This Week's Featured Titles

Duke: The Musical Life of Duke Ellington by Bill Gutman

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington was one of jazz's greatest innovators. Join Bill Gutman as he explores the fascinating life of this legend from his birth at the turn of the century to his death at the age of seventy-five. Interviewing Duke's friends, fans and fellow musicians, Gutman documents the (read more...)

Cross and Crescent by Susan Shwartz

The center of the greatest empire in the world, the seat of Christianity, Byzantium is a revered city. Marked by gargantuan monuments to God and peopled by the most royal of princes, and the most affluent citizens, Byzantium cannot possibly ever fall. Now under siege by Islam, the Byzantine Empire must (read more...)

April of Enchantment by Jennifer Blake

Laura Nichols is always up for a challenge and the job Justin Roman has offered her is the perfect showcase for her talents. Not only is he dubious of her ability to complete the restoration of his Louisiana mansion in time for his wedding, but she is also (read more...)

The Dancers of Arun (Book Two of The Chronicles of Tornor Trilogy) by Elizabeth A. Lynn

As the scholar and scribe of Tornor, Kerris has been in training for the past seventeen years. But it's not until his brother Kel of the Cheari culture teaches him the psychic art of patterning, that the city of Elath comes under attack and Kerris must draw upon these new (read more...)

The Bird of Time by George Alec Effinger

Far into the future, Hartstein's graduation present from his grandparents was a wonderful trip…into the past. He had a long future in the doughnut industry to look forward to but this trip was the icing on the cake. It had been a long time since that first (read more...)

No Name Girl by Linda Cargill

She wakes up in the darkness of a car trunk bumping along the highway. She smells gasoline. She hears the car radio blaring. Ropes tie her wrists and her ankles. The next thing she knows she is in a car repair shop. Two teenage boys are talking. She knocks on the trunk to gain their attention. But when they (read more...)

This Week's Featured Titles

Clemente! by Kal Wagenheim

Roberto Clemente, one of history's greatest and most memorable Hispanic baseball stars, led a remarkable professional and personal life, until he met an untimely death in 1972 in a plane crash while on a mission of mercy to the site of a disastrous earthquake in Nicaragua. The first Latin American player to be recognized by (read more...)

The Cloud Gatherer (Book 1 of the Oas Cycle) by John F. D. Taff

Oas. A city in the middle of a great desert, yet blessed with an abundance of water. This water is coaxed out of the skies by the Gatherers, an ancient guild of pilots who use barely understood technology to seed the clouds. The rain they bring is collected in Oas' grand system of fountains and (read more...)

Californio! by Virginia Meyers

Don Francisco, a suave señor who seeks to dominate early California. Petra, the unyielding señorita, will not give up her land so easily to Francisco. She will teach Don Francisco that he cannot just bounce into town and take what he wants like some id-ridden child, but then she sees (read more...)

The Cursed by Dave Duncan

The world was desperate. Since the empire had fallen a hundred years ago, Gwin and her people had nearly given up hope that the Renewer would come? Gwin had lost everything. Her husband was killed in one of the wars. Her children died of Star Sickness. Even her work at (read more...)

The Big One by Harrison Arnston

The people of Los Angeles have always been famous for their obliviousness but little did they know how close they were to oblivion. In a mere three weeks, the swaying palms and studded stucco of Southern California would be reduced to burning embers and rusty rubble. "The Big One" had always been a distant (read more...)

Ambush at Amboseli (Anika Scott Series) by Karen Rispin

Being twelve isn't easy. But Anika Scott, who has joined her parents as a missionary in Kenya, uses her faith and trust in God as guidance to help her through many challenging experiences. Join Anika in her exciting and often dangerous (read more...)