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New Books List: 678 titles

  • The Shark Callers

    Eric Campbell

    After a volcano erupts two very different young men find themselves struggling for life in shark-infested waters and one must be sacrificed to the swarming blood lust of the sharks if the other is to survive. €œThe author€™s exceptional depiction...

  • I Spy a Lion

    Lucy Micklethwait

    Here's a menagerie of animals and birds to be found in the world's great works of art--if only you look! With its rich variety of artists from around the world and throughout the centuries, this is a treasure of a book for every member of the family ...

  • Dear Benjamin Banneker

    Andrea Davis Pinkney / Andrea Pinkney

    Throughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Banneker attacked the institution of slavery and dared to call ...

  • The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill

    Nancy Willard

    “Both children and adults will be delighted with the humor that these illustrations display. . . . [This book] blends fact and imagination, provides a wonderful way to introduce speculation, one of the higher-order thinking skills. . . . Don’t pa...

  • Away to Me, Moss

    Betty Levin

    When ten-year-old Zanna takes over the training of Moss, a young Border Collie bound to become a champion sheepdog, after his owner has a stroke, all goes well until suddenly Zanna's family has to move....

  • The Vanishing Feast

    Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

    The award-winning author explores the issue of biodiversity, how it is threatened, and how we can preserve it. “This informative, well-written book provides excellent report material on a subject that is both interesting and complex.”--School Lib...

  • Days of the Dead

    Kathryn Lasky

  • La Natividad

    Julie Vivas

  • Captive in the Virtual World

    Cathy East Dubowski

    When J.B. vanishes into the computer, Ryan must go into the virtual world to rescue him from Grimlord's virtual dungeon, and on their return, Grimlord replaces the professor with a holographic double....

  • How to Hide a Polar Bear and Other Mammals

    Ruth Heller

    Clever verse and beautiful illustrations showing animals alone on one page and then camouflaged on the next teach children about how animals like bears, deer, and zebras hide in the wild in a new entry in the All Aboard series. Reprint....

  • Vr Virtual Realit Spy

    Dina Anastasio

  • Share of Freedom

    June Rae Wood

    Terrified of being separated from her brother after an alcoholic binge lands her mother in a treatment program, Freedom Jo Avery runs away, but her plan misfires, leading to the discovery of her long-lost father and a reevaluation of her mother's str...

  • Hello, Snow!

    Wendy Cheyette Lewison

  • Virtual Reality Magician

    Dina Anastasio

  • Friend vs. Friend in the Virtual World

    Ted Conner

  • The Cat's Story

    Nick Butterworth

  • There Was a Little Girl

    Evan Hunter

    After Matthew Hope slips into a coma--the result of a drive-by shooting--his friends, private eye Warren Chambers and police detective Morris Bloom--must follow in his investigative footsteps to discover why he was shot. All signs point to the local ...

  • The Afterlife and Other Stories

    John Updike

    “Marvelously moving . . . These tales evoke a certain peace and a definite wonder at what an astonishingly graceful writer Updike is.” -- USA TodayTo the hero of the title story of this collection, all of England has the glow of an afterlife: “...

  • Crocodile Gene and His Friends

    Eduard Uspenski

  • Changes in Attitude

    Jeffrey Solomon

  • Pack of Lies

    Matt Callaway

  • To Race a Dream

    Deborah Savage

  • Story of the Year

    John Cunliffe

  • Celebrate America: In Poetry and Art

    Nora Panzer

  • Mama Goose

    Liz Rosenberg

  • The Sandman and the Turtles

    Michael Morpurgo

  • Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Ireland

    Virginia Haviland

    One of a landmark series back in print for a new generation of readers to collect and cherish. Each book includes exciting tales accompanied by more than twenty brand-new black-and-white illustrations. Readers will immediately recognize their favorit...

  • Brownie Take Bow Pb

    Marcia Leonard

    Krissy would love to join her troop in going to the theater to see The Secret Garden, but in order to do so, she will first have to earn some money, and she makes some new friends as she does. Original....

  • Is That Really You, Amy?

    Marcia Leonard

    Amy feels good when her babysitter, Hallie, treats her like a grownup, but when Amy's troop is set to go on a trip with Hallie's older Cadette Girl Scouts, she worries about impressing the older girls and possibly angering her friends. Original....

  • The Ice Palace

    Angela Mcallister

    Sick in bed with a fever, Anna listens to her father's marvelous tales of an ice land where a princess embarks on a fantastical voyage aboard an ice ship, while her father prepares a special surprise for her in the palace ice house....

  • Crazy Horse

    Judith St. George

    A biography of the legendary Oglala Sioux warrior who defeated General Custer provides a close-up look at a man who, angered by broken promises and the destruction of his world, battled to save his people, their way of life, and their land....

  • Firebird

    Rachel Isadora

    The story of the Firebird--inspired by Balanchine's version of the classic ballet--follows Prince Ivan as he discovers the Firebird in an enchanted forest and, with the help of the magical half-bird, half-woman, rescues ten princesses from an evil so...

  • Fat Chance

    Leslea Newman

    A diary records a year in the life of Judi Liebowitz as she dreams of becoming the thinnest girl in the eighth grade and struggles to control her unending battle with calories, food, pounds, and anorexia....

  • The Farmhouse Mouse

    Cynthia Rogers Erkel

  • Fly Away Home

    K.D. Plum

  • Christmas on an Island

    Gail Gibbons

  • Those That Mattered

    Barbara Angle

    Returning home from college to her West Virginia, coal-mining roots, Portia Crowe escapes a bad marriage and follows in her family's footsteps to become one of the first female members of the United Mine Workers...

  • The Candy Land Mystery

    Cynthia Alvarez

  • Experiment on Muir Island

    Paul Mantell

  • Brigid, Bewitched

    Kathleen Leverich

    Illus. in black-and-white. Brigid Thrush is petrified of jumping off the new high dive at the town pool. But something bizarre is afoot--a strange girl at the park seems to have cast a spell on Brigid--can Brigid break free and find a way to conquer ...

  • Slam Dunk Saturday

    Jean Marzollo

    Illus. in black-and-white. It's almost time for Slam Dunk Saturday, and Billy is practicing like crazy for the Shoot-Out Contest. Will he beat Chad--who's huge, rude, and the best player in school?  This play-by-play story reveals an important mess...

  • Shadow Children

    Steven Schnur

    "Maybe for us it's over. But not for the children. For them it will never be over."

    One summer after the Second World War, Etienne visits his beloved grand-father near the French town of Mont Brulant. A two-m...

  • The Little Follies: The Personal History, Adventure, Experiences and Observations of Peter Leroy

    Eric Kraft

    In 1962, as a college sophomore, Eric Kraft fell asleep in the library. Among the books surrounding him, he began to dream...of a nameless boy, sitting on a dilapidated dock in the warm sun of a summer day, playing a game: He was trying to bring ...

  • The Baby Train and Other Lusty Urban Legends

    Jan Harold Brunvand

    America's premier folk detective is back on the case, sniffing out those zany but dubious stories that "really happened" to a friend of your sister's boyfriend's accountant's mechanic. Jan Harold Brunvand -- ''Mr. Urban Legend" [Smithsonian] -- track...

  • Man Who Knew Too Much

    Julius Lester

    A man who presumes to know everything there is to know about eagles wrongly interprets a miraculous experience and evokes the curse of murder on the world, in a traditional fable from the Baila people of Zambia....

  • Showdown at Lonesome Pellet

    Paul Ratz de Tagyos

  • 1 2 3

    Clotilde Olyff

  • Sam Curtin

    Doug Bowman

    Times are hard for the Curtin clan. Farming and raising cattle don't bring in enough money, and payments on the ranch are due. Curtin is the best there is with a six-shooter--and there are more wanted men than the law can handle. To save the ranch, C...

  • Lord of Chaos

    Robert Jordan

    In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Fires of Heaven, we plunge again into Robert Jordan's extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world: On the slopes of Shayol Ghul, the Myrddraal swords are forged, and the sky is not...

  • A Nest of Magpies

    Sybil Marshall

    """Marshall''s entertaining first novel, set in the 1960s in the secluded town of Old Swithinford, England, is a solid historical romance... The author limns a sympathetic protagonist whose self-analysis is perceptive and complex."" - Publishers Week...

  • Green Mountain Ghosts, Ghouls & Unsolved Mysteries

    Joseph A. Citro

    Take a chilling tour of spooky New England legends . . .   Visit Vermont with this comprehensive collection of tales, legends, folklore, ghost stories, and strange-but-true facts -- and enjoy supernatural side trips to the surrou...

  • Kate of Still Waters

    Martha Bennett Stiles

  • Scary, Spooky Hunt

    Jeffrey Nelson

  • Step in the Dark

    Marjorie Lewty

    Love is so complicated! Cynical businessman Saul Jarrett didn't believe in hearts and flowers. So why did he go along with Nicola's request that he pose as her loving fiance, and why did he give all the appearance of being a man in love? Nicola di...

  • Jewels And Ashes

    Arnold Zable

    Like Schindler's List, this is a haunting document for the next generation of Holocaust survivors. Zable travels from Australia to the Eastern European countryside of his parents' remembrance to understand the present-the inner lives of those who, li...

  • Spencerville

    Nelson DeMille

    The cold war is over, and Keith Landry, one of the nation's top intelligence officers, is forced into early and unwanted retirement. Restless, Landry returns to Spencerville, the small Midwestern town where he grew up. The place has changed in the qu...

  • Uncle Smoke Stories

    Roger L. Welsch

  • Little Dinosaur's Little Sister

    Ross

    Illus. in full color. After trying every trick in the book to make his little sister stop crying, Little Dinosaur gets so frustrated that he bursts into tears. Little sister finds this very funny, and she starts to laugh!  ...

  • One-Man Team

    Dean Hughes

  • Midnight Ride of Thomas the Tank Engine

    Rev. W. Awdry

    Based on The Railway Series by the Rev. W. Awdry. Illus. in full color. Thomas finds himself on an urgent midnight run to deliver toys to a children's hospital. Along the way his headlights break! Luckily friends and neighbors light the way to help T...

  • The Brood

    Paul Mantell

  • Gabby the Shrew

    Alfa-Betty Olsen

  • Runaway Christmas Toy

    Linda Hayward

  • Rock and Ride!

    Justine Korman Fontes

    The sole survivors of the Plutarkian conquest of Mars, the Biker Mice flee to Earth only to discover that one of the planet's leading citizens, Laurence Limburger, is a Plutarkian in disguise, who is plotting the same fate for Earth as Mars. Original...

  • Hands off My Bike!

    Ron Frontes

    When a mysterious river-barge wreck contaminates a park, and archfiend Limburger offers to clean up the land, the Biker Mice step in to save the situation, only to walk into a trap set up to steal one of their super-bikes. Original....

  • Literary Angels

    Harriet S. Chessman

    This unique collection wings us into the realms of literature where angels do not fear to tread. A luminous collage of angelic wonders drawn from the Bible, from the Koran, and from the work of writers such as Leo Tolstoy, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Syl...

  • Alien under My Bed

    J.R. Black

    Hayley is miserable. Her dad has just remarried and now she's stuck with a strange new stepfamily and a strange new house. Things go from bad to worse when she finds a space alien has chosen her new bedroom as his home away from home....

  • Disney's Winnie the Pooh's Christmas

    Bruce Talkington

    Looking forward to the celebrations of the holiday before realizing that he has forgotten to get presents for his friends, Winnie the Pooh becomes even more upset when he realizes that nobody in the Hundred Acre Wood has stockings. Reprint....

  • Rights Guide for Home Owners

    Jo Tunnard

  • What Is Hannukah?

    Harriet Ziefert

    Why do we light candles? Whatis a dreidel? Josh learns the answers to these questions and the story of Hanukkah as he celebrates this special holiday with his family.

    Why do we light the menorah? What do the letters on the dreidel mean? Josh l...

  • Simpsons Comics Extravaganza

    Matt Groening

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    Welcome to the remarkable first four issues of Simpsons Comics, brought to you by the Bongo Comics Group, a small but overachieving band of merry artists, designers, lawyers and publicists. Their work looks effortless, but the Bongo gang has shed...

  • The Night Before Christmas House

    Laura Ferraro

    Clement C. Moore's holiday classic comes to three-dimensional life in this easy-to-assemble Victorian Christmas house made with sturdy card-stock. It comes complete with five cozy rooms, movable furniture, plus 100 holiday stickers to decorate the ho...

  • Littlejim's Gift

    Gloria Houston

    With America at war with Germany, Littlejim's father believes that there is no time for fun despite the coming of the Christmas holidays, but Littlejim practices hard for the Bible competition, hoping to go to the church Christmas tree celebration....

  • Christmas Tree Ship

    Jeanette Winter

    For more than twenty years, Captain Herman Schuenemann had brought Christmas trees to the citizens of Chicago aboard his schooner, but when a blizzard fells his ship, it is up to the captain's family to carry on the tradition in their own way....

  • Scrooge

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Christmas at Santa's

    Kelvin Gobble

  • A Magic Merry Christmas!

    Amye Rosenberg

  • They Followed a Bright Star

    Joan Alavedra

    This adaption of a German nativity story offers readers a brightly illustrated picture book about the shepherds and kings who were summoned to a Bethlehem stable to prepare for and witness the birth of Jesus Christ....

  • The First Christmas

    Kelvin Gobble

  • South of Heaven

    Jim Thompson

    Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserte...

  • Texas by the Tail

    Jim Thompson

    To everyone he's every played dice with, Mitch Corley seems like the luckiest guy around. But in truth, Corley's fast hands are the only gift fate's ever given him. He's never held down a steady job, and when it comes to women, his luck might just be...

  • The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

    Yukio Mishima

    Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone until he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple...

  • Mr. Chas and Lisa Sue Meet the Pandas

    Fran Lebowitz

    The author of Metropolitan Life and Social Studies offers her first children's book--the humorous adventures of two seven-year-old children and two Panda bears named Pandemonium and Don't Panda to Public Taste....

  • Elmo's Little Glow Worm

    Joe Mathieu

  • Free Puppies (To Loving Homes)

    Bobbi Barto

    Illus. in full color. When Samantha hears that the dog next door is having puppies, she begs her mother for one. She visits the pups every day--until the big moment arrives when she takes her own special puppy home.  ...

  • Bitty Goes to School

    Elizabeth Greenaway

  • Masquerade

    Justine Fontes

  • Spellbound

    Jim Thomas

  • Rosie's Fishing Trip

    Amy Hest

  • Good Night, Stella

    Kate McMullan

  • Big Day for Little Jack

    Lilian Moore

  • Catkin

    Antonia Barber

    There once was a cat named Catkin who was so small he could sit on the palm of a child's hand. He was given to a farmer and his wife to keep watch over their baby girl, by a wise woman who had seen danger in the child's future. And when the merry, he...

  • Kid Kibble

    Diana Hendry

    When Kid Kibble, the new seventh-grade biology teacher, moves into their attic room with a skeleton and an assortment of living things, Ned, his sister, and their mother wonder if their bad luck with boarders is continuing...

  • The Little Obie and the Kidnap

    Martin Waddell

    In the American Old West, Mrs. Jumping Joseph takes two lost boys to her cave to be their mama, and it is up to Obie's grandparents to rescue the two youngsters. By the author of Little Obie and the Flood. ...

  • Don't Call Me Beanhead!

    Susan Wojciechowski

    The author of Patty Dillman of Hot Dog Fame presents Beany, a regular youngster with regular-kid worries, twenty-three freckles, and a bossy best friend, in five entertaining stories about Beany's life at home and at school....

  • It's the Bear!

    Jez Alborough

    The hilarious sequel to Where's My Teddy? features little Eddie, his teddy, Freddie, and the amazingly oversized bear he had discovered the last time he went into the woods--and this time, the bear is hungry....

  • The Christmas Collection

    Susan Hill (1)

  • Mr. Pam Pam and the Hullabazoo

    Trish Cooke

  • A Caribbean Dozen: Poems from Caribbean Poets

    Grace Nicholas

  • Lilly's Secret

    Miko Imai

  • Rock and Ride

    Random House

  • When Lightning Strikes

    Kristin Hannah

    A MAN LOST IN THE PAST, A WOMAN LOST IN TIME... Romance writer Alaina Costanza has given up on dreams and fairy tales. Then one storm-tossed, enchanted night she is plunged back in time to the wild, Western world of her newest novel. Disoriented a...

  • The Law of Becoming

    Kate Elliott

    THE GAME OF PRINCES-- When the human rebellion against the Chapalii Empire failed, the alien overlords did the unthinkable. They made Charles Soerensen, leader of the rebellion, a duke in their empire, granting him lordship over several worlds, am...

  • Bad to the Bone

    Jack Bodine

    Fleeing to Mexico to escape the law, Duane Braddock, the Pecos Kid, lands in hot water when he befriends a powerful Mexican aristocrat's lonely wife, with American bounty hunters on his trail, renegade Apache in the area, and an old flame in hot purs...

  • Ambush at Skull Pass

    Jon Sharpe

    Caught between a tribe of vengeful Utes and a crazed gold prospector's town, Skye Fargo tries to hold his own with the town's deceitful leader, an Indian princess who claims him for her own, and a fiery bar girl. Original....

  • Orphan Train

    J.R. Roberts

    There's not much one man can do against a dozen outlaws -- unless that one man is the Gunsmith. When Clint Adams runs across a gang of Comancheros ambushing a small wagon train, he heads for cover and sets up a hail of lead that makes the bushwhacker...

  • Prairie Blood

    David Thompson

    Rugged mountain man Nathaniel King braves the perils and hardships of the Rockies to build a new life for himself far from city corruption, but his world falls apart when his young son disappears. Original....

  • The Whispering Outlaw

    Max Brand

    The Whisperer, a mysterious frontier bandit who never shows his face or speaks in his own voice, recruits a ragtag band of outlaws to assist him in a series of daring robberies designed to make them all rich. Reprint....

  • Homecoming

    Dana Fuller Ross

    It's 1899, and in Taos, New Mexico, the enterprising Michael Holt pursues a personal dream...a vision of the West that will forever alter the American landscape. Half a world away, U.S. intelligence agent Henry Blake has watched his government sink i...

  • Lonestar and the Trapper Turf War

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki find more swindlers than timber in the cross fire of a bloody north-woods feud!Pursuing double trouble when both the Flaming Geyser stage line and Rod Delmonico's forest holdings become targets of assault, the Lone Star duo Jessi and Ki...

  • Longarm and the Barbed Wire Bullies

    Tabor Evans

    When Duke Albright and his gang of killers begin posting fences that rob homesteaders of their cattle and water, shooting anyone who attempts to stop them, Longarm realizes it will take more than courage to bring them to justice. Original....

  • The Quiet Cowboy

    Jack Curtis

    Mustang wrangler Wes Bengard and his Paiute partner, Red, take on Beecher Turnbull, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in Nevada's Juniper Valley, who is responsible for the murders of five "rustlers" who made the mistake of straying onto Turnb...

  • St. Agnes' Stand

    Thomas Eidson

    Encountering the survivors of an Apache ambush deep in the New Mexico desert, Nat Swanson is disturbed when their leader, Sister St. Agnes, insists despite her own shaken faith that Nat has been sent by God to lead them to safety. Reprint....

  • Gold Ledge Gold Diggers

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Edge of Heaven

    Caroline Bourne

    AN ENCOUNTER WITH DANGER The Donovans were cursed by bad blood. That's how Philadelphia heiress Mariette Donovan justified her cousin Roby's actions when he nearly killed his brother over a girl, then ran off with her into the untamed Alleghenies. N...

  • Duel of Hearts

    Helen Archery

    A BATTLE OF WILLS... AND A WILLFUL BRIDE TO-BE An arranged marriage was not what Hillary Astaire had hoped for, but she was honor bound to keep her promise to her late father. Until she learned that her betrothed, the viscount of Wolverton, known ...

  • Angel Face

    Jane Bonander
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    A lonely schoolmarm fleeing a Minnesota blizzard seeks refuge with an embittered farmer and his half-breed son--and experiences a miracle of love by the Yuletide fire....

  • Sweet Dalliance

    Lisa Bingham

    When Micah St. Charles wakes up at the wrong end of a gun aimed by a women who has stolen his clothes, he decides to get clear of Eliza Wilder's barn fast. On the run from the Union army -- accused of treason by the one man who should have lo...

  • Anything for Love

    Connie Brockway

    Forever Venice Leiland, determined to overcome her spoiled rich girl reputation, has come to the most remote spot in the Rockies to save a small mining town from financial ruin. The last person she expects to find is Noble "Slats" McCaneag...

  • The Raider's Daughter

    Kimberly Cates

    SHE HAD A FIERY SPIRIT ONLY ONE MAN COULD TAME... The vitality of colonial Virginia had transformed Lucy d'Autrecourt Blackheath into a defiant and self-assured young woman -- and made her restless and hungry for adventure. When a parcel arriv...

  • The Devilish Earl

    Rachelle Edwards

    THE RAKE WOULD SOON BE THWARTED BY HIS OWN DEBAUCHERY... Stacia Gilbert, the toast of the London theater, harbored a secret loathing of the ton's truest incomparable, Lord Silverwood, after he ruined her father. Now, after years of deprivation...

  • Love's Darkness

    Cheryl Biggs
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    Randi Baines accompanies her fiance, Lane DuCroix, home to his Louisiana Plantation -- only to discover that their arrival has awakened dark forces in the shadowy bayau. Now, Randi must fight the century-old spirit of a beautiful woman named Liliand...

  • After the Frost

    Megan Chance

    "SHE WAS BACK. SWEET JESUS, SHE WAS BACK." He was her worst enemy, her best friend, the childhood sweetheart and lover -- she couldn't escape. And now, after six long years, Belle Sault was back home in Ohio again, determined to claim ...

  • An Elusive Guardian

    Sara Blayne

    SHE TOOK THE TON BY STORM… Charity Wade had gone from impoverished miss to heiress, from a spinster-on-the-shelf to the talk of the ton. And she owed her good fortune to the masked rogue who’d saved her life! Charity had been sailing from Indi...

  • Strawberry Lace

    Amy Belding Brown

    Despising the snobbish attitudes of the Winters, whose barbecue she is hired to cater, Chelsea Adams finds herself falling for the family's son and accepts another man's proposal in order to run from her feelings. Original....

  • Separating

    Susan Bowden

    When her husband announces that he is leaving her for a woman half his age on their silver anniversary, Riona embarks on a journey that could lead to an unexpected new romance, but old bitterness may destroy her chances for a passionate future. Origi...

  • Moonlight Rhapsody

    Nancy Cane

    SIREN SONG On a secret mission that took him to the far reaches of the galaxy, Lord Rolf Cam'brii was captured and enslaved. Sworn to escape at any cost, he vowed to destroy anyone who tried to stop him. But his plans went awry when he came face-t...

  • Heaven's Gate

    Tanya Anne Crosby
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    Choosing Christmas to do the deed, a dashing English duke breaks off his long-standing engagement -- only to discover the innocent fiance he ignored for years has unexpectedly blossomed into a fiery and irresistible woman....

  • A Winsome Widow

    Teresa DesJardien

    THE CHASE IS ON! It all began when Regist, Viscount Collingsworth, overheard that scoundrel, Lord Willernott, laying odds at White's that he could woo and win the lovely Lady Stephana Monroe. Regist had always held the incomparable Stephana in...

  • Midnight Surrender

    Cordia Byers

    The touch of his lips made her want to forget her honor and her pride... For more than three centuries her family had fought and died for France. Now Dara Rochambeau is caught in a deadly plot and branded a traitor to the king. She is determined t...

  • Fortune's Fire

    Barbara Cummings

    Now, once again, she captures the spirit of Revolutionary America in this sweeping tale of a headstrong Irish woman who flees to the Colonies -- but can never escape a British nobleman's vengeance or his burning desire... From a horse farm in ...

  • Lady Alex

    Catherine Creel

    "You are no innocent, and I am no fool!" Alexandra Sinclair was no baseborn little doxy to be toyed with; she was a lady -- with no place here in Australia, in the factory prison at Parramatta ... or in the arms of an arrogant, green-eyed American...

  • An Undomesticated Wife

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A GROOM WHO JUST WON'T DO Regina Morrisey had a lively wit, a flawless education...and nary a shred of domestic experience. But that didn't stop her diplomat papa from wedding her by proxy to the Marquess of Daniston. Leaving exotic Algiers ...

  • Carolina Dawn

    Wendy Garrett

    THEY CALLED HER ENCHANTRESS... Jenna Llewellyn's wild beauty and special gifts branded her a witch and forced her to live as an outcast, but the silver-haired healer was content to roam the shadowed swamps of North Carolina helping those in ne...

  • Loving Spirit

    Monette Cummings

    "BELLE," BOOK, AND CANDLE... What a perfect setting for a Halloween ball, thought Fiona Mallory as she walked into Queen's Gift, Viscount Rex Stinson's majestic mansion... if only the lavish estate weren't so far from London. A...

  • Midnight Temptation

    Nancy Gideon

    BLOOD LEGACY A sheltered beauty raised in the scenic French countryside, Nicole Radouix's world shattered the day she discovered her father's shocking secret. Desperate and afraid, she fled for her immortal soul. . . BLOOD LUST In the seething ...

  • Temptation

    Donna Hill

    WHEN DESIRES CAN BE HAD FOR THE ASKING... In lavish San Francisco Valley, Noelle Maxwell unveils her secret. Liaisons is the ultimate fantasy--a chic retreat where romantic dreams are yours for the right price. But Noelle has other secrets ...years ...

  • Rescued by Time

    Amy J. Fetzer
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    Christine Warner's South Carolina island vacation takes a mysterious turn when she encounters a handsome stranger -- born over a century before! Alexander Dearborn gallops out of the mist to steal Christine's heart...and then vanishes. Can Ch...

  • Apache Knight

    Carol Finch

    Philadelphia debutante Calero O'Connell is destined for adventure...and for love. Abducted from her stagecoach by renegade Apache, her fear changes to awe when she is rescued by a mysterious warrior who seems both savage and civilized...terrifyin...

  • This Fierce Loving

    Judith E. French

    The white man's cruelties have hardened the heart of Fire Talon. And now his honored father is in their hands, forcing the handsome Delaware war chief to take a captive of his own. She is called Rebecca, the beautiful, untouched bride of his most hat...

  • Coming Home

    Ginna Gray

    COMING HOME is a celebration of love, honor, and family devotion. A handsome stranger named Rourke Fallon offers Sara Anderson a once-in-a-lifetime career opportunity. There's just one catch: She has to move from Los Angeles to Houston...and meet the...

  • The Ice Queen

    Jennifer Horsman
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    In a season of giving, a rash, handsome doctor tending to a sickly youth is smitten by the child's sad and beautiful mother -- and vows to melt away the young widow's grief with the passionate heat of his sensuous, seductive care....

  • The Reluctant Viking

    Sandra Hill

    "PICTURE YOURSELF FLOATING OUT OF YOUR BODY -- FLOATING...FLOATING...FLOATING..." The hypnotic voice on the self-motivation tape was supposed to help Ruby Jordan solve her problems, not create new ones. Instead, she was lulled from a life full o...

  • Althea's Grand Tour

    Emily Hendrickson

    Althea Ingram found no gentleman she could look up to among the London dandies and fortune-hunters. But in Europe she discovered John Maitland, Earl of Montmorcy, who personified her idea of the ideal husband. Unfortunately, it appeared that Montmorc...

  • Viking Tempest

    Ashland Price

    THE DREAM For years, Dana Swansen had been haunted by a recurring dream of a faraway time and place. And here, at an ancient Celtic site in Ireland, where she'd come seeking refuge from an unhappy love affair, those visions seemed closer than ever. ...

  • After Innocence

    Brenda Joyce

    Estranged from society, wealthy and beautiful artist Sofie O'Neil finds solace in her private world. She longs just once to taste a forbidden love -- to follow the dangerous diamond smuggler Edward Delanza to paradise. But Edward wants far more f...

  • Reach for the Stars

    Nancy Knight

    Alone now and at a turning point in her life, Eve Travers found herself remembering happy girlhood summers spent at her family's camp, Reach for the Stars. Now, the abandoned South Carolina camp was hers. Maybe instead of selling, she could bring...

  • Faery Magic

    Amber Kaye
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    Lost on the Scottish moors, Bridget Mackay enters a magical realm...and comes face to face with Artair, the handsome prince who has long haunted her dreams. In an enchanted world brushed with moonbeams and stardust, Bridget loses her heart. But is he...

  • The Christmas Baby

    Joan Johnston
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    Having wed to end the warring ways of their feuding Texas families, a reluctant bride and groom find life together an unending battle -- until a beautiful arrival at Christmastime teaches them the true meaning of peace and joy and love....

  • Shadows on a Sunset Sea

    Sabine Kells

    A SHADOW IN THE DARK, A WHISPER IN THE NIGHT, A MAN REACHING OUT TO HER . . . Surely, Carolyn was dreaming. The ghostly legends of Thornwyck Castle couldn't be true. Tiernan O'Rourke had lived nearly three hundred years earlier; he couldn't stil...

  • Stowaway Heart

    Leona Karr

    From the banks of the mighty Colorado, Trish Winters watched the boats struggling against the rapids that had taken many strong men down. A frontierswoman of rare courage and an exquisite beauty hidden beneath her ragged calico dress, Trish vowed tha...

  • The Trouble With Angels

    Debbie Macomber

    A Season for Giving...and Loving It is a time of joy and gladness--yet even the wonder of Christmas cannot brighten lives burdened by loneliness and despair. So when three "rush" prayers fly up from the City of Angels, three real angels fly down t...

  • Near Death

    Nancy Kilpatrick

    As David Lyle Hardwick and his beautiful human companion, Zero, a wounded woman fleeing a dangerous past, travel the world in search of his enemies, David discovers that he is being transformed into nosferatu, a creature of unspeakable, tormented pas...

  • Virgin Bride // Lady of Eve

    Tamara Leigh

    SHE WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO AVOID BEING SENT TO A CONVENT-- EVEN HER VIRTUE Lady Graeye Charwyck was desperate to escape the fate her father had planned for her--to spend the rest of her life in a convent. She could envision only one way out: to li...

  • Hearts of Gold

    Martha Longshore

    A Stubborn Western Beauty Kora Hunter loved helping out with her father's Sacramento newspaper, until Mason Fielding, an ambitious new reporter, came along and turned her life upside down. The glint in his stunning blue eyes could only mean that ...

  • Moonshine and Glory

    Jacqueline Marten

    MOONSHINE AND GLORY is a wonderful historical novel that will make you laugh out loud and break your heart...sometimes all on the same page. Beginning with a shotgun wedding in Virginia at the end of the Revolutionary War, MOONSHINE AND GLORY traces ...

  • For the Love of You

    Felicia Mason

  • My Kind of Love

    Marian Oaks

    On her own now, and retired from a successful business career, Joanna Blake has a no-nonsense agenda planned for the rest of her life. She'll travel, enjoy gourmet meals, and savor the peace and solitude of her house and garden. Until Ben Wal...

  • Loving Spirits

    Melinda Pryce

    A haunting love... Two years had passed--but Diana Barlow could not forget the husband she had lost. Now she fears she may lose her home as well, as the new heir arrives. A rough-hewn American whose rugged masculinity seems out of place in an Engl...

  • Consenting Hearts

    Garda Parker

    Maggie Logan had finally fulfilled her life-long dream of becoming a veterinarian, and now had a thriving practice in Sea View, New Hampshire. Still, something was missing and she knew exactly what it was: love. -- But when the eviction notice arri...

  • The Genuine Article

    Patricia Rice

    The Fortune Hunter Lady Marian Oglethorp came to London to snare a husband with a fortune large enough to save her family from ruin. She had to move fast. Flaunting her bewitching beauty while keeping her biting wit out of sight, she captured the ...

  • Heaven to Touch

    Veronica Sattler

    SHE WAS HAUNTED BY A PAST SHE COULD NOT REMEMBER...AND A HUNGRY PASSION SHE COULD NOT DENY Fate is playing fast and loose with the notorious rakehell and ladies' man Captain Nicholas Sharpe. First, he inherited an unwanted legacy from his late...

  • Nightspell

    Sara Orwig
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    No-nonsense businesswoman Grace Goltry seeks shelter in a Texas ghost town...and finds herself in the year 1872...in the arms of Logan Graywolf, a legendary Comanche half-breed who awakens her deepest desires. But Grace knows Logan is fated to die in...

  • An Unusual Inheritance

    Rebecca Robbins

    A MAIDEN'S SURPRISE Several rude shocks have, of late, set Miss Emily Hastings' pretty head a-spin. First she learns her adored deceased father was not a naval hero as she was led to believe, but a brazen pirate instead. And now she is expected firs...

  • Never Let Me Go

    Joan Smith

    To find true love in the present, Belle must venture back to the past. SHE WAS HELD IN THRALL BY THE MAGICAL WARMTH OF HIS PHANTOM EMBRACE... Romance writer Belle Savage came to England looking for a hero -- the kind of rakish stranger women ha...

  • Rogue's Lady

    Scotney St. James

    THE LADY... Juliana Lowell had had it with men. First, she was jilted by her faithless cad of a fiance...who then went and married her sister. As if that wasn't bad enough, Juliana's father gave away her dowry in the bargain! Now, the humiliated L...

  • Surrender the Night

    Susan P. Teklits

    TREASON Vanessa Davis played the role of Tory seductress for the sake of the Patriot Cause, charming secrets out of powerful, foolish men before they could claim her body. Until the fateful night when a dashing British officer outwitted her at her...

  • Starlight and Splendor

    Janelle Taylor

    MOONDUST AND MADNESS... STARDUST AND SHADOWS... novels of universal desire and intergalactic adventure... Now, the magic continues amidst the blaze of STARLIGHT AND SPLENDOR... Many years have passed since Commander Varian Saar spirited the lovel...

  • The Perfect Bride // Cornwell Bride

    Sheila Walsh (1)

    The Best Laid Plans Serena Fairburn should have been the happiest of young ladies-for she could look forward to the best of marriages. Soon she would be bride to the fabulously wealthy Cedric, Duke of Cornwall, and her family would be rescued from...

  • Angel Unaware

    Clara Wimberly

    Accustomed to paying - and getting - her own way, wealthy widow Anne Benefield is shocked when an unyielding judge won't let her buy her way out of a sheaf of parking tickets...and sentences her to six months of community service. What's more...

  • Tempt a Lady

    Susan Weldon

    NO PLACE FOR A LADY Rayne was a little girl when her father, Jasper North, abandoned her to make his fortune out west. Now as a woman, she heads to Nevada for a reunion with the supposedly repentant reprobate. But someone else is waiting for the pro...

  • Hush Little Darlings

    Judith Kelman

    Sarah Spooner, an investigator for the district attorney with her own young daughter, launches a probe into the Velvet Viper, a twisted, mysterious criminal responsible for the abduction of prepubescent girls, who are returned with little memory of t...

  • The Black Sea

    Richard Setlowe

  • Warhead

    Don Pendleton

    RULES OF THE GAME Command center for an elite antiterrorist operation, Stony an has the equipment and personnel needed to gather Intelligence and make war on the nation's most elusive enemies. Taking orders directly from the President, Stony Man isn...

  • Killing Range

    Don Pendleton

    BLOOD LUST South Africa's White Wolves are working overtime to reinstate apartheid's brutal code--with a racial bloodbath as their goal and terrorism as their means. But Mack Bolan is hitting the White Wolves where they live, spreading a loud an...

  • Pearl in the Mist

    V.C. Andrews

    One of the most popular storytellers of all time, V.C. Andrews (Flowers in the Attic, My Sweet Audrina) continues an engrossing saga of psychological suspense with this second book of the Landry Family series -- soon to be a Lifetime movie! Fate has ...

  • Pranks

    Dennis J. Higman

    It was Halloween night and the kids were dressed to kill. All they wanted was a little harmless fun on that foggy October evening -- a little revenge against the uptight, solid citizens of Puget Sound who looked down on them. A few overturned gar...

  • Yellow Moon

    David J. Searls

    A wave of fear engulfs idyllic Cleary, Ohio, when thirty ragged strangers appear and five local boys disappear, but it is nothing like the terror that overwhelms the town when the children return from a nightmarish world, bringing with them an unspea...

  • Hell-O-Ween

    David Robbins

    On Halloween night, two buddies decided to play a cruel trick on the class brain...but the joke was on them. They only wanted to scare their enemy to death...but their prank went awry and one of their friends ended up dead, her body ripped to piec...

  • Prank Night

    David Robbins

    Beneath sky pitch-black and moon full bright, lurks terror twice as dark as night. Newly risen from the grave. Hot, flesh red blood it does crave. Grisly death it brings the brave; The cowardly will rant and rave. Halloween is a time for fri...

  • Bodyguard

    William C. Dietz

    He lives in a world where technology grows too quickly for the mind to comprehend. Where huge corporations expand outward into the far reaches of space. Where things of the past are swiftly deleted to make way for the future. But some things...

  • The White Mists of Power

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    An innocent excited boy, a prince and heir, takes his first journey to the city. The streets teem with merchants in velvet robes, magicians, half-mad preachers, with life and color, poverty and noise. He doesn't want to miss any of it.But this marks...

  • The Wind-Witch

    Susan Dexter

    Book Two of "The Warhorse of Esdragon"
    Faithful wife to a small landholder, Druyan had lived her life in other people's shadows. And if she could sometimes hold the clouds at bay or whistle up a wind, Druyan made sure to keep that talent to hersel...

  • The Medusa Plague

    Mary Kirchoff
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Between earth and sky! The name Guerrand DiThon has been cursed by his family since the day he disappeared. When a mysterious plague strikes their beleaguered village, Guerrand's name is invoked again--as the cause of the disaster. Bram DiThon,...

  • The Hammer of God

    Arthur C. Clarke

    From one of the bestselling science fiction authors of all time comes this heart-stopping far future novel of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.   A century into the future, technology has solved most of the problems that have plagued...

  • Predators

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    A collection of spine-chilling stories of terror features the writings of Dean Koontz, John Coyne, F. Paul Wilson, J. N. Williamson, John Gregory Betancourt, Edward D. Hoch, and others. By the editors of Stalkers. Reprint....

  • Commando Brigade 3000

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of explosive tales of futuristic warfare details a time of brutal conflict, user-friendly weapons of deadly accuracy, and hard warriors, and features the writings of David Drake, Poul Anderson, Ben Bova, and others. Original....

  • The Sword of Maiden's Tears

    Rosemary Edghill

    MAGIC GONE ASTRAY- It was Beltane Eve and student librarian Ruth Marlowe's thirtieth birthday when she stumbled over New York City's latest mugging victim. He was tall, with long silvery hair, catlike eyes, pointed ears, and he was garbed in the f...

  • Tomorrow Sucks

    Greg Cox

    Journeying from the streets of old London to the decks of interplanetary spaceships, a new collection of science fiction vampire tales features short stories by Ray Bradbury, Roger Zelazny, Dean Ing, Spider Robinson, and other notable authors. Origin...

  • Dinosaur Nexus

    Lee Grimes

    Members of the scientific Pegasus Expedition journey back in time to the Late Cretaceous, before the extinction of the dinosaurs, and come face to face with the Heesh, alien reptilian creatures who had evolved from the dinosaurs on a parallel Earth. ...

  • Nautilus

    Vonda N. McIntyre

    In the final volume in the Starfarers series, the crew of the Starfarer must decide, on the behalf of Earth, whether to join the interstellar Civilization of the aliens or risk being stranded in space. Original....

  • A Matter of Honor

    Thomas K. Martin

    Awakening from a strange coma during which he dreamed of a battle against evil in a magical world, college student Steve Wilkinson quickly realizes that his nightmare has not ended when his dream enemy appears on Earth. Original....

  • Greenthieves

    Alan Dean Foster

    A Futuristic Whodunnit…The Grandest Theft in the Galaxy! NO ONE COULD GET IN The shipments of high-tech pharmaceuticals were locked inside an impenetrable metal shed -- guarded by three security teams and dozens of alarms. NO ONE COULD STAY IN Ca...

  • Out of This World

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE Like most suburbanites, Pel Brown had problems in his basement. But his were somewhat out of the ordinary: a portal from a world of magic had opened, and now barbarian swordsmen were demanding that Pel help them defeat Shadow, ...

  • The Nomad

    Simon Hawke

    To Find An Avangion... Armed with Galdra, the fabled sword of elven kings, Sorak has forged his way across the forbidding wilds of Athas, from the peaks of the Ringing Mountains to the shores of the Great Silt Sea. Now, along with his villichi com...

  • Alternate Outlaws

    Mike Resnick

    Judith Tarr, George Alec Effinger, Frank M. Robinson, David Gerrold, and other notable writers present a collection of entertaining science fiction tales in which the bad guys go legit and some of history's heroes take up a life of crime. Original....

  • Deals With the Devil

    Mike Resnick

    A collection of stories about mortals who exchange their souls for eternal youth, fame, love, or other irresistible opportunities includes the writings of Jane Yolen, Mercedes Lackey, Larry Dixon, and others. Original....

  • Lords of the Sky

    Angus Wells

    The Ahn, age-old enemy of the Dhar, have mastered a powerful new battle sorcery and are massing for an attack on Dharbek's shores. It will be the last and greatest battle--a merciless conquest of the lands they once owned and the total destruction of...

  • His Conquering Sword

    Kate Elliott

    WHEN CONQUERORS CLASH-- On the planet Rhui, the jaran tribes, under the leadership of Ilya Bakhtiian have ranged far in their campaign to subjugate all who will not willingly yield to their rule. Yet even as they prepare to besiege the royal city ...

  • Comanche Magic

    Catherine Anderson

    HE WOVE A SPELL AROUND HER HEART Handsome and powerful, with enough Comanche blood coursing through his veins to make him a little bit dangerous, Chase Wolf was used to getting what he wanted. So when Chase saw Franny--a golden-haired angel with d...