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New Books List: 759 titles


  • Maureen Johnson

    Would you follow the directions? Would you travel around the world? Would you open the envelopes one by one? Inside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket. In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat. T...



  • 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....



  • 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?...



  • 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 ...



  • Diana Evans

    From a stunning new voice, a debut novel that, like Zadie Smith's White Teeth and Monica Ali's Brick Lane, confronts the multi-racial realities of modern Britain with humour, grace, and lyrical intensity.

    Identical twins Georgia and Bessi live...



  • Debbie Macomber

    Corrie McAfee 50 Harbor Street Cedar Cove, Washington Dear Reader, Considering that I'm married to Cedar Cove's private investigator, you might think I enjoy mysteries. But I don't -- especially when they involve us! Roy's been receiving anon...



  • John Fardell

    A journey of epic proportions... When Sam visits Zara and Ben and their great-uncle, the quirky inventor Professor Ampersand, he never expects to embark on a fantastical adventure. But when Professor Ampersand and his group of professor friends ar...



  • Claire Thornton

    Should she trust this dangerous rogue? Lady Desire Godwin's gentle existence is rudely interrupted when a handsome brigand crosses the parapet of her rooftop garden. She watches, dismayed, as the impudent stranger is carried off to jail. As the...



  • Barbara Metzger

    Meet two brothers who learn that even when dealt an undesirable hand of it, wits and some good old bluffing can make anyone a winner in the game of love. Alexander "Ace" Endicott, the Earl of Carde, needs a woman who will beget him heirs t...



  • Steven Heighton

    “A magnificent novel” based on the 1872 Polaris expedition that left crewmembers marooned on an ice floe off the coast of Greenland (The New York Times Book Review). It is 1871. Nineteen men, women, and children, hailing from the United Stat...



  • Patricia Lakin

    From a young age Albert Einstein was curious and very smart. But that didn't mean life was easy for him. In fact, being so smart sometimes made things harder for him! Read all about his life, and find out why Albert Einstein is known as the genius of...



  • Peter Bollinger

    It's Halloween. Algernon Graeves is in his attic trying to think of the scariest Halloween costume ever.He imagines himself a mummy, a vampire, a werewolf ... but none of those creatures are quite scary enough. So he thinks, and he thinks, and he ...



  • 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...



  • Kevin King

    Kevin King’s debut novel, All the Stars Came Out That Night, is a vivid portrait of Depression-era America written in a voice at once humorous and poetic. Set at Boston’s Fenway Park on October 20, 1943, All the Stars Came Out That Night imagi...



  • Julie Ortolon

    Maddy, Christine and Amy are thrilled that their old college suite-mate has written a bestselling book, How to Have the Perfect Life--until they realize she used them as examples of how women let fear screw up their lives. The worst part is...it's so...



  • Janet Woods

    A touching romance set in Regency Dorset Twenty-year-old Geneva Tibbetson's association with the Earl of Ashby goes back to her childhood, when he gave her a pendant with a blue stone, and told her that if she looked at a new moon through it and the ...



  • Karen McCombie

    Meet the Teen Queen of Shyness! Amber has all the self-confidence of a very timid slug, so it's up to Stella to work some makeover magic. And with a bit of luck and a dollop of blackmail, she might just do it. A sea-sidey, sun-shiney series from the ...




  • 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...



  • 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...





  • Karen Kay

    Many centuries ago, a village killed the children of the Thunder god. For their crime, the Creator banished them to live a half existence in the land of shadows, neither dead nor alive. But once a generation, a brave is given the opportunity to save ...



  • 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...



  • Tamela Hancock Murray
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    One unique handcrafted angel brings joy to others in two charming novellas penned by a talented team of authors. In the first story, the angel is created. In the second, the angel is passed on to soften hardened hearts. This special Christmas collect...



  • Anita Lobel

    Little ones will practice the alphabet, learn animal names, and can try out clever acrobatic moves by themselves or with a friend in this inventive and amusing picture book created by beloved Caldecott Honor"winning Anita Lobel.From adoring alligat...




  • Scholastic Inc.

    Sing, read, and march along to this silly classic with an attached audio CD!

    Sing along to this catchy tune with these marching, counting ants as they reach their final destination down in the ground to get out of the rain! With bold illustrat...



  • Sheri Whitefeather

    KEEPING SECRETS Joyce Riggs's biological clock was like a time bomb ready to explode and her desperation to defuse it drove her straight into the arms of Kyle Prescott. The half-Apache combat trainer knew all about exorcising demons. He reluctantl...



  • 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...



  • Jane B. Mason; Sarah Hines Stephens

    Can Snow find the courage to be the bravest of them all?

    After years lost at sea, trapped by a curse, Snow White's father is back on shore. Snow is overjoyed, but the dwarves are wary--and it's soon apparent that the sopping sire hasn't washed...



  • 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...



  • Grace Tiffany

    Ariel is beautiful and magical, a creator of dreams and of mischief. Sprung from the mind of a dazed sailor shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle, she rules half of her enchanted isle, dreaming of the savior from the east who will help her conquer all....



  • Alyson Noel

    Dorks, Dweebs, Debutantes, and Jocks -- Where would you fit in? Being the new girl is tough -- just ask sixteen-year-old Rio Jones. A New York transplant, Rio has no clue how she's going to fit in at her fancy new private school in Southern Californ...



  • Sarah Richardson

    This new edition of the award-winning Art in a Box is an ideal way to stimulate children's artistic creativity and teach them about some of the greatest artists of all time, including Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, and Alexander Calder. Packaged in ...



  • Kim Ponders

    A stunning literary debut about a woman - an airforce pilot - torn between duty and desire. The long shadow of a charismatic father leads Annie Shaw to decide, as far back as she can remember, to follow in his footsteps and become an air force pil...



  • Mark W. Tiedmann

    The Third Law of Robotics states that a robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. After the diplomatic failures of the Spacer mission on Earth, Ambassador Ariel Burgess and robot...



  • Mark W. Tiedmann

    Coren Lanra is the head of security for DyNan Manual Industries. A former Special Service agent, he's never cared for bureaucracy, piracy, or deception. Lanra's troubles begin when Nyom Looms, daughter of DyNan president Rega Looms, is murdered durin...



  • Mark W. Tiedmann

    The First Law of Robotics states that a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human to come to harm. At a crucial conference uniting the Spacers, the Settlers, and representatives of Earth, Senator Clar Eliton of Earth and ...



  • Nicholas Sparks

    There are a few things Jeremy Marsh was sure he'd never do: he'd never leave New York City; never give his heart away after barely surviving one failed marriage; and, never become a parent. Now Jeremy is living in the tiny town of Boone Creek, Nor...



  • Cathy Williams

    In the office... Millionaire businessman Rafael Loro dominates everyone around him. Until plain but determined Sophie Frey is assigned to work with him. After hours... Rafael is used to beautiful, well-groomed women who are eager to please him. ...



  • Bobbie Ann Mason

    This provocative, rollicking story is the much-anticipated new novel"the first in over a decade"from acclaimed author Bobbie Ann Mason. In An Atomic Romance we meet Reed Futrell, a sexy, thoughtful hero who grapples with radioactive contamination...



  • Joan Clark

    Joan Clark’s An Audience of Chairs opens with Moranna MacKenzie living alone in her ancestral Cape Breton farmhouse, waging a war with the symptoms of bipolar disorder and grieving the loss of her two daughters, taken from her over thirty years pre...



  • Robin Pulver

    Axle Annie, the beloved school bus driver, is back on the scene, this time finding herself involved in a hilarious mission to stop Rush Hotfoot, the neighborhood speed demon from tearing down Burskyville's streets....



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Zoey Dean

    If you have to ask, you'll never be on . . . THE A-LIST Anna and her friends decide to blow off the senior class trip to Washington, D.C., and head to Vegas for a glamorous three-day vacation. They check into the ultra-luxe Palms Hotel and the wi...



  • Don Silver

    Chuck Puckman, Lorraine Nadia, and Frederick Keane came of age in the late 1960s. Like that era, their lives were mysterious, idealistic, passionate, even romantic -- but ultimately confused and often ineffectual. More than thirty years later, their ...



  • Edward Lee

    More than memories await Patricia when she returns to the quiet backwoods town where she grew up. A woman strangled half to death and buried alive. Children who scampered off to play, never to return. Men and women strung up and butchered for sport. ...



  • Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve

    Told from the point of view of three Lakota boys, this story examines how Lewis and Clark's expedition effected the natives which lived on the uncharted lands they explored, creating misunderstandings on both sides that led to future trouble....



  • Joyce Livingston

    Eleanor Scrooge finally has it all. Why then is she so dissatisfied? In fleeing her abusive childhood, she left behind the only man she'd ever loved--Bob Rachette. Years later, Eleanor's no-nonsense approach to her successful business alienates every...



  • Aury Wallington

    Get the story behind the TV show--stories you won't find anywhere else! Everything's changing in the O.C.

    Enter the world of the O.C.

    Told from different points-of-view and using different storytelling techniques, it's a unique look in ...



  • Mary Man-Kong

    Barbie" stars in a fifth DVD in Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus! In this storybook, Barbie escapes marrying the evil wizard and finds out that he has turned her long-lost sister into a flying horse. Together, the sisters find magical treasures that...



  • Tennant Redbank

    With four-color photographs straight from the movie, this Step 2 reader retells the magical story of the DVD in the simple language that will help Barbie’s little fans Step into Reading on their own....



  • Andrea Posner-Sanchez

    Barbie Doll stars as Princess Annika in Barbieª and the Magic of Pegasus. When Princess Annika refuses to marry the evil wizard Wenlock, he turns the entire kingdom into stone. Annika’s long-lost sister, Brietta, returns to help"but Wenlock has ...



  • Ben M. Baglio

    At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. Mandy and James are distracted from Halloween planning when local girl Amber Hutton runs awa...



  • Judith Berman

    A twelve year old awakens one morning to discover that she has been transformed into a human girl, instead of a bear, and embarks on a dangerous journey through both mortal and immortal worlds to restore her past, confront her fears, and preserve the...



  • Shirley Mozelle



    The ups and downs of living in an apartment building

    The upstairs bear moves in with a BIG BANG. KLUNK! KLUNK! BUMPETY-BUMP! BUMP-BUMP-BUMP!

    “I can’t write like this,” says the downstairs bear. After several noisy days...




  • Joyce Lavene; Jim Lavene

    This time the mystery for Sheriff Sharyn Howard and her Diamond Springs deputies hits a little bit closer to home. After a speeding boat flies up over the pier and onto the street, the sheriff's department investigates. They become personally involve...



  • Stacia Deutsch; Rhody Cohon

    Can you hear me now? Abigail is getting restless. It's been three weeks and she hasn't time-traveled once! Luckily it's Monday again, so when Mr. Caruthers asks the class, "What if Alexander Graham Bell quit and never invented the telephone?" Abig...



  • Todd Parr

    What makes a best friend? Illustrations and brief text describe how best friends treat each other in this bold and quirky book. Full color. ...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Anne Ashley

    Poor Miss Abbie Graham had never felt so betrayed! Betrothed to her grandfather's godson, Mr. Bartholomew Cavanagh, she had found him in a rather compromising position in the garden with another woman! Refusing to marry Bart has resulted in years...



  • Kathleen Flynn-Hui

    From the star colorist at New York's Salon AKS comes a story about the city's salon du jour -- and the rising young stylist taking her chic clients...Beyond the Blonde Georgia was born to color hair: Back in Weekeepeemie, New Hampshire, her single m...




  • Doranna Durgin

    Rule #1: Family Comes First Rule #2: If You Belong to Kimmer Reed's Family, Ignore Rule #1 She'd never planned to see her so-called family again. But that didn't help Hunter Agency operative Kimmer Reed when her brother showed up on her doorste...



  • Patrick Carman

    AN OLD EVIL. A NEW DANGER. Alexa Daley thought her troubles were over when she defeated the man who had threatened to bring down Bridewell from within. But now that the walls around her land have fallen, a new, unexpected threat has risen from outsi...



  • 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 ...



  • 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...



  • Brenda Novak

    Sometimes Mr. Right couldn't be more wrong... Thanks to a devastating revelation about her husband, Reenie Holbrook's once-perfect marriage is over. For eleven years she had the life she wanted -- and now it's gone. Sometimes Mr. Wrong couldn't ...



  • 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...



  • Nancy Poydar

    Fearful of taking the Big Test that he is certain is as bad as everyone says, Sam's nerves begin to get the best of him as he worries about what he will soon be forced to face, in an amusing tale about test-taking hype gone awry with full-color illus...



  • Jane Finnis

    It's freezing in late December, 95 A.D. Roman settlers in Britannia are preparing to celebrate Saturnalia. Innkeeper Aurelia Marcella runs a mansio near Eboracum (modern York) in consort with her mostly absent brother and her younger sister, Albia. A...



  • Christine Kling

    In her acclaimed novels of suspense, Christine Kling gives readers good reason to believe that if Travis McGee and Kinsey Millhone had ever hooked up, their child would have grown up to be Seychelle Sullivan: a beautiful, savvy heroine with a knack f...



  • Sally Spencer

    Rivalling Anne Perry, the fourth in the Victorian series by the author of the much-loved Sally Spencer DCI Woodend books If the Fire Bug's true purpose is to make the government hand over one hundred thousand pounds, why does he seem so reluctant to ...



  • A.H. Holt

    King Sutherland is dead---at least that's what both friend and foe assume. The war ended almost a year ago, yet King was seriously wounded after the surrender, delaying his return home. Recently recovered, he is on his way back to Texas and the Blanc...



  • Leslie Esdaile Banks

    From the hurricane-ravaged Caribbean to Philadelphia's halls of power, this suspenseful sequel to Betrayal of the Trust follows gutsy Laura Caldwell, a financial genius and brilliant beauty who is ready to put a dangerous chapter in her life behind h...



  • Joseph A. West

    Recovering from a shoot-out on the trail, which left him with a broken leg, Marshal Matt Dillon must go up against a gang of bank robbers, who, during a bad blizzard, take several townspeople hostage, forcing Matt to take some serious action. Origina...



  • J.M. Jeffries

    Mignon du Plessis has many secrets. Among them, she is a vampire, a hunter of the Pledged to The Order of Romulus, only Mignon executes her own. For over two centuries, her mission has been keeping humanity safe from the darkness. New Orleans Detecti...



  • Ron Faust

    Dan Shaw has been practicing law only four months and he's already burned-out. Add the fact that he's just lost his girlfriend and the cops are scouring his dubious past, and it's no wonder Shaw decides to set sail for the summer. But even alone in t...



  • Harold Robbins; Junius Podrug

    Her Royal Highness, the Princess of Wales, was an ordinary young woman who was picked to be the future queen. Her wedding was a worldwide sensation. But she was deceived and betrayed before the honeymoon was over. Five months after a fairy tale weddi...



  • Amanda Harte

    It can't be a coincidence that the band is playing "Stranger in Paradise," not when that's exactly how Rebecca Barton would describe herself.

    No matter how beautiful the Hawaiian honeymoon resort is, it's no place for a widow with two children an...



  • Steven Sidor

    The aging riverboat casinos and decrepit cut-rate hotels that line the dark waters running through downtown Booth City reveal the seething underbelly of a Midwestern city down on its luck. Booth is filled with a collection of lonely souls looking for...



  • 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 ...



  • Michael Anthony Steele

    Dramatic action. Amazing gadgets. The thrill of super-villains being shut down by the guardian of Gotham City's shadows. That's right -- THE BATMAN is back!

    In the first THE BATMAN handbook, the supervillians take center stage, as Batman prese...



  • 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...



  • Darlene Graham

    I promise you, my little one, I'll do everything I can to see that your life is safe and happy. Even if that means giving you up... Markie McBride has kept a secret locked in her heart -- and in her long-lost diary -- for eighteen years. And when ...



  • 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...



  • 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 ...



  • Maggie Shayne
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    They're sexy. They're smart. And they aren't afraid of a little danger--not even when it comes to matters of the heart... Four of today's hottest authors present a quartet of stories about bold women who take no prisoners--either in a fight or in ...



  • George Saunders

    From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Man Booker Prize-winning novel Lincoln in the Bardo and the story collection Tenth of December, a 2013 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.Welcome to Inner Horner, a nation so small it ca...



  • Jessica Andersen

    TOUGH. TENACIOUS, TRUE BLUE. Secret Service agent Isabella Gray thought those traits described bounty hunter Jacob Powell to a T. When the secretary of defense's family was ambushed on her watch, she knew she needed to recruit the sexy ex-Special ...



  • Paul Lindsay

    Inside a nondescript cinder-block building in Manhattan, beyond the misleading sign that reads "Global Fish" and the attractive plainclothes FBI employee at the reception desk, Special Agent Nick Vanko is running a surprisingly successful undercover ...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Those are some mighty funny-lookin’ horses…Skye Fargo’s been in the saddle long enough to know that if it has hooves, he can rope it, break it, and ride it. But even he has his hands full when the U.S. Army hires him to lead a caravan of camels...



  • Sammi Carter

    No visit to Paradise, Colorado is complete without a stop at Divinity Candy Shop for a little taste of heaven. For owner Abby Shaw, it's a sweet deal, too. When her Aunt Grace passed away, Abby inherited Divinity -- and with it the opportunity to lea...



  • J.V. Hart

    With his long black curls, a shadowy family tree, and an affinity for pet spiders, James Matthew bears little resemblance to his starched-collar, blue-blooded peers at Eton. Dubbed King Jas., he stops at nothing to become the most notorious underclas...



  • 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...



  • James Preller

    Looking for intriguing mysteries, great friendship stories, and quality chapter books for beginning readers? Look no further: Jigsaw and Mila are the best detectives on the market!

    FOOD FIGHT! When someone starts a food fight in the school caf...



  • 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...



  • Candace Havens

    Monday, 11 P.M. Sweet, Texas Spells: 2 Dead guys: 0 Cute guys I want to sleep with: 1 I know my purpose: To rid the world of evil, one bad guy at a time! Currently, I've got a gig as a kind of one-witch secret service to the British Prime M...



  • Michelle M. Welch

    Returning to the land of Confidence Game and The Bright and the Dark, Michelle M. Welch revisits the Five Countries, where magic is suspect, loyalty drives a hard bargain, and war is just a misstep away. Now, as a devastating plague takes its deadly ...



  • 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....




  • 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...



  • 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...



  • Elizabeth Lenhard

    STITCH by STITCH Scottie’s life is changing, and not for the better. She feels like she’s losing her best friend, Amanda, and her mom has morphed into the new It girl of Chicago’s art world. It feels just like the bottom is about to drop out o...



  • Sandra Birdsell

    Children of the Day opens on a June morning in 1953, when Sara Vandal, convinced that her husband has been having a decades-long affair, decides that she is too sick to get out of bed. With ten children in the house (and a possible eleventh on the wa...



  • 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...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • 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...




  • Dana Corbit
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    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...



  • Irene Brand
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    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 ...



  • 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....



  • 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. ...



  • 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...



  • 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...




  • Walter Mosley

    In this thrilling mystery, Easy Rawlins takes a job to find a missing attorney and his beautiful assistant -- and faces danger around every corner. It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outsid...



  • David Lawrence

    The man died of a broken heart. Literally. But what broke his heart was a sharp object shoved hard between his ribs. When they found him he was sitting in a circle with three other corpses in a London apartment. That's when Detective Stella Mooney go...



  • Barbara Hambly

    Returning to the wondrous world of Sisters of the Raven, Barbara Hambly presents a suspenseful and adventurous new novel. Now the survival of the Yellow City depends on a fledgling group of women who must develop their own magic abilities-before the ...



  • Robert Asprin; Jodi Lynn Nye

    SCHOOL DAZE It's the biggest myth in the universe--that the Kland magician known as the Great Skeeve is really great. Though he's become an inter-dimensional legend, Skeeve couldn't have done it without a lot of luck and a little help from his fri...



  • Marcia T. Jones; Debbie Dadey

    There's no place like home! And Calliope the ghost misses her old mansion. When Andrew -- the class bully -- announces his family is going to tear it down, Calliope is so upset she can't even speak. Is she hiding something back at the mansion? Does s...



  • 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...



  • 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. ...



  • Tom Defalco

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  • Robynn Clairday

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  • David Wolstencroft

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  • Teresa McCarthy

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  • Walter Jon Williams

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  • Liza Palmer

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  • Cherlyn Michaels

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  • Tara Janzen

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  • Desiree Day

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  • Ramsey Campbell

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  • Tina Leonard

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  • Anthony Izzo

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  • Herve Jubert

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  • Caryl Phillips

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  • Rebecca Horsfall

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  • Win Blevins

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  • J.R. Ward

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  • Jude Watson

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  • John Darnton

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  • Carol Berg

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  • Ellyn Bache

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  • John Simpson

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  • Kirk Russell

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  • Michael Pearce

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  • Stuart M. Kaminsky

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  • Don Porter

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  • Sharon Ihle

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  • Valerie Wolzien

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  • Michael Jan Friedman

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  • Nora Charles

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  • Janet Mullany

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  • Michael Dahl

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  • Shamim Sarif


    “A perfectly balanced novel of love and tragedy.”
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  • James David Buchanan

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  • Tracy Quan

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  • Han Shaogong

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  • Carmen Reid

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  • Shirlee McCoy

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  • Margaret Wise Brown

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  • Ridley Pearson

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  • Disney Book Group

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  • Sandra Marton

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  • Rick Moody

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  • Charlene R. McCord

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  • Kit Reed

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  • Jennifer Blizin Gillis

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  • Martin Limon

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  • James Twining

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  • Penelope Neri

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  • Keith R.A. Decandido

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  • Joel Hynes

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  • Kara Lennox

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  • Ian Fleming

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  • Frederic S. Durbin

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  • Cathy Cassidy

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  • James Sallis

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  • Barbara Youree

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  • Jennie Shortridge

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  • Denys Cazet

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  • Chris Claremont

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  • Nancy Mercado

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