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New Books List: 733 titles

  • Gifts of the Season: The Virtuous Widow

    Anne Gracie
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    Ellie was afraid she had no future. Left to her own devices now that her husband had passed away, she worried for her daughter's welfare as well as her own. But her world changed when a stranger landed on her doorstep....

  • Never So Green

    Tim Johnston

    School's out in Big River, Iowa, and Tex Donleavy, a kid who keeps his nose in the books and his deformed right hand deep in his pocket, is looking forward to a blissful summer in the company of Linda Volesky, the vivacious beauty who happens to be h...

  • Home of the Braves

    David Klass

    What makes an average American high school suddenly become violent?As Joe Brickman heads into the fall of his senior year, he's looking forward to the soccer season, when he will captain the Lawndale team. And surely this will be the year when he and...

  • A Darker Justice

    Sallie Bissell

    For Assistant District Attorney Mary Crow, it will be the most harrowing challenge she has ever faced. Three federal judges are dead, apparent victims of an assassin determined to "execute" the American justice system. The FBI is desperate to protect...

  • Whirlwind Affair

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    CAN AN UNCONVENTIONAL LIAISON TURN INTO THE LOVE MATCH OF THE SEASON? After the scandalous duel that made her a widow, Alberta Brown was left destitute--and in possession of a cache of ill-gotten goods. Determined to right the wrongs of her thievi...

  • Castles in the Mist

    Josie Litton

    She was just a child when she was washed ashore on the exotic island of Akora, shipwrecked and orphaned. Now she must make a heartbreaking choice: to reclaim her past--or to face her future with the most powerful man she has ever known. Raised in ...

  • Wreck the Halls

    Sarah Graves

    Christmas is just weeks away, but what Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree discovers at Faye Anne Carmody's house is far from festive: a dazed Faye Anne covered with blood. Her no-good husband, Merle-Eastport's butcher and least-liked citizen--is nowhere in sight...

  • No Place Like Home

    Fern Michaels

    The Cisco triplets are appalled by their widowed father's behavior. He seems to care more about his gold-digging fiancee than he does about his own son and daughters. Even worse, Dad put their spunky grandmother -- head of the family candy company --...

  • Taken

    Thomas H. Cook

    Three people know the truth. Three families will be changed forever. In the last days of World War II, a strange phenomenon saves a doomed Air Force pilot named Russell Keys--and plunges him into torment. In a place called Roswell, New Mexico, a ...

  • Blood and Gold

    Anne Rice

    Once a proud Senator in Imperial Rome, Marius is kidnapped and forced into that dark realm of blood, where he is made a protector of the Queen and King of the vampires--in whom the core of the supernatural race resides. Through his eyes we see the fa...

  • Fortress Draconis

    Michael A. Stackpole

    Once one of the grandest of human cities, Yslin now has a dark heart known as the Dimandowns. And when Will, an orphaned young thief from the Dim, plots to prove himself to his master by stealing a prize from the exiled Elves who share the fetid slum...

  • Lady Liberty

    Vicki Hinze

    THE FATE OF A COUNTRY LIES IN ONE WOMAN'S HANDS... U.S. Vice President Sybil Stone, code-named Lady Liberty, has proven she can hold her own against some of the world's most influential power brokers. But now, negotiating a vital peace agreement in ...

  • Complicity

    Iain M. Banks

    Complicity n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act
    Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same Mo -- he comm...

  • Answered Prayers

    Danielle Steel

    On the outside, Faith Madison is the very picture of a sophisticated New Yorker. Slim, blond, stylish, Faith has a life many would envy. Overcoming a childhood marked by tragedy, married to a successful investment banker and having raised two grown d...

  • A Gift of Dragons

    Anne McCaffrey

    For more than thirty years, Pern has conjured visions of brave men and women mounted upon the backs of dragons. As anyone knows who has been touched by the storytelling magic of Anne McCaffrey, to read of the exotic world of Pern is to inhabit it...

  • The Carnivorous Carnival

    Lemony Snicket

    Dear Reader, The word "carnivorous," which appears in the title of this book, means "meat-eating," and once you have read such a bloodthirsty word, there is no reason to read any further. This carnivorous volume contains such a distressing story tha...

  • Dancing on the Edge of the Roof

    Sheila Williams

    “Dancing on the Edge of the Roof kept my heart and mind dancing through the pages. Sheila Williams, with her talent for detailed storytelling, expertly takes the reader on a poignant and humorous quest for self.†-- Lori Bryant-Woolridge, au...

  • Drohobycz, Drohobycz and Other Stories: True Tales from the Holocaust and Life After

    Henryk Grynberg

  • Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper

    Harriet Scott Chessman

  • My Soul Has Grown Deep

    John Edgar Wideman

    In this vital and inspiring volume, John Edgar Wideman has brought together the first truly representative sampling of literature by African-American writers in the early centuries of our history. Reaching across periods, styles, and regional borders...

  • Sagas of Warrior-Poets

    Leifur Eiricksson

    Kormak's Saga, The Saga of Hallfred Troublesome-Poet, The Saga of Gunnlaug Serpent-Tongue, The Saga of Bjorn, Champion of the Hitardal People, Viglund's Saga Set in the farmsteads of Viking age Iceland at a time when the old ethos of honour and hero...

  • Sky of Stone

    Homer Hickam

  • Susannah Morrow

    Megan Chance

    Only fifteen years of age, Charity Fowler has lost too much: her mother in childbirth and her illusions about love to a young man who broke her heart. Her stern Puritan father has withdrawn from his family; and her aunt, Susannah Morrow, who has just...

  • A Well-Known Secret

    Jim Fusilli

    Terry Orr is a haunted man. Haunted by the murder of his wife and son. Haunted by the tragedy that darkened the streets of his home in lower Manhattan. Now, he has to raise his fourteen-year-old daughter alone and find the killer who shattered his wo...

  • Skipping Christmas

    John Grisham

    Luther and Nora Krank are fed up with the chaos of Christmas. The endless shopping lists, the frenzied dashes through the mall, the hassle of decorating the tree... where has all the joy gone? This year, celebrating seems like too much effort. With t...

  • The Principal's On The Roof

    Elizabeth Levy

    WARNING: Reading May Be Hazardous To Your Health The principal of Jill and Gwen's school promised to spend the morning on the roof if the kids read one thousand books during their reading marathon -- and they did! Now he's on the roof, and he's go...

  • Of Other Worlds

    C.S. Lewis

  • Simpsons Beyond Forever!: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family...Still Continued

    Matt Groening

    Finally, the followâ€"up to the phenomenal episodes guides The Simpsons: A Complete Guide to Our Favorite Family and The Simpsons Forever! åŸ"he Simpsons Beyond Forever! covering seasons 11'912612.

    Join Matt Groening for the next instalme...

  • From Dawn till Dusk

    Natalie Kinsey-Warnock

    Filled with stunning woodcut illustrations, a fascinating picture book captures life on the farm throughout the year, from chores such as chopping wood in the fall and weeding in the summer, to fun activities such as night-swimming in the pond in the...

  • Snow Day!

    Patricia Lakin

    Seeing that it snowed the night before, Sam, Pam, Will, and Jill race out of bed and prepare for a perfect day of sledding, but worry soon hits when they start to think that it may still be a school day and their fantastic plans may have to be put on...

  • My Life of Crime

    Richard W. Jennings

    When Fowler Young stumbles upon a neglected parrot in Mrs. Picklestain's third-grade classroom, he decides to rescue the poor creature and devises a clever scheme to absolve himself of any wrongdoing, but his plan goes awry, leading him down a windin...

  • The Spirit and Gilly Bucket

    Maurine F. Dahlberg

    A pre-Civil War novel featuring an indomitable heroine

    Not long after her pa goes off to look for gold, Gilly Bucket is transplanted from Missouri to Virginia, to the home of her late mother's sister. Gilly is bewildered by the fancy formality...

  • X-Men Visionaries: Jim Lee

    Chris Claremont

  • Spider-Man's Tangled Web, Volume 3

    Zeb Wells

  • Chang and the Bamboo Flute

    Elizabeth Starr Hill

    Chang's creativity brings more than just music to his family

    When a flood on the Li River in southern China threatens their houseboat, Chang and his family, including his father's specially trained fishing birds, are lucky to find shelter in a...

  • Leap, Frog

    Jane Cutler

    A new Fraser brothers adventure

    When a karate-chopping kindergartner named Charley moves in next door, Edward Fraser and his older brother, Jason, see mischief in the making. Charley is good at kicking, jumping, noise-making, and running wild....

  • New X-Men Vol. 1: E is for Extinction

    Grant Morrison

    Collects New X-Men (2001) #114-117 [~amp] New X-Men Annual #1. Cassandra Nova has murdered 16 million mutants. Now she has her sights set on The X-Men! Xavier and his team of mutants have long dreamed of a time of peace. But the time for dreaming is ...

  • Cool Gardens

    Serj Tankian

    From Serj Tankian, lead vocalist for critically acclaimed band System of a Down, comes a striking debut poetry collection highlighting his best work of the past eight years. Like System of a Down's platinum-selling second album, Toxicity -- hailed b...

  • Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

    Tim Burton

    From breathtaking stop-action animation to bittersweet modern fairy tales, filmmaker Tim Burton has become known for his unique visual brilliance -- witty and macabre at once. Now he gives birth to a cast of gruesomely sympathetic children -- misu...

  • The Runaway Racehorse

    Ron Roy

    R is for Racehorse… And they're off! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are excited to see Uncle Warren's new racehorse, Whirlaway, in action. But the night before the big race, the horse disappears! He shows up the next day, just in time to lose the race...

  • Making Music

    Susan Bonners

    Adjusting to the new neighborhood thanks to the sound of music

    It's hard enough moving to a new place, and for Annie there are plenty of extra burdens. Her mother seems sad and worried all the time, having a baby brother makes getting settled ...

  • Steamboat Willie

    RH/Disney

    In 1928, Disney and a little cartoon mouse named Mickey became stars of the silver screen. The first-ever animated film with synchronized sound, Steamboat Willie tells the story of Mickey the steamboat pilot and his determination to impress Minnie Mo...

  • Brave Little Tailor

    RH/Disney

    This wonderful book retells the story of the 1938 classic Disney animated short film starring Mickey as the tailor. He is recruited to rid the kingdom of a meddlesome giantâ€"all for the hand of the fair Princess Minnie!...

  • What Would Joey Do?

    Jack Gantos

    "Do my parents seem unusual to you?" When his dad roars into town, the sparks fly between Joey Pigza's long-separated parents. His ailing grandmother is certain that all the feuding (and flirting) will unleash a series of terrible events on the Pigz...

  • Birthday Mice!

    Bethany Roberts

    "Rhymes and a musical cadence . . . make this a lively performance piece." --"Kirkus Reviews" A little buckaroo is celebrating his birthday in this delightful addition to the Holiday Mice Green Light Readers collection. Simple text, fun rhymes, charm...

  • The Polar Bears Are Hungry

    Paul Carrick

    In the second collaboration of the mother-and-son team that created Mothers Are Like That, two cubs are born to a polar bear. Mother bear teaches her cubs how to swim and hunt seals. But when the ice melts earlier than usual -- the result of a changi...

  • The Place at the Edge of the Earth

    Bebe Faas Rice

    Moving to Fort Sayers, an army base built on the site of an old Native American school, with her mother and new stepfather, Jenny discovers that her room is haunted by the ghost of a boy named Jonah Flying Cloud, who died at the school in 1880, and s...

  • Tides of Darkness

    Judith Tarr

    A stunning new fantasy adventure in the acclaimed Avaryan Chronicles

    Hailed as "a sweeping saga, spiced with exciting, unexpected plot twists" (Publishers Weekly), Judith Tarr's richly imagined Avaryan fantasy series has gained a broad and dev...

  • The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories 3: Third Annual Collection

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    More than 200,000 words of great crime and suspense fictionEach year, Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, editors of The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories, have reached farther past the boundaries of the United States to find the very best susp...

  • Amy Goes fFshing

    Jean Marzollo

  • Benjie on His Own

    Joan Lexau

  • The Bones on Black Spruce Mountain

    David Budbill

  • Deadly Game at Stony Creek

    Peter Zachary Cohen

  • Fish for Supper

    M.B. Goffstein

    Selected as a Caldecott Honor Book in 1977, and now back in print for the first time in a decade, this is a charming picture book about a grandmother and her simple, idyllic daily routine.Fish for Supper is M.B. Goffstein’s Caldecott ...

  • Good Night, Fred

    Rosemary Wells

  • Abdul

    Rosemary Wells

  • The Cave of Moving Shadows

    Thomas Millstead

  • Three Rolls, One Donut

    Mirra Ginsburg

  • Who Is Next?

    Grahame Corbett

  • Animal Athletes

    David Nockels

  • Animal Builders

    David Nockels

  • Edge of Two Worlds

    Weyman Jones

  • One Trick Too Many

    Mirra Ginsburg

  • To Kiss Earth Goodbye

    Ingo Swann

  • The Tree Stands Shining

    Hettie Jones

  • Touch the Earth

    T.C. McLuhan

    A self-portrait of Indian existence in the United States, here is a selection of statements and writings which illuminate the course of Indian history and the abiding values of Indian life. The passages range from the witty, the eloquent, the lyric, ...

  • Guess Who

    Grahame Corbett

  • Who Is Inside?

    Grahame Corbett

  • The House in Norham Gardens

    Penelope Lively

  • Shockwave

    Rick Berman

    Starship Enterprise NX-01's Captain Jonathan Archer must prove his crew innocent in the deaths of thirty-six hundred colonists or Starfleet will agree with the Vulcan High Command that humans are not yet ready for deep-space exploration....

  • Christmas Every Morning

    Lisa Tawn Bergren

    "As I wove through the tense strands, I thought of Mother and what her weaving would be like. I believed that on top it would hold light, promising color, that farther down it would depict the Alzheimer's knots that tied up her mind and memory, the e...

  • Women's Intuition

    Lisa Samson

    Lark Summerville’s life has few surprisesâ€"and that’s just how she likes it. All she wants is to live out her angst-riddled life in her blue-collar Baltimore neighborhood, punctuated by weekly trips to her local parish, where Lark is organist, a...

  • The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002

    Houghton Mifflin Company

    Since its inception in 1915, the Best American series has become the premier annual showcase for the country's finest short fiction and nonfiction. For each volume, a series editor reads pieces from hundreds of periodicals, then selects between fifty...

  • Space Case

    RH/Disney

  • Treasure Planet Sir Step 3

    Dennis Shealy

    Alien pirates, robots, cyborgs, and adventure all rolled into one swashbuckling Step into Reading! Disney’s newest animated feature, Treasure Planet, is a futuristic version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale, Treasure Island....

  • Jim's Journal

    RH/Disney

    Readers will love the exciting space action in Disney’s new feature film, Treasure Planet. It’s told from the point of view of the young hero Jim Hawkinsâ€"a young man full of adventurous spirit!...

  • Treasure Planet: Junior Novelization

    Kiki Thorpe

    Disney’s newest blockbuster film, Treasure Planet, is retold in our bestselling Junior Novelization format. The whole swashbuckling tale of a young hero in search of pirates’ gold is hereâ€"with eight full-color pages of movie stills....

  • Monkey For Sale

    Sanna Stanley

    It's market day in a Congolese village!

    It's market day in Luzolo's village, and she has a five-franc coin to spend. Her parents tell her on market day, "No one gets something for nothing." She must choose wisely, they say, and bargain for a f...

  • Q Is for Quarry

    Sue Grafton

    Back in 1969, a lot of young people were hitting the road and disappearing. More than one of them wound up dead--including the girl in daisy-patterned pants who was found in a quarry off Highway 1 in Lompoc, the victim of multiple stab wounds. Eighte...

  • Experiment in Treason

    Bruce Alexander

    A packet of incendiary letters is stolen from the London residence of a prominent official, and turns up in the colony of Massachusetts. Why are the contents of the letters so controversial? Why has a suspect in the theft turned up dead? And what sho...

  • The Gypsy Man

    Robert Bausch

    Looming large over Crawford, Virginia, knitting together the fears and superstitions of its inhabitants, is the legend of the Gypsy Man. Everyone knows he was kidnapped and returned as an infant, growing into an odd and dangerous adult, only to disap...

  • Short and Tall Tales: Moose County Legends

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Dear Reader, When Jim Qwilleran retired to Moose County (400 miles north of everywhere) with his old electric typewriter and his box of yellow lead pencils, he intended to write a book--a novel of crime and investigation with a metropolitan settin...

  • The Disappearance of Sherlock Holmes

    Larry Millett

    SHERLOCK HOLMES DISAPPEARS, FOUL PLAY SUSPECTED An evil adversary has risen from the dead. A letter, written in a secret cipher, tells famed sleuth Sherlock Holmes that Abe Slaney, the vicious murderer he once captured after a duel of wits, has pe...

  • Blood Orchid

    Stuart Woods

    Blood Orchid: the name of Ed Shine's favorite flower - and his latest real-estate venture. New to town, the dapper developer makes the acquaintance of Holly, her father, Ham, and her wily Doberman, Daisy, just as Holly is trying to get her life back ...

  • Viking It and Liking It

    Jon Scieszka

    HERE COMES THE VIKINGS! Did you know that our word Thursday comes from the Viking god Thor... as in Thor's Day? Neither did the Time Warp Trio. Did you know that if you say "Thursday" over and over again too close to a certain magic Book, you will g...

  • Dirty Beasts

    Roald Dahl

    Roald Dahl's inimitable style and humor shine in this collection of poems about mischievous and mysterious animals. From Stingaling the scorpion to Crocky-Wock the crocodile, Dahl's animals are nothing short of ridiculous. A clever pig with an unment...

  • Gumbrella

    Barry Root

    When her brother comes home with a wounded mouse, Gumbrella is more than happy to assist and soon starts an animal hospital for every hurt animal in the community, but when all her patients get better and it is time for them to leave, Gumbrella finds...

  • Broken Feather

    Verla Kay

    With the arrival of the white man, Broken Feather knows that things are changing in the world around him and so must maintain true to his heritage despite the troubling times ahead for he and his family....

  • One Bright Penny

    Geraldine McCaughrean

    When their father gives them a challenge to fill the entire barn for a penny, Bill, Bob, and Penny quickly get to work to come up with a clever plan so that they can meet the challenge and win the prize....

  • Claude's Big Surprise

    David Wojtowycz

    Claude, the little polar bear, is excited about going on vacation to the Arctic to visit his aunt as it will be his first time on a plane and seeing real snow, but when Claude is told by his parents that he is in for another big surprise upon his arr...

  • Hank's Story

    Jane Buchanan

    Sent to live on a farm in Nebraska, Hank and his brother leave the orphanage in New York to start life anew, but the harsh treatment by his new family and the sudden departure of his brother leave Hank with feelings of despair until he meets up with ...

  • As the City Sleeps

    Stephen T. Johnson

  • Time for a Tale

    Dugald Steer

    Can some fast storytelling help a goose outwit his fox captor? Children will giggle at the goose's retellings of familiar tales-all starring the fox. Each story is a mini-book bound right onto the pages of Time for a Tale. They include Ali Baa Baa an...

  • Hannah's Garden

    Midori Snyder

    When she learns that her grandfather is dying, seventeen-year-old Cassie Brittman rushes to his home with her mother, but upon their arrival, Cassie sees that something strange has taken place on the property and soon learns about a major family secr...

  • Five Little Monkeys

    David Melling

    Favorite nursery songs are given fresh appeal in this lively interactive book. Inside are ten sturdy movable characters, so young children can help the Itsy-Bitsy Spider back up the spout-and more. Plus, each song comes with illustrated actions to he...

  • Jeoffry's Christmas

    Mary Bryant Bailey

    Bailey and Sayles deliver a heartwarming tale
    Jeoffry thinks of others, so Santa thinks of him

    A velvet snout pops through the snow,
    not knowing which way to go.
    There must be something I can do
    to help a lost and hungry shrew.
    ...

  • Famous Bears and Friends: One Hundred Years of Stories, Poems, Songs, and Heroics

    Janet Wyman Coleman

    Offers a collection of stories, poems, and songs that celebrate the origin and diverse history of the teddy bear, complete with a chapter from Winnie-the-Pooh, the complete story of Corduroy, and poems from Judith Viorst and others....

  • Ten Red Apples: A Bartholomew Bear Counting Book

    Virginia Miller

    Virginia Miller’s lovable Ba and George, Little Black Kitten, and an obliging apple tree star in an oversize counting book featuring more and more red apples on every page.

    In Bartholomew’s garden there stands an old apple tree. Ba loves t...

  • Best New American Voices 2003

    Multiple Authors

    Since its launch in 2000, the Best New American Voices series has been acclaimed for the range and originality of its selections, which represent the writers who promise to become the literary stars of tomorrow. The 2003 collection continues the trad...

  • Flower Fairies of the Autumn Celebration

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • Incredible Hulk, Volume 2: Boiling Point

    Bruce Jones

    A fugitive from justice, Dr. Robert Bruce Banner finds himself in the middle of a hostage crisis, caught between a gun-wielding madman, a constricting circle of local police, and dark, predatory forces with motives all their own, and the Hulk is forc...

  • Disney's Pop-Up: Friendship

    Disney Book Group

  • Disney's Pop-Up: Princesses

    Disney Book Group

  • The Ten Thousand

    Michael Curtis Ford

    THE WORLD FEARED THE TEN-THOUSAND, AND ONLY THE GODS COULD SAVE THEM IN THEIR IMPOSSIBLE MISSION... In 401 B.C., a thundering army of mercenaries, camp followers, dreamers, and glory seekers set off to help a rebellious foreign general named Cyrus...

  • Now You See Me // Blindsight

    Tina Wainscott

    EVERYTHING SHE FEARS... Olivia was eight years old when she was trapped in the twisted fantasies of a kidnapper. Escaping with her life, the trauma left her blind, and her innocence shattered. But Olivia would escape with something else -- a psychic...

  • Night Pleasures

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    Dear Reader, Have you ever wanted to know what it's like to be immortal? To journey through the night stalking vampires that prey on humans? To have unlimited wealth, unlimited power? That is my existence, and it is dark and dangerous. I play hero...

  • The Music Thief

    Peni R. Griffin

    In a harsh and noisy time, a young girl's key to her dreams -- music -- may be closer than she thinks.There was a new song playing in the back of Alma's head. An angry song, for Jovita and her killer, and Eddie, and everybody whose family did things...

  • Look at the Baby

    Kelly Johnson


    Take a look at these beautiful babies!

    "Look at the baby’s eyes.
    Look at the baby’s feet.
    Look at the baby.
    Sweet, sweet, sweet!"

    Babies are delicious, from their perfect tiny toes to their scrumptious round cheeks. Thi...

  • A Hundred Days from Home

    Randall Wright

    An adolescent boy struggles with the loss of one friendship and the flowering of a new one.The mouth of the basin had washed away so that the pool had emptied with the runoff from the storm, but the tree still stood, now taller than Elam, the center ...

  • A Bit More Bert

    Allan Ahlberg

    The bumbling, child-friendly hero of The Adventures of Bert returns to transform mundane moments and everyday tasks into "adventures" that are now even more ridiculous. We meet Bert's mother (and learn Bert's secret regarding her boiled cabbage). We ...

  • The Secret Life of Bees

    Sue Monk Kidd

    Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults t...

  • Gideon's Gift

    Karen Kingsbury

    In this powerful holiday story, a man who lost everything has his whole life changed after a little girl’s letter reminds him of the true meaning of Christmas. Ten years later Big Earl meets Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient who believes wi...

  • Old Bob's Brown Bear

    Niki Daly

    A tribute to worn-in, fiercely loved bears

    When Emma's grandfather, Old Bob, gets a teddy bear for his birthday, Emma is jealous. Old Bob just puts Teddy on a shelf with dusty books, which isn't loving the bear as Emma thinks he should be love...

  • Puppy Trouble

    Day

    Pop-up fun from the creator of the Carl books

    A Rottweiler puppy's ingenuity enables him to escape from his dog cage and get himself into loads of domestic mischief - with a little help from readers as they pull tabs and lift flaps. Whether he...

  • The Crush

    Sandra Brown

    Notorious contract killer Ricky Lozada is on trial and Dr. Rennie Newton is on his jury. Bringing the same dedication she displays as a surgeon to this job, she delivers a verdict of not guilty--and discovers she has a new admirer. Days after Lozada'...

  • The Flamboyant

    Lori Marie Carlson

    Inspired by the life of a glamorous American heroine who divided her time between a lush Caribbean island and a New York lakeside retreat, and set against the vibrant backdrop of the 1920s and '30s, The Flamboyant evokes the romance of early aviation...

  • The Sex Life of My Aunt

    Mavis Cheek


    Another delightful romp into life, love, marriage, and infidelity by the author of Mrs. Fytton's Country Life.

    Lovely home, lovely husband, lovely family: apart from the envy of her less contented sister, everything in Dily's rags-to-riche...

  • World Light

    Halldor Laxness

    A magnificently humane novel from the acclaimed Icelandic Nobel Prize winner: as an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation, the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and con...

  • Swan

    Frances Mayes

    A haunting southern tale of long-buried family secrets by the New York Times bestselling author of Under the Tuscan Sun and Under MagnoliaIn her celebrated memoirs of life in Tuscany, Frances Mayes writes masterfully about people in a power...

  • Look at Me

    Jennifer Egan

    NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTʉۢ In this ambitiously multilayered novel from the bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown wit...

  • Nate the Great, San Francisco Detective

    Marjorie Weinman Sharmat

    Join the world’s greatest detective, Nate the Great, as he searches throughout San Francisco to solve the mystery of the lost joke book! Perfect for beginning readers and the Common Core, this long-running chapter book series will encourage childre...

  • Junie B., First Grader: Toothless Wonder

    Barbara Park

    Yikes . . . it's a loose tooth! One of Junie B. Jones's top front teeth is loose! Only Junie B. is not that thrilled about this development. Because what if she looks like toothless Uncle Lou? And even worse . . . what's all this tooth fairy busin...

  • For Biddle's Sake

    Gail Carson Levine

    There she was, chartreuse and warty and smiling at him. Such a nice smile. Something in his heart fluttered.

    The young maiden, Parsley, will eat nothing but parsley, which in Snettering-on-Snoakes grows only in the ...

  • The Fairy's Return

    Gail Carson Levine

    Boy meets princess, and it's love at first sight. Both laugh at the same jokes. Both are named after birds. His name is Robin, hers is Lark. Could there ever have been a more perfect match? But alas! King Harrumphrey won't let Lark marry a baker's s...

  • The War of the Clones

    Marilyn Kaye

    Read the exclusive tell-all about human clones in our midst!Amy knows better than to believe a tabloid newspaper’s far-fetched headlines. But when one of these rags begins a series of reports on the existence of human clones and their desire to cre...

  • The Ghosts of Rathburn Park

    Zilpha Keatley Snyder

    Eleven-year-old Matt Hamilton -- aka the Hamster -- is new in town, and just about the first thing he does is get lost in the woods of Rathburn Park. It's a typically boneheaded thing to do, and Matt is pondering whether starvation is preferable to t...

  • Andrew's Bright Blue T-Shirt

    Jessica Wollman

    When will a little boy be ready to play with the big kids? Andrew loves wearing his brother’s hand-me-down T-shirtâ€"the one with the soccer ball on it. He can’t wait for the day when he’ll be able to dribble the ball with the big kids. So Andr...

  • Shark in the Park!

    Nick Sharratt

    Award-winning children’s illustrator Nick Sharratt has done it again! Young children will love doing the actions, sticking their fingers through the holes, joining in with the repeated phrases, and practicing which is left and which is right. But b...

  • Blossom's Revenge

    Adele Geras

    Blossom, a plump and happy cat, is horrified when 6-year-old Prissy comes to stay with her family. Prissy is the meanest girl Blossom’s ever met, and she’s turning Blossom’s life upside down. When Prissy pulls her tail, Blossom makes up her min...

  • Islands of the Black Moon

    Erica Farber

    Now that you have reached the magical age of 11, it is time for your inheritance. . . .

    So begins the note Lila da Gama receives from a distant aunt, and so begins an adventure that will take Lila much farther than Tiger Lily, her aunt’s cr...

  • Picasso Perkins

    Adele Geras

    Perkins is a wise old tabby cat with a problem: His 8-year-old owner insists on doing his picture for a “Paint Your Pet†competition. Perkins is very fond of Lexie, but really! All he wants in life is a little peace and quiet. Perkins doesn’t e...

  • The Courtesan's Daughter

    Priscilla Galloway

    Phano is almost 15, the traditional age for a woman to marry in ancient Athens. She is in love with Theo, who is 30â€"the traditional age for a man to marry. But marriage may not be an option for her. Her stepmother’s enemy, Phrynion, claims that P...

  • Heaven's All-Star Jazz Band

    Don Carter

    In a text that grooves and swings with the rhythms of jazz, Don Carter celebrates some of America’s greatest jazz legends.
    Grandpa Jack loved jazz. He called it “heavenly.†So now that heaven is where Grandpa Jack’s at, his grandson imagin...

  • King Arthur Knights Round Table

    Emma Gelders-Sterne

    Wizards and knights! Queens and quests! The tales of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table are legendary favorites whose appeal transcends time. This gorgeously illustrated collectionâ€"unavailable for decadesâ€"combines the work of renowned...

  • Battle in the Arena

    Justine Fontes

    Using full-color photos from Star Wars: Attack of the Clones, Battle in the Arena allows young fans to re-live the most exciting sequence in the movie. Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Amidala cleverly escape the clutches of three brand-new Star Wars creaturesâ€...

  • I Am a Bounty Hunter

    Kerry Milliron

    Narrated by Boba Fett, the swashbuckling bounty hunter who captured Han Solo in The Empire Strikes Back, I Am a Bounty Hunter uses full-color photos from the entire Star Wars saga. The book explains the dos and don’ts of bounty hunting while also s...

  • Wild Cats

    Mary Batten

    They roar. They claw. They stalk. They pounce. The wild cats of the world are beautiful, but also deadly. From ferocious lions, speedy cheetahs, and cagey tigers to unusual sand cats and clouded leopards, Wild Cats takes you into the wild....

  • Get Those Puppies

    RH/Disney

    This action-packed board book retells the story of those lovable Dalmatian puppies escaping the clutches of Cruella De Vil and her henchmen. The new Flap-Pop format features flaps and a pop-up on every spread....

  • A Princess Is...

    RH/Disney

  • Meet the Space Rangers

    RH/Disney

  • Vital Signs

    Kathy Herman

    Furious that his girlfriend chose to bring twin babies to term, Dennis walks out of Jennifer's life. And now the Centers for Disease Control have quarantined Jennifer, along with 200 others who attended the reception for a missionary couple bearing a...

  • Thread of the Spider

    Val Davis

    "That car ...belonged to a pair of bank robbers. Their names were Knute and Nora and they were almost as famous as Bonnie and Clyde during the Depression....They got killed in the Green River Massacre, but the car was never found."

    "There's mo...

  • Strapline

    Tiffanie Darke

    What happens when a pornographer takes over a newspaper When celebrity gossip becomes more important than breaking news For journalist Caris Brown, working for porn baron Victor Power becomes unbearable when she discovers his interests stretch deeper...

  • Daredevil: Loves Labor Lost

    Denny O'Neil

    Daredevil and those closest to him are forced to face the bitter sting of heartbreak in all its forms as new relationships blossom, old loves fade away, and tragedy takes its toll amid a globe-spanning super-hero epic stretching from the swamps of Ne...

  • Elektra: Lives Again

    Frank Miller

    Despite the fact that Elektra died in his arms, Daredevil is plagued by recurring nightmares and terrible premonitions that his former lover and world's top assassin-for-hire is not only alive, but active once more....

  • City Girl in Training

    Liz Fielding

    "By the time I'd arrived at my new flat in London, I'd met a tall, dark stranger, discovered he was my new next-door neighbor -- and I'd shown him my knickers! Not bad for a city girl in training! Just between you and me, it was completely unintentio...

  • Bridegroom on Her Doorstep

    Renee Roszel

    Advertising for a husband! The ad had appeared. She'd interviewed the candidates. Jennifer Sancroft was close to selecting a husband who would help secure a vital promotion. But when she met Cole Barringer all the potential candidates paled in...

  • The Contaxis Baby

    Lynne Graham

    Sebasten Contaxis: a gorgeous Greek billionaire. Reputedly, to him women are just for decoration. Lizzie Denton: misunderstood and miserable. She's been wrongly labeled as a heartbreaker. Sebasten decides he'll get his own unique brand ...

  • Tom Finger

    Gillian McClure

    This beautifully illustrated, wintry book has the same magical quality as a classic, long-treasured fairy tale. It begins with a little girl named Queenie sadly calling her Tabby cat, who had recently died. But, instead of her old Tabby returning,...

  • The Blue and the Gray Undercover

    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

    A unique and groundbreaking collection of original spy stories based on real events and people during the Civil War.Battles were won with bullets and sabers on the battlefields of the War Between the States, for sure. But often, the outcome of those ...

  • Summerland

    Michael Chabon

    Summerland is a magical place, where the local Little League gathers to play baseball on a perfectly manicured lawn, and the sun is always shining in a flawless blue sky. However, the small beings known as ferishers, who ensure this perfect weather, ...

  • Crush Depth

    Joe Buff

    Reactionary enemy regimes have brutally taken command in South Africa and Germany. U.S. and European shipping lanes are suddenly under attack. World War is at hand -- and for the ruthless Berlin -- Boer Axis, the devastating weapons of choice will be...

  • The Kill Zone

    David Hagberg

    From the USA Today bestselling author of Joshua's HammerThe President of the United States has appointed Kirk McGarvey interim director of the CIA while his nomination winds its way through Congressional hearings. But what should have been the culmin...

  • Blame It on Eve

    Philana Marie Boles

    Shawni Baldwin has everything she has ever closed her eyes and wished for. She can wrap her arms around a devoted and very sexy fiancé, Bo Delaney, an entertainment attorney. She is living a glamorous life as a successful, jet-setting fashion mo...

  • Wild at Heart

    Jane Graves

    YOU CAN RUN FROM THE PAST... When private investigator Valerie Parker tails a cheating wife late one night, it's business as usual--until the woman is murdered and the man she's with becomes the prime suspect. Val gets an even bigger shock when she ...

  • The Human Pool

    Chris Petit

    Willi Schmidt's actions in World War II were an enigma. He worked for U Intelligence out of Switzerland, cut black-market deals on the side, and rescued scores of Jews from death. Either way, Schmidt drifted in the murky waters between saint and sinn...

  • Old Soldiers Sometimes Lie

    Richard Hoyt

    ON NOVEMBER 14. 1947, General Douglas MacArthur met in private with Emperor Hirohito. They spoke for ninety minutes. To this day, there is not official record of what was discussed…. Over five decades ago, MacArthur permitted General Yamashita Tom...

  • Let There Be Light

    Al Lacy; Joanna Lacy

    What better opportunity to put a bullet in Dan Tyler's heart than being his trusted wife? Murder is Jenny Linden's motive in answering the former prison guard's ad for a mail order bride. She's ready to avenge her father's death in a Confederate pris...

  • Border Dogs

    Karen Palmer

    "Writ[ten] with skill and courage . . . Palmer does the big scenes as perfectly as the small ones." -- Chicago Tribune

    "Mysterious and compelling." -- Publishers Weekly

    "A colorful portrayal of border life, written with steady-handed c...

  • Rosamund

    Bertrice Small

    Rosamund Bolton is the heiress to the manor of Friarsgate on the wild Cumbrian border between England and Scotland. More than a splendid inheritance, Friarsgate will chart the fate of the orphaned beauty widowed at a precious young age. It will take ...

  • Tourmaline

    Joanna Scott

    A vividly imagined novel from award-winning Joanna Scott. In the mid-1950s, an American family travels to an island off the coast of Italy to make a fortune in gemstones....

  • A Matter of Time

    David Manuel

    As a monk, Brother Bartholomew can usually be found tending his garden -- and his soul -- at Cape Cod's Faith Abbey. Until destiny sends him to Bermuda, where he encounters trouble in paradise. A car rolls off the cliffs into the night sea, carryi...

  • An Ordinary Woman

    Donna Hill

    You'll find out soon enough. So I may as well say it now. I slept with my best friend's husband. I want to tell my side... Just hear me out... -- from An Ordinary Woman A beautiful and accomplished photographer Asha and Lisa have been friends ever s...

  • Fishbowl

    Sarah Mlynowski

    Allison can't wait for Jodine and Emma to move in to her apartment -- until she realizes having roommates means living in a fishbowl:You are never alone.When one small, slightly accidental fire leads to one big repair bill, all efforts to avoid each ...

  • Blade

    Christopher Hinz

  • Fallen Angels

    Michael Flynn

    IT ALL HAPPENED SO FAST One minute the two space Hab astronauts were scoop-diving the atmosphere, the next they'd been shot down over the North Dakota Glacier and were the object of a massive manhunt by the United States government. That govern...

  • Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos

    Robert M. Price

    When H. P. Lovecraft first introduced his macabre universe in the pages of Weird Tales magazine, the response was electrifying. Gifted writers -- among them his closest peers -- added sinister new elements to the fear-drenched landscape. Here are som...

  • Captain's Peril

    Judith Reeves-Stevens; Garfield Reeves-Stevens

    The Dominion War is over. The Federation is at peace. What better time for two legendary starship captains to set aside the demands of duty and simply take some well-deserved time off? But when James T. Kirk and Jean-Luc Picard arrive on Bajor to...

  • Baudolino

    Umberto Eco

    A self-confessed liar spins a fascinating tale of his life in this “comic and brilliantly baffling†historical novel by the author of The Name of the Rose (The Guardian, UK).  Constantinople, 1204. The Byzantine capital is under siege by the...

  • Ecstasy

    Nicole Jordan

    Having watched her mother languish away for a lost love, Raven Kendrick vows never to surrender her heart. But when her life erupts in scandal, she is forced to accept a marriage proposal from the wickedly sensuous owner of London's most notoriou...

  • The Infinite

    Douglas Clegg

    Harrow is haunted, they say. The mansion is a place of tragedy and nightmares, evil and insanity. First it was a madman's fortress; then it became a school. Now it lies empty. But an obsessed woman and a ghost hunter want to bring the house back to l...

  • Contact

    Susan Grant

    A beautiful co-pilot faces a terrible choice when her plane is hijacked on a late-night flight over the Pacific. Can she trust the dark-eyed stranger who has seized both her plane and her heart?...

  • A Christmas Blessing

    Maria Greene

    ...All Is Bright Lucas Chandler, Earl of Lyons, has lived like a hermit in his Grosvenor Square mansion since his wife's death, yet it's more than grief he feels -- it's betrayal. His beloved daughter Annie is quite possibly not his at ...

  • Chase the Wind

    Cindy Holby

    It all started with a dream -- a dream of fertile acres, swift stallions, strong sons and beautiful daughters. For a poor Scottish immigrant with a gift of talking to horses, it all began with love. A DARING ESCAPE From the moment he set eyes on...

  • Lord Nabob's Conversion

    Alice Holden
    in

    Dinah Monroe will do anything to keep four orphans and their guardian from being turned out before Christmas -- even if it means inviting their landlord, the impossible Justin Sinclair, to a cookie-baking celebration in the hopes of changing his mind...

  • One Moment in Time

    Linda Hudson-Smith

  • The Husband Hunt

    Jillian Hunter

    Catriona Grant is desperate. Fleeing a forced marriage in Scotland, she arrives on the doorstep of Rutleigh Hall seeking shelter as a distant relation, only to find that Knight Dennison, the Viscount Rutleigh, may be worse than the man she fled. True...

  • I Spy

    Max Allan Collins

    Alex Scott is an ace special government agent who loves his job and his country. Kelly Robinson is a boxing superstar who loves the limelight, the ladies ... and himself. No two men could be less alike -- but now they're going to have to work togethe...

  • Dealt the Devil's Hand

    Peter Brandvold

    Ex-Confederate-turned-bounty-hunter Lou Prophet finds himself the target of a posse out for blood after a confrontation with a young hothead who turns out to be the son of prominent cattleman Gerard Loomis and seeks refuge at the home of female ranch...

  • Christmas in Camelot

    Brenda K. Jernigan

    The Greatest Gifts... Lady Noelle has no intention of marrying just to save her family's castle. She feels nothing for Sir Gavin, the man who will become her husband on Christmas Day. Then she spies Camelot's newest knight, the notorious Sir...

  • The Weedless Widow

    Deborah Morgan

    Antiques picker and ex-FBI agent Jeff Talbot's good friend and fishing buddy, Bill Rhodes, has a collection of fly fishing lures that any collector would kill for. But when someone actually does just that, Jeff must use all his skills to catch his fr...

  • Reunion at Mossy Creek

    Donna Ball
    in

    Welcome back to Mossy Creek! The warm-hearted but stub-born residents of the small town whose motto is "Ain't Going No Where--And Don't Want To" are once again sorting out the joys, sorrows, and everyday mysteries of life. This time around they'v...

  • Death of a PTA Goddess // Death Comes to the PTA

    Leslie O'Kane

    Everybody agrees that talented mom Patty Birch is the perfect president to lead the Carlton Central School PTA to new accomplishments. Under her steady stewardship, the organization verges on winning a prestigious award. Her skills, however, are sore...

  • Knight on the Texas Plains

    Linda Broday

    UNDER A STARRY TEXAS SKY Duel McClain was no knight in shining armor -- he was a drifter who prided himself on having no responsibilities. But a poker game thrust him into the role of father to an abandoned baby, and then a condemned woman stumble...

  • A Twilight Clear

    Linda Cook

    He Would Sacrifice Her Trust... After three long years fighting for his king, Henry Plantagenet, the time has come for Gideon de Macon to return home to the raven-haired wife whose face has haunted his every dream. But their reunion will not be a jo...

  • Reunion at Mossy Creek

    Dee Sterling
    in

    Welcome back to Mossy Creek! The warm-hearted but stub-born residents of the small town whose motto is "Ain't Going No Where--And Don't Want To" are once again sorting out the joys, sorrows, and everyday mysteries of life. This time around they'v...

  • Terminal Run

    Michael DiMercurio

    One ship could revolutionize submarine warfare as we know it: the USS Snarc. A robotic combat sub carrying no crew, the Snarc has proven unbeatable in sea trials. And now it has fallen into the hands of an unseen enemy.   The Snarc’s first cas...

  • Reunion at Mossy Creek

    Carmen Green
    in

    Welcome back to Mossy Creek! The warm-hearted but stub-born residents of the small town whose motto is "Ain't Going No Where--And Don't Want To" are once again sorting out the joys, sorrows, and everyday mysteries of life. This time around they'v...

  • Reunion at Mossy Creek

    Sharon Sala
    in

    Welcome back to Mossy Creek! The warm-hearted but stub-born residents of the small town whose motto is "Ain't Going No Where--And Don't Want To" are once again sorting out the joys, sorrows, and everyday mysteries of life. This time around they'v...

  • Rogue State

    Don Pendleton

    America's defense system faces a deathblow from hidden enemies. For the dedicated warriors of Stony Man, the rules of engagement are straight and to the point: total deniability. Only the President of the United States can deploy the top-secret te...

  • Rogue Warrior

    Don Pendleton

    BLOOD BROTHERS Mack Bolan and Galen Starke fought side by side as Special Forces soldiers against a common enemy in the jungles of Southeast Asia. But now Starke has evolved into a demented prophet of doom -- a madman with an army of mercenaries, ...

  • Always a Lady

    Rebecca Hagan Lee

    The third book in the Marquess of Templeston's Heirs Series begins... When Kit Ramsey goes in search of his destiny, traveling to Inismorn, Ireland to claim an inheritance. Kit doesn't expect his castle, his new title, or his desti...

  • Whispers in the Stars

    Patricia Waddell

    THE HEART OF A GUARDIAN The only female sovereign in the galaxy, Lady Zara was descended from a long line of powerful women--women with the ability to telepathically sense people's emotions. It was a gift that felt more like a curse as she faced t...

  • Holiday Stud

    Kylie Adams
    in

    The only way single, successful career woman Audra Jarecki can face a Christmas homecoming--and the pitying eyes of her family--is with a gorgeous boyfriend on her arm. Hiring hunky Colby Douglas may be the worst mistake of Audra's life...or the answ...

  • The Captain's Secret

    Jenna Mindel

    Secrets of the Heart Dashing, gallant Captain Winston Jeffries has no taste for the ton. He'd much prefer a military post in India to the pleasures of Almack's. But his latest mission of seeking out traitors to the Crown involves feigning to court...

  • The Doomsday Riders

    J.R. Roberts

    In Easterly, Indiana, Clint Adams, the Gunsmith, takes on a bloodthirsty posse calling themselves The Doomsday Riders, a gang responsible for the destruction of at least a dozen small towns. Original....

  • From This Moment On

    Lynn Kurland

    In this sweeping, emotional love story, Lynn Kurland takes us back to the thirteenth century--and all the passion and magnificence of medieval England... Colin of Berkhamshire knows two things--the pleasures of warring and that brides do not want ...

  • Impromptu

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  • Reckless Embrace

    Madeline Baker

    JOEY AND BLACKIE Some folks said they were just two kids who should never have met--a girl from the wrong side of town and a half-breed who was determined to make his mark on the world. Their families had fought on opposite sides at the Little Big...

  • Ballyrourke

    Linda O'Brien

    WHERE THE RAINBOW ENDS... Katherine Rourke has just inherited the Ballyrourke Estate -- a beautiful, sprawling farm on the Irish countryside, complete with a mansion full of priceless antiques. Wondering why it had been kept a secret from her all ...