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New Books List: 588 titles

  • Age of War

    Don Pendleton

    MAXIMUM EFFECTIVE Considered one of the most dangerous anti-West terrorist groups, the Al-Jabbar ply their lethal trade quietly and efficiently. But now, state-of-the-art intelligence and the interdiction of Mack Bolan have foiled them twice in de...

  • The Blue Horizon

    Wilbur Smith

    With adventure in their blood, Jim and Mansur Courtney seek to carve out a life for themselves and their families in the unexplored splendor of Africa. But laying claim to a land devastated by war yields unexpected risks. No sooner does their journey...

  • The Burma Legacy

    Jame Archer Jr.; Geoffrey Archer

    Sam Packer, hero of Firehawk and The Lucifer Network, has a new assignment that will combine all his diplomatic and survival skills. An aging, wealthy Japanese businessman, Tetsuo Kamata, wants to rescue an ailing British car company, but the moment ...

  • The Canal House

    Mark Lee

    Photojournalist Nicky Bettencourt thinks he's seen everything until he teams up with the legendary war correspondent Daniel McFarland. To Daniel, the story is everything; people come later. But after a plane crash nearly takes his life, Daniel begins...

  • Code Name: Quickstrike

    William W. Johnstone

    America's Secret Strike Force ... They Get The Job Done! Strike Back, Strike Fast Today, when bomb-throwing madmen rule nations and crime cartels strangle the globe, justice demands extreme measures. For twenty years, ex-CIA agent John Barrone ...

  • The Hood: Blood from Stones

    Brian K. Vaughan

    With a pregnant girlfriend, a demanding mistress, and an institutionalized mother to care for, 19-year-old Parker Robbins can barely make ends meet. So when the small time crook finds mystical apparel that grants him strange powers, he decides to for...

  • Hostile Contact

    Gordon Kent

    When Alan Craik and NCIS agent Mike Dukas spearheaded a hunt for a traitor inside the CIA, they landed in the middle of a firefight--and made some very powerful enemies. Inside Washington, some still worship the arch spy Craik and Dukas took down--an...

  • Otters

    Brian Jacques

    Provides readers of all ages with an informative look at this unique tribe from the Redwall series, enhanced with full-color illustrations, a poster featuring a cast of otter heroes and heroines from the series, puzzles, and a quiz....

  • Punk's Wing

    Ward Carroll

    While training a new squadron of pilots, Navy lieutenant Rick "Punk" Reichert is plunged into a deadly conspiracy involving faulty parts and terrorist threats when several F-14 Tomcats collide, resulting in the death of a fellow trainer. Original....

  • Scorpion Rising

    Don Pendleton

    A misguided patriot unleashes a death squad . . . Maximum Gain Mack Bolan has been sanctioned to neutralize threats the law can't touch. His next assignment: there's a death squad operating from America's shores, a brainchild of a government in...

  • Seaflower

    Julian Stockwin

    The maritime adventures of a Napoleonic-era British Navy seaman continue in this tale by the international bestselling author of Mutiny.The young seafaring hero Thomas Paine Kydd is back on board in Seaflower, the third installment in Julian Stockwin...

  • Secret Justice

    James W. Huston

    In the dead of night, a daring desert raid into Sudan by a Special Forces team led by Lt. Kent "Rat" Rathman ends with the apprehension of the world's most wanted criminal. But the methods necessary to achieve the goal are brutally unorthodox--and a ...

  • Sirens of Dunkirk

    Leo Kessler

    A new adventure for Major Dalby and his young sidekick Sergeant Mackenzie May 1940: the 'phoney' war is about to come to an end. The head of the German Secret Service is attempting to flood the UK with spies and Dalby and Mackenzie are determined to ...

  • Skydark Spawn

    James Axler

    A dark and Brooding land hungrily awaits the next generation... BLIND FORTITUDE Survival in America's nuke-blasted frontier is both a curse and a salvation for Ryan Cawdor and his warrior companions. Though the basic needs of existence must be fough...

  • Spike Speaks!

    Terry Collins

    The Rugrats are shipwrecked on a desert island! When Tommy and his friends set out in search of a way home, Spike awakes from a nap to find them missing. The only problem is he has a cold and can't smell a thing! How will he ever find them withou...

  • Talon and Fang

    James Axler

    The Struggle To Save The Future Finds A Treacherous New Battlefield: The Past Imperium of Evil Two centuries have tortured earth's nuke-altered frontier into a grim new world, clasped in the bloody vise of a power struggle between hybrid barons...

  • Victory

    Stephen Coonts

    Stephen Coonts asks what happens when you load a Catalina flying boat with five tons of bombs, a half dozen machine guns, and a crew that walks a line between valor and suicide. In the Pacific Theater of war, the Japanese Navy is about to discover th...

  • We Pierce

    Andrew Huebner

    We Pierce is the story of two brothers: one brother, Smith, goes to war. A true believer, he leads a tank company into battle in Iraq during the Gulf War. There he learns about the true nature of patriotism, camaraderie, modern warfare and, finally, ...

  • The Book of Light

    Michelle Blake

    When Lily Connor takes a job as interim chaplain at Tate University, an all but Ivy League school just down the road from Harvard, she's happy to discover that an old friend of hers from seminary is now there as well. It's clear, however, that someth...

  • A Buried Lie

    Roberta Isleib

    PAR FOR THE CORPSE Up-and-coming golfer Cassie Burdette a through the hell of Qualifying School--only to land herself in the hell of a pro-am tournament. Placed on a team with four doctors from the pharmaceutical company Meditron, she hopes she ca...

  • Cat in a Neon Nightmare

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    The lavish hotels and the sham of wholesome fun in American's sin capital Las Vegas may soothe the tourists, but sex and greed still fuel this town, and bad guys still abound. And Midnight Louie, the feline Sam Spade, has his paws full keeping th...

  • Click Here for Murder

    Donna Andrews

    Turing Hopper is one quick-thinking sleuth--she can process up to a billion pieces of information per second. That's because she's an Artificial Intelligence Personality--a Miss Marple for the new millennium--who's "intelligent and charming" (Earlene...

  • Die Once

    Marianne MacDonald

    Running an antiquarian bookshop in London might seem like a nice, quiet job, but bookseller Dido Hoare has had more than her share of adventures. Die Once is the next entry in Marianne MacDonald's wonderful mystery series featuring Dido Hoare.. Wh...

  • Dying to Meet You

    Jennifer Apodaca

    Samantha Shaw--irrepressible owner of the Heart Mates dating service--knows love can be tough. Even tougher is turning up at the home of her ex-client, Faye Miller, just in time to find Faye's dead body. The scene gets worse when arrogant Detective L...

  • Fried by Jury

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the patrons happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam si...

  • Havana Run

    Les Standiford

    John Deal has spent much of his adult life trying to rebuild the Miami construction firm that his late father ruined. When the possibility of a major project in post-normalized Cuba arises, he can't help but be intrigued-only to find that he's been l...

  • Murder Pans Out

    Emily Toll

    Widowed in her early fifties, Lynne Montgomery has rediscovered her first love--travel. With the money from her husband's insurance policy, she's able to buy the travel agency she worked for. But leading tour groups of well-heeled vacationers becomes...

  • Picture of Guilt

    Libby Fischer Hellmann

    The highly publicized murder trial of Johnnie Santoro has got all of Chicago betting on a quick guilty verdict. But Ellie Foreman is busy trying to remember where she's seen the perp before. When she pores through some of her video outtakes, Ellie fi...

  • The Riding Club Crime

    Carolyn Keene

    This summer, nothing’s safe at Green Spring -- not even the camp itself…Elsa, a friend of Nancy and George’s and a counselor at Green Spring Pony Club’s summer camp, invites the girls for a ride one afternoon. Along the way, Elsa gushes about...

  • Shop Till You Drop

    Elaine Viets

    Once on the fast track to success, Helen Hawthorne is going nowhere faster. Forced to trade in her chic life for a shabby one, she's now on the run, jumping from city to city and dead-end job to dead-end job, trying to stay one step ahead of her past...

  • Sunshine and Shadow

    Earlene Fowler

    Benni Harper is back. Once a cowgirl, she's now an expert quilter--and sometime crimesolver--in the Agatha Award-winning series. Now, she must stitch together a story from her past with a crime in the present... One of Benni's favorite mystery write...

  • Unpaid Dues

    Barbara Seranella

    Munch Mancini is one of those fictional characters who jump off the page and into readers' hearts. Mechanic, limo driver, mom, Munch -- short for Miranda -- has lived a hard life and done it all: sex, drugs, you name it. But now she has her adopted e...

  • Wedding's Widow

    Alex Matthews

    DEADLY BELOVED The marriage was over before it even began. As the couple spoke their vows, shots rang out and the groom dropped dead. Cassidy McCabe watches in stunned silence as the woman she helped to find happiness with the right man, becomes a...

  • Body Politic

    Glyn J. Godwin

    Griffin Dowell, lawyer for the rich and powerful in Washington, D.C., has always looked the other way when it came to shady dealings. But when a client friend is murdered and Griffin's own life threatened, he reconsiders his position. Meanwhile, Avra...

  • Sisterchicks on the Loose!

    Robin Jones Gunn

    Helsinki or Bust! OHH, YEAH... THESE GALS ARE GONE! Get set for adventure as the sisterchicks drive, float, or fly off to faraway places-- exploring new territory and delighting in the soul ties that forever bind their hearts. SISTERCHICK(n....

  • A Steadfast Surrender

    Nancy Moser

    Claire Adams is rich and successful. But is she willing to follow Jesus no matter what the cost? Searching for her purpose, Claire gives up everything and winds up in Steadfast, Kansas, where she hides in an attic library and meets a runaway teenager...

  • Wings of Mercy

    Laurie Kehler

    Uses thoughtful observations about birds to illustrate the Christian's spiritual walk through life, blending lively descriptions of the natural world with insights about the author's own experiences of living out her faith and tips on how to get the ...

  • The 100-Year Itch

    Holly Jacobs

    Meanwhile, the chase is on to discover Hiho's secret. Will Zoe Wallace, festival chairperson, be able to foil intrepid reporter Mace Mason's quest for the truth? Sure, he's an out-of-towner, but with each minute he's not only closer t...

  • Almost Perfect

    Judy Duarte

    HELP! Footloose cowboy Jake Meredith was perfect at rabble-rousing and rodeo riding. But when instant parenthood befell him, he was scared spitless of failing as a father for his tiny orphaned niece and nephew. Where to turn for help? YOU'VE GOT A F...

  • Amanda Bright @ Home

    Danielle Crittenden

    An important, shrewd, and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel that answers the question: What happens when Bridget Jones or the Sex and the City girls get married and have babies? Maybe you know Amanda. Maybe you are Amanda. Whoever you are, you will l...

  • At Close Range

    Marilyn Tracy

    How could he tell the woman who touched his heart about the nightmares that haunted him? Mack Dorsey's scars served as a permanent reminder of the children he couldn't save in a school bombing, even though he had been hailed a hero. The tortured teac...

  • At the Playboy's Pleasure

    Kim Lawrence

    To be a mistress...or married? He's taken her as his mistress... Finn Fitzgerald's socks are knocked off when he meets Lucy Foster. For the moment they have to be enemies, but that doesn't stop him from deciding that Lucy has got to b...

  • The Baby Mission

    Marie Ferrarella

    Special Agent C. J. Jones looked forward to impending motherhood but cursed being sidelined on a serial killer case because of it. And her irresistible partner Byron Warrick made it hard for her to play it safe. Then, one night, C.J. went into labor ...

  • Babyville

    Jane Green

    Meet Julia, a wildly successful television producer who appears to have the picture-perfect life. But beneath the surface, things are not as perfect as they seem. Stuck in a loveless relationship with her boyfriend, Mark, Julia thinks a baby is the a...

  • The Bachelor Chronicles

    Lissa Manley

    THE TROUBLE WITH BACHELOR #1 The assignment -- sending the city's most eligible bachelors out on blind dates, then writing about how they turned out -- should have been easy for a skilled reporter like Erin James. But the first man on her list wan...

  • Behaving Like Adults

    Anna Maxted

    Meet Holly, the sunny twenty-nine-year-old owner of Girl Meets Boy, a dating service for those who are "beautiful inside and out." Though she's a successful matchmaker, she hasn't quite fulfilled her own relationship dreams (her ex-fiancé, Nick, see...

  • The Big Bad Wolf Tells All

    Donna Kauffman

    In this last-paced, sexy romp from Donna Kauffman, a woman who's a self-avowed lone wolf--with a trail of broken hearts behind her--finds herself face-to-face with love.... Tanzy Harrington is the Bay Area's most-read romance columnist and self-pr...

  • The Billionaire Bridegroom

    Emma Darcy

    To bed...or wed? When Serena's engagement to a property developer ends, she vows to avoid rich men! As a hairdresser, she wasn't good enough for her fiance -- as she overhears tycoon Nic Moretti comment at a party! Serena's shocked ...

  • Buried!

    Donna Kauffman
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    These men are heroes -- strong, fearless...and impossible to resist! Fireman Ethan Winters ran headlong into a burning building to find Rosie Carrington. Rescue worker Brett Gannon defied the aftershocks of a San Francisco earthquake to prevent Ha...

  • Captivating a Cowboy

    Jill Limber

    THE RANCHER... A man would have to be blind not to notice pretty, sophisticated Julie Kerns, Ferndale's newest arrival. And good-looking Tony Graham was far from visually impaired. But when the fiercely independent beauty needed him to renovate he...

  • Changing Habits

    Debbie Macomber

    They were sisters once. In a more innocent time, three girls enter the convent. Angelina, Kathleen and Joanna come from very different backgrounds, but they have one thing in common--the desire to join a religious order. Despite the seclusion o...

  • Cherokee Baby

    Sheri Whitefeather

    BOUND BY BABY One look. One dance. One night of passion. Julianne McKenzie had experienced it all with one sexy man. And now she was expecting a child, the Cherokee baby of Bobby Elk. What other surprises did life have in store? Too much hearta...

  • The Chocolate Seduction

    Carrie Alexander

    HE'S SWEET... Chef Kristoffer "Kit" Rex is hot, pure and simple. But for Sabrina Bliss, he's off-limits. Thanks to a bet with her sister, Sabrina can't sleep with a man for one year...unless she falls in love. With the help of a regular diet of choco...

  • Cinco

    Linda Conrad

    TEXAS HEAT Rancher, security expert, family man. Cinco Gentry has already had enough excitement for one lifetime. Now all he wants is to run his ranch -- and his family -- without any complications. Until the arrival of U.S. Air Force Captain Meredi...

  • Close Enough to Perfect

    Terry Fowler

    GENNY HAS BOOKED A PERMANENT GIG IN STEPHEN'S HEART. Backstage after a country music concert, Genny Smith goes into premature labor. The young widow, a guest of the band, is helped by Stephen Camden, the lead singer, who goes out of his way to sho...

  • Coffee and Kung Fu

    Karen Brichoux

    Twenty-six-year-old Nicci Bradford doesn't exactly love her job fixing the grammar in company brochures, or living in Boston, or going on awkward fix-ups with men she barely knows. What she does love is Kung Fu movies...especially the ones starring J...

  • Could It Be Magic?

    Deirdre Savoy

    Sometimes It Takes Chemistry...To Make Magic Everything changes for free-spirited freelance artist Jacqueline "Jake" Bouvier Troubat McKenna when she inherits custody of her stepbrother's six-year-old daughter, Dani. In addition to unexpected moth...

  • The Cowboy's Baby Bargain

    Emilie Rose

    MORE THAN SHE BARGAINED FOR Motivational speaker Brooke Blake spent her life making other people's dreams come true, and yet she'd decided she'd have to go to a sperm bank to make her fondest dream a reality. But that was before one shattering nig...

  • The Cradle Mission

    Rita Herron

    TO LOVE AND PROTECT When vulnerable beauty Alanna Hayes appeared on his doorstep with a baby in tow, Cain Caldwell didn't know what to think. On the run after uncovering evidence of secret experiments at the Coastal Island Research Park, she claimed...

  • Defending the Heiress

    Susan Kearney

    RYKER STEVENS: Ex-Special Forces soldier..with an MBA ASSIGNMENT: Go undercover to protect a targeted socialite A JOB HE COULDN'T REFUSE Bold, rugged special operative Ryker Stevens agreed to pose as heiress Daria Harrington's new accounta...

  • A Diamond's Allure

    Eboni Snoe

    A dangerous destiny...a timeless desire Adventurous Sienna Russell would give anything to have a normal life with handsome, enigmatic intellectual Hennessy "Hawk" Jackson. But it isn't long before her duty as the Last of the Stonekeepers -- prote...

  • Dirty Girls Social Club

    Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

    Alisa Valdés-Rodríguez's vibrant, can't-put-it-down novel of six friends--each one an unforgettable Latina woman in her late '20s--and the complications and triumphs in their livesInseparable since their days at Boston University almost ten years b...

  • Dr. Demetrius's Dilemma

    Margaret Barker

    Eight years ago, Dr. Demetrius Petros and Staff Nurse Chloe Metcalfe had a passionate affair on the beautiful Greek island of Ceres -- but it ended when a devastated Chloe went back to England, believing that Demetrius never really loved her. Now ...

  • Dreams of Rescue

    Laura Shaine Cunningham

    "I have spent the winter at my summer place," begins the narrator of this startlingly original literary chiller. Juliana Durrell Smythe, known for her "female in jeopardy" performances on film, fears her roles are proving prophetic. As an actress, sh...

  • Engaging Men

    Lynda Curnyn

    When one ex-boyfriend gets married, a girl can laugh it off. With two, she begins to get nervous. But three? Three? Angie DiFranco is starting to take it personally. What is it about her that doesn't incite men to plunk down large sums of money in...

  • Entrapment

    Kylie Brant

    Sam Tremaine could charm the thorns off roses, and Juliette Morris both wanted and hated him. The CIA agent had learned her secret identity -- and had used it to gain her help to catch an international criminal. Even worse, she was falling for this m...

  • The Ex-Factor

    Andrea Semple

    When Martha Seymore finds out about her boyfriend's one-night-stand she doesn't know what to do. And Martha's business is relationships. She's the girl who gets paid to sympathise with the cheated and jilted, the under sexed and over attached at Glos...

  • Faith, Hope and Family

    Gina Wilkins / Gina Ferris / Gina Ferris Wilkins

    HOPELESSLY IN LOVE Youthful, soul-shattering mistakes? Deborah McCloud had made more than her share. She'd believed in her father, only to discover her trust had been cruelly misplaced. And her heart? She'd misplaced that, too, by falling hopelessly...

  • Fiance Wanted Fast!

    Jessica Hart

    Phoebe is facing her worst nightmare: an invitation to her ex-fiance's wedding! About to put on a brave face and pretend her life is just perfect, she's rescued by her best friend's brilliant idea: Phoebe can hire their gorgeous new flatm...

  • Finding You // Knowing You

    Maureen Child

    FALL IN LOVE WITH TWO UNFORGETTABLE NOVELS Meet the Candellano family: Angela, the matriarch, Tony, the oldest son and town sheriff, Nick and Paul, the twin brothers with completely different personalities, and Carla, the daughter whom Mama is still...

  • For Better or for Worse

    Debbi Rawlins

    Welcome to Twin Oaks -- the new B and B in Cooper's Corner. Some come for pleasure, others for passion -- and one to set things straight... Check-in: Veterinarian Alex McAlester is the man to go to in Cooper's Corner for sound advice and a shoulde...

  • The Forever Year

    Ronald Anthony


    Jesse Sienna, in his 30s, has never known his father the way he wanted to. Mickey Sienna, in his mid-80s, finds himself facing an uncertain future after his wife of 50 years dies. In a move that stuns even himself, Jesse asks his father to come l...

  • Gabriel West: Still the One

    Fiona Brand

    OUT OF THE SHADOWS, INTO HER LIFE... The breakup of her marriage had been devastating, but Tyler Laine had rebuilt her life and now moved in a world of money and privilege, a far cry from the mean streets of his world. And yet Gabriel West, ex-SAS...

  • Good Hope Road

    Lisa Wingate

    IN A TIME OF CRISIS, TWO WOMEN COME TOGETHER...AND SET OFF DOWN A ROAD OF HOPE.... Twenty-one-year-old Jenilee Lane, whose dreams are as narrow as the sky is wide, is the last person to expect anything good to come out of the tornado that rips acr...

  • Hart's Harbor

    Debra Kastner

    Dr. Kyle Hart seemed able to heal everyone -- but himself. The handsome widower had come to Safe Harbor to find peace. But the town matchmakers had other plans for him. And Kyle soon hatched a scheme with the spontaneous Gracie Adams to outwit the ma...

  • Heaven in Your Eyes

    Judi McCoy

    SO I WANTED A LITTLE ADVENTURE Believe it or not, I, Anne McAllister, once led a boring life. But that was all before I was forced to leave the past behind and rebuild my dreams. Now, I've got all the adventure I ever wanted as a U.S. Marshal, guard...

  • Her Convenient Millionaire

    Gail Dayton

    A marriage proposal was the last thing Micah Scott expected to hear from the stunning blonde who'd come to his exclusive club seeking sanctuary. But Sherry Nyland was in desperate need of a stand-in husband. And, try as he might, the once-burned busi...

  • Home to Copper Mountain

    Rebecca Winters

    Wealthy, womanless and temporarily at loose ends, Formula One race-car driver Rick Hawkins finds himself in Texas visiting his newly married father. While he's there, he becomes involved with his stepmother's family -- especially her twenty-eight-yea...

  • A Husband of Her Own // Falling for You

    Brenda Novak

    Who's going to win the battle of Dundee, Idaho? The town's bad girl or its favorite son? Rebecca Wells desperately wants to overcome her reputation. She's finally trying to put an end to her twenty-four-year rivalry with the perfect Josh Hill, a ...

  • The Independent Bride

    Sophie Weston

    From a war of words -- to wedding vows! Pepper is rendered uncharacteristically speechless when she encounters brilliant Oxford college master Steven Konig in a live TV debate. The man is gorgeous but infuriatingly provocative, and Pepper is stunn...

  • Keeping Faith

    Janice MacDonald

    Hannah Riley's life revolves around her daughter, Faith. They live with Hannah's mother, who refers to the family home as the henhouse. "We're like a bunch of hens clucking around our chick," she explains. Especially true when Hannah's sister and t...

  • The Knight's Kiss

    Nicole Burnham

    HE LIVED IN ONCE UPON A TIME! When beautiful Princess Isabella of San Rimini needed an expert to probe the secrets of the royal palace, all roads led directly to dark, mysterious Nick Black -- a contemporary example of potent masculinity if ever t...

  • The Last Honorable Man

    Vickie Taylor

    THE LAST MAN SHE WANTED... Del Cooper was the only person who could spare Elisa Reyes from a fate worse than death. Though she had every reason to distrust the Texas Ranger accused of accidentally shooting her fiance, Elisa knew that without his hel...

  • Life Is a Beach

    Pamela Browning

    Hunky rancher Slade Braddock is tired of roping the wrong female, so he signs on as a client at Rent-a-Yenta matchmakers of South Beach, Miami. He's willing to leave it to the professionals to find him a mate! Karma O'Connor is desperate to make a su...

  • A Little Town in Texas

    Bethany Campbell

    Nick Belyle has come to town, and no one's happy to see him. He's the new point man for the corporation that's trying to buy up land and turn Crystal Creek into suburbia. He's also public enemy number one, or so the Concerned Citizens have decided...

  • Love Is Kind

    Joyce Livingston

    Valene thinks she's ordinary, but that's not Jordan Young's first impression. When he accidentally hits Valene's dog, Hero, with his pickup, Jordan immediately insists on taking them to the animal clinic. The handsome navy fighter pilot persists in h...

  • Love Is Patient

    Cathy Marie Hake

    Vanessa's heart does a funny flip-flop when a father and son with matching soulful brown eyes appear at the counter of her pet store. Soon she and the puppy she is training as a guide dog are spending time - a lot of time - with Nathan and Jeff and t...

  • A Love to Keep

    Cynthia Rutledge

    Lori Loveland knew her faith would help her achieve her goals. And when she'd completed a six-month stint as nanny to Drew McCashlin's girls, she was determined to start her own adventure. But once she set eyes on the handsome single dad, she knew sh...

  • Male Call

    Heather MacAllister

    The City: San Francisco, California The Single: Desperate but determined computer geek Marnie LaTour The Solution: The skirt! After the guy she thinks she's dating tells her she's not "girlfriend" material, Marnie LaTour decides to make some cha...

  • Massachusetts, California, Timbuktu

    Stephanie Rosenfeld

    After mother and daughters hit the road, Justine desperately tries to navigate the changing terrain of home, family, and adolescence, as Colleen slips further into despondency. Forced to take over all responsibilities, Justine realizes it’s up to h...

  • McIver's Mission

    Brenda Harlen

    BULLETS. ARSON. BOMBS. SOMEONE WANTED HER DEAD. Arden Doherty had dedicated her career to protecting families, but now her own life was on the line. The driven attorney hadn't thought things could get any more dangerous...until she wound up in bed w...

  • Midnight Cravings

    Elizabeth Harbison

    To sexy police chief Dan Duvall, a man of few words, Beldon's annual "Rocky Top Chili Cookoff" was one huge pain in the posterior. The locals got rowdy, and his sleepy little town was overrun with city slickers. Bah! But this year, one visiting Ne...

  • Midnight Rhythms

    Karen Van Der Zee

    Seducing Sam to the rhythms of the night... The last thing Sam had wanted was a stranger in the house for three long months! David was always there -- making her angry, making her laugh, giving her all the fun she'd been missing...and, duri...

  • Mother and Mistress

    Kay Thorpe

    At the millionaire's request... Lauren Turner has returned to England to look for the daughter she gave up for adoption thirteen years ago! She is mistaken for the new nanny once she arrives at Brad Laxton's extravagant mansion, and it is ...

  • A Mother's Special Care

    Jessica Matthews

    A family to wish for Dr. Mac Grant loves his son with all his heart but is struggling to be the father he deserves -- he's a single dad with a demanding career. Juggling the two is proving difficult, and he is well aware of his son's longing for a m...

  • The Nanny Solution

    Susan Meier

    Jet-setting playboy Jake Malloy knew he was a fool to hire hometown nice girl Hannah Evans as his baby's nanny. He wasn't used to a beautiful woman sleeping in his house unless she was warming his bed, and he sure as heck hadn't expected Hannah's inn...

  • Nathan's Child

    Anne McAllister

    When Nathan Wolfe discovers that he's a father, he decides that marriage is the only way to mend the past. Carin Campbell had good reasons for keeping Nathan's child a secret. But now he's demanding that they marry. Carin knows he'...

  • On a Clear Day

    Yvonne Lehman

    Having been fired because of her faith, Ellen Jonsen is desperate for work. When she takes a job at a Christian conference center, she can't deny the sparks of attraction that seem to leap between her and her new boss, Richard Williams. But every tim...

  • Once upon a Mattress

    Kathleen O'Reilly

    If there's one thing Hilary Sinclair knows, it's how to make a bed. Well, okay, a mattress. As an executive at MacAllister Beds, she's new to the company, but she can manufacture with the best of them. Besides, it's a fresh start in a fresh city. The...

  • One Hot Chance

    Darlene Gardner

    What's a sexy D.C. blue blood doing in sultry Savannah? Cutting loose -- that's what! Tiffany Albright trashes her conservative suits and corporate briefcase for a few days of fun, fun, fun. She's lobbying for a weekend fling with a hot guy. He has t...

  • One Tuesday Morning

    Karen Kingsbury

    I'm a firefighter, God, so I know I've been in some tough places before. But this ... this not knowing the people I love ... this is the hardest thing I can imagine The last thing Jake Bryan knew was the roar of the World Trade Center collapsing...

  • Only in My Dreams

    Kimberley White

    Greyson Ballantyne has been in love with Sutton since he was seventeen, but never confessed his true feelings...until the day she married his rival, wealthy Alex Galloway. Still haunted by regret years later, Greyson resigns from his law firm and ret...

  • The Ordinary Princess

    Liz Fielding

    A life less ordinary--with a prince! Laura could see that Crown Prince Alexander of Montorino needed a holiday -- from being a prince! He was so stiff and formal; he needed to lighten up and have some fun. For just a few days he would be ordinary...

  • The Other Woman

    Eric Jerome Dickey

    New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey presents one of his most intimate and emotionally resonant novels -- a story about marriage, infidelity, and sweet and savage revenge.   She works nights. He works days. Their sex is routine. ...

  • Prescription: Marry Her Immediately

    Jacqueline Diamond

    JUST WHAT THE DOCTOR ORDERED... Dr. Quent Ladd had dedicated his life to bringing babies into the world, but that didn't mean he was ready to have his own. So when this very confirmed bachelor suddenly found himself the guardian of two beautiful, ...

  • Priceless Marriage

    Bonnie Gardner

    Welcome to Millionaire, Montana, where twelve lucky souls have won a multimillion-dollar jackpot. And where one millionaire in particular has just... CLAIMED HER "EX" AS HER OWN All of Jester is abuzz with news of Air Force captain Sam Cade's ...

  • Promise Forever

    Marta Perry

    "YOUR SON." Two words had never held such power over CEO Tyler Winchester. He wouldn't have believed them, but the child in the photo he stared at resembled someone he'd never forget: Miranda Caldwell, the woman who had stolen his heart eight years ...

  • A Real-Thing Fling

    Pamela Browning

    Karma's sister is in town mixing business with pleasure. Azure O'Connor is to consult with a local high-flying businessman. Little does she realize that the businessman is Leonardo Santori, aka Lee Sanders, the beach bum she met at Karma's wedding an...

  • The Reluctant Princess

    Christine Rimmer

    THERE'S A...VIKING IN MY LIVING ROOM! Elli Thorson, displaced Nordic princess, was used to an occasional reminder of where she came from. But even she was surprised at the sight of the handsome if hulking man in her apartment. He said he'd come by...

  • Rider in the Mist

    Caroline Burnes

    THE BLACKTHORN HEIRESS Aurelia Agee had come to Natchez, Mississippi, to claim her unexpected inheritance, the Blackthorn estate. But her arrival stirred up age-old hatreds that wouldn't rest. Anonymous threats and eerie cries wouldn't drive her awa...

  • Room Service

    Beverly Brandt

    Maid service was something she required... Jet-setter Katya Morgan believes that love comes in gilt-wrapped packages tied with neat red bows. So when her father disinherits her, her first priority is to get her money and cushy life back. Meanwhile, ...

  • Royal Nights

    Raye Morgan

    Bored playboy Prince Damian of Nabotavia reluctantly succumbed to family pressure to consider marriage to an "appropriate" woman. Then an accident changed everything, leaving him challenged at every turn. But had it been an accident, or was Damian's ...

  • Saved by a Texas-Sized Wedding

    Judy Christenberry

    Another Match Made in ... Cactus Suddenly a single mom and a ranch owner, city girl Suzanne McCoy needed help in a hurry when the matrons of Cactus, Texas, came to her rescue. Their solution -- Ryan Walker, the best rancher in town and a single pa...

  • The Secret Daughter

    Roz Denny Fox

    Duke Fontaine is dead, but he's left behind a daughter no one knew he had. A daughter who's about to inherit one-third of his estate. Noelani Hana is the secret daughter of Louisiana sugar magnate Duke Fontaine -- and the secret sister of his childre...

  • The Sheikh's Virgin Bride

    Penny Jordan

    Petra is betrothed -- to rich, eligible Sheikh Rashid. But she plans to ruin her reputation so Rashid won't want her. Blaize, a fellow guest at her hotel, agrees to be Petra's pretend lover -- though soon he's taken her virginity! Then...

  • Sleeping With Beauty

    Laura Wright

    Living alone in the Colorado Rockies, U.S. Marshal Dan Mason didn't want company. Still, Dan couldn't resist a damsel in distress, especially when a hiking accident left violet-eyed "Angel" on his doorstep with no memory and no identi...

  • Some Girls Do

    Leanne Banks

    "You want me to find a husband for your daughter?" As personal assistant to the rich and eccentric, Katie Collins thought she'd heard it all. Now to keep her job she has to play matchmaker for her boss's only child. With her shapeless clothes and pri...

  • Somebody's Knocking at My Door

    Francis Ray

    Kristen Wakefield grew up the privileged, beloved daughter and sister of a wealthy family . . . yet she felt eclipsed by the achievements of her older brother, Adam, a renowned neurosurgeon. In New Orleans, Kristen believes she now has the opportuni...

  • The Song Reader

    Lisa Tucker

    Sure, we were a small family, but it wasn't lonely. We had the endless stream of my sister's customers and, of course, the music. Every day, all day, our stereo would play and Mary Beth would talk about the lyrics, what they really meant. Leeann l...

  • The Stand-In

    Kate Clemens

    In the bestselling tradition of Olivia Goldsmith and Jane Heller comes a wickedly funny, outrageous novel, in which two women trade places only to discover that every ordinary life has its extraordinary moments... Jayne Wants To Sample Life Pampe...

  • A Storybook Finish

    Lauralee Bliss

    Fund-raising consultant Lindsay Thomas has her hands full when she signs up a gruff history teacher, Jeff Wheeler, for a project at Western High. Jeff would much rather teach history than raise money, but he knows a strong, well-funded program will h...

  • Stranded!

    Jill Shalvis
    in

    These men are heroes -- strong, fearless...and impossible to resist! Fireman Ethan Winters ran headlong into a burning building to find Rosie Carrington. Rescue worker Brett Gannon defied the aftershocks of a San Francisco earthquake to prevent Ha...

  • Substitute Daddy

    Kate Welsh

    BABY BEQUEST Wealthy playboy Brett Costain met virginal Melissa Abell at their siblings' wedding...but their one stolen kiss led to disaster and humiliation. Now, years later, a tragedy reunited them, forcing Brett to find the woman he'd coldly sp...

  • A Summer in the Country

    Marcia Willett

    Brigid Foster is the owner of Foxhole, a thatched farmhouse nestled on the slopes above the beautiful Devon moors. Although she loves solitude, Brigid nonetheless looks forward to leasing out Foxhole's two cottages for the summer months. This year, ...

  • Summer Secrets

    Barbara Freethy

    THERE ARE SECRETS MEANT TO BE SHARED -- AND THOSE THAT MUST BE KEPT FOREVER.... Eight years ago, the three McKenna sisters -- Kate, Ashley, and Caroline -- had their fifteen minutes of fame. Driven by their ambitious father, they won an around-th...

  • The Surgeon's Gift

    Carol Marinelli

    Nurse Rachael Holroyd is running on empty when she returns to Melbourne City Hospital after a traumatic year away. Yet the new plastic surgeon manages to make her heart flutter -- and Rachael finds herself falling for him fast! Dr. Hugh Connell is...

  • Sweetwater

    Roxana Robinson

    In this brilliant, luminous novel, one of our finest realist writers gives us a story of surpassing depth and emotional power. Acclaimed for her lucid and compassionate exploration of the American family, Roxana Robinson sets her new work on familiar...

  • The Target

    Kay David

    Hannah Crosby and Quinn McNichol are perfect for each other -- everyone thinks so. But sometimes being perfect isn't enough. Hannah wants more. Marriage, children, a future... Quinn doesn't think marriage -- let alone children -- is a good idea. H...

  • Ten Acres and Twins

    Kaitlyn Rice

    Terms of the Will Lethally sexy playboy Jack Kimball raise a baby? No way! Abby Briggs yearned to keep her orphaned twin niece and nephew together. But the will gave her the baby girl and Jack the baby boy! The devil-may-care bachelor couldn't possi...

  • Term of Love

    Myrtlemay Crane

    Melissa Wilabee never had a strong relationship with her mother, Darlene. But Darlene, now suffering from Alzheimer's disease, requires constant attention, and Mel is the only one who can provide it. Now, she must put her mother's needs before her ow...

  • Texas...Now and Forever

    Merline Lovelace

    LSCC Member: Luke Callaghan -- millionaire and secret agent Social Status: He plays the rakish adventurer...but inside, Luke's a solid man who protects his own Method of Seduction: Has eyes for only one woman... Though Luke was temporaril...

  • Three Wishes

    Seressia Glass

  • To the Doctor: A Daughter

    Marion Lennox

    She's your baby! Dr. Nate Ethan has all he needs -- a job he loves as a country doctor in New South Wales and a bachelor lifestyle. Right now Nate is reserving all his commitment for his patients. Dr. Gemma Campbell is about to change all that....

  • Trapped!

    Lori Foster
    in

    These men are heroes -- strong, fearless...and impossible to resist! Fireman Ethan Winters ran headlong into a burning building to find Rosie Carrington. Rescue worker Brett Gannon defied the aftershocks of a San Francisco earthquake to prevent Ha...

  • Under Lock and Key

    Sylvie Kurtz

    SHACKLED HEART On a stormy Texas night, Tyler Blackwell awoke from a car crash to find himself in a castle dungeon, bound under lock and key by an ephemeral jailer with haunting eyes and virginal flesh that begged for a man's touch. Mysterious Mel...

  • The Unexpected Wedding Guest

    Patricia McLinn

    THERE'S NOTHING LIKE A WEDDING TO PUT YOU IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.... Max Trevetti had known Suz Grant for years. He was like a big brother to her. But when he saw her at his sister's wedding, it wasn't brotherly affection he was feeling.... Suz h...

  • The Wedding Adventure

    Melissa McClone

    For nearly two weeks they were trapped together on a tropical island, forced to endure Survivor-like challenges in order to win a grand prize. But for the normally business-minded Cade Armstrong Waters, the toughest part became resisting his pampered...

  • Where There's Smoke

    Barbara McCauley

    A BURNING PASSION Emily Barone could remember nothing about her near-death experience in a Boston fire -- except for the rock-hard chest and strong arms of the fireman who pulled her to safety. She and Shane Cummings generated a heat hotter than a...

  • Wild Orchids

    Jude Deveraux

    Since his wife's death, world-famous author Ford Newcombe has lived a solitary life, void of creativity--or love. Then Jackie Maxwell tears down the walls of his isolated world with her sassy wit and fierce intelligence. Ford's heart is touched by hi...

  • With His Kiss

    Laurey Bright

    Widow Triss Allardyce's fragile world nearly shattered the day she learned her new business partner was none other than her late husband's protege, handsome entrepreneur Steve Stevens. He had always aroused complicated feelings in her -- pass...

  • You Are Loved

    Karen White-Owens

    Lisa Daniel's long cherished dream of a husband and a family gets a rude awakening when her fiance breaks off their engagement. Strung at the cruel rejection and vowing never to let herself be so vulnerable again, she throws herself into her career a...

  • You'll Be Mine in 99

    Jennifer Drew

    Librarian Katy Sloan doesn't know what to do when she realizes Hiho, Ohio, is actually celebrating its ninety-ninth, not one hundredth, birthday. Can she keep guest of honor Joel Carter from spilling the secret? Only if she slips into a bikini and en...

  • Keepsake Crimes

    Laura Childs

    From Laura Childs, author of the popular Tea Shop Mysteries, comes scrapbooking shop owner Carmela Bertrand, who delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But among her clients keepsakes she finds a tip o...

  • Terror on Tuesday

    Ann Purser

    After mopping up Murder on Monday, working-class mum Lois Meade is back cleaning houses for a living near the quaint village of Long Farnden--and solving mysteries on the side... Housecleaning is hard work. But when Lois decides to take a little b...

  • Mission One // The Frankenstein Factory

    A.J. Butcher

    Somewhere in the not-too-distant future, there is a place known to the outside world as Deveraux Academy - a boarding school for gifted teenagers. But to Ben, Cally, and the other first-years, it goes by a very different name: Spy High. Those who pas...

  • Aftermath

    K.A. Applegate

    The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action!

    Trust no one. The Remnants are outsiders on the plane...

  • Bindings

    Carla Jablonski

    Do you believe in magic?

    Timothy Hunter is just like any other thirteen-year-old boy in London . . . except for the tiny fact that he might be the most powerful magician of his time.

    An enigmatic man named Tamlin ...

  • The Choice

    Lynne Ewing

    VANESSA, Serena, Jimena, Catty, and Tianna are five seemingly ordinary girls from Los Angeles. But the truth is that they are all far from ordinary. They each have a secret power that separates them from others--and makes them DAUGHTERS OF THE MOON ...

  • The City of Ember

    Jeanne Duprau

    Citizens of Ember shall be assigned work at twelve years of age... LINA MAYFLEET desperately wants to be a messenger. Instead, she draws the dreaded job of Pipeworks laborer, which means she'll be working in damp tunnels deep underground. DOON ...

  • Class Trip to the Cave of Doom

    Kate McMullan

    The Dark Forest just doesn't seem like the best place for a class trip. But that's were Seetha the dragon has her gold, so that's where Wiglaf and the other kids from Dragon Slayers' Academy have to go - even if it means entering the booby-trapped Ca...

  • Dark Debts

    Doranna Durgin

    Inspired by the popular board game, the adventure continues as the mighty force of change rages across the Atlantean Empire -- and exiles mount a sinister campaign of their own. . . . As the dedicated members of the Black Powder Rebels make the...

  • The Devil in the Dust

    Chaz Brenchley

    Marron, a young knight in training to become a Knight of Ransomer, and Julianne, the daughter of the King's Shadow, embark on a perilous journey to Roq de Rancon, the stronghold of the Order of the Knights Ransomer, where they are drawn into a danger...

  • E.godz

    Robert Asprin; Esther Friesner

    WIZARDRY ON WALL STREET--DOW-JONES MEETS DARK SORCERY! E.Godz, Inc.'s stock-in-trade was magic. When Edwina Godz inherited the family corporation, she had put to work all the sorcery she knew, taking shamans on board as subsidiaries, and raking in...

  • Enoch's Portal

    A.W. Hill

  • The Eternity Code

    Eoin Colfer

    ARTEMIS FOWL IS GOING STRAIGHT -- AS SOON AS HE PULLS OFF THE MOST BRILLIANT CRIMINAL FEAT OF HIS CAREER. . . . After being held prisoner for years, Artemis Fowl's father has finally come home. He is a new man -- an honest man, much to Artemis's h...

  • Faerie Wars

    Herbie Brennan

    Henry Atherton thinks his life is spinning out of control. But nothing prepares him for the invisible portal in old man Fogarty's backyard . . . and the unexpected stranger who comes through it. Pyrgus Malvae, crown prince of the Faerie realm, is ...

  • The Field Guide

    Tony DiTerlizzi; Holly Black

    When their great-aunt Lucinda Spiderwick is sent off to an asylum, the Grace kids -- twins Jared and Simon and their older sister, Mallory -- move into her creepy old mansion with their mother. Strange goings-on lead them to an old book filled wi...

  • Fire and Ice

    Erin Hunter

    FIRE ALONE CAN SAVE OUR CLAN... Fireheart is a ThunderClan warrior cat now, but his troubles are far from over. As the chill of winter sets in, the cats of rival RiverClan grow restless, while WindClan is weak and facing threats from all sides. ...

  • Invitation

    Carla Jablonski

    Do you believe in magic?

    Timothy Hunter is just like any other thirteen-year-old boy in London . . . except for the tiny fact that he might be the most powerful magician of his time.

    When four strangers offer to s...

  • Legacy

    Nancy Holder; Debbie Viguie

    Destined to Fail
    Holly Cathers and her twin cousins, Amanda and Nicole, are college students who are also the last descendants of the medieval witches of the House of Cahors. Forming a new coven, they ally themselves w...

  • The Light Ages

    Ian R. MacLeod

    “MacLeod is set to become a writer of the magnitude of Dickens or Tolkien.” -- The Guardian Aether is industry, industry is magic and the Great Guilds rule the known world. Raised amid the smokestakes, terraced houses and endless subterranean po...

  • Mist and Stone

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Shadows of tomorrow from the past are sown. On shifting sands and sorrows, veiled in mist or set in stone.... Paige Matthews is accustomed to the requirements of her job as a social worker, and she's willing to endure substandard pay, long hour...

  • Mistress of Dragons

    Margaret Weis

    Welcome to the DRAGONVARLD IN Mistress of Dragons we are introduced to a world where political deception, greed, and avarice have lead to a violation of the "hands off" policy of the Parliament of Dragons concerning the affairs of men. Indeed t...

  • The Never War

    D.J. MacHale

    FIRST EARTH Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon is a loyal friend, sports star, devoted pet owner -- and Traveler. Along with his uncle Press, Bobby has visited the alternate dimension of Denduron and participated in a civil war. He's also waded thr...

  • The New Kid at School

    Kate McMullan

    When a traveling minstrel foretells that he is to become a hero, Wiglaf sets out to fulfill his destiny: he signs up at the Dragon Slayers' Academy. But how can he ever hope to be a dragon slayer when he can't even stand the sight of blood?...

  • Part of the Family

    Gillian Schofield

  • Plague of Ice

    T.H. Lain

    This title chronicles the latest adventure of various iconic characters from the Dungeons & Dragons core rulebooks. This series of novels is designed to bring readers closer to the feeling of actually playing a D&D adventure. This seventh tit...

  • Rebel Thunder

    Bill McCay

    Atlantis--a floating city five hundred feet in the air--is suspended by the force of the magical Magestone. But its power comes at a price. The precious gems must be strip-mined from the earth by human and Dwarven slaves under the ruthless command of...

  • Revenge of the Dragon Lady

    Kate McMullan

    Is a wizard's spell for courage enough to save Wiglaf when the "Mother of all Dragons" (or at least of 3,684 of them) comes looking for the lad who slayed son number 92?...

  • Search for the Dragon Ship

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Happy hunting! The evil princess Salamandra is on a hunt for the magical Dragon Ship. So Eric, Neal, and Julie must find it first! There's just one problem. The ship is in pieces that ...

  • Seeds of Betrayal

    David B. Coe

    Murder and Magic The Forelands have had peace in the 900 years since the Qirsi Wars. But the stability of the seven kingdoms is shaken by the brutal murder of Lady Brienne of Kentigern, newly betrothed to Lord Tavis of Curgh. Tavis, blamed for the...

  • The Seeing Stone

    Tony DiTerlizzi; Holly Black

    Thanks to the book left behind by Arthur Spiderwick, life for the Grace children is more unpredictable than ever. When Simon goes off to look for his cat and disappears, Jared is convinced he's been kidnapped by trolls. Mallory is doubtful. But it tu...

  • Song of the Beast

    Carol Berg

    From Carol Berg, acclaimed author of the Rai-kirah saga, comes the epic story of Aidan MacAllister. Beloved by the gods, he could transform the souls of men with his voice and harp.... At 13, the sound of dragons flying overhead gave him songs bey...

  • Super Flat Times

    Matthew Derby

    With a heightened sense of the boundless possibility and lurking doom that Orwell and Huxley once envisioned, Matthew Derby's stories provide a glimpse into an intricately imagined world: a world in which clouds are treated with behavioral serum, chi...

  • Sword of the Rightful King

    Jane Yolen

    THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING NEWLY CROWNED King Arthur rules the kingdom ... but not the people's hearts. Unless he proves his worth, his power will always be in question. Too many want him dead, and treachery is everywhere. So the wizard Merlinnu...

  • The Third Wish

    Emily Rodda

    Enter the Realm of Adventure Jessie's helped the magical people of the Realm to escape danger twice now -- she's a real hero to her friends there. But now her own world is in danger. Forest fires threaten her beloved home, Blue Moon. And only...

  • Vincalis the Agitator

    Holly Lisle

    GLORY OF THE DRAGON Based on a science of sorcery called Dragon magic, the Hars Ticlarim is a miraculous place of magnificent mansions and luscious gardens. But this incomparable-beauty hides a dark core: Dragon magic draws its power from the agon...

  • The War of the Flowers

    Tad Williams

    Theo Vilmas' life is about to take a turn for the worse. A thirty-year-old lead singer in a not-terribly-successful band, Theo once had enormous charisma both onstage off--but now, life has taken its toll on him. He finds If alone, heartbroken, an...

  • A Wedding for Wiglaf?

    Kate McMullan

    Rich Princess Belcheena is looking for a husband-a husband with red hair who has killed at least two dragons and whose name starts with her favorite letter of the alphabet, W. Could Wiglaf be the man, um, boy of her dreams?...

  • The Wee Free Men

    Terry Pratchett

    A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality ... Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: t...

  • The White Dragon: In Fire Forged, Part One

    Laura Resnick


    By the author of In Legend Born

    It is a time of vast changes in the island nation of Sileria. Oppressed for centuries by one conqueror after another, this land of fierce pride and ancient rivalries awaited the prophesied Firebringer, who w...

  • Unearthed

    C.J. Barry

    Tess MacKenzie was a successful singer/songwriter. Then Cohl Travers picked her up. Of course, it wasn't exactly how she was used to being "picked up." Cohl dropped down from outer space with his robot Pitz and zapped her--so that they could save ...

  • The (Almost) Perfect Mother's Day

    Rachel Vail

    Beloved author Rachel Vail's newest series, about an earnest young dinosaur who tries as hard as he can, and his frazzled mother who always knows how to save the day.

    T can't wait for Mother's Day this year. He's planned the perfect surprise f...

  • Alien and Possum: Hanging Out

    Tony Johnston

    Ready-to-Read Level 3 Reading Proficiently Rich vocabulary More-challenging stories Longer chapters Possum loves hanging upside down. It makes him feel new. When Alien tries hanging upside down, the electricity rushes to its head. But these friends s...

  • All Aboard!

    Disney Book Group

    The circus is in town and Dumbo and all of his friends are as happy as can be! This sturdy and dynamic book features a pull-out accordion gatefold and big flaps to lift! Toddlers will be developing their observation and prediction skills while having...

  • Almost Home

    Nora Raleigh Baskin

    After years of being shuffled from town to town and back and forth between her divorced parents, twelve-year-old Leah, now living permanently with her father and stepmother, finds it difficult to adjust to her new situation and the circumstances that...

  • And then it Rained // And than the Sun Came Out

    Crescent Dragonwagon

  • The Animal ABC

    Leslie Baker


    A refreshingly straightforward alphabet book featuring a playful bunch of animal friends.

    It’s time to learn the ABCs!

    This delightfully simple picture book introduces young children to the alphabet, as each letter gets paired wit...

  • Are We There Yet?

    Dandi Daley Mackall

    Enhanced with animated illustrations, a humorous tale tells of a familyÆs summer road trip vacation down Route 66 that includes a flea-bitten dog, singing parents, weary siblings, and one pair of missing underpants....

  • Aria

    Susan Segal

    Eve Miller has lost her husband and children and lies in an Australian hospital, wondering if there is anything to live for. Then she accepts an invitation from a flamboyant, aging opera diva to stay at her New York home, and finds herself drawn back...

  • Beast Within

    Scout Driggs

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Scholastic Inc.

    Level 2 Hello Reader! adaptation of the original, classic fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast.

    Beauty must live with the Beast in order to save her father's life. Over time she begins to see beyond the Beast's grotesque exterior and into his beau...

  • Berry Picking Man

    Jane Buchanan

    A story about empathy and charity

    Nine-year-old Meggie hates Old Sam, the berry-picking man. He smells bad, he talks to himself, and, worst of all, he likes Meggie. She wishes her mother, a photographer, didn’t feel responsible for Old Sam, ...

  • Best Friends

    Thomas Berger

    Roy Courtright is good-looking, healthy, independent, well liked, and the owner of a successful classic car dealership. His best friend, Sam Grandy, is the near inverse: married, a spendthrift, overweight, needy, and near bankruptcy. Yet they've bee...

  • Best in Show!

    Sonali Fry

  • Beyond Good and Evil

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil is translated from the German by R.J. Hollingdale with an introduction by Michael Tanner in Penguin Classics. Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his a...

  • The Big Snow

    David Park

    When a rare blizzard strikes the north of Ireland in 1963, the inhabitants of one city find their intimate desires thrown into sharp relief. A wife dies before a husband can make his confession; her coffin is pulled to the church by a young man en...

  • Billy's Bucket

    Kes Gray

    A fantastical birthday story reminds us never to underestimate the power of an empty bucket - or a child’s imagination!

    Billy’s birthday is coming, and there’s only one thing he wants. It’s not a computer game, or new sneakers, or a sh...

  • The Blue Wolf

    Frederic Dion

    The winner of one of France's most prestigious literary prizes, The Blue Wolf is the epic historical novel of Genghis Khan At the height of his power, Genghis Khan unified four hundred tribes and was feared by men from Baghdad to Peking. Like Napoleo...

  • The Book of Dead Birds

    Gayle Brandeis

    Ava Sing Lo has been accidentally killing her mother's birds since she was a little girl. Now in her twenties, Ava leaves her native San Diego for the Salton Sea, where she volunteers to help environmental activists save thousands of birds poisoned b...