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New Books List: 579 titles

  • Into the Land of the Lost

    Tony Abbott

    Aha! Lord Sparr has put Princess Keeah under a magic spell. Eric, Julie, and Neal can help her if they go to the Land of the Lost. But only ghosts live there. And if they don't get out soon, the kids will turn into ghosts themselves!...

  • Dear Will

    Karl Ackerman

    A delightful new twist on the comedy of manners, Dear Will is a wry look at love lost and found through the eyes of a perplexed but altogether charming man.

    At forty-one, Will Gerard's life finally seems to be coming together. He has worked in pu...

  • When a Man Loves a Woman

    Alina Adams

    With his rugged good looks and undeniable charm, Dr. James Elliot is never at a loss for women. Lately, the hospital gossips have been buzzing about Elliot and his best friend and colleague, Dr. Deborah Brody. But their relationship is strictly plato...

  • Magnolia

    Ginny Aiken

    Proud of her Southern heritage and Confederate ancestors who settled the town of Bellamy, VA, Magnolia Bellamy is determined not to let Yankee restoration expert Clay Marlowe get the best of her. She's overseeing the funds Clay needs to restore the p...

  • Lady Catherine's Necklace

    Joan Aiken

    Joan Aiken, one of Jane Austen's most sparkling successors, takes up Austen's pen yet again, this time continuing where Pride and Prejudice left off in Lady Catherine's Necklace.In Austen's classic novel, the arrogant Lady Catherine de Bourgh tried v...

  • Heart of Gold // Corazon De Oro

    Elaine Alberro

    Known as "Miami's darling couple," beautiful Natalia Perez and her ex-fiance, Miguelito Rodriguez, pretend there are still sparks between them while they co-host their hit television morning show. But off-air, Natalia wants nothing more to do with M...

  • White Mars: Or, the Mind Set Free : A 21St-Century Utopia

    Brian W. Aldiss

    A breathtaking vision of a utopian future on Mars by one of science fiction’s most renowned authors In the middle decades of the twenty-first century, the corporate powers on Earth have established a thriving colony on Mars as an alternative to li...

  • Custom-Built Cowboy

    Carrie Alexander

    "A custom-built cowboy," marveled Grace. Could he be real? The man was magnificent -- everything a fantasy cowboy should be. Beneath the brim of a silver-gray Stetson, his eyes were a deep, piercing green, staring out at her from a sun-browned fac...

  • The Word Eater

    Mary Amato

    Life is miserable for sixth grader Lerner Chanse at her new school. It looks like Lerner is destined to be a SLUG (Sorry Losers Under Ground) until she finds a magical worm that eats printed words instead of dirt. If Fip eats a word, that item simply...

  • Just Say Yes!

    Caroline Anderson

    Time to take another leap? Matthew had fallen for Georgia the moment he sat opposite her on a train. Accidentally walking off with the wrong mobile phone gave him the ideal opportunity to see her again. After her late husband had left her with a pil...

  • Harry's Home

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

    Harry enjoys visiting his grandfather's farm and seeing the homes of all the animals, but in the end he is happy to return to his own home in the city where he lives with his mom. By the creators of The Big Book of Families. ...

  • Playing Solitaire

    Nancy Antle

    Living with her grandfather in a small Oklahoma town, fourteen-year-old Ellie is in constant fear that she will be approached by her father, who is running from the police because he attacked her and mutilated her hand....

  • The Conqueror

    Shari Anton

    THE LADY WOULD BE HIS BRIDE! The promise of land and marriage to the beautiful Lady Claire, his liege lord's youngest daughter, had been reason enough to send Bernard Fitzgibbons to fight in the Crusades for four long years. Years that turned th...

  • The Next Passage

    K.A. Applegate

    In this middle grade “choose your own adventure” story, the reader decides what choices to make when an alien threatens to kill their character’s father.It’s time for our next mission and it’s up to you to decide whether you want to join us...

  • The Other

    K.A. Applegate

    Ax and the Animorphs have always believed Ax was the only non-infested Andalite on Earth. That he alone survived the terrible battle between his people and the Yeerks.Until now.There were other survivors. Other Andalites. And they're here on Earth. T...

  • Lara Gets Lucky

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another...but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Lara gets lucky when she spots Lucas and Nina alone together. She's been looking for ways to ...

  • Loving Charity

    Catherine Archibald

    SEEKING REVENGE... Vengeance was Jason Wade's only purpose, the Boston lawyer had sworn to avenge his wife's death. Tracking her suspected killer to Wisconsin, he knew that to entertain a flirtation with the lovely Charity Applegate was to court di...

  • Shadow World

    James Axler

  • Lost Geography

    Charlotte Bacon

    A heart-breaking novel by a prize-winning young writerIn a debut novel that is a triumph of wit and feeling, Charlotte Bacon explores the transitions that sixty years visit upon the members of an unforgettable family--a Saskatchewan woman and her Sco...

  • Baby on Her Doorstep

    Stella Bagwell
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    Though the baby had been left on Caroline Pardee's doorstep by mistake, sweet Caroline knows she and surprised new dad Joseph Garcia were meant to be a family . . ....

  • New York Graphic

    Adam Lloyd Baker

    A delicious, darkly comic work of new urban noir from an original new literary talent.Meet Virgil Strauss, a physically and emotionally unkempt yet somehow appealing tabloid photographer whose passion is bearing photographic witness--Ă  la Weegee--to...

  • The Losers' Club

    Lise H. Baker

    While investigating an insurance assignment involving an accidental death, Cal Brantley turns up clues that lead her down a dangerous path. Teamed up with an ex-LAPD cop for the assignment, Cal also faces an even greater challenge--stopping a frie...

  • A Murder in Mayfair

    Robert Barnard

    Can the rich get away with murder, or is there always a price? Two days in May bring Colin Pinnock’s career to a peak. His party wins a stunning election victory and he wins a new government office. What a pity that among the congratulations pourin...

  • Lucy

    Jessica Barondes

  • The White Dove

    Lois Bartholomew

    As they take refuge in ancient caves and dense forests, cross cold rapids, and travel by the dark of night, Tasha and her companions -- the wanderer Ari, the kitchen boy Gil, and the child Raina -- flee a repressive kingdom. Their journey holds many ...

  • Killer Material

    Dan Barton

    Some kinds of thievery cause not only material loss but outrage--Great Aunt Annie's cameo brooch, for instance. Or a stand-up comic's routine. So when Bill Kincaid, standing in at the last minute for a friend who unexpectedly cancels his gig, finds t...

  • Dinosaur Storybook: Special Edition

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • Under the Stars

    Patricia Bedford

    ALL WORK AND NO PLAY.. ...might do wonders for a gal's career, but not her love life! That's about to change for corporate climber Abby Harris. When a pal drags her off to the middle of nowhere on a weekend kayaking trip, Abby reluctantly leaves h...

  • Like Normal People

    Karen E. Bender

    A Los Angeles Times bestseller and one of the Washington Post's best books of the Like Normal People charts the lives of "three richly textured characters whose irreducible idiosyncrasies, griefs, longings, and loves will surely expand our sense of w...

  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2000: The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Chosen by the Science-Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Amer

    Gregory Benford

    A collection of the best of the fiction and poetry that earned 1999 Nebula Awards, bestowed by the Sciencefiction and Fantasy Writers of America, includes original essays on the latest achievements in the genre and stories by Jane Yolen, Joe Haldeman...

  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2000

    Gregory Benford

    A collection of the best of the fiction and poetry that earned 1999 Nebula Awards, bestowed by the Sciencefiction and Fantasy Writers of America, includes original essays on the latest achievements in the genre and stories by Jane Yolen, Joe Haldeman...

  • Star in the Mirror

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

  • The Berenstain Bears Go In and Out

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    What do cubs like to do best? Next to going up and down on an escalator, they like to go in and out through revolving doors at the fast food place. This super-simple Early Step into Reading book guarantees beginning reader success!...

  • Devilish

    Jo Beverley

    Two of the strongest wills in England clash when Lord Rothgar is commanded by the king to escort the fiercely independent Diana Westmount, Countess of Arradale, to London. Though Rothgar, tortured by a tragic secret, has become a master of resisting ...

  • The Marriage Deal

    Helen Bianchin

    A husband's price... Sandrine hadn't forgotten the thrilling passion she'd shared with her husband. But when, only six months after their wedding, Michel Nanier had forced her to chose between her career and their marriage ... Sandrine...

  • Lightning On The Sun

    Robert Bingham

    From the highly acclaimed author of Pure Slaughter Value comes this latter-day literary noir about an ex-pat in Cambodia eager to get home but taking all the wrong turns.Asher went to Cambodia to get away from Julie, his Harvard grad ex-gir...

  • No Bride but His

    Carly Bishop

    The conjugal bed was their last sanctuary... J. D. Thorne was a marked man whose cover had been blown. Ann Calder was the only person he could trust -- and when J.D. was shot and left for dead, she was the only one who could hide him... as her hus...

  • Irresistible

    Ethan Black

    Raves for Irresistible

    “GRIPPING, FAST MOVING . . . RIVETING . . . [A] STYLISH THRILLER.”
    â€"Publishers Weekly

    “SHOCKING AND STEAMY . . . IRRESISTIBLE . . . IS EXACTLY THAT. IT SEDUCES YOU, AND YOU WON’T BE ABLE TO LET GO.”...

  • Summer Battles

    Ann R. Blakeslee

  • A Rare and Radiant Mother

    Lawrence Block
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    Released in time for Mother's Day, this collection of twelve true stories of motherhood celebrates the special bond between mother and son in works by Eric Jerome Dickey, Eileen Goudge, Peter Straub, Faye Kellerman, Diana Gabaldon, Lawrence Block, St...

  • Proud Quail of the San Joaquin

    Stephen A. Bly

    Christina Swan, the local schoolteacher, is fired when two overzealous suitors brawl at her school. Angry at the unfair treatment, she seizes the opportunity to manage a fledgling ranch for her uncle and runs into the obstinate Kern Yager, a neighbor...

  • Disguised Blessing

    Georgia Bockoven

    SILVER LININGS After years of being alone, Catherine Miller thinks she's finally found happiness. Engaged to an adoring, successful executive, she lives in a luxurious house, and her beautiful fifteen-year-old daughter, Linda, is on the brink of c...

  • Preternatural Too: Gyre

    Margaret Wander Bonanno


    Karen Guerreri is an obscure writer of science fiction novels. She is half convinced that her invisibility-far from qualifying as a superpower in a world of mad-scientist villains-has simply left her alone and forgotten in the junk heap of litera...

  • Marsha Is Only a Flower

    Barbara Bottner

  • Venus

    Ben Bova

    The surface of Venus is the most hellish place in the solar system. The ground is hot enough to melt aluminum. The air pressure is so high it has crushed spacecraft landers as though they were tin cans. The sky is perpetually covered with clouds of s...

  • The Stick Game

    Peter Bowen

    With their exceptional characterizations, evocative setting, and smartly plotted mysteries, Peter Bowen's Montana novels have always fascinated readers and critics alike. In The Stick Game, Bowen's lyrical, spare writing carries us once again to a pa...

  • Plain Pleasures

    Jane Bowles

  • The Sand-Reckoner

    Gillian Bradshaw

    The Sand-Reckoner from author Gillian Bradshaw is a historical account that reimagines the life of one of ancient Greek's greatest minds. The young scholar Archimedes has just had the best three years of his life at Ptolemy's Museum at Alexandria. To...

  • An Unfortunate Woman

    Richard Brautigan

    Richard Brautigan's last novel, published in the U.S. for the first time

    Richard Brautigan was an original--brilliant and wickedly funny, his books resonated with the sixties, making him an overnight counterculture hero. Taken in its entire...

  • Elixir

    Gary Braver

    Elixir -- How far would you go to possess it? When biologist Chris Bacon headed for the unspoiled rainforests of Papua New Guinea in search of medicinal plants, he had no idea that he would bring home a rare flower rumored by a tribal shaman to ...

  • Anarchist

    Hermann Broch

  • Texas Treasure

    Betty Brooks

    HE WAS A GAMBLING MAN... Texas rancher and gambler Colt Morgan was riding the vengeance trail to find the gang responsible for murdering his family. When a failed raid left him saddled with feisty Amelia Spencer, a beautiful housemaid who'd just...

  • In My Quest for Personal Growth, the Rest of Me Grew Too!

    Toni Sorenson Brown

    SHIRLEY, YOU CAN DO IT!What do you get when you combine a mother, a wife, and a friend, with a helping of humor, a smidgen of self-help, and a dash of dead-on wisdom? You get Shirley, a woman just like you: looking for answers, trying to stretch the...

  • Cross-ties

    Bonnie Bryant

    Lisa Atwood is spending the Thanksgiving holiday in California. But so much has happened in the last months that she can't relax and enjoy herself. Then her brother arrives with a big surprise, throwing the family into turmoil, and making Lisa questi...

  • The Haunting of Torre Abbey

    Carole Bugge

    "Watson, do you believe in ghosts?"With this question, Sherlock Holmes shatters the calm of a quiet evening in their London flat and, with Dr. John Watson at his side, embarks upon a particularly strange case. Holmes has received a request for aid fr...

  • Looking for Miracles

    Lynn Bulock

    Lori Harper was on her own. Recently widowed with a young son to raise and a baby on the way, she had no one she could rely on. And when she went into labor in her isolated home with no way to call for help, she prayed for a miracle. . . Delivering...

  • Wanna Buy an Alien?

    Eve Bunting

    Ben is excited and more than a little nervous when he receives a strange package on his birthday. Inside are photographs of himself . . . with an alien! The other contents are just as weird-a note, a tape, and two warm vein-covered rocks. Even when h...

  • Swan in Love

    Eve Bunting

  • Kite

    Burgess

    Taylor loves birds and collects eggs. He has the rare opportunity to enhance his collection when a pair of red kites nest nearby. The only problem is, the red kites are extremely rare - only twenty-five are left in the country. Taylor's father, a gam...

  • Storm Front

    Jim Butcher

    HARRY DRESDEN--WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates, No Love Potions, Endless Purses, Or Other Entertainment Harry Dresden is the best at what he does. Well, technically, he's the only at what...

  • Michael, Wait for Me

    Patricia Calvert

    When her older sister brings home her new boyfriend for the summer, Sarah is very upset, yet as she gets to know him, she really begins to enjoy his company and thus is devastated when he is sent away after her sister ends their relationship....

  • Whose Little Girl Are You?

    Bethany Campbell

    With one phone call, Jaye Garrett's life has turned into a nightmare. The beautiful and successful Boston businesswoman has been summoned to her childhood home to receive shocking news. Her brother, Patrick, has fallen desperately ill and needs a bon...

  • Ultimate Risk

    Joanna Campbell

    Don't miss the exciting adventures of a new generation of Thoroughbred horses and riders at Winterbrook Farm!

    A great opportunity...

    Now that Christine Reese and her cousin Melanie Graham are jockeys, they want to r...

  • Fat Chance

    Terry Campbell

    2001 Bookseller's Best Finalist!

    FAT CHANCE: Lindsey Michaels goes undercover to learn the real scoop on a new weight reduction program. Hal Randall is in danger of losing his funding and ready to do anything to keep that from happening. The ...

  • Firehouse

    Susan Canizares

  • Sarah and the Naked Truth

    Elisa Carbone

    When 10-year-old Sarah wakes up with a wad of bubble gum stuck in her hair, she has no idea how much trouble it will cause. First, she has to cut off her long hairâ€"then she’s mistaken for a boy on her new basketball team. At least she has good fr...

  • The Sunday Tertulia

    Lori Marie Carlson

    Claire is a young, struggling New Yorker whose understanding of life is enriched after a group of older and wiser Latina women bring her into a close-knit circle: their Upper West Side tertulia. Once a month, they come together for a Sunday aftern...

  • A Wife Worth Keeping

    Rosemary Carter

    After four blissful years of marriage to Max Anderson, Samantha had been devastated to discover that he'd been unfaithful to her. Too hurt to believe Max's innocence, Samantha had left him and taken their little daughter, Annie, with her. One...

  • All of Us

    Raymond Carver

    A rich collection of poems from not only “one of the great short story writers of our time” (The Philadelphia Inquirer), but one of America’s most large-hearted and affecting poets.Like Raymond Carver’s stories, the more than 300 poems in All...

  • Ghost of the Well of Souls

    Jack L. Chalker

    On the mysterious Well World, the evil tyrant Josich and his dark agents search desperately for the eight scattered pieces of the fabled Straight Gate. Whoever possesses the Gate will wield enormous power, traveling between universes at the speed of ...

  • Hidden in Texas

    Ginger Chambers

    Katlin Brown wants answers. And she'll do whatever it takes to get them. Including lie her way onto the Parker Ranch. . . When is a reporter a reporter? When she's Katlin Brown pretending to be one so she can get close to Quint McCabe -- the cowboy w...

  • Makeover

    Lynda Chater

    Juliet has moved to London, in theory to start a new career, but in practice to join her friend in the hope that one of these days her romantic feelings for him might be reciprocated. Carmen is a successful TV presenter. They might never have met, no...

  • Round Robin

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    She chose green and blue for the colors of Elm Creek Manor. She chose blue for truth and green for new beginnings... The Elm Creek Quilters have begun a round robin ... a quilt created by sewing concentric patchwork to a central block as it is passe...

  • Gorgeous

    Sam Childs

    Little Zeb, according to his mother, is tip-top and gorgeous. And much like any toddler just starting to grasp language, he has begun repeating words he hears without understanding their meaning. Fortunately for Little Zeb, the lion he meets is more ...

  • Rent-A-Dad

    Judy Christenberry

    Every Man Has His Price! Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to Wyoming to put themselves on the auction block! ...

  • Soccer Duel

    Matt Christopher

    There are two sides to every story.... All Renny Harding wants is to play center striker and help his team, the Blue Hornets, win the championship. All Bryce McCormack wants is to win the championship for his team, the Yellow Jackets, and take hom...

  • Secret Weapon

    Matt Christopher

    Lisa Gaddy is a starting fullback for the 'Cats and she plays her position well--except for one thing. She's small for her age, so her throw-ins from the sidelines don't go very far. Sometimes the ball winds up landing in front of an opponent instead...

  • Tennis Ace

    Matt Christopher

    Steve must tell his father the truth...before it's too late! Steve wishes he had as much drive to win at tennis as his older sister, Ginny. He knows nothing would please his father more. But the truth is, Ginny is the real tennis ace in the family...

  • Bright Beetle

    Rick Chrustowski


    Follow the life of one ladybug as she journeys from the egg to adulthood.

    On a warm, sunny day at the end of summer, a ladybug lays her yellow eggs on a leaf. Soon, each egg hatches into a tiny larva with a huge appetite for aphids. Despit...

  • The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living

    Martin Clark

    In this masterful debut, Martin Clark proves to be the heir apparent of great Southern raconteurs and the envy of more seasoned novelists as he takes us on a frantic tour of the modern south.Hung over, beaten by the unforgiving sun, bitter at his est...

  • Baby Alligator

    Ginjer L. Clarke

    Deep in the swamp, a baby alligator crawls out of its broken shell. What's in store for this little reptile? Follow it through its first adventures, and get a glimpse into the world of these amazing creatures. The easy-to-read text describes how alli...

  • Traditional Celtic Stories

    Lindsay Clarke

  • His Wild Young Bride

    Donna Clayton

    HER GUARDIAN GROOM. As Cassie Warrington's guardian, it was Blake Campbell's duty to save her from her own rash decisions. The world-weary businessman would do anything to shelter the young beauty's spirited innocence. So when Cassie announced her ...

  • Eagle-Sage

    David B. Coe

    Two Lands in Collision The winds of war are blowing through the fast-changing land of Tobyn-Ser. This peaceful land of verdant forests is being ravaged by those who are destroying its natural beauty in the name of "progress." Jaryd, a young, power...

  • The Lost Band

    Don Coldsmith

    White Moon's Dream...

    For the Forest Band of the People, summer is a peaceful time of hunting and gathering. But when a band of Shaved-heads brutally attack, the People's women and children are carried off into slavery. Most accept their fate,...

  • Santa Fe Death Trap

    Judd Cole

  • U-571

    Max Allan Collins

    Hell is Under Water

    Their mission was a audacious and daring as it was dangerous. A crew of American sailors in a disguised submarine would rendezvous with U-571--a crippled German U-boat in enemy waters--storm aboard, and ...

  • Secret Library

    Cassandra Colt

  • A Royal Marriage

    Cara Colter

    FIT FOR A PRINCE! Rachel Rockford needed a knight in shining armor ... and Prince Damon Montague needed a wife. It didn't hurt that Rachel's adorable baby daughter provided the missing link Damon's parents and country demanded. Once, he'd had ever...

  • Creature Discomforts

    Susan Conant

    A DOGGED KILLER When Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter regains consciousness atop a cliff in Acadia National Park, she has no idea who she is. Not even the arrival of two beautiful and oddly friendly dogs, who happen to be her own Alaskan malamute...

  • Mishmash and Substitute Teacher

    Molly Cone

    To Pete, the end of the world is beginning to look like a very good thing. And all the better if it comes before Monday -- before the test and before the substitute teacher blames him for that incident with the aquarium or for stealing back his big, ...

  • What Happened on Planet Kid

    Jane Leslie Conly


    A moving story of the strength and fragility of children in difficult situations, and of the power of imagination.

    Twelve-year-old Dawn is spending the summer on her aunt and uncle's farm while her mother recovers from a serious operation ...

  • The Lion's Share

    Chris Conover

    Prince Leo discovers a new treasure -- books

    When Prince Leo, a lion, is born with wings on his back, his father bellows, "Our son will go far!" It's not long before that declaration takes on a literal meaning. The day arrives when Leo flaps h...

  • Fault Lines

    Natasha Cooper

    Trish Maguire is furious when the social worker she's depending on for her latest case fails to turn up for court. But when she finds out that the social worker has been murdered, Trish is determined to find the killer....

  • Misery Express // Blue Star Tattoo

    Ralph Cotton

    THROUGH THE BADLANDS THE WAGON ROLLED.... When a fellow lawman falls ill, Sam Burrack-better known as the Ranger-agrees to take the reins of the infamous jail wagon known as the Misery Express. Driving straight across Arizona territory, the Ranger...

  • Jake & Christy

    Elizabeth Craft

    Christy's mom thinks Jake is the perfect guy for her. Sure, he's cute and smart, but he's also pretty obnoxious. But it just so happens that Christy and Jake's mothers are best friends. That's why when Jake surprised her by asking her to the prom, Ch...

  • A Sort of Homecoming

    Robert Cremins

    Coming home for Christmas is a cliché Tom Iremonger hopes to explode.

    After a six-month "transcontinental lost weekend" spent blowing his grandfather's legacy, Ireland's self-proclaimed Greatest Resource returns to Dublin armed only with his ...

  • Baseball Ballerina Strikes Out

    Kathryn Cristaldi

    Here's the sequel to the best-selling Baseball Ballerina. This time, Baseball Ballerina's team has finally made it to the play-offs. But Baseball Ballerina can't even get to first base! With a little monkey business and a lot of laughs, her team is a...

  • The Marrying Man

    Millie Criswell

    Leaping into overnight marriage and motherhood, Sarah Jane Parker found herself wed to first-class 'catch' Ash Morgan. But would he give her his stamp of approval -- or would he try to send her back when the hidden truth about her came out? 'Marryin'...

  • The Top-Secret Journal of Fiona Claire Jardin

    Robin Cruise

    In this humorous, heartbreaking--and hopeful--novel, a young girl struggles to come to terms with her parents’ divorce. Funny, poignant, and above all, honest, Fiona’s journal entries reveal a roller coaster of emotions as she tries to cope in a ...

  • The Magehound

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Some are born with magic. Some without. Matteo, un-magical counselor to the mighty of Halruaa, has devoted his life to the truth -- until he finds that he may have a hidden spark of magic after all. Now, with only a street waif for a companion, ...

  • Inspector Hopper

    Doug Cushman

    Private bug on the case Inspector Hopper is a detective with a feel -- and feelers -- for mysteries. With the help of his partner, McBugg, this tiny supersleuth can crack any case!...

  • Cherokee Sister

    Debbie Dadey

    When Allie MacAllister’s best friend, Leaf Sweetwater, invites her to try on her buckskin dress, Allie couldn’t be happier. Until soldiers interrupt the girls’ fun and round up Leaf’s family, forcing them from their home and taking Allie with...

  • Almost a Cowboy

    Ruth Jean Dale

    There was only one hitch to the Keene triplets' idea for a "women's only" week at the Bar-K Dude Ranch. Simon Barnett -- a stubborn MAN, who took one look at Toni Keene and decided he wanted the full Dude Ranch experience... immediately. When she sai...

  • A Precious Inheritance

    Emily Dalton

    Family of four (five?) Three precious little bundles of trouble had dropped into Dr. Spencer Jones's life. And though the word kids wasn't part of the eligible bachelor's vocabulary, Spencer vowed to protect and cherish the girls as h...

  • The Cattle King's Mistress

    Emma Darcy

    Mistress to a King? Nathan King, powerful head of his legendary family's cattle empire, has everything -- except a woman to share his life. Miranda Wade has nothing -- except a past she is determined to leave behind, and the hope that her new ...

  • Clash of Star-Kings

    Avram Davidson

    Set during the reign of the Aztecs in Mexico, two alien forces, dormant for centuries, enter a confrontation on a remote mountain that will decide Earth's fate. The Great Old Ones benevolently ruled before the cruel Aztecs were shaped by the Huitzil,...

  • The Cowboy and the Heiress

    Anna De Forest

    A RUGGED RANCHER Lang Nelson didn't know if he was hiring a cook, or taking in a stray. Beth Richards said she knew her way around a kitchen, and the Rafter N, the Colorado ranch that had been in the Nelson family for generations, needed help in...

  • The Rose Grower

    Michelle de Kretser

    Writing with poignancy and mesmerizing detail, Michelle de Kretser has penned a haunting tale set against the madness of the French Revolution -- a wistful, elegantly rendered novel of unrequited love and personal triumph in a world gone tragically a...

  • The Marriage Badge

    Sharon De Vita

    When he swooped through smoke and carried her from the building, Brenna Baxter could barely catch her breath. Then a glimpse of his blue eyes, chiseled features and strong hands made her hold tight. Was her savior truly the grumpy, woman-hating town ...

  • Nick

    Genell Dellin

    The Woman For the sake of her unborn child, Callie Sloane is willing to endure the hardships of this wild Western land---but not her attraction to an untamed half-Cherokee renegade. She lost everything to love once before, and she's not making tha...

  • Here We All Are

    Tomie DePaola

    Tomie thinks that nothing could be more exciting than moving into 26 Fairmount Avenue until his mother tells him they are going to need the just-in-case room for the new baby. Tomie can't wait for his baby sister to arrive, wearing a red ribbon in he...

  • Night Hoops

    Carl Deuker

    Nick Abbott and Trent Dawson have nothing in common but basketball. It's sophomore year and Nick is trying to deal with his parents' divorce. He also really wants to be a star on the basketball team. Trent, his neighbor, is angry, and aggressive. The...

  • Blood Rain

    Michael Dibdin

    Aurelio Zen -- cynical and tough, yet worn down from years of law enforcement -- has just been given the worst assignment he could imagine. He has been sent to the heart of hostile territory: Sicily, the ancient, beautiful island where blood has been...

  • Fish Sammich with Cheese

    Eric Jerome Dickey
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    Released in time for Mother's Day, this collection of twelve true stories of motherhood celebrates the special bond between mother and son in works by Eric Jerome Dickey, Eileen Goudge, Peter Straub, Faye Kellerman, Diana Gabaldon, Lawrence Block, St...

  • O'Toole's Promise

    Tina Donahue

    CAUGHT BETWEEN PRIDE AND PASSION... Spirited Mexican beauty Damita Delacruz simmered with hatred for Brendan O'Toole, the American who now owned her beloved California rancho -- and whose offer of marriage she defiantly refused. To keep her fami...

  • Ten Go Tango

    Arthur Dorros

    Here's the band--they play and play.1 osprey dances ballet....

    That twirling osprey joins a host of other swinging animals in this counting jamboree. By the time ten flamingos go tango, the dance floor expands in a special foldout with 55 a...

  • Europa Strike

    Ian Douglas

    2040 Ruins of an ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind. 2042 In the gray dust of the Earth's Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions...and a grim warning. 206...

  • Isaac Asimov's Mother's Day

    Gardner Dozois

    Sci-fi stylists Connie Willis, Tanith Lee, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, and others serve up a Mother's Day feast in this collection of award-winning fiction from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine. Original....

  • Explorers: Sf Adventures to Far Horizons

    Gardner Dozois

    Distant planets, galaxies, alien races--the universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories from the most inventive writers in the field, including:Poul Anderson...

  • Variations on a Theme

    Eileen Dreyer
    in

    Released in time for Mother's Day, this collection of twelve true stories of motherhood celebrates the special bond between mother and son in works by Eric Jerome Dickey, Eileen Goudge, Peter Straub, Faye Kellerman, Diana Gabaldon, Lawrence Block, St...

  • The Medusa Stone

    Jack Du Brul

    TEN YEARS AGO, THE SPY SATELLITE MEDUSA BURNED UPON RE-ENTRY--BUT NOT BEFORE ITS SENSORS REVEALED A SECRET BURIED DEEP IN THE EARTH, HIDDEN FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS FROM THE EYES OF HUMANITY. A PRICELESS DISCOVERY THAT SOME WOULD DIE TO FIND--AND KILL ...

  • Nightfall at Algemron

    Diane Duane

  • Family Reunion

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Brother Brother, Sister Sister

    Helen Dunmore

  • Pie Went By

    Carolyn Dunn

  • Appearing Tonight! Mary Heather Elizabeth Livingstone

    Olivier Dunrea

  • White Nights

    Susan Edwards

    Beyond the swirling depths of the Platte River, Eirica Macauley saw the road to better days: the remainder of the Oregon Trail. But the journey that she had begun with a husband, she now faced by herself. Still, the young widow awoke with new hope. ...

  • Skeleton Dance

    Aaron Elkins

    There is a small village in France that is well known for pate de foie gras ... and bones. Boasting the largest concentration of prehistoric fossils in Europe, Les Eyzies-de Tayac is the home of the prestigious Institut de Prehistoire where eminent s...

  • Daily Life in a Southern Plantation 1853

    Paul Erickson

    Enhanced with photos and full-color illustrations, this book provides middle readers with an up-close look at the workings and day-to-day operations of a Louisiana cotton plantation during the time of slavery. Reprint....

  • The Power of UN

    Nancy Etchemendy

    Until a week ago, Gib Finney was just a regular guy, shooting spitballs and messing up his science experiments. But when he finds a mysterious device called the Unnder, everything changes. Gib discovers that the Unner has the power to erase any and a...

  • Wedding Bell Blues

    Wendy Etherington

    CAN'T STAND THE HEAT? Everyone in town assumes that pretty caterer Maggie Howell did in her two-timing husband with a tainted truffle. Fact is, the good-for-nothing guy dropped dead when she caught him in bed with his bleached blond girlfriend...

  • Longarm and the Nevada Belly Dancer

    Tabor Evans

    DANCING WITH THE DEVIL Welcome to Cairo...but this ain't Egypt. It's a silver town in Nevada, where a foursome of fierce riders just heisted a post office, but only one escaped with his life. So where's the cash? Before one of 'em kicked the bucke...

  • Breach of Promise

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    Stung by Love The village of Chipping Campden is abuzz with gossip when the local honey merchant, Miss Susan Fairford, leases her former home to a mysterious young gentleman. Miss Fairford went from belle to beekeeper after her marriage to a cad w...

  • Dear Diary

    Sara Fanelli

  • Falling for Chloe

    Diane Farr

    Hidden Love Dashing Sylvester "Gil" Gilliland would no more think of ravishing -- much less marrying -- his comely childhood friend Chloe than he would his own sister. But Gil's mother happily sees more to their bond than either yet re...

  • The Knockout

    Casey Fedel

    THE LADY IS A CHAMP Steven Teel runs a real gym... not a chrome-and-vinyl playpen featuring the latest fads in exercising. And the strapping ex-boxer can't believe the beauty who just walked in is actually serious about training. Sheila Tennant ce...

  • Dark Gold

    Christine Feehan

    They were masters of the darkness, searching through eternity for a mistress of the light ... WAS HE A MAN ... OR A MIRACLE? Alexandria Houton would sacrifice anything--even her life--to protect her orphaned little brother. But when both encoun...

  • Anything for You

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    ANYTHING BUT LOVE Working as head cook of a logging camp that served over a hundred hungry lumberjacks was no piece of cake. But Gypsy Elliott could handle it--or so she thought. Until a smooth-talking jack with a broken ankle and a brazen wit invad...

  • Soul Mates

    Carol Finch

    TOO HOT TO HANDLE Nate Channing was back in town. And Katy Bates could almost see him leaning leisurely against his rattletrap car, wearing a white T-shirt and faded jeans. She remembered how his shaggy hair shone like a raven's wing, how his m...

  • The Twelve Princesses

    Gordon Fitchett

  • Chocolate Chip Cookie Murder

    Joanne Fluke

    Take one amateur sleuth. Mix in some eccentric Minnesota locals. Add a generous dollop of crackling suspense, and you've got the recipe for this delicious new mystery series featuring Hannah Swensen, the red-haired, cookie-baking heroine whose ginger...

  • Ladysmith

    Giles Foden

    From the author of the Whitbread Award-winning The Last King of Scotland comes a spellbinding tale of a town under siege in colonial Africa and a young woman who finds love and freedom in the midst of a devastating war.The year is 1899, and the South...

  • Rising

    Darnella Ford

    She should have been able to trust him...."Night sweats were my dance, especially in the Huston home. They were a continuation of the visions I had experienced in Dorchester, only here, they were much more violent."Set in a wealthy community in north...

  • The Protocol

    Steven Ford

    What seven patients don't know could kill them... And five million others. Protocol is breaking down at a San Francisco hospital--and so are the patients. A fatal virus has claimed seven test subjects in an unauthorized "treatment" for cancer. ...

  • The Morning After

    Suzanne Forster

    The marriage she can't remember The kiss she'll never forget... The man she turns to for help... The world that turns on her... Someone has stolen a chunk of Temple Banning's life, but that's the least of it. They've altered her past and put he...

  • Seven Sisters

    Earlene Fowler

    Meet Benni Harper...a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs-and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cri...

  • Space Dog Finds Treasure

    Vivian French

  • Space Dog to the Rescue

    Vivian French

    The sun is up, and the moons are sleeping - all except one. Beeper Moon is crying great, gooey tears that are dripping all over Planet Beep. Will everyone on planet Beep drown in green cheese? Not if Space Dog comes to the rescue!...

  • One Lonely Sea Horse

    Saxton Freymann

  • The Valiant

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Three hundred years ago, the S.S. Valiant was destroyed during an ill-fated attempt to cross the legendary Galactic Barrier. Starfleet had always assumed that the Valiant had perished with all hands aboard, until a pair of unusual humanoids arrive at...

  • Shannon's Law

    Charles E. Friend

    THE LAW OF THE LAND Clay Shannon is a straight-shooting, tough-talking deputy sheriff who's been charged with bringing order to rough-and-tumble Whiskey Creek, a mining town where robbery and murder run rampant. But with one lawman already killed, S...

  • Mirror Image

    Diana Gabaldon
    in

    Released in time for Mother's Day, this collection of twelve true stories of motherhood celebrates the special bond between mother and son in works by Eric Jerome Dickey, Eileen Goudge, Peter Straub, Faye Kellerman, Diana Gabaldon, Lawrence Block, St...

  • The Bachelor Trap

    Kristin Gabriel

    Café Romeo: Whether you're looking for lattes or love, you'll find both at Café Romeo... Food critic Nina Walker needed a bodyguard to protect her from a temperamental chef who didn't appreciate her review. Ex-boxer Jake Callahan seemed like the...

  • Pooh's Fall Harvest

    Isabel Gaines

  • For Duty and Honor

    George Galdorisi

    In the volatile waters of the Persian Gulf, America's might is spearheaded by the USS Carl Vinson. Under the steady command of Admiral Heater Robinson---a respected leader and unparalleled officer---the most powerful carrier battle group ever assembl...

  • Her Baby's Father

    Katherine Garbera

    Reese Howard's directive was to deliver one very fertile Sabrina MacFadden to the local sperm bank and gather titillating tidbits for his article. Under no circumstance was he to kiss the delectable Sabrina senseless, father her unborn child, then fo...

  • Jason and the Argonauts

    Craig Shaw Gardner

  • After the Parade

    Dorothy Garlock

    Rawlings, Oklahoma, 1945. Johnny Henry is coming home from the Pacific, and his estranged wife, Kathleen, secretly watches him step off the train to a hero's welcome. Her heart races when she sees him; his breaks when he doesn't spot her. Misundersta...

  • Like No Other

    Melanie George

    A DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH Kate was used to the rougher side of life. Raised in an orphanage, she survived as a cut-purse on the streets of London. So when her world collided with the rich in a botched robbery attempt, she expected no less than prison. ...

  • Wagons West!

    Roy Gerrard

    Saddle up for excitement on the Oregon Trail!

    Way back in eighteen-fifty, when Americans were thrifty,
    The times were hard, so most folks had to toil;
    My mama, my pa and me labored hard to guarantee
    That we'd earn a living from the ba...

  • The Cabal and Other Stories

    Ellen Gilchrist

    “The world Ellen Gilchrist unfolds in her vivid new story collection is rich with intimate exchanges between finely etched characters.” -- The New York Times Book Review Ellen Gilchrist proves herself once again to be a master of the intertwini...

  • At the Dance

    Golden Books

  • A Little Monstrous Problem: Super Shape Book

    Golden Books

  • Enchanted Christmas

    Golden Books

  • Dreamworld

    Jane Goldman

    In dreamworld, reality is the nightmare When it comes to crime in Dreamworld, the sprawling Florida vacation resort might as well be never-never land. That's because the bad things that happen there never reach the press. As an ambitious rookie cop ...

  • The Crimson Spell

    F. Goldsborough

    Evil thoughts and dark desires Boil and burn in a wicked brew! Throw bate and fear into the fire -- May friends and lovers both be true! Prue, Piper, and Phoebe don't know that a coven of warlocks is hunting them. They don't know that one of the warl...

  • Peregrine

    Joan Elizabeth Goodman

    Driven by fear that King Stephen will force her to marry the odious Sir Runcival, fifteen-year-old Lady Edith takes leave of Cheswick Manor. In the year 1144 she and her faithful nurse, Dame Joan, set forth on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In going,...

  • Looking After Lulu

    Eileen Goudge
    in

    Released in time for Mother's Day, this collection of twelve true stories of motherhood celebrates the special bond between mother and son in works by Eric Jerome Dickey, Eileen Goudge, Peter Straub, Faye Kellerman, Diana Gabaldon, Lawrence Block, St...

  • Candle for a Corpse

    Ann Granger

    WHO MOURNS THE FORGOTTEN DEPARTED? The last of the Greshams has died in the quaint Cotswolds village of Bamford. But the dowager's interment unearths something shocking in the Gresham family plot: the remains of a pregnant teenager who disappeared...

  • Wicked Fix

    Sarah Graves

    DO-IT-YOURSELF KILLER FIXES SMALL-TOWN THUG For ex-Wall Streeter Jacobia Tiptree and her teenaged son, Sam, September promises tranquil days winter-proofing their rambling handyman's special of a home in Eastport, Maine. But there's nothing idyll...

  • The Observatory

    Emily Grayson

    STAR-CROSSED Liz Mallory has always lived in the shadow of her glamorous twin sister, Harper, a talented artist who left everything -- including Liz -- behind to become a famous artist. Now, years later, tragedy reunites these estranged women. Rea...

  • Lord Langdon's Kiss

    Elena Greene

    THE IMPERIOUS PEER James Mayland, the earl of Langdon, is horrified when he discovers that his feckless younger brother is betrothed to Nell Ashley from the vicarage. He's certain that Nell, who only has a meager dowry, is a fortune hunter. Now, ...

  • Mariah Delaney Lending Library Disaster

    Sheila Greenwald

    By the time Mariah Delaney reaches the sixth grade, she's started to come up with all kinds of moneymaking schemes. To her book-loving parents' dismay, she is much more interested in business than books. In a desperate effort to show Mariah the joys ...

  • Mariah Delany's Author-of-the-Month Club

    Sheila Greenwald

  • How It Was for Me

    Andrew Sean Greer

    In the title story of this collection, neighborhood boys crouch in a backyard toolshed, and conspire to prove their piano teachers to be witches. In "Cannibal Kings," a disillusioned young man accompanies a troubled boy on a tour of prep schools th...

  • Dagger Point

    Thomas S. Gressman

    The new commander of the Eridani Light Horse Brigade must decide where his loyalties lie when he discovers that the peacekeeping efforts of the First Lord of the Star League are actually a smoke screen. Original....

  • More Than You Know

    Beth Gutcheon

    In a small town called Dundee on the coast of Maine, an old woman named Hannah Gray begins her story: "Somebody said 'true love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.' I've seen both and I don't know how to tell you which is wo...

  • The Secret Wife of George IV

    Diane Haeger

    Although it was illegal, secret, and against the express commands of his famously mad father, King George IV of England married twice--once for duty and once for love. While Caroline of Brunswick eventually became his lawful queen, it was the beautif...

  • The Warm Glow of the Monastery Courtyard

    Nicholas Hagger

  • Keeneland

    Alyson Hagy

    From award-winning writer Alyson Hagy comes a novel set at Kentucky's Keeneland racetrack, where the horses run for glory and people stake love and money -- all to win at the sport of kings. Hagy, a compelling storyteller who has the "same way with l...

  • Promises to the Dead

    Mary Downing Hahn

    Mary Downing Hahn combines powerful characters, dark secrets, and breathtaking suspense in a compelling Civil War-era story readers won't soon forget. Aiding and abetting an escaped slave is against the law, and it goes against everything Jesse Sherm...

  • The Chameleon Wore Chartreuse

    Bruce Hale

    Meet CHET GECKO, the best LIZARD DETECTIVE at EMERSON HICKY ELEMENTARY. SOME CASES START ROUGH, some cases start easy. This one starts with a missing first grader named Billy Chameleon. His sister, Shirley, promises Chet a big piece of stinkbug pie ...

  • Enchanted Evening

    Lynnette Hallberg

    DO YOU BELIEVE IN MAGIC? Briana Winters is counting down the minutes to her social ruin. If she doesn't show up at her law firm's charity ball with the `fiance" she's bragged about, she'll be the laughingstock of the party. Too...

  • Three Pandas Planting

    Megan Halsey

  • Her Wildest Wedding Dreams

    Celeste Hamilton

    Olivia Franklin was royalty in her Texas hometown. So everyone was shocked when the beautiful heiress disappeared on her wedding day! But Olivia knew what she was doing when she gave it all up for a job on handsome horse breeder Noah Raybourne's ...

  • Angel Falls

    Kristin Hannah

    When Mikaela Campbell, beloved wife and mother of two, falls into a coma, it is up to her husband, Liam, to hold the family together, to care for their grieving, frightened children. Day after day, he sits by her bedside, telling stories of the preci...

  • Hostile Country

    Jack Hanson

    Barlow continues the search for his daughter in the wild Shoshoni Territory. Joining him on this quest is an unlikely ally: the Indian trader White Bear. But dead ahead are the Blackfeet -- and a bloodbath....

  • Death Wind

    John Harriman

    A Marine Force Recon search-and-destroy mission to Iraq accomplishes the objective--to wipe out an international conference of terrorists--but the lone survivor of the attack has vowed to bring down the elite squad that nearly killed him. Original....

  • Allie's Moon

    Alexis Harrington

    Althea Ford lives alone with her invalid sister in a crumbling Oregon farmhouse, burdened by sins of the past. Desperate for help, she reluctantly turns to Jefferson Hicks, an ex-lawman who has fallen from grace -- a man who unexpectedly awakens her ...

  • The Mother's Day Murder

    Lee Harris

    TRUE CONFESSION -- OR FALSE? Investigator (and former nun) Christine Bennett is appalled when a young woman claims to be the natural daughter of Sister Joseph, beloved Superior at St. Stephen's and Chris's dearest friend. But after the girl is m...

  • Baby at Bushman's Creek

    Jessica Hart

    For the baby's sake? Gray Henderson doesn't want some city-bred Englishwoman staying on his cattle station -- especially with a baby! But he can hardly refuse them shelter when Clare Marshall claims the little girl is his brother's child.... Cl...

  • Northern Suns

    David G. Hartwell

    A surprising cast of contributors graces this fascinating collection of scifi stories, including Margaret Atwood, Robertson Davis, W. P. Kinsella, Geoff Ryman, John Clute, Scott Mackay, and Nancy Kilpatrick, among others. Reprint....

  • Having the Billionaire's Baby

    Anne Haven

    "Stop the wedding!" Plain Serena Jones had nearly succeeded in objecting to her lifelong crush's wedding, when a sexy fellow guest saved her from her momentary insanity. Billionaire Graham Richards had calmly taken charge, whisking Serena from th...

  • The Abduction of Julia

    Karen Hawkins

    To Marry by Midnight What can a respectable Regency miss do when kidnapped by a nobleman intent on marriage? Why, marry him, of course. Julia Frant has secretly loved Alec MacLean, the wild Viscount Hunterston from afar. So when he accidentall...

  • Cinderella and the Spy

    Sally Tyler Hayes

    Undercover Agent Joshua Carter had only wanted to help sweet Amanda Wainwright. Instead, her being seen with him had put the shy secretary's life in danger. . . and under his twenty-four-hour protection. But from the moment virginal Amanda stepped in...

  • Never Love a Cowboy

    Lorraine Heath

    "I would not make a good husband. I do, however, make an excellent lover..."Harrison Bainbridge, the second son of an English earl, left his home seeking a scandal-free life away from society's stuffy restraints. Then he arrives in Texas, never expec...

  • Precious Gold, Precious Jade

    Sharon E. Heisel

    In a Western mining town, one young girl befriends the daughter of a Chinese immigrant and soon they become the closest of friends, but when racial tensions rise and the girls are suddenly torn apart, they know their friendship will sustain despite t...

  • Name Dropping

    Jane Heller

    Pre-school teacher Nancy Stern is in a rut, spending her days with four-year-olds and her Saturday nights with a good book. Then another woman with the same name moves into her Manhattan apartment building ... a Nancy Stern who lives in the penthouse...