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New Books List: 633 titles

  • 1634: The Ram Rebellion

    Eric Flint; Virginia DeMarce

    RIDING THE RAZOR'S EDGE OF REVOLUTION The Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: The Confederated Principalities of Europe, an alliance between the King of Sweden, and the town o...

  • Acid Test

    Sara Paretsky
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    Wisteria Lane has nothing on the grandes dames of mystery. . . . In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready for a lethal mix of meddling mothers-in-law, creepy neighbors, cheat...

  • African Ice

    Jeff Buick

    A diamond formation worth untold millions, hidden deep in the jungles of Africa. Many have tried to find it. All have failed. Can Samantha Carlson do the impossible? The president of Gem-Star thinks so when he hires the geologist to lead a team into ...

  • Aftermath of Dreaming

    DeLaune Michel

    Sometimes Yvette Broussard wakes up in the middle of the night screaming. Otherwise, her life is wonderful. Her jewelry-designing career is taking off, and she's back with her sort-of boyfriend. Best of all, she no longer thinks about her once-in-a-l...

  • Alive or Nothing

    J.R. Roberts

    HARBINGER OF TROUBLE There are law-abiding men and then there are crooked men. The same goes for politicians. One renegade by the name of Zack Richards has set out to make those underhanded politicians pay...and if Richards himself gets paid in the p...

  • Along Came Love

    Carrie Turansky

    After years of hiding from her past, single mom Lauren Woodman had finally returned to her Vermont hometown with her young son in tow. Reconnecting with her family and friends was Lauren's goal, until a snowstorm brought a mysterious stranger to town...

  • The Alpine Recluse

    Mary Daheim

    In the middle of a hot summer night, Emma Lord is awakened by fire trucks rushing to the nearby home of newlyweds Tim and Tiffany Rafferty. At daybreak, Tiffany and her unborn child are safe, but Tim, never blessed with good luck in all his thirty-pl...

  • Alternatives to Sex

    Stephen McCauley

    Boston real estate agent William Collins knows that his habits are slipping out of control. Due to obsessive-compulsive daily cleaning binges and a penchant for nightly online cruising for hookups, he finds his sales figures slipping despite a boomin...

  • Always and Forever

    Gretchen Craig

    Set against a fascinating backdrop of 1830s Louisiana, Always and Forever is a sweeping saga of a Creole-American family and of two remarkable women whose friendship will be tested by prejudice, tragedy, passion, and the love of one extraordinary man...

  • The Amber Wizard

    David Forbes

    For a thousand years, there have been no great wizards in the world -- and even longer since a wizard-king reigned. Now all must welcome and fear the coming of The Amber Wizard As Gerin Atreyano takes his place as the Crown Prince of Khed...

  • Among the Free

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    ENOUGH GAMES. Luke Garner is a third-born in a restrictive society that allows only two children per family. Risking his life, he came out of hiding to fight against the Population Police laws. Now, in the final volume of Margaret Peterson Haddix's ...

  • Ancient Rome and Pompeii

    Mary Pope Osborne

    The #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time celebrates 25 years with new covers and a new, easy-to-use numbering system! Getting the facts behind the fiction has never looked better. Track the facts with Jack and Annie!!   When Ja...

  • Another NASTYbook

    Barry Yourgrau

    When his mother gets kidnapped by goblins, Rollo is certain that all his years of reading comic books will finally serve its purpose as he heads off to face evil doctors, vicious toy poodles, and other curses and creatures during his dangerous quest ...

  • The Antonides Marriage Deal

    Anne McAllister

    The Greek tycoon's takeover... Greek magnate Elias Antonides has single-handedly regained his family's fortune. So when his father gambles away a vital share he's furious! Elias now has a new business partner...stunning heiress Tallie Sa...

  • Any Approaching Enemy

    Jay Worrall

    THE YEAR IS 1798. The war between England and revolutionary France has reached a stalemate. With rumors swirling that the French are secretly amassing a powerful fleet, the Admiralty dispatches a group of ships under the command of Rear Admiral Horat...

  • Any Bitter Thing

    Monica Wood

    After surviving a near-fatal accident, thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell faces a long road to recovery. She remembers little about the days she spent in and out of consciousness, save for one thing: She saw her beloved deceased uncle, Father Mike, the m...

  • Apex Hides the Hurt

    Colson Whitehead

    The town of Winthrop has decided it needs a new name. The resident software millionaire wants to call it New Prospera; the mayor wants to return to the original choice of the founding black settlers; and the town's aristocracy sees no reason to chang...

  • Ark Angel

    Anthony Horowitz

    RESCUED! The sniper's bullet nearly killed him. But Alex Rider managed to survive . . . just in time for more trouble to come his way. When kidnappers attempt to snatch a fellow patient from the exclusive hospital where Alex is recovering, he knows ...

  • The Armies of Memory

    John Barnes

    Giraut Leones, special agent for the human Thousand Cultures' shadowy Office of Special Plans, is turning fifty--and someone is trying to kill him. Giraut's had a long career; the number of entities that might want him dead is effectively limitles...

  • As Puck Would Have It

    Paul Ruditis

    Their world suddenly disrupted by the untimely appearance of the mythological and dangerous shape-shifter Puck, the Charmed Ones are forced to provide protection for an innocent person throughout the fanfare of a traveling circus. Original. 35,000 fi...

  • Asking for Trouble

    Millie Criswell

    Take a cozy bed-and-breakfast, a missing guest and a mysterious stranger...throw in a pile of bones, a past-due bank loan and the cops...and it's no wonder innkeeper Beth Randall needs a vacation from her life! Her dizzy aunts mean the world to B...

  • At Close Range

    Jessica Andersen

    UNFINISHED BUSINESS A killer was loose in Colorado, and evidence specialist Cassie Dumont was determined to prove her expertise to the skeptical local cops. So the arrival of FBI agent Seth Varitek, a man she'd clashed with before, didn't sit well...

  • At the Spaniard's Convenience

    Margaret Mayo

    For his pleasure! When Lucio Masterton discovers that he has a daughter, the Spaniard takes immediate action. He confronts Kirstie Rivers, the girl's mother, who he is sure has deceived him! But Kirstie believes that Lucio loves only money....

  • Attack by Fire

    Pete Callahan

    As the war for the Korean Peninsula rages on, tank commander Lt. Jack Hansen and Charlie Company must fight their way through a Communist stronghold, which will push them all to the limit, as they make their way to the South Korean capitol of Seoul. ...

  • Augusta Locke

    William Haywood Henderson

    An indelible portrait of a woman who through great toughness of character blazes her own trail Novelist William Haywod Henderson has won acclaim for his depictions of land and nature and his ability to bring the American West to vivid life. Of his m...

  • Baby, I'm Yours

    Catherine Mann

    FROM WEEKEND AFFAIR TO NINE-MONTH COMMITMENT Three months after a whirlwind affair, Claire McDermott discovered she was carrying Vic Jansen's child. She knew if she told him, he'd offer marriage. But she wanted more than just an honorable response...

  • Back to Eden

    Melinda Curtis

    Pilot Rachel Quinlan is fearless fighting forest fires, but on the home front it's a different story. She's still not completely over her crush on Cole Hudson, love of her sister Missy's life -- and he left Eden eleven years ago. Not that it matters,...

  • Bad Dog

    Warren Murphy; Richard Sapir

    When the president of the Institute of Nationalized Humane Health Care, in an effort to save money, trains Swedish Elkhounds to kill disease-carrying people who send premiums skyrocketing, Harold Smith and CURE send Remo in destroy a sadistic dog han...

  • Bad Girls Finish First

    Shelia Dansby Harvey

    With law school behind her, this sexy, sinful seductress has graduated to bigger--and badder--things... Raven Holloway has gone from heartbreaker to bona fide homewrecker. No sooner did she extract herself from a messy, not to mention illegal "si...

  • Bad Guys

    Linwood Barclay

    In Linwood Barclay's debut, paranoid Zack Walker transplanted his city-savvy wife and teenagers to the peaceful burbs--where nervous fathers rest easy. Well, not quite. Now, another suspense-filled adventure, the Walkers have moved back e and Zack ca...

  • The Barefoot Girl

    Catherine Monroe

    San Severino, Italy, 1340.

    Fifteen-year-old Margharita is toiling in her family's meager field when a handsome gentleman rides in with a proposal of marriage. After only a few words with her father,Master Domenico Vasari tears Margharita awa...

  • Battle Drift

    Todd Strasser

    Set 'em up. Blow 'em off. And shut 'em down. Kennin's gaining popularity with the gearheads, and the word on the street is all about his sweet driving skills. Everyone wants a piece of him, but to go legit, he's got to give up the illegal tsuisos . ...

  • Be My Neat-Heart

    Judy Baer

    I've been told the reason I'm still single at twenty-nine is because there'll never be a man tidy enough for me. I'm a professional organizer, so everything in my world is in perfect order. Well...everything except my love life. But I think I've m...

  • Beany and the Meany

    Susan Wojciechowski

    In Beany's latest adventure, the lovable worrywart gets stuck with a meany for a science-fair partner but discovers the confidence - and the smarts - to hold her own.

    It starts out being a good day, as Beany and her best friend, Carol Ann, sit...

  • Beautiful Lies

    Lisa Unger

    If Ridley Jones had slept ten minutes later, she would still be living the beautiful lie she used to call her life. Instead, a series of seemingly inconsequential decisions unleashed a chain of events that brought a mysterious package to her door. A ...

  • Being Bindy

    Alyssa Brugman

    Eighth grade is torture -- at least it is for Bindy! (1) Her best friend since kindergarten becomes her worst enemy. (2) She's stuck taking yoga in sports ed, where she unleashes the Very Bad Thing that gets the whole school talking. (3) She suffe...

  • Benny and Beautiful Baby Delilah

    Jean Van Leeuwen

    With everyone coming over to see the new baby, little Benny becomes frustrated with all the fuss and noise taking over his happy home, yet when his little sister begins to cry one night and doesn't stop, Benny jumps into action and learns an importan...

  • Between Tears

    Pamela Ridley

  • The Big Bamboo

    Tim Dorsey

    SERGE GOES HOLLYWOOD! His marriage plans fizzled, so Floridaphile serial killer Serge A. Storms is on a new mission: to convince the West Coast movie industry bigwigs to do their business in his beloved Sunshine State. So it's off to Tinseltown wi...

  • The Birdman's Daughter

    Cindi Myers

    "When you finally see the bird, you've been seeking, you know you've done the thing your soul needs." As a wife and mother, Karen McBride wonders if she'll ever discover what her own spirit requires to feel whole. When her father, the formidable c...

  • Birds in Fall

    Brad Kessler

    One fall night, an innkeeper on a remote island in Nova Scotia watches an airplane plummet to the sea. As the search for survivors envelops the island, the mourning families gather at the inn, waiting for news of those they have lost. Here among stra...

  • Bitter Water, Blessed Hearts

    Adrienne Ellis Reeves

    Scott Phillips and Jenny Cannon haven't seen each other since a tragic drowning accident drove them apart as teenagers. Now, eighteen years later, they meet again when Jenny is sent as an educational consultant to a school where Scott is the interim ...

  • Black Swan Green

    David Mitchell

    From award-winning writer David Mitchell comes a sinewy, meditative novel of boyhood on the cusp of adulthood and the old on the cusp of the new. Black Swan tracks a single year in what is, for thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor, the sleepiest village i...

  • The Blackgloom Bounty

    Jon F. Baxley

    Books in this series:THE BLACKGLOOM BOUNTY (500 pages)THE REGENTS OF RHUM (800 pages)THE SCIONS OF SCOTIA (800 pages)"A Cast of Characters in the Conan Vein" Kruzurk Makshare the magician is asked by the spirit of Merlin of Pendragon, his long dead ...

  • Blackout

    Annie Solomon

    LIVING NIGHTMARE A month ago Margo Scott was a book dealer with family and friends. Now, suddenly, she can't remember the last four weeks of her life, everyone close to her has disappeared, and she's the prime suspect in a murder. When an intruder...

  • Bladesinger

    Keith Francis Strohm
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    They are the half-bloods, the broken, the unforgiven. They failed themselves and their people. They are outcasts. Then, in the bitter wilds of Rashemen, they receive a desperate plea they alone can answer. If they succeed, it could mean their...

  • Bleeding Hearts

    Susan Wittig Albert

    High school football coach Tim Duffy is handsome, charming, and married into a wealthy local family. But now, an anonymous accuser has made shocking allegations of improper behavior-and China Bayles is asked to conduct a discreet investigation. W...

  • Blood on the Sun

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Detective Mac Taylor is a dedicated crime scene investigator who believes that everything is connected and everyone has a story. He and Detective Stella Bonasera lead a team of crack forensic experts through the gritty and kinetic world of New York C...

  • Blood Orange Brewing

    Laura Childs

    When social darling Delaine Dish throws a lavish benefit for the restoration of a run-down Victorian home, Theodosia Browning donates tea and treats from her Indigo Tea Shop. But the grand unveiling of Theo's spread proves a gruesome scene when a bel...

  • Blue Bloods

    Melissa de la Cruz

    SCHUYLER VAN ALEN has never fit in at Duchesne, her prestigious New York City private school. She prefers baggy, vintage clothes to the Prada and pearls worn by her classmates. But when she turns fifteen, Schuyler's life changes dramatically. The dea...

  • Blue Moon Bride

    Renee Roszel

    Roth Jerric may be drop-dead gorgeous, but as her ex-boss he's the last person Hannah Hudson wants around. A stay at the Blue Moon Inn seemed like the answer to her prayers, but finding she's sharing close quarters with Roth is hardly her ide...

  • Blue Shoes and Happiness

    Alexander McCall Smith

    In this latest installment in the internationally best-selling, universally beloved series, there is considerable excitement at The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. A cobra has been found in Precious Ramotswe's office. Then a nurse from a local medica...

  • Blue Water

    A. Manette Ansay

    From New York Times bestselling author A. Manette Ansay comes an unforgettable story of two families united by tragedy -- and one woman's deeply emotional journey toward a choice she'd never thought possible.On an ordinary morning in Fox Harbor, Wisc...

  • Bon Bon Voyage

    Nancy Fairbanks

    Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning. She's finally decided to throw in the dishtowel -- and take on a dream job as a food writer. Now her plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable foods, and even a dash o...

  • Born to Rock

    Gordon Korman

    LEO. CARAWAY, president of the Young Republicans club, future Harvard student, has his life all mapped out. That is, until he discovers his biological father is the notorious King Maggot, the lead singer of Purge, the most popular and destructive pun...

  • Boys that Bite

    Mari Mancusi

    Two sisters--as different as the sun and the rain. For one, getting into the Blood Coven is to die for. But for the other, getting out could be lethal...When Sunny McDonald gets dragged to Club Fang by her twin sister Rayne, she doesn't expect to fin...

  • The Breakdown Lane

    Jacquelyn Mitchard

    Where can a woman turn when her own life threatens to overwhelm her ability to keep her children safe? A heartbreaking journey of loss and healing from the bestselling author of The Deep End Of The Ocean. Julieane Gillis is pretty good at the bus...

  • Bridal Veil

    Cathy Marie Hake

    Laurel is content at home. But she's determined to show she can "rough it" alongside her rugged family on a seven-week journey to Yosemite. Her paints and perfumes packed, dainty Laurel Chance is overwhelmed by the raw beauty of nature...and the unex...

  • The Bright Forever

    Lee Martin

    On an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey, daughter of the most affluent family in a small town on the plains of Indiana, sets out on her bicycle to return some library books. This simple act is at the heart of The Bright Forever, a s...

  • Broken

    Kelley Armstrong

    In this thrilling new novel from the author of Industrial Magic, a pregnant werewolf may have unwittingly unleashed Jack the Ripper on twenty-first-century -- and become his next target. Ever since she discovered she's pregnant, Elena Michaels has...

  • The Burning

    Susan Squires

    Award-winning, bestselling author Susan Squires brings you into a world of erotic temptation that comes alive at night and thrives on our darkest secrets and longings. Take the journey to an unforgettable place in the heart of darkness and desire... ...

  • But I Don't Want to Be a Movie Star

    Margaret Pinder

    While living with her famous grandmother in her California mansion, skateboarding Kat does her best to make her summer vacation bearable, but when her grandmother has an accident and becomes temporarily immobile, Kat must use her acting talents and a...

  • By Fire and by Sword

    Elaine Coffman

    HER QUEST FOR ADVENTURE IS EQUALED ONLY BY HER PASSION With her sword for protection, Lady Kenna Lennox of Scotland defies social convention and reopens her family's ancient distillery. This feat of wit and daring captures the attention of the sadis...

  • By the Horns

    David Robbins

    BLOOD DRIVE Luke Deal and his gang are murderers many times over. And Owen, the foreman of the Bar 40 ranch, has interrupted their depravities one time too many. Now a business representative for some British cattle ranchers is buying one of the Bar...

  • Cadmian's Choice

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    Corus has been redesigned to become the new home of a superior race from a distant world whose very life depends on drawing sustenance from the biological life force of a planet. Their plans are supervised by a staff of Alectors, who rule the world. ...

  • Caine's Trail

    Cameron Judd

  • The Cane Mutiny

    Tamar Myers

    Raising Cane Abigail Timberlake Washburn understands the antiques game is a gamble -- so she doesn't know what to expect when she wins the bidding for the contents of an old locker that has been sealed up for years. It's a delightful surprise whe...

  • Captive In His Bed

    Sandra Marton

    Matthew Knight is ex-security services and half-Comanche Native American. He's as rough, tough and dedicated in the field of risk management as they come. Mia Palmieri is an ordinary woman caught up in an extraordinary situation. Matthew is on...

  • The Capture of the Crimson Cape

    Jason Lethcoe

    “ARE YOU READY TO BE TOTALLY FREAKED OUT?”

    As the most unpopular kid in high school, Summer Jones isn’t ready for much of anything, except for teasing from classmates. Then Jasper, her eccentric Dad, makes a shocking disclosure: He’s a...

  • The Care and Feeding of Unmarried Men

    Christie Ridgway

    Page Four asks: Which Palm Springs party girl has been caught canoodling with an out-of-town "Adam"? Eve Caruso keeps her finger on the pulse of Palm Springs and reports every spicy celebrity tidbit to her loyal readers. She knows everyone in this...

  • Carly

    Lyn Cote

    The women of Ivy Manor-four generations of women who forged a dynasty amid the tapestry of the twentieth century . . . CARLY Carly Leigh Sinclair grew up in the last decades of the twentieth century in the home of her independent and ambitious m...

  • Carnival of Souls

    Nancy Holder

    THING WICKED EVIL THIS WAY COMES. There's something troubling about Professor Caligari's Traveling Carnival. Perhaps it's that no one can recall the arrival of its hard-to-miss caravan of old-style wagons, countless performers, and horse-drawn ca...

  • Cars, Start Your Engines!

    Disney Book Group

    An interactive storybook based on the new Disney/Pixar movie, Cars, features four exciting board games--with cardboard playing pieces, flashing lights, and silly sounds--that take players through winding roads and curving racetracks....

  • Cars: the Junior Novelization

    RH/Disney

    Lightning McQueen is a hot-shot young race car on his way to becoming a national champion . . . until he gets impounded in Radiator Springs. Now McQueen can only spin his wheels, thinking about the big race he’s going to miss. But if McQueen can op...

  • Cat's Meow

    Warren Kimble

    Warren Kimble is the cat's pajamas.

    Warren Kimble, America's foremost contemporary folk artist, lets his favorite cats out of the bag in his first picture book for the very young. From fat cats to clean cats to curious cats, these clever wor...

  • Cease to Blush

    Billie Livingston

    Vivian is late to her own mother's funeral. Wearing a skintight lipstick-red suit, Vivian stands out like a pornographer's dream amongst the raven collection of West Coast intellectuals mourning the untimely death of the famous feminist Josie Callwoo...

  • Chains of Folly

    Roberta Gellis

    That Nelda Roundheels had been murdered would have been of little interest to anyone - except that her body turned up in the bishop of Winchester's bedchamber with a letter to the bishop, from the king's most important enemy, rolled up in her breastb...

  • Challenger Park

    Stephen Harrigan

    At the novel's center: Lucy Kincheloe, an astronaut married to an astronaut, the loving mother of two young children, with a fierce ambition to excel in the space program. Her husband, Brian, a rigorous man whose dreams of glory have been blighted by...

  • The Chariot of Queen Zara

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! It seems like Young Sparr and the moon dragon have joined forces, and the kids are going to need Galen's help. But first, they have to find him! Eric and his friends soon learn tha...

  • Charmed Thirds

    Megan McCafferty

    Jessica Darling's in college! Things are looking up for Jessica Darling. She has finally left her New Jersey hometown/hellhole for Columbia University in New York City; she's more into her boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, than ever (so what if he's at a Bu...

  • China Star

    Bartle Bull

    The master of the exotic adventure novel returns with a tale of romance, vengeance and intrigue. The story begins in 1920s Paris, where Shanghai Station's Russian count, Alexander Karlov, and Viktor Polyak, the Soviet agent who killed Karlov's parent...

  • Chosen People

    Karen Grigsby Bates

    When Alex Powell stops into a Los Angeles bookstore on a rainy spring night, she's planning to write a column on the author who is reading and signing books there. But what she gets instead is a firsthand look at the murder of a controversial African...

  • Chronicler of the Winds

    Henning Mankell

    From the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander Mysteries: An “uplifting . . . grittily realistic” fable about war-torn Africa and a mystical orphan boy (The New York Times).   A single gunshot cracks the silence of a h...

  • Circle of Quilters

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    Elm Creek Quilts, the thriving artists' retreat at Elm Creek Manor, is a place that stakes its sterling reputation on the palpable creative energy and collective goodwill of its teachers and students. But when two of its founding members decide to le...

  • A Clearing in the Wild

    Jane Kirkpatrick

    A Community Searching for Refuge, A Woman Finding Her Voice The people of Bethel, Missouri, seek to live with simplicity and generosity, existing in world of the 1850s but remaining set apart from its distractions and vanities. Rather than finding...

  • Clikits: Friends, Fun and Fashion!

    Sonia Sander

    Show off your style . . . and smarts with the CLIKITS activity book.

    CLIKITS snap together and you get something new and different. And the pieces that you use, the colors, the shapes, they all say something different about YOU.

    Are you...

  • The Clone Republic

    Steven L. Kent

    Earth, 2508 A.D. Humans have spread across the six arms of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Unified Authority controls Earth's colonies with an iron fist and a powerful military--a military made up almost entirely of clones... Private First-class Wayson ...

  • Closer I Get to You

    Melanie Schuster

    Titus Argonne is a man who doesn't make mistakes. He wouldn't be the owner of an international investigations and security firm if he wasn't practical, cautious and calculating. But when it comes to Paris Deveraux, nothing adds up. She's too young fo...

  • Color of the Sea

    John Hamamura

    Growing up on a Hawaiian plantation with other Japanese-Americans in the 1930s, young Sam Hamada trains in the martial arts of his native Japan. In California, he meets his extended family, and the beautiful Keiko. But as Sam and Keikos love blooms, ...

  • Consigned to Death

    Jane K. Cleland

    A BIDDING WAR. After a price-fixing scandal at her prestigious New York auction house, Josie Prescott moves to the New Hampshire coast to restore her reputation -- and perhaps a few antiques along the way. A KILLER DEAL. As an antiques dealer, Josie...

  • The Constellation of Sylvie

    Roderick Townley

    In an attempt to save the astronauts from certain death after they missed their reentry to Earth while on a return mission from Jupiter, Princess Sylvie and her friends must collect a solution from one of Jupiter's moons, melt it, and give the crew t...

  • Crimson Rogue

    Liz Maverick

    From the four strata of Crimson City come rogues: vampire, werewolf, human, demon. These rebels, rakes and unsung heroes have turned their backs on the extravagant vampire skyway, the gritty werewolf underground, the iron-fisted human stronghold and ...

  • The Cross Examination of Oliver Finney

    Randy D. Singer

    A Judge on Trial. His Life on the Line. When a brilliant billionaire is diagnosed with inoperable brain cancer, he realizes that all his considerable wealth cannot prepare him to meet his Maker. But he has an idea that might: He will stage life's...

  • Crossing the Wire

    Will Hobbs

    When falling crop prices threaten his family with starvation, fifteen-year-old Victor Flores heads north in an attempt to "cross the wire" from Mexico into the United States so he can find work and send money home. But with no coyote money to pay the...

  • Curious George's First Words at the Aquarium

    H.A. Rey

    A fun way for little ones to learn new words -- from “penguins” to “pufferfish”!This delightful book takes young readers on a visit to the aquarium with Curious George -- and builds their vocabulary by introducing new words. While they learn ...

  • D.W.'s Guide to Perfect Manners

    Marc Brown

    Big brother Arthur's got a doozie of a dare for sassy little sister D.W.: Can she try to be PERFECT for one whole day? From the do's and don'ts of eating and etiquette to earning A's for best behavior, good manners are great fun when D.W. is your che...

  • Dancing in a Distant Place

    Isla Dewar

    A warm and intelligent novel about a young teacher who throws herself into the lives of her students in the hopes of forgetting the past, only to find it returning more vividly than ever.When Iris Chisholm arrives in the tiny Scottish Highland commun...

  • Dancing In The Moonlight

    Raeanne Thayne

    Lieutenant Magdalena Cruz had come home...but it wasn't the way she'd envisioned her return. And though all she wanted was to be alone, infuriatingly handsome Dr. Jake Dalton -- of the enemy Daltons -- wouldn't cooperate. And she needed him to, becau...

  • The Dangerous Debutante

    Kasey Michaels

    A Debutante Deceived...Is Dangerous Indeed! What makes a lady? Morgan Becket wouldn't know. The scandalous debutante is being sent off to London to have her first Season in hopes a gentleman will finally tame her. Yet shortly into her journey she ...

  • Daredevil, Volume 13: The Murdock Papers

    Brian Michael Bendis

    The Eisner Award-winning run of Brian Michael Bendis and Alex Maleev comes to a blistering conclusion! First, they outed Daredevil in the press; then they married him and made him the Kingpin of Hell's Kitchen. What could they possibly do to top that...

  • Dark Assassin

    Anne Perry

    On a patrol boat near Waterloo Bridge, police superintendent William Monk notices a young couple engaged in an intense discussion. Seconds later, the two plunge to their deaths in the icy waters of the Thames. Was it an accident, a suicide, or a murd...

  • Dark Demon

    Christine Feehan

    Christine Feehan has worked magic on a legion of fans with her darkly thrilling Carpathian tales. Now she delivers the provocative story of a female vampire slayer who proves as seductive--and mysterious--as the night dwellers she stalks... For as...

  • The Dark End of Town

    Julia Pomeroy

    Abby -- the thirty-year-old protagonist -- has abandoned a brief career as a model in New York City to return with her new husband to Bantam, the small upstate New York town where they both grew up. When her husband dies unexpectedly, Abby tries to c...

  • Dark Harbor

    Stuart Woods

    A Stone Rattled Stone Barrington hasn't heard from his cousin Dick Stone in years. Then an otherwise pleasant meal at Elaine's is interrupted by the CIA with news of Dick's death--apparently by his own hand. It seems that Dick Stone, a quiet famil...

  • Dark Tort

    Diane Mott Davidson

    "I tripped over the body of Dusty Routt at half past ten on the night of October 19. . . ." Goldy Schulz has a lucrative new gig, preparing breakfasts and conference-room snacks for a local law firm. It's time-consuming, but Goldy is enjoying i...

  • Dark Water

    Linda Hall

    P.I. Jake Rikker has been retained to find a stalker. A challenge that could help redeem his life -- if he doesn't lose it first. A private investigator, kayak adventurer, and whale watching tour guide who specializes in salvage operations base...

  • Daughter of Deliverance

    Gilbert Morris

    Gilbert Morris tells the story of two star-crossed lovers on opposite sides of a war. One trying to save her family and the other trying to save his people. Book 6 in the Lions of Judah series....

  • Daughter of Silk

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Pursuing the family name as the finest silk producer in Lyon, the young Huguenot Rachelle Dushane-Macquinet is thrilled to accompany her famous couturier Grandmere to Paris, there to create a silk trousseau for the Royal Princess Marguerite Valois. T...

  • Daughter of the Desert

    Noel-Anne Brennan

    When a chance encounter causes her to investigate her past, Forentel, the first daughter of a noble family, stumbles upon dark secrets and new powers, leading her on a quest across the desert to find a mythical city--a perilous journey that leads her...

  • De Kooning

    Mark Stevens

    Willem de Kooning is one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, a true “painter’s painter” whose protean work continues to inspire many artists. In the thirties and forties, along with Arshile Gorky and Jackson Poll...

  • Dead and Loving It

    Maryjanice Davidson

    Now, in this collection of four sensual novellas, worlds collide when she brings her beloved Wyndham werewolves together with the vampires ruled by Undead Queen Betsy Taylor. In three of her most popular novellas, a Wyndham werewolf finds their per...

  • Dead Center

    David Rosenfelt

    In Dead Center, we find our beloved Andy carpenter reentering the dating scene -- God Bless him. Surprisingly he's a hot commodity, but that's not necessarily a good thing. His friends are offering up their two cents on his dating life, but of ...

  • Dead Days of Summer

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    Annie Darling, owner of the Death on Demand mystery bookstore, is understandably upset. It isn't like her p.i. husband Max to abruptly disappear--and homicide is definitely not his style. But when his car is found abandoned on a remote road with a br...

  • The Dead Fish Museum

    Charles D'Ambrosio

    “In the fall, I went for walks and brought home bones. The best bones weren’t on trails -- deer and moose don’t die conveniently -- and soon I was wandering so far into the woods that I needed a map and compass to find my way home. When winter ...

  • Dead Guys Talk

    Barbara M. Joosse

    After receiving an unsigned note with an urgent plea for help and a map to the cemetery, best friends and detectives Willie, Kyle, and Lucy discover that someone is planning on relocating the cemetery's bodies and building a new mall on the property....

  • Dead Man Running

    Rett MacPherson

    New Kassel, Missouri, genealogist Torie O'Shea finds herself drawn into a heated mayoral election when a local newspaperman asks her to research the family trees of both candidates. It's a strange request, especially since the incumbent, Bill Castler...

  • Dead Man's Promise

    Marcus Galloway

    Sometimes the dead don't stay buried... Nick Graves ran wild in the years before he turned respectable and began plying the trade that his father had taught him. But when he woke to the truth that the life of a renegade would lead to nothing but ...

  • Deadly Prey

    Peter Brandvold

    Deputy U.S. Marshal Gideon Hawk is forced out of hiding when Catherine McCormick, fleeing from a mining camp, asks for his help in avenging her ten-year-old brother, who was brutally murdered by a band of raiders. Original....

  • Deadman's Poker

    James Swain

    Tony Valentine is an expert at spotting cheats. He's tossed them out of gambling casinos from Atlantic City to Las Vegas and Monaco. But though Tony has never met a scam he couldn't crack, his son and partner, Gerry, has just walked into one with a b...

  • Dear John

    Kim Vogel Sawyer

    After losing her parents in a fatal accident, Marin must step at once into their shoes: her mother's to take care of her brother, John; her father's to run the advertising agency he founded. Her brother has Downs syndrome and has stayed at home most ...

  • The Death of Achilles

    Boris Akunin

    In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow in the heart of Mother Russia. His Moscow homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he and his loyal if impertine...

  • Death on Naboo

    Jude Watson

    WHO ARE THE LAST OF THE JEDI? Ex-Jedi Ferus Olin has been imprisoned by the Empire. His crime? Trying to save the Jedi Order. The sinister Empire won't be able to hold Ferus for long -- not when he has a friend on the inside. But escaping is only ...

  • Debts of Dishonor

    Jill Paton Walsh

    Imogen Quy--rhymes with why--is the witty, compassionate, and relentlessly inquisitive college nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge University. Unfortunately, St. Agatha's has seen better days: Its financial affairs are in shambles, and the schoo...

  • The Debutante Divorcee

    Plum Sykes

    Lauren Blount's life is beautifully arranged: she's very rich, very young, very thin, very pretty -- and very, very divorced. She is the most reckless and glamorous of Manhattan's Debutante Divorcee set. Lauren captivates Sylvia Mortimer, the group's...

  • Deep Breath

    Alison Kent

    GO AHEAD When a guy stops at a roadside diner, he expects bad chili, not a hostage situation. But that's where SG-5 operative Harry van Zandt finds himself when an armed cartel blows through the door. They're not after him but the woman in the next b...

  • Deep Sea Dead

    Lori Avocato

    Pauline Walks the Plank . . . A confirmed landlubber, insurance fraud p.i. Pauline Sokol's never heard the call of the sea -- or if she has, she didn't pay attention. But now the former RN is donning her nurse's whites once more to go undercover a...

  • Defiant

    Bobbi Smith

    Clint Williams Born Feb. 16, 1852 Died March 23, 1877 Those are the words that mark his grave, and Clint knows that although he stands reading his own epitaph, they are true. Ever since the attack that killed his entire family, he's been dead...

  • Defining Moments

    Jacquelin Thomas

    Now in trade paperback-the inspiring love story from the national bestselling author of Redemption. A year ago, successful career woman Sheila Moore left her home on the South Carolina coast to escape the pain of loving a man who would never love her...

  • The Devil's Footsteps

    Olive Etchells

    Championship surfer Dave Treganza returns to his native Cornwall for a visit, only to find his sister-in-law and aunt in turmoil because Jonathan, his brother, has disappeared without trace. Before long Jonathan’s body is discovered down a derelict...

  • Diamonds Can Be Deadly

    Merline Lovelace

    If diamonds were a girl's best friend...then emeralds came in a close second. So when ex-model-turned-agent Jordan Colby -- Code Name: Diamond -- was sent to Kauai to find a missing green gem, she jumped at the chance. There was just one hitch: the p...

  • Dirty Blonde

    Lisa Scottoline

    THIS TIME, JUSTICE IS BLONDE. Cate Fante is strong and sexy and wears designer suits like overpriced armor. She's just become a judge but leads a dark double life that she hides from everyone. Her cover is blown when a high-profile case in her...

  • Disney's the Wild: It's a Jungle Out There

    Sandvik

    At the New York City Zoo, the animals -- including afierce lion, a witty giraffe, a savvy squirrel, and a hilarious koala -- run wildas soon as the humans go home. But the true adventure begins when a young lionis accidentally whisked off to Africa, ...

  • Doctor's Orders

    Sharon De Vita

    CASSIE MILLER'S SYMPTOMS #1 Has no immunity to gossip, particularly regarding a certain single doctor. #2 Gets easily flustered and distracted when in presence of said doctor. #3 Heart starts racing at doctor's slightest touch. DR. BEA...

  • The Doctor's Surprise Bride

    Fiona McArthur

    Eliza May has been a magnet for the broken hearts of others, who ultimately end up breaking her own. When handsome but emotionally wounded Dr. Jack Dancer enters her life, she won't allow herself to act on their growing attraction. But one night when...

  • The Doctor's Unexpected Proposal

    Alison Roberts

    Dr. Emily Morgan is giving up on love. She's been let down for the last time. She carries a secret that makes her wonder if she'll ever have a future, or a family. What Emily doesn't know is that Crocodile Creek's paramedic and helicopter pilot, h...

  • Dogbird and Other Mixed-Up Tales

    Paul Stewart

    Alice's new pet bird doesn't speak -- it barks! Dad says the bird must go, but what do you do with a barking bird? When greedy Albert pinches a Mars bar, his grandmother warns him of the curse of the were-pig. Will he grow a curly tail when the sun c...

  • Don't Eat the Babysitter!

    Nick Ward

    Sophie and Sammy Shark’s favorite babysitter, Anna, is coming to babysit tonight. But Sammy, like all young sharks, likes to eat things, especially when he gets excited. Will he be able to control his “biting” habit by the time Mum and Dad get ...

  • Don't Look Down

    Jennifer Crusie; Bob Mayer

    SHE is a director of dog food commercials who's just been recruited to finish a four-day movie shoot. But as soon as Lucy Armstrong arrives on set, she discovers that the staff is in chaos, the make-up artist is suicidal, and the stunt director just ...

  • Doppelganger // Warrior

    Marie Brennan

    When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For the witch to master her powers, the twin must be killed. But what happens when the doppelganger survives? Mirage, a bounty hunter, lives by her wits and lethal fighting skills. She always gets h...

  • The Dreamwalker's Child

    Steve Voake

    Fifteen-year-old Sam Palmer's life is dull--until a bizarre bicycle accident leaves him in a coma. Sam awakens in Aurobon, a world eerily similar to his own, only to discover that his "accident" was part of an elaborate abduction by a ruler with a de...

  • Drop Dead Gorgeous

    Jennifer Skully

    Where is love when you really need it? Certain that she will depart this world at the tender age of twenty-eight, Madison O'Donnell is determined to experience breathless, passionate love in the two weeks left to her, no thanks to her stuffy boss,...

  • Duchess of Nothing

    Heather McGowan

    After leaving her husband and her suffocating marriage for the romance and promise of Rome, the narrator of Duchess of Nothing has her freedom but is still trapped by the routine of life and haunted by her past. Charming, manic, and acutely aware of ...

  • Duke of Scandal

    Adele Ashworth

    The scandalously handsome Samson Carlisle is not the deceiving nobleman Lady Olivia was searching for...but he's the lover she fervently desires. A lady's heart is a tempting plaything for the DUKE OF SCANDAL He stands apart from other ...

  • The Duke's Gamble

    Miranda Jarrett

    A Daring Duke... Eliot Fitzharding, Duke of Guilford, once visited Penny House to enjoy the games of chance. Now he finds that his heart beats faster -- not at the turn of a card, but at the thought of matching wits with Miss Amariah Penny, the fa...

  • The Earth Dragon Awakes

    Laurence Yep

    Tuesday, April 17, 1906 It is early evening in San Francisco. Streetlights come on. People hurry home. No one knows about the danger below. Underneath their feet, the earth begins to stir. Wednesday, April 18, 1906, 5:12 A.M., Sacramento Street ...

  • East of the Sun and West of the Moon

    John Ringo

    ORCS IN SPACE! When the council that controlled the world- spanning computer Mother fell out in civil war, it plunged the world in an instant from high-tech utopia to medieval nightmare. Now the warrior Herzer Herrick and his lover, new Council me...

  • Elements of Style

    Wendy Wasserstein

    Elements of Style, the Pulitzer Prize--winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein's first novel, is a scathing comedy about New York's high society facing the post--9/11 world. Francesca Weissman, an Upper East Side pediatrician rated number one by Man...

  • Emma Dilemma and the New Nanny

    Patricia Hermes

    Marmaduke is missing! Once again, Emma has forgotten to put her ferret back in his cage. And with four brothers and sisters and a poodle who chases Marmaduke around the house, Emma finds herself in the middle of this and other family dilemmas. If onl...

  • En Garde

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy's heading to London to crack the case in this New York Times bestselling series!George gets into fencing in a big way, which means lots of cool matches for Nancy and Bess to watch. But when an inexplicably deadly rivalry between two of the...

  • End of Story

    Peter Abrahams

    Ivy Seidel dreams of becoming a writer, a great American novelist. But running low on money and concerned that her writing might lack a depth and darkness, she takes a job teaching creative writing -- at a maximum-security prison. It is a world she h...

  • Engaging the Enemy

    Elizabeth Moon

    The brilliantly unorthodox Kylara Vatta, black-sheep scion of Vatta Transport Ltd., one of the galaxy's wealthiest merchant houses, is a heroine like no other, blessed with a killer instinct for business and for battle. Now, in the aftermath of cold-...

  • Essential Nova - Volume 1

    Marv Wolfman

    Before New Warriors, Nova was one of the 70s' most scintillating stars and it shows! Be it murder mystery or cosmic clash, the Human Rocket rises to the occasion! Historic heroes! Futuristic Fiends! War with the Skrulls! Special guest-appearances by ...

  • Essential X-Men, Volume 7

    Chris Claremont

    In the wake of the Marauders' Mutant Massacre, the X-Men go mobile to plan their next move--but recruiting Dazzler and Havok brings them even more catastrophe! And with a teammate's life on the line, the mutant marvels are forced to fight the Fantast...

  • Everyman

    Philip Roth

    Philip Roth's new novel is a candidly intimate yet universal story of loss, regret, and stoicism. The bestselling author of The Plot Against America now turns his attention from "one family's harrowing encounter with history" (New York Times) to one ...

  • Everything to Prove

    Nadia Nichols

    Libby Wilson needs to find out if her father -- the father she never knew -- was murdered. He died on the day he was going to marry her mother when the plane he was piloting crashed into an Alaskan lake. It was never found. His business partner, who ...

  • Expect the Sunrise

    Susan May Warren

    Book three in the compelling Team Hope series by Susan May Warren, the name to watch in romantic suspense. Alaskan bush pilot Andee MacLeod has spent her life searching for the one thing that can stop her running -- a family. Now Andee has one last f...

  • Expecting Lonergan's Baby

    Maureen Child

    PATERNITY TEST Surgeon Sam Lonergan lived a no-strings-attached life...until he met Maggie Collins, the young, sexy, housekeeper of his family's ranch. Their affair was hot, their secret rendezvous hotter. And after sharing incredible passion with...

  • Falling for the Boss

    Elizabeth Harbison

    TO: Evan Hanson FROM: Meredith Waters SUBJECT: Our Secret Past Which probably isn't even a secret now that I'm working at Hanson Media. Believe me, Evan, I didn't plan this when I took the job. All I know is twelve years ago you left town without so...

  • Family and Other Accidents

    Shari Goldhagen

    Separated by a decade and 200 points on their SAT scores, Jack and Connor Reed have a life in the Cleveland suburbs held together by spit and Chinese takeout. With his self-absorbed, over-the-hill parents dead by his twenty-fifth birthday, Jack has a...

  • A Family at Last

    Jacqueline Diamond

    The Wait Might Just Be Over Years after a teenage prank ended badly and a young boy's testimony put his best friend in jail, Downhome, Tennessee, is still trying to heal the scars of the old scandal. Now the two are back in town -- one trying to c...

  • Feet Man and Mr. Tiny

    Gina Freschet

    Feet Man has two gigantic problems -- his feet. His foot size is triple-extra-umpteen-large. He has never found a shoe that fits him, and whenever people see him, they always point and make fun of him. But then one day he discovers a tiny man stuck b...

  • Fever

    Geneva Holliday

    It’s almost summer in New York City, and the heat is breaking records on the street and between the sheets in Geneva Holliday’s beyond-sexy follow-up to Groove. When Geneva, Crystal, Chevy, and Noah get hot and bothered, they get way more than th...

  • Final Victim

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    What She Left Behind... Everyone in Savannah, Georgia knows the Remington estate. The rambling old house bears blatant testimony not just to the esteemed family's vast wealth, but to unbearable tragedy and whispered secrets. Soon, the Remingtons wil...

  • Fire & Ice

    Michael Anthony Steele

  • Firebirds Rising

    Francesca Lia Block

    What you hold in your hands is more than a book. It is a gateway between worlds -- from deep space to Faerie to just around the corner. The seventeen authors who have contributed original stories to Firebirds Rising have won virtually every literary ...

  • Fireworks

    Elizabeth White

    Susannah is out to prove that pyrotechnics genius Quinn Baldwinis responsible for a million-dollar fireworks catastrophe during a Mardi Gras ball. With her faithful black Lab Monty she moves to the charming backwater city of Mobile, Alabama to uncov...

  • Fireworks

    Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop

    Hollis Clayton is in trouble. His wife has decamped to her sister's house for the summer, leaving him to pursue without interruption his increasingly overwhelming compulsions: drinking; spying on the neighbors; following with rising anxiety the fate ...

  • The First Collier

    Kathryn Lasky

    An ancient malevolence that will threaten the very existence of the great tree has been loosed from the past. With his dying breath, Ezylryb tells Soren and Coryn to read the legends of Ga'Hoole hidden in his private library. There, they find a world...

  • The Five-Year Baby Secret

    Liz Fielding

    MARRIED FOR A DAY... Fleur Gilbert and Matt Hanover married in secret, believing their love could end their bitter family feud. They were wrong. Six lonely years later, Fleur hardly ever dreams she'll see Matt again. But Matt has never forgotte...

  • Flashback

    Justine Davis

    The women of Athena Academy were becoming known as a force for justice around the world. And when new clues surfaced about the decade-old murder of Athena Academy founder and U.S. senator Marion Gracelyn, FBI forensic scientist Alexandra Forsythe jum...

  • Flight of the Nighthawks

    Raymond E. Feist

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MASTER OF FANTASY RAYMOND E. FEIST returns to a volatile world at the terrible dawn of the most dramatic conflict yet ... THE DARKWAR! A portent of annihilation awakens the powerful sorcerer Pug in the dead of night -...

  • Flights: Extreme Visions Fantasy, Vol II

    Chris Pierson

    A remarkable new collection of fantasy fiction features all original short stories from Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, Raymond E. Feist, Harry Turtledove, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne McCaffrey, Robert Silverberg, Patricia A. McKillip, and other masters o...

  • Flower Lullaby Book

    Takayo Noda

    Flowers bloom and burst into life in a boldly illustrated celebration of the natural world, filled with roses, crocuses, and butterflies, with rhyming, poetic verse by the creator of Dear World....

  • Fly on the Wall

    Trista Russell

    You would have to be a fly on the wall to learn of the secret love affair between Paige, a divorced English teacher, and Theo, a high school student and star basketball player. You will be a fly on the sizzling-hot walls when this flirtatious and lus...

  • The Forbidden Twin

    Susan Crosby

    HE WANTED WHAT HE COULD NOT HAVE The mysterious "lady in red" who appeared at his Manhattan apartment inflamed his senses and ignited his passion, but John Harlan's new lover was the very woman he could never possess: his ex-fiance's twin sister, ...

  • Forecast of Evil // Deadly Getaway

    Laura Bradford

    FROZEN IN FEAR It was supposed to be the perfect winter getaway: snow, sleighs and a warm friendly tourist town on a remote Michigan island--what could be more romantic for New Jersey reporter Elise Jenkins and her new love interest, Detective Mitch...

  • The Forsaken

    Stephen Arterburn

    One man faces his worst nightmare--twice. Ben Taylor's just a regular guy. Married to his beautiful Annie, with good kids, and a career that brings him great joy. But the world as he knows it suddenly shifts beneath his feet. While his job is s...

  • The Fortress of Glass

    David Drake

    The Fortress of Glass is the first in the Crown of the Isles trilogy, which will conclude the epic Lord of the Isles series. A true trilogy, the action extends over the whole three-book arc. The Fortress of Glass begins the story of how the new kingd...

  • Fortunate Son

    Walter Mosley

    In spite of remarkable differences, Eric and Tommy are as close as brothers. Eric, a Nordic Adonis, is graced by a seemingly endless supply of good fortune. Tommy is a lame black boy, cursed with health problems, yet he remains optimistic and strong....

  • Fortune's Legacy

    Maureen Child

    "Who cares if I grew up with money? I deserve this job." --Kyra Fortune, associate VP Kyra Fortune can't believe she might get fired. Sure, she knows some people think she's a spoiled brat with more family connections than brains, but she knows ...

  • Frights! Camera! Action!

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    And you thought your class was spooky! Hollywood is coming to Sleepy Hollow! A big-time diector wants to film a movie about ghosts in the third-graders' basement classroom. Jeff can't wait to see how a real scary movie is made. He wants to help out w...

  • From Hell to Midnight

    Richard S. Wheeler

    He Came To Unearth A Buried Treasure... In a tweed coat and pith helmet, Hannibal Jones stands out from the hardscrabble crowd on the Nevada frontier. But the legendary mining geologist fears no man, dead or alive--and that includes the ghost belie...

  • Fugitive Shoes

    Erin O'Rourke

    Driving across the Arizona desert, Sally Jasper collides with a man who sprints suddenly out of the sand and across the highway. The man -- an illegal Mexican immigrant -- is killed upon impact. Haunted by a rising ghost of guilt, Sally vows to set t...

  • Full Scoop

    Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes

    Dear Reader: Mercury's in retrograde, and folks in Beaumont, South Carolina, are dealing with gossip, scandal, misunderstandings, and more secrets than ever. Local pediatrician Maggie Farnsworth has even bigger worries. Her wild-girl past has caug...

  • Funkhouse Adventure

    Judy Goldschmidt

    Fashion Friendz-y is sponsoring a scavenger hunt at the local amusement park. First prize? Gift certificates to Fashion Friendz-y, of course! The girls sign up in a hot minute only to discover that one of the challenges is to ride the super-sized Fer...

  • The Gadgets

    Anthony Horowitz

    Gives fans of super spy Alex Rider a behind-the-scenes look at top-secret blueprints and plans for his high-tech gadgets, including the Game Boy that doubled as a Geiger counter in Skeleton Key, and the CD player with the fast-spinning saw bl...

  • Gate to Eden

    Cathy McDavid

    Maddie Campbell is not your ordinary thief. A beautiful young widow and mother, she likes to think her wealthy victims are merely "donating" to the many people in the mining community who have been left with nothing. Maddie is quite good at what she ...

  • GDMFSOB

    Nevada Barr
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    A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...

  • Genealogy

    Maud Casey

    Meet the Hennarts: Samantha Hennart, a poet with writer's block; her husband, Bernard, obsessed with the life of a nineteenth-century Belgian mystic with stigmata; their son, Ryan, a mediocre rock musician; and their eighteen-year-old daughter, Ma...

  • Genshiken: The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture, Volume 5

    Kio Shimoku

    THE DOUJINSHI CODE

    The Genshiken has long been famous for its remarkable record of inactivity. But now that Kanji Sasahara has stepped in as the new club president, it looks as though things may change. Kanji wants the club to produce its firs...

  • Get Well Soon, or Else!

    Sarah Weeks

    A rollicking series about two best friends and their misadventures from Sarah Weeks, the star author of SO B. IT

    Nat Boyd and his best friend Boyd Fink are about to spend a week at Camp Willomet. No homework, no parents…only bunk beds, bonfi...

  • The Girl from Charnelle

    K.L. Cook

    It's 1960 in the Panhandle town of Charnelle, Texas--a year and a half since sixteen-year-old Laura Tate's mother boarded a bus and mysteriously disappeared. Assuming responsibility for the Tate household, Laura cares for her father and three brother...

  • A Girl's Best Friend

    Kristin Billerbeck

    Three friends. One spa. And an infinite amount of oversharing! From the outside, Morgan Malliard has it all: diamonds at her disposal, a willowy figure, a doting daddy and all the elegance that money can buy. But money can't buy happiness--or an i...

  • Gone

    Jonathan Kellerman

    Missing acting students Dylan and Michaela are found in the remote mountains of Malibu, battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor. But forensic evidence soon exposes the incident as a hoax, and the kids are c...

  • Goodbye, Jimmy Choo

    Annie Sanders

    In this poignant and witty debut, a bohemian and a Gucci-clad socialite form an unlikely friendship after leaving the city....

  • Gossamer

    Lois Lowry

    A novel “as haunting as a dream” from the New York Times-bestselling, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Giver (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).    Where do dreams come from? What stealthy nighttime messengers are the guardians of our ...

  • Grace and the Bully: Drought on the Frontier

    Norma Jean Lutz

    Time Period:  1819  Grace Morgan can't stand the dirty, unkempt boy who harasses her meek and quiet cousin. But Grace soon gets a taste of the bully's hard life of poverty when her hometown of Cincinnati is struck by a serious drought, affec...

  • Grace for An Island Meal

    Rachel Field

    Bless this board and bless this bread.Bless this skylight overheadthrough which any eye may seewheeling gull and blowing tree.One morning in Maine, three visitors travel to a small island.The day is clear and bright " its beauty a blessing. There a...

  • The Grandma Book

    Todd Parr

    Featuring Todd Parr's signature colorful and kid-friendly illustrations, The Grandma Book portrays the different ways grandmothers show their grandchildren love, from offering advice and babysitting to making things and giving lots of kisses....

  • Grandpa Has a Great Big Face

    Warren Hanson

    A sweet and whimsical story about a young boy's adoration of his grandfather.

    Grandpa's face is very big, and so are his tummy, and his feet, and his smile. His nose is so big, he can even smell the moon! But according to his plucky grandso...