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New Books List: 678 titles

  • 1 2 3

    Clotilde Olyff

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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: “...

  • Alaska Gray

    Susan Froetschel

    NEW BEGINNINGS, DEADLY ENDINGS Jane McBride is a woman with secrets and sadness -- and Alaska seems just about as far away as she can get from her past. Her big welcome comes in the form of an anonymous phone call telling her to leave. Then Jane lea...

  • 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

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • The Ancient One

    Rachel Lee
    in

    Cody Walker spent his life guarding the Ancient One's secret vault. Then archeologist Lynn Carstairs made the find of the century, threatening to unearth ageless secrets -- and deeply-buried desires... Three spine-tingling tales from the dark side of...

  • 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 Face

    Jane Bonander
    in

    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....

  • Angel of Death

    Rochelle Majer Krich

    "The Angel of Death spared your forefathers--Will he spare you?" To L.A. lawyer Barry Lewis, the note on his front door spells danger. To LAPD Detective Jessie Drake, it is as ominous as the Star of David scrawled across Lewis's paint-smeared door...

  • Angel of Death

    Rochelle Krich

    Some things are uglier than homicide - and ultimately as dangerous. For Barry Lewis, a Los Angeles attorney famous for handling controversial cases, danger comes in the form of a note on his front door: "The Angel of Death spared your forefathers - w...

  • 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...

  • Animals Gift

    Szabolcs Devajay

  • Anna's Book

    Barbara Vine

    Anna is a young woman living in turn-of-the-century London, confiding her rebellious thoughts and well-guarded secrets only to her diary. Years later, her granddaughter discovers that a single entry has been cut out--an entry that may forge a link be...

  • Annie and the Outlaw

    Sharon Sala

    OUTLAW ANGEL Harley-riding hellion Gabriel Donner had broken every rule, sinning enough for at least two lifetimes. And it would take just as long to right all his wrongs and earn his way to heaven. But his time was running out .... Then Gabrie...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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

  • The Astrologer's Daughter

    Paula Marshall

    Bedding a lady...for his own gain! Sir Christopher Carlyon yearned to leave the dissipation of court, to have again the settled life he knew before the war. The only way was to accept a disgraceful bet from the Duke of Buckingham. If he could bed ...

  • 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...

  • Autumn Maze

    Jon Cleary

    When the Sydney police minister’s son falls twenty floors to his death, the politics of murder ripple the city like a boulder into a pool. Caught in the wash is Detective Inspector Scobie Malone, as he uncovers an elaborate financial scheme, a seri...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Baby Times Two

    Marie Ferrarella

    Former Husband Chase Randolph had fallen for Gina Delmonico in an instant and, within days, made her his wife. But their marriage didn't survive long on just passion and promises. Now Gina was back in his life--for better, or for worse.... Former...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bad Apple

    Anthony Bruno

    A cops-and-mobsters crime thriller that “keeps us entertained with razzle-dazzle style” (Marilyn Stasio, The New York Times).   When an undercover FBI agent is murdered, the mob and the bureau race to nab the triggerman. The prime suspect ta...

  • 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...

  • Baker Street By-Ways

    James Edward Holroyd

  • Beauty Dies

    Melodie Johnson Howe

    Even High Fashion Has Its Low Points. Elegant, enigmatic private eye Claire Conrad and her very independent assistant Maggie Hill - a dynamic female duo as different as mismatched earrings, are about to fly to Los Angeles when a young woman appears a...

  • Best from Fantasy, Science Fiction: A Forty-Fifth Anniversary Anthology

    Edward L. Ferman

    The nineteen stories in this compilation comprise an excellent sample from the forty-five-year history of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, with works by such authors as Harlan Ellison, Karen Joy Fowler, and Dale Bailey....

  • 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,...

  • Between Dusk and Dawn

    Val Daniels

    First Sam Barton convinced Jonna Sanders to hire him. Then he moved onto her farm, where he could keep an eye on her. Then there was nothing left for him to do, except avoid temptation -- and wait. Wait for what he knew he had to do. There was so...

  • Big Day for Little Jack

    Lilian Moore

  • Bitter Blood

    Karen E. Taylor

    Remember me? Deirdre Griffin, vampire? As you may recall, I didn't want to be one, but in matters of blood, a woman doesn't always have a choice. After living in London for the past two years, I'm finally back in my favorite city. But life in New Yor...

  • Bitty Goes to School

    Elizabeth Greenaway

  • Black Hornet

    James Sallis

    With this flashback novel to Lew Griffin’s past, James Sallis takes readers to 1960s New Orleans, a sun-baked city of Black Panthers and other separatists.   A sniper has fatally shot five people. When the sixth victim is killed, Lew Griffin i...

  • The Black Sea

    Richard Setlowe

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Blood Sympathy

    Reginald Hill

    ALL THIS AND A MATCHMAKING AUNT, TOO... It is feast or famine for ex-machinist turned private investigator Joe Sixsmith. One minute he's dozing in his office, the next he's been hired by a self-proclaimed dabbler in the dark arts to retrieve a sto...

  • 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...

  • Blue Pearl

    T.J. MacGregor

    The husband-and-wife detective team track down the murderer of the wife of a mysterious South American faith healer, whose popularity among the wealthy residents of Palm Beach, Florida, has made him a target of criminals....

  • The Bluebell Pool

    Sue Sully

    Young Nancy Gillimore is dazzled by gentleman explorer Aubrey Farringdon, until they leave London for his family manor when, drawn into his scandalous past, Nancy discovers a disturbing and destructive story of passion and betrayal...

  • 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...

  • A Book About Your Skeleton

    Ruth Belov Gross

  • Book of Horrors

    Diane Hoh

    Accepting a position as assistant to a Salem horror writer, Reed is terrified when she learns that all of the author's previous assistants have disappeared, and when frightening things begin happening to her, Reed learns how the books are written...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 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 ...

  • Breaking Up

    Nicholas Pine

    Breaking up with her tough greaser boyfriend, Danny, after he breaks up a high-society party, rich girl Robin Anderson is alarmed when her wealthy friends start getting killed off and fears that Danny is out for ultimate revenge. Original....

  • 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

  • Brother Wind

    Sue Harrison

    In a time before time at the top of the world -- in a harsh and unforgiving age of ice -- courage will sustain three remarkable souls through trials as bitter as the chill winds of the eternal winter. Claimed by a brutal, despised enemy, Kiin mus...

  • 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...

  • Can You Hear Me Scream?

    Richard Posner

    Determined to help their school board candidate beat his hateful opponent, Kate Bennett and Drew Meyer have the campaign threatened by Drew's kidnapping and a cold-blooded killer who has lethal plans for both of them. Original....

  • The Candy Land Mystery

    Cynthia Alvarez

  • Cannonball Simp

    John Burningham

  • Captain Hawaii

    Anthony Dana Arkin

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • The Cat's Story

    Nick Butterworth

  • 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

  • China Trade

    S.J. Rozan

    CRIMSON NEW YEAR'S BANNERS WITH GOLD LETTERS SNAP IN THE WIND. IN CROWDED STORE WINDOWS THERE ARE CHICKENS, DUCKS, AND CHAINS OF RED-WRAPPED FIRECRACKERS... It's a city within a city, of smells, sounds, dark shops and close-knit families; it's a w...

  • China White

    Peter Maas

    Overseeing the interests of a Hong Kong industrialist client, Tom MacLean learns that a drug called "China White"--the purest form of heroin to hit the streets--has infiltrated New York, and a determined FBI agent seeks his help. Reprint....

  • Choice of Evils

    Warwick Downing

    Rommel leaves her beloved Denver to travel to Washington, D.C., to help prosecute the case of an American accused of killing an Arab from Rashidi, only to find herself working for the defense instead. ...

  • 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...

  • Christmas at Santa's

    Kelvin Gobble

  • The Christmas Baby

    Joan Johnston
    in

    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....

  • 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....

  • The Colors of the Heart

    Marilyn Kaye

    Because Debra Lewis is facing a campaign of harassment after rumors circulate about her supposed romance with her white study partner, Steve Nowiki, her best friend, Sharon Delaney, plans an on-the-air confrontation about the school's racial tensions...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Country Sunshine

    Teresa Warfield

    The price of falling in love... CAROLINE The small farm she shared with her mother and grandfather was home sweet home. But to a smooth-talking land developer, it was prime property... ROBERT The city slicker had big plans for Dubuque, Iowa--...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • Cunning of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    NOTHING PUTS THE FIGHT IN SMOKE JENSEN LIKE A WAR FOR WHAT'S RIGHT. There were some who knew Smoke Jensen as a hero...and there were others who believed the dark side of the legend -- that he was an outlaw who'd killed over 300 men. But when Smok...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dancing on the Wind

    Mary Jo Putney

    DANGEROUS DECEPTION Like his namesake, Lucifer, Lord Strathmore, is known for unearthly beauty and diabolical cleverness. A tragic past has driven him to use his formidable talents to protect his country from secret enemies, and it is a job he do...

  • 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...

  • Daredevil: Fall from Grace

    Marvel Book Group

  • Dawn and the Halloween Mystery

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! Halloween is coming, and Dawn and her friends in the We Love Kids Club are almost as excited as the kids they baby-sit for. Then, just before the big night, a masked robber holds up a store in Daw...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • Death at Bishop's Keep

    Robin Paige

    A Perilous Indiscretion A proper gentlewoman in Victoria's realm is expected to be respectful, demure and dependent, qualities Kathryn Ardleigh--outspoken, free-thinking American abroad and pseudonymous author of sensational "penny-dreadfuls"--dis...

  • Deceptions & Dreams

    Debra Dier

    THIEF OF HEARTS Sarah Van Horne could outwit any scoundrel who tried to cheat her in business. But she was no match for the dangerously handsome burglar she caught in her New York City town house. Although she knew she ought to send the suave rogu...

  • The Devil's Lady

    Deborah Simmons

    she could not escape his shadowy promise Piers Montmorency 'Twas whispered that the mysterious Red Knight was more than mortal. Perhaps he'd even struck a devil's bargain to assure his warrior prowess. Yet Aisley sensed that Pier&...

  • 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...

  • 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 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. ...

  • 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....

  • Disaster on Windy Hill

    Lois Walfrid Johnson

    Someone is trying to steal Kate’s horse! Will she lose Windsong to a crook? With the reward money Kate received in Calmet burning a hole in her pocket, she, Anders, and Erik head to Charlie Saunder’s livery stable to buy Kate a horse of her o...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Dream Catcher

    Terry C. Johnston

    Ten years have passed since the close of the war that divided a nation and tore families asunder; a decade since battle-scarred Confederate soldier Jonah Hook returned to find his wife and children gone -- kidnapped by a man of unspeakable brutality....

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Earthsearch

    James Follett

    The BBC Radio dramatization of the story about the crew of a starship who were born in space, but whose spiritual home is Earth - which has somehow vanished from the solar system. They have studied holograms and videos of Earth and long to find it an...

  • Earthshine

    Theresa Nelson

  • 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...

  • An Echo of Death

    Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    Tom Mason and his lover, professional baseball player Scott Carpenter, go on the run when they find an ex-teammate and friend of Scott's murdered in their apartment. With the killers now on their trail, with the death of Scott's friend still a myste...

  • 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...

  • The Eighth Day of the Week

    Alfred Coppel

    When a nuclear warhead capable of destroying all of North America is planted in Hudson Bay by members of a Russian cabal, Colonel John Morgan pursues a trail of espionage from Moscow to Washington. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • Elmo's Little Glow Worm

    Joe Mathieu

  • 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...

  • Emerald Blue

    Anne Marie Linden

  • The Empire Builders

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Steel tracks and the lure of the sea led them to Washington Territory, but only a few would triumph. EMBER RIDGEWAY is the vivacious, pampered niece of railroad tycoon Mack Ridgeway. Orphaned at a young age, Ember's struggle for identity in a worl...

  • The Engines of God

    Jack McDevitt

    Humans call them the Monument-Makers. An unknown race, they left stunning alien statues on distant planets in the galaxy. Each relic -- is different. Each inscription defies translation. Yet all are heartbreakingly beautiful. And for planet Earth,...

  • Everville

    Clive Barker

    "Our most accomplished contemporary purveyor of horror fiction strikes again in Everville, a tale of worlds in conflict. . . . [Barker's] extravagantly unconventional inventions are ingenious refractions of our common quest to experience and understa...

  • 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...

  • Experiment on Muir Island

    Paul Mantell

  • The Fables of Aesop

    Frances Barnes-Murphy

    A collection of more than one hundred of Aesop's classic fables, designed to delight and instruct both adults and children, features clever pen-and-ink drawings on every page and thirty full-color paintings....

  • Faery Magic

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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...

  • Falcon Moon

    Catherine Palmer

    Hannah Brownlow knew she was putting her life on the line. But the lovely Bostonian novelist was determined to find her long-lost brother -- even if she had to squeeze her hoopskirts into a westward wagon ... with an Indian. Luke Maples, the raven-ha...

  • Familiar Remedy

    Caroline Burnes

    The riddle Who hated Sarah Covington enough to frame her for murder? Or were the secret ingredients in her meals the way she disposed of her enemies? The romance It was Daniel Dubonet's job to get close to Sarah. And the sexy maverick agent...

  • Family Trust

    Isabel Holland

    Gathering in their New England compound to hear the reading of a vast trust, the Beresfords dream of expanded wealth, until the arrival of a long-lost son who possesses explosive secrets and a destructive need for revenge. Original....

  • The Farmhouse Mouse

    Cynthia Rogers Erkel

  • 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....

  • Father Christmas and the Donkey

    Elizabeth Clark

  • Father Christmas Is Coming: Old English Art Reproductions with Moving Pictures

    Pat Paris

  • Father's Day

    John Calvin Batchelor

    Temporarily transferring power to the vice president while on disability in the year 2003, President Ted Jay is shocked when the vice president refuses to relinquish command five months later, an action that threatens to tear the nation in two. Repri...

  • 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...

  • Feline and Famous

    Martin H. Greenberg

    The lights are up and the camera is rolling for some of the most curious and glamorous felines in Hollywood. Take a look through the lens as one cat's glorious coat gives away a murderer...a feline TV stand-in takes the heat for an edible accident......

  • Festive Fun

    Roma Bishop

  • Field of Dishonor

    David Weber

    Honor Betrayed The People's Republic of Haven's sneak attack on the Kingdom of Manticore has failed. The Peeps are in disarray, their leaders fighting for power in bloody revolution, and the Royal Manticoran Navy stands victorious. But Manticor...

  • Fifth Discipline

    Peter Senge

    Leading management guru Peter M Senge defines the five business 'disciplines' which together help to build learning organizations. These companies will be the successful ones in the coming decade because of their ability to learn, to absorb new ideas...

  • Filigree

    Debra Hamilton

    Back in England after a boyhood in the Colonies, Courtland Day was a man without a country. Until hunger for revenge and a dangerous spying mission brought him back to Massachusetts on the eve of war and straight into the path of a Colonial bullet. B...

  • 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...

  • Finding the Magnificent in Lower Mundane

    Bob Stromberg

  • Fine Lines

    Simon Beckett

    A wealthy, slightly sinister London art dealer develops a voyeuristic obsession with his assistant, Anna, and hires an amoral male model to seduce her while he watches from behind a screen--but his impulses lead to nasty surprises--including murder. ...

  • Finn's Search

    Eileen Dunlop

    When Finn and Chris learn that a developer wants to turn an ancient Roman field into a gravel pit, they organize a protest, but soon the school bully wants to join in--and his father is the developer....

  • Firebird

    Demi

    A lavish retelling of a popular Russian folktale, grandly pictured with gilded illustrations, follows the adventures of Dmitri, who finds a feather from the Firebird and presents it to the greedy Czar....

  • 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...

  • The First Christmas

    Kelvin Gobble

  • The First Sacrifice

    Thomas Gifford

    Twenty years have passed since John Cooper triggered a series of events that shattered the underground rise of the Fourth Reich. Unable to make peace with his own history, Cooper has submerged himself in the old films he plays at his Boston movie hou...

  • Flounder's Gift

    Rebecca Bondor

  • Fly Away Home

    K.D. Plum

  • Flycatcher

    Elleston Trevor

    The novel begins with a single scream that rips across Fifth Avenue from Central Park and into the bedroom and the psyche of Tasha Fontaine, proprietor of a tony fashion boutique. In the park, the police find a serial killer's latest victim: Chris...

  • The Folding Star

    Alan Hollinghurst

    The 1995 Booker Prize finalist.

    Alan Hollinghurst's hypnotic and exquisitely written novel tells the story of Edward Manners, a disaffected 33-year-old who leaves England to earn his living as a language tutor in a Flemish city. Almost...

  • For the Love of You

    Felicia Mason