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New Books List: 371 titles

  • Cautionary Tales for Children

    Edward Gorey

    "For readers of any age, a witty and strikingly irreverent collection of moral guidance Most notable among prolific English satirist Hilaire Belloc''s writings are the sharp and clever admonishments he composed for children. Collected here and i...

  • The Cordelia Collection, Volume 1

    Nancy Krulik

    "Being popular is not just my right, but my responsibility, and I want you to know that I take it very seriously." -- Cordelia Chase Fashionista and leader of the pack, Cordelia Chase is known throughout Sunnydale High for her irrepressible ble...

  • The Longest Night, Volume 1

    Joss Whedon

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... FROM DUSK UNTIL DAWN December -- sure, 'tis the season and all that, but evil generally isn't up for a holiday. And December 21 -- well, that's usually the winter solstice. A.K.A. the ...

  • Magic Time: Angelfire

    Marc Zicree; Maya Kaathryn Bohnoff

    THE WORLD HAS CHANGED--FOREVER Across America, technology has been eclipsed by magic, as ordinary people become the embodiments of their darkest desires, deepest fears--and purest selves. Searching for the source of this terrifying phenomenon--and...

  • Tales of The Slayer Volume 2

    Kara Dalkey; Michael Reeves

    "Sacred duty, yadda yadda." -- Buffy Summers Buffy the Vampire Slayer has always held an irreverent attitude toward her calling, but ultimately she understands the ramifications of her destiny and is prepared to die to protect the world from Evil...

  • Dead Aim

    Thomas Perry

    Robert Mallon has lived for ten quiet years in affluent Santa Barbara, California, when an encounter on a beach with a mysterious young woman shatters his peaceful, carefully constructed life. Despite Mallon's desperate attempts, he loses her, and be...

  • Green Girls

    Michael Kimball

    A writer, a father, a husband, the owner of a strictly ordered life, Jacob Winter is not a man prone to violence -- until the day he walks in unexpectedly on his wife's affair. Awakening in a small-town Maine jail with no memory of his alleged ramp...

  • The Brave and the Bold: Book One

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    AN ALL-NEW ADVENTURE SPANNING THREE GENERATIONS! The Malkus Artifacts: four deadly machines, wielded as weapons of absolute power by an interstellar tyrant thousands of years ago and scattered across the Alpha Quadrant when he was overthrown. Aft...

  • The Brave and the Bold: Book Two

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    CONTINUING THE ALL-NEW ADVENTURE SPANNING ALL OF STAR TREK HISTORY! Two of the Malkus Artifacts -- used as deadly weapons millennia ago -- have been uncovered since their discovery in the 22nd century. Now in the 24th century, two more artifacts li...

  • The Lives of Dax

    Marco Palmieri

    THREE HUNDRED FIFTY-SEVEN YEARS. NINE LIVES. ONE SOUL. Mother, father, engineer, ambassador, scientist, statesman, serial killer, Starfleet officer: At one time or another, Dax has been all of these things and more. The near-immortal part of a compos...

  • Nemesis

    J.M. Dillard

    Remus -- mysterious sister world to Romulus. A planet where hope surrendered to darkness long ago. A planet whose inhabitants have been without a voice for generations. But that's about to change. Earth -- home to Starfleet, where the crew of the U....

  • The Mantra

    Dmitry Radyshevsky

    Hear It His music is intoxicating. An incantation pumping every drumbeat into the blood. Every rhythm, every word, enslaving listeners into a blissful paralysis of the will. No wonder TuneRa has become the most popular performer in the world. ...

  • Amy, On Her Own

    Marilyn Kaye

    Something is happening to Amy. It begins with the fading of the crescent moon mark on her shoulder. And as reports trickle in from sister clones who are encountering their share of sudden physical problems, Amy realizes that none of this bodes well. ...

  • Atlantis Endgame

    Andre Norton; Sherwood Smith

    THE LEGEND OF ATLANTIS On the island of Crete--the reputed site of legendary Atlantis--the Time Patrol that guards Earth's history from potentially world-ending change has discovered evidence of time travel dating back to the time before Atlantis ...

  • Beyond Flesh

    Jack Dann

  • Cable, Volume 2: End

    David Tischman

    When the Macedonians plan to "cleanse" their Albanian ethnic rivals from their shared country, Cable, a freedom fighter with allegiances to no faction but the innocents caught in the crossfire, uses his powerful philosophy of peace to put an end to t...

  • Daredevil, Volume 2

    Brian Michael Bendis

    A mystery man called Mr. Silke has inspired Wilson Fisk's lieutenants to rise up and take down the Kingpin of Crime, but when the FBI steps in to sort out the remains of the Kingpin's criminal empire, their investigation may change Daredevil's life f...

  • Elektra, Volume 1: Introspect

    Greg Rucka

  • Ghost War

    Michael A. Stackpole

    A DARK AGE HAS DESCENDED... For generations, the Republic of the Sphere has known a Golden Age of peace. Mighty BattleMechs, once kings of the battlefields, now aid the reconstruction of war-torn worlds. But when terrorists destroy the interstella...

  • Guardian

    Joe Haldeman

    During the Alaskan gold rush, a woman pursues a destiny that will change the world in this alternate-history novel from a sci-fi legend. In the tradition of Robert Heinlein (Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land), multiple Hugo and Nebula Awa...

  • Hour of the Gremlins

    Gordon R. Dickson; Ben Bova

    Filled with adventure, humor, and excitement, a thrilling trio of stories, by two science fiction masters, features Gremlins, Go Home, in which Baneen devises a plan so that he and his fellow gremlins can leave Earth and return to Gremla. Rep...

  • J. Michael Straczynski's Rising Stars, Book 2: Ten Years Aft

    Arthur Byron Cover

    Ten years after the meta-human Specials had their standoff against the government, they find themselves brought together once again, this time to stop the Special known as Critical Mass after she takes the city of Chicago hostage....

  • The Maquisarde

    Louise Marley

    Near the end of the 21st century, the murder of her husband and daughter by terrorists drives Ebriel Serique to venture beyond her charmed life to confront the truth about the world. And while she never would have suspected it, Ebriel discovers that ...

  • Platinum Pohl

    Frederik Pohl

    Frederik Pohl, the bestselling author of The Boy Who Would Live Forever, is famous for his novels, but first and foremost, he is a master of the science fiction short story. For more than fifty years he has been writing incisive, entertaining SF sto...

  • The Poison Master

    Liz Williams

    Liz Williams is one of science fiction's boldest new writers and this novel is one of her most profound speculations on freedom, love, and human destiny. On a distant world ruled by an alien race, humanity is enslaved, having forgotten its own past a...

  • Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction

    Al Sarrantonio

    A revolutionary anthology of remarkable works of speculative fiction encompasses contributions by Ursula K. Le Guin, Joyce Carol Oates, Larry Niven, Harry Turtledove, Gregory Benford, Michael Moorcook, Joe Haldeman, Stephen Baxter, Catherine Asaro, a...

  • Spider-Man: Quality of Life

    Greg Rucka

    When red tape, bureaucracy, and a corrupt corporation block Dr. Curtis Connors' bid to help cure his cancer-stricken wife, he unleashes his deadly alter ego, the Lizard, on humankind and Spider-Man. A Graphic Novel. Original....

  • Tank Girl 1

    Titan Books

    From the depths of the outback comes a wildly anarchic, in-your-face heroine for a new age of madness...maverick British creators Alan Martin and Jamie (Gorillaz) Hewlett present Tank Girl!

    Join everybody’s favourite beer-swilling, chain-smoking...

  • The World Below

    Kevin Andrew Murphy

    Drawn from the highly popular comic book series, an enthralling novel follows marine biologist Aspen Matthews, who has no memory of her life before the age of eleven, as she unexpectedly discovers that the truth surrounding her existence lurks in the...

  • Almost Strangers

    Delsa Winer

    How two women seek and embrace freedom is at the heart of Delsa Winer's stunning first novel "At fort, Ursula Korfield Gant believes she is independent of the usual pleasure people seek and connections they covet. She lives alone, although th...

  • By the Light of the Moon

    Dean Koontz

    On the road, on a hot Arizona night, Dylan O'Conner is overpowered by a stranger who injects him with an unknown substance. All he's told is that he's the "carrier," not of a disease but of something wondrous that will transform his life in remarkabl...

  • Eyes of the Virgin

    Thomas F. Monteleone

    THE PROPHECIES The eyes of the Virgin Mother gaze out of the piece of stained glass, their expression wise and protective. From time to time, the Virgin "blinks," and words appear in the glass--cryptic prophecies which the Vatican decodes and disclo...

  • The Here and Now

    Gregg Easterbrook

    Carter Morris is a high-priced corporate lawyer, negotiating the class-action suit of a lifetime which will result in a massive settlement. As he ponders his sellout, he relives significant moments of his youth, literally. From air raid drills to his...

  • In All the Wrong Places

    Donna Anders

    Home-shopping fans everywhere adore Carolyn Langdon: she's the beautiful, outgoing hostess of the Atlanta-based National Neighborhood Network. Gifted with a perfect look and a vivacious on-air personality, her phenomenal success is owed to one simple...

  • Matchstick Men

    Eric Garcia

    Roy and Frankie are matchstick men -- con artists. Partners in elegant crimes for years, they know each other like brothers and have perfected the rules of the game. Roy is the careful one, saves every penny. Frankie is the adventurous one, hungry fo...

  • Next Victim

    Michael Prescott

    He calls himself Mobius--and he's a serial killer who has eluded the FBI for years. Catching him is an obsession for Agent Tess McCallum. He murdered her lover. And now he's resurfaced in a new state with a new identity. And a new means of killing. ...

  • The Pepperdogs

    Bing West

    The Serbs behind them were preparing to attack, and in front of them lay open ground, flat and white as a shroud. We've run a hundred miles, Lang thought, to come up a football field short. When a fellow Marine is kidnapped, Captain Mark Lang a...

  • Retrovirus

    T.L. Higley / Tracy L. Higley

    Dr. Nicholas Donovan is a brilliant genetic researcher with little time for God. He's also damaged goods-and knows it-because one of his patients died in clinical trials for a genetic cancer therapy. So why would SynTech Labs be eager to hire the dis...

  • Shadowmakers

    Ralph Wetterhahn

    This thriller by a distinguished military writer vividly brings to life the search for the truth about Vietnam War POWs, an unresolved national tragedy. When Major Will Cadence, a U.S. Air Force fighter pilot, visits his father’s grave, he is appro...

  • Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumantra

    Alan Vanneman

    With a case as confounding as any in the original Holmes canon and a tale so terrifying it lay hidden for more than a century in Dr. Watson's dispatch box, Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Rat of Sumatra begins familiarly enough. Elizabeth Trent, a bere...

  • Under Abduction

    Andrew Neiderman

    THEY DON'T WANT HER MONEY. THEY WANT SOMETHING FAR MORE PRECIOUS.... In broad daylight, Anna Gold is abducted at gunpoint in a supermarket parking lot. Her kidnappers -- a deranged man and woman -- drive off with her and hold her captive, shackled i...

  • Utopia // Lethal Velocity

    Lincoln Child

    It's like nothing anyone has ever seen before. Utopia is the brand-new frontier of theme parks, a fantastic collection of Worlds each so authentic it takes the average visitor's breath away. Teeming with cutting-edge holographic and robotic technolog...

  • What You Wish For

    David Cray

    To enthusiastic reviews David Cray staked out his gritty, darkly realistic territory in the field of crime fiction with the gripping police procedural Little Girl Blue. In it, he also introduced the tough-minded NYPD lieutenant Julia Brennan and disa...

  • The Bride's Rescuer

    Charlotte Douglas

    IN SAVING CELIA Unconscious and wearing a torn wedding dress, Celia Stevens washed up on the shores of Solitaire and threw Cameron Alexander's peaceful seclusion into complete chaos. Not only did her presence force him to reexamine his reasons for h...

  • Knock Me Off My Feet

    Susan Donovan

    WHEN YOU MIX ONE PART BUSINESS Autumn Adams never planned to follow in her mother's footsteps as Chicago's answer to Martha Stewart--she can't cook, doesn't clean, and would rather play soccer than discuss the joys of white bathtub grout. Then some ...

  • Memories of Megan

    Rita Herron

    Cole Hunter had no memory of who he was or where he came from.Why did nothing or no one seem familiar -- except Megan Wells? And why did memories of passionate nights in her arms flash through his mind at the sight of her? Grieving widow Megan Wel...

  • Official Escort

    Jean Barrett

    Mitchell Hawke had closed the doors of the Hawke Detective Agency to take some much-needed time off when a top secret delivery arrived on his doorstep just days before Christmas. This was no ordinary package, but a witness in desperate need of protec...

  • Royal Pursuit

    Susan Kearney

    HER UNDERCOVER PRINCE Narrowly escaping an assassin, Prince Alexander fled the Vashmiran embassy in Washington, D.C., with only the clothes on his back. But the playboy bachelor was determined to take matters into his own hands. With the help of stu...

  • A Convenient Marriage

    Debbie Raleigh

    After forty years of devoted service, Vicar Humbly is eager to retire to his pleasant cottage and tend to his garden. But before he can live in peace, he must salve his conscience by traveling to the homes of three couples whose marriages have troubl...

  • The Dowager's Daughter

    Mona Prevel

    A Lady With A Fortune Althea Markham is a young woman with responsibilities, not the least of which is providing her family with a male heir. Of course, that would entail marrying, and for a lady too proud to entertain a sparse collection of gold-d...

  • The Girl With the Persian Shawl

    Elizabeth Mansfield

    In Suffolk, every unmarried young lady knows that, if she ever wants to find a match, she must walk, speak, eat, even laugh properly. A young woman looking to marry is always sweet and demure, charming and gracious, and, of course, deferential. But n...

  • Lord St. Leger's Find

    Jennifer Malin

    THEIR GREATEST DISCOVERY... Melpomene Lowery cares not a whit for Society, but her archaeologist father is willing to indulge her unseemly passion for a nearby ruin only so far. With just two weeks to unearth a valuable antiquity before traveling to...

  • Proper Conduct

    Shannon Donnelly

    Can a perfect lady and an impeccable lord risk their reputations for true love? Penelope Harwood has no patience for starry-eyed, romantic daydreams. It's that sort of foolish thinking that saw her father plunge the family into financial disaster, a...

  • The Riddle of the Deplorable Dandy

    Patricia Veryan

    Elspeth Clayton's family has been living in considerably reduced circumstances, and to improve their finances, her brother Vance becomes a soldier of fortune. His assignments take him to France, where he is caught up in political intrigues. Inj...

  • A Spinster's Luck

    Rhonda Woodward

    Lady Luck Luck has always eluded Celia Langston. When her parents passed away ten years ago, she had to make her own way in the world, forsaking a come-out Season in London and any chance at marriage. But Celia, now a governess, was never one for...

  • The Wedding Journey

    Carla Kelly

    Luck Follows Love Captain Jesse Randall has never expressed his intense love for Nell Mason--not even as she blossoms into glorious womanhood before his eves. Her beauty is a treasure as rare and welcome as roses in January. But if Jesse were to t...

  • Aloha Reunion

    Debby Mayne

    College senior Leilani is blind-sided by the emotional impact of Jeff Sorenson's arrival in Hawaii. Her physical attraction to him is evident from the moment he steps off the plane with his sister Betty, who has returned for a reunion of old school r...

  • Got Mick?

    Amy Sandrin

    Andrea has been in love with Mick since she was 12. Mick sees her as his friend Brian's sister. But when Mick needs Andrea's help in a matchmaking scheme, they enter into a pretend engagement. Will Mick finally see Andrea for the woman she is?...

  • Heart on a String

    Lois Carnell Alexander

    Fun-loving puppeteer Adrienne Madill is graduating from Arkansas University. With her Aunt Maida's help, Adrienne has successfully put herself through college conducting puppet shows for children and plans to turn the sidework into a full-time career...

  • Housebreaking a Husband

    Lori Soard

  • The Love Letter

    Shelley Galloway

    Strange things are afoot in the small mining town of Rocky River, Colorado during the spring of 1890. Millicent Drovers’ invitation to a picnic has fallen into the wrong hands. Marshall Bond, the local saloon owner, receives a mysterious letter ...

  • Lover Boy

    Michele Jaffe

    LOVER BOY IS DYING TO COME OUT AND PLAY. The rules: Two weeks before he intends to slowly and sadistically kill his prey, Loverboy sends a collage of the future crime scene to the FBI. If the agents can solve the riddles of the collage in time, th...

  • The Matchmaker

    Susan Furman

    Jill is a matchmaker, arranging marriages for the rich. When her friend Lisa is found dead, Jill turns to police detective Tony Rosetti for help. Together they will find out what really happened. At the same time they will be finding out that even a ...

  • Pengarron Dynasty

    Gloria Cook

    The tangled lives and loves of the Pengarron family continue… Will the long-standing love triangle between Kerensa Pengarron, the beautiful wife of Sir Oliver, and her first love Clem Trenchard, ever be resolved? The christening of little Harry Pen...

  • Training Tommy

    Barbara Meyers

    An irresistible guy. A mischievous dog. And a by-the book schoolteacher. Sabrina Talbott loves her disciplined routines, her flower garden, and her home filled with a collection of teapots and antiques. She's even...

  • True North

    Rachel Evans

    Lee Korchuk is just hitting her stride as a photographer for a large museum in Toronto. Now she and her boss, scientist Oliver Caldwell, have set out on the adventure of a lifetime, way up in northern Canada where a mysterious guide, Jackson Shea, ha...

  • A Wanted Man

    Nancy J. Parra

    Brianna McGraw ventures out West to find and rescue her brother from bandits who will sell him illegally to the highest bidder. Separated after they were orphaned a few years ago, Brianna has worked hard as a librarian to save money for the trip. But...

  • A Whisper of Suspicion

    Jane Edwards

    Penny Farnsworth inherits money from an aunt and decides to seek out the boy who constantly defended her when she lived in an orphanage in San Francisco. Over the years she has wondered what happened to Matt Devlin and especially wants to share her g...

  • An Artful Death

    Roderic Jeffries

    Wealthy and rakish Keith Vickers has lived at Ca'an Mortice, a luxurious estate on the Spanish island of Mallorca, ever since he experienced a series of failed business attempts back in England. Living off his inheritance and the profits of his lates...

  • Death in Dublin

    Bartholomew Gill

    The theft of the Book of Kells -- an exquisite ninth-century amalgam of Christian doctrine and Celtic legend -- from the Trinity College library is, in itself, a most shocking crime. But it is the brutal slaying of a night watchman that throws Peter ...

  • Death of an Innocent

    Sally Spencer

    'Superior work from a best-selling British author' - Library Journal A man and a young woman are found blasted away by a rifle in a remote farmhouse on the Yorkshire moors. But where is the farmer, why did he have such swanky furniture in his livi...

  • Naked at the Window

    Bill James

    The latest dark suspense from "the Elmore Leonard of Britain's underworld" ―Kirkus Reviews.

    Big drug dealer Ralph Ember stumbles on a ghastly surprise when he and sidekick Beau Derek arrive at the house of yachtsman Barney Coss, his bulk sup...

  • A Restless Evil

    Ann Granger

    The officer on duty at Bamford police station is skeptical when he takes a call from Guy Morgan. Morgan claims to have stumbled upon human bones in Stovey Woods in the heart of the Cotswalds, but surely animal bones are more likely? Morgan, though, i...

  • Windy City Dying

    Eleanor Taylor Bland

    Marti MacAlister, Eleanor Taylor Bland's popular African-American heroine, is forced to confront some extremely personal demons from long ago-her husband Johnny MacAlister is long-buried, but now someone from Johnny's past is back, looking for him, a...

  • Cupid.Com

    Karen Lee

    What happens when Cupid trades in his arrows for the Internet? Shot Through the Heart When E. Rose pitched Cupid.com to Chloe Phillips, she knew she had found the killer idea that would save her creative investment firm. A website that revealed...

  • Dreaming of You

    Dixie Kane

    When Big Apple Meets Big Easy... To Maggie Mayfair, a Bayou belle living in a French Quarter building whose residents are as eccentric as its architecture, nothing much comes as a surprise. Nothing, that is, except the news that her beloved home has...

  • Poseidon's Kiss

    Gail Crease

    Long, long ago, the sea tried to claim the life of a young mother-to-be. But a mysterious man rescued the woman--and a promise was made to the great god of the sea... Chelsea Porter doesn't believe the old family legend about her great-great-gran...

  • Blood Lake

    K.J.A. Wishnia / Ken Wishnia

    Wishnia transplants her New York City private detective Filomena Buscarsela back to the swampy town of Guayaquil in her native Ecuador in a mystery that successfully serves up exotic atmosphere, complex family relations, social unrest, and dazzling c...

  • Celt and Pepper

    Ralph M. McInerny

    Martin Kilmartin is a popular young Notre Dame professor and a promising poet, and as far as everyone on campus knows, he's off to visit his ancestral Ireland over winter break. It's a shocking moment when Professor Kilmartin is discovered dead in hi...

  • Everybody's Somebody's Fool

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    LADY KILLER When a beautiful corpse is found in a gazebo during a class reunion party, lawyer Sam McCain hopes to avoid involving himself in the ensuing complexities. However, the victim is the troubled daughter of a prominent family, and when loc...

  • On Edge

    Barbara Fister

    Konstantin Slovo knows his way through the dark. He knows what it's like to live on the edge--of tragedy, of sanity, of humanity. A Chicago cop, Slovo's own life had come violently apart with the shooting death of his partner. Here on the picture-per...

  • The Scent of Spiced Orange

    Les Roberts

  • Death's Door

    Michael Slade

    A mummy has been stolen in London. Authorities believe the motive is the treasure hidden in its fetid wrappings. They're wrong. Mutilated bodies of young runaways are discovered washed ashore on Vancouver beaches. Authorities think they're victims...

  • Dreams Don't Last

    Joyce Lavene; Jim Lavene

    More like a nightmare… Diamond Springs sheriff Sharyn Howard is up for reelection and it's tough going for the no-nonsense lady lawman. With her good ol' boy opponent in the lead, a crime spree hits her small North Carolina town. First a popular...

  • Not Quite Kosher

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    An Abe Lieberman mysteryAbe Lieberman is a strong, sympathetic character, an Everyman whose love for his family is only matched by his quiet, zealous commitment to justice. "A figure out of Talmudic lore-endearing, wise in his crotchets, weary with h...

  • Plague

    Gary A. Birken

    No one can survive him. At Franklin Children's Hospital, an inexplicable disease is reaching terrifying proportions. One by one, the patients of pediatrician Annick Clement are dying. Tracing it to a strain of killer virus, she's made a chilling d...

  • Seizure

    Robin Cook

    Senator Ashley Butler is a quintessential Southern demagogue whose support of traditional American values includes a knee-jerk reaction against virtually all biotechnologies. When he's called to chair a subcommittee introducing legislation to ban new...

  • Awful Advent

    Karl Fieldhouse

    'Tis the season to be jolly? Not for Pastor Abby Shaw, who finds a body in her Frederick County, Maryland, church four Sundays before Christmas. The dead woman, altar guild president Nancy Huff, has enough enemies to fill the pews at St. Luke's Ch...

  • The Bennie Arnoldo Files

    John Alfred Russo

  • Flash Flood

    Susan Slater

    Dan Mahoney, insurance investigator, lands in Tatum, New Mexico where several prize cattle on the famed Double Horseshoe Ranch have mysteriously died. The claims put a lot of money at stake for Dan's company. But that just scratches the surface of...

  • Found Dead in Texas

    Jan Grape

  • The Lady Godiva Murder

    Laurie Moore

    In this crisply written and witty novel, the day arrives when homicide detective Cézanne Martin achieves her goal and passes the state bar exam. When her partner is charged with murder, Cézanne won't resign from the police department until she know...

  • Scam and Eggs

    Janet Dawson

    SCAM AND EGGS is a fine mystery anthology that contains mostly contemporary contributions, but also has two enjoyable historcials including a spin on First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln that will open readers' minds to this intriguing much maligned figure. ...

  • Second Advent

    Tony Perona

    Fatal Vision The shocking suicide of the beloved and wealthy patriarch of his Indiana hometown lures investigative reporter Nick Bertetto briefly out of his new role as a stay-at-home dad to take a closer look. The dead man left a will that bequea...

  • Tales from the Dark Woods

    Brendan DuBois

  • What a Great Idea!

    Liane Onish

  • The Arraignment

    Steve Martini

    After a lawyer friend is killed along with his client in a hail of gunfire outside the federal courthouse in San Diego, Madriani takes on another client who he believes is involved at the edges of the double murder. He takes the case not to defend th...

  • The Glass Bead Game

    Hermann Hesse

    The Glass Bead Game, for which Hesse won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946, is the author's last and crowning achievement, the most imaginative and prophetic of all his novels. Setting the story in the distant postapocalyptic future, Hesse tells...

  • Adele: Jane Eyre's Hidden Story

    Emma Tennant

    Adele, the daughter of a celebrated Parisian actress, is a homesick, forlorn eight-year-old when first brought to Thornfield Hall by Edward Fairfax Rochester, her mother's former lover. Lonely and ill at ease in the unfamiliar English countryside,...

  • Badlands Heart

    Ruth Langan

    Kitty Conover was in for the surprise of her life... Kitty Conover was a familiar figure in Misery. Dressed in buckskins, with her yellow curls tucked under a wide- brimmed hat, she'd been known to follow a herd of mustangs for weeks. She felt as ...

  • Bounty Hunter's Bride

    Carol Finch

    Hanna Malloy was desperate to make her way west. And Cale Elliot was the perfect choice to launch her into a life of adventure. Now, since their hasty wedding, the legendary bounty hunter dared her daily to try new things. But would it be wise to fal...

  • Cole

    Ana Leigh

    The last time Cole MacKenzie saw Maggie O'Shea, the daughter of his gold-hunting partner, Pop, she was a scruffy kid with dirt on her cheeks. Now the tomboy is all grown up -- and how! -- and she's Cole's sworn responsibility, since the suspicious pa...

  • Diamond in the Rough

    Patricia Waddell

    Olivia St. John Is In For The Adventure Of Her Life News of an inheritance in far-off South Africa is a dream come true for a governess who spends her few idle hours imagining exotic locales and exciting people. While a boardinghouse in a mining ...

  • Duchess in Love

    Eloisa James

    A DUKE IN RETREAT Gina was forced into marriage with the Duke of Girton at an age when she'd have been better off in a schoolroom than a ballroom. Directly after the ceremony her handsome spouse promptly fled to the continent, leaving the marria...

  • The Flame Within

    Pamela Griffin

    Raised the only child of an influential patrician in first-century Rome, Moriah has been sheltered from the worst excesses of her world. As Moriah mingles with the powerful elite, she hears whispers suggesting she is not her parents' child. Those ...

  • The Ghost of Carnal Cove

    Evelyn Rogers

    "I AM A MAN WITHOUT CONSCIENCE." So claimed the dark stranger who accosted her amid the pounding surf and tearing winds of Carnal Cove. Taunting her with Legends of the place--stories of illicit trysts between the village girls and sailors--Captai...

  • Gone Courting

    Willa Hix

    THE MOST DARING FEAT OF ALL... Lucy Conroy can't catch a break. Not only has her beau run off with a girl from a competing circus, he's absconded with Lucy's savings, as well. What's more, handsome, rakish -- and completely inexperie...

  • Her Scandalous Intentions

    Sari Robins

    DID HE SAY "BETROTHED"? Miss Charlotte Hastings may be an innocent, but she is uncommonly prudent, which is why she will settle for nothing less than absolute integrity in a husband. But when James Morgan, the devastatingly seductive Duke of Girar...

  • An Honorable Man

    Rosemary Rogers

    Beautiful, headstrong Cameron Campbell knows her privileged life as a Mississippi senator's daughter is about to be shattered. Her fine Southern family has its share of secrets and scandal, and as her father decides to stand with the Union, long-held...

  • The Irresistible MacRae

    Karen Ranney

    To avoid a scandal that would devastate her family, Riona McKinsey has agreed to marry the wrong man -- though the one she yearns for is James MacRae. Had she not been maneuvered into a compromising position by a man of Edinburgh -- who covets her fa...

  • Just Before Daybreak

    Elizabeth Turner

    Secret Dreams Born on the wrong side of a prosperous Lake Michigan lumber town, Claire Sorenson works as a maid for handsome lumber baron Cole Garrett, and daydreams about his charmed life. With his fine home and beautiful family, he seems to lead a...

  • A King Without a Country

    Carolyn Davidson
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    A long-lost king has been discovered. And the false ruler will never let "Alex Carr" claim his birthright. But Alex has sharply honed skills from his dangerous past...and sweet Rebecca Hale to give him the strength to claim a destiny too long denied....

  • Lord Ruin

    Carolyn Jewel

    THE DUKE OF SIN The Duke of Cynssyr didn't believe in love. He planned to marry for beauty. But a night of unforgettable passion left him a changed man--a man tied to a bespectacled spinster. Anne Sinclair's long legs drove him wild with des...

  • Lord Sebastian's Wife

    Katy Cooper

    He had broken every promise he had ever made her.... And her heart with them! A reckless promise, made in the glow of first love, now bound Lord Sebastian Benbury to the Lady Beatrice. But though her beauty still stirred his inner fires, nothing co...

  • Lord Trenchard's Choice

    Sylvia Andrew

    THE RAKE'S PROPOSAL No society beauty had been able to tempt Lord Ivo Trenchard to give up the single life. None, that was, until he met an enchanting innocent -- in boy's clothes -- who challenged him to teach her how to kiss! He watch...

  • Maid of Killarney

    Ana Seymour

    The untold love story of John Black, the doctor-turned-rebel from Ana Seymour's acclaimed Riordan Brothers trilogy... People called them witches. But Lily O'Farrell and her daughter tried to ignore the whispers and keep to themselves in a ...

  • My Lady Knight

    Suzanne McMinn

    SHE COULD FELL ANY MAN WITH HER SWORD...COULD SHE CAPTURE ONE WITH HER KISS? As untamed as the wildflowers in the meadows beyond Castle Wulfere, Gwyneth knew that womanly pursuits such as embroidery and song suited her brother's new wife, Belle. G...

  • Norwyck's Lady

    Margo Maguire

    Would the rescued maiden prove to be his downfall...or his desire? Women Could Not Be Trusted Bartholomew, Earl of Norwyck, had well learned that bitter lesson from his traitorous first wife. What, then, should he make of "the Lady Marguer...

  • Not So Innocent

    Laura Lee Guhrke

    Sophie Haversham would give anything not to have the gift of foresight. After all, her "talent" has already cost her one fiance. And reporting a crime that hasn't happened yet is no easy task -- especially when the future victim turns out to be the t...

  • Once a Dreamer

    Candice Hern

    "The Busybody" counseled Eleanor Tennant's headstrong niece to "follow her heart" -- sending the impressionable girl racing into the arms of a notorious rake. And Eleanor is furious! The fiery Miss Tennant wants satisfacti...

  • Only Call Us Faithful

    Marie Jakober

    Richmond, Virginia, is the heart of the Confederacy, and for those whose hearts are still with the Union in 1861, it is a trying home. Li8za Van Lew has long been an outsider in Richmond. She never married, and at her father's death, she gave all of ...

  • The Penwyth Curse

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: How would you like to be eighteen and four times a widow? If you live with a curse, sometimes things like this happen. And so they did. We have two sets of heroes/heroines; one set is in the present (1278 A.D.) and the other set is...

  • The Price of Moonlight

    Sylvia McDaniel

    When Jean Cuvier was murdered, he left a legacy of scandal and betrayal that rocked New Orleans. For the wealthy Creole businessman had not one wife to mourn him, but three. Much to Nicole Rosseau Cuvier's shock, she was the second of the three Cuvie...

  • Red River Bride

    Colleen Coble

    Margaret knows she's too plain, too tall, and too outspoken for any man to want to marry her. All she wants is to prove to her father that she can manage their ranch as well as any man could. But when her father hires Josiah Cutler as the new fore...

  • Storm Rider

    Cassie Edwards

    A STORMY BEGINNING A tragic accident leaves young Tabitha Daniel orphaned and alone in the wilderness, until she is rescued by an Indian tribe. Now grown up, this adventurous beauty has become a fearless warrior--with a spirit that is destined to ge...

  • Texas Bride

    Leigh Greenwood

    NIGHT RIDERS They were a crack team of Confederate raiders, striking behind enemy lines under cover of darkness, operating with one mind, one heart. Until one of their number betrayed them all. In the aftermath of tragedy, they swore they would lire...

  • Whatever It Takes

    Winnie Griggs

    FLIRTING WITH PERFECTION To adopt the little girl she'd come to love, Maddy Potter needed a fiance, not a husband. Luckily, she'd found the ideal beau for her purpose: Clayton Kincaid had agreed to court her, propose marriage, and then lea...

  • White Tiger's Fancy

    Tracy Cozzens

    She Craved Adventure... The eldest of her mother's three remaining unmarried daughters, Pauline Carrington is dismayed to find herself the object of endless matchmaking schemes. A natural athlete with a zest for anything new or exciting, marriage i...

  • Curtains of Blood

    Robert J. Randisi

    London, 1888. A knife flashes in the fog. A madman has begun the most notorious and shocking series of murders in history. With each new discovery of a woman's mutilated body, the citywide panic grows. The police seem unable to stop the killer, even ...

  • Darker Masques

    J.N. Williamson

    BE AFRAID Terror hides its true form in the blackest of shadows, patiently waiting to unleash a neverending nightmare upon hose foolish--or daring--enough to uncover its evil visage. From the farthest reaches of twisted imaginations to the deepest, ...

  • Darkness Falls

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    A hundred and fifty years ago, in the sleepy fishing village of Darkness Falls, Matilda Dixon would give the local children cakes and treats and accept their baby teeth as "payment." After her husband Sonny was killed in a boating accident and a kitc...

  • Red

    Jack Ketchum

    It all started with a simple act of brutality. Three boys shot and killed an old man's dog. No reason, just plain meanness. But the dog was the best thing in the old man's world, and he wasn't about to let it pass. He wanted justice, and he'd make su...

  • Servants of Chaos

    Don D'Ammassa

    The isolated little fishing village of Crayport, Massachusetts, might seem almost normal at first glance, but appearances can he deceiving. You would never be welcome there. Outsiders never are. The inhabitants of the village are unusually hostile to...

  • Death and the Jubilee

    David Dickinson

    Find a murderer - and save the Queen's Jubilee!It is 1897 and the London is preparing for Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. But a corpse is with no head or hands is dragged out of the Thames. The dead man was old and proserously dressed, but there ar...

  • Death of Riley

    Rhys Bowen

    Molly Murphy can't seem to fit in anywhere. Not with the new immigrants pouring in from the Old World and certainly not with the society folks she envies from afar. After bungling a job as a lady's companion, Molly decides to become an assistant to t...

  • Dig Deep for Murder

    Kate Kingsbury

    MEET ELIZABETH HARTLEIGH COMPTON. SHE'S THE HOUSE-RICH, MONEY-POOR KEEPER OF THE MANOR--AND KEEPER OF THE PEACE... In WWII England, the quiet village of Sitting Marsh is faced with food rations and fear for loved ones. But Elizabeth Hartleigh Co...

  • Heresy

    Sharan Newman

    Catherine LeVendeur is a creature of twelfth-century France. Her life is a mirror of that time but she is a unique spirit, determined to make her way in the world and armed with a keen mind and a curiosity that often puts her in peril. Her life is bo...

  • Mistletoe and Murder

    Carola Dunn

    When it comes to mischief and murder, no one covers the case more stylishly than the Honorable Daisy Dalrymple. The latest installment finds the ever-adventurous heiress dreading Christmas in Cornwall with her distant, faintly scandalous family. She ...

  • Much Ado About Murder

    Simon Hawke

    Fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and Symington Smythe, ostler and would-be thespian, and are now firmly ensconced in their theater company . . . But due to the plague, all of London's theaters have been closed, its players now broke, forcing our...

  • A Pawn for a Queen

    Fiona Buckley

    A quiet life at Withysham with her young daughter is all that widowed Ursula Blanchard desires. But as the waiting woman and spy for Queen Elizabeth I, she forfeits her needs for the sake of those she is pledged to protect--even at her own peril... ....

  • Assassin's Blade

    Scott McGough
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    ASSASSINATION HAS ITS PRICE! Scheming, intelligent, and power-hungry, the emperor's assassin moves always in shadow. He kills whom his master wishes and plans his own rise to power. Against him, one man stands on his honor, determined to end the c...

  • The Dragon Isles

    Stephen D. Sullivan
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Dragon Isles: abandoned home of the good dragons, land of amazing adventure and legendary treasure. The trouble is, no one knows how to get there. Now Mikal Vardan and his crew have found the hidden route, but they're not the only ones interes...

  • Angels Watching Over Me

    Michael Phillips

    A STORY AS FULL OF EMOTION AND DRAMA AS THE CHARACTERS THEMSELVES... Born within a year of each other and in the same North Carolina county, Mayme and Katie had grown up in two separate worlds. Mayme was a member of a slave family, and her future ...

  • Busted Ride

    Mike Flanagan

    Texas, 1872. Looking to make enough money to start his own ranch, Will rode wild horses until they were fit for sale. But when folks started placing bets on who would be tamed-man or beast, Will discovered a gold mine that would become an American in...

  • Drums Without Warriors

    Fred Grove

    After an absence of ten years, Sam Colter's homecoming to Red Mound, Oklahoma, is tinged by sadness. Many of his childhood friends are gone, and Sam's move to a large spread in Texas had cost him his old sweetheart. And now the discovery of oil on th...

  • The Eagle's Conquest

    Simon Scarrow

    When Centurion Macro and his young subordinate, Optio Cato arrive on the shores of Britain to take part in the Emperor Claudius' invasion in AD 43, Macro knows the desperately outnumbered Roman army will be facing one of the toughest campaigns eve...

  • The Gun

    Lyle Brandt

    Matt Price is weary. His reputation proceeds him wherever he rides, drawing would-be gunfighters to challenge him like moths to a flame. No matter how many men he leaves lying in the dust, he knows it's only a matter of time before a bullet strikes h...

  • Longarm in Paradise

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm sends Paradise straight to hell!Marshal Monty Kilpatrick was nobody’s fool. That’s why his killers had to take him by surprise. But with a bullet in his belly, Monty knew just how to right the last wrongs of his life -- he wrote a letter ...

  • The Making of a Bad Man

    J.R. Roberts

    MAD DOG The Yellow Dog Saloon in Clark, West Virginia, is as welcoming a place as any for a gunfighter. It's the kind of bar where a man can catch up with his old friends and keep track of his worst enemies--all in one night. But when C...

  • The Marshal of Kingdom

    J.R. Roberts

    As the marshal of a town called Kingdom, Sam Lance had a good life. Until he and his new bride found themselves suddenly caught between two gunmen. A few shots fired and Lance was the only one standing. Now, five years later, Clint Adams finds th...

  • Morrison's Jetty

    Francois Theron

    Champion swimmer Frank Fernandez has had a classical education from Jesuits and has the opportunity of going to America on a swimming scholarship. Yet he finds himself working for Nick Georgiades as a crew member of the Delos, a leaky trawler....

  • Mountain Man

    David Thompson

    ALONE ON THE PRAIRIE Rosemary Spencer is a woman alone. All alone, except for her young children. She and her husband and their two boys sold their farm, bought a Conestoga wagon and some oxen, and joined a wagon train heading for a new life in Or...

  • Nebraska Gunrunners

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo heats up a hellhound hideout!In the town of Helldorado, bullets buzz through the air like flies, and any two-bit bandit is welcomed with open arms -- for a price. So when a shipment of army rifles is stolen, Skye Fargo knows just where to ...

  • The October Horse

    Colleen McCullough

    In her new book about the men who were instrumental in establishing the Rome of the Emperors, Colleen McCullough tells the story of a famous love affair and a man whose sheer ability could lead to only one end -- assassination. As The October Horse ...

  • Renegade Canyon

    C. Jack Lewis

    When gold-miner Slim Jacobs rides into town dying of a gunshot wound, Marysville marshal Ben Carter vows to find his killer. But rumors begin to spread that Frank and Jesse James are headed for the small California town, and Carter worries that he ma...

  • Shannon's Ride

    Charles E. Friend

    U.S. Marshal Clay Shannon is enjoying a new life as a New Mexico cattle rancher when rustlers invade his land, steal his cattle, and kill several of his men. Angrily, Shannon pins on his marshal's badge and starts after the rustlers. The trail takes ...

  • Slocum and the Boomtown Bordello

    Jake Logan

    Second Impressions When Slocum first met his head honcho's daughter, Mariah, she was no bigger than a half-pint. More rambunctious than an untamed Appy, the little girl became fast friends with Slocum. But when the daring Mariah went missing,...

  • Trail Town

    Jason Manning

    Ethan Payne has drifted across the rugged American West, hungry to settle. From the wilds of the Missouri to the jungles of Panama, he left his destiny to the gods, and left Gil Stark--his best frined-turned-outlaw--to the devil. Now, acting as Abile...

  • Trek of the Mountain Man

    William W. Johnstone

    Johnstone Country. Where the Good Die Young. The Bad Die Sooner.Wanted: Smoke Jensen. Dead or alive.It didn't matter that the warrant was old, or that Smoke Jensen had been cleared of all charges -- A Texas bounty hunter wants that $10,000 reward. Wi...

  • 100th Day

    Alayne Pick

    Building on the sucess of Hello Reader!, the Hello Writer! books have been created especially for new readers, with stories and hands-on activities to provide practice with reading and writing skills.

    It's the 100th day of school in Miss Hill'...

  • 101 Dalmatians

    Disney Book Group

    Disney’s animated classic 101 Dalmatians is retold in this 24-page, full-color storybook. The action-packed adventure tells the tale of the adorable Dalmatian puppies and Cruella De Vil, the evil woman who tries to capture them....

  • ABC Valentine

    Pamela Jane

    With rhymes from A to Z, it's hard not to fall in love with this charming Valentine's Day poem about a young girl making an extra-special Valentine for her new friend. 25 stickers make this a perfect Valentine's Day treat....

  • The Angel with One Hundred Wings

    Daniel Horch

    The story opens in the City of Peace, as Baghdad was once called. It is a fabulously wealthy city, receiving tribute from an empire that stretches from modern day Afghanistan to Spain. Abulhassan Ibn Thaher is an old pharmacist and alchemist who is a...

  • April Fools!

    Else Holmelund Minarik

  • Are There Bears in Starvation Lake?

    Gloria Whelan

    The kids from Starvation Lake are all excited about their trip to the ecology center . . . all of them, that is, except Baylor. Just the thought of being outdoors makes Baylor sick. The cold and the germs are bad enough, but no one said anything abou...

  • Artists on Comic Art

    Mark Salisbury

    In-depth interviews with comics art legends reveal the secrets of translating comics script to graphic storytelling for the first time. Technique, style, layouts, approach, pencilling, inking... no facet of the artist's craft is left unexplored, and ...

  • Baby Love

    Hope Vestergaard

    Delightful short poems and charmingly detailed watercolor illustrations celebrate the unique attributes of babies--as told by parents, grandparents, and siblings--such as the way they sleep, play, move, and grow....

  • Back in Time With Thomas Edison

    Dan Gutman

    Robert Edwards Stevens, nicknamed "Qwerty," likes digging in his backyard when he's in a bad mood. He doesn't dig for anything special -- he just digs to get his mind off things. One day, when he's really angry and has a lot on his mind, he starts di...

  • Ben-Hur

    Blake Allmendinger

    One of the most popular American novels of all time, General Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur vividly reimagines the mighty Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity. The saga of Judah Ben-Hur’s spiritual journey from slavery to vengeance to redemption is b...

  • Betsy Zane

    Lynda Durrant

    In 1782, 13-year-old Betsy Zane’s bored with trying to act like a lady and being cooped up with her great-aunt. Her heart and soul yearn for the freedom of living with her brothers at the family homestead along the Ohio River.

    When her grea...

  • Big Science Fair

    Dan Yaccarino

    Both Blast Off Boy and Blorp have science fair projects to complete, but while Blast Off Boy struggles to even come up with a project, Blorp is confident his groundbreaking contraption will be a hit. Simultaneous....

  • The Big Tour

    Robert Upton

    The Big Tour is an authentic, behind-the-ropes tale of a young golfer’s arduous quest to become, and succeed, as a professional golfer....

  • BigPig Saves Valentine's Day

    Cecile Schoberle

    You silly, willy, BigPig!

    Pauline knows just how to get ready for the big Valentine's Day party at school -- make Valentine's Day cards, bake cookies, and most importantly -- watch out for BigPig!

    Lift up the flaps t...

  • The Bluebird House

    Rae Ellen Lee

    The place: Montana. The time: the present. After a nearly fatal encounter with a moose and a terrifyingly close brush with middle age, Molly reassesses her life. The result: she ends her stale marriage and moves to a small mining town where she purch...

  • Bow's Boy

    Richard Babcock

    Every now and then, a small American town produces someone with such out-of-place talent that he seems to have come from a different world. In the 1960s hardscrabble town of Laroque, Wisconsin, seventeen-year-old Ginger Piper, a high school sports he...

  • Cold Water

    Gwendoline Riley

    Carmel McKisco is wry, volatile and full of longing: a 20-year-old working nights in a dive bar in Manchester, England. Cut off from her family, she forges odd alliances with her customers, daydreams about escaping to Cornwall, her own Elysian Fields...

  • Colt in the Cave

    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 aiding any animal in need -- and sometimes even g...

  • Cosmo And The Pirates

    Daniel Postgate

    Amateur ghostbuster Cosmo Jones is called in to Mario's Pizza Restaurent to investigate claims of spooky goings on. He hears strange noises coming from the jukebox and soon faces a ghost ship complete with pirates! This is the second book in THE SPOO...

  • Countdown to Valentine's Day

    Jodi Huelin

  • Crocodile and Hen

    Joan Lexau

    Crocodile is determined to eat fat and juicy-looking Hen!

    But when he opens his mouth wide to swallow her, Hen calmly says, "My brother, don′t eat me," and Crocodile just can′t do it. What does Hen mean? How can Crocodile be her brothe...

  • Deep Doo-Doo and the Mysterious E-Mail

    Michael Delaney / M.C. Delaney

    Instead of scooping a classmate who works on the school newspaper, Bennet and his friend Pete end up working with Elizabeth to find out who is responsible for putting a pumpkin on top of the town hall flagpole. Reprint....

  • Dr. Dee Dee and Dexter Hyde

    Pam Pollack

    Since its debut in 1996, DEXTER'S LAB has been one of Cartoon Network's top-rated shows. Now Scholastic teams up with the boy genius and his pesky sister Dee Dee for original chapter and picture books

    Dexter is determined to continue his quest...

  • Everybody Pays

    Maurice Possley

  • Feathered Serpent

    Colin Falconer

    The triumphant, controversial life of the Aztec woman Malinali is one of the great and enduring legends of Mexico. A high-born Mexica heiress, she was sold into slavery as a child, and it was as a slave of the Maya that she met the Spanish conquistad...

  • Frogs

    Scholastic Inc.

    Come face to face with the wonders of the natural world with this entertaining new series, packed with fantastic facts, jokes, puzzles, and cartoons.

    Come FACE TO FACE with the world of frogs with this entertaining and informative book. You'l...

  • God's Mountain

    Erri De Luca

    This is a story told by a boy in his thirteenth year, recorded in his secret diary. His life is about to change; his world, about to open.He lives in Montedidio -- God’s Mountain -- a cluster of alleys in the heart of Naples. He brings a paycheck h...

  • Homemade Love

    Bell Hooks

    Her Mama calls her Girlpie-a sweet treat, homemade with love. And when Girlpie makes a mistake, the love of her mother and father lets her pick up the pieces and make everything right again. Shane W. Evan's resplendent artwork teems with "homemade lo...

  • Honeymoon: and Other Stories

    Kevin Canty

    Kevin Canty is a master of the short story, a writer whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, but always with the understanding that Canty's is strikingly new, cool, and real. Now in Honeymoon, after two novels, K...

  • Hoofprints in the Snow

    Joanna Campbell

    Hoofprints in the Snow features a heartâ€"stopping mystery in Wyoming. Fans will be on the edge of their saddles!

    Lyssa Hynde knows the Wyoming winters are cold, lonely, and dangerous. But she wouldn't give them up for anything. There's n...

  • I Love You, Mama

    Isabel Gaines

  • I Miss You Father Bear

    Else Holmelund Minarik

    Little Bear decides to stay up all night and watch the sunrise--just like Father Bear does when he is fishing--but Mother Bear doesn't think that's such a hot idea, because little bears need their sleep! Original....

  • The Indian Lover

    Garth Murphy

    With a sweeping sense of history and landscape that contributed to making Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove a classic, and the precise sense of character and passion that made Cold Mountain so successful, Garth Murphy has written a brilliant saga about ...

  • Insects

    Scholastic Inc.

    Come to FACE TO FACE with the wonders of the natural world with this entertaining new series, packed with fantastic facts, jokes, puzzles, and cartoons.

    Come FACE TO FACE with the world of insects with this entertaining and informative book. Y...

  • Keeper of the Light

    Patricia Curtis Pfitsch

    After the 1872 death of her father while trying to rescue drowning sailors from a sinking schooner, Faith takes over his job as a lighthouse keeper on Lake Michigan, until her mother decides to move into town, where Faith soon finds herself stifled b...

  • Last Stop Vienna

    Andrew Nagorski

    Germany in the 1920s, in the early days of Hitler and the Nazi party, was a country plunging into darkness and violence. Andrew Nagorski has written the story of a doomed generation, of evil, hopelessness, sexual perversion and murder that set the st...

  • Lime's Photograph

    Leif Davidsen

    Peter Lime is trained to hunt down his prey and catch them on film. But now he is the one being hunted. Whose prey has he become? And what is it that he has that these people will kill to get? Lime is a Danish paparazzo, living in Madrid. For more th...

  • Meet the Rescue Heroes

    J.E. Bright

    Rescue Heroes are cool guys who are good guys - emergency workers who combat natural disasters. The property includes action figures and a hit TV show on Kids WB! Target audience: kids 3 and up.

    Rescue Heroes Reader #1 introduces the heroic em...