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  • Katie MacAlister

    I'm Aisling Grey, and I have the job from Hell.... Literally. My prior career as a courier began and ended when I traveled to Paris to deliver a six-hundred-year-old golden drag-on statue and learned I was a Guardian. That's a Keeper of the Gates ...



  • 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...



  • Odo Hirsch

    “TOWNS SWALLOW MEN up, Yoss. They’re hungry. People disappear into them and are never heard from again.”

    From an idyllic village high in the mountains, a boy of 14 sets out to encounter the world. On the plain below, a town sweats with s...



  • Douglass Wallop

    "A bad bargain for the devil, a wonderful one for readers."―New York Post

    Decades before Field of Dreams there was The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, the classic baseball fable that became the hit movie and musical Damn Yankees. Now a ne...



  • Laurie Campbell

    Rafe Montoya had known his wife, Beth, was unhappy. She wanted him home earlier, wanted a baby, wanted more of himself than he could give. He thought that being her knight in shining armor would be enough. But then a tragic accident claimed Beth's li...



  • 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...



  • G.P. Taylor

    As 1756 London is engulfed in total darkness, Agetta Lamian, a young housemaid for scientist Dr. Sabian Blake, discovers that her employer has recently acquired the Nemorensis, a legendary book that holds the key to unlocking the secrets of the unive...



  • William S. Gray

    Our second Dick and Jane treasury is here! The World of Dick and Jane and Friends is a compilation of some of the best-loved Dick and Jane titles. The treasury includes stories parents and grandparents will remember from Guess Who, The New We Come an...



  • 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...



  • Dennis Shealy

    The newest animated feature from DreamWorks features major voice talent, gorgeous artwork, and an underwater comedy that's leagues away from anything else.

    Shark Tale tells the story of Oscar (played by Will Smith), a fast-talking little fish ...



  • Irving Wallace

    In the Beginning, there was . . . The Word.

    The classic thriller of an ancient manuscript, a secret society committed to hiding an explosive truth, and the man who must uncover that truth--if he can stay alive long enough

    In the ruins o...




  • T.D. Jakes

    From bestselling author and beloved preacher Bishop T. D. Jakes comes an inspirational novel of recovery and Christian faith.Her name is Michelle. As a child she called her grandma “mama,” her mother by her first name, and her mother’s boyfrien...



  • 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...



  • Ian Rankin

    "A formidable presence in Rankin's precision-tooled plot.... `Witch' is the code name for the tall, wraithlike woman who has been working as a contract killer for almost twenty years, picking off prominent political, military, and industrial figur...



  • 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 ...



  • Dana George

    SADIE Invited by the kindly frontiersmen, the Gardners, Sadie Pritchard jumped at the offer to convalesce with her boys in the abandoned cabin on the lake. But then its owner returned. Sadie's past had been hard, with the wagon train and her hus...



  • Mary Pope Osborne

    Merlin the magician and Morgan le Fay have mysteriously disappeared! To find them, Jack and Annie journey with their friends Teddy and Kathleen to a frozen kingdom of ice and snow. There they must go on a mission for the one-eyed Ice Wizard. Chased b...



  • Martha Grimes

    A serpentine trail connects the dead body of a young girl in London to the cold case of a missing girl in Launceston -- and brings Richard Jury and Brian Macalvie of the Devon and Cornwall police together. While the intrepid Melrose Plant goes underc...





  • Judith Bauer Stamper

    Ms. Frizzle's fantastic science fun is now available for younger fans of the television show. The new Magic School Bus Scholastic Readers make learning an adventure!

    Ms. Frizzle's class is learning about leaves. The students are playing a ga...



  • Dana Stabenow

    Go where the wild things are … whether they’re on unruly and lawless urban streets, in a secluded stretch of uncivilized and barbarous woods, or maybe in the frozen mountains of Colorado. Anything can happen to anyone … anywhere … when the na...



  • 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...



  • Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly

    New Yorker Ryan Stoddard can describe Savannah, Georgia, in two words: wickedly hot. But the dark, mysterious woman he's gone there to find is even hotter. Though Jade Maguire turns him on to no end, he can't be distracted from his mission -- to prov...



  • George Singleton

    These fourteen funny stories tell the tale of a beleaguered boyhood down home where the dogs still run loose. As a boy growing up in the tiny backwater town of Forty-Five, South Carolina (where everybody is pretty much one beer short of a six-pack), ...



  • Joan Holub

    Many people like snakes, lizards, and turtles, and there?s so much to find out about all of these scaly-skinned animals. Are all snakes poisonous? Why do snakes shed their skin? What unusual things can lizards do? Do lizards ever lose their tails? Wh...



  • Joan Holub

    A fun and fact-filled book provides interesting and useful information about the history, characteristics, and behavior of many types of birds, and includes dozens of full-color photographs and drawings. Simultaneous....



  • Jane B. Mason; Sarah Hines Stephens

    Ella. Snow. Rapunzel. Rose. Four friends who wait for no prince. The Maiden Games are fast approaching and Snow White is frozen with fear. It's bad enough that Princess School will be facing off against the nasty witches who attend the nearby Gri...



  • 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 --...



  • R. Garcia y Robertson

    The saga grows even more irresistible as Robyn Stafford, a savvy Hollywood exec mystically transplanted to 15th century England, works overtime to secure happiness and true love amidst the fratricidal madness of the War of the Roses. Once a thorou...



  • 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 ...



  • Joseph R. Garber

    Charlie McKenzie was the best in the business of CIA dirty work -- until he was double-crossed by his bosses and jailed to cover up a mammoth intelligence blunder. Now they want him back. And Charlie wants to get even. A Russian spy has stumbled u...



  • 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 ...



  • Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore

    STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS Before the twenty-fourth-century adventures of David Gold, Sonya Gomez, and the crew of the U.S.S. da Vinci came the more rough-and-tumble Starfleet Corps of Engineers of the twenty-third century. In the wake of an incid...



  • Christopher Nicholas

    What if the Disney stories you know and love were changed just a bit? Hidden behind large gatefold flaps on each spread of this funny hardcover picture book are the unexpected changes that we could expect to see if, instead of eating the apple, Snow ...



  • Louise Bagshawe
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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...



  • Tara Taylor Quinn

    Juliet McNeil has been keeping a secret for more than eight years -- a secret from Blake Ramsden. They spent one night together all that time ago...and Mary Jane McNeil was the result. Juliet and Mary Jane are a pair, a family of two, and they're ...



  • Sue-Ellen Welfonder

    The more he resists, the more he desires... Even a marriage by proxy can't spoil the joy Lady Amicia MacLean feels when she is wedded to Magnus MacKinnon. With his quick wit and dashing smile, the roguish warrior captured her heart when she was st...



  • Aimee Phan

    Compelling, moving, and beautifully written, the interlinked stories that make up We Should Never Meet alternate between Saigon before the city's fall in 1975 and present-day "Little Saigon" in Southern California---exploring the reverberations of th...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Kim Wozencraft

    DAMNED BY A LIE... When a Texas drug-dealer is charged with a grisly murder of three teenagers, police officer Diane Wellman knows the case is built on a lie. She was first on the scene. She saw. And now those who framed an innocent man have set Dian...




  • 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...



  • Rochelle Alers

    At one time, nothing had been able to quench Jeremy Blackstone's insatiable hunger for luscious Tricia Parker. He'd lived for their passion-filled encounters even though they were from such different worlds. Then ugly accusations of her betrayal ripp...



  • Richard S. Wheeler

    Hard Luck Yancey earned his moniker the hard way: getting swindled out of the fortune he earned on a high, windy ridge in the San Juan Mountains. But losing a silver mine and the town he founded hasn't stopped him. Now, he's made an astounding discov...



  • Rosemary Laurey
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    Police officer Vickie Anderson has come deep into the mountains of Virginia looking for a little peace and solitude. What she gets instead is sexy Pete Falcon. Every bit of the cop in her says she shouldn't invite the stranger in. But the woman in he...



  • Mary Ann Mitchell

    The debauchery and brutal perversions of the Marquis de Sade were notorious in his own lifetime. But even death could not stop his twisted passions, his search for pain and pleasure. Death only gave the Marquis more power. He lives to this day, a mas...



  • 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...




  • Merline Lovelace

    She was trapped by her own game of seduction... Lady Barbara Chamberlain has the face of an angel, the polish of London's most elite drawing rooms and, behind it all, the cunning of a cat. Orphaned at a young age, she and her brother, Charles, hav...



  • Kristi Gold

    Her assignment was to interview millionaire Mitch Warner, the Maverick Prince of Oklahoma, not to sleep with him! But the confirmed bachelor soon had Tori Barnett entering into a scorching affair that hadn't been part of her agenda. Nor had she c...



  • Arthur Nersesian

    A Fierce and Hysterical TaleOf Self-Destruction OnThe Road to Being Discovered

    Hannah is a struggling actress living in New York's Tribeca, and like any young thesp she is bent on success: finding paying jobs that offer good m...



  • Mark Spragg

    In an extraordinary tale of love and forgiveness, Mark Spragg brings us this novel of a complex, prodigal homecoming.Jean Gilkyson has a history of choosing the wrong men. After yet another night of argument turned to violence with her boyfriend, Ro...



  • Catherine George

    Harriet Verney has come home to claim the house her grandmother has left her, but does not count on bumping into billionaire tycoon James Edward Devereux. She's friends with James's younger brother, but has always felt unsettled by the older ...



  • 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 ...



  • Jeanne Williams

    Book One in Beneath the Burning Ground

    Jeanne Williams is a master of the historical novel and nowhere more so than in this epic story of the Kansas Territory in the late 1850s. Jonathan and Ellen Ware have immigrated to the area from their farm i...



  • Elizabeth Bevarly

    It's true what they say -- all the good guys are married...or have Mob connections! And Natalie Dorset should know. The guy who moved in downstairs may be gorgeous, but the things he says -- who uses "whacked" anymore? -- and the way he dresses......



  • 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, ...



  • Dennis Chalker; Kevin Dockery

    A combination of Vince Flynn and Richard Marcinko, The Home Team series features a group of former Special Forces operators who have become the most lethal weapon in the war on terror""a war that is now fought on our own soil. The story of one so...



  • Geri Guillaume

    All Sawyer Garth wanted to do when she joined an all-female motorcycle group riding cross country was leave her past in the dust. Now, as she heads out into new territory, a sudden downpour forces her to pull over at a truck stop, where she meets bro...



  • 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...



  • Kate Wilhelm

    Oregon lawyer Barbara Holloway has a reputation for taking on the most difficult cases -- and winning them. But even she can't begin to anticipate the bizarre twists waiting ahead. The large retainer offered by a client who asks for complete ano...



  • Amanda Stevens

    Jack Fury had been watching Celeste Fortune, waiting for the right moment, the right mood...to coincidentally meet her to save her from a killer. But there was something he didn't know about the sexy Celeste...she was an imposter! Cassie Boudreaux...




  • 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 ...



  • Marian Keyes
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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...



  • Marsha Hubler

    A True Test for Skye is the second book in the Keystone Stables series about a troubled foster girl, Skye, who finally accepts Christ, only to have her faith tested and deepened when her friend Sooze comes to live with her and is diagnosed with brain...



  • Marsha Hubler

    The Trouble with Skye is the first book in a series about a troubled foster girl who learns about God’s unconditional forgiveness and love when she is sent to live with Christian foster parents who introduce her to riding horses....



  • 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 ...



  • J.R. Roberts

    .. . . DIE BY THE GUN Clint Adams knows that the average gunfighter doesn't live to a ripe old age. Making a living from slapping leather will do that. So he's surprised to learn that one of the most feared elder statesmen of gunfire is still breathi...



  • Kathleen Jamie

    For several years now, Kathleen Jamie's work has addressed two principal concerns: how we negotiate with the natural world, and how we should define our conduct within family and society. In The Tree House Jamie argues - as Burns did before her - fo...



  • Carole Matthews
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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...



  • Roy Adkins



  • 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...




  • Steve Frazee

    Roy Hale, a former Confederate Army officer, takes on a dangerous job for an anonymous benefactor in the hopes of a lucrative payoff in Tower of Rocks, while in Death Rides This Trail!, the Breslin family's journey across the plains i...



  • Harry Turtledove

    A collection of short stories--by Harry Turtledove, William F. Nolan, Janet Asimov, Tananarive Due, Maggie Estep, Kit Reed, and others--documents the bizarre biological phenomenon of Deprivers, people who, for unknown reasons, possess a strange defen...



  • Roz Denny Fox

    The Trouble With Brothers... Daphne Malone has three of them -- a cop, a fireman and a long-haul trucker -- all older, all protective to a fault, all convinced that their little sister can't take care of herself. She's twenty-six, for heaven's sak...



  • Michael Koryta

    Investigator Wayne Weston is found dead of an apparent suicide in his upscale Cleveland suburban home. His wife and six-year-old daughter are now missing. The police think the former Marine murdered them. Hoping to exonerate his son, Weston's father ...



  • Matthew Cordell

    When friends move away, it is hard for them to leave and even harder to watch them go. Toby’s best friend moved yesterday, and now all Toby has is his friend’s baseball glove (which smells like Parmesan cheese). Toby is bored and alone. But then ...



  • 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...



  • Tracie Peterson

    Heirs of Montana book 3. Though the Diamond V ranch is nourishing and their own family growing, Dianne and Cole Selby find their hard-earned success threatened as a band of Indians on the warpath inch closer to the valley they call home. When a new f...



  • Dan Rhodes

    Cockroft, a faded composer and socialite, lives in self-imposed exile and fantasizes of true love and extravagant suicides. Rattling around his dilapidated farmhouse in the Italian countryside, his only constant source of company is the ever-loyal Ti...



  • 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...



  • Christine Lynxwiler

    CLINT AND JESSA ARE SEARCHING.... Running from an overprotective family, Jessa Sykes moves to Arkansas. But her cabin burns to the ground -- and it seems a saboteur is intent on driving her away from town. After watching his best friend die in ...





  • Judith Lyons

    THE COWBOY AND THE ANGEL Crissy Albreit didn't want to think about her past, just her future -- with the Alpine Angels, the team she'd created to stage daredevil stunts for charity. Besides, no matter how sexy Tate McCade was, she had a hard time ...



  • Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Some of the greatest Western fiction writers, including Louis L'Amour and Robert J. Randisi, come together in this exciting collection of short fiction that vividly recreates the untamed frontier where the Texas Rangers dedicated their lives to keepi...



  • 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 ...



  • Lenora Worth

    Policeman Clay Dempsey was good at his job. But after his beloved K-9 partner, Samson, was injured in the line of duty, they both needed a break. That was why Clay had come to Sunset Island. The last thing he was looking for was a beautiful veterinar...



  • 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...



  • Kay Winters

    "Listen up!" said the teacher to the teeny tiny class. "The Spook and Spirit Club is sponsoring a contest for all the ghosts in our teeny tiny school. It's a Make a Monster contest -- just in time for Halloween!"

    All the ghosts in the teeny...



  • Brenda Hiatt

    The Lady Will Not Be Broken ... With soft whispers and a gentle touch, Tessa Seaton can tame the wildest beasts. The daughter of an impoverished baronet, controlled by an unscrupulous uncle, her remarkable talent for calming and riding unbroken ho...



  • Katie Maxwell

    Written in a series of e-mails, a rollicking new adventure starring Emily Williams finds her dispensing valuable advice on kissing, bad timing, and sword fighting, to her best friend in the United States. Original....



  • 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...



  • Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

    The bears are busy preparing acts for the talent show. But what will Princess Bear do? As she spends the day encouraging her friends and getting the other bears excited for the show, everyone realizes that Princess Bear has a special talent of her...




  • 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...



  • Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
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    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?...



  • Dana Stabenow

    A MOTHER'S CIRME... Thirty-one years ago in Anchorage, Alaska, Victoria Pilz Bannister Muravieff was convicted of murdering her seventeen-year-old son William. The jury returned a quick verdict of guilty, believing the prosecutor's claims that she h...



  • Elaine Flinn

    COLLECTING CORPSES Molly Doyle crossed a continent to escape trouble, but it's becoming increasingly dangerous to be in the antiques business in her small adopted corner of California. The murder of a friend and fellow antiques dealer has shaken M...



  • Robert L. Wise

    - Tagged is the second book in the Tribulation Survival Series. The first book, Wired, was published in Warner Faith trade paperback in 3/04.- The author of 27 books, Robert L. Wise is best known for his Mega-Millennium series, which has combined sal...



  • David Schickler

    “Fascinating and hilarious,” “relentlessly clever,” and “truly haunting” are all phrases that have been used to describe David Schickler’s unique talent. And all apply to this brash, brilliant novel featuring two of the most memorable c...



  • Sue Kassirer



  • William W. Johnstone

    After the death of Ben Raines and the collapse of the Southern United States of America, the world stands poised on destruction, until Jim LaDoux, a man raised in the wilderness, prepares to defend humanity with hope, bravery, and a whole lot of fire...



  • Jeff Mariotte

    Taken bodies were found unchanged, but their minds are under control. Release all thoughts of this new craze; find the demon that plagues their souls. Alien abduction fever has gripped San Francisco. People everywhere are reporting loved ones mis...



  • Archer Mayor

    Brattleboro is the epitome of scenic Vermont. Quaint in its architecture and plain spoken in its politics, it dominates the state's southeast corner as both an employment hub and an election year powerhouse-all while looking like a genteel, postindus...



  • Maggie Kingsley

    Consultant surgeon Seth Hardcastle is furious when Dr. Olivia Mackenzie gets the E.R. director's post. And it gets worse when he not only has to work with Olivia -- but live with her, too! Seth is way out of his league with Olivia. They don't agre...



  • Alexander McCall Smith

    Introducing Isabel Dalhousie the heroine of the latest bestselling series from the author of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Isabel, the editor of the Review of Applied Ethics and an occasional detective, has been accused of getting involved in p...



  • Bill Kent

    Community tension rides high in this third mystery from Bill Kent, an author who is well acquainted with the vibrant characters who live, and die, in gritty South Philly.Neville Shepherd Ladderback, the Philadelphia Press's "old, dusty" obituary writ...



  • Carol Greene

    Today, Halloween means ghosts and goblins and trick-or-treaters ringing the doorbell. But this holiday began more than 2,000 years ago, and back then Halloween meant something very different. In the beginning, it was a harvest festivalduring which...



  • Mack Maloney

    7205 A.D. Hawk Hunter's most perilous mission ever is to find the one man who can stop the Solar Guards from seizing the source of all power in the Milky Way--and plunging the galaxy into a catastrophic Dark Age....




  • Gena Showalter

    Katie James is unlucky in love -- so unlucky she's been reduced to kissing the marble statue in her own garden. But her luck changes when the statue warms to life in her arms -- and turns out to be a hunk straight out of any woman's fantasy! Well, al...



  • Carolyn Keene

    My friends and I knew before we got to Arches National Park that it's full of red cliffs arches, and rock formations -- plenty of places for hiking, biking, and getting lost. It's a good thing there are park rangers and guides to help tourist like us...



  • 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...



  • Nancy Bartholomew

    She's just been shot at, arrested and thrown in jail, but trust former police officer Stella Valocchi -- compared to last week, things are looking up. Last week she: a) caught her cop boyfriend in bed with her best friend, b) kidnapped the boyfrie...




  • 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....




  • 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...



  • Neal Shusterman

    After Nick Herrera saved a little girl from being his by a New York City subway car, things have been different....He has been different. Now it seems as if accidents are falling at his feet and he's destined to play the role of the hero. But more im...



  • 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...



  • Tracey West

    TV’s first and only Saturday morning African American teen superhero!

    When Virgil agrees to do community service at a retirement home, he’s in for some shocking surprises, a lesson in superhero history and maybe...just maybe...the key to...



  • Walter Zacharius

    Losing her family and her upper-middle-class home in Lodz during World War II, Jewish teenager Mia embarks on a perilous journey through Poland to join the ranks of a secret cadre of militia to help save imperiled Jewish citizens, an endeavor that re...



  • Scott Westerfeld

    WE ARE ALL AROUND YOU. You don't think about us much, because we are invisible. Well, not exactly invisible. A lot of us have hair dyed in four colors, or wear five-inch platform sneakers, or carry enough metal in our skin that it's a hassle getti...



  • Michael Roberts

    We all know what happens the night before Christmas, but have you heard the story of the day after Christmas? In this imaginative book, author/artist Michael Roberts takes the traditional poem and turns it on its head...with hilarious results. Featur...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Meg Chittenden

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  • Blake Nelson

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