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  • 101 Dalmatians: Rainbow Puppies

    Barbara Bazaldua

  • 101 Dalmatians: Springtime Fun - Scented Sticker Book

    Golden Books

  • 20th Century Childrens Book Treasury

    Janet Schulman

  • 3,2,1...Baby!

    Barbara Bretton
    in

    Tony and Kate were the biggest mismatched in town and everybody knew it. Everyone, that is, except their families. So how did Kate end up pregnant with Tony's baby, but the dad was nowhere to be found? Kate was determined to go it alone, till the Mar...

  • The Abduction

    J. Robert King
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The first of a new serial novel series set in the Forgotten Realms world! Someone has kidnapped the fiancee of the Open Lord of Waterdeep on the eve of their wedding. Now the lord, Piergeiron the Palidinson, must find out who--but nothing is quite wh...

  • Abuse of Process

    Rankin Davis

    With his acclaimed debut The Right to Silence, Rankin Davis established himself as a master of courtroom suspense. Now he presents a bold new thriller, the shattering story of a legal system as tainted as the killers it is bound to bring to justice.....

  • Accessory to Murder

    Barbara Jaye Wilson

    BRENDA WILL DO ANYTHING FOR A FRIEND. . . Irrepressible Greenwich Village milliner Brenda Midnight has already proved shes as good at unmasking murdered as she is creating gravity-defying hats. This time shes in hot water. Worse, shes dragged oth...

  • After the Dark

    Patricia Rosemoor

    Flint Armstrong woke from a nightmare to a nightmare - a dead woman in his bed. Charged with murder, he has no alibi, no memory of that night and no one to believe in him. Except his sister-in-law. Who may be all he needs. Nicky Keating has alway...

  • After the Storm

    Yvonne Lehman
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    When an accident takes everyone in Sharon Martin's family except her grandson Bobby, she is devastated. When her grandson's life hangs in the balance, she is terrified. But when her secret of twenty-three years walks into the hospital waiting room, s...

  • After the Thunder

    Genell Dellin

    TOO WILD TO TAME Cotannah Chisk-Ko is banished from the Texas ranch she has always known as home, to return to the Choctaw Nation where she must learn to behave like a proper maiden of her tribe. Cotannah continues her outrageous flirtations, yet sh...

  • Again, My Love

    Kayla Perrin

    Toronto actress Marcia Robertson seems to have it all. Her career is taking off and she has a solid relationship with her boyfriend, Jackson Reid. The relationship is so solid, in fact, that when Marcia's old fiance, Gavin Williams, arrives back in t...

  • The Alaskan Way

    Marilou Flinkman
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

    When Lori Wilson agreed to leave the Lower Forty and teach at a remote Alaskan logging camp, she did not realize that it would mean leaving behind televison, telephones, and grocery stores. Monk Island is surrouded by miles and miles of raw nature-in...

  • Alien Dreams

    Larry Segriff

    BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR .. . Three weeks ago, there were only three things Tom Jenkins wanted out of life: 1) He wanted off of Brighthome, the interstellar reformatory, and into the Space Guard. 2) He wanted Alex, the latest incorrigible to b...

  • Aliens of Affection

    Padgett Powell


    Aliens of Affection marks new territory for Padgett Powell, picking up where his first collection of stories, Typical, left off. Although his characters continue to revolt against the received instructions of modern American living--refusing to b...

  • All My Dangerous Friends

    Sonya Hartnett

    Louie has finished with her old life, and stepped into a world of sinners. For her, nothing is going to be the same again. This darkly funny, disturbing novel explores a lawless world where morality is a nuisance, everything can be bought, and the pr...

  • Allison: The Townie

    Wendy Corsi Staub

    Commuting to school from upstate New York, Allison struggles with the stressful demands of her daily schedule, her waitressing job, and her overprotective parents, who squelch her dream of leaving the nest by restricting her driving privileges. Origi...

  • Alms for Oblivion, Vol. I

    Simon Raven

  • Along Unfamiliar Paths

    Amy Rognlie
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

    Raine Thomas has been relieved of her position as headmistress of the London mission school. Going back home to live with Papa is out of the question, but what else can she do? Before she can decide, dashing shipping owner Ben Thackeray bursts into h...

  • Amazing Incredible Sulk

    Diane Wooley-McAffee

  • American Icon

    Pat Booth

    Kate Haywood is at the top of her career. After years of hard work, the homemaking empire she struggled to build has made her a household name. Her top rated TV show and award-winning magazine inspire millions of women to emulate her beautiful world,...

  • American Woman

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    R. Garcia y Robertson applies his considerable talents in historical research and writerly depiction to an epic of American history, the legendary Battle of the Little Big Horn and Custer's last stand--and turns the legends upside down. First, he tel...

  • Ancient Secret Fountain

    Peter Kelder

  • Angel Creek

    Linda Howard

    DESIRE CAME LIKE A WILDFIRE TO THE COLORADO HILLS...TO CLAIM A WOMAN'S PROPERTY AND HER HEART For five years after her father died, lithe, beautiful Dee Swann held onto Angel Creek valley and her independence. The homestead was hers, and she v...

  • Angels on Zebras

    Peggy Webb

    He wanted to woo a wildcat--so he began with a kiss that made her purr . . . . Joseph Beauregard laid down the law--no live animals at his nephew's christening, no matter how temptingly Maxie Corban begged! Dressed as a naughty seductress, her vo...

  • Animal Husbandry

    Laura Zigman

    "If someone asked me a year ago why I thought it was that men leave women and never come back, I would have said this: New Cow. New Cow is short for New Cow Theory, which is short for Old Cow-New Cow Theory, which, of course, is short for the sad sor...

  • Another Day in Paradise

    Eddie Little

    Teenage speed freak and petty thief Bobbie and his Puerto Rican girlfriend, Rosie, are taken under the wing of a criminal opportunist, Mel, who sends the two on a crime spree across the Midwest and California during the early 1970s. A first novel. Re...

  • Apples for a Teacher: A Bushel of Stories, Poems, and Prayers

    Colleen L. Renee

  • Assignment: Eternity

    Greg Cox

    Captain Kirk first encountered Gary Seven on twentieth-century Earth. Now Seven, a time-traveling operative for unknown alien forces, makes a surprise visit to the U.S.S. Enterprise. Kirk is on an urgent mission to bring relief to a disaster-ravaged ...

  • Baby in a Million

    Rebecca Winters

    Cord and Ashley McKnight are proud to announce the birth of their son Cabe. Weight: Nine pounds, four ounces Height: twenty-three inches long... The doctors had told Cord McKnight he would never father a child. The doctors had been wrong. For on h...

  • Baby, It's You

    Caitlin Clark

    SWEET HARMONY Beautiful Summer Gold had the talent and the desire to become the most popular singing sensation in the world. Now the man hired to make her dream come true was a handsome maverick record producer with a body that could melt vinyl. ...

  • Backwards Day

    Laura E. Williams

    When Timmy accidently wears his shirt backwards to school because he is deep in thought about what to do for his birthday party, his friends join in to save him from ridicule, which prompts him to have a Backwards Day party, in a unique book that pro...

  • Bad Chemistry

    Gary Krist

    How well do you know your spouse? What if the person you married was keeping secrets from you? What if the one you love is involved in something so dangerous it could destroy you both? Kate Theodorus is about to find out......

  • Bad Moon Rising

    Donna Julian

    HE KILLS IN THE NAME OF BEAUTY... Christi Anthonv's life is a waking nightmare. She is being stalked by a madman who has already stolen the lives of five women. They were all contestants in Kansas City's annual Rose Pageant--all young, all beautiful...

  • Barney and Baby Bop Go to the Library

    Mark Bernthal

  • Barney Goes to the Farm

    Mark Bernthal

  • Barney's Alphabet Fun

    Scholastic Inc.

  • Barney's Easter Parade

    Guy Davis

  • The Baron's Bride

    Joanna Makepeace

    THE RELUCTANT BRIDE Gisela of Brinkhurst enjoyed managing her father's keep and had never thought much about marriage. Little did she foresee the threats to her father's lands and how marriage would ensure their survival. Sir Alain de Treville ...

  • Bashi Elephant Baby

    Theresa Radcliffe

  • The Bat

    Mary Roberts Rinehart

    Cornelia Van Gorder does not scare easily and is excited to be playing detective, but after stumbling upon a corpse, Cornelia realizes that it is no game and that she is hot on the trail of an evil killer known as The Bat. Reissue....

  • The Beduins' Gazelle

    Frances Temple

    When she and he were only babies, they were pledged in marriage. Now Atiyah has been sent away -- a political pawn in a war between the Beduin tribes in the year 1302. He vows to return to her as soon as he can.

    But while Atiyah is studying at the ...

  • Believers to the Bright Coast

    Vincent O'Sullivan

    The infamous Dr Crippens mistress finds a new life in Auckland in the early decades of the century. A French nun works amongst the disabled and the poor. Young Spicer, a slow-witted lad finds himself deeply involved in the lives of both. Together the...

  • Benny's New Friend

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    When Benny hears that someone his age has moved in down the road, he's thrilled! Benny hops on his bike and rides over, excited to meet the boy. Then Benny reads the name on the boy's shirt. BETH. The new kid is not a boy. She's a girl!...

  • The Berenstain Bears' Comic Valentine

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • Betrayed

    Bertrice Small

    Bertrice Small brings history to life through indomitable women who live with wit, intelligence, and courage and who love with fierce delight. Now she sweeps us to a time and place of fiery power struggles, where one woman holds the key to a country'...

  • Better than TV

    Sara Swan Miller

    What is there to do when the power fails and you can't watch your favorite TV show? Plenty! This will be a rainy day that Chris, Erin--and even their dog, Fred--will never forget, as the whole family contributes to an action-packed afternoon that cul...

  • Beyond the Picket Fence: And Other Short Stories

    Lori Wick

    An uplifting anthology of short stories, each accompanied by the author's personal insights into the characters or background of the tale, ranges from a delightful tale of camping the wilderness to enjoying a Disneyland Christmas, all the while shari...

  • Bhava

    U.R. Anantha Murthy

    A compelling tale of mystery, passion and spiritual exploration Seventy-year-old Shastri; a reciter of Harikatha, encounters an Ayyappa pilgrim on a train. Around the pilgrim's neck is a Sri Chakra amulet which looks like one that belonged to Saroja,...

  • Big brown bear

    David McPhail

    Bear is very big, very brown, and very busy. His tree house could use a little sprucing up, so Bear heads up the ladder with a plan and a bucket of paint. But Little Bear has a plan, too--including a little mischief that brings Bear (and his blue pai...

  • The Billionaire's Baby Chase

    Valerie Parv

    DADDY WITH A DEADLINE Billionaire James Langford had money, power, influence...but none of it mattered. Finding his missing child consumed his every waking thought. Because he needed to locate young Genevieve and claim her as his rightful heir...b...

  • Birds of a Feather

    Diane Noble
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    City girl Jayne Morgan takes a teaching job in the small eastern Oregon town where her fiancee is from. But after he jilts her, she's stuck. Determined to honor her commitments, she begins to get involved in the community and ends up winning an Arab ...

  • The Black Pearl Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    One warm night four children stood in front of a bakery. No one knew them. No one knew where they had come from. Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather, and they are visiting Ha...

  • Blizzards!

    Lorraine Jean Hopping

    An easy-to-read introduction to weather phenomena explores the causes and impact of severe blizzards, describes famous storms, and furnishes information on how scientists study and predict them. Original....

  • Blood Sport

    Lisa Smedman

    With her companion, a would-be combat biker named Rafael in tow, ex-Texan Leni joins a group of blood-thirsty Latin American pagans to investigate the murder of a prophetess who claimed to be her grandmother. Original....

  • Bloodsport

    William R. Burkett Jr.

    Me and my robot.

    We're big game hunters. And we're after the biggest game in the known universe.

    The Pondoro Wolverine -- also known as the greer.

    Smart. Fast. And deadly. The hunter who taught me to stalk them had to grow a new leg to replace ...

  • Bloodstained Kings

    Tim Willocks

    Tom Willock’s first book, Green River Rising, earned the kind of reviews that are rarely accorded to most so-called literary thrillers. This remarkable debut was hailed for its rich, powerful writing as well as its dramatic, page-turning suspense. ...

  • Bo Peep's Sheep

    Deborah Eaton

  • The Book of Knights

    Yves Meynard

    A fantasy novel about a young boy who discoves a wonderful book that fills him with the desire to grow up to be knight--and whose desire is granted in strange and unexpected ways.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital R...

  • The Book of Love

    Diane Ackerman

    Culled from love letters, poetry, fiction, personal essays, and memoirs, this lavish and fascinating anthology celebrates humankind's grandest pastime and obsession: love.

    How do we define love? "It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same...

  • Boot

    Bruce Brooks

    The Wolfbay Wings get a new weapon to use this season, bodychecking, and all the members in the league are using it, but Boot does not feel comfortable doing this to other players, decides to take a stand against it, and, in the process, risks his pl...

  • Booth

    David M. Robertson

    A gripping historical novel in the bestselling tradition of The Alienist and Time and Again, Booth brings vividly to life a figure who continues to haunt the American imagination--John Wilkes Booth. The story begins as an elderly John Surratt, the on...

  • The Borrowers

    Sherwood Smith

    Based on the novels by Mary Norton, a fun-filled movie novelization recounts the adventures of the Borrowers who live beneath the floorboards of the Lender home, which is slated for demolition by the evil Ocious Potter to make way for a slum called P...

  • The Boss, the Beauty and the Bargain

    Judith McWilliams

    THE FORTY-EIGHT-HOUR FIANCE... When Livvy Farrell asked her boss to masquerade as her fiance for the weekend, Conal Sutherland was more than willing to further employee relations. He'd long been envisioning schemes that moved Livvy from her desk a...

  • Box Top Dreams

    Miriam Glassman

    Ari and Danny have been inseparable friends and neighbors, living in their own world of magic kits, movies, and mythical games. When he moves away, she's left to face Marina, Queen of the fifth grade. Standing up to Marina shows Ari that she's spunki...

  • The Boyfriend Game

    Francine Pascal

    All's fair in love and war in part one of a special two-book Valentine's Day miniseries.

    Sweet Valley Middle School is celebrating Valentine's Day by hosting a TV game show!  The contestants choose their dream dates by asking funny and perso...

  • Bride by Day

    Rebecca Winters

    Cynical millionaire Perseus Kostopoulos is no Prince Charming - his Greek-god features are marred by a two-inch scar above his jaw. But Samantha can't help but find her boss attractive, especially when, in return for a simple favor, he offers to ...

  • Bride of the Dragon

    Patricia Phillips

    As the bravest knights in the land competed in Stoneham Magna's jousting tournament, Isobel marveled at their prowess. She was pleased when her stepbrother Lionel seemed to be winning the tourney, but her heart filled with dread when he was challenge...

  • The Bride, the Trucker and the Great Escape

    Suzanne McMinn

    BRIDE ON BOARD Reluctant bride Andie Conroy refused to marry a man who loved her father's influence more than her! But with a churchful of impatient guests, she needed a quick getaway--and trucker Troy Armstrong was at the right place at the righ...

  • Bridie

    Christine Thomas

    Bridie O'Neill is just sixteen years old when her beloved mother dies. Mad with drink and grief, her father shamefully abuses his eldest daughter, who flees her Irish home for safety in England. There she finds refuge as a housemaid to Francis Homes...

  • Brother of the Groom

    Judith Yates

    THE BRIDE Though five years had passed, Holly West still couldn't forget being left at the altar. She'd fled town in disgrace, taking with her a secret she prayed no one would ever discover -- that she was carrying her fiance's child AND THE BAB...

  • Bullets and Bridles

    Jon Sharpe

    On his way to meet a woman from his past, Skye Fargo rides to the aid of a beautiful rancher whose attempt to stand up to a ruthless organization of Kansas landowners is met with arson and gunfire. Original....

  • Bunny Modern

    David Bowman

    The trade paperback edition of David Bowman's prizewinning first novel, Let the Dog Drive, has developed a cult following. Now Bowman's exuberantly praised second novel -- a hard-boiled comedy about love, abduction, and child care, set in a future wh...

  • Butterfly

    V.C. Andrews
    in

    ALL SHE WANTED WAS TO BE SOMEONE'S LITTLE GIRL... For as long as she could remember, Janet's world had been the orphanage, full of cruel jokes and silent wishes for the day she'd have a family of her own. She could hardly believe it when Sanford a...

  • Captive Heart

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Life was perfect, Devora thought. Assisting her Uncle Barnabas with his patients was exhilarating, and the thought of marriage to her beau, Edward, filled her heart with joy. Then the Countess of Radburn made a life-changing announcement: Devora must...

  • Caribe

    Evangeline Blanco

    Lushly, but simply told with the poetry of Martin Espada, the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and the meticulous investigation of James Michener, Blanco weaves an intricate tale of love, race and history. Told through the eyes of various cha...

  • The Case of the Haystack Kitties

    John R. Erickson

    Hank has his paws full when he discovers a mother cat and six kittens trespassing in a haystack on his very own ranch. (Have we mentioned that cowdogs don’t like cats?) Join Hank as he is trapped in a runaway pickup, surrounded by a herd of stray c...

  • Cassandra

    Gloria Dale Skinner

    Bad weather and marauding rustlers nearly wiped out Cassandra Rakefield as a rancher. She can't pay her cowboys or her mortgage unless she gets her inheritance, controlled by a law firm in Kansas City until she turns twenty-five. She needs the mo...

  • Castaways

    Debra White Smith
    in

    Love is in the air in each of the four love stories in this contemporary collection: Reluctant Valentine, by Loree Lough; Masquerade, by Kathleen Yapp; Interrupted Melody, by Sally Laity; and Castaways, by Debra White Smith....

  • Catching a Daddy

    Charlotte Maclay

    Once upon a time... "Daddy, can we keep her?" Drake Hart was expecting a slow day of fishing with his little son, Matt, when he came across a beautiful blonde named Aria. She sang like an angel and looked like one, too--which was easy to see since...

  • Celebration

    Harry Crews

    Now from the author the Washington Post Book World calls "the dark chronicler of human vanity and folly" comes Celebration. The newest black comedy from Harry Crews is a biting, brilliant commentary set in a Florida rest-home gulag where the over-six...

  • The Cereal Box Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    When the Aldens come across a robbery at an antique store, they decide to use their detective skills to help locate the stolen ruby ring, bracelet, and necklace. Yet, before their investigation even begins, someone breaks into the Aldens'' home and s...

  • The Change

    K.A. Applegate

    Tobias has pretty much gotten used to his life. He's a red-tailed hawk with the mind of a kid. It was weird when he first got trapped in morph. But now it's almost okay. After all, how many kids actually get the chance to fly? Now Tobias is about...

  • Charming Billy

    Alice McDermott

    Billy Lynch's family and friends have gathered at a small Bronx bar. They have come to comfort his widow and to eulogize one of the last great romantics, trading tales of his famous humor, immense charm, and unfathomable sorrow. As they linger on int...

  • Chastity

    Elaine Barbieri

    Chastity, Purity, Honesty -- They were the qualities she'd been raised to respect, but when Chastity Lawrence headed West to find her long-lost sisters of the same names, she discovered they could be... Dangerous Virtues How was a respectable...

  • Checkmate

    Eric T. Baker

    Aaron Hudson is forced to choose between loyalty to a corrupt task force that has turned its mission to protect a colony ship to its own profit, and cooperation with the investigators trying to shut it down. Original....

  • Cheerleaders: The Evil Lives

    R.L. Stine

    Corky Corcoran and her classmates at Shadyside High are shocked when the evil spirit that once targeted cheerleaders returns, and Corky realizes that the secret to defeating the spirit is hidden in Sarah Fear's grave. Original....

  • Chick Book

    Lucinda McQueen

    Chicks, chicks, everywhere. This softly illustrated picture book has the sweet feeling of springtime to it, introducing youngest readers to the world of the farm, the henhouse, and the busy days of tiny chicks. In this sunny first book of the barn...

  • Chick Challenge

    Ben M. Baglio

    Mandy Hope loves animals. She knows all about them -- both her parents are vets! Mandy is always ready to help out her friends with their pet problems. Libby is a new girl in school. Mandy notices that she doesn't seem very happy. Poor Libby is ...

  • The Chimney Sweeper's Boy

    Barbara Vine

    When successful author Gerald Candless dies of a sudden heart attack, his eldest, adoring daughter Sarah embarks on a memoir of him and soon discovers that her perfect father was not all he appeared to be. That in fact he wasn't Gerald Candless at al...

  • Chump Change

    Dan Fante

    A blackout brought on by a Mad Dog binge that ended with a self-inflicted steak knife wound bought Bruno Dante another stint in the nuthouse, no different from all the rest. Now it's done, and his wife, Agnes--taking time off from her personal-traine...

  • Clown Games

    Harriet Ziefert

  • The Clue in the Glue

    Carolyn Keene

    George is upset. Everyone’s going on a field trip except her. Why? Because the teacher says she was passing notes in class. But she wasn’t. Someone was passing notes to her! Maybe if Nancy can find out who did write the notes, the teacher will ch...

  • The Consul's Wife

    W.T. Tyler

    In The Consul's Wife, W.T. Tyler returns once more to Africa, specifically to the Congo, where his protagonist, Hugh Mathews, a young foreign service officer, must cope with his embassy's ineptitude and its shallow-thinking bureaucrats even as he com...

  • Counterparts

    Gonzalo Lira

    FBI agent and single mother Margaret Chisholm enters an uneasy partnership with an enigmatic CIA agent in an attempt to capture an international assassin known as Sepsis, a man of incomparable ruthlessness. Reprint....

  • Countess in Buckskin

    Merline Lovelace

    Josiah Jones Was A Bear Of A Man -- certainly nothing like the mere boys who'd paid court to Tatiana as Countess Karanova. This man personified the wild, untamed lands that called to her own unhappy soul. Tatiana brought something new to the Ca...

  • Counting Penguins

    Pamela Chanko

  • Country of a Marriage

    Anthony Giardina

    With this collection of stories, Anthony Giardina takes his place among the finest writers of short fiction in America.   The Country of Marriage is a window into the lives of men as they confront the darkness at the heart of domestic existence....

  • The Courtship

    Stephanie Mittman

    TWO BROTHERS ...AND THE WOMAN WHO CLAIMED THEIR HEARTS ... Ash Whittier had barely returned to Oakland's harbor when he was arrested for arson, insurance fraud, and murder. His only hope was his brother Cabot, the best lawyer in Oakland, and Cabot...

  • The Cowboy Steals a Lady

    Anne McAllister

    Mr. January The Cowboy: Shane Nichols was always willing to help. So when his buddy's girl showed signs of marrying the wrong man, Shane took action. The Lady: Poppy Hamilton had never been kidnapped before. It seemed like a drastic solution,...

  • Coyote Moon

    John Vornholt

    Of Shapeshifters and Skinwalkers.... As long as there have been vampires, there has been the Slayer. one girl in all the world, to find them where they gather and to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their numbers. The seedy carn...

  • Cracker

    Liz Holliday

  • The Crane Wife

    Ena Keo

    Gr 1-2--This is a terse, easy-to-read version of the classic tale. Sachi finds a sick crane, takes it home, and cares for it. When it flies away, a woman appears. She weaves silk for Sachi but asks that he not look at her when she is weaving. When th...

  • The Creepy Sleep-Over

    Beverly Lewis

    Dunkum Mifflin has finished reading his twenty-fifth book. The big reward: a sleep-over at his teacher's house! Dunkum and his classmates are excited. But then Miss Hershey reads a poem--The Raven--at the sleep-over. Suddenly, Dunkum's frightened. He...

  • Crush

    Ellen Conford

    "Tickets for the Sweetheart Stomp are still available at the student government office, Room 114, during lunch hours or half an hour after school."

    B.J. Green though, not for the first time, what a dumb name Sweetheart Stomp was for a Valentine's D...

  • Crushing on You

    Wendy Loggia

    Love happens when you least expect it… Shauna Phillips’s sophomore year is off to a killer start! She has great friends, she's made the cheerleading squad, and best of all, the hunky junior she's been crushing on -- Tommy Jansen -- has finally n...

  • Cry of the Cat

    R.L. Stine

    In the light of the full moon, I saw the cat sprawled on its back, its head twisted to one side, its four paws straight up in the air. Even from my bedroom window high above the ground, I recognized the cat. The cat named Rip. And I knew wi...

  • Crystal

    V.C. Andrews
    in

    ALL SHE WANTED WAS A FAMILYT SHE COULD CALL HER OWN.... As an orphan girl, Crystal was one of many--and utterly alone. But she still dreamed of a shining life of love and happiness, and freedom from the dark legacy of her past.......

  • Cuba Libre

    Elmore Leonard

    Welcome to Cuba, 1898--where the insurrectos are in the hills, the rich are partying in Havana, and Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders are about to come ashore. Into the melee an American cowboy arrives with a scheme to sell horses and run guns, earning ...

  • Cupid's Chase

    Barbara Jean Hicks
    in

    City girl Jayne Morgan takes a teaching job in the small eastern Oregon town where her fiancee is from. But after he jilts her, she's stuck. Determined to honor her commitments, she begins to get involved in the community and ends up winning an Arab ...

  • Current Danger

    Marilyn Wallace

    It starts with a phone call luring her into the night--and before it ends five people will be grotesquely murdered, never knowing why they had to die.

    Claudia Miller is a strong and independent woman, a successful general contractor in the tou...

  • The Daddy Clock

    Judy Markey

    Meet Charlie Feldman. An almost-handsome, neurotic Chicago sportswriter whose biological daddy clock is ticking loud and clear. At forty-four, he's been an uncle, a babysitter, a buddy, but never what counts most of all - a daddy. Charlie Feldman - a...

  • A Daddy for Devin

    Jennifer Mikels

    FEAR OF FATHERHOOD Some men were meant for marriage. Born to make babies. But not rugged homicide cop Riley Garrison. Though Riley still hungered for the love he'd forsaken two years before, vibrant Allison Harrigan deserved more than he could giv...

  • Daemon in the Machine

    Felicity Savage

    Crispin, taught the ways of a daemon handler as a child, uses his talents to take himself on a wondrous and exciting journey to Kirekune to hunt for his long-lost love, and then to the distant lands of America...

  • The Damask Days

    Evelyn Hood

  • A Dangerous Arrangement

    Mona Gedney

    A LOST MANUSCRIPT AND A STOLEN HEART After her father's death, the bookish, pretty and very innocent Elise Ashford considers herself lucky to be taken in at Wicklow Manor to catalogue the estate's library. Not as fortunate is the attention...

  • Dangerous Gifts

    Mary Jo Putney
    in

    A shy mortal girl rashly accepts a faery lord's offer of beauty and charm. Then he comes to claim a terrible price --- the loss of her new love and everything she holds dear....

  • The Dangerous Quest

    Christopher Pike

    When someone casts a wicked spell on Watch, he is forced to journey into a mirror world of Spooksville, where he finds someone just like him who also needs saving, but the duo realizes that only one of them can survive. Original....

  • Dark City

    Frank Lauria

  • Dark Lady

    Michael Baldwin

  • Darkside

    John Pelan

  • The Dastardly Duke

    Eileen Putman

    HIS FAIR LADY Julian LeFevre, Duke of Claridge, found being a reformed rake terribly dull. So he wagered a friend that he could make any pretty trollop in London pass for a lady of the ton. But when his friend presented him with Miss Hannah Gregory,...

  • Daughter of Joy

    JoAnn Levy

    When a powerful Chinese businessman decides Ah Toy--who had lost her master on the voyage to the New World--should be under his control, she goes to court to maintain her independence in Gold Rush San Francisco, in a novel based on the life of a real...

  • Dead in the Water

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    Douglas Hirt

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    Allana Martin

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    Kate Kingsbury

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    Morgan Hayes

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    Andrea Pickens

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    Gilbert Morris; Alan Morris

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    Robert Tine

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    Steve Allen

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    Sarah Vazquez

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    Maureen McKade

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    Matthew Holland

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    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Ernest Raboff
    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

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    Bill Brooks

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    Golden Books

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    Lynda S. Robinson

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    Mei Ng

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    Dean Wesley Smith

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    Marita Golden

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    Golden Books

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    Linda Lyle
    • / Contemporary Romance
    • Buy Buy

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    Jane Feather

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    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

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    Shirl Henke

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    Alice Alfonsi

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    Candace Schuler

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    David Compton

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    Robert W. Walker

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    Joseph Glass

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    Joseph Glass

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    Karen Harbaugh
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    Janice Bennett
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    Andrea Wyman

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    Lois Richer

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    Caroline Burnes

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    Judith Arnold

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    B.A. Chepaitis

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    Thomas Nelson

  • The Fight For Justice

    John Peel

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    Jill McCorkle

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    Amanda Wallwork

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    Deborah Morris

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    Susan Gates

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    Tracie Peterson
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

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    Jayne Ann Krentz

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    Kate McMullan

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    Ann Braybrooks

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    Elizabeth Elgin

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    Kathleen Scarth
    • / Historical Romance
    • Buy Buy

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    Shane Lacy Hensley

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    Cassie Miles

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    C.J. Cherryh

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    Sherry Shahan

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    Annie Cobb

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    Sandra Belton

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    Beverly Barton

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    Ed Thomas

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    Mary-Claire Helldorfer / M.C. Helldorfer