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New Books List: 656 titles

  • X-Force: Famous, Mutant & Mortal

    Peter Milligan

    Long persecuted for their genetic differences, the members of the all-new, all-different X-Force are cashing in on their special gifts--and living Professor Charles Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence between man and mutant--but the world is unawa...

  • Thirty-Six Valentines

    Julia Quinn
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    Lady Whistledown Tells All! Society is abuzz when the Season's most promising debutante is jilted by her intended only to be swept away by the deceitful rogue's dashing older-brother- in New York Times bestseller JULIA QUINN's witty, charming, and...

  • One True Love

    Suzanne Enoch
    in

    Lady Whistledown Tells All! Society is abuzz when the Season's most promising debutante is jilted by her intended only to be swept away by the deceitful rogue's dashing older-brother- in New York Times bestseller JULIA QUINN's witty, charming, and...

  • Two Hearts

    Karen Hawkins
    in

    Lady Whistledown Tells All! Society is abuzz when the Season's most promising debutante is jilted by her intended only to be swept away by the deceitful rogue's dashing older-brother- in New York Times bestseller JULIA QUINN's witty, charming, and...

  • A Dozen Kisses

    Mia Ryan
    in

    Lady Whistledown Tells All! Society is abuzz when the Season's most promising debutante is jilted by her intended only to be swept away by the deceitful rogue's dashing older-brother- in New York Times bestseller JULIA QUINN's witty, charming, and...

  • Born in Sin

    Kinley MacGregor

    The fiery highborn lass will sacrifice almost anything for her beloved Highlands -- even marry a dangerous man whom everyone fears but she cannot trust... The man they call "Sin." A SINFUL PASSION Though few can equal her skill with the sw...

  • Aunt Dimity: Detective

    Nancy Atherton

    There's been a murder in Finch! When Lori Shepherd returns from her trip to America, she is shocked to hear that Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper has been killed. This is the first murder in the idyllic village of Finch in more than a century, and ever...

  • Stuck on You

    Patti Berg

    Love's One Big Mystery... It's common knowledge in Plentiful, Wyoming, that bookstore owner Scarlett O'Malley imagines trouble brewing everywhere. Of course, real trouble bubbles over the day an enigmatic stranger named Logan Wolfe shows up in tow...

  • See Jane Score

    Rachel Gibson

    THIS IS JANE A little subdued. A little stubborn. A little tired of going out on blind dates with men who drive vans with sofas in the back, Jane Alcott is living the Single Girl existence in the big city. She is also leading a double life. By day, ...

  • The Fifth Ring

    Mitchell Graham

    WHERE IS A DESTINY BORN? For a boy from a small village -- and for the vast world surrounding him -- it is born in triumph...and bitter outrage. In the peaceful town of Devondale, young Mathew Lewin's skill fencing wins him a prize at once ...

  • Oscar Wilde Discovers America

    Louis Edwards

    In January 1882, Oscar Wilde arrived in New York to begin a nationwide publicity tour. Mentioned in a few newspaper articles - but barely a footnote in the history books - was the black valet who accompanied him. In a daring and richly imaginative wo...

  • The School Skeleton

    Ron Roy

    S is for Skeleton... It’s a bone-afide mystery at Dink’s school. Some sneaky soul has stolen the skeleton from the nurse’s office! The principal promises free aquarium tickets to the savvy sleuths who can track down poor Mr. Bones. Soon myster...

  • Faith in a Long Shot

    Joanna Campbell

    Will it be victory " or tragedy " when Triple Crown fever hits the Thoroughbred series?

    When Image comes in second in the Florida Derby, Melanie and Jazz decide to enter her in the Kentucky Derby. Image has proven she has what it take...

  • Buzz Blows Bubbles and Other Tongue Twisters

    Andrea Posner-Sanchez

  • Rat-A-Tat, Cat

    RH/Disney

    Rat-a-tat-tat, you cool Disney cat! Studies have shown that music can help babies develop their memory and reasoning skills. This sturdy and interactive board book features a plastic rattle with five colorful rings that let children shake to their ve...

  • Have a Ball!

    RH/Disney

    Have a ball with cute, adorable Dumbo! The clear plastic handle on this sturdy board book is filled with colorful balls that roll and rattle to help babies develop their visual tracking skills. Little ones will be mesmerized as they listen to the pla...

  • My Squeaky Toys

    RH/Disney

    Disney’s lovable Dalmatian puppies are the stars of this sturdy and interactive board book. Listening to the playful text will help babies develop their language skills, and pressing the two colorful shaped squeakers will keep them giggling for hou...

  • Man Eater

    Ray Shannon

    Making movies is Ronnie Deal's business. But after a really bad day at the office, she needs to unleash a little well-placed rage. That's when her beer bottle connects with a street psycho's thick skull. Unfortunately, Neon Polk survives. And revenge...

  • Clean Cut

    Theresa Monsour

    The brutal murder of a young prostitute hits St. Paul homicide detective Paris Murphy hard. She knew the woman's beat--and her sad story. Smart, beautiful--and dangerously reckless--Paris disregards the warnings of her partner and walks the streets, ...

  • Why Do Rabbits Hop?

    Joan Holub

    Why Do Rabbits Hop?And Other Questions about Rabbits, Guinea Pigs, Hamsters, and GerbilsDid you know that rabbits can jump 10 feet in one hop, guinea pigs bump noses to say hello, and baby gerbils are called pups?...

  • Why Do Horses Neigh?

    Joan Holub

    Do you love horses? If you do, you're not alone. There's so much to know about these amazing animals. Why do horses neigh? What are baby and adult horses called? How do horses communicate? Beginning readers can find out the answers to these questions...

  • Dawdle Duckling

    Toni Buzzeo

    Always the last to come around, Dawdle Duckling loves to spin and swirl and waste the day away in dreams, but when Mama Duck screams at him that a crocodile is waiting for him close by, Dawdle Duckling quickly learns how to move at top speed like all...

  • Emily's First Sleepover

    Claire Masurel

  • The Great Coaster Contest

    Tracey West

    The reader's choices will determine which of three teams--a trio of young athletes, a treacherous sister and brother and their partner, or three clever teenagers--will win a competition at Coaster World theme park....

  • Five Little Easter Eggs

    William Boniface

  • This Little Egg Went to Market

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Five Little Bunny Rabbits

    William Boniface

    Five little, four little, three little...two little adorable books that will let little kids count their way down through two exciting Easter adventures that end with a surprise! With a unique trim size, a plastic-molded counting piece on each spread...

  • Emily Is a Flower Girl

    Claire Masurel

  • A Tisket, A Tasket

    Ella Fitzgerald

  • The Copper Braid of Shannon O'Shea

    Laura Esckelson

  • Disney's Winnie the Pooh Music Box

    Disney Book Group

    Inside this charming carry-along music box, which plays a happy tune when it's opened, you'll find five sturdy books and an adorable "Friends Forever" magnet. Each storybook contains a whimsical tale featuring your favorite characters from the Hundre...

  • Wildfire, Book 2

    David Mack

    The U.S.S. da Vinci's mission to salvage the U.S.S. Orion and the deadly Wildfire warhead has gone horribly wrong. Captain Gold and Security Chief Corsi are gravely injured, and the da Vinci is literally coming apart at the seams as it drifts further...

  • The Girl from the Golden Horn

    Kurban Said

    Politics, war, and desire make waves in the life of a Turkish woman living in exile in post-WWI Berlin in this novel by the author of Ali and Nino. It is 1928, and Asiadeh Anbara and her father, members of the Turkish royal court, find themselve...

  • 24: The House Special Subcommittee's Findings at CTU

    Marc Cerasini

    Last season, CIA agent Jack Bauer, played by Golden Globe award-winning actor Keifer Sutherland, had us glued to our TVs and cursing the time clock as he uncovered a plot to assassinate presidential nominee, David Palmer. With just 24 hours to identi...

  • Into the Wild

    Erin Hunter

    FIRE ALONE CAN SAVE OUR CLAN... For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by the powerful ancestors. But the warrior code is threatened, and the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger. The sinist...

  • Day Of Honor Omnibus

    Multiple Authors

    Together in one volume: six complete novels that explore the heart and soul of Klingons everywhere! To true Klingon" warriors, no occasion is more sacred than the Day of Honor, when they pay homage to all that makes them Klingon. But honor can take...

  • Bunnies on the Go

    Rick Walton

    From train to tractor, from boat to balloon, join the fun as an active bunny family takes a cross-country vacation.

    The team who celebrated the alphabet in So Many Bunnies and telling time in Bunny Day now introduces young readers to differe...

  • City Chicken

    Arthur Dorros

    Henry is so confused. She thinks a cow looks like this ... She thinks a horse looks like this ... But when Henry, the city chicken, flies the coop, she finds out that country life is not all it's cracked up to be.

    ...

  • Easter Parade

    Irving Berlin

    Oh, I could write a sonnetAbout your Easter bonnet,And of the girl I'm taking toThe Easter Parade

    celebrated composer Irving Berlin wrote "Easter Parade" over sixty years ago. Now his timeless song comes to life in t...

  • Seraglio

    Janet Wallach

    Transporting readers to the menacing yet majestic world of eighteenth-century Turkey, biographer and Middle East expert Janet Wallach brilliantly re-imagines the life of Aimee Dubucq, cousin of Empress Josephine, in her first novel Seraglio.

    A...

  • Another Scandal in Bohemia

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    The ever-irresistible Irene Adler, her dashing barrister husband, Godfrey Norton, and the indomitable Miss Nell Huxleigh have arrived at last as their French cottage-having survived dastardly plots, Russian spies, pistol-wielding criminals, and the o...

  • Starman

    Sara Douglass

    Axis is the StarMan of prophecy and legend, destined to lead the three races of his world to unite as one people. The Prophecy fore-told that Axis would defeat his half-brother, reclaim the land of Tencendor, and find a traitor in his camp. The Proph...

  • Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1: Hope

    Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #410-415. Wolverine, Iceman, Archangel, Nightcrawler, Stacy X, and Monet head to Scotland when Xavier reported a distress call he picked up. But to complicate matters, the Juggernaut has shown up!...

  • Spies

    Michael Frayn

    The sudden trace of a disturbing, forgotten aroma compels Stephen Wheatley to return to the site of a dimly remembered but troubling childhood summer in wartime London. As he pieces together his scattered memories, we are brought back to a quiet, sub...

  • Long Hot Summoning

    Tanya Huff

    IT STARTED ON THE LAST DAY OF HIGH SCHOOL... a day Diana Hansen had been anticipating for the last twelve years. Now her real life could begin.... For Diana, like her sister Claire, was a Keeper--gifted with the ability to reweave the possibilities o...

  • Close Quarters

    Judith Lyons
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    IN THE NEWS: Gorgeous marine biologist Laura Evans FAMILY HISTORY: The only daughter in the prominent, wealthy Evans family DEEPEST SECRET: She was thirty...and still a virgin Although raised in a world of privilege and power, Laura Evans chose ...

  • Ripple Effect

    Vickie Taylor
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    IN THE NEWS: Seth Evans, dashing CEO of Evans Yachts FAMILY HISTORY: Sought-after eldest son and heir to the Evans empire DEEPEST SECRET: Working on a classified submarine prototype...and masking his desire for his lovely assistant Seth Evans ke...

  • Racing Hearts

    Lilian Darcy
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    IN THE NEWS: Holt Evans, yacht racer. Known for breaking records--and hearts FAMILY HISTORY: Golden boy of the Evans family yachting empire DEEPEST SECRET: He's finally fallen in love...with someone he shouldn't Holt Evans never lost--not at rac...

  • Uncharted Waters

    Linda Castillo
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    IN THE NEWS: Ex-navy search and rescue pilot Drew Evans FAMILY HISTORY: His adopted brother is one of the genetically engineered Extraordinary Five DEEPEST SECRET: Haunted by the only mission he failed Hardened hero Drew Evans had thought his tr...

  • Prairie Gothic

    J.M. Hayes

    As a howling blizzard blows down upon the sparsely-populated Benteen County seat of Buffalo Springs, Kansas, Sheriff English encounters a doll and a dead baby. Their bodies have been switched, but by whom? And why? The elderly coroner disclaims any k...

  • Best of Friends

    Cathy Kelly

    You can have it all! Abby Barton's TV career is taking off and now she and her husband can have the life they've always dreamed of in a lovely Irish town -- at least, in theory! But when your husband takes you for granted and your teenage daughter...

  • Flirting with Pete

    Barbara Delinsky

    Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father -- but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town house, complete with a maid and a handsome, enigma...

  • Inkheart

    Cornelia Funke

    One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from Inkheart, and an evil ruler named Capricorn escapes the boundaries of the book, landing in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie's in the middle of the kind of adventure she thought only took place in f...

  • The Slippery Slope

    Lemony Snicket

    Dear Reader, Like handshakes, house pets, or raw carrots, many things are preferable when not slippery. Unfortunately, in this miserable volume, I am afraid that Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire run into more than their fair share of slipperiness...

  • Flyboys

    James Bradley

    Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those...

  • Steal Away

    Linda Hall

    Dr. Carl Houseman, celebrated minister and speaker, is determined to find out what really happened to his wife, declared dead five years ago after her sailboat washed ashore on a coastal island of Maine. Private investigator Terri Blake-Addison must ...

  • The Gangster We Are All Looking For

    Le Thi Diem Thuy

    The highly acclaimed novel that reveals the life of a Vietnamese family in America through the knowing eyes of a child finding her place and voice in a new country.“A brilliant evocation of human sorrow and desire.... Heartbreaking and exhilarati...

  • Spilling Clarence

    Anne Ursu

    What if you could suddenly remember everything that ever happened to you, every joy and every sorrow that you had ever endured Would it be a blessing -- or a curse

    This is the fate of the residents of the town of Clarence, who fall under the spell ...

  • The Good Doctor

    Damon Galgut

    “A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel” of the dashed hopes of post-apartheid South Africa and the small betrayals that doom a friendship (The Guardian).   An extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit, The Good Doctor has ...

  • The Slynx

    Tatyana Tolstaya

    “A postmodern literary masterpiece.” "The Times Literary SupplementTwo hundred years after civilization ended in an event known as the Blast, Benedikt isn’t one to complain. He’s got a job -- transcribing old books and presenting them as...

  • The Way to Paradise

    Mario Vargas Llosa

    A New York Times Notable BookFlora Tristán, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty and journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return in 1844, she makes her name as a champion of the dow...

  • To the Nines

    Janet Evanovich

    Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat at the deli...oh, the list goes on). An ordinary ...

  • Happily Ever After

    Susan May Warren

    She thought her hero was just a fairy tale... Mona Reynolds knows exactly whom she wants to marry. The only problem is, he isn't real. Mona's dream is about to come true. With the help of her best friend, Liza, she's transforming an old Victorian...

  • Persuader

    Lee Child

    Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he's moved from place to place...without family...without possessions...without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble--big, vi...

  • The Queen's Fool

    Philippa Gregory

    A young woman caught in the rivalry between Queen Mary and her half sister, Elizabeth, must find her true destiny amid treason, poisonous rivalries, loss of faith, and unrequited love. It is winter, 1553. Pursued by the Inquisition, Hannah Green, ...

  • Hard Rain // Blood from Blood // A Lonely Resurrection

    Barry Eisler

    All John Rain wants is to disappear forever. What an old nemesis from Japan's FBI wants is one last favor: eliminate an assassin at large who kills without conscience. But there's a lot at stake--including the lives of Rain's few friends, and a love ...

  • The Accusers

    Lindsey Davis

    Newly returned from far-flung Londinium and in need of work, Marcus Didius Falco agrees to look into the death of Rubirius Metellus. Convicted of corruption, the rich senator committed suicide--and in doing so, relieved his family of paying his debts...

  • The One That Got Away

    Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

    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... Eleven years ago hospital PR direc...

  • The Namesake

    Jhumpa Lahiri

    Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world -- conflicts that wi...

  • A Wedding Story

    Susan Kay Law

    Unlike her two sisters who followed their dreams to the altar,Kathryn Bright Goodale doesn't want to be a bride. What she needs is to win the Great Centennial Race now that her late husband has left her penniless. So Kate reluctantly turns to the ...

  • The Return of the Dancing Master

    Henning Mankell

    When retired policeman Herbert Molin is found brutally slaughtered on his remote farm in the northern forests of Sweden, police find strange tracks in the snow...as if someone had been practicing the tango. Stefan Lindman, a young police officer rece...

  • Nobody's Baby

    Debra Webb

    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... Child-care worker Shana Devlin was a...

  • Tell No One

    Marion Lennox

    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... Police officer Jaron Dorsey had resc...

  • The Midnight Mouse

    Ben M. Baglio

  • The Littles Get Lost

    John Peterson

  • The Prize

    Rachel Vail
    • / General Fiction
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  • The Reading Champion

    Rachel Vail

    In The Reading Champion--the first Mama Rex & T in the Scholastic Reader format--T learns how to read.

    T is frustrated. He can't read one single word and his best friend Walter can read whole books all by himself!
    When his teacher helps hi...

  • Jingle Belle

    Jenny Dale

  • Robert and the Embarrassing Secret

    Barbara Seuling

  • Fluffy's School Adventures

    Kate McMullan

    Inside this book are five stories starring Fluffy, the Classroom Guinea Pig! They are: Fluffy Goes to School, Fluffy's 100th Day at School, Fluffy's Funny Field Trip, Fluffy's Silly Summer and Fluffy Meets the Dinosaurs.Since learning to read is a ...

  • Falco on the Loose

    Lindsey Davis

    Three of Lindsey Davis’s most entertaining novels featuring Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco, in one volume.Last Act in Palmyra — Falco takes up a new spying mission for the Emperor Vespasian, to the untamed East. With the Chief Spy Anacri...

  • Beegu

    Alexis Deacon

    The story of an alienated alien

    Beegu’s spacecraft is stranded on Earth. Now she is lost and wandering. Waiting for a rescue signal from her mother, she fails to make friends with the strange creatures she encounters. Rabbits don't seem to u...

  • Spies, Lies and a Pair of Ties

    Sheralyn Pratt

  • Big Bug Fun

    Joanne F. Oppenheim

    From ladybugs to honeybees, this Level 3 Hello Reader! Science book teaches young children about bugs--and includes a swarm of jokes and riddles!Centipedes, beetles, fireflies, grasshoppers, honeybees, and more fascinating bugs are included in this L...

  • Muck's Muddy Day

    Diane Redmond

    When Travis gets stuck in the mud and Muck lends a hand to help set him free, the two end up covered in mud and so are happy to discover that Bob, Wendy, and Farmer Pickles have drawn them each a warm, bubbly bath upon their arrival back to the yard....

  • Five Little Turkeys

    William Boniface

  • Cool Chameleons

    Fay Robinson

    This Level 2 Hello Reader! Science title tells how chameleons grow, where they live, what they eat, and how they survive, in easy-to-understand language. The book also includes a complete colorful index that labels every chameleon shown in the book -...

  • London Dust

    Lee Jackson

    A young woman, Natalie Meadows, jumps from Blackfriars Bridge, escaping from the horror she has just witnessed. But she is rescued and feels duty-bound to find out who murdered her best friend, the music hall star Nellie Warwick, and why. Natalie re...

  • Annie to the Rescue

    Elizabeth Lindsay

  • World of Plants

    Kirsteen Rogers

    This collectible series builds into a fascinating library of reference material, covering every aspect of Key Stage 2 science and beyond. When used in conjunction with www.usborne-quicklinks.com, the reader has direct access to all featured Web addre...

  • A Bump on the Head

    Peter Maloney

  • The Bug Bunch

    Elizabeth Bennett

    The Bug Bunch are going to the beach for some fun in the sun! then they cool off in the ocean. Splish! Splash! Later on, Lady can't seem to find her hat. but the bug bunch team up to help her. Will they find it or will their beach day end up being ...

  • Space Explorer's Guide to the Universe

    Bill Doyle

    Space U Mission Control has crammed this book full of fun missions that will expand your smarts about space. You'll launch a mini-rocket, send a marshmeallow on a space walk (without a space suit!), create you own galaxies-and much more! You'll also ...

  • The Big Sleepover

    Elizabeth Bennett

  • Lavender

    Posy Simmonds

    How Lavender became the Bravest Rabbit in the WorldWhenever there is the slightest hint of danger, Lavender the rabbit can be found with her friends the goose and the hens clucking with concern. So when a group of tourist town foxes arrive on their f...

  • Sanctum

    Denise Mina

    A respected forensic psychiatrist is convicted of the gruesome murder of a serial killer ... but is she innocent?When Dr Susie Harriot is convicted of the brutal murder of Andrew Gow, a serial killer in her care, it looks certain that she will be giv...

  • Chinnamani's World

    Mukunda Rao

  • Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Movie StoryBook: Movie Tie in Book

    Random House

  • Harvest Festival Race

    George Daugherty

  • Our Silly Garden

    Karen Nagel

  • Wild Earth : Volcano!

    Lorraine Jean Hopping

  • Blind Dates

    Kristen Billerbeck

    This is the sweetest idea of a story line. Grandma tries to get all four of her granddaughters to go our on a blind date which will in the end will be culminating in marriage. The delightful ins and outs of the stories have you smiling as you read ea...

  • The Spymaster's Secret Code Challenge

    A.M. Vale

  • Sing and Read She'll Be Coming 'Round Mountain

    Chris Demarest

  • Surprise! Snow Day!

    Courtney Baker

  • Detective Academy: Interviews and Interrogations

    Paul Mauro

  • A Second Chance for Tina

    Marilyn Snyder

  • The Peanuts Guide to Holidays and Celebrations: A Jumbo Activity Book Based on the Comic Strip by Charles M. Schulz

    Alison Saeger Panik
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    This 144-page jumbo activity book featuring Charles Schulz's funny cartoon strips is filled with mind benders, special holiday recipes, games and other activities that are perfect for any holiday gathering....

  • A Book of Silly Jokes!

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Barney's Songs from the Park

    Scholastic Inc.
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

  • 101 Things You need to Know

    Julie Mullarkey-Gnoy

    What's the difference between heat and temperature? Who was our twenty-sixth president? How do you figure out the circumference of a circle? Who made the first national flag? What is a bar graph? Where do you place the colon in a business letter? Why...

  • The Great Mystery

    Norman S. Barrett

    Get lost in Merlin's Great Mystery! Follow the poem page by page, puzzle by puzzle, & maze by maze, & discover the answer to Merlin's mysterious question. What clues can you find in these beautiful illustrations? Take a close look at the fun & fan...

  • A Stormy Day

    Gilda Berger

    Scholastic Time-To-Discover Readers #36: A Stormy Day By: Melvin & Gilda Berger Illustrator: Age: 7-10 ISBN: 978-0-439-56699-5 Scholastic United States • Club Original • Pub.Date: • 16 Pages...

  • Under the Sea

    Alastair Smith
    • / General Fiction
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  • Rescue Heroes

    Sonia Sander

  • Whales and Dolphins

    Susanna Davidson

  • Christmas Eve Mystery and Other Holiday Stories

    Eva Moore
    • / General Fiction
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    Short stories, poems, and songs for Christmas: Christmas Eve by David McCord, The Christmas Coat by Clyde Robert Bulla, Christmas Surprises adapted by Melissa Peterson, The Christmas Eve Mystery by Joan Lowery Nixon, On a Pallet of Straw by Langston ...

  • Avengers: Korvac Saga

    Jim Shooter

    He hails from an unimaginable era: The 31st century. Fleeing through the timestream from the pursuing team of futuristic defenders known as the Guardians of the Galaxy, Korvac the Machine Man has established a secret presence on present-day Earth in ...

  • Daredevil: The Movie

    Bruce Jones

    Matt Murdock, gifted with superhuman senses when an accident leaves him blind, uses his skills to protect the residents of Hell's Kitchen as the masked hero Daredevil, pitting himself against the Kingpin of Crime....

  • Catwoman

    Susan Colun
    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    Previews Exclusive Edition. Includes a 'Catwoman Design Sketchbook' exclusive to this edition. Learn how to crack a whip with feline ferocity! Uncover the secrets of the all-leather wardrobe! Study the sizzling one-liners that keep Batman aching for ...

  • Great Neck

    Jay Cantor

    In 1960, a group of friends are plucked from their sixth grade classroom in privileged Great Neck, Long Island and confronted for the first time with the horrors of the Holocaust. They hear a challenge from the past, a cry from history to set the wor...

  • The Little Sparrows

    Al Lacy; Joanna Lacy

    Kearney, Cheyenne, Rawlins. Reno, Sacramento, San Francisco. At each train station, a few lucky orphans from the crowded streets of New York City receive the fulfillment of their dreams: a home and family. This "orphan train" is the vision of Charles...

  • Mendocino and Other Stories

    Ann Packer

    With humor, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men--wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and lovers--who discover that life's greatest surprises may be found in ...

  • One Shiny Easter

    Golden Books

    Here comes Peter Cottontail in a retelling of the best-loved animated special. Includes three different-colored glitter pens so children can decorate the pages or their own Easter eggs. Also includes cutout egg display stands on the back cover!...

  • Shipwreck Fever

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

    Jeff has found a treasure map hidden in a dusty old book, but Uncle Roy doesn’t believe it’s real. The only way to find a sunken ship, Uncle Roy insists, is through long, hard research. But sometimes, maybe “X” really does mark the spot!...

  • Heart of Allegiance

    Jake Thoene

    Can William Sutton, the heir of a great British shipping empire, redeem himself in battle and prove himself worthy of the family name? Will William's brother Charles return home to France and his family? In the heat of battle what will each brothe...

  • Little Red Ink Drinker

    Eric Sanvoisin

    Odilon and Carmilla love sucking up
    the ink in books with their twin straw. Especially the ink in adventure stories! But as they begin one of their favorite tales, it’s the straw that sucks them
    in"and plops them right into the story. . ....

  • Raining Cats and Dogs

    Irene Trimble

  • I Should Be Extremely Happy In Your Company

    Brian Hall

    Brian Hall’s compulsively readable novel vividly re-creates Lewis and Clark’s extraordinary journey into the unknown western frontier. Focusing on the emblematic moments of the participants’ lives, the story unfolds through the perspectives of...

  • The Company She Keeps

    Mary McCarthy

    This is the author’s first novel, which relates the experiences of a young bohemian intellectual. The six episodes create a fascinating portrait of a New York social circle of the 1930s. McCarthy’s bold insight and virtuoso style won her immediat...

  • I Hate Rules!

    Nancy Krulik

    I HATE RULES! Katie is an ordinary third-grader -- except for one very extraordinary problem! She accidentally wished on a shooting star to be anyone but herself. But what Katie soon learns is that wishes really do come true -- and in the strangest ...

  • On the Back Burner

    Diane Muldrow

    It’s Chinese New Year, Peichi’s favorite holiday! And this year, she’s psyched about sharing it with her best friends. But when Peichi blows off her schoolwork because of the celebrations, she is grounded by Dish. And when the other girls come ...

  • Bug Muldoon

    Paul Shipton

  • The Guards

    Ken Bruen

    Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Sochna--the Guards, Ireland's police force--and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. In his sober ...

  • Out of the Ruins

    Sally S. Wright

    Out of the Ruins bristles with fascinating characters caught in satisfying complications -- a masterpiece of suspense. Georgia's wild, romanticCumberland Island is steeped in family secrets. Hannah Hill, a widow patiently suffering from multiple scle...

  • Her Italian Boss: The Boss's Valentine

    Lynne Graham
    in

    Poppy sent Santino Aragone a Valentine card to cheer him up. Santino responded by making love to her...and suddenly Poppy was expecting her boss's baby!...

  • Her Italian Boss: Rafael's Proposal

    Kim Lawrence
    in

    Natalie's boss, Rafael Ransome, thought she couldn't be a single mom and do her job. But then he offered her a stunning career move -- a Valentine's Day marriage proposal!...

  • Mirror Mirror

    Patricia Duncker

  • Disapparation of James

    Anne Ursu

    From the highly praised author of Spilling Clarence, a luminous novel about the joy of family and the perils of loving.

    The Woodrow family is going to the circus to celebrate Greta's seventh birthday. When five-year-old brother James eagerl...

  • Dark Waters

    Catherine MacPhail / Cathy MacPhail

    Col McCann is used to being in trouble. It is always the McCann family, in particular Mungo, Col's brother, who the police think of first. But Col has recently acquired a new fan - Dominic. Col saves Dominic from drowning in the local loch and di...

  • Reunion

    Rochelle Alers
    in

    From four fabulous bestselling authors come four stories of women with a plus-sized joy for life who find the best of everything in the most unexpected places. In Rochelle Alers's Reunion, Long Island broker Elaine Jackson Stewart is 42, divo...

  • Shades of Earl Grey

    Laura Childs

    Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is finally invited to a social event that she doesn't have to cater -- but there's more than champagne bubbling... Theo is mingling with the cream of Charleston society at the engagement soiree of t...

  • Hanging by a Thread

    Monica Ferris

    The art of needlecraft requires patience, discipline, and creativity. So, too, does the art of detection. Just ask Betsy Devonshire--who's learning that life in a small-town needlecraft shop can reveal an unexpected knack for knitting ... and a hidde...

  • Surprise

    Donna Hill
    in

    From four fabulous bestselling authors come four stories of women with a plus-sized joy for life who find the best of everything in the most unexpected places. In Rochelle Alers's Reunion, Long Island broker Elaine Jackson Stewart is 42, divorced, a...

  • Bare Essentials

    Brenda Jackson
    in

    From four fabulous bestselling authors come four stories of women with a plus-sized joy for life who find the best of everything in the most unexpected places. In Rochelle Alers's Reunion, Long Island broker Elaine Jackson Stewart is 42, divo...

  • An Inconvenient Heir

    Martha Kirkland

    Love's Magic While at school, Cordelia Barrington befriended a young Gypsy named Maria. Now, years later, Maria has died in childbirth, and Delia has devoted herself to the baby, vowing to keep him safe at all costs until she can get him to his re...

  • Between Darkness and Light

    Lisanne Norman

    IN LEAGUE WITH ENEMIES... In the midst of unrest on his home world of Shola, Kusac has chosen to undertake a secret mission of which only those in the highest echelons of the Brotherhood are aware. And even they are not privy to all the informatio...

  • Dhampir

    Barb Hendee; J.C. Hendee

    SHE HUNTS THE REALM'S MOST DANGEROUS GAME. HER FEES ARE EXORBITANT. SHE'S WORTH EVERY COIN SHE RECEIVES. OR IS SHE? Magiere has earned a reputation as the most formidable vampire slayer in the land. Villagers far and wide welcome her with both awe...

  • Dark Ambition

    Allan Topol

    The Secretary of State has been murdered in his home. It looks like a robbery gone wrong. It seems the prime suspect is the politician's gardener. But in Washington, D.C., nothing is as it seems. Justice Department lawyer Ben Hartwell is assigned the...

  • Daredevil

    Greg Cox

    JUSTICE IS BLIND. Blinded in a tragic accident, Matt Murdock discovered that the radioactive isotope responsible for his condition also heightened his other senses, creating an acute awareness of his surroundings that enables him to "see" with mor...

  • Six Easy Pieces

    Walter Mosley

    The beloved Ezekiel Rawlins now has a steady job as senior head custodian of Sojourner Truth High School, a nice house with a garden, a loving woman, and children. He counts the blessings of leading a law-abiding life, but is "nowhere near happy." Ea...

  • Scavenger Hunt

    Robert Ferrigno

    Philip Marlow and Lew Archer would recognize a kindred spirit in Jimmy Gage, reporter for SLAP magazine, troublemaker by trade and inclination, and the hero of Robert Ferrigno’s sinuous new crime novel. While taking part in a Hollywood scavenger hu...

  • Cuba Strait

    Carsten Stroud

    Rick Broca's had more than his share of hard knocks -- which may explain why he's a retired cop at the age of thirty-three, working as a technical consultant for Hollywood producer Jake Siegel. For the last few months, that's meant taking care of Sie...

  • Sweet Agony

    Nancy Huston

    On a snowy New England evening in a small college town, Sean Farrell"a hard-drinking, libidinous poet and professor"hosts a Thanksgiving dinner. The eleven guests include two fellow professors (one a novelist, the other also a poet), two of Sean...

  • 47th Street Black

    Bayo Ojikutu

    The prize-winning debut of an incendiary new voice in contemporary American fiction, 47th Street Black is the story of JC and Mookie, whose rise in the gangster-driven ghettos of Chicago is as swift as it is brutal.In the early sixties, 47th street i...

  • Grass Roof, Tin Roof

    Dao Strom

    A Vietnamese family flees its war-torn home and resettles in California, in a novel that offers a “brilliant exploration of exile, loss, and identity” (Robert Olen Butler).   Told from multiple perspectives and spanning several decades, Gras...

  • The Jungle Book

    RH/Disney

    YOUNG MOWGLI LOVES growing up in the jungle with his animal friends. But what happens when he is told that he must go live in the Man-village? Find out in this Little Golden Book retelling of the classic Disney movie The Jungle Book....

  • Strictly Business

    Francis Ray
    in

    An ample collection of larger-than-life romances by noted African-American authors includes Rochelle Alers's "Reunion," in which shapely size-sixteen Elaine Jackson Stewart finds unexpected love with an old high school friend who has had a crush on h...

  • Sleeping Bunny

    Pamela Silin-Palmer

    Pamela Silin-Palmer and her daughter Emily Snowell Keller bring their talents to this retelling of Sleeping Beauty, showcasing Ms. Silin-Palmer’s fabulous paintings of animals dressed in costumes. As always, the illustrations are filled with detail...

  • Three Classic African-American Novels: The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglas; Clotel, William Wells Brown; Our Nig, Harriet E. Wilson

    William L. Andrews

  • The Jungle Book 2: Read-Aloud

    RH/Disney

    Head back to the jungle for some swinging fun with Mowgli, Baloo, and a few brand-new friends! This full-color retelling of Disney’s new animated sequel, The Jungle Book II, is perfect for reading aloud to the whole family....

  • Jungle Book II

    Disney Book Group

  • Prince of Lost Places

    Kathy Hepinstall

    Now, in a tale ripe with haunting atmosphere and seductive tension, Kathy Hepinstall's extraordinary talent is reaffirmed... After a tragedy at her son's school results in the death of a child, Martha Warden--a young Ohio mother--isn4 taking any, ...

  • X-Force, Volume 2: Final Chapter

    Peter Milligan

    Written by Peter Milligan. Art by Mike Allred, Darwyn Cooke, and Duncan Fegredo. Cover by Mike Allred. Published in November of 2002, Softcover, 224 pages, full color. Cover price $19.99. If you want additional books, I ship as many books as you wa...

  • X-Treme X-Men, Volume 2: Invasion

    Chris Claremont

  • Doubloon

    Jay Amberg


    Nick Gallagher was a farmer in a small Iowa town for many years, but all the while, as he and his wife raised their son, Nick dreamed of treasure-sunken treasure that lay at the bottom of the sea off the Florida coast, millions of dollars in gold...

  • Gilligan's Wake

    Tom Carson

    A kaleidoscopic novel about our last American centuryA skipper plies the waters of the South Pacific, running ammunition and passing the time with navy buddies McHale and Jack Kennedy, remembering the sweet caress of Screw-Me Susie. A New York millio...

  • Sulky Vulture

    Sally Grindley

    Head pulled down, shoulders hunched up, toes curled in, Boris the vulture is sulking. when Boris's friends see that he needs cheering up, they try to help out--but nothing seems to go quite right and Boris ends up even grumpier! Finally, he goes h...

  • The Decadent Countess

    Deborah Miles

    Young widow Miranda Fitzgibbon arrives in England to meet her late husband's family, only to find she has been mistaken for her scandalous stepmother, the decadent countess. Playing up to the in-laws' expectations, Miranda revels in her new role as t...

  • Make New Friends

    Rosemary Wells

    It is overwhelming being the new student! Juanita is scared to pieces when she moves from Texas to Hilltop School -- there are so many new faces to learn, new songs to sing, and new games to play. Will Juanita ever feel she has a special place in Mrs...

  • The Far-Farers: A Journey from Viking Iceland to Crusader Jerusalem

    Victoria Clark

    Just before the year 1000 a young Viking named Thorvald the Far-farer turned his back on the pagan gods of his fathers to preach the Christian gospel. But his Icelandic countrymen mocked him as a homosexual, stoned him and finally outlawed him. Aband...

  • Wildfire, Book 1

    David Mack

    The da Vinci goes on a dangerous salvage mission: to rescue the U.S.S. Orion from a gas giant. As if the turbulent atmosphere of the planet wasn't enough, the Orion is carrying the prototype of the deadly Wildfire device -- a protomatter warhead that...

  • Blowback

    Eric James Fullilove

    blowback blo-bak n: the unintended results of covert intelligence operations that come back to haunt you. When the Unthinkable Happens -- On India's border a weapon of mass destruction has begun a terrifying countdown toward Armageddon. A Co...

  • Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens 3

    Bruce Bethke

    Two Complete Novels in One!

    ISAAC ASIMOV'S ROBOTS AND ALIENS 3

    By Bruce Bethke and Jerry Oltion

    In Maverick, Derec should be able to control the network of robotic cities, but the cities are not working as they should, and they...

  • GermLine

    Nelson Erlick

    In gene therapy, the damaged or defective chromosomes of an individual patient are corrected by the addition of new genes introduced into the patient's DNA. This is a dangerous and controversial technique, on the cutting edge of medical science. "Ger...

  • Spanish Disco

    Erica Orloff

    "Real life was messy. Sloppy bathrooms I could handle. Love I could not." For thirty-three-year-old Cassie Hayes, life is about to get messier. She can't cook, unless you count coffee as a meal (she does). She can't commit (just ask her ex-husband...

  • Winner Take All

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Following a surprising courtroom victory, attorney Marcus Glenwood takes on an equally surprising new client-Dale Steadman, the CEO of the very company Marcus prosecuted. His job is to find Steadman's dangerously unstable ex-wife, Erin Brandt, who ki...

  • Tough Luck

    Jason Starr

    WINNER: Barry Award for Best Paperback Original

    FINALIST: Anthony Award for Best Paperback Original

    Mickey Prada's a nice kid. He works hard at a neighborhood seafood market in Brooklyn putting fish on ice. He's got a nice girlfriend. H...

  • Fever

    Linda Dominique Grosvenor

  • Deja Vu

    Katherine O'Neal
    in

    An erotic game takes a most unpredictable course. A forbidden encounter leads to desire and danger. And a lover's provocative tale includes a very surprising twist. Tried-and-true passion may be lovely, but when it comes to deliciously wicked sinning...

  • Ebony Butterfly II

    Delilah Dawson

    Discover the fiery passion from the sensual rituals of a solstice offering, to the naughty masquerades of invited guests at a Halloween party. Take the challenge of a virtual reality game where the motivation to win has its erotic rewards. Feel the l...

  • Her Lord & Master

    Thea Devine
    in

    An erotic game takes a most unpredictable course. A forbidden encounter leads to desire and danger. And a lover's provocative tale includes a very surprising twist. Tried-and-true passion may be lovely, but when it comes to deliciously wicked sinning...

  • Morgette and the Shadow Bomber

    G.G. Boyer

    When a series of mysterious bombings targeting mine owners in Pinebluff, Idaho, threatens his family, legendary gunfighter Dolf Morgette calls on his father-in-law, Chief Henry, and the men of his tribe to help find the culprits....

  • Just to See You Smile

    Sally D. John

    Popular fiction author Sally John’s first series The Other Way Home (more than 65,000 copies sold) comes to life with a fresh, new cover for a new audience of readers. In Just to See You Smile, the third book in series, teacher and coach Britte Ol...

  • From Russia, With Love

    Susan Johnson
    in

    An erotic game takes a most unpredictable course. A forbidden encounter leads to desire and danger. And a lover's provocative tale includes a very surprising twist. Tried-and-true passion may be lovely, but when it comes to deliciously wicked sinning...

  • Blind Man of Seville

    Robert Wilson

    Called to a gruesome crime scene, Inspector Javier Falcon is shocked and sickened by what he finds … a heinous murder with no obvious motive. When the investigation leads Falcon to read his late father’s journals, he discovers a disturbing and vi...

  • The Offer

    Robert J. Randisi

    Robin Lobianco participates in a ménage à trois with a married couple, expecting nothing more than one evening of wild sex. But when they profess their love for her and ask her to move in with them, she rejects them. Soon the couple begins stalking...

  • Season of the Assassin

    Thomas Laird

    Tough, taut, and terse, this crafty crime novel challenges Chicago police detective Jimmy Parisi -- the sharp, no-nonsense cop who first appeared in Cutter -- with two terrible crimes separated by three decades. Thirty years ago, in the 1960s, seven ...

  • Samaritan

    Richard Price

    Ray Mitchell, a former TV writer who has left Hollywood under a cloud, returns to urban Dempsy, New Jersey, hoping to make a difference in the lives of his struggling neighbors. Instead, his very public and emotionally suspect generosity gets him bea...

  • Seduction of Water

    Carol Goodman

    Iris Greenfeder, ABD (All But Dissertation), feels the “buts” are taking over her life: all but published, all but a professor, all but married. Yet the sudden impulse to write a story about her mother, Katherine Morrissey, leads to a shot at lit...

  • The Lake of Dead Languages

    Carol Goodman

    Twenty years ago, Jane Hudson fled the Heart Lake School for Girls in the Adirondacks after a terrible tragedy. The week before her graduation, in that sheltered wonderland, three people died, all victims of suicide. Only Jane was left to carry the b...

  • The Vanishing Point

    M.R.D. Meek

    Lennox Kemp and his assistant, Franklyn Davey, investigate two seemingly unrelated disappearances as Kemp tries to locate the missing Sieglinde Prentiss and Davey determines the fate of Annabel Angus, presumed dead in the World Trade Center terrorist...

  • The Gathering Storm

    Frank Simon

    Product Details Paperback: 337 pages Publisher: B&H Publishing Group (January 2003) Language: English ISBN-10: 0805425772 ISBN-13: 978-0805425772 Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 6.8 x 0.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of...

  • Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels

    Mindy Starns Clark

    With a touch of romance and a strong heroine, Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels offers more of the fast"paced and suspenseful inspirational writing readers found in A Penny for Your Thoughts.

    Working to provide quality work clothes to wome...

  • Across the Years

    Tracie Peterson

    Book 2 of DESERT ROSES. The last ten years have been difficult for Ashley Reynolds--first her parents disowned her because of her choice of spouse, war tragically took his life, then she discovered she would bear his child. Living with her grandfathe...

  • Thoughts While Having Sex

    Stephanie Lehmann

    "All through the movie, I kept salivating. And I felt like he must be able to hear me swallowing, so he must know that I was salivating, so he must know that I wanted him. And I didn't want him to know that my body is capable of such bodily excretion...

  • Jubilee

    Jack Dann

    Peter Lindsay lives in Melbourne, Australia. Charles Blackford is an American trying to relive a happier time in Athens. Both men have lost their wives. And now they must decide how to cope with the overwhelming changes being wrought by transcendent ...

  • The Monkey in the Mirror

    Ian Tattersall

    An “absorbing” look at how our species evolved, from the curator of human evolution at the American Museum of Natural History (Kirkus Reviews).What makes us so different from those other animals? How did we get this way? How do we know? And what ...

  • Grail Prince

    Nancy McKenzie

    The wheel is turning and the world will change. . . . And a son of Lancelot, with a bloody sword and a righteous heart, shall renew the Light in Britain before the descent of savage dark. . . . So spoke the Lady of the Lake. Now her grim prophecy...

  • The Chocolate Ship

    Marissa Monteilh

    After three years together, Mia can't help wondering if she's got a real future with Miles -- who's all that and then some, as long as the words "love" and "commitment" don't creep into the conversation. But the lady's willing to put her doubts aside...