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New Books List: 562 titles

  • Love Storm

    Susan Johnson

    Desperate to avoid a loathsome match, Zena Turku ran from the glittering ballroom into a snowy night -- and threw herself on the mercy of a darkly handsome stranger. He was her only hope of escape, her one guarantee of safe passage to her home in the...

  • Bringing the rain to Kapiti Plain

    Verna Aardema

    The story of how Ki-pat ingeniously brings rain to the arid Kapiti Plain. "Cumulative rhyming tale with the rhythm and repetition of The House That Jack Built . . . Illustrations are stylized, simple, and dramatic."--School Library Journal....

  • Mating for Life

    Laura Abbot

    SOMETIMES...YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN And sometimes that's where you find your life, your love, your destiny. It's what happens when Josie Calhoun returns home to Maizeville, Kansas. She's got some work to finish up, she's tired of...

  • Youn Hee & Me

    C.S. Adler

    Caitlin's enthusiasm for adopting her adopted Korean brother Simon's older sister, Youn Hee, is tested by the other girl's feisty spirit and her desire to return to Korea with her brother. By the author of Riding Whiskey. ...

  • Cruel April

    Neil Albert

    Dave Garrett, private detective and red-haired, green-eyed Kate McMahan spent four passionate days together before she returned to her teaching job--and her failing marriage--in Miami. There have been nothing but steamy phone calls since, until Garre...

  • Fancy-Free

    Carrie Alexander

    "THERE'S A NAKED WOMAN ON MAIN STREET!" Things have gotten interesting since Fancy O'Brien came to town. (She's the naked woman. But don't worry -- she made strategic use of some bubbles.) Now the whole town's in an upr...

  • You're a Genius, Blackboard Bear

    Martha Alexander

  • Splatterpunks II

    Martin Amis

  • Aftermath

    Donald Anderson

  • Black Water

    Rachel Anderson

    After the failure of quack cures for his "falling sickness," Albert, an epileptic boy in Victorian England, must rely on his own resources and talents to cope with his disability and make a life for himself. By the author of The Bus People. ...

  • Puzzling Day at Castle Macpelican

    Scoular Anderson

  • Brother Termite

    Patricia Anthony

    He is the White House chief of staff. He is responsible for many lives--and many deaths. He plays political power games with the FBI and the CIA. The President trusts his friendship above all others. He is everything to those surrounding him: player ...

  • Swept Away

    Katherine Applegate

    Kate finds her romantic Caribbean cruise thwarted by a seductive stowaway, while Chelsea is upset when Connor's novel starts taking precedence over her and Grace recovers from David's desertion by dating two new guys....

  • Hunter of the Light

    Risa Aratyr

    The death of a great snow elk is essential to the balance of magic in the world of Eirinn, and the task falls to Blackthorn, who must set aside his love for the doomed Roisin Dubh for the sake of his quest. A first novel. Original....

  • Valhalla

    Nathan Archer

    Tensions caused by speculation that Cardassia is about to reoccupy Bajor are complicated by the arrival of a strange alien ship. When it's discovered that the crew is dead and the ship is carrying valuable Gamma-quadrant technology, it becomes a soug...

  • King Crow

    Jennifer Armstrong

  • When Enemies Marry...

    Lindsay Armstrong

    In bed with her enemy! Justin Waite made it plain that Lucy could lose everything if she didn't marry him -- so she agreed to tie the knot. Justin had claimed he only wanted a marriage of convenience, but soon it became clear he actually wante...

  • Highways and Dancehalls

    Diana Atkinson

    This is a startling novel - as much for the power and beauty of the writing as for its vivid, searing tale of life on the road as a stripper in Canada.

    Sarah is the product of a university family that blew angrily apart and the survivor of a c...

  • Percy the Small Engine and the Scarf

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Bertie the Bus and Thomas the Tank Engine

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Thomas the Tank Engine and the Scrambled Eggs

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Thomas the Tank Engine Catches a Thief

    Rev. W. Awdry

  • Shadowfall

    James Axler

    HELL ROAD In the ruins of a nuke-shattered America, every man, woman and child of the apocalyptic frontier makes a perilous journey to the future. But there is a fork that divides the path toward humanity reborn . . . and the road deep into the h...

  • Men in Sports

    Brandt Aymar

    A monumental anthology covering the literature of sports, from the funeral games of Homer to the American World Series today, Men in Sports includes Mary Renault's telling of an exciting day at the Olympic Games of 520 B.C., Stirling Moss's thousand-...

  • Ancestral Hungers

    Scott Baker

    Somewhere in contemporary Illinois...

    David Bathory returns to his ancestral estate after the death of his father, the head of his family. David is the direct male heir to a birthright he has tried to deny: the lineage of Dracula--which means ...

  • The Forbidden Daffodils

    Mary Balogh
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    LOVE IN BLOOM Celebrate the arrival of spring with a bouquet of exquisite stories by five acclaimed authors of romantic fiction. Brimming with the richness and delicate beauty of the season's first flower, this wondrous collection reveals blossomi...

  • Broken Bridge

    Lynne Reid Banks

    The attack came suddenly and without warning, as twoyoung teenagers walked casually through the streets of Jerusalem,When it was over, one lay dead, the other mysteriously spared,yet left to face the horrendous choices and consequences thatresulte...

  • Ill Wind

    Nevada Barr

    It is whispered that the Old Ones still haunt Mesa Verde--the restless spirits of the Anasazi, who carved their homes in the mountain's face eight centuries ago ... and then disappeared from the Earth. Newly assigned national parks ranger Anna Pig...

  • Molly Coddle MD

    Renzo Barto

    When Molly Coddle, the Comfort Doll, is told that she would make a good doctor, she sends for a correspondence course in medicine, but Mr. Bumpy eats the manuals and replaces them with other how-to books, leading her to try some very orginal medical ...

  • Such Pain

    Don Bassingthwaite

    HOMECOMING Yesterday Aaron Barry was an international playboy. Today, with his father's death, he assumes control of a giant financial empire. Step One--fire all his father's advisers. Men he hated anyway. Step Two--establish relations with ...

  • The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica

    John Calvin Batchelor

  • Immortal

    Michael Bates

  • The Humphrey Bogart Murder Case

    George Baxt

    George Baxt brings Hollywood in its heyday to dazzling life in this witty caper featuring a surprise sleuth -- Humphrey Bogart. While filming The Maltese Falcon, he searches for a real-life treasure, dodging a killer on a murder trail through Hollywo...

  • Agatha Raisin and the Walkers of Dembley

    M.C. Beaton

    After six months in London, Agatha Raisin returns to her beloved Cotswold village--and to her attractive neighbor, James Lacey. True, James is less than thrilled to see her, but Agatha is soon consoled by a sensational homicide. The victim, found ...

  • Town Parrot

    Penelope Bennett

    Bright illustrations, along with hand-lettered notes that discuss the behavior of parrots, chronicle the life of Turkey, a pet parrot who wakes her owner up each day, helps around the house, and, sometimes, goes to parties....

  • Virtual Terror

    David Bergantino

  • Uninvited

    James Gabriel Berman

    On the affluent Long Island Gold Coast, socially prominent housewife Patricia Carver, 27, and her two small children are found dead in their baronial home, apparently victims of a multiple murder/suicide that ended with her husband, 56, firing a bull...

  • Poet and Politician of Puerto Rico

    Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

    Period photographs enhance an account of the Puerto Rican patriot's achieviements as a poet and as a politician who improved living conditions for Puerto Rico's peasants and achieved commonwealth status for his island....

  • The Perfect Father

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    SYLVIE'S WISH Life would be perfect for Sylvie Venner if she had a baby. Not marriage, not a husband--just a baby. Of course, she would need a teensy favor from a willing male acquaintance--someone who had no desire for a family. Fortunately, she ...

  • Tarantula Shoes

    Tom Birdseye

    The newest kid in Macinburg, Kentucky, eleven-year-old Ryan O'Keefe hits on a money-raising, people-meeting plan of charging the other kids an admission fee to see his pet tarantula's spectacular stunts. By the author of Just Call Me Stupid. ...

  • Frost Flower

    Sonya Birmingham

    LOVING MISTY Out in the wilds of Red Oak Hollow, pretty Misty Malone had come across plenty of critters, but none surprised her more than a knocked-out, buck-naked stranger. Taught by her granny to cure ills with herbs, Misty knew a passel of cure...

  • Breathless

    Carly Bishop

    Winded by the shock It had been three long years since Zoe Mastrangelo lost her husband and child in a freak accident off the Mediterranean coast. And now her surviving daughter's life hung in the balance, in desperate need of a donor from her...

  • The Royal Nap

    Charles Black

    King Gordo is such a light sleeper that when he takes his afternoon nap, all commotion must absolutely cease, and when an unfortunate potscrubber comes down with a bad case of hiccups, the king despairs of ever getting his beauty sleep....

  • The Shortest Kid in the World

    Corinne Demas Bliss

    Emily the Shrimp is in despair because she is shorter than everybody--even her own little brother.  Then a tiny new girl comes to town.  Her upbeat attitude teaches Emily that, if you're clever, shortcomings can become towering assets.  ...

  • Once Upon a Pirate

    Nancy Block

    Zoe Dunham's annoying ex-husband was making her desperate for a vacation. Little did she expect to spend it aboard a privateer's ship engaged in the War of 1812! But that was exactly where she found herself, thrown at the feet of Captain Black Jack A...

  • Prejudicial Error

    Bill Blum

    Disgraced lawyer John Solomon tries to redeem himself with his defense of an accused cop-killer in a case that pits him against a right-wing, cutthroat prosecutor and a host of powerful political forces. A first novel. 35,000 first printing....

  • The Banshee Train

    Odds Bodkin

    Odds Bodkin's story, based on folklore that Irish railroad workers brought to America, and Ted Rose's shimmering watercolors evoke the suspense and mystery of this otherworldly chase through the high Rocky Mountains. On a foggy night, spring floods s...

  • Play It Again

    Stephen Humphrey Bogart

    R.J. Brooks long ago left behind the flash and glitter of Tinseltown for a life of bruised knuckles and cheap sex as a "matrimonial detective" in New York City. But he finds himself facing agonizing ghosts form his past when a house dick finds his be...

  • Hurricane Music

    Barbara Bottner

  • The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars

    Anthony Boucher

    A Sherlock Holmes script sparks controversy and murder in Hollywood in a “most engrossing mystery” from the author of Nine Times Nine (The New Yorker).   Anthony Boucher was a literary renaissance man: an Edgar Award"winning mystery review...

  • Eye Count: A Book of Counting Puzzles

    Linda Bourke

    A two-tiered guessing game challenges readers to determine the link between adjoining pages by counting the number of similar objects and identifying how they are related to cleverly hidden homonymn or homophone clues. IP. ...

  • Specimen Song

    Peter Bowen

    Barroom fiddler and Metis Indian Gabriel Du Pre+a7 is swept up in a mystery at the nation's capital after a run-in with an egomaniacal anthropologist leads him to discover a series of killings that target Native Americans. Reprint....

  • Bloodline

    Gerry Boyle

    "THE DIALOGUE HUMS AND CRACKLES...Low-profile free-lance reporter Jack McMorrow sticks his head above the tree line long enough to contract for an article on kids having kids, then homes in on one particular high-school kid: Missy Hewett, a success s...

  • I Remember

    Joe Brainard

  • Father of Frankenstein

    Christopher Bram

    In 1957 James Whale, the director acclaimed for such classic horror films as Frankenstein and Bride of Frankenstein, was found at his Hollywood mansion, dead of unnatural causes. Christopher Bram, whose social insight and wit have earned him comparis...

  • Mrs. Jeffries on the Trail

    Emily Brightwell

    THE SEEDS OF MURDER Nobody was walking the streets of London at night after that afternoon's riots. And flower sellers usually did their best business early in the evening. So why was Annie Shields out selling flowers at ten o'clock on one of the fo...

  • When Daddy Came to My School

    Julie Brillhart

    Jake and his dad take a tour of Jake's school, share in Jake's school activities, paint one another's picture, and settle down for their naps--until Jake's dad begins to snore. By the author-illustrator of The Dino Expert. ...

  • The Witch & the Cathedral

    C. Dale Brittain

    Daimbert, the royal wizard of Yurt, is heartbroken when the woman he loves marries someone else, and abandons his kingdom for the hostile land of Caelrhon, where he discovers evil forces at work and meets a very intriguing witch. Original....

  • Witches' Brew

    Terry Brooks

    Former Chicago lawyer Ben Holiday was proud and happy. And why not? The Magic Kingdom of Landover, which he ruled as High Lord, was finally at peace, and he and his wife, the sylph Willow, could watch their daughter Mistaya grow. And grow she did-...

  • The Dark

    Carrie Brown

    Dr. Lindy Adair, formerly a university professor and now the owner of 180 glorious acres of Washington woods that once belonged to the Sunstrike commune, is accustomed to strangers on her property. Old residents make their way back every now and then...

  • Rudley Cabot in the Quest for the Golden

    Keith Brumpton

    In a novel in comic-book format, Rudley Cabot, intrepid rabbit, jumps in his Celari Mark 5 and heads into deep space in search of a long-lost space ship, all the while pursued by the dastardly Captain Weasel. Original....

  • Corey's Pony Is Missing

    Bonnie Bryant

    Paperback: When Corey goes to visit her father for a few days, May and Jasmine promise to keep an eye on her pony. Corey hates to leave Samurai behind, but she knows that no one could take better care of Sam than her two pony-crazy friends in the Pon...

  • Horseshoe

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Horse Wise Pony Club riders have been working hard on a precision horseback drill. They'll perform it on Founders' Day to raise money for the needy animals at a nearby shelter. But Lisa, Stevie, and Carole want to do even more.Then Lisa gets the ...

  • May's Riding Lesson

    Bonnie Bryant

    There’s more than one way to stop a bullyWil never misses a chance to pick on best friends Jasmine, May, and Corey about playing with their toy horses. Not only do the girls love their real ponies, they love to play with their toy ones, too.May...

  • Pony Crazy

    Bonnie Bryant

    From the author of the bestselling Saddle Club books comes a series about three pony-crazy girls May, Jasmine, and Joey are best friends and neighbors—and they’re totally horse-crazy. When they aren’t taking care of their ponie...

  • Instant Family

    Patt Bucheister

    Devoted to her following of scruffy felines and ragtag mutts, veterinarian Michele LaBrock neatly sidestepped the messes created by the foolish human heart. Until Cord Thomas stormed into her clinic and into her life, demanding that she meet her long...

  • War Eagles

    Frank Burleson

    Facing his first test as a professional soldier with the U.S. Army, First Lieutenant Nathanial Barrington finds his initial skepticism about the morality of claiming Indian territory confirmed when he meets the beautiful Apache Jocita. Original....

  • The Puffin Book of Nursery Rhymes

    Nick Butterworth

    With over 250 nursery rhymes, including both well-known favourites and hidden gems, this collection has something for every child. Beautiful illustrated by Raymond Briggs, the much-loved creator of the Snowman, this revised edition of a famous classi...

  • The Matisse Stories

    A.S. Byatt

    Three delightful stories inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse -- from the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession and “a writer of dazzling inventiveness" (Time)."[An] exquisite triptych.... Richly drawn and touches upon things that matter to ...

  • The Perfect Catch

    Linda Cajio

    He told her she was trouble -- of the irresistible kind.... Elaine Sampson cheered joyfully, waving her arms as the player rounded the [baseball] bases -- and drenched the gorgeous guy in front of her with ice and cola! Graham Reed accepted her a...

  • The Gator Girls

    Stephanie Calmenson

    Can two friends cram a whole summer of fun into just one day? Best friends Allie and Amy do everything together. So how will they ever make it through the summer when Allie's parents decide to send her away to Camp Wogga-Bog? ...

  • Charmed

    Stella Cameron

    A PURLOINED LIFE Stolen at birth by a deceiving wench, Calum Innes has returned at last to London, determined to take back by any means necessary that which is rightfully his -- his title, his lands, his fortune ... and a beautiful maiden engaged to...

  • Starlight Child

    Nancy Cane

    STARLIGHT DESIRE Gifted with extrasensory powers, Mara had always been loath to use her special talents. But when offworlders kidnapped the Great Healer's daughter, she willingly volunteered to help rescue the child. Little did she know that her m...

  • The Daddy Project

    Suzanne Carey

    The Baby Eleven-month-old Jamie deserved a daddy. But not just any man would do. He'd need a loving heart and a gentle way with children. And one woman would make sure Jamie's dad fit all the requirements. The Bachelor Tough and smart attorney M...

  • The Devil Soldier

    Caleb Carr

    “So marvelously improbable, so rich in exotic detail, that if often reads more like a historical thriller than the serious work of history that it is.” -- Los Angeles TimesWith the same flair for history and narrative that distinguished his bests...

  • Daughters of England

    Philippa Carr

    I was beginning to realize that there was something unusual about our marriage. . . .



    King Charles has returned after Cromwell's puritanical rule and England is determined to be merry. The delights of the theatre beckon to young Sarah ...

  • Gods of the Well of Souls

    Jack L. Chalker

    In its hour of need, the Well World's guardians had been neutralized. Nathan Brazil was shipwrecked on a desert island with a seemingly harmless girl who had caused his mind to be invaded, his will sapped, and his mission forgotten. Mavra Chang had b...

  • Family Recipe

    Pamela Quint Chambers

    THEY NEEDED EACH OTHER -- MUCH MORE THAN THEY KNEW... KATIE: The hushed rumors around her Michigan town said that the Bradshaw family wealth was depleted -- and that the straight-laced Katie Bradshaw would surely never find a husband... DANIEL:...

  • The Magnificent Siberian

    Louis Charbonneau

    In Russia, everything has a price.In Far East Siberia, Russia, a sense of independence from the central government prevailed, even under harsh Communist rule. Now, with the nation in political turmoil, poachers operate in brazen defiance of the law. ...

  • A King Beneath the Mountain

    Robert N. Charrette

    A SHADOW WAR The drone of corporate life continues. But behind the closed doors, a frenzy of activity has begun. Furtive whispers and tight-lipped excitement surround the recent discovery that will change the world forever. The ancient chaos of m...

  • The Banishment

    Marion Chesney

    COULD SHE EVER LOVE A GENTLEMAN AS MUCH AS SHE LOVED HER MAGNIFICENT HOME? Isabella Beverley is blessed with unparalleled beauty but, unfortunately, has been raised in the most snobbish and haughtiest of families. And when her father gambles away ...

  • Carousel Round and Round

    Kay Chorao

    The sun goes down, the moon comes up, and the carousel moves slower and slower. The animals push and shove, but they can't get it turning again. Then a giant lifts the carousel high in the air, and disaster seems certain. Surprise! Music rises, the "...

  • Who's the Daddy?

    Judy Christenberry

    Could an expectant mother really forget who fathered her baby? When Caroline Adkins woke in a hospital bed with amnesia, she received startling news-she was pregnant! She couldn't remember one single night of passion ... yet three different men we...

  • Death at Face Value

    Joyce Christmas

    Retired businesswoman Betty Trenka figures that typing the memoirs of a famous artist could be fun. That is, until she meets the ruthlessly vain Crispin Abbott and the bikini-clad blonde who shares his luxuriously remodeled farmhouse in rural Connect...

  • Line Drive to Short

    Matt Christopher

  • First Love, Second Chance

    Amanda Clark (1)

    TOMMY BLACK After overcoming a wild, reckless youth, he's finally become a respected member of the community. And he owes it all to one female -- his six-year-old daughter, Chipper. She means more to him than anyone -- except maybe Julia Marsh...

  • The Dog Who Cried Wolf

    Nancy Coffelt

    A great big, lovable dog named Ernie barks at everything, so his owners do not pay much attention when he barks, even louder than ever, at the sneaky orange cat that moves in next door. By the author-illustrator of Tom's Fish. ...

  • Billy Baker's Dog Won't Stay Buried

    M.T. Coffin

    Billy Baker's dog is put to sleep at the insistence of a nasty neighbor, but the dog returns from the grave and brings a legion of undead dogs with him. By the author of The Substitute Creature. Original....

  • What Kind of Love?

    Sheila Cole

    In a flash, Valerie’s world comes tumbling down. She and Peter were sharing their dreams. Now she and Peter share a problem . . .   Except it turns out to be Val’s problem. Peter says he loves her, but he has to get on with hi...

  • The Dark Island

    Robert J. Conley

    Hearing of the atrocities committed by the Spanish invaders, Squani, the son of a Timuca woman raped by a Spaniard and taken in by the Cherokee, ventures off on a dangerous and painful journey of discovery that leads him to the Spanish and a confront...

  • Dark Eyes

    Colleen Corbet

    JOINED BY FATE She appears to him like a vision out of a dream, and in his delirious state he is convinced she is stealing his young child. Even as she nurses them both back to health, he is suspicious of her as he is of all women. The ruggedly ha...

  • Sharpe's Battle

    Bernard Cornwell

    Spain 1811 As Napoleon threatens to crush Britain on the battlefield, Lt. Col. Richard Sharpe leads a ragtag army to exact personal revenge against a French general known for his acts of terror. Sharpe's Battle takes Richard Sharpe and his company...

  • Love in the First Degree

    Patricia Coughlin

    THE WRONG MAN Lawyer Claire Mackenzie knew beyond a shadow of a doubt that the wrong-side-of-the-tracks rebel she'd loved so long ago was no murderer. And she was going to prove it, whether he liked it or not. Because the passing years had don...

  • Lord of Falcon Ridge

    Catherine Coulter

    Cleve of Lord of Raven's Peak and Chessa of Lord of Hawkfell Island first meet when Chessa is the princess of Ireland and Cleve has no memory of the time before he was a slave. When vivid dreams kindle memories of his native Scotland, Cleve's goal be...

  • Fire on the Mountain And Other Stories from Ethiopia and Eritrea

    Harold Courlander

  • Gentle Thunder

    Rebecca Craig

    WOUNDED SPIRIT Spurned at the altar by her last love, Maggie Long year went west to her uncle's ranch to relax--and forget about men. TORTURED SOUL Crushed by the loss of a woman, Will Sutten kept his mind off love by ranching--and plotting reve...

  • How Iwariwa the Cayman Learned to Share

    George Crespo

    Author/artist George Crespo has created a colorful, spirited retelling of a story from the Yanomami people of the Amazon rain forest, accompanied by his energetic, brightly hued paintings. All the animals have always eaten their food raw, because the...

  • The Lost Guardian

    Ronald Anthony Cross

    Thousands of years after ancient Theseus broke the eternal stone of power into four pieces and placed them in the hands of four guardians, an act which gave the guardians unlimited power, a group of conspirators plots to take over...

  • Bliss

    Judy Cuevas

    Hannah Van Evan was a young American who wished to learn about the world and to make her way in it. She was determined to improve herself, but was often baffled by exclusive turn-of-the-century high society. Nardi de Saint Vallier was a gifted young ...

  • Yesterday's Roses

    Heather Cullman

    WOUNDED HEART, HEALING LOVE Dr. Hallie Gardiner knows something is terribly wrong with the handsome, haunted-looking man in the great San Francisco mansion. The Civil War had wounded Jake "Young Midas" Parrish, just as it had left Serena, his once...

  • Hide-Out Canyon

    Jack Curtis

    Staging a jail break after his meddling wife cuts a deal with a corrupt warden, Wayne Carrol reunites with his partners and the profits of a sixty-thousand-dollar heist and plots to settle an old score before retiring...

  • Overdue

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    BOOK DROP It was after hours. Kathleen was preparing to close the library when somebody returned five grisly books about death. One was slashed. All were overdue. Then Kathleen found the bookmark with the deadly warning. Now people close to her...

  • The New Dress

    Ivor Cutler

  • The Singing Snake

    Stefan Czernecki

  • Riding High

    Janet Dailey
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    Deke Flanders - He's a cool-headed, long-legged, heart-stopping stunt cowboy who's about to take the hardest fall of his life -- for Victoria Thornton, an arrogant actress he'd never even expected to like......

  • The Secret Years

    Margot Dalton

    Old secrets, new lives.... NO SECRET LASTS FOREVER.... Kate Daniels is beginning to regret her impulsive move to the small town of Wolf Hill, Alberta. The locals are hostile and determined to stop her from renovating the old Wolf Hill Hote...

  • Forever Isn't Long Enough

    Val Daniels

    "Father knows best!" Mark has a problem: His dad is sick and wants to see Mark married without delay. Sarah has a problem: Mark! On the day they meet he helps her lose her job and sprain her ankle. So Mark comes up with a master plan...

  • The Dream

    Zoe Daniels

    In the quiet town of Los Gatos, love stalks the night like a cat -- and lashes out with its claws... HOLLY In her dreams she was hunted by a panther. But in real life, she was the new kid at school, haunted by the catlike eyes of a dangerous boy....

  • You Can't Eat Your Chicken Pox, Amber Brown

    Paula Danziger

    HAVING THE CHICKEN POX IS NO VACATION. It's finally summer and Amber Brown is going to London to visit her aunt Pam and then to Paris to visit with her father. She is one excited kid before she gets there. And one itchy kid when she arrives. Mosqu...

  • Snow White, Blood Red

    Ellen Datlow

    Once upon a time, fairy tales were for children...But no longer. You hold in your hands a volume of wonders--magical tales of trolls and ogres, of bewitched princesses and kingdoms accursed, penned by some of the most acclaimed fantasists of our d...

  • Dark of the Moon

    Janice Daugharty

    “Janice Daugharty is a natural-born writer.” " Pat Conroy She held him prisoner. He set her free. A moonshiner’s downtrodden wife. A federal agent in search of illegal stills. A love neither expected. A situation about to explode.  When ...

  • Kiss of Death

    Nicole Davidson

    An obnoxious teenager is pushed overboard and the crew and passengers of a cruise ship are on edge, including sixteen-year-old Carol Walters, who thinks she may be next on the killer's list. By the author of Winterkill. Original....

  • Errant Angel

    Justine Davis

    DALTON MACKAY WAS NO ANGEL Evangeline Law was--and she had never met a human she couldn't save. Dalton, with his devil-may-care swagger, would have been a challenge--if he were her mission. But Evangeline had her divine orders, and Dalton would ha...

  • The Lion's Whiskers

    Nancy Raines Day

    An Ethiopian folktale follows a stepmother's dangerous quest in which she must pluck three whiskers from a fierce lion's chin in order to gain her stepson's trust, and is accompanied by bold collage illustrations by a Caldecott Honor-winning artist....

  • Murder Live at Five

    David Debin

    While being framed for murder by a television tabloid show and dallying with a starlet, unrepentant yippie Albie Marx takes on Hollywood's most ruthless movers and shakers, who are vying for control of the last great motion picture studio....

  • Living With Aliens

    John DeChancie

    Thirteen-year-old Drew could not be happier with his alien friends, Zorg and Flez, who help raise his IQ, find him a girl-friend, and travel to Mars, until the ornery Blog comes to arrest them for treason. Original....

  • Pearl Beyond Price

    Claire Delacroix

    Black Wind, the Mongols hailed him. Swift, fierce and proud. Yet Kira looked upon Thierry de Pereille and saw, not a man marked by legend, but a warrior who had taken her from the life she knew . . . to a place beyond her wildest dreams. The woman...

  • Comanche Rain

    Genell Dellin

    A brutal attack by Apache raiders shattered everything Abigail Briscoe believed in-destroying the last shred of her compassion for the Indian tribes of the open frontier. And now, to rescue her kidnapped sister, Abby must put her trust in a handsome ...

  • The Stonecutter

    Demi

  • Miss Zukas and the Island Murders

    Jo Dereske

    ISLAND GETAWAY An anonymous note in the morning mail reminds librarian Helma Zukas of her long-forgotten promise to bring her high school classmates together for a twenty-year reunion. Never one to break a promise, the very conscientious Miss Zuka...

  • Reckless Appetites

    Jacqueline Deval

    Pomme is a contemporary young woman who is a passionate cook with a restless hunger. She looks to the lives of writers for inspiration in love, and in the culinary arts. Part fiction, part cookbook, Reckless Appetites explores literary romance, reven...

  • Gertie's Green Thumb

    Catherine Dexter

  • Northwest Passage

    William Dietrich

  • 1, 2, 3, under the Sea

    Disney Book Group

  • It's Time to Wash!

    Walt Disney

  • Murder by Magic

    Franklin W. Dixon

    Helping out during an annual magic show, the Hardy boys are alarmed when Gideon the Great's assistant is murdered and her disguised killer disappears, opening up investigations on a long list of rival magician suspects. Original....

  • The Hooded Hawk Mystery

    Franklin W. Dixon
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    The young detectives receive a trained peregrine falcon as a gift that involves them in an exciting mystery. Imagine their astonishment when the swift-flying falcon brings down a homing pigeon carrying two precious rubies! Startling events that ensue...

  • Spring's Fury

    Denise Domning

    RAGING PASSIONS Nicola of Ashby bravely wielded a sword to fight for her father's fiefdom. Bravely but futilely, for her castle keep lay charred and the battle was lost. A woman warrior, Nicola had chosen her proud independence over a husband's ru...

  • The Beaux of Bayley Dell

    Dorothea Donley

    LONDON HAS NOTHING ON BAYLEY DELL Due to unexpected reversals, the Eland family has had to lease Bayley Manor to a rich cit and move to a tiny house in the village. Now Miss Mirabelle and Miss Frances simply despair of ever making a proper match f...

  • A Dream Apart

    Kate Donovan

    IT WAS A TIME OF SORCERY AND SPELLS, MYTHS AND MAGIC, ANCIENT EVIL AND SPELLBINDING DESIRE...A TIME OF HISTORY...According to family legend, Molly Sheridan is descended from a mystical race of kings and sorcerers. And although she has always been hau...

  • Miss Caroline's Deception

    Anne Douglas

    Lightskirt or Lady? She was a creature of tantalizing mystery. Was she a lady born and bred or a lightskirt in disguise? Was she a wife or a mistress on the run from scandal? The young woman who called herself Miss Caroline would reveal nothing o...

  • Isaac Asimov's Skin Deep

    Gardner Dozois

    Written by Kathe Koja, Pat Cadigan, James Patrick Kelly, Connie Willis and others, ten sensual, provocative science fiction stories set in a seductive but frightening future are culled from the pages of Asimov's Science Fiction digest. Origin...

  • Through the Breach

    David Drake

    His acclaimed novel Hammer's Slammers has become one of the all-time classics of military science fiction. His novel Igniting the Reaches launched a bold new epic of cosmic conquest. Now David Drake returns to that savage frontier of space--where pir...

  • Bloom of Doom

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Willie Jerome

    Alice Faye Duncan

    When Willie Jerome plays his summer jazz on the rooftop, everyone considers it just noise, except his sister Judy, who tries to convince everyone of how good it is and who finally gets Mama to listen to Willie Jerome seriously....

  • The Hunters' Haunt

    Dave Duncan

    The Trader of Tales A blizzard savaged the mountain peaks, but at an inn called the Hunters' Haunt, travelers found safe refuge, a cozy room, and a roaring fire. All but Omar, the Trader of Tales--against whom the innkeeper had been nursing a grud...

  • The Lady and the Rake

    Carola Dunn

    WHERE THERE'S A WILL...THERE'S ROMANCE! Nerissa Wingate's grandfather, Sir Barnabas Philpott, had never forgiven her mother for running off with an actor from the 'wrong side' of the ton. And now Nerissa was paying the price --...

  • The Bookman's Wake

    John Dunning

    Few novels have been as eagerly awaited as John Dunning's sequel to the award-winning Booked to Die, which was hailed by critics and readers for both its powerful writing and its fascinating glimpse into the world of rare book collecting. Now, Denver...

  • The Moon and the Thorn

    Teresa Edgerton

    Grifflet, Gwenlliant of Mochdreff sets out on a perilous journey across the Shadow Lands to protect her adopted son, armed only with her failing gift for magic. By the author of The Grail and the Ring. Original....

  • The Case of the Missing Pitcher

    T.J. Edwards

    When Sam, the Smithfield Sonic's star pitcher, disappears, the big game with the Hornets is threatened, and the only clues that Sam's friends have is a bubble gum wrapper, a typewriter ribbon, and some wet paint. Original....

  • Death Throes

    Clive Egleton

    After having his cover blown during a prior mission, spy Peter Ashton believes that his espionage career is over, until a mysterious informant insists on dealing directly with him, a request that sends him off on a perilous chase....

  • Murder Can Ruin Your Looks

    Selma Eichler

    A DISCRIMINATING TASTE FOR MURDER Desiree Shapiro, New York's full-figured P.I., is dead set against taking another murder case. But her old friend Peter Winters just needs Desiree to figure out who got killed. His fiancee, Mary Ann, and her ident...

  • The Last Ride

    Thomas Eidson

    A novel of the American West narrates the story of a dying man's attempts to make peace with his daughter, their struggle to rescue his granddaughter from renegades and slave traders, and his lifelong search for inner peace...

  • Dead Men's Hearts

    Aaron Elkins

    MYSTERY'S IN HIS BONES A skeleton tossed on an Egyptian garbage dump is the first mystery to rattle Gideon Oliver as he arrives in the famous Valley of the Nile. There to appear in a documentary film, Gideon and his wife, Julie, expect a luxurious...

  • A Special License

    Kathleen Elliott

    MISTAKEN IDENTITY When the Earl of Rothwick abducted Miss Linnea Ashley, he believed he was saving his nephew from a scheming adventuress. Once he discovered the truth, there was only one thing a gentleman of honor could do to save her innocent re...

  • Lady Charlotte Contrives

    Monique Ellis
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    Years ago, unforeseen tragedy divided Viscount Connard and his wife, Marianne. Now, as a long-kept secret is revealed, Connard sets out to find the love his heart has never forgotten......

  • Lone Star and the Bogus Banker

    Wesley Ellis

    A con man plans an all-out border war -- and makes Jessie a deal to die for!When Colonel Edgar Perry rides into the Circle Star ranch with a get-rich-quick scheme to extend the border of Texas into Mexico, Jessie's refusal to go along leads to her ab...

  • Three Cool Kids

    Rebecca Emberley

    Tiring of their dusty urban lot, Big, Middle, and Little, three city goats with attitudes, plan to move to a green, grassy place that is blocked to them by a mean sewer rat who will not let anyone pass, in a modern version of the folktale about the t...

  • The Night of Wishes

    Michael Ende

    This thrilling New Year’s Eve tale of sorcery and suspense is like a “goofy Paradise Lost for middle schoolers” (New York Times Book Review). Comic fantasy, clever wordplay, and slapstick shenanigans from the bestselling children’s author o...

  • Longarm and the Helldorado Kid

    Tabor Evans

    Posing as a first-class lady-killer, Longarm goes undercover to nab the most wanted family in the West--the Killions, a gang of horse thieves and train robbers notorious for their ability to outwit the law...

  • Ask Kermit: Do Flies Have Eyes

    Joe Ewers

  • Hour of Our Death

    Ann C. Fallon

    SEEING IS BELIEVING It was big news in the small town of Buncloda: a vision of the Blessed Virgin came to Mary Dowd as she and two companions prayed by a stone grotto in the wee hours of the morning. Now visitors flock to Buncloda from all over ...

  • The Warm Place

    Nancy Farmer

    It's going to take more than a little "giraffe magic" to save Ruva. Ruva lives peacefully with her giraffe family in Africa -- until she is kidnapped by the dastardly Slope family and shipped to an American zoo. Then she meets the wise rats Troll ...

  • O'Brian's Bride

    Colleen Faulkner

    Elizabeth Lawrence left her pampered English childhood behind to journey to the far-off Colonies...and marry a man she'd never met. But her dreams turned to dust when an explosion killed her new husband at his powder mill, leaving Elizabeth alone to ...

  • Fugitive Moon

    Ron Faust

    A dark murder mystery -- and an edgy send-up of political correctness and America’s appetite for celebrity vice -- by “a very gifted writer and storyteller who can mix raucous, vulgar comedy with shrewd insight and deep feeling and still maintain...

  • Signs of Life

    Jean Ferris

    Hannah, grieving over the loss of her sister, visits the prehistoric cave paintings at Lascaux with her parents, where she has mysterious dreams, falls in love with a gypsy circus performer and begins to put her life back together....

  • Untouched

    Sandra Field

    Lessons in seduction... Technically, Finn Marston was Jenessa's new employer and she ought to be nice to him.... But thirty seconds in his company was enough for her to establish that Finn would try the patience of a saint! Trouble was, he wa...

  • Langtry Lass

    Dirk Fletcher

  • Escape from the Temple of Laughter

    Jerome Fletcher

    This is a wildly entertaining package of games, puzzles, and hilarious stories all in one innovative fold-out book. Kids are invited to explore the weird and wonderful world of J. Rathbone Fish, inventor and adventurer extraordinaire--where they'll e...

  • Rum & Razors

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    A MURDEROUS VACATION After a cold winter in Cabot Cove, Maine, and with another soon-to-be bestseller on the way to her publisher, mystery writer Jessica Fletcher is off to balmy St. Thomas with its aquamarine sea and white sand beaches. But fr...

  • Heart of the Tiger

    William R. Forstchen; Andrew Keith

    HUMANS AGAINST THE WALL! Terran forces are pushed to the wall by the ever-encroaching Kilrathi hordes. The end seems very near; it is time for desperation measures. Against overwhelming odds, the humans try to launch a last desperate offensive aga...

  • Rescued from Paradise

    Robert L. Forward

    TERRANS GO HOME! The first interstellar expedition successfully reached Barnard's Star and its amazing double-planet -- Rocheworld --and made contact with the flouwen, intelligent aquatic beings with a talent for higher mathematics and a love of s...

  • Chance for a Lifetime

    Susan Fox
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    Emmett 'Chance' Lafferty - A man's man. He's a tough-talking, poker-playing, womanizing son of a...rancher. He also happens to adore his orphaned four-year-old niece, Meredith. Unfortunately, he has to share Meredith's guardianship with her aunt, Eri...

  • Deceit

    Clare Francis

    Ellen seeks a dangerous truth when her husband is lost at sea under suspicious circumstances in this psychological thriller from international bestselling author Clare Francis When MP and successful businessman Harry Richmond is seemingly lost at sea...

  • Ash

    Lisa Rowe Fraustino

  • The Mushroom Hunt

    Simon Frazer

  • The Secret Baby

    Amy Frazier

    THE CHILD SHE NEVER KNEW SHE HAD Single mother Meg Roberts had returned to her hometown with one goal in mind. She was convinced her son had a twin, a baby taken from Meg at birth -- a child she was told had never existed. And only one man could hel...

  • All Good Things...

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Seven years ago, Captain Jean-Luc Picard first faced the judgment of the Q Continuum--a race of beings with God-like powers over time and space who presumed to gauge humanity's fitness to exist in the galaxy. Seven years ago they suspended judgment, ...

  • The Secret of the Lizard People

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Journeying to the observation site of a star collision, first-year cadet Data and his team are drawn off course by a distress call in a nearby asteroid belt, where they are attacked by alien invaders. Original....

  • These Golden Days

    Robert Funderburk

    A Senseless Tragedy Shook Their Lives and Threatened Their Futures. But the Glitter and Glamour of Hollywood Promised Jessie a Way of Escape. Austin Youngblood, known as a renegade who pushed everything to the limits, had a touch of wildness that b...

  • Just When We Are Safest

    Reg Gadney

    'MI5 will change my life tonight'.The entry in the secret diary of Mary R. Walker (Metropolitan Police) is all too accurate. When Walker is murdered in a terrorist attack, her lover, Alan Rosslyn, undercover Senior Investigation Office r, is seconded...

  • Intimate

    Elizabeth Gage

    Jill Fleming, the beautiful seducer of men and women; Leslie Chamberlain, a successful advertising executive; and Jordan Lazarus, the head of a vast business empire, come together in the ultimate sexual plot. By the author of Pandora's Box. ...

  • Alex, You're Glowing!

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Applying her extensive analytical skills to advice about the less-than-fairer sex, young Clarissa tries to understand why the nerdiest kid from last year has become this year's hunk and why her best friend has fallen in love. Original....

  • Summer Sands

    Sherry Garland

    Two children participate in efforts to restore coastal sand dunes, and the plant and animal life they harbor, after a violent summer storm sweeps the dunes away. By the author of The Lotus Seed. ...

  • Her Heart's Delight

    Rene J. Garrod

    THERE WAS NEVER A WOMAN HE COULDN'T TAME... OR A MAN SHE COULDN'T CAPTIVATE... Camille Kendall looks as soft and sweet as a new-born kitten, but nobody knows more than she does about raising horses. And now the Virginia heiress intends to...

  • Child's Cry

    Dimitri Gat

    Six years after being falsely accused of murdering a child, Mariah Sullivan rebuilds her life as the new owner of a day-care center, until she is stalked by a twisted individual who defaces the center and kidnaps Mariah's seven-year-old daughter. Ori...

  • Little Swan

    Adele Geras

    A seven-year-old ballet student who loves the joys of dancing but has a terror of dance recitals learns to handle both joys and terrors when she meets a mysterious neighbor who was once a dancer with the Bolshoi Ballet. Simultaneous....

  • Starhunt

    David Gerrold

    Their last hope was an obsolete starship and an obsessed first officer who might be insane. THE LAST WARRIOR The starship Roger Burlingame is a dinosaur. Outmoded and outclassed, it drifts through space on the brink of collapse. Yet as its demo...

  • The Middle of Nowhere

    David Gerrold

    On a starship doomed to scrap, all they asked was a chance to go down fighting. . . . A SHIP WITH NO NAME They should have returned heroes. Instead they were treated as pariahs. Stripped of a hard-won victory, cheated out of a well-deserved bount...

  • Bread Is for Eating

    David Gershator

    A bilingual, rhythmic celebration of bread, from farmer to baker. This playful, English-Spanish children''s book traces the process and production of traditional South American bread making from harvest, to crafting, to packaging, and its sale on ...

  • Daisy's Garden

    Mordicai Gerstein

  • Joshua and the Children

    Joseph Girzone

    The Story Continues... Joseph F. Girzone has woven another magical story, a modern-day parable, in Joshua and the Children, which gracefully continues the teachings and inspirations from his previous bestseller, Joshua. A stronger Joshua arri...

  • Sticky Beak

    Morris Gleitzman

    The misadventures of Rowena Batts continue in this poignant but hilarious sequel to Blabber Mouth. “Rowena’s circumstances may be very particular, but her brio in surmounting an almost universal set of fears should win a wide audience indeed.”-...

  • It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

    Martyn Godfrey

    Michael's school newspaper assignment, an expose+a7 of an all-girl party, requires that he dress as a girl, a ploy that leads to falling in love with the party's hostess and other troublesome predicaments. Original....

  • I Pretend

    Heidi Goennel

  • Disney's Movie Magic Christmas - Super Coloring Book

    Golden Books

  • Precious Moments

    Golden Books

    5539 A deluxe coloring book 1990 11.00x8.00x0.40 Cover picture is different. THESE BOOK FEATURE STORIES TO COLOR, PUZZLES, MAZES, GAMES, HIDDEN PICTURES, CUTTING ACTIVITIES, AND THINGS TO MAKE AND DO....

  • Mr. Bear's Picnic

    Golden Books

    Planning to take Baby Bear on a picnic, Mr. Bear watches everything go from bad to worse as his mischievous young neighbors decide to tag along, his picnic food is mysteriously replaced by toys, and the local pond produces no fish....

  • The Night Room

    E.M. Goldman

    Seven high-school juniors think it will be fun to participate in the Argus program, a new computer program that lets them simulate their tenth high-school reunion, but they find that glimpses into the future can be devastatingly disturbing....

  • Bino's Blues

    A.W. Gray

    Defending a flashy, big-time Houston lawyer who is accused of killing his wife, Dallas attorney Bino Phillips becomes involved with a sultry blues singer, a vindictive judge, and a hired killer with a cleanliness fetish. Before long Bino will uncover...

  • Vampire Detectives

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Nineteen vampire tales include the story of a Toronto vampire detective who is pitted against one of her own kind, a Hollywood private eye who finds a script becoming dangerously real, and a cop on the trail of a bloodthirsty killer. Original....

  • The Fox Hunt

    Maria Greene

    TRULY, SHE WASN'T SNOOPING... Miss Justine Bryerly simply peeked into the valise, hoping to discover who it belonged to...and found inside a thick roll of bank notes and a strange, indecipherable message. A bit flustered, she turned in the valise...

  • Jason and the Escape from Bat Planet

    Gery Greer

  • Crypt 33

    Adela Gregory

  • When the Heart Beckons

    Jill Gregory

    SHE WAS A PRIVATE DETECTIVE SEARCHING FOR A MISSING MAN Nobody knew her real identity, least of all Roy Steele, the icy gunslinger she followed into Arizona's wilds. They were after the same man -- but fiery Annabel Brannigan was determined t...

  • Not Home

    Ann Grifalconi

    Tommy and his brother are left in the temporary care of an inner-city group home, where Tommy befriends silent and unapproachable Jimmy, whom the other boys avoid. By the author of The Village of Round and Square Houses. ...

  • The Rainmaker

    John Grisham

    HE'S A YOUNG LAWYER WHO DOES YARD WORK IN EXCHANGE FOR RENT. THEN ONE LITTLE CASE BEGINS TO EXPLODE... It's summer in Memphis. The sweat is sticking to Rudy Baylor's shirt and creditors are nipping at his heels. Once he had aspirations of breezing ...

  • The Singing Teacher

    Renee Guerin

    Aspiring actress Sandra March discovers that the price of success in her chosen profession might be far higher--and more deadly--than she had ever imagined, after she joins a class led by Madeline, a strange singing teacher...

  • Summer Legs

    Anita Hakkinen

  • The Lady with the Hat

    Hillel Halkin

    Yulek, a seventeen-year-old Holocaust survivor, finds himself tragically alone at war's end. Hoping to begin again, he makes his way to Palestine, where he meets a sad and beautiful Jewish girl named Theresa. Saved from the Nazis by Catholic nuns, Th...