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  • Diane Goode's Book of Silly Stories & Songs

    Diane Goode

    A hilarious international collection of tall tales, folktales, and songs follows the merry antics, misadventures, and mishaps of fools, bunglers, bumblers, and other silly characters from around the world....

  • Cat and the Fiddle and More

    Jim Aylesworth

  • Say Woof!

    Gail Gibbons

    Full-color illustrations follow a day in the life of a country veterinarian as he deals with examinations, innoculations, and emergencies at his office; makes rounds in his truck; and returns to his office to check his patients....

  • Benjamins Three Hundred Sixty-Five Birthdays

    Judi Barrett

  • When I'm Hungry

    Jane R. Howard

  • Stay Away from the Junkyard!

    Tricia Tusa

    "Stay away form the junkyard!" warn all the grown-ups in Jasper.But why? Theo wonders. What is so terrible that's lurking at the junkyard? But after some exploration of her own, Theo discovers that the junkyard is no place to be feared...in fact, it ...

  • One Gift Deserves Another

    Joanne F. Oppenheim

  • Lucy's Winter Tale

    Amy Ehrlich

  • The Horrors of Howling Hall

    Skip Skwarek

  • Country Dawn to Dusk

    Riki Levinson

    A poetic portrait of a day in the life of a country girl follows a child as she eats her breakfast, runs out to the bus, studies in school, plays at recess, and enjoys a quiet evening with her family....

  • Fish Soup

    Ursula K. Le Guin

    Best friends, the Thinking Man of Moha and the Writing Woman of Maho believe that it would be convenient to have a child who could run messages between them, but the magical children that they conujure up are not quite what they had expected...

  • Go Ask Giorgio!

    Patricia Wittman

  • The Huron Carol

    Jean De Brebeuf

  • Malkeh and Her Children

    Marjorie Edelson

    Richly plotted, animated by beautifully realized characters, and steeped in magnificent old-world detail, Malkeh and Her Children is the captivating epic of the remarkable Mandelkern family as they weather the storm of the Russian Revolution. At the ...

  • Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offense

    Martin Amis

    In this icy, knife’s-edge story of a life that progresses backward through time, unfolding into one of the darkest episodes of the 20th century, Amis (“at his intriguing, heedful, and powerful best” -- Time Out), finds a chillingly origin...

  • Songs for a Merry Christmas

    Kevin Roth

  • Jesus' Christmas Party

    Nicholas Allan

    The innkeeper in Bethlehem recounts the story of the first Christmas from his own perspective as he complains about not being able to get to sleep because of all the knocks on his door, until a chorus of angels lead him to the stable to discover what...

  • The Twelve Days of Christmas

    John Speirs

    Each verse of this traditional Christmas carol features a heart-shaped punch-out ornament depicting the gifts mentioned in the verse--five golden rings, four calling birds, and, of course, a partridge in a pear tree. Original....

  • Puppy Mitten's Present

    Judith H. Blau

  • Kitten Mitten's Stocking

    Judith H. Blau

  • Diane Goode's Christmas Magic

    Diane Goode

  • Christmastime at Santa's Workshop

    Peggy Kahn

    Illustrated in full color. With pop-up fun and bouncing rhyme, here's a sheer delight for Christmastime!  Santa, Mrs. Claus, and all the elves are as busy as ever getting ready for the holidays.  They're baking cookies, making toys, and filling o...

  • Jamal and the Angel

    Anita Rodriguez

  • Pop Goes the Santa!

    Joe Mathieu

  • End of Winter

    Sharon Chmielarz

    When winter refuses to leave a little village, the townspeople try everything to scare it away, but it is not until wise Hans' plan, using hay, straw, and an old wagon, that a taste of green spring appears...

  • The Christmas Box

    Joanne Stewart Wetzel

  • Little Angels

    Lesley Anne Ivory

  • Flatfoot Fox and the Case of the Nosy Otter

    Brian Lies

  • Day Hans Got His Way

    David Lewis Atwell

  • Peddler's Dream

    Janice Shefelman

  • The Gift

    Kirk Douglas

    Patricia Dennison's life is a chain of melodramatic events on the disastrous scale of the Titanic. Terrorists have executed her father on a passenger plane. She has inherited a multibillion-dollar empire that she doesn't want, & whose directors a...

  • Pigs from 1 to 10

    Arthur Geisert

    In this unusual and entertaining counting book, ten pig siblings embark on new adventures. Ac-companying each adventure is an etching containing the numbers 0 to 9, as well as the ten piglets hidden within....

  • Just Not the Same

    Addie Lacoe

  • Moon Was Tired of Walking on Air

    Natalia M. Belting

  • On the Riverbank

    Charles Temple

  • The Yom Kippur Murder

    Lee Harris

    DAY OF JUDGMENT Ex-nun Chris Bennett can’t leave all of her charitable instincts behind, even if she has left the convent. But she'll need more than kindness when she begins helping three elderly people fight a harassing landlord on Manhattan's We...

  • Dangerous Mourning

    Anne Perry

    No breath of scandal has ever touched the aristocratic Moidore family--until Sir Basil's beautiful widowed daughter is stabbed to death in her own bed, a shocking, incomprehensible tragedy. Inspector William Monk is ordered to find her killer with...

  • Coverup

    Jay Bennett

    "Quick and fun with a satisfying resolution."
    VOYA
    All Brad remembers about that party was that his friend Alden Whitlock drove him home. He also has the nagging feeling that while he was sleeping in the passenger seat, Alden hit something--or ...

  • The Guns of the South

    Harry Turtledove

    January 1864-General Robert E. Lee faces defeat. The Army of Northern Virginia is ragged and ill-equipped. Gettysburg has broken the back of the Confederacy and decimated its manpower. Then Andries Rhoodie, a strange man with an unplaceable accent...

  • Thomas' Big Railway Pop-up Book

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Boo! It's Halloween

    Wendy Watson

  • Don't Wake Up Mama!

    Eileen Christelow

    �"The five little monkeys are back, this time eager to bake a cake for their mother’s birthday. As she sleeps in blissful ignorance, the children demolish the kitchen, and the smoking cake attracts the fire department. She sleeps through the clamor...

  • Dorrie and the Haunted Schoolhouse

    Patricia Coombs

  • How a Shirt Grew in the Field

    Konstantin Ushinsky

    Curious about where the cloth for his shirt comes from, Vasya watches as his father sows flax seeds, the flax seeds sprout and grow, and the plants are harvested and made into cloth by his mother and sisters....

  • Fields and the Hills: The Journey, Once Begun

    Harald Bakken

    Considered a witch for his extraordinary powers of sight and hearing, thirteen-year-old Weyr sets off on his own and is drawn into the lives of the Agari, a people feared and hated by Weyr's own Tamish village....

  • The Creators

    Daniel J. Boorstin

    By piecing the lives of selected individuals into a grand mosaic, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Daniel J. Boorstin explores the development of artistic innovation over 3,000 years. A hugely ambitious chronicle of the arts that Boorstin delivers wi...

  • City Seen from A to Z

    Rachel Isadora

    Look into the very core of the Big Apple. What do you see? Skyscrapers and subways, park benches and beach chairs, and adults and children--playing, laughing, working, and living together in the city.

    ...

  • Pat-a-Cake

    Joanna Cole

    What's the first game you ever learned? Chances are it wasn't hide-and-seek but pat-a-cake, the traditional play rhyme. This brand-new collection features step-by-step instructions for playing pat-a-cake and twenty-five other favorites. "A perfect gi...

  • Vanishing Points

    Thea Astley

    In The Genteel Poverty Bus Company, a lone man foils the capitalistic efforts of a developer-magnate, and the same developer's wife leaves her fat-cat husband for a mission at Bukki Bay in Inventing the Weather. ...

  • Wolf Plays Alone

    Dominic Catalano

  • Feathers and Tails

    Nonny Hogrogian

  • Chancay and the Secret of Fire

    Donald Charles

    In an original folktale inspired by an ancient Peruvian tapestry and accented with illustrations based on the motifs of preColumbian art, Chancay must face three perilous trials in order to win the gift of fire for his people....

  • At the Movies

    Catherine Daly

  • I Spy

    Lucy Micklethwait

    "I spy with my little eye something beginning with A..." Even the very youngest art lovers can spy out the apple in Magritte's Son of Man through the zigzags in de Geest's Portrait of a Child. Interact with twenty-six of the world's greatest paint...

  • Newf

    Marie Killilea

    In a deserted cottage near the sea, a huge, black Newfoundland dog makes friends with a scraggly little kitten, but the harsh storms of winter threaten to separate the two. By the author of Karen. ...

  • Monster in the Garage

    Francesca Hughes

  • Ruby to the Rescue

    Maggie Glen

    While attending school with Susie, Ruby, the teddy bear, discovers the plight of Anyone's Bears, much-abused toys that live in the playhouse, and comes up with a scheme to get her new friends out of the playhouse and into the arms of someone who will...

  • Maurai & Kith

    Poul Anderson

    The bestselling author of such classic novels as Brain Wave and The Boat of a Million Years, Poul Anderson won just about every award the science fiction and fantasy field has to offer. He has won multiple Hugos and Nebulas, the John W. Campbell Awar...

  • Flux: Tales of Human Futures

    Orson Scott Card

    Here are seven tales of the possible futures open to humanity, including Card's brilliant story, "The Originist," set with permission in Isaac Asimov's Foundation universe....

  • The Shadow Rising

    Robert Jordan

    The seals of Shayol Ghul are weak now, and the Dark One reaches out. The Shadow is rising to cover humankind. In Tar Valon, Min sees portents of hideous doom. Will the White Tower itself be broken? In the Two Rivers, the Whitecloaks ride in pursuit ...

  • The Initiation

    L.J. Smith

    THE CIRCLE'S POWER HAS LURED HER HOME Alone, Cassie must confront a shattering challenge: an ordeal that could cost her life or gain her more than she's ever imagined.... Seduced by the Secret Circle, she's initiated into the mysterious "in cr...

  • In The Form Of A Person

    Ann Pyne

  • Working Cotton

    Sherley Anne Williams

    This child’s view of the long day’s work in the cotton fields, simply expressed in a poet’s resonant language, is a fresh and stirring look at migrant family life. “With its restrained poetic text and impressionist paintings, this is a pictur...

  • Gonna Sing My Head Off!

    Kathleen Krull

    A compilation of sixty-two favorite folk songs spanning two hundred years of American musical history encompasses the complete lyrics and musical arrangements for "Home on the Range," "Joe Hill," and "This Land Is Your Land." Children's BOMC. All ...

  • The Adventures of Ralphie the Roach

    Paulina Porizkova

  • Just Me and My Cousin

    Mercer Mayer

  • The Beginning of the Affair

    Marjorie Lewty

    Philippa Price was no man's slave! Philippa vowed that she'd never again be "manipulated and pushed around" by the men in her life. Which was why she told Bart Marchant, the attractive consultant her brother had hired against her w...

  • Private Lives

    Carole Mortimer

    NOTHING BUT TROUBLE Fin McKenzie dealt expertly with problems that arose in her domestic help agency--finding a naked man fast asleep in bed was no exception. From the tip of his toes to the wide expanse of his chest he was beautiful. As was his r...

  • Quarantine

    Greg Egan

    It causes riots and religions. It has people dancing in the streets and leaping off skyscrapers. And it's all because of the impenetrable gray shield that slid into place around the solar system on the night of November 15, 2034.

    Some see th...

  • Let's Fly from A to Z

    Doug Magee

  • Hungry Little Frog

    Ron Hirschi

  • The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon

    Tom Spanbauer

    The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon is an American epic of the old West for our own times -- a novel huge in its imaginative scope and daring in its themes. The narrator is Shed, or Duivichi-un-Dua, a half-breed bisexual boy who makes his livin...

  • The Cat Who Wasn't There

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Qwill's on his way to Scotland--and on his way to solving another purr-plexing mystery. But this time Kokds nowhere near the scene of the crime. He and Yum Yum are back in Pickax being coddled by a catsitter...but Koko wont sit still once Qwill's tra...

  • A Tower for the Summer Heat

    Li Yu

  • Just Like Martin

    Ossie Davis

    The actor-playwright tells the story of a boy growing up in Alabama in 1963, a youngster who becomes torn between his idol, Dr Martin Luther King, and his father, a Korean War veteran who believes in fighting fire with fire....

  • Mr. Mcmouse

    Leo Lionni

  • Nobody's Mother Is in Second Grade

    Robin Pulver

  • Door Bell

    Jan Pienkowski

  • Little Eight John

    Jan Wahl

    Despite his mother's warning that kicking at the toad frogs will bring him bad luck, Little Eight John does so anyway and then is shocked when trouble comes looking for him, in a lively folktale from rural North Carolina....

  • Calico and Tin Horns

    Candace Christiansen

    Hannah's parents think that she is too young to be involved in their resistance against their unfair landlord, until the sheriff's posse comes after her father and Hannah is able to sound the warning signal...

  • In the Deep Dark Dungeon

    Skip Skwarek

  • The Weirdies of Wailing Wood

    Skip Skwarek

  • The Ghost Family Meets Its Match

    Nicole Rubel

    When the fearless Merry family moves into the house that the Ghost Family is used to haunting, the members of the Ghost Family do their best to scare them, and then concede that they have met their match....

  • On the Edge of the Sea

    Betty Paraskevas

  • Thomas the Tank Engine and the Tractor

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Henry the Green Engine and the Tunnel

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Percy Takes the Plunge

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Thomas the Tank Engine Goes Fishing

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Nadia the Willful

    Sue Alexander

  • The ABCs of Angels

    Donna S. Gates

    Welcome to a wonderful world, where angels gently whsiper in our ear, showing us the extraordinary powers of laughter and healing, and inspiration and wisdom, unity and peace. THE ABCs of ANGELS is for both children and adults, a tender reminder that...

  • Amazing Rescues

    George Shea

    Illus. in full color. "A skydiving collision and rescue in midair; a girl snatched from the jaws of an alligator; a toddler saved after falling down an abandoned well: the three exciting true rescue stories in this title are told with realistic detai...

  • Ghost Train: A Spooky Hologram Book

    Stephen Wyllie

    After frightening everyone away from Ravenswick Castle, three gruesome ghosts--Headless Hector, the Gray Lady, and the Silver Skeleton--search for a new place to haunt, in a scary ghost story featuring ghoulish hologram illustrations....

  • Like Water for Chocolate

    Laura Esquivel

    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Earthy, magical, and utterly charming, this tale of family life in turn-of-the-century Mexico blends poignant romance, bittersweet wit, and delicious recipes. This classic love story takes place on the De la Garza ranch, ...

  • The Elephant's Wrestling Match

    Judy Sierra

  • The Secret History

    Donna Tartt

    Richard Papen had never been to New England before his nineteenth year. Then he arrived at Hampden College and quickly became seduced by the sweet, dark rhythms of campus life--in particular by an elite group of five students, Greek scholars, worldly...

  • Frenchman

    Knox Gordon

    Assigned to track down and terminate a black-market kingpin who moonlights as an assassin for the enemy, Special Forces agent Reese discovers that a leak in the Company could endanger his mission. Original....

  • Confession

    Lori Herter

    Undying Pleasure Harriet had never truly craved physical love--nor had she desired any other man except her husband. Until David de Morrissey swept her away... Brilliant and darkly handsome, he came to her as a confidant to her loneliness. But what ...

  • Beginner's Luck

    Jack Bodine

    Robbed shortly after arriving in lawless Titusville, Duane Braddock, the monastery-raised bastard son of an outlaw and a prostitute, must learn to ride a horse, shoot a gun, and defend himself against outlaws and ladies. Original....

  • Gold Rush Revenge

    Jess McCreede

    KILLIN' FIELDS For nigh on twenty years, Jim Dawson made his own way in the tough terrain of the Rocky Mountains. Trapper, scout, trailblazer, he reckoned he'd done his share of hardlivin' and aimed to settle on something a mite easier. So, when a w...

  • Golden Gate Killers

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams is in San Francisco for one reason -- poker. It's a high stakes game that only comes to town twice a year, and he figures to take his share of the pot. What the Gunsmith doesn't figure on is a fat cat's request for information. Seems t...

  • The Coming of Cassidy

    Clarence E. Mulford / Clarence Edward Mulford

    ALONG CAME CASSIDY... Buck Peters put everything he owned into the Bar-20 and thought he could make a go of it. It looked pretty good too, until he fell in with that gang of renegade buffalo hunters. They were after his spread, his cattle, his life....

  • The Silver Maria

    Jon Sharpe

    With the now-dead Julio Delgado's regiment turned into a band of renegades, a Mexican outlaw on the loose, and an Apache tribe poised for battle, Skye Fargo must work fast to find out which party killed a pretty woman's father. Original....

  • Death in the Hills

    D.R. Bensen

  • Lone Star and the Gunrunners

    Wesley Ellis

    A range war is brewing -- and it's about to boil over!Hot on the trail of gun thieves who intend to sell their wares to an Indian nation, Jessie and Ki find their mission complicated when Chief Running Wolf steps up his campaign to wipe out white set...

  • Longarm and the Rebel Brand

    Tabor Evans

    Color illustration of four superimposed vignettes: profile of man wearing brown hat with cigarrette in his mouth; man wearing cowboy hat and red scarf brandishing rifle and standing behind large rock; man in cowboy hat and red scarf brandishing revol...

  • Arrow Keeper

    Judd Cole

    When Matthew Hanchon, a Cheyenne Indian raised among Wyoming pioneers who has only known fear and distrust, discovers that his adoptive parents are in danger because of him, he flees into the wilderness where he must call upon his warrior's courage, ...

  • Blood to Burn

    Jack Curtis

  • Lilac Seduction

    Leigh Fletcher

    There was perhaps no place in history more filled with romance and beauty than the old South in the days before the Civil War. Now, journey down Magnolia Road and visit the most majestic plantations of that gracious era... Shannon Hill - The gem o...

  • Maybe Later, Love

    Claire Bocardo

    Dorrie Greene was astonished! After thirty-five years of being "George Greene's lovely wife" she was now a whole new person. What a surprise to discover that she was a natural-born businesswoman -- and that running the family jewelry stor...

  • The Notorious Rake

    Mary Balogh

    The Lady and the Libertine Lord Edmund Waite was everything that Lady Mary Gregg despised in a man. He was lewd, lascivious, mocking---the most notorious and successful rake in the realm. Happily, Mary had nothing to fear from this lord of liberti...

  • Black-Tie Affair

    Jane Bierce

    PRECIOUS GEMS All Jeanellen Barbour wanted was to taste one evening of Palm Beach high society. So she crashed the charity ball wearing a borrowed gown and some pretty jewelry her grandmother had left her, hoping no one would notice they were made...

  • Apache's Angel

    Karen A. Bale

    SHE COULDN'T FORGET HIS KISS Headstrong Aissa Gerard had never forgotten the bold Apache warrior who rescued her from captivity when she was fourteen. When her father the Sheriff, brought in a wounded Apache brave and locked him in a cell, Aissa rec...

  • Devil's Keep

    Rebecca Brandewyne
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    Hired by a noble vampire to care for his son, a young governess' compassion for her handsome, tragic employer soon gives way to affection, desire... and heart soaring romance....

  • Somewhere Along the Way

    Elaine Coffman

    SHE WAS LIKE A FLOWER GROWN IN A WALLED GARDEN. A perfect lady, Annabella Stewart had had every rebellious impulse carefully cultivated out of her. That is, until she met Ross Mackinnon, wild and free as the wind, blowing a warm and tempting breeze,...

  • Mistress Mischief

    Susan Carroll

    HER GRACIOUS OFFER TO BE HIS MISTRESS HAD BEEN REFUSED! 'TWAS A PITY SHE FOUND THE GENTLEMAN SO VERY ATTRACTIVE.... Destitute and penniless, thanks to the evil machinations of her late husband's relatives, Frederica Barry put her wits and ...

  • The Widowed Bride of Raven Oaks

    Peggy Darty

    The wind seemed to shout 'Go back - go back!' As a widowed Yankee moving South after the Civil War to live with her in-laws, Katherine Winfield didn't expect to be greeted with open arms. But Joel, her Rebel husband, had begged her, with his dyin...

  • Vanquish the Night

    Shannon Drake
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    A beautiful Texas innocent falls under the mesmerizing spell of a dashing, exotic immortal...and is resucued from etermal damnation by the rapturous power of love....

  • Sea Fires

    Christine Dorsey

    A RECKLESS DESIRE Spirited, impetuous Miranda Chadwick arrived in the untamed New World prepared for any peril. So when the notorious pirate Gentleman Jack Blackstone kidnapped her, she was certain she could somehow make the insufferable golden-hair...

  • Bride of the Wind

    Shannon Drake

    WINDS OF DESTINY The daughter of a wealthy Virginia planter, innocent Rose Woodbine curses cruel fate for leading her to the court of the British King Charles -- and into an unwanted marriage with handsome and dangerous Lord Pierce Deforte, a man...

  • Rumors

    Sara Fitzgerald

    Washington, D.C., was Katharine Aurore Callahan's kind of town. It had glamor, excitement, and, most of all, power. It was also a city that thrived on cruel rumors and ruined lives. Kate had discovered that dark underside of D.C. when she was young, ...

  • Sioux Slave

    Georgina Gentry

    Widowed on her wedding day, Kimimila swore vengeance on the blue-coats who had slain her betrothed. So when the village elders placed the fate of their yellow-haired captive in her hands, the beautiful Sioux maiden eagerly accepted the honor. But as ...

  • Tame My Wild Touch

    Donna Fletcher

    PRIM AND PROPER When Prudence Agatha Winthrop learned her mother was still alive and living somewhere out West, she was determined to find her. Her proper Bostonian appearance wouldn't stop her from surviving the hazards of the wild West...or th...

  • A Knight's Desire

    Judith Hill

    A DESPERATE SEDUCTION Taryn Maitland faced the Great Earl of Arundel and let her garments fall to the ground. She had to make him want her, had to make him take her. It was the only way she could escape the hideous marriage her greedy brother had ...

  • Silver Flame

    Hannah Howell

    STOLEN HEARTS A breathtaking vision of magnificent womanhood, spirited Sine Catriona Brodie expertly plies her twin trades of performer and pickpocket in fairs throughout Scotland -- eagerly awaiting the day she can avenge her father's murder ... ...

  • My Aunt Grizelda

    Kasey Michaels
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    The romantic dreams of a lovely and penniless nanny are gloriously realized, thanks to the bumbling interference of an inept but well-meaning witch....

  • Silver Thunder

    Joan Hohl

    NO MAN COULD TAME HER REBELLIOUS SOUL... She was as wild as the rugged Wyoming Territory of her birth, all woman, primal and exciting, a platinum-haired enchantress who dressed and rode like a man. No one had ever threatened Jessica Randall's indepe...

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Hannah Howell

    BEAUTY... Betrothed to the heir of Saitun Manor, lovely Gytha was shocked to learn on the eve of her wedding that her bridegroom had been killed. Caught up in a whirlwind beyond her control, she found herself married to the new heir. A rough merce...

  • Sammi's Heart

    Janis Reams Hudson

    LUCKY BREAK Samantha Carmichael's knack for solving production problems prompted the president of Elliot Air to promote her from the assembly line to a newly-created executive position--at triple her salary. Sammi couldn't believe her good luck .....

  • Endless Surrender

    Amber Kaye

    SHE CRAVED HIS KISSES Paris was a dangerous place for a British lady in the winter of 1815. So when a wounded stranger begged for help at her door; Genna hesitated before letting him in. Though the handsome Britisher would not reveal his secret mi...

  • Those Wicked Pleasures

    Roberta Latow

    Vastly powerful and influential, the Stantons were the pinnacle of New York's high society . . . They were the very embodiment of discretion, secrecy, and above all, honor and good manners. And in their midst, golden girl Lara Victoria Stanton gr...

  • Heartbreak Trail

    Barbara Keller

    SECRET LIVES When first they meet, Martha Turner knows only that Cole Wingate is a murderer. He knows nothing about her at all. Thrown together by fate, these two strangers, desperate to leave their old lives behind, begin a new one together. Impers...

  • Rebel Lady

    Dawn Lindsey

    The Insufferable Englishman Sir Sebastian Hilliard was everything that beautiful, young, Scotch noblewoman Skye Crawford detested in an Englishman. He had wealth and power, and the arrogance to use them to get what he wanted. He had good looks and...

  • Tears of the Moon

    Jeanne Nickson

    The Inca: He ruled a land of snow-capped mountains, timeless desert plains and primeval tropical splendor. Worshiped by his people, he could have anything, any woman he wanted -- but he craved for just one ... Princess Aolani: A tawny, exotic beaut...

  • Miss Fortune's Folly

    Dawn Aldridge Poore

    A LADY'S DILEMMA Spurning the, fashionable nonsense of the ton. Felicia was a country miss with a mind of her own. She quite preferred the business of helping her architect uncle with his dream building project, until she encountered the delightful ...

  • Louisiana Passion

    Elizabeth Leigh

    SHE COULDN'T DENY HIM Proud of her brand-new medical diploma, Illinois beauty Wynn Spencer was ready for a frontier adventure, but when she arrived in Jennings, Louisiana, she got a rude shock: the homesteaders didn't trust lady doctors, and the who...

  • Chase the Dawn

    Kay McMahon

    She desired him, she defied him ... but she could not deny him. Jonathan Stone was everything beautiful Adria Beaumont detested -- and everything she could not resist. She was a ravishing Boston doctor who saved his life. He was a handsome Souther...

  • Warrior's Caress

    Candace McCarthy

    HE HELD HER CAPTIVE Abigail Rawlins had come to the shores of Lake Ontario in search of her missing brother. She knew about the threat of Indians, but she never expected to find herself a captive to the mighty Onondaga chief, Great Arrow. determined...

  • The Ravished Bride

    Sheila O'Hallion

    Widowed at nineteen and pledged to an elderly monarch at twenty, Margaret Drummond sees her only chance at escape in rebel Jamie MacDonel, the dark-haired giant she had grown up hating. His daring ruse to kidnap and ravish her had only fanned the ...

  • Texas Magic

    Wanda Owen

    SHE YEARNED TO CARESS HIM Home at last after three years at an exclusive Eastern finishing school, headstrong Texas belle Bianca Moreno had forgotten that it was improper as well as dangerous to gallop her stallion across the plains alone. Only afte...

  • Divine Evil

    Nora Roberts

    A decade ago, sculptor Clare Kimball fled Emmitsboro, Maryland, to take the art world by storm. Now she's celebrated as the artist of her generation. With blowtorch and steel Clare Kimball has sculpted a personal vision that commands the attention of...

  • Miss Wickham's Betrothal

    Nancy Richards-Akers

    A SCANDALOUS SITUATION Eminently proper Lucy Wickham dearly desires a family-and thus makes her London debut willing to seriously consider the suit of any eligible beau. As good fortune would have it, she is soon betrothed to dashing Anthony Paget...

  • Love's Own Reward

    Dana Ransom

    STROKE OF LUCK Charley Carter didn't think twice about pulling the little boy from the burning car. Little did she know that her act of courage would change her life. At first, the half-million dollar reward she received from the child's grateful pa...

  • Devil's Lady

    Patricia Rice

    TEMPTATION Lovely, young Faith Montague dared not ask the terrible secret behind her pious father's murder which had left her orphaned and lost on the dangerous road to London. Now, as she stood before the notorious highwayman Morgan de Lacy, ...

  • Trust Me

    Jeane Renick

    RUNNING FROM NIGHTMARES THAT WOULDN'T END, THEY FOUND A NEW BEGINNING To street-wise Miami cop Zachary Cross, Allison Shreve is his fantasy woman come to life... and way out of his league. When they meet in the Central American country of Belize, ...

  • Grand Deception

    Rebecca Ward

    COULD SHE DENY HER GROWING TENDRE FOR A GENTLEMAN WHO CLEARLY WAS NOT WHO HE PRETENDED TO BE? Miranda Gannet was a poor relation and treated little better than a servant at Carlisle House, possessing neither funds nor fortune to escape the miserab...

  • Lady of the Forest

    Jennifer Roberson

    FOR THE LOVE OF ONE MAN AND THE GOOD OF ALL MEN SHE DEFIES DESTINY... AND BECOMES A LEGEND As the gates of Ravenskeep swing open and a young woman flees into the primeval depths of Sherwood Forest, a saga of exceptional power and remarkable passio...

  • Love's Stolen Promises

    Sylvie F. Sommerfield

    Promises are all Mitchell Flannery and Whitney Clayborn had. They were once star-crossed lovers together by a passion of which South Carolinians would never approve...For Mitchell was a dirt poor farm boy and Whitney--a society belle. They came toget...

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    Eileen Winwood

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    Barbara Dawson Smith

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    Janelle Taylor

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    Judy Alter

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    Marion Zimmer Bradley

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    Patrick Whalen

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    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Harry Harrison

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    Ellen Porath
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Robert Holdstock

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    Douglas Niles
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    John Norman

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    G. Harry Stine

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    F. Paul Wilson

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    Grant Naylor

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    Heather Allison

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    Jayne Addison

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    Annette Broadrick

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    Madeline Baker

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    Suzanne Barclay

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    Jean Barrett

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    Patt Bucheister

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    Ramona Bradley

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    Michelle Brandon

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    Lynn Bulock

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    Bethany Campbell

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    Megan Brownley

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    Jessica Bryan

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    Candace Camp

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    Marisa Carroll

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    Amanda Clark (1)

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    Lori Copeland

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