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  • The Last War: Detective Ferrets and the Case of the Golden Deed

    Richard Bach

    Can one animal save the world? So asks Richard Bach, bestselling author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull and The Ferret Chronicles. This moving fable about the almost-end of a civilization and the profound issues it raises -- that of war and peace, lif...

  • Numbers

    Ken Abraham; Daniel Hart

    Special Agent John Jameson has been assigned a daunting task -- to take out the vicious leader of the militant Islamic mujahideen that has been menacing the world in the wake of the Rapture. Caught between his duty to country and his newfound faith, ...

  • Pushing 30

    Whitney Gaskell

    " The one thing you should know about me is this: I' m the consummate Good Girl. . ." Ellie Winters is dependable and loyal and has a near-phobic aversion to conflict. But as her thirtieth birthday looms ever closer, she starts to feel like she' ...

  • The Nanny

    Melissa Nathan

    Twenty-three-year-old Jo Green knows that if she has to spend one more night in ultra-provincial Niblet-Upon-Avon she'll go completely bonkers! So she answers an ad in the paper, bids her devoted boyfriend Shaun adieu, and heads off to the big city. ...

  • Liner Notes

    Emily Franklin

    How do you share the soundtrack of your life? Just out of grad school, Laney is ready to embark on a new phase of her life. Leaving California to head back east, she's got three thousand miles to reflect on her past before moving ahead to the futur...

  • The Final Prophecy

    Greg Keyes

    As a beleaguered galaxy fights its way back from brink of destruction, the Jedis' most fearsome enemy plots to end the war--and claim victory--with a final act of domination. The troubles for the embattled living planet Zonama Sekot have just begu...

  • Planets of Adventure

    Murray Leinster

    Two complete novels by the critically acclaimed science fiction master includes the Hugo Award-winning The Planet Explorer, in which the fate of the colonies across the galaxy rests in the hands of a single man, and The Forgotten Planet

  • Wedding the Highlander

    Janet Chapman

    A runaway beauty finds love in the brawny arms of a handsome stranger. Talented surgeon Libby Hart is fleeing to Pine Creek, Maine, when her car spins out of control and crashes into a pond. She is rescued by Michael MacBain, a medieval highlande...

  • The Sassy One

    Susan Mallery

    For the Marcelli sisters of California wine country, the season is ripe for romance! Francesca Marcelli married at eighteen -- right on schedule, according to her warm, colorful family, who have always said a beauty like Francesca need never worr...

  • Blackwood Farm

    Anne Rice

    Welcome to Blackwood Farm: soaring white columns, spacious dining rooms, sun-drenched gardens, and a dark strip of the dense Sugar Devil Swamp. This is the world of Quinn Blackwood, a brilliant young man haunted since birth by a mysterious doppelgang...

  • A Gentleman's Honor

    Stephanie Laurens

    The Season has yet to begin, and the second member of the Bastion Club, tall, handsome Anthony Blake, Viscount Torrington, is already a target for every matchmaking mama in London. None of their flighty daughters can fix his interest, but a certain l...

  • May the Best Man Die

    Deborah Donnelly

    A KILLER BACHELOR PARTY Carnegie Kincaid plans weddings, not stag parties. When a client asks Carnegie to manage a pre-wedding blow-out--complete with a stripper--she tactfully refuses the job. So why is Carnegie peering through binoculars across ...

  • Violence of Action

    Richard Marcinko; Greg Walker

    Bolder, brasher, and badder than ever before -- with an all-new team, the Rogue Warrior faces his ultimate challenge. A suitcase nuke is on its way to a major American city, and there's only one man who can stop it. Back from self-imposed exile, dur...

  • Deployment Pakistan

    P.W. Storm

    They are a covert Marine SpecOps unit -- a lethal weapon so secret only a handful of powerful men know of their existence. To get this far, they had to be the very best of the best. To get home, they'll have to be even better. FORCE 5 RECON ...

  • Out of the Mist

    JoAnn Ross

    Lily Stewart is busy planning the summer Highland Games at her family's Great Smoky Mountain resort. So the last thing she needs is some arrogant, demanding Scotsman -- no matter how sexy -- arriving to film the annual festival. It's bad enough that ...

  • Hot and Bothered

    Jane Isenberg

    The Beat Goes On Things are scarier since that black day in September that shook Manhattan and the world. But across the river in Hoboken, New Jersey, community college professor Bel Barrett intends to live without fear, despite her honey Sol's new...

  • Beloved Highlander

    Sara Bennett

    Gregor Grant was to have been the Laird of Glen Dhui. But defeat at the hands of the English had cost him the home that had been with his family for generations. Bitter and betrayed, the Highlander vowed never to return... ...until a lady pleads ...

  • Who Will Take This Man?

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    The Wedding of the Year... Philip Whitmore, Viscount Greybourne, has survived desert sandstorms, unearthed treasures of ancient cities, and defeated knife-wielding grave robbers. But when it comes to something as ordinary as getting married, Philip...

  • The Seducer

    Madeline Hunter

    From the moment he arrived to rescue her, Diane Albret saw more in the darkly handsome, charismatic gentleman than just a guardian. Over the years that had passed since she first saw Daniel St. John, he had become, quite simply, the most dangerously ...

  • Crooked Heart

    Cristina Sumners

    Life isn't easy for Tom Holder. Middle-aged, appallingly married, and bored out of his wits, Tom is Chief of Police in Harton--an idyllic New Jersey town where, in spite of its eccentric cast of characters, nothing ever seems to happen. His dreary ro...

  • The Wedding Diaries

    Linda Francis Lee

    She was ready to tie the knot. Now she's fit to be tied. Texas heiress Vivienne Stansfield's dream of being a bride was about to come true. But in a startling change of fortune, her safe, reliable fiance proves himself to be neither -- and her we...

  • Hand of the King's Evil

    Chaz Brenchley

  • The Fall of the Kings

    Ellen Kushner; Delia Sherman

    This stunning follow-up to Ellen Kushner’s cult-classic novel, Swordspoint, is set in the same world of labyrinthine intrigue, where sharp swords and even sharper wits rule. Against a rich tapestry of artists and aristocrats, students, strumpets, ...

  • The Witch Queen

    Jan Siegel

    Jan Siegel has created one of the most compelling fantasy series in recent memory. What began with Prospero’s Children and continued with The Dragon Charmer now comes to a dazzling conclusion with The Witch Queen. Magnetically gifted Fern ...

  • The Midnight Country

    Marianne Willman
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    An American researching her family history in Europe stumbles upon an enchanting chateau and its enigmatic master, who is convinced she is the key to a terrible curse......

  • The War Angel

    Michael Salazar

    A military adventure that puts you at the scene of some of the most intense covert action--from an Air Force combat crewmember who's experienced what it's like to fall from heaven armed for hell... The War Angel As a member of the Air Force's e...

  • Mirror, Mirror

    Jill Gregory
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    A healer sworn to protect the heir to a troubled kingdom must rely on a wounded knight and a magic mirror for assistance......

  • Dream Lover

    Ruth Ryan Langan
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    On a business trip to Scotland, a young American disillusioned by love gets swept up by the romance of the Highlands--and by the charms of a perfect stranger......

  • The Witching Hour

    Nora Roberts
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    A kingdom is plagued by tragedy until a wizard-god's spell brings forth a courageous and beautiful young woman who must follow her heart in love and follow her destiny in battle......

  • The Snow Bride

    Debbie Macomber

    Practical Jenna Campbell has done something impractical. She's met a man on the Internet and now, a month before Christmas, she's going to Alaska to marry him. Dalton Gray seems to be everything she wants in a husband -- sensitive, gallant, romantic....

  • Monstrous Regiment

    Terry Pratchett

    War has come to Disc world . . . again. And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks'...

  • Gods Above

    Peter David

    Captain Mackenzie Calhoun has often been accused of playing God, but he has never faced off against real gods -- until now. As Captain Kirk did before him, Calhoun has encountered beings of unnatural power and abilities verging on godhood, and who cl...

  • Where the Light Remains

    Hayden Gabriel

    Set at either ends of a century, Where the Light Remains weaves the stories of two remarkable women linked by art, landscape, and the intricacies of marriage. In 1886 Cornwall, an artist from the Newlyn School paints a portrait of a striking ...

  • Chronicles of the Canongate

    Sir Walter Scott

    Published in 1827, Chronicles of the Canongate marks Sir Walter Scott's first foray into shorter fiction. This collection of three stories--"The Highland Widow," "The Two Drovers," and "The Surgeon's Daughter"--delves into the dramatic lives of Scott...

  • Confidence Game

    Michelle M. Welch

    SHE DIDN'T BREAK THE RULES. THEY BROKE HER. Beneath its peaceful exterior, Dabion is a land of violence and intrigue, its politics run by judges, schemers, and spies. Elzith Kar is one such spy, gifted with an uncanny skill derived from rigorous ...

  • Buying Time

    Robert Greenberger

    An investigation into a chroniton disturbance leads the da Vinci to a time-travelling Ferengi named Lant -- one who is going to the past in order to "speculate" and make a fortune. Now Commander Gomez, Lt. Commander Tev, Lt. Commander Corsi, and Cult...

  • Amelia Bedelia and the Christmas List

    Herman Parish

    Put Amelia Bedelia on your list!

    What happens when Amelia Bedelia goes shopping for the holidays? She's got a list and she's checking it twice. But everything she needs to buy is a compound word. Amelia Bedelia compounds t...

  • Rory & Ita

    Roddy Doyle

  • Out of Time

    Alton Gansky

    The fog released more of the ship. As he watched the bow slowly emerge, Stanton saw something that made his gut twist. “This can’t be.” Stanton stared at the gray-white battleship. “It’s a Dreadnought.”But that kind of ship ceased sailing...

  • Blacklist

    Sara Paretsky

    As a favor to her most important client, V. I. agrees to check up on an empty mansion. But instead of a mysterious intruder, she discovers a dead man in the ornamental pond--a reporter for an African-American publication whom the suburban cops are q...

  • Stone Cold

    Robert B. Parker

    Meet Tony and Brianna Lincoln. They've just moved to Paradise. Unfortunately, they're not too keen on making friends with the neighbors. In fact, this urbane pair of thrill killers is knocking locals off one by one--and they've marked Jesse Stone as ...

  • The Amulet of Samarkand

    Jonathan Stroud

    Presenting a thrilling voice in children's literature -- a witty, gripping adventure story featuring a boy and his not-so-tame djinni. Nathaniel is a young magician's apprentice, taking his first lessons in the arts of magic. But when a devious hot...

  • Any Way You Slice It

    Nancy Krulik

    Katie is an ordinary third-grader -- except for one very extraordinary problem! She accidentally wished on a shooting star to be anyone but herself. But what Katie soon learns is that wishes really do come true -- and in the strangest ways... Kat...

  • The River Between Us

    Richard Peck

    The year is 1861. Civil war is imminent and Tilly Pruitt's brother, Noah, is eager to go and fight on the side of the North. With her father long gone, Tilly, her sister, and their mother struggle to make ends meet and hold the dwindling Pruitt famil...

  • Something Might Happen

    Helen Lester

    Twitchly Fidget won’t shampoo, eat his cereal, or put on his sneakers. He won’t even go to a parade (what if he got sucked up into a trombone?) or a marshmallow roast (might he get stuck?) or a Fourth of February party (would he be buried in conf...

  • Civil War Battleship: The Monitor

    Gare Thompson

    The U.S.S. Monitor was an entirely new type of warship when it launched in 1862. Dubbed "the forefather of the modern Navy," this ironclad ship changed how wars are fought at sea. But on New Year's Eve, 1862, it sank off the coast of North Carolina i...

  • The Tale of Urso Brunov: Little Father of All Bears

    Brian Jacques

  • Home for Navidad

    Harriet Ziefert

    Rosa is ten years old, and she lives with her grandmother, her little brother, and her uncle in a small town in Mexico. But her mother lives in the United States, trying to earn much-needed money to send home to her family. So Rosa has not seen her m...

  • A Killing in Plymouth Colony

    Carol Otis Hurst

    There had never before been a murder in Plymouth colony. In a community founded on such high ideals and strong principles, the very idea was unthinkable, but the facts were undeniable: John Newcomen had been shot and killed by someone. But by whom? W...

  • Mystery

    Arthur Geisert

    When a little piglet accompanies her grandpa to the museum on copying day, she soon discovers that something is amiss. Large sections of the museum’s paintings have been cut out and forgeries sewn in their place. Who would commit such a theft, and ...

  • Antics!

    Cathi Hepworth

  • Lasso Lou and Cowboy Mccoy

    Barbara Larmon Failing

  • That Crazy Barb'ra

    Milton Schafer

    Truth be told, Barb'ra is a little crazy-crazy about a boy named Hubert Clumpty! Adapted from an acclaimed children's song first performed on stage by entertainer Danny Kaye, this funny, spunky look at a mad crush is sure to evoke smiles of recogniti...

  • Names for Snow

    Judi K. Beach

    CATALOG COPY DESCRIPTION: "Mama, what is snow?" asks a curious little bunny on a crisp winter day. Just as every snowflake is unique, so are the names used to describe snow and its ever-changing nature. Sometimes snow is like the white wings of butte...

  • Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction

    Multiple Authors

    Firebird-the imprint-is dedicated to publishing the best fantasy and science fiction for teenage and adult readers. Firebirds is an equally special anthology. Its sixteen original stories showcase some of the genre's most admired authors, including m...

  • Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Coven

    Peter David

  • Peter Parker Spider-Man, Volume 5: Senseless Violence

    Marvel Book Group

    After coming to the realization that the circle of violence will never end, Spider-Man is forced to ponder his place in the world. Is he truly helping people by engaging in battle after battle with the same villains? Has this life or death struggle b...

  • New X-Men, Volume 2

    Marvel Book Group

  • Jaldi's Friends

    Kalpana Swaminathan

  • Reason & Riots

    Stephen A. Bly

    When a boy is killed by a breakaway rail car, Jolie Bowers's compulsion to control is stretched to the limit.

    The homesteaders of western Nebraska threaten to retaliate against the railroad. And this is only the beginning. In the midst of t...

  • The Fiend in Human

    John MacLachlan Gray

    It's 1852, and the ranks of the London poor have doubled. In the swollen shadow of the great St. Giles Rookery, fallen women attract the perfumed dandies of the West End into a vicious circle of venality, vanity, and vice.Edmund Whitty, corresponden...

  • Bullets of Rain

    David J. Schow

    Widowed architect Arthur Latimer has become a recluse in his own home: a storm-proof fortress that doubles as a shrine to his dead wife. But the outside world beckons in the form of a bizarre party downbeach. Now, just as the biggest hurricane ev...

  • Paladin of Souls

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets -...

  • Last Car to Elysian Fields

    James Lee Burke

    A rainy late-summer night finds Robicheaux in a New Orleans bar, about to confront the man who may have savagely assaulted his friend, Father Jimmy Dolan, a Catholic priest who's always at the centre of controversy. But things in a Burke novel are r...

  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven

    Mitch Albom

    Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his father before him, fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has changed over the years.--from the Loop-the-Loop to the Pipeline Plunge--so, too, has Eddie changed, from...

  • The Way the Crow Flies

    Ann-Marie MacDonald

    The optimism of the early sixties, infused with the excitement of the space race and the menace of the Cold War, is filtered through the rich imagination of high-spirited, eight-year-old Madeleine, who welcomes her family's posting to a quiet Air For...

  • Popped

    Carol Higgins Clark

    L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly heads to Las Vegas to help out her old school chum Danny Madley. Danny is producing a reality TV show featuring three married couples who have all suffered the proverbial "Seven Year Itch," but are now vying...

  • Little Witch Learns to Read

    Deborah Hautzig

    Guess who’s learning to read? Little Witch is -- and she loves it. But Mother Witch won’t allow nice books about princesses and princes in the house! Little Witch resorts to using invisibility spells and staying up late to read, but it’s starti...

  • Merry Christmas, Everyone!

    Linda Lowery

    Sleigh bells jingle, Church bells chime. Ho, ho, ho! It’s Christmas time! Stunning cut-paper art and a humorous text about the joys of Christmas from the bestselling author-and-illustrator team of Trick or Treat, It’s Halloween!...

  • What Do Angels Wear?

    Eileen Spinelli

    Can angels fly?

    Can angels sing?

    Yes, child. They can.

    If angels can fly and angels can sing, what do they wear when doing these things?

    In this book from Eileen Spinelli and Emily Arnold McCully, a youn...

  • The Lonesome Polar Bear

    Jane Cabrera

    Polar bear is rather lonely. Snow animals meant to keep him company melt away at the end of the day. And they can’t swim and splash or play hide-and-seek like a real friend can. A real friend . . . that’s just what he needs! And Jane Cabrera’s ...

  • Little Porcupine's Christmas

    Joseph Slate

    Little Porcupine's mother calls him the "light of her life," but it's not until the night before Christmas, the very night of the Christmas play, that Little Porcupine sees the truth in her words.

    ...

  • Who'll Pull Santa's Sleigh Tonight?

    Laura Rader

    Christmas is just around the corner. The sleigh is polished. The toys are wrapped. The lists are all checked (twice). Everything's right on schedule -- until Santa finds all eight reindeer in bed with the flu. Uh-oh! How can Santa deliver presents...

  • A Haunted House in Starvation Lake

    Gloria Whelan

    Dawn Zonder is finally starting to feel at home in Starvation Lake with all her new friends when she finds out she might have to move again. If only Dawn could convince her family to stay in Starvation Lake for good. But the only house the Zonders ca...

  • Hokey Pokey Elmo

    Random House

    Elmo invites readers to dance along as he and his friends do the Hokey Pokeyâ,”with a bit of a twist! In addition to the usualâ,”putting in hands, feet, and other body partsâ,”thereâ,"s Cookie Monster putting his cookie in, Big Bi...

  • Perfect Pony

    Corinne Demas

    Jamie's greatest wish is to have a pony of her very own. So when she sees a sign advertising a free pony, she's ecstatic! As soon as Jamie pets McIntosh for the first time, she's sure that they are perfect for each other. Is Jamie's dream about to be...

  • Christmas Stocking Story

    Hilary Knight

  • Winter is for Snowflakes

    Michelle Knudsen

    Winter is for snowflakes.
    It’s the season I love best.
    When I wake up to falling snow,
    I hurry to get dressed.

    In simple, lyrical text, a boy expresses his love of winter activities, from bundling up in his winter garb to sledding w...

  • Bear with Me

    Ann Rhiannan

  • Brother Bear

    Disney Book Group

    This 72-page hardcover storybook retells Disney’s new animated film Brother Bear, an epic tale about a boy who is transformed into a bear and forced to see the world through the eyes of his enemy. Combining humor, drama, and thrilling animation, th...

  • The Presence

    Eve Bunting

    A brutal car accident that claimed the life of her best friend has left seventeen-year-old Catherine in a state of shock and severe depression. She longs to move forward with her life, but feels she can’t until she is somehow assured of her friend...

  • Ghost Girl

    Delia Ray

    Eleven-year-old April Sloane has never set foot in a school before, and now that President Hoover and his wife are building a one-room schoolhouse in the hollow of the Blue Ridge Mountains where April lives, she is eager to attend it. But these are t...

  • Calabash Cat And His Amazing Journey

    James Rumford

    Calabash Cat, a West African cat, sets out one day to find where the world ends. His adventures take him across a desert, grasslands, a jungle, and the ocean, until he finds what he is looking for. Illustrated in the style of the calabash engravers...

  • Orville: A Dog Story

    Robert Andrew Parker

    A big, ugly dog is happy to meet a farmer and his wife who decide to give him a name and a home, but not so happy when they chain him to the barn. All Orville can do is bark to tell the world how unhappy he is, and the more he barks, the more he is l...

  • Cool Yule! A Creative and Crafty Christmas

    Debra Mostow Zakarin

    Easy-to-follow instructions and adorable illustrations accompany a funky how-to guide to making perfect gifts for the holidays, including necklaces, bulletin boards, and homemade bubble bath. Original....

  • Five Little Christmas Trees

    William Boniface

    Five little, four little, three little . . . two little adorable books that will get kids counting their way down through two charming Christmas adventures. With a unique trim size and a plastic-molded counting piece on each spread that disappears as...

  • Jay Jay The Jet Plane

    Kirsten Larsen

    In Christmas in Tarrytown, everyone in Tarrytown is preparing for Christmas! Jay Jay tries to finish his Christmas wish list before it's too late to send it to Santa, Snuffy is in charge of finding a Christmas tree, and Tracy and Herky plan to meet S...

  • Santa's Surprise

    Keith Faulkner

    Through fold-out pages and colorful pop-ups, youngsters can help Santa, who can't see very well, find his missing reindeer as Santa and his elves search the stables, the workshop, and Mrs. Claus' s kitchen....

  • Mama Had to Work on Christmas

    Carolyn Marsden

  • M Is for Mistletoe

    Tanya Lee Stone

    Each letter of the alphabet represents an element of the holiday and is accompanied by sweet, rhyming text, in a holiday book which also includes an explanation of Christmas celebrations around the world and the origin of Santa Claus in the back. Ori...

  • Five Little Christmas Angels

    William Boniface

  • One Winter's Night

    John Herman

  • Silent Night

    Susan Jeffers

    Full-color illustrations of the Nativity--the journey to Bethlehem, the birth of the Christ child, and the homage of the shepherds and the Magi--bring to life the wonder and joy of the traditional Christmas carol, in this holiday gift edition....

  • Christmas Carol Mad Libs

    Leonard Stern

  • A Very Wiggly Christmas

    Grosset & Dunlap

  • Holiday Ha-Ha's: Christmas Jokes & Riddles

    Craig Yoe

    Ho, ho, ho! Ha, ha, ha! Santa Claus is laughing his way into town, and he's carrying a copy of Holiday Ha-Ha's: Christmas Jokes & Riddles! This one-of-a-kind joke book is jam-packed with more than 300 ho-ho-hilarious Christmas-themed jokes, riddles, ...

  • Horse Hooves and Chicken Feet: Mexican Folktales

    Jacqueline Mair

    This unique collection of fifteen folktales draws on the rich storytelling tradition of Mexico’s people and culture. Classic themes and fairytale elements are blended with magic and transformation and infused with Roman Catholic imagery to create a...

  • Strawberry Shortcake's Berry Merry Christmas

    Monique Stephens

    Strawberry Shortcake sets off for an adventure through Holidayland to find the perfect presents for her pals, but when the presents are accidentally destroyed, Strawberry fears that the big day will be ruined....

  • Holly Pond Hill Christmas Treasury

    Paul Kortepeter

    Families can count down to Christmas and celebrate the wonders and excitement of the season along with the Boxwood bunnies of Holly Pond Hill, in a charming treasury of original stories, carols, poems, recipes, and craft projects....

  • Avengers Legends, Volume 3: George Perez, Book 1

    Jim Shooter

  • My Big Boy Bed

    Eve Bunting

    For one energetic three-year-old, there are countless reasons to love his new big boy bed. There’s room now for Teddy to sleep with him, and his painted clay lizard, and Hippo. He can go under the bed and pretend to be a dog and scare his cat, ...

  • Brotherhood of Betrayal

    Randall Arthur

    "Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples," Jesus said (John 13:35, NLT). Why then are Christians noted for their hateful judgment of each other? Brotherhood of Betrayal illustrates the ugliness of the betrayal synd...

  • A Place of Safety

    Natasha Cooper

    Barrister Trish Maguire needs all the time she can find to help her young half-brother adjust to life after the violent death of his mother. Sir Henry Buxford, an influential acquaintance, has other ideas. He asks Trish to investigate one of his priv...

  • Say That To My Face

    David Prete

    Yonkers, New York, finds its place on the literary map of America. Transcending all the limitations of "ethnic literature" and mobster stereotyping, David Prete flawlessly (and seemingly effortlessly) nails Italian-American life to the page and eleva...

  • Don't Even Go There!

    Disney Book Group

  • Gus and Grandpa Go Fishing

    Claudia Mills

    The ninth book in this beloved series

    Gus goes fishing for the first time. Mommy can't help him because she doesn’t fish, and Daddy is completely absorbed in his fancy new fishing gear. Fortunately, Grandpa is there. Grandpa shows Gus how to...

  • Blackbox

    Nick Walker

    Cross a road, take a train, or get on an airplane and you put your life in the hands of a stranger -- every bit as screwed up, every bit as fallible and as human as you are. Then the person turns out not to be a stranger at all, and suddenly it's muc...

  • Boo

    Rene Gutteridge

    Talk about working out your faith with fear and trembling"a scheme is plotted to put the fright back into Skary"and get their most famous resident out of love and back into the thrill business.  The biggest thing to happen to Skary, Indiana...

  • A Faint Cold Fear

    Karin Slaughter

    An apparent student suicide has brought medical examiner Sara Linton to the local college campus, along with her ex-husband, police chief Jeffrey Tolliver. But a horribly mutilated corpse yields up few answers. And a suspicious rash of subsequent "su...

  • The Madam

    Julianna Baggott

    Alma and Henry can barely feed their three children -- responsible Irving, slow-witted Willard, nervous Lettie -- despite their grueling jobs, hers in a hosiery factory, his in a railroad yard. So when a bootlegging scam artist lends them money to bu...

  • Daughter

    Asha Bandele

    The gifted author of the acclaimed memoir The Prisoner’s Wife delivers a deeply penetrating work -- an emotionally shattering first novel that explores the perils of silence and illuminates the fragile complexity of the mother-daughter bond.On a wi...

  • Finding Alice

    Melody Carlson

    Sliding into the Rabbit Hole… Would She Ever Return?On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Bec...

  • Around the World With Auntie Mame

    Patrick Dennis

    Encore, Encore! The brilliant sequel to the smash bestseller Auntie Mame is back and the reviews are in . . ....

  • Heaven's My Destination

    Thornton Wilder

    Drawing on such unique sources as the author's unpublished letters, business records, and obscure family recollections, Tappan Wilder's Afterword adds a special dimension to the reissue of this hilarious tale about goodness in a fallen world.

    ...

  • Where Is Little Reynard?

    Joyce Carol Oates

    Mama cat has seven kittens. Little Reynard is the smallest, and his brothers and sisters tease him about his size and his orange color. Because he is so small and timid, the little girl, Lily, takes special care of Little Reynard. She gives him hi...

  • At the Firehouse

    Anne Rockwell

    Jason loves fire engines. He wants to know all about firefighters, their clothes and their tools, their pumper trucks and their ladder trucks. And, when he gets a chance to sit in the driver's seat, he feesl just like a real firefighter, too.

    <...

  • Albert the Bear

    Nick Butterworth

    When Albert arrives in Mr. Jolly's toy shop, the other toys think he is the saddest-looking bear they have ever seen. Determined to cheer him up, the toys spring into action. But underneath his frown, Albert the bear has a surprise of his own. . ...

  • Poinsettia and the Firefighters

    Felicia Bond

    Although expecting to be excited by finally getting a bedroom all to herself, young Poinsettia is nervous being on her own as she listens to all the creaks and bangs by herself, but her inability to sleep becomes a blessing in disguise when she sees ...

  • Think Big, Vote Little!

    Laura Driscoll

    The playground is a mess, the lockers keep jamming, and the worst thing imaginable has just happened -- Taco Tuesday has been replaced by Fish Stick Tuesday! Stuart runs for class officer because he wants to make the school a better place. But is he ...

  • Little Bear's Bad Day

    Else Holmelund Minarik

    Little Bear's day isn't going well at all.

    He spills his milk and he knocks over his paint -- what will happen next? It is going to take the help of some very good friends to help Little Bear feel better after his very bad day!

    ...

  • Don't Cheat, Rusty

    Jodi Huelin

    There is a big test on seashells coming up and Rusty is worried. There are so many kinds of shells! How will he ever be able to remember them all? Rusty is worried that Miss Cuttle will be disappointed if he fails the test, but is he worried enoug...

  • Christmastime at Cutter Gap

    Nancy LeSourd

    Based on the beloved Christy novel with over 30 million copies sold! Christmas is the topic of discussion for Miss Christy and her class at the Cutter Gap schoolhouse. One by one the students share their favorite Smoky Mountain holiday traditions---b...

  • Fire Storm

    Jean Craighead George

    When Axel and his family take a rafting trip down the swift Salmon River, they sense little risk when smoke appears in the quiet, dry wilderness. Suddenly, orange flames flash dangerously near, and Axel isn't so sure of their safety anymore. Before l...

  • The Butlerian Jihad

    Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson

    Frank Herbert's Dune series is one of the great creations of imaginative literature, science fiction's answer to The Lord of the Rings. Decades after Herbert's original novels, the Dune saga was continued by Frank Herbert's son, Brian Herbert, in ...

  • Full Speed

    Janet Evanovich; Charlotte Hughes

    Dear Reader: Welcome to the world of Jamie Swift and Max Holt! My good friend Charlotte Hughes and I have teamed up to create a series of books featuring these two characters, and they've taken on a life of their own! These books are not set in th...

  • Hades' Daughter

    Sara Douglass

    Ancient Greece is a place where mortals are the playthings of the gods--but at the core of each mortal city-state is a Labyrinth, where the mortals can shape the heavens to their own design. When Theseus comes away from the Labyrinth with the prize o...

  • FrostLine

    Justin Scott

    Hired to act as a mediator between former diplomat Harry King and his troublesome neighbor, gruff Vietnam veteran Ronnie Butler, real-estate agent Ben Abbott gets more than he bargained for when Butler's ex-con son is killed in an explosion on King's...

  • Remember When: Hot Rocks

    Nora Roberts
    in

    Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that...

  • Dead Famous

    Carol O'Connell

    An FBI agent is killed in a psychiatrist's office...Jurors on a controversial trial are murdered one by one...A norotious shock-jock is flirting with his listeners' worst impulses...An unnerving beauty cleans up crime scenes, erasing the sins of man....

  • She is Me

    Cathleen Schine

    The Love Letter was a beloved and bestselling novel, and She Is Me is a return to that winning form -- a novel about women's friendships, love, and family....

  • Remember When: Big Jack

    J.D. Robb
    in

    Laine Tavish is an ordinary woman living an ordinary life in the small town of Angel's Gap, Maryland, as the proprietor of Remember When, an antique treasures and gift shop. At least, that's what everyone in Angel's Gap thinks. They have no idea that...

  • Sir Lancelot, Where Are You?

    Kate McMullan

    The evil witch Morgana le Fay has put a terrible curse on Sir Lancelot, and it's up to Wiglaf and his DSA buddies to find and save him. But they're just dragon-slayers-in-training. Can they really outsmart the trolls, witches, and other villains that...

  • Knight for a Day

    Kate McMullan

    When Wiglaf learns that he has won "A Day With Sir Lancelot (The World's Most Perfect Knight)," he can hardly believe it. His friend Erica can't believe it, either! And when the big day arrives, she is even more doubtful. Is Erica just jealous, or is...

  • 97 Ways to Train a Dragon

    Kate McMullan

    Wiglaf is supposed to be a dragon slayer, but dragon babysitter is more like it. After a mysterious egg hatches into a baby dragon, Wiggie and his roommate Angus decide to keep it. But can they keep it safe from Mordred if he finds out?...

  • Me Oh Maya!

    Jon Scieszka

    GAME ON! One minute Joe, Sam, and Fred are shooting hoops in Brooklyn. The next they're on a court that is definitely not New York, and the other team is saying something about losers being the next blood sacrifices. Uh-oh. Tossed back in time to Ch...

  • Day of the Iguana

    Henry Winkler; Lin Oliver

    Hank Zipzer: He's smart. He's creative. He's funny. His pencils are sharpened. His binders are bound. He wants to do well in school -- he really does. He tries not to be lazy, like his parents claim he is. So why is he always getting into trouble? ...

  • Something Funny

    Penguin Young Readers Group

    Dick and Jane see something funny. Come and see Spot! Have fun with Dick and Jane as you read along with this sweet and simple story....

  • Guess Who

    Penguin Young Readers Group

    Millions of Americans remember Dick and Jane (and Sally and Spot, too!). Now Dick and Jane and all their pals are back with revised editions of these classic readers for a whole new generation of readers to enjoy! Guess Who "Guess who this is," said...

  • Go Away, Spot

    Penguin Young Readers Group

  • Ten Little Mummies

    Philip Yates

  • Who Says Woof?

    John Butler

  • Someone Says

    Carole Lexa Schaefer

    An energetic combination of onomatopoeic language and vivid illustrations follows a group of Asian children as they use their imagination throughout the day, transforming themselves into prancing ponies, swooping birds, and slurping tigers....

  • Maisy's Rainbow Dream

    Lucy Cousins

    Lucy Cousins outdoes herself with this big, bold, brilliant visit to Maisy's dream world -- a kaleidoscopic journey filled with familiar friends and fantastical creatures.

    Maisy is fast asleep in her little bed.
    Suddenly a dream begins insi...

  • Sherman Crunchley

    Laura Numeroff

    Following the tradition of the Crunchley dog family, Sherman is expected to succeed his father as Biscuit City's Chief of Police, but the only thing he likes about being a police officer is the hat he wears. 40,000 first printing....

  • The Small World of Binky Braverman

    Rosemary Wells

    Binky Braverman's stay with his aunt and uncle in Memphis unexpectedly proves to be full of adventure when characters on the boxes and jars in their kitchen come to life and become his friends. 15,000 first printing....

  • Jay Jay's Supersonic Storybook

    Kelli Chipponeri

  • Horse Named Seabiscuit

    Mark Dubowski

    Seabiscuit didn't start out a winner. He was a runt who was squat and funny looking. But Seabiscuit became a champion, and during the dark days of the Depression, he grew so popular that newspapers, radio shows, and magazines covered his every move. ...

  • Storybook Treasury for Girls

    Claire Masurel

    These wonderful hardcover compilations of favorite stories include a mix of beloved classics as well as recent hits-sure to appeal to girls and boys alike!

    Includes: Countdown to Grandma's House; Jewel Fairies; Flower Princesses; The Best Te...

  • Girls Will be Girls

    Joan Holub

  • Storybook Treasury for Christmas

    Pamela Jane

    These wonderful hardcover compilations of favorite stories include a mix of beloved classics as well as recent hits-sure to appeal to girls and boys alike!

    Includes: The Night Before the Night Before Christmas; Wee Three Pigs; All About Chr...

  • School Rules

    Gail Herman

  • Strawberry Shortcake and the Friendship Party

    Megan E. Bryant

  • Fairy Tale Classics Easy To Read Collection

    Harriet Ziefert

    Includes The Gingerbread Boy, Henny-Penny, The Little Red Hen, Little Red Riding Hood, The Magic Porridge Pot, The Princess and the Pea, and The Ugly Duckling.

    Illustrated by Robin James....

  • Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah! A Holiday Fun Sticker Book

    Tor Freeman

    A spirited sticker books let kids join in a rousing rendition of a traditional holiday song, then complete the scenes with laminated stickers.

    Hanukkah, oh Hanukkah!
    Come light the menorah.

    Hanukkah brings with it lots of activities ...

  • Extreme Nature

    Grosset & Dunlap

    These hardcover compilations of best-selling All Aboard Reading titles are perfect for every young reader! Featuring favorite themes like science and school, and grouped according to the Station Stop reading levels, these compilations offer somethin...

  • Storybook Treasury of Animals

    Grosset & Dunlap

  • 95 Pounds of Hope

    Anna Gavalda

    Constantly getting in trouble at school, Gregory, who has been held back twice and expelled once, seeks solace in his grandfather's shed with his inventions until he realizes, with the help of his grandfather, that it is time for him to get his act t...

  • Strawberry Shortcake Plays Soccer

    Ruth Koeppel

  • A Long Time Ago Today

    Sally Warner

    Ever since her mother died six years earlier, twelve-year-old Dilly Howell and her father spend every summer in upstate New York at Mummie's farm, even though Dilly resents how her dead mother continues to intrude on her life....

  • Simply Science

    Grosset & Dunlap

  • Harold's Tail

    John Bemelmans Marciano

    Harold is a squirrel living a happy if sheltered life in his park on New York City's Upper West Side. But when a streetwise rat persuades him to take part in an experiment, Harold suddenly finds himself without his tail fur-and without a home. Mistak...

  • ABC

    Alison Jay

    Filled with hidden surprises, a wonderful introduction to the alphabet features ordinary objects, which have been transformed into something extraordinary with the author's trademark, vibrant paintings....

  • The Tale of the Swamp Rat

    Carter Crocker

    Guided by an ancient alligator, a silent young rat learns to find his own way in the drought-stricken swamp, despite having been orphaned under circumstances that sometimes cause other animals to reject him....

  • Amaryllis

    Craig Crist-Evans

    Through one brother’s narration and another’s letters from Vietnam, Craig Crist-Evans offers a moving story of two brothers separated, yet forever connected, by the devastation of war.

    We had just passed the AMARYLLIS when, out of the blue...

  • Deck The Halls

    Claudine Gevry

    A spirited sticker books let kids join in a rousing rendition of a traditional holiday song, then complete the scenes with laminated stickers.

    Deck the halls with boughs of holly,
    Fa-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la!

    Christmas is a time to de...

  • What Makes the Seasons?

    Megan Montague Cash

    Why do leaves fall off trees?
    What makes flowers bud? What makes snow?

    In delightful rhyming verse, Megan Montague Cash asks and answers thoughtful questions children have about the weather and the seasons. As they walk outside or look ou...

  • ABC Dog

    Connie Sharar

  • The Return of Calico Bright

    David Winkler

    An epic coming-of-age story

    She suspects her boyfriend of cheating and her best friend of betrayal. But that's not the worst of sixteen-year-old Callie Weston's sorrows. The unveiling of not just one but two of her mother’s deceptions has dr...

  • Storybook Treasury for Boys

    Dina Anastasio

  • Hammer of the Gods

    Christopher Tebbetts

  • Christmas Cookies

    Susan Devins

    What could be a homier holiday tradition than making Christmas cookies? Bakers young and old will find all they need in this inviting, illustrated cookbook - including the cookie cutters.


    Here is a charming holiday cookbook that is sure to...

  • Dick and Jane

    Penguin Young Readers Group

    Millions of Americans remember Dick and Jane (and Sally and Spot, too!). Now Dick and Jane and all their pals are back with revised editions of these classic readers for a whole new generation of readers to enjoy! Go, Go, Go Oh, Jane. Look and see. ...

  • Uncanny X-Men Vol. 3: Holy War

    Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #421-427. The return of the Canadian super team Alpha Flight… but do they return as friends or foes? The hunt for the mysterious religious sect known as the Church of Humanity concludes, but what secrets will they have...

  • X-Statix, Volume 2: Good Guys and Bad Guys

    Peter Milligan

  • American Fantasy Tradition

    Brian M. Thomsen

    The ancient tales of long-dead civilizations to the wild success of J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, fantasy has fired our imaginations for as long as there has been story. Whether sweeping sagas of fantastic adventures or cautionary tales tol...

  • Fatal Tide

    Iris Johansen

    Marine researcher Melis Nemid is treading dangerous waters--and she's about to be dragged under. Melis knows something that has already caused one oceanographer to disappear from the face of the earth ... and that's only part of a past torn by violen...

  • The Wedding

    Nicholas Sparks

    After thirty years, Wilson Lewis is forced to face a painful truth. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him, and it is entirely his fault. Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun (originally recounted in The Note...

  • Bleachers

    John Grisham

    High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who mol...

  • Death by Hollywood

    Steven Bochco

    From the acclaimed co-creator of Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue, Death by Hollywood is a suspenseful and darkly comic crime novel about a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who tries to turn a brutal murder into his next movie payday. One d...

  • The Furies

    Fernanda Eberstadt

    A new novel -- her largest and most ambitious -- by the author of Low Tide, Isaac and His Devils, and When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth. In The Furies, Fernanda Eberstadt brings all her gifts of insight, feeling, and storyte...

  • Extravagance

    Gary Krist

    William Tobias Merrick, an energetic young man from the provinces, travels to the big city in a time of great optimism and ferment, hoping to make his mark on a frenzied, money-crazed society obsessed with the promise of new technologies. The city in...

  • Boys In Control

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Play ball! That's what the sixth-grade Buckman Badgers baseball team plans to do. Eddie Malloy and Jake Hatford hope to lead their team to the championship game the last Saturday in May. But thanks to a mix-up, Mrs. Hatford has to run a yard sale fo...

  • The Pursuit

    Elizabeth Skurnick

    Michael Vaughn’s father left him a legacy: A calling to a world filled with necessary lies. Dangerous exploits. And the chance to make a difference. Michael is ready to be an agent for the CIA. To do whatever it takes to honor his father’s memory...

  • Pure Dead Brilliant

    Debi Gliori

    There’s trouble brewing at StregaSchloss!When Signora Strega-Borgia invites some would-be witches to stay, weird things begin to happen. Pandora can’t resist the temptation of time travel. Titus picks up a strange -- and deadly -- computer virus....

  • Off to Plymouth Rock

    Dandi Daley Mackall

    Told with the whimsical verse of Dandi Mackall, children will love to hear the story of the Pilgrims' voyage and the Native Americans' guidance that culminated in the first Thanksgiving. Gene Barretta's warm, harvest tones and lively char...

  • Thomas Jefferson's Feast

    Frank Murphy

    Did you know that every time you munch on a french fry or snack on ice cream, you have Thomas Jefferson to thank? It’s true! This founding father was one of America’s first foodies. After a visit to France, he introduced all sorts of yummy treats...

  • Magic Bed

    John Burningham

    When Georgie outgrows his baby bed, he chooses a big second-hand bed that the thrift shop owner tells him is magic. “The lady who had it before said you could travel in it.” Georgie’s granny teases him about his magic bed. But every night, Geor...

  • Barbie of Swan Lake

    Mary Man-Kong

    Barbie stars in a new version of this classic story! The illustrated hardcover storybook retells the new direct-to-video Barbie" film. Featuring a cloth spine, this book is a must-have for all little girls....

  • Funny Hunny Christmas

    Ann Braybrooks

  • More Please

    Dorothy Kunhardt

    Golden Books is proud to reissue More Please: The Hungry Animal Book. This innovative and interactive book by the bestselling author of pat the bunny, Dorothy Kunhardt, was originally published in 1946. With pieces of “food” that are just the rig...

  • Richard Scarry's Father Cat's Christmas Tree

    Richard Scarry

  • Peter Claus and the Naughty List

    Delphine Durand

    Naughty or nice? Peter Claus thinks this yearly question is most unfair. As Santa’s son, he should know. For the second year in a row his name appears on the dreaded Naughty List. That means no presents for Christmas! But Peter doesn’t remember m...

  • Barbie of Swan Lake: A Storybook

    Mary Man-Kong

    In this beautifully photographed 8 x 8 book, Barbie stars in the classic story of Swan Lake. Barbie is the beautiful Odette, who must find the courage to save the Enchanted Forest from the evil Rothbart....

  • The True Story of Christmas

    Anne Fine

    Everyone knows the story of Christmas. Decking the halls with boughs of holly. Hanging stockings by the chimney with care. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Then there’s the true story of Christmas. And Ralph Mountfield is smack in the middle of ...

  • Rudolph's Bright Christmas

    Don Williams

    It’s Christmastime in Christmastown. Santa is getting ready to deliver toys to all the girls and boys -- but where is Rudolph? Press the button to light up Rudolph’s nose. Young readers will discover lots of bright surprises as they look for Rudo...

  • No Teasing Allowed

    Louise Gikow

    Stacie has a new friend, Amanda, who dresses a little differently from everyone else and the popular girls tease her. Barbie advises Stacie and Amanda to ignore them, but it’s not easy. It isn’t until the popular girls make a big mistake during a...

  • A Golden Opportunity

    Michael Teitelbaum

    A strange gold crown sent to Clark Kent causes Superman to become weak and traps him in a giant cocoon, and when he emerges, he has no recollection of his former self, his friends, or the Justice League....

  • Sleeping Beauty

    Sue Kassirer

  • A Dream Come True

    Alison Inches

    In Starring Barbie #1 A Dream Come True!, Barbie gets a role in her first Hollywood movie! She learns all about acting and even gets to attend an award show! Barbie walks down the red carpet on the book’s photographic cover, featuring glitter and f...

  • Not Me Monster

    Ila Wallen