Books Published in September 2003

popular books

BEST REVIEWED BOOKS — SEPTEMBER 2003

Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed
Best Reviewed

New Books List: 788 titles

  • 'Tis the Season

    Cooper Edens

  • The 100th Day of School

    Brenda Haugen

  • 11th Hour

    Bradley Warshauer

    They said he was the best. Julian Lloyd has it all--talent, moves, and a record-breaking contract that can launch his career into the stratosphere. Until a severe injury ends his dreams before they've begun. But his new boss isn't giving up on his ...

  • 311 Pelican Court

    Debbie Macomber

    Now divorced, Zach and Rosie Cox are struggling to adjust to Judge Olivia's unusual custody agreement -- and to the fact they're thrown together more than they would have wished. The kids are staying in the family home, and it's Rosie and Zach who ha...

  • A 5th Avenue Affair

    Tracy Cozzens

    Would She Heal His Heart... Despite her sisters' nuptial successes, Clara Carrington is decidedly not interested in a husband--her charitable work is far more fulfilling than marriage would be. Or so she believes, until her sister Pauline sends her ...

  • 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...

  • 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?...

  • The A-List

    Zoey Dean

    If you have to ask, you'll never be on ... THE A LIST Anna needs a time-out from all her boys, and Sam's hunting for a good one to love. So together they make a getaway to Las Casitas, Mexico, the super luxury spa where Angelenos go to get more su...

  • 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....

  • ABC Dog

    Connie Sharar

  • About Face

    Jill Stengl
    in

    Christmas - Military Style Life... i is never still in the military. Even Christmas is a season of challenge. . .a season of change. This year, several servicemen and women will face a range of life-altering experiences. Captain Tim Falkirk, a ...

  • The Afterlife

    Gary Soto

    You'd think a knife in the ribs would be the end of things, but for Chuy, that's when his life at last gets interesting. He finally sees that people love him, faces the consequences of his actions, finds in himself compassion and bravery . . . and ev...

  • Akiko and the Journey to Toog

    Mark Crilley

    “Poog’s in trouble.” Just three simple words, but they’re enough to launch fifth-grade Akiko and the rest of her crew -- Spuckler Boach, Mr. Beeba, and Gax -- on their next mission. And it just might be their most important mission yet: To sa...

  • 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. . ...

  • Alice In Blunderland

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

    Can someone die of embarrassment? Everything seems to go wrong for Alice in fourth grade -- whether it's being seen in her underpants by Donald Sheavers from next door, or saying dumb things in class, or getting trapped in her own snow cave, or gett...

  • All Their Names Were Courage

    Sharon Phillips Denslow

    Black Bess.Kangaroo.Burns.Traveller.All the horses of the Civil War.And Belle,the Burd family's mare.

    Sallie Burd loves horses. She wants to know everything about them. What she's going to find out is that all their names are Coura...

  • Allergies

    Sharon Gordon

    The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe! With this series all about geography, emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities, nations, waterways, and habitats around the worldand right in their own backya...

  • Alphabeep!

    Debora Pearson

    From Ambulance to Zamboni, Alphabeep: A Zipping, Zooming ABC by Debora Pearson, illus. by Edward Miller, zips, zooms, beeps and vrooooms its way through the streets of a noisy town, introducing an alphabet of vehicles (Q is for quarry excavator). ...

  • Always In Her Heart

    Marta Perry

    MARRYING MAN? In the eight years since their romance had ended in confusion, Link Morgan and Annie Gideon had barely spoken. But when tragedy left twenty-month-old Marcy, Link's goddaughter and Annie's niece, parentless, the two stepped in to prot...

  • Alyssa's Ring

    Julia Gray

    After wandering the world in exile, guided only by the prophecies of the mysterious Tindaya Code, Terrel is at last returning to Vadanis, his journey at an end. But the powers that have sought to destroy him are not yet defeated. For the prophecy to ...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • American Woman

    Susan Choi

    Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to remarkable critical acclaim. The New Yorker called it "an auspicious debut," and the Los Angeles Times touted it as "a novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness," n...

  • 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...

  • And Now You Can Go

    Vendela Vida

    Vendela Vida’s fearless, critically acclaimed fiction debut follows the unpredictable recovery of a young woman as she tries to make sense of her life after an encounter at gunpoint.Accosted one afternoon in Riverside Park by a man who doesn't want...

  • Angelina Ballerina's Christmas Crafts: Countdown to Christmas with Angelina!

    Katharine Holabird

  • Annihilation

    David Cian

    The world is at war-and the Transformers are at the forefront of the battle! And yet, even though the nations of Earth face their greatest threat, the issues that have divided mankind for centuries destroy any true hope of global unity against the...

  • The Annotated Legends

    Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    A key trilogy in the Dragonlance line, collected in an annotated paperback.

    This annotated version of Time of the Twins, War of the Twins, and Test of the Twins contains extensive notes by The New York Times best-selling authors Margaret Weis ...

  • Antics!

    Cathi Hepworth

  • 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...

  • Anyone Who Has a Heart

    Jacqueline Powell

  • Arkansas Assault

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo gets mean with a man-hunting Mayor!Noah Tillman, the land baron of Tillman, Arkansas, has his own way of celebrating the Fourth of July. He kidnaps several of his own townspeople, brings them to a private island, and hunts them down like d...

  • 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 . . ....

  • Art of the Haunted Mansion

    Disney Book Group

  • The Artful Miss Irvine

    Jennifer Malin

    A daring charade unmasks a true love... BOTH HAD SWORN OFF LOVE... Betrayed by her fortune-hunting suitor, artist Maeve Irvine vows never to wed and devotes herself to painting. Hoping to keep her wealth a secret, Maeve leaves Boston and moves to...

  • At The Edge Of Space

    C.J. Cherryh

    Now, two of C.J. Cherryh's long-unavailable early classics are together in one omnibus edition. Brothers of Earth and Hunter of Worlds chronicle the survival of solitary humans among hostile, predatory aliens on the fringes of human-explored space-an...

  • 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.

    <...

  • The Avenger

    Frederick Forsyth

    Attorney Calvin Dexter hangs his shingle in a quiet New Jersey town, has a reasonably successful practice, and takes the hills strong while triathalon training. But Dexter is no ordinary man. *** The summer before he goes to college, Ricky Cole...

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

    Jim Shooter

  • The Awakening

    Kate Huntington
    in

    Orphaned Thalia Layton is stricken to hear that her beloved, eccentric Aunt Cordelia has taken ill. But upon her arrival at Cordelia's remote estate, Thalia discovers that her aunt has harbored dangerous secrets--and that Thalia's own attraction to A...

  • Babar and the Christmas House

    Laurent de Brunhoff

    Newcomers to Celestville have so many Christmas decorations on their hilltop house that Babar, the king of the elephants, receives a demand from King Rataxes of nearby Rhino City that the "ugliness" be removed....

  • Babar Goes to School

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • Baby Food

    Saxton Freymann

    Saxton Freymann and Joost Elffers's most accessible picture book yet--a zoo of baby animals carved out of fruits and veggies, sized (and priced!) perfectly to sell to the gift and children's market.

    A menagerie of animals decorate the glorious...

  • Baby Radar

    Naomi Shihab Nye

    Out! Out!
    Into the world
    on wheels!

    What will you see?
    Everything!
    Who will you meet?
    Everybody!
    What will you smell
    from way down there?
    Lots!
    What will you find?
    Things that are:
    soft, wet, furr...

  • Baby Santa's Very Merry Christmas

    Julie Aigner-Clark

    Treasured Christmas poems and beautiful holiday photographs make the celebration of the holidays come alive for babies and young children in this beautiful board book. Baby Santa's Very Merry Christmas is certain to become a treasured holiday keepsak...

  • A Baby...Maybe?

    Bonnie Tucker

    Cara Romano doesn't want a husband -- despite her mother's pushing. In fact, her mother's been pushing so hard, Cara decides to escape. Several states and a time zone away, she figures out that even without the husband, she wants a baby. But just whe...

  • Bad Boys Online

    Erin McCarthy

    "Hard Drive" Mack Stone can't believe he's just walked in on the delicious Kindra Hill having an online affair in her office. Being discovered in flagrante computer delicto doesn't seem to bother Kindra. In fact, she claims to prefer the imperson...

  • 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....

  • 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....

  • Batman: The Copycat Crime

    Devin Grayson

    This early chapter book has forty-eight pages and full-color illustrations based on the original Batman art of the 1970's.

    This early chapter book will inspire kids to read while engaging their imaginations. The book will include intriguing st...

  • Battle at Zero Point

    Mack Maloney

    The year is 7202 A.D. Evolving from genetic manipulation and virtually immortal, the Specials wielded their repressive power over a far-flung umpire for nearly two thousand years. Until one man--a man of mystery, a gifted military strategist, a super...

  • Bear with Me

    Ann Rhiannan

  • Begin Again

    K.A. Applegate

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

    The end of the world has come and gone, leaving only ...

  • The Belly of the Bow

    K.J. Parker

    In one night of blood and betrayal, the famed Triple City of Perimadeia has fallen to the barbarian hordes. The man who led the defending forces, Bardas Loredan, has fled to the island of Scona. Here, eschewing the violence that has characterised his...

  • 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 ...

  • Best Class Picture Ever!

    Denis Roche

    Denis Roche makes her SP debut as both author and artist with her bright, funny story about a teacherless classroom of children who find themselves a wonderful and inventive new teacher.

    It's class picture day, and Class 202 is in an uproar. T...

  • Best in Show

    Laurien Berenson

    Murder's on the ticket when intrepid poodle breeder Melanie Travis travels to Maryland for a world-famous dog show where the competition isn't the only thing that's cutthroat... There are dog shows. And then there's The Poodle Club of America Nati...

  • Best of Barbie

    Golden Books

    Barbie is the best! This beautiful boxed set includes six of the most popular Barbie Little Golden Books ever. From the timeless classics -- Cinderella, Thumbelina, Rapunzel, and The Nutcracker -- to fun-filled favorites -- The Jewel Thief and The Sp...

  • Between Worlds

    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

    Breath of air, soul of fire, Grant this night my heart's desire. Womb of earth, tears of sea, Bring my lover back to me. The Halliwell sisters are no strangers to Halloween hijinks. But this year, the Wiccan celebration of Samhain is met with a rash...

  • The Bewitched Baron

    Lynn Collum
    in

    When Wyndom Long, Baron Newlyn, a noted botanist who pays little attention to the gaiety of the ton, engages Naomi Clayton as his shy sister's companion, he is startled by the girl he remembers as plain and reserved. Naomi is a sparkling presence in ...

  • The Bewitchment of Lord Dalford

    Debbie Raleigh
    in

    Annie Winsome may be a witch, but the mortal world has never lost its fascination for her--and a London Season is too tempting to resist. Believing an innocent potion will polish her bumbling friend Lord Dalford, she is stunned to find him transforme...

  • Bicycle Madness

    Jane Kurtz

    A compelling story about the importance of standing up for what is right

    "I was almost home when I saw our new next-door neighbor, Miss Frances Willard, standing in front of her house. Oddly enough, she was holding on to a safety-bicycle!"
    ...

  • The Big Halloween Scare

    Steven Banks

    It's Halloween, and SpongeBob SquarePants is determined to scare everyone this year. All he has to do is dress up like the Flying Dutchman. But SpongeBob doesn't realize just how scary he can look. Join the gang from Bikini Bottom in this Spo...

  • Big Red Reader

    Gail Herman

    This funny Halloween story about Clifford the Big Red Dog, based on an episode from the award-winning TV show, is just right for beginning readers.

    It's Halloween, and the whole town dresses up in funny or spooky costumes and gathers at the be...

  • Big Sky Baby

    Judy Duarte

    BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE...AND LOVE After five years, Jeff Forsythe was finally back in Rumor, Montana -- just when Jilly Davis needed him most. But she had no intention of clipping the wings of the footloose pilot just because she was having a baby....

  • Bill in a China Shop

    Katie McAllaster Weaver

    Bill the bull, who loves to collect china, finally finds a china shop without a "keep out" sign directed at himself. But he soon finds out that he is not quite as welcome as he had hoped, and in his worry, he breaks nearly everything in the store,...

  • Bite

    C.J. Tosh

    GO ON. DO IT. BITE OFF MORE THAN YOU CAN CHEW. It's Sam Leighton's job as a celebrity journalist to get the scoop on Hollywood's top celebs. But when rumors fly that she cozied up too close to an Oscar-winning Australian, she finds herself looking f...

  • Bitten

    Lynsay Sands
    in

    After brooding Keeran MacKay saves Emily Wentworth Collins from a storm-tossed ship, he offers her shelter in his secluded castle. But when a savage kiss reveals Keeran's true nature, Emily realizes that yielding to Keeran's untamed desire may change...

  • The Black Bouquet

    Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    He thought it was a game. He thought no one would get hurt. He thought he could trust a tanarukk bandit. He thought he was hired for his skill and cunning. He thought it was just another victim, just another mark. He thought he could d...

  • Black Sheep

    R.J. Kaiser

    Jonas Lamb is a lost sheep. He's always taken risks and played life's games by his own rules. Now, after a trail of broken marriages and an endless roller-coaster ride from fortune to bankruptcy and back again, Jonas has one last chance to turn his l...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • 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 Blade of Grass

    Lewis DeSoto

    Märit Laurens is a young woman of British descent who comes to live with her husband, Ben, on their newly purchased farm along the border of South Africa. Shortly after her arrival, violence strikes at the heart of Märit's world. Devastated and con...

  • 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...

  • Blood and Bitter Wind

    Earl Murray

    You Can Almost Taste the Old West!Renowned for his detailed research and compelling characters, Earl Murray is an esteemed name in the historical fiction of the American Frontier and he proves it again in his newest novel of Old California.Los Angele...

  • The Bluewater Affair

    Cindy Gerard

    Subject: Single, soon-to-be-mother Susannah Hobson Family History: Stepdaughter of Violet Vaughn, mother of the Extraordinary Five Darkest Secret: Hiding her knowledge of Code Proteus...and holding on to her heart Abandoned by the father of ...

  • Bone Dry

    Ben Rehder

    The opening of deer season always brings a Texas-sized wave of excitement to sleepy Blanco County, but this year, game warden John Marlin is finding mysteries as thick as ticks on a whitetail's rump. First, there are reports of a blonde bombshell who...

  • 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...

  • Border Wolves

    Walt Coburn

  • Born to Love You

    Francine Craft

    Detective Lieutenant Danielle Ritchey has been having dreams of a tall, handsome stranger who sweeps her off her feet. She is shocked when she meets noted gospel singer Whit Steele during a minor accident and discovers he is the man of her dreams. ...

  • Boy Meets Boy

    David Levithan

    This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance...

  • 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...

  • Brain Power

    Bobbi J.G. Weiss

    Since its debut in 1996, DEXTER'S LAB has been one of Cartoon Network's top-rated shows. Now Scholastic teams up with the boy genius and his pesky sister Dee Dee for original chapter and picture books

    Dexter's made the most amazing discovery k...

  • Breached

    Don Pendleton

    TACTICAL RETALIATION Barely surviving the opening salvo in a brutal new war to seize control of the drug supply through America's border pipeline, Mack Bolan resumes his offensive to neutralize the operations of a powerful Chinese Triad and a Mexi...

  • The Bridal Chronicles

    Lissa Manley

    HEIRESS IN DISGUISE! Socialite Anna Sinclair was a budding bridal dress designer, but her love life was a cocktail-party joke. Disguising herself, she went west and vowed to avoid romance! Then handsome businessman Ryan Cavanaugh appeared as her p...

  • The Bride Wore Blue Jeans

    Marie Ferrarella

    NO WAY IN HADES WOULD HE EVER MARRY... Between raising his three siblings and running a successful business, Kevin Quintano's hectic life left no room for love. But when his sister announced her upcoming wedding, Kevin headed to Hades, Alaska, to en...

  • Bright, Shiny Skylar

    Valerie Tripp

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Buffy, The Vampire Slayer: The Script Book, Season Three, Vol. 2

    Douglas Petrie

    If I'm not the Slayer, I mean...what do I have to offer?-- Buffy Summers, HelplessOnly in Sunnydale could a new watcher be a harbinger of badness, and only the Hellmouth could offer refuge for a lovelorn vampire. But as Cordelia Chase learns when she...

  • 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...

  • Burn

    Sean Doolittle

    FEEL THE BURN In California the hills are on fire. Not a good sign for Andrew Kindler, who just came from back east to get away from his past--as an arsonist. In fact, almost from the moment he sets foot in his cousin's Santa Monica beach house, t...

  • But Inside I'm Screaming

    Elizabeth Flock

    But Inside I'm Screaming is one woman's unforgettable story about what it is to lose control as the world watches, to figure out what went so very wrong and to accept an imperfect life in a world that demands perfection. While breaking the hottest...

  • 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 ...

  • 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...

  • By Design

    Angela Weaver

    Beautiful Lauren Hughes has worked hard to earn her reputation as the best in the renovation of New York's finest brownstones. Now, with her thirtieth birthday just around the corner, she has only six months to complete her quest to travel around th...

  • 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...

  • Can You See It?

    Wiley Blevins

  • Can't Buy Me Louie

    Colleen Collins

    Former bad guy Louie Ragazzi is dark, sexy and a little dangerous -- and Alicia Hansen is just a little in love. She's determined to help him get over his "I'm a one-man show" thing. Shouldn't take much because, well, look at her! She's got it all, i...

  • Canine Catastrophe!

    Terry Collins

    When Jimmy researches cats for his science report, he uses Goddard to download some feline facts from the Internet. Goddard downloads the information -- as well as a virus that makes him act like a cat! Can Jimmy figure out how to get his canine com...

  • Cannibal Lake

    Andy Gregg

  • Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Coven

    Peter David

  • Captain Underpants and the Big, Bad Battle of the Bionic Booger Boy: Part 1

    Dav Pilkey

    George and Harold are in a sticky situation. Their latest prank has snotty school brainiac Melvin Sneedly seeing red, and he can't wait to get them back. But when Melvin tries to transform himself into a bionic-powered superboy, things get a little g...

  • Carlucci

    Richard Paul Russo

    Collected together for the first time in one volume-this is Richard Paul Russo's critically-acclaimed science fiction trilogy featuring police Lt. Frank Carlucci investigating high-tech crime and corruption in a near-future San Francisco....

  • The Case of the Drooling Dinosaurs

    Bill Myers

    --Why have museum and toy dinosaurs come alive?! --Why are they slobbering all over the city? --Is this the work of Dr. Rebellion, the man who hates rules? Only Secret Agent Dingledorf and his trusty dog, Splat, can find the answer. Only they can s...

  • Caught by a Cowboy

    Peggy Moreland
    in

    "To the one I love..." The letter appeared mysteriously on the doorstep, and the Colman sisters' fantasies went straight to work. But what mystery man had sent it -- and to which sister? That Old Familiar Feeling by Emilie Richards Emilie Rich...

  • CDC?

    William Steig

    To figure out William Steig's word puzzles you need merely read the letters, numbers, and symbols aloud. If at first the messages aren't clear, there are clever pictures accompanying each one to give you hints. Some are easy, some are hard, but all a...

  • Celebrations

    Jeri S. Cipriano

  • The Cemetery Yew

    Cynthia Riggs

    West Tisbury's police chief knew what she was doing when she officially made ninety-two-year-old Martha's Vineyard native Victoria Trumbull her deputy. Though a little slow on her feet, Victoria eyes--and mind--are still sharp, which is why she is th...

  • Chaos and Amber

    John Gregory Betancourt

    In Roger Zelazny's "Amber" universe, there is only one true world, of which all others are but Shadows. In the ten-book saga that he created, it is learned that "Amber" was not the first true world; rather, it was "The Courts of Chaos." The saga c...

  • Charlie Bone and the Time Twister

    Jenny Nimmo

    Time Is Running Out For Charlie Bone! Charlie hopes that the new term at Bloor's Academy will hold no nasty surprises. But then HenryYewbeam appears, twisted through time from the icy winter of 1916. With the scheming Yewbeam aunts on the prowl, an...

  • Chat Room

    Linda Hall

    When Glynis Piggot's only friend, Kim, disappears after meeting a Christian man on the Internet, Glynis withdraws from life and from her church, seeking companionship online. Private investigator Teri Blake-Addison, hired to find Kim by the grieving ...

  • Christmas

    Brenda Haugen

  • Christmas Carol Mad Libs

    Leonard Stern

  • 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...

  • Christmas Stocking Story

    Hilary Knight

  • 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...

  • Christopher Columbus

    Mary Dodson Wade

    K-Gr 2-A small-format biography that's suitable for beginning readers with little or no background knowledge. Wade provides a basic outline of who Columbus was, what inspired him to explore, and why. The contributions of King Ferdinand and Queen I...

  • 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...

  • Cirque Du Soleil: A Parade of Colors

    Patrisha Robertson

  • City of Dreams

    Stephen R. Lawhead

    On this undercover assignment, Special Agent Alex Hunter is getting way more than he ever bargained for. Charged by ICON--the International Coalition of Nations--to penetrate a secret terrorist cell headed by a man called The Prophet, he swiftly find...

  • 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...

  • Close Quarters

    Emma Harrison

    Keeping tabs on Marianna, the daughter of Italy’s president, isn’t the type of assignment Michael Vaughn was expecting. He’s a newly minted CIA officer -- not a babysitter.Never mind that there’s a plot to assassinate Marianna’s father. Or ...

  • Cold Hard Cash

    H. Kowitt

    This exciting junior chapterbook follows the struggle of the G.I. JOE team to stop evil Destro from printing billions in $100 bills with the new engraver's plate COBRA stole!

    Destro, one of the COBRA creeps' leaders, has always been entirely m...

  • Colours in the Steel

    K.J. Parker

    Perimadeia: the famed Triple City and the mercantile capital of the known world. Behind its allegedly impregnable walls, everything is available. Including information which will allow its enemies to plan one of the most remarkable sieges of all time...

  • Coming Home

    Shirlee Busbee

    A world-famous model, Roxanne Ballinger has traded big money and neon-filled nights for the rolling hills and friendly faces of her hometown, Oak Valley. Now that the bitter feud between her family and another has faded, the peace she longs for seems...

  • The Companions

    Sheri S. Tepper

    Three planets in deep space were named by their human discoverers to reflect their environments: lush and foreboding Jungle, which swallowed up an exploratory team; Stone, phenomenally rich in rare ore; and Moss, the most enigmatic -- and dangerous -...

  • Complete Abandon

    Cheryl Holt

    NO BARGAIN IS AS ENTICING AS... When Emma Fitzgerald storms the manor home of the new Viscount Wakefield, she feels more than justified fury. Having just inadvertently witnessed His Lordship in scandalous dishabille with his London mistress, her blo...

  • Comrades in Arms

    Lindsay McKenna
    in

    Captain Tara McCain was the kind of woman who never took no for an answer. Not even from sexy captain Dave Johnson, who believed a combat-shy woman was a detriment to his team. But calm, capable Tara was ready to face the heat of war...and passion....

  • 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 ...

  • Confiscated Conception

    Delores Fossen

    SURROGATE BABY KIDNAPPED! Shock didn't describe Rachel Dillard's feelings when her estranged husband told her the news: her precious embryo had been stolen! A child -- their child -- had been born and had become a pawn in a killer's deadly game. F...

  • 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....

  • Cowboy Lessons

    Pamela Britton

    Love on the Lazy Y? She'd sooner sleep with a snake! Yet Amanda Johnson had no choice but to do business with barracuda Scott Beringer. This millionaire wanted to go from computer wizard to prime cowboy material, and he had Amanda hanging by the a...

  • Cowboy PI

    Jean Barrett

    COWBOY UNDER HER COVERS? Driving cattle across mountainous Colorado terrain to gain an inheritance she didn't even want was not Samantha Howard's idea of a good time. Especially since someone was dead set against her inheriting her grandfather's r...

  • Crazy As Chocolate

    Elizabeth Hyde

    Izzy confronts her forty-first birthday by remembering her mother's suicide at that age as she braces for a visit from her father, unstable sister, and her niece, who are flying in to Colorado to help her get through the day--even though she never as...

  • The Cricket Who Came to Dinner

    Else Holmelund Minarik

    When a grasshopper makes a surprising appearance at the dinner table while the family is eating, Little Bear thinks it's only right to extend an invitation, in an easy reader tale with full-color illustrations. Original....

  • 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...

  • Crown of Slaves

    David Weber; Eric Flint

    BEGINNING A NEW SERIES SET IN DAVID WEBER'S HOIVORVERSE! The Star Kingdom's ally Erewhon is growing increasingly restive in I the alliance because the new High Ridge regime ignores its needs. I Added to the longstanding problem of a slave labor pl...

  • Cupid's Dart

    Maggie MacKeever

    Is it a chance encounter...or a fated love? AN IMPROPER BEGINNING... Miss Georgiana Halliday never expected that an accidental meeting with her old acquaintance, the notorious Lord Warwick, would end in a passionate kiss. Common sense decrees tha...

  • Cycling

    Greg Garrett

    Brad Cannon is charming. And that's the problem. At the tender age of thirty, Brad is on the road to becoming a footnote in his own life. His professors and publishers alike have been salivating for the indifferent wunderkind's next big book, thanks ...

  • Dancer's Trail

    Jake Logan

    One double-crossing gang wants to make Slocum dance…Slocum’s high-tailing it alone to Texas -- in hopes that he’ll cross paths with the Double Crosser gang. But on a pit stop, the gunslinger sees a lynch mob chasing down some poor soul -- and r...

  • Dancing Granny

    Elizabeth Winthrop; Maurice Burton

  • Dancing the Ring Shout!

    Kim L. Siegelson

    It is the last day of the harvest, and everyone at Appling Farm is preparing for the ring shout-a celebration filled with dance, song, and praise shouted out to God for the year's blessings. Everyone in Toby's family will play an instrument that spea...

  • Dangerous Ride Across Humboldt Flats

    Stephen A. Bly

    Gabe Young is an orphan. He barely survives in the unforgiving West by working for meals at mining camps and frontier towns. Then in 1860 he gets lost along the Humboldt River in northern Nevada Territory. He meets a girl, who takes him to her par...

  • Dangling

    Lillian Eige

    While sitting on the side of the river with his friend's parents and grandmother, Ben watches Ring go into the water, but when he doesn't emerge and days pass with no discovery, Ben wonders if his friend truly did drown or if Ring had other plans in ...

  • Daring Rescue at Sonora Pass

    Stephen A. Bly

    The Joyton family runs a station for the famed Butterfield Stage Line on a mountain pass in southern Arizona. It is a pleasant, solitary life until a stagecoach arrives with a dead man inside. They are told that the mysterious man accidentally sho...

  • Dark Matters

    Stan Timmons

    When his ship is hurtled out of hyperspace by a chunk of mysterious dark matter, pilot Paul Stein is confronted with the difficult task of saving his transport vessel from a crew of dangerous misfits with a deadly scheme to not only destroy his trans...

  • Dark of the Moon

    Evelyn Rogers

    Matt acknowledges a reality lovely widow Juliana Rains refuses to admit: Some drives are too fierce, too powerful, to deny. Like Matt's need to prove himself to his father and brothers. Like his burning desire for revenge against the low-down sna...

  • Dark Thane

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

    The latest title in a series based on characters from the best-selling War of Souls trilogy.

    This title is the next in the series that explores the lives of key characters from Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's current Dragonlance trilogy. Dark ...

  • Darkest Hour

    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. An ...

  • Darknesses

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    A thousand years after a magical disaster ended the unified rule of the Duarchy, Corus is a world of contending nations, struggling humans, strange animals, and elusive supernatural creatures. Much has been lost, but Corus is still a land of magical ...

  • Dating Games

    R.M. Johnson

    At age thirty-three, Livvy Rodgers is fed up with relying on men and working her dead-end job, so she decides to apply for a scholarship to become a registered nurse. In order to afford school, she needs to move to a smaller apartment -- leaving no ...

  • 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...

  • 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? ...

  • Dead Calm

    Lindsay Longford

    WOUNDED HEARTS Detective Judah Finnegan didn't believe in happy endings -- too many years fighting crime had left him cynical. But when the discovery of an abandoned baby brought him back into the arms of his lost love, he realized he would have t...

  • 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....

  • Dead Soul

    James D. Doss

    Where Colorado's border pushes against New Mexico, autumn is short. Rancher and tribal investigator Charlie Moon has fat cattle and a prowling cougar that demand his attention. He doesn't have the time to investigate the assault that killed hard-drin...

  • Death at the Door

    K.C. Greenlief

    On a cold, snowy November day in Big Oak, Wisconsin, Ann Ranson's dogs drag home something bloody. In the height of hunting season, Ann assumes it's a deer part and goes out to get rid of it. Instead, she is shocked to discover it's the remains of a ...

  • 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...

  • Death for Dessert

    T. Dawn Richard

    JUST DESSERTS The dark stain on the dead woman was chocolate, but it may as well have been blood. Mrs. Berkowitz had gone to her death savoring poisoned brownies. New to the Active Senior Living complex, May List finds the body, but has her own reas...

  • The Deceivers

    Josh McDowell; Bob Hostetler

    Josh McDowell's Beyond Belief message is the foundation to launch a spiritual revolution among youth. This is a revolution to equip churches and families to raise up a generation of the cross--young people who have been transformed by Christ and the ...

  • 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...

  • 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 ...

  • Desert Heat

    Janice Sims

    Dr. Katharine Matthews' first meeting with Rafael Grant is memorable, to say the least-she mistakes him for a terrorist and attacks him in an airport terminal in Tucson, Arizona. Despite their rocky beginning, Rafe, newly assigned to Tucson as a U.S...

  • Desert Places

    Blake Crouch

    Greetings. There is a body buried on your property, covered in your blood. The unfortunate young lady's name is Rita Jones. In her jeans pocket you'll find a slip of paper with a phone number on it. Call that number. If I have not heard from you by 8...

  • Devil Riders

    James Axler

    Judgment day has come and gone. Now only the strongest survive. Law of the Lawless A century after the nuclear conflagrating almost destroyed the world, humanity endures in a lawless land. Those who inhabit Deathlands are either killers or those ...

  • The Dewey Decimal System of Love

    Josephine Carr

    For questions about the science of the heart and how it beats, go to the 616.12's and for questions about the philosophy of the heart, go to the 700.4's [ms. pg 223] Ally Skinner doesn't fall into any category... Forget those stereotypes about ...

  • Diana

    Adele Richardson

  • 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. ...

  • Dislocation

    Caroline Walsh

    Over the last decade, Ireland has undergone massive change. Traditional values have been uprooted; established notions of Irishness overturned; rural and urban landscapes altered forever. Dislocation is a collection of eleven stories by writers who h...

  • The Distance from Normandy

    Jonathan Hull

  • Distant Echoes

    Judie Aitken

    Jesse Spotted Horse had every good reason to shoot a documentary on the history of Native American boarding schools -- he promised his Lakota grandmother he would reveal the true story. Kathleen Prescott had every good reason to stop the film f...

  • A Distant Love

    Janelle Burnham Schneider
    in

    Christmas - Military Style Life... i is never still in the military. Even Christmas is a season of challenge. . .a season of change. This year, several servicemen and women will face a range of life-altering experiences. Captain Tim Falkirk, a ...

  • Disturbance

    Jamie O'Neill

    Nilus Moore, a young Irish boy, lives with his father in their decaying, shambolic house. Haunted by the death of his mother, he escapes the chaos outside in the refuge of his room where he plays obsessively with an enormous matt-black jigsaw, its or...

  • 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...

  • Don't Even Go There!

    Disney Book Group

  • Don't Look Now

    Linda Lael Miller

    A DEADLY CRIME. A DANGEROUS PASSION. Defense attorney Clare Westbrook functions very well in crisis mode -- whether taking the media rap for an explosive case or bargaining with her teenaged niece, whom Clare is raising. But a shocking crime -- th...

  • Dr. Seuss

    Dana Meachen Rau

  • Dragonfly Bones

    David Cole

    All the pretty little bones... Cloaked in the web's anonymity, part-Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow is hiding from her past -- but it has found her in the Arizona desert. The daughter she lost years ago is now an angry young woman serving priso...

  • Dragonlance - The War of Souls Trilogy Gift Set: Dragons of a Fallen Sun/Dragons of a Lost Star/Dragons of a Vanished Moon

    Margaret Weis

    This slip-covered gift set contains the three New York Times best-selling titles that make up the epic War of Souls trilogy: Dragons of a Fallen Sun, Dragons of a Lost Star, and Dragons of a Vanished Moon. Authored by Dragonlance saga co-creators Mar...

  • 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...

  • Dream House

    Rochelle Majer Krich

    While developing a story about vandalized homes in one of L.A.'s ritziest enclaves, Crime Sheet columnist Molly Blume discovers a seething conflict brewing between residents who want to remodel their houses and those who wish to restore the integrity...

  • Dream Lover

    Ruth Ryan Langan
    in

    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......

  • Drifting

    Stephanie Gertler

    Readers and critics alike fell in love with Stephanie Gertler's Jimmy's Girl and The Puzzle Bark Tree. Now, fearlessly delving into the hidden depths of the heart, she has crafted a wise and moving novel about the bonds of mothers and daughters and t...

  • Dumpy and the Firefighters

    Julie Andrews Edwards

    It's New Year's Day in Apple Harbor, and all the villagers are celebrating at Farmer Barnes' annual Open House, including Charlie, Pop-Up, and Dumpy the Dump Truck. But when the fire bell sounds, everyone's help is suddenly needed in town. Discov...

  • Earaches

    Sharon Gordon

  • East

    Edith Pattou

    A beautiful, new edition of the beloved fantasy hailed as “the stuff of epic tale telling” (Booklist), perfect for fans of Beauty and the Beast from New York Times best-selling author Edith Pattou. Rose has always longed for adventure, so when an...

  • Easter

    Brenda Haugen

  • Echoes of Silence

    Marjorie Eccles

    Moving back to Yorkshire was the last thing DI Tom Richmonds thought he would do. His superiors are also perturbed by his decision to transfer. Surely after the murder of the young girl, Yorkshire is the last place he should want to be? Is this Richm...

  • The Elephant's Pillow

    Diana Reynolds Roome

    A story about bedtime rituals

    The imperial elephant, known far and wide as one of the grandest sights in the kingdom, hasn’t been the same since the old Emperor died. One day a rich merchant’s son decides he wishes to see the magnificent a...

  • Eliot's Banana

    Heather Swain

    Things should be peachy. Junie isn't entirely sure what her problem is. She's just moved into a Brooklyn apartment with her cool longtime boyfriend Leon, a drummer who adores her. She flits through a string of temp jobs in funky thrift store clothes...

  • Emma Brown

    Clare Boylan

    When Charlotte Bront died in 1855, she left behind twenty pages of a novel that signaled her most compelling work since Jane Eyre. One hundred fifty years later, Clare Boylan has finished Bront's novel, sparking a sensational literary event. With p...

  • Empire of Light

    David Czuchlewski

    Researching a powerful religious cult into which his ex-girlfriend Anna has disappeared, Matt Kelly pretends to join in order to rescue Anna, an endeavor that is complicated by his own vulnerability to the cult's seductive ways. Reprint....

  • The Empress of Mars

    Kage Baker

    When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet--only to be abandoned when the BAC...

  • Enchanting Baby

    Darlene Graham

    She'd do anything to protect this baby When TV personality Ashleigh Logan became pregnant by artificial insemination of her deceased husband's sperm, she ignited a media frenzy and attracted a stalker. So she's sequestered herself in the mountains o...

  • Englishman at Dingo Creek

    Lucy Clark

    Dr. Dannyella Thompson certainly needed help with her Outback practice, but an English doctor at Dingo Creek? She was expecting more amusement than assistance! Dr. Sebastian MacKenzie proved Dannyella wrong at every turn. By the time his two-week ...

  • Escape from Memory

    Margaret Peterson Haddix

    While playing around with hypnotism at a party, Kira remembers fleeing a war-torn country with her mother, speaking a language she can't identify. A few days later her mother disappears, and a woman who calls herself Kira's aunt Memory takes Kira to ...