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  • Boy, You're Amazing!

    Virginia Kroll

  • The New Lovecraft Circle

    Robert M. Price

    H. P. Lovecraft was the eerily prescient genius who first electrified readers in Weird Tales magazine. His tales changed the face of horror forever and inspired the bloodcurdling offerings of a new generation. These brilliant dark visionaries forge g...

  • The Labyrinth Key

    Howard V. Hendrix

    In a secret war waged in worlds both virtual and real, the fates of nations depend on the definitive weapon. And that weapon is knowledge -- knowledge to die for. . . .The race is heating up between the U.S. and China to develop a quantum computer wi...

  • Babe in Toyland

    Eugenie Seifer Olson

    A game that's fun for all ages! Some assembly required. . . . . . Step One: Open Box Warning: Some Pieces May Have Sharp Edges Former art student Toby Morris is twenty-five, and she knows she's supposed to be out there . . . somewhere . . ....

  • Devlin's Justice

    Patricia Bray

    LIVE FOR JUSTICE, DIE FOR THE SWORD Devlin of Duncaer has retrieved the Sword of Light--the legendary weapon of the Chosen One. But while Devlin was fulfilling his sacred quest, dark forces have swarmed the royal court. To defend his country's bor...

  • The Angel's Command

    Brian Jacques

    Ben and his black Labrador, castaways from the legendary ghost ship Flying Dutchman, swore never to go to sea again. But fate casts them adrift once more on a French pirate ship with two villainous seta-captains -- and a ghost -- in pursuit......

  • Dirty Little Lies

    Connie Lane

    Lacie Jo Baxter was born and bred to dazzle: with the perfect smile, the perfect figure, and the perfect look of pure midwestern wholesomeness. But within the determined small-town beauty queen are untouched desires and a daring that hasn't been test...

  • Hot Stuff

    Elaine Fox

    LOVE IS FOR LOSERS Or so Laurel Kane believes. After wasting too many years looking for "the One," the attractive, level-headed journalist for the Washington tabloid DC Scene is convinced that mad, passionate, crazy love is an impossibility past t...

  • The Seductive Impostor

    Janet Chapman

    The first in a dazzling duo of romances featuring two sisters from the ruggedly beautiful Maine coast...and the men who sweep them away. Rachel Foster wishes Sub Rosa -- the seaside mansion she helped her father build and the scene of a terrible ...

  • Your Wicked Ways

    Eloisa James

    Helene, the Countess Godwin, knows there is nothing more unbearably tedious than a virtuous woman. After all, she's been one for ten long years while her scoundrel of a husband lives with strumpets and causes scandal after scandal. So she decides...

  • A Time to Sow

    Dayton Ward; Kevin Dilmore

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...

  • It Takes a Hero

    Elizabeth Boyle

    Rebecca will have to take a page from her own book to keep the dashing Rafe Danvers from spoiling her success. But how does one play hard-to-get with a man one cannot resist? PASSION BY THE BOOK Rebecca Tate never intended to cause a revol...

  • In My Heart

    Melody Thomas

    A Breathless Passion After a whirlwind courtship and elopement, Lady Alexandra Marshall watched helplessly as her husband was shipped off by her irate father. An annulment followed, and though Alexandra waited with packed bags, Christopher never re...

  • Choke Point

    Ian Slater

    The fight against terrorism has reached the next level-- and now America will really go to war. A series of cataclysmic events is exploding around the world. Two divisions of Chinese ground troops move against a neighboring Muslim nation, while a...

  • The Lion of Senet

    Jennifer Fallon

    Under the ceaseless blaze of two suns, the people of Ranadon endure scorching heat, volcanoes, and earthquakes. People believe nature's volatility is the divine will of the Goddess, whose one emissary, the High Priestess Belagren, is in league with '...

  • American Gothic

    Michael Romkey

    Through the endless waltz of time, a man becomes a monster and a monster reclaims his humanity by saving one human soul. . . . 1863 Even the opium pipe and its dark dreams isn't enough to erase the memories that haunt Nathaniel Peregrine. His hom...

  • Celeste

    V.C. Andrews

    He was her mirror image. Now the mirror has cracked. Celeste and her identical twin brother, Noble, are as close as can be -- until a tragic accident takes Noble's life. It's a loss that pushes their mother, a woman obsessed with New Age superstit...

  • The Wedding Game

    Jane Feather

    In this dazzling finale to the latest trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Jane Feather, the inimitable, anonymous Duncan sisters continue to earn a living--and a reputation--with their clandestine matchmaking service. But a handsome new cl...

  • Advance and Retreat

    Harry Turtledove

    THE NORTH SHALL RISE AGAIN! When Avram became King of Detina, he declared he intended to liberate the blond serfs from their ties to the land. This noble assertion immediately plunged the kingdom into a civil war that would prove long and bloody, ...

  • Talon of the Silver Hawk

    Raymond E. Feist

    Evil has come to a distant land high among the snow-capped mountains of Midkemia, as an exterminating army wearing the colors of the Duke of Olasko razes village after village, slaughtering men, women, and children without mercy. And when the carnage...

  • The Well of Eternity

    Richard A. Knaak

    Many months have passed since the cataclysmic Battle of Mount Hyjal, where the demonic Burning Legion was banished from Azeroth forever. But now, a mysterious energy rift within the mountains of Kalimdor propels three former warriors into the distant...

  • No Phule Like an Old Phule

    Robert Asprin

    THE GAME IS AFOOT. Desperate to kick Phule out of the Space Legion, General Blitzkrieg sends a crack team of environmental investigators--including celebrity canine Barky the Environmental Dog--to sniff out Phule and his Omega Company's unnatural ...

  • The Master Quilter

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    The Master Quilter opens with the sound of wedding bells ringing in the ears of the Elm Creek Quilters. The close-knit group can hardly believe that their own Sylvia Compson planned her holiday wedding to sweetheart Andrew in complete secrecy, withou...

  • 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...

  • Firestorm

    Iris Johansen

    For Kerry Murphy, the inferno is never far away. The flames of that long-ago night still burn in her nightmares: the heat, the choking smoke, the helplessness. She can never run fast enough... Now Kerry works as an arson investigator with her evid...

  • Riding Lessons

    Sara Gruen

    As a world-class equestrienne and Olympic contender, Annemarie Zimmer lived for the thrill of flight atop a strong, graceful animal. Then, at eighteen, a tragic accident destroyed her riding career and Harry, her beloved and distinctively marked hors...

  • Summer of the Big Bachi

    Naomi Hirahara

    Hiroshima 1945. Los Angeles 1999. A summer of war. A summer of secrets. A summer of revenge. In the foothills of Pasadena, Mas Arai is just another Japanese American gardener, his lawn mower blades clean and sharp, his truck carefully tuned. But whi...

  • R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots

    Karel Capek

    A visionary work of science fiction that introduced the word "robot"

    Written in 1920, premiered in Prague in 1921, and first performed in New York in 1922 -- garnered worldwide acclaim for its author and popularized the word robot. Mass-produc...

  • Eleven Minutes

    Paulo Coelho

    Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a te...

  • No Bones About It!

    Nancy Krulik

    Katie is an ordinary third-grader -- except for one very extraordinary problem! She accidentally wished on a shooting star to be anyone but herself. But what Katie soon learns is that wishes really do come true -- and in the strangest ways . . . ...

  • Al Capone Does My Shirts

    Gennifer Choldenko

    MURDERERS, MOB BOSSES, AND CONVICTS... THESE GUYS ARE NOT YOUR AVERAGE NEIGHBORS. Not unless you live on Alcatraz. It's 1935 and twelve-year-old Moose Flanagan and his family have just moved to the infamous island that's home to criminals like notor...

  • Oliver the Mighty Pig

    Jean Van Leeuwen

  • Straydog

    Kathe Koja

    Rachel is happiest when she's volunteering at the animal shelter, especially after she meets the feral collie she names Grrl; they're both angry and alone. When a teacher encourages her to write about it, Rachel finds another outlet for her pain and ...

  • Sea Horses Talisman

    Louise Cooper

    Continuing the story in which Tamzin Weston and her guardian pony Moonlight confront the evil spirit of the Grey Horse. Tamzin and her new friend Marga are preparing for the pony Fun Day. But there's something suspicious about Marga and her pony Loss...

  • What's That Awful Smell?

    Heather Tekavec

    When all the animals on the farm decide that the horrible smell is coming from the new baby piglet, they collectively decide to help rid him of his odor by washing him, covering him in hay, and even decorating him with flowers to help improve his nat...

  • Me Baby,You Baby

    Ashley Wolff

  • Jess and the Stinky Cowboys

    Janice Davis Smith

    Dry Gulch becomes the smelliest town in the West when a posse of stinky cowboys arrive and refuse to take baths. Things get so bad, even the stinkbugs leave.

    No baths today! No baths tomorrow! No baths ever! roar the funky cowpokes.

    And ...

  • Time for Ballet

    Adele Geras

    Tilly loves her ballet class.  What could be more fun?  She gets to wear special clothes, try out fancy new positions, and do her best cat impression.  But, when it's time for the big recital, Tilly learns another aspect of ballet: the preperfo...

  • Itsy Bitsy,the Smart Spider

    Charise Mericle Harper

    Tired of always being washed back down the waterspout, Itsy Bitsy decides to use her wit and eight-legged strength to find a way to hold on tight when the rains come, in an amusing twist to the classic childhood rhyme....

  • Mother, May I?

    Lynn Plourde

  • Tender

    Valerie Hobbs

    After her beloved Gran dies, fifteen-year-old Liv goes to California to live with the father she has never known and must adjust to his gruff ways and his life as an abalone diver, so different from her life in New York City. By the author of Car...

  • Hamlet

    Bruce Coville

    Enhanced with brilliant illustrations, an adaptation of the classic Shakespearian play, with important lines incorporated from the play, provides readers with the tragic tale of the Prince of Denmark....

  • Cock-a-Doodle Moo!: A Mixed-Up Menagerie

    Keith DuQuette

    Introduces children to an assortment of strange hybrid creatures, such as the Tortare--the tortoise and the hare--and their unique traits and talents through an illustrated collection of short-and-simple poems....

  • Keeping Up with Roo

    Sharlee Glenn

    Having always been best friends with her mentally challenged aunt Roo, Gracie is suddenly experiencing a shift in their relationship as Gracie gets older, finds new friends, and discovers the differences between the two worlds in which they live....

  • When It's the Last Day of School

    Maribeth Boelts

    Desperately wanting the gold sticker for the last day of the school year, James is determined to do nothing wrong all day so that he can achieve his goal--even if that means no burping, spitting, or talking during Silent Reading....

  • Good Dog, Paw!

    Chinlun Lee

    With appealingly childlike artwork, Chinlun Lee shows a day in the life of an earnest little canine who will capture the hearts of the littlest dog lovers.

    I am Paw. I love April. April loves me.
    She’s my owner. She’s a vet.

    Paw ...

  • Hector and the Noisy Neighbor

    David Gavril

    Hector the rabbit doesn't like to be rude and so is having a difficult time finding a way to ask his noisy neighbor, Rutherford the pig, to stop making so much noise at all hours of the night, but Hector knows he will never have peace and quiet if he...

  • Prayer's Apprentice

    Timothy Jones

    Part prayer collection, part memoir, this book features 52 reflections on great prayers throughout history, from Psalms and Isaiah and such noted theologians as Augustine, C.S. Lewis, and Thomas Merton....

  • On the Hill

    Lisa Jahn-Clough / Lisa Clough

    Camille lives on one side of the hill, and Franzi lives on the other, but neither one knows that the other is there. They both love their own little houses and all of their animals, but something is missing. So one day Camille and Franzi each set off...

  • 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...

  • Her Private Dancer

    Cami Dalton

    He's got all the right moves... Phoebe Devereaux could never forget Trace McGraw. In college he used his moves to give her a night she'd never forget. Now he's using those talents as a male stripper on the cruise ship where she works as a showgirl...

  • The Marriage Agreement

    Carolyn Davidson

    SCAMS AND SCALAWAGS were all in a day's work for undercover government agent Gage Morgan. Songbird Lily Devereaux was not. No soiled dove, she was a lady in need of protection. But once vows were spoken, would he ever be able to let her go, as the...

  • Illegally Yours

    Jacqueline Diamond

    July 19, 1983... The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers -- Seattle's Kennedys. Their "compound" -- elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart. Twenty years later... Their children were reunited. Repressed...

  • Daddy's Little Memento

    Teresa Carpenter

    SURPRISE! YOU'RE A DAD! High school principal Alex Sullivan considered the new school nurse strictly off-limits. But when the leggy blonde turned up on his doorstep with a chubby-cheeked baby -- claiming Alex was the dad -- he knew his bachelorhoo...

  • Forever...Again

    Maureen Child

    A CHANCE WORTH TAKING Everything about Lily Cunningham, the newly arrived public relations maven of Merlyn County, put widower Ron Bingham on edge, from his nerves to his heart. But no amount of breath-stealing attraction would change the facts: R...

  • The Last Crawford Bachelor

    Judy Christenberry

    HOW TO LASSO A BACHELOR... In Michael Crawford's "Five Year Plan," marriage came dead last. Even if he wanted a wife, it wouldn't be the slender blonde who arrived at the Circle K claiming to be the long-lost granddaughter of the late childless ow...

  • The Mistress Purchase

    Penny Jordan

    Leon Stapinopolous had never known defeat in the boardroom -- or the bedroom! One of France's oldest perfume houses was to be another acquisition in his empire...not least because Leon insisted that perfume designer Sadie Roberts be included in t...

  • Guilty Secrets

    Virginia Kantra

    HE WAS A THREAT TO HER PEACE.... Cynical reporter Joe Reilly didn't believe in angels -- human or the other kind. But when he was assigned to write an article on nurse Nell Dolan, the "Angel of Ark Street," he decided to get up close and personal....

  • Hero In Her Heart

    Marta Perry

    A TIME FOR HEALING... Nolie Lang learned at an early age that animals wouldn't let her down like people did. Her farm was a haven for abandoned animals -- and a source of hope for the disabled. But now, to get a crucial grant, Nolie had to work wi...

  • Hosea's Bride

    Dorothy Clark

    THOUGH HER SINS WERE LIKE SCARLET... Forced into prostitution by her stepfather, Angela Warren found salvation one dark, terrifying night in Crossroads Church. The words of a handsome visiting preacher and the strength she found in the Lord led...

  • Slow Dancing with a Texan

    Linda Conrad

    THE FORBIDDEN DANCE For an advice columnist, Lainie Gardner was suddenly without sound thought but on sensory overload when she found herself dancing in Sloan Abbott's arms. Theirs was an impossible relationship -- he, the Texas Ranger protector; ...

  • John Riley's Girl

    Inglath Cooper

    You're invited to a reunion! Are you brave enough to attend? When Olivia Ashford first receives the invitation to her high school reunion, she dismisses it. After all, she'd left Summerville -- and John Riley -- and never looked back. But her life...

  • His Saving Grace

    Lyn Cote

    ENJOY THE FIRST TITLE IN LYN COTE'S MOVING SISTERS OF THE HEART TRILOGY All Jack Lassater could count on were the computer systems he designed and his assistant, Gracie Petrov. But his right-hand woman had been keeping a secret: She'd loved him si...

  • Love Is Patient

    Carolyne Aarsen

    IN LOVE WITH HER BOSS If Dylan Matheson knew the real reason she had become his secretary, Lisa Sterling suspected his gray eyes would turn to Arctic ice. Always protective of her stepbrother, she now needed to get inside Dylan's company to cle...

  • Shotgun Daddy

    Harper Allen

    A FATHER'S DUTY Former hostage negotiator Gabe Riggs wanted nothing to do with spoiled socialite Caro Moore, the ice princess who'd left him high and dry after one night of fiery passion. But a year later, she came begging for the rugged Navajo sp...

  • Keeping Baby Secret

    Beverly Barton

    HER SECRET WAS OUT! They shared a brief, passionate affair, before Agent Frank Latimer moved on to his next mission. Leenie hadn't expected anything more from Frank than those beautiful encounters they shared. Until she gave birth to his child,...

  • Restless Spirit

    Cassie Miles

    THE LAWMAN'S TOUCH When called to a crime scene, Native American sheriff Mace Sheridan found not only evidence of foul play but also a beautiful woman in her own private hell. Small-town waitress Nicole Ferris didn't ask for help, yet every protec...

  • Shock Waves

    Jenna Mills

    SOMEONE WAS GOING TO DIE.... And it would be Ethan Carrington if Brenna Scott didn't warn him in time. But the handsome federal prosecutor didn't believe in her psychic gifts until it was too late and they were both plunged into mortal peril. E...

  • The Insider

    Ingrid Weaver

    SUBJECT: Gideon Faulkner, aka Achilles FAMILY HISTORY: Raised by "Aunt" Agnes and "Uncle" Oliver, "family" and "extraordinary" were separate worlds to him DEEPEST SECRET: After years of obeying orders, he's about to break out of his "prison"...

  • Priceless

    Sherryl Woods

    A DATE DECREED BY DESTINY... Charismatic playboy Mack Carlton lit up a room -- even a hospital room -- like no one else. Dr. Beth Browning had to admit Mack's visits were a tonic for her young patient, but her own reaction was much more confusi...

  • The Best of Both Worlds

    Elissa Ambrose

    HOW TO DESCRIBE BECKY ROTH: UNEMPLOYED, STRESSED, PREGNANT After losing her job at a greasy diner, Becky needed to support herself, but no one was looking for a pregnant vegetarian chef during a snowstorm in small-town Connecticut. Except Carter P...

  • Sudden Recall

    Jean Barrett

    IF ONLY HE COULD REMEMBER... He called himself Shane, but Eden Hawke knew he'd made it up. The gorgeous stranger had collapsed at her door in the middle of the night, and it was selfishness that made her take him in. For in his pocket he'd carried...

  • Her Passionate Protector

    Laurey Bright

    LARGE AS LIFE... AND TWICE AS THREATENING She'd been robbed, mugged, nearly run down by a car -- and now had to fight her unwelcome passion for her sexy new boss. When Sienna Rivers signed on as the resident archaeologist on Pacific Treasure S...

  • Dangerous Illusion

    Melissa James

    OUT OF THE PAST Secret agent Brendan McCall had only a few days to find and protect beautiful Elizabeth Silver, the love he'd lost ten years ago, now on the run from an international killer. Yet when he found her, she denied her true identity, for...

  • Not Quite A Lady

    Margo Maguire

    Too much woman for Victorian sensibilities and...Not Quite a Lady MORE THAN MAGIC... Beautiful and mysterious Lilly Tearwater was no lady. She was a fraud! With a wager at stake, Samuel Temple planned to find a scientific explanation for the my...

  • The Sheik & The Princess in Waiting

    Susan Mallery

    "I'M WHAT...?" No, not pregnant, thank heavens. Emma would have known that. But married? Well, if the man standing before her -- the very love of her college life -- was to be believed, she was. And suddenly he was claiming to be a des...

  • The Secret Wedding Wish

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Finding Love In Holly Springs... Once upon a time, Janey Hart eloped... with the wrong man. Twelve years later the proud and feisty Janey is widowed, running a bakery, raising her son -- and fighting her reckless streak. Until she runs smack-dab ...

  • In Her Husband's Image

    Vivienne Wallington

    ONE NIGHT WITH THE WRONG BROTHER Rugged wildlife photographer Zac Hammond returned from the jungles of Africa to his family home in the outback as soon as he'd heard of his twin brother's death. And it took only one look into young widow Rachel Ha...

  • 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 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...

  • Riding The Flume

    Patricia Curtis Pfitsch

    Don't tell anyone -- the only safety is in secrecy. During the summer of 1894 the giant sequoia trees -- the oldest living things on earth -- are being felled for lumber in northern California. When fifteen-year-old Francie finds a note hidden in...

  • Can't Get There from Here

    Todd Strasser

    Her street name is MaybeShe lives with a tribe of homeless teens -- runaways and throwaways, kids who have no place to go other than the cold city streets, and no family except for one another. Abused, abandoned, and forgotten, they struggle against ...

  • Henry and Mudge and the Funny Lunch

    Cynthia Rylant

    Every year Henry and his dad (with help from Mudge, of course) make Henry's mother a funny lunch for Mother's Day. Shopping for their juicy, crunchy surprise is fun, and preparing it is even more fun. But sharing it with Henry's mother is the most fu...

  • Good Grief, It's Mother's Day!

    Charles M. Schulz

    When Charlie Brown reminds the gang it's Mother's Day, everyone begins searching for special ways to celebrate their moms. Snoopy types his mom a letter, Woodstock picks his mom a flower, and Lucy, Peppermint Patty, and Marcie shop for cards. But...

  • A Special Day For Mommy

    Dan Andreasen

  • Tempest Down

    Jeff Rovin

    An experimental U.S. Submarine, the Tempest D, with a propulsion system five-times-faster than traditional drives is to be tested in the remote South Polar waters. Chinese intelligence learns of the test and sends their own submarine to observe. When...

  • 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...

  • Someone Bigger

    Jonathan Emmett

  • 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....

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • Wake Up, City

    Susan Verlander

    Alarms ring, birds sing. Traffic cops twirl, street sweepers swirl! It's morning in the city! This colorful picture book brings the sounds, sights and rhythms of the busy city to life. Its zingy text and zippy pictures make it perfect for very young ...

  • Doors

    Roxie Munro

    This brilliant lift-the-flap book ushers readers through delightful doors of all kinds. Discover and rediscover real worlds as fantastic as the Space Station or as familiar as the inside of a refrigerator. Sail a boat, ride a train, peek behind a sta...

  • Fanny and Sue

    Karen Stolz

    Now available in paperback--from the author of World of Pies comes a charming portrait of the American heartland as told through the intertwined lives of twin sisters.

    When Karen Stolz's World of Pies was published two years ago, readers an...

  • Glorious Appearing: The End of Days

    Tim LaHaye; Jerry B. Jenkins

    Thousands of years of human history stained by strife, death, and sin come to an end when the King of Glory returns to earth. The satisfying conclusion of the seven years of tribulation covered by the Left Behind series portrays the return of Jesus C...

  • Daredevil Volume 8: Echo: Vision Quest

    David Mack

    Maya Lopez -- a.k.a. Echo -- a deaf young woman capable of assimilating an individual's fighting style by sight and who nearly took down Daredevil -- makes her return. Her entire life was once defined by her belief that DAREDEVIL killed her fat...

  • Punisher: The Movie

    Pat Olliffe

    Presenting the official comic book adaptation of Marvel's 2004 blockbuster motion picture starring John Travolta, Thomas Jane and Rebecca Romjin-Stamos. Frank Castle is an undercover government special agent pushed over the edge when his family is ...

  • Twelve-Step Fandango

    Chris Haslam

    Martin Brock is living a wasted life. He wants to be happy. He wants to have a girlfriend who can stand to be near him. He wants his friends to respect him. Burned out and self-deluded, he takes each day as it comes, dealing low-quality cocaine to to...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Fair Is the Rose

    Liz Curtis Higgs

    Can a sister's love endure the ultimate betrayal? Haste ye back to eighteenth-century Scotland, to a pastoral Lowland village where envy and heartache grow thick as the hedgerows. The McBride sisters--bonny, spirited Rose and quiet, gentle Lean...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Katherine's Story

    Thomas Kinkade; Katherine Spencer

    Meet The Girls of Lighthouse Lane. . . Katherine is the daughter of the lighthouse keeper. She dreams of becoming a painter. But in 1905, a girl can't grow up to be a famous artist -- can she? Rose just moved to the town of Cape Light. She wants to f...

  • Amazon Princess

    Nina Jaffe

    When the Amazons hold a contest to see who will be the ambassador of peace to the Mortals' World, Diana, princess of the Amazons, is determined to prove that she has the speed, strength, and bravery to be champion. Original....

  • I Am Wonder Woman

    Nina Jaffe

    I was born on Paradise Island.

    I come to share a message of peace and justice.

    I can fly like an eagle and ward off danger with the power of my silver bracelets.

    Bad guys, beware my Golden Lasso of Truth.

    I am Wonder Woma...

  • Just Mommy and Me

    Tara Jaye Morrow

    "If I were a monkey who swung on a tree and you were my mommy, who swung after me . . . imagine how happy and fun it would be."

    Hand in hand a mother and child monkey spend the entire day together doing the special things ...

  • 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...

  • Mother's Day

    Anne Rockwell

    Each child in Mrs. Madoff's class knows just how to celebrate Mother's Day. Jessica and her mom go hiking together. Sam helps pick out a new kitchen table. Sarah and her dad take Grandma to her favorite restaurant. And when a surprise visitor come...

  • Anything for You

    John Wallace

    Little Charlie would do anything for his mama. He would smile his biggest smile for her, draw a special picture for her, and he'd even let her be his best friend! So when it's time for bed and Mama asks him to snuggle down, shut his eyes, and slee...

  • The Contest

    Nina Jaffe

  • The Journey Begins

    Nina Jaffe

    Wonder Woman believes that Ares, the god of war, is to blame for the dark shadow of hatred that is spreading among the Mortals' World, so she must use all the tools at her command to defeat the powerful Ares. Original....

  • The Blank Book

    Lemony Snicket

    This may look like just another book in Lemony Snicket's wretched series. Looks are deceiving.

    Just as Lemony Snicket has spent years researching the distressing lives of the Baudelaire orphans, now you too can record your own unfortunat...

  • Honolulu Play-Off

    Keith Miles

    Alan Saxon flies to Honololu to act as best man at the wedding of a close friend, Donald Dukelow, an American golfer who has always beaten Saxon in play-offs. In the party are the groom's mother, who hates the idea of her son marrying a Hawaiian beau...

  • American Odyssey

    Wilhelm Reich

    A new autobiographical work by one of the most original and controversial thinkers of our time.

    "I looked up every day from behind the bars to the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Her light shone brightly into a dark night." With these word...

  • 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...

  • Deeper Than Desire

    Cheryl Holt

    SHE HAS A WICKED SECRET... With her family in dire straits, Olivia Hopkins reluctantly agrees to seek a marriage proposal from the aging Earl of Salisbury. But the plan goes awry when she finds an erotic volume in the earl's library. The book se...

  • 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...

  • The Black City

    George Sand

    Set against the backdrop of France's industrial revolution, this 1859 novel by the controversial, passionately socialist George Sand follows the fortunes of the dynamic, young metal smith Etienne Lavoute, known as Sept-Epees (or Seven Blades), as he ...

  • Delicate

    Mary Sojourner

    The lives of middle-aged women struggling with jobs and family, friendship and romance, are captured to perfection in this collection of humorous and touching stories set in the contemporary Southwest. Mary Sojourner writes about hardworking, hard-l...

  • 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...

  • All I Need to Get By

    Sophfronia Scott

    Crita has come a long way from her small-town Ohio roots. A successful tax accountant living in Manhattan, she finally has the independent life that she dreamed of as a girl. However, with one fateful phone call, Crita's life is turned upside down. S...

  • His Truth is Marching on

    Robert Vaughan

    As a student at Litchfield College, Dewey Bradley wants nothing more than to graduate, marry his girlfriend Unity, and become pastor of a church. But when war breaks out, Dewey-impassioned by the atrocities of the Nazis-drops out of school to enli...

  • 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...

  • Incredible Hulk, Volume 6: Split Decisions

    Bruce Jones

    Doc Samson plots in secret to obtain a sample of Hulk's bood, and Hulk finds himself up against the mysterious Mr. Blue and has encounters with both Sandra Verdugo and his old girl friend, Nadia Blonsky....

  • The Kalahari Typing School for Men

    Alexander McCall Smith

    Mma Precious Ramotswe is content. Her business is well established with many satisfied customers, and in her mid-thirties ("the finest age to be") she has a house, two adopted children, a fine fiance. But, as always, there are troubles. Mr. J.L.B. Ma...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Whole Story and Other Stories

    Ali Smith

    From the critically acclaimed, award-winning author comes a collection of uniquely inventive stories that thread the labyrinth of coincidence, chance, and connections missed and made. What happens when you run into Death in a busy train stat...

  • Summer of the Sea Serpent

    Mary Pope Osborne

    In a land lost in mist, in a time before time, there is a powerful Sword of Light. Now Merlin the Magician needs that sword for the good of all Camelot. But who can go on this dangerous mission? Merlin turns again to Jack and Annie - two modern kids ...

  • Gobble, Gobble, Slip, Slop

    Meilo So

    Who ever heard of a cat so greedy it swallowed its friend, the parrot, then a nosy old woman, a farmer and his donkey, and even the sultan’s royal wedding procession? Meilo So’s hungry, irascible tabby just opens his mouth and -- gobble, gobble, ...

  • Grass Angel

    Julie Schumacher

    Frances Cressen has the perfect summer planned. She’s going to Camp Whitman with her best friend, Agnes. But Frances’s mother has something else in mind for the family: Mountain Ash, a spiritual retreat in the middle of nowhere. Frances can’t t...

  • 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...

  • Dog Gone: Starring Otis

    Amanda Harvey

    This place didn’t feel much like home.

    When Otis spends a few nights away from his familiar bed -- and away from Lucy, the human companion he loves -- he isn’t at all happy about it. The other dogs at the dog hotel may be friendly, but not...

  • Bad Business

    Robert B. Parker

    When Marlene Rowley hires Spenser to follow her cheating husband, Spenser finds not only a two-timing spouse, but another detective hired to shadow the wayward Marlene. Not the most trusting couple in town--but, as Spenser's about to learn, certainly...

  • 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...

  • Auriel Rising

    Elizabeth Redfern

    An exile and fugitive from England, Ned Warriner returns to his homeland in spite of the danger to search for his beloved, Kate Revill, unhappily married to an ardent anti-Catholic, and becomes caught up in the intrigues of the early seventeenth-cent...

  • The Frog House

    Mark Taylor

    When an apple-shaped birdhouse is placed in the tree, a curious frog thinks that it may be a home meant just for him and so moves in, but other animals have the same idea and soon the frog has a whole cast of interesting visitors dropping on by his u...

  • Crepes by Suzette

    Monica Wellington

    While moving her crêpe cart to different locations around Paris, young Suzette delights in all the sounds, sights, and smells of the city's colorful scenery as she meets with the tourists and mixes with the locals to sell her tasty treats....

  • 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...

  • Frank and Izzy Set Sail

    Laura McGee Kvasnosky

    The creator of ZELDA AND IVY illustrates the fine art of being a good friend -- and still being yourself-in an engaging, amusing tale about appreciating differences.

    Frank likes the quiet life -- an afternoon sitting in his favorite armcha...

  • 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...

  • Wild Cherry's Secret

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • 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...

  • Our Nest

    Reeve Lindbergh

    With soothing language and enchanting illustrations, this gentle picture book leads children from the warm nest of their bed to the ever-expanding embrace of the world around them.

    Snuggled in bed,
    You’re all safe and warm,
    Like a bird...

  • Fairytale News

    Jacqui Hawkins

    Stop the presses! Favorite fairy tales merge in a clever concoction that will crack kids up faster than Humpty Dumpty!Have you heard the news? The notorious B.B. Wolf was arrested today wearing Granny Hood’s nightgown! As he went free on bail, ...

  • The World As I Remember It: Through the Eyes of a Ragamuffin

    Ben Pearson

    Rich Mullins was more than a musician. He was a poet and thinker who left behind a timeless legacy. As a columnist for Release magazine for nearly six years, Rich shared his musings on faith and life, conveying the wonder and awesomeness of his God w...

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

    A.E. Cannon

  • 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...

  • Minnie & the Superguys

    Jane Godwin

  • The Blue Mirror

    Kathe Koja

    Some guys are bad news

    Sixteen-year-old Maggy's life consists of trying to be invisible at school, taking care of her alcoholic mother, and spending all the time she can at the Blue Mirror, a downtown café. She can lose herself there for hour...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Ice Road

    Gillian Slovo

    Leningrad. 1933. Loyalties, beliefs, love and family ties: all are about to be tested to the limit in a fight to see who will survive one of the most crushing moments the world will ever know. Boris Ivanov, the father who understands politics and pra...

  • Dominic's Discovery

    Gervase Phinn

    Dominic's middle name is trouble, but not because he's got a troublesome nature, but quite simply because he's ALWAYS in the wrong place at the wrong time. So it's not surprising that he's only allowed on the school trip to Thundercliff Bay - home to...

  • Mosaic

    Michael Holroyd

    This is a book about surprises - at any rate, it has surprised me.' In 1999, Michael Holroyd published Basil Street Blues, in which one of our finest biographers turned his attentions to something more personal - his own family. But rather than the s...

  • 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'...

  • 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...

  • What a Girl Wants

    Liz Maverick

    A novel about life, love, and the pursuit of the perfect pair of heels Hayley Jane Smith doesn't want much. Well she does want a new job, ever since she asked for a raise and was fired on the spot. And she wants a certain ruggedly handsome detecti...

  • An Unpardonable Crime

    Andrew Taylor

    England 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city's notorious Seven Dials district. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of...

  • The Secret of The Cemetery

    Satyajit Ray

  • Broken Angels

    Richard K. Morgan

    Welcome back to the brash, brutal new world of the twenty-fifth century: where global politics isn’t just for planet Earth anymore; and where death is just a break in the action, thanks to the techno-miracle that can preserve human consciousness an...

  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...

  • Mrs. Malory and the Silent Killer

    Hazel Holt

    The entire village of Taviscombe is sent reeling when Sidney Middleton, a popular and respected pillar of the community, dies in a tragic accident. However, it soon becomes apparent that his death was a most deliberate act. How could someone so likab...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Lost in Transmission

    Wil McCarthy

    In a novel that challenges our expectations at every turn, acclaimed author Wil McCarthy sweeps us into the future as only he can imagine it. Here is a thrilling odyssey of discovery and adventure aboard a ship of exiled rebels coming of age in an et...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Immortalis

    R.A. Salvatore

    From his usurped throne in Ursal, Aydrian, son of former queen Jilseponie, attempts to conquer the entire world of Corona. Even Aydrian does not fully understand what drives his ambition, the guiding voices he first heard from the shadow of Oracle, o...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • In the Kingdom of Mists

    Jane Jakeman

    While Claude Monet paints the wintry mists over the Thames, the bodies of two young women are dragged from its murky depths, arousing fears of a return of Jack the Ripper.  Craston, a green diplomat at the Foreign Office, is unwillingly drawn into t...

  • The Ideal Bride

    Stephanie Laurens

    Where in all of England will an exceptional man find THE IDEAL BRIDE? Aristocratic, elegant, and effortlessly charming, Michael Anstruther-Wetherby is a man destined for power. With his close connections to the influential Cynster family, Michael'...

  • The Game

    Laurie R. King

    Laurie R. King's bestselling mystery series featuring Mary Russell and her husband and partner, Sherlock Holmes, is beloved by readers and acclaimed by critics the world over. Now the illustrious duo returns for their most dangerous exploit yet, in a...

  • 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 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...

  • Heart of a Tiger

    Marlys Rold

    A new adventure romance from the author of The Mercenary.

    Kelly Griffin has come to the coast of Asia to search for her missing brother, a wildlife photographer who is feared dead -- killed by the man-eating tigers that inhabit the island regions ...

  • Unfaithful Servant

    Timothy Harris

    Thomas Kyd is a recovering alcoholic still haunted by a terrible crime he committed in Vietnam involving a child. When 14-year-old Hugo Vine tries to hire him to spy on his movie star mother, Sally Vine, and her new husband, Kyd refuses to work for a...

  • A Tale of One City

    Anne Perry
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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...

  • An Earthly Knight

    Janet McNaughton

    Will Lady Jeanette sacrifice her freedom to save her family's honor? Lady Jeanette Avenel is the free-spirited second daughter of a nobleman in twelfth-century Scotland. When her elder sister, Isabel, is dishonored, Jenny is asked to relinquish he...

  • The Secret Hour

    Scott Westerfeld

    strange things happen at midnight in the town of Bixby, Oklahoma. time freezes. nobody moves. For one secret hour each night, the town belongs to the dark creatures that haunt the shadows. Only a small group of teenagers know about the secret hour...

  • The Road to Damascus

    John Ringo; Linda Evans

    SURPLUS ON LOAN It was the last step in life for an obsolete bolo. Loaned out to a Concordiat ally, left to guard the backdoor against the Deng while the rest of the Dinochrome fought, and died, against the Melkonians. Well, SOL-0045 managed to st...

  • 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...

  • The Death of Kings

    Conn Iggulden

    In a sparsely settled region of North Africa, a band of disheveled soldiers turn their eyes toward one man among them: their leader, Julius Caesar. The soldiers are Roman legionaries. And their quarry is a band of pirates who dared to kidnap Julius C...

  • Why She Went Home

    Lucinda Rosenfeld

    You have to love her, even when you’re laughing at her -- Phoebe Fine, that is, the star of this hilariously eccentric and affecting new novel.

    On the cusp of thirty, Phoebe has fled the high life and, ultimately, the no life of trying and f...

  • One Foot in Love

    Bil Wright

    Small in number yet formidable in spirit, the Leave Him and Live Sisterhood adopts a recent widow, challenging everything she knows about life and loving.Rowtina Washington is devastated when her adoring husband, Turtle, is killed in a tragic acciden...

  • Books that Changed the World

    Robert B. Downs

    Books Are WeaponsBooks have wielded an immense power for good and evil throughout the history of the human race. Here is a thoughtful and probing discussion of sixteen of the most important works of all time which influenced history, economics, cultu...

  • The Pilots

    James Spencer

    During World War II, James Spencer was a cocky, risk-addicted young pilot who lived with death every day-but considered it a privilege to fly the B-24s that helped win the war in the Pacific. The extraordinary result is The Pilots, a novel-in-stories...

  • Nebula Awards Showcase 2004

    Vonda N. McIntyre

  • Have You Seen Chester?

    Andrew Murray

    Chester the cat and Buddy the dog are always fighting.

    But one day Chester decides he's had enough and sets off on his own. Buddy can't believe it -- he actually misses Chester. With the help of some alley cats, Buddy decides to find his old...

  • Escaping Tornado Season

    Julie Williams

    Allie Benton's summer at her grandparents' house in Minnesota is the same as it's always been: northern lights and pine trees, family gossip and root beer floats. She's come here to escape Nebraska's tornado season every summer for as long as she...

  • Lost in Little Bear's Room

    Else Holmelund Minarik

    Little Bear's toy, Fisherman Bear, is lost. Little Bear has looked all over his room, again and again. He can't find Fisherman Bear anywhere. Has Little Bear's toy gone off on an adventure of his own?

    Ages 2 " 4

    ...

  • Human or Alien?

    Suzanne Williams

    Weird things are happening to Matthew McGhee. First a purple blob follows him home. Then he hears his mom making plans to send him off to a faraway place. When Matthew finds an egg-shaped bruise on his arm, he knows for sure something very str...