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  • English Music

    Peter Ackroyd

    A boy escapes from the harsh realities of post-World War I London into the evocative world of his imagination, where a discovery of his heritage offers him the key to understanding his own past. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour....

  • Mostly Harmless

    Douglas Adams

    Now celebrating the 42nd anniversary of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, soon to be a Hulu original series! “Hitchhiker fans rejoice! . . . [Here’s] more of the same zany nonsensical mayhem.” -- The New York Times Book ReviewIt...

  • Wake Up, Little Susie

    Pepper Adams

    Did you hear about Susie? Susie Walton had been the primmest, most proper girl in Greenwood, Georgia -- until that fateful morning at the drive-in when she woke up in Jeep Washington's arms. The town gossips had assumed the worst, in spite of ...

  • T.F. Benson and the Dinosaur Madness Mystery

    David A. Adler

  • T.F. Benson and the Funny Money Mystery

    David A. Adler

  • Peer Behind the Scene

    Joan Aiken
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • Ordeal of the Seventh Carrier

    Peter Albano

    MIGHTY WARSHIP OF YESTERYEAR After lying trapped and frozen in an icy Arctic graveyard for over fifty years, the Japanese super-carrier Yonaga and its samurai crew emerged from the past into a world gone mad. An orbiting Red Chinese particle beam we...

  • Hilltop Hospital

    Nicholas Allan

  • Tiger

    Judy Allen

  • Joy to the World!

    Dina Anastasio

  • Indigo Blue

    Catherine Anderson

    Born of two worlds, Indigo Wolf was as free and proud as the noble Comanche blood flowing through her veins. No man has ever possessed her elusive spirit--until a magnificent stranger came to work in her family's mine. Jake Rand's bold caress ignited...

  • Exotic Alphabet

    Marie Angel

  • The Caterpillar's Question

    Piers Anthony

    En route to a special clinic across the country, mute and physically handicapped Tappy Concord persuades her driver, struggling art student Jack, to take a detour to a world tyrannized by an all-powerful galactic empire...

  • Katerina

    Aharon Appelfeld

    Fleeing an abusive home, Katerina, a teenage peasant in Ukraine in the 1880s, is taken in by a Jewish family and becomes their housekeeper. Feeling the warmth of family life for the first time and incorporating the family’s customs and rituals into...

  • Mind Games

    Victor Appleton

    Propelled into a fantasy world through his Total Reality Generator--a computer game that electronically recreates true-to-life scenarios--Tom discovers that the game has turned frighteningly authentic and that he could be in genuine danger. Original....

  • 1492

    Homero Aridjis

    A best seller in Latin America in the 1980s, this novel of life in fifteenth-century Spain depicts a world in which both the Moors and the Jews are under attack. This is the formative period of the phenomenon known today as Crypto-Judaism, and Aridji...

  • The Seduction Stakes

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Objection! True to her profession, Jane Mathieson argued that a few days' rest -- even for an ambitious lawyer approaching burnout -- was unnecessary...mainly because sharing a house, albeit temporarily, with Liam Benedict was no way to relax....

  • An Awkward Arrangement

    Rebecca Ashley

    WITH HER FLAMING HAIR, FLASHING EYES, AND OUTSPOKEN WAYS, SHE WAS A PRIME EXAMPLE OF THOSE CONFOUNDING IRISH. Molly Mill's plan to return to her native Ireland did not include a handsome stranger appearing at her door, announcing that the heirloom...

  • Jumping Jeweller of Lavender Bay

    Hugh Atkinson

  • In Kindling Flame: The Story of Hannah Senesh

    Linda Atkinson

  • Guardian Angel

    Leanne Banks

    TRACE -- 100% All-American Male, His Smile a Lethal Weapon... He'd been the star of a thousand teenage daydreams, but when Trace Barringer insisted on joining her charity committee, Talia McKenzie did her best to dissuade him! It wasn't ju...

  • A Very Merry Santa Story

    Joanne Barkan

  • A Very Merry Snowman Story

    Joanne Barkan

  • The Flower Fairies Calendar For 1999

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • The Lord of the Rushie River and Simon the Swan

    Cicely Mary Barker

    A little girl runs away from her cruel and dishonest guardian and goes to live among the swans of the Rushie River and, in an effort to make his father proud, one of the young swans embarks on a dangerous quest in the wide world....

  • A Million Open Doors

    John Barnes

    Nou Occitan is a place where duels are fought with equal passion over insults and artistic views alike. Giraut--swordsman, troubador, lover--is a creature of this swashbuckling world, the most isolated of humanity's Thousand Cultures. But the wind...

  • This Side of Heaven

    Beverly Barton

    DANGEROUS PASSION Hot. Demanding. Inescapable. The power of destiny had joined Nate Hodges and Cyn Porter together, but the savagery of man seemed fated to tear them apart. A warrior who walked alone, Nate could never mean anything but danger f...

  • The Metaphysics of Sex

    Valerie Townsend Bayer

    The Metaphysics of Sex is the second volume of Valerie Townsend Bayer's Marlborough Gardens Quartet, following her first novel, City of Childhood.Just possibly, Bayer's tetralogy will one day be to the 1990s what Durrell's Alexandria Quartet was to t...

  • Copycats

    Nicola Bayley

  • In the Mummy's Tomb

    Lynn Beach

    As soon as Stephanie puts on the unusual Egyptian necklace, strange things begin to happen, and she and her friend Ben must discover the necklace's secret before Stephanie becomes the latest victim of an ancient curse...

  • Who Comes with Cannons?

    Patricia Beatty

    When Truth Hopkins's father dies, she goes to live with her uncle and his family on their North Carolina farm. Like Truth, the Bardwells are Quakers. They oppose slavery but refuse to take up arms in the civil war that is now being wa...

  • The Body in the Cornflakes

    K.K. Beck

    THE SUPERMARKET SPECIAL OF THE WEEK IS MURDER.... Ted is at his wit's end. Between pampering the assorted temperaments of his employers, the Krogstad family, and orchestrating Galaxy Foods's grand reopening, the last thing he needs is a dead body ...

  • Yoruba Girl Dancing

    Simi Bedford

    “Yoruba Girl Dancing is at once acerbic and moving and painfully honest about the cost of emigration and adjustment.” -- The Washington Post

    Born into a privileged Nigerian family, Remi Foster has a life in Africa that is a celebration of...

  • A Little Witch Magic

    Robert Bender

    Bored and lonely for most of the year, Broomhelga, the meanest witch in town, comes alive when Halloween rolls around, planning naughty tricks and creating powerful potions, but what she really desires is a friend....

  • Jacobs Journey

    Noah benShea

    "Heartwarming...A message of deliverance and fulfillment...A cause for joy and celebration."
    Father Malcolm Boyd
    As readers of Noah benShea's beloved international bestseller JACOB THE BAKER already know, Jacob's humble life changed when his ne...

  • Ties That Bind

    Nancy Berland

    CHANCE OF A LIFETIME Claire Linwood had always dreamed of bringing expert medical care to the dusty cowtown she called home. The offer to become the top-salaried doctor and part owner of the new $2,000,000 medical clinic in Sierra, Texas, turned h...

  • Fidelity, Five Stories

    Wendell Berry

    "Berry richly evokes Port William's farmlands and hamlets, and his characters are fiercely individual, yet mutually protective in everything they do. . . . His sentences are exquisitely constructed, suggesting the cyclic rhythms of his agrarian world...

  • Lord Samhain's Night: A Novella

    Jo Beverley
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • On Wings of Destiny

    Ching Yun Bezine

  • Come Home to Love

    Jane Bierce

    Putting together a new, independent life wasn't easy for Julia Delaine. Separating from her skirt-chasing husband Phillip took courage; his steamroller personality had been flattening her for decades. Coping with the reactions of her two grown da...

  • The Copper Beech

    Maeve Binchy

    In the Irish town of Shancarrig, the young people carve their initials -- and those of their loves - -into the copper beech tree in front of the schoolhouse. But not even Father Gunn, the parish priest, who knows most of what goes on behind Shancarri...

  • Cockatoos

    Quentin Blake

  • Lily, a Love Story

    Cindy Bonner

    Lily DeLony is the properly brought-up daughter of a hardworking, God-fearing, firm-as-a-rock father. Marion "Shot" Beatty is the youngest of the infamous Beatty brothers gang, the terror of McDade, Texas, in the year 1883. The odds are against their...

  • Clan of the Warlord

    Elizabeth Boyer

    Mistislaus was a wizard. He was old, absentminded, and his potions and spells barely brought in enough money to put food on his table. In short, he was the last person who could be expected to raise a little girl -- in the normal run of things.
    Bu...

  • Out on a Limb

    Sally Bradford

    THEY COULD BE SO HAPPY! Thirteen-year-old Kacie Parker loved her Big Sister, veterinarian Suzanne Peterson, and she knew that her dad, Jed, liked Suzanne, too. The three of them got along so well together, it felt as though they were a real family...

  • Land of Gold

    Gillian Bradshaw

  • Raging Rivers

    Taylor Brady

    In wagons, in mule carts and on foot--down treacherous rivers and across endless plans--the pioneers came in search of the Garden Land--drawn ever westward by the glorious promise of the American frontier. -- Fleeing the horrors of her past and the...

  • The Dream Vessel

    Jeff Bredenberg

    Postapocalyptic rebels embark on a dangerous sea voyage in the second Merquan Chronicles novel from “a writer to watch closely” (Roger Zelazny). An enticing new world awaits -- but getting there is half the battle. Destroying a ruthless dictator,...

  • Serial Blood

    Alexander Brinton

    Years after a serial killer murdered Detective Cotter's wife and children, Cotter rebuilds his life, with the help of Cindy, but another series of murders soon leads him to believe that the killer is back. Original....

  • Oakdean

    Elizabeth Broadnax
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • Courtship Texas Style!

    Annette Broadrick

    DAUGHTER KNOWS BEST Children were everything to teacher Janine Talbot. And when she looked into the sad, lonely eyes of five-year-old Trisha, she knew she'd have to have a chat about child-rearing with the girl's father, charismatic Cameron Callaw...

  • Love's Endless Flame

    Betty Brooks

    HE ALONE COULD SAVE HER When she first heard the rumble of falling rocks, Miranda found it hard to believe that she -- a first-rate cave explorer -- could have been caught in a landslide. But when the dust cleared she discovered she was trapped in...

  • The Blacksmith and the Devils

    Maraia Cristina Brusca

  • Ghost Rider

    Bonnie Bryant

    IT'S ALL HALLOWS EVE -- AND SOMETHING SPOOKY IS HAPPENING AT THE BAR NONE! When Lisa, Carole, and Stevie head west to the Bar None Ranch, they have a great time planning a Halloween party with their friend Kate and John, a Native American boy who wo...

  • Tilt at Windmills

    Patt Bucheister

    He was really more of a fleeting flicker in Ellen's life than an old flame. But then why did Rudd Lomax's sudden reappearance feel like a full-fledged four-alarm fire? Part of her wanted to run for the nearest exit. But for the sake of the se...

  • Coffin on a Case

    Eve Bunting

    HENRY COFFIN, PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR, AT YOUR SERVICE Twelve-year old Henry Coffin helps out his dad at the Coffin and Pale Detective Agency. Only one thing is missing: he's itching for the chance to work on a case of his own. And then beautiful, blon...

  • Leaving Cold Sassy

    Olive Ann Burns

    “A gift” for those who loved the heartwarming million-copy bestseller Cold Sassy Tree (The New York Times).   Anyone who came under the spell of Olive Ann Burns’s classic novel Cold Sassy Tree will delight in Leaving Cold Sassy, which retu...

  • The Cat Inside

    William S. Burroughs

    A meditation on the long and mysterious relationship between cats and their human hosts by one of America's leading literary outlaws traces back to the Egyptian cult of the "animal other" and includes anecdotes about the author's own cats....

  • One Blowy Night

    Nick Butterworth

  • Fools

    Pat Cadigan

    In a world of mindsuckers and bodysnatchers, of Brain Police and personalities for sale, you can't take anything for granted--not even your own identity. When Marva, a struggling Method actress, wakes up in a hologram pool in an exclusive priv club w...

  • Capo's Revenge

    Robert Cain

  • Roller Skates!

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • Gypsy Jewel

    June Cameron

    MANHUNTER She lived for danger. A beautiful Pinkerton agent, Jewel Flannery disguised her identity to track down outlaws. And she always got her man. LADYKILLER He lived for passion. A magnetically handsome riverboat gambler, Brent Connors could...

  • Mad About the Man

    Stella Cameron

    HE WANTED EVERYTHING Jacques Ledan was the King of Candy, the man whose passionate sweets were indescribable sensations. He was also a conqueror, whose next conquest was to wake up the sleepy town of Goldstrike... and seduce his adversary, Gaby Ma...

  • The Year of the Leopard Song

    Eric Campbell

    Returning to Africa after a year at school, Alan encounters a strange atmosphere of tension, the mysterious disappearances of his best friend, Kimathi, and a bizarre sacrifice--linked to the Chagga people and their celebration of the year of the leop...

  • Come Into My Parlor

    Marilyn Campbell

    ONE WOMAN HAS A TERRIBLE PROBLEM... Ted Carmichael's life is an ironic mixture of heaven and hell--success and failure. While her artistic talents are making her a rising star in the world of book cover illustrations, her gambling husband's dangerou...

  • Star Song

    Sandra Canfield

    SUDDENLY THEY BEGAN TO LISTEN WITH THEIR HEARTS AMYANN WILLIAMS -- Sixteen years old and suddenly deaf, AmyAnn was angry and scared. She needed help to adjust to her silent world. CLAIRE RUSHING -- Deaf from birth, she had struggled to bec...

  • Under the Desert Moon

    Marsha Canham

    HER FATE WAS UNCERTAIN... But that did not keep spirited Aubrey Blue from journeying to Santa Fe to avenge a shattering past that tormented her soul. Disguised as a prim schoolmarm, she hid more than her alluring beauty. For no one could see her f...

  • Lost Boys

    Orson Scott Card

    From bestselling storyteller Orson Scott Card comes a gripping story of terror within a small town. Step Fletcher, his pregnant wife DeAnne, and their three children move to Steuben, North Carolina with high hopes. But Step's new job with a software ...

  • Garden of Thorns

    Lillian Stewart Carl

    Arriving in Fort Worth, Texas, to search for archaeological artifacts with her friend Mark, Hilary Chase finds that the site of the dig is Osborne House, a rambling estate resounding with ghostly lamentations...

  • It's Only Make Believe

    Donna Carlisle

    MAKE BELIEVE MARRIAGE Sexy engineer Stone Harrison needed a wife -- and fast! His matchmaking mother was on his back, a gaggle of marriage-minded businessmen were at his heels, and unless pretty Allison Carter agreed to help him out, he'd brea...

  • Northern Lullaby

    Nancy White Carlstrom

    A sleepy young narrator bids goodnight to the members of Earth's family--Sister Owl, Brother Bear, Uncle Moose--in a poetic story highlighted by luminous full-color paintings that evoke the vast wilderness of Alaska....

  • Kidnapped!

    Kate Carlton

    OUT OF THE DARKNESS Emily Osborn didn't have the chance to scream when a hand was clamped over her mouth and a muscular arm pinned her against a rugged body. A man was in her house--when everyone expected her to be on vacation. And as timid Emily ...

  • Peek-a-Boo, Little Mouse

    Noelle Carter

  • My Father, the Nutcase

    Judith Caseley

  • Merry Christmas, Harry

    Mary Chalmers

  • Bachelor's Puzzle

    Ginger Chambers

    WELCOME TO TYLER BETTER ROLL UP YOUR SLEEVES There's been a flood at the old library, and the staff needs all the help they can get! Pitch in and catch up on the latest goings-on in America's favorite hometown. A LATE-BLOOMING PASSION Elise F...

  • As the Moon Rises

    Maggi Charles

    Cathy Merrill seemed to have everything: beauty, wealth and a successful law career. Still, she knew something was missing...a family to be exact. And she was convinced that if she didn't find Mr. Perfect -- pronto -- she'd be out of luck. Es...

  • The Lion's Daughter

    Loretta Chase

    PASSION BORN She is Esme Brantmore, a fearless rebel with a tender heart but a temper that runs hotter than her flaming red hair. Secretly determined to avenge her father's death, she is forced to travel with a handsome English wastrel through a har...

  • Scarlet Butterfly

    Sandra Chastain

    SEAN -- A Dashing Pirate Who Loved Her Rough and Wild... Ever since he'd restored the Scarlet Butterfly Sean Rogan had learned to expect strange occurrences on the ancient schooner -- a scent of tobacco, a sudden shift of her deck -- but he wa...

  • Rainy Day Dream

    Michael Chesworth

  • Foley's Luck

    Tom Chiarella

  • The Wildlings

    Scott Ciencin

    TRAPPED BETWEEN TWO WOLDS… Half-human, half vampire, Danielle Walthers was caught in a twilight world between human desire and inhuman need. In the dangerous streets and wild nightclubs of Los Angeles, nineteen-year-old Dani was fighting the cal...

  • Plumbing for Willy

    Mary Higgins Clark
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  • Eddie and Teddy

    Gus Clarke

  • How Many Days to My Birthday?

    Gus Clarke

  • Everett Anderson's Year

    Lucille Clifton

    In twelve spare, single-stanza verses ... Clifton effectively uses the passage of time to propel and unite her themes. Grifalconi’s bold and sensitive woodcuts reinforce Everett’s moods of joy, hope, and wonder. —School Library Journ...

  • Everett Anderson's 1-2-3

    Lucille Clifton

    One can have fun alone, thinks Everett Anderson. And when it's just Everett and his mama-- well, two is fine, too. But three...Everett tries to understand why Mama and Mr. Perry like to spend so much time together, although it's hard, at first. But a...

  • A Walk Through Fire

    William J. Cobb

  • Mother of Storms

    Adrian Cole

    An ill wind rises on Innasmorn--and its name is Man! On the planet Innasmorn, Mother of Storms, the elements are worshiped as gods. And only the Windmasters can summon the devastating power of rain, gale, thunder and lightning. It is here the last...

  • Baby Magic

    Marion Smith Collins

    A BABY ON THE WAY Growing up, best friends Natalie and Lisa had shared everything -- eventually even the same last name: Armstrong -- one brother for Natalie, another for Lisa. But even a family foursome bound by love was no fortress against fate....

  • Letters from Home

    Toni Collins

    Dear Joe... When Christine; Holland wrote to "any soldier" stationed in the Gulf, Private Joe Parrish replied. But Joe wasn't just any soldier. His picture showed a tall, handsome hunk, and his weekly letters soon became more intimate. It wasn't l...

  • The Venerable Bead

    Richard Condon

    As the story begins...It is the early 1970s, when every American man, woman, and child is fighting the threat of Communist invasion. Leila Aluja, an Iraqi-American lawyer, becomes a film star as part of her job with the government's top counter-es...

  • Sam Panda and Thunder Dragon

    Chris Conover

  • Freshman Truths

    Linda A. Cooney

    When adopted KC uncovers she the identity of her birth mother, will she also discovers secrets about herself better left hidden? Cupid comes knocking at Liza 's door -- but will she drop her defenses and let love in? A thief is stealing from the do...

  • Heart's Deception

    Christina Cordaire

    Love Unmasked... Everyone agreed that Alaina St. Clair was the loveliest debutante of the year, but her come-out season was soon foiled by a wicked scheme to steal her inheritance. Overnight, Alaina became Alan the stabelboy, escaping her ancestra...

  • Death Penalty

    William J. Coughlin

    Criminal attorney Charley Sloan had it all--the Rolls, the Rolex and the expensive wives--until alcoholism took him to the brink of disbarment. Now he's fighting his way back, defending the infamous Dr. Death, who's accused of helping his wealthy pat...

  • The Midwife's Advice

    Gay Courter

    Hannah Sokolow, the spirited Jewish-American heroine of Gay Courter's bestselling novel The Midwife, returns in this powerful story to face new medical challenges in turn-of-the-century New York. As head midwife at Bellevue Hospital, Hannah sees her ...

  • Goblins in the Castle

    Bruce Coville

    What moans at midnight in Toad-in-a-Cage Castle? Toad-in-a-Cage Castle was filled with secrets--secrets such as the hidden passages that led to every room, the long stairway that wound down to the dungeon, and the weird creature named Igor who liv...

  • The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

    Helen Craig

    A new version of the classic tale about the specific comforts of home features full-page illustrations and intimate vignettes that tell the story of two mouse cousins accustomed to entirely different lifestyles....

  • Booked for a Hanging

    Bill Crider

    Sheriff Dan Rhodes of Blacklin County, Texas, finds the body of book dealer Simon Graham hanging from the rafters of an old college building he had planned to restore. Graham's business partner, his erstwhile girlfriend and a rival book dealer all la...

  • Legend of Love

    Melinda Cross

    Destined to love? Brought up as a sheltered Southern belle, Mellie found her introduction to life in the Everglades a bit of a shock. Benjamin Cage, the complete opposite of her polished congressman fiance, was another shock. Ben forced Mellie to ...

  • Class Trip Chaos

    Beth Cruise

  • Girls' Night Out

    Beth Cruise

  • Parson's Mousetrap

    Marie Louise Cull
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • The Mall

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    HE'S EVERYWHERE...WAITING JUST FOR HER! Trish smiles into the dressing-room mirror, admiring herself in the gorgeous white dress. Unknown to her, someone else is watching. He knows she is smiling just for him. His soft, strange voice whispers her ...

  • Doris

    Ivor Cutler

  • The Alpine Advocate

    Mary Daheim

    MURDER HITS THE FRONT PAGE With a full year as publisher-editor of the Alpine Advocate under her belt, Emma Lord feels fine about her move to this small town in the foothills of Washington's Cascade Mountains. But what the paper badly needs is a b...

  • The Red-Blooded Yankee!

    Ruth Jean Dale

    HE WAS NO COWBOY! Trey Smith--Footloose and fancy-free. A Yankee who didn't give a damn what people said about him. Rachel Cox--The proper small-town librarian knew from bitter experience that her reputation mattered. Everyone in Showdown. T...

  • The Hurricane Season

    Rosemary Daniell

    Although Easter O'Brian abandons a comfortable marriage and the advice columns of the fifties to pursue her own artistic vision and sexual desires, she remains a devoted mother to her children. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo....

  • The Velvet Tiger

    Emma Darcy

    Break up or marry? Lissa Gilmore had given Kane Marriot a year of her life -- more than enough time to determine they were going nowhere. Three weeks without a word from Kane was the last straw. Each day that passed steeled Lissa's resolve ...

  • Valerie and the Silver Pear

    Benjamin Darling

  • The Stork Club

    Iris Rainer Dart

    Movie mogul Rick has had every perk Hollywood can offer, but still feels something's missing. As his fiftieth birthday approaches, he decides he wants a family even though he can't commit to a woman--and is about to give everything he's got to adopt ...

  • Maggie and the Emergency Room

    Martine Davidson

  • Robby Visits the Doctor

    Martine Davidson

  • Rita Goes to the Hospital

    Martine Davidson

  • The Stalker

    Nicole Davidson

  • The Waking Spell

    Carol Dawson

    When Sarah Grissom is seven years old, her brother adn her cousins--the Northgates--play a trick on her. They pretend there's a ghost in the attic of their grandmother's big, rambling East Texas house, and they take Sarah up to meet it. It's jus...

  • Carl's Masquerade

    Alexandra Day

  • The Professor of Etiquette

    Oscar De Mejo

    Pompilius McGrath, Professor Etiquette, shares his insights into the art of good manners, from the proper usage of the toothpick to the things one should never do in public. By the author of La Bella Magellona. ...

  • California Man

    Carole Dean

    ISLAND BLOSSOM When Quinn Ramsay boarded the ferry for Canada's Salt Spring Island, he was determined to leave the pressures of his life in California behind him. There would be no more freeways, business lunches, or paparazzi -- at least for the ...

  • Devil's Bridge

    Cynthia DeFelice

    For Ben, there's more involved in the annual Striped Bass Derby than catching the biggest fish. He's proud of the fact that no one has ever beaten his father's record which was won before Ben was born. But now Ben overhears two men plotting to win th...

  • Dreambuilder

    Tom Deitz

    This time, his destiny will not be ignored.For five years, Ronny Dillon has denied the pain and the power that is his birthright - hiding away in the halls of academia far from Welch County, Georgia. But an urgent summons has arrived from his half-br...

  • Emerald Queen

    Karen Jones Delk

    SHE WAS AN EMERALD-EYED ENCHANTRESS Hoyden of the New Orleans streets. Mysterious queen of a steamboat fleet. Chatelaine of a grand plantation house. Men would cross swords and sell their very souls to possess scandalous Simone Devereax. Marcel...

  • The Amber Enchantress

    Troy Denning

    The Lure of Dark Sorcery... Borys: The Dragon of Athas, born of magic and sustained by the agony of the doomed. For a thousand years, he has terrorized the desert wastes of Athas, roaming from city to city in pursuit of his gruesome levy -- the lives...

  • Dead Pan

    Jane Dentinger

    Made-for-television murder It's sure not prime time for smart, sassy actress Jocelyn--Josh to her friends--O'Roarke. She's out of work, her old boyfriend's getting married, and she's spending way too many hours on the couch watching the late late ...

  • To Love and Protect

    Kate Denton

    The Groom was in danger. The Bride was hired to protect him. The Wedding? An unexpected bonus! Someone wanted to kill Manning Chandler, and security agent Sheri Lindsey was assigned to the case. But Chandler -- the owner of an exclusive resort ...

  • Jingle, the Christmas Clown

    Tomie DePaola

    Left behind by the circus in an impoverished Italian town, Jingle, a little clown, and his baby animals come up with an idea to make Christmas Eve special for all the villagers by putting on their own circus performance....

  • Haunted Hearts

    Teresa DesJardien

    THE MASQUERADE For one fog-ensbrouded evening, Olivia Beacham was, determined to break away from the confines of society and experience a taste of excitement and freedom. Her husband's sudden death had left her in mourning for the last two years...

  • Seed of the Fire Lily

    Angela Devine

    Desire burned out of control... Adam Fletcher made no effort to hide his contempt for Caroline Faircroft, she'd become stranded in the Australian outback after venturing there alone. The feeling was mutual. Adam, the man Caroline now had to de...

  • Dancing Class

    Lucy Dickens

  • Throw Darts at a Cheesecake

    Denise Dietz

    The Weight Winners are doing so well at winning the battle of the bulge, someone starts murdering the biggest weight losers. Group leader Ellie Bernstein's got to watch her back as well as her calories before she finds herself on the most permanent d...

  • My Stepfather Shrank!

    Barbara Dillon

  • Rough Riding

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • City Of Light

    Michael Doane

    Working for a small organization monitoring international human rights violations, Thomas Zane is plunged into a nightmarish labyrinth of African politics, betrayal, torture, and death, when he investigates the mysterious killing of his best friend...

  • The Black Widow

    Charlotte Louise Dolan

    Kisses and Consequences Meribe Prestwich's beauty should have made her the belle of the ton --as indeed it once had. That was before the gentlemen who won her heart died from mysterious accidents one by one. Now she was shunned by all who valued l...

  • No Mardi Gras for the Dead

    D.J. Donaldson

    NO BED OF ROSES... Criminal psychologist Kit Franklyn has had experience with skeletons in the closet -- but not in her own backyard. The discovery of a body's remains leads her boss, New Orleans chief medical examiner Andy Broussard, to some interes...

  • The Gap into Power: A Dark and Hungry God Arises

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    A master storyteller, Stephen R. Donaldson established a worldwide reputation with his unforgettable, critically acclaimed fantasy series The Chronicles Of Thomas Covenant. Then, with The Real Story and Forbidden Knowledge, he launched a thrilling n...

  • Restless Passions

    Sandra Donovan

    Voyage of passion... The sight of Captain Marcus Bond commanding their Bermuda-bound ship, his virile masculine form encased in tight black breeches and his white seaman's shirt open at the throat, sent well-bred young Amy Hawthorne's pul...

  • The Lady Is a Scamp

    Gail Douglas

    DAN -- A Dangerously Attractive Maverick Who Burned Hotter Than a California Sunset... He was about to tell Tory Chase she was hired, when the woman made her getaway! Dan Stewart thought she was perfect for planning his new product launch -- but ...

  • Wish Me a Rainbow

    Jessica Douglass

    WITHIN THE WILD-SPIRITED GIRL... From feisty manner to fiery hair, Amelia O'Rourke grew up on her father's Texas ranch with a tomboy's spunky exuberance. But she was changing in spite of herself, whispers of unfamiliar longings beginning...

  • Through the Ivory Gate

    Rita Dove

    A debut novel by the 1987 winner of the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. When a woman returns to her Midwestern hometown as an artist-in-residence to teach puppetry to schoolchildren, her homecoming also means dealing with memories of racism, rejected love...

  • The Price of the Stars

    Debra Doyle; James D. MacDonald

    THE WAR WITH THE MAGEWORLDS IS OVER. NOW IT'S TIME FOR THE REAL STRUGGLE TO BEGIN. Freebooter at heart, spacer by trade, Beka Rosselin-Metadi doesn't want to hear about her father whose rugged generalship held back the Mageworlds--or her highborn ...

  • Geodesic Dreams

    Gardner Dozois

    As one of the most admired figures in science fiction, Gardner Dozois has built a reputation not only as an anthologist and editor of Asimov's Science Fiction, but as an award-winning writer himself. Now, in this comprehensive collection, Dozois pres...

  • If Looks Could Kill

    Eileen Dreyer

    Chris Jackson has secrets. A wildly popular author of suspense novels, Chris hides away in the tiny town of Pyrite, Missouri, where she lives in a converted storefront and practices breaking-and-entering on local businesses. Most of the citizen...

  • Kindertransport

    Olga Levy Drucker

    Mama and I climbed aboard. I waved to Papa until he was only a tiny speck in the distance. The train turned the curve, and he was gone.The powerful autobiographical account of a young girls' struggle as a Jewish refugee in England from 1939"1945....

  • Warrior of the Sun

    Kathleen Drymon

    To Shadow Dancer, war chief of the Aztec-Apache, the silken-haired woman he called Moon Flower was his tribe's long-awaited destiny...and his most coveted bride. And although lovely Iva Cassidy was afraid of nothing, not even Indians, she nearly fain...

  • Man of Blood

    Margaret Duffy

    Piers Ashley receives a frosty welcome from his high-fallutin' family after he is released from jail, but that becomes the least of his worries when someone begins stalking him and the rest of the residents of Ashleigh Coombe castle....

  • Superstition

    Carola Dunn
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    In All Hallows' Eve, gifted writers have concocted a Regency witches' cauldron of romance and shadows, love and laughter, horror and delight. Joan Aiken's story conjures a peer's ghost who wreaks destruction on a modern guest-house; lovers invoke ...

  • Beneath Wide Wide Heavens

    John Martin Dunn

  • Task Force

    Mike Dunn

  • The Broody Hen

    Olivier Dunrea

  • Black Tree Moon

    Kathleen Eagle

    SOUTH DAKOTA'S BLACK HILLS, WHERE FIRES RAGED--AND WHERE ONE WOMAN HAD A FIRE FIGHTER BURNING UP Race Latimer: One of the Forest Service's elite smoke jumpers. Part owner of the Plugged Nickel casino. Half Chippewa Indian. Full-time hell-raiser. ...

  • Sarah Morgan

    Charles East

    Born into one of the best families of Baton Rouge, Sarah Morgan was not yet twenty when she began her diary in January 1862, nine months after the start of the Civil War. She was soon to experience a coming-of-age filled with the turmoil and upheaval...

  • The Name of the Beast

    Daniel Easterman

    Egypt 1999. Plagues sweep North Africa, terrorists lay waste to Europe. Men all over the globe are haunting by the same portentous dream. Towering over the heart of the apocalyptic upheaval is a mysterious figure known as al-Qurtubi. Is he the Antich...

  • Father: Unknown

    Andrea Edwards

    Good golly, Miss Molly! Thought Jeff Spencer as preacher's daughter Molly Cahill rolled back into town with a feisty, fatherless nine-year-old. When Molly the Mouse had fled a decade ago, Jeff had been a moody, broody, teen James Dean, too wild ...

  • Wild Rapture // Savage Touch

    Cassie Edwards

    ON THE UNTAMED FRONTIER A FIERY AND FORBIDDEN LOVE Fresh from Paris' finest art academy, exquisitely lovely Briana Collins comes home to paint the beautiful wilderness of her native Minnesota. Her ambitious uncle wants her to be a pretty ornament f...

  • Dear Lillian

    Gene Edwards

    This title is no longer available from Tyndale, but it can be ordered from SeedSowers / 4003 N. Liberty Street / Jacksonville, FL 32206
    This breathtaking view of the believer's relationship to death and the afterlife―placing the Christian's li...

  • The Beginning

    Gene Edwards

    This title is no longer available from Tyndale, but it can be ordered from SeedSowers / 4003 N. Liberty Street / Jacksonville, FL 32206
    This volume in The Chronicles of the Door explores the mystery and marvel of God at work. In The Beginning, ...

  • River Raid

    Hank Edwards (1)

  • The Word Party

    Richard Edwards

    The author of A Mouse in My Roof presents a selection of forty-eight original, humorous, and poignant poems about bananas, polar bears, monsters, badgers, and a cushion complaining about the heavy weight on it....

  • Tigers

    Roland Edwards

  • Islands, the Universe, Home

    Gretel Ehrlich

    Ten essays on nature, ritual, and philosophy “that are so point-blank vital you nearly need to put the book down to settle yourself” (San Francisco Chronicle). Gretel Ehrlich’s world is one of solitude and wonder, pain and beauty, and these ele...

  • The Conquest

    Lucy Elliot

    Fire and Ice Canadian Anne-Marie Doucet had hated the British for years, and she vowed to aid the rebellious Americans in their attempt to wrest Quebec from British hands. She would have blown the redcoats back across the Atlantic, but coolheaded Am...

  • Lone Star and the Buccaneers

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki fight in a double threat -- rustlers working on land and sea!Their prize herd stolen by a group of buccaneers, Jessie and Ki spring into action, riding south of the border with Brownsville's worst cutthroats for a deadly encounter with ...

  • Nightmare

    S.K. Epperson

    On a remote ranch deep in the Flint Hills at a clinic for women diagnosed with multiple personality disorder, patients are dying in extremely violent ways. The staff has invited Dr. Bryan Raleigh and his team, along with his journalist brother, David...

  • The Assassination Chronicles

    Edward Jay Epstein

  • The Swiss Account

    Paul E. Erdman

  • A Wing and a Prayer

    Lynn Erickson

    HOW COULD HE COMPETE WITH A GHOST? Chris Galloway could grow to hate Jim Fleisher...even though the poor guy was dead. Jim had crashed the airplane he'd been flying, and as an air-safety investigator, Chris disliked pilots who got their passen...

  • Sweet Temptation

    Marcia Evanick

    GARRISON -- A Rebel Who Didn't Play by Any Rules but His Own... Just what he needed, a Southern belle children's book writer under his feet for six weeks! Garrison Fisher was sure no Georgia peach could survive roughing it in the Boneyard...

  • Longarm and the Double Eagles

    Tabor Evans

    When half a million dollars disappears from the U.S. Treasury Office in Grants Pass, Longarm steps in to investigate and discovers that the thief, a deadly killer, is hell-bent on keeping his booty. Original....

  • Doin' the Box Step

    Suzanne Falter-Barns

    Fireworks erupt when Chelsea Cox returns to Beechwood, an ultra-WASP Philadelphia suburb, with her fiance+a7, Bennett Edwards, a stuffy Princeton grad who also happens to be black. A first novel. 10,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo. Tour....

  • Sweet Deception

    Colleen Faulkner

    A WOMAN OF SECRETS After accidentally killing her husband in self-defense, Thomasina Waxton, Viscountess of Greenborough, fled into the night. With nowhere to go and no one to turn to, Thomasina became Ellen Scarlet and made a new life for herself...

  • The Habits of a Lifetime

    Ethan Feinsod

  • 668: The Neighbor of the Beast

    Lionel Fenn

    As Bog-Muggoth, an ancient, evil demon, arrives at 668 Langford Place, other vile gods from beyond time and space join him, and only Kent Montana can keep these creatures from feeding on the human race. Original....

  • One-Night Stand

    Sandra Field

    No commitments, no regrets When she danced her heart out, Josephine Scott-Davies was nothing less than magic. And that magic drew Reed Corrigan to her like a moth to a flame. As a karate champion, Reed was a fighter, not a dancer, and he didn'...

  • While Shepherds Watched

    Jenni Fleetwood

  • Missouri Mama

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Jack's Fantastic Voyage

    Michael Foreman

    While spending the summer at his grandfather's house at the shore and enjoying his grandfather's scary stories, Jack experiences a terrible storm and suddenly finds himself at the helm of a ship, steering his way through huge waves and perilous icebe...

  • What's Wrong With Tamara?

    D.A. Fowler

  • Silent in the Saddle

    Norman A. Fox

  • Driving Force

    Dick Francis

    Transporting racehorses to the course is big business for ex-jockey Freddie Croft. He runs his fleet of vans and their drivers with tight reins, strict security, and everything on the up-and-up. But one driver breaks a cardinal rule--never pick up a ...

  • When She Was Bad

    Robin Francis

    When she was bad... she was horrid It was an innocent childhood rhyme that haunted Jenny Spaulding during what should have been the best time of her life. She and Peter Darien were finally ready to walk down the aisle. But unless Jenny could thwar...

  • The Pleasure of Reading

    Antonia Fraser

    First edition. Issued to celebrate the bicentenary of W.H. Smith. An anthology of forty writers who were asked to describe their early reading, what did or did not influence them, what they enjoy reading today, and a list of their ten favorite books....

  • It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

    Robert Fulghum

    From the author to the reader: Show-and-Tell was the very best part of school for me, both as a student and as a teacher.As a kid, I put more into getting ready for my turn to present than I put into the rest of my homework. Show-and-Tell was re...

  • Alphabet Soup

    Mirko Gabler

    Assigned to make alphabet soup for a school project, Gurgla and Blog return home, followed secretly by their curious classmate, Zach, and create a terrible concoction using Ants, Bagworms, Crunchy Crabs, and other creepy ingredients....

  • Another Eden

    Patricia Gaffney

    Beautiful, sensitive and aristocratic, Sara was tired of lying to protect brutal, grasping Ben Cochrane, tired of pretending that her life of luxury was anything but a gilded cage. And from the moment her eyes first met Alex McKie's, she knew tha...

  • This Ol' Drought Ain't Broke Us yet (But We're All Bent Pretty Bad)

    Jim Garry

    A master storyteller spins authentic tales of the American West, presenting a collection of folklore, tall tales, and oral literature that reflects the western landscape and its influence on its human and animal inhabitants. 15,000 first printing....

  • Rats and Gargoyles

    Mary Gentle

    It is a nameless city somewhere between past and future, a mythic realm at the "heart of the world," where wicked Rat Lords have reduced all humankind to slaves, and god-daemons make the decision to end all existence. This energizes a compelling ques...

  • Christmas at Long Pond

    William T. George

  • Watching the Roses

    Adele Geras

    I DIDN'T KNOW AND WOULD NEVER HAVE GUESSED THAT ALL THE CAREFUL, LOVING WORK THAT HAD GONE INTO REARING ' THE ROSES FOR YEARS AND YEARS COULD HAVE BEEN UNDONE IN THIS SHORT TIME. Alice grew up the only child of loving parents. They live in a gorge...

  • Extraordinary People

    Paul Gervais

  • The Jingle Bells Jam

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    "Jingle bells, Jingle bells, Jingle all the way..." What a great Christmas carol. Too bad Chrissie Tripp can't really play it on her fife. In practice she just moves her fingers and hopes that no one else in the Lincoln Lions Band wil...

  • Show Time at the Polk Street School

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    It's time to bring out the costumes, makeup, and props and start rehearsing. Now you can not only read about your favorite Polk Street characters, you can act out the stories In plays. Show Time at the Polk Street School Includes three plays based on...

  • Nutcracker: A Pop-Up Book

    Phillida Gili

    Full-color illustrations--including six two-page spreads--elaborate pop-ups, pull-tabs, lift-the-flaps, and moving parts give a new look to the well-loved ballet story about Clara and her Christmas fantasy come to life....

  • Forbidden Dreams

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    JASON--A Sensual Stranger Who Knew Her Unspoken Desires, and Shared Them... In the middle of a storm, in the middle of nowhere, he'd stumbled bruised and bloodied into her cabin, calling her name--and Shell Landry could deny Jason O'Keefe nothing!...

  • To Do No Harm

    Andrew Glass

    Penniless and thousands of dollars in debt, coke addict Peter, once his firm's most promising attorney, begins brokering baby adoptions to pay his creditors and becomes involved in kidnapping and murder...

  • I Am Susannah

    Libby Gleeson

  • Showcase

    Alison Glen

    When a Chinese imperial art exhibit comes to Columbus, Ohio, Charlotte Sams--housewife, mother, and amateur sleuth--is soon hot on the trail of a dangerous killer who murdered a skeptical art expert. 10,000 first printing....

  • Trolls

    Golden Books