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New Books List: 751 titles

  • Far Beyond the Wave

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    There is dangerous turmoil in Arthur's Camelot. Interlopers from afar future century are hiding in stolen bodies of loyal knight and royal enemy alike. And inside the mind of noble Lancelot, a battle rages for domination. In pursuit of a bloodthir...

  • Reach for the Moon

    Samantha Abeel

    Samantha Abeel is learning disabled and gifted. She does not understand mathematical concepts, but she is an extremely talented writer. Samantha was on the edge of despair when a caring English teacher who recognized her hidden talents intervened, of...

  • Temporary Groom

    Jayne Addison

    MATRIMONIAL MELTDOWN! KELSEY SHEPHERD: GREEN CARD BRIDE Frank Falco was my idea of Mr. Wrong -- but marriage was the answer to my predicament. As his wife I'd be able to stay in the U.S. and start a terrific job. In a few months, I'd be free. ...

  • The Egyptian Polar Bear

    JoAnn Adinolfi

    In a story based on the discovery of ancient Egyptian architectural plans for a tomb for a polar bear, Nanook, an arctic polar bear, is trapped on an iceberg floating south and disembarks in Egypt, where he becomes the playmate of the boy-king Rahote...

  • Dinosaur Dreams

    Allan Ahlberg

    Dinosaur Dreams is one of the titles in Allan Ahlberg's iconic children's picture book series about skeletons, Funnybones. Despite being set in a dark dark house, this brightly coloured book is perfect for early readers!The big skeleton and the littl...

  • A Going Concern

    Catherine Aird

    The late Octavia Garamond's last wished were very odd indeed. Her request for a police presence at her funeral bothers Inspector C.D. Sloan, but not nearly s much as her insistence that her body be thoroughly examined after her death. Amelia Kenner...

  • Witches' Bane

    Susan Wittig Albert

    China Bayles left the big city to settle in a small town. But murder happens everywhere... Halloween is supposed to be scary -- but someone's pulling pranks in Pecan Springs that go way beyond holiday hijinks. The creepiness culminates in a b...

  • Something for Mother

    Laura Alden

  • Happily Ever After

    Rochelle Alers

    They murmured the words that would join their hearts forever--and consummated their love with a passion so complete it swept them both away. But five years later, their impetuous marriage had ended in heartbreaking divorce...and Lauren Taylor found h...

  • Bandit

    David Alexander

    In a future Russia, a group of hard-line conservatives have reasserted themselves within the Soviet government, launching an attack on American satellites, and the only hope for retaliation is in the world's fastest plane and an ace pilot. Original....

  • Three Gold Pieces

    Aliki

  • Ghost Dog

    Eleanor Allen

    All Kim's life, she's wanted a dog. A dog that would meet her from school with a wagging tail and listen to her troubles - a dog that she could love and would love her back. Then she moves to the country, and her dream comes true! Because one night s...

  • Alburquerque

    Rudolfo A. Anaya

    'In April of 1880 the railroad reached la villa de Albuquerque in New Mexico. Legend says the Anglo stationmaster couldn't pronounce the first 'r' in 'Albur', so he dropped it as he painted the station sign for the city. Nobody knows the real 'Albuqu...

  • Shotgun Bride

    Catherine Anderson
    in

    Preacher's daughter Charlotte Masterson was heartily sick of being the spinster of juniper Hollow. So it was a happy coincidence that found her stranded in a blizzard with Joshua Slade, the most desirable though notorious man in town....

  • Champions of the Force

    Kevin J. Anderson

    VOLUME 3 OF THE JEDI ACADEMY TRILOGY As the New Republic continues its struggle for survival, a scattered but powerful remnant of the shattered Empire seeks to destroy three precious children among them Han and Leia's Jedi twins--who represent the...

  • Climbing Olympus

    Kevin J. Anderson

    A group of surgically altered exiles plot to destroy a corrupt plot to colonize Mars in this science fiction adventure by a New York Times bestseller. In order to terraform Mars, Earth first had to transform people . . . The Red Plane...

  • Humphrey and Ralph

    Katharine Andres

  • My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken and Me

    Maya Angelou

    Full color photographs. -Hello, Stranger-Friend- begins Maya Angelou's story about Thandi, a South African Ndebele girl, her mischievous brother, her beloved chicken, and the astonishing mural art produced by the women of her tribe. With never-before...

  • Vinegar Hill

    A. Manette Ansay

    In a stark, troubling, yet ultimately triumphant celebration of self-determination, award-winning author A. Manette Ansay re-creates a stifling world of guilty and pain, and the tormented souls who inhabit it. It is 1972 when circumstance carries Ell...

  • The Secret Life of Laszlo, Count Dracula

    Roderick Anscombe

    Studying medicine by day and partying with Parisian high society by night, young Dr. Dracula, the heir to an aristocratic Hungarian family, is overcome by peculiar sexual urges that compel him to kill an asylum patient. Reprint....

  • Happy Policeman

    Patricia Anthony

    In a small Texas town sealed off from the rest of the world by aliens--ostensibly to protect it from the effects of a nuclear bomb--a portly Mary Kay representative is murdered, and the police chief must find the killer. Reprint....

  • Isle of Woman

    Piers Anthony

    A magnificent saga of passion, heroism, and survival, Piers Anthony's Isle of Woman is a tale like no other ever written. It is nothing less than the story of humanity itself, from its savage origins to its troubled future, told through the lives on ...

  • Bonfire

    Katherine Applegate

    Five strangers share a beach house during their summer vacation. The latest book in the nationally bestselling series about six housemates who come back to Ocean City each year for a summer of passion, drama, and romance. Kate chose Tosh over Justin...

  • Alessandra & the Archangel

    Judith Arnold

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

  • Myths of the Moon

    Rosalie Ash

    Mystery Man! When Carla saved the life of a handsome stranger, she didn't realize her own would never be the same again. All she knew about him was that his name was Daniel and that he had temporary amnesia. But that didn't stop Carla from...

  • Sweet Deceiver

    April Ashmore

    From the plains of post-civil-war Texas, across the southwest border, a daring deception flames into tempestuous love! The daughter of a wealthy Texas rancher-turned-Rebel spy, Josephine Dereaux is fleeing for her life through the post-war South -...

  • Coda

    Thea Astley

    With her husband gone and her memory failing, Kathleen faces old age alone, until her children's callousness and self-absorption force her to take dramatic steps to retain her beloved freedom. By the author of The Slow Natives. ...

  • Sleeping Moon

    David Lewis Atwell

  • Dream Seeker

    Anne Avery
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    On faraway planets, a pilot and a dreamer learn that passion can bridge the heavens, no matter how vast the distance from one heart to another....

  • Running from Safety: And Other Adventures of the Spirit

    Richard Bach

  • Nothing Changes Love

    Jacqueline Baird

    Marry in haste, divorce at leisure Lexi's husband of only one year was cheating on her. When she flung the words at him, "I really don't care about you breaking your promise--I would much rather have the money," she was lying throu...

  • Clipjoint

    Wilhelmina Baird

    Two years after taking part in a cyber-film to make enough money to leave Earth--a film that left their friend Dosh dead and them fleeing for their lives--Cass and Moke return to uncover the truth about the tragedy. Original....

  • Beneath a Midnight Moon

    Madeline Baker

    THE MAN OF HER DREAMS He came to her in visions -- the hard-muscled stranger who promised to save her from certain death. She never dared hope that her fantasy love would hold her in his arms until the virile and magnificent dream appeared in the f...

  • Heart of the Hunter

    Madeline Baker
    in

    A Lakota warrior must defy the boundaries of life itself to claim the spirited beauty he has sought through time. Kelly McBride, the owner of a Montana ranch, is torn between two lovers: a Lakota spirit warrior who guards gold, and his flesh-and-b...

  • Emily Eyefinger and the Lost Treasure

    Duncan Ball

  • The Secret Oceans

    Betty Ballantine

    Betty Ballantine, renowned for her contributions  to publishing for more than four decades, takes  readers on a visual odyssey through the vast and  deep oceans of the world, with the help of 12 leading  artists and a story that will entertai...

  • Apache Blanco

    Jack Ballas

    To get himself off the governor's wanted list, gain a small fortune, and make a fresh start, Trace Gundy, a white man raised by the Apache, must rescue a wealthy rancher's son from a Mexican prison. Original....

  • One Fall Day

    Molly Bang

  • Charisma

    Jo Bannister

    Fatal Attraction The first victim is a young prostitute-an easy, accessible target for a killer's lust. The second victim is t, another young girl. The killer is skilled, seasoned, enjoying himself. The combustible detective team of Liz Graham ...

  • Garland of Flower Fairies

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • The Masters of the House

    Robert Barnard

    In the late winter of 1979, Leeds housewife Ellen Heenan dies in childbirth -- abandoning a guilt-stricken husband to insanity's grasp and leaving four young children to fend for themselves. Thirteen-year-old Matthew and Annie, age twelve, know wh...

  • The Merlin Effect

    T.A. Barron

    Kate Gordon has traveled all the way to San Lazaro in Baja California to help her father locate the sunken remains of the Resurrecion--a galleon wrecked in 1547 and believed to cradle in its belly a fortune in gold and silver. But as Kate is about to...

  • Silver at Night

    Susan Campbell Bartoletti

  • Nothing But Trouble

    Beverly Barton

    JAIL... Local lawyer Peyton Rand should have left tempting troublemaker Tallie Bishop in the local hoosegow for as long as possible! That way, she'd keep out of trouble...and away from him. Instead, he bailed her out, just like he'd being doing fo...

  • Thanksgiving

    Caroline Feller Bauer

    Get ready for a juicy Thanksgiving feast! The main courses here are poems and stories by some of children's most beloved authors, including Jack Prelutsky, Johanna Hurwitz, and Eloise Greenfield. Also included are songs, crafts, and recipes for the e...

  • Border Justice

    Frederic Bean

    Texas sheriff Jim Ed Crow heads into Mexico, accompanied by two hardened gunfighters and a cold-blooded killer, to track down a vicious gang of pistoleros responsible for a bloody massacre in the Texas town of Carrizo Springs. Original....

  • Death of a Charming Man

    M.C. Beaton

    HE COULD CHARM YOUR PANTS OFF. THAT WAS PRECISELY THE PROBLEM. Police constable Hamish Macbeth hears that a posh English chap has moved into an unlikely place--the backwater village of Drim. Indeed, Peter Hynd has the town's matrons giggling like ...

  • Contagious Love

    Ann Bell

    Edith Harkness Dutton feels the good old days are gone forever, and good reason. Despite the promise of Edith's joyous second marriage Roy Dutton in the autumn of her life, in this Montana hamlet is anything but blissful. A former standout highsch...

  • A Most Unusual Lunch

    Robert Bender

  • Sunset Fire

    Cherie Bennett

  • Deep Cover

    Laurien Berenson

    While investigating the mysterious death of her neighbor, whose murder could be the result of her abusive husband, Gwen Harding, a former New York City reporter, realizes that her own life is threatened, as well as that of her young son. Original....

  • The Jewel Heart

    Barbara Helen Berger

  • Kill All the Lawyers

    Marc Berrenson

  • Watch with Me

    Wendell Berry

    This volume of six linked stories and the novella from which the book derives its title is set in Port William from 1908 to the Second World War. Here Wendell Berry introduces two of his more indelible and poignant characters, Ptolemy Proudfoot and h...

  • Rim: A Novel of Virtual Reality

    Alexander Besher

    Welcome to the World of Rim. The year is 2027. Greenspace patrols the cosmos, Gamespace has been infiltrated by Tibetan zombies and tantric viruses, and the information superhighway forces lanes through our brains. And while everyone loves the intera...

  • Dangerous Alliance

    Helen Bianchin

    A fiery, unconventional marriage... "Is the idea of marriage to me so unacceptable?" A seemingly innocent question, but when spoken by Dimitri Kostakidas it was deeply, disturbingly provocative. Leanne knew she was in danger of being ov...

  • Tiebreaker

    Jack M. Bickham

    Retired tennis pro and part-time spy Brad Smith tries to help Danisa, a young Soviet tennis star defect, but the defection goes horribly wrong, they must run for their lives--and Brad finds himself falling in love. Reprint....

  • More Than Magic

    Olga Bicos

    In 1878, two adventurers set out for the unknown wilds of the Arizona territory. Dr. Polly Babcock is an archaeologist in search of a mythical healing jewel. Sir Shane McKinnon is an astronomer after the ancients' secrets of the stars. As enemies -- ...

  • The Glass Lake

    Maeve Binchy

    Kit MacMahon, growing up in the lakeside village of Loughshee, seems to lead a charmed life. She is the loved daughter of Martin MacMahon, the kindly local pharmacist, and Helen, his beautiful wife. She has a little brother, Emmett; a best friend, ...

  • She'll Be Comin' Round the Mountain

    Tom Birdseye

    In a special version of the popular Appalachian song that includes music, the Sweets await the arrival of an old friend they have not seen for many years--but when she finally arrives, she looks very different than they remembered....

  • A Taste for Murder

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Hemlock Falls Inn. Her sister, Meg, keeps her guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sister...

  • Full Circle

    Rosanne Bittner

    Some loves are forbidden...and some cannot be stopped. When sheltered missionary Evelyn Gibbons arrived at the South Dakota reservation, the last thing she wanted was to fall in love. Yet from the moment she clashed with the man they called Black ...

  • The Warlock's Daughter

    Jennifer Blake
    in

    Fearing her own inherited powers, a warlock's innocent daughter vows never to love --- but a dark and dashing man of mystery proves to be more than her match....

  • Casino Moon

    Peter Blauner

    Most parents want their children to be doctors or lawyers. Anthony Russo's Family wants him to be a gangster. Growing up in the tender bosom of the Atlantic City mob has left its mark on Anthony Russo. All he wants is to be legit--but the Mafia is...

  • Hawks Don't Say Goodbye

    Stephen A. Bly

    It's summer in Galena, Nevada. Everyone is leaving town for good! After the harshest winter on record and the shutdown of the Shiloh Gold mine, Nathan and his friends watch as businesses board up and houses empty. Rumor has it that even their school ...

  • Grace and Joe

    Maribeth Boelts

  • Family Feud

    Barbara Boswell

    MR. SEPTEMEBER Name: Garrett McGrath Game: Fun Flame: Headstrong Shelby Halford Aim: To get Shelby from the boardroom to the bedroom! I've got three beliefs: 1. You want what you can't have; 2. Business and pleasure should always mix; 3....

  • Stranded at Plimoth Plantation 1626

    Gary Bowen

  • Fall Secrets

    Candy Dawson Boyd

    The first volume of a new series follows the adventures of four girls at their first year at a performing arts junior high school, during which Jessie, a spirited young African-American girl, explores racial differences and hides a painful secret. Or...

  • Gods of Hell

    Randall Boyll

    When the niece of his former fiance+a7e becomes one of the victims of a series of kidnappings, the Darkman uncovers a deadly cult that sacrifices children for the sake of immortality, and is forced to confront its evil master. Original....

  • What's Wrong With America

    Scott Bradfield

    Aims to provide a hilarious look into Californian life. Emma O'Hanovan murders her husband Marvin and buries him in the back garden. However, her neighbour ends up buried alongside Marvin when Emma thinks she may suspect something. Meanwhile, Emma's ...

  • One and Only

    Barbara Bretton

    Isabelle was the daughter of a European prince, fiery and free-spirited, the forgotten princess lost in her older sister's shadow. In a shattering power play, she is forced to leave the life she's always known -- and must make it on her ow...

  • The Marrying Man

    Barbara Bretton
    in

    With five kids and a career, Catherine Zaslow's home life could be labeled "Norman Rockwell Meets The Far Side" -- until sexy efficiency expert Riley McKendrick enters ...and it's turned into total chaos!...

  • The Wizards and the Monster

    Bill Brittain

  • Mystery of the Several Sevens

    Bill Brittain

    Mr. Merlin, a wizard disguised as a substitute teacher, magically transports two fifth graders to a fairyland where they must solve a riddle to find out who has stolen the seven dwarfs' bag of diamonds....

  • Teller of Tales

    William J. Brooke

    After his unfortunate clothing story, the Emperor's elderly reporter is ordered to write fairy tales, and with the help of a reluctant streetwise girl, comes up with a whole new slant on the old classics...

  • Viking Mistress

    Betty Brooks

  • Don't Forget to Write

    Chelsea Brooks

  • Traveling on into the Light

    Martha Brooks

  • Ugly Duckling

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • The Gifts of the Body

    Rebecca Brown

    An emotionally wrenching work of fiction about a health-care worker who tenders compassion and love to victims of AIDS, by an author who "strips her language of convention to lay bare the ferocious rituals of love and need."--New York Times Book Revi...

  • Stage Coach

    Bonnie Bryant

    Lisa Atwood has joined a community theater and landed the lead in an upcoming production of Annie. It's fun rehearsing the part with other members of the cast, especially Hollie, who's been coaching Lisa backstage. Then rehearsals become more frequen...

  • Littlest Witch

    Nola Buck

  • Basement Stairs

    Nola Buck

  • Halloween Parade

    Nola Buck

  • Gotcha!

    Nola Buck

  • The Leaders We Trust

    Bill Buford

  • The In-Between Days

    Eve Bunting

  • The Man Who Could Call Down Owls

    Eve Bunting

  • The Devil and Jessie Webster

    Lydia Burke

    THE DEVIL WORE BLUE JEANS The unexpected appearance of a man in her bedroom was shocking enough for shy Jessie Webster. Even more astonishing was being shanghaied by this sexy, green-eyed stranger who swore her life was at stake. Though Jessie ...

  • A Book of Angels

    Sophy Burnham

    A BOOK OF ANGELS tells not only the extraordinary true stories of present-day encounters with angels, but also traces the understanding and study of angels through history and in different cultures. Discover what angels look like, whom they chose to ...

  • Sophie's Late

    Lisa Burns

  • One Little Chickadee

    Marilee Robin Burton

  • A Coffin for Charley

    Gwendoline Butler

    John Coffin's life, steadily unfolding in Gwendoline Butler's long series of novels about him, continues to be both involving and suspenseful. After a stormy affair, he and actress Stella Pinero are now married, and Coffin has reached the rank of Com...

  • The Dark Stairs

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    The Moloch did not come back to where she crouched in fear. Instead he moved over to the workbench. He stood there, and then, as if he were familiar with the table, he picked up something, opened a drawer, and took something from it. Herculeah longed...

  • Skyscape

    Michael Cadnum

    Red Patterson is a TV psychiatrist, a video force, and a famous healer. His newest patient, Curtis Newns, is an artist with a damaged soul. Red is so intrigued by Curtis that he seeks to separate the artist and his wife and claim Curtis’s creative ...

  • Tempting Eve

    Ellen Cain

    HE MIGHT TEMPT HER TO BED, BUT CAN HE TEMPT HER TO WED? Eve Kearny is giving Ben Lawrence sleepless nights. Eve--lovely, fascinating, tempting Eve--is determined to leave town before Ben can convince her to stay. If she does stay, it will be fo...

  • Having It All

    B.B. Calhoun

    Bright, talented overachiever Naira Taylor is used to hard work and a full life and is convinced that she can work modeling into her already hectic schedule, but she may be in over her head. Original....

  • Agony of Flies

    Elias Canetti

    Agony of Flies: Notes and Notations presents brief aphorisms selected from the German Nobel laureate Elias Canetti's writings.These short writings collected in this bilingual edition offer remarkable insight into the life and thinking of "one of our ...

  • Darling Annie

    Raine Cantrell

    IT WAS FURY AT FIRST SIGHT Forty-eight hours after Kellian York arrives in Loving, Texas, the brothel he inherited is reduced to smoldering ashes. The Legion for Decency, an eccentric group of busybodies determined to rid the town of drinking, gambl...

  • The Wimp

    Kathy Caple

  • Timeswept

    Joyce Carlow

    A MODERN-DAY WOMAN, Jenna Stevens awoke in a strange and primitive place to screams in the night... and a sky ablaze with fire. She'd made a leap through time -- and what a leap! The last thing she remembered was driving home to Boston just as th...

  • Barney Is Best

    Nancy White Carlstrom

  • One Red Rooster

    Kathleen Sullivan Carroll

  • Silent Spring

    Rachel Carson

  • Forsaking All Reason

    Jenny Cartwright

    It was a marvelous opportunity. Jane Garston had only known Guy Rexford a short while when he proposed. He was all a woman could wish for -- rich, successful, handsome -- and she loved him enough to push aside the niggling worry that he had never adm...

  • My Cat Jack

    Patricia Casey

  • Under the Boardwalk

    Carla Cassidy

    PICKING UP THE PIECES... She'd been the girl from the wrong side of the tracks; he'd been her knight in shining armor. But Greyson Blakemore had left Nikki Young to deal with the aftermath of their passionate summer romance all by herself....

  • Maiden Court

    Laura Cassidy

    Bess Latimer knew when she married Harry that most of his life would be spent at court, and she was afraid that the wild court of Henry VIII would seduce Harry away from her. Much as she loved their home, Bess could no longer bear to be away from her...

  • Oh, Baby!

    Lauryn Chandler

    FIRST COMES MARRIAGE? Emily Gardiner: She wanted a child I'm not getting any younger. If I'm going to have a baby, I need to do something--fast. Even though my secret childhood truelove, Matthew Carter, never popped the question, that doesn't mea...

  • The Screaming Demon Ghostie

    Jean Chapman

  • In The Time of the Wolves

    Eileen Charbonneau

    The Year Without SummerFourteen-year-old Joshua Woods would like nothing better than to leave his Catskill mountain home and follow his uncles to Harvard. But it is the Spring of 1824, and Joshua's father, believing strange predictions of "a year wi...

  • Thirteen

    Remy Charlip

    "A book of creative metamorphosis and stunning visuals that will bend children''s imaginations and appeal to all ages. ""One of my own personal childhood favorites..."" --Brian Selznick

    Thirteen is no ordinary picture book. It is book of ...

  • A Prince Among Men

    Robert N. Charrette

    THE TECHNOMANCERS THe hi-tech cyber-sprawl of toxic wastes and soulless megacorporations collides with an ancient otherworld when Elven magic -- good, evil, chaotic, and powerful enough to transform or destroy worlds--awakes. This is the shadow war ...

  • Tripoint

    C.J. Cherryh

    A social outcast, Thomas Bowe is caught between the rivalry of two merchant spaceships, one headed by his father and one by the woman whom his father had raped long ago. By the Hugo Award-winning author of Cyteen. Reprint....

  • Over the River and Through the Wood: Big Book Edition

    Lydia Maria Child

  • Dance Down the Stars

    Jo Clayton

    Awakening from a centuries-long sleep, Serroi discovers that she has developed powers of healing, but that her world has become haunted by an evil force that can alter life and death, and must marshal an attack or witness civilization's destruction. ...

  • Dog Collar Crime

    Melissa Cleary

    DEATH IN THE DOGHOUSE The scene of the crime was Mel Sweeten's Dog Academy--where Mel himself met his end, strangled with a choke collar. Unfortunately, the only witnesses were his two basset hounds, Fred and Karen...and they're not talking. So it's...

  • The Mill on the Shore

    Ann Cleeves

    When Jimmy Morrissey, England's celebrated conservation conscience, kills himself with an overdose of antidepressants, the whole country mourns with his grieving widow. But private investigators Molly and George Palmer-Jones are convinced that what l...

  • Make a Wish, Molly

    Barbara Cohen

  • Whispered Lies

    Christy Cohen

    DANGEROUS DESIRE For thirty-seven years Leah Shaperson had been trapped in a marriage devoid of passion. Then a stranger's tantalizing touch awakened her desires, and she found that she'd do anything to feel wanted once more...even submit to reckles...

  • Spirit Path

    Judd Cole

  • The Gamester

    G.K. Collier

    James Farendon, known as "Count Fabricati," courts the charming Lady Trevingham, attempting to overcome her very reasonable doubts about him and his prison record, arms trades, and political intrigues...

  • I Love Trouble

    Max Allan Collins

    This novel is based on the film of the same name starring Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte. The story is of two rival reporters who engage in a no-holds-barred battle to scoop each other, who end up falling in love....

  • Wild Blood

    Nancy A. Collins

    Befriending the three members of a metal band, teenage loner Skinner is horrified to learn that Rend, Sunder, and Ripper are werewolves, eager to introduce him to their nightmarish world of murder, madness, and human flesh...

  • The Virginia City Trail

    Ralph Compton

    Through a thousand miles of dust, fists, and guns, they found the courage to keep on driving. The only riches Texans had left after the Civil War were five million maverick longhorns and the brains, brawn and boldness to drive them north to where ...

  • Crazy Snake

    Robert J. Conley

    Rising to Principal Chief after witnessing the government's betrayal of a treaty that forced Creeks off their lands, Crazy Snake becomes the target of a United States conspiracy to rid the nation of the proud Creek forever. Original....

  • Doll Face Has a Party!

    Pamela Conrad

  • Mother Goose

    Scott Cook

  • Committee of Vigilance

    John Byrne Cooke

    After a shocking crime threatens everything he has, clipper ship captain Jason Beck turns to a vigilante group in San Francisco during the Gold Rush and finds himself torn between the desire for revenge and a woman's love. Original....

  • Coming Home

    Floyd Cooper

  • In Search of Satisfaction

    J. California Cooper

    With In  Search Of Satisfaction, Cooper gracefully portrays men and women, some good and others wickedly twisted, caught in their individual thickets of want and need on a once-grand plantation. In Yoville, "a legal town-ship...

  • Sign of the Bow

    Kay Cornelius

    Hours after the first warning of trouble, Sara Craighead, surrounded by Seneca warriors, is on a forced march through the dense woods. Her little brother was kidnapped by another group of Seneca, and Sarah has no idea whether her parents are dead or ...

  • Sign of the Eagle

    Kay Cornelius

    Young and strong, Adams leaves his wilderness home to discover what work God has called him to. His parents pray he will become a minister but they have also given their son a letter of introduction to a Philadelphia merchant. Adam's long blond ha...

  • The Body Farm

    Patricia Cornwell

    Kay Scarpetta is back, consulting forensic pathologist for the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, in her grittiest and most compelling case yet. In rural North Carolina, the brutal murder of eleven-year-old Emily Steiner has shaken a small town. But more...

  • Bruce Coville's Book of Ghosts: Tales to Haunt You

    Bruce Coville

  • Liberty's Flame

    Linda Covington

    Krista Lindstrom is a loyal Colonist. But when she finds Scotsman Lt. Gavin Duncan wounded, she offers her help and tends to his wounds. There is, of course, intense hatred between the two factions during the American Revolution, and Krista doesn't w...

  • Bliss

    Claudia Crawford

    ONE BOND CROSSED FOUR GENERATIONS With an iron will and imperious nature, Rachel Lawrence had done everything a woman could do and far more than most dared. She had risen from poverty to vast wealth, found passion outside the marriage bed, and defie...

  • Now and Forever

    Claudia Crawford

    Three former roommates and friends--Georgina Crane, Mona Davidson, and Amy Humphries--are reunited at the wedding of one of the women, a ceremony to which the other two are coming not only to witness the vows but to settle the score with an old lover...

  • The Nativity

    Francesca Crespi

  • Murder Most Fowl

    Bill Crider

    Blacklin County, Texas, Sheriff Dan Rhodes investigates a crime wave of emu-rustling and a murder that may be related to the theft of the valuable birds. By the author of Booked for a Hanging. ...

  • Saved by the Bell

    Beth Cruise

  • Meeting the Make-Out King

    Lynn Cullen

    Despite her concerns about her lack of height, curves, and kissing experience, Nora's glamorous new friends, Dawn and Sandy, are determined to fix her up with Mark, the cutest boy in the seventh grade....

  • Hard Case

    Barbara D'Amato

    Cat figures on some quick bucks doing a feature on the life-and-death drama of one of Chicago's largest trauma centers. What she doesn't figure on is finding the director dead in the staff lounge, a lump of gauze stuck in her throat. Now Cat's story ...

  • The Alpine Decoy

    Mary Daheim

    IN ALPINE, WASHINGTON, NOT ALL THE NEWS IS FIT TO PRINT. When a beautiful young African-American nurse with a shady past takes a job in Alpine, some locals show their true bigoted natures, filling editor-publisher Emma Lord with disgust. But when ...

  • The Proud and the Free // American Dreams

    Janet Dailey

    FOR MORE THAN A HUNDRED YEARS, THEIR PASSIONATE STORY HAS BEEN WAITING TO BE TOLD... Sassy, outspoken Temple Gordon grew up on a grand plantation, but in truth, no matter how elegant and wealthy her family was, they were part Cherokee. And the wor...

  • Bawdy House

    Kit Dalton

    The streets of San Francisco always remind Buckskin Lee Morgan of fancy women. And an evening or two with the lovely ladies is exactly what he has in mind. But every gunslinger on the Barbary Coast seems to have drawn a bead on Morgan--and heads will...

  • Never Givin' Up on Love

    Margot Dalton

    THERE WERE SOME THINGS A WOMAN JUST DIDN'T DO! Amanda envisioned so many special items to buy, little touches to add, to make the Double Bar ranch house uniquely hers and Brock's. But how could she continue to make costly decorating investments wh...

  • Miracle Child

    Kayla Daniels

    HER WORST NIGHTMARE... Becca Slater's life ceased to exist when her sleepy little angel, her two-year-old daughter, was kidnapped at the county fair. The baby had not been found and Becca's pain intensified until she had no choice but to fle...

  • In Need of a Wife

    Emma Darcy

    A kiss is just a kiss... When the sexy stranger informed Sasha that he was in need of a wife, she was tempted to tell him she was available. Something about him told her he was husband material. And then she discovered that her stranger -- one Nat...

  • Black Thorn, White Rose

    Ellen Datlow

    The compilers of Snow White, Rose Red present eighteen retellings of classic fairy tales in contemporary and adult formats, including the writings of such authors as Peter Straub and Roger Zelazny. 10,000 first printing....

  • Kolymsky Heights

    Lionel Davidson

    ''The best thriller I''ve ever read.'' Philip Pullman

    Kolymsky Heights. A Siberian permafrost hell lost in endless night, the perfect setting for an underground Russian research station. It''s a place so secret it doesn''t officially exist; once t...

  • Imagine... a Wish for Grover

    Allison Davis

  • Girl Who Trod on Loaf

    Kathryn Davis

  • Don't Turn Your Back on the Ocean

    Janet Dawson

    Beautiful Ariel Logan was last seen quarreling with her boyfriend outside a Monterey pub. Now she lies dead on a California beach. An autopsy reveals that Ariel's death is no accidental drowning, but a cold-blooded killing. Vacationing private inve...

  • Carl Pops Up

    Alexandra Day

  • Real Moments

    Barbara De Angelis

    To many of us, the experiences that we grew up taking for granted leave become distant dreams in our adult lives: marriages that last a lifetime; safe neighborhoods to call home; the certainty that our children will have a better life than we did; an...

  • Captain Corelli's Mandolin

    Louis De Bernieres

    Extravagant, inventive, emotionally sweeping, Corelli's Mandolin is the story of a timeless place that one day wakes up to find itself in the jaws of history. The place is the Greek island of Cephallonia, where gods once dabbled in the affairs of men...

  • Founding Mothers: Women of America in the Revolutionary Era

    Linda Grant De Pauw

  • Mule Eggs

    Cynthia DeFelice

  • Faith

    Len Deighton

    WHEN ALL IS LOST, A MAN CAN DEPEND ON ONE THING ABOVE ALL Bestselling author Len Deighton is back, better than ever before, with an electrifying new espionage trilogy, featuring Bernard Samson, the intrepid, insolent, and enigmatic hero of Len Dei...

  • The Sorceress

    Claire Delacroix

    A Passion Ruled by Fate Out of the mists of deep dreaming stepped Hughes de Pontesse, a bold and brawny knight. Yet, by the arcane power burning in her breast, Sophie Mauclerc knew this warrior was more than fantasy come alive. He was her destiny....

  • The Ogre's Pact

    Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Betrayal of a Sacred Trust For a millennium, the men and giants of the Ice Spires have coexisted in perfect harmony, answering to a single dynasty of human kings. A thousand years of peace Is about to shatter. Ogres have captured the ki...

  • King Kenrick's Splinter

    Sally Derby

    When the King gets a splinter, it interferes with his royal duties and his royal happiness, but he is afraid to let anyone touch his royal foot, in a delightfully whimsical tale illustrated with beautifully decorated, colorful paintings....

  • My House

    Lisa Desimini

  • Castle Death

    Joe Dever

    The reader becomes Lone Wolf, a Kai Master who has pledged to restore the Kai to their former glory, and must complete the quest first undertaken by Sun Eagle--to retrieve the key to the wisdom of his ancestors from Castle Death....

  • Cranberry Moving Day

    Harry Devlin; Wende Devlin

  • Maggie Has a Nightmare

    Harry Devlin; Wende Devlin

  • Cranberry Trip to the Dentist

    Harry Devlin; Wende Devlin

  • A New Baby in Cranberryport

    Harry Devlin; Wende Devlin

  • Doll Who Knew the Future

    Catherine Dexter

    Rose thinks she would enjoy her summer vacation more if only people would leave her alone and let her read. Rose tries to tune everyone out, but it's impossible. Then, she notices her sister Lucy's doll, Gabriella, has started to speak, but she's not...

  • Cabal

    Michael Dibdin

    In Cabal, master crime writer Michael Dibdin plunges us into a murky world of church spies, secret societies, cover-ups, and mistaken identities. An apparent suicide in the Vatican may in fact have been a muder conducted by a centuries-old cabal with...

  • Devotions for Dieters

    Dan R. Dick

    BRAND NEW, Off Our Store Shelf, SHIPS WITH IN 24 HOURS, Check out our other store inventory. We have bulk of a lot of books and bibles. We are a FULL RETAIL BOOKSTORE that has been in business since 1982 and we do appreciate your purchase and value y...

  • Other

    Gordon R. Dickson

    Bleys Ahrens is now a political power on the planet Association, home of the Friendlies. His people--his Others, not Dorsai or Friendly or Exotic, but hybrids--are in place on all the new worlds, and are ready to take his message to the greater human...

  • Phoenix Sub Zero

    Michael DiMercurio

    When Islamic fanatics purchase a high-tech super-sub of seemingly unlimited power, Captain Michael Pacino and the crew of the U.S.S. Seawolf must intercept its passage to America where it is destined to unleash a lethal attack. Reprint....

  • Happy Halloween

    Walt Disney

  • Mountain Mystic

    Debra Dixon

    "Just for once, believe in something you can't touch...." He'd always been able to read anyone's emotions, but Joshua Logan couldn't figure Victoria Bennett out -- maybe because his longing for the beautiful midwife was so...

  • Hot Wheels

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Competing in the Suntex Solar Challenge, a race across the Arizona with solar-powered cars that offers $100,000 to the winners, the boys encounter a ruthless terrorist who is determined to win at any cost. Original....

  • Wild Texas Rose

    Christina Dodd
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    "You're going to be mine." Those were the last words Rose heard from young Thorn Maxwell before her testimony sent him off to jail. Now he was back, handsome and bold as you please...and intent on keeping his promise....

  • Heart's Desire

    Paige Winship Dooly

    When Hannah's father promises her in marriage to a man she doesn't love, escape is her only choice. A strange coincidence proves providential when Cole Wilder, also on the move, agrees to escort Hannah to her aunt's home in Missouri. The long trip...

  • the Family Treasury of Jewish Holidays

    Malka Drucker

  • The Bad Dream Machine

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Coaster

    Betsy Duffey

    With a mutual love of roller coasters being the only thing linking him to his devil-may-care, long-gone father after his parents' divorce, Hart has great difficulty adjusting to his mother's new boyfriend, a nerdy weatherman....

  • The Dinosaur Lady

    Anne Marie Duquette

    "I think Matt likes you, Dinosaur Lady." Jason paused to adjust his crutches. "I think he likes you a lot. It wouldn't hurt you to like him back." Noelle was stunned. Like him back? Oh, but she did -- far too much! She watc...

  • Defender

    Kathleen Eagle

    GIDEON'S SECRET Chief Gideon Defender: A man whose painful choices had now come full circle. Raina McKenny: A woman whose maternal instincts warred with a never-ending passion. When Raina McKenny returned home, widowed and a single parent, G...

  • Sweet Amy Jane

    Anna Eberhardt

    Even a cosmic warning in Amy Jane Chadwick's horoscope can't prepare the struggling private eye for Max Armstrong. A pro athlete turned sports announcer who's far too attractive for his own good, Max will do anything to shake the obsessed fan who's s...

  • The Ancestor Tree

    T. Obinkaram Echewa

    Sad after the death of their special friend, the very old man who had told them stories and jokes, the village children decide to go against custom and plant a tree for him in the Forest of the Ancestors...

  • The Tick

    Ben Edlund

    A seven-foot-tall, four-hundred-pound escaped mental patient-turned-superhero begins a zany adventure against the forces of evil--or so he thinks--as he crashes around the city, defeating the bad guys in unexpected ways. TV tie-in....

  • Destined to Love

    Suzanne Elizabeth

    "WOULD YOU GO BACK IN TIME... to find your soul mate?" Before Dr. Josie Reed could answer this mysterious question, she found herself thrown back to the Wild West of 1881. There she tended to a captured out-law whose mere presence made her quiver....

  • Rancher's Heaven

    Robin Elliott

    Deputy Sheriff Sara Calhoun knew her return to Canyon Country meant facing painful memories she'd never laid to rest. But the past would have to wait, because she had a damn tough mission ahead of her -- leading a volunteer rescue team into the w...

  • The Fortescue Diamond

    Monique Ellis

    LOVE IS BLIND...BUT THIS LADY'S EYES ARE WIDE OPEN! Louisa Beckenham had never been so humiliated in all her twenty-five years! Her brother could only marry beautiful, cold-as-ice Gwendolyn Fortescue on one condition: Louisa must be wedded and gon...

  • Lone Star and the River Queen

    Wesley Ellis

    Jessie and Ki stalk a killer who's turned a riverboat into a floating coffin!When one of her father's old friends asks them to check out his investment in a St. Louis steamboat, Jessie and Ki set out to investigate the River Queen, only to ...

  • Flon Flon and Annette

    Elzbieta

  • The Portland Laugher

    Earl Emerson

    A curious couple offers Seattle private eye Thomas Black a strange proposal: play guardian angel to an unlikely stalking victim named Billy Battle, a brooding ex-con with a psychotic history of unproven murder and mayhem. Hot on Billy's trail is the ...

  • The Blue Hour

    Elizabeth Evans

    What is the Blue Hour? It's when Father Doesn't Know Best, it's the morning after "Queen for a Day." It's when meltdown threatens a 1950s nuclear family in Meander, Illinois. It's 1959, as America gets ready to say goodbye to Mamie Eisenhower and he...

  • Monster Maker

    Nate Evans

  • Longarm and the Apache Plunder

    Tabor Evans

  • Altmann's Tongue

    Brian Evenson

    "Brian Evenson has added an O. Henry Award–winning short story, ""Two Brothers,"" to this controversial book and a new afterword, in which he describes the troubling aftermath of the book''s publication in 1994."...

  • Li'l Sis and Uncle Willie: A Story Based on the Life and Paintings of William H. Johnson

    Gwen Everett

  • Poison for the Prince

    Elizabeth Eyre