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  • The Pirates of Bat Cave Island

    Burton Albert

    With the help of a foldout treasure hunt game, Captain Mole-Nose and a collection of kid pirates lead the adventurous reader through an exciting maze of trapdoors, caves, and treacherous waters on the way to discovering the loot....

  • Needed: One Dad

    Jeanne Allan

    He was sabotaging her plans! Adeline Johnson was prepared to do almost anything to retain custody of her four-year-old niece -- even look for a husband! Grateful to Hannah Harris for lining her up with the town's most "eligible" men, A...

  • Maya's Children: The Story of la Llorana

    Rudolfo A. Anaya

  • Sizzle Cleans Up

    Elizabeth Anders

  • Perfect Wife and Mother? // Chemical Reaction

    Caroline Anderson

    E.R. Professionals: Dr Ryan O'Connor / Dr Ginny Jeffries Just sex, Dr Ryan O'Connor told himself. No commitment. Nothing permanent. How else could Ryan justify his wildly out of character behavior around the new E.R. intern, Dr Ginny Jeffries? He ...

  • The Black Sheep

    Carolyn Andrews

    A WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING Nick Heagerty -- Loner. Rebel with a cause. Accused of a crime he didn't commit, he left town. But now he's back. Andie Field -- private investigator. Cool, collected ... and absolutely gorgeous. She'll be watching ever...

  • Heart Song

    V.C. Andrews

    MELODY LOGAN WAS AS ALONE AS SOLITARY GULL, WITH ONLY THE WILD ATLANTIC WIND TO LIFT HER SPIRITS... When Melody Logan's mother died in a car accident, Melody lost the last shred of family she had ever known. She was practically a stranger to the Log...

  • The Cadillac of Six-By's

    Reverge Anselmo

    A gripping first novel and military thriller set in battle-torn Beirut. Cazetti, a former Intelligence Officer with a less than exemplary record, finds himself in the U.S. Marine Corps, in the chaos of war in Beirut. His hardships are shared not only...

  • The Stranger

    K.A. Applegate

    **We can’t tell you who we are. Or where we live. It’s too risky, and we’ve got to be careful. Really careful. So we don’t trust anyone. Because if they find us. . .well, we just won’t let them find us. The thing you should know is that ...

  • Tiger Lil

    Ellen Archer

    THE BEAUTY... She's a lusty, hennaed faro dealer with a history of husbands and a legacy of land. But when Lilian Selby Sullivan Kingston Jones Jones Forster Ross Wilcox Teague arrives in rural Maryland to claim the Foster estate, she finds a ra...

  • Lady Linford's Return

    Anne Ashley

    RUNAWAY BRIDE! When the dashing Viscount Dominic Linford married the very beautiful yet very determined Rachel for her dowry, he thought their marriage would be beneficial for both of them -- he would be set financially, and Rachel...well, she wou...

  • The Plug at the Bottom of the Sea

    Brice Avery

    Timothy is on the trip of a lifetime - to the bottom of the ocean! However he discovers a problem there - something is wrong with the plug at the bottom of the sea. So that's why the oceans are rising and the rivers are drying up! Now it's up to Timo...

  • Demons of Eden

    James Axler

    LOST WORLD The legacy of the twentieth century was the world-wasting nuclear firestorm that destroyed a way of life forever. Civilization is in ruins, its pitiful remnants perverted by brute force, and mankind is less at home on the planet than ever...

  • The Rancher's Bride

    Stella Bagwell

    A CONVENIENT MARRIAGE Rose Murdock had married the most handsome rancher in town, but love hadn't gotten Harlan Hamilton to the altar. They'd struck a dry-eyed deal to live together in holy matrimony, and Rose knew the tall, dark and irresistible ...

  • Mrs. Rochester

    Hilary Bailey

    Jane Eyre has now been married to Rochester for ten years and seems ecstatically happy. However a cloud appears on the horizon when Rochester decides to rebuild Thornfield Hall. Suddenly the questions which have so far remained unanswered are crying ...

  • The Temporary Wife

    Mary Balogh

    The Pernicious Proposal Miss Charity Duncan had no illusions when she said yes to the marriage proposal of Lord Anthony Earheart. This arrogant aristocrat made it painfully clear what he wanted of her. Would Charity agree to be the wife he needed ...

  • The Troublemaker Bride

    Leanne Banks

    WOULD HER PRINCE EVER COME? Forget the prince--pregnant Maddie Palmer needed an M.D.! But since she was stuck in a traffic jam--about to give birth!--the handsome cowboy up ahead would have to do.... Joshua Blackwell knew Maddie was trouble the...

  • Under the Shadow of Wings

    Sara Harrell Banks

    In a small Southern town at the end of World War II, eleven-year-old Tattnall cares for Obie, her developmentally disabled cousin, and when Obie's actions lead to his death, Tattnall must cope with her loss....

  • REM

    Istvan Banyai

    This graphic representation of a young boy's dreams, told completely in pictures, takes place in a whirlwind make-believe world where a dancing snowman becomes a princess and a frog turns into a prince....

  • Washington's Dirigible

    John Barnes

    The second volume in the time travel/parallel universe series sends Pittsburgh private eye Mark Strang, trained with nightmarish weaponry and teamed with the woman of his dreams, to an alternative 1776, where he becomes his own worst enemy. Original....

  • Summer Visitors

    Carol Barton

    When Emma goes to live at Seahorse Bay, she feels as though nothing nice will ever happen again. Then she meets William and Charlotte on the beach. But she can never find her new friends when she wants to. And why is there such a strange air of myste...

  • Falcon and the Sword

    Julie Beard

    People whispered about Ariel. For a young woman in the Middle Ages, she was anything but common. She was strikingly beautiful, independent, and the most skilled falconer anyone at Lonegrine Castle could remember. Still she longed for something she...

  • My Life, Starring Dara Falcon

    Ann Beattie

    In her latest novel, the author of Another You combines intensely realistic description and an effortless command of mood to examine the treacherous difference between love and fascination--between what we know about other people and what we think we...

  • The Actual

    Saul Bellow

    “The work of a great master still locked in unequal combat with Eros and Time.” "The New York Times Book ReviewA Penguin Classic In this dazzling work of fiction, Nobel Laureate Saul Bellow writes comically and wisely about the tenacious claims...

  • Rings, Roses...and Romance

    Barbara Benedict

    RING AROUND THE ROSIE... A fender-bender, a hurricane and a matchmaking goat -- what else would keep Darcy MacTeague in rugged Mitch Rose's arms? A POCKET FULL OF POSIES... True, in addition to Mitch's compelling attraction, his three adorable, ...

  • The Plague Tales

    Ann Benson

    Fourteenth-century physician Alejandro Canches, caught performing an autopsy in Spain, flees across Europe at the time of the Black Death to escape execution for his heretical deed. When he arrives in the papal city of Avignon, he is conscripted agai...

  • Zero Minus Ten

    Raymond Benson

    Just 10 days before the handover of Hong Kong from British to Chinese rule, 007 is sent to investigate the infamous Chinese underworld of Triad. Discovering a diabolical plot of revenge that threatens to derail the return of the former British colony...

  • The Berenstain Bears And The Bermuda Triangle

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Join Brother Bear, Sister Bear, Too-Tall, Queenie, and the rest of the Bear Country cubs in these page-turning, action-packed books, from mysteries to comic adventures to sports stories -- all with pictures, pictures, pictures!...

  • Renaissance Man

    Diane Bernard

    Love Seems Out of Reach... English professor Sara Carlyle is smart, savvy and engaged to a powerful investment banker. But she doesn't know that amethysts recall the past...or she wouldn't have put on her new earrings at the Texas Renaissance Festiv...

  • Dancing Fox

    John Bierhorst

    From perilous Arctic journeys to strange giants in frozen snowfields, this collection of stories reveals fresh insights into universal themes, in language faithful to the oral tradition. Illustrations by a contemporary Inuit artist round out this imp...

  • Tricks of the Trade

    Cheryln Biggs

    'Consider me a shadow you won't be able to shake--until I get what I want....' Mick Gentry might look like every woman's dream come true, but it didn't take B.J. Poydras long to discover that teaming up with the rugged U.S. marshal might be tough...

  • Let's Play Hide-&-Seek!

    Betty G. Birney

  • The Fifth Element

    Terry Bisson

    Dallas Korben, a Manhattan cab driver in the year 5413, is chosen to protect a beautiful woman, the Fifth Element, who has been sent by a group of elders to save the universe from an evil determined to destroy it...

  • Jackals

    Terry Bisson

    Dallas Korben, a Manhattan cab driver in the year 2413, is chosen to protect a beautiful woman, the Fifth Element, who has been sent by a group of elders to save the universe from an evil determined to destroy it. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • For the Sake of Love

    Rosanne Bittner
    in

    Beautiful Sandra Brooks, a widowed schoolteacher whose husband was murdered by Indians, must question her beliefs when her son befriends a handsome half-breed who wants an education and her heart....

  • Garden of Scandal

    Jennifer Blake

    Laurel Bancroft has lived for years like a recluse, isolating herself from a town that has branded her a murderer. But now, convinced people have finally forgotten, she is ready to resume her life. Then Laurel meets Alec Stanton. Hired to help he...

  • The Last Appeal

    Bill Blum

    Five years ago defense attorney Peter Harrigan lost everything dear to him during the first death row appeal for his double-murder defendant. Now it's the last appeal before the gas chamber--and only one man holds proof of his client's innocence. As ...

  • Fast Learner

    Ginnie Bond

  • When the Poor Boys Dance

    G.F. Borden

    Left behind in the heat of the Mojave Desert after a training exercise, a young Marine sets out to march back to his base. As he struggles to save himself, he starts hallucinating about all the other battlefields where Marines have fought....

  • Who's the Boss?

    Barbara Boswell

    MR. MAY Man: Cade Austin, CEO of BrenCo Mission: To lure pretty Kylie Brennan out of the boardroom and into the bedroom! Mistake: Letting her know his not-so-honorable intentions.... Cade didn't need a meddling woman in his life! So when the ...

  • Bootsie Barker Ballerina

    Barbara Bottner

  • The Rancher's Runaway Bride

    Judith Bowen

    Cal Blake's ranch, the Rocking Bar S near Glory, Alberta, is doing pretty well, and Cal's pretty content with his life... but he's been thinking maybe it's time he got married. Then, one fine September day, he meets Nina O'Shea O'Sullivan on the r...

  • Jonathan James Says I Can Hardly Wait!

    Crystal Bowman

  • Jonathan James Says, "School's Out!"

    Crystal Bowman

  • Before I Wake

    Eric Bowman

    Eager for material for his next best-selling crime novel, an English gentleman accompanies a policeman as he tries to solve the murder that he has secretly committed himself, in a thriller with a fresh twist. Reprint....

  • Winchester Affidavit

    G.G. Boyer

    NIGHT RIDERS! The New Mexico Territory is bleeding in the throes of the Amarillo War, named for the vast estate known as the Amarillo Grant. The estate manager, Lord Ransom, is engaged to the owner's daughter and he's determined to see that pay of...

  • Eakin's Mistress

    James Bradberry

    Jamie Ramsgill heads to Philadelphia to interview for an architectural job with an old friend, but when David Laycutt disappears, Jamie finds himself implicated in a brutal murder and must unearth the secrets behind Laycutt's flight before there are ...

  • Further Lane

    James Brady

    Whether she's climbing Mt. Everest or making the perfect gingerbread house, lifestyle guru Hannah Cutting, dubbed "America's Homemaker," does everything with style. She even, it seems, has died with style-washed ashore naked near her East Hampton man...

  • In Another Place, Not Here

    Dionne Brand

    Beautiful and meticulously wrought, set in both Toronto and the Caribbean, this astonishing novel gives voice to the power of love and belonging in a story of two women, profoundly different, each in her own spiritual exile. From the Trade Paperba...

  • Men Beyond the Law

    Max Brand

    A man who fled a gunfight must come to grips with himself, a young Easterner witnesses the falling out of two bank robbers, and Bull Hunter, a gentle giant, faces opposition to his marriage to a rancher's daughter....

  • Shaky Ground

    Steve Brewer

    SITTING DUCK His client list is at zero, so Albuquerque private eye Bubba Mabry is all ears when a lovely young woman asks him to locate her missing husband. Biology professor David Field was last seen heading for the desert on a research trip. An...

  • Tattoo

    Anthony Britto

    Plastic surgeon Gareth Lloyd splits his time between repairing accident victims at local hospitals and trying--largely in vain--to persuade his private patients in a Los Angeles suburb to have the kind of expensive nips and tucks so popular in Beverl...

  • Jade

    Betty Brooks

    NAMED FOR A JEWEL With no choice but to defend her own life, Jade Carrington killed a man. Now she would pay the terrible price. Shipped to the colonies as an indentured slave, the midnight-haired innocent feared for her future. And when a powerfu...

  • Spring Dreams

    Lydia Browne

    As spring flowers begin to bloom, so does love... MILLICENT The most stubborn and independent woman in Culverton, Missouri, she was determined to remain alone for the rest of her life. Until a baby appeared on her doorstep... NED The most eli...

  • Corey's Secret Friend

    Bonnie Bryant

    Corey is very upset. Her divorced mother, Doc Tock, has started dating a man who lives in the neighborhood. He has a daughter Corey's age, but that's all the girls have in common. Alice doesn't like animals, and she'd rather read a book than try to m...

  • Saddle Sore

    Bonnie Bryant

    The girls of the Saddle Club--Stevie Lake, Carole Hanson, and Lisa Atwood--and their friend Emily have headed West to the Bar None Dude Ranch. Emily has cerebral palsy. She's helping the ranch's owner make it accessible to riders with special needs. ...

  • Space Mall

    Jon Buller

    Follow Ron Rooney and his pals for an outer space adventure of galactical proportions! It's just another day at Ye Olde Mall until the entire building is hijacked by a bunch of extraterrestrials for an exhibit at the Greatest Show in the Galaxy. It's...

  • Twice Burned

    Pamela Burford

    Double...or Nothing Zara Sutcliffe had always been the bad-girl twin, the darker half of her double, Emma. But one six-foot-four-inch so-called FBI agent had her quaking in her high heels the moment he engaged her with his amber eyes, gripped her ...

  • Hocus

    Jan Burke

    For reporter Irene Kelly it's a terrifying investigation -- because it's so personal. Her husband, Detective Frank Harriman, has been kidnapped by terrorists who call themselves Hocus -- deadly manipulators who give Irene three days to meet their dem...

  • Soldier Boy

    Brian Burks

  • Evidence of Things Unseen

    Beverly Bush

    Evidence of Things Unseen finds Andrea Lang's successful, career-focused life turned upside down when her young daughter is kidnapped. Desperate to find her daughter and willing to try any means possible, Andrea ventures into the dark world of the oc...

  • Bachelor Daddy

    Linda Cajio

    A Mother's Day Match A Confirmed Bachelor Stretch marks, teddy bears and tea parties were beyond the ken of Michael Holiday syndicated single guy and quintessential unattached male. So what made him buy a home next to a single mom of six - and wh...

  • His and Hers

    B.B. Calhoun

    Dana and Michael enjoy the perfect summer romance, but when school starts, they send each other mixed signals that cause them to question their relationship, in a unique romance told in alternating viewpoints. Original....

  • Charity

    Paulette Callen

    A spinster schoolteacher in turn-of-the-century Charity, South Dakota becomes involved with a woman whose alcoholic husband has been accused of murder and whose relationship with a beautiful Sioux woman transcends friendship. Reprint....

  • Tough Talk and Tender Kisses

    Deborah Camp

    Adele Bishop stares in disbelief as the tall, imposing figure of Rerio Gold steps off the train. Her mail-order husband is no stranger, but the man who gave her a delicious taste of his wild streak years ago-when she was too young to know how to hand...

  • Champion's Spirit

    Joanna Campbell

    The latest installment of the popular series follows Cindy Blake's efforts to tame Wonder's Champion, Whitebrook's fastest and wildest colt, in time for competition in the Kentucky Bonus Series. Original....

  • Mythic Dimension

    Joseph Campbell

    Provocative and personal writings on mythology, culture, and modern life by our century's foremost interpreter and teacher of myth.

    Gathered together here for the first time are twelve eclectic,far-ranging, and brilliant essays exploring myth in a...

  • The Last Arrow

    Marsha Canham

    THE PRINCE OF DARKNESS She caught him trespassing on her family's lands, the sensuous and mysterious knight who had come to Normandy to challenge her brother, Robin, in the tournament at Chateau Gaillard. Brenna Wardieu's well-honed instincts warned...

  • Exiles

    Philip Caputo

     In this startling new work of fiction, the acclaimed author of A Rumor of War creates three powerful dramas of dislocation, following his characters places they have no business being and into situations that are vastly -- and dangerously -- be...

  • Sea Hag's Treasure

    Melody Carlson

  • ABC I Like Me!

    Nancy Carlson

    Nancy Carlson's cheerful pig is back in this vibrant ABC companion book to the best-selling I Like Me!--and she's brought along a few friends to join her. The letters of the alphabet are illustrated with brightly-colored, action-packed pictures and a...

  • The Hotel Eden

    Ron Carlson

    Prepare to be amused, moved, disturbed. These stories by a master of idiosyncrasy visit a world where wit has heft, charm has shadow, and human beings act out all the complicated nuances of love. In the title story, a young man waiting in the Hotel E...

  • Bull Catcher

    Alden R. Carter

    In his diary, high-school baseball player Neil "Bull" Larsen re-evaluates his friendships, takes a close look at his family and girlfriend, and considers if there is anything more to life than baseball....

  • The Promise of Your Touch

    Annee Carter

    HER TOUCH WAS HIS SALVATION She stroked his fevered body with her healing hands, and willed the tortured rebel back to life. He was a total stranger, yet Shivahn Armagh felt she had known him forever. Then the Irish beauty discovered that he was a...

  • Jorah's Journal

    Judith Caseley

  • Sunrise Vows

    Carla Cassidy

    Their in-name-only marriage would serve as bait Belinda Connor in no way wanted to be a temporary wife - especially to Derek Walker, who'd sneaked back into her heart with the stealth of a thief. But when it became apparent someone wanted her dead...

  • Secret Vow

    Kathy Cecala

    Secret Vow is the moving, searingly honest story of the bittersweet love affair between a beautiful young widow and an extraordinary yet troubled priest. When Rose meets Ellis, she believes she has found the answer to all her dreams and yearnings. Th...

  • Mama's Girl

    Veronica Chambers

    A young woman reflects on her childhood and her relationship with her hard-working immigrant mother, exploring important issues about what children need from their mothers and what children are capable of giving to them in return. Reprint."...

  • Hardwired

    Sally Chapman

    STRANGE CONNECTIONS Someone's hacking into NASA's computers--and doing enough damage to threaten the upcoming shuttle mission. Computer security investigator Julie Blake and partner Vic Paoli know that clients don't get any more prestigious tha...

  • A Surfeit of Guns

    P.F. Chisholm

    1592: Sir Robert Carey is finding life in the North more complicated and dangerous than he expected.Now somebody has stolen the entire shipment of hand-guns that Queen Elizabeth I sent to Carlisle, in a daring daylight raid. Who did it? Where are the...

  • Baseball Turnaround

    Matt Christopher

    Sandy Comstock once made a mistake - a bad one - but he's paid the price and now he just wants to get on with his life. Only one person stands in his way:Perry Warden, the boy who tempted Sandy to break the law in the first place. Convinced that Perr...

  • Stranger in Right Field

    Matt Christopher

    Right fielder Alfie Maples is mystified by the newest member of the Peach Street Mudders. As far as Alfie can see, Roberti Frantelli can barely catch a ball or hit. Then Coach Parker asks Alfie to show the newcomer the ropes. Alfie is flattered and t...

  • Apparition

    Scott Ciencin

  • Yesterday Is Gone

    Beverly Clark

    Beverly Clark's debut novel is the classic tender story of love overcoming all. Augusta Humphrey has a new BMW, a new medical degree, and a new life, when an automobile accident turns her dream world into a life of darkness. Into the wake of this tra...

  • A Spirited Seduction

    Casey Claybourne

    What would a hedonistic, empty-headed womanizer like the Viscount Colbridge desire in a woman? Sabrina's lips pursed with disdain as she wondered what he must be like... A self-important rake accustomed to women swooning at his feet... Of c...

  • Beauty and the Bachelor Dad

    Donna Clayton

    ETERNAL BACHELOR: The only remaining single guy in the Single Daddy Club, Reece Newton. Marriage may be the answer for all his friends, but not for this contented father of one. Of course, the right woman could change his mind.... ENDANGERED BEAU...

  • Just Another Ordinary Day

    Rod Clement

  • The Children of Amarid

    David B. Coe

    AN ORDER IN CHAOS A thousand years ago in Tobyn-Ser, Amarid and Theron discovered magical crystals that enabled them to bond with hawks to produce powerful magic. Together, they started an order, dedicating themselves to using their powers to help...

  • Camp Crocodile

    M.T. Coffin

    A lakeside summer camp is anything but restful when some of the kids begin disappearing, and when one of the campers swears a giant crocodile is responsible, no one believes him until it is too late. Original....

  • Tallgrass

    Don Coldsmith

    GATEWAY TO DREAMS Crossroads of a continent, Kansas lies at the heart of American history. For centuries this land of limitless horizons, of fertile soil and tall grasses, has drawn men and women of desperation, desire, and destiny. First there...

  • Oh What Nonsense

    William Cole

  • Vengeance Is Hers

    Max Allan Collins

    An anthology of fifteen mystery stories by women, featuring female sleuths and vigilantes who exact murderous retribution against male evil-doers, includes stories by Joan Hess, Sharyn McCrumb, Nancy Pickard, and Margaret Maron, among others. Origina...

  • How to Succeed at Love

    Susan Connell

    DATELESS AND DISTRESSED Jade Macleod had been dumped by her boyfriend, fired from her important job... and her high-school reunion was days away! The girl voted "Most Likely to Succeed" was preparing to show up as a total loser...until sexy stranger...

  • Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God

    Joe Coomer

    Nine weeks after losing her husband, Charlotte escapes to a wooden motor yacht in New Hampshire, where her shipmates are an aging blue-haired widow, an emotional seventeen-year-old, and the ugliest dog in literature. A genuine bond develops among the...

  • Perfume

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Despite her aversion to its horrendous name and scent, Dove feels compelled to purchase a bottle of Venom, and soon she realizes that the perfume has released her evil unborn twin into the world. Venom. Dove doesn't want to buy the perfume. Sh...

  • The Stranger

    Caroline B. Cooney

    From the first moment she sees him in class, Nicoletta is drawn to Jethro, fascinated by his dark, mysterious face. She is attracted yet repelled, interested but afraid. Nicoletta becomes obsessed, unable to think of any-thing but this strange boy. ...

  • Daniel's Song

    Lori Copeland
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    Thirty years later, St. Louis piano teacher Sarah Collins is captivated by a handsome Indian, Daniel Eaglefeather, who wants her to teach him to play. When scales and cadences lead to kisses and caresses, Sarah learns that the key to her past -- and ...

  • A Boy Friend Is Not a "Boyfriend"

    Emily Costello

    Angered by her friend Jeff, who suddenly avoids her and refuses to let her sit with him in the cafeteria, Claudia is informed by her older brother, Bailey, that Jeff is probably afraid that people will think they are a couple. Original....

  • Biggest Horse I Ever Did See

    Susan Arkin Couture

    The sight of glorious wild horses galloping over a mountain sets a young boy daydreaming about his future, through the seasons and through the years to when he is a grandfather and can show his grandson glorious wild horses still galloping over the m...

  • Bruce Coville's Book of Spine Tinglers II: More Tales to Make You Shiver

    Bruce Coville

    An entertaining new anthology of chilling tales includes Coville's "The Coldest Touch," as well as other creepy stories by Neal Shusterman, Michael Markiewicz, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, and other noted authors. Original....

  • The Black Shore

    Greg Cox

    After weeks of lonely journeys through a desolate region of the Delta Quadrant, the crew of Voyager is badly in need of shore leave, so the planet Ryolanov seems like just what the doctor ordered. Full of warm sunlight and gracious, hospitable people...

  • Postman Pat's Messy Day

    John Cunliffe

  • Postman Pat and the Blue Ball

    John Cunliffe

  • Lost Highway

    Richard Currey

    Lost Highway has attracted a legion of admirers since its initial publication in 1998, and this 2nd edition contains an additional chapter omitted from the 1st edition and an introduction by James Lee Burke. The book depicts the epic struggle of an o...

  • Bailey School Kids Joke Book

    Debbie Dadey

  • Diary of Mattie Spenser

    Sandra Dallas

    No one is more surprised than Mattie Spenser herself when Luke Spenser, considered the great catch of their small Iowa town, asks her to marry him. Less than a month later, they are off in a covered wagon to build a home on the Colerado frontier. Mat...

  • Outside Agency

    Conor Daly

    Local Knowledge, Conner Day's first mystery featuring lawyer-turned-golf-pro Kieran Lenahan, was hailed as a "punchy page-turner" by Golf Magazine and a "fast-paced golf mystery" by The New York Times. With Outside Agency, he gives us a book that is ...

  • Hotshot P.I.

    B.J. Daniels

    The prime suspect was a sleepwalker For the second time in her life Clancy Jones had awakened at a murder scene--this time with the murder weapon in her hand. Without recall, she insisted she was innocent, framed and the real killer after her. To ...

  • Seducing the Enemy

    Emma Darcy

    Have you heard the latest? Don't tell anyone but... It had to be a cover-up! Daniel Wolfe listened as Annabel Parke told her version of the night's events when a prominent politician had been found dead in her motel room. A journalist, ...

  • And Daddy Makes Three

    Kay David

    A MOTHER'S VOW Five years ago Annie Burns promised to care for a newborn baby as if she were her own...and to never, ever let the child's father into her life. Now all Annie wants is to adopt the little girl she's always thought of as her own. And...

  • Camp Sink or Swim

    Gibbs Davis

    Danny's been bragging that he's a champion swimmer. But he can't even float! Now he's at Camp Kickapoo, where swimming is a major activity. Danny desperately tries to learn how to swim, but fails miserably. Then the neighborhood bully, an overweight ...

  • How Proust Can Change Your Life

    Alain De Botton

    A bestselling author draws on the work of one of history’s most important writers to show us how to best live life in a book that’s "delightfully original.... A self-help book in the deepest sense of the term" (The New York Times). Alain de Botto...

  • Where the Fire Burns

    Anne De Graaf

  • The Lady and the Sheriff

    Sharon De Vita

    LITTLE LOUIE NEEDS A MOTHER Louie Powers knew his teacher was the mom he'd been wishing for. Miss Logan was everything a rambunctious kid could want-- kind and understanding of the trouble some boys finds themselves in. Now Louie had to find a way...

  • Rescuing Christine

    Alyssa Dean

    HERO TO THE RESCUE Reporter Alec O'Brian didn't believe Christine McKinley's life was in danger -- until his story about her led to another life-threatening "accident:' It looked as if someone really wanted to hurt her. There w...

  • Encyclopedia Mysteriosa

    William L. Deandrea

  • Enchanted

    Claire Delacroix

    DANGEROUS MAGIC TAINTED THE AIR Cursed to spend his days as a wolf, at night Rolfe de Viandin was under a different enchantment. One woven by the beauteous Annelise de Sayerne - the woman fated to be his doom...and his salvation! Vowing to mar...

  • Achoo! All about Colds

    Patricia Brennan Demuth

  • A Place for Kathy

    Henry Denker

    Having lost her hemophiliac husband to a brain hemorrhage only to discover that she has contracted AIDS from him, Grace sets out to try to find a future home for her twelve-year-old daughter Kathy, in this story of loss and hope....

  • First Young Puffin Goodnight Monster

    Carolyn Dinan

  • Hercules: The Best Gift of All

    Walt Disney

  • Disney's Hercules

    Walt Disney

  • A Race to the Rescue

    Walt Disney

  • Disney's 101 Dalmatians

    Walt Disney

  • High Wire Act

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • The Free Bards

    Larry Dixon

    Rune runs away from her abusive home to become one of her world's greatest violinists, while fellow musician Robin journeys to Skull Hill to recruit a terrible ghost, and Nightingale teams up with a strange beast for her own musical pursuits. Origina...

  • Sing, Sophie!

    Dayle Ann Dodds

    Sophie loves to sing, but no one but the crickets wants to hear her song, that is until a special situation calls for her talents and where her cowgirl songs not only come in handy but save the day as well....

  • An Impetuous Season

    Denise Domning
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    Feisty "fallen woman" Verity Staudiford journeys from England to Kansas. Once there, her dashed hopes for a husband and family of her own are re-kindled when she fights a prairie fire with a brawny lawyer who's raising a little girl....

  • Meggie's Baby

    Denise Domning
    in

    No Greater Love... Here, in this very special collection, are four exquisite tales by today's most beloved and talented writers of romantic fiction. Shimmering with emotion, brushed with scandal, and touched with insights into the human heart, these ...

  • Shock Around the Clock: Timely Tales of Terror

    David H. Dorion

    Set to take place every hour on the hour, each eerie entry in this short story collection features a clever title which includes the hour of the day--"Three Strikes and You're Out, " "Alive at Five, " "Ate at Eight, " and more. It's real horror with ...

  • Heads and Toes

    Dr. Seuss

    Enter a Wubbulous World of fun with each of these exciting new coloring and activity books. Every book contains kids' favorite Seussian characters and a host of new faces. Chock-full of puzzles, mazes, and lots of activities!...

  • The Cat in the Hat's Fun Book

    Dr. Seuss

  • Zubble-Wump's Song

    Dr. Seuss

    An elegant collection of portraits of the distinguished wubbulous cast of characters— the Grinch in his Grotto, Horton the Explorer, and more—for kids to color with markers, crayons, paint or pencils. Over 40 pictures to color make this an ...

  • Wubbulous Gallery to Color

    Dr. Seuss

    Based on the television seres The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss , produced by Jim Henson Productions Inc., The Wubbulous Gallery to Color is a color and activity funbook with easy-to-remove perforated pages....

  • Brass Button

    Crescent Dragonwagon

    Unbeknownst to its owner, Mrs. Moffat's new red coat loses a brass button, and the button begins a long journey around the neighborhood, from bushes to birds' nests, before it is returned to Mrs. Moffat....

  • Mosaic Funbook

    Laura Dunham

  • Nature's Mazes Maze Funbook

    Laura Dunham

  • Twisted Mazes

    Laura Dunham

  • Tough Mazes

    Laura Dunham

  • States of Confusion

    Laura Dunham

  • A Scent of Jasmine

    Natasha Dunne

    A TRUSTING HEART A bitter divorce leaves New York single mother Andrea Dusseaux wary of men, and longing for a fresh start. The opportunity to run a restaurant in Phoenix with an old school chum seems the ideal place to begin. But when handsome at...

  • The Dinosaurs of the Lost World

    Jennifer Dussling

    A fascinating, information-packed introduction to the prehistoric world of real-life dinosaurs answers questions about different types of ancient reptiles and how they lived, reproduced, and cared for their young, in an easy-to-read book based on the...

  • The Colour of Memory

    Geoff Dyer

    The first novel, in revised form, from "possibly the best living writer in Britain" (The Daily Telegraph)In The Colour of Memory, six friends plot a nomadic course through their mid-twenties as they scratch out an existence in near-destitute conditio...

  • Daddy's Girl

    Kathleen Eagle
    in

    A hospital bound single mother-to-be jumped into a taxicab and guessed she was in for the ride of her life with the man of her dreams in Kathleen Eagle's DADDY'S GIRL....

  • Tomorrow's Promises

    Cassie Edwards
    in

    Chief Walking Thunder believes that the blue-eyed woman he has found in the Montana wilderness is meant to care for his orphaned infant nephew -- and be his woman. But before they can revel in TOMORROW'S PROMISES, he must ease Davinda Norris'...

  • N

    Louis Edwards

    An independent journalist who works on an alternative newspaper finds herself drawn to a drug dealer named Strip and the community in which he lives in as she investigates the murder of an eighteen-year-old boy. Tour....

  • You're Safe Now, Waterdog

    Richard Edwards

  • Last Year in Hong Kong

    Robert S. Elegant

  • Valley of the Shadow

    Roger Elwood

    It could happen. A sinister plot catches the world off guard. How would you react if the world crumbled around you tomorrow? This is what readers discover as they become absorbed in the Without the Dawn series, as exciting as Die Hard, Executive Deci...

  • Sleepwalking Beauty

    Kathy Lynn Emerson

    He awoke to find a goddess lit by moonlight climbing into his bed.... Duncan Glendower seemed more ancient warrior than modern bodyguard, but to Andrea Lauderdale he represented her powerful grandfather's efforts to control her life! When he agre...

  • Battle Cry

    Ken Englade

    Bestselling author Tony Hillerman's West comes alive in Ken Englade's exciting new series about the tribes, the settlers, and the soldiers who attempted to carve a life out of the golden West and made history along the way. The Cheyenne are on the a...

  • Pandaemonium

    Leslie Epstein

    The definitive novel of Hollywood in its most glamorous era, Pandaemonium is an epic that examines the roots of film and its relation to the dark forces of the imagination. Narrated by the ever-wise Peter Lorre, the book assembles a huge cast of Holl...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Allison Estes

    Amanda is crushed when her father loans out her horse, Prince Charming, instead of letting her participate in the costume contest, and when a careless rider puts Prince Charming in danger, Amanda is forced to stand up to her parents. Original....

  • Wishes

    Rita Clay Estrada

    WHERE THERE'S A WISH, THERE'S A WAY When Virginia Gallagher literally stumbled on a fat wallet, it would have been a wish come true, if she hadn't been so honest. And when the owner's gorgeous, sexy son, Wilder Hunnicut III, showed up, it would...

  • Time Station Paris

    David Evans

    Sent to Occupied Paris in 1943, raw time warden recruit John Thomason must prevent the death of Nazi Commander-in-Chief Hermann Goering in order to prevent the collapse of the United States government. Original....

  • Friends and Lovers

    Marianne Evans

    THE SPORT OF LOVE Jennifer Myers enjoys a successful career as a popular Chicago sportswriter -- too successful to even consider romance, let alone marriage. No man knows that better than her handsome colleague Mark Abington. For years, Jennifer...

  • Longarm and the Dead Man's Reward

    Tabor Evans

  • Wyrm

    Mark Fabi

    As the new millennium approaches, cults, sects, and crackpot prophets flood the worldwide media.  But for Michael Arcangelo none of their catastrophe theories are more frightening than the Goodknight virus.  Michael suspects it is the work of a m...

  • Wolf

    Sara Fanelli

  • Boy Who Longed for a Lift

    Norma Farber

  • Journey of the Heart

    Marjorie Farrell

    THE LADY... After two years at a proper Eastern school, beautiful and vivacious Caitlin Burke returns to her family's New Mexico ranch to find the valley she loves vastly changed and greedy cattle rancher Nelson Mackie scheming to take over their sp...

  • The California Book of the Dead

    Tim Farrington

    Reminiscent of Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City, a romantic comedy traces the relationships among six single people in one San Francisco house, including a lesbian artist, her New Age seeker, a masseur, and a neophyte. Reprint....

  • Second Chance at Love

    Cheryl Faye
    in

    Cheryl Fay's Second Chance at Love gives a dedicated nurse a fresh start in life - and love. With two teenagers and an all-consuming job, Rachel Waters believes that the time for romance has passed. But sometimes a one-in-a-million love can come alon...

  • The Counterfeit Count

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    The Count Is No Gentleman... Expert with a sword, fearless in battle, and an excellent shot as well, Count Dmitri Dmitrieff was every inch a Russian war hero. But he was as slight as a lad and as delicate as...well, a lady. In fact, he was a lady. Wi...

  • Forgotten Honeymoon

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE CHARADE He'd finally gotten his revenge. Tough loner Max Cooper had been given the perfect opportunity to put his high-and-mighty partner, Kristina Fortune, in her place. The pampered princess had lost her memory and was depending on Max to f...

  • The Three-Year Itch

    Liz Fielding

    Trouble always comes in threes... And it had been three years since Abbie had married Grey Lockwood. Three blissful years. She'd had it all: a glamorous, jet-setting career, a beautiful home and, best of all, a loving husband to come home to. ...

  • Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

    Jennie Fields

    Escaping the narrow, wealthy life she led in Manhattan, Zoe Finney moves her family to Park Slope, Brooklyn, an area of beautiful old brownstones where working-class families have lived for generations.A poor girl who married into money, Zoe finds co...

  • The Thought Gang

    Tibor Fischer

    In this wacky philosophical caper, washed-up, middle-aged British philosopher Eddie Coffin flees scandal and ruin at home to find himself destitute in France. There he hooks up with Hubert, a one-armed armed robber recently released from prison, and ...

  • The Rage of Angels

    Alan Fisher

  • Only Couples Need Apply

    Connie Flynn

    TWO REPORTERS, ONE STORY -- ONE BED! It's the wedding of the year -- a world-famous rock star marrying a gorgeous supermodel and every reporter in the country wants the story. The only way to get it is to land a job on the secluded desert ranc...

  • The Bum's Rush

    G.M. Ford

    Packed with all the outrageous shenanigans that quickly marked Who in Hell is Wanda Fuca? and Cast in Stone as two of the most original mysteries in years, G.M. Ford crafts a devilishly funny and bat-out-of-hell paced novel featuring his smart-aleck ...

  • Bright Shadow

    Elizabeth Forrest

    In order to capture a charismatic, maniacal evangelist, FBI agent Jim McGruder must penetrate the man's ranch and bring out two possible witnesses--an innocent man and a little girl whose angelic demeanor belies her evil nature...

  • The Gingerbread Man

    Deborah Fowler

    When Gemma Kessler wins a #1000 travel voucher she decides to visit her husband John, who has flown out to Romania to check his business is running smoothly. On her arrival the door is opened by Christina, who claims to be John's wife, and what follo...

  • Goose in the Pond

    Earlene Fowler

    Meet Benni Harper... a spirited ex-cowgirl, quilter, and folk-art expert who's staking out her own corner of the contemporary American West. She's got an eye for murderous designs and a talent for piecing together the most complex and cold-blooded cr...

  • Iguana Beach

    Kristine L. Franklin

    Imagine seeing the warm, tropical ocean for the very first time, but not being able swim in it. Parent's Choice Award winner Kristine Franklin has created a character who knows exactly what this is like. Little Reina persuades her mother to let her g...

  • Courting Trouble

    Nancy Fraser

    COURTING JESSI Jessi Trainor has come to the small rural town of Brant Mills, Michigan to research a country cookbook. She's beautiful, smart, and successful, yet she's missing one main ingredient: romance. Then she meets Dane Logan, the handso...

  • Nobody Does It Better

    Jan Freed

    She'd forgotten about Texas men.... It took brains, independence and nerves of steel for 'The Nutcracker' to get where she is today, CEO of her own company. But nobody does it better than Hope Manning when it comes to high-stress, big-bucks 'ventu...

  • Corduroy Velcro

    Don Freeman

  • Ask Mariah

    Barbara Freethy

    AN UNFULFILLED HEART Joanna Wingate knows something is missing from her life, something she never dreamed she'd find in an handsome stranger's children--mischievous six-year-old twin sisters who look up at her adoringly. . .and call her Mama.. AN...

  • Once upon a Picnic

    Vivian French

  • Murder & Sullivan

    Sara Hoskinson Frommer

    In the small town of Oliver, Indiana, a well-liked judge is murdered onstage during a local performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's operetta Ruddigore. The director of the Senior Citizens Center, Joan Spencer, is playing the viola in the orchestra when i...

  • Midnight Remedy

    Eve Gaddy

    He promised that her mouth would get her into trouble -- of the kissing kind! He'd survived miles of bumpy road to reach the woman whose herbal potions had supposedly cured one of his patients, but when Dr. Eric Chambers faced nursery owner Pi...

  • Hope

    Louann Gaeddert

  • Milady Alex!

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Attending a Renaissance Fair to learn about the Middle Ages with her friends, Alex Mack is knocked unconscious by a stray ball and loses all memory of who she is, and her secret powers place her in more danger than ever. Original....

  • The Aguero Sisters

    Cristina Garcia

    When Cristina García's first novel, Dreaming in Cuban, was published in 1992, The New York Times called the author "a magical new writer...completely original." The book was nominated for a National Book Award, and reviewers everywhere praised it fo...

  • Sword of the Prophets

    Mark A. Garland; Charles G. McGraw

    Possessing the ability to know a sword's history just by looking at it, Yourdon Lewen nevertheless pursues his dream of becoming a hero and dons the armor of a soldier, but his subsequent experiences teach him the meaning of true heroism. Original....

  • Jumpers

    R. Patrick Gates

    Badly injured in a sledding accident, nine-year-old Anna Wheaton has entered the shadowland between life and death. She and the others in this beautiful, terrifying place--the Jumpers--are able to leap instantly into an alternate reality where the de...

  • Topsy-Turvy Magic

    Lonnie George

    When a young apprentice plans a birthday party for her wizardness, there's so much to do and so little time. How will she manage it? Abracadabra--by magic! Includes 25 jewel-like stickers in five different shapes and five different colors....

  • Not-So Perfect Rosie

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Facing a long summer without ballet classes, Rosie decides to stage her own performance of Swan Lake, in which she will star, but someone else's identical plans threaten to overshadow her production. Reprint....

  • Next Stop, New York City

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    Bright lights, big city--Ms. Rooney's class is heading for NYC! They'll see dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History and they'll visit the Bronx Zoo, the Statue of Liberty, and many more sights. They'll  even be in a Flag Day parade.  ...

  • Best Friends

    Kathie Lee Gifford

  • Soul Deep

    Monique Gilmore

    Heartbroken after her fiance+a7's betrayal, Yvonne Taylor rediscovers the power of love when she meets Sean Germaine, an Air Force pilot haunted by tragedy, but their growing relationship is threatened by the ghosts of the past and by an unknown enem...

  • My Mother's Child

    Monique Gilmore
    in

    My Mother's Child by Monique Gilmore, has strong-willed Geraldine Copeland at odds with her equally headstrong daughter - after all, no mother wants to see her only child engaged to the wrong man. But now it's Geraldine's turn to listen to her heart ...

  • The Dazzle of Day

    Molly Gloss

    Leaving a dilapidated Earth behind, Quakers across the globe pool funds and resources as they select colonists to send to a newly discovered planet to start life anew in this “miraculous fusion of…science fiction with unsparing realism and keen p...

  • Dragonfly Secret

    Carolyn J. Gold

    Will a mysterious fairy keep Nathan's family together or tear it apart? Nathan and Jessie love their cantakerous grandfather, who lives with them, but their aunt feels he should be in a nursing home, and she has contacted a social worker to evalua...

  • She Took My Arm As If She Loved Me

    Herbert Gold

    Tracker of lost memories and lost souls, the veteran San Francisco private eye Dan Kasdan manages, along his way from the 1960s to the 1990s, to find Priscilla, the love of his life, only to lose her. Kasdan, urged on by Priscilla, also finds himself...

  • Deadly Harvest

    Leonard S. Goldberg

    Forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock's professional calm is stretched to the limit when her sister Kate is brought back from an archeological dig in a coma and diagnosed with an ebola-type virus. Kate's only hope of survival is a liver transplant, but...

  • Be Nice to Pooh - Easy Peel Sticker Book

    Golden Books

  • Party for Hercules

    Golden Books

    Easy Peel Sticker Books feature colorful pressure-sensitive stickers that are easy for children to use. Once the stickers are in place, children can add to the creativity and fun by completing the fun-to-color pictures....