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New Books List: 715 titles

  • 1, 2, 3, Music

    Sylvie Auzary-Luton

    Annie's love of music keeps getting her in trouble because with her headphones tight on her ears she can't hear her grandmother, but Annie and her grandfather decided to open everyone's ears to the delight of music....

  • 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 anthologist”* Al Sarrantonio, 999: Twenty-Nine Original Tales of Horro...

  • A Is for AARRGH!

    William J. Brooke

  • A to Z-Do You Ever Feel like Me?

    Bonnie Hausman

  • Aaron's Hair

    Alan Daniel

    When Amy refuses to wake-up and go to school, her family decides to teach her a lesson and so, bed and all, move her out of the house, through the streets and to her school for everyone in town to see. Reprint....

  • 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...

  • The Accidental Asian

    Eric Liu

    Beyond black and white, native and alien, lies a vast and fertile field of human experience. It is here that Eric Liu, former speechwriter for President Clinton and noted political commentator, invites us to explore.In these compellingly candid essay...

  • 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....

  • Add a Little Magic

    Disney Book Group

  • Adultery and Other Diversions

    Tim Parks

  • 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...

  • An Affair of Convenience

    Marissa Hall

    Mallory Reissen's daily planner said it all: meeting, meeting, have wild passionate sex with Cliff Young. Best friends, they agreed a no-strings-attached affair was their solution to busy careers and no time for dating. The problem was, once they'...

  • The Alibi

    Sandra Brown

    The sensational murder of one of Charleston's most powerful citizens, real-estate tycoon Lute Pettijohn, rocks the city and gives ambitious prosecutor Hammond Cross his chance to become the city's next district attorney -- if he wins the case...

  • Alien Vacation

    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

  • All in the Family

    Judy Gill / Judy Griffith Gill

    A BLIND DATE... Divorced dad Jed Cotts loves his two grown daughters, but he's fed up with their attempts at fixing him up on dates. He's already had his share of grief with their mother, an ultra-feminist who cured him of any romantic notio...

  • Almost a Woman

    Esmeralda Santiago

    Following the enchanting story recounted in When I Was Puerto Rican of the author’s emergence from the barrios of Brooklyn to the prestigious Performing Arts High School in Manhattan, Esmeralda Santiago delivers the tale of her young adulthood, whe...

  • Almost Like a Whale

    Steve Jones

  • Altar Ego

    Kathy Lette

    Becky Steele has a black belt in tongue fu. She holds the Girl's Night Out record for the shortest amount of time between meeting a man and going to bed with him ( nine minutes). So why is she getting married? Sure, Julian's the right man, but has...

  • 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...

  • And Mother Makes Three

    Liz Fielding

    Stand-in mother... When Bronte Lawrence reads a letter from a little girl claiming to be her daughter, she knows there has been a mistake. There has -- little Lucy Fitzpatrick's letter has reached the wrong Lawrence sister! Her career-minde...

  • The Angelic Darkness

    Richard Zimler

    An ineffable mixture of light and dark, desire and death. Richard Zimler's The Angelic Darkness is an unforgettable, tender, and magical portrait of San Francisco in the mid-80s as well as its lost souls, struggling to find love and intimacy in a cit...

  • Angelica's Awesome Adventure with Cynthia!

    Kitty Richards

  • Animal House

    Melissa Bay Mathis

  • 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 ...

  • Apache Flame

    Madeline Baker

    As a child, Mitch Garrett was excluded from respectable society. His father was the town drunkard, his mother was an Apache, and his only friend was Alisha Faraday, the sweet, innocent daughter of a preacher. But as adults, their secret affection ...

  • Apologizing To Dogs

    Joe Coomer

    Times are tough on Worth Row. This is not to say, however, that it is by any means quiet on the Row, a place where bathtubs double as lawn furniture, and adultery, bribery and larceny are as commonplace as the glass eyeballs that pop up in every yard...

  • Arctic Son

    Jean Craighead George

  • Arms and the Women

    Reginald Hill

    A smartly dressed couple, looking entirely middle-class, has tried to abduct the wife of Chief Inspector Peter Pascoe. Not a woman to go gently into strange BMWs, Ellie Pascoe escapes. But the subsequent assault on a British matron close to the Pasco...

  • Assassin's Blood

    Malcolm Shuman

    Experience has taught Baton Rouge contract archaeologist Dr. Alan Graham that the picturesque landscape of Louisiana is rich with history that is both glorious ....and deadly. The tiny town of Jackson, Louisiana, is the site of Alan's newest inves...

  • Assignment: Groom

    Jacqueline Diamond

    The Wedding Party: Anything can happen at a Bellamy wedding! The wedding of the year was about to become the scandal of the decade! And social secretary Anne Crumm was in the middle of it The groom-to-be was none other than her former flame, Er...

  • 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 Attack of the Two-Inch Teacher // I Shrank My Teacher

    Bruce Coville

    Tiny teacher -- BIG Trouble! All Pleskit Meenom wants to do is fit in on his new planet. But even a trip to the mall to get some Earth-style clothing isn't enough to stop Jordan Lynch's teasing. Finally Pleskit and his best friend Tim decide to te...

  • Aunt Pitty Patty's Piggy

    Jim Aylesworth

  • An Autumn Bouquet

    Linda Madl
    in

    Public relations manager Jennifer Hollis is at the historic Apple Grove House when, with a camera's flash, she finds herself in 1861, saying her vows to Union officer Captain Bennett Vance. Though she has found her soul mate in Bennett, Jen must retu...

  • Autumn Lover

    Kathryn Fox
    in

    As autumn ripens, television producer Leigh Hunter realizes her high-gloss career has lost its luster. But when a "special" pumpkin she bought for the holidays transports her to 1899, quiet, compelling Ben Sutton soon shows her that love is of far gr...

  • 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 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...

  • The Baby Affair

    Marion Lennox

    Friend, Lover … Husband Dr. Jock Blaxton was a wonderful obstetrician, and adored each baby he delivered, but something stopped him having his own, for he dated no woman more than twice. Until Dr. Tina Rafter arrived to care for her sister's child...

  • The Baby and the Badge

    Janice Kay Johnson

    MEG PATTON, SINGLE MOTHER AND THE NEWEST DEPUTY OF THE ELK SPRINGS SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT, HAS FINALLY COME HOME. A NEW MAN, A NEW JOB, AND A MOTHERLESS BABY DON'T MIX It's time for Meg to reconcile with her sisters--and past time to introduce ...

  • The Baby Bond

    Lilian Darcy

    A DOUBLE BUNDLE OF JOY! Surrogate mother Julie Gregory was suddenly the only mother for the beloved baby she was carrying. And the baby's handsome father wasn't even aware she or the baby existed! Yet millionaire businessman Tom Callahan didn't inte...

  • The Baby Deal

    Alison Kelly

    Can one night of passion lead to marriage? Amanda-Jayne wasn't looking for a husband -- and if she had been, she would never have picked Reb Browne! He had a reputation for many things, but being a family man wasn't one of them. Now, after...

  • The Baby Farm

    Karen Harper

    Something is very wrong in the town of Shelter, Kentucky. Deep in the hills of Appalachia, someone is stealing babies. Without a trace or a reasonable explanation, pregnant women are disappearing, targeted for the precious commodity they carry. ...

  • 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 on the Way

    Lois Richer

    Widow Caitlin Andrews is weeks away from welcoming her new baby into the world when she unexpectedly comes in contact with her late husband's brother. Though Jordan tells Caitlin his concern is for the new baby, he still yearns for the girl he should...

  • Baby Talk

    Marie Ferrarella

    There was no denying it. Juliette St. Claire was pregnant . . . And still extremely single. The successful businesswoman was determined to keep her baby and find her surprise arrival the perfect father. Yet her heart kept pulling her toward Gabe Sald...

  • 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...

  • Baby.Com

    Molly Liholm

    BABY ARRIVES ON DOORSTEP To his horror, bachelor Sam Evans was stuck with a baby--complete with a web page on "daddy" instruction What did he know about babies? He was more at home with a computer formula than baby formula! Baby Juliet's informati...

  • Bachelor Cure

    Marion Lennox

    Bemused? He was stunned! Dr. Tessa Westcott burst into Dr. Mike Llewellyn's life like a redheaded whirlwind. She wore stilettos, she said exactly what she thought and she turned his orderly world upside down. It wouldn't last. She was only arou...

  • Bachelor Father

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    Every Man Has His Price! Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to Wyoming--to put themselves on the auction block! ...

  • The Bad Detective

    H.R.F. Keating

    Jack Stallworthy is a bad detective just on the right side of corrupt. But now he's turning criminal...

    Detective Sergeant Jack Stallworthy has been accepting backhanders for most of his career. And why not? He's spent thirty years...

  • Bad Luck Boswell

    Diane Dawson Hearn

  • The Band Over the Hill

    Shirley Isherwood

    Edward James and Mr Manders can hear a band playing in the distance, and Mr Manders remembers he has some old uniforms and instruments in the attic. Ten minutes later, two very smart bears march from the house - Edward with his trumpet, and Mr Mander...

  • 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...

  • Basket Moon

    Mary Lyn Ray

  • Bathtub Prima Donna

    Anne Brouillard

  • Be Brave, Chuckie!

    Kitty Richards

  • Beauty and the Badge

    Lyn Stone

    Preschool teacher Mary Shaw craved nothing more adventurous than car pools and cookie baking. Then FBI agent Ford Devereaux swept her off her feet - literally - and into his murky, perilous world. Did she dare believe her muscular, magnificent captor...

  • Bedbugs

    Megan McDonald

  • Beguiled

    Lori Foster
    in

    Dane Carter is not who everyone thinks he is. The errant son has returned to the family company after his twin brother, Derek, was found murdered. However, everyone, including Derek's old flame, Angel, believes Derek is still alive. Dane's Mission Im...

  • Being Dead

    Jim Crace

    A haunting new novel about love, death, and the afterlife, from the author of QuarantineBaritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered in the dunes."Their bodies had expired, but anyone could tell--just ...

  • Bertie and Small and the Brave Sea Journey

    Vanessa Cabban

  • Bertie and Small and the Fast Bike Ride

    Vanessa Cabban

    Accompanied by Small, her dedicated stuffed rabbit friend, Bertie takes an incredible journey on her bike, travelling to the four corners of the world in search for treasures to bring home to her mother....

  • Best Halloween Masquerade Ever!

    Richard Scarry

  • Between Husbands and Friends

    Nancy Thayer

    Lucy met Kate when they were both young wives and mothers. In the years since, the two women and their husbands and children have become inseparable, spending every August together in a house on Nantucket. Lucy and Kate, each other's most trusted con...

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

    Anne Salmond

  • Big Bird Meets Santa Claus

    Liza Alexander

  • Big Bird's Ticklish Christmas

    Sarah Albee

  • 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

  • Big Trouble

    Dave Barry

    In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer....

  • Bill Nye the Science Guy's Big Blue Ocean

    Bill Nye

  • 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...

  • The Bird Yard

    Julia Wallis Martin

    When 12-year-old Joseph Coyne is missing and is assumed to have been abducted, Detective Parker makes a promise to the boy's mother: We'll get him back, alive. It proves to be a promise that Parker cannot keep. When another young boy is missing under...

  • A Birthday Surprise!

    Ellen Weiss

  • Black Canyon

    Tom Wilson

  • The Black Queen

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    The Fey Empire has been at peace for fifteen years. But Queen Arianna, who holds the Black Throne, has become increasingly troubled by a mysterious presence that is waking in her mind. It is a force of ruthless power, determined to seize the throne e...

  • 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...

  • The Blair Witch Project

    D.A Stern

    In the fall of 1994, three student filmmakers, Heather Donahue, Joshua Leonard, and Michael Williams, ventured into the Black Hills of Maryland to investigate the legend of the Blair Witch. They never returned and to this day are still considered ...

  • 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...

  • The Blind Side of the Heart

    Michael C. White

    From the author of the critically acclaimed novel A Brother's Blood, comes a haunting story about an Irish housekeeper who must discover the truth when her friend, the parish priest, is accused of horrible crimes.Maggie Quinn has had her share of mis...

  • Bloodhound

    Jay Bonansinga

    Psychic Charlotte Vickers is used to helping the police locate missing persons, but when a woman hires her to find a fiance+a7 who vanished a year earlier, she finds her extrasensory powers strained to the limits. Original....

  • Bloodrights

    N. Lee Wood

    An epic fantasy--a tale of an imperiled kingdom under the throes of a corrupt church, and the return of its rightful ruler... Born of the royal leaders of Adalon and the White Sea Islands, Antonya Terhune was orphaned as a babe when her wicked unc...

  • 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....

  • Blue's Big Pajama Party

    Adam Peltzman

    When Blue has a pajama party, it's time for a nighttime game of Blue's Clues, and young readers must help find Paprika's pacifier, figure out who's hooting, and even find something special in the night sky. 100,000 first printing....

  • Body & Soul

    Jennifer Archer

    What woman hasn't wished for the sexy body of a twenty-year-old? Overworked under-appreciated housewife and mother Lisa O'Conner gazed at the young driver in the car next to her. Tory Beecham's manicured nails kept time with the radio, her curly ...

  • 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....

  • Boltzmon!

    William Sleator

    When the boltzman comes to deliver his wish for power, young Chris gets much more than he expected and soon his life is turned inside out in this suspenseful science fiction thriller for young readers....

  • 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...

  • Bones

    Jan Burke

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO JULIA SAYRE? She disappeared four years ago. A young mother of two, Sayre was more than a news story to reporter Irene Kelly. When Sayre's family sought Irene's help, the search became a personal mission--and a fruitless on...

  • Boney Bob: The Scared Skeleton

    Keith Faulkner

    In this gentle Halloween tale, Boney Bob, a not-so-scary skeleton, unwittingly frightens off the very kids he's trying to befriend. In turn, Bob gets the scare of his life when the kids reappear on Halloween night dressed in their spooky best. Pa...

  • The Book Club

    Mary Alice Monroe

    On the surface, it is a monthly book club. But for these five women, it is something more precious -- a chance to share their hopes and fears and triumphs. Eve--her husband's sudden death has turned her world upside down, cheating her of every sec...

  • Boots & Badges

    Rachel Lee

    When one woman seeks refuge in the small Wyoming town, four resourceful residents are drawn into the suspense that shadows this desperate stranger's life: A dedicated doctor. A courageous nurse. A valiant schoolteacher. A dauntless deputy. As t...

  • Born in Texas

    Ginger Chambers

    Welcome back to West Texas -- and the Parker ranch! Jodie Connelly is resourceful, but her husband, Tate, has her stymied. She just doesn't know what else she can possibly do. As a lawman, Tate was injured in the line of duty-he got caught in ...

  • A Boss in a Million

    Helen Brooks

    From secretary--to wife? Max Hunter's last secretary had called him a boss in a million, and Cory Masters soon discovered that she was now working for a man who more than lived up to his reputation! Cory tried to concentrate on her work, no...

  • Bound & Determined

    Susan Johnson
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    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....

  • A Boy in Winter

    Maxine Chernoff

    A Boy in Winter takes the stuff of newspaper headlines and explores, in a taut, deeply moving narrative, the human passions behind it.
            
    After Nancy Horvath and her eleven-year-old son, Danny, move into their dream house, Danny ...

  • The Brass Dolphin

    Caroline Harvey

    Lila Cunningham, motherless since babyhood, was almost twenty-one when her familiar life in a small town on the Suffolk coast came abruptly to an end. It was 1938, and she learned with a shock that her endearing but feckless artist father faced fina...

  • 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...

  • Breakfast at Madeline's

    Matt Witten

    A Sleuth's Work Is Never Done.... Jacob Burns -- husband, father and frustrated writer -- has finally sold a screenplay. But success isn't all it's cracked up to be. Now he has writer's block, and spends his days drinking coffee in his favorit...

  • Brent and Dad

    Marv West

  • Bride on the Loose

    Renee Roszel

    HE WAS ONE GORGEOUS COMPLICATION.... In one impulsive act, Dana Vanover dumped her fiancé, jumped overboard and -- for good measure -- decided to lose her memory. If no one knew who she was, it would be easier to shake her past! Enter Sam Taylor,...

  • Bride to Be

    Jane Ashford

    TO HAVE AND TO HOLD The daughter of free spirits who routinely outraged the haut ton, Emily Crane longed for a less scandalous life. Now she's the toast of society -- and she couldn't find it more tedious. Until, in the midst of yet anothe...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 Bug, a Bear and a Boy Go to School

    David McPhail

  • Bunnicula Strikes Again

    James Howe

    "Let’s just say the matter is under control," Chester slyly tells his pals Harold and Howie. But what on earth does he mean? It seems that Bunnicula, the vampire rabbit, is back to his old ways -- or so Chester thinks, having found pale vegetabl...

  • Burning Rubber

    George Sullivan

  • Butterflies

    Martha Goldhirsh

  • Buzzy Widget

    Kevin Kiser

  • Bye, Bye, Butterfree

    Diane Muldrow

  • 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...

  • Captain Underpants and the Invasion of the Incredibly Naughty Cafeteria Ladies from Outer Space

    Dav Pilkey

    He defeated the diabolical Dr. Diaper.... He terminated the terrible talking toilets....Now he's in for the fight of his life. Can Captain Underpants and his drawers hold up under the pressure from three massive, tentacled space aliens (in disguise) ...

  • Carnage

    Andrew Billings

    Lurking in the darkest corners of Lauren Bowman's mind are the memories of a brutal past and stolen innocence. Now one of Seattle's most respected businesswomen, she is a formidable animal rights advocate. But her convictions cannot stop her closes...

  • 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....

  • Casey Jones's Fireman

    Nancy Farmer

  • 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, ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • Cave of Stars

    George Zebrowski

    Old Earth is gone. Humanity has been scattered to the stars. Some left their dying planet in spaceship arks, in search of new worlds to inhabit. Others, nanoengineered for near-immortality, explore the far reaches of interstellar space in gargantuan ...

  • A Ceiling of Stars

    Ann Howard Creel

  • Celebrate the Child

    Amy Frazier

    A SINGLE BLOOM CAN BLOSSOM INTO A BOUQUET OF LOVE Little Rose made Dr. Fiona Applegate's quiet life complete. And as this single mother raised her adopted daughter, she never expected to want -- to need -- anyone else. Then handsome Chase Ri...

  • 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...

  • The Cello of Mr. O

    Jane Cutler

    As the war rages on and times get difficult, Mr. O makes his contribution to the community by playing his cello in the square every Wednesday afternoon, thus as things get even more desperate, all in the community soon begin to realize the meaning be...

  • Cereus Blooms at Night

    Shani Mootoo

    Set on a fictional Caribbean island in the town of Paradise, Cereus Blooms at Night unveils the mystery surrounding Mala Ramchandin and the tempestuous history of her family. At the heart of this bold and seductive novel is an alleged crime committed...

  • Chains of Command

    William J. Caunitz

    William J. Caunitz's One Police Plaza has become the benchmark by which all cop novels are measured. Now Caunitz sets a new standard in an explosive novel that probes the treacherous chains of command on both sides of the law.... In Upper Manhatta...

  • Chasing Alfie

    Sandra August

    Alfie & The Ghost Chaser The little girl sitting neat to her on the train wasn't supposed to talk to strangers; and L. V "Alfie" Foster knew better herself But the handsome man across the car was eager to introduce himself, and the feisty reporter...

  • The Chocolate-Covered Contest

    Carolyn Keene

    Nancy can hardly believe it. While visiting an amusement park owned by the world-famous Royal Chocolates Company, her friend Bess tears open a million-dollar candy wrapper in a contest. But when they go to collect, they’re told that someone else ha...

  • Choices

    Abigail Reed

    For young Dierdre, pregnancy is the end of hope. Abandoned by her lover, she cannot imagine having a baby alone while in law school. For Treva, pregnancy is a miracle, but one that her high blood pressure makes extremely dangerous. For Pepper, it is ...

  • Christmas Carousel

    Francesca Crespi

    The story of Christmas springs to life in this lavishly illustrated book. From Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem to the birth of baby Jesus in the manger, to the arrival of the wise men, readers will experience the miracle and magic of Christmas...

  • Cilla Black

    Douglas Thompson

  • 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...

  • Cinderella's Tycoon

    Caroline Cross

    THE BUSINESS TYCOON "Honor" was Texas tycoon Sterling Churchill's middle name. So when a mix-up at the local sperm bank unexpectedly made him a father-to-be, he gallantly stepped forward to marry shy beauty Susan Wilkins. It was a marriage in name...

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    Lynn Hanna

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    Lois McMaster Bujold

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    Daniel Cohen

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    Pamela Burford

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  • Class Picture Day

    Andrea Buckless

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  • Cleopatra VII: Daughter of the Nile

    Kristiana Gregory

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    B.J. Hoff

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    Bernard Lodge

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  • Cold Night, Warm Stranger

    Jill Gregory

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  • Colony Girl

    Thomas Rayfiel

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  • Color Her Dead

    Steve Brown

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  • The Colors of Autumn

    Carol Finch
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    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...

  • The Complete Fairy Tales

    George MacDonald

    George MacDonald occupied a major position in the intellectual life of his Victorian contemporaries. This volume brings together all eleven of his shorter fairy stories as well as his essay "The Fantastic Imagination". The subjects are those of tr...

  • 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...

  • Conan and the Emerald Lotus

    John Hocking

    One wizard is bad. Two are a disaster...And a deadly disaster, too. For Conan, after refusing to help the evil wizard Ethram-Fal, has been cursed with a spell that is slowly, inexorably squeezing the life from his mighty frame.

    The only person...

  • 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 ...

  • Cookie Monster's Christmas

    Anne Duax

  • Cool It, Carrie

    Kate Andrews

    Carrie Mersel gets upset when her friend Jordan enters her story in a contest without her knowledge, and things only get worse when she wins and her mother forbids her to attend the awards ceremony when everyone else will be there...

  • The Copelands

    Doug Bowman

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  • Cops and Robbers

    Allan Ahlberg

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  • Countdown: October

    Daniel Parker

    COUNTDOWN It's 1999. Anyone here know how to save the world? OCTOBER Ever since the plague killed every adult on the planet, the teenage survivors have faced relentless terrors -- each one predicted by an ancient prophecy. Only one girl knows how to ...

  • Course of Action

    Bonnie Bryant

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  • Cowboy Justice

    Patricia Rosemoor

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  • A Cowboy's Code

    Alaina Starr

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  • The Crown Of Eden

    Thomas Williams

    When a simple blacksmith unearths the lost crown of Eden, he is torn between his love for a beautiful maiden, who is promised to marry a tyrannical prince, and his duty to honor a 100-year-old prophecy. To deliver the crown is to lose her. To hide...

  • Cupid's Corner

    Annie Jones

    Annie Jones's delightful Route 66 series continues with the story of two very different people who seem to have nothing in common - but who are brought together by the God they both serve.
            
    Mayor Jenny Fox of Cupid's Corner, Ka...

  • Curious George's Pop-Up Storybook House

    H.A. Rey

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  • Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight

    Ogden Nash

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  • Cutting Loose

    Michael Z. Lewin

    "Show some respect, young man...Just what was this young woman to you?" Jackie looked into the nurse's pinkface. "Nance was the best friend I ever had," she said. "The only friend I ever had." Jackie is Jack Cross to everyone except Nance, a Wild ...

  • Dad in Demand

    Metsy Hingle

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  • A Dad of His Own

    Diana Whitney

    FATHER FOUND Ten years ago, Chessa Margolis thought one lie wouldn't hurt anyone. But when little Bobby tracked down the dad on his birth certificate, Nick Purcell appeared--claiming his newfound son! Chessa knew she and Nick had never actually me...

  • Daddy's Home

    Pamela Bauer

    LOCAL MAN IS HERO Thirty-five-year-old Tyler Brant saved the life of popular TV personality Kristen Kellar when the small plane the were traveling in crashed into the St. Louis River near Hibbing, Minnesota. Brant--single father of a six-year-old d...

  • The Dangerous Husband

    Jane Shapiro

  • Daring the Devil

    Leslie LaFoy

    FORBIDDEN DESIRE AND A DEADLY CHASE Darcy O'Keefe lives by her wits, picking pockets on the streets of Charlestown, Massachusetts, in order to survive. But when she chooses a well-heeled--and extremely handsome--gentleman as her next mark, her kee...

  • Dark Desires

    Thea Devine
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    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...

  • Day Care Days

    Mary Brigid Barrett

  • Dear Fairies

    Sandy Nightingale

    Do you believe in Fairies?

    When Adele finds a tiny letter among the strawberries in her garden, she discovers that there really are fairies living nearby! As she pulls each letter from its hidden place, she learns all about these magical cre...

  • 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...

  • Deathstalker Destiny

    Simon R. Green

    HIS DESTINY CANNOT BE CHANGED Owen Deathstalker's greatest love--Hazel d'Ark--has been abducted by the Blood Runners, a culture dedicated to the extremes of genetic scientific experimentation. Stranded in a mission on Lachrymae Christi, Owen busie...

  • Deep Background

    David Corn

    Deep Background is an exciting political thriller from David Corn that starts with the assassination of the President of the U.S. and never lets up.After President Bob Hanover is shot dead at the White House press conference by a gunman with no ident...

  • Delivery

    Anastasia Suen

  • Desert Hearts

    Anna Gerard

    A WIDOW'S WISH When a bank robber takes her husband's life, Jessamine Satterly takes over the operation of Brimstone's bank. A natural beauty, she locks away her heart for safekeeping -- dreaming of the day she can avenge her husband'...

  • Desert Kiss // Besos En El Desierto

    Gloria Alvarez

    Daniel Rivera can't believe his eyes--or ears. This Aztec knockout doesn't look a thing like the naive, innocent teenager he'd once loved. That sassy, sexy voice doesn't sound like her, either. But it's Patricia Martinez, all right. And Daniel's to b...

  • Designated Daddy

    Jane Toombs

    007 FACES FATHERHOOD Steely government agent Steve Henderson was a lone wolf. Afraid of nothing. Needing no one. Until compassionate nurse Victoria Reynaud placed a newborn in his arms, inexplicably calling the baby girl HIS! The orphaned li...

  • The Desperate Season

    Michael Blaine

    It begins, as shocking events often do, with a simple lapse in judgment.

    A strange and brilliant young man slips out of a mental institution and takes his family hostage in the frozen isolation of the mountains. In a suffoca...

  • The Devil's Workshop

    Stephen J. Cannell

    They told USC grad student Stacy Richardson that the death of her noted microbiologist husband was suicide, but nothing will convince her of that. Now only her own death will keep her from the truth... They told "Lucky" Cunningham he was doing his...

  • 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....

  • Diary of a Junior Year

    Geo Ham

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  • The Dinosaur's New Clothes

    Diane Goode

  • 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 ...

  • Doomsday

    John Peel

    At the threshold of the next century, Tristan Connor lives in a completely computerized America, a mix of virtual and actual realities. Tristian's clone, a dark-minded genius named Devon, has programmed a computer virus that is about to blow the enti...

  • Double Take

    Terry Fowler

    Zachary Taylor did a double take the first time he saw Casey. He won her heart, married her-and then ran away, overwhelmed by a personal crisis. Now, back in line with God's will, he's hoping she'll give him a second chance. Zach wants to convince...

  • Doug's Secret Christmas

    Jim Jinkins

  • Dr. Cowboy

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Get ready for some fast and loose matchmaking from The McCabes of Texas. John and Lilah McCabe have four of the sexiest sons Laramie, Texas, has ever seen -- but no grandbabies! Now they're fixin' to get a whole passel of 'em. Local husband hun...

  • Dream Journey

    Gilles Eduar

    Anatole is a fearless explorer and the gentle protector of a napping little boy, and when Jules finds a comfy spot between the camel's two humps, Anatole sets out to discover new vistas--taking the little boy and young readers on an exciting journey....

  • 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...

  • Eagle Strike

    Orr Kelly

    IN A WORLD MORE DANGEROUS THAN EVER BEFORE, VICTORIES WILL BE WON WITH DARING, SWIFTNESS, AND STEALTH. Guadalcanal... The Solomons... The Coral Sea...The legendary Pacific battlegrounds of a bygone era are about to erupt again--as the U.S. Navy em...

  • Earthdance

    Lynn Reiser

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  • Easter at the Lakes

    Sara Hylton

    Falling in love with local businessman Gerald Styles, Mary, a gentle and shy librarian, accepts his invitation to accompany him to The Lakes, a luxurious mountain resort in rural England, where unexpected surprises and revelations change her life for...

  • Ecstasy

    Bertrice Small
    in

    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...

  • Ed and Fred Flea

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

  • Edge of Night

    Don Pendleton

    A covert action group known only to the President, Stony Man's ultrasecret command center, cyberintelligence network and crack commandos battle terror with swift and deadly force. But with the new millennium, Stony Man faces a nightmare that may turn...

  • 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 ...

  • Elmo's Christmas

    Peter Panas

  • The Elvis and Marilyn Affair

    Robert S. Levinson

    Did they or didn't they? People will kill to find out! When actress Stevie Marriner, reigning "sex star of the soaps," becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a once famous movie director from the Golden Age of Hollywood, she calls on her ex--b...

  • 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 ...

  • Emma's Journal: The Story of a Colonial Girl

    Marissa Moss

    The year is 1774, and the British army has blockaded Boston. Ten-year-old Emma is stuck at Aunt Harmony's house in the city, far from her family. Emma desperately wants to help the American struggle for freedom. When Papa gives her a secret code the ...