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  • Roller Hockey Rumble

    Matt Christopher

    When Bizz and her friends arrange a high-stakes roller hockey game with another team, Bizz is reminded about the importance of friendship....

  • Sandstorm

    James Rollins

    An inexplicable explosion rocks the antiquities collection of a London museum, setting off alarms in clandestine organizations around the world. Lady Kara Kensington's family paid a high price in money and blood to found the gallery that now lies ...

  • Goddess for Hire

    Sonia Singh

    Meet Maya Mehra... a hip chick from Newport Beach, California, who's just turned thirty, discovered she's the incarnation of the Hindu goddess Kali, and happens to be unemployed and still living with her parents. Saving the world, though, may prove ...

  • The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane

    Robert E. Howard

    With Conan the Cimmerian, Robert E. Howard created more than the greatest action hero of the twentieth century -- he also launched a genre that came to be known as sword and sorcery. But Conan wasn’t the first archetypal adventurer to spring fr...

  • Death by Deep Dish Pie

    Sharon Short

    Like nearly everyone else in Paradise, Ohio, local laundromat owner and stain-removal expert Josie Toadfern eagerly awaits the upcoming July 4th Founders Day celebration with its highlight, the annual Breitenstrater Pie Company pie-eating contest, sp...

  • Dead Girls Don't Dance

    Maryjanice Davidson
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...

  • Blood upon My Lips

    Laurell K. Hamilton
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...

  • Burning Moon

    Rebecca York
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...

  • Originally Human

    Eileen Wilks
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    LONGINGS IN THE NIGHT.. . In the heat of the night, anything goes. Boundaries are crossed and secret yearnings take shape. Creatures stalk the shadows, surrendering to their wildest needs--and satisfying hungers that take their victims beyond fear...

  • Kissing the Bride

    Sara Bennett

    AN UNEXPECTED PASSION Lady Jenova of Gunlinghorn feels she should marry, though not for love, for she vows never to entrust her heart to a man again. Then Lord Henry, her charming and devilishly handsome friend, arrives to offer his opinion on the c...

  • I'm No Angel

    Patti Berg

    Top 7 Reasons Why She's No Angel 7. Easily Palm Beach's sexiest private investigator, Angel Devlin always gets her man -- and bad boy millionaire Tom Donovan is at the top of her Most Wanted list. 6. Instinct tells her that drop-dead-gorgeous ...

  • So In Love

    Karen Ranney

    WAS EVER A BETRAYAL SO CRUEL? Jeanne du Marchand adored her dashing young Scotsman, Douglas MacRae, and every moment in his arms was pure rapture. But when her father, the Comte du Marchand, learned she was carrying Douglas's child, Jeanne was torn ...

  • Freedom's Gate

    Naomi Kritzer

    From the acclaimed author of Fires of the Faithful comes the tale of an impetuous young woman, freeborn in a world of slavery and magic. Twenty-year-old Lauria is the favorite aide to Kyros, a powerful military officer. On his authority, she is messe...

  • Dead Certain

    Mariah Stewart

    THREE DEVIOUS PRISONERS VOWMURDEROUS REVENGE. NOW THE SECOND IS FREE. With her stalker captured, antiques dealer Amanda Crosby can finally sleep at night. Having worked hard to put the nightmare behind her, Amanda has vowed to never be a victim a...

  • The Scope of Justice

    Michael Z. Williamson

    One shot, one kill ... It is the code of the sniper, a lone professional in a military organization that prides itself on teamwork and strength in numbers. Feared by his enemies and distrusted by his allies, the sniper can turn tides and win battl...

  • The Bartered Bride

    Mary Jo Putney

    After building a fortune in the exotic East, American adventurer and merchant prince Gavin Elliott sets his sails for London to begin a new life. Then fate intervenes on an infamous island in the East Indies where a European woman faces degradation a...

  • Lord of Snow and Shadows

    Sarah Ash

    Combining the best of fantasy traditions with her own unique vision, Sarah Ash brings us a new saga filled with epic adventure and unforgettable characters--set in a world teeming with political intrigue, astonishing magic, and passions both dark and...

  • Battle Surgeons

    Michael Reaves; Steve Perry

    As civil war between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the galaxy,' nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on t swamp world of Drongar, where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending war of its own. . . . A surgeon who...

  • Night Thunder

    Jill Gregory

    A COP ON THE HUNT. A WOMAN ON THE RUN,,, Josy Warner has to get out of town--fast. A favor for a friend has plunged her into deadly danger--and sent the topflight fashion designer fleeing New York to a place where no one knows her name. The tiny Wyo...

  • Done for a Dime

    David Corbett

    Raymond “Strong” Carlisle made his mark as an ace sideman to the biggest names in R&B. Now he lies in the mud outside his home, shot dead from behind. He’s the first official casualty in a dirty war for control of Rio Mirada: a low-rent “city...

  • The Drowning Tree

    Carol Goodman

    Juno McKay intended to avoid the nearby campus of her alma mater during her fifteenth reunion weekend, but she just can't turn down the chance to see her longtime friend, Christine Webb, speak at the Penrose College library. Though Juno cringes at th...

  • Rift

    Richard Cox

    In an age where reality and science fiction are colliding, Richard Cox's extraordinary debut thriller takes its place as an all-too-believable novel of white-knuckle adventure. For when an ordinary man makes one great leap for mankind, he triggers a ...

  • Red Tide

    G.M. Ford

    Something has been set loose in the city -- an airborne horror that leaves a tunnel full of corpses below the streets of Seattle just as experts from fifty nations are gathering at a downtown hotel for an international symposium on chemical and biolo...

  • Lost and Found

    Alan Dean Foster

    Ever since his classic debut, The Tar-Aiym Krang, the first of the wildly successful Pip and Flinx adventures, New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has captivated readers around the world. Now this writer of bold imagination and stunnin...

  • Second Chance

    Danielle Steel

    Eccentric high fashion meets buttoned-up Madison Avenue in Danielle Steel's captivating tale of two perfect-for-each-other people from two wildly different worlds. In a fresh, funny look at what happens when a woman who has everything finally meets h...

  • Shockwave

    Paul Ruditis

    "Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides..." -- William Shakespeare "The Vulcan Science Directorate has concluded that time travel is impossible." -- T'Pol The Starship Enterprise" NX-01 has carried its crew farther into the reaches of spac...

  • Mr. Klutz Is Nuts!

    Dan Gutman

    Something weird is going on! Principal Klutz was hanging upside down from the school flagpole! He kissed a pig on the lips! He painted his bald head orange! And now he wants to bungee jump off the roof of the school, dressed like Santa Claus! ...

  • Miss Daisy Is Crazy!

    Dan Gutman

    Something weird is going on! Miss Daisy, who teaches second grade, doesn't know how to add or subtract. Not only that, she doesn’t know how to read or write either. She is the dumbest teacher in the history of the world! ...

  • ABC's

    Max Lucado

    In Letters, you'll have front row seats to the opening night of "The Alphabet Garden," a special production by Hermie and his friends, featuring the letters A to Z. Of course, opening night rarely goes over without a hitch, and the mishaps will have ...

  • Colors

    Max Lucado

    Hermie is tired of being a plain ol' green caterpillar. So he sets out on a search to "help" God find the perfect color. Hermie recruits Wormie" to help him in his mission, and their usual caterpillar antics ensue as Hermie and a reluctant Wormie s...

  • Shapes

    Max Lucado

    Hermie has invited Wormie" over to play his new board game, "Get into Shapes." With a flick of the spinner, Hermie and Wormie are literally bending over backwards to do their best caterpillar impressions of the shape that the arrow lands on. The tu...

  • Numbers

    Max Lucado

    To compensate for his perceived commonness, Hermie decides he needs to have more stuff than anyone in the garden. With Wormie" in tow, Hermie sets out through the garden gathering daisies, acorns, rocks-anything he can add to his collection of asse...

  • Things I Learned in Second Grade

    Amy Schwartz

    When you're in the second grade, you learn new things every day.

    Before Ms. Jones's class, Andrew didn't know how to spell “neighborhood,” how to subtract 348 from 411, how to write in cursive, how to read a chapter book, or how to play...

  • Elmer Takes Off

    David McKee

  • Queen of the Class

    Mary Engelbreit

    When Ann Estelle hears about the school play, she's very excited—she's sure to play the Queen! Instead, the teacher picks her to be the stage manager, because Ann Estelle is responsible. Ann Estelle doesn't want to be responsible—she want...

  • My School's a Zoo!

    Stu Smith

    Every school has its share of bookworms.

    Some schools have bugs in their computers.

    And lots of schools have spelling bees. But this school has bears. This school has owls. This school is a ZOO!

    Imaginat...

  • Go to School, Charlie Brown!

    Charles M. Schulz

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    Sally is thrilled by the thought of going to school, until Charlie brown tells her that kindergarten is only two weeks away. Suddenly she's worried that she'll be a finger painting flop. As Sally's nervousness grows, Charlie Brown...

  • 100th Day of Bug School

    Lisa McCourt

  • Dino Disaster!

    Joanne Mattern

    When Jimmy Neutron accidentally supersizes his dinosaur eraser and brings it to life with his latest invention, the Supersizer 5000, Jimmy and his friends must stop the giant from destroying Retroville. Original....

  • A Mighty Big Wish

    Kim Ostrow

    Timmy Turner is excited about the first day of school -- until he remembers Francis the bully! Timmy wishes to be bigger so Francis can't push him around. Will being bigger make things easier? Find out what happens when Timmy's wish is granted!...

  • End of Summer

    Liz Tigelaar

    After getting caught in the middle of a race riot in North Philly, Meg ends up grounded just before her sweet-sixteen party, but when her boyfriend Luke shows up with tickets to see the Beatles live in Atlantic City, Meg is determined to go....

  • Whatever You Want: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Novel

    Rachel Timms

    Welcome to the world of Whatever You Want , a novel that turns twentysomething London into a fantasyland of endless possibilities. Play the game as Barbarella -- alluring, flirtatious, and sharp as the lash from a bondage whip -- or as Barnaby, with...

  • Dance with Me

    Emily Oz

    Meg Pryor wants to dance on American Bandstand more than anything else in the world. Luckily her best friend, Roxanne, knows how to work it! She not only manages to get them in, but the two of them dance their way into regular spots on the show. ...

  • Give Our Regards to the Atomsmashers!: Writers on Comics

    Sean Howe

    In Give Our Regards to the Atom-smashers!, some of our most intriguing and creative contemporary writers weigh in on the world of comics: the ones they love versus the ones they hate, the comics they devoured as kids and still can't live without, and...

  • Garfield as Himself

    Jim Davis

    This rollicking collection includes three books in one: Here Comes Garfield, Garfield on the Town, and Garfield Gets a Life!When Garfield hits the town, you can see the impact for miles. Now in this special collection, the funniest...

  • Lethal Lent

    Karl Fieldhouse

    Lately, things have been a little crazy for Pastor Abby Shaw. Her boyfriend has split up with her, her mother keeps calling, insisting that she visit her, and to cap it all off, she's inundated with things to do in preparation for Lent and Easter. So...

  • A Flame in the Wind

    Karen Cogan

    Fleeing her life in Sydney, Rebecca Dalton heads home to live with her father on their family ranch in the Australian outback. When she arrives, however, she discovers her father has died. Despite his death, and the shattering grief she feels, Rebecc...

  • Gunfight at Frio Canyon

    Kent Conwell

    When Lew Hobbs rode out of Camp Verde on a hot day in July, his biggest mistake was not continuing on down to Bandera. If he had, he never would have been accused of killing an old rancher down on the Frio and stealing his savings.

    As if that was...

  • Sublime Recline

    Ann Levalley

    Things are going well for Muffy Sergeant. She's the daughter of a famous doctor, director of The Arts Center's theater and fine arts program, and the longtime love of Philadelphia's most eligible bachelor. Life is perfect, or so it seems. Suddenly, h...

  • Secrets & Seductions

    Pamela Toth

    After learning of her mysterious heritage, Emma Wright went to The Children's Connection -- and straight to the adoption agency's handsome director Morgan Davis. She wanted the truth, but client confidentiality forbade him from granting her request. ...

  • Unfinished Business

    Inglath Cooper

    Country roads always seem to lead you home... Culley Rutherford is doing the best he can to raise his young daughter on his own. One night while at a medical conference in New York City, Culley runs into his old friend Addy Taylor. After a passion...

  • Babies and Badges

    Laura Marie Altom

    One Sheriff in Uniform, Two Babies in Diapers. Sheriff Noah Wheeler of Pritchett County, Arkansas, decided long ago that commitment isn't his style -- and there are at least seventeen local women ready to agree with him! But when he finds himself ...

  • The Makeover Mission

    Mary Buckham

    THIS JANE ISN'T PLAIN ANYMORE! When Jane Richards woke up bound and blindfolded, she just knew it had to be a mistake. She was a small-town librarian, after all. Who'd want to kidnap her? Little did she know that her striking resemblance to Elena,...

  • Her Final Fling

    Joanne Rock

    The last thing Christine Chandler expects when she takes this job is to be distracted by jet-setting Vito Cesare. She should be focused on the landscaping that could make her company a success. Instead, her gaze constantly strays to Vito's hot bod. A...

  • A Gentleman and a Soldier

    Cindy Dees

    SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO HATE HIM.... Ten years ago Mac Conlon broke her heart... right before she nearly lost her life. But with the lethal assassin who'd tried to kill her back on her trail, Susan Monroe had nowhere else to turn. She entrusted he...

  • Baby At His Convenience

    Kathie DeNosky

    SHE WANTED A BABY... Tick, tick, tick.... Katie Andrews's biological clock was counting down loudly. But who in the one-horse town of Dixie Ridge could give her a baby without causing a scandal? Then loner Jeremiah Gunn breezed into her diner and Ka...

  • Get Blondie

    Carla Cassidy

    How many blondes does it take to bring the bad guys to justice? Only one, if you're talking about gutsy Cassandra Newton. She'd put worse criminals behind bars than the street thugs she now dealt with as a Kansas City cop. But her life as a secre...

  • A Marriage of Majors

    Elizabeth Ashtree

    Major Kristen Clark shows a brave face when her husband, Major Anthony Garitano, returns from Afghanistan. Her proud warrior husband would hate to be on the receiving end of pity. But Anthony is nothing like the strong, carefree man she married. In f...

  • Standing Outside the Fire

    Sara Orwig

    SLOW BURN It began as an anonymous flirtation. Storm raging, lights flickering, two stranded travelers decided to share uninhibited conversation -- but no names -- during a stolen encounter. Talking turned into kissing...and the need to know each ot...

  • Dangerous Deception

    Kylie Brant

    YOUR PARENTS' DEATHS WEREN'T ACCIDENTS... Billionaire securities expert James Tremaine couldn't believe the anonymous note. Private investigator Tori Corbett was his only hope of uncovering the truth, but keeping his hands off his beautiful employee...

  • Fulk the Reluctant

    Elaine Knighton

    A WOMAN HAD LAID SIEGE TO HIS HEART Fulk de Galliard was sore dismayed. A man of dark secrets and dangerous prowess, he was unfit to be any noblewoman's spouse, even such a one as Jehanne of Windermere, who lived by her own knightly code. But now ...

  • Cinderella's Sweet-Talking Marine

    Cathie Linz

    How had a promise to a friend landed him at the altar? U.S. Marine captain Ben Kozlowski wasn't quite sure, but he knew it had something to do with Ellie Jensen's soulful brown eyes and beautiful soft skin. Being near her had his pulse racing like a ...

  • Almost Heaven

    Jillian Hart

    Nursing a broken heart and wounded spirit, Kendra McKaslin vowed to make a fresh start -- alone. But then everything changed when handsome sheriff Cameron Durango showed up at her run-down riding stable to give her some much-needed business. Seeing t...

  • Best-Kept Lies // Randi

    Lisa Jackson

    GUARDING HER, BODY AND SOUL Was hiding the identity of her child's father worth risking her life? Only Randi McCafferty seemed to believe so, and investigator Kurt Striker was hell-bent on changing her mind. Hired by her well-meaning but overbearing...

  • Her Second-Chance Man

    Cara Colter

    Brian Kemp didn't put much faith in happy endings, but when his orphaned niece's puppy got sick, the hard-nosed cop turned to the one woman capable of performing miracles.... Back in the day, Jessica Moran had been plain, plump and unpopular -- an...

  • Callie's Cowboy

    Madeline Baker

    He was gorgeous -- from his cutoff tee and skintight jeans... down to his scuffed boots. She'd only dared to sneak a peek. Then, with a knowing wink and a roguish grin, the sexy cowboy was gone. Callie Walker figured she must have been hallucinating....

  • West of Heaven

    Victoria Bylin

    For Everything There Is a Season Be it sorrow, hope or love -- and Jayne Dawson had weathered all three. Widowed before she was truly a wife, she'd found aid and comfort with Ethan Trent, a decent man beset by sorrows of his own. But could the griev...

  • Verdict: Daddy

    Charlotte Douglas

    Daddy Material? Blake Adams thinks he's dreaming when he wakes up to find a beautiful baby girl on his doorstep. With her curly red hair and sparkling green eyes, "Annie" quickly makes an indelible impression on his hardened heart. Needing advi...

  • Her Texas Ranger

    Stella Bagwell

    LOVE ON THE RANGE With nerves of steel and a physique to match, Seth Ketchum took his job as a Texas Ranger very seriously. When he returned to his family ranch to investigate a murder, he was all business -- until he encountered Corinna Dawson, t...

  • Babies in the Bargain

    Victoria Pade

    HER SISTER'S FAMILY A newspaper article had brought Kira Wentworth to Northbridge, Montana, in the hopes of reuniting with her long-lost sister. But it was Cutty Grant and the tragic news he delivered that first dashed her dreams but quickly compe...

  • The Toy Box

    K.N. Casper

    The smuggling of drugs and weapons...and a murder. Everything points to a mole in the Tombstone customs office. But when agent Gage Engler goes undercover to investigate, he's shocked to find that Jill Manning, the new customs station chief, tops the...

  • Immovable Objects

    Marie Ferrarella

    Subject: Telekinetic Elizabeth Caldwell. Family history: Like her siblings, she has powers people would kill for. Deepest secret: She walks just this side of the law. Relishing her newfound freedom from a domineering brother, Elizabeth wanted on...

  • When Size Matters

    Carly Laine

    It's the carats that count! Dallas hair, diamonds the size of boulders, double-D cups stacked with silicone -- would these be the reasons Dylan Stone feels a jumbo attack of insecurity coming on? Considering that Texas boys equate "cheerleaders" w...

  • Miss Pruitt's Private LIfe

    Barbara McCauley

    KEEPING IT PRIVATE They had come to Wolf River, Texas, to attend a wedding. But Evan Carter and Marcy Pruitt also had other agendas. For Marcy, this was a much-needed respite from her hectic life as a TV personality. And for Evan, well...one look ...

  • The Boss's Baby Surprise

    Lilian Darcy

    Down-to-earth, dependable Cecelia Rankin was not the kind of woman who believed in dreams-come-true...but that's exactly what seemed to be happening! She kept dreaming of her gorgeous, millionaire boss Nick Delaney -- no surprise there -- but with a ...

  • A Mathematician Plays the Market

    John Allen Paulos

    Paulos offers a hilarious account of how the stock market both follows and defies mathematical principals. He offers an engaging overview of everything from 'betas' to the efficient market hypothesis....

  • Poor Mrs. Rigsby

    Kathy Herman

    CNA Sally Cox is about as happy to be at Walnut Hills Nursing Center as the patients are. But it’s work or starve, now that her husband has found a younger companion. Sally’s new crowd skews toward the elderly -- ninety-year-old Elsie Rigsby, for...

  • Arthur's off to School

    Marc Brown

    Everyone's favorite aardvark, Arthur, is back in this exciting reissue -- just in time for school!Everyone's favorite aardvark, Arthur, is back in this exciting reissue -- just in time for school!Arthur and his friends are getting ready for school! G...

  • Good Night, D.W.

    Marc Brown

  • Arthur's Homework

    Marc Brown

    After helping his friends all week with their homework assignments, Arthur worries that his own homework will be late. Little does he know that his loyalty to his friends has its rewards in the most unexpected ways!...

  • Using What You Got

    Karen E. Quinones Miller

    Eighteen-year-old Tiara Bynum is pretty as a princess and just as spoiled. Her castle is the Harlem housing project where she lives with her younger sister, Jo-Jo, and her doting father, Reggie. Every time Tiara snaps her perfectly manicured fingers,...

  • Dragonspell

    Donita K. Paul

    One Dragon Egg Holds the Key to the Future. Once a slave, Kale is given the unexpected opportunity to become a servant to Paladin. Yet this young girl has much to learn about the difference between slavery and service. A Desperate Search Begin...

  • Ten Big Ones

    Janet Evanovich

    AND NOW, TEN TIMES HOTTER THAN EVER BEFORE... "I'm Stephanie Plum. My mother says that I'm famous and have to set a good example. She's right, but I'm from Jersey and truth is, I have a hard time getting a grip on the good example thing." Swing...

  • Four Souls

    Louise Erdrich

    From New York Times bestselling author Louise Erdrich comes a haunting novel that continues the rich and enthralling Ojibwe saga begun in her novel Tracks.After taking her mother’s name, Four Souls, for strength, the strange and compelling Fleur Pi...

  • A Nest of Sparrows

    Deborah Raney

    His Fiancée Was the One Woman He’d Loved. Her Children Are All He Has Left. Reserved contractor Wade Sullivan never expected to fall in love with Starr Parnell or to love her three small kids as if they were his own. But that’s exactly what ...

  • The Way of Women

    Lauraine Snelling

    On the verge of Mt. St. Helens’ historic eruption, three women must face the mountain: two to search for their missing husbands; the third, to rediscover her life…After a local mountain becomes a deadly and imminent threat, three strikingly diffe...

  • Farewell, My Queen

    Chantal Thomas

    A woman whose function it once was to read books aloud to Marie Antoinette is haunted by the memory of her last days at the French court of Versailles, when Louis XVI's magnificent palace succumbed to the irrepressible forces of revolution. Now e...

  • Waking Beauty

    Elyse Friedman

    What would you do if you went to bed ugly, fat, and depressed and woke up the next morning in the body of a goddess? This is exactly the miracle that befalls Allison Penny, who has spent most of her twenty-two years on this earth in a serious slump ...

  • Stormchaser

    Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    Far, far away, jutting out into the emptiness beyond, lies the Edge. Both the land and the air are filled with strange peoples and terrifying creatures; action--and danger--await at every turn. On board the famous sky ship Stormchaser, Twig eagerly l...

  • Beyond the Deepwoods

    Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    Far, far away, jutting out into the emptiness beyond, lie the Edge. Filled with strange peoples and terrifying crea!tures, this is a world unlike any other, where action -- and danger -- await at every turn. Abandoned at birth in the dangerous Deepwo...

  • On the Road: A Write-In Reader

    Suzy Capozzi

    Barbie is going on a road trip! It’s time to pick up Stacie from camp, so Barbie packs a picnic basket and makes a day of it. This simple, easy-to-read story is interspersed with drawing, labeling, list-making, and fill-in-the-blank exercises to he...

  • I Hate School

    Jeanne Willis

    Having come up with crazy stories about the horrors of school, such as being fed worms for lunch and having pirates for classmates, Honor Brown finally graduates and is set free--only to miss it after realizing that school wasn't such a bad place aft...

  • Home, Stinky Home

    Melissa Lagonegro

    To save a cute little alien, Lilo and Stitch have to find him a new home. There's just one problem: the alien smells awful! Who will they find to take him in if he stinks up everyplace he goes?...

  • Before I Let Go

    Darren Coleman

    An Essence bestseller, Before I Let Go is the sexy story of three male best friends' dramatic search for love, intimacy, and the perfect relationship.Nate is a D-O-G with an obsession for conquering as many women as possible. But when he breaks his o...

  • Hamish the Highland Cow

    Natalie Russell

  • The Hunted

    L.A. Banks

    Each millennium brings a new Neteru, a vampire huntress. This millennium's savior has come in the form of Damali Richards, a hip-hop diva with the heart of a warrior and an attitude to match. But a vampire civil war has cost Damali both her powers an...

  • The Glass Cell

    Patricia Highsmith

    At last back in print, one of Patricia Highsmith's most disturbing works. Rife with overtones of Dostoyevsky, The Glass Cell, first published forty years ago, combines a quintessential Highsmith mystery with a penetrating critique of the psychologica...

  • Trophy Hunt

    C.J. Box

    Pickett faces his most baffling--and dangerous--adventure yet... Local authorities are quick to label a rash of animal mutilations as the work of a grizzly bear, but Joe Pickett suspects that something far more sinister is afoot. And when the bodi...

  • The Inner West

    Jay Kinney

    The founder of the influential Gnosis magazine collects essays by some of today's finest spiritual writers to explore the West's magical and esoteric traditions. Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Gnosticism, The Knights Templar . . . Even before the succ...

  • The Little Cat Baby

    Allan Ahlberg

  • Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

    Diana L. Paxson

    A story based on the saga by Marion Zimmer Bradley follows the Avalon characters' predecessors, the exiled high priestess Tiriki and royal acolyte Damisa, who escape from Atlantis to the mist-shrouded isle of Britain, where their duties conflict with...

  • Hot City

    Barbara M. Joosse

  • This is Not Civilization

    Robert Rosenberg

    Hopscotching from Arizona to Central Asia to Istanbul, this inspired debut novel is “a vibrant mix of the serious and the absurd” (Publishers Weekly).   In the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse, Anarbek Tashtanaliev singlehandedly s...

  • On the Couch

    Alisa Kwitney

    After going for more than a year without a date -- a record in New York City -- Marlowe Riddle has finally met a broodingly sexy, sharply intelligent man who is clearly interested in making more than polite conversation. The only problem: Joseph Kain...

  • The Things We Do For Love

    Kristin Hannah

    After years of trying to have a baby, Angela DeSaria is left with too many broken dreams and a ruined marriage. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her hometown and rejoins her loud, loving, slightly crazy family. In the small Northwest to...

  • The Scrolls of the Ancients

    Robert Newcomb

    “Plenty of adventure and magic . . . continues Robert Newcomb’s tradition of mixing adventure with an interesting and well-realized magical world.” -- SF SitePrince Tristan and his twin sister, Shailiha, are the Chosen Ones, prophesied to unite...

  • The Color of Death

    Elizabeth Lowell

    The fourth book in the Rarities Unlimited series Kate Chandler has accepted a commission that will solidify her reputation as a world-class gem cutter. But during what should have been a simple transfer, seven rare, priceless sapphires vanish with...

  • The Blackbird Papers

    Ian Smith

    A rainy night . . . A stranded motorist . . . A Good Samaritan passerby ... a Nobel Prize -- winning professor . . . The setup for a shocking murder designed to cover up an even more sinister crime . . . The Blackbird Papers marks the debut of Ian...

  • Circle of Grace

    Penelope J. Stokes

    When tragedy occurs, four friends come together in a bittersweet reunion and are forced to confront the falsehoods and also embrace the truth in their lives.

    On college graduation day, Grace and her friends -- Liz, Tess, and Lovey -- agreed to...

  • Profane Friendship

    Harold Brodkey

    In Profane Friendship, Harold Brodkey tells an odd and strangely beautiful Venetian love story, sounding its depths with the suppleness and virtuosity of style that in recent years have won him worldwide admiration as a uniquely gifted American wr...

  • Willem's Field

    Melinda Haynes

    What are the limitations of what we do and don't know about our hearts? Oprah Book Club author Melinda Haynes, hailed as "the real thing, a true artist, a genuine writer" (the Cleveland Plain Dealer) for her bestselling debut, Mother of Pearl, return...

  • Truth Be Told

    Victoria Christopher Murray

    The author of The Personal Librarian and Essence bestsellers Temptation and Joy returns with a story about one woman's personal and spiritual journey to overcome the consequences of her husband's dark secret.Grace Monroe has the ideal life: a devoted...

  • Bitter Medicine

    Dave Galanter

    A routine salvage operation becomes a desperate rescue mission, as the U.S.S. da Vinci encounters a failing abandoned ship -- that isn't so abandoned! There is one survivor aboard the derelict vessel: a boy who carries a most deadly disease. Even as...

  • Thunderbirds: The Movie Storybook

    Kate Egan

    For fourteen-year-old Alan Tracy, it's no fun being stuck at home while your Dad and four older brothers are off on an exciting rescue mission. But mastercriminal The Hood has plans to liven up Alan's spring break: He is plotting to steal the fami...

  • Thunderbirds Forever!

    Kate Egan

    Alan Tracy always feels left out. While his older brothers all get to wear the Thunderbirds uniform and rescue people in need, he has to stay behind. His father tries to protect him, but Alan wishes he could go on missions like his brothers. Find ...

  • Thunderbirds: The Junior Novel

    Stephen D. Sullivan

    Fans of the new movie based on the hit British TV series of the 1960s can follow the adventures of the Thunderbirds as they battle their nemesis, the Hood--a half-mechanical, completely maniacal villain played by Academy Award-winning actor Sir Ben K...

  • Trouble on Tracy Island

    Acton Figueroa

    When a submarine surfaces near International Rescue's hideaway, Tracy Island, Alan Tracy's family is away on a mission. Soon all the other adults on the island have been taken prisoner, and The Hood and his evil followers are pursuing Alan and his...

  • Thunderbirds Are Go!

    Kitty Richards

  • Rescue Mission

    Kate Egan

    Alan Tracy wants nothing more than to be a Thunderbird like his father and brothers. Now the Thunderbirds' headquarters has been captured by The Hood, an evil criminal mastermind, and the rest of Alan's family is off on a mission. This might be A...

  • Meet the Thunderbirds

    Namrata Tripathi

    The Thunderbirds use high-tech gear in their daring rescue missions. Each device has a unique function that makes it ideal for certain situations. Read and learn about the Thunderbirds' vehicles and gadgets!

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  • The Corpse Had a Familiar Face

    Edna Buchanan

  • Public Displays of Affection

    Susan Donovan

    HE WAS HER FIRST... Charlotte Tasker has always been a good girl, so she married the most decent, reliable man she could find even though their love life was a bit on the predictable side. Thirteen years later, she's a widowed mom who runs her compa...

  • People of the Owl

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    New York Times and USA Today bestselling authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear are famous for writing novels about prehistoric America that are fast-paced, steeped in cultural detail, and smart. In People of the Owl they combine their d...

  • The Dragon's Doom

    Ed Greenwood

    The death of the Dragon has brought down the villainous Serpent and restored order to the land of Aglirta but the surviving members of the Band of Four have no time to grieve for their lost comrade. An anarchic berserker plague is spreading like wild...

  • By Word of Mouse

    Kate Spohn

    Lucy is a curious and adventurous mouse who wants to live in a real house. At first Lucy only visits the house occasionally. Each time, the sisters who live there bring her back to the woods and tell her not to come back. But she doesn't understan...

  • Splash, Joshua, Splash!

    Malachy Doyle

    "Splash!" says Joshua, "Splash!" Joshua and his granny romp through a wonderful day out enjoying lots of watery delights in this charming picture book with boldly colored illustrations by Ken Wilson-Max. Joshua loves to shout "Splash!" as he stomp...

  • Mermaid Mary Margaret

    Lynn E. Hazen

    Mary Margaret is a spunky ten-year-old girl with a tough mission. Her mother has asked her to accompany her recently widowed grandmother on a cruise to the Greek Islands. Mary Margaret wonders if she'll really be able to help her grandma get the r...

  • Noisy Farm

    Marni McGee

    Cock-a-doodle-doo! A rooster crows loudly and another noisy day at the farm begins. The farmer wakes up and we hear the floor creak under his feet. As he goes about his daily chores, a pail bumps his knee, pong, pong, poink! The cow moos while she...

  • The Yellow Rose

    Gilbert Morris

    The Texas Frontier provides for riveting adventure and inspiring characters as this historical fiction series draws readers into the struggle for freedom....

  • Goldilocks and the Three Martians

    Stu Smith

    A fresh new twist to the classic story follows Goldilocks, who, tired of her boring existence, travels to outerspace where she explores a Martian home and discovers that there is no place quite like home on Earth....

  • New Orleans Stories

    John Miller

    Voodoo. Vampires. Jazz. There's no city quite like New Orleans, a city that whispers stories and where writers come to eavesdrop. New Orleans Stories collects the very best writing on the Big Easy by a stellar gallery of writers for whom the city has...

  • Bury the Lead

    David Rosenfelt

    "I watch sixteen football games over nine hours. It's an extraordinary accomplishment... With the remote secure in the palm of my hand, or more often resting on my chest, I am all powerful. I haven't missed an important play since the Carter administ...

  • The Good Life

    Erin McGraw

    A collection of short stories that are “at once laugh-out-loud funny and utterly serious” (Claire Messud, author of The Burning Girl).   “McGraw ably leavens heartbreak with humor . . . she renders quirky, refreshingly real ...

  • The Book of Spies

    Christopher Reich

    Here is an extraordinary collection of the world’s best literary espionage, selected by Alan Furst, a contemporary master of the genre. The Book of Spies brings us the aristocratic intrigues of The Scarlet Pimpernel, in which French émigrés duel ...

  • Song of Susannah

    Stephen King

    Susannah Dean is possessed, her body a living vessel for the demon-mother Mia. Something is growing inside Susannah's belly, something terrible, and soon she will give birth to Mia's "chap." But three unlikely allies are following them from New York ...

  • Under the Boardwalk

    Carly Phillips

    Ariana Costas may be a college professor in Vermont, but she's still a Jersey girl at heart--at least according to her lovable, eccentric Greek family. Then her twin sister, Zoe, disappears and her Jersey roots tug hard. Soon Ari is back home, duckin...

  • Nanjing 1937

    Ye Zhaoyan

    A masterpiece by one of China’s bestselling contemporary novelists, Nanjing 1937 tells the epic story of a passionate courtship played out against the backdrop of one of the century’s most harrowing scenes of war.

    Ding Wenyu is a philander...

  • Office of Innocence

    Thomas Keneally

    Marshalling the vast powers of narrative and historical re-creation that he brought to his international bestseller Schindler’s List, Thomas Keneally has created a moving and provocative novel about a headstrong young Catholic priest in World War I...

  • Going Out

    Scarlett Thomas

    Luke is allergic to everything. He spends his days in a sterile safe-haven designed to keep out all light and dirt, while everything he knows about the world comes from books, movies, the internet and whatever his best-friend Julie tells him. He wo...

  • The Last Dog on Earth

    Daniel Ehrenhaft

    Logan Moore hates everyone. The father who abandoned him. The stepfather who wants to control him. Kids who get in his face. Everyone. Except Jack. A mangy mutt that nobody wants. Except Logan. But Jack is in terrible danger. A mysterious disea...

  • Ancient Greece and the Olympics

    Mary Pope Osborne

    It’s a new kind of adventure for Jack and Annie! Join them as they research ancient Greece and find out the facts behind the fiction! ...

  • Andrew Lost in the Deep

    J.C. Greenburg

    Andrew, Judy, and Thudd drive the Water Bug deep into the ocean, where the only light comes from strange glowing creatures. Just as they're passing over the deepest place on earth, the trusty Water Bug loses power! Now instead of saving the giant squ...

  • Tell It to Naomi

    Daniel Ehrenhaft

    Dave Rosen has a secret. “Naomi,” the wise, witty, always-on-target, female writer behind his high school’s hit advice column, is, well, him. A native New Yorker who likes secondhand CD shops, The Simpsons, and meatball heroes.

    A kid lik...

  • This Little Light of Mine

    Raffi

    Raffi’s take on this traditional favorite is perfectly matched with Stacey Schuett’s adorable illustrations. A school play is the setting for Raffi’s latest Song to Read, and it’s filled with lovable kids of all ages pulling together to put o...

  • Under the Banner of Heaven

    Jon Krakauer

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Into the Wild and Into Thin Air, this extraordinary work of investigative journalism takes readers inside America’s isolated Mormon Fundamentalist communities. • Now an acclaimed FX limited series s...

  • The Party

    Curtis Adler

    Back in the 1980s Denis and Michael O'Donnell were at the centre of Dublin's college scene. Sandy-haired and blue-eyed, the brothers held court in that famous house, throwing the parties, turning up the music, and breaking hearts all around them. But...

  • Personality

    Andrew O'Hagan

    Growing up on the Scottish Isle of Bute, Maria Tambini is a young girl with dreams of escape from her Italian immigrant family. When her amazing singing voice wins her a talent show at the tender age of thirteen, she is whisked off to London and inst...

  • The Australian's Convenient Bride

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Rough, handsome cattle-station owner Steve Kinane needs a temporary housekeeper -- and Chattie Winslow is perfect for the job. Chattie and Steve try hard to resist the intense sexual chemistry between them. Then Steve discovers the reason for Chat...

  • The Blackmail Pregnancy

    Melanie Milburne

    Baby by blackmail! Millionaire tycoon Byron Rockcliffe storms back into Cara's life, even though their marriage is long finished. Knowing that Cara's design business is on the verge of collapse, Byron offers to save her from financial ruin by givi...

  • One Night with the Tycoon

    Lee Wilkinson

    Can one night lead to many more? When tycoon Graydon Gallagher lends Rebecca a shoulder to cry on at her ex-fiance's wedding, she doesn't expect to wake up next to him the following day! Exactly what kind of comfort has he given her? Th...

  • Tell Me the Secrets

    Max Lucado; Ron DiCianni

    What do parents want for their children? Success? Happiness? Modern culture constantly feeds people lies about what's really important in life. True joy and lasting satisfaction come only from going God's way. This secret is hidden in the same pla...

  • Omnibus

    B.S. Johnson

    Reissued for the first time in many years, and for the first time together, this omnibus contains B.S. Johnson's most famous and critically acclaimed novels. ALBERT ANGELO (1964) was Johnson's second novel. The eponymous Albert is an architect by tra...

  • Some Danger Involved

    Will Thomas

    An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his apprentice, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar. When a student bea...

  • The Old Boys

    Charles McCarry

    Four retired CIA agents team up when one of their own goes missing in this spy thriller by the bestselling author of The Tears of Autumn.Welcome to the world of Charles McCarry’s legendary character, Paul Christopher, the crack intelligence agent w...

  • What's in Baby's Morning?

    Judy Hindley

  • Boing!

    Sean Taylor

    Dynamic duo Sean Taylor and Bruce Ingman present a boinging, bouncing comedy -- and a masterful display of emergency trampolining skills.

    Holy moly! A terrible thing has happened to the Great Elastic Marvel, five times World Trampolining Cha...

  • Photographer Mole

    Dennis Haseley

    Photographer Mole, believing that something is missing from his pictures, sets out on a magical journey of self-discovery where he learns to enjoy life both in front of and behind his camera--much to the joy of all his friends!...

  • That Dancin' Dolly

    Jennifer Merz

  • Flyaway Katie

    Polly Dunbar

    Whoosh! Strange and wonderful things happen when a little girl lets her creativity fly in this buoyant picture-book debut.

    It’s a gray, gray day when Katie decides to liven herself up. After all, the birds in the picture on her wall look a l...

  • Hep Cat

    William Bramhall

  • What Do I Do?

    Hui Hui Su-Kennedy

  • Scoot on Top of the World

    Ed Boxall

    An energetic little dog sets off on the chase of his life -- but wanders a little too far -- in this beguiling new story from the creator of FRANCIS THE SCAREDY CAT.

    For Scoot, Sally’s beloved dog and friend, every day is an adventure, r...

  • West with Hopeless

    Carolyn Lieberg

    Half-sisters Carin and Hope, who have never gotten along, embark on a cross-country roadtrip to visit their father--a journey that unexpectedly forges a powerful bond between them, forever changing their lives....

  • Whiskey Sour

    J.A. Konrath

    Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is an insomniac Chicago cop with a train wreck of a personal life and a stalker bent on adding her to his murder list. Join Jack, her binge-eating partner, a sleazy PI, and two very stupid FBI agents on a wild hun...

  • She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain

    Philemon Sturges

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  • Jack In The Box

    John Weisman

    From a bestselling author with intimate knowledge of CIA tradecraft comes an electrifying novel of terrifying possibilities -- a story of betrayal and secrets that could implode America's war on terrorism ... and a nightmarish conspiracy firmly roote...

  • Weapons of Choice

    John Birmingham

    In the year 2021, a military experiment thrusts an American-led multinational armada back to 1942, right into the middle of the U.S. naval task force speeding toward Midway Atoll. Shock is followed by jubilation at the time travelers' awesome new fi...

  • The First Heroes

    Harry Turtledove

    The Bronze Age. The era of Troy, of Gilgamesh, of the dawning of human mastery over the earth. For decades, fantasists have set tales of heroism and adventure in imagined worlds based on the real Bronze Age, from the "Hyborean Age" of the Conan stori...

  • Reason and Romance

    Debra White Smith

    "Smith shows her expertise with Jane Austen's work. . . . A fun and well-crafted romance through and through."--RT Book Reviews on Reason and Romance Reason and Romance: A Contemporary Retelling of Sense and Sensibility Sisters Elaina and Anna Wood...

  • The Perfect Match

    Susan May Warren

    Ellie Karlson arrives in Deep Haven to fill the job as interim fire chief. The locals in this small town, including Pastor Dan Matthews, a volunteer firefighter, are shocked that a woman would take over this dangerous position. But as Dan and Ellie w...

  • The Wild Reel

    Paul Brandon

    When young Irish artist Natasha Newlyn paints, she hears music; a wild, secret symphony of ancient jigs and reels that accompany her stunning watercolor landscapes. Natasha lives in a small sea village in the far west of Ireland, the perfect place fo...

  • The Wild Wood

    Charles de Lint

    A young artist returns to her cabin in the deep woods of Canada to concentrate on her illustrations. But somehow, strange and beautiful creatures are slipping into her drawings and sketches. The world of Faerie is reaching out to her for help--and...

  • Beyond the Shadows

    Robin Lee Hatcher

    His secret addiction became her heartache. . . . When Deborah discovers she is married to an alcoholic, she is faced with a life she never expected. Somehow she must find courage and hope to step beyond the shadows....

  • Dark Places

    Jonathan Evans

    In a place so harsh that survivalis a struggle, one man has found the strength to kill ... Paul Wood is a modern vagabond, a man who chooses to leave the comforts of San Francisco to spend months backpacking through some of the world's most challe...

  • Amnesia Nights

    Quinton Skinner

    John Wright’s mind is playing tricks on him. He sees people he thinks he knows, but they are only strangers. His memory flickers in and out of focus. He has not seen his fiancée, Iris, in over three years. He fled their Los Angeles apartment one n...

  • Wild Women's Weekend

    Lynne Kaufman

    They are four lifelong friends, with challenging careers and demanding families. And for one weekend each year they let their hair down and are as bad as they want to be. But this time it goes too far. Ann, Maria, Sabrina and Deb gather at a re...

  • Misdemeanor Man

    Dylan Schaffer

    Gordon Seegerman is a reluctant public defender by day and the Barry-obsessed singer in a Manilow cover band by night. When a routine misdemeanor case exposes corruption among his city's most prominent citizens, Seegerman finds himself having to ...

  • The Last King

    Nichelle D. Tramble

    “After two years of drifting I finally knew there was only one place that could offer me a shot at peace, and that was my hometown. The city was my crossroads, the crooked man with the slanted grin, my temptation, and I wanted to beat it. I wanted ...

  • Lover Boy/Bad Girl

    Michele Jaffe

    "Lover Boy" LOVER BOY IS DYING TO COME OUT AND PLAY. The rules: Two weeks before he intends to slowly and sadistically kill his prey, Loverboy sends a collage of the future crime scene to the FBI. If the agents can solve the riddles of the collag...

  • Three Bedrooms in Chelsea

    Liz Ireland

    EDIE AMOS MAY HAVE LOST THE LOVE OF HER LIFE, BUT SHE CAN'T LOSE THIS APARTMENT. Sure her journalist boyfriend has taken a dangerous assignment overseas, leaving Edie without a second thought. But a sunny two-bedroom apartment--with a balcony--doe...

  • The Roofer

    Erica Orloff

    Ava O'Neil, daughter of a murderer, grew up within the embrace of New York City's most infamous Irish gang, The Westies. Her father was the Roofer, named for his penchant for throwing enemies from the rooftops of Hell's Kitchen tenements. Raised by h...

  • Going Topless

    Megan McAndrew

    Sibling rivalry has crossed many an ocean.... When Constance Wright arrives at her family's summerhouse on the Mediterranean island of Santerre for her father Ross's memorial, she hopes that boyfriend Jim, the New York investment banker on her arm...

  • Beauty For Ashes

    Dorothy Clark

    IN THE PRIM-AND-PROPER PHILADELPHIA OF 1820, A SHOCKING MARRIAGE... It was the perfect contract for a marriage of convenience to a woman he didn't even know. Didn't want to know. Justin Randolph, a wealthy Philadelphia widower responsible for two ...

  • Song of the Road

    Dorothy Garlock

    By 1935, countless vehicles had traversed Route 66, their hum creating a uniquely American song. Most were heading west-but roads go in two directions, and in Dorothy Garlock's riveting third novel featuring Route 66, the fabled highway is one that l...

  • Getting Personal

    Chris Manby

    Three's a crowd -- or is it? A trio of pals who, on their own, have utterly lost the dating game decide to team up. They trust each other with their lives; now they've got to trust each other with their love lives. Ruby, Louisa and guy friend Mart...

  • Separation Anxiety

    Karen Brichoux

    An entertaining new novel by the author of Coffee & Kung Fu explores the mysteries of friendship and love in the story of Wichita Gray, a young woman who does some serious thinking about what makes a man a friend or a man a lover after "break...

  • The Misadventures of Maria O'Mara

    Deborah Skelly

    On the edge of turning forty, talent agent Maria O'Mara finds herself coping with a series of crises as she races against time to save her job, find a man, start a family, and deal with possible insanity, in an uproarious look at the life of a modern...

  • Bride in Overdrive

    Jorie Green Mark

    Jorie Green was a practical, level-headed graduate student when she got engaged to Barry Mark. But something happened once she had that sparkly ring on her finger: she went a little insane. Bride in Overdrive is a comic, quirky memoir of one bride-to...

  • Breakfast At Stephanie's

    Sue Margolis

    Playing “Winter Wonderland” for last-minute Christmas shoppers has got to be the all-time low point of Stephanie Glassman’s career. The aspiring jazz soloist and single mother has no singing prospects, no man in her life since her hot fling wit...

  • Heart of the Hunter

    Tina St. John

    Ariana of Clairmont would risk anything to save her kidnapped brother, a quest she knows is fraught with peril. Her only ally is Braedon le Chasseur, a formidable knight with a mysterious past, whose scarred face and brooding nature mask a soul fille...

  • Crisis

    Alexander M. Grace

    When Fidel Castro takes twenty thousand American and Soviet hostages in a high-stakes bid to preserve his power, the American and Russian military join forces to implement an extraordinary rescue. Reprint....

  • With a Twist

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    Welcome to Steam, the hottest club in Savannah. Here the jazz is smooth, the dance floor is hopping and the attraction between three unsuspecting couples is rising as quickly as the temperature! Under the Cover of Night by Barbara McCauley O...

  • Naked Empire

    Terry Goodkind

    IT BEGINS... "You knew they were there, didn't you?" Kahlan asked. Against the darkening sky, she could just make out the shapes of three black-tipped races taking to wing, beginning their nightly hunt. That was why he'd stopped. "Yes," Richard...

  • A Perfect Duet

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    Music may be Miranda Granville's first love, but her marriage-minded papa is not concerned with her future as a pianist. Only classically trained Andrew Owen believes in Miranda's talent, and soon Miranda is hoping that their perfect duets will lead ...

  • A Time to Love

    Robert Greenberger

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...

  • The Big Fork Game

    J.R. Roberts

    When the mining town of Big Fork, Montana, hosts a high-stakes, high-risk poker marathon, it's Clint Adams's job to make sure the players keep their hands above the table—and away from their six shooters.What Clint doesn't know is that there's...

  • Deuces Wild

    Dusty Richards

    When all the cards are wild, there are only three things to do: Lay 'em...play 'em...or slay 'em. When the hardened Apache scout called Deuces is court-martialed for cold-blooded murder, he's sentenced to hang. But an appeal saves him from the noo...

  • The Shadow Runners

    Liz Maverick

    Newgate, Australia: In the 22nd century, history repeats itself. Part penal colony, part dumping ground for toxic waste, the land is controlled by "the Parliament," a gang of dissipated self-styled aristocrats. To survive here, you have to know the t...

  • The Darkening

    Chandler McGrew

    IT BEGINS WITH A BLACKOUT. All electrical power ceases to run. Even the sun seems a little dimmer. Cities come to a halt. And then their inhabitants vanish. But a small, clandestine group of warriors has been preparing for this moment for centuries. ...