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New Books List: 576 titles

  • 24/7

    Amy S. Wilensky

    Dina Mazlin fell hard for gorgeous ski instructor Matt Harbison. After an intense week on the slopes, Dina believed Matt’s promise that they’d be together again. But that was a year ago. Dina hasn’t heard from Matt in months. And it doesn’t h...

  • ABC Yummy

    Lisa Jahn-Clough / Lisa Clough

    Small children eat their way through the alphabet, from Alicia's Appetizing Asparagus to Zoe's Zesty Zucchini, in a zany alphabet book that combines lively illustrations with a fun-filled, tongue-twisting alliterative text....

  • Above The Rim

    Hank Herman

    Derek Roberts usually keeps to himself. He lets his lightning-quick moves on the basketball court



    do the talking. But then his teammate on the Branford Bulls, David Danzig, is grounded--ruining a trip to the NCAA championship for ever...

  • Accidental Nanny

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Outback Cattle Station -- Father and Daughter in Need of Love How could Chessie prove to Raefe Stevenson that she wasn't spoiled? The handsome Outback cattle rancher needed a nanny for his small daughter, Jess, and suddenly Chessie saw her ch...

  • Affair

    Amanda Quick

    Charlotte Arkendale knew all there was to know about men. After all, she'd made a career out of steering marriage-minded women away from untrustworthy members of the opposite sex. Yet nothing could have prepared her for Baxter St. Ives--an arresti...

  • Aladdin and Other Tales from the Arabian Nights

    N.J. Dawood

  • Ali Child of the Desert

    Jonathan London

  • All the Money in the World

    Robert Siegel

    n Siegel's remarkable debut novel, Lou Glasser, a New York criminal defense attorney, represents some of the city's finest drug dealers. When his best client is arrested, Lou comes to the rescue--and soon discovers that the DEA is after him, not his ...

  • The Almost-Perfect Proposal

    Toni Collins

    A LONG-LOST PROPOSAL My dear, I love you, and being apart from you has made me realize how much I really need you. I hope you'll be able to promise that I'll be coming home to you. Say you'll be my wife.... All my love always Amy ...

  • Always In My Heart

    Donna Valentino

    SHOTGUN WEDDING One minute Matt Kincaid was negotiating the business deal of his career --- the next, he was getting married in North Platte, Nebraska, a century past, and with a bullet in his shoulder! It was an accident. Shooting him, that is. K...

  • The Amazing Fortune-Telling Book

    Karin Lee

    From reading palms and using numerology to looking at the stars, there are many different ways of discerning the future. These and other methods of fortune-telling are presented in this fun, hip book that includes a set of tarot cards....

  • Amber and the Sheikh

    Stephanie Howard

    Desert lover... Amber Buchanan didn't believe in love at first sight or happy-ever-afters. She certainly didn't believe that desert sheikhs still made a habit of kidnapping beautiful women and riding off into the sunset! And then she me...

  • Amber Brown Sees Red

    Paula Danziger

    With her mom and Max engaged, Amber has lots to think about. Her life is about to change in a big way. Then her dad says that he is coming back to the United States and he wants Amber to live with him. What will Amber do? Now her parents fight every ...

  • America's Most Wanted Fifth-Graders

    Jan Lawrence

    Unable to believe their luck when they read an ad that claims they can make $5000 in a month, Robert and Margaret Anne find themselves involved in a swindling operation selling cash-in-advance cookies. Original....

  • American Owned Love

    Robert Boswell

    Moving to Persimmon, New Mexico, with her unconventional mother, a teenage Rita finds her life taking unexpected turns when she enters the local high school, acquires a boyfriend, and becomes involved in the revenge scheme of Rudy Salazar, a boy from...

  • Amy

    Peg Sutherland

    A golden wedding usually means a family celebration. But the Hardaway sisters drifted apart years ago. And each has her own reason for wanting no part of a family reunion. As plans for the party proceed, tensions mount, until it even begins to look a...

  • Ancient Games

    Scott Ciencin

    Once Tom Keeper desired no more than to become a great painter. Now knowledge and power have set him on a different path--one that leads across a scourge-ravaged land into the darkest heart of the Realm of Shadows. For the natural orders have been di...

  • The Angel's Mistake

    Francine Prose

  • Angela Weaves a Dream: The Story of a Young Maya Artist

    Michele Sola

    Vibrant photographs complement a portrait of ten-year-old Angela, who is learning the tradition of art weaving from others in her village while also become aware of the myths behind the symbols that are used, in a study accompanied by a glossary and ...

  • Animal Adventures

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    Join Laura's animal adventures! Laura Ingalls and her family were always surrounded by wild animals. From bears and deer to badgers and panthers, Laura always managed to find herself caught up in some kind of adventure! ...

  • Animal Dads

    Steve Jenkins

    Explores the various roles of fathers in the animal kingdom, from the emperor penguin that watches over the eggs, to a wolf that leads his pack on hunting trips, to the male seahorse that incubates his eggs inside a special belly pouch....

  • Animals at Play

    Tony Geiss

  • Annie Bananie, Best Friends to the End

    Leah Komaiko

    Annie Bananie is the new girl at Nichols school and every girl wants to be her friend. On the first day of school, the teacher announces that for Lucky Lunch Day the kids will visit someone else's house for lunch instead of eating at school. Libby re...

  • Another Homecoming

    Janette Oke; T. Davis Bunn

    THE WORLD IS AT WAR. A young man bravely kisses his weeping bride goodbye at the train station, leaving her all alone. Then the dreaded telegram, and a decision nearly tears her apart… A LITTLE GIRL GROWS into young womanhood, unaware of the force...

  • Another Kind of Cinderella

    Angela Huth

    In this collection of stories, the ghost of a doomed romance haunts an Oxford undergraduate's summer affair, elderly ladies live out extraordinary fantasy lives, and betrayed wives wreak subtle revenge. Angela Huth brings to this exquisite collecti...

  • Arabella to the Rescue

    Mona Gedney
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    Never is love so sweet as in Regency England! Whether it is a London season a-bloom with matchmaking mamas, stunning Incomparables and notorious rakes ready to be reformed by love...or a rustic romance for a charming country miss, romance is always i...

  • Arkansas

    David Leavitt

    Three “sly, self-knowing, and hilarious” novellas from the highly acclaimed author of The Lost Language of Cranes (The New York Times). Here are three novellas of escape and exile, touching and funny and at times calculatedly outrageous. In “Sa...

  • Assassin's Quest

    Robin Hobb

    From an extraordinary new voice in fantasy comes the stunning conclusion to the Farseer trilogy, as FitzChivalry confronts his destiny as the catalyst who holds the fate of the kingdom of the Six Duchies...and the world itself. King Shrewd is dead...

  • Atlantis Found

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    When four expedition teams go missing after undertaking a dangerous journey back to the Bronze Age, Jake Bento and his Argo rescue squad teammates are sent to discover what went wrong and undertake a history-threatening mission. Original....

  • Atonement Child

    Francine Rivers

    In one horrific, terrifying moment, Dynah Carey's perfect life is shattered by rape, her future irrevocably altered by an unwanted pregnancy, her doting family torn apart. Her seemingly rock-solid faith is pushed to the limits as she faces the mos...

  • The Aunt of the Ancient Mariner

    Carola Dunn
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    Never is love so sweet as in Regency England! Whether it is a London season a-bloom with matchmaking mamas, stunning Incomparables and notorious rakes ready to be reformed by love...or a rustic romance for a charming country miss, romance is always i...

  • Awake and Dreaming

    Kit Pearson

    Theo and her young, irresponsible mother seem trapped in their miserable, poverty-stricken life. Theo dreams of belonging to a “real” family, and her dream seems to come true when she is mysteriously adopted by the large, warm Kaldor family. But ...

  • The Awakening

    Thomas K. Martin

    Around the fires, in the cold of winter, the old tales of the Time of Madness are still told... Tales of the MageLords, sorcerers near godlike in their power, who looked upon ordinary men with contempt. Who fought great battles among themselves, v...

  • Baby Dinosaurs

    Tony Geiss

  • The Back End of Nowhere

    Jenny Sullivan

  • Bad Baby Brother

    Martha Weston

  • Bad Vibes

    Alberto Fuguet

    A privileged teenager in Santiago, Chile, Matias seems oblivious to the benefits of being a member of the wealthy class, but underneath Matias's apathy lies an emotional turmoil that comes out as he grows up and becomes father to a child....

  • Batman and Robin

    Suzanne Colon

  • Battle of the Buzz

    I.K. Swobud

    Learning about honey-making while his human friend Molly prepares to enter a recipe contest, Dex learns about Swarm, a martial arts force that attacks with shotgun sprays of deadly killer bees. Original....

  • Beardream

    Will Hobbs

    Spring has come to the muntains, and the bears have emerged from their winter's sleep -- all but the Great Bear, who sleeps on in his den. In the Ute village, a boy called Short Tail worries that the Geat Bear will starve if he doesn't waken. So Sho...

  • Beast

    Judith Ivory

    THE BEAUTY An exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brilliant. . . and bored--which is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocrat abroad. Rumor has it her intended is a hideous c...

  • The Beauty of the Mist

    May McGoldrick

    CRUEL BETROTHAL Maria, had been forced to marry at 17, then was left widowed shortly thereafter. Now 5 years later, her brother had chosen another husband for her sight unseen--the boy king of Scotland. Maria, who had never known passion or love, re...

  • Because of Francie // Falling For Her Boss

    Karen Rose Smith

    ROMANCE ON ICE When businessman Noah Gordon arrives in the quaint town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania to sell off one of his "Roller Fun" skating rinks, no one is more surprised than the rink's manager, Francie Piccard. Because of her, Roller Fun is...

  • Because You're Lucky

    Irene Smalls

  • Beethoven in Paradise

    Barbara O'Connor

    Martin had always liked music -- liked to listen to it, liked to make up tunes in his head. More than anything, he wanted an instrument to play, but he knew that all he had to do was say the word "piano" to his father and all hell would break loose...

  • Before They Rode Horses

    Bonnie Bryant

    Max's wife, Deborah, is about to have her baby, and the Saddle Club girls are keeping her company before she goes to the hospital. Stevie, Carole, and Lisa all recount -- in their own words -- what their lives were like before horses, and how they've...

  • Beggar's Banquet

    Daniel Hood

    A DRAGON FAMILIAR DOES NOT A WIZARD MAKE... Liam Rhenford possesses a wizard's familiar, but he's not a wizard himself. He's solved a few crimes, but he's no detective. Yet, when a priceless family heirloom--a magical jewel--is stolen from Liam's ...

  • Behind Closed Doors

    Carla Cassidy

    SOON YOU'LL BE MINE... A t first Ann Carson thought the notes were a prank. Then came more sinister threats... and the eerie awareness that someone was watching her. Ann dreaded the long, hot summer nights--until rugged policeman Clay Clinton beca...

  • Belching Hill

    Morse Hamilton

  • Beneath a Crimson Moon

    Christine Michels

    Deep undercover to infiltrate a smuggling ring, Singai, a beautiful young warrior, had no time for anything except stopping the flow of banned Earth weapons - until she was attacked by deadly assassins. If it weren't for the timely help of a mysterio...

  • The Best Man

    Mara Fitzcharles

    FIRST COMES LOVE... Attorney Cara Hilliard has good friends, a beautiful home, and a successful career. Yet there's something missing that would make her life complete: a baby. But the wary divorcee isn't looking to get married again --...

  • Best of Interzone

    David Pringle

  • Best Worst Day

    Bonnie B. Graves

  • The Big Picture

    Douglas Kennedy

    On the face of it, Ben Bradford is your standard Wall Street hot shot - Junior partner in a legal firm, 6 figure income, wife and two young kids straight out of a Gap catalogue. But along with the WASP lifestyle comes the sting - Ben hates it. He w...

  • Big Talk

    Sylvia Fair

  • Bigfoot Doesn't Square Dance

    Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    There are some pretty weird grown-ups living in Bailey City. But could the very large hairy man with huge feet really be the legendary Bigfoot? The Bailey School Kids are going to find out! "Didn't you see his teeth when he smiled at Liza?" Eddie ...

  • Bijapur

    Kara Dalkey

  • Birds of Bookhaven

    Susan Murray

    Birds of Bookhaven is Susan's fifth book in her AVALON series featuring exotic birds. The first four titles in the series, Birds of a Feather, Birds of Paradise, Love Birds, and Bird on the Wing are available now from AVALON....

  • The Black Flower

    Howard Bahr

    A Confederate soldier confronts the horror of battle and the power of grace in this “poignant, haunting, and important” novel of the Civil War (The Tennessean, Nashville).  A New York Times Notable Book and Winner of the William Boyd Award f...

  • Black Light

    Stephen Hunter

    On a remote Arizona ranch, a man who has known loss, fear, and war weeps for the first time since he was a child. His tears are for the father taken from him four decades before in a deadly shoot-out. And his grief will lead him back to the place whe...

  • Blast off if You Dare!

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Blaze

    Norah Hess

    HUNTER He was the last person Blaze Adlington wanted to see when her covered wagon pulled into Fort Bridger. The beautiful orphan was desperately trying to make a new life for herself in the wilds of Wyoming. But now she was face-to-face with the ma...

  • Blessed Is the Fruit

    Robert Antoni

  • Blood Hunt

    David Thompson

    With only his oldest friend and his trusty long rifle for company, Davy Crockett explored the wild frontier, looking for adventure ... and finding it. The courageous pioneer had the strength and cunning to get out of any scrape and face any enemy, no...

  • The Blue Flower

    Penelope Fitzgerald

    A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize"winning novelist Fitzgerald's crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love for the simple Sophie.The Blue Flower is set in t...

  • Blue Haven

    Elaine Kagan

    A new, irresistible, emotionally compelling novel by the author of The Girls.        Three women — Mollie; her daughter, Gilliana; and Gilliana's daughter, Clare — take us into their lives. In the pas...

  • Bodies of Water

    Rosanne Cash

    With Bodies of Water, singer/songwriter Rosanne Cash delivers her first magnificent work of fiction--nine heartfelt tales of birth, passion, motherhood, transcendence, and the quiet transforming moments of a woman's life--sung in the rich and resonan...

  • The Body Is Water

    Julie Schumacher

    "Four generations of us had occupied this space, argued in it and inexplicably blighted each other's days in it, all while looking out at the ocean, crashing and advancing every year."

    Three months pregnant after a two-night stand, Jane Haus resign...

  • The Boggart and the Monster

    Susan Cooper

    HE'S BACK -- AND HE'S UP TO HIS OLD TRICKS! It's been two years since Emily and Jessup Volnik visited ancient Castle Keep in Scotland, and made the acquaintance of the Boggart, a mischievous shape-shifting spirit who has lived in the castle for ce...

  • Bogus Bride

    Emily French

    HE MARRIED THE WRONG SISTER . . . Ten years after he left England, Sam Jardine wrote home for a bride, but instead of the angelic beauty he remembered, the fiery Caitlin Parr had arrived on America's shores. A decade of silent infatuation had f...

  • The Book of Genesis

    Walter Wangerin Jr.

    Now the story of Genesis is told as you've never heard it before--with exciting detail and passionate energy. Reading like a historical novel, it dramatizes the sweep of biblical events, making the men and women of this book come alive in vivid detai...

  • Branded

    Vivian Vaughan

    "WHEN A MAN HAS NOTHING LEFT TO LOSE, BEWARE." Five years ago, Jacy Kimble was devastated by the scandal that sent her brother to prison and destroyed her father's political career. Now, far from her pampered life in Arizona, near-destitute in El ...

  • Brandenburg

    Glenn Meade

    Glenn Meade, the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Second Messiah, delivers unrivaled suspense, unforgettable characters, and a brilliantly absorbing story as a British agent and a German woman find themselves unraveling a plot to bring about the ...

  • The Brave Ones

    Tony Kerins

  • Breakaway

    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

  • Breakfast of Enemies

    Francine Pascal

    What's in a healthy breakfast? Juice, toast, milk...and identical twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield! That's right--the twins have been chosen to appear on a Corny O's TV commercial! But there's only one Corny O's girl, and the twins can't agree o...

  • Bride on the Ranch

    Barbara McMahon

    Maggie Foster needs a job. Kyle Carstairs needs a housekeeper.... Problem solved: Maggie works for Kyle! Maggie knows she's in for a challenge: Kyle has had five housekeepers in almost as many months! And, sadly, Maggie has a way of constan...

  • The Broken Sword

    Molly Cochran; Warren Murphy

    Camelot in New York? Not long ago, Arthur was an ordinary boy. Now he knows that he is the legendary King Arthur, returned to lead not just Britain, but all mankind into a new era of justice, peace, and freedom. Accompanied by the wizard, Merlin; ...

  • Buchanan's Return

    Pamela Toth

    THE BUCHANANS ARE BACK! Kirby Wilson didn't know if she was more mad or grateful. In one shocking moment she had learned that she was adopted--and that she had two brothers she had never known about. The revelation brought her to brother Donovan's...

  • Bug Boy

    Carol Sonenklar

    Charlie's love of bugs takes him a bit too far when he comes across "The Amazing Bug-A-View" gadget, which he uses to see life through the eyes of a bug and, in doing so, finds that he is transforming into a spider himself....

  • Bug Park

    James P. Hogan

    DON'T STEP ON IT -- IT MIGHT BE YOU When you're a teenager, even a teenager with a rich, indulgent parent, you don't have a lot of power. But when things get very small, the rules change. Physics changes. What everybody knows, ain...

  • Burn the Breeze

    Jack Brennan

    Returning from the Civil War to learn that not everyone thinks he is a hero, Abel Braddock wants to settle down to quiet ranch life but is soon fighting for his life against someone who also wants to destroy the Comanche nation. Original....

  • Carnivore

    Leigh Clark

    In an Antarctic research outpost, a group of scientists made a discovery. For the first time, modern man would come face-to-face with the ruler of the prehistoric world, the king of the dinosaurs--the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Blinded by scientific zeal, th...

  • Cat in a Flamingo Fedora

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    That rough-and-tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame-haired human companion, temple barr, think shooting a cat food commercial will allow them to play hooky from mayhem. But life is never easy for the vivacious pair, and Temple and Loui...

  • Celestial Dogs

    Jay S. Russell

    A former TV teenage heartthrob, fortysomething P.I. Marty Burns begins investigating the brutal murders of Hollywood's street girls, a search that takes him to the very bottom of Tinseltown's cold and dangerous heart...

  • Chances of Love

    Cathleen Clare
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    Never is love so sweet as in Regency England! Whether it is a London season a-bloom with matchmaking mamas, stunning Incomparables and notorious rakes ready to be reformed by love...or a rustic romance for a charming country miss, romance is always i...

  • Chancy's Cowboy

    Lass Small

    JUST ONE OF THE BOYS Chancy Freedman had grown up on the Bar Q ranch. She had learned how to rope and ride, and the ranch hands had looked out for her 'best they could.' But they couldn't teach her the art of being a lady, and poor Chancy had made...

  • Change of Heart

    Violet Hamilton
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    Mothers and love go together, no matter what the century. This delightful Regency collection gathers together a beautiful bouquet of Regency romances selected especially for Mother's Day... Violet Hamilton's "Change of Heart" proves that a widowed...

  • Change of Heart

    Tracy Stern

    In love and ecstatic about their child on the way, Kerry is devastated to learn that Brad has been killed in an icy car crash and does not know what to do in the face of pressure to give up her baby for adoption. By the author of This I Promise Y...

  • Character Witness

    R.A. Forster

    Kathleen Cotter worked her way through law school, and all it got her was a shared cubicle in a strip-mall firm. Then her uncle, the legendary criminal attorney Gerry O'DouI, invites her to join his practice in Beverly Hills. But O'Doul's firm tur...

  • Chop, Simmer, Season: A Day at the Top Notch Restaurant

    Alexa Brandenberg

    Two chefs measure, mix, chop, simmer, and season their way through preparations for a sumptuous feast, baking bread, tossing salad, grilling fish, sauteing vegetables, and serving the tasty meal to their hungry guests....

  • Cinderblock

    Janine Ellen Young

    In twenty-first-century America, where reality is what one makes it, a young man with a supernatural affinity for computers and an armed revolutionary are pursued by the Virtuals, a group of online dictators. Original....

  • Circles Of Stone

    Joan Dahr Lambert

    In a saga that begins more than a million years ago, three wise women named Zena, born thousands of generations apart, experience romantic and spiritual adventures, from the African savanna to the Red Sea to the caves of the Pyrenees. Reprint....

  • Claudia, Queen of The Seventh Grade

    Ann M. Martin

    At first, Claudia hated going back to seventh grade. But things are definitely improving. She's on top of her schoolwork, she's made some great friends, and her new classmates really look up to her -- so much that they nominate her to be Queen of the...

  • The Clinic

    Kip Langello

    In the heart-pounding tradition of Robin Cook and Michael Palmer, a new master of medical terror inverts the wonders of fertility science to reveal its unthinkable possibilities. In this harrowing, suspenseful novel, Kip Langello crafts the tale of a...

  • Clive Barker's A-Z of Horror

    Clive Barker

    An illustrated volume compiled from the BBC television miniseries offers a personal tour of the real stories and people who inspired Barker's work, from serial killers and rebel artists to legendary monsters and Hollywood stars....

  • Close Relations

    Lynsey Stevens

    A family scandal! Georgia had imagined becoming Jarrod Maclean's wife a hundred times -- until she'd found him in what seemed like a passionate embrace with his own stepmother.... Devastated by his betrayal, Georgia had convinced herself s...

  • Closing Ranks

    Dirk Bogarde

    First published in 1997, this is Dirk Bogarde's sixth and final novel.

    The Grayles have lived at Hartleap since Canute. They know this and are proud of the fact. Now they stand around the deathbed of their longest-serving nanny who is ...

  • Cloudy in the West

    Elmer Kelton

    In the Texas backlands in 1885, twelve-year-old Joey Shipman's father dies under mysterious circumstances, and the boy is forced to live with his stepmother and Blair Meacham, a hanger-on at the farm. After the death of a black farmhand and friend, a...

  • Cocoa and Kisses

    Laurie A. Hendricks

  • Cody's Girl

    Lois Faye Dyer

    GIVING LOVE A CHANCE Feisty and self-sufficient, Rebecca Colter is still the most eligible woman in town. But since inheriting her uncle's ranch, she has only two dreams: becoming the best horse trainer in all of Idaho; and having a child. ...

  • Come Away, Death

    Mollie Hardwick

    TILL DEATH DO THEM PART... Doran Fairweather and her husband, ex-vicar Rodney Chelmarsh, are both secretly relieved when she decides to sublet a friend's London apartment for a while. Maybe the separation will put the spice back into their relatio...

  • Comfort Woman

    Nora Okja Keller

    Possessing a wisdom and maturity rarely found in a first novelist, Korean-American writer Nora Okja Keller tells a heartwrenching and enthralling tale in this, her literary debut. Comfort Woman is the story of Akiko, a Korean refugee of World War II,...

  • Compromising Positions

    Beverly Bird

    DEADLY DESIRES ... PASSIONATE ALLIANCES A prominent socialite had been murdered. And all the evidence pointed to District Attorney Jesse Hadley and Chief Medical Examiner Angela Byerly -- but they were both innocent. Now they had to work together ...

  • Confederate Jasmine and the Fat Tuesday Tree: A Poetic Herbarium

    Ann Lewis

    A book for gardeners, travelers, and anyone who loves the lush landscape of the deep South, Confederate Jasmine and the Fat Tuesday Tree is an exquisite combination of delicate images and rich memoiran illustrated volume that is as beautiful as it is...

  • Confessions

    Matthew Fox

  • Conspiracy

    Margie Walker

    Forced by circumstances beyond her control to walk away from her lover, Marcellus Cavanaugh, Pauline Sinclair returns as unexpectedly as she had left, only to become the prime suspect in the poisoning murder of the president of Marcellus's company. O...

  • Cop Out

    Susan Dunlap

    TIT FOR TAT In Berkeley, people don't just disagree, they make careers out of it. And in a city where anything goes, where burned-out sixties hippies haunt the shadows along Telegraph Avenue, no one can outrun the past. Now police detective Jill S...

  • A Cottage by the Sea

    Ciji Ware

    Some might call it running away... But after a scandalous Hollywood divorce, Blythe Stowe considered it damage control for body and soul. The pain, the humiliation, the daily tabloids shouting details as her famous husband dumped her for her own si...

  • Country Comforts

    Virginia Lee

    Infuriated by the busybody preacher's wife who calls her a hoyden and threatens to take away her little sister unless she settles down, Josie announces her engagement to town newcomer Jack, much to the gentleman's surprise. The biggest gossip in ...

  • Cowards

    W.A. Burgess

    Dopers, dropouts, scenesters, and hipsters shark Seattle in search of the next big thing. Or they refuse to search and opt to slide down the dark ladder. No bottom there. No traps. No dead end. There heroin will tell you you're brilliant, you're...

  • Crazy About the Future

    Devra Speregen

    Stephanie becomes alarmed when her friend Allie, after visiting a fortune-teller, becomes frustratingly superstitious, and Stephanie devises a plan to prove to Allie that the fortune-teller is a fake. Original....

  • Crooked Little Heart

    Anne Lamott

    With the same winning combination of humor and honesty that marked her recent nonfiction bestsellers, Operating Instructions and Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott's new novel gives us an exuberant, richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and ...

  • A Cry for Self-Help

    Jaqueline Girdner

    Kate Jasper and her fiance Wayne Caruso are witnessing an underwater wedding -- not as guests, but as students. They're taking a class called "Create Your Own Wedding Ritual"... but the lighthearted outing turns dark when self-help guru Sam Skyler ta...

  • Crystal Fire

    Scott Peterson

  • Cutdown

    John A. Miller

    Refusing to take any case that does not interest him, former Vietnam paratrooper and lawyer Claude McCutcheon becomes involved with the intriguing lumber businesswoman Margaret Tikkanen, while a non-client uses Claude's name to stir up trouble. Repri...

  • Daddy Material

    Marcia Evanick

    He'd awakened with a stranger in his arms--and a brand-new dream... Desperate to find the mystery woman with whom he'd shared the most passionate night of his life, Adam Young had searched for weeks, even hired a private detective! Now he stood in...

  • Damsel

    Debra Hamilton

    THEY HAD SHARED THE HOPES AND DREAMS OF CHILDHOOD As children they had played together -- Hunter Kinshella, a groomsman's son and Tamasin Cullen, a beautiful peasant girl who longed to be a lady. Her desperate need made her the perfect pawn in...

  • A Dangerous Love

    Michael Phillips

    A wedding is on the horizon for the preacher woman and the cowboy -- if evil-doings don’t separate them first. Second in the faith-filled Western series. After a visit to her family in Louisville, young evangelist Mercy Randolph returns to her new ...

  • Dangerous Loves

    Carolyn Keene

  • Danielle's Daddy Factor

    Sherryl Woods

    THOSE WATKINS BOYS! THAT WILDE WOMAN! When handsome single dad Slade Watkins came to town, all Riverton wagered that a wedding was in the offing. The hapless widower hadn't a clue about taming his two rambunctious sons--until pretty Danielle Wilde...

  • The Dark Shore

    Adam Lee

    There are seven Dominons of Irth, ruled by the benevolent wizarduke Lord Drev -- a once peaceful world now town asunder by a vengeful and mighty Dark Lord. Once the usurper was merely mortal -- a scavenger who found a fabled sword and raised it high ...

  • The Dark Side of Nowhere

    Neal Shusterman

    Jason is having a bad day. The kind of day when you just don't feel like yourself. Only for Jason, it's not just a feeling. He really isn't himself. Not any more. Who is he? That's the problem. Jason isn't sure. And it's not just him. Everyone ...

  • The Dark Side of the Moon

    Margaret Watson

    HER LIFE WAS ON THE LINE.... Eagle Ridge was turning out to be far from the tranquil oasis Tory Falcon had envisioned. A serial killer was loose in the town, preying on single women, and the police feared Tory would be his next target. She could t...

  • Darkness Bound

    Scott Peterson

  • Darling Daughters

    Jeanne Savery
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    Mothers and love go together, no matter what the century. This delightful Regency collection gathers together a beautiful bouquet of Regency romances selected especially for Mother's Day... Jeanne Savery's "Darling Daughters" sweeps us away to a c...

  • Daughter of Suqua

    Diane Johnston Hamm

    Everyone in Suqua, a village on the Puget Sound, is related to one another in some way and part of a tightly knit community due to these cultural and family ties, but when the government steps in, the entire town knows that great changes are about to...

  • Daughters of Silence

    R.L. Stine

    Summoning the dark powers of their family to bring back their dead daughters, Angelica and Simon Fear unflinchingly begin an act of black magic that calls for the sacrifice of two innocent girls....

  • Dead Before Dawn

    Francine Pascal

    Time is running out for Bruce Patman. He has fewer than 48 hours to find out who poisoned him. . . and why. Forty-eight hours before the deadly toxin in his body takes his life.



    Everyone around Bruce has a secret. Everyone seems suspic...

  • Dead Bird Page

    Kathryn Lasky

    Harriet and her cousin Minna are proper Boston ladies that find the latest in hat fashions for women--dead birds on top--appalling. So they gather the most prominent people in town to form a club to protect the birds--the Audubon Society. Full-color ...

  • Dead in the Mud

    Connie Feddersen

    SHE'S GOT LAS VEGAS LEGS, BUT SHE'S HAD IT WITH LIFE IN THE FAST LANE. SHE'S AMANDA HAZARD--SAVVY CPA AND AMATEUR SLEUTH--AND SHE'S ABOUT TO STIR UP A TORNADO OF TROUBLE IN THE OKLAHOMA BOONDOCKS! A DIRTY WAY TO DIE Amanda is fit to be tied. To...

  • Dead Man's Hand

    Catherine Dain

    When Freddie kills a teenage mugger, she tries to soothe her guilt by helping out his family. Instead she finds herself involved in a murder - and wondering if it's true that no good deed goes unpunished....

  • Deadly Secrets

    M.C. Sumner

    Knowledge is power, but ignorance has a strength of its own. Through accident, blind searching, and faith, Noah and Harley have stumbled upon the world's most carefully guarded secret. They are about to witness the truth of the Extreme Zone....

  • Dear Tooth Fairy: The True Story of how the Tooth Fairy Came to Be

    Kath Mellentin

  • Death and the Language of Happiness

    John Straley

    Ninety-seven-year-old William Flynn is none too clear on what's happened this week, but he's razor-sharp on the events of eight decades past. What's happened this week is the murder of Angela Ramirez, a young woman who used to visit Flynn in the nurs...

  • Death Brims Over

    Barbara Jaye Wilson

    MEET BRENDA MIDNIGHT She's a savvy young designer with her own hat shop, who has never even thought of chasing crooks. But when crime invades her cobblestone Greenwich Village neighborhood and the cops don't have a clue, Brenda has to drop everyth...

  • Death of a Winter Shaker

    Deborah Woodworth

    SISTER ROSE IS ON A MISSION... TO CATCH A KILLER The peaceful Shakers, pledged to hard work, worship and nonviolence could scarcely believe there was a dead body in their herb house. The handsome young drifter known as a "Winter Shaker" had professe...

  • Death Star

    John Whitman

    Takes young Star Wars fans behind the scenes of the Empire's most devastating weapon as it hurtles through space on a mission to destroy the secret Rebel base, in an interactive pop-up book that is packed with high-adventure details....

  • The Deception

    Barry Reed

    A SUICIDAL PATIENT JUMPS FROM A BALCONY--AND ATTORNEY DAN SHERIDAN IS MAKING SURE SOMEONE TAKES THE FALL... A promising young tennis player with an overly demanding father, Donna DiTullio is hospitalized with suicidal manic-depression. Within week...

  • The Deed

    Lynsay Sands

    Lady Emmalene Eberhart was dying to DO IT. She even begged the King to make her husband do it to her--because she wanted to be a good wife. But then her husband died, and Emmalene was still as much a virgin as on the day she wed. Suddenly, the in...

  • Den of the White Fox

    Lensey Namioka

    Who is the White Fox? Is he merely the mysterious, charismatic leader of a doomed political rebellion? Or is he a powerful spirit, taking revenge on the occupying force that desecrated his shrine? And who-or what-shoves Zenta off a cliff on a dark an...

  • Dinosaurs Are Back and It's All Your Fault Edward!

    Wendy Hartman

    As Edward and his big brother prepare for bed, his brother warns Edward that the rock under the bed could be a dinosaur egg ready to hatch and tells him all the hilarious consequences of raising a dinosaur....

  • Disney's Mix and Match Villain's Book

    Eric Goldberg

  • Diversity Alliance

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • Division

    Graham Ison

  • Dolphins at Daybreak

    Mary Pope Osborne

    IT'S SINK OR SWIM... for Jack and Annie when the Magic Tree House whisks them off to the middle of the ocean. Luckily, they find a mini-submarine on a coral reef. Unluckily, they are about to meet a giant octopus and one very hungry shark. Will the ...

  • Don't Go to Sleep!

    R.L. Stine

    IT'S A NO-SNOOZE SITUATION! Matt hates his tiny bedroom. It's so small it's practically a closet! Still, Matt's mom refuses to let him sleep in the guest room. After all, they might have guests. Some day. Or year. Then Matt does it. Late one nigh...

  • Double-Blind

    Loren L. Coleman

    BATTLEMECH BLITZKRIEG Using fast and furious hit-and-run tactics, Marcus GioAvanti and his Avanti's Angels mercenaries have earned a tough reputation throughout the Inner Sphere. But the Inner Sphere isn't where their newest job is taking them--beca...

  • Doug's Big Comeback

    Nancy Krulik

    Doug is Funnieman! Doug has always been the target of Roger's taunts, but lately he's found a way to get back at him. He has finally learned to put down Roger and everyone is laughing. Being the popular class clown is an exhilarating experience for D...

  • Doug's Big Shoe Disaster

    Jim Jinkins

    Noticing a hole in his shoe, Doug decides to get another pair at the mall, and faced with all the different types, Doug becomes fearful that he may pick something that is not the latest style, until he realizes that the only one he has to make happy ...

  • Down by the River

    Edna O'Brien

    Down by the River is a newly reissued novel from Edna O’Brien, the author of Girl -- “one of the most celebrated writers in the English language” (NPR’s Weekend Edition).Set in the author’s native Ireland, a powerful and passionate novel ab...

  • Down East

    Katherine Hall Page

    Anticipating a boring summer at Maggie's parents' inn, Maggie, Christie, and Vicki become alarmed by an increasingly dangerous series of practical jokes and take the investigation into their own hands....

  • Dr. Holt and the Texan

    Suzannah Davis

    THE GOOD DOCTOR Physician Mercy Holt always kept her cool in the E.R. Then rodeo rider Travis King showed up - half-naked and needing a strong dose of T.L.C. Suddenly, Mercy was seventeen again - longing for the one footloose cowboy she couldn't h...

  • Dracula

    Leonard Wolf

    In the 100 years since its publication, Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been out of print.  Once introduced to the world by the silent film classic Nosferatu in 1921, Dracula became an enduring icon of fear, forever immortalized as a frightful embo...

  • The Dragon and the Unicorn

    A.A. Attanasio

    A QUEEN, A PILGRIM, AND A DEMON -- AND A KING WITH A WORLD TO SAVE Beneath every beloved legend there is a deeper legend still, etched in ancient stone. The Dragon and the Unicorn begins before the beginning of Time, as light first cools to matt...

  • Dream Dancer

    Denise Dietz Wiley

    Struggling to keep her father's failing circus afloat in the face of her father's drinking problem, Calliope Kelly faces new disruptions when Brian O'Connor, a dashing animal tamer whom Calliope has long adored, returns and an unknown enemy sets out ...

  • Earl of Rayne's Ward

    Anne Ashley

    "I WILL HAVE YOUR OBEDIENCE!" Though they had once been the best of friends, Rebecca Standish couldn't tolerate Drum Thornville's outrageous demands. How dare he return seven years after leaving her to join the army and expect her to bend to his w...

  • The Earl's Revenge

    Allison Lane

    The Runaway Bride Elaine Thompson prayed she would never see the Earl of Bridgeport again. She had been barely past girlhood when she fled a forced marriage to this libertine lord who had wanted a wife only to produce an heir. Now, she was a stron...

  • Echoes of Issel

    Diann Thornley

    Reunited with his son, Tristan, and his wife, Darcie, who were marooned for years on a wild planet, Lujan Serege realizes that the war in which he has played a major role is not over when Tristan is called to return to action. Reprint....

  • Edwina and Nehru

    Catherine Clement

  • Elf Fantastic

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of original tales by such authors as Jane Yolen, Mickey Zucker Reichert, John DeChancie, Dennis McKiernan, Andre Norton, and Jennifer Roberson features the elfish exploits of wood sprites both valiant and mischievous. Original....

  • Ellen Elizabeth Hawkins, Texas, 1886

    Kathleen Duey

    Mobeetie, Texas August 14, 1886 No rain yet. Almost no wind. How much longer can we last? Ellen wants to be a cattle rancher -- even if her father and grandfather don't think it's a proper life for a girl. Now the windmill is broken, and the d...

  • Enchantment in the Garden

    Shirley Hughes

    Valerie, a lonely little girl, yearns for a friend, a wish that is answered when a statue in the park magically comes to life, but their friendship is threatened when the mysterious boy, Cherubino, vanishes....

  • Enemy Within

    Scott Peterson

    The evil Dread Wing turns the Dragon Flyz's most trusted allies, the Dragons, against them, in a storybook adventure based on the toys and the children's television program, Dragon Flyz. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Escape from Edenoi

    I.K. Swobud

    Escaping from his home planet, Dex crash-lands in the back yard of the Stewart family and begins his mission to thwart the evil Count Dregon, but his first step is to fit in on Earth and find a flea collar for his friend, Ferbus. Original....

  • Escorting Alicia

    Victoria Chancellor

    CINDERELLA IN ST. LOUIS Alicia Myers is a bundle of nerves over the prospect of her fifteen-year high school reunion in St. Louis. Not even a makeover and a new dress can turn the shy, single financial manager into what she isn't: sexy, glamorous,...

  • The Etcher's Studio

    Arthur Geisert

    A young boy helps his grandfather, an etcher, prepare for a year-end studio print sale. The boy's most important task is to color each etching by hand. His work is tedious, and his mind begins to wander into the world of art as he imagines himself wi...

  • Eve's Apple

    Jonathan Rosen

    Ruth Simon is beautiful, smart, talented, and always hungry. As a teenager, she starved herself almost to death, and though outwardly healed, inwardly she remains dangerously obsessed with food. For Joseph Zimmerman, Ruth's tormented relationship wit...

  • Even More Scary Mysteries for Sleep-Overs

    Allen B. Ury

  • Every Day

    Elizabeth Richards

    In the rare moments when Leigh Adelman has time to consider her chaotic life, it takes her breath away: there's her 14 year-old son Isaac, fierce and vulnerable; eight-year-old Jane, wise, tart-tongued and practical; baby Daisy, her joyful last child...

  • An Exchange of Hostages

    Susan R. Matthews

    "Above all, do no harm."--The Hippocratic Oath "The Bench endorses the principle of swift and certain punishment for crimes against the judicial order."--The Inquisitor's Writ A promising young surgeon, Andrej Koscuisko has come, with great rel...

  • Exile's Song

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    THE HERITAGE OF ALTON She was Margaret Alton, the daughter of Lew Alton, the Darkovan representative to the Terran Imperial Senate, but she remembered almost nothing about the planet of her birth, or her early and tumultuous childhood. What fleeti...

  • Fancy's Baby

    Pamela Bauer

    Some lucky baby is about to be discovered by talent scout Kika Mancini, and hopeful parents in Tyler are all stirred up! The only baby she wants, though, belongs to Nick Miller. And he's not even tempted by what Kika is offering his daughter. W...

  • Fangs!

    Allen B. Ury

  • Fashion Victim

    Francine Pascal

    Fired! Elizabeth Wakefield has been booted from her magazine internship--for stealing an idea she thought up in the first place! With the help of her twin sister, Elizabeth sets out to prove she was framed. Her snooping leads her into terrible dange...

  • Final Diagnosis

    James White

    It's a massive hospital space station on the Galactic rim--384 levels, a staff of thousands--where human and alien medicine meet.

    But Patient Hewlitt, new to Sector General, doesn't want to meet alien medicine--or alien doctors, or alien nurse...

  • Finders Keepers

    Sharon Sala

    MORE THAN JUST A DADDY Little Joey knew his father was absolutely perfect, but the toddler craved a mother too. Then he blundered into Molly Eden's backyard and knew he'd found the mommy of his dreams. Joseph Ross was entranced by his son's cho...

  • The Finer Things

    Brenda Joyce

    THE PRETENDER An orphan from London's East End, a fugitive from the poorhouse, Violet Cooper was tired of sleeping on stoops and being hungry and cold. But she dared to enter a world forbidden to her and her kind. Even marriage to a gentle, el...

  • The First Casualty

    David L. Seidman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Hercules possessed a strength the world had never seen, a strength surpassed only by the power of his heart. He journeyed the Earth, battling the minions of his wicked stepmother, Hera, the all-powerful Queen of the Gods. Wherever there was evil, whe...

  • First Cut

    Leah Ruth Robinson

    Dr. Evelyn Sutcliffe's world is a place chaos, violence, and, sometimes, miracles. Now terror has followed her into the emergency room of University Hospital.

    A tough professional addicted to the adrenaline rush of life-and-death emergency medicine...

  • First Impression

    Margot Dalton

    The case: A parent's nightmare. The moment his mother turns her back, three-year-old Michael Panesivic vanishes. The cop: She grew up on the streets of L.A., so Detective Jackie Kaminsky understands the troubled kids and broken families she deals ...

  • First Prize

    Lynn Jacobs

    She'd won her dream date! Tamsin has dreamed about Nick Sullivan for years. She'd had a teenage crush on him, and when he'd left their small hometown to become a successful international journalist, she never stopped wanting him.. Now N...

  • Fistful of Desire

    Nalinaksha Bhattacharya

  • Flea Circus Summer

    Cheryl Ware

    The summer before seventh grade, Venola Mae Cutright, Belington, West Virginia's best newspaper carrier, writes a series of humorous letters to her best friend away at camp, the Imperial Magic Sea Monkey Company, and her newspaper boss....

  • Floating Home

    David Getz

    When eight-year-old Maxine becomes the world's youngest astronaut, she has no idea how much preparation it will take. For an astronaut, even getting dressed is no simple task. There's thermal underwear to keep her body warm and a cooling suit in case...

  • Fly Fishing Can Be Fatal

    David Leitz

    It was spring in Vermont. The tree frogs were singing, the trout were stirring, and the biggest fish of all was coming to Whitefork Lodge... Call it a deal with the devil. Max Addams needed the money. And one very powerful man--the head of a Cosa ...

  • Folly's Reward

    Jean R. Ewing

    WAYLAID BY LOVE... Miss Prudence Drake sought to keep her young charge, six-year-old Lord Dunraven, from the clutches of his cruel guardian by fleeing with him to a Scottish seaside cottage. She has no time for a shipwrecked gentleman. But as he...

  • Forbidden

    Suzanne Brockmann

    He was gorgeous as sin, but definitely off-limits.... He'd saved her from a drenching storm, had gently placed her in a steaming tub, and looked great in firelight, but was that reason enough for Kayla Grey to kiss a handsome cowboy with reckless ...

  • The Forest of Time and Other Stories

    Michael Flynn

    A collection of short fiction includes the stories "The Forest of Time," "Great, Sweet Mother," and the novella "Melodies of the Heart," which centers on the relationship between a two-hundred-year-old woman and a nine-year-old girl who is dying...

  • Forever Enchanted // By Magic Enchanted

    Maggie Shayne

    Bridin’s destiny is to rule a faraway fairy kingdom, but another sits on her rightful throne, so the enchanting lady is forced to flee into the mortal realm. Bridin awaits for the man who can help her return home, but the stranger who shows up is ...

  • Forever, My Love

    Linda Ladd

    ACT OF BETRAYAL Belinda Scott had no choice but to become a spy. An indentured servant threatened with losing the only family she had left, her four-year-old sister Annie, she was placed in the New York home of Gabriel Elliot and ordered to report...

  • Fortune

    Erica Spindler

    A MOTHER'S ULTIMATE SACRIFICE... A BROTHER'S DARK OBSESSION... AND ONE WOMAN'S DESPERATE FIGHT FOR SURVIVAL... Something dark and dangerous had long shadowed Skye Dearborn's life. She had seen the fear of it in her mother's eyes. It was ther...

  • Foul!

    Hank Herman

    David Danzig is totally psyched. He has a chance to attend the NCAA tournament if the Branford Bulls are number one by March first. Now Dave will do anything to make the Bulls the top team in the Danville County Basketball League.



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  • Free Reign

    Rosemary Aubert

    On the day he graduated from law school, there was little doubt that Ellis Portal would have a brilliant future. He and five of his similarly gifted colleagues commemorated the splendor of their shared expectations with the presentation, to each, of ...

  • Freya on the Wall

    Terry Degens

    This profoundly moving and imaginative novel takes readers on an intricate journey ending in the fall of the Berlin Wall. “The book’s non-linear format, heavy use of symbolism and dissection of complex philosophical concepts demands a certain sop...

  • The Frog Princess of Pelham

    Ellen Conford

    One kiss from the most popular boy in school and Chandler turns into a frog! Once upon a time, there was a suburban "princess" named Chandler. She had everything money could buy -- except what she really wanted. An orphan since the age of nine, Ch...

  • Gallows Hill

    Lois Duncan

    The crystal paperweight should have been clear, but it was not.

    Handsome, popular Eric Garrett decides that Sarah Zoltanne is just the right person to play a fortune-teller at the high-school fair.  Sarah is surprised and pleased.  After a...

  • Garbage Snooper Surprise

    Gary Hogg

    Getting into trouble is what Spencer does best. And when Spencer gets into trouble, there's an adventure waiting to happen! "Hey Josh, I just found out that we have a Garbage Snooper," Spencer said. "You have a Garbage Snooper?" gasped Josh. "Wow! ...

  • The Garden Plot

    J.S. Borthwick

    Much to her dismay, Sarah has been roped into accompanying her abrasive Aunt Julia on a tour of Europe's most famous gardens. The trip, takes a bad turn when the tour's leader, garden expert Ellen Trevino, fails to meet the group for their departure....