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  • Wizard or Witch?

    Tony Abbott

    A hidden door. A magical staircase. Discover the world of Droon!Keeah, a junior wizard, has always dreamed of the day she would receive her Wizardbook. So when her mother presents her first one, Keeah is overjoyed. But what she doesn't realize is how...

  • Lisa33

    Dan Allan

    It’s circa 1999 and the first sex chat rooms are in full swing. Late at night as his family sleeps, “Tag,” a lawyer trapped in the golden handcuffs of a loveless marriage, makes his inaugural visit to the newly launched Literoticus.com. He can...

  • The Earl's Intended Wife

    Louise Allen

    Hebe Carlton had little idea of her own charm until Major Alex Beresford arrived on the island of Malta. She made no attempt to cast out lures and treated him with warm practicality, showing an insight and ability to read him that few others had mana...

  • I'm Not Scared

    Niccolo Ammaniti

    The international bestselling novel “of childhood innocence lost in rural Italy [is] a gripping read … a deft masterpiece with never a false note” (The Guardian, UK).A BBC Two Between The Covers Book Club PickSouthern Italy, 1978. In the midst ...

  • A Special Day For Mommy

    Dan Andreasen

  • Earth Colors

    Sarah Andrews

    PAINT BY MURDER Unemployed professional geologist and sometime FBI consultant, Emm Hansen desperately needs work. So when her best friend Faye tells her that she knows someone who could use Em's expertise as a geologist to authenticate a painting,...

  • Drive Me Crazy

    Kate Angell

    GOOD VIBRATIONS Cade Nyland didn't think that anything good could come of the new dent in his classic black Sting Ray, even if it did happen at the hands of a sexy young woman. He was determined to win his twelfth road rally race of the year. Litt...

  • Fools Rush In

    Judith Arnold
    in

    This April 1, anything is possible... Dare to discover... Thanks to a radio gag, Mark Lavin and Claire O'Connor find themselves "engaged" -- even though they don't know eachother! But when Mark and Claire try to prove otherwise, they find that th...

  • Office Policy

    A.C. Arthur

    The Assignment… Cienna Turner is coerced into working on a sexual harassment case with Keith Page, who just so happens to be the most attractive man she's ever seen. Keith is delighted when he finds out he'll be working closely with the sexy, unatt...

  • Lord Hawkridge's Secret

    Anne Ashley
    in

    REGENCY INTRIGUE AND SPLENDOR IN LONDON HIGH SOCIETY Miss Emily Stapleton broke her engagement to Lord Sebastian Hawkridge nearly five years ago upon discovering that he was in love with another. Now she's become entangled in something dark an...

  • Dirty South

    Ace Atkins

    What would you do if you only had twenty four hours to save the life of a friend? Searching for lost souls and solving problems was never Nick Travers's intention when he started doing favors for his buddies. A former football player who sometimes...

  • A Perfect Life?

    Dawn Atkins

    In reality, she has an advertising job headed for permanent entry-level, a pricey apartment and a rat of a boyfriend. So now she has to make her wish come true. But she can get this figured out, right? She just has to hit on the plan and her life ...

  • Wildfire!

    Annie Auerbach

  • Batman: Mad Hatter

    Brian Augustyn

    This early chapter book starring Batman and his enemy the Mad Hatter has forty pages and full-color comic-book style illustrations.

    Kids will enjoy this early chapter book as they read an adventure-filled story featuring a favorite and timeles...

  • Uncanny X-Men Vol. 4: The Draco

    Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #428-434. What is the shocking secret behind Azazel and what does it have to do with Nightcrawler? Plus, Juggernaut and Northstar take on the Canadian Alpha Flight....

  • Hellbenders

    James Axler

    POINT OF NO RETURN Out of the ashes of the conflagration that savaged mankind two centuries ago, Deathlands was born--a tortured testament to a world long gone. Vet, in this kill-or-be-killed world where justice is the way of the past and blood is l...

  • The Song That Never Ends

    Steven Banks

    Squidward is doing some cleaning and gives SpongeBob SquarePants an old toy guitar to get him out of his tentacles for the day. But when SpongeBob and Patrick crank up the guitar, it breaks-and the guitar just keeps playing and playing....

  • Wild Cherry's Secret

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • Another Perfect Catastrophe: and Other Stories

    Brad Barkley

    In the spirit of Tobias Wolff and Richard Ford, these ten chilling, deeply felt stories from acclaimed author Brad Barkley explore the complexity of male friendships and marital relationships. Among the stories is "The Way It's Lasted," in which Bill...

  • Deep Pockets

    Linda Barnes

    FROM THE IVORY TOWER... Harvard professor Wilson Chaney has a secret and somebody knows it. His adulterous affair with a freshman ended just weeks before she wound up dead. The sole trace of his infatuation is a stack of missing love letters--and th...

  • The House on the Beach

    Linda Barrett

    Sea View House in Pilgrim Cove offers its residents the sea, the sun, the sound of the surf and the call of the gulls. But sometimes serenity is only an illusion... Laura McCloud has come back to Pilgrim Cove -- the source of her fondest childhood...

  • TruckDogs

    Graeme Base

    In a far-off desert world, evolution has taken an unexpected turn. The dominant life form is a creature covered in fur with steel panels beneath. It gnaws on bones and sniffs lampposts but fills up on oil, brake fluid, and petrol to keep running. And...

  • Torey's Prayer

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Torey Mitchell witnessed the cold-blooded murder of a man she didn't know - and her stepfather, who committed the crime, tries to convince her that what she saw makes her just as guilty as he. Terrified, she runs away - and ends up in the loving home...

  • Grounds to Believe

    Shelley Bates

    He'd find Kailey someday. One assignment at a time. One prayer at a time . . . Ever since a cult took his daughter, police investigator Ross Malcolm's mission has been to protect children. So when a secretive sect in Hamilton Falls, Washington, c...

  • Acts of God

    James BeauSeigneur

    Combining the intrigue of Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) with the scientific accuracy and suspense of Michael Crichton, James BeauSeigneur concludes his powerful epic of man's ultimate destiny and its inextricable ties to Christopher Goodman-the clone...

  • Generation S.L.U.T.

    Marty Beckerman

    The first exploration of the sex lives of modern teens, as reported from the frontlines by twenty-year-old Marty Beckerman. Innovatively combining fact and fiction, the book is filled with mind-shattering stats, news reports, and confessions from ad...

  • Beyond Infinity

    Gregory Benford

    Takes a scientist's imagination to the uttermost ends of time. Set more than a billion years from now, the novel begins with a young woman who yearns to escape the rigid, timeless Earth she knows. So she flees, in the company of an intelligent beast ...

  • A Heart Divided

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    Is the Confederate battle flag a racist symbol -- or a proud reminder of Southern heritage? When Kate’s liberal-minded family moves from the suburbs of New York City to a small town near Nashville, Kate is convinced her life is over. Redford lives ...

  • An Unforgettable Lady

    Jessica Bird

    She thought she had everything she ever wanted-- until she met the only man she'd ever need. . . . Forced into the spotlight by her fabulous wealth, heiress Grace Hall isn't always prepared for the consequences of her standing. When a string of ...

  • Call the Devil by His Oldest Name

    Sallie Bissell

    Haunted by the death of her mother and tortured by the secret that died upon her best friend's lips, assistant district attorney Mary Crow is obsessed with finding the man who holds the key to both those tragedies. When her infant goddaughter is k...

  • Where Heaven Begins

    Rosanne Bittner

    With rough miners stampeding to the Klondike's golden hills as her shipmates, Elizabeth Breckenridge sets sail for Alaska to find her brother in Dawson. But when Elizabeth falls overboard midjourney, she is rescued by a man very unlike her minister b...

  • Leading Lady

    Lawana Blackwell

    IT ALL BEGAN OVER AN INNOCENT CUP OF TEA Bethia Rayborn, soon to be betrothed to her childhood beau and happily employed as the wardrobe mistress at London's Royal Court Theatre, is quite certain all her dreams have come true. But then the drama unf...

  • The Sexiest Dead Man Alive

    Jane Blackwood

    LEAVE IT TO HER TO FALL FOR A DEAD GUY... So cooking for a recluse isn't exactly the dream job of the century. That's okay with Rose Pisano. The outrageous salary he's offering more than makes up for the boring factor--and just may make her dream ...

  • Murder by Design

    Jon P. Bloch

    Rick Domino is at the very top in his world - which is Hollywood - and his stock in trade is celebrity gossip. His finances, however, are the pits and can't begin to pay for his copious good taste. So when his producer 'suggests' he be a guest on a p...

  • The Grave of God's Daughter

    Brett Ellen Block

    A woman is faced with the past she's tried to put behind her only to find that what transpired in her childhood has never been further away than her own shadow.The year is 1941. Rooted in the lonely outreaches of the Allegheny Mountains lies the town...

  • The Burglar on the Prowl

    Lawrence Block

    "Burglary is, I should point out, not a career I would recommend for anyone. The fact that I evidently can't give it up doesn't mean I'm not well aware of the disagreeably sordid nature of what I do." Bernie Rhodenbarr A philosophical yet practic...

  • Fat Chance

    Deborah Blumenthal

    As Americans throw themselves body, soul and pocketbook into the latest weight-loss craze, Maggie O'Leary's informed column about the pitfalls of dieting is the one sane voice crying out against the dietocracy. Plus-size Maggie, also known as America...

  • Nobody's Fool

    Stephanie Bond
    in

    This April 1, anything is possible... Dare to deceive... Eric McDaniels hatches up a prank he's sure will thaw boss Kate Randall's icy-cool exterior -- inventing a secret admirer. That is, until Kate's frosty facade melts just enough to reveal wa...

  • Outcasts of Rebel Creek

    Frank Bonham

    Four of the author's best stories are contained in this volume detailing the adventures of a gambler trying to clear his family name, a rancher who butts heads with a greedy cattle buyer, a gang of outlaws trying to survive the High Sierras, and a yo...

  • The Newsboys' Lodging-House: or The Confessions of William James--A Novel

    Jon Boorstin

    Part urban history, part thriller, part character study, this mesmerizing novel delves into the young life experiences of William James, the seminal nineteenth-century American thinker whose ideas have so profoundly influenced American thought. After...

  • Death of a Tart

    Kate Borden

    When single mother Peggy' Jean Turner succeeds her late husband as mayor of Cobb's Landing, she faces a major challenge: rescue the New England village from its financial woes. Now she's singing the praises of the wealthy miracle man who bought the l...

  • Second Chance at Love

    Irene Brand

    RAINBOWS ALWAYS FOLLOW THE RAIN College sweethearts Amelia Stone and Chase Ramsey had married right after graduation, but infidelity destroyed their young marriage. Now, more than a decade later, severe flooding in West Virginia had brought the...

  • Dream On

    Beverly Brandt

    HIS LOVE LIFE WAS A NIGHTMARE... Country singer Bradley Nelson always had big dreams. He's sure they're coming true until his debut album tanks, his record contract is cancelled, and his rock star girlfriend kicks him off her tour bus in Reno. Single...

  • A Real Hero

    Jean Brashear

    A man who can't walk away from trouble -- and a woman who's nothing but Traveling incognito, Zane MacAllister, Hollywood's hottest heartthrob, has at last eluded the rabid gossipmongers and curiosity seekers who trail him like a pack o...

  • Mortal Sin

    Laurie Breton

    Park Square. Mass Ave. The Combat Zone. All home to Boston's sex trade. Home also to runaways and lost souls, home to high rollers and politicians looking for action they can't find anywhere else. It is home, too, for Father Clancy Donovan, who spend...

  • Liquor

    Poppy Z. Brite

    Two line cooks decide to open their own restaurant in New Orleans in the second book in the Rickey and G-Man series by novelist Poppy Z. Brite. New Orleans natives Rickey and G-man are lifetime friends and down-and-out line cooks desperate to make ...

  • Good Morning Midnight

    Chip Brown

    A portrait of former Capitol Hill speechwriter Guy Waterman follows his decision to leave civilization and live off the land in a Vermont cabin, describing his passionate pursuit of mountain climbing and his controversial suicide. Reprint. 50,000 fir...

  • Fire and Sword

    Simon Brown

    A Kingdom at War In the kingdom of Grenda Lear, four magical Keys of Power augment the authority of the monarch. On her deathbed, Queen Usharna divides the Keys among her four children, hoping to bring continued peace and strength to the kingdom....

  • Driven to Distraction

    Dixie Browning

    STUMBLING INTO SEXY TROUBLE! In-the-know columnist Maggie Riley had a mission in mind: to write a scathing expose about a scam artist at an overpriced retreat. Seducing a woman out of house and home was a crime! But fate, and a pair of ill-fitting...

  • The Southern Belles of Honeysuckle Way

    Linda Bruckheimer

    Rebecca Jean Wooten St. Clair and her sister, Carleen, pack up their two teenage daughters and leave California via Route 66 for Blue Lick Springs, Kentucky, where they will celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of their mother, Lila Mae. Waiting for...

  • Transformers: Showdown

    Bob Budiansky

    The collections of the classic comic strips from the 80s continue with one of the most dramatic and searing slices of Transformers action ever put to print!

    As the Autobots unveil their new secret weapon, Omega Supreme, and the stage is set for th...

  • Inherit the Witch

    Laura J. Burns

    As the Charmed Ones know, it's difficult to adjust to the ideas of having powers and saving innocents -- that's one of the reasons that their Grams bound their powers until the sisters were ready to receive them. In fact, many witch clans keep the po...

  • Apocalypse Memories

    Laura J. Burns

    TIME'S UP Willow is back in Sunnydale, but she's terrified: She knows her powers will be needed soon, but she's afraid that if she uses them, it's back to being the Big Bad. She can feel something strange happening, but the other Scoobies don't s...

  • Crimson Hit

    Bob Burton

    THEY'LL RUN... Dev Shannon loves his job. He makes good money, travels all over, meets interesting people--and drags them off in chains to face justice. Dev is San Diego's top bounty hunter, and there's never a shortage of bad guys for him to bring...

  • Avengers/Thunderbolts, Volume 1

    Kurt Busiek

    Collecting for the FIRST TIME the inaugural Avengers/T-Bolts crossover, in time for this month's all-new AVENGERS/THUNDERBOLTS #1! The T-Bolts and Earth's Mightiest Heroes stand side-by-side against Count Nefaria, master of ionic energy! But before t...

  • Castaway Hearts

    Nancy Butler

    LOVE HO! Miss Lydia Peartree was looking forward to an afternoon pleasure cruise off the coast of Devon. But she didn't expect the captain of the Rook to have the appearance of a pirate and the manners of a sea dog. Captain Matthew Frobisher, ...

  • The Brotherhood of Blood

    J. Lee Butts

    Producer A. Maxwell Vought is determined to make a movie about one of Deputy U.S. Marshal Hayden Tilden's most harrowing adventures, the capture of the ruthless Crooke boys, a vicious gang of outlaws who brutally murdered Mary Beth Tall Dog and kidna...

  • Perfect Princess

    Meg Cabot

    Sleeping Beauty, Victoria, Cleopatra, Snow White, Elizabeth, Pocahontas, Mia Thermopolis: all princesses Do YOU have what it takes to be a princess? Princess Mia will help you find out...

  • Red Letter Day

    Colette Caddle

    Recently married to Dermot and tipped as Ireland's hottest new designer, Celine Moore is relaxed, happy and looking forward to an exciting future. Why then just five years later, is she barely able to hold her head up high in her local Dublin neighbo...

  • A Useful Affair

    Stella Cameron

    The Marquis of Granville's deadly efficiency makes him invaluable to the Crown. But his latest mission has nothing to do with his work for England and everything to do with avenging the murder of two members of his family. Killing would be too go...

  • The Price of Fame

    Joanna Campbell

    Christina saved Star from a stalker, but can she protect him from Brad Townsend?

    When Christina first moved Star to Townsend Acres to keep him safe from his stalker, she couldn't stand the thought of keeping him under Brad's roof. But no...

  • Let the Good Times Roll with Pirate Pete and Pirate Joe

    A.E. Cannon

  • A Stake of Holly

    Lillian Stewart Carl
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    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...

  • Where You Least Expect It

    Tori Carrington

    WALK. DON'T RUN.... Whatever was going to happen, Aidan Kendall had decided to stay and ride it out. The truth was, he was tired of running. Tired of packing up his suitcase and hitting the road to nowhere. Tired of being alone, keeping people at ...

  • Punk's Fight

    Ward Carroll

    Former fighter pilot Ward Carroll packs enough action and honesty to satisfy readers, critics, and Navy veterans alike.

    On a mission over Central Afghanistan, Punk is hit-and taken captive. After he escapes, the challenge isn't over. Because...

  • Dead Heat

    Caroline Carver

    A DARK HOMECOMING Georgia Parish left the small town of Nulgarra in northern Australia, vowing never to return. But her plane crashes in a remote rainforest, and soon Georgia finds herself back in Queensland struggling to comprehend a sinister fac...

  • Monkey Business

    Marc Cerasini

    Kim Possible and her best friend, Ron Stoppable, find new meaning in the phrase "gone bananas" when they discover the truth about world-famous scholar Lord Monty Fiske. The nobleman's obsession with something called Monkey Kung Fu has led him to spen...

  • Go, Spud, Go

    Keith Chapman

  • Miss Wonderful

    Loretta Chase

    Alistair Carsington really, really wishes he didn't love women quite so much. To escape his worst impulses, he sets out for a place far from civilization: Derbyshire -- in winter! There he hopes to kill two birds with one stone: avoid all tempta...

  • Carnal Gift

    Pamela Clare

    "I expect you to show my friend just how grateful you are. Your willingness is everything." With those harsh words, the hated Sasanach earl decided Brighid's fate: Her body and her virginity were to be offered up to a stranger in exchange for her ...

  • X-Treme X-Men, Volume 6: Intifada

    Chris Claremont

  • Up in Heaven

    Emma Chichester Clark

    Daisy is Arthur’s dog, and she’s devoted to him. But she’s very old, and lately she’s finding it hard to keep up with Arthur. One night, after she goes to sleep as usual, she wakes up in heaven. Heaven is a wonderful place, and Daisy loves it...

  • The Attraction

    Douglas Clegg

    When a group of teenagers checks out the "mystery" in the back of a gas station, which is the remains of an ancient mummy, they unwittingly bring the attraction to life, unleashing a demon that is hungry for flesh. Original....

  • Mimmy and Sophie: All Around the Town

    Miriam Cohen


    Homemade fun and simple pleasures abound

    Mimmy and Sophie are sisters who live in Brooklyn, New York, during the Great Depression. Even though their parents don't have a lot of money, Mimmy and Sophie still have lots of fun together, whet...

  • Pop Princess

    Rachel Cohn

    From the coauthor of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist comes “a slick and enjoyably glitzy read” (BCCB) that captures the struggles and glories of an ordinary teenage girl’s climb to celebrity.When fifteen-year-old Wonder Blake is plucked fr...

  • Pipestone Quest

    Don Coldsmith

    A Quest Into Legend
    From the moment he laid eyes on it, young Beaver of the Elk-dog People felt drawn to the spirit of the pipestone. Now he’s setting out on a vision quest to the only place the red stone can be mined: the Pipestone Quarry. Trav...

  • Redemption Street

    Reed Farrel Coleman

    In Redemption Street, ex-NYPD officer and freshly minted PI Moe Prager, travels up to a decaying Boscht Belt hotel to uncover the truth behind a decades old fire that killed seventeen people, including his high school crush. Away from his beloved Bro...

  • Reforming a Rogue

    Lynn Collum
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    Widowed Serena Morgan is appalled to discover that her uncle has consented to introduce her gentle cousin Jane to London's most notorious rake, the Viscount Durwyn. But while Wyn may be as infamous as Serena imagined, he's also far more tempting than...

  • Bad Men

    John Connolly

    On the Maine island once known as Sanctuary, policeman Joe Dupree is the guardian of its secrets, keeper of its memories. He knows that Sanctuary had been steeped in carnage once, centuries ago, when its settlers were betrayed to their enemies and sl...

  • The Singer of All Songs

    Kate Constable

    Kate Constable's lyrical, acclaimed fantasy debut--now in paperback!

    Calwyn has never been beyond the high ice-wall that guards the sisters of Antaris from the world of Tremaris. She knows only the rounds of her life as a novice ice priestess,...

  • Essential Punisher - Volume 1

    Gerry Conway

  • Magic Thinks Big

    Elisha Cooper

    Magic the cat isvery large, very round, and unable to make up his mind.

    Magic the cat issort of silly,sort of sleepy, andstuck in one spot.

    Look!Magic the catmay not be moving,but his imaginationhas taken flight.

    ...

  • The Wedding Season

    Darcy Cosper

    SEVENTEEN WEDDINGS. SIX MONTHS. ON THE STRONG SURVIVE. Joy Silverman and her boyfriend, Gabriel Winslow, seem perfect for each other. Living together in New York City, they have everything they want and everything in common--most important, that nei...

  • The Best of Everything

    Francine Craft

    SOMETIMES, THE SECRETS AND SORROWS OF THE PAST... Sherrie Pinson was devastated when her husband, Michael, was killed. Now, as the beauty salon owner struggles to make a new life for herself and her young daughter Tressa, Byron Tate intrudes on her ...

  • Desert Spring

    Michael Craft

    After a long and successful career as a theatre director in Manhattan, fifty-something Claire Gray succumbed to a tempting offer to establish the theatre department at the new and very well funded Desert Arts College in Palm Springs. It has proven to...

  • Hot Plastic

    Peter Craig

    "[A] compulsively readable joy ride." -- Richard North Patterson "As close to the day-to-day workings of modern con men as any sane person would want to get. Hot Plastic is a fascinating look at changing times on the grift." -- Nicholas Pileggi, auth...

  • Heartbeat

    Sharon Creech

    RUN RUN RUN. That's what twelve-year-old Annie loves to do. When she's barefoot and running, she can hear her heart beating . . . thump-THUMP, thump-THUMP. It's a rhythm that makes sense in a year when everything's shifting: Her mother is pregnant...

  • The DeWilde Affair

    Jasmine Cresswell

    The elegant DeWilde stores -- famous for making bridal fantasies come true. Now the love that built the DeWilde dynasty threatened to shatter it... Gabriel DeWilde had no idea why his supposedly happy parents, Grace and Jeffrey DeWilde, were divor...

  • Mr. Pickwick vs. the Body Snatchers

    Bill Crider
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    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...

  • To Make Men Free

    Richard Croker

    It was the battle that altered the tides of war ... and the fate of a nation. On September 17, 1862, in Sharpsburg, Maryland, more than 23,000 Union and Confederate soldiers were killed or wounded, making the Battle of Antietam the bloodiest day i...

  • Private Indiscretions

    Susan Crosby

    DISCRETION ADVISED Forced by her very public persona to control her emotions, Dana Sterling found herself at a loss when she came face-to-face with Sam Remington. After more than a decade apart, he was suddenly back in her life, her only chance at...

  • The Birthday Doll

    Jane Cutler


    Pretty is as pretty does

    Franny gets two dolls for her birthday. Rose has yellow curls, big blue eyes, and a frilly dress. She chants "Ring around the Rosy" when you squeeze her hand. Suzie is an old rag doll, all floppy and faded. Franny'...

  • The Alpine Pursuit

    Mary Daheim

    As her myriad of fans can attest, USA Today bestselling author Mary Daheim creates wonderful mysteries peopled with marvelous characters as quirky as they are endearing. The Seattle Times says Daheim is "one of the brightest stars in our city's liter...

  • A Family for Tory

    Margaret Daley

    HEALING HEARTS... Just when Victoria Alexander was ready to abandon her lifelong dream of having a family, she bonded with a special child whose needs outweighed her own. Now Tory would do anything to help the little girl -- even if it meant marry...

  • Heaven Lake

    John Dalton

    Heaven Lake is about many things: China, God, passion, friendship, travel, even the reckless smuggling of hashish. But above all, this extraordinary debut is about the mysteries of love.Vincent Saunders has graduated from college, left his small home...

  • Jamela's Dress

    Niki Daly

    Jamela gets in trouble when she takes the material intended for a new dress for Mama, parades it in the street, and allows it to become dirty and torn. But there is a happy ending in store for "Kwela Jamela African Queen," and just in time.
    ...

  • Lilly's Dream

    Peggy Darty

    All Lilly Brown ever wanted is a family of her own to love. When a strange man arrives with information about the mother Lilly never knew, her heart burns with hope. But how can an orphan girl claim a birthright in one of the wealthiest families in N...

  • Undead and Unwed

    Maryjanice Davidson

    From Just-Laid-Off Secretary to Queen of the Undead... It's been a helluva week for Betsy Taylor. First, she loses her job. Then, to top things off, she's killed in a car accident. But what really bites (besides waking up in the morgue dressed in ...

  • A Slow Walk to Hell

    Patrick A. Davis

    Air Force investigator Martin Collins is used to bucking the system in the name of justice. But when he is called on to investigate the torture-style slaying of Major Franklin Talbot, Collins is embroiled in the most controversial case of his career....

  • The Long Suit

    Philip Davison

    When a corpse turns up with a bullet hole in the forehead on the green of a posh Long Island golf course, former freelance MI5 operative Harry Fielding is called in to investigate and finds himself paired with a volatile, troublemaking new partner, J...

  • Babar's Rescue

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • Genesis

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    The Hive: a subterranean genetic research facility owned and operated by Umbrella, an immensely powerful corporation with interests in everything from human longevity to biowarfare. With computerized defenses and heavily armed human backup, the Hive ...

  • The Irish Village Murder

    Dicey Deere

    MURDER IN BALLYNAGH... Despite County Wicklow's dismal autumn rain, American translator Torrey Tunet is happy to be back in Ireland after a European assignment. She's longing for a lovely peat fire in her Ballynagh cottage when she spots a forlorn c...

  • The Ghost of Cutler Creek

    Cynthia DeFelice

    Allie Nichols has hardly laid the last spirit to rest when she's sure that another one is trying to reach her. But how can Allie help a ghost who won't speak? All she has to go on is a sound -- a sort of whine -- and a smell. At the same time, a stra...

  • Antonio's Wife

    Jacqueline DeJohn

    From the glamorous uptown world of opera to the seedy underbelly of New York City's worst tenements, a page-turning roller-coaster ride of kidnappings, betrayals, bribes, hidden identities, and twisted intrigues By 1908 Francesca Frascatti has rea...

  • The Warrior

    Claire Delacroix

    Dear Reader, Alluring and dangerous, the Hawk of Inverfyre came to rest at my father's house, his motives unknown. His seduction was breathtaking. I resisted him, this enigmatic warrior, but his kiss transported me to a time and place where his re...

  • Hadrian's Wall

    William Dietrich

    It has stood for three centuries at the edge of an empire--a massive structure built to keep the Roman conquerors separate and safe from the barbarians. Now, in the year A.D. 368, a senator's daughter has come to Britannia's shores, a beautiful, enig...

  • A Meeting in the Ladies Room

    Anita Doreen Diggs

    In the rarefied world of Manhattan publishing, most of the intrigue takes place in the books. But all that is about to change for respected editor Jacqueline Blue. . . It's not easy being one of the few African Americans in an overwhelmingly white in...

  • Lizzie McGuire - Bind-Up #6 & #9

    Disney Book Group

    From the hit TV series on Disney Channel. Adapted by Jasmine Jones. Based on the series created by Terri Minsky. Part One is based on a teleplay written by Douglas Tuber & Tim Maile. Part Two is based on a teleplay written by Melissa Gould....

  • The Trouble Boy

    Tom Dolby

    In the tradition of Bright Lights, Big City and Less Than Zero, Tom Dolby has written a searing debut novel about going after what you really want without losing yourself in the process. Powerfully written, keenly felt, The Trouble Boy heralds an exc...

  • His Pregnant Princess

    Robyn Donald

    Hunter Radcliffe is like no other man Princess Lucia Bagaton has ever met. Giving herself to a commoner could cause a royal scandal. But then Lucia finds she's expecting Hunter's child! Hunter is insistent that they should marry; it will ...

  • Mama Loves

    Rebecca Kai Dotlich

    These are the things a mama loves:

    Dancing in slippers.Teapots of tea.Reading the paperand mornings with me!

    Mama always finds ways to share life's moments big and small with all her little ones. Tenderly illus...

  • Scrogged: A Cyber Christmas Carol

    Carole Nelson Douglas
    in

    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...

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    Robert B. Downs

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  • Head Games

    Eileen Dreyer

    Molly Burke, death investigator and trauma nurse for St. Louis's Grace Hospital, has her own share of lifelong demons. It makes her the perfect candidate to help the troubled children who have passed through her ER over the years. So many of them Mol...

  • Bluegrass Baby

    Judy Duarte

    FROM MIDWIFE TO MOTHER-TO-BE... One night of heart-stealing passion left Milla Johnson wanting much more from Dr. Kyle Bingham. But settling down wasn't in the gorgeous resident's game plan. And the practical-minded midwife had her own future to t...

  • Fagin's Revenge

    Brendan DuBois
    in

    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...

  • One Day the Ice Will Reveal All Its Dead

    Clare Dudman

    A fictional biography of German meteorologist Alfred Wegener follows the groundbreaking scientist from his 1880 birth to his final Arctic exploration in 1930, discussing the offbeat scientific adventures and exploits that marked his life--from a reco...

  • Bulletproof Bride

    Diana Duncan

    KIDNAPPED! Tessa Beaumont's life was well-ordered and well kept, and she was well on her way to the altar when Special Agent Gabe Colton stormed into her workplace -- her life -- sporting a ski mask and brandishing a gun -- and took her hostage! S...

  • Mourning Ruby

    Helen Dunmore

    Abandoned as a baby, with no ties to her parents, Rebecca grows up to create her own unique and unorthodox family consisting of Joe, a historian and loyal friend; her husband Adam, Joe's friend; and Ruby, her beloved daughter, until a terrible blow t...

  • The Bookman's Promise

    John Dunning

    Denver cop-turned-bookseller Cliff Janeway has just paid a hefty sum to acquire a real gem: a signed first edition by famed nineteenth-century explorer Sir Richard Francis Burton. But does he truly own the rare book? An elderly woman claims her grand...

  • Cold Deck, Hot Lead

    J.T. Edson

    In this game, the winning hand is the one that holds the gun!

    A cardsharp with a conscience, Frank Derringer comes to the crooked town of Tribune, Kansas, looking to even a score or two. But after cheating the cheaters who robbed a good frie...

  • The House of the Red Candle

    Martin Edwards
    in

    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...

  • Murder Can Botch Up Your Birthday

    Selma Eichler

    No one can say that Desiree Shapiro, New York's chubbiest PI, isn't a soft touch. That's why when teenager Vicky Pirrelli wants to find out who really killed her father's mistress--a crime for which he went to jail--Desiree decides to ignore all the ...

  • The Red Branch Tales

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

    Randy Lee Eickhoff continues his translation of the Ulster Cycle, often referred to as the Red Branch Cycle, the large corpus of work that is primarily responsible for establishing the cultural identity of today's Ireland.In this collection of Irelan...

  • A Hasty Betrothal

    Dorothy Elbury

    An engagement of convenience When Robert, Viscount Sandford, agrees to take Harriet Cordell as his betrothed it is purely an act of convenience -- and most definitely short-term! Escaping an undesirable forced marriage, she simply needs a temporar...

  • The Greatest Cat Stories Ever Told

    Charles Elliott

    Fascinating, frustrating, frolicsome, or frosty -- this treasury filled with 30 tales of memorable felines is a testament to the amazing variety of kitty personalities. Who knows what goes on in their furry little heads? Some of our most famous write...

  • Jury of One

    David Ellis

    Children’s rights advocate Shelly Trotter is out of her depth in criminal court, defending a sixteen-year-old accused of a killing a cop. She took the case because she has a connection to the kid dating back to his troubled younger days, when the c...

  • Dot in the Universe

    Lucy Ellmann

    It's your worst nightmare: instead of being dead, you're alive!

    Dot thinks she's perfect, with her blond hair, pointy nose, and pink skin. She lives on the east coast of England with her magnificent hubby, cooking him gourmet meals and crash...

  • Death in Dover

    P.N. Elrod
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    The plot Dickens... In the pages of his novels, Charles Dickens railed against injustice in all its forms--the miserliness of Ebenezer Scrooge, the indifference of the aristocracy, the cruelty of Fagin. He captured the bitter unfairness of the cla...

  • Someone Bigger

    Jonathan Emmett

  • Thor: Vikings

    Garth Ennis

  • Stink Soup

    Jill Esbaum

    A summer trip abounding in tomatoes and mischief

    Annabelle and her little brother, Willie, are spending the week at Granny's. Annabelle, who has promised to keep her brother out of trouble, can't decide which is worse: being responsible for Wi...

  • Celestial Harmonies

    Peter Esterhazy

    The Esterházys, one of Europe's most prominent aristocratic families, are closely linked to the rise and fall of the Hapsburg Empire. Princes, counts, commanders, diplomats, bishops, and patrons of the arts, revered, respected, and occasionally f...

  • Longarm and the Great Milk Train Robbery

    Tabor Evans

    This case is leaving Longarm with a sour taste…U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long has been assigned to some strange cases in his time, but none stranger than the milk train holdups occurring outside the small town of Trinidad, Colorado. Instead of har...

  • Watch Out!

    Jan Fearnley

    A little one’s unbridled enthusiasm is a mother’s special challenge in this tender, amusing story that offers a sweet final twist.

    Wilf is a little mouse who is bursting with energy and full of fun. He loves to run and skip and climb and j...

  • The Bride Hunt

    Jane Feather

    Hailed for her captivating blend of romance and sensuality, New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather has enchanted readers and critics alike. In this second book in her dazzling new trilogy, Constance, Prudence, and Chastity Duncan, London's mo...

  • Digging Up Trouble

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    Joanne Ferguson returns with another engaging tale of Regency mayhem--and murder--featuring the intrepid Sir Neville Hathaway and his enchanting partner, Lady Priscilla Flanders. About to be wed, they return to his magnificent ancestral estate upon t...

  • A Family of His Own

    Liz Fielding

    Could they be a family? Picking blackberries in a derelict garden with her little girl had the most unexpected outcome for Kay Lovell: first Kay was kissed by a tall, dark and brooding stranger, and then he hired her as his gardener! Kay did her b...

  • The Oracle Betrayed

    Catherine Fisher

    Mirany and Seth hold the future in their hands The High Priestess interprets the wishes of the god as conveyed through the Oracle. Mirany serves the High Priestess. But when the god speaks to Mirany, she realizes that the High Priestess does not hea...

  • Radio Activity

    Bill Fitzhugh

    When a DJ stops showing up for work at WAOR-FM, Rick Shannon moves back to Mississippi to take the night shift. No sooner than he settles into the job, Rick finds a mysterious reel of tape that just might explain what happened to the missing DJ. His ...

  • A Passionate Girl

    Thomas Fleming

    Beautiful, rebellious Bess Fitzmaurice is mesmerized by Dan McCaffrey, an American of Irish descent who has come to Ireland to aid the Fenian revolt against British tyranny. He appears in her home on May Eve 1865, fleeing British forces. To Bess, Dan...

  • Fudge Cupcake Murder

    Joanne Fluke

    BAKERY OWNER HANNAH SWENSEN JUST CAN'T KEEP HER HANDS OUT OF THE BATTER WHEN MURDER STIRS THINGS UP IN LAKE EDEN, MINNESOTA, LEAVING THE SHERIFF DEAD, A DEPUTY ACCUSED, AND A KILLER ON THE LOOSE... For Hannah, life seems to be lacking a certain fl...

  • Crave

    Darnella Ford

    Dear Jesus, Gerry didn't work out because Gerry didn't work. And after spending one night in complete darkness because "pretty didn't pay the light bill," Gerry and I broke up and are no longer speaking. Marshall wasn't a viable suitor because ...

  • Heat of Fusion: And Other Stories

    John M. Ford

    John M. Ford is an astonishingly versatile writer. He has written award-winning fantasy novels (The Dragon Waiting, winner of the 1984 World Fantasy Award), award-winning fantasy role-playing games (The Yellow Clearance Black Box Blues), New York ...

  • The Last King

    Michael Curtis Ford

    ROME'S MOST RESPECTED AND FEARED ENEMY... To the Romans, the greatest enemy the Republic ever faced was not the Goths or Huns, nor even Hannibal, but rather a ferocious and brilliant king on the distant Black Sea: Mithridates Eupator VI, the last ...

  • The Secret Life of Bryan

    Lori Foster

    Jaded bounty hunter Bryan Kelly is head-over-hormones in lust with a woman...and what she does to his senses is criminal. Double Trouble Bryan Kelly has a few rules. Rule #1: Women are for fun, not commitment. Rule #2: He'll do anything for his tw...

  • Going to Grandma's Farm

    Betsy Franco

  • Kren of the Mitchegai

    Leo Frankowski; Dave Grossman

    THE VIRTUAL-REALITY MERCENARIES FACE A NEW MENACE--AND THERE'S NOTHING VIRTUAL ABOUT IT! First, the involuntary colonists of New Kashubia rescued their planet from crushing debt by becoming virtual-reality mercenaries, then they successfully revol...

  • It's All True

    David Freeman

    Henry Wearie is a man with a brilliant future behind him.He arrived in Hollywood barely twenty-one, having escaped from a confusing family and New York University. He got hot fast, selling a big-money script. He was on his way up -- though not quite ...

  • Manuelo, The Playing Mantis

    Don Freeman

    One warm summer evening, a lonely praying mantis named Manuelo listens to the music of an outdoor concert.  Manuelo wishes that he, too, could make music like the crickets and the katydids.  But the instruments he makes don't play.  Then Manuelo m...

  • Triple Cross

    Brian Freemantle

    When Moscow's Organized Crime Bureau chief Dimitri Danilov teams up once more with William Cowley, head of the FBI's Russian desk, their attempt to thwart a unified global mafia makes for Brian Freemantle's most unique and explosive Danilov/Cowley th...

  • Shadow Account

    Stephen Frey

    His novels of big money and murder in the world of finance have earned New York Times bestselling author Stephen Frey a richly deserved reputation as a master of suspense who always delivers a high yield. Now he raises the stakes, and the risk factor...

  • The Prisoner of Vandam Street

    Kinky Friedman

    It's a case of malaria versus murder when private dick extraordinaire Kinky Friedman comes down with a tropical disease, in the jungle known as New York City, and is confined to his loft on Vandam Street in lower Manhattan, a prisoner in his own home...

  • Ride Like The Wind: A Tale Of The Pony Express

    Bernie Fuchs

    Award-winning artist Bernie Fuchs creates an exciting adventure about an orphan boy and his beloved horse as they ride the Pony Express.

    Known for their courage, self confidence, speed, and willingness to face adversity, the riders of the Pony...

  • The Willoughby Spit Wonder

    Jonathon Scott Fuqua

    In a poignant story of a family struggling against loss -- and a boy who would be a superhero -- Jonathon Scott Fuqua evokes, in rich detail, the long-ago era of the 1950s.

    He looked at her. "Minnie, have you ever wondered if maybe Mom’s...

  • Strangers in the Night

    Kristin Gabriel

    Josie's Scheme for Seduction 1. Sneak into Adam's apartment 2. Slip out of her clothes and under the sheets 3. Have the best sex of her life... with the wrong man? Librarian Josie Sinclair has never been wild or spontaneous...but she's about ...

  • Pretending With the Playboy

    Cathleen Galitz

    PURE FANTASY In order to help the Texas Cattleman's Club in their sting operation, Alexander Kent needed a make- believe wife. The notorious playboy was reluctant to let any woman play Mrs. Kent -- even temporarily. This made high school drama coa...

  • Southwesterly Wind

    Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza

    A young man predicts a murder and identifies the perpetrator -- himself -- in this third entry in the critically acclaimed Brazilian crime seriesWhen a terrified young man arrives at the station with a bizarre story, Chief Espinosa of the Copacabana ...

  • Hot and Sweaty Rex

    Eric Garcia

    As a velociraptor himself, PI Vincent Rubio jumps when asked to do a job for the raptor Mafia. He "tails" a rival hadrosaur first to Las Vegas, then to the racetracks of Miami, where he learns how raptors disguised as racehorses have been fixing race...

  • The Unexpected Sister

    Glenda Garland

    A MAN OF HONOR Though he fought bravely for King and Country, Lord Thomas Dashley lost a friend and fellow officer to a stealthy French attack...and it is whispered that he was to blame. He has returned to England under suspicion but determined to e...

  • Sanctuary

    Sharon K. Garner

    Sharon K. Garner (River of Dreams) returns with a new adventure romance! A double cross that keeps on giving, a Brazilian ex-mercenary who wants to live in peace, a children's book illustrator who's thrust into a danger she doesn't understand with a ...

  • Zee Is Not Scared

    Michel Gay

    In a not-too-scary ghost story, Zee the Zebra gets mad when his parents won't let him watch a scary movie with them, so he dresses up like a ghost to show them that he is not scared, but things don't go quite as planned....

  • To Tame a Rebel

    Georgina Gentry

    A Union Brave A Rebel soldier killed his brother. Now the fires of revenge burn in the soul of Creek warrior Yellow Jacket as he prepares to join his tribe in battle against his sworn enemies. To keep their plans secret, Yellow Jacket is forced to t...

  • My First Jumbo Book of Dinosaurs

    Melanie Gerth

    With "touch-and-feel" textures, holographic foil, cardboard flaps, and movable parts on every spread, children will enjoy endless, interactive fun!

    Kids love dinosaurs--their sizes, their shapes, and their long names. This book has all that, a...

  • The King Is Naked!

    Bruno Gibert

    It’s a blazing hot day in the jungle and the lion, King of Beasts, is sweltering. What’s that under his fur? Why, it’s a zipper! Now he can take off his fur coat and cool down. But when he goes for a walk in his underwear, the other animals mak...

  • Something Borrowed

    Emily Giffin

    Meet Rachel White, a young attorney living and working Manhattan. Rachel has always been the consummate good girl--until her thirtieth birthday, when her best friend Darcy throws her a party. That night, after too many drinks, Rachel ends up in bed w...

  • The King of America

    Samantha Gillison

    Loosely based on the mysterious 1961 disappearance of Michael Rockefeller, The King of America traces the short, brilliant life of Stephen Hesse, firstborn son of one of America’s wealthiest, most powerful men. After a lonely and restless childhood...

  • Borrowed Flesh

    Sephera Giron

    When Vanessa discovers the secret of immortality, which lies in the flesh of young virgins, she scours the world for victims, until she encounters something even more diabolical and powerful than herself, plunging her into a nightmarish realm of viol...

  • Daughter of Exile

    Isabel Glass

  • Minnie & the Superguys

    Jane Godwin

  • Hard

    Emma Gold

    Now she returns with the adventures of a new woman-about-London. From office politics (fending off the boss's advances; dating the co-worker's son) to bedroom diplomacy (no sleepovers past 3 a.m.; hetero lovemaking must be muffled so as not to offend...

  • The Bones of Giants

    Christopher Golden

    "So, at some point, the age of gods came to an end." Or so it was believed for eons...until Thrym the Hollow, Jotunheim's deposed King of the Frost Giants, rose from death. This time, he would not rest until his foes were eviscerated, and his...

  • Bird of Prey

    Tom Grace

    In space, a technological nightmare orbits the Earth, stalking its prey. Sheathed in a black multifaceted skin, a secret all but invisible against the darkness of space, the killer satellite hunts with one of the deadliest weapons ever created. It is...

  • Dead on the Dance Floor

    Heather Graham

    Accomplished dancer Lara Trudeau drops dead of a heart attack brought on by a lethal combination of booze and pills. To former private investigator Quinn O'Casey, it's a simple case of death by misadventure. But when his brother Doug, a Miami-Dade pa...

  • Judge Anderson: Triad

    Alan Grant

    In Mega-City One, some cases -- and some criminals -- are too bizarre for even the feared Judges (including Dredd!) to crack. That’s when they call for Psi Division, the élite psychic Judges -- and Psi’s top Judge, Cassandra Anderson!

    I...

  • Mallets Aforethought

    Sarah Graves

    Old Harlequin House is Eastport, Maine's most notorious landmark, once a hideout, hospital, and makeshift morgue for gangsters and their molls. Now Jake Tiptree and his friend Ellie White are refurbishing the mansion to host the local Historical Soci...

  • City

    Devin Grayson

    Over a decade ago, a child from a distant planet fell to Earth in a lethal hail of meteors that forever changed Smallville, Kansas. Now a teen, Clark Kent must master his unique abilities--while radiation from the glowing green meteor fragments mutat...

  • Space Stations

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Featuring contributions by such noted science fiction authors as Timothy Zahn, Julie E. Czerneda, and Gregory Benford, fourteen stories center around space stations throughout the galaxy, controlled by both humans and aliens, that are meccas for prof...

  • The Independent Bride

    Leigh Greenwood

    COLORADO TERRITORY, 1868: It is about as rough and ready as the West can get, a place and time almost as dangerous as the men who left civilization behind, driven by a desire for land, gold...a new life. FORT LOOKOUT: It is a rugged outpost where...

  • A Single Rose

    Pamela Griffin

    A CAT BURGLAR IS AT LARGE... ...and he always leaves a yellow rose at the scene of his crime. Florist Marissa Hughes becomes suspicious of Wadleyville's newest resident, a handsome Latino who routinely requests a single yellow rose when he visits ...

  • Lucifer's Dragon

    Jon Courtenay Grimwood

    Passion di Orchi is no more than the obscenely rich daughter of a West Coast mafia boss - until she decides to rebuild Venice. In the middle of the Pacific. A century later, with New Venice ossified into a puritanical elegance, the daughter of Count ...

  • Codex

    Lev Grossman

    Edward Wozny, a hotshot young banker, is about to leave for vacation when he is sent to help an important yet mysterious client. His task: search the family library for a precious, centuries-old codex that may not even exist. Enlisting the expertise ...

  • Signs and Wonders

    Philip Gulley

    “In a league with Jan Karon’s Mitford series . . . readers who seek pleasant, witty and occasionally poignant fiction will delight in this book.” -- Publishers WeeklyIt’s another bustling year in the lives of this quirky Quake...

  • Hallowed Bones

    Carolyn Haines

    A CASE OF MIRACLES, MAYHEM, AND MURDER Doreen Mallory is beautiful, mysterious -- and claims to have the gift of healing. But why couldn't she save her own daughter, who died mysteriously at ten weeks? Convinced of Doreen's guilt, local law is askin...

  • Taylor Five

    Ann Halam

    A gripping, deeply moving adventure raises startling questions about what it means to be human. Taylor Walker seems like any ordinary 14-year-old. Ordinary -- if you overlook the fact that she lives on the island of Borneo, on a primate reserve run b...

  • Into the Fire

    Jessica Hall

    Sable Duchesne is rescued from a burning warehouse in the New Orleans French Quarter. But another body is found in the rubble--the body of the favored candidate for governor of Louisiana. Evidence points to murder...and Sable is the only witness. ...

  • The Tooth Fairy

    Kirsten Hall

    My First Readers series is perfect for children who are learning to read.

    Easy-to-read text, a short-story format, and full-color artwork on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and fluency.

    When he loses a too...

  • I'm Not Scared

    Kirsten Hall

  • First Day of School

    Kirsten Hall

  • Oops!

    Kirsten Hall

  • Duck, Duck, Goose!

    Kirsten Hall

  • My Trucks

    Kirsten Hall

  • Birthday Beastie

    Kirsten Hall

  • Vote for Me

    Kirsten Hall

  • Deep Sea Adventures

    Kirsten Hall

    Discover a fish that swam in the sea before dinosaurs walked the earth. Explore the sunken ship Titanic. Find out why scientists can't find a giant squid alive! Dive into a deep sea adventure and see another world....

  • The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn

    Janis Hallowell

    A remarkable debut novel that 'dares us to imagine mystery in our lives, in our time㿠book that sends us away refreshed, with the potential to see the sacramental in the everyday' " Boston Globe Told from the viewpoints of four unforgettable char...

  • The View from Stalin's Head

    Aaron Hamburger

    The ten stories in The View from Stalin’s Head unfold in the post"Cold War Prague of the 1990s -- a magnet not only for artists and writers but also for American tourists and college grad deadbeats, a city with a glorious yet sometimes shameful h...

  • The Brother Quest

    Lori Handeland

    If anything ever happens to me, go to 445 Briar Lane, Wind Lake, Minnesota Colin Luchetti's brother Bobby is missing and the only clue is a cryptic note sending Colin to Wind Lake. What he finds when he gets there is unexpected -- a day-care ce...