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New Books List: 688 titles

  • After the War

    Alice Adams

    “As always, Adams' strength is her fine, elegant language and the attention she pays to the minutiae of every day living. Like Jane Austen, she stays close to her characters and weaves intrigue out of their interrelated and complex life stories.”...

  • Showdown

    Luke Adams

    Trace Beaumont once saved Mitch Frye from drowning. Now Trace has shown up in Paxton and wants to renew the friendship. Trouble is, Trace is now a gunslinger wanted for a string of murders, and Mitch is a lawman. But Mitch doesn't have a lot of ti...

  • Fables from

    Aesop

  • Mistletoe Man

    Susan Wittig Albert

    Former big-city lawyer China Bayles worked hard to make her Texas herb shop, Thyme and Seasons, a success. Now business is booming at her charming new tea room, Thyme for Tea--but China is too distracted to revel in her latest entrepreneurial triumph...

  • Hornito: My Lie Life

    Mike Albo

    “A gay coming-of-age story that’s rip-roaringly funny and sympathetic.” -- PeopleDavid Sedaris and Sandra Bernhard rolled into one, Mike Albo offers his own unique, witty, and touching tale on being young, single, and gay in today's media-obses...

  • The Chance of a Lifetime; Under the Window; and a Voice in the Wilderness

    Isabella Alden

  • Keepsake Cowboy

    Carrie Alexander

    Laramie Jones thought she'd inherited a ranch in Wyoming -- a dream come true for a member of the Cowgirl Club! But "nirvana" is a tacky suburban track house, with a motley crew of equally shabby animals, plus one virile cowboy. A run-in with a bu...

  • Heart of a Husband

    Kathryn Alexander

    In Jake Barnes's strong arms, Joanna Meccord had once found pure bliss...until he'd left, shattering her soul. Now he was back, and so were Joanna's unsettling feelings for a man who had little faith in himself -- or anything else.... All Jake had...

  • Ready or Not

    Kathy Allred

    JUST ONE LOOK That's all it took. Veterinarian Luke Connor lost his heart the minute he saw Officer Samantha Denning step up to his car to write him a ticket for speeding. He's never seen a woman that beautiful in Liberty, Colorado, before. Smi...

  • The Touch

    Steven-Elliot Altman

    In the tradition of Coma and The Andromeda Strain comes the ultimate biological terror... A Depriver is someone who, for reasons still under scientific investigation, possesses and employs a defense mechanism that can drastically incapacitate other h...

  • When Night Falls

    Linda Anderson

    The drowning death of her young daughter and the bitter divorce that followed drove ex-prosecutor Lannie Sullivan into a reclusive existence at her secluded mountain cabin. Now, after two years of isolation, Lannie's finally emerging from her fragile...

  • Come Rain, Come Shine

    Shannon Anderson (1)

    SWEET CITY WOMAN Nancy O’Sullivan loves the fast pace of New York -- and being single. As far as she’s concerned, white lace and promises and marital bliss are for other people.....until she meets Liam Knightly. The strapping Irish carpenter i...

  • Sophie and the New Baby

    Laurence Anholt

  • Xone of Contention

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Climate and culture shock ensue when Xanthians swap bodies with mere humans in this madcap adventure in the New York Times"bestselling series.   All Breanna of the Black Wave and her newfound love, Justin Tree, want is a little time to get to ...

  • The Dastard

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Many malevolent menaces have imperiled the magical land of Xanth in its long and storied history. But none has been as despicably dangerous as the Dastard-a craven miscreant who sold his soul to a detestable demon for the power to erase events. Now t...

  • Milton's Christmas

    Hayde Ardalan

    When you're as curious as Milton, Christmastime is truly the cat's meow. Up on the table (why yes, I believe those are Milton's paw prints) there's delicious shrimp. Up in the tree there's a boingy bird... Hey, a shiny ball! Oops. Broom anyone? Sigh....

  • A Year of Full Moons

    Madelyn Arnold

    Lambda Award winner Madelyn Arnold combines history, class, sex, and family in A Year of Full Moons, a tour-de-force about the coming of age and coming into power of a young girl in a hardscrabble southern town during the early 1960s.Brilliant, tombo...

  • The Sun Is My Favorite Star

    Frank Asch

    There are many stars in the galaxy. But only the sun wakes us in the morning, helps us to grow, plays hide-and-seek behind the clouds, and paints pretty pictures in the evening sky.
    Frank Asch's gentle text and vivid illustrations celebrate the u...

  • Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil

    Nancy Atherton

    A tale of family secrets, yesteryear romance, and spirits less friendly than Aunt Dimity Lori Shepherd is on her way to Wyrdhurst Hall to evaluate its owners' rare book collection. The grim, neo-Gothic castle, the books, and the journey to thi...

  • Cat Crazy

    Ben M. Baglio

    Mandy Hope loves animals. She knows all about them -- both her parents are vets! Mandy is always ready to help out her friends with their pet problems. While on vacation, James and Mandy discover a boat called Puss-in-Boats. It's a houseboat fil...

  • Saving Abbie

    Allan Baillie

  • A Most Passionate Revenge

    Jacqueline Baird

    She can't resist her husband... After ten years Xavier Valdespino has appeared again in Rose's life, only to whisk her away to Spain and blackmail her into, marriage. It's clear to Rose that Xavier blames her for something she didn&...

  • The Maintenance Man

    Michael Baisden

    Malcolm Tremell lives the life that most men can only fantasize about: exotic cars, designer clothes, and a steady stream of sexually available women. For the past twelve years, for a very generous fee, Malcolm has willingly played the role of tempor...

  • My Favorite Horror Story

    Mike Baker

  • Wish You Well

    David Baldacci

    Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes -- and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the ...

  • An Angel to Die For

    Mignon F. Ballard

    Prentice Dobson is plumb out of luck in the big city. To collect her thoughts and mourn her younger sister's recent death, Prentice packs up and heads for her family's small, southern town. But there is no comfort to be found there - the town is aq...

  • The King and the Three Thieves

    Kristen Balouch

    King Abbas apppears to get caught up in the schemes of three thieves but he has a few tricks of his own and ultimately saves his kingdom from starvation. By the author of Listen to the Storyteller. ...

  • Picture Imperfect

    Saradindu Bandyopadhyay

  • Man with a Golden Bow

    Nina Bangs
    in

    A shy Jersey girl gets what she wants for Christmas - and spends her good sweet time unwrapping him....

  • Changelings

    Jo Bannister

    A TOWN GRIPPED BY FEAR It begins with contaminated yogurt in a supermarket. Next, the tampering of showers in a girls' locker room. Caustic soda in baby powder. Cholera in cough medicine. An anonymous note promises much more--unless the town of Ca...

  • Eclipse

    John Banville

    In this deeply moving and original book, John Banville alloys mystery, fable, and ghost story with poignant psychological acuity to forge the riveting story of a man wary of the future, plagued by the past, and so uncertain in the present that he can...

  • Radio Rescue

    Lynne Barasch

    2AZK saves the day!

    Back in 1923, a long-distance telephone call took hours to place, and overseas calls weren't possible at all. But a new invention, called wireless radio, permitted instant communication over long distances. A young boy, itc...

  • Shadows Bend

    David Barbour; Richard Raleigh

    TWO FUTURE LEGENDS. ONE ANCIENT EVIL. H.P. Lovecraft was a writer who would one day become famous or his eerie tales of the macabre--filled with ancient beings who ruled the world millions of years before the appearance of the human race. Robe...

  • Fed up!

    Rex Barron

  • Cruddy

    Lynda Barry

    On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping two of the 127 hits of acid found in a friend's shoe, a sixteen-year-old who is grounded for a year curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom, picks up a pen, and begins to ...

  • Film Strip

    Nancy Bartholomew

    A Pain in the Butt... When porn star Venus Lovemotion is gunned down in the parking lot of the Tiffany Gentleman's Club, the same bullet whacks exotic dancer Sierra Lavotini in her "assets;" jeopardizing her livelihood if not her life. Naturally, ...

  • Her Secret Weapon

    Beverly Barton

    THE AGENT: Burke Lonigan, weapons expert and world-class charmer THE MISSION: To destroy a dangerous traitor, while defending his woman and child! Facing off with a deadly menace was easy for Burke Lonigan -- until a beguiling beauty stepped i...

  • Backwater

    Joan Bauer

    Ivy is on a quest. Stuck in a family overflowing with lawyers, Ivy Breedlove longs to be understood, to break free of unfair expectations, and to find the truth about the mysterious hermit aunt who broke the family mold-the relative no one will talk...

  • Shelterbelt

    Tricia Bauer

    A year ago, Jade Engler's younger brother Benjamin was found beaten to death at the edge of their Paradise, Nebraska, farm. The event tore their family apart: the farm failed; Jade's father, despondent, has taken up with a sugary sweet younger wo...

  • Hollywood & Hardwood

    Tricia Bauer

    Everyone said Lou and Renata's marriage would burn itself out. A summer-stock romance between a playwright and an actress? It'll fail by November, everyone said, placing their bets during the whirlwind October ceremony.

    In Tricia Bauer's vivid...

  • A Dance for Emilia

    Peter S. Beagle

  • Dear Stranger, Dearest Friend

    Laney Katz Becker

    A story of strangers who become the best of friends depicts two women in their thirties who meet in on an internet message board, and realize that they are much more alike then either of them could have thought. A first novel. Reprint. 25,000 first p...

  • Schmidt Delivered

    Louis Begley

    Recently widowed, Albert Schmidt has triumphantly rediscovered domestic bliss in the Hamptons with Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress who is younger than his daughter. Schmidt is content with keeping his own hours and steering his own course, even...

  • Master of the Crossroads

    Madison Smartt Bell

    Continuing his epic trilogy of the Haitian slave uprising, Madison Smartt Bell’s Master of the Crossroads delivers a stunning portrayal of Toussaint Louverture,  former slave, military genius and liberator of Haiti, and his stru...

  • Joy to the World: A Family Christmas Treasury

    Ann Keay Beneduce

    Biblical passages, carols, stories, plays, and more explain the traditions and symbols of the Advent holiday to readers of all ages, enhanced with rich illustrations throughout. 50,000 first printing....

  • Worlds Vast and Various

    Gregory Benford

    SF readers have come to expect the universe from Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Gregory Benford: fascinating multilayered characters, thrilling plots, and mind-bending scientific speculations firmly based in cutting-edge technological fact. ...

  • The Wrong Dog

    Carol Lea Benjamin

    From former detective turned noted author and dog trainer, Carol Lea Benjamin, comes the fifth book in the critically-lauded Rachel Alexander mystery series, for the first time in mass market. Sophie Gordon didn't let her epilepsy get in the way o...

  • Bertrem's Guide to the Age of Mortals: Everyday Life in Krynn of the Fifth Age

    Nancy Varian Berberick
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Come wander the highways and byways of Krynn in the Fifth Age.

    If you've ever wondered what kender children learn in school, what the dwarves of Thorbardin eat for breakfast, how the people of Solace elect their mayor, this guide is for you.

  • The Bridge

    Lisa Tawn Bergren

    Love can build a bridge.

    After a tragic accident along the Swan River took the life of his mother, young Jared Conway grew up thinking little of the family he lost. As an adult, he remains without an anchor. With his marriage truly over--despi...

  • Blood to Blood: The Dracula Story Continues

    Elaine Bergstrom

    Dracula will hunt no more, but his legacy is shared by another--a sister, by birth and by blood... After her second trip to Romania, Mina Harker returns to London--finally free of Lord Dracula's spell. Building a new life for herself, she must fin...

  • First Comes Love

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    Pssst... Tess is pregnant! And single! And...a virgin? The news of her "pregnancy" hit Tess Monahan like a ton of wet diapers. Her denials were lost in a gust of gossip, and she wasn't about to announce to all of Marigold, Indiana, "I'm a 26-year-...

  • The Eye of the Stone

    Tom Birdseye

    When Jackson Cooper is suddenly sucked into another world, he must find the courage to fight an evil monster before it destroys everything in its path! Even on his birthday, nothing is going right for Jackson Cooper. His friends think he’s a wi...

  • The Invisible Ring

    Anne Bishop

    In a world where magic is power and social status is everything, the color of the jewel you wear determines the course of your life... Jared is a Red-Jeweled Warlord bound as a pleasure slave by the Ring of Obedience. After suffering nine years of...

  • Fledgling

    Robert J. Blake

    When a young kestrel makes her first flight among the buildings of a bustling city, there is much excitement and danger as she is pursued by a hawk. By the creator of Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod. ...

  • His Scandalous Duchess

    Sara Blayne

    SHE WOULD BE HIS MISTRESS... Irrepressible Althea Wintergreen sacrifices her own reputation to save her sister's by claiming to be the mother of her illegitimate niece. Shrouded in scandal, she has no illusions about the amorous intentions of the wh...

  • Let's Get Lost

    Lawrence Block
    in

    I began writing about Matthew Scudder in the mid-1970s. The first novel, The Sins of the Fathers, appeared in 1975, and A Drop of the Hard Stuff -- the 17th and most recent -- was published in 2011. Over the years Scudder has also been featured in 11...

  • Inca

    Suzanne Alles Blom

    In the 1500s, Spanish Conquistadores sought to subjugate the Incan Empire and loot it of its gold. Among the Incas facing them was Atahualpa--Exemplary Fortune-the self-assured (some would say arrogant) son of the Incan Emperor. It is Atahualpa's t...

  • China Card

    Thomas Blood

    With the Russian economy in a shambles, and hard-line leaders in power, renegade KGB operatives steal the classified dossier on the Kremlin’s most carefully guarded operation, known as the “Red Locust” file. This ultra-secret document details t...

  • Edwina Victorious

    Susan Bonners


    A successful letter-writing campaign, with just a touch of deception.

    When Edwina's great-grandaunt and namesake decides to move to a nursing home, Edwina is recruited by her mom to help clean out her aunt's attic. There she discovers a ca...

  • Black Dog

    Stephen Booth

    As helicopters search Northern England's Peak District for fifteen-year-old Laura Vernon, Detective Constable Ben Cooper quietly dreads the worst. And when her body is found in the woods, Cooper's investigation begins with a short list of markedly un...

  • One-of-a-Kind Mallie

    Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

    Mallie is so tired of being an identical twin, she could scream! To everyone in Cedarville, she's just the second half of Hallie and Mallie, the adorable pair. Mother sews them matching dresses, and now their teacher has even assigned them the same p...

  • Weaver's Daughter

    Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

    It is 1791 in the Southwest Territory (now Tennessee), and Lizzy Baker loves her pioneer life. Her father is a farmer and her mother a weaver, and she and her sisters enjoy a hardworking life that is also filled with simple pleasures. Lizzy longs to ...

  • Best Friends

    Tom Brannon

  • One Fiancee to Go, Please

    Jackie Braun

    Appetizer Jack Maris was in a pickle. He needed a make-believe fiancee to introduce to his new boss. Luckily, he knew a lovely waitress who owed him a favor.... Entree Tess Donovan relished a distraction from her demanding life, the chance t...

  • Made in Spades

    Guy Brewer

    After a casual dalliance with a young woman in New Mexico, Dex Yancey discovers that her family -- the Espinoza clan -- have lost their wealth and are too proud to accept handouts. They are being besieged by a rowdy group of badmen employed by Englis...

  • Second Choices

    Shirley Brinkerhoff

    Having given her baby up for adoption, Nikki tries to explain her feelings about abortion to her classmates, while struggling with a relationship that may be leading her away from God and facing dangerous vandalism at school....

  • Return to No Man's Land

    Bill Brooks

    Bitter over the loss of his family and livelihood, Quint McCannon accepts a job from a chief of the Indian Police to undertake a suicide mission to stop the vicious Caddo Pierce and his gang of Native American outlaws, who have been cutting a deadly ...

  • Darkness Bound

    Larry Brooks

    Two strangers meet. A woman without inhibitions... a man without limits...for a private game between two consenting adults. They indulge in every secret fantasy, cross every boundary of sexual deviation. But one of them has a secret yet to be sha...

  • Country Mouse Cottage

    Nigel Brooks

  • Pony Express Christmas

    Sigmund Brouwer

    This heartwarming tale of a Pony Express rider and his encounter with a father and his boy in a blizzard on the prairie is sure to become a classic. A beautiful Christmas tale by well-known author Sigmund Brouwer in a gorgeous gift package....

  • Mission 1: Oxygen Level Zero

    Sigmund Brouwer

    THE SCIENCE station is in trouble. Oxygen is leaking out of the dome, and the scientists and tekkies are stumped. The next supply ship from Earth isn't due for days. Fourteen-year-old Tyce Sanders holds the key to the mystery. But will he discover it...

  • Mission 2: Alien Pursuit

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Set at an experimental community on Mars in the year 2039, the Mars Diaries feature 14-year-old virtual reality specialist Tyce Sanders. Life on the red planet is not always easy, but it is definitely exciting. As Tyce explores his strange surroundin...

  • Mission 3: Time Bomb

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Set at an experimental community on Mars in the year 2039, the Mars Diaries feature 14-year-old virtual reality specialist Tyce Sanders. Life on the red planet is not always easy, but it is definitely exciting. As Tyce explores his strange surroundin...

  • The Hatbox Baby

    Carrie Brown

  • Check the Lost and Found, My Mind is Missing!

    Toni Sorenson Brown

    SHIRLEY, YOU CAN DO IT!

    What do you get when you combine a mother, a wife, and a friend, with a helping of humor, a smidgen of self-help and a dash of dead-on wisdom? You get Shirley, a woman just like you: looking for answers, trying to stret...

  • Headstrong

    Bonnie Bryant

    The holidays are approaching. Carole Hanson and Lisa Atwood are discovering that romance can appear in unexpected places, while Stevie Lake is searching for the perfect gift for her boyfriend. With their attention focused elsewhere, none of them real...

  • The Persian Bride

    James Buchan

    Hailed as a masterpiece in Britain, this epic novel is at once a great love story, a riveting political thriller, and a profound analysis of modern Iran. It is the spring of 1974, and John Pitt, a young Englishman, sets off for the hippie East, stopp...

  • Storm Force

    Chris Bunch

    THERE'S MORE TO WAR THAN JUST COMBAT.... On the outer fringes of civilization, a lone military force must rebuild its ranks in order to keep the peace in a volatile star system. With no incoming communications from the Confederation Empire to guid...

  • Too Darn Hot

    Pamela Burford

    Tempting... Master chef Eric Reid can't think of a better word to describe Lina Holland. And if the lovely restaurant reviewer would just step this way, Eric intends to wow her with his finest culinary creations. After all, her review could make ...

  • Haunted by Desire

    Constance M. Burge

  • The Tycoon and the Schoolteacher

    Ludima Gus Burton

  • Don't Tell Anyone

    Frederick Busch

    Not since Raymond Carver has the soul of the American family been plumbed as eloquently or as poignantly. The hungers of love and the fear of time drive the men and women, sons and daughters in these stories to speak. Frederick Busch renders precisel...

  • The Gift of the Spoons

    Nancy Butler
    in

    Celebrate the most joyous of seasons with these original stories of holiday romance from five of today's most beloved award-winning Regency authors. Each tale is set on Christmas Eve, capturing the season's true spirit of charity and goodwill...

  • My Dog, My Hero

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    'My Hero' to Be Chosen: Eight finalists will compete tonight for the title My Hero. The winner will wear the coveted gold Hero medal. These brave and courageous dogs will each appear with their nominator who will tell their story. There's Smiley, who...

  • Love's Deception

    Adrianne Byrd

    True Lies As president of her family's successful conglomerate, Carissa Cartel thought she was willing to do anything to keep her company growing. But when her actions result in business rival Travis Edwards's heart attack, she finds that her attempt...

  • A Midnight Clear

    Lisa Cach
    in

    A Recipe for an Unforgettable Christmas of Love & Laughter Serves: Everyone Holly berries; 1 pair of enchanted spectacles; 4 couples; 8 lonely hearts; 1 fairy godmother; 1 miracle; Elves Take four heroines, created by some of Romance's hottest author...

  • Genesis Rider

    Will Cade

  • What's My Job?

    Lyn Calder

  • Fairyland Fables

    Rae Cameron

    The universal popularity of fairies never seems to fade. Since the first Fairyland Fables were published in the Woman's Weekly in January 1998, these stories about Maizey Belle, Hazel and their animal, human and fairy friends have won a devoted reade...

  • Fallen Star

    Joanna Campbell

    Has Star run his last race? Christina Reese and Wonder's Star are about to race at Belmont, one of the most prestigious tracks in the country. Christina is confident that she and Star are going to blow all the New York horses away. But when the ga...

  • Drip Drip Drip

    Kathy Caple

  • Biscuit's Christmas: A Scratch-and-Sniff Book

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

    Christmas is coming!

    The little girl knows just what needs to be done to get ready for Christmas -- choose a tree, back cookies, decorate the house -- but Biscuit is so excited he can't seem to sit still.

    Scratch and sniff the scents t...

  • Way to Wyatt's House

    Nancy White Carlstrom

    Two siblings quietly make their way through the woods and tall meadow grass to reach their friend Wyatt's house, where suddenly it turns into a loud and boisterous day of play until Daddy arrives to drive the sleepy children back home....

  • Last-Minute Marriage

    Marisa Carroll

    Riverbend...home of the River Rats -- a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days are good and some days aren't -- and that you ca...

  • The Third Woman

    William Cash

    The true story behind Graham Greene's classic novel The End of the Affair introduces the married woman who was the inspiration for the author's 1951novel, recently made into a film by Neil Jordan....

  • On a Wintry Morning

    Dori Chaconas

    A father and his infant daughter bundle up for a sleigh ride on a winter's morning, in a tender and engaging celebration of winter. By the illustrator of the Caldecott Honor book Alphabet City. ...

  • Legacy of Lies

    Elizabeth Chandler

    Something is haunting Megan.... She had seen Scarborough House only in her dreams. Now Megan was here, visiting the grandmother she'd never met, and her newfound cousin Matt, too handsome by far, who wanted her to disappear. Grandmother was so cold,...

  • Marooned With a Marine

    Maureen Child

    STORMY HEARTS A torrential hurricane stranded Karen Beckett in a tiny motel room with Gunnery Sergeant Sam Paretti, the one man she never wanted to see again! Just months before, Karen had severed all ties with the gorgeous marine -- but bitterswe...

  • A Plague of Angels

    P.F. Chisholm

    In 1592, dashing courtier Sir Robert Carey took up his northern post as Warden of the West March in order to escape the complications of creditors and court life. Trouble, however, dogs his heels wherever he goes. And where he goes in autumn, after t...

  • October Dreams

    Richard Chizmar

    Classic novellas, never-before-published stories, essays on the history, literature, and films of Halloween, and real-life memories of October 31st-from today's best practitioners of fear:

    Dean Koontz * Peter Straub * Poppy Z. Brite * Rick Hautala ...

  • Snowbound Sweetheart

    Judy Christenberry

    Spending the night with a sexy, bossy cowboy had not been Lindsay Crawford's idea! But when a storm left her snowbound with gruff Gil Daniels, she had to be practical. And though his kisses made her quite warm, nothing happened! Trouble was, Linds...

  • Clinical Trial

    April Christofferson

    The deadly hantavirus has killed dozens of Native Americans, so when a reputable pharmaceutical company claims to have developed a vaccine against the deadly disease, it should be good news. But when ImmuVac ask Dr. Isabel McLain to conduct a clinica...

  • Skateboard Renegade

    Matt Christopher

    Image isn't everything. Zach Halper loves skateboarding with his buddies. But lately, one of the guys, Brian, has been pressuring the others to do stuff Zach knows they shouldn't be doing. Yet Zach goes along, not only because he doesn't want to s...

  • Return to Lost City

    Scott Ciencin

    Young Andrew and Lian pay a return visit to their old friends in Lost City, a place that served for years as the secret home of a noble tribe of Troodon knights. When they arrive, they find that an elder Troodon has gone off on a crazy, Don Quixote-l...

  • Sometimes I Dream in Italian

    Rita Ciresi

    Angel Lupo grew up in a traditional Italian home -- an exclusive club where Mama’s word was everything ... and where nice girls saved themselves for marriage. All Angel wanted was to be movie-star blond, change her name, and get as much attention...

  • Tempting Mr. Wright

    Sue Civil-Brown

    A Dark and Stormy Night for Love Tess Morrow and Jack Wright have always struck sparks every time they're in the same room, but now, after years of successfully avoiding each other, they're trapped together by an unexpected hurricane and striking sp...

  • Never Preach Past Noon

    Edie Claire

    THE CRIMES THAT BIND Overworked advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow has a knack for discovering things she doesn't want to find. For example, she doesn't want to find out that her true love is dating her ravishing ex-lawyer. And she really...

  • Shadow Star

    Chris Claremont

    Elora Danan has in her possession two last dragon eggs...and the last hope of the world. To protect them, Elora spellbinds herself to her faithful companions Thorn Drumheller, the sorcerer and her sworn guardian, and Khory Bannefin, the woman warrior...

  • Haven't We Met Before?

    Mary Higgins Clark
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  • Deck the Halls

    Mary Higgins Clark; Carol Higgins

    In their first acclaimed work of collaboration, Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, and her daughter, bestselling author Carol Higgins Clark, create an exciting and entertaining story of a holiday kidnapping.Three days before Christmas, Regan ...

  • A Thing of Beauty

    Casey Claybourne

    Belinda Croft had never been accepted into high society -- having sacrificed fashion and frivolity for science and education. When Sissy, her birdbrained cousin, appears before the first big ball of the season with a blemish, Belinda applies a simple...

  • The Nanny Proposal

    Donna Clayton

    "SHE'S YOURS." Two handwritten words changed Dr. Greg Hamilton's playboy lifestyle forever. From the moment he found his baby girl on the doorstep, she held his heart in her tiny hands. Juggling fatherhood and a busy practice wasn't easy -- so wh...

  • The Mouse Family

    Andrew Clements

  • The Christmas Kitten

    Andrew Clements

  • Sheltie Finds A Friend

    Peter Clover

    SHELTIE The Little Pony with the Big Heart!

    Sheltie is very happy when Mudlark, Marjorie Wallace's donkey, comes to stay. But one morning Mudlark disappears. Only Sheltie seems to know what has happened to him. Will he and Emma be able...

  • A Night in the Manchester Store

    Stanley Cohen
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  • Susannah's Secret

    Kim Comeaux / Kimberley Comeaux

    In Springton, Texas, a confessed secret brings the sawmill owner and the schoolteacher together after month of family feuding. Susannah Butler is crushed when Bobby Joe Aaron offers her only a marriage of convenience for the sake of his daughter, but...

  • The Happiest Days

    Cressida Connolly

    Even happy days come to an end. In this remarkable collection, Cressida Connolly explores the lives of children and young people who find themselves split in two. A conversation on a trip to the zoo heralds the end of a family; a boy watches his fath...

  • Glory

    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. On the run from a no-good scoundrel, Glor...

  • The Blanchland Secret

    Nicola Cornick

    Prim and proper Sarah Sheridan sought to live a respectable life as her cousin's companion, trying to put her family's past behind her. But everything changed with a letter insisting on her return to Blanchland. For her childhood home was now...

  • The Last Precinct

    Patricia Cornwell

    Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh-glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders ...

  • Hangman's Choice

    Ralph Cotton

    Two men on opposite sides of the law--Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart and con man and gambler Charlie Sims--find themselves with similar goals as they pursue their own individual quests for vengeance against a ruthless outlaw gang called "Los Pistoleros...

  • The Willful Miss Winthrop

    Wilma Counts

    AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN Braving the censure of the ton, Cymberly Winthrop decides to follow the drum by joining her father, Colonel Charles Winthrop, in Portugal. No sooner is Cymberly in Lisbon than she witnesses a handsome man rescuing a drowning chi...

  • Frankenbug

    Steven Cousins

  • Cooking Up Trouble

    Emma Craig

    Heather Mahaffey is a beauty, true, and clever, but her father has a tendency to run off at the mouth. And that could land a girl in a whole mess of problems -- especially when he is praising her to the wealthiest rancher around, telling him that she...

  • The Dream Spinner

    Gail Crease

    SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW Leaving behind the corporate rat race of New York City, Kate Pedigrew has discovered her calling as a stained glass artist in Montpelier, Vermont. She has spent most of her savings renovating the old church that's beco...

  • The Refuge

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Nestled in the Colorado Rockies, the Wainscott Ranch is a place of hope and promise for expectant mothers from war-torn regions of the globe. Here, women with nowhere to go, and no one to help them, find refuge. Though raised in a life of privileg...

  • My Dog, Cat

    Marty Crisp

  • Turtle Island Dreaming

    Thompson Sayer Crockett

    A life-changing debut novel, Turtle Island Dreaming is the inspirational story of a woman's journey across a magical island of self-discovery....

  • Robert Crowther's Amazing Pop-Up House of Inventions

    Robert Crowther

    From closets that open to rugs that lift, this boldly illustrated pop-up book provides a three-dimensional look at the inner workings of home and includes more than sixty flaps and tabs and three-hundred household facts....

  • Matilda Bone

    Karen Cushman

    She treats me like a kitchenmaid, thought Matilda. As if I am fit for nothing but measuring and brewing. Why, I know Latin and French and some Greek, as well as reading and writing and figuring. I can name the three wise men, the seven deadly sins, a...

  • Bear's Christmas Star

    Mireille d'Allance

    When Papa removes him from the job of trimming the tree because he is too small to reach, Bear gets upset and runs into his room, yet Papa comes up with the perfect task and asks his son to lend him a hand, in a touching holiday tale....

  • The Alpine Menace

    Mary Daheim

    KILLING COUSIN For once, Emma Lord, editor-publisher of The Alpine Advocate, isn't thrilled by having an inside track. The Seattle murder of Alpine native Carol Stokes is generating headlines, but the accused killer is Emma's long-lost cousin Ronn...

  • Every Square Inch

    Claudia Dain
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    Naughty or Nice? Sometimes the best things don't come in small packages. Sometimes a girl has visions of more than sugarplums in her head. Sometimes we're dreaming of something a lot steamier than a white Christmas. For every woman who has better...

  • Snowy the Surprise Puppy

    Jenny Dale

  • Billy the Brave Puppy

    Jenny Dale

  • Star Paws

    Jenny Dale

    Thrilled that their favorite TV show will be filming at a local castle, Neil and Emily look forward to meeting cocker spaniel Prince, the star, but the problems begin when Prince misbehaves in front of the camera....

  • Alice's Tulips

    Sandra Dallas

    Alice Bullock is a young newlywed whose husband, Charlie, has just joined the Union Army, leaving her on his Iowa farm with only his formidable mother for company. Alice writes lively letters to her sister filled with accounts of local quilting bees,...

  • Whalestoe Letters

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this c...

  • The Agent's Secret Child

    B.J. Daniels

    THE MISSION: FIND MOTHER AND CHILD Finding Isabella Montenegro and her young daughter and bringing them back to testify should have been easy. But one look at Isabella and Texas Confidential Agent Jake Cantrell remembered a woman he'd cherished......

  • Mail-Order Groom

    Peggy Daniels

    SHE WANTED A TEMPORARY MARRIAGE Her heart twice broken, Megan Kittridge had given up on love, but she refused to give up on the Circle K Ranch. Her grandfather's will stipulated that she needed a husband to keep it, so she would find one--temporaril...

  • Raising Baby Jane

    Lilian Darcy

    Connor Callahan had just met Allie Todd, but he immediately felt an overwhelming need to protect her. And to understand why she turned to ice whenever she held her baby niece. He sensed that beautiful Allie was weathering her own storm -- one even fi...

  • By The Sabarmati

    Esther David

  • Obsession

    Kay David

    What would you do for your kids? Emma Toussaint would do anything -- or so she's always thought. She needs money -- lots of it -- to regain custody, and then one day, opportunity comes knocking. All she has to do is break the law. What would yo...

  • Out of the Darkness

    Peter David

    Centauri Prime declares war on the Interstellar Alliance in Book Three of the epic trilogy that continues Babylon 5's brilliant legacy . . . Blind to the fact that he is a pawn in the Drakh's deadly strategy, Centauri prime minister Durla launches...

  • One Christmas Wish: Wish Upon a Star

    Carolyn Davidson
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    A child's Christmas wish for a mother sends his father on a determined quest for the nanny he has come to love as much as his son has....

  • Hank's Tale

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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  • The Return of Luke McGuire

    Justine Davis

    YOU ALWAYS WANT... Luke McGuire was everything shy Amelia Blair had been fascinated by as a girl but too terrified to go near. And now here she was, the only person in the whole town decent enough to give him the time of day, caring enough to stand ...

  • Cinda's Surprise

    Mary Eileen Davis

    Cinda Harris tells herself she is content to be single. But her well-intentioned friends set her up as a mail-order bride. She knows nothing of the engagement until the day her groom, Lucas Rawlings, shows up to seal their agreement with wedding vows...

  • A Cowboy for Christmas

    Anna De Forest

    Christmas promised to be anything but merry for Robin Matthews, who was waging a losing battle to keep her ranch and her family together. So when rugged Nathaniel Hollister grudgingly agreed to help her run the Rocking M, temporarily, she believed sh...

  • Fortune's Secret Child

    Shawna Delacorte

    DADDY BY SURPRISE... On a sultry midnight eve, Dr. Shane Fortune came face-to-face with his past. For his "intruder" was the woman he'd once loved but foolishly let go. Now Cynthia McCree and her son were his reluctant houseguests. Her reasons for...

  • Angel Bites the Bullet

    Judy Delton

    What does a ten-year-old girl do when her mother’s best friend moves into her room -- beauty products, sheepdog, pantyhose, and all? Angel springs into action, looking for a man to marry Alyce and take her away, out of Angel’s hair, house, and ...

  • One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: the Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York, 1938

    Barry Denenberg

  • Dead Easy

    Phillip Depoy

    SHE LIED. HE KNOWS. SOMETIMES THE TRUTH CAN KILL. Threatening notes. Grisly packages promising worse to come. On a dark street outside a nightclub called Easy, a man is gunned down--by a handsome killer everyone thought was dead. Someone is stalki...

  • Adams Fall

    Sean Desmond


    With the fall of his senior year at the College upon him, the nameless protagonist of Adams Fall finds himself under the great strain of senior year with a thesis to write, a Marshall to apply for, and a girlfriend to elude. It is a full, but man...

  • Temptation

    Jude Deveraux

    New York City, 1909: A woman ahead of her time, Temperance O'Neil is happily married to her work -- helping single mothers on the city streets -- which she funds with her inheritance. When her disapproving stepfather, Angus McCairn, cuts off her...

  • Santa Steps Out

    Robert Devereaux

    His generosity is legendary. He has a devoted wife, a crack team of sky-borne reindeer, hordes of industrious elves, and the love of good little boys and girls around the globe. But what dark desire now propels him into the lascivious clutches of a c...

  • The Pleasure Game

    Thea Devine
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    When Regina Olney learns that longtime friend, Jeremy Gavage, is devising a scheme to thwart her plans of pursuing a notorious rake, she seeks revenge by playing a wickedly sensuous game of searing passion....

  • Crispin: The Pig Who Had It All

    Ted Dewan

    What do you get someone who has everything? Crispin Tamworth is about to find out. Crispin is the pig who has it all. And each Christmas he gets even more. But his toys always break or become boring. This year Santa has left Crispin a mysterious box ...

  • Always Her Hero

    Adrienne DeWolfe

    THE MAN SHE COULDN'T FORGET... He was the strong, sexy hero who rescued her from an outlaw, then rode off before she discovered his identity. Eden Mallory has never forgotten the rugged stranger whose strong arms offered her comfort one night. B...

  • The Bachelor Dads of Nowhere Junction: Designer Genes

    Jacqueline Diamond

    On size fits all...? Carter Murchison still dreams about a mystery lady he met in L.A. who asked him to make a donation.... At the time, he thought she wanted money! A year and a half later, she shows up in Nowhere Junction...with a baby! His baby...

  • Batman beyond: Return of the Joker - the Official Screenplay

    Paul Dini

  • Rules of Engagement

    Christina Dodd

    The Rules of Engagement: Choose a bride from this year's debutantes. Decide on a proper settlement. Send an announcement to The Times. Inform the bride of her good fortune. Rules of Respectability Devon Mathewes, earl of Kerrich, has a plan...

  • My Man

    Tina Donahue

    Walker Kandy is up to his Stetson in trouble. His younger brother just sold off part of the family ranch to a woman -- and Alice Tanner is blond, beautiful, and smart as a whip. Her seductive presence has the ranch hands all stirred up, and that goes...

  • Pebble and a Pen

    Joan Donaldson

  • Monkey See, Doggy Do

    Laura Dower

    Mojo Jojo turns all the people of Townsville into obedient dogs, and it's up to the Powerpuff Girls--or rather Pups--Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, to figure out a way to stop him before the whole world goes to the dogs....

  • Paste Makes Waste

    Laura Dower

    Buttercup likes to torment Elmer Sglue, who eats paste, until one day Elmer turns into a monster out to destroy the town, and only Buttercup can stop him--by finding the courage to say she is sorry for the way she treated him....

  • When Darkness Falls

    Shannon Drake

    WHEN DARKNESS FALLS... In a windswept Scottish cemetery, Jade MacGregor's carefree vacation abroad is marred by a seemingly random tragedy. A year later, back home on a shadowy French Quarter street, she glimpses an oddly familiar face. Coincidence--...

  • Honor Blade

    Diane Duane

    At last, the United Federation of Planets and the Romulan Star Empire have agreed to meet on neutral ground to attempt to resolve the tangle of intrigue and conspiracy that began with the hijacking of the U.S.S. Intrepid many years ago -- but the mee...

  • Swordhunt

    Diane Duane

    The sword was the ultimate symbol of Romulan power, tradition, and pride. It lay in the Senate Chamber of the Romulan Star Empire, revered and untouched for centuries, until the day Dr. Leonard McCoy was tried for treason -- and both were stolen duri...

  • The Brave Little Tailor

    Olga Dugina

  • A Little Office Romance

    Michele Dunaway

    Dossier for Julia Brown, a.k.a. "The Tantalizing Temp": Her Target: Alex Ravenwood, devil-may-care millionaire. Her Mission: Pose as "ugly duckling" executive assistant, all the while sabotaging ploys by beautiful barracudas ready to devour the...

  • Sky of Swords

    Dave Duncan

    The mightiest swordsmen in the realm, they are bound by magic to defend their noble wards... to the death. THE KING'S BLADES The unloved child of the unscrupulous King Ambrose, Princess Malinda learned at an early age to fight for what was righ...

  • Crooked House

    Dave Duncan

    Sir Stalwart and Emerald, a White Sister, join forces with Badger, an apprentice Blade-in-training, to journey to Smealey Hall to investigate the mysterious death of the king's friend Digby in the middle of a royal ceremony. Original....

  • Bear Noel

    Olivier Dunrea

    A story for lovers of animals, art, and holiday harmonyAs Christmas approaches, the animals of the north woods tremble with excitement. Bear Noel is coming! He strides toward them with his gift-laden sack, while they roll and romp in the snow,...

  • So Far Back

    Pam Durban

    Sixty-year-old Louisa Hilliard--the last descendent of one of Charleston's oldest and most prominent families -- is caring for her ailing mother. An upright, unmarried spinster, Louisa has spent her life looking after others. In the aftermath of a ...

  • Sergeant Sniff's Christmas Surprise

    Julie Durrell

    How do you solve a mystery? Sergeant Sniff sniffs, and she follows her nose!

    Sergeant Sniff knows she can't open the present under the tree before Christmas Day, but nobody said anything about sniffing out the mystery of what's inside! Children wi...

  • The Anglo-Irish Murders

    Ruth Dudley Edwards

    Foolishly, the British and Irish governments have chosen the tactless and impatient Baroness Troutbeck to chair a conference on Anglo-Irish cultural sensitivities. She instantly press-gangs Robert Amiss, her young friend and reluctant accomplice, int...

  • Love of My Life

    Elizabeth Eliot

    "JUST SIGN AT THE X..." The deliveryman isn't looking for Cassidy Maxwell, female corporate CPA. He's seeking the coincidentally named Maxwell Cassidy, laid-back computer genius -- and a first-class pack rat. By the time Cassidy sorts out the mi...

  • The Magic Kingdom

    Stanley Elkin

     “Among Mr. Elkin’s best works of fiction . . . A comedy that cuts so many ways that it leaves us bleeding with laughter.” —The New York Times Eddy Bale’s twelve-year-old son died after a terrible, drawn-out il...

  • Child of Flame

    Kate Elliott

    PERILOUS PATHWAYS THROUGH TIME Far beyond the borders of Wendar and Varre, Alain, Liath, Sanglant, and King Henry must make their separate journeys, following twisting roads which will nevertheless lead them all to one fated moment in time.... ...

  • Loving Graham Greene

    Gloria Emerson

    This marvelous debut novel by former New York Times correspondent and National Book Award--winner Gloria Emerson is a witty and deeply affecting portrait of the stubborn hopes and disillusionment of a privileged woman who dreams of making a differenc...

  • Meet Me at Midnight

    Suzanne Enoch

    A MOST UNEXPECTED MARRIAGE Victoria Fontaine's mischievous nature and brilliant, biting wit have scandalized the ton...and earned her the nickname "Vixen." But her reputation pales before the infamous Lord Althorpe's, known as "Lord Sin." The year...

  • Lost in Time

    Hans Magnus Enzensberger

    In this innovative time-travel tale, Enzensberger treats history with the same wit, knowledge, adn charm that he broght to mathematics in The Number Devil.

    When fourteen-year-old Robert blinks, he is pulled into the place and time of whatever ...

  • Last Spring

    Abraham Eraly

  • The Case of the Raging Rottweiler

    John R. Erickson

    There’s a raging rottweiler named Bruiser loose on the ranch, and it’s up to Hank to teach this visiting pooch some manners. It’s rumored that Bruiser is all talk and no action. However, when he attacks a defenseless fawn, Hank’s not so sure....

  • The Case of the Theater Phantom

    Vicki Erwin / Vicki Berger Erwin

    When Scooby and the gang dress up for a night out at the Palace Theater, they expect to meet stars -- but not a phantom! Jinkies, if the mystery isn't solved quickly, the show may close before it opens. Find the clues and suspects and answer the...

  • A Home for the Holidays

    Leslie Esdaile
    in

    An Indigo holiday anthology by four of the most accomplished authors writing African-American romance today. Rumor, folklore, town gossip? No one knows for certain. Perhaps you will discover the magic of love for yourself...upon a Midnight Clear....

  • Longarm on a Bloody Vendetta

    Tabor Evans

    THE BLOOD-SPATTERED BRIDE Custis Long's about to get hitched to an upstanding lady who's got a fine young son. With this ready-made family he's looking to settle down as a Colorado cattle rancher. Too good to last? You bet. She just ate lead during ...

  • The Family Orchard

    Nomi Eve

    In the bestselling tradition of The Red Tent, The Family Orchard is a spellbinding novel of one unforgettable family, the orchard they've tended for generations, and a love story that transcends the ages.Nomi Eve's lavishly imagined account begins in...

  • Bloodroot

    Aaron Roy Even

    In 1936, in a small town near Charlottesville, Virginia, an aging black caretaker and his sister shot dead a white sheriff acting on orders to turn them off their land. Bloodroot explores the circumstances leading up to the violent standoff as seen t...

  • Raise the Devil

    Terence Faherty

    How do you stop a vicious killer whose motive is vengeance and whose prey is a movie company on an isolated California ranch? In 1962, Scott Elliott, top operative of Hollywood Security, problem solvers of last resort, travels to Las Vegas to rescu...

  • Olivia

    Ian Falconer

    Have fun with Olivia... dressing up singing songs building sand castles napping (maybe) dancing painting on walls and -- whew! -- going to sleep at last.Everyone's favorite Caldecott Honor-winning porcine diva is now available as an eBook w...

  • Reckless Miss Ripley

    Diane Farr
    in

    Celebrate the most joyous of seasons with these original stories of holiday romance from five of today's most beloved award-winning Regency authors. Each tale is set on Christmas Eve, capturing the season's true spirit of charity and goodwill...

  • Once Upon a Christmas

    Diane Farr

    Home for the Holidays After a tragic loss, Celia Delacourt faces the daunting prospect of a lonely life as a governess ... or worse. Then her distant cousin, the Duchess of Delacourt, arrives on her doorstep, inviting her to spend Christmas on the...

  • Tempting Zack

    Colleen Faulkner

    SHE'S FALLEN FOR A MAN... New in town, Doctor Kayla Burns is instantly charmed by her pint-sized patient Savannah Taylor. The little girl's rugged, earthy dad is just as irresistible as his daughter, except for one major detail: Zack Taylor wants n...

  • Dead in the Pumpkin Patch

    Connie Feddersen

    This Halloween, savvy CPA and amateur sleuth Amanda Hazard is expecting her own little treat. But somebody in town is playing some very nasty tricks... A LITTLE PUMPKIN ON THE WAY With her due date only two weeks away, Amanda is ready to do nothi...

  • A Brother's Honor

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A family scattered to the winds by the French Revolution struggles to find its destiny in a Europe threatened by Napoleon. Two sisters and a brother, separated as children, raised as strangers, discover the crest of the thunderbolt is the only clue t...

  • A Christmas Bride

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    'TIS THE SEASON... ...TO FALL IN LOVE Fearing he will be disinherited, Timothy Crawford has promised his grandfather that he will bring his fiancee to his seventieth birthday celebration. But Timothy is not engaged at all! Yet fate appear...

  • Marrying Jezebel

    Hillary Fields

    AS MIGHTY AS THE PYRAMIDS When the peerless and unflappable Rafe Sunderland, Duke of Ravenhurst, discovers he has inherited -- of all things -- a ward, he decides to simply locate the troublesome girl, bring her to London, and marry her off. That ...