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  • Dora's Favorite Fairy Tales: 6 Magical Storie

    A&J Studios

    An illustrated story collection presented by Dora and her friends includes three classics, such as "The Three Little Pigs" and "Jack and the Beanstalk," as well as three Latin-American folk tales, such as "Three Magic Oranges."...

  • Wind Flowers: Contemporary Malayalam Short Fiction

    V. Abdulla

  • On Thin Ice

    Cherry Adair

    While enduring a failing marriage and the loss of her husband to a terminal illness, Lily Munroe found release in her passion for the exhilarating Iditarod race across Alaska. Now single again, she's more determined than ever to win the competition, ...

  • Here Comes Harry

    Jessica Adams
    in

    21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...

  • Harbor

    Lorraine Adams

    A New York Times and Washington Post Notable BookEntertainment Weekly's #1 Fiction Book of the YearA tremendously acclaimed and exquisitely realized novel of literary suspense, Harbor recounts the adventures of Aziz Arkoun who, at twenty-four, makes ...

  • Kinki Lullaby

    Isaac Adamson

    Wisecracking reporter and reluctant detective Billy Chaka is back. His latest misadventure finds him in Osaka to accept an award for an article he'd written years before about a teenage Bunraku puppet prodigy named Tetsuo. Billy quickly learns he may...

  • Trafalgar

    Roy Adkins

  • Bones and the Dog Gone Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Detectives are supposed to find things, but one day at the park, Bones loses just about everything: his magnifying glass, his dog, and even his detective bag. Can Detective Jeffrey Bones find the things he lost?...

  • Bones and the Big Yellow Mystery

    David A. Adler

    With his bag of detective tools in hand, Detective Jeffrey Bones can solve any mystery. Good thing, because Mr. Green has lost his school bus! Will Detective Bones be able to solve the case? Find out in this Level 3 reader!...

  • Invitation to Provence

    Elizabeth Adler

    Franny Marten's life is unraveling--after arranging to meet her boyfriend, Marcus Marks, for dinner, she finds his wife waiting for her instead. After the initial shock wears off, Franny finds she has more in common with Clare Marks than she could ev...

  • Home on the Range

    Brian Ajhar

  • The Tale of Hill Top Farm

    Susan Wittig Albert

    In this first of the Cottage Tales, animal lover and all-around Good Samaritan Beatrix Potter, author of Peter Rabbit, is ready to help solve local mysteries. And with her entourage of animal friends, she sets out to win over the human hearts of Sawr...

  • Sleep Tight

    Laura Marie Altom

    Being a Tooth Fairy was a low-key, wonderful gig: collect a few teeth; make kids smile. For Belle Moody, life was perfect -- until her aunt Lila lost their every dime! What would go under kids' pillows? Belle had to take a second job playing the ...

  • Madison's Miracles

    Joye Ames

    Maggie Madison has devoted her life to helping others. Practically abandoned as a child, Maggie understands what it is like to feel unwanted. Running a shelter for the street kids of Atlanta is hard work, and the necessities"money for food, repairs"a...

  • Day the Dog Dressed like Dad

    Tom Amico

    One morning, the family dog comes downstairs dressed exactly like Dad. The dog does a few things just like Dad would, but he also has a more canine approach to life that makes for quite an interesting day: he refuses to cook hot dogs at their barb...

  • The Pregnancy Surprise // The Baby From Nowhere

    Caroline Anderson

    BABY OUT OF THE BLUE Pregnant? Impossible! But somehow it's true. Maisie McDowell is about to become a single mom -- with no knowledge of how she got that way.... Dr. James Sutherland's patients usually suspected they were pregnant, but Maisie seem...

  • Nellie Trading Cards

    Dan Andreasen

  • A Murder of Justice

    Robert Andrews

    When Skeeter Hodges was gunned down in what used to be a quiet black Washington D.C., neighborhood, few mourned the loss. He was a vicious drug runner who took out his competition and intimidated witnesses into silence. To homicide and Phelps, Skeete...

  • Heir of Mystery

    Philip Ardagh

    In this second Unlikely Exploit, Fergal McNally's brain -- last seen in a pickling jar in the basement of Sacred Heart Hospital -- is stolen, and the remaining McNally children are mysteriously drawn to Fishbone Forest and the forgotten crumbling man...

  • Murder Between Friends

    Vivien Armstrong

    Stella, Kate and Victoria are three schoolgirl friends, unexpectedly reunited after many years. Despite losing touch, their lives have become intertwined in a way none of them could have imagined. Detective Inspector Hayes finds himself with a string...

  • Even More Parts

    Tedd Arnold

    Chip Block, the hero of Parts, is back, and still worried about falling apart based on the things he hears. This time he’s made a list of all the strange, crazy things he’s heard people say: “I lost my head.” “My nose is running.” “I sa...

  • Unconditional

    A.C. Arthur

    Abigail Swanson is living her lifelong dream of building her own design company when she begins to rethink her goals and decisions. Her sisterâ,"s marriage and recent pregnancy cause her to feel desires that she had never suspected she had. As s...

  • Singled Out

    Trisha Ashley

    Cassandra Leigh has a long-term lover who is handsome, charismatic, sophisticated--and married. Now Max has abandoned Cass and taken his wife off to America, leaving Cass all alone in her damp little cottage.Cass always dreamed that one day she and ...

  • How to Make a Night

    Linda Ashman

    Have you had a bad day?

    Have things been zooming out of control from the moment you set your feet on the floor this morning?

    Are you ready for the day to be over?

    No problem! Just follow these instructions on how to make a night:...

  • Alt Ed

    Catherine Atkins

    FAT. Susan Callaway, bullied and overweight, faces daily humiliation at the hands of her classmates--and she's had enough. With her anger about to reach the boiling point, Susan lands in an alternative education class, a sort of group therapy for th...

  • Case Histories

    Kate Atkinson

    With a trio of compelling "cold case" mysteries at its core, with its wonderfully sympathet and complex private detective hero, and with its effortlessly beautiful and intelligei prose, Case Histories is Kate Atkinson's breakout book -- the most acco...

  • The Littlest Magi

    Chris Auer

    Jacob, a young boy who is a servant in King Herod's household, overhears three strangers tell Herod about a new king. Jacob is so excited and wants to see the new king too, so he stows away in the strangers' caravan. What follows is an exciting adven...

  • Midnight Magic

    Avi

    On a stormy night in the Kingdom of Pergamontio, an insistent knocking brings Fabrizio, the servant boy, to the door. Outside stands a solider summoning Fabrizio's master, Mangus the Magician, to the king's castle. Because Mangus has been under house...

  • Death Hunt

    James Axler

    LIMITED TENURE The treacherous new world of post-nuclear America guarantees no inalienable rights -- no promises of freedom, liberty or justice for all. Instead, chaos and bloodlust thrive -- but so do the innate strengths of the human spirit, and t...

  • What Goes Around

    Louise Bagshawe
    in

    21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...

  • Retail Therapy

    Roz Bailey

    WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH, THE TOUGH GO SHOPPING Alana Marshall Hughes has her priorities. They're Prada, Tiffany, and Gucci. The African-American princess has never met a pricey retailer that didn't practically cry with joy the minute she pranced i...

  • Under Apache Skies

    Madeline Baker

    When a rugged stranger darkens the door of her family ranch, Martha Jean Flynn can tell right away that Ridge Longtree is nothing like the other cowboys who usually show up in search of work. For in the eyes of this raven- haired, half-Indian loner, ...

  • Lady Fiasco

    Kathleen Baldwin

    Lady Be Good Fiona Hawthorn would like nothing better than to venture out unnoticed. Alas, everywhere she goes, mayhem seems to follow. It isn't as if she invites trouble, it just seems to find her. Yet one gentleman refuses to believe the wor...

  • The Tiger Claw

    Shauna Singh Baldwin

    From the author of What the Body Remembers, an extraordinary story of love and espionage, cultural tension and displacement, inspired by the life of Noor Inayat Khan (code name “Madeleine”), who worked against the Occupation after the Nazi invasi...

  • Texas Glory

    Elaine Barbieri

    Searching for her biological father, and the man who ruined her mother's life, Honor Cannon, arriving in Lowell, Texas, is distracted by a gorgeous drifter who teaches her how to let go of the past and to love. SINS OF THE FATHER Buck Star was ...

  • A Flower Fairy Christmas

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • Eating Mammals

    John Barlow

    In the tradition of T. C. Boyle,Steven Millhauser, and Michel Faber -- with a penchant forthe macabre worthy of Irvine Welsh -- comes Eating Mammals.

    Gypsies, businessmen, servants, masters, and unwise children come together ...

  • Revenge

    Emily Barr
    in

    21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...

  • As Good As Dead

    Beverly Barton

    WHAT SHE DOESN'T KNOW... The victims are all found face-down in the murky waters of the creek that runs through Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee. They are naked, except for the black satin ribbon tied around their necks. And each murdered woman shares a s...

  • Take Me Home

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
    in

    Christmas is not going as planned for the two women in this pair of romance stories, set on the historic Great Plains. Will the spirit of the season warm their hearts--or will they get left out in the cold?...

  • Christmas on the Prairie

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Christmas on the vast American plains holds little appeal for four women struggling to find a warm place to belong. Estelle is paralzed by grief over a fallen soldier and balks at holiday preparations - Kathleen thinks she made a mistake accepting a ...

  • The Secret of Castle Cant

    K.P. Bath

    A SHY GIRL -- A LOYAL SERVANT -- A CUNNING SPY AND REBEL -- UNTIL SHE DISCOVERS THE TRUTH... Lucy Wainwright, hardworking maid-servant to the daughter of the Baron of Cant, is perhaps a bit too good at her job. Lucy does what she's told, never li...

  • Runt

    Marion Dane Bauer

    Deep in the Minnesota forest, where only the strong survive, four regular-sized pups Leader, Sniffer, Runner, and Thinker are pushed into the world. Then one last, very small pup is born into the wolf pack. He is called Runt. From the very start, R...

  • The Coiner's Quarrel

    Simon Beaufort

    A Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery Westminster, 1102. Once again about to depart for the Holy Land, Sir Geoffrey is furious to be summoned back by the King, trusting neither his methods of persuasion nor his motives. When he arrives at Court he fin...

  • King's Ransom

    Jan Beazely

    The Faith to Face TyrannyFaith to Face the Third ReichTwo Stories of Undaunted CourageSet during the darkest days of World War II, King’s Ransom tells the heroic story of Tsar Boris III, King of Bulgaria, and his extraordinary efforts to save his c...

  • The Baby They Both Loved

    Nikki Benjamin

    A BABY'S LOOSE IN BELLE... Simon Gilmore was back in town! And that meant trouble for Kit Davenport, who'd just gotten custody of her best friend's baby. Although he'd been strictly off-limits, Simon had always held a cherished place in Kit's heart....

  • Guardians of the Keep

    Carol Berg

    For ten long years, the noblewoman Seriana has lived in exile, believing her husband, Karon, is dead, executed for the crime of practicing sorcery. Then she learns his soul has been anchored to their world through magic. And though he has been restor...

  • Lost in Darkness

    Mark Bernthal

    Duel Masters, the top-selling trading card game in Japan, hits American shores with fast-paced and funny creature combat excitement! It's the newest card game from Wizards of the Coast.

    Don't miss these thrilling stories based on episodes from...

  • To Rule in Amber

    John Gregory Betancourt

    In this volume, a new universe, with its infinite shadow reflections, is brought into being by Dworkin via the Pattern he has created with his own blood. But his creation has caused a great upheaval in the faraway Courts of Chaos. While Oberon use...

  • Dead Easy

    Olga Bicos

    Ana Kimble just wanted a little excitement. Now she's running for her life. After being abruptly handed a pink slip, Professor Ana Kimble finds herself at loose ends. So when Rachel Maza, a friend and former student, offers her a vacation at a sec...

  • You Look Nice Today

    Stanley Bing

    Robert Harbert, better known as Harb, is Executive Vice President in Charge of Total Quality. CaroleAnne Winter is the assistant who runs his life. But even Harb can't ignore that CaroleAnne's behavior is increasingly peculiar. At the same ti...

  • The Lone Star Plague

    Kate Birch

    The first victim was hospitalized on Friday. By Monday there is no denying it: The sleepy college town of Duane, Texas, is facing an outbreak of bubonic plague, the infamous Black Death. Is it only a coincidence that the vice president is scheduled t...

  • Midnight Band of Mercy

    Michael Blaine

    This bizarre mystery based on real historical events is “an entertaining romp through New York of the 1890s” (The Washington Post).   In 1893, Max Greengrass is a stringer for the New York Herald, paid by the column inch. With no regular sal...

  • A Man in a Kilt

    Sandy Blair

    A Lonely Laird Duncan MacDougall, the laird of Blackstone, was cursed centuries ago to wander as a ghost within the echoing walls of his island castle--and only one woman can free him. Can it be the new mistress of Blackstone, just arrived from ov...

  • Marriage Make-Over

    Ally Blake

    Kelly works hard to love every minute of being single. She even started writing a column about it -- but she harbors a secret she could never tell her readers...she's married! She hasn't seen her hubby in five years -- until now! To her ...

  • The Red Diary

    Toni Blake

    HE'S UNCOVERING HER SECRET DESIRES TO FULFILL HER EVERY FANTASY When Nick Armstrong finds the red diary, he's shocked...and aroused. Here, in intimate detail, prim and proper Lauren Ash records her most secret fantasies. He knows he should never r...

  • The Captain's Mermaid

    Mary Blayney

    BLITHE SPIRIT Lavinia Stewart was raised in Jamaica, footloose and fancy free -- and returning to England to become a lady at last has proved most difficult. Though she must make her debut, polite society and its endless rules only make her head a...

  • Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour

    John Blumenthal

    A hysterical new novel from the author of What's Wrong with Dorfman?

    Once a gangly teenager in oversized clothes, Plato G. Fussell is now handsome and independently wealthy. But inside he's still a bundle of neuroses and anxieties, with a tend...

  • Let It Snow

    Andrea Boeshaar
    in

    These paired novellas, from Debby Mayne and award-winning author Andrea Boeshaar, celebrate Christmas surprises -- and make for a perfect winter read. Follow Shari Flannering, driving through a storm and stopping at the inn of old family friends -- o...

  • Holiday At the Inn

    Andrea Boeshaar

    Travel snags upset the holiday plans of four individuals, but kindly innkeepers open their doors and invite the sojourners in. Will the love they bring be allowed to stay? When a winter storm puts Shari's Christmas on hold, she takes refuge in a Wisc...

  • Riddle Child

    Annelie Botes

    Alexander is autistic. When he is nine years old he is found dead in a bath of water. The only other person in the house at the time is his mother Ingrid. The circumstances arouse suspicion and the police take Ingrid into custody. Did she murder her ...

  • The Inner Circle

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    The inimitable T.C. Boyle has found another superb topic for his hyperactive imagination. At heart a moving and compassionate look at sex, marriage, and infidelity, The Inner Circle makes use of Alfred Kinsey's controversial studies on human sexualit...

  • Unexpected Blessings

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Evan, Tessa, Linnet, and India: four remarkable women. Three generations of Hartes. One indomitable family whose loyalty binds them together and whose enemies want to tear them apart. Evan Hughes, Emma's American great-granddaughter, is trying to ...

  • The Ninefold Key

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    Since childhood, Ariana Levesque has been haunted by a strange, frightening dream about a handsome young man and a dark, foreboding castle. But after a Gypsy fortune-teller divines a perilous destiny, Ariana finds herself caught up in a dangerous int...

  • Breathe

    Anne-Sophie Brasme

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREAnne-Sophie Brasme's Breathe is the haunting confession of nineteen-year-old Charlene Boher. From her prison cell, Charlene recounts her lonely adolescence. Growing up shy and unpopular, Charlene never had many friends. That...

  • The Mountain's Call

    Caitlin Brennan

    CALLED, CHOSEN AND CAST AWAY... Valeria relishes the tales of the mysterious, powerful Mountain where the gods -- powerful beings in the form of white horses -- live. And she loves hearing stories of the elite Riders who ride the stallions in the ...

  • Chances Are

    Barbara Bretton

    USA Today bestselling author Barbara Bretton returns to the scenic Jersey Shore for what should be the happiest day of Maddy Bainbridge's life... There's a wedding in the works at Paradise Point, and Maddy Bainbridge is finding the role of soon-to...

  • Garnet

    Carolyn Brown

    Garnet Diana Dulan swung open the doors of the Silver Dollar Saloon, sucked up a lunch full of cigar smoke, and listened intently to the sounds of men playing poker and the scrape of boots across the wooden floor; she felt right at home. After just m...

  • The Rabbit Factory

    Larry Brown

    Larry Brown's idiosyncratic and powerful Southern novels have earned him widespread critical acclaim. Now, in an ambitious narrative structure reminiscent of Robert Altman's classic film Nashville, this "true original" (Chicago Tribune) weaves togeth...

  • The World of Arthur and Friends

    Marc Brown

    Arthur fans will love this special collection of classic stories - available together for the first time in this handsomely designed treasury. Read along as everyone's favorite aardvark embarks upon six of his most popular adventures: Arthur's Un...

  • Into the Forest

    Anthony Browne

    A shortcut through the forest to Grandma's house produces some eerie moments -- and some oddly familiar characters -- in a strikingly illustrated tale about facing fears.

    One morning a young boy wakes up to find that Dad is gone. And in th...

  • Ghost of a Chance

    Nina Bruhns

    Could the gorgeous man she'd found in her bedroom -- in her bed, to be precise -- really be who he claimed to be? The infamous pirate Tyree St. James caught in a curse for the last two hundred years? And after one night in his arms, did Clara Ferguss...

  • Going Home

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    FAITH STUTZMANE IS GOING HOME.... Faith ran away from her Amish home ten years ago and is now chasing an unusual dream - of being a comedian. Recently widowed, though, she wants to find a stable home for her six-year-old daughter so she can travel...

  • Pure Fusion

    Bill Buchanan

    As radiation poisoning creates a swath of death and destruction throughout Hama, Syria, the operatives of the United States' Counterterrorist Center must find--and destroy--the manufacturers of a pure-fusion neutron bomb before another one is detonat...

  • Florence of Arabia

    Christopher Buckley

    The bestselling author who made mincemeat of political correctness in Thank You for Smoking, conspiracy theories in Little Green Men, and Presidential indiscretions No Way to Treat a First Lady now takes on the hottest topic in the entire world"Ara...

  • The Innocent Libertine

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Davis and Isabella Bunn carry on the tradition begun in SONG OF ACADIA, the compelling historical fiction series crafted by Janette Oke and Davis Bunn. The descendants of those courageous North American settlers are chronicled in this new series, HEI...

  • Safelight

    Shannon Burke

    It’s 1990, and New York City is in shambles: unemployment reigns, crack wars rage, and whole neighborhoods burn as delinquent landlords cash in. Struggling to come to terms with his father’s death, paramedic and photographer Frank Verbeckas desce...

  • Tropical Heat

    Loure Bussey

    When Jada Gracen has her heart broken, she flies to St. Thomas for a job interview, hoping for a fresh start. There she discovers something even better - Randall Larimore, her childhood friend and long-time crush, who just happens to own the cluster ...

  • The Serpent Scenario

    A.J. Butcher

    When a deadly drug that turns its users into blood-craving zombies hits the streets of America, every agent in Spy High is assigned to discover its source. But one member of the Bond Team won't be joining in because of private business--the business ...

  • Blood Rites

    Jim Butcher

    HARRY DRESDEN--WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment. For Harry Dresden, Chicago's only professional wizard, there have been worse ass...

  • The Princess Present

    Meg Cabot

    Mia would give all the jewels in Genovia for the perfect present Every year, Princess Mia spends the holidays in Genovia with Grandmere. This year, she's looking forward to the most perfect Christmas ever: her boyfriend, Michael, and her best friend...

  • Party Planner

    Meg Cabot
    in

    21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...

  • Come to Me

    Lisa Cach

    Samira is the lowliest creature of the Night World: a mere succubus, a winged spirit bringing dreams of passion to sleeping men. She knows every wicked wish that lurks in their hearts, and yet she has never felt the touch of a man's loving hand. Nor ...

  • Feeding the Gulls

    Deanna Calvert

  • Breaking the Fall

    Joanna Campbell

    Will an injury spell the end for Christina's racing career and her friendship with Melanie?

    After taking a year off to train with her beloved Star for the Breeders' Cup, Christina is back in silks riding a few preliminary races. But all her...

  • All Things Hidden

    Judy Candis

    A female homicide detective confronts issues of racism, single-motherhood, and the challenges of faith in this spectacular new edge-of-your-seat thriller.Jael Reynolds is a divorced single mom who’s doing her best to raise her son in Dadesville, on...

  • Paradise City

    Lorenzo Carcaterra

    As a fifteen-year-old, Giancarlo Lo Manto learned about injustice the hard way. His father was gunned down by the Camorra, the murderous clan run by Don Nicola Rossi. When his mother moved him from New York back to his family's ancestral home in Napl...

  • A Special Place

    Kim Carrington

    Despite her girlfriends' protest, advertising executive Jill Alexander has given up on the dating scene. A public relations powerhouse, she's put her heat and soul into furthering her career, but that hasn't stopped her from worrying about her biolog...

  • Ambush

    Paul Carson

    American expat Scott Nolan has recently moved to Ireland and enjoys a flourishing career as a doctor, a rising media profile as a persuasive campaigner against drug abuse, and is very much in love with Laura, his beautiful new wife. But one wintry Du...

  • Bad Boys

    Michael Cart

    BOLD, INNOVATIVE, AND eclectic -- that’s Rush Hour, the place for thought-provoking stories, essays, art, and poems from today’s most distinguished voices, both established and new. “Bad Boys” is the hard-hitting theme of Volume Two. Here are...

  • Up Country

    Alden R. Carter

    A 100 "Best of the Best" ALA Best Books for Young Adults of the Last 25 Years, Up Country is a heart-wrenching, powerful story from an exceptionally talented writer. Carl knows he's playing with fire every time he fixes up a stolen car ster...

  • Metal Sky

    Jay Caselberg

    Psychic investigator Jack Stein is back on the case.... The time: Two years after the Wyrmhole incident. Jack and Billie, his ever-enigmatic fourteen-year-old ward, have set up a new shop in a new town. The place: Yorkstone, with its clean stre...

  • The Spongebob Squarepants Movie: Junior Novelization

    Marc Cerasini

    Something's fishy in Bikini Bottom… When King Neptune's crown is stolen, Mr. Krabs is held accountable for the crime! So it's up to SpongeBob and his trusty sidekick, Patrick, to make the dangerous trip to Shell City to retrieve the crown and save...

  • The Back Door of Midnight

    Elizabeth Chandler

    Psychic...or psychotic? Anna knows her family is crazy. But when she goes to visit her aunt and uncle for the summer and learns that her uncle's charred body has been found, her life reaches a new level of insanity. Her erratic aunt's "psychic" ab...

  • Tempting the Highlander

    Janet Chapman

    She has the power to tempt him beyond all reason.... Catherine Daniels arrives in Pine Creek, Maine, at just the right time for Robbie MacBain. She is on the run from her ex-husband, and Robbie is a sexy, single foster parent who needs a housekeep...

  • Clarice Bean Spells Trouble

    Lauren Child

    There are so many things you can't explain. Like why isn't YOU spelled U? And why opening your mouth can get you into some very big trouble. Clarice Bean is in nonstop trouble these days -- almost as much as Karl Wrenbury, and he is the naughtiest ...

  • The Jasmine Moon Murder

    Laura Childs

    Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning and her staff are catering an unusual Charleston society benefit -- a "Ghost Crawl" through the spooky grounds of the historic Jasmine Cemetery. Sadly, the doctor who thought up the event doesn't l...

  • Snap Shot

    Meg Chittenden

    Diana Gordon doesn't want to play P.I. anymore--especially after being shot by a man she was nailing for insurance fraud. Enough is enough. It's time to get out of San Francisco for good. She couldn't ask for more peace and quiet than she finds in...

  • D Is For Drums

    Kay Chorao

  • All That Matters

    Wayson Choy

    Kiam-Kim is three years old when he arrives by ship at Gold Mountain with his father and his grandmother, Poh-Poh, the Old One. It is 1926, and because of famine and civil war in China, they have left their village in Toishan province to become the n...

  • Snowboard Champ

    Matt Christopher

    When Matt Harper moves in with his uncle while his mother works for the government in a mysterious job overseas, he knows his life will change. But so long as he can hit the slopes with his snowboard, Matt figures he'll get along okay. But then he ha...

  • On Thin Ice

    Matt Christopher

    Savannah is excited about throwing a holiday ice skating party and has already invited friends from her new school, when she learns that Jonas has invited the crowd from her old school to a party the same day....

  • Tweeb Trouble

    Scott Ciencin

    Kim can't believe she has to baby-sit the tweebs.* And as if that weren't bad enough, she's got an even biggerish. Deep in the rain forest, Dr. Drakken is up to no good-as usual! He has created a dangerous mind-control chip. But how can a girl fight ...

  • Boyd Matheson

    James Clay

    When Boyd Matheson rides into Gradyville, Arizona, he discovers a town that lives in fear of a despot. Bull Grady founded the town, yet now demands that all business establishments pay him `rent'. Those who disobey risk death.

    Grady has summoned ...

  • Mean Season

    Heather Cochran

    Prepping for his new movie in the tiny town of Pinecob, West Virginia, up-and-coming actor Joshua Reed lands himself another drunk-driving conviction, this time involving a stolen limo, a dark country road and a cow. Rather than let him rot in jail f...

  • Wife of Moon

    Margaret Coel

    In 1907, photographer Edward S. Curtis arrived at the Wind River Reservation, hoping to document the Arapaho way of life before it vanished altogether. To preserve the legacy of warriors in battle, Curtis staged an attack on a village, planning to ca...

  • The Copycat Effect

    Loren L. Coleman

  • The Legend of Spud Murphy

    Eoin Colfer

    Suddenly, a shadow fell across my brother. . . . It was Spud. She had appeared without a sound, like a ninja librarian. The name Spud Murphy strikes fear into the hearts of children everywhere. Grown-ups think she's a kindly old librarian, but ki...

  • Dougie, Spoons and the Aquarium Solarium

    Jenny Colgan
    in

    21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...

  • The Empty Mirror

    James Lincoln Collier

    Nick Hodges had always been a troublesome boy. Growing up an orphan in his Uncle Jack’s care in a small New England town wasn’t easy. Everyone was a little wary, a little watchful -- a little too watchful. One day, while Nick is walking in the wo...

  • Stain of Guilt

    Brandilyn Collins

    As I drew, the house felt eerie in its silence. . . . A strange sense stole over me, as though Bland and I were two actors on stage, our movements spotlighted, black emptiness between us. But that darkness grew smaller as the space between us shrank....

  • Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane

    Suzanne Collins

    MONTHS HAVE PASSED SINCE GREGOR first fell into the strange Underland beneath New York City, and he swears he will never go back. But he is destined to be a key player in another prophecy, this one about an ominous white rat called the Bane. The Unde...

  • One Grave Too Many

    Beverly Connor

    With fascinating forensics, compelling characters, and ingenious plot twists, Beverly Connor's novels have been compared to those of the hottest crime writers on the scene. Now, she ratchets up the suspense to introduce one of today's most insightful...

  • Dead Guilty

    Beverly Connor

    In Beverly Connor's absorbing series, the bones of the dead reveal the secrets of the living. Now Connor takes her ingenious heroine--forensic anthropologist Diane Fallon--on a chilling excavation of a crime with harrowing implications... In the ...

  • The Shades of Time and Memory

    Storm Constantine

    Hailed as "a literary fantasist of outstanding power and originality" by Michael Moorcock and "a mythmaking Gothic queen" by Neil Gaiman, Storm Constantine is one of the most exciting and innovative fantasy writers of her generation. The author of ma...

  • Death In The Dilstillery

    Kent Conwell

    Tony Boudreaux needed a rest. So when his lady friend, Janice, insists he escort her to the annual reception at the Chalk Hills Distillery, he immediately refuses. Her aunt, Beatrice Morrison, is the CEO of Chalk Hills and is anxious to host a lavish...

  • Buddhist Scriptures

    Edward Conze

    A volume of key writings on the Buddha, collected from a variety of languages and traditions

    While Buddhism has no central text comparable to the Bible or Koran, there is a powerful body of scripture from across Asia that encompasses the dharm...

  • The Conquest

    Stephen Coonts

    Bestselling author Stephen Coonts took fans by surprise with the phenomenal and heart-pounding tale of Saucer. Now Rip Cantrell and Charley Pine are back for seconds with with Saucer: The Conquest. Rip Cantrell is brought back to give the saucer ...

  • Case of Nosy Neighbors

    Lori Copeland

    The whole town is abuzz when Morning Shade is plagued with Peeping Toms. Morning Shade has had its share of adventures, but this time the town really has something to talk about. Someone is spying on Stella's neighbors, and she's bound and determi...

  • The Chase

    Zizou Corder

    THE ADVENTURES OF LIONBOY CONTINUE! Charlie Ashanti has helped a pride of lions escape the circus ship and travel by train all the way from Paris to safety in Venice. He has also managed to elude the menacing Rafi and Maccomo for the time being. But...

  • A Perfect Divorce

    Avery Corman


    Karen and Rob are the well-intentioned parents of a teenage son, Tommy, who believe they can avoid the emotional fallout of their failed two-career marriage. Both are successful individuals who have pursued other personal relationships since thei...

  • Trace

    Patricia Cornwell

    Dr. Kay Scarpetta, now freelancing from South Florida, returns to the city that turned its back on her five years ago. Richmond, Virginia's recently appointed chief medical examiner claims that he needs Scarpetta's help to solve a perplexing crime. W...

  • Mozart Finds a Melody

    Stephen Costanza

    For the first time in Wolfgang's life, the famous composer was at a loss for a tune. He tried every trick to get his imagination going. He sang standing on his head. He played his violin in the bathtub. He even threw darts at the blank music paper. A...

  • Dead Man's Canyon

    Ralph Cotton

    In Dead Man's Canyon, Ranger Sam Burrack is hunting the Carly twins-one evil and one good. Now one twin has turned up dead-but which one?...

  • Is This Maisy's House?

    Lucy Cousins

    Where do Maisy and all her friends live? This lift-the-flap surprise books let readers look at clues to help them guess -- then lift a flap and find out for sure.

    IS THIS MAISY'S HOUSE? Maisy loves to have friends over to visit -- but whic...

  • How Will You Get There, Maisy?

    Lucy Cousins

    How do Maisy and her friends get where they're going? This lift-the-flap surprise books let readers look at clues to help them guess -- then lift a flap and find out for sure.


    HOW WILL YOU GET THERE, MAISY? Maisy and her friends are alwa...

  • Half-Human

    Bruce Coville

    A remarkable collection of fantasy tales by amazing authors including Bruce Coville, Tamora Pierce, Jane Yolen, and Gregory Maguire.

    A girl is born with the fire of dragon blood in her veins and another longs for the feel of water against her ...

  • Whirlwind Wedding

    Debra Cowan

    Catherine Donnelly had come to Whirlwind to care for her rebellious brother. Not to rescue the very man who doubted her sibling's innocence! But as the Texas Ranger recovered in her bed, she was forced to admit that Jericho Blue might be the one man ...

  • Frosty's New Friends

    Richard Cowdrey

  • The Bride from Odessa

    Edgardo Cozarinsky

    Set in Buenos Aires, Lisbon, Vienna, Budapest, and Odessa, both before and after World War II, the eleven stories in The Bride from Odessa belong to a great Argentine cosmopolitan tradition: that of the uprooted exile, the plaything of history, who s...

  • North of Everything

    Craig Crist-Evans

    In this gentle, poignant novel-in-verse, the acclaimed author of AMARYLLIS tells a family tale that is infused with joy, heartbreak, and hope.

    Mom says
    Dad's spirit lives
    in every blade of grass,
    in every tree, in all the ways
    we l...

  • Schooling Carmen

    Kathleen Cross

    Learning the Hard Way Carmen DuPr knows she's one fine-looking woman -- and any man who insists on making a fool of himself over her deserves the heartless treatment she's so good at dishing out. As far as Carmen's concerned, being gorgeous entit...

  • Here We Are

    Lynda Curnyn
    in

    21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...

  • The Fall

    Claudia Dain

    LEGENDS... They called her Lady of Frost, a fabled beauty whose allure no man could resist; yet neither could any breach her icy reserve. She called him Lord of Nothing, a knight with no land, no family, only a name made great by song and story; ...

  • Remington Ridge

    Kit Dalton

    With a buxom beauty by his side, Morgan attempts to rid a the wild frontier of a land-hungry, blood-thirsty group of criminals that have a penchant for tormenting innocent people who stand in their way. Original....

  • Barfburger Baby, I Was Here First

    Paula Danziger

  • Maybe Baby

    Tenaya Darlington

    The Glides of Fort Cloud, Wisconsin, are a Spectacularly Dysfunctional Family. Rusty and Judy did the best they could when raising their three children, yet nothing turned out the way they planned. The Glide parents have just about resigned themselve...

  • Her Story So Far

    Monica Das

    This important collection showcases the most sensitive short fiction on the subject of the girl child by some of India's finest writers. The stories cut across social, economic and regional divides to reveal what life is like for a girl growing up in...

  • The Village Bride of Beverly Hills

    Kavita Daswani

    The author of the “enchanting” and “delightful” (USA Today) debut novel For Matrimonial Purposes returns with a romantic comedy about a new bride leading a secret double life.

    After an arranged marriage in her native India, Priya moves with...

  • New York

    Jill A. Davis
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    21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...

  • In His Sights

    Justine Davis

    She was a suspect in his investigation...but Redstone employee Kate Crawford was also the most captivating woman securities expert Rand Singleton had ever known. Despite the protective feelings she stirred, he couldn't reveal his true identity. He'd ...

  • Scandal Takes a Holiday

    Lindsey Davis

    THE HANDWRITING ON THE WALL MAY PROVE DEADLY... As an "informer"--a private detective--Marcus Didius Falco has an insider's knowledge of the Empire's less than glorious side. He's also been in the middle of its most dangerous secrets more than onc...

  • Birds Without Wings

    Louis De Bernieres

    In his first novel since Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières creates a world, populates it with characters as real as our best friends, and launches it into the maelstrom of twentieth-century history. The setting is a small village in southwest...

  • My Fair Maggy

    Sharon De Vita

    Dear Aunt Millie, I can give good advice to everyone else, so why can't I solve my own problems? I'm really excited about taking over this column, but I can't figure out what to do about your nephew. Griffin makes my toes curl and I forget what...

  • Blonde Ambition

    Zoey Dean

    If you have to ask, you'll never be on . . .THE A LIST Anna's an intern on the new hit TV show Hermosa Beach. Now everyone wants to be her NBF, from the editor of the school newspaper hoping for a pipeline to juicy gossip, down to that random kid ...

  • Apocalypse

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Failure of the Hive to contain the Umbrella Corporation's most deadly viral creation has led to an outbreak of apocalyptic proportions. Now the streets of Raccoon City swarm with the living dead, compelling Umbrella to deploy another of its bioweapo...

  • Lola's Trick or Treat

    Diane deGroat

  • Ireland

    Frank Delaney

    “Dramatic, adventurous, heroic, romantic. . . these historical chronicles, legends, myths, tall tales and fables, featuring warriors, kings, monks, explorers and clever common folk, imaginatively tell the history of Ireland.”   --  ...

  • Give First Place to Murder

    Kathleen Delaney

    Death strikes at the county fair -- and real-estate agent Ellen McKenzie is the unlucky one to have stumbled upon the body. The victim, pinned to a bale of hay with a pitchfork, was a groom at a horse farm belonging to Ellen's new client, Irma Long. ...

  • Guess Who's Coming to Santa's for Dinner?

    Tomie DePaola

    This year, Santa and Mrs. Claus are having their entire family over for Christmas dinner. There's Uncle Alfred the inventor from Bermuda; Sister Olga the opera singer; eight young children, including Baby Willie; even a polar bear named Oscar. With a...

  • Into the Volcano

    Forrest DeVoe

    The year is 1962. John Glenn is in orbit, Audrey Hepburn is breakfasting outside Tiffany's, and Elvis is recording "Bossa Nova Baby." The Gibson and Detente are both in fashion, and both are served icy cold. And in the Foreigners' Quarter of Istanbul...

  • The Stolen Bride

    Jacqueline Diamond

    COP TO THE RESCUE Crashing his high-school sweetheart's society wedding might be going above and beyond the call of duty, but Officer Joseph Lowery instinctively detected something unsettling -- sinister, even -- about Erin Marshall's impending un...

  • The Sleeper

    Christopher Dickey

    Kurt Kurtovic wanted nothing more than to be left in peace, to make a life with his wife and child in Westfield, Kansas. Then September 11 happened and Kurt knew they'd never be safe again unless he did what only he could do, take terror to the t...

  • The Cup of the World

    John Dickinson

    With immense characters, this thrilling medieval fantasy, filled with moral complexity and vision, announces the arrival of a special new writing talent. Phaedra, the beautiful daughter of a baron, has been visited in dreams by an elusive knight f...

  • The Warlord

    Richard H. Dickinson

    In an effort to promote his "heavy metal" wartime agenda, General Jackson Monroe, once the finest of military snipers, meets with Afghanistan's Northern Alliance warlords, a setup that turns into a deadly power play that leaves Monroe responsible for...

  • Belhaven Bride

    Helen Dickson

    When Anna Preston was introduced to her estranged family at their Belhaven estate, London's glamorous set became her new milieu, with never-before-dreamt-of trips to Paris and the French Riviera. There was now even the chance of a place at Oxford Uni...

  • Disney

    Disney Book Group

    Adventure awaits Take a trip inside Riley's head with Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust; travel to infinity and beyond with Buzz Lightyear and Woody; swim the oceans with Marlin and Dory; and more. Featuring retellings of all seventeen Disney-Pi...

  • Disney/Pixar: The Incredibles Amazing 3-D Adventure!

    Disney Book Group

    Meet Bob Parr. He's your ordinary middle-aged suburban dad. He's got three kids and a loving wife. He hates his job and detests his boss. The only thing that sets Bob apart from the millions of other guys like him is that he used to be the celebrated...

  • Tales of Magic

    Disney Book Group

    With the wave of a magic wand, all your wishes come true in this magic-themed Friendship Box! Featuring the Genie from Aladdin, the Fairy Godmother from Cinderella, the three good fairies from Sleeping Beauty, and Tinker Bell from Peter Pan, these bo...

  • The Wrath of Mulgarath

    Tony DiTerlizzi; Holly Black

    Three ordinary kids, Jared, Simon, and Wallory Grace, have entered another world -- without leaving this one! Two remarkable talents, New York Times best-sellers Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, have risked everything to bring this remarkable accoun...

  • Queen of Dreams

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    From the bestselling author of Sister of My Heart comes a spellbinding tale of mothers and daughters, love and cultural identity. Rakhi, a young painter and single mother, is struggling to come to terms with her relationship with ex-husband Sonny, a ...

  • The Billionaire's Passion

    Robyn Donald

    For one night only... Billionaire Slade Hawkings is certain that Alli Pierce is a seductress and a gold digger! He travels to the beautiful Pacific island of Valanu to confront her. But their instant sexual attraction gives him another idea... I...

  • Life Mask

    Emma Donoghue

    Privilege has a price for three high-society Londoners in this eighteenth-century historical novel by the author of Room and The Pull of the Stars. In a time of looming war, of glittering spectacle and financial disasters, the wealthy liberals of the...

  • The Witch's Tongue

    James D. Doss

    BIZARRE OCCURENCES CAN HAPPEN Strange things are happening near Granite Creek, Colorado, all in the space of less than twenty-four hours. A Ute shaman dreams of being buried alive and hears the hooting of an owl, signaling impending death. A man wal...

  • Lover Under Cover

    Charlotte Douglas

    P.I. Dean Harding's search for the mother of an abandoned baby leads him to an Austin, Texas, hospital -- and Dr. Kate Purvis, the OB who may have helped the mother give birth. But she's refusing to tell what she knows. So Dean goes undercover, hopin...

  • Sinner

    Sara Douglass

    The land of Tencendor has been united for more than forty years, thanks to Axis, who is the legendary Starman. He defeated Gorgrael and brought peace to the three races--and upon fulfilling his destiny, Axis and his consort Azhure retired to the ethe...

  • Done With The Dashing

    Pamela Dowd
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    Authors Christine Lynxwiler and Pamela Dowd deliver two witty, contemporary tales of motherhood and the trappings of "the perfect holiday." Penny Lassiter’s comfortable Christmas traditions are upset by her husband’s off-the-wall plan to reconnec...

  • Nadia // The Spy Who Loved Me

    Susan K. Downs; Susan May Warren

    This second title in the Heirs of Anton series takes place in 1970, when former CIA spy Nadia "Hope" Moore must sneak behind the Iron Curtain, spring her estranged husband from a Russian gulag, and prove to the CIA that Mickey Moore isn’t a traitor...

  • One, Two, Three O'Leary

    Malachy Doyle

    Believing that all ten of his children are properly tucked into bed for the evening, Mr. O’Leary begins to prepare for his late-night job, but suddenly he hears a commotion and soon realizes that the whole group is back up, running around, and look...

  • Who Wants To Marry A Heartthrob?

    Stephanie Doyle

    The Cast 1) One buff, self-centered former soap star 2) Fifteen excessively ambitious beauties 3) One mouthwash sponsor (fresh breath is important) 4) One very driven advertising executive (Richard Wells) and his pert assistant (Bridget Connor --...

  • The Gate of Bones

    Emily Drake

    The Magickers have gained permanent access to the realm of Haven. But the forces of the Dark Hand are about to release a maelstrom of evil energy that could destroy not only the Magickers, but all of Haven....

  • The Rich Man's Son

    Judy Duarte

    ROWAN'S RECOLLECTIONS... I was stumbling down a country road and couldn't remember a thing -- not even my name. Luckily, Louanne Brown, the most beautiful woman in Texas, found me -- and thanks to her, I'm starting to remember everythin...

  • Siren Songs

    Stella Duffy
    in

    21 tales from today's hottest young female writers. Featuring bestselling authors: Jennifer Weiner, Sophie Kinsella, Meg Cabot, Carole Matthews, Isabel Wolff, Lynda Curnyn, Jill A. Davis, Marian Keyes, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, Lisa Jewell, Stella Duff...

  • Wishful Sinful

    Tracy Dunham

    Big-time secrets seethe beneath the surface of small-town life in this absorbing new series featuring Tal Jefferson, a former attorney struggling to hold her o against the ghosts of the past, and a brutal crime that could seal her fate... It's been ...

  • Fast Friends

    Susan Dunlap

    A gripping new novel from the author of the Jill Smith mystery series
    A secret in Liza Silvestri's past means she can't look for help from the police when her husband Jay is shot dead in their private hideaway in Los Angeles. But it turns out Jay ...

  • A Mourning Wedding

    Carola Dunn

    Carola Dunn's inimitable sleuth, the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple Fletcher, returns in another delightfully witty mystery set in 1920s England, where she must unearth a cunning adversary who views a wedding party as an invitation to murder... Eve...

  • Exception to the Rule

    Doranna Durgin

    You can't go home again...but apparently Kimmer Reed had to. The government had hidden a young computer mastermind who held the key to the country's defense right in Kimmer's hometown. Now, if the Hunter Agency's top operative hoped to keep the gover...

  • Orange Blossom Christmas

    Kristy Dykes
    in

    Christmas is a season of love -- will there be room for romance at these inns? For Lois Delaney, the Orange Blossom Bed & Breakfast seems a perfect place for a secluded holiday retreat. She's the first guest the inn has had in a year -- and owner ...

  • 2 Irish National Tales

    Maria Edgeworth

    For the first time, these two important Irish national novels are paired in one volume, suitable for courses in Anglo-Irish literature and history, Romantic studies, and women's studies. Contextual materials include commentaries by contemporaries and...

  • Snow Magic

    June Eding

    What happens when a lonely snowman makes a wish on a special winter night? Kids will watch the magic unfold as they decorate the wintry scenes in this book with tons of sparkly pom-pom stickers. There are twenty stickers and a page of fun winter craf...

  • Scream Queens of the Dead Sea: Sex! Heavy Metal! Linguistics!

    Gilad Elbom

    When a young graduate of the Israeli army decides to moonlight as an assistant nurse at a mental hospital in Jerusalem, the job seems like a nice break from everyday life in the Promised Land. What could be easier than exercising power over a small g...

  • Small Town Dreams

    Julie Ellis

    A compelling new novel set in 1950s America, from an ever-popular author
    Five years after the end of the Second World War, teacher Laurie Evans moves to a small town in upstate New York, where she hopes to build a new life for herself. It soon bec...

  • Slumberrific Six: The First Pajama Party

    Robin Epstein

    Meet the Groovy Girls. Reese -- Sweet and neat, she's the fraternal twin of... O'Ryan -- Does this gutsy redhead have a secret crush? Her best friend is... Oki -- The most fashionable 4th-grader in the group, she's also a fun and fantastic friend....

  • Barbarian

    Lynne Ewing

    Four guys living in Los Angeles: a rock star, a rebel, an artist, and a salesman. Like most students at Turney High School, they're just trying to survive. But for these four -- Renegades on the run from the sinister world of Nefandus -- survival mea...

  • The Becoming

    Lynne Ewing

    VANESSA, Serena, Jimena, Catty, and Tianna are five seemingly ordinary girls from Los Angeles. But the truth is that they are all far from ordinary. They each have a secret power that separates them from others--and makes them DAUGHTERS OF THE MOON ...

  • Escape

    Lynne Ewing

    Samuel has just landed in modern day LA. The last time he has been free of Nefandus was when he was abducted from his home two hundred years ago. He is totally lost until Ashley shows up. She used to be a servi, like him, but now she helps others who...

  • Early Eight

    L.T. Fawkes

    While sharing a double-wide trailer, running a little carpentry business, and moonlighting at Smitty's bar, Terry Saltz finds himself immersed in blue-collar crime when a woman from a rival bar is murdered after winning a set in the pool league tourn...

  • Dark Hunger

    Christine Feehan
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    In a dark jungle, a beautiful activist liberates animals from a secret laboratory -- and stumbles across an unexpected prisoner. She releases the Carpathian from his bonds--only to unleash his voracious appetite on herself......

  • In Broad Daylight

    Marie Ferrarella

    SHE WAS ALL KINDS OF WRONG FOR A MAN TRYING TO DO THE RIGHT THING She moved like poetry and wore her sensuality like a second skin. Blond, beautiful Brenda York could make a good cop cross the line. And when that cop was Dax Cavanaugh, on the trai...

  • The Warlord's Son

    Dan Fesperman

    “A tantalizing, timely thriller” (The Washington Post Book World) from the highly acclaimed author of Winter Work that offers a daring look at life behind the barbed wire of Guantánamo and a riveting portrayal of what goes on in the most secret ...

  • The Coconut Oil Miracle

    Bruce Fife

    The complete, accessible guide to reaping all the health and beauty benefits of coconut oil Natural coconut oil is nature's perfect food. Unlike the hydrogenated versions found in processed food, this uniquely curative elixir has been show to have co...

  • Ghostbusters, Book2

    Sholly Fisch

  • Snow-Walker

    Catherine Fisher

    THE SNOW-WALKER RULES THROUGH SORCERY AND FEAR. Since Gudrun came from the frozen mists beyond the edge of the world, the Jars people have obeyed her in hatred and terror. But the enchantress has one weakness: a son, Kari, banished to a forbidding f...

  • The Rats the Vats and the Ugly

    Eric Flint; Dave Freer

    The intrepid team of mentally uplifted rats and bats, and their vat-born human leader had not only pulled off the only victory the beleaguered colony's feeble military forces had won against the invading aliens, but had also uncovered the secret that...

  • The Book of Ash

    James Flint

    Wonderfully told, funny and touching, The Book of Ash is the story of a son's search for his father and his struggle to understand his family and the adult world. Twenty years ago Cooper James' life was torn apart. His family collapsed among the clau...

  • Me & Emma

    Elizabeth Flock

    In many ways, Carrie Parker is like any other eight-year-old -- playing make-believe, dreading school, dreaming of faraway places. But even her imaginative mind can't shut out the realities of her impoverished North Carolina home or help her protect ...

  • Blood and Sandals

    Jason Foss

    A Maddy Crowe adventure
    When young archaeologist Maddy Crowe is drafted in to work as costume advisor on a major feature film about a Roman emperor, she finds herself not only in the bitchy, backbiting company of Hollywood actors, but also in the ...

  • Kyle's Bed & Breakfast

    Greg Fox

    This complete collection of Kyle's Bed & Breakfast comic strips details the many raucous adventures of Kyle, the mysterious owner, and his intriguing guests, including Richard, a part-time Club DJ and walking fashion faux pas, and Brad, a min...