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  • Arthur War Lord

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    MINDSTORMERS OF THE ROUND TABLE SUSPECTED IRA TERRORIST SELLY CORWIN SLIPS INTO A COMA--AND BECOMES THE MOST DANGEROUS WOMAN ALIVE. WITH THE ULTIMATE IN TOP-SECRET TECHNOLOGICAL MIND GAMES, SAS OFFICER PETER SMYTHE KNOWS HE CAN CONTROL HER--IF HE ...

  • Lights Out

    Peter Abrahams

    Fifteen years is a long sentence for anyone. It feels even longer for Eddie Nye, who goes in innocent and comes out dangerous. His rap sheet nails him for dope smuggling and three dead inmates. Some of it's true, but Eddie wants to know who's respons...

  • Missing in Manhattan: Anthology

    Adams Round Table

  • Vampire's Kiss

    Nicholas Adams

  • Out of the Dark

    Pepper Adams
    in

    Their neighbor was a monster? Single mother Hallie Steward found that highly unlikely! But her imaginative children refused to sleep until she investigated. Well, mystery man Jake Donahue inspired an accelerated heartbeat all right - but not the kind...

  • Burning March

    Neil Albert

    Dave Garrett, works in Philadelphia, where his his ex-wife was involved in his losing his license. The office manager of his former firm, Emily Voss, makes an appointment to meet with Dave and suggests that the firm might need an investigator. But wh...

  • Thyme of Death

    Susan Wittig Albert

    INTRODUCING CHINA BAYLES CHINA'S herb shop in Pecan Springs, Texas, is a long way from the law firm in Houston. But China wanted to get away from it all: the power plays, the scheming, the backstabbing. Still, wherever there are people, there are ...

  • Say You Love Me

    Trisha Alexander

    If she were granted three wishes, timid piano teacher Tess Collier would take only two: to wed David Bannister and mother his darling daughter. But David was glorious and virile, making Tess feel old-fashioned and drab by comparison. Never would she ...

  • My Visit to the Dinosaurs Big Book

    Aliki

    Dinosaurs are extinct now, but you can visit dinosaur skeletons in a museum. There you will meet Brachiosaurus, Stegosaurus, and Diplodocus and learn how they ruled the earth millions of years ago. You'll see dinosaurs with over 1,000 teeth, dinos...

  • Desert Cat

    Garrison Allen

    Penelope Warren calls her bookstore Mycroft & Co., in honor of the cat who presides there. Tough and macho, Big Mike is ready to match wit and claw with the most cunning critter. For when it comes to catching a killer, this lethal weapon is always up...

  • Libbie

    Judy Alter

    More than 100 years after his death at Little Big Horn, General George Armstrong Custer remains firmly entrenched in the American imagination. Alter, a Golden Spur winner, looks at the Custer myth from the first-person perspective of his widow, Eliza...

  • Cheyenne Amber

    Catherine Anderson

    SHE WOULD RISK EVERYTHING TO GET HER SON BACK Laura Cheney, a headstrong slip of a woman with sun-flecked amber eyes and skin the color of sweet cream, was used to the creature comforts of Boston. But deep in the Colorado Rockies things were diffe...

  • Wendle, What Have You Done

    Peggy Perry Anderson

    A battery-operated razor, a yard full of obstacles, and an energetic pooch named Wendle turn an ordinary day into a wild, hilarious romp when two mischievous boys decide that if they need haircuts, Wendle does too....

  • Dungeon of Fear

    Michael Andrews
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The reader's decisions determine whether a young thief known as Shadow will recover King Haldor's treasure, the Crystal Skull of Sa'arkloth, from the king's enemy Lord Fear, or be punished for the theft himself...

  • Exposure

    Evelyn Anthony

    Tough-minded investigative reporter Julia Hamilton uncovers high-level government and corporate corruption for her newspaper column "Exposure". Julia and her brilliant colleague Ben Harris now must risk their lives to root out a scandalous secret sha...

  • Jake Finds Out

    Katherine Applegate

    Jake finds out, and life on the island will never be the same. First Zoey, his old girlfriend, betrayed him. Now Claire, his new love, has hurt him, too. Somebody's going to pay. . . ....

  • The Boyfriend Mix-Up

    Katherine Applegate

  • Tales of Yesteryear

    Louis Auchincloss

    The author of False Gods and winner of the National Medal of Arts offers eight stories looking into the lives of the wealthy -- but troubled -- elite.Set in various decades throughout twentieth century, this entertaining short story collection reveal...

  • One Last Fling!

    Elizabeth August

    IT TAKES A SPECIAL MAN TO WIN THAT SPECIAL WOMAN! What had come over Bernadette Dowd? Reporter Max Laird couldn't imagine. The sedate Miss Dowd had let her hair down and become a tigress overnight. Queen of the duller than dishwater assignment...

  • All's Fair

    Anne Avery

    Calista York was a stunning firebrand with a mind of her own; a golden-haired trader who could ward off a pirate attack as easily as a man's unwanted advances. For five long years, Rhys Fairdane has roamed the universe, trying to forget the woman who...

  • The Bird, the Frog, and the Light

    Avi

  • Thomas Gets Bumped

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Mavis Buzz

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Toby's Tightrope

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • My Son John

    Jim Aylesworth

    A collection of fourteen original verses, based on the Mother Goose rhyme "Diddle, Diddle dumpling," introduces a new cast of characters, from Jake who eats pancakes to Ann who milks her cow, accompanied by vibrant woodcut illustrations. By the autho...

  • Rebel!

    Allan Baillie

    A general and his army flatten a Burmese village's school playground, and the general announces to the unarmed farmers and children that he will now make all the laws, but one young rebel has other ideas. By the author of Little Brother. ...

  • Cheyenne Surrender

    Madeline Baker

    CALLIE She had the face of an angel and the body of a temptress. Her innocent kisses said she was still untouched, but her reputation said she was available to any man who had the price of a night's entertainment. CALEB Callie's swe...

  • Young Blood

    Mike Baker

    Youthful vision is the theme of this chilling anthology in which every story was written before the author's thirty-first birthday... * A decaying bayou mansion hides a gruesome secret * The dead rise from their tombs to form their own street gan...

  • Shadow Hunter

    Will Baker

    In a world full of supermalls, feel-good drugs, and computer-guided traffic patterns, thirteen-year-old Ronald is kidnapped by a secretive cave-dwelling people, and the ruling government responds with military might. Reprint....

  • The Siege

    Bill Baldwin

    Rear Admiral Wilf Brim and his old comrade General Ursis must rally Sodeskaya's archaic ships in order to repel Triannic's vast star fleet and overcome overwhelming odds. By the author of The Defenders. Original....

  • Good-Bye, House

    Robin Ballard

  • Montana Breed

    Jack Ballas

    After the death of his father, nineteen-year-old Rafe Gunn uses his inheritance to seek out his mother's people, the Oglala Sioux, but he soon discovers that the lawlessness of the frontier threatens his quest. Original....

  • Tangled

    Mary Balogh

    ONE MAN HAUNTED HER PAST . . . Her beautiful eyes flashing with hate, Rebecca faced Lord David Tavistock. He had come back, wounded but still vibrantly, sensually alive, from the Crimean War. Julian Cardwell, her sweet, gentle bridegroom -- and Da...

  • A Love Meant to Be

    Brenda Bancroft

    Tall, blond Alana Charles couldn't ask for more from life. The coowner of an exclusive boutique, she is surrounded by good friends and frequently stars in community theater productions. But when Bill Sterling, Alana's former fiance, reenters her l...

  • When Comes the Dawn

    Brenda Bancroft

    Dodging bullets as well as matrimony, Amity Sheffield knows only that she must leave home. Blond, petite Amity Sheffield once enjoyed the life of a southern belle. But that was before the War for Separation broke out and her father left for the batt...

  • Peter and the Talking Shoes

    Kate Banks

  • More Than a Mistress

    Leanne Banks

    DANIEL--A Heartbreaker Whose Violet Eyes and Bad-Boy Grin Dared Her to Be His... She haunted his dreams dressed in a red slip, tormenting him with visions of passion he'd never known, and when Daniel Pendleton awoke, he vowed he'd pursue Sara King...

  • Castle of the Undead

    Nick Baron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

  • A Superior Death

    Nevada Barr

    A ranger with the U. S. National Park Service, it is Anna Pigeon's job to help protect wild and lonely places from civilization's corrupting touch. Now duty has called her far from the serenity of her beloved desert--into a mystery and a murder held ...

  • Adam Zigzag

    Barbara Barrie

  • Lover and Deceiver

    Beverly Barton

    WEALTHY WALLFLOWER Fortune had always smiled on Miss CeCe Collins, but her luck was about to run out. Gardner Kegan would see to that. Capturing her guarded heart was the key to his scheme -- for only then could he make CeCe pay for what her fami...

  • Luck of the Draw

    Norma Beishir

    Wall Street tycoon Spencer Randall finds that his extraordinary success in the high-level financial echelons of post-World War II America are threatened by the possible revelations of dark secrets from his past. Original....

  • First, Do No Harm

    Lisa Belkin

    "A powerful, true story of life and death in a major metropolitan hospital...Harrowing... An important book."
    THE NEW YORK TIMES
    What is life worth? And what is a life worth living? At a time when America faces vital choices about the future of...

  • Colt

    Don Bendell

    Forced to lead an all-black U.S. Cavalry unit on a suicide mission in the Apache Wars, Christopher Columbus Colt, the chief of cavalry scouts, must also contend with two legendary Apache chiefs--Geronimo and Victorio. Original....

  • The Preposterous Rhinoceros: or Alvin's Beastly Birthday

    Robert Bender

  • Sunset Stranger

    Cherie Bennett

    After writing to her long-lost birth father's parents in Israel, Sam discovers that he is a recently freed Israeli hostage, that he had never known of her existence, and that he is coming to Sunset Island to visit her. Original....

  • Only Love Can Break Your Heart

    Cherie Bennett

    Resentful of her beautiful twin sister's ability to steal the spotlight and the attentions of her friend Adam, sixteen-year-old Aimee finds that her life takes a turn for the worse when her sister is seriously injured in a car accident....

  • Single...With Children

    Connie Bennett

    HE'S PART OF A PACKAGE DEAL Caroline Hunter's family consists of two. Herself and her brainchild, Scarlett. Mitch Grogan's household has six members -- a teenage daughter, a ten-year-old son, a pre-schooler, an opinionated father and a...

  • The Berenstain Bears and the School Scandal Sheet

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    FREEDOM OF THE PRESS! The cubs have had enough of Miss Glitch and her stuffy school newspaper. So they launch their own paper. When it gives the teachers a failing grade, the cubs learn more than they expected about freedom of the press! ...

  • Passion's Mistress

    Helen Bianchin

    How much would a mother sacrifice for her child? Carly Taylor had made it on her own for six years, raising her daughter and hiding from the heartbreaking memories of the husband who'd betrayed her. But when her daughter's life was thre...

  • Consider This Home

    Greg Bills

    Kath and her young son, Daron, return home to their Mormon family to resolve difficult, potentially violent past issues, including their feelings about Daron's homosexual father and the Mormon husband Kath abandoned. A first novel. 15,000 first print...

  • Silken Promises

    Lisa Bingham

    Fiona McFee had been just a girl when she first saw Jacob Grey -- almost all of Jacob Grey -- naked and tied up in a field of foxtails. Naturally, as an Irish con man's daughter, she refused to release the young deputy -- while he sunburned his b...

  • A Regular Flood of Mishap

    Tom Birdseye

    Things go from bad to worse for Ima Bean on a day that starts with her breaking Grandpaw's fishing pole by catching a huge catfish, continues with numerous other mishaps, and finally ends with her family forgiving her....

  • I Am Winnie the Pooh

    Betty G. Birney

  • SeaQuest DSV : The Ancient

    David Bischoff

  • The Undead Express

    J.R. Black

    When city kid Zach gets lost in a subway station that's under construction, he ends up on a very strange looking train--filled with riders who look and act even weirder than usual.  Soon he finds out why--his fellow passengers are bloodthirsty vamp...

  • Dream Lover

    Jennifer Blake
    in

    The Topaz Man personally introduces in "A Dream Come True" his favorite stories of dreams that really do come true. From a woman thrown back to 1844 New Orleans, to a Western dream vacation, to a female passenger and boat captain's romance on the hig...

  • Simpkin

    Quentin Blake

  • Dog

    Robert J. Blake

  • Night Relics

    James P. Blaylock

    From the dark imagination of James P. Blaylock comes a new, chilling tale of the supernatural. When Peter Travers moves into an old house in a remote canyon to try to separate himself from his old existence, his wish becomes reality... all too litera...

  • Moments

    Georgia Bockoven

    Married to a successful vintner thirty years her senior, Elizabeth Preston is shaken out of her complacency by the handsome and volatile Michael Logan, who threatens to expose a secret from her past. Original....

  • Devil's Creek Massacre

    Jack Bodine

    Left for dead by the Apaches in the middle of the Coahuilian Desert, Duane Braddock, known as the fastest gun in the West, is brought back to life by a band of outlaws who expect him to commit murder. Original....

  • Retribution

    T. Michael Booth

    Beautiful Heather Reardon has died suddenly at the point of a drug-filled needle, but she was no junkie. So her brother, Tim, a decorated Green Beret, comes home to find out what happened. Frustrated with the police investigation, Tim Reardon mounts ...

  • The Bridled Groom

    J.S. Borthwick

    Planning their wedding at High Hope horse farm is trouble enough for teaching fellow Sarah Deane and her fiance Dr. Alex McKenzie. Rut now Sarah's widowed Aunt Julia, the Farm's crusty, independent owner is receiving threatening nursery rhymes with h...

  • Corruptly Procured

    Michael Bowen

    The Cold War may be over, but retired foreign service officer Richard Michaelson is finding Washington, D.C., anything but peaceful.At a government reception in the Library of Congress, a sudden explosion lands Michaelson in the hospital and allows a...

  • Bullets Don't Cry

    William Boyd (1)

  • When the Rainbow Goddess Wept

    Cecilia Manguerra Brainard

    Blending the myths of the Philippines with the tragic history of the Filipino people, a visionary novel chronicles World War II's Japanese invasion of the Philippines, as nine-year-old Yvonne flees to the jungle seeking refuge, strength, and hope. A ...

  • No Bottom

    James D. Brewer

  • Clifford's Big Book of Stories

    Norman Bridwell

    Clifford, the big red dog, returns in a hardcover collection of four of his most popular adventures, including Clifford's Puppy Days, Clifford the Big Red Dog, Clifford's Good Deeds, and Clifford Gets a Job. ...

  • Luck of the Irish

    Sharon Brondos

    They were as different as chalk and cheese. From the moment Paula Dixon stumbled across Liam Croft, a headstrong, hale and hearty Irishman, her carefully controlled world began to change. She was a prosecuting attorney. He was a publican. She wanted ...

  • Beauty and the Blues

    Chelsea Brooks

  • Tangles

    Errol Broome

  • In the Spring

    Craig Brown

  • The Big Baby

    Anthony Browne

    John's father wants desperately to stay young, wearing young clothes and hairstyles and collecting expensive adult toys, until he falls in a deep sleep and is transformed into a helpless baby in nappies, in a witty exploration of human vanity....

  • Grace and the Law

    Dixie Browning
    in

    What did a fisherwoman, however kind and caring, know about the proper rearing of an orphaned boy? Attorney Ramsay Adams realized Grace O'Donald was the child's aunt, but he was practically the boy's uncle - and the stronger parental figure. So why w...

  • Rawhide and Lace

    Margaret Brownley

    THEY WERE FROM OPPOSITE WORLDS... Libby Summerfield couldn't wait to get out of Deadman's Gulch -- a lawless mining town filled with gunfights, brawls, and uncivilized, mountain men -- men like Logan St. John. Stranded there with a new baby,...

  • My Mama's Little Ranch on the Pampas

    Maraia Cristina Brusca

    In the sequel to On the Pampas, the author recalls her first year on the small Argentinian ranch purchased and managed by her mother, in an account that includes a visual dictionary of the Spanish words and geographical terms used in the text...

  • Agyar

    Steven Brust

    From bestselling fantasy author Steven Brust comes this paranormal novel of immortality -- and its price...Born over a century ago, Agyar was once a frivolous young man, before he found unwanted immortality in a woman's blood-red lips. Now he goes fr...

  • High Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    When Stevie and her boyfriend, Phil Marsten, go on the Mountain Trail Overnight, a three-day trail ride, the tension between them grows, and the trip may trigger the end of their relationship....

  • Grandfather and I

    Helen Elizabeth Buckley

    Everybody is in such a hurry these days--mothers and fathers and sisters and brothers. About the only people who aren't in a hurry are grandfathers. With them there is always time to stop...and look...just as long as you like.

    This gentle story a...

  • Grandmother and I

    Helen Elizabeth Buckley

    Grandmother and I are sitting on the big chair, rocking. We rock back and forth, and back and forth. Other people have laps for sitting on and backs for riding on. But when you have a cold or lighting is coming, nothing feels quite as right as rockin...

  • Crime

    Bill Buford

  • Mirror Dance

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    THE CLONED STRANGERS Not everyone would envy young Lord Miles Naismith Vorkosigan, even though he had formed his own mercenary fleet before attending the naval academy, and even though his mother was the beautiful Cordelia, the ship captain who ha...

  • Sweet Dreams, Irene

    Jan Burke

    Even Dark Dreams Can Come True Jacob Henderson, the sixteen-year-old son of an aspiring candidate for D.A., has come to Irene Kelly for help. The corrupt incumbent plans to blackmail the boy's father with incriminating photos suggesting Jacob is i...

  • Cutting Edge

    Caroline Burnes

    Lightning split the night... As a furious sea raged over the dark island, Dr. Michael Raybin found a half-lifeless body washed ashore. A faceless man, burned beyond recognition. A desperate man, whose hysterical pleas for secrecy Michael was force...

  • Zoe's Sheep

    Rose Bursik

  • Indiana Jones and the White Witch

    Martin Caidin

    MAGIC...AND MURDER England, 1930. It begins when a gang of hooded thugs breaks into the secluded home of a modern-day witch deep in the mysterious New Forest. Stolen is a map that will lead Indiana Jones and fiery fellow archaeologist Gale Parker ...

  • Pirates and Promises

    Anne Caldwell

    Discover the passion, intrigue, and beauty of England with Tea Rose Romances...enthralling new novels that will sweep you away to a time and place as glorious as love itself... Bree wasn't really a princess, and Justin wasn't really a knig...

  • Rosie: A Visiting Dog's Story

    Stephanie Calmenson

    Color photographs and accompanying text capture the puppyhood, training, and first outings of Rosie, a terrier who loves to play fetch and have her belly rubbed but who also works, brightening the days of people in hospitals and nursing homes....

  • Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too

    Stephanie Calmenson

    Planning to permanently "unbounce" Tigger after a disaster in the garden, Rabbit enlists the help of Pooh and Piglet, and when the plan backfires, even Rabbit realizes that bouncing is simply one of "the wonderful things about Tiggers."...

  • Cheyenne's Shadow

    Deborah Camp

    With little assistance and lots of determination, feisty, independent Etta Hollister has been running the Flying H ever since her father's death a year earlier. But now she must seek a wounded gunslinger's aid. They call him Johnny Cheyenne -- a dark...

  • Pretty Maids in a Row

    Marilyn Campbell

    Holly Kaufman's safe little world is falling apart. A longtime romantic relationship is on the rocks. She's falling in love with an entirely inappropriate, entirely irresistible man. And a recent encounter witrh a former college acquaintance is forci...

  • Oh Dear!

    Rod Campbell

    From the creator of Dear Zoo comes a Dear Farm lift-the-flap book that showcases all of the animals hiding on the farm!Little ones are sure to love lifting the sturdy flaps to discover the farm animals as they travel through the barnyard in search of...

  • How to Murder Your Mother-In-Law

    Dorothy Cannell

    Nothing like a live-in mother-in-law to reduce a woman to the role of junior housemaid. That's what Ellie Haskell discovers when her husband's parents have a row in the midst of their anniversary dinner, and mother Magdalene seeks refuge in Ellie's g...

  • Scary Canary Helps Out

    Robin Carly

  • Scary Canary

    Robin Carly

  • The Alienist

    Caleb Carr

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW A TNT ORIGINAL SERIES • â€śA first-rate tale of crime and punishment that will keep readers guessing until the final pages.” -- Entertainment Weekly “Caleb Carr’s rich period thriller takes us back ...

  • Rivista

    Antonio Carrara

  • The Great Shaking

    Jo Carson

  • Mama, Coming and Going

    Judith Caseley

    After Jenna's baby brother was born, Mama began doing some very odd things. She remembered to read to Jenna at bedtime, but she forgot to defrost the chicken for dinner. And she took Jenna to Albert's birthday party a week before Albert's birthday...

  • The Marriage Scheme

    Carla Cassidy

    Matchmaking mayhem Teenaged Lauren Stewart and Charley Jones weren't content to be best friends -- they wanted to be sisters. And there was only one solution: Lauren's dad had to marry Charley's mom. But the stern Judge Eldridge ...

  • Nothing at All!

    Denys Cazet

  • Cabbage Moon

    Tim Chadwick

    Albert, a curious bunny, will do anything to get his questions answered, except eat his cabbage; then he discovers that the moon is made of delicious cabbage and he and his bunny friends nibble the moon away to a perfect crescent....

  • Something Is Coming

    Bernice Chardiet

  • Ugly Bug

    Donald Charles

  • Come Out Mouse

    Bernice Chasdiet

  • Gabriel's Outlaw

    Sandra Chastain

    GABE--No One Looked as Good--and So Bad--in Boots, Jeans, and a Stetson.... Assigned to ride shotgun and protect a pouch of gold en route to the capitol building during Georgia's Gold Rush Days Celebration, Gabriel St. Clair groaned--and tried to ...

  • Area Code 212

    Thomas Chastain

    The Adams Round Table is today's counterpart of the legendary Algonquin Roundtable. Founded in 1982 by Mary Higgins Clark and Thomas Chastain, the members meet every month to discuss their craft and create some of the best-loved mysteries of our time...

  • Crossing the Border

    Kim Chernin

  • An Edible Alphabet

    Bonnie Christensen

  • Sun and Shadow

    Cathryn Clare

    HER HUSBAND HAD DISAPPEARED, leaving lawyer Sunny Wells to close a case unsolved--and pick up the pieces of her shattered life alone. NOW HE WAS BACK. Seeing Sunny again was almost more than private investigator Dan Creed could bear. Her beauty ...

  • Return of the Runaway Bride

    Donna Clayton

    Once upon a time... There lived a lovely young woman named Savanna who was engaged to Daniel, a handsome law student. Theirs was to be a fairytale wedding. But Savanna's second thoughts were too big to be ignored -- so the would-be bride ran a...

  • Serpent Waltz

    Jo Clayton

    After awakening from a centuries-long spell, Serroi finds her world plagued by a bizarre evil force that controls the minds and souls of others, and she takes aim against this enemy she can barely understand. Original....

  • Bleak Spring

    Jon Cleary

    When local solicitor Will Rockne is found in his car by his wife -- shot through the head -- it seems a baffling and motiveless murder. However, Scobie Malone, newly assigned to the case, has his suspicions. Despite his daughter Claire’s shy romanc...

  • Stolen Thunder

    Shirley Climo

  • Nine Lives of Adventure-Cat

    Susan Clymer

    As MomCat bids farewell to her kittens, Purry Brother decides to move into the barn, Smart Sister heads for the chicken coop, and AdventureCat strikes out on her own as she discovers the world. Original....

  • The Fire Eaters

    William J. Cobb

    Damon Bell, the youngest of nine children coming of age in the Southwest, looks up to his older brother as a role model and longs to be reunited with the father who only swims like a fish through the boy's dreams...

  • My Dad's Baseball

    Ron Cohen

  • Just Another New York Christmas Story

    Stanley Cohen

    The Adams Round Table is today's counterpart of the legendary Algonquin Roundtable. Founded in 1982 by Mary Higgins Clark and Thomas Chastain, the members meet every month to discuss their craft and create some of the best-loved mysteries of our time...

  • Pathfinder

    Judd Cole

  • Child of the Dawn

    Clare Coleman

    On The Ancient Pacifice Islands, One Woman's Defiant Dream Changed The Course Of History Once Tahiti seemed a strage and terrifying place to the castaway named Tepua. Now, it was her home and her destiny. She longed to return to its beautiful sh...

  • Don't Tease the Guppies

    Pat Lowery Collins

    Tim, a mischievous small boy, enjoys his fun-filled trip to the aquarium with his big brother, Jon, until he takes off on his own and finds himself trapped in a dark room filled with all kinds of squishy and smelly things....

  • Mountain House

    Mary Louise Colln

    Eureka Springs is picture perfect. As an artist and writer, Lauren recognizes the wonderful possibilites in creating a book about the once thriving resort town. First, however, she must find a job. When she is hired to work as a hostess and tour g...

  • Goat Brothers

    Larry Colton

    An account of the lives of five men who were fraternity jocks at Berkeley during the 1960s follows their journey through college and to adulthood, describing how they tackled love, Vietnam, race riots, Reaganomics, and more. Reprint....

  • Ruffly Speaking

    Susan Conant

    Holly Winter's a Dog's Life columnist on the wrong side of thirty, a canine-loving detective sniffing out crime on the streets of Cambridge. Holly is a dog's best friend-and murder's worst enemy.... They might be less famous than guide dogs for th...

  • Swept Away

    Phoebe Conn

    ESCAPE TO LOVE When Virginia belle Eden Sinclair flees the South and the horrors of Civil War to seek a new life abroad, she meets two men. One offers protection and wealth beyond compare. The other -- dangerously seductive Raven Blade -- awakens ...

  • Deadly Quicksilver Lies

    Glen Cook

    WHEN "ROYALTY" PAID THE TAB price wasn't the issue, survival was. And Garrett wasn't sure it was worth his life to take Maggie Jenn on as his client. Not in a kingdom where the biggest con artists weren't human, magic could beat any weapon, and th...

  • Beyond the Searching River

    Jacquelyn Cook

    Raised in a southern orphanage after the War Between the States, Libba Ramsey has only one memory of her early life: a recurring nightmare about burning railroad tracks twisted around pine trees. It feeds her hatred of the fedrel soldiers who destroy...

  • Rivers Rushing to the Sea

    Jacquelyn Cook

    Mignonne Wingate, whose laughing dark eyes and porcelain skin entrance everyone she meets, is determined never to love again. But that is before a trip to the fashionable resort of Saratoga Springs, New York, where she is introduced to the Edgefield ...

  • Amnesia

    Douglas Cooper

    On the way to his own wedding, a man reveals to a stranger the story of a most unusual family, characterized both by its sensuality as well as its secrecy, and of Katie, a woman violated in her youth and confined to an asylum....

  • Dottie

    Peta Coplans

    Dottie is a young dog who enjoys gardening and decides to continue, despite her parents' disapproval, when she sees Duck rollerskating, Cat sailing, and Rabbit painting. By the author of Spaghetti for Suzy. ...

  • Life After God

    Douglas Coupland

    We are the first generation raised without God. We are creatures with strong religious impulses, yet they have nowhere to flow in this world of malls and TV, Kraft dinners and jets. How do we cope with loneliness? Anxiety? The collapse of relationshi...

  • Die Laughing

    Vincent Courtney

    When his buddies PJ and Ryan play a practical joke on Kelly by abandoning him at the town cemetery, they do not realize that Kelly will return from the experience acting terrifyingly different. Original....

  • Code of Honor

    Harold Coyle

    Now, in his most gripping thriller yet, Coyle takes us to a new level of battlefield realism and excitement with a story that echoes the complex U.S. military mission in today's world... A corrupt and fractured government in Bogota, Colombia, requ...

  • The Enemy at the Gates

    William Craig

  • The Sure Death of a Mouse

    Dan Crawford

    THERE'S MANY A CAT-- THAT'S THE SURE DEATH OF A MOUSE... In the kingdom of Rossacotta, the claws of treachery and murder reach far into the castle itself. But it's all in a day's work for the child-King's bodyguard. Nimnestl swings a lethal sword ...

  • Terror Train!

    Gilbert B. Cross

  • The Fourth Guardian

    Ronald Anthony Cross

    The history of Western civilization has been secretly controlled by four immortal ancient Romans, the Guardians of the Four Stones of Power, but now one Guardian tries to gain control of all four stones, threatening the mystical conspiracy's power ba...

  • Computer Confusion

    Beth Cruise

  • Don't Tell a Soul

    Beth Cruise

    The Bayside High gang is not sure if honesty is the best policy when Kelly tries to break into an acting career, despite a lack of natural talent, while Lisa discovers that one of the town's founders was a racist...

  • Sizzle

    Jennifer Crusie

    Too hot to handle! Emily Tate wants Richard Parker, the sexy number cruncher who's been hired to keep her in line and under budget. Richard Parker wants Emily Tate, the sexy advertising executive who's running the ad campaign for a sensual new perf...

  • Dancing on the Moon

    Jameson Currier

    With profound literary courage, Chekhovian compassion, and humor, Currier writes not only about those who are living with AIDS and those who have died from it, but also about the friends, families, and lovers who nurse and care for the sick and remem...

  • Death Prone

    Clare Curzon

    MALICE AND AFORETHOUGHT When ancient Hadrian Bascombe summons his heirs to his bedside to announce he's bequeathing his vast fortune to just one of them, his malicious intent is to set them at each other's throat. And it worked. Superintendent ...

  • Nina's Treasures

    Stefan Czernecki

  • Ten Out of Bed

    Penny Dale

    In a heart-warming, cleverly illustrated counting book based on a traditional nursery rhyme, a little girl and her nine stuffed animals keep wanting to play instead of going to bed, although one-by-one the animals are falling asleep....

  • Derringer Danger

    Kit Dalton

    When the wealthiest rancher in Jackson, Wyoming, is brutally murdered, Buckskin Lee Morgan must employ his "special" interrogation techniques when he has to question a tantalizing trio of suspects--the brazen widow, the fiery daughter, and the town h...

  • Mustang Heart

    Margot Dalton

    TONGUES ARE WAGGING! Bubba Gibson's little princess is back in town--all grown up, and her marriage in tatters. Not so high-and-mighty now, they're saying. Imagine Sara Gibson scrubbing rooms at a local motel! And after twenty-odd years, Mr. Chip-...

  • The Bold Thing

    Mark Daniel

    A stud manager at a broken-down farm in Ireland, ex-con Mickey Brennan learns that he must soon guard Sansovino, the most sought-after stallion of his time. By the author of The Devil to Pay. 10,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo....

  • The Shining of Love

    Emma Darcy

    Always... Dedicated to her husband, Brendan Forbes, and their work at a rural Australian outback clinic, Suzanne had rejected the temptation Leith Carew had offered. But he'd taken away her inner peace, just as she'd taken his. And when...

  • To Forget Maryellen

    Dorothy Salisbury Davis

    The Adams Round Table is today's counterpart of the legendary Algonquin Roundtable. Founded in 1982 by Mary Higgins Clark and Thomas Chastain, the members meet every month to discuss their craft and create some of the best-loved mysteries of our time...

  • Garfield's Insults, Put-Downs, and Slams

    Jim Davis

    Garfield, the feline master of the ironic aside, puts his paw to the grindstone and lets loose with these gems: good-natured insults, purr-fect put-downs, and deceptively sweet slams. For the young, the old, and the cranky at heart, Garfield know...

  • Wicked Secrets

    Justine Davis

    THE LAST REAL-LIFE HERO That was Trey Logan. He had rescued her father from a war-torn jungle in Central America, at the expense of his own freedom. Now he was back, and Jamie McCall vowed to make it all up to him. But this dark, brooding man had sc...

  • Murdered Sleep

    Thomas D. Davis

    Dave Strickland had gone up to Monterey to give a report to a client, and because it was a nice day he decided to stick around for a while. So he drove out on the peninsula and saw something that bothered him. When he followed up on it, he wound up i...

  • Tano and Binti: Two Chimpanzees Return to the Wild

    Linda Davolls

  • My Mom Made Me Take Piano Lessons

    Judy Delton

  • In the Eyes of the Cat; Japanese Poetry for All Seasons

    Demi

    Kittens and sea slugs, ducklings and frogs, fawns and mud snails-- all sorts of animals from the familiar to the unusual can be found in this beautiful and engaging collection of Japanese poetry.
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  • Christopher: The Holy Giant

    Tomie DePaola

    A stunning picture-book interpretation of the legend of St. Christopher Because of his stature, Reprobus the giant sets off to serve the most powerful ruler in the world. At one point during his travels, the giant uses his impressive strength to c...

  • Miss Zukas and the Library Murders

    Jo Dereske

    MURDER IN THE LIBRARY When a dead body turns up right in the mid le of the fiction stacks, the police are baffled. But Helma Zukas, who never fails to make note of the slightest deviation from the norm of everyday life, is tracking some baffling q...

  • A Scandalous Proposal

    Teresa DesJardien

    TRIANGLE OF LOVE It was really most vexing! Two weeks into the London season and Lady Pamela Premington had already received her first offer of marriage. If only it hadn't come from the ton's most notorious rake! Lady Pamela was the first ...

  • The Prince of Ill Luck

    Susan Dexter

    THE CURSE, THE PRINCE, AND THE DUKE'S DAUGHTER Leith, Prince of the isles, had been born under a curse; ill luck had dogged his steps from his earliest days. Now, shipwrecked on a wild and foreign coast, he found Valadan, a fabulous black stallion...

  • A Quest of Dreams

    Debra Dier

    DESTINY'S LOVERS To Devlin McCain she was a fool who was chasing moonbeams, a spoiled rich girl who thought money could buy anything. But beneath her maddening facade burned a blistering sensuality he was powerless to resist, and he would journey ...

  • Disney's Cowboy Mickey's Pop-Up Book of Games

    Walt Disney

  • Winner Take All

    Franklin W. Dixon

    When the sister of their friend Ben Martin, a recent lottery winner, is kidnapped, Frank and Joe Hardy find numerous shady suspects as they try to rescue Ben's sister before tragedy strikes. Original....

  • The Stories of Stephen Dixon

    Stephen Dixon

    The author of the critically acclaimed Frog presents a collection of what he considers to be his finest short fiction that incisively captures the absurdities of urban America, the nature of modern relationships, and the complexities of human...

  • Great Bug Hunt, the Pbk

    Bonnie Dobkin

  • The History of the Ginger Man

    J.P. Donleavy

    It is literally history combined with Donleavy’s autobiography â€" from his childhood in the Bronx, education at Catholic schools, service in the U.S. Navy, and travels, to his current life as proprietor of a landed estate in the midlands of Irelan...

  • Timeless

    Kate Donovan

  • Marble Skin

    Slavenka Drakulic

  • Nothing Personal

    Eileen Dreyer

    She Didn't Mean To Do It Kate Manion is your average burned-out critical care nurse. Kate admits that she's a dinosaur, since in an age when medicine means big money, she still battles to put patient care first. Injured in an accident, Kate wa...

  • The Living God

    Dave Duncan

    ALL RAPPED UP... The sorcerer Zinixo had declared himself the Almighty, and none could doubt that the end of the era was at hand. Not in the thousand years since the War of the Five Warlocks had the world known upheaval on such a scale. Goblin hor...

  • Andy's Pirate Ship

    Philippe Dupasquier

    As Andy plunders booty from around the house to build a fun-filled pirate ship, young readers try to figure out what he has taken as he moves from the kitchen, through his cluttered house, to the backyard....

  • My Lord Beaumont

    Madris Dupree

    Child of the Streets Danny Cooper guarded a secret. The feisty young stowaway was really Danielle, a girl newly escaped from London's gutters. With no prospects and no hope. Until fate took a hand and bound her to the one man she would willingly f...

  • Body of a Crime

    Michael C. Eberhardt

    The murder charge against ex-pro athlete Chad Curtis is bizarre. There's no evidence that anyone was killed, but gorgeous ex-girlfriend, Robin, has vanished, posing a big problem for defense attorney Sean Barrett: with no corpus delicti, it will be v...

  • Lone Star and the Slaughter Showdown

    Wesley Ellis

    A valuable ranch is up for grabs -- and so are Jessie and Ki's lives!After old friend Malcom Birnam is gunned down by his two new hired hands, it is up to Jessie and Ki to protect Birnam's son from the murderous schemes of the vicious duo....

  • The Moons of Summer

    S.K. Epperson

    The quiet, friendly town of Colston is overshadowed by a dark and deadly force that plagues Colston's citizens, and when a series of strange, unexplaned deaths occur, everyone begins to fear for their lives. Reprint....

  • Praise of Folly

    Desiderius Erasmus

    Erasmus of Rotterdam (c. 1466-1536) is one of the greatest figures of the Renaissance humanist movement, which abandoned medieval pieties in favour of a rich new vision of the individual's potential. Praise of Folly, written to amuse his friend Sir T...

  • My Special Angel

    Marcia Evanick

    OWEN--A Perfect Southern Gentleman, Still a Little Rough Around the Edges... He had to be dreaming, Owen Prescott decided as he admired the breathtaking beauty on the huge black horse who'd arrived just in time to save his neck! Nadia Kandratavich...

  • Sleipnir

    Linda Evans

    A man's got to do what a man's got to do He didn't pick this fight. He didn't even choose to own the knife; the knife chose him. And then, from a distance and still in its casing, the knife killed his best friend. That's what started it: Arabs wit...

  • Longarm on the Fever Coast

    Tabor Evans

    Deputy Marshal Long encounters unexpected trouble--including backshooting desperadoes and a mysterious epidemic--when he sets out to escort a federal prisoner to Colorado from the quiet seaport of Escondrijo, Texas...

  • A Time for Treason

    Doug Everett

    Hired by prominent political figures to kill the president of the United States, the Scorpion--the most feared assassin in the world--must elude FBI Special Agent Joel Matheson, who is hot on his trail. Original....

  • Tigers Burning

    Crabbe Evers

    When a corpse is discovered among the charred remains of Detroit's Tiger Stadium, ex-sportswriter Duffy House finds clues that are rooted in extortion, the mob, and a secret affair with an ex-con outfielder. Reprint....

  • Barbed Wire

    Elizabeth Fackler

    Visiting newspaperman Frank James believes that his old friend and lover, Arly Walbridge, was murdered and his search in a small Texas town leads to a variety of suspects, including a mysterious, attractive woman living in Arly's home...

  • The Ear, the Eye and the Arm

    Nancy Farmer

    Zimbabwe, 2194 The three children of the wealthy and powerful General Matsika steal out of the house on a forbidden adventure -- and promptly disappear. Their parents call in the best detectives in Africa, or at least the most unusual: the Ear, the ...

  • Murder and a Muse

    Gillian B. Farrell

    Leaving the SAD Squad to take a part in what she thinks will be her big break, actress-sleuth Annie McGrogan finds her heart broken by the production's charismatic director, until a murder on the set reunites her with her ex-partner Sonny. Reprint....

  • When She Was Bad

    Ron Faust

    Chantal is the ultimate femme fatale, the deadly siren of every man’s dreams and nightmares. A ruthless -- and beautiful -- black widow, she seduces and destroys those around her. To her lover, Dan Stark, she promises paradise and more. But as her ...

  • Lawrence and Women

    Elaine Feinstein

  • By the Time I Get to Nashville

    Lionel Fenn

    Nineteenth-century gunslinger Diego is whisked off to the new Nashville of the twenty-second century, a world in which the Old West has become a religion and Diego becomes a deity, unless he is hanged first. ...

  • Deadly Friend

    Keith Ferrario

    The first thing you have to understand about little Georgie is that he's dead. Dead as a doornail. This minor inconvenience, however, didn't stop him from invading rhe realm of the living - or from looking for playmates to join him in the great beyon...

  • Wildfire

    Sandra Field

    T.N.T. Simon Greywood had been a volunteer fire fighter for just one day, but he knew a hot spot when he saw one -- and her name was Shea Mallory. She was argumentative, stubborn, cantankerous, and she wasn't about to let him get within striki...

  • Kinderdike

    Leonard Everett Fisher

    Retells the story of the founding of Kinderdike, a town in southern Holland whose name--meaning "the children's dike"--comes from the discovery of a baby and a kitten, found alive on a dike following a devastating flood....

  • Winner Take All

    Sean Flannery

  • The Man Who Murdered Himself

    Richard Fliegel

    Cured to Death The posh, idyllic Care Clinic promises to cure such twentieth-century afflictions as eating disorders, substance abuse, and low self-esteem. But when Shelley Lowenkopf and Homer Greeley--two former detectives from the Bronx--begin t...

  • The Fabulous Firework Family

    James Flora

    Because of they make the best fireworks in their Mexican village, Pepito, his sister Amelia, and their parents are asked to create a grand firework castle to honor their village's patron saint, but a clever pickpocket threatens to ruin the celebratio...

  • Vegetable Garden

    Douglas Florian

    Children are fascinated by watching plants grow, and in this colorful picture book even very young children can follow along with a family as they plant, tend, and harvest a vegetable garden. The sun shines brightly, summer rain falls, and vegetables...

  • Thumbelina

    Justine Korman Fontes

    Thumbelina, a tiny but beautiful girl, is delighted when she meets Cornelius, a fairy prince just her size, but her dreams turns into a nightmare when she is kidnapped by a gang of musical toads. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Fleet Action

    William R. Forstchen

    The Kilrathi Empire is in a bind. For the last five years they have been constructing a secret fleet so powerful that it will slice straight through to Earth and destroy the Confederation. There is a problem, however: the Confederation has become inc...

  • I'll See You when the Moon Is Full

    Susi Gregg Fowler

  • Grass and Sky

    Lisa Rowe Fraustino