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  • The Abominable Snowman

    R.A. Montgomery

    FACE-TO-FACE WITH THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN! Is the Abominable Snowman real, or just a legend? You and your friend Carlos are ready to risk your lives to find out. You will climb the highest mountains to bring back the world's first photographs of th...

  • Dual Action

    Don Pendleton

    OPEN ATTACK Mack Bolan is on the trail of a lethal mystery weapon used to destroy a U.S. military tank in Iraq. The supergun has proven armor-piercing capabilities and has fallen into the hands of a neo-Nazi group in the American Midwest. The gro...

  • Edge of Battle

    Dale Brown

    Tensions have never been greater along America's boder with Mexico. To aid his narcotics smuggling operatiosn, criminal kingpin Ernesto Fuerza - under the name "Comandante Veracruz" and the false banner of Mexican nationalism - is calling for an arm...

  • Path To War

    Don Pendleton

    Stomping Grounds War for sole ownership of blood-soaked Angola has begun, but now the ruthless shadow hand is a cabal of former CIA-DOD top operatives calling themselves Phoenix Consortium. Backed by millions in stolen black funds, the goal is a ...

  • Rim Of The World

    James Axler

    The conspiracy of secrecy manipulating post-nuclear Earth takes a terrifying new turn as the mysterious oligarchy becomes something far more sinister. No longer shrouded in the cloaks of hybrid-human divinity, the nine barons have evolved into their ...

  • The Taking of the King

    Nelson Blish

    The Soviet Union is no more. Various nation states struggle with each other even as their old enemy, the United States, races ahead in military strength and technology. But there are those within the ranks of the Soviet fleet who seek to regain their...

  • A Blush With Death

    India Ink

    In Gull Harbor, Washington, the local bath and body store--Venus Envy --takes care of all the town's beauty needs, from custom-blended oils to relaxing spa services. And behind the counter sits Persia Vanderbilt, the niece of the proprietor, who has ...

  • The Bookwoman's Last Fling

    John Dunning

    When wealthy horse trainer H. R. Geiger dies, Denver bookman Cliff Janeway encounters the legacy of the man's wife, Candice, a true bookwoman who left behind an assortment of rare first-edition children's books. Sent to assess the collection, Janeway...

  • Fine-Feathered Death

    Linda O. Johnston

    Kendra Ballantyne, Esq., is flying high. Her license to practice law has been rightfully restored. She's dating the foxiest P.I. in all of L.A. And best of all, since she moonlights as a pet-sitter, she gets to see her furry best friends every day. A...

  • Fruit of the Poisoned Tree

    Joyce Lavene; Jim Lavene

    Meet Peggy Lee: botanist, detective's widow, and owner of the Potting Shed, an urban gardener's paradise in downtown Charlotte. Mild winters keep the store thriving all year round, but there are plenty of people with colder intentions... What made...

  • Indian Pipes

    Cynthia Riggs

    Lively 92-year-old Martha's Vineyard native Victoria Trumbull is the first to spot the body of her neighbor, reclusive engineer Jube Burkhardt, dead from a tumble off a 200-foot-high cliff. The police conclude it was accidental, but Victoria's suspic...

  • Love You Madly

    Linda Palmer

    Daytime drama writer Morgan Tyler figures she has only one thing in common with the men and women of her story lines: "I don't know what's going to happen next in my life, either..." As head writer of Love of My Life, Morgan specializes in imperil...

  • Murder on the Rocks

    Karen MacInerney

    Trading Texas heat for Maine's tangy salt air, Natalie Barnes risked it all to buy the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on Cranberry Island. She adores whipping up her signature blueberry coffee cake and killer cranberry scones for her gues...

  • Murder Unleashed

    Elaine Viets

    With a resume that includes attempted assault and alimony evasion, Helen Hawthorne has no choice but to take on a series of dead-end jobs to make ends meet. Unfortunately, they're exposing her to a lot of people who end up dead. At the Barker Brot...

  • Once Upon a Crime

    Carolyn Keene

    Once upon a crime, in a faraway land know as River Heights... Hi, it's me, Nancy Drew. I thought meeting my hero, mystery writer Hazel Perrault, would be a dream come true. As soon as I found out she was joining forces with a local charity to build...

  • Quarry

    Susan Cummins Miller

    With crimes of passion striking the quiet University of Del Rio campus, geologist Frankie MacFarlane is enmeshed in the case of a fragile psyche pushed to the edge... Just as Frankie arranges her doctoral dissertation's long-awaited defense, a polic...

  • The Saddlemaker's Wife

    Earlene Fowler

    After the death of her husband Cole, Ruby McGavin is shocked to learn that she's inherited part of a cattle ranch in Tokopah County, California. But she's even more surprised to find out that the family he claimed died years ago is very much alive. ...

  • Scream for Ice Cream

    Carolyn Keene

    How can a contest this sweet turn so sticky? Nancy and her friends think there is nothing more fun than ice cream in the summer. So when they find out that the owners of the local ice-cream factory are hosting a contest, the Clue Crew can't wait ...

  • Sleepover Sleuths

    Carolyn Keene

    Eight-year-old Nancy Drew has her first case to crack! Can you help? Nancy and her two best friends, George and Bess, are so excited! They have been invited to Deirdre's sleepover party! There will be pizza, cake, and even a pajama fashion show. B...

  • Wanted

    Franklin W. Dixon

    ATAC BRIEFING FOR THE REAL AGENTS FRANK AND JOE HARDYMISSION:Two guys are running around the state, committing crimes left and right -- and they’re leaving a clear trail for the police. They’d be a cinch to catch, but the thing is, the police are...

  • Sisterchicks in Gondolas

    Robin Jones Gunn

    Ciao bella!

    SISTERCHICK n.: a friend who shares the deepest wonders of your heart, loves you like a sister, and provides a reality check when you’re being a brat.

    When Jenna is invited to Venice for a week of cooking for a small re...

  • Tristan's Gap

    Nancy Rue

    She thought they had the perfect family... For eighteen years Serena Soltanis has poured herself into her family, making every effort to please her husband and to protect her daughters from the evils of the world. Respected and admired for her obv...

  • Violette Between

    Alison Strobel

    "A beautifully wrought tale full of characters that live and breathe. This surprising story from Strobel, a bold and engaging storyteller, left me sighing with pleasure and wanting more. She's not to be missed." -- CLAUDIA MAIR BURNEY...

  • And Able

    Lucy Monroe

    They're the good guys fighting the bad guys. They'll get the job done--if the price is right and so is the cause. Meet three sexy men who individually are READY, WILLING, AND ABLE to go the distance--and together, are unstoppable... Claire Sharp t...

  • Angel Eyes

    Myrna MacKenzie

    Sarah Tucker senses the unwelcome mat unroll the moment she arrives in her hometown of Gold Tree, Wisconsin -- especially from Luke Packard, her mother's next-door neighbor. It's been twelve years since she fled to an anonymous life in California to ...

  • Animal Instincts

    Gena Showalter

    Unleashing your inner tigress isn't easy when you're a doormat by nature! Still, after escaping a wretched marriage to a cheating SOB, Dallas party planner Naomi Delacroix isn't about to let another man sweet-talk her into sheathing her protective cl...

  • At Last

    Carolyn Neal

    As far as April Nelson was concerned, long-lasting love did not seem to be in the picture. While others seemed to have the opportunity to meet, and marry a true love...her life was more or less content with her vocation as a veterinarian and strong t...

  • Big Trouble

    Marianna Jameson

    Naomi Connor is the hottest computer security consultant in the field. She's all about breaching unbreachable defenses before hackers can, but her new assignment is a security audit for the company she nearly destroyed years ago as an illegal hacker....

  • Bought For the Marriage Bed

    Melanie Milburne

    An illicit affair... Nina Selbourne's been left holding the baby, now her evil twin--who attempted to trap a wealthy playboy by getting pregnant--has passed away. Vengeance--marriage! Marc Marcello wants his brother's child--but, he mistakes pri...

  • BreakupBabe

    Rebecca Agiewich

    Blog: an online diary. My Blog: How I got over the worst, most humiliating breakup in web-recorded history -- and became stronger, smarter, and better off without the biggest Loser on the face of the earth. Life is sweet for Rachel. She's livin...

  • Capturing The Cop

    Michele Dunaway

    Whoever said virtue is its own reward wasn't a preacher's kid or they'd know being virtuous was like being jailed with no possibility of parole. That's why -- after thirty years of living up to other people's expectations -- Olivia Jacobsen needs som...

  • The Cattle Baron's Bride

    Margaret Way

    THE CITY GIRL -- AND THE RUGGED OUTBACK CATTLE BARON The wilderness at the heart of the Australian Northern Territory was no place for delicate city beauty Samantha Langdon. Cattleman Ross Sunderland wouldn't have agreed to act as guide if h...

  • Child of Mine

    Bonnie K. Winn

    It was love at first sight when Matt Whitaker opened his door to see a baby in his brother's arms -- Matt's nephew, Danny, abandoned by his heartless high-society mother. And then Danny's father was killed in an accident, and Matt, an ill-prepared ba...

  • Claiming His Family

    Barbara Hannay

    A MARRIAGE RENEWAL... Erin has agreed to take her little boy to the Outback to meet his father -- her ex-husband -- whom she hasn't seen for five years. Seeing Luke again, Erin's not sure how she's supposed to act around the man she...

  • The Comeback Kiss

    Lani Diane Rich

    ALL IT TAKES IS ONE LITTLE KISS... In order to keep custody of her teenage sister, Tessa Scuderi told a small (okay, big) lie to the people of Lucy's Lake, Vermont, about what really happened ten years ago when Dermot Finnegan took off with her virg...

  • Completely Irresistible

    Sheridon Smythe

    It all started with Larry, Moe, and Curly: three spoiled standard poodles with an uncanny knack for mischief. Kasidy Evans knew she'd have her hands full when she agreed to take on their care, but she never imagined she'd find them engaged in a tu...

  • The Consultant's Adopted Son

    Jennifer Taylor

    Beautiful nurse Rose Tremayne would have done anything to have kept her baby. Circumstances forced her into adoption, though there hasn't been a day when she hasn't found herself wondering what happened to her precious little boy. Then Ros...

  • Cricket's Serenade

    Carolita Blythe

    Souci Alexander, a poor young woman from the mountainous interior of Jamaica, agrees to a platonic marriage in order to further an ambitious politician’s career. He is running for prime minister and believes that his mixed-race background is becomi...

  • Custody For Two

    Karen Rose Smith

    He'd lost the only family he'd ever known. His sister and brother-in-law were dead -- and their premature baby was fighting for his life in a Wyoming hospital. The globetrotting photographer lost no time rushing to the preemie's side. But much to...

  • Dalton's Undoing

    Raeanne Thayne

    He was known as a major player who'd left a swath of broken hearts across the Teton Valley. Yet when single mother Jenny Boyer saw the tenderness in Seth Dalton's eyes when he looked at her children -- not to mention her -- it was impossible for her ...

  • Dancing Queen

    Erin Downing

    Who needs Prince Charming if you've got a rock star? It's official. Olivia is a superfreak. Sure, she may have landed the hottest internship at an übercool TV music station. And yes, she's chilling with A-listers in London all summer. But when sh...

  • Dear Granny

    Pamela Griffin

    Leslie Edwards never expected to field the question-and-answer column "Dear Granny" in the Goosebury Gazette. Her Bible-based advice yields mixed responses, and the problems resulting are bigger than she'd ever imagined. In addition, to maintain the ...

  • Devlin And The Deep Blue Sea

    Merline Lovelace

    Liz Moore had just been jilted and vowed to kiss the next attractive man who crossed her path on the deserted Mexican beach. Enter Joe Devlin, the perfect specimen. His slow drawl pegged him as an American...and his six-foot-plus frame of hard muscle...

  • The Durango Affair

    Brenda Jackson

    "I'M HAVING YOUR BABY." Savannah Claiborne's simple statement set off an avalanche in Montana ranger Durango Westmoreland's carefully ordered life. Suddenly, an unforgettable night of passion with the hazel-eyed beauty had turned into a lifetime o...

  • The Englisher

    Beverly Lewis

    Annie Zook struggles to keep her promise to her preacher father to abandon her art and prove her worthiness to "join church." At the same time she is dangerously close to succumbing to another forbidden desire--a relationship with the handsome Englis...

  • Falling Out Of Bed

    Mary Schramski

    Melinda had never questioned her perfect life. Why should she? Her husband's successful, she's not working for the first time in years and their only daughter is in college. Her father -- a workaholic, perfectionist, runner and health nut to boot -- ...

  • The Family Fortune

    Laurie Horowitz

    Jane Fortune's fortunes have taken a downturn. Thanks to the profligate habits of her father and older sister, the family's money has evaporated and Jane has to move out of the only home she's ever known: a stately brick town house on Boston's presti...

  • Flying Lessons

    Peggy Webb

    If this is Beth Holt Martin's life, she wants a refund. It's true. At fifty-three, all Beth's got is a sex-starved marriage to Howard the psychiatrist, an (almost) empty nest and a suitcase full of long-forgotten dreams of becoming...well, someth...

  • For Pleasure...Or Marriage?

    Julia James

    A mistress is for pleasure, not for marriage... Tycoon Markos Makarios thinks he has the perfect woman in Vanessa: she's beautiful, adoring, living only to please him. In fact, she's the best mistress he's ever had. Until he has to war...

  • Four Little Problems

    Carrie Weaver

    Patrick Stevens is a great teacher. All of his "kids" say so -- except Emily Patterson's oldest son, Jason. Jason is Patrick's lone failure -- the one student he couldn't reach. And that's too bad, because when Patrick and Emily are thrown togethe...

  • The Frog Prince

    Gillian McKnight

    When Alexis and Helene, vowing never to fight over the same boy, arrive in Paris to stay with Helene's estranged father and his new wife, the girls, while immersed in high fashion, break their promise when they meet gorgeous Daniel D'Artois. Original...

  • The Good Father

    Maggie Kingsley

    Taming the boss... Neonatologist Gabriel Dalgleish is passionate about his tiny patients, and highly demanding about their care. It seems as if they are the only people he really cares for. Except for Maddie. The new medical secretary slips throug...

  • Gucci Gucci Coo

    Sue Margolis

    Ruby (still single at thirty-two) Silverman has made a name for herself at Les Sprogs, her exclusive baby boutique where trust-fund mothers swaddle their infants in the hottest designer wear. But all those bumps and babes can't prepare Ruby for the b...

  • Her Best-Kept Secret

    Brenda Harlen

    To: Jenny Anderson From: Richard Warren Re: My not-so-secret admiration for you Jenny, I know you didn't relish giving up a plum reporting assignment to show me around Tokyo, but our days together have been much more intriguing than the merger I...

  • Her Cinderella Heart

    Ruth Scofield

    Shy schoolteacher Cassie Manning had never been in love. After literally stumbling over new parishioner Peter Scott at New Beginnings Church, Cassie was certain God had answered her prayers! Handsome, worldly and a man of faith, Peter seemed to be ev...

  • Her Enemy Protector

    Cindy Dees

    Charlie Squad: Rules of engagement for special forces soldier Joe "Doc" Rodriguez's newest mission: Rule 1: Remember that Carina Ferrare is the daughter of Charlie Squad's most dreaded enemy -- Eduardo Ferrare -- and he will sto...

  • Her Longed-for Family

    Josie Metcalfe

    A forgotten love and a new family... Dr. Nick Howell can hardly believe it when Libby Cornish turns up for her new job as A&E doctor at St. Luke's. Now a single mom, she is as beautiful as ever, but Nick has never forgiven her for running out on h...

  • Her Secret Family

    Sherry Lewis

    Behind every code of silence... Detective Jolene Preston has the right to expect backup from her partner, but the sexist attitude from the rest of the force is something the narcotic squad's lone woman fights on her own. Until she discovers a thirty-...

  • His Honorable Surgeon

    Kate Hardy

    The Honourable Victoria Radley is almost too honourable a doctor for her own good! Highly ambitious and devoted to her patients, there's no time for love in her life, much to the paparazzo's dismay! New consultant neurologist Jake Lewis quickly re...

  • His Royal Love-Child

    Lucy Monroe

    The prince and his pregnant mistress... Danette Michaels knew that when she became Principe Marcello Scorsolini's secret mistress there would be no marriage, no future and no public acknowledgment. At the time it was enough. But Danette can...

  • Hotel Paradise

    Bridget Anderson

    As an only child, Alicia McKay's family history has always been shrouded in mystery. The only details she has are in her deceased mother's tattered journals, which she inherited after her father died. Determined to uncover family secrets, Alicia trav...

  • House Guest

    Edwinna Martin-Arnold

    Dr. Veronica Howell has had a number of relationships that fit neatly into her hectic life as a physician and clinic owner, but none that truly captured her heart. Now, when her life is threatened, she must use all of her resources to keep patients a...

  • House of Midnight Fantasies

    Kristi Gold

    MASTER OF THE HOUSE Interior designer Selene Winston had arrived to remodel his mansion, not tangle in the sheets with her brutally handsome new boss. And yet the reclusive Adrien Morell haunted her dreams; his fantasies played through her mind. ...

  • The I Hate To Date Club

    Elda Minger

    For five 30-something women, the only obstacle to marriage is...d@tin&! Eva: Forget the dog. Eva is Man's Best Friend, with a pedigree of potentials-turned-pals to prove it. Frances: Since her nasty divorce, she's avoided the romance rat race f...

  • In His Will

    Cathy Marie Hake

    Sondra's husband died, leaving her to fend for herself. When her only other friend, Miller, passes away, too, it's more than Sondra can take. But when Miller leaves her his cattle ranch, she can hardly believe how deeply she's been blessed. She just ...

  • Ironic

    Pamela Leigh Starr

    Teresa Lewis is living in a cabin in the Smoky Mountains while taking time off to write. Her life takes an unexpected turn when a plane crashes near her cabin and she becomes rescuer and nurse for a man she thinks is a bigot. Trapped inside by the ho...

  • The Italian's Wedding Ultimatum

    Kim Lawrence

    He demanded an heir! Alessandro Di Livio is fiercely protective of his family, and he's determined to keep gold-digging Sam Maguire away from his sister's husband...even if it means seducing her himself! Sam is no femme fatale--in fact ...

  • Jack Riordan's Baby

    Anne Mather

    She had to give him what he really wanted -- a baby! Jack Riordan was gorgeous and a real man. However, Rachel had her fears about her husband: they'd grown so far apart since they'd failed to have a child. But a real man needed a real ...

  • The Last Anniversary

    Liane Moriarty

    Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one she let get away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single e...

  • Learning Curve

    Terry McLaughlin

    High school history teacher Joe Wisniewski may be in a rut, but he dug it himself and he's not planning on getting out anytime soon. The last thing he wants is to mentor a starry-eyed newcomer, so when he gets an unexpected assignment -- Emily Sulliv...

  • Like Mother, Like Daughter

    Jane Sigaloff

    Imagine your mother being more determined to find a man than you've ever been. When single-again newspaper columnist Suzie Fletcher announces that her only wish is for her and her daughter to be dating someone by the time of her sixtieth birthday ...

  • Lime Ricky

    Jill Winters

    A tart new comedy of love and murder from the national bestselling author of Just Peachy

    The man is Class A: When Gretchen Darrow awoke to a fi re in her New York City apartment, she also woke to firefighter Rick Pallucci-so cocky, so intimi...

  • Love Is All You Need

    Lori Devoti

    The Very Thought Of You When Del Montgomery's boss sends her to the Missouri Ozarks in search of a legendary pottery pig, her mission seems simple: figure out which of the clueless locals has the pig, convince them to sell it for peanuts, and then h...

  • Made-To-Order Wife

    Judith McWilliams

    THE PROPER WAY TO FIND A WIFE... Making a billion dollars was something Max Sheridan could do with one hand tied behind his back. But learning which fork to use? When to open a door? Those were skills he needed in order to win a high-society wife....

  • Man With A Past

    Kay Stockham

    Joe Brody: Out of prison but still serving time -- all because no one in his hometown believes he's innocent. He'd leave the place in his dust, but his father -- the only family he has left -- needs him. Ashley Cade: Widowed with a toddler to take...

  • The Marcelli Bride

    Susan Mallery

    It takes one strong-hearted woman to make a rebel say "I do!" The rebel of the Marcelli family, Joe never joined his sisters Katie, Francesca, and Brenna in running the winery business. Instead, he chose a life of military service. But now that th...

  • Mason's Marriage

    Tina Leonard

    The Ride of His Life...Four Years Late Mimi Cannady had no regrets. Spending that night with the cowboy had been the right thing to do -- their beautiful daughter was living proof. And since the word commitment used to make Mason Jefferson buck like...

  • Mergers & Matrimony

    Allison Leigh

    To: Helen Hanson From: Richard Warren Re: Almost Through! It's been an exhausting battle, but we're almost done with the merger between Hanson Media and the Japanese powerhouse TAKA Corporation. And we couldn't have done it without your business...

  • Mission: Mountain Rescue

    Amy Andrews

    Kidnapped for their devotion... Sergeant Richard Hollingsworth, dedicated army medic, has devoted his life to saving others. But now his medical skills have put his own life in danger -- and that of his beloved Holly. Saved by their past... The ...

  • Misty Blue

    Dyanne Davis

    Mia Black got what she wanted. All her life she's been saving herself for a handsome husband, and now she's about to get one. He's so hot, she only has to look at him and she melts. Mia can hardly wait to love. Damien Terrell doesn't ...

  • Montana Gold

    Genell Dellin

    Chase Lomax grew up rough and hard, until he found a home in the rodeo. Now he's a five-time bronc-riding champion who's been on the circuit nearly twenty years -- a long time in a young man's game. Elle Hawthorne's no stranger to adversity. A rod...

  • Mr. and Mistress

    Heidi Betts

    HIS PREGNANT MISTRESS She was his kept woman...a secret lover living in Las Vegas luxury. It had been an ideal situation. Until Misty Vale discovered she was carrying Cullen Elliott's child. Misty was not the type a millionaire like Cullen coul...

  • Never Too Late

    Robyn Carr

    Three seconds is all it takes to turn a whole life around. And if anybody knows about bouncing back after disaster, it's Clare Wilson. She's had it with being married to a serial cheater, and no way is he getting another chance. Even her own son t...

  • Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist

    Rachel Cohn; David Levithan

    It all starts when Nick asks Norah to be his girlfriend for five minutes. He only needs five minutes to avoid his ex-girlfriend, who's just walked in to his band's show. With a new guy. And then, with one kiss, Nick and Norah are off on an adventure ...

  • Night Calls

    Holly Jacobs

    Welcome back to WLVH Lovehandles, where love is more than just a song.

    Cassie Grant's nighttime radio program, Night Calls, centers around the belief that true love exists, that it matters. Unfortunately, Cassie's own love life disappears when sh...

  • Not So Snow White

    Donna Kauffman

    Can a down-on-her-luck princess really have it all? A whisper away from thirty, gorgeous Tess Hamilton has been the tennis world's top titleholder and celebrity since she won her first championship at fifteen. Now the headline-making party girl is...

  • One Daddy Too Many

    Debra Salonen

    Meet the four Radonovic sisters. Their gypsy mother has a prophecy for each of her daughters... Kate's prophecy: You can't escape your destiny or avoid the past...when the two intersect. Kate's ex-husband is being paroled and he wan...

  • The Other Woman // Just the Two of Us

    Brenda Novak

    A second chance doesn't mean second best! Elizabeth O'Connell has survived one of the worst betrayals a wife can imagine. Finding out that she wasn't the only woman in her husband's life meant the end of her marriage and a year of personal hell. N...

  • Pregnant with His Child

    Lilian Darcy

    Flight doctor Christina Farrelly and G.P. Joe Barrett have been in love for two years -- part-time. Joe spends a week every month at the Crocodile Creek Medical Center, where Christina works. He lives for their time together, and can't give her more ...

  • The Princess's Secret Scandal

    Karen Whiddon

    It seems royal PR man Chase Savage is involved in a scandal. Savage announced his engagement to Sydney Conner, the illegitimate princess from Naessa, who is pregnant with our late Prince Reginald's heir. Savage was reportedly sent to bribe the ravish...

  • Project Daddy

    Kate Perry

    How do you find the perfect match for the boss from hell? Katherine Murphy needs to know. Her obsessive, demanding supervisor has given her an assignment that goes way beyond the call of duty: find her a man. But not just any man--he must have the ...

  • Promise Of Forever

    Patt Marr

    Rainbows are God's promises. I learned that in Sunday school. That's why I draw rainbows. I love Bible stories, especially Noah and the ark -- 'cause Daddy's name is Noah McKnight. I thought it would be nice to make a rainbow for his new boss, Dr....

  • Pug Hill

    Alison Pace

    For Hope McNeill, pugs are love, unconditional friendship, happiness, and freedom-all qualities currently in short supply in her own life. Though she doesn't have a pug of her own, she does have Pug Hill in Central Park, where pugs (and their owners)...

  • The Rags-To-Riches Wife

    Metsy Hingle

    BLACKMAILED INTO MARRIAGE He hadn't known the name of the woman he danced with at the masquerade ball. Not even after their one night of passion. For millionaire Jack Cartwright never expected to see her again. Then he received a letter informi...

  • The Reckoning

    Christie Ridgway

    "Emmett, danger is the way you live your life. But that's not my life." -- Linda Faraday, survivor After ten stolen years in a coma, hanging on to life by strands of uncertainty, Linda Faraday is finally awake. All she knows is she used to be an ...

  • The Secrets of Boys

    Hailey Abbott

    Eric: Loves surfing, has killer abs, an even better smile, and a heart of gold. Joe: A sarcastic goofball who gives great advice, which no one ever takes. Zach: Sophisticated college boy, wise in the ways of French painting as well as other F...

  • Shadow Watch

    Linda Conrad

    From the moment Dr. Victoria Sommer laid eyes on sexy Navajo medicine man Ben Wauneka, her dreams filled with images of Ben protecting her, holding her -- making love to her. But Tory had a lot to learn about Ben's world, and with an eerie enemy stal...

  • The Sheikh's Disobedient Bride

    Jane Porter

    SHE MUST BE TAMED -- WILLING OR NOT... He's a warrior -- fierce, traditional and hardened by tragedy. Sheikh Tair lives by the strict rules of the desert. When he finds Tally has broken one of those sacred laws, endangering the safety of his...

  • Sister Swap

    Lilian Darcy

    Wealthy businessman Gino di Bartoli couldn't put his finger on exactly what was different about the high-profile horticulturist he'd hired to landscape his villa. But somehow "Rowena" seemed warmer, sexier, more vivacious...and he was suddenly attrac...

  • Something's Gotta Give

    Teresa Southwick

    The whole thing was rigged! What else would you expect from lawyers and a judge with family connections? Former detective Sam Owen Brimstone was not looking for work, but now he was stuck with it and had to admit that in this case, the body he was as...

  • Strictly Lonergan's Business

    Maureen Child

    SEDUCED BY THE BOSS Tired of going unnoticed by the boss she loved for years, Kara Sloan decided now was the time to pack her bags and quit. But just as she was about to storm away, Cooper Lonergan surprised her with a night of seduction. He co...

  • Sun-Kissed

    Melissa de la Cruz

    Sometimes when the sun shines, it scorches. Third time's the charm as Mara, Eliza, and Jacqui head back to the Hamptons. This summer the au pairs are doing it right: in style, in step, and "in" everywhere. Mara has the VIP hookup at all the new ...

  • Texas Born

    Ann DeFee

    Dr. Olivia Alvarado, town vet and sometime coroner of Port Serenity, Texas, is nobody's fool. So when Sheriff C. J. Baker charged into her life, the last thing Livy expected was a broken heart. She should've known better. Because he seemed absolutely...

  • That Old Feeling

    Cara Colter

    Of all the favors her beloved father could ask, helping Clint McPherson was the only one Brandy King wanted to refuse. Of course, her dad didn't know his right-hand man had once rebuffed her kiss. Well, that was then. This was... No different. Som...

  • That Summer At American Beach

    Janice Sims

    After New York City party planner Rayne Walker learns that the only father she has ever known is seriously ill, she immediately heads to American Beach, Florida, where her father is recuperating in his vacation home. Having been warned by her mother ...

  • This Time

    Ingrid Monique

    Is A Passion Reignited... Tropical nights, hot winds, and hotter kisses greet New York interior designer Kelee Kingsly when she visits the island of St. Pala. And it's all because of Sean St. John, Minister of Security, who sweeps her off her feet w...

  • Three Times a Charm

    Jean Stone

    Thanks to a high-profile wedding extravaganza for a media mogul, the wedding-planning business created by four longtime friends is really taking off. Not surprisingly, each of the friends is handling success in her own special way -- and one is about...

  • An Unlikely Father

    Cynthia Thomason

    First she nearly runs him down with her truck, then she's taking potshots at a sailboat with empty beer cans and leading him on a wild-fish chase! She's the craziest -- and most interesting -- woman he's ever met. What Ethan doesn'...

  • The Unspoken Years

    Lynne Hugo

    "She was always crazy. Looking back, I see no doubt about it. It was a deceptive craziness, though, sometimes luminous and joyful. Even when it was, my brother and I knew it was important not to relax...." Sometimes things -- no matter how hard a ...

  • A Very Special Delivery

    Linda Goodnight

    It was the surprise of a lifetime for recluse Molly McCreight when single dad Ethan Hunter entrusted her with his infant daughter while he delivered medicine to an elderly man during an ice storm. Past experience had taught Molly how fragile life cou...

  • Waking Up In Charleston

    Sherryl Woods

    Oh, God! She's in love with her preacher. But it's not as if Amanda O'Leary set out to fall for the most gorgeous (and unattainable) man this side of South Carolina Low Country. It's just that he organized building a cozy home for her and her chil...

  • A Wedding In Willow Valley

    Joan Elliott Pickart

    SHE'D LEFT HER HEART IN WILLOW VALLEY Laurel Windsong had thought leaving Willow Valley -- and her first love, Ben Skeeter -- would be the hardest thing she'd ever done. But returning home ten years later proved much more difficult. Rumors swir...

  • What Goes Around

    Parry Brown

    THE SISTER HAD IT ALL -- UNTIL KARMA CAME TO TOWN. A successful businesswoman, Catherine Hawkins has lived an enviable life of luxury, thanks to an ambition that has made her stop at nothing -- including abandoning her own twin daughters when they...

  • What Should Have Been

    Helen R. Myers

    She'd heard Mead Regan was back in town. But nothing prepared single mother Devan Anderson for her first heart-stopping glimpse of the man who'd changed her world forever one passion-filled night...only to vanish from her life. Mead didn't want a ...

  • When It Happens

    Susane Colasanti

    When you find something real, everything else falls into place.... Seniors in high school, Sara and Tobey couldn't be more different. She is focused on getting into her first-choice college; he wants to win Battle of the Bands. Sara's other goal i...

  • Wife Against Her Will

    Sara Craven

    The bartered bride! Darcy Langton is stunned when she finds herself engaged to businessman Joel Castille -- traded as part of a business merger! While Joel represents everything that she detests in a mate, he's also the most charismatic man sh...

  • Wife And Mother Wanted

    Nicola Marsh

    Brody Elliott is a single dad, struggling to bring up his young daughter, Molly. Brody blames himself for the loss of Molly's mother, and is determined to protect his little girl from heartbreak again. So when Molly befriends their pretty and lively ...

  • With A Mother's Heart

    Joyce Livingston

    Judy Alexander, alias Judy Smith, and her nephew Timmy are on the lam, running from the man who shot and killed the boy's father during a bank robbery in Dallas where Judy was the eyewitness whose testimony brought about conviction. Wealthy Ben Bramw...

  • Snipped in the Bud

    Kate Collins

    When I swapped the thorny problems of law school for the budding business of my flower store, Bloomers, I vowed that I, Abby Knight, wouldn't be caught dead visiting that hateful campus ever again. But sometimes a girl's got to face down her dragons....

  • Ardneh's Sword

    Fred Saberhagen

    It's been a thousand years since the time of Ardneh, the transcendant being that saved humanity from the vicious archdemon Orcus. It was a legndary battle between magic and technology that killed them both, but left behind tales of Ardneh's heroism a...

  • Bad Prince Charlie

    John Moore

    We set our scene in Damask: A kingdom that couldn't get ransacked if it tried... But now that the king is dead, that's exactly what his brothers have in mind. Alt they need is a bad king to take his place. The population will rebel, the neighborin...

  • Bad Twin

    Gary Troup

    Sometimes evil has a familiar face . . . Paul Artisan, P.I. is a new version of an old breed -- a righter of wrongs, someone driven to get to the bottom of things. Too bad his usual cases are of the boring malpractice and fraud variety. Until now...

  • Basilisk 1: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls

    Masaki Segawa

    THE BATTLE BEGINS

    The Iga clan and the Kouga clan have been sworn enemies for more than four hundred years. Only the Hanzo Hattori truce has kept the two families from all-out war. Now, under the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, the truce has ...

  • Black Powder War

    Naomi Novik

    After their fateful adventure in China, Capt. Will Laurence of His Majesty's Aerial Corps and his extraordinary dragon, Temeraire, are waylaid by a mysterious envoy bearing urgent new orders from Britain. Three valuable dragon eggs have been purchase...

  • Book of Doom

    John Peel

    Now that one of the Three Who Rule has escaped, the Diadem is in serious danger. Nantor, Pixel's ancient, evil self, has taken over the young magic user's body and is threatening to, once again, rule the worlds. Poor Pixel is alive in a small cell of...

  • Braced 2 Bite

    Serena Robar

    When Colby Blanchard is attacked and turned into a half-vampire, her senior year of high school becomes surreal as she vacillates between trying to save her life and worrying about losing her place on the cheerleading squad....

  • Bridge of Dreams

    Chaz Brenchley

    For a thousand years, the great city of Sund stood impregnable while its enemy, Maras, remained outside the walls. Then the Marasi harnessed the powers of magic. Erecting an otherworldly bridge whose foundations were rooted in sorcery, the Marasi ove...

  • The Clan Corporate

    Charles Stross

    IN The Family Trade and The Hidden Family, Miriam got in touch with her roots. Now those roots have begun to strangle her. A young business journalist from Boston, Miriam discovered that her family comes from a parallel timeline, that she is very we...

  • The Coming of Dragons

    A.J. Lake

    A THRILLING SAGA OF MAGIC AND ADVENTURE BEGINS Edmund, a king's son in disguise, and Elspeth, a sea captain's tomboy daughter, are the sole survivors of a terrible shipwreck. But it wasn't just the roar of the sea that tore their ship to pieces. A t...

  • The Dragon Quintet

    Tanith Lee

    Orson Scott Card's "In the Dragon's House" is a gothic yarn about the mysterious dragon that lives in the wiring of an old house, noticed by a young boy who shares its body in dreams and feels its true size and power. Mercedes Lackey's "Joust" tel...

  • Dream-Maker's Magic

    Sharon Shinn

    Kellen’s mother has always insisted that her only child was born male, not female -- so Kellen has been raised as a boy. At school, she meets Gryffin, whose mind is as strong as his legs are damaged, and the two become friends and allies. A few yea...

  • Elemental

    Brian W. Aldiss

    In the winter of 2005, after the horrifying natural disaster of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, Steve Savile and Alethea Kontis joined forces to raise money to help the distressed survivors and have created Elemental. They solicited SF and fantasy sto...

  • Es, Volume 1

    Fuyumi Soryo

    MIND CONTROL

    Ryousuke Akiba calls himself ES, a code name taken from a mysterious scientific experiment. Ryousuke will live to be at least two centuries old and possesses strange mental powers: He can enter people’s minds, discover their dar...

  • Fergus Crane

    Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    Fergus Crane has an almost ordinary life -- attending school on the ship Betty Jeanne and helping his mother in the bakery. But then a winged mechanical horse appears and whisks Fergus off to meet his long-lost uncle. Not only that, he finds out that...

  • Firebird

    R. Garcia y Robertson

    In the fantastic land of Markovy east of Europe, in the Iron Wood filled with werewolves and other unpleasant creatures, in the house of the dreaded Bone Witch, lives a young orphan girl named Aria. Her life is changed forever when a foreign knight, ...

  • The First Betrayal

    Patricia Bray

    SOMETIMES THE MAGIC INSIDE US ISN'T MEANT TO BE DISCOVERED.... Orphan, exile, priest, Josan has been posted to a lighthouse on the farthest edge of the kingdom. As a member of the collegium, he once dreamed of making a real contribution to the Learn...

  • Fort Pillow

    Harry Turtledove

    In April 1864, the Union garrison at Fort Pillow was comprised of almost six hundred troops, about half of them black. The Confederacy, incensed by what it saw as a crime against nature, sent its fiercest cavalry commander, Nathan Bedford Forrest, to...

  • The Foundling: And Other Tales Of Prydain

    Lloyd Alexander

    A companion book to The Chronicles of Prydain, this collection of short stories revisits beloved characters and reveals more about the history of the magical land of Prydain.Here, readers will find Dallben, destined to be an enchanter; Angharad, a pr...

  • The Four Forges

    Jenna Rhodes

    Kerith is a land bereft of magic after the devastating war that killed off the Magi, leaving behind their Galdarkan minions, the fighting force they had created. Warlike Galdarkans, peaceful Dwellers, Kernan tradesmen and merchants, and brutish Bolge...

  • Gacha Gacha, Volume 4

    Hiroyuki Tamakoshi

    THE ORIGINAL FOUR

    After struggling to deal with Kurara’s many personalities, from the sex-crazed Arisa to the innocent Alice, Kouhei must now face his greatest challenge. The Original 4 are the most fearsome personalities hiding within Kurar...

  • Gregor and the Marks of Secret

    Suzanne Collins

    NOW, WITH THE THIRD PROPHECY fulfilled, Gregor is drawn ever deeper into a brewing crisis. For generations, rats have run the mice -- or "nibblers" -- out of whatever lands they've claimed, keeping them constantly on the move. But now the mice ar...

  • The Hero Revealed

    William Boniface

    YIKES! Professor Brain-Drain is on the loose! This supervillain menaces the fine supercitizens of Superopolis, concocting evil-genius schemes and draining everyone's brainpower! (And in this town, there's not a whole lot of that to begin with.) N...

  • How to Speak Dragonese

    Cressida Cowell

    THE VENOMOUS VORPENT COLOR: Bright yellow NASTY BITS: Deadly sting THREAT TO VIKINGS: Serious. Run away! Don't be deceived by the Venomous Vorpent's tiny size. It numbs the the skin before attacking. By the time you realize you've been stung, it ma...

  • Icefire

    Chris D'Lacey

    Is David up for the challenge? In the exciting sequel to The Fire Within, David must uncover the truth behind the mysterious clay dragons. David's quest is to discover the link between the fire of the last known dragon on earth and the icy regions o...

  • Kingdom's Edge

    Chuck Black

    A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory! In Kingdom’s Dawn , Leinad and Tess, along with all the king’s people, must escape slavery by the po...

  • Kingdom's Hope

    Chuck Black

    A Riveting Medieval Parallel to the Bible Good and evil clash. Leinad and Cedric are determined to not only survive, but claim hope and victory! In Kingdom’s Dawn, Leinad and Tess, along with all the king’s people, must escape slavery by the powe...

  • Negima! Volume 10

    Ken Akamatsu

    TIME AGAIN

    The sprawling, activity-packed, three-day Mahora Academy Festival is underway. Overwhelmed and exhausted by his schedule, Negi falls asleep and almost loses an entire day. But thanks to Chao Lingshen’s amazing, pocket-size inventi...

  • Never Call Retreat

    William R. Forstchen; Newt Gingrich

    After his great victories at Gettysburg and Union Mills, General Robert E. Lee's attempt to bring the war to a final conclusion by attacking Washington, D.C., fails. However, in securing Washington, the remnants of the valiant Union Army of the Potom...

  • Path of Blood

    Diana Pharaoh Francis

    Hailed by her peers as “promising” (David Coe),“talented” (Kristin Britain), and “masterful” (Carol Berg), Diana Pharaoh Francis crafted a unique magical world and one of fantasy’s most intriguing heroines in Path of Fate and Path of Ho...

  • Prince of Ice

    Stobie Piel

    The power of the Arch Mage has grown strong enough to immobilize the defenders of Amrodel, woodland kingdom. Only one hope remains: a girl, the would-be sorceress Cahira. Upon her shoulders lies the fate of her people. Cahira's task is to find the...

  • The Prophet of Yonwood

    Jeanne Duprau

    War looms on the horizon as eleven-year-old Nickie and her aunt travel to the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina. There, one of the town's respected citizens has had a terrible vision of fire and destruction. As the people of Yonwood scramble to m...

  • Pucker

    Melanie Gideon

    Thomas Quicksilver, known to his classmates as "Pucker," has always been an outsider. His crazy mother, the secret of his family’s strange origins, and above all, the terrible scars on his face from a childhood fire -- these things have kept Thomas...

  • The Quillan Games

    D.J. MacHale

    Let the Games Begin.... Quillan is a territory on the verge of destruction. The people have lost control of their own future and must struggle simply to survive. The only chance they have of finding a better life is by playing the Quillan Games. H...

  • School Rumble, Volume 2

    Jin Kobayashi

    DOWN BUT NOT OUT!

    Harima Kenji has never lost a fight, but his love for the clueless Tsukamoto Tenma is proving to be his greatest challenge. After catching his cherished Tenma-chan and an unexpected rival in a lunchtime tryst, Kenji spirals i...

  • The Sea of Trolls

    Nancy Farmer

    Jack was eleven when the berserkers loomed out of the fog and nabbed him. "It seems that things are stirring across the water," the Bard had warned. "Ships are being built, swords are being forged." "Is that bad?" Jack had asked, for his Saxon villa...

  • Seeker

    William Nicholson

    When his brother is exiled from the Nomana without any explanation, sixteen-year-old Seeker sets off on a journey to rescue him--and to find out what really happened. Along the way, he meets two other young people who are on quests of their own, and ...

  • The Serpent Gift

    Lene Kaaberbol

    The third book in the thrilling fantasy adventure series, The Shamer ChroniclesA watching face in a market crowd, a mist-shrouded figure on the moor, a haunting presence seen only when he wants to be seen? Sezuan, possessor of the Serpent Gift for li...

  • The Silver Bough

    Lisa Tuttle

    The award-winning author of The Mysteries returns with another captivating novel in which modern-day enigmas and age-old myths come together with spellbinding results. Here is an enchanting tale set in a land rich with folklore -- and ripe for a reki...

  • Snow, Fire, Sword

    Sophie Masson

    On the island of Jayangan, old beliefs and magic exist side by side with new pop songs and motorcycles. . . .

    Adi is a fisherman's son, proud to be studying with the greatest of traditional sword makers. Dewi is the daughter of a healer, cu...

  • Specials

    Scott Westerfeld

    Special Circumstances TALLY THOUGHT THEY WERE A RUMOR, but now she's one of them. A Special. A superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid. But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus...

  • The Summer King

    O.R. Melling

    On the anniversary of her twin sister's mysterious death. Laurel returns to Ireland in search of answers. What drew her quiet. bookish sister up onto that mountain ledge? And what clues does Honor's journal offer. with its scribblings about a "roly-p...

  • Swashbuckling Fantasy: 10 Thrilling Tales of Magical Adventure

    Simon & Schuster

    SWASHBUCKLING FANTASY features excerpts from 10 series by bestselling and critically acclaimed authors such as Margaret Petersen Haddix, author of the Shadow Children series, D.J. MacHale, author of the Pendragon series, Scott Westerfeld, author of U...

  • Sweet Talkin' Demon

    Laura J. Burns

    SWEET TALKIN' DEMON His story's sweet, his method's new -- But this man's so perfect, he can't be true. Find the secret, find his source Or an Innocent's life may run its course.... Phoebe can't believe her luck -- finally, she's met the pe...

  • Sword Play

    Linda Joy Singleton

    "Help her," insists the spirit of Kip, the jock from her old school who died in a car accident. But his cryptic message is the last thing on Sabine's mind as she packs up to move back home. She's not happy about leavi...

  • The Tenth City

    Patrick Carman

    The final thrilling installment of the NYT-bestselling Land of Elyon trilogy!

    The Land of Elyon has begun to fail, poisoned by the evil that creeps across the Dark Hills and into Bridewell.
    As she moves toward a thrilling conclusion, Alexa ...

  • Timedancers

    Steve Cash

    Outwardly indistinguishable from human beings, but with abilities no human can claim, the Meq search for their lost history and face a mysterious prophesied reckoning. . . . It has been thirty-eight years since Zianno -- known as Z -- turned twelv...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 15: Silver Sable

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Spider-Man #86-90 & Annual #1. The head of Roxxon Oil sics the world's greatest mercenary, Silver Sable, on Spider-Man to learn why the web-spinner has targeted Roxxon on his nightly patrols. How violently Ms. Sable wants to ha...

  • Warlord

    John Shirley

    Englishman and amoral occultist John Constantine has been out of sorts lately, disconnected from himself...and this time not from another bender, but quite literally, as his soul is cast adrift during a fouled-up spiritual quest in an Iranian monaste...

  • Welcome to Yesterday

    Ian Spiegelman

    Leon Koch is not having a good day. And his night's about to get worse. When a drug-addicted talent agent -- whom Koch, a young reporter at New York's most powerful gossip column, had just disgraced -- is found dead, Koch wakes up at the center of th...

  • Winter Door

    Isobelle Carmody

    In the midst of the worst winter on record, Rage is beset with worry. Her mother still hasn’t fully recovered from her car accident despite Rage’s successful quest for healing magic. Her stoic uncle seems to be having second thoughts about lookin...

  • The Witch's Boy

    Michael Gruber

    This critically acclaimed tale of a witch and her goblin-child is wholly original, and the legendary characters of old who touch their story -- Cinderella, Rapunzel, Rumplestiltskin -- are made new through Michael Gruber's imaginative lens. Gruber...

  • Wizard, the Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey

    Lisa Papademetriou

    While fighting over the last copy of Queen of Twilight, mortal enemies Veronica Lopez and Heather Simms find themselves transported into the story, where, after accidentally killing the story's heroine, they must find a way to the end of the ...

  • xxxHolic, Volume 7

    CLAMP

    KimihIro Watanuki has a wish on layaway with Yûko Ishikawa, the sultry time-space witch who can grant anyone’s deepest desire . . . for a price! Still, working like a slave in Yûko’s shop hasn’t dampened Kimihiro’s enthusiasm for his cute c...

  • Yellow, Volume 4

    Makoto Tateno

    • The curtains for the shocking final stage will now be drawn!! Just when their love for wach other was finally realized, Gou and Taki's relationship is torn apart by the killer Sandfish. It's now time to come to terms with Taki's dark past...

  • A Distant Tomorrow

    Bertrice Small

    My dear readers, Five years have now passed since the Winter War between the Outlands and Hetar. But Gaius Prospero has not given up his scheme to become emperor, and unexpected tragedy causes Lara to once again heed the pull of her destiny. Find...

  • 5 Minutes and 42 Seconds

    T.J. Williams

    Cameisha Douglass has it all -- a sprawling home in a posh neighborhood, a fancy car, three healthy children, and a husband, Fashad, who is devoted to her. Her biggest worry is catching her daytime soap operas before the kids come home from school an...

  • The Abduction

    Gordon Korman

    TRAPPED! It's every brother's worst fear: As Aiden and his sister, Meg, are walking home from school one day, a van pulls over and Meg is kidnapped. There's no way for Aiden to stop it from happening. He's the only witness to his sister's disappearan...

  • Absurdistan

    Gary Shteyngart

    Meet Misha Vainberg, aka Snack Daddy, a 325-pound disaster of a human being, son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, proud holder of a degree in multicultural studies from Accidental College, USA (don't even ask), and patriot of no country save the...

  • After

    Marita Golden

    In her long-awaited fifth novel, acclaimed writer Marita Golden takes another unflinching look into the face of family, race, love and identity.For twelve years Carson Blake inhabited a world of his own creation. Scorned by the father who was incapab...

  • Alice in the Know

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    It's the summer before junior year, and Alice is looking forward to three months of excitement, passion, and drama. But what does she find? A summer working in a local department store, trying to stop shoplifters, and more "real life" problems than s...

  • All The Way

    Andy Behrens

  • Amazon Fever

    Kathleen Weidner Zoehfeld

    Jeff’s Uncle Roy runs a museum and is always zooming off to strange places. Now Uncle Roy is taking Jeff with him to the steamy Amazon jungle. Maybe they’ll track down crocodiles or poisonous snakes or jaguars for Uncle Roy’s museum. Wrong! On ...

  • America's Victories

    Larry Schweikart

    In America's Victories, Professor Larry Schweikart restores the truth about our amazing military heritage. Just as he did in his acclaimed previous book, A Patriot's History of the United States, Professor Schweikart cuts through the distortions pas...

  • Angelina and the Rag Doll

    Katharine Holabird

    Angelina is feeling very grown-up. Miss Lilly has asked her to help out in the beginners' ballet class. So Angelina gives away her babyish toys, including the little rag doll she's had since she was a tiny mouseling. But what happens when Angelina st...

  • Animal Antics

    Fiona Simpson



    When Verne the turtle and his woodland friends wake up from their hibernation, they find a suburban neighborhood encroaching on their forest home, Verne's first instinct is to retreat into his shell and leave, but then he meets R.J., a con-ar...

  • Apathy and Other Small Victories

    Paul Neilan

    The only thing Shane cares about is leaving: Usually on a Greyhound bus, and right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time its complicated: theres a sadistic corporate climber who thinks shes his girlfriend, a rent-subs...

  • Archer's Quest

    Linda Sue Park

    TWELVE-YEAR-OLD KEVIN, A Korean American math whiz, is shocked beyond belief when a young man, complete with bow and arrows, crash lands in his bedroom. And that's just the beginning. The man, called Skillful Archer, claims to be a legendary ruler fr...

  • Around Another Corner

    Grace Thompson

    Ancret has a gift: the hats she creates are the most beautiful and fun designs this side of Ascot. She just needs two things for her life to be perfect: for her mummys boy boyfriend Jonathan to stop badgering her to give up her ambitions and marry hi...

  • The Attack

    Yasmina Khadra

    From the bestselling author of The Swallows of Kabul comes this timely and haunting novel that powerfully illuminates the devastating human costs of terrorism. Dr. Amin Jaafari is an Arab-Israeli surgeon at a hospital in Tel Aviv. As an admired an...

  • Be Nice to Mice

    Nancy Krulik

    Katie can’t wait for the school science fair. But when she hears that a sixth-grader named Selena is using her pet mice as part of a science experiment, Katie does her best to put a stop to it. When she turns into Selena on the day of the fair, she...

  • Beachglass

    Wendy Blackburn

    Self-deprecating and bitingly smart, Delia is a recovering addict who forges her own brand of hard won wisdom on her journey in sobriety. When Delia entered treatment for drug and alcohol addiction at seventeen, her life changed forever. She believed...

  • Beautiful Buehla and the Zany Zoo Makeover

    Gary Hogg

    It's picture day at the zoo, and zookeeper Mr. Phibbs has to get the animals in tip-top shape -- in a flash. Good thing Beautiful Buehla is on call, ready for a complete animal makeover.

    And what could be more Beautiful than a pompadoure...

  • Becky/The Restless Sea

    E.V. Thompson

    Combined for the first time are two enchanting stories from acclaimed novelist E. V. Thompson. In Becky, Ferg...

  • Bed Rest

    Sarah Bilston

    In a charming and witty novel in the tradition of Allison Pearson and Sophie Kinsella, Sarah Bilston tells the story of a busy career woman who finds her pregnancy a breeze -- until she's ordered off her feet for complete and total bed rest. Quin...

  • Bedtime Eyes

    Amy Yamada

    Amy Yamada is one of the most prominent--and controversial--novelists in Japan today.  She bursted onto the scene in 1985 with her short novel "Bedtime Eyes," which for critics embodied the spirit of the 'shinjinru'--i.e. Generation X-- in much the...

  • Big Bouncy Book of Bart Simpson

    Matt Groening

    Bart Simpson puts the spring in Springfield with a brand-new collection of comics and stories brimming with delicious donuts, derring-do, water balloons, warm milk, sidekicks, spy rings, moviemakers, Molemen, zip lines, and zombies. Soar above roo...

  • Blonde at Heart

    Natalie Standiford

    When Elle Woods, a sophomore in high school, falls for Hunter Perry, the star basketball player who advocates for school spirit, Elle decides to transform the cheerleaders, the basketball team, and herself....

  • Bobby the Bold

    Donna Jo Napoli

  • The Book of Bright Ideas

    Sandra Kring

    Family. Friendship. Sisterhood. Secrets. For two young girls, an incredible journey is about to begin... Wisconsin, 1961. Evelyn “Button” Peters is nine the summer Winnalee and her fiery-spirited older sister, Freeda, blow into her small town --...

  • Born to Rule

    Kathryn Lasky

    Attention, all Princesses Are you growing tired of royal balls and boring banquets with visiting kings and princes? Do you long to escape the confines of the palace and find yourself in a completely new place, surrounded by other princesses your own...