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New Books List: 610 titles


  • Martha Conway

    Nicola is having a really bad day. She's tired of her job, her boss, and even her San Francisco apartment, which she's just heard she's being evicted from anyway. Her life's only excitement is fueled by fantasy -- about the expensive lingerie she w...



  • Linda Conrad

    A PASSIONATE REUNION Abby Gentry never wanted to risk losing her heart to anyone. But when she rescues her old high school crush from certain death, her virginal innocence is swept away by flames of desire. Sexy Comanche Gray Parker will do anythin...



  • Heather Parkinson

    With echoes of Cormac McCarthy, an exquisite debut novel from America's heartland.

    Seventeen-year-old Walter Pascoe sets out for his first season as a sheep herder and learns quickly the dangers and beauties of the land. Also awakening to ma...



  • Peter Tremayne

    DANGEROUS WATERS In the late autumn of A.D. 666, Sister Fidelma, an advocate of the Brehon law courts, embarks on a pilgrimage to contemplate her commitment to Ireland's Celtic Church and her relationship to the Saxon monk Eadulf. On a ship bound ...



  • Robert Cort

    What do you do when your oldest friend, Steve McQueen, pulls out his Smith & Wesson and blows your defenseless dining-room chair to smithereens? Or when your hottest client, sex goddess Romy Schneider, demands you leave your wife for her? Those a...



  • Ricki Stern

    Invasion!
    Beryl E. Bean

    Beryl's way too busy to play host when Alex moves into her home while his parents are away. He can't keep his nose out of her stuff, but her classmates think he's great -- and they're ignori...



  • P.N. Elrod

    CAN A MYHR MORTAL SURVIVE SUCH PERIL? His name is Myhr--rhymes with purr!--he's half-man, half-cat, and all-adventure, traveling the multi-verse with Terrin, a twisted wizard who's into techno-raves and obscene T-shirt art. Displaced from Earth by...




  • Ann Evans

    Jenna Rawlins is a straitlaced kind of woman. As fate would have it, the one night she goes a little crazy and allows herself to be seduced, she becomes pregnant. It's bad timing, since she's trying to claim her independence from her overprotective f...



  • Max Allan Collins

    Secrets and betrayals, as the saga of Dark Angel continues! In a chaotic world where the lines between good and evil often blur, and violent anarchy and brutal repression become commonplace, secrets can be deadly. So when Max discovers a shatterin...



  • Dale Brown

    In military circles it's known as Air Battle Force -- an air combat unit of the future, under the command of aerial warfare expert Major General Patrick McLanahan, capable of launching stealthy, precision-guided firepower to anywhere on the globe wit...



  • Judith Lyons

    Fire in the cockpit! Rand Michaels was barely into the mission when it went sour. But there wasn't a damned thing he could do except push Winnie Mae Taylor to use every ounce of her aviation skills to get them on the ground. So, he pinned her with hi...



  • Brian Michael Bendis

    Jessica investigates Spider-Woman, a woman who may have more in common with Jessica than just her first name. Plus: J. Jonah Jameson hires Jessica to find out Spider-Man's secret identity. Collects ALIAS #10, 16-21....



  • Susan Juby

    LIFE GOALS LIST: 1. Decide on a unique and innovative career path. 2. Increase contact with people outside of immediate family. 3. Learn to drive a car. 4. Some sort of boy-girl interaction? (Possibly best left until after high school. Maybe be...



  • Al Lacy; Joanna Lacy

    The second book in the Orphan Trains Trilogy from writing duo Al and Joanna LacyWhen 62 orphans and abandoned children leave New York City on a train headed out West, they have no idea what to expect. Will they get separated from their friends or sib...



  • Kay Hooper
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    IN A DEADLY GAME OF SKILL AND DECEPTION... The priceless, rarely displayed Bannister collection is about to be exhibited - and the show's director, Morgan West, can't ignore her growing uneasiness. She's certain she hasn't seen the last of the inf...



  • Margaret Peterson Haddix

    FROM BAD TO WORSE LUKE GARNER, AN ILLEGAL THIRD CHILD, SPENT HIS FIRST TWELVE YEARS IN HIDING. For the past four months Luke has lived among others, using the identity of Lee Grant, at the Hendricks School for Boys. But just as things are finally s...



  • Patti Berg

    She's the blonde bombshell who once starred in a string of low-budget films and is now a jet-setting, bestselling author. But one too many bites of caviar, menacing phone calls from her jailbird ex, a tabloid photographer hot on her heels, and nasty ...



  • Darren Williams

    After a week lost in the Australian outback, thirteen-year-old Tom Ferry makes his way back to Angel Rock. To the horror of everyone in the small town, he is alone. Exhausted and traumatized, he can't remember what happened to Flynn, his little broth...



  • James P. Hogan

    Earth has been devastated after a near miss by a white-hot protoplanet ejected from Jupiter. The poles and climatic bands have been shifted, continents and oceans resculpted in titanic cataclysms, and civilization as we know it has ended. Only the...



  • Amy Gutman

    Three women. One serial killer's legacy. The writer who profited from his infamy. The lawyer who defended him to the death. The guilt-ridden girlfriend who never faced the truth. All three women believe they are safe from serial killer Steven ...



  • Tony Johnston

    Award-winning picture-book author Tony Johnston presents the poignant story of a loving Mexican-American family in East L.A. in her first novel for young readers.Los Angeles is a place of movie stars and fast cars and people who are too rich and peop...



  • Russell Andrews

    A man burdened by his past, former top homicide cop Justin Westwood has retreated to a small-town Long Island police force. Drowning his troubles in mindless traffic duty and lots of scotch, he's awakened to action when a young woman journalist is br...



  • Jim Arnosky

    Having kept to himself for a very long time, Armadillo realizes the importance of neighbors when he turns to scrub jay, the honeybees, and the old tortoise to help him find his way back home after the orange rolls away from the entrance of his hole....



  • Rhonda Gowler Greene


    This warmhearted picture book is a wonderful choice for Grandparents’ Day -- which is celebrated on September 8th

    "Squirrels to feed
    Bluebirds too
    A ride in Grandma’s red canoe"

    There’s nothing like a visit at Grandma’...



  • Jacqueline Baird

    When Nick Menendez discovered that beautiful Liza Summers was working for the prime suspect in a diamond robbery case, the Spanish security tycoon took matters into his own hands -- and Liza into his custody! He decided the simplest way to uncover th...



  • Joanna Wayne

    UNBREAKABLE VOWS A string of murders reunited homicide detective Dallas Mitchell with a woman he'd tried to forget. Years had passed, but the passion was still there. Only, this time it was fraught with danger. Because Nicole Lancaster was a marri...



  • Caroline Burnes

    A CRY FOR HELP Rebecca Barrett had come to Mississippi to oversee the excavation of priceless artifacts at Blackthorn. But it was the search for a heard-but-never-seen baby that became the focus of her days. However, the harder Rebecca looked for an...




  • Victoria Pade

    SURPRISE, YOU MIGHT BE A DADDY! As a wildlife photographer, confirmed bachelor Devon Tarlington had encountered his share of dangerous nighttime predators. But it was the news that he might be the father of ten-month-old Harley that scared him mos...



  • Carol Reddick

    It's been said you can never go home again, but Gillian Guy has done just that and she plans to stick around for a good long while. With hope in her heart and cash in hand, she buys a dilapidated antique shop, Bachelor's End, which she dreams of retu...



  • Susan Crandall

    A woman of the law, A man with a past, And trouble on the horizon. Sensible, capable, and always in control, Leigh Mitchell is the local sheriff of her sleepy Indiana home town. But Leigh is turning thirty and feeling restless. Something needs t...



  • Tracy-Lee McGuinness-Kelly

    Energetic text and quirky illustrations combine to present the unforgettable tale of Bad Cat, a cool, calm, and collected kitty, who has a penchant for wild and crazy adventures in the Big Stinky city....



  • Jack Higgins

    Now an enemy has emerged with a dark secret from America's past--and a score to settle with agent Dillon. In the waning days of World War II, Hitler entrusted his "holy" diary--a document detailing clandestine communications between Nazi Germany a...



  • John Burdett

    A thriller with attitude to spare, Bangkok 8 is a sexy, razor-edged, often darkly hilarious novel set in one of the world's most exotic cities. Witnessed by a throng of gaping onlookers, a charismatic Marine sergeant is murdered under a Bangkok br...



  • Rudyard Kipling

    The Barrack-Room Ballads are a set of martial songs and poems by Rudyard Kipling originally published in two parts: the first set in 1892, the second in 1896. Many have become classic military ditties, still well known, and are closely linked to Brit...



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  • Louise Gikow

    The Barbie Rules series offers young girls rules to live by! When Stacie’s friends tease her for doing well in math, Barbie must help her sister see that she should always be proud of herselfâ€"no matter what anyone else thinks....



  • Richard Torrey

    Beans Baker sure can pogo. He’s the Robo-Pogo champion of the school -- until his classmate Sheldon beats his record. Beans knows he can become the Robo-Pogo Champion for Life, if only he didn’t have to study for that pesky spelling test Readers ...



  • Lara Bergen

    Stanley doesn't want to go to sleep-ever! He wants to play all night long. But when he and Dennis learn that even grizzly bears need their rest, Stanley realizes just how important it is to get your zzz's....



  • Maureen Child

    SHE NEEDED A HERO... Waitress Daisy Cusak went into labor right in the middle of the dinner rush. Racked by pain, she couldn't protest the strong arms that carried her to help. Navy pilot Alex Barone became her strength; his calming voice and caring...



  • Marie Ferrarella

    Lori O'Neill surprised herself when she kissed her late husband's brother. Maybe it was pregnancy hormones, but this mother-to-be was looking at Carson in a whole new light. Carson had been there for Lori ever since she'd lost her husband, but, as he...



  • Michael Slade

    Isolated in the Riverside Insane Asylum is the Ripper. He believes he's the notorious butcher who terrorized Whitechapel more than a century ago. In the black hole of his imagination he reenacts the crimes. In the darkness of his heart he still crave...



  • Sharon G. Flake

    The story of one young girl's struggle for money and survival, and the lengths she will go to get both, now reissued with an arresting new cover.Is there greed in Raspberry Hill's genes? In this sequel to Coretta Scott King Honor Book Money Hungry, o...



  • Ralph Macchio

    This is where it all begins... the very first shots fired in the civil war between the heroic Autobots, led by the noble Optimus Prime, and the evil Decepticons, ruled by the crazed Megatron -- and featuring an all-new cover by classic Transformers...



  • Anne Ashley

    A dangerous game of spies and seduction... Spirited Katherine O'Malley, sent to France to flush out a traitor, is prepared for discomfort, fear, even danger in her country's service. She isn't prepared to work with handsome rake Major Daniel Ross ...



  • Tracie Peterson

    As a Harvey tour guide, Rainy Gordon spends her days in the magnificent landscape of New Mexico. Having already fled a tainted past, Rainy is alarmed when she becomes a suspect in an investigation of stolen Hopi Indian artifacts. The man she loves ha...




  • Fred Saberhagen

    Fred Saberhagen continues his Berserker Series®, a chronicle of a war between humanity and the terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction. Pilot Harry Silver's name is know throughout the galaxy. While he has defeated his sha...



  • Kate Laing

    When her mother tells her about the soon-to-be new baby, Sophie says that she’d rather have a pet that does interesting and fun things, but upon the newborn's arrival, Sophie begins to see that babies are quite amusing too....



  • J. Michael Straczynski

    While Aunt May comes to terms with her nephew's secret identity as Spider-Man, high school teacher Peter tries to keep his marriage to MJ intact as he continues to battle villains such as the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus....



  • Raye Morgan

    Princess Tianna had no intention of honoring her lifelong betrothal to Prince Garth Roseanova. But when she arrived to disengage herself from the playboy prince she'd never met, she ended up going undercover as a nanny -- to protect the abandoned...



  • Candice Proctor

    Can life ever be a real adventure without falling in love? Ever since she can remember, India McKnight has craved adventure, dreaming of lands past the horizon. Following her calling, she becomes a travel writer, a vocation that takes her far and ...



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    The youngest of seven daughters, beguiling Eden has been chosen to act as caretaker to their aging papa. Not to be dissuaded from enjoying life's adventures, when she meets Anthony, Viscount Romleigh, a devastatingly attractive rake of the first orde...



  • Matt Groening

    Bart Simpson is back with another big book of bust–a–gut belly laughs.

    Following the great success of Big Book of Bart Simpson, join Bart in this second installation of the Bart Comic Compilations as he defies authority, duc...



  • Sheila Walsh

    Big Billy and his Gnoo Zoo pals go on a sailing adventure. Big Billy's courage and trust in the Great White Tiger is tested. He and his friends grow spiritually by helping each other, while learning to appreciate the strengths and differences they ea...



  • Aine Greaney

    An enchanting romantic saga set in rural Ireland. Having abandoned his Irish roots to seek his fortune in London, John McHugh, now a wealthy property developer, returns to Co. Mayo to buy the beautiful but derelict Rathloe House. But his motives are ...



  • Gail Herman

    Chapter book readers will love reading about their favorite Big Red Dog!

    In this story based on a Clifford TV episode, the merry-go-round is missing from the local playground. Clifford, Cleo, T-Bone and KC help solve the mystery, inspired by a...



  • Ritsuko Kawai

    This second 8x8 in the Hamtaro series gives fans a wonderful story of encouragement as the Ham-Hams convince Bijou to leave her cage.

    Based on the 4th TV episode entitled, "Come out, Bijou," in which the Ham-Hams encourage a reluctant Bijou to...



  • Leigh Michaels

    Gina Haskell has her heart set on her new business venture, but one man stands in her way -- Dez Kerrigan! He's a cool, tough tycoon and he's causing nothing but trouble.... The attraction between them sparkles, but Gina isn't sure she...



  • Katie MacAlister
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    SEX. BETRAYAL. A YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI. Two hundred singles. Six weeks. One HOT tropical island. Welcome to EDEN, the best new reality game show on television. A hundred blind dates, two hundred first kisses, and ninety-nine heart-wrenching confess...



  • Michael Crow

    Luther Ewing is looking forward to an easy chill--just busting local meth heads in the malls. But one night someone plugs him in the parking lot of his condo--someone who's careful not to kill him. Is it a warning? Then sexy DEA agent Francesca Russo...




  • Liz Ireland

    Chaining herself to the saloon doors seemed like a good idea, but Lacy Calhoun quickly learned reforming her happily scandalous Texas town would take more than do-gooder theatrics. Even harder would be getting the better of roguishly handsome barkeep...



  • Steve Hamilton

    Winning the Edgar Award for A Cold Day in Paradise, Steve Hamilton introduced one of the most compelling characters in modern fiction: Alex McKnight, a gritty ex-Detroit cop who can't say no to a friend in need-no matter the cost. Now McKnight finds ...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo vows to unveil a killer at a Kansas wedding…Skye Fargo likes a wedding just fine, as long as it isn’t his own. And his friend, Jeb, sure knows how to throw a good party, with plenty of sousing and carousing. But just when the party kic...



  • Sarah Albee

    It's time for Blue's checkup! She's feeling a tiny bit nervous about her trip to the doctor's office. What are Dr. Maya and Nurse Kenny going to do during her visit? Come along with Joe and Blue and find out!...



  • Jill Winters

    Reese Brock is sleep-deprived, sex-deprived, and fun-deprived. But all that is about to change. With one sister already maritally enhanced and another halfway down the aisle, twenty-seven-year-old Reese Brock fears her own life has taken a turn fo...



  • Kate White

    For Bailey, trading Manhattan for a weekend of major pampering at a friend's resort in rural Massachusetts is a no-brainer. But when she stumbles across a mummy-wrapped corpse in one of the spa's treatment rooms, her time-out suddenly morphs into a f...



  • Carrie Asai

    When I was six months old, I dropped from the sky -- the lone survivor of a deadly Japanese plane crash. The newspapers named me Heaven. I was adopted by a wealthy family in Tokyo, pampered, and protected. For nineteen years, I thought I was lucky. ...



  • Carrie Asai

    When I was six months old, I dropped from the sky -- the lone survivor of a deadly Japanese plane crash. The newspapers called me Heaven. I was adopted by a wealthy family in Tokyo, pampered, and protected. For nineteen years, I thought I was lucky. ...



  • Tara Taylor Quinn

    What's wrong with this picture? Bonnie Nielson's life looks perfect. She has everything she's always wanted -- a husband and child she adores, a successful business, close family and friends, a town she loves. And yet she's not happy. For some ...



  • Leigh Greenwood

    A GOOD MAN... Holt Price had come to Galveston in search of the woman he loved. After the pain, the heartbreak, the terrible devastation of war, he was ready to settle down with the green-eyed beauty he'd pledged to marry. Instead, he found himself ...



  • May McGoldrick

    THE PROPOSAL Driven to undo the evil wrought by her dead husband, Millicent Wentworth must find a way to save her estate and free the innocent people her husband enslaved. Her only hope is a marriage--in name only--with the notorious widower, the Ea...



  • Melinda Rucker Haynes

    The Sword Returns! The riveting sequel to the critically acclaimed novel The Eternal Trust.

    Jonathan Spencer has no memory of being a psychic spy until past life hypnotherapist Rian Farsante helps him remember too much. But Rian knows the one thin...



  • Keith R.A. Decandido

    After the catastrophic events of Wildfire, both Captain David Gold and Commander Sonya Gomez return to their homes, to take refuge in family in the wake of tragedy. But neither commanding officer nor first officer finds the road to recovery an easy o...



  • Jennifer Archer
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    SEX. BETRAYAL. A YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI. Two hundred singles. Six weeks. One HOT tropical island. Welcome to EDEN, the best new reality game show on television. A hundred blind dates, two hundred first kisses, and ninety-nine heart-wrenching confess...



  • Monica Ali

    “A book you won’t be able to put down. A Bangladeshi immigrant in London is torn between the kind, tedious older husband with whom she has an arranged marriage (and children) and the fiery political activist she lusts after. A novel that’s mult...



  • Carole Mortimer

    Georgie is still in love with her ex-husband, Jed, but has resigned herself to life without him. She is sure that he can never give her what she yearns for -- love -- and that she can never give him what he needs: a baby. But, as heir to the famil...



  • Solomon Jones

    Sometimes, Philadelphia Police Detective Kevin Lynch feels he has spent his whole life trying to put his past firmly behind him. But a frantic call for help from a childhood friend whose child has gone missing changes all that. Now Lynch must summ...



  • Nancy Herkness

    In this steamy debut, Nancy Herkness introduces a smart and sexy young widow who's determined to rebuild her life--from the heart up... Kate Chilton thought she had it all. Two bright children, a lovely home, a successful husband--everything she'd...



  • Nadia Nichols

    Caleb McCutcheon is living his dream as owner of a large ranch in the Montana wilderness. But when the woman he loves tells him she can't be part of that dream, Caleb is determined to learn the real reason for her reluctance. Because he knows...



  • Jamie Gilson

    Richard's day gets off to a bad start when he has to wear too-big purple corduroy pants to school. Although it's Richard's turn to lead the Pledge of Allegiance and to hand out the mealworms that Mrs. Zookey's class is going to study, those purple pa...



  • Aniruddha Bahal

    A brilliant international thriller, set in contemporary Kashmir, about an investigative journalist, espionage, and the temptations of drugs, sex, and corruption in the Indian Army

    Our hero, known as MM, is a pleasure-seeking journalist working...



  • Suzan Colon

    Clark Kent, who will later be known as Superman, has a crush on the new Spanish teacher at his high school--and so does Lex Luthor who, when he discovers that she can read minds, is determined to find out what she knows about Clark's secret....



  • Simon Kernick

    It's a typical cold November night and Detective Sergeant Dennis Milne, a very atypical policeman, waits in the Traveller's Rest Hotel parking lot for the arrival of three men. Cynical and jaded, Milne earns money on the side by doing what he does be...



  • David Wojtowycz

    This large-size picture book, with bold, kid-friendly illustrations, provides a wonderful introduction to different animals and the sounds they make.

    Cheery little chick . . . Cheep cheep cheep
    Happy little lion. . . Roar

    An assortme...



  • Peter David

    Gifted with his late father's power of Cosmic Awareness, Genis, the new Captain Marvel, tries to discover his place in the universe and live up to his father's legacy, while others in the universe seek to use him for their own ends....



  • Kathryn Lasky

    SOREN IS BORN IN THE FOREST OF TYTO, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, evil that threatens to shatter Tyto's peace and change the course of Soren's life forever. Soren is captured and taken to a dark an...



  • Lenora Worth

    SOLID AS A ROCK... No one wanted roots more than Rock Dempsey, who worked as a minister and a carpenter in his small community. He dreamed of meeting a woman whose feet were firmly planted on the ground, a companion to share everything with. Somet...



  • Caren Lissner

    Carrie Pilby doesn't fit in -- and she's pretty much given up trying. A year out of college and settling in to life in the big city, this nineteen-year-old genius believes everyone she meets is immoral, sex obsessed and hypocritical, and the only per...




  • Gerald Hausman

    From being lost in the Florida Everglades to being stranded on an island comprised solely of sand, an action-packed collection follows six courageous and extraordinary castaways who braved brutal weather, raging seas, hunger, thirst, wild animals, an...



  • Janet McNaughton

    With momentum still building from this year’s earlier release of An Earthly Knight, coupled with the bestseller, multi-award-winning status of The Secret Under My Skin, we are happy to present the mass market edition of Catch Me Once, Catch Me ...



  • Suzan Colon

    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 more! Chock-full of insightful feline fatale tips, this illustrated tell-all delivers the seari...



  • Rita Cleary

    Combining historical details with brilliant storytelling, this exciting novel recreates the incredible journey of Lewis and Clark as they team up with a French-Canadian trapper named Toussaint Charbonneau who offers to escort them to the Pacific, but...



  • Emma Harrison

    Dylan, Natalie, and Alex are on the case of a missing titanium ring that holds secret information about HALO--Hidden Alias List Operation--and its now-vulnerable witnesses, who are in danger of being discovered....



  • David Levithan

    Filled with action and adventure, a junior novelization of the sequel to Charlie's Angels, which is coming to theaters in June 2003, follows Dylan, Natalie, and Alex as they embark on a dangerous new mission. Original....



  • Sarah Smith

    Meet Joe Roper, tough-minded young graduate student, who has been lucky enough to land a job cataloging the famed Kellogg Collection of Elizabethan texts and curiosities. Joe's been passionate about Shakespeare since he read a duct-taped paperback at...



  • Anna Davis

    Sassy London cab driver Kathryn Cheet uses a system of color-coded cell phones to juggle five different lovers, until she picks up Craig Summer, a difficult but charming passenger who seems determined to create chaos in Kathryn's life....



  • Helen A. Rosburg

    Once upon a time, a knight and the daughter of one of Henry III's barons fell in love. He was Stephen of Bellingham; she, Amarantha of Ullswater. They were brought together by a desperate bid to escape the madness of Baldwin, Earl of Cumbria. The tas...



  • Charles de Lint

    While living on the homestead with her aunt, Lillian becomes friends with a group of wild cats during her many explorations of the forest, so when a poisonous snake bites her, the wild cats agree to use their powers to transform her into one of them ...



  • Gillian Roberts

    Though she's engaged to the wealthy bachelor Leo Fairchild, nobody in Philadelphia knows a thing about Emmie Cade. As the marriage date approaches, Emmie's mother-in-law-to-be, Claire Fairchild, receives anonymous letters suggesting, none too subtly,...



  • Jack Murnighan

    Jack Murnighan, former editor in chief of the erotica website Nerve.com, is back with a new collection of the steamiest sex scenes from the greatest books of all time. Here is the literary sex-education readers have always lusted for, with over 80 ex...



  • Tim Gautreaux

    In his critically acclaimed new novel, Tim Gautreaux fashions a classic and unforgettable tale of two brothers struggling in a hostile world.In a lumber camp in the Louisiana cypress forest, a world of mud and stifling heat where men labor under back...



  • Judy Sierra

    Coco, a very smart poodle, and Cavendish, a very brave border collie, are circus starsâ€"until the greedy owner of the circus replaces them with robot dogs. The two unemployed dogs set off to find a new job and have many funny and exciting adventures...



  • Donald Bain

    Remember when flying was glamorous and sexy, even fun? When airline food was gourmet, everyone dressed up for a flight, and stewardesses catered to our every need-at least in our imaginations? This classic memoir by two audaciously outspoken young la...



  • Rick Wilber

    Cold . . . cold is all Melissa O'Malley feels, growing up in the frigid expanses of rural Minnesota. The one thing keeping her warm is the obeah talent she has inherited from her island mother, who mysteriously left when Melissa was only five. Bright...



  • L.T. Fawkes

    I want to tell you a story. It's about friends, hard work, good love, bad love, and murder. My name's Terry Saltz. Here's me: Six-five. Twenty-six. Smart-ass. Long black hair tied back with a leather shoelace. Plaid flannel shirt with the elbows ...



  • The Urban Griot

    After hard-fought battles to include African Americans as qualified students within the white American educational system, the opportunity for higher learning still remains a struggle. This is Troy Potter's story. He is an African American young m...



  • Rose Tremain

    From the critically-acclaimed historical novelist Rose Tremain comes the The Colour

    Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. ...




  • Nicholas Drayson

    A murder, a vanished tropical island, a thwarted love affair. . . clues to the origin of Charles Darwin's famous theory. A nameless narrator, abandoned on an island soon to be obliterated by volcanic activity, tells the story of his life and exile fr...



  • Gail Herman

    Chapter book readers will love reading about their favorite Big Red Dog!

    Mr. Bleakman has baked an enormous cookie for the Birdwell Island Fair. Try as he might, Clifford just can't resist the temptation to taste the Clifford-sized treat. Mr. ...



  • Mary Anne Kelly

    "When true love hits," he used to tell her---like he knew what he was talking about---"you can almost hear it go click." That was a laugh. She'd cried for months, really. Cried when people came to look at the house. Cried at the closing. Cried ...



  • Robert Dessaix

    One Easter a young actor, far from home, rents a house from a writer he's never heard of called Kester Berwick, and becomes fascinated by the absent Berwick's rootless, self-invented existence. Gradually, he finds his own life strangely echoing the a...



  • Jay MacLarty

    With explosive action, an international conspiracy, and a hero that readers can root for, Jay Maclarty's THE COURIER is an edge-of-your-seat debut thriller that delivers! Simon Leonidovich is a high-tech, international courier of "packages" that r...



  • Freda Warrington

    The Wars of the Roses - colourful, full of fury and passion. In our histories - and Shakespeare's play - Richard the Third dies on Bosworth Field, hacked to death in a just ending. But another Richard exists, who is still loved in the North of Englan...



  • Kim Antieau

    Jeanne Les Flambeaux-you know, the famous Flambeaux clan, the great chefs and restaurateurs of the Southwest-is the black sheep of her very accomplished family. She has a few problems. Like, for one, she can't cook. And she hears voices for another. ...



  • Martin H. Greenberg

    A thrilling collection of submarine warfare fiction, detailing the earliest submarines and U-boats, as well as the latest high-tech underwater vessels, includes contributions from Jim DeFelice, James H. Cobb, Brendan DuBois, R. J. Pineiro, and Willia...



  • Billie Sue Mosiman

    When the Predators, who believe that he is the long-prophesied hunter of vampires, murder his wife and kidnap his child, Malachi, part mortal, part vampire, becomes a dark creature with an insatiable thirst for revenge, a transformation that could le...



  • Jennifer L. Holm

    Caleb Devlin is a legend on Mockingbird Lane, the boy who terrorized an entire town before he got sent away. They say he hurt other kids, tortured animals, set fires, and did things grown-ups speak of only in whispers. But that was all before Penny a...




  • Mary Reed McCall

    EVERY MAN IN ENGLAND WANTED HER... She was called "the Crimson Lady." But Fiona Byrne wants no part of the notorious life she was compelled to lead, adopting instead the disguise of a simple seamstress. Then she is discovered by Braedan de Cantor,...



  • Harker Moore

    A COP IS CHASING THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL IS MAKING ANGELS. THE CRUELEST SEASON HAS BEGUN... A madman is pushing New York to the edge of panic, leaving dead bodies on display-unbloodied, naked, posed with the giant white wings of birds. Facing press...



  • Jefferson Scott

    Muslim raiders have destroyed a village in the Christian south of Sudan, killing men and seizing women and children as slaves. Now Jason Kromer and the Firebrand team of Christian commandos are sent into the breach. Upon their arrival, they discover ...



  • Lara Bergen

    Stanley and his friends think the new kid at school acts like a big scary wolf. But a visit with some real wolves teaches Stanley and his friends just how wrong they were about the animals-and their new classmate!...



  • Mark Haddon

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  • Irene Trimble

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  • James Axler

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  • Stephen J. Clark

    After exposing a major money-laundering operation in Litchfield, Alabama, reporter Nelson Ingram soon discovers that the case is far from over when people begin dying and his cabin is burned down to the ground. Original....



  • Dave Benbow

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  • Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

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  • Ethan Black

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  • Morgan Hill

    “You may put a rope on my wrists,†the captured outlaw Duke McClain taunts Sheriff Matt Blake, “but you’ll never put one on my neck.†A death sentence awaits McClain in Tucson for his robberies, massacres, and senseless murders -- but it li...



  • Wm. Mark Simmons

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  • Judith Cook

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  • Lisa Scottoline

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  • Indra Sinha

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  • Sue Henry

    Recovering from knee surgery that will cause her to miss the upcoming dogsled racing season, champion "musher" Jessie Arnold feels empty and bored--so she grabs an opportunity to fill her days manning the Iditarod booth at the Alaska State Fair. But ...



  • David Bowker

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  • Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

    The second in the acclaimed Brazilian series featuring Inspector Espinosa, the detective hailed by critics for "his existential sensibility, his exotic beat, and his literary merit" (San Francisco Chronicle)A retired policeman spends a typically alco...



  • RH/Disney

    Deep beneath the sea, Ariel daydreams about life on land. Will this curious little mermaid’s dreams ever come true? Dive into this delightful board book featuring a three-dimensional Ariel molded on the soft plastic cover....



  • Jeanette Baker

    Tragedy has knocked on the door of the Delaney family more than once, and now Kellie Delaney must face it once again when her twin brother dies in a suspicious accident in Wales. Her grief turns to shock and then to rage when she learns that Connor h...



  • Jane Langton

    Jane Langton has set part of this dramatic story in the present and part during the great battle of Gettysburg. In the here-and-now, Homer and Mary Kelly try to trace the mysterious shame attached to the name of Mary's ancestor, Seth Morgan, a young ...



  • Patricia Bray

    QUEST TO THE DEATH Devlin of Duncaer is the Chosen One, champion of the Kingdom of Jorsk. A simple metalsmith and farmer turned warrior, he has become the most unlikely of heroes to the conquerors of his own people, the Caerfolk. Yet there is a grow...



  • Omar Tyree

    Tabitha Knight lives a very peculiar life. A child of foster care who has grown into an attractive and ambitious adult, she now finds solace, excitement, and security in the company of rich and famous men whom she dates as a discreet and charming gro...



  • Carola Dunn

    That irrepressible sleuth, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, faces another case of mayhem and mischief in the latest installment of Carola Dunn's charming mystery series. This time, Daisy is confronted with a dentist who has made his last a...



  • Peter King

    Recipes sizzle and intrigue simmers when the Gourmet Detective takes a ride on the twenty-fifth anniversary journey of the world-famous Danube Express. The stately railroad starts its route in the Alps and cuts through Austria, Hungary, and the fo...



  • Roger L. Simon

    A quarter of a century after he first appeared in the now-classic The Big Fix, Moses Wine remains a private investigator par excellence. Still a Berkeley radical at heart, Moses is now thoroughly chastened by the events that have led to the war on te...



  • Gordon Korman

    4 Divers. 1 Treasure. 1 Incredible Challenge. Kaz, Dante, Adriana, and Star aren't the best divers in the world. But they've been chosen to spend the summer exploring the depths of the sea. There are only a few problems. First, the sharks. Killer s...



  • Disney Book Group

    Featuring the absolutely delightful Disney princesses, these two beautifully illustrated collections present each princess in her very own book-length story, retold with new details that every little princess will love to read. Volume Two features Ci...



  • Disney Book Group

    Featuring the absolutely delightful Disney princesses, these two beautifully illustrated collections present each princess in her very own book-length story, retold with new details that every little princess will love to read. Volume One stars Ariel...



  • S.P. Somtow

    Every five thousand years, so the people of the planet Thanet believe, the world ends in fire and a new cycle of creation begins. Now the Last Days are once again upon them, and a fiery star draws near. This is the Death-Bringer, the Eater of the Wor...



  • Gary Indiana

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  • Alisa Kwitney

    Passion. The kind of tear-your-clothes off, scream-your-lungs-out, crash-into-the-furniture passion that changes lives. It's what Delilah wants. It's what she craves. It's what she fantasizes about whenever her disinterested husband's not around....



  • Carolyn Parkhurst

    A poignant and beautiful debut novel explores a man's quest to unravel the mystery of his wife's death with the help of the only witness -- their Rhodesian ridgeback, Lorelei....



  • Debra Webb
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    Michal Arad wanted vengeance when he kidnapped former CIA agent Ami Donovan, claiming she'd posed as his lover to set him up as an assassin. But Ami had amnesia and no way of knowing the truth...until Michal took her in his arms. In spite of her fear...



  • Robyn Carr

    In the peaceful town of Grace Valley, neighbors are like family -- and just as meddlesome, too. June Hudson is the town's doctor, a caring, capable woman who now has a bit of explaining to do. People are beginning to notice the bloom in her cheeks...



  • Robin Wayne Bailey

    The time of the dragons has passed, and a New Age is coming-an age that will be dominated by a race called "Man." Wyvernwood, a deep and mysterious forest in the land of Engmar, is the last known refuge for the descendants of the great and majestic d...



  • Walter Dean Myers

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  • Iain Pears

    In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called "The Dream of Scipio," thr...



  • Reinhardt Jung

    After falling asleep, Hannes is transported to 1930s Germany during the era of the Nazis and experiences what life was like as a persecuted person during that time as he struggles with a disability and the fear that the Nazis do not think him worthy ...



  • Terry Brooks

    Evil will not give up without a fight. . . . Without the Sword of Shannara, the evil Warlock Lord cannot be defeated. Yet the quest for the mysterious talisman lies in ruins. The intrepid company of warriors assembled by the Druid Allanon to recov...



  • Stephen Marlowe

    Shamus Award-winning author

    Drum is a first-rate private investigator of the old school -- no trendy neuroses or navel-gazing for him. Though he's an intelligent, compassionate man, he's also a man of action who never hesitates to do what's right. ...



  • Jeanne Ray

    Ruth loves to bake cakes. When she is alone, she dreams up variations on recipes. When she meditates, she imagines herself in the warm, comforting center of a gigantic bundt cake. If there is a crisis, she bakes a cake; if there is a reason to celebr...



  • Rebecca Tingle

    An adventure worthy of legend, for fans of Game of Thrones and Ranger's Apprentice

    When fifteen-year-old Æthelflæd is suddenly and reluctantly betrothed to an ally of her father, the king, her world will never be the same. For as a noblewoma...



  • Kris Radish

    Eight Women on a Journey That Will Change Their Lives as Lovers, Wives, Mothers, Daughters, Friends Just after midnight in a small town in Wisconsin, eight women begin walking together down a rural highway. Career women, housewives, mothers, divor...





  • Lucy Clark

    Single mom Natasha Forest's first day as an A&E doctor at Geelong General Hospital holds more than just medical trauma. She comes face-to-face with a ghost from the past -- the husband she hasn't see for seven years. A&E director Dr. Brenton Worth...



  • T.F. Banks

    For twenty years, England and France have been at war. Now the war has come home... On a sunny July day in 1815, Plymouth Sound is crowded with boats vying for a view of England's great battleship HMS Bellerophon. For aboard the vessel is the stou...



  • Mameve Medwed

    Lee Emery is an empty nester, contentedly married to a man she has known forever and hunkering down in the house where she grew up. She believes she is happy occupying such a familiar emotional and physical space. But questions of the path not taken ...



  • Maggie Shayne

    Subject: Zach Ingram, brawny brain, aka Professor Ingram Family History: The Ingram heir, brother of financial whiz Jake Deepest Secret: He'd always envied his brother -- until now.... Professor Zach Ingram was believed to have classified in...



  • Kristin Gabriel

    The City: San Francisco, California The Single: Left-behind bride Paige Hanover The Solution: The skirt! One year after being left at the altar, Paige Hanover has a new wardrobe, a new apartment and a new attitude. She's going to take another ch...



  • Alice Wootson

    Angela Baring will never forget the night she witnessed her boss's murder-or the handsome detective who hid out with her until she could enter the witness protection program. Those days and nights spent with Trent Stewart were some of the sweetest of...



  • Stan Lee

    The second collection of classic early material finds The Hulk opposed by the army, arch enemies, and even his girlfriend as General "Thunderbolt" Ross tries to destroy him and the Leader and the Abomination, two other humans altered by gamma radiati...



  • Tamara Thorne

    When she is invited to join Greenbriar University's elite sorority, Fata Morgana, Eve is plunged into a nightmarish realm of dark magic, sexual deviancy, corruption, and murder where evil thrives on the souls of its members. Original....



  • Jane Kirkpatrick

    Continuing the Tender Ties Historical Series, Every Fixed Star brings readers more of the dramatic, fictionalized account of Marie Dorion: the real-life woman who was the first mother to cross the Rocky Mountains and remain in the Northwest. In Book ...



  • Trisha Ashley

    Charlotte -- Charlie -- Rhymer's husband wants a divorce. Charlie isn't sure what she wants, but after the incident with the frying pan, even she has to concede that their differences may be irreconcilable after all. Returning home to her native Yor...



  • Ian Spiegelman

    A young man without prospects finds his place in the universe--as a young woman's slave.

    Poised somewhere between high school and adulthood, Leon Koch roams the bars and bedrooms of Bayside, Queens, twenty minutes and a thousand psychic miles ...



  • Marianne Wiggins

    This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar and Properties of Thirst, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things u...



  • John Wesley Powell

    One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains as fresh and exciting today as it was in 1874. ...



  • Jo Ann Ferguson

    Intrepid Lady Priscilla Flanders and her rakish friend Sir Neville Hathaway return to bucolic Hempten-on-Heath in Jo Ann Ferguson's newest tale of Regency romance and adventure, only to find that murder has cast a pall on the Michaelmas Faire... ...



  • Laura Leone

    While trying to save her spiraling career, Sara Diamond befriends her new next door neighbor, Ryan Kinsmore. A soft-spoken younger man with charm and good looks, Ryan leads a mysterious double life which becomes increasingly hard for him to conceal f...



  • J.F. Freedman

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  • Karen Harper

    Early one morning Claire Malvern awakes to an empty bed -- and her husband missing. There is no trace of Keith Malvern -- only an eyewitness who claims a man jumped off the bridge at Bloodroot Falls in the middle of the night. It is the spectacula...



  • K.L. Going

    A Michael L. Printz Honor BookTroy Billings is seventeen, 296 pounds, friendless, utterly miserable, and about to step off a New York subway platform in front of an oncoming train. Until he meets Curt MacCrae, an emaciated, semi-homeless, high school...



  • James V. Smith Jr.

    After the Marine Corps send their best shooter to a mental hospital, Team Midnight operatives Swayne and Greiner are sent to Afghanistan where they must race against time to rescue a CIA agent who is being held hostage by terrorists. Original....



  • Leslie Meier

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  • Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

    While being tucked into bed, Matthew tells his mother of all the fantastical things he had seen and experienced during the day, such as a tyrannosaurus squirrel in the tree castle and singing elephants who woke him in the morning, but finishes up his...



  • Keith Douglass

    SNEAK ATTACK Lieutenant Commander Blake Murdock and five members of Seal Team Seven are assigned to back up the CIA on a covert operation in Syria. Their mission: destroy the laboratory housing an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) bomb capable of render...



  • Robert Newcomb

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  • Michelle Monkou

    Spunky, successful career woman Nicole Montgomery seems to have it all until a health scare turns her would upside down-for the better. Determined to use her second chance to pursue more meaningful dreams, Nicole trades her business suit for a simpl...