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  • The Black Sea

    Richard Setlowe

  • The Intruders

    Stephen Coonts

    Landing an excruciating eight-month cruise on an aircraft carrier, Navy lieutenant Jake Grafton is ordered to teach his Marine charges about carrier aviation and is met with strong hostility. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • Now You See Her, Now You Don't

    William Murray

  • The Passage

    David Poyer

    The Navy's most sophisticated destroyer, the USS Barrett carries a top-secret computer that can pilot an unmanned ship and send it into battle. As the weapons officer charged with its first mission, Lieutenant Dan Lenson has a chance to make naval hi...

  • Road Wars

    James Axler

    THE FUTURE UNCERTAIN Emerging out of the ashes of the nuclear apocalypse, no one has been more successful and determined than Ryan Cawdor and his band of warrior survivalists. But if the wasteland's endless miles come 'between them, the odds for get...

  • Shadow of the Mountains

    Gilbert Morris; Lynn Morris

    Cheney faces two enemies—superstition and greed . . .Cheney Duvall has proven herself as a true doctor to those 200 brides with whom she traveled to the West. But arrival in Seattle with a string of medical successes during the voyage does not ...

  • 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...

  • A Cat on the Cutting Edge

    Lydia Adamson

    Down on her luck and coping with a temperamental cat, Alice Nestleton contacts the Village Cat People for assistance, but when their representative is murdered on Alice's doorstep, the Cat People want Alice to investigate...

  • A Cat With No Regrets

    Lydia Adamson

    C'EST MEOW -- FOR MURDER Everything's coming up roses for Off-Broadway actress Alice Nestleton when she lands a part in a major motion picture. With her two finicky felines and the three Abyssinians owned by producer Dorothy Dodd tagging along, ...

  • Dance Till You Die

    Carolyn Keene

    Bess has landed a job at the Razor’s Edge dance club, and she’s invited Nancy to check it out. With a wild young crowd, crazy costumes, and a handsome DJ, it’s the kind of place where anything can happen -- and soon does. When the lights go out...

  • Do Unto Others

    Jeff Abbott

    “One of the most fun mysteries I’ve read in years. Thumbs up to Jeff Abbott’s delightful debut novel.” -- Carolyn G. HartAfter a few good years of city life, Jordan Poteet returns to his small hometown of Mirabeau, Texas, to work as a librari...

  • Double Plot

    Leo Axler

    Reluctantly taking the case of a man whose fatal crash seemed accidental enough, undertaker and amateur sleuth Bill Hawley attempts to find the source behind what seems to be a faked suicide tape and the victim's strange life...

  • Drift Away

    Kerry Tucker

    Andrea has been defending an accused murderer when she herself is found murdered, with her client the leading suspect, but Andrea's college friend Libby is not convinced and becomes determined to find the true culprit. Reprint....

  • The Fortune Teller's Secret

    Carolyn Keene

    When she learns that the recently widowed Mrs. Kittredge is making regular visits to a fortune-teller and turning over large sums of money to Madame Destiny, Nancy decides to investigate....

  • Funny As a Dead Relative

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    As the series featuring redheaded standup comic Kimmey Kruse continues, Kimmey returns to her East Texas Cajun home to satisfy her conviction that her cousin Letitia was murdered. By the author of Funny as a Dead Comic. ...

  • Hangman's Root

    Susan Wittig Albert

    A prominent animal researcher has been hanged. And suspicion has fallen on the Cat Lady -- a local biology professor whose obsession with rescuing strays makes her, in some people's minds, capable of murder in defense of animals. But China is a f...

  • Hollywood Horror

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy Drew and the Hardy boys find unexpected mystery and terror in Hollywood as they cope with deadly sabotage, crazed fans, and an obsessed stalker targeting television star Marla Devereaux. Original....

  • The Last Suppers

    Diane Mott Davidson

    A BLISSFUL BRIDE... It should be the happiest day of Goldy's life. The Colorado caterer is about to tie the know with the man of her dreams, homicide detective Tom Schulz. But minutes before the ceremony is to begin, Tom phones with an urgent mess...

  • Mask for a Diva

    Grant Michaels

    Stan Kraychik, Boston hair-dresser extraordinaire, has been hired as the wig master's assistant for the upcoming season of a local opera company. For the main event, Italian opera diva and aging soprano Marcella Ostinata will perform the lead. As the...

  • Miss Seeton Rules

    Hamilton Crane

    Royalty comes to Plummergen... The much-beloved Princess Georgina is due to arrive shortly, and the villagers are plotting to outdo their neighbors in Murreystone and make a grand impression. But at the same time, a much more sinister plot is brew...

  • A Question of Preference

    J. Dayne Lamb

    She's Teal Stewart, sorceress of the spreadsheets--the savvy CPA Diane White of the Boston Globe calls "smart and sexy." Pushing the partnership in one of the nation's finest accounting firms, she's willing to risk far more than her career in this "f...

  • Raw Deal

    Les Standiford

    "John Deal is such a rich creation, full of anger, courage and doubt, that you may have to remind yourself that you're reading fiction." -- Chicago TribuneJohn Deal's life is finally coming together -- he is reunited with his lovely wife, they have a...

  • Sabotage at Sea

    Franklin W. Dixon

    After signing on as crewmembers of a replica of a century-old schooner, Frank and Joe find their sailing skills--and their sleuthing talents--tested to the limits by ghostly apparitions and sabotage at sea. Original....

  • Spare Parts

    Rick Hanson

    Someone is ripping people off--relieving upwardly mobile professionals of vital organs. It's the Yuppie Ripper, spreading mayhem and murder throughout the greater Seattle area... But body parts aren't all that are missing. So's the mild-mannered o...

  • Wages of Sin

    Sherryl Woods

    DEATH TAKES A BRIDE Amanda Roberts knows what makes a woman tick. A gorgeous, gutsy senator's aide who joyfully puts down a deposit on a wedding gown does not commit suicide a few hours later by deliberately slamming her brand-new Jaguar into an o...

  • At Home in Mitford

    Jan Karon

    Enter the world of Mitford, and you won't want to leave It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, want...

  • Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane

    Bob Stromberg

  • The Gift

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Grace had few regrets about her life or her world. A pinch of this, a dash of that, love and laughter in good measure, a few tears to soften her vision when what she saw was too much to bear. And she loved life like she loved her God rich in depth an...

  • 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...

  • Morning Child

    Harold Myra

    The final book in the Children of the Night trilogy, winner of an Angel Award, and voted runner-up fiction in both the readers' and critics' polls in Christianity Today, brings this epic, allegorical fantasy series to a grand close....

  • So Who Says I Have to Act My Age

    Kevin Johnson

  • A Is for Always

    Lisa Jackson

    Rich man's son Max McKee had once loved young Skye Donahue -- not wisely but well. Insatiably. Endlessly. But shameful family secrets -- and dark deception -- had wrenched them apart, abruptly shattering their precious dream of forever. Now, acros...

  • The Angel and the Renegade

    Cathryn Clare

    Where Angels Go...TROUBLE FOLLOWS And trouble was T.J. Madison's name. Once Jenny Alvarez's instincts had warned her against the irresistible rebel with the teasing grin. But her body trembled at one glance from his tiger eyes, and her soul had su...

  • 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...

  • Babies on Board

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    IT TAKES A VERY SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! Kate Hennessy could imagine only one scenario worse than being stranded in the jungle with three infants: being stranded with three infants and Matt Sullivan. If his infuriating know-it-all a...

  • Babies on the Doorstep

    Raye Morgan

    BUNDLE OF JOY A basketful of babies was about the last thing Brittanny Lee expected to find on a doorstep, but there they were--and, after all, somebody had to look after them. And if the only help available was her too-gorgeous-to-be-anything-but...

  • Bachelor Dad

    Carole Halston

    The pretty single morn with the ten-year-old son looked hauntingly, sweetly familiar. Jennifer Anderson defiantly claimed she didn't know Cliff King, never had. Yet her child was Cliff's spitting image. Suddenly Cliff remembered: a sun-kissed...

  • Blackthorne's Woman

    Victoria Leigh

    They were on opposite sides in a war she had to win . . . Micah Blackthorne always captured his quarry, but Bethany Corbett would do anything to elude her pursuer and keep her baby safe --- even draw a gun! But once she understood he was her only ...

  • Blue Fire

    Sarah Holland

    Bond of hatred? Christie was young and naive when she first met Jared Buchanan. She'd fallen in love with him, but she couldn't cope with the passion he awoke within her. So she'd fled. Three years on, and Christie's dreams of fame an...

  • Born in Fire

    Nora Roberts

    Gifted, reclusive, stubborn, free-spirited... Maggie Concannon is a glassmaker whose exquisite works are more than mere objects of beauty, but reflections of her own true nature. Attempting to hide from her troubled past, reclusive Maggie, who hides...

  • Brass Ring

    Diane Chamberlain

    Enjoying a satisfactory life as the director of a rehabilitation center, Claire Harte-Mathias finds her world shattered when she is unable to prevent a tragedy and searches through her past for enlightenment. Original....

  • The Carradine Brand

    Margaret Way

    The rancher's daughter and the cattle king Curt Carradine is one of the biggest landowners in Australia. Smart, tough, extraordinarily handsome. Other men admire him. Women fall in love with him. Rachael Munro is no exception. As a teenager...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Cross Purposes

    Kate Denton

    Latin Lover? Alexandra Harper went to Ecuador for one reason -- to find Camila Zavala. She certainly didn't travel thousands of miles to be wined and dined by the charming and incredibly dictatorial Vicente Serrano. But Vicente knew somethi...

  • Dad on the Job

    Linda Varner

    Full-Time Father My business partners and I made a pact: No women. No flirting, no dating, no ...nothing. No problem for me. With two kids to raise by myself and my long hours, I have no time for romance. And where would I even find the kind of...

  • The Daddy Factor

    Kelly Jamison

    WHERE NO ONE WOULD FIND HER... The camp for handicapped children was a haven for Charlotte Haywood. There she could forget her past and shield her son from probing eyes. Then a charismatic stranger showed up, asking too many questions. Neal Corrig...

  • Dangerous at Heart

    Elise Title

    DOWN AND OUT IN PITTSVILLE Life was the pits for Rachel Hart. Single and pregnant, at least she'd had the good sense not to marry the no-good father of her child! Things couldn't get worse, she assured herself. Then her ex-dance turned up dead. An...

  • Dangerous Entanglement

    Susanne McCarthy

    Melting paint.... When Joanna refused to jump into bed with Alex Marshall, he assumed she was frigid! But the arrogant entrepreneur sensed that it wasn't just the intense Egyptian heat that was responsible for melting the cast-iron defenses th...

  • Dazzle

    Judith Krantz

    Inside the fun-filled photographers' studio in California known as Dazzle, Jazz Kilkullen reigns supreme. At twenty-nine, this playful, gifted, and thoroughly sexy woman has become one of the most successful celebrity portrait photographers in the wo...

  • Double Crossed

    Francine Pascal

    Are wedding bells ringing for Jessica? Jessica Wakefield is engaged! Now that she's put a stop to the wedding between Sue Gibbons and Jeremy Randall, Jessica has the love of her life all to herself. Or so she thinks. But when she catches Jeremy in ...

  • An Easy Man To Love

    Lee Stafford

    She didn't like this man, Frankie thought after Julian Tarrant had refused to work with her because she was a woman! But Frankie couldn't help seeing his rejection as a challenge and was determined to change his mind. Pretty soon she had earn...

  • Element of Risk

    Robyn Donald

    "I thought I was rid of you why the hell did you have to come back?" It was eleven years -- two lifetimes ago -- since Perdita Gladstone and Luke Dennison had met last. Now the legacy of their shared past required another encounter. Perdit...

  • Find Her, Keep Her

    Anne Marie Winston

    UNMARRIED, NO CHILDREN Dane Hamilton had always expected to be happily wed and raising a family before he turned thirty-five. Now that the deadline was looming, he needed a wife -- pronto! So when single, sweet, sexy Annie Evans popped into his li...

  • Finding Daddy

    Judy Christenberry

    MAN WANTED: Intelligence, sense of humor and compassion a must! Good body a plus! For no-strings-attached assignment. That about described the perfect man for Kelly Abbott's secret mission. But Mr. Right had to have one more all-important qualific...

  • For the Love of You

    Felicia Mason

  • Freshman Spirit

    Linda A. Cooney

    As eerie happenings terrify K.C., Winnie, Faith, Courtney, and the rest of the Freshman Dorm crowd, the girls begin to wonder if the fraternities are playing pranks or if the spirit of a dead fraternity pledge has returned to seek revenge. Original....

  • Gentle on My Mind

    Bethany Campbell

    HUTCH WAS TOTALLY INAPPROPRIATE FOR BETSY... But the two of them were so made for each other, it hardly mattered. They seemed to share not only passion, but genuine affection. They never ran out things to say, and Hutch understood Betsy Holden on...

  • Good-Bye to Love

    Francine Pascal

    A new beginning . . . Jessica Wakefield's disastrous marriage has dissolved, leaving her free at last. Can she put her heart back together and be a regular college student again? Elizabeth Wakefield is madly, passionately in love with Tom Watts...

  • The Heat of the Moment

    Kay Gregory

    From the moment Angela set eyes on Ryan, she knew he was trouble -- the man was a walking invitation to passion! But Angela had no intention of ever falling in love again. So what was it about this arrogant, thoroughly conceited man that made her go ...

  • Hesitant Hero

    Christina Dair

    Military battle was nothing to Sergeant Rafael Calderon compared to facing the fourth graders -- and their sultry teacher -- who had written him while away at war. After all, Abigail Dixon and the kids were expecting to meet a true hero. And he was a...

  • High Country Cowboy

    Sandra Moore

    Jake Valiteros. The very name of the aloof, forbidding landowner set Big Piney tongues to wagging. But reckless cowgirl Dusty Macleod refused to be daunted by the mysterious loner who'd bought out her ranch and stolen her dreams. For Dusty had a murd...

  • High Spirits

    Elaine Lakso

    "The only bad habit I have is you...." Cody MacRae was tall, dark, dangerously unpredictable--and the only man Cass MacFarland had ever loved! Now, six years after he'd accused her of betrayal, she was back in town ... and needed his help to disc...

  • Innocent Deceiver

    Lilian Peake

    "You will allow no man into your bed except me!" How dared Brendan Stewart take such a high-handed tone with her? He wasn't capable of distinguishing between love and lust. And, until he learned that important lesson and trusted Terri ...

  • An Interrupted Marriage

    Laurey Bright

    Magnus Riordan believed his wife could not possibly hurt him any more than she already had -- until she finally returned to the home they had shared. It was only then that he truly understood the pain of an undying love -- a love clouded forever by h...

  • Jake's Promise

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Jake Winslow is back in town for one reason: he wants his son. After his wife's death, he'd thought it best to allow the child's grandparents to care for him. But Kenny's older now, and everyone knows a boy needs his father. Everyo...

  • Laurel & the Lawman

    Lynn Erickson

    WHERE ARE THEY NOW? - It's sixteen years since the CLASS OF '78 graduated from the Berkeley School for Girl:,. Four young women, four close friends, stood on the brink of adulthood and dreamed about the direction their lives would take. None could...

  • Left at the Altar

    Justine Davis

    THE LONG WAY HOME The only woman he'd ever wanted had left him standing at the altar without a backward glance. And there was no way in the world Sean Holt was going to allow her to hurt him again -- no matter how much he ached to let her into hi...

  • Lovers Not Friends

    Helen Brooks

    "You're mine, Amy, you'll always be mine!" For Amy, marriage to Blade Forbes had been a dream come true. And then one day her world collapsed around her when she discovered a secret that was about to destroy everything. She loved, ...

  • Married by a Thread

    Kia Cochrane

    BARELY MARRIED Where Dusty McKay came from, wedding vows were forever and wives didn't just up and leave their husbands when the going got tough. But his own wife wanted out of their marriage, and nothing he said or did was working to change Tori'...

  • The Marrying Type

    Judith Arnold

    NAME: Steve Chambliss AGE: 33 STATUS: STUD #1 OCCUPATION: Carpenter When Steve Chambliss made a bargain with his three best buddies to remain bachelors forever, he had no idea he'd wind up on national TV--representing sexy carpenters. Overnight...

  • Master of El Corazon

    Sandra Marton

    Master of Matrimony Arden Miller -- a coolly professional independent woman... until the night her boss makes a pass and sacks her for rejecting him. Then she is a girl alone and in trouble! Conor Martinez -- his name means power and privilege....

  • A Masterful Man

    Lindsay Armstrong

    "Mr. Irresistible... !" Steve Warwick makes it clear to Davina from their first meeting that he wants her in his bed! Davina has other ideas.... The last thing she needs right now is a tough, masterful man who thinks he can organize her li...

  • The Mating Game

    Susan Crosby

    HIS BACHELOR DAYS WERE NUMBERED Someone had sent Iain MacKenzie on an all-expenses-paid vacation--to a place where there was just one unmarried lady. But what a lady she was! And if his matchmaking friends' secret scheme worked, he'd be walking do...

  • Molly and the Phantom

    Lynn Michaels

    THE PRINCESS AND THE JEWEL THIEF Chase Sanquist: Gorgeous. Charming. Jewel thief. Molly Savard: Beautiful. Cultured. Princess. Two greater opposites couldn't be found, except that Princess Molly needed the dashing, devil-may-care Chase Sanqu...

  • My Funny Guy

    Helen Santori

    Writing up some hot new material for her ambitious boyfriend when his original comedy routine bombs, Connie Fernandez is crushed when he fails to realize the extent to which she is making his subsequent success possible. Original....

  • 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...

  • Night Smoke

    Nora Roberts

    FLASHPOINT Ryan Piasecki: A man's man. A woman's fantasy. The kind of guy who got the job done, no matter what the obstacles...or how beautiful they were. Natalie Fletcher: Cool, calm, collected. Until someone started making trouble for her busine...

  • One Enchanted Autumn

    Fayrene Preston

    "You taste like strawberry wine -- sweet and spicy ...." Though intrigued against his will by the elegant attorney, Matthew Stone stuck to his guns-no wedding between his aunt and her beau, no matter how enchanting the matchmaker! Samantha McMilla...

  • Only You

    Fayrene Preston

    LOVE BY ANY OTHER NAME... All her life Faith has known the name of her soul mate: Damon Bradley. But that's all the Ouija board and the fortune-teller told her, and Faith knows she can't wait around forever for her true love. Now, just as she acce...

  • Only You

    Cynthia Victor

    Beautiful Harvard grad Carlin Squire thought she had everything she wanted - an exciting, fulfilling career with the NYPD... and the perfect lover in handsome, charming photographer Derek Kingsley. Then back into her life came Ben, an adored high sch...

  • Perfectly Matched

    Candice Adams

    SHE WANTED HER HUSBAND BACK! Jill Howard had made a fool of herself when she learned her ex-husband was dating other women, but she was sure she could win him back. What she needed was some time away from the small town she lived in, some time to ...

  • Playboy McCoy

    Glenda Sanders

    HE WAS A HUNK-AND-HALF! PLAYBOY McCOY Real name: Roy McCoy. Occupation: History professor. Course: "Sex Throughout History." Hobbies: Hands-on research. Status: Confirmed bachelor. Laurel Randolph had all the "facts" on McCoy. But sh...

  • Plucking the Apple

    Elizabeth Palmer

    ROTTEN TO THE CORE... When gallery owners James and Victoria Harting plan a dinner party for their star artist Jack Carey -- a man more famous for his philandering than his art -- what starts as an innocent gathering becomes an outrageous comedy o...

  • 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...

  • The Right Kind of Man

    Jessica Hart

    A working relationship? Lorimer wanted an efficient, reliable PA, preferably one who could type! Skye Henderson didn't seem to fit any of these criteria, but he didn't have any other options. Skye had run away from man trouble in one town only ...

  • 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...

  • Sleeping With the Enemy

    Myrna Temte

    The Seduction Proud tribal leader Jackson Hawk was as powerful as the all-knowing night ... and just as seductive. His magnetism drew Maggie Schaeffer ever closer--awakening her passionate nature and daring her to face her long-denied heritage. In...

  • Slow Burn

    Heather Graham Pozzessere

    Faced with the brutal murder of her husband, Spencer Huntington demands answers from the one man who should have them -- ex-cop David Delgado, her husband's former partner and best friend. Her former lover. Spencer and David are bound by a relucta...

  • Starwalker

    Billie Green

    "Be careful what you ask of the gods -- you just might get it...." Born of two bloods, torn between two worlds, Marcus Aurelius Reed was arrogant, untamed -- and the only man who could save Laken Murphy's brother's life! She neede...

  • 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...

  • Stop the Wedding!

    Maris Soule

    The Groom Is a Snake Matt Stewart is intent on stopping his stubborn sister from making the biggest mistake of her life. But... The Bride Is Insistent First he has to win over Kristi Beeler, a beautiful--but seriously misguided--wedding consulta...

  • 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....

  • Sullivan's Law

    Amanda Clark (1)

    "Is that why you're marrying Philip?" Ben looked skeptical and vaguely disapproving as he spoke. "Because Chris needs a father?" "I'm not -- I didn't mean -- That's not the only consideration, you know." ...

  • Tangled Destinies

    Sara Wood

    "Perhaps I'm not your brother after all..." Those words bewildered Tanya Evans. How could István Huszár be anything else? Growing up with him in a Devonshire vicarage, she'd idolized him--until her discovery that he'd seduced...

  • 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 ...

  • Temptation Texas Style!

    Annette Broadrick

    MR. OCTOBER Tough Guy: Tony Callaway. Roughed-up rodeo cowboy--set in his wild ways. Tender Gal: Christina O'Reilly. Shy and sweet--but determined to find her roots. Together? Well, anything can happen.... When Christina O'Reilly showed u...

  • Tender Deceit // Burden of Innocence

    Patricia Wilson

    Sarah Thorpe's visit to Celine Couvier in France was a strictly limited one; she had promised her dead father to spend a month getting to know the woman he had loved. What she hadn't bargained on was that she should be so strongly attracted t...

  • To Have and to Hold

    Sally Wentworth

    A runaway wife Mix North had fallen in love with Rhys Stirling the first time she had met him. Now Mix's dream was about to come true--Rhys had asked her to marry him. Rhys Stirling was an ambitious man, and the only thing that stood betwee...

  • Two Hearts Too Late

    Christie Clark

    INSTANT FATHERHOOD One moment Carl Tannon was a carefree bachelor; the next, he was a daddy. Not that he minded. He was perfectly willing to tackle bottles and diapers and ...whatever. All he had to do was retrieve his daughter from Kirby Gordon a...

  • Valley in Bloom

    Grace Thompson

    Every village has its secrets… the charming conclusion to the Valley sagasAs 1954 draws to an end, the village of Hen Carw Parc is changing. The post-war boom brings a creeping lethargy as the villagers stay in watching their new TV sets, instead o...

  • The Vengeful Groom

    Sara Wood

    Weddings, Inc. For generations, couples have been coming to Eternity, Massachusetts, to exchange wedding vows. Legend has it that those married in Eternity's chapel are destined for a lifetime of happiness. And the townsfolk are more than willin...

  • A Wayward Love

    Emma Richmond

    HIS GIRL FRIDAY! Paris had resolved to give men a wide berth since her last romantic entanglement had gone horribly wrong. All men but most especially actors. They couldn't be trusted. Which was unfortunate since her latest position was as ...

  • Whisper of Scandal

    Kathryn Ross

    "Make a mistake and you'll regret it, I can assure you of that." Marc Kingsley's brand of charm was lethal -- but worse, he despised Sabrina. She felt that her connection with Marc's stepfather was no one's business but her...

  • Wife for a While

    Donna Clayton

    Desperate Bachelor Ben Danvers was about to lose everything -- unless he was married within the next few weeks. The terms of his grandfather's will were outrageous -- but airtight. Ben had just about given up hope when the last woman he ever exp...

  • Wolfe Wanting

    Joan Hohl

    THE THIRD BIG BAD WOLFE BROTHER Megan Delaney thought she'd sleep easier with Sgt. Royce Wolfe right in the next room, all six feet five inches of him sprawled on her sofa. But after what she'd been through, a good night's sleep would be a long t...

  • A Small Sacrifice

    Ellen Hart

    When Cordelia Thorn ventures to Summer Green, Wisconsin, for a reunion with some old college friends, she finds trouble in paradise. Twenty-plus years have definitely changed things. Soap opera star Diana has become an alcoholic. Curt and Annie's mar...

  • 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...

  • Chorus Skating

    Alan Dean Foster

    The discovery of errant living notes escaped from an extradimensional symphony leads Spellsinger Jon-Tom and his otter sidekick, Mudge, on a perilous quest to rescue some spoiled princesses, battle a guerrilla gorilla, and match wits with an evil ali...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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. ...

  • Gold Unicorn

    Tanith Lee

    Tanaquil, a young mender, and her familiar come face-to-face with her half-sister, Lizra, who forces Tanaquil to make a perilous choice between siding with Lizra in her quest for conquest or risking her terrible anger...

  • Legend

    David Gemmell

    Druss, Captain of the Axe, was the stuff of legends--tales of the mighty warrior were told throughout the land. But even as the stories grew in the telling, Druss himself got older. Finally, he turned his back on glory to retreat to a mountain lair h...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Of Tangible Ghosts

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    Bestselling author L. E. Modesitt, Jr. begins his Ghost Books series with Of Tangible Ghosts in a strange alternate reality where ghosts are no longer mere superstition, but physical realities.When two real ghosts and the records of a murdered resear...

  • 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, ...

  • Shame of Man

    Piers Anthony

    A magnificent epic of danger, desire, triumph and tragedy, Piers' Anthony's Shame of Man is nothing less than the story of humanity itself. It is the story of two lovers reborn throughout history--Hugh, a dreamer and musician, and his beloved Ann, a ...

  • Storm at the Edge of Time

    Pamela F. Service

    Thrown together by ancient magic, three young people--Jamie, a girl from the present, Arni, a Viking boy, and Tyaak, a boy of the distant future--embark on a dangerous quest and fight the forces of Darkness....

  • 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...

  • Traitors

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Vowing to destroy those responsible for killing his family, Diate joins the secret police so as to arrange the assassination of Sheba, until he falls in love with her and realizes he has risked his chance for happiness. Original....

  • The Warrior's Tale

    Allan Cole; Chris Bunch

    Captain Rali Emilie Antero came from an illustrious family of traders, wizards, and adventurers. But Rali cared little for magic, and even less for journeying. She was a soldier, captain of the elite Maranon Guard, staunch defenders of the majestic c...

  • 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...

  • 1 2 3

    Clotilde Olyff

  • 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: “...

  • 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....

  • Alphabet Parade

    Seymour Chwast

  • Amy's Secret Sister

    Francine Pascal

    Learning that she has a half-sister from her father's previous marriage, Amy Sutton is excited when Ashley comes to Sweet Valley to spend Thanksgiving and worries about how she and a new sibling will get along. Original....

  • Animals Gift

    Szabolcs Devajay

  • The Arabian Nights

    Neil Philip

    A newly illustrated collection of the classic stories from The Arabian Nights, including "Aladdin" and "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," gives these familiar tales new energy, revitalizing them for today's readers....

  • Aska's Sea Creatures

    David Day

  • Away in a Manger

    Ian Beck

  • 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....

  • Babes in Toyland

    Gina Shaw

  • 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...

  • The Best of Granta Reportage

    Bill Buford

    Granta has long been recognized for its controversial and thought-provoking coverage of global issues. This collection of the best journalistic pieces written in the English language for Granta includes works by John le Carre, Ian Jack, James Fenton,...

  • Big Day for Little Jack

    Lilian Moore

  • Bitty Goes to School

    Elizabeth Greenaway

  • Blackout

    Seth Kindler

    Jerry Cayce, a Nashville studio musician and novelist, struggles against an inner madness that causes him to act out the murderous behaviors of one of his fictional villains, and makes the world of imagination all too real. Original....

  • A Book About Your Skeleton

    Ruth Belov Gross

  • Boys Against Girls

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    The Hatford-Malloy feud continues in this fast-paced sequel to The Boys Start the War and The Girls Get Even (both Delacorte, 1993). Their egos still smarting from the humiliation they suffered on Halloween at the hands of their female neighbors, the...

  • The Brave Little Taylor

    Robert D. San Souci

    A spirited retelling of the favorite tale from the Brothers Grimm, lavishly illustrated. A little tailor who kills seven flies at one blow is so impressed with his own bravery that he ventures out to tell the world. Armed only with his wits, he must ...

  • 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 ...

  • The Brood

    Paul Mantell

  • 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....

  • Caledonia

    Michael Phillips

    The issue of Scottish independence becomes a forum for reflection and revaluation by a young member of Parliament, Andrew Gordon Trentham, as he contemplates the turbulent history, strong spiritual heritage, and rich culture of his ancestral homeland...

  • The Candy Land Mystery

    Cynthia Alvarez

  • Cannonball Simp

    John Burningham

  • 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....

  • A Captive Spirit: Selected Prose

    Marina I. Tsvetaeva

  • A Caribbean Dozen: Poems from Caribbean Poets

    Grace Nicholas

  • Catcher

    Mia Wolff

    Looking for a scary adventure, Mia practices on the trapeze with her friend Donna, but when it comes time to climb the ladder to the high trapeze, Mia has to reconcile her love of flying with her fear of heights....

  • 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...

  • Celebrate America: In Poetry and Art

    Nora Panzer

  • Changes in Attitude

    Jeffrey Solomon

  • Chicago and the Cat: The Halloween Party

    Robin Koontz

  • Christmas at Santa's

    Kelvin Gobble

  • The Christmas Collection

    Susan Hill (1)

  • Christmas Countdown

    Steve Englehart

  • Christmas House

    Ann Turner

  • Christmas in the Big House

    Patricia C. McKissack / Pat McKissack

  • Christmas Nativity

    Roma Bishop

  • Christmas on an Island

    Gail Gibbons

  • Christmas Songs

    Roma Bishop

  • Christmas Spirit: Two Stories

    Robert Westall

    A pair of Christmas stories involves unexpected holiday visitors--a young boy receives a warning of impending disaster from the "Christmas Ghost," and a girl's unhappy holiday visit is redeemed by a pregnant cat in "The Christmas Cat."...

  • Christmas Story

    Nicola Smee

  • 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....

  • Christmas with All the Trimmings

    Katherine Applegate

  • Christmastime in New York City

    Roxie Munro

    A tribute to the magic of Manhattan during the holiday season from a beloved cover illustrator for The New Yorker. Back in print for the first time in more than twenty years, Christmastime in New York City takes readers on a tour of the Big Apple all...

  • Chuck Jones' Peter and the Wolf

    Churck Jones

  • Circle Around the Sun

    Peregrine Hodson

    Describes the life of an Englishman in Japan, a banker by day and a writer by night, and what it feels like to be a chameleon in a pin-stripe suit: the strange sensation of returning to Japan, as another persona comes back to life, part Japanese, par...

  • Clinton Street Crime Wave

    Laban Carrick Hill

    Working on a surprise Christmas present for Gaby, Hector and Alex discover that someone has been breaking into Phil Reiner's workshop, and wonder if it could be the same thief who has been stealing food from the Fernandez family store. Original....

  • Conan and the Manhunters

    John Maddox Roberts

    Treasure beyond imagining waited in the temple of Ahriman, a god so evil and terrifying that even the despicable priests of Set aided in his banishment. None dared to steal the treasure--until Conan the Cimmerian came to Shapur. Now he must smuggle t...

  • Confessions of a Reluctant Elf

    Page McBrier

    Megan's family is Christmas crazy! Her father's the head Santa at a local department store. As her father's handy helper elf, she's got to grit her teeth and get through the cheer. Then Megan discovers that Grady--the kid who's been hanging around Sa...

  • 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....

  • Crocodile Gene and His Friends

    Eduard Uspenski

  • Currents from the Dancing River

    Ray Gonzalez

    A collection that features Latino literature from a wide range of Spanish-speaking groups throughout the world includes the works of Orlando Rami+a7rez, Omar S. Castan+a1eda, Virgil Suarez, Enrique Ferna+a7ndez, Gary Soto, and many others....

  • Day in the Life of a Police Officer

    Eric Arnold

  • Day of Delight

    Maxine Rose Schur

  • Day Of The Dead

    F. Gonzalez-Crussi

    Collected essays by a noted pathologist that lead the reader into an animated world of cadavers, coroners, graveyards, and death rituals. With keen insight and wicked wit, the author explores the culture of death from the perspective of one who routi...

  • Days of the Dead

    Kathryn Lasky

  • De Colores and Other Latin-American Folk Songs for Children

    Jose-Luis Orozco

    Reflecting the rich cultural traditions of Latin America, an illustrated treasury of twenty-five songs, chants, and musical games furnishes both Spanish and English lyrics, as well as musical arrangements for piano, voice, and guitar....

  • 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 Diblos Notebook

    James Merrill

  • Dictionary

    Barrie Henderson

  • Dinah for President

    Claudia Mills

    Dinah Seabrooke, now in her first year of middle school, struggles to become a big fish in what seems like an ocean--and in the process discovers the value of recycling and of friendship with the elderly...

  • Dinosaur Tree

    Douglas Henderson

    Traces the life cycle of a tree in the late Triassic period, from its first sprouting to its death and preservation in Arizona's Petrified Forest, and describes the various creatures that made their home in the environment in which the tree grew....

  • Dirty War

    Charles H. Slaughter

    The powerful story of Argentina's Dirty War portrays a young boy who looks the other way when people disappear, until his father is taken and he has to find the courage to ask questions--and to stay alive....

  • 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....

  • Dog Breath!: The Horrible Trouble With Hally Tosis

    Dav Pilkey

    From Dav Pilkey, creator of the New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series, comes Hally Tosis, the adorable dog that will take your breath away!Hally Tosis is a great family dog, but there is one rotten thing about her: her brea...

  • 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....

  • Duplicates

    Andrew Neiderman

    From the bestselling author of The Devil’s Advocate, a woman searches for the truth after meeting a man who looks mysteriously like her dead brother. Bob and Marion endured the worst tragedies of their life after their son, Joey, disappeared while ...

  • Earthshine

    Theresa Nelson

  • Elmo's Little Glow Worm

    Joe Mathieu

  • Emerald Blue

    Anne Marie Linden

  • Excuse Me for Asking

    Janis Arnold

    Janis Arnold's good-humored second novel is about big dreams, sweet dreams, and nightmares. As we follow two friends across more than two decades and watch their dreams collide with the realities of careers, husbands, families, and aging parents, we...