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  • Babylon Babies

    Maurice G. Dantec

    “What makes the novel so haunting is its vision of a near future in which society has fractured along every possible national, tribal and sectarian fault line.” -- The New York Times Book Review

    In the hidden “flesh and chip” breedin...

  • Devil's Creede

    James David Buchanan

    Creede, Colorado, is described as the cleft in the devil's chin. It's a hotspot for mayhem and violence, and exactly the kind of place that appeals to Bob Ford. Known as the man who shot Jesse James, Ford has a hammerlock on Creede that no law enforc...

  • Savage Vision

    Cassie Edwards

    VISION OF LOVELINESS: She was as elusive as the legendary deer he was hunting--a creature of mist and shadow, there one moment and gone the next. Like his quarry, her skin glowed white as moonlight, but her hair was scarlet and she showed no fear at...

  • A Dixie Christmas: Holiday Stories from the South's Best Writers

    Charlene R. McCord

    An Algonquin tradition continues with this third stellar collection of holiday stories by some of the South's most distinguished writers. This year's volume, with a preface by the acclaimed Fred Chappell, includes stories of families, couples, child...

  • An Angel Came to Nazareth

    Maggie Kneen

    As the first Christmas draws near, four travelers must make their way from Nazareth to Bethlehem. An angel asks four animals to choose which traveler they would like to carry. The horse chooses the brave soldier; the camel, the wise king; the ox, the...

  • Penguin Dreams

    Vivian Walsh

  • Star Trek Comic Classics: To Boldly Go

    Mike W. Barr

    These are the classic comics adventures of Kirk, Spock and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, now collected in graphic novel format with exclusive new background material!

    In the aftermath of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, when the Klingons ...

  • Gambit: Hath No Fury

    Marvel Book Group

  • Yellow Ribbon

    Sharon Sala
    in

    Every day, women across North America reach out and change lives in their communities. Five have been selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award -- and five New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors have generously...

  • The Way Home

    Jasmine Cresswell
    in

    Every day, women across North America reach out and change lives in their communities. Five have been selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award -- and five New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors have generously...

  • Shelter from the Storm

    Beverly Barton
    in

    Every day, women across North America reach out and change lives in their communities. Five have been selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award -- and five New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors have generously...

  • Into the Groove

    Julie Elizabeth Leto / Julie Leto
    in

    Every day, women across North America reach out and change lives in their communities. Five have been selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award -- and five New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors have generously...

  • What Amanda Wants

    Debbie Macomber
    in

    Every day, women across North America reach out and change lives in their communities. Five have been selected as this year's recipients of Harlequin's More Than Words award -- and five New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling authors have generously...

  • Veniss Underground

    Jeff VanderMeer

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel, Veniss Underground, takes readers on a journey to a labyrinthine city of tunnels, and the dangers lurking behind each turn. This paperback edition features ...

  • The Wedding Day

    Catherine Alliott

    Annie O'Harran is the wrong side of thirty. A harassed single mother (of almost teen-aged Flora), she's escaped her faithless first husband, and against all expectations met her hero. She has a blissful summer ahead to plan her wedding. But first ...

  • When Secrets Die

    Lynn S. Hightower

    They have kept the heart of her child... They have accused her of murder... Angels of mercy...or the devil in disguise? Who owns your body, anyway? Lynn Hightower's novels have tackled such diverse subjects as female serial killers and lethal debt c...

  • The Narrows

    Alexander C. Irvine

    From award-winning author Alexander C. Irvine comes a compelling, fantastical riff on history and World War II. The Narrows takes place in Detroit, where Henry Ford's factories have been retooled for America's grand war effort. But there are also mor...

  • She, Myself & I

    Whitney Gaskell

    The Cassel sisters have little in common besides a pair of wacky parents and a maddening knack for eluding happily-ever-after endings. But when their lives require damage control, only a dose of sisterhood will do. Paige, the oldest, is a go-gette...

  • The Hot Flash Club Strikes Again

    Nancy Thayer

    When Polly, Beth, Carolyn, and Julia meet in a hot tub at the spa, the find a common thread of experience: toxic relatives. What's there to be done about undermining, meddling, scheming in-laws? These amazing women decide to fight fire with fire, and...

  • A Season of the Heart: The Christmas Gifts

    Kate Bridges
    in

    When Sergeant James Fielder arrives with a baby on his sled, he turns to Maggie Greerson for help. This special interlude allows Maggie to fulfill her secret dream of having a child -- and explore the attraction that has always drawn her to James.......

  • A Season of the Heart: The Christmas Charm

    Mary Burton
    in

    Determined to prevent her younger sister from marrying the wrong man, widow Colleen Garland enlists the help of her onetime love, Keith Garrett. Will their rescue mission finally lead them on the road to true love?...

  • Christmas in the Air: A Season of Hope

    Dana Corbit
    in

    Once again attorney David Wright found himself playing Joseph for the church's live nativity. And when his very pregnant friend, Allison Hensley-Chandler, had to bow out as Mary, David was paired with Allison's cousin, all-business Sondra Stevens. Bu...

  • A Season of the Heart: Rocky Mountain Christmas

    Jillian Hart
    in

    Summoned on a dangerously snowy night to deal with two stowaways, Sheriff Mac McKaslin discovers they are none other than a homeless young widow -- Carrie Montgomery -- and her baby. But will the sheriff send them out into the cold...or find a warm p...

  • Daughters of the Sea

    Ellyn Bache

    The moon filled the dusky sky. The darkness came slowly. Veronica was still doing eighty. They crossed another mountain, descended toward a sprinkling of lights in the valley below. More mountains rose in the distance. Veronica tapped her fingers on ...

  • Come October

    Patricia Kay

    THEY SAY YOUR LIFE CAN CHANGE IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE... And the woman who used to be known as Claire Sherman had to agree. Because that second, that minute, that day exactly six years ago was the one in which everything had simply ceased to be. ...

  • Conventions of War

    Walter Jon Williams

    The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- at the mercy of the merciless insectoid Naxid, who now hunger for domination. But the far-flung human descendants of Terra have finally tasted li...

  • One Little Sin

    Liz Carlyle

    He was a scoundrel, a scamp, and a hopeless skirt-chaser. So it shouldn't have been so surprising when Sir Alasdair awoke after a night of debauchery to see a young lass on his doorstep...with a baby in her arms. She was beautiful, brazen, and ut...

  • The Unexpected Gift

    Irene Hannon

    A YULETIDE LEGACY When city girl Morgan Williams arrived in Seaside, Maine, on Christmas Eve, to claim the cottage she'd inherited, she came face-to-face with the handsomest man she'd ever seen. But looks weren't the only thing that Grant Kinca...

  • A Matter of Temptation

    Lorraine Heath

    For years, Robert Hawthorne, the Duke of Killingsworth, was kept a prisoner by his scheming twin brother. A daring escape turns the tables and restores his birthright to him, without anyone the wiser. He can finally enjoy everything that was stolen f...

  • Crazy Hot

    Tara Janzen

    LOVE HAS NEVER BEEN THIS WILD. THIS DANGEROUS. THIS HOT. Only the most dire emergency could send paleontologist Regan McKinney racing across the West in search of a man. But her grander has vanished, and Quinn Younger could be the missing link. Wh...

  • Rules of Passion

    Sara Bennett

    The boldest, most unconventional of the three Greentree sisters, Marietta believes her best course would be to emulate her natural mother, the notorious courtesan Madame Aphrodite. Being woefully unschooled in the ways of passion, however, Marietta, ...

  • Scandalous

    Jenna Petersen

    Katherine Fleming has lived her life without even a hint of indiscretion. So she is devastated to discover the nobleman she's engaged to has a secret he's kept from her: a wife! Suddenly Katherine's enmeshed in a scandal that has the ton buzzing -- a...

  • One Dead Under the Cuckoo's Nest

    Lori Avocato

    BETTER INSANE THAN SLAIN... Former nurse-turned-insurance fraud p.i. Pauline Sokol's current undercover investigation into a sleazy psychiatric scam has hit a small snag: she's been forcibly committed to a mental institution! Pauline's certainly s...

  • The Unseen Queen

    Troy Denning

    The epic Star Wars odyssey enters a new frontier as the heroes of the New Jedi Order confront a monstrous evil -- insidious, unseen, and insatiable. . . . Despite being given new worlds to populate, the insectoid Killiks have not found peace. An u...

  • Slocum and the Sulfur Valley Widows

    Jake Logan

    ETERNAL GRATITUDE When renegade Apaches abduct Albert Grant's daughter, the Texan cattle baron wants Slocum to rescue her. Slocum agrees on one condition -- that Grant stops harassing the Mormon "widows" who lost their husbands when anti-polygamy la...

  • Slocum and the Larcenous Lady

    Jake Logan

    Slocum gets mixed up with a real man-eater!Half the town of Poleaxe has gone crazy for the seductive voice and voluptuous charms of Tiger Lil Kirkland -- and the other half is waiting up for them at home with a rolling pin.  John Slocum oughta k...

  • It Happened One Autumn

    Lisa Kleypas

    Four young ladies enter London society with one necessary goal: they must use their feminine wit and wiles to find a husband. So they band together, and a daring husband-hunting scheme is born. It Happened at the Ball... Where beautiful but b...

  • In Shadows

    Chandler McGrew

    In a small Maine valley, thirteen-year-old Pierce Morin, born blind and deaf, possesses a terrifying gift: he can hear evil whispering -- and knows an elusive, deadly force is stalking the people he loves.... Detective Jake Crowley has run far awa...

  • Hard Truth

    Mariah Stewart

    TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL Two children who mysteriously disappeared twenty-one years ago are the last thing on Lorna Temple's mind when she returns to her Pennsylvania hometown to sell the old family property in the wake of her parents' p...

  • The Ranger and the Redhead

    Lynna Banning

    Kidnapped by Indians, Charlotte Greenfield thinks her life is over. Yet when a Texas Ranger comes to her rescue, she soon discovers it has only just begun! Rugged Will Bondurant sees her not as a buttoned-down schoolmarm, but as a vibrant woman with ...

  • Betrayal Of Trust

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    It was a hotly contested senatorial race, and Matthew Strong's unexplained decision to withdraw piqued Raven Mahoney's interest. This could be just the story to guarantee her success as a TV journalist, particularly since their past relationship incr...

  • Christmas in the Air: Snowbound Holiday

    Irene Brand
    in

    Missing Christmas with her family bothered Livia Kessler, but not as much as being stranded with strangers...and her teenage crush, Quinn Damrow. He'd broken her heart when he'd told her she was too young for him. Yet perhaps their snowbound holiday ...

  • Rider On Fire

    Sharon Sala

    COME AND GET ME... Like a bat out of hell, undercover DEA agent Sonora Jordan jumped on her motorcycle and blasted off to parts unknown, foiling the deadly drug dealers who had put a price on her head. Sonora felt compelled by a mystical force beyon...

  • The Ice Harvest

    Scott Phillips

    “BITTERLY FUNNY . . . [A] SLEEK FIRST NOVEL . . . NOIR CRIME . . . HAS FOUND A STERLING NEW CHAMPION IN PHILLIPS.”"The New York Times Book Review“A FUTURE HARD-BOILED CLASSIC"TIGHT, COLD, AND CACKLING WITH IRONY. On Christmas Eve [in Wichit...

  • The Me I Used To Be

    Jennifer Archer

    That Was Then Me, Allyson Cole. Age sixteen. Living in the world of endless summers, of going wherever you wanted. And yes, my parents may have worried that I was riding into trouble -- but I was young and in love, and growing up was something I...

  • School Days

    Robert B. Parker

    When a Massachusetts boy is accused of mass murder, his socially prominent grandmother, who hires Spenser to investigate, is convinced of his innocence. But Spenser isn't convinced of anything--except that there's trouble ahead......

  • Son of a Witch

    Gregory Maguire

    Ten years after the publication of Wicked, beloved novelist Gregory Maguire returns at last to the land of Oz. There he introduces us to Liir, an adolescent boy last seen hiding in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Bruised, co...

  • The Smoke Thief

    Shana Abe

    In this bewitching novel, Shana Abe transports us to an exhilarating world of romance, adventure, and magic. Here, among northern England's misted hills, live a race of extraordinarily beautiful and sensual beings with the ability to shape-shift from...

  • Children of the Serpent Gate

    Sarah Ash

    In this third novel in her acclaimed Tears of Artamon saga, Sarah Ash once again transports readers to a realm where sorcery collides with political intrigue--and one man haunted by a dark legacy struggles between the forces of good and evil battling...

  • Lord of the Silver Bow

    David Gemmell

    He is a man of many names. Some call him the Golden One; others, the Lord of the Silver Bow. To the Dardanians, he is Prince Aeneas. But to his friends, he is Helikaon. Strong, fast, quick of mind, he is a bold warrior, hated by his enemies, feared e...

  • A Breath of Snow and Ashes

    Diana Gabaldon

    It is 1772, the eve of the American Revolution, and the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Governor Josiah Martin calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But there is one problem: Jamie ...

  • Colony

    Melinda Metz; Laura J. Burns

    YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE Welcome to Sunnydale High, where midterms and peer pressure are the least of your worries. The Stake Your Destiny series returns Buffy Summers and the Scoobies to the glory days of high school. But this time you control the ac...

  • Live Bait

    Francine Pascal

    The greatest weapon against a serial killer? A girl with no fear. There's been a murder. And it isn't part of some FBI training exercise. Late one night, in the middle of a rainstorm, Gaia and her roommate stumbled upon an actual killing. Sinc...

  • Lust

    Robin Wasserman

    Alpha girl Harper is used to getting what she wants, and that means Adam, Beth's all-American boytoy. Blond, boring Beth, who Kane, the charming playah, secretly wants too. Miranda thinks Kane is out of her league, but she wants him all the sam...

  • The Apple Bandit

    Carolyn Keene

    VANISHING FRUIT? NO WAY! Nancy and her friends are off on an apple-picking adventure! They are headed to the Kids Apple Festival, where they will pick apples, go on a hayride, and work their way through a cornstalk maze. Bess is excited about the ap...

  • Sign of the Raven

    Julie Hearn

    Mind the gap.

    Something odd is going on in the basement of an old house in London. An inexplicable gap has formed, a gap in time that links the present to the past. And twelve-year-old Tom, who discovers the gap while on a ...

  • Diary of a Married Call Girl

    Tracy Quan

    In this irreverent take on infidelity and modern marriage, newlywed topflight prostitute Nancy Chan finds herself struggling to adjust to the realities of domestic bliss. She’s honing her respectable image as the wife of investment banker Matt, coo...

  • A Dictionary of Maqiao

    Han Shaogong

    From the daring imagination of one of China s greatest living novelists comes a work of startling power and originality the story of a young man displaced to a small village in rural China during the 1960s. Told in the format of a dictionary, with a ...

  • Operation Hell Gate

    Marc Cerasini

    THE COUNTDOWN IS ON...! Within twenty-four hours a nightmare will be unleashed that could cause the death of untold millions and devastate a great nation. It's a plot being carried out by the unlikeliest of allies. A powerful mole within the deepe...

  • Pilgrims

    Mary Pope Osborne

    Learn the true story of Thanksgiving with the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time, Magic Tree House! Track the facts with Jack and Annie in this nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #27: Thanksgiving on Thursday! When Jack and An...

  • Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells (P.S. So Does May)

    Barbara Park

    Ho, ho . . . uh-oh! It's holiday time, and Room One is doing lots of happy things to celebrate. Like wearing elf costumes! And singing joyful songs! Only how can Junie B. enjoy the festivities when Tattletale May keeps ruining her holiday glee? An...

  • Vox

    Paul Stewart; Chris Riddell

    When young librarian knight Rook Barkwater is taken captive and forced to work for Vox Verlix " nominally the Most High Academe, but no more than a prisoner in reality " he stumbles across a terrible truth. Vox is brewing a plot to destroy the go...

  • The Big Book of Rules

    Stephanie Spadaccini

    An indispensable rule book for over 300 games we play For any game player who has ever wondered how to signal a cartoon in charades, whether a flush in spades beats an equivalent flush in diamonds, or what happens when an opposing player catches the ...

  • Shrinky Pinky!

    Jim Jinkins

    Pinky’s having trouble with a class bully named Lane Puppytray. But with a little help from Mr. Guinea Pig and a lot of help from her imagination, Pinky learns the best way to beat a bully is to be herself....

  • Peanuts Holiday Treasury

    Charles M. Schulz

    Provides readers of all ages with a collection of five illustrated holiday favorites featuring Charlie Brown and all his friends, including "A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving," "A Charlie Brown Christmas," and more....

  • Kate, the Cat and the Moon

    David Almond

    Kate has just drifted off to sleep when a mysterious white cat appears at her window and beckons her out into the night. As Kate follows, she feels herself changing"her ears growing and peaking, her teeth growing tiny and sharp, her tongue rougheni...

  • The Peterkins' Thanksgiving

    Elizabeth Spurr

  • Witch's Dog And The Box

    Frank Rodgers

    Wilf the Witch's dog is having a difficult day. It's Weenie's birthday and everything is going wrong. A box of tricks has gone missing at Weenie's school concert and it looks like Sly Cat and Tricky Toad have been up to some nasty tricks of their o...

  • Pirate School Bun Gun

    Jeremy Strong

    A very funny story about the children at Pirate School. Fourth in the series within Colour Young Puffins. The children are planning to raid Patagonia Clatterbottom's food store - but grown-up pirates, the Woppagobs, are trying to steal the goodies as...

  • Sugar Sugar Rune 1

    Moyoco Anno

    QUEEN OF HEARTS

    Little witch-girls Chocolat and Vanilla are best friends, but only one of them can be Queen of the Magic World. To determine who deserves the title, they must go to the Human World and enter a strange competition. Whoever attra...

  • Dumpy's Happy Holiday

    Julie Andrews Edwards

  • Winter Lights

    Anna Grossnickle Hines

    Sixteen poems about the allure of light during the dark, winter months are illuminated with fifteen original quilt creations made by the author and representing various forms of light--the northern lights, a Christmas tree, a lighted Menorah, moonlig...

  • Driftwood

    Cathy Cassidy

    'I feel like I'm losing my best mate . . .' Hannah and Joey have been best friends forever - just the two of them. But when Joey's new foster brother, Paul, turns up, everything changes. Hannah's world is turning upside down. Can you rescue a friends...

  • In the Snow

    Sharon Phillips Denslow

    In the snowis a big pile ofdelicious seed.Look!Who is coming to eat it?Can you spot them all?

    When the pile of seedgets smaller and smallerand day turns to duskand it getscolder and colder,who will bring new seed for the hungry animals?Look ...

  • Gary Benchley, Rock Star

    Paul Ford

    Fleeing his dead-end life in Albany to seek fame and fortune in Brooklyn, recent college graduate and aspiring rock star Gary Benchley chronicles his adventures and misadventures in the big city, including his efforts to find a roommate, a girlfriend...

  • Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

    Lou Harry

    Everybody loves Santa Claus ... even the Martians! Displeased that their children have become obsessed with Earthly television shows extolling the virtues of Santa Claus, the residents of Mars devise a plot to bring...

  • Super Slam Turtles!

    Jim Thomas

    Casey Jones and the Turtles are watching a Super Slam hockey match when a group of parahawks suddenly fly into the arena -- and take off with the Golden Puck, the game's ultimate trophy! Outraged by the theft, Casey vows to retrieve the trophy. He an...

  • The Wallflower, Volume 5: Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge

    Tomoko Hayakawa

    MEET THE PARENTS

    Sunako Nakahara and her four handsome housemates are enjoying their glamorous lifestyle at her aunt’s mansion"until Sunako’s father makes a surprise appearance. After learning that Sunako is going out with Kyohei, he fli...

  • Ghost Hunt, Volume 1

    Fuyumi Ono

    PARTNERS IN FEAR

    The decrepit building was condemned long ago, but every time the owners try to tear it down, “accidents” start to happen"people get hurt, sometimes even killed. Mai Taniyama and her classmates have heard the rumors that ...

  • Negima! Volume 7

    Ken Akamatsu

    IT’S TRAINING TIME!

    After their adventures on a school trip to Kyoto, you’d think that Negi and his students would want to rest. But now that they’re back at Mahora Academy, relaxation is pretty low on the list! First there are Asuna’s...

  • Othello, Volume 5

    Satomi Ikezawa

    TAKING MATTERS TO NEW HEIGHTS

    Master manipulator Megumi Hino"Hino-chan"is enraged by her failure to bring down timid Yaya Higuchi and her alter ego, the confident and boisterous Nana. So Hino-chan decides to take the ultimate revenge. Usin...

  • The Cheetah Girls: Off the Hook!: Bind-Up #4

    Deborah Gregory

    The Civil War is at an end, but for thirteen-year-old Eulinda, it is no time to rejoice. Her younger brother Zeke was sold away, her older brother Neddy joined the Northern war effort, and her master will not acknowledge that Eulinda is his daughter....

  • The Spectacular Adventures of Sophie and Sebastian

    Ruth Jeyaveeran

    Sophie is a hippo with dreams—BIG dreams that involve flying high through the air on a skateboard. But even Sophie’s best friend, Sebastian, isn’t sure that it’s such a great idea for an O V E R S I Z E hippo to soar and glide...

  • Lights Out

    Arthur Geisert

    Mama and Papa are firm: lights out at eight o’clock. But their little piglet is afraid of the dark. They say, “If you can figure something out, go ahead.” So the piglet devises an ingenious series of contraptions that allow him to o...

  • Upstairs Mouse, Downstairs Mole

    Wong Herbert Yee

    “Delightful. . . . A real winner.” -- School Library Journal “The friendly, cooperative tone of the text is reminiscent of the Frog and Toad series.” -- Kirkus Reviews “Yee’s comfy beginning reader (dedicated to ‘Friends of Frog and Toa...

  • The Journey That Saved Curious George

    Louise Borden

    In 1940, Hans and Margret Rey fled their Paris home as the German army advanced. They began their harrowing journey on bicycles, pedaling to Southern France with children’s book manuscripts, including what would become the international sensatio...

  • Sisterchicks

    Robin Jones Gunn

  • Life Priorities Calculator

    Paul Wilson

  • Egyptian Adventure

    Knife & Packer

  • Lions

    Paul Morgan

    Tells the story of the British & Irish Lions momentous 2005 tour to New Zealand. From the selection of the players in April through to the final match in Auckland in July, readers will relive the excitement of Rugby's ultimate test. The players' them...

  • High Rhulain

    Brian Jacques

    The otters of Green Isle have long been enslaved to the Wildcat Riggu Felis and his catguards, who torture the otters at every opportunity. The otters trudge on, waiting for the day their savior will arrive--the prophesized High Rhulain, who will lea...

  • Make Me Over: Eleven Stories of Transformation

    Marilyn Singer

    What kind of a makeover has the power to change a person, inside and out? These stories, specially written for this collection, delve into our culture’s fascination with beauty and present different views about all kinds of makeovers. Sometimes fun...

  • Sing It, Sister!

    David Kirk

    Although Pansy longs to be a Dribbly Dell Singer, she overcomes her jealousy to help her shy sister Snowdrop strut her best bug stuff when Snowdrop gets the spot in the singing group instead. Original....

  • Vile Verses

    Roald Dahl

    Roald Dahl is best remembered as the author of many well-loved children’s stories. But he was also the creator of some astonishingly imaginative, outrageous, and wonderfully disgusting verses. From oozing grobes to slimy slugs, this extraordinar...

  • Make Me Over

    Marilyn Singer

    A thought provoking approach to a current culture of readily available plastic surgery, makeovers and underlying obsession with beauty, 11 stories delve into the theory, truth, and even occasional humorous side to fascination with reinventing oneself...

  • Confessions of a Middle Child

    Trudi Trueit

    A coveted invitation to a "popular" girl's party has Julep hoping for an exciting life beyond her invisible middle child status, but a disastrous event forces her to choose between her newfound social status and the family that needs her. Reprint....

  • Snow Moon

    Nicholas Brunelle

  • Snow White

    Melinda Copper

    A rabbit princess takes refuge from her wicked stepmother in the forest cottage of seven dwarfs, in a lavish rendition of the classic fairy tale inspired by the work of master painters throughout history and told with a charming animal cast....

  • Jack and the Beanstalk

    Primarius Corporation

    As seen on “The Apprentice: Martha Stewart.”

    Everyone knows the story of Jack and his famous beanstalk, but here’s a contemporary retelling with enough new twists and turns to surprise and delight parents and children alike. Watch Jack ...

  • The Orchard Book of Greek Gods and Goddesses

    Geraldine McCaughrean

    From a prize-winning author and illustrator comes this wonderfully rich and varied collection of fifteen stories from Greek mythology, freshly retold and made accessible for today's young readers. All the famous Greek gods and goddesses feature in th...

  • The Best New Irish Short Stories 2005

    Carroll & Graf Publishers

    Including original stories by Neil Jordan, Gerard Donovan, Edna O'Brien, Roddy Doyle, Colum McCann, Claire Keegan, Colm Toibin, Niall Williams, and Mary Morrissy, this stunning collection of short stories illustrates the vibrancy and eclecticism of c...

  • Hulk Visionaries: Peter David - Volume 2

    Peter David

    The gray Hulk's out to get the Leader and neither Man-Bull, Halflife, nor the Hulkbusters can stop him! The confrontation ends explosively as the drab-skinned demolisher is blown into a new world: Las Vegas?! Villains perish and rise in the culminati...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel, Volume 1

    Roy Thomas

    Branded a traitor by the vicious Colonel Yon-Rogg of the Kree for defending the people of Earth, Captain Mar-Vell assumes the human identity of Walter Lawson and becomes the planet's protector against an awesome array of interstellar baddies! Prepare...

  • Spider-Girl, Volume 4: Turning Point Digest

    Pat Olliffe

    The adventures of Spider-Man's daughter continue as Mayday once again faces Kaine, Spider-Man swings again, and Darkdevil is... actually nice?! Plus: Meet new heroes and villains, take a peek into the fantasies of Mayday's friends, and witness th...

  • Squadron Supreme

    Marvel Book Group

  • Gentleman of the Old School

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
    in

    Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Anthology.

    Nineteen original, macabre tales of terror by the world's greatest horror writers, including Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, Whitley Strieber, F. Paul Wilson, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and many oth...

  • Crazy Love

    Desiree Day

    Stacie Long thinks she's God's gift to men and she keeps a list of qualities (phat ride, freak in bed...) that she's looking for in an ideal mate. But behind all her confidence she's got a secret -- one that even her best friend doesn't know about, o...

  • Untamed

    Kathleen Lawless

    Welcome to the wild, wild West -- where desire and danger come to a draw. When Paris Sommer finds the secret diary of her great-great-grandmother, who ran an infamous bordello in the old West, her secret fantasies are ignited. Putting her librar...

  • Last Light

    Terri Blackstock

    The first installment in a thrilling series in which a global catastrophe puts a family’s survival at risk -- and both reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration.Birmingham, Alabama, has lost all power. Its streets are j...

  • Anansi Boys

    Neil Gaiman

    Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep--about to make Fat Charlie's life...

  • Joplin's Ghost

    Tananarive Due

    Joplin's Ghost is a chilling tale of a star-in-the-making whose life goes haywire as she is haunted by the ghost of a long-dead music legend. When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club when she was crushed by a turn-of...

  • Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    Alexander McCall Smith

    In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie gets caught up in a highly unusual affair of the heart. When Isabel is asked to cover for vacationing Cat at...

  • Boo Hiss

    Rene Gutteridge

    When a soccer field complex springs to life seemingly overnight in the sleepy community of Skary, Indiana, and the local coffee shop begins offering computer access along with its suddenly overpriced beverages, goosebumps start popping up all over ...

  • Catherine Wheels

    Leif Peterson

    Thomas’s carefully built life has been shattered. Everywhere he turns, he finds tragedy. After being left at the altar, he retreats to a remote castle in the mountains of Northwest Montana to live with an old college friend dying of lupus. But thei...

  • Infidelities

    Josip Novakovich

    Tragicomedy of the highest order, this stellar collection is Croatian writer Novakovich's best ever. Hailed as one of the best short story writers of the 1990s, Josip Novakovich was praised by the New York Times for writing fiction that has "the crac...

  • The Christmas Scrapbook

    Philip Gulley

    It's autumn in Harmony, and Pastor Sam Gardner has vowed to be ready for Christmas. Determined to redeem a dreadful history of gift giving, Sam enrolls in a scrapbooking class to make a Christmas gift his wife will never forget. However, Sam's absenc...

  • When the Library Lights Go Out

    Megan McDonald

    CLOSED may mean "closed" to you. But for three story-hour puppets, CLOSED means "open for adventure." At first there are only Rabbit and Lion. Hermit Crab is missing. Where can she be in the library darkness? Find out for yourself when...

  • Read along with Blue!

    Simon Spotlight

    An omnibus collection of five Ready-to-Read stories starring Blue and her friends includes Hello, Spring!; Blue's Beach Day; My Dress-up Party; My Visit with Periwinkle; and Hooray for Polka Dots! ...

  • McDuff's Christmas

    Rosemary Wells

    When a blizzard comes to town on Christmas Eve, Fred and Lucy are worried that Santa won't be able to make it, and, after everyone goes to bed, McDuff waits patiently for Santa to arrive, making a new friend in the process....

  • Andi's Journal: New Places ... Strange Faces

    Tom Bancroft

  • Gacha Gacha, Volume 1

    Hiroyuki Tamakoshi

    SECRET CRUSH

    Lately, Kouhei can’t get his friend Kurara out of his mind. Even though he has known her since elementary school, all of a sudden, ever since she came back from summer vacation, he has been crushing on her . . . hard.
    But so...

  • Andi's Journal: Goodbye Cooltown . . . Hello Nerdsville!

    Tom Bancroft

    Worried about how Andi is adjusting to her mother's death, her father decides they should move from San Francisco to a small town near the Sierra Nevada mountains, where Andi discovers her mother's girlhood journals, makes some new friends, and becom...

  • That's Not Funny!

    Adrian Johnson

    Alfie likes to laugh―mostly at other people's misfortune. But Alfie's grandpa isn't always amused by the same things Alfie is. When Grandpa takes him to the circus, Alfie finds lots of people to laugh at along the way. But wait until Alfie learn...

  • How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas

    Jeff Guinn

    In How Mrs. Claus Saved Christmas, Jeff Guinn combines solid historical fact with glorious legend to deliver another heartwarming holiday book for the whole family. It's 1620 and Mrs. Claus's dear husband is off in the New World planting the see...

  • What Star Is This?

    Joseph Slate

    The spiritually enchanted tale of the arrival of Baby Jesus - from Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem to the comet that illuminated the sky for the Wise Men - detailed in lyrical language and stunning illustrations, perfect for Christmastime....

  • Christmas Mouseling

    Dori Chaconas

    When her shivering baby is born on a cold winter night, a mouse follows some animals to a special manger where she receives help from another mother, in a heartwarming Nativity story by the author of One Little Mouse. ...

  • The Christmas Hat

    A.J. Wood

  • The Twelve Days of Christmas Dogs

    Carolyn Conahan

    What could be better than a new dog for Christmas? How about getting dogs for all twelve days leading up to it?! This canine confection offers more than just a delightful twist on the traditional carol: by topping each other’s doggy deliveries, two...

  • Mrs. Wishy-Washy's Christmas

    Joy Cowley

    When Mrs. Wishy-Washy tells her animals to clean up and ready themselves for Christmas, she causes quite a stir in the icy cold barn, but with Mrs. Wishy-Washy out shopping for the holiday, the adventurous animals decide there may be a bubbly solutio...

  • Christmas is Here!

    Siobhan Ciminera

    Strawberry Shortcake loves spending the holidays with her berry best friends, but when everyone seems too busy with other plans, Strawberry must find a way to bring holiday cheer to Strawberryland. Original....

  • The Tempest

    Marianna Mayer

    In this enchanting retelling, Shakespeare's magical tale is brought brilliantly to life for young readers. When the wizard Prospero seeks revenge on his enemies, his beautiful daughter, Miranda, combines forces with the playful sprite Ariel and the h...

  • Skating with the Bears

    Andrew Breakspeare

    Tim is afraid he will never be able to ice skate until late one night when he goes out to the lake by himself and he is greeted by great big furry snow bears who help him learn to skate under a magical moon....

  • When Wallflowers Dance

    Angela Thomas

    When we were two, we were no longer babies-we were becoming little girls. And when we were thirteen, we were leaving childhood behind, becoming young women. But somewhere along the way, we stopped becoming. We became "un-women." Wallflowers who are j...

  • Santa's Rockin'!

    Grosset & Dunlap

    It’s Christmastime, and The Wiggles and their friends are rocking with Santa! Henry the Octopus is a champion gift wrapper, Dorothy loves her Christmas roses, and The Wiggles sing and dance to rockin’ holiday tunes in this fun holiday adventu...

  • Islamic Mosques

    Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

    This work introduces places of worship found around the world. The books explain the general features of the buildings and look at how and why the building is used by the community. Examples from around the world are featured from famous buildings to...

  • Playground Survival

    Peggy Burns

  • Dolores Huerta

    Jennifer Blizin Gillis

    Dolores Huerta has spent her life fighting for the rights of poor farm workers. Can you imagine what her life must have been like? What is she like as a person? Read this book in order to get to know Dolores Huerta and find out how she still tries to...

  • Sikh Gurdwaras

    Jane Bingham

  • Lawmakers and the Police

    John Townsend

    The laws of every country have developed and changed over hundreds of years. Lawmakers have kept adding to the laws of the land. None more so than the USA where many amendments keep the ‘law books’ up to date....

  • Iran and the Islamic Revolution

    John King

    Iran is a country governed by Islamic principles, which sometimes poses a challenge to the West. This book answers key questions, such as: How did Iran become an Islamic Republic? What caused the Iranian government's hostility toward the United S...

  • Counting Raindrops Through a Stained Glass Window

    Cherlyn Michaels

    -The surest way to ruin a relationship is to marry the man you love.+ At least that+s what Vanella Morris believes. So when Alton, her longtime boyfriend and the love of her life, proposes, Vanella is faced with a dilemma: Unable to convince Alton to...

  • All That Matters

    Jan Goldstein

    What's the greatest gift that one person can give another?Jan Goldstein's stunning debut novel, All That Matters, is a deeply moving, endearing tale of a young woman who, with the help of her feisty grandmother, makes a journey from the very brink of...

  • Essential X-Men, Volume 6

    Chris Claremont

    SC, TPB, NM/M, New, in cello, Written by CHRIS CLAREMONT, BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH, LOUISE SIMONSON and WALTER SIMONSON. Art by JOHN ROMITA JR., RICK LEONARDI, JUNE BRIGMAN, BARRY WINDSOR-SMITH, BRET BLEVINS, ALAN DAVIS, ARTHUR ADAMS, TERRY SHOEMAKER, WAL...

  • Disney's Chicken Little: Sticky Situations - A Sticker Activity Storybook

    Disney Book Group

    Kids will have hours of fun with this interactive sticker book featuring their favorite clucky protagonist and star of upcoming Disney animated feature, Chicken Little. Simple text provides children with prompts to re-create their favorite scenes fro...

  • The Children's War

    Monique Charlesworth

    This is the story of two children caught in the midst of war.It is 1939 and thirteen-year-old Ilse, half-Jewish, has been sent out of Germany by her Aryan mother to a place of supposed safety. Her journey takes her from the labyrinthine bazaars of Mo...

  • 25 Years: Wade in the Water

    Margot Early

    Lily Moran is observing a tragic anniversary -- her brother's death. She blames herself, just as her parents blame her then-boyfriend, Colin Gardner. For the first time, she's returning home to scatter the ashes of the past and -- maybe -- find love ...

  • Big Sky Rancher

    Carolyn Davidson

    Lucas O'Reilly did things his way...and as founder and mayor of Thunder Canyon, he answered to no one -- and liked it that way. Except lately, now that he owned one of the bigger spreads, and richer mines, under the wide Montana sky, he'd been thinki...

  • 25 Years: A Visit From Eileen

    Janice MacDonald

    Eileen Doyle left Ireland twenty-five years ago to start a new life in California. But nothing turned out as she expected, so she reinvented herself in letters home. Now Eileen has to return to face the truth -- and the man who broke her heart....

  • Touch of the White Tiger

    Julie Beard

    "YOU'RE ASKING ME TO GIVE UP MY CAREER TO LOVE YOU? THAT'S NOT FAIR, MARCO." Angel Baker knew the risks. Every day she put her life on the line to protect those Detective Ric Marco and his overwhelmed police force couldn't. In twenty-second-centur...

  • The Rich Stranger

    Bronwyn Jameson

    "One last spin. If you win, you keep all the money. Enough to pay off your debts." "And if I lose?" "You marry me. You have my baby. And I pay off your debts." On the surface, it was a win-win proposition. Whatever the whim of the roulette wheel...

  • His Wedding

    Muriel Jensen

    "Losthampton Heiress Found!" Kidnapped as a toddler twenty-five years ago, Janet Abbott is finally back where she belongs, and just in time to see her two long-lost brothers get married. The whole clan welcomes her with open arms -- except for the...

  • The Bounty Hunter

    Cheryl St. John

    Nick Harding had seen enough of life's darker side...and bore the scars -- inside and out -- to prove it. Plus, years of tracking reprobates had hardly improved his opinion of his fellow man. Yet some spark of hope remained in him, he suspected. W...

  • Medusa Rising

    Cindy Dees

    She's a doctor. A healer. Can she kill in the name of good? Dr. Aleesha Gautier had asked herself that question many times since joining the Medusa Project, the United States' first all-woman Special Ops team. Could she take lives -- even to prote...

  • 25 Years: Best Friends

    Tara Taylor Quinn

    Jolene and Tina have been best friends for twenty-five years. Too bad Jolene's marriage isn't as solid as her friendship. But who better to talk to about your most intimate problems than your very best friend?...

  • Second Honeymoon

    Laura Abbot

    "First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Meg with a baby carriage." Once upon a time, Meg and Scott Harper had it all. But then life got in the way, and they lost sight of what was important. Each other. Now twenty years have passed, ...

  • Ritual Chill

    James Axler

    BLOOD SUNSET Time, and the fallout of a nuclear holocaust, have ravaged 21st century America, but one fundamental impulse of human nature remains: the will to survive. And only the strongest do survive. Men like Ryan Cawdor, whose inner strength and...

  • Crockett's Seduction

    Tina Leonard

    All He Wanted Was the One Woman He Couldn't Have Artist, rancher, bull rider, Crockett Jefferson has always been a man of strong passions. So when he finds himself thinking passionately about the one woman he shouldn't -- Valentine Cakes, the moth...

  • The Texan's Tiny Dilemma

    Judy Christenberry

    4 Months + 5 Months = Baby! As good as accountant Jim Schofield was with figures -- he could count back and tell when Teresa got pregnant -- he was bad with words like commitment and marriage. But when the stubborn Texan realized he was going to be ...

  • Reflected Pleasures

    Linda Conrad

    EVERYONE SAID THAT BILLIONAIRE COWBOY TYSON WAS UNTAMABLE The strong-willed Texan had a swagger in his step and a chip on his shoulder, and Merri Davis was just one more assistant who had been hired to try to keep him in line. Until a strange Gyps...

  • Pride of a Hunter

    Sylvie Kurtz

    TWO SCARRED HEARTS As far as former CIA sniper Lucinda Taylor was concerned, her heart died the day she pulled the trigger that left her a widow and a single mom. Then fellow agent Dominic Skyralov came to town to hunt down a dangerous scam artist...

  • The Guardian

    Elizabeth Lane

    To help those in need was the highest virtue to the Arapaho soul, and Black Sun ever honored the ways of his people. He could not turn away from a woman in need, pregnant, alone and barely alive. No, not even if the woman was white. He would help Cha...

  • Lone Star Rancher

    Laurie Paige

    "Rule number one: If you're going to live on my ranch, stay away from me." -- Clyde Fortune, Rancher Jessica Miller's life could be ripped from the headlines: Gorgeous New York Model Flees From Stalker. But as her twisted admirer becomes more fi...

  • Condition of Marriage

    Emilie Rose

    HE WOULD GIVE HER BABY A NAME To avoid adding more disgrace to the family, Mercedes Ashton agreed to marry her best friend, Jared Maxwell...for convenience sake. Yet the truth was, she was having feelings for him. No, she had the hots for her husb...

  • JSA

    Geoff Johns

  • April Shadows

    V.C. Andrews

    APRIL HAD ALWAYS FELT LIKE AN OUTSIDER. Her older sister Brenda was tall, athletic, competitive, and sure of herself. But April Taylor was short, sensitive, and overweight -- and she couldn't bounce back from their father's cutting criticisms th...

  • Confessions of a Boyfriend Stealer

    Robynn Clairday

    MESSAGE BOARD
    About Genesis Bell Queensheba at 1:02 a.m.
    i’ve heard you’d better not leave your guy alone with her! not if you DON’T want to lose him >:p
    It’s not her fault 007ugo at 1:45 a.m.
    You got it all wrong! If anyone’...

  • Where the Kissing Never Stops

    Ron Koertge

    Propelled by Ron Koertge's rapid-fire repartee, this is the funny and touching tale of a winningly honest protagonist discovering the perils and rewards of family, friendship, and romance.

    "Anyway," Sully said, "I've got just what you need to ...

  • The Darwin Conspiracy

    John Darnton

    From the author of the bestselling Neanderthal comes this novel of gripping suspense and scientific conquest -- a page-turning historical mystery that brilliantly explores the intrigue behind Darwin and his theory of evolution. It's 1831, and aboard...

  • So 5 Minutes Ago

    Hilary De Vries

    Being a celebrity publicist at a Los Angeles PR firm isn't the glamour job Alex Davidson thought it would be. Her love life is zilch, her newest client--an actor fresh out of rehab--keeps hitting on her, and all she has in her refrigerator is a half-...

  • Maggie's Door

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    We will dance on the cliffs of Brooklyn.Maggie’s Door is the story of the journey from Ireland to America told by both Nory and her neighbor and friend Sean Red Mallon, two different stories with the same destination -- the home of Nory’s sister ...

  • Flush

    Carl Hiaasen

    Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys. Noah's dad has a little problem with anger control. He tried to stop the Coral Queen casino boat's illegal dumping . . ....

  • Winter on the Island

    Barbara Davoll

    The King cousins and their friends celebrate Christmas as winter overtakes the community on Prince Edward Island, slowing life's pace. With plenty of time on their hands, the Story Girl and Bev start a newspaper, and before long everyone has a story ...

  • Wedding Wishes and Woes

    Barbara Davoll

    As spring roars in like a lion, the King cousins experience a whirl of adventures-not all of them fun: Dan is knocked unconscious, a boy annoys Cecily, and Sara's cat disappears. But things take a turn for the better when Aunt Olivia announces she's ...

  • Chloe Leiberman (Sometimes Wong)

    Carrie Rosten

    This is the deal with Chloe Leiberman (sometimes Wong):· She lives, breathes, sleeps, eats and drinks fashion. · She's half Jewish (father) and half Chinese (mother).· She has one bow-tie(like Tucker Carlson)-wearing brother.· She’s stuck in th...

  • Santa's Toy Shop

    Al Dempster

    Inspired by a 1932 Walt Disney "Silly Symphony" animated short, the "Santa's Toy Shop" Little Golden Book was originally published in 1950. In this delightful story, Santa wants time to play with all the wonderful toys he and the elves have made, but...

  • Baby Brains Superstar

    Simon James

    The smartest baby in the world takes a star turn as a pampered rock idol in Simon James's hilarious follow-up to the highly acclaimed BABY BRAINS.

    Thank heavens Mr. and Mrs. Brains played music to their baby before he was even born. Not only i...

  • Thelonius Turkey Lives!

    Lynn Rowe Reed

    Every Thanksgiving, a turkey disappears from Felicia Ferguson’s farm. And this year, Thelonius Turkey is the only turkey left. So with only a week to go before Thanksgiving, Thelonius won’t sit around waiting to be stuffed and roasted"he’s no...

  • Good Babies

    Tim Myers

    Any parent who has ever been sleep-deprived will smile at this richly illustrated, lively original folktale that reassures us that all babies are good babies -- and that patient love can foil even the worst-laid plans.

    A troll-baby living wi...

  • Chicken Little: The Junior Novelization

    Irene Trimble

    This time the sky is falling, but Chicken Little isn’t sure he wants to give up his newfound glory on the baseball field to warn everyone. (You remember what happened last time!) The Junior Novelization, featuring eight pages of full-color movie st...

  • Chicken Little: A Read-Aloud Storybook

    Lisa Ann Marsoli

    Poor Chicken Little! Ever since the embarrassing “acorn incident,” he has been laughed at by Turkey Lurkey, Goosey Loosey, and all the other residents of Oakey Oaks. But when the sky really is falling, will Chicken Little be able to redeem himsel...

  • The Pig Scrolls

    Paul Shipton

    "A quickfire barrage of puns, gags, and one-liners. An apic hit." -- Eoin Colfer, author ARTEMIS FOWL

    "Sing in me, Muse, and through me tell the story of . . ." a talking pig? Behold Gryllus, ancient Greek hero of our epic tale, a smarty-pan...

  • Marta and the Manger Straw

    Virginia Kroll

    In World War II Poland, a young girl receives straw at the Christmas Eve service to bring to her impoverished family. But on her way home, Marta meets others who are much poorer than she, and she shares her piece until there is nothing left. In spite...

  • Christmas Soup

    Alice Faye Duncan

    Every year the Beene family dreams of a Christmas feast, but every year they get the same old watery soup. The true meaning of Christmas is revealed in this touching picture book with poignant illustrations by Jan Spivey Gilchrist. While Mama is maki...

  • Holidays at the Homestead

    Golden Books

    Join the Koala Brothers in their first-ever Christmas special! Frank and Buster demonstrate the true meaning of Christmas and all their friends learn that sometimes the best gift of all is a helping hand from a friend....

  • Sam Katz on the Loose!

    Frank Radice

    Meow, more than ever, the world needs a furry hero"and his name is Sam Katz. Sam Katz is on the loose in this wildly original, glitter-sparkling book of 3-D scenes guaranteed to amaze and amuse children of all ages. Who is Sam Katz? Let’s put it ...

  • Christmas Cheer!

    Golden Books

    This book binds up over 300 pages of Christmas activities and coloring pages"from cutout ornaments to recipes to oodles of connect-the-dots! This holiday book collects over 300 pages of Christmas activities and
    coloring pages"from cutout ornam...

  • Big Game

    RH/Disney

    Disney puts a new spin on a classic tale! After the embarrassing “acorn incident” in which Chicken Little thinks the sky is falling, he becomes the laughing stock of the town! But when Chicken Little discovers that something really is falling fro...

  • Chicken Little

    Elizabeth Difanis Phillips

  • Caramba!!

    Nina Marie Martinez

    Natalie and Consuelo are like-minded individuals who live in Lava Landing, CA. When they aren't working at The Big Cheese Plant, they get all dolled up for the racetrack, or go for at a tequila float at The Big Five Four. They urgently need to get Co...

  • Twilight of the Dark Master

    Saki Okuse

    • The year is 2019, and Shinjuku's drug trade just got a whole lot bloodier. A new narcotic endows users with demon-like horns, fangs, and a raging appetite for human flesh. When a man named Eiji Kuraza transforms into a murderous demon and th...

  • The Man from Beyond

    Gabriel Brownstein

    From the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, a debut novel featuring Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is April 1922. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in New York on a spiritualist crusade. To packed houses at Carnegie Hall, he displays photo...

  • Out of Season

    Robert Bausch

    Four characters burdened by the past intersect at a fading resort town when County Sheriff David Caldwell is called in to restore the order destroyed by the town bully, Cecil Edwards-a giant of a man who operates the Ferris wheel. Caldwell must also ...

  • Fiddlers

    Ed McBain

    Ed McBain’s last installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn’t fit the profile. A blind violinist taking a smoke break, a cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen, a college pr...

  • Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Lara Bergen

    Dive into the enchanted world of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with this beautiful retelling that features a sparkly padded cover. The Handsome Prince, the Magic Mirror, and the Seven Dwarfs are all here for fans young and old to relive one of the ...

  • Igor, The Bird Who Couldn't Sing

    Satoshi Kitamura



    Everybody has a song

     

    Igor has been looking forward to spring, when he will sing for the first time in his life. But when the Dawn Chorus begins, the other birds laugh at the notes coming out of his beak. After unsuccessful vo...

  • The Perfect Friend

    Yelena Romanova

    Every dog needs a best friend Archie wants someone to play with – a friend who will throw a ball for him to catch. One morning his family leaves the house promising a surprise when they return. Archie is hopeful, but, remembering past surprises...

  • Grail Conspiracy

    Lynn Sholes; Joe Moore

    SNN Breaking News: Vatican Claims Grail Relic Authentic ROME - in an announcement to the world press, Cardinal Antonio Ianucci, Vatican Curator and Director of Art Antiquities, said the artifact recently discovered in Iraq is believed to be the cup...

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Kathy Herman

    Things Aren’t Always How They Appear! Guy Jones is about to burst his buttons. He just won the biggest case of his career and is being hailed by his law partners. But his wife, Ellen, is consumed with her quirky, needy friends and misses his victo...

  • Whiskey on the Rocks

    Nina Wright

    Still reeling from her husband's sudden death, 33-year-old Whiskey Mattimoe has her hands full managing her real estate business and keeping track of Chester, the 8-year-old son of a touring superstar harpist. And then there's Abra--her late husband'...

  • Book Of Oceans

    John Peel

    Born into nobility, Helaine can't get over the fact that Jenna, a mere peasant on their home world, is her equal. Their constant bickering convinces the four magic-users to take a much-needed vacation. Hoping for a relaxing time at the beach, they go...