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New Books List: 692 titles

  • 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...

  • 23 Shades of Black

    K.J.A. Wishnia / Ken Wishnia

    A mystery with brains. A heroine with guts. And a city full of attitude... Meet Filomena Buscarsela -- a street-smart cop who's finding that New York City is a far cry from her native Ecuador. She might be out of her element, but she's totally in sy...

  • 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!...

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • aka Jane

    Maureen Tan

    Plagued by memories of her lover's murder, burnt-out MI5 operative Jane Nichols moves to Savannah, Georgia, and devotes herself to writing hard-boiled private eye novels, however, amongst Savannah's historic houses is an enemy from her past....

  • 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

  • Alexia Ellery Finsdale, San Francisco 1905

    Kathleen Duey

    San Francisco, California July 12, 1905 I pray nothing will go wrong this time... Alexia Ellery Finsdale loves her father, but he is a smooth-talking con man. For as long as she can remember, they have moved from city to city, chasing his dre...

  • Alien Bounty

    William C. Dietz

    McCADE'S AN INTERSTELLAR BOUNTY HUNTER -- AND THIS TIME HIS QUEST IS THE HOLIEST RELIC IN THE GALAXY... For years only the thinnest barrier kept the II Ronnian Empire from launching full-scale war on mankind. Now that barrier is about to crumble: ...

  • 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 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...

  • 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 Through the Night

    Connie Brockway

    A WOMAN COMPELLED In the glittering world of Regency England, Anne Wilder played a dangerous game. A widowed lady by day, by night she became a masked thief preying on society's elite. She roved high above London's black rooftops, compelled by pha...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Amber Beach

    Elizabeth Lowell

    A dazzling tale of high adventure and larger-than-life characters in the story of a legendary treasure that inspires consuming passion and treacherous betrayal ... the fabulous lost fortune that was once the Russian Czar's exquisite, world-renowned A...

  • 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

  • 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...

  • The Angel Tapes

    David M. Kiely

    On a clear summer day in Dublin, O'Connell Street is crowded with pedestrians when a bomb explodes directly beneath a black taxicab, sending several people to a horrific death. Police investigators led by Blade Macken, a weathered detective superinte...

  • Angel with an Attitude

    Carly Bishop

    A five-hundred-year-old passion simmers on... As far as Angelo could figure, it must have been the sight of the orphaned baby that caused Isobel Avedon, his one true love, to turn irrevocably mortal. Isobel had always wanted a baby...his baby. ...

  • 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

  • Annie's Hero // By Magic Born

    Maggie Shayne

    WHEN A LOVE DIES Sweethearts since childhood, Annie and Richard shared an unparalleled love filled with tenderness, passion and joy. Until the tragic day Richard vanished --- presumed dead after a terrible car accident --- leaving his adoring wife p...

  • Anton Reiser

    Karl Phillip Moritz

    In Anton Reiser, the critic and educator Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793) turned his early life into fiction and, according to his translator Ritchie Robertson, created 'one of the most memorable experiences German literature has to offer'.A masterpie...

  • Appearance of Evil

    Christopher A. Lane

  • 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....

  • Artist's Proof

    Gordon Cotler

    Ex-cop Sid Shale took early retirement from the NYPD and now relishes the peace and quiet of home -- a beach front bungalow in a small Long Island village where the latest "crime spree" is a rash of bicycle thefts. Sid now has two responsibil...

  • 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....

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bad Land

    Jonathan Raban

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • Startlingly observed, beautifully written, this book is a contemporary classic of the American West. • "As good a book as I have read about rural America in a very long time." -...

  • Bad Medicine

    Aimee Thurlo; David Thurlo

    Set on the Navajo reservation packed with Native American wisdom, Aimee and David Thurlo's Ella Clah novels are written with a sharp eye for conflict between the traditionalist and modernist ways of life. Former FBI Agent Ella Clah is now a special i...

  • 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

  • The Bargain

    Jane Ashford

    It's more than ridiculous, it's damned embarrassing and inconvenient...for a scientist with his reputation to be called in to get rid of a ghost. But when the Prince Regent summons Lord Alan Gresham to London to solve the mystery of a hauntin...

  • 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...

  • 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 Beckoning Dream

    Paula Marshall

    Pretend Marriage...Real Danger! The only way actress Catherine Wood could ensure her brother's release from jail was to accompany "Tom Trenchard" to Holland on a spying mission, while pretending to be his wife! With his roguish charm Tom made no b...

  • 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....

  • Before the Fall

    Patricia Rosemoor

    SEVEN SINS Conquer the sin and find true love. At least, that's the theory. But would it hold true? Or would these sins live up to their deadly billing? Could love be her salvation? Indicted for a crime she didn't commit, Angela Dragon is dete...

  • Beloved Captive

    Lauren Wilde

    Isabel trembled in fear when the Comanches raided her hacienda and stole her away. Held tightly by a young warrior astride his horse, she was terror-struck by what awaited her in the New Mexican desert...until she saw her abductor's face and a sh...

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 1997

    Houghton Mifflin Company

    For many years, some of the most vital, creative, and exciting fiction published in America has been in the field of mystery, crime, and suspense. Now Robert B. Parker and Otto Penzler - both Edgar winners - have assembled the best that 1996 had to o...

  • 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 Man

    Shari MacDonald
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  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Birthright

    Andrew Coburn

    A haunting novel based on the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby speculates on what would have happened if that the child had grown up in the family of his kidnappers, never knowing who he was until he was about to run for governor. 35,000 first ...

  • Black and Blue

    Ian Rankin

    A murdered oil-rig worker. A copycat serial killer dubbed "Johnny Bible. And a reopened investigation that doesn't bode well for Detective John Rebus or his mentor, Inspector Lawson Geddes. Rebus's Scotland, along with his malt-soaked psyche, is ridd...

  • 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 ...

  • Blaze on Rocky Ridge and Other Stories

    Nancy Speck

  • 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...

  • Blood Rage

    David Thompson

    No pioneer knew the wilderness like the legendary Davy Crockett. His curiosity and wanderlust always kept him exploring, seeking new lands and new adventure. But sometimes his curiosity led Davy and his old friend Flavius into more trouble than they ...

  • Blood Red Roses

    Margaret Lawrence

    It is 1786, and summer has come to Rufford, Maine. As the hay ripens and roses perfume the air, the horrors of the recent war of Revolution seem to be fading. Then a series of murders rocks the town, and it is up to Hannah Trevor to employ every hit ...

  • 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...

  • Bob the Gambler

    Frederick Barthelme

    A New York Times Notable Book In this darkly funny story, Ray and Jewel Kaiser try (and push) their luck at the Paradise casino. Peopled with dazed denizens, body-pierced children, a lusty grocery-store manager, and hourly employees in full revolt, t...

  • 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 ...

  • 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....

  • The Book of Seven Truths

    Calvin Miller

    Calvin Miller's revelatory tale is actually a story within a story linked by the desire to find personal meaning in each of these Seven Truths. Told from the perspective of Anton, a ten-year-old farm boy who has moved with his parents from Louisiana ...

  • Bouki Dances the Kokioko

    Diane Wolkstein

    Bouki is fat. Bouki is awkward. So why would Malice ask him to dance the complicated Kokioko for the king? Bouki isn’t sure. All he knows is that if he does learn the dance, he can win the king’s money. Seems simple enough. But uh-oh, Bouki shoul...

  • Bowman's Store

    Joseph Bruchac

    Having lived with his grandparents as a boy, the author describes how he was raised, never knowing about his Native American heritage, and explains how, as he grew up, he discovered things for himself and found his way back to his roots despite the c...

  • Breakfast at the Liberty Diner

    DK Publishing

  • Breakfast at the Liberty Diner

    Daniel Kirk

  • Brian Boru

    Morgan Llywelyn

    One thousand years ago, during the Viking Age, an extraordinary young man was born in Ireland. His people, plagued by warfare, were weary not only from the Vikings' brutal raids along the coast, but also from the continuous warring among local chieft...

  • 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...

  • The Bride Wore Red

    Robbie C. Sethi


    These thirteen linked stories are framed by the experiences of Sally, an American doctor and Deshi, her Indian husband, whose two cousins follow his example and refect their arranged marriages for American brides.

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  • Bureau of the Lost

    John Peel

    Down at the Lost & Found Department in Eerie, something's missing: the Missing People! A power failure has released them from their cryogenic storage chambers, and now Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Amelia Earhart and many more a...

  • Busy Careers

    Dennis Di Laura

    A fun and playful new format! Sticker-a-Story features over 15 reusable, vinyl-cling stickers, bound to a uv-coded, 16-page book. Kids can place stickers throughout the story to change the props and scenery....

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • The Callahan Chronicals

    Spider Robinson

    Callahan's Crosstime Saloon is the neighborhood tavern to all of time and space, where the regulars are anything but: time travelers, talking dogs, alcoholic vampires, cybernetic aliens--and a group of people who really, truly care about each other. ...

  • Cam Jansen and the Scary Snake Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Cam's got a whole new m-hiss-tory to solve! Cam, Eric, and Mrs. Jansen are spending an eventful afternoon in the big city. First a snake is let loose on the steps of the library. Then Mrs. Jansen's bag is stolen -- with her video camera inside. Co...

  • Can You Keep a Secret?

    P.J. Petersen

    Mike has a reputation for not being able to keep a secret and he worries that he may reveal things that his classmates do not want known--from a surprise party for one of the teachers to a snake in a friend's desk...

  • Capitol Venture

    Barbara Mikulski

    Co-written by the U.S. senator from Maryland, a mystery follows her fictional alter ego, Norie Gorzack, as she untangles a sinister web of campaign finance skullduggery, union corruption, political machination, and murder...

  • Captain Jack's Woman

    Stephanie Laurens

    April 1811. They meet in a clash of swords, drenched in the moonlight of Britain's rugged eastern coast: Captain Jack, his handsome features etched in silver and shadow; his powerful physique compelling "Kit" Cranmer to surrender. He is her dream...

  • Captured

    Brian Brown

    In this Storykeepers episode, Ben and his family try to save Cyrus, but his temptation for fame puts him in the middle of a slave revolt in Rome where he is betrayed by his false new friends. Is there still hope for the ungrateful Cyrus?....

  • Cardinal Galsworthy

    Edward R.F. Sheehan

    A sweeping novel by the author of Innocent Darkness traces the saga of modern-day Catholicism through the story of Cardinal Galsworthy, a celebrated ecclesiastic who becomes a leading contender to succeed John Paul II. 15,000 first printing....

  • Case for Serving

    Stephen Graves

    In a Case for Serving, authors Stephen Graves and Thomas Addington establish what serving is, tell why it's so difficult, and show us life examples of serving in action. Discover the difference you can make in your work world through selfless living....

  • The Case Has Altered

    Martha Grimes

    Scotland Yard Superintendent Richard Jury returns, in Martha Grimes's newest atmospheric tale o f murder and suspense. Timeless, peaceful, and remote, the watery Lincolnshire fens seem an unlikely setting for murder. But two women--a notorious act...

  • The Case of the Barking Dog

    Della Rowland

    In eight mind-puzzling mini mysteries, young detectives are challenged to locate humorous clues that help them figure out what happened in such settings as a rollerskating rink, a birthday party, and a tree house. Original....

  • Case of the Crooked Candles

    Jonathan V. Cann

  • 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...

  • Cat Magic

    Lynda Trent
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    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • 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...

  • Catapult

    Jim Paul

    An “enormously entertaining” (Smithsonian), “clever, subtle, and adroit” account (Wall Street Journal) of how the author and his friend constructed a medieval siege engine in a San Francisco backyard. “So funny that I could n...

  • Caught in the Act

    Kate Cann

  • The Celestine Insights

    James Redfield

    You begin your quest with "The Celestine Prophecy," a parable that reads like a gripping adventure tale. Here you discover that an ancient Peruvian manuscript has disappeared. Although few Westerners know of its existence and a government wants to su...

  • A Change of Gravity

    George V. Higgins

    The day of judgment has come for Daniel Hilliard. Even though a flamboyant series of marital infidelities drove him out of the state senate in 1984--he's been cooling his heels ever since as president of Hampton Pond Community College--prosecutors th...

  • Chanukah in Chelm

    David A. Adler

  • 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...

  • Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre

    Stewart Ross

    Through an exploration of the characters in the classic novel Jane Eyre, the real-life story of its author, Charlotte Bronte+a5, is presented to young readers, enhanced by full-color illustrations....

  • Charm City

    Laura Lippman

    As a practiced reporter until her newspaper went to that great pressroom in the sky, P. I. Tess Monaghan knows and loves every inch of her native Baltimore, even the parts being slobb:,red on by the sad-sack greyhound she's minding for her uncle. It'...

  • Chasing Rainbows

    Victoria Lynne

    SHE TRIED TO ESCAPE... The crowd cheered as the bandit was hanged--until his hat flew off, revealing the truth: the condemned man was a woman. But the noose was loose, the rope was frayed, and within seconds Outlaw Annie fell to the ground, rescued ...

  • Chicken Poop for the Soul

    David Fisher

    Ruthlessly hilarious, this is the world’s first “sin-spirational” book, a parody guide absolutely guaranteed never to be an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Is “Chicken Soup” Too Sweet for Your Soul? When you take the road less traveled, do ...

  • Child of Faerie, Child of Earth

    Jane Yolen

    According to legend, once a year faeries leave the underworld to join a faerie ring in the moonlight, and on one such magical night, a young faerie boy meets a child of earth and they become friends forever....

  • A Child's Night Dream

    Oliver Stone

    The fictional Oliver Stone is alienated from the stultifying American nation in which he lives, and, abandoning his parents and his Ivy League education for Vietnam, he encounters a hell far more brutal than he could have ever imagined - a world o...

  • Christmas Bears

    Caroline Repchuk

    Two naughty bear twins have hidden their presents all through the house, and young children will enjoy lifting the flaps to read the clues that will help them find the partially hidden present on each page....

  • Christmas Classics From the Modern Library

    Modern Library

    This little treasury of Christmas favorites from the Modern Library is our selection of stories, songs, carols, poems, and more to gladden the heart for the festive season. It is ideal to be dipped into for reading aloud--perhaps around a Christmas t...

  • 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...

  • Christmas Mouse

    Vivian French

  • Christmas Paper Chains: A Complete Kit

    Stewart Walton

    Christmas angels and Santas are easy to make with the latest collections of stencils, patterned papers, and instructions. Fun facts about holiday customs add to the joy of making both simple paper chains and more advanced projects, from games and gre...

  • Christmas Song of North

    Marsha Bonicatto

    Christmas Song of the North offers children ages 2-10 a delightful look at the winter activities of their favorite northland animals. Set to the theme of "12 Days of Christmas," this beautiful full-color book will have children singing, counting, and...

  • The Christmas Story

    Dawn Apperley

    Now even very young children can celebrate Christmas with their own Nativity set! They simply punch out all of the pieces included with this book and put them together--without scissors, tape, or glue! Then they can listen to the beloved story of Chr...

  • A Christmas Treasury

    Stephanie Nettell

    A collection of more than eighty poems, stories, letters, and memoirs, gathered in this attractive and compact volume, provides a wonderful mixture of familiar, unexpected, and completely new material for the Christmas holidays....

  • The Christmas Tree

    Jill Weber

    The 1996 bestselling fable about a nun, a gardener, and the most famous tree in the world is back, packaged with a beautiful ornament for Christmas trees everywhere. Full-color. Between Oct. 16, 1997, and January 3, 1998, Random House donates a porti...

  • Christmas We Moved to the Barn

    Cooper Edens

    Taffy’s all set for a warm and cozy Christmas with her family, but then she’s notified on Christmas Eve that they’ve got to move out of their house by midnight. Don’t worry! Taffy, her two daughters, and their twelve animals -- an unusual and...

  • The Christmas Wish

    J. Gribbin Hutchinson

    When Steven Connors suddenly passes away on Christmas morning, six-year-old David loses his father and Christmas too, but little does David know that his father will continue to visit him in the form of a certain jolly old gentleman in whom David had...

  • Christopher Pike's Tales of Terror

    Christopher Pike

    Three short horror tales include "The Third Hand," in which a make-out artist receives otherworldly help; "Dark Walk," in which a stroll turns deadly; and "Revenge," in which Ted decides to kill his ex-girlfriend. Original....

  • The Chronicles of the Round Table

    Mike Ashley

    An anthology of stories following the exploits of the knights of King Arthur's round table features contributions from Phyllis Ann Karr, Peter Tremayne, Seamus Cullen, Brian Stableford, and Parke Godwin...

  • Circumnavigation

    Steve Lattimore

    Featuring an assortment of alienated, destitute characters searching for redemption, a collection of short stories set in desolate landscapes explores the underbelly of contemporary western America and includes the title story about an irresponsible ...

  • The Clandestine VS the X-Men

    Marvel Book Group

    Paperback: 240 pages Publisher: Marvel Enterprises; First Edition edition (October 1997) Language: English ISBN-10: 0785105573 ISBN-13: 978-0785105572 Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.7 x 0.3 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds...

  • Claudia and the Mystery in the Painting

    Ann M. Martin

    America's favorite baby-sitters are detectives, too! Claudia is helping Rebecca Madden prepare to sell her grandmother's house. Grandmother Madden was a famous artist, and finding more of her valuable paintings would help Rebecca and her family a ...

  • 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 ...

  • Code Black

    Charles Ryan

    Ex-Navy SEAL Matt Marquette finds himself putting his survival training and instincts to work when he discovers the final element to a doomsday device in the wreckage of his fishing boat, and must dodge terrorists and assassins after it. Original....

  • Codes of Betrayal

    Dorothy Uhnak

    When police officer Nick O'Hara's child is murdered, caught in the line of mob fire, Nick knows who is responsible, but as the half Irish and half Italian grandson of a mafia don, his hands are tied, or so he believes. Reprint....

  • Collection of 3 Newbery Medal Winners

    Virginia Hamilton

    Here is a wonderful gift for any young reader--a boxed set of three highly acclaimed, immensely popular Newbery Medal-winning books. The set includes M.C. Higgins, the Great, by Virginia Hamilton; From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,...

  • 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...

  • Comeback

    Leslie Waller

    Chick Midas is a TV funnyman of many faces -- a multifaceted genius hiding in the carcass of a fat slob. Surrounding the comedian's great hulk, in all its outlandish guises and deceptive madness, is a cast that includes various misfits and friends, a...

  • Control

    Everett Owens

    Mulder and Scully are in pursuit of a mysterious and powerful man who calls himself ‘Pusher.' Mulder thinks the man is a bizarre homicidal maniac who's able to convince his victims to kill themselves. But when Pusher learns that the FBI is on to hi...

  • 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 ...

  • Crimes of Passion Hot Blood

    Jeff Gelb

  • The Crocodile Hunter

    Terry Irwin

    For the Crocodile Hunter, aka Steve Irwin, made famous by the cult hit Discovery Channel programme, caring for aggressive 14-foot crocodiles, the world's deadliest snakes, venomous spiders, and powerful lizards at the private zoo he and his wife run ...

  • The Crystal Frontier

    Carlos Fuentes

    The nine stories comprising The Crystal Frontier, a brilliant work of fiction from Carlos Fuentes, all concern people who in one way or another have had something to do with, or still are part of, the family of one Leonardo Barroso, a powerful oligar...

  • Crystal Memories

    Ginny Aiken

    Winona, Minnesota, 1997. Amelia Baldwin was thrilled to be costuming a vaudeville revival at a beautiful old theater. She loved clothing and homes and things from another time. But Amelia had no idea that she herself would soon become a part of the p...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Daisies Are Forever

    Sydell Voeller

    Daisies are Forever, is an environmental contemporary romance published by Books We Love.April Heatherton, history teacher and volunteer firefighter, is determined to protect the land she holds dear, particularly the grave of an unknown pioneer woman...

  • Damned to Fame

    James Knowlson

    A scholar draws on his twenty-year friendship with Beckett, who specifically asked him to write his biography, more than 100 interviews, and extensive research to produce a complete and intimate portrait of the legendary Nobel Prize-winning playwrigh...

  • Dancing Pink Flamingos and Other Stories

    Maria Testa

    A collection of short stories in which ordinary teenagers are confronted with contemporary issues includes the story of a female student sexually harassed by her English teacher, and two brothers who see their father sent to prison. Reprint....

  • Daughters of the Dust

    Julie Dash

    Drawing from the magical world of her iconic Sundance award-winning film, Julie Dash’s stand-alone novel tells another rich, historical tale of the Gullah-Geechee people: a multigenerational story about a Brooklyn College anthropology student who f...

  • The Day Before Christmas Diorama Book

    Arnold Shapiro

    Shaped like tiny dwellings, these clever pop-ups end with an irresistible treat: a fully detailed diorama built right into the book. So whether it's a Santa's workshop or the manger where the baby Jesus lay, these brightly illustrated books are marve...

  • 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...

  • Deception Pass

    Earl Emerson

    As a rebellious teen, Lainie Smith hooked up with a drifter named Charlie --and she may have been an eyewitness to murder in the shadow of cliff-walled Deception Pass, where the water runs river-swift and turbulent. When justice--and the executioner-...

  • Deck the Halls

    Jenny Williams

    The newest additions to this popular board book series are sure to brighten the holidays. Printed with glow-in-the-dark ink and illustrated with joyful artwork accented with multi-colored glitter, this engaging pair of shaped board books makes ideal ...

  • The Defense

    D.W. Buffa

    Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case--or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, "and no one more quickly or more completely than myself." Now the man he most admires, ...

  • 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...

  • Delusion

    Joanna Elm

    When Emma Kane turns up dead in her Main Line mansion, no one is free from suspicion, least of all her husband of twenty-five years, New York media mogul Jack Kane. Too many people would love to see Jack Kane out of biusiness permanently, including a...

  • The Devil's Bride

    Penelope Stratton

    'TWAS A MARRIAGE ALMOST MADE IN HEAVEN... Even before Lord Rupert Glennister arrives in Bath, he is the subject of dark and devilish rumors. But after he steals a kiss from the virtuous Calvina Bracewell, dreadful repercussions ensue. With nowhere...

  • Disney's Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas

    Margo Lundell

  • Disney's Flubber

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Disney's the Little Mermaid

    Ann Braybrooks

  • A Diversity of Dragons

    Anne McCaffrey

    Finally... She's written The Book on Dragons.

    Anne McCaffrey is as renowned for her knowledge of dragons as she is for her New York Times bestselling novels. In this beautifully designed hardcover, McCaffrey focuses her attention on the fantastical...

  • Double Edge

    Dennis Etchison

    While working on a docudrama about Lizzie Bordon, Jenny Marlow's in-laws are inexplicably murdered, a black wreath is sent to her door, a channeler sees a frightening vision, and death begins to stalk the people in Jenny's life. Original....

  • The Doubleday Book of Princess Stories

    Geraldine McCaughrean

    A collection of stories about princesses. Princess High-and-Mighty vows only to marry a man she cannot see or hear, a lonely princess makes herself some friends out of gingerbread, a Japanese princess falls from the moon, and a mermaid princess falls...

  • Dragon Scales and Willow Leaves

    Terryl Givens

  • The Dream Keeper

    Langston Hughes

  • 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 ...

  • Dreaming of the Bones

    Deborah Crombie

    DREAMING OF THE ROSES After twelve years, the last person Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid expects to hear from is his ex-wife Victoria. But this is no social call. In her biographical research on troubled poet Lydia Brooke, Vic's uncov...

  • 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...

  • Duty and Dishonor

    Merline Lovelace

    A lifetime of duty..A moment of dishonor...Duty and Dishonor A LIFETIME OF DUTY Julia Endicott, daughter of the legendary Iron Man Endicott, has gone from Army brat to Air Force Colonel. Her highest goal will be met with a long-awaited promotion ...

  • The Eclipse of Moonbeam Dawson

    Jean Davies Okimoto

    Meeting girls and going to school and hanging out with friends shouldn't be that tough. But it is if you're fifteen and you're biracial and your name is Moonbeam and you live on a commune with your mother and a bunch of granola-munching, tie-dyed, to...

  • Eden

    Frederic Bean

    When the eldest son of a factious oil dynasty is fatally shot in his Dallas home, leaving his mother's will up for grabs, detectives suspect Matthew King, the family peacemaker who was at the scene of the crime. Original....

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • Embrace the Wind

    Chelley Kitzmiller

    Ginny Sinclair moves to Tucson to help her father start a newspaper and finds herself drawn to the handsome but feared Bonner Kincaid, a half-Apache man intent on avenging his people, who saves her from a violent skirmish. Arizona Territory. Tucs...

  • Emma's Orphans

    Loree Lough

    Emma Wright knows the loneliness of being an orphan. Maybe that's why her Maryland home seems to attract children left parentless by accident or by the recent Civil War. It is hard to care and provide for them on a nurse's salary, and finding Christi...

  • The Enchanted Christmas

    Diane Muldrow

  • The Enchanting

    Sandra Davidson

    No man can resist her bewitching spell. But Lady Raena Caldwell has been raised among people who would never accept her special gifts. Taught to hide her sensual powers, she is suddenly called upon to captivate and wed Sir Valor Godwin in order to fu...

  • Escape from Thyferra

    Ryder Windham

    The Rebel forces have found an Imperial conspiracy involving contaminated bacta, a deadly substance that can poison entire planets. In order to stop the Empire, the Rebels travel to Thyferrra....where they are trapped by a squadron of stormtroopers! ...

  • The Eternity Cure

    Howard Olgin

    Dr. Laura Antonelli is at the top of her profession, and things couldn't be worse. Although no one can come close to her skill and innovation in the field of laparoscopic surgery, her difficulties with the bureaucracy of her HMO make it difficult to ...

  • Every Little Angel's Handbook

    Belinda Downes

    Readers explore the ins and outs of angel life as they watch the little angels bake angelic cakes, sing in the angelic choir, and learn all about flying, in a lavishly hand-embroidered book for anyone who has ever wondered who angels really are....

  • Everything She Does Is Magick

    Maggie Shayne
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    The way to a man's heart? Some say kindness, some say food, some say flirting, or being good. But when mortal ways miss the mark, casting spells can conjure up sparks... When a trio of matchmaking witches chooses unsuspecting little Nathan McBride...

  • Everything Stinks

    Patricia Hermes

    A second volume in the new series The Cousins' Club centers on ten-year-old Jennifer's determination to have a "perfect day" with her visiting cousins, in spite of having absolutely everything go completely wrong....

  • Excalibur

    Bernard Cornwell

    In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell tells the unforget...

  • Except the Dying

    Maureen Jennings

    As the unforgiving cold swirled around the girl's unclad body, the bleakness of malice reflected in her lifeless eyes. There was something more sinister than the frigid Canadian weather responsible for Theresa Laporte's death, and Detective Willia...

  • 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...

  • The Family Markowitz

    Allegra Goodman

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • From the author of The Chalk Artist, this beloved collection of linked stories is “one of the most astute and engaging books about American family life to have come our way in quite a while” (The Boston Globe). I...

  • Fangs-Giving

    Dian Curtis Regan

  • Father and Child

    Rebecca York

    He found out he was a father... One glance at the doe-eyed girl in the photo melted the icy walls around Zeke Chambers's heart. Till then, he'd kept his past secret, his feelings hidden. But now he had to reach out -- for the help he needed to res...

  • Faun & Games

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The magical and mirth-filled land of Xanth holds many, marvels. But now an extraordinary new aspect of this remarkable realm unfolds as young Forrest Faun's quest takes him to a tiny planet hidden in the heart of Xanth. There, with a delightful "day ...

  • Finding Laura

    Kay Hooper

    MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL It's an antique mirror that can reveal secrets ... or tarnish the truth. And for struggling artist Laura Sutherland, buying it is only the first step into a dark maze of lies, manipulation -- and murder. It brings Pet...

  • Fire in the Canes

    Glenville Lovell

    Fifty years after the end of slavery, the tired West Indian village of Monkey Road is awakened when a beautiful woman and her teenage daughter arrive, forever changing their lives and the villagers, in this mystical and magical story. Reprint....