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  • Silver Surfer: Requiem

    J. Michael Straczynski

    For untold years Norrin Radd has surfed the galaxy, exploring the darkness between stars, witnessing the rise and fall of vast civilizations. Now his ride is about to come to an end. It starts with a small spot - a blemish that will spread until he i...

  • Wolverine: Origins, Volume 3: Swift and Terrible

    Daniel Way

    Collects Wolverine Origins #11-15. Like father, like son?! Having finally seen his face, Wolverine sets out to rescue his son from the grasp of the shadow society that once enslaved him. But Logan's son doesn't want to be saved -- he wants revenge ag...

  • Hulk and Power Pack: Pack Smash!

    Marc Sumerak

    When the Power Pack, a group of super-powered siblings, discover what happens to Dr. Bruce Banner when he becomes angry, they must decide if they will stand by him since it may mean fighting every other hero in the universe....

  • Madame's Deception

    Renee Bernard

    WHEN AN INNOCENT TAKES OVER A BORDELLO, CAN HER SEDUCTION BE FAR BEHIND? Jocelyn Tolliver believes that her mother's couture business financed her European boarding school education. Imagine her shock when she discovers that her dying mother i...

  • Clan Daughter

    Morgan Howell

    Conscripted into King Kregant's army, Dar survived by befriending the fierce orcs who were also forced to serve. Now she has escaped -- only to find that the price of freedom may be her destiny. Calling on her untried leadership abilities, Dar gui...

  • Tide of Darkness

    Aaron Rosenberg

    After killing the corrupt Warchief Blackhand, Orgrim Doomhammer was quick to seize control over the Orcish Horde. Now he is determined to conquer the rest of Azeroth so that his people will once again have a home of their own in the... WORLD OF WARC...

  • Primal Desires

    Susan Sizemore

    Enter a world of dark, irresistible passions, where a powerful vampire finds the one woman who can satisfy his every hunger.... In Las Vegas, Jason Cage is known as "The Beast Master." But his onstage feats of magic are nothing compared to the abi...

  • Shadowstorm

    Paul S. Kemp

    MAKE THE BOOK WHOLE. THE STORM WILL FOLLOW. Shadows crawl west to consume everything in their path, including a nation of merchants. The archdevil cocked his head with curiosity and the unholy storm of dark energy gathering about him subsided to a ...

  • Highlander Unmasked

    Monica McCarty

    Alex MacLeod's virile physique, fearsome reputation, and renowned fighting skills have helped him master to perfection the role of a hardened mercenary. On a secret mission to protect his clan, he must keep his true purpose well hidden. But his dange...

  • Storm of the Dead

    Lisa Smedman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Lolth Always Plays to Win When goddesses sit down to play a game, the stakes are the souls of their worshipers, and their own immortality. Not even the other gods of the Demonweb Pits can resist the draw of that fateful game, and one has already fal...

  • Bloodsong

    Melvin Burgess

    PART II Fifteen-year-old Sigurd, son of King Sigmund, is the last surviving member of the Volson clan. His father's kingdom -- the former city of London -- is gone. And his father's knife, a gift from Odin himself, has been shattered to dust. N...

  • Dark Congress

    Christopher Golden

    Since the beginning of time, the demonic races have gathered every century to resolve conflicts among them and to determine the course of their future. This centennial event was called the Dark Congress. In the second century b.c., however, the ...

  • Inferno

    Troy Denning

    Luke Skywalker wanted to unify the Jedi order and bring peace to the universe. Instead his wife Mara lies dead at the hands of an unknown assassin, his wayward nephew Jacen has seized control of the Galactic Alliance, and the galaxy has exploded in a...

  • Burdens of Empire

    C.J. Ryan

    It's the 33rd century, a time of unparalleled peace and prosperity, but on a far-flung planet, humanity's reign may be about to end.... Alien terrorism, sectarian violence, armed insurgency -- it was a police action on a backwater planet that many on...

  • Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

    Rachel Cohn; David Levithan

    NAOMI AND ELY ARE BEST FRIENDS. Naomi loves and is in love with Ely, and Ely loves Naomi, but prefers to be in love with boys. So they create their "No Kiss List" of people neither of them is allowed to kiss. And this works fine - until Bruce. Bruce ...

  • The Last Knight

    Hilari Bell

    Need a Hero? To say it was a dark and stormy night would be a gross understatement. It was colder than a witch's kiss, wetter than a spring swamp, and blacker than a tax collector's heart. A sane man would have been curled up in front of a fire, w...

  • Shadows On The Soul

    Jenna Black

    The baddest of the bad boys... Gabriel is a five hundred year old vampire with the soul of a Killer. He has defeated his mother in a battle for the territory of Baltimore, and vowed to take vengeance upon his father, the Master of Philadelphia, fo...

  • Love Letters From a Duke

    Elizabeth Boyle

    He's at her service... Felicity Langley had set her sights on marrying a duke from almost the moment she perfected her curtsey at age five. She begins corresponding with Aubrey Walworth, the Marquess of Standon (the Duke of Hollindrake's h...

  • The Witch Is Dead

    Shirley Damsgaard

    Life is busier than ever for witch Ophelia Jensen. In addition to her day job at the library, she--with the help of her grandmother Abby--is preparing to officially adopt Tink, the young medium she's taken under her wing. So when Ophelia's elderly Au...

  • Dead Girls Are Easy

    Terri Garey

    "MY NAME IS NICKI STYX AND I THOUGHT I HAD THE WORLD ALL FIGURED OUT. THEN I REGAINED CONSCIOUSNESS." There's something about almost dying that makes a girl rethink her priorities. Take Nicki Styx--she was strictly goth and vintage, until a brush wi...

  • The Stone Golem

    Mary Gentle

    Fleeing a surprise treacherous murder attempt, the former King's Freak and would-be painter Ilario has run to Carthage, the city-state under perpetual darkness, in search of freedom. But strange plots are afoot, and a tenuous, complicated alliance wi...

  • Just Wicked Enough

    Lorraine Heath

    What will she bid? Desperate for riches, penniless Michael Tremayne, Marquess of Falconridge, is willing to auction away his only possession of value--his title--to the highest bidding American father. But Kate Rose was the last woman he had in mi...

  • Seduction's Spell

    Lynn LaFleur

    On the banks of a sleepy turn of the Rose River in North Texas sits a charming antebellum mansion -- an intimate resort owned by ravishing hostess Isabella "Belle" Partricelli. This inn exists for one purpose alone: to bring couples together by fulfi...

  • Beyond Seduction

    Stephanie Laurens

    A little bit wild and undeniably brave, the gentlemen of the Bastion Club have pursued adventures far and wide. But their exploits at home could prove to be the riskiest of all as they hunt an elusive target: the perfect bride. In a moment of reck...

  • Bride Enchanted

    Edith Layton

    Too good to be true... Though Eve Faraday was beautiful and intelligent, she never expected to be wooed by the devastatingly handsome and utterly charming Aubrey Ashford, the most eligible bachelor in all of London. Skeptical of the sudden attenti...

  • The Courtship

    Gilbert Morris

    Lanie Freeman and her siblings have survived the Great Depression without their father. They are convinced that he has been unjustly imprisoned. Lanie’s strong-willed sister, Maeva, runs away to Los Angeles to find the one woman in a city of thousa...

  • One for Sorrow

    Christopher Barzak

    Christopher Barzak's stunning debut tells of a teenage boy's coming-of-age that begins with a shocking murder and ends with a reason to hope. Adam McCormick had just turned fifteen when the body was found in the woods. It is the beginning of an au...

  • Who Stole the Funny?

    Robby Benson

    A wickedly delicious roman -- a -- clef about the making of a sitcom called My Urban Buddies (aka Friends), this satirical romp answers the question for those who ever wondered what went on behind the scenes in the production of their favorite sit --...

  • Good Little Wives

    Abby Drake

    While their husbands are out making money, making deals, and making . . . whatever, the trophy wives of New Falls are slipping not so quietly into middle age. Lauren, Bridget, Dana, and Caroline pretend to each other that their only problems are part...

  • The Faraday Girls

    Monica McInerney

    As a child, Maggie Faraday grew up in a lively, unconventional household with her young mother, four very different aunts, and eccentric grandfather. With her mother often away, her aunts took turns looking after her -- until, just weeks before Maggi...

  • Knifeboy

    Tod Harrison Williams

    Friends. Family. Housekeepers. All's Fair in Love, War, and Knife Selling. Check your dignity at the door as you stride across the welcome mat with Jay Hauser in this insightful and strangely touching story about young love, fear, manipul...

  • Retribution

    Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    The Dreamland team used stealth, raw nerve, and technology to defuse a nightmare on the other side of the world. But now the darkness is racing toward America at blinding speed. With more than two dozen nuclear devices unaccounted for, the global mas...

  • Mommy Tracked

    Whitney Gaskell

    Praised for her "smart, funny, sexy, and refreshingly real" novels, author Whitney Gaskell delivers a warm, witty, and wise new story of four women coping with the challenges of motherhood, men, and each other. For Anna, Grace, Juliet, and Chloe, ...

  • A Treasure Of The Heart

    Valerie Hansen

    When Lillie Delaney's life in the big city didn't work out, she headed home to Gumption, Arkansas, longing for the peaceful predictability of the tiny town. Not to mention the proximity of the grandmother who'd raised her. Yet Lillie was in for a sho...

  • Bachelor No More

    Victoria Pade

    HOME WAS THE LAST PLACE HE WANTED TO BE... Only the direst emergency could bring Jared Perry back to the small town he'd left at eighteen, swearing he'd never return. But he couldn't turn his back on a family member in trouble. And he never expected...

  • Love's Healing Touch

    Jane Myers Perrine

    In the middle of a busy hospital emergency room, Dr. Ana Ramirez couldn't help but notice orderly Mike Fuller's quick skills and impressive bedside manner. And, yes, his very good looks. So she proposed a simple cup of coffee to talk about his future...

  • I Conquer Britain

    Dyan Sheldon

    A bohemian Brooklyn teen crosses the pond to visit an uptight English family in the hilarious companion to SOPHIE PITT-TURNBULL DISCOVERS AMERICA. The exchange of daughters that began in SOPHIE-PITT TURNBULL DISCOVERS AMERICA continues! Excited (n...

  • Zane's Trace

    Allan Wolf

    A coming-of-age road story with a supernatural twist -- and a compulsively readable poetic novel about identity and belonging. Zane Guesswind has just killed his grandfather, or so he believes. So he steals the 1969 Plymouth Barracuda his long-gon...

  • The Best of Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet

    Kelly Link; Gavin Grant

    Unexpected tales of the fantastic, & other odd musings by Nalo Hopkinson, Karen Joy Fowler, Karen Russell, Jeffrey Ford, and many others Contains stories by the amazing Jeffrey Ford, the fabulous Karen Joy Fowler, the unlikely Kelly Link, the th...

  • The Sacrifice

    Kathleen Benner Duble

    In the year 1692, life changes forever for ten-year-old Abigail Faulkner and her family. In Salem, Massachusetts, witches have been found, and widespread fear and panic reign mere miles from Abigail's home of Andover. When two girls are brought from ...

  • Soupy Saturdays With the Pain and the Great One

    Judy Blume

    MEET THE PAIN: My sister's name is Abigail. I call her The Great One because she thinks she's so great. Who cares if she's in third grade and I'm just in first? MEET THE GREAT ONE: My brother's name is Jacob Edward, but everyone calls him Jake. Ever...

  • Monday with a Mad Genius

    Mary Pope Osborne

    History, mystery, and magic! Jack and Annie are on a mission to save Merlin from his sorrows! Charged with finding the second of four secrets of happiness, the brother-and-sister team travels back in the magic tree house to the period known as the...

  • Mayflower Treasure Hunt

    Ron Roy

    The hunt is on! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are spending Thanksgiving in Plymouth, Massachusetts. They can't wait to see the sights and have a Thanksgiving dinner just like the Pilgrims would have eaten. Then the kids learn about a sapphire necklace th...

  • Edward's Eyes

    Patricia MacLachlan

    Jake is a part of an extraordinary family. He has a life filled with art, music, and long summer nights on the Cape. He has hours and days and months of baseball. But, more than anything in this world, Jake knows he has Edward. From the moment he wa...

  • Phineas L. Macguire...Gets Slimed!

    Frances O'Roark Dowell

    Phineas L. MacGuire (a.k.a. Mac) has three goals for fourth grade: 1. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. 2. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. 3. To be the best fourth-grade scientist ever. It's a tall order, but he's conf...

  • Enemy Within

    William C. Dietz

    The clone assassin has been played long enoughâ€"now it’s more than a game.Bred to kill, Agent 47 is The Agency’s most valuable assassin. So when a competing murder-for-hire organization decides to destroy The Agency, the first person they target...

  • The Lonely Moose

    John Segal

    Moose has no family, no friends, and rarely entertains visitors. That is, until the day he rescues a bird that cannot fly. Bird turns Moose's solitary life upside down. He sings in the mornings, talks all day long, and he likes to eat worms!...

  • Magic Night

    Isobelle Carmody

    Magic Nights is the story of a cat who finds something that does not belong in his people's house -- something flittery and skittery that turns the rest of the night mysterious and magical. What could it want? Hurricane the cat is going to find out!...

  • Whoo? Whoo?

    David A. Carter

  • The School Dragon

    Michael Broad

    The third book in a four-book series. Each book has three unbelievable adventures written in Jake's own notebooks and embellished with his gloriously funny comments and illustrations throughout. Here Jake meets a dragon in the basement, a troll under...

  • Christmas Cookies!

    Barbara Lehman

    What could be a homier holiday tradition than making Christmas cookies? Find everything you need in this inviting, illustrated cookbook.

    Here is a charming holiday cookbook that is sure to turn an aromatic pastime into a favorite family ritual...

  • Tall Book of Princesses

    HarperCollins

    Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Sleeping Beauty are just some of the classic fairy tales you'll enjoy in The Tall Book of Princesses. Eleven beloved tales, illustrated with Aleksey and Olga Ivanov's richly detailed artwork, make this a treasured additio...

  • Let's Play Sports!: A Lift-the-Flap Story

    Alison Inches

  • Squirrelly Gray

    James Kochalka

    SQUIRRELLY GRAY LIVES in a world without color. His TV is the only fun he has. (And it's really not much fun.)

    But tonight is an unusual night for the young squirrel. First he meets the Tooth Fairy, who is very nice. And then he meets the Hun...

  • Christmas Surprise

    Golden Books

  • Collectopia: A Friendship Scraptacular

    Catherine Rondeau

    COLLECTOPIA IS A world where imagination runs wild! In A Friendship Scraptacular, one of two titles in the Collectopia series, girls will spend hours scrapbooking, journaling, collecting, and laughing with their friends. With 128 pages of giggle-indu...

  • Killer Bodies

    Michael Fleeman

    ***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.***HE WAS THE "BAD BOY" OF BODYBUILDINGCraig Titus once earned the championship title of Mr. USA, but that was before his illegal drug use and terrible temper g...

  • ES Vol. 6: Eternal Sabbath

    Fuyumi Soryo

    LIFE AND DEATH

    Dr. Mine Kujyou is out to save the world. She’s determined to stop Isaac, a genetically engineered superbeing, from destroying humanity. But her quest has led her somewhere unexpected: to an ordinary woman who can’t escape h...

  • My Heavenly Hockey Club, Volume 2

    Ai Morinaga

    KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE!

    Hana Suzuki has it good: she’s the only girl in the Grand Hockey Club, and all the other members are super-hot guys. But the dream may be over. If the Hockey Club doesn’t win its next match, the school will disband i...

  • Shiki Tsukai, Volume 1

    Yuna Takanagi

    MAGIC WARRIOR

    On the day he turns fourteen, Akira discovers his destiny: He’s a shiki tsukai, a warrior with the magical power to control the seasons. He also meets the beautiful Koyomi, another warrior, who is sworn to protect him. For ther...

  • Shugo Chara!, Volume 2

    Peach-Pit

    FRIENDS IN NEED

    Cute schoolgirl Amu has a secret: She has three magical companions. Only these enchanted Guardians know who Amu’s true self is, and they’ll do anything to help her unlock her heart! They’re searching for a magic egg, a po...

  • Negima! Volume 15

    Ken Akamatsu

    STUDENT VS. TEACHER!
    Boy wizard Negi Springfield has met some tough challenges. After all, he’s an English teacher at an all-girls high school. But now he must face one of his own students in battle . . . without relying on his magical powers!

  • Princess Resurrection, Volume 2

    Yasunori Mitsunaga

    IMMORTALITY BITES

    Hiro is a Blood Warrior, which means he’s the natural prey of vampires, demons, monsters, and other creatures of the night. Even worse, he needs the help of Hime, the somewhat crazy Princess who gave him the dubious gift of...

  • Mamotte! Lollipop, Volume 3

    Michiyo Kikuta

    LOVE POTION!

    Nina’s in loveâ€"but who’s the lucky boy? After all, what girl could choose between Zero and Ichî? They’re both wizards, and they’re both supercute! When a matchmaking witch slips Nina a love potion, will the magic spell ...

  • Suzuka, Volume 5

    Kouji Seo

    FIRST KISS

    Yamato has been in love with Suzuka since the first time he laid eyes on her. But when his old friend Honoka surprises him with a kiss, he can’t seem to take his mind off of her! Will hottie Honoka end up luring Yamato away from S...

  • Six Days in June

    Judy Kouzel

    Always a bridesmaid, never the bride: Abigail (aka Abe) Gibson is a young, pretty accountant who is the maid-of-honor in her best friend Megan's wedding. Abe and Megan have been friends since childhood and everything would be great if only Megan and ...

  • Finding Love Forever

    Shelley Galloway

    After thirty-five years of marriage, Daphne Reece has discovered that Finding Love Forever is a little more difficult than it sounds. Now that all five of their children are happily married, Daphne and her husband Jim are empty nesters. Unfortunately...

  • When the Bough Breaks

    Kay Lynn Mangum

    Rachel Fletcher thought the biggest secret she'd ever have would be her crush on Jason West. But everything changes the night her father dies in a car accident--an accident she believes is all her fault. Starting high school is hard enough but carryi...

  • The Reluctant Journey of David Connors

    Don Locke

    David Connorsa uncovers an old carpetbag that he soon learns possesses the unique ability to conjure up peculiar gifts for people he encounters -- items that are exactly what they need.One such stranger is the sweet but feisty Maggie, who gets swept ...

  • Little Spider

    Chronicle Books

  • And If I Die

    John Aubrey Anderson

    Mose Washington and his "grandson," Bill, are still on the lam in 1968 after fleeing Cat Lake where Bill's mom was brutally slayed years earlier. Hiding out under assumed names, Bill is enrolled at North Texas State University and learning to ...

  • Ghost Rider, Volume 2: Life and Death of Johnny Blaze

    Daniel Way

    Collects Ghost Rider (2006) #6-11. How did Johnny Blaze end up in Hell, anyway? It's simple, really: He died. And when he died, his eternal soul - long promised to Hell in exchange for "saving" Crash Simpson - descended into the Pit, taking the Ghost...

  • Women of Marvel - Volume 2

    Roy Thomas

    More classic tales of Marvel's leading ladies! Featuring Kitty Pryde, Black Cat, Dagger, Spider-Woman, Tigra, Rogue, Storm and more! Collects Avengers #83, Uncanny X-Men #168, Strange Tales #10-11, Spider-Woman #10 and more...

  • Essential Dazzler - Volume 1

    Chris Claremont

    Follows the adventures of Alison Blaire--the Dazzler--a rollerskating mutant who turns sound into light and who prefers to work on her disco singing act rather than use her superpowers to defeat evil villains....

  • Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four - Volume 6: Monsters & Mysteries

    Fred Van Lente

  • The Void

    Mark Mynheir

    Someone's trying to play God... and he's turning Palm Bay into hell. Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agent Robbie Sanchez devotes her life to crime prevention, and it shows: She has no personal life and doesn't know the meaning of a day off...

  • To Scotland, With Love

    Karen Hawkins

    In this saucy battle of the sexes, New York Times bestseller Karen Hawkins pits a hard-headed Scottish lord with an unusual family curse against a headstrong heiress who has a solution for every problem...except her own wayward heart. When Lord Gr...

  • The Well of Ascension

    Brandon Sanderson

    Evil has been defeated. The war has just begun. They did the impossible, deposing the godlike being whose brutal rule had lasted a thousand years. Now Vin, the street urchin who has grown into the most powerful Mistborn in the land, and Elend Ventur...

  • She's a Witch Girl

    Kelly McClymer

    Prudence Stewart is FINALLY getting her witch on at Agatha's Day School. Sadly, her love life isn't quite so charmed. Boy trouble is lurking, big-time: -- First, there's Angelo, Pru's adorable crush-next-door. When he shows up at Agatha's, it spells...

  • Trails of Treachery

    Carolyn Keene

    My friend George is competing in a grueling three-day mountain-bike race in Costa Rica, and her cousin Bess and I will be there as her support team. But when I find out someone's taking dangerous steps to make sure top U.S. cyclist Derek Woodhall doe...

  • In the Stars

    Stacia Deutsch; Rhody Cohon

    Which do you follow: your head or your heart? When Sylvie loses the diamond from her late mother's ring, her best friend, Cherise, insists it's a sign that love is about to enter Sylvie's life. Yeah, right. Sylvie doesn't believe in signs -- she o...

  • Kissing the Bee

    Kathe Koja

    Senior year is flying by, the prom is approaching, and Dana, her best friend, Avra, and Avra's boyfriend, Emil, are about to encounter the pains and pleasures of that intricate beehive called adult life. While Dana plans on college, Avra plots escape...

  • Playing with Fire

    Melody Carlson

    If your vision led you straight into the fire,would you follow it anyway?Samantha’s brother, Zach, is finally home after a ninety-day rehab for his meth addiction, and life seems to be getting back to normal. That is, until Sam starts having dreams...

  • Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party

    Ying Chang Compestine

    Nine-year-old Ling is very comfortable in her life; her parents are both dedicated surgeons in the best hospital in Wuhan. But when Comrade Li, one of Mao's political officers, moves into a room in their apartment, Ling begins to witness the gradual ...

  • The Land of the Silver Apples

    Nancy Farmer

    THE CHILDREN FROM THE SEA OF TROLLS BRAVE THEIR WORST NIGHTMARES -- UNDERGROUND. Jack is amazed to have caused an earthquake. He is thirteen, after all, and only a bard-in-training. But his sister, Lucy, has been stolen by the Lady of the Lake; s...

  • Glass

    Ellen Hopkins

    Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go. Kristina thinks she can control it. Now with a baby to care for, she's determined to be the one decid...

  • Listening at the Gate

    Betsy James

    JOURNEY TO THE EDGE OF THE WORLD... In her father's village Kat is scorned for her fiery red hair, the legacy of her father's shameful marriage to a native woman. Her only true home is with Nall, a man who appeared to her from the depths of the se...

  • Wart

    Anna Myers

    Stewart has plenty of reasons to dislike his new art teacher, Wanda Gibbs. Not only did she give him the awful nickname "Wart" at school but she has also started dating his dad. She must have placed his dad under some sort of spell, which is ...

  • Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac

    Gabrielle Zevin

    If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn't have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn't have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn't have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have ...

  • Notes from a Spinning Planet -- Mexico

    Melody Carlson

    Madison Chase's holiday break is drawing to a close and she's eager to leave the gray Washington winter and join her Aunt Sid on a warm vacation to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Maddie is pleasantly surprised when her good friend Ryan McIntire shows up to ...

  • Summer

    Karen Kingsbury

    A NEW BEGINNING Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart are married and living in Bloomington, Indiana, where Dayne has found a solution to his on-camera love scenes--he wants Katy to star in his next film. Katy wins the part and is cast opp...

  • Strange Skies

    Matt Marinovich

    What kind of man would lie to his own wife about having cancer? A man desperate to avoid being saddled with life's responsibilities. A man like Paul. On a miserable October afternoon, as he stares down at his brother's whiny new baby, Paul realiz...

  • Cion

    Zakes Mda

    The hero of Zakes Mda's beloved Ways of Dying, Toloki, sets down with a family in Middle America and uncovers the story of the runaway slaves who were their ancestors. Toloki, the professional mourner, has come to live in America. Lured to Athens,...

  • Carpe Diem

    Autumn Cornwell

    Vassar Spore's Life Goals 1. Graduate valedictorian from Seattle Academy of Academic Excellence (with a minimum of 5.3 GPA). 2. Graduate with honors from Vassar (and receive an honorary certificate because of the whole same name thing) then get Ph...

  • The Chicken Dance

    Jacques Couvillon

    Welcome to Horse Island, where knowing about chickens is the key to popularity and eggs are more valuable than money. This is where eleven-year-old Don Schmidt lives on a chicken farm with his parents. He is sort of unpopular, both at home (where his...

  • Firestar's Quest

    Erin Hunter

    There is peace at last between the warrior Clans, and all four are thriving. Then Firestar, legendary leader of ThunderClan, discovers a shocking secret: StarClan, the warrior ancestors who guide his paw steps, have lied to him. Firestar must emb...

  • Darkwing

    Kenneth Oppel

    As the sun sets on the time of the dinosaurs, a new world is left in its wake. . . .DuskHe alone can fly and see in the dark, in a colony where being different means being shunned -- or worse. As the leader's son, he is protected, but does his future...

  • Dr. Carbles Is Losing His Marbles!

    Dan Gutman

    Something weird is going on! It's Thanksgiving, but the kids at Ella Mentry School aren't feeling very thankful. That's because Dr. Carbles is grumpier than ever, and he wants to fire Mr. Klutz! Will A.J. and his friends be able to save their princi...

  • Fangtastic!

    Sienna Mercer

    Olivia is a vegetarian. Ivy is a vampire. And they're twins?!? Ever since Olivia discovered that her long-lost twin sister, Ivy, is a vampire, she's been soaking up everything Ivy will tell her about Franklin Grove's vampire community. It's all to...

  • The Salamander Spell

    E.D. Baker

    Grassina, Emma's wonderful, magical aunt, is herself a teen in this prequel to the Frog Princess books. She and her sister, Chartreuse (Emma's irritating mother from the other books) are vying to see who will get the family's inherited ma...

  • The Ghost of Poplar Point

    Cynthia DeFelice

    Allie Nichols, "Ghost Magnet," has only just finished sixth grade, but already she's grappled with her fair share of adventure: three ghosts have sought her help in less than two months. Now that summer has finally arrived, Allie is ready for a break...

  • Seeing Redd

    Frank Beddor

    Alyss of Wonderland's rule has only just begun, and already those who prefer chaos to peace are threatening to destroy everything worth imagining. Trailed by newly appointed royal bodyguard Homburg Molly, Alyss is doing her best to keep pace with the...

  • Welcome to Horseland

    Annie Auerbach

    When Sarah first arrived at Horseland ranch with her horse, Scarlet, everyone assumed she was a spoiled little rich girl -- especially when she pulled up in a limo wearing expensive clothes! But when Sarah ruins her expensive jacket in order to sa...

  • A Friend for All Seasons

    Julia Hubery

    When Robbie Raccoon awakens to find that Old Father Oak, his favorite tree, is losing its leaves, he worries that his dear friend may be ill, but when he and his friends find out that Old Father Oak is simply adapting to the change of seasons, Robbie...

  • Hunter's Big Sister

    Laura Malone Elliott

    Hunter looks up to his imaginative big sister, Glenna. He loves playing make-believe games with her -- except when she's bossy.

    Glenna adores Hunter -- except when he's a pest and copycats her.

    Will Hunter know when to stop teasing Gl...

  • My Mom Is a Firefighter

    Lois G. Grambling

    Every little boy has a hero. Billy's happens to be his mom.

    Billy has two families -- his mom and dad, and his firehouse "uncles," who work with his mom. Having a firehouse family is lots of fun. But Billy also knows that firefighters have a...

  • Trail Ride Terror

    Annie Auerbach

    Everyone at Horseland ranch is getting ready for a trail ride and campout. But when Will inspects Chloe and Zoey's saddlebags, he finds hair dryers and MP3 players instead of camping equipment. To make matters worse, the girls can't believe that ...

  • Let's Decorate Christmas Stickers

    Roger Priddy

  • Let's Have a Tea Party

    Sonali Fry

    While preparing to make fancy snacks for their posh tea party, a culinary disaster nearly ruins the girls' special event, but the day is saved when Holly's brother arrives with his homemade creation of peanut-butter-and-pickle sandwiches for all to e...

  • What's in Grandma's Closet?

    Alexis Barad

    Every page of this sturdy, casebound book reveals another treasure in Grandma's closet that is lovingly passed on. Each spread contains a beautiful charm that readers can mix and match with the charm bracelet at the end of the book. This keepsake ...

  • Shy Creatures

    David Mack

    What does a shy girl want to be when she grows up? A doctor, but not just any doctor -- this little girl wants to care for creatures who may seem intimidating, but are really very shy, just like she is. David Mack’s extraordinary picture book de...

  • Saro Tells a Story

    Jennifer Frantz

    Littlefoot wants to help Grandpa Longneck bring Saro back to the Great Valley to become the new Story Speaker. But when Littlefoot, Chomper, and Saro find themselves trapped in the Mysterious Beyond, it is up to Saro to use one of the great Longn...

  • Back in the Saddle Again

    Annie Auerbach

    During jumping practice at Horseland ranch, Molly has a bad fall off her horse, Calypso. Her fear of falling keeps Molly from getting back in the saddle. Everyone at the ranch is concerned -- will she ever ride again? When an emergency arises, Sa...

  • The Longest Christmas List Ever

    Gregg Spiridellis

    Little Trevor is determined to not leave ANYTHING off his Christmas list so he carries it with him everywhere he goes...for an entire year.  Trevor thinks of eveything he could possibly want:Binocular glasses with night-vision mode!A rip-roaring...

  • Absolute Certainty of Life after Death

    Donald J. Wilton

    THIS IS THE STORY OF TWO MEN. ONE VERY RICH. ONE VERY POOR. THEY BOTH DIED.Most people are intrigued by the subject of life after death. Whether in a classroom, at church, or talking with a friend over a cup of coffee, the same questions are asked ov...

  • Knit Together

    Debbie Macomber

    Debbie Macomber calls KNIT TOGETHERthe project of her heart.Whenever she speaks, her theme issimple: don't be afraid to dream. Godcreated us for a reason, and when wecome to recognize our deepest longing,we can discover His plan for ourlives. Full of...

  • Land Before Time: Cera's Shiny Stone

    Cathy Hapka / Catherine Hapka

  • My Friends

    Kurt Johnston; Mark Oestreicher

    Don’t worry, My Friends, from the Middle School Survival Series, will give you all the tips and secrets you need to make the most of your friendships. In the pages of this book, you’ll find helpful friendship tips like:• what you can learn abou...

  • Vampire Academy

    Richelle Mead

    ONLYA TRUE BEST FRIEND CAN PROTECT YOU FROM YOUR IMMORTAL ENEMIES... Lissa Dragomir is a Moroi princess: a mortal vampire with an unbreakable bond to the earth's magic. She must be protected at all times from Strigoi; the fiercest and most dange...

  • Fire From the Rock

    Sharon M. Draper

    Sylvia Patterson is shocked and confused when she is asked to be one of the first black students to attend Central High School, which is scheduled to be integrated in September 1957, whether the citizens or governor of Arkansas like it or not. Before...

  • The Ghost Sonata

    Jennifer Allison

    Gilda Joyce?s best friend, Wendy Choy, is chosen to participate in a piano competition in Oxford, England, so of course super-sleuth Gilda finds a way to go too. Once there, the grueling practice schedule takes a backseat to strange and spooky occurr...

  • The Trip

    Ezra Jack Keats

    When his family moves to a new neighborhood, Louie has to leave his friends behind. Sad and lonely, Louie creates a city scene inside a shoe box. The tiny diorama has a magical effect, sending his imagination back to old friends and old times. Then t...

  • When the Wizzy Foot Goes Walking

    Roni Schotter

  • Hillary Clinton

    Laura Driscoll

  • Barack Obama

    Roberta Edwards

  • Bravo, Tavo!

    Brian Meunier

    Knowing his father is too concerned with the drought affecting their village to pay attention to the issue of his son's worn sneakers, Tavo puts his passion for basketball aside to help his community--resulting in great praise from everyone in town a...

  • Spot 7 Spooky

    Chronicle Books

    Each spread of this Halloween-themed activity book features two spooky photographs that appear identical. Eagle-eyed readers, however, will spot seven things that have changed from one photo to the other. Perfect for fans of the I Spy or Where's Wald...

  • Art Across the Ages: Ancient Mexico: Level 1

    Kelly Campbell Hinshaw

    This distinctive art-history book is the one of the first titles in Chronicle's Art Across the Ages multilevel program for budding art lovers at different stages of development. With stunning photographs and simple text, it is an ideal introduction t...

  • The Toy Farmer

    Andrew Pelletier

    Finding an old toy tractor driven by a miniature farmer in the attic, Jed delights in his new plaything, especially when his carpet begins to grow green shoots with large, prize-winning pumpkins coming right off the vine!...

  • Norton Anthology of American Literature

    Jerome Klinkowitz

    Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in the field, The Norton Anthology of American Literature has been revitalized in this Seventh Edition through the collaboration between three new period...

  • Buffalo Mountain

    Frederick Ramsay

    It's the bleak midwinter and the Shenandoah Valley is poised on the brink of an unusually icy and snowy season. Alexei Kamarov's body is discovered in a forest within the Picketsville town limits. His driver's license identifies him as Randall Harris...

  • The Accidental Sleuth

    Helen Macie Osterman

    TROUBLE NEXT DOOR Life is good for sixty-something Emma Winberry. She's got a beautiful Chicago lakefront condo, a loving new man to share it with, and her nose for trouble is hardly twitching. That is, until she tries to help a teenage visitor ne...

  • My Princess Collection

    Disney Book Group

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 13: Hobgoblin

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #72-78. It’s the terrifying debut of the Ultimate Hobgoblin as Harry Osborn returns to Midtown High harboring a dark secret that will affect the lives of all those around him â€" especially his best friend, Peter Parker...

  • D.P. 7 Classic - Volume 1

    Mark Gruenwald

    The Gru tackled the New and it's here for you! Before his history-making work on Captain America and Quasar, Mark Gruenwald helped build the New Universe from the ground up with an outcast cast of Seven Displaced Paranormals on a quest leading them i...

  • X-Factor - Volume 2: Life and Death Matters

    Peter David

    Collects X-Factor #7-12. The divisiveness of Civil War has spread to Jamie Madrox's X-Factor team: Half of them want to cooperate with the government; the other half wants to take a stand against it. And matters aren't being helped by Quicksilver, ...

  • Wisdom: Rudiments of Wisdom

    Marvel Book Group

  • Crimson Shadows

    Robert E. Howard

    Robert E. Howard is one of the most famous and influential pulp authors of the twentieth century. Though largely known as the man who invented the sword-and-sorcery genreâ€"and for his iconic hero Conan the Cimmerianâ€"Howard also wrote horror tales,...

  • Guardian of the Veil

    Gregory Spencer

    What if the fabric of our world were stretching or tearing...or getting thinner...and we could step through that veil into another world? It's been a month since the Misfits -- four friends who like to commiserate -- were catapulted out of their adv...

  • Hideous Beauty

    Jack Cavanaugh

    This world isn't what you think it is… Every day they slip across our borders to infiltrate our government, our schools, our neighborhoods. Homeland security can't stop them. The armed forces are no threat to them. Powerful and unseen, they ca...

  • Last Dance at the Frosty Queen

    Richard Uhlig

    On the dock of a lake in a tiny town at the corner of Nowhere & Nowhere, he sits counting the seconds until his high school graduation--at which point Arthur M. Flood intends to leave his hick life far behind in the brown Kansas dust. That's the plan...

  • The Penalty

    Mal Peet

    From the award-winning author of TAMAR, a time-shifting thriller about a vanishing soccer star, occult secrets, and the dark history of slavery. As the city of San Juan pulses to summer's sluggish beat, its teenage soccer prodigy, El Brujito, the ...

  • Love, Stargirl

    Jerry Spinelli

    LOVE, STARGIRL picks up a year after Stargirl ends and reveals the new life of the beloved character who moved away so suddenly at the end of Stargirl. The novel takes the form of "the world's longest letter," in diary form, going from date to date t...

  • Counting on Grace

    Elizabeth Winthrop

    1910. Pownal, Vermont. At 12, Grace and her best friend Arthur must leave school and go to work as a "doffers" on their mothers' looms in the mill. Grace's mother is the best worker, fast and powerful, and Grace desperately wants to help her. But she...

  • American Cream

    Catherine Tudish

    After Nathan Rownd is injured in a tractor accident, his daughter, Virginia, leaves her suburban life and returns to Tenney's Landing with her teenage son to work the family farm. She struggles with the long periods of separation from her husband and...

  • The Great Man

    Kate Christensen

    Oscar Feldman, the "Great Man," was a New York city painter of the heroic generation of the forties and fifties. But instead of the abstract canvases of the Pollocks and Rothkos, he stubbornly hewed to painting one subject--the female nude. When he d...

  • That Summer in Paris

    Abha Dawesar

    From the award-winning author of Babyji comes an utterly seductive tale of an aging writer whose involvement with a young woman forces him to face the eternal question of love. Prem Rustum, a famous but reclusive Indian author, has spent most of h...

  • A Taste of Honey

    Darren Coleman

    Honey Height learned early in life that her beauty and bedroom prowess are powerful, almost beyond her control. Forced by events that leave her to fend for herself as a teenager, she evolves into a money-hungry vixen as an adult. Using her physical a...

  • The Queen of Cool

    Cecil Castellucci

    On the outside, Libby Brin is the most popular girl in school. But on the inside, Libby is dying -- of boredom. In a moment of desperation, Libby signs up for an internship at the Los Angeles Zoo, much to the dismay of her friends, who'd prefer she s...

  • Toby Wheeler: Eighth-Grade Benchwarmer

    Thatcher Heldring

    TOBY WHEELER LOVES basketball and playing pickup games at the local rec center. No coaches, no practices, just nonstop action with his best friend, JJ, at his side. But lately JJ's been acting like he's too busy for Toby, and Toby knows it will only ...

  • Cover-up: Mystery at the Super Bowl

    John Feinstein

    THE SUPER BOWL. America's biggest sports spectacle. More than 95 million fans will be watching, but Steve Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson know that what they'll be watching is a lie. They know that the entire offensive line of the California Dreams h...

  • The Long Walk Home

    Will North

    The miracle of love after loss and longing The Long Walk Home is a story about grief and hope, about love and loss, and about two people struggling with the agonizing complexities of ?delity -- to a spouse, to a moral code, to each other, and to a...

  • Nate the Great Talks Turkey: With Help from Olivia Sharp

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    A giant turkey is on the loose Nate, the great detective, and his dog, Sludge, hear the news on the radio. But Nate doesn't want to take a case that everyone in town is on. Not even when Claude claims that he saw the turkey, then lost him in the ...

  • Clarice Bean, Don't Look Now

    Lauren Child

    Always remember: It's the worry you haven't even thought to worry about that should worry you the most. Clarice Bean has a list of worries, such as Worry No. 19: Robert Granger -- will he ever leave her alone? Or Worry No. 9: largish spiders. But la...

  • The Suite Life of Zack & Cody Star Crazy

    Disney Book Group

    SERIES DESCRIPTION:Zack & Cody are 12-year-old identical twins who live with their mom in Boston's swankiest hotel. They have a hard time staying out of trouble, and are constantly pestering tween girls, Maddie, the candy counter girl, and London...

  • The Numbers Express

    Richard Courtney

    Thomas is busy traveling all over Sodor. Everywhere he goes there are things to find and things to count. With simple visual prompts, young readers have to find objects in each picture. Then they are asked to add or subtract some of these hidden item...

  • Don't Touch, It's Hot

    David Algrim

    DON'T TOUCH! The toaster is HOT. Blow! Blow! Blow! Now the waffles are NOT.

    This inventive book, with textures to touch and sensational scents to scratch-and-sniff, offers a fun approach for kids to learn about what is hot in the kitchen and ...

  • New Kid in Town: Junior Novel

    Alice Alfonsi

    Series Description:Cory Baxter is just a regular kid from San Francisco, but when his dad gets the job of White House Chef, Cory discovers that life can be very unpredictable -- especially when you're living one floor away from t...

  • Cutie Pie!

    Matthew Kempler

    YOU'RE THE APPLE OF MY EYE. Are you an apple pie?

    This delightful interactive book compares babies and toddlers to one of the sweetest things aroundÃ'pie! From pies made of apples and peaches to blueberries and pumpkins, Cutie Pie! celebrates ...

  • Winter Wonderland

    Rebecca Frazer

    BARBIE CAN'T WAIT for her tree-trimming party - she makes glittering garlands, dazzling decorations, and crunchy Christmas cookies. But when a blizzard blows through, Barbie is snowbound! Luckily, Barbie's pals come to her rescue just in time to make...

  • Christmas Wish

    Disney Book Group

    Blast off with the Little Einsteins on these new fun-filled all-new adventures!  Leo, June, Quincy, Annie and Rocket areback in a series of five new paperback missions involving pirates, knights,magic, and much more!

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  • X-Men Pop-Up

    Caroline Repchuck

    Metallic pop-ups on every spread!

    Celebrate the select team of mutant teenage heroes known as the X-Men! This second in a series for real Marvel fans features original 1960s comic-book excerpts, leap-out-at-you metallic pop-ups, dramatic actio...

  • Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 5+1 Makes More Fun

    Disney Book Group

    Meeska, Mooska, Mickey Mouse! Welcome to the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse! Join Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pluto in two ready-to-read tales that teach valuable lessons about letters, numbers, shapes, decision-making, ...

  • Disney/Pixar Cars Storybook and CD

    Disney Book Group

     Relive the adventure of Disney•Pixar’s box-office smash hit, Cars, with this deluxe readâ€'along storybook and CD. The CD features sound effects from the film, word-for-word narration that matches the text...

  • Running With the Wind

    John Foley

    Graduating from high school is supposed to feel like the beginning of your real life.But for Jackson O'Connell, it's more like a slew of endings. In this sequel to Hoops of Steel, Jackson's dream of a basketball scholarship is gone. His surrogate par...

  • Fatal Charm

    Linda Joy Singleton

    In this vivid fifth volume of The Seer series, Sabine Rose is reunited with her ill grandmother Nona and her friends at Sheridan Valley. But the excitement of curing Nona-and discovering love with someone new-doesn't outweigh the burden of her father...

  • Marvel Masterworks: The Mighty Thor, Vol. 6

    Stan Lee

  • Essential Spider-Woman, Volume 2

    Michael Fleisher

    The first part of Spider-Woman's career concludes as her collection of challenges and crises is completed! Some of Marvel's most stupendous scribes set the heroine against Morgan le Fay, the Viper, Gypsy Moth and other fearsome foes, forgotten or oth...

  • The Trouble with Humans

    Christopher Anvil

    PITY THE POOR ETs Humans -- there's no understanding them, and no dealing with them either. Or even their planet. Consider the invaders from a blithe planet where the weather is always mild. They land in force and their weapons are more powerful tha...

  • Gun Shy

    Donna Ball

    Warm Heart, Cold Nose Nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains, Hanover County draws tourists every fall to hike and to look at leaves. But, unlike them, Michelle White came to die. The cops don't know if it was suicide, but for days, her b...

  • Pandora's Gambit

    Randall N. Bills

    The world of Marik becomes a battleground as three warriors--Anson Marik, Lester Cameron-Jones, and Jessica Marik--vie to restore order to the planet, proving that they will do anything to further their causes. Original....

  • The Case of the Tough-Talking Turkey

    Claudia Bishop

    On their farm nestled in upstate Summersville, New York, veterinarian Austin McKenzie and his wife, Madeline, keep themselves busy looking after ailing farm animals and pets in poor health. But while they may be able to mend creatures great and small...

  • Thin Air

    Rachel Caine

    ON TOP OF THAT, IT WAS RAINING. Joanne Baldwin has had better days -- at least she hopes she has. After waking up naked and freezing in a forest, she's located by two rescuers she doesn't recognize at all. One supernaturally gorgeous guy might have...

  • The Chocolate Jewel Case

    Joanna Carl

    DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH Lee and Joe are newlyweds, but you wouldn't know it. Joe works late, and Lee has a major crisis when the air-conditioning goes out in TenHuis Chocolade. Then the houseguests from hell arrive: Lee's boy-crazy stepsister, a sal...

  • Paint It Red

    Carla Cassidy

    Two years ago, Vanessa Abott's husband Jim, an up-and-coming artist, drowned himself in the Missouri River. His body still hasn't been recovered. Now Vanessa has arranged for one last showing of her husband's brilliant, disturbing artwork. Critics ar...

  • Critical

    Robin Cook

    After a rough climb to the top, doctor and businesswoman Angela Dawson appears to have it all: a start-up--Angels Healthcare--that's about to go public, and a controlling interest in three busy specialist hospitals in New York City as well as plans f...

  • The Chardonnay Charade

    Ellen Crosby

    Mixing fine wine and murder produces "another hit" (Kirkus Reviews) in Ellen Crosby's second mystery as Virginia vineyard owner Lucie Montgomery discovers that uncovering a killer can bring a harvest of dilemma and danger. Lucie Montgomery thinks...

  • Touch of Darkness

    Christina Dodd

    From New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd comes the second book of Darkness Chosen, a seductive series about an ancient, dark evil that lives in the modern world.... A thousand years ago, a brutal warrior struck a terrifying bargain. I...

  • Spook Country

    William Gibson

    Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLita warehouse, and does delicate jobs involving information transfer. Hollis Henry is an investigative journalist, on assignment from a magazine call...

  • Devil May Cry

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Sin, an ancient Sumerian god, was one of the most powerful among his pantheon--until the night Artemis robbed him of his godhood and left him one step from death.... For millennia, the ex-god turned Dark-Hunter Sin has sought to regain his powers ...

  • The Vanishing

    Bentley Little

    With his novels, “Bentley Little has created nothing less than a nightmarishly brilliant tour de force of modern life in America.†-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)In Beverly Hills, a wealthy CEO goes on a bloody rampage and videotapes the sl...

  • Poltergeist

    Kat Richardson

    Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died-for two minutes. Now she's a Greywalker-walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "st...

  • The Fox

    Sherwood Smith

    Attending the King's Military Academy had been Inda's greatest dream. But Academy reality is far from what he'd imagined-for by defending the second son of the king, Inda becomes embroiled in a vicious political struggle among the nobility that he ha...

  • The Burnt House

    Faye Kellerman

    At 8:15 A.M., a small commuter plane carrying forty-seven passengers crashes into an apartment building in Granada Hills, California. Among the dead inside the plane's charred and twisted wreckage are the unidentified bodies of four extra traveler...

  • Beyond Cool

    Bev Katz Rosenbaum

    Apparently being frozen for ten years hasn't made me any cooler... The next in the hot series about a girl whose life is really on the rocks. Floe Ryan was frozen at sixteen because of a rare disease. Now she's been thawed back to her normal ...

  • The Penguin Who Knew Too Much

    Donna Andrews

    Hold on to your hats, everybody! Donna Andrews is taking us on another ride into the wonderful world of Meg Langslow, a world filled with laughter as well as the knotty problems Meg always seems to encounter and---somehow---solve. Okay, maybe there...

  • Mistress on Trial

    Kate Hardy

    British lawyer Leo Ballantyne is arrogant, serious and sexy...in fact, seriously sexy! It doesn't help that he thinks Rose is a flake and a bad influence. They don't agree about anything, but that doesn't stop Rose Carter from wanting Leo...

  • Sandworms of Dune

    Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson

    At the end of Frank Herbert's final novel, Chapterhouse: Dune, a ship carrying a crew of refugees escapes into the uncharted galaxy, fleeing from a terrifying, mysterious Enemy. The fugitives used genetic technology to revive key figures from Dune's ...

  • Malice

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    New York District Attorney Butch Karp, recovering from an assassination attempt that came within a few millimeters of killing him, takes on a shadowy cartel that uses terrorists to further its criminal empire while sliding the United States toward a ...

  • The Halloween Hoax

    Carolyn Keene

    Boo! The Clue Crew is in for a fright! It's Halloween in River Heights! The girls can't wait to go trick-or-treating and are busy getting their costumes ready. They also can't wait for the Halloween special of their favorite TV show. They even get...

  • The One O'clock Chop

    Ralph Fletcher

    It's the summer of 1973 and fourteen year old Matt spends his days working on a boat as a clam digger to earn extra money. His nights are another story--he spends time with his free-spirited cousin Jazzy who is visiting from Hawaii (and just happens ...

  • The Careful Use of Compliments

    Alexander McCall Smith

    In the latest beguiling installment of this beloved series, Isabel Dalhousie -- the nosiest and most sympathetic philosopher you are likely to meet -- returns to investigate an irresistible puzzle in the art world. Isabel Dalhousie now has a son, Ch...

  • The Golden Dream of Carlo Chuchio

    Lloyd Alexander

    Abeautiful Kirkassi girl, cold-eyed villains and smiling killers, a bazaar merchant peddling slightly used dreams--could any young adventurer ask for more? Not Carlo Chuchio, who is seeking hidden treasure on the legendary Road of Golden Dreams. W...

  • Emmy and the Incredible Shrinking Rat

    Lynne Jonell

    Emmy was a good girl.At least she tried very hard to be good. She did her homework without being told. She ate all her vegetables, even the slimy ones. And she never talked back to her nanny, Miss Barmy, although it was almost impossible to keep quie...

  • The Snows

    Sharelle Byars Moranville

    Sometimes, when you're sixteen, your concerns don't go beyond the parameters of your immediate world. It's 1931 in Jefferson, Iowa, and what's important to Jim Snow are the flavors served in the local ice-cream parlor, the location of the apostrop...

  • Prada Princesses

    Jasmine Oliver

    Catch up with your favorite fashion First Years: Freshman year at fashion school has been nonstop chaos -- from trading boyfriends to almost losing the flat! But before the summer ends... Sinead is pushing the limits in the final show with her ...

  • Last Breath

    George Shuman

    Following close on the heels of his celebrated debut 18 Seconds, George Shuman returns with yet another remarkable thriller featuring investigative consultant Sherry Moore -- a blind woman with an uncanny ability to view the final living moments of a...

  • The Ace

    Debra Webb
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    They don't call Vegas Sin City for nothing. And now that prime tourist season is around the corner, it's time to kick some criminal butt. Enter three full-throttle Vegas detectives, ready to eat their undercover assignments alive.... Clarissa Ri...

  • Loving Frank

    Nancy Horan

    I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. So writes Mamah Borthwick Cheney in her diary as she struggles to justify her clandestine love affair with Frank Lloyd Wright....

  • The Rest of Her Life

    Laura Moriarty

    Leigh is the mother of high-achieving, popular high school senior Kara. Their relationship is already strained for reasons Leigh does not fully understand when, in a moment of carelessness, Kara makes a mistake that ends in tragedy -- the effects of ...