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New Books List: 576 titles


  • Matt Christopher

    When his family moves into his recently deceased grandmother's house, ten-year-old Charlie meets a boy who also likes to skateboard, but then finds that his own special skateboard is missing....



  • Su Box

    Organized by topic so children can easily find prayers related to family, friends, school, health, feelings, and praise, a well-rounded collection of prayers for children encourages readers to begin a lifelong practice of prayer....



  • Katharine Lee Bates

    The great-great-grandnephew of the author transforms the words of her famous poem into monumental works of art, representing the nation's historical and contemporary diversity and honoring the beloved anthem....



  • Mary Ann Hoberman

    An addition to the Sing-Along series which includes musical notation expands on the familiar song to include a girl, a poodle, a toad, and a rooster who, along with Yankee Doodle, open a restaurant called Yankee Doodle's Noodles....




  • 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 ...



  • Gaelen Foley

    Celebrated storyteller Gaelen Foley brings her craft to new heights with Devil Takes a Bride, the seductive tale of a man bent on revenge and the beauty who teaches him to love again… In the quiet English countryside, far from the intrigues of...



  • Nicole Jordan

    Lovers in paradise . . . He is a brilliant military commander . . . and every woman's temptation. When Max Leighton unexpectedly comes to her golden Mediterranean island, Caro Evers longs to heal his emotional battle scars. But during one glorious...



  • Suzanne Enoch
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    Who Stole Lady Neeley's Bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant, or the rogue? All of London is abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that one of four couples is connected to the crime. Lady Whistledown's Society Paper...



  • Mia Ryan
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    Who Stole Lady Neeley's Bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant, or the rogue? All of London is abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that one of four couples is connected to the crime. Lady Whistledown's Society Paper...



  • Candice Hern

    Prudence Armitage is his dearest friend...until a compromising position changes everything. Nicholas Parrish had no intentions of taking a bride, and certainly not someone like Prudence. Of course she's charming, pleasant, and a diligent employee...



  • Karen Hawkins
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    Who Stole Lady Neeley's Bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant, or the rogue? All of London is abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that one of four couples is connected to the crime. Lady Whistledown's Society Paper...



  • Kinley MacGregor

    Fearless men, their allegiance is to one another, to the oppressed, and to the secret society known as the Brotherhood of the Sword -- and they must never surrender to the passionate yearnings of their noble hearts. A LADY OF LOVE Beautiful, pea...



  • Alan Dean Foster

    In the sequel to the hit film Pitch Black, Riddick, now an escaped convict and fugitive, becomes caught in the middle of a fierce galactic war between two powerful forces. Original. (A Universal Pictures film, written and directed by David Tw...



  • Kim Harrison

    All the creatures of the night gather in "the Hollows" of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party ... and to feed. Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining -- and it's Rachel Morgan's job to ke...



  • Julia Quinn
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    Who Stole Lady Neeley's Bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant, or the rogue? All of London is abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that one of four couples is connected to the crime. Lady Whistledown's Society Paper...



  • Mary Balogh

    Meet the Bedwyns--six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality....Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and ...



  • Trudi Canavan

    "Even if a magician's powers surface of their own accord, he will soon be dead if he does not gain the knowledge of how to control them." Alone among all the novices in the Magicians' Guild, only Sonea comes from lowly beginnings. Yet she has won...



  • Robert Silverberg

    No power on Earth can resist the might of Imperial Rome, so it has been and so it ever shall be. Through brute force, terror, and sheer indomitable will, her armies have enslaved a world. From the reign of Maximilianus the Great in A.U.C. 1203 onward...



  • Louis L'Amour

    Classic tales that capture the heroic and indomitable spirit of our great land The twelve stories in this collection run the spectrum of human emotions as they transport us from the fading majesty of the Old West to a small-town football field to...



  • 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...



  • Jennifer Fallon

    Since the Age of Shadows ended, the people of Ranadon have lived under the merciless heat of two suns and the tyranny of Antonov, the Lion of Senet. Consumed by his lust for power and his unshakable belief in the capricious, almighty Goddess, Antonov...



  • Rachel Hawthorne

    Hi Brooke! I'm going snorkeling with Ryan today, wanna come? I know what you're going to say, but he's just a friend, I swear! So when you finally get out of bed, come find me at the spa getting another massage. xo...



  • Anne Perry

    William Monk knows London's streets like the back of his hand. But the river Thames and its teeming docks -- where wharf rats and night plunderers ply their trades -- is unknown territory. Only Monk's dire need for work persuades him to accept an ass...



  • Charlie Huston

    It's three thousand miles from the green fields of glory, where Henry "call me Hank" Thompson once played California baseball, to the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where the tenements are old, the rents are high, and the drunks are dirty. But now Han...



  • William Lashner

    Philadelphia defense attorney Victor Carl lives his professional and personal lives in shades of gray. Though he regularly skates dangerously on the razor's edge of legal ethics, he remains unwaveringly loyal to those he's been hired to defend - eve...



  • Thomas Wheeler

    It is 1919 and the Great War has come to a close. But in the shadows of the world’s major cities, the killing has just begun. In this perilous time, as the division between order and chaos grows increasingly slim, a select group of visionaries have...



  • Sarah Salway

    Recounting tales about her lecherous boss over drinks with her best friend Sally, media employee Verity Bell makes observations about the world of romance that correspond with every letter of the alphabet, from Ambition to Zest, and searches for her ...



  • John Crowley

    A master literary stylist, John Crowley has carried readers to diverse and remarkable places in his award-winning, critically acclaimed novels -- from his classic fable, Little, Big, to his New York Times Notable Book, The Translator. Now, for the fi...



  • Margaret Peterson Haddix

    A RELUCTANT HERO Trey may have saved Luke's life, but he still thinks of himself as a coward who can barely stand to be outdoors. Now Trey finds out Luke has been taken prisoner at Population Police headquarters. Trey is terrified, but he knows that...



  • Sarah Weeks

    Heidi Is On A Quest She doesn't know when her birthday is or who her father is. In fact, everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother's past is a mystery. When a strange word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out ...



  • Charles M. Schulz

    Charlie Brown is determined to find the perfect present for his dad. Lucy makes a card, Snoopy writes a letter, and Peppermint Patty tires to call her father (and gets Charlie Brown instead), but none of their ideas seems quite right. Finally, when C...



  • Sally Cook

    Getting kids to sleep isn't easy -- especially when there are games to be played -- in bedrooms everywhere, adults try their best -- (but so do kids).

    Author Sally Cook teams up with New York Times best-selling illus...



  • Sue Heap

    A unique look at colours and friendship, now available in paperback. This very simple text is about two friends, Sue and Nick, who like different colours but are still good friends. The artwork is stunning with each artist contributing alternate page...



  • Ian Whybrow

    Harry's robot has to go to the robot hospital to get fixed. So Nan and Harry decide to make their own robot while he's being mended. Then when Nan has to go into hospital (to get mended as well), Harry knows exactly what to do to help her get better!...



  • Anne Rockwell

    Chip O'Hare wants to be just like the martial-arts hero Striper Mee. But when he goes to karate class,it isn't action packed at all! Chip thinks he's the best in the class at striking and kicking, so he can't understand why Mr. Leo won't give him ...



  • Rod Campbell

    Visiting the farm is a favourite activity for many toddlers. This charming book takes us on a chase around the farm including lots of animals to name and many farmyard noises to join in with. Then there's a lovely novelty ending - flaps to lift to fi...



  • Lauryn Silverhardt

    Reg is watching the other Rubbadubbers play underwater games. He wishes he could join in the fun, but knows that he can't because he'll rust. So Reg imagines that he can go in the water and swim...and just like that, his underwater adventure begins!...



  • Lucille Recht Penner

    For hundreds of years, people believed dragons were real. They thought dragons lived in caves full of treasure, soared through the air on large bat wings, and breathed fire. Storytellers told tales of dragons that fought knights and kings. Now kids c...



  • Sonali Fry

    While playing with a model train, Tubb wishes he could be a conductor on a real train and do all the work by himself. He gets his wish -- but when some train bandits jump aboard, will he still be able to handle everything on his own?...



  • Michael Dennis Browne

    What do you give someone to show them just how much you love them?

    A father decides a river best captures his feelings for his little girl. A gift of life and changing beauty, a river encompasses so much more than meets the eye. It is...



  • Judy Sierra

    After Coco and Cavendish’s adventure in the Step into Reading book Circus Dogs, the poodle and Border collie want to try their paws as fire dogs. But their old rivals Torbo and Orbot, two nasty robot dogs, have ideas of their own. How the two lovab...



  • Noah Woods

    MOO! ARF! QUACK!

    What kind of cat makes noises like that? A little cat with a big personality! You see, sometimes Tom feels more like a cow, or a snail, or even a kangaroo than a cat. What a silly goose! But one thing is for sure, Mom and Dad ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Masatsugu Iwase

    THE OFFICIAL ADAPTATION OF THE THRILLING TELEVISION SHOW!

    In the world of the Cosmic Era, war rages between the genetically enhanced humans known as Coordinators and those who remain unmodified, the Naturals, who dominate the Earth Alliance. S...



  • 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...



  • Sharon G. Flake

    Guys and girls get together, get played, and get real.Who Am I Without Him? is a Booklist Top Ten Romance Novel for Teens and is "breaking new and necessary ground" in twelve short stories about guys and girls falling in and out of love and relation...



  • Harriet Ziefert

    This zany counting book introduces a number of concepts from counting and basic addition to different words for quantities (a trio is made of three) to the number of participants required for certain activities (eleven are needed for a soccer team). ...



  • Stephen Michael King

    Milli is a person who can take a nothing . . . and turn it into a Something. But in her plain old town full of bustling people, all Milli does is make plain, ordinary shoes. Until a pair of wandering minstrels come to town -- Jack and the Dancing Cat...




  • Dennis Haseley

    When Richard discovers that he can communicate with the people in paintings, he is told of a secret from the past that can only be revealed by finding the right painting and so now, unsure of what he'll find, must decide whether to pursue the secret ...



  • Peter Holwitz




  • Judith McWilliams

    As soon as he saw her, Dr. Nick Balfour wanted to rescue the naive beauty and keep her safe. And so when Gina Tessereck became stranded in the middle of nowhere, Nick made her a generous offer -- housekeeping services for a temporary home. Within day...



  • Sherryl Woods

    DESTINY STRIKES AGAIN... Despite the wealth and power of his remarkable family, Ben Carlton stayed hidden away in rural Virginia with only his artistic talent and his troubled memories for company. But when he met beautiful gallery owner Kathleen Du...



  • Diana Palmer

    ARE HIS BACHELOR DAYS NUMBERED? He was strong, seductive and set in his ways. She was shy, unassuming and achingly innocent. Together, next-door neighbors Jordan Powell and Libby Collins were like oil and water. Yet when Jordan made it his persona...



  • Dianne Drake

    As an ambitious and dedicated law student, Lilly Malloy had been quickly rising before a disastrous affair with equally ambitious reporter Mike Collier short-circuited her career. Now, finally, she's a judge, but she hadn't planned on presiding over ...



  • Laura Wright

    CLAIMING HIS OWN Jared Redwolf knew Ava Thompson should have been his, but four years ago his lover had left Paradise, Texas, to marry another man. Now Ava was back, and Jared was hell-bent on uncovering the truth of why she had fled. Their reunio...



  • Margaret Allison

    SHE'D KISSED HIM ONCE... And then he'd left town -- and her. But Katie Devonworth had never stopped dreaming of making love to Jack Reilly. Not even years later when the rebel teen had changed into a Manhattan millionaire -- the "Iceman" who juggl...



  • Margaret Watson

    Be careful what you wish for! Eleanor Perkins has always longed for more excitement in her life. But the last thing she expects as she reaches her car after work one Friday evening is to find herself facing down a man with a gun. Mike Reilly is de...



  • Lynda Sandoval

    WHEN LIFE THROWS YOU A CURVE... Single father Sam Lowery was good at many things, but raising his little girl to be a lady didn't seem to be one of them. So before his precious daughter started swearing like a truck driver, Sam set out to find a n...



  • Tina Leonard

    From a Burning Night of Passion to...Parenthood? Fannin Jefferson only wants a date -- albeit the perfect date. Petite, blond and cheerful. But what he got is what he least expected and more than he could have imagined: tall, fiery, redhaired Kell...



  • Kathleen O'Reilly

    Be careful what you wish for... "Directionally challenged" Beth Von Meeter has had it up to here with watching her friends saunter down the aisle. But when she turns to an online matchmaking service, Beth finds herself sitting across the table fro...



  • Kate Welsh

    Guidance counselor Alexandra Lexington found strength in prayer as she healed from an abusive relationship. And when she encountered the troubled son of Adam Boyer, something special happened. Not only could she help this boy find peace, but also she...



  • 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 ...



  • Kevin Killiany

    A colony ship careens out of control through space on the border between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. A joint rescue mission made up of both Klingon and Starfleet engineers is sent to investigate. But the S.C.E. team from the U.S.S. da Vinc...



  • Richard Starkings

    Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, struggles to cope with the damage caused to his beloved city on September 11, 2001; eludes capture; deals with Rhino; and finds himself in the middle of a clash between Daredevil and the Punisher....



  • Alexander McCall Smith

    In the fifth book in the prodigiously successful series, traditionally built, eminently sensible Mma Precious Ramotswe continues her enterprise at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Gaborone, Botswana, a country that is indeed fortunate. Still ...



  • Jane Kirkpatrick

    BASED ON A TRUE STORYIn a land occupied by foreign powers and torn by confusion and conflict, a mother seeks to weave her family and her past into a fabric that will not tear.Their Lives Were Woven by Wars and Wilderness Places, and Tied by the Peace...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Kae Nishimura

    From a remarkable new talent, here is the story of Dinah, a sheltered (and overfed) cat who escapes to have an adventure in the outside world. After being mistaken for a watermelon, a sheep, and a raccoon, Dinah finally recovers her identity as a bel...



  • Daniel J. Mahoney

    Stanley, Heston, Julius, and Floyd don't have anywhere to hang out this summer. They need a place to perform science experiments, play superheroes, paint pictures, and camp out without being bothered by parents and little sisters. A clubhouse would b...



  • Phil Vischer

    A charming tale that helps children ages 4-8 understand who created them and how special they are There's a curious building in the middle of Snoodleburg. It's a clock tower where every fourth Tuesday at quarter past nine a tiny young Snoodle is crea...



  • 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...



  • Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

    This volume collects two quietly powerful short novels.

    In "An Incident at Krechetovka Station," a Red Army lieutenant is confronted by a disturbing straggler soldier and must decide what to do with him. "Matryona's House" is the tale of an ol...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Connie Shelton

    Charlie Parker and her husband, Drake, leave sunny New Mexico for a lucrative contract in Scotland, flying helicopters to the North Sea oil rigs. It's tough enough coping with the temperamental Scottish weather, and worse, the escalating hostilities ...



  • 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...



  • Caroline Stevermer

    Glasscastle. University of dreaming towers and distant bells, pompous dons and disputatious undergraduates, exquisite architecture and grass that can choke you to death if you walk on it without the proper escort. On the surface, it is one of the m...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Bill Wallace

    NO MORE PETS! After losing Dandy, her family's beloved horse, Kristine decides that she will never get close to another pet again. It's just too heartbreaking. So when her father surprises her with a new puppy for her birthday, Kristine is furious! ...



  • James L. Nelson

    April 12, 1861. With one jerk of a lanyard, one shell arching into the sky, years of tension exploded into civil war. And for those men who did not know in which direction their loyalty called them, it was a time for decisions. Such a one was Lieuten...



  • Andrew H. Vachss

    For many years, Burke has carried a torch for Wolfe, a former sex crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." They walk different sides of the street when it comes to "justice," but they share a limitless hatred of predat...



  • 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...



  • Valerie Martin

    WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE • Set in 1828 on a Louisiana sugar plantation, this novel from the bestselling author of Mary Reilly presents a “fresh, unsentimental look at what slave-owning does to (and for) one's interior life.... The writing ...



  • Suzan-Lori Parks

    Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’s wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother’s Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the storied jewels buried—or were the...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Francesca Rusackas

    When Owen and Daddy have a whole day to spend together, Owen tries to tell his daddy how much he loves him. Owen loves Daddy more than chocolate milk...more than seven scoops of ooey-gooey chocolate caramel ice cream...more than one million zillion k...




  • 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...



  • Christa Roberts

    For some, 13 feels like it was just yesterday.

    For Jenna, it was.

    All Jenna Rink wants to be is pretty and popular. And on her thirteenth birthday, she gets her wish. When she wakes up, Jenna is stunned to find that she's . . . a grown...





  • 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....



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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.
    ...



  • Jennifer Liberts Weinberg

    The church bells are ringing because it’s time for a precious little wedding! A little girl learns the tale of how
    her parents met and got married in this 16-page Look-Look book that celebrates love! Comes with a full page of wedding-themed sti...



  • 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...



  • Stuart Woods

    Cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington tracks a mobster hiding deep within the witness protection program in this new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series--with a little help from a beautiful Florida police chief... . STONEWALLED Stone...



  • 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...



  • Elizabeth Wein

    At the request of his aunt, Telemakos must enter the city of Afar and the dangerous business of the salt trade to find out who has ignored the emperor's command--continuing to ship salt and spread disease from port to port around the world....



  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to ...



  • C.M. Millen

    C. M. Millen’s lilting, recipe in rhyme and Holly Meade’s inviting world of collage pay tribute to life’s simpler pleasures, and to the special relationship between mother and child.

    Lift the bowl to make our bread,
    down the blue bowl...



  • 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 ...



  • David Thurlo

    Crystal Manyfeathers is caught between two worlds: her life at a modern American high school, and her life with the Dineh, her Navajo people, where spiritual ceremonies and traditions prevail. In deference to her father, Crystal prepares for her upco...



  • Susie Morgenstern

    Leaving elementary school behind, sixth-grader Margot is excited about going to Pine Tree Junior High and has a lot of preparation to do before the big day, in a tale about one of life's important milestones....



  • Sabina Rascol

    When he catches a greedy nobleman stealing his master's purse filled with money, the rooster begins to squawk to the world and, despite being hidden, stomped, and thrown in a well, is successful in getting the purse back to its rightful owner....



  • Yu Rong

    Boing! Splash! Sploosh! A warm pond, a good friend, and hours to play -- what could make for a lovelier day?

    It’s a lovely day, and Amelia Goose is off to the pond to play with her friend, Frog. They bounce and splash and play hide-and-see...



  • 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....



  • 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.....



  • 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...



  • Karen Kingsbury

    A forgotten secret. A shocking discovery. A sacrifice of love that will bring Connor Evans to his knees. Airline Captain Connor Evans has nearly forgotten that stormy weekend in Hawaii eight years ago when he broke the greatest promise of all. N...



  • Edmundo Paz Soldan

    “A Bolivian professor probes the depths of his rebel father’s past in this taut, gritty tale of two dramatically different Americas” (Booklist).The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a...



  • Nicola Moon

    Rabbit and Mole are best friends and roommates. They have a great friendship, but sometimes it gets a little strained. In this charming story, Rabbit is desperately trying to get to sleep, but the noise of the clock ticking and the faucet dripping...



  • 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...



  • Cassandra King

    The first novel by the author of acclaimed national bestseller The Sunday Wife, now reissued in paperback. In a small Alabama town in Zion County, life is finally looking up for 20-year-old Donnette Sullivan. Having just inherited her aunt's old hous...



  • Susan Olasky

    Everyone calls Will Northaway Fish, probably because he hangsaround the wharves hunting for fish scraps. To round out his diethe steals from street vendors in his Southwark neighborhood inLondon. People there feel sorry for the boy since he's all alo...




  • Eileen Rendahl

    It's about healing. After a couple of rough years, Emily is finally getting things back together. She doesn't need to re-do everything at work three times, her young daughter's soccer uniform is almost always clean the day of a game, and meals are...



  • 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...



  • Robin D. Owens

    In HeartMate and Heart Thief, award-winning author Robin D. Owens built a world where psychic talents and desires of he heart flourish. Now, she returns to Celta with a story of star-crossed lovers... Healer Lark Collinson hates the street dueling...



  • 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....



  • 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...



  • Jason Manning

    Retired war hero Colonel Timothy Barlow returns as right-hand man to President Jackson for one last hurrah. There's a little trouble brewing on the border-called the Mexican-American War......



  • Nancy Martin

    Just when I thought my life couldn't get any more chaotic, I'm proved wrong. My new dog, Spike, is a tiny terror. My demented sister Libby is dealing with the effects of recent childbirth by trying to locate the "goddess within" (whatever that is) .....



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Teresa McCarthy

    A Heart's Memory Lady Emily Clearbrook's brothers claim they are looking after her best interests when they take on the duty of finding her a husband. But Emily will not trust matters of her heart to another--especially after the love of...



  • Dusty Richards

    Hamp comes to the aid of his hot-tempered friend, Clint, after he is jailed for killing a cheating gambler, bribing the guards to let him go, but no sooner is Clint free than he kills a local rancher with vengeful friends who will do anything to see ...



  • Donna Leon

    COMMISSARIO BRUNETTI IS CALLED TO INVESTIGATE A PARENT'S WORST NIGHTMARE--AND NO ONE IS TALKING ... A young cadet has been found hanged, a presumed suicide, in Venice's elite military academy. Brunetti's sorrow for the boy, so close in age to his ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Andre Norton
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    HANDMAIDEN OF THE GODS Abducted by powerful spirits released from an ancient ankh, talisman of Egyptian gods, young archaeologist Tallahassee Mitford suddenly found herself hurled back in time to a strange Nubian kingdom called Meroe. There, moved b...



  • 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...



  • Ridley Pearson

    Years ago, Lou Boldt's wife Liz had an affair with David Hayes, a young computer specialist at the bank where she is an executive. When Liz ended the relationship after reconciling with Lou, Hayes engaged in a daring embezzlement scheme. Now, years l...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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: "...



  • Jodi Picoult

    Can a parent love too much? Or is too much never enough? Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has ...



  • Lisa Tucker

    Her acclaimed debut, The Song Reader, won her praise as a "brilliant new literary talent" (The Albuquerque Tribune). Now, Lisa Tucker returns with a starkly lyrical novel of page-turning intensity and rare emotional power. Patty Taylor can handle an...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Uma Krishnaswami

    In this compelling first novel, a young Indian American girl finally learns that she can choose which memories to keep and which to let go.Although Maya has done her best to avoid it, she is spending part of her summer in Chennai, India, with her mot...



  • Elizabeth Swire-Falker

    An engaging guide to navigating the challenges of infertility.After seven years of tests and more tests, treatments and more treatments, Elizabeth Swire-Falker understands what it means to struggle with infertility. In this frank, reassuring, and tho...



  • 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 ...



  • Pamela Sargent

    A collection of all original short stories rewrites history in thirteen works by Michelle West, Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg, Jack Dann, George Alec Effinger, Ian Watson, and other notable authors who offer alternative fates for such historica...



  • Katherine Pebley O'Neal

    This plot reeks!

    The Stink Squad unearths an evil plot at the Museum of Ancient Sniffstory. Someone has stolen the Golden Nose of King Tustinkhamen, an Egyptian artifact so powerful it can smell into the future.

    How can the Sti...



  • Steve Murphy

    After being inspired by the local superhero, Silver Sentry, Michelangelo decides that he wants to be a superhero too. With a little help from his friend April O1Neil and her antique clothing, Michelangelo dresses up and heads out on his own as no...



  • 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....



  • Steve Murphy

    Michelangelo gets a cat for his birthday! But Splinter will not let him keep it. The Turtles decide to keep it anyway, and when Splinter finds out their secret, they find that he has a secret as well....



  • 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...



  • Lore Groszmann Segal

    What's a Mole to do?

    Once there was a Mole who lived with his Grandmother Mole in a hole in the forest, and most of the time they get on well enough . . .

    But see what happens when Mole loses his glasses, doesn't zip his jacket, shouts,...



  • Sonia Murphy

    The Turtles escape to the wilderness for some rest and relaxation. But while enjoying their peaceful getaway, they encounter a crazy monster hunter who has her sights set on Michelangelo. Find out what happens in this exciting story.

    ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Eliot Pattison

    In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd...



  • Andrea Seigel

    Stella is a girl we all know but rarely meet in fiction -- seventeen, smart, attractive, and deeply alienated. In this novel, she narrates her last two weeks of high school in Orange County, California. Here is what it is like to be a smart high scho...



  • 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...







  • Eric A. Kimmel


    A self-proclaimed knight

    Señor Quexada has read so many books about knights in shining armor that he thinks he is one. He gives himself a name more fitting for a knight -- Don Quixote -- and sets off one evening with his squire. At dawn t...



  • 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...



  • Barbara Timberlake Russell

    A surprising journey of self-discovery

    In early fall, the blackbirds creak like rusty wheels behind our apartment . . . "One day I will return like you," my mother tells the birds. "But for now, you go. Que les vaya bien. Safe journey."



  • Gayle Lynds

    YOU CANT RUN FROM THE PAST... Professor Liz Sansborough, former CIA operative and daughter of notorious Cold War assassin, Carnivore, thinks her old life is dead and buried. But her father's legacy is impossible to escape. The kidnapping of her cous...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • 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......



  • James L. Nelson

    April 12, 1861. With one jerk of a lanyard, one shell arching into the sky, years of tension exploded into civil war. And for those men who did not know in which direction their loyalty called them, it was a time for decisions. Such a one was Lieuten...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Laurie Gwen Shapiro

    Q: How does Heather Greenblotz, the thirty-one-year-old heiress to the world's leading matzo company, celebrate Passover? A: Alone. In her Manhattan apartment. With an extremely unkosher ham and cheese panini. But this year will be different. T...



  • Michelle Curry Wright

    She's the breezy voice on the telephone, bringing life into the lonely days of her elderly clients ... But who's calling Miranda Blue? Not a soul -- which is the way Miranda likes it. From her sweet, ramshackle house in the middle of Colorado's pi...



  • Donald E. Westlake

    SO MANY HEISTS, SO LITTLE TIME... THIEVES' DOZEN Horse Laugh: Dortmunder always avoids thefts that involve four-legged creatures. Then why is he somewhere out in New Jersey, listening to sirens wailing in the distance, holding on for dear life to...



  • Nicholas B.A. Nicholson

    A dazzling debut about the power of family and the pain of betrayal set within Manhattan's Fifth Avenue apartments, the opulent mansions of the new Moscow, and the pre-revolutionary palaces of Saint Petersburg. Sasha Ozerovsky is a young expert ...



  • Lauraine Snelling

    Book 2 of Dakotah Treasures. Author Lauraine Snelling takes readers further forward in Ruby Torvald's story as Dove House becomes a well-known establishment. Ruby plays matchmaker between the lovely but hidden Pearl and the carpenter Soren, who longs...



  • Lisa Tucker

    Her acclaimed debut, The Song Reader, won her praise as a "brilliant new literary talent" (The Albuquerque Tribune). Now, Lisa Tucker returns with a starkly lyrical novel of page-turning intensity and rare emotional power. Patty Taylor can handle an...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Brenda Jackson

    Sexy, dangerous, unforgettable. . .the Madaris family and their unlikely band of friends captured readers' hearts and souls. Now, in The Midnight Hour, bestselling author Brenda Jackson brings us another breathtaking novel featuring the Madaris famil...



  • Anna Jeffrey

    Now she returns to the dusty town of Callister, Idaho, where a peaceful exterior hides the wildest passions.... A belligerent blonde swinging a tire iron is the last thing Doug Hawkins expects during a romantic rendezvous with another woman. Deep ...



  • Michael B. Oren

    From the best-selling nonfiction author, Michael B. Oren comes his first novel. Set in Belgium's Ardennes Forest, the site of a brutal, last-ditch assault by the Nazis in December 1944, Reunion reunites the surviving members of the 133rd Infantry Bat...