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  • 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...

  • Deployment: North Korea

    P.W. Storm

    For decades, the oppressive North Korean beast has been secretly building up its arsenal of destruction, waiting for the right opportunity to launch a second full-scale assault on its wary neighbor to the south. That time is now. War looms on the hor...

  • Four Mice Deep in the Jungle

    Geronimo Stilton

    Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are full of fun -- tastier than Swiss cheese and t...

  • Freeze Frame

    Elizabeth Lenhard

    Carmen and Juni are bored and suffering from some major cabin fever. So, when the OSS informs them that a mysterious snowboarder is practicing some slippery moves, the Spy Kids are more than willing to strap on their skis and boards and head to the m...

  • Frek and the Elixir

    Rudy Rucker

    In the year 3003, nothing in the world is the same, except maybe that adolescents are still embarrassed by their parents. Society and the biosphere alike have been transformed by biotechnology, and the natural world is almost gone.Frek Huggins is a b...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Silent Running

    Don Pendleton

    DAMAGE CONTROL Coordinated strikes have begun against the governments of major Latin American countries. Simultaneously, Mexico City as well as key cities along the U.S. border from Miami to Los Angeles are being overrun in a massive incursion. To...

  • Soviet Specter

    Don Pendleton

    A customs bust in New York alerts Mack Bolan to a heroin smuggling operation run by Russian gangsters. His mission is three pronged: find the brain behind the enterprise, smash the network that stretches from New York to Moscow and protect the beauti...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Carbon Murder

    Camille Minichino

    A CURE TO KILL FOR Retired physicist turned police consultant Gloria Lamerino turns her talents to the cutting-edge world of nanotechnology and the development of "smart medicines." It's a field that offers hope, even miracles, for patients. But f...

  • Dead Hot Mama

    Victoria Houston

    When temperatures drop in Loon Lake, Wisconsin, the lakes freeze over, tourists pack their bags and head home, and retired dentist Doc Osborne prepares for a much-needed respite. But this season, just as the weather gets colder, things heat up, as Po...

  • Death in a Beach Chair

    Valerie Wolzien

    MURDER TAKES A HOLIDAY For Susan and Jed Henshaw and their friends Kathleen and Jerry Gordon, the tiny Caribbean resort called Compass Bay has everything. White sand, luxurious cottages, rum punches to die for--even a gorgeous unattached blonde or...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed

    Jesse McCann / Jesse Leon McCann

    The Scooby gang gets real - AGAIN! Now Sarah, Freddie, Matthew, Linda, and Scooby himself are back on the big screen for the follow-up to the June 02 box office smash.

    The kids from Mystery, Inc. are about to receive their highest honor yet......

  • City on a Hill

    Kenny Kemp

    Presents a new approach to understanding the parables of Jesus, placing them in the context that they reflect the formative and often challenging experiences of Jesus as a young man developing in the period in which he lived. By the author of Dad...

  • The Gate Seldom Found

    Raymond A. Reid

    The Gate Seldom Found by Raymond Reid

    This historical novel, drawn from actual incidents and real people, dramatizes the true story of a little-known house church fellowship that flowered late in the 19th century. The saga opens in southern Ontari...

  • Happily Forever After

    Kim A. Nelson

    "Marriage is God's plan for eternity," writes Kim A. Nelson. "It's our path to becoming more like him, knowing the things he knows, and experiencing a fullness of eternal joy. That's a pretty lofty expression of the desired outcome, especially for pe...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Anything, Anywhere, Anytime

    Catherine Mann

    A mission of the utmost secrecy. A country torn apart by war. A man with his defenses crumbling. With one week to complete a top secret mission, Major Jack "Cobra" Korba did not need emotional distractions. But when flight surgeon Monica Hyatt, ...

  • 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 . . ....

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • A Blessed Event

    Jean Reynolds Page

    Joanne Timbro and Darla Stevens grew up next door to each other in a small Texas town. Their childhood days nurtured a rare friendship that carried them into adult years. As young women, Darla and Jo enter into an agreement that will change their liv...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Compassion's Charm

    DiAnn Mills

    After years of substance abuse, Rachel Morton found the Lord's compassion and redemption. Two years later, she's ready to redeem the time she lost with her three precious children. But Rachel's mother, who doubts her daughter's change, refuses to giv...

  • The Consultant's Rescue

    Gill Sanderson

    A knight in SCBU Special Care Baby Unit ward manager Jane Wilson has come to the Wolds Hospital to put the past behind her. After losing her husband, she's abandoned her dream of having a family to devote herself to the tiny babies in her care. Un...

  • 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 ...

  • Crossing Paths, Tempting Memories

    Dorothy Elizabeth Love

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Desert Prince's Mistress

    Sharon Kendrick

    Multimillionaire tycoon Darian Wildman made an instant decision to hire beautiful Lara Black. She was the face for his new advertisting campaign. But there was once problem -- he wanted her both professionally...and personally, as his mistress! T...

  • 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...

  • Doctors in Flight

    Meredith Webber

    City girl goes bush! Dr. Hillary Green never wanted to work in the Outback. But now she's been appointed to the Flying Obs and Gynae service, taking tiny planes to little rural hospitals, along with an airsick anesthetist and a boss who hates wome...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Dylan's Last Dare

    Patricia Thayer

    HE NEVER TURNED DOWN A CHALLENGE Bull-riding champion Dylan "The Devil" Gentry had females of all ages eating out of the palm of his hand. Except his pretty physical therapist, the no-nonsense Brenna Farren. His stolen kisses -- aimed to make her ...

  • Extreme Measures

    Brenda Harlen

    RISKING IT ALL... Colin McIver is back in town, and the only person who isn't thrilled by the return of the hometown hero is his ex-wife, Nikki Gordon. She just wants to know when he's leaving. Because Colin always leaves. And this time, she hopes...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Fooling Around

    Vicki Lewis Thompson
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    This April 1, anything is possible... Dare to desire... When Lena Walsh is handed a challenge to find the hottest guy she knows and take him out for an unusual date, she sets her sights on the office Adonis, Andre Dumont. But when silly turns to ...

  • Fools Rush In

    Judith Arnold
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    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...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Her Protector

    Liz Ireland

    The Case of the Missing Heiress A baby left on a doorstep, an heiress presumed dead, smuggled gems, cover-ups...and murder. To the Trueblood, Texas, P.I. agency, Finders Keepers, it's more than solving the mystery. It's about reuniting a mother, a...

  • 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...

  • Hers for the Weekend

    Tanya Michaels

    She wanted a temporary arrangement... Piper Jamieson needs a man. And not just any man. She needs someone to play her significant other when she heads home for her family reunion. Thanks to a self-imposed period of celibacy, she has no prospects.....

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Hot Nights in Ballymuir

    Dorien Kelly

    Playboy businessman Devlin Gilvane arrives in Ballymuir secretly intent on acquiring the beloved historical landmark Muir House for a lucrative real estate venture. No one recognizes him for the threat he is -- except Jenna Fahey, the beautiful Ameri...

  • 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 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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"...

  • The Italian's Marriage Bargain

    Carol Marinelli

    The Italian's blackmailed bride... Gorgeous Italian Luca Santanno needs a temporary bride. He wants a paper marriage -- but his wife is already sharing hid bed! Felicity Conlon hates Luca with a passion -- but she can't refuse his marr...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Let It Be Me

    Melanie Schuster

    HE WON HER HEART... Marcus Deveraux has two goals in life - running the family business, and winning the love of Vera Clark Jackson. When he first met her, Marcus was a college student and Vera was ten years his senior - and married. Now Vera is sin...

  • Like a Hurricane

    Roxanne St. Claire

    GALE-FORCE ATTRACTION Quinn McGrath's Irish grandmother always said he'd know "the one." Only, the well-meaning matriarch hadn't cautioned that the perfect woman would literally fall from overhead into his arms -- or hate him desperately the momen...

  • 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...

  • The Matchmaker's Sister

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Love's On The Loose In Providence... Nothing less than divine intervention can quell the commotion when the Danville girls of Providence, Rhode Island, get involved! Cool, confident Miranda is the take-charge beauty of the family. Not content w...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Nobody's Fool

    Stephanie Bond
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    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...

  • Once Upon a Blind Date

    Wendy Markham

    It's open season for love... When Charlie met Maggie... Maggie is best buddies with Dominic. Charlie is best friends with Julie. Through the magic of the Internet, they set up their pals on the most romantic blind date ever. Naturally, Maggie a...

  • 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...

  • One True Thing

    Marilyn Pappano

    SECRETS AND LIES Ex-detective Jace Barnett's finely tuned instincts went into overdrive when he met his beautiful new neighbor with the fictitious past. His attempts to uncover her true identity met a dead end every time. She was a tantalizing mys...

  • Packing Heat

    Julie Kistler

    He was packing heat...and more While following a hot tip, Chicago policeman Cooper Calhoun runs smack into gorgeous Violet O'Leary. The sexy brunette FBI agent is no shrinking violet, however. She's tough, no-nonsense and not exactly thrilled when...

  • The Parker Project

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    Subject: Rugged computer programmer Harrison Parker Family History: Handsome widower/single father hired to help the Extraordinary Five siblings Deepest Secret: Protecting his true feelings for a woman who could turn his mind from business to p...

  • The Passion Price

    Miranda Lee

    The Pregnancy Payback... Jake Winters still has that edge of danger about him. The onetime teenage tearaway has transformed himself into a successful, wealthy Sydney lawyer. When Jake comes back into Angelina's life, she senses that he won&...

  • 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 ...

  • Pillow Talk

    Kathleen O'Reilly

    PLAYING WITH FIRE... Jessica Barnes has a one-way ticket to the career of her dreams as a corporate VP when Adam Taylor, the sexy consultant and chief hatchet man, arrives on the scene. Suddenly Jessica's not sure whether her job will get axed if ...

  • Pink Slip Party

    Cara Lockwood

    She's been handed her walking papers. Jane McGregor has just been laid off from her job designing pink slips for an office supply company. The irony is not lost on her. She's a twenty-eight-year-old art major whose last major career accomplishment ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Rafael's Convenient Proposal

    Rebecca Winters

    A Mediterranean marriage! Mallory Ellis is facing the ultimate dilemma. Mediterranean aristocrat Rafael D'Afonso is offering her the family she's always wanted. But can she risk giving up her high-flying career for the chance of motherhood...

  • 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...

  • Reflections of You

    Celeste O. Norfleet

    Cautious and conservative architectural designer Angela Lord didn't know quite what to expect when she decided to fly to Puerto Rico to learn the truth about her family background. She was stunned to discover that not only was she the exact double of...

  • Renegade

    Kaitlyn Rice

    He's the bad boy who's no longer off-limits She's the good girl who needs a safe man Could it be the sea-green bandanna knotted in his blond hair? Or maybe it's the quicksilver eyes that sparkle with laughter before they deepen to hurricane-gray. ...

  • 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...

  • Saving Dr. Tremaine

    Jessica Matthews

    WHEN THE RESCUER... Jared Tremaine's neighbor is a disaster waiting to happen! Paramedic Annie McCall might be beautiful and exceptionally caring, but she's also feisty and accident-prone. She needs someone to watch over her -- and Hope City's han...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • The Secret Princess

    Elizabeth Harbison

    FROM PLAIN JANE TO PRINCESS? Amy Scott had been more at home sitting in her small-town bookshop than she'd ever be on the imperial throne of Lufthania. But according to heart-stoppingly-handsome Crown Prince Wilhelm, that is exactly where the stri...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • 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 Sicilian's Marriage Arrangement

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    The Sicilian's most convenient bride... Hope Bishop is stunned when darkly sexy Sicilian tycoon Luciano di Valerio proposes marriage. Brought up by her wealthy but distant grandfather, she is used to fading into the background and being ignore...

  • Simply Wild

    Shelby Lewis

    Shop owner Holly Hunter thought she liked the quiet life her antique lace business provided....Until sinewy Jake Fishbone walked in. A man clouded in mystery, he quickly captures her curiosity - and her heart. Their budding romance runs off course wh...

  • 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 ...

  • 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; ...

  • 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 Spaniard's Revenge

    Susan Stephens

    The Ford family caused Xavier Bordiu's brother's death. Now Sophie Ford works for him! Tempted by her beauty, Xavier will take his revenge in the most pleasurable way... Sophie is still a virgin. But, as Xavier's skillful seduction awa...

  • Spitting Feathers

    Kelly Harte

    BIRDS OF A FEATHER? Tao Tandy can't wait to flee her sleepy life (safe fiance, dead-end job) and migrate to the big city to find fame and fortune as a food photographer. First, however, she has to find somewhere to live.... Luck is on her side ...

  • Starting from Square Two

    Caren Lissner

    Gert Healy thought she was finished with dating. She thought she'd never again have to worry about what to wear and what to say and whether she was pretty enough. She thought that she'd be picking out strollers and booties for the children she and he...

  • 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 ...

  • Such a Girl

    Karen V. Siplin

    Karen Siplin, whose first novel, His Insignificant Other, earned her critical praise from her peers and fans, presents Such a Girl -- a sexy and engaging new novel. In Such a Girl, Siplin brings to vivid life the story of a woman who ends a love affa...

  • This Can't Be Love

    Kasey Michaels

    One Crazy Summer If Molly Preston marches to the beat of a different drummer, it's probably a naked bongo player. Gorgeous and free-spirited, Molly's set for life--provided she stays employed ten months out of the year as stipulated in her parents...

  • Too Good to Refuse

    Mindy Neff

    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 ...

  • Two Hearts

    Cynthia Rutledge

    FROM PRINCESS TO PAUPER...TO WIFE? After a disappointing relationship, heiress Libby Carlyle needed to change her life. So she winged a prayer heavenward and traded places with her less privileged best friend. No sooner did she step into her new w...

  • Tycoon Meets Texan!

    Arlene James

    DEEP IN THE HEART Billionaire Lucien Tyrone could have any woman he wanted, anytime, from anywhere in the world. But the moment he met Avis Lorimer on a London-bound flight, he knew he'd met his match. For this million-dollar heiress didn't nee...

  • The Tycoon's Dating Deal

    Nicola Marsh

    Hired...by an Australian tycoon! Kara Roberts has been roped into a speed-dating evening -- and is shocked to discover that one of her dates is Matt Byrne, her ex-boyfriend! Matt's now a successful -- and very sexy -- lawyer, and as he only requir...

  • A Very Special Surgeon

    Laura MacDonald

    Saving Nurse Ryan After two years as a young widow, nurse Kate Ryan doesn't expect to find -- or want -- another man. She puts all her energy into her children and into the dramas and triumphs of the maternity department she runs. But then she ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • An Intimate Ghost

    Ellen Hart

    Restaurateur Jane Lawless is thrilled to be catering the wedding of some family friends, Nick and Lauren Clifford, but when Jane arrives at the wedding, she's in for a shock of a lifetime-and one that could jeopardize her career. The food has been sp...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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, ...

  • Alta

    Mercedes Lackey

    DRAGON RIDER Vetch had done the unimaginable. He had secretly raised his own baby dragon, a crimson female he named Avatre, and when she first took flight he had been on her back. Although Avatre was new to flight, with the help of his trainer and...

  • Angel-Seeker

    Sharon Shinn

    The award-winning author returns to Samaria in this richly romantic tale that begins where Archangel left off. In that time, the women who craved the attention of angels were known as angel-seekers, a term used with awe by some--and scorn by others....

  • 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......

  • 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...

  • The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time

    Barry N. Malzberg

    Fourteen classic time travel stories, selected by award-winning author Barry N. Malzberg. The book features THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND by Nancy Kress, THE MAN WHO CAME EARLY by Poul Anderson, A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR US TEMPUNAUTS by Philip K. Dick, 3 R...

  • 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 ...

  • The Black Thorn Gambit

    Josepha Sherman

  • Bright Sword of Ireland

    Juilene Osborne-McKnight

    Bright Sword of Ireland is the third in Juilene Osborne-McKnight's wonderful retelling of cherished Irish folktales. A dedicated researcher into the origins of Celtic myth and legend, Osborne-McKnight infuses her stories with passion, romance and mag...

  • 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...

  • Daughter of Exile

    Isabel Glass

  • 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...

  • Earth Logic

    Laurie J. Marks

    A SWEEPING DRAMA OF WAR, INTRIGUE, MAGIC, AND LOVE The nation of Shaftal has a new ruler, a woman with enough power to heal the war-torn land and expel the invading Sainnites. Or it would have a ruler if the earth witch Karis G'deon would consent ...

  • 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...

  • 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....

  • For Two Nights Only

    Tom Holt

    Two of Tom Holt's best-loved tales are brought together in this omnibus edition. In Overtime, it all started for Guy Goodlet somewhere over Caen. One moment he was heading for the relative safety of the coast, aware that fuel was low and that the Mos...

  • Glass Dragons

    Sean McMullen

    Sean McMullen, one of Australia's leading genre authors, delivers Glass Dragons, the scintillating sequel to Voyage of the Shadowmoon which Kirkus Reviews called "a brilliantly inventive, marvelously plotted sea-faring fantasy that both mocks and sur...

  • 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...

  • Harmony

    Rita Murphy

    Harmony McLean has been different from the moment she was discovered. When a falling star struck his chicken coop, Felix McGillicuddy never expected to find a baby girl miraculously left behind. He names her after the harmony of spheres in honor of h...

  • 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...

  • In Camelot's Shadow

    Sarah Zettel

    From the wilds of Moreland to the court of Camelot, a woman searches for her true powers... Fleeing from the knowledge that her father had promised her to an evil sorcerer, Risa of the Morelands refused to be a sacrifice. Armed with her bow and he...

  • 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...

  • The Iron Grail

    Robert Holdstock

    "The first is a man who needs you and will use you. He will weaken you dangerously. The second is a man you betrayed, though you believe otherwise. He wishes to kill you and can do so easily. The third is a ship that is more than a ship. She grieves ...

  • 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 '...

  • Mistress of the Pearl

    Eric Van Lustbader / Eric Lustbader

    Kundala is Miina's world, created by that Goddess with the help of the dragons. But Miina is missing, and her people have been enslaved by the alien V'ornn. Now a savior has come, the Dar Sala-at, a messiah promised by prophecy yet unlike anyone's ex...

  • A New Dimension

    Ken Petti; John Amodeo

    I thought things would get easier when I found my first musing. I couldn't have been more wrong. Lately it seems like nobody is on my side, and that nothing I do is right. But then I wake up in a whole other dimension. Here, everything is perfect! Ev...

  • 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...

  • Otto and the Flying Twins

    Charlotte Haptie

    As more and more people took over the lands of the world, the remaining magical creatures have to create a special place all their own, but when humans discovered their City of Trees, the magical beings closed off the city--causing some regular folk ...

  • Queen of the Amazons

    Judith Tarr

    Judith Tarr returns to the always fascinating character of Alexander the Great in this fantasy novel that springs from the legend that the Queen of the Amazons came to meet him in Persia, and became his friend.

    Hippolyta was Penthesilea, or ...

  • Reckoning

    Thomas E. Sniegoski

    good? Or evil? Or both? The time has come for Aaron Corbet, the eighteen-year-old son of an angel and a mortal, to face his worst enemy. Verchiel, the fallen leader of the Powers, is determined to defeat the prophecy that foretold Aaron's power ov...

  • 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...

  • 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,...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Aftermath

    Meenakshie Verma

  • Agent Cody Banks 2

    Michael Anthony Steele

    Mission: movie sequel! Agent Cody Banks, the junior James Bond, is back on the big screen - with gizmos, gadgets, spy skills and . . . acne.


    In the sequel to the original hit, our young Agent Cody Banks finds himself back at summer camp--i...

  • The Alamo

    Frank Thompson

    After two short weeks under siege, the climactic battle of the Alamo lasted under an hour, but its aftermath spawned a legend. The Alamo: A Cultural History explores the transformation of the fort from its 1718 inception as a Franciscan mission to it...

  • Alien Legion: On the Edge

    Larry Stroman

    The first in an all-new Titan Books series, created by Carl Potts (The Punisher) and written and drawn by a host of comics’ superstars, with a new cover by Alan Davis and Mark Farmer (JLA: The Nail)!

    Meet the Alien Legion -- home to every cree...

  • Aloft

    Chang-Rae Lee

    The New York Timesâ€"bestselling novel by the critically acclaimed author of Native Speaker, A Gesture Life and My Year Abroad. At 59, Jerry Battle is coasting through life. His favorite pastime is flying his small plane high above Long Island. ...

  • 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....

  • 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...

  • Animal Crackers: Stories

    Hannah Tinti

    With bravura storytelling, daring imagination, and fierce narrative control, this dazzling debut introduces that rare writer who finds humanity in our most unconventional behavior, and the humor beneath our darkest impulses.In these ten strange, funn...

  • The Annunciation of Francesca Dunn

    Janis Hallowell

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

  • 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...

  • Appalachian Mountains

    Jan Mader

  • Apples

    Inez Snyder

  • Around The Way Girls

    Urban Books

    There’s a saying that if you come from my part of town, you're from around the way. Around the Way Girls is a fast-paced look at the lives of some street-smart women who might think they know it all but are about to get the lessons of their lives. ...

  • 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...

  • Babar's Rescue

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • 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...

  • Beyond the Plough

    Janet Woods

    Now a wealthy young widow, former peasant girl Siana Forbes has overcome her humble beginnings to become mistress of Cheverton Manor, the handsome estate which her infant son Ashley will one day inherit. She is at last beginning to recover from her g...

  • Birthday Beastie

    Kirsten Hall

  • 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 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Born Under Punches

    Martyn Waites

    Switching continuously between 1984 and the present day, Martyn Waites' gripping crime thriller follows the intertwined lives of a small group of characters, all linked in various ways to the miners' strike: Tony Woodhouse, a professional footballer ...

  • Boy, You're Amazing!

    Virginia Kroll

  • Breaking the Tongue

    Vyvyane Loh

    This brilliant novel chronicles the fall of Singapore to the Japanese in World War II. Central to the story is one Chinese family: Claude, raised to be more British than the British and ashamed of his own heritage; his father, Humphrey, whose Angloph...

  • Bubbles and the Secret Admirer

    E.S. Mooney

    "The Powerpuff Girls" is Cartoon Network's highest-rated show among kids 2-11. It's a mega-hit! And so are Scholastic's books, which have been bestsellers for over three years.

    Uh-oh! One of The Powerpuff Girls' enemies, Amoeba Boy Tiny, has a...

  • The Butterfly Garden

    Else Holmelund Minarik

  • 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 ...

  • Carrots

    Inez Snyder

  • Cassandra, Lost

    Joanna Catherine Scott

    Discovering the gravestone of a woman believed lost at sea in the early nineteenth century, Joanna learns the story of Cassandra, who eloped with a French lieutenant, nursed a sick mother-in-law, and eventually fled to New Orleans before her ship was...