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New Books List: 715 titles

  • Word of Honor

    Terri Blackstock

    What will it cost to keep a promise? Of the four people at the Newpointe post office when the bomb went off, three were killed instantly. The fourth, a five-year-old boy, lies comatose in the hospital and might not survive. Who would do such a thing?...

  • Wake of the Perdido Star

    Gene Hackman; Daniel Lenihan

    Academy Award winner Gene Hackman and leading underwater archaeologist Daniel Lenihan have combined their talents to create one of the most exciting--and critically acclaimed--adventure novels of our time. A rousing saga of shipwrecks, sea battl...

  • Serefina under the Circumstances

    Phyllis Theroux

    Serefina has an imagination as vivid as clear blue sky. She also has a problem keeping secrets under certain circumstances. And you can bet a combination thereof will have hilarious results when the circumstances involve a surprise birthday party for...

  • Lizard's Home

    George Shannon

    Lizard has always livedsnug as a bugon his rock. But one day Lizard returns home to find that Snake has moved in! Zoli, zoli, zoli! Snake is big and fearsome and yricky.What can Lizard do to send him packing? From the incomparable creators of Lizards...

  • F Is for Fabuloso

    Marie G. Lee

    The sky had not yet begun to lighten, and Jin-Ha could see hard fingers of frost pressing on her window, outlined by the light from the streetlamp. She wanted to stay in her warm bed and never come out. Being cold -- and knowing yo...

  • I Like a Snack on an Iceberg

    Iris Hiskey Arno

  • Festival Foods around-the-World

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Long Ago Yesterday

    Anne Rockwell

    "Not so long ago," each of these ten stories begins. And if yesterday is long ago, toddlers will understand the truth and immediacy of these tales and realize that their lives can be transformed into story. For here is real life itself:adventures ...

  • Between Worlds: Early Exchanges Between Maori and Europeans, 1773-1815

    Anne Salmond

  • Earthdance

    Lynn Reiser

    Offers a charming story about family love as an astronaut mother promises her daughter she'll be back from outer space in time for her play, complete with an overview of astonomy, the planets and more....

  • Princess and the Castle

    Steck-Vaughn Company

  • Ship Ahoy!

    Peter Sis

    While sitting on his living room couch that is atop a big blue rug, little Matt begins to pretend that he is on an incredible sailing adventure on the wide-open seas, yet when his mothers enters the room with the vacuum, his journey takes an unexpect...

  • Cops and Robbers

    Allan Ahlberg

    This is a new Puffin edition of Allan Ahlberg's best-selling Cops and Robbers classic picture book, with a brand new look! The robbers of London town plan a desperate crime one Christmas Eve - to steal all the toys they can lay their hands on! Fortun...

  • Add a Little Magic

    Disney Book Group

  • Jason's Gold

    Will Hobbs

    "Gold!" Jason shouted at the top of his lungs. "Read all about it! Gold discovered in Alaska!" Within hours of hearing the thrilling news, fifteen-year-old Jason Hawthorn jumps a train for Seattle, stow away on a ship bound for the goldfields, and j...

  • Jumbo's Lullaby

    Henri Sorensen

    Enhanced with full-color illustration, this bedtime book offers young readers a gentle tale about a mother elephant's love for her child and the song she sings to put the little one to rest every evening....

  • I Look Like a Girl

    Sheila Hamanaka

  • Women Warriors

    Marianna Mayer

    From days of old, they have intrigued people all over the world: brave, defiant warrior women who stir imaginations, rouse passions, and often inspire thousands of followers. These fierce and fearless spirits are goddesses, queens, and peasants; they...

  • Thomas in Danger, 1779

    Bonnie Pryor

    Thomas Bowden hates the Tories, the colonists who have sided with the English during the Revolutionary War. He especially hates their Native American allies who tortured and killed many of his neighbors in a terrible massacre.still, he and his mot...

  • Ordinary Miracles

    Stephanie S. Tolan

    Mark Filkins is going through a tough year he's tired of being an identical twin and of being the son of a fundamentalist minister, and he's stunned when he learns that a beloved neighbor, a brilliant scientist, has cancer. All the Filkinses last see...

  • The Grannyman

    Judy Schachner

    Simon is a very old cat.  He has had a wonderful life chasing butterflies, eating houseplants, and even playing the piano.  His family adores him and they do everything they can to keep him comfortable.  Now that he is old, Simon feels...

  • Land Before Time

    Molly Goode

  • Zooman Sam

    Lois Lowry

    It's Future Job Day at Sam's nursery school, and Sam decides to dress up as a Zookeeper. But he wants to be more than that... he wants to be important, interesting, and more than ordinary: the Chief of Wonderfulness. Will he find a way to be the Chie...

  • The Troll With No Heart in His Body

    Lise Lunge-Larsen

    As tall as trees and as ancient and rugged as the Norwegian landscape from which they come, trolls are some of lore's most fascinating and varied creatures. Some live under bridges, others deep inside caves. They can carry their heads under their arm...

  • Celeste Sails to Spain

    Alison Lester

    Using characters from her previous books, a delightful picture book follows the escapades of Frank, Clive, Nicky, Tessa, Ernie, Rosie, and Celeste as they each have a wonderful time, either at the zoo or in their dreams, and encourages children to us...

  • Curious George's Pop-Up Storybook House

    H.A. Rey

    The adventures of the famous mischievous monkey come to life with Curious George's Pop-Up Storybook House. Just unwrap and unfold the book to find scenes based on the classic stories by Margret and H. A. Rey. Secure the slots and punch out the play p...

  • Santa's Shiny Sleigh

    Price Stern Sloan Publishing

  • My Puffer Train

    Mary Murphy

    Young children can join Penguin as he embarks on an adventure in his puffer train and invites a vast array of animals to come on board, in an entertaining picture book that is filled with vivid illustrations and plenty of fun....

  • Madison Finds a Line

    Sunny Warner

    Madison is out playing in her yard when she happens upon a piece of rope. Determined to find out just where the rope leads, she and her little black cat follow the line of the rope. They zig and zag and shimmy-shammy from one dance step to the next, ...

  • Toestomper and the Caterpillars

    Sharleen Collicott

    Toestomper is mean, rude, and disgusting. Along with his friends Nightmare, Basher, and Barfy-the Rowdy Ruffians-he loves to make trouble and pick on folks. But when a slew of warm and fuzzy caterpillars begin following Toestomper around and look up ...

  • Cloud Cuckoo Land

    Bernard Lodge

    Take a wacky trip to Cloud Cuckoo Land, then journey to ten other outrageous destinations like Hairland, Upside Downs, Domino City, Babyland, and the Sea of Socks! And each outrageous land is populated by equally outrageous characters. To say the ver...

  • What's the Time, Mr. Wolf?

    Carol Jones

    Drooling over his yummy-looking barnyard buddies, Mr. Wolf plans an elaborate dinner party for them, and when they ask "What's the time, Mr. Wolf?," he sends them searching for special ingredients, but are his friends the main course, or does he have...

  • Traffic Jam

    Seymour Chwast

    Babs and her kitten are crossing the road and all traffic comes to a halt! Fire trucks can't get through, the school bus, much to the delight of its passengers, is stopped dead, commuters are late for their trains, groceries are spoiling, and everyon...

  • Please Be Quiet!

    Mary Murphy

    The little penguin from My Puffer Train is having a wonderful time hopping and skating about the house. "Please be quiet," his mother tells him, "The baby is sleeping." But it is very hard for a little penguin to keep still, and finally mother pengui...

  • Animal Music

    Donald Saaf

    A rollicking picture book is full of vibrant illustrations and musical fun as Mr. Lion's Marching Band marches by with a boom-a-boom and a rat-a-tat and Sheep's Dance Band, with a goose on the mandolin and a cow playing the cello, calls all the farm ...

  • First Night

    Harriet Ziefert

    Although others participate by driving, riding, and making music, Amanda Dade--with baton in hand--leads the parade of one-of-a-kind, humorously-clad characters to welcome the arrival of the New Year....

  • My Name is Not Gussie

    Mikki Machlin

    A touching story of the immigrant experience follows Golda and her family as they leave Russia to start a new life in America, and when they arrive in New York City, Golda realizes that the streets are not paved in gold like she had imagined, but she...

  • Right Here On This Spot

    Sharon Hart Addy

    Right here on this spot, where today Grandpa drives a tractor in his cabbage field, Indians in ancient times lit their campfires, chipped stone into tools, and then moved on. The moon rose and set over the field, season followed season, trees grew in...

  • The Singing Snowbear

    Carol Grigg

    When Snowbear hears a beautiful and mysterious sound coming across the ice floes, he wonders who or what is making it. Snowbear wants to learn how he can make this music too. The melodies haunt him until he feels he has to find out where they are com...

  • Brave Martha

    Margot Apple

    Martha's best friend Sophie--a lovable cat--always helps her get ready for bed by checking all the scary places, but when guests come to her house and bring a dog, Sophie is no where to be found, and Martha must muster the courage to go to bed withou...

  • Ed and Fred Flea

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

  • Santa's Little Helper

    Golden Books

    Kids will love to paint their favorite scenes from the classic holiday television special, "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer." This festive activity book comes with a set of watercolor paints packaged right on the cover....

  • Happy Holidays!

    Golden Books

    50 favorite songs of the holiday season, including: Baby, It's Cold Outside * Chanukah * The Christmas Shoes * The Christmas Song * Christmas Time Is Here * Emmanuel * The First Chanukah Night * The Gift * Happy Hanukkah, My Friend * Happy Holiday * ...

  • Sugar Snow

    Laura Ingalls Wilder

    With this illustrated adaptation from the beloved Little House series, the youngest readers can share in the joy of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s beloved classics.

    In Sugar Snow, Laura is delighted when a soft, thick snow falls in late spring in...

  • Brookfield Days

    Maria D. Wilkes

    It's 1845, and Caroline Quiner lives in a little frame house in the frontier town of Brookfield, Wisconsin. Each day brings new adventures for Caroline as she helps Mother, Grandma, and her five brothers and sisters run the family farm.

    The ...

  • Plainsong

    Kent Haruf

    National Book Award FinalistA heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after thei...

  • The Cat in the Hat's Great Big Flap

    Dr. Seuss

    Now for the first time ever, the Cat in the Hat appears in a silly, Seussian flap book, which offers loads of learning and lots of laughs and is packed with over 50 seek-and-find flaps that help teach basic concepts such as colors, numbers, letters, ...

  • Greta's Revenge

    Steven J. Simmons

    Steve Simmons and Cyd Moore's hit picture book Alice and Greta introduced two witches with very different views of the world: Alice, who uses her magic to help others, and Greta, who is always conjuring up trouble. In Greta's Revenge, Alice has f...

  • Billy The Conkerer

    Wendy Smith (1)

    Billy comes from a strong family. His mum drives a cement lorry, his dad is a bouncer and his sister is a junior weight lifter. But Billy is spindly, like a stick insect, and prefers inventing things on his computer to taking exercise. When Killer Ka...

  • Nose to Toes

    Lilian Obligado

  • The Story of a Million Years

    David Huddle

    The acclaimed poet and story writer David Huddle weaves a masterly portrait of two couples and their shared histories, desires, and secrets. Marcy, Allen, Uta, Jimmy -- each becomes the hero of his or her own story, as all mine the past for evidence ...

  • Out of Darkness

    Russell Freedman

    A biography of the 19th century Frenchman who developed Braille. The book spans Braille's life from childhood through his days at the Royal Institute for Blind Youth and into his final years, when the alphabet he invented was finally gaining acceptan...

  • Trickster and the Fainting Birds

    Howard Norman

    With spare grace and lively wit, acclaimed author Howard Norman chronicles the hilarious antics of a provocative troublemaker. Whether cheating in a sleepwalking contest, teaching the shut-eye dance to ducks, or halting a wedding by transforming the ...

  • A Is for . . . ?

    Henry Horenstein

    In this sophisticated alphabet book, each letter serves as a clue to the identity of the animal pictured in a dazzling photographic puzzle. Seen from startling perspectives, familiar creatures are made fantastical, and readers of all ages are sure to...

  • Patrick's Dinosaurs on the Internet

    Carol Carrick

    Patrick loves dinosaurs, and he loves looking at them on the Internet. But he has no idea that dinosaurs are looking back! One night, Flato, a friendly, freckle-faced creature, invites Patrick to travel in a fantastic spaceship to visit his dinosaur ...

  • The Young Person's Guide to Shakespeare

    Anita Ganeri

    Who was Shakespeare, and why has his work remained so compelling to us for so many centuries? With conversational text, informative sidebars, and full-color photographs, The Young Person’s Guide to Shakespeare makes Shakespeare’s life and work ac...

  • Theo

    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

    When the Nazis announce that all orphans in Athens are to be rounded up and sent to Germany, Theo and his older brother Soc travel to a small village where they can hide and join the resistance movement. But upon reaching their destination, Soc is ex...

  • Winning

    C.S. Adler

    When Vicky makes the tennis team, she expects her problems to be solved, but she is soon confronted with a whole new set of problems when her vehement focus on tennis threatens her relationship with her best friend, and her new tennis partner, Barbar...

  • Stockings of Buttermilk: American Folktales

    Neil Philip

    This handsome volume brings together eighteen American stories from eleven states, all of which are based on traditional tales of the European cultures that had the earliest influence on this country-the British Isles, France, Spain, and Germany. Som...

  • Invisible Monsters

    Chuck Palahniuk

    She's a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway "accident" leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible mons...

  • Twelve Days of Christmas

    HarperCollins

    In this festive rendition of the popular Christmas counting song, Vladimir Vagin captures the lavish Christmas celebrations of old with timeless elegance. His detailed, jewellike paintings reflect a unique mix of cultures: the medieval Russian fl...

  • The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing

    Richard Brautigan

    On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both ...

  • A Season for Love

    Linda Windsor
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    In this anthology of four novellas,(three proven favorites and one new delight), "animal attraction" gains a whole new meaning! Four couples discover love thanks to unexpected, sometimes hilarious, and always entertaining assistance. In Cupid's Chase...

  • Love Me Twice

    Annie Jones
    in

    In this anthology of four novellas,(three proven favorites and one new delight), "animal attraction" gains a whole new meaning! Four couples discover love thanks to unexpected, sometimes hilarious, and always entertaining assistance. In Cupid's Chase...

  • The Green River Trail

    Ralph Compton

    Bestselling author Ralph Compton brings the Old West back to life in this epic saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who paved the way toward the Great Frontier. The horses came from California. The cattle came from Texas. And the men were coming Nort...

  • At Freddie's

    Penelope Fitzgerald

    A London theater school resists the cultural shifts of the 1960s in this novel by the Booker Prize-winning author -- with an introduction by Simon Callow.It is the 1960s, and London’s West End theaters all rely on Freddie Wentworth, the formidable ...

  • The Ghost Stallion

    Laura E. Williams

    I didn't have no hope of seeing the ghost stallion but I looked anyway. 'Course he wasn't really a ghost. He was flesh and bone, with blood running through him so wild that nobody tried to break him. Since Ma ran off, Pa doesn't pay much attention...

  • Poppy's Puppet

    Patricia Lee Gauch


    Poppy creates magical puppets whose personalities are determined by what Poppy 'hears' in the wood before he carves it. When he takes his puppets on the road, their show becomes famous throughout the land.

    But one day Poppy impatiently sha...

  • Baby Lemur

    Susan Hellard

    "You're not a baby anymore," said Liam's mother one day. "It's time for you to try things for yourself..."

    When Liam is a baby he spends all day and all night cuddled to his mother's tummy. As he gets bigger, he rides on his mother's back as s...

  • Baby, Talk!

    Harriet Ziefert

    Most of all what Max wanted to know was:
    When will she talk?

    Max is thrilled with his new baby sister. He can't wait to talk and play with her! But all the baby seems to do is eat, sleep, and cry. Though Max feels a little impatient, he nev...

  • The Catnap Cat-Astrophe!

    Louise Munro Foley

    Ever since Omar's escape from the vampire village things haven't been the same. In fact, without the cat's secret powers the village is in shambles. They must get Omar back! But how?

    Norman--the vegetarian vampire--has tried several times alre...

  • Pooh's Christmas Gifts

    Isabel Gaines

  • Gator Aid

    Jane Cutler


    A third book in the popular Fraser brothers series.

    Right after seeing his older brother, Jason, in a school production of Peter Pan, Edward Fraser claims to have spotted an alligator in his neighborhood park's lake. Jason and his parents...

  • Bye, Bye, Butterfree

    Diane Muldrow

  • Pokemon Counting Book

    Diane Muldrow

  • Snow Bear

    Jean Craighead George

  • Pooh's Wishing Star

    Bruce Talkington

  • Arctic Son

    Jean Craighead George

  • The Perfect Wife

    Shari MacDonald

    The Salinger Sisters series spins the tales of four sisters who find love - in spite of them-selves. Now in Book Three, after years of trying  to be "the perfect wife," Felicia is struggling, for her children's sake, to rebuild her life fol...

  • Soft Maniacs

    Maggie Estep

    From Maggie Estep, heralded author of Diary of an Emotional Idiot, comes this darkly funny collection of inter-connected stories. Jody Ray, a young psychiatrist, conceals her own nymphomania -- and a penchant for stiletto boots -- behind a conservat...

  • Motherless Brooklyn

    Jonathan Lethem

    NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • A complusively readable riff on the classic detective novel from America's most inventive novelist."A half-satirical cross between a literary novel and a hard-boiled crime story narrated by an amateur det...

  • The Emerald Isle

    Angela Elwell Hunt

    Interweaving two captivating stories of romance and intrigue, humor and faith, The Emerald Isle wraps up the multi-colored threads of Angela Elwell Hunt's The Heirs of Cahira O'Connor series in a page-turning conclusion that will satisfy both spirit ...

  • Death of a Colonial

    Bruce Alexander

    When a nobleman who is the last of his line is executed, his possessions are expected to go to the Crown. Then a man appears--claiming to be the nobleman's younger brother who disappeared seven years ago -- and declares his right to the estate. But i...

  • A Fool and His Honey

    Charlaine Harris

    Uninvited Murder Sleepless nights, a cross-country chase and a temporary stint at motherhood turn Aurora Teagarden's life upside down. When her husband's niece Regina shows up unannounced on their doorstep with a baby and a secret, Aurora&...

  • The Mirror of Merlin

    T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Strange wickedness is rising up on the magical isle of Fincayra. To save his homeland, and his destiny, Merlin is forced to travel to frightening places -- both on the land and within himself. Joined by Hallia, the deer-woman he has grown to love, an...

  • The Catastrophist

    Ronan Bennett

    The Catastrophist is a brilliant, highly acclaimed novel of love, passion, violence, and desire, set in the Belgian Congo in 1959. While expatriates loll about their pools in a colonial paradise soon to erupt into chaos, huge crowds are drawn to the ...

  • Bone Hunter

    Sarah Andrews

    Forensic geologist Em Hansen uses her keen senses and fascinating scientific background to uncover the buried secrets of the most baffling murder cases. Now Em travels to a Utah paleontology conference, where a renowned dinosaur expert is found bruta...

  • The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh

    Evelyn Waugh

    A "lavishly entertaining" (Publishers Weekly) distillation of Waugh's genius--abundant evidence that one of the twentieth century's most admired and enjoyed English novelists was also a master of the short form.Evelyn Waugh's short fiction reveals in...

  • Giant Squid

    Jennifer Dussling

    Talk about a BIG catch! The 25-foot squid hauled in by a fishing boat off the coast of New Zealand in December 1997 was one of the most amazing stories of that year! Here's a fascinating look at the giant squid, cephalopods in general, and the implic...

  • Where Is the Apple Pie?

    Valeri Gorbachev

  • Sophie Skates

    Rachel Isadora

    The author of Lili on Stage uses a story about a young girl who loves to ice skate to introduce the sport: the parts and care of skates, the techniques of different skating moves, and ice skating competitions....

  • Yudonsi: A Tale from the Canyons

    Robert J. Blake

  • When Jeff Comes Home

    Catherine Atkins

    Sixteen-year-old Jeff, returning home after having been kidnapped and held prisoner for three years, must face his family, friends, and school and the widespread assumption that he engaged in sexual activity with his kidnapper....

  • I Forgot My Shoes

    Jessica Harper

  • Happy New Year 2000!

    Grosset & Dunlap

    It's coming! We all know that. The year 2000 is upon us and what better way for young children to celebrate than with Happy New Year 2000! Like all our Jewel Sticker Stories, this book comes with 25 colorful, glittery jewel stickers so, as kids read ...

  • Blue Willow

    Pamela Conrad

    When love strikes Kung Shi Fair and Chang the Good on the banks of the Wen River, they feel bound together, yet Kung Shi Fair refuses to let them be together and works to end the special romance that has just started to bloom....

  • About Face

    June Rae Wood

    Having been born with a large birthmark on her face, Glory finds making friends difficult as she is teased about it constantly, yet when she meets Marvalene, a young girl who travels on the carnival circuit, Glory thinks she has finally found someone...

  • Boing! No Bouncing on the Bed

    Jane Seymour

    Big Jim Cat shows patience and understanding as the two excitable kittens go about bouncing and jumping on all the furniture, yet when they attempt to try out Big Jim Cat's favorite chair, his perception of events changes in a big way....

  • Second Sight: Stories for a New Millennium

    Jeremy Engleman

  • The Acrobat and the Angel

    Mark Shannon

    After his grandmother dies, Pe+a7quele+a7, a boy with a talent as an acrobat, finds a home at a monastery where he must give up his "carnival ways"--until he performs one last miraculous time. 50,000 first printing....

  • The Avram Davidson Treasury

    Avram Davidson

    Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his wonderful stories to pulp magazines. They are wonderful.

    Now his estate and his friends have b...

  • Among the Odds and Evens

    Priscilla Turner

    When X and Y, two Adventurers from the Land of Letters, crash-land in the Kingdom of Wontoo, they quickly learn that it is populated by two sorts of Number: the Odds, an eccentric bunch, and the Evens, orderly and predictable. A pun-filled text and h...

  • The Big Box

    Toni Morrison

    To make this group of kids abide by the rules, the grown-ups create a world inside a box . . . with toys, games, treats, and gifts, but these clever children are able to find their way out of the box and back into reality. 100,000 first printing....

  • The Big Box

    Disney Book Group

  • One Magical Night

    Golden Books

  • Happy to Be Nappy

    Chris Raschka

  • Don't Make Me Laugh

    James Stevenson

    "Mr. Frimdimpny, a heavy, bossy, gloomy alligator, lays down the rules for this book: do not laugh! Do not smile! If you do, you have to go back to the front of the book. Then various slapstick scenes show animal characters in mess and mayhem-caused ...

  • Treasures of Fantasy

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman

    Here be dragons--and elves, wizards, and unicorns and all the wonders of fantasy!

    Here they are, collected in one indispensable volume--the most acclaimed stories of our time by the world-famous authors who have made fantasy the most excitin...

  • Lara Gets Even

    Katherine Applegate

    Lara can't bear to watch Kate steal Jake. But Kate's about to find the mystery boy who rescued her at Ben's party. Can Lara dream up a scheme that will lead Kate straight to the wrong guy?...

  • Princess Sonora and the Long Sleep

    Gail Carson Levine

    A spiteful fairy. A beautiful princess. An outstretched finger. A spindle. A hundred-year snooze. A charming prince. A kiss. All the familiar ingredients.

    But wait! Where did that extra prince come from? And those fairy gifts that were never...

  • Tomatoes from Mars

    Arthur Yorinks

    They came from outer space. They were . . . Tomatoes from Mars!

    When these vicious Martian fruits invade Earth and threaten to cover it in sauce, the whole world looks to one man, one genius--Dr. Schtickle--to save it from becoming the seco...

  • The Taming of Pyre

    John Whitman

    Time to fight fire...

    The time has come for our heroes, Rohan, Angus, Ivar, and Deirde, to tame Pyre, the Fire Dragon of Dare. The four friends are confident that they won't have much trouble, thanks to their Mystic weapons and armor.

    ...

  • Rotten Ralph's Thanksgiving Wish

    Jack Gantos

    This Thanksgiving, Sarah's cat, Ralph, has something extra to be thankful for: his cat-cousin Percy is cooking the big turkey -- with Ralph as junior chef. Will dinner ever be served?Pull back the flaps to see each of Ralph's deliciously rotten Th...

  • Kittens

    Golden Books

  • Playful Puppies

    Michael Lustig

  • My Big Dog

    Janet Stevens; Susan Stevens Crummel

    Merl the cat’s pampered life is turned upside down when a golden retriever puppy moves into the house. With hilarious illustrations by Caldecott Honor winner Janet Stevens, My Big Dog is perfect for story time!...

  • Fish Book

    Christopher Angelfish

  • I Love You Winnie the Pooh

    Ellen Titlebaum

    When Christopher Robbin tells his favorite bear that he loves him, Pooh decides to do all the best things a Best Bear should, but after a long day of making his friends grumpy, he isn't sure whether he really is a Best Bear and Christopher Robbin wil...

  • Bart Simpson's Treehouse of Horror Heebie-Jeebie Hullabaloo

    Matt Groening

    The essential companion for anyone celebrating Halloween – Simpsons style!

    Now Simpsons fans can trick or treat along with their favourite family with this compendium of tips and features, including how to monster–proof your ro...

  • Avalon

    Stephen R. Lawhead

    It has been fortold: In the hour of Britain's greatest need, King Arthur will return to rescue his people. In Portugal, the reprobate King Edward the Ninth has died by his own hand. In England, a dark scenario conceived by the power-hungry Prim...

  • The Heiress

    Claire Delacroix

    "I SEEK A BRIDE, THE WEALTHIEST HEIRESS IN IRELAND." No woman can resist the charms of Rowan de Montvieux. But the dashing rogue is in no hurry to marry--until his family dares him to find a bride . . . or risk losing his inheritance. So Rowan set...

  • Remember Summer

    Elizabeth Lowell
    in

    Rewrite of Summer Games DANGER The most grueling challenge of Raine Smith's equestrian career looms before her--the Olympic Games. Little does she realize that she's about to face greater perils in the arms of a stranger than she's ever found o...

  • Red Roses Mean Love

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    Yellow for friendship. Pink for passion. But . . . Red Roses Mean Love. She dreamed of roses.... Orphaned and abandoned by her fiance, Hayley Albright is determined to care for her younger siblings even if it means having to give up her own dr...

  • Playing for Keeps

    Nina Alexander

    An impossible decision... When Claudia tries out for the guys' soccer team, her boyfriend, Aaron, isn't too happy about it. And when she wins his position, he can't take anymore. Before she knows what is happening, they're over. Claudia can't bel...

  • 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense

    Al Sarrantonio

    Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology"One of the best anthologies of horror and suspense of all time." -- Rocky Mountain NewsFrom award-winning author and “master anthologistâ€* Al Sarrantonio, 999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horro...

  • Everybody Pays

    Andrew H. Vachss

    A hit man defies the confines of a life sentence to avenge his sister's batterer. An immaculately dressed man hires a street gang to extract his daughter from a Central American prison, for reasons as mysterious as they are deadly. A two-bit graffiti...

  • Bud, Not Buddy

    Christopher Paul Curtis

    I squeezed my bag to my stomach and ran. The train was going faster and faster. People were jumping on and reaching back to help others. I finally got to the tracks and was running as hard as I could. I looked up into the boxcar and saw Bugs. He scr...

  • A Traitor Among the Boys

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    After all the trouble at Christmas, the Hatford boys make a New Year's resolution to treat the Malloy girls like sisters. But who says you can't play tricks on sisters? The girls will need to stay one step ahead of the boys, and are willing to pay bi...

  • On Beyond a Million

    David M. Schwartz

    Professor X and his dog, Y, teach kids how to count exponentially by powers of 10 (1, 10, 100, 1,000, 10,000, etc.), beginning at 1 and working all the way up to a googol (a 1 followed by 100 zeros) and beyond. Children fascinated by large numbers wi...

  • The Case of the Missing Marbles / The Case of the Rising Moon

    John Whitman

    Shirley becomes curious about the new student at Sussex Academy, especially after Bo takes a liking to her, and so begins an investigation to find out who she is and from where she came. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Big Bird's Ticklish Christmas

    Sarah Albee

  • Big Bird Meets Santa Claus

    Liza Alexander

  • Merry Christmas Everybody!

    Allen

  • Patrick's Christmas Tree

    Geoffrey Hayes

    Patrick and Pap Bear go to get a Christmas tree. When Patrick wants the littlest one, his dad comes up with a clever idea to please everyone! Patrick's voice will be familiar to anyone with a four-year-old, and the father-son exchanges will have both...

  • The Longest Hair in the World

    Lois Duncan

  • Cinderella 2000

    Mavis Jukes

    A hilarious account of preparing for New Year's Eve for the millennium with romance, drama, shopping, two devilish stepsisters, and a happily-ever-after ending.

    Ashley Ella Toral wants to spend the last hours of 1999 and the first hours of the...

  • Unwelcome to Grouchland

    Constance Allen

  • Waiting for Christmas

    Ruth J. Morehead

    The adorable Holly Babes are back, and now they are Waiting for Christmas. They want to make sure everything is just right for Christmas, so they trim their tree, sing their carols, and give out gifts. The Holly Babes' simple text and charming illust...

  • Pumpkins from the Sky!: A Cobtown Story: from the Diaries of Lucky Hart

    Julia Van Nutt

    The year: 1845. The place: Cobtown, USA. The writer: ten-year-old Lucky Hart, whose vivid diary entries evoke the special place she calls home and the many colorful and endearing folks who share her daily joys, her adventures, her traditions and her ...

  • Grandfather's Christmas Tree

    Keith Strand

    Beginning their life together in the Colorado wilderness, a young rancher and his wife work hard, and joyfully anticipate the birth of their first child. Their many hopes and dreams for their new family are suddenly put in danger when a merciless win...

  • Cookie Monster's Christmas

    Anne Duax

  • Elmo's Christmas

    Peter Panas

  • The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland: Movie Storybook

    James Bridges

    Based on the motion picture screenplay by Mitchell Kriegman and Joseph Mazzarino

    Whoosh! Elmo and his blanket are whisked away to Grouchland. What's worse, the greedy Huxley steals Elmo's blanket! Elmo must use all of his courage to rescue his...

  • Thomas and the Missing Christmas Tree

    Dana Thompson

    It's up to Thomas to get the Christmas tree for the annual Tidmouth Station Christmas Party. But when a blizzard traps Thomas and the precious Christmas tree it's time for another kind of party--a rescue party! Will the other engines free Thomas in t...

  • Making up Megaboy

    Virginia Walter

  • A Straw for Two

    Eric Sanvoisin

    Bitten by an ink-drinking vampire who is allergic to blood, Odilon, the son of a bookstore owner, has become an ink drinker. Now he loves using a straw to devour books, but he has no one to share his secret with. He’s lonely . . . until a new girl,...

  • The Huckabuck Family: And How They Raised Popcorn in Nebraska and Quit and Came Back

    Carl Sandburg

    A picture-book version of the classic Rootabaga story.

    Carl Sandburg's Rootabaga Stories have amused generations of children with their distinctly American fairy-tale flavor. In The Huckabuck family, which was from his first collection, Jonas ...

  • Happy Grouchy Day

    John Lund

    Grizzy isn't like the other grouches. She's too nice and gets kicked out of class for lacking proper grouchy manners! But with a little help from Elmo and Oscar, Grizzy discovers that she can be a good grouch after all!...

  • Hurray for Christmas

    Betty Boegehold

    Pippa Mouse is back again, and this time in a charming Christmas story. On Christmas morning, Pippa awakens to find her stocking overflowing, as well as her heart. She gives gifts to her parents and friends, and wishes Christmas could last forever. B...

  • Happy Holidays

    Lauren Attinello

  • Winter Walk

    Matt Stoddart

  • A Gesture Life

    Chang-Rae Lee

    The second novel from the critically acclaimed New York Timesâ€"bestselling author Chang-rae Lee.His remarkable debut novel was called "rapturous" (The New York Times Book Review), "revelatory" (Vogue), and "wholly innovative" (Kirkus Reviews). ...

  • Cilla Black

    Douglas Thompson

  • Almost Like a Whale

    Steve Jones

  • Bill Nye the Science Guy's Big Blue Ocean

    Bill Nye

  • Adultery and Other Diversions

    Tim Parks

  • The Service of Clouds

    Susan Hill

    At the far end of the long white gallery is a painting of a woman, in pale flowing clothes and lying on a sofa beside an open window. The muslin curtains billow out towards her like clouds. There is a touch of brilliant red, the ribbon on her hat. Th...

  • A Conspiracy of Tall Men

    Noah Hawley

    The debut literary thriller that launched the career of the bestselling author of Before the Fall and the creator of the show Fargo. Linus Owen is a young professor of conspiracy theory at a small college just outside San Francisco. His marriage is ...

  • Ecstasy

    Bertrice Small
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    Dagon, Prince of Aramis, has been betrayed by his twin brother, and sold into slavery. He vowed to escape his tortured life, and seek revenge...until he was brought to Kava. Now Dagon is under the rapturous spell of the women who rule this kingdom an...

  • Dark Desires

    Thea Devine
    in

    Drue Caledon despises her new husband Courtland Summerville, the man she was forced to marry, and vows to remain loyal to her true love, Gerard Lenoir. But Court intends to make Drue his in body and spirit by introducing her to the pleasures of the f...

  • A Lady's Pleasure

    Robin Schone
    in

    Seeking shelter from a storm, Colonel Robert Coally intrudes on Abigail Wnyfred while she is reading a book that would surely raise more than one eyebrow in London society. When the lonely Abigail confides in him that she aches for the touch of a man...

  • Bound & Determined

    Susan Johnson
    in

    The Princess Marko hs kidnapped Hugh Dalsany, Marquis of Crewe. Now Hugh finds himself her prisoner, shackled to a bedpost. But it isn't long before he becomes a very willing captive, succumbing to her expert skills in seduction....

  • The Marriage of Sticks

    Jonathan Carroll

    Miranda Romanac is a successful thirtysomething woman in today's modern world, yet she feels alone and adrift on the sea of her life. At her high school reunion she makes a shattering discovery that further undermines her already shaky sense of who s...

  • Legends 1

    Robert Silverberg

    The Great Anthology of Short Novels by the Masters of Modern Fantasy STEPHEN KING tells a tale of Roland, the Gunslinger, in the world of The Dark Tower, in "The Little Sisters of Eluria." ROBERT SILVERBERG returns to Majipoor and to Lord Valen...

  • Mercadian Masques

    Francis Lebaron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Treachery stalks the Weatherlight. Escaping from Rath, the crew of the flying ship Weatherlight finds itself adrift. Grieving for their lost comrades and in need of repairs, they make their painful way to Mercadia, a city where everything is for s...

  • The Gathering Dark

    Jeff Grubb
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    After the war comes the darkness Terisiare lies in ruins. Nations have fallen, goblins raid the land, and an oppressive faith throttles the city-states. Now deep within the walls of the Conclave of Mages, Jodah must decide if unlocking his own imm...

  • Obsidian Fate

    Diana G. Gallagher

    ETERNAL NIGHT On the outskirts of Sunnydale, recent rains have uncovered the remains of a five hundred-year-old Spanish expedition. But one of the artifacts, a smoky mirror with an ornately carved obsidian frame, goes missing, along with the histo...

  • Slocum and the Cattle King

    Jake Logan

    Slocum goes up against the biggest, baddest cattle baron in the territory...John Chisum, a ruthless cattleman, is aiming to run off anyone in the way of his new project -- blocking the local water supply and forcing everyone to buy their water from h...

  • Family Feud

    J.R. Roberts

    NO STRANGER TO DANGER A visit to a rancher friend is no vacation--once Clint finds himself caught up in his buddy's lethal love triangle. With twelve angry men on his tail, even the law doesn't want to touch this one. But the Gunsmith is used to a ch...

  • Texas Hellion

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo takes on a town of Texas cutthroats -- with a pint-sized partner...Skye Fargo has seen it all -- but nothing can prepare him for a spitfire named Wes, a ten-year-old kid with a quick draw and a deadly aim. He's searching for his beloved co...

  • Diamondback

    Guy Brewer

    Con artist Dex Yancy is not much interested in the family business--a cotton plantation called Blackgum Bend--but when his own brother cheats him out of his inheritance and fires his best friend, he heads home to settle the score. Original....

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Judd Cole

    The Kansas Pacific Railroad is laying track where someone definitely doesn't want it, and a number of people have been murdered, so the Pinkerton Agency sends Wild Bill Hickok to get to the bottom of the situation...

  • Texas Vigilante

    Bill Crider

    The powerful sequel to Outrage at Blanco, Edgar & Shamus Award nominee Bill Crider’s startlingly original western crime novelSix months ago, Ellie was a newlywed, working the dry land in 1880s Texas. Then the desperados came. They raped her...

  • Longarm and the Sheep War

    Tabor Evans

    Custis Long finds himself knee deep in sheep when he goes undercover to protect a group of Wyoming sheepherders from the local cattle folk, who will stop at nothing, even murder, to drive them out of the state. Original....

  • Miss Haycroft's Suitors

    Emily Hendrickson

    A Helpless Heiress Trapped under the guardianship of her despicable uncle, Anne Haycroft is about to be married off to pay his gambling debts. She has been promised to a heartless nobleman who wants to add the lovely heiress to his collection of p...

  • Razzle Dazzle

    Lisa Hendrix

    An ambitious businessman is working overtime on a very personal merger that could save his career -- but his heart just isn't in it. And when his meddlesome mother tries to work some magic, the result proves that business and pleasure don't m...

  • Circle of Time

    Lynn Hanna

    The magic of Scotland... The mysteries of love... The sole survivor of a place crash washes ashore holding an ancient necklace. Now his daughter must return the necklace to a mystical waterfall in the Scottish Highlands, a journey that reveals a ...

  • Lord Maxfield's Birthday Cake

    Cathleen Clare
    in

    The new Lady Maxfield adores her bridegroom, who took her from a life of genteel poverty to one of wealth and opulence. Determined to prove her own worth, Tabitha begins to practice economics by reducing the chef's budget. When he resigns in a huff, ...

  • A Matter of Taste

    Alana Clayton
    in

    Lady Fiona Atterly is everything a young lady should be -- except for her most unladylike culinary skills. When she agrees to help a friend's house party by preparing some of her special recipes, her mysterious absences from the festivities attra...

  • Black Widow

    Linda Jones
    in

    Ah Venice In the whirling decadence of Carnival all forms of desire are unveiled. Amidst the crush of those attending the balls, filling the waterways, and traveling in the gondolas of post-Napoleonic Venice, nothing is unavailable--should one kno...

  • Untamed

    Sharon Ihle

    GOOD MEDICINE... Working as a laundress at Lolo's Pleasure Palace, Josie Baum doesn't know anything about playing nursemaid. But when a Cheyenne warrior whisks her off to care for his friend, Daniel McCord, she doesn't have a choice. Sud...

  • Caitlyn's Cowboy

    Gina Jackson

    THE HEIRESS Caitlin Bradford was starting a new life. She'd left behind her unfaithful husband; she'd quit her high-powered job in advertising. Free from the suffocating hold of Boston high society, she came to Little Fork, Wyoming to sort o...

  • His Wicked Ways

    Samantha James

    From across the Scottish Highlands strides Cameron MacKay, the last member of the once powerful Clan MacKay. Handsome, fearless, and determined, he is a man who catches the eye of many a woman... yet he has but one goal--to find Meredith, last daught...

  • The Brightest Flame

    Sonya Birmingham

    Ship of Dreams Molly Kilmartin left Ireland on a ship bound for New York City, determined to stand on her own two feet--to find her piece of the American dream and never have to ask a soul for anything. She certainly didn't need a man like the dashi...

  • The Switch

    Lynsay Sands

    TO BOY When they first met Lord Jeremy William Radcliffe, Charlie and her twin sister, Elizabeth, were escaping from their uncle -- taking turns acting the young gentleman to avoid detection. But Charlie couldn't help falling head over heels ...

  • Queen of the Nights

    Sharon Pisacreta
    in

    Ah Venice In the whirling decadence of Carnival all forms of desire are unveiled. Amidst the crush of those attending the balls, filling the waterways, and traveling in the gondolas of post-Napoleonic Venice, nothing is unavailable--should one kno...

  • The Sun God

    Katherine Deauxville
    in

    Ah Venice In the whirling decadence of Carnival all forms of desire are unveiled. Amidst the crush of those attending the balls, filling the waterways, and traveling in the gondolas of post-Napoleonic Venice, nothing is unavailable--should one kno...

  • Love's Disguise

    Elaine Fox
    in

    Ah Venice In the whirling decadence of Carnival all forms of desire are unveiled. Amidst the crush of those attending the balls, filling the waterways, and traveling in the gondolas of post-Napoleonic Venice, nothing is unavailable--should one kno...

  • Heart of the Dove

    Tracy Fobes

    Lucinda Drakewyck, one of a long line of Drakewyck witches, has foreseen her own death. Desperate for answers, she calls upon the magic in her cherished crystal dove, hoping for visions of the warrior whose love would first save her then destroy them...

  • The Duke's Return

    Malia Martin

    When Trevor Phillips finally returns home to claim his inheritance, he's astonished to find the estate in shambles. Still, he has no great desire to be rusticating in the country and it's only the enchantingly beautiful--and shockingly young--Dowager...

  • The Scent of Roses

    Rachel Summers

    A WOMAN'S SMILE Rosalyn Delaney's husband, Josiah, had vanished six years ago. Following a private detective's lead, Rosalyn leaves Salt Lake City and boards a train heading to the mining town of Whiskey Ridge, Arizona. She arrives at Rose House, an...

  • A Knight of Honor

    Laurel O'Donnell

    A RAVEN-HAIRED HELLION... After losing her mother in a blaze of fire, thirteen-year-old Taylor Sullivan fled Castle Sullivan with only a golden ring, and a bitter legacy of rage. Armed with a sharp dagger and a quick sword, she hired out as a mercen...

  • Intimate Secrets

    Candice Poarch

    Years ago, Jonathan Blake’s fiancée died the night before their wedding. No one has been able to capture his heart since. But Jonathan carries a secret that could come back to haunt him. Johanna Jones returns to Nottoway, Virginia, ...

  • Star Keeper

    Patricia Potter

    As the war of independence rages on, Philadelphians are riveted by the seafaring escapades of a rogue rebel sympathizer known only as the Star Rider. This daring hero uses his own vessel to sabotage the British -- until his ship goes down in a fero...

  • The Scoundrel's Vow

    Sherri Browning

    THE SCOUNDRELS SURPRISE Six years of Lady Shelbourne's School for Girls gave her polish. But nothing could tame the passion Calandra Locke felt for Sir Scarborough Weston, her father's employer, the man she'd loved since childhood. She knew that Sc...

  • The Maiden and the Unicorn

    Isolde Martyn

    The year is 1470 and the legendary Wars of the Roses threatens to tear England apart. In the middle of the conflict is a most unlikely heroine. For Margery, the beautiful and spirited ward of Warwick the Kingmaker, freedom is the only prize worth hav...

  • Free Falling

    Stobie Piel

    ANOTHER TIME, ANOTHER PLACE How did anyone talk her into jumping out of a plane strapped to a stranger? And why didn't anyone tell her that the stranger was going to be her wildly handsome ex-boyfriend Adrian de Vargas? Cora Talmadge never thought...

  • A Knight's Vow

    Gayle Callen

    Married by His Majesty's Request He was her father's enemy, and now he was her husband by the king's decree. But that didn't mean Lady Isabel Atherstone planned on honoring James Markham, Earl of Bolton, with her love. She only hop...

  • Remember Me

    Margie Walker

    Sometimes, Love's Secrets... DNA lab technician Layla Griffin has made an important discovery that can clear a man awaiting lethal injection for one of Texas's most sensational murder trials. Knowing she must report her findings, she places a call t...

  • The Colors of Autumn

    Carol Finch
    in

    Modern studio artist Julia Harper paints herself into a mural of life in 1880 Bugtussle, Texas...and into the arms of Win Calloway -- a man who is everything she ever dreamed of. Now she must decide if the fame and fortune she has known in the "f...