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New Books List: 588 titles




  • David A. Adler

    It's field trip day in Cam and Eric's class. Only where is Eric's permission slip? He had it on the bus, but now it's gone! Did someone take it? Did it blow away? After a few red herrings, Cam's click-click memory kicks in just in time for Eric to jo...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo teams up with a wolf-hunting wild man!Skye Fargo thought he knew the dangers of the Wyoming Territory -- until he got bushwhacked with a bullet in the side.   It seems the local rancher and his two sons are looking to keep the land f...



  • Elizabeth Lane

    Alone, pregnant and on the run! Desperate Times Called for Desperate Measures.... And widow Cassandra Logan was as desperate as they come. Who could blame her for the audacious falsehood she told for the sake of her baby? No one -- except mayb...



  • Austin Bay

    After witnessing the murder of innocent civilians in Iraq four years earlier, while the U.S. government stood by and watched, Peter Ford, now a superior officer, must wade through a sea of deadly double agents and dark secrets in postwar Iraq to disc...



  • Carol Otis Hurst

    Times were tough for the Spencer family. After their father died, Kate, Jesse, and their adopted sister, Sookan, had to move with their mother from Brooklyn to a dilapidated farmhouse in western Massachusetts. Everyone except Sookan hated it; she had...



  • Barbara J. Ferrenz

    Theodora Zed dresses the part of the gothic author wearing heavy make-up and tight leather skirts, then heads home to her life as Mary Kate Flaherty, suburban wife and mother. At a horror convention, Mary Kate is implicated in a murder. Mary Kate has...




  • 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...




  • Ursula Jones


    A warm and funny tale with a bit of magic every child can use.

    One windy day the witch’s children went to the park . . .

    Look out! The witch’s children are coming and that means trouble!
    They are only trying to be helpful wh...



  • C.J. Box

    It's an hour away from darkness. a bitter winter storm is raging, and Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand. his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right -- and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse ...



  • Boris Akunin

    Moscow, May 1876. What would cause a talented student from a wealthy family to shoot himself in front of a promenading public? Decadence and boredom, it is presumed. But young sleuth Erast Fandorin is not satisfied with the conclusion that this death...




  • 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 ...



  • Donald Hall

    A collection of stories by the former US poet laureate, “a first-rate work by an author whose control over the tools of his genre is impeccable” (Publishers Weekly).A contemplative selection of twelve short stories from the celebrated author Dona...



  • 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...



  • J.R. Roberts

    A TRIP TO NOWHERE Robert Dawson had always been a man with a knack for stirring up trouble. Now he's dead, and his beautiful widow is going to wind up buried beside him if Clint Adams doesn't hightail it quick to Byrne, Kansas. It turns out that the ...



  • Helen Chappell

    Sometimes you have to go home again, even if you know the trip is going to be one from hell. When Carrie points her van in the direction of Oysterback, Maryland, her old hometown, she does it only because she has no choice. Her momma, the indomitable...



  • Tom Bradby

    St. Petersburg, 1917 - the glittering capital of the Tsarist empire and a city on the brink of revolution - where the jackals of the secret police maneuver for their own survival and their aristocratic masters indulge in one final moment of hedonism....



  • 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...




  • 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...



  • Dan Yaccarino

    Roger was so mad, he hopped out of his bed and threw open the window. "I wish you'd carry Mom and Dad away, too!" he shouted into the wind.

    What Roger didn't know was the four dastardly Wind brothers were just waiting to ki...



  • Jonathan London

    A perfect summer evening is made complete with the arrival of the fireflies as all the children grab their jars to collect them up before getting called home to bed and having to set them free once again....



  • Lori Handeland
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    Come experience the magic and joy that only true love can bring in this heartwarming collection of tales featuring three governesses who find romance when they least expect it... "Love Passages" by Kate Donovan Miranda Kent has no idea what lies...



  • Alice Jolly

    Disgraced Tory politician, Max, is unable to shake off the whiff of scandal following the suspicious death of his best friend's wife. His daughter, Maggie, believes she witnessed something which confirms Max's guilt " but she has told no one what s...



  • Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

    What did you put in your pocket?What did you put in your pocket?In your pockety pockety pocket Early Monday morning?

    What do YOU put in YOUR pocket?

    Everyday things like a spinky spanky handkerchief? Or silly things like slushy gushy pudding?

    ...



  • John Schindel


    A wonderful, mysterious object brings joy to each of the animals that sees it.

    Raccoon has found something wonderful. It is so fabulous that she hurries to show it to Beaver, Porcupine, and Otter. They all agree -- it’s the most dashing,...



  • Eve Bunting

    Acclaimed author Eve Bunting and illustrator Lambert Davis tell a simple story of a boy and his dad who watch from the shore as Orca whales swim by and imagine the pod's underwater life.A young boy stands on the beach with his father. As they watch t...



  • Les Savage Jr.

    Arriving in Laramie after a stint in a Confederate hospital, Scott Walker comes home to turmoil and chaos when he learns that his sweetheart has married his older brother and his father has waged war on a deputy surveyor with the railroad, which lead...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Sara Miller

    Barbie’s best friend Monica is getting married! There’s tons to do before the wedding"from planning the surprise bridal shower to picking out the coolest wedding present to buying the perfect dress. Join in all the fun when you read Barbie’s ...



  • 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?...



  • 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...



  • 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, ...



  • Nicola Cornick

    THE LADY RAKEHELL'S REDEMPTION... Unmarriageable, untamable, unforgettable, Lady Juliana Myfleet was the Ton's most notorious widow. With her reputation nearly in tatters, Juliana knew the one thing that would save her from ruin was the one thi...



  • Kevin O'Brien

    Different Victims The blonde film student. The brunette paralegal. The red-headed artist. Different Methods The first victim is strangled. The second is stabbed repeatedly. And the third is pushed out an open window. Same Madman In the...



  • Paul B. Thompson; Tonya Cook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The mighty Ergothian empire is gripped by civil war. Centuries before the first Cataclysm sunders Ansalon, two imperial dynasties struggle for supremacy. Brutal warlords jockey for power, while corrupt wizards sell their skills to the highest bidd...



  • Sara Hely


    In the wonderful tradition of Elizabeth Jane Howard, War Story tells an extraordinarily authentic tale of both rationing and riches during the war years and at the same time unfolds a mesmerizing and unforgettable love story.

    After war bre...



  • Kerry Newcomb

    IN A WILDERNESS BURNING WITH WAR, JOHN STARK HAD NO PLACE TO HIDE, AND ONLY ONE PLACE LEFT TO GO... "Johnny Stark was big, ugly, and wasn't about to die..." So begins this extraordinary saga set on America's first frontier--in the heart of the Fr...



  • 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...



  • Larry McMurtry

    The indefatigable Tasmin Berrybender and her eccentric family trek on through the unexplored Wild West of 1830s America -- and suffer the harsh realities of the untamed wilderness, including sickness, brutal violence and death, the desertion of trust...



  • 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...



  • Tom Robbins

    Imagine that there are American MIAs who chose to remain missing after the Vietnam War. Imagine that there is a family in which four generations of strong, alluring women have shared a mysterious connection to an outlandish figure from Japanese folkl...



  • Julia Byrne

    Rorik finds an exquisite beauty lying beaten and helpless in an English manor hall and can't leave her to her vicious husband -- or to be found by the advancing Viking raiders. So he carries her away to his ship. But is Rorik intent on saving her -- ...



  • Darlene Mindrup

    Before her mother died, she arranged for Disa to marry Thorvald, a man of mystery to the settlers of Greenland. But their leader, Erik and Red, trusts Thorvald, and Disa knows she has no choice in the matter. If she does not marry, her land will be g...



  • 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...



  • Hollis Hampton-Jones

    'It's the last day of school, so I took a hit of acid. It's not like I'm seeing things that aren't there. I'm seeing more than I usually see of what is there. . .'Christy's just out of school in the American South. The big, bad world beckons, but she...



  • Jane Turner Rylands

    In these brilliantly realized, linked tales, the real Venice is revealed " not the iconic tourist destination the city has become, but the mysterious society that resides behind its elegant doors and shuttered windows. With a sly and affectionate ...



  • Hannah Alexander

    Book 3 of The Healing Touch. The town of Dogwood Springs has been deluged by spring storms. As tornadoes and torrential floods rage, Archer and Jessica Pierce struggle with doubts about their local church ministry. In the midst of the havoc, Archer d...



  • Elizabeth Rolls

    A Forbidden Attraction... When Lady Mathilda Cavendish arrived at a house party hosted by her young cousin's suitor, she had only one goal in mind -- to stop the proposed match. The chaperon never imagined that her cousin's betrothed would be the on...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Leonard Chang

    Edgy and as engrossing as Leonard Chang's acclaimed debut crime novel Over the Shoulder, Underkill finds Korean American investigator Allen Choice on a case that becomes as much a personal journey as an exploration of murder and its harrowing consequ...



  • 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...



  • Freda Chrisman

    Carrie Warden knows Alfred Rafter will never hold the key to her heart. But her father's lust for a financial alliance has sealed her fate: Carrie will marry the fifty-year-old widower and break the promise she made to her grandmother - to wait for h...



  • Sarah Challis

    A cantankerous, elegant old woman sits in her beautiful Somerset house while her family secretly plots to evict her. In the garden is her one remaining racehorce, prematurely retired, and in London the man she probably should have married " who is ...



  • Darren Shan

    Trials of Death is the fifth book in the bestselling Cirque Du Freak series. Darren, the vampire's assistant, must pass five fearsome Trials to prove himself to the vampire clan -- or face the stakes in the Hall of Death. Author Darren Shan's vivid...




  • Lori Foster
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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...



  • Robert Vaughan

    It Wasn't Your Land Until You Fought For It. It Wasn't Your Life Until You Were Willing To Die... Cole Collier once was a preacher, but in the smoke and fire of the Civil War, he found a bloody calling--with a gun that was faster and deadlier tha...



  • Gloria Cook

      Set during WWI, a “compelling and dramatic story about the crumbling British upper class launches what should prove to be a fascinating family saga” (Booklist).   1917. The First World War casts its shadow over the Harvey family of Fo...



  • Kelli Chipponeri

    New readers can follow two of skateboarding's most acclaimed superstars, Tony Hawk and Andy Macdonald, as they shoot the halfpipe, master the vertical doubles competition, and thrill audiences with their high-flying stunts. Simultaneous....



  • 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....



  • Julianne MacLean

    My dear sister Clara, London society is so much more complicated than I could ever have known! Every night is a different ball or assembly, and a different swirl of glittering jewels and rustling gowns. Though I fear I am making social blunders lef...



  • Seressia Glass



  • Travis Thrasher

    Choices made. Promises broken.

    Three Roads Home explores the painful heart-trials that all couples must weather and the unexpected shelter they find in the restorative love of God. Brimming with honesty and hope, these stories offer moving p...



  • John Ridley

    Soledad "Bullet" O'Roark writes her own rules. Usually it gets her in trouble. On her first day with the L.A.P.D.'s elite MTAC squad, Soledad takes down an outlawed super-powered freak with a k weapon she designed herself--i a definite violation. Her...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Nino Ricci

    A fictional biography of the earthly life of Jesus told from the perspectives of four fascinating figures, by the author of Where She Has Gone.In powerful accounts colored by their own beliefs and devices, the following men and women tell the captiva...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Alan Eisenstock

    A moving, lyrical, eye-opening look at the true nature of intimacy among men. The L.A. riots had an indelible effect upon the city of Los Angeles, upon the wider debate in this country about race, and especially -- in the pages of this wonderful mem...



  • 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...



  • Cathy Hopkins

    "Yeah but...," I started, then I decided to confront what I thought was probably really bothering her. "Look, about Jonno. I didn't mean for anything to happen. He just kind of..." After a game of truth or dare, Lia manages to gain the interest of...



  • Laura Rader

    What begins as a very simple tea for one little pig in elegant Swinings Tea Room quickly becomes a party of two ... then three ... and more and more!

    With her bouncy rhymes and bright, energetic illustrations, Laura Rader invites readers on...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Jeff Stanley

    Del Rey Books is proud to be publishing Tainted Garden. This powerful first novel from an exciting new writer was selected by online readers as the winner of the Del Rey Online Writing Workshop First Novel Contest in the science fiction category.Livi...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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, ...



  • 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...



  • Kate Thompson

    The last thing Aphrodite Delaney wants from a theatrical career is to be under the spotlight, but the backstage alternative isn't much fun. she finds herself a forlorn Cinderella with no invite to the ball until - ping! - the handsome prince of Irish...



  • John E. Gardner

    The second book in the new detective series from a master storyteller The year is 1941, and London is still at war. After her adventures in Bottled Spider, WPC Suzie Mountford is back, and working the beat in West End Central - a notoriously dangerou...




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Courtney Angela Brkic

    A brave and unnerving debut collection about life in wartimeIn 1991 a war began in Yugoslavia that would last four years and claim more than a quarter of a million lives. In her harrowing fiction debut, Courtney Angela Brkic puts a human face on the ...



  • Jessica Hall

    Raven has no intention of returning to her life as an undercover government agent. The stunning beauty doesn't doubt that years ago she was betrayed by the agency she worked for--and by her devastatingly handsome boss, General Kalen Grady. Instead...



  • Naomi Rand

    Single motherhood hit Emma Price like a sledgehammer -- a double whammy to go along with the considerable pressures of her job as an investigator with the Capital Defenders Office. Having to raise a toddler and a troubled teen and dig up mitigating e...



  • 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...



  • Joanna Campbell

    Ashleigh's life becomes chaotic when relatives come to stay.

    After a family tragedy, Ashleigh's thoroughbred"breeding aunt and cousin come to live at Edgardale, along with their ten head of horses. Ashleigh has been busy enough trying t...



  • Paul Ruditis

    The first official, comprehensive guide to the hit television series Star Trek: Voyager provides a definitive overview of the show's seven seasons, its characters, plot lines, and villains, with dozens of illustrations, complete episode summa...



  • Susan Grant
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    Novella, republished as Star Raider Raider Captain Romjha B’kah seeks out the riskiest missions. After a lifetime of loss, only the rush of adrenaline can make him feel fully alive. That changes when Taj enters his life. For the first time he co...



  • Jeff Brown

    A far-out adventure! The President of the United States has chosen Stanley Lambchop and his family to become the first humans to fly in the Star Scout, a new top-secret spaceship. Stanley's most exciting adventure is about to begin. He'll meet...



  • 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...



  • Pat Thomson

    Once there was a little boy who loved to visit his grandparents. But he couldn’t fall asleep in the squeaky, creaky bed at their house. Grandfather thought a little cat would help. Or a little dog. Maybe a little pig? Soon the bed was very full, bu...



  • Nita Abrams

    London, 1813: Napoleon is retreating under the relentless British advance, but as those loyal to him scramble to form new alliances, no one can be trusted and no motive is without question. And for James Meyer, the rebellious son of one of Wellington...



  • Fred Grove

    Estranged from his family due to his decision to join the Union militia, Daniel Wade, recovering from a war injury, returns home only to discover that a gang of vicious outlaws have taken the entire town hostage, forcing him to once again engage in b...



  • 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...



  • Gilbert Morris

    He is a young Welshman who forsook the family shipbuilding business to study medicine . . . until, poised at the brink of a brilliant career, tragedy broke his heart and shattered his dreams. She is a daughter of London's inner city, a woman-child we...



  • Johnny D. Boggs

    When General Sherman appoints lawyers Thomas Ball and Joe Woolfolk as counsel to Satanta and Big Tree, two Kiowa warriors who have been accused of murdering seven cowboys, Thomas and Joe, ordered to prove them guilty, instead find themselves defendin...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • B.A. Chepaitis

    From the author of Feeding Christine and These Dreams comes a delightful story of family, love, and life's many unexpected pleasures. At age thirty-one, Delilah needs a plan. Still living with her parents on their Key West estate, with no career to ...



  • Simon R. Green

    Taylor is the name, John Taylor. My card says I'm a detective, but what I really am is an expert on finding lost things. It's part of the gift I was born with as a child of the Nightside. I left there a long time ago, with my skin and sanity barel...



  • Disney Book Group

    Kids will have hours of fun with this interactive sticker book featuring their favorite little clownfish Nemo, star of Disney/Pixar's hit movie Finding Nemo. Simple text provides children with prompts to re-create their favorite scenes from the film ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Scholastic Inc.

    Level 2 Hello Reader! adaptation of the original, classic fairy tale, Snow White.

    This level 2 adaptation tells the story of the beautiful princess, Snow White, who is poisoned by her evil stepmother, the queen of the land. But with the help o...



  • Jennifer Liberts Weinberg

    Poor Ord has been having nightmares! Luckily, he’s visited by Slumberfairies who lead him and his friends to Slumberfairy Falls, where Ord discovers that he already knows how to help himself fall asleep. This is a gentle, reassuring tale with the m...



  • Jake Logan

    After claiming their reward money for destroying four of the ruthless Conrad brothers, Slocum and Sam Biggle find themselves in hot water when a con-artist, using two brazen beauties as bait, tries to swindle them out of their hard-earned money. Orig...



  • 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...



  • Pat Mills

    2000 AD’s ever-popular Celtic hero returns with a vengeance! In this full-colour, fully painted new edition of the classic tale by Pat Mills (Marshal Law) and Simon Bisley (Batman/Judge Dredd: Judgment on Gotham), Ukko the dwarf narrates the furthe...



  • 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...



  • 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....



  • Laura Peyton Roberts

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  • 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 ...



  • Tony Hillerman

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  • John Griesemer

    Signal & Noise is the epic page-turning story of the laying of the trans-Atlantic cable, and the men and women who are caught in its monumental tide. It is also a novel about the collision of worlds seen and unseen: the present and the future; th...



  • Elaine Viets

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  • Cameron Judd

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  • Patsy Clairmont

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  • Justine Wittich

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  • Francine Pascal

    When Sam disappeared, I thought the pain would kill me. Now that he's back, I'm thinking I had it wrong. The pain's not gonna kill me. He is....



  • Penny Jordan

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  • Stan Jones

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  • Scott Ciencin
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When the gods are banished from the heavens, they must travel through Faern in the guise of mortals. When four companions, last survivors of the Company of the Lynx, find themselves in possession of a mysterious amulet, they must escape death at ...



  • Jude Watson

    Join Anakin Skywalker on Mawan -- a planet decimated by war and chaos -- in this sixth adventure in the Jedi Quest series! The Mawan population has taken refuge underground while three crimelords battle on the surface over the planet's resources. Onl...



  • Samuel Johnson

    This volume contains a generous selection from the essays Johnson published twice weekly as 'The Rambler' in the early 1750s. It was here that he first created the literary character and forged the distinctive prose style that established him as a pu...



  • 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...



  • David B. Coe

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  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Donald Moffitt

    Many centuries ago, an alien race known as the Nar was able to recreate human beings from genetic code, broadcast from Earth into outer space by a beleaguered humanity. They allow a group of humans to travel millions of light years through the galaxy...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Holly Cook

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  • J. Robert King
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The battle rages on! Amid the titanic clash between Phage and Akroma, all Dominaria shuddered. Now, out of the destruction and chaos a new force arises, and Kamahl must face his greatest foe: Karoma. Her arms spread to the very clouds, and her rob...



  • Margo Maguire

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  • 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...



  • Gerard Donovan

    In an unnamed European village, in the middle of a civil war, one man digs while another watches over him. Gradually, they begin to talk. Over the course of the afternoon, as the snow falls and truck-loads of villagers are corralled in the next field...



  • Bill Pronzini

    Shamus Award-winning author

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  • Michael Rex

    A great new way to learn to read...word by word!

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  • Judy Christenberry

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  • Jana Dillon

    A sweet confection about the first nesting dolls

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  • Erica Jong

    "Sappho's Leap delights."―USA Today

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  • William R. Trotter

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  • Claire LaZebnik

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  • Susan Squires
    in

    FOR EACH, THERE COULD BE ONLY ONE They came from the darkest places: secluded monasteries, the Carpathian mountains, galaxies under siege. They were men with the blackest pasts--warriors, vampire monks, leaders of armies--but whose passions burned...



  • Francine Pascal

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  • Benjamin Cavell

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  • David L. Lindsey

    Computer tycoon Titus Cain has been kidnapped. And the world doesn't know it. His captors say he can go on living as he pleases. All he has to do is the unthinkable. If not, the people closest to him will be killed. But Titus has never played by ...



  • Cathy East Dubowski

    When a luxury cruise to the South China Sea goes wrong, the Rugrats and their parents are shipwrecked on an island, where the babies encounter Tommy's hero, Nigel Thornberry, and his children, and are trapped underwater....



  • Raye Morgan

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  • 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, ...



  • Julian Jay Savarin

    Featuring Muller and Pappenheim, heroes of A Cold Rain in Berlin A network of snipers, highly skilled professional killers, has been murdering apparently unconnected victims. The apparently happy family men who have been targeted share a secret from ...



  • Kate McMullan

    Here come 10 little babies, ready to rock the house with anything they can find-from a tambourine, bells, and a guitar, to rattles, wooden spoons, and even a Bundt-cake pan! Every parent knows that toddlers love to sing and dance, and this lively, in...



  • Trisha R. Thomas

    Dell Fletcher is the Roadrunner, a black major-league baseball star who seems to have it all. He’s married to his college sweetheart, Leah, and they have two children and a dream home in Los Angeles. But an injury has sidelined his hot career, and ...



  • S.M. Stirling

    THE WAR IS FAR FROM OVER... THOSE WHO FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE FACE THE ULTIMATE CHALLENGE. THE ELECTRONIC BRAIN BEHIND HUMANITY'S DESTRUCTION COMES ALIVE....



  • Brian Keene

    When a horrifying plague turns most of the world into powerful flesh-eating zombies, Jim Thurmond, while on a cross-country quest to save his son, joins forces with an elderly preacher, a scientist, and a reformed prostitute to save civilization from...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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?...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Sue Harris

    A dazzling book with bold pop-ups and holographic foil on every spread.

    Kids who love pop-ups will take a special shine to this one . Every spread in the book features a sparkly flash of foil! READY, SET, GO! trails a breathless race around th...



  • Alex Sanchez

    Jason Carillo: Jock. Good looks. Beautiful girlfriend. Popular. Unsatisfied. Kyle Meeks: Swim team star. Friendly. Easygoing. Intelligent. Confused. Nelson Glassman: Independent. Opinionated. Defiant. Joker. In love. High school's hard enough as...



  • Cassie Edwards

    RACING HEARTS Leaving her native Ireland behind, Maureen O'Rourke arrives in America with her watercolors, her canvasses, and her boundless dreams. She is hired to paint the impressive manor house of Louisiana cotton farmer Taylor Clairmont -...



  • Donna Simpson

    A LADY'S CHANGE OF HEART... Rachel Neville is the envy of the ton, possessing youth, extraordinary beauty, and a supremely "suitable" fiance. Yet despite the secure future that lies ahead, she is suddenly restless--bored with the amusements of the S...




  • Meghan Daum

    New York Times Notable Book: A Manhattanite seeks Midwestern bliss and finds something else in this “funny, literate [and] often touching story” (People).Television correspondent Lucinda Trout is unhappy about the superficiality and shallowness o...



  • 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....



  • David Morrell

    KNOW HIM. SEE HIM. STOP HIM-OR DIE. No one knows his real name. No one knows where he lives. Trained by Delta Force, calm in moments of absolute terror, Cavanaugh stops threats before they strike-silently, swiftly, and lethally. His latest assignm...



  • Nancy Butler

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  • Shannon Donnelly

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  • 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 ...



  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh

    An absorbing, classic fantasy that taps into the wishful thinking of every imaginative child.

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  • 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 ...



  • 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, ...



  • Madeleine E. Robins

    On the mean streets of Regency London, a truly different adventure-with an unforgettable heroineIn a Regency London that isn't quite the one we know, young women of family whose reputations have been ruined are known as the Fallen. Young Sarah Tolera...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • John C. Wright

    Phaethon of Radamanthus House has been exiled, his ship confiscated. He embarks upon a quest across the transformed solar system among humans, intelligent machines, and bizarre life forms. For the first time in his centuries-long life, he must look r...