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  • A Hero for Kelsey

    Carolyne Aarsen

    There had been a time when Kelsey Swain thought a man would come along who would take away her troubles and make her complete. Now she knew better. The struggling single mom could only count on herself -- no matter what dashing Will Dempsey made her ...

  • The Secret Swan

    Shana Abe

    At fifteen Lady Amiranth St. Clare became the bride of Tristan Geraint. She thought all of her dreams had come true -- until she learned on her wedding day that Tristan had married her only for her bloodline. A week later Tristan deserted her for the...

  • Little Knell

    Catherine Aird

    Colonel Caversham, once prominent in the British colonial service, has died and left his large collection of artifacts to the local Calleshire museum.Included in those artifacts is a 3,000 year old Egyptain mummy and case, now the responsibility of o...

  • Smuggler's Moon

    Bruce Alexander

    Off the water that separates England from France, near the seaside town of Deal, the practice of "owling," a local term for the illegal cargo trade, thrives on the moonlit beaches. Blind judge Sir John Fielding and his young protege Jeremy Proctor ha...

  • I Sure Am Glad to See You, Blackboard Bear

    Martha Alexander

    A favorite classic returns -- with fabulous full-color art!

    Anthony is tired of being bullied. So Blackboard Bear is a good friend to have when the other children don’t want to play fair. He knows how to
    teach them a lesson and how to ma...

  • The Love-Artist

    Jane Alison

    Why was Ovid, the most popular poet of his day, banished from Rome? Why do only two lines survive of his play Medea, reputedly his most passionate, most accomplished work? Between the known details of Ovid’s life and these enigmas, Jane Alison has ...

  • How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay

    Julia Alvarez

    An endearing family story from the international bestselling author of How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents and In the Time of the Butterflies"This twist on a classic story demonstrates that difficult transitions can be eased by new connections. O...

  • Rescuing Dr. Ryan

    Caroline Anderson

    The injured hero! Will Ryan is supposed to be training Lucie Compton as a family doctor, yet here he is with two injured arms, relying on her for every undignified little thing! It's more than his pride can take. She disrupts his peace, his lif...

  • The Impetuous Bride

    Caroline Anderson

    It should have been the happiest day of her life, but as Lydia slipped into her wedding gown, she knew she had to stop the wedding. Jake's whirlwind proposal had been thrilling, but all she wanted was to hear him say he loved her! A year later, Ly...

  • Machinations

    Austen Andrews

    A WORLD REFORGED A sorcerous cataclysm has remade the ancient and magical world of Sosaria, where a misguided plan to bring ultimate order to the land has altered its destiny forever. Now past, present, and future are one...a unity that sets in m...

  • Muse of Art

    Piers Anthony


    A towering testament of ambition and desire, hope and despair, Piers Anthony's epic Geodyssey saga is nothing less than the story of humanity itself. As seen through the eyes of a handful of courageous, passionate men and women reborn again and a...

  • DoOon Mode

    Piers Anthony

    Beyond the world we know there is a multiverse of Modes where many strange realities interlock in an infinitely intricate pattern, and a perverse and deranged Emperor plays a deadly multidimensional game with human pawns as his slaves.Now, with DoOon...

  • The Absolute

    K.A. Applegate

    The Yeerks aren't playing around anymore. They're no longer hiding behind a silent invasion. And one of the first steps in their new plan is to take over the National Guard, to prepare for all-out war against humanity.Marco and the other Animorphs co...

  • The Sacrifice

    K.A. Applegate

    The war between the Yeerks and the Animorphs is still raging. There are no more secrets -- but there are plenty of lies. The kids are fighting harder than they ever thought they could. And they're about to make the biggest decision they've ever had t...

  • Hush, Little Baby

    Judith Arnold

    Architect Levi Holt plans houses -- for other people's families. He's a live-alone bachelor. Or he was. When his favorite sister leaves him her infant son, Levi can't refuse. He has no experience caring for children, let alone infants, but if parenti...

  • Baby Duck's New Friend

    Devin Asch

    Fun, friendship, and adventure!
    Baby Duck's mama warns him not to swim past the old stone bridge unless he's with a duck who can fly. Luckily, Baby Duck meets what appears to be the perfect new friend--it can swim and fly, and it isn't afraid of ...

  • Barnyard Lullaby

    Frank Asch

  • Death from the Woods

    Brigitte Aubert

    Named France's Best Thriller of the Year, Death from the Woods is a twisted suspense that introduces readers to one of the most engaging and complex characters in years--Elise Andrioli, a thirty-ish Parisian who becomes the silent witness to a strang...

  • Spongebob Superstar

    Annie Auerbach

    Fame, fortune, and fans are SpongeBob's destiny when he's picked to star in a TV special. Hotshot producer Barry Cuda is sure that SpongeBob's sea-lebrity talent is going to steer them both to stardom, and SpongeBob is reeeeaaaady for his close-up! B...

  • Vroom! Vroom!

    Steve Augarde

  • Slade's Secret Son

    Elizabeth August

    LOVE CHILD Memories flooded Slade Logan at first glimpse of Lisa Gray. More than two years ago she'd shared his bed, but deeply guarded guilt had made it impossible for him to share his life. So Lisa left...though not alone. She'd taken with her a...

  • Bobby's Girl

    J.D. Austin

    Brilliant young movie director Bobby Albertson has finally found the girl of his dreams. Her name is Kathy Miller. She's smart, beautiful, and strong--really strong. She's from the midwest. She spent some time in the military. And his parents are cra...

  • Prairie School

    Avi

    Reading the prairie

    It's the 1880s, Noah works hard on the family farm and roams free on the Colorado prairie. One day his Aunt Dora arrives to give him some schooling. Noah doesn't think he needs it. What use is reading o...

  • Don't You Know There's a War On?

    Avi

    Brooklyn, New York, 1943: a time and place so remarkable that a mere five years later, Howie Crispers, wise at sixteen, can look back to record its fleeting intensity, already long behind him in memory. In 1943, Howie's pop is in the merchant marine...

  • A Trace of Memory

    Elizabeth Bailey

    When a bedraggled woman accosts Charles Clevedon, Earl of Wytham, in his woods, claiming to have lost her memory, his first cynical thought is that it's yet another ingenious matrimonial ploy. While he remains suspicious of her, he is safe. But he...

  • Spellbound

    Jeanette Baker

    Life is hard for outlanders on the island of Inishmore, a lesson Mollie Tierney's mother learned long ago. After eleven years, Emma Tierney took her infant daughter and headed home to America, leaving her resigned husband and defiant son behind. N...

  • A Gift from the Sea

    Kate Banks

    "Banks and Hallensleben make beautiful books together." -- American Bookseller

    A boy picks up a rock that he finds on the beach. He holds it in his hand, and admires it. He doesn't know that the rock has been on a great journey through time in...

  • Reluctant Partners

    Margaret Barker

    Starting over Jane Crowther hides behind her job as a country doctor, tucked away in the English Yorkshire Dales, to avoid involvement with men. The arrival of a new, male partner causes her safe world to suddenly fall apart. Richard Montgomery...

  • Liza's England

    Pat Barker

    In Pat Barker's Liza's England, Liza Garrett is the first child in town born in the twentieth century--whose life in many ways mirrors the turmoils of England itself. The tough, severe, but very real and recognizable world of women is put to the most...

  • Unholy Dying

    Robert Barnard

    England's celebrated, multiple-award-winning master crime novelist returns with a witty and poignant chiller about the evil of gossip and the sin of indifference. Father Christopher Pardoe is a good priest. He cares about his parishioners. He is als...

  • Vacuum Diagrams

    Stephen Baxter

    "And everywhere the Humans went, they found life ... " This dazzling future history, winner of the 2000 Philip K. Dick Award, is the most ambitious and exciting since Asimov's classic Foundation saga. It tells the story of Humankind--all the way to...

  • Very Truly Yours

    Julie Beard

    Gentle Reader, I know I've committed an unpardonable act. I should never have read Miss Liza Cranshaw's letters. I assure you I never intended to wrong her. But now that I've learned of her desperate straits, how can I ignore her pligh...

  • Solution: Marriage

    Barbara Benedict

    LUKE PARKER WAS BACK IN TOWN... The news ripped through Main Street like a midsummer tornado. But Callie Magruder didn't need the local gossip mill to tell her so. She'd felt he was coming. After all, she'd always had a sixth sense when it came to...

  • Three Little Pigs

    Alan Benjamin

  • Hangman

    David Benjamin

    Cole Sears, the boy who sees the dead, must help the spirit of John Heginbotham, who was hanged as a spy during the War of 1812, while coping with a bully who seems to be trying to get him expelled from his private school, a former prison....

  • Much Obliged

    Jessica Benson

    MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING... Despite a longstanding agreement between their families, Addie Winstead has never believed that John Fitzwilliam, the Earl of Claremont, will marry her. The life of a carefree bachelor obviously suits him far too well. Be...

  • Florida

    Eileen Berger

    It wouldn't be Florida without sun, surf, and sand, and you'll experience it all through the eyes of both natives and tourists in these heartwarming novels from the Sunshine State. Start your journey with Eileen M. Berger and A Place to Call Home. Tr...

  • Murder One

    William Bernhardt

    The crime is remarkably heinous: veteran police detective Joe McNaughton is found savagely slain, mutilated, and hung from a public fountain in downtown Tulsa. The accused is a tabloid reporter's dream: stunning, nineteen-year-old Keri Dalcanton, a s...

  • All of Me

    Venise T. Berry

    So Good, Venise Berry's first novel, spent six months on Essence magazine's Blackboard bestseller list and was an Alternate Selection of the Literary Guild. With All of Me, Berry again delivers a compelling, humorous, and poignant story on a subject ...

  • He Could Be the One

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    The trouble with men... Eve Van Dormer can't believe it -- the beautiful, brainy millionaire's daughter is stuck with Wyatt Culver as her bodyguard, thanks to her over-reactive father. She's doubly shocked at the choice too -- after all, dear old...

  • Hart's Last Stand

    Cheryl Biggs

    His elite Cobra Corps unit demanded discipline, honor, truth. Yet one look at Suzanne Cassidy on the windswept tarmac, and Hart Branson felt his military training failing him. For he'd never had control where Suzanne was concerned, falling for her wh...

  • Call of the Wild

    Lisa Bingham

    THE LOVE DOCTOR HAS THE ANSWER... Radio sex therapist Alana Childe can't resist the desperate plea for help from one of her most frequent callers, the Godmother. Unwittingly, Alana agrees to take on the case personally -- not knowing the frustrated...

  • What the Cards Said

    Isobel Bird

    Cards of fortune, tell your I story, Answer all I've come to ask let the draw set forth the course of what has been and yet may pass Annie's fascination with Tarot spirals beyond her control when her readings become reality. As if cursed, Annie...

  • The Pickup Artist

    Terry Bisson


    From the award-winning author of Pirates of the Universe, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, comes The Pickup Artist--a sharp, witty, and subversive exploration of the future of art, culture, and society. In the tradition of Ray Bradbury'...

  • Seducing Summer

    Toni Blake

    SHE'S HAVING HIS BABY... Summer Avery thought her life was perfect. Her career was on the rise and she had her independence. What she never expected was to have it all turned upside down in one night. Now, instead of worrying about sales figures a...

  • Whispers in the Dark

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    A fine rain was falling as Detective Marti MacAlister made her way through the tall grass to the wooded area where the arm had been found. It was cool for early September, and the rain, little more than a mist, felt cold. Marti stared at the hand. Th...

  • An Unmasked Heart

    Andrea Boeshaar

    Thanks to God's grace and Paden Montano's kindness, Ange Huntington has a bright future....She also has a dark past that she desperately wants to conceal. Though she's living her life for the Lord and seeking to do His will and work, there is still a...

  • Panther

    Martin Booth

  • Priestess of Avalon

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    When a British princess falls in love with a Roman officer destined for imperial greatness, their forbidden desire exacts an unexpected price: banishment from Avalon. Journeying outside the enchanted isle, Helena grows from maiden to mother to wisewo...

  • Sign, SEAL, Deliver

    Rogenna Brewer

    The Navy SEALS never leave a man -- or a woman -- behind Zach Prince is a naval aviator, one of the best. In fact, he's a Top Gun. But thanks to his father and godfather, he's lived and breathed SEAL ways since the day he was born. So when the p...

  • Get in the Game!

    Sarah Jane Brian

  • The Rights of Desire

    Andre Brink

    Ruben Olivier leads an isolated existence in a Cape Town suburb. His wife has died, one of his sons has settled in Australia, and the other wants to emigrate to Canada. The only constants in Ruben's life are the old family home, the ghost of a sevent...

  • I'm Going to Be a... What?!

    Annette Broadrick
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    Every mother wants to see her children marry and have little ones of their own .... One mother decided to take matters into her own hands .... Now, in three brand-new stories by three beloved authors, a trio of Texas-born brothers are about to ...

  • The Bay of Angels

    Anita Brookner

    Despite growing up with a widowed and reclusive mother, young Zoë Cunningham retains an unshakable faith in storybook happy endings. When her mother, Anne, finally decides to remarry, Zoë is thrilled with her prospective stepfather, Simon Gould, wh...

  • Racing to Ruin

    Stacy Brown

    A SCANDALOUS SCHEME Sabrina Bennett was like every other young lady of the ton-- with one important difference. Marriage was the last thing she wanted, despite her grandfather's insistence. So she devised an ingenious plan to ward off suitors --...

  • Pages for You

    Sylvia Brownrigg

    A wry, tender novel of sexual and intellectual awakening. Something made her risk a look at the reader, who took a sip of black coffee. And another. She turned the pages. She pursed her lips. Flannery abandoned her breakfast and watched the woman dr...

  • Full Gallop

    Bonnie Bryant

    From endings to new beginnings.

    Carole Hanson's work with a problem horse is really paying off, and with Pine Hollow expanding, her future's set -- isn't it? Stevie Lake is stretching herself to the limit, but so far she's making it all work -...

  • Who Killed Mona Lisa?

    Carole Bugge

    In the third book of her popular whodunit series, mystery editor Claire Rawlings and her twelve-year-old sidekick, Meredith Lawrence, visit a Massachusetts inn where murder is a popular way to pass the time.... On the advice of her editor-in-chief...

  • The Devil's Oasis

    Bartle Bull

    All the treacherous intrigue of cosmopolitan Cairo and fiery drama of Rommel's desert war in Africa continue the stirring historical adventure of the masterly Bartle Bull's two previous novels, The White Rhino Hotel and A Cafe on the Nile. It is now ...

  • Indigo After Dark

    Dolores Bundy

    Brown Sugar Diaries by Dolores Bundy brings you a potpurri of explicit, vivid portrayed erotic short stories that takes an exotic plunge into the vibrant lifestyles of people who go beyond a devotion to unbridled pleasures.

    The Forbidden Art of De...

  • The Legacy of Merlin

    Constance M. Burge

    White robes under the Druid moon, Midsummer's Eve is coming soon. Spells and chanting call the power To work dark witchcraft in the hour! Prue lands a summer trip to England to buy medieval books for a collector, so Phoebe and Piper tag along to the ...

  • Dangerous Passions

    Loure Bussey

  • Things Unborn

    Eugene Byrne

    In 1962, the USA and Russia went to nuclear war over Cuba...after millions of deaths, people started returning. Not just those killed in the Atom War, but peole who had died centuries previously. And they were always reborn in the place where they di...

  • The Mermaid of Penperro

    Lisa Cach

    In Hot Water Though her mother had been in the opera, Konstanze had never imagined that singing could land someone in such trouble. The disrepute of the stage was nothing compared to the danger of playing a seductress of the sea -- or the reckless...

  • Rambling Teds Terrible Mix-Up

    Lindsay Camp

  • Rambling Teds Brilliant Invention

    Lindsay Camp

  • Racing Image

    Joanna Campbell

    Will Image ever behave herself on the track? Melanie Graham's dream has come true -- a chance to ride Perfect Image in her first race. Image has been running great, and it looks like they may even have a shot at winning some big-time races. But...

  • Midnight Honor

    Marsha Canham

    Sweeping from the wild splendor of the moors to the battlefields of a land divided, Marsha Canham weaves an unforgettable novel of Jacobite Scotland...of a man bound by honor...and of the woman fated to both desire and defy him. Powerful, brave, i...

  • Midnight Bride

    Susan Carroll

    Valentine St. Leger was born with an amazing gift: He can purge the suffering of others by taking their pain into his own body. Yet Val's healing hands cannot change destiny. Should Val wed, his unfortunate bride would be doomed to an early deat...

  • Only a Kiss Away

    Lourdes Carvajal

    GREEN CARD HUSBAND? No more blind dates! Or so Mercedes Garcia vows...until she reluctantly agrees to go out with her best friend's brother, who's visiting from Costa Rica. Sexy, sensitive Joaquin Muriel is hardly the suave Mr. Macho she expected....

  • The Shape of Things to Come

    Maud Casey

    Isabelle, a woman in her thirties without any of the trappings of a grown-up life, has just been fired from her job at a San Francisco phone company. Returning to the midwestern suburb of her childhood, Standardsville, Illinois, she contends with her...

  • The Millionaire Horseman // Uncertain Fate

    K.N. Casper

    For 19 years the land at Beaumarais near Caddo Lake, east Texas, hid a secret. Now the secret is out, but a mystery remains: what happened on that hectic morning so long ago? The morning of Frannie Granger's disappearance... The local sheriff...

  • Lost in His Arms

    Carla Cassidy

    FORBIDDEN LOVE Talbot McCarthy was darkly sexy, enormously successful, and the only man who fired Elizabeth's passions. Unfortunately, he was her ex-husband's brother. So strong was the attraction that she'd not even been alone with him in nine ye...

  • Mattie and the Blacksmith

    Linda Lea Castle

    Single women weren't permitted to live in the charter town of McTavish Plain, in the Wyoming Territory. So the three Green sisters invented husbands! But Addie, Charlotte and Mattie never reckoned on the loves that awaited them in the wild, wild ...

  • Thursday's Child

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Thursday's Child is the newest adventure/romance in the popular A Day to Remember series by award-winning author Linda Chaikin.

    When Paulette marries Garret Holden, she's certain their love will last. Their first year is exciting and romant...

  • Loving Pedro Infante

    Denise Chavez

    In the soothing darkness of her local theater, thirty-something teacher's aide and divorcee Teresina "Tere" vila looks straight into the smoldering eyes of Pedro Infante and wonders where her life has gone. The impossibly handsome Mexican singer and...

  • The Cross-Country Quilters

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    The third in the Elm Creek Quilts series, The Cross-Country Quilters introduces a group of far-flung friends who pledge to complete, in one year's time, a "challenge quilt" symbolic of each woman's personal goals. These five women arrive at Elm Cree...

  • Wonder Book of Mother Goose

    Florence Choate

    A collection of nursery rhymes, illustrated both in color and black and white, including A Frog He Would A-wooing Go, Hot-cross Buns, Peas Porridge Hot, and hundreds more. Reprint of the 1919 edition....

  • Baroque-A-Nova

    Kevin Chong

  • Newborn Daddy

    Judy Christenberry

    Ryan Nix knew all too well the joy of parenthood -- and the pain of loss. So he vowed never to let himself feel anything again. Until he looked through a nursery window to find his name listed as the father of Emma Davenport's newborn baby girl! What...

  • Drive You Crazy

    Amanda Christie

    ROAD TRIP! Mary and Lucy are thrilled their parents are allowing them to drive to Arizona to visit with Grandpa Charles and Ginger. Freedom at last, they think, until the family car is almost stolen. Unexpected help comes from a runaway teenage girl,...

  • Inline Skater

    Matt Christopher

  • Ode to Humpty Dumpty

    Seymour Chwast

    Did you ever wonder what happened after Humpty Dumpty’s “great fall”? Well, it seems that after the failure of the king’s horses and men, the grief-stricken king enlists the help of the community to try to piece the egghead back together. But...

  • Gabrielle

    Cherie Claire

    Amid the untamed forests and moss-strewn swamps of Louisiana Territory, the daughters of an Acadian exile discover danger...and desire. VOYAGE TO LOVE From the moment she met Captain Jean Bouclaire on the banks of the mighty Mississippi, Gabriell...

  • Ashes of the Elements

    Alys Clare

    A DARK FOREST CONTAINS FANTASTICAL SECRETS -- AND GRUESOME MURDERS... A series of mysterious and brutal murders deep inside the dark forest shatters the peaceful tranquility of the Hawkenlye Abbey. The sheriff of Tonbridge hastily blames the myt...

  • On the Street Where You Live

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house in the seaside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey....

  • Naomi

    Douglas Clegg

    All author profits from the first edition paperback of NAOMI are designated for the National Down Syndrome Society.

    The mystery and darkness of what lies beneath New York City is at the heart of one of the most page-turning, heart-stopping rides i...

  • Love Ahoy

    Colleen Coble

    Beautiful Shelby West, who towers over most men, is extremely self-conscious about her height. She has given up on attracting men and, instead, has chosen to compete with them in the executive realm. Shelby is jolted out of her regular routine whe...

  • Widow's Walk

    Andrew Coburn

  • Flashpoint

    Loren L. Coleman

    THE PRICE OF VICTORY David McCarthy returns to Kathil a hero--one of the few surviving members of the First Kathil Uhlans, who fought so fiercely in the war to defeat the Clans. But David returns from Clan space with haunting memories of the cost ...

  • Falcon's Prey

    Loren L. Coleman

    The Wings of Justice series follows the transformation of Trevor "Rogue" Girard from law-abiding security agent to pirate. In the final installment, can Trevor escape from his captors and thwart their plans in a final showdown over Tinseltown?...

  • Mustering Courage

    Lynn A. Coleman

    When Kayla puts her career on hold to live on a rural farm, she does so out of love for her great-grandmother. Gram has Alzheimer's disease, and Kayla is prepared to care for her to the end. But once her work is done, Kayla is determined to head back...

  • Artemis Fowl

    Eoin Colfer

    STAY BACK HUMAN. You don't know what you are dealing with! Twelve-year old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant, criminal mastermind. But even Artemis doesn't know what he has taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These...

  • karlmarx. com

    Susan Coll

    A graduate student's life begins to parallel the subject of her thesis project--a portrait of Karl Marx's daughter, Eleanor--as she becomes embroiled in a relationship with Nigel Lark, a wonderful if possibly married ornithologist. A first novel. 25,...

  • The Mummy Returns

    Max Allan Collins

    The ancient Egyptian monster returns to once again menace the world, in a novelization of the blockbuster sequel to The Mummy. Original. (A Universal Pictures film, written by Stephen Sommers, releasing Memorial Day weekend, starring Brendan ...

  • The Wedding Charm

    Lynn Collum

    Meet the Addingtons: two charming sisters and a dashing brother who have lost their fortune but not their dreams. Now, in a new trilogy by Regency star Lynn Collum, one by one, the Addingtons will arrive in Britain after growing up in Italy, carrying...

  • A Cold Hard Trail

    Robert J. Conley

    "The devil's on my tail, and he's wearing a badge. Arrested for a robbery I didn't commit, I broke out of jail and took it on the 1 a.m. I had no choice. No sheriff's going to believe I have a double-unless I find the outlaw myself. If I live that lo...

  • The Heiress & the Bodyguard

    Ryanne Corey

    This job was cake...as in cheesecake. Palm Beach socialite Julie Roper was easy on the eyes -- and my eyes were on her at her brother's expense. Then Julie rode out of her hothouse life one midnight, and I had to introduce myself under false pretense...

  • There's an Alien in My Underwear!

    Bruce Coville

    Pleskit and Tim are the butt of the joke in this eleventh book in the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series Sixth-Grade Alien from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework, Bruce Coville!When Tim comes home and finds a two-foot-...

  • Bad Lawyer

    David Cray

    No one felt bad when Sid Kaplan's addiction to alcohol and cocaine destroyed his career as a lawyer, but when he takes on Themla Barrow's scandalous, media-hot case, sees his two only friends die, and becomes responsible for $450,000 drug money, he f...

  • On the Fringe

    Chris Crutcher

    From a star football player standing up for a tormented student to a ruthless bully who tests the faith of a religious girl, a compelling and dramatic collection of stories embodies the teen "outsider" experience and features contributions from such ...

  • Whompyjawed

    Mitch Cullin

    Whompyjawed: 1. Askew, out of place 2. Off-center or crooked 3. (informal) a person of eccentric or questionable character; odd. Football is Willy Keeler’s ticket out of West Texas, but only if he can keep the explosive combination of his intellect...

  • The Floodgate

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    After a fight, some warriors seek to return home. Others seek revenge. The battle of Akhlaur's Swamp is over, and its heroes part ways. One becomes a wizard's apprentice and tries to unravel her mysterious lineage. Another hero returns to his qu...

  • Metaplanetary

    Tony Daniel

    The human race has extended itself into the far reaches of our solar system -- and, in doing so, has developed into something remarkable. The inner system of the Met -- with its worlds connected by a vast living network of cables -- is supported by t...

  • Space Soldiers

    Jack Dann

    A visionary collection of short fiction capturing the world of the soldiers who will fight on distant planets in outer space features the work of Fritz Leiber, Joe Haldeman, Paul J. McAuley, Alastair Reynolds, Stephen Baxter, William Barton, Tom Purd...

  • Snail Mail No More

    Paula Danziger; Ann M. Martin

    Elizabeth and Tara*Starr are best friends living in totally different parts of the country. They used to write letters to each other, but now they're both addicted to e-mail. Now they can share their problems instantly . . . and lately they've need...

  • The Sweetest Revenge

    Emma Darcy

    Power, passion, possession The moment Nick Armstrong saw Barbie Lamb, he had to have her. She was the sexiest woman he'd ever met! Completely forgotten was the teenage Barbie whose youthful crush he'd rejected years ago.... For Barbie,...

  • The Seduction of Shay Devereaux

    Carolyn Davidson

    Wildfire Couldn't Run Any Hotter Than This Sudden, Consuming Passion Shay Devereaux had been alone, angry, and bereft of hope -- until a deathbed plea had sent him into the arms of Jenny Pennington, the one woman who could resurrect him, heart and s...

  • Sticks and Scones

    Diane Mott Davidson

    For Colorado caterer Goldy Schulz, accepting a series of bookings at Hyde Castle is like a dream come true. It's not every day that she gets to cook authentic Elizabethan fare -- especially at a real castle that was brought over from England and ...

  • To The Extreme

    Tish Davis

    As children, Claire Drakeforth and her twin sister, Candi, often traded places to fool teachers and friends. But now they're adults, and their childish games can bring unexpected consquences. When Claire agrees to take Candi's place on a date with...

  • The Bad Luck Wedding Night

    Geralyn Dawson

    SOMETHING OLD Every woman remembers her wedding night, even if she wishes she didn't. Sarah, Lady Weston, tries not to recall how her husband wooed, wed, and deserted her in the name of duty almost a decade ago. She is successful and content in ...

  • Elsie's Life Lessons

    Elizabeth Debeasi

    This study guide is a companion to Elsie's Endless Wait and Elsie's Impossible Choice (Books 1 and 2 of the Elsie Dinsmore: A Life of Faith series). The theme is the nine 'fruit of the Spirit' from Galatians 5:22. Using excerpts from the fiction book...

  • Uncommon Justice

    Terry Devane

    THE ATTORNEY: Mairead O'Clare left the world of corporate law to pursue her dream of justice. But when she is thrust to the helm of a capital murder case, she discovers what real justice is. THE CASE: A homeless man is slain on the banks of the ...

  • Lord Fox's Pleasure

    Helen Dickson

    With the restoration of King Charles II to the throne, his exiled supporters were jubilantly returning home, wealthy landowner Lucas Fox among them. Once a notorious pleasure seeker, Lord Fox now found himself ready to settle down to a quiet life on ...

  • I Am the King!

    Nathalie Dieterle

  • Dark Winter

    William Dietrich

    Endless night. Merciless cold. And one unstoppable killer... AT THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE EARTH... A writer whose adventure thrillers electrify the senses and terrify the mind, William Dietrich now takes us to the last frontier on earth: a place w...

  • Mystery in Midair

    Disney Book Group

  • Mystery of the Secret Treasure

    Disney Book Group

  • The Unknown Errors of Our Lives

    Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

    In nine poignant stories spiked with humor and intelligence, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni captures lives at crossroad moments"caught between past and present, home and abroad, tradition and fresh experience.A widow in California, recently arrived fro...

  • A Ruthless Passion

    Robyn Donald

    A compelling passion had flared between them.... But it was too late -- she was about to marry another man. Six years later Cat's husband has gone, and she needs Nick's help. This is his chance to sate the desire he's felt for her all ...

  • Cat in a Leopard Spot

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Murder shows its teeth and claws for Midnight Louie readers when the jet-black feline sleuth who thinks he's Sam Spade returns to delight his legions of fans. This time, not only does Louie have to bail out his favorite investigative partner, public ...

  • Stranger in His Arms

    Charlotte Douglas

    IDENTITY SWAP: Two women, two series -- one exciting conclusion. LOVER IN DISGUISE? When Officer Dylan Blackburn learned Jennifer Reid was back in town, he wondered if she remembered the innocent kiss they'd shared as children. But this sensual...

  • The Art of War

    Keith Douglass

    The Persian Gulf has always been a hot spot for big trouble, and it’s getting hotter by the minute. An extremist faction of Iranian militants has decided to take the first bloody step towards toppling the decadent west, and bringing the world under...

  • Remnant of Grace

    Susan K. Downs

    First her father faced martyrdom rather than deny his faith. Then her brother perished in a forced-labor camp, followed by her mather's death as a result of a stroke. Without family or dowry, Eun-Me hold out little hope that she will ever marry. What...

  • The Peppered Moth

    Margaret Drabble

    The prize-winning author of The Dark Flood Rises offers an “absorbing” portrait of three generations of women -- inspired by her own family (The New York Times Book Review).   In the early 1900s, young Bessie Bawtry grows up in a mining town...

  • The Comet

    W.E.B. Du Bois

    A free eBook edition of a science fiction classic. In a vaguely futuristic yet oddly contemporary world, a passing comet casts a shadow of death over Manhattan. Only two survive: a black man whose world has been one of poverty and hard work, and a wh...

  • Josie and the Pussycats

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Pussycats Rock!

    Josie and the Pussycats are back and happening! Signed to a major record label, Josie and her musical mates instantly shoot to the top of the charts. It's a dream come true, but their overnight success seems ju...

  • Augusta, Gone

    Martha Tod Dudman

  • The Living Blood

    Tananarive Due

    *From the author of The Reformatory -- A New York Times Notable Book of 2023*The bestselling author of Joplin's Ghost delivers a riveting novel of supernatural suspense -- a gripping tale that showcases a writer at the pinnacle of her astounding stor...

  • Necessary Evil

    David Dun

    During a snowstorm, a private jet slams into the rugged California high country. In its wake lies a litter of twisted fuselage, mangled corpses, and enough infectious toxins to wipe out most of humanity. An expert mountaineer and a female FBI agent f...

  • If Wishes Were Horses...

    Judith Duncan

    THREE WISHES The cry for help came at night, during final roundup. But nothing could prevent Conner Calhoun from rescuing his brother's widow and her two children. From the moment he'd laid eyes on Abigail, he'd wanted her, but she wasn't his to h...

  • To Davy Jones Below

    Carola Dunn

    The acidic manners and dark secrets of uppercrust, 1923 England come alive again, as the just-married Daisy sets out on her honeymoon voyage and sails into decidedly troubled waters... With the peal of wedding bells still ringing in their ears, Da...

  • Big Bad Bunny

    Alan Durant

    Set in the Wild West, there is new trouble in town as Big Bad Bunny bullies all its residents to steal their money and get his way, but one encounter with Wise Old Bunny suddenly changes things and soon turns Big Bad Bunny into one of the nicest guys...

  • A Way of His Own

    T.A. Dyer

    When Shutok’s nomadic family must follow the bison herds for their livelihood, they abandon him, believing and fearing that the bad fortune that has crippled Shutok’s back may spread to them. But Shutok stubbornly follows them across the plains a...

  • Midnight Falcon

    Cassie Edwards

    For newly widowed Chandra O'Banyon, the American colony of Jamestown is a terrible disappointment. Taking care of her overbearing brother and her young niece is not the life she had hoped for when departing England, and her heart longs for true a...

  • The Destruction of the Inn

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

    Randy Lee Eickhoff continues the Celtic Ulster Cycle; following up his highly acclaimed retelling of The Three Sorrows, with The Destruction of the Inn. Part impacted myth, part heroic saga, and part literary tour de force; this is the tale of a ki...

  • Rainbow Clown Activity Kit

    Ed Emberley

  • Johan

    Clayton Emery
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The battle for Bryce has begun. The city of Bryce is being watched by unfriendly eyes. A mysterious prophesy, a desperate wizard, and an extraordinary tiger man are somehow caught up in the city's destiny. One man must race against time to underst...

  • The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse

    Louise Erdrich

    A New York Times Notable Book“Stunning. . . a moving meditation. . . infused with mystery and wonder.” -- Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionIn a masterwork that both deepens and enlarges the world of her previous novels, acclaimed author Louise Erdric...

  • The Brutal Language of Love

    Alicia Erian

    Alicia Erian's characters are brave, disarming, affectionate, and deeply flawed. They inhabit the not-so-very-wide space between a good intention and a bad outcome. In "Alcatraz," we meet a middle-school spelling champion who spends her afternoons ta...

  • Rufus M.

    Eleanor Estes

    Newbery Honor Book: “Delightful reading. An hour spent with the Moffats is fun for all ages.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)   You’ve never met anyone quite like Rufus Moffat. He gets things done -- but he gets them done his way. ...

  • Longarm and the Horse Thief

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm's met uglier, meaner men than Henry Starr -- and he shot them, too...Being a lawman isn’t all about romancin’ the ladies -- but lately you wouldn’t know it from watching Longarm work. Marshal Billy Vail’s determined to send Longarm on...

  • Crime Brulee

    Nancy Fairbanks

    Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning. She's finally decided to throw in the dishtowel--and take on a dream job as a food writer. Now- -her plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable loads, and even a dash o...

  • Dim Sum Dead

    Jerrilyn Farmer

    Mah-Jongg? Yep. In hip Hollywood, that kitsch old game is fast becoming the next "new" obsession -- and that calls for a party! Madeline Bean and her charming partner Wesley Westcott are determined to throw a gonzo Chinese New Year banquet. But am...

  • And Sometimes Why

    Mame Farrell

    Best friends make the worst romance.

    Chris (a girl) and Jack (a boy) have been best friends for years, since first grade. Then puberty rears its ugly head. On the court and on the playing field, Jack has always had to accept that Chris is a b...

  • Moses: Prince of Egypt

    Howard Fast

    From the author of Spartacus and Freedom Road, comes a novel of the Bible¹s greatest freedom fighter, the rebellious prince of Egypt, Moses!This definitive new edition of Howard Fast¹s riveting novel portrays the early years of the man who would le...

  • Children of Hope

    David Feintuch

    In the continuing story of a man bound to his duty and tortured by the guilt for all that his duty demands of him, Captain Nicholas Seafort faces something much more ordinary than the alien wars, planetary rebellions, and ecological chaos he has surv...

  • The Dowager's Dilemma

    Jo Ann Ferguson
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    A charming collection of Regency romances celebrates motherhood and includes Jeanne Savery's Happily-Ever-After, in which logical Justina Dunsforth sets rules in place to raise her young niece and nephew until their godfather, Lord Earl Mowbr...

  • Generica

    Will Ferguson

    In this audiobook of his satirical, fast-paced novel, Will Ferguson skewers society's obsession with self-improvement. Generica is the story of Edwin de Valu, a beleaguered junior editor at Panderic Press. In desperate need of a new self-help author,...

  • Taming the Beast

    Amy J. Fetzer

    Summoned like a serving girl to the king, Laura Cambridge was hired as nanny to Richard Blackthorne's secret child. Rumors about this hulking recluse didn't daunt Laura -- her beauty-queen past had taught her the inner person didn't always match the ...

  • Bridget Jones's Guide to Life

    Helen Fielding

    Bridget Jones, the main character in the novel and the film, "Bridget Jones's Diary," shares her own ideas on homemaking, cooking, relationships, weight loss, and other subjects in a parody of a self-help book....

  • Tears in a Bottle

    Gina Fields

    Lieutenant Jonathan Parker has dedicated his life to serving his country. He takes each order seriously--including a command to round up and deport Cherokees to the West. But the oppression of such peaceful and humble people begins to trouble Jon, to...

  • The Language of Good-bye

    Maribeth Fischer

  • Irish Hope

    Donna Fletcher

    Hope is a privileged ancestor of the high king, but she's impetuous and adventurous to a fault. Rather than settle for an arranged marriage, she strikes out on her own, disguised as a young boy, desperate to experience life and love-no matter the ris...

  • Blood on the Vine

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    VICTIM IN THE VINEYARD Jessica Fletcher is visiting the Napa Valley wine country while doing research for her next book, and she invites her old friend, Scotland Yard detective George Sutherland, to join her at a cozy bed-and-breakfast. No sooner ...

  • Uncle Daddy

    Ralph Fletcher

    Does Rivers have room in his life for two very different fathers?"The truth is Uncle Daddy isn't either my father or my uncle. He's actually Mom's uncle. I was three years old when he came to live with us."Since Rivers's real father left him and his ...

  • The Hub: Dangerous Territory

    Eric Flint

    THE HUB IS A VERY DANGEROUS PLACE- BUT SO ARE ITS CITIZENS. The Federation of the Hub: thousands of rough, ornery and tough-minded human worlds with only the subtlest of interstellar governments holding them all together. Stable at last after cen...

  • Faith and our Father

    Susan Floyd

    Ever have one of those lives? Widower Jay Whitfield needs help. He pretty much works 24/7, his sons are so wild the nannies keep quitting, and all the single women in town have set their sights on him -- not that he's interested. Into the fray...

  • Fury

    G.M. Ford

    Frank Corso is a pariah -- a journalist once vilified for making up "facts" on a major crime story. Yet slow, sheltered Leanne Samples trusts no one but Corso to tell the world that her courtroom testimony that put Walter Leroy "Trashman" Himes on De...

  • The Boss's Secret Mistress

    Alison Fraser

    An affair just wasn't on her agenda! Lucas Ryecart: driven, demanding, dynamic. Impossible to work with, but impossible to ignore! Tory Lloyd: pretty plucky and puzzled. Lucas, the new CEO of her company, is determined to make her his mistr...

  • Witness for the Dead

    Michael Fredrickson

    Prosecutor Danielle Gautreau, she's beautiful, she's brilliant, and her career goal is to skin Boston Italian mob boss and vicious loan shark Larry "the Rabbit" Coniglio. When Arthur Patch borrows money from the Rabbit, Danielle sees Arthur as the wi...

  • Two Women

    Marianne Fredriksson

    With her acclaimed novels Hanna’s Daughters and Simon’s Family, international bestselling author Marianne Fredriksson captivated readers with the extraordinary power of her emotional landscapes. Now Fredriksson gives us Two Women, the unforgettab...

  • 4 1/2 Friends and the Secret Cave

    Joachim Friedrich

  • 4 1/2 Friends and the Disappearing Bio Teacher

    Joachim Friedrich

  • Shannon: U.S. Marshal

    Charles E. Friend

    When he is appointed U.S. Marshal by the government, Clay Shannon finds his plans for retirement thwarted and his days spent dealing with a wealth of shady characters, including a mysterious gambler and a greedy land baron named "King" Kruger. Reprin...

  • Crimson Spear

    Gregory Frost

    I see you all crimson... I see you all red.""

    So warns the faery seer of Cruachan. It is a warning no one will heed, because only on thing stands between the army of Maeve the Intoxicator and its goal: a small young warrior named Setanta. Maev...

  • Wake-Up Call

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Cell phone cat-astrophe

    When Salem tells Sabrina her aunts are going to get her a cell phone, she's thrilled. She'll be cool at school, and will be able to check in with her friends 24/7. So when Sabrina finds out tha...

  • Ride

    Stephen Gammell

    Anyone who has ever taken a trip in the family car knows about backseat battles, but has there ever been a boundary war like this one? Road warriors of all ages will see themselves in this riotous picture book by Stephen Gammell
    ...

  • The Edge of Town

    Dorothy Garlock

    Julie Jones is a plainspoken girl working on her father's hardscrabble farm. She's not prepared for the Jazz Age roaring through America, sweeping a flapper named Birdie Stuart and war veteran Evan Johnson into her Missouri town. As the summer heats ...

  • The Next Step in the Dance

    Tim Gatreaux

  • The Case of the Television Monster

    James Gelsey

    Like, yikes! It's part human -- and part television set! Scooby and the gang need to figure out why this crazy creature is ruining every show on channel eight. If they don't shut off the Television Monster, he'll close down the TV station forever!...

  • Bouncing Off the Moon

    David Gerrold

    Charles thought the Moon would be a new beginning. Now, he knows he'll be lucky just to stay alive. Having escaped both an Earth on the verge of global collapse and their squabbling parents in a "divorce" at Geosynchronous Station, a newly independe...

  • Pandora's Box

    Louise Gikow

    The Aristocats are no ordinary cats. Duchess and her kittens, Berlioz, Toulouse and Marie, live in the lap of luxury with their owner, Madame, in a Parisian mansion. Until one day they are taken far, far away and have to make a long, difficult journe...

  • It Goes Eeeeeeeeeeeee!

    Jamie Gilson

    In the fast-paced and funny continuing story of table two, Patrick, the new boy in Richard's class, is always causing trouble. Then Patrick's work on a science project about bats helps him make new friends....

  • Empress of Light

    James C. Glass

    WHEN YOUR ENEMIES BECOME YOUR PEOPLE .. . She had defeated Tengri-Nayon. Now she had to save Tengri-Nayon from a deadly plot, with only her children to help her. Of course, they were remarkable children ... Two stars: irrevocably linked, Shanj...

  • Cherry Pie

    Jackie Glassman

  • Her Ardent Sheikh

    Kristi Gold

    THE OIL PRINCE "As long as you are with me, no harm will come to you." So Sheikh Ben Rassad promised to beauty-in-jeopardy Jamie Morris, who aroused his need to protect. Though he reminded himself she was as innocent as he was jaded, their passion...

  • Always in Style

    Golden Books

    Create a new look for Barbie's spring fashion line. Write Barbie a postcard from a vacation trip. Think up three article ideas for Barbie's magazine. Girls can explore their creativity and expand their writing skills with Barbie to help show the way....

  • Prowlers

    Christopher Golden

    LONG HAVE THE PACKS LACKED A GREAT LEADER. SCATTERED FAR AND WIDE, THEY HAVE HUNTED AS BEST THEY COULD IN THE HARD LANDS, IN PLACES WHERE THEIR PREDATIONS COULD BE PASSED OFF AS THE WORK OF TRUE WOLVES. INSTEAD OF PROWLERS When nineteen-year-old Jack...

  • Fish Named Spot

    Jennifer P. Goldfinger

  • More Than You Wished

    Jo Goodman

    IF THIS WAS LOVE... Reclaiming her family's Carolina rice plantation from her ruthless stepfather was Bria Hamilton's only wish -- and she was taking a chance by hiring Northerner Lucas Kincaid to help her. With her own painful scars still...

  • Husband by Necessity

    Lucy Gordon

    At her best friend's wedding, Angie Wendham met the groom's half brother, Bernardo Tornese, and fell instantly in love with this gorgeous, brooding Sicilian! Only, he wasn't planning to walk up the aisle himself, events in his past having...

  • Ghost Town

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    Bryce Lamont gets his share of the money that made his partners in crime rich and landed him in jail when he finds them in Wyatt, Wisconsin, but he also finds himself fighting off a malaria outbreak and tracking down outlaws who murdered the woman he...

  • Pet Boy

    Keith Graves

    Meet Stanley -- avid pet collector. He purchases them in singles and in matching colored sets. Big or small, dry or wet, he loves to buy new pets. But, always on the lookout for something new and unique, Stanley quickly loses interest in the pets he ...

  • Twins Included!

    Grace Green

    Liz hasn't seen Matt Garvock since he broke her teenage heart, years ago. He's the last person she expects to support her when, pregnant and alone, she returns to her hometown. Yet Matt offers more than a shoulder to cry on -- he offers the c...

  • Deceptions

    Sharon Green

    In the empire of Gandistra, a mystical union of elemental magics reigns .. . Lorand, Rion, Tamrissa, Valiant, Jovvi and Naran have combined their elemental powers and their deep compassion to bring a new era of enlightenment to their once enslaved...

  • Snag Him!

    Gretchen Greene

    When you find your dream guy, you can't let him get away. . . . Picture this: you're stuck in a raft on your weekend class trip with the cutest guy in school and the Junior Miss runner-up. You've had a crush on him forever, and you've hated her (f...

  • The Vacant Throne

    Ed Greenwood

    The king's curse has been lifted ... but he can not yet reclaim his throne. While inhuman and dark forces lurk behind the scenes waiting for the opportunity to bring all of Aglirta, the Kingless Land, under their evil shadow, and evil and ambitiou...

  • The Fraser Bride

    Lois Greiman

    From the moment he first encounters the ravishing sleeping beauty on his land, Ramsay MacGowan is bewitched -- and the tale she spins upon waking convinces him to be her protector. But Anora Fraser's stories of bandits and terror are falsehoods meant...

  • Death Rides an Ill Wind

    Kate Grilley

    St. Chris was unbearably hot. There were no tourists, businesses were suffering, and it was the tropical storm season to boot. Then a pair of bad news beauties arrived. One was Leila Mae Turner -- the Southern belle bimbo who broke up my marriage. Th...

  • Stepping Out with Grandma Mac

    Nikki Grimes

  • Field Guide

    Gwendolen Gross

    In this mesmerizing first novel a young American graduate student abandons her research deep in the Australian rain forest to investigate her professor's mysterious disappearance.Annabel Mendelssohn has an unusual but oddly satisfying life -- studyin...

  • Dragons

    Grosset & Dunlap

  • My Dolly

    Woody Guthrie

  • Cry Me a River

    Patricia Hagan

    Vietnam veteran Luke Ballard returns to his roots in the Deep South to take on the job of sheriff in his Alabama hotel, only to become caught up in a growing mystery involving bootlegging, high-level corruption, the KKK, greed, violence, and death. R...

  • Teddy Bears' Mother Goose

    Michael Hague

    A collection of favorite Mother Goose rhymes, each featuring Michael Hague's irresistable teddy bears.

    Mother Goose poems have delighted countless generations with their captivating rhythms and playful rhymes. The charm and urance of these cla...

  • His 1-800 Wife

    Shirley Hailstock

    Fed up with her meddling family, Catherine Carson had the perfect plan...make a deal with a nice, unexciting guy who would agree to marry her for six months, then divorce. And she knew her childhood friend Jarrod Greene was just the perfect man for t...

  • Farewell, My Lunchbag

    Bruce Hale

    A Hunger for Mystery isn’t always a recipe for success. The fastest way to any gecko's heart is through his stomach. But anyone who knows Chet, knows that. That's why Mrs. Bagoong, the cafeteria lady, goes to Chet for help when a food thief start...

  • Paradise Island

    Gena Hale

    THE WHOLE WORLD KNOWS WHO HE IS... but fame was the last thing he wanted. A marine archaeologist known as much for his devastating good looks as his considerable expertise, Luke is working on a secret project that will cement his reputation as one...