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New Books List: 663 titles

  • 16 Lighthouse Road

    Debbie Macomber

    Olivia Lockhart 16 Lighthouse Road Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, You don't know me yet, but in a few hours that's going to change. You see, I'm inviting you to my home and my town of Cedar Cove because I want you to meet my family, f...

  • The Absence of Nectar

    Kathy Hepinstall

    After saving Alice's mother from drowning, a mysterious man named Simon is quickly ensconced in the family as the husband of the rescued woman, but Alice becomes suspicious of his motives, in a suspenseful coming-of-age novel by the author of The...

  • An Abundance of Babies

    Marie Ferrarella

    IT'S A GIRL...AND A BOY! Giving birth in a parking lot was not what Stephanie Yarbourough had in mind when she agreed to be a surrogate mother. Then she discovered old flame Sebastian Caine was now a doctor -- and willing to lend a hand! Trust the...

  • Adam's Daughter

    Jennifer Taylor

    The doctor’s secret child Nurse Elizabeth Campbell had promised her sister she would never reveal her baby’s identity to its father. But now Beth has Hannah in her care and the child is in need of her father’s help. Beth knows she must find ...

  • Addiction

    G.H. Ephron

    HE FAR WOULD YOU GO FOR THE ULTIMATE CURE? It seems a simple request for forensic psychologist Peter Zak of the Pearce Psychiatric Institute. A close colleague, Channing Temple, needs help in finding the root of her daughter's self-destructive behav...

  • An Affair of Honor

    Richard Marius

    In this powerful novel -- the capstone to Richard Marius’s illustrious career -- a gripping double murder propels the small, Bible-obsessed town of Bourbonville, Tennessee, into connection with the wider society opening up in the years following Wo...

  • The Affair of the Necklace

    Elizabeth Hand

    The child Jeanne Valois lost her family, her home, and her fortune to the greed of an influential aristocrat. Now grown into a proud young woman of rare beauty and exceptional wiles, she has gained entrance to the court of Louis XVI and exquisite,...

  • Affinity

    J.N. Williamson

    Indiana college student Quent Wilcox has had some disturbing nightmares, though he can't quite remember them when he wakes up. He's been stumbling across huge gaps in his memory, like what happened to his parents, and did he ever have a girlfriend? N...

  • After the Plague: and Other Stories

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    Few authors in America write with such sheer love of story, language, and imagination as T.C. Boyle, and nowhere is that passion more evident than in his inventive, wickedly funny, and widely praised short stories. In After the Plague, Boyle speaks o...

  • Aftershock

    Jill Shalvis

    THE EARTH MOVED...LITERALLY! If it hadn't been for the earthquake, Amber Riggs would never have made love to a perfect stranger. And no doubt about it, fire inspector Dax McCall was perfect! Who else could have taught her the meaning of passion at a...

  • Akiko in the Castle Of Alia Rellapor

    Mark Crilley

    Akiko, our fourth-grade Earthling hero, and her loyal crew have finally reached Alia Rellapor's castle, where Prince Froptoppit is being held prisoner. But in this final part of their mission, they must face their greatest challenges. Giant robotic T...

  • Alice and Greta's Color Magic

    Steven J. Simmons

    Frog’s guts and lizard’s eyes,
    to every color I say good-bye!

    Greta’s at it again.

    This time, she casts a spell she knows Alice will hate -- one that makes all color in the world disappear! Now Alice may be nice, but a witch ...

  • All about Christmas

    Pamela Jane

    This enchanting Christmas poem, running from A to Z, is a tradition about to happen. Not only will kids love hearing it again and again, they will have a ball placing the removable jewel stickers on the humorous holiday pictures....

  • All About Passion

    Stephanie Laurens

    "If one is not marrying for love, one may as well marry for something else. My future countess has to be sufficiently docile and endowed with at least passable grace of form, deportment and address." Fate has made Gyles Rawlings a man dete...

  • The Altar of the Body

    Duff Brenna

    George McLeod's easy life turns to chaos when his bodybuilder cousin Buck Root returns to Minnesota with his sexy girlfriend Joy and her mother Livia, whose sense of reality blurs into the pages of a western novel. For the first time, George understa...

  • Amanda Dade's New Year's Parade

    Harriet Ziefert

    Although others participate by driving, riding, and making music, Amanda Dade--with baton in hand--leads the parade of one-of-a-kind, humorously-clad characters to welcome the arrival of the New Year. Reprint....

  • Ambrose Bierce and the Death of Kings

    Oakley Hall

    World-famous journalist Ambrose Bierce investigates the disappearance of a Hawaiian princess and is plunged headlong into a world of intrigue and mystery surrounding the court of Hawaiian royalty living in San Francisco. By the author of Ambrose ...

  • America

    Stephen Coonts

    OUR FIRST WARNING... Dispatched on a trial run, NASA's SuperAegis satellite has been created as the foundation of an international antimissile defense system. But moments after dispatch, it vanishes. Rear Admiral Jake Grafton fears something worse t...

  • America the Beautiful

    Moon Unit Zappa

    America Throne is living the good life in L.A. Her career is sprouting, and she is in love -- with Jasper Husch, a sexy-sultry artist from San Fran. But just as soon as they've realized domestic bliss, Jasper has a change of heart, and America falter...

  • Angels Flight

    Tracie Peterson; James Scott Bell

    Will Her Determination to Know the Truth be Worth Its Sacrifices? With her first trial a dramatic success, Kit Shannon steps out from the protective and guiding hand of her mentor and begins her own law practice. When she is drawn to the defense of...

  • Another Man's Children

    Christine Flynn

    ONCE BURNED... When polished Seattle professional Lauren Edwards landed at a wilderness cabin to temporarily caretake her widowed brother's children, she was flying blind, relying on untried instincts to guide her. Until help arrived in the unlike...

  • Antrax

    Terry Brooks

    Brave explorers led by the last Druid, Walker Boh, traveled across unknown seas in search of an elusive magic. But now it seems that Walker and his team were lured there for sinister, unforeseen purposes. As the crew aboard the airship Jerle Shannara...

  • Arthur's Hiccups

    Marc Brown

    Arthur has the hiccups, and none of the traditional cures suggested by his parents help. Ignoring his pesky sister D.W., who claims she knows how to get rid of them, he calls on his friends for help. The Brain suggests standing on his head; Buster sa...

  • The Ash Garden

    Dennis Bock

    Emiko Amai is six years old in August 1945 when the Hiroshima bomb burns away half of her face. To Anton, a young German physicist involved in the Manhattan Project, that same bomb represents the pinnacle of scientific elegance. And for his Austrian ...

  • Ashes of Aries

    Martha C. Lawrence

    ARIES: A FIRE SIGN...WITH BURNING DESIRE The hot Santa Ana wind is blowing out of the high desert when Matthew Fielding, four-year-old son of a telecommunications mogul, is abducted from his family's estate. After five days, the police are at a de...

  • Ashling

    Isobelle Carmody

    As head of Obernewtyn’s Farseeker guild, Elspeth Gordie must travel to the lowlands to seal an alliance between Obernewtyn and the rebel forces that oppose the totalitarian Council. Yet her dreams call to her with an altogether different purpose: E...

  • Asking for Trouble

    Elizabeth Young

    Unmarried, thirty-year-old Sophy Metcalfe told a little white he to soothe her nagging mother. The white lies name was "Dominic," the ideal boyfriend: charming, successful, the kind of prospective son-in-law that would make any mother proud. But now ...

  • The Association

    Bentley Little

    Congratulations, Barry and Maureen: You've been approved by the Association and are encouraged to move into our exclusive gated community as soon as possible. Please be aware that we reserve the right to approve your decor, your landscaping, your fri...

  • Attack on Myth Drannor

    Sean K. Reynolds
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Pool of Radiance: Attack on Myth Drannor adventure will give fans of the popular computer game a chance to continue their adventures using the Dungeons & Dragons(r) game.

    Take the plunge and prepare yourself for the Third Edition Dungeons & Dr...

  • Audubon's Watch

    John Gregory Brown

    On his deathbed, renowned ornithologist John James Audubon remains haunted by a thirty-year-old mystery about the sudden and enigmatic death of a beautiful woman, Myra Gautreaux, on the Louisiana plantation where Audubon is employed as a tutor, in an...

  • The Bachelor Knight

    Deborah Simmons
    in

    Knights to remember... Fantasies are made of knights in shining armor. Men whose ferocity in battle was tempered by a code of chivalry ... whose passions brought them to their knees before the women they desired ... whose loyalty and honor never w...

  • The Ballad of the Sad Cafe

    Edward Albee

    A classic work that has charmed generations of readers, this collection assembles Carson McCullers's best stories, including her beloved novella The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. A haunting tale of a human triangle that culminates in an astonishing brawl, ...

  • Ballet Bug

    Christine McDonnell

    With the help of her friend Margaret, Bea is able to fulfill her dreams of becoming a ballerina as she signs on for lessons, learns all the steps, and successfully wins the role as the star performer in the Nutcracker. ...

  • Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

    Dai Sijie

    In this enchanting tale about the magic of reading and the wonder of romantic awakening, two hapless city boys are exiled to a remote mountain village for reeducation during China's infamous Cultural Revolution. There they meet the daughter of the lo...

  • Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Spine-Tingling Spooktacular

    Matt Groening

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    Matt Groening, the creator of television''s longest ""re""–animated series, The Simpsons, serves up another tantalisingly tasty tome of terror that will rattle your funny bones and leave you screaming with laughter.

    The ""Treehouse o...

  • Bathtime PiggyWiggy

    Diane Fox; Christyan Fox

    Whenever he is in the tub, PiggyWiggy, that inveterate planner of careers, likes to think about what he could do if only he were able to spend more time in the water. Could he become a long-distance swimmer? The pilot of a lifeboat? The captain of a ...

  • Batman Collected

    Chip Kidd

    A detailed resource on the comics and collectibles inspired by the classic character provides close-up photography and information on everything Batman, from the history of the character's graphic design to sixteen new pages of obscure memorabilia. R...

  • Bears In the Barn

    Ben M. Baglio

    Mandy and James discover a mother bear and her cubs while they are camping in Arkansas, but as she follows the bears on their cross-country trek back to their own territory, Mandy wonders if she can help the bears overcome the many dangers on the way...

  • Behold the Lamb

    Catherine Palmer
    in

    HeartQuest brings together three original novellas that will stir readers to treasure their own keepsakes of life, love, and romance. These Victorian-era stories will touch hearts with the beauty of new love at Christmastime.

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  • Being Dead

    Vivian Vande Velde

    A sixteen-year-old will give anything to be with her true love -- even though he died two hundred years ago. . . . A sopping-wet little dead girl stalks a teen who had nothing to do with her death -- honest! . . . A heartless man dances with his wife...

  • Belle Teal

    Ann M. Martin

    Belle Teal's life isn't easy, but she gets by. She lives with her mother and grandmother far out in the country. They don't have much money, but Belle Teal feels rich with their love. As school begins, Belle Teal faces unexpected challenges. Her ...

  • The Bellini Bride

    Michelle Reid

    Wanted: a suitable bride... Marco Bellini thinks he has it all: success, wealth...and Antonia -- his beautiful, sensual mistress. Then his father becomes ill, and Marco feels bound to marry and produce an heir to the famous Bellini fortune. But...

  • A Bend in the Road

    Nicholas Sparks

    Ryan's life seemed to end the day his wife was in a hit-and-run accident two years' ago. As deputy sheriff of New Bern, North Carolina, he not only grieves for her and worries about their young son' Jonah but longs to bring the unknown driver to just...

  • Bertrem's Guide to the War of Souls, Vol. I

    Nancy Varian Berberick
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The highways and byways of Ansalon are being ravaged by war. As the War of Souls rages, vast armies and powerful wizards vie for control of Krynn. But despite the deeds of the mighty, it is the common people who must endure the great hardships of ...

  • Beside the Still Waters

    Barbara Sutton Curtis
    in

    Welcome to a Place Where Love Abides. Experience the splendor of love with four sweet romancesâ€"each one the story of hearts and homes renewedâ€"authored by some of the leading names in Christian romance fiction. The Queen of the World and the Han...

  • The Bidding War

    Kent Redeker

  • Big Dog

    Lois G. Grambling

    When Willie becomes the new owner of BIG DOG, he is the happiest little boy in the world, but soon, everyone in town thinks that BIG DOG resembles a dinosaur and Willie wonders if they are right, in an amusing mystery that will delight young readers....

  • The Big Leaf Pile

    Norman Bridwell

    Clifford, Cleo, and T-Bone are having fun gathering leaves into piles. When T-Bone has to leave, Clifford and Cleo offer to watch his pile for him until he returns. But the temptation to jump into T-Bone''s pile overtakes their promise, and soon T-Bo...

  • Biggie and Quincy Ghost

    Nancy Bell

    J.R. accompanies his sleuthing grandmother, Biggie, to a neighboring town where they find themselves embroiled in a murder investigation after J.R. stumbles across the body of a young woman and the ailing sheriff asks for Biggie's aid....

  • The Billionaire Affair

    Diana Hamilton

    Billionaire collects debt -- of passion! Ben Dexter had become a powerful and respected businessman, earning billions. But money could no longer satisfy him. For years, Ben had forgone a wife and family after becoming convinced Caroline Harvey,...

  • The Biological Bond

    Jamie Denton

    Fourteen years ago, Rebecca Martinson heard the sweet cry of her newborn baby, but she never laid eyes on her child -- until now. Rebecca had been forced by her power-hungry father to send her child into adoption. Years later, single father Sam W...

  • Bip in a Book

    Marcel Marceau

  • Birthday Present Mystery

    Elspeth Campbell Murphy

    There's a gorilla with a gift at the door! Sarah-Jane, Timothy, and Titus can't believe their eyes. Then the gorilla starts to sing "Happy Birthday" to someone named Sam. Who is Sam? And who sent the gift? The cousins are sure to find out! Theme vers...

  • Blabber Mouse

    TRUE Kelley

    After revealing a mistake that caused the whole class to get another homework assignment, Blabber Mouse's friends throw him a party and present him with a diary in the hopes that he will have another outlet for his stories and secrets....

  • Black Widow

    Devin Grayson

  • Blackbird

    Jennifer Lauck

    With the startling emotional immediacy of a fractured family photo album, Jennifer Lauck's incandescent memoir is the story of an ordinary girl growing up at the turn of the 1970s and the truly extraordinary circumstances of a childhood lost. Wrenchi...

  • Blindsighted

    Karin Slaughter

    A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work become...

  • Bliss

    Lynsay Sands

    Something had to be done. It had gone on too long, and if King Henry received one more letter from either of the feuding nobles, he'd go mad. What Lady Tiernay needed was... well, she was a beauty, but whoever married the nag would truly get a mi...

  • A Blizzard Year

    Gretel Ehrlich

    "Ehrlich ventures confidently into new terrain in her eloquent and affecting debut children's novel. [Her] prose, as pristine and spare as her snow-covered landscape, portrays the quiet drama of the changing seasons -- in both their consistency and u...

  • Blood

    Patricia Traxler

    From talented newcomer Patricia Traxler comes a brilliant literary suspense novel about how desire can become jealousy, obsession, and finally murderous rage. Blood is equal parts auspicious literary debut, pageturner, and erotic novel about four peo...

  • Blood Red

    Henry Horrock

    Secluded in his cottage on the Long Island Sound, Manhattan attorney Alec Anton has seen better days. Haunted by his memories of his glorious marriage gone bad, taunted by the press as he struggles to keep a pair of high profile clients out of prison...

  • Blue Diamond

    Kathryn Quick

    When Kent McReynolds showed up on Bethany Clarke's doorstep, she knew it meant trouble. The last thing she needed was to see the fighter pilot again. She thought she had escaped the memories of the plane crash that shook her world all those years ago...

  • The Blue Last

    Martha Grimes

    Scotland Yard superintendent Richard Jury recruits a reluctant Melrose Plant to solve a case of bizarre coincidence--or shocking complicity.... Mickey Haggerty, a DCI with the City police, has asked for Richard Jury's help. Two skeletons have been...

  • Blue Plate Special

    Ruth Birmingham

    It's crowded at the Blind Pig Diner, but there's none of the usual clatter and chatter. In fact, the place is dead silent. All eyes are glued to the gun-toting teenager holding the place up--and the body of a woman on the floor. Sunny Childs, a ha...

  • Blue's Amazing Body Book

    Michael T. Smith

    When Steve and Blue visit Sarah Scientist's lab, they encounter various machines that reveal the inside of their bodies, in an interactive book with tabs to pull to display Steve's bones, heart, stomach, and lungs....

  • Blue's Clues Nursery Rhyme Treasury

    Tricia Boczkowski

  • BMX Bikes

    Kathleen W. Deady

  • Bob's Birthday

    Diane Redmond

  • Bolo Strike

    William H. Keith Jr.

    TO THE VICTOR GO THE SPOILS. . . . And this Victor is fully capable of raking them in, a Bolo Mark XXXIII of the 4th Regiment, Second Brigade, First Confederation Mobile Army Corps, in the vanguard of an all-out Bolo strike against the planet Caer...

  • Book and Blocks

    Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt

  • The Book of Fred

    Abby Bardi

    Filled with soulful humor and quiet pathos, Abby Bardi's boldly drawn first novel marks the debut of a joyfully talented chronicler of the quest for connection in contemporary life.Mary Fred Anderson, raised in an isolated fundamentalist sect whose p...

  • Book of Pooh: Beginning Sounds: Match the Flaps

    Disney Book Group

  • Book of Pooh: Picture Poems

    Disney Book Group

    Sometimes chidlren's desire to read precedes their ability. Rebus books, in which pictures substitute for nouns, can ease this potentially frustrating situation. In this charming collection of Pooh verses, while parents decipher the words, children h...

  • Book of Pooh: Pooh's Magic Wishes: Read Along Storybook

    Disney Book Group

    This colorful storybook follows Pooh through a day when he believes he can grant all of his friends' wishes. As parents read the story, children have a highlighted rhyming refrain to repeat throughout. The read-along element provides children with an...

  • Book of Pooh: Pooh's Perfect Picnic

    Disney Book Group

    This colorful board book contains simple alliterative sentences that repeat the same beginning sound. Children will enjoy tackling the text as tongue twisters, but there is also the added educational value of reinforcing the sounds associated with ce...

  • Book of Pooh: Rhyme Time

    Disney Book Group

    Simple rhyming riddles give clues and let young children guess the rhyming answer, which is revealed with the turn of a page. From the very first reading, this engaging format gets children involved in the read-aloud process. It's a fun way to get pr...

  • Book of Pooh: Upper and Lower Case Letters: Match the Flap

    Disney Book Group

  • Born to Protect

    Virginia Kantra

    "THE LAST THING I NEED IS A PRINCESS WITH AN ATTITUDE!" -- Jack Dalton, Ex-navy SEAL Jack Dalton was out of the business of saving lives -- until his expertise was needed to safeguard Princess Christina Sebastiani of Montebello from dangerous k...

  • Bow Wow: A Day in the Life of Dogs

    Judy Reinen

  • The Bravo Billionaire

    Christine Rimmer

    If ever there was a living embodiment of all that money could buy, Jonas Bravo was it. But the gleaming facade hid a legacy of loss. For though Jonas had been to the manor born, the kidnapping of his baby brother had yanked the rug out from under him...

  • The Breadmaker's Carnival

    Andrew Lindsay

    Gianni Terremoto is a baker. He is on a quest to bake his way into history. Gianni's lover's breasts have become the baker's mental mould for his rolls and sourdoughs and his daughter Francesca is about to become enshrined as the new local saint, ...

  • The Bridal Arrangement

    Cindy Gerard

    HIS VIRGIN BRIDE Lee Savage thundered into Montana to claim what was his -- Shiloh Ranch and a virgin bride. As a young man he'd watched Ellie Shiloh come into this world, and now Lee's promise to protect the naive young beauty bound them forever....

  • The Bride's Kimono

    Sujata Massey

    Antiques dealer Rei Shimura has managed to snag one of the most lucrative and prestigious jobs of her career: a renowned museum in Washington, D.C., has invited her to exhibit rare kimonos and give a lecture on them. Accompanied by a gaggle of Japane...

  • The Bridesmaid's Secret

    Sophie Weston

    The bridesmaid and the tycoon... Bella Carew is dreading going home to England for her sister's wedding! In New York she has a glamorous job, a whole new circle of friends. Best of all, nobody knows anything about her love life.... Gil de la Co...

  • Broken Sky, Volume 7

    Chris Wooding

  • Brothers of Cain

    Miriam Grace Monfredo

    In the spring of 1862, federal troops prepare to capture the city of Richmond, Virginia. Undercover agent Bronwen Llyr is working with her sister Kathryn, a volunteer nurse for the Union Army, when they learn that their brother, Seth, has been taken ...

  • Building a Mystery

    H.B. Gilmour; Randi Reisfeld

    BAD BOY? BOY TOY? Alex and Cam finally learn some secrets about their past. But they still have a lot to uncover. Fortunately, there's new eye candy in town to keep the girls' minds off their troubles. Cade is dark and beautiful and seems to have se...

  • Burning Ground

    Pearl Luke

    Isolated from the outside world, Percy Turner spends her summer at a fire tower deep in the Canadian wilderness, where she spends her time keeping watch for fires and struggles to come to terms with her lifelong passion for her best friend, Marlea, w...

  • Buzz the Space Ranger

    RH/Disney

  • Caleb's Story

    Patricia MacLachlan

    Anna has done something terrible. She has given me her journal to fill. In Anna′s journal the words walk across the page like bird prints in the mud. But it is hard for me. It is hard for me to find things to write about. "It′s your job now," A...

  • California

    Dina Leonhardt Koehly

  • Captain Underpants and the Wrath of the Wicked Wedgie Woman

    Dav Pilkey

    George and Harold have really done it this time . . . they've created a MONSTER! She's faster, smarter, and more evil than anything the world has seen before -- she's Wedgie Woman! With the help of her horrible robots and her horrendous hairdo, Wedgi...

  • Carter Beats the Devil

    Glen David Gold

    A hypnotizing work of historical fiction that stars 1920s magician Charles the Great, a young master performer whose skill as an illusionist exceeds even that of the great Houdini. Nothing in his career has prepared Charles Carter for the greatest st...

  • Case of the Haunted Scarecrow

    James Preller

    When Jigsaw takes a new case, he becomes the key witness. But he can't believe his eyes. Scarecrows don't walk, do they? It's a case of private eye turned eyewitness. And it's got Jigsaw and Mila scared silly. Jigsaw puzzles are like mysteries -- ...

  • The Case of the Lost Song

    Carolyn Keene

    AT A TRAVELING ANTIQUES SHOW, NANCY'S APPRAISING BURGLARIES, FRAUD, AND A GREEDY THIEF! While visiting Chicago, Nancy, Bess, and George bring some items to the Old Can Be Gold show to see what they're worth, just for fun. In George's old tape reco...

  • Castles in Spain

    Sally Stewart

    Venetia Marriott arrives in Southern Spain to stay with an uncle and aunt in their rural hideaway in Rosario, near Seville. She is recovering from the tragic death of a French boyfriend, and looking for rest and relaxation. Instead she is catapulted ...

  • Cat's Cradle

    Shannon Donnelly
    in

    Wherever these kittens pounce, romance, mayhem, and mischief are sure to make an appearance. Follow their antics as they cross the paths of lords and ladies of the ton in three new stories; by three beloved authors, sparking passion that always seems...

  • Catskill

    John R. Hayes

    The author's debut novel introduces readers to a seemingly placid town in the Catskill Mountains that is brimming with tension as World War II is about to erupt overseas as anti-Semitism, a land-grabbing conspiracy, and murder threaten to tear Chicke...

  • Caught in the Act

    Lori Foster

    Coincidence? Not! Mick Dawson, undercover cop. He's got his hands full with a pushy broad who claims she's just in the wrong place at the wrong time. Except all the perps seem to know everything there is to know about her. Who're you going to...

  • Celebrations

    Maureen McTigue

    Ever wonder what to serve at a Klingon Day of Ascension? Just can't remember if you bring a gift to a Rumarie celebration? Can't recall if on Galvin Five, a marriage is considered successful only if children are produced within a year or three of the...

  • Changes for Kit

    Valerie Tripp

    Cranky Uncle Hendrick has come to stay with the Kittredge family. Kit gets stuck running errands and writing letters for Uncle Hendrick almost every day. Soon his fiery letters to the newspaper and stinging words to Kit have her losing hope for bette...

  • Cherry

    Mary Karr

    From Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars' Club left off, Karr dashes down the trail of her teen years with customary sass, only to...

  • A Child Shall Lead Them

    Carole Gift Page

    SWEET CHARITY When social worker Brianna Rowlands set out to locate an orphaned infant's next of kin, romance was the last thing on her mind. But the moment she met dashing attorney Eric Wingate, she was smitten -- and so was his cooing newborn ni...

  • Christmas Always

    Darlene Mindrup
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  • Christmas Is...

    Gail Gibbons

    Christmas is many things to many people. It celebrates the birth of the Christ child. It is also Saint Nicholas and Santa Claus, angels, lights, Christmas trees, cards, carols, presents, and prayers. Christmas is . . . peace, love, and joy....

  • The Christmas Surprise

    Maggie Kneen

    What's the best part of Christmas? One little piglet thinks it's the tree, another thinks it's the delicious food, but the youngest piglet discovers that her favorite thing about Christmas is right outside the window. Children will be delighted by th...

  • Cinderella After Midnight

    Lilian Darcy

    She had the dream dress, the shoes... and a secret. For "Lady Catrina" was really plain, poor Catrina Brown -- and she didn't belong at the glamorous ball she'd so boldly crashed. Cat's mission was desperate, yet success seemed within her reach. Unti...

  • Circle of Stars

    Anna Lee Waldo


    Emerging from his hidden, pastoral childhood, Madoc, the prophesied savior of the druids, rises to fulfill his fate as messiah to his people. Fearing persecution, Madoc must protect his true identity while learning the ways of the ancient druids ...

  • The Circus in the Woods

    William Littlefield

  • City of Dreams

    Beverly Swerling

    In 1661, Lucas Turner, a barber surgeon, and his sister, Sally, an apothecary, stagger off a small wooden ship after eleven weeks at sea. Bound to each other by blood and necessity, they aim to make a fresh start in the rough and rowdy Dutch settleme...

  • Claiming His Baby

    Rebecca Winters

    Treating Heather Sanders after an accident, Dr. Raul Cardenas ran a routine pregnancy test -- and was amazed at the result. Positive! And he had no need to ask who the father was because he already knew...it was him! Raul was determined to claim h...

  • Clem's Chances

    Sonia Levitin

    In 1860, fourteen-year-old Clem Fontayne learns from fellow travelers about important topics of the day, including the Mormon migration, slavery, and the Pony express, as he journeys from Missouri to California in search of his father....

  • Clifford's Glow-in-the-Dark Halloween

    Norman Bridwell

  • Clifford's Hiccups

    Norman Bridwell

  • Close to You

    Mary Jane Clark

    SHE THOUGHT SHE'D FOUND SAFETY. In front of the camera, as anchorwoman for KEY Evening Headlines, she's savvy, sexy, and sophisticated. But when she steps out of the spotlight, Eliza Blake is far more vulnerable than her devoted viewers would ever i...

  • Closing Time

    Jim Fusilli

    In one brutal moment, Terry Orr's life changed forever. His wife and son were murdered, leaving Terry alone to raise his twelve-year-old daughter Bella. The killer is still out there, roaming the streets of New York. Now, the only way Terry can cope ...

  • Code Name Cassandra

    Jenny Carroll

    "Help me find my little girl." Jess Mastriani--dubbed "Lightning Girl" by the press when, after a huge storm, she develops a psychic ability to find missing children--has lost her miraculous powers. Or has she? She would like the media and the gov...

  • Cold

    John Smolens

    In the frozen reaches of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, fierce winter storms can hit without notice. In the white opacity of one such blizzard, Norman Haas simply walks away from his prison work detail without detection.

    After agonizing days of...

  • Coldheart Canyon

    Clive Barker

    Film's most popular action hero needs a place to heal after surgery that has gone terribly wrong. His fiercely loyal agent finds him just such a place in a luxurious, forgotten mansion high in the Holly-wood Hills. But the original owner of the mansi...

  • Comanche Battle Cry

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo battles along the bloody border badlands...Along the Rio Grande, life is as cheap as watered-down whiskey. But for Skye Fargo, a job is a job, and guiding a New Orleans fur trader upriver seems pretty easy-until they run into a group of Ap...

  • Comanche Vow

    Sheri Whitefeather

    COMANCHE BORN... COMANCHE BOUND Nick Bluestone had made a solemn vow to wed his twin brother's widow, raising their child the Comanche way. The desirable Elaina would be his wife, but Nick could never forget the decision had been his brother's, n...

  • Compromising Positions

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Mick Farrell & Stacy Radcliffe....

  • Conor

    Kate Hoffmann

    The only thing that can bring down a Quinn, is a woman. . . The first Mighty Quinn. . . Maverick cop Conor Quinn is used to looking after everybody but himself. Only, when he finds himself guarding gorgeous Olivia Farrell, he's the one needing pr...

  • The Conspiracy

    Jasmine Cresswell

    THE U.S. STATE DEPARTMENT HAS TWO QUESTIONABLE EMPLOYEES: ONE IS A TRAITOR, AND THE OTHER HAS LOST HER EDGE. Verity Marlowe's life has spiraled into a haze of alcohol and self-pity following the death of her husband. The State Department consider...

  • The Corrections

    Jonathan Franzen

    After almost fifty years as a wife and mother, Enid Lambert is ready to have some fun. Unfortunately, her husband, Alfred, is losing his sanity to Parkinson's disease, and their children have long since flown the family nest to the catastrophes of th...

  • Cosmic Camp Caper

    Robert Elmer

  • Count Down to Clean Up

    Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

    Welcome to the town of Short Creek, where you will meet ten busy rabbits.
    Nancy Elizabeth Wallace has created a vibrant and irresistible counting book that engages young children as they count down from 10 to 0, find the clues to learn which bunn...

  • Cowboy Christmas

    Kiki Thorpe

  • Creature Fantastic

    Denise Little

    Dragons, unicorns, the phoenix, and other mysterious and fantastical creatures come to life in an anthology of original fantasy stories by Jody Lynn Nye, Josepha Sherman, Rosemary Edghill, Jean Rabe, P. N. Elrod, Susan Sizemore, Alan Rodgers, Kristin...

  • Cronos

    Robert Silverberg

    Letters to Atlantis: Time travel has allowed Roy¹s consciousness to enter the mind of the heir to Atlantis¹s throne, and what he found disturbed him. How could such an advanced city exist at this time? The rest of the world was, as Roy¹s partner,...

  • The Dakota Trail

    Robert Vaughan

    THE FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL After the Civil War, Dick Hodson returns to his home of Windom, Texas, the lone survivor of all the men who left to fight against the Union. He finds the former cattle town destitute, for there were no able ranch hands to dr...

  • Dance Y'All

    Bettye Stroud

    As his family begins to arrive to celebrate the bountiful harvest, Jack Henry, who has agreed to sleep in the barn to make room for company, finds his mind preoccupied with the snake he has seen in the barn and he must overcome his fears to join in t...

  • Dance, Annie

    Dawn Friedman

  • A Dangerous Deception

    J.M. Jeffries

    Just one meeting and a hefty contribution to a campaign fund was all it took to have Cher handle his investigation personally. After many years, Luc Broussard is back in her life demanding that she help him....

  • Dappled Apples

    Jan Carr

  • Daredevil and Spider-Man

    Paul Jenkins

  • Dark Dream

    Christine Feehan
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    Three of romance's hottest bestselling authors -- Amanda Ashley, Christine Feehan, and Ronda Thompson -- invite you to explore the dark side, to taste the forbidden, to dive into danger with heroes who fire the blood and lay claim to the soul in thes...

  • Dark Side of the Sun

    Andrew Dymond

    Lost and alone in an uncharted region of space, American astronaut John Crichton has found refuge of a sort aboard Moya, a living starship sheltering a fractious band of bizarre alien beings. But now Moya is dying of a pernicious infection, and the o...

  • Dark Times

    Christopher Golden

    Consequences Sunnydale has always been a haven for creatures of the underworld. But when Buffy Summers awakes in a possible future, she is stunned to discover that Southern California has fallen under vampire rule. Buffy learns that her Slayerette...

  • Darling?

    Heidi Jon Schmidt

    A funny and observant story collection that captures the complexity of human relationshipsIn this smart and original story collection, Heidi Jon Schmidt paints her subjects with delicate care. What emerges are characters who are both flawed and lovab...

  • Daughters

    Steve Rasnic Tem; Melanie Tem

  • Daughters of Fire

    Fran Manushkin

    Biblical stories of valorous women--from Eve to Yael--have helped shape the human character and spirit. Rarely, though, has the essence of these heroines been revealed as poignantly as it is in Daughters of Fire.
    Fran Manushkin’s sensitive ret...

  • The Deadhouse

    Linda Fairstein

    Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is back--in this page-turning New York Times bestseller from legendary Manhattan sex-crimes prosecutor Linda Fairstein. Roosevelt Island, a strip of land in New York City's East River, stands an abandoned 19th centu...

  • A Deadly Arrangement

    Denise Osborne

    There's good feng shui ... and then there's bad. Feng shui practitioner Salome Waterhouse knows the difference. She can spot a bad vibe from a mile away. Usually a simple rearranging of a room can patch things up. But occasionally, she has to delve a...

  • Deathday

    William C. Dietz

    On Black Friday, the aliens attacked. The human race was enslaved. But soon, everything will change... TOMORROW IS NOT JUST ANOTHER DAY....

  • Deck the Halls

    Keith Faulkner

    It's Christmas Eve, and the carolers think they see Santa Claus. But it isn't Santa at all. It's Mom holding a baby! Christmas warmth abounds in this festive book as the young carolers seem to see Santa, a reindeer, and a snowman when they peek into ...

  • Deep Midnight

    Shannon Drake

    The Hour When Dreams Turn Into Nightmares... An opulent Carnivale ball in Venice takes a terrifying turn for book critic Jordan Riley. As festivity turns into frenzy, she is rescued by a powerful man disguised as a wolf. But was what she witnessed...

  • Demon in My View

    Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    Jessica isn't your average teenager. Though nobody at her high school knows it, she's a published author. Her vampire novel Tiger, Tiger has just come out under the pen name Ash Night. Jessica often wishes she felt as comfortable with her classmates ...

  • Demons of Air and Darkness

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Once they moved from world to world in a single step, through innumerable doors that spanned the galaxy. They were masters of space, and to those who feared them, they were demons of air and darkness. But long ago they left their empire and their mir...

  • Desert Rain

    SpiritWalker

    Grief-stricken by her young husband's death, Desert Rain leaves her village, eager to join her beloved in the After World. Knowing the dangers of the wilderness, her people send out a search party. They also know the legend of the mysterious warrior ...

  • Desert Rain

    Spirit Walker

  • Destiny in the Ashes

    William W. Johnstone

    Ben Raines and his army won a war on two fronts, bringing law, peace and prosperity to the Southern United States of America. But SUSA's northern northern neighbor and erstwhile enemy, the United States, is still in chaos. And when a ferocious invade...

  • Destiny: Child of the Sky

    Elizabeth Haydon

    A FELLOWSHIP OF THREE To stand against the F'dor--an ancient, vile being intent on destroying the world--a fellowship has been forged: Rhapsody, a Singer of great talent and beauty; Achmed, an assassin with unearthly talents; and Grunthor, a giant o...

  • Dinosaurs

    Grace MacCarone

    An exciting easy reader takes youngsters on a journey to the time of the dinosaurs by providing a wealth of fascinating facts, vibrant illustrations, and an appendix of all the dinosaurs listed in the book. Original....

  • Disney Classic Treasury Slipcase Set

    Disney Book Group

  • Disney Treasury of Children's Classics

    Disney Book Group

  • Disney's Christmas Crafts

    Disney Book Group

    Turn holiday timei nto fun, gamily time with this terrific Christmas crafts how-to book! It includes more than 50 easy-to-make Disney-inspired crafts rom holiday ornaments and decorations (like Woody's "Howdy Holidays" Banner) to terrific homemade gi...

  • Disney's Winnie the Pooh Balloon Book

    Disney Book Group

    This whimsical novelty board book reinforces the concepts of counting and colors through fun, hands-on play. Disney's Winnie the Pooh Balloon Book features chunky board pages and 10 balloon-shaped plastic pieces attached to the book with multicolored...

  • Dizzy's Bird Watch

    Alison Inches

  • The Doctor Delivers

    Judy Christenberry

    "I'M NO BLUE-BLOODED PRINCESS...I'M THE MOTHER OF YOUR CHILD!" Something critical was missing in Liza Colton's life. Burdened by fame and catastrophic family secrets, she'd sought refuge in Saratoga Springs to heal. Then Dr. Nick Hathaway appeared ...

  • The Doctor's Engagement

    Sarah Morgan

    His fake fiancee Holly knew that she was possibly the only woman in Dr. Mark Logan's life who had never fallen head over heels in love with him! They had been best friends since childhood, so when he needed her to pretend to be his fiancee, sh...

  • Dog Who Cried "Woof!"

    Norman Bridwell

    Cleo finds out why she shouldn1t lie in this easy-to-read story that is based upon an episode of the Clifford PBS-TV series. After hearing the tale of Stinky the ghost skunk, Clifford and T-Bone are wary of entering the woods where the ghost is suppo...

  • Don't Cry for Me, Hot Pastrami

    Sharon Kahn

    It isn't easy being a rabbi's wife in Eternal, Texas. It's even harder being a rabbi's widow. More than a year after her husband's death, the congregation still expects Ruby to behave "appropriately." But sometimes it's hard to be pious and ladylike ...

  • Don't Go!

    Jane Breskin Zalben

    It's Daniel's first day of nursery school and he isn't happy when his mother gets ready to leave, yet her reassuring words help ease his fears, in a charming picture book which includes a cookie recipe and helpful tips for parents on starting school....

  • Don't Look Back

    Jane Orcutt
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    Welcome to a Place Where Love Abides. Experience the splendor of love with four sweet romancesâ€"each one the story of hearts and homes renewedâ€"authored by some of the leading names in Christian romance fiction.

    The Queen of the World and t...

  • Don't Look Back

    Terry Fowler
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    love reunites four orphaned siblings in interwoven novellas...

  • Doris's Dinosaur

    Rosemary Wells

    Mrs. Jenkins' class loves drawing dinosaurs...everyone except Doris. Doris feels bad when no one compliments her painting of swirls and blobs. It's only after a day at the museum that the class learns about prehistoric creatures and famous modern art...

  • Dot & Jabber and the Great Acorn Mystery

    Ellen Stoll Walsh

    Dot and Jabber are mouse detectives with case to crack -- if Jabber doesn’t eat the clues first! They’re determined to find out how a little oak tree grew in their field when there are no other oak trees around. They know it grew from an acorn, b...

  • Dr. Carlisle's Child

    Carol Marinelli

    There were reasons why Dr. Seb Carlisle really shouldn't get involved with Dr. Lucinda Chambers. They worked together in the busy children's clinic at Melbourne Central Hospital...and, on top of his demanding job, Seb was a single father to a...

  • Dr. Mortimer and the Aldgate Mystery

    Gerard Williams

    Set amid the clip and clatter of hansom cabs and the popping of the gaslights, this intriguing mystery introduces Dr. James Mortimer, the man who brought the case of the Hound of the Baskervilles to the attention of Sherlock Holmes. Here, Dr. Mortime...

  • The Dragon

    Ree Soesbee

    For a thousand years and more, the world's most mysterious clan has dwelt secluded in its mountain fastness. Wrapped in tattoos and riddles, the Dragon has watched and waited until the time for revelation is right. Until Now. What draws them out?...

  • The Dragon Tamer

    Jane Bonander

    A young sea captain’s widow feuds with a ruthless marine naturalist until their fireworks ignite into passion in this enthralling historical romance.  Boston, 1860. A sea captain’s widow at twenty-one, Eleanor Rayburn is devastated to learn ...

  • Dragonlance Chronicles Trilogy Gift Set: Dragons of Autumn Twilight/Dragons of Winter Night/Dragons of Spring

    Margaret Weis

    This three-book set is perfect for collectors and an ideal gift for readers unfamiliar with the Dragonlance setting. The Chronicles Trilogy -- Dragons of Autumn Twilight, Dragons of Winter Night, and Dragons of Spring Dawning--are enclosed in a hard-...

  • Dragsters

    Kathleen W. Deady

  • Dreamer

    Steven Harper

    It is through first contact with an alien species that humanity learns of the Dream. It is a plane of mental existence where people are able to communicate with one another by their thoughts alone--over distances of thousands of light-years. To ensur...

  • The E-Mail Murders

    Paul Zindel

    When P.C. and Mackenzie are invited to join Mac's dad on a business trip in Monaco, they are thrilled. But their luxurious vacation is cut short when a serial killer thought to be long retired suddenly strikes again...in their hotel!...

  • Eager to Please

    Julie Parsons

    The author's third novel explores one woman's journey into seduction and revenge as she attempts to adjust to life after spending twelve years in prison for the murder of her husband, but the murder of her dearest friend and her determination to seek...

  • An Easy Conquest

    Sandra Heath

    A Convenient Stranger In the wake of her husband's death, Emily Fairfield is left with mounting debts and the future of Fairfield Hall at risk. To salvage the social standing of one of the most respected names in Shropshire, Emily has one recourse: ...

  • An Echo in Time

    Sherry Lewis

    Sheriff and single mother Taylor O'Brien has enough worries as it is, what with spearheading a campaign for her re-election as sheriff, keeping the peace in her Montana mountain town, and raising her ten-year-old son. The last thing she needs now is ...

  • The Elusive Voice

    Mary Jo Adamson

    The survivor of a destructive past, Michael Merrick has found his place in the world as an investigative reporter for a Boston newspaper. At the beck and call of his reclusive employer, Jasper Quincey, Merrick hones his sleuthing skills by exposing t...

  • Emergency Wedding

    Marion Lennox

    Partners in marriage Wanting to work to support her coming baby, Dr. Susie Ellis returned home to Whale Beach, Australia, where she owned half of the doctor's practice. Instead of finding only her partner in residence, Susie discovered Dr. Darcy ...

  • Emma's Wedding

    Betty Neels

    A business proposal...or more? Meeting Dr. Roele van Dyke was a blessing for Emma Dawson. He always seemed to go out of his way to make her happy, and she couldn't imagine life without him.... And when the time came for Roele to return to Amste...

  • Engagement of the Heart

    Kathleen Paul
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  • Ereth's Birthday

    Avi

    ERETH IS HAVING A DREADFUL BIRTHDAY! No one, not even his best friend, the deer mouse Poppy, remembers Preth's birthday. At least that's what the old porcupine thinks. Determined to celebrate alone, he sets off into the forest to search for his o...

  • Escape Underground and the Prophet's Kid

    Jim Ware

  • Eva Moves the Furniture

    Margot Livesey

    On the morning of Eva McEwen's birth, six magpies congregate in the apple tree outside the window--a bad omen, according to Scottish legend. That night, Eva's mother dies, leaving her to be raised by her aunt and heartsick father in their small Scott...

  • Ever After

    Edwardo Jackson

    After he and Jasmine have spent more than two years together, Nick is certain the time has come to settle down; he’s never been so in love before, and Jasmine is everything he could ever hope for in a woman. As he sets the stage with a romantic wee...

  • Every Move She Makes

    Beverly Barton

    SLEEPY SOUTHERN DAYS As the pampered daughter of one of Spring Creek's most prestigious southern families, Ella Porter has lived her entire life on the straight-and-narrow, And being "good" has kept Ella safe and sane--until now. Suggestive yet omino...

  • The Evidence Against Her

    Robb Forman Dew

    On a bright September day in 1888, in the town of Washburn, Ohio, three children are born within hours of one another -- Robert Butler, Lily Scofield, and Lily's first cousin, Warren -- and they are nearly inseparable from birth. When Robert and Lily...

  • Eyes of the Calculor

    Sean McMullen

    In Sean McMullen's glittering, dynamic, and exotic world two thousand years in the future, librarians fight duels to settle disputes, there is no electricity, fueled engines are banned by every major religion in Australica, humanity has split into tw...

  • The Faded Flower

    Paul McCusker

    Funny, the difference a few hours can make. At 4:30 P.M., Frank Reynolds still has a sense of accomplishment and control. By five o’clock, he’s lost his job of twenty-two years. By six o’clock, he’s learned of his father’s Alzheimer’s dis...

  • Fair Rose

    Corinne Everett

    From the parlors of Colonial Williamsburg to the ballrooms of Georgian England, three vibrant young women set out to shape their own destinies. Each bears the name of an exquisite flower...and each must confront a formidable challenge to win the man ...

  • Fair Weather

    Richard Peck

    Thirteen-year-old Rosie Beckett has never strayed further from her family's farm than a horse can pull a cart. Then a letter from her Aunt Euterpe arrives, and everything changes. It's 1893, the year of the World's Columbian Exposition-the "wonder of...

  • Fall Guy

    Scott MacKay

    Detectives Barry Gilbert and Joe Lombardo return after their highly praised debut, COLD COMFORT. This time the two are plunged into Toronto's Chinatown district where they are called to investigate the death of Edgar Lau, a man whose history and conn...

  • Family Affairs

    Tracee Lydia Garner
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  • A Family Reunion

    Brenda Jackson

    EVERY FAMILY HAS ITS SECRETS. SOME ARE JUST HARD TO TELL -- BUT TOO HARD TO KEEP... It's been fifteen years since the Bennetts were all in one place at one time, and now at a total blowout of a reunion, three generations will gather to reminisce and...

  • Far Above Rubies

    Kristin Billerbeck
    in

    HeartQuest brings together three original novellas that will stir readers to treasure their own keepsakes of life, love, and romance. These Victorian-era stories will touch hearts with the beauty of new love at Christmastime.

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  • Fatal North

    Bruce Henderson

    An in-depth account of the first U.S. expedition to the North Pole describes a mission that ended in the suspicious death of its leader, Charles Hall, and a desperate struggle for survival on the polar ice, drawing on original Navy inquests into the ...

  • Fatality

    Caroline B. Cooney

    It's been four years since Rose spent the weekend at Angelica's beautiful summer home and things went terribly wrong, but now that the police have reopened the murder case, Rose must relive that weekend all over again. Rose was thrilled when Angel...

  • Fault Lines: Stories of Divorce

    Caitlin Shetterly

    A collection of short stories by such acclaimed authors as Ann Beattie, John Updike, Andre Dubus, John Cheever, Michael Chabon, Russell Banks, Edmund White, Raymond Carver, and Sherman Alexie explores the emotional upheaval of divorce and separation ...