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  • Hokkaido Popsicle

    Isaac Adamson

    After an altercation with the director of Wildman for Geisha! -- a movie based on ace reporter Billy Chaka's life -- Chaka finds himself in Hokkaido on mandatory vacation. Trouble starts when the elderly porter of the Hotel Kitty stumbles into Billy'...

  • The No Place Cat

    C.S. Adler

    Running away from her new stepfamily who doesn't seem to care about her, Tess begins walking to her mother's house and gets a companion in the form of a gray-striped cat who follows her along the desert road, but things don't go as planned when she a...

  • Treasure Hunt

    Allan Ahlberg

    Little ones can follow along as Tilly, who simply adores treasure hunting, makes all sorts of exciting discoveries throughout the day, but when it comes time for bed, Mommy and Daddy must go on a special treasure hunt to find their precious little gi...

  • Second Opinion

    Hannah Alexander

    Lauren McCaffrey, an experienced ER nurse, arrives in Dogwood Springs, Missouri, hoping for a fresh start in her career -- and a convenient escape from her family's humiliating pressure to find a husband. Dr. Grant Sheldon transfers to the local hos...

  • Counting Stars

    David Almond

    These beautifully-written stories grow out of David Almond's childhood in the streets and fields of Tyneside. They're funny and sad, realistic and strange, and are suffused with a profound sense of mystery and wonder. They show that the ordinary worl...

  • A Very Single Woman

    Caroline Anderson

    The man to change her mind? Dr. Nick Lancaster just didn't understand. Why would a beautiful, talented doctor like Helen Moore want to come to a remote part of England to work part-time in a village doctor's office and adopt and raise a child on her...

  • Lord Calthorpe's Promise

    Sylvia Andrew

    An Honorable Promise Lord Adam Calthorpe had been rash in his promise to look out for a fellow soldier's sister before the soldier was killed at the battle of Waterloo. For Miss Katherine Payne was a golden-eyed shrew who took genuine delight in f...

  • You've Got Murder

    Donna Andrews

    Meet Turing Hopper. She's an Artificial Intelligence Personality--AIP for short--she's a mainframe computer with a mind like Miss Marple...and hardware that hides a suspiciously human heart. AIP Turing Hopper is in a panic. Her creator, Zack, has...

  • You Know Better

    Tina McElroy Ansa

    As tiny Mulberry, Georgia, celebrates its spring Peach Blossom Festival, things are far from peachy for three generations of women: “An engrossing tale.” -- BooklistEighteen-year-old LaShawndra, who wants nothing more out of life than to dance i...

  • Blossom and Boo Stay up Late

    Dawn Apperley

  • Dragon's Knight

    Catherine Archer

    Valorous, respected knight though he was, Jarrod Maxwell had always known the land of the heart was closed to him. Why then had capricious Destiny led him to aid Lady Aislynn Greatham...and made his soul yearn for impossible passion -- and a forever ...

  • Kindling

    Jennifer Armstrong

    It is the year 2007.

    The world has been wiped out by a deadly plague that killed all the adults. Without them, children perished of hunger and disease. No more people, no more electricity, no more civilization -- just mildewed houses, overgro...

  • Night Watch

    Kevin Armstrong

    Kevin Armstrong's stories introduce us to travelers, sailors, and indigenous peoples whose fates are both strange and compellingly familiar. A Tongan boy is raised as a girl and then transplanted to the American Midwest. A desperate widow seeks asylu...

  • Star Wars Episode II: Jango Fett: Bounty Hunter

    Eric Arnold

    As a very special extension of our acclaimed and bestselling Step into Reading titles, Star Wars Jedi Readers feature vivid artwork and text that is carefully designed to help children learn to read. This Step 3 Jedi Reader focuses on the famous boun...

  • Lord Exmouth's Intentions

    Anne Ashley

    Demure vicar's daughter Robina Percival has relished her Season in Town -- a definite change for the better after her somewhat straitened situation at home. But what is she to make of Daniel, Lord Exmouth? A widower with two daughters to raise, h...

  • The Miss America Family

    Julianna Baggott

    Pixie Kitchy was once Miss New Jersey. Now she's married to a dentist, an ex-quarterback in turtled golf pants. Her ten-year-old daughter, Mitzie, wears Bo-peep pincurls and twirls baton. Her sixteen-year-old son, Ezra, the person who knows her best,...

  • Cat in the Crypt

    Ben M. Baglio

    A spooky spin-off of the best-selling Animal Ark series, this new Hauntings title will have animal-lovers shivering in fear and delight.

    Mandy and her best firend James are used to dealing with animals in distress. But ghostly animals in distr...

  • The Greek Tycoon's Revenge

    Jacqueline Baird

    Eloise had fallen in love with powerful Greek tycoon Marcus Kouvaris. Now, years later, Marcus holds her responsible for defrauding his uncle...and he's come to get his revenge! Actually, Eloise had nothing to do with the fraud -- but with all...

  • No Ordinary Olive

    Roberta Baker

  • Crimson Night

    Trisha Baker

    Meghann O'Neill once dreamed of having a child, but that was a long time ago. It was before she had been seduced into a relationship of pleasure and pain, excitement and torture. It was before she had been transformed into a vampire by Lord Simon Bal...

  • Shadow of an Angel

    Mignon F. Ballard

    Meet Augusta Goodnight, guardian angel extraordinaire and the afterlife's best angel-sleuth. Always on call, she's resourceful, wisecracking--and literally down-to-earth... Minda Hobbs has returned to her hometown of Angel Heights, South Carolina ...

  • Springtime in Chubbytown

    Olivia Barham

  • Summer Picnic

    Olivia Barham

    Brittany agrees to go on a picnic with her friends, even though she does not want to take part for fear of spoiling her appearance, but when they really need her help, she realizes what is truly important....

  • Greek Surgeon

    Margaret Barker

    An escape...into his arms Sister DemelzaTregarron finds herself hoping against hope that Dr. Nick Capodistrias and his young son, Ianni, can be the family she's longed for. She has come to the idyllic Greek Island of Kopelos to escape the past and...

  • The Bones in the Attic

    Robert Barnard

    Matt Harper, a television and radio personality and a former professional soccer player, has just bought Elderholm, an old stone house in Leeds in the north of England. It's ideal for him, his partner Aileen, and her three children. Even the attic sp...

  • Daddy's Double Due Date

    Belinda Barnes

    BABY BLESSINGS Hunter Morgan incarcerated bad guys; he didn't cootchie-coo babies. But that was before a sperm bank snafu impregnated a stranger with his progeny. Now duty demanded he do right by Ashley Morgen and be the father fate had once denied ...

  • The Twenty-Eighth Day

    Catherine Barry
    in

    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...

  • What She Doesn't Know

    Beverly Barton

    IN THE WAKE OF A TRAGEDY SHE CAN'T FORGET... Twenty years ago, Jolie Royale witnessed a crime that stained her home, Belle Rose plantation, with her family's blood. A shooting left her mother, her aunt, and her aunt's suspected lover dead, and Jol...

  • The Kissing Monster

    Marion Dane Bauer

  • The Babbs Switch Story

    Darleen Bailey Beard

    A novel told in a strong Southern voice

    Ruth Ann Tillman loves to sing, especially the solo in the annual Babbs Switch, Oklahoma, Christmas Tree Celebration. And no matter what Elden Larrs says teasingly, she’s good. But this year, 1924, Mom...

  • The Duchess' Lover

    Julie Beard

    After more than twenty years, Olivia, Duchess of Brandhurst, is finally free -- free from the shackles of a loveless marriage to a cruel, domineering husband. And in one reckless night of passion, she experiences that freedom -- in the arms of Will B...

  • Elektra

    Brian Michael Bendis

    After being brought back from death, ninja assassin Elektra is hired by SHIELD to go to Iraq and retrieve a mysterious box that is currently in the possession of Saddam Abed Dassam, the nation's leader and Hydra's pawn....

  • Take Me, I'm Yours

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    How did a nice girl from a small town get into a situation like this? Ruby Runyon's hot date turns out to be mob-connected and married, and her only chance of escape is to crash a swanky party. At least the rich and snooty aren't out to kill her! ...

  • A Daddy for Her Daughters

    Elizabeth Bevarly
    in

    Bachelor Sloan Sullivan thought he understood women, but when confronted with spirited Naomi Carmichael and her brood of girls, he realized he had a lot to learn! Especially if he hoped to win this sexy single mom's heart......

  • The Wedding Ultimatum

    Helen Bianchin

    Twenty-four hours to make up her mind! Danielle D'Alboa knew Rafael Valdez was out of her league and had never dreamed he'd be interested in her as a woman. She'd turned to him as a last resort to help her family. The outrageous soluti...

  • Sweet as Apple Pie

    Kristin Billerbeck
    in

    Join nine modern ladies on culinary journeys that lead to the recipe for lasting romance in this delightful collection, including New York Times bestselling author Wanda E. Brunstetter and eight other award-winning authors. When it comes to romance, ...

  • Carissima

    Maeve Binchy
    in

    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...

  • The Chestnut Tree

    Charlotte Bingham

    By bestselling British writer Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree is a sweeping, romantic novel about the women who stayed behind in World War II. It is the summer of 1939, and the residents of the idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are prepar...

  • Just Desserts

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the patrons happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quillam sis...

  • Into the Wilderness: The Long Hunters

    Rosanne Bittner

    Set in I 750s Pennsylvania. Into the Wilderness depicts life in the Allegheny Mountains and the Northeast at the beginning of the French and Indian War. When sixteen-year-old Jessica Matthews is attacked by Ottawa Indians, she is saved by the darkle ...

  • Cape Refuge

    Terri Blackstock

    TWO BODIES, ONE SPEAR GUN, AND A MURDER SUSPECT. BUT DID MORGAN CLEARY'S HUSBAND REALLY KILL HER PARENTS? A brutal double-murder has struck fear into the heart of the peaceful Cape Refuge community. The crime weapon belongs to the victims' son-...

  • The Last Available Man

    Cindy Blake

    The hilarious new novel from the bestselling author of IT'S MY PARTY. Two step-sisters, who together run a very successful headhunting company in the city - but whose romantic lives are not so successful - are on the hunt for the right man. The same ...

  • An Apple a Day

    Andrea Boeshaar
    in

    If it's true that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, then what better way to entice the typical American male than with apple pie? Talia believes An Apple a Day and a few herbs are the key to healthy living, but Dr. Coridan scoffs at th...

  • With His Ring

    Cheryl Bolen

    He Married For Money, Not For Love. Fortunately, His Wife Did Quite The Opposite... Young and spirited Glee Pembroke had always been secretly in love with her brother's best friend, Gregory Blankenship. So when she learned that this dedicated bach...

  • Ugh! a Bug

    Mary Bono

    What do you do when a bug's bugging you?
    They're scary, they're hairy
    They swoop, buzz, and hover.
    But most bugs are harmless.
    There's no need to take cover.

    Yes, some bugs are nasty, but most bugs are not.
    It's simply a m...

  • Butterflies and Lizards, Beryl and Me

    Ruth Lercher Bornstein

    In 1934, eleven-year-old Charlotte and her mother move to tiny Valley Junction, Missouri, where Charlotte befriends an eccentric old woman named Beryl Stubbs in spite of her mother's and others' warnings....

  • Century's Son

    Robert Boswell

    Century's Son is a piercing and visionary novel that explores the surprisingly diverse lives of one midwestern American family. In the years following the suicide of their teenaged son, husband and wife Morgan and Zhenya have settled into a staid ...

  • The Rock Rats

    Ben Bova

    Visionary space industrialist Dan Randolph is dead-but his protégé, pilot Pancho Barnes, now sits on the board of his conglomerate. She has her work cut out for her. For Randolph's rival, Martin Humphries, still wants to control Astro and still...

  • The Master of Rain

    Tom Bradby

    Shanghai, 1926: a sultry city lousy with opium, warlords, and corruption at the highest levels. Into this steamy morass walks Richard Field, an idealistic Brit haunted by his past and recently appointed to the international police. He’s not there l...

  • Three Weeks in Paris

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Legendary storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford presents a spellbinding story of four women transformed by old memories and surprising revelations when they meet again at a school reunion in Paris. As students at the prestigious Anya Sedgwick School of...

  • Strictly Seduction

    Shelley Bradley

    PURELY PASSION Life has taught Madeline Sedgewick that nothing comes without a price -- even desire. Widowed and deeply in debt, she's certain that whomever has bought her late husband's notes of credit will demand a steep payment. But she...

  • Warning of War

    James Brady

    Late November of 1941. Half the world is at war and with the other half about to join in, a thousand U.S. Marines stand sentinel over the last days of an uneasy truce between ourselves and the Imperial Japanese Army in chaotic North China. By N...

  • Getting Home

    Celia Brayfield

  • Godspeed

    Lynn Breedlove

    Jim is a butch bike messenger and speedfreak who is suddenly faced with an ultimatum by her girlfriend: clean up or get out. Unable to kick her drug habit, Jim ends up unemployed and alone, so as a newly hired band roadie, she takes off for New York ...

  • Littlest Wolf

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • Dolores: Seven Stories About Her

    Bruce Brooks

    A series of events, some centering around the older brother she idolizes, captures the life of a free-spirited girl as she grows from a savvy six-year-old to a self-assured sixteen-year-old. Reader's Guide available....

  • Sittin' in the Front Pew

    Parry Brown

    From the author of the national bestseller The Shirt off His Back comes a novel about love, family, and honoring loved onesDeath brings about strange emotions, and people’s true colors start to show. Glynda Naylor discovers this when she gets the c...

  • Plain and Fancy

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Laura Meade loves her fancy, modern life but she's also fascinated by the Amish in Lancaster Valley, where she's studying interior design. When Laura meets Eli Yoder, one of the plain people, she falls hopelessly in love. Never much of a churchgo...

  • Take It from Me

    Molly Buchan

    There's nothing like talking to a big sister and getting her advice, because she'll always tell you things that mom won't. Meet Molly, a 17-year-old who's decided to play the role of big sister to girls 8 to 12. She's willing to tell you the answers ...

  • Ghost Macindoe

    Jonathan Buckley

    Following in the wake of his highly praised first two books, Jonathan Buckley's `Ghost MacIndoe' is a bold and ambitious novel that focuses on the life of Alexander MacIndoe, a self-centred man who is characterised only by his physical beauty and a c...

  • Little Badger's Just-About Birthday

    Eve Bunting

  • Flight

    Jan Burke

    Edgar Award-winning author Jan Burke, acclaimed for her Irene Kelly novels, hits the ground running with a harrowing thriller featuring homicide detective Frank Harriman. When the wreckage of a small plane belonging to a Las Piernas Police Department...

  • Little Horse

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Can Little Horse find his place in the big world?After accidentally falling into a stream, Little Horse fights the swift current that carries him farther and farther from the valley where he was born.When he finally manages to scramble ashore, a gian...

  • Moving

    Colette Caddle
    in

    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...

  • Knockout Mouse

    James Calder

    Set in the high-stakes world of biotechnology. When a dinner guest dies suddenly of an allergic reaction to a food she hasn’t eaten, dot-com casualty Bill Devlin goes from suspect to sleuth, embroiled in a murder with far-reaching consequences. He ...

  • Shoot Out at Corpus Christi

    Tom Calhoun

    Hired to bring in one of Texas's most notorious gangs of outlaws, bounty hunter and gunfighter J. T. Law heads for Corpus Christi and into a deadly confrontation with the vicious Baxter Brothers. Original....

  • A Lord for Olivia

    June Calvin

    Odds on Love Penniless and without prospects, Lord Edmund Debham has returned from war longing for a peaceful life in the English countryside. Then he happens into a rustic tavern and plays a few games of cards for some sorely needed funds, never ...

  • The Baby Gift

    Bethany Campbell

    Josh Morris travels the world in search of its stories. Briana Morris's whole world is a single small farm. They met and married and divorced in little more than the wink of an eye. But together they managed to create one perfect thing -- their daugh...

  • Perfect Challenge

    Joanna Campbell

    Melanie Graham knows Image is Triple Crown material. The problem is, the filly is too smart for her own good. She's difficult to train, hates to be stabled indoors, and fights with other horses. But if Melanie is going to run Image in...

  • The Darkest Part of the Wood

    Ramsey Campbell

    For decades the lives of the Price family have been snarled with the fate of the ancient forest of Goodmanswood. There, Dr. Lennox Price discovered an hallucinogenic moss which quickly became the focus of a cult. Though the moss is long gone, the who...

  • Song of the Jackalope

    Roy B. Campbell

    As a first time writer, Baba Roy has made a significant step into the midst of quality children's literature. This is a book about entertainment and action, about mystery, about the natural world, and finally about values. We are hoping for a se...

  • Kushiel's Chosen

    Jacqueline Carey

    Mighty Kushiel, of rod and weal Late of the brazen portals With blood-tipp'd dart a wound unhealed Pricks the eyen of chosen mortals The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. The inhabiting race rose from the seed of ...

  • A Lasting Proposal

    C.J. Carmichael

    He made her an offer she couldn't refuse -- bud did she ever try! Jake Hartman's heli-skiing operation in the foothills of the Canadian Rockies has been hugely successful. But because of the major outlays he now wants to make, he needs a capital inf...

  • The Wooden Nickel

    William Carpenter

    Lucky Lunt is an endangered species: a third generation lobsterman who works the same Maine waters as his father and grandfather in a boat called The Wooden Nickel. He can identify every car in town from the sound of its engine, but his world is chan...

  • Private Investigations

    Tori Carrington

    PARTNERS IN PASSION... Former secretary Ripley Logan will do whatever it takes to make it in her new career as a P.I. Only, she hadn't counted on being forced out of her room (the bathtub, actually) by bad guys -- or crawling between the sheets wi...

  • Pregnant in Prosperino

    Carla Cassidy

    "THIS MARRIAGE HAS STRINGS ATTACHED, CHANCE..." Yeah, and it's all based on my, um, performance. When Lana Ramirez came to him with an offer of marriage, Chance Reilly knew it was too good to be true. He needed a wife to claim his rightful inherit...

  • Just a Little Bit Dangerous

    Linda Castillo

    When Deputy Sheriff Jake Madigan was called to duty to bring in an escaped convict, he thought it would be a routine search-and-rescue mission. He was wrong. Turns out capturing Abby Nichols was a cinch compared to hauling her out of the Rocky Mounta...

  • Mother's Day Garden

    Kimberly Cates

    Parenthood behind her, her only daughter off to college, Hannah O'Connell should be enjoying the peace of an empty home, and time with her husband, Sam. But a miraculous arrival, an abandoned baby girl, comes into their lives -- a precious infant wit...

  • Minnie and Moo and the Potato from Planet X

    Denys Cazet

    C-R-A-S-H!

    A spaceship falls at Minnie and Moo's feet, and a potato-shaped alien named Spud climbs out of the wreckage. Spud is transporting Anti-Bump Cream, and if he doesn't deliver it to outer space, the earth and all the...

  • I Am a Jedi Apprentice

    Marc Cerasini

  • Real Time: Stories and a Reminiscence

    Amit Chaudhuri

    Amit Chaudhuri's stories range across the astonishing face of the modern Indian subcontinent. From divorcées about to enter into an arranged marriage to the teenaged poet who develops a relationship with a lonely widower, from singing teachers to ho...

  • Sons of Heaven

    Terrence Cheng

    Sons of Heaven is an epic novel set against the backdrop of one of modern historys most haunting events: the Tiananmen Square Massacre. In June 1989, the world watched in horror as Chinas military was mobilized to suppress a student movement that sto...

  • Moon of Bitter Cold

    Frederick J. Chiaventone

    By the summer of 1866, America was a changed nation. The Civil War has ended, and the West was calling as a place where the fresh wounds of a nation divided could heal. Many set out to heed that call and explore the land that the terrible war had not...

  • Without Fail

    Lee Child

    Skilled, stealthy, and unknown, Jack Reacher is the perfect man for the job: to assassinate the vice president of the United States. Theoretically. The head of a high-level Secret Service security detail wants Reacher to find the holes in her system ...

  • The SEAL's Surrender

    Maureen Child

    He'd slipped in and out of hostile nations, stared down enemy guns. But Chance Barnett Connelly, navy SEAL, didn't know fear till he was caught in the sights of one petite, green-eyed single mom. Jennifer Anderson sent a jolt of desire through the...

  • Wake up, Big Barn

    Suzanne Tanner Chitwood

    A gorgeous first picture book which demands to be read aloud by an exciting new author/illustrator about a rowdy and rollicking farm.

    Suzanne Chitwood's show stopping, eye-popping art style is bound to be the buzz of the season. Drawn in a cla...

  • Randall Riches

    Judy Christenberry

    The Randall Saga Continues... Trapped like a hog-tied calf in a greasy spoon, champion bull rider Rich Randall had no choice but to accept the help of pretty diner waitress Samantha Jeffers to get himself, and his broken ankle, out of the one-hors...

  • You Lucky Dog

    Matt Christopher

    Lou Barnes has a little trouble remembering to watch his position on the soccer field. So sometimes he gets called offside -- and during a game, that can cost the team a chance at a goal. Then one game, Lou gets a reminder of the offside rule from a ...

  • Sweet Sixteen

    Scott Ciencin

    SIXTEEN CANDLES Buffy's younger sister, Dawn, knows how it feels to be different. So when she overhears her classmates teasing a new girl, Arianna, she steps in, and the two become friends. But when Buffy comes home one afternoon to find her siste...

  • Anakin Skywalker: Jedi's Journal

    Scott Ciencin

    A facsimile of the journal and sketchbook that Anakin Skywalker kept while he was studying to become a Jedi Knight, this journal’s insightful entries give fans intimate glimpses of Anakin’s training, his hopes and fears, and his feelings about hi...

  • X-Men Legends, Volume 1: Mutant Genesis

    Chris Claremont

    When X-Men #1 first appeared in the fall of 1991 it shook comicdom to its core. This is a classic collection of the earliest issues of X-Men, introducing many of the characters and themes that continue today....

  • X-Treme X-Men: Savage Land

    Chris Claremont

  • Like Mother, Like Daughter

    Catherine Clark

    Okay, let's face it. My mom and I are never going to have a "normal" mother-daughter relationship because my mom isn't just my mother, she's my best friend. She would do anything for me, including asking her parents for the tuition money to send me t...

  • Daddy's Little Girl

    Mary Higgins Clark

    Ellie Cavanaugh was seven years old when her older sister was murdered near their home in New York's Westchester County. It was young Ellie's tearful testimony that put Rob Westerfield, the nineteen-year-old scion of a prominent family, in jail despi...

  • Wild Dads!

    Ginjer L. Clarke

    From sea horses to prairie dogs to gorillas, animal babies have dads that take care of them. Male sea horses give birth. Male penguins keep their eggs safe and warm under their bellies. This nonfiction Pictureback details the methods in which fathers...

  • In Pursuit of a Princess

    Donna Clayton

    From the desk of Luc Dumont, Head of Security St. Michel April 2002 Day 30 While a missing heir remains at large, Princess Ariane has offered to go undercover at the palace in Rhineland and learn more about the rumored faction hoping to control ...

  • Gone for Good

    Harlan Coben

    As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins' affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman--a girl Will had once loved--was found brutally murdered in her family's basement. The prime suspec...

  • The Garden of Eden All Over Again

    Jude Collins

    A bittersweet tale of 1950s Omagh It's 1959. Adam Faith is topping the hit parade and eighteen year old Jim McGrath is getting ready to leap from school into adult life. But what sort of life? His mother and his uncle, Father Frank, are pushing him t...

  • What Child Is This?

    Cara Colter

    Sheriff Fletcher Harris didn't know how a little girl had ended up at the bus stop, lost and alone, with his name pinned to her shirt, but he damn sure meant to protect her. And he knew only one person with enough love in her heart to help him -- the...

  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm

    Frances Cony

    A reiusse of a rollicking, three-dimensional rendition of the favorite song.

    Brilliantly colored and chock-full of ingenious mechanical devices, this is an eye-catching, toe-tapping interactive treat for preschoolers. Pull the tab and Old MacD...

  • Gallows Thief

    Bernard Cornwell

    In the cobbled streets outside Newgate Prison, the common and desperate of London gather regularly to enjoy the spectacle of human necks broken at the end of a hangman's rope. For Rider Sandman, newly returned from the Napoleonic Wars, it is not grim...

  • Active Pursuit

    Alexander Court

    Decades ago, as their homeland descended into chaos, thousands of Cambodians fled to the United States, hoping to start a new life in a new country. But even America isn't safe from the terror that drove them from Cambodia: the dreaded Khmer Rouge....

  • Cross My Heart

    Carol Cox

    Violet Canfield has a tender heart. Growing up, she cared for a constant stream of orphaned animals. Now, when three orphaned children show up on her doorstep, it's second nature to protect the kids from the wild-eyed man chasing them. Raised in ...

  • The Eugenics Wars, Vol. 2: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh

    Greg Cox

    Alarmed by the potential dangers of the Chrysalis project, extraterrestrial secret agent Gary Seven teams up with human Roberta Lincoln to neutralize the growing threat of Khan Noonien Singh, an ambitious, teenage, artificially enhanced human who is ...

  • The Bondwoman's Narrative

    Hannah Crafts

    Possibly the first novel written by a black woman slave, this work is both a historically important literary event and a gripping autobiographical story in its own right.When her master is betrothed to a woman who conceals a tragic secret, Hannah Cra...

  • The Marriage Proposition

    Sara Craven

    When Paige looked at Nick Destry she could hardly believe she was married to him! A successful banker, Nick was confidently sexy -- but ruthless. He'd wanted a seat on the board, and he'd married Paige to get one. Paige decided to act as i...

  • A Deadly Change of Power

    Gina Cresse

  • Akiko and the Intergalactic Zoo

    Mark Crilley

    Akiko, the Earthling hero best known for helping rescue Prince Froptoppit of the Planet Smoo, has been back on her home planet for several months now. She’s just started fifth grade and has been made leader of the school safety patrol. But Akiko’...

  • Hannah's Vow

    Pam Crooks

    Four years in prison have made Quinn Landry a man who thinks nothing of using a young nun as a shield in a daring bid for freedom. But he has kidnapped no meek sister. Hannah Benning fashions a master key from her rosary with the skill of a common cr...

  • Confessions of an Ex-girlfriend

    Lynda Curnyn

    Ex-Girlfriend Emma Carter has a lot on her mind. Her boyfriend got a life -- in L.A. Her hairdresser found God. And that extra 10 pounds of "relationship flab" she acquired while falling in love with a commitment-phobe has just put her out of the run...

  • 'Gator Aid

    Jane Cutler

    A third book in the popular Fraser brothers series.

    Right after seeing his older brother, Jason, in a school production of Peter Pan, Edward Fraser claims to have spotted an alligator in his neighborhood park's lake. Jason and his parents thi...

  • That's Good! That's Bad! in the Grand Canyon

    Margery Cuyler

    "He landed on a waterfall, SPLISH-SPLOSH! Then he slid down the slippery falls, WHEE-EEE!, to the beautiful pool below, WHAT FUN!"

    The little boy from That's Good! That's Bad! is back for another incredible adventure, this time on a trip throu...

  • Bernelly and Harriet: The Country Mouse and the City Mouse

    Elizabeth Dahlie

    Updates Aesop's fable as Bernelly, a fly-fishing instructor, is introduced to the excitement of city life by her cousin, Harriet, who then accompanies Bernelly to the peaceful countryside in search of artistic inspiration....

  • To Burn

    Claudia Dain

    He has sworn to battle the empire wherever he finds it, and an isolated Roman villa in Britannia seems the perfect target for his revenge. He and his fierce Saxon warriors will sweep through it like an inferno, destroying all in their path. From the ...

  • Cock-A-Moo-Moo

    Juliet Dallas-Conte

    When Rooster forgets how to crow, the other animals on the farm make fun of him, but when Rooster spies Fox quietly approaching, Rooster knows he has to make this morning's crow absolutely perfect in order to wake everyone and alert them of the dange...

  • The Arranged Marriage

    Emma Darcy

    Alex King is the eldest grandson of a prestigious family. It's his duty to expand the King empire -- and he must also choose a bride and father a son! Gina Terlizzi already has a baby son -- she's not looking for a husband! No matter how b...

  • The Lady of the Sorrows

    Cecilia Dart-Thornton

    A courageous maiden searches for her forgotten history as her king wages desperate war on malevolent creatures known as the unseelie, who are plotting the destruction of all humankind The newly named Lady of the Sorrows must carry important tidings t...

  • Horace Splattly, The Cupcaked Crusader

    Lawrence David

    It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s the Cupcaked Crusader! Horace Splattly, the Cupcaked Crusader, is the smallest ten-year-old in town. Victim of his brilliant little sister's experiments, empowered by her chemically altered cupcakes and mortif...

  • Just Another Day in Paradise

    Justine Davis

    For single mom Paige Cooper, a job with Redstone, Incorporated, meant a new life. But soon after she settled into her new home, her serenity was shattered when she was abducted by vicious terrorists. Her only hope of rescue was Noah Rider. The man wh...

  • Extreme Grace

    Tish Davis

    The past is behind her...or so Candice Drakeforth wants to believe. She's left her acting career and established a new life - as a member of a mountain resort's ski patrol. When she meets Jeremy Braunfeld, Candice is convinced that she has also found...

  • Babar's Little Girl Makes a Friend

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • Was It a Good Trade?

    Beatrice Schenk De Regniers

  • A Family to Be

    Sharon De Vita

    Josh couldn't stop staring at the ultrasound photograph, feeling unaccountably connected to the helpless baby who was totally dependent on Emma for every beat of her heart. He also felt a swell of pride in Emma. With so much stacked against her, s...

  • A Will of Her Own

    Patricia DeGroot

    April Wilde has vowed never to give her heart away to another man. Not after her father abandoned her at the age of twelve, leaving her to raise two younger sisters on the harsh Colorado plains. But now May and June are grown and happily preparing to...

  • In the Casa Azul

    Meaghan Delahunt

    Pursued from country to country by Stalin's GPU agents, Leon Trotsky finds refuge in Mexico City in 1937. There he encounters the fire and splendor of the artist Frida Kahlo who, with her husband Diego Rivera, welcomes Trotsky and his wife Natalia in...

  • The Cranberry Queen

    Kathleen DeMarco

    Diana Moore, a thirty-something professional in New York City, is brooding over rumors about her ex-lovers beautiful new girlfriend, when the unimaginable happens: a terrible car accident in which her entire family is killed. Seeking refuge from her ...

  • Sans Moi

    Marie Desplechin

    The narrator of Sans Moi is a working single mother struggling to bring up her two young children. Olivia is a recovering drug addict and onetime prostitute who desperately needs a job. When Olivia -- on the face of it a highly unsuitable babysitter ...

  • The Ring Cycle

    Martina Devlin
    in

    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...

  • Borderlands

    Jennifer Owens Dewey

    After attempting suicide, seventeen-year-old Jamie is admitted to a psychiatric ward, where she must come to terms with the abusive, neglectful family relationships that have led to her situation and where she meets a young man whose problems are muc...

  • Book of Pooh: Opposites #1

    Disney Book Group

    Little ones can join Winnie-the-Pooh and his friends as they delve into the wonderful world of opposites, where they learn about up and down, clean and messy, and happy and sad, in an adorable board book complete with a fuzzy cover and an introductio...

  • Book of Pooh: Hide and Seek - Book #2

    Disney Book Group

  • Night After Night

    Kate Donovan

    A New Beginning Disillusioned by the tragedies of her childhood, Maggie Gleason never wants to marry. So when she hires a matchmaker, it's to find a teaching job, not a husband. Scenic Shasta Falls, California turns out to be the perfect match for...

  • Lilly's Pirate

    Paige Winship Dooly
    in

    Freedom's Cry is heard throughout Philadelphia's first Independence Day celebration. For Sara, an indentured servant, the excitement grows as she anticipates the end of her five-year term. For Winkie, to be loosed from the shackles of slavery and car...

  • The Battle of Betazed

    Charlotte Douglas; Susan Kearney

    In the darkest hours of the Dominion War, as the Federation's downfall seemed ever more certain, Jem'Hadar and Cardassian forces conquered Betazed, the homeworld of Deanna Troi. Their victory sent shock waves through the Alpha Quadrant, and put the D...

  • Enchanter

    Sara Douglass

    Axis is a true hero, in every sense of the word. On his shoulders lies the double burden of prophecy and war. Having fulfilled the first part of the prophecy by becoming the StarMan, he now must reunite the three races inhabiting his world. It is ...

  • A Working of Stars

    Debra Doyle; James D. MacDonald

    The new novel in the sweeping Mageworlds series.On the planet Entibor, Arekhon sus-Khalgath sus Peledaen has found shelter and domestic tranquility with his old love, Elaeli Inadi, at the price of what he had left behind: a dispersed and shattered Ma...

  • Bonita

    Kathleen Duey

    Adventure, drama, wild horses running free. The American West is brought to life through the eyes of the horses who were there in a new program of books inspired by Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, the new film coming May 2002 from DreamWorks.
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  • At the Edge

    David Dun

    Stumbling upon a revolutionary scientific discovery, two opposing lawyers, who suddenly find themselves on the same side, are plunged into the center of an environmental conspiracy where they must fight for their lives. Together , they stumble onto ...

  • Song of the Circus

    Lois Duncan

  • Playing Games

    Catherine Dunne
    in

    An enchanting, heartwarming anthology of sixteen short stories about family, friendship, and love features contributions from such popular Irish women authors as Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, Cathy Kelly, Colette Caddle, Morag Prunty, Julie Parsons, Jo...

  • Fleet Hospital

    Anne Marie Duquette

    At Camp Pendleton near San Diego, Fleet Hospital is conducting a simulated emergency under the command of Captain Michael McLowery. This means the place is filled with servicemen and women "moulaged" to resemble the wounded. Also on-site is report...

  • The Journal of C.J. Jackson

    William Durbin

    In another compelling entry from criticially-acclaimed author William Durbin, we meet C.J. Jackson, a young farmer whose family is forced to abandon their farm and seek a new life in California.

    April 10, 1935

    The dust has been blowing ...

  • Free Indeed

    Kristy Dykes
    in

    Freedom's Cry is heard throughout Philadelphia's first Independence Day celebration. For Sara, an indentured servant, the excitement grows as she anticipates the end of her five-year term. For Winkie, to be loosed from the shackles of slavery and car...

  • A Real American

    Richard Easton

    Eleven-year-old Nathan McClelland hates the fact that everything is changing in his small farming community, now that the countryside is turning into a coalfield. His best friend just moved away and immigrant miners have built shanties where his farm...

  • Face Down Across the Western Sea

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    Anxious to prove England's claim on the New World, Queen Elizabeth has charged Sir Walter Pendennis, seasoned spy and diplomat, with the top-secret mission. Walter gathers a team of scholars at his Cornwall estate, and calls upon his dear friend Susa...

  • Dinosaurs after Dark

    Jonathan Emmett

  • The Agent

    Lynn Erickson

    Meg Afferton's husband -- a well-known scientist -- disappeared on the very day she planned to tell him their marriage was over...and that she was pregnant. Mark Fielder, the agent in charge of the case, feels Meg's husband may have been abducted ...

  • Love Potions

    Leslie Esdaile

    Over Buffalo wings and cheap wine, Nicole Gordan and her girlfriends cook up a scheme to host private psychic-reading parties each week as an added source of income. Nikki, a telemarketer who has recently moved to Philadelphia from Delaware is a bit...

  • Before You Get to Baby

    Terry Essig

    Eligible bachelor Andrew Wiseman knew how to evade commitment-hungry women. He dodged their entreaties with practiced grace, and dallied only with those who knew the rules. He never expected to be ensnared by the smell of brown sugar.... Mary Fran...

  • Something Borrowed, Something Black

    Loren D. Estleman

    Trying to go straight, former contract killer Peter Macklin carries out a hit in the Lone Star state, in this page-turning hard-boiled thriller   Johns Davis has just left the Alamo when he feels the garrote wrap around his neck. The bookie slam...

  • Longarm and Big Lips Lilly

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’ll have to pay some lip service to this sassy señorita!When two prominent politicos turn up dead, one self-righteous Arizona town pins it on the local madame, “Big Lips” Lilly, faster than she can say “not guilty.” So Deputy U.S. M...

  • Longarm and the Lady Lawyer

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s got his eyes on justice, and his hands on the Defense!As a US Deputy Marshal, Custis Long has gone after more than his fare share of trouble. But when trouble runs right into him -- wearing a blood-stained night gown no less -- he knows h...

  • The Fortune Hunter

    Diane Farr

    It was time to swallow his pride and face the obvious. It would take a fortune to replenish his estate. He could neither borrow it nor earn it. Very well, he must marry it. Desperate and destitute, the devilish Lord Rival has drawn up a list of we...

  • Sonoran Star

    Nancy J. Farrier

    All her life, Kathleen O'Connor's flaw has isolated her. Even her mother is ashamed of her, and Kathleen fades to the background, quietly nurturing her devotion to God. Still, she longs for a husband and children. When Deputy Quinn Kirby makes a ...

  • Baby on the Way

    Marie Ferrarella
    in

    Single and pregnant, Madeline Reed found the perfect husband in the handsome cop who helped bring her infant son into the world. But did his dutiful role in the surprise delivery make J. T. Walker a daddy?...

  • The Irish Knight

    Amy J. Fetzer

    An Irish warrior loyal to Richard the Lionheart must tame a bewitching princess in this magnificent tale of duty, destiny, honor and passion... A Warrior's Honor A loyal knight, Connal PenDragon obeys his king without question. But when Richard...

  • The Marriage Merger

    Liz Fielding

    Flora Claibourne had arranged a business trip specifically to avoid having to work with handsome Bram Farraday Gifford. Only, her plan had backfired; he'd decided to come with her! Instead of nine to five, now she was forced to be with this powerf...

  • Provence -- To Die For

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    MURDER IS SERVED Jessica Fletcher has settled in France for a much-needed month long holiday. And bucolic, idyllic Provence offers Jess plenty of diversions, as she soaks up Gallic charms, immerses herself in the romantic language, and enjoys clas...

  • The Tyrant

    Eric Flint; David Drake

    THE ONLY TWO WHO COULD SAVE THE PLANET WERE ON OPPOSITE SIDES IN A BLOODY WAR! The crumbling Empire on the north of planet Hafardine's single continent is brutal and corrupt--but if it falls, it will take with it the last glimmer of civilization i...

  • Everything Is Illuminated

    Jonathan Safran Foer

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Jonathan Safran Foer's debut -- "a funny, moving...deeply felt novel about the dangers of confronting the past and the redemption that comes with laughing at it, even when that seems all but impossible." (Time)With only a y...

  • Double Exposure

    Susan Ford; Laura Hayden

    Eve and her family have barely settled into their new surroundings after the Inauguration when chaos and scandal erupt. White House photographer Michael Cauffman is taking Eve's picture in the Rose Garden when they stumble upon a corpse in the snow. ...

  • Arkansas Traveler

    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...

  • Steps to the Altar

    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. Steps to the Altar finds her digging up clues to an unsolved murder--and struggling with a very personal crisi...

  • My Beastie Book of ABC

    David Frampton

    A is for alligator.Z is for zebra.And in between is a rollicking alphabet that turns the ABCs into a madcap zoo filled with surprises and laughter! For every child who has ever asked if a leopard has to wash off its spots or if a rhino's horn goes be...

  • Danger's Hour

    James Francis

    From veteran submariner James Francis comes a gripping novel of survival and loyaltyabove and below the surface of the sea. The submarine USS Tulsa speeds silently through the Norwegian Sea, tracking the newest Russian nuclear sub as it makes ...

  • The Trouble with Babies

    Martha Freeman

  • Shannon: Carrying the Star

    Charles E. Friend

    This is how it all began for U.S. Marshal Clay Shannon. Forced by honor to defend his father's murder, young Shannon pins the sheriff's badge to his vest and sets out for vengeance. No one in town thinks Shannon is man enough for the job, but he prov...

  • Hearts Ahoy

    Erica Fuentes

    Two Tickets To Paradise Tall, tanned, and terrific...that's Carlos Trueba all over. The man stands out, even on a Hawaiian beach. Must be all the construction work the former Navy lieutenant is doing these days--and Elena Rangel knows that he's pu...

  • Tall, Dark...and Framed?

    Cathleen Galitz

    Accused of a crime he didn't commit, Sebastian Wescott wasn't about to admit he needed help! Seb knew he was innocent...he certainly didn't need Susan Wysocki -- the alluring attorney with vulnerable eyes -- to defend him! Susan needed him -- this ca...

  • Losing Gemma

    Katy Gardner

    This is the story of Gemma and me: how I lost her, I suppose. I don't usually tell it to anyone but myself;I save it for the darkest moments.Losing Gemma, Katy's Gardners debut novel about adventure, losing your best friend, and self-discovery,&...

  • Ain't Nobody's Bizness

    Laura Garner

    Told in reluctant heroine Madeleine "Max" Maxwell's rough-edged voice, Ain't Nobody's Bizness mixes warped observation and uncompromising self-realization. Max struggles with a very unexpected mid-life pregnancy, the violent death of her alcoho...

  • A Match for Lady Verity

    Mona Gedney
    in

    Lady Verity Devlin will do almost anything for her cherished sons, Alexander and Julian -- except marry again. In her mind, once was quite enough, especially since it was not a union of her choosing. But although her eldest son has a pressing reason ...

  • Stormrider

    David Gemmell

    One glorious spark, one moment of Rigante rebellion has ignited a revolution and forged a legend. In the mountains of the north, the outlaw leader known as Ravenheart waits, knowing the forces of the blackhearted Moidart will come, led by the brutal ...

  • Tree Castle Island

    Jean Craighead George

    With a handmade canoe called L'tle Possum, Jack Hawkins sets out on a solo adventure in the wilds of the Okefenokee Swamp in search of the mythical Paradise Island. He never finds Paradise Island, but he does stumble across some very unusual mysterie...

  • The Mating Game

    Melanie George

    Leave A Message At The Beep "You've reached Mallory Gennaro, aka romance novelist Zoe Wilde. I'm not home right now because, believe it or not, a British Ph.D. named Dexter Harrington offered me an all-expenses-paid trip to England. He thinks "Zoe...

  • Searching for Johnny

    James Gibbins


    Spanning Wuthering Heights' moors, the Atlanta of a latter-day Scarlett O'Hara, and the urban landscape of present-day America, Searching for Johnny tells the story of a young American flier killed in England during World Ward II, whose legacy is...

  • Lola Carlyle Reveals All

    Rachel Gibson

    HAS EVERYONE SEEN TOO MUCH OF LOLA CARLYLE? When ex-supermoddel Lola Carlyle learns that some very -- ahem -- private photos of herself are being peddled on the Internet, she hides out where there's sun and -- she thinks -- safety, until the gossi...

  • Dead Wrong

    H.B. Gilmour; Randi Reisfeld

    Alex's skeevy stepdad has resurfaced ... and he wants Alex back. Like, for good. And Evan, Alex's Montana bud, is crashing. He needs help, stat. Time to 180 to Alex's hometown. But there's more trouble in Montana than the twins ever expected. The po...

  • 1, 2, 3, Come Play with Me

    Jackie Glassman

  • When Duty Whispers Low

    John J. Gobbell

    Now, Lieutenant Commander Todd Ingram faces his biggest challenge to date... It's 1943, and the U.S. Navy is caught in a fierce battle against the Japanese in the South Pacific. At stake is the Allies' newly won Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands....

  • Seasons

    Golden Books

  • Wild Things

    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 A series of mysterious deat...

  • Monkey Mo Goes to Sea

    Diane Goode

    In an engaging story with the humor and silliness of Curious George, Caldecott Honor illustrator Diane Goode presents the hilarious tale of a young boy and his pet monkey aboard an ocean liner.Bertie and his pet monkey Mo are thrilled when they recei...

  • Hurricane Bay

    Heather Graham

    Dane Whitelaw knows something about Sheila Warren that no one else does. Dane knows Sheila's dead. The private investigator found a photo tinder his door -- a picture of Sheila, strangled with his tie and posed on the beach of his private island i...

  • Taking Care of Trouble

    Bonnie Graves

    After he agrees to help his best friend's older sister watch a toddler, fifth-grader Joel learned quite a lot in just one afternoon and so stops worrying about passing his upcoming test in Emergency Preparedness....

  • The Pregnancy Plan

    Grace Green

    Dermid McTaggart faces the hardest decision of his life -- he must find a surrogate mother to carry his baby, or lose the chance of having children. The last person Dermid expects to help him is Lacey Maxwell, his late wife's sister.... Lacey ...

  • Destiny

    Sharon Green

    The Six are stronger than the Five ... But the darkness is most powerful of all Naran's remarkable Sight magic completed the Blending and brought solidity to their rule. But even their combined elemental powers--Earth, Fire, Air Water, Spirit an...

  • Knight Fantastic

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Capturing the exploits and adventures of these courageous warriors, an anthology of fifteen original fantasy stories features the contributions of Andre Norton, Jane Yolen, Mickey Zucker Reichert, Brendan Dubois, Tanya Huff, Jean Rabe, Esther Friesne...

  • Me and My Mummy

    Dan Greenburg

    Mummies are cool, but they’re creepy, too! Zack has faced aliens, vampires, time-travelers, ghosts, and Bigfoot -- now find out what happens when he meets teenage mummy Ikhnaton (Icky for short)....

  • The Ghost and Mrs. Wenthaven

    Maria Greene

    CAN AN UNLIKELY ALLIANCE... When Cassie Wenthaven's husband died, leaving a mountain of debts, she discovered just how difficult life could be -- and it was bound to get worse. Dylan Wenthaven, her husband's twin, had come to claim ramshackl...

  • The Idea of Perfection

    Kate Grenville

    A QUIRKY TOUCHING ROMANCE THAT CELEBRATES SOMETHING EVEN BETTER THAN PERFECTION Unlikely love can blossom out of the most unpromising of conjunctions. Harley Savage is a plain woman, a part-time museum curator, and quilting expert with three failed ...

  • Miss Woodley's Experiment

    Katherine Greyle

    Miss Caroline Woodley climbs the tree to get away from Harry. Her friend Alvina claims a woman should tingle when she kisses her beloved, and since Caroline and Harry are destined to wed, she tries a little test. But it goes terribly wrong. Instead o...

  • Freedom's Cry

    Pamela Griffin
    in

    Freedom's Cry is heard throughout Philadelphia's first Independence Day celebration. For Sara, an indentured servant, the excitement grows as she anticipates the end of her five-year term. For Winkie, to be loosed from the shackles of slavery and car...

  • Boulevard

    Jim Grimsley

    Newell never really belonged in Pastel, Alabama. Ready for a change, he buys a one-way ticket to New Orleans. The year is 1978 and the rambunctious city beckons with its famous promise of bright lights, excitement, and men everywhere.

    Newell makes...

  • Spider-Man Confidential: From Comic ICON to Hollywood Hero

    Edward Gross

    For four decades, Spider-Man has enthralled fans of his comic books and television show. Now, step inside the story behind the superheroes growing empire, which is as fascinating as any of his adventures. Entertainment writer Edward Gross tells all i...

  • Gaspard at the Seashore

    Anne Gutman

    Gaspard is off to summer camp to learn how to windsurf. There’s just one problem -- he doesn’t know how to swim! After some lessons in the pool and a little help from his rubber
    float, Gaspard is ready to become a swimming champion....

  • The Hamster of the Baskervilles

    Bruce Hale

    Elementary school is a wild place. But this is ridiculous, even for Emerson Hicky. Trashed classrooms. Gnawed walls. Tunnels riddling the playground like worm chunks in a pan of earthworm lasagna. Something wild is at work at Emerson Hicky. Che...

  • The Superpower of Love

    Sophie Hannah

    When one of her friends decides to get married, Simone "Sim" Purdy finds her perfectly balanced world thrown into chaos and attempts to retain her composure by trying to keep them all together, but things don't go as planned, in an entertaining story...

  • Thirteen Albatrosses

    Donald Harington

    For decades, Donald Harington has delighted readers with ribald, colorful adventures from Stay More, Arkansas, an imaginary Ozark enclave where shrewd and sexy hill folk mingle with reclusive millionaires rich from Wal-Mart stock, indigenous Indians,...