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New Books List: 576 titles

  • Taking Time

    Lynn Abbey

    To free a family from a generational curse, time traveler Emma Merrigan journeys back in time to uncover the truth about a horrific act of violence that will transform the lives of a dynasty and begins to realize the possibility that to save those in...

  • The Clue in the Castle Wall

    Linda Williams Aber

    Barbie is one of the top girls' properties - the world's #1 fashion doll. Now Scholastic is on the Barbie bandwagon with stories starring Barbie as a reporter with a nose for a mystery.

    Barbie and Christie are very excited. They're going to sp...

  • Ex-Girlfriends

    Kylie Adams

    He Was The One Who Got Away...Thank God Stop the presses--Dean Paul Lockhart, America's favorite bachelor, is getting married! It's sending shock waves through the tabloids, and rocking the worlds of the three former friends who were once all his......

  • Negima! Volume 1

    Ken Akamatsu

    DON’T TOUCH THAT WAND!

    Ten-year-old prodigy Negi Springfield, has just graduated from magic academy. He dreams of becoming a master wizard. Instead he’s sent to Japan to teach English . . . at an all-girls high school! All the students are...

  • Sudden Moves

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    After years of self-imposed reclusiveness, Lucinda Hunter has started moving out into the world. She has found her family and her isolation has ended, largely thanks to Katanya Taylor, who ventured into her garden five years earlier and beckoned t...

  • Snarf Attack, Underfoodle, and the Secret of Life

    Mary Amato

    Move over, Captain Underpants, a couple of new pranksters are in town. Narrated by fifth-grader Wilbur and featuring his third-grade brother, Orville, this hilarious story follows the antics of two boys with overactive imaginations and a comfortable ...

  • Gift of the Bambino

    Jerry Amernic

    It is 1914. A young boy takes in a baseball game with his father and sees a tall, lanky Babe Ruth hit his first home run as a professional. The ball sails through the sky and drops into the bay just beyond the fence. Thus begins an epic tale of hopes...

  • Gods of Green Mountain

    V.C. Andrews

    What if mere mortals could meet their Gods and learn the answers to life's most mysterious questions? Now they can.Imagine a planet with two blazing suns. A world inhabited by mortals with flaming red hair, saffron colored skin, and violet eyes. A pl...

  • Once a Bride

    Shari Anton

    My Enemy, My Love To Eloise Hamelin of Lelleford, 'tis the stuff of nightmares: Her betrothed dies on the church steps. Her beloved father disappears after being charged with treason. And the king places her home in the hands of a knight she l...

  • Kissing Tennessee: and Other Stories from the Stardust Dance

    Kathi Appelt

    Mason and Carrie Marie can't get up the courage to ask each other to dance. Russ's girlfriend has died, and now he's just trying to live without her. Peggy Lee has grown up with Tennessee--how can she ever think of him as more than a friend?

  • Specky Magee & the Season of Champions

    Felice Arena

  • Vengeance Cuts Loose

    Joani Ascher

    Ladies' man and top stylist Garth Barkley is stabbed to death with his own shears in front of his own customers.

    But no one saw a thing.

    Among the customers is Wally Morris, a reluctant sleuth who has cracked two cases in the past, and her mo...

  • Man on the Border

    Dave Austin

    Young Billy DeLisle thinks he's struck gold when he lands a job as a border patrol agent--partnered with the legendary gunfighter Tuck Adler. But legends can be lies, and soon Billy will find out whether the man lives up to the myth....

  • Inappropriate Men

    Stacey Ballis

    With her marriage spiraling toward divorce, sexually confident and unapologetically sized-24 Sidney Stein finds herself drawn into an illicit affair with Geoffrey Fahl -- not only married and twenty years her senior, but also her father's business pa...

  • Cuba

    Emily Barr

    EMILY BARR DELIGHTS READERS WITH A TALE OF A SINGLE YOUNG WOMAN FINDING HER PLACE IN THE WORLD. Maggie moved to the seashore to get a fresh start after breaking up with her boyfriend, but she didn't imagine her new life would be so lonely. So when...

  • The Book of Ten Nights and a Night

    John Barth

    The Book of Ten Nights and a Night offers both a keen introduction to the genius of John Barth and a deeply human argument for the enduring value of literature. Gathering stories written throughout this postmodern master's long career, the collection...

  • Flowers by Felicity

    Janet Lee Barton
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    The wedding bouquet symbolizes the hope that love will sail into the life of the person who catches it. Romance, though, is the last thing four of Abby's wedding guests want. But when a whirling ceiling fan disintegrates Abby's carefully crafted nose...

  • The Double-Digit Club

    Marion Dane Bauer

    Worried that her best friend Paige will join the Double-Digit Club when she becomes ten and leave her deserted for the summer, Sarah anxiously awaits the date to see what will become of her friend and their special plans for a fantastic summer togeth...

  • Grandpa's Surprise

    Rosalind Beardshaw

    In Grandpa's Surprise, Stanley is very jealous of Jack's new bike-but Jack won't let him have a ride on it! Grandpa sees how upset Stanley is and decides to cheer him up with a special surprise: a homemade go-kart! Now will Stanley let Jack take a...

  • Sparks

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    Even with his growing super powers, Clark Kent cannot resist his classmate Chloe after green sparks from a fireworks display land on her and she becomes the object of almost every boy's desire at Smallville High School....

  • The Art of Mending

    Elizabeth Berg

    Laura Barton anticipates her annual family reunion in Minnesota with a mixture of excitement and wariness. Yet this year's gathering will prove to be much more trying than either she or her siblings imagined. As soon as she arrives, Laura realizes th...

  • My Happy Baby!

    Michelle Berg

    This innovative format has a soft cloth book four inches in diameter surrounded by six colorful fabric petal with a variety of novelty elements and textiles. Includes a Mylar mirror on the back cover!

    This cuddly round cloth book features illu...

  • Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

    Michelle Berg

    This innovative format has a four-spread cloth book, a soft star-shaped plush with an embedded music box, and a ribbon for hanging in a crib, car seat, or stroller.

    Twinkle, twinkle little star
    How I wonder what you are
    High above the sk...

  • The Eaglel Has Landed

    Lara Bergen

    Stanley has entered a kite-flying contest. But he's having some trouble-his kite won't fly! During a visit with some clever bald eagles, Stanley learns that "practice makes perfect," and soon he's a kite-flying champ!...

  • Frog Legs

    Lara Bergen

    Stanley's family is going swimming in the big pool, and Stanley is scared. It's just so deep! But after learning all about frogs, which like to be on land and in the water, Stanley realizes that he's ready to swim in the big pool, after all....

  • Belmondo Style

    Adam Berlin

    Jared Chiziver is a single father and professional pick-pocket, devotee of Jean-Paul Belmondo and foreign films, and a suave ladies' man. His son Ben is sixteen, a bookish semi-introvert, a star on his school's track team, college bound and gay. Thei...

  • Conspirators

    Michael Andre Bernstein

    Galicia, Austria-Hungary, 1913. In the castle of a frontier town, on the border between Europe and the East, the worldly, corrupt Count-Governor Wiladowski watches helplessly while a wave of assassinations sweeps the empire, and his province. When a ...

  • An Irresistible Bachelor

    Jessica Bird

    He was a confirmed bachelor--and a gorgeous work of art. For struggling art conservationist Callie Burke, the chance to restore a world-famous painting is the opportunity of a lifetime--one that no one in her right mind would turn down. Call her c...

  • Windy City Knights

    Michael A. Black

    How much do you owe a past love? Ever wonder about it? Private Detective Ron Shade does when he bumps into his former lover, Paula Kittermann, late one lonely December night in a hotel bar. Paula had once been a major factor in Shade's life, but tha...

  • Story Time

    Edward Bloor

    George and Kate are promised the finest education when they transfer to the Whittaker Magnet School. It boasts the highest test scores in the nation. But at what price? Their school's curriculum is focused on beating standardized tests; classes are h...

  • Momma's Magical Purse

    Paulette Bogan

    Rachael and her cousin David are going on a picnic with Rachael's momma. When the rain starts, Momma is ready with umbrellas and coats. When Rachael trips on a branch, Momma pulls out bandages. Rachael knows Momma's purse is magical-how else could...

  • Franklin Forgives

    Paulette Bourgeois

    This story of a lost pet and a sibling dilemma will strike a responsive chord with Franklin fans.

    It was just an accident: Franklin's little sister Harriet didn't mean to upset Goldie's fishbowl while the family was picnicking at the pond. But...

  • Unforced Error

    Michael Bowen

    "A modern-day Nick and Nora, the quick-witted Rep and the literature-loving Melissa trade sophisticated quips that may make readers wish they had paid more attention in English class. Good fun." -- BooklistIntellectual property attorneys, romance pub...

  • The Tumbler

    Peter Bowen

    Gabriel Du Pre, the old Metis fiddler at the center of Peter Bowen's atmospheric, engrossing series set in the dirty, dusty Montana that's rarely featured in travel brochures, has a knack for finding trouble. Or rather, trouble has a knack for findin...

  • Evan's Gate

    Rhys Bowen

    Welsh constable Evan Evans plumbs the past and present to search for connections between two troubling crimes. Evans has found the most delightful shepherd's cottage. At the moment it's just four stone walls with gaping holes for doors and windows.....

  • Firmament

    Tim Bowler

    Dared by his fellow gang mates to climb into a home and steal something as a demonstration of membership, Luke apprehensively takes the challenge and, in turn, uncovers a surprising secret that changes the path of his life forever....

  • In Silent Graves

    Gary A. Braunbeck

    Robert Londrigan seems to have it all. He is a newscaster with a rising career. He has a beautiful wife, Denise, and a new baby on the way. But in just a few short hours Robert's world is turned upside down. Now his family is gone.but the torment onl...

  • Blood of the Land

    Noel-Anne Brennan

    Now on the throne of Saeditin, Rilsin is faced by a would-be invasion of her deposed cousin, who has joined forces with her own kingdom's long-time foe Runchot, an unsettled situation further complicated by the kidnapping of her baby, the disappearan...

  • The V Club // The Virginity Club

    Kate Brian

    Everyone's (not) doin' it. MANDY, KAI, DEBBIE, AND EVA have one thing they must do before graduation . . . win the prestigious Treemont scholarship. It's a free pass to the college of their choice. But the award has one very bizarre requirement: "...

  • Flashpoint

    Suzanne Brockmann

    From unrelenting action to intense emotion, from high-stakes drama to break-neck pacing, New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Brockmann is a novelist who does it all. Now after her blockbuster hardcover debut, Gone Too Far, Brockmann delivers an...

  • Diary of a Working Girl

    Daniella Brodsky

    Lane Silverman was a struggling freelance writer, desperate to sell an article that would pay her rent, when she stumbled upon the pitch of a lifetime: an article about finding Mr. Right in the workplace. She sold the idea to Cosmopolitan, tossed out...

  • Never Finished, Never Done!

    Regina Brooks

  • Family Trust

    Amanda Brown

    From the author of LEGALLY BLONDE comes a hilarious romance about finding family -- and yourself -- in the strangest of places. Firmly planted on the Wall Street fast track to success, Becca Reinhart has no desire to marry and raise a family. Ditto ...

  • Gypsy

    Carolyn Brown

    Gypsy Rose Dulan just knew there was a secret hidden in the stars. She just didn't expect to fall sleep while searching for that secret. And she sure didn't expect to be awakened by a rude, overbearing, short Irishman by the name of Tavish O'Leary. T...

  • Whisker of Evil

    Rita Mae Brown

    A mysterious death in a Virginia farm town has the locals scratching their heads--while frisky feline Mrs. Murphy and her friends, fat-cat Pewter and corgi Tee Tucker, uncover clues as they curl their way around a cold-blooded killer. This balmy s...

  • Murder Is No Mitzvah

    Abigail Browning

    A collection of mystery short stories, all published initially in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and all dealing with Jewish holidays or other days of celebration. Along with the official holidays, like Yom Kippur (the Day of Atonement) Rosh Hashon...

  • Sethra Lavode

    Steven Brust

    Sethra Lavode is the sequel to The Paths of the Dead and The Lord of Castle Black, and the culmination of the bestselling epic begun with The Phoenix Guards. The oldest person in the Dragaeran Empire. A military genius and master of sorcery whose s...

  • The Prophecy of the Stones

    Flavia Bujor

    In a magical realm, three teenage girls--Jade, Opal, and Amber--are chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy. On the day of their fourteenth birthdays, they set out on a quest that will require them to leave their homes and families face fierce enemies ...

  • Knighthood of the Dragon

    Chris Bunch

    Storm arced around a towering cumulus cloud, and dove through a tunnel in the next one....The dragon seemed just as happy to be up here sporting about, no one else in the shy, instead of snarling after enemies like Hal.... Having proved his mettle...

  • Can You Do This, Old Badger?

    Eve Bunting

  • Daddy's Little Girl

    Bobby Burke

    You're the end of the rainbow, my pot of gold,You're daddy's little girl, to have and to hold . . .

    The song "Daddy's Little Girl" has been a favorite of fathers and daughters -- and mothers, too -- for more than fifty yea...

  • The Rage

    Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Renegade dragon hunter Dorn hates dragons with a passion few can believe, let alone match. He has devoted his entire life - a life spent in the twisted body of a half-golem - to killing every dragon he can find. You might feel the same way if one of...

  • Molly Moon Stops the World

    Georgia Byng

    Molly Moon is back -- and this time she's hypnotizing her way to the Academy Awards in Los Angeles. Along with Rocky and Petula the pug, Molly is tracking the sinister activities of American billionaire Primo Cell, who wants to become president and t...

  • Unforgettable

    Adrianne Byrd

    Ladies man Marcel Taylor got his nickname, Casanova Brown, the old-fashioned way - he earned it. His life of privilege has been filled with the finer things and the finest women, but he's becoming bored with it all...until a mysterious seductress ent...

  • Princess in Pink

    Meg Cabot

    Even princesses have dreams In her heart of hearts, Mia has but one wish: an evening spent with Michael in a tux and a corsage on her wrist -- in other words, the PROM. Michael, however, does not seem to share the dream that is the prom. Worse still...

  • Women Write: A Mosaic of Women's Voices in Fiction, Poetry, Memoir and Essay

    Susan Cahill

    A rich array of literary work--including fiction, poetry, letters, essays, and memoir--by notable women writers includes contributions by Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Sandra Cisn...

  • Beyond Compare

    Candace Camp

    Though Kyria Moreland is beautiful enough to earn the sobriquet "The Goddess" and rich enough to attract London's most sought after gentlemen, she has yet to find love and refuses to marry without it. When she receives a strange package under mysteri...

  • Spanish Holiday // Fiesta

    Kate Cann

    Dear Bella and Bobby, Thank you SO MUCH for letting us stay at your villa. It's gorgeous, and we're having a fab time looking after it and enjoying the view of the mountains and the lovely olive grove. I figured out the bus to Ercos on the first d...

  • 'mater Biscuit

    Julie Cannon

    From the author of Truelove & Homegrown Tomatoes comes a heartwarming story of three generations of Southern women working to mend the rifts of the past and set paths for the future. It is summer in Euharlee, Georgia, and Imogene Lavender's garde...

  • Love in the Asylum

    Lisa Carey

    Can love save those who believe they are beyond redemption? In and out of a swank north-eastern rehab centre more than a dozen times in ten years, Alba Elliot, a 25-year-old children's book writer and manic-depressive, believes she is a hopeless case...

  • The Speed of Light

    Ron Carlson

    With the long summer ahead, there will be a lot of living, growing, and changing to come for three boys as they approach the struggles of adolescence, in a coming-of-age tale for young adults. Reprint....

  • The Kissing Gate

    Fiona Carr

    THE KISSING GATE The new Earl of Wraxham, Lionel Westfall, was unprepared to move from town life to the doldrums of his late father's estate. He was even less prepared to find Sophie Bowerbank. The girl had turned voluptuous woman, but she was still...

  • Sin

    Michael Cart

    Bold, innovative, and eclectic -- that’s Rush Hour, a cutting-edge literary journal featuring original stories, essays, art, poems, and excerpts from forthcoming novels from today’s most distinguished voices, both established and new. Sin is the ...

  • Sisters

    Judith Caseley

    Kika has just been adopted -- and she's worried. There's so much that's new to her: a different language, new friends to make, and something she's never had before -- a family.

    Melissa has a new sister -- and she's excited. There's so much t...

  • Mina

    Jonatha Ceely

    In the musty attic of an upstate New York house, a woman finds a clasped box, hidden away for over a century. Inside, wrapped in cambric and tied with a green ribbon, is an old manuscript written by a girl dreaming of a better life, fighting for sur...

  • Meet Casey Jones

    Marc Cerasini

    Raphael is a little cooped up underground, and he almost clobbers his brother in some friendly sparring. Needing to get out, Raphael leaves to let off a little steam. While outside, Raphael meets up with someone who is even more of a hothead than he ...

  • Fire Bell in the Night

    Tim Champlin

    Alex Thorne has been enjoying his retirement from the Secret Service by seeing the world. Aboard the City of Peking, he saves the life of a fellow passenger, Rudyard Kipling. Thorne is immediately suspicious that the incident was far from accidental....

  • An Inconvenient Wife

    Megan Chance

    You're too sensitive, Lucy. You need to know your place. Be a wife to your husband. Find your duty. Happiness will follow. For young Mrs. Lucy Carleton, it's becoming harder and harder to be the perfect wife, to feign pleasure at the elegant soirees ...

  • Passing Through

    Colin Channer

    Spanning the early 1900s up to modern times, the stories trace the intersecting lives of travelers, expatriates, and local folks in ways that shock, illuminate, and reveal. From the American photographer who finds her world disturbed by new forms of ...

  • The Last of the Menu Girls

    Denise Chavez

    Rocío Esquibel is a girl growing up in a Southern New Mexico town with her mother and sister. She defines her neighborhood by its trees -- the willow, the apricot and the one they call the marking-off tree. Rocio knows she was born in the closet w...

  • Green Mountain, White Cloud

    Francois Cheng

    In a medieval abbey near Paris, in a room piled high with old Chinese texts, lies a manuscript gathering dust. Though ordinary in appearance, it first captures the eye of the narrator of François Cheng's novel. Then, once he begins to read, it captu...

  • The Chernagor Pirates

    Dan Chernenko

    Four hundred years ago, the kingdom of Avornis lost the Scepter of Mercy, long the property of its kings -- and the key to its destiny. All attempts to retrieve it have failed horribly. But without it, how long can Avornis keep resisting powers great...

  • Connie and Carla

    Deborah Chiel

    After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit, Chicago singers Connie and Carla flee to L.A., where they hide their real identities by working the city's dinner theater circuit as drag queens, but their masquerade is turned upside down when Connie falls ...

  • Stealing Home

    Matt Christopher

    Joey's in for a big surprise ... Joey Gallagher is on top of the world. When his team's pitcher is injured, he steps onto the mound and helps them win a crucial game. But his good mood ends abruptly when his mother announces that the exchange stud...

  • It Had to Be You

    Jill Churchill

    Comfortably ensconced in their late great-uncle's "Grace and Favor" mansion, brother and sister Robert and Lily Brewster are riding out the Depression, penniless but in high style. Now a new day is heralded by Franklin Roosevelt's inauguration. Barel...

  • Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 1

    CLAMP

    SAKURA AND SYAORAN RETURN!

    But they’re not the people you know. Sakura is the princess of Clow -- and possessor of a mysterious, misunderstood power that promises to change the world. Syaoran is her childhood friend and leader of the archaeo...

  • X-Treme X-Men, Volume 7: Storm: The Arena

    Chris Claremont

  • Nighttime Is My Time

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Historian Jean Sheridan returns to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, excited about her twenty-year high-school reunion at Stonecroft Academy. But a dear friend of hers soon becomes the fifth woman in the class to meet a sudden, mysterious end. Then Jean ...

  • Till the Cows Come Home

    Judy Clemens

    "She's smart. She's tough. She's sexy. She's a dairy farmer?" -- BooklistStella Crown works hard and loves her life. She runs her own Pennsylvania dairy farm with the trusted help of longtime farmhand Howie who stuck with her after her parents died. ...

  • The Report Card

    Andrew Clements

    SHHHHHH Nora Rose Rowley is a genius, but don't tell anyone. She's managed to make it to fifth grade without anyone figuring out that she's not just an ordinary kid, and she wants to keep it that way. But then Nora gets fed up with the importanc...

  • What to Keep

    Rachel Cline

    Denny Roman at twelve: a midwestern girl with a clueless family, a bit part in the school play, a crush on the drama teacher, and concerns about frontal development. Her mother and father, divorced neuroscientists, are raising her with benign neglect...

  • Just One Look

    Harlan Coben

    When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong--a photo from at least twenty years ago with a man in it who looks strikingly like her husband, Jack. And though Jack denies her suspicions...

  • Bombshell

    Barbara Collins; Max Allan Collins

    In an attempt to soothe growing Cold War tensions between America and Russia, Premier Nikita Khrushchev visits the US to see all that his “enemy” has to offer. Top of his to-do list? A trip to Disneyland and an introduction to sexual icon Mari...

  • Daddy's Little Boy

    Billy Collins

  • Brink of Death

    Brandilyn Collins

    The noises, faint, fleeting, whispered into her consciousness like wraiths in the night. Twelve-year-old Erin Willit opened her eyes to darkness lit only by the dim green nightlight near her closet door and the faint glow of a street lamp through he...

  • Eliza

    Mildred Colvin

    Eliza Jackson deals with the aftermath of her mother's death. Determined to care for her father and her younger brother, she desires to keep her family to herself - but the Lord has other plans. As her father falls in love again, it seems as though E...

  • The Riddle of Mystery Inn

    Kent Conwell

    B.J. Galloway, a part time P.I., wanted to take his girlfriend, Teri Owens, away for a fun weekend. He chose the Mystery Inn on the Sabine River, never expecting that a real murder would take place during a theatre performance. Now, he has been hired...

  • Victory

    Stephen Coonts

    Stephen Coonts asks what happens when you load a Catalina flying boat with five tons of bombs, a half dozen machine guns, and a crew that walks a line between valor and suicide. In the Pacific Theater of war, the Japanese Navy is about to discover th...

  • A Case of Crooked Letters

    Lori Copeland

    Just when things are settling back to normal in the sleepy town of Morning Shade, a series of chain letters throws the townspeople into a tizzy. Who is trying to bilk little old ladies out of their money with promises of good health and untold millio...

  • The Wedding Season

    Darcy Cosper

    SEVENTEEN WEDDINGS. SIX MONTHS. ON THE STRONG SURVIVE. Joy Silverman and her boyfriend, Gabriel Winslow, seem perfect for each other. Living together in New York City, they have everything they want and everything in common--most important, that nei...

  • Hamer's War

    Francis Cottam

    Having been wounded on the Russian Front, Martin Hamer, a heroic and principled German officer, is seconded to a labour camp in occupied Poland. Gradually, Hamer finds himself drawn to one of the inmates, Julia Smollen. As the burgeoning relationshi...

  • Shadow over Scorpio

    Juanita Coulson

    When Holly Frey's caregiver duties end with her father's death, her glamorous older sister sweeps her away to a completely different environment -- Dark Lake, an isolated celebrity community in the Indiana Dunes. The sisters have barely arrived when ...

  • Refining Fire

    Carol Cox

    Orphaned, then mistreated by her guardian, Jenny Davis has learned some hard lessons in life. For one thing, she believes God doesn't love her. How could He, when He's allowed such terrible hardships to befall her? Jenny decides any happiness she may...

  • In Her Boss's Bed

    Maggie Cox

    He wanted her in his bed! When company boss Conall O'Brien finds Morgen McKenzie asleep at her desk, he's furious! He's convinced she's a party girl who's been out on the town. Little does Conall know that Morgen is a single...

  • Auschwitz

    Pascal Croci

    The horrors and brutality of the Holocaust are captured in this gripping graphic novel, which follows the story of a couple, Kazik and Cessia, who lose a daughter at Auschwitz and barely survive the concentration camp themselves, in a historical saga...

  • Of Immeasurable Worth

    Joan Croston
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    In these brand-new novellas, four women of different eras are bound together by an ancient Gutenberg Bible: Her arranged marriage brings Lorice threats of death and days of fear--will she only find escape at the cost of her life? Paige despises arist...

  • Mao's Last Dancer

    Li Cunxin

    THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

    The extraordinary memoir of a peasant boy raised in rural Maoist China who was plucked from his village to study ballet and went on to become one of the greatest dancers of his generation. 

    From a desperate...

  • Ice-Man

    Ron Cutler

    Snow was falling when they found her floating downriver. She was naked, still chained, her beauty forever frozen in a block of ice. Jason Briscoe, the man convicted of the crime, claims it wasn't murder. Just rough sex gone too far. Prison psychologi...

  • The Caves of Buda

    Leah Cutter

    When her grandfather, Laci, confined to a hospital because of his dire ravings about demons, escapes and flees to his boyhood home in Hungary, Zita sets out to find the elderly man, only to discover that his apparent dementia hides a terrifying truth...

  • Please Say Please!

    Margery Cuyler

    Rollicking text and a mischievous crew of playful animal guests make for an irresistible first guide to manners.

    Penguin is having a party, and his nine adorable animal guests aren't sure about their manners. When Lion is served cauliflower, h...

  • Scarab

    Don D'Ammassa

    The city of Soshambe on the planet Tashista has been tormented by a serial killer nicknamed Scarab who strikes during the same season each year. Tashista employs an economically determined caste system and since Scarab's victims have all been from th...

  • The Second Coming

    John Dalmas

    A MAN OF MYSTERY MIGHT BE THE WORLD'S LAST HOPE -- IF HE COULD STAY ALIVE There is a Hindu belief that when humanity slides into decay, threatening us with a return to barbarism, God comes among us as a human, to jump-start us. Two thousand yea...

  • Time Is of the Essence

    Angie Daniels

    Although it's been two years, Captain Mark Saunders has never forgotten the hot affair in the arms of sexy schoolteacher, Essence Monroe. When he finally returns to Wilmington, he hopes for a second chance only to discover she isn't the only thing he...

  • Wonder Woman: The complete History

    Les Daniels

    The super-powered trilogy that captured the world's greatest superhero triumvirate of all time is now available in paperback. Relive the adventures of Krypton's favorite son inside and outside the comic book world in Superman: The Complete History. U...

  • Attack of the Mole Master

    Dan Danko

  • The Outback Marriage Ransom

    Emma Darcy

    The Outback bad boy is now a rich, powerful man -- and he's come to claim his bride! Ric Donato wanted Lara Seymour. But Ric was a bad boy. Six months' punishment on an Outback ranch forced him to grow up. Now he's a Sydney tycoon.... ...

  • Girls on Film

    Zoey Dean

    If we say you're in, you're in... If we say you're not, you're not . . And if you have to ask, you'll never be on ...The A-List Anna Percy came to LA to learn how to have a good time. Then Ben Birnbaum and his amazing disappearing act turned out...

  • Spider-Girl, Volume 1

    Tom Defalco

  • Honor's Reward

    Patricia DeGroot

    Catherine Wilde-Donley wants to begin a new life. But the scars on her hand as well as those in her mind prevent her from forgetting the tragic fire that took her husband's life and nearly her own. Deciding she must revisit her New York past before s...

  • Dandelions in a Jellly Jar

    Traci DePree

    The peaceful town of Lake Emily will never be the same when Trudy Ploog comes to stay!Mae Morgan’s flamboyant art teacher sister, Trudy Ploog, moves to the quiet, rural town of Lake Emily, Minnesota, to be closer to Bert Biddle, her shy, unassuming...

  • Hallie's Comet

    Denise Dietz

    Bestselling author Denise Dietz makes her Five Star debut.

    Hallie O'Brien is a successful artist, renowned for her Degas-like paintings of ballerinas. Except for a short stint in Paris, she has never lived anywhere other than New York City, so she...

  • The Ironwood Tree

    Tony DiTerlizzi; Holly Black

    First a pack of vile, smelly goblins snatch Simon. Then a band of elves try to entrap Jared. Why is the entire faerie world so eager to get their hands on Spiderwick's Guide? And will the Grace kids be left alone, now that the Guide has mysteriously ...

  • Legend

    Robert Doherty

    FROM THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON TO THE MISTS OF AVALON--THEY WERE THERE. NOW THEY ARE OUR ONLY HOPE.... They were born on a planet in the spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. In a bloody revolution they became known as "godkillers"--two humans who le...

  • A Girl Like Che Guevara

    Teresa de la Caridad Doval

    “Amusing, observant. . . . Doval’s sense of place and devastating depiction of prejudice in 1980s Cuba make this a worthwhile debut.” -- The Miami Herald

    “[A] piquant coming-of-age novel.” -- O magazine

    “Absolutely remarka...

  • Sworn Allies

    David Drake

    PLEDGED TO PROTECT US ALL In the remote darkness of space, they've fought the most fiery battles the stars will ever witness. On hellish planets with poisoned atmospheres, they ward off the ruthless Khalian horde. Now, the brave men and women of t...

  • The Floodmakers

    Mylene Dressler

    With his family in turmoil and his own life in a shambles, Harry Buelle agrees to join his parents, his sister, and her husband at their Southern beach house retreat, only to find that having the whole family together under one roof gives rise to old...

  • Cattleman's Heart

    Lois Faye Dyer

    He exuded a heat that had nothing to do with the Montana sun... One look at the shirtless cowboy sauntering toward her, and Rebecca Wallingford knew she was in trouble. Now Jackson Rand was telling her in a husky drawl that sent shivers up her spi...

  • Dumpy to the Rescue!

    Julie Andrews Edwards

  • Dumpy's Apple Shop

    Julie Andrews Edwards

  • The Chameleon and the Dragonfly

    Lorena Eliasen

    First-time author/illustrator Lorena Eliasen brings to life the story of how a chameleon won his colors in this dazzling pop-up book.

    Lorena Eliasen's fable about how the chameleon earned his many colors is a stunning first book, filled with v...

  • The Case of the Twisted Kitty

    John R. Erickson

    It's winter in the Texas Panhandle, and the ranch is covered in snow and ice.  So when Sally May sets off for town, Hank decides to follow Pete's misguided advice and bravely escorts her car down the slick road.  Before Hank realizes what's happ...

  • Full Blast

    Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes

    Dear Reader, Get ready to have the hottest time of your life with the sizzling duo of newspaper editor Jamie Swift and mysterious millionaire Max Holt. My good friend Charlotte Hughes and I set out to create a whole new world, separate from my Ste...

  • Longarm and the Talking Spirit

    Tabor Evans

    Indians are on the war path -- and Longarm’s in the way.An Indian war party is ready to massacre a group of miners, blaming them for the murder of their clan sister. The miners say they only found the body -- and they may be telling the truth. But ...

  • Medalon

    Jennifer Fallon

    According to legend, the last king of the Harshini sired a half-human child, known as the Demon Child, born to destroy a god .. . The Sisterhood of the Blade rules Medalon with an iron fist, an iron fist clad in the steel gauntlet of the Defenders...

  • Links

    Nuruddin Farah

    From the internationally acclaimed author of North of Dawn, Links is a novel that will stand as a classic of modern world literature.Jeebleh is returning to Mogadiscio, Somalia, for the first time in twenty years. But this is not a nostalgi...

  • Untamed

    Terri Farley

  • A Blast to the Past

    Virginia Farmer

    When the bomb goes off, U.S. Navy explosives technician Brian Skelley figures he's been blown to Kingdom Come. Instead, he's been blown to fourteenth-century Scotland -- and into the arms of the most beautiful woman ever. Can he give up his c...

  • Under a Lucky Star

    Diane Farr

    They shared a kiss that seared his soul...but can it melt her icy heart? Cynthia, daughter of the Earl of Ballymere, is known as the Frost Fair, for she is as cold as she is lovely. But Derek Whittaker is different from the suitors she has turned ...

  • Barefoot and Pregnant?

    Colleen Faulkner

    SHE HAD EVERYTHING A GIRL COULD WANT -- EXCEPT A HUSBAND! So career-girl Elise Montgomery turned to The Husband Finder, a trendy guidebook, to locate one. Only, according to the manual, her choice -- sexy farmer Zane Keaton -- was definitely Mr. W...

  • Dead Men Rise Up Never

    Ron Faust

    Dan Shaw, night school law student and ex-army investigator, has fifty-seven hours to find a man who may already be dead. Peter Falconer is one of the golden boys of Bell Harbor, Florida--or he soon will be after inheriting the family fortune. But wh...

  • King of Foxes

    Raymond E. Feist

    In the mountains of Midkemia, a boy came brutally of age in blood and in terror. And now he lives for one purpose alone . . . revenge! An exceptionally skilled swordsman, young Tal Hawkins was the only survivor of the massacre of his village--resc...

  • Have You Heard

    Anderson Ferrell

    In the tradition of the great Southern storytellers, Have You Heard explores a small town torn apart by scandal.

    Author of two critically acclaimed novels, Anderson Ferrell is back with this sprawling, atmospheric tale of the American Sout...

  • Dying to Retire

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    DEADLY MEDICINE In Florida for the funeral of Portia Shelby, a former neighbor from Cabot Cove, sleuth Jessica Fletcher and her old friend Dr. Seth Hazlitt discover that an apparent death from natural causes is not always what it seems. Potent pil...

  • 1634: The Galileo Affair

    Eric Flint; Andrew Dennis

    EUROPEAN CUNNING MEETS AMERICAN COURAGE The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, an alliance between Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the Wes...

  • My Fake Wedding

    Mina Ford

    When Katie Simpson discovers her boyfriend boffing "Fishpants Fraser," she vows to eat toenail clippings before getting involved again. Life as "the ginger spinster of Pelham Parish" will be lonely, but bearable as long as she shags lots of strangers...

  • Where Is the Green Sheep?

    Mem Fox

    There are red sheep and blue sheep, wind sheep and wave sheep, scared sheep and brave sheep, but where is the green sheep?

    The search is on in this cozy, sheep-filled story from acclaimed author Mem Fox and popular Australian cartoonist Judy...

  • The Sunken Sailor

    Elizabeth Foxwell

    Fourteen masters of the mystery and suspense genre--including Jan Burke, Carolyn Hart, Simon Brett, and Edward Marston--each contribute an individual chapter to a round robin mystery about a weekend house party in a small English village that is turn...

  • The Sea House

    Esther Freud

    “Unexpected and satisfying.” -- New York NewsdayThe architect Klaus Lehmann loves his wife, Elsa, with a passion that continues throughout their married life despite long periods of separation. Almost half a century after Lehmann’s death in t...

  • Finding Love in Payton

    Shelley Galloway

    In the latest installment of the Finding Love series, we return to the charming town of Payton, Ohio, and a romance that shows us love can break all the rules. Dinah Cate hasn't really moved on in the love department of her life since her husband pas...

  • Aldabra, The Tortoise Who Loved Shakespeare

    Silvana Gandolfi

    Recipe for a mouth-watering read: A family secret, a miraculous transformation, an Internet stranger, a friendly American scientist, and a girl with the strength to make it all come out right.The way to outsmart death, Elisa dear, is to turn into...

  • Beneath the Ice

    Alton Gansky

    At the bottom of the world lies a secret: a mysterious object buried three miles beneath the Antarctic ice. Famed engineer Perry Sachs and his crew face subzero temperatures, shifting ice, and the opposition of men determined to erase all knowledge o...

  • Dark Mirror

    Craig Shaw Gardner

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends... THE SINCEREST FORM In his two-plus centuries on Earth, Angel's seen his share of imitators: kindly, misguided people intrigued by the exotic business of being a P.I.; not-so-kindly misguide...

  • Neil's Castle

    Alissa Imre Geis

    Having always wanted to live in a castle complete with a moat and tall towers, Neil seeks the help of his father to come up with a plan to decorate and paint his bedroom walls in just the right way in order to see his dream come true....

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Gruesome Goblin

    James Gelsey

    SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of all time. Scooby is in the midst of a huge popularity boom, with new TV episodes and a sequel to the hit movie due in March 04.

    Surf's up, Scooby! The gang from Mystery, I...

  • Divining Women

    Kaye Gibbons

    Autumn 1918. Rumors of peace are spreading across America, but spreading even faster are the first cases of Spanish influenza, whispering of the epidemic to come. Maureen Ross, well past a safe childbearing age, is experiencing a difficult pregnancy....

  • The Legacy of Gloria Russell

    Sheri Gilbert

    A poignant debut novel about a boy’s struggle with the loss of his best friend -- and the truth about his small town’s ostracism of a lonely stranger.

    From the moment she touched Satan, my best friend Gloria Russell was never the same.
    ...

  • The Silken Shroud

    ElizaBeth Gilligan

    The second book of the dazzling Silken Magic series, set in the mythical kingdom of Tyrrhia, where courtly politics, magic, and the silk trade intersect.Romani magic had gifted the princess Alessandra with the blessing of the Fairy folk. So when...

  • Buzz

    Josie Glausiusz

    Falling into that irresistible category of things we probably don't want to know, here is an up-close, personal look at insects as you've never seen them before. Striking a balance between the bizarre and the beautiful, Buzz features eye-popping and ...

  • The Neptune Strategy

    John J. Gobbell

    Commander Todd Ingram is on the bridge of his ship, the destroyer USS Maxwell, on radar picket duty on a misty, overcast day when four Japanese Val dive bombers emerge screaming from the overcast. The coordinated attack is sudden and devastating, the...

  • Fit for a Sheikh

    Kristi Gold

    HOT PURSUIT Tracker Darin Shakir worked alone. The mysterious Cattleman's Club member had been burned in the past and he wasn't about to see innocents hurt on this mission. But plans had gone awry -- he'd wound up injured, and in bartender Fiona P...

  • Finding Bess

    Victoria Gordon

    Bess Carson writes steamy, historical romances, but she certainly doesn't want a man. So when fellow author Geoffrey Barrett, a Tasmanian author of rugged, outback historical adventures, suggests she leave her beloved Colorado and fly to Australia so...

  • The Legend of Banzai Maguire

    Susan Grant

    The year: 2006. The mission: routine. Or so U.S.A.F. pilot Bree "Banzai" Maguire thinks. Then she's shot down over enemy airspace, captured and put in bio-stasis. When she wakes, everything's changed. It's one hundred and seventy years later--2176--t...

  • Awake

    Elizabeth Graver

    Anna Simon has been living by the light of the moon ever since she gave birth to Max, a child with a rare genetic trait for whom sunlight can be fatal. For years, the Simons have structured their lives around Max's schedule. When Anna learns of a cam...

  • Pale Moon Rising

    Ginna Gray

    Years ago, Joe Connally married Olivia Jones because it was the right thing to do. But when they lost the baby, there seemed to be no need to carry on the charade. Olivia put her broken heart on a shelf and set out to leave her past, and its pain, be...

  • The Priestly Sins

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Not since his runaway bestseller, The Cardinal Sins, has Father Andrew M. Greeley written such a searing and topical novel about the state of the Catholic Church.The Priestly Sins tells the story of Father Herman Hoffman, a gifted and innocent young ...

  • Nightingale's Lament

    Simon R. Green

    The name's John Taylor. I work the garish streets of the Nightside--the hidden heart of London where it's always three A.M., where inhuman creatures and otherworldly gods walk side by side in the endless darkness of the soul. I have a talent for f...

  • Alternate Empires

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • The Princess Masquerade

    Lois Greiman

    A BRAZEN DECEPTION Cunning Megan O'Shay is many things -- a barmaid, a beauty, and the notorious thief known as "Magical Megs." She gets much more than she expects, however, the day she separates a certain gentleman from his pocket watch . . . and...

  • The Fraternity

    Stephen Gresham

    Blood Brothers It's pledge week for the fraternities of Mantis College in Sweet River, Alabama, and the rites of passage for those seeking membership in the Alpha and Omega houses involve more than pranks and hazing. The pledges must be willing to...

  • Zombie Butts from Uranus

    Andy Griffiths

    STRANGE BUTT TWO -- TRUE!!!! ZACK FREEMAN is on his way to becoming a first rate butt-fighter. He has gone head-to-butt with all kinds of stinky scoundrels and butts-gone-bad. But even our doody-full hero is a-gassed by these latest stench invaders....

  • A Day With Daddy

    Nikki Grimes

  • Iris and Walter, Lost and Found

    Elissa Haden Guest

    Walter loves his grandmother's harmonica. But when he lets Iris borrow it the night before his grandmother comes to visit, something awful happens--it disappears! How will Iris break the news to Walter?

    Luckily, bestfriends are understanding....

  • Scamper and the Horse Show

    Jessie Haas

    Molly and Anna are going to the horse show. Will they win ribbons? They may win one if their costume is clever enough.They may win more if they're good enough riders. But everything depends on whether Scamper behaves himself.

    Scamper knows w...

  • Right from the Start

    Cathy Marie Hake
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    In these brand-new novellas, four women of different eras are bound together by an ancient Gutenberg Bible: Her arranged marriage brings Lorice threats of death and days of fear--will she only find escape at the cost of her life? Paige despises arist...

  • A Treasure Worth Keeping

    Kelly Eileen Hake
    in

    In these brand-new novellas, four women of different eras are bound together by an ancient Gutenberg Bible: Her arranged marriage brings Lorice threats of death and days of fear--will she only find escape at the cost of her life? Paige despises arist...

  • Give My Regrets to Broadway

    Bruce Hale

    It's no mystery: Chet Gecko can’t sing. He can’t dance. He can’t act. Heck, he can’t even act normal. So why would he take the lead in Mr. Ratnose’s musical version of Shakespeare’s Omlet, Prince of Denver? A new case, naturally. The orig...

  • The Wizard's Ward

    Deborah Hale

    Years before, the peaceful world of Umbria was torn apart by the ruthless Hanish invaders... Yet that is the only life Maura knows. Until her wizard guardian announces she is to be queen -- but that first she must find and unite with their country...

  • Last Lullaby

    Denise Hamilton

    Los Angeles Times reporter Eve Diamond has spent the day at LAX, shadowing U.S. Customs Supervisor William Maxwell. He's got his eye on an incoming flight from Beijing via Seoul and Tokyo. The flight's packed with the usual mass of humanity, ranging ...

  • A Spanish Marriage

    Diana Hamilton

    "It would be a marriage on paper. I wouldn't expect you to share my bed." Javier has married Zoe purely to protect the young heiress from male predators who are tempted by her money and her beauty. But as their paper marriage continues...

  • The Magyar Venus

    Lyn Hamilton

    During a night carousing with her old college gang, Lara McClintoch attends an opening at a museum where an extraordinary artifact is revealed. The Magyar Venus is the head and torso of a woman carved from mammoth ivory during the Upper Paleolithic p...

  • A New Threat

    Elizabeth Hand

    A POWERFUL ENEMY IS THE GREATEST DANGER When you work for Jabba the Hutt, you do whatever he wants you to do - no matter what the risk. As Jabba's newest bounty hunter, Boba Fett has a lot to prove... and little time to prove it. So when Jabba sends...

  • Ransom's Bride

    Ginger Hanson

    Yours Very Truly... The Civil War is over and cavalry officer Ransom Champion is coming home, hoping to find peace with his darling Sabrina at last. But his fiancee is dead -- and only her sister Angela knows that Ransom fell in love with an illusio...

  • The Heart Consultant's Lover

    Kate Hardy

    Miranda Turner gave up on love a long time ago. She's wedded to her career -- and her prestigious new job as consultant in cardiology. Senior Registrar Jack Sawyer is furious at Miranda's appointment. After all, his new boss is the daughter of the...

  • Jigs and Reels

    Joanne Harris

    Each of the twenty-two tales in this enchanting collection is a surprise and a delight, melding the poignant and the possible with the outrageous, the magical, and, sometimes, the eerily haunting. Wolf men, dolphin women, defiant old ladies, and midd...

  • Ladies With Prospects

    Cynthia Hartwick

    The Larksdale Ladies are back - with a solid portfolio of friendships and, of course, stocks. They've made some money. Okay, a lot of money. And now, ten years later, at the height of the tech boom, their investment club is about to witness firsthand...

  • Apocalypse

    J. Daniel Hays; C. Marvin Pate

    It's A.D. 95, and everybody wants a piece of the Apocalypse. Some will kill to destroy it. Others will die to protect it and to remain faithful to the One it proclaims. A storm at sea and an assassination attempt thrust a Roman senator and a wool mer...

  • Smooth Talkin' Stranger

    Lorraine Heath

    USA Today bestselling author Lorraine Heath pens the simmering story of two star-crossed souls who find a passionate love under the expansive Texas sky. Serena Hamilton has never had a one-night stand, but the supreme loneliness she feels after t...

  • Windfalls

    Jean Hegland

    The acclaimed author of Into the Forest mines our fears and explores our capacity to love in this epic tale of modern motherhood. Young and pregnant, Cerise and Anna make very different decisions about how to direct their lives. While teenaged Ceris...

  • First Class Killing

    Lynne Heitman

    Corruption. Deceit. Cold-blooded murder. These skies are far from friendly. Tough, resourceful, and beautiful, Alex Shanahan survived the cutthroat corporate world on her own terms. But now, she's using her hard-earned experience for herself -- as...

  • Eden Hall

    Veronica Heley

    After 24 years, she's learning the truth that was hidden from her as a child. Now the fate of many people depends on what she will do with it. At the age of four, Araminta 'Minty' Cardale was exiled from Eden Hall on the wings of a scandal. Twenty ye...

  • Best Enemies

    Jane Heller

    THERE'S A THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE. Book publicist Amy Sherman tripped over it when she caught her fiance horizontally attached to her best friend, the impossibly tall, inexcusably blonde, and insufferably gorgeous Tara Messer, who added insul...

  • Rebel Baron

    Shirl Henke

    Wealthy widow Miranda Auburn hides her femininity behind a facade of cold calculation. Her only womanly emotions are reserved for her daughter, whose fondest wish is to marry a peer. Brandon Caruthers hopes to put the lost cause of the Confederacy be...

  • The Serpents Trail

    Sue Henry

    A brand-new mystery series starring Maxie McNabb--an independent retiree whose adventures across the country in her motor home are destined for murderous roadblocks... At sixty-three, Maxie isn't sure that leaving everything behind for a new life is...

  • Jackson Square Jazz

    Greg Herren

    Greg Herren's Bourbon Street Blues, featuring Scotty Bradley--stripper, P.I., psychic, and droll commentator on gay life (his own and everyone else's)--hit a chord with readers everywhere. Now, the buff, blond ex-go-go boy is back, embroiled with a f...

  • Lady in Waiting

    Anne Herries

    In the heated summer of Elizabeth I's reign Her hopes of marriage dashed by scandal, the crown under constant threat, Queen Elizabeth I takes a young, spirited woman into her close court circle. On her way to being presented at court, Cathe...

  • Mystic Warrior

    Tracy Hickman; Laura Hickman

    Thrice upon a time, there were three worlds of magic. On one world faeries suffer in a war against centaurs and satyrs. On another, goblins scrabble about the ruins of giant machines. And on the third, humans re ruled by theocracies that worship five...

  • Beyond My Dreams

    Tammy Hilz

    For Glory And For Gold... The stately homes and greenswards of England are no more than a pleasant memory for Gavin McLeod, the Earl of Blackwell, sent to Egypt on a secret mission for his King. Though Napoleon's soldiers and spies are everywhere, G...

  • Angels of the Flood

    Joanna Hines

    An art conservator heads back to Florence, to solve the mystery of a painting and a crime that still haunts her In 1966, when Florence's Arno River unleashed its worst flood in four hundred years, killing people and destroying much of the city, th...

  • Leaving Protection

    Will Hobbs

    Raised in the island world of southeast Alaska, sixteen-year-old Robbie Daniels jumps at the chance to work as a deckhand on a salmon troller captained by legendary fisherman Tor Torsen. Catching king salmon from dawn till dusk, Robbie is living his ...

  • Truth at Gunpoint

    Ray Hogan

    The first time in paperback, a master of Western fiction presents a collection of gripping short stories set in the Wild West, including "Ben Sutton's Law," "The Homecoming," and "The Man Who Wore the Star." Reprint....

  • The Managing Mamas

    Alice Holden
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    Benjamin Whitlock and Jillian Blair have been companions since childhood -- a relationship that suits them perfectly. Their mothers, however, long to see their children wed -- to each other! Will their romantic schemes succeed -- or will the young co...

  • The Witches' Kitchen

    Cecelia Holland

    Corban becomes entangled in a bitter war for the throne in this Viking historical adventureCorban Loosestrife, his family slain by Viking raiders, has saved his twin sister Mav from the clutches of her Viking abductors, and wrought bloody revenge on ...

  • The Society Bride

    Fiona Hood-Stewart

    Ramon Villalba is handsome, gifted and wealthy. So why would he want a bride of convenience? Nena Carvajal is an exquisitely beautiful young heiress who needs protecting from fortune hunters. It would be no hardship for Ramon to enjoy the pleasure...

  • Eagle Strike

    Anthony Horowitz

    ROGUE AGENT! Sir Damian Cray: Millions adore him. He is a philanthropist, peace activist, and the world's most famous vintage pop star. But still it's not enough -- not if he is to save the world. Trouble is, only Alex Rider recognizes that it's the...

  • The Train to Glasgow

    Wilma Horsbrugh

    The train to Glasgow is about to depart from Donibristle Station. Mr. MacIver, the engine driver, is anxious to get going, and the guard is all set to wave his flag and blow his whistle. . . . But wait! Here comes young Donald MacBrain, racing full-t...

  • Shadows of the Past

    Frances Housden

    DON'T LOOK BACK Ten years ago, a harrowing kidnapping had taught Maria Costello to be on her guard and trust no one. So when gorgeous entrepreneur Franc Jellic caught her eye, she should have run for cover. Instead, she yearned to lose herself in ...

  • Success Is the Best Revenge

    Tracie Howard; Danita Carter

    Lyle Johnson is a hot and handsome Wall Street investment banker with no intention of settling down. His new partner is Tess Aventura Dubois -- recently widowed and bequeathed a multi-million-dollar fortune. What she’s investing in now is interest ...

  • Smoke and Shadows

    Tanya Huff

    When Tony Foster relocated to Vancouver with vampire Henry Fitzroy, he knew it was his chance to get his act together. In an example of art echoing life, Tony landed a job as Production Assistant for the syndicated TV show "Darkest Night," a series a...

  • Olly and Me

    Shirley Hughes

    With typically charming realism, Shirley Hughes illustrates a special sibling bond that small children will find reassuringly familiar.

    A visit to the library, making pancakes with Dad, slooshing with water in the yard -- in this collection ...