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  • Breached

    Don Pendleton

    TACTICAL RETALIATION Barely surviving the opening salvo in a brutal new war to seize control of the drug supply through America's border pipeline, Mack Bolan resumes his offensive to neutralize the operations of a powerful Chinese Triad and a Mexi...

  • Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy: Part 1

    Dav Pilkey

    George and Harold are in a sticky situation. Their latest prank has snotty school brainiac Melvin Sneedly seeing red, and he can't wait to get them back. But when Melvin tries to transform himself into a bionic-powered superboy, things get a little g...

  • Deployment Pakistan

    P.W. Storm

    They are a covert Marine SpecOps unit -- a lethal weapon so secret only a handful of powerful men know of their existence. To get this far, they had to be the very best of the best. To get home, they'll have to be even better. FORCE 5 RECON ...

  • Devil Riders

    James Axler

    Judgment day has come and gone. Now only the strongest survive. Law of the Lawless A century after the nuclear conflagrating almost destroyed the world, humanity endures in a lawless land. Those who inhabit Deathlands are either killers or those ...

  • Escape from the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    In The War Against Tyranny, Every Man Must Be Willing To Stand On His Own... ...Stand and die if dying needs to be done. For when freedom is in shackles, we are all alone, and our blood is the price we must be willing to pay. Under the command ...

  • Final Play

    Don Pendleton

    GAME Allying himself with the beautiful leader of a Chinese Triad caught between rogue CIA agents and a violent underworld, Mack Bolan goes looking for the major players behind a international incident of hijacked nukes. A global hunt has put h...

  • Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction

    Multiple Authors

    Firebird-the imprint-is dedicated to publishing the best fantasy and science fiction for teenage and adult readers. Firebirds is an equally special anthology. Its sixteen original stories showcase some of the genre's most admired authors, including m...

  • Liberia

    David E. Meadows

    A coalition of African nationalists and Muslim extremists have decided the time has come to wipe American influences clean from the face of Africa. Their first target: an enclave of African-American expatriots living in Liberia. It is not only a bloo...

  • Mall of the Universe

    Elizabeth Lenhard

  • Violence of Action

    Richard Marcinko; Greg Walker

    Bolder, brasher, and badder than ever before -- with an all-new team, the Rogue Warrior faces his ultimate challenge. A suitcase nuke is on its way to a major American city, and there's only one man who can stop it. Back from self-imposed exile, dur...

  • The War Angel

    Michael Salazar

    A military adventure that puts you at the scene of some of the most intense covert action--from an Air Force combat crewmember who's experienced what it's like to fall from heaven armed for hell... The War Angel As a member of the Air Force's e...

  • Best in Show

    Laurien Berenson

    Murder's on the ticket when intrepid poodle breeder Melanie Travis travels to Maryland for a world-famous dog show where the competition isn't the only thing that's cutthroat... There are dog shows. And then there's The Poodle Club of America Nati...

  • The Cemetery Yew

    Cynthia Riggs

    West Tisbury's police chief knew what she was doing when she officially made ninety-two-year-old Martha's Vineyard native Victoria Trumbull her deputy. Though a little slow on her feet, Victoria eyes--and mind--are still sharp, which is why she is th...

  • FrostLine

    Justin Scott

    Hired to act as a mediator between former diplomat Harry King and his troublesome neighbor, gruff Vietnam veteran Ronnie Butler, real-estate agent Ben Abbott gets more than he bargained for when Butler's ex-con son is killed in an explosion on King's...

  • Hot and Bothered

    Jane Isenberg

    The Beat Goes On Things are scarier since that black day in September that shook Manhattan and the world. But across the river in Hoboken, New Jersey, community college professor Bel Barrett intends to live without fear, despite her honey Sol's new...

  • Image of Death

    Libby Fischer Hellmann

    Lately, Ellie Foreman has been doing more than her fair share of schmoozing. Chicago heiress and real estate developer Ricki Feldman is, for less-than-altruistic reasons, financing her next video project, a documentary on foster kids. So, after a ful...

  • Killing Raven

    Margaret Coel

    The discovery of a white man's body on the Wind River Reservation has passions running high--and Father John O'Malley trying to keep the peace. Meanwhile, the newly opened Great Plains Casino--with Vicky Holden as its in-house counsel--is fighting fo...

  • May the Best Man Die

    Deborah Donnelly

    A KILLER BACHELOR PARTY Carnegie Kincaid plans weddings, not stag parties. When a client asks Carnegie to manage a pre-wedding blow-out--complete with a stripper--she tactfully refuses the job. So why is Carnegie peering through binoculars across ...

  • Murder on Board

    L.M. Lawson

    JESSIE AND NEAL WANT TO ENJOY AN ADVENTUROUS CRUISE BUT WIND UP BECOMING THE TARGETS OF A DEADLY BAND OF MURDERERS Who will be the killer's next target? Adventurous couple Jessie and Neal Fox head south from California on their sailboat to realize...

  • Room for Murder

    Tim Myers

    Tucked away in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains is the charming Hatteras West Inn and Lighthouse. Innkeeper Alex Winston watches over the cozy getaway, and guests count on him to take care of everything from basic repairs to breakfast. But l...

  • Scooby-Doo and the Haunted Halloween Mask

    Jesse McCann / Jesse Leon McCann

    SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past 3 generations. Scooby is in the midst of a huge popularity boom, with new TV episodes and a live-action movie on video.

    Halloween is sure to mean a mystery for Sc...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Sinister Sorcerer

    James Gelsey

    When the Mystery Machine gets a flat tire, Scooby-Doo and his pals stumble upon a construction site -- and a mystery. The kids accidentally unearth an ancient book of spells inside a spooky hidden cave. But when a sinister sorcerer appears on the s...

  • The Silent Partner

    Lee Goldberg

    Dr. Mark Sloan, Community General Hospital's Chief of Internal Medicine, has been appointed by the LAPD to a special task force assigned to the cold case files--unsolved homicides long since abandoned by the police. One case concerns the murder of a ...

  • A Taste of Danger

    Carolyn Keene

    This resort has the recipe for disaster!Nancy’s thrilled that she, Bess, George, and Hannah will be attending the grand opening of the newly renovated Gourmet Getaway. Not only will they be able to eat four-star meals prepared by master chefs, they...

  • City of Dreams

    Stephen R. Lawhead

    On this undercover assignment, Special Agent Alex Hunter is getting way more than he ever bargained for. Charged by ICON--the International Coalition of Nations--to penetrate a secret terrorist cell headed by a man called The Prophet, he swiftly find...

  • Hero #1

    Stephen R. Lawhead

    Follow the !HERO action up close and personal! Read as Special Agent Alex Hunter strives to discover the story behind a mysterious miracle-worker from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, whose very presence is changing the world.

    In a series of five action-p...

  • Hero #2

    Stephen R. Lawhead

    Follow the !HERO action up close and personal! Read as Special Agent Alex Hunter strives to discover the story behind a mysterious miracle-worker from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, whose very presence is changing the world.

    In a series of five action-p...

  • Hero #4

    Stephen R. Lawhead

  • Mystery Pennies

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Book 5 of Watch Out for Joel! Joel is thrilled when his older brother, Ricky, lets him deliver newspapers and collect mystery pennies. But Joel doesn’t know that Ricky is actually cheating him. When Joel uses the pennies to buy Ricky a gift, how wi...

  • Premonition

    Randy Ingermanson

    All your life, you dreamed about the City of God. Now that you're there, you want to go home. But you can't. Your name is Rivka Meyers, and you are a total misfit. You time-traveled from 21st century Jerusalem back to the year AD 57. Misfit....

  • Soon: The Beginning of the End

    Jerry B. Jenkins

    2004 Christy Fiction award winner!

    Paul Stepola, an agent working for the National Peacekeeping Organization (NPO), has been assigned to enforce compliance with the world government's prohibition on religion. Paul relishes his job and is go...

  • Stranger in the Chat Room

    Todd Hafer

    A sequel to In the Chat Room With God finds a group of teens contacted by a mysterious and increasingly malevolent character who claims to know about their encounters with the Almighty and challenges their beliefs. Original....

  • Strunk Soup

    Sigmund Brouwer

    When Joel and Ricky go to Mrs. Strunk’s house for supper, she prepares onion soup, stewed beets, and fried liver. She is a very nice lady (though a very bad cook!), and they don’t want to hurt her feelings. Can Joel and Ricky be kind without havi...

  • The Yada Yada Prayer Group Gets Tough

    Neta Jackson

    The Yada Yads got tight in the past year, but they're about to learn the real meaning of togetherness. We'd done it: we'd taken a mismatched, diverse group of women and cobbled together a prayer group that really worked for all of us. Now that spr...

  • 311 Pelican Court

    Debbie Macomber

    Now divorced, Zach and Rosie Cox are struggling to adjust to Judge Olivia's unusual custody agreement -- and to the fact they're thrown together more than they would have wished. The kids are staying in the family home, and it's Rosie and Zach who ha...

  • About Face

    Jill Stengl
    in

    Christmas - Military Style Life... i is never still in the military. Even Christmas is a season of challenge. . .a season of change. This year, several servicemen and women will face a range of life-altering experiences. Captain Tim Falkirk, a ...

  • Always In Her Heart

    Marta Perry

    MARRYING MAN? In the eight years since their romance had ended in confusion, Link Morgan and Annie Gideon had barely spoken. But when tragedy left twenty-month-old Marcy, Link's goddaughter and Annie's niece, parentless, the two stepped in to prot...

  • Anyone Who Has a Heart

    Jacqueline Powell

  • A Baby...Maybe?

    Bonnie Tucker

    Cara Romano doesn't want a husband -- despite her mother's pushing. In fact, her mother's been pushing so hard, Cara decides to escape. Several states and a time zone away, she figures out that even without the husband, she wants a baby. But just whe...

  • Bad Boys Online

    Erin McCarthy

    "Hard Drive" Mack Stone can't believe he's just walked in on the delicious Kindra Hill having an online affair in her office. Being discovered in flagrante computer delicto doesn't seem to bother Kindra. In fact, she claims to prefer the imperson...

  • Big Sky Baby

    Judy Duarte

    BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE...AND LOVE After five years, Jeff Forsythe was finally back in Rumor, Montana -- just when Jilly Davis needed him most. But she had no intention of clipping the wings of the footloose pilot just because she was having a baby....

  • Bite

    C.J. Tosh

    GO ON. DO IT. BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW. It's Sam Leighton's job as a celebrity journalist to get the scoop on Hollywood's top celebs. But when rumors fly that she cozied up too close to an Oscar-winning Australian, she finds herself looking f...

  • The Bluewater Affair

    Cindy Gerard

    Subject: Single, soon-to-be-mother Susannah Hobson Family History: Stepdaughter of Violet Vaughn, mother of the Extraordinary Five Darkest Secret: Hiding her knowledge of Code Proteus...and holding on to her heart Abandoned by the father of ...

  • Born to Love You

    Francine Craft

    Detective Lieutenant Danielle Ritchey has been having dreams of a tall, handsome stranger who sweeps her off her feet. She is shocked when she meets noted gospel singer Whit Steele during a minor accident and discovers he is the man of her dreams. ...

  • Boy Meets Boy

    David Levithan

    This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance...

  • The Bridal Chronicles

    Lissa Manley

    HEIRESS IN DISGUISE! Socialite Anna Sinclair was a budding bridal dress designer, but her love life was a cocktail-party joke. Disguising herself, she went west and vowed to avoid romance! Then handsome businessman Ryan Cavanaugh appeared as her p...

  • The Bride Wore Blue Jeans

    Marie Ferrarella

    NO WAY IN HADES WOULD HE EVER MARRY... Between raising his three siblings and running a successful business, Kevin Quintano's hectic life left no room for love. But when his sister announced her upcoming wedding, Kevin headed to Hades, Alaska, to en...

  • But Inside I'm Screaming

    Elizabeth Flock

    But Inside I'm Screaming is one woman's unforgettable story about what it is to lose control as the world watches, to figure out what went so very wrong and to accept an imperfect life in a world that demands perfection. While breaking the hottest...

  • By Design

    Angela Weaver

    Beautiful Lauren Hughes has worked hard to earn her reputation as the best in the renovation of New York's finest brownstones. Now, with her thirtieth birthday just around the corner, she has only six months to complete her quest to travel around th...

  • Can't Buy Me Louie

    Colleen Collins

    Former bad guy Louie Ragazzi is dark, sexy and a little dangerous -- and Alicia Hansen is just a little in love. She's determined to help him get over his "I'm a one-man show" thing. Shouldn't take much because, well, look at her! She's got it all, i...

  • Caught by a Cowboy

    Peggy Moreland
    in

    "To the one I love..." The letter appeared mysteriously on the doorstep, and the Colman sisters' fantasies went straight to work. But what mystery man had sent it -- and to which sister? That Old Familiar Feeling by Emilie Richards Emilie Rich...

  • Coming Home

    Shirlee Busbee

    A world-famous model, Roxanne Ballinger has traded big money and neon-filled nights for the rolling hills and friendly faces of her hometown, Oak Valley. Now that the bitter feud between her family and another has faded, the peace she longs for seems...

  • Comrades in Arms

    Lindsay McKenna
    in

    Captain Tara McCain was the kind of woman who never took no for an answer. Not even from sexy captain Dave Johnson, who believed a combat-shy woman was a detriment to his team. But calm, capable Tara was ready to face the heat of war...and passion....

  • Cowboy Lessons

    Pamela Britton

    Love on the Lazy Y? She'd sooner sleep with a snake! Yet Amanda Johnson had no choice but to do business with barracuda Scott Beringer. This millionaire wanted to go from computer wizard to prime cowboy material, and he had Amanda hanging by the a...

  • Cycling

    Greg Garrett

    Brad Cannon is charming. And that's the problem. At the tender age of thirty, Brad is on the road to becoming a footnote in his own life. His professors and publishers alike have been salivating for the indifferent wunderkind's next big book, thanks ...

  • Dead Calm

    Lindsay Longford

    WOUNDED HEARTS Detective Judah Finnegan didn't believe in happy endings -- too many years fighting crime had left him cynical. But when the discovery of an abandoned baby brought him back into the arms of his lost love, he realized he would have t...

  • Desert Heat

    Janice Sims

    Dr. Katharine Matthews' first meeting with Rafael Grant is memorable, to say the least-she mistakes him for a terrorist and attacks him in an airport terminal in Tucson, Arizona. Despite their rocky beginning, Rafe, newly assigned to Tucson as a U.S...

  • The Dewey Decimal System of Love

    Josephine Carr

    For questions about the science of the heart and how it beats, go to the 616.12's and for questions about the philosophy of the heart, go to the 700.4's [ms. pg 223] Ally Skinner doesn't fall into any category... Forget those stereotypes about ...

  • A Distant Love

    Janelle Burnham Schneider
    in

    Christmas - Military Style Life... i is never still in the military. Even Christmas is a season of challenge. . .a season of change. This year, several servicemen and women will face a range of life-altering experiences. Captain Tim Falkirk, a ...

  • Dream Lover

    Ruth Ryan Langan
    in

    On a business trip to Scotland, a young American disillusioned by love gets swept up by the romance of the Highlands--and by the charms of a perfect stranger......

  • Drifting

    Stephanie Gertler

    Readers and critics alike fell in love with Stephanie Gertler's Jimmy's Girl and The Puzzle Bark Tree. Now, fearlessly delving into the hidden depths of the heart, she has crafted a wise and moving novel about the bonds of mothers and daughters and t...

  • Eliot's Banana

    Heather Swain

    Things should be peachy. Junie isn't entirely sure what her problem is. She's just moved into a Brooklyn apartment with her cool longtime boyfriend Leon, a drummer who adores her. She flits through a string of temp jobs in funky thrift store clothes...

  • Enchanting Baby

    Darlene Graham

    She'd do anything to protect this baby When TV personality Ashleigh Logan became pregnant by artificial insemination of her deceased husband's sperm, she ignited a media frenzy and attracted a stalker. So she's sequestered herself in the mountains o...

  • Englishman at Dingo Creek

    Lucy Clark

    Dr. Dannyella Thompson certainly needed help with her Outback practice, but an English doctor at Dingo Creek? She was expecting more amusement than assistance! Dr. Sebastian MacKenzie proved Dannyella wrong at every turn. By the time his two-week ...

  • Expecting the Sheikh's Baby

    Kristi Gold

    THE DEAL Sheikh Ashraf ibn-Saalem's gorgeous face was unforgettable. But long-lost Barone cousin Karen Rawlins told herself she'd best not forget the terms of their marriage deal. They both wanted a child to love -- she without gaining a controlli...

  • Family Ties

    Janet Lee Barton

    Everyone in Lake Breland's large family has a significant other - everyone, that is, except Luke. He hasn't been able to find anyone in the small town of Sweet Springs, New Mexico. Months after losing her fiance to her best friend, Rae Wellington ...

  • Fathers And Other Strangers

    Karen Templeton

    THE FATHER OF HER CHILD? Jenna Stanton had raised her niece, Blair, from birth, with nary a clue as to who the child's father was. Until now -- when the piece of paper in her hand led her to the inexplicably attractive grouchy ex-cop Hank Logan. H...

  • Five Brothers And A Baby

    Peggy Moreland

    "I'LL GET OFF YOUR LAND, BUT THE BABY STAYS." Ace stared at the woman who stood defiantly on Tanner land with a blanket-wrapped bundle in her arms. It seemed he and his four brothers had inherited something besides the Bar-T. But what on earth was...

  • Flamingo Diner

    Sherryl Woods

    Welcome to Flamingo Diner Where Friends and Family Come First Like television's Cheers, Flamingo Diner has always been a friendly place where everyone knows your name. Unfortunately, in the small town of Winter Cove, Florida, it is also the place ...

  • Flying High

    Gwynne Forster

    Colonel Nelson Wainwright has sustained both neck and shoulder injuries, and he knows that good fortune must accompany hard work and shrewdness, if he is to attain his goal of becoming a four-star general of the United States Marines. Audrey Powers,...

  • Forever and Always

    Jude Deveraux

    Darci's psychic abilities have always guided her through hardship...and into a once-in-a-lifetime love with her rich, powerful husband, Adam Montgomery. When Adam vanishes in a mysterious accident, a grief-stricken Darci is left alone to raise their ...

  • Four Days, Five Nights

    Christine Flynn

    THE ARCTIC TEMPERATURE COULDN'T COOL THE HEAT BETWEEN THEM Kindhearted veterinarian Melissa Porter only wanted the coyote cubs in her care to reach their natural habitat. Instead, she crash-landed in the Washington wilderness with a man who acted as...

  • Fringe Benefits

    Nancy Warren

    ALL WORK AND NO PLAY? After being fired from her last job because a creepy co-worker hit on her and she hit back, Jane Stafford has decided enough is enough. To keep men at bay, she dons a fake wedding band in the hopes of being judged on her brai...

  • Full Speed

    Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes

    Dear Reader: Welcome to the world of Jamie Swift and Max Holt! My good friend Charlotte Hughes and I have teamed up to create a series of books featuring these two characters, and they've taken on a life of their own! These books are not set in th...

  • God Still Don't Like Ugly

    Mary Monroe

    New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's heart"stopping tale about a woman who's suffered too much to give up on herself, even if everyone else has . . . 

    Growing up, Annette Goode thought all men were as low"down as the father wh...

  • Hard Choices

    Allison Leigh

    "TRUTH RISES, ANNIE. STOP TRYING TO FIND IT THE HARD WAY." Annie Hess knew that the roiling clouds overhead had nothing to do with the storm that had already arrived. First the secret daughter she'd turned over to her brother to raise showed up, l...

  • The Heartbreaker

    Carly Phillips

    As the eldest of three rebel-rousing brothers, Chase Chandler has waited a long time to leave his small-town roots behind. All bets are off when the single journalist meets a redhead who arouses a lot more than lust. Yet Sloane Carlisle isn't just an...

  • Heat of Passion

    Harold Robbins

    Win Liberte has it all. He prides himself on never having worked a day in his life. He has everything he wants-fast cars, beautiful women, a racing yacht, a penthouse in Manhattan. Orphaned at eleven, Win inherited an international diamond business t...

  • His Pretend Fiancee

    Victoria Pade

    KISSING ROOMMATES... Suddenly homeless Josie Tate felt fireworks during her passionate three days with firefighter Michael Dunnigan, but she wouldn't live with him unless she paid him back...like be his pretend fiancee so that his mother would stop ...

  • The Hotel Riviera

    Elizabeth Adler

    She thought she was in love... American Lola Laforet is swept away in a whirlwind wedding to a handsome Frenchman and finds herself the chef/owner of the Hotel Riviera, a gemlike retreat snuggled up against the blue Mediterranean. In their first bli...

  • How To Hunt A Husband

    Holly Jacobs

    Catch and keep! Shannon O'Malley and Nate Calder know a good thing when they see it -- namely, each other. They agree to don dual identities -- sexy stripper for her, badass biker for him -- to fake out their meddling moms. When Roxy and Bull, aka...

  • In Bed With Beauty

    Katherine Garbera

    A suit in a chauffeur-driven limousine was just about the last thing Sarah Malcolm needed in her life. Sure, Harris Davidson was wealthy, powerful and hotter than any man she'd ever met. But he'd also made it perfectly clear that he had no room in hi...

  • It Takes Two

    Reon Laudat
    in

    Ramona Jackson has always had a weakness for cute shoes and Kadeem Smith. So when he comes back to town, it's all she can do not to fire up the charge card in a fit of nervous shopping jitters. Especially when he makes it clear that he wants to pick ...

  • Let It Bree

    Colleen Collins

    Kirk Dunmore has suddenly found himself in times of trouble! When he stops to help a stranded Bree Brown, he winds up being chased by bad guys who are after Bree's pet bull?! And while they've been making their evasive maneuvers, he's managed to fall...

  • Life a la Mode

    Linda Lenhoff

    HOLLY PHILLIPS'S RULES LIVING THE SWEET LIFE... 1. When your sister gets engaged for the sixth you should not have to listen to her story. Let her tell a stranger. That's what subways are for. 2. Opening junk mail can be a good substitute for d...

  • Liner Notes

    Emily Franklin

    How do you share the soundtrack of your life? Just out of grad school, Laney is ready to embark on a new phase of her life. Leaving California to head back east, she's got three thousand miles to reflect on her past before moving ahead to the futur...

  • A Little Dare

    Brenda Jackson

    HIS ONE REGRET When Shelly Brockman walked into his office, Sheriff Dare Westmoreland could almost taste the sweet, steamy passion they'd once shared. Then Shelly informed him he was the father of her son, the unruly preteen he'd arrested that day, ...

  • Love, Your Secret Admirer

    Susan Meier

    FROM THE DESK OF EMILY WINTERS Bachelor #1: Matthew Burke Title: Senior VP of Accounting This Month's Scheme: Open Matt's eyes to his adoring assistant Let's see... There's got to be a way to get all-business Matt Burke to notice his lovestru...

  • Lucy's Launderette

    Betsy Burke

    Lucy Madison's life is spinning out of control. After her grandfather crashes his motorcycle for the last time, this frustrated artist is left picking up the pieces (not to mention holding the ashes). But fulfilling his dying wish of befriending his ...

  • The Midnight Country

    Marianne Willman
    in

    An American researching her family history in Europe stumbles upon an enchanting chateau and its enigmatic master, who is convinced she is the key to a terrible curse......

  • Midwife in Need

    Fiona McArthur

    A very special woman Midwife Abbey Wilson lives for her job and her family. After a scarring breakup with her fiance she has stayed well clear of men. But when Dr. Rohan Roberts arrives at the maternity clinic in Gladstone, New South Wales, Abbey be...

  • A Military Affair

    Merline Lovelace
    in

    When a recovery effort lands air force sergeant Teresa Ross in the arms of ambitious photojournalist Pete Quinn, she knows he's captured the story of a lifetime. But will he take her heart, as well?...

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Jill Gregory
    in

    A healer sworn to protect the heir to a troubled kingdom must rely on a wounded knight and a magic mirror for assistance......

  • My Big Fake Green-Card Wedding

    Mollie Molay

    "I Do...For Now." She might be the last twenty-nine-year-old virgin in Greece, but Melina Kostos did not need her overprotective father and brothers handpicking her husband! So when American businessman and single dad Adam Blake proposed a convenien...

  • My Big Old Texas Heartache

    Geralyn Dawson

    Dear Friends and Neighbors: How did life become so complicated? One minute I'm dating the hottest man in Dallas and the next I'm back in Cedar Dell, Texas, surrounded by grannies, gossip, and green bean casserole -- and helping my dad recuperate fr...

  • The Nanny

    Melissa Nathan

    Twenty-three-year-old Jo Green knows that if she has to spend one more night in ultra-provincial Niblet-Upon-Avon she'll go completely bonkers! So she answers an ad in the paper, bids her devoted boyfriend Shaun adieu, and heads off to the big city. ...

  • Night Talk

    Rebecca Daniels

    SOMEONE WAS WATCHING Kristin Carey was nationally known for her on-air relationship advice, but when it came to Jake Hayes, "Dear Jane" was in over her head. Hiding out on a remote mountaintop with the gorgeous ex-cop was almost as dangerous as the ...

  • Night Watch // Wild, Wild Wes

    Suzanne Brockmann

    HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS...LEADING TO HOLLYWOOD DAZE When U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Wes Skelly was sent to L.A. on assignment, he agreed to go on a blind date with beautiful single mother Brittany Evans, sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL. After all, he had been s...

  • An Older Man

    Allison Leigh
    in

    "To the one I love..." The letter appeared mysteriously on the doorstep, and the Colman sisters' fantasies went straight to work. But what mystery man had sent it -- and to which sister? That Old Familiar Feeling by Emilie Richards Emilie Rich...

  • One Day I Saw a Black King

    J.D. Mason

    Ever since he was fifteen, John King has been on the run from the ghosts of his past. Drifting from place to place, John never settles down in one place or with one woman. That is, until he rolls into Denver, Colorado, grooving to Marvin Gaye's "L...

  • One Sure Thing

    Celeste O. Norfleet

    ONLY WHEN YOU RISK IT ALL... Emergency room doctor Hope Adams is used to tough situations, but Raymond Gates may be her most difficult case yet-and he's not even a patient. The renowned plastic surgeon storms into the ER at the end of Hope's thirty...

  • Outback Engagement

    Meredith Webber

    Fake engagement...real passion! Outback vet Tom Fleming has a problem with women -- they want to marry him! After being featured in a magazine, the so-called "Lonely Country Bachelor" is surrounded by would-be wives, his ex and a hotshot reporter!...

  • Outranked by Love

    Tammy Shuttlesworth
    in

    Christmas - Military Style Life... i is never still in the military. Even Christmas is a season of challenge. . .a season of change. This year, several servicemen and women will face a range of life-altering experiences. Captain Tim Falkirk, a ...

  • The Perfect Mom

    Janice Kay Johnson

    Everyone says Kathleen Monroe is perfect -- the perfect wife, the perfect hostess, the perfect mother But after a lifetime of practice, Kathleen is beginning to wonder if perfectionism is a good thing. After all, it didn't help her marriage and mi...

  • The Playboy Consultant

    Maggie Kingsley

    Surgeon David Hart is committed to his work rather than to his relationships. So he's surprised by his feelings when his new senior registrar turns out to be Dr. Rachel Dunwoody -- the woman who walked out on him six years ago! Amid the tragedies ...

  • The Playgroup

    Nelsie Spencer

    Before she signed up for the mommy role, Ellie Fuller was a stand-up comic, a good best friend, and on her way to substantial success in the TV world. Then good-looking Peter came along, and she was quick to succumb. Marriage redefined her personal l...

  • Please, Baby, Please

    Monica Jackson
    in

    Denise "Neecy" Ballard is in debt up to her neck, she's gained twenty-five pounds, and her car is about to be repossessed. Joseph Vaughn never forgot the beautiful Southern belle when he sold her the car, and for some reason he just can't leave her h...

  • The Preacher's Daughter

    Lyn Cote

    WAS SHE THE ANSWER TO HIS PRAYERS? Pastor Tanner Bond needed to break down the barriers between his congregation and the Mexican-Americans who had recently moved to Pleasant Prairie. But he didn't expect God to send him Lucie Hansen.... Lucie w...

  • Private Lies

    Wendy Etherington

    All Roxanne Lewis wants is a normal life with her perfectly ordinary, perfectly sexy fiance, Gage Dabon. With her family full of cops, she has no desire for a husband who risks his neck every day. But when she discovers Gage is a Secret Service agent...

  • Promise of Grace

    Bonnie K. Winn

    WHAT ELSE COULD POSSIBLE GO WRONG? After surviving a serious accident and being jilted by her fiance, Grace Stanton couldn't help wondering where God was in all of the bad things that had happened to her. She still had a long road to recovery ahea...

  • Promises

    Niqui Stanhope
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    Gilliam Asher is in a bind. In order to bring her grandmother back from death's door, she announces that she is engaged to be married. And it works! Nana recovers and now Gillian has to produce the happy groom-to-be. In times of crisis, a shopping se...

  • Pushing 30

    Whitney Gaskell

    " The one thing you should know about me is this: I' m the consummate Good Girl. . ." Ellie Winters is dependable and loyal and has a near-phobic aversion to conflict. But as her thirtieth birthday looms ever closer, she starts to feel like she' ...

  • Ranger's Wild Woman

    Tina Leonard

    A Hands-On Kind of Healing! Happily ever after meant concussions and busted legs -- at least for the Jefferson brothers. But if love meant being cursed with broken body parts, Ranger Jefferson darn sure wanted to keep his bones -- and his heart --...

  • Ransom

    Diane Pershing

    She was a polite person, normally. But Hallie Fitzgerald was expecting a call -- on the pay phone outside the hardware store -- from the burglar who'd robbed her. The same phone a gorgeous former marine, and the town's new police chief, currently occ...

  • The Red Hat Club

    Haywood Smith

    Meet Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda--five women who've been best friends through thirty years since high school. Whenever they get the chance, they don their red hats and purple outfits for a delicious monthly serving of racy jokes, iced tea ...

  • Rules for a Pretty Woman

    Suzette Francis

    Rule #9: I will heed the warnings of my inner voice Dr. Lenita Mae Faulkner has come a long way from her dirt-poor beginnings in Madoosa County. All she's missing is a family. And with her nine-year live-in lover Ralph seemingly about to pop the q...

  • Ruling Passions

    Laura Wright

    OVERTHROWN BY PASSION Crown Prince Alexander Thorne's honorable intentions were overturned when he rescued a red-haired siren from the sea and gave in to the chemistry raging between them. Alex had sworn he would never again be ruled by a woman, y...

  • The Sassy One

    Susan Mallery

    For the Marcelli sisters of California wine country, the season is ripe for romance! Francesca Marcelli married at eighteen -- right on schedule, according to her warm, colorful family, who have always said a beauty like Francesca need never worr...

  • Sean

    Kate Hoffmann

    THE ONLY THING THAT CAN BRING DOWN A QUINN IS A WOMAN. . . THE LAST MIGHTY QUINN. . . P.I. Sean Quinn lives by one rule -- never get involved. And he's always held to it. . . until his latest case, where he nabbed a polygamist just before the guy...

  • The Secret Father

    Anna Adams

    How is it possible to forget the love of your life? Zach Calvert has no memory of his last three years as a Navy pilot. And for the most part, he's resigned himself to that. He's content with his new life as the sheriff of his hometown, happy that...

  • Seeking Shade

    Paige Winship Dooly
    in

    Christmas - Military Style Life... i is never still in the military. Even Christmas is a season of challenge. . .a season of change. This year, several servicemen and women will face a range of life-altering experiences. Captain Tim Falkirk, a ...

  • Shameless

    Leslie Esdaile
    in

    Single mother Della Mitchell is going to Victoria's Secret for the first time after a year of abstinence from shopping. . .and men. But now it's time to get her groove back on. Then she meets Byron Fulton, buying a "breakup" gift for his girlfriend. ...

  • Single White Vampire

    Lynsay Sands

    The Family Argenau SWM--"Lucern." Successful biographer of family, books recently categorized as "paranormal romances." Something of a recluse. Hates crowds, aggressive women. Doesn't like sunbathing, garlicky dinners or religious symbols. Likes o...

  • Sleeping With The Boss

    Maureen Child

    MIXING BUSINESS WITH BABY Though Rick Hawkins had been the bane of Eileen Ryan's existence, she soon found his charm irresistible when she had to share close quarters with the handsome financial adviser as his fill-in secretary. She vowed to stay ...

  • Sleepless in Savannah

    Rita Herron

    As one last play for the man of her dreams, Sophie Lane put her heart on the line and convinced Lance Summers to appear on the matchmaking episode of her talk show--as a contestant. With a little behind-the-scenes maneuvering, she and the sexy develo...

  • Slow Burn

    Jamie Denton

    IS IT GETTING HOT IN HERE? Maggie LaRue doesn't know who she is. All she remembers is passing out in the arms of a gorgeous man. When she awakens, she's in a hospital, apparently lucky to be alive. Injured in a fire, Maggie doesn't know her real n...

  • The Snow Bride

    Debbie Macomber

    Practical Jenna Campbell has done something impractical. She's met a man on the Internet and now, a month before Christmas, she's going to Alaska to marry him. Dalton Gray seems to be everything she wants in a husband -- sensitive, gallant, romantic....

  • Some Kind Of Hero

    Brenda Harlen

    SHE HADN'T KNOWN SHE'D BEEN MISSING... He had cop written over every inch of his tempting body, and beautiful senator's daughter Riane Rutherford-Quinlan knew from the moment he asked her to dance that he wasn't the type to attend charity balls. He ...

  • Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do

    Pearl Cleage

    Depending on the time of day, Regina Burns is a woman on the edge of either a nervous breakdown or an overdue breakthrough. One shattered heart and six months of rehab have left her wary and shell-shocked. To rescue the family home that she borrowed ...

  • Someone Like Him

    Karen Kendall

    She's Not in Kansas Anymore Ordinarily, small-town girl Lavender "Vinnie" Hart would never have come to New York, but her younger brother, a boarding school student, needs her support. So she finds a job as live-in "nanny" for a high maintenance p...

  • Straight to the Heart

    Bobby Hutchinson

    An Imperfect Pair Eric Stewart can't believe his three meddling sisters would stoop so low--signing him up with Synchronicity, the city's hottest matchmaking agency. Now, the only way the confirmed bachelor can get them a refund is to be rejected by...

  • Suspicion

    Janice MacDonald

    Three months ago, Sam and Diana Lynsky boarded their twenty-six-foot yacht and set out for a sail to mark their fortieth anniversary. Diana never returned. Sam told the sheriff that he'd retired to the cabin for a nap, and when he awoke, Diana had va...

  • Texas Cooking

    Lisa Wingate

    What seemed like a road to nowhere might be leading her straight home... No one is more surprised than Colleen Collins when she's offered a job writing fluffy magazine articles about rural Texas cooking. The big-city investigative reporter know...

  • That Old Familiar Feeling

    Emilie Richards
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    "To the one I love..." The letter appeared mysteriously on the doorstep, and the Colman sisters' fantasies went straight to work. But what mystery man had sent it -- and to which sister? That Old Familiar Feeling by Emilie Richards Emilie Rich...

  • That Summer

    Joan Wolf

    Growing up in the rolling hills of Virginia horse country, Anne Foster helped her father train the prize Thoroughbreds at the Wellington family's racing farm...and longed for the boy beyond her reach, young Liam Wellington. But her teenage dreams wer...

  • To Kiss A Sheik

    Teresa Southwick

    ALWAYS BE HONEST Desperate for a job, American beauty Crystal Rawlins would have done anything to become nanny to Sheik Fariq Hassan's children. And telling a little white lie about her looks to secure a dream job in an exotic location seemed like a...

  • Tomorrow May Never Come

    Linda Hudson-Smith

    A COSTLY SECRET Twenty-one years ago, Asia Morrell loved a man so deeply that she sacrificed her own happiness -- and her dreams -- so he could pursue his. Asia met handsome aspiring lawyer Nicholas Reynolds, her first and only love, in college. When...

  • Toni's Vow

    Kay Cornelius

    Vowing never to marry, Toni Schmidt returns to Rockdale to help kids who face the same problems she encountered in her youth. But she's unprepared for her growing attraction to her mentor's brother, David Trent. David is doing his best to raise tw...

  • Trade Secrets

    C.J. Carmichael
    in

    A group of MBA students at Harvard made a pact -- to each become CEO of a Fortune 500 company before they reached forty. Now their friendships, their loves and even their lives were at stake... Annie Hughes had become the Martha Stewart of cosmeti...

  • Trade Secrets // Dealing with Annie

    Jill Shalvis
    in

    A group of MBA students at Harvard made a pact -- to each become CEO of a Fortune 500 company before they reached forty. Now their friendships, their loves and even their lives were at stake... Annie Hughes had become the Martha Stewart of cosmeti...

  • Trust No One

    Barbara Phinney

    NOWHERE LEFT TO RUN... There was only one way out for Helen Eastman: Fake her own death and start over, far from harm's way. But her plans were jettisoned one night by a stranger who posed a more intimate peril. He was seductive bad-boy cop Nick ...

  • Twice And For Always

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    July 19, 1983... The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers--Seattle's Kennedys. Their "compound"--elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart. Twenty years later... Their children were reunited. Repressed ...

  • An Unconditional Surrender

    Candace Irvin
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    Captain Jack Gage always found his prey, even when the quarry was his undercover ex, Captain Danielle Stanton. And now, after years of retreat, he was on the offensive, swearing to accept nothing less than her love....

  • Unexpected

    Lori Foster

    Meet Ray Vereker, a female Rambo with quick reflexes, sharp instincts, a hot body, and a bad case of morning sickness... OH, YES... Eli Conners expected hired mercenary Ray Vereker to be a tank of a guy with forty tattoos--not a gorgeous creature...

  • The Wedding Diaries

    Linda Francis Lee

    She was ready to tie the knot. Now she's fit to be tied. Texas heiress Vivienne Stansfield's dream of being a bride was about to come true. But in a startling change of fortune, her safe, reliable fiance proves himself to be neither -- and her we...

  • What A Woman Should Know

    Cara Colter

    J. D. Turner couldn't let Tally select a mate without understanding how things should be between a man and a woman. Especially since the innocent beauty was going to be raising his little boy! So he took it upon himself to show her just how life and ...

  • What Madeline Wants

    Linda Style

    What Madeline Wants: A second chance. And she figures she'll get that at the Tripplehorne Ranch in Arizona, where she's been hired to teach English to the Spanish-speaking staff. What Madeline Gets: A big surprise. The owner of the Trip...

  • When Lightning Strikes Twice

    Debrah Morris

    Stranded in heaven, a Texas Ranger ached to reunite with his earth-bound soulmate, so the powers-that-be gave him one chance. Suddenly, Joe Mitchum emerged from unconsciousness and stared into Dr. Mallory Peterson's honey-brown eyes. If only he could...

  • Wild Cat And The Marine

    Jade Taylor

    Jackson Gray has finally come home... Jackson had always hated living on a farm and, as soon as he could, he got out of Engerville, North Dakota, leaving Catherine Darnell behind. Now, back temporarily to help his ailing father, Jackson is happy t...

  • A Winchester Homecoming

    Pamela Toth

    CHARMING, CONFIDENT, SEXY...AND A HEARTBREAKER That's how rancher David Major remembered his ex-love Kim Winchester. Romance had budded between them in high school, but ended abruptly when Kim moved away without even saying goodbye. Now she was ba...

  • The Witching Hour

    Nora Roberts
    in

    A kingdom is plagued by tragedy until a wizard-god's spell brings forth a courageous and beautiful young woman who must follow her heart in love and follow her destiny in battle......

  • The Year My Life Went Down the Loo

    Katie Maxwell

    Subject: The Grotty and the Fabu (No, its not a song.) From: Mrs.Oded@btelecom.co.uk To: Dru@seattlegrrl.com Things That Really Irk My Pickle About Living in England - The school uniform - Piddlington-on-the-weld (I will forever be known as Emily f...

  • On What Grounds

    Cleo Coyle

    Clare Cosi used to manage the historic Pillage Blend coffeehouse...until she opted for quieter pastures and a more suburban life. But after ten scars and a little friendly cajoling from the owner (a fresh pot of Jamaican Blue .1 fountain was all it t...

  • 97 Ways to Train a Dragon

    Kate McMullan

    Wiglaf is supposed to be a dragon slayer, but dragon babysitter is more like it. After a mysterious egg hatches into a baby dragon, Wiggie and his roommate Angus decide to keep it. But can they keep it safe from Mordred if he finds out?...

  • Alyssa's Ring

    Julia Gray

    After wandering the world in exile, guided only by the prophecies of the mysterious Tindaya Code, Terrel is at last returning to Vadanis, his journey at an end. But the powers that have sought to destroy him are not yet defeated. For the prophecy to ...

  • The Amulet of Samarkand

    Jonathan Stroud

    Presenting a thrilling voice in children's literature -- a witty, gripping adventure story featuring a boy and his not-so-tame djinni. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hot...

  • Begin Again

    K.A. Applegate

    The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action!

    The end of the world has come and gone, leaving only ...

  • The Belly of the Bow

    K.J. Parker

    In one night of blood and betrayal, the famed Triple City of Perimadeia has fallen to the barbarian hordes. The man who led the defending forces, Bardas Loredan, has fled to the island of Scona. Here, eschewing the violence that has characterised his...

  • Between Worlds

    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

    Breath of air, soul of fire, Grant this night my heart's desire. Womb of earth, tears of sea, Bring my lover back to me. The Halliwell sisters are no strangers to Halloween hijinks. But this year, the Wiccan celebration of Samhain is met with a rash...

  • Chaos and Amber

    John Gregory Betancourt

    In Roger Zelazny's "Amber" universe, there is only one true world, of which all others are but Shadows. In the ten-book saga that he created, it is learned that "Amber" was not the first true world; rather, it was "The Courts of Chaos." The saga c...

  • Charlie Bone and the Time Twister

    Jenny Nimmo

    Time Is Running Out For Charlie Bone! Charlie hopes that the new term at Bloor's Academy will hold no nasty surprises. But then HenryYewbeam appears, twisted through time from the icy winter of 1916. With the scheming Yewbeam aunts on the prowl, an...

  • Colours in the Steel

    K.J. Parker

    Perimadeia: the famed Triple City and the mercantile capital of the known world. Behind its allegedly impregnable walls, everything is available. Including information which will allow its enemies to plan one of the most remarkable sieges of all time...

  • Confidence Game

    Michelle M. Welch

    SHE DIDN'T BREAK THE RULES. THEY BROKE HER. Beneath its peaceful exterior, Dabion is a land of violence and intrigue, its politics run by judges, schemers, and spies. Elzith Kar is one such spy, gifted with an uncanny skill derived from rigorous ...

  • Darknesses

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    A thousand years after a magical disaster ended the unified rule of the Duarchy, Corus is a world of contending nations, struggling humans, strange animals, and elusive supernatural creatures. Much has been lost, but Corus is still a land of magical ...

  • Dragonlance - The War of Souls Trilogy Gift Set: Dragons of a Fallen Sun/Dragons of a Lost Star/Dragons of a Vanished Moon

    Margaret Weis

    This slip-covered gift set contains the three New York Times best-selling titles that make up the epic War of Souls trilogy: Dragons of a Fallen Sun, Dragons of a Lost Star, and Dragons of a Vanished Moon. Authored by Dragonlance saga co-creators Mar...

  • East

    Edith Pattou

    A beautiful, new edition of the beloved fantasy hailed as “the stuff of epic tale telling” (Booklist), perfect for fans of Beauty and the Beast from New York Times best-selling author Edith Pattou. Rose has always longed for adventure, so when an...

  • The Empress of Mars

    Kage Baker

    When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet--only to be abandoned when the BAC...

  • The Fall of the Kings

    Ellen Kushner; Delia Sherman

    This stunning follow-up to Ellen Kushner’s cult-classic novel, Swordspoint, is set in the same world of labyrinthine intrigue, where sharp swords and even sharper wits rule. Against a rich tapestry of artists and aristocrats, students, strumpets, ...

  • Feast of the King's Shadow

    Chaz Brenchley

    Where courage counted above all, one woman could make the difference... Enemies of long standing are united under the fiercely charismatic Hasan -- and Outremer may be defeated before the first battle has even been fought. The Ghost Walker's loyal...

  • The Gates of Heaven

    Curt Benjamin

    THE PRINCES' QUEST.... Prince Llesho was seven when the Ham invaded his family's mountain kingdom of Thebin. In one devastating attack, these barbarian conquerors stole the lives of his family, his kingdom, and his freedom, selling him into slaver...

  • Goddess of the Ice Realm

    David Drake

    Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, are young brother and sister pairs whose destiny is to reunite the kingdoms of the Isles into one empire for the first time in a millennium. As Garric and his retinue reach the island city of Carcosa, his benign ...

  • Gregor the Overlander

    Suzanne Collins

    WHEN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD GREGOR follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of their New York apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath the city. There, humans live uneasily besides giant spiders, bats, cockroaches,...

  • Hades' Daughter

    Sara Douglass

    Ancient Greece is a place where mortals are the playthings of the gods--but at the core of each mortal city-state is a Labyrinth, where the mortals can shape the heavens to their own design. When Theseus comes away from the Labyrinth with the prize o...

  • Hand of the King's Evil

    Chaz Brenchley

  • The Journey

    Kathryn Lasky

    IT BEGAN AS A DREAM. A quest for the Great Ga’Hoole Tree, a mythic place where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds. There Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger hope to find inspiration to fight the evil that dwells in the owl kin...

  • Knight for a Day

    Kate McMullan

    When Wiglaf learns that he has won "A Day With Sir Lancelot (The World's Most Perfect Knight)," he can hardly believe it. His friend Erica can't believe it, either! And when the big day arrives, she is even more doubtful. Is Erica just jealous, or is...

  • The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Deed

    Richard Bach

    Can one animal save the world? So asks Richard Bach, bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Ferret Chronicles. This moving fable about the almost-end of a civilization and the profound issues it raises -- that of war and peace, lif...

  • Le Morte D'Avalon

    J. Robert King

    Mad Merlin told the story from a god's point of view.Lancelot Du Lether told the story from a lover's point of view.Now in the third volume of J. Robert King's critically acclaimed Arthurian triptych focuses on a woman of Avalon--Morgan le Fey.Part ...

  • The Lost Steersman

    Rosemary Kirstein


    At last, here is the eagerly anticipated new novel by Rosemary Kirstein, critically acclaimed author of The Steerswoman and The Outskirter’s Secret. This though-provoking story calls to mind the writing of Ursula K. LeGuin and Sheri Tepper.
    ...

  • Lucifer's Crown

    Lillian Stewart Carl

    First print-published by Five Star/Gale in 2003When Maggie Sinclair walks into myth-haunted Glastonbury Abbey she intends only to teach a group of students the stories of King Arthur. But she can't escape her mid-life crisis, which soon leads her to ...

  • Moira's Story

    Cate Tiernan

  • Monstrous Regiment

    Terry Pratchett

    War has come to Disc world . . . again. And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks'...

  • Night Blooming

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Set in the court of Charlemagne the Great, this is the 15th novel in the popular series about the immortal vampire, Le Comte de Saint-Germain, who meets an albino woman afflicted with stigmata who is accused of witchcraft....

  • Paladin of Souls

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets -...

  • Predator's Gold

    Philip Reeve

    TOM AND HESTER ARE IN DANGER Pursued by the grim aviators of the Green Storm, they stumble onto the ice city of Anchorage just in time. But Anchorage is not a safe refuge: devastated by plague and haunted by thieves or ghosts, the city is barely lur...

  • Prince of Ayodhya

    Ashok K. Banker

    In the high-towered capital city of Ayodhya, a legendary seer-mage casts a dire warning: Ravana, the great demon of the netherworld, is plotting to conquer the mortal plane. Amassing the largest and most vicious army of demons ever assembled, the dar...

  • The Reality Bug

    D.J. MacHale

    VIRTUAL REALITY? THE TERRITORY OF VEE LOX has achieved perfect harmony. Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon arrives on this territory in pursuit of the evil Saint Dane, but all is peaceful on Veelox--because it's deserted. The inhabitants have discov...

  • The Sandman: King of Dreams

    Alisa Kwitney

    The first and only comic book to receive the World Fantasy Award, The Sandman continues to break new ground in the comic book medium and beyond. Author Alisa Kwitney explores its beginnings and chronicles the comic's emergence as a unique and undenia...

  • Shadows

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Twelve years ago, a child from a distant planet fell to Earth in a lethal hail of meteors that changed Smallville, Kansas forever. Now a teen, Clark Kent must master his alien abilities-even while radiation from the green glowing meteor fragments mut...

  • Sir Lancelot, Where Are You?

    Kate McMullan

    The evil witch Morgana le Fay has put a terrible curse on Sir Lancelot, and it's up to Wiglaf and his DSA buddies to find and save him. But they're just dragon-slayers-in-training. Can they really outsmart the trolls, witches, and other villains that...

  • Spellbound

    Nancy Holder; Debbie Viguie

    After months of battles and betrayals, Holly Cathers's coven of Light, the Tri-Coven, is in disarray -- Eddie, Kialish, Silvana, and Alonzo are dead; Nicole is trapped on the island of Avalon; and Holly -- delirious from being pulled out of the Dream...

  • Split Decision

    H.B. Gilmour; Randi Reisfeld

    BOY-TRAYAL It's summer. And for the first time since they've met, Cam and Alex are doing their own things. Alex is chilling in Marble Bay with her sweetie, Cade. And Cam is in Coventry with her warlock hottie, Shane. But it's not all fun in the sun....

  • Sunshine

    Robin McKinley

    There are places in the world where darkness rules., where it's unwise to walk. But there hadn't been any trouble out at the lake for years, and Sunshine just needed a spot where she could be alone with her thoughts. Vampires never entered her mind. ...

  • The Tail of Emily Windsnap

    Liz Kessler

    Everybody has a secret. Mine's a little different, though. I didn't even know about it until the first day of swim class in seventh grade. You see, I'd never been allowed to go in the water before. As it turns out, swimming comes naturally to me. Ve...

  • The Talisman

    Lynne Ewing

    VANESSA, Serena, Jimena, Catty, and Tianna are five seemingly ordinary girls from Los Angeles. But the truth is that they are all far from ordinary. They each have a secret power that separates them from others--and makes them DAUGHTERS OF THE MOON ...

  • Ten Little Witches

    Paul Ruditis

    An Other Realm Halloween party ...for mortals?
    When Harvey Kinkle gets an invitation, he's told he can bring one witch -- and what better witch to party with than Sabrina? But even Salem, the master of dastardly tricks, can't...

  • Tenggren's Golden Tales from the Arabian Nights

    Gustaf Tenggren

    The city is under siege! The King, enraged by his wife’s dishonesty, has vowed to marry every young woman in the city only to have each bride beheaded the following day at sunrise. But Scheherazade, the beautiful and wise daughter of the King’s v...

  • Threshold

    Sara Douglass

    Over the hot southern land of Ashdod looms the V shadow of Threshold, the pyramid that the Magi of Ashdod are building to propel themselves into Infinity. Over the years, thousands of slaves have given their lives to the construction of Threshold. No...