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  • Big Dog and Little Dog Getting in Trouble

    Dav Pilkey

    When Big Dog and Little Dog play tug-o-war with the couch cushions, the furniture ends up ruined and their person is not pleased. Best friends have to be great at sharing in this case, sharing the blame! With deceptively simple text, graphic illustra...

  • Comeback

    Richard Stark

    After the bloodbath of Butcher’s Moon, the action-filled blowout Parker adventure, Donald Westlake said, “Richard Stark proved to me that he had a life of his own by simply disappearing. He was gone.” And for nearly twenty-five years, he stayed...

  • Firestorm

    Jordan Cray

    A wrong turn down the information superhighway. A strange chatroom where users speak in code. Randy Kincaid is suddenly caught in a web of lies -- and murder. With the help of cyberhead Maya Bessamer, Randy must find out who's behind the killings. Or...

  • For Dead Eyes Only

    Dean Wesley Smith

    Lo Wang: The Shadow Warrior. The darkness made whole, the night made flesh. Master of all martial arts. Master of all explosive weapons. The Shadow Warrior fights neither for good nor evil but for himself alone, bent on finding those who betrayed ...

  • Gemini 7

    Jordan Cray

    Jonah-and-Jen. Where does Jonah end and Jen begin? That''s what Jonah is asking himself these days. So he decides to put some space between them, and gets himself a new girlfriend: Nicole. Even if she''s just a cybergirlfriend, she''s a dream come tr...

  • Going Postal

    Don Lasseter

    "You Get To A Point Where You Can Take Just So Much."EDMOND, OK-Postal employee Patrick Henry Sherrill fatally shoots 14 co-workers before turning the gun on himself. ESCONDIDO, CA-Postal employee John Merlin Taylor murders his wife in her sleep befo...

  • Judgment in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    In the wake of nuclear war, anarchy, and disease, a fanatical religious leader seeks to take over the world and soon has millions of supporters, placing the fate of America in the hands of Ben Raines and his followers. Original....

  • Terror Spin

    Don Pendleton

    UNHOLY WAR A diehard extremist group, the Spear of Allah, has a grim record that includes death and destruction throughout Europe. But now they've brought their carnage to America, and have effectively thrown down the gauntlet. After heinous blood...

  • At All Costs

    Carolyn Keene

    While Nancy visits a friend at the University of Utah, Frank and Joe work undercover outside Salt Lake City at the site of the 2002 Winter Olympics, where they investigate acts of sabotage by ecoterrorists and worse. Original....

  • Back to School Murder

    Leslie Meier

    TINKER COVE'S OWN AMATEUR SLEUTH LUCY STONE DISCOVERS THAT SCHOOL DAYS CAN BE MURDER. It's back to school time in the peaceful Maine town of Tinker's Cover, and for mother-of-four Lucy Stone it isn't a moment too soon. But trouble at the local ele...

  • Backstab

    Elaine Viets

    Six feet tall in flats, sleek, sexy Francesca Vierling is a brash columnist for a big-time St. Louis newspaper who makes her living by knowing the story behind the scenes--the secrets the other papers miss. But every secret has its price, and when he...

  • Black Diamond

    Susan Holtzer

    MURDER MAKES AN UNEXPECTED VISIT TO THE U OF M'S COZY CAMPUS In exchange for some missed class notes, University of Michigan student and sports reporter Zoe Kaplan agrees to drive drab dorm-mate Clare Swann to her eccentric late aunt's estate for ...

  • Bonjour, Miss Seeton

    Hamilton Crane

    A trip abroad--and a murder at home... While exploring a re-creation of Monet's celebrated garden in the French countryside, Miss Seeton is befriended by the Comte de Balivernes, a stately French aristocrat. He is quite taken with the retired art ...

  • Cat in a Golden Garland

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    That rough-and-tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame haired human companion Temple Barr are looking forward to a Christmas vacation spent in the Big Apple. But there's more than merriment to be found in New York City--there's a murder to b...

  • A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock

    Lydia Adamson

    Acting jobs and cat-sitting assignments have been elusive for Alice Nestleton lately...but there's plenty of sleuthing work to be done. A prominent theater director has requested her help for his pet charity: Sustenance House. It seems an anonymous b...

  • The Dead Celeb

    Lindsay Maracotta

    IN TINSELTOWN, IF YOU'RE NOT A NAME, YOU'RE DEAD. JEREMY LORD IS BOTH. Lucy Freers just wants to make animated movies and to raise as functional a family as possible in the midst of the Hollywood hysteria. Unfortunately, her film producing husband...

  • The Dead Man and the Sea

    Janice Steinberg

    When the body was pulled from the water, Margo both feared and doubted that it could be Hob Schreiber's. The clothes looked like Hob's--but he was a skilled sailor as well as an oceanographer. The sea was his element. How could he have drowned? But a...

  • Dead Room Farce

    Simon Brett

    Delighted to land a role in an acting company touring the provinces, struggling actor Charles Paris finds himself embroiled with two very different women and becomes a suspect in the death of an old drinking buddy, forcing him to turn sleuth to clear...

  • Death's Autograph

    Marianne MacDonald

    MURDER'S BOLD INSCRIPTION "Whoever had broken into the shop might just have gone upstairs afterwards, might just be there still...My first reaction was anger: I wanted to roar up the stairs, only I could hear Barnabas saying, the way he used to wh...

  • Delilah Doolittle and the Purloined Pooch

    Patricia Guiver

    Sunny Southern California seems an unlikely place for a British widow to call home. But pet detective Delilah Doolittle is probably the least eccentric--if not the most civilized--of Surf City's resident population. With an astute Doberman pinscher n...

  • The Dream Stalker

    Margaret Coel

    With promises of new jobs and millions in revenue, the Wind River Reservation agrees to use their land for a nuclear storage site. But Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden is not willing to let this happen. And with help from Father John O'Malley, she sets ...

  • An Educated Death

    Kate Flora

    When a young girl drowns at a private New England high school, tough businesswoman Thea Kozak faces what may be her most tragic mystery yet. The death rocks the world of privileged academia, and Thea is called in to counsel the students and faculty a...

  • Hostage

    R.D. Zimmerman

    Todd Mills is getting ready for the coup of his career: an exclusive interview with right-wing congressman Johnny Clariton, whose positions against gay rights and AIDS research promise to make his appearance with Minneapolis's only openly gay journal...

  • Just Plain Pickled to Death

    Tamar Myers

    A WELL-PRESERVED CORPSE A Twenty-year-old barrel of genuine Pennsylvania Dutch sauerkraut isn't Magdalena Yoder's idea of a great wedding present from her future father-in-law. Especially when it has a corpse in it. And it sure puts Mennonite-born...

  • The New Year's Eve Murder

    Lee Harris

    The party’s over . . . On December 30th, Susan Stark was dropped off in front of her parents’ house. She hasn't been heard from since. Not a good scenario, especially in New York.Former nun (now crime investigator) Christine Bennett fears th...

  • People in Glass Houses

    Tim Hemlin

    CANDIDATE FOR MURDER

    While congressional candidate Chip Gunn sweet-talks power brokers at his Houston fund-raiser, all hell breaks loose for catering chef Neil Marshall. In the kitchen, Gunn's guard is stabbed, and Neil's assistant is found gr...

  • The Pied Piper of Death

    Richard Forrest

    Charming husband-and-wife sleuthing team Lyon and Bea Wentworth visit the estate of a power-mad manufacturer in this classic manor-house mystery. Children’s book author and occasional sleuth Lyon Wentworth arrives at the Piper estate prepared to co...

  • Quieter Than Sleep

    Joanne Dobson

    Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts's elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined--and that not even the privileged world of academia is i...

  • Rogue's Wager

    Thomas Gately Briody

    When a clamdigger accidentally injures a diver with a dynamite blast, rogue reporter Michael Carolina writes up the story and forgets about it, until a mobster disguised as a nurse murders the injured man while he is in the hospital...

  • The Secret of Candlelight Inn

    Carolyn Keene

    When Emmaline Whitby died, she bequeathed the historic Candlelight Inn to the Guiding Eyes foundation. Dedicated to helping the blind, the foundation plans to create a training center for Seeing Eye dogs. But as Nancy is about to discover, the inn is...

  • Shadow Walk

    Jane Waterhouse

    After one of her friends is mysteriously murdered, a true-crime writer who had sworn never to pen another book becomes determined to locate a man from her hometown of Spring Lake, New Jersey, who, in 1970, one by one shot his mother, wife, and childr...

  • A Stiff Risotto

    Lou Jane Temple

    THE KNIVES ARE OUT! Heaven Lee--proprietress extraordinaire of Kansas City's celebrated Cafe Heaven--knew she had to watch her back at Aspen's gossipy Real Dish Food Festival. But it wasn't until the saucy cook stumbled across the battered body of...

  • Strange Brew

    Kathy Hogan Trocheck

    A TASTE FOR TROUBLE Cleaning lady cum sleuth Callahan Garrity has cautiously watched her seedy bohemian Atlanta neighborhood morph into a trendy haven for yuppies. But just as she fears, too much cappuccino and new money can be a bad mix. When the...

  • The Toyotomi Blades

    Dale Furutani

    AN ANCIENT SWORD CUTS TO THE HEART OF A BAFFLING MYSTERY Unemployed computer operator and amateur sleuth Ken Tanaka is thrilled at the chance to visit his ancestors' homeland, especially when it's courtesy of a Tokyo talk show that wants to interv...

  • Up Jumped the Devil

    Blair S. Walker

    A reporter for the Baltimore Herald, Darryl Billups is a hardworking black journalist who's been passed up and looked down upon because he won't kiss butt and always speaks his mind. He's also one of the best damn newspapermen on the East Coast. And ...

  • When Did We Lose Harriet?

    Patricia Sprinkle

    A teenage girl has been missing from her Montgomery, Alabama, home for six weeks. She may be a runaway, a crime victim, or both. What's amazing is other people's lack of concern. Just one person cares that she's gone: a spunky amateur sleuth on the s...

  • Wicked for the Weekend

    Carolyn Keene

    Invited to play the part of a murder victim in the school play, fraternity president Michael Wentworth nearly dies when he is poisoned and turns to Nancy Drew for help in averting a determined killer. Original....

  • Appearance of Evil

    Christopher A. Lane

  • Blaze on Rocky Ridge and Other Stories

    Nancy Speck

  • Cunning Workmen

    Isabella Alden

    “I have sent for you,” said Sarah, “because I want you to tell me how to die.” Cora Parkhurst is simply too busy with other things to get to know the girls in the Sunday school class or to spend much time preparing her lessons.

    Rober...

  • The Legend of the Candy Cane

    Lori Walburg

    With over 500,000 copies sold, The Legend of the Candy Cane is an endearing and timeless Christmas story that doesn’t lose sight of the true meaning of the holidays. This edition of the holiday classic by Lori Walberg features vibrant illustrations...

  • The Matchmakers

    Janette Oke

    Cynthia loves her widowed father and deeply appreciates his help and attention after the sudden tragic loss of her own spouse. But life must go on " she knows that even without everyone saying it. Her best friend Judith suggests that if her father ...

  • The Rainbow's End

    Robert Funderburk

    He Was Young, Restless, and Rebellious. She Was the First Woman to Capture His Heart. Cassidy Temple is young, restless and rebellious. With an incessant tendency toward violence when challenged to fight. Graduating from high school in 1960, in many...

  • Remembering You

    Penelope J. Stokes

    In this moving conclusion to the Faith on the Home Front series, Owen Slaughter returns from the battlefields of Europe to Eden, Mississippi, to keep a promise made to the dying Charlie Coltrain. Charlie's sister, Willie, is overjoyed that Owen is al...

  • The Song of Princes

    Gilbert Morris

    Two families--the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans--are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. Linking the people and events through th...

  • Accidental Roommates

    Charlotte Maclay

    How to lose your virginity... At twenty-eight, getting down and dirty should be real simple--except if you're a good girl from an excruciatingly small town. Why, Hannah Jansen even lives with her father and helps him run the local hardware store!...

  • After Dark

    Bette Ford

    THEY WERE ON OPPOSING TEAMS From the moment she met him at an exclusive Detroit restaurant, Taylor Hendricks knew Donald Williams was far from ordinary. The basketball superstar and prominent businessman was tall, commanding, and too gorgeous to be ...

  • All Male

    Kay Thorpe

    Revenge by seduction! Businessman Lee Hartford. is a regular Midas: everything he touches turns to gold. His turnover in women is legendary, too! Kerry Pierson knows just how devastating the Hartford charm can be. Her roommate had her heart tra...

  • Almost a Family

    Marilyn Tracy

    WANTED: THE PERFECT DAD The Smithton triplets had picked Texas Ranger Steve Kessler to marry their mom. But how could they bring a big-city lawman to a place like Almost? Write him about the "murder" in town! Widow Taylor Smithton was aghast at...

  • The Bachelor Next Door

    Katherine Garbera

    SINGLE MOM STUCK IN BATHTUB! Cass Gambrel groaned at the memory of Rafe Santini coming to the rescue! The infuriating man had freed her with a gleam in his eyes that said, "I'm interested ...but not in commitment." Well, Cass sure didn't need a ma...

  • Beauty and the Beasts

    Janice Kay Johnson

    Veterinarian Dr. Eric Bergstrom -- a ladies' man if you want to put it kindly, a womanizer if you don't -- is interested in a new woman. He's volunteered his services at the local cat shelter she's involved with. He's even adop...

  • The Bride Rode West

    Kristine Rolofson

    Emilie Grayson was through with men! On her wedding day Emilie had caught her fiance in a torrid embrace. So she hightailed it west and landed up as a housekeeper for a rancher and his three daughters. She, a city girl who knew a lot more about or...

  • Christmas Cowboy

    Diana Palmer
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    A Christmas keepsake...two special stories filled with holiday magic by Diana Palmer and Joan Johnston. Meet the men who make it so nice to be naughty! They're seductive, they're shameless, They're irresistible - and these Texans are experts at s...

  • Clayton's Made-Over Mrs.

    Sandra Steffen

    THE BACHELOR: Rugged rancher and single dad Clayton Carson. This time around he was determined to marry a woman who couldn't manipulate his heartstrings. THE BRIDE: Diner owner Melody "Mel" McCully. She was danged tired of being overlooked by the ...

  • Convincing Jamey

    Marilyn Pappano

    THE NEW GIRL ON THE BLOCK When Karen Montez blithely announced her plans to save the neighborhood, bartender Jamey O'Shea knew that driving her away was his only option. Everyone here was beyond salvation--and his lovely neighbor reminded him of e...

  • The Cowboy Who Broke the Mold

    Cathleen Galitz

    He Was Rough, Untamed...She Was Soft, Innocent An arrogant, blue-eyed, half Native American cowboy with an attitude who thought prim one-room schoolteacher Carrie Raben couldn't hack it in the wilds of Wyoming. Guess again, cowboy. Chaste Carrie ...

  • Daddy Woke Up Married

    Julianna Morris

    The unexpected wife! There were holes in the wedding pictures where his face should be, and his wife lived in a separate apartment! Something about Nick Carleton's marriage was wrong. Unfortunately, he had lost his memory and didn't remember what r...

  • The Fake Fiance!

    Leigh Michaels

    Bride versus Groom! Ridge Coltrain and Morea Landon disagreed about everything! And, being lawyers, they were experts at arguing. Well, they had plenty to argue about now -- wedding arrangements, prenuptial agreement. And the engagement wasn't ev...

  • Fletcher's Baby

    Anne McAllister

    The bride said no! Business tycoon Sam Fletcher was used to getting his own way. He'd never been in a situation he couldn't handle. So when Josie Nolan broke the news to him that she was expecting his baby, Sam was a little shaken--but not...

  • Flowering Judas

    Elizabeth Palmer

    Charmian Sinclair leads a charmed life. She runs her own PR firm, is close to her family and has a regular series of lovers for each day of the week. But this very satisfying lifestyle demands order and routine to run smoothly... and chaos is lurking...

  • For Her Eyes Only

    Sharon Sala

    A senseless death shocks a community... A woman dreams of murder... A lover's life is in danger... The great disaster of Grand Springs, Colorado, had given Jessica Hanson one nasty head injury and sinister visions of murder. But no one be...

  • A Forbidden Desire

    Robyn Donald

    A scorching seduction? Jacinta knew as soon as Paul McAlpine opened his front door that she shouldn't stay. Gerard had warned her not to fall for Paul, his cousin, during her visit to Waitapu, New Zealand. But she already had -- ten months ago...

  • Growing Season

    Mike Gaherty

  • A Hawk's Way Christmas

    Joan Johnston
    in

    A Christmas keepsake...two special stories filled with holiday magic by Diana Palmer and Joan Johnston. Meet the men who make it so nice to be naughty! They're seductive, they're shameless, They're irresistible - and these Texans are experts at s...

  • He's Got His Daddy's Eyes

    Lois Faye Dyer

    HE HAD HIS DADDY'S EYES... but not his daddy's name. And for four long years lonesome cowboy Josh Hightower hadn't even known his son existed. But now he knew... It had been heartbreak enough when Sarah Drummond hightailed it out of town witho...

  • The Heart of the Matter

    Muriel Jensen

    Take one junk-food-loving single father named Jason Warfield, who's decided -- strictly for the sake of his kids -- that he'd better change his ways. Add one slightly uptight nutritionist, Laura Price, who's trying to teach that absolutely infuriatin...

  • Here's Lookin' at You

    Marcia Evanick

    Of all the women in all the world, she walked into his dreams .... Morgan De Witt lead postponed his own happiness to ensure his sister's joy, but now that he was ready to take a bride, he didn't know where to look! Years ago a teenage Maddie Andr...

  • Hidden Star

    Nora Roberts

    THE DAME WITH THE DIAMOND She couldn't remember a thing, not even who she was. But it was clear Bailey James was in trouble. Big trouble! And she desperately needed Cade Parris to help her live long enough to find out just what kind. The moment...

  • His Double, Her Trouble

    Donna Sterling

    Tonight's the Night Brianna Devon had romance in mind when she planned Evan Rowland's homecoming surprise--an intimate party for two. The surprise, however, was on Brianna. Too late she discovered she was in bed not with her high school sweetheart...

  • Holding on to Alex

    Margaret Way

    Beautiful, traitorous Alex Alexandra Ashton had idolized Scott McLaren when she had come to live on his family's Outback cattle station as a lonely, grief-stricken little girl. He had been so protective of her, so vital and achingly handsome, ...

  • Home for the Holidays

    Irene Hannon

    HIDING FROM LOVE... Lovely Laura Taylor, owner of Taylor Landscaping, hid her beauty behind overalls and a baseball cap, and tucked her tenderness under a sassy attitude. Yet she still couldn't fool handsome architect Nick Sinclair. Powerfully dra...

  • A Husband for Christmas

    Emma Richmond

    Back--for baby's first Christmas Four months ago, Sebastien Fourcard had kissed his wife and baby son goodbye and disappeared.... Gellis had been devastated but, as the days had tumbled into weeks, she had been forced to accept the unthinkable...

  • In Search of Her Own

    Carole Gift Page

    WHERE HAD THEY HIDDEN HER CHILD? Victoria Carlin yearned to find her son--the child she'd been forced to give up years ago. With the help of rugged private investigator Philip Anders, she searched for Joshua, clue by clue. Yet the truth remained h...

  • In the Arms of the Law

    Anne Marie Duquette

    The Silver Dollar Ranch, near Tombstone, Arizona Morgan Bodine takes pride in two things: being a rancher and being a lawman. He's part owner of the Silver Dollar Ranch; he's also Tombstone's acting sheriff. Jasentha Cliffwalker is proud of he...

  • Incurably Isabelle

    Lilian Darcy

    Would family secrets force them apart? When Isabelle Bonnet returned to France she was determined to heal a long-standing family rift. However, she wasn't expecting to encounter Dr. Jacques Ransan. He soon became her lover, and Isabelle knew s...

  • Is There a Husband in the House?

    Lynn Miller

    Dinah Lane is desperate. She needs a husband and she needs one fast! There's no other way for the unwed mother to keep her baby and her job as the first female executive in such a straight-laced, small-town bank. Telling everyone she's engaged, Dinah...

  • Just Jessie

    Lisette Belisle

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE The bride: Jessie Carlisle, twenty-three and never been kissed The groom: Bad boy Ben Harding The wedding: A sham...or was it? Ben knew that Jessie Carlisle would do anything to save her beloved Stone's End f...

  • Just One Night

    Kathryn Shay

    Zachery Sloan was no ordinary architect. His innovative designs had earned him the reputation of rebel. The media always had a field day wondering whether Sloan's projects pushed the boundaries too far. Annie Montgomery had married Zach straight ...

  • The Kidnapped Bride

    Metsy Hingle

    SHANGHAIED FROM THE CHURCH? Slung over the broad shoulders of her ex-fiance as he kidnapped her from the church was not the way Lorelei Mason had envisioned her wedding day to her new fiance. Jack Storm had left her at the altar once; now he had ...

  • A Kiss Between Friends

    Erin Haft

    Love hurts ... Samantha Scott can tell her best friend, Miles Wilson, anything . . . except that she's falling in love with him. Even though they're closer than close, Samantha knows Miles would never think of her as girlfriend material. So Samant...

  • The Knight, the Waitress and the Toddler

    Arlene James

    DESPERATELY SEEKING SIR GALAHAD Attorney Edward White's reputation was rock solid: he was as reliable...and romantic...as granite. Until desperate, penniless heiress Laurel Heffington Miller sought protection for her secret son - and made mincemea...

  • The Lawman's Legacy

    Phyllis Halldorson

    THE MAN WHO WOULDN'T MARRY Police chief Rick McBride knew right off the bat what kind of woman Jodi Hopkins was -- an earth mother, the type who would shower a man with love and want tons of kids. The kind of woman he had once wanted for himself...

  • Letters, Lies & Alibis

    Sandy Steen

    Revenge is sweet ... or is it? Rancher TRAVIS HARDIN is determined to right a sixty-year wrong and wreak vengeance on the Delacroix. But he hadn't intended to fall in love doing it. Is his desire for Shelby greater than his need to destroy her fam...

  • License to Thrill

    Stephanie Bancroft

    If his touch was as lethal as his smile, she was certain to swoon in his arms .... James Donovan's dossier might have read "Untouchable, unpredictable, and hard to hold," but when the handsome British agent faced the curator receiving the historic...

  • Light My Fire

    Donna Kauffman

    He was 6' 7" of pure danger, in jeans, boots, and a reckless, knowing grin .... T. J. Delahaye rescued people for a living, but when he tumbled down a mountain to help Jenna King, he fell hard for the stubborn goddess whose strength and determinat...

  • Lila's New Flame

    Francine Pascal

    Sweet Valley is burning up! Late one night, an entire wing of Fowler Crest burns to the ground! Lila Fowler, already furious over a long-distance relationship gone up in smoke, swears revenge on the arsonist who left her home in ashes. Will Lila's ...

  • Long Southern Nights

    Heather MacAllister

    The days were long... Kyle Stuart was on the brink of disaster! His company was crumbling, his employees were planning a mutiny and he was shunned from polite society in Jeffersonville, Georgia, simply because he was born north of the Mason-Dixon li...

  • Love, Marriage and Family 101

    Anne Peters

    PARENT TEACHER MEETING... Overworked teacher Hally McKenzie vowed that this year she would finally lose those five extra pounds and learn a new language--that is, until the gorgeous single dad of a troubled student turned to her for help. OR MARR...

  • MacNamara's Woman

    Alicia Scott

    THE SURVIVOR Ten years ago, Tamara Allistair learned that she had no one to rely upon except herself. Now her existence was threatened again--but this time there was someone to lend her a hand. Her protector? C. J. MacNamara, self-appointed resc...

  • Michael: the Defender

    JoAnn Ross

    Michael O'Malley: Responsible, determined, loyal. As a private detective, Michael was used to taking care of people. No one needed his help more or wanted it less than... Lorelei Longstreet. Someone wanted to hurt the beautiful movie star whom Mic...

  • Midnight Blue

    Monica Jackson

    What will prevail... As campaign director of a family-owned cosmetics company, Jessica Sanders is a young woman on the way up. Her road turns rocky when she suddenly finds herself in the middle of a dynastic war. On one side is Tom Jordan, the compa...

  • The Midnight Rider Takes a Bride

    Christine Rimmer

    DO YOU HAVE TO GET MARRIED, ADORA BEAUDINE? That's what all the town gossips were asking--and what else could she expect? Ladylike Adora was supposed to settle down to a life of solid respectability, and instead she was about to say "I do" to a mo...

  • The Mysterious Stranger

    Susan Mallery

    AMNESIA? From the moment the gorgeous, sexy stranger washed up on shore, millionaire Jarret Wilkenson was suspicious. Since he was one of the most eligible bachelors around, women were forever using strange antics to propose. And while this captiv...

  • A Nanny for Christmas

    Sara Craven

    Millionaire seeks nanny for his seven-year-old daughter. Young Tara had taken one look at Phoebe Grant and decided she'd be a wonderful nanny. And whatever his daughter wanted, Dominic Ashton bought her. The demure Miss Grant was perfect in her n...

  • The Nicest Guy in America

    Angela Benson

    THE DATING GAME When fun-loving Kimberla Washington, writer for a top women's magazine, is assigned a contest to find the perfect man, she isn't exactly thrilled. She knows from experience that he doesn't exist! But the man who wins the contest ju...

  • No Wife Required!

    Rebecca Winters

    She wanted a husband... Lacey West's biological clock wasn't so much ticking as sounding alarm bells. And then Max Jarvis moved in to her apartment block. Six feet two inches of prime bachelor--the perfect male, except for one thing... ...

  • The Officer and the Renegade

    Helen R. Myers

    TELL ME YOU'RE INNOCENT! Taylor Benning's urgent plea seared Hugh Blackstone's heart. All the spurned half-breed had to do was admit he'd been wrongly accused. He knew the right words would prompt her to throw her arms around him, maybe even win h...

  • Out of the Picture

    Francine Pascal

    Too many good-byes .. . Elizabeth Wakefield never wants to see Tom Watts again. She's even left WSVU! Elizabeth loves her new job as a reporter for the Sweet Valley Gazette. But now that Tom's out of her sight, she can't get him out of her mind. To...

  • Outback Bride

    Jessica Hart

    "Are you going to marry me -- yes or no?" Matthew Standish--or Mal to his friends--arrived back into Copper's life with a marriage proposal that sounded just about as romantic as sheepshearing! But then, the situation required practica...

  • The Patient Nurse

    Diana Palmer

    MR. OCTOBER THE DOCTOR: Ramon Cortero HIS PATIENT: Noreen Kensington, nurse with a serious condition of heartache. REMEDY: A dose of old-fashioned loving! Ramon's stormy past with Noreen made him the one man she didn't want rescuing her, now ...

  • The Perfect Match?

    Penny Jordan

    The Crightons have position, power and elegance ...and a past scandal to haunt them. The dark, brooding Guy Cooke just had to be the ideal man. Chrissie was entranced and, the wonder of it was, Guy appeared to be equally mesmerized by her! It see...

  • Please Say "I Do"

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    SHE'S DETERMINED TO MAKE IT THE WEDDING OF THE CENTURY. The Brewster wedding was to be the triumph of Hallie Berhardt's career. Never mind that the bride hadn't shown up and the groom couldn't be found. Never mind the hurricane warning. Or that t...

  • Prime Suspect

    Maggie Price

    MAN OF ICE It was rumored that Lieutenant Michael Ryan had ice running through his veins. A dedicated detective, he never let emotion interfere with his job. But his unwavering discipline was shaken by one beguiling--and beautiful--suspect, a woma...

  • The Princess Gets Engaged

    Tracy Sinclair

    IF FAIRY TALES COULD COME TRUE... She was a dead ringer for a runaway princess. So American tourist Megan Delaney was hired to impersonate the missing monarch - at her arranged engagement to a real live prince! Riches galore would be Megan's durin...

  • Promise Me

    Robyn Amos

  • Promises

    Roger Elwood

    THE POWER OF A PROMISE... Carla Gearhart had fame, fortune and all the trimmings. But hard times and heartache had sent the beautiful country-western singer's career on a downhill slide. Enter Kyle Rivers. His remarkable talent left Carla speec...

  • Red-Hot and Reckless

    Miranda Lee

    Have you heard the latest? Don't tell anyone but... Ben Sinclair just can't put his obsession with Amber Hollingsworth behind him: Why can't I get over my fascination with this female? I practically grind my teeth when I pi...

  • Rent-A-Cowboy

    Barbara McMahon

    She rented a cowboy...and found the man of her dreams! Becca Montgomery wanted to travel the world. But, after being left her father's ranch, she had to forget her plans for a while until her stepbrother returned from college. However her s...

  • Saving Susannah

    Beverly Bird

    A WOMAN... Widowed dad Joe Lapp needed help. A nanny for his children, a woman to soothe his soul. And when Kimberly Mancuso showed up on his doorstep, looking for her long-lost brothers, his prayers were answered.... A HOME... Kimberly's daught...

  • The Scandalous Return of Jake Walker // The Rebel's Return

    Myrna MacKenzie

    Re-issued by the author in ebook as - The Rebel's Return TOO GOOD TO FORGET He'd left the town of Misunderstood without a backward glance, his bad-boy reputation firmly set in stone. And as Tess Buchanan had watched him drive away, a...

  • Scarlet Lady

    Sandra Chastain

    "If you win, the money's yours, but if I win, I get you ...." He ran his riverboat casino like the rogue he'd been named for, but Rhett Butler Montana wasn't prepared for the night a vision in crimson dared him to play her for everything he had! K...

  • Second Wives

    Cindy Blake

    With the early loss of both their younger brother and their mother, the Preston sisters have spent most of their lives haunted by tragedy. But Meg, Beth, Amy, and Leonora are determined to find happiness. Meg and Amy, second wives grappling with thei...

  • The Secrets Within

    Emma Darcy

    A mother's lust for power... A daughter's desire for revenge. Eleanor Vandelier -- a woman of invincible strength and ruthless determination. She controls two of Australia's most prominent vineyards. Her family has been sacrificed in her lust for...

  • Sisters At Heart

    Susan Bowden

    FAMILY REUNION Anne Barry Dysan hasn't seen her father Ryan Barry, in twenty-eight years -- since her mother's death, when he walked away, taking her sister with him and leaving Anne to be raised by and aunt. Now she has written to him at Hammer...

  • Spur-Of-The-Moment Marriage

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    A Whiplash Wedding Montana Millionaire Max McKendrick had a hankering for arranging whirlwind romances for his heirs. As his attorney, Cisco Kidd had executed the old man's plans with the precision of a master matchmaker. But the cowboy counselor ...

  • Spy Girl

    Francine Pascal

    Danger is Jessica's middle name....

    Jessica Wakefield can't believe it when her boyfriend, undercover  cop Nick Fox, finally offers to take her along on an assignment.  She knows they'll make a great team.  But will Jessica's big mouth g...

  • Stray Hearts

    Annie Kimberlin

    Lovesick Melissa March was always more comfortable around her patients. As a busy veterinarian, she was used to wagging tails, sloppy kisses, and unconditional love. But when it came to men, she knew to trust her instincts anymore - they'd led he...

  • Temporary Girlfriend

    Jessica Steele

    Should his every wish be her command? What choice did Elyss have but to put up with Saul Pendleton calling the shots? Because of a series of dreadful mistakes, she owed him a whole lot of money and hadn't a hope of being able to pay him back. How...

  • Temptation

    Victoria Christopher Murray

    Kyla and Jefferson Blake count their 16 years together as a wonderful blessing from God. Their marriage is passionate, their daughter is a joy, Jefferson's medial career is prospering and they have loyal friends. Kyla knows her newly divorced and li...

  • This Child Is Mine

    Janice Kaiser

    Sometimes love is Destiny... The fortune cookies at Madame Wu's Destiny House are special: their predictions come true! Three women's lives are affected; three new loves are born.... PAIN CAN BE THE MIDWIFE OF JOY. That's what ...

  • Three Brides, No Groom

    Debbie Macomber

    All dressed up with nowhere to go... They were college friends with plans to become blushing brides. Gretchen had the beauty, Maddie the brains...and Carol the bounce--she was a cheerleader, after all! And they each had a man to marry. Gretchen...

  • Vegas Sunrise

    Fern Michaels

    Fanny Thornton, the proud matriarch of the Thornton dynasty, will do anything for her family. Her four children, now grown, mean everything to her--as does Babylon, the most dazzling casino in Las Vegas, and the Thorntons' crowning achievement. But h...

  • Verdict: Parenthood

    Jule McBride

    Years ago, seven mysterious matchmaking millionaires secretly started an adoption agency in Manhattan called Big Apple Babies... and now 'the sexiest man in Manhattan,' Grantham Hale, has become the overnight adoptive daddy of quadruplets and twi...

  • Wanted: Husband, Will Train

    Marie Ferrarella

    EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE...RIGHT? Her father's will was positively medieval! Blue blood Courtney Tamberlaine had to select a blue-collar spouse -- pronto -- or lose her huge inheritance. Luckily, right on the Tamberlaine estate was a raw, earth...

  • Wife by Contract

    Raye Morgan

    BRIDE? WHAT BRIDE? Joe Camden came home to Alaska to find a bride and two adorable kids on his doorstep. Chynna Sinclair claimed she and her brood were his mail-order family, but when Joe tried to explain that it was his brother who'd sent for a ...

  • Willing to Wed

    Cathy Williams

    Not the marrying kind? James Kellern was an eligible bachelor -- in search of a wife. He denied it, of course, but somehow he caught himself daydreaming about being a husband, and a father. Strangely, it happened every time he met one particular woma...

  • The Winter Bride

    Lynne Graham

    From mistress... Angie Brown loved Leo Demetrios but his desire for her was brief and meaningless. After all, he was heir to a Greek shipping fortune and she was just the butler's daughter. And mother... For over two years Angie has kept se...

  • Wooing Wanda

    Gwen Pemberton

    Woo or Walk... Wanda Rockman wanted her husband back. Not that he'd actually left. He'd just become a stick-in-the-mud, married to his work. Nevertheless, she had a plan to retrieve the man she'd fallen in love with. Unfortunately, Wanda's sche...

  • Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist

    M.C. Beaton

    COLD-BLOODED MURDER HEATS UP AGATHA'S GREEK HOLIDAY... Everyone loves Agatha! Called "a glorious cross between Miss Marple, Auntie Mame, and Lucille Ball" by the St. Petersburg Times and "refreshingly sensible, wonderfully eccentric, thoroughly li...

  • Mrs. Malory and the Only Good Lawyer

    Hazel Holt

    London solicitor Graham Percy has always been a trial, but Mrs. Malory's kindhearted late husband never could turn his back on his old Oxford acquaintance. Now Mrs. Malory has inherited the persnickety, long-winded bachelor and his interminable four-...

  • Murder on the QE2

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    A QUEEN-SIZE SLAYING Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove, Main's acclaimed mystery writer, finds herself in treacherous waters when a dream voyage on the transatlantic luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 becomes a nightmare journey into danger. Jessica has...

  • The Calcutta Chromosome

    Amitav Ghosh

    The Calcutta Chromosome is one of those books that's marketed as a mainstream thriller even though it is an excellent science fiction novel (It won the prestigious Arthur C. Clarke Award). The main character is a man named Antar, whose job is to moni...

  • Charity

    Len Deighton

    FOR BERNARD SAMSON, THE END IS NEAR. In the concluding volume of Len Deighton's superb trilogy that began with Faith and Hope, Bernard Samson continues to peel away the mystery surrounding the cold-blooded murder of his sister-in-law, Tessa, on th...

  • Anastasia

    A.L. Singer

    The saga of the long-lost Russian princess, Anastasia Romanov, comes to life in a brightly illustrated story based on the new animated film, in which an amnesiac orphan searches for clues to her true identity. Movie tie-in....

  • Anastasia

    Maggie Blackwell

  • Anastasia Goes to a Party

    HarperCollins

  • Bloodstone

    David Gemmell

    “David Gemmell tells a tale of very real adventure, the stuff of true epic fantasy.” -- R. A. Salvatore, New York Times bestselling authorTwenty years have passed since Jon Shannow, the legendary Jerusalem Man, cracked open the gate of time and b...

  • Caesar's Bicycle

    John Barnes

    In order to stop the alien Closers, who have waged war on a million alternate Earths, private eye Mark Strang gathers his assortment of weaponry and confronts a mysterious closing of the Timelines. Original....

  • Driving Blind

    Ray Bradbury

    The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable...

  • Elf Magic

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of eighteen original tales by such writers as Jane Yolen, John DeChancie, and Rosemary Edghill features elves both mischievous and malicious, sprightly and regal, humorous and tragic, who enmesh unwary mortals in magic. Original....

  • Flickering Shadows

    Kwadwo Agymah Kamau

    Cudgoe has died several times in the past three hundred years. Now as a ghost he is watching over the Hill, a fictionalized island nation in the Caribbean that has just won its independence. In this magical and exotic tale, after an amateur geologist...

  • The Forgotten

    K.A. Applegate

    There's been an accident. Someone crash-landed a Yeerk Bug fighter. And the Yeerks have been trying to cover it up -- quickly. But not before Tobias spots it. So the Animorphs and Ax decide to steal the ship to show the world that Earth has been inva...

  • Fugitive Prince

    Janny Wurts

    With the appalling destruction of the Vastmark warhost, recoil and grief reshape the balance of power in the Five Kingdoms. Two half brothers, cursed by a Mistwraith to a lifelong enmity, are set into violent conflict: Lysaer, Prince of the Light, an...

  • The Gift

    Patrick O'Leary

    A story within a story, The Gift is a story of innocence betrayed and magic rejected. Tim is robbed of his childhood, and Simon is tormented by hearing made too acute. Both are victims of The User of the Night, once a boy like them, now pathetically ...

  • Gods Promises

    Mary Hunt

  • Halloween Havoc

    Diana G. Gallagher

  • The Last Wizard

    Simon Hawke

    ARMIES OF THE DARK The Runestones' Avatars--Wyrdrune, Kira, Angelo, and Slade--are finally backed by the entire military in their war against the necromantic Dark Ones ... but it may be too little, and far too late. For on a dragon-infested pea...

  • MapHead: The Return

    Lesley Howarth

    Out on his own for the first time, MapHead, a boy from a parallel dimension called the Subtle World, makes friends with Jack Stamp, but in doing so he crosses a boundary that should not be crossed, in the funny, intriguing, and moving sequel to M...

  • Master and Fool

    J.V. Jones

    From dungeon to cathedral, from brothel to hermit's hut, the gambits of the mighty face the power of seers and stars. In the fortress of Bren, mad King Kylock and the wizard Baralis spread their sadistic terror across the shattered kingdoms. Meanwhil...

  • The Mines of Behemoth

    Michael Shea

    Shipwrecked en route to their new job working in the perilous Costard sap mine, Nifft the Lean and his partner, Barnar Hammer-Hand, join forces with Bunt, who offers them a lucrative reward if they can bring him some of the precious fluid from the mi...

  • Outlaw's Gold

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Owlflight

    Mercedes Lackey; Larry Dixon

    THE VAST PELAGIRIS FOREST Darian's parents had been hunters who worked in the Pelagiris forest, trapping the bizarre change-creatures which had been created by the mage-storms, and selling their fantastic hides. But Darian had not accompanied them o...

  • Polgara the Sorceress

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    Polgara the Sorceress soars above a world of warriors, kings, and priests. The daughter of Belgarath and the shape-shifter Poledra, she has worked her powerful magic for three thousand years. Now Polgara looks back at her magnificent life in this fit...

  • Princess Anastasia

    Jan Carr

    Highlighted by artwork from the new animated film, this action-packed story based on the legend of the lost Romanov princess follows a young orphan with no memory of her true identity as she searches for the secrets of her past. Movie Tie-in....

  • Realm of Light

    Deborah Chester

    The stunning conclusion to the “masterful” Ruby Throne trilogy from the national bestselling author of Reign of Shadows and Shadow War (Extrapolation).   After nine centuries -- and ten lifetimes -- the Emperor Kostimon is dead, and darkness...

  • The Seraphim Rising

    Elisabeth Devos

    HERALDS FROM THE MESSIAH OR HARBINGERS OF A DOOMED MILLENNIUM? Most of the world wanted to believe the six special visitors were the messengers of God. The Seraphim themselves said they had come to open the gateway to paradise. There were, however...

  • Six Haunted Hairdos

    Gregory Maguire

    In this sequel to Seven Spiders Spinning, the rivalry between the boys and girls in Miss Earth's class takes a ghostly turn when the girls transform themselves into the Six Haunted Hairdos, but the whole class will have to cast aside their ri...

  • The Stranger

    Eric James Fullilove

    In a troubled future, the search for redemption may carry the stiffest price of all.

    A teenage boy is found dead in the Los Angeles city subway with no identity--no prints, no records, nothing on file--an unusual, fatal fugitive from the digit...

  • Touched by the Gods

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    When the baby Malledd is born to an ordinary family in a small country town, the oracles name him the true chosen Champion of the Domdur Empire. Should the Empire find itself at war, Malledd will be the one to lead them to victory, by the gods' decre...

  • War of the Gods

    Poul Anderson

    The story of the great King Hadding is one of the darkest and most violent to come down to us from the old North. Hadding was raised by giants far from his rightful throne, as his father, a Danish king, was slain shortly after Hadding's birth. But th...

  • The World of Robert Jordan's the Wheel of Time

    Todd Cameron Hamilton

    Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and compelling characters.

    The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that bec...

  • 20,000 Leagues under the Sea

    Anni Matsick

    Trapped aboard a fantastic submarine with a mad sea captain, a French professor and his companions come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange, forbidden sights hidden from the world above. This is the classic deep sea adventure from th...

  • The Acorn Eaters

    Els Pelgrom

  • Addie's Forever Friend

    Laurie Lawlor

  • The Adventures of Midnight Son

    Denise Lewis Patrick

    "There ain't no words right enough to explain feelin' free."

    On a dark Texas night in 1863 Midnight Son escapes from the plantation where he has lived all his life. In constant fear of bounty hunters, he hides in trees during the day and tra...

  • Adventures of Wishbone Boxed Set: Hunchdog Of Notre Dame, Digging Up The Past, The Mutt in The Iron Muzzle, and The Treasure Of Sk

    Brad Strickland

  • After Nirvana

    Lee Williams

    A stunningly realized post-grunge novel in the tradition of John Rechy's City of Night from a truly provocative new voice in literary fiction

    Set in the Pacific Northwest, After Nirvana follows a small bunch of drugged-out street kids. The narrato...

  • Albert Goes to Town

    Jennifer Jordan

    After playing with toy cars, Albert wants to give a real car a test drive, so when he is given one that is just his size, he happily jumps in, starts it up and takes it for a spin through an imaginary town....

  • Albert's Christmas

    Leslie Tryon

    It is Christmastime in Pleasant Valley and Albert is ready to usher in the season. This year he's got an important surprise for his friends -- Santa Claus is making a visit to their hometown. But it's not just for fun and games, this is one of Santa'...

  • Alex and the Cat

    Helen V. Griffith

  • Alien Terror

    Chris Archer

    In the first book of this middle grade sci-fi series, a teen gains alien superpowers that make him popular at school, but put him in mortal danger.   Dweeb . . . Dork . . . These are names Ethan Rogers is used to be...

  • Alison's Fierce & Ugly Halloween

    Marion Dane Bauer

  • All Rapped Up

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    Despite Tia's decision to give up on men, she finds herself dancing with her twin Tamera's date, a rap artist whom Tamera has been actively pursuing, at the spring formal, and soon the twins are facing a difficult situation. Original....

  • All Year Round

    Lisa Desimini

    Four noted artists--including Lisa Desimini, David Ricceri, Sara Schwartz, and Dan Yaccarino--bring the seasons to life through bright, splashy pictures and an easy-to-memorize text, in a book to benefit the Robin Hood Foundation....

  • Allamanda

    Michael Leon Williams

    A sequel to Arcady pits Garrick Hawken and his father, Endymion, against the encroaching evil of the Absence, which forces them from their Arcadian estate and drives Garrick to seek out a new ultimate weapon. Original....

  • Alloran's Choice

    K.A. Applegate

    Elfangor's journey began with a simple mission under the command of War-prince Alloran. The mission should have ended with the return of two humans to Earth. But Elfangor's fellow aristh, Arbron, makes a discovery that takes them all to the Taxxon ho...

  • Androcles And The Lion

    Dennis Nolan

    Androcles, a runaway slave, is befriended by a lion when he removes a huge thorn from its paw. For years the two live to-gether in the desert, until soldiers capture Androcles and are ordered to throw him to the beasts. Led into the grand arena, Andr...

  • Angel Pig and the Hidden Christmas

    Jan Waldron

    One divine little pig changes the face of Christmas for a poor family of porkers whose hopes are set on TVs and CD players as gifts, but who turn out to be magnificent bakers and makers--splendid gift givers in the original tradition of the Christmas...

  • Angels We Have Heard on High

    Joan Wester Anderson

    In this beautiful book, New York Times bestselling author Joan Wester Anderson weaves a wreath of the blessings we receive when we least expect them--a joyful reminder that today, no less than two thousand years ago, Christmas is the season of miracl...

  • Animal Lullabies

    Pamela Conrad

  • Annabelle's Wish

    Michael Stuart

  • Annabelle's Wish

    Amy Bauman

  • Arnie the Brave

    Valeri Gorbachev

    Designed to set children on the path to independent reading, the story of Arnie, a little mouse who wants to be a sailor, is told in a rebus style and is accompanied by twenty-four flash cards. Original....

  • Baby in a Basket

    Gloria Rand

    Offers the true-life story of Baby Ann who vanished after the family and their belongings were separated when their sleigh accidentally broke through the ice during a mid-winter journey in Alaska in 1917....

  • The Bachelor's Cat

    L.F. Hoffman

    There once was a bachelor...an honest man, an artist struggling for love and success. He had a girlfriend. Sexy and manipulative, this woman enticed and diced his heart. But there was another woman, too. Not quite as pretty, nor half as mean, this sw...

  • Bad Start for Santa Claus

    Sarah Hayes

  • Bad, Badder, Baddest

    Cynthia Voigt

    NICE GIRLS FINISH LAST.... Bad girl Mikey just found out her parents want a divorce. And Mikey will do just about anything to stop them. With the help of her best friend and fellow bad girl, Margalo, Mikey devises a plan to get her parents back ...

  • Bambi: Opossum Problems

    Mary Packard

    Bambi, Flower, and Thumper agree to watch Baby Blossom while her mother does some errands, but as soon as her mother leaves, the little opossum becomes very sad, and the three friends do their best to console her....

  • Barbie Soccer Coach

    Barbara Slate

  • Barbie: Scavenger Hunt

    Mary Packard

  • Barnyard Big Top

    Jill Kastner

    Nothing much happens on their quiet farm until Uncle Julius arrives with his Two-Ring Extravaganza, leaving Ben to groom the lion, while his best friend, Clarence the pig, auditions for the trapeze act....

  • The Beasties

    William Sleator

    Although he didn't believe the rumors about the monstrous creatures who live in the woods, Doug and his sister unfortunately discover that they are true and so must find a way to put the Beastie family's evil plot to an end before there are even more...

  • A Bedtime Book

    Joan Walsh Anglund

    A charming collection of original stories and verses features tales of friendly trees, aspiring ballerinas, and companionable cows, all of which provides the perfect bedtime reading for children of all ages. Reprint....

  • The Best American Short Stories 1997

    Houghton Mifflin Company

    The best-selling story anthology includes both old and new talent, including Tobias Wolff, Donald Hall, Robert Stone, Cynthia Ozick, and Junot Diaz, and features works divided into such categories as "Perceived Social Values." Simultaneous....

  • The Best Smelling Christmas Book Ever

    Harriet Ziefert

    From the spicy aroma of a bayberry candle to the sweet smell of vanilla, the glorious scents of Christmas come to life in a scratch-and-sniff holiday treat, along with a cast of mischievous mice who lead children on a nose-tickling adventure. Childre...

  • Big Brother, Little Brother

    Penny Dale

    Big Brother always knows how to cheer up Little Brother, but when Little Brother takes Big Brother's favorite toy, Big Brother begins to cry, leaving Little Brother to save the day for the first time, in a real-life situational story....

  • The Big Laugh

    John O'Hara

    A devastating account of the movie world's Golden Age, in all its phony power and glory. The famously sharp-edged social realism and always on-the-money dialogue of the late novelist John O'Hara (1905-1970) are brought to bear in a stinging saga o...

  • Billy's Sunflower

    Nicola Moon

    This story has very short and simple text, with bright supporting illustrations, helping the beginner reader to follow the story. It is part of a series created especially for children who are just beginning to read for themselves....

  • Blood of Patriots

    Richard Hoyt

    Terrorists storm into the crowded House of Representatives and open fire. Within minutes, more than a hundred members of Congress and staff lie wounded, dead, or dying on the floor of the nerve center of American democracy. The nation is shocked, the...

  • Boo Who?

    Laura E. Williams

    While preparing for a classroom Halloween party, Ricky becomes spooked into believing there is a real ghost following him around in a story that includes ideas and recipes for children's own Halloween parties. Original....