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  • The Nether Scroll

    Lynn Abbey
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Ansoain has been murdered, and her son Galimer taken hostage. Druhallen, a young magic user, must avenge the murder of his teacher and rescue her son from a dubious fate. But not everyone is telling Druhallen the truth. Druhallen and his compan...

  • Homecoming

    Laura Abbot

    YOU ARE NOW ENTERING RIVERBEND, INDIANA Riverbend... home of the River Rats -- a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days are ...

  • Cold Steel Rain

    Kenneth Abel

    In a tense mystery set in New Orleans, Danny Chaisson, an idealistic lawyer who runs errends for a politician on the side to make extra money, becomes the patsy in a power play that may end with him in a body bag. Reprint....

  • Kiss and Tell

    Cherry Adair

    A sassy, shameless romantic adventure about a man betrayed and the woman who rocks his untamed world... Marnie Wright has seen more than her fair share of testosterone, having grown up with four over-protective brothers. But now a longhaired mount...

  • Cam Jansen and the Birthday Mystery

    David A. Adler

    It's time for a birthday celebration, but first, Cam Jansen must solve a mystery. The clue is in the story. Will you find it before Cam does? Will you solve the birthday mystery? Try the memory quiz in the back of the book. "Click" along with Cam!...

  • Lark

    Ginny Aiken

    Alter the highly successful launch of her literary magazine, Lark Bellamy has come home. Now maybe she'll be more than just another "Bellamy's Blossom." If only she didn't have to face Rich Desmond. As an impetuous, lovestruck teen, Lark hounded poor...

  • Elemental

    Brian W. Aldiss

    In the winter of 2005, after the horrifying natural disaster of the tsunami in Southeast Asia, Steve Savile and Alethea Kontis joined forces to raise money to help the distressed survivors and have created Elemental. They solicited SF and fantasy sto...

  • Mistletoe and Molly

    Laura Marie Altom

    Dr. Molly Gilchrist wants something wonderful for Christmas: Tristan McCaully. In fact, he's all she's ever wanted. She's had a crush on him since third grade -- not that he ever noticed her. And their matchmaking moms agree: it's hig...

  • The Secret Footprints

    Julia Alvarez

    The Dominican legend of the ciguapas, creatures who lived in underwater caves and whose feet were on backward so that humans couldn't follow their footprints, is reinvented by renowned author Julia Alvarez. Although the ciguapas fear humans, Guapa, a...

  • Angelina Ballerina Book and Doll Set

    American Girl Books

    You'll fall in love with your very own plush Angelina doll. She's 10 inches tall and comes dressed in a pink tutu and ballet slippers, with a hardcover copy of Angelina Ballerina, the book that has introduced millions of little girls to this classic ...

  • Delivered: One Family

    Caroline Anderson

    They'd not seen each other for three long years until the night Liv turned up on Ben's doorstep -- in the biggest fix of all time. Still spellbound by her warmth and loveliness, he could only offer himself and his home up to her, her cant...

  • Seventh Heaven

    Catherine Anderson

    Ten years ago Joe Lakota had left behind his small Oregon town and the only woman he'd ever truly loved for the empty promises of the big city. Now he's returned, seeking to raise his young son with values you can only find at home, and longing to re...

  • A Matter of Convenience

    Gabriella Anderson

    Can a simple business arrangement become an affair of the heart? For generations, an ancient silver coin has passed from mother to daughter -- a talisman of luck joining those who dare to dream of love. Now three very different women will hold fat...

  • Fever 1793

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    During the summer of 1793, Mattie Cook lives above the family coffee shop with her widowed mother and grandfather. Mattie spends her days avoiding chores and making plans to turn the family business into the finest Philadelphia has ever seen. But the...

  • Manatee Blues

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    Dr. Mac has brought Brenna, Maggie, and Zoe to Florida to visit her friend Gretchen, a marine biologist who runs a manatee rescue center that’s in desperate need of money. Brenna’s immediately drawn to the endangered, gentle giants, and wants to ...

  • Operation Luna

    Poul Anderson


    Poul Anderson, recently the winner of the Nebula's Grandmaster Award for lifetime achievement, returns to the world of his acclaimed novel Operation Chaos with the tale of one family's mission to the moon. Ginny Greylock and Steven Matuchek are p...

  • An Eye for Gold

    Sarah Andrews

    Temporarily unemployed and conflicted over a rocky relationship, forensic geologist Em Hansen adepts an assignment aiding the FBI in a fraud investigation of a billion-dollar Nevada gold mine. There arc no guarantees on the frontier, and Em ends up s...

  • Sam's Wild West Christmas

    Nancy Antle

  • Inside the Illusion

    K.A. Applegate

    There is a place that shouldn't exist -- but does. There are creatures that shouldn't exist -- but do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real -- and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld. Senna. She is the reason Dav...

  • The Revelation

    K.A. Applegate

    Things were already really weird. Fighting aliens. Battling to have Earth. And still trying to be normal. Marco and the other Animorphs are almost used to it. But things are changing. The Yeerk invasion of Earth started out passively, secretly. But n...

  • Zoey Comes Home

    Katherine Applegate

    They've all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another...but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Zoey comes home. And home, for Zoey, is Lucas. They've always loved each other--even through ...

  • The Hired Fiancee

    Lindsay Armstrong

    The engagement assignment! Vivian badly wanted to win an advertising account with Lleyton Dexter's company -- but enough to spend a week with him? Lleyton clearly considered it a fair exchange. He needed a fiancee to deter matchmaking relative...

  • That Apple Is Mine!

    Katya Arnold

  • Shadows of Amn

    Philip Athans
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Bhaal is dead! But his disciples want to bring him back. The blood of the god of murder runs through his children, and bad blood attracts bad people. Shadow thieves, vampires, ninjas, and rockworms run rampant on the Sword Coast in the action-p...

  • Naughty Nautical Neighbors

    Annie Auerbach

    SpongeBob and Patrick Star are the best of friends -- until their annoying neighbor Squidward decides to interfere. But Squidward's plan to split up best friends might backfire on him in a big, hilarious way!...

  • Rat King

    James Axler

    FRACTURED REALITY What was once the United States is now the rad-blasted world of Deathlands...a place that more than lives up to its name. Led by a one-eyed warrior called Ryan Cawdor, a straggling band of survivors roams the nuke-ravaged land, h...

  • Connections

    Hilary Bailey

    Two stories about romance on the rocks, served with a twist of intrigue. Connections, first published in 2000, follows Fleur Stockley''s fight to rebuild her life and business after her boyfriend bankrupts her company and dumps her. Her success co...

  • Unforgettable

    Madeline Baker

    The last thing Shaye Montgomery needs is another man in her life. Especially a gambler who was hanged a hundred years before she was born. But Alejandro Valverde won't leave her alone. As she walks the deserted streets of a California ghost town, his...

  • More Than a Mistress

    Mary Balogh

    She raced onto the green, desperate to stop a duel. In the melee, Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, was shot. To his astonishment, Tresham found himself hiring the servant as his nurse. Jane Ingleby was far too bold for her own good. Her blue eyes we...

  • Howie Bowles and Uncle Sam

    Kate Banks


    Is Howie in trouble with the IRS?

    On the same day that Howie Bowles finds out that he was born on Friday the thirteenth, his teacher tells him that he should pay more attention to numbers. Then he gets a phone call from the Internal Revenu...

  • The Forsaken

    L.A. Banks

    The Chairman of the Vampire Council is dead, and Lilith, the consort of the Unnamed One, and the Unnamed One himself are out for revenge against Damali Richards, the Vampire Huntress, and her lover, Carlos Rivera. A ruthless and carefully planned str...

  • The Wicked

    L.A. Banks

    Damali and Carlos have finally tied the knot, but there is no happily ever after. There are bigger problems on the horizon. Eves son, Cain, has escaped his banishment in order to assume his fathers throne and is now the new Chairman of the Vampire Co...

  • Dark Sleeper

    Jeffrey E. Barlough

    In the fog-enshrouded city of Salthead, metaphysics professor Titus Tiggs and Dr. Daniel Dampe investigate a series of strange, impossible sightings-from phantom ships and ghosts to creatures long extinct. What they uncover is an ancient, mystical ev...

  • Jumper

    Richard Barth

    Richard Barth departs from his popular series featuring elderly sleuth Margaret Binton to introduce Dr. Samuel Garvey, the best and most daring roller coaster designer in the country, and to take his readers on the ride of their lives. Garvey is now ...

  • Return of the Sewer King

    Craig Bartlett

    Something strange is happening to the city's water supply, and it's up to Arnold and Gerald to get to the bottom of it. But when they descend to the dark depths of the sewer system and see the Sewer King, an even bigger mystery unfolds. Will Arnold a...

  • Arnold for President

    Craig Bartlett

  • The Hangman's Tree

    Frederic Bean

    They call it "The Hangman's Tree."  Everyone in Marfa, Texas, knows about the old madrone tree out on the Lacy ranch. Town lore says the tree's strange crimson bark is colored by the blood of thirteen men--each of whom met his death by hanging from...

  • The Divide

    Michael Bedard

    When Willa Cather was a girl, her family moved west to the open prairie of Nebraska, leaving behind a world Willa loved dearly. Gone were the wooded hills and the meadows marbled with sheep. In their place was a flat, empty land, as bare as a strip o...

  • Two Promises Too Many

    Adam Beechen

    Yikes! Eliza's promised to build a home for a young crocodile, but she's also promised to help her Dad, Nigel, find his Lord Willy-Nilly pen so he can finish his script. Torn between her two promises, Eliza comes up with what she thinks is a fool...

  • The Reluctant Warlock

    Donna Bell
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    "The Reluctant Warlock" by Donna Bell A commotion in Hyde Park rouses the shy Miss Gilly Gillingham to "rescue" a black kitten from quick-tempered, darkly handsome Sir Felix Baring. Little does she dream that -- hounded by his eccentr...

  • Heart Trauma

    Cherie Bennett

  • Hush Puppy

    Laurien Berenson

    Melanie Travis loves her teaching job at Connecticut's elite Howard Academy, where plans are underway for a Spring Pageant to honor the school's fiftieth anniversary. Immersed in the preparations, Melanie is hurrying to retrieve a painting of one of ...

  • Mina

    Elaine Bergstrom

  • I'll Be Seeing You

    Beverly Bird

    SURPRISE #1: Her client, dead in his salad plate. SURPRISE #2: Detective Raphael Montiel. Caterer Kate Mulhern's life was suddenly full of surprises. And her knee-buckling attraction to the rogue cop assigned to protect her was the biggest shoc...

  • Sweet Georgia

    Ruth Birmingham

    Her personal life may be a mess. She might have trouble standing up to her meddling mother. But as lead detective at Atlanta’s Peachtree Investigations, hard-nosed, fast-talking PI Sunny Childs is always capable of cracking a case. Peachtree Inves...

  • Shakespeare's Scribe

    Gary Blackwood

    When an outbreak of the deadly Black Plague closes the Globe Theatre, William Shakespeare's acting troupe sets off on a tour of England. Widge, the orphan-turned-actor, knows that he'll be useful on the trip. Not only does he love the stage, but hi...

  • The Black Kitten

    Catherine Blair
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    "The Black Kitten" by Catherine Blair Lord Jonathon Griffith lays a bet that by All Hallows' Eve he'll win the hand of the formidable Miss Lorna Harrington, whose Egyptian antiquities he covets. But he will need the help of her kitten Imp, to woo her...

  • Hotbed Honey

    Toni Blake

    WHAT HE NEEDS... P.I. Max Tate needs a woman. The only way he can trap a sneaky jewel thief is to have a gorgeous wife as bait. Enter sexy Kimberly Brandt. She's perfect for the part, even though she's already mangled his heart and his career once...

  • Summer of Pearls

    Mike Blakely

    Ben Crowell remembers the Great Caddo Lake Pearl Rush of 1874. He was fourteen that year, and his home, the riverboat community of Port Caddo, was dying. By the end of the summer, the pearl boom was over, Port Caddo was doomed, and the mystery over w...

  • One Dark Night

    Kathleen Blease

    An artist can't shake the eerie, cold embrace from the ghost of his jilted love. An enormous rat with baleful, glaring eyes, possesses the spirit of a notorious hanging judge. A hauntingly beautiful woman appears to a student in his dreams--and then ...

  • The Rose and the Beast

    Francesca Lia Block

    With language that is both lyrical and distinctly her own, Francesca Lia Block turns nine fairy tales inside out....

  • The Glory Girl

    Judith Bowen

    Glory, Alberta. A cowboy town in cowboy country. Hannah Parrish loves it here. "Once from a small town, always from a small town," says Jack Gamble, ex-prospector, a man who's ready to come home. He wants to find a "nice, quiet Glory girl." And that'...

  • No Marriage of Convenience

    Elizabeth Boyle

    The Earl of Ashlin needed a respectable wife, and seductive Riley Fontaine was anything but. One kiss, though, convinced him that a marriage of convenience was the last thing he wanted. Mason St. Clair, the new Earl of Ashlin, has inherited a titl...

  • Say You Are My Sister

    Laurel Stowe Brady

    The storm skipped round, digging out its swath like skipping rocks through town, mashing a house here to matchsticks, leaving one next door to stand untouched. Our farm was spared, but that don't mean we were the lucky ones.

  • The Test of Love

    Irene Brand

    SPIRITUAL HEALING When Joseph Caldwell started the New Life Center's program, he wanted only to regain mobility in his leg. He didn't realize the center's philosophy was to rehabilitate the body... and the soul. He also didn't know he'd have such ...

  • Deathwalk

    Matt Braun

    "MATT BRAUN IS A MASTER STORYTELLER OF FRONTIER HISTORY." -Elmer KeltonCould the most feared gunman in the WestBen Thompson carved out a name for himself as a gambler and a shootist-from Dodge City to the Rio Grande. But settling down in Austin with ...

  • Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big

    Berkeley Breathed

    Edwurd Fudwupper spends all his time cooking up big fibs. But one day, he tells such a humdinger that the army, the air force and the dog catcher are called to try to reverse the damage wrought. An unlikely heroine comes to his rescue....

  • Lioness

    Nell Brien

    Deep in the heart of Africa lies the terrible truth about a brutal death. And the woman searching for answers can't even imagine the consequences exposing the truth will have on her own life. When Joel Stanton left for Kenya to find the perfect si...

  • The Queen's Man

    Terri Brisbin

    Present Day, England. Textiles expert Sharon Reynolds is examining a treasure trove of Elizabethan clothing when she discovers a bit of parchment containing an astounding piece of information. But before Sharon has a chance to share the find with her...

  • Bertie's Picture Day

    Pat Brisson


    On Monday morning Bertie woke up bright and early.
    He remembered that it was Picture Day.
    He remembered that Mrs. Hughes
    told them to look spiffy.

    Bertie is determined to look his very best for his second grade school picture o...

  • Angel Fire East

    Terry Brooks

    As a Knight of the Word, John Ross has struggled against the tireless dark forces of the Void for twenty-five years with the magic he wields. Now Ross has learned of the birth of a gypsy morph, a rare and dangerous creature formed of wild magics spon...

  • Ilse Witch

    Terry Brooks

    When a half-drowned elf is found floating in the seas of the Blue Divide, an old mystery resurfaces. Thirty years ago, an elven prince led an expedition in search of a legendary magic said to be more powerful than any in the world. Of all those who s...

  • Revolution

    Dale Brown; Jim DeFelice

    The masters of astonishing military technology that enables them to deploy almost instantaneously to any part of the Earth, the Dreamland team must now stop a dangerous revolution in the making in Eastern Europe--wherea mysterious group of insurgents...

  • Little Lost Lamb

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • Ammunition

    Ken Bruen

    Over the many years that Inspector Brant has been bringing his own patented brand of policing to the streets of southeast London, the brilliant but tough cop has made a few enemies. So when a crazed gunman, hired by persons unknown, pumps a magazine ...

  • Horse Spy

    Bonnie Bryant

    When Carole Hanson learns that the newly elected president of a Middle Eastern country will be visiting Washington with his horse-crazy daughter, it seems only natural to write the girl a letter inviting her to come for a ride at Pine Hollow. Carole ...

  • Stella in Heaven: Almost a Novel

    Art Buchwald

  • Walks Alone

    Brian Burks

    This powerful, factually based novel explores the human instinct for survival and self-determination through one Apache girl’s fortitude in the face of extreme hardship and loss.
    ...

  • A Good House

    Bonnie Burnard

    A runaway #1 bestseller in Canada, this richly layered first novel tells the story of the intricacies and rituals that shape a family's life over three generationsA Good House begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the Chambers family. The po...

  • Three's a Charm

    Adrienne Burns

    MAGICAL MATCHMAKERS Witches Mini and Reuben Costello had their powers revoked by the witches' council as punishment for a crime Reuben committed against mortals. Now they must live as mortals themselves-and that means getting a job to pay the bill...

  • Sellevision

    Augusten Burroughs

    Darkly funny and gleefully mean-spirited, Sellevision explores greed, obsession, and third-tier celebrity, in the world of a fictional home-shopping network. Welcome to the troubled world of Sellevision, America's premier retail broadcasting netwo...

  • Saint Francis and the Christmas Donkey

    Robert Byrd

    When Saint Francis stumbles upon a sad donkey, he feels obliged to tell him about the wonderful history the donkey has in the Christian religion as the animal who carried Mary to Nazareth when she was pregnant with Baby Jesus. 25,000 first printing....

  • The Princess Diaries

    Meg Cabot

    Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there's nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. First Mom announces that she's dating Mia's Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is...

  • Of Midnight Born

    Lisa Cach

    IN SEARCH OF Alex Woding has come seeking peace. And though the young astronomer is thrilled to discover a place where he can pursue his passion undisturbed, he has another motive for seeking out Maiden Castle. There, in his youth, Alex had glimpsed...

  • Nine Below Zero

    Kevin Canty

    From the acclaimed author of A Stranger in this World and Into the Great Wide Open comes a novel that explores reckless love and penetrates the unrelenting winter landscape of the American West.Marvin Deernose, a Native American carpenter and recover...

  • Trials and Tribble-Ations

    Diane Carey

    Almost a century ago, Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise first encountered the irresistible (and astonishingly prolific) life-form known as the tribbles, resulting in one of the most unusual adventures in the annals of Star...

  • Big Truck and Little Truck

    Jan Carr

  • Deep in the Valley

    Robyn Carr

    Welcome to Grace Valley, California -- where blood runs thicker...ties bind stronger...and love is all the more sweet. Visitors to the town often remark about the valley's peace and beauty -- both of which are plentiful. Unlocked doors, front porc...

  • Curse of the Winter Moon

    Mary Casanova

    Marius's deathbed promise to care for his six-year-old brother, Jean Pierre, is challenged one Christmas Eve when superstitious members of their sixteenth-century village target the younger boy, believing him to be a werewolf....

  • The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

    Michael Chabon

    Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. His Brooklyn cousin Sammy Clay is looking for a partner to create hero...

  • The Bachelor Project

    Victoria Chancellor

    Finally found: his perfect match? All the gossips in Ranger Springs were talking about the runaway bride who'd just come to town. And how she'd caught the eye of sexy police chief Ethan Parker. They'd all seen his car parked outside her house the ...

  • The Next Santini Bride

    Maureen Child

    TALL, DARK, AND TENDER When Angela Santini felt the power of First Sergeant Dan Mahoney's smoldering gaze, she dared to throw caution to the wind. It had been so long since she'd been held, kissed, touched.... But how was this straitlaced single m...

  • Here Comes Kate

    Kay Chorao

  • The $10,000,000 Texas Wedding

    Judy Christenberry

    Terms of a Ten Million Dollar Texas Wedding (Excerpt from Granny Dawson's will) Stop furrowing your brow, Gabe! Don't like the change to my will? Didn't think you would. But someone had to bring you to your senses. You can be so s...

  • Wheel Wizards

    Matt Christopher

    Twelve-year-old Seth Pender thinks his life came to an end when he suffered a spinal injury that left him confined to a wheelchair. Seth, an athlete who loves basketball, is sure he'll never play again. He grows sullen and silent, unresponsive when h...

  • Let Me Whisper in Your Ear

    Mary Jane Clark

    A tension-filled thriller from a rising star writer, Let Me Whisper in Your Ear is Mary Jane Clark's best book yet.Reporter Laura Walsh's KEY News colleagues jokingly call her the "Angel of Death" because of her uncanny ability to have celebrities' o...

  • The Trigger

    Arthur C. Clarke; Michael Kube-McDowell

    It is the ultimate antiweapon. A device that can render guns and bombs virtually harmless. At least that is how Dr. Jeffrey Horton, the brilliant young physicist who developed the Trigger, hopes his discovery will be used. Yet, like the scientists wh...

  • Mischief

    Douglas Clegg

    From the dark imagination of New York Times bestselling and Bram Stoker award-winning novelist Douglas Clegg, comes the 2nd book in the chilling Harrow series! In Mischief, the horror of Harrow is reborn -- as Harrow Academy, a private school for boy...

  • David Boring

    Daniel Clowes

    Meet David Boring: a nineteen-year-old security guard with a tortured innner life and an obsessive nature. When he meets the girl of his dreams, things begin to go awry: what seems too good to be true apparently is. And what seems truest in Boring's ...

  • To Love A Stranger

    Colleen Coble

    Bessie Randall is stunned to learn that her sister engaged in a long distance flirtation with an army officer using Bessie's name. Even more shocking is the fact that Jasper Mendenhall is now her husband by proxy--thanks to her sister's meddling. But...

  • The Spirit Woman

    Margaret Coel

    According to legend, Sacajawea--the Native American woman who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition through the American wilderness--is buried on the Wind River Reservation. Now, a college professor--and longtime friend of Arapaho attorney Vick...

  • Marital Affairs

    Sharleen Cooper Cohen

    Intelligent, talented, and attractive Lisa and Jason Green, a Southern California couple, totally committed to each other, find their relationship undermined when Lisa must stifle her own needs and promising career to support Jason's insatiable ambit...

  • Black Hills Hellhole

    Judd Cole

  • A Time To Embrace

    Lynn A. Coleman

    Beatrice Smith arrives at the port of Key West caught up in a whirl of emotions. The time has come for her to release her young charge into the care of his uncle. But a rocky introduction to Ellis Southard has Beatrice clinging even more to the man's...

  • Tea at the Treedome

    Terry Collins

    SpongeBob is invited to have tea with a new karate-chopping lady friend, Sandy Cheeks. But when he finds out that Sandy lives in a dome filled with air, SpongeBob's plan for a new friend might "run dry!"...

  • Counting Coup

    Larry Colton

    In this extraordinary work of journalism, bestselling and award-winning author Larry Colton journeys into the world of Montana's Crow Indians and follows the struggles of a talented, moody, charismatic young woman named Sharon LaForge, a gifted baske...

  • Impaired Judgment

    David Compton

    The president's wife, a respected federal judge, presides over the case of a reputed mobster accused of killing another judge while the man's attorney tries to blackmail her into a not guilty verdict....

  • Hong Kong

    Stephen Coonts

    The U.S. government sends Jake Grafton to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general, Tiger Cole, is embedded in a dangerous plan to overthrow the Chinese regime. He takes his wife Callie with him. They haven't returned to the island si...

  • Toy Tales

    Helen Cooper

    The trials and tribulations of four beloved toys

    Toys, like children, sometimes get hurt, and Helen Cooper lets readers know how they feel when it happens in this charming book of four stories. Tim's favorite playthings are a teddy bear, a stu...

  • Lady With a Past

    Ryanne Corey

    A BEAUTY IN OVERALLS Ever since she'd escaped the high-pressure fashion world, Maxie Calhoon had become a pro at dodging the spotlight -- until a dashing reporter bent on getting an exclusive with the former supermodel stormed her peaceful ranch. ...

  • Goblins

    Vincent Courtney

    From the moment he saw the ancient castle rising out of the picturesque Scottish countryside, filmmaker Dan Martin knew he'd found the ideal location for his vampire horror movie. And nothing could make him leave. Not even the eerie legends of soul-s...

  • Snatched from Earth!

    Bruce Coville

    Tim and Pleskit are abducted in this eighth book in the hilarious, fast-paced, and accessible sci-fi series Sixth Grade Alien from the bestselling author of Aliens Ate My Homework and My Teacher Is an Alien, Bruce Coville.Tim Tompkins has always want...

  • Hiccup the Seasick Viking

    Cressida Cowell

  • No Bed of Roses

    Vera Cowie

  • The Marriage Truce

    Ann Elizabeth Cree

    The Chandlers and the St. Clairs had been feuding for years. When Jessica St. Clair wanted to marry Adam Chandler, the two families were forced to meet. Devin St. Clair, the Marquis of Huntington, had no idea when he attended the betrothal party that...

  • Truffle's Christmas

    Anna Currey

    Not knowing what to ask Santa to bring him for Christmas, Truffle the mouse finally dispatches his letter but fears he has made a mistake when Christmas Eve arrives and there is no room for him under the family's shabby blanket....

  • Blackadder

    Richard Curtis; Ben Elton

    The complete scripts for one of British television's most hilarious comedies chronicles the zany misadventures of Edmund Blackadder and his hopelessly dimwitted companion Baldrick through four centuries of English history turned upside down, from the...

  • Whirlwind Wedding

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    SHE WAS A TOTAL STRANGER, YET SHE SAW RIGHT INTO HIS SOUL Austin Randolph Jamison, Ninth Duke of Bradford, met the uncanny beauty at the ball at Bradford Hall. And from that first moment, he was stunned. How could this unsophisticated female, who ...

  • Love's Design

    Jillian Dagg

  • The Mildenhall Treasure

    Roald Dahl

    During World War II, a British plowman discovered a hoard of Roman silver while plowing a field in the Suffolk countryside. Unaware of the treasure's value, he was cheated out of the fortune that should have been his by the man who hired him. The 34 ...

  • Paw and Order

    Jenny Dale

  • The Newcomer

    Margot Dalton

    Welcome to Crystal Creek, Texas Someone wants to buy his town... But Mayor Douglas Evans is not about to sell Crystal Creek, although he has to admit the town could use the money. In fact, some of the citizens seem more than willing to sell their ...

  • Fair, Brown and Trembling: An Irish Cinderella Story

    Jude Daly

    Three sisters live in a castle high among Erin's green hills. Fair and Brown go to church every Sunday wearing new dresses and leave their beautiful younger sister, Trembling, behind to cook. Then an old henwife comes to visit one Sunday morning, off...

  • G-Rex

    Teri Daniels

  • The Secret Fairy Boutique

    Penny Dann

  • Haven

    Peter David

  • Renaissance

    Peter David

    The ship is only a memory, but the drama unfolds.... The U.S.S. Excalibur has been obliterated. Its captain, Mackenzie Calhoun, is gone. Now the surviving crew members are dispersed throughout the galaxy, seeking to forge new lives in the wake of ...

  • Requiem

    Peter David

    When the U.S.S. Excalibur was suddenly and mercilessly destroyed, Starfleet lost one of its finest starships. But the crew members of the Excalibur lost their captain...and their home. Now, in mourning for their ship and Captain Mackenzie Calhoun, Fi...

  • Scar Culture

    Toni Davidson

    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest originality mixed with the divine audacity of William Burroughs and Irvine Welsh. Thought-provoking, erotic, sharp-witted, and totally riveting, Scar Culture marks the debut of a groundbreaking writer. With the power o...

  • Winter Range

    Claire Davis

    Winner of the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award for Best First Novel and the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award for Best NovelIn Winter Range, the intimate details of ranching and small-town life are woven into the suspenseful story of three pe...

  • Ode to a Banker

    Lindsey Davis

    Can a tough detective possess the soul of a poet? After a public reading brings him rousing applause, Falco receives an offer to have his work published. But his ego takes a beating when the banker Chrysippus demands payment for putting the verse on ...

  • Sizzle All Day

    Geralyn Dawson

    SHE NEEDS A GHOST, NOT A GROOM... Of all the castles in all of Scotland, it's Gillian Ross' bad luck to live in one that isn't haunted. The ancestral home must be sold, but the single interested buyer requires a wraith in the rafters. ...

  • Darby, the Special Order Pup

    Alexandra Day

    Despite the fact that the puppy chews everything in sight, the little girl refuses to give up on him and asks her family to be patient since she knows that deep within is a good dog just waiting to be trained. 13,000 first printing....

  • Beacon Street Mourning

    Dianne Day

    Five years ago Caroline Fremont Jones fled the proper world of her native Boston for the independent life of a California private detective. But now, in the winter of 1909, she is grief-stricken to learn of her father's grave illness. Still hampe...

  • Bonjour, Babar!

    Jean de Brunhoff

    In 1931 Jean de Brunhoff created Babar, a little elephant who walked out of the jungle and into the hearts of civilized readers the world over. Widely recognized as the father of the picture book, Jean de Brunhoff wrote and illustrated six Babar stor...

  • All of Nothing at All

    Katherine Deauxville
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    Bogie and Bacall graced the silver screen. People collected LPs. Jukeboxes played and Sinatra crooned. In an era that bore a generation wartime heroes and heroines, men and women realized the value of life and love. Couples slow-danced night and day;...

  • Far from the Tree

    Virginia Deberry; Donna Grant

    Celeste English and Ronnie Frazier are sisters, but they couldn't be more different. Celeste is a doctor's wife, living a perfect and elegant life. But secretly, she is terrified: her marriage is falling apart and her need to control the people aro...

  • Fatal Error

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Take it apart, figure it out, put it back together. That's the ongoing mission of the U.S.S. da Vinci, commanded by Captain David Gold and his first officer, Commander Sonya Gomez, late of the Starship Enterpriseâ"¢ and one of Starfleet's top enginee...

  • Beyond Compare

    Patricia DeGroot

    MORE PRECIOUS THAN ANY JEWEL... Isabel Marchand had several reasons to wed Jeremy Quinn, the Marquis of Pearl, not the least of which was to retain custody of her orphaned nephews. It didn't matter to her that he had spent the last two years in ...

  • Nina's Waltz

    Corinne Demas

  • Tempted

    Janelle Denison

    Forbidden fruit? Brooke Jamison is finally going to get a life! Newly single, she's planning to shed her inhibitions and indulge all her romantic fantasies. But the only man in those fantasies is her oh-so-sexy ex-brother-in-law, Marc. So when he ...

  • The Wedding Deal

    Janelle Denison

    The bride contract Tall, dark Luke Bodene had been propositioned by women before -- but they'd never had marriage in mind! Yet, his employer, ranch owner Eden Lowe, had just invited him to dinner...and asked him to be her husband! If Eden didn'...

  • Breaking the Rules

    Jamie Denton

    Good Girls Don't... #1 Ditch a loyal fiance! #2 Run away from the wedding! #3 Move in with a sexy rescuer! In the space of 12 hours Carly Cassidy does that...and more. Tired of being good and feeling trapped, she's going to start over. An...

  • Dreamland

    Sarah Dessen

    WAKE UP, CAITLIN. Ever since she started going out with Rogerson Biscoe, Caitlin seems to have fallen into a semiconscious dreamland where nothing is quite real. Rogerson is different from anyone Caitlin has ever known. He's magnetic. He's compell...

  • Hot Tropics & Cold Feet

    Hunt Diann

  • Because of Winn-Dixie

    Kate DiCamillo

    When ten-year-old India Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, with her father, she doesn't know what to expect -- least of all, that she'll adopt Winn-Dixie, a dog she names after the supermarket where they meet. Before long, Opal and her father rea...

  • Monster Cake

    Rebecca Dickinson

  • Disney 12 Volume Family Library

    Disney Book Group

    Twelve stories with ethical objectives. Titles are: A Family is Your Most Precious Possession; Nothing is Stronger Than a Parent's Love; Hard Work Deserves Reward; Say What You Mean and Do What You Say; A True Friend is a Treasure; Friendship Takes ...

  • Disney's Five-Minute Bedtime Stories

    Disney Book Group

    This oversized collection features all your favorite Disney friends! Ten stories that can easily be read in five minutes - perfect for busy families to share together. (Include short stories from Cinderella, Toy Story, The Little Mermaid, Snow White ...

  • Disney's Winnie the Pooh: Easy-to-Read Stories

    Disney Book Group

  • Go-With Words

    Bonnie Dobkin

    Rhyming text presents examples of words that go together, such as "top goes with bottom, down goes with up," "fat goes with skinny, short goes with long," and "night goes with moon and day goes with sun."...

  • Sanchia's Secret

    Robyn Donald

    It had been three years since Sanchia had last laid eyes on Caid's rangy, sexy body, his powerful Greek ancestry apparent in all its glory. Caid's forceful charisma still had the ability to steal her breath away. Yet Caid's reaction to her now was on...

  • A Game of Hearts

    Kate Donovan

    Return to the rousing 1860's, where Chicago's Happily Ever After Co. is doing a brisk business in mail-order brides, and three spirited young women will risk it all on a once-in-a-lifetime chance at love... THE ONLY MAN FOR HER When the H...

  • Chandler's Daughter

    Truly Donovan

    DEADLY REUNION A midnight call from a terrified friend puts Boulder software consultant Lexy Connor on the dangerous end of an old mystery. Tally Richard's life is in danger. But the only person with information is murdered before she can reve...

  • The Giggler Treatment

    Roddy Doyle

    A POO DISASTER! The Gigglers usually know what they're doing. When adults are mean to kids -- making them go to their room without dinner or forcing them to wear clothes they hate -- the Gigglers won't let them get away with it. They make sure the g...

  • Mapping the Edge

    Sarah Dunant

    When Anna decides to take an impromptu trip to Italy, she packs her bag, leaves her 6-year-old daughter, Lily, at home with close friends, and steps onto the plane. She's always been a woman of action, and her personal and professional lives have bee...

  • Mnia Journal of Otto Peltonen

    William Durbin

    While working in the iron ore mines of Minnesota alongside his father, young Otto Peltonen captures in a journal his family's struggles and personal hardships as new arrivals to the "land of the free." 75,000 first printing....

  • Betsy Zane, The Rose of Fort Henry

    Linda Durrant

    Thirteen-year-old Betsy Zane is bored with her privileged life in Philadelphia, bored with her great-aunt’s stories about the old days, and bored with trying to be a lady. She longs to rejoin her brothers at the family homestead along the Ohio Rive...

  • Dinosaur Eggs

    Jennifer Dussling

    Several dinosaur hunters went on an expedition in South America hoping to find fossils of birds from the time of the dinosaurs. What they found instead were hundreds of fossils of dinosaur eggs, some with un-hatched baby dinosaurs inside. This was so...

  • Miracle on Boswell Road

    John M. Eades

    Miracle Boswell Road tells 20 stories -- all true -- of ordinary people who displayed their love for God in unexpected ways. Take for instance, the rich widow who pretends to be a bag lady; the death-row inmate who offers new life to a mother and her...

  • Dumpy at School

    Julie Andrews Edwards

    Dumpy accompanies Charlie to his first day of school when the lovable dump truck is enlisted to help build a new playground, and boy and truck find reassurance as newcomers in their companionship with one another. 100,000 first printing....

  • Livingstone Mouse II

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

  • Bravo, Livingstone Mouse!

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

  • Three Magic Balls

    Richard Egielski

    When Uncle Dinkleschmidt buys three rubber balls for his toy store, it's up to Rudy to take very good care of them. But as soon as he is left alone in the shop, Rudy discovers that these are no ordinary balls, and that's when the magic begins. . ....

  • One Bad Thing

    Bill Eidson

    McKenna is a good man who takes a new crewman onto his boat in Bermuda to sail back to Boston, handsome young Tom Cain. When Cain is about to be caught smuggling diamonds by the Coast Guard, he convinces McKenna to lie to save him . . . for a share. ...

  • Word and Song Christmas Storybook

    Stephen Elkins

  • Sydney and the Sea Monster

    David Elliot

  • Rodeo Hearts

    Patricia Ellis

    TO FORGE A FUTURE... Kate DeCosta is no sweetheart of the rodeo. A rodeo brought John Sterling into her life ten years ago, and a rodeo took him away, leaving her pregnant and heartbroken. She should have listened to her rancher father. He warned he...

  • Midas Mouse

    Ruth Ellwand

  • Mac Side Up

    Bob Elsdale

    Mac, a cat who always lands on his feet, and his ferret pal, Dusty, perform an experiment to see what would happen if Mac were to jump with a piece of buttered toast--which can be expected always to land buttered side down--on his back....

  • How the Quest Was Won

    Ru Emerson

    Blown off-course to the land of Crete, Xena, Warrior Princess, her apprentice, the bard Gabrielle, and Joxer the Mighty hope to find word of Helen of Troy’s location. Little do they expect to find Helen herself living as a servant in the king’s p...

  • Amnesia

    G.H. Ephron

    If the only witness to a murder has amnesia, how do you catch the killer? Instead of matching fingerprints or DNA, forensic psychologist Dr. Peter Zak solves cases by studying psychological clues and phenomena. Peter, whose specialty is the brain and...

  • A Gleam in His Eye

    Terry Essig

    SHE'D TRADE A MINIVAN FOR A BACHELORETTE PAD.... At the ripe age of 25, Johanna Durbin had raised six siblings. Now, on the verge of becoming carefree at last, she met Mr. Right. Rugged, sensitive, and available, Hunter Pace was everything she was...

  • Hand in Hand

    Marcia Evanick

    IF THEIR MARRIAGE IS OVER... When her workaholic husband forgets their anniversary, it's the last straw for Annie Burton. As the wife of Wild Rose, Iowa's busy sheriff -- and mother to their four children -- she's lost sight of her own goals. Ye...

  • Math Rashes and Other Classroom Tales

    Douglas Evans

    BEWARE OF THE MAN-IN-THE-MOON. . . . The New-School-Year Moon shines over every school the night before it opens. This year the moon shines over the W. T. Melon Elementary School brighter than ever. And the man in the moon is none other than W. T. M...

  • Rowing in Eden

    Elizabeth Evans

    Pynch Lake is quiet nine months of the year but bursts into life each summer when the vacationers arrive. In the summer of 1965, year-round residents Harold and Peg Wahl find the world that once belonged to them is now being taken over by their older...

  • The Spyglass

    Richard Paul Evans

    There once was a king who ruled over a darkened kingdom. Crops were planted and then failed, houses were built and then neglected, people were impoverished and dispirited. But when a traveler arrives at the crumbling palace, he shows the monarch his ...

  • Longarm and the Sins of Sister Simone

    Tabor Evans

  • Scared Little Bear

    Keith Faulkner

    Jolted awake by a horrible racket in the night, little Teddy wonders if some kind of wild animal may be responsible and repeatedly calls to his father before gathering the courage to venture to his parents' room, where the noise is coming from....

  • The Veritas Conflict

    Shaunti Feldhahn

    Claire Rivers races to the mailbox to receive a letter of acceptance to Harvard University while a heavenly battle rages. In this fast-paced, suspenseful novel, the ageless war for the hearts and minds of students on our college campuses is revealed....

  • Father Most Wanted

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE WOMAN WHO CAPTURED HIS HEART... Never let anyone get too close were words single father Tyler Breckinridge chose to live by. And except for occasional bouts of loneliness, he did just fine...until his three little girls led him to lovely books...

  • The First Time

    Joy Fielding


    Now in available in trade paperback from New York Times bestselling and award-winning author Joy Fielding an exquisitely moving story of a marriage at a crossroads, and an estranged husband and wife s discovery of what love really means.

  • Blind Ambitions

    Lolita Files

    From the author of Scenes from a Sistah and Getting to the Good Part, a provocative, dynamic story about making it big in the city of desire.Hollywood. The place people go to fulfill their dreams. But its reality is a cruel one: Opportunities are few...

  • Fit to Be Tied

    Carol Finch

    Monkey business in cattle country! Rancher Devlin Callahan is ready to read the riot act to his nearest neighbor. Jessica Porter has turned her forty acres into a blasted zoo! Her exotic animals are panicking his placid cows and stressing out his ...

  • Piggie Christmas, A Piggy Christmas

    Howard Fine

    A treasury of favorite holiday songs depicts whimsical, exuberant pigs partaking of seasonal traditions, from celebrating the twelve days of Christmas to dancing in Santa Claus outfits. By the illustrator of Piggie Pie! 35,000 first printing....

  • I Like Being Killed: Stories

    Tibor Fischer

    Fiendishly funny and dark, here is a Canterbury Tales for the millennium, a vision of the New Europe where the young and bright live ultra-hip lives of noisy desperationTibor Fischer has been called "a Joseph Conrad with jokes" (The Sunday Times, Lon...

  • Dream of the Walled City

    Lisa Huang Fleischman

    Marking the debut of a stunning new literary talent, Lisa Huang Fleischman's extraordinary saga -- inspired by her grandmother's life as an early feminist, political activist, and friend of Mao Zedong -- is a masterpiece about one clever and resource...

  • Ghoul School

    Corina Fletcher

  • The Last Season

    Ronald Florence

    The last season in Newport, Rhode Island is the summer of 1941, just before Pearl Harbor. It is the end of an era of social glitter and privilege. Sera, a young Portugese beauty from nearby Stonington, Connecticut, falls in love with Russell, a young...

  • Daughter of Destiny

    Tracy Fobes

    Brilliant new star Tracy Fobes bewitches again with a spellbinding paranormal tale set in Regency England, where a young lady sparkles in London society, unaware of the perilous forces gathering around her.... The power of druidism flows strong in...

  • The Keeper of Dreams

    Peter Shann Ford

  • Wheel of the Moon

    Sandra Forrester

    When Pen's mother dies and har home is taken away from her, Pen ventures alone to London.  With only a few pieces of clothing and a large supply of determination, she sets out to find a life for herself in the big city.

    But London in 162...

  • Jordan

    Lori Foster

    Jordan Sommerville, healer of helpless animals, rescuer of strays, a man who could seduce a woman with his voice alone. Yet he didn't use that power often. His brothers kidded that he was holding out for a paragon of virtue...and not many in Buckhorn...

  • Shattered

    Dick Francis

    After his friend is killed in a horse-racing accident, up-and-coming glass artisan Gerard Logan finds himself embroiled in a deadly search for a stolen videotape. His friend had it. Some very bad people want it--and they think Logan's got it. Believ...

  • The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

    Ruth Francisco

    Jackie Kennedy quite famously said, I want to live my life, not record it. She remains elusive, her interior life hidden, her feelings and motivations secret. Yet who has not wondered what lay behind those sunglasses? Havent we all wondered how Jacki...

  • Headlong

    Michael Frayn

    An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master.Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-historian wife are asked to assess three dusty painti...

  • A Permanent Twilight

    Chuck Freadhoff

  • Bleeding Heart

    Mary Freeman

    It was a gardener's dream. A famed botanist had given Rachel an unlimited budget and creative freedom to restore her tremendous grounds to their original glory. Eloise, the elderly botanist, bad promised the million-dollar mecca to a nature conservan...

  • Target

    Brian Freemantle

    In the midst of the Cold War, a secret project in the jungles of Central Africa threatens to ignite World War IIIPeterson is bewildered by the satellite photos in front of him. As head of the CIA, he is never supposed to be surprised, but what could ...

  • Doctor Pompo's Nose

    Saxton Freymann

    When they see a stem on a pumpkin that looks just like someone's nose, Dr. Pompo and his pumpkin friends get involved to figure out what is going on with this unusual pumpkin. By the creators of How Are You Peeling? 75,000 first printing....

  • The Mile High Club

    Kinky Friedman

    On a flight from Dallas to New York, a private detective meets a gorgeous and enigmatic woman who resists all his attempts to plumb her depths. When the plane lands, the detective - our hero, Kinky Friedman - finds that he's still holding the woman's...

  • Faces of Fire

    Michael Jan Friedman

    En route to Alpha Malurian Six to settle a dispute between two religions, the U.S.S. Enterprise first stops to do a routine check on the progress of a terraforming colony on Beta Canzandia Three--a colony whose inhabitants include Carol and David Mar...

  • A Pig Is Moving In!

    Claudia Fries

    Henrietta Hen and the other residents of her apartment building are distressed when they learn that their new neighbor is a pig, and assuming all pigs are messy, each animal looks for reasons to dislike the newcomer. Jr Lib Guild....

  • Kermit's Christmas Tree

    Sonali Fry

    Sticker fans will be dazzled by these fabulous additions, with interactive stories, charming illustrations, and 25 glimmering, jewel-like stickers in each fantastic book.

    Kermit and Robin are ready to have a Christmas party for their Muppet f...

  • Kill the Shogun

    Dale Furutani

    In Kill the Shogun, award winning mystery writer Dale Furutani presents the latest in his popular samurai mystery series. He returns to the journey of Matsuyama Kaze, the masterless warrior destined to travel the seventeenth-century Japanese countrys...

  • Pooh's Sled Ride

    Isabel Gaines

  • Joey Pigza Loses Control

    Jack Gantos

    "He was wired. No dought about it...Now I know what Mom meant when she said he was like me, only bigger." Joey Pigza really wants his six-week visit with his dad to count, to show him he's not as wired as he used to be, to show his dad how much he l...

  • Holly's Secret

    Nancy Garden

    A new town and new classmates, but the same family -- with two moms

    Dear Diary,
    ...Until today I was Holly Lawrence-Jones. But starting tomorrow I'm going to be Yvette Lawrence-Jones. My family doesn't know that yet, but I'll tell them tom...

  • Here Come Poppy and Max

    Lindsey Gardiner