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New Books List: 656 titles

  • 101 Reykjavik

    Hallgrimur Helgason

    Hlynur Bjorn sleeps in. He surfs the Web. He tests the efficacy of various pornography. And at night, he hits the K-bar for a few drinks, maybe a tab of E, and perhaps a bit of sex before another crash. He'd blithely remain in this cycle forever, but...

  • 101 Things You need to Know

    Julie Mullarkey-Gnoy

    What's the difference between heat and temperature? Who was our twenty-sixth president? How do you figure out the circumference of a circle? Who made the first national flag? What is a bar graph? Where do you place the colon in a business letter? Why...

  • 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...

  • 47th Street Black

    Bayo Ojikutu

    The prize-winning debut of an incendiary new voice in contemporary American fiction, 47th Street Black is the story of JC and Mookie, whose rise in the gangster-driven ghettos of Chicago is as swift as it is brutal.In the early sixties, 47th street i...

  • Abhorsen

    Garth Nix

    Orannis the Destroyer has been freed and only Lirael, newly come into her inheritance as the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, has any chance of stopping it. She and her companions--Sam, the Disreputable Dog, and Mogget--have to take that chance. If Orannis's uns...

  • 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 ...

  • The Accidental Princess

    Peggy Webb

    SHE WAS PLAIN. A CHURCH SECRETARY. A VIRGIN, FOR PETE'S SAKE! How could CJ Maxey possibly let herself get talked into running for Dairy Princess? Worse, once she was cajoled into doing just that, how would she survive Clint Garrett, the lip-smack...

  • 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...

  • Across the Years

    Tracie Peterson

    Book 2 of DESERT ROSES. The last ten years have been difficult for Ashley Reynolds--first her parents disowned her because of her choice of spouse, war tragically took his life, then she discovered she would bear his child. Living with her grandfathe...

  • The Adventures of Flash Jackson

    William Kowalski

    Haley Bombauer, aka Flash Jackson, confronts the summer of her seventeenth year with glorious anticipation. She envisions herself roaming the hillsides and forests on her beloved horse, venturing farther and farther away from her sleepy hometown and ...

  • Against All Enemies

    James B. Woulfe

    Like most wars, it started small. When the South American country of San Selva began burning Amazon rain forests, Washington applied pressure to appease popular opinion. But pressure led to attack, and attack led to counter-attack, and soon America f...

  • Air Burial

    Jean Shields

    Air Burial is an achingly beautiful and keenly observant debut novel that tells the story of three family members who hit the road in an attempt to flee the anxiety and disappointment of their lives. The road-trip frames the action in this poignant a...

  • 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'...

  • All a Man Can Ask

    Virginia Kantra

    HER UNDERCOVER LOVER The little house by the lake was the perfect summer hideaway. At least that was what Faye Harper thought -- until a dark, mysterious stranger appeared at her door and turned her peaceful world upside down. Detective Aleksy ...

  • All I Want Is Everything

    Cecily von Ziegesar

    Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side, where my friends and I live in penthouses and townhouses, attend the most elite schools, and take in every last bit of fabulousness this city has to offer. Enter the world of G Girl--watch us indulge our...

  • Almost a Princess

    Elizabeth Thornton

    Case Devere, the steely-eyed earl of Castleton, has agreed to help Special Branch track down a notorious killer--one who just happens to be his archenemy. But he finds more than he bargained for when his search leads him to Jane Mayberry, a beautiful...

  • Along Came Mary

    Jo-Ann Mapson

    USA Today called Jo-Ann Mapson's national bestseller, Bad Girl Creek, "a valentine to oceans of good women who survive bad beginnings and worse men." Now the author, hailed as "one of the most gifted writers of the contemporary urban West" (Los Angel...

  • Amelia and the Outlaw

    Lorraine Heath

    Amelia With a strict, eagle-eyed judge for a father and two older brothers to back him up, Amelia Harper is doted upon and protected within an inch of her life. She's not even allowed to have a sweetheart until she's seventeen, for example. Amelia ...

  • 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...

  • And in the Morning

    G.M. Hague

    This is the story of two brothers, Jonathon and Joseph White, who are caught up in the excitement of the new war in Europe in 1914 and enlist to fight the Hun. And In The Morning is not just a war novel. Amidst the horror of the battlefields a love s...

  • Angel

    Belinda Ray

    Ever since she was six years old, Carrie Weingarten has wanted to be AN ACTRESS. So when Mrs. Wessex announces that their fifth grade class will be putting on a modern version of "Cinderella," Carrie couldn't be more excited -- or terrified. Carrie ...

  • Angel's Roost

    Janet Spaeth

    Tess Mahoney owns Angel's Roost, a shop which specializes in angelic items. When Jake Cameron, the owner of Panda's, a popular coffeehouse across town, visits Tess's shop for the first time, he buys a large angel with a rakish halo. Naming her Faith ...

  • Annie and the Confirmed Bachelor

    Patricia Kay

    WAS SHE TRYING TO REMEMBER? OR LONGING TO FORGET? Though self-made millionaire Kevin Callahan knew her only as Jane Doe, he still realized that this could be the woman to make him forget his past and let him love again. So he was ready to get invo...

  • Annie to the Rescue

    Elizabeth Lindsay

  • 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...

  • The Ants Go Marching

    Sandra D'Antonio

  • Apocalipstick

    Sue Margolis

    When it comes to men, beauty columnist Rebecca Fine always seems to be on the scruffy end of the mascara wand. But all that changes the morning she meets Max Stoddart, her new colleague at the Daily Vanguard. With his upscale suit, Hugh Grant hair, a...

  • The Assassins of Tamurin

    S.D. Tower

    She was only eleven years old and an orphan, yet the people of Lale's village hated her and drove her into the wilderness. Cast out, she followed her destiny to a place of dark and shadowy purposes, a school for foundling girls in the land of Tamurin...

  • Aunt Dimity: Detective

    Nancy Atherton

    There's been a murder in Finch! When Lori Shepherd returns from her trip to America, she is shocked to hear that Prunella "Pruneface" Hooper has been killed. This is the first murder in the idyllic village of Finch in more than a century, and ever...

  • 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 ...

  • Avengers: Korvac Saga

    Jim Shooter

    He hails from an unimaginable era: The 31st century. Fleeing through the timestream from the pursuing team of futuristic defenders known as the Guardians of the Galaxy, Korvac the Machine Man has established a secret presence on present-day Earth in ...

  • Baby Momma Drama

    Carl Weber

    Two very different women are about to learn that when it comes to sorting out life and love, no sister is perfect…Sensible older sister Jasmine is working hard, saving money, and waiting for Mr. Right. In smooth-talking attorney Derrick, she thinks...

  • Baby on Board

    Susan Meier

    SINGLE DAD WITH A SECRET Single dad Max Riley was surprisingly tender. Shy beauty Caro Evans was stunned, considering the rumors about his abrupt departure fourteen years ago. But the tall, dark and guarded agent was back in Wilburn, and needed chil...

  • Baby, Be Mine

    Emily McKay

    Radio celebrity Tabitha Talbot never dreamed she'd find herself dumped...and pregnant! And now, to make matters worse, her station manager has come up with the perfect way to help her mend her broken heart -- a love-letter contest. But the only lover...

  • The Bachelor and the Bluestocking

    Karen L. King
    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 Valentine's Day...

  • 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...

  • Bare Essentials

    Brenda Jackson
    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...

  • 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 ...

  • Barney's Songs from the Park

    Scholastic Inc.
    • / General Fiction
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  • 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...

  • Battle of the Band

    Steven Banks

  • 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...

  • Be My Valentine

    Joyce Livingston

    Will Tina Taylor ever marry? She came close several times, but things never worked out. Now, twelve years after leaving Juneau, Alaska, she has returned to fix up her grandmother's old house. When a chance meeting reunites Tina with Hank Gordon, the ...

  • 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...

  • Becky Ryan

    Sheila Jansen

  • 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...

  • Before the Creeks Ran Red

    Carolyn Reeder

    A tattered flag above Fort Sumter . . . riots in the streets . . . Union troops occupying private homes and harassing citizens . . . The months before the first major battle of the Civil War were marked by confusion, deep emotion, and bitter divis...

  • Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

    Michael Ledwidge

    Decorated NYPD Officer John Coglin always thought his picture on the front page of the newspaper would be one for the scrapbook. That was before he had the bad luck to be forced into a witness-free, kill-or-be-killed confrontation with a drug-dea...

  • Beginner's Luck

    Laura Pedersen

    “Laura Pedersen delivers . . . Throughout, you can’t help but think how hilarious some of the scenes would play on the big screen.†-- The Hartford Courant“There could be no doubt left in anyone’s mind that my life had all the makings of a...

  • 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...

  • Belle of the Ball

    Pam McCutcheon

    Named for the Three Graces of Greek legend, the Sullivan sisters of Colorado Springs --Belle, Charisma and Grace--fear they will never live up to their names and find true love. But a heartfelt wish made in the Garden of the Gods summons help from th...

  • Best of Friends

    Cathy Kelly

    You can have it all! Abby Barton's TV career is taking off and now she and her husband can have the life they've always dreamed of in a lovely Irish town -- at least, in theory! But when your husband takes you for granted and your teenage daughter...

  • Between Darkness and Light

    Lisanne Norman

    IN LEAGUE WITH ENEMIES... In the midst of unrest on his home world of Shola, Kusac has chosen to undertake a secret mission of which only those in the highest echelons of the Brotherhood are aware. And even they are not privy to all the informatio...

  • Big Bug Fun

    Joanne F. Oppenheim

    From ladybugs to honeybees, this Level 3 Hello Reader! Science book teaches young children about bugs--and includes a swarm of jokes and riddles!Centipedes, beetles, fireflies, grasshoppers, honeybees, and more fascinating bugs are included in this L...

  • The Big Sleepover

    Elizabeth Bennett

  • The Black Mask

    Cynthia Pratt

    Would She Fall For A Gentleman Thief... Rose Spenser is surprised that she's inherited a ruby ring from her eccentric godfather, but she's disappointed to discover that the gem is worth little more than sentiment. Settling her brother Rupert's gambl...

  • The Black Widow Spider 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. A super-special mystery for the Boxcar Children! Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a h...

  • The Blessing Stone

    Barbara Wood

    Millions of years ago, a meteorite fell to earth and a beautiful blue stone shattered from it. One hundred thousand years ago, a girl named Tall One found the crystal on the African plain---and it formed her destiny, as well as the destiny of generat...

  • 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...

  • The Blind Hunter

    Kristina Rodanas

    After welcoming him into their home for a meal, the grateful stranger Muteye welcomes Chirobo on his hunt where he discovers that Chirobo has wondrous hidden talents and ability to see beyond sight, but when Muteye tries to test Chirobo, he is given ...

  • Blind Man of Seville

    Robert Wilson

    Called to a gruesome crime scene, Inspector Javier Falcon is shocked and sickened by what he finds … a heinous murder with no obvious motive. When the investigation leads Falcon to read his late father’s journals, he discovers a disturbing and vi...

  • 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...

  • The Bliss

    Jacqueline Navin

    Morgan Gage is no longer welcome in the houses of Polite Society--not since the murky circumstances of his father's untimely death all pointed to Morgan as his murderer. Once considered a most eligible bachelor, he is now referred to as "the Wicked E...

  • Bloody Eye

    T.H. Lain

    Far beneath the earth, a sinister ritual takes place. A corrupt cleric seeks the Eye of Gruumsh, a relic sacred to the hideous god of the orcs. Against him stand a scullery maid, a paladin, a priest of the god Pelor, and a half-orc barbarian.Will the...

  • Bloom

    Kelly Ana Morey

    Constant Spry, newly liberated of her waitressing job, is summoned home by her grandmother, the irrepressible Mrs Angela Spry. Accompanied by Nanny Smack, the ghost who crochets tomorrow's sky, Connie journeys south to Goshen - a crossroads caught be...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Bone Dry

    Bette Golden Lamb; J.J. Lamb

    You have cancer. And tomorrow you're trying your last chance for survival -- you'll be infused with your own treated bone marrow -- frozen, stored, and safe in one of California's most prestigious hospitals. Then comes the note: "We have your marrow ...

  • 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...

  • A Book of Silly Jokes!

    Scholastic Inc.

  • 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...

  • Born in Sin

    Kinley MacGregor

    The fiery highborn lass will sacrifice almost anything for her beloved Highlands -- even marry a dangerous man whom everyone fears but she cannot trust... The man they call "Sin." A SINFUL PASSION Though few can equal her skill with the sw...

  • Boundaries

    Farida Karodia

    In a remote corner of South Africa, untouched by 'transformation', is the small town of Vlenterhoek. It is in this backwater that the lives of three returning residents intersect. After a forty-year absence Leah, now a widow, arrives from Canada to v...

  • 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...

  • The Boy on the Porch

    Dee Holmes

    On the one-year anniversary of her husband's death, Annie Hunter comes home to find a ragged-looking boy asleep on her porch. When he awakes, she discovers his name is Cullen Gallagher--and that he's convinced that Annie is his mother. Everyone knows...

  • The Briar King

    Greg Keyes

    Two thousand years ago, the Born Queen defeated the Skasloi lords, freeing humans from the bitter yoke of slavery. But now monstrous creatures roam the land--and destinies become inextricably entangled in a drama of power and seduction. The king's wo...

  • A Bride for the Preacher

    Sally Laity
    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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Bride of the Beast

    Sue-Ellen Welfonder

    When passion is fierce, resistance is futile. A HEADSTRONG LADY, A BATTLE-TORN KNIGHT, AND A LESSON IN TEMPTATION! Twice wed and twice widowed, Lady Caterine Keith has no need for a champion. She can fend off unwanted suitors on her own and gu...

  • Bridget

    Linda Sole

    Bridget has always been the one to take on the responsibility for her family and with a drunken, violent mother, an unemployed brother who can't stay out of pub brawls and a wayward sister vulnerable to the affections of disreputable men, it's hardly...

  • Brilliance

    Anthony McCarten

    Thomas Edison holds over 1,000 patents, including those for the light bulb and the phonograph, but he is broke. To the rescue rides the "world's banker," J. P. Morgan, with his offer of almost unlimited cash for the two men to join forces to illumina...

  • Buffy the Vampire Slayer

    Nancy Krulik

    A novelization by Nancy Krulik. Based on the hit TV series created by Joss Whedon. Fashionista and leader of the pack Cordelia is known throughout Sunnydale High for her irrespressible blend of tactless maxims as much as she is renowned for her beaut...

  • 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 ...

  • Bug Muldoon

    Paul Shipton

  • A Bump on the Head

    Peter Maloney

  • Bunnies on the Go

    Rick Walton

    From train to tractor, from boat to balloon, join the fun as an active bunny family takes a cross-country vacation.

    The team who celebrated the alphabet in So Many Bunnies and telling time in Bunny Day now introduces young readers to differe...

  • Burke's Soldier

    Alan Attwood

  • Busy-Busy Word Book

    Richard Scarry

  • 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...

  • Buzz Blows Bubbles and Other Tongue Twisters

    Andrea Posner-Sanchez

  • The Call of Duty, Volume 1: The Brotherhood

    Chuck Austen

  • Camelback Falls

    Jon Talton

    Historian-turned-deputy-sheriff David Mapstone returns in this exciting sequel to Jon Talton's Concrete Desert. When his friend Peralta, newly sworn in as sheriff, is shot by a sniper, "History Shamus" Mapstone can't keep a cool, academic distance. A...

  • The Captain's Woman

    Merline Lovelace

    She followed her heart...and found her destiny. FROM THE DRAWING ROOMS The spirited daughter of a Wyoming newspaper baron, Victoria Parker has two grand passions: journalism and Captain Sam Garrett. But her gift for writing has been confined to t...

  • Captured by Your Kiss

    Jen Holling

    To find the ancient treasure that will bring an end to an age-old feud, beautiful mystic Mona Graham chooses an unlikely ally to protect her on her quest -- Patrick Maxwell, rogue knight and the Graham clan's sworn enemy, who has been captured and he...

  • Captured Innocence

    Susan Sizemore

    TO CATCH A THIEF... Raised as an English country girl, Bororavian princess Lily Bancroft simply cannot wed her detestable, power-hungry cousin. Yet she dares not refuse -- and that's where Kit Fox comes in. This charming, disarmingly attractive thie...

  • 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...

  • Cat Seeing Double

    Shirley Rousseau Murphy

    Romance is in the air in the charming seaside village of Molena Point, California. Everyone is excited about the upcoming wedding of its chief of police to the lovely Charlie Getz, even cool feline detective Joe Grey. But the festivities are interrup...

  • Catwoman

    Susan Colun
    • / Science Fiction
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    Previews Exclusive Edition. Includes a 'Catwoman Design Sketchbook' exclusive to this edition. Learn how to crack a whip with feline ferocity! Uncover the secrets of the all-leather wardrobe! Study the sizzling one-liners that keep Batman aching for ...

  • A Celebration of Love

    Karen Moore

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Charlie Big Potatoes

    Phil Robinson

    "I collapsed in this same club four years ago and was resuscitated by a smackhead, who pulled me into the toilets, ran my wrists under the cold tap, and slapped me 'round the face -- at the same time giving me the A to Z of self-medication. I've p...

  • 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....

  • Chinnamani's World

    Mukunda Rao

  • The Chocolate Ship

    Marissa Monteilh

    After three years together, Mia can't help wondering if she's got a real future with Miles -- who's all that and then some, as long as the words "love" and "commitment" don't creep into the conversation. But the lady's willing to put her doubts aside...

  • Chosen

    K.R. Usha

    Usha K.R. is a miniaturist, and she shares the miniaturist's fierce love of technical virtuosity and minute attention to detail.'"Namita Gokhale Her familiar existence disrupted after her father's death, Nagaratna is forced to move from her village t...

  • Christmas Eve Mystery and Other Holiday Stories

    Eva Moore
    • / General Fiction
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    Short stories, poems, and songs for Christmas: Christmas Eve by David McCord, The Christmas Coat by Clyde Robert Bulla, Christmas Surprises adapted by Melissa Peterson, The Christmas Eve Mystery by Joan Lowery Nixon, On a Pallet of Straw by Langston ...

  • The Cinderella Inheritance

    Carolyn Zane

    "CONGRATULATIONS, CYNTHIA NOBLE. YOU'VE JUST INHERITED A MULTIMILLION-DOLLAR ESTATE. WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WITH YOUR SUDDEN FORTUNE?" Inheriting the home of her former employer was a miracle for the near-bankrupt struggling student. Yet her sudde...

  • 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.

    ...

  • City of Masks

    Daniel Hecht

    "Superb...A thoroughly satisfying, disturbing novel." -Cleveland Plain Dealer In City of Masks, the first Cree Black novel, parapsychologist Cree and her partner take a case in New Orleans's Garden District that leaves them fearing for th...

  • Clean Cut

    Theresa Monsour

    The brutal murder of a young prostitute hits St. Paul homicide detective Paris Murphy hard. She knew the woman's beat--and her sad story. Smart, beautiful--and dangerously reckless--Paris disregards the warnings of her partner and walks the streets, ...

  • Clementine

    Sandra D'Antonio

  • 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...

  • Close Quarters

    Judith Lyons
    • / Contemporary Romance
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    IN THE NEWS: Gorgeous marine biologist Laura Evans FAMILY HISTORY: The only daughter in the prominent, wealthy Evans family DEEPEST SECRET: She was thirty...and still a virgin Although raised in a world of privilege and power, Laura Evans chose ...

  • Closer Than Close

    Bettye Griffin

    Ivy Smith knows she's in a serious social slump when she finds her name listed on her high school Internet bulletin board?under "Classmates Who've Passed Away"! Ivy wants the world to know she's alive and kicking, and what better place to do that th...

  • Cluck O'Clock

    Kes Gray

  • 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...

  • Colorado Sunrise

    Tess Pendergrass

    In this third and final volume in the critically acclaimed Colorado Trilogy, Tess Pendergrass once again weaves a story of romance and adventure. Stunned by her hero Elijah Kelly's wedding to Jordan Braddock, Harriet Jackson jumps into an engagement ...

  • The Comic Book Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Alden children are searching for a rare comic book of their favorite superhero, Captain Fantastic. They finally find the comic and something else, too--a strange note inside, "signed" by the comic's creator. The Aldens realize the note is a fake....

  • Commander's Little Surprise

    Mollie Molay

    A precious reminder of her one fall from grace... Baranovian royal Victoria Bernard's cherished daughter had the same dimple and sparkling eyes as her father, a man forever forbidden to Victoria. She should never have seen him again -- except she ...

  • The Commissariat of Enlightenment

    Ken Kalfus

    Russia, 1910. Leo Tolstoy lies dying in Astapovo, a remote railway station. Members of the press from around the world have descended upon this sleepy hamlet to record his passing for a public suddenly ravenous for celebrity news. They have been join...

  • The Company She Keeps

    Mary McCarthy

    This is the author’s first novel, which relates the experiences of a young bohemian intellectual. The six episodes create a fascinating portrait of a New York social circle of the 1930s. McCarthy’s bold insight and virtuoso style won her immediat...

  • 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...

  • Cool Chameleons

    Fay Robinson

    This Level 2 Hello Reader! Science title tells how chameleons grow, where they live, what they eat, and how they survive, in easy-to-understand language. The book also includes a complete colorful index that labels every chameleon shown in the book -...

  • Cool Customs

    Janine Scott

  • 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 Copper Braid of Shannon O'Shea

    Laura Esckelson

  • Crossroads of Twilight

    Robert Jordan

    In the tenth book of The Wheel of Timer" from the New York Times #1 bestselling author Robert Jordan, the world and the characters stand at a crossroads, and the world approaches twilight, when the power of the Shadow grows stronger. Fleeing from Eb...

  • Cuba Strait

    Carsten Stroud

    Rick Broca's had more than his share of hard knocks -- which may explain why he's a retired cop at the age of thirty-three, working as a technical consultant for Hollywood producer Jake Siegel. For the last few months, that's meant taking care of Sie...

  • 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 ...

  • Curse

    Nancy Holder; Debbie Viguie

    Holly Cathers and her twin cousins are powerful witches who are in constant danger from a rival clan, but when Holly learns from a vision that Jer is still alive, she resolves to rescue him despite the fact that he is a member of an enemy clan. Origi...

  • 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...

  • Daredevil: The Movie

    Bruce Jones

    Matt Murdock, gifted with superhuman senses when an accident leaves him blind, uses his skills to protect the residents of Hell's Kitchen as the masked hero Daredevil, pitting himself against the Kingpin of Crime....

  • Daredevil/Elektra: Love and War

    Frank Miller

    Writer Frank Miller and artist Bill Sienkiewicz are two visionary creators -and when their talents combine, the results are spectacular! In the acclaimed Daredevil graphic novel LOVE AND WAR, Miller and Sienkiewicz take a unique look at the bitter ri...

  • Dark Ambition

    Allan Topol

    The Secretary of State has been murdered in his home. It looks like a robbery gone wrong. It seems the prime suspect is the politician's gardener. But in Washington, D.C., nothing is as it seems. Justice Department lawyer Ben Hartwell is assigned the...

  • Dark Waters

    Catherine MacPhail / Cathy MacPhail

    Col McCann is used to being in trouble. It is always the McCann family, in particular Mungo, Col's brother, who the police think of first. But Col has recently acquired a new fan - Dominic. Col saves Dominic from drowning in the local loch and di...

  • Darkness in Him

    Andrew Lyons

    Jake Conason is the Golden Boy of Jefferson University in St. Louis. His future is big and promising--top grades, a gorgeous girlfriend, membership in the most popular fraternity on campus, and he's headed toward law school. But when one night's drun...

  • Dawdle Duckling

    Toni Buzzeo

    Always the last to come around, Dawdle Duckling loves to spin and swirl and waste the day away in dreams, but when Mama Duck screams at him that a crocodile is waiting for him close by, Dawdle Duckling quickly learns how to move at top speed like all...

  • Day Of Honor Omnibus

    Multiple Authors

    Together in one volume: six complete novels that explore the heart and soul of Klingons everywhere! To true Klingonâ"¢ warriors, no occasion is more sacred than the Day of Honor, when they pay homage to all that makes them Klingon. But honor can take...

  • Deadly Intent

    Christiane Heggan

    Abbie DiAngelo finally has the life she's always wanted. She has gotten past her divorce and cherishes her nine-year-old son, Ben. Her restaurant is making money and she is being heralded as the hot new chef. Then her stepbrother reenters her lif...

  • The Decadent Countess

    Deborah Miles

    Young widow Miranda Fitzgibbon arrives in England to meet her late husband's family, only to find she has been mistaken for her scandalous stepmother, the decadent countess. Playing up to the in-laws' expectations, Miranda revels in her new role as t...

  • Deep Freeze

    Patricia Hall

    Yorkshire newspaper reporter Laura Ackroyd and DCI Michael Thackeray are finally trying their hand at living together after years of carrying on a tumultuous affair. Though they care deeply for one another, each seems to constantly have one foot out ...

  • Deja Vu

    Katherine O'Neal
    in

    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...

  • 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...

  • The Desert Crucible

    Zane Grey

    John Shefford sets out to rescue three people trapped in Surprise Valley, including Fay Larkin, who, unbeknownst to him, has been forced into a polygamous marriage to a mysterious Mormon leader. Reprint....

  • Desert Wives

    Betty Webb

    'TIL DEATH DO US PART Driven by moral outrage and deep personal demons, Arizona private investigator Lena Jones enters the brutal world of polygamy when she is hired by a frantic mother desperate to rescue her thirteen-year-old daughter from a pol...

  • Detective Academy: Interviews and Interrogations

    Paul Mauro

  • 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...

  • The Devil's Corral

    Les Savage Jr.

    Includes "The Devil's Corral," in which an obstinate horse named Devil gives Ed Ketland a run for his money; "Satan Sits a Big Bronc," in which a carpetbag governor hires a gang of outlaws to enforce his new laws; and "Senorita Scorpion," in which Ch...

  • 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...

  • Dhampir

    Barb Hendee; J.C. Hendee

    SHE HUNTS THE REALM'S MOST DANGEROUS GAME. HER FEES ARE EXORBITANT. SHE'S WORTH EVERY COIN SHE RECEIVES. OR IS SHE? Magiere has earned a reputation as the most formidable vampire slayer in the land. Villagers far and wide welcome her with both awe...

  • Disapparation of James

    Anne Ursu

    From the highly praised author of Spilling Clarence, a luminous novel about the joy of family and the perils of loving.

    The Woodrow family is going to the circus to celebrate Greta's seventh birthday. When five-year-old brother James eagerl...

  • 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...

  • Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me

    Declan Lynch

    Freddie Dowd has been scraping a living composing catchy jingles for TV ads. That is, until he hits the big time. One of his tunes is recorded by the boy band Fellaz and tops the charts in almost every country worldwide. Freddie suddenly finds himse...

  • Doctor and Son

    Maggie Kingsley

    A previous affair ended badly, but it left Annie with her beloved son. Now Jamie is old enough for day care, and Annie is going back to work -- in the gynecology department of Belfield Infirmary. As a single mom and a junior doctor, Annie has enou...

  • 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 fastâ€"paced and suspenseful inspirational writing readers found in A Penny for Your Thoughts.

    Working to provide quality work clothes to wome...

  • Don't Tell a Soul

    S.K. McClafferty

    Beneath Every Surface In the dark, silent waters of Bayou des Cannes, Louisiana, bad things happen. They happened ten years ago when a young girl was found brutally murdered. And now, they're happening again--another time, another girl, another vici...

  • Door #1: Heaven Scent

    Vicki Lewis Thompson
    in

    Jamie Ruskin never considered using her knowledge of aromatherapy to help her attract men -- until now. This Valentine's Day, she's going to get the guy she's lusted after for years -- rugged Dev Sherman. Armed with essential, sensual oils, Jamie's p...

  • 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 ...

  • Door #3: Diamond Mine

    Leslie Kelly / Leslie A. Kelly
    in

    Schoolteacher Meg O'Rourke never guessed when she agreed to let "Shear Delights," a trendy new Chicago salon, use her digital photo that her image would be displayed wearing the scantiest, sexiest underthings she'd ever seen. Or that one customer, in...

  • Double the Ducks

    Stuart J. Murphy

    It's hard work, taking care of 5 little ducks. But when each little duck comes home with a friend -- oh, no! Now it's double the ducks and double the work. How can 1 little boy get everything done?

    Understanding how to double numbers helps ...

  • 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 Dozen Kisses

    Mia Ryan
    in

    Lady Whistledown Tells All! Society is abuzz when the Season's most promising debutante is jilted by her intended only to be swept away by the deceitful rogue's dashing older-brother- in New York Times bestseller JULIA QUINN's witty, charming, and...

  • Dr. Graham's Marriage

    Meredith Webber

    With her divorce going through, Dr. Gabi Graham is restarting her life. New look, new clothes, new challenges! The only thing that's missing is a new man. But when Alex suddenly reappears in her life, she realizes that she only wants the old one! ...

  • Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat Movie StoryBook: Movie Tie in Book

    Random House

  • 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...

  • Dream Weaver

    Penina Keen Spinka

    In the four years since Picture Maker and her loved ones were driven north, many changes have come to a people and a land. The long, arduous journey that took Picture Maker from a young Indian separated from her tribe to a bride of a Norse hunter nam...

  • Dreaming the Eagle

    Manda Scott / M.C. Scott

    Dreaming the Eagle is the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica. Boudica means Bringer of Victory (from the early Celtic word “boudeg†). She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain; the only wom...

  • Dreams Lost, Never Walked

    Raumoa Ormsby

  • Dreamwalk

    Paul Ruditis

    YOU CAN RUN, BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE. Night after night Kyle is haunted by nightmares of Alex's death. He begs Isabel to help by dreamwalking him and removing the images from his mind. Isabel knows that's not how her powers work, but Kyle is relentless a...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • The Elephant and the Maruti

    Radhika Jha

  • Eleven Karens

    Peter Lefcourt

    Not since Flaubert's L'éducation sentimentale has a novel so vividly described man's helplessness in the face of woman. In this tale of sexual education, the narrator recounts his experiences with eleven fascinating women -- all of whom happen to be...

  • The Eligible Miss Elliot

    Victoria Hinshaw

    A WARY HEIRESS Wealthy Miss Rosalind Elliott is all too aware of what she represents to prospective suitors. In her golden hair, they see the coin of the realm; in her sapphire blue eyes, the value of her investments. She fears becoming hard hearted...

  • Emily Is a Flower Girl

    Claire Masurel

  • Emily's First Sleepover

    Claire Masurel

  • Encore, Encore

    Kathleen Fuller
    in

    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...

  • End of India

    Khushwant Singh

    Analysing the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002, the burning of Graham Staines and his children and his children, the anti-Sikh riots of 1984 and targeted killings by terrorists in different parts of the country, Khushwant Singh forces us to confr...

  • The Experiment

    Stephen Kyle

    THE NIGHTMARE A concentration camp, a doctor's cruel face, and death....Movie stuntwoman Alana Marks never experienced any of the hell that happened decades ago, but somehow she has horrifying memories of it all. THE SECRET Giving birth in warti...

  • Faith in a Long Shot

    Joanna Campbell

    Will it be victory â€" or tragedy â€" when Triple Crown fever hits the Thoroughbred series?

    When Image comes in second in the Florida Derby, Melanie and Jazz decide to enter her in the Kentucky Derby. Image has proven she has what it take...

  • Faith: Filling the God Size Hole

    Renuka Nrayanan

    In this book, Renuka Narayanan, one of Indias leading mainstream commentators on religion and sprituality, looks at ways to fill the empty space that Sartre famously called ''the God-sized hole'' in our consciousness. Eschewing extreme viewpoints, sh...

  • 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...

  • The Fall

    Simon Mawer

    Rob Ross is driving home when he hears that his childhood friend Jim Matthewson has fallen to his death in a climbing accident. Rob's decision to turn his car around and make the journey to comfort Jim's widow is the beginning of a journey into the p...

  • False Steps

    Sandra Heath

    False Steps, True Love Mistakenly believed by the Queen of England to hold a tendre for her granddaughter, Cassian Stratford, Marquess of Lansdale, finds himself packed off to the south coast at Her Majesty's request. In the wilds of Weymouth...

  • 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...

  • Fat Ollie's Book

    Ed McBain

    Murders happen every day in the big bad city. They're not such a big deal, you know. Even when the victim is a city councilman as well known as Lester Henderson. But this is the first time Fat Ollie Weeks of the 88th Precinct has written a novel,...

  • Fear Itself

    Jonathan Nasaw

    The charmingly disheveled FBI Special Agent E.L. Pender is strapping on his nonregulation calfskin shoulder holster one last time on his last day on the job, showing the ropes to his eager successor, Investigative Specialist Linda Abruzzi. Then a...

  • Fever

    Linda Dominique Grosvenor

  • The Fifth Ring

    Mitchell Graham

    WHERE IS A DESTINY BORN? For a boy from a small village -- and for the vast world surrounding him -- it is born in triumph...and bitter outrage. In the peaceful town of Devondale, young Mathew Lewin's skill fencing wins him a prize at once ...

  • Final Justice

    W.E.B. Griffin

    Detective Matt Payne-newly promoted to Sergeant and assigned to Homicide-finds himself in the middle of three major assignments. The first, a fatal shooting at a fast-food restaurant, seems simple, but rapidly becomes complicated. The second begins c...

  • Final Witness

    Simon Tolkien

    The grandson of J.R.R. Tolkien makes a thrilling debut as a novelist in this suspenseful courtroom drama that will have you guessing to the very end.“Don’t let the author’s last name confuse you, for there are no Hobbits in this debut novel by ...

  • Finding Amy

    Dawn Stewardson

    Free-spirited Chelsea Everett might think life is one big adventure not to be taken seriously, but as an instructor at Risk Control International, a company in the "survival business," she's anything but irresponsible. That's why Trent Harrison, w...

  • Finding Ruth

    Roxanne Henke

    Ruthie Hammond had a dream.  After high school she was moving to a big city...anywhere but Brewster.  Surely God had a plan for her, and it wasn't in this small, nowhere town.

    Twenty years later she's back in Brewster working at a failing...

  • Fire & Flesh

    Evan Kingsbury

    BURN
    It looks like a case of spontaneous human combustion. But it is only the beginning of an inexplicable death scourge that fills the air of a record-breaking heat wave with the smell of burning flesh.

    BABY
    As the temperature rises...

  • Five Little Bunny Rabbits

    William Boniface

    Five little, four little, three little...two little adorable books that will let little kids count their way down through two exciting Easter adventures that end with a surprise! With a unique trim size, a plastic-molded counting piece on each spread...

  • Five Little Easter Eggs

    William Boniface

  • Five Little Turkeys

    William Boniface