July

    Heather Barbieri

    “A stark and powerful portrait of a family flawed by addiction and betrayal; a family redeemed by love. Heather Barbieri writes with raw honesty and true compassion. This is a novel that stays with you well beyond the last page.” -- Binnie Kirshe...

  • Slow Hands

    Janelle Denison
    in

  • Slocum and the Crooked Sheriff

    Jake Logan

    Slocum takes on a corrupt lawman and his cattle baron boss…Long on the trail and out of funds, Slocum takes a job as a cowpoke at the Snug T Ranch, lured by the promise of three squares and pay -- and by the beautiful and buxom ranch owner’s niec...

  • Sleeper

    Paul Adam

    Rainaldi was a violin-maker and when he was discovered slumped over his workbench, murdered with one of his own chisels, both the police and his friends are at a loss to discover a motive. Then it comes to light that Rainaldi had believed he was on t...

  • Slalom

    S.L. Rottman

    Sandro Birch is a born skier. In fact, his mother met his father on the slopes of a posh resort, and she's told the story so many times he's sick of it. Handsome Italian Olympic hopeful saves All-American Scholarship Girl. Except the handsome Italian...

  • The Skin Trade

    Heather Rose Jones
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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 ...

  • Skeleton Man

    Tony Hillerman

    Former Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn comes out of retirement to help investigate what seems to be a trading post robbery. A simple-minded kid nailed for the crime is the cousin of an old colleague of Sergeant Jim Chee. He needs help an...

  • The Siren Queen

    Fiona Buckley

    The year is 1569. Happily married and enjoying the life domestic, Ursula has her mind on family matters, not court treachery, as she begins to plan a betrothal for her young daughter Meg. When the powerful Duke of Norfolk extends an invitation fo...

  • Sins of a Tanner

    Peggy Moreland

    THE LAST OF THE GOOD GUYS? Years ago, Whit Tanner had taken Melissa Jacobs into his bed -- into his heart -- only to have her marry his best friend. Now the pretty widow was struggling to raise her son alone. And Whit was bound by Tanner honor not...

  • Silver Bells

    Luanne Rice

    On a quaint, snowy Chelsea street, librarian Catherine Tierney and a widowed Christmas tree seller from Nova Scotia will rediscover the magic of the season, in a chance encounter that leads to a holiday surprise of love and hope powerful enough to la...

  • Silent Cathedrals

    Sandra Dark

    As a child, a summer at Camp Reliant in the rugged hills of West Virginia changed Kate O'Riley's life. Now, yearning for kids of her own, Kate has returned to the camp as a group counselor, hoping to make a difference in the lives of children...

  • Shrek 2: The Movie Novel

    Jesse McCann / Jesse Leon McCann

    "The kingdom of Far Far Away--that's where we're going ... far ... far ... away!" Shrek, Fiona and Donkey are off to the kingdom of Far Far Away. Fiona's parents, the King and Queen, want to meet her new husband ... too bad they weren't expecting ...

  • Shotgun Ridge

    Mindy Neff

    Abbe Shea witnesses the mob hit of her fiance, and the killer's warning is clear: talk and he'll be back for her two-year-old daughter, Jolene. Abbe flees Las Vegas and makes her way to Shotgun Ridge, Montana...and to the safety of Grant Callahan's h...

  • Shocking The Senator

    Leanne Banks

    SECRET LOVE CHILD Nicola Granville was an independent woman. But it was as Abe Danforth's campaign manager that she achieved ultimate success -- and ultimate pleasure. For months her affair with the aspiring senator was conducted in secret, their ...

  • Shocking Lucy

    Suzanne Forster
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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...

  • Shifting Love

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    Maggie O'Shea knows that because of her dark past, there's "l no place for love in her life. She owns a successful store in Philadelphia, where she uses her special gifts to help the people she meets. Though this doesn't fulfill her, she is content. ...

  • Sherlock Holmes: The Hidden Years

    Michael Kurland

    In 1891, Sherlock Holmes in a struggle with his arch-enemy, the Napoleon of Crime, Professor James Moriarty, plunged with him over the Reichenbach Falls to his inevitable death. All of England - indeed the entire world - mourned the irreplaceable los...

  • Sheltie and the Snow Pony

    Peter Clover

    SHELTIE -- the little pony with a big heart! The last thing that Emma and Sheltie expect to find during their ride on the snowy fields is a very thin pony, tethered and left to fend for himself. All alone in the cold weather, the pony is suffering...

  • Shadows of War

    Robert Gandt

    Now Gandt's fighter pilot hero, Brick Maxwell, returns for a mission of personal duty that will push him to the very edge.... Brick Maxwell lost a good friend when squadron mate Raz Rasmussen was shot down in the first Gulf War. Though Raz's body ...

  • Shadowmarch

    Tad Williams

    The first Marchlands kingdom, Southmarch (commonly called “Shadowmarch”), lies directly on the edge of the mysterious Shadowline, a shroud of endless mist that marks the entrance to the realm of the fairy-folk, the Qar. Crossing the Shadowline is...

  • The Shadow Roads

    Sean Russell

    The savage war between two mighty families has ravaged the kingdom both wish to rule--spawning treachery within the ranks of the Renne and Wills, drawing the brave, the innocent, and the malevolent alike into the bloody conflict. But a far more terri...

  • Secrets of the Desert

    Christian Jacq

    Having discovered a monstrous conspiracy to overthrow the pharaoh, Ramses the Great, Judge Pazair has been deported for a crime he did not commit and sentenced to die in a prison camp. But the conspirators have reckoned without the love of Neferet, t...

  • Secret Defender

    Debbi Rawlins

    AN HEIRESS TO PROTECT Luke Boudreau was a man unlike any other and he would stop at nothing to keep Sydney Wainwright safe -- even if it meant kidnapping the headstrong heiress. Only, the tough-as-nails investigator never anticipated that a daring...

  • The Secret

    Barbara A. Huff

    As the leader of a Christian garage band, Parker Blevins finally gets a chance to headline at a high-profile community event. But events collide when his agnostic stepfather discovers the faith Parker has kept quiet, and forbids him to perform....

  • Secondhand Smoke

    Patty Friedmann

    Having driven her grown children far from home, cynical widow Jerusha scoffs at their choices in life and finds herself becoming unexpectedly attached to her ten-year-old next-door neighbor, the son of an equally dysfunctional mother. Reprint....

  • Second Time Around

    Nancy Moser

    What would you change if you could do it all over again? What what-if question plagues you?What if you could go back into your past and make a different choice? In this sequel to the Christy-award winning Time Lottery, David Stancowsky, Vanessa Caldw...

  • Sea of Bones

    Ron Faust

    Dan Shaw hopes to be a lawyer some day--if he can only stay out of prison long enough to pass the bar. Neither is likely when he agrees to help a hotshot Florida attorney track down a slick con man whose swindled a consortium of well-to-do Paradise K...

  • Savannah, or, A Gift for Mr. Lincoln

    John Jakes

    Georgia, 1864: Sherman’s army marches inexorably from Atlanta to the sea. In its path, the charming old city of Savannah, where the Lester ladies … attractive widowed Sara and her feisty twelve-year-old daughter Hattie … struggle to save the fa...

  • Santa Unwrapped

    Theresa Alan
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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... When Aimee Lachaussee offers to drive...

  • Santa Assignment

    Delores Fossen

    AN UNLIKELY UNION She was hiding from a stalker -- and from Brayden O'Malley, the man who blamed her for his wife's death. But when Brayden asked for the incredible, Ashley Palmer couldn't refuse: He wanted her to give him a child, so his toddler ...

  • Salt Roads

    Nalo Hopkinson

    From the SFWA Grand Master, a“sexy, disturbing, touching, wildly comic . . . tour de force” that blends fantasy, women’s history, and slavery (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).   In 1804, shortly before the Caribbean island o...

  • Runaway

    Alice Munro

    WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE® IN LITERATURE 2013This acclaimed, bestselling collection also contains the celebrated stories that inspired the Pedro Almodóvar film Julieta. Runaway is a book of extraordinary stories about love and its i...

  • Run Fast, My Love

    Pamela Griffin

    Assuming the false identity of "Terri Ross" to flee her past, Taryn Rutherford becomes a maid at the Pinecrest estate. The delightful Carr family captures her heart, though, and thoughts of escape begin to fade. Dan Carr is runnning, too-from the ...

  • Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders

    John Clifford Mortimer

    The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister's manyfollowers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole's first cas...

  • The Ruby Guardian

    Thomas M. Reid
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A forbidden alliance solidifies, an army marches, and an ancient society begins to crumble. Vambran and Emriana have survived assassination attempts, family feuds, arranged marriages, and monster-guarded secrets. But now things are starting to get...

  • Rose in Winter

    Marie M. Loughin
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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 ...

  • The Roommate

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    The bestselling author goes back on campus with a pre-med student who has no remedy for stress.

    Zara followed her parents' wishes by enrolling in a prestigious women's college for a career in medicine. But failing grades, an obnoxious roomma...

  • Rocky Road Trip

    Judith Bauer Stamper

    The Friz's class is tracking a mineral mystery--this trip's a gem!

    When Carlos brings a mystery rock to school, he hopes Ms. Frizzle will tell him what kind of rock it is. But the Friz doesn't like to tell when she can show....That's how the c...

  • Rocky Mountain Miracle

    Christine Feehan
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    When Cole Steele, a womanizer rumored to have killed his father, meets Maia Armstrong, a veterinarian rumored to practice magic, the sparks that fly could melt all the snow on his Wyoming ranch. And when an injured horse brings them together, Cole ca...

  • The Right Side of Love

    Deborah Fletcher Mello

    WHEN OPINIONS CLASH... Jeneva Douglas's son Quincy has always been her first priority. While caring for her son, romance didn't even register on her to -do list. But now that Quincy is a teenager, his developmental challenges require professional ca...

  • Ride With the Devil

    Robert Vaughan

    Mason Hawke had success, fame, respect. Then war made him a murderer -- and left him scarred in the worst possible way. Haunted by a past as black as the depths of Perdition, Hawke's looking for a place to start over, to disappear. And Salcedo is jus...

  • Rich Man, Poor Bride

    Linda Goodnight

    Dearest Godmother, I've almost perfected playing matchmaker, but for my next headstrong couple I need your advice! A rich, sexy Latino doctor sounds like every woman's dream, right? Well, not for the Jane-of-all-trades on my hotel staff. Ruthie...

  • The Revealing

    L.A. Marzulli

    The suspense-filled sequel to the story begun in Nephilim and The Unholy Deception. The events in the Middle East seem to be culminating in the fulfillment of ancient prophecies found in an unpublished Dead Sea Scroll. Because of his work exposing th...

  • Return of the Sorceress

    Tim Waggoner
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Armed with new weapons and a newfound confidence, Nearra and her friends plan to confront the wizard Maddoc. But before they can reach Cairngorn Keep, a skeletal griffin kidnaps Nearra and delivers her directly into the wizard's hands. As Maddoc ...

  • Rescue Heroes

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  • Reflex

    Steven Gould

    Davy has always been alone. He believes that he's the only person in the world who can teleport. But what if he isn't? A mysterious group of people has taken Davy captive. They don't want to hire him, and they don't have any hope of appealing to h...

  • A Redbird Christmas

    Fannie Flagg

    After a startling diagnosis from his doctor, Oswald T. Campbell leaves behind the cold and damp of the oncoming Chicago winter to spend what he believes will be his last Christmas in the warm and welcoming town of Lost River, Alabama. There he meets ...

  • A Red Polka Dot in a World Full of Plaid

    Varian Johnson

  • Red Palms

    Cara Haycak

    When 14-year-old Benita’s Papa is wiped out by the Depression, he moves the family from Guayaquil, Ecuador, to the primitive island of Puna with a wild scheme to start a coconut plantation. Benita moves from a grand house to camping out in a shack ...

  • Red Moon Rising

    Lori Handeland
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    Novelist Maya Alexander's peace is shattered when she is stalked by a Navaho skinwalker who has taken on the guise of a wolf. Her only hope is the mysterious Clay Philips. In his arms, she seeks protection-but as the red moon rises, no one is safe fr...

  • Red Caramae

    Kit Wesler
    in

    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 ...

  • The Recovery Assignment

    Alison Roberts

    Working partners -- up close and personal! Officer Owen Hawkins of the Serious Crash Squad is furious to be assigned Charlotte Laing as his new partner. He wanted a dedicated police officer -- not a paramedic! And it won't help that he finds her dis...

  • Raven

    Mike Murray

    During the darkest days of World War II, the British come up with a dangerous plan to ambush Hitler's private train, kill Hitler, and replace the Nazi leader with Archie Smythes, an actor with a talent for mimicry, who is to impersonate the Nazi dict...

  • A Rake's Redemption

    Susannah Carleton

    COULD HE BE TAMED? Theo Middleford, the Viscount Dunnley, is an unabashed rake -- and quite a good one, as the ladies he entertains would attest. But his lifestyle is becoming somewhat dangerous -- as proven when he finds himself leaping two stories...

  • Pursued

    Catherine Mann

    UNDER THE GUN Air force captain Josie Lockworth came from a long line of American patriots and was expected to follow her family's example. But after a good friend's death, the usually savvy Athena Academy graduate wasn't performing at her best. S...

  • Puppy Mudge Finds a Friend

    Cynthia Rylant

    Playtime, Mudge! No one loves to play more than Henry''s puppy, Mudge. And when Fluffy the cat joins Mudge for a play date, the games are just beginning. From running to hiding to climbing galore, these two just might prove that cats and dogs reall...

  • The Pulse, Volume 1: Thin Air

    Brian Michael Bendis

    It's an inside look at the Marvel Universe's most notorious newspaper, the Daily Bugle! Former super hero and current private investigator Jessica Jones has just been offered a new job: a position with the Bugle's new super-hero section, The Pulse! J...

  • Protecting Holly

    Lynn Bulock

    IT'S A WHITE CHRISTMAS...AND DANGER IS EVERYWHERE! Spending Christmas Eve with her handsome boss in a cabin while a stalker threatens is not the way Holly Vance had planned to celebrate this year -- she'd been counting on dinner with her extended fa...

  • A Protected Witness

    Mallory Kane

    A FACE FROM THE PAST Because of the FBI, Allison Barnes lost her husband in an execution-style shooting that left her gravely wounded and with no memory of that night. Now, the Witness Security Program was her only recourse. But once the killer foun...

  • Prometheus Road

    Bruce Balfour

    Bruce Balfour, national bestselling author of The Forge of Mars and The Dig/ta/ Dead, transports readers to a future Earth--and a virtual reality hell... Tom has always lived in the shadow of Nova Olympus--a mountain that marks where the gods cast...

  • The Prison

    R. Patrick Gates

    Human Crime Inhuman Punishment The East Gardener Correctional Institute, better known as "The Hill" in the Massachusetts town that surrounds it, wasn't always a prison. It was once an asylum for the mentally ill, where therapies were thinly veiled...

  • The Prince

    Elizabeth Minogue

    He was the hero of a hundred songs and stories, the sorcerer pirate whose name struck terror into every captain on the nine seas. Bold and dashing, wily and clever, the Prince of Venya was as deadly to his foes as he was to his followers. A single sm...

  • The Price

    Anne Bishop
    in

    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...

  • Pressure Point

    William P Wood Jr.

    It started as a tragic but simple murder, an old woman killed in the street for her handbag. But as police detectives Terry Nye and Rose Tafoya investigate, they find very little that makes sense. Even stranger, the detectives are pretty sure they've...

  • The Power of Two

    Patti O'Shea

    FIVE WOMEN. ONE GOAL: FREEDOM Cai Randolph The U.C.E.: In the 21st and 22nd centuries, the United States changed and grew. Now the United Colonies of Earth dominate the globe. But a mysterious voice is broadcasting treason, inciting revolution ...

  • The Police Doctor's Secret

    Marion Lennox

    Doctors on a collision course! Dr. Alistair Benn needs help -- a light plane has crashed near isolated Dolphin cove. There's a dead pilot, missing passengers and a mystery he can't solve. But when Alistair asks for help, he's sent forensic patholog...

  • Polaris

    Jack McDevitt

    Sixty years ago, the space yacht Polaris was found deserted, the fate of its pilot and passengers a mystery. Now, to mark the anniversary of the disappearance, there is to be an auction of what was left behind on the ship. Using his insider knowledge...

  • The Poison Tree

    Linda Lehmann Masek

    In 1718, on the storm-ravaged Carolina coast, Cristabel Lamonte, a young daughter of a plantation owner, is kidnapped by the infamous pirate Blackbeard. Throughout her abduction and thereafter she keeps a diary of this traumatic event, including the ...

  • Plowshares

    Rebecca Maines
    in

    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 ...

  • Please Do Feed The Cat

    Marian Babson

    Author Lorinda Lucas returns from a book tour of the United States to find that Roscoe, the cat who lives next door, is in alarming shape. Hoping that whatever has hit poor Roscoe will not be caught by her two cats, Had-I and But-Known, she learns fr...

  • The Playa's Handbook

    Brenda Jackson

    There's not a whole lot happening in Gary, Indiana. That is, until nationally renowned relationship expert Lance Montgomery bursts on to the scene. Twice divorced, Montgomery is now on a mission to perfect the art of being single. His tantalizing boo...

  • Pistol Grip

    Kit Dalton

    When Morgan arrives in the town of Rifle, Colorado, he falls victim to a brazen beauty who gets him in hot water with a notorious gunman, while an enemy from his past gets too close for comfort. Original....

  • The Pirates of Pompeii

    Caroline Lawrence

    It is AD 79 and Mount Vesuvius has erupted, destroying Pompeii. Among the thousands of people huddled in refugee camps along the bay of Naples are Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan the Jewish boy, Nubia the African slave-girl, and Lupus the ...

  • The Pirate Prince

    Connie Mason

    VIRGIN TREASURE She is a jewel among women, brighter than the moon and stars. Her lips are lush and pink, made for kissing . . . and more erotic purposes. She's a pirate's prize, yet he cannot so much as touch her. VIRGIN TROUBLE Destin...

  • Pied Piper

    Debbie Viguie

    PIED PIPER

    They come to you for guidance,

    protection --

    Innocents, facing nameless evil.

    It is up to you to save their laughter --

    Watch over them, protect them from

    danger and peril.

    At first ...

  • Phases of the Moon

    Robert Silverberg

    Now ibooks proudly presents a collection of Silverberg's best short fiction, as selected by the author. The 1950s: The Road to Nightfall, The Macauley Circuit, Sunrise on Mercury, Warm Man. The 1960s: To See the Invisible Man, Flies, Passengers, Nigh...

  • A Perfect Romance

    Anne Robins

    Side By Side On the fateful night of the Titanic disaster, heiress Loretta Linden made sure her friends and fellow passengers got to the lifeboats before she even thought of herself. Her soft heart is legendary--and her desire to help others is her ...

  • A Perfect Groom

    Samantha James

    Perfection is in the eye of the beholder ... Proud of his reputation as a rogue, Justin Sterling intends to be the first to bed "The Unattainable" -- the Season's most luscious debutante -- and win the wager that's the talk of the ton. However, he...

  • Pass It on

    J. Minter

    MICKEY: How many breakups can he and Philippa take? DAVID: Amanda cheated on him. Will he become a cheater, too? ARNO: Has he finally met a girl wild enough to tame him? PATCH: Still sailing through life? JONATHAN: Knows way too many secrets--inc...

  • Parri's Blade

    Cynthia McQuillin
    in

    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 ...

  • The Palo Duro Trail

    Jory Sherman

    A thousand-mile journey begins with a single step in this Ralph Compton western...  Some think he’s crazy. But Felix Dagstaff has signed on to drive 4,000 head of wild longhorns from his ranch near Quitaque, Texas, up the Palo Duro Canyon to C...

  • Palimpsest

    Laura Anne Gilman
    in

    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...

  • The Pacific and Other Stories

    Mark Helprin

    A dazzling collection of short stories by Mark Helprin, bestselling author of Winter's Tale, which is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, and Jennifer ConnellyThe Pacific an...

  • Over the Edge

    Michael Fleeman

    ***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***He Called It A Tragic Accident.On a May evening in 1998, the idyllic marriage of wealthy Lake Tahoe couple Peter and Rinette Bergna ended in a crush of metal...

  • Out on a Limb

    Christie Ridgway
    in

    An unexpected visitor is about to arrive with an unexpected gift ... Will it be something wonderful or woeful, rueful or romantic... or a little bit of everything? In the expert hands of four unsurpassed storytellers, "the season of giving" takes ...

  • Out Of My Head // Unknown

    Didier van Cauwelaert

    Martin Harris returns home after spending three days in a coma, to find that his wife doesn't recognize him and another man is living in his house under his name. The impostor shares all of Martin's memories, experiences, and knowledge down to the la...

  • Oulu

    Aimee Kratts
    in

    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 ...

  • The Other Side of Desire

    Paula Christian

    Features two classic novels--Amanda, in which a writer of lesbian fiction decides to help a burgeoning young author get published, and The Other Side of Desire, in which a lonely housewife finds unexpected love with a free-spirited wo...

  • Orphanage

    Robert Buettner

    When earth needs heroes, whom will we call to valor? When mankind's enemy is beyond our worst imagination, who will be our champions? Will we pick the brightest and the toughest? Or the ones with nothing left to lose? WAR IS AN ORPHANAGE Mankind'...

  • Operation Black Snow

    S.M. Gunn

    In the hours before Operation Desert Storm begins, a bold, submarine-launched raid by SEALs of the Naval Special Materials Detachment captures a suspicious Iraqi transport ship destined for a small island off the coast of Kuwait. On board is a missil...

  • One Last Christmas

    Joyce Livingston

    Sylvia has one last Christmas, after that, her husband of twenty-five years will do the unthinkable - divorce her. Out of agonizing prayer and reflection Sylvia Benson has developed a plan: Maybe if Randy sees what he'll be leaving behind, he'll chan...

  • Once Upon a Curse

    E.D. Baker

    Many years before Princess Emma's time, an any fairy cast a curse on her ancestor, Princess Hazel. The fairy decreed that Hazel and all her female descendants, upon reaching their sixteenth birthdays, could not touch a flower, or else all their youth...

  • Old Wounds

    Christie Golden

    Captain Chakotay is ready to prove himself as the new commanding officer of the Starship Voyager -- but skeptics back at Starfleet Command are watching him closely for any sign that he will revert to his renegade Maquis ways. His first mission as cap...

  • Oh, Play That Thing

    Roddy Doyle

    The sequel to Roddy Doyle’s beloved novel A Star Called Henry " an entertaining romp across America in the 1920s Fleeing the Irish Republican paymasters for whom he committed murder and mayhem, Henry Smart has left his wife and infant daughter in...