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New Books List: 562 titles

  • Picture This

    Leigh Abraham

    ANIMAL MAGNETISM Veterinary student Allie Reynolds is crazy about anything with fur or feathers. As for the human male species -- who needs 'em? Her sexy new neighbor Kyle Flannigan might be the cat's meow, but temperamental artists aren't her t...

  • Killing Thyme

    Peter Abresch

    RECIPE FOR MURDER Take a few ambitious chefs, a handful of amateur cooks on a weeklong tour of Baltimore's greatest restaurants, season with a bit of competition for a spot on a new TV show, A Dash of Thyme, throw in a ruthless killer, and voilŕ, ...

  • How the Cat Swallowed Thunder

    Lloyd Alexander

    No sooner is Mother Holly out the door when Cat is in trouble with the magical items around the house, including a watering can that causes spring showers and popping corn that makes thunder, in an original tale about why cats purr....

  • The Husband List

    Victoria Alexander

    An Unexpected Husband Against her better judgment, Lady Gillian Marley needs to find herself a husband -- and quickly. To claim her uncle's unexpected bequest she must marry by her next birthday, which leaves only two months to find a malleabl...

  • Elmo's Christmas Colors

    Constance Allen

    Deck the halls with red and green and pink and gold and blue! Elmo loves all Christmas colors--do you like them, too?

    Join Elmo as he introduces young readers to all of the magical colors of Christmas....

  • Don't Wake the Baby!

    Jonathan Allen

  • Save Your Heart for Me

    Joye Ames

    As teenagers, Alex Langston and Carson Myszkowski were inseparable. “Bad boy” Alex led “good girl” Carson in and out of every imaginable scrape. But there was never more than friendship between them.

    Now, after five years apart, Alex...

  • Roadrunner's Dance

    Rudolfo A. Anaya

    To clear the tyrannical Rattlesnake from the main road of her southwestern village, Desert Woman enlists the help of Coyote, Raven, Eagle, and Heron to form an agile and fast-footed new animal that can outwit their nemesis....

  • Playing for Keeps

    C.J. Anders

    Summer Camp Clash Summer is finally here and the gang nab jobs as counselors at Camp Takabec. Jack is the football counselor, Dawson does audiovisual, Joey's in arts and crafts, Jen and Pacey are directing the camp musical, and Andie is an academ...

  • Dead Silence

    Donna Anders

    As a counselor for International Air, Liza MacDonough has helped hundreds of displaced employees through the trauma of downsizing. The loss of her husband, who mysteriously vanished a year ago, has only intensified her dedication--her work is the onl...

  • The Test

    K.A. Applegate

    Tobias and the other Animorphs have seen things so bizarre that no sane person would believe their story. No one would believe that aliens have taken over the Earth, and are in the process of infesting as many humans as possible. No one could believe...

  • The Unexpected

    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 if they find us ... well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is ...

  • Falling for Claire

    Katherine Applegate

    They're all grown up together on a tiny island. They think they know everything about one another...but they're only just beginning to find out the truth. Falling for Claire. That's what Paolo's doing, and Claire can't cope with it. She's used to fi...

  • Australian Animals

    Caroline Arnold

    The continent of Australia is home to an extraordinary variety of wildlife, and this captivating book highlights many of them.

    Tasmanian devils, koalas, and echidnas make their homes in leafy forests and woodlands. Other animals, such as kan...

  • The Blind Assassin

    Margaret Atwood

    The bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments weaves together strands of gothic suspense, romance, and science fiction into one utterly spellbinding narrative, beginning with the mysterious death of a young woman named La...

  • Her Infinite Variety

    Louis Auchincloss

    HER INFINITE VARIETY spins the charmingly wicked tale of Clara Hoyt, perhaps one of the most colorful characters in the Auchincloss oeuvre. Employing uncommon savvy and elan, she charts a wildly entertaining course to the inner sanctum of New York's ...

  • Hell Rising

    James Axler

    CATACLYSM The Nukecaust radically altered the face of the globe, and even the secret malevolent architects of mankind's history could not predict the will of the human spirit to survive--and to rebel. As earth's destiny remains pawn to sinister forc...

  • Jenny's Story

    Judy Baer

    A powerful first novel in a series about three lifelong friends. Jenny is a young widow struggling with grief over the sudden loss of her husband and the subsequent deception she discovers. The love and support of her two best friends help Jenny find...

  • Solid Gold

    Darice Bailer

    A historical overview of the greatest female gymnasts in Olympic history. Includes chapters on Agnes Keleti (the oldest gymnastics gold medal winner), Olga Korbut, Nadia Comaneci, Mary Lou Retton, and Kerri Strug. A brief final chapter focuses on fut...

  • Irish Fire

    Jeanette Baker

    Fourteen years ago, Caitlin Kenneally scandalized the village of Kilcullen and broke her widowed mother's heart by running off to America. But now that she has married into one of the wealthiest horse breeding families in Kentucky, with two beautiful...

  • Story of Rosy Dock

    Jeannie Baker

    A gentle ecological lesson about rosy dock, an imported garden plant that has become a tenacious inhabitant of the Australian desert, spreading until it now threatens many indigenous plants and animals with extinction....

  • Cat Tricks

    Keith Baker

    Magic unfolds with the turn of each die-cut page in this inventive and humorous adventure. Children will delight in discovering the nuances of each transformation--and in the clever antics of a very crafty cat.
    Are you ready to play?
    ...

  • Bride of Fortune

    Leanne Banks

    HIS PERFECT MATCH... Larger-than-life magnate Jason Fortune didn't have time for matters of the heart -- until he was forced to work with Adele O'Neil. And though Jason couldn't deny that the fiercely independent redhead had gotten under his ski...

  • Jane and the Stillroom Maid

    Stephanie Barron

    Jane Austen is enjoying August, 1806, among Derbyshire's craggy peaks, sparkling streams, and cavernous gorges. That is, until she discovers the corpse of a young gentleman whose blond curls and delicate features suggest the face of an angel. More sh...

  • That Summer Thing

    Pamela Bauer

    Riverbend...home of the River Rats - a group of small-town sons and daughters who've been friends since high school. The River Rats are all grown up now. Living their lives and learning that some days are good and some days aren't - and that you can ...

  • Love Abounds

    Ann Bell

    Sarah Brown is the unwed mother of Charity, a child with spina bifada. She is struggling to complete her education and obtain custody of her child. With God's help, her life is starting to come together. Jeff Blair has followed his dad's footsteps...

  • Awakening Mercy

    Angela Benson

    2001 Christy Award finalist!
    Awakening Mercy is the first book in an exciting series by award-winning author Angela Benson. This is a contemporary story about a successful career woman and a man who runs a social services agency in inner-c...

  • Halmoni's Day

    Edna Coe Bercaw

    Having arrived from Korea, Jennifer's grandmother, Halmoni, is just in time for the Grandparents' Day celebration at school and, despite not knowing the language or customs, attends proudly at the side of her granddaughter....

  • The Berenstain Bears That Stump Must Go!

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    That small stump hurt my toe! That small stump has got to go!But Papa Bear's troubles have just begun, because under the ground, that small stump has a great big root. Beginning readers will revel in Papa's travails as he sets about attempting to rem...

  • Transformation

    Carol Berg

    FREEDOM IS THE ABILITY TO MAKE A CHOICE.... Seyonne was not always a slave. Once his people were the guardians of magic such as the land had never seen, protectors and defend4rs. But the Derzhi came, and enslaved them. Now, years of degradation an...

  • Six Feet, Three

    Jeannie Billington

    Six Feet Long and Three Feet Wide is one of the Maths Together series, an ealy numeracy programme for parents and children to share. The set contains six picture books designed to introduce children, simply and enjoyably, to basic mathematical ideas....

  • The Quest

    Pam Binder

    Pam Binder evoked the romance of an ancient Highland legend in her unforgettable debut novel. The Inscription. Now she returns to that magical setting to weave a charming and mystical tale of a love unbounded by time. Scotland, 1328: Conjuring wit...

  • Marinade for Murder

    Claudia Bishop

    Hemlock Falls is a pretty little town in upstate New York. Sarah Quilliam, with her talent for business, is trying to buy back the Inn at Hemlock Falls. Her sister, Meg, keeps the patrons happy with her culinary abilities. But when it comes to murder...

  • Wildwood Boys

    James Carlos Blake

    From the raw clay of historical fact, James Carlos Blake has sculpted a powerful novel of both a man and an America at war with themselves. Here is the brutally honest story of free-spirit William Anderson, who is pulled into a savage conflict of sta...

  • A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You

    Amy Bloom

    Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards...

  • Hidden Treasure

    Stephen A. Bly

    Gold may abound in the town's mine shafts and sandy soil, but that's not where Goldfield's true treasure lies.

    The Skinners do not want to be in Goldfield, Nevada. The weather is harsh. Sin is glorified. Greed is rampant. Spiritual sensitiv...

  • Everlasting Light

    Andrea Boeshaar
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    Christmas is steeped in family traditions, traditions that often had their beginnings with love. Travel back in history and discover how acts of faith, love, and kindness between the young lovers in these four new novellas establish blessings that wi...

  • Burning of Bridget Cleary

    Angela Bourke

    This vivid account of a woman murdered by her husband and nine of his friends returns to 1895 Ireland to discover why the citizens of rural Tipperary believed innocent Bridget Cleary was in fact a demon. 17,500 first printing....

  • Thunder Doesn't Scare Me!

    Lynea Bowdish

  • My Juliet

    John Ed Bradley

    In his most enthralling novel since the acclaimed Tupelo Nights, John Ed Bradley tells a scorching story of sex and death in sultry New Orleans.After years as an “actress” in California, Juliet Beauvais is drawn back to town with the promise of a...

  • His Lady Bride

    Shelley Bradley

    Can a fearless knight win the heart of his unwilling bride? Return to an age of danger and chivalry, when three daring knights -- fostered together since boyhood in the same warrior tradition -- face their greatest challenge... winning the hearts of...

  • Blade's Lady

    Fiona Brand

    ONLY IN HER DREAMS... Her gallant knight was a fantasy - or so Anna Tarrant believed. For years, he had sustained the hunted heiress whenever her nightmarish reality became too much to bear. Now, about to emerge from hiding to claim her fortune, A...

  • Undercover Bride

    Kylie Brant

    THE AGENT: Spirited, beautiful Rachel Grunwald. THE MISSION: Convince Caleb Carpenter, a man whose reputation was as devastating as his looks, that she should be his bride. THE SHOCKING TRUTH: Rachel can't keep from falling for this powerful, e...

  • Texas Royalty

    Jean Brashear

    LONE STAR PRINCESS No one had ever called Devlin Marlowe a prince. But the rough-edged private detective had gained enough polish over the years to infiltrate a society gala with ease. Dev took no notice of the admiring female glances cast in hi...

  • In Hollow Houses

    Gary A. Braunbeck

    It's all true. It's all possible. It's not a nightmare. An unspeakable evil stirs beneath the nation's capital, the gateway to a world of terror few have seen, and fewer still can protect us from. The Hoffman Institute may be our only defense, bu...

  • The Body on the Beach

    Simon Brett

    In the seaside hamlet of Fethering (located next to the town of Tarring), Carole Seddon maintains a quiet and sensible life. She doesn't have the time or the tolerance to deal with her new bohemian neighbor, Jude, whose outgoing personality contrasts...

  • Dead Man's Hand

    Guy Brewer

    Con man Dex Yancy goes up against a loathsome lawyer to save his friend from a hard time in the fifth novel in the Diamondback series....

  • Clifford Visits the Hospital

    Norman Bridwell

    Read all about Clifford's BIG ideas!Clifford visits the hospital and gets into mischief everywhere he goes....

  • Andromon's Attack

    J.E. Bright

  • Breaking Free

    Lauren Brooke

    Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it's much more than that. Heartland is a place like no other -- a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again. Peg...

  • Silver Moon

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Hot Fudge

    Anthony Bruno

    “Fans of comic mysteries should add Bruno to their must-read list, alongside Laurence Shames and Janet Evanovich” (Booklist).   The plus-size parole officer returns in this new novel by the author of Anthony Award finalist Devil’s Food and...

  • High Stakes

    Bonnie Bryant

    When love's at stake, the sky's
    the limit!

    Just when Carole Hanson thinks she knows where things stand with Ben Marlow, an
    old boyfriend reappears and sweeps her off her feet. Suddenly everything is roses and candlelight, and it's perf...

  • Admission of Love

    Niobia Bryant

    ALL THAT GLITTERS, A LOVE THAT'S GOLD She's at the top of her glamorous profession ??? but now supermodel Chloe Bolton is determined to find a more rewarding, peaceful life. As soon as she tries to settle down in her mothers' rural South Carolina tow...

  • The Empire Stone

    Chris Bunch

    Who Holds the Stone Rules the World!It could light a path in the dead of night. Fashioned by gods -- or demons -- it could bring power and untold riches to any who possessed it. But it was lost with the destruction of the fabled city of Thyone.And no...

  • Merry Christmas, Space Ranger

    Rick Bunsen

  • Doll Baby

    Eve Bunting

    When Ellie was a little girl, she had a doll named Daisy. She loved to dress her and give her a bottle. Now Ellie is fifteen, and she has a real baby to love. But a baby is not a doll. Taking care of Angelica isn’t anything like taking care of ...

  • Voodoo Moon

    Constance M. Burge

    If her soul is bound by an evil spell,Call back her spirit with a ringing bell.Salt in her left hand, gold in her rightWill cast out the dark and restore her soul's light. The Halliwells are on vacation. It's time to party in New Orleans. But on Prue...

  • Purple Cane Road

    James Lee Burke

    Robicheaux first hears it from a pimp eager to trade information for his life: Mae Guillory was murdered outside a New Orleans nightclub by two cops. Dave Robicheaux was just a boy when his mother ran out on him and his whiskey-driven father. Now Rob...

  • Call from a Distant Shore

    Stephen L. Burns

    As a mission to Mars nears its destination, one of the astronauts begins to hear voices in her head and discovers that she has been targeted along with six others by an alien intelligence hoping to make contact with Earth. Original....

  • A Grave Coffin

    Gwendoline Butler

    Dying Words Next to the body of the murdered police officer was a note with the scrawled words "Ask Coffin." But what is it that John Coffin, Commander of London's Second City police, is supposed to know? The victim, Harry Seton, was investigat...

  • Grant

    Max Byrd

    Max Byrd, the renowned author of Jackson and Jefferson, brings history to life in this stunning novel set in America’s Gilded Age. Grant is an unforgettable portrait of a colorful era -- and the flawed, iron-willed, mysterious giant at its center. ...

  • Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa: And Other Talking Drum Rhymes

    Julia Cairns

    In the spirit of Mother Goose, Off to the Sweet Shores of Africa and Other Talking Drum Rhymes is a colorful collection of original, African inspired rhymes. Fun to read aloud, these playful rhymes conjure West African village life. As in classic nur...

  • Promise Me Tomorrow

    Candace Camp

    A beautiful thief... Lord Lambeth can't help but be captivated by lovely Marianne Cotterwood though he knows she's hiding a secret. The desire he feels for this mysterious woman is powerful, as is his need to unravel her mystery... A lost...

  • P.S. Love You Madly

    Bethany Campbell

    FAMILY: YOU DON'T GET TO CHOOSE THEM! Darcy Parker's mother and Sloan English's father are in love and want to get married. But Darcy's sister is aghast and Sloan's aunt is appalled. That leaves Darcy and Sloan trying to ma...

  • The Bad Luck Filly

    Joanna Campbell

    Melanie has her hands full...

    Melanie Graham can't help herself--she's fallen in love with the high-spirited black filly, Perfect Image. More than anything, Melanie wants to help train the filly and be the first one to race her.

    De...

  • New Earth: Challenger

    Diane Carey

    Far from the reaches of the Federation, the Starship Enterpriseâ"˘ has been guiding the development of a once obscure planet upon whose fate the future of the galaxy may now depend. The Enterprise has been the sole representative of the Federation, f...

  • When Love Walks In

    Suzanne Carey

    THE SECRET FATHER... Though his merest glance still filled her with desire, Cate was no longer a naive teenager blinded by love -- this time she had to resist her intense attraction to Daniel Finn. Because now this successful businessman had the p...

  • Becoming Me

    Melody Carlson

    In the fictional Diary of a Teenage Girl, sixteen-year-old Caitlin O'Conner reveals the inner workings of a girl caught between childhood and womanhood ... an empty life without Christ and a meaningful one with Him. Through Caitlin's candid journal e...

  • The Farseekers

    Isobelle Carmody

    in the two years since its takeover of Obernewtyn, the secret community of Misfits has flourished. Protected by their remoteness, Elspeth Gordie and her allies have worked hard to develop their forbidden mental abilities -- all in preparation for the...

  • Beautiful Wasps Having Sex

    Dori Carter

    Meet Frankie Jordan, a screenwriter living a rather perilous life in the wilds of Hollywood. She's turning forty, her husband wants a divorce, and all she can think about is the script she can't finish. Enter Jonathan Prince, a confident, seductiv...

  • Muse

    Michael Cecilione

    Actress Johanna Brady finds herself playing the role of her life when her love, novelist Matt Lang, becomes a secretive, irritable stranger, and Johanna descends into a world of betrayal, madness, and cold-blooded murder. Reprint....

  • Balshazzar's Serpent

    Jack L. Chalker

    ON A GALACTIC MISSION FROM GOD When the wormholes mysteriously failed and the Great Silence fell across a third of humanity's interstellar civilization, it was up to the Church to tie together what remained. As had happened long before, during the M...

  • The Conqueror's Child

    Suzy McKee Charnas

    25 years after the landmark publication of Walk to the End of the World, Suzy McKee Charnas has completed her epic tale of the Holdfast.

    The Fems were slaves of the men in the Holdfast. When Alldera escaped her slavery, she led a band of reb...

  • Pieces

    Stephen Chbosky

    MTV has discovered the authors of tomorrow. Read them today in Pieces. This unique short-story collection is more than a good read -- it's an exciting glimpse into the future of fiction. The winners of MTV's "Write Stuff" competition share their voi...

  • The Ring

    Deborah Chester

    It is a world of betrayals and alliances, of spells and magic, of haunting dreams and dark desires... The rebel princess Alexeika is captured and tortured by the evil Grethori--but is sustained by dreams of the man who will set her free... Prin...

  • The Last Santini Virgin

    Maureen Child

    THE MARINE AND THE VIRGIN No woman was going to spring her mantrap on Sergeant Nick Paretti! And that included Gina Santini. They'd agreed to publicly play boyfriend/girlfriend, and Nick had never intended to keep up the pretense in Gina's bedroom...

  • Deepak Chopra's the Angel Is Near

    Deepak Chopra

    One of the great spiritual teachers of our time...

    Deepak Chopra's books on human spirituality have been phenomenal international bestsellers. Now, the author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, and the Way of ...

  • Cherish the Boss

    Judy Christenberry

    Man was the strong one, Logan thought. Woman the nester, who needed to be protected. But not Abby Kennedy. Tonight, she hadn't needed him to wait up for her. To be there when she got home. To listen to the events of the evening. He had been the o...

  • Mercy Mission

    William Christie

    In this nerve-wracking sequel to THE WARRIORS OF GOD, Richard Welsh returns, now working as an aide to a U.S. Senator.Three U.S. Marine security guards are gunned down by unknown assailants at an outdoor café in Guatemala City, far from Afghanistan ...

  • The Bear and the Dragon

    Tom Clancy

    Newly elected in his own right, Jack Ryan fas found that being President hasn't got any easier: domestic pitfalls await him at every turn, the Asian economy is going down the tubes, and now, in Moscow, someone may have tried to take out the chairman ...

  • Atalanta's Race

    Shirley Climo

    In ancient Greece, the gods control every life, from peasant to King. When newborn Princess Atalanta is left to die on a mountainside because her father wanted a son, the gods send a bear to care for her. Adopted by a woodsman, she grows into a great...

  • Elizabeth and After

    Matt Cohen

    A touching and resonant story of a man who returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario, to mend his family's legacy of alcohol and violence, to reconnect with his young daughter, and to reconcile himself with the spirit of his beautiful mother, k...

  • Briefly Told Lives

    C. Bard Cole

    In Briefly Told Lives, C. Bard Cole presents a wild panorama that sweeps from the urban gay ghetto to working class suburbia to the counter culture of punks and sex workers, a shockingly original view of lives lived on the edge of both straight socie...

  • Clever Cat

    Peter Collington

    Peter Collington, recognized master of wordless picture books, proves in this funny feline fantasy that he is just as entertaining with words and pictures.

    Tibs, the orange tabby hero of Clever Cat, knows that being the cat of a busy working f...

  • First Time, Forever

    Cara Colter

    She was the world's oldest virgin... But that didn't mean Kathleen Miles had no feelings. Or desires. Especially when this pure-blood city woman came face-to-face with the most captivating cowboy this side of Hopkins Gulch. Why, when warm, hard Evan ...

  • Broke Loose

    Robert J. Conley

    Tired of the peaceful, boring routine of Asininity, Barjack is delighted to be able to claim the reward for a wanted prisoner by bringing the outlaw in, not realizing that his prisoner's brother and the rest of his bloodthirsty gang is eagerly awaiti...

  • Fugitive's Trail

    Robert J. Conley

    The thrilling saga of a boy turned gunslinger, and the legend that would chase him across the West...

    "I was a wanted killer, and that made me an outlaw, and I forced myself to think hard and to accept myself for just that. If I was to be an o...

  • Prince of Hearts

    Katy Cooper

    RANK HAD ITS PRIVILEGES -- EXCEPT WHEN IT CAME TO MARRIAGE For although Edmund Tudor knew he might DALLY where he chose, he could MARRY only with royal permission. And a vow to his king had thrust a life with Lady Cecilia Coleville forever out of...

  • The Steps up the Chimney

    William Corlett

    The Magician's House Quartet Thirteen-year-old William Constant and his two younger sisters, Mary and Alice, have come to ancient, mysterious Golden House in Wales for the holidays. Their lives will never be the same once they enter the Magician's Ho...

  • Hope's Garden

    Lyn Cote

    Gage Farrell had answered Cat Simmons's prayers. She needed a loan to expand her nursery, and he had offered. Gage eagerly anticipated their new partnership. Eden was the perfect place to reevaluate his materialistic lifestyle and find spiritual he...

  • Practically Christmas

    Carol Cox
    in

    Christmas is a time for giving, and nothing bonds two hearts together like a gift given in love. Enjoy four brand-new inspirational novellas about modern couples who discover love and seal it with a gift....

  • Tweety's High Flying Adventures

    Kathryn Cristaldi

  • C for Victory

    Joan Croston

    War has citizens worried about hardships, restrictions...and spies. But Ruth Sinclair is fighting the hardest battle--a battle of trust within her heart. When Harold, the boy she'd dated for years, went to England to fight with the Royal Air Force...

  • Daemonomania

    John Crowley

    As the winter solstice approaches, so does the final battle of an age-old war in this third novel of the landmark literary fantasy series.The would-be historian and author Pierce Moffett has moved from New York to the Faraway Hills, where he seems to...

  • Guilty Knowledge

    Clare Curzon

    Clare Curzon turns aside temporarily from Inspector Mike Yeadings and crime in today's Thames Valley to bring us to Edwardian England. In this tale of bygone evil and present-day deceit, Curzon demonstrates that she is as adept as delivering a page-t...

  • The Pecos Kid Returns

    Dan Cushman

    When the Pecos Kid and his saddle mates set out toward Idaho Territory, they are ambushed and taken prisoner by Jawn Ridley, the owner of a vast cattle and mining operation in the Montana Territory, who forces the Pecos Kid to help him solve a deadly...

  • Blue Gold

    Clive Cussler; Paul Kemprecos

    KURT AUSTIN -- CLIVE CUSSLER'S NEW HERO FOR THE MILLENNIUM -- BATTLES TO STOP A BILLIONAIRE TYCOON FROM ACHIEVING WORLD DOMINATION An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of gray whales leads National Underwater & Marine Agency leader Ku...

  • Changing Vision

    Julie E. Czerneda

    CAUGHT IN A WEB OF HER OWN MAKING-- Esen-alit-guar had violated the First Rule of her species when she revealed her existence to a human named Paul Ragem. And though both Paul and Esen had survived, others of Esen's Web had not been so fortunate. ...

  • O Bed! O Breakfast!

    Robert Dalby

    When the queen of the tabloids, Juliette Cadbury, decides to film a movie in Fort Rosalie, Mississippi, local Tourist Bureau executive Mary Dell Hoskins is given the unenviable task of setting up a whirlwind inspection tour of the town's three bed-an...

  • Hitched!

    Ruth Jean Dale

    He needs to get married! Rand Taggart has been swindled out of a fortune but if he's happily married by his thirtieth birthday -- coming up in just a couple of weeks -- he'll inherit a second fortune. His great-grandpa's Texas ranch. She's ready to...

  • Never Say Never!

    Barbara Daly

    Sheriff Zeke Thorne doesn't stand a chance! While he pursues the fortune-hunting fiance of heiress Tish Seldon, she's pursuing him. A single unwise kiss from woman-shy Zeke has given Tish her first taste of passion and she wants more--if she can just...

  • The Pleasure King's Bride

    Emma Darcy

    One stolen night... Cristabel Valdez yearns to say yes to her boss-to Jared's dinner invitations and the sensual promise behind them. An intimate involvement with him is dangerous, but can she risk just one night to remember? Jared King will ...

  • Ship of the Damned

    James F. David

    On October 28, 1943, a U.S. Navy ship was successfully teleported with disastrous effects on its crew. Crewmen died, developed rare or yet unidentified diseases, and most horrifying of all, some became fused to the metal, their arms and legs protrudi...

  • Big Blue Whale

    Nicola Davies

    Discover the mysterious, magnificent blue whale.How big is the blue whale? Bigger than an elephant. Bigger than a dinosaur. The blue whale is the biggest creature that has ever lived on Earth—and one of the most extraordinary. Illustrated by Ni...

  • Barney's Favorite Christmas Stories

    Guy Davis

    Four of Barney's favorite Christmas tales--which include "Barney's Christmas Surprise," "Barney's Christmas Wishes," "Barney's Wonderful Winter Day," and "Barney's Night Before Christmas"--are presented in this colorful compilation with full-color il...

  • Love & Lullabies

    Guy Davis

    With forty-eight pages of lovely lullabies and nursery rhymes, including "Rockabye Baby" and "Lullaby and Good Night," a baby book with padded cover is the perfect gift for new Barney the purple dinosaur fans....

  • The Irish Manor House Murder

    Dicey Deere

    WHEREVER TORREY TUNET GOES, MURDER IS NEVER FAR BEHIND... All she wants is enough peace and quiet to complete her multi-lingual series of children's books. Where better to find it than in an old cottage on the rural estate of her dear friends, the...

  • The Countess

    Claire Delacroix

    Be Mine for a year and a day and I will possess your heart forevermore! Driven from her late husband's estate, Countess Eglantine de Crevy fled to wildest Scotland to claim a castle, only to find a ruin--and a clan chieftain standing guard. Kinbea...

  • Rules of Engagement

    Jamie Denton

    Made for each other? Jill Cassidy needed a fake fiance - fast. Morgan Price needed a savvy lawyer - immediately! The sexy contractor agreed to pretend he was madly in love with Jill and attend her sister Carly's wedding. In turn, Jill would settl...

  • The Travels of Messenger

    Ron DiCianni

    In The Travels of Messenger, celebrated artist Ron DiCianni teams up with his two sons, Grant and Warren, to present this beautifully illustrated inspirational story. A young man has a near-death experience and meets an angel who takes him back in ti...

  • Disney's: Winnie the Pooh's - Book of Manners

    Disney Book Group

  • Halloween Motel

    Sean Diviny

  • Psychic Warrior

    Robert Doherty

    HE'S THE ULTIMATE COMMANDO: INVISIBLE. INVULNERABLE. INVINCIBLE. In 1981 psychics were secretly gathered in a classified military facility to "remote-view" enemy targets. It didn't work. Project Grill Flame was disbanded. Or so the public was told...

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    Cameron Dokey; Paul Ruditis

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    Tina Donahue

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    L. Warren Douglas

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    Keith Douglass

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    Debra Doyle; James D. MacDonald


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    Julie Durrell

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    Kathleen Eagle

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    Paul Eddy

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    Amy Edgar

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    Clive Egleton

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    Robert Elegant

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    Linda Ellerbee

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    Robert Elmer

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    Lynn Errick

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    Nate Evans

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    Tabor Evans

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    Lynne Ewing

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    Lynne Ewing

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    Michel Faber

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    Colleen Faulkner

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    Cheryl Faye

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    Jo Ann Ferguson

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    Marie Ferrarella

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    Marie Ferrarella

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    Amy J. Fetzer

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    Gina Fields

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    Judy Fitzwater

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    Layla Flannery

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  • A Carnival of Animals

    Sid Fleischman

  • Magical Memories

    Donna Fletcher

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    Eric Flint; Dave Freer

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    Emma Forrest

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    Gwynne Forster

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    Lori Foster

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    Diane Fox; Christyan Fox

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    Mary Freeman

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    Shelley Freydont

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    Shelley Freydont

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    Elyse Friedman

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    Diana Garcia

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    Christina Mia Gardeski

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    Scott Gardiner

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    Cliff Garnett

  • A Year with Butch and Spike

    Gail Gauthier

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    Pauline Gedge

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    Mary Gentle

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    Louise Gikow

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    Louise Gikow

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    Anna Gilbert

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    John Gilstrap

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    Danielle Girard

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    Paula Tanner Girard

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    Golden Books

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    Golden Books

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    Golden Books

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    Golden Books

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    Christopher Golden

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    Rebecca Goldstein

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    Edward Gorman / Ed Gorman

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    Judith Gould

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    Bob Graham

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    Ginna Gray

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    Elizabeth Grayson

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    Allison Green

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    Martin H. Greenberg

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    Maria Greene

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    Ed Greenwood; Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

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    T. Greenwood

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    Annie Griffin

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    Pamela Griffin
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    Edward Grimm

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    Dave Grossman

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    Berit I. Haahr

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    Bruce Hale

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    Barbara Hall

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    Sands Hall

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    Megan Halsey

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    Carole Halston

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  • Silver Lining

    Susan Hardy

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  • My First Action Rhymes

    HarperCollins

    Your 2-year-old will enjoy acting out familiar rhymes and movements.

    Tips for reading and sharing:

    • Act out the movements of each rhyme while reading to your child

    • After repeated readings, ask your child to imitate the...

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    Charlaine Harris

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    Leann Harris

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    Janis Harrison

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    Donald Harstad

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