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  • Math Rashes and Other Classroom Tales

    Douglas Evans

    BEWARE OF THE MAN-IN-THE-MOON. . . . The New-School-Year Moon shines over every school the night before it opens. This year the moon shines over the W. T. Melon Elementary School brighter than ever. And the man in the moon is none other than W. T. M...

  • Horrid Henry's Head Lice

    Francesca Simon

  • Curse of the Winter Moon

    Mary Casanova

    Marius's deathbed promise to care for his six-year-old brother, Jean Pierre, is challenged one Christmas Eve when superstitious members of their sixteenth-century village target the younger boy, believing him to be a werewolf....

  • The Jar of Fools

    Eric A. Kimmel

  • Meet Stinky Magee

    Edward Sokol

  • The Spear of Tyranny

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    The unforgettable sequel to By Dawn's Early Light. A tale of faith, love, terror- and hope.It seems like a dream come true.Especially to a world ravaged by war and exhausted by drought. Especially to a society grown fearful from widespread crime and ...

  • Burning for Revenge

    John Marsden

    From Hell to Stratton isn’t an easy trip, especially when the enemy’s headquarters lies somewhere in between. And that’s exactly where Ellie and her friends unwillingly find themselves -- smack in the middle of the Wirrawee airfield. With only ...

  • Hope Was Here

    Joan Bauer

    One new life, coming right up. Hope's used to thinking on her feet -- she hasn't become a terrific waitress by accident. But when she and her aunt move from New York City to a small town in Wisconsin to run the local diner, she isn't sure she'll f...

  • Graveyard Shift

    Dave Stern

    Midnight. August 4, 1995. The eerie lights of the deserted airfield play across the exhausted face of Detective Randy Crawford. For almost six months, he's been chasing a convicted serial killer, John Lee Fellowes, across the back roads of Maryland. ...

  • The Christmas Gift

    Francisco Jimenez

    With honesty and grace, award-winning author Francisco Jiménez shares his most poignant Christmas memory in this beautifully illustrated picture book. As Christmas approaches, Panchito can’t wait to see what present he gets. But on Christmas Day, ...

  • Trial By Fire

    Terri Blackstock

    Pastor and fireman Nick Foster found the body in the inferno engulfing his church. From the bullet wound in the head, it's clear this is no ordinary fire victim. The quiet community of Newpointe, reeling from the shock of the dead man's identity, str...

  • Revolutionary War on Wednesday

    Mary Pope Osborne

    It is a dark and snowy night when the Magic Tree House whisks Jack and Annie back to colonial times. General George Washington is about to lead his army in a sneak attack against their enemy. But now the terrible weather is making the great general q...

  • Clara Ann Cookie, Go to Bed!

    Harriet Ziefert

    Clara Ann Cookie has to go to bed, but she doesn’t want to. Mom insists. Clara shouts, “No.” She puts up a fight, but eventually finds herself alone in her room. She can’t go to sleep until her dolls and bears go to bed, so she glares at her ...

  • Shoe Shoe Baby

    Bernard Lodge

    Shoe Shoe Baby comes from a great family of shoe-mad shoe people and owns a shoe store that is named after her. From bouncy ballet shoes to super-secret spy shoes, Shoe Shoe's got the shoe for you! With colorful, wacky illustrations and a very readab...

  • The Random House Book of Easy-to-Read Stories

    Random House

    Early readers will find their favorite authors and illustrators in one great big book-including works by Dr. Seuss, P.D. Eastman, Richard Scarry, Stan & Jan Berenstain, Torrie dePaola, and Marc Brown....

  • The Random House Book of Nursery Stories

    Helen Craig

  • Beverly Hills Brontosaurus

    Scott Ciencin

    Bertram Phillips's M.I.N.D. Machine throws him back to southern California's Jurassic period, and this time it also throws real dinosaurs forward into the halls of Wetherford Junior High! Bertram's only chance of setting things right again is to acce...

  • Pumpkin Pie

    Harriet Ziefert

    Selected by his owner, Donald, to compete for a blue ribbon at the Fourth of July fair, Pumpkin Pie the goat shares his misadventures of getting his coat trimmed and standing for the judges despite his predisposition for trouble....

  • Picture Perfect

    Sandra Byrd

    Embark on new adventures with best friends, Tess and Erin, in each exciting book of the Secret Sisters series for girls.  Book 11 of 12 Book Series!

    Are Tess and Erin pretty enough?

    Secret Sisters Tess and Erin want to go to modeling ...

  • Indian Summer

    Sandra Byrd

    Embark on new adventures with best friends, Tess and Erin, in each exciting book of the Secret Sisters series for girls.  Final book in series!

    Summer fun ahead! Or is it summer troubles?

    Secret Sisters Tess and Erin are ready for a s...

  • Bonjour, Babar!

    Jean de Brunhoff

    In 1931 Jean de Brunhoff created Babar, a little elephant who walked out of the jungle and into the hearts of civilized readers the world over. Widely recognized as the father of the picture book, Jean de Brunhoff wrote and illustrated six Babar stor...

  • Dear Diary

    Susie Shellenberger

  • Details at Ten

    Ardella Garland

    With this heart-stopping new thriller, Ardella Garland -- pen name of bestselling novelist Yolanda Joe -- introduces one of the sassiest, smartest, and most compelling characters ever to crack a mystery: television news reporter Georgia Barnett. In ...

  • Kermit's Christmas Tree

    Sonali Fry

    Sticker fans will be dazzled by these fabulous additions, with interactive stories, charming illustrations, and 25 glimmering, jewel-like stickers in each fantastic book.

    Kermit and Robin are ready to have a Christmas party for their Muppet f...

  • Presents for Santa

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Christmas Rhyme Time

    Jane O'Connor

  • Saint Francis and the Christmas Donkey

    Robert Byrd

    When Saint Francis stumbles upon a sad donkey, he feels obliged to tell him about the wonderful history the donkey has in the Christian religion as the animal who carried Mary to Nazareth when she was pregnant with Baby Jesus. 25,000 first printing....

  • Turtle and Snake and the Christmas Tree

    Kate Spohn

  • Melissa

    Rosie Rushton

    When Melissa's mother gets a job as a curate in an English country village, Melissa is not happy about the changes in her life but she determines to make a name for herself in her new school and attract the attention of handsome Matt....

  • Sophie

    Rosie Rushton

    Sophie wishes her self-centered mother would take more interest in serious matters, so she gets involved in her father's charity work in London, where she meets Tony, who is biracial, and feels he could become more than a friend....

  • Holly's Secret

    Nancy Garden

    A new town and new classmates, but the same family -- with two moms

    Dear Diary,
    ...Until today I was Holly Lawrence-Jones. But starting tomorrow I'm going to be Yvette Lawrence-Jones. My family doesn't know that yet, but I'll tell them tom...

  • Trials and Tribble-Ations

    Diane Carey

    Almost a century ago, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise first encountered the irresistible (and astonishingly prolific) life-form known as the tribbles, resulting in one of the most unusual adventures in the annals of Star...

  • Faces of Fire

    Michael Jan Friedman

    En route to Alpha Malurian Six to settle a dispute between two religions, the U.S.S. Enterprise first stops to do a routine check on the progress of a terraforming colony on Beta Canzandia Three--a colony whose inhabitants include Carol and David Mar...

  • Unification

    Jeri Taylor

    Based on the epic two-part television episode, here now is the story STAR TREK fans have awaited for five long years, the story that brings together Spock--the enigmatic Vulcan who personified the original, classic STAR TREK--with the crew of the Nex...

  • Joey Pigza Loses Control

    Jack Gantos

    "He was wired. No dought about it...Now I know what Mom meant when she said he was like me, only bigger." Joey Pigza really wants his six-week visit with his dad to count, to show him he's not as wired as he used to be, to show his dad how much he l...

  • Counting Coup

    Larry Colton

    In this extraordinary work of journalism, bestselling and award-winning author Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana's Crow Indians and follows the struggles of a talented, moody, charismatic young woman named Sharon LaForge, a gifted baske...

  • Society Within

    Courttia Newland

    SOCIETY WITHIN takes us back to the Greenside Estate, West London, scene of Courttia Newland's ground-breaking and hugely successful first novel, THE SCHOLAR. Newly arrived on the estate is Elisha: sweet, bright, sassy and just eighteen. As Elisha...

  • Howie Bowles and Uncle Sam

    Kate Banks


    Is Howie in trouble with the IRS?

    On the same day that Howie Bowles finds out that he was born on Friday the thirteenth, his teacher tells him that he should pay more attention to numbers. Then he gets a phone call from the Internal Revenu...

  • Marital Affairs

    Sharleen Cooper Cohen

    Intelligent, talented, and attractive Lisa and Jason Green, a Southern California couple, totally committed to each other, find their relationship undermined when Lisa must stifle her own needs and promising career to support Jason's insatiable ambit...

  • The Rose and the Beast

    Francesca Lia Block

    With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out....

  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

    Michael Chabon

    Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create hero...

  • The Princess Diaries

    Meg Cabot

    Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. First Mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is...

  • World Turns Round and Round

    Nicki Weiss

    Whether you say mjomba or uncle, chachi or aunt, jidd or grandfather, you will recognize the love in the pages of this book. Whether your relatives live in Maine or Mexico, Colorado or Kenya, they are linked to you and you to them. The cultures that ...

  • Will You, Won't You?

    Jessie Haas

    Mad Parker has just graduated from eighth grade, where she had nearly perfected the art of becoming invisible, unnoticed, gone-to teachers, to classmates, to her mother, almost to herself.  Now she is spending the summer ( a summer of Three Rs: r...

  • Lucille's Snowsuit

    Kathryn Lasky

    Yippee! It's a snow day. Lucille is jealous when her big brother and sister head outside to play in their sleek snow pants and jackets while she's stuck inside putting on her snowsuit. Literally stuck--her zipper won't zip and she can't get her snows...

  • Fourth-Grade Celebrity; The Girl Who Knew It All

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Tired of being compared with her popular older sister, Casey decides she will make herself over in Fourth-Grade Celebrity.

    In The Girl Who Knew It All, Casey visits her pal Tracy, a know-it-all with a guilty secret: She can't read....

  • Wheel of the Moon

    Sandra Forrester

    When Pen's mother dies and har home is taken away from her, Pen ventures alone to London.  With only a few pieces of clothing and a large supply of determination, she sets out to find a life for herself in the big city.

    But London in 162...

  • The Secret Footprints

    Julia Alvarez

    The Dominican legend of the ciguapas, creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints, is reinvented by renowned author Julia Alvarez. Although the ciguapas fear humans, Guapa, a...

  • Say You Are My Sister

    Laurel Stowe Brady

    The storm skipped round, digging out its swath like skipping rocks through town, mashing a house here to matchsticks, leaving one next door to stand untouched. Our farm was spared, but that don't mean we were the lucky ones.

  • Queen of the World

    Thomas F. Yezerski

    What Mom really wants for her birthday

    Three sisters who have nothing in common but the room that they share are bound to argue. And they do--about everything. To settle, once and for all, which sister is the Queen of the World, they have a co...

  • Dumpy at School

    Julie Andrews Edwards

    Dumpy accompanies Charlie to his first day of school when the lovable dump truck is enlisted to help build a new playground, and boy and truck find reassurance as newcomers in their companionship with one another. 100,000 first printing....

  • Surviving Brick Johnson

    Laurie Myers

  • Betsy Zane, The Rose of Fort Henry

    Linda Durrant

    Thirteen-year-old Betsy Zane is bored with her privileged life in Philadelphia, bored with her great-aunt’s stories about the old days, and bored with trying to be a lady. She longs to rejoin her brothers at the family homestead along the Ohio Rive...

  • Alien Brain Fryout

    Barbara M. Joosse

    In their latest fast-paced adventure, Wild Willie and his fellow detectives, Lucy and Kyle, suspect that aliens have invaded their block! Mean, rotten Chuckie has stopped being a bully and is acting spacey and nice, and Kyle,"s talking parrot is ...

  • Clever Gretchen

    John Warren Stewig

  • Operation Luna

    Poul Anderson


    Poul Anderson, recently the winner of the Nebula's Grandmaster Award for lifetime achievement, returns to the world of his acclaimed novel Operation Chaos with the tale of one family's mission to the moon. Ginny Greylock and Steven Matuchek are p...

  • 1863: A House Divided

    Elizabeth Massie

    America as seen through the eyes of its young founders.By April 1863 the Civil War has been raging for two years. On their sleepy farm in Gettysburg, sixteen-year-old twins Susanne and Stephen are alarmed by news that Confederate forces under General...

  • Next Stop, Orange Islands

    Golden Books

  • Confessions of a Shopaholic

    Sophie Kinsella

    Meet Becky Bloomwood, an irresistible heroine with a big heart, big dreams--and just one little weakness.... Becky Bloomwood has what most twenty-five-year-olds only dream of: a flat in London's trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous social...

  • Fair, Brown and Trembling: An Irish Cinderella Story

    Jude Daly

    Three sisters live in a castle high among Erin's green hills. Fair and Brown go to church every Sunday wearing new dresses and leave their beautiful younger sister, Trembling, behind to cook. Then an old henwife comes to visit one Sunday morning, off...

  • Fatal Error

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Take it apart, figure it out, put it back together. That's the ongoing mission of the U.S.S. da Vinci, commanded by Captain David Gold and his first officer, Commander Sonya Gomez, late of the Starship Enterprise" and one of Starfleet's top enginee...

  • Star Wars: Bounty Hunters

    Javier Saltares

    Collects Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters - Aurra Sing, Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters - Kenix Kil, Star Wars: The Bounty Hunters - Scoundrel's Wages, Star Wars: Boba Fett - Twin Engines of Destruction . The Star Wars galaxy is populated by rogues, Rebe...

  • Whirlwind Wedding

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    SHE WAS A TOTAL STRANGER, YET SHE SAW RIGHT INTO HIS SOUL Austin Randolph Jamison, Ninth Duke of Bradford, met the uncanny beauty at the ball at Bradford Hall. And from that first moment, he was stunned. How could this unsophisticated female, who ...

  • Homicide and Old Lace

    Dolores Johnson

    The Bride Wore Red When a young bride visits Dyer's Cleaners asking for delicate alterations on a vintage wedding dress, owner Mandy Dyer quickly discovers a disturbing truth: The groom is Mandy's own womanizing ex-husband...and Mandy's troubles a...

  • Strawberry Tattoo

    Lauren Henderson

    IS NEW YORK READY FOR SAM JONES? Sam Jones, sculptress and reluctant sleuth, can't resist the opportunity to do Manhattan when she's invited to New York for a group show at a gallery featuring young British artists. New York, loud and brash as Sam...

  • More Than a Mistress

    Mary Balogh

    She raced onto the green, desperate to stop a duel. In the melee, Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, was shot. To his astonishment, Tresham found himself hiring the servant as his nurse. Jane Ingleby was far too bold for her own good. Her blue eyes we...

  • Welcome to the Great Mysterious

    Lorna Landvik

    Megastar of stage, screen, and television, Geneva Jordan now has a command performance in Minnesota, where she agrees to look after her thirteen-year-old nephew, a boy with Down’s syndrome, while his parents take a long-overdue vacation. Though Gen...

  • Norwegian Wood

    Haruki Murakami

    Stunning and elegiac, Norwegian Wood first propelled Haruki Murakami into the forefront of the literary scene.

    Toru, a serious young college student in Tokyo, is devoted to Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman, but their mutual pas...

  • Butterfly Burning

    Yvonne Vera

    Butterfly Burning brings the brilliantly poetic voice of Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera to American readers for the first time. Set in Makokoba, a black township, in the late l940s, the novel is an intensely bittersweet love story. When Fumbatha, a ...

  • The Sugar Island

    Ivonne Lamazares

    Ivonne Lamazares is one of the most original and exciting new voices on the literary scene. Born and raised in Cuba, she writes of her homeland with unmatched authenticity, immediacy, and poetry. The story of a mother and daughter who flee to America...

  • Horse Spy

    Bonnie Bryant

    When Carole Hanson learns that the newly elected president of a Middle Eastern country will be visiting Washington with his horse-crazy daughter, it seems only natural to write the girl a letter inviting her to come for a ride at Pine Hollow. Carole ...

  • A Spy Among the Girls

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Valentine’s Day is coming up and love is in the air between Beth Malloy and Josh Hatford. When they are spotted holding hands, Josh tells his teasing brothers that he’s simply spying on the girls to see what they’re plotting next. When Caroline...

  • Peter and the Blue Witch Baby

    Robert D. San Souci

    Long, long ago, lived a handsome young tsar named Peter. When he decided to marry, he rejected the beautiful Molnya because of her cold, hungry eyes. But Molnya was really a witch, and she put a curse on Peter: "When you find your hoped-for bride, yo...

  • The Snow Pumpkin

    Carole Lexa Schaefer

    The author-illustrator team of the celebrated picture book The Squiggle team up again to tell of a heartwarming and surprising snowy adventure.

    No school tomorrow! With a few inches on the ground, Lily is off to the park bright and early to fi...

  • Very Grouchy Christmas

    Random House

  • Carolina Autumn

    Carol Lynch Williams

    Fourteen-year-old Carolina has been through a terrible loss. As she struggles to speak openly to her new boyfriend and to relate to her distant, sad mother, the reader slowly realizes the nature of their shared tragedy. Through letters to her sister ...

  • Zebra and Other Stories

    Chaim Potok

    "In six quietly powerful stories, Potok explores varieties of inner and outer healing, both in individuals and families: 'Zebra' begins to regain use of his crushed hand and leg creating art assigned by an intinerant teacher; 'Isabel' finds unexpecte...

  • The Mildenhall Treasure

    Roald Dahl

    During World War II, a British plowman discovered a hoard of Roman silver while plowing a field in the Suffolk countryside. Unaware of the treasure's value, he was cheated out of the fortune that should have been his by the man who hired him. The 34 ...

  • The Monster in the Shadows

    Julia Van Nutt

    There's a wild beast in Cobtown and its name is the Adapulgus! Burly Captain Ragg, his sidekick, Short Tooth, and their dog, Samson, captured the creature, and now they are traveling from town to town, selling tickets for a once-in-a-lifetime chance ...

  • David Boring

    Daniel Clowes

    Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's ...

  • African Skies

    Karen Rispin

    Africa. Laurel Binet knew she would love it--she just never imagined how much. She'd come to study wildlife...to join a world-renowned conservationist...to make a difference. And she enjoys it all: the work, the animals, the country, the people. W...

  • Little Oh

    Laura Krauss Melmed

    Illustrated with exquisite paintings, this original fairy tale about an origami girl who comes to life is a tender and exciting adventure. From her wild river ride aboard a teacup boat to her escape from an angry dog to her flight home on the neck of...

  • Horrible Harry at Halloween

    Suzy Kline

    Horrible Harry and his classmates all love Halloween. Everyone wears a costume to school -- even Miss Mackle! Harry's costumes get scarier and scarier each year. He's been a slithering snake, a slimy green Loch Ness Monster, and a bloody Count Dracul...

  • Dinosaur Eggs

    Jennifer Dussling

    Several dinosaur hunters went on an expedition in South America hoping to find fossils of birds from the time of the dinosaurs. What they found instead were hundreds of fossils of dinosaur eggs, some with un-hatched baby dinosaurs inside. This was so...

  • Ride'Em Rodeo!

    Rebecca Gomez

  • Giddy-Up Ghost Town

    Rebecca Gomez

  • Fool's Gold

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

  • Showdown at the Okeydokey Corral

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

  • The Mcduff Stories

    Rosemary Wells

    A gift edition features the plucky West Highland terrier and brings together four adventures including McDuff Moves In, McDuff Comes Home, McDuff and the Baby, and McDuff's New Friend. ...

  • Disaster!

    E.W. Leroe

    Brings together three true disaster stories as told from the perspectives of young survivors, bringing to life the events surrounding the sinking of the Empress of Ireland and the crashes of the Italia and Hindenburg. ...

  • House of Dreams

    Brenda Joyce

    Here is the fascinating story of two families who have clashed for centuries -- and two women who dare to explore the dark side of passion and a legacy of betrayal that leads to cold-blooded murder... When Cassandra de Warenne meets Antonio de la ...

  • Buried Evidence

    Nancy Taylor Rosenberg

    When the accuser becomes the accused... As a dedicated district attorney, Lily Forrester presents the perfect image of a defender of justice. Only she knows the dark secret of what happened six years ago, when a desperate crisis drove her to step...

  • Martin Bauman: or, A Sure Thing

    David Leavitt

    David Leavitt’s deliciously sharp novel is a multilayered dissection of literary and sexual mores in the get-ahead eighties, when outrageous success lay seductively within reach of any young writer ambitious enough to grab it. Martin Bauman -- ni...

  • The Forsaken

    L.A. Banks

    The Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead, and Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge against Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress, and her lover, Carlos Rivera. A ruthless and carefully planned str...

  • Elemental

    Brian W. Aldiss

    In the winter of 2005, after the horrifying natural disaster of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, Steve Savile and Alethea Kontis joined forces to raise money to help the distressed survivors and have created Elemental. They solicited SF and fantasy sto...

  • By Possession

    Madeline Hunter

    A COMMON LADY For years she had thought he was dead. Yet when Addis de Valence strode into Moira Falkner's cottage, there was no mistaking the sharp planes of his face, and the scar she herself had helped to heal. The young squire who had once bee...

  • First Kiss

    Marilyn Pappano

    An Improbable Dream At forty, Tom Flynn has reached all the lofty goals of money and success he'd dreamed of as a boy struggling to survive. The only thing left on his list: Get married! But he hasn't a clue where to find the perfect wife--or even...

  • His Wicked Promise

    Samantha James

    He would take her as his bride...but could she give her heart in return? When Egan MacBain takes beautiful Glenda MacKay as his bride, it appears that he's done so for the noblest of reasons. In truth, he has vowed at last to claim the woman he's ...

  • Seventh Heaven

    Catherine Anderson

    Ten years ago Joe Lakota had left behind his small Oregon town and the only woman he'd ever truly loved for the empty promises of the big city. Now he's returned, seeking to raise his young son with values you can only find at home, and longing to re...

  • Kiss and Tell

    Cherry Adair

    A sassy, shameless romantic adventure about a man betrayed and the woman who rocks his untamed world... Marnie Wright has seen more than her fair share of testosterone, having grown up with four over-protective brothers. But now a longhaired mount...

  • Always and Forever

    Beverly Jenkins

    A DESPERATE NEED Sassy Grace Atwood never expected to find her proper self accidentally tumbling into a stranger's bed. If she weren't desperate for a man to lead a wagon train of brides to a woman-starved town out West, she never would have gone ne...

  • The Swordsman's Oath

    Juliet E. McKenna

    SWORDMASTER... Ryshad was a warrior, a sworn man pledged to defend the Empire and his lord with his sword and his life. Livak was a thief, a woman as dangerous and cunning as she was beautiful. Brought together by fate--and the wily wizard Shiv--the...

  • Maddie's Justice

    Leslie LaFoy

    NOTHING IS AS DANGEROUS TO A LAWMAN AS A WANTED WOMAN.... It had been a clear case of self-defense, but Maddie Rutledge was branded a murderer by a corrupt judge and sent to prison. Now on her way to testify against those who imprisoned her, she i...

  • Slice and Dice

    Ellen Hart

    MURDER A LA CARTE If all goes according to plan, Connie Buckridge's culinary empire will soon boast a state-of-the-art cooking academy And restaurant in her hometown of Minneapolis-St. Paul. Unfortunately, just when the kitchen queen and her bicke...

  • A Penny Urned

    Tamar Myers

    PICKLED...THEN POTTED All that remains of Lula Mae Wiggins-who drowned in a bathtub of cheap champagne on New Year's Eve-now sits in an alleged Etruscan urn in Savannah, Georgia. Further north, at the Den of Antiquity antique shop in Charlotte, Nort...

  • Plots & Errors

    Jill McGown

    When the owners of a struggling detective agency are found asphyxiated in their car, Detective Chief Inspector Lloyd rejects the majority opinion that they committed suicide. And his theory--that they were murdered--becomes even more likely when the ...

  • The Trigger

    Arthur C. Clarke; Michael Kube-McDowell

    It is the ultimate antiweapon. A device that can render guns and bombs virtually harmless. At least that is how Dr. Jeffrey Horton, the brilliant young physicist who developed the Trigger, hopes his discovery will be used. Yet, like the scientists wh...

  • Only Forward

    Michael Marshall Smith

    Call him Stark. If you have to. If you're lucky, you won't call him at all. Because if you do, it means you've got trouble. Big trouble. And the problem is that before Stark is done fixing something, a whole lot of other things usually get broken....

  • The Keeper of Dreams

    Peter Shann Ford

  • The Wicked

    L.A. Banks

    Damali and Carlos have finally tied the knot, but there is no happily ever after. There are bigger problems on the horizon. Eves son, Cain, has escaped his banishment in order to assume his fathers throne and is now the new Chairman of the Vampire Co...

  • Ammunition

    Ken Bruen

    Over the many years that Inspector Brant has been bringing his own patented brand of policing to the streets of southeast London, the brilliant but tough cop has made a few enemies. So when a crazed gunman, hired by persons unknown, pumps a magazine ...

  • Ilse Witch

    Terry Brooks

    When a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, an elven prince led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more powerful than any in the world. Of all those who s...

  • Nine Below Zero

    Kevin Canty

    From the acclaimed author of A Stranger in this World and Into the Great Wide Open comes a novel that explores reckless love and penetrates the unrelenting winter landscape of the American West.Marvin Deernose, a Native American carpenter and recover...

  • The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

    Ruth Francisco

    Jackie Kennedy quite famously said, I want to live my life, not record it. She remains elusive, her interior life hidden, her feelings and motivations secret. Yet who has not wondered what lay behind those sunglasses? Havent we all wondered how Jacki...

  • Land of Smiles

    T.C. Huo

    “A remarkable story, a courageous performance, and we're privileged to get it.” -- Los Angeles TimesSet in the 1970s, in the era of the Vietnam War and its volatile aftermath, Land of Smiles tells the story of a young Southeast Asian man's journe...

  • Three Magic Balls

    Richard Egielski

    When Uncle Dinkleschmidt buys three rubber balls for his toy store, it's up to Rudy to take very good care of them. But as soon as he is left alone in the shop, Rudy discovers that these are no ordinary balls, and that's when the magic begins. . ....

  • Turkey Ticklers

    Katy Hall

    Finally, a collection of knock-knock jokes to be thankful for! Lift the flaps and join a group of festive school kids as they serve up the funniest Thanksgiving play ever. After feasting on this corny collection of knock-knock jokes, you'll be beggi...

  • Voice from the Border

    Pamela Smith Hill

    Where was life taking her?

    Fifteen-year-old Margaet Reeves O'Neill isn't likely to forget the day the war came home to Springfield, Missouri. That was the day her father left to join the Confederacy, fighting for principles he ...

  • Plays

    Sam Shepard

  • Shakespeare's Scribe

    Gary Blackwood

    When an outbreak of the deadly Black Plague closes the Globe Theatre, William Shakespeare's acting troupe sets off on a tour of England. Widge, the orphan-turned-actor, knows that he'll be useful on the trip. Not only does he love the stage, but hi...

  • Tucker Over the Top

    Leslie McGuirk

  • Web Sight

    Pam Pollack

    While touring with her mother, former rock star Molly Phillips, Fiona Kane starts receiving e-mails on her laptop with links to Web sites with specific details about her mother's future and what will happen on the tour....

  • Here Comes Kate

    Kay Chorao

  • Walks Alone

    Brian Burks

    This powerful, factually based novel explores the human instinct for survival and self-determination through one Apache girl’s fortitude in the face of extreme hardship and loss.
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  • Mac Side Up

    Bob Elsdale

    Mac, a cat who always lands on his feet, and his ferret pal, Dusty, perform an experiment to see what would happen if Mac were to jump with a piece of buttered toast--which can be expected always to land buttered side down--on his back....

  • Take It to the Hoop, Magic Johnson

    Quincy Troupe

  • Summer of Pearls

    Mike Blakely

    Ben Crowell remembers the Great Caddo Lake Pearl Rush of 1874. He was fourteen that year, and his home, the riverboat community of Port Caddo, was dying. By the end of the summer, the pearl boom was over, Port Caddo was doomed, and the mystery over w...

  • The Advocate

    Bill Mesce Jr.

    A novel of World War II, conspiracy, and murder It is 1943 -- and the unthinkable has happened: a local spotter on the remote English coastline has witnessed American pilots, returning from a bombing run, turning their guns on one of their own. ...

  • The Veritas Conflict

    Shaunti Feldhahn

    Claire Rivers races to the mailbox to receive a letter of acceptance to Harvard University while a heavenly battle rages. In this fast-paced, suspenseful novel, the ageless war for the hearts and minds of students on our college campuses is revealed....

  • Dark Sleeper

    Jeffrey E. Barlough

    In the fog-enshrouded city of Salthead, metaphysics professor Titus Tiggs and Dr. Daniel Dampe investigate a series of strange, impossible sightings-from phantom ships and ghosts to creatures long extinct. What they uncover is an ancient, mystical ev...

  • The Caleb Trees

    Dee Holmes

    For most of her marriage, Meg DeWilde had devoted herself to her family--sensitive Caleb, carefree Bethany and her loving husband, Jack. But on a bright spring day, one tragic, incomprehensible act shattered their whole world. In the aftermath of Cal...

  • Apache Ambush

    Austin Olsen

    Crippled by war, Lieutenant William Northey is given command of the Ninth Colored Cavalry Regiment, a troop of Buffalo Soldiers, and given the task of stopping a warring band of Apaches along the border of Mexico with a group of men who barely knew h...

  • Slocum and Wild Bill's Lady

    Jake Logan

    Slocum's always got a lovely lady on his arm. But when he gets involved with Wild Bill Hickok's favorite girl everyone in Abilene sees trouble brewing....

  • Left to Die

    Frank Roderus

    Falsely accused of stealing a wad of payroll cash from the miners at Willow Creek and unceremoniously strung up for the crime, Wes Johnson manages to survive his own hanging and plots his revenge against those who left him to die. Original....

  • Barnum and Bullets

    J.R. Roberts

    GIANT ACTION! GIANT ADVENTURE! THE GUNSMITH GIANTBARNUM AND BULLETS Special Giant EditionManhattan may have the greatest show on earth, butNew York's never seen a performer like the Gunsmith!Clint Adams was heartbroken, but not over a woman. He was s...

  • Justice in Rimfire

    J.R. Roberts

    Clint Adams returns to Rimfire, Nevada, to find that his business partner has disappeared, along with the gun shop they opened together, and suspects that Benjamin Day, the wealthiest and most ruthless man in town may have had something to with his p...

  • Black Hills Hellhole

    Judd Cole

  • Longarm and the Sins of Sister Simone

    Tabor Evans

  • Swan's Grace

    Linda Francis Lee

    He was a man who made the rules, while she wanted onlt to break them.... Grayson Hawthorne is everything blue-blooded Boston society admires--rich, ruthless, untainted by scandal. While always keeping a tight rein on his emotions, he has never for...

  • Heart Full of Miracles

    Stephanie Mittman

    A Heart Full Of Joy Abby Merganser believes in rainbows and happy endings. The daughter of the town minister, she is a source of sunshine and laughter for the citizens of Eden's Grove. But there is one thing Abby wants more than anything in the wo...

  • All of Nothing at All

    Katherine Deauxville
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    Bogie and Bacall graced the silver screen. People collected LPs. Jukeboxes played and Sinatra crooned. In an era that bore a generation wartime heroes and heroines, men and women realized the value of life and love. Couples slow-danced night and day;...

  • Night and Day

    Eugenia Riley
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    Bogie and Bacall graced the silver screen. People collected LPs. Jukeboxes played and Sinatra crooned. In an era that bore a generation wartime heroes and heroines, men and women realized the value of life and love. Couples slow-danced night and day;...

  • Strangers in the Night

    Amanda Harte
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    Bogie and Bacall graced the silver screen. People collected LPs. Jukeboxes played and Sinatra crooned. In an era that bore a generation wartime heroes and heroines, men and women realized the value of life and love. Couples slow-danced night and day;...

  • The Reluctant Warlock

    Donna Bell
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    "The Reluctant Warlock" by Donna Bell A commotion in Hyde Park rouses the shy Miss Gilly Gillingham to "rescue" a black kitten from quick-tempered, darkly handsome Sir Felix Baring. Little does she dream that -- hounded by his eccentr...

  • The Black Kitten

    Catherine Blair
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    "The Black Kitten" by Catherine Blair Lord Jonathon Griffith lays a bet that by All Hallows' Eve he'll win the hand of the formidable Miss Lorna Harrington, whose Egyptian antiquities he covets. But he will need the help of her kitten Imp, to woo her...

  • Sizzle All Day

    Geralyn Dawson

    SHE NEEDS A GHOST, NOT A GROOM... Of all the castles in all of Scotland, it's Gillian Ross' bad luck to live in one that isn't haunted. The ancestral home must be sold, but the single interested buyer requires a wraith in the rafters. ...

  • A Matter of Convenience

    Gabriella Anderson

    Can a simple business arrangement become an affair of the heart? For generations, an ancient silver coin has passed from mother to daughter -- a talisman of luck joining those who dare to dream of love. Now three very different women will hold fat...

  • Unforgettable

    Madeline Baker

    The last thing Shaye Montgomery needs is another man in her life. Especially a gambler who was hanged a hundred years before she was born. But Alejandro Valverde won't leave her alone. As she walks the deserted streets of a California ghost town, his...

  • No Marriage of Convenience

    Elizabeth Boyle

    The Earl of Ashlin needed a respectable wife, and seductive Riley Fontaine was anything but. One kiss, though, convinced him that a marriage of convenience was the last thing he wanted. Mason St. Clair, the new Earl of Ashlin, has inherited a titl...

  • The Queen's Man

    Terri Brisbin

    Present Day, England. Textiles expert Sharon Reynolds is examining a treasure trove of Elizabethan clothing when she discovers a bit of parchment containing an astounding piece of information. But before Sharon has a chance to share the find with her...

  • Hand in Hand

    Marcia Evanick

    IF THEIR MARRIAGE IS OVER... When her workaholic husband forgets their anniversary, it's the last straw for Annie Burton. As the wife of Wild Rose, Iowa's busy sheriff -- and mother to their four children -- she's lost sight of her own goals. Ye...

  • Warrior's Honor

    Georgina Gentry

    TORN BETWEEN LOVE AND DUTY A warrior who values duty above all else, Talako is honor bound to recapture a runaway brave sentenced to hang for his crimes. But then he confronts the fury and determination of ebony-haired Lusa, his quarry's sister....

  • The Perfect Wife

    Jane Goodger

    It takes a perfect love to break an imperfect heart. An outsider among Newport's graceful debutantes, modest Anne Foster was the perfect choice to fulfill the desires of at least one man. But Henry Owen's intentions were far from honorable...

  • The Prodigal Daughter

    Ginna Gray

    Seven years ago, Maggie Malone left Ruby Falls, Texas, in disgrace. The wild child went on to become a million-dollar face...a supermodel who still hides her father's rejection behind an outrageous, glamorous lifestyle. Now, Maggie Malone has come ho...

  • A Lover's Kiss

    Maria Greene

    Against the glittering opulence and lush intrigue of Georgian England, passion and adventure go hand in hand--and gentlemen with secrets go to daring lengths to claim the hearts of the women they love. Stolen Kisses Though he appears to lead the...

  • A Cat By Any Other Name

    Joy Reed
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    "A Cat By Any Other Name" by Joy Reed Miss Miranda Strong believes herself to be destined for spinsterhood. The only comfort she finds is from Tom, the golden-eyed kitten that was given to her by a wise woman who everyone claims is a witch. But when ...

  • Much Ado About Love

    Malia Martin

    What if...the greatest male writer the world has ever known was, in fact, a woman? And what if the man who uncovered her secret was the only one who could set her free? Shakespeare's In Love At the royal command of Queen Elizabeth, Sir Ian Ter...

  • Miss Chadwick's Champion

    Melinda McRae

    Dandy in Distress Lord Gareth would do anything to ensure that his family's eight-hundred-year-old castle survived. But as the walls fell down around him, and as Gareth 's youngest brother incurred huge gambling debts, things did not look promisin...

  • Midnight Fantasies

    Kimberly Raye

    YOUR WILDEST DREAMS... Elizabeth Carlton was in the business of making them come true. From candlelight dinners to more exotic fare, the Texas beauty’s catering service meant that no couple’s secret desires need remain untasted. But the entrepre...

  • A Game of Hearts

    Kate Donovan

    Return to the rousing 1860's, where Chicago's Happily Ever After Co. is doing a brisk business in mail-order brides, and three spirited young women will risk it all on a once-in-a-lifetime chance at love... THE ONLY MAN FOR HER When the H...

  • Rodeo Hearts

    Patricia Ellis

    TO FORGE A FUTURE... Kate DeCosta is no sweetheart of the rodeo. A rodeo brought John Sterling into her life ten years ago, and a rodeo took him away, leaving her pregnant and heartbroken. She should have listened to her rancher father. He warned he...

  • A Scandalous Bride

    Selina MacPherson

    SHE WAS A BACKWOODS BEAUTY... Feisty Reagan Dawes had been brought against her will from the backwoods of Kentucky to the wilds of Missouri Territory, where her brutish stepfather planned to sell her into marriage. She intended to rebel at all costs...

  • Angel Next Door

    Mary Schramski

    A TIME TO HEAL...When Mike Anjell arrives at Chimera Ranch to recover from partial amnesia, he only wants to reclaim his murky memory and get back to his life as a police offer. Bunking next door to busy horse-trainer Nikki Walsh and her troubled thr...

  • Wild Woman

    Carol Rose

    A GOOD GIRL... As a small-town mayor's daughter, a perfect student, and the friendly girl next door, twenty-six-year-old Emily Loughlin realizes she has become an expert at pleasing everyone--except herself. So, in one impulsive move, she packs her ...

  • Trust No One

    Meryl Sawyer

    WHEN A MAN WHO LIVES ON THE EDGE... A Navy SEAL, Brody Hawke is alone in the world, never feeling the need to put down roots - or shrink from danger. Then he receives a letter from a man who insists he is Brody's father. Instantly, the news change...

  • A Great Catch

    Michelle Jerott

    The Man Who Got Away... Lucas Hall once made Tessa Jardine feel 200% female-and 100% foolish after he walked out of her life without a word. Now, the tall, heart-catchingly handsome former Coast Guard hero is back. But a painful tragedy stands bet...

  • An Uncommon Courtship

    Martha Kirkland

    Rascal's Return Miss Eloise Kendall had long known that Gregory Ward was a rascal in the first degree. So when he returned from London to visit Threwsbury Park--and raise money for his burgeoning political career--she assumed his warm demeanor bel...

  • A Knight's Vow

    Candice Kohl

    Enter a time of chivalry and majesty--when three brothers bound together by blood and honor seek their fate in the might of a sword, only to find their true destiny in the heart of a lady. HE SOUGHT VENGEANCE...AND FOUND LOVE. Sir Lucien long pla...

  • Lord Nightingale's Love Song

    Judith A. Lansdowne

    Can a spinster strike the right note with an eligible bachelor? A GRUMPY GENTLEMAN... No one can make the Marquess of Bradford smile...except his favorite horse. He avoids dancing at London balls. He scowls at marriageable misses in drawing rooms...

  • An Intimate Arrangement

    Nancy Lawrence

    Love makes a house a home. A DETERMINED MISS... Marianna Madison cannot believe her good fortune. A distant uncle has bequeathed her a small estate; now she can be independent at last. No sooner does her family take up residence than their precio...

  • A Hint of Heather

    Rebecca Hagan Lee

    SEDUCTION IS ...A RELUCTANT SUITOR Dear Reader, As an officer of the Royal Corps of Engineers, it was my responsibility to construct His Majesty's highland stronghold. Although duty brought me to Scotland, I longed to return to London and my wo...

  • Angel's Gold

    Samantha Lee

    Sold as a young girl, Angeline has waited to reach an age where she can escape her elder "husband," who has so far treated her like a daughter. She sneaks off to an abandoned gold mine near Circleville, Kansas where she finds and hoards gold for the ...

  • North Star

    Amanda Harte

    THE DOCTOR IS IN It wasn't just Andrew Muller's medical skills that were legendary. So too were his wealth and almost glacial attitude toward both his patients and acquaintances alike. But when Beth Simmons showed up on his doorstep unexpectedly o...

  • Betray Me Not

    Michele Hauf

    WITH ONE SHATTERING KISS... Madeleine de Pellison has never lacked for courage. But now the aspiring actress is about to take on the most treacherous role of her life. To save an infant from an uncertain future, she must use her feminine wiles to se...

  • The Wary Widow

    Barbara Hazard

    SUSPICIOUS OF LOVE The charms of Vienna are certainly not lost on Cornelia, the widowed Countess of Wyckend. But she has come to this beautiful city with a very important responsibility--she must look after a young relative whom she and her dista...

  • Daughter of Destiny

    Tracy Fobes

    Brilliant new star Tracy Fobes bewitches again with a spellbinding paranormal tale set in Regency England, where a young lady sparkles in London society, unaware of the perilous forces gathering around her.... The power of druidism flows strong in...

  • Lioness

    Nell Brien

    Deep in the heart of Africa lies the terrible truth about a brutal death. And the woman searching for answers can't even imagine the consequences exposing the truth will have on her own life. When Joel Stanton left for Kenya to find the perfect si...

  • Shadows at Sunset

    Anne Stuart

    HOUSE OF SHADOWS The house on Sunset Boulevard has witnessed everything: from the infamous murder-suicide of a '50s starlet and her lover, to the drug-fueled commune in the '60s, to the anguish of its present owner, Jilly Meyer, who is struggling to...

  • The Smuggler's Bride

    Bess Willingham

    MISCHIEVOUS MAIDEN An ill-advised romp finds spoiled and headstrong Lady Rosalind Yardley emerging from an empty wine barrel in the cellar of a terribly attractive stranger. Then Rosalind discovers her mystery smuggler is none other than Rafe Lawle...

  • Three's a Charm

    Adrienne Burns

    MAGICAL MATCHMAKERS Witches Mini and Reuben Costello had their powers revoked by the witches' council as punishment for a crime Reuben committed against mortals. Now they must live as mortals themselves-and that means getting a job to pay the bill...

  • Of Midnight Born

    Lisa Cach

    IN SEARCH OF Alex Woding has come seeking peace. And though the young astronomer is thrilled to discover a place where he can pursue his passion undisturbed, he has another motive for seeking out Maiden Castle. There, in his youth, Alex had glimpsed...

  • Deep in the Valley

    Robyn Carr

    Welcome to Grace Valley, California -- where blood runs thicker...ties bind stronger...and love is all the more sweet. Visitors to the town often remark about the valley's peace and beauty -- both of which are plentiful. Unlocked doors, front porc...

  • Love Undercover

    Tamara Sneed

  • The Seventh Sin

    Eben Paul Perison

    When Meagan Heller decided to divorce her husband, she thought she was taking the first step toward a new life. Instead, she's stepped into a nightmare.... A man has been found brutally murdered in one of San Francisco's most elegant hotels, his f...

  • Takedown

    Cliff Garnett

    After a devastating hurricane sweeps across Haiti, an American supply ship brimming with relief is hijacked by a man who intends to mount a violent coup, and TALON Force is sent to stop him. Original....

  • Trigger Point

    Don Pendleton

    TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING The United States Constitution is about to be dissolved by an internal threat. A conspiracy conceived in the last days of the Third Reich is gaining momentum and putting democracy at risk. For fifty years the tentacles of ...

  • Rat King

    James Axler

    FRACTURED REALITY What was once the United States is now the rad-blasted world of Deathlands...a place that more than lives up to its name. Led by a one-eyed warrior called Ryan Cawdor, a straggling band of survivors roams the nuke-ravaged land, h...

  • Tyranny in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    In post-apocalyptic, dystopian North America, an ex-mercenary leads forces against an evil brewing in Mexico -- from a USA Today"bestselling author.   The patriot army of Ben Raines went toe-to-toe with the most powerful enemy in the world -- ...

  • War Season

    Don Pendleton

    FLASH AND BURN America reels in horror and shock when terrorists slaughter hundreds in Philadelphia, using a prototype weapon of megadeath called the Annihilator. The blood trail leads to a private arms dealer on the U.S. military payroll, selling...

  • Paleo

    Yvonne Navarro

    PREHISTORIC HYSTERIA Buffy Summers and her gang know that Sunnydale is a haven for outsiders, whether of the supernatural or strictly adolescent variety. Shy transfer student Kevin Sanderson is no exception. But Kevin instantly finds a mentor in D...

  • Mischief

    Douglas Clegg

    From the dark imagination of New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg, comes the 2nd book in the chilling Harrow series! In Mischief, the horror of Harrow is reborn -- as Harrow Academy, a private school for boy...

  • Mina

    Elaine Bergstrom

  • Just Pretend

    J.V. Lewton

    Teenage clairvoyant Clay Brannon races against time to protect a little girl from the lethal madman who is after her, after the child calls into a radio show about the killer and the police dismiss the call as a prank. Reissue....

  • Witch Hunt

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    When Abbey Hanover's parents inherit an old house in Massachusetts, she discovers that Felicity Crane had been hanged there three hundred years earlier as a witch, and soon Abbey is hurtling back into the past to save Felicity. Reissue....

  • Shadows of Amn

    Philip Athans
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Bhaal is dead! But his disciples want to bring him back. The blood of the god of murder runs through his children, and bad blood attracts bad people. Shadow thieves, vampires, ninjas, and rockworms run rampant on the Sword Coast in the action-p...

  • Greenhouse Summer

    Norman Spinrad

    The world of the future is in a lot of trouble. Pollution, overpopulation, and ecological disasters have left the rich nations still rich, and the poor nations dying. Still, for international businesses it is business as usual. It is better to be ric...

  • Mirage

    Mark W. Tiedemann

    Senator Clar Eliton of Earth and Ambassador Galiel Humadros of Aurora hope to alter the strained and explosive relationships between Earth and the Spacer and Settler Worlds. But as the Spacers arrive on Earth to begin the conference that will reco...

  • The Unicorn

    Allison Lassieur

    The Land is Wounded Shadwlands monsters mass on the edges of Rokugan. The Crab Clan, long vigilant in battling them, seems unable or unwilling to stop the demonic onslaught. But from an unlikely quarter, a hero arises. She will lead her forces ...

  • The Nether Scroll

    Lynn Abbey
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Ansoain has been murdered, and her son Galimer taken hostage. Druhallen, a young magic user, must avenge the murder of his teacher and rescue her son from a dubious fate. But not everyone is telling Druhallen the truth. Druhallen and his compan...

  • City of Baraboo

    Barry B. Longyear