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  • 'Round the Corner

    Vonette Bright; Nancy Moser

    Evelyn is not so sure she likes the new dynamics of Peerbaugh Place. Even though it had been hard adapting to strangers living in her home, she and the other women (from The Sister Circle) had found a calm cove of sisterhood. Now Evelyn is starting o...

  • 'Twas the Day After Christmas

    Gordon Snell

  • 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas

    Laura Dower

    "The Powerpuff Girls" is Cartoon Network's highest-rated show among kids 2-11. It's a mega-hit! And now the Girls are flyin' in to stores just in time for the holidays with their first original video.

    The Powerpuff Girls' spoiled rival, Prince...

  • "Eat!" Cried Little Pig

    Jonathan London

    Little Pig loves food. He loves to squish it and squash it and wear it in his hair. He slurps it and slops it and gets it everywhere. Toddlers and their tolerant parents will relate to the decadent delight Little Pig takes in eating. The spirited rhy...

  • A 5th Avenue Christmas

    Tracy Cozzens

    They Meet Again... Meryl Carrington, the youngest of the five Carrington sisters, is her mother's darling--and her mother's despair. Matrimony? Meryl seems to have most unladylike plans to run the family railroad empire instead. Fortunately, her fat...

  • Abduction

    Wanda L. Dyson

    "Where's Jessie?" Even as she breathes out the words, Karen Matthews knows that her worst nightmare has become a reality. Her seven-month-old baby is gone, stolen during the night. When the police call a famous psychic, Zoe Shefford, to use her myste...

  • The Abilene Trail

    Dusty Richards

    THE LONG AND WINDING TRAIL Ben McCullough was once an officer in the Confederate Army. Now he's a rancher in the Texas hill country, hoping to earn enough money to settle down and marry. With eight hundred head of cattle to drive north, Ben is...

  • Acceleration

    Graham McNamee

    It’s a hot, hot summer, and in the depths of the Toronto Transit Authority’s Lost and Found, 17-year-old Duncan is cataloging lost things and sifting through accumulated junk. And between Jacob, the cranky old man who runs the place, and the endl...

  • An Accidental Mom

    Loree Lough

    TRUST IS NO ACCIDENT... Lily London had been crushed when Max Sheridan left town to marry someone else. Years later, her heart leaped when he returned to Amarillo, Texas, to take over his mother's diner. Now that she was old enough to do more than...

  • Adopt a Dad

    Marion Lennox

    She wanted more than a green card.... Michael Lord, gruff head of security at Maitland Maternity, had a hard time hanging on to secretaries. But even though he was "difficult," he was also a man who couldn't ignore a damsel in distress. When immig...

  • Adrenaline

    John B. Olson

    Set in the not-so-distant future, Adrenaline introduces James Parker, a biochemistry grad student who discovers a cure for muscular dystrophy, the disease confining him to a wheelchair. However, the cure that began as his salvation appears to have bi...

  • The Adventures of Pinocchio

    Helen Rossendale

    Introducing a whole new generation of readers to this timeless classic, an inventive giftbook edition transforms the story of a wooden puppet, who desperately wants to be a real boy, into a hilarious adventure....

  • After

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    “A revealing, amusing book.” -- San Jose Mercury News

    “Naylor’s easy writing style keeps the story fresh. . . . A story of a likable man and his family, all of whom dearly miss the person who held them together.” -- USA Today

  • Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House

    M.C. Beaton

    THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT... Agatha Raisin, snug and warm in her Carsely cottage, has that same old feeling--boredom--until a report of a haunted house sends her and handsome new neighbor Paul Chatterton to investigate. Suddenly, middle-ag...

  • Ah-Choo!

    Kiki Thorpe

  • Aleutian Sparrow

    Karen Hesse

    In June 1942, seven months after attacking Pearl Harbor, the Japanese navy invaded Alaska's Aleutian Islands. For nine thousand years the Aleut people had lived and thrived on these treeless, windswept lands. Within days of the first attack, the enti...

  • All I Ever Needed

    Jo Goodman

    No one writes romance like Jo Goodman, especially with her magnificent quartet featuring the irresistible men of the Compass Club. In her third installment she holds readers spellbound as Gabriel Whitney, known as East to his friends, enters the life...

  • All I Want

    Holly Chamberlin
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  • All She Needed

    Kate Hoffmann

    July 19, 1983... The Kinards, the Richardses and the Webbers--Seattle's Kennedys. Their "compound"--elegant Forrester Square...until the fateful night that tore these families apart. Twenty years later... Their children were reunited. Repressed ...

  • All She Wants for Christmas

    Janelle Denison
    in

    When sexy pediatrician Matthew Carlton plays Santa, pulling Faith Roberts on his lap, he has no idea what's on her Christmas wish list...or how much he'll enjoy fulfilling every bit of it......

  • All's Fair in Love, War, and High School

    Janette Rallison

    When your chance for getting into college and your date for the prom are all on the line… Sixteen-year-old Samantha Taylor is used to having things go her way. She's head cheerleader and has all the right friends and a steady stream of boyfriends....

  • Alphabet Room

    Sara Pinto

    Starting with the simplest images-apples for A, bowls for B, cat for C-Sara Pinto has taken a magical leap in the concept of alphabet books. Each letter has a door, and behind each door the objects arrange and rearrange themselves so that with every ...

  • Andrew Lost in the Whale

    J.C. Greenburg

    After escaping an underwater volcano, Andrew, Judy, and Thudd drive their submersible vehicle, the Water Bug, right down a whale’s throat!This is the second in a four-book set that will take the kids on a tour of undersea phenomena, from the Great ...

  • Anja the Liar

    Thomas Moran

    Hiding the secret about how she survived German-occupied Krakow during World War II, Anja enters a marriage of convenience with Axis soldier Walter and journeys with him to his family farm in the Italian Alps, where their growing relationship is test...

  • The Antarctic Scoop

    Lucy Jane Bledsoe

    Selected as the next child star for an on-line travel video, twelve-year-old Victoria is thrilled about her upcoming expedition to Antarctica, but things don't go as she had expected and she now must make the most of a bad situation that is sure to c...

  • Apple of My Eye

    Patrick Redmond

    Ronnie Sidney is a perfect child. The illegitimate son of a wartime romance, he gives his mother the unconditional love she so craves. In his mother's eyes Ronnie is faultless: a ray of sunshine in her grey life. But as cracks begin to creep into Ron...

  • April Showers

    Ann Levalley

    Leah McLaughlin welcomes the daunting challenge of rejuvenating the once magnificent gardens of the sprawling Waitehaven estate. She is also excited about the much needed income.

    What the young widow doesn't anticipate is how much of a challenge ...

  • The Artful Alphabet

    Martina Jirankova-Limbrick

    Sure to charm children and collectors alike, this artful alphabet book promises a new discovery each time one opens its whimsy-filled pages.

    "A" is for the amazing abundance of art in this addictive alphabet book! Fine artist Martina Jirankova...

  • As Cool As I Am

    Pete Fromm

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CLAIRE DANES, JAMES MARSDEN AND SARAH BOLGER As Cool As I Am "... packs an emotional punch that sneaks up from behind... Fromm creates an engrossing coming-of-age saga that cuts to the essence and shines."(Seattl...

  • As Seen On TV

    Sarah Mlynowski

    When Sunny Langstein decides to pack up her Florida life and move in with her boyfriend in Manhattan, her big sister isn't thrilled. What modern-day twenty-four-year-old leaves her promising career, fabulous friends and perfect underground parking sp...

  • Attack of the Mutant Underwear

    Tom Birdseye

    In an attempt to leave his "wild and wacky guy" reputation behind, Cody Lee Carlson has made a personal pledge to change his ways when he goes back to school as a fifth grader, but after he is seen in his underwear in a local store by a female classm...

  • Attack on the Redan

    Garry Kilworth

    In the sequel to The Winter Soldiers, "Fancy Jack" concludes his Crimean tour of duty amid the brutal clash of the British and Russian empires. The year is 1855, the port of Sebastopol is still under siege by the Allies, and the czar's troops are put...

  • The Awakening

    Shannon Drake

    The tree-lined streets and mystical shops of Salem, Massachusetts resonate with a seductive and brutal history. New Orleans musician Megan O'Casey has returned to the home of her ancestors to perform, with her husband Finn, in a weeklong series of co...

  • The Babes in the Wood

    Ruth Rendell

    With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy....

  • A Baby in the House

    Pamela Bauer

    The bridesmaid is pregnant.... The stuffy air in the church and her queasy stomach are a bad combination, especially since Krystal Graham is trying to hide her condition -- particularly from Garret Donovan, the groomsman assigned to escort her dow...

  • The Baby Quilt

    Joyce Livingston

    Jackie Reid left her old life behind to start fresh in Alaska, where she tells her friends she's a widow. But when her ex-husband, Sam Mulvaney, shows up, Jackie realizes her simple life is about to become very complicated. Sam left Jackie sevente...

  • Baby, It's Cold Outside

    Donna Kauffman
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    It's been ten years since Suzanna York left Jace Morgan. Now, as fate reunites them during a holiday snowstorm, they'll have plenty of time to discover that distance only sharpens certain hungers......

  • Babylon Rising

    Tim LaHaye; Greg Dinallo

    A BOLD NEW HERO ARISES.... He is a much-needed hero for our times... man of surprising courage, Michael Murphy is an expert on Biblical prophecy and an archaeologist who fearlessly hunts down ancient artifacts in the face of the greatest danger. ...

  • Bad Girlz

    Shannon Holmes

    The bestselling author of B-More Careful, Shannon Holmes, delivers Bad Girlz, another wild adventure into the streets. The setting this time is the Badlands, one of the toughest and poorest communities in Philadelphia. Bad Girlz takes you into the m...

  • Baggage Claim

    David E. Talbert

    In this national bestseller and basis for the smash hit movie starring Paula Patton, Baggage Claim is the story of one woman who decides that she’s done flying solo.When her baby sister announces she’s getting married in thirty days, sexy but sin...

  • Balance of Power

    Richard North Patterson

    An epic story that moves with force, passion, and authority, Balance of Power begins when President Kerry Kilcannon and television journalist Lara Costello at last decide to marry. But the momentous occasion is followed by an unspeakable tragedy--a m...

  • Bangers

    Gary Phillips

    On the streets of L.A., the most dangerous person can be a cop. Us against them. That's the law of the cop world. Out on the mean streets of L.A., the only defense is to be more ruthless than your opponent. You gotta bang with the best of the roug...

  • Barbie of Swan Lake

    Linda Williams Aber

    Barbie is one of the top girls' properties - the world's #1 fashion doll. Now Scholastic is publishing a tie-in with "Barbie in Swan Lake," Mattel's third direct-to-video Barbie movie.

    Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived ...

  • The Beachcomber

    Josephine Cox

    TWO STRANGERS. . . The windswept village of West Bay is hope, an escape, and a future for Kathy Wilson, who dreams of turning the empty cottage she inherited into a home free of the pain and scorn she suffered back in London. As the summer slowly pa...

  • Bear's White Christmas

    Catherine Lukas

    Ojo, Tutter, Treelo, Pip, and Pop are trying their best to be merry on Christmas Eve--even though there is no snow in sight--but they don't really smile until Bear explains that it's sharing the time with those you love that makes the holiday special...

  • The Beast

    Walter Dean Myers

    An exciting, eye-catching repackage of acclaimed author Walter Dean Myers' bestselling paperbacks, to coincide with the publication of SUNRISE OVER FALLUJA in hardcover.

    Seventen-year-old Anthony "Spoon" Witherspoon is returning to Harlem afte...

  • Beatrice's Spells

    Paul Martin; Manu Boisteau

    Welcome to Monster Manor ... where there are more laughs than screams! The monsters in the Manor are driving Beatrice batty! There is always a ghoul getting in her way or a vampire sitting in her favorite spot on the couch. Beatrice decides it is ...

  • Because I'm Worth It

    Cecily von Ziegesar

    Welcome to New York City's Upper East Side where my friends and I live fabulously, go to school occasionally, and play -- constantly. Enter the world of Gossip Girl -- a world of jealousy and betrayal, where everything is hip, beautiful, and far...

  • The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2003

    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, the very best pieces are selected by an editor who is widely recognized as a leading ...

  • Best New American Voices 2004

    John Kulka

    Adam Johnson, William Gay, David Benioff, Ana Menendez, Maile Meloy, Timothy Westmoreland, Amanda Davis, Jennifer Vanderbes, and John Murray: These are just some of the acclaimed writers whose early work has appeared in Best New American Voices since...

  • The Best Thing Yet

    Robin Allen

    Stunning fashion model Tangi Ellington has it all -youth, beauty, fame, and enough money to last a lifetime. She even has a sweet disposition. Yet something special-or more specifically, someone special -is missing. Until she meets compelling Distric...

  • Best Wishes

    Edith Layton
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    In Edith Layton's "Best Wishes", a pair of newlyweds discover--during their first quarrel over Christmas plans-- that making up is indeed the best part....

  • Beyond Borders

    James Ellison

    ONE WOMAN
    Sarah Jordan lived in a dream world. Her beauty and wit made her a favorite of high society, and an opulent life of travel and privilege was hers for the having. Then, in one shocking moment, her eyes were opened to th...

  • The Big Sweep

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Level 2: Reading Independently? More complex stories? Varied sentence structure? Paragraphs and short chaptersThe latest Iceman hockey stick is out, and Otto wants one -- but he doesn't have enough money. Then Lars challenges Otto to ...

  • The Billionaire's Pregnant Mistress

    Lucy Monroe

    When Greek billionaire Dimitri Petronides is forced to give up Xandra Fortune, his beautiful mistress, he's certain she won't be too distraught. For all the intense passion they've shared, she's never let him into her heart, and such ...

  • Birdland

    Tracy Mack

    A Greenwich Village teen finds new meaning in jazz and poetry as he struggles with the earth-shattering loss of his older brother in this acclaimed novel's paperback debut.

    Amid the sparkle and hum of a New York City winter, Jed and his best f...

  • The Bishop Goes to The University

    Andrew M. Greeley

    The irrepressible Bishop Blackwood Ryan returns as his Cardinal dispatches Blackie to The University on the South Side of Chicago to investigate a baffling locked-room mystery. Someone has assassinated a Russian Orthodox monk in his office at the Div...

  • Bittersweet

    Drew Lamm

    Taylor has always thought of herself as an artist, never lacking ideas or creative energy. But when her beloved Grams, who has raised her from infancy, suffers a stroke, Taylor’s world is shaken. People she thought she knew suddenly assume confusin...

  • Black Water

    T.J. MacGregor

    SOME PLACES... As the sun sets on a deserted Florida beach, a desperate man prepares to take his next victim. The young girl seems just the right age to survive the journey through the black water. And if she doesn't...she'll end up like all the oth...

  • Blessings

    Lois Richer

    A thriving medical practice and three rambunctious daughters have Joshua Darling looking heavenward for help. The harried widower's prayers are answered when a young surgeon accepts a temporary position in his small-town practice. Soon the lady docto...

  • Blind Eye

    John Morgan Wilson

    At thirty-two, Benjamin Justice was one of Los Angeles best known journalists. He had the respect and envy of his colleagues, the admiration of his employers and the ear of the city's population. Until he won the Pulitzer Prize for one of his feature...

  • Blood Canticle

    Anne Rice

    Fiery, fierce, and erotic, Blood Canticle marks the triumphant culmination of Anne Rice’s bestselling Vampire Chronicles, as Lestat tells his astounding tale of the pleasures and tortures that lie between death’s shadow and immortality. . . .
    ...

  • Blow Fly

    Patricia Cornwell

    Settling into her new life as a private forensic consultant, Kay Scarpetta agrees to investigate a cold-case in Louisiana--the baffling eight-year-old murder of a woman with a history of blackouts and violent outbursts. Then she receives news that ch...

  • Blue Aliens!: An Adventure in Color

    Tony Porto

    When everything that is blue, from blueberries to blue jeans, begins to go colorless, a young boy is determined to find out who is behind such a dirty deed that is greatly altering the colorful world in which he lives....

  • A Blue Christmas

    Alison Kent
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    Thomas "Blue" Miller never expected to see Jessie Buchanan on his Christmas Tree farm again. But now that she's here, he's ready to show her exactly what she's been missing......

  • Blue's Clues Chanukah

    Jessica Lissy

  • Blue's First Holiday

    Alison Inches

  • The Boat of Dreams

    Richard Preston

    In 1969, William Foster, Sr., a thirty-three-year-old army reserve soldier, is lost in action in Vietnam. He leaves behind his beloved wife, Sarah Ann; a six-year-old daughter, Lila; and a thirteen-year-old son, Will, Jr. They live in a trailer on th...

  • Body of Evidence

    Max Allan Collins

    Early one quiet Monday morning, in an empty executive office, assistant Janice Denard begins to prepare for another ordinary day - but instead discovers evidence of horrific crimes, shocking photographs left abandoned in a printer. Now, with the hel...

  • The Book of Hard Things

    Sue Halpern

    A provocative first novel that explores the porous borders between friendship, sex and loveAt eighteen, Cuzzy Gage has never been out of Poverty, the isolated mountain hamlet where he was born, raised, and--much to the annoyance of his dreamy girlfri...

  • Born To Be Wild

    Anne Marie Winston

    13 YEARS, 1 MONTH, 4 DAYS... Reese Barone counted the days since he'd last seen Celia. He'd sailed around the world and still couldn't erase the memory of making love to her in the summer sun, planning their future. Then false rumors and a blowou...

  • Breakthrough

    Jonathan Stone

    Detective Julian Palmer is taking a break from homicide-or so she thinks. Signing on to assist in a simple insurance investigation, she soon finds herself enmeshed in something far more elaborate. It's a bizarre case, one that leads her from a dead i...

  • A Bride for the Holidays

    Renee Roszel

    Trisha August is determined to be independent and will do anything -- well, almost anything -- for enough money to set up her own business. She can't believe her luck when hotshot Lassiter Dragan promises to give her a loan.... But there's...

  • The Bride of Catastrophe

    Heidi Jon Schmidt

    The much anticipated and darkly comic first novel from a prize-winning storyteller"I grew up on a farm." The year is l974, the place Sweetwater College, and Beatrice Wolfe is telling the story of her life to the glamorous young professor Philippa Say...

  • The Broken Cedar

    Martin Malone

    The Enclave; home to Lebanon's dispossessed. Khalil has made his life here, catering to the needs of UN troops on the Israeli-Lebanon border. His small electrical shop has served him and his family well, has sustained them through turbulent years of ...

  • Build Your Own Haunted Mansion

    Disney Book Group

    One of the most popular Disney theme park attractions comes to life in this spook-tacular new storybook format. Kids will love reading the ghostly story, then punching out the walls of the mansion and assembling it with the nifty nuts, bolts, and wre...

  • Burndive

    Karin Lowachee

    FLASHES AND FLASHBACKS The son of an infamous starship captian, the grandson of a diplomat admiral, and his home station's "Hot #1 Bachelor," Ryan Azarcon lives in a fishbowl. After witnessing a horrific terrorist bombing of his grandfather's emba...

  • The Burning

    William W. Johnstone

    When Frank Morgan sets up camp in a lush valley in Montana, the last thing he expects to see is fires lighting up the night sky as fields, farms and homes are torched by so-called "range detectives" working for two powerful ranchers. For the ranchers...

  • Burning Garbo

    Robert Eversz

    Paroled for a crime she doesn't regret committing, Nina Zero is an ex-con trying to lay low in Los Angeles, a city where not being famous is worse than being dead. She isn't looking for a fight or, for that matter, a friend. But in Burning Garbo -- R...

  • The C.E.O. & The Cookie Queen

    Victoria Chancellor

    Note to Self: A steer is not a pet... I, Greg Rafferty, must not be of sound mind anymore. Why else would I bid on -- and win! -- little Jennifer Jacks's prizewinning bull, um, steer? It could have something to do with her doesn't-look-old-enough-...

  • The Calligrapher

    Edward Docx

    This beguiling novel is a provocative romantic comedy centered on a young London calligrapher named Jasper, who is an engaging, intelligent serial seducer and a breaker of hearts. But when he meets Madeleine, a captivating but enigmatic woman who is ...

  • Cam Jansen and the Tennis Trophy Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Mr. Day's prized tennis trophy had been safely locked in his cabinet. Now it's gone! "I keep the office door and the cabinet doors locked. How could anyone have taken it?" Mr. Day asks. Eric thinks he can solve the case. Cam knows she can. Can you?...

  • Capital Crimes

    Stuart Woods

    When a prominent conservative politician is killed inside his lakeside cabin, authorities have no suspect in sight. And two more deaths--seemingly isolated incidents, achieved by very different means--might be linked to the same murderer. With the he...

  • Captain America, Volume 1: The New Deal

    John Ney Rieber

    In the aftermath of 9/11, Captain America must come to grips with a changing global landscape--from the ruins of the World Trade Center to the horrors of a small town shaken by terrorism--and is forced to make some hard decisions about his role in th...

  • Captain America, Volume 3: Ice

    Chuck Austen

    For decades World War 2 super-soldier Captain America lay in frozen suspended-animation, encased in ice, until he was revived in the modern world to again take his post of protector of the Red, White and Blue. But when a mysterious package arrives at...

  • Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy: Part 2

    Dav Pilkey

    Just when they thought they were out, it pulls them back in! Our heroes beat the Bionic Booger Boy, but they forgot about those rascally Robo-Boogers. Join George, Harold, Mr. Krupp, Melvin Sneedly, and Sulu the Bionic Hamster on an adventure that wi...

  • Care Bears: Catch The Christmas Spirit!

    Katie Tait

    This cardstock pairs the Christmas spirit with a highly recognizable property--Care Bears.

    The Care Bears try to help Grumpy Bear find his Christmas spirit.

    Children will love to read about these adorable bears and learn about their spe...

  • Case of the Best Pet Ever

    James Preller

    Featuring friendship, school, family, and a diverse community, these early illustrated chapter books from James Preller have it all.Got a mystery to solve? Jigsaw Jones is on the case. When Bobby Solofsky is accused of stealing the grand prize for a ...

  • Cat in the Hat Movie

    Jesse McCann / Jesse Leon McCann

  • The Cat in the Hat: Movie Storybook

    Justine Fontes

    The kids slumped in their chairs
    Too glum to complain.
    And to make matters worse,
    It started to rain . . .

    The Cat has arrived, and he’s got a hat full of fun to save Conrad and Sally from a boring rainy afternoon. Written in buo...

  • The Cat Who. . . Cookbook

    Julie Murphy

    An updated edition of the one-of-the-kind cookbook presents more than two hundred delicious recipes and menus inspired by the best-selling mysteries of Lilian Jackson Braun, featuring such dishes as Boot Bean Soup, Chicken in a Dark and Mysterious Sa...

  • Catching the Sunlight

    Harriet Hudson

    When Lucia first meets David Fraser, trustee of an art foundation dedicated to the work of the American sculptor Charles Carr, she falls irrevocably in love. But there are problems in store: Lucia, fascinated by Carr's work--especially his monumental...

  • Centennial Bride

    Debra Lee Brown
    in

    A covert network of secret agents is Colorado's most lethal weapon -- and its only hope. Bound by love, loyalty and the law, these men and women are trained to handle the most clandestine and dangerous cases. As scandal and ruin threaten the state's ...

  • Changing the Rules

    Niqui Stanhope

    Marcel Templeton is determined never to fall for Mr. Wrong again. And no man is going to sweep her off her feet without meeting a few requirements first...Even if that means changing the rules of the dating game. Then the oh-so-fine Ian Michaels saun...

  • The Christmas Blessing

    Donna VanLiere

    Adapted to a film available on streaming and home video, The Christmas Blessing is the heartwarming sequel to the beloved New York Times bestseller, The Christmas Shoes. From NewSong's smash-hit #1 single, to the blockbuster CBS television movie, to...

  • Christmas Crisis

    Nancy Krulik

    Working as one of Santa's elves in the mall, Sabrina unknowingly depletes the real Santa's toy supply giving away toys to unhappy little shoppers, and with only days to spare, she must come up with a plan to save Christmas....

  • Christmas Homecoming

    Pamela Griffin

    This anthology contains three original historical novellas set in the late 1800s, each revolving around the discovery of love at Christmastime and a significant Christmas homecoming.

    A Place to Call Home: The daughter of wealthy high-society paren...

  • Christmas in Big City

    J-P Chanda

    Everyone is making plans to trim the tallest tree in the park, but Oswald can't find a star for the top. As Henry says, no tree is complete without one. What's Oswald going to do? Then something magical happens. Find out what it is as you celebrate ...

  • The Christmas Kiss

    Elizabeth Keys

    'TIS THE SEASON... Proud but poor, Boston socialite Amelia Lawrence has no choice but to become a mail-order bride for a charming Illinois gentleman she's never seen. But when Amelia arrives, she finds that his "Grand Estate" is nothing more than a ...

  • A Christmas Story

    Jean Shepherd

    A beloved, bestselling classic of humorous and nostalgic Americana -- the book that inspired the equally classic Yuletide film and the live musical on Fox. The holiday film A Christmas Story, first released in 1983, has become a bona fide Christ...

  • A Christmas to Remember

    Lauryn Silverhardt

    CAN HE DO IT? YES, HE CAN!
    Bob's twin brother, Tom, is visiting for Christmas, and Bob couldn't be happier! Lennie and the Lazers will be performing on Christmas Eve, and Bob has a lot to do around town before his brother arr...

  • Cinderlily

    David Ellwand

    Where have all the flowers gone? They’re dancing up a storm in this whimsical, wondrous rendition of a well-known fairy tale, created by the one and only David Ellwand.

    For hours beneath the velvet sky they dance without a care,
    Until th...

  • The Citadel of Chaos

    Steve Jackson

  • City of Stars

    Mary Hoffman

    When she purchases a tiny figurine of a winged horse, Georgia's life is greatly altered as this talisman has the power to take her back to different periods in time and away from the chaos in which she lives, such as the land of Remora where the exci...

  • Code Word Kim

    Irene Trimble

    Kim Possible, cheerleader by day, global crime fighter by night, has gotten herself into a real jam. Mad scientist Dr. Drakken is trying to take over the world-again! (Jeez, can't this guy get another hobby already?) Oh, well, no big. Kim's on the ca...

  • A Coldness in the Blood

    Fred Saberhagen

    When the vampire Dickon and his human partner appear in the middle of the night frightened for their lives, the powerful vampire Matthew Maule offers them protection. They carry with them a small Egyptian statue of great value and many secrets. In...

  • Collective Hindsight, Book 1

    Aaron Rosenberg

    STARFLEET CORPS OF ENGINEERS The da Vinci comes across a strange runaway vessel that is giving off tremendous amounts of dangerous energy. However, the ship is not as strange as they think, as they've encountered it once before... During the Domini...

  • The Colossus of New York

    Colson Whitehead

    In a dazzlingly original work of nonfiction, the two time Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys recreates the exuberance, the chaos, the promise, and the heartbreak of New York. Here is a literary love so...

  • Coltrane's Journey

    Danny C. Thornsberry

    A seventeen-year-old mountain boy from the hills of eastern Kentucky dreams of becoming a thirty-a-month cowhand in the Lone Star State. To that end, he heads for Texas via the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, working for a riverman who is transporting a...

  • A Company of Three

    Varley O'Connor

    When Robert, Patrick, and Irene met in New York, they were all determined to become actors, and it felt as if the city--indeed, the world--could be their oyster. Robert was the good-looking, ambitious one. Patrick was tall, ungainly, but naturally dr...

  • Confessions of a Deathmaiden

    Ruth Francisco

    I am a deathmaiden. That's my job. I help people die.... Like a religious call, a career as a deathmaiden is not something you choose: It chooses you ... . The little boy in a coma was sent home to die. But from the moment she touches him, Frances...

  • Constable's Apprehension

    Laurie Moore

    Reserve Deputy Constable Raven returns in this page-turning sequel to the critically acclaimed Constable's Run. This time, Raven's got more problems than just a cheating boyfriend . . .There's Yucatan Jay, who may or may not work for the CIA and is f...

  • Consultant in Crisis

    Alison Roberts

    Danger...deception...desire! Emergency physician Neil Fletcher didn't expect to see Kelly Drummond ever again, let alone attend an Urban Search and Rescue course with her. She abandoned him at the worst time of his life -- and he's never been able...

  • Consuming Fire

    Kathleen Morgan

    BETRAYED BY HER FATHER, ACCOSTED BY HER BETROTHED, AND DECEIVED BY THE ONE MAN WHO HOLDS HER HEART Scottish Highlands, 1694 With one brief meeting, a stranger destroys Maggie Robertson's hopes for her future and threatens everything she has worke...

  • A Convenient Wife

    Sara Wood

    Millionaire Blake Bellamie's just discovered he's not the legitimate heir to Cranford, the grand estate that is everything to him. Nicole Vaseux is the rightful owner. The attraction between her and Blake is instant and so begins a passion...

  • Cornerstone

    Paige Winship Dooly
    in

    Come to the church in the wildwood. . .where the citizens of Hickory Hollow have worshiped for generations. In 1869, the preacher's daughter, Amanda Hodges, is drawn to mysterious newcomer Matt Campbell who helps to build the church. When Matt's croo...

  • Counting on a Cowboy

    Karen Sandler

    COMING HOME TO A COWBOY? Rugged rancher Tom Jarret would move mountains for his precious daughter. But sometimes a father's love just wasn't enough. Miraculously, wandering soul Andrea Larson found a way to reach his troubled little girl, ...

  • Country Storybook: Emperor's New Clothes

    Vince Gill

    Complete with an audio CD with songs sung by famous country singer Vince Gill, a classic tale is given a twist as a fancy dressing CEO demands a one-of-a-kind outfit and gets even more than he intended when his two closest advisors become too fearful...

  • Cowboy Days and Indian Nights

    Kathleen Eagle
    in

    Meredith Woodward had emptied her nest. She didn't need a scruffy rodeo cowboy moving into her home -- or her world. But Ryder Red Hawk was a man prepared to face his past and discover his future -- with her....

  • Cowboy's Million-Dollar Secret

    Emilie Rose

    TEXAS MILLIONAIRE One lucky bachelor was about to inherit millions! And not just any bachelor -- but the chivalrous cowboy Leanna Jensen had coveted ever since she'd read about his boyhood escapades in his illegitimate daddy's old love letters. An...

  • Crocodile Smile

    Sarah Weeks

    10 Songs of the Earth as the Animals See It
    1. Piece of Jungle
      A tufted-eared marmoset tells about the animals, including humans, who call the jungle home.

    2. Pretty Tree
      A young giant panda listens to t...

  • The Cross Kisses Back

    C.R. Corwin

    The morgue is that cold and sterile facility where medical examiners do their necessary, but to many of us, dreadful work. Less familiar is its dry and dusty version, usually housed in the bowels of newspaper buildings, where old story clippings are ...

  • Crossroads

    Irene Hannon

    CROSSROADS After uprooting her teenage son from their small town to the big city, single mom Tess Lockwood discovers that Bruce has fallen in with a gang of troublemakers at school and she finds herself paying a visit to the principal's office. But ...

  • A Crossworder's Gift

    Nero Blanc

    FIVE CROSSWORDS INCLUDED--ANSWERS IN THE BACK! "At last," raves puzzle editor Charles Preston of USA Today, "puzzle fans have their revenge...super sleuthing and solving for puzzle lovers." Now, the irrepressible crossword editor ...

  • The Crying Rocks

    Janet Taylor Lisle

    From Newbery Honor author Janet Taylor Lisle comes a lyrical story about one girl’s discovery of her startling past -- and her search to understand her complicated present.Joelle’s height and dark skin set her apart from everyone in Marshfield. I...

  • Cube Route

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

    For nearly three decades, Piers Anthony's bestselling Xanth series has been delighting tens of thousands of fantasy fans around the world. Now, with Cube Route, the series' twenty-seventh adventure, Anthony has penned a tale that adds another dime...

  • Cyberchase

    Adam Rudman

    An awesome math mystery, based on the hit PBS animated series!

    The evil Hacker is trying to take over Cyberspace, and it's up to Jackie, Matt, and Inez to stop him!

    Jackie, Matt, and Inez are just normal, everyday kids -- they have no a...

  • Cyclops One

    Jim DeFelice

    A white-hot military thriller that pits a brilliant agent against a traitorous cabal within the United States Cyclops One: America's most advanced airborne laser system. It will change the face of combat forever--perhaps rendering war itself obsol...

  • Dangerous Encounter

    Don Pendleton

    Dead End A shoot-out at London's Heathrow Airport finds Mack Bolan on a trail of blood that leads him to the hart of Soho and a turf war brewing among the city's most dangerous elements. With the Triads, Mafia, local mobs and vice racketeers all r...

  • A Dangerous Engagement

    Candace Irvin

    DANGER...DUTY...DESIRE Lieutenant Anna Shale had taken on enough dangerous assignments to know how to play the game -- and win. But when she was asked to investigate her own criminal cousin, Anna's ability to remain impartial was put to the test. An...

  • Danielle's Dollhouse Wish

    Joan Holub

    The fifth book in the Doll Hospital series tells the dual stories of a Parisian dollhouse family from the 1890s and modern-day sisters Rose and Lila.

    Sisters Rose and Lila, ages 10 and 8, are spending the year with their grandmother (who runs ...

  • The Dare

    Elda Minger

    Being the maid of honor comes with many responsibilities. But usually, they don't include spying or stripping... It seems like an odd request--even to a modern girl like Alyssa. Her best friend, Mindy, wants to trust her groom-to-be, but the only ...

  • The Dark

    Marianne Curley

    Isabel and Ethan are joined by Isabel''s brother Matt, who is still getting accustomed to life in the Guard. This time, they must find Arkarian, their ageless mentor, who has been kidnapped and sent to the underworld. Although Isabel and Ethan hav...

  • The Day Nobody Shared

    Nancy Parent

    The fifth in the Care Bears 8x8 storybook series re-introducing the popular Care Bears and their caring and sharing world of Care-a-lot!

    In The Day Nobody Shared, Share Bear makes Good Luck Bear realize the importance of sharing.

    Childr...

  • Dead Certain

    Carla Cassidy

    BONDED BY FATE After coming home and finding her father unconscious and her mother mysteriously missing, homicide cop Savannah Tallfeather teamed up with the one person she knew she could trust. Riley Frazier had faced a similar situation nearly t...

  • Dead I Well May Be

    Adrian McKinty

    This Irish bad-boy thriller -- set in the hardest streets of New York City -- brims with violence, greed, and sexual betrayal. "I didn't want to go to America, I didn't want to work for Darkey White. I had my reasons. But I went." So admits M...

  • Dead in 5 Heartbeats

    Ralph "Sonny" Barger

    Ralph "Sonny" Barger first gained the attention of the book world with his bestselling memoir Hell's Angel. Now he uses what he's learned from a life insidea subculture few will ever know to create his no-holds-barred first novel, giving readers a ta...

  • Dead Ringer

    Annie Solomon

    A DARING WOMAN Angelina Mercer is Federal Agent Finn Carver's last, best hope. The hunt for a dangerous weapon has led him to her door with a proposition that could be her salvation or destruction. It's her one shot at turning around a life gone wro...

  • Dear Mrs. Lindbergh

    Kathleen Hughes

    "A compassionate exploration of a woman's life -- between motherhood and dreaming, living the everyday and taking flight." -- Jane Mendelsohn, author of I Was Amelia Earhart When two elderly Iowans, Ruth and Henry Gutterson, disappear mysteriously on...

  • Death at the Spring Plant Sale

    Ann Ripley

    When Louise Eldridge covers the spring plant sale of the venerable Bethesda Garden Club for her television show, she finds blue-blooded traditions, deeply rooted resentments--and fertile ground for murder... Louise comes to the Bethesda Garden Clu...

  • The Defender

    Bill Mesce Jr.

    The case against Lieutenant Dominick Sisto is overwhelming. It's so overwhelming that Major Harry Voss hasn't been called in to prove him innocent--but to fight for a less severe sentence when the guilty verdict is read. Charged with disobeying a dir...

  • Destination Murder

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    Everyone's favorite crimesolver takes a ride on the historic Whistler Northwind train through Canada...in this very special twentieth novel in the bestselling series. Celebrity mystery writer Jessica Fletcher has always loved Vancouver. So when he...

  • Destruction of Illusions

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant -- a mighty vessel of the Systems Commonwealth that encompassed three galaxies -- finds himself a man out of time. Three hundred years have passed, the Commonwealth has fallen, and chaos reigns in the Kno...

  • The Devil She Knew

    Evelyn Vaughn
    in

    When Marcy Bridges discovered a portal to hell in her closet, she needed help from the last person she wanted to call -- her gorgeous landlord. Could she trust her life -- and her heart -- to the care of a dark, dangerous stranger?...

  • The Devil's Spark

    J.R. Roberts

    Arriving in the town of Gemmell, Idaho, Clint Adams must protect his old friend Peter Banks, who is working on a top-secret weapon prototype for the U.S. Army, from a ruthless gang of outlaws who are determined to steal this weapon for their boss - a...

  • Dexter's Big Switch

    Pam Pollack

    Since its debut in 1996, DEXTER'S LAB has been one of Cartoon Network's top-rated shows. Now Scholastic teams up with the boy genius and his pesky sister Dee Dee for original chapter and picture books

    When Dee Dee interferes with Dexter's Virt...

  • Dexter's Ink

    Howie Dewin

    Since its debut in 1996, DEXTER'S LAB has been one of Cartoon Network's top-rated shows. Now Scholastic teams up with the boy genius and his pesky sister Dee Dee for original chapter and picture books

    Dexter is sick and tired of doing stupid c...

  • Digital Knight

    Ryk E. Spoor

    IN THE BATTLE AGAINST DARKNESS, THE BRIGHTEST WEAPON IS THE LIGHT OF REASON Jason Wood was just an information specialist-finding data for research, enhancing photos for the police, a nice, usually quiet profession whose only dangers came from an ...

  • Dirty Fire

    Earl Merkel

    A SHOCKING CRIME… Once police officer John Davey had everything … until bribery charges destroyed his life. Now he’s been given a second chance. He’s asked to join the investigation into the baffling murder of a Chicago couple who were sho...

  • Disney: My First 1000 Words: A Picture Wordbook

    Disney Book Group

    Disney characters invite children to discover the world of words in a new and magical way with My First 1000 Words. Thematic environments such as Beauty and the Beast's "Be Our Guest" and The Lion King's "Jungle Animals" bring a real-life context to ...

  • The Distant Echo

    Val McDermid

    It was a winter morning in 1978, that the body of a young barmaid was discovered in the snow banks of a Scottish cemetery. The only suspects in her brutal murder were the four young men who found her: Alex Gilbey and his three best friends. With no e...

  • A Dollar and a Dream

    Carl Weber

    Which of us hasn't daydreamed about what we'd do if we won the lottery? A Dollar And A Dream brings those fantasies to hilarious, heartbreaking life in three stories by #1 national bestselling author Carl Weber and La Jill Hunt, Essence bestselling a...

  • Door to Door

    Tobi Tobin

    In this edgy, frenetic fictionalized memoir, a small-town girl turned linchpin of the Los Angeles club scene draws on her intoxicating but conflicted years working the door of Hollywood's hottest clubs to pen a striking story of ambition, loss, and l...

  • Double Duty

    Alison Roberts

    E.R. Professionals: Dr. Joe Petersen & Dr. Felicity Munroe Felicity Munroe couldn't wait to put the arrogant new neurosurgeon, Joe Petersen, in his place. First he'd thought she was just a bystander at an accident scene, then he mistook her for a ...

  • Down the Garden Path

    Gerald Hammond

    When May Forsyth goes to work as gardner at Cannaluke House, she doesn't expect to find a dead body, and she certainly doesn't expect to fall for the investigating officer, but as the enquiry develops, they get to know each other much better and buri...

  • Dr. Bodyguard

    Jessica Andersen

    PROTECTOR...LOVER She'd been a prodigy since birth, a woman for whom no puzzle was unsolvable. But when she was attacked in her very own research lab, brilliant, reserved Dr. Genie "Genius" Watson quickly discovered that this time she didn't have ...

  • Dr. Franklin's Island

    Ann Halam

    Semi, Miranda, and Arnie are part of a group of 50 British Young Conservationists on their way to a wildlife conservation station deep in the rain forests of Ecuador. After a terrifying mid-air disaster and subsequent crash, these three are the sole ...

  • Dragon Venom

    Lawrence Watt-Evans

    After many years of peace in the Lands of Men, there came Dragon Weather: a wave of incredible heat, oppressive humidity, dark angry clouds . . . and dragons. Dragons with no remorse, no sympathy, no use for humans; dragons who destroyed an entire vi...

  • Dragon's Breath

    E.D. Baker

    When your grandmother is a cranky old witch, your intended prince is a jerk, and your kingdom is about to be invaded, "happily ever after" can be exasperating. But from the bottom of the fishbowl sea to the heights of the mountaintop Dragon Olympics...

  • Dragon's Lair

    Sharon Kay Penman

    July 1193: Richard Lionheart, eldest and most favored son of Dowager Queen Eleanor, languishes in a German dungeon, held for ransom by the Holy Roman Emperor. In England, his brother John, desperate for the crown, plots with the King of France to mak...

  • Dragon's Merry Christmas

    Dav Pilkey

    From Dav Pilkey, creator of the #1 New York Times bestselling Dog Man and Captain Underpants series, comes Dragon, the heartwarming hero adored by Dav's youngest readers!Pick a book. Grow a Reader!This series is part of Scholastic's early reader line...

  • Dream Jungle

    Jessica Hagedorn

    Jessica Hagedorn has received wide critical acclaim for her edgy, high-energy novels chronicling the clash and embrace of American and Filipino cultures. With Dream Jungle, she achieves a new level of narrative daring.

    Set in a Philippines of despe...

  • Dying for Dana

    Jim Patton

    Max Travis is one of the country's best prosecutors. In court, few can match his determination to bring criminals to justice, even if it's at the expense of his own personal life. When two of Max's close friends are the victims of a violent robber...

  • Ears of Corn

    Patrick Jennings

    While visiting their grandparents' farm, Ike and Mem get upset over all the chores they have to do and complain that it takes away from their fun time of eating pies and riding ponies, yet life on the farm requires everyone's help and soon Ike and Me...

  • Earth X Vol. IV: Paradise X Book I

    Jim Krueger

    SC, TPB, in cello, New, Written by JIM KRUEGER and ALEX ROSS. Art by DOUGIE BRAITHWAITE, BILL REINHOLD, STEVE PUGH, STEVE YEOWELL, and BILL SIENKIEWICZ. Cover by ALEX ROSS. Published in 2007. Softcover, 304 pages, full color. Cover price $29.99....

  • Echoes Of War

    Don Pendleton

    America's most powerful and covert counterterrorist group, Stony Man, rises to the challenge that comes with defending world peace and freedom. But now this elitecorps of brilliant cyber warrior and crack field commandoes is facing a crisis that th...

  • Elf and the City

    Leslie Goldman

    Buddy Hobbs, who was adopted by elves and raised at the North Pole, travels to New York City at Christmastime to meet his biological father, never realizing that life in the city is not quite what he expects it to be....

  • Elf: A Junior Novel

    Ellen Weiss

  • Elf: Buddy's Little S

    Buddy Hobbs

    Fans of the film ELF will love Buddy's Little (S)ELF Help book -- a little paperback instruction book full of elfisms! Chock full of hilarious sayings and advice from Buddy the Elf, this book is the perfect stocking stuffer or holiday gift....

  • Elizabeth Costello

    J.M. Coetzee

    In his new work of fiction, J. M. Coetzee has crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale told through an ingenious series of formal addresses. Vividly imagined and masterfully wrought, Elizabeth Costello is, on the surface, the story of a woman's l...

  • Emily's Beau

    Allison Lane

    He Stole Her Heart Jacob Winters, Earl of Hawthorne, is in no position to act as guardian to a spoiled nineteen-year-old girl. As a notorious member of London's most charming trio of rakes, Jacob decides it's best to foist his new charge onto his ...

  • Emily's Christmas Wish

    Sharon Stancavage

    A NAUGHTY SCHEME... For Nigel Manning, Earl of Stratford, this Christmas promises to be less than merry. His scapegrace brother, Roger, pawned a family heirloom with reputed mysterious powers. And, as had luck would have it, the pendant's new owner ...

  • Empty Hand

    J.R. Roberts

    When he saves Motega, a lone Indian warrior, from a ruthless gang of self-appointed bounty hunters, Clint Adams agrees to help him rescue his Chinese master, who is an indentured servant to a dangerous businessman who has a vast array of hired killer...

  • Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of the Jumping Frogs

    Donald J. Sobol

    Can the secret weapon in Idaville’s war on crime really be a ten-year-old boy in sneakers? It can if it’s Encyclopedia Brown! Encyclopedia is back with ten all-new mysteries to solve, along with the help of his partner, Sally Kimball, the prettie...

  • Endgame

    Chris Wooding

    When an environmental disaster sparks off a conflict in the Far East which looks like it could lead to World War III four friends in Sheffield must face up to their worst nightmares. The prospect of a nuclear attack forces Kayleigh, Mayner, Wren and ...

  • Eternal City

    Nancy Kilpatrick

  • The Ethos Effect

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    Commander Van C. Albert is a good officer with bad luck. It seems to have changed when he becomes a military attache on Scandya, and prevents an assassination, but he wakes from a coma to find himself decorated, promoted and summarily retired. Then t...

  • Everything Will Be All Right

    Tessa Hadley

    The profoundly different choices of a mother and her daughter infuse this rich, expansive novel with both intimate detail and wide resonanceWhen Joyce Stevenson is thirteen, her family moves to the south of England to live with their aunt Vera. Joyce...

  • Evil Unveiled

    Robert R. McCammon

    In the Carolinas of 1699, after sentencing Rachel Howarth to death by burning, Matthew, the young clerk of magistrate Isaac Woodward, embarks on his own investigation into Rachel's claims and discovers that he must conquer a powerful and evil force t...

  • The Expanse

    J.M. Dillard

    High above the planet Earth, an alien probe appears -- and in an unspeakably horrific instant, releases a deadly blast that strafes the planet's surface, leaving a miles-wide, smoldering crater of destruction in its wake. Millions die in Florida, Cub...

  • Exposed

    Jeanne Betancourt

    From award winning author Jeanne Betancourt the 2nd in the series about Maya, Joy and Carolyn, 3 unlikely friends who meet at a photo-workshop in Greenwich Village, NYC.

    Joy: Now living at her mom's full time. She thinks she'll have more freed...

  • The Eye of the Abyss

    Marshall Browne

    It is Germany, 1938, and Franz Schmidt is the chief auditor in a commercial bank in a provincial city. But as Schmidt will soon learn, the bank's prestigious new client, the Nazi party, is at once its least desirable. Schmidt will oversee their accou...

  • A Fair Exchange Is Robbery

    Jeffrey Ashford

    Description When Gavin Penfold finished work that evening, he was thinking only of looking forward to an evening drink with his wife before dinner at their beautiful home in the country. But his journey was soon brutally interrupted by men who hijack...

  • A Faker's Dozen

    Melvin Jules Bukiet

    The wicked exploits of an assortment of louts and losers occupy Melvin Jules Bukiet's profligate imagination in these delectable stories. The title of Melvin Jules Bukiet's latest collection hints at the deceitful nature of its multiple protagonists....

  • Fall Is For Friends

    Suzy Spafford

    A beautiful picture book featuring favorite characters from the world of Suzy's Zoo.

    Suzy Ducken and her best friend Emily Marmot are having a hard time waiting for the leaves to fall. They try everything to encourage them to drop, from cheerl...

  • Fall of a Kingdom

    Hilari Bell

    WHO WAS SORAHB? Stories are told of a hero who will come to Farsala's aid when the need is greatest. But for thousands of years the prosperous land of Farsala has felt no such need, as it has enjoyed the peace that comes from being both respected an...

  • Familiar Double

    Caroline Burnes

    PICTURE PURRRFECT Someone wanted gorgeous stunt double Nicole Paul out of the picture in more ways than one. Except Familiar, the crime-solving black cat, knew only her rugged boss, Jax McClure, believed she was being framed for a jewel theft. But...

  • The Family Book

    Todd Parr

    There are so many different types of families, and THE FAMILY BOOK celebrates them all in a funny, silly, and reassuring way. Todd Parr includes adopted families, step-families, one-parent families, and families with two parents of the same sex, as w...

  • A Family Christmas

    Mary Balogh
    in

    A Family Christmas brings together a couple estranged since just after their arranged marriage the year before, and gives them the perfect chance to start over....

  • Fantasy Fulfilled

    Linda Hudson-Smith
    in

    Linda Hudson-Smith brings back favorite characters Ashleigh Ayers and football star Austin Carrington in a tender story of thwarted desire and new beginnings. Ashleigh and Austin's happiness is threatened when Austin's beautiful ex-fiancee hatches a ...

  • The Far Side of the Stars

    David Drake

    While the Republic of Cinnabar is at peace with the Alliance, warriors like Lt. Daniel Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy must find other work--like escorting a pair of wealthy nobles on an expedition to the back of beyond! The Princess Cecile, th...

  • The Favorite Game

    Leonard Cohen

    In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour " a series of motion pictures fed through a hig...

  • Fearless

    Doranna Durgin

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... PRETTY POISON The gang at Angel Investigations is well versed in the nuances of demon fighting. So they're surprised to find themselves euphorically giddy after a long night of...what? Their...

  • Feast of Fools

    Bridget Crowley

    In England in the late thirteenth century, a young chorister at the Cathedral of Saint Aelred, outcast because of his crippled foot, sympathizes with the city's other outcasts, the Jews, and sets out to prove their leader innocent of murder....

  • A Fine Dark Line

    Joe R. Lansdale

    It is the summer of 1958 in Dewmont, Texas, a town the great American postwar boom passed by. The kids listen idly to rockabilly on the radio and waste their weekends at the Dairy Queen. And an undetected menace simmers under the heat that clings to ...

  • A Fine Line

    Kathy Herman

    Baxter residents fear upheaval when a regional tire plant announces it's coming to Baxter. Rumor says mayor Charlie Kirby's signature on the deal was influenced by an affair with the tire company's corporate attorney - who dies suddenly after the agr...