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  • How the Ostrich Got a Long Neck

    Verna Aardema

  • Three Little Kittens in the Enchanted Forest: A Pop-up Adventure

    Hilary Aaron

    The adventures of three little kittens--Max, Buttons, and Ginger--are highlighted by elaborate pop-ups and three punch-out, die-cut kittens as they set out to retrieve their stolen mittens from the Magic Mountain Bird in the enchanted forest....

  • Danger Guys on Ice

    Tony Abbott

    While attempting to have a relaxing afternoon on the ski slopes, our Indiana Jones-style heroes discover a prehistoric ice man. And the deeper they go into a cavernous tunnel, the deeper they're pulled into a mad plot to take over the world with an a...

  • Casper Brainy Book

    Knowledge Adventure

    Your child can discover how much fun reading and learning can be! The Casper Brainy Book builds reading skills with its entertaining interactive Storybook adapted from the motion picture by an award-winning children's author. The Casper Brainy Book a...

  • Jolly Pocket Postman

    Janet Ahlberg

    Everyone's favorite postman finds himself in Alice's Wonderland, knee-high to a Mad Hatter, but nothing can stop the Jolly Postman from completing his mail route as he travels through the Emerald City with Dorothy and other fairy-tale favorites....

  • An Old-fashioned Thanksgiving and Other Stories

    Louisa May Alcott

    "You will see what I can do. Ma said I was to use my judgment about things, and I'm going to. All you children have got to do is to keep out of the way, and let Prue and me work. Eph, I wish you'd put a fire in the best room, so the little ones can p...

  • Eight Cousins, or the Aunt Hill

    Louisa May Alcott

    Orphaned Rose Campbell can't bear the thought of one more dreary day at boarding school. With nowhere else to go, she arrives at the "Aunt Hill" to live with her six aunts and seven boy cousins. Life at the Aunt Hill is bewildering at first, and t...

  • Municipal bondage

    Henry Alford

  • Best Friends Together Again

    Aliki

    "Peter and Robert, introduced in We Are Best Friends, are together again. As the boys look forward to Peter's two-week visit, they are both excited and a little apprehensive about how the other might have changed. All concern soon vanishes and they e...

  • The Shattered Sphere

    Roger MacBride Allen

    Striving to retrieve a stolen planet Earth and restore it to its proper solar system, an unlikely band of human scientists, dictators, and professional troublemakers face two enemies in the powerful Charonians and the mysterious Adversary. Reprint....

  • Showdown at Centerpoint

    Roger MacBride Allen

    THE ADVENTURES OF STAR WARS REACH THEIR EXPLOSIVE CONCLUSION IN BOOK THREE OF THE CORELLIAN TRILOGY... When a loyalist ship approaching Selonia is blasted out of space, Han Solo quickly realizes that rebel forces are turning planetary repulsors in...

  • Murder on the Atlantic

    Steve Allen

    That witty amateur detective Steve Allen is back in another wickedly entertaining mystery as he and his vivacious wife Jayne Meadows take to the high seas on a luxury cruise that leads--where else?--to murder. A reclusive billionaire has invited Ste...

  • Paula

    Isabel Allende

    Paula is a soul-baring memoir that seizes the reader like a novel of suspense. When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling...

  • Scanlin's Law

    Susan Amarillas

    Kidnapped! The word tore at Rebecca's heart. Her child was gone. And standing before her was Luke Scanlin, U.S. Marshal, the only man who could save her son. But how could she trust him again when she knew that Luke held the power to ruin her...

  • Fancy Free

    Catherine Anderson
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    Everyone loves a wedding...Nothing lifts our hearts like the joyous peal of wedding bells. Or the sight of a happy couple being showered with confetti and good wishes. Now the most exciting new names in romantic fiction -- and the bestselling author ...

  • Shadow Academy

    Kevin J. Anderson; Rebecca Moesta

    JACEN and JAINA When the Empire died, they were born--a new hope for the New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new, ...

  • Dalliance and Deception

    Sylvia Andrew

  • Rattlebone Rock

    Sylvia Andrews

  • Becket

    Jean Anouilh

    The celebrated play that draws from historical events in the Norman conquest of England to create a profound portrait of a man's soul -- and a transcendent vision of the human spirit

    From its powerful opening scene, of a naked King Henry II p...

  • Disney's Tales from Agrabah

    Katherine Applegate

  • Some Fine Grampa!

    Alan Arkin

    Grampa's amazing stories about living in the jungle with card-playing gorillas and meeting a polar bear who knits sweaters make people think his mind is wandering, but Molly believes he is telling the truth....

  • Heaven and Earth: A Jacob's Ladder Book

    Hilary Arnold

  • No More Water in the Tub!

    Tedd Arnold

    William is getting ready for his bath when the faucet breaks, sending him and his tub surfing through the building! On his wet ride, he collects a strange fleet in his wake -- from Uncle Nash, who sits in the trash, to Little Dottie, who sails the po...

  • Five Ugly Monsters

    Tedd Arnold

  • Little Champ

    Jim Arnosky

    While staying with their grandparents on Lake Champlain, Gina and Bobby are sure they've seen the legendary monster said to swim the lake. Now, with Grandpa's help, Gina and Bobby set out on an exciting quest to prove what they saw. Arnosky draws on ...

  • The Magdalene Gospel

    Mary Ellen Ashcroft

    Jesus touched the lives of many women with  compassion, love, and forgiveness. However, the story of  the women who followed Jesus goes almost unnoticed  in the gospels. The Magdalene  Gospel shatters the centuries of silence imposed on  th...

  • Hen Lake

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

    Practicing ballet moves rather than scratching for bugs or laying eggs, Poulette the dancing chicken challenges the obnoxious Percival Peacock to a talent contest and trains her fellow chickens to perform Hen Lake. ...

  • Eternity

    Neffetiti Austin

    Success was all she wanted. Brandy had always been a shining star, first as a student and now as a rising young attorney in a top Los Angeles law firm. Dedicated, determined, and ambitious, Brandy was willing to give up everything, even love, to succ...

  • Gideon's Bride

    Amelia Autin

    WIDOWED AND WANTING Just yesterday, it seemed, Gideon Lowell was a contented family man. Now he was alone, with three children to raise and a ranch to run. His heart wasn't ready for courtship, but his kids needed a mother. And he needed a woman's...

  • Poppy

    Avi

    KING OF THE NIGHT At the very edge of Dimwood Forest stood an old charred oak where, silhouetted by the moon, a great horned owl sat waiting. The owls name was Mr. Ocax, and he looked like death himself. With his piercing gaze, he surveyed the lands...

  • Pass the Bread!

    Karin Luisa Badt

  • Let's Go!

    Karin Luisa Badt

  • Young Adolf

    Beryl Bainbridge

    In this hilarious and ingenious novel set in 1912, Young Adolf Hitler, age twenty-three, comes to Liverpool, penniless, traveling with false papers, and perpetually stalked by imaginary enemies. His half-brother, Alois, who works as a hotel waiter an...

  • Psykosis

    Wilhelmina Baird

    Fifteen years after the Third Alien War, which left his mind and body devastated, Sword is horrified when the Aliens return and the government calls upon him to represent the Earth's military to negotiate a peaceful agreement. Original....

  • Most Likely to Deceive

    Jennifer Baker

    Hoping to attain popularity at Hillcrest High, new student Suzanne Willis befriends Nikki Stewart and her attractive boyfriend, Luke Martinson, and Nikki's friend Victoria warns Nikki that Suzanne is bad news. Original....

  • Lakota Renegade

    Madeline Baker

    THE OUTLAW HEART Handy with six-guns and fists, Creed Maddigan liked his women hot and ready. But the rugged half-breed wasn't used to innocent girls like Jassy McCloud who curtsied and made ginger snaps. Then Creed was falsely jailed for a crim...

  • The Californian

    Todhunter Ballard

  • A Date With Dr. Frankenstein

    Leanne Banks

    IS HE DR. DREAMDATE? Congratulations, Andie Reynolds! You know why the local kids call your neighbor Dr. Frankenstein. He never emerges from his big old house and spends his time concocting explosive experiments. When-you went to visit, you half e...

  • Theatre Book

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • Thicker Than Water

    Linda Barlow; William G. Tapply

    Dr. Rachel Morgan inherited mystical healing powers from her mother, Ruth Morning Star, who suffered only pain and persecution as a result of her "gift". Rachel has always denied her legacy, but now, with the lives of her son, Jake, and the man she l...

  • Taking Time for Tea

    Emilie Barnes

  • Imagine

    Jill Barnett

    After years in prison for a murder he never committed, escaped convict Hank Wyatt knew how to survive. But he didn't know if he could last an hour marooned on a deserted tropical island with a beautiful blonde and three orphaned children. Now, lookin...

  • Flawless

    Adam Barrow

    A flawlessly handsome and intelligent serial killer with an investigator on his trail looks to his father, just released from prison, for redemption, and to his pretty next-door neighbor for love or prey. Reprint....

  • Painted Desert

    Frederick Barthelme

    Motivated by the horrors of the L.A. riots and the spectacle of O. J. Simpson's Bronco ride, Jen and Del decide to take a road trip to Los Angeles, and their mission takes them into the heart of American culture. Reprint....

  • By the Light

    Lionel C. Bascom

    A collection of personal accounts presents the experiences of people who have had life-changing near-death experiences, including Kate, a woman with terminal cancer who returned from the brink of death completely healed. Original....

  • My Grandma Lived in Gooligulch

    Graeme Base

  • Wicked

    Michael Bates

    Andy has the chance of a lifetime. His cousin, Steve "Stealth" Thurman, is a famous masked rock star who's had enough of life in the fast lane. Andy is more than happy to take on Steve's life behind the mask. But there were some things cousin Steve d...

  • Off to School

    Gwendolyn Battle-Lavert

    Wanting to go to school more than anything else, young sharecropper Wizielee works in the fields, cooks the noonday meal, and envies the landlord's daughter, until a humorous kitchen disaster makes her dream come true....

  • Guess Where You're Going, Guess What You'll Do

    A.F. Bauman

  • A Queer Kind of Umbrella

    George Baxt

  • Who Killed James Dean?

    Warren Newton Beath

    Forty years after young James Dean dies tragically in California, a cult of devoted Dean worshippers fervently anticipates the return of its idol in the wake of strange events that include the disappearance of Dean's body and several murders...

  • Another You

    Ann Beattie

    To her latest novel, Beattie brings the same documentary accuracy and Chekhovian wit and tenderness that have made her one of the most acclaimed portraitists of contemporary American life. Marshall Lockard, a professor at the local college, is contem...

  • Minus Tide

    Robin Beeman

    Working through the themes of commitment, love, forgiveness, and responsibility, a novella traces the life of an intense, beautiful woman who returns to her small hometown only to die in an automobile accident. IP. ...

  • The Smell of Apples

    Mark Behr

    Winner of the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction from the Los Angeles Times
    Winner of the M-Net Award
    Winner of The Eugene Marais Award
    Winner of the CNA Literary Award
    Winner of the Betty Trask Award
    A Booker Prize Nominee

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  • Jenny's Corner

    Frederic Bell

  • The Doom of the Haunted Opera

    John Bellairs

    Two kids find a haunted opera score capable of raising the dead! When Lewis Barnavelt and Rose Rita Pottinger explore an abandoned theater, they discover an unpublished opera score entitled “The Day of Doom”. Ignoring a strange omen, they sh...

  • Writing Home

    Alan Bennett

    Bringing together the hilarious, revealing, and lucidly intelligent writing of one of England's best known literary figures, Writing Home includes the journalism, book and theater reviews, and diaries of Alan Bennett, as well as "The Lady in the Van,...

  • Sunset Spirit

    Cherie Bennett

    When the Flints land a big recording contract with Polimar Records, the original members of the gang join together again and launch a tour, but their subsequent adventures change everyone's lives. Original....

  • Range of Motion

    Elizabeth Berg

    "I can tell you how it happened. It's easy to say how it happened. He walked past a building, and a huge chunk of ice fell off the roof, and it hit him in the head. This is Chaplinesque, right? People start to laugh when I tell them..." So begins th...

  • Extinction

    Thomas Bernhard

    From the late Thomas Bernhard, arguably Austria's most influential novelist of the postwar period, and one of the greatest artists in all twentieth-century literature in the German language, his magnum opus.Extinction, Bernhard's last work of fiction...

  • Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me

    Cari Best

  • Demon Wing

    David Bischoff

    Receiving a tip that something big is going down in the shadowy firm known as "Cost & Gnostra," planet Altor police team Patrick Brogan and Jack Haldane go incognito to uncover a crime organization with roots back on Earth. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Chase the Sun

    Rosanne Bittner

    ALL HE LIVED FOR WAS VENGEANCE... Just a boy when he saw his family massacred, Captain Zack Myers had joined the army for one purpose only -- to take revenge against the Indians who'd destroyed his world. Even the peerless beauty of a colonel's daug...

  • Until Tomorrow

    Rosanne Bittner

    Tonight, they had passion. But love would have to wait ... UNTIL TOMORROW Addy Kane couldn't wait to leave her small Illinois hometown to take a teaching job in the gold-rich Colorado hills. Then robbers burst into the bank where she was withdrawi...

  • The Book of Color

    Julia Blackburn

    In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping out fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is ...

  • Out of the Dark

    Jennifer Blake
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    He loves without question. He is strong and silent, tender yet tough. He's all any woman would ever want. In a cat, that is. Now three bestselling authors are brought together in this wonderful collection of historical romances filled with fiery pass...

  • Sick

    Jay Bonansinga

    When a mysterious growth on exotic dancer Sarah's mind is discovered to actually be the growing seed of an evil force, Sarah and a team of medical scientists set out to destroy it before discovering that the cure is twice as deadly. Original....

  • Welcome to This World: A Love Letter to Little Ones

    Debby Boone

    The singer and best-selling children's author shows how God welcomes His children each day through the miracles of nature, from the sun's warming rays to the stars' glow in the night sky, captured in bright, simple pictures. IP. ...

  • Devoted

    Alice Borchardt

    Tenth-century France is a land where the Forest People, who worship pagan gods, are disappearing. Christianity is arriving with a new God and new rulers. And brutal Viking Northmen are swarming from their warships to raze villages and loot the land. ...

  • White Lace

    Caroline Bourne

    FROM THE SHADOWY BACK STREETS OF LONDON... She is Tallie Edwards, a shy British beauty who has just witnessed a savage murder. Forced to leave her child behind, she flees England to escape a man of unspeakable terror -- the powerful nobleman she bel...

  • Daddy, Daddy, Be There

    Candy Dawson Boyd

    In a collection of poetry celebrating fatherhood, children offer a heartwarming, poignant appeal to their fathers to support them as they cope with school, changes in personal relationships, grief, dreams, and growing up....

  • Tiger Burning Bright

    Marion Zimmer Bradley; Mercedes Lackey

    The House of the Tiger has skillfully ruled Merino in times of peace. But now the indomitable armies of the Emperor Baithasar stand poised to crush the vulnerable city/state. And in the enemy's midst is the gray mage Apolon--foul necromancer who serv...

  • Destiny's Child

    Barbara Bretton

    Dakota Wylie didn't claim to understand men...But she did know that Patrick Devane was stubborn and angry and that he refused to let anyone, including his young daughter, get close. Dakota also knew she had no choice but to accept his reluctant h...

  • Brightness Reef

    David Brin

    The planet Jijo is forbidden to settlers, its ecology protected by guardians of the Five Galaxies. But over the centuries it has been resettled, populated by refugees of six intelligent races. Together they have woven a new society in the wilderness,...

  • Birthday Cards for Girls to Make

    Nan Brooks

    This book includes everything girls need to make a dozen different, delightful birthday greetings. Twelve clever cards to cut out, color, and decorate with glamorous, glittery trimmings--all included along with two envelope patterns and easy, illustr...

  • Rebel Glory

    Sigmund Brouwer

    At 17, star defenseman Craig McElhaney likes his chances of making it as a pro hockey player. Yet, a string of recent "accidents" threatens to knock his team out of the playoffs and ruin his promising career. Craig has begun to question how m...

  • Bigby's Curse

    Anne M. Brown
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    When the archmage Bigby imbibes a botched potion of longetivity, it is up to the reader to rescue the archmage from the evil demipower luz and his dark forces before Bigby is transformed into a lich. Original....

  • Arthur's TV Trouble

    Marc Brown

    When Arthur sees the advertisement for the amazing doggy Treat Timer, he knows it's the perfect gift for Pal. He sets out to earn the money to buy it, daydreaming of riches and of Pal's reaction when he sees the Treat Timer for the first time. Everyt...

  • Monster's Lunch Box

    Marc Brown

  • Little Donkey Close Your Eyes

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Israel's Divine Healer

    Michael L. Brown

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    Israel''s Diving Healer is the first complete, systematic treatment of the biblical motif of God as ""Divine Healer."" It traces the theme of the Divine Healer from the Old to the New Testament, showing the continuity and discontinuity between th...

  • Doppelgangers

    Nick Brown

    When a famous teen actress mysteriously disappears, Candayce Townsend, who looks exactly like the young star, is approached by Hollywood to take over an unfinished movie role, but soon the real actress's enemies threaten to overtake her as well. Orig...

  • Murder at Monticello

    Rita Mae Brown

    Mrs. Murphy digs into Virginia history--and gets her paws on a killer. The most popular citizen of Virginia has been dead for nearly 170 years. That hasn't stopped the good people of tiny Crozet, Virginia, from taking pride in every aspect of Thom...

  • Alex and the Angel

    Dixie Browning

    MR. SEPTEMBER The Single Dad: Wealthy bachelor Alex Hightower has three women on his mind .... His Sassy-Mouthed Teenage Daughter: A girl with training bras on her mind. His "Steady Gal": A snooty socialite with marriage to Mr. Moneybags o...

  • Angel's Baby

    Pamela Browning

    'Let's make a baby together.' Angel McCabe's biological clock was ringing - loud. But there was no one else on the otherwise uninhabited Florida island to hear it. With no husband in sight, she had no choice but to run a personal ad. Once wedded ...

  • Boy Who Lived with the Bears

    Joseph Bruchac

  • The Story of the Milky Way: A Cherokee Tale

    Joseph Bruchac

  • Pedro Fools the Gringo: And Other Tales of a Latin American Trickster

    Maraia Cristina Brusca

    Thirteen short retellings of the adventures of Pedro Urdemales, a cunning Latin American trickster, follow his capers as he outwits a proud traveler, a band of murderous vigilantes, and the devil himself....

  • Mystery Ride

    Bonnie Bryant

    A mystery game is being held at Pine Hollow Stables and Stevie, Carole, and Lisa can't wait to participate. They've never been on a mystery ride before. But what starts out as a fun canter through the autumn-touched woods quickly becomes frightening ...

  • Forever, My Love

    LaRee Bryant

    HIS PASSION DEMANDED JUSTICE... One minute, Carrie Burnett was celebrating her engagement among the elite Texas society; the next, she was a prisoner on a remote island ... at the mercy of a man she had thought never to see again. Once, Carrie had a...

  • Lady Althea's Bargain

    Gayle Buck

    The Bewildered Bride Lovely Lady Althea Hawthorne devoutly hoped that the man she had married was different from the other men she had known. As a girl, she had seen her rakish father betray her mother. As a young woman, she had fled her stepfather&...

  • Creepy Crawly Critters and Other Halloween Tongue Twisters

    Nola Buck

  • Savage Frontier

    Frank Burleson

    In 1854, as tensions between the North and South threaten to tear America apart, Lieutenant Nathaniel Barrington confronts legendary Apache leaders Victorio, Mangas Coloradas, and Geronimo, who refuse to make peace in the New Mexico territory. Origin...

  • Grunt! The Primitive Cave Boy

    Timothy Bush

  • Witch's Fire

    Beverly Butler

    When firelight reflects in a windowpane, they call it witch's fire. There may be some truth in those words. Kirsty Hamilton has had to except a lot of hardship -- life in a wheelchair, her father's new wife, and moving far from anything fa...

  • All Together Now

    Nick Butterworth

    A toddler and his favorite stuffed animals--including a Millie, Whitey, George, Hippo, Wilson, and Croc--gather together for a picnic, and young readers are invited to join in the fun with interactive lift-flaps....

  • Tarot Says Beware

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Madame Rosa, the eccentric local fortune teller, has been murdered, and the only witness is her parrot,Tarot. But he’s not talking. Herculeah Jones thinks she knows who the killer is, but she’s not the only one. . . . Someone else knows -- someon...

  • A Life in Future

    Martin Caidin

    The serial space-ranger Buck Rogers tells his own story for the first time, from his awakening in a strange future to his immortal exploits in the domed city of the Mongols, the Martian camps of the tigermen, and elsewhere....

  • Taming the Wild Man

    Delayne Camp

    "What Daughter?" Nicholas Thunderheart moved through the steamy forest with the strength of a jungle cat. Primal...predatory. Years ago, scandal had driven him to isolation in the Smoky Mountains. But now that solitude was shattered-by a woman. ...

  • The First Man

    Albert Camus

    From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own, with the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood steeped in poverty and a father's death yet redeemed by the beauty of Algeria and th...

  • The Candlewick Book of Bedtime Stories

    Candlewick Press

    A collection of nineteen popular picture books--including A Quiet Night In, Tom and Pippo Read a Story, and Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?--provides the perfect source for a cozy bedtime story....

  • The Candlewick Book of Bear Stories

    Candlewick Press

    A collection of nineteen beloved illustrated stories and poems specially designed for any true bear lover includes such favorites as This Is The Bear, We're Going On A Bear Hunt, and Let's Go Home, Little Bear. ...

  • How to Murder the Man of Your Dreams

    Dorothy Cannell

    Any day now, stay-at-home mum Ellie Haskell plans to slim down, kick the romance-reading habit, and resume her career. But not today, for when she arrives for the Chitterton Fells Library League meeting, she stumbles upon a corpse: Miss Bunch, the li...

  • Wee Mouse Christmas

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

  • The Scoundrel

    Ann Carberry

    "When I seduce you...I want you to be as eager for me as I am for you. In the soft glow of candlelight, I will watch as your eyes darken with desire. And when neither one of us can survive another moment of glorious passion, we will join our bo...

  • Alvin Journeyman

    Orson Scott Card

    Alvin is a Maker, the first to be born in a century. Now a grown man and a journeyman smith, Alvin has returned to his family in the town of Vigor Church. He will share in their isolation, work as a blacksmith, and try to teach anyone who wishes t...

  • The Big Bazoohley

    Peter Carey

    "This novel is so full of pleasures that readers, along with the characters, receive a swell payoff--start to finish, it’s one Big Bazoohley of a book." --Publishers Weekly, starred review
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  • A Timeless Treasure

    Joyce Carlow

    A TIME TO FORGET... After the break-up of her relationship, Maddie Emerson decides that a "mystery weekend" on an island near Nova Scotia is just the distraction she needs. But during an unexpected summer storm, she falls unconscious...and awakens ...

  • A Breath of Scandal

    Jeanne Carmichael

    She had no doubt that the gentleman could kiss the truth from her lips! Candace Stafford could hardly turn her back on an injured man. But in aiding the young rascal, she discovered a formidable opponent: Edward Croyden, whose persistent charm put...

  • Don't Open the Door After the Sun Goes Down

    Al Carusone

  • Judith's Place

    Laura Cassidy

    Judith Springfield was grateful to have a place at Maiden Court. Tragedy had struck her family, leaving her in need of proper work. The lady of the house was a kind employer, but Judith soon found herself the object of George Latimar's affections! Re...

  • Dancing

    Denys Cazet

  • Soulmates

    Elizabeth Chandler

    Targeted by the same killer who murdered Tristan, Ivy finally learns that Tristan has become her guardian angel and works with him to prevent her own death, but when Ivy finds true love, Tristan must let her go. Original....

  • Mary's Baby

    Jane Chapman

    A simple retelling of the Nativity Story features a poetic text and primitive-style illustrations that follow Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and the arrival of the shepards, angels, and wise men....

  • The Mad Earl's Bride

    Loretta Chase
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    Everyone loves a wedding...Nothing lifts our hearts like the joyous peal of wedding bells. Or the sight of a happy couple being showered with confetti and good wishes. Now the most exciting new names in romantic fiction -- and the bestselling author ...

  • Can Dogs Fly?

    Martin Chatterton

  • The Wife of Bath and Other Cantebury Tales

    Geoffrey Chaucer

    Adopted at more than 1,000 colleges and universities, Bedford/St. Martin's innovative Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism series has introduced more than a quarter of a million students to literary theory and earned enthusiastic praise nationwide....

  • Over the River and Through the Wood: A Musical Picture Book

    Lydia Maria Child

  • Carlos, Light the Farolito

    Donna Clair

    In a unique, illustrated holiday story, little Carlos must overcome his shyness when he is forced to play his grandfather's part in the traditional Mexican Christmas pageant known as Las Posadas, a reenactment of the Nativity....

  • No Better Way to Die

    Johnnie Clark

    PART HERO, PART LEGEND, ALL MARINE
    Gunnery Sergeant Jessie Slate knew in his heart that there was no better way to die, than to die a Marine. He battled his way through China and then Korea, fighting on Bloody Ridge and in the frozen wholesale sla...

  • Bewitching Lord Winterton

    Marilyn Clay

    BEWITCHED, BOTHERED... Dire financial straits decreed that one of the late Sir Richard Abercorn's daughters had to land a wealthy man. Naturally, it would be golden-haired Lilibet, since plain Neala, at one-and-twenty, was simply too...plain. An...

  • The Valkyries

    Paulo Coelho

    A Magical Tale About Forgiving Our Past and Believing in Our Future The enchanting, true story of The Valkyries begins in Rio de Janeiro when author Paulo Coelho gives his mysterious master J., the only manuscript for his book The Alchemist. Haunted...

  • Check It Out-And Die!

    M.T. Coffin

    Amazed when the strange new librarian, Ms. Gunkel, allows students to read horror books, Charlie and Dustin become alarmed when she introduces her private collection to the library and its readers begin to disappear. Original....

  • Robin Hood and Little John

    Barbara Cohen

    One day, while in search of adventure, brave bowsman Robin Hood comes face to face with a huge man who challenges him to prove who is the "better man," and finds not only a worthy opponent but a true friend known as Little John....

  • Monster Manners

    Joanna Cole

  • Blood on the Arrows

    Judd Cole

    The son of a Cheyenne warrior but raised by whites, Touch the Sky is accused of murder when his most hated foe is brutally slain, and must prove his innocence or face the wrath of his people and the hatred of the woman he loves....

  • The Glass Bottle Tree

    Evelyn Coleman

  • Blue Beginning

    Max Allan Collins

    Written as a stunning prequel to the smash television series of the same name, NYPD Blue: Blue Beginning is the latest hard-edged crime story. With all the in-your-face realism and action of the thrilling television show, this new series of novels is...

  • See You in September

    Ellen Conford

    Four teen summer romances follow themes of first kisses, sunsets at the beach, love at first sight, and more, and include the writings of Katherine Applegate, Ellen Conford, Alane Ferguson, and Lee Wardlaw. Original....

  • Very Last Unicorn

    Marita Conlon-McKenna

    Befriending a unicorn in his yard, young Sam learns that it is the very last in the world and desperately needs a safe place to live, and in the days that follow, Sam finds a special place for the unicorn to stay....

  • Paradise

    Phoebe Conn

    A TOWN DIVIDED .. . Divorced city planner Leigh Bowman drove south from Santa Barbara to sun-drenched Mirasol with dreams of starting over. She'd begin by helping to transform the decaying town into a dazzling resort. A WOMAN TORN .. . In Miraso...

  • Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime

    J. California Cooper

    Whether through her stories or her legendary readings, J. California Cooper has an uncanny ability to reach out to readers like an old and dear friend.  Her characters are plain-spoken and direct: simple people for whom life, despite its ev...

  • Too Many Rabbits and Other Fingerplays: About Animals, Nature, Weather, and the Universe

    Kay Cooper

    Colorful cut-paper illustrations combine with lively rhymes in a collection of twenty fingerplays that demonstrate how young readers can imitate blinking fireflies, sprouting seeds, spinning planets, and more....

  • When She Was Bad

    Ryanne Corey

    GOOD GIRLS DON'T... Jenny Louise Rossi was the sweetest, purest young thing ever to come out of Toluca, Texas. But when her dull-but-reliable fiance ran off with a double-jointed stripper, Jenny decided being good got her nowhere. So she trans...

  • Joyride

    Patricia Coughlin

    YOU'RE ON THE ROAD TO LOVE! Being hired to drive a classic Chevy from Montreal to Miami is the trip of a lifetime, Cat Bandini! There's nothing like being twenty-two years old with the world before you.... Unless your overprotective uncle makes yo...

  • Tiger's Whisker and Other Tales from Asia, the Pacific and the Middle East

    Harold Courlander

  • Sharkbait!

    Vincent Courtney

    Stumbling across Dr. Piranoid's illegal genetics lab, the four Bolton brothers become the victims of a diabolical experiment that mixes up their DNA with that of a shark and transforms them into superhero shark-boys. Original....

  • Maisy's Pop-up Playhouse

    Lucy Cousins

    It's a book, it's a toy, it's Maisy's very own house! Children can help Maisy bake a pie in the kitchen, brush her whiskers in the bathroom, and climb into bed. With a movable Maisy figure, lots of flaps to lift, tabs to pull, pop-out parts, and a 14...

  • Angel's Gate

    Gary Crew

    In the weird rural Australia of Crew's fiction (Strange Objects; No Such Country) it's not surprising to encounter characters out of The Road Warrior: feral children, a brutish prospector scratching around in the bush. Such types people the author's ...

  • Almost a Honeymoon

    Susan Crosby

    RELUCTANT BRIDE When a leather-clad stranger forced Paige O'Halloran into a limousine, she knew her humdrum life was about to change. Then her abductor turned out to be longtime nemesis Rye Warner-hired to be her bodyguard. And in order to keep he...

  • Thunder Road

    Chris Curry

    A series of horrifying incidents in the California desert town of Madelyn thrusts police chief Moss Baskerville and local cowboy Tom Abernathy into an all-out battle with the evil Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Original....

  • The Watsons Go to Birmingham -- 1963

    Christopher Paul Curtis

    Enter the hilarious world of 10-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's 13 and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Momma and Dad decide it's time for ...

  • Lamb to the Slaughter and Other Stories

    Roald Dahl

    These five short stories offer a selection of Dahl's adult writing. "Parson's Pleasure" is a country tale, "A Piece of Cake", a wartime reminiscence, "Lamb to the Slaughter" a story of vengeful murder, and the remaining two, set in London, are on fav...

  • The Gatekeepers

    Daniel Graham

    Hoping to replace the government's monopoly on space commerce with his own, aerospace industrialist Rolf Bernard believes that his new SSTO spacecraft will help him to seize control of low Earth orbit and induce his wife into returning to him...

  • The Skelly Man

    David Daniel

    Rasmussen is trying to find out who is sending threatening letters to fading TV talk-show host Jerry Corbin, a Lowell native who is returning to his hometown to premier the new show he hopes will resuscitate his career. Alex has a surfeit of suspects...

  • Snowflakes

    Peggy Darty
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    Some brief encounters stir deeply-felt emotions, then slip away. But after a chance airport meeting with a beautiful dress shop owner whose name he does not know, lab scientist Colin McCrea resolves to find and win over the mysterious woman who so co...

  • A Gathering of Ghost Stories

    Robertson Davies

  • Poseidon's Gold

    Lindsey Davis

    After six months in wild Germania, imperial gumshoe Marcus Didius Falco is back in Rome sweet Rome. But his apartment has been ransacked. And although, he desperately needs 400,000 sesterces in order to marry his aristocratic love, Helena, his only c...

  • Nobody's Child

    Janet Dawson

    When a decomposing body is dug up by a construction company, authorities suspect murder. Private investigator Jeri Howard's abrasive client, Naomi Smith, thinks the victim could be her daughter, Maureen, who ran away from home two years ago. Jeri dis...

  • Nostradamus

    Jean Charles De Fontbrune

  • In the Name of Mercy

    Nicholas Delbanco

    DR. PETER JULIUS believes a physician should relieve pain, not prolong it. When his cancer-stricken wife begged him to end her misery, he respected her wishes. Afterward, Peter took a post in a hospice and continued his new mission: to help the termi...

  • Ship Ahoy!

    Judy Delton

    Invited to film a TV commercial while on board a luxury cruise, the Greens, Aunt Ivy, and Lois look forward to living the lives of millionaires until Aunt Ivy leaves her purse and home and then gets seasick. Original....

  • The Titan of Twilight

    Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    For untold centuries, a banished titan has lurked in the cold, forbidden dusk of the Twilight Vale -- imprisoned for a crime as black as the boreal night. With the birth of a new king comes the titan’s freedom. The Kingdom hangs in the balance...

  • Cranberry First Day of School

    Harry Devlin; Wende Devlin

  • Cranberry Lost at the Fair

    Harry Devlin; Wende Devlin

  • Strange Traffic

    Irene Dische

    A collection of stories finds its main characters in unlikely places and situations, from an affluent Jewish American who returns to Germany to a homosexual restauranteur who gets the chance to cook another meal for his first lover...

  • Hot As Sin

    Debra Dixon

    She needed a hero -- and a man to remind her how it felt to be alive ... Emily Quinn was on the run, desperate to disappear before anyone else lost his life to save hers -- and Gabe was her only hope! Tempted by her mystery, he agreed to help her...

  • Lia's Daughter

    Diana Dixon

    LIA'S DAUGHTER-- but her own woman; that was Kaly Rossitec. Lia had once hidden Kaly's very existence; now Kaly sought to hide her connection to her famous mother. Mick Demarkis fell in love with the Kaly of the present, but before he could re...

  • Campaign of Crime

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Eagerly listening to the campaign speeches of an admired computer scientist turned independent presidential candidate, Frank and Joe become bodyguards when the campaign is threatened by a bomb scare. Original....

  • Skateboard Monsters

    DK Publishing

  • Sleeping Beauty

    Jane Donnelly

    “Who are you behind that Mona Lisa calm?” It was a strange question for Rafe Drayford to ask. Caroline's future was mapped out for her and she had been happy with it: marriage to Christopher, the man she loved and respected, followed by a...

  • Montana Rogue

    Jessica Douglass

    KIDNAPPED! Wealthy heiress Courtney Hamilton was terrified. In the past hour, she'd been blindfolded, kidnapped and taken aboard a helicopter, which had crashed in the Montana wilderness. Then she'd been rescued by a handsome mountain man whose ve...

  • The Barrytown Trilogy

    Roddy Doyle

    A one-volume edition of the celebrated trio of novels about the Rabbitte family, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

    Look for Roddy Doyle’s new novel, Smile, coming in October of 2017

    The Barrytown Trilogy g...

  • Disney's Goofy Visits Pluto

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Enjoying his new telescope so much that he misunderstands Mickey's invitation to visit Pluto, Goofy falls into an adventurous daydream on the porch swing in which he and Mickey zoom off into the stars....

  • Utterly Yours, Booker Jones

    Betsy Duffey

    Distracted from working on his sci-fi masterpiece, Space Cows, aspiring writer Booker Jones must contend with an ailing grandfather and write a speech arguing that the school mascot should not be a pickle....

  • Kisses and Kids

    Andrea Edwards

    IT COULDN'T HAVE HAPPENED TO AN UNLIKELIER GUY... Congratulations, Patrick Stuart! You survived the 'hood. Became a hometown hero. And you've just been awarded a classy new van to chauffeur you down Easy Street in style! There's o...

  • Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

    One Fine Fox

    Four famished foxes make fun of their brother Fosdyke, who feels fondly for fried figs, fennel, and French bread. Leaving him behind to fry and flambe, they go foraging for fowl in a forbidden farmyard. Unfortunately, the foxes find...

  • The Forest Child

    Richard Edwards

  • Mum

    Stevan Eldred-Grigg

    ‘What a wonderful woman. My mother, warm and wise.’ Mum, a story about a girl and a boy growing up in poverty in the postwar suburbs, is the third in the saga begun with the much-acclaimed Oracles and Miracles. The saga, which also includes The S...

  • Mrs. Ted Bliss

    Stanley Elkin

    National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: This funny, poignant novel about the misadventures of a Miami Beach widow is “brilliant” (Los Angeles Times). After her beloved husband dies of cancer, Dorothy Bliss is consigned to a life of ted...

  • Ed Emberley's Halloween Drawing Book

    Ed Emberley

    Featuring selected pages from Ed Emberley's Big Orange Drawing Book, a collection of things for kids to draw and projects to make as they get ready for Halloween includes jack-o-lanterns, skeletons, witches, and cats. Original....

  • The Vanishing Smile

    Earl Emerson

    Marian Wright is an amateur sleuth in the employ of two attractive young women eager to catch up with their no-account ex-lovers. But when Marian's investigation ends abruptly and ferociously, Seattle private eye Thomas Black has a new case on his ha...

  • Night Magic

    Lynn Emery

    LOVESPELL Haunted by her mother's death, attorney Savannah St. Julien has spent her life avoiding emotional entanglements. But when a battle to protect her Louisiana hometown from a ruthless chemical company brings her back to Beau Chene, she meet...

  • Leonard

    Wolf Erlbruch

  • Dance with Me

    Barbara Juster Esbensen

  • Monster Soup: And Other Spooky Poems

    Dilys Evans

  • Simple Twist of Fate

    Marianne Evans

    A man realizes that his baby is the result of his wife's affair and leaves her. Embittered, he lives by himself in a small town. A single mother collapses and dies, whilst her toddler finds her way into the man's house. He adopts her, not realizing t...

  • The Horse Whisperer

    Nicholas Evans

    His name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled across a continent to the Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the girl's savage horse, and her own w...

  • Longarm and Big Trouble in Bodie

    Tabor Evans

  • Dark Horse

    Margaret Falk

    Hoping to sell the Arizona family ranch after her horse breeder father's death, Dakota McAllister comes head-to-head with bittersweet childhood memories, a man from her past, and the truth about her father's death. Original....

  • Dragonfly

    John Farris

    Abby Abelard--blindingly beautiful, fabulously wealthy--is the hottest-selling romance writer in America today. Dr. Joe Brvce is a dedicated physician, who may also be the handsomest man ever to grace the sands of Abby's lavish beach estate. But h...

  • Feather-Bed Journey

    Paula Kurzband Feder

  • Plane

    Monique Felix

  • Caitlin's Guardian Angel

    Marie Ferrarella

    A FATHER'S FIGHT The assignment--protecting a witness to a brutal murder--was the toughest of Detective Graham Redhawk's career. Because the witness was Caitlin Cassidy, the woman who'd long ago decided that a half-Navajo renegade like him wasn't ...

  • The House on the Lagoon

    Rosario Ferre

    Caught up in his wife's efforts to write a novel about the history of their families, Quintin Mendizabal sparks a heated rivalry between Isabel and himself when they have different perspectives on the same story...

  • Beyond Reach

    Sandra Field

    Blondes were usually more fun.... But Troy Donovan was proving to be the exception to the rule! He was tough, uncompromising and off-limits. He had no intention of letting anyone get close to him again. And that included Lucy--especially Lucy. He&...

  • In Cold Domain

    Anne Fine

    This is a comic novel about a family. Four children persist in visiting their mother at Cold Demesnes - much to her irritation. Indeed, whenever any of them cross her, she pulls out yet another plant from the beautiful garden which is the emblem, for...

  • The Midnight Horse

    Sid Fleischman

    On a coach bound for Cricklewood, the orphan boy Touch caught his first glimpse of the haunt named The Great Chaffalo. According to rumor, he was once a famous magician who could turn a pile of straw into a horse. Now, Touch needs the ghost's help...

  • The Darkening Flood

    Kenneth C. Flint

    CELTIC ARMAGEDDON John and Ann Milne have returned to the Irish village of Ballymurroe a year after their honeymoon there. But things are not the same. The once-welcoming townspeople have now grown tight-lipped and suspicious. And the mother and d...

  • Done Cryin'

    Janis Flores

    The Dunleavy Legacy Octavia Whitworth Dunleavy - formidable matriarch of the family - wants to hand over once-renowned Dunleavy Farm to her three grandchildren. Will they accept her offer? And will they be able to overcome old feuds and jealousies...

  • Celie and the Harvest Fiddler

    Valerie Flournoy

  • Tanya's Reunion

    Valerie Flournoy

  • A Place Called Freedom

    Ken Follett

    Hidden by a Scottish river bank in the winter of 1767, Lizzie Hallim watches a naked figure emerging from the icy water. Mack McAsh is a slave and Lizzie is helping him escape. Mack challenges the mighty Jamisson family, which enslaves whole families...

  • Bear Play

    Miela Ford

  • Indistinguishable from Magic

    Robert L. Forward

    Antigravity Machines! (six kinds) Space Warps! Black Holes! Strange Matter! Time Machines! Reactionless Drives! Faster than Light Drives! All the known ways to build real starships! Finally, someone who, puts the science back in science fiction! Robe...

  • Come to Grief

    Dick Francis

    New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis brings back one of mystery's most intriguing heroes, ex-jockey Sid Halley, in a compelling tale of crime and justice. When Halley becomes convinced that one of his closest friends--and one of the racing ...

  • Stud Poker

    John Francome

    Investigating the suspicious suicide of a horse jockey, Paul Raven discovers a connection between the death and a private poker school that is comprised of Europe's wealthiest and most powerful people. Reprint....

  • God Bless John Wayne

    Kinky Friedman

    Since Sam Spade, no private investigator has been charmed to see a deadbeat client darken his door--and country singers turned amateur detectives are no exception. That goes double for deadbeats who are their friends. So when Ratso--longtime pal, ass...

  • My Head Is Full of Colors

    Catherine Friend

  • Bat Brain Stew

    Mirko Gabler