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  • The Fan

    Peter Abrahams

    Bobby Rayburn has an ex-cheerleader for a wife and a girl in every big-league town. The ball comes off his hat like a firecracker. Bobby isn't just a b4seball star. He's a god. Gil Renard has a wife who's left him. His bank balance slides toward zero...

  • A Natural History of Love

    Diane Ackerman

    The bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses now explores the allure of adultery, the appeal of aphrodisiacs, and the cult of the kiss. Enchantingly written and stunningly informed, this "audaciously brilliant romp through the world of r...

  • The Sleeping Porch

    Karen Ackerman

  • Mediopollito

    Alma Flor Ada

    With Mexican inspired artwork and a bilingual text in Spanish and English, the origins of the weather vane come to life when Half-Chicken sets out to explore the world on his one leg, with one eye and wing....

  • All the Deadly Beloved

    Deborah Adams

    SOMEONE'S BEEN NURSING A MURDEROUS GRUDGE AGAINST THE TOWN'S FAVORITE R.N. Everybody swears that no one would ever lay a hand on Jesus Creek's angel of mercy, nurse Patrice Gentry. But the reality is there for all to see--Patrice's red T-bird in t...

  • Sheep, Sheep, Sheep, Help Me Fall Asleep

    Arlene Alda

    Sheep, Sheep, Sheep, Help Me Fall Asleep

    Written and with photographs by Arlene Alda

    When you can't fall asleep, counting sheep is certainly one way to make you drowsy. On the other hand, when you don't want to fall asleep, counting oth...

  • Tight Shot

    Kevin Allman

    Twenty-nine-year-old Kieran O'Connor's life is messier than his studio apartment in Venice. He's being evicted. He prefers hanging out at his ex-girlfriend Claudia's coffeehouse to traveling in the Hollywood fast lane. Claudia's currently seeing a ho...

  • Icewater Mansions

    Doug Allyn

    Her name is Michelle Mitchell, but friends call her Mitch. For years this tough-talking single mother has been making ends meet the hard way: deepwater welding in the Gulf of Mexico. Then, after the "accidental" death of her estranged father, she re...

  • Sally's Submarine

    Joan Anderson

  • Disney's Puzzlers and More Puzzlers

    Karen C. Anderson

    Based on classic Disney films, such as The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and more, this book includes more than 100 puzzles, mazes, games, and brainteasers....

  • Safe at Home!

    Peggy King Anderson

  • What Makes Me Happy?

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

  • Bayou Lullaby

    Kathi Appelt

  • Cry Uncle

    Judith Arnold

    WANTED: ONE MOM FOR A CHILD NAMED "LIZARD" Pamela Hayes thought maybe, just maybe, she could handle marriage to Joe Brenner. And maybe she could even handle his earring. But a rambunctious niece named Lizard who wore feathers in her hair a...

  • Primary Inversion

    Catherine Asaro

    The Skolian Empire rules a third of the civilized galaxy through its mastery of faster-than-light communication. But war with the rival empire of the Traders seems imminent, a war that can only lead to slavery for the Skolians or the destruction of b...

  • Humphrey Thud

    Camilla Ashforth

  • Gold

    Isaac Asimov

    Gold is the final and crowning achievement of the fifty-year career of science fiction's transcendent genius, the world-famous author who defined the field of science fiction for its practitioners, its millions of readers, and the world at large.The ...

  • A Husband for Sarah

    Elizabeth August

    The Unexpected Husband Forever single, Sarah Orman had returned to Wyoming to find her Mr. Right. But he decidedly wouldn't be Sam Raven. One-hundred-percent Native American and all-male arrogance, the maddening ranch hand had long ago made Sarah'...

  • A Visit to Highbury

    Joan Austen-Leigh

    Charming, intelligent, and imperious, Miss Emma Woodhouse, the eponymous heroine of Emma, is one of Jane Austen's best-loved creations - as is the village of Highbury turned upside down by Emma's well-intentioned but misguided matchmaking. Joan Auste...

  • Say Please

    Virginia Austin

  • The Edge of Bali

    Inez Baranay

    A tale of three people on the edge. Three very different tourists visiting Bali are on their way to a remote village where a trance dance is to take place. They are on the edge of meeting, on the edge of leaving Bali for ever. Three tourists, unknown...

  • A Dangerous Charade

    Anne Barbour

    Love in Disguise Lovely Miss Alison Fox was a most proper young lady, a vicar's daughter and paid companion to the wealthy and aged Lady Edith Brent. In contrast, Miss Lissa Reynard was an immoral adventuress, winning vast sums from titled vic...

  • Show and Tell

    Margaret Bard

    Combining her business savvy with a few daring risks, filmmaker Julia Hudlow begins work on a promising new sitcom starring the industry's hottest actors, until tabloid threats from an unknown source threaten the show's success. Original....

  • The Chicks' Trick

    Jeni C. Bassett

  • Backstage Pass

    Laura Battyanyi-Petose

    Realizing that she and her boyfriend Chase have changed to accommodate a "rock star" image she encouraged to further his career, Rowan wonders if it is too late to drop the pretenses and start over again as themselves. Original....

  • Bod's Mum's Knickers

    Peter Beere

    Bod's mum is very big. But the most amazing thing about her is...her enormous knickers. Knickers that are big enough to use as air-brakes for a Jumbo Jet. But these knickers are really put to the test when a whole school gets caught in a hurricane an...

  • Warrior

    Don Bendell

    Chris Colt, retired Chief of Scouts, is drawn back into battle to help his friend, Nez Perce+a7 warrior Man Killer, save Man Killer's beloved Jennifer from a crooked relative and two outlaws on a bloody crime spree. Original....

  • The Berenstain Bears' Media Madness

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Illustrated in black-and-white. It looks as if the video age is taking over at Bear Country School when Teacher Bob helps the cubs set up a school TV station. Will the cubs still have time for the three R's? Or are they doomed to be vid-kids forever?...

  • The Wee Bear Who Didn't Want to Go to the Doctor

    Lara Rice Bergen

  • Baroness of Blood

    Elaine Bergstrom
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    To the people of Kislova, Baron Janosk was a tyrant, but to young llsabet, he was simply Father. When the baron was summarily executed, the people cheered, but llsabet wept . . . and plotted revenge. The benevolent new ruler could not have known t...

  • How to Kiss a Guy

    Elizabeth Bernard

    Naomi Peters, 15, is a brain on the fast track to Harvard prelaw. She hangs out with a group of kids whose parents are successful and expect their children to follow in their footsteps. On a lark, she tries out for the school play, Beauty and the Bea...

  • A Pony in Trouble

    Jeanne Betancourt

    Do you love ponies? Be a Pony Pal! Pam's father is a veterinarian, so she is used to being around sick animals. But when her own pony gets sick, Pam needs her Pony Pals more than ever. Her Pony Pals, Anna and Lulu, try to figure out what is mak...

  • Tempting Fortune

    Jo Beverley

    TEMPTING FORTUNE brings together an impoverished noblewoman and a notorious gamester. Bestselling author Jo Beverley's scandalous new novel of Georgian England is a seductive story of sin and redemption... In a night shimmering with destiny, P...

  • A Man Without Love

    Beverly Bird

    A WOMAN WITH A SECRET.. Catherine Landano was running scared, so she hid on a secluded reservation where the vast land could shelter her secrets. Yet enigmatic Navajo Jericho Bedonie didn't want her on his territory. His intimidating stares had he...

  • Hot Blooded

    Carly Bishop

    Blood Simple Erin Harper rushed to Chicago against her better judgment, just in time to see her old flame run down before her eyes. His last words told her to save his precious medical project or be responsible for the deaths that would follow. So...

  • A Dash of Death

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, runs the Hemlock Falls Inn. Her sister, Meg, keeps the guests happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder, the Quilliam sister...

  • Little Hawk's New Name

    Don Bolognese

  • Water Hazard

    Scott Borg

  • Promise of Summer

    Rose Boucheron

  • Empire Builders

    Ben Bova

    Dan Randolph never plays by the rules. A hell-raising maverick with no patience for fools, he is admired by his friends, feared by his enemies, and desired by the world's loveliest women. Acting as a twenty-first privateer, Randolph broke the politic...

  • Stepping Westward

    Malcolm Bradbury

    At the height of the 1960s, a British writer accepts an academic post in America for a year that he’ll never forget English author James Walker has three books to his name, each greeted with middling success and then promptly forgotten. But his ré...

  • Angel

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    A saga of friendship and fame, secrets, and success from the #1 New York Times�"bestselling author of A Woman of Substance.   Orphaned at a young age, the lives of Rosie, Gavin, Nell, and Kevin are irrevocably intertwined. Rising from poverty, ...

  • The Jacaranda Tree

    Rebecca Brandewyne

    KISSES UPON A WILDER SHORE... A sense of foreboding had gripped Arabella Darracott when she left England to join her guardian in Australia. Years before a gypsy fortune-teller had told her of a purple blossomed tree, a far-off shore, and a devil of ...

  • The Bounty

    Rebecca Brandewyne
    in

    The dangerous desires of men and the seductive powers of women are explored by three of the romance genre's most celebrated writers in this captivating collection of short fiction....

  • Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away

    Richard Brautigan

    Three masterpieces by “the counterculture’s Mark Twain,” collected in one volume, including the “lost chapters” of Trout Fishing in America (The New York Times Book Review).   An author who began his career handing out his work on the ...

  • K-Pax

    Gene Brewer

    HIS NAME IS PROT. Psychiatrist Gene Brewer doesn't have a diagnosis for the mysterious new patient who calls himself "prot" (rhymes with goat). But this strange and likeable man cannot be--as he claims--from the planet K-PAX. NOBODY KNOWS WHERE H...

  • Lace and Satin

    Helen Brooks

    An adult affair As a student, Logan Steer had been wildly and romantically attractive to the female population.... Now he was devastating! Amelia Higginbottom knew Logan and his effect on women all too well, so she was determined to keep their bus...

  • Walt Disney's Three Orphan Kittens

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Photo Finish

    Bonnie Bryant

    It's the invitation of a lifetime. When Judy Barker, the Pine Hollow veterinarian, offers Lisa a chance to visit the stables at the racetrack, Lisa jumps at the opportunity. She's been working on her skills as a photographer, and she'd love to take p...

  • Arrow from Earth

    F.M. Busby

    Captain Clancy Allaird, his desperate young daughter Marnie, and the crew of the starship Arrow set off on a seventy-five-light-year quest of high adventure, where they find challenge from terrorists, mutineers, and a fanatical conspiracy. Or...

  • Daughter of Prophecy

    Anne Kelleher Bush

    Rising from the ruins of an empire destroyed by magic; in a world of raiders, mutants, warring lords, and undying passions; two destinies cross at an executioner's stake. FORBIDDEN MAGIC WILL RAISE AN EMPIRE. FORBIDDEN LOVE WILL DESTROY IT. NY...

  • X-Men: The Coming of Bishop

    John Byrne

  • High Style

    B.B. Calhoun

    Pia avoids telling her very conservative family back in Italy about her life in New York--including her newly short hair and her non-Italian boyfriend--until the Ford Modeling Agency heads to Italy for a shoot. Original....

  • The Bride's Gift

    Raine Cantrell
    in

    TODAY'S MOST BELOVED AUTHORS CELEBRATE THE ROMANTIC WONDER OF ST. PATRICK'S DAY... Marylyle Rogers makes you believe in fairies with her beautiful Celtic love story "The Fairy's Tale." Emma Merritt takes you to medieval Ireland, where a soldier fo...

  • Summer Surrender

    Lynda Kay Carpenter

    BOSTON BRIDE Summer St. Clair came West to marry her fiance, but found herself stranded in the California desert -- with a big, handsome stranger... DESERT DRIFTER Chase McCain was on his way to Gold Hills, but the green-eyed beauty struck his f...

  • Marry Me Tonight

    Marisa Carroll

    KEEP YOUR LOVE FOR ETERNITY For generations, couples have been coming to Eternity, Massachusetts, to exchange wedding vows. Legend has it that those married in Eternity's chapel are destined for a lifetime of happiness. And the townsfolk are more ...

  • Temptation on Trial

    Jenny Cartwright

    I'd like to introduce you to my future wife! When Livvy decided to confront Leon in his boardroom, she didn't expect him to turn the tables on her and announce their engagement to his colleagues! Of course, she couldn't possibly acc...

  • Strange Attractors

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    A SHIP FULL OF WORLDS John Bandicut awakens, dazed, on the bank of a strange river. He and two humanoid aliens are stranded far across the galaxy, inside a vast "shipworld" that contains countless alien biospheres, all joined together in a wondrou...

  • Mr. Green Peas

    Judith Caseley

  • Dancing Angel

    Jack Casserly

    The Dancing Angel is a major novel on the changes in the Catholic Church since the Vatican II Council by a veteran foreign correspondent. Set in Chicago amid the vicissitudes of an outspoken, and divided, Irish family....

  • Fearless Hearts

    Linda Castle

    A recluse since her accident, sheltered easterner Bellami James thought she was prepared for the challenge that awaited her in the New Mexico Territory. But when her "charge" turned out to be an embittered ex-deputy, Bellami had to wonder jus...

  • The Frog Princess

    Laura Cecil

  • Easy Prey

    Michael Cecilione

    Two very different women riding a Greyhound bus across the country have one thing in common--a homicidal maniac desperate enough to hunt them down unless they take their lives--and deaths--into their own hands. Original....

  • Wonder Boys

    Michael Chabon

    GRADY TRIPP IS A MIDDLE-AGED PHILANDERER with a penchant for pot and failed marriages, who is unable to complete the long-awaited follow-up to his award-winning novel. His brilliant student James Leer is a troubled young writer obsessed with Holly...

  • You Will Learn to Love Me

    Susan Chace

    When Kate Willoughby realizes her love for her child, Eliza, far exceeds any passion she's ever felt for her husband, Hank, she knows her marriage is over. How Kate dissolves her dormant relationship is the powerful and haunting story of Susan Chace'...

  • The Bookmakers

    Zev Chafets

    Just when he finally comes up with a fabulous idea for a novel about a burnt-out writer who decides to commit suicide, Mack Green discovers that his publisher, who thinks that the book works better as nonfiction, has hired a hit man to insur...

  • The Bell Makers

    Jean Chapman

    A romance set in the Midlands in the 19th century. Leah is forced to take on her pedlar grandfather's tally round to save her family from starvation. She makes a disastrous trip as peddler of the surplus knitted garments from the family's stockinger'...

  • Guardian of the Heart

    Sandra Chastain
    in

    A brave young widow is left alone to fend for herself on the banks of the Rio Grande, until the ghost of her husband brings her a second chance at love....

  • Number One Number Fun

    Kay Chorao

    Directed by the natty Ringmaster Rat, a menagerie of performing farm animals poses simple math problems in Chorao's (Cathedral Mouse) frolicsome book. The festively costumed creatures spill out of a circus wagon, then reappear in various configuratio...

  • Watsons Birmingham

    Curtis P. Christopher

  • Merry Men

    Carolyn Chute

    New York Newsday called Chute’s third book about Egypt, Maine, “a passionate and gorgeously written homage to americanca’s poor.” With Lloyd Barrington, a modern-day Robin Hood, at the head of the huge cast of characters, this is a “big, am...

  • Dark Blade Falling

    Scott Ciencin

  • Gunslinger's Child

    Cathryn Clare

    QUINN McALLISTER HAD LIED... About who he was. About why he had really come to the tiny Illinois town ten years ago. And, worst of all, he had lied about loving Carrie St. John. She had never forgiven him. Not for that, and not for his role in ...

  • Helping Hector

    Gus Clarke

    Planning for a fun-filled day at the beach, Hector is unable to find any of his special possessions, and young readers are encouraged to lift flaps and turn interactive wheels to locate a sand bucket, a missing shoe, and ice-cream money....

  • Nanny and the Professor

    Donna Clayton

    Daddy Lessons Professor Joshua Kingston thought he'd found the perfect nanny for his son. But once Cassie Simmons stepped into his life, she turned it upside down! His son no longer played by the rules--and Cassie kept making up new ones. He would f...

  • Killjoy

    Ann Cleeves

    FOR SOME REASON PEOPLE ARE A LITTLE AFRAID OF GABRIELLA PASTON. Is it because she's too beautiful, too talented, too self-confident? In the middle of rehearsals for her first big show at the arts center, eighteen-year-old Gabriella is murdered...a...

  • An Island Like You

    Judith Ortiz Cofer

    Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpré award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio!Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcap...

  • The Substitute Creature

    M.T. Coffin

    Avon launches a perfectly creepy middle grade horror line, Spinetinglers, with an eerie tale about a substitute teacher who's a real monster. There is something very different about Mr. Hiss. It begins when Jace sees him spreading blood on his hands ...

  • Wendigo Mountain

    Judd Cole

  • Denial

    Bonnie Comfort

    Accepting a difficult referral from a colleague, psychotherapist and radio talk show host Sarah Rinsley counsels lawyer Nick Belmont, whose aggressive attempt to seduce her becomes obsessive and deadly...

  • Sody Sallyratus

    Joanne Compton

    A delightfully illustrated retelling of an old folktale recounts how Jack outsmarts a bear, saves his family, and still manages to forget the sody sallyratus--or baking soda--that he was supposed to get at the store....

  • Night School

    Caroline B. Cooney

    A mysterious teacher casts a spell over his class and assigns dark, evil homework in a class that Mariah wishes she had never signed up for--a class where she is trapped and can never escape. Mariah's not sure why she's signed up for the mysterio...

  • Driver's Ed

    Caroline B. Cooney

    The universal experience for most high school students is learning to drive and getting their driver’s license. Add breathlessly plotted romance and an accident and you have a poignant and realistic novel. Remy Martin prays to the God of Driver...

  • Tale of Bear

    Helen Cooper

    In four playfully rhymed stories, love carries the day when Timothy's toys get bumped and battered, torn and worn. These delicious tales will go straight to a young child's heart, and the tender illustrations will inspire hugs....

  • Tale of Duck

    Helen Cooper

  • Tale of Pig

    Helen Cooper

  • Tale of Frog

    Helen Cooper

  • Isis and Osiris

    Jonathan Cott

    The author of Pipers at the Gates of Dawn interviews worshipers, philosophers, historians, and psychologists worldwide to understand the tenacity and influence of the Ur myth of death and regeneration. 30,000 first printing. $30,000 ad/promo....

  • Winnie the Pooh Mask Book

    Petra Craig

  • A Wild Dog and Lone

    Dan Crawford

    Nimnestl, a powerful woman warrior serving as the king's bodyguard, and Polijn, a minstrel, try to uproot a powerful conspiracy that threatens the reign of the boy-king Conan, a conspiracy that is using the unsuspecting Polijn. Original....

  • Danny's Duck

    June Crebbin

  • Fire on the Wind

    Linda Crew

    "Set in the Oregon woods of 1933, this swift paced novel gives us a young girl living a life she loves in a remote logging camp...When the fabled Tillamook Burn begins with a small blaze in Gales Creek Canyon, we feel the danger, care about the peopl...

  • Dangerous Attraction

    Melinda Cross

    Marcus Flint was supposed to be rude, ruthless and explosively violent and most woman ran like frightened rabbits at the prospect of being alone with him. Rebecca was different, no man had ever managed to make an impression on her, so interviewing Ma...

  • Scene One, Take Two

    Beth Cruise

    Jessie's afraid she's ruined any chance she has with Slater when she tries to help him win a video contest but ends up arguing over the topic: organic farming or cheerleaders. Meanwhile, Zack decides it's time to win Kelly back. With a little advice ...

  • Ace in the Hole - Yukon Ride

    Gene Curry

  • The Quick and the Dead

    Jack Curtis

    Ellen McKenzie returns to Redemption, where her father had been marshal before outlaws took over the town, to enter the quick draw contest and to kill the leader, and encounters Cort, a former gunman turned preacher who has been brought to town in ch...

  • The Alpine Escape

    Mary Daheim

    THE DITOR OF THE ALPINE ADVOCATE GOES DIGGING FOR A MURDERER. At forty-two, newspaperwoman Emma Lord decides she needs time off to do some soul-searching. But her old Jag breaks down in the picturesque Pacific Northwest town of Port Angeles, and i...

  • Necessary Lies

    Janice Daugharty

    Lost innocence. Betrayal. Smalltown secrets.It all adds up to necessary lies. It always starts with the loss of innocence.Life had plenty to offer beautiful seventeen-year-old Cliffie Flowers in 1953 backwoods Georgia before she got pregnant by a l...

  • Lord Kingsford's Quest

    Donna Davidson

    The Runaway's Return Taryn Burnham had been little more than a child when she fell in love with her distant cousin Woolfe despite the warnings of her guardians. Then Woolfe vanished from her life, fleeing punishment for an angry act of violenc...

  • First Kiss

    Nicole Davidson

    Accepting the job of her dreams as a crew member aboard the Mystique, sixteen-year-old Carol Walters enjoys the company of two handsome young men, until a passenger is pushed overboard by a killer who wants to make Carol the next victim. Orig...

  • The Faery Convention

    Brett Davis

    Preparing to sign a no-magic treaty with the human race, the faeries, elves, gnomes, and other formerly mythological races of Earth instead decide to find a homeworld for themselves where they can practice their magic freely. Original....

  • Reklaw

    Wayne Davis

    Wanted man Jason Reklaw, having determined that he will finally settle down with Gretchen, the granddaughter of the Texas rancher he works for, finds his past confronting him as vicious bounty hunters come looking for him. ...

  • The Strange Files of Fremont Jones

    Dianne Day

    Brave, resourceful, adventurous Fremont (nee Caroline) Jones is a woman ahead of her time. Hungry for independence, she's traded in her conventional life in Boston for a career as a "type-writer" in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. But Fremont soon...

  • The Dubious Hills

    Pamela Dean

    Receiving an enormous responsibility as Physici for her people, the only individual in the Dubious Hills capable of experiencing and understanding pain, fourteen-year-old Arry seeks to protect her world from a wolf invasion. Reprint....

  • Baby Clown: A Pull-the-Tab Book

    Thierry Dedieu

  • Three Perfect Peaches

    Cynthia DeFelice

  • Pee Wees on First

    Judy Delton

    Join the Pee Wee Scouts for fun and adventure as they make friends and earn badges. Batter Up! It’s spring, and the Pee Wees are going to try for a badge in baseball! First, a professional baseball player is going to come to their meeting...

  • In Trouble with Teacher

    Patricia Brennan Demuth

  • Love's Magic

    Teresa DesJardien

    Lord Richard Quinn flees London after the woman he loves rejects him for another. In the wilds of Somerset, where he practices his Druidic art, he hopes to recover his composure and regain his peace of mind. However, his discovery of an unconscious y...

  • Shadow of a Hero

    Peter Dickenson

  • Recovery

    J.M. Dillard

    THE LONG AWAITED FINAL BOOK IN THE LOST YEARS SAGA! It began with THE LOST YEARS: the story of what happened to Captain Kirk and the legendary crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise when their original five-year mission ended. The saga continued in A FLAG ...

  • Walt Disney's Cinderella: Pop-up Book

    Walt Disney

  • Disney's The Lion King: Puzzle Pop-Up Game Book

    Walt Disney

    A combination storybook, jigsaw puzzle, and game based on Disney's animated feature contains dramatic, colorful pop-up scenes from the film that are pieced together to form a three-dimensional game board involving Simba's dangerous trip back to Pride...

  • Pure Evil

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Accompanying Callie on a spring break vacation to her uncle's maple farm in New Hampshire, Frank and Joe's skiing plans are interrupted by a bomb-throwing and chain saw-wielding gang's plot to destroy the syrup crop. Original....

  • Truck Stop

    Bonnie Dobkin

  • An Alphabet of Dinosaurs

    Peter Dodson

    SUMMARY: The vice president of the Dinosaur Society and an accomplished science illustrator combine talents to create an unusual ABC book that brings the world of dinosaurs to life and includes such favorites as Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus Rex, an...

  • The White Guinea-Pig

    Ursula Dubosarsky

    Geraldine, an eleven-year-old girl, finds her stable life disintegrating into chaos when her father's business falls into suspicious disarray, her best friend harbors a terrible secret, and a mysterious white guinea pig appears in the night....

  • A Spell of Winter

    Helen Dunmore

    Bestselling author Helen Dunmore's third novel, A Spell of Winter won the 1996 Orange Prize. Catherine and her brother, Rob, don't know why they have been abandoned by their parents. Incarcerated in the enormous country house of their grandfather - '...

  • The Painter Who Loved Chickens

    Olivier Dunrea

    Bright and witty paintings of different breeds of chickens highlight the heartwarming tale of an artist, who only wants to paint chickens, and his ultimate success in earning a living doing what he loves best....

  • Infield Hit

    Thomas J. Dygard

    "Entering Cannon City High halfway through his junior year, Hal is convinced that his only hope for making friends is his first love, baseball. He is determined to conceal the fact that his dad is a former star third baseman....As the story unfolds, ...

  • Bertha's Garden

    Elisabeth Dyjak

    Bertha becomes more and more angry with Mr. Rabbit, who insists on sampling the vegetables in Bertha's garden, and decides to get even with the long-eared culprit. By the author of I Should Have Listened to Moon. ...

  • The Persistent Earl

    Gail Eastwood

    The Growing Temptation Beautiful young widow Lady Phoebe Brodfield could not conceive that the Earl of Devenham might threaten her virtue. True, the earl was the most handsome rakehell in the realm, whom no woman could resist. True, Phoebe was a g...

  • A Rose and a Wedding Vow

    Andrea Edwards

    Gruff city cop Matt Michaelson felt as thorny as the rosebush of Stony Mountain's ghostly, lovelorn legend. His kid brother had messed up bad, leaving a widow and son-and leaving Matt responsible for the whole damn caboodle! Worse, the widow Liz drov...

  • Far to Go

    Julie Ellis

    The stories of three American women span sixty years of history and takes readers from Fran, who triumphed over tragedy to forge an empire, to Debbie, who fights a twenty-year battle for justice. Reprint....

  • In Praise of Younger Men

    Lyn Ellis

    HE HAD THREE STRIKES AGAINST HIM FROM THE START! Will Case -- He's too big, far too attractive and much, much too sexy. And for the next few months, he'll be sharing a cabin with Carolina. Will is also best buddies with her little brother ...

  • Lone Star and the Scorpion

    Wesley Ellis

    An assassin blazes a bloody trail headed straight for Jessie and Ki!Jessica Starbuck, a woman fighting for justice on the American frontier, and Ki, a martial arts expert devoted to her protection, return in an adventure that brings them face to face...

  • Monday's Child Is Dead

    James Elward

    Entering the world of high fashion after a young model sends him her portfolio and then turns up murdered, retired professor Horace Livsey witnesses elegant dinner parties, an illegal clothing operation, and the accusation of an innocent boy....

  • East Beach

    Ron Ely

    Welcome back to Jake Sands, a fortysomething retiree from a high-risk, high-action life - a hero worthy of the proud tradition set by the likes of Philip Marlowe and Travis McGee. With the double murder of his wife and child, Jake gave up his lucrati...

  • Recipe for Love

    Kate Emburg

    Failing to find happiness in her family's culinary hobbies, Tai Richardson works on her basketball talents until handsome Nate, a jock and cooking expert, makes her vow to win his respect in the kitchen as well as on the court. Original....

  • Shattered Chains

    Clayton Emery
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    "Spare us from plague, drought, and wizardly duels..." To common folk like Gull and Greensleeves, wizards were a blight on the land. When Greensleeves discovered her own magical ability she decided to use it to break the power of the other wizards...

  • Easter Parade

    Steve Englehart

    An annual release explores the traditions associated with the Easter season, from egg decorating and the Easter Bunny through the observations of Passover, the Last Supper, Holy Week, and Easter Sunday. Reissue....

  • Miss Penny and Mr. Grubbs

    Lisa Campbell Ernst

  • Longarm and the Yuma Prison Girls

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm, ordered to escort a beautiful woman convicted of murder to prison, thinks he will have an easy time of it, until he finds himself in love and determined to prove her somewhat questionable innocence. Original....

  • Shadows

    Bonnie Faber

    A serial killer strikes again and again, always killing the same woman in his mind--Amy Morgan--who is also the cop who is tracking him down, and who is unaware that he wants to be caught or that he is closer than she realizes. Original....

  • Brer Tiger and the Big Wind

    William Faulkner

    Greedy Brer Tiger refuses to let the other animals eat from his pear tree or drink from his spring. Then Brer Rabbit comes up with a magnificent plan to create a big wind and teach Brer Tiger a thing or two about generosity and sharing. Faulkner's te...

  • Dead in the Melon Patch

    Connie Feddersen

    SHE'S GOT LAS VEGAS LEGS, BUT SHE'S HAD IT WITH LIFE IN THE FAST LANE. SHE'S AMANDA HAZARD--SAVVY CPA AND AMATEUR SLEUTH--AND SHE'S ABOUT TO TAKE THE PRIZE FOR CORNERING A KILLER IN THE OKLAHOMA BOONDOCKS! Amanda knows she can fake the heat. Now s...

  • The Loves of Faustyna

    Nina Fitzpatrick

    When a cloud in the shape of human buttocks appears over Krakow in 1967 and lingers over the city, residents believe the world is coming to an end. For demure, bookish psychology student Faustyna, this is unthinkable - because if the world ends she w...

  • Jake's Mountain

    Christine Flynn

    The poor but proud people of the Kentucky hills had given Dr. Margaret Matthews what she'd missed most in her big-city practice--a chance to really make a difference. They needed her -- and, whether he could admit it or not, so did the lonely, sh...

  • Sunflower

    Miela Ford

    Watch what grows from one small seed! Planted in the ground, carefully watered, faithfully watched, the seed begins to grow. And Grow. And grow. Not only can you watch it happen in this book -- you can do it yourself!

    ...

  • Villains by Necessity

    Eve Forward

    Living after the victory of Good and Light has transformed the world into a utopia, a bored band of villains--a thief, a black knight, a Druid, and a man-eating sorceress--conspires to restore evil to the universe. Reprint....

  • Parallelities

    Alan Dean Foster

    "It seems you have acquired about you a field that affects the links between multiple parallel worlds, causing objects and individuals from these worlds to slip into yours . . . or you to slip into theirs . . ."

    It was just an average day for...

  • The Destroying of Harry Blyne

    Peter Moir Fotheringham

    First, they wrecked his marriage. The attractive blonde who created the traumatic scene in the restaurant was completely convincing. She was Harry's mistress, she said, and what was he doing dining with a woman when he was supposed to be at a writer'...

  • Irish Chain

    Earlene Fowler

    Meet Benni Harper... a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cr...

  • Rough Ride

    John Francome

    Archie Best finally has the horse that will help him win the Amateur Riders' Championship, but great Ceasar's Consul is suddenly kidnapped, an old friend dies, and Archie is left with a legacy of corruption and a deadly adversary. Reprint....

  • Eclipse

    Kristine L. Franklin

    Twelve-year-old Trina, who only wants to have a normal life with her friends, faces serious family problems centering around her father's anger and depression and her mother's new pregnancy, two situations that lead to a family tragedy...

  • Three, Three, the Rivals

    Anthea Fraser

    What exactly had Sheila Fairchild seen in the middle of the night forty years ago, and what bearing could it possibly have on a recent murder?This is only one of the problems facing DCI David Webb when, against his will, he is assigned to investigate...

  • McKenna's Bride

    Judith E. French

    Caitlin McKenna defied her family to marry her sweetheart, Shane, on the eve of his departure for America. But years passed, with no word from Shane for Caitlin to join him. Now, after eight years, a letter comes. But the man who greets Caitlin in Mi...

  • Spider Watching

    Vivian French

    Watercolor paintings and information-packed notes concerning spiders and their behavior highlight a unique recollection of a young girl's growing interest in spiders, after she gets over her initial fear of the arachnids....

  • A Clear Conscience

    Frances Fyfield

    Helen West, Crown Prosecutor in domestic violence court, is working up a good case of burnout: Justice-by-the-book doesn't seem to be working for the women she represents and her love affair with Police Superintendent Geoffrey Baily is losing its fir...

  • Mr. X

    Nick Gaitano

    The second novel from the author of Special Victims finds Chicago rookie cop Jake Phillips and his partner, Alex "Mondo" Mondello, tracking a vicious killer who could be a cop--but soon Jake begins to wonder if he can even trust his partner. ...

  • Boat People

    Mary Gardner

    This powerful narrative, winner of the 1993 Associated Writing Programs award for the novel, focuses on Galveston, Texas, and a community of newly arrived Vietnamese. Struggling to maintain a balance between Vietnam and America, they live with one fo...

  • Moondog

    Henry Garfield

    When a young woman disappears during an eclipse party, the townspeople nervously assume a marauding mountain lion has killed her. When her body is found, it bears the marks of an animal attack. But at the next full Moon, when a schoolteacher dies in ...

  • The Tunnel

    William H. Gass

    Thirty years in the making, William Gass's second novel first appeared on the literary scene in 1995, at which time it was promptly hailed as an indisputable masterpiece. The story of a middle aged professor who, upon completion of his massive histor...

  • Deathwalker

    R. Patrick Gates

    Bill Gage's worse nightmare is on the loose again, but the letters from the serial killer calling himself The Walking Death have not reached the burned-out cop as he begins his fight against alcohol, cocaine, and grief...

  • Model Crime

    Curtis Gathje

    A fictionalized account of an actual 1937 case of triple homicide offers a multifaceted portrait of the three victims, the suspects in the crime, the investigation, and the final arrest of the killer. A first novel. 15,000 first printing....

  • Real Life: My Best Friend Died

    Alan Gelb

    Describing his relationship with his best friend, a young man recounts the tragic car accident that ended Walt's life and the rejection he experienced at the hands of the people who held him responsible. Original....

  • Rarer Than a White Crow

    Roberta Gellis
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    Welcome to an enchanted world of mist and legend ... of age-old dreams and ageless desires . . . where trees have souls, and swords and stones can speak .. . A beautiful warrior named Caer finds a lover to cherish--and to fear--when she meets Prin...

  • To Climb a Waterfall

    Jean Craighead George

    In an opening Hudson River Valley scene of trees, mountains, water and mist, the reader is told ``to climb a waterfall, go to the foot of the mountains.'' From there, an unnamed, barefoot child called ``you'' hikes up the course of a stream, through ...

  • Jesus: The Son Of Man

    Kahlil Gibran

    Jesus the Son of Man is a life of Jesus told in the words of seventy-seven of his contemporaries, both friends and enemies: Syrians, Romans, Jews, Greeks, and Persians; priests, courtesan, publicans, and poets....

  • Siren Song

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    Her desire glittered like diamonds in the night.... Returning after fifteen years to the isolated beach where orca whales come to play, Don Jacobs once more feels seduced -- by the place, and by memories of a young girl who'd offered him her innoc...

  • Caravan

    Dorothy Gilman

    With her anthropologist husband murdered and their caravan stolen by fierce Tuareg tribesmen, Caressa has two choices: death or a life of slavery. Concealing her dangerous beauty beneath the faded robes of an Arab boy, she embarks on the adventure ...

  • Joshua and the City

    Joseph Girzone

    A contemporary city faces turmoil and devastation until it is visited by the serene figure of Joshua, who presents an alternative, love-based approach to life while addressing such issues as poverty, racism, and AIDS. 150,000 first printing. $150,000...

  • My Gun Has Bullets

    Lee Goldberg

    When Officer Charlie Wills, as the result of a hilariously unlikely series of mishaps, becomes the star of his own television series, he does not suspect the riotous mayhem that will follow, as the mob, a rabid star-dog, and others get in the act....

  • Getting Lincoln's Goat

    E.M. Goldman

    Idolizing his television detective hero, tenth grader Elliot Armbruster investigates the mysterious disappearance of Lincoln High's school mascot, and launches a rescue mission after an anonymous tip on his goat hotline....

  • Full Moon Rising

    Laura Gordon

    FULL The moon shone the night Tori Marston's mother was murdered -- and the little girl's memories stopped there. She'd never discover the truth until she returned to her Australian home and faced what she feared most... MOON As ...

  • Extreme Prejudice

    L.A. Graf

    On a business trip to Pittsburgh, detective Matthew Sikes and his Newcomer partner, George Francisco, stumble on what appears to be an unusual homicide. It isn't long before the case leads them to a frightening world of abuse and violence that set in...

  • Written in Blood

    Caroline Graham

    Chief Inspector Barnaby and his colorful sidekick Sergeant Troy have once again been called upon to poke and pry beneath the surface of a seemingly peaceful country village to find a killer. Just hours after the members of the Midsomer Worthy Wri...

  • Bond of Hatred

    Lynne Graham

    'I will pay the price. I will marry you.' Alex Terzakis's words took Sarah's breath away -- marriage was the last thing on her mind! She'd wanted two things when she'd impulsively flung her proposal at him: revenge for her ...

  • Fifth Grade Fever

    Michele Granger

    Pleased when they are assigned to the cute new male teacher on their first day of fifth grade, best friends Marty and Nina set out to become teacher's pets, until Marty learns that being a diligent and creative student has other rewards....

  • Graythings

    Pat Graversen

    Beings from another world--somewhere between Earth and Hell-- are waiting everywhere, lurking in the city shadows and patterns on walls, in dreams and in nightmares, waiting to steal your happiness, your love, your children, and even your life. T...

  • Dry Skull Dreams

    Michael Green

    Anticipating her return to Vermont in the wake of her African clinic's success, Molly Coughlin is unaware that she has swallowed six deadly seeds that, once rooted in her stomach, are set to unleash a terrifying evil force. Original....

  • Knights of the Crown

    Roland J. Green
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    The Knights of Solamnia were the greatest order of chivalry in the history of Krynn. All those who wish to become Solamnic Knights must first enter as squires of the Knights of the Crown, with whom they begin their training in the virtue of loyalt...

  • A Newbery Zoo

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Animals -- enter their magic kingdom. From cuddly puppies to ferocious lions and every beast in between, children are forever drawn to animals and to stories about their adventures. And who better to tell these stories than authors who have won the J...

  • Murder Most Delicious

    Martin H. Greenberg

    For gourmets with a taste for delicious murder mysteries, a collection of culinary tales features a serial killer getting his just desserts, murder at a Texas barbecue, and a fussy bachelor seeking fresh basil and finding a corpse. Original....

  • Robert Louis Stevenson

    Carol Greene

  • Rudyard Kipling

    Carol Greene

  • Emily Dickinson: American Poet

    Carol Greene

  • The Blackhurst Rubies

    Maria Greene

    Stolen jewels can be replaced -- but a stolen heart is forever captured! Left penniless and alone, Heather Maxwell set out for Yorkshire to take a post as a governess and build a new life. But during the journey, stolen jewels were discovered amo...

  • Rush to Judgment

    Irving A. Greenfield

    After an explosion kills thirty sailors, brilliant Navy lawyer Clark Gamrick realizes he must defend his primary suspect--in a death penalty court martial where guilt is assumed and ""justice"" is swift--in order to stop the real killer. ...

  • Shadows of Doom

    Ed Greenwood
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Elminster's Doom It was the eve of the Time of Troubles. The chaos of spilled blood, lawless strife, monsters unleashed, and avatars roaming Faer�n was still to come. Unbeknownst to mortals, the gods had been summoned together, and among them was ...

  • Laurel // A Fearless Man

    Leigh Greenwood

    BRIDE OF DESIRE Although Hen Randolph was the perfect choice for a sheriff in the Arizona Territory, he was no one's idea of a model husband. The trail-weary cowboy had just broken free from his six rough-and-ready brothers, and he wasn't about to...

  • Singing House

    Janette Griffiths

    ""Wildly romantic and acerbically funny, the revised, interactive "Singing House" now features links to selected performances of the great operatic and orchestral music that drives this "love story for grown-ups": On a snow"...

  • Broken Vows

    Donna Grove

    THE BEST MAN FOR THE JOB To Rachel Girard, nothing meant more to her than her family's cattle ranch, which would be hers one day. But when her father declared she must take a husband or lose her birthright, headstrong Rachel was fit to be tied. Sh...

  • Frank's Field Trip

    Gertrude Gruesome

    Frank N. Stein is desperate because his class is at the museum, about to lose the science competition, and everyone is counting on Frank to save the day--can his experiment turn things around? Original....

  • They Came from Center Field

    Dan Gutman

  • Woman Without a Shadow

    Karen Haber

    Kayla, a gifted young telepath, is on the run in the galaxy with a price on her head, and a spaceship seems a safe haven until she is caught between two deadly forces ready to sacrifice anything for victory. Original....

  • These Fallen Angels

    Wendy Haley

    In the silent reaches of the deep South, Alex Danilov found refuge among his mortal descendants. Still, he is cursed by the Blood-Hunger that lures him into the night - and haunted by the memories of his long-lost Elizabeth. For here, in this moss-sh...

  • Gone Wild

    James W. Hall

    THE JUNGLE WAS EERILY QUIET...THEN TWO ALMOST SIMULTANEOUS RIFLE BLASTS CUT HER DAUGHTER'S SCREAM IN HALF. THE EXPLOSIONS ECHOED THROUGH THE FOREST, SWEPT LIKE ICY WINDS DOWN THE DARK CANYONS OF ALLISON'S HEART... As her daughter lay dead on the j...

  • Movie

    Parnell Hall

    IT STARTED OFF AS A MURDER MYSTERY/COURTROOM DRAMA. BY THE TIME THE CAMERAS ROLLED IT WAS HANDS OF HAVOC, FLESH OF FIRE, FEATURING KUNG FU FIGHTING, A BEVY OF BIMBOS, AND, LO AND BEHOLD, A CAMEO OF A CORPSE. Talk about film noir. Stanley Hastings'...

  • The Longest Walk

    Sheila Hamanaka

  • Your Pet Beaver

    Bobbie Hamsa

  • Your Pet Penguin

    Bobbie Hamsa

  • Your Pet Elephant

    Bobbie Hamsa

  • Shadow Lover

    Lori Handeland

    Secrets in the Shadows Devastated by the loss of her brother, Rachel Taylor vowed to avenge his death. And after three long years, only one unforeseen problem would make her well-laid plans go awry: she was falling under the seductive spell of the...

  • Blood Reunion

    Janice Harrell

    The curse of a family thrives or dies, and twins may be separated forever, in the thrilling conclusion to the Vampire Twins series.   After the fire that consumed their aunt’s Washington, DC, mansion, Ari Montclair has fled with the only man w...

  • Brothers

    Michael Hastings

    "All the action one could desire...A tightly organized look back at the cold war and the chilling amorality of two of its leading players--the KGB and the CIA...A deft piece of work."

    --The New York Times Book Review

    "SPELLBINDING...Fast-paced an...

  • Coyote Walks on Two Legs

    Gerald Hausman

    Four Navajo creation myths chronicle the exploits, antics, and adventures of Coyote the Trickster as he abducts the Water Monster's babies and starts the Great Flood, tries to steal corn from the horned toad, and attempts to exchange his fur for that...

  • Blaze of Glory

    Simon Hawke

    The U.S.S. Enterprise is assigned to the planet K'Trall--a planet just coming out from under the heel of barbarous suppression. When the planet's newly emerging freedom is threatened by a rouge ship attacking Federation shipping, Captain Jean-Luc Pic...

  • My Dearly Beloved

    Alaina Hawthorne

    Who Had Time For Marriage? Certainly not single mother Darian Conroy. Her career was at a turning point and her son was running wild. She hadn't given a thought to romance until wealthy cowboy Tom Steinbuck made a startling proposal. Who Ever Men...