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New Books List: 704 titles

  • The Race To Doobesh

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Oh, no! Ko's beasts have taken over Doobesh, a dangerous city full of thieves and pirates. Now they're hard at work at the magical forge in the nearby Dark Lands, creating powerful...

  • Her Little Secret

    Anna Adams

    Abby Carlton was willing to give up her career for Thomas Riley -- until she realized she'd always come second to his duty to his country. So she went home and rejoined the police force, trying to catch up to her friends and classmates, but aware tha...

  • Heatwave

    Jane A. Adams

    August. A long-running heatwave has been dominating the news for weeks, and a state of lethargy is affecting everyone - not least blind ex-policewoman Naomi Blake, who is experiencing a restless dissatisfaction with life in general. One ordinary Mond...

  • Midwinter Nightingale

    Joan Aiken

    Dido and Simon are in danger in this new addition to the Wolves Chronicles. Dido, back in England from America, is almost instantly kidnapped and taken to a derelict mansion surrounded by a deadly moat. The evil baron residing there, who is also a we...

  • The Witch of Clatteringshaws

    Joan Aiken

    Dido Twite’s sharp wits are put to the test in this new adventure in the Wolves Chronicles. After King Richard dies, Dido’s good pal Simon is put on the English throne, but he hates being cooped up in drafty St. James Palace, and his crusty old a...

  • Gotta Get Some Bish Bash Bosh

    M.E. Allen

  • My Sunshine

    Catherine Anderson

    Five years ago, Laura Townsend's life was nearly destroyed when a head injury impaired her ability to use language and forced her to abandon a brilliant career. Despite her difficulties, however, she never lost her vivacious spirit or sunny dispositi...

  • Black Or White // Abiding Darkness

    John Aubrey Anderson

    This sweeping saga weaves a riveting tale about a young girl's battle with one of hell's minions determined to destroy her and those closest to her. This is the first volume in the Black or White Chronicles series relating stories of life in the Deep...

  • Whales on Stilts!

    M.T. Anderson

    Lily Gefelty is just an average twelve-year-old girl. But her dad -- a normal-enough seeming guy -- just so happens to work for an evil genius who plans to unleash an army of extremely cranky, stilt-walking, laser-beam-eyed whales upon the world. ...

  • Little Fugue

    Robert Anderson

    Acclaimed short-story writer and winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award, Robert Anderson has written a brilliantly inventive first novel"a book that blends the facts of a famous writer’s life with the profound effect of her death on an entire ge...

  • At Her Service

    Shari Anton

    Lady Joanna has seen how merciless men can be, and she has no desire for one in her life. But when outlaws raid her land, terrorizing her daughter and the villagers, she realizes she can't handle this alone. Yet if it is a man she must have, then...

  • Hedwig and Berti

    Frieda Arkin

    Thirty-five years after publication of her first novel, The Dorp (followed by other works on cooking and gardening), Frieda Arkin returns to the world of fiction to give us another darkly humorous novel, Hedwig and Berti.Hedwig and Berti is a saga of...

  • Dragons, Phantoms, and Secrets: The Best New Fantasy from Arrow Writers

    Christopher Armstrong

    Out of more than 4,000 entries, these writers won the chance to have their stories published in this magical collection. They have created worlds filled with dragons, phantoms, elves and most of all...imagination....

  • Strange Blood

    Lindsay Jayne Ashford

    Last year Frozen introduced Welsh crime writer Lindsay Jayne Ashford to U.S. mystery fans. Now Strange Blood, the next in this critically acclaimed series, has been shortlisted for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Fellow nominees ...

  • Resurrection

    Robert Asprin; Eric Del Carlo

    The magician Matokin has embarked on a rite of conquest. The city-states of the Isthmus are falling before his unstoppable army, soldiered by his fellow sorcerers, and commanded by a general whose tactics echo those of the legendary warlord, Dardas, ...

  • A Stranger, A Thief, and a Pack of Lies

    Chris Auer

    Many secrets lie within the walls of Eckert House, but no one is prepared when a stranger claiming to be the sole heir of Eckert House shows up. Dan and his friends aren't convinced. Things get complicated when accusation hits close to home. Can they...

  • The Chinese Puzzle Box

    Chris Auer

    Still haunted by recent events, twelve-year-old Dan Pruitt no longer trusts his instincts. Then he and his friends discover a riddle hidden in an ancient Chinese puzzle box, and Dan realizes his instincts were right all along. Someone is trying to ge...

  • Percy's Chocolate Crunch Book & CD

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • The Olive Readers

    Christine Aziz

  • Collie with a Card

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Max is Missing!

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Rescuing Raisin

    Ben M. Baglio

    Lost pets are in luck with Andi, Tristan, and Natalie on the case. Orchard Park's premier pet detective team is always hot on the trail! It's just too strange for an elderly Dalmatian to disappear from his owners' backyard without a tracel. The Pet F...

  • Searching for Sunshine

    Ben M. Baglio

    Andi Talbot is thrilled to receive horseback-riding lessons as a gift from her father. But when a friendly cooper-colored pony named Sunshine suddenly disappears from the riding center. Andi is forced to put her lessons on hold while her pet-finding ...

  • The Disappearing Desert Kittens

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Tommy Glover's Sketch of Heaven

    Jane Bailey

    When Kitty Green returns to the Gloucestershire school where she was once a child evacuee during World World II, she discovers that it is to be rehoused on the premises of the old boys' home Heaven House. At the time Kitty had been inseparable from o...

  • Surfers Mutiny In Space

    Cherith Baldry

  • Mistaken Kiss

    Kathleen Baldwin

    TO ERR IS HUMAN... If only nearsighted Willa Linnet hadn't removed her spectacles before kissing her prospective fiance. Her scheme had seemed entirely logical: she wished to know whether Daniel Braeburn's stodgy exterior concealed fiery pas...

  • Surfers Mad Myths Must Fly

    Steve Barlow; Steve Skidmore

  • Surfers Mad Myths Stone Me

    Steve Barlow; Steve Skidmore

    Perce and Andy are worried because their new teacher is turning the pupils into stone. They go to the library to investigate and discover that she is in fact Medusa from the Greek myth. With the use of mirrored sunglasses, they manage to stop her and...

  • The Virgin

    Erik S. Barmack

    When Joseph Braun decides to lie his way onto the Network's hottest new reality show, he's sure he'll find what he's always sought: attention fame and, perhaps, love. But once he lands a spot on "The Virgin," a show in which a twenty-six-year old bea...

  • Collected South African Obituaries

    Chris Barron

  • Stella, Get Your Man

    Nancy Bartholomew

    "JUST ONCE I'D LIKE TO HAVE A PLAN GO MY WAY. IS THAT TOO MUCH TO ASK?" Smart-mouthed P.I. Stella Valocchi is finally in business, with the office and the aggravating employee -- former fiance Jake Carpenter -- to prove it. And when a client with ...

  • Nobody's Diggier Than A Dog

    Susan Campbell Bartoletti

    Nobody's waggier than a dog - a meet-'n'-greet, belly-up, rub-a-dub dog. Often words cannot describe man's best friend, so sometimes you've got to break the rules! Susan Campbell Bartoletti unleashes a whole new pack of adjectives in this howling ode...

  • Running with the Reservoir Pups

    Colin Bateman

    Eddie has a bad habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Otherwise, he never would have gotten mixed up with the Reservoir Pups, the scrappy gang of boys who rule the streets in his new town. And he definitely wouldn’t have agreed to th...

  • Bachelor Father

    Pamela Bauer

    Who is Faith? That's what Adam Novak wants to know. She looks just like his ex-lover, now missing and presumed dead -- whose disappearance turned him from carefree bachelor into instant father to their six-year-old daughter, Megan. That&#...

  • The Wee Sing Collection

    Pamela Conn Beall

    12 Volumes: Sing, Sing Together and Rocka My Soul; Round 'n' Round and Day is Gone; Wiggleworm Workout, Whew!It's Bedtime, and Another Holiday... So Soon?; Water, Just One More Cracker, Please, How Many More Miles Did You Say? and Another Day, Anothe...

  • The Landscape of Love

    Sally Beauman

    'If I didn't spy, I'd be in the dark eternally. I live in a maze of unknowing - Maisie's maze - and I hate it. I need to be informed ...' The summer of 1967, at a decaying house in the heart of Suffolk: an artist is painting a portrait of thirteen-ye...

  • Night of the Radishes

    Sandra Benitez

    Annie Rush has it all. A loving husband, adoring sons, an interesting job. But tragedy haunts her. Her identical twin sister died in a horrifying farm accident when the girls were nine years old, and in the wake of the grief and guilt that followed, ...

  • Love Bites

    Jim Benton

    It's all about the bunny. Deal with it.
    Happy Bunny presents the ideal gift book for those sick of the sickeningly sweet.


    Love. It's just like hate, but somebody gets candy.

    So, you've made the mistake of falling in love. Let Hap...

  • Dark Eye

    William Bernhardt

    Sometimes her eyes seduce. Sometimes they stare straight at the kind of sights most people turn away from. But in the blazing neon and searing sun of Las Vegas, she can't see the man who is watching her and thinking to himself: She is the one. . . . ...

  • Psych Out

    Mark Bernthal

    Duel Masters, the newest trading card game sensation, explodes with fast-paced and funny creature combat excitement! It's from Wizards of the Coast.

    MESSING WITH MINDS

    It's the final day of the big tournament! Can Shobu keep his focus d...

  • Winning Streak

    Mark Bernthal

    Duel Masters, the newest trading card game sensation, explodes with fast-paced and funny creature combat excitement! It's from Wizards of the Coast.

    THE BIG LEAGUES

    At an invitation-only tournament, Shobu seems unstoppable! Will he be a...

  • A Short History of Paradise

    Norman Bilbrough

  • Dreams Made Flesh

    Anne Bishop

    Now the saga continues -- with four all-new adventures of Jaenelle and her kindred.... Jaenelle is the most powerful Witch ever known, centuries of hopes and dreams made flesh at last. She has forged ties with three of the realm's mightiest Blood ...

  • Walk By Faith

    Rosanne Bittner

    AN UPLIFTING ROMANCE SET DURING THE 1860s LAND RUSH ABOUT THE POWER OF FORGIVENESS... To provide a better life for her young daughter, Clarissa Graham joins a wagon train headed west. But as the trail turns increasingly dangerous, Clarissa fears her...

  • Ellie, and the Cat!

    Malorie Blackman

    Ellie is the rudest, most spoilt child her grandma has ever met. So Grandma decides to teach her a lesson and switches Ellie's body with Jolly the cat's. As she starts to make friends with the other animals in the house, the mice and the spiders, Ell...

  • Challenge To Honor

    Jennifer Blake

    They were professionally trained, highly skilled men of valor, but the roguish, dangerous sword masters were not always respectable... When her brother challenges New Orleans's most infamous swordsman to a duel, Celina Vallier boldly confronts his...

  • Perfect World: I Was Soooo Embarrassed!

    Deirdre Bligh

    Have you ever had a totally embarrassing experience that you never thought you'd live down? Why Me? Totally True Embarassing Stories is packed with hilarious accounts of some of the most mortifying moments experienced by kids just like you. It's a la...

  • My Demon's Kiss

    Lucy Blue

    A valiant warrior... Wearied by the violence of the Crusades, Simon, Knight of Lyan, is returning home to Ireland when he is attacked by a vampire and transformed into a creature of the night. His only chance for redemption is to find an ancient tre...

  • Loving Mercy

    Teresa Bodwell

    THE WILD, WILD WEST Mercy Clarke had no trouble getting a hundred head of cattle to Abilene. Getting back home through five hundred miles of untamed frontier is something else again, especially with a handsome gambler like Thad Buchanan tagging al...

  • The Counterfeit Countess

    Cheryl Bolen

    Abandoned By A Scoundrel Maggie thought she was married to an earl...but it seems that her late and unlamented husband lied to her from the day they met. Now--penniless, stranded in London, and suspected of a most vile treachery against the crown--s...

  • The World Turned Upside Down

    Baen Books

    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, explorat...

  • Powersat

    Ben Bova

    Two hundred thousand feet up, things go horribly wrong. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, falling to earth over a trail hundreds of miles long. And it its wake is the beginning of the most important mission in the history of ...

  • Fascination

    William Boyd

    One of the most beguiling storytellers on either side of the Atlantic delivers a luminous new collection whose 14 stories are a series of variations on the theme of love"and its shady cousin lust. A film director’s journal becomes an unintended c...

  • Something About Emmaline

    Elizabeth Boyle

    Every gentleman in England wants a wife like her -- beautiful, uncomplaining, and never underfoot. There is definitely SOMETHING ABOUT EMMALINE Perhaps it's the fact that she doesn't exist! Alexander Denford, Baron Sedgwick, invented a ...

  • Slippers That Answered Back

    Gyles Brandreth

  • Coming Home

    Jean Brashear

    A house filled to the rafters with love. That was all Cleo Channing ever wanted. And when Malcolm Channing walked into her life and swept her off her feet, she soon had it all -- the house, an adoring husband, three beautiful children. But their ...

  • The King's Mistress

    Terri Brisbin

    There were worse things than to be shackled in marriage to a handsome, powerful lord who desired her -- but Marguerite of Alencon was bred to be consort to a king and could not abide her fate. She had great power as Henry Plantagenet's mistress, and ...

  • Prime

    Poppy Z. Brite

    Two years after the opening of Liquor, New Orleans chefs Rickey and G-man are immersed in the life of their restaurant, enjoying a loyal cast of diners, and cooking great booze-laced food. All’s well until a bad review in a local paper not-so-subtl...

  • Flesh & Blood

    Keith Brooke

    Matt's home life is falling to pieces as his mother seeks refuge from divorce by returning to the seaside town where she grew up. Separated from his friends, bored and discontented, Matt gradually becomes aware that his mother's family are the keeper...

  • Heartland, Volume 2

    Lauren Brooke

  • Heartland, Volume 1

    Lauren Brooke

    Heartland is about a very special horse rehabilitation farm, and the dedicated family who owns/runs it. The main character is a 15 year old girl who strives (with the aid of her sister and grandfather, and their friends) to successfully pick up the p...

  • Leaving Home

    Anita Brookner

    At twenty-six, Emma Roberts comes to the painful realization that if she is ever to become truly independent, she must leave her comfortable London flat and venture into the wider world. This entails not only breaking free from a claustrophobic rel...

  • His Marriage Ultimatum

    Helen Brooks

    A BRIDE FOR THE TAKING? Carter Blake just loves a challenge, and is used to getting his own way; he didn't become a millionaire by taking "no" for an answer! As soon as he meets Liberty Fox he knows he has to have her. However, to his amazement, L...

  • Augusta

    Carolyn Brown

    Augusta "Gussie" Dulan is the only Dulan sister to make it all the way to California on the wagon train for brides. Each of her four sisters has taken off along the trail to marry up with a man they fell in love with and now Gussie is hoping to find ...

  • Cat's Eyewitness

    Rita Mae Brown

    With the holidays approaching, Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen and her best friend, Susan Tucker, take a much-needed time-out at the mountain monastery of Mount Carmel. But their worldly worries are soon overshadowed when, before their eyes, a statue of...

  • Her Passionate Plan B

    Dixie Browning

    Honestly, ladies, I had the perfect plan to catch a good man...until he showed up out of nowhere! With his come-hither, all-male looks, sexy stranger Kell Magee could melt the chrome off a bumper. But marriage material? Men like Kell are good for one...

  • A Box of Snowmen

    Caralyn Buehner

  • Bloodlines

    Jan Burke

    The year is 1958. O'Connor, a young reporter with the Las Piernas News Express, is desperate to discover who has perpetrated a savage attack on his mentor, Jack Corrigan. In and out of consciousness, Corrigan claims to have witnessed the burial of a ...

  • The Rite

    Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Rampaging dragons appear in more and more places every day. And if the soulless lich Sammaster gets his way -- and there's every reason to suspect he will -- the disaster has only just begun. But then all the dragons have to do to avoid the madness ...

  • Measure of a Man

    Adrianne Byrd

    Can Love Overcome a Lie? Payton Garner's big brother Flex means the world to her, and when he decides to move from San Jose to Atlanta after a bad break-up with his lover, her entire family is upset. The only consolation is the news that he's foun...

  • Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne - Volume 3

    John Byrne

    Not since the days of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, the trailblazers of the Marvel Universe, had someone so perfectly captured the intense mood, cosmic style and classic sense of adventure of Marvel's first family of super-heroes. Writer/artist John Byrne...

  • Every Boy's Got One

    Meg Cabot

    To: Jane Harris Fr: Claire Harris Re: You Hi, honey! It's me, Mom. I know it's a big secret that your friend Holly and her boyfriend Mark are eloping in Italy, and that you and Mark's friend Cal La...

  • Twilight

    Meg Cabot

    This time it's life or death. Suze has gotten used to ghosts. She's a mediator, after all, and communicating with the dead is all in a day's work. So she certainly never expected to fall in love with one: Jesse, a nineteenth-century hottie. But wh...

  • The Family Tree

    Carole Cadwalladr

    When Rebecca Monroe -- married to Alistair, a scientist who doesn’t believe in fate, but rather genetic disposition -- discovers that she is pregnant, she begins to question what makes us who we are and whether her own precarious family history wil...

  • Chill Factor

    Rachel Caine

    GAMBLING WITH HER LIFE In Rachel Caine's Ill Wind and Heat Stroke, Weather Warden extraordinaire Joanne Baldwin, who protects the human race from monster storms, was killed, reborn as a Djinn, and then restored to her original form. She's been thr...

  • K.

    Roberto Calasso

    From the internationally acclaimed author of The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony comes one of the most significant books in recent years on a writer of perennial interest"a virtuoso interpretation of the work of Franz Kafka.

    What are Kafka’...

  • Robota

    Orson Scott Card

    Academy Award-winning artist Doug Chiang & best-selling science fiction author Orson Scott Card join forces in this extraordinary illustrated adventure. ''Robota'' follows the fortunes of our hero, Caps, as he navigates an ancient, decaying world in ...

  • Night Gate

    Isobelle Carmody

    Rage Winnoway’s closest friends have always been her four dogs: Bear, Billy Thunder, Elle, and Mr. Walker. When Rage sets off for the hospital where her mother lies in a coma, the dogs and the neighbor’s goat tag along. On the way, they run into ...

  • "Wicked" Women 101

    Susanna Carr

    In these sinfully delicious tales, Susanna Carr introduces three former sorority sisters who are ready to let down their ladylike hair, pick up their pens, and jot down a few notes on the art of being oh-so-wicked... Six Weeks to Sensuality Amy ...

  • The Uncollected Henry James

    Carroll & Graf Publishers

    More than two decades of research, study, and literary detection lie behind this treasury of stories by one of the undisputed giants in the field of American fiction. Professor Floyd Horowitz here offers a stunning collection of tales that he himself...

  • Play Dates

    Leslie Carroll

    Sex and the single mother ... doesn't exist! And I, Claire Marsh, should certainly know, because these days my to-do list looks like this: Bring daughter Zo to a birthday party, where twenty second-graders will be encouraged to play ice hocke...

  • The Dark Queen

    Susan Carroll

    From Brittany's misty shores to the decadent splendor of Paris's royal court, one woman must fulfill her destiny -- while facing the treacherous designs of Catherine de Medici, the dark queen. She is Ariane, the Lady of Faire Isle, one of the Chen...

  • The Promise of Happiness

    Justin Cartwright

    The five members of the Judd family, reeling from a series of personal and professional blows, have each retreated into a private world. But the impending return of prodigal daughter Juliet, an art historian recently incarcerated in an upstate New Yo...

  • Alive Well in Pakistan

    Ethan Casey

  • The Meq

    Steve Cash

    In every generation, a fantasy novel is published that captures something essential and enduring about life that no other book has expressed in quite the same way. Here unfolds a journey of discovery"in a story that surprises us on every page. . . ...

  • Lady in Waiting

    Kathryn Caskie

    Good heavens-I've gotten myself into a scrape! Mere weeks ago, I was simply Jenny Penny, a lady's maid, a lord's illegitimate daughter, and a lover of fine frocks. But my credit at the shops of Bath has been cut off, and I am forced to sell my homema...

  • Deceived

    Carla Cassidy

    Who can Lynn White trust when the man who raised her, her trusted godfather, might be lying to her face? How does she know what's real when she's used her highly unusual skills to retrieve stolen valuables from places no one else could enter -- u...

  • Just A Couple of Idiots Reupholstering Space and Time

    Adam-Troy Castro

  • Picket Fence

    Kimberly Cates

    Finnoula O'Grady had never had a home. Growing up in foster care, Finn had spent her childhood longing for a little house with a white picket fence. Years later her dreams came true when she inherited the rundown March Winds. But someone else was in ...

  • The Saratchandra Omnibus

    Saratcandra Cattopadhyaya

    Saratchandra Chattopadhyay is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest Indian novelists of the twentieth century. His novels, serialized in periodicals and subsequently published in book form, earned Saratchandra immense fame in the early decades o...

  • The Attack of the Easter Bunnies

    Denys Cazet

    When the farmer says he's too old to play the Easter Bunny for his grandchildren, Minnie and Moo decide to take matters into their own hooves and find a replacement. But Elvis the rooster isn't interested. Hamlet the pig has to ask his mother (jus...

  • Running On Empty

    Michelle Celmer

    Detective Mitch Thompson had caught the biggest break of his life when the biggest surprise of his life landed right dab in the path of his...shopping cart. But the beautiful woman he rescued from the floor of the local discount store couldn't rememb...

  • Who Killed Swami Schwartz?

    Nora Charles

    Once a snowbird, now full-time resident and sometime sleuth Kate Kennedy "is a stylish and sophisticated Miss Marple, seeking justice in sunny South Florida instead of a rainy English Village, and meeting the moss delightfully eccentric suspects in t...

  • Well up for It!

    Simon Cheetham

  • Eloise Dresses Up

    Marc Cheshire

    There's nothing Eloise loves to do more than dress up! And with so many choices, she will need more than Weenie and Nanny's help to pick the perfect outfit. Use and reuse the stickers to help Eloise dress up in her favorite costumes and have a fabul...

  • A Crazy Kind of Love

    Maureen Child

    Lucas Gallagher is the geek who bought the land Michaela "Mike" Marconi wanted for her dream house. She thinks he's infuriating, annoying and totally rude. Yet, he gets to her more than any other man ever has. But though Lucas may be a scientist, he'...

  • The Blood We Shed

    William Christie

    This is the gripping story of Marines bonding together as they learn the art of war. It is a story of leadership, brotherhood in battle, and courage in the midst of chaos. Second Lietenant Michael Galway is the commanding officer of 2nd Platoon, E...

  • The Brunellesci Baby

    Daphne Clair

    From mistress to mother... Italian tycoon Zandro Brunellesci's brother has died. Zandro has no hesitation in deciding that his brother's baby must be raised as a Brunellesci -- and taken away from the woman he considers a most unsuitable mot...

  • Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 4

    CLAMP

    A FAIRYTALE TURNED NIGHTMARE!

    Young Syaoran embarks on a worlds-spanning adventure to restore the memory of the most important person in his life, the princess Sakura" even though he knows that she’ll never remember her love for him. The t...

  • The Great Stink

    Clare Clark

    A mystery that offers “a gripping and richly atmospheric glimpse into the literal underworld of Victorian England -- the labyrinthine London sewer system” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   Clare Clark’s critically acclaimed The Great ...

  • Rap Superstar

    Debra Clayton

    The ultimate rap superstar, Anthony "Animalistic" Talbert has gotten everything he wants--success, wealth, and fame--until he meets Randi Jacobs, an aspiring filmmaker and writer dealing with a painful past, who, much to Anthony's surprise, rebuffs h...

  • Reinventing Mona

    Jennifer Coburn

    What's new? Me, for starters... It all began when my job offered me a buy-out package. That's when the realization hit: I'm young, I'm rich (thanks to a hefty inheritance), and I'm boring. Not "needs a little zip" boring, either. More like "mustard ...

  • Mr. Tanen's Ties Rule!

    Maryann Cocca-Leffler

    It's Career Day, and the students are running the Lynnhurst School! Olivia takes Mr. Tanen's place as principal--along with the keys to his closet filled with 998 crazy ties. While the kids are in charge, there's an important visitor from Washington,...

  • Cage's Bend

    Carter Coleman

    Born eleven months apart and coming of age in the Deep South of the sixties and seventies, Cage and Nick Rutledge are the eldest sons of a preacher and a Tennessee housewife. The firstborn, Cage, is the golden boy-star athlete and scholar, adventurou...

  • The James Deans

    Reed Farrel Coleman

    It's 1983, but beneath the facade of junk bonds and easy money, New York remains a gritty metropolis. Moe Prager, ex NYPD cop turned reluctant PI, is too busy reeling from a family tragedy to see what's coming. Moira Heaton, a young intern for an up-...

  • Rockville Pike

    Susan Coll

    Jane Kramer never imagined a life selling discount furniture and commuting between grocery stores and soccer fields via minivan. But when her father-in-law has a heart attack, she and her husband, Leon, trade in their glamorous New York life for a st...

  • The Year Before Sunset

    Hugh Gantzer Colleen

  • Come Out, Come Out!

    Lowery Collins Pat

    Always eager for attention, baby Hildy delights in playing hide-and-seek with her family and friends, but when she suddenly doesn't get the response she desires, Hildy decides to hide for a good, long time in order to show everyone just how missed sh...

  • Serial

    Max Allan Collins

    With a brutal serial killer on the loose in Las Vegas, Gil Grissom and his CSI team search for the person responsible for a series of vicious Jack the Ripper style killings, a crime spree complicated by the presence of an annual convention gathering ...

  • Rosamund's Revenge

    Madeleine Conway

    A MIFFED MINX He vexed her... Once, Rosamund Lovelace believed Rory Buchanan was the answer to her dreams. Now, seven years later, she's quite certain she wouldn't have him if he were the last man on earth! Gone is the green girl whose affections he...

  • Home Away from Home

    Lorna J. Cook

    Emotionally unable to return to her home after the sudden death of her husband, Anna Rainey seeks solace in a respective number of friends' homes, where she receives different kinds of support and advice before finding the courage to persevere. By th...

  • The Peacemaker

    Lori Copeland

    Bull-headed Wynne Elliot has one goal in mind: to track down Cass Claxton and shoot him dead for leaving her at the altar and running off with her money. But when Cass's brother Cole shows up, Wynne finds herself on an unexpected adventure, and she j...

  • The Journal of Fletcher Christian

    Peter Corris

  • Eleanor Rigby

    Douglas Coupland

    Eleanor Rigby is the story of Liz, a self-described drab, overweight, crabby, and friendless middle-aged woman, and her unlikely reunion with the charming and strange son she gave up for adoption. His arrival changes everything, and sets in motion a ...

  • Whitethorn

    Bryce Courtenay

    The time is 1939.White South Africa is a deeply divided nation with many of the Afrikaner people fanatically opposed to the English. The world is also on the brink of war and South Africa elects to fight for the Allied cause against Germany. Six ye...

  • The Dragon Of Doom

    Bruce Coville

    Edward is bored with life in the little town of Pigbone. Then Moongobble the Magician and his faithful toad, Urk, move into the cottage on the hill. Soon Edward has a job helping Moongobble. And Moongobble needs a lot of help because it turns out, h...

  • Whirlwind Groom

    Debra Cowan

    JOSIE WEBSTER WAS NOT A BORN KILLER... but her thirst for justice could make her one. The outlaw who'd murdered her parents and fiance had gotten off scot-free. And now the only thing standing between her and vengeance fulfilled was Sheriff Davis Le...

  • To Reign in Hell

    Greg Cox

    At last -- the untold chapter in the history of Star Trek's most notorious villain, KHAN. Searing and powerful, To Reign in Hell masterfully bridges the time period between Khan Noonien Singh's twenty-third-century revival in the Original Series clas...

  • The Marchese's Love-Child

    Sara Craven

    The Italian's reluctant bride! When aristocratic Alessandro Valessi discovers the existence of his love child, he is determined to be part of Polly Fairfax's life! But Polly has been raising the child alone -- and she doesn't want or n...

  • Snap Happy Annie

    June Crebbin

    Snap-Happy Annie is always snip-snapping at her friends. At Monkey's birthday party she begins to spoil the fun until Thud the elephant throws her out. As her mother marches her back to the party, Annie realises she must apologise and be kind and fri...

  • Undercover Mistress

    Kathleen Creighton

    ANOTHER OPENING... Exiled soap star Celia Cross had taken a lot of diverse parts in her life, but when she rescued a clinging-to-life man off the Malibu shore, she also found the role of a lifetime. Because said man was in fact a federal agent who h...

  • Strawberry Shortcake and the Butterfly Garden: All Aboard Reading Station Stop 1

    Kelli Curry

    When one of the butterflies escapes the butterfly garden while she and her friends are visiting, Strawberry Shortcake worries for her safety and so goes on a search to find the missing butterfly in order to bring her back home. Original....

  • Quiet of the Birds: Collected Stories

    Nisha da Cunha

  • A Mother For Cindy

    Margaret Daley

    Young widow Jesse Bradshaw was content to be a loving mother to her son, a devoted granddaughter, a doll maker and the keeper of a gaggle of pets. She couldn't imagine having anything more in her already crowded life -- until jaded Nick Blackburn and...

  • Silver City Carbine

    Kit Dalton

    When Lee Morgan signs on as head of security for Silver City Mining in Nevada, he finds himself embroiled in a tale of land-grabbers, independent miners, and a beautiful young woman named Megan O'Reily. Original....

  • After Dark

    Cynthia Danielewski

    Detective John Delaney was shocked to hear that local businessman Daniel Gallows was strangled during a wedding reception held at Crosswinds, a new bed and breakfast in the historic district of St. Augustine, Florida. John was even more surprised to ...

  • Song of the Earth

    John R. Dann

    In Song of the Axe, his magnificent family saga of prehistory, John R. Dann told of a tribe whose chieftains were always named Grae, after a glorious ancestor from whom they were all descended. Now Dann returns to tell the earlier epic story of that ...

  • His Bought Mistress

    Emma Darcy

    He wanted her -- so he bought her! The instant Australian billionaire Hugo Fullbright sees Angie Blessing, he knows he has to have her. There's no doubt about the instant, sizzling sexual attraction between them! So why, at first, does Angie r...

  • Hulk Visionaries: Peter David - Volume 1

    Peter David

  • Texas Lawman

    Carolyn Davidson

    It was quite an introduction, but before sunrise, Sheriff Brace Caulfield knew Sarah Murphy was a woman to match him in every way. The amazing woman was so determined to rescue her nephew from abuse that she'd put herself smack in the middle of dange...

  • Biting in Plain Sight

    Maryjanice Davidson
    in

    FEEL THE TOUCH OF DARKNESS... Follow a vampire hunter who can be as deadly as her prey. Meet a down-home southern girl who's found out, much to her chagrin, that vampires are her type. Feel the euphoria of fear in the shadow of a reluctant Queen o...

  • Derik's Bane

    Maryjanice Davidson

    He's a werewolf with alpha issues--and a body to die for. She's the personification of unspeakable evil--and smells like roses. Now if they could just stop drooling over each other long enough to save the world... It's always good to have a psyc...

  • Status Anxiety

    Alain De Botton

    “There's no writer alive like de Botton” (Chicago Tribune), and now this internationally heralded author turns his attention to the insatiable human quest for status -- a quest that has less to do with material comfort than love. Anyone who’s e...

  • This Human Season

    Louise Dean

    It's not personal, he says. But that's a lie in a place where everything is personal, and a matter of life and death too.  This Human Season is award-winning Booker longlisted author Louise Dean's second novel set in Belfast, Ireland, durin...

  • Lola Hides the Eggs

    Diane deGroat

  • In Forbidden Territory

    Shawna Delacorte

    THE DANGER ZONE Filling in as a guide and companion for his best friend's kid sister was cramping Tyler Farrell's bachelor lifestyle. At least, until a drop-dead- gorgeous, very-grown-up Angie melted his bones with one searing kiss. She was supposed...

  • The Beauty Bride

    Claire Delacroix

    More cherished than gold are the jewels of Kinfairlie, and only the worthiest of men may fight for their love... The Laird of Kinfairlie has unmarried sisters, each a gem in her own right. And he has no choice but to see them all wed in haste. ...

  • Escape From Bridezilla

    Jacqueline deMontravel

    In this deliciously catty, romantically comical novel, you are cordially invited to join author Jacqueline deMontravel for an over-the-top trip through outrageous Bridedom, where every haute couture wedding preparation is guaranteed to go hilariously...

  • The Wacky Substitute

    Sally Derby

    When Mr. Wuerst, the substitute kindergarten teacher at Merryvale School, drops his glasses into the frying pan one morning, he ends up wearing a dish towel to school instead of his scarf and he mistakes the class gerbils for fur caps....

  • Jesus Lives! The Easter Story

    Laura Derico

  • Lincoln's Legacy

    Stacia Deutsch; Rhody Cohon

    What if you could go back in time? Abigail loves Mondays, and so do the rest of the kids in classroom 305. That's the day Mr. Caruthers asks them cool questions about history. Today Mr. C asks, "What if Abraham Lincoln never freed the slaves?" Abi...

  • Tenor of Love

    Mary di Michele

    A NOVEL OF PASSION AND BETRAYAL, ART AND AMBITION BASED ON THE LIFE OF ONE OF THE TEST NG OF ALL TIME One summer day in 1897, a young singer, Enrico Caruso, arrives at the home of the Giachetti family. He has come to Livorno to sing on the summer ...

  • Princess Teatime

    Disney Book Group

  • Friends

    Disney Book Group

    The girls of W.i.t.c.h. know their stuff when it comes to friendship-afterall, their friendship results in some pretty powerful abilities. In Friends, the Guardians take on the subject of friends and help the reader learn just how important good frie...

  • Parables for Kids

    Danae Dobson

    Children will learn about God through these eight contemporary stories by Danae Dobson. Each story is based on a different biblical parable and is accompanied by full-color illustrations depicting the story's characters in a variety of realistic sett...

  • Beds Are Burning: Midnight Oil - The Journey

    Mark Dodshon

  • Ambivalence, a Love Story

    John Donatich

    Ambivalence, a Love Story is a deeply nuanced accounting in which two people come together to make a marriage work. Rarely has marriage and its compromises been so intimately portrayed, especially when tested by depression, unemployment, miscarriage...

  • Doctor Salt

    Gerard Donovan

    Sunless is one of the lucky few. He has problems - don't we all, these days? - but at least his health insurance will allow him to have them treated. So he boards the PharmaLake train in Salt Lake City, which takes him to his appointments in the Phar...

  • Strip Poker

    Stacey Donovan

    Inspired by the sensual Showtime series, a trio of erotic stories, based on the series screenplays, explores the compelling world of sexual fantasy and uninhibited escapades in Hard Labor, Slow Train, and the title tale about a lonely...

  • Julio's Magic

    Arthur Dorros

    Julio and his friend, master carver Iluminado, find their ideas in the forest, where dragons, lizards, and angels hide in the wood of every twisted branch.

    At home, Julio can't wait to make sculptures for the annual wood-carving contest. Bu...

  • Torpedo Juice

    Tim Dorsey

    The drinks are on Sunshine State historian/spree killer Serge A. Storms, who's decided it's high time he got married. So he's motoring down to the Florida Keys -- the ultimate end of the line -- in search of Ms. Right ... and finding his doped-up bas...

  • One Good Man

    Charlotte Douglas

    A good man isn't so hard to find... Unless, as Jodie Nathan believes, that "good man" could lead to a broken heart. After all, Jodie's only experience with love had resulted in a pregnancy at the tender age of fifteen. Now, as the single mother of...

  • The Wounded Hawk

    Sara Douglass

    The Middle Ages. Finally, the Black Plague has passed, and for a while it seems evil has been defeated. Europe recovers; prosperity returns, trade resumes, and people slowly recover from the effects of the plague. Then, just as the Church relaxes its...

  • Playing Games

    Dianne Drake

    On-air, she's the radio shrink who tells lovelorn listeners to let their hang-ups go. And he's the dark chocolate-voiced caller who makes critical remarks about everything she says. He is so obviously suffering from subconscious P-envy -- P meaning p...

  • Dead by Dusk

    Shannon Drake

    The rustic oceanfront village of Bella Vista seems like something from an Italian postcard--until young women start disappearing, only to be found horribly mutilated. The police fear a sexual serial killer is at work--something to be hushed up to kee...

  • The Journals of Eleanor Druse

    Eleanor Druse

    Check back soon to read more details about The Journals of Eleanor Druse by Eleanor Druse....

  • He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not

    Rachel Druten

    Daisy isn't a little girl anymore. But her big brother's best friend, Jack seems as if he'll never view her as a responsible woman. Daisy Fielding has been in love with Pastor Jack McCutcheon since her childhood, but he can't see her as anything othe...

  • Hailey's Hero

    Judy Duarte

    SHE DIDN'T BELIEVE IN HEROES Hailey Conway believed in making a good, predictable life for herself. Until San Diego detective Nick Granger saved her from a mugger and swept her off her feet -- and into bed. Their steamy one-night stand was almost en...

  • Flying High

    Barbara Dunlop

    One missed flight and diamond buyer Erin O'Connell thinks her shot at a big-time promotion is over. Or is it? She needs to hop a plane to idyllic Blue Earth Island off the coast of Seattle to schmooze a mining billionaire. Her charter pilot is gone, ...

  • Pride of Carthage

    David Anthony Durham

    This epic retelling of the legendary Carthaginian military leader’s assault on the Roman empire begins in Ancient Spain, where Hannibal Barca sets out with tens of thousands of soldiers and 30 elephants. After conquering the Roman city of Saguntu...

  • Better Off Wed

    Laura Durham

    The murder of a particularly difficult mother-of-the-bride has cast a pall on wedding planner Annabelle Archer's latest triumph -- and suspicion falls heavily on her sometime-business partner and friend Richard Gerard. Annabelle knows that even her t...

  • The Great Indoors

    Sabine Durrant

    Its not that Martha Bone doesn't like children. It's more that they don't fit into her world: her shop, with its succession of beautiful distressed antiques; her flat, with its creamy sofa, its unwashable linen scatter-cushions, its aura of oatmeal a...

  • Little Brown Bear and the Bundle of Joy

    Jane Dyer

    Curious about all the talk of a "new bundle" coming into the family, Little Brown Bear visits Owl, Horse, Pig, and Frog to learn more, but discovering the truth, Little Brown Bear isn't sure he wants this new addition to his family, in a tale about a...

  • Miramar Morning

    Denis Edwards

  • The Celebrity

    Robert Elmer

    Caught Between a Charade and the Truth.

    Jamie D. Lane is many things: multi-talented, handsome"and the most sought-after pop star in the world. But there’s one thing he isn’t"happy. At the height of his singing career, a family tragedy...

  • Guilt

    G.H. Ephron

    When a bomb detonates outside a Harvard law school building, killing several including a law student who was counseling Jackie Kelvinski, a woman trying to get out of an abusive marriage, Jackie is afraid that the bomb was set off by her unstable hus...

  • The Great Outdoors: Take a Hike

    Robin Epstein

    The Groovy Girls hop on the hiking trail with a map that shows them the way--if only they'll use it. Some of the Groovies think that following the map will take too much time; others think they won't find their way without it. It's a race for the fin...

  • Eleven on Top

    Janet Evanovich

    Stephanie Plum is thinking her career as a fugitive apprehension agent has run its course. She's been shot at, spat at, cussed at, fire-bombed, mooned, and attacked by dogs. Stephanie thinks it's time for a change. So she quits. She wants something s...

  • Entombed

    Linda Fairstein

    Workers demolishing a nineteenth-century brownstone where Edgar Allan Poe once lived discover a human skeleton entombed -- standing -- behind a brick wall. When sex crimes prosecutor Alexandra Cooper hears about the case, it strikes her as a classic ...

  • Heir of Stone

    S.L. Farrell

    In this dramatic conclusion to The Cloudmages trilogy, we return to the world at a time when the descendants of Jenna Aoire must face their greatest challenge. Jenna's daughter Meriel has maintained the precarious balance of peace in her role as Banr...

  • Lizzie's War

    Tim Farrington

    A family epic laced with authenticity, wit and unforgettable characters. Liz O'Reilly has a husband in Vietnam, 4 kids under the age of 12 (and one on the way), and a burgeoning crush on the family priest. An unconventional love story. It's Summer 19...

  • Flip-Flap Math

    Keith Faulkner

  • Ravensong

    Catherine Feher-Elston

    Birds of mystery, intelligence, and curiosity, ravens and crows have fascinated humans for untold centuries. In this first in a series of beautifully illustrated books that celebrate the power and beauty of the animal kingdom, Catherine Feher-Elston ...

  • Belling the Kitten

    Jo Ann Ferguson
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    Jason Farraday is looking forward to the peace of a country inn after the dangers of the Peninsular War. But what he finds instead is spirited Amaris Woodward, a litter of lively kittens...and -- as Valentine's Day approaches -- the realization t...

  • Dangerous Disguise

    Marie Ferrarella

    PLAYING WITH FIRE Devil-may-care detective Jared Cavanaugh dove into his undercover assignment -- investigating a money-laundering operation in a popular restaurant -- but working in close proximity to his beautiful "boss" was sweet torture. With he...

  • The Big Over Easy

    Jasper Fforde

    WELCOME TO THE SEEDY UNDERBELLY OF NURSERY CRIME ... Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of Reading's Nursery Crime Division. He's investigating the murder of ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, ex-convict and lover of women...

  • Puppet

    Joy Fielding

    Living a no-strings-attached life in glamorous Palm Beach, beautiful, steely-nerved criminal attorney Amanda Travis knows exactly what she likes: spinning classes, the color black, and one-night stands. Here's what she dislikes: the color pink, nickn...

  • Paranoia

    Joseph Finder

    It was only a prank: diverting cash from Wyatt Telecom's executive slush fund to throw a retirement bash for a member of the loading dock crew. But when corporate security catches up with Adam Cassidy, a low ambition junior staffer at the high-tech ...

  • Colorado Cutie

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Tiger Turcotte Takes On the Know-It-All

    Pansie Hart Flood

    There are plenty of things that Tiger Turcotte likes about the second grade. His classmate Donna Overton is NOT one of those things. She's a mean, bossy know-it-all. And lately, she's trying hard to make Tiger mad. Tiger might decide to fight back...

  • Portrait of a Bride

    Tracy Fobes

    What if there were no daughters, no women, no wives? What if an artist could capture the femininity, the sensuality, the very spirit of his subjects? An artist so skilled and dedicated that he could paint the sweet curve of a cheek, the fire in a fla...

  • A Father, Again

    Mary J. Forbes

    Jon Tucker was doing just fine living by his lonesome, steering clear of pets and people. Until his neighbor's cat gave birth to kittens on his favorite shirt. But after returning the new family to its rightful owner, Jon was finding it hard to s...

  • The Problem with Murmur Lee

    Connie May Fowler

    The bestselling author of Before Women Had Wings spins a wild new tale about the ties that bind a group of friends together after the loss of its quirkiest member, Murmur Lee. When Murmur Lee Harp drowns in the Iris Haven river, her friends are grief...

  • Pier Pressure

    Dorothy Brenner Francis / Dorothy Francis

    Foot reflexologist Keely Moreno arrives for a house call at the home of wealthy Key West civic leader Margaux Ashford, only to find her client dead, a gun in her hand. Suicide? The police say no, it was murder, and Keely tops the suspect list because...

  • The Berry Best Party Book

    Suzanne Francis

  • The Widow's Tale

    Margaret Frazer

    In the spring of 1449, widow Cristiana Helyngton has been kidnapped, defamed, and imprisoned in a nunnery--as h late husband's duplicitous relatives seek to obtain contr., aver her lands and children. To secure her freedom an save her daughters, Cris...

  • A Valentine Kiss

    Carla Fredd

  • Going Coastal

    Wendy French

    Jody Rogers thought she was taking charge of her life, so why does it feel like everything is spinning out of control? In the space of twenty-four hours, Jody has quit her dead-end job as a waitress at Dean's Ocean Galley, dumped her two-timing bo...

  • Santa Fe Sunrise

    Kathleen Fuller

    Luke Jackson, a volunteer soldier based in Santa Fe, is eager to return home to San Antonio, Texas. Weary from the war and healing from a serious injury, he is given one last assignment before his discharge--to escort the daughter of a wealthy busine...

  • Jass

    David Fulmer

    In the rowdy red-light district of Storyville, four players of the new music they call "jass" have turned up dead. When Creole detective Valentin St. Cyr begins to investigate, he discovers that every one of the victims once played in the same band, ...

  • Inkspell

    Cornelia Funke

    THE BEST BOOKS NEVER END,,, Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters came to life and changed her life forever. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, th...

  • The Second Generation

    Simon Furman

    The robots in disguise are back! Inspired by the top-selling toy line and TV show, this is an ongoing series collecting classic UK and US Transformers comic stories.

    The comic strip collections from the Transformers UK weekly continue with the Aut...

  • Safer Than Houses

    Frances Fyfield

    There's no place like home.When Sarah Fortune inherits an apartment from one of her many lovers, she moves in and begins to receive letters from someone claiming the apartment belongs to him instead. At first she believes the letters to be harmless, ...

  • Murder Under A Mystic Moon

    Yasmine Galenorn

    Delicious blends of tea aren't the only draw at the Chintz 'n China Tea Room--Emerald O'Brien, owner and medium, also offers her customers a tarot-card reading. But Emerald, a single mother of two, never saw herself as a sleuth--which proves that eve...

  • Mystic Knoll

    Diana G. Gallagher

    A curse was made, an Innocent born -- To darkness her small life was sworn. Gather the forces, bring them together -- Save this girl from sadness forever! All vanquishing and no play makes for tired, grumpy Charmed Ones. Paige decides that what...

  • The Fool's Tale

    Nicole Galland

    Wales, 1198. A time of treachery, passion, and uncertainty. King Maelgwyn ap Cadwallon, known as Noble, struggles to protect his small kingdom from foes outside and inside his borders. Pressured into a marriage of politi cal convenience, he takes as ...

  • A Window in Copacabana

    Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

    A ruthless group of corrupt cops is playing a lethal game of cat and mouse in the latest installment in the seductive bestselling Brazilian crime seriesCopacabana, Rio de Janeiro. Three policemen have been killed over the course of a few days. They w...

  • An Embarrassment of Elves

    Craig Shaw Gardner
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    SOME ARE FAIR. SOME ARE FOUL. ALL ARE FANTASTIC... Here are six stories from some of the most famous names in fantasy, all with one common thread -- The Fair Folk. The elves' serenity is tested in a fable of a magical apprentice and the less-th...