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New Books List: 727 titles

  • Flight of the Genie

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! A genie is trapped -- in a teeny, tiny bottle! Hoja is being held prisoner in the city of Ut. And the city of Ut is magically stuck inside a small bottle. Luckily, Eric, Keeah, and th...

  • Mystery of the Lost Valentine

    Linda Williams Aber

    Barbie is one of the top girls' properties - the world's #1 fashion doll. Now Scholastic is on the Barbie bandwagon with stories starring Barbie as a reporter with a nose for a mystery.

    Barbie and her friend Kira are receiving mysterious lette...

  • Dance with the Devil

    Cherry Adair
    in

    There's the date from hell -- the guy in a bad suit and toupee -- and the hot date from hell.These men are waaay too tempting. One wicked, sexy grin and, well -- who can resist! Certainly not these three women... A spy should know better, but t...

  • A Dilly of a Death

    Susan Wittig Albert

    China Bayles is in a pickle. The daughter of her best friend Ruby has turned up on her doorstep, pregnant and in need of a place to live. And her otherwise sensible husband McQuaid has announced that he's bored with teaching--he wants to try his hand...

  • Little Girl Lost

    Richard Aleas

    Miranda Sugarman was supposed to be in the Midwest, working as an eye doctor. So how did she wind up dead on the roof of New York's seediest strip club? Ten years earlier, Miramla had been P.I. John Blake's girlfriend. Now he must uncover her secr...

  • Anguilla: Tranquillity Wrapped in Blue

    Arif Ali

    With its pristine, white-sand beaches, washed by crystal-clear waters, Anguilla embodies tranquillity itself. This lavishly illustrated book provides unique insight into one of the Caribbean's - and world's - most exclusive tourist destinations....

  • Madras on Rainy Days

    Samina Ali

    Set against the backdrop of the ancient walled city of Hyderabad and mounting Hindu-Muslim tensions, Madras on Rainy Days lyrically evokes the complexities of life behind the chador. A gorgeously written novel by an original new voice in internationa...

  • Dolphins

    Elizabeth Allen

    Dolphins aren't just clowns, doing tricks at marine shows. Dolphins are intelligent, social creatures, and they're endangered. Find out more about these lively mammals in this information-packed book....

  • Kissing Frogs

    Laura Marie Altom

    A Modern-Day Fairy Tale Biologist Lucy Gordon had one chance in a million to capture her every dream. Money. Fame. And most important -- finally earning her father's respect. It all depended upon her discovering a new species of frog. Then one...

  • Blue Skies

    Catherine Anderson

    TWO PEOPLE WHO UNEXPECTEDLY DISCOVER THE HEALING POWER OF LOVE.... Carly Adams feels as if she's been given a new lease on life. Born with a rare eye disease, she was blind until a recent operation restored her sight. Now she's eager to experience...

  • Leo, the Lovable Lion

    Giles Andreae

    Originally published as The Lion Who Wanted to Love. Leo is not your average lion cub. Instead of eating antelopes and zebras, he'd rather hug them and be their friend. Leo's mom and the rest of the lions don't understand his bighearted attitude towa...

  • As Good as Dead in Downtown

    Neil Arksey

    Kai lives on his wits in the slums of Portobello, under the rule of Nebula, the modern city on the peninsula. The Nebulan scientists are experimenting with genetically modified humans, but twins Phoebe and Phoenix escape from the lab and disappear in...

  • On Her Way

    Sandy Asher

    From authors such as Linda Sue Park and Donna Jo Napoli, an anthology offers readers a diverse collection of stories and poems about the struggles, joys, and dramas experienced in becoming a teenage girl....

  • The Postmaster

    Saad Ashraf

    Ghulam Rasool is barely eight years old when his father, a superintendent in the Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department, passes away in 1901, ostensibly unable to cope with the demise of Her Majesty Queen Victoria. Brought up by his spirited and prag...

  • Myth Alliances

    Robert Asprin; Jodi Lynn Nye

    MYTH-GUIDED ADVICE... To get their dimension out of debt, the sheepish Wuhses called in ten Pervects to take control of their finances. The problem is, now the fearsome females won't leave. They're holding the Wuhses' purse strings--and much more....

  • Once Upon a Time

    Jim Aylesworth

  • Bunny in a Basket

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Puppy in a Present

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At ANIMAL ARK, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy's friend...

  • Monster Bones: The Story of a Dinosaur Fossil

    Jacqui Bailey

  • Anna Shares

    Barbara Baker

  • Ironfire

    David Ball

    From the acclaimed author of Empires of Sand comes a mesmerizing new adventure that Jean Auel cites as “crowded with events that both forecast and mirror the conflicts of today.” Sweeping from the drawing rooms of Paris to the palace of Suleiman ...

  • Lemonade with a Twist

    Steven Banks

    Timmy opens a lemonade stand so he can earn money to buy tickets to Crash Nebula on Ice. But Timmy's flavorful lemonade has a special ingredient -- a magical dunk from Cosmo's sweaty socks! Anyone who drinks the lemonade gets his or her wish gran...

  • Texas Star

    Elaine Barbieri

    SINS OF THE FATHER Buck Star was a handsome cad with a love-'em-and-leave-'em attitude that broke more than one heart. But when he walked out on a beautiful New Orleans socialite, he set into motion a chain of treachery and deceit that would threate...

  • Trifecta

    Robert G. Barrett

    two classic Les Norton adventures in one volume, plus Robert G. Barrettᱠoutrageous columns on life in Australia PLUS the ultimate Les Norton trivia challenge. Mud Crab Boogie Oogie oogie oogie, do the Mud Crab Boogie. Look out Wagga Wagga 埌es Nor...

  • The Last to Die // Beg to Die

    Beverly Barton

    BE CAREFUL WHO YOU LOVE... Cherokee Pointe, Tennessee, has seen murder before, but nothing like what has claimed the life of Jamie Upton, heir to the Upton fortune. The crime is so vicious, so personal and filled with hatred, the authorities are cer...

  • The Running Man

    Michael Gerard Bauer

    There had always been the Running Man--always that phantom form somewhere in the distance, always shuffling relentlessly closer . . . For a long time, fourteen-year-old Joseph has wondered about old Tom Leyton, his reclusive next-door neighbor. G...

  • Mississippi Blues

    Cassandra Darden Bell

  • Sleepover Movie Scrapbook

    Elisa Bell

  • Microcosms

    Gregory Benford

    Award-winning author and scientist Gregory Benford has collected all-new, hard-science stories about miniature universes of every imaginable kind. These 13 stories will open portals into unforgettable universes that exist within or outside our own. <...

  • The Accidental Duchess

    Jessica Benson

    Dear Reader, I married the wrong man. I had every intention of doing the thing right. Of saying my vows and walking out on the arm of Bertie Milburn. Nice, safe, easygoing Bertie. And that is precisely what I thought I had done. But as it...

  • The Spinster and the Wastrel

    Louise Bergin

    For Richer or Poorer Miss Annette Courtney spent many years begging for donations from the miserly Sir Nigel Montfort on behalf of the poor tenants residing on his estate. Now that he's passed away, she wonders if the new baronet will be just ...

  • Mission: Marriage

    Hannah Bernard

    Husband wanted -- fast! Lea is turning thirty, and the alarm is ringing on her biological clock. But how does a woman with just one ex-boyfriend under her belt learn to find Mr. Right? Tom may be a serial dater with no interest in settling down...

  • The Thing About Men

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    Three Things About MEN: They think dinner comes in a box . . . Claire Willoughby, nationally famous lifestyle diva, knows what it takes to cook luscious meals from scratch, stencil a wall border from a grocery bag, and create beautiful holiday orn...

  • Nights of Rain and Stars

    Maeve Binchy

    In a tiny Greek village, tourists enter a hilltop tavern, alone and in pairs, for a casual lunch. But a sudden tragedy in the harbor below causes these perfect strangers to become unlikely friends as their lives begin to entwine. Fiona left her nu...

  • Hacker

    Malorie Blackman

  • Twilight Time

    Emma Blair

    Sisters Crista and Maggs work in a Devon village paper mill. Life is hard - the Great War has recently ended, money is scarce and days are long. Even the Saturday night dances are same-ish. But they are happy enough, particularly when love comes alon...

  • It's My Party

    Cindy Blake

    For as long as she can remember, Isabel has been consumed with love for David, a man who is now her business partner and married to another. Together they run PARTYTIME, organising celebrity parties and until now, they've been doing very nicely. Unti...

  • Borrowed Identity

    Kasi Blake

    APPEARANCES CAN BE DECEIVING... A groggy Kelly Hall didn't understand why her dead husband was standing in front of her, telling her their wedding night that had ended in his grisly "murder" had all been a dream. Was she going insane or was someon...

  • Who Am I?

    Wiley Blevins

  • Is It Hot? Is It Not?

    Wiley Blevins

  • Law of the Land: The Trial of Billy Kid

    Johnny D. Boggs

    After his capture in 1880 by Pat Garrett, Billy the Kid must stand trial and pay the price for the crimes he has committed, from murder to his rides with the Regulators, but Billy has a few surprises in store for the judge and jury. Original....

  • Catalyst of Sorrows

    Margaret Wander Bonanno

    THE YEAR IS 2360 She was trained to be a killing machine. Abandoned as a child, without home or family, past or future, Zetha survived only by her own cunning in the back alleys of Romulus before being taken by the Tal Shiar and remade into one of i...

  • Miss Seton's Sonata // An Exotic Heir

    Meredith Bond

    Their Love Can Flourish... The only time that Teresa Seton feels beautiful is when she is lost in her music at the pianoforte. Until, that is, a charming new acquaintance convinces Teresa that she is as pretty and witty as any young lady in society,...

  • A Face in the Dark and Other Hauntings

    Ruskin Bond

  • Amu

    Shonali Bose

    Kajori (Kaju) Roy, a vivacious young Indian-American, returns to the land of her birth to discover her roots. Adopted as an orphaned three-year-old, her attempts to delve into her forgotten childhood throw up a number of intriguing questions: Who wer...

  • Pish and Posh

    Barbara Bottner

    Pish and Posh are very best friends. They live in the same house, share their chores, and usually get along.

    One day, a Fairy Handbook mysteriously lands at their door. An awfully curious Posh can't resist the book's magic, despite Pish'...

  • Tales of the Grand Tour

    Ben Bova

    New tales of humanity's near-future exploration of the Solar System, from a science fiction master and award-winning author Ben BovaIn novels like Mars and Moonbase, and Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, as well as Privateers, The Precipice, and The Rock ...

  • Custer, Terry and Me

    G.G. Boyer

    On June 25, 1876, the most famous Cavalry and Indian battle in frontier history was fought on the banks of a lonely Montana stream that the Sioux called Greasy Grass and the white men called the Little Big Horn. Although much has been written about t...

  • The Cat Who Talked Turkey

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    The good people of Moose County are in a fever of excitement. It's almost time for the gala groundbreaking of the Pickax bookstore--and the town of Brrr is preparing for its bicentennial celebration. All the festivities, however, are spoiled by the d...

  • Black Gold

    Matt Braun

    The Osage Indians lost their ancestral freedom on a windswept reservation in Oklahoma. Now, in the Roaring Twenties, the land is spewing black gold; oil has been found, and every Osage owns a share of the rights. Soon Osage tribal members are being k...

  • The Unknown Wife

    Mary Brendan

    A single passionate night's encounter, long ago, has come back to haunt Colonel Etienne Hauke. He has a son -- by a disgraced Society beauty who demands that Etienne should make an honest woman of her! Isabel must marry her charming seducer -...

  • Saskia's Journey

    Theresa Breslin

    Saskia is intrigued by an invitation to visit her great-aunt Alessandra. She realizes how little she knows about her roots but she needs to understand the past if she is to find the direction for her future. Her great-aunt must reveal the secrets of ...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Sweeps the Chimney

    Emily Brightwell

    A DIRTY BUSINESS Inspector Witherspoon is perplexed. No one seems to know the identity of the dead man dressed like a vicar and propped up against the outside wall of St. Paul's Church. A paper clutched in the corpse's hand reveals the address of ...

  • Tempted

    Pamela Britton

    Alexander Drumming, the Marquis of Warrick, is no saint. Descended from a long line of rakes, he has vowed to stop dallying with the fairer sex. But now he needs a woman-an extraordinary woman to tame his wildcat of a daughter. Intelligent, spirited ...

  • Macgowan Meets His Match

    Annette Broadrick

    MR. TALL, DARK AND DANGEROUS One by one, he'd terrified those women who would be his assistant. Like some dark laird of the manor, Sir Ian MacGowan seemed more beast than man, scowl and scars included. But Jenna Craddock knew her boss was pure mal...

  • The Rules of Engagement

    Anita Brookner

    Elizabeth and Betsy had been school friends in 1950s London. Elizabeth, prudent and introspective, values social propriety. Betsy, raised by a spinster aunt, is open, trusting, and desperate for affection. After growing up and going their separate wa...

  • Confinement

    Carrie Brown

    A refugee from Vienna and the war in Europe, Arthur Henning is comfortable in his new life as a chauffeur for a New York banker and his family, but his complacency is thrown into turmoil when he is ordered to drive Aggie, the daughter of the family, ...

  • Strike Zone

    Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    In the Nevada desert, the high-tech future of warfare is being conceived and constructed at a top-secret military facility called Dreamland Strike Zone. An Asian war that would have escalated into a nuclear nightmare has been halted, thanks to the...

  • Golden Sleepy Book

    Margaret Wise Brown

    In this collection of stories, songs, and poems, Margaret Wise Brown whispers tales of dreaming bunnies, drowsy bees, and all the pretty little horses . . . beautifully illustrated by Garth Williams in his whimsical yet realistic style. Available for...

  • Going to the Source

    Victoria Brown

  • The Killing of the Tinkers

    Ken Bruen

    When Jack Taylor blew town at the end of The Guards his alcoholism was a distant memory and sober dreams of a new life in London were shining in his eyes. In the opening pages of The Killing of the Tinkers, Jack's back in Galway a year later with a n...

  • Mother's Love

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

  • Hitts & Mrs.

    Lori Bryant-Woolridge

    Two people, separated by age and color but united in love, find themselves headed down an uncertain path -- a path the head rejects, but the heart demands be followed ... Melanie Hitts is a charming African-American woman who is attractive, profes...

  • The Good Wife Strikes Back

    Elizabeth Buchan

    Forty-eight-year-old Fanny Savage has a nineteen-year record-earned with patience, devotion, and contentment-as the perfect wife to an ambitious, idealistic politician. Life is a whirlwind of public engagements and unquestioning loyalty to the party,...

  • That Certain Age

    Elizabeth Buchan

    Barbara and Siena sisters, whose lives are separated by fifty years, but linked in a variety of subtle and surprising ways as they try to make sense of the conflicting demands of liberation and duty, freedom and necessity, and the labyrinthine pursui...

  • South of No North

    Charles Bukowski

    South of No North is a collection of short stories written by Charles Bukowski that explore loneliness and struggles on the fringes of society....

  • The Solitary Envoy

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Erica Langston’s comfortable home and loving family carry no outward hint of sorrows and fears faced by her Acadian forebears, but she soon discovers that similar determination and fortitude will be required of her. When the British invade the fled...

  • Lessons from Lester

    Jan Burchett; Sara Vogler

  • Boy Meets Girl

    Meg Cabot

    Meet Kate Mackenzie. She: - works for the T.O.D. (short for Tyrannical Office Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Division at the New York Journal) - is sleeping on the couch because her boyfriend of ten years refuse...

  • Growing Up on the Edge of the World

    Phil Callaway

  • Home to Texas

    Bethany Campbell

    Tara Hastings never meant to come to Crystal Creek. She's fled to the Texas Hill Country hoping to protect herself and her four-year-old son from the fallout of a nasty divorce. Grady McKinney's home is the open road. Born and raised in Crystal Cr...

  • My Little Bear Library

    Candlewick Press

  • Shacked Up // Moving In

    Kate Cann

    Living the life with a fancy, free apartment and a great job, Rich is happy with the way things are going and feels confident about his chances with the beautiful Portia, but when his old friend Bonny comes in need of a place to stay, Rich can't refu...

  • Vertical Coffin

    Stephen J. Cannell

    A nightmarish series of events sweeps LAPD's Sergeant Shane Scully and his wife (and boss), Alexa, into the vortex of an enormous, jurisdictional firestorm. First, a sheriff's deputy, a friend of Shane's, is gunned down while serving a routine sea...

  • Armando's Treasure

    Melody Carlson

    HE HAD NOTHING TO LOSE. HE HAD EVERYTHING TO LOSE. When Armando Garcia wanders onto Dora Chase's property, he has no idea how his life will change. What could this twenty-year-old Hispanic man on the run from a troubled past possibly have in common ...

  • Sleeping with Secrets

    Tori Carrington
    in

    A provocative story of white-hot passion between a man with a wicked past and a woman who dares to expose his secrets and his sin-singed heart....

  • Past, Present and a Future

    Janice Carter

    He was her first love At Twin Falls High School, Gil Harper and Clare Morgan were inseparable -- until the murder of a classmate tore their world, and their relationship, apart. Gil was a prime suspect in the murder, and although he was quickl...

  • Rules of Engagement

    Carla Cassidy

    From the desk of Emily Winters Bachelor #5: Nate Leeman Title: Senior VP of Technology This month's scheme: Hire his old flame -- the only woman who can drive this exec crazy. Lone wolf Nate Leeman must have an iceberg in place of his heart -...

  • Desert Star

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    In this captivating sequel to Desert Rose, popular novelist Linda Chaikin takes readers out west for a spirited romance.

    Callie Halliday glitters as she sweeps across the stage in Virginia City. With her career on the rise, Callie is determ...

  • Raiders of the Western Atlantic

    Tim Champlin

    A group of men in the Union Army attempt to steal the General and drive the engine to safety behind Union Lines, burning Confederate bridges as they go. The theft of the General unleashes a desperate pursuit through Confederate territory....

  • Baby Animals

    Cindy Chapman

  • In a Strange Garden: The Life and Times of Truby King

    Lloyd Chapman

  • The Strawberry Patch

    Nonda Chatterjee

  • Where Animals Live

    Janelle Cherrington

  • The Enemy

    Lee Child

    Jack Reacher. Hero. Loner. Soldier. Soldier's son. An elite military cop, he was one of the army's brightest stars. But in every cop's life there is one case that changes everything. For Jack Reacher, this is that case.... New Year's Day, 1990. In...

  • Some Kind of Wonderful

    Maureen Child

    Holiday shop owner Carol Baker infuses her business and her life with peace and good will. But she has secrets from her past that make her all the more determined to someday have a family of her own. She never expects a sweltering July heat wave to b...

  • Photo Finished

    Laura Childs

    From Laura Childs, author of the popular Tea Shop Mysteries, comes scrapbooking shop owner Carmelo Bertrand, who delights her customers with the sophisticated looks she achieves with their scrapbooks. But when a neighbor is wiped out of the picture, ...

  • Family Unveiled

    Judy Christenberry
    in

    A saga about second chances for a woman bent on discovering a lost heritage while battling an attraction for the man who holds the key....

  • Fusion

    David Cian

    The war against the Keepers reaches its dramatic conclusion--and the Transformers are at the forefront of the battle! To protect the Earth, and themselves, the Autobots and Decepticons must form an uneasy alliance against more than one powerful enemy...

  • Luck Be a Lady

    Scott Ciencin

    Phoebe Halliwell may be ready to turn over a new leaf as a single gal, but her newly redemonized ex-husband, Cole, isn't ready to let her go. Aware of a supernatural plot against the Charmed Ones, Cole keeps watch over Phoebe, and intercedes at the m...

  • Love Lives Here: The Heart of a Mother

    Janice Clark

  • The Registrar's Wedding Wish

    Lucy Clark

    A knight in Geelong General Annie Beresford is a talented surgeon and trainee consultant. But her wish is for marriage and children before it's too late. She knows she's vulnerable, and that falling for Hayden Robinson, her new boss, is a bad idea...

  • A Quarter for a Kiss

    Mindy Starns Clark

    “We’re going where?” Just like that, business investigator Callie Webber finds herself on her way to the beautiful Virgin Islands, where a situation of great importance awaits her. Her friend and mentor, Eli Gold, is in serious trouble. “...

  • Time's Eye

    Arthur C. Clarke; Stephen Baxter

    In an instant, Earth is carved up in time and reassembled like a huge jigsaw puzzle. Suddenly the world becomes a patchwork of eras, from prehistory to 2037, each with its own indigenous inhabitants. The explanation for this cataclysmic event may ...

  • The Breakable Vow

    Kathryn Ann Clarke

    One night will change her life . . . Annie McGowan is eighteen years old, smart, wisecracking, fun-loving . . . a typical teenager. Yet circumstances force Annie out of the security of high school and into a world of problems all her own. Faced w...

  • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell

    Susanna Clarke

    Napoleonic Wars raging on land and sea, most people believe magic to be long dead in England--until the reclusive Mr Norrell reveals his powers, and becomes a celebrity overnight. Soon, another practicing magician comes forth: the young, handsome,...

  • Cibola

    James H. Cobb

  • The Wife of Reilly

    Jennifer Coburn

    Take My Husband, Please... Okay, here's how it happened. I went to my college reunion and hooked up with Matt, the love of my life, my soulmate, the one who got away. After the most wonderful weekend together, he said something like, "I love you; ...

  • Wakefield

    Andrei Codrescu

    A modern-day Faust embarks on a wild romp through the peculiar and preposterous American landscape When the Devil shows up in Wakefield’s living room to announce that his time is up, the bookish “de-motivational” speaker tries to strike a deal....

  • The Closed Circle

    Jonathan Coe

    The characters of The Rotters’ Club"Jonathan Coe’s beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s"have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium....

  • The Adventures of the Magic School Bus

    Joanna Cole

    THIS BOOK IS A COMPILATION OF 4 MAGIC SCHOOL BUS ADVENTURES "From episodes of the animated TV series...." based on the book series. INCLUDED ARE: Sees Stars: A Book about Stars Inside Ralphie: A Book about Germs Wet All Over: A Book about the Water C...

  • I Will Survive

    Samantha Connolly

    When mild-mannered librarian Jessie Banks ends up as a finalist on the hot reality-TV show Survive This!, her whole world turns upside down. "Stranded" on a tropical island with Nick Garrett -- a hunk of a host -- and two other competitors, she's tho...

  • Luck and a Prayer

    Cynthia Cooke

    UNFAMILIAR TERRITORY As a tough L.A. cop, Willa Barrett thought she could handle anything. Until she was trekking through mountainous woods, trying to find evidence that was mixed up with a youth minister leading a preteen church retreat. Wi...

  • Ostrich Eye

    Beth Cooley

    Is the man Ginger meets in the park really her long-lost father . . . or is he her family’s worst nightmare?

    The guy is everywhere. On the jogging path. At the video store. In the coffeehouse. He’s beginning to give Ginger the creeps. But ...

  • Crofton's Fire

    Keith Coplin

    In 1876, Crofton, a young second lieutenant, embarks on a series of extraordinary adventures that lead from Little Bighorn, from which he escapes just before Custer is killed by his own men, halfway around the world to a rebellion in Cuba and the Zul...

  • Anita's Fortune

    Kay Cornelius

    Anita Sanchez doesn't know who to trust. Some in her family were killed by Colombian drug lords. Her husband hid his own life of crime from her until he was sent to prison - where he died in a riot. Now one of her husband's old partners claims Ani...

  • The Last Kingdom

    Bernard Cornwell

    In the middle years of the ninth century, the fierce Danes stormed onto British soil, hungry for spoils and conquest. Kingdom after kingdom fell to the ruthless invaders until but one realm remained. And suddenly the fate of all England--and the cour...

  • Sharpe's Escape

    Bernard Cornwell

    Richard Sharpe and the Bussaco Campaign, 1810 Only two obstacles stand between Napoleon's mighty army and its seemingly certain conquest of Portugal: a land wasted and stripped of food at Wellington's orders ... and Captain Richard Sharpe. But peril...

  • Gunman's Song

    Ralph Cotton

    AND THE LAST SHALL BE FAST Lawrence Shaw once got a boost out of being the quickest gun alive. Now he’s partial to telling gunfighter stories rather than living them. But that doesn’t stop every ornery shootist with an itchy trigger finger fro...

  • Brother Fish

    Bryce Courtenay

    "Brother Fish" is an inspiring human drama of three lives brought together and changed for ever by the extraordinary events of recent history. "Brother Fish" is an Australian saga spanning eighty years and four continents. Inspired by real events,...

  • At Your Service

    Amy Jo Cousins

    HEIRESS ON THE RUN A few white lies and Grace Haley had herself a waitressing job at Tyler's Bar & Grill. It wasn't that she didn't have enough experience. As heir to the nine top-grossing Chicago restaurants, she knew her way around a kitchen. Bu...

  • Whirlwind Bride

    Debra Cowan

    COULD A HOTHOUSE FLOWER BLOOM UNDER BURNING TEXAS SKIES? Riley Holt didn't think so. Susannah Phelps was fair, fragile... and wholly unsuited for frontier life. And being pregnant didn't help matters. What she needed was a ticket back east -- or ...

  • Land of Promise

    Carol Cox

    Elizabeth Simmons prefers a land of promise. . .over the life of mundane propriety. When offered a job caring for an injured family acquaintance, Elizabeth gladly sets off for the newly formed Arizona Territory. However, she soon discovers the awful ...

  • A Convenient Marriage

    Maggie Cox

    A wife for six months? On their third date, millionaire Argentinean Javier D'Alessandro knocked Sabrina Kendricks off her feet when he asked her to marry him! But this was no whirlwind romance -- Javier needed a British wife to adopt his or...

  • The Road Home

    Susan Crandall

    Desperate for a brand-new start in life, Lily Holt grits her teeth and reluctantly travels the road back home with her teenage son Riley. But she's still waiting to exhale because Riley is getting into trouble again. Hoping a job at the local marina ...

  • Constellations

    Peter Crowther

    An outstanding compilation of fifteen original tales explores topics ranging from outer space to inner space, from cosmology to astrology, in an anthology featuring works by Brian W. Aldiss, Paul McAuley, Stephen Baxter, Gwyneth Jones, Ian McDonald, ...

  • Secrets

    Heather Cullman

    THE SLAVE Enslaved by an Indian mogul, Christian English has nothing of his own except his name. But due to an acute case of amnesia, he's not even sure what his real identity is. Was he a pauper or a prince? A pickpocket or a parson? So when fe...

  • The Sea Hunters II

    Clive Cussler; Craig Dirgo

    The second thrilling account of #1 New York Times bestselling author Clive Cusslers's real-life search for lost ships, planes, and other marvels that changed history. For decades, Clive Cussler’s real-life NUMA®, the National Underwater and M...

  • Haven

    Don D'Ammassa

    Wes Avery came to the planet Meadow to recuperate from a serious illness. The pastoral town of Haven seemed like just the quiet place he needed to get his strength back. That all changed when he stumbled across a body while walking in a field, a body...

  • Inner Voices: Stories

    Kisoraicaraona Daasa

    Kishori Charan Das, winner of the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1976, is an eminent Oriya author whose works have been widely translated. In this collection of nine short stories, Das observes the many facets of the Indian middle class, the choices they m...

  • One Big Building: A Counting Book about Construction

    Michael Dahl

  • S for Dahl

    Roald Dahl

    Did you know that Roald Dahl loved chocolate, but never ate spaghetti? Or that he was a terrible speller? Or that he had four sisters? D Is for Dahl is an A to Z collection of facts, trivia, and zany details that bring Roald Dahl and his memorable ch...

  • What The Heart Knows

    Margaret Daley

    REDEEMING KATHLEEN... Kathleen Somers needed something to believe in again. Rocked by her husband's death and her once-loving son's transformation, she'd drifted away from God. It wasn't until she met handsome Dr. Jared Matthews that she felt the ...

  • Strangled Intuition

    Claire Daniels

    To the "good" folks of her hometown, May North's alleged past as a madam was an affront. But Cally Lazar can intuit a lot about people from their auras. She knows that behind May's gruff exterior is a psychic storehouse of hurt and pain crying out fo...

  • His Boardroom Mistress

    Emma Darcy

    The ugly duckling becomes a...mistress! Liz prides herself on being the ultimate assistant: highly efficient, almost invisible to her boss! Which is just as well, since privately she feels very attracted to him. But getting involved with Cole Pier...

  • Lawless

    Christopher Darden; Dick Lochte

    Mercer Early, a young lawyer at one of the West Coast's most prestigious, predominantly African-American law firms, has just been assigned to a case of an L.A. cop who has shot and killed his wife. The case seems routine enough-that is, until two mor...

  • New Year's Cleanup

    George Daugherty

    Acclaimed author Amy Tan presents an entirely different heroine: Sagwa-the Chinese Siamese Cat! Join this mischievous kitten as she explores the world around her and learns a few lessons along the way

    Everyone is getting ready for the big New ...

  • Wedding Gown

    Dyanne Davis

  • Midnight Seduction

    Justine Davis

    WHAT THE NIGHT KNOWS... Millionaire treasure hunter Harlan McClaren's last adventure had nearly cost him his life. All he wanted now was to be alone, and this distant port -- where nobody knew his true identity -- seemed the perfect place. But...

  • Pink Pages

    Sarah Delmege

  • The Perpetual Ending

    Kristen den Hartog

    Reminiscent of the Brothers Grimm’s darkly magical tales, 'The Perpetual Ending' tells an enchanting story about devoted sisters and their world of opposites, doppelgangers and ghosts. Jane and Eugenie Ingrams are mirror-image twins, two halves of ...

  • Remembering One Wild Night

    Kathie DeNosky

    UNFORGETTABLE! On New Year's Eve, Travis Whelan came home to Royal and found himself face-to-face with Natalie Perez, the one woman he couldn't forget... and the baby he hadn't known about. It had been nearly a year since Trav had spent the night ...

  • Collected Stories

    Shashi Deshpande

  • Sheikh Surrender

    Jacqueline Diamond

    PLAIN JANE PRINCESS IN PERIL...? It may have been meant as a joke, but Jenny Sanger wasn't laughing. Who would post her photo on the Internet to lure men to her home claiming she sought a lover? For six weeks she was harassed before things took a ...

  • 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...

  • McCade for Hire

    William C. Dietz

    Interstellar bounty hunter Sam McCade must prevent a traitorous Navy captain from selling information on the military secrets of War World to the treacherous Il Ronn in Galactic Bounty, while Princess Claudia takes advantage of her kidnapped ...

  • After These Things

    Jenny Diski

    Continuing with her narration of the story of the Patriarchs in the Book of Genesis, After These Things is an account of the relationship between Abraham's tragic son Isaac and Isaac's son Jacob. The book follows the psychological trail of the childr...

  • Baby Einstein Learning Library

    Disney Book Group

  • Lizzie McGuire: My Secret Journal

    Disney Book Group

  • Lizzie Mcguire: My Crush-Tacular Book of Valentines

    Disney Book Group

  • Disney's Now I Know My ABC's

    Disney Book Group

    A is for apple…airplane…and Ariel! Kids will have fun learning their ABCs with their favorite Disney friends. This sturdy board book has 26 mini-board books nestled inside, each featuring a letter of the alphabet and illustrated with correspondin...

  • Disney Princess: My Side of the Story - Cinderella/Lady Tremaine - Book #1

    Disney Book Group

    The rumor that Cinderella's stepfamily tore her lovely dress to shreds so she couldn't go to the ball? According to her stepmother, they were only trying to save Cinderella a lifetime of embarrassment at her fashion faux pas and gently suggesting tha...

  • Disney Princess: My Side of the Story - Snow White/The Queen - Book #2

    Disney Book Group

    And that business about the 'evil' Queen giving Snow White a poisoned apple? Well, per the Queen herself, she was actually a health nut who was only concerned that her stepdaughter wasn't getting the proper nutrition!...

  • Ghostfires

    Keith Dixon

    One man believes Linda Bascomb was murdered. A second believes she took her own life. The first is her husband, Warren, an aging surgeon who has lost his medical license because of his morphine addiction. The second is her son, Ben, a husband and fat...

  • Eastern Standard Tribe

    Cory Doctorow

    From Cory Doctorow, a powerful and funny novel about time, tribalism, and a young man's dismaying discoveries about his own lifeScathing, bitter and funny, Eastern Standard Tribe examines the immutable truths of time, and of societies rebuilt in the ...

  • How Not to Spend Your Senior Year

    Cameron Dokey

    Rule #1: If at all possible, don't pretend to be something you're not. Specifically, don't play dead. Trust me on this one. I did it, so I should know. Jo O'Connor has spent her whole life moving around. When it comes to new schools, there's not ...

  • A Rope of Sand

    Elsie Burch Donald

    A chance encounter in a French town brings dark memories flooding back to fifty-five-year-old Kate. As a student at Sweet Briar College, Virginia in the 1950s, she joined a grand tour of Europe along with three classmates and their chaperone, Miss Gr...

  • The Adventuress

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Diva/detective Irene Adler and her bridegroom, handsome barrister Godfrey Norton, are honeymooning in Paris when they become embroiled in an investigation: a drowned sailor's body has been recovered from the Seine, and on his chest is a tattoo. A tat...

  • Clean up with the Cat!

    Dr. Seuss

    I'm the Cat in the HatAnd I've come here to say--Let's have some funWhile your mom is away!Kids can help Sally, Conrad, the Fish, and the Cat mess up, then clean up again and again in this interactive magnetic play book based on the movie!...

  • When We Touch

    Shannon Drake

    MIRROR, MIRROR, ON THE WALL... Men! If they aren't accusing Lady Maggie Graham of witchcraft or murder, they're marrying her off to old men who drop dead at the altar. And now she's going to have to save her unruly stepdaughter from a band of thievi...

  • A Little Too Fast

    Laura Driscoll

    Stuart, George, and Snowbell want to go on every ride at the fair. But when they try to do everything a little too fast, it only gets them into trouble. Snowbell has run off, they lost all their tickets, and Stuart is about to be swept away by the...

  • A Little Mess

    Laura Driscoll

    Stuart and George have entered the Little house into the Home of the Year contest. Unfortunately, Mrs. Little caught a cold and must stay in bed. Now it's up to the rest of the family to get everything in perfect order for the judges. Will they be ab...

  • The Saints and Sinners of Okay County

    Dayna Dunbar

    In the tradition of Fannie Flagg and Lorna Landvik, The Saints and Sinners of Okay County is a heartfelt and compelling debut novel with an unforgettable heroine. It’s the story of a woman whose ability to see the futures of others leads her right ...

  • The Queen of Subtleties

    Suzannah Dunn

    Anne Boleyn and Lucy Cornwallis: queen and confectioner, fatefully linked in a court rife with intrigue and treachery She was the dark-eyed English beauty who captivated King Henry VIII, only to die at his behest three years after they were marrie...

  • The Winemaker's Daughter

    Timothy Egan

    Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times national correspondent Timothy Egan turns to fiction with The Winemaker's Daughter, a lyrical and gripping novel about the harsh realities and ecological challenges of turning water into wine.When Brunella Cartol...

  • The Turtle Warrior

    Mary Relindes Ellis

    The Turtle Warrior is the story of the Lucas family, who live in a beautiful and remote part of Wisconsin inhabited by working-class European immigrants and the Ojibwe. By 1967 the Lucas farm has fallen into disrepair, thanks to the hard drinking of ...

  • Pity of It All

    Amos Elon

    The Pity of It All is a passionate and poignant history of German Jews, tracing the journey of a people and their culture from the mid eighteenth century to the eve of the Third Reich. As it is usually told, the story of the Jews in Germany starts a...

  • On River Road

    Chris Else

    A compassionate novel exploring our deep need for human comfort and reassurance, even in the midst of seeming plenty. In the trendy satellite town of Durry, four couples live in the support and trust of their joint friendship. They've stuck by one an...

  • The Linnet

    Elizabeth English

    Everyone within miles of Aylsford Keep knows the notorious reputation of Lady Maude Darnley, only twenty-one yet inflamed with a temper so sharp it can draw blood. But few know the terror and anguish her temper conceals, and no one dares to breach th...

  • Rock and Roll: Divas Supreme

    Robin Epstein

  • Sleepover Surprise: A Twin-sational Birthday

    Robin Epstein

    It's double the fun for the Twins' birthday bash! O'Ryan and Reese are turning 10 and that can only mean one thing: the girls are in for some supremely groovy surprises. The Groovies get the party started with a super secret search for some pizza...

  • Kaleidoscope

    Barbara Erasmus

    They think I'm perfect when they see me. I cry on cue. I move my arms and legs. My fingers and my toes both add up to ten. Their specialists tick all the columns on their rating scale. They won't find out. None of the tests they run will show my secr...

  • Wake Up, It's Spring!

    Lisa Campbell Ernst

    One day the earth gets a warm wake-up call from the sun -- it's Spring!

    Earth tells a little worm, and before long the happy gossip travels far and wide. . . .

    Lisa Campbell Ernst celebrates the awakening of life that comes wit...

  • Seen By Moonlight

    Kathleen Eschenburg

    A World Gone Mad Orphaned and penniless as war clouds threaten the land, Annabelle Hallston has vowed to do anything to keep her younger brother safe -- which brings her to Royce Kincaid, the notorious black sheep scion of an aristocratic family. ...

  • The Third Prophecy

    Ahmed Essop

  • Port Hazard

    Loren D. Estleman

    Hired killers, sent one by one to Montana Territory after Page Murdock. Murdock doesn't know why someone wants him out of the way, but he knows where they're coming from. Thus begins Murdock's descent into a hell more decadent, corrupt, and danger...

  • Are You Lonesome Tonight?

    Wendy Etherington

    Take two resort owners and one eccentric chef. Add a fussbudget food critic, mix up two rooms -- and what have you got? Either a recipe for disaster...or all the ingredients for love. Suite dreams are made of this.... Francesca D'Arcy has just ...

  • Longarm and the Golden Ghost

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm goes gunning for a spectral Spaniard!As a favor to the Texas Rangers, Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long goes undercover in the hell-raising West Texas town of Tascosa. What he finds is a do-nothing sheriff, a pair of seductive sirens, and a ran...

  • The Perils of Paella

    Nancy Fairbanks

    Forty-something homemaker Carolyn Blue is through with cooking and cleaning. She's finally decided to throw in the dish towel--and take on a dream job as a food writer. Now her plate is filled with exotic locales, delectable foods, and even a dash of...

  • The Kills

    Linda Fairstein

    Manhattan Assistant D.A. Alexandra Cooper is working feverishly on a tough trial, seeking justice for investment banker Paige Vallis. But in a heated "he said, she said" case, Alex learns that Paige herself has something to hide. Uptown, the murder o...

  • Perfect Sax

    Jerrilyn Farmer

    The dazzling Jazz Ball for the prestigious Woodburn School of Music promises to be event planner Madeline Bean's greatest triumph to date -- both professionally and personally. All the rich and mighty of L.A. society's fund-raising crowd seem to be s...

  • The White Feather

    Cliff Farrell

    In these three novellas, Cliff Farrell captures the bold dreams, intense passions and harsh realities of the men and women who sought their destinies across a landscape unlike any other. In the title story, Kelly Brackett must share a coach from St. ...

  • Book Book

    Fiona Farrell

    An evocative and moving mix of memoir and fiction from an award-winning novelist. As war is waged in the Middle East, a woman in New Zealand has her nose in a book. Kate is immersed in other battles, engrossed in eyewitness accounts of an earlier w...

  • Mage of Clouds

    S.L. Farrell

    Jenna MacEagan has been Banrion in Inish Thuaidh since the end of the devastating conflict with the lords of the other Tuatha. But now the Ri Ard, the High King of those Tuatha, has grown frail and may soon be replaced. And when Jenna's own half brot...

  • Amazing 3D Bugs

    Keith Faulkner

  • Once I Was a Baby

    Valerie Fawcett

  • Lucy

    Ellen Feldman

    On the eve of World War I, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fiercely ambitious and still untouched by polio, fell in love with his wife's social secretary, Lucy Mercer. Eleanor stumbled on their letters and divorce was discu...

  • My Dearest Daisy

    Jo Ann Ferguson
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    Daisy Kendall doesn't dare dream of love--and certainly not with a member of the ton. But when circumstances throw her together with Joshua, Lord Tremont, the charming gentleman won't take Daisy's regretful "no" for an answer. If the romantic letters...

  • Cutwork

    Monica Ferris

    Almost everyone in Excelsior, Minnesota -- craftsy and non-craftsy alike -- has turned out for the art fair. So when an artisan is murdered there, the list of suspects is practically endless. Betsy Devonshire wants to help out in the police investiga...

  • The Best Awful

    Carrie Fisher

    This sequel to the bestselling Postcards from the Edge contains Carrie’s Fisher’s trademark intelligence and wit that brought Postcards to the Hollywood movie screen.When we left Suzanne Vale at the end of Carrie Fisher’s bestselling Po...

  • After Havana

    Charles Fleming

    An epic and explosive novel of Cuba in 1958, After Havana is the story of the nightclubs, revolutionaries, and secret police forces in the sour twilight of the Batista empire. Sloan is a white American horn player with a bruised past and a wounded he...

  • Remember the Magic

    Donna Fletcher

    Now, she takes us back to sixteenth-century Scotland to reunite a brokenhearted witch and the brave warrior she has never stopped loving... It's been five hundred years since Sydney Wyrrd fled the Scottish Highlands, fearing her presence would bri...

  • Ring of Fire

    Eric Flint

    RETURN TO THE ALTERNATE WORLD OF 1632 AND 1633 AS TOP WRITERS JOIN FORCES IN THE SHARED-UNIVERSE BOOK OF THE YEAR A cosmic accident has shifted a modern West Virginia town back through time and space to land it and its twentieth century technology...

  • The World Turned Upside Down

    Eric Flint; David Drake

    GET READY FOR A GIANT, MIND-EXPANDING DOSE OF THE BEST SCIENCE FICTION EVER WRITTEN BY THE GREATEST SCIENCE FICTION WRITERS OF ALL TIME! When readers first encounter science fiction, they find adventures on other planets and in future worlds, expl...

  • Sugar Cookie Murder

    Joanne Fluke

    When it comes to holidays, Minnesotans rise to the occasion--and the little town of Lake Eden is baking up a storm with Hannah Swensen leading the way. The annual Christmas Buffet is the final test of the recipes Hannah has collected for the Lake Ede...

  • Grace

    Linda Ford

    Married only a year, Grace worries about her marriage. She loves Billy passionately but doesn't feel worthy of him. When Billy decides to use his experience as a Great War flying ace to start an air-taxi business, Grace fears any additional success o...

  • Beyond Suspicion

    Suzanne Forster
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  • Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

    Cristina Fox

    Rosalee Futch, a grocery store clerk in rural West Virginia, wins a date with bad-boy movie star Tad Hamilton, a date that turns out to be so successful that Rosalee is forced to choose between Tad and her best friend, Pete....

  • The Lost Girls

    Laurie Fox

    Wendy has long heard the family legend -- madness strikes the Darling women at a certain age, traditionally after romance visits in the form of an overgrown boy. The Darling girl will fall in love, the boy will desert, and the girl is left on her hee...

  • How to Survive When (You Think) There's Nothing to Do

    Suzanne Francis

  • How to Make an Egg Swim, Grow Mold, Eat "Ants," and Other Ways to Play with Your Food

    Suzanne Francis

  • Bad Publicity

    Jeffrey Frank

    In the twilight of the Reagan era, as prospects appear brighter than ever for a Democratic restoration, the lawyers, lobbyists, advisers and socialites of Washington are looking ahead -- but over their shoulders, too. With good reason. Charlie Dingl...

  • The Not-So-Perfect Man

    Valerie Frankel

    THE DECREE HAS BEEN SET: IT'S TIME TO FIND FRIEDA SCHAST A MAN. As far as her family and friends are concerned, Frieda has been the grieving widow for long enough. At 35, she's still (relatively) young, still (adequately) attractive. Her sex drive i...

  • The Hunter's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    Dame Frevisse finds that the evil that men do sometimes lives after them... In the summer of 1448, when Sir Ralph Woderove is found murdered near his estate, not even his family mourns. A hard, vicious man of many quarrels, Sir Ralph could have be...

  • Are We There Yet?

    Kitty Fross

    This book is in black and white. The chapters include: A tale of two heroes; evil doings a brewing; you don't need a license to drive a sandwich; and the award for most pointless award goes to...; from boys to men (and back again); a hero's not just ...

  • The City of Fear

    Simon Furman

  • Let It Ride

    Katherine Garbera

    THE PERFECT WIFE/ A PERFECT MARRIAGE Long legs, luscious curves and a passionate nature were fine, but what Las Vegas casino owner Deacon Prescott really wanted was a woman with c-l-a-s-s! And prim Kylie Smith fit the bill like an ace-high royal f...

  • Hope's Highway

    Dorothy Garlock

    In Depression-era America, U.S. Route 66 beckoned to those who yearned for a better life. Now beloved author Dorothy Garlock celebrates the dreamers who rode westward on... HOPE'S HIGHWAY Margie Kinnard is thrilled when the father she barely know...