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New Books List: 688 titles

  • Temporary Mistress

    Susan Johnson

    THE TATTLER -- April 1802 It wouldn't surprise you, gentle readers, to learn that Dermott Ramsay, the earl of Bathurst and favorite of all ladies, married or otherwise, has a new paramour. What may surprise you is her name. For she is none other tha...

  • Knight of the Demon Queen

    Barbara Hambly

    Once the most powerful mage in the land, Jenny Waynest is now a broken woman. After being possessed and corrupted by the demon Amayon, she lost everything she holds dear--even the trust of her husband. Yet Lord John Aversin has torments of his own: m...

  • The Passion

    Nicole Jordan

    To escape marriage to a despised man twice her age, Lady Aurora Demming makes a scandalous arrangement with Nicholas Sabine, a dangerously handsome American facing execution for murder and piracy. She agrees to become his wife for one day...and one g...

  • Out of the Shadows

    Kay Hooper

    TO CATCH THIS KILLER, SHE MUST BREAK EVERY RULE AND CROSS EVERY LINE. A picture-perfect Tennessee town has just become a monster's hunting ground. Two bodies are found tortured to death. A third person goes missing. What little evidence is left be...

  • Buried Bones

    Carolyn Haines

    Private investigation isn't on the list of a southern belle's most desirable accomplishments--but it's saved Sarah Booth Delaney's Delta homestead. Now all she has to cope with is its bossy antebellum ghost who is determined to save Sarah--from spins...

  • Death of a Pooh-Bah

    Karen Sturges

    Phoebe Mullins's love of music took her around the world with her conductor husband, and more recently helped her solve a murder in an opera colony. Now her musical passion may prove instrumental in solving the case of another slain singer...if it do...

  • In Pursuit of the Proper Sinner

    Elizabeth George

    Calder Moor is a wild and deadly place: many have been trapped in the myriad limestone caves, lost in collapsed copper mines, injured on perilous gritstone ridges. But this time, when two bodies are discovered in the shadow of the ancient circle of s...

  • Catching Alice

    Clare Naylor

    Welcome to the artifice capital of the world. Please take a number. After losing a job, a boyfriend, and an apartment all within one kick-me-when-I'm-down week, Alice Lewis desperately needs a break. So when an old pal sweeps into London and offer...

  • A Storm of Swords

    George R.R. Martin

    Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeat...

  • Miracle and Other Christmas Stories

    Connie Willis

    The winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, Connie Willis capture the timeless essence of generosity and goodwill in this magical collection if Christmas stories.  These eight tales-two of which have never before been published-boldly re...

  • Albertina, the Animals, and Me

    Susi Gregg Fowler

  • Rudolphs Christmas Fun Book

    Martyn Forrester

  • Celebrate the Year With Winnie

    Isabel Gaines

  • Pooh's Book of Adventures: Pooh Gets Stuck; Pooh's Honey Tree; Bounce, Tigger Bounce; Pooh's Leaf Pile

    Isabel Gaines

  • Pooh's Book of Friends and Family: Rabbit Gets Lost; Pooh's Best Friend; Tiggers Family Tree; World's Best Mama

    Isabel Gaines

  • Dumbo Picture Book

    Matthew Price

  • One Last Good-Bye

    Joyce Lavene; Jim Lavene

    Half a century ago, in Sheriff Sharyn Howard's small Colorado town, a Navy plane piloted by a local war hero plunged mysteriously into a Diamond Mountain lake. The plane and the two servicemen inside were never recovered. Now a Pulitzer Prize-winning...

  • Shannon's Way

    Charles E. Friend

    Sheriff Clay Shannon finds his comfortable life torn apart when gunmen, led by the notorious Bully Drago, ride into the town of Whiskey Creek to rob the bank and take revenge upon Shannon for a past encounter in which Drago's younger brother was kill...

  • Ladakh

    Gupta Prabuddha Das

    High on India's northern frontier, at the edge of Tibet, lies Ladakh, a desert wilderness that is the final stronghold of Tibetan Buddhism. Sparsely populated, it is a place of extremes of climate and inhospitable terrain, but it is also one of spell...

  • Wish You Well

    David Baldacci

    Precocious twelve-year-old Louisa Mae Cardinal lives in the hectic New York City of 1940 with her family. Then tragedy strikes -- and Lou and her younger brother, Oz, must go with their invalid mother to live on their great-grandmother's farm in the ...

  • Crispin: The Pig Who Had It All

    Ted Dewan

    What do you get someone who has everything? Crispin Tamworth is about to find out. Crispin is the pig who has it all. And each Christmas he gets even more. But his toys always break or become boring. This year Santa has left Crispin a mysterious box ...

  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: Ornament Punch and Play Book

    Random House

    Grinchify Christmas and your Christmas tree! This very merry punch-out book offers eight easy-to-assemble Christmas ornaments featuring characters and decorations from the movieDr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Hang them on your holiday tree...

  • Grinch and Bear It

    Random House

    Everyone knows how the Grinch stole Christmas, but few really know the Grinch himself. Here, in a collection excerpted from the Universal Studios film adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss story, are quotes directly from the supreme green meany, as wel...

  • Who's Who in Who-Ville?

    Random House

  • To Fly with Dragons

    Ron Fontes

    Discover the magical origin of Dragon Tales!

    This enchanting storybook reveals how Emmy and her little brother Max find a magical dragon scale--and are transported to a mystical land filled with real, live dragons. Meet Ord, Cassie, Zak and Wh...

  • Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: The Movie Storybook

    Louise Gikow

    Here is a quirky and refreshing new take on the traditional movie storybook. It's told from the point of view of the two slightly batty Old Biddies who lovingly raise the Grinch from the night of his arrival in Who-ville to the day he runs off to liv...

  • Return to Lost City

    Scott Ciencin

    Young Andrew and Lian pay a return visit to their old friends in Lost City, a place that served for years as the secret home of a noble tribe of Troodon knights. When they arrive, they find that an elder Troodon has gone off on a crazy, Don Quixote-l...

  • How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

    Louise Gikow

    Here is a digest-size novelization of the hip, live-action hit movie of the Dr. Seuss classic How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, starring the one and only Jim Carrey as the Grinch.

    The movie script goes beyond the events of the stolen Christmas,...

  • Counting Sheep

    Julie Glass

    What do you do if you can't sleep? Count sheep! That's what the restless hero of this rollicking tale does. And when sheep don't work, he counts kangaroos by twos and monkeys by threes. But when he gets to bees by fours, the animals run amok! Then it...

  • Care and Feeding of a Grinch

    Bonnie Worth

    Meet the Grinch's best friend--Max, the mangy mutt who has his paws full keeping his master in line.

    Now, for the first time, Max reveals his side of the famous Christmas story, giving readers a rousing, rhyming dog's-eye view of the Grinch an...

  • Take Me Home

    RH/Disney

  • The First Horse I See

    Sally M. Keehn

    Before she died, Willo’s mother made her father promise that Willo could finally have a horse. Her grandfather warns her: don’t fall in love with the first horse that you see. But Willo does -- with Tess, a feisty ex-racehorse who has been mistre...

  • See You Later, Gladiator

    Jon Scieszka

    Joe, Sam, and Fred are wrestling around in Joe's room. Isn't that how stuff always happens? One minute the guys are slamming each other with their favorite wrestling moves. The next minute The Book has transported them back to ancient Rome to face a ...

  • This Body's Not Big Enough for Both of Us

    Dan Greenburg

    Zack used to be in control of hisown body. But that was before someone else -- someone who's been dead almost one hundred years -- took over. She's bossy, she's British, she's a queen -- and she and Zack are not amused!...

  • The King and the Three Thieves

    Kristen Balouch

    King Abbas apppears to get caught up in the schemes of three thieves but he has a few tricks of his own and ultimately saves his kingdom from starvation. By the author of Listen to the Storyteller. ...

  • On a Wintry Morning

    Dori Chaconas

    A father and his infant daughter bundle up for a sleigh ride on a winter's morning, in a tender and engaging celebration of winter. By the illustrator of the Caldecott Honor book Alphabet City. ...

  • Ribbiting Tales

    Multiple Authors

  • Jewel Fairies

    Judith Mitchell

    Sticker fans will be dazzled by these fabulous additions, with interactive stories, charming illustrations, and 25 glimmering, jewel-like stickers in each fantastic book.

    Meet the Jewel Fairies! They live in Fairyland, and each wears a unique...

  • The Lucky Lizard

    Ellen A. Kelley

    Bima, the pet lizard, sympathizes with his eight-year-old owner, Todd, who feels too small for everything, including his new bike, so Bima does his part to get Todd on two wheels in time for the all-important school Bike Derby....

  • Monster in the Maze

    Stephanie Spinner

  • Turtle Island Dreaming

    Thompson Sayer Crockett

    A life-changing debut novel, Turtle Island Dreaming is the inspirational story of a woman's journey across a magical island of self-discovery....

  • Elysia : The Coming of Cthulhu

    Brian Lumley

    Elysia is the sixth book in the Titus Crow saga from Brian Lumley, author of the Necroscope series and the Vampire World trilogy. The Titus Crow novels are full of acts of nobility and heroism. Titus Crow and his faithful companion fight the forces ...

  • A Treasury Of Virginia Tales: Unusual, Interesting, and Little-Known Stories of Virginia

    Webb Garrison

    Unusual, interesting and little known stories of the state of Virginia. Virginia Tales is aimed at the target of familiarity-plus-novelty. These suspense-packed stories constitute "history for the ordinary person," and a few include really great trad...

  • The Means of Escape

    Penelope Fitzgerald

    The Booker Prize-winning author’s final short story collection “shows her at the top of her form…exquisite†-- with an introduction by A.S. Byatt (The Guardian, UK). Penelope Fitzgerald was one of the United Kingdom’s most highly-regarded c...

  • The Best American Mystery Stories 2000

    Houghton Mifflin Company

    The acclaimed author of The Hook serves as guest editor for this new collection of the finest mystery tales of 1999, in an anthology that incorporates fifty pieces of short fiction by Jeffery Deaver, Shel Silverstein, Dennis Lehane, Tom Frank...

  • How I Survived the Oregon Trail

    Laura Wilson

    The pioneer life, seen through one boy s eyes. The Oregon Trail was full of danger & discomfort. The covered wagons were so bumpy that most pioneers preferred to walk, & hundreds died of cholera on the 2,000-mile journey. Still, thousands of men, wom...

  • The Transformation

    Mette Newth


    A powerful novel about the meeting of two very different cultures in fifteenth-century Greenland

    For several years, the Inuits in Greenland, the "Human Beings," as they call themselves, have suffered from unusually hard winters that do not...

  • Mescalito

    Hunter S. Thompson

    Capturing the essence of Hunter S. Thompson’s “Gonzo†style, short story Mescalito details his dark and miserably comic first mescaline drug trip. First published in Songs of the Doomed, Mescalito suggests the nascent ideas and energy of Thomps...

  • Black Dog

    Stephen Booth

    As helicopters search Northern England's Peak District for fifteen-year-old Laura Vernon, Detective Constable Ben Cooper quietly dreads the worst. And when her body is found in the woods, Cooper's investigation begins with a short list of markedly un...

  • Schmidt Delivered

    Louis Begley

    Recently widowed, Albert Schmidt has triumphantly rediscovered domestic bliss in the Hamptons with Carrie, the Puerto Rican waitress who is younger than his daughter. Schmidt is content with keeping his own hours and steering his own course, even...

  • Disobedience

    Jane Hamilton

    Winner of the 1989 PEN/Hemingway Foundation Award  for best first novel, this exquisite book  confronts real-life issues of alienation and violence  from which the author creates a stunning testament  to the hu...

  • All Quiet on the Orient Express

    Magnus Mills

    From the author of The Restraint of Beasts -- hailed by Thomas Pynchon as a "comic wonder" and shortlisted for the prestigious Booker and Whitbread Prizes -- comes a novel that proves Magnus Mills to be the master of pitch-black humor. Told with insi...

  • Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night

    Thisbe Nissen

    In Thisbe Nissen's award-winning debut story collection, characters teeter on the verge of love, of life, of oncoming cataclysms after which Things Will Never Be the Same. Against the varied backdrops of Grateful Dead shows, anniversary parties, sick...

  • The Second Escape of Arthur Cooper

    Cynthia M. Stowe

    In 1822, on Nantucket Island, runaway slave Arthur Cooper and his family are protected from slave catchers by the Folgers, a family of Quakers, in a fictional account of an historical event as told through the eyes of Phebe Folger....

  • First Mate Tate

    Virginia Masterman-Smith

  • The Last Precinct

    Patricia Cornwell

    Thwarting an attack by a suspected serial killer puts Virginia's Chief Medical Examiner Kay Scarpetta in the harsh-glare of the spotlight. As her personal and professional lives come under suspicion, she discovers that the so-called Werewolf murders ...

  • Alice's Tulips

    Sandra Dallas

    Alice Bullock is a young newlywed whose husband, Charlie, has just joined the Union Army, leaving her on his Iowa farm with only his formidable mother for company. Alice writes lively letters to her sister filled with accounts of local quilting bees,...

  • Matilda Bone

    Karen Cushman

    She treats me like a kitchenmaid, thought Matilda. As if I am fit for nothing but measuring and brewing. Why, I know Latin and French and some Greek, as well as reading and writing and figuring. I can name the three wise men, the seven deadly sins, a...

  • Grandpa Never Lies

    Ralph Fletcher

  • My Name's Bond

    Ian Fleming

    This book celebrates the greatest of all postwar British fictional icons. For too long the Bond films have overshadowed their literary source - the bizarre, baroque world of Ian Fleming. Full rein is given in this anthology to Fleming's wonderful cre...

  • Xone of Contention

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

    Climate and culture shock ensue when Xanthians swap bodies with mere humans in this madcap adventure in the New York Timesâ€"bestselling series.   All Breanna of the Black Wave and her newfound love, Justin Tree, want is a little time to get to ...

  • Living the Gimmick

    Ben Peller

    From the time he was able to body slam a pillow, Michael dreamed of becoming a professional wrestler, vanquishing imaginary enemies and nagging self-doubt with every drop kick he landed. As his buddies hit the books, Michael got hit. When they left f...

  • My Dog, My Hero

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    'My Hero' to Be Chosen: Eight finalists will compete tonight for the title My Hero. The winner will wear the coveted gold Hero medal. These brave and courageous dogs will each appear with their nominator who will tell their story. There's Smiley, who...

  • Coyote Autumn

    Bill Wallace

    "YOU CAN'T KEEP A COYOTE! THEY'RE WILD...." Brad has always wanted a dog, so when he catches the little coyote, he decides to keep it. He couldn't have a dog when his family lived in a Chicago apartment, but now that they've moved to rural Oklahoma ...

  • Escape from Heart

    Lynette Stark

    Heart Colony, founded as a Mennonite community striving to be close to God and nature, becomes a place of fear, denial, and injustice under the cruel and evil direction of a new leader, Hezekiel Whittenstone. Sarah Ruth Heart wants one simple thing-t...

  • Secrets of the Stone

    Harriet Peck Taylor

    Coyote and Badger are friends. They hunt together in the desert of the American Southwest. When they spot Jackrabbit, they take off at once, just as hungry animals have done since the world began. Pursuing Jackrabbit, Coyote and Badger come upon an a...

  • Home Remedies: A Handbook of Herbal Cures for Common Ailments

    T.V. Sairam

    Discover the clinic in your kitchen Even before Charaka compiled the Samhita, his treatise on Ayurveda, in the second century B.C., women and men were using herbs from their kitchens, fields and forests to alleviate pain and cure sickness. But with t...

  • India's Economic Policy

    Bimal Jalan

  • Last Spring

    Abraham Eraly

  • Picture Imperfect

    Saradindu Bandyopadhyay

  • NIGHT OF THE KRAIT

    Shashi Warrier

  • By The Sabarmati

    Esther David

  • The Dastard

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

    Many malevolent menaces have imperiled the magical land of Xanth in its long and storied history. But none has been as despicably dangerous as the Dastard-a craven miscreant who sold his soul to a detestable demon for the power to erase events. Now t...

  • The Happiest Days

    Cressida Connolly

    Even happy days come to an end. In this remarkable collection, Cressida Connolly explores the lives of children and young people who find themselves split in two. A conversation on a trip to the zoo heralds the end of a family; a boy watches his fath...

  • Scar Tissue

    William G. Tapply

    Brady Coyne is an attorney with a select clientele and a small practice - he handles mostly the boring paperwork such as deeds, wills, and divorces and leaves the more exciting aspects of the legal profession to others. A call from Jacob Gold, an ol...

  • The Iron Tonic

    Edward Gorey

    It's difficult to say what The Iron Tonic is about, although it is known the skating pond conceals a family of enormous eels, and that the light is fading from the day. The rest is darkness and dismay. Finally, though, The Iron Tonic could be seen as...

  • Edwina Victorious

    Susan Bonners


    A successful letter-writing campaign, with just a touch of deception.

    When Edwina's great-grandaunt and namesake decides to move to a nursing home, Edwina is recruited by her mom to help clean out her aunt's attic. There she discovers a ca...

  • The Emperors New Clothes: An All-Star Illustrated Retelling of the Classic Fairy Tale

    Starbright Foundation

    Now available in a deluxe, affordable paperback and compact disc package comes the hip, hilarious retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's beloved fairy tale reimagined by an all-star cast. Each celebrity has created a character with a uniquely recogni...

  • Albert and the Angels

    Leslie Norris

    What Albert wants is to replace the precious gold medallion on a delicate gold chain that his mother lost years ago. Where will he find the money? Thanks to his talking dog, Lucille (whom only he can hear), he gets an idea -- to play his flute on the...

  • The Ruthless Charmer

    Julia London

    The rogue met his match in the woman he was forced to wed.... No woman could resist Julian Dane. Except Lady Claudia Whitney. Julian had known her since childhood, but the headstrong lass had grown into a beautiful woman. Julian vows to teach her ...

  • Trick or Treachery

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    SCARED TO DEATH It's late October in Cabot Cove, and as Halloween approaches, something strange is in the air. The arrival of a self-righteous, fire-and-brimstone spiritual medium has some townspeople on the lookout for curses and evil omens; a re...

  • Sometimes I Dream in Italian

    Rita Ciresi

    Angel Lupo grew up in a traditional Italian home -- an exclusive club where Mama’s word was everything ... and where nice girls saved themselves for marriage. All Angel wanted was to be movie-star blond, change her name, and get as much attention...

  • Two for Joy

    Mary Reed; Eric Mayer

    Winner, the Glyph Award - Best MysteryHonorable Mention, Glyph Best Book Award list IPPY Best Mystery Award finalistJohn the Eunuch, Lord Chamberlain to the Emperor Justinian, is skilled at keeping his footing on the treacherous slopes of court intri...

  • Cruddy

    Lynda Barry

    On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping two of the 127 hits of acid found in a friend's shoe, a sixteen-year-old who is grounded for a year curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom, picks up a pen, and begins to ...

  • The Maintenance Man

    Michael Baisden

    Malcolm Tremell lives the life that most men can only fantasize about: exotic cars, designer clothes, and a steady stream of sexually available women. For the past twelve years, for a very generous fee, Malcolm has willingly played the role of tempor...

  • Whalestoe Letters

    Mark Z. Danielewski

    Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this c...

  • Mr. Wroe's Virgins

    Jane Rogers

    A nineteenth century prophet claims seven young women for his own in this “engaging, serious and gleefully ironic novel†based on true events (The New York Times Book Review).  A New York Times Notable Book   In the 1820s, Prophet John ...

  • The Amber Spyglass

    Philip Pullman

    The Amber Spyglass brings the intrigue of The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife to a heart-stopping end, marking the final volume of His Dark Materials as the most powerful of the trilogy. Along with the return of Lyra, Will, Mrs. Coulter, Lord...

  • The Forgotten Helper

    Lorrie Moore

    Aben is Santa's best toy maker. He is also Santa's grouchiest, most ill-behaved elf. On Christmas Eve while Santa and the other elves are delivering gifts, Aben's task is to watch the reindeer. But at the very last house, Aben sneaks down the chimney...

  • The Icicle Forest

    Gail Herman

    Olivia and Belinda are on a mission--to find the most beautiful snowflake ever. So they go to Jack Frost's icicle forest and have the most amazing time. But when a sudden snowstorm covers their trail, they realize they're lost! It will take more than...

  • One-of-a-Kind Mallie

    Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

    Mallie is so tired of being an identical twin, she could scream! To everyone in Cedarville, she's just the second half of Hallie and Mallie, the adorable pair. Mother sews them matching dresses, and now their teacher has even assigned them the same p...

  • Weaver's Daughter

    Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

    It is 1791 in the Southwest Territory (now Tennessee), and Lizzy Baker loves her pioneer life. Her father is a farmer and her mother a weaver, and she and her sisters enjoy a hardworking life that is also filled with simple pleasures. Lizzy longs to ...

  • A Fairy Merry Christmas

    Gail Herman

    It's Christmas in Fairyland. What better time for a field trip to the North Pole? But bad news awaits the fairies--Santa isn't planning to give out any toys on Earth-Below. He doesn't think any Little Big People believe in him anymore. The fairies ha...

  • Farm Friends Clean Up

    Cristina Garelli

    Wolf likes to play chase, but his friends on the farm don't like his dirty teeth. Sheep likes to play ball, but she keeps tripping over her long hair. Pig likes to play hide-and-go-seek, but when he hides in a pile of dirt, his friends don't notice h...

  • Radio Rescue

    Lynne Barasch

    2AZK saves the day!

    Back in 1923, a long-distance telephone call took hours to place, and overseas calls weren't possible at all. But a new invention, called wireless radio, permitted instant communication over long distances. A young boy, itc...

  • The Third Messiah

    Christopher West

    Anzhuang Wang, a detective in the Beijing police department, starts investigating a cult - the New Church of the Heavenly Kingdom - when his sister-in-law "Julie" gets involved with the group. The church has ties that lead back to the 19th century Ta...

  • Don't Count on Dracula

    Dan Greenburg

    Strange things just won't stop happening to Zack! One more out-of-this-world adventures join this funny series about a 10 year old who's prone to paranormal problems. Zack enters a horror film fan contest, and he and his best friend win an evening wi...

  • My Two Hands, My Two Feet

    Rick Walton

  • What Did I Look like when I Was a Baby?

    Jeanne Willis

    A young boy and a series of animals learn that as babies, they looked like little versions of their mothers and fathers, but a young bullfrog is horrified when he is shown a photograph of himself as a tadpole....

  • Fed up!

    Rex Barron

  • Light the Candles

    Joan Holub

    Hanukkah is here! There are so many fun things to do-light candles in the menorah, open presents, eat latkes and chocolate coins, play the dreidel game, and more. With the turn of each page, another candle is added to the menorah and another fun elem...

  • Fledgling

    Robert J. Blake

    When a young kestrel makes her first flight among the buildings of a bustling city, there is much excitement and danger as she is pursued by a hawk. By the creator of Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod. ...

  • Brown Sugar Babies

    Charles R. Smith Jr.

    Bubbling brown sugarbubbles Baby's belly.Syrupy sweet sticky centershakes like a bowl of jelly.Oooh, baby! This board book is sweet enough to eat. Infants, toddlers, and their older siblings will drool as they rejoice in the beauty of brown babies. H...

  • Arabian Knights

    Earle Goodenow

  • Fables from

    Aesop

  • Hard Crash

    Christie Golden

    There's more to Starfleet than exploring strange new worlds. When serious technical know-how is required, Starfleet sends in an S.C.E. team, such as the one stationed aboard the U.S.S. da Vinci. This topflight assemblage of engineers and technical sp...

  • So Far Back

    Pam Durban

    Sixty-year-old Louisa Hilliard--the last descendent of one of Charleston's oldest and most prominent families -- is caring for her ailing mother. An upright, unmarried spinster, Louisa has spent her life looking after others. In the aftermath of a ...

  • A Cure for Gravity

    Arthur Rosenfeld

    Mercury Gant climbs aboard his vintage motorcycle and leaves behind his entire life. So, his journey begins taking him from one coast to the other and from the ghost of a woman without a conscience into the arms of a little girl with his eyes.Umbert...

  • The Blanchland Secret

    Nicola Cornick

    Prim and proper Sarah Sheridan sought to live a respectable life as her cousin's companion, trying to put her family's past behind her. But everything changed with a letter insisting on her return to Blanchland. For her childhood home was now...

  • Her Sister's Baby

    Alison Fraser

    For the baby's sake... When Dray Carlisle turned up unexpectedly, Cass knew there must be trouble afoot. She hadn't seen Dray for three years, after their brief but intensely passionate affair had ended. However, Cass wasn't prepare...

  • The Spanish Husband

    Michelle Reid

    To love, honor and...betray? Seven years ago Caroline Newbury had fallen in love -- and into bed -- with Luiz Vazquez. Thinking he'd betrayed her, she'd fled to England hoping never to see him again. Now, because her father owes money to L...

  • Kissing Kate

    Helen Shelton

    At cross-purposes...... Anesthetist Kate Lamb is aware that she is overworked, and agrees too easily when asked to do more, but she loves her work. Out of real concern for Kate, colleague Mark Summers persuades her to go away for the weekend with hi...

  • Snowy the Surprise Puppy

    Jenny Dale

  • Bear Noel

    Olivier Dunrea

    A story for lovers of animals, art, and holiday harmonyAs Christmas approaches, the animals of the north woods tremble with excitement. Bear Noel is coming! He strides toward them with his gift-laden sack, while they roll and romp in the snow,...

  • Batman beyond: Return of the Joker - the Official Screenplay

    Paul Dini

  • The Persian Bride

    James Buchan

    Hailed as a masterpiece in Britain, this epic novel is at once a great love story, a riveting political thriller, and a profound analysis of modern Iran. It is the spring of 1974, and John Pitt, a young Englishman, sets off for the hippie East, stopp...

  • A Hitch in Time

    Christine Holden

    New Orleans, 2000. Law student Drew Montague faces a dilemma: his parents, who have been helping him financially, want him to forego school in favor of learning the family business -- a prospect he has avoided all his life. As Drew wanders and ponder...

  • Meet Me at Midnight

    Suzanne Enoch

    A MOST UNEXPECTED MARRIAGE Victoria Fontaine's mischievous nature and brilliant, biting wit have scandalized the ton...and earned her the nickname "Vixen." But her reputation pales before the infamous Lord Althorpe's, known as "Lord Sin." The year...

  • Rules of Engagement

    Christina Dodd

    The Rules of Engagement: Choose a bride from this year's debutantes. Decide on a proper settlement. Send an announcement to The Times. Inform the bride of her good fortune. Rules of Respectability Devon Mathewes, earl of Kerrich, has a plan...

  • Hiding in the Shadows

    Kay Hooper

    TERROR WAS JUST OUT OF SIGHT Accident victim Faith Parker has done what her doctors feared she never would: awakened from the coma that held her prisoner for weeks. But she has no memory of the crash that nearly killed her - or the life that led u...

  • After the Kiss

    Karen Ranney

    THE PROMISE OF A SINGLE KISS... Margaret Esterly is desperate - and desperation can lead to shocking behavior! Beautiful and gently-bred, she was the essence of prim, proper English womanhood - until fate widowed her and thrust her into the povert...

  • Jedi Eclipse

    James Luceno

    A string of smashing victories by the forces of the sinister aliens known as the Yuuzhan Vong has left New Republic resources and morale stretched to the breaking point. Leia Organa Solo, estranged from her husband, Han, oversees the evacuation of re...

  • Hero in the Shadows

    David Gemmell

    The ruined city of Kuan Hador reeks of dark mystery. Shunned by brigands and commonfolk alike, it is home to fearsome wild creatures and tales that freeze the blood. Legends speak of slavering beasts, who are locked behind a powerful wall of spells a...

  • Past Reason Hated

    Peter Robinson

    A picturesque Yorkshire village is dressed in its finest for the upcoming Noel. But one of its residents will not be celebrating this holiday. Chief Inspector Alan Banks knows that secrecy can sometimes prove fatal'and secrets were the driving for...

  • Shadow Star

    Chris Claremont

    Elora Danan has in her possession two last dragon eggs...and the last hope of the world. To protect them, Elora spellbinds herself to her faithful companions Thorn Drumheller, the sorcerer and her sworn guardian, and Khory Bannefin, the woman warrior...

  • After the War

    Alice Adams

    “As always, Adams' strength is her fine, elegant language and the attention she pays to the minutiae of every day living. Like Jane Austen, she stays close to her characters and weaves intrigue out of their interrelated and complex life stories.â€...

  • Hornito: My Lie Life

    Mike Albo

    “A gay coming-of-age story that’s rip-roaringly funny and sympathetic.†-- PeopleDavid Sedaris and Sandra Bernhard rolled into one, Mike Albo offers his own unique, witty, and touching tale on being young, single, and gay in today's media-obses...

  • Legacy of the Dead

    Charles Todd

    The weathered remains found on a Scottish mountainside may be those of Eleanor Gray, but the imperious Lady Maude Gray, Eleanor's mother, will have to be handled delicately. This is not the only ground that Inspector Ian Rutledge of Scotland Yard mus...

  • The Disobedience of Water

    Sena Jeter Naslund

    Evoking passion and heartbreak., intelligence and unapologetic humanity, these eight beautifully crafted stories explore the boundary conditions between the self and others. Although social realities -- racial and ethnic tensions, sexual harassmen...

  • Ali and Nino

    Kurban Said

    From the author of The Girl from the Golden Horn, a novel of the enduring love between childhood friends divided by war & their separate cultures.First published in Vienna in 1937, this classic story of romance and adventure has been compared to&...

  • The Pleasing Hour

    Lily King

    The award-winning novel of a young American girl in France -- hailed as “an impressive debut†that is “written with quiet, lyric forcefulness†(Elle).  A New York Times Notable Book   Young, inexperienced, and fleeing a terrible per...

  • Fallen Star

    Joanna Campbell

    Has Star run his last race? Christina Reese and Wonder's Star are about to race at Belmont, one of the most prestigious tracks in the country. Christina is confident that she and Star are going to blow all the New York horses away. But when the ga...

  • Biscuit's Christmas: A Scratch-and-Sniff Book

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

    Christmas is coming!

    The little girl knows just what needs to be done to get ready for Christmas -- choose a tree, back cookies, decorate the house -- but Biscuit is so excited he can't seem to sit still.

    Scratch and sniff the scents t...

  • Dance, Sing, Remember

    Leslie Kimmelman

    Hag Sameach! Happy Holidays!

    Do you know what holiday to sound the shofar for? Or when to build a sukkah?

    Now you can learn, in this celebration of eleven Jewish holidays, from Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, to Sh...

  • Leomon's Challenge

    John Whitman

    The adventure continues! In this latest novelization of the popular television series, Digimon: Digital Monsters, the weather on File Island, where seven children have been stranded along with their friendly Digimon protectors, is beginning to grow c...

  • Little Lit

    Art Spiegelman

    A treasure and a treasury!

    Innovative cartoonist and renowned children's book artists from around the world have gathered to bring you the magic of fairy tales through the wonder of comics. The stories range from old favo...

  • Christmas Ship

    Dean Morrissey

    When Father Christmas pays a visit on Christmas Eve, Sam's busiest time of the year gets even busier. The problem, as Father Christmas explains, is that he's running behind schedule and wants Sam to help him out.

    For Sam, who's facing the closing o...

  • For Real

    Wendy Loggia

    Follow four high school heroines--Kerri, Jessica, Erin and Maya--during the most exciting time of their lives. There's love, friendship, and huge life decisions ahead. It's all about to happen --just as hey're turning seventeen.

    ...

  • This Little Reindeer

    HarperCollins

    This little reindeer baked cookiesThis We reindeer me some.And this little reindeer...

    Join Santa's reindeer as they prepare for Christmas Eve in this holiday version of a favorite nursery rhyme. Children will have a merry tim...

  • Sergeant Sniff's Christmas Surprise

    Julie Durrell

    How do you solve a mystery? Sergeant Sniff sniffs, and she follows her nose!

    Sergeant Sniff knows she can't open the present under the tree before Christmas Day, but nobody said anything about sniffing out the mystery of what's inside! Children wi...

  • Friendly Beasts: A Christmas Carol

    Sharon McGinley

    The true story of Christmas giving shines forth in this stunning celebration based on the carol about a donkey, a cow, a sheep, a camel, an a dove--friendly beasts all--an the gifts they bring to the baby Jesus....

  • Twelve Days of Christmas

    Mary Luders

    The Twelve Days of Christmas has never looked so scrumptious as in this slipcased holiday treasure, illustrated with delicious custom-made Christmas cookies designed by Eleni Gianopolus. Adorned with spectacular jewel-like cookie art, this book fans ...

  • Christmas in My Soul

    Joe L. Wheeler

    Presents seven holiday stories that describe the legend of Saint Nicholas and how he became a symbol of generosity and giving, the magic of Christmas past, holiday traditions, and gifts of love and comfort....

  • Stuart Little's Very Big House

    Leslie Goldman

  • Stuart's New Brother

    Leslie Goldman

    Stuart is excited about being part of a family, yet his new brother, George, isn't very excited about having a mouse for a brother, but with a little patience and a lot of love, Stuart shows George the true meaning of brotherhood. Original....

  • Aunt Dimity Beats the Devil

    Nancy Atherton

    A tale of family secrets, yesteryear romance, and spirits less friendly than Aunt Dimity Lori Shepherd is on her way to Wyrdhurst Hall to evaluate its owners' rare book collection. The grim, neo-Gothic castle, the books, and the journey to thi...

  • Shelley Shock

    Donna Jo Napoli

    Adam, the eleven-year-old with the amazing talking freckles, is having girl trouble with one girl who seems to have a crush on him and another one who may take his place on the soccer team, in the sequel to Soccer Shock. Reprint....

  • Pocahontas: An American Princess

    Joyce Milton

    Pocahontas is famous for saving the life of Captain John Smith, the man she loved. At least that’s what legend tells us. Now read the true story of this Native American princess....

  • New Room for William

    Sally Grindley

    At first, William doesn't like his bland and boring new room as everything around him is unfamiliar, yet with a little help from his mother and some personal touches, he starts feeling better and begins to settle in....

  • All for Newborn Baby

    Phyllis Root

  • William Wegman's The Night Before Christmas

    William Wegman

  • Meow Monday

    Phyllis Root

    Fans of TURNOVER TUESDAY and ONE WINDY WEDNESDAY will be overjoyed to see Bonnie Bumble in action again. In MEOW MONDAY, the young farmer's pussy willows have burst into bloom, and they're raising quite a ruckus! How will Bonnie stop all the meowing?...

  • Robert Crowther's Amazing Pop-Up House of Inventions

    Robert Crowther

    From closets that open to rugs that lift, this boldly illustrated pop-up book provides a three-dimensional look at the inner workings of home and includes more than sixty flaps and tabs and three-hundred household facts....

  • Over the Moon!

    David Melling

  • Milly and Tilly: The Story of a Town Mouse and a Country Mouse

    Kate Summers

    Although Milly, the country mouse, and Tilly, the city mouse, enjoy visiting with each other, they both prefer being in their own surroundings as each feel out of place when removed from what they know best. Reprint....

  • Astonishing X-Men: Deathwish ( Apocalypse The Twelve Prelude)

    Howard MacKie

  • Saving Abbie

    Allan Baillie

  • Showdown

    Luke Adams

    Trace Beaumont once saved Mitch Frye from drowning. Now Trace has shown up in Paxton and wants to renew the friendship. Trouble is, Trace is now a gunslinger wanted for a string of murders, and Mitch is a lawman. But Mitch doesn't have a lot of ti...

  • Midnight Sun and Other Tales of the Unexplained

    Earl Murray

    Everyone knows the song, Hotel California, right? "You can check out any time you like but you can never leave." Sure, it's a great song, but the Eagles had it wrong: The hotel referred to in the Eagles hit song isn't in California. It's in Nevada, a...

  • Empire of the Bay

    Peter C. Newman

  • October Dreams

    Richard Chizmar

    Classic novellas, never-before-published stories, essays on the history, literature, and films of Halloween, and real-life memories of October 31st-from today's best practitioners of fear:

    Dean Koontz * Peter Straub * Poppy Z. Brite * Rick Hautala ...

  • Shadows Bend

    David Barbour; Richard Raleigh

    TWO FUTURE LEGENDS. ONE ANCIENT EVIL. H.P. Lovecraft was a writer who would one day become famous or his eerie tales of the macabre--filled with ancient beings who ruled the world millions of years before the appearance of the human race. Robe...

  • Breaking Point

    Steve Perry

    In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBI: the Net Force. Reeling from a shattered personal life, N...

  • Dust Riders

    Wolf MacKenna

    Searching for his stolen horse and the men responsible, King Garner joins forces with Boston tenderfoot Elliot Quincannon, out to recover a priceless artifact, to find the outlaws who are terrorizing the Arizona Territory....

  • North of Cheyenne

    John D. Nesbitt

    Monte Casteel hadn’t planned on staying long when he rode into the small Wyoming town of Eagle Spring. He was just a ranch hand with no work between seasons. But even before he got into town, someone warned him it might be better for his health i...

  • Slocum and the Gila Rangers

    Jake Logan

    Left flat broke in the gold-rush town of Neutral, Slocum faces a new challenge when a gang of outlaws, masquerading as a local vigilante group called the Gila Rangers, robs the local bank, leaving the banker dead and Slocum's partner wounded, and Slo...

  • Slocum and the Senorita

    Jake Logan

    Slocum makes a run for the border…When Slocum saves a pretty young Mexican girl from a brutal gang, it wouldn’t be right to leave her on her own. So the next thing he knows, he’s hightailing it to her hacienda with a bunch of serious pistoleros...

  • Safetown

    J.R. Roberts

    When an epidemic sweeps through the region, leaving many dead in its wake, Clint Adams finds himself stranded, quarantined in the town of Safetown, with inhabitants who will do anything they can to break out. Original....

  • Wyoming War Cry

    Jon Sharpe

    When Skye Fargo rescues a telegraph crew from vicious cutthroats, he discovers that the outlaws that he had killed had belonged to Tuck Garson's gang and that Garson has sworn revenge on the gunfighter who had killed his men. Original....

  • Wanted: Clint Adams

    J.R. Roberts

    SOMEONE'S GUNNING FOR THE GUNSMITH Ambushed by an unknown assailant, Clint Adams shoots him down in self-defense. Among his would-be killer's possessions, he finds a wanted poster for a $2,500 reward -- bearing his name and likeness... and the words...

  • Genesis Rider

    Will Cade

  • Hangman's Choice

    Ralph Cotton

    Two men on opposite sides of the law--Federal Deputy Sullivan Hart and con man and gambler Charlie Sims--find themselves with similar goals as they pursue their own individual quests for vengeance against a ruthless outlaw gang called "Los Pistoleros...

  • Return to No Man's Land

    Bill Brooks

    Bitter over the loss of his family and livelihood, Quint McCannon accepts a job from a chief of the Indian Police to undertake a suicide mission to stop the vicious Caddo Pierce and his gang of Native American outlaws, who have been cutting a deadly ...

  • Made in Spades

    Guy Brewer

    After a casual dalliance with a young woman in New Mexico, Dex Yancey discovers that her family -- the Espinoza clan -- have lost their wealth and are too proud to accept handouts. They are being besieged by a rowdy group of badmen employed by Englis...

  • War Scout

    Jack Hanson

    While south of the border, rumblings of war distract Barlow from his search for his daughter -- and land him in jail as a spy....

  • Longarm on a Bloody Vendetta

    Tabor Evans

    THE BLOOD-SPATTERED BRIDE Custis Long's about to get hitched to an upstanding lady who's got a fine young son. With this ready-made family he's looking to settle down as a Colorado cattle rancher. Too good to last? You bet. She just ate lead during ...

  • Mistletoe Kisses

    Jeanne Savery
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    Between her indifferent relatives and an overbearing suitor, Grace Cheviot sadly concludes that this will be the worst Christmas she's ever had. But when her tabby Purrrnew's antics result in handsome soldier Morgan St. Austell giving Grace an unexpe...

  • The Christmas Gift

    Jeanne Savery

    Love is the most cherished gift of all... In this season of joy...of sleigh rides and waltzes, roaring fires and kissing boughs...a man and a woman find the true spirit of love. THE WIDOW... Patricia Hayden's enjoyable solitude at Merwin H...

  • A Lady of Letters

    Andrea Pickens

    Words of Passion In high society circles, Lady Augusta Hadley is expected to act demure and look pretty for the wife- seeking lords of the ton. To express her political views without fear of being ostracized, she pens editorials under the name &#...

  • All I Want for Christmas

    Sheila Rabe

    Adorned with twinkling lights and plastic reindeer, glowing with good old-fashioned Christmas cheer, and swarming with eager merrymakers, Susan Carpenter's house is truly a sight to behold--but one that Angel Falls's resident Scrooge absolutely loath...

  • The Journey Home

    Fiona Hood-Stewart

    They met in the wilds of Scotland, as a winter storm approached. Complete strangers, they were uncannily drawn to one another. India Moncrieff, grief stricken over her mother's sudden death, a woman desperate to hold on to Dunbar House, the majestic ...

  • Always

    Deirdre Savoy

  • The Marquis' Kiss

    Regina Scott

    He stole her heart...and gave her his love. A PARAGON WITH A SECRET Thomas, the decorous Marquis de Guis, is considered the catch of the season. Only he knows that two of his brides-to-be have cried off when he sealed the bargain with a kiss. Now...

  • A Cowboy for Christmas

    Anna De Forest

    Christmas promised to be anything but merry for Robin Matthews, who was waging a losing battle to keep her ranch and her family together. So when rugged Nathaniel Hollister grudgingly agreed to help her run the Rocking M, temporarily, she believed sh...

  • Lord Langdon's Tutor

    Laura Paquet

    A ROMANTIC LADY Lady Clarissa Denham is set on a love match or nothing at all. But her father has promised her to Matthew Carstairs, Lord Langdon -- and she must consent, or be disinherited. Clarissa, meeting the flawless Corinthian of her father's ...

  • Something So Right

    Jane Kidder

    PAINFUL MEMORIES Caroline Sawyer was delighted to be heading home to her widowed mother's Christmas wedding -- but she wished the groom-to-be was someone besides the father of her ex-fiance, Joshua Chandler. Twelve years ago, Josh disappeared wit...

  • The Refuge

    Jasmine Cresswell

    Nestled in the Colorado Rockies, the Wainscott Ranch is a place of hope and promise for expectant mothers from war-torn regions of the globe. Here, women with nowhere to go, and no one to help them, find refuge. Though raised in a life of privileg...

  • This Magic Moment

    Lynda Simmons

    COULD A FOOTLOOSE WANDERER... Reid Ferguson was the most fascinating man Viki had ever known. But she'd packed his bags after eight years of happy marriage. With two small children to raise, Viki knew she could no longer live with a free-wheeling cha...

  • Noel's Christmas

    Donna Simpson
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    When her carriage breaks down outside of Bath, Lady Ann Beecharn-Brooke, famously reserved d beauty of the ton, has no choice but to take refuge at the home of strangers. But it isn't long before she finds Russetshire Manor's five-year-old lady of th...

  • Two of a Kind

    Elise Smith

    Regina Sutherland is a woman with a past -- namely about five hundred years of English literature. Teaching poetry at Idlewild College is the auburn-haired professor's grand passion. If only she could find a man to rival the wild, romantic heroes of ...

  • Lord Nightingale's Triumph

    Judith A. Lansdowne

    Can a parson's daughter find harmony...with a rogue? A DARING BIT OF THIEVERY... Peter Winthrop, once a fine gentleman, has turned to a desperate act that can send him to Newgate gaol. He has been hired to kidnap Lord Nightingale! But even the be...

  • A Cache of Magical Kittens

    Judith A. Lansdowne
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    Rebecca, Lady Wraithstone, had almost given up hope that her ailing young son would ever be restored to his former self. Neither she nor her son's new tutor, eccentric peer C. Archibald Pope, ever expected that a mysterious cat and her litter might p...

  • The Passage

    Alex Lawrence

    Struggling to escape his troubled marriage, David Thomas returns alone to the Rocky Mountains' Elkhorn Lodge, where he and his wife had honeymooned twenty-five years earlier, and finds himself drawn to Sierra Stone, the lodge's owner and an experienc...

  • The Christmas Thief

    Edith Layton
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    Celebrate the most joyous of seasons with these original stories of holiday romance from five of today's most beloved award-winning Regency authors. Each tale is set on Christmas Eve, capturing the season's true spirit of charity and goodwill, provin...

  • The Dream Spinner

    Gail Crease

    SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW Leaving behind the corporate rat race of New York City, Kate Pedigrew has discovered her calling as a stained glass artist in Montpelier, Vermont. She has spent most of her savings renovating the old church that's beco...

  • Mistletoe Mayhem

    Kate Huntington

    Four mischievous children play matchmaker for their guardian, country squire Robert Langtry, and Lady Madelyn Rathbone, one of Regency society's wealthiest beauties, after they find themselves stranded together on Robert's snow-bound estate. Original...

  • If She Only Knew

    Lisa Jackson

    SHE WOKE UP WITH A NEW FACE... Not only has Marla Cahill survived a deadly car accident, but her beautiful features have been restored through plastic surgery. She should be grateful. Instead, she's consumed by confusion...and panic. For the peopl...

  • Starlight

    Miranda Jarrett

    Forced to endure London society for the sake of his younger sister, American Alexander Fairbourne longs to leave England behind him. But when a stray kitten--all black but for a star of white--unexpectedly wins him over, Alex allows the tiny creature...

  • Lord of the Desert

    Diana Palmer

    From seduction in the royal sheikhdom to high adventure in the hot Arabian desert comes a breathtaking love story by international bestselling author Diana Palmer.... Sheltered small-town girl Gretchen Brannon was out of her element when she align...

  • My Phillipe

    Barbara J. Miller

    Returning to England after years abroad with Wellington's army--first as an officer's daughter, then trapped in a loveless marriage with a military man--recently widowed Bella MacFarlane longs only to raise her son, Jamie, on the farm she inherited f...