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  • Homecoming

    Carolyne Aarsen

    THE GIFT OF FORGIVENESS No way would Sheryl Kyle trust in men -- or heaven -- again. Her heart had been broken a hundred different ways, her once-sunny soul shadowed by unanswered prayers. Now she hid behind a cynical, citified shell, where neith...

  • Spirit Horse

    Ned Ackerman

  • My Mamas Waltz

    Eleanor Agnew

    Offers emotional support to women hoping to overcome the trauma of an alcoholic mother, presenting advice on how to live a fulfilling life and furnishing personal case stories of other survivors who have achieved wholeness....

  • What Makes My Mommy Best?

    Burton Albert

  • What Makes My Daddy Best

    Burton Albert

    Sweetly rhyming texts, endearing artwork, and playful stickers make this pair of picture books perfect for young children who want their mother or father to know just how much they're loved. Each book includes a two-page insert with stickers that hel...

  • With This Wedding Ring

    Trisha Alexander

    FOR THE SAKE OF HER CHILD... Beautiful young widow Emily Pierce had been in love once, only to find it all gone in the blink of an eye. So she was determined never to marry again -- until the safety of her unborn child was threatened. And then, w...

  • Anthology for the Earth

    Judy Allen

    Collects the poems and stories of people from many cultures who speak in defense of the fragile Earth, from a Kayapo chief's plea to save the Amazonian rain forest to an Australian Aboriginal woman's description of the destruction of mining....

  • Just Another Miracle!

    Caroline Anderson

    Are you out there, Mary Poppins? James Carmichael's wryly humorous plea caught Poppy Taylor's attention as she scanned the advertisements for a new job. How could she resist applying, particularly when his voice sounded so wonderful over t...

  • Forever After

    Catherine Anderson

    THE PROTECTOR From the moment Heath Masters lays eyes on Meredith Kenyon, he knows there's something mysterious in this pretty woman's past. True, she seems like a good mother to her little daughter, but as local sheriff Heath has seen his share o...

  • River Angel

    A. Manette Ansay

    In April 1991, in a little Wisconsin town about a hundred miles southwest of the town where I grew up, a misfit boy was kidnapped by a group of high school kids who, later, would testify they'd merely meant to frighten him, to drive him around for a ...

  • The Willing Spirit

    Piers Anthony

    Spirituality, fantasy, and mythology merge in this “lighthearted, agreeably diverting yarn, duly respectful of India’s cultures and customs” (Kirkus Reviews). Hari, a remarkably well-set-up young lad, has spent his entire life in a ...

  • Listening Now

    Anjana Appachana

    The finely written story of seven women in contemporary India, each of them burdened with secrets and a heritage of guilt that they convey to their daughters, reveals the casual deceptions of family life and the power of love. A first novel. 15,000 f...

  • The Warning

    K.A. Applegate

    Jake's made a pretty amazing discovery. It seems like there may be other people who know about the invasion. Others who know about the Yeerks. Jake finds a Web site devoted to the Yeerks. And Jake, the other Animorphs, and Ax aren't sure it's too goo...

  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Lisa Arlt

    She couldn't fool everyone... Who would have thought that beneath her severe business suits and proper demeanor lawyer Caris Johnson wore sexy lingerie and indulged in romantic fantasies. Certainly not her clients and co-workers--the people on who...

  • Two Greedy Bears

    Jose Aruego

  • The Eagle and the Sword

    A.A. Attanasio

    While training Arthor, the Eagle of Thor, to lead the Celts in victory, Merlin realizes that his pupil is a naive and bloodthirsty boy who revels in killing, and Merlin must race against time to find the sword of goodness and light to release Arthor ...

  • The Bride's Second Thought

    Elizabeth August

    THE STRANGER AND THE VIRGIN Bride-to-be Ellen Reese was all set to wed "Mr Right." But second thoughts sent her off on a ride that would change her life. Who knew that Mother Nature's worst blizzard would strand her in a mountain cabin with a rugg...

  • Freedom Lost

    James Axler

  • Through the Night

    Jim Aylesworth

  • The Everlasting Story of Nory

    Nicholson Baker

    Our supreme fabulist of the ordinary now turns his attention on a 9-year-old American girl and produces a novel as enchantingly idiosyncratic as any he has written. Nory Winslow wants to be a dentist or a designer of pop-up books. She likes telling s...

  • When the Chips Are Down

    Bruce Balan

    The crime-busting technological wizardry of the seven "Cyber.kdz" is called upon when Sanjeev, searching for his missing sister on the cruise ship, Star of India, discovers a smuggling operation involving computer chips. Original....

  • Jericho's Walls

    Karen Ball
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    A delightful collection of three romantic comedies, Fools For Love celebrates love and the laughter it can bring into our lives. In "Here There Be Dragons!" by Karen Ball, retired teacher Kitty Katz decides to start her own pet-sitting business and f...

  • Revelation

    L. Christian Balling

    " … [Balling] draws the reader into his provocative premise with well-defined characters and accessible technical info." - Publishers WeeklyBut if I with the finger of God cast out devils, no doubt the kingdom of God is come upon you. Luke 11:20Whe...

  • The Primrose Convention

    Jo Bannister

    When newspaper advice columnist and amateur sleuth Rosie Holland volunteers to help Fiona Morris search for her missing brother who disappeared while birdwatching in the Hebrides, her no-nonsense approach to problems edges from unorthodox to dangerou...

  • Old Friends

    Lynne Barasch

  • Scrub-a-Dub-Dub

    Joanne Barkan

  • And the Waters Turned to Blood

    Rodney Barker

    In this account, Rodney Barker tells the full and terrifying story of a microorganism popping up along the Eastern seaboard -- far closer to home than the Ebola virus and equally frightening. In the coastal waters of North Carolina -- and now extendi...

  • Earth Made of Glass

    John Barnes

    Welcome to the Thousand Cultures--in which humanity's hundreds of settled worlds are finally coming back together, via the recently invented technology of instantaneous travel. And in which Giraut and Margaret work as professional diplomats, helping ...

  • Nine Months

    Beverly Barton

    A disaster filled night... A passionate encounter... A baby on the way... Paige Summers couldn't believe the handsome stranger she'd been stranded with was Jared Montgomery, her arrogant new boss! Now she was forced to work with the man she'd wa...

  • Degrees of Love

    Rachel Basch

    In the tradition of The Good Mother and The Deep End of the Ocean, a beautifully written first novel about a family's worst nightmare. Jack Keliher and Lily Sterne lead ordinary lives. But when their eighteen-month-old daughter, Katie, is accidentall...

  • My Mom Married the Principal

    Margaret Bechard

    When his mom marries the principal, eighth-grader Jonah Truman fears that he will be unable to keep his most private moments, such flirting and dating, private and thus must devise a way to hide his special experiences from inquisitive eyes....

  • Avatar

    Donald Beman

  • Moghul Buffet

    Cheryl Benard

    An American businessman visiting Peshawar, Pakistan, vanishes from his hotel room. The only clue is an enigmatic message in blood scrawled on the Coke machine. A series of murders follows. But in a country where half the population is hidden beneath ...

  • The Matchmaking Ghost

    Janice Bennett

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE The last time Captain Anthony, Lord Lambeth, had seen Calpurnia Rycroft, she was little more than a mouselike chit. Now, she had become a lovely young woman who, if she were not penniless, would've had her choice of sui...

  • The Berenstain Bears Play Ball

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • What We Keep

    Elizabeth Berg

    “BERG KNOWS THE HEARTS OF HER CHARACTERS INTIMATELY, showing them with compassion, humor, and an illuminating generosity.” "The Seattle Times “BEAUTIFULLY WRITTEN . . . [Ginny Young] crosses the country for a reluctant reunion with the m...

  • If I Can't Have You

    Patti Berg

    Sometimes a fantasy... From the first moment she saw him on the screen, Adriana Howard has adored Trevor Montgomery, the dashing playboy movie star from the '30s who vanished mysteriously in a cloud of suspicion and innuendo. Becomes reality. ...

  • The Captain's Bride

    Lisa Tawn Bergren

    THEY TRAVELED TO AMERICA IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY Leaving their home in Norway behind, Elsa and Peder Ramsted set out to carve a new life in a young country with their closest friends, including Kaatje Janssen, a woman seeking a new beg...

  • The Virgin and the Vagabond

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    AFTER YEARS OF WAITING FOR MR. RIGHT... Hometown girl Kirby Connaught was saving herself -- if not for marriage, then at least for the perfect man. Someone who was husband and father material. Someone who was clearly...not the arrogant and sexy,...

  • The Marriage Campaign

    Helen Bianchin

    Dominic Andrea wanted Francesca -- badly. She was stunning, a woman out of reach for most amen. But Dominic wasn't most men. And he'd planned a very special campaign for winning Francesca. First, win her attention: Easy--Dominic simply ...

  • Hidden Treasure

    Cheryln Biggs

    They raced down bayou roads in hot pursuit, but was she the prize he wanted to win? Slade Morgan made a woman want to tease him until he gave her what she'd always desired, but Chelsea Reynolds figured her flirting skills wouldn't win any man, le...

  • Atlanta Graves

    Ruth Birmingham

    Meet Sonny Childs - the hard-nosed, sharp-tongued P.I. who is the lead detective at Peachtree Investigations. In Atlanta Graves, Sunny sets out of reclaim a stolen painting, she ends up with a dead body, unanswered questions - and a full-fledged kill...

  • Private Justice

    Terri Blackstock

    A dark shadow of fear has fallen over Newpointe, Louisiana. First one, then another of the town firemen's wives has been murdered, a third has barely escaped an attempt on her life. Incredible as it seems, a serial killer is stalking this sleepy litt...

  • The Story of a Blue Bird

    Tomek Bogacki


    Curiosity overcomes fear

    A little blue bird is afraid to learn to fly, but is still very curious about the world beyond his nest. "Mama, mama, what is out there?" he asks. "Nothing," his mother replies. "Now go to sleep." But the little bi...

  • Scent of Lilacs

    Jane Bonander

    The sweet fragrance evoked the possibilities of love... When Lexy Tate dreamed of practicing medicine, she hadn't imagined setting up her practice in an abandoned brothel, or delivering a calf in a ramshackle barn. But as one of the first woman do...

  • Good-Bye, Charles Lindbergh

    Louise Borden

    Complemented by lovely, technically accurate paintings, a historical novel is based on the true story of a farm boy who meets his hero, Charles Lindbergh, when the famous pilot sets down his biplane in a field in Mississippi....

  • Thunder Horse

    Peter Bowen

    When an earthquake stops a Japanese corporation's plan to develop Montana land, an ancient burial ground in revealed, and a snow-mobiler is found dead with a rare and valuable Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil, part-time sleuth Gabriel Du Pre+a7 begins to sus...

  • Lulu Crow's Garden

    Lizi Boyd

  • In the Rift

    Marion Zimmer Bradley; Holly Lisle

    DOUBLE TROUBLE Kate Beacham had had a bad day. She knew that the pagan religion she had embraced was not acceptable to some. In fact, her parents had disowned her because of it. But she hadn't expected to be assaulted in an alley by three masked b...

  • The Ruby Tear

    Rebecca Brand

    The Jewel was just another play, but the real ruby necklace was the subject of a 1,000-year-long curse on the playwright's family. Lovely Jessamyn, in love with playwright Nicolas Griffin, fights her way to the starring role, and no one can really te...

  • Fire, Bed and Bone

    Henrietta Branford

    Henrietta Branford's gripping novel depicts the tumult and tragedy of the Peasants' Revolt in England through the eyes, ears, and nose of a dog.

    "I am not, nor ever will be, truly wild. Because I have known fire, bed, and bone. Because I am a ...

  • King of the Beasties

    Ann Braybrooks

    In a storybook featuring Winnie the Pooh and his friends, Tigger crowns himself King of the Hundred-Acre Wood and turns everything upside down when he decides to paint the forest with orange and black stripes....

  • The Lazarus Heart

    Poppy Z. Brite

    Sentenced to die for a crime he did not commit, S&M photographer Jared Poe must enter into the world of the dead to discover who murdered his lover, and as he ravages the dark streets of New Orleans to clear his name, he must come to terms with the p...

  • Journey of English

    Donna Brook

    Who first spoke English? Did it always sound the way it does today? How did it become the most popular language in the world? This book traces the journey of our language from its origins with the various peoples who invaded England to its present st...

  • Cat in the Piano

    Jennifer Brooks
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    A delightful collection of three romantic comedies, Fools For Love celebrates love and the laughter it can bring into our lives. In "Here There Be Dragons!" by Karen Ball, retired teacher Kitty Katz decides to start her own pet-sitting business and f...

  • Murder on the Prowl

    Rita Mae Brown

    As the principal of St. Elizabeth's, an exclusive private school that caters to Crozet, Virginia's, best families, Roscoe Fletcher has proven himself to be a highly effective and vastly popular administrator. So when his obituary appears in the local...

  • Willy the Dreamer

    Anthony Browne

  • Rocking Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    It's time for the annual Willow Creek Junior High spring dance. Since the dance is open to everyone, the Saddle Club will be there and so will Stevie's boyfriend, Phil. Unfortunately, this also means that Veronica diAngelo will be there. The Saddle C...

  • Tim Burton's Vincent

    Tim Burton

  • The Darkling

    Charles Butler

    A chance meeting between fifteen-year-old Petra and elderly Mr. Century unleashes a terrifying series of supernatural events involving Mr. Century's long deceased fiance+a7e and a shadowy figure that has haunted Petra for years....

  • Disappearing Acts

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    When Herculeah Jones's best friend, Meat, decides to take a comedy class, he just expects to get a few laughs. But then he discovers a dead body in the bathroom, and realizes that there's nothing funny about murder. Things can't get any worse -- unti...

  • Pass the Butterworms

    Tim Cahill

    In Pass the Butterworms Cahill takes us to the steppes of Mongolia, where he spends weeks on horseback alongside the descendants of Genghis Khan and masters the "Mongolian death trot"; to the North Pole, where he goes for a pleasure dip in 36-degree ...

  • An Agent for the Duration

    John Caincross

  • More Stories Huey Tells

    Ann Cameron

    Huey is good at solving problems. Sometimes his older brother Julian tries to push him around, but Huey knows how to handle him. When Huey gets scared about their father's smoking, the boys work together to help him quit. But some problems are bigger...

  • With This Ring

    Cay Cameron

    R.S.V.P -- WITH LOVE Hope McAllister's sexy ex is back in Houston--and handsome Pace Braxton has stayed single. Wonder of wonders, he's also unbelievably sorry that he ever let her go. But Hope doesn't believe him. His oil-industry empire had al...

  • Melanie's Treasure

    Joanna Campbell

    Ever since 13-year-old Melanie Graham was sent to live with her aunt Ashleigh and uncle Mike at Whitebrook Farm, she's struggled for a way to fit in. Everything she does is wrong. She doesn't get along with her cousin Christina and riding racehorces ...

  • Pigeon Pie

    Robert Campbell

    Chicago policeman Jimmy Flannery, the party leaders have let him know, in their own wonderfully arcane way, that he's being anointed as committeeman for the mayor's ward. Since that job will be a springboard to the city council, new friends and old e...

  • Blast from the Past

    Pam Cardiff

    Richie, Cheryl and Manuel are on the Rockville High party committee. They've got to stage some cool parties to help raise funds for their class. The trio finds a mysterious keyboard that calls up people from the past. history helps make their parties...

  • Simple Pleasures

    Shirley Carroll

    READ ALL ABOUT IT.! Reporter Susan Wells has big ambitions, and her first assignment at a small town newspaper is just the beginning. Romance simply isn't part of her big plans -- until sexy photographer L. Steven Colson snaps her staff photo,...

  • The Bride Finder

    Susan Carroll

    Chosen by the Bride Finder, a man blessed with amazing insight, Madeline Breton has come to Cornwall to meet her new husband, the enigmatic Anatole St. Leger. But her dream of happiness soon diffuses in his overpowering shadow. Anatole knows only too...

  • Bye, Mis' Lela

    Dorothy Carter

  • Boy with Dinosaur Hands: Nine Tales of the Real and Unreal

    Albert R. Carusone

    No one can spin a scary yarn like Al Carusone! In his second collection of shivery, creepy, hilarious tales, this amazing storyteller shows the macabre underside of kids' everyday lives. Practicing the piano, a coloring book, an itchy scab, the schoo...

  • Reluctant Wife

    Carla Cassidy

    FROM BOARDROOM...TO BEDROOM? Tyler Sinclair knew he hadn't seen the last of Samantha Dark. But what irritated him more than having to work together was that his new partner wasn't off-limits anymore--and suddenly, he was reconsidering his bachelor...

  • Magic

    Kimberly Cates

    It may be just a fairy tale, but Mary Fallon Delaney cherishes the fable of Ciaran of the Mist, the legendary guardian said to keep watch over Ireland. And Fallon's homeland could use his otherworldly help: English troops, searching for an escaped cr...

  • Love Thy Neighbor

    Debbie Cavanaugh

    HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS Local realtor Natalie Redding has houses to show, apartments to rent, and three lively children to raise by herself. Fortunately, her new tenant is used to the happy racket of rambunctious kids. Tall, dark Dennis Fisch...

  • Big Bushy Mustache

    Joe Cepeda

    It's almost Cinco de Mayo, and Ricky's class is going to put on a play to celebrate the festive Mexican holiday. When asked to choose his costume, Ricky picks a big, bushy mustache, just like his dad's. He's tired of everyone telling him he looks lik...

  • Godzilla at World's End

    Marc Cerasini

    AN ANCIENT RACE AWAKENS TO WAGE A TITANIC WAR In the year 2001, amid the frigid ice fields of the South Pole, a group of teenage science students and a team of U.S. Army Rangers make an eerie discovery. Miles below the surface of Antarctica, a ...

  • Eating Fire and Drinking Water

    Arlene J. Chai

    "I was someone hungry for stories; more specifically, I was someone who craved after facts. I was, you see, a person with no history. Lacking this, I developed a curiosity about other's people's stories. . . ."Clara Perez is a reporter on a small Sou...

  • The Last Hellion

    Loretta Chase

    She Needed to be Tamed She was a breathtaking firebrand, and Vere Mallory, the notorious Duke of Ainswood, had never seen anything quite like her. Although he thought he was rescuing Lydia Grenville from the clutches of a renowned wastrel, he quick...

  • Shotgun Groom

    Sandra Chastain

    A TENNESSEE BELLE WITH HER SIGHTS AIMED... Lily Towns was determined to marry Matt Logan, even if she had to use her shotgun to get him to the altar. She'd been a skinny little girl when she first boldly proposed. Matt had laughed and refused her, t...

  • Maternity Bride

    Maureen Child

    The stick was blue..and positive! Any way she looked at it, Denise Torrance's well-ordered life was about to turn upside down...and all because of an unexpected night with the man of her dreams! But when that very man insisted they marry for ...

  • A Sting in the Tail

    Rob Childs

    Still touring the Cotswolds, Tanfield Rangers' afternoon kick-off is about to turn into a royal tournament. Pitched back in time, the Time Rangers score as top football entertainment for Elizabeth the First! The lads meet a boy called Will, who's des...

  • Romeo and Ghouliette

    Ryan Chipman

    Lexi realizes that something is not right with Julie, the new girl at Edgar Allen Poe High School, when she sees Julie eat a fly and look lovingly at a worm in biology, and when Julie starts chasing Lexi's best friend Fitz, Lexi fears for his life. O...

  • Jerome Camps Out

    Eileen Christelow

    Jerome Alligator is going on a camping trip with his Swamp School classmates. Jerome and his pal P.J. are excited about swimming, hiking, fishing, and sleeping in a tent, but the class bully, Buster, turns out to be their tentmate, and he's up to his...

  • Edgewater

    April Christofferson

    HEARTLAND AMERICA COMES UNDER THE GUN IN THIS EXPLOSIVE THRILLER THAT PITS ONE WOMAN AGAINST A VIOLENT, ARMED MILITIA When law student Bailey Coleman steps in to save a condominium project from foreclosure, she doesn't realize that she's stumbled ...

  • Lost in Space

    Catherine Clark

    Ten-year-old Will Robinson and his family embark on a new adventure when they leave a crowded and decaying Earth for a new planet, but they get more than they bargained for when the evil Dr. Zachary Smith stows away on their ship, including tectonic ...

  • The Un-Wedding

    Babette Cole

    From the creator of the hilarious Dr. Dog and Drop Dead and the refreshing Mummy Laid an Egg  comes a lighthearted yet helpful introduction to the difficult topic of divorce for children. Demetrius and Paula Ogglebutt have problem parents who never...

  • System Crash

    Michael Coleman

    A blackmail threat has been posted on the Net. Is it a hoax? Or will famous theme-park rides really start to become death traps? As they head off on their theme-park vacation, Josh, Tamsyn, and Rob hope it's a hoax. But a frightening incident proves ...

  • The Incredible Melting Man

    Baldwin Collins

  • The Queen of Darkness

    Miguel Conner

    After living in the shadows for centuries vampires have finally gained dominance over the Earth by instigating a nuclear holocaust that has blotted out the sun. Humans are now treated as animals, kept in concentration camp-like farms. Byron, the Moon...

  • This Mess

    Pamela Conrad

  • The Ghost of Blue Bone Mesa

    Kent Conwell

    The Ghost of Blue Bone Mesa is Conwell's eleventh book for Avalon, a list that includes the recently published titles Valley of Gold; Bumpo, Bill, and the Girls; Laughing Girl Creek; Jim Wells; and Painted Comanche Tree....

  • The Archivist

    Martha Cooley

    A young woman's impassioned pursuit of a sealed cache of T. S. Eliot's letters lies at the heart of this emotionally charged novel -- a story of marriage and madness, of faith and desire, of jazz-age New York and Europe in the shadow of the Holocaust...

  • Sailing in a Spoonful of Water

    Joe Coomer

    Joe Coomer whose fiction includes the beloved New England novel Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God, is a writer of rare warmth, generosity, and insight. Sailing in a Spoongful of Water is his memior of your years spent aboard his vintage motorsailor,...

  • Prisoner of Time

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Tod Lockwood has never wanted to be anyone's knight in shining armor. In fact, he wants to avoid having anything to do with girls, at least for the present. But that's before Devonny Stratton steps into his life out of the nineteenth century. As for...

  • Fudgeballs and Other Sweets

    Lori Copeland

    Princess, the poodle, had a perfectly glorious life, a dog's life in fact.... Until that annoying bulldog, Jake, moved in next door. Jenny McNeill had a perfectly glorious life, a life every successful woman might dream of, until that irritatin...

  • On The Sidelines

    Emily Costello

    Fiona Fagan is a good soccer player, who could be great if she didn't have asthma and allergies in her way.  Fiona's parents decide that it is just too dangerous to her health to keep playing.  But with her teammates' encouragement, she decides t...

  • Montana Red

    Ralph Cotton

    Arizona lawman Sam Burrack's draw and determination are sorely tested by Montana Red Hollis, a cunning and brutal killer who holds sway over the badlands, and Gentleman Joe Sharpe, a small-time gambler masquerading as a lawman. Original....

  • The Target

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: You're about to enter a labyrinth where the unthinkable happens and the unimaginable becomes terrifyingly real. Escaping unwanted media attention after a notorious incident, Ramsey Hunt retreats into the solitude of a cabin high in t...

  • Daughter, Have I Told You?

    Rachel Coyne


    Through powerful words and images, this joyful picture book celebrates the special bond that is shared between mothers and daughters--across ages, colors, and nations. Virginia Halstead's magical pictures of women joining forces with the land cap...

  • Bad Intent

    Jordan Cray

    Sometimes Brian wishes that he was more like LoneLobo, the brashest "surfer" on his high-school intranet, but when LoneLobo's cruel gibes hurt his friend's feelings, Brian realizes his idolatry has been misguided. Original....

  • The Daughter

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Fifteen-year-old Maggie is convicted of her mother's murder. Maggie's guilty of many things.... But not of that. Seven years later she escapes from prison. Maggie Slade's been on the run for seven years now. Seven years of dead-end ...

  • Death by Accident

    Bill Crider

    Texas Sheriff Dan Rhodes' cases usually concern the bad boys of rural Blacklin County, or the slightly wacky citizens who are causing trouble that tends to be funny rather than criminal. But although at first the dead man floating in the old swimming...

  • Dark Shade

    Jane Louise Curry

  • The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

    Karen Cushman

    In 1849 a twelve-year-old girl who calls herself Lucy is distraught when her mother moves the family from Massachusetts to a small California mining town. There Lucy helps run a boarding house and looks for comfort in books while trying to find a way...

  • The Alpine Journey

    Mary Daheim

    A JOURNEY OF TERROR Murder is news--even when editor-publisher Emma Lord is away from The Alpine Advocate. A picturesque Oregon seashore village may not be Emma's traditional beat, but when a sensational headline-grabbing murder occurs, she's on t...

  • Raining Violets

    Ruth Jean Dale
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    The way Carrie Duncan saw it, she had two choices, She could either marry Hank Brady as planned, or kill him. Unfortunately for him, cool logic prevailed, and she did neither, But now, four months later, thrown together with Carrie as attendants at H...

  • Screaming Across the Sky

    Brian Daley

    Galactic war was simple . . . win or die Arrival on the ominous planet of Aquamarine was a splashdown into danger and death for Periapt high priestess Dextra Haven and her ragtag force of scientists and Ext warriors. Yet Dextra was undeterred, cer...

  • Clones

    Jack Dann

    Greg Egan, Ursula K. Le Guin, Pamela Sargent, Charles Sheffield, and five other prominent science-fiction writers narrate stories of cloning and its implications, temptations, and hazards, exploring the very meaning of identity and morality. Original...

  • Inherited: One Nanny

    Emma Darcy

    To my heir, Beau Prescott, I leave my Sydney estate and place into his good care my dedicated staff housekeeper, gardener and nanny. Nanny? Beau Prescott was highly suspicious of this interloper in the family home. A fit man until his sudden death...

  • Wanting Dr. Wilde

    Lilian Darcy

    Wilde by name, wild by nature: That had certainly been true of Luke in his youth, but it was a changed Luke Wilde that confronted Francesca Brady when she returned to her hometown to take over her father's practice. Now he was Dr. Wilde - her only r...

  • Fire on High

    Peter David

    Lieutenant Robin Lefler's mother died in a shuttle explosion ten years ago. So is the woman being held prisoner in Thallonian space really her? If it is, what is her connection to the mysterious woman holding a weapon that could doom entire worlds? W...

  • Lambs of God

    Marele Day

    Carla, Margarita, and Iphigenia are three nuns living in a crumbling monastery on a remote island, forgotten by time, the world, and the church. Their liturgical calendar is governed by the changing of the seasons, and by the rising and setting of th...

  • Grease

    Ron De Christoforo

  • Steeldriver

    Don Debrandt

    Half-man, half-machine, Jon Hundred faces the challenge of a lifetime when he agrees to compete with a computerized mining machine to tunnel through a titanic mountain in order to free the inhabitants of the planet, Pellay. Original....

  • The Ghost of Fossil Glen

    Cynthia DeFelice

    Allie Nichols is being pursued by a ghost. Her friend Karen calls Allie a liar and doesn't want to hear "stuff like that." But her old pal, Dub, listens eagerly as Allie tells him about the voice that guides her down a steep cliff side, the girl she ...

  • My Lady's Desire

    Claire Delacroix

    She'd Only Herself to Offer, but Gabrielle de Perricault hoped 'twas enough to entice the courageous Yves de Sant-Roux to champion her cause. Though should he pledge his sword to her, a greater danger awaited, for this knight could easily breach the...

  • Planet Pee Wee

    Judy Delton

    Everyone in the Pee Wee Scouts wants to win a trip to Camp Blast Off, the super-cool summer camp where kids learn what it's like to be an astronaut.  But there's only room for one scout from each troop in the country.  So the Pee ...

  • Farmer Nat

    Chris Demarest

    Can you help? There’s lots to do. What needs milking and says MOO? Each animal in this interactive read-aloud is identified in the text only by its sound, so children must lift each flap to discover the friendly farm animal hidden behind it. Cheerf...

  • Private Pleasures

    Janelle Denison

    She was so sexy! Grey Nichols wanted a lover, not a wife. But after he met beautiful Mariah Stevens, he couldn't get her out of his mind. Lucky for him, she wasn't out of his bed much, either! He was so captivated by her, he considered the unspeakabl...

  • Godheads

    Emily Devenport

    THE DEATHNET Frozen in stasis for one thousand years, Edna has no memory of who she was or where she came from. Her past has been erased as punishment for a long-forgotten crime. Now reborn--and reprogrammed she has been chosen to infiltrate the v...

  • Makeshift Mama

    Dorothea Donley
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    Celebrate the blossoming of a mother's love for her children and a man's devotion to the woman who cares for his family in these exquisite tales by three highly acclaimed Regency authors... Hoping to make a good marriage for her beautiful ...

  • Max's Proposal

    Jane Donnelly

    A suitable wife? It was a practical proposal. Max Vella, rich and famous businessman, needed a wife to organize his many social functions, and Sara needed money to help her sister. So Sara took on the role of dutiful wife, but just as she was beg...

  • Brain Storm

    Richard Dooling

    Attorney Joe Watson had never been to court except to be sworn in. He did legal research, investigating copyright infringement in video games (addressing such matters as: Did CarnageMaster plagiarize their beheading sequence from Greek SlaughterHouse...

  • Heading South, Looking North

    Ariel Dorfman

    Ariel dorfman has been hailed as one of the "greatest living Latin American novelists" (Newsweek) and a "storyteller of almost mythic intensity" (The Financial Times). In his brilliant memoir, Heading South, Looking North, Dorfman explores the many ...

  • The Rogue and the Heather

    Christine Dorsey

    The entwined fates of a renegade Scottish beauty and a handsome British rogue come full circle. In the mists of a bygone age, even the dark shadow of war cannot destroy a love destined to outlast time.... Death and duty had called him home, but a...

  • The King's Pleasure

    Shannon Drake

    SWEEPING FROM SCOTLAND's UNTAMED HIGHLANDS TO THE TOWER OF LONDON AND WAR-TORN FRANCE... TWO PEOPLE DESTINED TO LOVE IN A DIVIDED LAND. Danielle D'Aville was the ward of Edward III, sworn to obey the King's order to marry her enemy Adrien MacLachl...

  • A Dog's Life

    Cathy East Dubowski

    When Harvey stops by Sabrina's house with Macdougal, the dog he's pet-sitting, he finds Sabrina elbow-deep in brownie batter. She's trying to bake like a normal teenager-- without using her powers. But with some of her ingredients missing and her ele...

  • No Immunity

    Susan Dunlap

    MURDER IN THE BLOOD Kiernan O'Shaughnessy's cook is an ex -- football player--big, brawny, and deft with a glazed quail. But Tchernak has always longed to be a detective. So when Kiernan, a former medical examiner, is called to the Nevada desert t...

  • The Improper Governess

    Carola Dunn

    A MYSTERIOUS MISS... From the stage of the Royal Coburg Theatre, Lissa Findlay saw Lord Ashe watching her. She knew the notorious rake was looking for a mistress, and though circumstances had forced her to become an actress to survive -- a definite ...

  • The Studio

    John Gregory Dunne

    In 1967, John Gregory Dunne asked for unlimited access to the inner workings of Twentieth Century Fox. Miraculously, he got it. For one year Dunne went everywhere there was to go and talked to everyone worth talking to within the studio. He tracked e...

  • The Trow-Wife's Treasure

    Olivier Dunrea

  • Barrenlands

    Doranna Durgin

    When his sovereign and best friend is murdered in his absence, Ehren, the First of the King's Guard, discovers that a high-level traitor is at work but finds himself in the position of having to protect the enemy. Original....

  • A Toast Before Dying

    Grace F. Edwards

    Murder casts a shadow over the soul of Harlem....When she's not studying for her master's or dropping in on her father's jazz gigs, ex-cop Mali Anderson checks out the scene at Harlem's smoky Half-Moon Bar.  She wasn't there for singer-bart...

  • Slop Goes the Soup

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

  • Operation Sovereign

    Clive Egleton

    December 1941: With the threat of imminent Japanese invasion hanging over Hong Kong, the order goes out to smuggle 2.5 million in gold from the vaults of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank of Australia, via the SS Dephic Star. Codenamed Operation Sovere...

  • Man or Mango?

    Lucy Ellmann

    By the Booker-shortlisted author of Ducks, Newburyport, a formally madcap and prescient novel about men (and women), mangos (and bees), and modern love. Reclusive Eloïse lives with her cats and her cello in an English country cottage,...

  • My Mother's Secret Life

    Rebecca Emberley

  • Face Down upon an Herbal

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    When a dead body is found in a castle library, Elizabethan herbalist Susanna, Lady Appleton, investigates a mystery that mixes passion and deadly ambition into a potent brew.... FACE DOWN UPON AN HERBAL Luxurious Madderly Castle hosts velvet tape...

  • The Eleventh Hour

    Lynn Erickson

    Jack Devlin is a man on death row, convicted of murdering his socialite wife. Eve Marchand is the public defender who believes that the evidence against him is all too-cut-and-dried. When Jack escapes and contacts Eve, she's forced to make a decision...

  • Child of Mine

    Lynn Erickson

    Sometimes you have to turn to a cop -- even if he's your ex-husband! Lena Portillo's life shattered into a million pieces when her daughter was kidnapped. She couldn't stand by and do nothing. Hostage negotiator Mike Quinn couldn't stand by, ei...

  • Journey of the Dead

    Loren D. Estleman

    In Loren D. Estleman's Journey of the Dead, when Pat Garrett killed his poker buddy, Billy the Kid, he had no idea what a terrible emotional price he would pay. Haunted by memories of Billy, Garrett wanders the New Mexico desert in a fruitless pursui...

  • Down the Garden Path

    Rachel Evans

  • Longarm and the Whiskey Creek Widow

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm must decide whether to keep trailing a trio of bank robbers or stay in the enticing clutches a the wily widow who wants him to take the place of her late husband, Whisky Creek's last marshal. Original....

  • The Service of Clouds

    Delia Falconer

    In 1907, in a village full of eccentric characters in Australia's Blue Mountains, a young pharmacist's assistant named Eureka Jones falls in love with a landscape photographer and mystic called Harry Kitchings...

  • Chomp, Chomp!

    Erica Farber; J.R. Sansevere

  • The Runelords: Sum of All Men

    David Farland

    The very Earth is in pain. Its wounds must be healed. There must arise a new king: the Earth King must be reborn. Only then will humanity have a chance to survive....

  • Angel in My Arms

    Colleen Faulkner

    Seven years ago, Celeste Kennedy had believed her fiance when he promised to love and take care of her forever. Instead, he had been cruel and deceitful, and Celeste refused to marry him -- even if it meant disobeying her father. Thrown out of her ho...

  • Shards of a Broken Crown

    Raymond E. Feist

    The demon is no more. The enemy has been routed. But all is not well... Winter's icy grasp is loosening on the world. The Emerald Queen's vanquished army has its broken back to the Bitter Sea. And treachery is its only recourse. A lackey has de...

  • Tiger's Palette

    Jacqueline Fiedler

    A ZOO FULL OF CAGEY CREATURES AM SKETCHY CLUES With a habit of looking everywhere except where she's going, thirty-one-year-old wildlife artist Caroline Canfield knows one thing for sure: accidents have a way of finding her. So after her free-spir...

  • Eloping with Emily

    Liz Fielding

    A funny thing happened on the way to the wedding... Emerald Carlisle knows her father would go to any lengths to stop a wedding between her and her penniless friend Kit Fairfax. Announcing their engagement seems a surefire way of helping Kit raise...

  • Where Does Breakfast Come From?

    David Flint

  • Rogue Star

    Michael Flynn

    It is the early twenty-first century. There's a space station being built, and the first manned flight to the asteroids is in progress. The grand plan of Mariesa Van Huyten to give humanity a big push back into space, and in the process save the huma...

  • Obsession

    Gwynne Forster

    When Selena Sutton moves from Wall Street to a little Texas town, she finds trouble in Prince Cooper, a spoiled playboy whose advances she fights off. Wanting to make amends for his older brother's behavior, Magnus Cooper shows Selena a tenderness th...

  • Somebody's Girl

    June Francis

    Katie is the light of her mother's life, and, as she is being groomed to take over the Arcadia Hotel - the family business - she has every reason to feel happy with her life. So the news that Kitty, the woman she has always called Mum, is not her rea...

  • A Mission for the People

    Mary Ann Fraser


    When Spanish missionaries arrived on the beautiful shores of what is now the Santa Barbara region of California, they built a mission that came to be called La Purisima (another name for the Virgin Mary). Its construction changed the lives of the...

  • The Book of Unicorns

    Jackie French

    there are worlds where fields of dry, baked earth are side by side with enchanted gardens, and places where the strangest creatures are the truest friends. these are the places where unicorns heal hearts and minds, and a place where dreams come true....

  • Talking Rain

    Linda French

    When a Lost Civilization Speaks -- Finding the time to interview the last living speaker of the ancient Chinook language won't be easy for history professor Teodora Morelli. Teddy's hectic schedule includes teaching, researching and cheering on her...

  • Canine Caper!

    Diana G. Gallagher

  • Black May

    Michael Gannon

    In May 1943, Allied sea and air forces won a stunning, dramatic, and vital victory over the largest and most powerful submarine force ever sent to sea, sinking forty-one German U-boats and damaging thirty-seven others. It was the forty-fifth month of...

  • Commitment Hour

    James Alan Gardner

    In the twenty-fifth century, Tober Cove is a wonderful place to be. With most of Earth's population long since departed for other planets, and with them the technology that makes such a journey possible, life here is simple and serene -- especially f...

  • The Weirdstone of Brisingamen

    Alan Garner

    From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl ServiceThe much-loved classic, finally in ebook.First published over 50 years ago, The Weirdstone o...

  • Fire and Ice

    Paul Garrison

    For more than a decade, the world's oceans have been home to Michael and Sarah Stone and their young daughter Ronnie, who live aboard the sailing yacht Veronica, bringing medical care to remote islands. But their peaceful life is shattered when a med...

  • Stop Those Pants!

    Mordicai Gerstein

    Murray has to get dressed for school. But his pants don’t want to go! They hide under the bed! They run around the room! And they end up swinging from the ceiling light! Murray’s socks try to help; his belt offers to lasso them. But the pants won...

  • Last Chance Marriage

    Rosemary Gibson

    A brief encounter... and a second chance! For Clemency Adams, one disastrous marriage was enough. She'd decided to focus on her career in the future, and that meant trying to ignore the instinctive attraction she felt for the man next door--an...

  • Let Me Call You Sweetheart

    Nancy Gideon

    TROUBLE'S BACK IN TOWN He'd always been the wrong-side-of-the-tracks bad boy of Sweetheart, Iowa -- the kind a "nice" girl like Bess Carey wasn't supposed to want. But that hadn't kept her from loving him -- not even when h...

  • Rosie's Big City Ballet

    Patricia Reilly Giff

  • Let's Go, Philadelphia!

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Philadelphia fun! Richard "Beast" Best and the kids in Ms. Rooney's class are off to see the Liberty Bell, the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin's inventions, and historic places where American colonists met and decided to start a new co...

  • Remote Feed

    David Gilbert

    “Gilbert’s dead-on mimicry of conversational rhythms makes even the most ludicrous exchanges sound plausible, and he applies physical details sparingly and potently…wickedly funny.” -- Adam Goodheart, The New York Times Book ReviewThe master...

  • Death Hits the Fan

    Jaqueline Girdner

    At a bookstore reading that features throe authors--and an only slightly larger number of audience members--Kate is surprised to see one of the participants, the elegant Shayla Greenfree, slump over in her chair. Kate's a bit bored herself...but fall...

  • Kalimantaan

    C.S. Godshalk

    One hundred and sixty years ago a young Englishman founded a private raj on the coast of Borneo. The world he created eventually took in a territory the size of England, its expansion campaigns paid for in human heads. Here, polite Victorian conventi...

  • Forest

    Laura Godwin

  • Disney Babies: Book of Sounds

    Golden Books

  • Lost in Space

    Akiva Goldsman

    The Robinson family embarks on a new adventure when they leave a crowded and decaying Earth for a new planet, but they get more than they bargained for when the evil Dr. Zachary Smith stows away on their ship...

  • Thorns of Truth

    Eileen Goudge

    The impending marriage of Rose's capable and caring son to Rachel's emotionally troubled daughter threatens to uproot a lifetime of buried secrets. Once again the two women and their families are pitted against each other...just as Rachel learns that...

  • Groucho Marx, Master Detective

    Ron Goulart

    "Hilarious." - Kirkus ReviewIn this inventive mystery set in Hollywood's golden era, Ron Goulart revives America's favorite cigar-wielding comic--Groucho Marx. Needing a project to occupy him between movie stints, Groucho agrees to act in a radio ser...

  • Mister Sandman

    Barbara Gowdy

    Gowdy’s “delightfully quirky novel”(New York Times Book Review) about an oddball Toronto family is “so brilliantly crafted and flat-out fun to read that she makes sinners of us all” (Washington Post Book World). A Publishers Weekly Best Boo...

  • Married to a Mistress

    Lynne Graham

    Race to the altar: Maxie, Darcy and Polly are The Husband Hunters. The terms of the will: the late Nancy Leeward has left each of her three god-daughters a share of her estate if they marry within a year and remain married for six months.... ...

  • Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden

    Phyllis Granoff

    The stories collected in this volume reflect the rich tradition of medieval Jain storytelling between the seventh and fifteenth centuries, from simple folk tales and lives of famous monks to sophisticated narratives of rebirth. They describe they way...

  • Vampire Bytes

    Linda Grant

    The eagerly anticipated new vampire computer game, Cult of Blood, is ready for release when its lead programmer disappears--along with the game's vital source code. Also missing: teenager Chloe Dorn, last seen playing a vampire LARP (Live Action Role...

  • No Copycats Allowed!

    Bonnie B. Graves

  • Murder, They Wrote

    Martin H. Greenberg

  • Dinosaur Habitat

    Helen V. Griffith

  • The Expert

    Lee Gruenfeld

    Computer mogul James Perrein has been arrested on a charge of selling world-shaking encryption technology to the Chinese in violation of U.S. law. For criminal attorney Rebecca Verona, it's an opportunity to advance her career and her firm's status. ...

  • Delilah Doolittle and the Motley Mutts

    Patricia Guiver

    Sunny Southern California seems an unlikely place for a British widow to call home. But pet detective Delilah Doolittle is probably i he least eccentric--if not the most civilized--of Surf City's resident population. With an astute Doberman pinscher ...

  • Storyland Adventure

    John Gurney

  • As Ever, Gordy

    Mary Downing Hahn

    Life wasn't fair.  As soon as you thought you were safe, someone pulled the rug out from under you.  And there you were, back on the train, going to the very place you thought you'd left for good.

    Gordy couldn't be less happy about moving ...

  • Apple Blossom Time

    Kathryn Haig

    Edwin Ansty died a hero's death in France in 1918. Of that, Laura, his daughter, has been assured by everyone in the village of Ansty Parva. But they are all strangely reluctant to talk about this hero, whose name does not appear on the village war m...

  • The Children

    David Halberstam

  • Our Private Lives

    D. Halpern

    Journals and diaries are the most intimate form of writing. But by defintion, these wellsprings of self-reflection are meant for the writer's eye alone, depriving the reading public of insight into a crucial step in the creative process. This inva...

  • The Trouble with Money and Other Essays

    Ian Hamilton

    This collection of essays focuses on Salman Rushdie, Stephen Spender, R.S. Thomas, Elisabeth Thomas, Elisabeth Bishop and many others. They take biography as their starting point, but their final aim is to iluminate the writer's work. Not limited sim...

  • The Short History of a Prince

    Jane Hamilton

    Walter McCloud is a boy with dreams unlike most. Introduced as a child to the genius of Balanchine and the lyricism of Tchaikovsky, Walter has always aspired to be a dancer. As he grows older, it becomes clear that despite his desire, he lacks the ta...

  • The Neutronium Alchemist: Consolidation

    Peter F. Hamilton

    The Neutronium Alchemist continues the acclaimed, bestselling saga of The Reality Dysfunction, as nano-augmented Adamists, genetically engineered Edenists, and ancient alien races confront a terror that transcends space and time. PALACES OF THE PO...

  • A White Romance

    Virginia Hamilton

    As her all-black high school becomes more racially mixed, Talley Barbour befriends a white girl who shares her passion for running and she becomes romantically involved with a handsome white classmate who is a drug dealer. Reprint....

  • Empty Cradle

    Karen Harper

    IN A CLINIC OF SHADOWS AND SECRETS, A VULNERABLE WOMAN BECOMES EASY PREY Determined to conceive the baby she and her late husband so passionately, wanted, TV anchorwoman Alexis McCall turns to a fertility clinic for help. Located in scenic New Mex...

  • Cumbayah

    HarperCollins

    "Cumbayah" is an enduring campfire song for children and a source of inspiration for adults. Though its roots are in the African-American tradition, it speaks to people of many different cultures, ages, and religious. With power and grace, Floyd Coop...

  • Death in Paradise

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    A courageous Pulitzer Prize-winning ex-reporter with an unparalleled talent for deduction, Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins has unraveled some murderous mysteries in the latter years of her long, event filled life. But this time a killer has struck perilous...

  • Student Body:, The: A Novel

    Jane Harvard

    What happens when the students at America's oldest university enter the world's oldest profession?
            The Student Body is the smartest, sexiest beach book of the year, written by four Harvard graduates who are as diverse as their char...