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...
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....
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?...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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 ...
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’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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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. ...
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’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...
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....
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...
“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...
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...
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 ...
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. ...
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
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....
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
What makes a best friend? Illustrations and brief text describe how best friends treat each other in this bold and quirky book. Full color. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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....
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
With the Fantastic Four movie poised to smash box office records this summer, the time is ripe for this in-depth history of the FF's comics career, featuring interviews with every major creator! Comics Creators on Fantastic Four contains interviews w...
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...
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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....
The sniper must face many enemies ... sometimes it's someone on his side Army Rangers Kyle Monroe and Wade Curtis are the best at what they do: eliminating their nation's enemies from a distance with one well-placed bullet to the head. When Inte...
Consultant Toby Barker has a secret... He has been in love with his best friend Dr. Saskia Haywood for years. Dr. Saskia Haywood also has a secret... She's struggling to come to terms with an illness that could ruin not only her ability to work ...
Framed and dispossessed for a crime he did not commit during his first assignment, a recent Spy School graduate learns that several of his fellow classmates have been murdered, a situation that forces him to search for the enigmatic Contact Zero, a m...
A Dangerous Liaison Facing financial ruin, Lord Clayton Clearbrook inherits his uncle's fortune with the stipulation that he must marry within three weeks--an opportunity he dare not refuse. Not many weddings in the ton are based on love, after al...
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...
Liza Palmer will have readers cheering as she explores friendship, true love, and self-acceptance in this "engaging and poignant" (Jennifer Weiner) novel. Everyone seems to be getting on with their lives except Maggie. At twenty-seven, she's still s...
-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...
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...
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...
Some crimes go beyond the laws of nature... There is a line most people do not dare to cross; an unseen border between reason and passion, logic and lust. But for some, this boundary is merely a doorway into a realm of unbridled passions and uncontr...
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...
Lock the doors. Close the windows. And prepare yourself for the heart-stopping debut of Anthony Izzo, a new master of horror who will chill you to the bone... Jack Harding and his friends feel sorry for the new kid in town. His name is Ronnie Winte...
Wallace and his loyal dog Gromit are determined to solve the mystery behind the garden sabotage that threatens the annual Giant Vegetable Growing Contest in their village, in a novelization based on the new claymation feature film. Original....
SEARCHING FOR A WEALTHY HUSBAND... As the spirited daughter of a famed archeologist, Rose Grace has led a life of grand adventure. But in an instant, everything changes. Now it's Rose who must take charge of her unruly younger sisters, and it's Rose...
In London, Jack the Ripper has claimed another victim.
But this "London" is a crime-free virtual city, a historical theme park for tourists. Qualified witch Roberta Morgenstern and her young police assistant, Clément Martineau, set out to s...
In this searing novel, Caryl Phillips reimagines the life of the first black entertainer in the U.S. to reach the highest levels of fame and fortune.After years of struggling for success on the stage, Bert Williams (1874 -- 1922), the child of recent...
Ten years in the making, this sweeping, evocative, and graceful novel will capture the hearts of readers with its vivid portrayal of a close-knit group of friends and a love that won’t be denied.
Jonni Kendal and Jean-Baptiste St. Michel hav...
Young Sam Morgan, the Pennsylvania runaway and now a seasoned Rocky Mountain trapper, joins a brigade led by Jedediah Smith, greatest mountain man of them all, heading west for the Mexican province of Alta California.
With Sam on this dangerou...
In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other--six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes k...
WHO ARE THE LAST OF THE JEDI? Obi-Wan Kenobi is on a mission. Along with the former Jedi apprentice Ferus Olin and a headstrong kid named Trever, he is trying to keep the Jedi's most important secret from the inquisitive Empire. With Boba Fett on th...
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...
Heed my last word, Destroyer. You will never be free of us.... You are our instrument. Gerick was stolen away as a child by the evil Lords of Zhev'Na, who sought to make him one of them. Years later, he seeks refuge in a strange, sunless land of...
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 ...
`I have already touched on my childhood in Strange Places, Questionable People. But the further through life I get the more I want to revisit it. I want to look at the whole of my childhood, the England I grew up in and my family. Family and country ...
Named one of the top ten crime novels of 2005 by the American Library Association, Deadgame marks the return of "far and away the most inventive new detective hero" (Booklist). Ex-DEA agent John Marquez, now head of the undercover unit of the Califor...
From the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books, the second in a series introducing Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and Consulates of Europe in the early 1900s. The Second Secretary of the Embassy in Istanbul has died...
Detective Mac Taylor is a dedicated and driven crime-scene investigator who believes that everything is connected and everyone has a story. He and his partner, Detective Stella Bonasera, lead a team of experts through the gritty and kinetic world of ...
It's Fairbanks, Alaska, during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Alex Price, a Bethel bush pilot, is looking forward to a pleasant evening visiting his old friend and prospecting partner Stan and Stan's lovely Athabaskan Indian wife, Ang...
Dear Penelope, My intended left me for another woman after I traveled to a strange town to marry him. Is leaving him without certain parts of his anatomy letting him off too easy? -- Signed, Angry in Emancipation, Wyoming Dear Angry in Emancip...
DEATH ASSURANCE After signing a lucrative deal to remodel Bride's Bed and Breakfast, island contractor Josie Pigeon thinks her summer is set. And with her upcoming nuptials to Sam Richardson, she's definitely in the marriage mood -- that is, until...
Long before Captain Jean-Luc Picard took command of the legendary Starship Enterprise, he fell deeply and hopelessly in love with Doctor Beverly Crusher. Though, for one reason or another, Picard never acted on his feelings, he found a measure of con...
Once a snowbird, now full-time resident and sometime sleuth, Kate Kennedy "is a stylish and sophisticated Miss Marple, seeking justice in sunny South Florida instead of a rainy English Village, and meeting the most delightfully eccentric suspects in ...
For Old Time's Sake French aristocrat Fabienne Argonac Craigmont escaped the Reign of Terror--only to lose her head over the rakish Adam Ashworth. As she remembers it, he seduced and abandoned her; Adam, however, still feels the sting of her rejec...
Describes some animals that live in low places, who dig, swim, and hide in extreme depths. Some of the animals shown include the aardvark, the green parakeet, the vampire squid, and the spiny sea cucumber....
“A perfectly balanced novel of love and tragedy.”
---Waterstone’s Books Quarterly (UK)
In present-day Boston, seventy-year-old Alexander Ivanov has built a successful business empire. A kind, passionate man, he has managed to bur...
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...
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...
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 ...
It's all about Eve. At least, it should be -- after divorce with Dennis and being jilted by Joseph, Eve could use a little "me" time. Yoga and tending her tiny organic garden keep her centered, but life's complicated when you have two barely grown...
"EVEN OUT HERE IN THE COUNTRY, BAD THINGS HAPPEN." Raven Stevenson was in Lakeview barely twenty-four hours when she heard those ominous words. She'd come to the small Virginia town to reconcile with her brother and forget the haunting memories of...
When a very dirty little boy tries to clean himself by imitating the bathing habits of various animals, he only gets dirtier, in a classic story--first published nearly forty-five years ago--now available as a picture book. Reprint....
IN THIS FANTASTICAL THRILLER, five young teens tapped as models for theme park "guides" find themselves pitted against Disney villains and witches who threaten both the future of Walt Disney World and the stability of the world outside its walls. Usi...
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...
She's young, innocent and rich... Catarina Mendes, at twenty-one, is finally a free and independent woman. However, it's freedom at a price.... Bound to a stranger... Jake Ramirez has become guardian to Cat. He must protect her from unsc...
During one month in the autumn of election year 2000, scores of movie-business strivers are focused on one goal: getting a piece of an elusive, but surely huge, television saga, the one that opens with Huns sweeping through Mongolia and closes with a...
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...
The Dogs of Truth contains 17 new or previously uncollected short stories. Included are "High Rise High," about a student revolt at the ultimate "secure" high school; "Focus Group," where a star-struck fan dictates the fate of soap opera characters ...
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...
The fourth Sergeant George Sueño InvestigationSeoul, 1970s: As North Korea menaces and Vietnam burns, US 8th Army CID agent Sergeant George Sueño and his partner, Ernie Bascom, weave through back alleys and bordellos, trying to tip the scales of ju...
In Paris, a priest is murdered, his mutilated body dumped into the Seine. He has taken a secret with him to his death -- a secret that is revealed during the autopsy, reawakening memories of Depression-era politics and a seventy-year-old heist. Je...
When he met her online, she was a woman living in daily fear of her husband's chilling, systematic abuse. But she had a plan, a place to go, and someone to go with. That was her last message before signing off forever. Elizabeth Harper vanishe...
As Triple X, a brand-new designer drug with devastating side effects, sweeps through the streets of New York, high school science teacher Peter Parker--and his alter ego Spider-Man--begins to suspect the drug may have originated with one of his most ...
This debut novel from Canada, violently thrust into the space between Trainspotting and the writings of J.T. Leroy, features hard-edged protagonist Keith Kavanagh. With gritty accounts of sexual depravity, pyromania, substance abuse, and the botched ...
Diamond in the Rough Brenna Thompson's dreams of making it big in the world of jewelry design come to a screeching halt when her ex-fiance takes off with the precious gemstones she's been working on. Enter FBI agent Heath Packer, who claims he's t...
The legend continues! Stand by for more adventures with the world's greatest secret agent, as some of his most thrilling missions are collected for the first time ever! When two M15 agents disappear in Jamaica, Bond is sent to investigate - but a mys...
Bad things were starting to happen again in Uncle Henry's basement. People were moving around down there... And that wasn't the half of it. As Hallowe'en approaches, ,young Bridget Anne ("Dragonfly," to her friends) begins hearing strange thing...
'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...
Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there’d be no doubt. But f...
Proud Albret Maseo believes honor must precede love. Although he loves Anabella Biliverti with all his heart, his peasant status spurs him to earn the affection of this noble-blooded lady. Caught up in a peasant revolt, Albret knows he must release A...
Nothing gets Eleanor Samuels's heart racing like a double scoop of mocha fudge chunk. Sure, the magazine writer may have some issues aside from food, but she isn't quite ready to face them. Then her beloved Uncle Benny falls ill, and what at first se...
Elvis knows what it takes to be boss. He's a rooster's rooster. Handsome, charming, and intelligent"no wonder the chickens love him so much. He has it all...until Cluck Gable, the peacock, shows up. Suddenly Elvis can't even get a decent breakfa...
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...
Presents an anthology of ten original short stories about such things as family problems, sexuality, and courage, written by well-known authors of children's books, including Ron Koertge, David Levithan, Walter Dean Myers, Mo Willems, and David Lubar...