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  • Not Just a Summer Crush

    C.S. Adler

    When twelve-year-old Hana discovers her favorite teacher, young Mr. Crane, sitting alone at the beach where her family vacations, she becomes close friends with him, but when her mother misinterprets their relationship, Hana is forced to defend herse...

  • Cam Jansen and the Catnapping Mystery

    David A. Adler

    The cat's out of the bag! Aunt Molly is in town. When Cam visits her at her hotel, she stumbles on a mystery. One of the guests at the hotel gives her beloved Little Tiger to a bellhop to bring up to her room. But the cat never arrives and now the b...

  • Paideia Proposal

    Mortimer J. Adler

    The Paideia Proposal is a system of liberal education intended for all children. It was a response to what Adler characterized as the United States' antidemocratic or undemocratic educational system, a holdover from the 19th century, when the underst...

  • A Possible Tree

    Josephine Haskell Aldridge

  • A Touch of Black Velvet

    Carrie Alexander

    SHE NEVER TOOK NO FOR AN ANSWER... All long luscious legs and blond hair, Lacey Longwood was Madame X - every man's fantasy. And Alec Danieli's nightmare, because he couldn't touch her and still do his job. Lacey wasn't happy about that. She wasn'...

  • A Wedding in the Family

    Kathryn Alexander

    Strong and tender Adam Dalton was instantly intrigued by vulnerable single mom Angela Sanders. He knew life with her late husband had made her afraid of commitment, but he prayed that their deepening feelings and shared faith, would ultimately lead t...

  • The Passionate Friends

    Meg Alexander

    Deception kept them apart... But this time Dan Ashburn was here to stay. Judith Aveton was ready to marry the ever-virtuous and popular Charles Truscott -- until her former lover stormed back into her life! Six years ago, her stepmother's vicious...

  • One Magic Moment

    Victoria Alexander
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    TO PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER, FREE FELINE TO STABLE HOME The ad seemed perfect for what Gisella Lowell, an eccentric Bostonian gypsy, intended. While the newspaper ad offered only the possible adoption of four adorable cats, Gisella's plans we...

  • Some Enchanted Evening

    Alice Alfonsi

    TRANSFORMED FROM MORTAL PIRATE TO IMMORTAL GENIE, SINJIN MUST SERVE A NEW MASTER EVERY FIFTY YEARS -- FOR ALL ETERNITY. UNLESS A KIND MISTRESS CAN HELP HIM ESCAPE... SOME ENCHANTED EVENING Pretty Mary Jane Magorski has always been practical. ...

  • Jesus' Day Off

    Nicholas Allan

  • Superstition

    David Ambrose

    Having exposed a group of fraudulent spiritualists, investigative journalist Joanna Cross is intrigued by the claims of psychologist Dr Sam Towne that paranormal phenomena do in fact exist. Accepting his challenge to enter into a scientific experimen...

  • An Amish Wedding

    Richard Ammon

    Captures the excitement and tradition of an Amish wedding as a young couple, Anna and Samuel, with the help of their family and friends, prepare for the special event and the celebrations that will follow....

  • Five Fairy Tale Princesses

    Berthe Amoss

    The magical stories of five fairytale princesses are brought to life in this beautiful storybook and matching charm bracelet. There is a delicate golden charm for each fairytale: an apple from Snow White, a slipper from Cinderella, a rose from Sleepi...

  • Triage

    Scott Anderson

    In this critically acclaimed debut novel, the aftermath of war in all its power is revealed in the lives of survivors and their loved ones. Mark, a young war photographer, returns to New York after being injured in a brush fire. Shell-shocked, torn a...

  • I Am Dracula

    C. Dean Andersson

    Presents the disturbing and gripping story of how fifteenth-century Wallachian warlord Vlad the Impaler became Nosferatu Rex, the Master of the Undead, detailing his battle with the Devil and his bloodthirsty reign of terror. Reprint....

  • Renegade Bride

    Barbara Ankrum

    SHE WOULD BE HIS Mariah Parsons had believed since she was sixteen that she'd spend her life with the man who'd given her first kiss. Now after four years apart and with many doubts in her mind, Mariah was on her way West to begin their lif...

  • Lord of the Manor

    Shari Anton

    His Enemy's Wife No matter that the Lady Lucinda had borne a son to the man who had almost killed him, Richard of Wilmont wanted her anyway. For the fair widow brought to him a sense of belonging . . . and a love so powerful it would erase the pas...

  • The Threat

    K.A. Applegate

    There is a new Animorph. And he's arrived just in time, because the Yeerks are preparing their biggest takeover ever. The ultimate target: the world's most powerful leaders gathered together in one place. What better way to get into the minds of huma...

  • Face the Fear

    Chris Archer

    In the eighth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, superpowered teens must save the Earth’s future from dangerous mutants by traveling to the past.   Trapped on a futuristic Earth, Ethan, Ashley, Toni, and Jack must battle earthquakes, gia...

  • Pockets

    Jennifer Armstrong

    The somber, hard-working people of an isolated town on the plains ply through life in the drabbest of gray clothes--until, in the linings of their pockets, they begin to discover lavishly embroidered pictures of far-away places, sewn there by a myste...

  • Found: One Wife

    Judith Arnold

    "Private Investigations -- Lost Lovers Found." That was the ad, and Noah figured if he'd been adventurous enough to discover the world, he could be adventurous enough to visit an agency that specialized in finding lost loves. But meeting inv...

  • Fast Lane

    Ralph Arnote

    Willy Hanson is a gentleman detective, an amateur Sam Spade who would love to solve a little riddle like the Maltese Falcon, but winds up doing matrimonial work. When Amanda Granger, the pregnant wife of a philandering executive, asks Willy to get t...

  • Charmed and Dangerous

    Jane Ashford

    THE SPY WHO LOVED HER Gavin Graham works alone, trusts no one, and never, ever gives his heart. But the spy may have met his match in an ex-governess. Laura Devane has been handpicked to fulfill an important mission: distracting him from the decep...

  • My Darling Caroline

    Adele Ashworth

    A Lifelong Dream Lady Caroline Grayson had always wanted to study botany -- and had already bred a rare lavender rose -- but as a woman in nineteenth-century England, her intelligence and talents were ignored. Caroline was determined to see her dr...

  • Rocky and Bullwinkle in the Box Top Robbery

    E.D. Aspen

  • Crossroad Blues

    Ace Atkins

    With overwhelming acclaim from reviewers, readers, and peers alike, first-time novelist Ace Atkins hits a high note with Nick Travers, mystery fiction's first blues hero. An ex-football pro, Nick's days are now as languid as the Big Easy itself--he t...

  • Dark Emblem

    James Axler

    Following the nuclear war of 2001, Earth has become a wasteland ruled by anarchy, but when Ryan Cawdor and his warrior wayfarers finally locate Dr. Silas Jamaisvous in the ruins of San Juan, they discover what may be an icon of hope for the future. O...

  • Ouch! A Tale from Grimm

    Natalie Babbitt

    This tale from Grimm -- far less familiar than many of the others -- has been given a brisk retelling by Natalie Babbitt and witty, spectacular, sumptuous pictures by Fred Marcellino. The story tells all about young Marco, who leads a charmed life if...

  • Kiss Me, Judas

    Will Christopher Baer

    Have you ever loved someone who’s mortally wounded you? Phineas Poe, disgraced cop and morphine addict, has just been released from a psych ward when he meets a beautiful woman named Jude in a hotel bar. Red dress, black hair, body like a knife. He...

  • Calm Before the Storm

    Jennifer Baker

    "Whales mate for life." "At least they know what they want," Joey thinks. Sometimes her relationship with Dawson seems so complicated. Even more so when her class field trip to Billings Island, a nature preserve off the coast of Capeside, is ...

  • Legend

    Laura Baker

    A LAND FBI agent Jackson Walker's psychic abilities have enabled him to solve the most baffling and inexplicable crimes. Now, as he follows a string of five savage murders back to his native Navajo land, his gift will force him into an unworldly bat...

  • Tears of the Night Sky

    Linda P. Baker; Nancy Varian Berberick
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    A journey into peril. Crysania, high priestess of the Temple of Paladine, is blind to the beauty of the world but not to the joy of her faith. Lately, though, her communion with the god of light has become distant. Now a mysterious stone has come ...

  • Irresistible

    Mary Balogh

    Sophia Armitage was a friend, indeed. She had agreed to help Sir Nathaniel Gascoigne find a husband for his cousin Lavinia in the glittering city of London -- only half hoping that she'd find one herself. Sophia knew the odds were against her. M...

  • The Lone Rider Takes a Bride

    Leanne Banks

    The bad boy: Ben Palmer was tall, dark and very dangerous to a woman like Amelia Russell--a prim, proper teacher. For the tough, strong loner awakened feelings Amelia didn't even know she had. Her whole life changed during one unexpected night with h...

  • The Key to the Indian

    Lynne Reid Banks

    In 1980, Lynne Reid Banks created an extraordinary story that has captured the imaginations of children and adults. The Indian in the Cupboard opened doors on a fascinating and highly original world of toy figures brought to life through the magic of...

  • Teacher's Pet

    Patricia Barnes-Svarney

    Black cat Salem falls asleep in Sabrina's knapsack and inadvertently accompanies her to high school, which he enjoys until they are accidentally separated, and the feline must find Sabrina or a new home...

  • Given the Crime

    Margaret Barrett; Charles Dennis

    Crime never sleeps. That's Susan Given's motto, and when she leaves her Upper East Side duplex and her two Salvadoran-born daughters to make that trip downtown, she's the very model of a modern crime-fighter - even if her designer suits and string of...

  • Given the Evidence

    Margaret Barrett; Charles Dennis

    As head of the Asset Forfeiture Unit in the New York County District Attorney's office, Susan Given squeezes crime kingpins where it hurts most: in their bank accounts. A single mom with an Upper East Side address, she's more than a match for the cit...

  • Moonseed

    Stephen Baxter

    IT EATS PLANETS. AND IT'S HERE. It starts when Venus explodes into a brilliant cloud of dust and debris, showering Earth with radiation and bizarre particles that wipe out all the crops and half the life in the oceans, and fry the ozone layer. Day...

  • Biggie and the Fricasseed Fat Man

    Nancy Bell

    BIGGIE'S BACK... Murder's afoot when Biggie Weatherford's around, and now, fresh from Biggie and the Mangled Mortician, this Lone Star grandma is ready to put the bite on another ornery killer, Texas-style. ...FOR A MURDER MOST FOWL It's chicken...

  • A Hell of a Dog

    Carol Lea Benjamin

    MASTERY OF MURDER In the field of dog training, no two experts think alike. And between trainers who are stubborn as bulldogs and others who primp like poodles, polite discourse simply doesn't have a chance. Little wonder that a convention of famo...

  • Sanctuary

    Janice Bennett
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    And in Janice Bennett's Sanctuary, on a moonlit All Hallow's Eve, a black kitten's magic seals the love of a dashing young lord and a passionate protectress of forest creatures....

  • Silent Stranger

    Amanda Benton

    At first, Jessica is frightened by the sight of a stranger hiding in the barn. But then young man is weak, cold, and injured, and he looks more scared than she is. He stares at her but doesn't say a word. Jessica asks him to follow her into the house...

  • The Midnight Before Christmas

    William Bernhardt

    Thirtysomething lawyer Megan McGee is facing a quiet Christmas with her bulldog when Bonnie Cantrell, a battered wife, comes looking for legal protection from her violent ex-cop husband, Carl. In a recent bout of rage, Carl vowed to kill their seven-...

  • My Man Pendleton

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    Pendleton couldn't believe his ears. He'd taken this new job hoping to make money, not marry into it! But if runaway heiress Kit McClellan didn't agree to enter into wedded bliss soon, the entire family fortune could be willed to the homeless pets of...

  • The Bridal Bed

    Helen Bianchin

    The wedding deception! Suzanne was thrilled that her mother was remarrying. But everyone expected her to attend the wedding with her own fiance, the very gorgeous Sloane Wilson-Willoughby -- the bridegroom's son! How could Suzanne admit their ...

  • Travel Tales: Ten Fun-Filled Adventures

    Christophe Blain

  • The Time of the Wolf

    William D. Blankenship

    Believed to have vanished - along with Jim Bowie - when the Alamo fell, the original Bowie knife is the stuff of American myth. Now the knife, with its dark history of violence and bloodshed, is rumored to have surfaced from the archives of a promine...

  • Snow Day

    Corinne Demas Bliss

    Emily loves the snow, but hates snowballs, and it looks as if there's going to be a snow day tomorrow! Is Emily headed for disaster when the other kids begin to plan a big snowball fight, or will a friend come to her rescue and make it the best snow ...

  • I Was a Teenage Fairy

    Francesca Lia Block

    Maybe Mab was real. Maybe not. Maybe Mab was the fury. Maybe she was the courage. Maybe later on she was the sex . . .A tiny fairy winging her way through the jasmine-scented L.A. night. A little girl caught in a grown-up glitz-and-glitter world of s...

  • Everybody Dies

    Lawrence Block

    Matt Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life. The crime rate's down and the stock market's up. Gentrification's prettying-up the old neighborhood. The New York streets don't look so mean anymore. Then all hell breaks loose. Scudder quickl...

  • The Marquesa

    Stephen A. Bly

    When former actress Isabel Leon gives up her exciting life to settle down and run a hotel in Montana Territory, she relies on her faith in God to face her daily challenges, and is rewarded with the love of a good man...

  • Things Remembered

    Georgia Bockoven

    TO FACE THE FUTURE, Returning to her childhood home in the golden hills of Northern California means regret and pain for Karla Esterbrook. Yet she can't refuse when her ailing grandmother, Anna, asks her to help settle her affairs. After all, Anna h...

  • 7th Avenue

    Norman Bogner

    Eva, Rhoda, and Terry are three smart and successful women in Manhattan's young fashion industry, but their lives somehow become entangled with Jay Blackman, a dangerous man who knows how to get what he wants from the women--control on Seventh Avenue...

  • The Quest of Lee Garrison

    Max Brand

    An encounter with a dying Indian leads Lee Garrison, a young line rider with a fascination for tales of King Arthur and his knights, on the trail of an elusive and legendary gray mustang called Moonshine. Reprint....

  • The Lioness Tamer

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    MR. OCTOBER... Commanding corporate tycoon: Hell-bent on protecting his family's interests, Jordan Westcott never counted on crossing paths with the most beguiling beauty he'd ever met.... Virgin spitfire: Like a lioness protecting her lair, she wasn...

  • Angel of Death

    Jay Brandon

    To the African American community of San Antonio, Malachi Reese is a saint, a community leader, a man who feeds the hungry and houses the homeless. To San Antonio District Attorney Chris Sinclair, Reese is the Angel of Death: a vicious killer possess...

  • The Bodyguard's Bride

    Jean Brashear

    FOR FAMILY -- FOR LOVE Jillian Marshall had risked it all to find justice for her family. And no one dared to stand in her way. Yet the powerful and enigmatic Drake Cullinane had every intention of doing just that. For he was Jillian's fier...

  • Rio Grande

    Matt Braun

    Tom Stuart takes risks-- in war, in love, and in card games, from St. Louis to Mexico. And the hard-drinking, fast-talking steamboat captain-- who knows every shoal and eddy of the Rio Grande from the Big Bend to Brownsville-- has a dream of building...

  • Charlotte's Kitten

    Patricia Bray
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    Patricia Bray's Charlotte's Kitten is a small gray bundle of fur named Ghost who must approve a lovely widow's long-ago suitor before he can win her hand....

  • An Unlikely Alliance

    Patricia Bray

    A SKEPTICAL LORD At a glance, Lord Kerringan could see "Mademoiselle Magda" was a cardsharp. But when the gypsy fortune-teller accurately predicted the defeat of his prize racehorse, his noble visage darkened. For Kerrigan knew the race had ...

  • The Vampire Journals

    Traci Briery

    With these words, so begins the memoirs of Maria Theresa Allogiamento -- a vampire ahead of her time who plans on setting the record straight. Travel with Theresa from 18th-century Italy to present day Los Angeles, as she takes us on a wild and intim...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Takes the Cake

    Emily Brightwell

    SERVED COLD The evidence was all there: a dead body, two dessert plates, and a gun. As if poor Mr. Ashbury had been sharing a bit of cake with his own killer! The old bloke had plenty of enemies. The neighbors called him a snoop. Even his own daught...

  • Christmas Is Coming

    Carolee Brockmann

  • Harvard's Education

    Suzanne Brockmann

    THE MAN AND HIS MISSION As a navy SEAL, Harvard had seen his share of trainees before, but P.J. Rogers managed to pack more fire in her five-foot-two-inch body than all the men he'd ever worked with. And he couldn't help hoping for some mo...

  • Mistletoe Mistress

    Helen Brooks

    Christmas with the boss! When Hawk Mallen took over the company Joanne Crawford worked for, it seemed he'd taken over her life, as well -- expecting his new assistant to be at his command day and night! And when he offered Joanne a dream promo...

  • A Very Private Revenge

    Helen Brooks

    An intimate vendetta! Tamar McKinley had made it her business to find out all Jed Cannon's secrets. The notorious playboy had destroyed her cousin's happiness -- and her reputation. Now Tamar was determined Jed must be made to pay. She'...

  • The Twelve Days of Christmas: Rebus Sticker Storybooks

    Nan Brooks

  • Titan Clash

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Jack Spencer has more to worry about than being kicked off his high school's basketball team. He uncovers suspicious circumstances surrounding the car crash that severely injured his mother and learns of his father's arrest for fraud. Jack...

  • Arthur's Really Helpful Bedtime Stories

    Marc Brown

    Arthur, D.W., and their friends bring a touch of their own personalities and senses of humor to this sprightly collection of classic bedtime stories. Could you please be more careful—you're drooling on my cape, says D.W. to the wolf in Little Re...

  • The Shy Little Angel

    Ruth Brown

    A stubborn little angel who refuses Gabriel's strict order to visit the newborn baby in the manger turns out to be a frightened little girl who has stage fright, in a magical holiday story that combines the gospel with traditional children's pageant ...

  • A Christmas Seduction

    Amanda Browning

    The millionaire... Being forced to spend Christmas with his godfather's mistress was not Quinn Mannion's idea of fun. Laura Maclane might be beautiful, but Quinn had no doubt she was a heartless gold digger. Why else would his godfather have...

  • Windmills in Time

    Victoria Bruce

    Home IS Where the Heart Is New Yorker Dierdre Brown was an independent modern-day woman. She didn't need a man for anything; not love, not money -- not anything! So when a twist of fate cast her back in time to the wild Nebraska plains, she wa...

  • Schooling Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    Lisa Atwood thinks she is finally getting a horse of her very own. A new horse has arrived at Pine Hollow and Lisa is convinced that her parents are planning to buy it for her, so of course she volunteers to help school it. But training this horse is...

  • Remember Me, Cowboy

    Caroline Burnes

    Cowboy come home Amnesia and a cruel twist of fate forced Slate Walker away from Comfort, Texas. Now he was coming back--to the ranch he didn't recognize, the woman who haunted his dreams ...and someone who couldn't afford to let him remember the pa...

  • Forget Me Not

    Adrianne Byrd

    BOUND BY DUTY Detective Jaclyn Mason won't rest until she finds out who killed her partner. Launching an investigation that plunges her deep into a world of police corruption, she's about to nail a suspect when stolen goods and several kilos of coca...

  • Motive, Means...and Marriage?

    Hilary Byrnes

    THE NIGHT THAT CHANGED HER LIFE... He made her lose control--and she hated it! Even worse, Detective Patrick Monaghan made prosecutor Helen Stewart feel. So she fled his arms and put her energy into avoiding the sexy, seductive officer. But now...

  • License to Thrill

    Elizabeth Cage

    Jo, Caylin, and Thresea have nothing in common -- until they’re handpicked to form the intensely cool trio known as the Spy Girls. Now they’re jet-setting all over the criminal world in search of truth, justice, and a really choice hairstylist. A...

  • Terminator 2: Judgement Day

    Jeff Campbell

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark

    Jeff Campbell

  • Lightning's Last Hope

    Joanna Campbell

    Before Thoroughbred, Ashleigh Griffen lived at Edgardale, her family's farm in Kentucky. Nothing could be more perfect than life on the farm with her family, her favorite horses, and her best friend, Mona. Ashleigh loves helping with the horses--and ...

  • Berta La Larga

    Cuca Canals

  • Stories and Fun for the Very Young

    Candlewick Press

    A collection of stories, poems, songs, and pictures by some of the world's most acclaimed children's authors and artists includes works by Helen Oxenbury, Iona Opie, Rosemary Wells, Marc Brown, Lucy Cousins, Shirley Hughes, and other notable contribu...

  • Sun

    Susan Canizares

  • Riding the Snake

    Stephen J. Cannell

    Revenge Becomes a Brother's Obligation A Beverly Hills golden boy whose glow is fading, Wheeler Cassidy, an aimless, hard-drinking womanizer, is partying toward dissipation. But after his brother's mysterious death, Wheeler embarks on a perilous j...

  • Legends: Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy

    Orson Scott Card

    Here they are, the writers and the worlds that have satisfied millions of readers. Each has returned to their compelling special places to tell a new tale that enriches and illuminates their most famous creations, in a big, lavish volume enhanced wit...

  • Future on Ice

    Orson Scott Card

    Orson Scott Card's companion anthology to Future on Fire, a compendium of exciting stories by the hottest writers of the 1980s and 1990s."To my mind, fiction that tastes like medicine is no damn good. If it isn't a wonderful story first, who cares ho...

  • King of the Stable

    Melody Carlson

  • What Nick and Holly Found in Grandpa's Attic

    Melody Carlson

    Looking for ornaments in Grandpa's attic, Nick and Holly find the true meaning of Christmas. When Nick and his twin sister Holly follow Grandpa up the attic stairs, they expect to find a box of Christmas tree decorations. Instead they discover treasu...

  • Stinky Bugs

    David A. Carter

    The author of How Many Bugs in a Box? conjures up a new collection of ten hilarious critters--including Root Beer Bug, Red Rose Bug, and Banana Bug--each with its own scratch-and-sniff patch and flaps to lift. Children's BOMC....

  • A Man Called Jesse

    K.N. Casper

    Jesse would do anything to save his home and community! A rich man's playground. That's what the neighborhood in Coyote Springs, Texas, will become of developer Winslow Carr and his cronies have their way. The neighborhood where Jesse, his family...

  • Her Counterfeit Husband

    Carla Cassidy

    MISSING FATHER-TO-BE -- RETURNS WITH AMNESIA Was it possible for a case of amnesia to completely change her husband's personality? For the man who walked back into Elena Richards' life had little in common with the cad who had mysteriously disappe...

  • At First Sight

    Elizabeth Chandler

    THE WRONG GUY? Down-to-earth Allie Parker is dreading Christmas vacation at home. She'd rather stay at her boarding school than hang out with her flaky twin sisters and their superficial friends while they earn their Ph.D.'s in flirting. But when Al...

  • Hunger

    Lan Samantha Chang

    “A masterwork of enormous power.” -- Min Jin Lee, author of Pachinko The searing debut of “one of the most influential writers in American letters…Hunger is a masterpiece, a necessary haunting” (Justin Torres, author of We the Animals).A p...

  • The Crimson Claw

    Deborah Chester

    Set in a completely new fictional universe, Alien Chronicles is a saga that spans several generations of a master reptilian race and the slave race it rules. It is a tale of a crumbling civilization and a heroic struggle for freedom, with an all-alie...

  • The Non-Commissioned Baby

    Maureen Child

    ASSIGNMENT: FATHERHOOD! Captain Jeff Ryan fought a lot of battles as a marine. But daddy duty was his toughest assignment ever! When an infant was left on his doorstep, Jeff called in reinforcements--and temporary nanny Laura Morgan marched into h...

  • The Nine-Month Bride

    Judy Christenberry

    IT TAKES TWO... Earthy rancher Lucas Boyd desperately wanted a son, but not the emotional risks of love. So where to find a surrogate "mother" to carry his child? Local librarian Susannah Langston secretly ached for a baby. But she didn't think a...

  • Center Court Sting

    Matt Christopher

    CENTER COURT STING Trash talking leads to trouble on the basketball court.... Forward Daren McCall is quick with an insult, quick to take offense, and quick to blame anyone but himself for his troubles. So when center Lou Bettman accuses him first of...

  • Wife to a Stranger

    Daphne Clair

    Stranger in her bed Capri recognized the handsome man in front of her as her husband. She knew his name was Rolfe, but other than that he was a complete stranger to her. In fact, she could remember nothing at all about her life, prior to waking up...

  • Lord Trevor's Tomcat

    Cathleen Clare
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    Lord Trevor's Tomcat cost a a lady her reputation but wins her heart for his beleaguered master in Cathleen Clare's delightfully spooky tale....

  • All Through the Night

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Fans of Mary Higgins Clark and cozy mysteries will relish this Christmas confection. Unlike her previous holiday novel, Silent Night, All Through the Night is virtually free of life-and-death crime. Rather, it is a Dickensian tale of good deeds rewar...

  • The Halloween Man

    Douglas Clegg

    The New England coastal town of Stonehaven had a history of nightmares--and dark secrets. But when Stony Crawford fell in love with beautiful Lourdes Maria Castillo, he became the unwitting pawn in a game of horror and darkness, a game that had been ...

  • BearWalker

    Steven L. Climer

  • The Outlanders

    David B. Coe

    A Journey into Darkness The Children of Amarid now know that invaders from Tobyn-Ser's sister land of Lon-Ser are responsible for the deadly attacks on their people. But their Order is paralyzed by infighting and indecision, and it is only a matte...

  • The Story Teller

    Margaret Coel

    When the Arapaho storyteller discovers that a sacred tribal artifact is missing from a local museum, attorney Vicky Holden is called to investigate. The lost treasure: a one-of-a-kind ledger boot and the only eyewitness account of Arapaho history on ...

  • Gates of Eden

    Ethan Coen

    A middle-aged man beheads his wife, then calmly explains how she drove him to it . . . A fat little mafioso is going to war--in the clean, well-mannered streets of Minneapolis . . . A Jewish boy watches with wonder the rise and fall of a Hebrew schoo...

  • Compass of the Heart

    Priscilla Cogan

    Love is very tricky, warns Winona Pathfinder, the elderly medicine woman who has introduced psychologist Meggie O'Connor to the spiritual ways of Lakota prayer and healing. Soon, however, Meggie's teacher and friend will cross over to the Other Side,...

  • ABC Discovery!

    Izhar Cohen

    "Have you ever Beheld a Bear on a Bicycle Balancing a Bat?" Readers will find that and much more in this crazy, clever collection of amazing picture puzzles. In each inventive, full-color illustration, one for every letter of the alphabet, kids will ...

  • Right Chapel, Wrong Couple

    Colleen Collins

    Always the best man... As Drake Hogan watched his good friend tie the knot, he was thrilled to be the best man and not the groom. Drake was determinedly happy as a single guy--until beautiful, free-spirited Lulu Lewis burst into his life. Before h...

  • Obsession

    Jackie Collins

    The second installment in the sexy, thrilling four-part L.A. Connections miniseries, a behind-the-curtains peek into the exclusive mansions of Hollywood where the city's most powerful players willingly risk it all for love, lust, and murder, from New...

  • Heart's Desire

    Nina Coombs
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    TO PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER, FREE FELINE TO STABLE HOME The ad seemed perfect for what Gisella Lowell, an eccentric Bostonian gypsy, intended. While the newspaper ad offered only the possible adoption of four adorable cats, Gisella's plans were a...

  • Faith

    Lori Copeland

    Wanted: Women with religious upbringing, high morals, and a strong sense of adventure, willing to marry decent, God-fearing men. Applicants may apply by mail. Must allow at least two months for an answer. With the matrimonial prospects in her litt...

  • Zen and the Art of Murder

    Elizabeth M. Cosin

    TO LIVE AND DIE IN L. A. Zen Moses is either having a bad day or bad karma. Her cat is dead. The IRS wants to talk to her. And she just found her long-lost cousin's body bound to a beer keg at her favorite neighborhood bar. It's enough to drive ev...

  • Lottery Blues

    Emily Costello

    AYSO rules say teams must be re-organized every season--including the Stars. With great luck, some of the girls get to stay together. Tameka, Tess, Lacey, Fiona, Geena, Nicole, and Yaz are assigned to the same team. Everyone misses the old Stars, but...

  • Badlands

    Ralph Cotton

    The second novel in the Big Iron series, following Montana Red, finds Arizona lawman Sam Burrack, known as "The Ranger," and his beautiful companion, Maria, on the trail of a Mexican desperado and his gang of outlaws. Original....

  • The Deception

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: THE DECEPTION first appeared in April 1983 as a Signet Regency with the title AN INTIMATE DECEPTION. The story has been rewritten as a full-bodied historical romance. The Duke of Portsmouth offers an impecunious half-French relativ...

  • Happy Birthday, Maisy

    Lucy Cousins

  • Maisy at the Farm

    Lucy Cousins

    Maisy is just right for toddlers -- her bold world, full of familiar touchstones, is as comforting and colorful as birthday cake!

    Both new fans and devoted friends will love to join Maisy on her trip to the farm. There's so much to do! There a...

  • Anooka's Answer

    Marjorie Cowley

    Near the end of the Stone Age, nearly 12,000 years ago, a young woman named Anooka discovers her talent for shaping the strange riverbed mud into small animal figures, but when she is forbidden to make the animals, she questions the only traditions s...

  • Night Talk

    Elizabeth Cox


    Recently Nominated for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Night Talk has served as an inspiration for honest discussions of race around the country.

    A beautiful, moving story of the unlikely and enduring friendship of two girls...

  • Third Grade Pet

    Judy Cox

    Dismayed and disgusted at the thought of a rat as the class pet, Rosemary is soon won over by the adorable rat named Cheese, and when Cheese's existence is threatened, Rosemary frees him and wonders how she will keep him hidden from her family, in a ...

  • Dead Man's Hand

    Jordan Cray

    An Internet search for some contraband Cuban cigars lands Annie Hanley and Nick Annunciato in the middle of a murder, but as they scramble for clues in order to find a killer before he finds them, they suspect the case revolves around something far m...

  • Bloomability

    Sharon Creech

    My second life began when I was kidnapped by two complete strangers . . . That the kidnappers are actually Aunt Sandy and Uncle Max makes no difference to thirteen-year-old Domenica Santolina Doone, better known as Dinnie--she just doesn't want to go...

  • The Paternity Factor

    Caroline Cross

    SHANE WYATT WAS MORE THAN A MAN He was dad to a dimple-cheeked two-year-old -- but not by blood. A pediatrician's visit had proved that fact, rocking Shane's world and forever changing the way he viewed women. He didn't trust anyone -- n...

  • The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book

    R. Crumb

    When published in hardcover,, The R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book was hailed as an original & audacious celebration of artistic genius & American popular culture. This paperback edition makes the best of this author available in a price that fans of c...

  • D'Alembert's Principle

    Andrew Crumey

    'A wonderfully diverting and stimulating entertainment. Cunningly structured and as satisfying as an intricate piece of clockwork, it plays with narrative, revels in ideas and succeeds in being both fey and sharp, detached and compassionate. At a tim...

  • The Mightiest Heart

    Lynn Cullen

  • Nobody's Angel

    Barbara Cummings
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    Heartthrobs, Hunks, and Heroes... They make your heart race and inspire your most secret fantasies. They're your favorite heroes from movies and television, and they're about to make your dreams come true. Ten of today's top romance authors create wo...

  • Consequences of the Heart

    Peter Cunningham

  • A Field Guide to Irish Fairies

    Bob Curran

    What is your best defense against a phosphorescent land sheerie? Can you really find contentment with a wealthy merrow wife? The answers are disclosed at last in A Field Guide to Irish Fairies, the first and only such guide available. Expertly resear...

  • Dirk Pitt Revealed

    Clive Cussler

    With nearly 100 million copies of his bestselling books in print, Clive Cussler is an extraordinary author whose life parallels that of his fictional hero, DIRK PITT. Whether searching for famous shipwrecks or cruising in classic cars from his privat...

  • Beholder's Eye

    Julie E. Czerneda

    THE WEB United in their natural form they are one, sharing all their memories, experiences, and lives. Apart they are five, the only existing members of their ancient race, a species with the ability to assume any form once they understand its essen...

  • Snow Place to Die

    Mary Daheim

    THERE'S SNOW PLACE LIKE HOMICIDE B&B hostess Judith McMonigle Flynn's ready to hang up her oven mitts, but irrepressible Cousin Renie needs help catering the telephone company's annual winter retreat at secluded Mountain Goat Lodge. The pay's good...

  • The Broken Country

    Brian Daley

    When the reception for Madame Dextra Haven erupted in a bloodbath, the offworlders quickly realized that Aquamarine's natives were not to be underestimated. But the Aquam were not the only dangers to the Periapt forces. A menace from within her own t...

  • Chip's Favorite Season

    Patrick Daley

  • Malice in Miniature

    Jeanne M. Dams

    Dorothy Martin's husband, the illustrious Chief Constable Nesbitt, has long claimed that if the Olympics held an event for conclusion jumping, Dorothy would be a contender for the gold medal. Her bold American ways occasionally offend the Brits' prop...

  • Timeshare: Second Time Around

    Joshua Dann

    John Surrey, a security agent for time-travel customers, must track down a young filmmaker who has gone missing while on vacation in the Roaring Twenties, a mission that takes him across America at the height of flapper fashion. Original....

  • The Secret Mermaid Handbook Or How to Be a Little Mermaid

    Penny Dann

  • Fatherhood Fever!

    Emma Darcy

    Making babies... His free-wheeling bachelor days behind him, Matt Davis is ready for family and fatherhood. And Peta Kelly seems to be the answer to his prayers. Not only is she provocative and outrageously sexy, she is also prepared to commit to ...

  • Spirits

    Peggy Darty

    Elizabeth and Michael Calloway, characters from Darty's Promises and Memories, take a working vacation to a lovely valley in eastern Tennessee-the setting for the author's first Palisades, Angel Valley. Their assignment: to find a missing woman. But ...

  • Black Swan, White Raven

    Ellen Datlow

    A fourth anthology from the editors of Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears presents contemporary retellings of traditional fairy tales, in Gregory Frost's "Sparks," "The Dog Rose" by Sten Westgard, and other works by Jane Yolen, Joyce Carol Oates, Na...

  • Here Come the Teletubbies

    Andrew Davenport

    The youngest television viewers can now meet Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po from Teletubbyland, in a sturdy picturebook filled with photos of the characters from the popular PBS children's show. TV tie-in....

  • Tubby Custard Mess

    Andrew Davenport

  • Four Happy Teletubbies

    Andrew Davenport

  • Nevada Loving

    Kathryn Davenport

    A MAN'S KIND OF WOMAN From her coiffed blond hair to her tiny feet, Leeta Carson was every inch a southern lady and she intended to stay one throughout the long, hard stagecoach journey to Nevada. And even though her white-gloved hand itched t...

  • The Good Little Girl

    Lawrence David

    Miranda has always been such a good little girl.  She understands that her parents have to work all day and can barely keep their eyes open when they get home.  They can hardly keep any of the promises they make, and enough is enough!  When her...

  • The Rugrats Versus the Monkeys

    Luke David

  • The Ultimate Hulk

    Peter David

    An exciting and colorfully illustated collection of more than one dozen never-before-seen adventures of the Incredible Hulk offers tales that span the entire career of the mean green machine. Original....

  • Once Burned

    Peter David

    There's a bar called "The Captain's Table," where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it's all in the fami...

  • Triangle

    Peter David

    lmzadi: to the people of the planet Betazed, including Counselor Deanna Troi of the Starship Enterprise it means "beloved" and denotes a special closeness that can never be truly broken. Or can it? Once William Riker was Deanna's imzadi, but now...

  • The Wedding Promise

    Carolyn Davidson

    THE WAY WEST FOR RACHEL SINCLAIR LED STRAIGHT DOWN THE AISLE And into the arms of a man she barely knew! But Cord McPherson had taker her and her brother in when trouble struck along the trail. And Rachel believed in her heart that this marriage ...

  • Where the Bodies Are Buried

    Janet Dawson

    When Oakland P.I. Jeri Howard's new client, Rob Lawter, takes a header through his living-room window soon after he's hired her, Jeri is in a quandary. Lawter, a paralegal at a food-processing firm, had received a threatening anonymous note, sent be...

  • Venom's Wrath

    Keith R.A. DeCandido; Jose R. Nieto

    NEW YORK UNDER SIEGE! Venom is loose on the streets of New York, and only the amazing Spider-Man can stop his latest rampage! When lawyer Ann Weying--Venom's ex-wife--is snatched from her apartment by a group of radical terrorists, Spider-Man k...

  • Tomie depaola's make your own christmas cards

    Tomie DePaola

    Featuring magnificent illustrations from his best-selling holiday picture books, each card is printed with a cheery season's greeting. Simply punch out the cards, sign or personalize them as you like, add your choice of dazzling jewel stickers, then ...

  • The Blessing

    Jude Deveraux

    Wealthy corporate genius Jason Wilding reluctantly takes a break from his high-powered world to visit his hometown of Abernathy, Kentucky. As a favor to his physician brother David, he finds himself spending one week as a live-in baby-sitter in the r...

  • Ribofunk

    Paul Di Filippo

    In a chilling world in which biology has become the cutting-edge science, strange, part-human creatures make their home in Lake Superior and must deal with the deadly, toxic waste that threatens their very existence. Reprint....

  • Ice Reich

    William Dietrich

    INTO THE ICE It rises out of the cobalt sea like a dream: shimmering white peaks and fog-shrouded icebergs: blazing slabs of lee and vistas of windswept snow.... The year is 1938. As the world hurtles toward war, Antarctica is an empty frontier. But...

  • To Every Thing There Is a Season

    Leo Dillon

  • Next to Last Chance

    Louisa Dixon

    Laura Owen was appointed Commissioner of Public Safety and the head of the State Highway Patrol in a brazen political move by Gov. Gibbs Carver, a two-term lame duck who was planning his next move into the national spotlight. Her energetic presence u...

  • The Northbury Papers

    Joanne Dobson

    Teaching American women's literature at New England's prestigious Enfield College has shown Karen Pelletier just how cutthroat the world of academe can be. But nothing in her tenure has prepared her for the perils to come, as this bastion of higher l...

  • Simba's Pride: Kiara's Colors

    June Doolittle

  • Em's Only Chance

    Rosey Dow

    When Em Littlejohn arrives in Colorado, romance is the last thing on her mind. She is content with her place in the Chamberlin family. But upon a visit to a nearby ranch, she catches the eye of Chance, a handsome cook who immediately set out to win h...

  • Perfect Agreement

    Michael Downing

    One day Professor Mark Sternum is accused of 'prejudgism' by an African American single mother and he is fired from Boston's McClintock College. As his case makes national headlines, he turns to a small Shaker community for some much-needed peace....

  • The Bad-Girl Bride

    Jennifer Drew

    Size 6... Pristinely feminine... Breathtakingly beautiful... Yep, Julie Myers's unworn wedding gown was pure heaven. Too bad her ex-fiance had thought she was too "nice" to be his bride. So now the dress was for sale... and Julie was in search o...

  • Starrise at Corrivale

    Diane Duane

    Starrise at Corrivale accomplishes what it sets out to do: it's a reasonably entertaining primer for the Star*Drive universe, a campaign setting for TSR's science-fiction role-playing game Alternity. Star*Drive is fairly recognizable space-opera fare...

  • Salem Goes to Rome

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • The Rugrats Movie

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Crossed Quills

    Carola Dunn

    A BRILLIANT POLITICAL ESSAYIST... Philippa "Pippa" Lisle is more interested in politics than fashion. From Sweetbriar Cottage, she writes essays on the issues of the day, not daring to reveal herself as their author, the radical Prometheus...

  • Incendiary Designs

    Michael Allen Dymmoch

    With “terse prose,” this “fascinating” entry in the award-winning series pits psychiatrist Jack Caleb and cop John Thinnes against a serial arsonist (Library Journal).   While jogging through Chicago’s Lincoln Park at dawn, Dr. Jack Ca...

  • When Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth

    Fernanda Eberstadt

    Dolly Gebler, midwestern heiress, is dedicated to the idea that art can change the world. Alfred, her husband, a poor boy from Brooklyn, loves nightclubs and tequila, and believes he has married a woman for whom everything is appearances. Into this w...

  • The Rivan Codex: Ancient Texts of the Belgariad and the Malloreon

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    Join David and Leigh Eddings on a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of the extensive background materials they compiled before beginning the masterpiece of epic fantasy unforgettably set down in The Belgariad and The Malloreon and their two companio...

  • Santa Cows

    Cooper Edens

    'Tis the night before Christmas and Elwood and his family are snug at home enjoying video games, TV, and a microwave meal. Suddenly, a strange mooing comes to their ears. Flinging open the shutters, they're amazed to discover a sky full of udders! Do...

  • Bowie

    Randy Lee Eickhoff; Leonard C. Lewis

    Jim Bowie, the descendant of Highland Scots, grew up riding alligators and working the field on the Texas frontier. Taught three languages and a sense of honor, he went on to live a life filled with brawls and battles, loves and loses. This is his st...

  • Sweet Mystery

    Lynn Emery

    WILL A TROUBLED PAST... Rae Dalcour lives her life with no excuses. A blues guitarist, she is still the wild child who followed a dream, and one who never planned on going home. But the bayou of Belle Rose, Louisiana, is the only place to turn when ...

  • Toss

    Boomer Esiason

    After reaching his dream of becoming a quarterback for a major team, Derek Brody believes everything in his life is perfect, but after experiencing shady dealings and learning of the mysterious death of a former player, he discovers that things are n...

  • Jitterbug

    Loren D. Estleman

    A tough town in a tough time: Detroit during World War II where the U.S. furiously tried to outmanufacture the Germans and Japanese. Industry importer workers to replace men gone to war--Southern whites and blacks working side by side for the first t...

  • The Growing Season

    Patricia Gardner Evans
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    Heartthrobs, Hunks, and Heroes... They make your heart race and inspire your most secret fantasies. They're your favorite heroes from movies and television, and they're about to make your dreams come true. Ten of today's top romance authors create wo...

  • Dawn of Camelot

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    CREATURE OF LIGHT On the Island of the Mists--enchanted, changeless Avalon--Meg grew to power among the immortals, a rare and beautiful creature with a fierce inner strength. She was also Merlin's sister, gifted with a power and a will to match thos...

  • The Locket

    Richard Paul Evans

    After the death of his mother, Michael Keddington finds employment at the Arcadia nursing home where he befriends Esther, a reclusive but beautiful elderly woman who lives in mourning for her youth and lost love. Michael faces his own challenges whe...

  • The Christmas Candle

    Richard Paul Evans

    On a dark, snowy Christmas Eve, a young man hurrying home for a family celebration enters a chandler's shop to buy a candle for his lantern. He scoffs at the beautifully sculpted creations of the old chandler and instead purchases a simple, inexpensi...

  • Longarm and the Blossom Rock Banshee

    Tabor Evans

    SHAFTED! Those three Irish miners weren't afraid to blast a mighty chunk of gold-flecked blossom rock in the decrepit mine shafts of the Comstock Lode. But when a shrieking banshee emerged from the smoke and rubble, you bet they were scared -- to de...

  • The Gift Stone

    Robyn Eversole

    Jean lives in Coober Pedy, an underground mining town in the Australian Outback where her father mines for opals, but Jean yearns for a real home and an opportunity to go to a real school, and when she finds an opal in her house, she is able to affor...

  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

    Anne Fadiman

    Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionThe Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed ...

  • Embassy Row

    Quinn Fawcett

    Paterson Guthrie, Mycroft Holmes's secretary, is accompanying his employer to secret negotiations with the Japanese, intended to secure England's position in Japanese-controlled waters. But many highly placed Englishmen do not wish to ally themselves...

  • Operation Damocles

    Oscar L. Fellows

    The fate of the earth hangs in the balance in a dispute involving a dutiful spy, a newscaster with a price on her head, a rascal scientist, a grouchy former CIA agent, a murderous idealist, and a treasonous president. Original....

  • Detective Dad

    Marie Ferrarella

    After hardened undercover agent Duncan MacNeill delivers the baby of a young woman suffering from memory loss, he takes them home to care for them, but as he uncovers the beauty's identity, he fears he may lose his newfound family. Original....

  • One Plus One Makes Marriage

    Marie Ferrarella

    LIKE MOTHER LIKE DAUGHTER WHERE THE BRIDAL BOUQUET GOES FROM DAUGHTER TO MOM! THE BEAST Lance Reed didn't need this exasperating female's endless chatter. Couldn't she tell that he wasn't looking for a friend? Much less that d...

  • Lucky Me

    Lisa Fiedler

    Fourteen-year-old C.C. had planned to spend her summer with her friends and her boyfriend, the hunky Patrick O'Connell, but when her best friend, Chuck, breaks up with his girlfriend, and Patrick wants to do more than kiss, C.C.'s summer suddenly bec...

  • The Death of Innocents

    Richard Firstman

    Unraveling a twenty-five-year tale of multiple murder and medical deception, The Death of Innocents is a work of first-rate journalism told with the compelling narrative drive of a mystery novel. More than just a true-crime story, it is the stunnin...

  • Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

    Fannie Flagg

    A funny, serious, and compelling novel by Fannie Flagg, author of the beloved Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie).“[This] tale of tough, eccentric, endearing women who first endure and ...

  • A Little Yuletide Murder

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    A SLAY RIDE FOR SANTA Jessica Fletcher unwraps a deadly puzzle when she sets out to discover who killed "Santa Claus"--a.k.a. her neighbor Rory Brent, who played St. Nick at the town's yearly Christmas Eve celebration. Cabot Cove, Maine's most ...

  • Death in Paradise

    Kate Flora

    While on a holiday to attend an educational seminar in Hawaii, Thea Kozak is determined not only to make the conference a success but also to take some time to relax and enjoy some peace. What she hasn't bargained for is a dead body, none other than ...

  • From House Calls to Husband

    Christine Flynn

    DO YOU TAKE THIS DOCTOR? Cardiac surgeon Mike Brennan was six feet two inches of chiseled, masculine perfection. He had a gentle touch, a soothing voice -- and, boy, did he look sexy in his scrubs! He was also nurse Katie Sheppard's oldest, dearest ...

  • Touch Not the Cat

    Tracy Fobes

    The wild Highland lass whose outdated dress and clan tartan incites gossip and speculation among London society carries an astonishing secret. Catherine McClelland knows that the curse plaguing her family must set her eternally apart from the world. ...

  • Dimensions

    Leonard M. Foley

    Join the thousands of readers who already have experienced the power of this unusual and compelling tale. It begins in the murky swamps of the Carolinas where the autn the murky swamps of the Carolinas where the autpelling tale. It begins in the murk...

  • The Hammer of Eden

    Ken Follett

    The FBI doesn't believe it. The Governor wants the problem to disappear. But agent Judy Maddox knows the threat is real: An extreme group of eco-terrorists has the means and the know-how to set off a massive earthquake of epic proportions. For Califo...

  • Bug's Life: Really Stinky Bugs

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Circle of Thanks

    Susi Gregg Fowler

    An Alaskan boy and his mother walk through the slushy tundra. When a baby otter pup slides into the icy river, the boy's mother rushes in to rescue her. This selfless act prompts a chain reaction of rescues from other animals, including Raven, Mother...

  • A Sense of Belonging

    Terry Fowler

    Sharley is a fun-loving mortician who is completely at home with the tradition and sense of belonging she feels in the small North Carolina town settled by her ancestors. Kenan Montgomery is a Boston CEO who fears death. How can such opposites attrac...

  • Bright Morning Star

    Kathryn Fox

    IN AN UNTAMED LAND, NOTHING WAS WILDER THAN THEIR LOVE... Josie Hardwick was scared to death of Indians, but she just had to go West. Tennessee held only bad memories. She had no prospects, no money, just the determination to find a better life. W...