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  • Tales of Mendele the Book Peddler: Fishke the Lame and Benjamin the Third

    S.Y. Abramovitsh

    The founding father of modern Yiddish fiction, Abramovitsh created a rich tapestry of small-town Jewish life in the Russian Pale of Settlement with stories full of humor, heart, and homespun truths. Here are two of his best-known and best-loved tales...

  • Mommy's Hero

    Audra Adams

    MORE THAN THE MAN NEXT DOOR! Evan Forrester liked his privacy and had no use for people cluttering up his life. Yet suddenly his house was overrun with females! His new neighbor's irresistible twin daughters were invading his home, corrupting ...

  • Nanny Fox and the Christmas Surprise

    Georgie Adams

  • Beware the Tufted Duck

    Lydia Adamson

    SWAN SONG FOR A BIRDER Birding enthusiast and transplanted Southerner Lucy Wayles is eagle-eyed when it comes to spotting clues, swift at deductions, and wise as an owl about the ways and means of murder. She is also ready to save a bird in need, ...

  • What's to Be Scared of, Suki?

    C.S. Adler

    When Suki Price develops a crush on the new cute boy next door, her friend Allison suggests that Suki attract his attention by befriending his German Shepard, but when they all meet, Justin takes a liking to tall, blonde Allison rather than Suki....

  • Cam Jansen and the Ghostly Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Boo! Are you afraid of Ghosts? Cam and Eric are on line to buy tickets to see their favorite band when a person dressed as a ghost starts scaring people. Then someone else in line realizes that she's been robbed. Is there a connection? Leave it to...

  • If Snow Falls

    Jon Agee

  • Tempted

    Laurel Ames

    THE FORBIDDEN FRUITS WERE THE SWEETEST Evan Mountjoy learned that the moment his hungry heart became aware of Judith Wells. And when she swore she'd belong to no man, her passionate refusals only served to stir his deep and all-consuming desire! ...

  • An Amish Christmas

    Richard Ammon

  • My Doll Is Missing

    Elizabeth Anders

  • Star Wars Jabba's Palace Pop-Up Book

    Kevin J. Anderson

    Jubnuk the Gamorrean guard searches high and low through the palace after Jabba the Hutt loses his lucky charm, in a colorful, interactive book complete with pop-up illustrations, pull-tabs, and music and sound effects....

  • A Small Target

    Christine Andreae

    ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARD The beauty of Montana's high country lures professor, poet and trail cook Lee Squires to the Mission Mountains, and into the challenge of concocting vegetarian cuisine on a llama-riding, ecofriendly excursion to Lost Pipe Lake...

  • Rosalie's Big Dream

    Ginette Anfousse

    Living in Montreal with her seven aunts, who adopted her as an infant, Rosalie sets out to pursue her dream of becoming the best tap dancer in all of North America, despite the skepticism and criticism of her friends. Reprint....

  • Shank

    Roderick Anscombe

    Dan Cody loved his wife Janie. He loved her so much that he killed her. She was HIV-positive, and she begged him to do it. Or so he says. Now Dan's on the run with a new romantic obsession--Carol, the prison nurse. Their daring breakout had made the ...

  • Roc and a Hard Place

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    “Puns and playfulness reign supreme” as a demoness learns that big birds of a feather don’t flock together in the New York Times"bestselling Xanth series (The Toronto Star).   Seeking a solution to a perplexing personal problem, the dele...

  • Earth

    Piers Anthony

    Aton loved a Minionette, yet mankind depised and feared this almost mythical siren - but no one could tell him why. Banished to the hot garnet mines, Aton sought answers. And when he could not find them, he was determined to seek them elsewhere, but ...

  • Married for Real

    Lindsay Armstrong

    First comes marriage...then comes love Arizona Adams: reluctant bride Arizona needed financial help; she didn't need a husband. Then she discovered that the man demanding she become his bride had been secretly funding her for months.... Dec...

  • A Stranger's Baby

    Judith Arnold

    Celebrity - Glamour - Sins - Silence Enter the House of DeWilde Since the turn of the century, the elegant and fashionable DeWilde stores have helped brides around the world realize the fantasy of their "special day." The shop: Mallory's. San ...

  • The Nazarene

    Sholem Asch

    The story of Jesus is told by three different witnesses: Cornelius, Pontius Pilate's governor of Jerusalem; the fragmentary gospel of Judas Iscariot; and the narrative of Joseph, a young student of Nicodemus, presenting a sweeping panorama of the Hol...

  • Aunt Dimity's Good Deed

    Nancy Atherton

    Thanks to her benevolent late Aunt Dimity, Lori Shepherd thought she had everything: a Handsome Prince for a husband and a cozy, honey-colored cottage to call her own. But after two years of marriage, Lori's paradise doesn't seem quite so per...

  • The Husband

    Elizabeth August

    WHO WAS JOE WHITEDEER? A commanding military man? A dark, compelling secret agent? Or...someone else altogether? For five years, his young widow, Beatrice Gerard, remained prisoner to unanswered questions...and longings. But all she knew was that ...

  • Matreshka

    Rebecca Ayres

  • The Regulators

    Richard Bachman

    There's a place in Wentworth, Ohio, where summer is in full swing. It's called Poplar Street. Up until now it's been a nice place to live. The idling red van around the corner is about to change all that. Let the battle against evil begin. Here...

  • Chaos Come Again

    Wilhelmina Baird

  • Unlikely Angel

    Karen Ball
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  • The Hard Land

    Jack Ballas

    Losing control of his anger and nearly killing Simon Bauman, the spoiled son of a rich horse breeder, hard-working farmer Jess Sanford finds himself on the run from the law and the infuriated, embarrassed Simon. Original....

  • Honesty

    Elaine Barbieri

    Honesty, Purity, Chastity three sisters, three very different women, all three possessed of an alluring beauty that made them... DANGEROUS VIRTUES When the covered wagon that was taking her family west capsized in a flood-swollen river, Honesty...

  • Knight's Ransom

    Suzanne Barclay

    Kidnapped... In a heartbeat, Catherine Sommerville's world had changed, transforming her from a cosseted heiress to a prize held for ransom by a battle-scarred knight. Reason demanded that she despise Gervase St. Juste, but her soul whispered that th...

  • The Lure of the Limerick

    William S. Baring-Gould

  • Red Fox Monster

    Alan Baron

  • Rock Bottom

    Pamela Des Barres

    The dark moments of rock history fascinate and tantalize like the pathos of Greek tragedy. The bottom sinks lower, the air seems colder, the bad endings--when they are bad--seem beyond bad. The unlucky practitioners of our most thriving form of com...

  • Dishonored

    Maria Barrett

    In India in 1857, the beloved wife of a British colonel dies during a native riot, an incident that spawns one hundred years of hatred, revenge, and violence and leads to a tragic romance....

  • Southern Fires

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    A Doctor Dr. Yancy Granger had given many women the child they longed for-by being America's best fertility specialist. To the world he was a Nobel Prize candidate; to Charlottesville, Virginia, he was a hero; to himself, he was a sinner tormente...

  • Sleeping Beauty

    Nicola Baxter

  • Puss in Boots

    Nicola Baxter

  • To Love and to Cherish

    Beverly Beaver
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    Injured in a riding accident, Mary Beth may never walk again. Her recovery seems to hinge on her divorced parents' temporary reconciliation, which she hopes will end up in another walk down the aisle....

  • The Berenstain Bears In Maniac Mansion

    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! ...

  • The Berenstain Bear Scouts Ghost Versus Ghost

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Trouble in Bear Country? It's the Berenstain Bear Scouts to the rescue! What's so scary about the Great Grizzly Forest? Some bears think it's haunted. But that's not about to stop the Bear Scouts. They're going for their Wilderness Survival Badge...

  • Berenstain Bears Draw-It: Drawing Lessons from Stan and Jan

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Illustrated in full color. When an artist comes to Bear Country School, Brother and Sister learn to draw just about everything in sight!  They also learn that drawing is a function of seeing and analyzing what you see, and that "talent" is where yo...

  • Berenstain Bears Fly-It!: Up, Up, and Away

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Illustrated in full color. At Bear Country Airport, Papa uses a balloon to demonstrate how a jet plane works.  Soon Brother, Sister, and their friends begin designing and making their own models.  The aerodynamic craze leads ultimately to Bear Co...

  • The Heart of the Warrior

    John Gregory Betancourt

    While a crucial peace conference fills Deep Space Nine with rumors of intrigue and conspiracy, Major Kira and Lt. Commander Worf embark on a dangerous undercover mission deep in the heart of the Gamma Quadrant. Their mission: to find the secret of th...

  • Wild Escapade

    Lisa Bingham

    What was a nice girl like Felicity Pedigrue doing in a place like Mother LaRee's house of ill repute? It had to be a mistake. Felicity had been on her way to teach in St. Joseph, Missouri, a city in the heart of the wild wicked west, when she met...

  • The Daddy Hunt

    Lisa Bingham

    Dear Darby, Here's my baby 1. Feed her 2. Love her 3. Find her daddy Love, Eloise Darby Simms loved baby Sissy instantly, so following her best friend's first two instructions was no problem. Number three--well, that was the catch. Elois...

  • Scarlet Leaves

    Sonya Birmingham

    Falling in love with a mysterious stranger despite her belief that he is a Yankee spy, Silky Shanahan takes the man prisoner and fears that her feelings for him will force her to betray her people. From the moment Silky Shanahan spotted the buck-...

  • Ulterior Motives

    Terri Blackstock

    The police think he killed someone. He swears he’s innocent. All she knows for certain is his crime against her. Louis Dubose, international art dealer, has been murdered. The police are certain they’ve got their man. Recently fired by Dubose, Be...

  • Marching to Valhalla

    Michael Blake

    "A TERRIFIC YARN . . . Marching to Valhalla is written as though it were a long-lost diary of Custer's, leading up to his fatal battle. It is a very personal view."
    --Denver Post

    In his New York Times bestselling novel Dances with Wolves, M...

  • By the Sword

    Timothy Boggs
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Hercules possessed a strength the world had never seen, a strength surpassed only by the power of his heart. He journeyed the Earth, battling the minions of his wicked stepmother, Hera, the all-powerful Queen of the Gods. 0 Wherever there was evil, w...

  • Stand-In Bride

    Barbara Boswell

    Meet the Fortunes--a family whose legacy is greater than riches. Because where there's a will...there's a wedding! THE PROPOSAL They called him America's most eligible bachelor, but high-powered executive Michael Fortune didn't want a wife. So...

  • Summer Serenade

    Caroline Bourne

    Fleeing the evil purposes of her cruel guardian to the ancestral estate of her family's most despised enemy, Amabel Lockridge fears discovery when she falls in love with her handsome protector. Amabel Lockridge had to escape. Her cruel guardian ...

  • Family Secrets

    Susan Bowden

    Willing to do anything to discover why her mother had been exiled to Canada from her English family estate of Amberley Court, Erin Benson finds herself in a relationship with a handsome new friend. Original....

  • Worst Case Scenario

    Michael Bowen

    Foreign Service veteran Richard Michaelson knows that it is often better to talk to secretaries than big wigs in the political jungles of Washington, DC. But when one such ambitious young secretary turns up dead in a locked hotel room, Michaelson sud...

  • The Three Lives of Littleton Blue

    Doug Bowman

    Doug Bowman puts the reader in the saddle beside Civil War veteran Litt Blue as he heads west after Lee's surrender. Blue is taken in by a rancher who is the grandfather of a close friend who died in the war. While learning the cattle business from t...

  • Love in Another Town

    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Estranged from his wife, Amy, Jake Cantrell feels his life has stalled as he approaches his twenty-ninth birthday. Seeking a divorce and distance, he has moved to the town of Kent, Connecticut, to concentrate on his new electrical contracting busines...

  • Keeper for the Sea

    Kimberley Smith Brady

    Lessons of respect and integrity are taught by a grandfather to his granddaughter as they head to the sea in the darkness and wait for first light in order to catch a fighting blue, but when one is caught, they must quickly determine if it should be ...

  • Red Wind and Thunder Moon

    Max Brand

    Red Wind and Thunder Moon originally appeared in 1927 issues of Western Story Magazine. In this work, Walking Horse, war chief of the Omissi band of the Cheyennes, pays a mysterious visit to the Suhtai band, among whose foremost chiefs is Big Hard Fa...

  • Donnegan

    Max Brand

    Enforcing his own brand of justice with his ever-ready six-gun, Donnegan shoots down everyone who stands in his way and sets his sights on a sidewinder with whom he has a personal score to settle. Reprint....

  • Who Is Nick Saint?

    Gyles Brandreth

    Nick Saint, a 28-year-old teacher at a private school in South Carolina doesn't know who he is or where he comes from. He has no papers, no passport and no past, but when he meets a psychotherapist called Kirsty, the two fall in love and set out on a...

  • Guilty Pleasures

    Barbara Bretton

    BEAUTY IS ONLY SKIN-DEEP. BUT IT HIDES A MULTITUDE OF SINS... LILI SPAULDING is chic and glamorous -- a steel magnolia who rules a multi-million dollar cosmetics empire. She is her own most perfect creation, born of a scandalous past and shatter...

  • Brave Mary

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • A Seer Out of Season

    Harmon H. Bro

    The gift of prohecy...

    Millions worldwide have turned to the writings of Edgar Cayce for advice on holistic medicine and spiritual growth. Hailed as the father of the New Age movement, his works have been translated into dizens of languages, a...

  • Forever Blue

    Suzanne Brockmann

    SHOULD SHE BELIEVE HER HEART... "For Lucy Tait, no one personified the word hero as much as Blue McCoy. As a child, he was her self-appointed rescuer, and as a teenager, he was the boy who hot away. Now he was back. But he was also a suspect in an...

  • Story of Smokey the Bear

    Robin Bromley

    Smokey Bear, famous friend of forests and firefighters, can now be your child's best friend, too. This cuddly plush toy is ready for imaginative playtime and comes packaged with a heartwarming storybook that tells the true story of how a little cub n...

  • Story of the Smokey the Bear

    Robin Bromley

  • Reckless Flirtation

    Helen Brooks

    "The more I see of you, the more I want you..." Jacques Challier's outrageous declaration took Sandi Gosdon's breath away, but she didn't trust him! He saw her as a challenge, nothing more. Marriage wasn't in the cards, and...

  • Breakout!

    Brian Brown

  • Raging Waters

    Brian Brown

  • Catacomb Rescue

    Brian Brown

    When Anna and Justin are trapped by Roman soldiers, they must choose between saving the life of their enemy--or saving themselves. Includes the parables of the Good Samaritan, the sower, and the unforgiving servant....

  • Storykeepers Activity Book

    Brian Brown

    Fun for ages 6 to 12, this coloring and activity book helps kids interact with stories of Jesus and the adventures of Ben the baker and the orphaned children he shelters. Includes puzzles, mazes, word searches, matching and more....

  • Miss Piggy Camps Out

    Richard D. Brown

  • Kermit's Teeny Tiny Farm

    Richard D. Brown

  • Fozzie's Bubble Bath

    Richard D. Brown

  • Pay Dirt

    Rita Mae Brown

    “Mrs Murphy’s fourth caper will be lapped up like half-and-half by the faithful.” -- Kirkus Reviews “The best yet.” -- Publishers Weekly The residents of tiny Crozet, Virginia, thrive on gossip, especially in the post office, where Mary Min...

  • Kangaroos Have Joeys

    Philippa-Alys Browne

    Bold illustrations and a simple text provide the young reader with an informative look at the names of animals' offspring, such as penguin chicks, moose calves, and rabbit kits, complete with an appendix about each species and its offspring....

  • Something Old, Something New

    Margaret Brownley
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    Margaret Brownley makes you wonder if love ever dies, when a man discovers his bride's cute little flower girl is also his daughter -- by an old flame he's been unable to forget....

  • Hobbyhorse

    Bonnie Bryant

    Lisa's horrid, bratty cousin is staying with the Atwoods. The nine-year-old nightmare child acts charming around adults, but to other kids, she's a menace. Now she's trying to get the Saddle Club into trouble and it's working. No one believes that li...

  • Jasmine Helps a Foal

    Bonnie Bryant

    Jasmine's jealousy over the arrival of a new baby sister and the resulting preoccupation of her parents with the cute arrival turns to delight when she is allowed to help Max take care of the new baby foal at Pine Hollow Stables. Original....

  • Memory

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    ONE LIFE TO LIVE...WELL, TWO, ACTUALLY Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. At least that's what Miles Vorkosigan thinks and he should know, having done both once already. Thanks to his quick-thinking staff and the specialist who revived...

  • The Music Box

    T. Davis Bunn / Davis Bunn

    Angie Picard has returned to her home in the hill country with a passion for teaching. But Angie has also come home as a young widow whose sorrow runs deep. Melissa Nealey moves to the hilltown after the death of her mother, and in the lonely girls f...

  • A Dark Coffin

    Gwendoline Butler

    Marriage is proving anything but dull for Commander John Coffin, keeper of the peace in London's Second City. With grande dame of the stage Stella Pinero in his life, Coffin's days lack no drama." "When the curtain comes down on opening night in Stel...

  • Tabloid Dreams

    Robert Olen Butler

    There are a dozen ways the American Dream can go awry in this “unrepeatable . . . tour de force” of short fiction from the Pulitzer Prize"winning author (The Washington Post Book World).   “[With] touches of Italo Calvino,...

  • My Lord Ghost

    June Calvin

    The Haunted Heart Miss Juliette Berceau was a levelheaded young lady. Certainly she did not believe in ghosts. Even more certainly, she did not believe that the ghost of Hammerswold Castle could command the master of the manor, Lord Jared Faverill...

  • Beloved

    Stella Cameron

    HIS HIDDEN FURY Five years earlier Saber, the Earl of Avenall, had won her young fancy, then mysteriously vanished. Now fate reunites them and Ella stands before him: grown, beautiful, seductive. Even as Saber swears never to taint her with his own ...

  • Ashleigh's Farewell

    Joanna Campbell

  • Candlewick Book of Animal Tales

    Candlewick Press

    A compilation of work from twenty-six authors and illustrators--including Barbara Firth, Colin West, Martin Waddell, and Martha Alexander--covers a wide array of the animal world, including ponies, owls, lambs, chickens, and more....

  • Manhattan, when I Was Young

    Mary Cantwell

    A “wonderful memoir” of a woman’s life as a fashion-magazine writer in 1950s and ’60s New York (Publishers Weekly). Mary Cantwell arrived in Manhattan one summer in the early 1950s with eighty dollars, a portable typewriter, a wardrobe of uns...

  • Worth Dying For

    D.l. Carey

    Caring for a prematurely born infant and its mother, who is suffering from an infection and can only see her baby through a glass wall, Barina is tempted to bend the rules in order to ease the bereaved mother's suffering. Original....

  • Flashback

    Diane Carey

    A hundred years before the Starship Voyager was transported to the Delta Quadrant, Lieutenant Tuvok served under one of Starfleet's most famous officers: Captain Hikaru Sulu of the Starship Excelsior. Now those days have come back to haunt him. Wh...

  • Cadet Kirk

    Diane Carey

    Journeying to the lecture site of computer genius Professor Richard Daystrom, by-the-book cadet James Kirk and his teammates are kidnapped by space pirates and must outwit their captors, who are plotting to trap the professor. Original....

  • My Favorite Husband

    Sally Carleen

    HOW TO FIND A MAKE-BELIEVE HUSBAND by Katie Logan Don't: Ask the private detective who is trying to prove you are not married. Do: Whack him over the head with a frying pan when you catch him spying on you! Don't: Notice how sexy...

  • Miss Spencer's Dilemma

    Jeanne Carmichael

    She thought her secrets and her heart were safe. How wrong she was! Miss Juliana Spencer believed she had found a haven from the spurned suitor who had accused her of theft -- and who was ruthlessly searching for her. But her hope was shattered wh...

  • I Come in Peace

    Jan Carr

  • The Year of the Turtle

    David M. Carroll

  • Family Man

    Rosemary Carter

    Father and son. Watching Sterling Tenassik play with her three-year-old son, Toby, Danielle was struck by how different things could have been. It seemed that underneath Sterling's ruthless bachelor exterior there was definite potential! And yet ...

  • Dateless in Dallas

    Samantha Carter

    WHAT MADDIE HATFIELD LEARNED FROM FINDING THE PERFECT MATE: Rule #1: Never date a co-worker -- just because Derek Newman is every woman's fantasy, that doesn't mean he's husband material. Rule #- After a string of dating disasters, av...

  • Amaryllis

    Jayne Castle

    Amaryllis Lark is undeniably beautiful. She's also one of the best psychic detectives on St. Helen's, the earth colony recently cut off from the mother planet, yet not very different from home - a place where love still defies the most incredible odd...

  • Miracle of Love

    Victoria Chancellor

    IT WOULD TAKE A MIRACLE When Erina O'Shea's son was born too early, doctors told the lovely immigrant there was little they could do to save young Colin's life. Not in 1896 Texas. But then Erina's desperate prayers were answered wh...

  • Escape from De Vil Mansion

    Gabrielle Charbonnet

  • A Dead Man Out of Mind

    Kate Charles

    'A woman priest at St Margaret's? Over my dead body!' Dolly Topping, head of the national organisation 'Ladies Opposed to Women Priests' and wife of one of the churchwardens, feels that strongly about it. It is unfortunate, therefore, that Father ...

  • Evil Angels Among Them

    Kate Charles

    In Walston things are anything but tranquil, but greater shocks are yet to come... `Peaceful' is the most common entry in the visitors' book at fifteenth-century St Michael's Church, with its glorious angel roof and its medieval Doom painting. But...

  • Dream of a Falling Eagle

    George C. Chesbro

    Mongo is a dwarf, private detective, martial arts expert, ex-circus headliner and criminologist. He and his brother Garth are working on two separate cases - or so they think. In one, they are preparing a report as part of a special committee investi...

  • A Time of Fear

    Kate Chester

  • Cowboy Cupid

    Judy Christenberry

    A Wyoming winter without women! Jake Randall couldn't let his brothers go through another one. So he did what any self-respecting big brother would do-- he brought them himself! From the minute she stepped foot on the ranch, Megan Chase saw fil...

  • The First Snow

    David Christiana

  • Snowman on Sycamore Street

    C.B. Christiansen

    While building a snowman, Angel, Chloe, and Rupert begin a friendship that carries them through their individual problems during the long winter, causing them to become even closer friends in the end, long after their snowman has faded away....

  • Know Fear

    Scott Ciencin

    Thrilled to be accepted into the Rathskeller Club, Gia Gibson is unaware that the Lurker has already plotted the course of her entire college career at Winterdale University and its sinister electronic network. Original....

  • Faceless

    Scott Ciencin

  • X-Men: Mutations

    Chris Claremont

  • The Christmas Story

    Andrew Clements

    This gorgeously illustrated rendition of the Nativity is housed in a colorful slipcase that pulls out to reveal an exquisite three-dimensional diorama scene, wonderful to read aloud or to use as a tabletop Christmas decoration....

  • The Ghost Walker

    Margaret Coel

    Father John O'Malley comes across a corpse lying in a ditch beside the highway. When he returns with the police, it is gone. The Arapahos of the Wind River Reservation speak of ghost walkers-tormented souls caught between the earth and the spirit wor...

  • Blood Red Eightball

    M.T. Coffin

    Craig adores video games, until virtual reality has him fleeing across on a monster pool table, with a giant cueball in pursuit, and his only escape is a plunge into the dark corner pocket, where he comes face-to-face with the pulsing terror of the B...

  • The Little Women Treasury

    Carolyn Strom Collins

    An amalgamation of text, illustrations, and projects for fans of Little Women includes a biography of Louisa May Alcott; instructions for making the clothes, crafts, and flower gardens depicted in the novel; and illustrations of Alcott's hous...

  • Damned in Paradise

    Max Allan Collins

    Nathan Heller teams up with legendary attorney Clarence Darrow to help solve the infamous "Massie" case, in which a beautiful Hawaiian socialite, Thalia Massie, blames a group of island natives for her rape, leaving Heller to delve into a world rife ...

  • The Acolyte

    David Compton

    Demoralized by the arrest of his candidate for the Senate, brilliant political tactician Greer Whitaker gets involved in a sensitive national security operation with the CIA, an operation with deadly implications. 35,000 first printing....

  • North to the Bitterroot

    Ralph Compton

    Between Kansas City and Montana Territory were a thousand ways to die-and a few bold men who would never turn back.Miners dug for fortunes. Soldiers died on open plains. And a few brave men drove the wooden freight wagons into the wild land. Now, mas...

  • The Reluctant Daddy

    Helen Conrad (1)

    Who knew he'd be assigned to a case where a verdict of arson could spell trouble for half the population of Tyler? Who knew the daughter of his prime suspect, the mother of two toddlers, would be the woman of his dreams? Who knew her kids would ha...

  • The Gingerbread Boy

    Scott Cook

  • Zeena

    Elizabeth Cooke

    In a reworking of the book Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome, Zenobia Frome is given her own voice, which she uses to tell of the events and emotions that led her to residing in the New England town of Starkfield....

  • The Voice on the Radio

    Caroline B. Cooney

    The kidnapping is long past. Janie Johnson can never change what happened to her or to the families that love her. But finally life seems to be settling down for the Springs and the Johnsons.The worst part of this new life for Janie is that Reeve Shi...

  • Samantha Crane on the Edge

    Linda A. Cooney

  • Life Magic

    Melrose Cooper

    Crystal's older sister, Janelle, just won second place in a writing contest, and her younger sister, Roxann, was picked to sing a solo in the school play. It's difficult to be in the middle of two gifted sisters -- especially when Crystal thinks she ...

  • Hickory, Dickory Stalk

    Susan Rogers Cooper

    ONE BLIND MOUSE A plumpish mid-Texas romance novelist and mother of three, E. J. Pugh is being harassed by someone unseen. An invisible high-tech prankster is wreaking havoc with her computer, phone lines, bank account, her existence in general. S...

  • The Heir

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: The Heir first appeared as Lord Deverill's Heir all the way back in 1980. I have extensively rewritten this novel, giving it greater scope and depth, but most important are the changes in all the characters. They are now richer an...

  • Gracias, the Thanksgiving Turkey

    Joy Cowley

    Let the Scholastic Bookshelf be your uide through the whole range of your child's experiences--laugh with them, learn with them, read with them!
    Category: Holiday

    When Papa sends a turkey to be fattened up for Thanksgiving, Miguel takes a l...

  • Where's My Kitten?

    Michele Coxon

  • Wildsong

    Catherine Creel

    In the embrace of a passionate enemy, one woman challenges her heritage and dares to listen to the song in her heart.... Drawn by a haunting melody, Sir Brian Devereux, knight of the realm, leaves the cold stone walls of Ballymorna Castle in sea...

  • Escardy Gap

    Peter Crowther

    A former bestselling author sits at the typewriter day after day, fearing his talent spent, unable to produce a sentence. The typewriter taunts him, and he abandons it for days until the night he hears the sound. It is faint, at first, but grows loud...

  • The Cinderella Deal

    Jennifer Crusie

    He looked good enough to be Prince Charming.... Linc Blaise needed the perfect fiancee to win his dream job, but finding a woman who'd be convincing in a charade seemed impossible -- until he heard Daisy Flattery charm her way out of a sticky ...

  • Moon Window

    Jane Louise Curry

    JoEllen resents having to stay with Granty in her home, Winterbloom, while her mother is on her honeymoon, but after the discovery of the magic round window, allowing her to travel back in time, she begins a grand adventure of her own. Jr Lib Guild....

  • Elliot Drives Away

    Matt Curtis

  • The Mystery of King Karfu

    Doug Cushman

    Meet the world's greatest detective, Seymour Sleuth. Follow along in his fascinating casebook as he travels to Egypt to investigate the case of the missing Stone Chicken. If he can find the Chicken, he may be able to find the Lost Treasure of the anc...

  • The Point: and Other Stories

    Charles D'Ambrosio

    Eight stories by the 1993 winner of The Paris Review's Aga Khan Fiction prize are set in the Pacific Northwest, the deep South, New York, and Los Angeles, and follow themes of loss, grief, and devotion. 15,000 first printing. Tour....

  • Striking a Match

    Janet Dailey
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    Flower girls always have a special place in church -- especially when they pit Dylan, the sexy young reverend, against a feisty stranger, and come up smelling like roses....

  • Shivers for Christmas

    Richard Dalby

    Christmas Traditionally the season of goodwill to all, the season of carols, eggnog, and roaring fires. Gathered here as an antidote to all these heart-warming pleasures are spine-tingling stories that will transport you from the comfort of your cozy...

  • The Seven-Year Itch

    Ruth Jean Dale

    What's good for the gander is good for the goose... When Ivy Conrad found her husband, Jack, obviously scratching his seven-year itch, she refused to listen to any lame excuses. Instead, she vowed to even the score! Taking their anniversary cr...

  • Something Borrowed, Something Blue

    Ruth Jean Dale
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    Flower girl magic makes its way into the life of Rosemary Hancock, a divorced mother whose transformation turns a lot of heads, including her estranged husband's....

  • Nowhere to Run

    Robert Daley

    The author of Tainted Evidence brings together two unappreciated city police detectives, Jack Dilger of the NYPD and Madeleine Leclerq, a French inspector, who meet on the Riviera and join forces to save their own lives. Reprint....

  • Heaven Can Wait

    Emily Dalton

    "You saved my life, Jackson Tremain. Now make it worth living." After a near-death experience, Teri Taylor wasn't so sure she hadn't died and gone to heaven. Waking up in the strong arms of Jackson Tremain, her high school nemesis ...

  • Tom Thumb

    Audrey Daly

  • Trouble in the Town Hall

    Jeanne M. Dams

    A LOVELY OLD BUILDING HIDES A NASTY CRIME A Shereby resident for a year now, American Dorothy Martin is still learning her way around the charming English cathedral town. But she recognizes a dead body when she sees one. As town debate rages over ...

  • Hackers

    Jack Dann

    A collection of short stories from the virtual frontier follows the exploits of the world's most notorious hackers and includes contributions from Greg Bear, William Gibson, Robert Silverberg, and Bruce Sterling. Original....

  • Their Wedding Day

    Emma Darcy

    He had returned to save her... Once a handsome prince rescued a beautiful princess.... Well, that was what Rowena Goodman's children believed. And they soon decided that Keir Delahunty was the prince sent to rescue their mother. But Rowena had...

  • Heart of the Hawk

    Justine Dare

    HE WAS HER DOWNFALL Notorious gunslinger Joshua Hawk was to hang in Gambler's Notch when the sun rose. He had but one regret. He had never found his grandfather's book with his family's history -- and prophecy that the Hawk line would ...

  • Loving Enemies

    Rachel Davis

    The Civil War is over--but the struggle continues for one man and woman in this stunning historical romance from Rachel Davis Shunned by society since she bore a child out of wedlock, Esther Woodson lives a lonely existence in the Ozarks. But she ...

  • Maker of Saints

    Thulani Davis

    ? A QPB and BOMC selection ? The author?s previous novel, 1959, was nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Award.Bird Kinkaid is an African-American woman who has recently been plagued by nightmares: It is a month after she witnessed Alex, her clos...

  • A Credible Threat

    Janet Dawson

    With the dramatic, sometimes menacing Northern California coast as her backdrop, Janet Dawson consistently writes gripping, psychologically adept mystery novels featuring a socially conscious detective in unforgettable stories torn from today's headl...

  • The Reluctant King

    L. Sprague de Camp

    Fearing the planetary policy that all former rulers must be executed, King Jorian of Xylar flees the planet at the end of his five-year reign and requests the help of the wizard Karadur to help him rescue his wife. Original....

  • The Orphan's Tent

    Tom De Haven

    When Del Schofeld suddenly vanishes and her friends go on a search to find her, they learn of an orphan heist that would give away youngsters at railroad stops, thus they track down every clue in order to save their friend from impending doom....

  • So Loud a Silence

    Lyll Becerra de Jenkins

    Accustomed to his impoverished life in Bogota+a7, Colombia, Juan Guillermo resents his family and is delighted when a visit to his wealthy grandmother introduces him to the comforts of money, but he learns a savage truth that puts his family in dange...

  • The Dragon's Tale and Other Animal Fables of the Chinese Zodiac

    Demi

    A clever fox shows how small creatures must live by their wits.

    A boastful boar learns the hard way that pride invites calamity.

    A wise dragon teaches that the more you know, the more you know there is to know.

    Each of the fables...

  • The Haunted Bride

    Teresa DesJardien
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    A TIME OF SORCERY, ROMANCE...AND THE MAGIC THAT IS LOVE All Hallows Eve...a night when the impossible happens...when Regency castles are filled with mystery and intrigue...when costume balls in elegant mansions may lead to passionate surprises ......

  • That Summer

    Sarah Dessen

    the more things change... For fifteen-year-old Haven, there's just too much going on. First, there's her father's wedding to Lorna Queen, the local television "Weather Pet." Then her sister Ashley's wedding to boring Lewis Warsher, who doesn't seem ...

  • Legend

    Jude Deveraux

    Her wedding fast approaching, celebrated chef Kady Long knew she was the luckiest woman alive...until she slipped into a delicate satin wedding dress she found in and antique flour tin, and was overcome by an odd dizzy spell. When she came to, Kady w...

  • Texas Lover

    Adrienne DeWolfe

    By the time Texas Ranger Wes Rawlins answered Sheriff Boudreau's telegram for help, it was too late. Boudreau had been murdered, his homestead taken over by squatters, and no one in town could tell Wes why the sheriff had sent for him. So Wes rode ou...

  • Safe Return

    Catherine Dexter

  • Sister, Sister

    Eric Jerome Dickey

    Here is New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey's debut novel, a celebration of Black sisterhood hailed by Essence as one of the “50 Most Impactful Black Books Of The Last 50 Years”.Valerie, Inda, and Chiquita are thre...

  • Painting the Wind: A Story of Vincent van Gogh

    Michelle Dionetti

    Upset by the unconventional behavior of artist Vincent Van Gogh, the people of Arles try to have him banned from the town, while a little girl named Claudine, intrigued by the color and movement of his paintings, must decide whether or not to stand u...

  • Winnie the Pooh: Book and Bear

    Walt Disney

    Children will drift happily to sleep with this just-right bedtime story and a stuffed Pooh Bear, appropriately attired for retiring in nightcap and gown. The exclusive paperback picture book contains three bedtime stories from the popular Winnie the ...

  • Acting Up

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Investigating sabotage on a movie set in India, the Hardy brothers find themselves outmaneuvering explosives, machetes, and a deadly cobra while trying to figure out who does not want the movie completed. Original....

  • The Bourbaki Gambit

    Carl Djerassi

    “A beautifully ingenious, funny, brilliantly intelligent, and moving tale of very human scientists. A splendid novel.” -- Iris Murdoch
     
    At the age of 68, distinguished Princeton science professor Max Weiss is bribed into taking an early...

  • The Faculty of Useless Knowledge

    Iurii Osipovich Dombrovskii

    Georgi Zybin, a student of law and humanities, is arrested as an enemy of the people when a high-ranking officer in Stalin's security organization starts a public trial in Alma Ata, similar to those in Moscow...

  • The Final Proposal

    Robyn Donald

    An unlikely match... He's a farmer, she's an image consultant. He despises city women and she hates the country. But when a series of bizarre coincidences make Kear Lannion and Jan Carruthers neighbors, he just can't seem to keep away ...

  • Cat With An Emerald Eye

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Midnight Louie makes a magical appearance! Our furry feline friend has dipped his paws into the muddy waters of murder once again--only this time, nothing is as it seems. Temple Barr, a redheaded public relations expert and Louie's human partne...

  • Grandma's Latkes

    Malka Drucker

    As Molly and her grandmother prepare latkes, her grandmother explains the custom of eating latkes and recalls the dramatic story of the tyranny of Antiochus, the faith of Mattathias, the bravery of the Maccabees, and the miracle of the oil. “Touche...

  • This Is the Star

    Joyce Dunbar

  • Christmas in the Stable

    Beverly K. Duncan

  • Don't Call Me Names!

    Jennifer Dussling

    When the kids at school tease Skye about his name, he feels hurt and angry. But before long Skye realizes that his name is a gift that has been given to him, a gift that makes him feel special. Full color....

  • Mr. Family

    Margot Early

    Wanted: Woman to enter celibate marriage and be stepmother to four-year-old girl. Send child-rearing philosophies to Mr. Family.... KAL JOHNSON is a still-grieving widower with a young child. He can't imagine marrying again--not for love, anyway....

  • Wolf in Man's Clothing

    Mignon G. Eberhart

    On the Brent's estate to care for Craig Brent, recovering from a strange shooting accident, nurses Sarah Keate and Drue Cable find themselves in the middle of a mystery, when Conrad Brent, their patient's father, is killed, and Drue is accused of his...

  • The Bowl of Night

    Rosemary Edghill

    Bast is back, in The Bowl of Night! The one-of-a-kind heroine from Edghill's two previous mysteries, Speak Daggers to Her and Book of Moons, returns in a bewitching new mystery set in the world of today's New Age community. Hallowfest, an outdoor pag...

  • Arizona Range War

    J.T. Edson

    The second in a trilogy of Westerns set in the 1800s pits rancher Stone Hart against land grabbers and bank robbers in a fight for the range. By the author of Wedge Goes to Arizona. Original....

  • X-Files Confidential

    Ted Edwards

    An experienced television journalist provides a comprehensive guide to every episode in the first three seasons of The X-Files, portraits of the stars and their characters, and an A-Z encyclopedia of everything related to the show both on-scr...

  • Destiny's Embrace

    Suzanne Elizabeth

    Just when Lacey Garder thought she'd get a life sentence for her third felony, a strange little woman in pearls gave her a second chance --- if she agreed to travel back to the year 1879, to the Washington Territory. Ruggedly handsome Marshal Matt...

  • The Empty Throne

    Ru Emerson

    Xena, once in love with conquest and destruction, now fights for the side of good. Though constantly haunted by her wicked past, Xena courageously battles mortals, gods, demigods, and monsters, and heroically protects the downtrodden from the forces ...

  • Sundance

    Leslie Esdaile

    Plagued by strange dreams about seductive Victor Duarte, corporate consultant Liza Nichols finds herself drawn to her sexy business rival, not realizing they are linked not only by passion but by an ancient curse that has followed their families for ...

  • Gold Medal Mystery

    Allison Estes

    Celebrating his good fortune when he goes to the Olympics to watch his horse riding trainer compete, Max Morrison wonders what is going on when horses begin vanishing from the Olympic stables. Original....

  • Longarm and the Racy Ladies

    Tabor Evans

    Becoming involved with the beautiful and lusty Cassidy twins, Longarm refuses to believe that they are responsible for the deaths of his partners and a traveling senator, until he begins suffering suspicious accidents...

  • Badlands

    Elizabeth Fackler

    After countless murders, hired gunman Seth Strummar retires to the Arizona Territory, determined to provide a better life for his family, but when the gorgeous and diabolical Lila Keats arrives in town to settle an old score with Strummar, the fragil...

  • Prove the Nameless

    Terence Faherty

    OBSTRUCTED VIEW Working for an Atlantic City newspaper, Owen Keane is intrigued by the unsolved murder of a local prominent family--even more so when the sole survivor, a baby at the time of the incident, asks him to help anwswer the question: why...

  • Blue Ribbon Mystery

    Erica Farber

  • Circus of the Ghouls

    Erica Farber

  • Six Clever Girls Who Became Famous Women

    Fiona Farrell

  • Where Does the Teacher Live?

    Paula Kurzband Feder

  • Voices of Hope

    David Feintuch

    A guilt-ridden politician, an earnest young boy, a sick old man eking out a living in the broken streets--can they alone stop humanity from destroying itself in urban Armageddon? In a divided world, wealthy citizens look down from skytop aeries to...

  • A Phantom Affair

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    HE'S HANDSOME, EXCITING...AND NOT OF THIS WORLD! Pretty, wealthy Ellen Dunbar has had three Seasons in London - and still remains unwed. A stubborn Scot, she refuses to settle for anything less than her heart's desire. Which makes meeting dashing Lo...

  • See No Evil

    Jay Finkelstein

    Introduces the hapless Leo Gold, a reluctant sleuth who tries to revive his flagging relationship with his girlfriend Lizzie by taking her on a romantic trip to Egypt, where she promptly disappears at the hands of a deadly conspiracy. Original....

  • You're So Beautiful

    Eileen Fitzgerald

    A collection of short stories revolving around family life, relationships, and women's experiences features such tales as "Zoo Bus," in which an elderly woman craves attention from the daughter she constantly criticizes....

  • A Palette For Murder

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    HOMICIDE IN THE HAMPTONS Jessica Fletcher has come to the elegant Hamptons on Long Island's gold coast for a sinfully sweet spell in the sun and a chance to indulge her secret burning passion: painting. In this place where the arts flower and arti...

  • The Phoney-Baloney Professor

    Louise Munro Foley

    Fifth-grader Tracey Wilson is nervous. It's been a while since she's spotted Norman the vampire poking around looking for her cat, Omar. Tracey adopted Omar when he escaped from the vampire community. And Norman has been not on their--er--tails ever ...

  • The Third Twin

    Ken Follett

    Young scientist Jeannie Ferrami discovers a baffling mystery. Two young men, law student Steve and convicted murderer Dan, appear to be identical twins. Yet they were born on different days, to different mothers. Jeannie investigates, but shadowy for...

  • Ex Utero

    Laurie Foos

    Laurie Foos-”the unholy love child of Franz Kafka and Erica Jong” (Philadelphia Inquirer)-gives us a “wonderfully deranged and stunning” novel (Fay Weldon, Los Angeles Times Book Review) about the hullabaloo that ensues when a woman somehow l...

  • The Four Magics

    William R. Forstchen

    Ages after a mountain, ripped away from its planet by a magician's death-duel, is hurtled into space, the mountain-asteroid threatens the lives of the planet's feuding races, who share a common enemy in the alien Brom. Original....

  • Icon

    Frederick Forsyth

    A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the master of the novel of international intrigue comes a riveting new book as timely and unsettling as tomorrow's headlines.It is summer 1999 in Russia, a country on the threshold of anarchy.  An i...

  • Ben's Christmas Carol

    Toby Forward

    A mouse's version of the classic holiday tale by Dickens follows the story of the miserly Ben, who hates Christmas and avoids his less-fortunate neighbor, until a ghostly midnight tour, mouse-style, convinces him to relinquish his mean ways....

  • Little Caribou

    Sarah Fox-Davies

  • Best Friends Twin Pack

    Pascal Francine

  • I Am an Artichoke

    Lucy Frank

    Fifteen-year-old Sarah can't wait to start her summer job as a mother's helper in exciting New York City. At first everything about the job looks great. Mrs. Friedman is outgoing, and her beautiful, 12-year-old daughter Emily seems too self-sufficien...

  • Ghost Shadow

    Cheryl J. Franklin

    ON THE PLANET NILSON -- the network is ruthlessly exploiting the people and their world, and the only a miner called Arlan and the rebel Deliaja can see the dangers of the encroaching darkness... FROM HIS PRIVATE NETWORK STRONGHOLD -- Council Govern...

  • The Wolfhound

    Kristine L. Franklin

    In Tsarist Russia, for a commoner to own a wolfhound was to risk prison, or worse. But Pavel's heart has been won by the beautiful dog he rescued from a snowstorm, and he cannot abandon her to the freezing cold. Opulent paintings illustrate this poig...

  • Fatal Gift

    H. Michael Frase

    Imagine that you were the secret witness to a sadistic killing, that only the victim was aware of your hidden presence at the scene, and that you were too paralyzed with fear to answer her silent pleas for help. This is Kasey Riteman's dilemma.

  • If Only You Knew

    Carla Fredd

    Nursing a long-time love for Ric Justice, a man tormented by an unhappy childhood, Atlanta PR director Anna May Robinson decides to persuade Ric to become the father of the child she yearns for, but their relationship has unexpected results. Original...