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New Books List: 526 titles

  • The Birthday Wish

    Joyce Livingston

    Wishing won't change the past. If it could, Catherine Barton would have never seen her marriage annulled by her husband's interfering socialite parents. And Cat wouldn't be left alone to raise her daughter, Sunni. It's been many years since Jonah ...

  • GraceLand

    Chris Abani

    Graceland is a dazzling debut by a singular new talentThe sprawling, swampy, cacophonous city of Lagos, Nigeria, provides the backdrop to the story of Elvis, a teenage Elvis impersonator hoping to make his way out of the ghetto. Broke, beset by flood...

  • The Island of Bicycle Dancers

    Jiro Adachi

    Love, sex, death....and English as a foreign language. The Island of Bicycle Dancers is the coming-of-age-story of twenty-year-old Yurika Song, a Korean-Japanese woman who comes from Japan to New York City for a summer to work with her Korean rela...

  • I'm a Believer

    Jessica Adams


    After a whirlwind courtship with Richard, the gentle small-town vet she met in London, Sarah finds herself, to her surprise, moving to Australia as his bride. But on the morning of the wedding itself, she realizes she has made the worst mistake o...

  • Bonny in Scotland

    Katie Agnew
    in

    Meet the Clanswomen... International bestselling authors Jenny Colgan, Isla Dewar, and Muriel Gray lead off this dazzling collection of stories by popular and rising Scottish women authors. A sometimes wild, sometimes poignant romp through the liv...

  • Chapter and Hearse: And Other Mysteries

    Catherine Aird

    A wealthy businessman has died under suspicious circumstances. A Christmas with the family provides more drama than could be expected. A girl accuses the hospital of killing her grandmother. In 16th Century Scotland, the death of a clansman is not wh...

  • Affairs at Hampden Ferrers

    Brian W. Aldiss

    Hampden Ferrars is an obscure country village, not too distant from Oxford. Its village church, St Clements, is 1,500 years old, and some of the villagers decide that this record of continuity and stability should be celebrated. Many are the difficul...

  • Murder on the Marmora

    Conrad Allen

    George Porter Dillman and Genevieve Masefield, used to the grand opulence of the Cunard cruise line, are at first disappointed with the Marmora, a small, unimpressive ship that's part of the P&O shipping line, the company that now employs them as shi...

  • Resurrection

    Steve Alten

    What happens to us when we die? Is there really an afterlife? Do we possess a soul? Does God exist? For Michael Gabriel, the answers to these questions lie in another dimension, a realm of eternity where there is no concept of time, only pure l...

  • Yours Always

    Gabriella Anderson

    WHERE THERE'S A WILL The news of Lady Anthea Fortesque's betrothal to the venerable Sir Hobblesby is the talk of the town: why on earth would a young woman blessed with both beauty and intelligence promise herself to a pompous old bore? Coli...

  • We'll Always Have Parrots

    Donna Andrews

    Meg Langslow knew the fan convention for her actor-boyfriend's hit television series was going to be the ultimate in weird. But she came along because she figured Michael could use an occasional dose of sanity--and because it was an inspired place t...

  • Anno's Spain

    Mitsumasa Anno

  • The Last Goodbye

    Reed Arvin

    Jack Hammond is a lawyer and an honorable man with a weakness for a pretty face--a fatal flaw that has already destroyed his reputation, his position with an elite law firm . . . and the life of a beautiful woman. Now barely getting by as the court-a...

  • Charmed Sphere

    Catherine Asaro

    What was the use of being a powerful mage if you couldn't learn the spells? Once Chime had been the most promising mage in the land, feted and celebrated for her potential and future role in the kingdom. Then Iris, her young competitor, made a stu...

  • Stained Glass Heart

    Catherine Asaro
    in

    Hearts collide and desire consumes in worlds and ages far from our own.... Six of today's most popular authors join talents in this unique anthology that shows love can conquer all...even the boundaries of time and space. These stories -- many...

  • A Whisper of Eternity

    Amanda Ashley

    In Amanda Ashley's compelling, lushly sensual novels, vampires exist alongside humans--but their desires are not relegated to the shadows. Now, a timeless passion is shattered by dangerous immortal ambition--unless an eternal kiss can hold back the d...

  • Aunt Dimity: Snowbound

    Nancy Atherton

    In the midst of a raging blizzard, an old English abbey hides a mystery thicker than the accumulating snow When Lori Shepherd's hike is cut short by the blizzard of the century, she has no choice but to seek refuge in Ladythorne Abbey, the fabulou...

  • Mad God's Wrath

    James Axler

    Grim Spoils. Two centuries after the nuclear conflagration, humanity has endured the fallout of a power struggle reaching far beyond mankind's mistakes to a battle as old as time. The failure of the nine human-hybrid barons to fulfill a new bluepr...

  • Havana Nights

    Amanda Bader

    Katey Miller is not happy about having to move from St. Louis to Havana in 1958 until she meets Javier, a young waiter who is also a terrific dancer, who introduces her to ordinary Cubans and teaches her about their culture and dance....

  • Uncle Rudolf

    Paul Bailey

    The haunting novel from Paul Bailey, whose work has been short-listed twice for the Booker Prize.At the age of seventy, Andrew Peters looks back across the years to remember life with his doting Uncle Rudolf, who rescued him from fascist Romania as a...

  • Wreck

    Allan Baillie

    When the fury of the cyclone seems to have passed, Reene & Ian crawl from the safety of their cave to see a rusty freighter on their beach. The abandoned freighter beckons them to climb on to its deck. But it's a trap. Within a short hour they are ca...

  • The Stone of the Stars

    Alison Baird

    Alison Baird, a fresh new voice in the fantastic tradition of Marion Zimmer Bradley, presents the first volume in a wondrous new trilogy of adventure, magic, and mythic beasts... The City of the Dragons Ravaging the once peaceful world of Mera, the e...

  • His Inherited Bride

    Jacqueline Baird

    Her inheritance: One Italian husband! Julia is desperate to find out if her recent inheritance will give her the money she needs to pay for her mother's health care. But she discovers that she must marry gorgeous Italian multimillioinaire Rand...

  • A Season for Love

    Blair Bancroft

    The Duke's Daughter For eight long and frequently bitter years, Lady Caroline Carlington lived in the country far from the ton her late mother so despised. But now she has returned to London to up residence with her father, the Duke of Longville. ...

  • Master of Ecstasy

    Nina Bangs

    BLYTHE SPIRIT Her trip back in time to 1785 Scotland is supposed to be a vacation, so why did Blythe feel that her stay at the MacKenzie castle will be anything but? The gloomy old pile of stones had her imagination working overtime, making helpful ...

  • A Cry from the Dark

    Robert Barnard

    Bettina Whitelaw has come a long way from her childhood in the little outback town of Bundaroo, Australia. Many years have passed, a lifetime really, but she's never forgotten what happened there on the evening that changed her life forever. How c...

  • High Country

    Nevada Barr

    National park ranger Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a waitress at Yosemite National Park to investigate the disappearance of four young employees. What waits for Anna in the snowy wilderness of the Sierra Nevadas is a nightmare of death and greed--an...

  • The Yellow Silk

    Don Bassingthwaite
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    He told stories. He told even more lies. He told people what they wanted to hear. He told himself he wasn't doing anything wrong. He told the mysterious stranger from Shou Lung that he'd help him. He told the most dangerous man in Altu...

  • Finding Audrey

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
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    Raised in the foster care system, Audrey MacMurray embarks on a journey to find her Scottish roots. Her explorations lead her to the brave and romantic lives of women in her family who lived in Kennerith Castle during the mid 1300s, mid 1700s, and ea...

  • Dead Canaries Don't Sing

    Cynthia Baxter

    JESSICA POPPER ISN'T YOUR USUAL AMATEUR DETECTIVE. As a veterinarian, she's more experienced with paw prints than fingerprints. But thanks to her dogged persistence and her knack for landing on her feet, Jessie's got murder on a very short leash. ...

  • Death of a Poison Pen

    M.C. Beaton

    MURDEROUS MISSIVES A sudden plague of maliciousness strikes the beautiful Highland town of Lochdubh in the form of a rash of poison pen letters. Things turn deadly when the local postmistress is found hanged in her room...with a vicious note benea...

  • Pride and Prescience: or, A Truth Universally Acknowledged

    Carrie Bebris

    Mr. & Mrs. Darcy, the joyous newlyweds from Pride and Prejudice, have not even left for their honeymoon when they find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving one of their wedding guests. The lovely Caroline Bingley is engaged to marry a rich and...

  • Bridge Is Up!

    Babs Bell

    When the bridge goes up, all the vehicles, including the car, bike, and tractor, and their animal passengers have to wait in a long line until it comes back down and they can all get moving on their merry way once again....

  • Breach of Promise

    James Scott Bell

    When Maddie is born, self-obsessed actor Mark Gillen becomes a changed man. Caring for their daughter while his wife takes a major film job, he's crushed by news of Paula's infidelity. Now she's demanding a divorce---and custody of Maddie! Will Mark'...

  • Moses: The Long Road to Freedom

    Ann Keay Beneduce

    This beautiful, elegant retelling of the story of Moses includes brillant illustrations by the award-winning illustrator Gennady Spirin and moving prose by acclaimed author Ann Beneduce.

    When Moses encounters the voice of God, he learns that o...

  • Relative Danger

    Charles Benoit

    "Smashingly good, action-packed." -- Publishers Weekly STARRED review"Every element of this rollicking adventure shines." -- Booklist STARRED reviewIn Pottsville, Pennsylvania, young Doug Pearce, just fired from his steady job in the brewery, has nev...

  • Son of Avonar

    Carol Berg

    Sorcerers are the stuff of legends, used as bogeymen to frighten children. Any magic has long been scoured from the Four Realms, and to be accused of associating with a suspected sorcerer means death--or worse.... Seri is a Leiran noblewoman livin...

  • Hate Crime

    William Bernhardt

    Johnny Christensen has earned national notoriety as a sadistic bigot who beat and stabbed a gay man and left him to die. When Johnny's mother begs Tulsa attorney Ben Kincaid to defend her son, Ben has one secret reason for saying no. But his partner,...

  • The Trouble with Heroes: A Novella

    Jo Beverley
    in

    Hearts collide and desire consumes in worlds and ages far from our own.... Six of today's most popular authors join talents in this unique anthology that shows love can conquer all...even the boundaries of time and space. These stories -- many...

  • Love Online

    Kristin Billerbeck; Nancy Toback

    Tom has loved Jessica since high school. And sixteen years later he still does. But Jess sees Tom as her best friend - a chum. Tom is certain she'll never view him as anything else, and he's too afraid of possibly ruining their friendship to tell her...

  • Daughters of Eden

    Charlotte Bingham

    Focuses on the lives and fortunes of four young women at the outbreak of the Second World War. Marjorie, left at a boarding school by her emigrating mother; plain Poppy, pushed into marriage with a mean-spirited aristocrat; Kate, despised by her fath...

  • The World According To Humphrey

    Betty G. Birney

    Welcome to Room 26, Humphrey! You can learn a lot about life by observing another species. That?s what Humphrey was told when he was first brought to Room 26. And boy, is it true! In addition to his classroom escapades, each weekend this amazing ham...

  • Under the Skin

    James Carlos Blake

    James Rudolph Youngblood, aka Jimmy the Kid, is an enforcer, a "ghost rider" for the Maceo brothers, Rosario and Sam, rulers of "the Free State of Galveston," who are prospering through illicit pleasures in the midst of the Great Depression. Raised o...

  • Handsome Harry

    James Carlos Blake

    They were die-hard and deadly partners who made national headlines with their daring bank holdups and gun battles -- and they had a lot of laughs while they were at it. They were known as the Dillinger Gang, but at its heart was "Handsome Harry" Pier...

  • Shades of Black

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    A dazzling collection of crime and mystery stories by Black authors.Bringing together today's brightest talent from the field -- from Walter Mosley, “one of America's best mystery writers†(The New York Times), to the late Hugh Holton, whose “g...

  • The Long Ride Home

    Andrea Boeshaar

    Kevin Wincouser spent the last decade trying to escape the pain of his parents' death. He's thrown himself into the rodeo curcuit with great success. Now, though, having suffered a head injury, he realizes he may never be able to ride again. As Ke...

  • Sunlight and Shadow

    Sue Boggio; Mare Pearl

    Life has never been better for Abby and Roberto Silva. Abby's restaurant is one of the most popular in San Diego. Their relationship is stronger than ever--especially now that they have a baby on the way. And though Roberto's father never forgave him...

  • An Improper Proposal

    Cheryl Bolen

    A Most Particular Man Two years have passed since George Pembroke, Lord Sedgewick, lost his beloved wife. Though the fashionable beauties and heiresses of the ton have done their utmost to mend his broken heart, he has not remarried. Simply put, no ...

  • Intensive Scare Unit

    J.S. Borthwick

    Crotchety, seventy-something Julia Clancy of High Hope Farm feels a little wobbly one August morning. With stables to clean and riding lessons to give, the stoic New Englander ignores her symptoms-and ends up in the ER with a heart attack. Even then,...

  • The Spy

    Celeste Bradley

    RULE # 3: NEVER SURRENDER YOUR WILL. By day, he is a gentleman with a notorious fondness for games of seduction. By night, he is one of the most skilled saboteurs in the Liar's Club--a secret group of renegades dedicated to serving the Crown. And wh...

  • The Golden Cat

    Max Brand

    John Jones has never courted trouble. But his partner Rourke seems to draw it in spades -- like when he agrees to escort a group of tenderfoots to a remote hacienda in the Sierra Negra. First they have to get an ornery old invalid, his beautiful daug...

  • The Devil Gets His Due

    Peter Brandvold

    Bounty hunter Lou Prophet is caught in a deadly game of revenge when he joins forces with Louisa Bonaventure, "The Queen of Vengeance," to find ruthless outlaw Handsome Dave Duvall, the man who had murdered her family in cold blood. Original....

  • Snowman Snowdown

    Joy Brewster

    The trail leads back to you, Scooby-Doo! It's snow time for Scooby-Doo and the gang! They came to the Telemark Ski Lodge to catch some snowboarding - not a snow creature! And this creature of ice isn't so nice. Can the kids solve the mystery before t...

  • Saving Masterson

    Bill Brooks

    A Bad Place to Die When Wyatt Earp and his brothers left Dodge City, they left the job of keeping the peace to young Bat Masterson. But a lawman's badge is little more than a target in this rough, wide-open frontier town where, for every citizen wh...

  • The Weeping Chamber

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Simeon's life is falling apart, and he fears he may never see his wife and daughter again. As he arrives in Jerusalem for Passover, he is looking for a miracle. In this repackaged edition, best-selling author Sigmund Brouwer retells the passion of Ch...

  • Love Is Blind

    Parry Brown
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  • Color Me Gone

    Steve Brown

    To investigate the mysterious disappearances of four blond strippers, all of whom worked at the same establishment, lifeguard and runaway finder Susan Chase decides to take a job at the Open Blouse in order to uncover the truth. Original....

  • Hidden Roots

    Joseph Bruchac

    Acclaimed author Joseph Bruchac makes his Scholastic Press debut with a powerful story of family and identity.

    11-yr-old Sonny lives with his mother and father up near the Canadian border. Theirs isn’t a peaceful household, given his father ...

  • Sweet Suspicion

    Nina Bruhns

    HE HAD TO STOP KISSING HER Muse Summerville was the only living witness whose testimony could put a notorious crime boss behind bars. Remi Beaulieux was the FBI special agent assigned to her safety. The FBI had rules about that sort of thing. But i...

  • A Blood Red Rose

    Jerry Buck

    Movie idol Jock Newhall was murdered forty years ago and the unsolved murder has bubbled in a cauldron to become a legend. Producer Clark Kester asks screenwriter Pete Castle, a creator of detective series and movies, to find the killer, and to write...

  • Winterfair Gifts

    Lois McMaster Bujold
    in

    Hearts collide and desire consumes in worlds and ages far from our own.... Six of today's most popular authors join talents in this unique anthology that shows love can conquer all...even the boundaries of time and space. These stories -- many...

  • Cold Case

    Robin Burcell

    The colder it gets . . . the hotter it gets. Three years ago SFPD Homicide Investigator Kate Gillespie was in pursuit of a suspect who murdered a hooker in a sleazy motel, and she nearly lost her own life in the process. The shooter escaped into t...

  • Cosmopolitan Girls

    Charlotte Burley; Lyah Beth LeFlore

    What happens when two small-town girls’ lives collide in the Big Apple? Meet Lindsay and Charlie. Two smart and fabulous African American single girls who work hard and play hard, only to find their careers and love lives taking tragicomic turns. ...

  • The Lightkeeper's Woman

    Mary Burton

    Their grand passion had burned too brightly to survive. But faced with wedding another, Alanna Patterson was determined to reignite any smoldering embers of desire Caleb Pitt might still harbor for her. Would her brawny captain, now a solitary lighth...

  • The Cloud Atlas

    Liam Callanan

    Set against the magnificent backdrop of Alaska in the waning days of World War II, The Cloud Atlas is an enthralling debut novel, a story of adventure and awakening -- and of a young soldier who came to Alaska on an extraordinary, top-secret missionâ...

  • Betrayed!

    Patricia Calvert

    Some men aren't meant for safe pastures.Home cooking, a warm bed, family -- all these things Tyler's father, Black Jack Bohannon, gave up for an unknown destiny. Now, at fourteen, Tyler is following in his father's footsteps. He's leaving his comfort...

  • A Deal With the Devil

    Liz Carlyle

    The acclaimed author of The Devil You Know pens a shimmering novel about a Scottish noblewoman on the run from her past and a powerful English lord brought to his knees by desire. Aubrey Montford claims to be a widowed housekeeper. Desperate to k...

  • The Elf of Union Square

    Jan Carr

    Disgusted with the cleanliness and kindness of the new-and-improved Union Square Park, Hiram the Elf decides to use his mischief to get the folks fighting again in order to bring it back to the good old dirty days filled with chaos....

  • After Glow

    Jayne Castle

    Dear Reader: Welcome back to my other world--the rules are a little different here. Life is complicated for Lydia Smith. She's working at that tacky, third-rate museum, Shrimpton's House of Ancient Horrors, trying to salvage her career in para-...

  • Yesterday's Promise

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    He fought to seek his fortune. Would he lose a greater treasure: the love he left behind? As the son of the squire of Grimston Way, aristocrat Rogan Chantry has fought hard to win his independence from Sir Julien Bley and the British South Africa ...

  • Her Mother's Shadow

    Diane Chamberlain

    ANNIE A loving mother and wife, Annie O'Neill was the heart of the small community of Kiss River. But her generous nature hid a darker side that remained secret for years after her tragic death. LACEY When Lacey O'Neill finally learns the shatte...

  • Easy Come, Easy Go

    David Champion

    Slick, handsome Fred "Easy" Noggle had financially backstabbed everybody in town. So when somebody finally killed him, no one cried foul. Except his wife, Dr. Melissa McHagarty, now arrested for the crime. She had every reason to kill her husband ...

  • The Collected Short Fiction of C.J. Cherryh

    C.J. Cherryh

    All of C.J. Cherryh's award-winning short fiction, collected in one volume for the first time...“It’s rare that I’m not working on a novel. Short stories often happen between novels. Consequently my output is fairly small. But I love the tale-t...

  • Jimmy Strikes Out!

    Kelli Chipponeri

  • The Epicure's Lament

    Kate Christensen

    Hugo Whittierâ€"failed poet and former kept manâ€"is a wily misanthrope with a taste for whiskey, women, and his own cooking. Afflicted with a rare disease that will be fatal unless he quits smoking, Hugo retreats to his once aristocratic familyâ...

  • Nemesis

    Scott Ciencin; Denise Ciencin

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends. Weakest link When an old friend from graduate school contacts Fred for help with her job at a top scientific facility, Fred feels a mixture of dread about renewing ties to her past and wistfuln...

  • Frozen Rodeo // Better Latte Than Never

    Catherine Clark

    Peggy Fleming Farrell is about to have the best summer ever. Only, it doesn't look that way at first: There's her job as coffee wench at the Gas 'n Git, her summer school French class, and her unrequited love for a certain waiter. Not to mention ...

  • Drum Into Silence

    Jo Clayton; Kevin Andrew Murphy


    The Drums of Chaos thunder to a shattering crescendo. . . .

    The two worlds of Glandair and Iomard move magically together once every generation, allowing those with special powers to Walk between the worlds. This is a dangerous time when t...

  • Turquoise Boy

    Terri Cohlene

  • Polished Off

    Barbara Colley

    There's a bad case of spring-cleaning fever going around New Orleans's historic Garden District, and it's keeping Charlotte LaRue--proprietor of Maid-for-a-Day--plenty busy. Especially when what's supposed to be a simple housecleaning job ends in a g...

  • Unearthed Arcana

    Andy Collins

    A new guide to variant rules for the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. This all-new sourcebook provides D&D players and Dungeon Masters with a wide choice of variant rules for alternate roleplaying in a D&D campaign. Designed to expand the options...

  • Speechless

    Yvonne Collins; Sandy Rideout

    What happens when a political wordsmith finds herself at a loss for words? Libby McIssac is known for two things: catching bridal bouquets (her record's an even dozen) and having a way with words. Since the former isn't really something that looks g...

  • Temptation

    Suzan Colon

    Sixteen-year-old Clark Kent struggles with his desire to rely on dangerous red meteorites that give him self-confidence, becomes jealous of a rival for Lana, and confronts an entity that kills people by stealing their breath....

  • Bride and Groom

    Susan Conant

    New England's #1 dog trainer Holly Winter is set to marry veterinarian Steve Delaney (a Best of Breed himself). But the wedding plans have been spoiled by murder. And Holly's taking it personally. So far all of the victims have been female dog lovers...

  • The Reluctant Husband

    Madeleine Conway

    WILL A SHAM MARRIAGE... Young Cecilia Marchmont is appalled at her father's announcement that he's gambled away her hand in marriage to the son of a wealthy friend. Nonetheless, she agrees to the union -- with the caveat that upon her groom&...

  • An Eye for an Eye

    Kent Conwell

    For twelve years, four months, and six days, Jed Walker doggedly clung to one goal: kill the five owlhoots who had shot him and murdered his brother.

    Only after he was nursed back to health after a second ambush did he begin to realize that his h...

  • Departures

    Lorna J. Cook

    The VanderZees seem like an average American family. Malcolm, a professor at a small Midwestern college, and Esme, a lapsed artist, are raising four kids in a chaotic but loving home. Yet in Lorna J. Cook's charming and wryly comic first novel, the i...

  • Peril

    Thomas H. Cook

    Sara Labriola is a married woman haunted by the shattering secrets of her past--and terrified of the future. Tired of living in fear--and knowing that if she stays in her marriage she'll be killed--Sara decides to do the only thing she can: she makes...

  • Patience

    Lori Copeland

    In the continuing story of mail-order brides in the successful Brides of the West series, Patience is abducted in a case of mistaken identity. But everything changes when she escapes her kidnapper and stumbles onto a gold mine. Can Patience make her ...

  • Three Wise Old Women

    Elizabeth Corbett

  • Sing Me Home

    Jerri Corgiat

    Two hearts skip a beat in this tender debut from. a warm new voice in contemporary romance.... APPEARING FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY. A CHANCE TO LOVE AGAIN Country music star JonathanNVan Castle has had his ups and downs. Right now, he's back on the ro...

  • Love Steals the Scene

    Carol Costa

    Playwright Linda Lucas is struggling to build a career in New York City. When a Hollywood producer purchases the film rights to one of Linda's plays, she travels to Los Angeles to collaborate on the movie script. There she is teamed up with Scott Ric...

  • The Sherbrooke Twins

    Catherine Coulter

    The Sherbrooke family saga continues with James and Jason Sherbrooke, identical male twins who look exactly like their beautiful Aunt Melissande, and not at all like their father, the earl, which riles him to no end. James, twenty-eight minutes ol...

  • Marrying Mozart

    Stephanie Cowell

    MANNHEIM 1777. The four Weber sisters, daughters of a musical family, share a crowded, artistic life in a ramshackle house. While their father scrapes by as a music copyist and their mother secretly draws up a list of prospective suitors in the kitch...

  • The Bedroom Barter

    Sara Craven

    Penniless and without her passport, Chellie Greer's stuck working in a seedy club with no means of escape -- until Ash Brennan walks in. What's such a powerful, irresistible man doing in a place like this? Ash offers her a way out, but Che...

  • Partners

    David Cray

    Two up-and-coming NYPD detectives hunt the Break-In Killer in this chilling police procedural that takes readers deep into the heart of a major urban crime investigation and into the minds of both hunters and their prey....

  • The Viscount's Bride

    Ann Elizabeth Cree

    Lady Chloe had nowhere to turn...either she followed her guardian's dictates and married a wholly detestable suitor or she settled for the comfortable love of a sensible man. Faced with a bleak future on either front, Chloe settled for Mr. Safe a...

  • Decoy

    Jasmine Cresswell

    A YOUNG WOMANDISCOVERS HER IDENTITY IS BASED ON A LIE. Art gallery owner Melody Beecham was raised in the elite social circles of her English mother, Rosalind, and her American father, Wallis Beecham, a self-made millionaire. But when her mother d...

  • After Human

    Michael Cross

    An Insatiable Hunger He calls himself Io. He is a vampire who refuses to keep his brutal appetite in check. His latest feast was a bloodbath, leaving behind more than twenty mutilated corpses--and a high-profile missing person... Nikka Seven has...

  • Bet Me

    Jennifer Crusie

    Minerva Dobbs knows how to work the odds. Calvin Morrisey always plays to win. But when they face off, neither one is prepared. Because when real life meets true love, all bets are off. . . . Minerva Dobbs knows that happily-ever-after is a...

  • Goofy Foot

    David Daniel

    In Goofy Foot, private investigator Alex Rasmussen, embarking on a rather routine search for a missing teenager, finds himself in cold water that couldn't be hotter, as the simple task balloons into murderous surfers and a heart-stopping search for a...

  • Wild Highland Rose

    Dee Davis

    A ROSE Rose Marjory Macpherson felt rebirth at hand. She'd known fifteen years of winter since her parents' brutal murder at the hands of the rival Cameron clan. But now Ewen -- the enemy son she'd been forced to marry -- was dead, kille...

  • Putting Boys on the Ledge

    Stephie Davis

    You like a boy, but he blows you off. You're bummed out. Guess what? You're on The Ledge. It's a rotten place to be, which is why boys belong out there, not girls! Keep boys out on The Ledge and they'll never be able to hurt you. Why would Blue Walle...

  • The King Cousins

    Barbara Davoll

    Book one of a series based on stories by L. M. Montgomery, the author of Anne of Green Gables---for ages 10-12 Sara Stanley, whose mother has died and whose father is working as an artist in Europe, is called 'The Story Girl' because she loves to spi...

  • Measles, Mischief, and Mishaps

    Barbara Davoll

    Book two of stories featuring the adventures of Sara Stanley---for ages 10-12 The King cousins get into a pack of trouble. First they convince a neighbor girl to defy her mother and go to the Magic Lantern show with them. Then one of them is supposed...

  • Summer Shenanigans

    Barbara Davoll

    More summer fun with the King cousins on Prince Edward Island---for ages 10-12 In book three, the King cousins rollick through their fast-flying summer on the farm, creating fun and mischief as they go. They hear a ghost ringing a bell, they eat sawd...

  • Dreams, Schemes, and Mysteries

    Barbara Davoll

    The final book in the series based on stories from one of the world's favorite authors---L. M. Montgomery---for ages 10-12 The four cousins decide to have a preaching contest using the old Pulpit Stone in the orchard. As the sermons are discussed and...

  • Assignment: Marriage

    Jodi Dawson

    To love, honor...and protect her! With her family business to run, Kat Bennet doesn't have time for love -- until a sexy stranger comes into her life! Kat quickly discovers that Daniel West has a hidden reason for being in town, and she's roped in...

  • Lucky

    Eddie De Oliveira

    A clever debut about love, sex, and everything in between, for anyone who's ever fallen for a friend (come on, admit it)

    Sam is a teen boy who's attracted to both boys and girls. He doesn't know what to call himself or where he fits in. Then h...

  • Ask Me Anything

    Francesca Delbanco

    Twenty-six-year-old Rosalie Preston works as an advice columnist for GirlTalk magazine, but in her off-hours she pursues her true passion: the stage. Her fledgling theater troupe, the First Born Company, is a tight pack of friends that is starting to...

  • The Fabulous Emily Briggs

    Jacqueline deMontravel

    The heroine of the comic strip Emily Briggs draws for Vogue and has sex and the city at her well-manicured fingertips. If only Emily could say the same. Her overbearing socialite mum scrutinizes Emily's life as closely as she does her Botoxed face. H...

  • The Witch's Grave

    Phillip Depoy

    Folklorist and academic Fever Devilin, a native of the Georgia Appalachians, is drawn into a strange mystery that has its roots deep in the hills of Blue Mountain. After a spat during a church supper, Able Carter and his fiancee, Truevine Deveroe, ar...

  • So 5 Minutes Ago

    Hilary deVries

    Being a celebrity publicist at a Los Angeles PR firm isn’t the glamour job Alex Davidson thought it would be. Her love life is zilch, her newest client -- an actor fresh out of rehab -- keeps hitting on her, and all she has in her refrigerator is a...

  • What Will the Weather Be?

    Lynda DeWitt

  • Medusa

    Michael Dibdin

    After a decomposed body is discovered in an abandoned military tunnel, Inspector Aurelio Zen travels north to the Italian Alps to investigate. At first glance, the death appears to have been an accident. But when Zen takes a closer look, a mysterious...

  • Death of an Old Master

    David Dickinson

    Original or fake, masterpiece or forgery: misadventure or murder? England 1899, and the Salisbury Galleries in London announce the biggest exhibition of “Old Master†paintings ever seen in Europe. Excitement is intense, but before the exhibition...

  • Battle for Atlantis

    Greg Donegan

    The Shadow has invaded before. Ten thousand years ago, they destroyed Atlantis and left the world's most technologically advanced civilization in ruins. They have attempted to overthrow the world in the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea, and Cambo...

  • Buddha Da

    Anne Donovan

    No one is too concerned when Jimmy starts making trips to the Buddhist Meditation Center and talking about spirituality, but when his spiritual journey begins to unravel his family life, drastic action may be necessary. Reprint....

  • His Brother's Castoff

    Lena Nelson Dooley

    Anna Jensen's love isn't enough. After all, with one former beau married and another dead, Anna knows there must be something wrong with her. August Nilsson is consumed with envy for his older brother. Gustaf has everything August has ever wanted ...

  • Cadillac Beach

    Tim Dorsey

    SERGE IS BACK And busting out of Chattahoochee State Hospital...without his meds! The thrill-killing Floridaphile needs to get to the bottom of his bookie grandad's bizarre 1964 death--not to mention launch "Serge & Lenny's Florida Experience," th...

  • Gods' Concubine

    Sara Douglass

    From ancient Greece came the remnants of the glorious Trojans. Led by Brutus, Kingman, these have come to Albion to begin anew. A vision of beauty called them to create a new Troy, and when they landed on the shores of the land that became Britain, t...

  • Not-So-Awesome Blossom

    Laura Dower

    "The Powerpuff Girls" is Cartoon Network's highest-rated show among kids 2-11. It's a mega-hit! And so are Scholastic's books, which have been bestsellers for over three years.

    Blossom is having a really, really bad day. It seems like the lead...

  • Ned Kelly

    Robert Drewe

    An action-packed historical novel about the legendary Australian gunfighter Ned Kelly follows the notorious outlaw and his gang of "bushrangers" on their violent rampage through the wilderness of Australia. Original. (A Universal Pictures and Working...

  • Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You

    Laurie Lynn Drummond

    This riveting debut collection of short fiction about women cops comes from the author's realâ€"life experience as a Baton Rouge police officer. In an entirely fresh and unique voice, these stories reveal the humanity, compassion, humour, tragedy and...

  • The Virgin's Makeover

    Judy Duarte

    MIXING BUSINESS WITH PLEASURE The moment Sullivan Grayson stepped in to help save her family's fledgling vineyard, Lissa Cartwright's life went from ordinary to extraordinary. The sexy entrepreneur made her pulse race, but the plain-Jane businessw...

  • Savage Trust

    Cassie Edwards

    A SLOW TRAIN COMING In 1867 the iron horse came thundering into the Wyoming Territory, bringing settlers to the new town of Cheyenne and forever changing the lives of the Broken Waters Clan. In the eyes of Chief Cloud Walker, the Union Pacific wou...

  • Ribbit Riddles

    Lisa Eisenberg

  • Good Blood

    Aaron Elkins

    Soaking up the sun on their friend's idyllic island in Lake Maggiore, Gideon and his wife soon learn that the breathtaking view and sumptuous food come at a price. The padrone's only child has been kidnapped. And when nearby construction workers unea...

  • Evangeline Mudd and the Golden-Haired Apes of the Ikkinasti Jungle

    David Elliott

    Hold on to the chandeliers! An eccentric couple’s passion for primates leads their dauntless daughter on a wild adventure in this offbeat illustrated novel.

    Learning to swing from the rafters, eating peanut-butter sandwiches with her feet . ...

  • The Duet

    Robert Elmer

    Four Hands. Two Hearts. One Song.

    When widower Gerrit Appeldoorn takes his granddaughter to piano lessons one day, he finds himself drawn to her music teacher: a woman unlike any he has known. It’s an unlikely attraction. He’s a retired d...

  • Tarnished Linings

    P.N. Elrod
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    SUSAN SIZEMORE * P. N. ELROD JODY LYNN NYE * INDIA EDGHILL LAURA RESNICK * ELIZABETH GILLIGAN MICHELLE WEST * BRADLEY H. SINOR JOSEPHA SHERMAN * BILL McCAY KRISTINE KATHRYN RUSCH * MEL ODOM GARY A. BRAUNBECK * VON JOCKS ROSEMARY EDGHILL Eve...

  • Ruby in Her Own Time

    Jonathan Emmett

    Meet Ruby -- a little duckling who reaches big milestones in the heartwarming picture book gem.


    Mother Duck and Father Duck are worried about Ruby. As the littlest duckling of the family, she learns to eat and swim long after her four sist...

  • England's Perfect Hero

    Suzanne Enoch

    Lucinda is the last of three friends who agreed to turn the tables on London's most incorrigible rakes. But love is the farthest thing from her mind. A HERO IN DISGUISE With her two best friends happily married, Lucinda Barrett realizes she can n...

  • Up in Flames

    Geraldine Evans

    When Chandra Bansi and her baby are burnt to death, the police are anxious to get their race relations right. DCI Casey and his less than politically correct sergeant rapidly come under pressure from their superintendent to put a couple of skinhead t...

  • Longarm and the Grand Canyon Gang

    Tabor Evans

    This time Longarm’s really in deep…They’ve kept the Santa Fe Railroad off track with three holdups. They’ve sent the marshal of Flagstaff, Arizona, to a higher justice with a well-placed bullet. They’ve pulled the wool over the eyes of the...

  • Red Feather Filly

    Terri Farley

    Already beloved by horse lovers all over the world, the tales of the Phantom Stallion are as captivating and thrilling as the Wild West itself.

    This wildly popular series continues with more adventures of Samantha and her mysterious mustang...

  • Big Bugs!

    Keith Faulkner

    Lift the flaps to see five big bugs pop up and teach fun bug facts!

    BUG OUT with this fabulous oversized, pop-up, lift-the-flap book!
    Bright, colorful illustrations of children and insects accompany a rhyming guessing game on every spread. ...

  • Lights Out

    L.T. Fawkes

    BLUE-COLLARING A KILLER You may not think it, but life moves fast in northeastern Ohio. Just six months ago, I was down-and-out--stewing in jail and getting dumped by my pit bull of a wife. Now I'm back on my feet, renovating a bar, delivering piz...

  • The Bachelor List

    Jane Feather

    In this exhilarating new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather, a trio of spirited sisters secretly run a thriving matchmaking service. But these three good catches of impeccable pedigree have little interest in matrimony themse...

  • Dangerous Games

    Marie Ferrarella

    MURDER AT PLAY Bad girl turned detective Lorrayne Cavanaugh smelled a cover-up on the police force and began some secret sleuthing into a murder investigation. Her friend was accused of killing a young woman, and Lorrayne believed in his innocence...

  • The Well of Lost Plots

    Jasper Fforde

    Protecting the world's greatest literature--not to mention keeping up wit Miss Havisham--is tiring work for an expectant mother. And Thursday can definitely use a respite. So what better hideaway than inside the unread and unreadable Caversham Heigh...

  • The Tycoon's Virgin Bride

    Sandra Field

    She was a virgin then... One night, seventeen-year-old Jenessa's secret infatuation with millionaire tycoon Bryce Laribee turned to passion...but he discovered she was a virgin, and walked out the door! And she's still a virgin now! ...

  • I, Jack

    Patricia Finney

    Hi! Hi there!I am Jack! Big dog Jack. WAG TAIL. I live with a big Pack. This is my Packleader. I love him HUGE amounts! More than steak, even. YUMYUM. My Packleader has a Pack Lady and three children. I love them BIG amounts, too. And this is Petr...

  • Smile, Lily!

    Candace Fleming

    Lily won't stop crying. Waa! Waa! Waa! Lily won't stop crying. Oh, who knows what to do? Mother? Father? Grandma? Who? Who? Who?...

  • Hippity Skippity Easter

    Maria Fleming

    This rhyming 8 x 8 holiday story, illustrated with adorable artwork, features Bunny and a host of charming animal friends.

    Hippity, hop. Hippity, hop.
    Easter's here, no time to stop.
    Hippity, skippity, down the road
    with eggs for Chip...

  • Legendary Warrior

    Donna Fletcher

    A Legendary Love Is Born Reena Cullen grew up listening to tales of the one they call the "Legend" -- a merciless warrior who is both feared and respected. So when her village is devastated by a cruel landlord, she knows in her heart the Legend is ...

  • Hostile Witness

    Rebecca Forster

    When 16-year-old Hannah Sheraton is arrested for the murder of her step-grandfather, a prominent California Supreme Court justice, her distraught mother contacts her old college roommate, Josie Baylor-Bates, to take the case. Once a hotshot criminal ...

  • A Cowboy At Heart

    Roz Denny Fox

    At home with a cowboy Miranda Kimbrough is a woman escaping her celebrity life. Linc Parker is a man with a debt to his past. Because of it, he's bought a ranch as a haven for kids -- throwaway kids, homeless kids, runaways. Miranda, a runaway...

  • Bride of Convenience

    Susan Fox

    A whirlwind wedding! Stacey Amhearst has no choice but to go ahead with her marriage of convenience to ruggedly sexy Oren McClain. But she is secretly in love with him and is determined to make their marriage work. Will she ever be more to McC...

  • The Two-Space War

    Leo Frankowski; Dave Grossman

    WOODEN SHIPS SAIL TO THE STARS -- AND BEYOND! It is six hundred years in the future and mankind has learned to move between the stars in Two-Space, the two dimensional realm where sentient wooden ships travel on canvas sails in a universe hostile to...

  • Fatal Distraction: or How I Conquered My Addiction to Celebrities and Got a Life

    Emmi Fredericks

    "My name is Eliza H., and I am a celebraholic."So begins this cautionary tale of how celebraholism can ruin one's life-- or at least one's twenties.Once, Eliza dreamed of walking down the aisle (at the Oscars) and having a meaningful existence (every...

  • Golden Lies

    Barbara Freethy

    EVERY FAMILY HAS SECRETS--SOME TOO INTRIGUING TO RESIST...SOME TOO DANGEROUS TO IGNORE.... From bestselling author Barbara Freethy comes a novel about three remarkable families--the fifty-year-old promise that once bound them together, the fiery b...

  • Colman

    Monica Furlong

    Set in very early Christian times, Colman is a spellbinding fantasy of a faraway age, when the mystical and the commonplace walked hand in hand. The healer, Juniper, and her apprentice, Wise Child, are accused of witchcraft and forced to flee their s...

  • Third Time's The Charm

    Kristin Gabriel

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

  • Down From The Mountain

    Barbara Gale

    The surprise of his life awaited David Hartwell at the top of the Montana mountain: besides a sprawling mansion, he'd also inherited his late father's ward. Beautiful, enticing Ellen Candler didn't flee at the sight of his scarred face. Because she c...

  • Inamorata

    Joseph Gangemi

    “Truly wicked . . . an historical thriller on a par with The Alienist.†-- Steven Katz, screenwriter of Shadow of the Vampire   It is the 1920s, and Spiritualism is all the rage. With séances taking place in parlors across the country and ...

  • The One Who Holds My Heart

    Tracee Lydia Garner

    Can a Broken Dream... Chyna Lockhart thought she was finally going to get the man of her dreams. After a miserable marriage to a U.S. senator, she falls into the arms of Dean Emory Jameson, a handsome optometrist and the man she's been in love with ...

  • A Love Affair for Lizzie

    Mona Gedney

    A Lady Scorned... When Lizzie Lancaster receives a letter from the man she's loved since childhood breaking off their understanding, she's heartsick. But when the dashing rogue goes on to reveal that he has fallen for a woman who is elegant ...

  • Breathless For The Bachelor

    Cindy Gerard

    ONE KISS WAS NEVER ENOUGH... With her creamy skin, sultry eyes and luscious mouth, Carrie Whelan was ripe for the plucking, and Ry Evans was starving for a taste of her! Still, he wasn't about to ravish his best friend's virginal baby sister, no m...

  • Daisy's Back in Town

    Rachel Gibson

    He loves me not Daisy Lee Monroe thought she'd brushed the dust of Lovett, Texas, off her high-heeled shoes years ago, but she's come back home only to find that little has changed. Her sister is still crazy, and her mom still has pink plastic flami...

  • Destiny's Twins

    H.B. Gilmour; Randi Reisfeld

    RELOADED AND READY It's the moment they've been waiting for. Cam and Alex are about to be initiated as full-fledged witches. But first the twins must complete a series of challenges that tests their magick. And they've got an extra-credit exam: Some...

  • The Pistol Poets

    Victor Gischler

    The Edgar-nominated author of Gun Monkeys is back with a thrill-a-minute suspense novel that mixes crime and academia--with hilarious results. Here Victor Gischler draws us into a wild and wicked world, where tenured professors are busy burying bodie...

  • Bad Boy

    Michael Gliksman

    Loosely based on a true story, this is an inspiring and unflinching account of a brave boy's struggle to recover from abuse. Josh is sexually abused in an institution where he goes after his grandmother falsely accuses his father of abusing him. Told...

  • The Death Merchant

    Lee Goldberg

    Dr. Mark Sloan and his son, Steve, are getting some sun and surf on the Hawaiian island of Kauai. But their vacation is interrupted when a local restaurant owner falls victim to a shark attack. Rather than return home, father and son elect to hang ar...

  • Home on the Range

    Golden Books

    Join a trio of sweet dairy cows as they set out to save their farm by tracking down a yodeling cattle rustler. Disney’s newest animated film, Home on the Range, is sure to be a hit with every young cowboy and cowgirl!...

  • A Hero of a Horse

    Golden Books

    What happens when a trio of determined dairy cows set out to save their farm by bringing in the most notorious cattle rustler in the West? Readers will love finding out in this rollicking Step into Reading, inspired by Disney’s rip-roaring musical ...

  • The Lost Army

    Christopher Golden

    The hero: Forty years after being rescued from Axis powers at the end of World War II, he's a top field agent for the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Development. He questions the unknown, then beats it into submission. And he's a blood-red, cloven...

  • The Boys Are Back in Town

    Christopher Golden

    From a master of horror, dark fantasy, and suspense comes a compelling and uniquely original work of paranormal suspense in which one man finds himself trapped in a web of ever-shifting reality which threatens to remake the whole of the world -- unle...

  • Cold Truth

    Joel Goldman

    DEAD AIR Syndicated radio psychiatrist Dr. Gina Davenport's sole concern is the well-being of her listeners...until a shove through her office window brings her career and her life to a shockingly brutal end. Before the Kansas City police have ...

  • Mask of Night

    Philip Gooden

    'Another clever criminal plunge into history' GuardianElizabeth I approaches the end of her illustrious reign, the plague is raging in London, and the Privy Council has ordered the theaters closed. Still, author Philip Gooden's fifth novel in the pop...

  • Saved By The Baby

    Linda Goodnight

    She'd fled the small town for the big city, but now Julianna Reynolds has returned to Oklahoma -- and the boy she'd left behind. Only, wild Tate McIntyre had become a cool, competent sheriff...who could still make her heart race with a glance from hi...

  • Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    The Cuban Missile Crisis has America living in fear, but life must go on for the citizens of Black River Falls, Iowa -- except, sadly, for beautiful Karen Hastings, found strangled in the bomb shelter of gubernatorial candidate Ross Murdoch. Murdo...

  • Judge Anderson: Hour of the Wolf

    Alan Grant

    In Mega-City One, some cases and some criminals are too bizarre for even the feared Judges (including Dredd) to crack. That's when they call for Psi Division, the elite psychic department of the Judiciary - and Psi's top judge, Cassandra Anderson! In...

  • Emerald Magic: Great Tales of Irish Fantasy

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Mythology and magic come alive in this collection of Irish fantasy stories by some of today's finest authors.Ireland is a nation that holds fast to its history and heritage, and nowhere is that more true than in its folktales and legends. From the gr...

  • The First 48

    Tim Green

    A FALLEN HERO. HIS MISSING DAUGHTER. 48 HOURS TO SAVE HER LIFE -- AND THE CLOCK IS TICKING... A former prosecutor on the rise, Tom Redmon is today a low-rent attorney mired in unwinnable cases and an alcoholic haze. No one believes in him except h...

  • Double Deception

    Maria Greene

    TWO MYSTERIOUS SUITORS... Lenore Andrews knows it is foolhardy enough to be in love with one stranger...let alone developing a tendre for a second. Ever since she left her diary in a tearoom and reclaimed it to find an anonymous message within, she ...

  • The Confessions of Max Tivoli

    Andrew Sean Greer

    "We are each the love of someone's life." So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. Born with the physical appearance of an elderly man, Max grows older mentally like any child, but his body a...

  • Top Hand

    Zane Grey

    All of the magic of the Southwest's open range can be found in this Zane Grey novel of a young man achieving his life-long ambition of becoming a top ranch hand. But his nomadic life has taken Panhandle Smith far from home. When he finally returns fo...

  • English Tea and Bagpipes

    Pamela Griffin
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    Raised in the foster care system, Audrey MacMurray embarks on a journey to find her Scottish roots. Her explorations lead her to the brave and romantic lives of women in her family who lived in Kennerith Castle during the mid 1300s, mid 1700s, and ea...

  • What is Goodbye?

    Nikki Grimes

    Jerilyn and Jesse have lost their beloved older brother. But each of them deals with Jaron's death differently. Jerilyn tries to keep it in and hold it together; Jesse acts out. But after a year of anger, pain, and guilt, they come to understand that...

  • The Last Juror

    John Grisham

    In 1970, Willie Traynor came to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old found himself the owner of Ford County's only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While ...

  • Simpsons Comics Belly Buster

    Matt Groening

    There will be standing room only for Matt Groening''s newest Simpsons Comics collection of comedy classics.

    This big, bulky, boffo book will have you bemused, boggled, and beside yourself with belly laughs. Join ''Our Favourite Family'' ...

  • Emily Makes a Difference: A Time of Progress and Problems

    JoAnn A. Grote

    Time Period:  1893  It's 1893, and technology is making Emily Allerton's world a better place. This fictional twelve year old can hardly believe the inventions displayed at the Chicago World's Fair-unusual things like "automobiles." But soo...

  • Anna's Fight for Hope: The Great Depression

    JoAnn A. Grote

    Time Period:  1931  Twenty-five percent unemployment, food lines, banks and businesses closing. . . The Great Depression was not only a national catastrophe, but a personal one, as well. Follow the fictional story of Anna Harrington to see ...

  • Babe Ruth and the Ice Cream Mess

    Dan Gutman

    Learn all about the childhood of America's most famous baseball player in this nonfiction Level 2 Ready-to-Read!CRASH! Young George (Babe) Ruth sends his friends' baseball right through a kitchen window. George runs in fear all the way to his father'...

  • Say What?

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    Sukie is worried -- her parents are acting strange. When she runs in the house, her dad asks, "If all your friends jumped off a bridge, would you jump off a bridge too?" When she eats peas with her fingers, Mom yells, "You'll put an eye out with that...

  • Love On Call

    Shirley Hailstock

    It wasn't a love bug Dr. Mallory Russell was looking to cure when she stepped into the Philadelphia General E.R. that day. But that's exactly what she was bitten by when the notoriously gifted-but-cold pediatric surgeon Bradley Clayton suddenly start...

  • If Only You Knew

    Alex Hairston

  • Ramshackle Rose

    Cathy Marie Hake

    Neighbors call her "Ramshackle Rose." But they've grown to accept her and learned to love her for the kindness of her generous heart. Rose, in turn, loves the folks of Buttonhole, Virginia. If her friends don't know much about her past, Rose doesn't ...

  • Death in Dark Waters

    Patricia Hall

    The Carib Club is one of Bradfield's most popular night clubs, especially in the local black community-but it's in the heart of a Muslim district. Members of the local mosque are keen to get the club closed down, so when, after a night out clubbing, ...

  • Long George Alley

    Richard Hall

    Natchez, Mississippi, 1965: Racial tension is running high, the Ku Klux Klan holds a community captive, and many local blacks -- impoverished and apathetic -- are resigned to a fate decided by Jim Crow. A novel based in part on the author's own exper...

  • Seduced by Moonlight

    Laurell K. Hamilton

    "I am Meredith Gentry, P.I., and Princess Merry, heir to the throne of Fairie. Now there are those among my guards who whisper I am more." Meredith's aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, is no longer distracted by her usual sadistic hobbies. Her o...

  • Pandora's Star

    Peter F. Hamilton

    The year is 2380. The Intersolar Commonwealth, a sphere of stars, contains more than six hundred worlds interconnected by a web of transport "tunnels" known as wormholes. At the farthest edge of the Commonwealth, astronomer Dudley Bose observes the i...

  • A Little Fishy

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

    Rikochet, Buena Girl, and the Flea want to become the best Masked Wrestlers ever! If they study hard and live by the Code of Masked Wrestling -- Honor, Family, Tradition, Donuts! -- their dreams of success in the ring just might come true.

    A...

  • Doggone It

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

    Rikochet, Buena Girl, and the Flea want to become the best Masked Wrestlers ever! If they study hard and live by the Code of Masked Wrestling -- Honor, Family, Tradition, Donuts! -- their dreams of success in the ring just might come true.

    R...

  • House of Reeds

    Thomas Harlan

    Xenoarcheologist Gretchen Anderssen had hoped to enjoy a well-earned vacation. She hadn't seen her home-world or her children for many months. But the Company has other plans for her--when she checks in for her transport, she finds new orders for her...

  • Ferren & The Invasion of Heaven

    Richard Harland

  • Ferren & The Angel

    Richard Harland

    An angel falls from the sky and crashes to the ground!Miriael, the Fourteenth Angel of Observance, has been shot down in the thousand-year war between Heaven and Earth. Damaged and helpless, she prays for extinction.The young tribesman Ferren finds h...