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  • Distant Blood

    Jeff Abbott

    Blood runs cold--especially in this family. Thanks to a newfound connection with his natural father, librarian Jordan Poteet is suddenly a member of a rich Texas dynasty. But a series of poison-pen letters warns Jordan to stay away from the family...

  • Sky Dancer

    Jack Bushnell

    enny stood transfixed as the hawk first appeared on a crisp, clear February morning. She watched as it swooped before her, one wing almost touching the ground, the other pointing toward the sky. This story of a remarkable friendship between a youn...

  • Live a Little

    Colin Neenan

    Hale O’Reilly has always hidden his true emotions-bottling everything up inside and acting like he just doesn’t care. But Hale does care, and during the last few days of his senior year, he comes to realize just how much. “Offering action and l...

  • The Hare and the Tortoise

    Carol Jones

    The creatures of the forest prepare for the big race between the quick hare, who shows up at the race early to break in his new "air-cushioned running shoes," and the tortoise, one of the slower creatures of the forest, in a beautifully illustrated r...

  • Barn

    Debby Atwell

    Barn watches history unfold, from the Depression through the Vietnam War to the present day, dutifully serving its masters as a place for peace rallies and gatherings, a hobo camp, a site for business, a shelter for animals, and a symbol of the warmt...

  • Bumples, Fumdidlers, and Jellybeans

    Arnold Spilka

  • Jojofu

    Michael P. Waite

  • Graphic Alphabet

    David Pelletier

    Discover a creative view of the alphabet, in this Caldecott Honor-winning picture book.A graphical representation of the alphabet gives a new view of the letters, from the A that crumbles as an avalanche approaches to the D that glows with the light ...

  • Christmas Angels

    Debbie Macomber
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    Presents a heartwarming anthology of three novels featuring Shirley, Goodness, and Mercy, a trio of angels whose acts of love and answering of prayers help remind readers of the true sprit of Christmas. Reissue....

  • Excalibur

    Hudson Talbott

    When the young Arthur pulled the sword from the stone and became High King of all Britain, he didn't realize that an even greater task lay ahead: that of uniting his country behind him. Wielding the great Pendragon sword, Arthur leads his men to v...

  • Blood Imperial

    Pamela Belle

    The vicious and depraved Emperor Ba'alekkt is dead. For the surviving members of the Toktel'yan Imperial family, the future looks uncertain. A huge army stands idle and prone to revolt: an emperor must be found. But as the family contest the succ...

  • Construction of Social Reality

    John R. Searle

    In this fascinating, provocative account, eminent philosopher John Searle shows how our everyday actions and cultural knowledge are of a metaphysical complexity that is truely staggering. He explores the charecter of the structures of our daily work ...

  • Chelli Tells the Truth

    Sarah Albee

  • Pie's in the Oven

    Betty G. Birney

  • Freedom Run

    Paul McCusker

    Jack and Matt use the Imagination Station to travel back in time again to the pre-Civil War South, where they plan to carry out their promise to help two slaves escape through the Underground Railroad....

  • Rush Hour

    Christine Loomis

    This energetic book introduces numerous modes of transportation and captures a diverse array of people participating in the rhythm of the city workday, then reuniting with their families in the evening to eat dinner and discuss the day....

  • Sweet Dried Apples: A Vietnamese Wartime Childhood

    Rosemary Breckler

  • A Patchwork of Ghosts

    Angela Bull

    Lizzie hates Bankside, the old house where she and her mother go to live. Who is the evil ghost tormenting Lizzie, and why does he want to hurt her? Lizzie is sure that it is connected to Helena, who used to live in the house. Maybe the dangers that ...

  • Chubbo's Pool

    Betsy Lewin

  • Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Italy

    Virginia Haviland

  • Echohawk

    Lynda Durrant

  • Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Greece

    Virginia Haviland

    Magical stories you can read all by yourself!

    A fairy queen takes a handsome shepard over snow-covered mountains to an enchanted garden; a princess proves her love to the father who impetuously banished her; a clever boy outwi...

  • Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Norway

    Virginia Haviland

  • Bumps in the Night

    Frank Rodgers

    The Pickle family love living at the Hungry Horse Cafe. However, they're not getting much sleep because something is making peculiar noises in the night, and things are going missing too. Is the cafe haunted by a greedy ghost? Can the Pickles solve t...

  • Bug in a Rug

    Joanna Cole

  • Bimmi Finds a Cat

    Elisabeth Jane Stewart

  • Transformer

    Philip Gross

    Alia is slowly beginning to metamorphasize into something different, something fiercer, more intense. Emod has seen the change begin and he's scared, something seemingly irrevocable is eating Alia from within and it is up to Emod to stop it. Part of ...

  • Dmitri the Astronaut

    Jon Agee

    ‘It’s me!’ says Dmitri. ‘I’m back from the moon!’ But alas, nobody remembers the former space hero anymore. Unknown to Dmitri, Lulu -- his loyal lunar pal -- has stowed away in his sack of moon rocks, and this remarkable creature soon bec...

  • Dreamland

    Mary Chapin Carpenter

    Internationally acclaimed singer and songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter extends her many talents to children’s books with this gentle bedtime story. A goodnight kiss sends a little girl sailing off to a magical world where children from around the wo...

  • Gobble, Gobble, Giggle

    Katy Hall

    Heaps of riddles about Pilgrims, pies, and turkey are served up in this hilarious collection. Starting with the holiday preparations and leading up to the big dinner, follow a story peppered with riddles to feast on and lift the flaps to find the ans...

  • The World of Little House

    Carolyn Strom Collins

    Step back in time and experience all the wonders of Laura and her pioneer life. At the heart of this book are chapters revolving around Laura’s nine Little House books, each exploring in detail the stories, houses, landscapes, journeys, foods, acti...

  • My Life As Polluted Pond Scum

    Bill Myers

    Take one monster lurking in the depths of a mysterious lake. Add one glowing figure with powers to summon the creature to the shore. Stir in one Wally McDoogle, who reluctantly stumbles upon the truth:And you have the recipe for another. . . Laugh-fi...

  • Legally Correct Fairy Tales

    David Fisher

    This hilarious spoof on all the old classic fairy tales has a decidedly legal squint to it as for example when Prince Charming is prosecuted for sexual abuse after forcing several damsels to try on a glass slipper to satisfy his foot fetish....

  • The Chronicles of the Holy Grail

    Mike Ashley

  • The Truth Machine

    James L. Halperin

    PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR CONCEPTION OF TRUTH ROCKED ITS VERY FOUNDATION. It is the year 2004. Violent crime is the number one political issue in America. Now the Swift and Sure Anti-Crime Bill guarantees a previously convicted violent criminal one fai...

  • Morality Play

    Barry Unsworth

    Short-listed for the Booker Prize, Morality Play is a medieval murder mystery full of the wonders of the time -- and lessons for our own time -- by a master storyteller. It is a cold winter in the fourteenth century, and a young renegade priest...

  • Plant Dreaming Deep

    May Sarton

    The author’s tribute to the 18th-century New England farmhouse she called home: “[A] tender and often poignant book by a woman of many insights” (The New York Times Book Review). In Plant Dreaming Deep, Sarton shares an intensely personal ...

  • The Poet and the Donkey

    May Sarton

    "May Sarton conducts us on a small, sophisticated, elegantly sentimental journey through a New Hampshire village summer. Our companions are an aging poet, who is sad because he can no longer write . . . and a young, mischievous female donkey who . . ...

  • Fig Pudding

    Ralph Fletcher

    Clifford Allyn Abernathy III (just Cliff, for short) is the oldest of six kids in a family that does everything -- fighting, laughing, playing, eating, telling stories, and celebrating the holidays -- in a big, often outlandish, and sometimes poignan...

  • Twisters!

    Lucille Recht Penner

    Illustrated in full color. Coming right on the heels of the Steven Spielberg summer blockbuster Twister! is a whirlwind of our own--Twisters--filled with true-life anecdotes, facts, and photos detailing the most awesome force in nature. Here's a disa...

  • Brother Wolf

    Harriet Peck Taylor

    Wolf is a friend to everyone, even Raccoon, who likes to tease him. Then one day Raccoon goes too far. He covers Wolf's eyes, so that Wolf does not know night from day.

    In his misery, Wolf calls out to the birds. Woodpecker, Blue Jay, Cardinal...

  • The Raven's Knot

    Robin Jarvis

    THE RAVENS ARE COMING What's going on at the Wyrd Museum? Neil finds a stuffed raven in the museum's collection that has mysteriously come back to life. And he discovers that one of the three sisters who live in the museum is missing. Who is behind ...

  • Around the Pond

    Lindsay Barrett George

    Cammy and William follow an old deer path around the pond in search of blueberries. But unexpectedly they find a lot more. Clue after clue tells them what kind of animal has been there before and left its trace behind. Share their adventure in thi...

  • Follow the Leader

    Miela Ford

    "This sequel to Bear Play offers the very youngest library-goers a high-quality alternative to board books. Large, clear photographs capture the playful polar bear cubs, this time playing the favorite childhood game Follow the Leader, with short, sim...

  • Big Night

    Joseph Tropiano

    Set during the early 1950s, this story of love and linguini, purity and compromise--soon to be a major motion picture from MGM--takes a poignant and pointed look at Old World vs. New World values and provides a rueful assessment of the American Dr...

  • October Smiled Back

    Lisa Westberg Peters


    Shy November looked out
    with her eyes puddle-gray.
    I peeked in and whispered,
    "Come on...want to play?"

    By personifying the months of the year, the author of this exuberant poem brings to life the capricious feelings of friendship...

  • One Hole in the Road

    W. Nikola-Lisa

    A single hole in the road causes considerable commotion in this clever counting book.... The energy of Yaccarino's retro images matches the rhythm of the text, as flagmen wave, stoplights flash, and storefronts flood, oh my! —Booklist...

  • Nasty the Snowman

    E.W. Leroe

    Twelve-year old twins Chris and Courtney discover their Uncle Burke barely alive in the snow, and they take up the search for the mythical Draken in the hopes of stopping it before it turns the town into a frozen wasteland. Original....

  • Monster Vision

    E.W. Leroe

    When twelve-year old Jamie visits the Singing Stones, she accidentally releases the spirit of the dead magician Marco, and then finds herself in possession of a pair of cursed contacts that belong to the evil monster. Original....

  • New Friends

    Susan Evans McCloud

  • The Ideal Choice

    Caroline Anderson

    Dr. Tricia Page arrived at the small rural clinic to cover her friend Linsey's maternity leave. But, after a disastrous first encounter with Dr. Rhys Williams and his three children, Tricia had more than a suspicion that Linsey was matchmaking. S...

  • A Guilty Affair

    Diana Hamilton

    He belonged to another woman! Even as the champagne flowed at her engagement party, Bess realized she was promising herself to the wrong man... Her fiance was kind, loving. Bess had even looked forward to becoming the perfect wife. Until Luke V...

  • Uncertainty

    Michael Larsen

    Danish reporter Martin Molberg is driven by demons. His girlfriend's murder remains unsolved. Suspicion clings to him like a cold sweat. His mental state is crumbling under a blitz of Zantac and Demerol. Yet perhaps most disturbing is the grainy phot...

  • The Sparrow

    Mary Doria Russell

    A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first c...

  • Irma the Flying Bowling Ball

    Tom Ross

    Irma, a bowling ball, has her own carrying case, gets polished every day, and wins lots of tournaments, until she sees a balloon and mistakes it for a flying bowling ball and her desire to fly changes her life, sending her on a series of topsy-turvy ...

  • Nana Hannah's Piano

    Barbara Bottner

    Nana Hannah helps Sonny play the piano and tells him that he will be good at whatever he does, and when Nana twists her ankle and needs some cheering up, they watch the World Series together, and Sonny realizes that he has room in his life for both b...

  • Marie in Fourth Position

    Amy Littlesugar

    Marie's dream is to dance beneath the spotlight in the Paris Opera, but she finds herself only a "rat" in the chorus, until Marie's parents send her to pose for master artist Edgar Degas and he leads her to an unforgettable pose that wins the hear...

  • Amazon Diary

    Hudson Talbott

    The handwritten diary of a twelve-year-old boy offers readers a perspective on the Yanomami tribe that takes him in when his plane crashes, a story that follows such adventures as Alex's participation in the rescue of a kidnapped girl....

  • Tanya Steps Out

    Patricia Lee Gauch

    Even the youngest of dancers will enjoy following Tanya as she learns new positions by imitating a cat, a frog, and an antelope in ballet class as children pull a tab to reveal a colorful illustration of the animal in the correct pose....

  • Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks

    Verna Aardema

    Illustrated in full color. Beloved storyteller Verna Aardema is at her finest in this African animal tale, weaving charm and suspense with a delightfully satisfying resolution. Peering down from her treetop perch, a lonely lioness admires the noisily...

  • How Many Miles to Jacksonville?

    Tony Johnston

    For the narrator, his sister, and his best friend, an approaching T&NO train means flattening Indian pennies on the tracks, sitting on the plush seats of emptied-out cars, and checking the aisles for leftover sugar candy, and when the train pulls out...

  • Four Pups and a Worm

    Eric Seltzer

    Illustrated in full color. Who are you going to call when you cannot tie your tie, when your chopper will not fly, when your car begins to steam, when your mower spurts and screams? Why, you call Four Pups and a Worm, of course--the most industrious ...

  • Dot Has Spots

    Roberta Edwards

  • A Very Strange Dollhouse

    Jennifer Dussling

  • Ten Little Ballerinas

    Joan Holub

    It's almost time for the big ballet show. The musicians are tuning up their instruments, and the ten little ballerinas--ths stars of the show--are ready to dance. But they all need some help. One ballerina has lost her crown, another can't decide whi...

  • The Princess Lost Her Locket

    Jerry Smath

    Poor little princess! Somehow, somewhere, she's lost her favorite locket. But this little princess doesn't give up easily. She sets off to search every nook and cranny of the castle to find her missing keepsake. Includes 25 fabulous, jewel-like stick...

  • Virtual Fred

    Vincent Courtney

    Illustrated in black-and-white. He played the game and out they came! To escape the endless chores on his aunt's chicken farm, Fred plays his computer's virtual reality game, Dumb. Playing Dumb, Frederick becomes Sir Frederick, the Fearless Knight ba...

  • Stitch in Rhyme

    Belinda Downes

    Illustrated in full color. A former artist-in-residence at Queen Elizabeth's England Hampton Court Palace and an artist widely exhibited around the world, Belinda Downes is a needlesmith of royal quality. Now she has stitched playful pictures of Jack...

  • The Mummy's Gold

    Kate McMullan

  • Anthony Ant's Treasure Hunt

    Lorna Philpot

    Illustrated in full color. The amusing and amazing Anthony Ant swings back into action in this tantalizing tale of lost jewels and hidden treasure. After Anthony finds a treasure map under his bedroom floor, he embarks on an exciting journey to find ...

  • Giant Giants and Magic Mermaids

    Cristina Mesturini

  • King Big Wig

    Portia Aborio

  • Breakout!: Escape from Alcatraz

    Lori Haskins

    Illustrated in full color. Alcatraz, San Francisco's number one tourist attraction, played a pivotal role in American history from the 1930s through the 1960s housing some of the nation's most notorious criminals. Teachers can use this gripping true ...

  • The Angel Knew Papa and the Dog

    Douglas Kaine McKelvey

    When a sudden flood rushes across the land, sweeping her father and her simple life away, a girl and her mule friend must face the flood alone, and just when it appears that the flood will overtake them, the girl encounters an angel who gives her the...

  • Voltage

    Easton Royce

    Acts of nature'or acts of revenge? When Agents Mulder and Scully are sent to investigate the freak lightning storms killing off residents in a small Oklahoma town, they uncover a jolting pattern. All of the electrified victims also happen to be enemi...

  • I'll Be Home Soon, Snoopy

    Charles M. Schulz

    Meet the Peanuts Gang!

    When Charlie Brown goes on a trip with his family, he leaves Snoopy with Linus and Lucy, and tells him, "We'll be back in a few days." But it seems like it's been a hundred years. Will the round-headed kid ...

  • To Build a New Jerusulem

    Davies

    In August 1892, Keir Hardie took up his seat in Parliament as the first independent Labour MP. Hardie's world was a bleak one of factories, cities, fledgling trade unions and manual work. Today, over a century on, the computer terminal has replaced t...

  • Yesterday in the Back Lane

    Bernice Rubens

    Bronwen's life has been tainted by her killing of a man who tried to rape her in the lane behind her parents' house. She tells nobody about the incident but her guilt manifests itself in the frequent nosebleeds she has at awkward moments. Fifty years...

  • We, the Nation

    Ann Davies

    This work analyzes one of the most successful political organizations the world has ever seen. Since the election of 1945, the Conserative Party has been decisively defeated once (1966) but has recorded eight clear victories. This independent survey ...

  • The Book Of Virtues

    William J. Bennett

    Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right an...

  • Song of Songs

    Sholom Aleichem

    A tender Jewish tale follows the story of a young boy named Shimek who finds himself falling in love with Buzie, the daughter of his deceased brother, and due to shyness can only express his feelings through quoting the Bible. 15,000 first printing....

  • The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover

    Kinky Friedman

    From the author of such outrageous and hilarious books as Elvis, Jesus & Coca-Cola, and God Bless John Wayne--a new Kinky Friedman (no relation) detective story. Soon after he is hired by a lovely young woman to find her missing husband, Kinky smells...

  • Mountain Biking to the Extreme

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Blake Coffey knows the mountain trails better than anyone. He practices harder than anyone. And nobody can pull the stunts he does. So winning the Summit Race seems to be a sure thing.until he finds a backpack of hundred-dollar bills along the tra...

  • Snowboarding to the Extreme

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • The Sacrifice

    Ina Kramer

    In The Lioness, Thalionmel was forced to witness the murder of her parents and the destruction of her childhood home. Now, desolated, she departs for the imperial city of Neetha, where she finds consolation among the priests and priestesses in the Te...

  • Tame the Wild Wind

    Rosanne Bittner

    A MAN HAUNTED BY VENGEANCE Half-breed Gabe Beaumont had had to choose between the Sioux tribe of his mother and the white family of his father, and his choice had cost him everything. Settlers had murdered his Indian wife and child, and now reveng...

  • Betrothed

    Elizabeth Elliott

    EXQUISITE TEMPTATION... Baron Guy of Montague came to Lonsdale Castle prepared to fight for what was rightfully his...only to find a woman who made him all but forget his purpose. With her angel's face and womanly curves, Lady Claudia Chiavari was e...

  • Felix and the 400 Frogs

    Jon Buller

    Illustrated in full color. Felix is in a real fix. After deciding he wants to be a mind reader when he grows up, Felix falls into a wild adventure that finds him leading an army of frogs against an evil lawn elf. Now he is beginning to think that a c...

  • The Teeny Tiny Monster

    R.U. Scary

  • There's a Monster in the Closet!

    R.U. Scary

    Illustrated in full color. Poor Zoe. She sees monsters everywhere--behind the mirror, under the bed, in her closet, and in her head. But soon she finds the not-so-scary truth about those big, bad monsters!  ...

  • The Emperor's Birthday Suit

    Cindy Wheeler

    Illustrated in full color. Here's a fresh and funny retelling of the beloved classic! A vain Emperor is duped by two tailors who make him a magic birthday suit. While everyone in the land pretends to see the new suit, a brave child shouts that the Em...

  • The Conqueror

    Brenda Joyce

    HE WAS A GOLDEN, BARBAROUS INVADER Like a pagan god, Rolfe the relentless rode into Castle Aelfgar to claim it and the Lady Alice as his prize. Lauded for his bravery in France, in England he was the hated enemy. Once ensconced in his new domain, Ro...

  • Nerd No More

    Kristine L. Franklin

  • Let the Lynx Come In

    Jonathan London

    On a cold winter's night, a boy opens his door and lets a magical lynx into his home, and is quickly convinced by the lynx to sit on his back and travel with him on an exciting adventure to places far, far away....

  • OP JB: The Last Great Secret of the Second World War

    Christopher Creighton

    During the 1930s, the Nazi Party looted thousands of pounds, hiding the proceeds in secret accounts. The key to getting it back lay with Nazi treasurer, Martin Bormann. This book tells the story of Ian Fleming's raid to snatch Bormann out of Berlin. ...

  • The Magic Toy Box

    Rodney Peppe

    A vivacious cast of creatures pops out of a mysterious toy box, such as a rabbit on a train and a spunky monkey, but Pongo cannot figure out exactly what he is and soon discovers that he is a one-of-a-kind original and, therefore, very special....

  • The Legacy of Gird

    Elizabeth Moon

    Looking to her liberator, Gird, who enabled her to become the finest paladin her world had ever known, Paksennarrion learns the story of Luap, Gird's sworn follower and the king's illegitimate son. Original....

  • Whispered Promises

    Brenda Jackson

    Even a once-in-a-lifetime love... When Halston Parker calls his daughter Caitlin to his deathbed, she's shocked to discover that her ex-husband, Dex Madaris, has been summoned as well. It's been four years since Caitlin felt the heat of Dex's touch,...

  • Starlight

    Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  • Melody

    V.C. Andrews

    MELODY LOGAN KNEW HER BEAUTIFUL MOTHER, HAILLE, WAS UNHAPPY IN THEIR HARDSCRABBLE MINING TOWN.... But with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe -- until a dreadful mine accident ripped her from her family's moorings. She ...

  • Slocum's Folly

    Jake Logan

    NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED John Slocum didn't see any harm in helping a couple of greenhorns settle in the West. After all, he didn't really have anything better to do. And helping Harvey and Lawrence claim their ranch was better than starving t...

  • Slocum's Grubstake

    Jake Logan

    THIS TIME, SLOCUM'S ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE LAW. John Slocum was just trying to pan enough gold from his claim to buy a hot meal and a bottle of whiskey. But before long, a gang of masked bandits started robbing prospectors and mining towns every...

  • Nevada Tough

    John S. McCord

    Becoming restless for adventure, Darnell Baynes finds an opportunity when a suspicious financial report arrives from the family's gold mine in Nevada, prompting him to prepare for a dangerous confrontation. Original....

  • Buried Pleasures

    J.R. Roberts

    The Barrows Boarding house in Sullivan City is one friendly place. Run by only Linda Barrows and her nineteen-year-old daughter, Lisa. the smiles are warm as fresh pie and doubly wide. But isn't it strange they never seem to have more than one guest ...

  • Colorado Wolfpack

    Jon Sharpe

    Threatened by the notorious Wolf Rollins at the height of a silver war in southwest Colorado Territory, Skye Fargo joins forces with Ike McDermott, a foul-tempered prospector, and Morning Sky, a beautiful Ute widow. Original....

  • Spanish Blood

    Mike Blakely

    In 1870, Bart Young heads for the New Mexico Territory, where he's heard men were making fortunes overnight in land speculation on the old Spanish grants. He figures to be a rich land baron before the year is out.But the ranchers are stubborn and the...

  • Bloody Bones Canyon

    Judd Cole

    Born the son of a great chieftain but raised by frontier settlers, Touch the Sky returns to protect his tribe from renegades, but he is forced by Cheyenne law to leave to avenge the brutal slaughter of their peace chief, Gray Thunder, and without his...

  • Orphan Train

    Judd Cole

    Loyal to both his Cheyenne heritage and the white frontier settlers who raised him, Touch the Sky is torn between his loved ones in the wake of a train robbery that threatens a group of orphaned children. Original....

  • The Outlaw Tamer

    Max Brand

    Sandy is a gentle giant who would never hurt anyone or anything, but if he is crossed, he can tame any outlaw and outshoot the quickest gunman, and even the lowest outlaws in the country hired to kill Sandy do not stand a chance. Reprint....

  • Longarm and the Minute Men

    Tabor Evans

    When a renegade band of cowboys called the Minute Men take over a town and begin executing anyone who stands in their way, everyone is too terrified to do anything until Longarm demonstrates his personal brand of law enforcement. Original....

  • I Rode With Jesse James

    Charles Hackenberry

    Hired by the Pinkerton agency to track down the infamous outlaw Jesse James, ex-con Willie Goodwin finds himself drawn to the lives of the James and Younger clans and especially to James's cousin Sarah Cole. Original....

  • Deliverance Drive

    Suzann Ledbetter

    BRAVE WOM IN A CRUEL LAND Jenna French is still young and beautiful. But she is saddled with the debts of a husband who lied until he died--and faced with a desperate gamble to free herself of them. Somehow Jenna must drive a herd of cattle to ...

  • The Long Walk

    Karl Lassiter

    An epic of the western frontier brings together Manuelito, a warrior sworn to free his people from white tyranny; Joseph, who desperately seeks his abducted wife and son; and Shining Eyes, a man torn between two cultures. Original....

  • Candy Kiss

    Ginny Aiken

    There is a place that lives within every heart...a special place where only love can bloom. And from the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find their home -- and where tru...

  • The Constant Heart

    Trisha Alexander

    They came from different worlds. She was a Texas beauty who'd known privilege and luxury all her life. He was a photojournalist who'd spent a lonely childhood in foster homes, battling for his very survival. Yet from the moment Amy Carpenter and Sam ...

  • Carried Away

    Jill Barnett

    The proud descendants of a Highland clan, Calum and Cachann MacLachlan now live in seclusion on a Maine island. The brothers are as different in spirit as they are in looks. Though one is dark and levelheaded, the other fair and adventurous, they hav...

  • Almost a Lady

    Barbara Ankrum

    BETWEEN LOVE AND DANGER IT'S HARD TO CHOOSE Everyone had to go sometime, but Luke Turner never figured he'd end up freezing to death in the middle of a Colorado snowstorm, handcuffed to a gorgeous pickpocket named Maddy Barnes. Of course, she w...

  • The Determined Bride: A Novella

    Jo Beverley
    in

    Compelling story, a woman abandoned on the battlefield discovers that dreams can come true when an honorable commanding officer gallantly offers his name......

  • Chase the Wind

    Madeline Baker

    HEADSTRONG Elizabeth Johnson was a woman who knew her own mind. Not for her an arranged marriage with a fancy lawyer from the East. Defying her parents, she set her sights on the handsome young sheriff of Twin Rivers. But when Dusty's virile half...

  • The Plumed Bonnet

    Mary Balogh

    DECEIVING THE DUKE There was no reason for a lord as handsome and high and mighty as the Duke of Bridgewater even to glance at a humble vicar's daughter like Miss Stephanie Gray. No reason except the Duke was in need of amorous amusement, and ...

  • Legacy

    Jeanette Baker

    When a distant relative bequeaths a Scottish castle to Christina Murray, the beautiful college professor is off to a distant land to claim her inheritance. It is there that she meets Ian Douglas, a breathtakingly handsome man who may hold the key to ...

  • Theodora

    Sara Blayne

    Called the "Devil's Cub" because violence and danger seem to follow him, Caleb Dameron gallops across the moors . . . and nearly runs down a lithe, flaxen-haired lady. A woman possessed of a blessed gift, Theodora gazes into Dameron's...

  • Scandalous

    Candace Camp

    A MAN WITHOUT A PAST Who was the stranger on her doorstep? Why was someone trying to kill him? And what had happened to his memory? A WOMAN WITH A SECRET She had always been a model of propriety, the dutiful daughter and loving sister who pu...

  • A Kiss After Midnight

    Tanya Anne Crosby
    in

    Enchanting tale, a rebellious heiress who must wed by the stroke of midnight learns that a twist of fate has fulfilled her heart's deepest desire......

  • The Renegade and the Rose

    Christine Dorsey

    The Renegade... As the notorious Scotsman called the Renegade, fierce outlander Keegan MacLeod stikes terror in all who date oppose him. Obsessed with revenge against Foxworth Morgan, the Englishman who destroyed his family and dispatched him to the...

  • Valor's Reward

    Jean R. Ewing

    WOUNDED BY LOVE Jessica Whinburn's first meeting with handsome Lord Deyncourt was an outrage: he shot her! Traveling on the London road, Deyncourt believed he'd spied a highwayman robbing a coach...and fired his pistol. But the red-haired culprit ...

  • A Secret Yearning

    Debra Cowan

    A STOLEN KISS She was running for her life when she felt his arms around her, a stranger in a dark alley whose searing kiss branded her soul. He was stunned to realize that the woman who'd left his lips burning was a nun! Regina Harrison couldn't af...

  • Tumbleweed Heart

    Tess Farraday

    The first step toward love is always the hardest... CHRISTA She never forgot the man who saved her newborn daughter -- and gave her something to live for... TRICK The Nevada cowboy still dreamed of the courageous woman who once crossed his pa...

  • Silver Thorns

    Amanda Harte

    AMID THE FIRE AND FURY OF MEDIEVAL FRANCE, He is called the Silver Knight -- a magnificent warrior who returns from the Albigensian Crusades in glory and triumph to wed a woman he's never seen... HE WOULD DEFEND THEIR LOVE TO THEIR LAST BRE...

  • Dancer's Angel

    Holly Harte

    They call her "Ice Angel" because her cool, aloof demeanor betrays nothing. Not a glimmer of emotion. Not a hint of passion. Not a clue as to why this virginal beauty has taken up residence in a Texas brothel. It was a desperate gambit to ...

  • Love's Masquerade

    Violet Hamilton

    As the secret author of her brandy-benumbed father's London newspaper column, Leslie Danforth had to fend for herself far more than a lady should. Which was why she was exceedingly grateful to the two gentlemen who rescued her from the advances of an...

  • Second-Time Lucky

    Marcia Evanick

    Nothing felt as good as his brand of temptation .... He arrived without warning to claim a place in her life, but Luke Callahan reminded Dayna too much of the heartbreak she'd endured during her marriage to his brother! Luke wanted to help rai...

  • The Thief's Mistress

    Gayle Feyrer

    IT WAS A TIME OF MAGIC AND MIRACLES, WHEN WARRIORS BATTLED FOR A LADY'S HAND AND TROUBADOURS SANG SONGS OF LOVE.... She was passing through Sherwood Forest when the bandits struck, robbing her party of all they possessed. But from Marian, th...

  • Against All Odds

    Gwynne Forster

    The Past Could Destroy Their Love... Struggling to keep her headhunting company afloat, Manhattan executive Melissa Grant has no time for love. Then Adam Roundtree walks into her life. But the charismatic businessman is no ordinary client--he's the ...

  • Portraits

    Stef Ann Holm

    The only woman photographer in Eternity Colorado, or just about anywhere else, Leah Kirkland longs to be famous. Her dream of studying in a renowned Italian academy precludes courting. But that doesn't mean she's averse to romance with a free spirit ...

  • Desperado's Gold

    Linda Jones

    Jilted at the altar and stranded in the Arizona desert by a blown gasket in her Mustang convertible, Catalina Lane hoped for a tow truck and a lift to the nearest gas station. She certainly didn't expect a real, live desperado, swathed in black, ...

  • Licensed To Sin

    Faye Hughes

    He made her an offer she couldn't refuse... In a voice so sensual it made her toes curl, Nick Valdez invited her to confess her secrets -- and Jane Steele feared her cover had been blown! When the handsome gambler suggested they join forces...

  • Halloween Magic

    Sandra Heath

    The Betwitched Lord Verity Windsor was startled beyond belief when the dazzlingly handsome, wealthy, and charming Lord Nicholas Montacute declared himself her smitten slave. What witchcraft was at work to make a man who could have any woman he des...

  • Heaven Comes Home

    Nikki Holiday

    SECOND CHANCES Quentin Grandy and Mia Tortelli were the hottest movie-making duo in Tinsel Town--until a freak accident flung them out of the fast lane. And now they've been offered a golden opportunity to return to the land of the living...if the...

  • My Dearest Love

    Diana Haviland

    Fleeing antebellum Charleston in the wake of a family scandal, Briana Cameron boards a clipper ship and meets Captain Devlin Rafferty. Facing a future alone in San Francisco, Briana allows herself to be swept into a dangerous affair with Rafferty. Br...

  • Scandal's Bride

    Samantha James
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    Emotional romance, a young woman's reckless scheme to defy her father's ultimatum leads to a hasty union and unexpected passion......

  • Timeswept Love

    Cheryln Jac

    SHE JOURNEYED BACK IN TIME... Tucson policewoman T.J. McAllister is determined to catch Jake Calder, the man responsible for her sister's death-even if it kills her. Tracking him up a cliff nearly does, especially when she tumbles off... and land...

  • An Impromptu Charade

    Isobel Linton

    A LADY'S DISGUISE Dressed in her oldest riding clothes, mud-splattered, headstrong Lady Elinor, the Earl of Cheshire's eldest daughter, had ridden off in a tizzy. She refused to be wed to a stuffy lord she had never seen. She much preferred the hand...

  • Quicksilver

    Pam McCutcheon

    THE VOLUPTUOUS VISIONARY Diminutive, mercurial Terran psychiatrist Juelle Shanard was used to focusing on whatever she wanted, and she knew her heart's desire was to spur the planet Delphi into acceptance of Earth's technology. But then she met Eron...

  • The Enchanted Bride

    Ellen Tanner Marsh

    Her father's will was clear. Jewel MacKenzie had to marry within a year of his death or lose her beloved ancestral home. Determined to preserve her clan's heritage and maintain her independence, the Scottish beauty spurned the eligible bachelors in t...

  • The Gypsy Duchess

    Nadine Miller

    The Angry Earl Moira, the beautiful young widowed Duchess of Sheffield, knew all too well why Devon St. Gwyre, the Earl of Langley, hated her so: It was she who had shattered his younger brother's heart by refusing to marry the lovelorn youth. It ...

  • The Adventurers

    Michelle Martin

    A LIFE OF ADVENTURE SUITED HER WELL... UNTIL SHE WAS FACED WITH THE MOST PERILOUS GAME OF ALL: LOVE! The Earl of Northbridge was nobody's fool, but here he was lost in a sea of outrage, embarrassment -- and, perplexity. How could a woman masquerad...

  • You and No Other

    Cathy Maxwell

    CONFRONTATION... The constraints of quiet widowhood have become too much for Lady Caroline Pearson to bear---especially now that her brother-in-law has idiotically, and illegally, gambled away her house. Boldly, she confront's the new owner in per...

  • Burning Love

    Nan Ryan

    HE MADE HER HIS PRISONER... Ravishing, impulsive, and far too wealthy and independent for any gentleman to claim, Temple Longworth travels to the Arabian desert seeking adventure. And she finds it when she is captured by bandits and imprisoned in th...

  • Sweet Seduction

    Wanda Owen

    Misty, an impoverished, backwoods girl, was the loveliest young woman Drake Dalton had ever seen. But the elegant English lord was as foreign to Misty's life in the harsh wilderness as frontier Arkansas was to Drake's magnificent ancestral estate acr...

  • Sunsets

    Constance O'Day-Flannery

    When One Door Closed... Eve Cameron hit rock bottom when she lost her son to a tragic death... and her marriage crumbled right afterward. Ruthann Bucknum knew things couldn't get worse when, having walked out on her husband seven months earlier, s...

  • A Little Peace and Quiet

    Modean Moon

    SHE LOOKED FOR SERENITY Dr. Anne Locke has saved countless lives in her inner-city practice--and wounded her own spirit in the process. Moving to a small Oklahoma town to restore the Victorian house she has just bought seems like the perfect change ...

  • Endless Night

    Patricia Pellicane

    The roar of defeat echoes from Shiloh to Gettysburg as the Civil War enters its death throes. But for one man and woman, the battle has just begun... With the blood of the Yankee who attacked her on her hands, Confederate widow Ellie Potter flees ...

  • Minx

    Julia Quinn

    IT TAKES A MINX TO TEMPT A ROGUE... Beautiful and feisty Henrietta Barrett has never followed the dictates of society. She manages her elderly guardian's estate, prefers to wear breeches rather than dresses, and answers to the unlikely name of Hen...

  • Comanche Temptation

    Sara Orwig

    Honor Roth -- As proud and beautiful as her Comanche mother, she dreams of only one man: Luke McCloud. But girlish fantasies turn to harsh reality when her father's deathbed plea to save the family ranch makes her Luke's bride in name only. Trapped i...

  • Seasons of the Heart

    Alexandra Thorne

    The only daughter of a notorious Texas senator, Peaches Morgan-Strand looks every inch the pampered Southern belle she is. But as the owner of a magazine and the single mother of two, she is a no-nonsense businesswoman determined to make it on her ow...

  • Rose Red

    Flora Speer

    Once upon a time...they lived happily ever after. "I HAVE TWO DAUGHTERS, ONE A FLOWER AS PURE AND WHITE AS THE NEW-FALLEN SNOW AND THE OTHER A ROSE AS RED AND SWEET AS THE FIRES OF PASSION." Bianca and Rosalinda were the only treasures left to ...

  • Ransom

    Gloria Dale Skinner

    Swearing vengeance on bank robber Eagle Clark after his fiance is gravely wounded, Sheriff Grason Spencer attempts to raise cash in a sharpshooting match and is bested by markswoman Kasey Anderson, who seeks Clark on behalf of her sister. A man of...

  • Scandalous Suzanne

    Glenda Sanders

    Teasing her father's handsome Yankee guest Ethan Todd, Suzanne Crane is accidentally locked in the ice house with him and must marry him to avoid scandal, and the stubborn pair soon find that the match is not entirely unpleasant. Original....

  • Destiny Strikes Twice

    Maris Soule

    He was the man she'd been looking for all her life .... Effie Sanders returned to the lake to pack up her grandmother's house and the memories of summers spent tagging along with her sister Bernadette . . . and Parker Morgan. With his blue eyes an...

  • Prince of Swords

    Anne Stuart

    She is an impoverished noblewoman who lives by her wits as a Tarot reader for the English nobility. He is London's most notorious cat burglar. They met one dark, glittering night. Yet even Jessamine Maitland cannot foresee the destiny that will s...

  • Indiscreet

    Peggy Webb

    One look at him made women bare their secrets .... Bolton Gray Wolf appeared every inch the savage when he arrived to interview Virginia Haven, but the moment she rode up on a white Arabian stallion, challenge glittering in her eyes, he knew he wo...

  • Beyond the Kiss

    Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
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    Full-length novella, the wedding of Jeff Birmingham of THE FLAME AND THE FLOWER and his new bride Raelynn inflames the jealous ire of a determined rival......

  • Pieces of Dreams

    Jennifer Blake
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    Four heartwarming stories of the ties that bind. FOUR MASTERS OF ROMANCE. FOUR TALES OF LOVE DESTINED TO LAST FOREVER. ONE QUILT WEAVING A CIRCLE OF ETERNAL PASSION AND HOPE... Jennifer Blake's Pieces of Dreams It's 1843, four brides...

  • Forever Annie

    Jo Anne Cassity
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    Four heartwarming stories of the ties that bind. FOUR MASTERS OF ROMANCE. FOUR TALES OF LOVE DESTINED TO LAST FOREVER. ONE QUILT WEAVING A CIRCLE OF ETERNAL PASSION AND HOPE... Jo Anne Cassity's Forever Annie The owners of rival general ...

  • A Ring for Remembrance

    Christina Cordaire
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    Four heartwarming stories of the ties that bind. FOUR MASTERS OF ROMANCE. FOUR TALES OF LOVE DESTINED TO LAST FOREVER. ONE QUILT WEAVING A CIRCLE OF ETERNAL PASSION AND HOPE... Christina Cordaire's A Ring for Remembrance Sara Blake is a ...

  • Hand-Me-Down Hearts

    Linda Shertzer
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    Four heartwarming stories of the ties that bind. FOUR MASTERS OF ROMANCE. FOUR TALES OF LOVE DESTINED TO LAST FOREVER. ONE QUILT WEAVING A CIRCLE OF ETERNAL PASSION AND HOPE... Linda Shertzer's Hand-Me-Down Hearts A young widow is touche...

  • Bird of Prey

    Don Pendleton

    COMMAND CENTER At Stony Man Farm in Virginia. world trouble spots are monitored around the clock. And when watch-and-wait tactics aren't enough, the -- elite field teams go behind the lines -- and beyond the law. PREEMPTIVE STRIKE After a ...

  • Merciless

    Michael Cross

    Released from an institution for the criminally insane, Alexander Snow returns to New York City, where he leaves a trail of horrifying murders in his quest to find and destroy the psychiatrist who betrayed him. Original....

  • Deadly Company

    Jodie Larsen

    BAD MEDICINE JoAnn Rayburn is a brilliant research scientist for a major pharmaceutical company. Stacey Fordman is a passionately committed first-grade teacher, Jess Lawrence is a single father who will do anything to nurture and protect his littl...

  • The Lost World

    Michael Crichton

    It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. ...

  • Children of the Vampire

    Jeanne Kalogridis

    MY SISTER In the flickering gaslights of Vienna a brother watches--as a woman of alabaster beauty, his sister, takes two lovers at once. Then she pours her passion into the most forbidden act of all... MY BROTHER In the streets of Amsterdam a yo...

  • Walking Wounded

    Robert Devereaux

    Katt, a woman with a supernatural gift for healing must decide whether to cure her terminally ill husband or take his sensual lover for herself, while she stays one step of a serial killer on her heels. Original....

  • The Mountain King

    Rick Hautala

    The mountain stood proud and alone, shrouded in mist and snow, and surrounded by legends and fear. Some said a demon resided on the rocky slopes, an unholy thing that periodically emerged from the mist to claim a life. Mark Newman had hiked the trail...

  • Evil Intent

    Bernard Taylor

    Believing the people of Valley Green to be cruel and deceptive, John Callow seeks his revenge in an ancient curse that enables him to cause the painful deaths of everyone who has slighted him. Original....

  • Dark Charm

    Don Whittington

    Possessing the ability to sense the future, Titus, the new kid in town, realizes that he and his fellow student, Molly, are somehow cosmically linked by an approaching evil that they must confront together in order to survive. Original....

  • Trail of Darkness

    Darlene D. Bolesny

    Trail of Darkness is a historical fantasy of politics and intrigue set in a divided society under a stern inquisition, and under attack by creatures of darkness, written by the protege of Robert Asprin, bestselling author of the Thieves World and Myt...

  • The Fall of Sirius

    Wil McCarthy

    Awakened from a two-thousand-year cryostatis, Malyene Andreivne struggles to come to terms with the changes in her home world, which include the previously unthinkable union race of half-human and half-Waister beings. Original....

  • Retaliation

    Bill McCay

  • The Virgin and the Dinosaur

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    Returning from a dangerous time travel voyage, field agent Jake Bento and his paleontologist companion Peg create their own time travel firm, but Jake's jealous former employer seeks to discredit them and sabotages an expedition. Original....

  • The Spider's Test

    Dixie Lee McKeone

    Ambition and destiny drive one man to confront the insane lord of the Spiderfell. Richard Endier has no choice. For the sake of his people, he must meet the Spider on the creature's own ground in a battle of wit and deception. The future of a new kin...

  • Rock of Ages

    Walter Jon Williams

    After years of struggle, Drake Maijstral has been rated Number One Burglar by the Imperial Sporting Commission. Surely by now he deserves a vacation— and he fully intends to take one, on Earth. But valuable items keep disappearing, and it&#x...

  • Time Station London

    David Evans

    Sent to 1940 London at the height of the Second World War, Master Temporal Warden Steven Whitefeather disguises himself as a British intelligence agent in order to flush out a Nazi sympathizer from his own century. Original....

  • A Darker Geometry

    Mark O. Martin; Gregory Benford

    KZIN... HUMANS... PAK... JOTOKI... OUTSIDERS... ALL THEIR SECRETS TOLD... At the heart of known space lies mystery: How did so anarchic and violent a species as the Kzin ever learn to cooperate sufficiently to develop the technology to conq...

  • Hunt the Heavens

    Chris Bunch

    Bounty hunter. Federation intelligence agent. Former prisoner of the terrifying Al’ar. Joshua Wolfe had been all those things. Now he’s on the hunt for secrets amid the ruble of the Great War.The Federation want the secrets to stay hidden, as doe...

  • The Eyes of Light and Darkness

    Ivan Cat

    COLD-SLEEP had given Earth the stars, but at what price? Filled with the hope of a new life on a new world, many a voyager had entered the cryo-containers aboard the titanic starships sent to populate Jayvee 9, Earth's lone far-flung colony. For som...

  • Anvil of the Sun

    Anne Lesley Groell

    SHADOW WARRIORS Born to an aristocratic family, Jenifleur boasts a lady's breeding and education. But the soaring heart that pumps her blue blood yearns for more dangerous pursuits, and her life's passion has always been to follow in her aunt Vera...

  • Eye of the Serpent

    Robert N. Charrette

    THE ORB TALISMAN Since the Timespell set them free, Yan Tanafres and Teletha have wandered far, seeking the lost city and secrets of the Dark Ones. But now Yan's quest is interrupted by war, for the land of Kolvin is besieged. The beastlike bregil...

  • To Sleep With Evil

    Andria Cardarelle
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The innocent and the damned... Desperate to escape the terrors of Ravenloft, Marguerite came to Lord Donskoy's castle full of hope for the future. Instead, she found herself betrothed to a mysterious purveyor of flesh whose secret past, like the d...

  • The Loneliest Magician

    Irene Radford

    Forbidden to use the dragon magic that is their only defense against their enemies, the people of Commune place their hopes in the hands of untested young magician Yaakke, who can discover his true identity from the dragons. Original....

  • The Golden Key

    Melanie Rawn; Jennifer Roberson

    IN MAGIC'S IMAGE -- In the duchy of Tira Virte fine art is prized above all things, both for its beauty and as a binding legal record of everything from marriages and births to treaties and inheritances. And although the Grand Duke is aware that the...

  • The Demons in the Green

    Tom Deitz

    BETWEEN LAND AND WATER, BETWEEN REALITY AND PHANTASM, ONLY THE POWER OF BLOOD AND FIRE CAN SAVE THE FUTURE The eerie death of a holy man is drawing the world's leaders to a magical Mexican city-- while predators from another reality plot the ulti...

  • Devil's Tower

    Mark Sumner

    The turning point of the Civil War had come when the bodies got up at Shiloh. Dangerous magic had risen on a flood of blood and violence, and it swept across the land, washing away all but the strong and the lucky. Unnatural powers had been loosed, a...

  • The Dawning of a New Age

    Jean Rabe
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    THE CHAOS WAR IS OVER. MAGIC HAS GONE AWAY...OR HAS IT? The gods have vanished, and magic wanes from Krynn. It i$ the Age of Mortals, but also the Age of Dragons, more massive and powerful than any seen before. They are devastating villages, ensla...

  • Rampage

    Danny Fingeroth

    Kidnapped by a renegade secret agent named Hildebrandt, Bruce Banner and his wife Betty are horrified when their captor uses Bruce to create an army of Hulk clones, and Spider-Man must help a friend from being transformed. Original....

  • The Maiden Bride

    Rexanne Becnel

    Born in Shame... All her life the ravishing Linnea de Valcourt has been reviled as the "cursed" daughter of Maidenstone Castle. Redeemed by Deceit... Now, to save her beloved twin sister from a terrible fate, she will sacrifice herself by impers...

  • Rogues and Ranchers

    Annette Broadrick

    WHO CAN RESIST A TEXAN...OR A CALLAWAY? They were known as the mighty Callaways... three irresistible brothers whose Texas charm got them whatever -- and whomever -- they wanted. Now they looked to the next generation to carry on the family tradi...

  • Bringing Benjy Home

    Kylie Brant

    MISSING: BENJY GARRISON, AGE TWO Trey Garrison was a security consultant, a man of action, a man who trusted his heart to no one--except his sister and her little boy, Benjy. Now Benjy had been kidnapped, and Trey was desperate. Jaida West was ...

  • Unexpected Son

    Marisa Carroll

    A compelling stranger comes looking for the family he never knew and some meaning to his chaotic life. A lonely young preacher, newly widowed, befriends him, risking Tyler's disapproval and her place at the head of the pulpit. An explosive ...

  • The Wager

    Sally Cheney

    Not To Be Trusted A rogue draped in a mantle of savagery and civilization was the only way to describe Peter Desmond, she'd decided. But Marianne Trenton shuddered to realize she was dangerously intrigued, indeed, beguiled, by the very man she&#...