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New Books List: 562 titles

  • The Plato Papers

    Peter Ackroyd

    From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of The Life of Thomas More, a novel that playfully imagines how the "modern" era might appear to a thinker seventeen centuries hence.At the turn of the 38th ...

  • The Snail House

    Allan Ahlberg

    Allan Ahlberg's fanciful tale, paired with beautifully detailed artwork by Gillian Tyler, invites children to see the world from a different perspective.

    Here is the story Grandma tells one evening on her wide veranda steps. It has Michael and...

  • Rails Under My Back

    Jeffery Renard Allen

    "Will put Allen in the company of writers such as James Joyce, August Wilson, and Ralph Ellison." -- The Philadelphia InquirerWhen it was first published fifteen years ago, Jeffery Renard Allen's debut novel, Rails Under My Back, earned its author c...

  • Estelle and Lucy

    Anna Alter

    Sometimes it's hard to be big. Sometimes it's hard to be little. Lucy wants to be like Estelle. Estelle wishes Lucy wouldn't copy everything she does. But their mother knows something for which they are both exactly the right size. Hooray for sist...

  • A Matter of Honor

    Gabriella Anderson

    His love transformed her from bookish to beautiful... For generations, an ancient coin has passed from mother to daughter -- a talisman of luck joining those who dare to dream of love. Now three very different women will hold fate in their hands.....

  • Say Good-bye

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    Yum-Yum is an adorable shih tzu and one of Zoe’s favorite clients. When Zoe and Yum-Yum visit a ward of cancer patients, she is amazed by how much joy the tiny dog can spread in an instant. But then Yum-Yum is diagnosed with cancer himself. How can...

  • Storm Rescue

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    Sunita Patel is book smart and good with cats. When a hurricane approaches, Sunita realizes that Lucy, a diabetic cat with a broken leg, is in danger, along with her owner, Mrs. Clark. When the vets are called out on emergency, the evacuation starts....

  • Teacher's Pet

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    Maggie's still getting used to middle school. One of her teachers is, too - Mr. Carlson, her new science teacher, is blind, and is working with a guide dog for the first time. Scout is a love of a German shepherd and really wants to do his job, but M...

  • Mystify the Magician

    K.A. Applegate

    There is a place that shouldn't exist -- but does. There are creatures that shouldn't exist -- but do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real -- and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld. Christopher, Jalil, April, D...

  • Metro Cat

    Marsha Diane Arnold

  • Stella's Dancing Days

    Sandy Asher

    A tender family story that will dance into your heart.
    Stella is a kitten who loves to dance. But as she grows up, Stella dances less and less. Has she lost her passion for pirouettes and pliés? Or is she just busy with other things, like stalki...

  • Robin's Home

    Jeannine Atkins


    A robin learns to fly

    Life is good for Robin. He likes to watch his brother and sister fly. Whenever he's hungry, his mother or father brings food. Whenever he's sleepy, he snuggles in a nest that fits as perfectly as a hug. Why should he ...

  • The Cat Who Loved Mozart

    Patricia Austin

    While practicing piano, Jennifer discovers that her unfriendly stray cat, Amadeus, loves to listen to Mozart....

  • Savage Armada

    James Axler

    ENDURING CHAOS A nuclear apocalypse almost destroyed Western civilization in 2001, leaving in its place the forbidding world of Deathlands. Though the human spirit has not been broken, the new rules of survival are harsh and barbaric. As barons figh...

  • The Tale of Tricky Fox

    Jim Aylesworth

    After making a bet with his brother that he can outsmart a human into giving him one of her pigs, Tricky Fox sets off to win the bet, but when he uses his charms on a wise schoolteacher, the tables are turned and it is Tricky Fox who is outsmarted in...

  • American Fuji

    Sara Backer

    Gaby Stanton, an American professor living in Japan, has lost her job teaching English at Shizuyama University. (No one will tell her exactly why.) Alex Thorn, an American psychologist, is mourning his son, a Shizuyama exchange student killed in an a...

  • Libby's Story

    Judy Baer

    THE AMNESIAC DOCTOR? He fell at her feet, literally, out in the Australian rainforest. Nurse Sam Abbot knew the man was injured, and it wasn't just his ankle; the only thing he could remember was some medical knowledge. Was he a doctor? Eithe...

  • Bunny Bonanza

    Ben M. Baglio

  • The Expectant Princess

    Stella Bagwell

    Princess Dominique Stanbury's father was missing, presumed dead, and she had to be strong for the sake of her family. The only one she could turn to was Marcus Kent, her father's devastatingly handsome High Counsel -- and the older man who could stil...

  • Millionaire Husband

    Leanne Banks

    Millionaire Justin Langdon had sworn off marriage... it could only cost him money. Until the day preschool teacher Amy Monroe literally saved his life. She was a woman with sunshine eyes and dangerous curves -- and, even more dangerous, dependents! S...

  • Border Crossing

    Pat Barker

    Border Crossing is Pat Barker's unflinching novel of darkness, evil and society. When Tom Seymour, a child psychologist, plunges into a river to save a young man from drowning, he unwittingly reopens a chapter from his past he'd hoped to forget....

  • Hens Dancing

    Raffaella Barker

    A truly funny, intelligently told story that takes you deep into someone else's life

    'Should be read for Barker's glittering prose ... Venetia is a disarmingly wry and engaging narrator with a keen eye for nature and the follie...

  • The Hunt for Hawke's Daughter

    Jean Barrett

    TOP SECRET BABIES: Unwrap the mystery! HE'S DISCOVERED HE HAD A CHILD -- THREE YEARS TOO LATE Four years ago, Karen Ramey fled from Devlin Hawke's loving arms without reason or cause. Only she knew the agony of what that decision had cost her....

  • Navajo's Woman

    Beverly Barton

    CAUGHT BETWEEN A ROCK...AND A HARD MAN! He was the hot-blooded cop who once stole her heart -- right before he turned in his fellow cop: her own father! Now Navajo Joe Ornelas was back, playing the "good guy" once more. And -- sweet mercy save her...

  • Heckler

    Dan Barton

    Stand up comedian Biff Kincaid shows us that life isn't always a laughing matter. While driving along Sunset Strip Biff hears his pager go off and looks at the number. It is The Comedysino in Las Vegas calling him to fill in as headliner that night b...

  • Darling Cassidy

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Staring at the notice, Cassidy Sinclair can't believe she is even considering the offer. What kind of man would be so desperate as to advertise for a wife? Then again, what other options does she have? With her parents and brother dead, she has no fa...

  • The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary and Sewing Circle

    Lois Battle

    A New York Times bestseller A Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club SelectionWelcome to Florabama, Alabama -- a place where you can stop to sip a co'cola or iced tea and think about money and love. If you had'em, you were free to think about other t...

  • Death of a Dustman

    M.C. Beaton

    CRIME AND PUNISHMENT The garbage collectors in Britain are still called dustmen, and Lochdubh's dustman is an abusive drunk named Fergus Macleod. When Fergus is put in charge of a recycling center and dubbed the "environment officer," Constable Hami...

  • Pepito the Brave

    Scott Beck

  • Touch the Sky, My Little Bear

    David Bedford

    Seldom has the caring and the guidance of a mother and the curiosity and trust of a child been so tenderly depicted as in this generously sized and beautiful picture book set in the far off Artic. A young polar bear, just out of infancy, asks his mot...

  • The Hair Ribbons

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford
    in

    Three mothers' stories...three miracles of God While cleaning in a tiny old church, Beth Williams finds a gallon- sized mason jar filled with an odd assortment of items. "It's the Story Jar," explains Mrs. Halley, the newly widowed pastor's wife. ...

  • Chip Hilton Football Pack

    Clair Bee

  • I Can Fly!

    Bob Beeson

    Discover how special you really are in Deborah Norville's book of encouragement, perseverance, and recognition. By learning to try, you learn to soar! Lift-the-flaps and pop-ups make reading all the more enjoyable....

  • A Special Kind of Family

    Eileen Berger

    Life in Sylvan Falls was picture-perfect for Vanessa McHenry -- until her beloved grandmother broke her hip, leaving five troubled teens in Vanessa's care. Vanessa struggled to balance her job with her new family, but without helpful neighbors she di...

  • The Demon's Mistress: A Novella

    Jo Beverley
    in

    The Demon's Mistress opens with a bang -- almost. Maria Celestin, known by society as the Golden Lily, a beautiful widow just out of mourning, arrives just in time to stop George, Lord Vandeimen, from taking the coward's way out from under hi...

  • The Marriage Arrangement

    Helen Bianchin

    More than a marriage deal! Hannah's marriage to Miguel Santanas had given her a privileged, glamorous life. She ran her own business by day, and shared her bed with a passionate, sexy husband by night. Miguel was everything a woman could want ...

  • Scarlet Feather

    Maeve Binchy

    Two friends struggle to balance their personal and professional lives in this charming novel from acclaimed author Maeve Binchy.They met in cooking school and became fast friends with a common dream. Now Cathy Scarlet and Tom Feather hope to take Dub...

  • Merry Meet

    Isobel Bird

    Joined together hand in hand our circle gathers round, to work our magic, weave the web, and dance on sacred ground. By the goddess we are called, witch to witch and friend to friend, to merry meet, and merry part, and merry meet again. A book of...

  • Second Sight

    Isobel Bird

    Show me places cloaked in secrets, pierce the gloom of darkest night. Reveal that which has been hidden, Let Me see with second sight. Kate, Annie, and Cooper are Wiccans--joined by magic bound to nature. Their dreams have turned to visions of ...

  • So Mote It Be

    Isobel Bird

    Special feature: This PerfectBound e-book contains Part One of an interview with author Isobel Bird. With this ribbon I do bindMy heart to yours and yours to mine.Love, I call you, come to me,As is my will, so mote it be.Kate cast the love spell with...

  • Athena's Conquest

    Catherine Blair

    A WOMAN OF SENSE Athena Montgomery is perfectly happy being the bluestocking chaperon of her beautiful younger sister, Cassiopeia. Why should she care if handsome Frenchman Dominic Solage -- rumored to be a spy -- prefers a silly young girl like Cas...

  • Ark of Love

    Lauralee Bliss
    in

    Dogs Play Matchmakers in Four Modern Love Stories -- Contemporary novellas with pets as major contributors to each story's romance. Authors: Lauralee Bliss, Pamela Griffin, Dina Leonhardt Koehly, and Gail Sattler....

  • The Sleep Police

    Jay Bonansinga

    Ten years after an unsolved murder that had nearly destroyed his career, Detective Frank Janus begins to suspect that the killer has returned as a series of homicides seem to be linked to Frank's nightmares and unexplained blackouts. Original....

  • Polly Hopper's Pouch

    Louise Bonnett-Rampersaud

    Polly Hopper, a curious kangaroo, can't understand why she has a "shopping bag" on her tummy, but she soon learns that her pouch is meant for a baby kangaroo, in a comforting tale of curiosity, patience, and discovery....

  • Teenie Bird: And How She Learned to Fly

    Greet Bosschaert

  • Franklin Plants a Tree

    Paulette Bourgeois

    Having forgotten where he planted the tree sapling he received on Earth Day, Franklin retraces his steps until he locates it and then brings it home where it will safely grow in his backyard. Original....

  • Kelly and the Three-Toed Horse

    Peter Bowen

    A tracker helps a paleontological research team cross the plains of Wyoming in search of a "three-toed horse," in a novel based on the real-life exploits of Luther "Yellowstone" Kelly, a nineteenth-century hunter, rancher, and scout in the American W...

  • Loose Ends

    Neal Bowers

    A distraught Davis Banks arrives home for his mother’s funeral. Davis teaches poetry at a small college. He loves words -- but not himself. His father had died some years before, and now Davis discovers a lot of little things in his mother’s...

  • His Rebel Bride

    Shelley Bradley

    Return to an age of danger and chivalry, when three daring knights -- fostered together since boyhood in the same warrior tradition -- face their greatest challenge...winning the hearts of the women they love. DAYS OF BATTLE, NIGHTS OF PASSION A...

  • On a Beam of Light

    Gene Brewer

    PROT HAS RETURNED. Five years to the day, almost to the second, after he disappeared from the Manhattan Psychiatric Institute, leaving his host body in a catatonic state, the being known as prot (rhymes with goat) has returned. Now, in sixteen more s...

  • Crazy Love

    Steve Brewer

    How crazy with jealousy can someone be? Albuquerque private eye Bubba Mabry learns that jealousy can extend beyond the grave when he’s hired by a mild-mannered millionaire named Melvin Haywood. Haywood’s wife died six months earlier, revealing on...

  • Quest for Crests

    J.E. Bright

    Get ready to rock! The seven Digidestined kids and their Digimon companions leave File Island for the Continent of Server in search of elusive Tags and Crests -- which their Digimons need in order to Digivolve to their ultimate level. But they bet...

  • Galileo's Treasure Box

    Catherine Brighton

    Virginia's famous father, Galileo, sleeps during the day and studies the sky at night. While he is sleeping, Virginia discovers a box on his desk with five objects inside - four pieces of glass and a feather - that reveal the world to her in new a...

  • Enchanted by Your Kisses

    Pamela Britton

    HIS PLAN WAS SEDUCTION... Proud and beautiful Lady Ariel D'Archer bravely bears the cruel disdain of society -- all the while wondering if her sullied reputation will prevent love from ever entering her heart again. But then she meets Nathan Trevain...

  • Maximum Warp: Forever Dark

    Greg Brodeur; Dave Galanter

    A mysterious cosmic force is destroying the very fabric of subspace, rendering warp travel and interstellar communication impossible throughout scattered regions of the galaxy. Even worse, these "dead zones" are spreading rapidly, bringing the entire...

  • The Countess and the Butler

    Elizabeth Brodnax

    Above and Beneath Her Station His subjects used to bow before him. But now Prince Michael of Estavia is an exile and a penniless one, at that. He'll have to find a way to support himself and his young sister. Michael must take on actual work -...

  • Tupag the Dreamer

    Kerry Hannula Brown

  • Looking For A Miracle

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    As a child, Rebekah Stoltzfus suffered a freak accident that left her legs paralyzed. Now, confined to a wheelchair, she feels she'll never measure up to the expectations of her Pennsylvania Amish community that a woman marry and raise a family. She ...

  • Hard Hat

    Bonnie Bryant

    Stevie's on the loose in New York City!Stevie Lake thinks she knows everything there is to know about getting along in New York City -- until she meets Regina Evans. Regina is the daughter of a New York friend of Stevie's mom. When Stevie and her mot...

  • You Only Die Twice

    Edna Buchanan

    What was the nude, recently slain body of Kaithlin Jordan doing spoiling the pristine turquoise waters of Miami Beach -- especially when the dead socialite's convicted killer husband is sitting on Death Row for having murdered her...ten years ago! Re...

  • Our Teacher's Having a Baby

    Eve Bunting

    “A warm -- but unsentimental -- story about the excitement, anticipation, and anxieties experienced by a first-grade class whose teacher has a baby during the school year. The children’s questions and comments, the teacher’s good-humored respon...

  • Fiance for Hire

    Pamela Burford

    The Wedding Ring: Four high school friends and a pact -- every girl marries her ideal man by 30 or be prepared for matchmaking. The Bride-to-Be: Amanda Coppersmith, successful at everything but marriage. There's absolutely no way she's going to l...

  • Goal

    Robert Burleigh

    Soccer field excitement!
    It's the last game of the season. With the score tied and the tension high, anything can happen. But the big win is made possible by one force alone--teamwork.
    Robert Burleigh and Stephen T. Johnson have created a pi...

  • The Trouble with Teachers

    Barbara Calamari

    When Mrs. Brinks asks the class to write a poem about someone they admire, Angela writes about her dog King, but Mrs. Brinks thinks the poem is about her and Angela grapples with telling the truth and to further her frustration, when a substitute fil...

  • 7B

    Stella Cameron

    7 Mayfair square, an elegant London townhouse where the unusual is routine. Sibyl Smiles possesses a most unfashionable leaning toward independence. At eight and 20, she remains unmarried, yet fosters one great desire: to be a mother. To that end,...

  • Home at Last

    Laurie Campbell

    WHERE WERE HER CHILDREN? They were gone like a flash in the night. Now Kirsten Laurence was desperately searching for her precious three. And her only recourse was to elicit the help of Detective J. D. Ryder -- a man with whom she'd shared a past ...

  • Let's Count It Out, Jesse Bear

    Nancy White Carlstrom

    Through amusing rhymes and fun illustrations, an exciting counting book follows Jesse Bear and his friends as they spend a fun-filled day out at the beach and amusement park and count everything they see. Reprint....

  • Temptation

    Viveca Carlysle

  • Jezebel's Sister

    Emily Carmichael

    THE WAGES OF SIN Miss Cassidy Rose McAllister is not That Kind of Woman. Just because her sister is a madam and their family business a brothel, Cass is tired of being taken for a soiled dove. So, when her sister is given the choice of a jail cell o...

  • You Only Love Once

    Tori Carrington

    David McCoy -- Maverick cop and precinct Casanova. He loves his job and he loves the ladies. But he's never tried mixing the two before... Kelli Hatfield -- She knows it isn't easy for a woman to make it in a man's world. If only she hadn't alread...

  • When Lightning Strikes

    Jenny Carroll

    Fire in the sky Just because her best friend wants to exercise, Jessica Mastriani agrees to walk the two miles home from their high school. Straight into a huge Indiana thunderstorm. And straight into trouble. Not that Jess has never been in...

  • Songs Without Rhyme

    Rosanne Cash

    What happens when you ask today's top songwriters to apply their talents to prose You get a surprising and diverse collection of writing as penetrating and unforgettable as your most beloved album.

    Like writers and poets, the best songwriters are s...

  • Quinceanera Means Sweet Fifteen

    Veronica Chambers

    Eagerly anticipating her Quincea±era, the fifteenth birthday celebration that will signify her adulthood, Marisol is troubled by a lack of money, her mother's new boyfriend, changes in her best friend, and the absence of the father she never knew....

  • Condo Mania

    Muncy Chapman

    When Libby Malone's boss and mentor dies unexpectedly, she must step into his position as interim property manager. For the last two years, she has trained as assistant property manager at Blue Dolphin Condominiums--but does she have the patience and...

  • The Hunter

    Steve Chapman

  • Troublemaker and Other Saints

    Christina Chiu

    Meet the Wongs, Shengs and Tsuis. Each of these families has its own troubles and secrets -- and something the other two want. But the three clans -- whose members include a matriarch who talks to dead relatives; her nymphomaniac granddaughter; an ol...

  • Rent a Millionaire Groom

    Judy Christenberry

    Quick -- check the phone book under "Groom"! Independent lady Elise Foster didn't want a husband -- but she was desperate for a fiance. To pacify her marriage-hungry family, she had to find a hunk she could pass off as her man-in-waiting. Then the p...

  • Spilt milk

    Lana Citron

  • Who Will Father My Baby?

    Donna Clayton

    Lacy Rivers could no longer ignore her biological clock. She might have given up on marriage, but motherhood was her destiny. So Lacy chose to approach the one who'd always struck her as the Perfect Man -- but this time as a daddy candidate. Only, Da...

  • Sheltie to the Rescue

    Peter Clover

    Emma thinks that going to Summerland Bay will be the best vacation ever -- especially since Sheltie can come, too. That's why Emma can't believe it when she sees snobby Alice Parker. Alice is never friendly, and she's always making fun of Sheltie. Bu...

  • Raven Mocker

    Don Coldsmith

    Demon...or Healer?

    For years Snakewater, the aging medicine woman of Old Town, has been respected--and feared--by her Cherokee village. Now, as a series of mysterious deaths plagues her village, she finds herself accused of being a Raven Mocke...

  • Born in Sin

    Evelyn Coleman

    With her mom working crazy hours at a dilapidated motel and her sister on welfare, fourteen-year-old Keisha is determined to attend Avery University for a precollege premed program but is instead sent to a summer program for at-risk kids where she di...

  • Desperate Acts

    Jane Candia Coleman

    INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. 2001 Five Star hardcover, Jane Candia Coleman (Stories From Mesa Country). Nan Fletcher is an abused wife whose scars are all hidden because they're emotional. She appears to have it all--a great house, a successful professor...

  • Fins, Feathers and Faith

    William L. Coleman

    Explores the unique physical characteristics, behavior, and diet of such animals as otters, praying mantises, octopuses, and tigers, and describes how each animal's characteristics reveal insight into living for God....

  • This Boat

    Paul Collicutt

    By the author and illustrator of This Train, a Parents' Choice Gold Medal Book

    Anchors aweigh! From a boat in a bottle to a supertanker cargo ship, from a boat that can break through ice to one that can sail under it -- This Boat, with its sim...

  • Angel in Black

    Max Allan Collins

    Her quest for Hollywood fame ended in an abandoned lot --in a murder so sordid that the details are hidden from the public. The newspapers call her the Black Dahlia. Nathan Heller knew her as Elizabeth Short. But revealing their relationship will onl...

  • See You Soon, Moon

    Donna Conrad

    It's time for an evening trip
    to Grandma's house.
    Bye-bye bedroom, bear, and blanket.
    See you soon, moon.
    Into the car and up the hill.
    But look--over the trees--
    The moon is coming with us!

    Who doesn't remember spotting the ...

  • Blood Rock

    Ralph Cotton

    THE BEGINNINGS OF A LAWMAN Years before he became famous as an Arizona Ranger, young Samuel Burrack was just another free spirit eager to experience life on his own in the West. When his best friend is murdered, his first instinct is simple--find ...

  • Warrior's Song

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Chandra first appeared in 1984. I've rewritten it extensively and changed the title to Warrior's Song, as this book rightfully belongs in the Song series. Chandra de Avenell might look like a golden princess, but she fights like a ...

  • Secret Codes

    Valerie Coursen

  • Maisy at the Beach

    Lucy Cousins

    What’s even better than a new Maisy book?
    A new Maisy book with stickers!


    Maisy and company have a full day of fun in Maisy at the Beach, collecting shells, building a sandcastle, and feasting on tasty snacks. Young readers join in t...

  • Maisy's Garden

    Lucy Cousins

    What's even better than a new Maisy book?
    A new Maisy book with stickers!

    There are lots of wonderful things growing in MAISY'S GARDEN -- fruits, flowers, vegetables, grass, and more! Young readers join in the fun as they complete the sce...

  • A Woman's Place

    Carol Cox
    in

    Texas Rangers are the pride of the Lone Star state as law officers not as sons-in-law. Few parents welcome a courting ranger, with his hard, dangerous life. Who would want his daughter involved with a lawman of the Old West, in a state full of charac...

  • Abstract Alphabet

    Paul Cox

    Bargain Books are non-returnable.

    An alphabet is a set of symbols. If the symbols were different from the letters we know would they still spell words? In this unusual ABC book, colorful shapes make up the alphabet and a sturdy fold-out key is inc...

  • Big Sky

    Gareth Creer

  • Wyoming Wildflower

    Pam Crooks

    Wrangling for Your Love Armed with an arsenal of book knowledge on ranching, Sonnie returned to the Rocking M Ranch determined to prove that despite her sex she could be the son her father had always wanted. Lance Harmon had beat her to the punch,...

  • Homework

    Suneeta Peres da Costa

    An enchanting, magical-realist coming-of-age story about an unconventional childhood.

    Mina Pereira longs to be normal, and it's no wonder-with barometric antennae wired to her brain she feels like an outcast. Her overwhelmingly precocious si...

  • The Holding

    Claudia Dain

    WITH THIS RING I THEE ESPOUSE It was done. She was his wife. Wife of a knight so silent and stealthy, they called him "The Fog." Everything Lady Cathryn of Greneforde owned -- castle, lands and people -- was now safe in his hands. But there ...

  • Star the Snowy Kitten

    Jenny Dale

    Everyone loves kittens! Fluffy and fun, purry and huggable, what could be more perfect than a kitten? Michael has always wanted a kitten -- but his mother says he's not old enough to take care of one yet. Then he finds a tiny black-and-white kitten i...

  • Intimate Intentions

    Angie Daniels

    The graceful beauty had relinquished the runways to start her own bridal collection. Unable to finance her dream, she had to walk the runways again. Diva Designs, the family legacy is on the verge of bankruptcy. Just as Terraine begins his new ad cam...

  • Song of the Axe

    John R. Dann

    In the tradition of Jean Auel's famous Clan of the Cave Bear, Song of the Axe is about the rich panorama of prehistoric life spread out on an epic canvas, and the origin of myth in historical events.

    Song of the Axe is the story of two lovers...

  • A Nurse in Crisis

    Lilian Darcy

    She wanted him--not his money... Dr. Marshall Irwin's passionate love affair with his practice nurse is going well; they are head over heels in love with each other.... But overnight Aimee's life is plunged into crisis: she's financial...

  • The Commander

    Kay David

    The commander leads; she will not follow. She has to assess situations, determine solutions and can never lose control. The job comes first -- being a woman a very distant second. Lena McKinney is the Commander. Two years ago, Lena tried to...

  • Return of the Spanish Lady

    Val Davis

    Archaeologist and expert on old planes Nicolette Scott tries to stop a pharmaceutical company from reviving the 1919 "Spanish Lady" flu epidemic that had killed millions around the world so it can make billions on the antidote....

  • Entering Tenebrea

    Roxann Dawson; Daniel Graham

    One piercing energy beam is enough to shatter the calm of a seaport on a sunny day. Just one shot turns an idle dreamer into a hardened avenger. Enraged by the brutal terrorist attack that kills her entire family, Andrea Flores leaves behind a world ...

  • Stormbound with a Tycoon

    Shawna Delacorte

    AN UNEXPECTED LOVE... Wealthy, jaded playboy Dylan Russell had sought an isolated cabin in the woods to escape his fast-paced life and reconsider his future. He wanted solitude... but awoke to a woman in his bed! Nothing had prepared Dylan for the...

  • Deep Doo-Doo and the Mysterious E-mails

    Michael C. Delaney

    Instead of scooping a classmate who works on the school newspaper, Bennet and his friend Pete end up working with Elizabeth to find out who is responsible for putting a pumpkin on top of the town hall flagpole....

  • Rachel's Rescuer

    Roxann Delaney

    So the single mom desperately needed sanctuary for her six-year-old son -- and all her secrets. Luck led her to a remote ranch -- but a blizzard stranded her with brooding, black-clad cowboy Lucas Callahan. Rugged and masculine Lucas seemed downright...

  • The Wedding Secret

    Janelle Denison

    Finding Jenna on the run from her own wedding, Garrett Blackwell had no choice but to rescue her -- especially when he saw she had little more than a bridal gown to her name! Jenna was grateful, but unnerved to find herself enjoying Garrett's...

  • The Summoning

    Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    From the depths of the demiplane of shadow comes a new magic so mysterious it confounds even the Chosen of Mystra. From beneath the dune seas of Anauroch escapes one of Toril's most powerful and ancient evils -- the phaerimm. From Evereska, the...

  • The Rough and Ready Rancher

    Kathie DeNosky

    Hotshot horse trainer "J.J." Adams yanked off a battered Stetson -- and unfurled a cascade of tantalizing curls! Rancher Flint McCray needed a stallion tamer -- not some curvy cowgirl infiltrating his masculine domain. But Jenna quickly proved a natu...

  • On My Way

    Tomie DePaola

    Baby Maureen has only been home from the hospital a few weeks when she gets pneumonia, and the dePaola family is scared. Will she pull through? The school year ends with Tomie starring in a dance recital and eager to find out who his first-grade tea...

  • Carnival of Love

    Helen Dickson

    A CONVENIENT HUSBAND Rescuing Lavinia Renshaw from a Venetian canal was one thing. Accepting her surprising proposition of marriage was quite another. Maxim Purnell thrived on taking risks. However, his situation was complicated enough without tak...

  • Spy Kids: Junior Novel

    Disney Book Group

    Carmen and Juni Cortez discover that their parents are secret agents who have been kidnapped by Floop, an inventor and television star, as part of a plot to take over the world, and only the two children can stop him....

  • Walt Disney's The Ugly Duckling

    Disney Book Group

  • Rules of Attraction

    Christina Dodd

    The Rules of Enticement: A woman should never surrender to a man Without knowing his intentions. A man should never seduce a woman For the purposes of revenge. Rules of Society After nine years, Hannah Setterington has decided to sell the Dis...

  • In the Blood

    Don Donaldson

    For Dr. Holly Fisher, it is worse than a medical nightmare. The theft of her ovum from a fertility clinic is an ethical horror that puts her in the path of a man willing to destroy the laws of nature-and anyone who opposes him....

  • Montana Mail-Order Wife

    Charlotte Douglas

    Marrying a stranger! Rancher Wade Garrett's mail-order bride showed up with a boulder-sized bump on her forehead, an unrecognizable ID, and a case of amnesia. Rachel O'Riley didn't know who she was -- or that she'd agreed to a marriage in name only!...

  • Mindhunters

    John Douglas; Mark Olshaker

  • Bloodstorm

    Keith Douglass

    Six Russian Satan intercontinental ballistic missiles have disappeared from the Ukraine--only to resurface in Libya. Now, Colonel Muammar al-Qaddafi has sixty nuclear warheads to help him regain power in the Middle East--and he's just set one off in ...

  • Down 'n' Dirty

    Laura Dower

    Not seeing the value in bathing, Buttercup is now not only seen as the toughest Powerpuff but the stinkiest, so her friends must find a way to convince her that taking her daily bath is a very important thing to do. Original....

  • My Lady Pirate

    Elizabeth Doyle

    SWEPT INTO HIS EMBRACE... A shipboard raid is Isabella's first taste of adventure--and danger. Raised in a convent, she knows nothing of the world beyond its walls. Yet even in her innocence, she cannot believe the darkly handsome pirate captain is ...

  • Casey Jones

    Allan Drummond

    Listen to the story of the railroad's greatest hero!

    Now all of this happened
    a hundred years ago
    but it's a story that everyone
    ought to know
    'cause the railroad back then
    was the mightiest thing
    and the loco engineer
    was...

  • The Cowboy for Hire

    Alice Duncan

    Step behind the scenes into the exciting early days of motion pictures. Meet intrepid producer Mart Tafft, driven to make Lovejoy Studios the biggest name in the new frontier of silent movies. Experience the action, thrills, and passion that create f...

  • The Firebird

    Carola Dunn
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    Nothing rivals the enchantment of a candlelit ballroom...except the magic spell of true love. Reynata Gresham has resigned herself to the curse that separates her from everyone else -- until she peers through glowing ballroom windows to see Aldwin...

  • Pupper

    Olivier Dunrea

  • Big Brown Bear

    George Duplaix

  • Castillo's Bride

    Anne Marie Duquette

    A partnership of two -- some might call that a definition of marriage... Jordan Castillo insists that he wants a partner, not a wife. Jordan's the only surviving son of a family that can trace its heritage back for centuries. He's also a salvager ...

  • Anne of Green Gables

    Jennifer Dussling

    Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her. Simultaneous....

  • Ormond

    Maria Edgeworth

    Maria Edgeworth’s Ormond tells the story of Harry Ormond, a destitute orphan sent to live with his guardian’s wealthy cousin, King Corny, after his involvement in a nearly fatal shooting. Ormond travels to France, determined to raise his status a...

  • The Priscilla Diary

    Gene Edwards

    This title is no longer available from Tyndale, but it can be ordered from SeedSowers / 4003 N. Liberty Street / Jacksonville, FL 32206
    Shipwrecks. Conflict. Imprisonment. This book continues the First-Century Diaries series. Here, in fictional ...

  • The Honey Trap

    Clive Egleton

  • Murder Can Upset Your Mother

    Selma Eichler

    "Someone is trying to kill me!" Rich philanthropist Miriam Weiden left these chilling words on Desiree Shapiro's answering machine just hours before she was murdered. Now two questions haunt Manhattan's plumpest PI: Why would anyone murder a wonderfu...

  • Pistols and Powder

    Jason Elder

    Wanted by their own people with no one to trust but each other, the Outcasts head west, seeking a land where they would be free to live, but when a gang of train robbers steals everything they have, they become driven by revenge. Original....

  • Girl Reporter Bytes Back!

    Linda Ellerbee

    School newspaper reporter Casey Smith tries to uncover who's behind the counterfeit Alienhead toys being auctioned on the Real News website, and also discovers there are good and bad aspects of Internet filtering....

  • The Case of the Deadly Ha-Ha Game

    John R. Erickson

    When Hank finds himself up against Rip and Snort, the coyote brothers, he knows he has to do something fast. Hank unleashes his secret weapon, the Deadly Ha-Ha Game. The plan seems to work like a charm, but then Hank and his sidekick Drover find that...

  • Fugitive Mom

    Lynn Erickson

    A woman in a bind For four years Grace Bennett has lavished care on her foster son, ever since his mother gave him up. Now his birth mother wants him back, and under the law, she can have him. Grace has two choices -- obey a court order and ha...

  • The Black Madonna

    Louisa Ermelino

    Three mothers--Teresa, Magdalena, and Antoinette--from New York's Little Italy, struggling to maintain their traditions while their sons chafe under the oppressive weight of their ethnic community, find their lives forever changed by the power of lov...

  • Night Shade

    Lynne Ewing

    VANESSA, Catty, Serena, and Jimena seem like ordinary girls living in Los Angeles. But they each have a secret. Vanessa can become invisible. Catty travels back in time. Serena reads minds, and Jimena has premonitions. As the girls become friends, th...

  • Wizardborn

    David Farland

    Wizardborn continues the story of the struggle of Gaborn, now the Earth King, who has lost his powers but continues to lead his people. He must contend with the threat of the huge, inhuman Reavers, whose myriads Gaborn and his forces must now pursue ...

  • The Fury and the Terror

    John Farris

    The United States is besieged by terrorists-terrorists who work from within the White House itself. Their weapon of choice is a type of mind control not even dreamed of years ago.

    Eden Waring, star athlete and valedictorian, is about to addres...

  • Just Like You

    Jan Fearnley

    Mama Mouse and Little Mouse, having seen and heard various animal parents pledging their love to their children, tell each other how special they are, in a humorous and endearing bedtime story that captures the unique bond between parent and child....

  • Scarletti Curse

    Christine Feehan

    The Beast Strange, twisted carvings and hideous gargoyles adorned the palazzo of the great Scarletti family. But a still more fearful secret lurked within its storm-tossed turrets. For every bride who entered its forbidding walls was doomed to lea...

  • Spirit of the Place

    Gregory Feeley

    In this suspenseful literary fantasy, two men on a ship bound for Great Britain face the wrath of disturbed spirits after raiding the Parthenon. On September 15, 1802, the English brig Mentor sailed from Piraeus, its hold filled with the "Elgin Mar...

  • Krondor: Tear of the Gods

    Raymond E. Feist

    Return now to a land magical, scarred, and wondrous, where great heroes rise up from adversity to battle fearsome enemies who covet the riches within its borders. The vile sorcerer Sidi plans to strike the kingdom a fatal blow, setting the murdero...

  • Rough Around the Edges

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE MARRIAGE PROPOSITION Stranded and about to go into labor, Kitt Dawson had to depend on her wits -- and Shawn O'Rourke. The gorgeous man delivered her baby with the same gentleness he bestowed on gun-shy Kitt. Then he popped the question! M...

  • The Irish Enchantress

    Amy J. Fetzer

    Destined To Rule Banished from her home, Fionna O'Donnel is powerless to intervene when mercenary English knight Raymond DeClare is awarded GleannTaise Castle. An outcast among her clan and her gift of enchantment feared, Fionna cannot stand idly by...

  • Expecting His Baby

    Sandra Field

    Airline tycoon Judd Harwood needed a nanny for his daughter, Emmy. Lise Charbonneau took the job -- then, after a night of blazing passion, she discovered she was expecting Judd's baby! She was torn: if she left, she would let little Emmy down. I...

  • Sky, Sea, the Jetty and Me

    Leonard Everett Fisher

  • When This Cruel War Is Over

    Thomas Fleming

    They called themselves Sons of Liberty -- a revolutionary conspiracy that intended to form a new confederacy in the American heartland -- and put an end to the American Civil War. Backed by the South, the Sons launch guerilla attacks against Union tr...

  • The Circus Surprise

    Ralph Fletcher

    Nick’s parents always have a special surprise for him on his birthday, but this year he knows he’ll have the best birthday ever. Mom and Dad are taking him to the circus! The crowds and attractions are exciting, but Nick is accidentally separated...

  • Navigating the Darwin Straits

    Edith Forbes

    Navigating the Darwin Straits reintroduces some of the characters from Edith Forbes’s Alma Rose, most notably Jordy McNeil. Growing up in a small western town with a lesbian mom presents challenges Jordy would rather avoid. As soon as he can, he ma...

  • Do Try to Speak as We Do

    Marjorie Leet Ford

    It seems like the perfect job: an upper middle class English family desperately needs a nanny. The father is an aspiring novelist, the children are well-heeled, and the mother's accent radiates with charm over the transatlantic phone. So young Meliss...

  • Selected Stories

    E.M. Forster

    Although he is best known for his novels-several of which have been made into popular movies-E.M. Forster also published stories. This volume, which collects those stories published during Forster's lifetime, provides an opportunity for readers to di...

  • Annie, Get Your Guy

    Lori Foster

    What was a woman supposed to do? Guy Donovan had always treated Annie Sawyers like a little sister. But Annie already had a brother -- what she wanted was a husband. Guy, to be precise! So when he announced his plans to get engaged to the wrong wo...

  • Messing Around with Max

    Lori Foster

    His love life was going to the dogs! Max Sawyers would do anything for his mangy, bad-tempered mutt, Cleo -- he'd even give up his footloose lifestyle and take a wife. The trouble was, the only woman Cleo had ever taken a liking to was Maddie Mont...

  • The Astrological Diary of God

    Bo Fowler

    A masterpiece of religious parody in the tradition of Kurt Vonnegut.

    Japs Eye Fontanelle, an 88-year-old overweight, retired Japanese kamikaze pilot, insists that he is the rightful king of the Holy Channel Island of Jersey. He also claims ...

  • Twilight in Babylon

    J. Suzanne Frank

    WOMAN LOST Separated from the man she loves, Chloe Kingsley finds herself alone in Mesopotamia, haunted by memories and driven to survive. Here, in a land where upheavals in the heavens and a flood on earth portend catastrophe for mankind, the rul...

  • The Taming of Shaw MacCade

    Judith E. French

    Four years ago, hell-raiser Shaw MacCade departed Missouri for the gold hills of California, leaving behind the bitter feud that had plagued his family for generations. Now he has returned to bring his brother's murderer to justice and put an end...

  • Columbus Slaughters Braves

    Mark Friedman

    Mark Friedman's debut novel is an unflinchingly honest portrait of the relationship between siblings, the heartbreaking tale of two brothers whose lives lead to vastly different fates. The narrator, Joe Columbus, tells the story of his brother CJ's r...

  • Dead Zone

    Dave Galanter

    As an unknown force disrupts subspace throughout the galaxy, creating dead zones in which advanced technology will not function and threatening to plunge the Alpha Quadrant into a dark age, the uneasy alliance between the Federation and the Romulans ...

  • Casual Rex

    Eric Garcia

    The dinosaurs are back. Actually, they never went away. They faked their extinction, evolved, and now live among us in clever disguises. Some of them have attained fairly prominent positions in society, while others are just your average working stif...

  • Visible Amazement

    Gale Zoe Garnett

    Meet Roanne Chappell -- definitely not your ordinary teenage girl. A product of the loving but decidedly unorthodox guardianship of her mother, Del, Roanne is a fascinating study in contrasts. Equal parts bold seductress and wide-eyed innocent, smart...

  • The Sweet Trade

    Elizabeth Garrett

    Anne Bonny, a pampered Southern belle, hungers for a life more exciting and dangerous than she knows keeping her father's household together. When she convinces a hapless sailor boy to marry her and take her to Nassau, that seething cauldron of pirac...

  • Into the Blue

    Rebecca Gault

  • The Hero of Ticonderoga

    Gail Gauthier

    When ThTrFse LeClerc is chosen to do the coveted oral report on Ethan Allen, she learns a great deal about the Vermont hero and also discovers what pleasure she gets from writing and presenting the report....

  • Dark Inheritance

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    A SECRET GENETIC EXPERIMENT Dr. Jim Dutton and his daughter, Brett are raising Umber, a bonobo chimp bred by pharmaceutical giant SAC. But Jim is slowly realizing that Umber, who reads, types, and even contemplates theology, is too intelligent to be...

  • The Case of Dr. Jenkins and Mr. Hyde

    James Gelsey

    Jeepers! A tasty trip to the Yummy Foods factory turns into trouble for Scooby and the gang. Dear, sweet Dr. Jenkins has turned into hideous Mr. Hyde. This monster-man threatens to poison every box of the company's newest cheese dish. His secret for...

  • My Bunny and Me

    Lindsay Barrett George

    A boy draws a rabbit on a piece of paper. Then he thinks of all the things he and the rabbit could do together, if only the rabbit were real...

    Creation takes place on many levels. And imagination is at the core. This story of creating, lov...

  • Lone Star Knight

    Cindy Gerard

    THE GENTLEMAN RANCHER Billionaire Matt Walker was not a man who walked away from what he wanted. And what he wanted was the hand of Lady Helena Reichard. The darling of the paparazzi, Helena had recently been through hell and back -- emerging a ch...

  • The Year the Cloud Fell

    Kurt R.A. Giambastiani

    In a strange, alternate-history nineteenth-century American West, President George Armstrong Custer sends his son on a mission in an experimental dirigible to chart the locations of enemy Native Americans, but the young man is forced to crash land hi...

  • Recent History

    Anthony Giardina

    When Luca Carcera is twelve years old, his father moves out under mysterious circumstances. He surfaces across town, in a run-down rooming house, living with another man. Luca is equally surprised by his mother’s burgeoning sexuality after her hu...

  • The Parables of Joshua

    Joseph Girzone

    In the latest chapter of his bestselling Joshua series, Joseph Girzone offers fresh inspiration in this collection of fifty never-before-published contemporary vignettes that underscore the most important lessons of the gospel.Joseph Girzone's novels...

  • Don't Wake Daddy!

    Jackie Glassman

  • The Phil and Lil Go to the Doctor

    Becky Gold

    When Phil and Lil question why they have to go to the doctor's office for a checkup, their friend Susie informs them that they are going to be checked for bugs and the twins are delighted with this news and can't wait to get to the doctor's office! O...

  • Peter Cottontail: Sponge Art

    Golden Books

  • Straight on 'Til Morning

    Christopher Golden

    To rescue Nicole French, the young lady on whom he has a crush, from the enigmatic new boy in town, Pete Starling, Kevin Murphy and his friends must venture into a perilous, nightmarish world from which they may never escape. Original....

  • Sweet Destiny

    Leticia Gomez

    Despite his doctor's orders, taking it easy is the last thing on Miami tycoon Enrique leman's mind when he arrives at a cozy bed and breakfast. But the moment he meets is raven-haired hostess, he realizes some R&R--relaxation and romance--might not b...

  • Paradise Park

    Allegra Goodman

    Allegra Goodman has delighted readers with her critically acclaimed collections Total Immersion and The Family Markowitz, and her celebrated first novel, Kaaterskill Falls, which was a national bestseller and a National Book Award finalist. Abandoned...

  • Wife by Arrangement

    Lucy Gordon

    Heather felt humiliated when Lorenzo Martelli jilted her at the altar. She blamed his brother Renato for what had happened and was astonished when everyone insisted Renato make amends by taking his brother's place in an arranged marriage with her! ...

  • Dying to Have Her

    Heather Graham

    Soap opera diva Serena McCormack's road to success has taken a deadly turn. Her costar has been murdered on the set. Worse yet, all the clues point to Serena as the intended victim. Enter Private Investigator Liam Murphy -- a man to whom she's undeni...

  • When the Cold Wind Blows

    Charles L. Grant

    Paranormal investigator Ethan Proctor and his Black Oak Security team journey to the swampy woodlands northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, to look into a series of bizarre disappearances and brutal mutiliations that could be linked to a real-life wolfman. ...

  • Tyler's Cape

    Darren Greer

    When Luke Conrad's aging mother breaks her hip he returns to the Nova Scotian fishing village of Tyler's Cape to take care of her. There, as he begins to remember the childhood he has worked so hard to forget, Luke unearths a secret in his mother's p...

  • Walk, Don't Run

    Pamela Griffin
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    Dogs Play Matchmakers in Four Modern Love Stories -- Contemporary novellas with pets as major contributors to each story's romance. Authors: Lauralee Bliss, Pamela Griffin, Dina Leonhardt Koehly, and Gail Sattler....

  • Grandaddy and Janetta Together

    Helen V. Griffith

    A chapter book just right for reading aloud and reading alone collects the three previously released titles, Grandaddy's Place, Grandaddy and Janetta, and Grandaddy's Stars together in one book....

  • The Street

    Lee Gruenfeld

    A razor-sharp, blisteringly on-target thriller set in the world of dot-com start-up madness. James Vincent Hanley, a Wall Street Stockbroker specializing in Internet start-ups and unhappily slaving away for a subsistence wage of only $300,000, finall...

  • Gaspard on Vacation

    Anne Gutman

    Gaspard on Vacation is one of two titles launching the Misadventures of Gaspard and Lisa series. While on vacation, Gaspard escapes from his family's endless visits to museums and embarks on his own exciting adventure. He finds a little red kayak--th...

  • The Girl with 500 Middle Names

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    JANIE WHO?It's hard enough being the new kid in school. It's even tougher when all of your new classmates live in big houses and wear expensive clothes, while your parents have little and are risking everything just to give you a chance at a better l...

  • Anna on the Farm

    Mary Downing Hahn

    Anna is thrilled when she receives an invitation to leave hot, sticky Baltimore and visit her aunt and uncle on their farm, where she’ll be able to go barefoot, swim in the pond, and drink fresh-squeezed lemonade. But when she arrives, she’s gree...

  • Separate Bedrooms...?

    Carole Halston

    HE HAD MARRIED FOR CONVENIENCE... Widower Neil Griffen thought he'd never marry again. But when lovely Cara LaCroix told him her plan to find herself a temporary husband to fulfill her beloved grandmother's dearest wish, Neil knew he'd trust her t...

  • Blast off, Splash Down!

    Cynthia Hands

  • Summer Island

    Kristin Hannah

    Years ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters behind. Now she is a famous talk show host. Her daughter, Ruby, is a struggling comedienne. The two haven't spoken in more than a decade. Then a scandal from Nora's past is expo...

  • When I Grow Up

    Charise Harper

    When you grow up do you want to be adventurous? Maybe generous? How about confident? Or fair? In brightly colored collage illustrations filled with imaginative detail, artist Charise Mericle Harper celebrates some of the qualities most admired in peo...

  • The Twylight Tower

    Karen Harper

    It is May 1560. Less than two years have passed since the daughter of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn ascended the throne. As sinister storm clouds gather overhead, twenty-six-year-old Queen Elizabeth bids Godspeed to William Cecil, her most trusted ...

  • Hattie's Year

    HarperCollins

    In 1882 Hattie Knowlton, a fourteen-year-old orphan, joins her cousin Sophie in attending boarding school at Miss Bulkley's Seminary for Young Ladies in Tarrytown, New York, and tries to find her place in the world....

  • Heart Rings: A Novella

    Robin Lee Hatcher
    in

    Three mothers' stories...three miracles of God While cleaning in a tiny old church, Beth Williams finds a gallon- sized mason jar filled with an odd assortment of items. "It's the Story Jar," explains Mrs. Halley, the newly widowed pastor's wife. ...

  • A Pet of a Pet

    Marsha Hayles

  • Breaking the Rules

    Sandra Heath

    Mystical matchmaking... When comely young Ursula Elcester learns that her father has arranged her marriage, she has no reason to celebrate. She is perfectly content to spend her days translating ancient Celtic texts and investigating the mysterio...

  • Snorlax Takes a Stand

    Sarah E. Heller / S.E. Heller