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  • The Mystery of The Missing Stallion

    Linda Williams Aber

    Barbie is one of the top girls' properties - the world's #1 fashion doll. Now Scholastic is on the Barbie bandwagon with stories starring Barbie as a reporter with a nose for a mystery.

    Barbie and her friend Teresa are headed to a dude ranch f...

  • Painted Lady

    Peter Abresch

    The Wild Wild West Retired physical therapist James P. Dandy embarks on another Elderhostel adventure with his ladylove, artist Dodee Swisher, this time along the old Santa Fe Trail. But before the trip even gets under way, he sees a Native Americ...

  • Deadly Morsels: Sheep in Wolf's Clothing

    Peter Abresch
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    Jim Dandy and Dodee Swisher head for North Carolina's scenic shores for a weekend Elderhostel on culinary magic. They stumble across the body of a local priest and follow a trail of murder most fishy -- only to end up in dangerously deep waters . . ....

  • The Strange Case of Dr. Simmonds and Dr. Glas

    Dannie Abse

    Inspired by the disturbing 1905 Swedish classic, Dr. Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg, a novel that explores the possibility of pure moral murder, and with more than a nod to Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dannie Abs...

  • Crescent

    Diana Abu-Jaber

    Thirty-nine-year-old Sirine, never married, lives with a devoted Iraqi-immigrant uncle and an adoring dog named King Babar. She works as a chef in a Lebanese restaurant, her passions aroused only by the preparation of food--until an unbearably handso...

  • Who You Know

    Theresa Alan

    FINDING THE PERFECT GUY. LANDING THE DREAM JOB. MAKING IT WORK. IT'S ALL IN WHO YOU KNOW... RETTE I'd always imagined being the sort of adventurous girl who'd have an affair with a dark-eyed stranger on the Eurail. Instead, I'm getting married, p...

  • The Marriage of the Sea

    Jane Alison

    A contemporary tale of love and ambition, betrayal and revenge, set in two gloriously watery cities. In a damp Venetian palace, Oswaldo contemplates the ravages of time to his body and his beloved city, and dreams up a way to hold mortality at bay...

  • Fresh Air

    Charlotte Vale Allen

    For twenty-seven years Lucinda Hunter, daughter of the acclaimed film star Lily Hunter, has been a virtual recluse. Alone in the Connecticut farmhouse that was once her mothers's, Lucinda's life has become a small thing. Everything she wants or needs...

  • Judge

    Dwight Allen

    When beloved Judge William Dupree dies at eighty-two, he leaves his widow, two adult sons, and a more than devoted clerk to mourn him. The Judge-gentle, reserved, henpecked, and a lifelong Republican-was appointed to the United States District Court ...

  • A Married Man

    Catherine Alliott

    Widowed four years ago, London antiques dealer Lucy Fellowes was plunged into single motherhood with two growing boys. Since then, she's had little time--or inclination--to think straight, much less fall in love again. Now, she's been offered an i...

  • Deception

    John Altman

    Hannah Gray is on the run. Unwittingly involved in an insurance fraud, she's leapt upon a friend's offer of tickets to an Adriatic cruise just to clear her head and figure things out. Maybe the fraud has been discovered-or maybe the threat of exposur...

  • Getting Personal

    Diane Amos

    Romance Reviews Today -- Perfect 10 (partial review)GETTING PERSONAL is a delight! The book is filled with a cast of characters that provides plenty of chuckles and laugh out loud humor -- the parrot who spouts obscenities, the "private eye" who work...

  • Important Things That Don't Matter

    David Amsden

    So Dad's around lately. That's it. And I want to tell you things, throw fragments your way that I barely understand. Because it's just funny, flat out, the way someone you don't even know can get up in your face, tweak things that should be so ordina...

  • Only by Your Touch

    Catherine Anderson

    BESTSELLING AUTHOR CATHERINE ANDERSON TAKES READERS TO A QUAINT WILDERNESS TOWN WHERE, TOGETHER, A MAN AND A WOMAN FIND A SECOND CHANCE AT LIFE--AND LOVE.... Determined to give her son, Jeremy, the childhood he deserves, Chloe Evans has left a tou...

  • End of the Race

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    It all starts when an injured greyhound is brought to the clinic, and Maggie and Dr. Mac learn that a neighbor is keeping sick racing dogs at her house. They come from a dog track in Connecticut. Dr. Mac, Maggie, and Taryn, the newest Vet Volunteer, ...

  • Rainclimber the

    Susan Andres

  • Calder's Rose

    Kate Angell

    Dare Calder is the kind of rough-riding, fast-shooting hero who will never let himself be saddled with just one woman. Unfortunately, Shane McNamara has agreed to co-write the next book in his Texas West series, and his collaborator is a curvaceous t...

  • Jack and the Dreamsack

    Laurence Anholt

    When Jack goes to sleep, his dreams are so wonderful that he decides to go on a fantastic journey through Dreamtime to bring his dreams to the waking world. He collects as many dreams as he can carry until he reaches the giant fruit salad tree tha...

  • Interstellar Patrol

    Christopher Anvil

    A FEW GOOD CON MEN.... The starship crew was stuck on a planet where the well-meaning schemes of ivory tower social engineers had created a nightmare of battling gangs. So they pretended to be the "Royal Legions" from a distant star kingdom in hot...

  • Best Kind of Gift

    Kathi Appelt

    Hoo-whee!

    The folks in Dogwood are abuzz with excitement when a new parson comes to lead their congregation. The whole town gets busy preparing a pounding -- where everyone brings "a pound o' this and a pound o' that" to mak...

  • Dead Man's Chest

    Chris Archer

    George can't deny the danger anymore. Leroy, the head of the underworld, knows who they are. But the clues are starting to come together and the treasure is only a map away. Will it be worth the risk?

    George and his friends know this isn't a j...

  • The Kiln

    Jennifer Armstrong

    ON THEIR OWN Five years ago, a deadly plague killed off most of the world's population--at least all the Grown-ups. Only a small group of children survived. So they formed a family and managed on their own. Then they came across some adults who ha...

  • Quick, Quack, Quick!

    Marsha Arnold

    "Quick, Quack, quick!" his mama urges, but Quack is still the slowest duckling in the barnyard.  Nothing can make him hurry.  Then, one day, Cat comes a-hunting, and Quack's less than lickety-split ways help save the day.  ...

  • Camp of the Angel

    Aileen Arrington

  • The Line of Polity

    Neal Asher

    Outlink station Miranda has been destroyed by a nanomycelium, and the very nature of this sabotage suggests that the alien bioconstruct Dragon - a creature as untrustworthy as it is gigantic - is somehow involved. Sent out on a titanic Polity dreadno...

  • Mr. Darcy's Daughters

    Elizabeth Aston

    Picking up twenty years after Pride and Prejudice left off, Mr. Darcy's Daughters begins in the year 1818. Elizabeth and Darcy have gone to Constantinople, giving us an opportunity to get to know their five daughters, who have left the sheltered surr...

  • The Rancher's Hand-Picked Bride

    Elizabeth August

    Gwen Murphy, once the girl from the ranch next door, owed her aging Apache neighbor big-time. But deploy her private-investigator skills to a find a wife for Morning Hawk's great-grandson? And move into his home to do so? Dang it! For years, virile J...

  • X-Men 2: The Movie

    Chuck Austen

    The X-Men struggle to find a balance between the human-hating mutants led by Magneto and mutant-hating humans, including William Stryker, a wealthy and ruthless former Army commander engaged on his own kind of crusade....

  • A Long Way

    Katherine Ayres

    A little girl takes some intriguing conveyances on a flight of fancy to her grandmother’s house - with the help of a big empty box and a very active imagination

    A gift for Grandma arrives one fine day, and her young granddaughter is
    eage...

  • Foal in the Fog

    Ben M. Baglio

    The Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic takes care of animals of all kinds. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need -- and sometimes even ...

  • Kitty

    Elizabeth Bailey

    Fanciful governess Kitty Merrick daydreams of a whirlwind marriage to a dashing lord or of being the daughter of aristocratic parents. Then Claud, Viscount Devenick, briefly mistakes her for his cousin, and in doing so uncovers a scandalous family se...

  • Slightly Married

    Mary Balogh

    Meet the Bedwyns...six brothers and sisters--men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality...Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction...where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal...and ...

  • The Indifferent Earl

    Blair Bancroft

    With a country cottage left to her in a mysterious will, American schoolmistress Abigail Todd leaves for England, secretly in search of adventure. What she finds is the scandalous truth of her family history -- as the grandmother she never knew plays...

  • The Rise

    Chantal Baptiste

  • The Mistress of Alderley

    Robert Barnard

    Well-known actress Caroline Fawley has given up a successful stage and television career for love and life in the country. International business titan Marius Fleetwood can't marry her. He already has a wife, though he claims they are "just friends."...

  • Zulu Heart

    Steven Barnes

    Egypt and Ethiopia are locked in a vicious power struggle in the vast land of Bilalistan. Caught in the center of the storm is Senator Kai ibn Rashid, the lord of a vast Southern estate who opposes a war between the Pharaoh and the Empress--a positio...

  • The Fifth Victim

    Beverly Barton

    SOME THINGS SHOULDN'T BE SEEN... Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee. Deep in the Smoky Mountains, the victim lies, sacrificed on a makeshift altar--the gruesome work of a killer who has evaded the authorities in state after state. FBI agent Dallas Sloan know...

  • Emily's Place

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    When given the opportunity to buy the local mercantile, Emily St. John snaps it up - mostly because it will allow her to work side by side with the man she's loved since childhood. Surely, he'll finally pay attention to her. But Jeremiah Daniels c...

  • Darwin's Children

    Greg Bear

    Eleven years have passed since the human race suddenly underwent a leap in evolution and a generation of genetically enhanced humans was born. The product of an ancient retrovirus that altered their DNA, the "virus babies" have reached adolescence in...

  • His Pretend Wife

    Lisette Belisle

    When a near-fatal accident landed loner Jack Slade in the hospital, Abby had only claimed to be his wife to keep her promise to him. Besides, Jack needed her, and she was determined to stay until he was healed. But would her heart recover when it was...

  • The Goblin Wood

    Hilari Bell

    MAKENNA AND HER MAGIC ARE THE GOBLINS' ONLY HOPE Makenna is a young hedgewitch, forced to flee her village the day her mother is murdered for practicing magic. In the wilds of the forest, she forms an unexpected alliance with the mysterious goblin...

  • The Missing Piece

    Antoine Bello

    When an American billionaire and media mogul decides to revive the fortunes of the jigsaw puzzle, he sets up an International Speed Puzzle Circuit. In this new twist, players from around the world compete against the clock to solve puzzles, while mil...

  • Pictures for Miss Josie

    Sandra Belton

    This remarkable picture book tells the story of Josephine Carroll Smith (Miss Josie) and a young artist who, like many in real life, became one of her almost-sons. It's a story that starts with a train trip to a faraway city; it's a story about ta...

  • Speed

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

  • At Close of Day

    Joseph Bentz

    At Close of Day follows the intricate unraveling -- and ultimate restoration -- of a modern family after their aging father lets slip a secret he has held close for more than fifty years. Reeling from the implications of their father’s confession, ...

  • Daddy Lion

    Lara Bergen

    Stanley wishes he could spend more time with his dad. Maybe if he had a lion for a father, then he'd have someone to play with all day long! But after spending time with a lion family, Stanley realizes he does have the best dad in the whole world....

  • Murder in Peshwara

    Cheryl Bernard

  • Death and the Ice Box

    Linda Berry

    Ogeechee, Georgia, police officer Trudy Roundtree confronts murder from the past when the body of a young woman is found stuffed inside an abandoned icebox. Forensics reveal death came from a blow to the skull, but the victim had been inside the appl...

  • Taming the Beastly MD

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    TALL, DARK...AND BROODING Nurse Rita Barone noticed everything about moody cardiologist Dr. Matthew Grayson -- his broad shoulders, his powerful hands, his eyes that saw right through her scrubs, his lips set in a scowl that seduced her into givin...

  • The Pregnancy Proposal

    Helen Bianchin

    Tasha is overjoyed to discover that she's pregnant. But telling Australian tycoon Jared North that he's the father of her baby is the hardest thing she's ever had to do. For three years they've shared an intensely passionate relations...

  • Mattie Meets Her Match

    Kristin Billerbeck
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    Mattie Stevens has forgotten about Jeff Weatherly. After all, it's been years since the two were an item...but Grandma certainly remembers. What can Mattie do when Jeff returns to town and Grandma pushes her back toward "the one who got away"? As a s...

  • Drybone Hollow

    John Billheimer

    Mined to death If failure analysis engineer Owen Allison has notions about returning to his life in California after an extended stay in his native West Virginia, those plans come to a halt when a local dam breaks, killing four people and sending ...

  • Crossfire

    Terry Bisson

    HIS MOST IMPORTANT ALLY IS HIS GREATEST ENEMY. Boba Fett is alone in the world. His father is dead. He's never had friends. The only thing that keeps him gooing is his desire to survive - and become a bounty hunter. Aurra Sing has taken him to Coun...

  • Murder in the Bastille

    Cara Black

    Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc is attacked and blinded during an investigation. Can she solve her case without her sight -- and when her own life is in danger?Parisian private investigator Aimée Leduc is all dressed up in her new Chinese silk jacket, su...

  • Southern Storm

    Terri Blackstock

    Set in the South, volumes one and two from the Cape Refuge suspense series by Terri Blackstock come together under one cover. A unique island setting, close-knit relationships, fast-paced action, and underlying themes of faith combine to make for rea...

  • Mad About Mindy...and Mandy

    Toni Blake

    Professional matchmaker Mindy McCrae has her work cut out for her. She has a 95-percent success rate with her clients, but Benton Maxwell III is going to drop that stat like a stone. He wants Suzy Homemaker, not a modern independent woman! But Mindy'...

  • A Different Kind of Hero

    Ann R. Blakeslee

  • Child of Her Heart

    Mary Blayney
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    Join the fun and romance as Mama receives the gift, she most deserves -- the love of an adoring husband -- in three heartwarming tales from your favorite Regency authors. After a broken engagement, governess Caroline Morton fled her beloved Yorksh...

  • The Next Roundup

    Stephen A. Bly

    THE SAGA OF THE FORTUNE FAMILY DOESNT COME TO A CLOSE BUT INSTEAD TURNS ANOTHER CORNER IN THIS FINAL INSTALLMENT OF STEPHEN BLYS MASTERFUL WESTERN EPIC. The story of the Fortune family sees a new beginning with the grandchildren of Brazos Fortune, es...

  • Courage and Compromise

    Stephen A. Bly

    Hot days of a western Nebraska summer have caused the water to recede and the corn to grow on the Bowers homestead. Jolie Bowers throws herself into the role of a teacher at a one-room schoolhouse, spending every spare moment with Tanner Wells as ...

  • Broken Things

    Andrea Boeshaar

    Favorite Heartsong author Andrea Boeshaar takes us into the world of a woman who comes face to face with broken relationships of the past. Returning to her hometown, Chicago, Allie Littenberg learns her actions had worse repercussions than she realiz...

  • The Summer Girl

    Andrea Boeshaar

    Jena Calhoun needed a summer job before completing her degree. Travis Larson needed someone to care for his two young daughters while he managed his law firm. The arrangement was made out of convenience - after all, Jena is not his type of woman. And...

  • Goodnight Lulu

    Paulette Bogan

    Momma Chicken tries to tuck in little Lulu, but Lulu is worried: What if a bear comes into the room? Or a tiger? Or an alligator? Will her momma scare them away? Will she protect Lulu from everything,even the friendly pigs? Well, she's a pretty po...

  • Spike in Trouble

    Paulette Bogan

  • The Big Fifty

    Johnny D. Boggs

    THE STUFF OF LEGENDS Young Coady Mcllvain spends his days reading about the heroic exploits of the legendary heroes of the West, especially the glorious Buffalo Bill Cody. The harsh reality of frontier life in Kansas becomes brutally clear to Coad...

  • Rain in the Mountains

    Ruskin Bond

    Rain in the Mountains brings together some of Ruskin Bond s most beautiful works from his years spent in the foothills of the Himalayas in the town of Mussoorie. Through vivid images and lucid writing, Bond evokes the everyday sights and sounds, and ...

  • The Best of Ruskin Bond

    Ruskin Bond

    This volume brings together the best of Ruskin Bond s prose and poetry. For over four decades, by way of innumerable novels, essays, short stories and poems, the author has mapped out and peopled a unique literary landscape. This anthology has select...

  • Arming Your Children with the Gospel

    R.Wayne Boss

    Arming Your Children with the Gospel gives many practical ideas for building a gospel foundation in your family, backed up with sweet stories to show just how workable the principles can be in real life. It's easier than you might think and more i...

  • House of Shadows

    Susan Bowden

    Despite her parents' misgivings and the distrust of her new collaborator, novelist David Moreton, photographer Vivien Shaw eagerly accepts the chance to work with Moreton on a book about Barbados, and soon finds her life in danger....

  • Hector the Hermit Crab

    Katie Boyce

    Hector the hermit crab is very shy. He avoids contact with other creatures whenever possible. But one day a flower appears on his shell, and suddenly Hector becomes the focus of everyone's attention. He thinks his fellow crabs aren't friendly, but...

  • The Somers Treatment

    Gillian Bradshaw

    Life-enhancing medical research or the work of an ambitious neuroscientist? Worthy doctor, Janet Morley, has taken Madhap, a young, deaf Nepalese boy, under her wing. Satisfying her maternal desires as well as her humanitarian beliefs, she's brought ...

  • The Second Summer of the Sisterhood

    Ann Brashares

    With a bit of last summer's sand in the pockets, the Traveling Pants and the sisterhood who wears them embark on their second summer together. Bridget: Impulsively sets off for Alabama wanting to both confront and avoid her demons ... but she can'...

  • Final Exit

    Laurie Breton

    Ten years ago tragedy tore them apart... But when FBI special agent Carolyn Monahan walks back into the life of homicide lieutenant Conor Rafferty, the sizzle is undeniable. They are back together, albeit reluctantly, to find the serial killer wh...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Pleads Her Case

    Emily Brightwell

    FOUL PLAY It took no time at all for the magistrate to rule the death of Harlan Westover a suicide. But not everyone is convinced by the result of what may have been a slip-shod investigation. Inspector Witherspoon is treading dangerous political ...

  • Seduced

    Pamela Britton

    HOW LONG CAN A WOMAN RESIST THE WORLD'S MOST SINFULLY TEMPTING LOVER? He's a dangerous rogue, rumored to have shot his brother for a dukedom. She's a headstrong beauty with plans to marry for love. When they meet, it's passionate dislike at first ...

  • Letters to Kelly

    Suzanne Brockmann

    EITHER WAY HE WAS A CONDEMNED MAN So here I sit, writing letters that have no hope of reaching you until I am free to deliver them myself. With luck, that will be soon. For your eighteenth birthday is coming, and I intend to be there, like I promi...

  • Some Assembly Required

    Greg Brodeur

    Need to corral a group of giant monsters that fell through an interdimensional gateway? Need to get your brand-new planetary computer system working -- but the instructions are written in an alien language? Contact the Starfleet Corps of Engineers te...

  • Hey, Diddle, Diddle: A Children's Book of Nursery Rhymes

    Linda Bronson


    Over sixty beloved nursery rhymes all dressed up in a fresh new look.

    "Little Miss Muffet,
    sat on her tuffet,
    eating her curds and whey . . ."

    A princess who has lost her shoe. Little Boy Blue. A teeny-tiny spider. Jack Spratt...

  • In the Shadow of the Warlock Lord

    Terry Brooks

    The fate of a world rests on an unlikely hero. . . .

    Tucked away in peaceful Shady Vale, the young half-elf Shea Ohmsford gives little thought to the outside world. Yet far to the north, the evil Warlock Lord has dispatched shadowy Skull Beare...

  • His After Hours Mistress

    Amanda Browning

    When her boss, Rourke Adams, approaches her with an after-hours assignment, Ginny is stunned. Rourke wants her to pretend to be his girlfriend for a whole week! Rourke has chosen Ginny because he considers his employee strictly off-limits. But spa...

  • Clowning Around

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Joe Richey has spent most of his life clowning around. He's become the "good guy" who jokes about everything and laughs through life. Lois Johnson broke up with her rich boyfriend who wasn't a Christian. She's committed to serving the Lord through...

  • Star Witness

    D.W. Buffa

    The victim is a movie star found in the pool of her luxurious Los Angeles home. The accused is her husband, Stanley Roth, the most powerful movie mogul in the world. Convicted by the tabloids, Roth has one hope: San Francisco attorney Joseph Antonell...

  • Nothing Makes You Free

    Melvin Jules Bukiet

    A groundbreaking collection of Holocaust literature by the heirs to the greatest evil of our time.

    History is preserved in the memories of the survivors of the Holocaust and the imaginations of their children, the so-called Second Generation. ...

  • Brown Sugar Diaries

    Dolores Bundy

    Dolores Bundy's collection of vignettes in the “Brown Sugar Diaries,” brings readers into the worlds of each chapter with the smoothness of a well-orchestrated striptease. Each story blends into the next as the layers are peeled away. Her poetic ...

  • Christopher

    Allison Burnett

    “Either he’s channeling Truman Capote’s spirit, or Allison Burnett has created, all by himself, one of the more assured narrative voices in recent memory. His B. K. Troop is a pitch-perfect creation: bitchy-funny with a twist of rue.” -- ...

  • Virginia Bound

    Amy Butler

    Kidnapped from the streets of London and sent to the new Jamestown colony in Virginia, Rob Brackett, forced to serve a brutal tobacco farmer and taught not to trust the Indians, finds an unlikely ally in an Indian girl named Mattoume--a powerful frie...

  • Coffin Knows the Answer

    Gwendoline Butler

    "With his wife, the acclaimed actress Stella Pinero, away on a movie shoot in Scotland, Chief Commander John Coffin is at a bit of a loose end with just the cat and dog for company. But one morning, as he checks through the mail for his wife, he gets...

  • My Mom is Excellent

    Nick Butterworth

    For moms everywhere who hold a special spot in someone’s heart - and just love to be reminded of it.

    Did you hear about the mom who can fix anything, tells the most exciting stories, and throws the best parties in the world? Readers of all a...

  • My Grandma is Wonderful

    Nick Butterworth

    For grandmas everywhere who hold a special spot in someone’s heart - and just love to be reminded of it.

    Did you hear about the grandma who buys the biggest ice cream cones and is always on your side when things go wrong? Readers of all ages...

  • About Face

    James Calder

    Gene therapy that can stop skin from aging is a breakthrough technology, but before it can lead to eternal youth it leads to murder. In the second book in Chronicle's exciting new Bill Damen mystery series, the filmmaker-turned-detective's in...

  • The Snack Thief

    Andrea Camilleri

    Never has Inspector Montalbano's character--a unique end of humor, cynicism, compassion, earthiness, and love of good food--been more compelling an in The Snack Thief. When an elderly man is man stabbed to death in an elevator and a crewman on an ...

  • Somebody Else's baby

    Candace Camp
    in

    Sometimes you have to risk your heart to have it all . . . Motherhood means changing diapers -- and changing lives. A family of her own? Widow Cassie Weeks had given up on that dream -- until she was forced to care for her stepdaughter's baby. ...

  • Christina's Shining Star

    Joanna Campbell

    Do Christina and Star have what it takes to win the Triple Crown?

    With only two weeks before the Preakness, Christina Reese is gearing Star up to run the second leg of the Triple Crown. She pushes herself to ride more aggressively, knowin...

  • The Iron Rose

    Marsha Canham

    A CLASH OF STEEL When the roar of the Spanish guns was silenced, the crew of the English merchant ship discovered they had been saved by the Iron Rose, a rogue privateer. No one was more shocked than the king's envoy, Varian St. Clare, to learn ...

  • The Pack

    Elisa Carbone

    Becky is convinced that Akhil Vyas is the weirdest person on earth when he shows up in her English class. He refuses to sit in chairs, stares at her with spooky eyes, and has scar-covered skin. But soon Becky’s revulsion turns to fascination. The N...

  • Kushiel's Avatar

    Jacqueline Carey

    The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassed beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good ... and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels and men live by one simple rule: Love as thou wilt. Phedre no...

  • The Devil You Know

    Liz Carlyle

    Frederica d'Avillez is sure she will never marry. She's had a disastrous London season, and now her longtime beau has thrown her over for a more eligible miss. But if Freddie can't have a husband, she's hell-bent on experiencing at least one night of...

  • The Mad Marquis

    Fiona Carr

    SPURRING A MAD DESIRE Julia Westfall was being forced into marriage -- with her fiercest rival on the hunt field. True, Henry Pelham was the man to whom she'd once lost her heart, and he was still her secret dream. But what the widowed marquis...

  • Red-Hot & Reckless

    Tori Carrington

    Bad Girl #3: Expert thief Nicole Bennett Her Motto: Anything worth having is worth stealing... Nicole Bennett isn't just a bad girl -- she's a thief, too! And although she's been in some tight spots over the years, she's never been tailed by a ...

  • High-Tide Bride

    Dianne Castell

    The Redheaded Hurricane When runaway bride Hope Stevens escaped from her wedding in a "borrowed" catering van, she never expected to get arrested by the sexiest sheriff in the fifty states. But Clay Mitchell's bossy behavior soon had Hope wishing ...

  • A Kiss from Maddalena

    Christopher Castellani

    It is 1943, and Santa Cecilia has become a village of women. All the young men are away at war, except for Vito Leone, his best friend, and the shopkeeper's son. When Vito falls in love with Maddalena Picinelli, the shy and beautiful daughter of the ...

  • Elvis the Rooster Almost Goes to Heaven

    Denys Cazet

    Elvis is a proud rooster. After all, his crows make the sun come up and wake the world. At least they did until the terrible morning that he swallowed a bug and the sun came up without him. Poor Elvis! Is he all washed-up? Is it over? Should he gi...

  • Desert Rose

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Jack Halliday struck it rich in the 1860 silver boom in Virginia City! As Annalee and her mother travel to join him in Nevada, their joy turns to ashes. They're unprepared for the savage mountain winter that traps them in a desperate struggle for ...

  • Kaspar's Box

    Jack L. Chalker

    THE SECRET OF THE THREE KINGS--REVEALED AT LAST For centuries, interstellar prospectors had searched for the fabled Worlds of the Three Kings, the lost El Dorado of the galaxy. But if any found it, they were never heard from again. The mad cyborg ...

  • Fitting Ends

    Dan Chaon

    Fitting Ends is the first collection of fiction by the acclaimed author of the National Book Award finalist Among the Missing and now appears in this newly revised edition with two never before collected stories. Written before Among the Missing...

  • Look, But Don't Touch

    Sandra Chastain

    Photographer Cat McCade has no problem admitting she has a weakness for half-naked men. After all, she's gained national recognition for her men's underwear ads. Still, she's always very careful not to let any man get too close -- until she has a fat...

  • Srikanta

    Saratchandra Chattopadhyaya

  • The Quilter's Legacy

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    Resolving to locate her mother's heirloom quilts after so many years, Sylvia Compson embarks on a cross-country investigation of antique shops, quilt museums, and other, more unexpected places, where offers of assistance are not always what they seem...

  • Bruiser

    Ian Chorao

    After spending another morning hiding in the clothes hamper eavesdropping on his miserable parents, Bruiser realizes it's time to change his life. It's New York City during the late 1970s, and in the middle of a chilly autumn night he takes to the op...

  • Daddy on the Doorstep

    Judy Christenberry

    THE BABY GIFT He was rich, he was handsome...and Nicholas Avery was going to be a daddy! When Andrea Avery realized that her whirlwind marriage to the business tycoon had resulted in a bundle of joy, her protective instincts told her to keep the chi...

  • Heads Up

    Matt Christopher

    Amanda Caler thought getting a nosebleed during a game was bad. But now things have gone from bad to worse -- she finds she's afraid of the ball! And as if that wasn't enough, it looks like someone is trying to steal her spot at halfback. Could one...

  • Lifting the Veil

    Ismat Chughtai

  • Second Time Around

    Mary Higgins Clark

    When Nicholas Spencer, the charismatic head of a company that has developed an anticancer vaccine, disappears without a trace, reporter Marcia "Carley" DeCarlo is assigned the story. Word that Spencer, if alive, has made off with huge sums of money -...

  • No Second Chance

    Harlan Coben

    WHEN THE FIRST BULLET HIT MY CHEST, I THOUGHT OF MY DAUGHTER.... Shot twice by an unseen assailant, Dr. Marc Seidman lies in a hospital bed. His wife has been killed. His six-month-old daughter has vanished. But when the ransom note arrives, it gi...

  • Match Made in Heaven

    Colleen Coble
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    Mattie Stevens has forgotten about Jeff Weatherly. After all, it's been years since the two were an item...but Grandma certainly remembers. What can Mattie do when Jeff returns to town and Grandma pushes her back toward "the one who got away"? As a s...

  • The Secret of Castlegate Manor

    Karen Cogan

    Caroline Greene, Abigail to Lady Eleanor, is not the sort of young woman to engage in lies and subterfuge. However, Caroline never expected to have a chance to better herself by posing as a distant member of her employers' family. Bowing to Lady Elea...

  • Won't Papa Be Surprised!

    Terri Cohlene

    Mikele loves ribbons, and today she sees them everywhere -- in the sunshine, the flowers, even the streamers of a wind sock. The bright, sparkly images remind her of something special, a surprise she has for her papa on this not so ordinary day. B...

  • Brimstone

    Tobias Cole

    DAY OF VENGEANCE The story of Andersonville prison camp was written in blood, with few left alive to tell it. Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells was one of them, a man of conscience sworn to share the tales of those who suffered and died beside him. ...

  • Toestomper and the Bad Butterflies

    Sharleen Collicott

    Toestomper can’t believe it when his cute, fuzzy little caterpillars turn into butterflies with attitude. Suddenly taking care of them all has become a whole lot harder. And once they learn to fly and zoom, trouble is always just a wing’s...

  • Cold Burn

    Max Allan Collins

    Remote. Peaceful. Picturesque. That's how the Mumford Mountain Hotel bills itself in its brochure, and it lives up to its billing -- most of the time. But this year, the hotel is hosting a prestigious conference for the study of forensic science, and...

  • Flesh & Blood: Guilty as Sin

    Max Allan Collins

    A third anthology of erotic short works that combines the themes of sex and crime features contributions by such writers as O'Neil DeNoux, David Fulmer, and Rex Miller. Original. 15,000 first printing....

  • The Earthborn

    Paul Collins

    When the spaceship Colony is forces to abort its mission to colonize Tau Ceti III and instead crashlands on Earth, it's a homecoming for fourteen-year-old Welkin Roberts. Well...sort of.

    Welkin is a Skyborn. Having lived his entire life on boa...

  • Sixpence House

    Paul Collins

    "Sixpence House is the bookworm's answer to A Year in Provence." -Boston Globe

    Paul Collins and his family abandoned the hills of San Francisco to move to the Welsh countryside-to move, in fact, to the village of Hay-on-Wye, th...

  • When the Slipper Fits

    Lynn Collum

    For best friends Sara, Ella, and Rosamund, life thus far has been anything but a fairy tale. They have little to look forward to upon graduation from Mrs. Pearson's Academy for Girls -- not even a Season in London! But, as each young lady is abou...

  • Cora

    Mildred Colvin

    Cora can't wait to leave the prairie. When her city beau, George Merrill, fails to rescue her, Cora embraces the truth - this land is now her home. She opens her heart to the people and discovers life is far better than she'd ever thought it could be...

  • Lost Light

    Michael Connelly

    The vision has haunted him for four years -- a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the viole...

  • Galveston

    Kent Conwell

    DETOUR TO MURDER Trouble is no stranger to any private investigator, but Austin P.I. Tony Boudreaux isn't expecting any when he stops in Galveston to visit a friend. Before the night is over, a shootout puts his detective buddy Ben Howard in a com...

  • Innocence

    Gavin Corbett

    A young boy's compelling search for his identity Jerome has the love, support and friendship of his half-brother, Gary, his girlfriend and his friends and teachers at school. But on the death of his father he feels completely alone, unable to acknowl...

  • My Sister Jill

    Patricia Cornelius

    It’s to Martha, in her kitchen, that they come.
    “How could you have married him?” Jill sneers.
    “Why is he like this?” Christine wails.
    “Remember what he’s been through,” says Martha in heavy, loaded tones.
    Christine could...

  • Sharpe's Havoc

    Bernard Cornwell

    HISTORY COMES DANGEROUSLY ALIVE RICHARD SHARPE AND THE CAMPAIGN IN NORTHERN PORTUGAL, SPRING 1809 Lieutenant Richard Sharpe finds himself fighting the ruthless armies of Napoleon Bonaparte as they try to bring the whole of the Iberian Peninsula...

  • Bag Men

    Mark Costello

    The authenticity of George V. Higgins and the hipness of Carl Hiassen combine to galvanic effect in this debut police thriller of Boston in the sixties. The authenticity of George V. Higgins and the hipness of Carl Hiassen combine to galvanic effect ...

  • More Than Courage

    Harold Coyle

    Courage is often enough to drive a soldier forward, to cause him to climb out of his foxhole and face enemy fire. But it takes something else, something more than courage to keep HIM going when every instinct, every shred of reason dictates that he d...

  • A Deadly Change of Luck

    Gina Cresse

    Devonie Lace got more than she bargained for when she bought a small, dilapidated cottage as an investment property. While cleaning up the mess caused by vandals, Devonie and her husband, Craig, find a winning lottery ticket worth $58 million taped t...

  • Training Wheels

    Kathryn Cristaldi

    In this humorous Level 3 Hello Reader!, Alvin tries to learn to ride a bike without training wheels--but his escalating fears and active imagination almost get the best of him!

    On Monday, Alvin's dad removes the training wheels from Alvin's bi...

  • Broken Blossoms

    Pam Crooks

    Opium had the power to bring rapture. Yet Trig Mathison knew the danger of its spell -- his brother had died from it. And though he vowed vengeance on those responsible, the undercover agent wondered if a forbidden yearning would destroy him as well....

  • Spitting Image

    Shutta Crum

    Twelve-year-old Jessie K. Bovey has a lot to worry about. She doesn’t know who her father is; her old biddy of a grandmother keeps interfering in her life; her best friend, Robert, desperately needs new glasses that his family can’t afford; and m...

  • Thirsty Baby

    Catherine Ann Cullen

  • Red Ant House

    Ann Cummins

    Hypnotic short stories of life in the Southwest that “emanate suspense, inspiring page-turning tension” (The Washington Times).   A young woman is pushed, quite literally, to the edge on a desolate mountain pass. An orphaned brother and sist...

  • Windwalker

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Crossing the wide realms of Faerűn in search of adventure, the dark elf princess Liriel Baenre and her companion Fyodor find themselves in the barbarian's homeland of Rashemen. In a land ruled by witches, Liriel must disguise herself lest she spark t...

  • Hold Up the Sky

    Jane Louise Curry

    Nearly all that remains of some Indian tribes of Texas and the Southern Plains are their stories. Here twenty-six tales are brought together from fourteen tribes and at least five different cultures. They are stories of humor, guidance, and adventure...

  • Inspector Hopper's Mystery Year

    Doug Cushman

    Mysteries can happen anytime, anywhere, as Inspector Hopper, the great grasshopper private eye, discovers in his second collection of amazing adventures. Hop along with our intrepid investigator and his faithful, ever-hungry sidekick, McBugg, as ...

  • Albert's Impossible Toothache

    Doug Cushman

    Parents and children alike will see themselves in this endearing tale of a small turtle’s struggle to be believed and understood - lovingly reintroduced for a new generation of readers.


    When little Albert Turtle complains that he has a t...

  • Hidden in Sight

    Julie E. Czerneda

    PICCO'S MOON was where it all began for Esen-alit-Quar, Youngest of Ersh's Web. It was here where Ersh, the Oldest, had chosen to make her home; here, too, where Esen received her early training as a shapeshifter and a member of the Web. When Ers...

  • The Courage to Dream

    Margaret Daley

    ROUGH WEATHER AHEAD Even the humid weather of Magnolia Blossom couldn't melt the tension that flared between Rachel Peters and Michael Hunter. High school sweethearts ten years before, they were finally face-to-face again, and in place of young love...

  • Hart and Soul

    Angela Daniels

    Her mother's deathbed confession forces Calaine Hart to acknowledge she is not who she thought she was. Confused, hurt and dumfounded, she takes the only clue she has, a 30-year-old photograph of six nursing students and begins the search for her bio...

  • Veils of Deceit: Keeping Secrets

    B.J. Daniels
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    From a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, a woman goes to pay her respects to the father she never knew and finds herself caught up in his dangerous life.Paige Grayson dreams of a life of adventure as her alter-ego P.T. Alexander. Her dull life tak...

  • The Battle of Evernight

    Cecilia Dart-Thornton

    Here she presents the breathtaking climax to the epic of The Bitterbynde, a stunning tour de force that transforms a wealth of folklore into a sweeping adventure of visionary power... THE FAERAN REALM Once upon a time, the Faeran king and his twi...

  • All the World's a Stage

    Rebecca Piatt Davidson

    This is young William, His mind all ablaze, Who stays up all night Writing poems and plays.

    And this is a book, unforgettable and wise, that applauds inspiration, creation, story, and the world and works of William Shakesp...

  • Garfield's Joke Zone/ Garfield's In Your Face Insults

    Jim Davis

    The perfect holiday gift for fans of the witty kitty!

    Q: If you dropped Garfield into a bowl of punch, what would you get?
    A: Out of there as fast as you can

    Everyone''s fat furry orange cynical cat is back with jokes and insults for...

  • Her Secret Millionaire

    Jodi Dawson

    The single mother -- and the secret millionaire! Between running a family business and caring for two small children, Danielle has no time for romance. The answer to her prayers would be a qualified nanny walking through the door -- instead, Dan...

  • Phantom Raiders

    Peter Dawson

    Sometimes, as in "Retribution River," conflict has to do with the disenfranchised struggling desperately to regain their land. Sometimes, as in "Cutbank Welcome," it is a matter of having to learn the identity of a murderer. Then, as in "Matched Pair...

  • Reap The Whirlwind

    Douglas de Bono

    December 1999. The United States relinquishes control of the Panama Canal. The Chinese-owned Panama Ports Company assumes control and a disturbing veil of secrecy descends over the strategic waterway. A clandestine mission to China's Fujian province ...

  • Into the Nevernight

    Anne De Graaf

    While vacationing in Africa, Miriam Vree finds herself living a nightmare when a ruthless mercenary seizes her family. From the diamond mines of Namibia to the refugee camps in Tanzania, she fights to regain her freedom, her faith, and her family. On...

  • Dangerlok

    Eunice De Souza

    'Dangerlok' is the word coined by Rina Ferreira, middle-aged, single, lecturer of English, to cover all occasions, dangerous people, tiresome people, people she doesn't like. Rina lives in a squalid corner of Bombay and daily comes across some danger...

  • Under The Same Sky

    Cynthia DeFelice

    A teenager discovers racism and romance on his father's farmFor his fourteenth birthday, Joe Pedersen wants a motorbike that costs nearly a thousand dollars. But his mom says the usual birthday gift is fifty dollars, and his dad wants Joe to earn the...

  • A Place for Her Heart

    Patricia DeGroot

    June Wilde has been told that her beauty will land her a wealthy husband. One who will take her far from the poverty of her youth. So far, all her searching has done is lead her into disgrace and back to her roots.

    Luke Hart has always loved June...

  • A Whole New Man

    Roxann Delaney

    Hank Davis had spent his whole life going from place to place, never putting down roots. So he knew the move to Kansas City was only temporary. Then he met image consultant Lizzie Edwards. In two short weeks she was able to transform his rugged blue-...

  • Aye, and Gomorrah: and Other Stories

    Samuel R. Delany

    A father must come to terms with his son's death in the war. In Venice an architecture student commits a crime of passion. A white southern airport loader tries to do a favor for a black northern child. The ordinary stuff of ordinary fiction--but wit...

  • Heroes of the Sky

    Chris L. Demarest

    Animated illustrations, moveable parts, and pop-up spreads enhance this adventurous tale about a mountaintop rescue via a helicopter and the air-unit rescuers, complete with descriptive word labels to each part of the vehicles and medical equipment....

  • Elisabeth: The Princess Bride

    Barry Denenberg

    Saturday. September 24, 1853 Finding myself the most important person in the whole household and the constant center of attention is most unnerving and disturbing. I wish it were not so, but there doesn't seem to be anything I can do to stop it. I ...

  • Somebody to Love

    Roni Denholtz

    Grace Norwood loves her job as a DJ at a small radio station. She'd only meant it as a little joke when, after meeting Brian Talbot, the handsome new Advertising and Promotions manager, she played the song "Somebody to Love" during her show--and quip...

  • Fuzzy Dice

    Paul Di Filippo

    “Di Filippo clowns his way through this transdimensional travelogue cut from the same cloth as Douglas Adams’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” -- Publishers Weekly   At forty-five-years-old, Paul Girard is a self-loathing clerk ...

  • Daddy Come Lately

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    Ah, Paris. The city of light...and, of course, romance! When Family Travel magazine sponsors a Mother of the Year contest, with a trip to Paris and a shopping spree as the prize, the response is overwhelming! Finalist #1 is Roxanne Perry, a sin...

  • Eureka

    William Diehl

    The seamy past of glamorous California lies in the deceptively peaceful town of Eureka--once a bootlegger's paradise from which young, rugged Thomas Culhane briefly escaped to fight in World War I. Now it is a rebuilt metropolis where Sheriff Culhane...

  • Halo: The Flood

    William C. Dietz

    The Human-Covenant War, a desperate struggle for humankind's very survival, has reached its boiling point on the mysterious, ring-shaped world called Halo. But the fierce Covenant warriors, the mightiest alien military force known, are not the only p...

  • Bulletproof Monk

    J.M. Dillard

    1943 -- the Year of the Ram. In the Temple of Sublime Truth, high in the Himalayas, a master monk prepares to transfer an ancient scroll to his young protégé. The scroll holds the key to an unspeakable power, one which in the wrong hands could dest...

  • A Version of Love

    Millicent Dillon

    Not since D. M. Thomas's bestseller The White Hotel has there been such a remarkable novel about women, hysteria, and the profession of psychiatry as practiced by men. Set in California and Mexico in the late 1950s and early 1960s, A Version of Love ...

  • Disney's Main Street

    Disney Book Group

  • My Name Is Nemo

    Disney Book Group

    Rub-a-dub-dub with Nemo in the tub! The stars of Disney/Pixar’s Finding Nemo are featured in this vinyl bath book. And young Nemo fans can color in the bookâ€"or on the walls of their bath tubâ€"with the tub crayon that is included!...

  • A Northern Light // A Gathering Light

    Jennifer Donnelly

    THE WIDELY ACCLAIMED, AWARD-WINNING STORY OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO FINDS HER VOICE Sixteen-year-old Mattie Gokey has big dreams but little hope of seeing them come true. Desperate for money, she takes a job at the Glenmore, where hotel guest Grace Bro...

  • Sensei

    John Donohue

    In every case, the modus operandi is the same, and the only clue available is a cryptic message scrawled on the wall bearing the signature "Ronin" - the Japanese name for a masterless samurai. Connor Burke, a part-time college teacher with a passi...

  • Terror at Dawn

    Keith Douglass

    ENEMIES WITHIN AND WITHOUT Mistaking an Idaho farmer for a militia leader, the FBI raids the suspected man's home--resulting in the deaths of the entire family, including two children. Fearful of reprisals from real militia groups, the president a...

  • Where I'd Like to Be

    Frances O'Roark Dowell

    A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie's life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it's hard to feel special when you've spent your life shuffled from one foster home to another. And no...

  • Bubbles Bedazzled

    Laura Dower

    Oh no! Bubbles has gone jewel-crazy! The sweetest Powerpuff Girl just loves pretty things. So when she finds some bee-yoo-ti-ful jewels inside her favorite cereal box, she goes on a collecting frenzy. Bubbles will do anything to find her favorite gem...

  • Where Is My Mommy?

    Julie Downing

    Every child who has ever wondered why Mommy isn't right nearby all the time will be amused and comforted by Julie Downing's captivating new picture book.

    You will have fun with Where Is My Mommy? Reading it aloud will quickly become like a ...

  • Strangers

    Gardner Dozois

    Living in a decadent Earth colony among the alien Cian on the planet Weinunnach, human artist Joseph Farber falls in love with Liraun, a humanoid Cian, despite the fact that love between races is forbidden, and allows himself to be genetically altere...

  • The Campfire Collection: Ghosts, Beasts, and Things That Go Bump in the Night

    Katherine Duane

    The thinking outdoorsman's handbook to the heebie-jeebies, this second volume of our Campfire Collection offers up terrifying tales sure to make the sturdiest of campers run for the hills. Perfect to read out loud around a fire or in the comfort (and...

  • Down With Love

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Abstain from love ... Indulge in chocolate ... Enjoy sex ŕ la carte! Can a woman living in the early '60s lead such a life? Barbara Novak believed so and made it the premise of her revolutionary bestseller -- a feminist manifesto inviting wome...

  • Overfall

    David Dun

    Out Of Sight Sam Wintripp is a man with secrets, struggling to keep his troubled past where it belongs. His future takes a deadly turn when he rescues a beautiful woman from drowning in remote Canadian waters. They barely survive the attack that f...

  • Plant Life

    Pamela Duncan

    Her luminous first novel, Moon Women, won the hearts of both readers and critics, who called it “richly textured...a pleasure to be savored by a writer to watch.” (Kirkus Reviews) Now Pamela Duncan returns to the rich landscape of the human heart...

  • The Wish-List Wife

    Barbara Dunlop

    Firefighter Adam Hollander has a problem: he needs a mother for his nine-year-old daughter. The solution: a list of qualities that'll capture everything he's looking for. Until Haley Roberts, his gorgeous new neighbor, hijacks his list! Despite havin...

  • Lullaby Moons and a Silver Spoon: A Book of Bedtime Songs and Rhymes

    Brooke Dyer

  • Little Brown Bear Won't Go to School!

    Jane Dyer

    Little Brown Bear does not want to go to school, so he decides to look for a job in town, but on the way he passes his school and looks in the window to see his busy classmates, and goes inside after all....

  • Davey's Blue-Eyed Frog

    Patricia Easton

    Davey doesn’t believe in spells and fairy tales -- until the day a strange blue-eyed frog named Amelia turns up in his pond. Amelia is really a princess, and in order to break the spell she’s under, she needs a kiss before two cycles of the moon ...

  • Gigi and Zachary's Around-the-World Adventure: A Seek-and-Find Game

    Gilles Eduar

    Join Gigi the giraffe and Zachary the zebra on their travels around the world. Wherever they go, they find lots of new discoveries, and each page of their colorful travel album is a search-and-find game! From the African savanna to the canals of Veni...

  • That Faith, That Trust, That Love

    Jamellah Ellis

    2002 Gold Pen award winner for Best Christian FictionMarley Shepherd should be on top of the world -- she’s a lawyer at a prestigious law firm and engaged to marry the crown prince of Atlanta black society. But soon she begins to see that her life ...

  • Thanks, Mom

    Ed Emberley

    When MouseÆs piece of cheese is stolen away by the cat, the chase begins as one animal after the other keeps MouseÆs lunch away, but soon Mom notices what has happened and quickly makes everything okay for hungry Mouse once again....

  • Judge Dredd: Goodnight Kiss

    Garth Ennis

    Everyone’s gunning for Dredd in this new colour Judge Dredd collection, featuring stories written by Garth Ennis (Preacher).

    Dredd takes on the Brotherhood of Marshals, a ruthless secret society born in the heart of the radioactive wasteland kno...

  • Moonshiner's Gold

    John R. Erickson

    When fourteen-year-old Riley can't get any help from the law to rid his ranch of the moonshiners squatting on his property, he teams up with his grandfather to do it without legal assistance. Reprint....

  • Poison Blonde

    Loren D. Estleman

    WHO IS GILIA CRISTOBAL? She's simply one of the hottest of hot Latina singers. But nothing in her life is simple. In her native land she was involved with people the government didn't like, and she barely escaped with her life to start fresh in th...

  • Mixed-Up Doubles

    Elena Yates Eulo

  • Artifacts

    Mary Anna Evans

    Faye Longcham has lost nearly everything except for her quick mind and a grim determination to hang onto her ancestral home, Joyeuse, a moldering plantation hidden along the Florida coast. Fay has inherited the island plantation and the family tenaci...

  • Longarm and the Poisoners

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm’s in a town where the deaths aren’t natural and the poison isn’t pretty!When a county commissioner claims that folks dying of natural causes have actually been murdered, Longarm thinks the man is seeing conspiracies in his sleep. But be...

  • Chocolate Quake

    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 foods, and even a dash of ...

  • Shades of Winter

    Linda Fallon

    A WHISPER IN THE DARKNESS Eve Abernathy knows that her fiance, paranormal expert Lucien Thorpe, is terribly absentminded, but she can't quite believe that he's left her at the altar...again. Eve is ready to call the whole thing off when a ...

  • The Proud and the Free

    Howard Fast

    Recounts the experiences of soldiers, generals, politicians, and ordinary people during the period of the Revolutionary War, focusing on the experiences of Jamie Stuart, of the 11th Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line, who is faced with a difficult cho...

  • Piggy's Belly Button

    Keith Faulkner

    Piggy’s mommy warns him not to push his belly button. So do all the animals in the barnyard. But Piggy is oh-so-curious. Can this persistent piglet resist the temptation?
    This is a deliciously silly tale that ends with a big surprise when Piggy ...