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New Books List: 539 titles

  • Monkey Do!

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Hometown Brew

    Ellen Akins

    From a writer whose work Robert Coover has described as "subtle, wise, intricate, innovative," a rich novel of family rivalries, corporate maneuvers, and sexual intrigue--set in a small Wisconsin beer town.In the background: a small family-run brewer...

  • Double Trouble

    Sarah Albee

    Are Big Bird's eyes playing tricks on him? He keeps seeing the same boy again and again on Sesame Street! This story about identical twins shows children that even though people may look alike, everyone is unique....

  • The Inheritance (1849)

    Louisa May Alcott

    Her recently discovered first novel, The Inheritance, written when Alcott was just 17, offers readers a fascinating look at the birth of a remarkable career.

    The Inheritance, set in an English country manor, is the story of Edith Adelon, an It...

  • The Merry Gentleman

    Meg Alexander

    AT SEA WITH A BEAUTIFUL STOWAWAY... Naval officer Perry Wentworth was stunned to discover the lovely Elizabeth Grantham in his cabin after his ship had set sail, for he had refused her father's request that she be taken to England. Somehow, Elizab...

  • A Groom for Gwen

    Jeanne Allan

    He was heaven-sent... Jake Stoner, with his devil-may-care smile and coolly assessing eyes, seemed the answer to Gwen Ashton's prayers. But had she been too impulsive in hiring a complete stranger to help on her ranch? Dreaming of a real h...

  • Infamous

    Laurel Ames

    He Was Surrounded by Meddlesome Women! The thoughtless antics of his mother and sister had dashing shipping magnate Bennet Varner fleeing all females... until he collided with the impregnable wit of the infamous Gwen Rose Wall -- a woman as cleve...

  • Listening in

    Sarrell Ames

    Guiltily eavesdropping on her neighbors in her new home in suburban Boston, Annie Morgan discovers that a doctor is responsible for the deaths of innocent women and babies, and sets out to expose a mysterious medical clinic. Original....

  • Definitely Maybe

    Caroline Anderson

    She was definitely single, but maybe he'd change her mind Sister Natasha Franklin, known as Tassy, was happy on the pediatric ward, working with Josh Lancaster. When Josh's promotion brought Dr. Ben Lazaar to work at Audley Memorial Hospital, Tass...

  • In the Time of the Dinosaurs

    K.A. Applegate

    We could blame everything that happened on Marco. He was the one who heard about the downed submarine. He was the one who thought we should check it out. And everyone knows that if Marco's up to a challenge, I'm definitely there. Everything was go...

  • The Decision

    K.A. Applegate

    Ax and the Animorphs are about to have a huge problem. It starts when they decide to morph mosquitoes in order to slip by some unsuspecting Yeerks. It ends with them stuck in Zero-space with no idea how they got there, no way to get back to Earth . ....

  • Aftershock

    Chris Archer

    In the sixth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, a teen-turned-alien gains high-voltage powers to zap her enemies, if they don’t get her first.   Up until her thirteenth birthday, Toni Douglas’s only superpower was shopping. But on the ...

  • The Gilded Lily

    Helen Argers

    The elegant and passionate Nina De Bonnard lives life by her own rules, changing beaus as often as she does gowns, in this delightful novel from award-winning author Helen Argers. Set in America's Gilded Age, The Gilded Lily moves from opulent Fifth...

  • Mallory Keep

    Aileen Armitage

    Amity Lucas seeks to escape life's dreariness by accepting the post of companion to Regina Fairfax in the isolated manor of Mallory Keep. She could not have known beforehand that the Fairfax family is proud but doomed to madness, murder and disinheri...

  • In Your Face!

    Robb Armstrong

    When the team faces a game against their arch-rivals, Zo becomes so determined to win that he crosses the boundaries of what is appropriate, making Patrick worry about how to restore a healthy competitive spirit. Original....

  • Runnin' with the Big Dawgs

    Robb Armstrong

    Who's Got Skills

    When Patrick first meets Dikembe-'the new kid intown'-he's really pumped to have a new player on his team. He and Dikembe see eye to eye on just about everything'-and it's not just because they're both so tall!

  • Huggly Gets Dressed

    Tedd Arnold

  • Countdown to Chaos

    Pierce Askegren

    When, as part of his evil design, the Mad Thinker places lifelike duplicates of one thousand people throughout the world--including Reed Richards of the Fantastic Four--the superheroes must stop them from wreaking havoc across the globe. Original....

  • Realms of Mystery

    Philip Athans
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A murder victim is turned into a zombie, just long enough to cover up the circumstances of his own death . . . . A silent ghost with a friendly grin greets those about to meet their doom . . . . The only clue to who's killing a party of adventu...

  • The Portrait

    Charles Atkins

    Painter Chad Green's most recent bout with manic depression leaves him glad to be released from the psych ward in time for the opening of his new show, but the horrors that await him almost make the locked ward look good in comparison. His apartment ...

  • Parallax Red

    James Axler

    A former Magistrate in the grim world of post-holocaust America, Kane embarks on a quest to uncover the truth about a bitter enmity that haunts humanity, but he discovers something even more shocking. Original....

  • After the Cabaret

    Hilary Bailey

    In 1940, Sally Bowles leaves her newborn baby with her parents and returns to London to continue her search for Theo - the only man she claims she ever loved. He is on secret work between London and wherever he is sent - rumours abound. Meanwhile who...

  • Under a Prairie Moon

    Madeline Baker

    "He is the most frightening, handsome man I have ever seen" Although these words had been written in another time, in another woman's diary, Kathy Conley thought they described Dalton Crowkiller perfectly. He was the kind of a man a woman would s...

  • Easy Betrayals

    Richard Baker
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

  • Galilee

    Clive Barker

    Rich and powerful, the Geary dynasty has reigned over American society for decades. But it is a family with dark, terrible secrets. For the Gearys are a family at war. Their adversaries are the Barbarossas, a clan whose timeless origins lie in myth, ...

  • Show World

    Wilton Barnhardt

    The author of the beloved novels Gospel and Emma Who Saved My Life, Wilton Barnhardt is a writer of rare and extraordinary talent who has yet to walk the same ground twice. With Show World he offers a contemporary woman's story that will haunt its e...

  • The Ghosts of Morning

    Richard Barre

    In The Innocents, Shamus Award-winning author Richard Barre introduced readers to Wil Hardesty. Now The Ghosts of Morning plunges into Wil's past -- where murder and friendship collide... Denny Van Zant was Wil Hardesty's best friend. Together they ...

  • Emily and the Stranger

    Beverly Barton

    HE WANTED TO GIVE HER A CHILD Powerfully built and ruggedly hand-some, Mitch Hayden walked into Emily Jordan's life and took her senses by storm. The ache in his searing blue gaze matched the loneliness in her soul, and soon the pretty widow had f...

  • Lockhart's Nightmare

    Wayne Barton; Stan Williams

    James Lockhart is a traveling salesman who works for a company that prints and sells banknotes. When four banks are robbed and two bank managers are killed shortly after Lockhart makes his deliveries, the salesman is the obvious target of suspicion. ...

  • Where the Sea Used to Be

    Rick Bass

    The first full-length novel by one of our finest fiction writers, Where the Sea Used to Be tells the story of a struggle between a father and his daughter for the souls of two men, Matthew and Wallis-his protégés, her lovers. Old Dudley is a Texan ...

  • Babe in the Woods

    Pamela Bauer

    So much for peace and quiet... Brendan Millar wants to spend a quiet summer in the woods of northern Minnesota. He has a difficult decision to make -- whether or not to become a priest -- and he needs time alone. But that isn't going to happen. No...

  • In the Night Season

    Richard Bausch

    Nora Michaelson and her eleven-year-old son, Jason. are going through a difficult adjustment to life after the accidental death of Jason's father. at a time when the family's small business was failing. The loss of Jack Michaelson has left his wife a...

  • Death of a Scriptwriter

    M.C. Beaton

    HOLLYWOOD IN THE HIGHLANDS With the lovely Priscilla Halburton-Smythe away in London, Lochdubh Constable Hamish Macbeth pines for company during the long Scottish winter. He gets his wish--and more--when a troupe of flashy, urbane filmmakers clamo...

  • Park City

    Ann Beattie

    Thirty-six stories--eight appearing in a book for the first time and a generous selection from her earlier collections--give us Ann Beattie at stunning mid-career.Emotionally complex, edgy, and funny, the stories encompass a huge range of tone and fe...

  • Deception and Desire

    Sally Beauman

    In Sally Beauman's seductive new novel of love, sexual obsession, and complex relationships . . .

    Journalist Lindsay Drummond vows to remake herself: change jobs, move away from London, and--above all--extinguish the hopeless love she feels fo...

  • Good Neighbors

    Gorman Bechard

    Shaken by the death of his friend and neighbor, Reggie DeLillo, during a confrontation with the police, ex-cop Juke Miller decides to investigate on his own and finds himself dealing with a vengeful police chief, his ex-partner, and a beautiful detec...

  • The Specter From the Magician's Museum

    John Bellairs

    Based on John Bellairs' mystery-adventure series, this thrilling story will keep you on the edge of your seat!John Bellairs, the name in Gothic mysteries for middle graders, wrote terrifying tales full of adventure, attitude, and alarm. For years, yo...

  • Ernestine and Amanda

    Sandra Belton

    Growing up in the segregated south of the 1950s, ten-year-olds Ernestine and Amanda, the former an overweight girl, the latter a daughter of a privileged family, struggle with their mutual dislike of one another. Reprint....

  • The Southern Girls

    Cherie Bennett

    The author of the Sunset Island series begins a new quartet about the four regional pageants that will select Teen Spirit magazine's first Miss Teen Spirit, a boon that will launch a lucky girl's future. Original....

  • The Facts of Death

    Raymond Benson

    Action + Adventure + Intrigue = 007! They call him the Number Killer. A calculating assassin who always leaves a numerical calling card. But now he's picked the wrong victim--M's lover--and James Bond is going to beat the odds to make things even....

  • A Pedigree to Die For

    Laurien Berenson

    Win, Place...Or Die. The apparent heart attack that killed kennel owner Max Turnbull has left seven pups in mourning, and his wife Peg suspecting foul play. But the only evidence is their missing prize pooch--a pedigreed poodle named Beau. Enter ...

  • Murder at Oklahoma

    Jack M. Bickham

    Popularly mistaken for a pretty dumb blonde at the University of Oklahoma, doctoral candidate Phyllis "Flip" Ryan wins a reputation for brains through her investigation into the murder of a haughty, unpopular female English professor. Original....

  • Silver Linings

    Cheryl Biggs

    A WOMAN WITH GRIEF IN HER HEART . . . Candace Gates Murdock was caught between a rock and a hard place. Garth Murdock, two decades her senior, could have been Candace's father and not her husband...yet she was married to him. When Candace'...

  • The Contrary Blues

    John Billheimer

    Not much happens in Contrary, West Virginia--a sleepy town with failing coal mines, a few old moonshine stills, and an urgent need for revenue.  A federal grant for a nonexistent bus system seemed just the ticket . . . if only the government audito...

  • Song of the Lark

    Sonya Birmingham

    MOUNTAIN MAGIC When the beautiful wisp of a mountain girl walked through his front door, Stephen Wentworth knew there had been some kind of mistake. The flame-haired beauty in trousers was not the nanny he had envisioned for his mute son Tad. Bu...

  • The Trader's Wife

    T.C. Black

    Pregnant Sara Klein is awakened by Federal agents who confiscate the contents of her husband Mark's office. Told that Mark has vanished with millions of dollars of his client's money while on a business trip for his brokerage firm, she is accused of ...

  • John "Rip" Peterson

    Jennifer Blake
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    In some small Southern towns the old ways still exist. Breeding counts and the old boys hold court. Everyone has a place and no one's supposed to cross the line. But rules are made to be broken... In Southern Gentlemen, authors Jennifer Blake and Emi...

  • In Dark Water

    Mermer Blakeslee

    In 1958, in a small town in upstate New York, the Buell family is falling apart. The sudden death of David, the only son, forever changes the bonds that connect them to one another and to the world. As her mother sinks into depression, eleven-year-ol...

  • The X Files Fight the Future Scrapbook

    Caitlin Blasdell

    Beneath the tranquil surface of a North Texas town, the future of the human race awaits ...

    After forty years, members of the global conspiracy known only as The Project are finally nearing the completion of their plans. Only FBI Special Agents ...

  • A Noble Resolve

    Sara Blayne

    A Love For All Seasons Lady Josephine Powell was nineteen and not always in the best of health. And now, instead of a new ball gown and an exciting London come-out, she had doctor's orders to take the waters at a provincial spa. She never dreamed th...

  • Day of Wrath

    Larry Bond

    A plane carrying an American arms inspection team mysteriously falls out of the sky. A senior U.S. diplomat is daringly assassinated. These are but warning shots to the most devastating terrorist conspiracy ever, conceived and paid for by a cunning S...

  • Manhunting in Mississippi

    Stephanie Bond

    Always a bridesmaid Piper Shepherd was desperate. As the only single member of her sorority (even chubby hypochondriac Tillie had managed to snag a suitor!) she had to find a husband soon. That wasn't easy in Mudville, Mississippi, population twen...

  • The Silver Wolf

    Alice Borchardt

    Into decadent Rome of the Dark Ages comes Regeane, an enigmatic young woman distantly related to Charlemagne. But the blood she has inherited from her murdered father makes her much more than a child of royalty. Regeane is a shapeshifter--woman and w...

  • That Marriageable Man!

    Barbara Boswell

    MR. JUNE That Marriageable Man: Tall, dark and very sexy Rafe Paradise was single and satisfied -- until he "inherited" four mischievous kids. His Ultimate Dilemma: Being a devoted dad without getting hitched. That Marriageable Woman: Nex...

  • Lord of Illusions

    Rita Boucher

    THE MAGIC OF LOVE Desperate to escape the evil power of her husband's family, lovely widow Rowan Du Le Fey has no alternative but to work for Napoleon. Masquerading as a dowdy governess, Rowan infiltrates an English diplomatic household in or...

  • Like Father, Like Daughter

    Judith Bowen

    Adam Garrick is an ex-rodeo cowboy, now divorced, and owner of the Double O Ranch. Out of nowhere, he receives a letter from Caroline Carter, the widow of his closest friend. He hasn't seen Caroline in years -- but she's coming to visit him, bringi...

  • Healing Gifts

    Leslie Brannen

    Abby Cooper is the first woman to enter veterinarian college. Abby's dreams include getting her degree in veterinarian medicine and returning home to marry Kyle Lambert. But, when James Bradshaw enters her life, rescuing her from the dangerous tricks...

  • Friday's Child

    Kylie Brant

    MILLIONAIRE DAD Wealthy, brooding businessman Michael Friday's one weakness was his daughter, Chloe. So when her teacher called to speak about Chloe's misbehavior, he couldn't believe her concerns. But when Miss Rose came in person, he started lis...

  • The Last Stand

    Matt Braun

    It is the land of Five Civilized Tribes, stolen from its people by a Federal government determined to make Oklahoma the 46th state. Chitto Starr, a full-blood Cherokee, will not go gently into the night. Instead, Chitto ignites an armed rebellion-and...

  • Time Was: Isaac Asimov's I-Bots

    Gary A. Braunbeck

    Annabelle Donohoe, the CEO of World Tech, is mad as hell.

    Her dreams of world domination died the day Zac Robillard discovered her evil plans and fled World Tech, taking his greatest creation, his beloved I-Bots, and all his research, with him. (...

  • Not Exactly What I Had in Mind

    Rosemary Breslin

    One week in 1989, Rosemary Breslin got a headache that wouldn't go away. After countless tests and treatments, doctors knew little about her strange disease except that it wasn't AIDS or cancer. Two years later, out of a job, in debt, and worried abo...

  • No Escape

    James D. Brewer

    The fifth novel in the series finds Luke Williamson and his ship under quarantine as yellow fever passes through Memphis in 1873, along with a card sharp due to stand trial for murder. By the author of No Justice. ...

  • Body Language

    Suzanne Brockmann

    A bad boy in black leather who'd never forgotten the first girl he loved.... Clint McCade roared into town to visit his best friend, just as he had a dozen times before -- but this time the rugged photographer had romance on his mind! When Sandy K...

  • Maverick Mania

    Sigmund Brouwer

    The disappearance of his soccer team's leading scorer during the championship finals leads sixteen-year-old Matt to investigate and entangles him in a possible kidnapping. If the Mavericks win just a few more games, they'll make it to the nat...

  • Tiger Heat

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Unspeakable

    Sandra Brown

    SEE NO EVIL Carl Herbold is a cold-blooded psychopath who loves violence, a murderer who has just escaped the penitentiary where he was serving a life sentence. Bent on revenge, he is on his way back to where he began--Blewer County, Texas. HEA...

  • Double Espresso

    Anthony Bruno

    “A cast of kooky, dangerous characters worthy of Elmore Leonard or Carl Hiaasen . . . A funny, often harrowing crime novel†(Booklist).   In this follow-up to the Anthony Award finalist Devil’s Food, fugitive-hunter Loretta ...

  • English Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Saddle Club is getting ready for the arrival of their friend Lady Theresa, otherwise known as Tessa, from England. She's going to be spending time in Willow Creek and they can't wait. To the Saddle Club it means fun, sleep-overs, and, of course, ...

  • English Rider

    Bonnie Bryant

    Tessa and Veronica are best friends? That's the way it looks. Instead of hanging out with the Saddle Club, Tessa is spending all her time with Veronica. They talk together, shop together, and even ride together! Veronica is thrilled and can already s...

  • The Doomsday Report

    Rock Brynner

    What if we learned that mass extinction caused by global warming is imminent and inescapable? What if we had no future. . . and we knew it? That's the premise of this provocative, highly topical thriller, an explosive mix of passion, murder, sex, sci...

  • A Pirate Looks At Fifty

    Jimmy Buffett

    For the millions of fans of Jimmy Buffett's music as well as his bestselling books, Tales From Margaritaville and Where Is Joe Merchant?, here is the ultimate Jimmy Buffett philosophy on life and how to live it.  As hard as it is to believe, the ir...

  • Komarr

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Komarr could be a garden--with a thousand more years work. Or an uninhabitable wasteland, if the terraforming fails. Now the solar mirror vital to the terraforming of the conquered planet has been shattered by a ship hurtling off course. The Emperor ...

  • Buck Naked Sequel Hardcover

    Roberta Burditt

  • Sunset Limited

    James Lee Burke

    WITNESS AT THE CRUCIFIXION The townspeople of New Iberia, Louisiana, didn't crucify Megan Flynn's father. They just didn't catch whoever pinned him to a barn wall with sixteen-penny nails. Decades later, Megan, now a world-famous photojournalis...

  • Dreamers

    Jack Butler

    Santa Fe dream scientist Dr. Jody Nightwood becomes a beautiful pawn in a deadly contest when she receives a generous grant to conduct a study in her own sleep clinic--a grant that, unbeknownst to her, has been funded by the CIA.

    The chief of ...

  • One In a Million

    Adrianne Byrd
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    Desperate and determined, Whitney Jackson tracks down the father of her fourteen-year-old son, praying he'll be a willing donor for the bone marrow transplant her gravely ill boy needs. Gregory Woods' life changes forever the instant he is re...

  • Only in My Dreams

    Eve Byron

    AN UNLIKELY MATCH... Driven into an arranged marriage, Baroness Lorelei Winters is once again the talk of the ton. A wealthy orphan raised by governesses, Lorelei's fierce independence and sullied reputation kept her apart from proper British societ...

  • A Nixon Man

    Michael Cahill

    Winner of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Award for best new novel

    "My father was a Nixon man. Before that he'd been a Goldwater man. On most nights he could be found roaming the house like a ghost, wearing a tattered robe, reading about Ike. But...

  • The Wish Club

    Stella Cameron

    As children, Max Rossmara, the son of a viscount, and Kirsty Mercer, a tenant farmer's daughter, were unlikely yet inseparable friends. Innocent to the demands of convention, they formed a club for wishing. And each had only one wish: to be toget...

  • Christina's Courage

    Joanna Campbell

    Can Christina control Sterling?

    Now that she has the horse of her dreams, Christina Reese is more determined than ever to enter high-level competitions. There's only one problem--her horse, Sterling Dream, isn't cooperating.

    ...

  • The Last Voice They Hear

    Ramsey Campbell

    A voice from the past interrupts Geoff's happy life as his long-lost brother Ben challenges Geoff to solve the murders of young couples occurring in the area, murders that Ben himself may have committed. Reprint....

  • Push and Pull

    Susan Canizares

  • Monkey Bridge Display Easel

    Lan Cao

  • Starting School with an Enemy

    Elisa Carbone

    "Hurray for strong girl characters!"

    Author Elisa Carbone bursts onto the middle-grade scene with a laugh-out-loud story of a girl who tackles life head-on. Ten-year-old Sarah definitely has an attitude. But who can blame her? Her family dragg...

  • Sweet Bride of Revenge

    Suzanne Carey

    Marriage of Revenge The rich and powerful Braet family had been the cause of his misfortune. But he had risen above the obstacles of his birth to become one of the world's most successful and sought after men. Yet lavish homes and great wealth were ...

  • Opposites Attract

    Shirley Carroll

    HOT ON HER TRAIL When police officer Sam Cooper spots the beautiful blonde in the red convertible, his first reaction is to toss her in the slammer. His next -- after discovering that she isn't the lookalike robbery suspect he's chasing --...

  • X-Files Film Novel

    Chris Carter

    Beneath the tranquil surface of a North Texas town, the future of the human race awaits...

    After forty years, members of the Global conspiracy known only as The Project are finally nearing the completion of their plans. Only FBI Special Agen...

  • Valiant Hearts

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Valiant Hearts concludes the sweeping World War I saga begun in Arabian Winds and continued in Lions of the Desert. Having at last declared his love for Allison Wescott, a Christian missionary nurse supporting British troops in Egypt, daring British ...

  • Behind the Veil

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

  • Silver Dreams

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    "I'll resist the marriage", Devora thinks stubbornly as her ship heads toward the West Indies and a dreadful new life. Promised to the powerful Don Nicklas Valentin, a man whose ruthlessness is legendary, Devora fears a union with this man she's neve...

  • Rachel Lemoyne

    Eileen Charbonneau

    Rachel LeMoyne, a mixed-blood Choctaw raised in a Presbyterian mission, knows that her calling in 1850 is to travel to Ireland to feed the starving people there with her own people's life-giving surplus corn. But she never expected to find a husband ...

  • Gone for Good

    Mark Childress

    By the time Newsweek dubs thirty-four-year-old Ben (Superman) Willis "The New Super-Poet of Pop," he has millions of adoring fans, piles of money, a beautiful family--and a secret desire to chuck it all and disappear forever. He gets his wish after a...

  • Mile-High Love

    Jane McBride Choate

    Miranda Kirk meets Detective MacKenzie Torrence when her vintage clothing store, Buckles and Bows, is robbed. While investigating the crime, Mac falls for the pretty store owner. Miranda has no intention of tying her life to that of a cop, even one a...

  • Going Out in Style

    Joyce Christmas

    DEATH IN THE FAMILY

    Rich and stylish Dianne Stark has it all: good looks, wealthy husband, cute baby, Fifth Avenue apartment. So why is she suddenly restless and anxious, hinting at secret troubles?

    Lady Margaret Priam suspects her fri...

  • Prime-Time Pitcher

    Matt Christopher

    The #1 sports writer for kids offers a read as exciting as a fast ball. Pitcher Koby Caplin is the best thing to happen to the Monticello Cardinals in years--but is he ready for prime time?...

  • Night of Glory

    Scott Ciencin

    Once superior beings appeared in force, wielding the power to deceive and dominate the lowly humans. Now the two races must war for one planet. As a boy, Tom Keeper dreamed of creating beautiful art. Now Destiny has thrust him into the role of sav...

  • Who's the Father of Jenny's Baby?

    Donna Clayton

    "Whose child am I carrying?" Jenny Prentice woke without her memory ...only to be told she was pregnant. And two men were claiming to be her baby's father! Luke said he was her loving husband. Though Jenny felt passion for this quiet, attentive...

  • Wit'ch Fire

    James Clemens

    On a fateful night five centuries ago, three mages made a desperate last stand, sacrificing everything to preserve the only hope of goodness in the beautiful, doomed land of Alasea. Now, on the anniversary of that ominous night, a girl-child ripens i...

  • The Golden Rose

    Denee Cody

    THEY WERE BITTER ENEMIES... She is Catherine Avery, the Lady of Rosmar, mistress of the Castle once owned by the disgraced Mandevilles and lost as the spoils of war. But her comfortable existence is about to end as she meets her sworn enemy, who dis...

  • South Wind

    Don Coldsmith

    In his towering epic novel Tallgrass, bestselling author Don Coldsmith captured as never before the historical panorama of the North American Great Plains.  Set in the land of unlimited horizons called Kansas, it evoked an age of innocence, explora...

  • Incident at Buffalo Crossing

    Robert J. Conley

    A landmark hill in the heart of the American wilderness draws many different men, each with their own individual dreams, including steamship captain Mat McDonald, sent to head off a threatened war between the Spanish and Americans, and Walker, a Cher...

  • Don't Go Near That Rabbit, Frank

    Pamela Conrad

    Philip and Kootch struggle to find a way to save their beloved dog, Frank, who has been threatened with shooting if it bothers a crotchety neighbor's prize rabbit and who brings home the rabbit one day....

  • Lost Love

    George Cooper

    Discusses an unusual 1869 murder case in which Daniel McFarland, an abusive and jealous husband, killed celebrated Civil War journalist Albert Deane Richardson, his wife's lover, in a crime that raised issues of wives' rights and the sanctity of m...

  • Sour Grapes

    Natasha Cooper

    TRUE LIES Now a full-time mother and bestselling writer, Willow King is content to leave crime-solving to her police chief husband. Yet she can't resist a case involving Andrew Lutterworth, accused of a fatal hit-and-run that landed him in prison ...

  • The Mango Opera

    Tom Corcoran

    Although he prefers magazine work, freelance photographer Alex Rutledge won't turn down an occasional crime scene shoot for the City of Key West Police Department. But when a string of murders takes his viewfinder into strangely familiar territory, A...

  • The Virtuous Cyprian

    Nicola Cornick

    Nicholas, the Earl of Seagrave was bored! After the excitement of war, Nicholas found life as a civilian stifling. His boredom soon lifted when the notorious courtesan Susanna Kellaway claimed a lease on one of his houses. No sooner did they meet ...

  • Sharpe's Triumph

    Bernard Cornwell

    RICHARD SHARPE AND THE BATTLE OF ASSAYE, SEPTEMBER 1803 It is India, 1803. In the four years since he earned his sergeant's stripes, young Richard Sharpe has led a relatively peaceful existence. But Sharpe's reverie ends when he barely survives a ...

  • The Day After Roswell

    Philip Corso

    A breathtaking exposé that reads like a thriller, The Day After Roswell is a stunning depiction of just what happened in Roswell, New Mexico all those years ago and how the effects of this mysterious unidentified aircraft crash are still relevant to...

  • Money Troubles

    Bill Cosby

    Great stories about great kids, just like you! Little Bill wants to discover a comet and be famous. First he needs a telescope...but it costs $100! Where will Little Bill find that much money? Written by America's most beloved comedian and stor...

  • Against The Rules

    Emily Costello

    Rose had her tonsils out, Jordan's on vacation, Geena broke her arm--there are barely enough Stars around to play a tennis match, let alone a soccer game! The team's beginning to lose heart--and games--as they're forced to play without replacements. ...

  • Never Alone

    Lyn Cote

    DETERMINED DAD! Loner Cash Langley trusted and loved far too few. So when he lost his family--all but his precious orphaned niece--he was eager to build his world around the infant girl. But the baby was left in the custody of Jane Everett, his si...

  • A Shoot on Martha's Vineyard

    Philip R. Craig

    Death on Location Life on the Vineyard is good-maybe just too good--for ex-Boston cop J.W. Jackson this August. The bluefish are running early, and there's plenty of quality fishing time to be spent with his new baby son Joshua. But an idyllic sum...

  • Marriage at a Distance

    Sara Craven

    A wife of convenience? Joanna had been an inexperienced 18-year-old when she'd married Gabriel Verne. She'd loved her new husband but had been devastated to discover that he'd simply married her out of duty. When the honeymoon was over...

  • Most Wanted

    Jordan Cray

    //WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE/ The Internet . . . a world without rules, without boundaries. Where you can be anyone you want, whoever you aren't. And it's all just a click away ... . Andy MacFarland thought he knew everything. But his mom just showe...

  • A Deadly Change of Course: Plan B

    Gina Cresse

    After suffering a minor heart attack at the tender age of 35, Devonie Lace decides to get out of the rat-race before she becomes road-kill on the corporate highway. She quits her high-paying, high-stress job, sells her house, and buys a sailboat to l...

  • Wait for Elmo!

    Cross

    Sometimes little Elmo can't keep up with his friends on Sesame Street. Grover tells Elmo he's not old enough to go on a bike ride, but then Grover's grandpa takes Elmo on an even better trip--to the zoo!...

  • Bhagavati

    Kara Dalkey

    A young English apothecary's apprentice, sent to India and captured by the Inquisition, reclaims his freedom by pretending to know the source of a mysterious power called the Rasa Mahadevi, which can raise the dead...

  • French Twist

    Margot Dalton

    Out of sight, out of mind? Ten years ago, Madeline Belanger made the painful decision to leave Bayou Beltane and start a new life. But now, somebody was threatening her family. And Madeline had come back to find out who. If only she could avoid Ju...

  • Runaway

    Carolyn Davidson

    A Make-Believe Marriage Cassie Phillips wasn't really married to Will Tolliver, no matter what he told people. Not that being the wife of a man as kind and thoughtful as Will wouldn't be a dream come true. But even Will would abandon her once he l...

  • Bone Wars

    Brett Davis

    BONES OF CONTENTION Montana, 1876. Othniel Charles Marsh, one of the two top paleontologists in the world, is in the state's Judith River fossil beds, doing what he does best: digging up the bones of dinosaurs. Montana is a big state, but Marsh can'...

  • K-Niner Dog of Doom

    Jim Davis

    When Vetvix, the evil veterinarian, launches his new secret weapon, K-Niner, the ferocious Dog of Doom, as part of a diabolical plot to seize control of the universe, it is up to Garfield and his team of superpet heroes to stop him, before it is too ...

  • Runaway Heart

    Saranne Dawson

    THEY ONLY HAD EACH OTHER Zach Hollis, by-the-book cop, had been done wrong. He'd earned the respect of many men -- and the love of one woman: Charlotte "C.Z." Morrison. So when she found Zach as a fugitive, she left behind her button-d...

  • Passion

    Barbara De Angelis

    She showed you the secrets of loving.  Now discover the secrets of living.Use the power of passion to live the life you've always wanted.Every day holds the promise to be wonderful. Every life has the potential to be great. Every person has...

  • The Hoax- Files

    Alfredo de Darco

  • Juniper, Gentian, & Rosemary

    Pamela Dean

    Inspired by a traditional ballad, Juniper, Gentian, and Rosemary is the tale of a mysterious young man and three ordinary young girls, of ancient magic and the modern world.

    Three sisters live comfortably with their parents: Juniper, 16, who l...

  • Wild Cat Chase

    Terry Deary

    Clickety-click, clickety-click - whatever can be making that noise? Jess thinks it might be a huge woolly monster and isn't going to wait to find out. He runs away, over hills and dales. Jess won't stop, but neither will the monster!...

  • Arizona Renegade

    Kit Dee

    Looking for Bad Guys... While hot on the trail of two desperadoes, rugged government agent Caid Dundee is distracted by golden-haired Reena Sims -- an innocent temptress who soon has him hungering to turn in his badge and give in to more pleasurable...

  • Much Ado About Marriage

    Shawna Delacorte

    WHEN BRITT MET ASHLEY Britt Carlton wasn't looking to fall in love -- he'd been there, done that...and didn't want to do it again! Then Ashley Thornton moved in to his apartment complex, all smiles and sass -- and incredibly sexy -- an...

  • Mail-Order Mother

    Kate Denton

    Wanted: mother and wife? Jane didn't know who was crazier--Greg Merrifield for placing the advert for a wife and a mother, or herself for answering it! But as soon as she met his adorable twin babies, she knew she'd made the right decision...

  • Abbeyford

    Margaret Dickinson

    At a time when the local landowners are planning to destroy the last vestiges of the villagers' independence by enclosure of the common land, Sarah falls in love with the squire's son. Previously published as Sarah, this book is the first volume in t...

  • The Lion King: Just Can't Wait to Be King

    Walt Disney

  • Schnitzel Von Krumm Forget Me Not

    Lynley Dodd

    Another story about Schnitzel von Krumm, the dog "with the very low tum". Schnitzel's family are packing for a holiday but Schnitzel can't help snuffling around bags and getting under feet. Finally on their way, the family don't realise that they'vel...

  • This Body

    Laurel Marian Doud

    An unforgettable story of reincarnation and redemption in which a middle-aged woman relives her life in the body of a 22-year-old drug addict, this book signals an astonishing debut from an original writer....

  • Battleground

    Keith Douglass

    The frigate U.S.S. Roy Turner docked just off Mombasa Bay, Kenya--on a goodwill call. At about 1:00 A.M. Sunday, they were dealt an unexpected blow. Army Colonel Maleceia staged a military coup--attacking the ship. One hundred sixty American sailors ...

  • Barney's Book of Trains

    Linda Cress Dowdy

  • The Year's Best Science Fiction: Fifteenth Annual Collection

    Gardner Dozois

  • The Black Brook

    Tom Drury

    A small-time art forger runs afoul of the New England mob in this comic crime novel from the author of The End of Vandalism: “One of our living masters†(McSweeney’s).   Paul Emmons has his faults -- envy, lust, naiveté, money laundering,...

  • Looking for Mo

    Daniel Duane

    After realizing that he and his friend Mo will never reach the peak of El Capitan, Ray Connelly's world further collapses when Mo accuses him of stealing some unwritten stories, and the conflict is dramatically resolved on the same mountain where it ...

  • Disney's Mulan: Junior Novel

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Mulan conceals her true identity and defends her country dressed as a man, but when she is wounded, her secret is revealed, yet she still manages to defeat the enemy and becomes a legend. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Meditations from a Movable Chair

    Andre Dubus

    For Andre Dubus, "the quotidian and the spiritual don't exist on different planes, but infuse each other. His is an unapologetically sacramental vision of life in which ordinary things participate in the miraculous, the miraculous in ordinary things....

  • Your Blue-Eyed Boy

    Helen Dunmore

    From the acclaimed author of "Talking to the Dead" comes a haunting novel about a judge whose husband is on the verge of personal bankruptcy and breakdown. As she struggles to shield her two sons from rising tensions at home, a letter arrives that th...

  • The Last True Cowboy

    Kathleen Eagle

    The sudden death of her brother brings Julia Weslin home to the High Horse, the family's sprawling yet cash-strapped Wyoming cattle ranch. A burnt-out member of the urban jungle, Julia is spiritually rejuvenated by the wild, still untamed land and re...

  • Losing You

    Lucinda Edmonds

    When struggling musician Con strikes gold with a rock band in '60s London, he and his partner Sorcha look set for a rosy future. But as their lives change beyond recognition, they start to wonder if they can ever return to the life of simple happines...

  • Who Will She Wed?

    Andrea Edwards

    ACCIDENTALLY YOURS Unlike his love-'em-and-leave-'em celebrity twin Neal, country veterinarian Nick Sheridan had suffered a heartful of hurt. So why not accept Neal's challenge to trade places on a glamorous jaunt with world-class seductress Colle...

  • Bold Wolf

    Cassie Edwards

    BOLD ENCOUNTER Shanna Sewell was warned by her father to keep away from the Indians who shared the wildly beautiful Maine frontier. But fate brought her face-to-face with Bold Wolf, the proud, sensual son of the Bear People's chief. It was an encoun...

  • Beauty and the Beast: Belle's Story

    Vanessa Elder

    Based on the popular animated film, a chapter book, told from Belle's perspective, explains how Belle rushed off to save her captive father and then is captured herself by the beast, and how both their lives changed after their meeting. Original....

  • I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin

    P.N. Elrod

    ...Some of the parchment pages were the color of cream, thick and substantial, made to last many, many lifetimes. Other pages were thin and desiccated, positively yellow from age, and crackled alarmingly as Van Richten turned them over. There were no...

  • A Chill in the Blood

    P.N. Elrod

    When he was alive, Jack Fleming was a reporter with a nose for news. Now that he's dead, he's a private eye with a thirst for justice--and blood. But being a vampire with morals is no midnight stroll on the streets of post-prohibition Chicago. In the...

  • Dreams

    Rita Clay Estrada

    WAS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF? Being left at the altar for her fiance's first love was a nightmare that Mary Ellen Gallagher took as a wake-up call. Never again would she let into her life a man who came with baggage! And then Greg Torrance arrived...

  • Four To Score

    Janet Evanovich

    Stephanie Plum, Trenton New Jersey's favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back - and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who's skipped bail. With the help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite music...

  • Longarm and the Renegade Assassins

    Tabor Evans

    BOMBSHELL! The commissioner for Indian Affairs is in Denver to settle a dispute between the ranchers and Ute Indians over cattle grazing rights. But fighting's the last thing on Longarm's mind. He's looking forward to a week's leave with that shapely...

  • Mysterious

    Fabio

    Hard body, ice-blue eyes, vulnerable heart -- he's a romance hero come to life. And the secret thoughts behind his smile make him the hot mix of bad boy and angel that women can't resist. Now let him arouse your senses in a sizzling story of suspense...

  • Roast and Toast

    Erica Farber; J.R. Sansevere

    Axel Howl is off to a midnight vampire's picnic on the beach, where roasting and toasting, strumming and drumming, and jumping and thumping make for easy-to-read fun in this first appearance in Beginner Books® by Mercer Mayer's Critters of the Night...

  • Sea Spell

    Tess Farraday

    She fell into the churning waves, only to be lifted gently out by a dark-haired youth with a knowing, otherworldly smile -- who then vanished into the mist. Somehow the young girl knew that her elusive rescuer was a powerful, legendary selkie, who ha...

  • The Hostage Bride

    Jane Feather

    Dear Reader, Here is the first of my new "Brides" trilogy, in which three unconventional young women vow they will never marry--only to be overtaken by destiny. Bride #1 is the outspoken Portia.... It's bad enough that seventeen-year-old Portia...

  • Dead in the Driver's Seat

    Connie Feddersen

    AMANDA HAZARD, SAVVY CPA AND AMATEUR SLEUTH, HAS SPOTTED A DEAD MAN DRIVING. IT SURE ISN'T A PRETTY SIGHT. THE ROAD TO RUIN Amanda is in the market for a practical new truck, so she heads to Vamoose's only car dealership, Lemon's Used Cars. Aft...

  • In the Family Way

    Marie Ferrarella

    One little, two little, three little babies... That's what Dr. Rafe Saldana had--but none of them was his own. The handsome pediatrician had his hands full with his clients and no room in his heart for love...until independent single mom Dana Mor...

  • Girl Trouble

    Sandra Field

    He wanted a lover... Cade McInnes had fallen in love with Lori when she was sixteen and he was old enough to know better. But he hadn't known better. They had parted bitterly. Not a family! Now it was ten years later. Lori had a bad marriage...

  • Traces: Stories

    Ida Fink


    Finalist, National Jewish Book Award 1997
    A New York Times Notable Book

    Ida Fink's first collection of short stories, A Scrap of Time, was universally hailed as a masterpiece. Traces continues Fink's portrait of life in Nazi-occupied Po...

  • Ashes on the Wind

    John Fischer

  • Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts

    Rubem Fonseca

    An international best-seller by a Brazilian novelist follows the absurd and compelling exploits of a film director who is intrigued by the mystery surrounding his newly attained precious gems and a curious offer to make a new film....

  • Mushu's Story

    Ron Fontes

    In an easy reader chapterbook, the heroic adventures of Mulan are described through the eyes of the Fa family's small but powerful guardian, Mushu, as well as Mushu's origins and history with the family. Original....

  • The Last Goodbye

    H. Michael Frase

    Unbeknownst to him, someone is out to frame Josh Mitchell for the murder of an attractive woman he recently met on an airplane trip to San Francisco, a woman who in reality had been killed eight years before in Mississippi...

  • Dirty Laundry

    Lisa Rowe Fraustino

    A collection of eleven original short stories includes contributions by such authors as Cris Crutcher, M. E. Kerr, and Bruce Coville, and explores the haunting, funny, and unexpected secrets kept by families....

  • The Wallflower

    Jan Freed

    Nowhere to run. One place to hide... Sarah Davidson is the lone witness to a brutal murder. After the killer makes an attempt on her life, she's put under police protection. But when one of the cops turns on her, she's forced to hide in a place no...

  • Signature Murder

    Pat Frieder

    DEADLY DeJÀ VU Lawyer Matty Donahue believes in second chances. She has to. Her once-promising career crashed after a shattering, tragic case. Now, with her life finally back on track, her past is about to, repeat itself. Chauffeur Teddy Bellasand...

  • Confession

    Elizabeth Gage

    For years, Rebecca has lived a blameless life of quiet desperation. She is the perfect wife of a man whose wealth and power depend on her silence. She had raised a perfect child, who is now engaged; the young man is everything her parents could wish ...

  • The Perfect Scandal

    Kit Garland

    "WE WILL BE A SHOCKING COUPLE," SHE SAID. Miss Savannah Merriweather was determined to marry for love. Instead, her ambitious mother packed her off to London to wed a nobleman advertising for a rich American bride. Savannah returned to New York wi...

  • Can't Hardly Wait

    Ray Garton

  • Worth Waiting For

    Roberta Gayle

    A successful Boston attorney, Eliza Taylor has her life on a short leash until an old friend asks her to help his handsome brother, Ely, retain custody of his son, not realizing that Ely has secretly loved her for years. Original....

  • Murder Gets a Life

    Anne George

    Patricia Anne can't imagine why Mary Alice is in such an uproar over her boy marrying sweet little Sunshine Dobbs. Ray found the Barbie doll lookalike on a trip to Bora Bora and Mary Alice is sure her new daughterin-law is just after Ray's money. The...

  • The Forever Affair

    Catherine George

    An unexpected reunion. Once upon a time Catrin was swept off her feet by darkly handsome Dr. Ashe Hope Ellison. She hoped Ashe's love would last forever, but it turned out to be a brief summer affair. This time Catrin has been swept off her fee...

  • On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon

    Kaye Gibbons

    Sprawling in its scope but heartbreakingly exact in its depiction of a family torn apart, On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon is a magnificent novel in the great Southern tradition. In the year 1900--on the afternoon she suspects might be the last ...

  • Babes in Boyland

    H.B. Gilmour

  • Godzilla

    H.B. Gilmour

  • At All Costs

    John Gilstrap

    When undercover fugitives are found in the suburbs, they must race against time -- and the FBI -- to clear their names in this “superior page turner†(David Baldacci).   The Brightons are just an ordinary, small-town, law-abiding family -- u...

  • Love Among the Orientals

    Maxine Glassman

    An Oriental carpet boutique in Boston is the milieu of sexual obsession, scandal, and greed in a debut novel that weaves wit, humor, and suspense with the sensual appeal of the oriental rug. 12,000 first printing....

  • The House by the Side of the Road

    Jan Gleiter

    Someone in a peaceful Pennsylvania town has a brutal murder on his conscience......but who and why remain a mystery-- until Meg Kessinger moves in. The house she's inherited from an aunt is dilapidated, but she adores it-- and sets about restoring it...

  • Beyond Recall

    Robert Goddard

    On a bright autumn afternoon in Truro, the Napier family celebrates one couple’s golden wedding anniversary and another’s marriage. But for one member of the clan, the day turns dark. Chris Napier, prodigal son, suddenly spots the ragged specter ...

  • A Day With Dirtbike

    Lisa Goldman

    It's a baby-sitting disaster! Judy bribed Doug into watching Dirtbike. For a while, everything went well. How hard can this be? But when things get out of control and Skeeter suggests a trip to the mall, Doug's troubles really begin. To top it all o...

  • Once Upon a Crime

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    A terrifying collection of fairy tales with a wicked twist features the work of such best-selling mystery writers as Sharyn McCrumb, Joan Hess, John Lutz, and others, in stories that explore the themes of envy, jealousy, greed, spite, revenge, and de...

  • Granted: Wild West Bride // Wild Mustang Man

    Carol Grace

    A WISH...AND A WEDDING? Once he'd had everything he ever wished for, and Josh Gentry figured that was all he was entitled to in life. So when he met sexy Bridget McCloud, Josh didn't dare let himself wish again. Bridget was sure the rugged sing...

  • War Dragons

    L.A. Graf

    There's a bar called "The Captain's Table," where those who have commanded mighty vessels of every shape and era can meet, relax, and share a friendly drink or two with others of their calling. Sometimes a brawl may break out but it's all in the fami...

  • Northern Stars

    Glenn Grant

    From the earliest days of modern science fiction, Canada has given readers some of the most important authors in the field--and many of the finest stories. World Fantasy Award-winning editor David G. Hartwell has teamed up with Canadian writer and cr...

  • Contract with an Angel

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Millionaire media mogul Raymond Neenan can't believe his ears--or his eyes. The scat next to him, empty for the whole flight, now barely contains a huge man who looks a lot like Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan. In fact, the "man" is the Arc...

  • Black Cats and Broken Mirrors

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Ranging from urban fantasy to modern horror, a collection of original stories by more than a dozen writers explores both the lighter and darker sides of superstitions, from the simple to the strange, the benign to the bizarre. Original....

  • Mother of Plenty

    Colin Greenland

    Captain Tabitha Jute is past the point of no return. Stripped of her command and her dignity, she has lost control of the huge alien starship called Plenty, and forfeited the devotion of the myriad lifeforms traveling with her in its dingy caverns an...

  • Future Perfect

    Jeff Greenwald

    A lively history of the seemingly inexhaustible popularity of the TV series and its progeny with the popular culture and imagination of America and the world features interviews with Patrick Stewart, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and the Dalai Lama. 40,000 fir...

  • Never Love a Cowboy

    Jill Gregory

    SHE THOUGHT SHE KNEW ABOUT LOVE. After six years at a Philadelphia finishing school, former tomboy Emma Malloy was coming home to Whisper Valley, Montana, a sophisticated lady. Little did she know that the decades-old feud between the Malloys and th...

  • Starfish Summer

    Ona Gritz-Gilbert

    Mamas girl! Thats what the kids at school call Amy. But spending the summer at the beach with her aunt Jenny will give Amy the chance to prove them wrong. Shell make new friends . . . and maybe even learn how to ride a bike! Amy has high hopes for th...

  • Psylicon Beach

    Philip Gross

    Get washed up on Psylicon Beach, the toxic landscape of the future. Inhabited by ratkids like Skip, Duckhead and Guppie, it's a junkshop of dreams, stolen souls and virtual truths. Trespass into a playspace where nothing is real except illusion, for ...

  • California Screaming

    Doug Guinan

  • Time Will Tell

    Robin Jones Gunn

    Faced with a serious lack of communication with her sister Tawni and her friend Amy, Sierra tries to trust in God to help her understand her relationships with the people in her life and not prejudge them....

  • A Little Pigeon Toad

    Fred Gwynne

  • Beyond the Glen

    Diane Haeger

    Beyond the Glen by Diane Haeger As children, half-sisters Colleen and Mairi Gordon grow up in a small hamlet in Scotland with their often brutal father and Mairi's French mother. When Vivienne could no longer bear the way she and her daughter were b...

  • Mirror Image

    Shirley Hailstock

    IN TELEVISION'S MOST GLAMOROUS, HIGH-RISK ARENA, IS LOVE JUST AN ILLUSION? Marsha Chambers is the hottest talk show host in the country -- savvy, beautiful, sophisticated, she can get everyday people and celebrities to reveal their deepest, most hid...

  • Doctor Dogbody's Leg

    James Norman Hall

    Ripping sea yarns from the creator of Mutiny on the Bounty.

    James Norman Hall is best known as the co-author of the classic Bounty trilogy. In his later years, his favorite work was writing the tales spun by Dr. Dogbody, a peg-legged old salt ...

  • If You Love a Bear

    Piers Harper

  • Eleven Days

    Donald Harstad

    Life in Maitland, Iowa, is usually predictable, even for a cop. But all that changes the day Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman's dispatcher receives the terrifying 911 call. The day cops find the mutilated bodies at a remote farmhouse. The first of eleven...