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New Books List: 585 titles

  • Jerlayne

    Lynn Abbey

    THE SECRETS OF FAERIE When Elmeene was young, a scourge devastated the realm of Faerie. Mortals had learned to work iron, and the immortal elves who ventured through the Veil to forage in the world of men, had brought the toxic metal home, unaware...

  • Super Secret Detective Kit: Become a Super Detective-Just Like the Trenchcoat Twins

    Linda Williams Aber

  • The Wrong Man

    Ginny Aiken
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    A feisty young woman makes one last-ditch effort to meet the right man -- and it backfires in hilarious fashion. But as she seeks God's will, she learns that the "wrong man" may be just right for her....

  • Brought to You by the Number 2

    Sarah Albee

  • Brought to You by the Number 3

    Sarah Albee

  • The Twinkling of an Eye

    Brian W. Aldiss

    "All my past is accepted."

    Science fiction's most eloquent creator of visions of tomorrow, Brian Aldiss, spins out his most fascinating story yet: his own.

    Born in 1925, Aldiss is representative of the unique generation that reached ado...

  • Surprise Mommy

    Liza Alexander

  • Anakin's Race for Freedom

    Alice Alfonsi

    In this colorfully illustrated storybook, Anakin Skywalker works as a salve in Watto's junk shop. One day a group of strange travelers comes to the shop in need of help. What happens next will change Anakin's life forever....

  • If Not for You

    Joye Ames

  • Lost to Love

    Bridget Anderson

    Going home again can be handsomely dangerousAfter a painful divorce, family counselor Dierdre Stanley-Levine decides to take her future into her own hands. With her daughter Mia, she takes a job back in her hometown of Brunswick, Georgia. Her goal ...

  • Bats on Parade

    Kathi Appelt

    On a midsummer's night the Marching Bat Band makes a rare appearance, its members grouped in formations that demonstrate multiplication from two times two up to ten times ten. By the creators of Bat Jamboree. ...

  • The Exposed

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because they find us ... well we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in r...

  • Ben Takes a Chance

    Katherine Applegate

    In the eleventh book in this hot series about falling in and out of love, hearts are broken and healed, best friends become enemies, and secrets meant to be kept forever are revealed. Ben, who has always coped just fine as a blind guy, risks an opera...

  • Having His Babies

    Lindsay Armstrong

    The baby surprise! Clare was an independent career woman -- and then her life was turned upside down! Her relationship with Lachlan Hewitt had started out as a business affair, but their passion had resulted in pregnancy. Lachlan immediately in...

  • The Wrong Bride

    Judith Arnold

    What have you resolved to do by the year 2000? Satisfaction: That's what Cassie Webber wants. Her New Millennium resolution is revenge against Phillip Keene, the man who broke his promise...and her heart. A year ago, when Cassie and Phill...

  • Baby Bird's First Nest

    Frank Asch

    In the middle of the night, Baby Bird rolls over and falls out of her warm, cozy nest. Sleeping Mama Bird is too far away to hear her baby’s cries for help. And poor Baby Bird’s wings are not yet strong enough to fly. What is she to do? Then Baby...

  • In the Red

    Regan C. Ashbaugh

    When the top executives at the multi-billion-dollar investment firm of Morson-Grayhead are stalked by a killer who brutally murders their wives and burns their homes to the ground, it is up to arson investigator Jake Ferguson to hunt down the homicid...

  • Class Action

    Kathryn Attalla

    Everyone in town knows wealthy Gillian Hughes is a spoiled daddy's girl. When she's arrested after staging a public protest to a social injustice, no one is more surprised than Hawk Carter. Is there more to the society princess than meets the eye? Th...

  • The Wolf and the Crown

    A.A. Attanasio

    While Merlin fights the forces of evil in Hell that threaten Arthor's reign, Arthor must guide his people past the sorceries of old and an established empire to save his people, and he must also fulfill his destiny by finding true Earthly love. Repri...

  • Outlaw with a Star

    Dave Austin

    When Deputy U.S. Marshal Riley B. Tanner dies in the arms of an outlaw who bears a startling resemblance to him, the desperate look-alike decides to masquerade as the lawman, but he soon discovers that now the bad guys are gunning for him. Original....

  • Bartered Bride

    Anne Avery

    HE BOUGHT HER HAND IN MARRIAGE, BUT HE HAD TO WIN HER LOVE.... From the tower at Colmaine Castle, Lady Alyce Fitzmartin watches the approach of the richly clad stranger, the man she is to wed that very night. The arrogant London tradesman Robert ...

  • Abigail Takes the Wheel

    Avi

  • Starfall

    James Axler

    DIRE PORTENT The forbidding world of Deathlands is the legacy of a doomed age. How it came to be--and why--are questions lost in the wreckage of post-apocalyptic reality. Though survival in this strange and surreal new world conspires to crush the h...

  • Paris Cat

    Leslie Baker

    When Alice the Cat spies a mouse in the garden, she sets off running, much to the dismay of her owner Annie, but Alice is having great fun seeing the sights of the city, until she realizes that she has no idea where she is and has no idea how to get ...

  • The Secretary and the Millionaire

    Leanne Banks

    Fortune's Children: The Brides Meet the Fortune Brides - six special women who perpetuate a family legacy greater than mere riches! THE CINDERELLA ASSIGNMENT When Jack Fortune's motherless daughter moved in with him, this ever-so-competent CEO...

  • Abraham's Battle

    Sara Harrell Banks

    "Four score and seven seven years ago..." Before Abraham Lincoln uttered these immortal words, Union and Confederate soldiers met in the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. The year was 1863, and the men that fought on both sides were not just nameles...

  • The Corpse at the Haworth Tandoori

    Robert Barnard

    The body of a young man, almost naked, found in the car park behind a Haworth restaurant marks the beginning of the case, and it is his identity that is the first puzzle for DC Charlie Peace and his superior, Detective Superintendent Oddie. But befor...

  • Archer's Crossing

    Jean Barrett

    Crossing Archer Owen seemed like the last thing anybody would want to do, or so Margaret Sheridan thought. Bringing dinner to the convicted murderer was terrifying -- for though he was nothing like her affluent fiancé, he stirred a hunger in her she...

  • His Woman, His Child

    Beverly Barton

    NINE MONTHS... Hank Bishop had given Susan Redman the greatest gift -- the baby her husband hadn't been able to give her. But soon after Hank became the sperm donor and fulfilled her family dreams, Susan was suddenly widowed. Now the rugged lawman...

  • Agatha Raisin and the Wizard of Evesham

    M.C. Beaton

    HE WAS A HAIRDRESSER TO DYE FOR -- UNTIL SOMEONE DID HIM IN... The local ladies deemed him a "wizard." So when, to Agatha's horror, she finds several coarse gray hairs poking out of her head-and the rinse she tries at home turns her hair a lovel...

  • The Burning Road

    Ann Benson

    From the bestselling author of the Plague Tales comes a spellbinding new novel that sweeps from medieval France to America in the year 2007--interweaving two gripping stories and two extraordinary eras.... In fourteenth-century France, pockets of ...

  • The Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Stinky Milk Mystery

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • The Berenstain Bears' House of Mirrors

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Fat looks thin. Happy looks sad. A house of mirrors is be a very confusing place. But there's nothing confusing about this Early Step into Readingâ"¢ Book in which words and pictures are so super-simple and so super-clear that reading success is prac...

  • The Berenstain Bear Scouts and the White Water Mystery

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

  • In the Shade of the Nispero Tree

    Carmen T. Bernier-Grand

  • ABC Animals!

    Mark Bernthal

    Play the animal alphabet game with Barney!

    From Alligator to Zebra, Barney takes children on an ABC tour of a wide variety of animals. The lively rhyme provides fun information about each animal.

    Also published as a readalong with a cas...

  • Barney's Outer Space Adventure

    Mark Bernthal

  • Blackjack's Lady

    Cheryl Biggs

    HE WAS HER WILD CARD... As the feisty owner of the Silver Goose Saloon, Samantha was the best woman card player on the Mississippi. But ever since she'd been falsely accused of cheating, she vowed never to gamble again -- that is until a poker-f...

  • Heir to the Shadows

    Anne Bishop

    DREAMS MADE FLESH The Blood have waited centuries for the coming of Witch, the living embodiment of magic. But Jaenelle, the young girl prophecy spoke of, is haunted by the cruel battles- fought over her future power. For not all the Blood await h...

  • Mystic Dreamers

    Rosanne Bittner

    For over a decade, Rosanne Bittner has enchanted her readers with tales of adventure and romance in the times before the White Man settled the West. Now, in the tradition of Kathleen O'Neal Gear and W. Michael Gear, the bestselling author of Song of ...

  • The Leper's Companions

    Julia Blackburn

    In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part present, part past, and wholly genuine and poetic. The unnamed protagonist has recently lost someone...

  • Pankration: The Ultimate Game

    Dyan Blacklock

    In Greece, in 430 BC, Nic sets out to search of his friend, Gellus, at Olympia in order to save him from his awaiting enemies and the challenge of the Pankration, the most vicious and brutal sport in all the games....

  • This Is Soccer

    Margaret Blackstone


    From juggling and dribbling to shooting and saving, this action-packed introduction to soccer covers the ups and downs of a field game as two coed youth teams go head-to-head. Young children get a firsthand look at this popular sport as players r...

  • Borderlands

    James Carlos Blake

    A “gritty, raw, bare-knuckled†collection of stories set along the US-Mexico border from the LA Times Book Prizeâ€"winning author of In the Rogue Blood (Publishers Weekly).   In this extraordinary collection of short fiction, James Carlos Bl...

  • Man of the Hour

    Peter Blauner

    YESTERDAY HE WAS THE MEDIA'S BIGGEST HERO. TODAY HE'S AMERICA'S MOST WANTED. Suddenly, in a single impulsive act of rescue, teacher David Fitzgerald is a media sensation. Then, just as swiftly, he becomes the suspect in the very crime--the bombing...

  • A Pet for Pippa Mouse

    Betty Boegehold

  • Right From Wrong

    Cindy Bonner

    Almost from the day she was born -- in 1901 McDade, Texas -- Sunny DeLony has adored her cousin, Gil Daily. Their mothers are sisters and have raised their children as if they were siblings -- wrestling, and running wild. Sunny can't say exactly w...

  • Fade to Black

    Della Borton

    INTRODUCING GILDA LIBERTY AND HER ECCENTRIC MOVIE-MAD FAMILY... If the cameras had been rolling when eighty-two-year-old film legend Mae Liberty ascended to that big movie studio in the sky, she would have won her second Oscar. After all, her dyin...

  • Seal Team : Roll-Back

    Tim L. Bosiljevac

    One Creed, One Goal - One Team

    A legend is born in 1954 with the covert landing of four agents on a night-blackened Asian beach. Now those men and their comrades in arms have come together to remember those days.

    This is the saga of the best and ...

  • Long Son

    Peter Bowen

    In Toussaint, Montana, old family secrets, forgotten for more than one hundred years, come to light after a young woman and her land-owning parents die under suspicious circumstances. When Larry Messmer, the brother and son of the victims, auctions o...

  • Crowfoot Ridge

    Ann Brandt

    Avery Baldwin is going back to Carolina . . . to the small mountain range called Crowfoot Ridge where she spent the summers of her youth. This time, though, the trip isn't just in her mind, as it has often been in the twenty years of a childless marr...

  • Mark Mcgwire

    Richard J. Brenner

  • SEAL It with a Kiss

    Rogenna Brewer

    A woman in the SEALs? Lieutenant Tabitha Chapel is determined to become the first woman to join the navy SEALs. She'll use every connection she has (and she has plenty), any wile (feminine or otherwise) and her substantial strength of will to make...

  • If I Were Your Mother

    Margaret Park Bridges

  • Leaving Emma

    Nancy Steele Brokaw

    When Emma learns that her forever best friend, Tem, is moving away at the end of the school year, she is miserable. Then she finds out that Dad is going to Turkey for five months on business. And then Mom says she's going to visit him there. Emma fee...

  • A Place in My Heart

    Betty Brooks

    HER PAST WAS A MYSTERY She was all but dead when he dragged her from the raging river. When she woke days later in his Texas farmhouse, the only clue she had was a bracelet that said "Jess." Who she was, where she'd come from, and how ...

  • The Marriage Quest

    Helen Brooks

    The determined bridegroom! Jared Vincent is a man with a mission. Since the moment he set eyes on Henrietta, his new tenant, he's wanted her. But this beautiful, elusive woman tells Jared in no uncertain terms that she isn't interested in ...

  • Lamb in Love

    Carrie Brown

    Carrie Brown's triumphant first novel, Rose's Garden, garnered high praise from the critics for its "simple, beautiful language," and for "plumbing the emotional depths of ordinary human beings." Just a year later, she does it again. Lamb in Love is ...

  • Driving the Heart: And Other Stories

    Jason Brown

    A debut collection of short fiction by an author whose work has appeared in Best American Short Stories and other collections and periodicals features such works as "Thief," "Dog Lover," "Sadness of the Body," and the title story, about a man who tra...

  • The Last Song Dogs

    Sinclair Browning

    DYING TO ATTEND Trade Ellis is part Apache, part cowgirl, the owner of an Arizona ranch, and a licensed private eye. Her cases are mostly routine ... until someone starts thinning the ranks of the cheerleading squad from her old high school class ...

  • Read Between the Lies

    Lori Bryant-Woolridge

    Step into the world of New York fashion and into the lives of three ambitious women, each of whom has a secret to hide.Gabrielle Donovan is a stunning and feisty nineteen-year-old who comes to New York hoping to realize her dream of becoming a superm...

  • Conformation Faults

    Bonnie Bryant

    While Callie Forester recovers from a recent betrayal by a close friend, Ben Marlow wonders what secrets Carole Hanson is hiding since she has become obsessed with a certain horse and has been ignoring her friends and her own horse. Original....

  • Show Jumper

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Saddle Club is going to the horse show. So is Veronica diAngelo, and she is already deciding where to display her next blue ribbon. But she may be in for a shock. The Saddle Club has a secret weapon: Samson, the natural born jumper. He and Lisa A...

  • Where Did Josie Go

    Helen Elizabeth Buckley

    Told in rollicking rhyme, a classic game of hide-and-seek is accompanied by joyful illustrations that encourage young children to play along by finding Josie themselves. By the creators of Grandfather and I. ...

  • Signs and Wonders

    Melvin Jules Bukiet

    In late 1999, in the midst of a brutal hurricane on the Baltic coast, a concrete prison barge rips free of its moorings. Of thousands of Europe's most dangerous criminals, only the twelve depraved souls in cell block 306 survive. One of the twelve is...

  • The Last Legion

    Chris Bunch

    THE CONFEDERATION WANTS YOU ! In a turbulent age of the human Confederation empire, a forgotten branch of the Army patrols the farthest reaches of civilization. And as the volatile Confederation begins to implode, they are humanity's only hope for t...

  • Tales from the Homeplace: Adventures of a Texas Farm Girl

    Harriet Burandt

    Despite her mother's pleas to act like a lady, Irene Hutto races mule-drawn wagons, saves her family from a panther, and has other adventures growing up on a Texas cotton farm during the Great Depression. Reprint....

  • Urban Dreams and Rural Realities

    Daniel Butler

  • The Rake's Retreat

    Nancy Butler

    Dangerous Haven One fragrant June afternoon, Lady Jemima Vale too her canvas stool and sketchbook to the sunny countryside with the intention of drawing a pleasant view of some aspens. But what she saw made her heart lurch. From across the plain c...

  • Lost in Space: Promised Land

    Pat Cadigan

    Lost in Space

    Hopelessly lost in the trackless depths of interstellar space, the Jupiter Two, piloted by John and Maureen Robinson, is suddenly beamed aboard a starship the size of a small planet. Inside is a place beyond imagination where secret ...

  • More and More

    Stella Cameron

    Mayfair Square, a London town house where the most extraordinary things happen, such as the dangerous affair between... THE SPINSTER Finch More, twenty-nine, connoisseur of antique glass, is considered "on the shelf." But when her broth...

  • Good-Bye Midnight Wanderer

    Joanna Campbell

    Was it really Ashleigh's fault?

    Tragedy has struck Edgardale. Ashleigh Griffen's favorite yearling has been injured in a terrible accident, and Ashleigh feels responsible. The vet says the colt should be put down. Ashleigh begs for time, and...

  • On the Track

    Joanna Campbell

    Another tough choice...

    Ever since Melanie Graham came to live with her cousin Christina Reese, she's had her eye on the track. She wants to be an exercise rider, and maybe one day, a winning jockey. With her aunt Ashleigh's Tho...

  • When I Was Your Age, Volume Two: Original Stories about Growing Up

    Candlewick Press

    In a companion volume to an award-winner, writers such as Jane Yolen, Joseph Bruchac, E. L. Konigsburg, and Kyoko Mori reflect on special childhood moments and demonstrate the similar, different, and life-changing experiences of children during vario...

  • Enchantment

    Orson Scott Card

    The moment young Ivan stumbled upon a clearing in the dense Carpathian forest, his life was forever changed. Atop a pedestal encircled by fallen leaves, the beautiful princess Katerina lay as still as death--while a malevolent presence stirred in the...

  • The Greek Tycoon

    Suzanne Carey

    The twelve sexiest. most sought-after men share every intimate detail of their lives in twelve brand-new novels by your favorite authors.... VERY RICH. VERY ARROGANT. VERY MARRIED? Gorgeous Greek shipping tycoon Theo Petrakis lived life to the ...

  • How Do You Say It Today, Jesse Bear?

    Nancy White Carlstrom

  • Where I'm Calling From

    Raymond Carver

    By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of reader...

  • Glimpses of Truth

    Jack Cavanaugh

    An extraordinary intellect, the love of a beautiful woman, and a remarkable mission - life holds great promise for Thomas Torr. Chosen by John Wycliffe to assist in translating the Latin Vulgate into English, the young peasant senses God calling him ...

  • Anakin's Fate

    Marc Cerasini

    A wonderful original adventure, showing Anakin's daily life on Anakin Skywalker believes that one day he will be more than just a slave.  He has dreams. Maybe someday he will leave Tatooine and become a space pilot, or even a Jedi Knight!  But ho...

  • For Whom the Stars Shine

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    As the family of the last queen of Hawaii fights for their rights to the monarchy's vast properties, one granddaughter, Eden Derrington, returns, only to discover family secrets that will greatly change the course of events on her beautiful island. O...

  • Courting Mandy

    Victoria Chancellor

    HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN Dedicated librarian Mandy Thompson is an all-American beauty with a passion for books and a longing for romance. A nice catch for a nice man. Unfortunately the only man who's setting her on fire is a must to avoid: a dangerou...

  • The Quilter's Apprentice

    Jennifer Chiaverini

    When Sarah McClure and her husband, Matt, move to Waterford, Pennsylvania, she hopes to make a fresh start in the small college town. Unable to find a job both practical and fulfilling, she takes a temporary position at Elm Creek Manor helping its re...

  • Colonel Daddy

    Maureen Child

    COLONEL DAD...AND MAJOR MOM? Impossible! Could it be that Major Kate Jennings was going to be Major Mom? And the devastatingly handsome marine she'd had a long-distance relationship with was going to be a daddy - Colonel Daddy, that is! Suddenly t...

  • Lords of Light

    Deepak Chopra

    American doctor Michael Aulden, is one of thirty-six pure souls--mentioned in the ancient writings--who can keep the world from a descent into evil, but he and the woman he loves will have to join forces against a destructive young man known as The P...

  • The Captain Contest

    Matt Christopher

    When Dewey London and Bundy Neel see the poster about the new summer soccer league, they're psyched. Then they read the fine print and learn about the logo contest: Whoever draws the best team logo will be named captain of his or her team and see the...

  • Operation Baby-Sitter

    Matt Christopher

    Bundy Neel is trying hard to be the best soccer captain he can be. He always has an encouraging word for his teammates, and he works extra hard during practices and games. So why does his attitude change out of the blue? His teammates don't know it, ...

  • Spike It!

    Matt Christopher

    Jane is looking forward to the start of the volleyball season when her widower father drops a bombshell: he is planning to marry a woman with a teenage daughter of her own! Jane's new mother and stepsister go out of their way to be nice and accommoda...

  • Never Buried

    Edie Claire

    Advertising copywriter Leigh Koslow is not leaving her twenties on a good note. Her career's going nowhere, her parents live too close for comfort, and the love of her life is a skittish Persian cat. Luckily the Pittsburgh suburbs have enough qui...

  • The Price of Love

    Beverly Clark

  • Twanged

    Carol Higgins Clark

    Regan Reilly plans to spend her Fourth of July week vacationing in the Hamptons at her parents' home and also with her best friend, Kit, who has a share in a group house. A last-minute phone call, however, casts Regan's trip in a new light. B...

  • A Royal Alliance

    Brenda Clarke

    1486. A divided England watches as the people's favourite, Elizabeth of York, marries the feared and unscrupulous King, Henry VII.

    Despite having lived in exile since childhood, Henry Tudor had nursed his fragile claim to the English throne. He was...

  • The Headstrong Heart

    Alana Clayton

    A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE Elizabeth Leighton has just regained consciousness, only to learn that whoever assaulted her also murdered her dear stepmother Helen Northrup, Lady Garvey. Accused of the ghastly crime is Lord Roarke, the man she has quietly a...

  • Frank's Great Museum Adventure

    Rod Clement

    First came Edward the Emu. Next was Edwina the Emu, and then the mysterious case of Grandpas Teeth. Now comes one more totally hilarious book from the master of the weird and wacky: Frank is cool; he wears sunglasses. He makes every day an adventure....

  • Workshop

    Andrew Clements

    The dazzling cut-paper artistry of Caldecott medalist David Wisniewski combines with Andrew Clements's free-verse celebration of woodworking tools to tell the story of a surprise in the making. The evocative description of each workshop tool-ruler, a...

  • Pride of Princesses

    Shirley Climo

    Meet the princesses...

    Mpunzanyana, the brave princess of the South African Xhosa, marries a five-headed serpent to save her sister. Lina, the spoiled princess of Germany, foolishly turns away the love of a king. And Maix, a...

  • Set Sail My Heart

    Colleen Coble
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    A nostalgic look at springtimes past, and the joy of love discovered. 'SpringÆs Memory' is the latest collection of historical inspirational novellas from Barbour Publishing. Includes the stories 'A Valentine for Prudence' by Darlene Mindrup, 'Set S...

  • Plains of Promise

    Colleen Coble

    After her husband is killed in the summer of 1866 and his real wife shows up at her door, Emmie leaves her hometown of Wabash, Indiana, and travels to Fort Laramie in the Dakota Territory as a companion to an old friend. There is no lack of male suit...

  • When the Horses Came

    Amanda Cockrell

    The Trickster's gifts come with a price. A long time ago he gave a new animal to our ancestors, and changed the world...

    Out of Breath is barely a man when he first dreams of a powerful white animal- a shining giant that runs unseen through the des...

  • The Titanic Murders

    Max Allan Collins

    THE CHARACTERS IN THIS NOVEL ARE REAL. THE MURDERS ARE A MYSTERY. Jacques Futrelle was among the many famous passengers who boarded the R.M.S. Titanic on April 10, 1912. One of the most celebrated American mystery writers of his time, Futrelle was...

  • Truly Daddy

    Cara Colter

    Truly a Family? What was it that made rugged mountain man Garret Boyd so irresistible to Toni Carlton? Could it be the tenderness she'd glimpsed in his blue eyes whenever he swept his orphaned niece into his strong, sheltering arms? Or was it the...

  • Diary of a Monster's Son

    Ellen Conford

    When I wake up this morning, I hear my father whistling in the bathroom. The door is open, so I go in. He is standing in front of the mirror, combing his hair. Good morning, Bradley," he says. "Isn't this a beautiful day?†I wish I had hair lik...

  • Brass

    Robert J. Conley

    Winner of the Beginnings of Horror Award! The ancient Cherokees knew him as "Untsaiyi", or Brass, because of his metallic skin. He was one of the old ones, the original beings who lived long before man walked the earth. And he would live forever. He ...

  • Blood Mud

    K.C. Constantine

    The New York Times Book Review has hailed K. C. Constantine as the "eloquent" medium for "the voices of people who have lost out on the American dream". The place once again is the fictional town of Rocksburg, PA, which once had factories and saloons...

  • Spider-Man: The Death of Gwen Stacy

    Gerry Conway

    In 1973, comic books were only beginning to escape the formulas by which they had been produced for decades. Many of the conventions of the traditional comic book story were being challenged by Stan Lee's still young Marvel Comics. Conventions that f...

  • The Glass Prison

    Monte Cook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
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    Adrift in a strange world, the half-demon Vheod embarks on a quest to rid his new home of a powerful demon lord . . . but before this unspeakable evil can be destroyed, it will have to be released!...

  • Until Day Breaks

    Will Cook

  • Building

    Elisha Cooper

    It begins with an empty city lot and ends with a gleaming new building. But what happens in between? With his trademark sketch pad, watercolors, and sharp eye for atmosphere and detail, Elisha Cooper takes note of what goes on at a construction site ...

  • The Larkswood Legacy

    Nicola Cornick

    Widowed Mrs. Annabella St. Auby's situation was uncomfortable, but meeting Sir William Weston was wonderful! He made his interest very clear, and she was hugely drawn to him. But when her father's tangled affairs were finally sorted out, she foun...

  • Teaming Up

    Emily Costello

    When Star teammates elect Geena to talk to Sheila about her lack of sportsmanship on the soccer field, they discover that the reason behind Sheila's aggression is going to take a team effort to overcome. Original....

  • Lucy Cousins' Book of Nursery Rhymes

    Lucy Cousins

  • Odder Than Ever

    Bruce Coville

    Beloved for his hilarious and unexpectedly moving novels, Bruce Coville is also a master of the short story. In this follow-up to Oddly Enough, he again presents a collection of unusual breadth and emotional depth. A ghost who died under uproarious c...

  • The Wonder of Spring

    Carol Cox
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    A nostalgic look at springtimes past, and the joy of love discovered. 'SpringÆs Memory' is the latest collection of historical inspirational novellas from Barbour Publishing. Includes the stories 'A Valentine for Prudence' by Darlene Mindrup, 'Set S...

  • The Disappearance

    Jasmine Cresswell

    One spring morning, Professor Summer Shepherd disappeared.... And though ordinarily the FBI refuses to negotiate with terrorists, they clearly would have to make an exception in this case. Summer Shepherd is, after all, the daughter of the U.S. Se...

  • Murder Is an Art

    Bill Crider

    Dr. Sally Good, head of the English and Fine Arts Division of the Hughes Community College in Texas, has her hands full. On top of dealing with the numerous complaints from testy faculty members concerning the allocation of the department's budget, ...

  • Kissed a Sad Goodbye

    Deborah Crombie

    Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Genuna James face their most haunting case vet when the past devastatingly intersects with the present.... The call from Scotland Yard couldn't have come at a worse tine for Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincai...

  • Mystery of the Monkey's Maze

    Doug Cushman

  • Legs Benedict

    Mary Daheim

    HAIL, HAIL, THE MOB'S ALL HERE! A week of "mayhem-as-usual" at Hillside Manor kicks off with the arrival of a mysterious "Mr. Smith" and his floozie "Mrs." from New York City--and it accelerates into chaos when Mr. Smith himself kicks off, a victi...

  • To Hire and To Hold

    Margot Dalton
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    When Lee and David, total strangers who met during parallel job interviews, find out they've both been hired, they rashly solve an employment requirement dilemma by getting married. To each other. They couldn't know the boss's wife considers it her m...

  • A Man I Used to Know

    Margot Dalton

    Some things don't change: Dr. Lila Marsden in on duty when Tom Bennet is brought into Emergency. She recognizes him at once -- as a national rodeo champion and the man she used to love. He's still living the dangerous life of the rodeo cowboy. So...

  • The Daddy Trap

    Kayla Daniels

    FOR THE LOVE OE A CHILD... To save her nephew from the clutches of his abusive "father," Kristen Monroe would do anything. But even she hesitated at Luke Hollister's door--for despite her adolescent crush on him, he'd been in love with her late si...

  • The Secret Mistress

    Emma Darcy

    One more night.... Tricked into believing Luis Angel Martinez was committed to marrying another woman, and convinced he had drawn her into being his secret mistress, Shontelle had ended their affair, declaring he'd been no more to her than an ...

  • When I Fall in Love

    Iris Rainer Dart

    Funny, feisty Lily Benjamin has it all--as a top television comedy writer she juggles her demanding job, single motherhood, and a satisfying romance with a well-respected doctor. But suddenly her life is turned upside down. Her relationship grows lac...

  • The Tender Stranger

    Carolyn Davidson

    Trust No One To her sorrow, Erin Wentworth had learned that lesson all too well when her society marriage had proved a sham. Now widowed and pregnant, she wanted only to escape the memories. But fate, in the form of Quinn Yarborough, had followed he...

  • Cowboy

    Sara Davidson

    She's a fifty-year-old professional from L.A., an educated mother who writes books and screenplays. He's an unschooled cowboy from Arizona, a younger free spirit who makes bridles out of rawhide. A chance meeting brings these two opposites together a...

  • Nowhere to Call Home

    Cynthia DeFelice

    Unable to cope with the financial ruin caused by the Great Depression, Frances's father has taken his own life. Sad and bewildered, Frances cashes in the railroad ticket that would have carried her to her aunt's home, trades in her dress for trousers...

  • Warstalker's Track

    Tom Deitz

    Magical tracks of silver and gold connect our world to others. But now an evil wind blows among them all -- bringing with it the scent of war...  Lugh Samildinach, High King of Tir-Nan-Og, has been deposed and imprisoned, and the throne of Faeri...

  • Bloodwinter

    Tom Deitz

    From a master of contemporary fantasy comes an unforgettable tale of heroes, heroines, and rogues whose two rival nations are scarred by suspicion, shadowed by war, and summoned to destiny by a magic that is both gift and curse. In the icy norther...

  • Cole

    Genell Dellin

    THE RENEGADE Cole McCord, the most dangerous man in Colorado, is a hired gun with a hardened heart. No man will ever claim his loyalty again...and no woman will ever win his love. So when he accepts headstrong Aurora Benton's offer to be her bodygua...

  • 26 Fairmount Avenue

    Tomie DePaola

    A Newbery Honor BookTomie's family starts building their new house at 26 Fairmount Avenue in 1938, just as a hurricane hits town, starting off a busy, crazy year. Tomie has many adventures all his own, including eating chocolate with his Nana Upstair...

  • His Secret Son

    Jacqueline Diamond

    He looked just like his dad Eight years after the fact, Dirk Peterson thought the gift of life he'd given his brother had gone unused. Now his late brother's lie brought him face-to-face with Dirk's own son -- and Joni, the mother of h...

  • Mana's Story

    Peter Dickinson

    The Kin, traveling across a treacherous marsh in search of a new home in prehistoric times, come under attack from ferocious new enemies, and depend on Mana, a gentle young girl, to help them achieve peace. Simultaneous....

  • Talk to Me

    Carol Dines

    Buoyant, poignant, absorbingly real, Carol Dines writes with humor and unflinching insight in six stories and a novella that capture many voices, among them Lise, 15, whose Dad's marriages mean too many mothers; Wes, who escapes the eyes of his small...

  • Disney's Once upon a Time with Mary-Kate and Ashley

    Disney Book Group

  • Walt Disney's Winnie the Pooh Scratch and Sniff Book

    Disney Book Group

  • Love Your Neighbor

    Arthur Dobrin

    An illustrated collection of thirteen nondenominational stories invites both parents and children to explore the importance of values and virtues, as well as moral questions ranging from tolerance and prejudice to love....

  • Lady Love

    Tina Donahue

    ROMANCE AND RHYME For Holly Shaw, poetry is a passion, but it's a new job as caregiver to an Oregon rancher that pays the bills. Yet she has no idea how stimulating the rugged mountain scenery can be -- especially when it's the rancher's grandson...

  • Cat in an Indigo Mood

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    At the Blue Dahlia, the forties-style music club where homicide lieutenant Carmen Molina moonlights as a torch singer, life is becoming considerably less easygoing. An unidentified woman is found dead in the parking lot, with the words "she left" spr...

  • Jody's Beans

    Malachy Doyle

  • Fortress

    David Drake

    Fortress is America''s guarantor of freedom, an orbiting arsenal of laser weapons and nuclear missiles. It was considered impregnable—until now. Former CIA officer Tom Kelley is sent to learn the secrets surrounding a dead alien found in Tur...

  • Come the Morning

    Shannon Drake

    In the days when Scotland lay under siege, King David sought loyal warriors who would fight with their blood and hearts. Waryk de Graham, the greatest of these fighters, was knighted Lord Lion, but his honored position as Scottish chieftain came with...

  • The Sea Monster's Secret

    Malka Drucker

    When a young man steps into the enchanted skin of a sea monster, he finds himself transformed into a fearless explorer--and a generous hero. Amazing underwater adventures fill his nights, and he returns home each dawn with a bounty of fish for all th...

  • To Visit the Queen

    Diane Duane

    The sorcerous felines who guard the Gates between worlds are back. In a wondrous sequel to the bestselling The Book of Night with Moon, acclaimed author Diane Duane presents a fabulous adventure that will forever change the way you look at cats ... ...

  • Falls the Shadow

    Catherine Dunbar

    The picture was a fake. A clever one, but a forgery all the same ...

    When Leone Fleming realises the eighteenth-century portrait she's been asked to restore for the Carlton family isn't what it seems, her discovery incites the fury of the owners' y...

  • Elephant Winter

    Kim Echlin

    Sophie Walker has come home to nurse her dying mother. Her mother's farm borders on "Safari", a tacky tourist spot, and from the kitchen window Sophie sees a group of immense Asian elephants playing in the snow. When the elephant keeper beckons for h...

  • Mother of My Mother

    Hope Edelman

    In her acclaimed New York Times bestseller, Motherless Daughters, Hope Edelman explored the profound and lasting effects of mother loss, as well as her own search for healing.  Now, in her compelling new work, Edelman explores another compl...

  • The Burning Stone

    Kate Elliott

    WHEN MAGIC CALLS It is a crucial time in the war-torn kingdoms of Wendar and Varre, a moment when even one wrong decision can tilt the balance of events into total disaster. For Sanglant--King Henry's son--and Liath--the woman he loves--the offer ...

  • Dauntry's Dilemma

    Monique Ellis

    A Phantom Matchmaker... There's such a to-do at Combermere estate! The venerable ghost has appeared for the first time in two generations, and only Viscount Dauntry's footloose son, gallant ex-major Quintus, can be relied on to send it packing. Y...

  • Where Angels Dare

    Roger Elwood

    GAMBLING BRINGS A ONCE-PROUD CITY TO THE BRINK OF DESTRUCTION. TO SAVE ITS SOULS, THE ANGEL DARIEN MUST TAKE THE BIGGEST GAMBLE OF ALL. Since before time began, spiritual warfare has raged between the angels of Heaven and the demons of Hell. Sa...

  • Families Giving Thanks

    Roger Elwood

  • A Time to Love

    Lynn Emery

    Neva Ross returns to Solitude, Louisiana; a fitting name for the life she's decided to live. Haunted by guilt and disappointment, Neva is determined to focus only on re-building the family business. She's hoping for small-town peace and quiet. What s...

  • Corruption of Justice

    Brenda English

    In Washington, D.C., August is the hottest month. But as for the news, it can't get any colder: Congress is out of session. And fast-footed, fast-talking reporter Sutton McPhee is starved for a story. She'll even follow around a beat cop just to do a...

  • A Healing Love

    Doris E. English

    A MAN WITHOUT A PAST... When Brad Jeremiah's private plane crashed on a foggy hillside, Dr. Laura McBride risked her life to save him. And with Laura at his hospital bed, Brad woke to find he'd lost his memory. Discovering the handsome surgeon's i...

  • Taming Rafe

    Suzanne Enoch

    NO WOMAN COULD TAME HIM Rafe Bancroft was nothing but a scoundrel! But the sexy, infuriating man was now the owner of Forton Hall, Felicity Harrington's ancestral home. The fiery beauty was determined to save her family -- and herself -- from r...

  • The Ripple Effect

    Lynn Erickson

    WAS IT JUSTICE... The celebrity murder trial of Robbie Childress resulted in an acquittal that shocked the nation and devastated the family of the victim, Robbie's wife. Now, in the mountain playground of Aspen, Robbie is shot to death and Lawrence ...

  • The Sea Came in at Midnight

    Steve Erickson

    The sole survivor of a mysterious cult's ritual suicide at the turn of the millennium, Kristin finds refuge in the Hollywood Hills with an obsessed man who is writing a massive calendar that measures modern time according to the events of chaos. By t...

  • Gardens of the Moon

    Steven Erikson

    The Malazan Empire simmers with discontent, bled dry by interminable warfare, bitter infighting and bloody confrontations. Even the imperial legions, long inured to the bloodshed, yearn for some respite. Yet Empress Laseen's rule remains absolute, en...

  • Meeting Luciano

    Anna Esaki-Smith

    To Hanako Shimoda, recently divorced, Luciano Pavarotti is a god. To her daughter, Emily, this fixation on Pavarotti is a harmless fantasy, the byproduct of loneliness. Meeting Luciano is the story of what happens when Hanako acts on her fantasy and ...

  • A Tender Melody

    Birdie L. Etchison

    When Laura Madison loses her husband of twenty years, she realizes that her life must continue. Laura not only needs a change of scenery but a way to be both useful to her Lord and others. She finds a small community church in need of a pianist, b...

  • Longarm and the Devil's Sister

    Tabor Evans

    A courtroom jailbreak leaves Longarm in the dust!Longarm couldn't be happier that Devil Dave Devereux is finally on trial for murder, until gun shots ring out in the courtroom -- and Devil Dave is nowhere to be found when the smoke clears....

  • The Runelords

    David Farland

    The first book of the saga of The Runelords

    Young Prince Gaborn Val Orden of Mystarria is traveling in disguise on a journey to ask for the hand of the lovely Princess Iome of Sylvarresta. Armed with his gifts of strength and perception, Pr...

  • If You Were Mine

    Colleen Faulkner

    Hired gunman Noah Ericson isn't Mercy Atkins' first choice of boarders, but in Nowhere, Nevada, hotel patrons are hard to come by. Left to care for her young son and her elderly father when her husband Haman disappears, Mercy is struggling to...

  • O'Neal's Daughter

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    THE ROAD WAS HER HOME... All Jasmine O'Neal had ever known were strange cities and faceless audiences. Years ago her father had convinced her that traveling with his troupe of entertainers was in her blood. But when Jasmine's train jumped th...

  • This Heart for Hire

    Marie Ferrarella

    BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE... With Logan Buchanan's life in jeopardy, private investigator Jessica Deveaux's conscience demanded she guard her ex-lover. She'd once loved Logan with her whole, young heart, but the charming millionaire hadn't w...

  • Vapor

    Amanda Filipacchi

    Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Neil LaBute and starring Renee Zellweger, this is a surreal love story from the author of Nude Men. Now in paperback, Amanda Filipacchi’s quirky comic romance gives aspiring actress Anna Graham a makeov...

  • Not Just Another Cowboy

    Carol Finch

    Roping and throwing a calf didn't faze Chance Butler. But falling for his rancher boss Alexa Tipton was the hardest thing he'd ever faced. This diamond in the rough was a sparkling jewel whose radiant smile blinded and beguiled him. And Chance wanted...

  • Otherwise Engaged

    Suzanne Finnamore

    A wickedly funny account of an intelligent, rational woman's transformation into the harpy of anxieties that is the bride-to-be."For laugh-out-loud humor, Otherwise Engaged takes the cake." -- USA Today When Michael pops the question, Eve is deliriou...

  • Wedding Spell

    Donna Fletcher

    For centuries, an enchanting witch has been searching for true love. But now, time is running out-and if she doesn't find her soul mate, it could mean the end of her powers... Bewitching Alisande Wyrrd cannot live without love. in fact, it is the ...

  • Finally His Bride

    Christine Flynn

    The Whitaker Brides: There's a new crop of cowboys whose wild ways are no match for the power of love.... SWEETHEART BRIDE She'd been the new girl in town. He'd been every schoolgirl's fantasy. In each other's arms, t...

  • Iron Lady

    Stephen Forest

    Trent Stanford, a Scotland Yard special agent, is given the responsibility by Margaret Thatcher to hunt down the men responsible for an attempt on her life. Stanford immediately suspects the IRA, but does not know that the assassin they've hired is t...

  • Every Breath She Takes

    Suzanne Forster

    Saint or Seductress? Someone in greater Los Angeles is stalking stalkers, luring them to their deaths by posing as the perfect victim. The press calls this mystery woman the Femme Fatale -- while the entire country plays guessing games about her ide...

  • Take Me Higher

    Sandy Fraser

    Carrie Conrad has always played it safe. But her well-ordered life as a desktop publisher is about to come undone. It's time for her high school reunion, and a handsome complication she thought was over years ago is about to make a comeback. Once, hi...

  • Blue Rain

    Chuck Freadhoff

    THEY SAY DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES. THAT SURE COMES IN HANDY SOMETIMES. Los Angeles newspaper columnist Johnny Rose has barely begun looking into the discovery of a dead body in the middle of the Mojave Desert when a phone call sidelines him. A Vietn...

  • Devil's Trumpet

    Mary Freeman

    Rain Country Landscaping is her life, but as Rachel O'Connor sows seeds and creates new surroundings in the quiet town of Blossom, she also unearths dire motives behind a crime of murder... Rachel's latest client is Henry Bassinger, the owner of t...

  • The Sweetest Thing

    Barbara Freethy

    SHE LONGED FOR A CHILD Alone in the world, Faith Christopher had always yearned for love...and a man who'd make her heart pound. But her dreams of a place to call home were getting harder to hold on to... HE WAS STUBBORNLY SINGLE Alex Carrigan li...

  • A Season in Hell

    Marilyn French

  • Gowanus Dogs

    Jonathan Frost

  • I Married a Reclining Chair...and Other Quirky Tales

    Lisa Fuhs

  • Red Gold

    Alan Furst

    “Nothing can be like watching Casablanca for the first time, but Furst comes closer than anyone has in years.†-- TimeAutumn 1941: In a shabby hotel off the place Clichy, the course of the war is about to change. German tanks are rolling tow...

  • Pooh's Hero Party

    Isabel Gaines

    When a storm destroys Owl's house and floods the area, Christopher Robin calls Pooh a hero for saving Piglet in his honeypot, but when Piglet allows Eeyore to give Piglet's house to Owl, Pooh realizes there are many heroes...

  • Eeyore Finds a Friend

    Isabel Gaines

  • Wedding Bells for Rotten Ralph

    Jack Gantos

    Ralph outdoes himself again in this picture book of wedding bliss and bedlam.

    It's Aunt Martha's wedding day and Sarah is the flower girl, but Ralph is determined to turn this celebration into an event only our favorite rotten cat could enjo...

  • By a Blazing Blue Sea

    S.T. Garne

    Soar over sweeping green hills. Sail across a cool turquoise bay. And enter a sparkling land awash in all the colors of the rainbow. From the author of One White Sail comes another joyful tribute to the Caribbean islands, a lively tale that introduce...

  • The Changeling War

    Peter Garrison

    In the first volume in the Changeling Saga, two violent worlds are about to meet as the Changeling--a sixteen-year-old Earth boy unaware of his otherworldly origins--sets off to fight a war that could change the future course of his homeland forever....

  • Marrying Off Mama

    Mona Gedney
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    Mothers--they wipe away the tears and share a wonderful kind of love. It's hardly surprising that the resourceful children of Regency widows decide that their dear mamas have been alone too long and start searching for those special men who will put ...

  • Baby! Talk!

    Penny Gentieu

    Baby! Talk! is a first word book perfect for sharing . Baby! Talk!'s interactive format promotes early language and important communication skills. Baby! Talk!'s big, bright photographs will put a smile on your baby's face, because babies love to loo...

  • Gorilla Gang

    Jean Craighead George

    G.G. is seven years old and at the age when young gorillas act like human teenagers. He imitates the powerful grown-ups and is jealous of his little sister. Together with the other young gorillas in the tribe, he has formed a gang and gets into all k...

  • Fabulous Fantoras

    Adele Geras

  • Visitors

    Laura Anne Gilman; Josepha Sherman

    Dance of Death The paranormal forces centered in Sunnydale attract the vilest kinds of evil: vamps, demons...and student teachers? An invasion of collegians testing their teaching prowess on Buffy and her peers coincides with the arrival of a supe...

  • Murder on the Astral Plane

    Jaqueline Girdner

    Kate Jasper is starting to believe that she is karmically impaired. It seems that every time she's in a room with a small group of people, she ends up face-to-face with a dead body. When Kate confides her concern to her friend Barbara, a psychic, Bar...

  • Caught in the Light

    Robert Goddard

    On assignment in Vienna, photographer Ian Jarrett falls passionately in love with the mysterious and beautiful Marian. Back in the UK, Ian resolves to leave his wife for her - only to find Marian has disappeared, and the photographs of their brief ti...

  • Sons of Entropy

    Christopher Golden; Nancy Holder

    ALL HELL IS BREAKING LOOSE Led by the fanatical Il Maestro, the Sons of Entropy are assaulting the supernatural Boston mansion that holds back the realm of monsters, and stealing the life force from the besieged Gatekeeper. In limbo, the Ghost Roa...

  • Benjamin's Gift

    Michael Golding

    A richly crafted novel, here is a tale that is at once the adventure-filled story of an unusual father and son and a front-row view of the momentous events that shaped the 20th century....

  • Dark Passage

    David Goodis

    For the first time, the best work of a distinctive master of American noir is available in authoritative e-book editions from The Library of America. David Goodis experienced a brief celebrity when his novel Dark Passage (1946) became the b...

  • With All My Heart

    Jo Goodman

    Grey Janeway had no past, at least one he could remember. But in the new West, a man's past didn't matter. What he made of himself did. And in the glittering gold-rush city of San Francisco, Grey was on his way to building his empire as the o...

  • Groucho Marx, Private Eye

    Ron Goulart

    Groucho Marx made the transition from screen to paper in Ron Goulart's widely acclaimed first novel, Groucho Marx, Master Detective, where he debuted as a radio star-cum-private eye. Groucho and Frank aren't enjoying their latest costar, sing...

  • Whatever Happened to Humpty Dumpty?

    David Greenberg

  • Starfall

    Martin H. Greenberg

    A collection of short stories revealing TSR's new and exciting setting. Contributing authors include Robert Silverberg and Karen Haber, Robin Wayne Bailey, Gary Braunbeck, Matthew J. Costello, Diane Duane, William H. Keith, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, De...

  • Sean

    Leigh Greenwood

    PEARL: In the west there were only two kinds of women -- the wives and mothers and daughters, and the good-time girls. It was said that Pearl Belladonna could show a man the best time ever, but Sean O'Ryan had not come to the gold fields looking for ...

  • The Cornflake House

    Deborah Gregory

    For fans of Kate Atkinson, Barbara Trapido, and Alice Hoffman--the magical story of an unconventional family in the English suburbsEve has grown up in a decidedly unconventional family, one of seven multi-racial children with different fathers and a ...