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  • Black Jack Point

    Jeff Abbott

    They found Whit Mosley’s missing friends at Black Jack Point -- dead and buried, along with bones and relics from a legendary past. When Whit opens an inquest into the murders, he’s plunged into a shadowy world of ruthless treasure hunters, doubl...

  • Maggie's Guardian

    Anna Adams

    Noah and Tessa Gabriel -- once they were in love, happy, married. Of course, that was then. Now they're two people who've lost all the things that matter most, including each other. But after Tessa's best friend, David, is killed and she becomes the ...

  • Charles Addams Mother Goose

    Charles Addams

    Enhanced with quotes from celebrity authors, such as Steven King and Roz Chast, along with original artwork from Master Addams, this picture book for readers of all ages gives a spooky spin to a diverse collection of classic Mother Goose rhymes....

  • Cam Jansen and the First Day of School Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Ms. Benson has been arrested! It's the first day of fifth grade and Cam and Eric can't wait to meet their new teacher, Ms. Benson. But the school day is just beginning when two policemen come into their classroom and take Ms. Benson away! A teacher ...

  • Henry Ever After

    Carrie Alexander

    Blue Cloud, Pennsylvania, is a nice quiet town, and Sheriff Henry Russell likes it that way. Unfortunately it's much easier keeping the peace when he doesn't have a tempting Gypsy named Jana stirring the pot. With a set of crown jewels in town, Henry...

  • Once Upon a Tiara

    Carrie Alexander

    Princess Lili Brunner can't wait to be all-American while at a museum opening in the U.S. Although she does have some royal duties to attend to, they aren't that important. But instead of falling for hot dogs and cotton candy, Lili's more intrigued b...

  • The Night in Question

    Harper Allen

    A MOTHER'S HEART Being convicted for a crime she hadn't committed shattered Julia Tennant's world. Losing her daughter broke her heart. Free at last, she faced the special agent who'd sealed her fate, and asked for his help. Max Ross spoke coldly, b...

  • Blind Luck Bride

    Laura Marie Altom

    "I bet a thousand dollars and my truck that I'll be married by Saturday." -- Finn Reilly, jilted bridegroom He needed a wife fast. So when lovely Lilly Churchill walked in, all dressed in bridal white, Finn married her before she could say, "I do...

  • Masks

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    Sunita loves her cat, Mittens, just as much as she loves volunteering at Dr. Mac's veterinary clinic. But when Mittens eats some yarn from her Halloween costume and becomes ill, Sunita wonders if she is cut out to work for a vet after all. She tries ...

  • Mother May I?

    K.A. Applegate

    The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty new science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action!

    Job has found the Remnants' unbelievable virtual ...

  • A House Called Awful End

    Philip Ardagh

    When both Eddie Dickens's parents catch a disease that makes them turn yellow, go a bit crinkly around the edges, and smell of hot water bottles, it's agreed he should go and stay with relatives at their house, Awful End. Unfortunately for Eddie, tho...

  • The Constantin Marriage

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Alex Constantin agreed to a marriage of convenience to Tatiana Beaufort because this inexperienced young woman intrigued him. But on their wedding night she asked for a year's grace before making theirs a "real" marriage -- insisting on s...

  • A Truthful Injustice

    Jeffrey Ashford

    When Detective Sergeant Tobin dies in suspicious circumstances shortly after assaulting his wife and child, Detective Metcalfe pursues the investigation of Tobin's death with a zeal that brings him into conflict with his superiors....

  • Tale of Wagmore Gently

    Linda Ashman

    Mr. Gently warns Wagmore the dog that if he cannot control his wildly long, wagging tail, he won't be permitted to go on the Trail Trekkers hike with the family, but Wagmore's miserable thoughts only last so long before the joy of the day takes hold ...

  • Lipstick on His Collar

    Dawn Atkins

    SEDUCTION THE SECOND TIME AROUND A year ago Nick Ryder and Miranda Chase shared a steamy night that left more than just a few lipstick marks on his collar. When she didn't return his calls, Nick got the message loud and clear...this high-class woman...

  • Primitive Secrets

    Deborah Turrell Atkinson

    When Storm Kayama walks into her lucrative Honolulu law firm one morning, she's shocked--and grieved--to find her adopted uncle at his desk, stiff and cold. Years before, Miles Hamasaki had fulfilled a promise to Storm's father and brought her to be ...

  • The Book of Illusions

    Paul Auster

    Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a los...

  • Amazon Gate

    James Axler

    After Oblivion At the heart of the strange new post-nuclear world known as Deathlands lie the mysteries of pre-dark society -- secrets that may hold the key to a future of peace . . . or peril. Armed with rare knowledge of top secret twenty-first ...

  • One Hundred Monsters in My School

    Bonnie Bader

    Jane Brain, the only non-monster at Frank N. Stein Elementary School, is unhappy because she is the only student who didn't find 100 items to bring for show-and-tell on the 100th day of school. Simultaneous....

  • Nell

    Elizabeth Bailey

    Practical Nell would never be so fanciful as to believe a mysterious Gothic castle and a darkly enigmatic baron would bring her a fairy-tale romance... The star pupil from the Paddington Seminary, governess Miss Helen Faraday, prides herself on he...

  • The Frog Princess

    E.D. Baker

    The first book in E. D. Baker's beloved Frog Princess series -- the inspiration for Disney's hit movie The Princess and the Frog!

    Princess Emeralda a.k.a. Emma isn't exactly an ideal princess. Her laugh is more like a donkey...

  • The Forge of Mars

    Bruce Balfour

    A NASA team has discovered alien ruins buried in the canyons of Mars, at the site called Vulcan's Forge. The first man who touched them died, making them very, very interesting. NASA needs to figure out who left them, and what they might mean to Eart...

  • Dead Air

    Iain M. Banks

    Iain Banks' daring new novel opens in a loft apartment in the East End, in a former factory due to be knocked down in a few days. Ken Nott is a devoutly contrarian vaguely left-wing radio shock-jock living in London. After a wedding breakfast people ...

  • Alexandria

    Nick Bantock

    Alexandria will continue to delight the 3 million readers who fell in love with the epistolary romance of Griffin & Sabine. Awash with gorgeous artwork, the mystery of Griffin Moss and Sabine Strohem now entwines Matthew Sedon, an archaeologist steep...

  • The Last Good Chance

    Tom Barbash

    In this captivating first novel, a young man’s plan to revitalize his hometown leads four of its inhabitants down alternating paths of desire and deceitWhen the charismatic Jack Lambeau returns to his hometown along Lake Ontario with an eye toward ...

  • The Duke of Uranium

    John Barnes

    In this spectacular tale of action and intrigue, a thirty-sixth-century young man discovers that the galaxy is far more complex, and deadly, than he'd ever imagined... THE BAD SIDE OF ENTROPY For eighteen-year-old Jak Jinnaka, life in the Hive sp...

  • Annie Dunne

    Sebastian Barry

    "Annie's passionate observations and shifting moods-rendered in dense prose that's close to poetry-fuel this fine novel." -- The New York Times Book ReviewSebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. It is 1959 in Wic...

  • Sleep, Little One, Sleep

    Marion Dane Bauer

    As the sun sets, a father puts his child to bed. Weaving images of mice, of birds, and of polar bears, he tells her that sleep nibbles the last crumb of day; sleep gathers her beneath its feathery wings; and that sleep holds her tight in the furry da...

  • The Ice Beneath You

    Christian Bauman

    Just as The Things They Carried and Catch-22 spoke to their generations with truth and dark humor, this brilliant first novel defines the experience of war for its era. Benjamin Jones, twenty-three, discharged after an army tour in Somalia, heads cr...

  • Hello to the Cannibals

    Richard Bausch

    "My heart stopped peacefully, its beating grew slow and weak, and then just -- stopped. I died young. There is, really, only a little to tell." Explorer Mary Kingsley ignored the narrowly circumscribed roles and rules for a Victorian young woma...

  • The War in Heaven

    Theodore Beale

    THE WAR IN HEAVEN Mariel thought she was the guardian angel of an ordinary boy--until the night an army of fallen angels took an unholy interest in her charge. Overcome by an angel prince of awesome power, Mariel can only watch as an even greater ...

  • The World in Shadow

    Theodore Beale

    In the sequel to The War in Heaven, Christopher, Jami, and Holli Lewis find themselves battling evil on the homefront when two of their classmates, exhausted by constant bullying, fall victim to demons who want to use them to stage a massacre...

  • The Tell-Tale Tattoo and Other Stories

    K.K. Beck

    Return to the roaring twenties with Iris Cooper and her Aunt Hermione as they encounter murder in paradise in the novella "Peril Under the Palms". Mirth and mystery are included in this novel and the four other stories that appear here....

  • Lost Scrolls of King Solomon

    Richard Behrens

    Now, you can discover the ancient truths that have been hidden for thousands of years and are now revealed in a thrilling tale, when you read The Lost Scrolls of King Solomon by Richard Behrens.

    The Lost Scrolls of King Solomon begins when B...

  • Marvel Knights Daredevil By Bendis & Maleev: Underboss

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collecting Daredevil (1998) #26-31. The mystery man named Mr. Silke has inspired Wilson Fisk’s lieutenants to rise up and take down the Kingpin of Crime! But what is the connection between Silke’s coup and the contract on attorney Matt Murdock’...

  • The Prince of Dreams

    Curt Benjamin

    THE ROAD TO FREEDOM... When Llesho was seven, the Harn invaded his family's mountain kingdom of Thebin. His guards slaughtered, he was carried off and sold into slavery, as far as he knew, the sole survivor of his royal family. At fifteen, he l...

  • The Rose and the Shield

    Sara Bennett

    Blinded by Passion Beautiful Lady Rose, the fiercely independent mistress of Somerford, reluctantly agrees to hire a bold Viking warrior, Gunnar Olafson, and his mercenaries to protect her undefended lands. But although Gunnar takes her breath away ...

  • The Second Mile

    Ron Benrey; Janet Benrey

    Having rediscovered her faith after seven years away from God, corporate headhunter Pippa blames herself when a client she encouraged days earlier apparently commits suicide, a situation that is further complicated when she learns he was actually mur...

  • Hot Dog

    Laurien Berenson

    In an effort to escape tail-chasing males--namely her ex-husband Bob and boyfriend Sam--Melanie Travis opts to track down the elusive owner of an adorable Dachshund puppy that's about to be put on the block at a charity auction. She, her son Davey, a...

  • The Bear Scouts

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • The Bears' Christmas

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • Junior on the Farm

    Samantha Berger

    Every page features an internal wheel that changes both words and pictures before a young reader's eyes.

    Children will giggle with delight as they follow Junior through a surprisingly silly day on the farm. It all starts when Junior wakes up and l...

  • The Dawn of Amber

    John Gregory Betancourt

    The mass-market edition of the first in a trilogy of all-new prequel novels set in Roger Zelazny's "Amber" universe, fully authorized by the Estate of Roger Zelazny!

    "John Betancourt has boundless enthusiasm and genuine passion for every ...

  • All the Way

    Beverly Bird

    THE GREATEST RISK Daredevil Hunter Hawk-Cole had a restless spirit and a thirst for adventure that had always ruled his life. He hadn't planned to stop for anything or anyone -- until he came face-to-face with the daughter he had never known about...

  • Cold Trail

    Ruth Birmingham

    The Chateau D'Or hunting lodge, nestled. in the woods of south Georgia, boasts a membership of la creme de la creme--Atlantis ladies of leisure, posh heiresses to the city's old money. But these women share something besides their weekend getaway--a ...

  • Solomon Spring

    Michelle Black

    Kansas, 1878

    A natural wonder, sacred for centuries, is about to be profaned-but not if Eden Murdoch can prevent it. She and her young daughter have returned to the mystical Solomon Spring to seek solace after the death of Eden's Cheyenne husb...

  • Wade

    Jennifer Blake

    Wade Benedict has a job to do: infiltrate a treacherous land and rescue Chloe Madison. It was her father's dying wish -- and Wade is taking it personally. The problem is, this stubborn, angry, and courageous woman doesn't want to be saved. Her rag...

  • Girl Anatomy

    Rebecca Bloom

    For every woman-in-progress, here is a sparkling and wickedly funny debut novel of yearning and transformation. When Lilly's best friend, Maya, gets engaged, the tenuous peace she thought she had finally established with her perennially single sel...

  • Last of the Texas Camp

    Stephen A. Bly

    Having idolized her beloved father all of her life, Dacee Fortune is devastated when she learns he is dying and works through her grief in her interactions with a handsome gunman and a politically connected criminal. Original....

  • Preternatural 3

    Margaret Wander Bonanno


    First, it was telepathic jellyfish. Then, it was a bit of time travel that altered history. Or did it? But now . . .

    We're way beyond jellyfish this time, baby.

    In the third Preternatural novel, our human friend Karen and the alie...

  • The Stars Came Out on Christmas

    William Boniface

    With a beautiful, plastic-molded counting piece revealed on each new spread, children can count their way up to the wonder of the Christmas miracle--the birth of Jesus Christ in a manger in Bethlehem....

  • Papa's Gift

    Kathleen Long Bostrom

    'Introducing Papa’s Gift, a poignant story of the love and loss between a little girl and her grandfather. They are the best of friends. They do everything together -- make snow angels and snowflake sandwiches, and build snow chickens. They make up...

  • From the Dust Returned

    Ray Bradbury

    They have lived for centuries in a house of legend and mystery in upper Illinois -- and they are not like other Midwesterners. Rarely encountered in daylight hours, some of them have survived since before the Sphinx first sank its paws deep in Egypti...

  • Strictly Forbidden

    Shelley Bradley

    A PASSION MORE POWERFUL THAN PROPRIETY Miss Kira Melbourne is anything but a proper English rose. Her exotic beauty, courtesy of her foreign mother, has marked her as an outsider, and her ghastly reputation as a woman of loose virtue has only adde...

  • Gray Matter

    Gary Braver

    Rachel Whitman and her husband have everything a big new house in a fancy Boston suburb, all the brand-name "toys" that go along with wealth, and best of all, a gorgeous, sweet little six-year-old son named Dylan. But Dylan has learning disabiliti...

  • Luke's Runaway Bride

    Kate Bridges

    What would people think of her, Jenny Eriksen fumed. After all, she'd disappeared from her own engagement ball! And now she was trapped in a tumbleweed of a town, facing down Luke McLintock, a man with a mission, who'd stolen her away from her fiance...

  • Life With Riley

    Laurey Bright

    BENEDICT FALKNER WAS A MAN WITH A PLAN. He'd worked his way up from street tough to millionaire. Now he aimed to furnish his mansion with a suitably stylish wife. No way did his plan include Riley Morrisset, the petite, curvy firecracker who ...

  • School Rules

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • The Promise

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • The Birthday Flowers

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • P.G. County

    Connie Briscoe

    In the sprawling homes and upscale townhouses of the exclusive, largely African American Prince George’s County, the lives of five women intersect"and the secrets, scandals, loves, and losses that ensue are par for the course where power, beauty,...

  • Every New Day

    Lauren Brooke

    Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it's much more than that. Heartland is a place like no other -- a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again. Mer...

  • Bad Bug Blues

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Joel and Ricky's mom sends them to a concert with old Mr. Jones, and Joel brings a jar of caterpillars along for company. Everything's fine--until one escapes! Will Ricky be able to keep his little brother out of trouble? Theme: Kindness...

  • Long Shot

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Book 2 of Watch Out for Joel! Joel knows he, Ricky, and Lisa are bound for trouble when they build the world’s biggest slingshot. No one listens when Joel tells them trying it out might not be a bright idea! Will they be able to hide their mistake?...

  • A Rogue's Heart

    Debra Lee Brown

    Conall Mackintosh had an eye for the ladies and a heart for wanderin'. But when his laird set before him a task -- strike a trade bargain with Clan Dunbar -- the roguish adventurer couldn't say nay, to his brother or to the reward he'd receive for a ...

  • Reap the South Wind

    Irene Bennett Brown

    Lucy Walsh always felt beholden to her husband Admire even though her heart was in Paragon Springs. Admire had married her when no one else would, and raised Lucy's half-Sioux daughter as his own. But when Admire is killed, Lucy and her daughter Rach...

  • Warriors of Alavna

    N.M. Browne

    When Dan and Ursula become lost in a thick mist, they have no idea that once they step out of the other side they will find themselves in an England of thousands of years ago and embroiled in a civil war between ancient Britons and Romans. Soon they ...

  • Cupid's Choice

    Gayle Buck

    A Season for Love All her life, Guinevere Holland has been overshadowed in her mother's affections by her twin brother, the Earl of Holybrooke. But when the Holland family takes a London town house for the Season, Guin's mother expects the...

  • What A Blast!

    Kathy Burkett

    Take the imagination of bestselling author Gordon Korman, add the hands-on expertise of the popular Mad Science group and eureka! A hilarious new science fiction series!

    Arcana has two famous families of science: the precise and methodical Fla...

  • SilkyDreamGirl

    Cris Burks

    Katie has reached the end of her rope. Her fourth marriage is falling apart, she’s drowning in debt but can’t find a job, and now she has to care for the sons of husband number four. To top it off, her mother won’t stop harping on Katie’s wei...

  • Primal Fear

    Caroline Burnes
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    A body lands on the Florida shore. Another shark attack...or something else? Marine biologist Libby Phillips isn't sure. What she does know is modern-day pirate -- and suspect -- Chad Watson is distracting her from her work in more ways than one....

  • Just the Thought of You

    Loure Bussey

  • Summer Knight

    Jim Butcher

    HARRY DRESDEN -- WIZARD Lost items found. Paranormal Investigations. Consulting. Advice. Reasonable Rates. No Love Potions, Endless Purses, or Other Entertainment Ever since his girlfriend left town to deal with her newly acquired taste for ...

  • Keeper of the Doves

    Betsy Byars / Betsy Cromer Byars

    Amen McBee, the youngest of five sisters, gobbles up words the way other children gobble up sweets.  She couldn't be more different from her elder twin sisters Arabella and Annabella-called the Bellas.  The mischievous Bellas constantly fri...

  • The Night We Met

    Rob Byrnes

    In the tradition of Married to the Mob and The Wedding Banquet, Rob Byrnes' wickedly funny debut novel serves up the most deliciously wacky love story in ages--a screwball romantic comedy where boy gets gorgeous Mafia boyfriend, boy loses Mafia boyfr...

  • The Ultimate Cyberpunk

    Pat Cadigan

    Exploring the interface between mind and machine, this collection of short fiction includes a wide range of cyberpunk stories by such renowned authors as Alfred Bester, Samuel R. Delany, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Rudy Rucker, Philip K. Dick, Ne...

  • The Leopard Sword

    Michael Cadnum

    Ragged and exhausted from fighting in the Crusades, Hubert, a knight's squire, and his fellow crusaders board a ship bound for England. But the return home is neither quick nor easy. Hubert must use his sword against ships full of attacking infidels,...

  • The Distant Land of My Father

    Bo Caldwell

    An ambitious man and his adoring daughter are separated and estranged by an ocean and by the tides of history in this “marvelous” novel (Los Angeles Times).For Anna Schoene, growing up in the magical world of Shanghai in the 1930s creates a speci...

  • Sara Joins the Circus

    Thera S. Callahan

  • Cold Day in July

    Stella Cameron

    Toussaint, Louisiana, is a sleepy bayou town where live oaks stretch over roadways, men raise crawfish the way their granddaddies did, and Spanish moss hangs in ribbons above the swamps and dirt roads, keeping everything shaded from the hot July sun....

  • Q Road

    Bonnie Jo Campbell

    The debut novel from the National Book Award-nominated author of American Salvage and The Waters -- A Today Show Read with Jenna Book Club Pick! Greenland Township, Michigan: On the same acres where farmers once displaced Potawatomi Indians, suburban...

  • Women & Other Animals

    Bonnie Jo Campbell

    The stories in this prizewinning debut collection encompass train wrecks, circus acts, river journeys, transspecies transmogrification, and growing up and growing old around the small towns of Michigan. Without glamorizing poverty, Bonnie Jo Campbell...

  • Great Expectations

    Joanna Campbell

    Can Parker live up to the challenge?

    Parker Townsend couldn't be more excited as he sets off for England to train for the Olympics, taking with him two headstrong horses and some very high hopes. At first he's thrilled to see the beautiful c...

  • Rosa Raposa

    F. Isabel Campoy

    Jaguar, the sharp-toothed, beady-eyed bully, is determined to eat Rosa Raposa for dinner. But Jaguar had better watch out, because clever Rosa has some surprises in store for him! In three hilarious South American trickster episodes, Rosa uses her sh...

  • Little Yau

    Janell Cannon

    Little Yau wants nothing more than for the Wise Ones to teach her the great secrets of the mountains. But when her best friend, Trupp, is in grave danger, Yau's dreams are nearly forgotten in her quest to help him. Only one thing will save Trupp, and...

  • Shadow Puppets

    Orson Scott Card

    Earth and its society has been changed irrevocably in the aftermath of Ender Wiggin's victory over the Formics--the unity enforced upon the warring nations by an alien enemy has shattered. Nations are rising again, seeking territory and influence, an...

  • A Scandalous Journey

    Susannah Carleton

    Many a meddling matron would delight in making a match between her daughter and George Winterbrook, Earl of Weymouth. But winning the dashing peer over proves frustrating at best. Few people know that the proud earl is an incurable romantic determine...

  • Sanctuary

    Jenny Carroll

    Partners in Crime Sixteen-year-old Jessica Mastriani knew she wasn't going to be able to hide her psychic powers from the U.S. government--interested in utilizing her special skills for their own devices--forever. But she never thought that she an...

  • White Apples

    Jonathan Carroll

    Vincent Ettrich, a genial philanderer, discovers he has died and come back to life, but he has no idea why, or what the experience was like. Gradually, he discovers he was brought back by his true love, Isabelle, because she is pregnant with their...

  • Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?

    David A. Carter

    Lift the flaps and up pop a mouse, a kitty, a puppy, and others who bring to life this popular preschool rhyme. Created by David Carter, bestselling author, illustrator, and paper engineer.

    Who Took the Cookie from the Cookie Jar?
    Lift the ...

  • Celebrate! Stories of The Jewish Holidays

    Peter Catalanotto

    This sparkling collection of stories, recipes, crafts, and commentary introduces readers to the eight major Jewish holidays.

    This collection focuses on the eight major holidays in the Jewish year, starting with the weekly celebration of Shabba...

  • Living Single

    Holly Chamberlin

    First-time novelist Holly Chamberlin makes a witty and wonderful debut with Living Single, the story of a year in the lives of four thirty-something women navigating sex, singlehood, and the big city. Beantown, brunch, and Bloody Marys will never be ...

  • Wyoming Wind Story of Tom Horn

    Jon Chandler

  • Alphaboat

    Michael Chesworth

    An alphabet adventure One day i chanced to stop for t and listen to sweet Mellow D, in her old H beside the sea, sing of her long-lost Mister E. She said he'd hid a treasure chest out on an I-land to the west. Just where it's burie...

  • Snuffy's Thanksgiving

    Kelli Chipponeri

    Everyone is excited about the Tarrytown Airport Thanksgiving dinner except Snuffy, who isn't sure that he has anything to be thankful for, until Big Jake gets caught in a dangerous storm and almost misses the celebration. Original....

  • Where's the Big Bad Wolf?

    Eileen Christelow

    Whenever there’s trouble on Detective Doggedly’s beat, that low-down, no-good, chicken-chasing, pig-poaching Big Bad Wolf is always the prime suspect. But when the three little pigs’ house is huffed and puffed into a pile of straw and only a sh...

  • Goalkeeper in Charge

    Matt Christopher

    Tina Esparza loves soccer, especially that it's a team sport where no one player is in the spotlight. Imagine her surprise when the coach asks her to train as the team's goalkeeper. Will Tina be able to overcome her shyness and accept a position that...

  • Dive Right In

    Matt Christopher

    Twelve-year-old Traci Winchell is a gifted gymnast, but lately she's been having trouble -- so much trouble that her coach warns her she may need to drop out or else risk serious injury. Traci wants to find something to fill the void left by gymnasti...

  • Caramelo

    Sandra Cisneros

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Every year, Ceyala “Lala” Reyes' family -- aunts, uncles, mothers, fathers, and Lala's six older brothers -- packs up three cars and, in a wild ride, drive from Chicago to the Little Grandfather and Awful Grandmother's hou...

  • Breaking All the Rules

    Sue Civil-Brown

    In the sunny climes of Paradise Beach, anything is possible ... and the more outrageous it is, the more likely it is to happen! For Erin Kelly, her indomitable friend Mary is a role model, a mentor. So when attorney Richard Wesley III fails to pre...

  • Never Tease a Siamese

    Edie Claire

    PITTSBURGH AD COPYWRITER AND AMATEUR SLEUTH LEIGH KOSLOW DISCOVERS WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S A WAY... When a wealthy eccentric dies suddenly, her estate is to be split among some lucky and unlikely recipients: her beloved Siamese cats...

  • I Do, Don't I?

    Catherine Clark

    "We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty." -- Benito Mussolini It's not like I'm surprised my mom picked the Mussolini quote for her wedding invitation. She's never been what one would call "conventional." I was a little surprised (but happy)...

  • Southern Latitudes

    Stephen J. Clark

    Nelson Ingram left Alabama a young man full of promise and ambition, with dreams of seeing the world. Now a burnt-out, disillusioned reporter, he has come back to the one place he's avoided for most of his adult life: his backwater hometown of Litchf...

  • The Hour Before Dark

    Douglas Clegg

    While trying to sort out the problems within their dysfunctional family, the Raglan siblings must now face the brutal murder of their father, Gordie, and return to the childhood home that they desperately wish to forget, where an unimaginable evil wa...

  • The Last Kashmiri Rose

    Barbara Cleverly

    In a land of saffron sunsets and blazing summer heat, an Englishwoman has been found dead, her wrists slit, her body floating in a bathtub of blood and water. But is it suicide or murder? The case falls to Scotland Yard inspector Joe Sandilands, who ...

  • Quilt Alphabet

    Lesa Cline-Ransome

  • The Shadow Dancer

    Margaret Coel

    Father John O'Malley makes it his personal business to tend to the souls of the Wind River Reservation. With the disappearance of a young man, and his old friend Vicky Holden accused of murder--his hunch is that both events are somehow connected to t...

  • Stranger Shores

    J.M. Coetzee

    J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

    Two-time Booker Prize-winner J. M. Coetzee is one of the world's greatest novelists. This thought-p...

  • Endgame

    Loren L. Coleman

    TARGET: NEW AVALON It is the darkest hour of the ongoing civil war between Prince Victor Steiner-Davion and his sister, Katrina. With Victor brought low by the assassination of his love, Omi Kurita, the allied forces are rudderless. As Victor reco...

  • The Snow Storm

    Lynn A. Coleman
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    The artistry of renowned lithographers Currier & Ives captures the beauty and nostalgia of simpler days and Christmases past. Yet, while a picture may be worth a thousand words, there are times when even the best illustrations leave viewers with a ye...

  • Cords of Love

    Lynn A. Coleman

    Someone is out to get Renee Austin...and she has no idea who it is. First, thieves ransack the small design firm where she works, then a stranger breaks into her apartment. All the while, a business competitor seems to be stealing presentation ideas ...

  • Dread Champion

    Brandilyn Collins

    Chelsea Adams has visions. But they have no place in a courtroom. As a juror for a murder trial, Chelsea must rely only on the evidence. And this circumstantial evidence is strong -- Darren Welk killed his wife. Or did he? The trial is a nightmare...

  • 9 Out of 10 Women Can't Be Wrong

    Cara Colter

    Harriet Pendleton already knew why ninety percent of the women chose him: Tyler Jordan was perfection. But it wasn't Ty's broad shoulders, or heavenly brown eyes. No, Harriet had seen the soul of the man who had raised a sibling...and whose smile had...

  • The Rudest Alien on Earth

    Jane Leslie Conly

    Earth isn’t just another planet -- it might be a place to call home

    In Oluu’s world, the young are programmed to take advice from the Wise Ones, load it into their systems, and follow it. Oluu does not always run so smoothly, and the Wise ...

  • The Killing Kind

    John Connolly

    When the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious community, private detective Charlie Parker is drawn into a violent conflict with a group of zealots intent on tracking down a relic t...

  • Jewish Holidays All Year Round

    Ilene Cooper

    For Jewish people every year is punctuated by special days when families rejoice in a rich heritage, recall history, renew the spirit and remember what it means to be Jewish. This illustrated book introduces the richness of the Jewish tradition and t...

  • Laura and the Lawman

    Shelley Cooper

    Police officer Laura Langley's objective was clear: pose as art appraiser Ruby O'Toole and infiltrate suspected drug kingpin Joseph Merrill's organization. Yet thoughts of another man consumed her day and night. Joseph's mysterious employee Michael C...

  • The Sheriff & the Amnesiac

    Ryanne Corey

    "WHO IS JENNY KYLE?" Seems as if everybody in Bridal Veil Falls is asking that question. The feisty redhead with the high-powered motorcycle made quite an impression on the little Montana town -- even before the accident that stole her memory.... S...

  • The Earl's Prize

    Nicola Cornick

    WOULD THE RAKE WIN A WIFE? Although exiled to a life of genteel poverty, Miss Amy Bainbridge was a well-bred lady of honor. But when she found herself the recipient of a surprise windfall, her whole life changed! Not only did she reenter society, ...

  • The Archer's Tale // Harlequin

    Bernard Cornwell

    A brutal raid on the quiet coastal English village of Hookton in 1342 leaves but one survivor: a young archer named Thomas. On this terrible dawn, his purpose becomes clear: to recover a stolen sacred relic and pursue to the ends of the earth the mur...

  • Hare and Tortoise Race to the Moon

    Oliver J. Corwin

  • All Families are Psychotic

    Douglas Coupland

    The Drummond family, reunited for the first time in years, has gathered near Cape Canaveral to watch the launch into space of their beloved daughter and sister, Sarah. Against the Technicolor unreality of Florida's finest tourist attractions, the...

  • The Forced Marriage

    Sara Craven

    Possessed by her husband! Powerful Italian Marco Valante was used to taking what he wanted -- and he wouldn't let a little thing like Flora Graham's engagement stand in the way! Flora had been trying to convince herself she was happy with ...

  • The Third Wife

    Jasmine Cresswell

    On her wedding night, seventeen-year-old Anna Langtry stole her husband's car and fled into the darkness, racing toward freedom. She felt only desperation to escape the nightmare of her Colorado home -- an isolated rural community that condoned her f...

  • A Knife in the Back

    Bill Crider

    CRASH COURSE IN MURDER Having broken her hard-and-fast rule about dating members of her department, Hughes Community College English professor Sally Good gets some shocking news about fellow teacher and lukewarm romantic interest Jack Neville: he'...

  • Crisis Point

    Ken Currie

    It doesn't look good. The last message Washington receives from the U.S. ship Regulus reports an unidentified aircraft approaching with unclear intentions. Then nothing. Another ship is sent to investigate, but all the crew finds is wreckage floating...

  • Follow The Murder

    Catherine Dain

    NEXT IN LINE FOR DEATH When Natalie Thorson fantasizes about murdering her ex-husband, actress turned psychotherapist Faith Cassidy takes it in stride-she has no reason to believe her new client is doing anything more than working through her ange...

  • Skipper and Sky

    Jenny Dale

  • The Chili Queen

    Sandra Dallas

    Life may have been hard on Addie French, but when she meets friendless Emma Roby on a train, all her protective instincts emerge. Emma's brother is seeing her off to Nalgitas to marry a man she has never met. And Emma seems like a lost soul to Addie-...

  • A Mother for His Child

    Lilian Darcy

    It started as one night of passion -- but since Will Braggett has become a partner in Maggie Lawless' medical practice, it has turned into a steamy affair! Will, though, is a single dad: his priority is his little boy, Daniel. Will isn't ready to ...

  • Superhero Max

    Lawrence David

    Wiffle Biffle! These words turn Max into a superhero. But can a regular boy ever learn to be himself? It’s almost Halloween, and Max still doesn’t have any friends at his new school. So when the teacher invites all the kids to come in costume for...

  • Isabelle the Navigator

    Luke Davies

    Isabelle Airly’s father is dead by his own hand, after a term in prison for insurance fraud. Her boyfriend of four years has lost his life in a motorcycle accident. And inside, Isabelle is lost at sea, struggling to stay afloat, and wondering how a...

  • I Hate to Go to Bed!

    Katie Davis

    Bedtime! You have to stop playing and brush your teeth and put on your pj's, and you just know your parents are going to have a huge party as soon as you go to sleep. Aren't they? Well, this is one little girl who's determined to find out!
    Katie ...

  • A Body in the Bath House

    Lindsey Davis

    Some things never change. With his new villa, Falco also gets a timeless headache-building contractors. After the departure of two shady plasterers, a rank odor in the bathhouse soon leads to the discovery of a corpse under the mosaic floor. Should F...

  • Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories

    Lydia Davis

    From one of our most imaginative and inventive writers, a crystalline collection of perfectly modulated, sometimes harrowing and often hilarious investigations into the multifaceted ways in which human beings perceive each other and themselves. A cou...

  • Babar and the Zephir

    Jean de Brunhoff

    In the most fantastical of the classic Babar stories, we follow Zephir, Babar’s monkey friend, home on school holiday. The monkey princess, Isabelle, has been kidnapped by the horned monster Polomoche, and everyone is very worried. But Zephir, ...

  • The Last Male Virgin

    Katherine Deauxville

    THE FIRST TIME It had never happened before, but the man was more than Leslie could handle. She'd expected a great deal of publicity for Dr. Peter Havistock--heck, the hunk had survived a plane crash, spent nearly fourteen years living with a Ston...

  • Behind Enemy Lines

    Cindy Dees

    Helicopter pilot Annie O'Donnell had made a split-second decision deep behind enemy lines -- a decision that nearly cost a man his life. Now it was up to her, and her alone, to make sure he got home in one piece. But Major Thomas Folly wasn...

  • The Real, True Dulcie Campbell

    Cynthia DeFelice

    A little girl discovers her true identityDulcie Campbell knows she's a princess. The woman with old bunny slippers can't be her real mother. The man with scratchy whiskers isn't her real father. The boy who teases her isn't her real brother. And the ...

  • The Boulevard of Broken Dreams

    Kim Deitch

    The newest addition to Pantheon's growing list of graphic novels: a visually beautiful, narratively intricate, and powerful book by one of the most original, and"until now"least recognized comic artists at work today.

    The place is New York...

  • Winter Sabbatical

    Renee DeMarco
    in

    For the good citizens of Hope, Washington, the future appears hopeless- until a small boy's crazy idea for a Homespun Christmas begins to turn things around. A century earlier, when pastor Fergus McKay came as pioneer to the small logging village of ...

  • Haunted Honeymoon

    Linda Devlin
    in

    A moaning wind. A yellow moon. A black cat twining 'round your legs. No night is more bewitched than Halloween, when the mists of time shimmer and the doorways between worlds open. Gathered together in this captivating anthology are three hauntin...

  • Earth Rise

    William C. Dietz

    It took three days for the Saurons to destroy the great cities of the world, wrapping the earth in a blanket of fire and ash. More than three billion people perished under the alien assault. But the invaders stopped short of complete annihilation....

  • Halloween Colors

    Carla Dijs

  • Disney's Winnie the Pooh Christmas Treasury

    Disney Book Group

    Ho-ho-ho! Winnie the Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, and all your friends from the Hundred-Acre Wood are here in this jolly collection of eleven favorite Winnie the Pooh Christmas stories plus some of Pooh's favorite holiday hummables. With sweet full-color il...

  • Disney's Read-To-Me Treasury - Volume Three

    Disney Book Group

    Bring the magic home with six retellings of Disney's most recent movies, delivered in a lively style just right for family sharing. This beautifully illustrated volume, featuring 102 Dalmatians, The Emperor's New Groove, The Tigger Movie, Dinosaur, A...

  • Punisher War Zone, Volume 1

    Chuck Dixon

    Published by Marvel Comics August 2002. $15.99 Cover Price. 144 pages. Full color. Softcover. Graphic Novel Trade Paperback. Collects PUNISHER: WAR ZONE #1-6 (Marvel, 1992-1995 series). Written by CHUCK DIXON. Art by and cover JOHN ROMITA, JR. "The s...

  • My Favorite Bride

    Christina Dodd

    When Miss Samantha Prendregast arrives at Devil's Fell to take charge of six rebellious girls, the vibrant, outspoken governess is not quite prepared to deal with the tall, dark and dashing master of the grand estate. The children she can manage with...

  • The Storyteller's Daughter

    Cameron Dokey

    HOW DO ALL GREAT STORIES BEGIN? With "Once Upon A Time..." Once upon a time, there lived a king whose heart was heavy. He had been betrayed by the woman he loved. Though the queen's schemes were discovered before she could deprive her husband of h...

  • The Great Horse-Less Carriage Race

    Michael Dooling

    Takes a look at the fifty-two-mile race course that was set up and run by six men in the winter in 1895 in order to demonstrate and promote the benefits of their newly created mode of transportation, the automobile....

  • Flames of Deceit

    Rosey Dow; Andrew Snaden

    Buck Connelly, a volunteer firefigher in Muskrat Creek, Canada, thought he understood fire - but when it came to one particular rescue, everything went terribly wrong. Buck followed his department's policy, but his actions have come under a dark clou...

  • The Powerpuff Girls Save Halloween

    Laura Dower

    "The Powerpuff Girls" is Cartoon Network's highest-rated show among kids 2-11. It's a mega-hit! And so are Scholastic's books -- last year's Valentine Book hit #9 on the NY Times Kids' Bestsellers.

    Halloween is Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup'...

  • Dark Side of the Sun

    Rachel Bryant Druten

    By the time Imogene Pennington reaches Japan in November, 1941, she knows her shipboard romance with Jimmy Yamashida has turned into love. An unlikely love to be sure - although they are both Christians, she is the daughter of an American plantation ...

  • Ella Minnow Pea

    Mark Dunn

    Ella Minnow Pea is a girl living happily on the fictional island of Nollop off the coast of South Carolina. Nollop was named after Nevin Nollop, author of the immortal phrase containing all the letters of the alphabet, "The quick brown fox jumps over...

  • Lightning

    Jennifer Dussling

    Without electricity, life would be radically different. This book explains electricity and its natural counterpart, lightning. With fascinating facts, including ancient myths and early scientific experiments like Ben Franklin's famous kite-flying adv...

  • Little Brown Bear Won't Take a Nap

    Jane Dyer

  • The Day My Runny Nose Ran Away

    Jason Eaton

    When he wakes up one morning to discover that his nose is missing from his face and that it left in protest, Jason sets off to Nose Island to locate it and bring it back where it belongs, despite his nose's high-ranking position as king of the nose r...

  • Killable Hours

    Pamela Eddy

    In her debut novel, Killable Hours, Pamela Eddy takes a wry look at murder, office politics and hubris among American lawyers in London. No one is more surprised than Amy Brown when she finds Daniel Blake, the boss from Hell, dead at his desk. Skep...

  • Princess Primrose and the Pea

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

  • You Shall Know Our Velocity!

    Dave Eggers

    An “entertaining and profoundly original” (San Francisco Chronicle) moving and hilarious tale of two friends who fly around the world trying to give away a lot of money and free themselves from a profound loss. •  From the bestselling auth...

  • Mid-Air Zillionaire

    Robert Elmer

    Famous zillionaire Donald Zump comes to CLEO-7 looking for Miko, who runs and hides for fear of being returned to Apollo Children's Home, but the news is good: Miko has inherited an asteroid. Includes facts about asteroids and instructions for decodi...

  • Tow-Away Stowaway

    Robert Elmer

  • Broken Bodies

    Sally Emerson

    Patrick Browning and Anne Fitzgerald are both young historians, and both have been drawn to research the same subject: Mary Nisbet, the notorious wife of Lord Elgin. Before long, their research spills over into an all too real rivalry, a rivalry char...

  • Barbie in the Nutcracker

    Linda Engelsiepen

  • Samantha's Friendship Fun

    Tamara England

  • The Range Eternal

    Louise Erdrich

    In the thick of the Turtle Mountains, inside one family`s little cabin, stood The Range Eternal. The woodburning stove provided warmth and comfort, delicious soups, and hot potatoes to warm cold hands on frozen winter mornings. It provided a glowi...

  • Black Powder, White Smoke

    Loren D. Estleman

    For freed slave Honey Boutrille, "justice" is a word that no longer bears any weight. After he saves the life of a prostitute by shooting her white, would-be killer, the price on Honey's head sends him on the run. As he narrowly escapes scrape afte...

  • The Last Christmas

    Birdie L. Etchison
    in

    For the good citizens of Hope, Washington, the future appears hopeless- until a small boy's crazy idea for a Homespun Christmas begins to turn things around. A century earlier, when pastor Fergus McKay came as pioneer to the small logging village of ...

  • Middlesex

    Jeffrey Eugenides

    "I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name as Calliope Hele...

  • The Trespass

    Barbara Ewing

    London 1849. The capital city is living in fear. Cholera is everywhere. Eminent MP Sir Charles Cooper decides it is too risky for his younger daughter, the strangely beautiful and troubled Harriet, and sends her--but not her beloved sister Mary--to t...

  • Possession

    Lynne Ewing

    VANESSA, Serena, Jimena, Catty, and Tianna are five seemingly ordinary girls from Los Angeles. But the truth is that they are all far from ordinary. They each have a secret power that separates them from others--and makes them DAUGHTERS OF THE MOON ...

  • The Crimson Petal and the White

    Michel Faber

    A teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed “big, sexy, bravura a novel” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times).  London, 1870s. At the heart of this panoramic narrative is a young wo...

  • Angelina Loves

    Erin Falligant

    When Angelina the ballerina mouse describes what she most enjoys, she realizes that doing things with her friends and her family is what she loves best in a book with tear-out valentine cards to send....

  • Sonoran Secret

    Nancy J. Farrier

    Bartered away in marriage as a settlement for her father's sizable debt, Chiquita expects nothing more in life than what she's already experienced: harshness and anger. Her days have been marred by the cruelty of her parents and the feeling that she ...

  • Lair of the Lion

    Christine Feehan

    THE BEAUTY Impoverished aristocrat Isabella Vernaducci would defy death itself to rescue her imprisoned brother. Though fear formed a fist around her heart, she'd even brave the haunted, accursed lair of the lion--the menacing palazzo of legendary, ...

  • After the Storm

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    SHE HAD NOWHERE TO GO HE HAD EVERYTHING TO LOSE ...UNTIL THEY DISCOVERED THE POWER OF LOVE For Irish immigrant Cailin Rafferty, America is a land of broken promises. Her husband's betrayal and his family's cruel lies separated her from ...

  • Mac's Bedside Manner

    Marie Ferrarella

    With his killer smile, his bone-melting charm and his medical dedication, hospital hunk Dr. Harrison "Mac" Mackenzie could thaw an iceberg at twenty paces. Collecting willing women like baseball cards, he hadn't met resistance since high school physi...

  • Pregnancy of Convenience

    Sandra Field

    Joanna Strassen knew Cal Freeman wanted a passionate affair. Was this her chance to secretly conceive her much-wanted baby? Unable to go through with her outrageous plan, Joanna confessed to Cal. Shockingly, Cal went one step further, suggesting a...

  • Soup

    Cathy Goldberg Fishman

  • Daughter of China

    C. Hope Flinchbaugh

    Tapping into her vast reservoir of knowledge about the persecuted church, author Hope Flinchbaugh has crafted a spellbinding first novel set in modern China. Nineteen-year-old Mai Lin has two serious handicaps in Chinese society--being born a girl, a...

  • Whole in One

    Aisha Ford

    Evette Howard teaches golf and works at her father's pro shop. Several months have passed since Justin Greene broke their engagement, and Evette still doubts that she'll ever trust another man. She isn't ready to step into another relationship...or e...

  • Michael Foreman's Playtime Rhymes

    Michael Foreman

    One of the world’s great picture book artists presents a delightful collection of playtime rhymes, illustrated with characteristic brilliance - and offering easy-to-follow instructions for playing along.

    In this sumptuous volume, leading chi...

  • A Man Worth Remembering

    Delores Fossen

    FBI agent Gabe Sanchez had his orders concerning witness Leigh O'Brien -- keep her alive, catch the bad guys, take care of her. The last was asking a lot, given that Leigh had vanished from his life two years ago. Now she was back, and Gabe wanted an...

  • Up and Running

    Holly Fox

    A very funny, yet moving story of two very different women, both working in the highly competitive world of tabloid television. Meg Randall and Adele Buchanan. Two very different women with very different lives. Two women whose paths are destined to ...

  • The Healing

    Kathryn Fox

    He Held Her Fate...And Her Love...In His Hands Pregnant, broke, and on the run after killing her violent lover in self-defense, Jenny Hanson needs a safe haven. Hoping to hide from the authorities amid the chaos of the Gold Rush, she heads for Dawso...

  • David Gets His Drum

    Panama Francis

    Six-year-old David is a drummer. Ever since he can remember, he's felt the itch in his fingers and the rhythm in his wrists. Te ter tum...terum rum tum a tum a tum atummey tum te tum. He's tried keeping time with spoons, knives, shoes, even the legs ...

  • Conrad's Time Machine: A Prequel

    Leo Frankowski

    WOULD YOU TRUST THESE BOZOS WITH A TIME MACHINE? Just out of the Air Force, Tom looked up two old pals, one of whom had had just wangled a grant from the Department of Defense to--this is serious stuff now--study social interactions in motorcycle ...

  • Halloween Murder

    Shelley Freydont

    Former dancer Lindy Haggerty has pirouetted her way through a few cases of murder and mayhem. Now, she's about to tackle the performance of a lifetime, as the director of an amateur production in a small-town Halloween carnival that's turning into a ...

  • Dog Food

    Saxton Freymann

    For dog lovers of all ages, a banquet of (pepper) puppy puns!

    Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers have wowed readers with the funny food faces of HOW ARE YOU PEELING, the underwater vegetable visions of ONE LONELY SEAHORSE and the lush produce l...

  • Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch

    Kinky Friedman

    It's a case of missing kid and missing kitty when Kinky Friedman, private dick extraordinaire and animal lover nonpareil, attempts to find a young, autistic New York boy and a three-legged Texas cat named Lucky, both of whom have disappeared. Somethi...

  • Waiting to Disappear

    April Young Fritz

    Thirteen-year-old Elizabeth Mullens, better known as Buddy, should be having a wonderful summer. Everybody in her small Southern town is getting ready for the Fourth of July celebration, and she's about to start high school. However, life for Buddy i...

  • Trouble In Tonka Town!

    Sonali Fry

    A new format for Tonka! This 8x10 shaped paperback features the popular, television-advertised Chuck My Talking Truck and his friend Gary the Garage!

    There's a lot of hustle and bustle in Tonka Town, and Gary the Garage sees it all! So, when t...

  • Blood of Victory

    Alan Furst

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Furst] glides gracefully into an urbane pre"World War II Europe and describes that milieu with superb precision.” -- Janet Maslin, The New York Times

    In the autumn of 1940, Russian émigré journalist I....

  • Sheerly Irresistible

    Kristin Gabriel

    The City:New York, New York The Single: Inexperienced but eager anthropology professor Claire Dellafield The Solution: The skirt Claire Dellafield is on a mission. She's checking out New York singles bars, gathering data for her thesis in human ...

  • The Tycoon's Lady

    Katherine Garbera

    The bachelorette auction was perfect, just like everything Angelica Leone arranged. At least, it was until she tumbled off the stage -- and landed in the arms of a man who seemed determined to muss up her immaculate exterior.... Hard-driving corpo...

  • Meeting Melanie

    Nancy Garden

    A dangerous drama unfolds on a remote Maine island

    Almost-twelve-year-old Allie Ward's summer is not looking especially fun-filled. Seal Island, Maine, is a pretty isolated community, and the only other resident kids her age have suddenly deci...

  • Bottled Spider

    John E. Gardner

  • Christmas City

    Michael Garland

    When Tommy gets a special invitation from his unusually unique Aunt Jeanne, he jumps into the magical taxi without a second thought and is soon whisked away on a grand adventure through the streets of Christmas City where strategic clues are placed t...

  • Killjoy

    Julie Garwood

    Her razor-sharp mind and ability to decipher evidence have made Avery Delaney an expert crime analyst for the FBI. Now she will have to use every one of her skills on a case that hits painfully close to home. Avery's beloved aunt Carolyn was on he...

  • The Tanya Treasury

    Patricia Lee Gauch

    Enhanced with colorful illustrations and a note from the author, this story collection offers three complete Tanya books, including Dance, Tanya, Tanya and Emily in a Dance for Two, and Presenting Tanya, the Ugly Duckling....