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New Books List: 655 titles

  • IE Compact Reader

    Aaron

  • January Colours

    Curtis Adler

  • Kiran: The Power of One

    Umesh Aggarwal

    Based on the award-winning television series, this book tells the real-life stories of 50 remarkable individuals who have bettled personal tragedies and disabilities and social, religious and financial constraints to bring about some positive change ...

  • Amendment of Life

    Catherine Aird

    For decades, Catherine Aird's crime novels featuring C.D. Sloan have been beloved by fans and lauded by critics for their adroit plotting, playful wit, and literate charm. With Amendment of Life, Aird delivers the lively and engrossing novel that rea...

  • Indigo Dying

    Susan Wittig Albert

    The tiny town of Indigo, Texas, is the perfect setting for China to teach a Colors to Dye For workshop. With artists flocking to the countryside in growing numbers, Indigo is coming back to life. Only one person stands in the way of the town's reviva...

  • Reunion

    Rochelle Alers
    in

    From four fabulous bestselling authors come four stories of women with a plus-sized joy for life who find the best of everything in the most unexpected places. In Rochelle Alers's Reunion, Long Island broker Elaine Jackson Stewart is 42, divo...

  • Recon by Fire

    David Alexander

    Marine Force One. A special detachment of the Marine Corps whose prowess in combat and specialized training sets them apart from the average grunt. They charge where others retreat, and succeed where others fail. They are the best America's got... ...

  • Murder on the Caronia

    Conrad Allen

    Genevieve Masefield and George Porter Dillman have met all kinds of people while sailing as ship detectives for the Cunard Line. But as they prepare to embark on yet another Atlantic crossing, this time aboard the famous Caronia, they encounter an en...

  • McQueen's Heat

    Harper Allen

    FIVE-ALARM BLAZE Having been to hell and back, investigator Stone McQueen knew he had nothing to lose when he raced into a burning building to save a small child. But he was dead wrong. For the fire was set by the same arsonist who had destroyed his...

  • Doubloon

    Jay Amberg


    Nick Gallagher was a farmer in a small Iowa town for many years, but all the while, as he and his wife raised their son, Nick dreamed of treasure-sunken treasure that lay at the bottom of the sea off the Florida coast, millions of dollars in gold...

  • A Memory of Demons

    David Ambrose

    Tom Freeman thinks his demons are behind him. After a period of alcohol and drug abuse that almost killed him, he has been sober for ten years. His career is thriving, he is happily married to Clare, and they have a baby daughter, Julia. But when she...

  • Boonville

    Robert Mailer Anderson

    Surrounded by misfits, rednecks, and counterculture burnouts, John Gibson—the reluctant heir of an alcoholic grandmother—and Sarah McKay—a commune-reared "hippie-by-association"—search for self and community in the hole-of...

  • Into the Woods

    V.C. Andrews

    Her life would never be the same once she ventured... INTO THE WOODS The only child of a U.S. naval officer father and a charming mother, Grace Houston is the center of her parents' universe -- until sudden tragedy tears her world apart. Now G...

  • Three Classic African-American Novels: The Heroic Slave, Frederick Douglas; Clotel, William Wells Brown; Our Nig, Harriet E. Wilson

    William L. Andrews

  • Lost and Found

    K.A. Applegate

    The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action!

    It’s been 90 days since the Remnants broke the Big ...

  • Dragon's Daughter

    Catherine Archer

    Nobles were not to be trusted. Rowena had learned this in childhood when her knightly father had abandoned her. And now Sir Christian Greatham, afire with vows of vengeance, insisted she was heir to a powerful legacy. But she wanted nothing of titles...

  • Smile Now, Die Later

    Vivien Armstrong

  • Wedding for One

    Dawn Atkins

    Running out on her own wedding years ago is coming back to haunt Mariah Monroe. Now she needs to go home to persuade ex-groom Nathan Goodman to keep running her family's company. But he's determined to free his inner wild man. And even worse, it seem...

  • Tattoo for Two

    Dawn Atkins

    To her family, Nikki Winfield is a successful store owner who's married to a doctor. Truth is, she's a tattoo artist with a commitment issue. A family emergency has called her home and she has to produce a groom. Enter Hollister Marx. He's a dentist ...

  • Burke's Soldier

    Alan Attwood

  • Uncanny X-Men Vol. 1: Hope

    Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #410-415. Wolverine, Iceman, Archangel, Nightcrawler, Stacy X, and Monet head to Scotland when Xavier reported a distress call he picked up. But to complicate matters, the Juggernaut has shown up!...

  • The Call of Duty, Volume 1: The Brotherhood

    Chuck Austen

  • New York

    Kjersti Hoff Baez

    Welcome to New York...a state of skyscrapers and mountain ranges - and home to four women who face challenges as formidable as those tall buildings and rugged peaks. Can they climb above the obstacles to find the heights of hope? After losing her hus...

  • The Midnight Mouse

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Surprise! Snow Day!

    Courtney Baker

  • A Box of Matches

    Nicholson Baker

    Emmett has a wife and two children, a cat, and a duck, and he wants to know what life is about. Every day he gets up before dawn, makes a cup of coffee in the dark, lights a fire with one wooden match, and thinks.What Emmett thinks about is the subje...

  • From Boardwalk with Love

    Nina Bangs

    The world's richest man, Owen Sitall, is a flop at a certain game, but now he's built an enormous board so he can win on his own. His island is a playground for the rich. But he doesn't know that L.O.V.E.R.--the League of Violent Economic Revolutiona...

  • The Playboy & Plain Jane

    Leanne Banks

    FROM CONFIRMED BACHELOR TO BEFUDDLED DAD Boston hunk Nicholas Barone could hardly believe one-year-old Molly was his daughter. The sexy businessman was committed only to his extended Italian family, to their business -- Baronessa Gelati -- and to ...

  • Battle of the Band

    Steven Banks

  • Behindlings

    Nicola Barker

    Spurting with kinetic energy, nasty wit, and kindness to animals, Wesley ought to be a star. Or so it seems to the "Behindlings" -- followers who nip at his heels, turn up everywhere he goes, and lie in wait for him around every corner. They skulk th...

  • Unforgiving Heights

    Betsey Barnes

    Mitra Kittredge is a young, multi lingual american diplomat in a small himalayan kingdom. When her senior colleague is sent to Washington for medical treatment and political unrest begin to mount. Mona's talents are tapped for negotiations at the ver...

  • A Princess of the Aerie

    John Barnes

    When Jak gets word that his ex-girlfriend, Princess Shyf of Greenworld, is in danger, Jak and his panth buddy Dujuv join the Royal Palace Guard and race across the solar system to save her. But they quickly discover that they're the ones who need to ...

  • Witchblade: Demons

    Mike Baron

    When a big-shot antiquities dealer is found with his head severed, the case falls to NYPD Homicide detective Sara Pezzini and her partner. Sara enlists sword polisher David Kopkind, a student of Japanese history, who recognizes the killing blow of a ...

  • Baggage

    Emily Barr

    Inseparable throughout high school, Sophie and Daisy are best friends, until Daisy is accused of murder, stages her own death, and escapes to Australia, where ten years later she is reunited accidentally with Sophie, a meeting that leads intense publ...

  • The Great Mystery

    Norman S. Barrett

    Get lost in Merlin's Great Mystery! Follow the poem page by page, puzzle by puzzle, & maze by maze, & discover the answer to Merlin's mysterious question. What clues can you find in these beautiful illustrations? Take a close look at the fun & fan...

  • The Wings of Merlin

    T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    As winter's longest night approaches, Merlin faces the most difficult challenge of his life -- to unite all of Fincayra against the evil warlord Rhita Gawr. But in the midst of this comes the mysterious Sword Arms, who is hunting and attacking Fincay...

  • Null & Void

    Catherine Barry

    Filled with a blend of humour and pathos, Catherine Barry captures the painful repercussions of the end of a relationship In a world where everything is available 24/ 7 even divorce has been revamped to suit our need for instant solutions. But there ...

  • The Miniaturist

    Kunal Basu

  • Laney's Kiss

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Tomboy Laney Jenkins has all she ever wanted in Harper, Kansas--an adopted family, a job, a home of her own...but most of all, Luke St. John. Impetuous by nature, she decides to prove to him that she's more than just another cowhand. Luke, a ranc...

  • The Man Upstairs

    Pamela Bauer

    When Dena moves to a new city, she is looking forward to the anonymity it offers. After all, that fits into her plan to concentrate on her career. Then she's introduced to the man upstairs. Dena finds Quinn Sterling hard to resist. So much so that...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 5: Public Scrutiny

    Brian Michael Bendis

    What's it take to ruin SpiderMan's reputation and turn him into Public Enemy #1? Collects Ultimate Spider-Man (2000) #28-32!...

  • Ultimate X-Men - Volume 7: Blockbuster

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate X-Men #34-39. Wolverine returns to New York after a short time away from the X-Men -- with a strange strike force armed with sophisticated military technology on his tail. To survive, he's forced to rely on the Big Apple's own Spid...

  • The New Bug

    Elizabeth Bennett

  • The Bug Bunch

    Elizabeth Bennett

    The Bug Bunch are going to the beach for some fun in the sun! then they cool off in the ocean. Splish! Splash! Later on, Lady can't seem to find her hat. but the bug bunch team up to help her. Will they find it or will their beach day end up being ...

  • The Big Sleepover

    Elizabeth Bennett

  • A Stormy Day

    Gilda Berger

    Scholastic Time-To-Discover Readers #36: A Stormy Day By: Melvin & Gilda Berger Illustrator: Age: 7-10 ISBN: 978-0-439-56699-5 Scholastic United States • Club Original • Pub.Date: • 16 Pages...

  • Easter Parade

    Irving Berlin

    Oh, I could write a sonnetAbout your Easter bonnet,And of the girl I'm taking toThe Easter Parade

    celebrated composer Irving Berlin wrote "Easter Parade" over sixty years ago. Now his timeless song comes to life in t...

  • Barney's Sing-along Stories: I Love You

    Lee Bernstein

    Second in the Barney's Sing-Along Stories series, Barney shares his favorite tune with all of his favorite friends. Children will love to sing along!

    Barney guides children in this colorful storybook featuring the lyrics to Barney's trademark ...

  • Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens 3

    Bruce Bethke

    Two Complete Novels in One!

    ISAAC ASIMOV'S ROBOTS AND ALIENS 3

    By Bruce Bethke and Jerry Oltion

    In Maverick, Derec should be able to control the network of robotic cities, but the cities are not working as they should, and they...

  • Hannah's Half-Breed

    Heidi Betts

    Wounded and in desperate need of help, David Walker has survived the treacherous journey to reach the blue-eyed, blond-haired girl of his memories. And in Hannah's arms he discovers Heaven. But torn between the white man's world and his Indian herita...

  • The Ring on Her Finger

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    The man's a little dull but the ring is enormous, so... Heiress Lucinda Hollander decides to get engaged -- to a man who thrusts a rock on her finger and promptly disappears -- leaving Lucinda to take the rap for a crime she didn't commit. Luci...

  • Blind Dates

    Kristen Billerbeck

    This is the sweetest idea of a story line. Grandma tries to get all four of her granddaughters to go our on a blind date which will in the end will be culminating in marriage. The delightful ins and outs of the stories have you smiling as you read ea...

  • Love on Line One!

    Natalie Bishop

    Jake Danforth has been the bane of psychologist Julie Sommerfield's existence since grade school. After he insults her during his morning radio show, she decides to don a disguise for an interview with him and get revenge. But the tables are turned w...

  • Girl Talk

    Cindy Blake

  • Small Town

    Lawrence Block

    In this dazzlingly constructed novel, Lawrence Block reveals the secret at the heart of the Big Apple. His glorious metropolis is really a small town, filled with men and women from all walks of life whose aspirations, fears, disappointments, and tri...

  • Bride in the Valley

    Andrea Boeshaar
    in

    Four noteworthy authors of Christian romance fiction join together to recreate life-and love-on the Oregon Trail. Each author takes a leg of the journey and intertwines their story with the characters and events of the other stories while developing ...

  • Rusty

    Ruskin Bond

    For several decades now, Ruskin Bond's inimitable stories about Rusty have enthralled and entertained children. Rusty is a quiet, imaginative and sensitive boy who lives in his grandparents' custody in pre-Independence Dehra Dun....

  • A Flight of Pigeons

    Ruskin Bond

    A Flight of Pigeons, written by Ruskin Bond, is the story of the Labadoor family, set in 1857. The patriarch of the family is killed in a church, and Ruth Labadoor and her family have to take the help of Hindus and Muslims to find their way to their ...

  • Door #2: Sheer Delights

    Stephanie Bond
    in

    Faith Sherman never thought she'd set eyes on her first and only love, gorgeous Carter Grayson, again. So she's surprised -- and privately thrilled -- when she discovers he's the new security guard at The Red Doors. At least, until Carter asks Faith ...

  • Give Me Liberty

    Baen Books

    WHEN IN THE COURSE OF FUTURE EVENTS ...Liberty is a recurring theme in science fiction. Here's a volume of explorations of this theme, some even arguing that freedom can be best served by doing away with government entirely. As Thomas Jefferson wrote...

  • Islands of Silence

    Martin Booth

    Islands of Silence is the story of the young Alec Marquand, who in the summer of 1914 has just graduated from college with a degree in archaeology. He has been hired by the lord of a remote country estate in the Scottish Highlands to survey the ancie...

  • Blind to the Bones

    Stephen Booth

    Something sinister is happening on the desolate moors of England's Peak District. The villagers of Withens are dying. Nineteen-year-old Emma Renshaw disappeared two years ago. Her body has never been found, and her parents still cling to the hope tha...

  • Morgette and the Shadow Bomber

    G.G. Boyer

    When a series of mysterious bombings targeting mine owners in Pinebluff, Idaho, threatens his family, legendary gunfighter Dolf Morgette calls on his father-in-law, Chief Henry, and the men of his tribe to help find the culprits....

  • Let's All Kill Constance

    Ray Bradbury

    On a dismal evening, an unnamed writer in Venice, California, answers a furious pounding at his beachfront bungalow door -- and once again admits a dangerous icon into his life. Constance Rattigan, an aging, once-glamorous Hollywood star, stands soak...

  • Flyboys

    James Bradley

    Over the remote Pacific island of Chichi Jima, nine American flyers-Navy and Marine pilots sent to bomb Japanese communications towers there-were shot down. Flyboys, a story of war and horror but also of friendship and honor, tells the story of those...

  • Blue Kingdom

    Max Brand

    Carrick Dunmore is a capable man on a horse and in the use of a six-gun. However, he does have a serious handicap. He's hopelessly lazy and prefers to spend his time drinking, playing knives, and just having a good time. Everything would have gon...

  • Alias Smith and Jones

    Kylie Brant

    He called himself Jones and was more pirate than charter boat captain. His protective streak was suffocating. His kisses devastating. And the bullet scar on his back, the gun tucked in his pants, told Ann that there was plenty the sexy stranger wasn'...

  • The Healer

    Jean Brashear

    Brilliant, driven surgical superstar Caroline Malone is desperate to recover from the injury that threatens to end her career, and she'll try anything that might help her heal -- including a rest away from it all in the remote Davis Mountains of ...

  • The Overlords

    Matt Braun

    IN EUROPE, MEN FOUGHT A WAR TO END ALL WARS. IN GALVESTON, THEY FOUGHT TO SURVIVE... In Europe, the guns had gone silent. But in Texas, the spirit of the Wild West still lived--and the town of Galveston belonged lock, stock, and barrel to a handfu...

  • Mr. Lincoln's Wars

    Adam Braver

    In this highly ambitious collection, Adam Braver explores Abraham Lincoln's inner life and personal turmoils -- while also reflecting on the indelible impact Lincoln had on the nation during the last year of his presidency. Braver brings the presiden...

  • The Sister Circle

    Vonette Bright; Nancy Moser

    The Sister Circle, book one of this charming contemporary series, introduces Peerbaugh Place, the quaint Victorian house that becomes a refuge to seven women of vastly different ages, personalities, and backgrounds. Through struggles and triumphs, th...

  • Making Love

    Marius Brill

  • Making Things Better

    Anita Brookner

    Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he’s confronted by life’s pressing questions with an u...

  • Razor's Edge

    Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    The weapon is codenamed "Razor" -- the brainchild of the brilliant minds at Dreamland -- a mobile chemical laser system with a range of 600 kilometers capable of downing anything that flies. The destruction of an American aircraft over northern Iraq ...

  • Northern Exposure

    Debra Lee Brown

    New York photographer Wendy Walters had come north for peace and quiet, and a photograph of a rare Alaskan caribou. Nothing -- and no one -- would stop her. Not even the sexiest man in Alaska. One look at rugged game warden Joe Peterson made Wendy's ...

  • The Truth about Cassandra

    Laurie Brown

    A WOMAN OF VIRTUE A willing spinster, Anne Weathersby has set aside her own needs to care for her siblings. But debts and good deeds take their toll. To make ends meet, Anne embarks on a secret, scandalous career as a novelist. A MAN OF VICE Th...

  • Be Mine

    Stacy Brown
    in

    Shakespeare wrote, "The course of true love never did run smooth." Perhaps he was thinking of Cupid and his mischievous arrows. In the charming tales collected here, you'll find that romance blooms in the most unusual places -- and that V...

  • Beckett's Convenient Bride

    Dixie Browning

    ON THE WAY TO THE ALTAR... Police detective Carson Beckett had skirted the altar as smoothly as a sly criminal avoided handcuffs. Now the time had come to settle down and fulfill his ailing mother's wish -- and he was halfway there with an unofficia...

  • The Guards

    Ken Bruen

    Still stinging from his unceremonious ouster from the Garda Sochna--the Guards, Ireland's police force--and staring at the world through the smoky bottom of his beer mug, Jack Taylor is stuck in Galway with nothing to look forward to. In his sober ...

  • Hyperthought

    M.M. Buckner

    Jin, the son of a wealthy Com CEO, and Jolie, a tour guide to the splendors of Earth, join forces to overthrow the tyranny of the Coms over the north by unleashing the power of Jin's brain with experimental neurosurgery, while Jin's father tries to s...

  • Winner Take All

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Following a surprising courtroom victory, attorney Marcus Glenwood takes on an equally surprising new client-Dale Steadman, the CEO of the very company Marcus prosecuted. His job is to find Steadman's dangerously unstable ex-wife, Erin Brandt, who ki...

  • The Prince's Tutor

    Nicole Burnham

    MAYBE SHE COULD KEEP HIM AFTER SCHOOL? Professional consultant Amanda Hutton was used to teaching royal children how to cope with the intricacies of palace life -- so she understandably balked when the king proposed she take on his son as her next...

  • My Destiny

    Adrianne Byrd

    For ten years, lawyer Destiny Brockman saw her freewheeling next-door-neighbor Miles Stafford as just a good friend. After all, she was focused totally on her life goals and he was a player extraordinaire. When she swore up and down there were no g...

  • Haunted

    Meg Cabot

    My name is Susannah Simon, and I am a mediator -- a liaison between the living and the dead. Yes, this does get in the way of my attempt at a normal sixteen-year-old life. At least I have Jesse, the ghost of a nineteenth-century hottie, haunting my ...

  • The Butterfly Garden

    Mary Campisi

    LOVE IS NOT ABOUT WHERE YOU'RE GOING...IT'S ALL IN HOW YOU GET THERE Carefree photographer Jenny Romano is nearly as famous as her subjects. Her globe-trotting life leaves little time for a serious relationship, and that's just the way she likes i...

  • Hollywood Tough

    Stephen J. Cannell

    Detective Shane Scully is back in the good graces of the department, hailed as a hero after bringing down a deadly gang of rogue cops in The Viking Funeral. At a glamorous Hollywood party with his new wife, Alexa, Shane overhears a famous producer ma...

  • Great Neck

    Jay Cantor

    In 1960, a group of friends are plucked from their sixth grade classroom in privileged Great Neck, Long Island and confronted for the first time with the horrors of the Holocaust. They hear a challenge from the past, a cry from history to set the wor...

  • What's the "Matter" with Dee Dee?

    Anne Capeci

  • Gilligan's Wake

    Tom Carson

    A kaleidoscopic novel about our last American centuryA skipper plies the waters of the South Pacific, running ammunition and passing the time with navy buddies McHale and Jack Kennedy, remembering the sweet caress of Screw-Me Susie. A New York millio...

  • The Restless Dead

    Hugh B. Cave

    A curse lingers over the Everol mansion -- a .voodoo curse, born of evil, steeped in blood. The tormented family who lives in this house of horrors is beset by insanity, visions ... and death. They have shut themselves off from the world, allowing no...

  • 24: The House Special Subcommittee's Findings at CTU

    Marc Cerasini

    Last season, CIA agent Jack Bauer, played by Golden Globe award-winning actor Keifer Sutherland, had us glued to our TVs and cursing the time clock as he uncovered a plot to assassinate presidential nominee, David Palmer. With just 24 hours to identi...

  • The Prince's Cowboy Double

    Victoria Chancellor

    What do you do when your prince runs away? When the Prince of Belegovia deserted his royal tour of Texas to take an impromptu holiday with a blond waitress, his PR coordinator needed to do some serious damage control. Desperate, prim-and-proper La...

  • The Lady and the Unicorn

    Tracy Chevalier

    A tour de force of history and imagination, The Lady and the Unicorn is Tracy Chevalier’s answer to the mystery behind one of the art world’s great masterpieces -- a set of bewitching medieval tapestries that hangs today in the Cluny Museum in Pa...

  • Persuader

    Lee Child

    Jack Reacher. The ultimate loner. An elite ex-military cop who left the service years ago, he's moved from place to place...without family...without possessions...without commitments. And without fear. Which is good, because trouble--big, vi...

  • Shades of Earl Grey

    Laura Childs

    Indigo Tea Shop owner Theodosia Browning is finally invited to a social event that she doesn't have to cater -- but there's more than champagne bubbling... Theo is mingling with the cream of Charleston society at the engagement soiree of t...

  • Twilight Girls

    Paula Christian

    Taken from the Golden Age of lesbian pulp fiction, two classic full-length novels in one spectacular volume follow beautiful stewardess Val MacGregor as she loses her heart to passionate and caring Toni Molina, and comes to terms with her lifestyle i...

  • X-Treme X-Men, Volume 2: Invasion

    Chris Claremont

  • Twist of Fate

    Beverly Clark

  • The Outback Doctor

    Lucy Clark

    Broken Hill's doctor and general surgeon Dave Dunbar has no time for sophisticated city girls, and when he encounters his new anasthetist from Sydney he knows there's going to be trouble. They meet at the site of a medical emergency, and even covered...

  • Don't Take Any Wooden Nickels

    Mindy Starns Clark

    With a touch of romance and a strong heroine, Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels offers more of the fast"paced and suspenseful inspirational writing readers found in A Penny for Your Thoughts.

    Working to provide quality work clothes to wome...

  • The Far-Farers: A Journey from Viking Iceland to Crusader Jerusalem

    Victoria Clark

    Just before the year 1000 a young Viking named Thorvald the Far-farer turned his back on the pagan gods of his fathers to preach the Christian gospel. But his Icelandic countrymen mocked him as a homosexual, stoned him and finally outlawed him. Aband...

  • The Most Unsuitable Wife

    Caroline Clemmons

    Wanted: One Completely Improper Bride Even if Drake Kincaid had placed such an advertisement in every paper in the country, he couldn't have found a better candidate than Pearl Parker -- which is fine with him. After all, his parents' will s...

  • Love Suite

    Colleen Coble
    in

    Beautiful, romantic Maui is home to the four Harrigan brothers, who, since taking over Harrigan's Cove resort from their father, spend their days focused on work. There are endless details involved in keeping the business afloat- but love can't help...

  • Raining Fire

    Lynn A. Coleman

    Friends and servants had warned Pam that the omens were against her family leaving Virginia to cross the Cumberland Gap--but the Danners went ahead with their plans. Now her parents and her only brother are dead, and Pam is stranded on the Wilderness...

  • Chew on This!

    Terry Collins

    Desperate to win the Retroville Elementary annual bookworm contest, Jimmy's friend, Sheen, gets his hands on Jimmy's latest invention--Book Bubble Gum--and things really begin to get sticky. Original....

  • Lying Wonders

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    TROUBLE IN PARADISE Milt Kovak's string of bad luck with women is not something he likes to dwell upon. Especially now that the Prophesy County, Oklahoma sheriff is a happily married man and father of a toddler. But when ex-girlfriend Laura Marsha...

  • The Skating Pond

    Deborah Joy Corey

    Lonely and alone after the banishment of her sister, her mother's death, and her father's abandonment, fifteen-year-old Elizabeth becomes involved in a passionate relationship with an older man, a romance that has a profound emotional and erotic impa...

  • The Chaperon Bride

    Nicola Cornick

    Always the chaperon and never the bride... At least, that's the way it was for Lady Annis Wyncherley. If this young widow was to remain as chaperon to society's misses, there could be no hint of scandal attached to her name. Rakes and romance...

  • The Outing

    Audrey Corr

  • Autumn's Shadow

    Lyn Cote

    Book two in the romantic suspense series Northern Intrigue. High school principal Keely Turner is determined to find out who is playing dangerous pranks at her school before something terrible happens. Burke Sloan, the deputy sheriff responsible for ...

  • Matthew Flinders' Cat

    Bryce Courtenay

    MATTHEW FLINDERS' CAT The story of a drunk, a boy and a cat. Billy O'Shannessy, once a prominent barrister, is now on the street where he sleeps on a bench outside the State Library. Above him on the window sill rests a bronze statue of Matthew F...

  • Fixed by Love

    Carol Cox
    in

    Beautiful, romantic Maui is home to the four Harrigan brothers, who, since taking over Harrigan's Cove resort from their father, spend their days focused on work. There are endless details involved in keeping the business afloat- but love can't help...

  • Daredevil

    Greg Cox

    JUSTICE IS BLIND. Blinded in a tragic accident, Matt Murdock discovered that the radioactive isotope responsible for his condition also heightened his other senses, creating an acute awareness of his surroundings that enables him to "see" with mor...

  • Six

    Jim Crace

  • Sutter's Cross

    W. Dale Cramer

    Men and women of all ages will warm to Cramer's elegant prose and Southern charm. William Faulkner once insisted that great stories must capture the "old universal truths...love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice." Sutter's Cr...

  • When the Messenger Is Hot

    Elizabeth Crane

    Features the stories of women recovering from loss, addiction, or betrayal, from a woman who decides to live on the patio rooftop of her friend's apartment, to a writer whose identity is compromised by the actress who portrays her, to a daughter who ...

  • Scandal

    Heather Cullman

    A SECRET TO KEEP When Gideon Harwood returns from India a wealthy man, he vows to do anything to raise the station of his impoverished family. Then, while searching for his missing brother, Gideon stumbles across a terrible secret about one of Londo...

  • Losing It

    Alan Cumyn

    Sometimes those who have the most seem bent on throwing it away. Meet Bob Sterling, a comfortable middle-aged professor, a specialist in the life of Edgar Allan Poe, married to a former student with whom he has a young son. In the space of a week his...

  • Michael's Father

    Melinda Curtis

    She was banished Cori's grandfather Salvatore Messina told her she'd never be able to make it on her own as a single mother. He threatened her -- tell him the name of the father so he could ruin him, or she and her child would be cut off from the fam...

  • Clementine

    Sandra D'Antonio

  • The Ants Go Marching

    Sandra D'Antonio

  • A Rose Called Moonlight

    Elizabeth Daish

    The young and beautiful Charmian finds her father, Lord Altone, murdered in the middle of the night. It transpires that rather than leave Hornbeam Manor and its estate to Charmian's glamorous but manipulative stepmother, Lord Altone has made his daug...

  • Jingle Belle

    Jenny Dale

  • Sins Out of School

    Jeanne M. Dams

    "She thought the lack of cranberry sauce was going to be her biggest problem, but a missing schoolteacher, a murdered man, a troubled child, and a call for help were difficulties Dorothy Martin most definitely hadn't foreseen." "She had wanted to hav...

  • Minotaur

    Dan Danko

    Alex finds himself in ancient Crete during the celebration preceding the sacrifice of Theseus and his Athenian companions to the Minotaur. It seems like a totally awesome party -- until Alex realizes that he’s not just a spectator, he is Theseus. W...

  • Jubilee

    Jack Dann

    Peter Lindsay lives in Melbourne, Australia. Charles Blackford is an American trying to relive a happier time in Athens. Both men have lost their wives. And now they must decide how to cope with the overwhelming changes being wrought by transcendent ...

  • Harvest Festival Race

    George Daugherty

  • Whales and Dolphins

    Susanna Davidson

  • The Accusers

    Lindsey Davis

    Newly returned from far-flung Londinium and in need of work, Marcus Didius Falco agrees to look into the death of Rubirius Metellus. Convicted of corruption, the rich senator committed suicide--and in doing so, relieved his family of paying his debts...

  • Falco on the Loose

    Lindsey Davis

    Three of Lindsey Davis’s most entertaining novels featuring Roman sleuth Marcus Didius Falco, in one volume.Last Act in Palmyra — Falco takes up a new spying mission for the Emperor Vespasian, to the untamed East. With the Chief Spy Anacri...

  • Ebony Butterfly II

    Delilah Dawson

    Discover the fiery passion from the sensual rituals of a solstice offering, to the naughty masquerades of invited guests at a Halloween party. Take the challenge of a virtual reality game where the motivation to win has its erotic rewards. Feel the l...

  • Dev & Simran

    Eunice De Souza

    Please Read Notes: Brand New, International Softcover Edition, Printed in black and white pages, minor self wear on the cover or pages, Sale restriction may be printed on the book, but Book name, contents, and author are exactly same as Hardcover Edi...

  • Beegu

    Alexis Deacon

    The story of an alienated alien

    Beegu’s spacecraft is stranded on Earth. Now she is lost and wandering. Waiting for a rescue signal from her mother, she fails to make friends with the strange creatures she encounters. Rabbits don't seem to u...

  • Flirting with Pete

    Barbara Delinsky

    Psychologist Casey Ellis never met her father -- but that didn't stop her from following in his professional footsteps. Now he has died, and Casey is shocked to have inherited his elegant Boston town house, complete with a maid and a handsome, enigma...

  • Sing and Read She'll Be Coming 'Round Mountain

    Chris Demarest

  • The Devil's Hearth

    Phillip Depoy

    WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD... Fever Devlin leaves his university job to return to his home in the Georgia Appalachians, prepared to confront the ghosts of his past. But his arrival is greeted with the discovery of a body on the porch of the family...

  • Her Lord & Master

    Thea Devine
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    An erotic game takes a most unpredictable course. A forbidden encounter leads to desire and danger. And a lover's provocative tale includes a very surprising twist. Tried-and-true passion may be lovely, but when it comes to deliciously wicked sinning...

  • A Shortcut in Time

    Charles Dickinson

    Charles Dickinson's novels and short stories have won widespread acclaim for their deft characterization, humanity, and humor. Newsday described him as "a writer thoroughly in command of his art," while the Chicago Tribune wrote "he can surprise us a...

  • Jungle Book II

    Disney Book Group

  • Disney's Winnie the Pooh Music Box

    Disney Book Group

    Inside this charming carry-along music box, which plays a happy tune when it's opened, you'll find five sturdy books and an adorable "Friends Forever" magnet. Each storybook contains a whimsical tale featuring your favorite characters from the Hundre...

  • Picturing Numbers

    Walt Disney

  • The Truth

    Robert Doherty

    AT LAST, WE WILL LEARN THE TRUTH ABOUT HUMANKIND'S ORIGINS... BUT DO WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW? The Ark of the Covenant ...Excalibur...The Holy Grail... Finally, the world's legendary artifacts have been unearthed, their secret powers revealed. Now,...

  • City Chicken

    Arthur Dorros

    Henry is so confused. She thinks a cow looks like this ... She thinks a horse looks like this ... But when Henry, the city chicken, flies the coop, she finds out that country life is not all it's cracked up to be.

    ...

  • Another Scandal in Bohemia

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    The ever-irresistible Irene Adler, her dashing barrister husband, Godfrey Norton, and the indomitable Miss Nell Huxleigh have arrived at last as their French cottage-having survived dastardly plots, Russian spies, pistol-wielding criminals, and the o...

  • Starman

    Sara Douglass

    Axis is the StarMan of prophecy and legend, destined to lead the three races of his world to unite as one people. The Prophecy fore-told that Axis would defeat his half-brother, reclaim the land of Tencendor, and find a traitor in his camp. The Proph...

  • Ekaterina // From Russia with Love

    Susan K. Downs; Susan May Warren

    Upon receiving an unusual package in the mail, Ekaterina "Kat" Moore boards a plane to Russia, her ancestral home, to seek some answers. What she finds leads her on a perilous journey through time as Kat must flee the Russian underground. To further ...

  • Space Explorer's Guide to the Universe

    Bill Doyle

    Space U Mission Control has crammed this book full of fun missions that will expand your smarts about space. You'll launch a mini-rocket, send a marshmeallow on a space walk (without a space suit!), create you own galaxies-and much more! You'll also ...

  • The Lion in Glory

    Shannon Drake

    The tides of war have turned for the valiant Scots led by King Robert the Bruce, and they boldly reclaim lands still ruled by the English. When Jamie Graham comes to seize Hamstead Heath, he has no need for a hostage--not even one as beautiful and sp...

  • Swallowing Diamonds

    Marilyn Duckworth

  • Weathercock

    Glen Duncan

    Duncan is a sharp, sometimes savage observer of the human condition, whose talents are as many as the legions of Hell' -- Matthew Baylis'His use of language is so precise, his dissection of male and female emotions so spot-on, it almost takes your br...

  • Seven Tales of Sex and Death

    Patricia Duncker

    Illuminating the dark side of the erotic, these interwoven stories explore obsession, violence, and the thin line between sex and death. Under a Mediterranean sun a man searches for the Temple of Zeus as his wife awaits her stalker; a sex worker at a...

  • Mirror Mirror

    Patricia Duncker

  • Payback

    Alan Dunn

    It is early February and security consultant, ex-cop and some-time detective Billy Oliphant is suffering from more than just winter blues. His girlfriend is on a year's sabbatical in North America. His ex-wife is on honeymoon with her new husband - a...

  • Wanderlust

    Chris Dyer

    Taking a job writing a low-budget travel column for a New York newspaper, Kate Bogart soon discovers that her dream job has some drawbacks, including a hectic schedule, not-so-exotic destinations, and uppity British journalist Miles Maxwell....

  • Hard Rain // Blood from Blood // A Lonely Resurrection

    Barry Eisler

    All John Rain wants is to disappear forever. What an old nemesis from Japan's FBI wants is one last favor: eliminate an assassin at large who kills without conscience. But there's a lot at stake--including the lives of Rain's few friends, and a love ...

  • Celtic Myths and Legends

    Peter Berrisford Ellis

    This is an enchantingly told collection of the stirring sagas of gods and goddesses, fabulous beasts, strange creatures, and such heroes as Cuchulain, Fingal, and King Arthur from the ancient Celtic world. Included are popular myths and legends from ...

  • Cold Streets

    P.N. Elrod

    Everyone--the famous and the infamous--is braving the cold streets of Chicago to catch the talent at Lady Crymsyn, Jack Fleming's swank new nightclub. Like the mobster in town from New York City, looking to muscle in on the local gang boss--who happe...

  • The Case of the Missing Kitchen

    Barbara Else

    Accessible, warm and witty, Barbara Else's fifth novel is her most effervescent. Suzie, a thirty-seven-year-old single mother, is the youngest of three sisters and a stubborn misfit. While Lara is now going for a top job in the Ministry of Customs a...

  • His Mother's Son

    Cai Emmons

    To those who meet Jana Thomas, hers seems a perfect life, with a beautiful home, a successful career as an ER doctor, a loving husband, and a darling six-year-old son named Evan. But inside, Jana is crumbling. Evan's seemingly normal all-boy tendenci...

  • GermLine

    Nelson Erlick

    In gene therapy, the damaged or defective chromosomes of an individual patient are corrected by the addition of new genes introduced into the patient's DNA. This is a dangerous and controversial technique, on the cutting edge of medical science. "Ger...

  • Valentine's Love

    Leslie Esdaile
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    Gift shop owner Denise Blake spends her days helping others find the perfect gift for that special person in their lives. But with no one to call her own, she's beginning to think she'll never find Mr. Right--until Cupid strikes and brings her the l...

  • To the Nines

    Janet Evanovich

    Stephanie Plum's got rent to pay, people shooting at her, and psychos wanting her dead every day of the week (much to the dismay of her mother, her family, the men in her life, the guy who slices meat at the deli...oh, the list goes on). An ordinary ...

  • Longarm and the Desert Rose

    Tabor Evans

    A Man of No Consequence John Slocum and his pard have finally steered two thousand head of cattle from Abilene, Texas, to their Kansas home. After six weeks on the trail, both men are itchin' for some company of the female kind. Abigail Stanl...

  • Valentine's Change of Heart

    Elisabeth Fairchild

    Heart and Soul Valentine Wharton has been drowning is sorrow ever since he lost his beloved Penny Foster to the town gossips. But Wharton no longer cares what the members of the ton have to say--not since high society scorned his beloved Penny. No...

  • The Bone Vault

    Linda Fairstein

    In the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exquisite Temple of Dendur, a monument to an ancient world, a very modern debate is raging at a gala dinner: a controversial new exhibit is fiercely opposed by many among the upper echelon of museum donors. Alex Co...

  • Shades of Midnight

    Linda Fallon

    THE GHOST OF A CHANCE Summoning the man who left her at the altar two years ago is definitely a last resort for Eve Abernathy. But paranormal expert Lucien Thorpe is the only person who can rid her house of the uneasy ghosts -- noisy, lovemaking g...

  • Free Again

    Terri Farley

    For the Phantom, there is only one girl. For Sam, there is only one horse. When Sam finds a home for a group of "unadoptable" mustangs, she feels like a hero. But when she promises to help care for the horses -- especially the blind filly among them...

  • Holder of Lightning

    S.L. Farrell

    It had been so many generations since the mage-lights were last seen that they'd become the stuff of legend. But for seventeen-year-old Jenna Aoire legend became reality one night on Knobtop Hill when she found the stone--not much more than a large p...

  • Delphine's Run

    Laurence Fearnley

    "Delphine" is a young French woman who works as a trolley girl on the Paris-Brest train and her life is complicated: she is in love with Charlotte, her mother is in an insane asylum and her father is planning a new life in New Caledonia. A bomb on he...

  • To Kiss a Spy

    Jane Feather

    In this first of two romances featuring two unconventional sisters whose quest to solve the mystery surrounding their lives puts each of them in the path of a dangerously irresistible hero, Jane Feather tells the story of a daring young widow and a m...

  • Clifford Loves Me!

    Thea Feldman

    Children will love this heart-shaped die cut storybook featuring their favorite Big Red Dog! Just in time for Valentine's Day and Clifford's Birthday!

    Clifford loves Birdwell Island. He loves playing with his friends, and he loves being helpfu...

  • Tricks of the Light

    Alison Fell

    Broom is in her 50s. An artist and theatre set designer, she is spending Christmas in the Alps working on a commission for an opera in Leipzig. Five years before, she had fallen passionately in love with the flawed but lovable Al. But their fiery and...

  • Grave Intentions

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A thrilling new tale pairing Lady Priscilla Flanders and her irrepressible friend, Sir Neville Hathaway. This time out, they encounter murder most foul amid the great houses of London, and pursue a course that brings them closer than ever to a killer...

  • Snow

    Maxence Fermine

    Yuko Akita had two passions.Haiku and snow.It is April 1884 and Yuko Akita has reached his seventeenth birthday on the Island of Hokkaid in the North of Japan. The time has come to choose his vocation, warrior or monk, but against the wishes of his f...

  • Scavenger Hunt

    Robert Ferrigno

    Philip Marlow and Lew Archer would recognize a kindred spirit in Jimmy Gage, reporter for SLAP magazine, troublemaker by trade and inclination, and the hero of Robert Ferrigno’s sinuous new crime novel. While taking part in a Hollywood scavenger hu...

  • Hanging by a Thread

    Monica Ferris

    The art of needlecraft requires patience, discipline, and creativity. So, too, does the art of detection. Just ask Betsy Devonshire--who's learning that life in a small-town needlecraft shop can reveal an unexpected knack for knitting ... and a hidde...

  • Conquerors of the Sky

    Thomas Fleming

    A novel that crowns Thomas Fleming's forty-year career, Conquerors of the Sky takes readers on a gripping insider's journey into the lives and loves, the hopes and heartbreaks of the men and women who make America's planes.

    When Adrian Van Ne...

  • Liberty or Death

    Kate Flora

    Thea Kozak's sometimes rocky relationship with Maine state police detective Andre Lemieux has flourished. Now, on the day of their wedding, Thea receives awful news: Andre has been taken hostage by a militant militia group. Their terms: release one o...

  • Lady of Desire

    Gaelen Foley

    Impetuous Lady Jacinda Knight is the daughter of a scandalous woman. Though society predicts she'll follow in her mother's footsteps, the spirited beauty stands unashamed of her passionate nature. Then one night, in flight from an arranged and loeles...

  • Hallie's Hero

    Nicole Foster

    Jack Dakota swore his ramblin', gamblin' days were over. It was time to settle down and make a home for his newfound son -- especially since fate had dealt him a hand that included Hallie Ryan, a Western spitfire sun-kissed with true grit and glory! ...

  • Cupid's Melody

    Karen Fox

    Faery Nic Stone had no idea he was about to make the mistake of his eternal life when he asked the Queen of the Fae to grant immortality to his beautiful bride, Anna. To become immortal, he discovered only too late, Anna first had to die and then be ...

  • Someone to Watch Over Me

    Roz Denny Fox

    Gabe Poston is giving up his job, with all its traveling and high finance, because he's ready for a simpler existence. He might even be ready for a wife and family -- and meeting Isabella Navarro only confirms that feeling. Isabella has experience...

  • My Family Shall Be Free!

    Dennis Brindell Fradin

    Recounts how Peter Still, after more than forty years in bondage, bought his freedom, traveled north to find his mother and siblings, and then returned south to set in motion the events leading to freedom for his wife and children....

  • Inside Track

    John Francome

    Jamie Hutchinson has just been released from prison for commiting a crime that he can't remember. The car he was driving went out of control and killed a young boy. With the help of his sister Pippa, a top horse trainer, he tries to pick up his old l...

  • His Mistress's Secret

    Alison Fraser

    Ewan Sinclair just wanted the truth, and although Tiree refused to tell him anything, he found he was attracted to her! Ewan Sinclair, the solid, respectable doctor, and Tiree, wild and rebellious, were complete opposites -- and yet their fiery passi...

  • Spies

    Michael Frayn

    The sudden trace of a disturbing, forgotten aroma compels Stephen Wheatley to return to the site of a dimly remembered but troubling childhood summer in wartime London. As he pieces together his scattered memories, we are brought back to a quiet, sub...

  • The Copenhagen Papers

    Michael Frayn

    One day, during the British run of Copenhagen, winner of the Tony Award for best play in 1999, Frayn was presented with a curious package from a London housewife that contained a few faded pages of barely legible German. These pages, apparently fo...

  • The Bastard's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    Dame Frevisse, finds herself in medieval England's lavish royal court and learns that even in that charmed circle, no one has immunity from murder. It is the year 1447, and powerful men from all of England have been summoned to Parliament in the g...

  • Silent Partner

    Stephen Frey

    Angela Day has survived a rough past - from a hard-scrabble childhood scarred by the tragic deaths of her father and best friend, to losing custody of her only child to her adulterous ex-husband and his powerful family. But despite it all, at thirty-...

  • Encore, Encore

    Kathleen Fuller
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    This collection of novellas will delight readers with stories of love showing up in the most unexpected places: a couple thrown together at the airport when their flights are cancelled; two violinists competing for first chair during a European orche...

  • Blowback

    Eric James Fullilove

    blowback blo-bak n: the unintended results of covert intelligence operations that come back to haunt you. When the Unthinkable Happens -- On India's border a weapon of mass destruction has begun a terrifying countdown toward Armageddon. A Co...

  • Inkheart

    Cornelia Funke

    One cruel night, Meggie's father reads aloud from Inkheart, and an evil ruler named Capricorn escapes the boundaries of the book, landing in their living room. Suddenly, Meggie's in the middle of the kind of adventure she thought only took place in f...

  • Reaching Bombay Central

    Shama Futehally

  • Accidental Family

    Kristin Gabriel

    Welcome to Twin Oaks -- the new B and B in Cooper's Corner. Some come for pleasure, others for passion -- and one to set things straight... Check-in: Ex-TV soap star Rowena Dahl wanted to be a mom, but her biological clock was ticking too fast to ...

  • Propositioned?

    Kristin Gabriel

    HE MADE HER AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE... Sarah Hewitt isn't a cat burglar...but her grandfather is. And now she's hoping he taught her enough tricks of the trade to return the diamond necklace he stole before anyone realizes it's gone. It's a ris...

  • The Good Doctor

    Damon Galgut

    “A lovely, lethal, disturbing novel” of the dashed hopes of post-apartheid South Africa and the small betrayals that doom a friendship (The Guardian).   An extraordinary parable of the corruption of the flesh and spirit, The Good Doctor has ...

  • A Treasure Deep

    Alton Gansky

    The best-seller A Treasure Deep is now available in an inexpensive mass market paperback edition! Treasure-unbelievable, historic, and dangerous-awaits famed engineer Perry Sachs. Buried just outside Tejon, California, the ancient booty is rigged wit...