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  • 'Twas the Night: The Nativity Story

    Melody Carlson

  • About Grace

    Anthony Doerr

    The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debut...

  • Absent Friends

    S.J. Rozan

    Jimmy. Markie. Vicky. Sally. Tom. Jack. Marian. Their friendships are strong, and their futures bright--until one shattering night that changes everything. Two of the friends will die young. The others are left to pick up the pieces in the shadow of ...

  • Acting

    Sherri Winston

    Longing to escape from her small Michigan town, sixteen-year-old Eve, an aspiring actress, is forced to confront both her family's and her own expectations when her twin sister announces her pregnancy....

  • Adventures of an Ice Princess

    Liz Maverick

    She'd go to the ends of the earth to find love. When life throws you a lemon, make frozen lemonade Clarissa Schneckberg wasn't ready to leave her Silicon Valley job, get dumped by her longtime boyfriend, and move back in with her parents. She's...

  • After the Fall

    Peter David

    Three years have passed since the events depicted in the novel, Stone and Anvil, and for the past and present crew members of thr U.S.S. Excalibur, life has taken many surprising twists and turns. Captain Elizabeth Shelby has been promoted to admiral...

  • Air: Or, Have Not Have

    Geoff Ryman

    Chung Mae is the only connection her small farming village has to culture of a wider world beyond the fields and simple houses of her village. A new communications technology is sweeping the world and promises to connect everyone, everywhere without ...

  • The Akhenaten Adventure

    P.B. Kerr

    The Adventure Begins With a Wish Meet John and Philippa Gaunt, twelve-year-old twins who one day discover themselves to be descended from a long line of djinn. All of a sudden, they have the power to grant wishes, travel to extraordinary places, and...

  • Alien Legion: Tenants of Hell

    Chuck Dixon

    They are the dregs, the lost and the forsaken. They are loyal only to each other. They are the mudslogging mercenaries of Force Nomad, Alien Legion’s worst of the worst, and they are the stars of this planet-busting new series!

    Lost for 15 years...

  • Almost Heaven

    Charlotte Douglas

    Home Is Where the Heart(Ache) Is... Six years ago she left Pleasant Valley to follow a dream...and now she's back, knee-deep in a nightmare. With her parents' marriage on the rocks, her grandmother at her wit's end and the man she once loved -- and ...

  • Alvin & the Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Christmas

    Bonnie Noelle

  • Amazing Spider-Man, Volume 7: Book of Ezekiel

    Marvel Book Group

  • Amore

    Laura Wolf
    in

    A STAR-STUDDED STORY COLLECTION FEATURING AMERICA'S RED-HOT WOMEN WRITERS They're taking liberties--and pursuing happiness on their own terms! Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel"--and the trouble with falling for an in...

  • And a Puzzle to Die On

    Parnell Hall

    Cora Felton, the eccentric Puzzle Lady, is up to her old tricks again. Along with her brainy niece Sherry, the unlikely crime-solving duo match wits with a killer hiding behind an Lately, the biggest mystery is how many candles to put on the cake ...

  • Andromeda on the Street of Ducklings

    Judi Hendricks / Judith Ryan Hendricks
    in

    A STAR-STUDDED STORY COLLECTION FEATURING AMERICA'S RED-HOT WOMEN WRITERS They're taking liberties--and pursuing happiness on their own terms! Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel"--and the trouble with falling for an in...

  • Angel of Harlem

    Kuwana Haulsey

    Inspired by the extraordinary events of Dr. May Chinn's life, Angel of Harlem is a deeply affecting story of love and transcendence. Weaving seamlessly scenes from the battlefields of the Civil War, during which her father escaped from slavery, to th...

  • An Angel's Story

    Max Lucado

    Spiritual beings populate the stories of Scripture. Angels singing. Demons infecting. Heavenly hosts fighting . . . Ignore the armies of God and Satan and you ignore the heart of Scripture. Ever since the snake tempted Eve in Eden, we've known: there...

  • Annie's Christmas

    Pat Pritchard

    Once In A Lifetime The White River is treacherous even in good weather, but steamboat captain Isaac Chase hopes to make one more round trip before winter sets in. He has no choice--he must earn enough money to repair the vessel by spring. Then, duri...

  • Arrowville

    Geefwee Boedoe

    Beyond the Arrow Mountains, where winds blow bitter chill,across the Arrow Ocean lies a town called Arrowville,where every pointed person had a pointed point of view,and every point in Arrowville was always just askew.

    In Ar...

  • Asgard's Secret

    Brian Stableford

    They call it Asgard, the Home of the Gods. Beneath its artificial shell are at least three vast cave-systems, each one the size of an Earth-like world; and beneath those, possibly many more. No one knows how many layers there might be, and no one kno...

  • At the End of the Bayou

    DiAnn Mills
    in

    Love Illuminates Mysterious Shadows Romance is blossoming, and lives are on the verge of exciting changes -- but these four women are also threatened by suspicion, mystery, and danger. Shelby Landry, hoping to learn the source of her recurring ...

  • At the Scent of Water

    Linda Nichols

    Life is rewarding for Samuel Truelove. He's a gifted surgeon, he's married to the love of his life, and he has a beautiful daughter. But when he's called to perform an emergency surgery, a deadly cascade of events is set in motion, and his picture-pe...

  • At the Track

    Richard Peyton

    An anthology of twenty-three winning tales from the race track, a place that consistently spawns good writing. AT THE TRACK showcases the very best racing thrillers of the past 150 years and includes renowned authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, R...

  • Atticus of Rome

    Barry Denenberg

    THE LIFE AND TIMES Atticus is a young boy who has been torn from his family and home and sold into slavery to a Roman aristocrat. As a spy for Lucius Opimius, he quickly learns that not all is as it seems in the republic of Rome. Politicians and gree...

  • Author, Author

    David Lodge

    "A cunning, audacious portait of Henry James." -- The Boston Globe

    Henry James takes center stage in this brilliant story about literary ambition, creativity, and rivalry as revealed in the public career and private life of this most singular ...

  • The Awful Abbey

    Dorothy R. Kliewer

    There's something strange going on at the old Anthea Abbey, and Rufus County reporter Deedra Masefield is determined to get to the truth. A stone fortress with a history of dark deeds, the abbey now belongs to an eccentric inventor who bought the...

  • Babar and the Scary Day

    Harry N. Abrams

  • Babar's Mystery

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • A Baby on the Ranch

    Stella Bagwell

    COMING HOME For three months, Lonnie Corteen had been on the trail of Katherine McBride. But when a very pretty, very pregnant female answered the door, the Texas sheriff feared that telling her about the family she'd never known would send her in...

  • Bad Manners

    Chris Manby
    in

    A STAR-STUDDED STORY COLLECTION FEATURING AMERICA'S RED-HOT WOMEN WRITERS They're taking liberties--and pursuing happiness on their own terms! Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel"--and the trouble with falling for an in...

  • Bahamarama

    Bob Morris

    As unpredictable as island trade winds, Bahamarama twists and turns its way to a stunning slam-bang conclusion and announces the arrival of Bob Morris, a writer who is sure to surprise and delight readers for years to come. STAYING ON THE STRAIGHT...

  • The Bamboo Confessions

    Lauren Weisberger
    in

    A STAR-STUDDED STORY COLLECTION FEATURING AMERICA'S RED-HOT WOMEN WRITERS They're taking liberties--and pursuing happiness on their own terms! Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel"--and the trouble with falling for an in...

  • Bartholomew's Blessing

    Stephanie S. Tolan

    Having been invited to the manger by an angel and a fox to receive a special blessing from a newborn prince, Bartholomew Mouse worries about attending the special event, but when he arrives and receives a special smile, he finally comes to understand...

  • Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

    Jan Harold Brunvand

    An anthology of the most chilling urban legends of all time collected by the maestro himself.

    Urban legends are those strange, but seemingly credible tales that always happen to a friend of a friend. For the first time, Professor Jan Harold Br...

  • Beatrice

    Noelle Harrison

  • The Beautiful Miss Mousey

    Lisa Noeli

    NOW YOU SEE IT... Nigel Wollaston must interfere when his dear old uncle falls in love with a much younger woman. Miss Phoebe Sharpe is no more than a fortune hunter but her legendary charms--two of her charms, to be precise--have simply bedazzled t...

  • Beauty for Ashes

    Win Blevins

    Young Sam Morgan, serving his apprenticeship as a mountain man in the Rocky Mountains in the early 1820s, searches for Meadowlark, the Crow Indian girl he loves. At the Wind River village of Meadowlark's people, Sam finds her being courted by a Crow ...

  • The Bermudez Triangle // On the Count of Three

    Maureen Johnson

    The Bermudez Triangle is: Nina Bermudez, who TiVos every episode of Trading Spaces because watching people rip down bad decorations soothes her. Avery Dekker, who worships Jack Black but has learned to play Billy Joel's "Piano Man" by heart jus...

  • A Berry Merry Christmas

    Marcia Evanick

    Seasons Greetings from Misty Harbor, Maine! The snowy coastal village is as pretty as a postcard, decked out for the holidays in its winter finery. It's the ideal place to celebrate a picture-perfect Christmas, as its hometown warmth melts the coldes...

  • The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004

    Multiple Authors

    The ecclectic new volume in the annual series presents the finest literature from mainstream and alternative American periodicals, including both fiction and nonfiction by David Mamet, Haruki Murakami, Christopher Buckley, Michael Paterniti, and Mich...

  • Best Friends for Never

    Lisi Harrison

    The Clique is back ... Massie Block: Still gorgeous. Still trendsetting. Still ruling the social scene at Octavian Country Day . . . she hopes. To keep her spot at the top, Massie decides to throw OCD's first boy/girl Halloween party. But she's no...

  • Best of Wolverine, Volume 1

    Frank Miller

    The world's deadliest mutant, he's been called the best there is; now, the best of the best Wolverine stories ever told are collected in one deluxe hardcover! In Claremont and Miller's WOLVERINE, Logan goes solo when he travels to Japan, testing his ...

  • Betrayal of the Trust

    Leslie Esdaile Banks

    Darien Price, Ill, privileged son of a wealthy family and executive director of Philadelphia's prominent Educate America program, is in deep trouble. Certain "inconsistencies" have been found in his business accounts--and no one could be happier to h...

  • Between Strangers

    Linda Conrad

    STRANGER THINGS HAVE HAPPENED... Rescuing a stranded mother and baby from a raging blizzard hadn't been a part of Lance White Eagle Steele's plans. He'd wanted to be home in Montana for Christmas Eve, but he couldn't abandon Marcy Griffin. His pla...

  • The Big Empty

    J.B. Stephens

    One year ago, a devastating plague called Strain 7 killed three quarters of the human race. Around the world, power systems failed and supply chains screeched to a halt. The surviving population of the United States has been relocated to the coasts; ...

  • The Billionaire's Wedding Masquerade

    Melissa McClone

    Wanted: A strong, silent and sensible man for farm work (Billionaires and playboys need not apply) Especially if your name is Henry Davenport and you flirted with me in the diner the other day. I am a twenty-something waitress with three siblin...

  • A Bit on the Side

    William Trevor

    William Trevor's Last Stories is forthcoming from Viking.In these twelve stories, a waiter divulges a shocking life of crime to his ex-wife; a woman repeats the story of her parents’ unstable marriage after a horrible tragedy; a schoolgirl reg...

  • Bitsy's Harvest Party

    Melody Carlson

  • Bittersweet Memories & Paper Dreams

    Pamela Griffin
    in

    The perfect ingredients for tasty reading, these four stories follow the culinary adventures--and misadventures--of a cooking instructor and three of her students who want to stir up a little romance....

  • Black Cat

    V.C. Andrews

    She hid her true self. Now the truth will be revealed. Living a life of lies under the thumb of her widowed, spiritually-obsessed mother, Celeste has been forced to take on the identity of her dead twin brother, Noble. She's almost forgotte...

  • The Blighted Cliffs

    Edwin Thomas

    "This is a great book, exciting and utterly unique. For the lover of naval fiction, historical fiction, mysteries, this book has it all."---James L. Nelson, author of Reign of Iron

    The first of a trilogy set at the turn of the nineteenth ce...

  • Blood Moon Over Bengal

    Morag McKendrick Pippin

    Free-spirited and ultra-modern Elizabeth Mainwarring returned to the sultry, spice-scented land of her birth for one last go at mending the breach with her long-estranged sire. She met Major Covington-Singh: a prince and officer in her father's regim...

  • Blood on the Moon

    Ruth Ryan Langan
    in

    A full moon is in the sky--and love is in the air... ...in this all-new collection of short stories from "four of America's most beloved romance authors" (Publishers Weekly) New York Times bestselling authors Nora Roberts, Jill Gregory, Ruth Ryan ...

  • Blood Red Dawn

    Karen E. Taylor

    A New Beginning...Or A Bloody End? For Deirdre Griffin and her lover, Mitch, the prospect of immortality is bearable--as long as they can spend everlasting life together. At their English seaside pub, The Black Rose, they charge tourists by the pint...

  • Blood Retribution

    Aimee Thurlo; David Thurlo

    Lee Nez is a nightwalker-a Navajo vampire-and a New Mexico state police officer. Investigating cop-killing smugglers who are bringing in jewels and silver from Mexico, Lee is teamed once again with sexy FBI agent Diane Lopez, who knows Lee is a vamp...

  • Bloody Hills

    Charles G. West

    LITTLE BAD MAN Diminutive but deadly, Billy Ray Blevins has been raising hell in Dry Fork with his lightning-fast gunplay. But there's only so much cold-blooded murder a town can stand. With a hanging party hot on his trail, Billy Ray decides to l...

  • Blue Moon

    Lori Handeland

    By the light of a blue moon, danger prowls -- Miniwa, Wisconsin is under siege, but not by the usual summer tourists. The area's normally shy wolf population has begun stalking human prey, and their victims have been disappearing...or worse. Some...

  • Blueberry Surprise

    Wanda E. Brunstetter
    in

    The perfect ingredients for tasty reading, these four stories follow the culinary adventures--and misadventures--of a cooking instructor and three of her students who want to stir up a little romance....

  • The Book of Dead Days

    Marcus Sedgwick

    THE DAYS BETWEEN Christmas and New Year’s Eve are dead days, when spirits roam and magic shifts restlessly just beneath the surface of our lives. A magician called Valerian must save his own life within those few days or pay the price for the pact ...

  • Bounty Hunter Redemption

    Kara Lennox

    TO SERVE AND PROTECT A top cop who'd taken a wrong turn, bounty hunter Gavin Schuyler was now back on track, and luckily his sexy officer, Shelby Dorset, agreed. But his ordinary days quickly turned extraordinary when Gavin learned Shelby's life h...

  • The Boy Who Would Live Forever

    Frederik Pohl

    In 1977 Frederik Pohl stunned the science fiction world with the publication of Gateway, one of the most brilliantly entertaining SF novels of all time. More than twenty-five years later, Pohl completed a new novel set in the Gateway universe: The Bo...

  • The Brazilian Tycoon's Mistress

    Fiona Hood-Stewart

    Victor Santander: an arrogant Brazilian billionaire. Araminta Dampierre: a gentle English rose. Victor is determined to have Araminta in his bed but only for pleasure; he will never again allow a woman to get close to him. He will bring out Ara...

  • Brian Froud's Goblins!

    Ari Berk

    The illustrator of the popular Pressed Fairy albums and the author of The Runes of Elfland share their collaborative "investigations" into the maleficent world of goblins, in a nonsensical volume that profiles common goblin traits and offers ...

  • The Bride Prize

    Susan Fox

    Corrie Davis has never had a real date. She's been too busy trying to run her ranch single-handedly and thinks she knows more about money (as in not having any!) than men. But now the two sexy Merrick brothers -- the richest men in the county -- ...

  • Brilliant Disguise // The Bane Affair

    Alison Kent

    Meet the men of the Smithson Group--five spies whose best work is done in the field and between the sheets. Smart, built, trained to do everything well--and that's everything--they're the guys you want on your side of the bed. Go deep under cover? No...

  • Brown Paper Teddy Bear

    Catherine Allison

    A magical teddy bear leads Jess on an exciting journey to a place where stuffed toys can talk and porcelain dolls can dance.

    Jess is sick in bed, and to make her feel better, Granddad promises her a brand-new teddy bear. But before she drifts ...

  • Bryson City Seasons

    Walt Larimore

    Welcome to Bryson City, a small town tucked away in a fold of North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains. The scenery is breathtaking, the home cooking can’t be beat, the Maroon Devils football team is the pride of the town, and you won’t find better ste...

  • Bucked Out in Dodge

    David Robbins

    Jess Donner has all the airs of Southern gentry and Rebel pride as sharp as a Bowie knife. Steve Ellsworth possesses a mean streak as wide as the Rio a grands, but he still manages to cut a fine figure with the ladies. Stu Wilkins hails from th...

  • Bunny Christmas

    Rick Walton

    Join the festivities, as acheerful bunny family prepares for a happy Christmas with all the trimmings. Mom and dad, brother and sister, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents come together to make merry. These bunnies really know how Christmas s...

  • Buried in the Past

    Jill Stengl
    in

    Love Illuminates Mysterious Shadows Romance is blossoming, and lives are on the verge of exciting changes -- but these four women are also threatened by suspicion, mystery, and danger. Stephanie Keller is seeking a new start in England, helping...

  • Burning Bridges

    Troy Soos

    New York City. The summer is a scorcher. And a killer is about to turn up the heat. Moments after giving a rousing speech, a prominent businessman lies dead on a dark Brooklyn street, shot twice through the head... While their parents turn ...

  • Burning Bright: One for Each Night

    Judith Arnold

    Alana Ross needs a candle, too, one to fit her late grandmother's antique menorah. Not just any candle will do. For Alana's first Hanukkah open house in Crescent Cove, everything has to be perfect. Maybe that'll make her feel more at home in her new ...

  • Burning Bright: Return of the Light // Solstice

    Maggie Shayne

    Dori Stewart's six-figure Manhattan job has vanished, and her lover and friends have vanished with it. She's scraping by as a waitress and awaiting the day she can return to New York in triumph. Maybe a ritual on the winter solstice can renew her wav...

  • Burning Bright: Star Light, Star Bright

    Anne Stuart

    Angela McKenna is back in Crescent Cove after a painful divorce. As if that isn't enough, she discovers that her secret teenage crush is also back in town, hiding from the world. Her Christmas could use brightening up. Maybe if she bought a special c...

  • The Burnt Orange Sunrise

    David Handler

    The legendary ninety-four-year-old Ada Geiger was one of the twentieth century's most illustrious, controversia,l and remarkable cultural figures--- the only person, living or dead, who had been a colleague of both Amelia Earhart and the Rolling Ston...

  • Business or Pleasure?

    Julie Hogan

    PROJECT PARTNER...OR PASSIONATE PLAYMATE? Daisy Kincaid had finally given up. Her gorgeous playboy boss was never going to reciprocate her feelings and turn her secret crush into a real-time love affair, leaving her no choice but to quit. Now Alec...

  • Bye, Bye, Love

    Virginia Swift

    Wyoming college professor, after-hours musician, and sometimes-sleuth "Mustang" Sally Alder never really got over her youthful infatuation with the legendary singer Thomas "Stone" Jackson. So how can she resist when the icon appears before her in the...

  • A Calculus of Angels

    Greg Keyes

    In an alternate eighteenth-century Europe devastated by alchemical disaster, Sir Isaac Newton and his able assistant, Benjamin Franklin, confront enemies who seek humankind’s destruction Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery of philosopher’s mercury in ...

  • Caleb's Christmas Wish

    Debra Salonen

    Dear Santa: I need a new mommy and daddy. God took mine to heaven, and they can't come back. Ally and Jake are taking care of me now. Can you please make them stay forever? That's all I want for Christmas. Thank you. Caleb. Allison Jeffries would...

  • Cally's War

    John Ringo; Julie Cochrane

    LOOK INTO THE ABYSS-- For as long as Cally O'Neal could remember, she had lived in danger. She had been raised practically on the front-lines of the war with the Posleen that had erased five billion humans from the face of the earth. The abyss ...

  • Cam Jansen and the Snowy Day Mystery

    David A. Adler

    It's snowing outside. Inside Cam and her classmates are headed to the computer lab. When they get there, Cam, Eric, and Danny can't do any work. Their computers are missing! What happened to them? Were they stolen? Will you be able to solve the myste...

  • Captain America, Volume 5: Homeland

    Chris Bachalo

  • Care Bears: Christmas In Care-A-Lot Sticker Storybook

    Quinlan B. Lee

    An interactive sticker storybook with 4 pages of reusable stickers that allows the reader to complete each and every Christmas scene!

    Each of the eight different scenes captures two to three Care Bears preparing for and celebrating Christmas. ...

  • Carrera's Bride

    Diana Palmer

    CHRISTMAS BRIDE With his imposing stature and notorious reputation, Marcus Carrera instilled fear in friends and foes alike. However, there was one woman who could see beyond the casino tycoon's formidable veneer to the gruffly tender man inside. ...

  • Case of the Vanishing Painting

    James Preller

    Featuring friendship, school, family, and a diverse community, these early illustrated chapter book Jigsaw Jones Mysteries from James Preller have it all.It's the biggest -- okay the most stressful -- night of the year . . . Parents' Night! And Geeth...

  • The Cat's Meow

    Emily Carmichael

    When workaholic attorney McKenna Wright returns home from the hospital following a car accident, she has the sinking feeling that her road to recovery is going to be a long one. Her memory has more holes than a piece of swiss cheese; she can barely r...

  • The Charmer

    Celeste Bradley

    Collis Tremayne could make any female swoon; yet no one would guess the hidden desperation that drove him to become the most skilled spy in service to the Crown. All that stands in his way...is Rose Lacey, a confounding chit who manages to outsmart h...

  • Chasing the Dragon

    Domenic Stansberry

    A complicated, shadowy man in disgrace, Dante Mancuso leads a double life. Lately, though, the line he walks has become razor thin. Dante works for The Company, a nebulous security organization operating just this side of the law. Dante wants out...

  • Cheat and Charmer

    Elizabeth Frank

    Twenty-five years in the making, a first novel that has already been compared to The Sun Also Rises and The Last Tycoon, Cheat and Charmer is certain to be one of the most admired literary debuts of the season. Written by Pulitzer Prize -- winning bi...

  • Child of My Right Hand

    Eric Goodman

    The stunning third novel from acclaimed author Eric Goodman is the story of a middle class family: college professors Jack and Genna Barish and their two children, fourteen-year-old Lizzy and seventeen-year-old Simon. The four have just moved to Tipt...

  • Child of the Dark Prophecy

    T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Long ago, Merlin planted a magical seed that grew into the Great Tree of Avalon. And for centuries, Avalon flourished. But now Avalon reels from brutal attacks, mysterious droughts, and strange evils. And then one night, all the stars in the sky sudd...

  • The Children's Cop

    Sherry Lewis

    Did Angel run away? Or was she taken? Detective Lucy Montalvo's job in the juvenile division of Missing Persons at the Houston Police Department may not be the easiest job in the world -- but what's more rewarding than reuniting a missing child with...

  • Choke Point

    James C. Mitchell

    Former border patrol agent Roscoe Brinker is approached by an attractive reporter from L.A. seeking help in the shooting death of an undocumented Mexican national. The Juan Doe had contacted her with a story of murder, but was killed before he could ...

  • A Chorus of One

    Janice Thompson

    Jessica Chapman has her happy ending planned out. Does it really matter that she and her fiance don't agree on every little detail? Or even on some big ones - like her passion for music and the theater. Jessica plans to become Nathan Fisher's wife an...

  • The Christmas Cradle

    Linda Warren

    This Christmas Will Be Different! Eight years ago Marisa Preston fell in love, but her plans to marry rodeo star Colter Kincaid were thwarted by her controlling parents. Now, unexpectedly, she's found Colter again -- and his adorable seven-year-ol...

  • Christmas Every Day

    Erica Pass

    When Christmas arrives Timmy enjoys the holiday so much he wishes for Christmas to come every day, but when the fairly Oddparents grant Timmy's wish the snow piles up, the stores stay closed, and everyone gets sick of Santa. Original....

  • The Christmas Matchmaker

    Jeanne Savery

    Sometimes The Perfect Match... Sardonic and older than his years, Vincent George Beverly seems hardened, even cynical. Yet to his friends, no one has a kinder, more giving heart. Thus, it is no surprise to them when on his way to his cousin Georgian...

  • Christmas Morning

    Cheryl Ryan

  • Christmas Presents: Holiday Poetry

    Lee Bennett Hopkins

    Deck the halls, hang the stockings, and celebrate the most wonderful time of the year with this festive book of poetry for beginning readers!

    From the excitement of looking for hidden Christmas presents to the solemnity of Midnight Mass,...

  • A Christmas Promise

    Thomas Kinkade; Katherine Spencer

    In this novel in Thomas Kinkade and Katherine Spencer’s heartwarming series, it’s the most wonderful time of the year, and Cape Light has received two special Christmas guests...   James Cameron, a minister who runs a mission in Central Amer...

  • Christmas Stalking // Christmas Undercover

    Jo Leigh

    KIDNAPPED, BODY AND SOUL The sexy Santa with the ice-blue eyes swept senator's daughter Jade Parker off her feet and into captivity. And soon Jade feared he'd also captured her heart. For although reporter Max Travis's tale of her father's guilt i...

  • The Christmas Visit: A Christmas Secret

    Gail Ranstrom
    in

    Miss Charity Wardlow expected a marriage proposal from her intended while attending a Christmas wedding. But when Sir Andrew MacGregor arrived at the manor, Charity realized she wanted no one but the Scotsman with the sensual smile.......

  • The Christmas Visit: Comfort and Joy

    Margaret Moore
    in

    After a terrible accident, Griffin Branwynne had given up on the joys of Christmas -- until the indomitable Gwendolyn Davies arrived on his doorstep and turned his world topsy-turvy. Could the earl resist a woman who wouldn't take no for an answer?...

  • The Christmas Visit: Love at First Step

    Terri Brisbin
    in

    While visiting friends in England for the holidays, Lord Gavin MacLeod cast his eye upon the mysterious Elizabeth. She was more noble beauty than serving wench, and Gavin vowed to uncover her past at any cost.......

  • A Christmas Visitor

    Anne Perry

    The Dreghorn family is gathering for an anticipated reunion in the Lake District of England. The blissful tranquility of the snowbound estate, however, is soon shattered by what appears to be an accidental death. The victim's distraught wife, Antonia...

  • The Christmas Wedding

    Laurie Brown

    Just In Case... Related to a duke? Matty Maxwell doesn't believe a word of that preposterous tale -- especially since her unexpected visitor, Davies Preston, insists that he has been sent to America by the Queen of England herself to reunite Mat...

  • Cinderella's Lucky Ticket

    Melissa James

    Lucy Miles was outraged when a sexy playboy claimed her precious jackpot -- a beautiful vacation home. It was a sweepstakes slipup. The company had accidentally issued two winning tickets. Now she'd have to share her beach bungalow -- until the real ...

  • Claiming His Christmas Bride

    Carole Mortimer

    She'll be his wife by Christmas! When Gideon Webber first meets Molly Barton he wants her more than badly! But his hopes are dashed when he becomes convinced that she is another man's mistress.... Three years later, it's Christmasti...

  • Claire Voyant

    Saralee Rosenberg

    Of course the future is a mystery. But the past? This is nuts! Talk about ruin-your-day flights. I'm headed to Florida, when the elderly man seated next to me collapses on my tray table. I swear, if I'd known this was his final boarding call, I wo...

  • Classic Dan Dare: Voyage to Venus Part 2

    Frank Hampson

    Colonel Dan Dare and his crew travel to Venus to find new resources to feed a starving Earth, but find the planet has already become the lair of The Mekon, a pint-sized megalomaniac with plans to conquer the Earth....

  • A Clock Without Hands

    Guy Burt

    "I want to turn back the hands on the clock and change it all, make it different; three friends who meet up by chance in an old city and share a beer and laugh at old stories and jokes. But it wasn't like that; and the clock has no hands, so I can't ...

  • Close Kin

    Clare B. Dunkle

    For thousands of years, young women have been vanishing from Hallow Hill, never to be seen again. Now Kate and Emily have moved there with no idea of the land's dreadful heritage--until Marak decides to tell them himself. Marak is a powerful magician...

  • The Closer

    Donn Cortez

    METHOD
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    James Judge

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    Silas House

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  • The Coat

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
    in

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    Martin Edwards

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  • Cold Objective

    Don Pendleton

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    Jonathan Santlofer

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  • Coming on Home Soon

    Jacqueline Woodson

    Ada Ruth's mama must go away to Chicago to work, leaving Ada Ruth and Grandma behind. It's war time, and women are needed to fill the men's jobs. As winter sets in, Ada Ruth and her grandma keep up their daily routine, missing Mama all the time. They...

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    Michael Culp

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    Francois Ceresa

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    Audrey Wood

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    Ellen Hopkins

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    Tamela Hancock Murray
    in

    The perfect ingredients for tasty reading, these four stories follow the culinary adventures--and misadventures--of a cooking instructor and three of her students who want to stir up a little romance....

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    Monica Ferris

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    Kathryn Lay

    Having won the title of queen and king of Payton Elementary School, Justin and Andrea have been given the privilege of running the school for two weeks, but the excitement of being in a position of power soon fades as keeping order and obliging favor...

  • Crystal Lies

    Melody Carlson

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  • Cuddle Time

    Libby Gleeson

    Two toddlers are on the prowl for a family cuddle in a playful celebration of cozy togetherness that will bring smiles to "monsters" and little ones alike.

    It's early morning and the adults are asleep. But the little ones are up -- and they'...

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    Birdie L. Etchison
    in

    The perfect ingredients for tasty reading, these four stories follow the culinary adventures--and misadventures--of a cooking instructor and three of her students who want to stir up a little romance....

  • Curious Notions

    Harry Turtledove

    In a parallel-world 21st-century San Francisco where the Kaiser's Germany won World War One and went on to dominate the world, Paul Gomes and his father Lawrence are secret agents for our timeline, posing as traders from a foreign land. They run a st...

  • Currant Events

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

    When Clio, the Muse of History, sat down to pen the twenty-eighth volume in the Chronicles of Xanth, she was stunned to discover it was already there! And, what was worse, it was totally unreadable, for the words on its pages were fuzzed beyond co...

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    Sharon De Vita

    "Mama, Michael doesn't got any kids 'cuz he doesn't got a wife, so I told him maybe you could be his wife. What do you think?" Angela DiRosa couldn't believe her six-year-old daughter, Emma, had asked a perfect stranger if he wanted a wife. True, ...

  • Dancers in the Dark

    Charlaine Harris
    in

    Layla Rue Le May is no ordinary dancer -- her partner, Sean McClendon, is a three-hundred-year-old redheaded vampire. So when Layla Rue acquires a stalker, she's forced to face the music...and wonder if this will finally be her last dance....

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    David Chotjewitz

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    Bob Brown

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    Gillian Cross

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    Omar Tyree

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  • Dark Warrior

    Donna Fletcher

    He is her salvation, her lover...her destiny Mary waits, trembling in the darkness -- the prisoner of a fearsome tormentor who would have her at any cost. Then a mysterious cloaked figure appears at her dungeon door. A champion has come to free th...

  • The Darkest Hour

    Erin Hunter

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  • The Darling

    Russell Banks

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  • A Date on Cloud Nine

    Jenna McKnight

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  • Daughter of Gold

    Janeen O'Kerry

    To the First Harvest fair Niamh goes, for revelry with others of the island. The Fianna go, too: the finest of the king's young warriors. Of them, Bryan catches Niamh's eye. He is strong of body and fair of face, and he wants her for his "Lughnasa Si...

  • Days of Magic, Nights of War

    Clive Barker

    Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchman to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnes...

  • Death by Inferior Design

    Leslie Caine

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    Kate Borden

  • Death's Dark Music

    Marilyn Ross

    Beautiful young Ann Stewart left her doom-haunted ancestral manor of Stormhaven in Scotland--yet the malevolent Stewart destiny seemed to have pursued her to a lonely French chateau. The dazzling violinist who was its master had played a hypnotic ...

  • Deck the Halls

    Lisa Jackson

  • The Demon Soul

    Richard A. Knaak

    THE BURNING LEGION HAS COME. Led by the mighty Archimonde, scores of demonic soldiers now march across the lands of Kalimdor, leaving a trail of death and devastation in their wake. At the heart of the fiery invasion stands the mystic Well of E...

  • The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

    Charles Darwin

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  • The Devil in Gray

    Graham Masterson

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  • The Devil You Know

    Laurie Paige

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  • Diagnosis: Amnesia

    Lucy Clark

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  • Disappearing Act

    Margaret Ball

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  • The Disinherited

    Han Ong

    After three decades in the United States, Roger Caracera must return to his native Philippines to bury his father, the corrupt and charismatic head of a sugar dynasty. Once in Manila, however, Roger must embark on two searches. The first quest revolv...

  • Disney's Junior Encyclopedia of Animated Characters

    Disney Book Group

    Inside this fun and comprehensive book, you'll find all the information you ever wanted to know about your favorite Disney animated characters. Did you know that O'Malley, the alley cat from The Aristocats, is actually named Abraham DeLacey Giuseppe ...

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    Gloria Mallette

    For thirty-seven year old Tandi Crawford, the past is a double-edged sword. On one side is the agonizing mystery of her mother's early death and her father's brutal indifference. On the other is the all-too-vivid recollection of one unforgettable sum...

  • Doctor and Protector

    Meredith Webber

    Dr. Cassie Carew can't believe the mysterious letters are significant. But the police take them seriously enough to bring in surgeon-turned-criminologist Dr. Henry McCall to protect her. And, worst of all, he's posing as her lover! Over a few hect...

  • Doctor Illuminatus

    Martin Booth

    Pip and her twin brother, Tim, awaken an alchemist's son from a centuries-long slumber when their family moves to an old English country estate, and he enlists them in the fight against an evil alchemist who seeks to create a homunculus....

  • Dog Warrior

    Wen Spencer

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  • Dog Who Sang at The Opera

    Jim West

  • Don't Let the Peas Touch!

    Deborah Blumenthal

    Meet Sophie and Annie. They're sisters. They're smart. They're fighting. They're funny!

    Annie's sister Sophie won't eat her peas. Sophie's sister Annie is a know-it-all. Annie's sister Sophie refuses to be quiet. Sophie's sister Annie can't st...

  • Don't Want No Sugar

    J.D. Mason

    Everyone knew that Eula May had lost her mind over loving a married man. It was what drove her to kill herself and leave her only daughter, Roberta, in the care of the local midwife. So it was no wonder that Roberta became obsessed with Charles Harri...

  • The Double

    Jose Saramago

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  • Double Homicide

    Faye Kellerman
    in

    DOUBLE HOMICIDE: BOSTON After a basketball match leads to a fatal shooting, Detectives Dorothy Breton and Michael McCain are looking to make an open-and-shut case. For Dorothy, who knows the victim's mother, the crime hits close to home. And for Mic...

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    Jonathan Kellerman
    in

    DOUBLE HOMICIDE: BOSTON After a basketball match leads to a fatal shooting, Detectives Dorothy Breton and Michael McCain are looking to make an open-and-shut case. For Dorothy, who knows the victim's mother, the crime hits close to home. And for Mic...

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    Diane Mott Davidson

    Caterer supreme Goldy Schulz has more on her plate than she can handle. Her ultra-charming, ultra-wealthy, and seriously psychopathic ex-husband, Dr. John Richard Korman (aka "the Jerk"), is free now that the governor of Colorado has commuted...

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    Meredith Fletcher

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  • Dream of Me

    Lisa Cach

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  • Dry Heat

    Jon Talton

    The past is never past on the mean streets of Phoenix, especially when the mercury hits a hundred and it's only April. Half a century after the unsolved murder of an FBI agent, the missing badge is found on the body of a dead transient. The case seem...

  • A Duke for Christmas

    Cynthia Pratt

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  • Duke of Sin

    Adele Ashworth

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  • Duty, Honor, Redemption

    Vonda N. McIntyre

    Cadets that enter Starfleet Academy have two mantras drilled into them from their very first day. They must do their duty for the Federation and Starfleet, and they must strive to honor their oath as Starfleet officers. Among those who have best embo...

  • Dying to Call You

    Elaine Viets

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    George V. Higgins

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    Beverly Jenkins

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  • The Eggnog Chronicles

    Carly Alexander

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    Laura Iding

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    Liz Kessler

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    Ryder Windham

    A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away... An Empire grows stronger. A rebellion is threatened. A young apprentice learns from a wise master. An identity is revealed. The journey takes a dark turn....

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    Barbara Metzger
    in

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    Avi

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    Katherine Kirkpatrick

    When his family's weaving shop is destroyed because his family refuses to convert to the king's religion, Daniel and his family flees France and the only home they've ever known and end up on a two-year journey aboard various sea vessels that take th...

  • Escape to West Berlin

    Maurine F. Dahlberg

    The advent of the WallHeidi's thirteenth birthday is coming up, but she's disappointed -- her mother is pregnant and refuses to make the annual summer visit to Heidi's grandmother. What's more, it's 1961 and the government is cracking down on border ...

  • Espresso for Two

    Courtni Wright

    Shopkeeper Brandi Owens has worked next door to Sam Carlson for years, exchanging little more than pleasant hellos with the handsome businessman. When her matchmaking best friend Mia suggests they tear down the wall between their shops to make one b...

  • Essential Monster of Frankenstein, Volume 1

    Gary Friedrich

  • Eve Green

    Susan Fletcher

    Winner of the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award.

    "Susan Fletcher's first novel . . . is one of those lyrical books about childhood in which the physical details―the sights, the smells―take on a vividness that's entrancing."―Polly Shulman,...

  • Every Shut Eye

    Collen Dixon

    Alex Baxter knows what it’s like to fight for your survival on the meanest streets of Washington D.C. And he knows what it’s like to cross over to the other side, into a world where money flows like water, power is more precious than gold, and se...

  • Everybody's Hero

    Karen Templeton

    COULD HE TAKE A CHANCE ON LOVE? He could handle raising his orphaned little brother. He could handle his demanding career. But what Joe Salazar couldn't handle was this quirky little town where people actually cared. People like Taylor McIntyr...

  • Exiles of Valdemar

    Mercedes Lackey

    Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edi...

  • Eye of Newt

    Denise Dietz

    Sydney St. Charles is descended from a long line of witches. She owns an apothecary shop in Manitou Falls, Colorado, where she sells spells, potions and talismans. Sydney's charms are very popular, but it isn't witchcraft that has the town buzzing. C...

  • Fall

    Jeff Mariotte

    FALL APART Summer's over. Kerry, Josh, Brandy, Scott, and Rebecca have left their California share and returned to school. Once, there was nothing better than the freedom and energy rush of college. But in the wake of such a life-altering summer, ca...

  • Family Blessings

    Fern Michaels

    Right before Thanksgiving, a freak tornado drops down into the town of Larkspur in Pennsylvania's Allegheny Mountains and destroys the house where matriarch and candy magnate Loretta Cisco has lived for fifty years. Thanks for nothing, Mother Nature!...

  • A Family Christmas

    Carrie Alexander

    Welcome to Alouette, Michigan. It's not the end of the earth, but you can see it from here. After a long absence, Rose Robbin is back in Alouette, primarily to help out her impossible-to-please mother, but also to keep tabs on the child she wasn't...

  • A Family For Christmas: Child in a Manger

    Dana Corbit
    in

    Finding an infant in the church nativity scene was a Christmas surprise for Allison Hensley! The social worker took the baby when no foster family could be found. But working with cynical detective Brock Chandler to find the unknown parents awakened ...

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    Irene Brand
    in

    Newly engaged Wendy Kenworth and Evan Kessler's relationship is tested when Evan must leave college to manage the family farm. City-girl Wendy can't understand her fiance's sudden need to work the land, but getting stranded at the Kesslers' for Chris...

  • The Fearless Man

    Donald Pfarrer

    On its publication in 1982, James Carroll called Donald Pfarrer’s Neverlight “the most intelligent and moving novel that I have read about Vietnam.” Paul Fussell wrote that it was “one of the finest novels about war I’ve ever read, and that...

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    Kelly Eileen Hake
    in

    In four interwoven novellas set in 1941, an American OSS officer enlists a mother and daughter in America and two of their relatives in Europe to carry out a clever plan. They sew dolls for the children of the war-torn continent...but add a life-savi...