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  • The Greenway

    Jane A. Adams

    SHORTCUT TO TERROR Cassie Maltham was ten that August afternoon in 1975 when her cousin Suzie vanished -- almost before Cassie's eyes -- never to be seen again. Now, twenty years later, Cassie has returned to the quiet English seashore village whe...

  • In for Winter, Out for Spring

    Arnold Adoff

  • Like to Die

    Catherine Aird
    in

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • Miranda's Masquerade

    Meg Alexander

    Adam was betrothed -- to the wrong woman! Believing Lord Adam Heston was about to propose, Miranda's twin sister, Fanny, flatly refused to see him. So Miranda reluctantly agreed to play the part of her sister and politely refuse his offer --...

  • It's So Nice to Have a Wolf Around the House

    Harry Allard

    Cuthbert Q. Devine might look like a wolf, but the Old Man liked his big bright smile. The Old Man hired Cuthbert to help him and his old pets around the house. At once Cuthbert's cheery presence made the little house a happier place, and the Old Man...

  • Emma and the Night Dogs

    Susan Bivin Aller

    When a little boy disappears, Aunt Alice begins searching for him, but her efforts fail, and Emma steps in by gathering the search dog team in this exciting true-to-life story of search-and-rescue dogs....

  • For the Love of Pete

    Rosalyn Alsobrook

    After nine years, Jillian Westworth returns to Seascape Inn, as a favor to her recent fiance, Reynold Johnstone, who plans a business meeting there. She brings with her, Pete, her almost-eight year old son, a product of a love affair she'd had with B...

  • Fallout

    Kevin J. Anderson; Doug Beason

    They call themselves Eagle's Claw, one of the most extreme militia groups in the United States. They have infiltrated the Device Assembly Facility at the Nevada Nuclear Test Site. And the most frightening display of nuclear terrorism is about to unfo...

  • Thirsty

    M.T. Anderson

    ALL CHRIS REALLY WANTS IS TO BE A NORMAL KID, to hang out with his friends, avoid his parents, and get a date with Rebecca Schwartz. Unfortunately, Chris appears to be turning into a vampire....

  • The Fleet of Stars

    Poul Anderson

    In Fleet of Stars, Poul Anderson brings pack the wildly colorful Anson Guthrie, his iconoclastic hero from Harvest of Stars. The staid, somber people of Earth are not only dependent on technology, they are all but ruled by machine intelligence. Suspe...

  • Cradle of Splendor

    Patricia Anthony

    A freak accident during Brazil's first manned space launch goes from disastrous to baffling when the ship, expected to plummet back to earth, seemingly shoots into orbit without any propulsion. Reprint....

  • Emily's Captain

    Shari Anton

    Emily Gardner Was Not at All What Jared Hunter Had Expected Here was a spitfire who'd hollered her way out of prison, outsmarted Yankee patrols and faced down accusations of espionage with grit and grace. She was easily the most magnificent woman ...

  • The Capture

    K.A. Applegate

    It was really bad when Jake found out his older brother was one of them. It was even worse when Tobias stayed in his morph too long. But nothing compares to the horror the Animorphs are about to face. Nothing. Jake, Rachel, Tobias, Cassie, and Mar...

  • Maverick Moon

    Jane Archer

    Approaching wild-spirited Maverick Montana to write the story of his life, struggling New York publisher Cynthia Tremayne is mistaken by him for a prostitute and learns of his quest to find the daughter he has never seen. The stranger with the ho...

  • Sunshine, Moonshine

    Jennifer Armstrong

    "With bold illustrations, large type that little fingers can point to, and plenty of rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, ""Early Step into Reading"" book are perfect for preschoolers just beginning to read. The sun and the moon shine down on a young boy a...

  • Bonnie's Blue House

    Kelly Asbury

  • Rusty's Red Vacation

    Kelly Asbury

  • Skydark

    James Axler

    PUNISHMENT It's now generations after the firestorm that nearly consumed the earth, but the survivors haven't yet finished paying for the sins of the fathers. All of life suffered, and of those that survived, not all survived well. This cradle of li...

  • Whiskers and Smoke

    Marian Babson

    WHILE THE CAT'S WAY, A FIRE STARTER PLAYS... After the tragic death of her husband, British housewife Rosemary Blake accepts a summer house and cat exchange across the Atlantic in her sister's adopted town of Edgemarsh Lake, New Hampshire. Lulled ...

  • Avenger

    William B. Badke

  • Seneca

    Karen Lee Baker

    Seneca is the perfect horse, and when the young narrator meets him, she knows at once that he is the horse for her. Young readers will enjoy going along for the ride as she enjoys the privileges--and learns about the responsibilities--of having a hor...

  • Feather in the Wind

    Madeline Baker

    BLACK WIND He gazed out over a land as vast and empty as the sky, praying for the strength to guide his people, and he saw her face. She came to him in a vision, a woman as mysterious as the new moon over the prairie, as tender as springtime in ...

  • Almost a Family

    Stephanie Bancroft

    Once destiny gave them a second chance, could they make a miracle together? "They've found our son," she whispered, and Bailey Kallihan could only stare at the woman he'd married nearly a decade before and then lost to unbearable tragedy. Virginia...

  • The Five-Minute Bride

    Leanne Banks

    EVERY GIRL DREAMS OF MARRYING A PRINCE.... Just when Emily St. Clair was about to march down the aisle, she discovered that her "perfect" groom was a complete toad! Well, she'd just forget about happily-ever-after. From now on, Miss Prim-and-Prope...

  • Carson Valley

    Bill Barich

    From one of California’s most celebrated writers comes a generous and deeply absorbing novel, as filled with warmth and the hope of second chances as the land it describes.Returning from New York to the vineyards of Northern California to be with h...

  • To Trust Again

    Becky Barker

    TO LOVE AGAIN Divorce attorney Connie Stanton has risen to the top of Boston's most prestigious law firm through drive, ambition...and personal experience. She is still reeling from her own divorce four years before -- a break-up that cost Co...

  • Cold Case

    Linda Barnes

    Twenty-four years ago, teen prodigy Thea Janis vanished from her upper crust Boston prep school. At first called a runaway, she's later named among the victims of a serial killer, a man doing life in Walpole Prison. Then a new manuscript appears ...

  • Red Fox and the Baby Bunnies

    Alan Baron

  • Endangered Species

    Nevada Barr

    In the midst of a dangerously dry season, national park ranger Anna Pigeon has been posted to Cumberland Island off the Georgia coast for a monotonous, twenty-one day fire watch. But her boredom is short-lived, for this remote and marshy place is bre...

  • Delaney's Crossing

    Jean Barrett

    PASSAGE WEST Virile, womanizing Cooper J. Delaney was Agatha Pennington's only hope to help lead a group of destitute women to Oregon, where the promise of a new life awaited them. He was a man as harsh and hostile as the vast wilderness -- but ...

  • Floating Opera

    John Barth
    in

    The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth''s first two novels.  Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives...

  • End of the Road

    John Barth
    in

    The Floating Opera and The End Of The Road are John Barth''s first two novels.  Their relationship to each other is evident not only in their ribald subject matter but in the eccentric characters and bitterly humorous tone of the narratives...

  • Cat among the Cabbages

    Allison Hoover Bartlett

  • Living Real

    James C. Bassett

    Programming king Carver discovers a crack in the matrix of cyberspace that gives way to a void that alters the world and mind of anyone who encounters it and transforms Carver into a godlike being. Original....

  • The Ring of Truth

    Teresa Bateman

    Patrick O'Kelley upsets the king and others in his town because of the lies and boastful stories he is constantly telling, so while preparing for a county blarney contest, the king decides, once and for all, to teach Patrick a lesson....

  • Believers

    Charles Baxter

    With his five previous books of fiction, Charles Baxter established himself as a contemporary literary master, in the traditions of Raymond Carver, William Maxwell, and Alice Munro. This radiant new collection confirms Baxter's ability to revel in th...

  • Harmony of the World

    Charles Baxter

    In these ten stories, Charles Baxter shows his genius in making his characters' everyday sufferings--and occasional fragile joys--seem utterly unprecedented, even as he reminds us, gently and with a sly comic twist, that everything they feel is only ...

  • Tight-Fittin' Jeans

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    MR. MARCH The stubborn cowboy: Garth Dixon had no hankerin' for a wife, but the blond vixen next door had him scheming for a chance at a no-string fling... The southern beauty: No way was Tiffany Russell giving in to her hot-tempered, secre...

  • The King of Ireland's Son

    Brendan Behan

    The late Irish writer Behan (1923-1964) exhibits the gift of gab in this rollicking, if a wee long-winded, rendition of a traditional folk tale. When the King of Ireland promises half his kingdom to the son who discovers the origin of the heavenly mu...

  • Naked Intent

    Becky Bell

    MELANIE CHAMBERS USED TO BE PASSED OVER WHEN SHE WAS A PODGY TV BACKROOM GIRL. BUT NOW SHE'S TURNED INTO A SVELTE SEX-SIREN NO ONE IGNORES HER ANY MORE. AND WITH THE LIBERATION OF MELANIE'S SENSUAL NATURE COMES THE DISCOVERY THAT SHE TAKE ON THE BIG ...

  • The Taking

    Donald Beman

    Becoming desperate when everything important to him begins to disappear, aspiring writer Sean McDonald becomes aware of an evil force that is driving him to the brink of insanity, but he does not know how to combat it. Original....

  • Foundation's Fear

    Gregory Benford

    Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy is one of the high-water marks of science fiction. It is the monumental story of a Galactic Empire in decline, and the secret society of scientists who seek to shorten the inevitable Dark Age with the science of psyc...

  • Somewhere Out There

    Connie Bennett

    Brenna Sullivan knows her father's death was no accident. She's been trying to prove foul play for years, but people are skeptical of it. Kit Wheeler is no exception. The former astronaut turned TV science correspondent doesn't believe in UFOs, alien...

  • The Full of the Moon

    Janice Bennett
    in

    The Full of the Moon. . . pairs the ton's unworldy Miss Juliana Wittington with a newcomer, the OTHER-worldly Baron Ramsdell, for a courtship that seems to be made in heaven. . . or is it?...

  • The Way Home

    Angela Benson

    Returning to her Georgia hometown after burning out, attorney Marlena Rhodes confronts Winston Taylor, the high-school sweetheart she had left behind, and the pair slowly reconciles when they team up for a special project. Original....

  • A Terminal Case of the Uglies

    David Bergantino

    Eric Ross, the least attractive kid in school, is too ugly to be included in the photograph that a famous talent agent takes of all his classmates, who contract a disfiguring disease after the picture is taken. Original....

  • Sand Castles

    Lisa Tawn Bergren
    in

    After his wife's tragic death, Matthew Morgan has his hands full trying to be both a father and mother to his daughter. He hopes a Southern California vacation will help them find closure. They go, hoping for healing, but they return with much more....

  • A Mother's Miracle

    Lisa Tawn Bergren
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  • Missing Piece

    Claudia Black

  • Dark Shadows

    Sara Blayne
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    Dark Shadows. . . brings the headstrong Lady Blythe to the castle door of the charming, yet dangerous Earl of Revelstoke. Once she crosses the threshold, there may be no turning back from love--or damnation....

  • No New Jokes

    Steven Bloom

    In 1949, before the onset of the Korean War, Bald Sam's Brooklyn luncheonette becomes a special gathering place for a colorful collection of characters, including ex-soldier-turned-street performer Izzy, comics Archie Feinstein and Jack Goldfarb, and...

  • Matilda the Moocher

    Diana Cain Bluthenthal

  • I Hate You! I like You!

    Tomek Bogacki

    An enormous creature takes a liking to a tiny one and says, "I like you!" and the little one answers, "I hate you!" but when the big one becomes the little one's protector and companion, the little creature's feelings change....

  • Warrior Heart

    Jane Bonander

    SOMETIMES THERE ARE THINGS A MAN HAS TO FIGHT FOR... Jackson Wolfe had been running from his grief and guilt for twelve years. It was time to go home and claim the baby girl he had left behind when vigilantes murdered his Indian wife. He had learned...

  • The Killer's Game

    Jay Bonansinga

    Informed by his doctor that he has merely a few months to live, Joe Flood, a hit man who prides himself on killing only those who deserve to die, puts out an open contract on his own life, but he soon discovers that the lab made a mistake and that he...

  • I Can Draw Dinosaurs

    Lisa Bonforte

  • Pay or Play

    Jon Boorstin

    This wicked satire of the Hollywood film industry chronicles the efforts of screenwriter Elmo Zwalt to get his just-completed and very good script produced. He wants to direct it, as does every director who wants to gross a $100 million domestic...

  • Six Feet Under

    D.B. Borton

    Cat is truly baffled by her latest case--someone is trying to kill Rocky Zacharius, the jump-rope queen of Cincinnati. While on the trail, Cat faces a fate worse than death - caring for Rocky's three kids!...

  • Junk Pile

    Lady Borton

    Jamie finds everything she could ever want in her father's junkyard, except for a real friend, and sets out to create one for herself, but in doing so, Jamie becomes acquainted with the new boy in town and finds a true friend in him....

  • Montana Sunrise

    Charlene Bowen

  • Sword and Sorceress XIV

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    WOMEN OF COURAGE AND POWER ...roam lands filled with danger, mystery, and magic. They are sword-wielding defenders or sorcerous spell-casters-roles too often considered the exclusive province of men. In 26 original stories of bold and talented ...

  • Pickle in the Middle

    Nora M. Braun

  • Immortality

    Jon L. Breen
    in

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • Ways to Kill a Cat

    Simon Brett
    in

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Takes the Stage

    Emily Brightwell

    POISONED PEN It was a most peculiar murder. A man's body was found in the canal -- but the evidence showed that he had drowned in a bathtub. A theatre critic known for his savage reviews, the victim had had a full cast of enemies. While Inspector Wi...

  • The White Abacus

    Damien Broderick

    Long before William Shakespeare, tales were told of the Dane Ameleth whose noble father was murdered by the uncle who swiftly weds new widow Gerutha. Must Ameleth repay this crime by killing his uncle? The White Abacus dares to reconfigure the best ...

  • The First $20 Million Is Always the Hardest

    Po Bronson

    Dreaming of becoming the next Bill Gates, a Silicon Valley research engineer instead finds himself a pawn in a corporate power game waged by the powers above him. By the author of Bombardiers. Reprint....

  • The Price of a Wife

    Helen Brooks

    He wanted a family... at any price! Luke Hawkton was a wildly successful businessman who had it all. His one remaining ambition was to find a wife and start a family.... Josie's dreams of marriage and babies had been shattered by tragedy. S...

  • Chief Honor

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Joseph "Gump" Larken, goalie for the Spokane Chiefs, is not bothered by playing second string to the first woman in the Western Hockey League, but he is not certain how to handle the accusation that his closest friend on the team might be involved wi...

  • Silver Stirrups

    Bonnie Bryant

    Carole Hanson is used to being the best junior rider at Pine Hollow, but a new girl has started taking lessons there, and she's good. In fact, she's younger than Carole, and she's a better rider. Carole is surprised to find herself feeling jealous. T...

  • Moonlight Kite

    Helen Elizabeth Buckley

    Illustrated in glowing paintings that seem lit by the moon itself, this magical tale of a kite--flown during the day by children, and mysteriously flown again by moonlight--will speak to the spirit of the child in everyone....

  • On Call Back Mountain

    Eve Bunting

  • Tales from the Home Place: Adventures of a Texas Farm Girl

    Harriet Burandt

    Nine short adventures place the fates of others in the hands of stouthearted twelve-year-old Irene, from her naked safety dance to lure a panther away from her siblings to her rescue of a horse bound for the glue factory....

  • Mea Culpa

    Jan Burke
    in

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • Midnight Prey

    Caroline Burnes

    Her Childhood sweetheart was all man now... But renegade U.S. Wildlife Service Agent Hank Emrich seemed intent on destroying the very land Shadoe Deerman cherished. For half-Lakota Shadoe, her horse ranch in the Montana mountains was her soul, he...

  • Death's Door

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Herculeah Jones finds herself in the middle of another mystery when her best friend Meat barely escapes a hitman’s bullet. Someone must have mistaken Meat for someone else. But who? Herculeah is determined to solve the mystery, before the assassin ...

  • Flood

    Mary Calhoun

  • Engine, Engine, Number Nine!

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • Cindy's Heartbreak

    Joanna Campbell

    Cindy has trained Storm ever since he was a colt. Now he's a full-fledged racehorse and he's blindingly fast. In his three-year session at Gulfstream Park, Florida, he piles up victory after victory. Cindy is sure that storm is on his way to becoming...

  • The Gentleman's Gentleman

    Dorothy Cannell
    in

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • Mystery Heiress

    Suzanne Carey

    Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE BIRTHRIGHT Jessica Holmes had come to Minneapolis looking for a miracle. Her sweet little girl's life was in danger, and only...

  • Wise Man's House

    Melody Carlson

  • Better Not Get Wet, Jesse Bear

    Nancy White Carlstrom

    Eager to get himself soaking wet, Jesse Bear is drawn to the garden hose, kitchen sink, and the birdbath, finally settling himself down in the wading pool in the back of the house and getting himself joyfully soaked. Reprint....

  • Mistress of Her Heart

    Helen Carras

    The promise of the New World sparks a young woman's dreams, as tragedy forces her to seek a new life in a rugged land...where desire and destiny go hand in hand...and where love is the heart's sweetest reward. When her mother dies, Becky H...

  • If You're Happy and You Know It, Clap Your Hands!

    David A. Carter

  • Sunset Promises

    Carla Cassidy

    Who fathered her baby? Seized by vise-like contractions, Colette Connor prayed she wouldn't deliver on the Connor ranch doorstep. With no recollection of who she was and how she got pregnant, she had nowhere else to turn. Only the knowing eyes, t...

  • Malice Among Friends

    Sarah Caudwell
    in

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • The Shadow Within

    Jeanne Cavelos

    THE DARKENING LIGHT Anna Sheridan has two passions--her husband, John, and the mystery surrounding some intriguing artifacts found during a mission on a distant planet called Z'Ha'dum. Now she gets orders to become the science officer on the follow...

  • Springfield Reader

    David Cavitch

  • The Escape Artist

    Diane Chamberlain

    After losing custody of him in the courtroom, Susanna Miller kidnaps her infant son and flees to Maryland to start anew, where she meets a kind but troubled local artist who harbors secrets of his own. Reprint....

  • Love and Longing in Bombay

    Vikram Chandra

    On the heels of his award-winning and extravagantly praised first novel, RED EARTH AND POURING RAIN, Vikram Chandra offers five ingeniously linked stories--a love story, a mystery, a ghost story, and other tales spun by an elusive narrator sitting in...

  • True Confessions

    Kate Charles
    in

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • The Romance

    Marion Chesney

    SHE WAS DETERMINED TO RECLAIM HER CHERISHED HOME -- AT ANY COST... As one of the two remaining unmarried Beverley sisters, Belinda considered herself the last hope for Mannerling, the beloved estate gambled away by their father. Each of her four e...

  • Killing Floor

    Lee Child

    Ex-military policeman Jack Reacher is a drifter, just passing through. He is in Margrave, Georgia, for less than a half hour when four policemen arrive, shotguns in hand, to arrest him for murder. All Jack knows is he didn't kill anybody. Not in t...

  • Have Bride, Need Groom

    Maureen Child

    WILL YOU MARRY ME .... TEMPORARILY? If Jenny Blake didn't marry in four days, horrors upon horrors would befall her, according to a legendary family curse. Yet standing in her polka-dot dress in the middle o the Love Me Tender Wedding chapel with h...

  • A Match Made In Heaven

    Jane McBride Choate

    Heaven needed a sheriff, but Sara MacDougal never thought it would be her. When her father, Sheriff “Mac” MacDougal, died, the people of the little town in Arizona asked her to take over until the next election. Because she loves the town, Sara a...

  • Moonstruck: The True Story of the Cow Who Jumped over the Moon

    Gennifer Choldenko

  • Dear Deborah

    Judy Christenberry

    WORDS OF LOVE Here she is, writing an "Advice to the Lovelorn" column for a major Fort Worth newspaper, and Deborah Townsend can't even solve her own problems of the heart. Certain she can never recapture the passion she felt with her ...

  • The Merchant of Marvels and the Peddler of Dreams

    Fraedaeric Claement

    What to give the person who has everything? This is the dilemma of Frederick Knick-Knack who surely must have, somewhere in his bags and boxes, his chests and cases, his collection of collections, the ideal gift for his dear friend Alice. As he draws...

  • Lord Scandal's Lady

    Cathleen Clare

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE CAN BE SO INCONVENIENT... WHEN A LADY FALLS IN LOVE! The cad had walked in on Miss Ashley Madison while she was in dishabille, stark naked in the bath. She'd damned his apologies and sent him packing but simply couldn...

  • 3rd Down and Forever

    J. Brent Clark

  • 3001: The Final Odyssey

    Arthur C. Clarke

    One thousand years after the Jupiter mission to explore the mysterious Monolith had been destroyed, after Dave Bowman was transformed into the Star Child, Frank Poole drifted in space, frozen and forgotten, leaving the supercomputer HAL inoperable. B...

  • Felicity's Folly

    Marilyn Clay

    ONE RAP FOR YES... Left without a sixpence, Felicity Rhoades, at three-and twenty, has vowed never to marry again. She intends to become a woman of independent means by taking in boarders. The "boarding house" is Rhoades Arbor, her late husb...

  • Miss Maxwell Becomes a Mom

    Donna Clayton

    THE SINGLE DAD: Ex-military man Derrick Cheney. Solitary and satisfied...until little Timmy was dropped into his lap and Derrick had to learn to be somebody's daddy. THE SPINSTER: Schoolteacher Anna Maxwell. Fate might have denied her a family o...

  • How Like a God

    B.W. Clough

    When a software developer suddenly discovers that he has the ability to read the hearts and minds of everyone around him, he expects to enjoy his godlike power, but when his power reveals its darker side, he is driven from his family to the depths of...

  • Boogey's Back for Blood

    M.T. Coffin

    Receiving a centuries-old tome from an elderly bookstore owner on his thirteenth birthday, Mike Jacobs recites a few lines from the book and conjures up the Boogeyman, who has been sleeping for four hundred years. Original....

  • Drop Dead

    Babette Cole

    Babette Cole, whose work has been hailed by Parents magazine as "outrageously zany," turns ageism on its ear in this hilariously fresh look at the human life cycle. Two thoroughly modern grandparents tell their life stories to their skeptical grandch...

  • River of Death

    Judd Cole

    Returning to his people when they are threatened by enemies who would cut off their river supply and force them from their ancestral lands, Touch the Sky faces death by drowning, a fate that condemns the Cheyenne soul. Original....

  • A Mother's Miracle

    Constance Colson
    in

    Six years have passed since Cassie Jenson and Bruce Foster parted. Now Bruce is back in Copper Bluff, and Cassie hopes he stays where he belongs: in her memories, not her hometown. But when the Lord is involved, anything might happen to a pair of chi...

  • Legacy of Love

    Constance Colson
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  • Across the Rio Colorado

    Ralph Compton

    Across rivers of blood and plains of tears, he led a wagon train toward a country fighting to be born. . .Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, master Weste...

  • Animal Appetite

    Susan Conant

    MURDER UNLEASHED Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter, challenged to write about liwnan behavior, sinks her teeth--and those of her beloved Alaskan malamutes, Rowdy and Mimi--into two mysteries. Eighteen years ago publisher Jack Andrews succumbed to ...

  • What Girls Learn

    Karin Cook

    radiant debut novel, What Girls Learn takes readers on an intimate and haunting journey into the landscape of girlhood and the complex terrain of the family. Wise, bittersweet, and above all intensely human, this astonishingly powerful novel enchants...

  • Chromosome 6

    Robin Cook

    In his most prophetic thriller yet, Robin Cook challenges the medical ethics of genetic manipulation and cloning. In the jungles of equatorial Africa, a biotechnology giant has taken transplant surgery and animal research to a new level. Where one mi...

  • Invasion

    Robin Cook

    With his finger on the pulse of the latest medical technology, Robin Cook preys on our deepest fears with uncanny skill. Now, in his most provocative thriller to date, he explores a sudden outbreak of strange new symptoms that defy diagnosis. The cau...

  • Barney and Baby Bop Go to the Grocery Store

    Donna Cooner

  • The Drowning Pool

    Natasha Cooper

    Forty-four-year-old Willow King - dedicated British civil servant, glamorous romance writer, amateur sleuth, and wife to a Scotland Yard detective - is about to experience motherhood for the first time. Middle-age maternity and all its complications ...

  • Tenderness

    Robert Cormier

    Eighteen-year-old Eric has just been released from juvenile detention for murdering his mother and stepfather. Now he’s looking for tenderness -- tenderness he finds in caressing and killing beautiful girls.Fifteen-year-old Lori has run away f...

  • Bruce Coville's Book of Nightmares II: More Tales to Make You Scare

    Bruce Coville

    A collection of spooky tales includes "Homework Horror," in which a kid fears the number 5; "Gone to Pieces," in which a boy falls apart after his parents' divorce; and "Snow," about some kids who wish it would snow forever. Original....

  • Dare to Remember

    Debra Cowan

    AFRAID TO REMEMBER The crime Devon Landry had witnessed was so terrible that the very memory had retreated into the shadows of her mind. And it had made her do something even more painful - walk away from the man she planned to marry. But now ...

  • 8 O'cluck

    Jill Creighton

  • Fields of the Sun

    Nadine Crenshaw

    From the windswept crags of Cornwall to the searing skies of Morocco to the shimmering shores of Brazil the daring call of her heart will lead her on a breathless odyssey of danger, adventure, and love... The fear of an arranged marriage sent Kath...

  • I Do, Again

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Reunion and Renewal - Lover or Wife? Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The store: DeWil...

  • Wedding Fever

    Susan Crosby

    "YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MARRY ME." Waitress Maggie Waiters might have sworn she'd be engaged before she turned thirty, but J. D. Duran's unromantic words were hardly the proposal of her dreams. Seeing this as perhaps her last chance at marriage, ...

  • Necessary Madness

    Jenn Crowell

    After only eight years of marriage, Gloria Burgess's husbanddies of leukemia, and for the sake of her son, she tries to stave offthe madness of grief by trying to learn lessons from her own parents'failed relationship....

  • When the Big Dog Barks

    Munzee Curtis

  • Cricket's Cage

    Stefan Czernecki

  • Shooting Star

    Debbie Dadey

  • A Royal Pain

    Ruth Jean Dale

    "Take a memo, Malcolm." Lucretia always began the same way. And she always called him Malcolm, even though his name was Charley. But this time the "boss from hell" was sounding more like the "matchmaking mother from hell," and she was making un...

  • Timegates

    Jack Dann

    A collection of stories brings readers from everyday realities to the infinite vistas of time and space and includes contributions by such prominent writers as Ursula K. Le Guin and Joe Haldeman. Original....

  • Craving Jamie

    Emma Darcy

    Who was she? She stood out from the crowd, and Jim Neilson, his sexual curiosity piqued, was drawn to her side. The air sizzled between them. Who was he? Did Jim still carry traces of the young Jamie she had known and loved as they had grown ...

  • Earl in the Yellow Shirt

    Janice Daugharty

    From a new literary star and acclaimed author of Pawpaw Patch, Necessary Lies and Dark of the Moon comes the haunting and poignant novel of a family in crisis, set in the backwoods of Georgia.Meet the Scurvy family, an impoverished clan who are the s...

  • The Incredible Hulk: Ghosts of the Past

    Peter David

    Collects Incredible Hulk (1968) #397-406, Incredible Hulk Annual #18-19 and material from Namor the Sub-Mariner Annual #2, Silver Surfer Annual #5, Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme Annual #2 and Marvel Holiday Special #2. As one Leader falls, another ri...

  • Obsessions

    Carol Davis

    Leaping into the body of a winter caretaker at a summer resort, Sam is targeted by a woman claiming to be his wife, who is threatening the Quantum Leap project by trying to sell his story to the tabloids...

  • Dolley's Detectives

    Gibbs Davis

    When the mischievous spirit of Dolley Madison begins to undo the work being done by an interior decorator, Molly is blamed for the mishaps and teams up with Anna to uncover what the late first lady is trying to communicate. Original....

  • Abstain from Beans

    Lindsey Davis
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    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • Heatcrazed!

    Suzannah Davis

    The aliens have landed? UFOs? Little green men? Local reporter Ciel Landry didn't believe in any of the nutty stories flying around town. She knew it was the heat making everyone act crazy -- until she met Jack Cooper and got a little crazy herse...

  • Batwings and the Curtain of Night

    Marguerite W. Davol

  • A Country with No Name

    Sebastian De Grazia

    In an imaginative and masterful work of history, Pulitzer Prize-winner Sebastian de Grazia has created two memorable characters. Nineteen-year-old Oliver Huggins is in for the tutorial of his life. For twelve afternoons, Claire St. John, a beguiling ...

  • Servitude and Grandeur of Arms

    Alfred de Vigny

    A captivating portrait of history creating itself, this study was written as Europe was struggling to recover from the Napoleonic Wars, when the remnants of chivalry were vying with the new, more democratic ideals. Dramatist Alfred de Vigny (1797-186...

  • The Fatal Elixir

    William L. Deandrea

    Someone has doctored Dr. Theophrastus McSwainey's Mirakola, a remedy for gout, cancer, spastic colon, excessive wind, and heart palpitations, and Lobo Blacke and Quinn Booker must discover who poisoned the snake oil before someone else dies...

  • Little Boy Blue

    Ed Dee

    Detective Joe Gregory and his partner, Anthony Ryan, investigate the murder of Johnny Boy Counihan, the son of Gregory's former partner, after the young man apparently stumbles into the middle of a multi-million-dollar robbery at JFK airport while we...

  • Willy's Silly Grandma

    Cynthia DeFelice

  • Pearl's First Prize Plant

    A. Delaney

  • Top Secret

    Ted Dewan

  • The Hunterman and the Crocodile

    Baba Wague Diakite

  • Absolute Zero

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Investigating the death of Irene's father, whose body has never been found, the Hardys learn about his research with highly profitable superconductors and begin an adventure that takes them from Los Alamos to Antarctica. Original....

  • Area 51

    Robert Doherty

    THE MOST CHILLING EXPERIMENT OF ALL TIME IS ABOUT TO BEGIN. THE PRESIDENT DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT IT. THE PRESS DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT IT. JUST A FEW SCIENTISTS AND MILITARY PERSONNEL DO, AND THEY ARE ABOUT TO MAKE A VERY BIG MISTAKE.... NASHVILLE, TENNE...

  • The Ghost of Able Mabel

    Penny Dolan

    The ghost of Able Mabel is so frightening that no-one ever dares to go near the Halfway Inn - her scary lair. However, brave Sam Sprockett is determined to get back the money that Able Mabel stole from his grandfather, but she won't give up the money...

  • Takeover Engagement

    Elizabeth Duke

    Substitute fiance? When Case Travers wanted something, he didn't let anything or anyone stand in his way! And from the moment he met Lucy, he seemed determined to take over her life. It all happened so fast. One minute Lucy had her life nearl...

  • The Bunny Slipper Mystery

    Jennifer Dussling

  • Jake's Angel

    Lois Faye Dyer

    REMEMBER THE NIGHT? When Angel Carson-Whitney, successful artist and daughter of a California millionaire, stumbles onto an extortion plot against her family, she is kidnapped...and left for dead. Her rescuer is handsome Jake McCandless, but the ...

  • Death in Equality

    Lucinda Ebersole

    After discovering that she is dying of lung cancer, aspiring young novelist Cordelia returns to her home in Equality, Alabama, because she is the seventh ""Cordelia"" in her matrilineal line and tradition and memory are all the small town has l...

  • When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth

    Fernanda Eberstadt

    From the author of Low Tide and His Devils comes a brilliant novel about the high-flying New York art world of the late 1980s. When a brash young artist enters the lives of a couple of well-to-do patrons of the arts, the excessiveness of everything b...

  • Time's Winged Chariot

    Marjorie Eccles
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    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • The Secrets of a Fire King

    Kim Edwards

    Showcasing the intensity and perception of a truly gifted writer, this collection of stories by the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Memory Keeper's Daughter transports us to exotic locations as it follows the lives of those on the frin...

  • Emerald City

    Jennifer Egan

    A collection of masterful stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad: “Boldly modulated tales of displacement and blazing moments of truth.... Riveting, vaguely Hitchcockian.... Piercingly tender.... Outstandi...

  • The Raid

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

    Queen Maeve has declared war upon the province of Ulster in an effort to take possession of the Brown Bull of Cooley. Ultimately, this is an attempt to match the wealth of her husband, King Ailill of Connacht, who owns a magnificent white bull. Only ...

  • The Stories

    Deborah Eisenberg

    When Deborah Eisenberg's first book of stories, Transactions in a Foreign Currency, was published, John Updike noted: "Whenever a new writer arrives, a new window of life is opened, and this has happened here." The scope and depth of Eisenberg's i...

  • Jasmine's Story

    Vanessa Elder

  • The DeVille Inheritance

    Monique Ellis
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    Nan Leighton ventures into the London underworld to find her profligate brother--only to be rescued by a captivating stranger who is quite unlike any nobleman she has ever met....

  • Face Down in the Marrow-Bone Pie

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    In the first installment of her delightful new mystery series, Kathy Lynn Emerson transports readers to Elizabethan England, where she introduces a wonderfully willful heroine who is centuries ahead of her time... When the poisoned body of Sir Rob...

  • The Thief of Hermes

    Ru Emerson

    Xena, once in love with conquest and destruction, now fights for the side of good. Though constantly haunted by her wicked past, Xena courageously battles mortals, gods, demigods, and monsters, and heroically protects the downtrodden from the forces ...

  • Cardmaster

    Clayton Emery

    The demon-haunted cardsmith's apprentice Byron struggles with his limited skills and attacks from mysterious enemies.  And when he comes into the possession of some very hot magic-bearing cards, he draws the attention of the cardmaster Cerise.  S...

  • Lady Rogue

    Suzanne Enoch

    NO LADY When the dripping wet ragamuffin showed up on his doorstep late one night, claiming sanctuary, Alexander Cale had no idea the cheeky lad was actually an enchanting -- but infuriating -- chit! Suspicious of French-raised Kit Brantley's re...

  • Mrs. Meyer the Bird

    Wolf Erlbruch

  • Never Street

    Loren D. Estleman

    Detroit private investigator Amos Walker has accepted a missing-persons case. Neil Catalin, a video entrepreneur, disappeared after watching "Pitfall", a Dick Powell potboiler that features a smoldering beauty, a hormone-driven private eye, and a mur...

  • Billy Gashade

    Loren D. Estleman

    Billy Gashade is a wandering musician crossing the young United States in the late 1800s, and introducing us to its most colorful characters along the way. Calamity Jane, Billy the Kid, Chief Crazy Horse, Oscar Wilde, and many many more cross paths w...

  • Longarm and the Crying Corpse

    Tabor Evans

    Stranded in tiny Kittstown during a snowstorm, Longarm enjoys poker and drinks with the locals, until an attractive young woman is murdered, prompting Longarm to hunt down the killer and investigate the crooked mayor. Original....

  • Love, Remember Me

    Corinne Everett

    Where angels go, love is sure to follow. When Cairn and Brynna first gave themselves to each other on that chilly night in first-century Scotland they swore to share a passion eternal. But gifted with the power of prophecy, the lovely lass saw tha...

  • Dirge for a Doge

    Elizabeth Eyre

    When aristocratic Niccolo Ermolin is stabbed to death in his own study, even Italian Renaissance detective Sigismondo wonders if Venice will sink beneath the weight of its Machiavellian intrigues and machinations before he can solve the crime...

  • P.J. & Puppy

    Cathryn Falwell

    When the time comes for P.J. to learn how to use the potty, his puppy also is being trained to use papers, and together the two become potty trained, in an easy-to-understand, brightly illustrated book for young children....

  • Table Chair Bear

    Jane Feder

  • Traci on the Spot

    Marie Ferrarella

    Traci Richardson finally finds that special someone -- and now she's really on the spot! Everyone tells me I should be happy now that Daniel has proposed. He has a good job, he's nice looking and he treats me well. Yep, he's darn near ...

  • Crimson Moon

    Carol Finch

    SHE WAS ASKING FOR TROUBLE Andrea Fletcher came back to her family's Oklahoma ranch after her parent's deaths to do what she had to do - save it from a forced sale and take charge of her rebellious brother Jason. She was hiding her vulnerabilities...

  • Spider-Man and Iron Man: Sabotage

    Danny Fingeroth; Pierce Askegren

    It begins with the unveiling of a revolutionary new energy source-a device that will have far-reaching consequences for two of Marvel's greatest heroes! Stark Enterprises has unleashed the Infinity Engine, which promises to be a source of energy u...

  • Ms. Davison, Our Librarian

    Alice K. Flanagan

  • A Busy Day at Mr. Kang's Grocery Store

    Alice K. Flanagan

  • Call Mr. Vasquez, He'll Fix It!

    Alice K. Flanagan

  • The Wilsons, a House-Painting Team

    Alice K. Flanagan

  • Whispers on the Wind

    Donna Fletcher

    Her eyes instantly focused on the mantel. She gasped and the candlestick she held fell from her hand and with a whoosh extinguished the flame. Lord Maximillian Radborne stood in all his splendor and glory, his arm resting negligently on the mante...

  • The Frightful Story of Harry Walfish

    Brian Floca

    When her class goes ape on a school visit to the Natural History Museum, a wily teacher tells the tale of a rambunctious former classmate of her own who found himself left behind in the museum after dark...

  • Shadow on the Moon

    Connie Flynn

    A LOVE TOO DANGERUS TO POSSESS Dana Gibbs, a biologist who specializes in wolf behavior, is in Arizona to join an investigative team looking into a series of mysterious deaths. Some people believe wolves are the killers. Dana knows better: there are...

  • Saturn Rukh

    Robert L. Forward

    In the near future five intrepid men and women have been paid a billion dollars each to risk the first voyage into the upper atmosphere of Saturn. The goal: to convert atmospheric chemicals into fuel to power interplanetary spaceships. But no one ...

  • Man Trouble!

    Natalie Fox

    On his terms... All Jade wants is to make a success of her company -- on her own. It infuriates her that she's forced to turn to Mel Biaggio for help. In business, he's the best troubleshooter around. In private, he's simply trouble! ...

  • All Fall Down

    Zachary Alan Fox

    HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO... A man dressed as a clown boards a school bus at 7:20 a.m. The children think it's a game until the stranger draws a gun and squeezes the trigger. By 7:30 a.m., one child is dead and twenty-six others have disappeared in the ...

  • Reflections in the Nile

    J. Suzanne Frank

    One moment, Chloe Kingsley, a Dallas artist vacationing in Egypt, is standing in an inner room of the legendary temple at Karnak; the next she is caught up in a vortex of energy and hurled through the centuries. Suddenly she finds herself clothed in...

  • Alternative Reality

    Anthea Fraser
    in

    Esteemed mystery writer Anne Perry, author of twenty-five novels and two acclaimed detective series, heads up a delectable cast of contemporary writers, the very best from both sides of the Atlantic. In the tradition of Britain's honored crime writer...

  • Corduroy's Birthday

    Don Freeman

    Corduroy is celebrating his birthday, and, with the help of brightly illustrated, lift-the-flap pages, young readers can join the party as he plays with the pin+a1ata, goes on a treasure hunt, and opens his gifts. BOMC Main....

  • Bomb Grade

    Brian Freemantle

    To prevent the escalating possibility of the Russian mob getting its hands on the main ingredient to build an atomic bomb, British agent Charlie Muffin is sent to Moscow, where he must go undercover as an arms trader to infiltrate leading Russian Maf...

  • Home

    Kimberly Fuller

    When Maran, an eighteen-year-old student, rescues a young space traveler named Alik, he claims to have escaped a planet where one race, the Frathi, waged a war of extinction on another, the Arakkans. But Maran is Frathi. Why has she never heard of th...

  • Pedrito's Day

    Luis Garay

    Shining shoes to earn money toward a bicycle, young Pedrito dreams about all of the wonderful possibilities a bicycle will permit him, until a reckless mistake forces him to prove he is starting to grow up....

  • Cat's Don't Dance

    J.J. Gardner

  • Christina Katerina and Fats and the Great Neighborhood War

    Patricia Lee Gauch

    When Fats, Christina's best friend, joins up with the new kid in town, Tommy, in a game of soldiers, Christina is very hurt, but after Tommy gets too rough with Christina, true friendship prevails as Fats changes sides to defend his best friend....

  • The Bride Price

    Roberta Gellis
    in

    Welcome to a world of changelings and enchanted springs, where fairies ride through moonlit nights and music has immortal power...A world of sorcery and spells where even the most forbidden and impossible love can become breathtaking reality... TH...

  • The Second Bride

    Catherine George

    The perfect solution... Jo fell for Rufus Grierson the day he married her best friend. But Jo kept her feelings to herself, for Claire's sake. After Claire was so tragically taken from them, it seemed that Rufus had no cause to see Jo again...

  • The Breath of the Dragon

    Gail Giles

  • The Gypsy Princess

    Phoebe Gilman

  • Baldwin From Another Planet

    H.B. Gilmour

    Launching CNN--the Cher News Network--Cher hopes to gain dominance in the world of cable television and targets gorgeous Italian newcomer Aldo Belloguardia for an interview before learning about his private troubles...

  • Something So Right

    Layle Giusto