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  • A Year Full of Stories

    Georgie Adams

    Each day of the year becomes special in this one-of-a-kind treasury!

    The whole world of childhood is contained in this big, bold, boisterous treasury.  On January 1, read a story about the new year.  On February 14, how about a Valentine t...

  • A Cat on Jingle Bell Rock

    Lydia Adamson

    Acting jobs and cat-sitting assignments have been elusive for Alice Nestleton lately...but there's plenty of sleuthing work to be done. A prominent theater director has requested her help for his pet charity: Sustenance House. It seems an anonymous b...

  • Chanukah in Chelm

    David A. Adler

  • Cam Jansen and the Scary Snake Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Cam's got a whole new m-hiss-tory to solve! Cam, Eric, and Mrs. Jansen are spending an eventful afternoon in the big city. First a snake is let loose on the steps of the library. Then Mrs. Jansen's bag is stolen -- with her video camera inside. Co...

  • South of Resurrection

    Jonis Agee

    Having left home at the age of sixteen, Moline returns to her small-town community in Missouri to take care of some simple family business, but upon her arrival, she sees that the town is nearing extinction and stays to save the family's land and hel...

  • Crystal Memories

    Ginny Aiken

    Winona, Minnesota, 1997. Amelia Baldwin was thrilled to be costuming a vaudeville revival at a beautiful old theater. She loved clothing and homes and things from another time. But Amelia had no idea that she herself would soon become a part of the p...

  • Cunning Workmen

    Isabella Alden

    “I have sent for you,” said Sarah, “because I want you to tell me how to die.” Cora Parkhurst is simply too busy with other things to get to know the girls in the Sunday school class or to spend much time preparing her lessons.

    Rober...

  • I Can't Believe I Have to Do This

    Jan Alford

  • Wake up, Sleeping Beauty

    Jonathan Allen

  • A Marriage of Convenience

    Barbara Allister

    Between Two Fires Beautiful and spirited Jane Stanfield had made her choice between her two childhood friends, the dashing Lord Langston and the devoted Stephen Middleton. She had chosen to listen to Langston's impassioned proposal and turned ...

  • Promise Me

    Robyn Amos

  • Graduation

    Janet S. Anderson

    Five six-graders are about to face the secret graduation ceremony, known as "going through the gate" to the townspeople, but the children have no idea what to expect and wonder why no one will talk to them about it....

  • Angels We Have Heard on High

    Joan Wester Anderson

    In this beautiful book, New York Times bestselling author Joan Wester Anderson weaves a wreath of the blessings we receive when we least expect them--a joyful reminder that today, no less than two thousand years ago, Christmas is the season of miracl...

  • Jedi Bounty

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia have grown strong with the Force, thwarting the evil Nolaa Tarkona and destroying the Emperor's plague. Now, with th...

  • War of the Gods

    Poul Anderson

    The story of the great King Hadding is one of the darkest and most violent to come down to us from the old North. Hadding was raised by giants far from his rightful throne, as his father, a Danish king, was slain shortly after Hadding's birth. But th...

  • The Literature of the American South

    William L. Andrews

    For nearly four centuries, the American South has been home to a vital literary tradition.The Literature of the American South reconsiders southern writing from its seventeenth-century origins to its flourishing present. Featuring the works of eighty...

  • Little Angels' Book of Christmas

    Joan Walsh Anglund

  • A Bedtime Book

    Joan Walsh Anglund

    A charming collection of original stories and verses features tales of friendly trees, aspiring ballerinas, and companionable cows, all of which provides the perfect bedtime reading for children of all ages. Reprint....

  • Yon Ill Wind

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

    This Xanth villain is full of hot air. “Anthony’s unflagging sparkle, verve and wordplay spin everyday trials of Mundane life into storytelling gold” (Publishers Weekly).   A fickle flux in the fabric of space has allowed a horrendous hurr...

  • Faun & Games

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

    The magical and mirth-filled land of Xanth holds many, marvels. But now an extraordinary new aspect of this remarkable realm unfolds as young Forrest Faun's quest takes him to a tiny planet hidden in the heart of Xanth. There, with a delightful "day ...

  • The Christmas Story

    Dawn Apperley

    Now even very young children can celebrate Christmas with their own Nativity set! They simply punch out all of the pieces included with this book and put them together--without scissors, tape, or glue! Then they can listen to the beloved story of Chr...

  • The Forgotten

    K.A. Applegate

    There's been an accident. Someone crash-landed a Yeerk Bug fighter. And the Yeerks have been trying to cover it up -- quickly. But not before Tobias spots it. So the Animorphs and Ax decide to steal the ship to show the world that Earth has been inva...

  • Alloran's Choice

    K.A. Applegate

    Elfangor's journey began with a simple mission under the command of War-prince Alloran. The mission should have ended with the return of two humans to Earth. But Elfangor's fellow aristh, Arbron, makes a discovery that takes them all to the Taxxon ho...

  • Alien Terror

    Chris Archer

    In the first book of this middle grade sci-fi series, a teen gains alien superpowers that make him popular at school, but put him in mortal danger.   Dweeb . . . Dork . . . These are names Ethan Rogers is used to be...

  • Hawk's Lady

    Catherine Archibald

    Haughty young Kaylyn D'Arcy only wanted what was best for her little sister, Celia, when she traveled to the imposing fortress of Hawkhurst. For the brother of Hawkhurst's dark lord had wooed Celia, and Kayln was determined to make him do the honora...

  • Lili The Brave

    Jennifer Armstrong

    It is 1870 and Lili Alesund lives with her family in Vinhaven, Norway, a beautiful town on the edge of the sea. She is called Lili the Brave because she has never been afraid of anything. But Lili has never had to leave Norway before or travel to Ame...

  • The Bargain

    Jane Ashford

    It's more than ridiculous, it's damned embarrassing and inconvenient...for a scientist with his reputation to be called in to get rid of a ghost. But when the Prince Regent summons Lord Alan Gresham to London to solve the mystery of a hauntin...

  • The Neglectful Guardian

    Anne Ashley

    SARAH PEMNINGTON HAD BEEN IGNORED FOR LONG ENOUGH ! Sarah had waited years for the absent Marcus Ravenhurst to make an appearance and check up on his ward. But life under the care of her cousin had finally become intolerable. So much so that she h...

  • The Chronicles of the Round Table

    Mike Ashley

    An anthology of stories following the exploits of the knights of King Arthur's round table features contributions from Phyllis Ann Karr, Peter Tremayne, Seamus Cullen, Brian Stableford, and Parke Godwin...

  • Pagan Desires

    Veronica Ashley

    The Swan The daughter of a famous seer and a Byzantine military commander, Phaedra has made the swan her emblem as she creates potions rumored to drive men mad with desire. All the city knows of her elixirs, but few know her secret: she possesses ...

  • The William Problem

    Barbara Baker

  • The Reckoning

    Jeanette Baker

    WHEN LOVE DEMANDS AN ANSWER, WHEN THE HEART CANNOT BE DENIED, THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR...THE RECKONING Lady Alexandra Winthrop, the toast of London and beloved granddaughter of the Duke of Leicester, was an Indian captive. She had daringly ...

  • License to Thrill

    Stephanie Bancroft

    If his touch was as lethal as his smile, she was certain to swoon in his arms .... James Donovan's dossier might have read "Untouchable, unpredictable, and hard to hold," but when the handsome British agent faced the curator receiving the historic...

  • Mourning Dove: A Story of Love

    Larry Barkdull

    Originally self-published, this poignant story tells of nine-year-old Hannibal, who, having recently lost his parents, moves in with his widowed grandfather and enjoys the warm, subtle teachings of a man who is humble yet loved by all. Tour....

  • Caesar's Bicycle

    John Barnes

    In order to stop the alien Closers, who have waged war on a million alternate Earths, private eye Mark Strang gathers his assortment of weaponry and confronts a mysterious closing of the Timelines. Original....

  • Bob the Gambler

    Frederick Barthelme

    A New York Times Notable Book In this darkly funny story, Ray and Jewel Kaiser try (and push) their luck at the Paradise casino. Peopled with dazed denizens, body-pierced children, a lusty grocery-store manager, and hourly employees in full revolt, t...

  • If You Were Born a Kitten

    Marion Dane Bauer

    Twelve kinds of animal babies swim, snuggle, slither, and scoot through this enchanting picture book that celebrates the miracle of birth, the magic of childhood, and you...the most precious baby of all....

  • Alison's Fierce & Ugly Halloween

    Marion Dane Bauer

  • Annabelle's Wish

    Amy Bauman

  • Eden

    Frederic Bean

    When the eldest son of a factious oil dynasty is fatally shot in his Dallas home, leaving his mother's will up for grabs, detectives suspect Matthew King, the family peacemaker who was at the scene of the crime. Original....

  • Agatha Raisin and the Terrible Tourist

    M.C. Beaton

    COLD-BLOODED MURDER HEATS UP AGATHA'S GREEK HOLIDAY... Everyone loves Agatha! Called "a glorious cross between Miss Marple, Auntie Mame, and Lucille Ball" by the St. Petersburg Times and "refreshingly sensible, wonderfully eccentric, thoroughly li...

  • The Wager

    Rexanne Becnel
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    Louisiana: the enigmatic bayou, the moss-draped river trees, the ghostly city of New Orleans, a setting for devilish intrigue and dangerous love. Four talented authors who make their homes in this mysterious state conjure tales of three desperate wom...

  • Just Jessie

    Lisette Belisle

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE The bride: Jessie Carlisle, twenty-three and never been kissed The groom: Bad boy Ben Harding The wedding: A sham...or was it? Ben knew that Jessie Carlisle would do anything to save her beloved Stone's End f...

  • The New Hugo Winners, Volume 4

    Gregory Benford

    Presents the Hugo winners for 1992, 1993, and 1994 in a collection that includes contributions by Isaac Asimov, Charles Sheffield, Connie Willis, Harry Turtledove, Nancy Kress, Lucius Shepherd, and others. Original....

  • Hanukkah Book with 3 Dreidels

    Alan Benjamin

  • The Nicest Guy in America

    Angela Benson

    THE DATING GAME When fun-loving Kimberla Washington, writer for a top women's magazine, is assigned a contest to find the perfect man, she isn't exactly thrilled. She knows from experience that he doesn't exist! But the man who wins the contest ju...

  • The Rat Pack

    Lara Rice Bergen

  • Wish List

    Lisa Tawn Bergren
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  • Gifts of Christmas

    Mark Bernthal

  • The Inscription

    Pam Binder

    UNDER THE MIST-SHROUDED WATERS OF A SCOTTISH LOCH, AN IMMORTAL WARRIOR FINDS THE WOMAN OF HIS DREAMS-AND A LOVE THAT DEFIES THE AGES. In a stunning debut novel, Pam Binder evokes the Highland mysteries of Loch Ness to create a shimmering love stor...

  • Wild Masquerade

    Lisa Bingham

    Though the most sensible of the Pegigrue sisters, Constance has long harbored a romantic dream of working in the theater. But she never expected that a string of disasters would leave her stranded in New York -- and in debt to scandalously successful...

  • Saving Susannah

    Beverly Bird

    A WOMAN... Widowed dad Joe Lapp needed help. A nanny for his children, a woman to soothe his soul. And when Kimberly Mancuso showed up on his doorstep, looking for her long-lost brothers, his prayers were answered.... A HOME... Kimberly's daught...

  • Angel with an Attitude

    Carly Bishop

    A five-hundred-year-old passion simmers on... As far as Angelo could figure, it must have been the sight of the orphaned baby that caused Isobel Avedon, his one true love, to turn irrevocably mortal. Isobel had always wanted a baby...his baby. ...

  • Anastasia

    Maggie Blackwell

  • Second Wives

    Cindy Blake

    With the early loss of both their younger brother and their mother, the Preston sisters have spent most of their lives haunted by tragedy. But Meg, Beth, Amy, and Leonora are determined to find happiness. Meg and Amy, second wives grappling with thei...

  • Green-Eyed Ghost

    Lynn Blankman

    Spending the weekend with her sister Jenny in an old house where their mother and grandmother once lived, Charlotte learns a valuable lesson from the ghost of her own grandmother as a young girl in the 1930s. Original....

  • The Twelve Days of Christmas

    Emily Bolam

  • The Secret of the Lost Kingdom

    Michael Bolton

    An award-winning singer and songwriter pens his first children's title in this charming story of a king's son who, disgusted with the greed that power can bring, leaves his father to travel the kingdom as a commoner....

  • The Love of Friends

    Nancy Bond

    Instead of exploring London on her first visit from Massachusetts, sixteen-year-old Charlotte Paige finds herself traveling to the north of Scotland with eighteen-year-old Oliver, who is in search of his uncle's old friend, in a deeply moving story o...

  • Christmas Song of North

    Marsha Bonicatto

    Christmas Song of the North offers children ages 2-10 a delightful look at the winter activities of their favorite northland animals. Set to the theme of "12 Days of Christmas," this beautiful full-color book will have children singing, counting, and...

  • War Dog

    Martin Booth

    Jet, a black Labrador, was well-trained by a young English poacher, Fred Parry. When Fred is caught and jailed shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Jet is requisitioned by the army, where her training stands her in good stead. This is the fas...

  • Thanksgiving Is . . .

    Louise Borden

  • More Letters from the Country

    Marsha Boulton

  • Sisters At Heart

    Susan Bowden

    FAMILY REUNION Anne Barry Dysan hasn't seen her father Ryan Barry, in twenty-eight years -- since her mother's death, when he walked away, taking her sister with him and leaving Anne to be raised by and aunt. Now she has written to him at Hammer...

  • Jonathan James Says, "Christmas Is Coming!"

    Crystal Bowman

  • Jonathan James Says, "Happy Birthday to Me!"

    Crystal Bowman

  • Quicker Than the Eye

    Ray Bradbury

    The internationally acclaimed author of The Martian Chronicles, The Illustrated Man, and Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury is a magician at the height of his powers, displaying his sorcerer's skill with twenty-one remarkable stories that run the gamut fro...

  • Driving Blind

    Ray Bradbury

    The incomparable Ray Bradbury is in the driver's seat, off on twenty-one unforgettable excursions through fantasy, time and memory, and there are surprises waiting around every curve and behind each mile marker. The journey promises to be a memorable...

  • One Last Town

    Matt Braun


    Bill Tilghman was the real thing, a lawman who wore his badge for one reason alone: to bring criminals to justice. Master novelist Matt Braun captures the final days of this extraordinary manhunter--when he faces a heroic fight on the bloody corr...

  • A London Season

    Patricia Bray

    A Country Miss With eight siblings and a bankrupt estate, Jane Segwick happily accepted her aunt's invitation to a London Season. Here was a chance to find a wealthy husband and get them out of the suds. But Jane's blunt country ways were considere...

  • Disney's the Little Mermaid

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Dead Room Farce

    Simon Brett

    Delighted to land a role in an acting company touring the provinces, struggling actor Charles Paris finds himself embroiled with two very different women and becomes a suspect in the death of an old drinking buddy, forcing him to turn sleuth to clear...

  • Rogue's Wager

    Thomas Gately Briody

    When a clamdigger accidentally injures a diver with a dynamite blast, rogue reporter Michael Carolina writes up the story and forgets about it, until a mobster disguised as a nurse murders the injured man while he is in the hospital...

  • All Through the Night

    Connie Brockway

    A WOMAN COMPELLED In the glittering world of Regency England, Anne Wilder played a dangerous game. A widowed lady by day, by night she became a masked thief preying on society's elite. She roved high above London's black rooftops, compelled by pha...

  • Woodsie

    Bruce Brooks

    After the coach of the Wolfbay Wings leaves the team and takes five of the team's best players with him, rookie hockey player Dixon Woods must do all he can to make the team the champions they once were, despite the devastating loss of his coach and ...

  • Zip

    Bruce Brooks

    Zip and Kenny had been close friends, until Kenny left the Wolfbay Wings to play for the rival team, now Zip must control his anger and channel it to become the best goalie possible to save his team from finishing in last place. Original....

  • Soul Food

    Lajoyce Brookshire

    Teri, Maxine and Bird are as different as three sisters could be. Teri is beautiful and practical, a successful lawyer who has no patience for dreamers. Maxine is a happy, loving wife and mother, but wonders if she is doing anything important with he...

  • Outlaw's Gold

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Trapped!

    Brian Brown

    At Nero's birthday party, Tacticus's Christian faith is discovered and he is thrown into a dungeon. He must decide whether to worship Nero or stay true to his faith and risk death. Will Ben and the children be able to save him?....

  • Captured

    Brian Brown

    In this Storykeepers episode, Ben and his family try to save Cyrus, but his temptation for fame puts him in the middle of a slave revolt in Rome where he is betrayed by his false new friends. Is there still hope for the ungrateful Cyrus?....

  • Trapped

    Brian Brown

    In this episode of the Story Keepers, Tacticus's Christian faith is discovered. He is thrown into the dungeon and must decide whether to worship Nero as a god or stay true to his faith and risk death. Will Ben and the children be able to save him?....

  • Bowman's Store

    Joseph Bruchac

    Having lived with his grandparents as a boy, the author describes how he was raised, never knowing about his Native American heritage, and explains how, as he grew up, he discovered things for himself and found his way back to his roots despite the c...

  • Horse Talk

    Bonnie Bryant

    When Willow Creek Junior High School gets its own radio station, the Saddle Club goes on the air! Hosting a call-in show, however, is a lot more difficult than they ever imagined. At first, nobody calls. Then Stevie's brother Chad gets his friends to...

  • Frozen Desire

    James Buchan

    Novelist Buchan, a former correspondent for the Financial Times, traces the meaning of money since its beginning. He discusses money in its various formats, emphasizing that money itself is not just an object but "an outcome of a vast mountain of soc...

  • Gratefully Yours

    Jane Buchanan

    After the rest of her family dies in a tenement fire in 1923, nine-year-old Hattie travels from New York to live on a farm in Nebraska, where she struggles to get along with a couple who seems to resent her presence....

  • Santa's Short Suit Shrunk and Other Christmas Tongue Twisters

    Nola Buck

    Celebrate the season with silly sentences about Santa. These tricky tongue twisters are simply super as a stocking stuffer or perfect for packaging as a pretty present if you prefer. Nola Buck's zany tongue twisters and Sue Truesdell's hilarious illu...

  • On The Road With Archangel

    Frederick Buechner

    One of the brightest lights in late-twentieth-century literature, Frederick Buechner has published more than twenty-five works of fiction and nonfiction that continue to dazzle critics and readers alike, adding continuously to the ranks of his fierce...

  • The Defense

    D.W. Buffa

    Dynamite defense attorney Joseph Antonelli has never lost a case--or felt the sting of conscience for letting the guilty go free. "I can deceive anyone," he says, "and no one more quickly or more completely than myself." Now the man he most admires, ...

  • Hoops

    Robert Burleigh

    Hoops is not a book about basketball--Hoops is basketball. How it feels to be a part of the motion, and a part of the moment-the longest moment-as the ball hangs in midair poised over the rim of the basket. The drama of the game . . . and of victory....

  • The Lost and Found House

    Michael Cadnum

    A young girl leaves the house she loves, saddened by the memories she will leave behind, but in arriving at her new home, her worries are soon eased as she gets settled and begins to create new memories in her new environment....

  • My Dog's the Best!

    Stephanie Calmenson

  • Samantha's Journey

    Joanna Campbell

    Haunted by the past...

    Samantha McLean has a terrible scare when she sees Cindy, her adoptive sister, fall over Whitebrook's track rail during a workout. Cindy's accident is frighteningly similar to the one that caused Samantha's m...

  • Case of the Crooked Candles

    Jonathan V. Cann

  • Caught in the Act

    Kate Cann

  • Work: Sock at Work!

    Shelagh Canning

  • Friendship: Annie's Fair Weather Friend

    Shelagh Canning

  • Princess Anastasia

    Jan Carr

    Highlighted by artwork from the new animated film, this action-packed story based on the legend of the lost Romanov princess follows a young orphan with no memory of her true identity as she searches for the secrets of her past. Movie Tie-in....

  • Lions of the Desert

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Lions of the Desert opens up in 1915, over a year after the conclusion of Arabian Winds. Nurse Allison Wescott arrives in busy Cairo to serve the British military confronting Kaiser's Germany and their ally, Turkey. In Cairo, Allison meets Major Bret...

  • Mortality Rate

    Jack Chase

    A young medical student notices that an exceptionally high number of terminally ill patients are dying of strikingly similar causes at the university hospital. When he launches his own investigation, he quickly finds his own credibility under fire--a...

  • Scarlet Lady

    Sandra Chastain

    "If you win, the money's yours, but if I win, I get you ...." He ran his riverboat casino like the rogue he'd been named for, but Rhett Butler Montana wasn't prepared for the night a vision in crimson dared him to play her for everything he had! K...

  • Realm of Light

    Deborah Chester

    The stunning conclusion to the “masterful” Ruby Throne trilogy from the national bestselling author of Reign of Shadows and Shadow War (Extrapolation).   After nine centuries -- and ten lifetimes -- the Emperor Kostimon is dead, and darkness...

  • Star Wars Log Book

    Chronicle Books

  • Story of Christmas

    Anne Civardi

    The story of the first Christmas is beautifully retold in this colorful book and puzzle package. From the birth in the manger to the three wisemen's visit, eight anecdotes combine to bring this special story alive for young readers. Children can piec...

  • Birthright

    Andrew Coburn

    A haunting novel based on the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh's baby speculates on what would have happened if that the child had grown up in the family of his kidnappers, never knowing who he was until he was about to run for governor. 35,000 first ...

  • The Dream Stalker

    Margaret Coel

    With promises of new jobs and millions in revenue, the Wind River Reservation agrees to use their land for a nuclear storage site. But Arapaho attorney Vicky Holden is not willing to let this happen. And with help from Father John O'Malley, she sets ...

  • Wear and Scare

    M.T. Coffin

  • A Treasury of African-American Christmas Stories

    Bettye Collier-Thomas

  • Journal of Antonio Montoya

    Rick Collignon

    We are proud to reintroduce the classic first novel by the author of Madewell Brown.When little José Montoya’s parents are killed one August morning by a cow, his Tia Ramona and his Tio Flavio are troubled by how best to raise the boy. After the ...

  • War Woman

    Robert J. Conley

    Spanning ninety years and both the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this story of War Woman documents the life of a remarkable Cherokee woman, who was there when trading began with the Spanish in Florida and at the first conflict with the newly a...

  • Zoe Rising

    Pam Conrad

  • Animal Lullabies

    Pamela Conrad

  • What Child Is This?

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Katie, a foster child, wants only one thing for Christmas: a family. However, there are no wise men coming from the East or shepherds watching in the fields. There’s also a teenager named Matt, who believes in doing a good deed. And another teenage...

  • Excalibur

    Bernard Cornwell

    In The Winter King and Enemy of God Bernard Cornwell demonstrated his astonishing ability to make the oft-told legend of King Arthur fresh and new for our time. Now, in this riveting final volume of The Warlord Chronicles, Cornwell tells the unforget...

  • Artist's Proof

    Gordon Cotler

    Ex-cop Sid Shale took early retirement from the NYPD and now relishes the peace and quiet of home -- a beach front bungalow in a small Long Island village where the latest "crime spree" is a rash of bicycle thefts. Sid now has two responsibil...

  • The Offer

    Catherine Coulter

    Dear Reader: Phillip Mercerault and Sabrina Eversleigh first appeared in AN HONORABLE OFFER, a Regency romance published in 1981. The title has been changed to THE OFFER to reflect its new status as an historical romance, and the novel has been re...

  • Katy Cat and Beaky Boos Play Set

    Lucy Cousins

    Offering children an irresistible invitation to come and play with Katy Cat and her little friend Beaky Boo, magnetic cloth press-ons, and loads of pop-out objects, this bright and sturdy play set will be the focus of enchanting fun....

  • Singing Down the Rain

    Joy Cowley

    Step into a town where all the children are friends, but a drought has made the adults so grumpy they can't stop arguing! Only a miracle can heal this divided town.Folks are so hopeless, they almost don't recognize that miracle when it appears as a w...

  • Bonjour, Miss Seeton

    Hamilton Crane

    A trip abroad--and a murder at home... While exploring a re-creation of Monet's celebrated garden in the French countryside, Miss Seeton is befriended by the Comte de Balivernes, a stately French aristocrat. He is quite taken with the retired art ...

  • A Nanny for Christmas

    Sara Craven

    Millionaire seeks nanny for his seven-year-old daughter. Young Tara had taken one look at Phoebe Grant and decided she'd be a wonderful nanny. And whatever his daughter wanted, Dominic Ashton bought her. The demure Miss Grant was perfect in her n...

  • Gemini 7

    Jordan Cray

    Jonah-and-Jen. Where does Jonah end and Jen begin? That''s what Jonah is asking himself these days. So he decides to put some space between them, and gets himself a new girlfriend: Nicole. Even if she''s just a cybergirlfriend, she''s a dream come tr...

  • Firestorm

    Jordan Cray

    A wrong turn down the information superhighway. A strange chatroom where users speak in code. Randy Kincaid is suddenly caught in a web of lies -- and murder. With the help of cyberhead Maya Bessamer, Randy must find out who's behind the killings. Or...

  • Make a Joyful Noise

    Francesca Crespi

    A luminous collection brings to life favorite Christmas carols through imaginative pop-ups, such as angels climbing up to decorate a swirling Christmas tree, and includes the words and music for five songs....

  • Long Time Passing

    Linda Crew

    Outspoken individualist Kathy is out of step with most girls at her Oregon high school. What's Kathy doing stuck in her small town when so much is happening in the world--Vietnam protests, civil rights battles, free love, kids running away to be hipp...

  • Murder Takes a Break

    Bill Crider

    When Galveston private detective Truman Smith takes up the search for a missing college student, a boy who vanished during spring break, he uncovers mysterious links to another case, the death of a female fellow student....

  • Dreaming of the Bones

    Deborah Crombie

    DREAMING OF THE ROSES After twelve years, the last person Scotland Yard Superintendent Duncan Kincaid expects to hear from is his ex-wife Victoria. But this is no social call. In her biographical research on troubled poet Lydia Brooke, Vic's uncov...

  • A Thousand Words for Stranger

    Julie E. Czerneda

    MIND-BLOCKED! Ambushed by unknown assailants, cut off from her escort, and on the run with no memory of who she was, what she was doing on the world known as Auord, or why she was driven by a compulsion to find a specific ship and head for an unkn...

  • The Roald Dahl Treasury

    Roald Dahl

    A wonderful collection of works from the popular author of The BFG, includes portions of his autobiography, notes written prior to the publication of Esio Trot, and an assortment of unpublished work, such as Christmas cards, personal ...

  • Big Brother, Little Brother

    Penny Dale

    Big Brother always knows how to cheer up Little Brother, but when Little Brother takes Big Brother's favorite toy, Big Brother begins to cry, leaving Little Brother to save the day for the first time, in a real-life situational story....

  • The Secrets Within

    Emma Darcy

    A mother's lust for power... A daughter's desire for revenge. Eleanor Vandelier -- a woman of invincible strength and ruthless determination. She controls two of Australia's most prominent vineyards. Her family has been sacrificed in her lust for...

  • Incurably Isabelle

    Lilian Darcy

    Would family secrets force them apart? When Isabelle Bonnet returned to France she was determined to heal a long-standing family rift. However, she wasn't expecting to encounter Dr. Jacques Ransan. He soon became her lover, and Isabelle knew s...

  • Daughters of the Dust

    Julie Dash

    Inspired by her Sundance Festival award-winning film "Daughters of the Dust," Julie Dash has put her cinematic vision on the page, penning a rich, magical new novel which extends her story of a family of complex, independent African-American women. S...

  • The Forever Man

    Carolyn Davidson

    Tate Montgomery Needed A New Life And Johanna Patterson was the kind of woman who could make him leave the past behind. But, how would he ever convince this reclusive spinster to open up her heart to him and his boys? It seemed to Johanna that ...

  • The Enchanting

    Sandra Davidson

    No man can resist her bewitching spell. But Lady Raena Caldwell has been raised among people who would never accept her special gifts. Taught to hide her sensual powers, she is suddenly called upon to captivate and wed Sir Valor Godwin in order to fu...

  • Witness to Evil

    Janet Dawson

    Private investigator Jeri Howard can scarcely believe that someone is actually paying her to go to Paris, even if it is only to fetch a wild teenager home. But the wanderer, eighteen-year-old Darcy, turns out to have a serious reason for her unauthor...

  • Charity

    Len Deighton

    FOR BERNARD SAMSON, THE END IS NEAR. In the concluding volume of Len Deighton's superb trilogy that began with Faith and Hope, Bernard Samson continues to peel away the mystery surrounding the cold-blooded murder of his sister-in-law, Tessa, on th...

  • Underworld

    Don DeLillo

    A finalist for the National Book Award, Don DeLillo’s most powerful and riveting novel -- “a great American novel, a masterpiece, a thrilling page-turner” (San Francisco Chronicle) -- Underworld is about the second half of the twentieth century...

  • So Far from Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847

    Barry Denenberg

    Friday, July, 9,1847 Lowell Mrs. Abbott's house is so near the mills we were able to walk there.... I never dreamed earthly hands could make anything that big. It looked to me like all the people in Ireland could fit inside. 'Twas like a fortress. T...

  • All Year Round

    Lisa Desimini

    Four noted artists--including Lisa Desimini, David Ricceri, Sara Schwartz, and Dan Yaccarino--bring the seasons to life through bright, splashy pictures and an easy-to-memorize text, in a book to benefit the Robin Hood Foundation....

  • The Seraphim Rising

    Elisabeth Devos

    HERALDS FROM THE MESSIAH OR HARBINGERS OF A DOOMED MILLENNIUM? Most of the world wanted to believe the six special visitors were the messengers of God. The Seraphim themselves said they had come to open the gateway to paradise. There were, however...

  • Lord of the Necropolis

    Gene DeWeese
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    For a century and a half, Azalin had been lord, and prisoner, of the greatest domain In Ravenloft. For a century and a half, he had searched and fought for his freedom, and now, at last, it was at hand. To gain his long-sought freedom, all he had ...

  • Spider-Man: Revelations

    Todd Dezago

  • Busy Careers

    Dennis Di Laura

    A fun and playful new format! Sticker-a-Story features over 15 reusable, vinyl-cling stickers, bound to a uv-coded, 16-page book. Kids can place stickers throughout the story to change the props and scenery....

  • The SKULL OF CHARLOTTE CORDAY

    Leslie Dick

    A brilliant and chilling collection of short stories that descends into the deeper recesses of the human mind and maps the bizarre and troubling byways of human history.Dark, witty, and entertaining, The Skull of Charlotte Corday: And Other Stories r...

  • Alien Bounty

    William C. Dietz

    McCADE'S AN INTERSTELLAR BOUNTY HUNTER -- AND THIS TIME HIS QUEST IS THE HOLIEST RELIC IN THE GALAXY... For years only the thinnest barrier kept the II Ronnian Empire from launching full-scale war on mankind. Now that barrier is about to crumble: ...

  • Breakfast at the Liberty Diner

    DK Publishing

  • Quieter Than Sleep

    Joanne Dobson

    Karen Pelletier abandoned her life in New York for a professorship at Massachusetts's elite Enfield College. But she quickly learns that New England is not the peaceful enclave she had imagined--and that not even the privileged world of academia is i...

  • A Forbidden Desire

    Robyn Donald

    A scorching seduction? Jacinta knew as soon as Paul McAlpine opened his front door that she shouldn't stay. Gerard had warned her not to fall for Paul, his cousin, during her visit to Waitapu, New Zealand. But she already had -- ten months ago...

  • Sleeping With the Crawfish

    D.J. Donaldson

    A DEAD MAN CAN'T BE IN TWO PLACES AT ONCE...EVEN IN NEW ORLEANS Strange lesions found in the brain of a dead man have forensic pathologist Andy Broussard stumped. Even more baffling are the corpse's fingerprints. They belong to Ronald Cicero, a li...

  • Cat in a Golden Garland

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    That rough-and-tumble black tomcat Midnight Louie and his flame haired human companion Temple Barr are looking forward to a Christmas vacation spent in the Big Apple. But there's more than merriment to be found in New York City--there's a murder to b...

  • Every Little Angel's Handbook

    Belinda Downes

    Readers explore the ins and outs of angel life as they watch the little angels bake angelic cakes, sing in the angelic choir, and learn all about flying, in a lavishly hand-embroidered book for anyone who has ever wondered who angels really are....

  • Tasting Salt

    Stephanie Dowrick

    From the author of Intimacy and Solitude, this literary novel explores the search for freedom, satisfaction, and meaning in life, as two women who have lost love enter new phases in their lives....

  • Snug Bug's Play Day

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Human-sized household items become a fun-filled bug-sized playground for Snug Bug and his friends, in an easy-to-read tale that teaches young readers about the importance of sharing and taking turns. Simultaneous....

  • The Word "Desire"

    Rikki Ducornet

    A madman recalls his first erotic encounter, a priest loses sleep over a heretic, a scholar searches for the anomaly that inspired the Hindu divinities, a spinster hallucinates her own seductions, a pope suckles a wet nurse. Erotic and fiercely funny...

  • Alexia Ellery Finsdale, San Francisco 1905

    Kathleen Duey

    San Francisco, California July 12, 1905 I pray nothing will go wrong this time... Alexia Ellery Finsdale loves her father, but he is a smooth-talking con man. For as long as she can remember, they have moved from city to city, chasing his dre...

  • The Night Before Christmas

    Virginia Duncan

    In 1822 Clement Clarke Moore wrote The Night before Christmas for his own children. Now, of course, his poem is read aloud to children around the world who are anticipating Santa's arrival.

    This Christmas Eve tradition calls for the treat of Ju...

  • Walker's Point

    Marilee Dunker

    Amanda Kelly, an antique dealer, the mother of two daughters, and the wife of a man with more interest in his work than in her, has a chance meeting in New York City that causes her to revisit Walker's Point, where she had spent her childhood summers...

  • Mayhem & Miranda

    Carola Dunn

    There was an old woman...with a matchmaking plan that could turn a lady's life upside down! "Sir, you are no gentleman," were Miranda Carmichael's first words to Peter Daviot -- after he had the audacity to kiss her. Indeed, Peter ...

  • In the Arms of the Law

    Anne Marie Duquette

    The Silver Dollar Ranch, near Tombstone, Arizona Morgan Bodine takes pride in two things: being a rancher and being a lawman. He's part owner of the Silver Dollar Ranch; he's also Tombstone's acting sheriff. Jasentha Cliffwalker is proud of he...

  • He's Got His Daddy's Eyes

    Lois Faye Dyer

    HE HAD HIS DADDY'S EYES... but not his daddy's name. And for four long years lonesome cowboy Josh Hightower hadn't even known his son existed. But now he knew... It had been heartbreak enough when Sarah Drummond hightailed it out of town witho...

  • Polgara the Sorceress

    David Eddings; Leigh Eddings

    Polgara the Sorceress soars above a world of warriors, kings, and priests. The daughter of Belgarath and the shape-shifter Poledra, she has worked her powerful magic for three thousand years. Now Polgara looks back at her magnificent life in this fit...

  • Loving Spirits

    Lark Eden
    in

    A collection of spine-tingling, heartwarming romance treats sweetened with a touch of the paranormal includes the story of a skeptical reporter who investigates a New Orleans medium and imbibes a mystical love stronger than any potion. Original....

  • Christmas We Moved to the Barn

    Cooper Edens

    Taffy’s all set for a warm and cozy Christmas with her family, but then she’s notified on Christmas Eve that they’ve got to move out of their house by midnight. Don’t worry! Taffy, her two daughters, and their twelve animals -- an unusual and...

  • The Return of Santa Paws

    Nicholas Edwards

  • Delusion

    Joanna Elm

    When Emma Kane turns up dead in her Main Line mansion, no one is free from suspicion, least of all her husband of twenty-five years, New York media mogul Jack Kane. Too many people would love to see Jack Kane out of biusiness permanently, including a...

  • Promises

    Roger Elwood

    THE POWER OF A PROMISE... Carla Gearhart had fame, fortune and all the trimmings. But hard times and heartache had sent the beautiful country-western singer's career on a downhill slide. Enter Kyle Rivers. His remarkable talent left Carla speec...

  • Deception Pass

    Earl Emerson

    As a rebellious teen, Lainie Smith hooked up with a drifter named Charlie --and she may have been an eyewitness to murder in the shadow of cliff-walled Deception Pass, where the water runs river-swift and turbulent. When justice--and the executioner-...

  • Queen Mab

    Cynthia Eng

  • Double Edge

    Dennis Etchison

    While working on a docudrama about Lizzie Bordon, Jenny Marlow's in-laws are inexplicably murdered, a black wreath is sent to her door, a channeler sees a frightening vision, and death begins to stalk the people in Jenny's life. Original....

  • Here's Lookin' at You

    Marcia Evanick

    Of all the women in all the world, she walked into his dreams .... Morgan De Witt lead postponed his own happiness to ensure his sister's joy, but now that he was ready to take a bride, he didn't know where to look! Years ago a teenage Maddie Andr...

  • Shadows of Camelot

    Quinn Taylor Evans

    He is the secret son of Merlin...separated from his true family by time and treachery, heir to a magic that belongs in a shining moment when the earth was good, green, and perfect, when there was a place called Camelot... Truan Monroe was raised a...

  • The Letter

    Richard Paul Evans

    In the final episode in The Christmas Box collection, David and MaryAnne Parkin find a mysterious letter at the base of their child Andrea's grave that eventually returns joy to their marriage, which had been strained in the nineteen years si...

  • Longarm and the Lady Faire

    Tabor Evans

    ALL'S FAIRE IN LOVE AND WAR Janet Faire was Longarm's first love. So sweet. So gentle. So loving. She was the last person Longarm figured on seeing in a one-horse Colorado town. But before she and Longarm have a chance to make up for lost time, some...

  • Twinkle Twinkle: An Animal Lover's Mother Goose

    Bobbi Fabian

  • Tarzan's Greatest Secret

    Philip Jose Farmer

  • Spellbound

    Jo Ann Ferguson
    in

    GOBLINS, GHOSTIES, AND A MAGICAL EVE TO FALL IN LOVE... The frost is on the pumpkins and the harvest moon shines bright when Halloween brings romance to the London townhouses and grand estates of Regency England. Now lords and ladies meet to make ...

  • Wanted: Husband, Will Train

    Marie Ferrarella

    EVERY MAN HAS HIS PRICE...RIGHT? Her father's will was positively medieval! Blue blood Courtney Tamberlaine had to select a blue-collar spouse -- pronto -- or lose her huge inheritance. Luckily, right on the Tamberlaine estate was a raw, earth...

  • Chicken Poop for the Soul

    David Fisher

    Ruthlessly hilarious, this is the world’s first “sin-spirational” book, a parody guide absolutely guaranteed never to be an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Is “Chicken Soup” Too Sweet for Your Soul? When you take the road less traveled, do ...

  • Murder on the QE2

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    A QUEEN-SIZE SLAYING Jessica Fletcher, Cabot Cove, Main's acclaimed mystery writer, finds herself in treacherous waters when a dream voyage on the transatlantic luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2 becomes a nightmare journey into danger. Jessica has...

  • Twilight Comes Twice

    Ralph Fletcher

  • An Educated Death

    Kate Flora

    When a young girl drowns at a private New England high school, tough businesswoman Thea Kozak faces what may be her most tragic mystery yet. The death rocks the world of privileged academia, and Thea is called in to counsel the students and faculty a...

  • Disney's Flubber

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • After Dark

    Bette Ford

    THEY WERE ON OPPOSING TEAMS From the moment she met him at an exclusive Detroit restaurant, Taylor Hendricks knew Donald Williams was far from ordinary. The basketball superstar and prominent businessman was tall, commanding, and too gorgeous to be ...

  • K Is for Kwanzaa

    Juwanda G. Ford

    Celebrates the joyful holiday, Kwanzaa, telling the story of the holiday through the letters of the alphabet, beginning with "A is for Africa/B is for Bendera/C is for Candle." By the creator of the Little Red Plane. ...

  • The Great Race

    Mark Foreman

  • The Pied Piper of Death

    Richard Forrest

    Charming husband-and-wife sleuthing team Lyon and Bea Wentworth visit the estate of a power-mad manufacturer in this classic manor-house mystery. Children’s book author and occasional sleuth Lyon Wentworth arrives at the Piper estate prepared to co...

  • My Home Is Over Jordan

    Sandra Forrester

    Set in rural North Carolina immediately following the Civil War, this is the poignant story of a fifteen-year-old ex-slave and her family, who must confront prejudice and hard times as they try to build a new and better life for themselves....

  • The Planet Hunters

    Dennis Brindell Fradin

    In a text illustrated by full-color and black-and-white photographs, the author of "We Have Conquered Pain" tells a fascinating story about the men and women throughout history who have been part of the extraordinary hunt for other planets....

  • One of Us

    David Freeman

    Steeped in memory and rumors of war, One of Us is a sweeping novel of love and destiny during the last days of the colonial world in Egypt and England.

    Already compared to The English Patient and The Alexandria Quartet, this beautifully crafte...

  • The Year My Parents Ruined My Life

    Martha Freeman

    Kate Sommers is stunned when her parents announce that the family is moving from sunny California to Belletoona, Pennsylvania. Kate can't bear leaving her friends, her cool surfer boyfriend, and the beach. But maybe, just maybe, Belletoona won't be s...

  • Christmas Mouse

    Vivian French

  • Her Klingon Soul

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Even light-years from the Klingon Empire, the Day of Honor remains an occasion of great importance. And sometimes honor is found in the most unexpected places... B'Elanna Torres has never cared for the Day of Honor. Ashamed of her Klingon heritage, s...

  • The Crystal Frontier

    Carlos Fuentes

    The nine stories comprising The Crystal Frontier, a brilliant work of fiction from Carlos Fuentes, all concern people who in one way or another have had something to do with, or still are part of, the family of one Leonardo Barroso, a powerful oligar...

  • The Stranger

    Eric James Fullilove

    In a troubled future, the search for redemption may carry the stiffest price of all.

    A teenage boy is found dead in the Los Angeles city subway with no identity--no prints, no records, nothing on file--an unusual, fatal fugitive from the digit...

  • The Rainbow's End

    Robert Funderburk

    He Was Young, Restless, and Rebellious. She Was the First Woman to Capture His Heart. Cassidy Temple is young, restless and rebellious. With an incessant tendency toward violence when challenged to fight. Graduating from high school in 1960, in many...

  • The Toyotomi Blades

    Dale Furutani

    AN ANCIENT SWORD CUTS TO THE HEART OF A BAFFLING MYSTERY Unemployed computer operator and amateur sleuth Ken Tanaka is thrilled at the chance to visit his ancestors' homeland, especially when it's courtesy of a Tokyo talk show that wants to interv...

  • Sparring with Shadows

    Archimede Fusillo

  • Growing Season

    Mike Gaherty

  • Variable Cloud

    Carmen Martin Gaite

    Sofia is a mother of three grown-up children and trapped in a loveless marriage to Eduardo. Mariana is a successful psychiatrist, incapable of forming stable relationships with men. The two women fill notebooks with their insights and recollections, ...

  • The Cowboy Who Broke the Mold

    Cathleen Galitz

    He Was Rough, Untamed...She Was Soft, Innocent An arrogant, blue-eyed, half Native American cowboy with an attitude who thought prim one-room schoolteacher Carrie Raben couldn't hack it in the wilds of Wyoming. Guess again, cowboy. Chaste Carrie ...

  • Halloween Havoc

    Diana G. Gallagher