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New Books List: 715 titles

  • Black Canyon

    Tom Wilson

  • Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space

    Dav Pilkey

    He defeated the diabolical Dr. Diaper.... He terminated the terrible talking toilets....Now he's in for the fight of his life. Can Captain Underpants and his drawers hold up under the pressure from three massive, tentacled space aliens (in disguise) ...

  • The Catastrophist

    Ronan Bennett

    The Catastrophist is a brilliant, highly acclaimed novel of love, passion, violence, and desire, set in the Belgian Congo in 1959. While expatriates loll about their pools in a colonial paradise soon to erupt into chaos, huge crowds are drawn to the ...

  • Eagle Strike

    Orr Kelly

    IN A WORLD MORE DANGEROUS THAN EVER BEFORE, VICTORIES WILL BE WON WITH DARING, SWIFTNESS, AND STEALTH. Guadalcanal... The Solomons... The Coral Sea...The legendary Pacific battlegrounds of a bygone era are about to erupt again--as the U.S. Navy em...

  • Edge of Night

    Don Pendleton

    A covert action group known only to the President, Stony Man's ultrasecret command center, cyberintelligence network and crack commandos battle terror with swift and deadly force. But with the new millennium, Stony Man faces a nightmare that may turn...

  • Hog Down

    James Ferro

    OVER THE DESERTS OF IRAQ ...The A-1 OA Warthogs are the final word in air-to-ground combat. Ripping the desert dunes apart with brutal efficiency, the only thing harder than the machines are the men who fly them. Behind enemy lines ...Major ...

  • Ice Station

    Matthew Reilly

    AT THE BOTTOM OF THE GLOBE... Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On the edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself...

  • Jason's Gold

    Will Hobbs

    "Gold!" Jason shouted at the top of his lungs. "Read all about it! Gold discovered in Alaska!" Within hours of hearing the thrilling news, fifteen-year-old Jason Hawthorn jumps a train for Seattle, stow away on a ship bound for the goldfields, and j...

  • The Lizard Man of Crabtree County

    Lucy A. Nolan

    Poor James Arthur is bored to death. Nothing exciting ever happens in Crabtree County. That is, until he learns that a giant lizard man has been spotted in the same area where he's just been. It's no surprise to poor James Arthur with his luck that h...

  • Manhunt

    Ian Slater

    IN AMERICA, YOUR BROTHER IS YOUR ENEMY.... Under an iron fist, the militia movement has mushroomed. Now two legendary leaders have been liberated from a heavily guarded Phoenix hospital--and hostages taken for a furious, bloody ride to the Califor...

  • Outer Darkness

    James Axler

    FIRE AND ASHES His new world born out of the fire and ashes of a nuclear exchange, a rogue warrior searches for ways to undo the past. With brother-in-arms Grant and the archivist Brigid Baptiste, he dares to seek out the secrets of time.... Ka...

  • Shadow Target

    Don Pendleton

    HARDSITE AMERICA Captured Russian crime boss Rurik Baklanov has turned state's witness and fingered his friends in high places. He gets a new face and a new identity for his efforts -- then stages a bloody double cross that spearheads his blueprin...

  • Sink the Scharnhorst

    Duncan Harding

    January, 1942. Hitler is paranoid about Norway. He thinks the new Anglo-American coalition will invade and urgently transfers forces north. Now he needs naval firepower to ward off enemy sea attacks -- but from where?

    Since April 1941, two great Ge...

  • Too Cool

    Duff Brenna

    "An unfaltering, unflinching, piercing look into a tormented, youthful heart."--The New York Times

    In the dead of winter, in the midst of a blizzard, Elbert Earl Evans--known as Triple E--has escaped from a Colorado reform school in a stolen O...

  • Wake of the Perdido Star

    Gene Hackman; Daniel Lenihan

    Academy Award winner Gene Hackman and leading underwater archaeologist Daniel Lenihan have combined their talents to create one of the most exciting--and critically acclaimed--adventure novels of our time. A rousing saga of shipwrecks, sea battl...

  • Assassin's Blood

    Malcolm Shuman

    Experience has taught Baton Rouge contract archaeologist Dr. Alan Graham that the picturesque landscape of Louisiana is rich with history that is both glorious ....and deadly. The tiny town of Jackson, Louisiana, is the site of Alan's newest inves...

  • Bone Hunter

    Sarah Andrews

    Forensic geologist Em Hansen uses her keen senses and fascinating scientific background to uncover the buried secrets of the most baffling murder cases. Now Em travels to a Utah paleontology conference, where a renowned dinosaur expert is found bruta...

  • Bones

    Jan Burke

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO JULIA SAYRE? She disappeared four years ago. A young mother of two, Sayre was more than a news story to reporter Irene Kelly. When Sayre's family sought Irene's help, the search became a personal mission--and a fruitless on...

  • Breakfast at Madeline's

    Matt Witten

    A Sleuth's Work Is Never Done.... Jacob Burns -- husband, father and frustrated writer -- has finally sold a screenplay. But success isn't all it's cracked up to be. Now he has writer's block, and spends his days drinking coffee in his favorit...

  • The Chocolate-Covered Contest

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy can hardly believe it. While visiting an amusement park owned by the world-famous Royal Chocolates Company, her friend Bess tears open a million-dollar candy wrapper in a contest. But when they go to collect, they’re told that someone else ha...

  • Color Her Dead

    Steve Brown

    Color Her Dead introduces one of the most interesting, attitudinal and sexy mystery heroines in years, Susan Chase, a lifeguard who moonlights as a runaway finder. When cranky, penny-pinching Mrs. Rogers wants her 26-year-old daughter found, Susan...

  • The Elvis and Marilyn Affair

    Robert S. Levinson

    Did they or didn't they? People will kill to find out! When actress Stevie Marriner, reigning "sex star of the soaps," becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a once famous movie director from the Golden Age of Hollywood, she calls on her ex--b...

  • A Fool and His Honey

    Charlaine Harris

    Uninvited Murder Sleepless nights, a cross-country chase and a temporary stint at motherhood turn Aurora Teagarden's life upside down. When her husband's niece Regina shows up unannounced on their doorstep with a baby and a secret, Aurora&...

  • Miss Seeton's Finest Hour

    Hamilton Crane

    Bombs away! No one can be trusted in World War II England, even an unassuming young art teacher named Miss Emily D. Seeton. Her suspicious sketches of the surrounding area call her loyalty into question. But instead of being hanged for spying, Mis...

  • Sad Water

    Teri Holbrook

    Nadianna Jesup, a pregnant young photographer from rural Georgia, is visiting Mayley, a village in Yorkshire, England, on an arts grant when she discovers a burned corpse floating in a river. No one, including historian Gale Grayson, Nadianna's compa...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Vampire's Revenge

    James Gelsey

  • The Tentmaker

    Michelle Blake

    "In Michelle Blake's The Tentmaker, we not only have the pleasure of meeting Lily Connor, an Episcopal priest who wrestles with doubt and temptation while solving a murder mystery--we also learn about the intrigues of church politics and the struggle...

  • The Vanishing Violinist

    Sara Hoskinson Frommer

    KILLER PERFORMANCE The prestigious International Violin Competition of Indianapolis lures musicians the world over, and this year, Joan Spencer's own future son-in-law is competing. More than beautiful music, however, Joan discovers a world of amb...

  • The Victim in Victoria Station

    Jeanne M. Dams

    A charming, quick-witted woman of a certain age, Dorothy Martin once more finds herself embroiled in a most puzzling crime...and a saga of greed, jealousy and murder. The victim: a fellow American, her seat companion on a commuter train to London....

  • Eve's Daughters

    Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    Yearning for love and dignity, four generations of women must come to grips with the choices they've made -- and those their mothers made before them. But breaking the cycle that has ensnared them over the decades will prove more difficult than the...

  • System

    Larry Burkett

  • A Walk to Remember

    Nicholas Sparks

    There was a time when the world was sweeter... when the women in Beau fort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and men donned hats... Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort ...

  • An Affair of Convenience

    Marissa Hall

    Mallory Reissen's daily planner said it all: meeting, meeting, have wild passionate sex with Cliff Young. Best friends, they agreed a no-strings-attached affair was their solution to busy careers and no time for dating. The problem was, once they'...

  • All in the Family

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    A BLIND DATE... Divorced dad Jed Cotts loves his two grown daughters, but he's fed up with their attempts at fixing him up on dates. He's already had his share of grief with their mother, an ultra-feminist who cured him of any romantic notio...

  • And Mother Makes Three

    Liz Fielding

    Stand-in mother... When Bronte Lawrence reads a letter from a little girl claiming to be her daughter, she knows there has been a mistake. There has -- little Lucy Fitzpatrick's letter has reached the wrong Lawrence sister! Her career-minde...

  • Assignment: Groom

    Jacqueline Diamond

    The Wedding Party: Anything can happen at a Bellamy wedding! The wedding of the year was about to become the scandal of the decade! And social secretary Anne Crumm was in the middle of it The groom-to-be was none other than her former flame, Er...

  • The Baby and the Badge

    Janice Kay Johnson

    MEG PATTON, SINGLE MOTHER AND THE NEWEST DEPUTY OF THE ELK SPRINGS SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, HAS FINALLY COME HOME. A NEW MAN, A NEW JOB, AND A MOTHERLESS BABY DON'T MIX It's time for Meg to reconcile with her sisters--and past time to introduce ...

  • The Baby Bond

    Lilian Darcy

    A DOUBLE BUNDLE OF JOY! Surrogate mother Julie Gregory was suddenly the only mother for the beloved baby she was carrying. And the baby's handsome father wasn't even aware she or the baby existed! Yet millionaire businessman Tom Callahan didn't inte...

  • The Baby Deal

    Alison Kelly

    Can one night of passion lead to marriage? Amanda-Jayne wasn't looking for a husband -- and if she had been, she would never have picked Reb Browne! He had a reputation for many things, but being a family man wasn't one of them. Now, after...

  • Baby on the Way

    Lois Richer

    Widow Caitlin Andrews is weeks away from welcoming her new baby into the world when she unexpectedly comes in contact with her late husband's brother. Though Jordan tells Caitlin his concern is for the new baby, he still yearns for the girl he should...

  • Baby Talk

    Marie Ferrarella

    There was no denying it. Juliette St. Claire was pregnant . . . And still extremely single. The successful businesswoman was determined to keep her baby and find her surprise arrival the perfect father. Yet her heart kept pulling her toward Gabe Sald...

  • Baby.Com

    Molly Liholm

    BABY ARRIVES ON DOORSTEP To his horror, bachelor Sam Evans was stuck with a baby--complete with a web page on "daddy" instruction What did he know about babies? He was more at home with a computer formula than baby formula! Baby Juliet's informati...

  • Bachelor Cure

    Marion Lennox

    Bemused? He was stunned! Dr. Tessa Westcott burst into Dr. Mike Llewellyn's life like a redheaded whirlwind. She wore stilettos, she said exactly what she thought and she turned his orderly world upside down. It wouldn't last. She was only arou...

  • Bachelor Father

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Every Man Has His Price! Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to Wyoming--to put themselves on the auction block! ...

  • Beauty and the Badge

    Lyn Stone

    Preschool teacher Mary Shaw craved nothing more adventurous than car pools and cookie baking. Then FBI agent Ford Devereaux swept her off her feet - literally - and into his murky, perilous world. Did she dare believe her muscular, magnificent captor...

  • Beguiled

    Lori Foster
    in

    Dane Carter is not who everyone thinks he is. The errant son has returned to the family company after his twin brother, Derek, was found murdered. However, everyone, including Derek's old flame, Angel, believes Derek is still alive. Dane's Mission Im...

  • Between Husbands and Friends

    Nancy Thayer

    Lucy met Kate when they were both young wives and mothers. In the years since, the two women and their husbands and children have become inseparable, spending every August together in a house on Nantucket. Lucy and Kate, each other's most trusted con...

  • The Book Club

    Mary Alice Monroe

    On the surface, it is a monthly book club. But for these five women, it is something more precious -- a chance to share their hopes and fears and triumphs. Eve--her husband's sudden death has turned her world upside down, cheating her of every sec...

  • Boots & Badges

    Rachel Lee

    When one woman seeks refuge in the small Wyoming town, four resourceful residents are drawn into the suspense that shadows this desperate stranger's life: A dedicated doctor. A courageous nurse. A valiant schoolteacher. A dauntless deputy. As t...

  • Born in Texas

    Ginger Chambers

    Welcome back to West Texas -- and the Parker ranch! Jodie Connelly is resourceful, but her husband, Tate, has her stymied. She just doesn't know what else she can possibly do. As a lawman, Tate was injured in the line of duty-he got caught in ...

  • A Boss in a Million

    Helen Brooks

    From secretary--to wife? Max Hunter's last secretary had called him a boss in a million, and Cory Masters soon discovered that she was now working for a man who more than lived up to his reputation! Cory tried to concentrate on her work, no...

  • Bride on the Loose

    Renee Roszel

    HE WAS ONE GORGEOUS COMPLICATION.... In one impulsive act, Dana Vanover dumped her fiancé, jumped overboard and -- for good measure -- decided to lose her memory. If no one knew who she was, it would be easier to shake her past! Enter Sam Taylor,...

  • Butterflies

    Martha Goldhirsh

  • Caitlyn's Cowboy

    Gina Jackson

    THE HEIRESS Caitlin Bradford was starting a new life. She'd left behind her unfaithful husband; she'd quit her high-powered job in advertising. Free from the suffocating hold of Boston high society, she came to Little Fork, Wyoming to sort o...

  • Celebrate the Child

    Amy Frazier

    A SINGLE BLOOM CAN BLOSSOM INTO A BOUQUET OF LOVE Little Rose made Dr. Fiona Applegate's quiet life complete. And as this single mother raised her adopted daughter, she never expected to want -- to need -- anyone else. Then handsome Chase Ri...

  • Cinderella's Tycoon

    Caroline Cross

    THE BUSINESS TYCOON "Honor" was Texas tycoon Sterling Churchill's middle name. So when a mix-up at the local sperm bank unexpectedly made him a father-to-be, he gallantly stepped forward to marry shy beauty Susan Wilkins. It was a marriage in name...

  • A Class Act

    Pamela Burford

    MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED... Who, but handsome, preppy prelaw Gabe Moreau? And it was obvious to everyone except Gabe that what he felt for Dena Devlin-the janitor's daughter!--was just puppy love. But it was Dena who walked away when Gabe lost his i...

  • A Cowboy's Code

    Alaina Starr

    AN IRRESISTIBLE ATTRACTION... Years ago, Emma Reardon had transformed herself from a poor farmer's daughter to an independent career woman. And though she'd sworn to never look back, everything changed while interviewing Nick Barlow. For Emma wa...

  • Dad in Demand

    Metsy Hingle

    THE KISS THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING When an innocent kiss turned passionate, Sean Fitzpatrick was shocked to find that girl-next-door Katie Malloy had grown into a fiery woman. And she wanted him to find the right daddy candidate to father her child!...

  • A Dad of His Own

    Diana Whitney

    FATHER FOUND Ten years ago, Chessa Margolis thought one lie wouldn't hurt anyone. But when little Bobby tracked down the dad on his birth certificate, Nick Purcell appeared--claiming his newfound son! Chessa knew she and Nick had never actually me...

  • Daddy's Home

    Pamela Bauer

    LOCAL MAN IS HERO Thirty-five-year-old Tyler Brant saved the life of popular TV personality Kristen Kellar when the small plane the were traveling in crashed into the St. Louis River near Hibbing, Minnesota. Brant--single father of a six-year-old d...

  • Desert Kiss // Besos En El Desierto

    Gloria Alvarez

    Daniel Rivera can't believe his eyes--or ears. This Aztec knockout doesn't look a thing like the naive, innocent teenager he'd once loved. That sassy, sexy voice doesn't sound like her, either. But it's Patricia Martinez, all right. And Daniel's to b...

  • Designated Daddy

    Jane Toombs

    007 FACES FATHERHOOD Steely government agent Steve Henderson was a lone wolf. Afraid of nothing. Needing no one. Until compassionate nurse Victoria Reynaud placed a newborn in his arms, inexplicably calling the baby girl HIS! The orphaned li...

  • Double Take

    Terry Fowler

    Zachary Taylor did a double take the first time he saw Casey. He won her heart, married her-and then ran away, overwhelmed by a personal crisis. Now, back in line with God's will, he's hoping she'll give him a second chance. Zach wants to convince...

  • Dr. Cowboy

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Get ready for some fast and loose matchmaking from The McCabes of Texas. John and Lilah McCabe have four of the sexiest sons Laramie, Texas, has ever seen -- but no grandbabies! Now they're fixin' to get a whole passel of 'em. Local husband hun...

  • Easter at the Lakes

    Sara Hylton

    Falling in love with local businessman Gerald Styles, Mary, a gentle and shy librarian, accepts his invitation to accompany him to The Lakes, a luxurious mountain resort in rural England, where unexpected surprises and revelations change her life for...

  • Falling for the Enemy

    Dawn Stewardson

    Unavoidable liaison... Every Tuesday, Hayley Morgan drops off her six-year-old son, Max, at the baby-sitter's, then drives the deserted stretch of highway south from New Orleans to the maximum security prison where she works. Every Tuesday, Max wai...

  • Family Fortune

    Roz Denny Fox

    In the Lyon family, old secrets give rise to new ones. The Lyon family matriarch has disappeared. And now her money's disappearing too-bit by bit. Margaret Lyon's grandniece, Crystal Jardin, who looks after the family finances as well as those of t...

  • For Keeps

    Janice Sims

    A Secret Love Giving in to her mother's advice that the land of the Big Sky was no place for a young woman, Cheyenne Roberts left home for the bright lights of Chicago. Now a successful accountant, Cheyenne has been summoned home to Montana to res...

  • Forever True // Solo Tuya

    Elaine Alberro

    Celebrating her long-awaited quinceańera, Elena Garcia was ready for romance. That night, she discovered the sweetest passion of all: the forbidden kind. Antonio Del Valle was a cleaning woman's illegitimate son; Elena descended from Cuban aristoc...

  • Having Leo's Child

    Emma Darcy

    Get this, Teri, and get it good! You are going to marry me. It takes two people to do right by their child. And we are going to do it together! Leo didn't stop there. He kissed Teri with all the sizzling heat that had fired their affair. But she ...

  • Her Passion for Dr. Jones

    Lilian Darcy

    Dr. Harry Jones is pretty sure that it is a mistake having Rebecca Irwin work in their Southshore practice As daughter of his partner, surely her father will make allowances he wouldn’t with someone else? Unfortunately for Harry, Rebecca overhears ...

  • Her Surprise Family

    Patricia Thayer

    With these Rings HIS SURPRISE WIFE? Rafe Covelli saw marriage as The Great Surrender. But new-gal-in-town Shelby Harris had this die-hard bachelor's mind swimming with thoughts of home-cooked meals, passionate bedtime kisses and baby cuddle...

  • The Hijacked Wife

    Bonnie K. Winn

    Do you take this stranger? One minute Summer Harding was reeling from a broken heart. The next, she was a stranger's wife and a chubby toddler's mother. And on the run for her life... Summer knew it took a lot for fugitive witness Jack Anderson to en...

  • Holding the Baby

    Laura MacDonald

    Dr. Lewis Gregson is in a bind. His sister has flown abroad to be with her seriously ill husband, and he's been left holding the babies -- literally. The three kids are delightful, but he badly needs aid. When he hears Nurse Jo Henry saying she w...

  • If You Loved Me

    Vanessa Grant

    IF YOU WANTED ME Surgeon Emma Garrett had made sacrifices to follow her dream of becoming a doctor. And yet none was as painful as turning down her first and greatest love. Wildlife photographer Gray McKenzie had offered Emma an idyllic life in the ...

  • The Impatient Groom

    Sara Wood

    Marrying in haste! No sooner had Sophia Charlton discovered she was the descendant of an Italian count and heiress to a fortune than she was whisked away to Venice by the sultry Prince Rozzano di Barsini--having consented to be his bride! Dazed by...

  • Intimate Secrets

    Candice Poarch

    Years ago, Jonathan Blake’s fiancée died the night before their wedding. No one has been able to capture his heart since. But Jonathan carries a secret that could come back to haunt him. Johanna Jones returns to Nottoway, Virginia, ...

  • Killian's Passion

    Barbara McCauley

    THE MILLIONAIRE'S MISSION Killian Shawnessy was arrogant, imposing...and worth a bundle. And it was up to feisty Cara Sinclair to deliver the brooding heir to his long-lost family. Yet after locating the mysterious millionaire, Cara discovered the...

  • Lean Mean & Lonesome

    Annette Broadrick

    "Me, lonesome? Hell, I'm too mean to ever get lonesome." -- Rafe McClain, ornery ex-Texan Love? Mighty scarce in Rafe's hardscrabble life. So he'd learned to live solo -- and liked it that way. Until a mysterious plea for help had the restless, r...

  • Life Skills

    Katie Fforde

    Julia Fairfax isn't quite herself today. It's not like Julia to quit her job just because she was passed over for a promotion. Or to call off her engagement just because her fiance is a bore. And it's certainly not like her to pack her bags, suble...

  • Living Together

    Francine Pascal

    NEW YEAR. NEW FRIENDS. NEW LIFE. Jessica and Elizabeth move out of the dorm...and move in with Sam and Neil. Dana's ready to take the plunge...but Todd's getting cold feet. Tom wants his old like back...Chloe just wants Tom. Nina hates change...b...

  • Logan's Bride

    Elizabeth August

    A WOMAN WITH A PAST Katrina Polinari couldn't seem to escape her family ties. Though she'd made good as a police officer, to many people she was still linked with the sins of her father. A MAN WITH A FUTURE Boyd Logan was hot on the ...

  • Lost Highways

    Curtiss Ann Matlock

    Straight out of the heartland of the South, here is a novel to gently rock the heart and soul, a novel of a woman traveling too long on an endless stretch of lonesome road who finds her way home at last. Meet Rainey Valentine: thirty-five, twice d...

  • A Man Worth Marrying

    Phyllis Halldorson

    ONLY HIS... The sexy, experienced older man was definitely off-limits for third-grade schoolteacher Eve Costopolous -- Gray Flint was her student's father. Nevertheless, he inspired dreams of white satin. But could this sweet virgin bring the ...

  • Maria Who?

    Francine Pascal

    I'm sick of it. I want to scream. Just once I'd like them to notice ME. Instead of perfect, genius, never-had-a-bad-hair-day Nina. But that's never going to happen. Because everyone in this family knows who's important. And it definitely isn't me...

  • The Marriage Experiment

    Catherine Spencer

    An explosive passion! Dr. Grant Madison's return might be causing a stir amongst the single women of Springdale, but he's back for one reason only -- to rebuild his marriage. When he and Olivia first got married, they had one thing in c...

  • The Marriage Protection Program

    Margaret Watson

    HER GUARDIAN GROOM Fiercely independent Janie Murphy knew she was Deputy Ben Jackson's only hope for gaining custody of orphaned Rafael. He needed to marry immediately, and their one night of soul-searing passion had become grist for Cameron's rum...

  • Married After Breakfast

    Colleen Collins

    THREE DAYS CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING.... Were there ever two more different people than millionaire Dirk Harriman and showgirl Belle O'Leary? He was a communications tycoon, while she talked to her pets. He liked his champagne expensive, while she hop...

  • Married to the Sheik

    Carol Grace

    SHE COULDN'T SAY NO TO THE SHEIK! MARRY, his family said, and even powerful Sheik Ben Ali could not deny his duty. So he quickly dispatched his able assistant, Emily Claybourne, to seek him out a bride -- and discovered that the devoted Emily would ...

  • Marrying Mr. Right

    Carolyn Greene

    The last time Greg saw his wife was on their wedding night -- from the back of a police car! Before their vows could be consummated he'd been arrested for something he didn't do. Now Greg is back, and ready to claim Christina as his virgin bride. The...

  • Million Dollar Marriage

    Maggie Shayne

    The Fortunes of Texas: Membership in this family has its privileges ...and its price. But what a fortune can't buy, a true-bred Texas love is sure to bring! THE PRICE Like his infamous father before him, Holden Fortune led a carefree existence....

  • Mistress by Arrangement

    Helen Bianchin

    A CONVENIENT AFFAIR? Nikos Alessandros needed a social hostess and he'd decided that beautiful, sophisticated Michelle would be the perfect companion -- temporarily. For Michelle, their pretend affair would certainly help her escape the suita...

  • Mountain Magic

    Susan Hardy

    A DREAMY COUNTRY GAL Clementine "Clem" Harper loves roaming the woods of her beloved North Carolina mountains, searching for the precious gems she uses to create exquisite jewelry. Unfortunately, her cherished lifestyle is threatened by the huge deb...

  • Night Whispers

    Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

    LET'S TALK ABOUT LOVE... Thanks to her sexy radio talk show, Night Whispers DJ Kelsey Logan has become infamous! Suddenly, men all over Baltimore are desperate to discover the true identity of Lady Love, the sultry siren who keeps them up all nigh...

  • Now And Always // Para Siempre

    Caridad Scordato

    Meet Connie Gonzalez. She's saucy, single, and one of the best FBI agents this side of South Beach. Not bad for a scrappy marielita! All that's missing from Connie's life is aman--someone unlike Victor Cienfuegos. The dashing Cuban-American M.D. is t...

  • One Moment Past Midnight

    Emilie Richards

    EVERY SECOND COUNTS... Hannah Blackstone's little girl had been kidnapped, but no one was willing to help her. No one except Quinn McDermott. Hannah hardly knew more than his name, but all that mattered was that her mysterious new neighbor had tak...

  • One Sexy Daddy

    Vivian Leiber

    A Temporary Arrangement...? Adam Tyler was used to setting the rules and being a bachelor -- then he became a single dad. His little girl had him wrapped around her finger. He knew he needed a nanny, but a wife? As the only unmarried woman in Deer...

  • Overnight Father

    Debbi Rawlins

    Suddenly a husband... Matthew Monroe was about to get married--except he already was! Apparently he'd forgotten to have his marriage of convenience to the lovely Lexy Constantine annulled--although he'd never forgotten Lexy. ...and a daddy! Lexy...

  • The Perfect Wife

    Shari MacDonald

    The Salinger Sisters series spins the tales of four sisters who find love - in spite of them-selves. Now in Book Three, after years of trying  to be "the perfect wife," Felicia is struggling, for her children's sake, to rebuild her life fol...

  • The Plan

    Linda Lyle

    If a grown woman can have a crush, then Kyle is it for Rachel Grant. Desperate for his attention, Rachel concocts a plan to catch Kyle's eye. Suddenly, her plan pays off and Kyle asks her out. But then her professor friend, Dr. Randall Harris invi...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Nina Alexander

    An impossible decision... When Claudia tries out for the guys' soccer team, her boyfriend, Aaron, isn't too happy about it. And when she wins his position, he can't take anymore. Before she knows what is happening, they're over. Claudia can't bel...

  • Proposition: Marriage

    Eileen Wilks

    One memorable adventure was what pretty, practical Jane Smith had wanted. After all, her life had proved to be as ordinary as her name. But Jane never dreamed she'd end a conventional vacation almost kidnapped by rebels, then rescued by the most sedu...

  • The Rancher Gets Hitched

    Cathie Linz

    An MBA didn't prepare beautiful, savvy Tracy Campbell for life on a Colorado ranch, especially not as the housekeeper! But how hard could it be? she asked herself. Then she scraped the exploded casserole off the ceiling. And learned what a challen...

  • Reform of the Playboy

    Mary Lyons

    Tall, dark and dangerously sexy... Finn Maclean has a reputation as a ruthless playboy, never seen without a beautiful woman on his arm. It's no wonder that Harriet is suspicious of his lethal brand of attraction. Harriet Wentworth might be...

  • Remember Me

    Margie Walker

    Sometimes, Love's Secrets... DNA lab technician Layla Griffin has made an important discovery that can clear a man awaiting lethal injection for one of Texas's most sensational murder trials. Knowing she must report her findings, she places a call t...

  • Remember Summer

    Elizabeth Lowell
    in

    Rewrite of Summer Games DANGER The most grueling challenge of Raine Smith's equestrian career looms before her--the Olympic Games. Little does she realize that she's about to face greater perils in the arms of a stranger than she's ever found o...

  • Remembering Jake

    Cheryl Biggs

    ONE AND THE SAME MAN Someone had betrayed him. Someone had wanted him dead. Now Jake Blagette was back to find out who, and his prime suspect was the woman he'd once loved more than anything in his life. Tina Peychaud had meant the world to him, u...

  • Return to Love

    Viveca Carlysle

  • Romiette and Julio

    Sharon M. Draper

    Star Crossed Lovers When Romiette Cappelle meets Julio Montague, she feels as though she has met the soul mate who can rescue her from her recurring nightmare about fire and water. But like the Shakespearean characters whose names echo theirs, Romie...

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    Charlotte Lamb

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    Jamie Denton

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    Marta Perry

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    Sherryl Woods

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    Hebby Roman

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    Olivia Goldsmith

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    Jan Freed

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    Maeve Binchy

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    Fayrene Preston

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  • That First Special Kiss

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

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    Janis Reams Hudson

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  • Too Popular

    Francine Pascal

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    Laura Anthony

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    Lucy Gordon

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  • The Wedding Countdown

    Barbara Hannay

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    Doris Elaine Fell

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    Ellen Hart

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  • White Elephant Dead

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

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  • Avalon

    Stephen R. Lawhead

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  • The Black Queen

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    N. Lee Wood

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    William Sleator

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  • Conan and the Emerald Lotus

    John Hocking

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  • Countdown: October

    Daniel Parker

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  • The Crown Of Eden

    Thomas Williams

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  • Enter the Enchanted

    K.A. Applegate

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  • Feline Felon

    Nancy Holder

  • Fortune Cookie Fox

    Cathy East Dubowski

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    Allan Cole

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  • The Hidden Land

    Sarah Isidore

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  • Household Gods

    Harry Turtledove; Judith Tarr

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    Margaret Peterson Haddix

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  • Kingdom Come

    Elliot S. Maggin

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    Robert Silverberg

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    Janet Quin-Harkin

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    Jonathan Carroll

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  • Merlin

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Mind Changer

    James White

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    Tad Williams

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    Isobelle Carmody

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    Anne Crompton / Anne Eliot Crompton

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  • Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep

    Gail Carson Levine

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  • The Separation

    K.A. Applegate

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  • Shackle and Sword

    Alanna Morland

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    Neil Philip

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    Garry Kilworth

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  • Treasures of Fantasy

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

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    Marianna Mayer

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    Sylvie Auzary-Luton

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    Al Sarrantonio

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    William J. Brooke

  • A to Z-Do You Ever Feel like Me?

    Bonnie Hausman

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    Alan Daniel

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    June Rae Wood

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    Eric Liu

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    Mark Shannon

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  • Add a Little Magic

    Disney Book Group

  • Adultery and Other Diversions

    Tim Parks

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    James Bridges

    Based on the motion picture screenplay by Mitchell Kriegman and Joseph Mazzarino

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    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

  • Almost a Woman

    Esmeralda Santiago

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    Steve Jones

  • Altar Ego

    Kathy Lette

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    Priscilla Turner

    When X and Y, two Adventurers from the Land of Letters, crash-land in the Kingdom of Wontoo, they quickly learn that it is populated by two sorts of Number: the Odds, an eccentric bunch, and the Evens, orderly and predictable. A pun-filled text and h...

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    Richard Zimler

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    Kitty Richards

  • Animal House

    Melissa Bay Mathis

  • Animal Music

    Donald Saaf

    A rollicking picture book is full of vibrant illustrations and musical fun as Mr. Lion's Marching Band marches by with a boom-a-boom and a rat-a-tat and Sheep's Dance Band, with a goose on the mandolin and a cow playing the cello, calls all the farm ...

  • Apologizing To Dogs

    Joe Coomer

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  • Arctic Son

    Jean Craighead George

  • At Freddie's

    Penelope Fitzgerald

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    Jim Aylesworth

  • The Avram Davidson Treasury

    Avram Davidson

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    Now his estate and his friends have b...

  • Baby Lemur

    Susan Hellard

    "You're not a baby anymore," said Liam's mother one day. "It's time for you to try things for yourself..."

    When Liam is a baby he spends all day and all night cuddled to his mother's tummy. As he gets bigger, he rides on his mother's back as s...

  • Baby, Talk!

    Harriet Ziefert

    Most of all what Max wanted to know was:
    When will she talk?

    Max is thrilled with his new baby sister. He can't wait to talk and play with her! But all the baby seems to do is eat, sleep, and cry. Though Max feels a little impatient, he nev...

  • Bad Luck Boswell

    Diane Dawson Hearn

  • The Band Over the Hill

    Shirley Isherwood

    Edward James and Mr Manders can hear a band playing in the distance, and Mr Manders remembers he has some old uniforms and instruments in the attic. Ten minutes later, two very smart bears march from the house - Edward with his trumpet, and Mr Mander...

  • Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo

    Matt Groening

    The essential companion for anyone celebrating Halloween – Simpsons style!

    Now Simpsons fans can trick or treat along with their favourite family with this compendium of tips and features, including how to monster–proof your ro...

  • Basket Moon

    Mary Lyn Ray

  • Bathtub Prima Donna

    Anne Brouillard

  • Be Brave, Chuckie!

    Kitty Richards

  • Bedbugs

    Megan McDonald

  • Being Dead

    Jim Crace

    A haunting new novel about love, death, and the afterlife, from the author of QuarantineBaritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes."Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell--just ...

  • Bertie and Small and the Brave Sea Journey

    Vanessa Cabban

  • Bertie and Small and the Fast Bike Ride

    Vanessa Cabban

    Accompanied by Small, her dedicated stuffed rabbit friend, Bertie takes an incredible journey on her bike, travelling to the four corners of the world in search for treasures to bring home to her mother....

  • Best Halloween Masquerade Ever!

    Richard Scarry

  • Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815

    Anne Salmond

  • Big Bird Meets Santa Claus

    Liza Alexander