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  • The Moon Dragon

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Home sweet ... home? Eric and his friends have finally made the Rainbow Stairs reappear, linking Droon back to their world. But that was the easy part. Now Gethwing, the moon drago...

  • Mission: Hollywood

    Deborah Abela

    Wanting to escape the reality of his mother's pending marriage to Aidan, Max discovers a time-traveling machine, the Transporter Mark II, to help him alter the past and fix the future, but the evil Mr. Blue has plans of his own and a complicated miss...

  • Passarola Rising

    Azhar Abidi

    In the year 1731, Alexandre Lourenco watches as his brother Bartolomeu’s airship, the Passarola, ascends from the ramparts of St. Jorge’s Castle in Lisbon. When the brothers board the ship, they embark on a journey that will take them from the sa...

  • Axel of Evil

    Alina Adams

    When skating champion Igor Marchenko made front page news for the second time in his career, it had nothing to do with his skating, and everything to do with murder. The coach of an American teen star there for a competition, Igor returns to Moscow f...

  • Cam Jansen and the Valentine Baby Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Celebrate twenty-five years of Cam with this special anniversary mystery! It's Valentine's Day at school, and Cam, Eric, Danny, and Beth are delighted. There are cookies, heart decorations -- and a visit from Eric's mother. Wait! What is she doing t...

  • Marvel Knights 4, Volume 4: Impossible Things Happen Every Day Valentine

    Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

  • First Words Discovery Cards

    Julie Aigner-Clark

  • Animal Discovery Box

    Julie Aigner-Clark

  • ABCs of Art Discovery Cards

    Julie Aigner-Clark

  • Love Is Blind

    Theresa Alan
    in

    The trauma of the blind date. It's like being trapped in a bad, four-hour movie. Like shopping for Manolos with a maxed-out Visa. Like going for a massage and getting a bikini wax instead. Like...well, you get the idea. How many frogs can a woman kis...

  • Best Kept Secrets

    Rochelle Alers

    With Best Kept Secrets, bestselling author Rochelle Alers offers her most ambitious and sensual novel to date, reaching back into the rich history of Florida and Cuba to tell the story of a family destined for greatness -- and haunted by secrets that...

  • Rasputin's Daughter

    Robert Alexander

    CONSPIRACY AND MURDER STALK A CRUMBLING COURT In the wake of the revolution that has swept Nicholas and Alexandra from the throne of Imperial Russia, Maria Rasputin--eldest child of Grigori Rasputin, infamous healer of the Romanov court--is interr...

  • The Trouble with Magic

    Madelyn Alt

    Double, double, toil and murder... Bringing a little culture to Stony Mill, Indiana, Enchantments is one of the area's finest antique stores. But shop clerk Maggie O'Neill and her employer Felicity Dow do more than conjure up curios for the local...

  • Marrying The Marshal // Chased

    Laura Marie Altom

    Double Trouble! U.S. Marshal Caleb Logue walks into Judge Allie Hayworth's office to find the woman who wouldn't marry him -- and the son he didn't know he had. Protecting them is his latest assignment, but Allie soon discovers Caleb's main priori...

  • Ricochet

    Jessica Andersen

    TIME WAS RUNNING OUT Bear Claw Creek's young girls were disappearing and forensics expert Alissa Wyatt was in way over her head. Now her only choice was to partner with Detective Tucker McDermott -- the very same man she'd sworn to keep her distance...

  • Summer Breeze

    Catherine Anderson

    The year is 1889, and Rachel Hollister hasn't set foot outside her house in five years. Ever since a savage attack left her family dead, she's cordoned herself off from the outside world, afraid to let anyone into her home--or into her heart. But now...

  • The Clue of the Linoleum Lederhosen

    M.T. Anderson

    On serious need of a vacation after their last laser-beam-filled exploit, Lily, Jasper, and Katie have dashed off in their Gyroscopic Sky Suite for a restful sojourn at the Moose Tongue Lodge and Resort, a stunning spot filled with roaring fires, Coc...

  • Golden Egg Hunt

    R.P. Anderson

    It is time for the Golden Egg Hunt, and Cherry Blossom wants to be the lucky pony to find the Golden Egg this year, but while all the other ponies seem to find eggs so easily, Cherry Blossom can't find a single one! Original....

  • The Nurse's Secret Son

    Amy Andrews

    Nurse Sophie Monday is the mother of a small boy -- a boy that everyone believes is her late husband Michael's. She once loved his brother, Daniel, with all her heart, but when tragedy struck, Daniel rejected her, unaware she was carrying his...

  • Ride the Whale: A Surfer Tall Tale

    Sunita Apte

  • Candle Life

    Venero Armanno

    Dealing with the nature of reality and dreams, of love, identity, despair and salvation, this is a truly brilliant and startlingly original novel.An Australian novelist is living in an arts community in Paris, trying to write. He is mourning the deat...

  • A Panda's World

    Caroline Arnold

  • Mark of the Lion

    Suzanne M. Arruda

    In 1919, when most women only dream of adventure, Jade del Cameron lives it. After growing up tough on a New Mexico ranch and driving an ambulance on the front lines of World War I, she can fire a rifle with deadly precision and stare down men madden...

  • Full Moon Rising

    Keri Arthur

    A rare hybrid of vampire and werewolf, Riley Jenson is just trying to find her place in the world. And it's not always easy for a woman like herself, especially when her work--for an organization created to police the supernatural races--brings her f...

  • A Pharaoh, a Spell And Jade

    Aysel Arwen

    Fourth Dynasty, Inebu-hedj, Egypt: Sneferu "He of Beauty", the first pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty and one of Egypt's most benevolent rulers, has survived several assassination attempts, but he knows it is only a matter of time before the killer will...

  • After Image

    Pierce Askegren

    THE LATE SHOW MAY BE YOUR LAST. Sunnydale, California, hosts more than its fair share of action and horror. It's understandable, then, that news of the long-closed Sunnydale Drive-In's grand reopening with a scheduled night-long festival of class...

  • Crusade

    Anselm Audley

  • The Brooklyn Follies

    Paul Auster

    From the critically acclaimed and bestselling author of Oracle Night and 4 3 2 1, an exhilarating, whirlwind tale of one man's accidental redemption.Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, estranged from his only daughter, the retired lif...

  • Arana - Volume 3: Night Of The Hunter

    Fiona Kai Avery

  • Red Cavalry and Other Stories

    Isaac Babel

    Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old S...

  • The Door to Time

    P.C. Baccalario

    THE DOOR TO TIME In a house on the coast of England, there is a door. It hides unimaginable mysteries, unavoidable danger, and unbelievable surprises. When eleven-year-old twins Jason and Julia move -- into the old mansion with their family, the do...

  • With All My Heart

    June Masters Bacher

    In a castle-like home surrounded by lovely, formal gardens in south Florida, a father makes a dying request of his daughter--that she preserve the Castle Loma for his beloved wife, an invalid by "strange circumstances." When Veronica learns n...

  • From This Time Forth

    June Masters Bacher

    The storm is a prelude to the mystery and danger that follow in this exciting pioneer romance novel from the pen of noted, author June Masters Bacher. Will Bonaparte Bixby carryout his treacherous plans to find the hidden treasure? will Callie be c...

  • Calamity Jayne

    Kathleen Bacus

    HOW DOES A BLONDE SPELL "FARM"? E-I-E-I-O Tressa Jayne Turner has had it up to here with the never-ending string of dumb-blonde jokes and her longtime nickname. Crowned "Calamity Jayne" by Iowa Department of Natural Resources officer Rick Towns...

  • Dachshund in Danger!

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Colt on Christmas Eve

    Ben M. Baglio

    At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. It's Christmastime, and Mandy is headed to her Great-Aunt Pip's house for the holiday. Pip live...

  • Runaway Rascal

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Pony in a Pumpkin Patch

    Ben M. Baglio

  • Dinomite!

    Darice Bailer

  • Please Don't Come Back from the Moon

    Dean Bakopoulos

    The summer Michael Smolij turns sixteen, his father disappears. One by one other men also vanish from the blue-collar neighborhood outside Detroit where their fathers before them had lived, raised families, and, in a more promising era, worked. One m...

  • Billionaire's Proposition

    Leanne Banks

    Gannon Elliott never expected to become a father just to hire an editor for his magazine. But the billionaire had been bred to compete and win, like all in the Elliott dynasty, and now to win a challenge, he needed the best -- his ex-lover Erika Layv...

  • The Fifth Cataract

    Jo Bannister

    Bad dreams stop when you wake up . . . One-time doctor turned writer Clio Marsh joins a survival training course based on the Norfolk Broads as part of the research into a new novel ? strictly as an observer, she thinks.But course directors Hollis an...

  • Jenny's Legacy

    Cassandra Barnes

    Her psychic abilities haven't been of much help to Gaelynn Graham lately. If it hasn't been one thing, it's been another. The last thing she needs in her life is a sexy contractor, especially one whose presence places her family and her career in jeo...

  • Arthur & George

    Julian Barnes

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • From the bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending comes an “extraordinary … first rate” novel (The New York Times Book Review) that follows the lives of two very different British men and ex...

  • Lucky Dog

    Mark Barrowcliffe

    MY NAME IS REG. A GENTLEMAN OF THE CANINE PERSUASION. DAVE BARKER IS NOT HAVING THE BEST OF YEARS His mother has just died, he is a poker addict (and hugely in debt), his real estate business is sinking, and he doesn't really like his longtime ...

  • Company

    Max Barry

    Stephen Jones is a shiny new hire at Zephyr Holdings. From the outside, Zephyr is just another bland corporate monolith, but behind its glass doors business is far from usual: the beautiful receptionist is paid twice as much as anybody else to do not...

  • Making Memories

    Janet Lee Barton
    in

    When Amanda Forrester moves to Oklahoma City to escape her matchmaking family, she has no intention of falling in love. But when neighbor Josh Randall befriends her, she finds not falling love is easier said than done. But what if a romance ruined fr...

  • Carved in Bone

    Jefferson Bass

    On the campus of the University of Tennessee lies a patch of ground unlike any in the world. The "Body Farm" is a place where human corpses are left to the elements, and every manner of decay is fully explored -- for the sake of science and the cause...

  • Leave It to Claire

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    Unexpected surgery drags Claire Everett, single mother and writer, away from her computer and back into the real world. During her recovery, she faces how disconnected she has become while immersed in her career. As she has been toiling on her fict...

  • Danny's Drums/What Kind of Sound?

    David Bauer

  • Hokum

    Paul Beatty

    Edited by the author of The Sellout, winner of the 2016 Man Booker Prize, Hokum is a liberating, eccentric, savagely comic anthology of the funniest writing by black Americans.

    This book is less a comprehensive collection than it is a mix-t...

  • Vandal Love

    D.Y. Bechard

    An astonishing novel, Vandal Love follows generations of a unique French-Canadian family across North America, and through the twentieth century, as they struggle to find their place in the world. A family curse -- a genetic trick resulting from...

  • Genesis

    Bernard Beckett

    Set on a remote island in a post-apocalyptic, plague-ridden world, this electrifying novel is destined to become a modern classic. Anax thinks she knows her history. She'd better. She's now facing three Examiners, and her grueling all-day Exami...

  • The Payback Club

    Rexanne Becnel

    "Living well is the best revenge..." Well, maybe. But when it came to a woman scorned -- not to mention two women scorned -- maybe revenge was the best revenge. Thus when Joan Hoffman and Liz Savoie, both systematically dumped by the men they thou...

  • Criminal Investigation Detachment

    Don Bendell

    Major Bobby Samuels, a member of a specialized team of detectives called the C.I.D., goes undercover as an enlisted man in Iraq to penetrate the Army unit and expose a member of the al-Queda, disguising himself as an American solider, who is responsi...

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 8: Cats and Kings

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Sam Bullit is running for Mayor of New York City on an anti-Spider-Man campaign, and Daily Bugle Editor-in-Chief J. Jonah Jameson is backing him 100%. But who is pulling Bullit's strings? None other than the Kingpin of Crime! Collects Ultimate Spider...

  • A Forbidden Love

    Alexandra Benedict

    The most scandalous man in England Sinfully decadent Anthony Kennington, Viscount Hastings, lives for pleasure -- and he rues the day when he must wed and produce an heir. But he is not a man who runs from danger, and when he chances upon an encha...

  • Orion's Hounds

    Christopher L. Bennett

    As the U.S.S. Titan ventures beyond the outermost reaches of known space, the telepaths in her crew -- including Diplomatic Officer Deanna Troi -- are overwhelmed by an alien cryof distress, leading the ship to the scene of a shocking act of carnage:...

  • Frantastic Voyage

    Jim Benton

    Goosebumps and Bill Nye the Science Guy fans, meet Franny!Franny’s faithful Lab assistant, Igor, has swallowed a doomsday device that is ready to go off at any moment! For a regular scientist, it might seem like there’s only one way to get the de...

  • The Ghost at the Table

    Suzanne Berne

    Strikingly different since childhood and leading very dissimilar lives now, sisters Frances and Cynthia have nevertheless managed to remain "devoted"--so long as they stay on opposite coasts. But with the reappearance of their elderly, long-estranged...

  • Capitol Murder

    William Bernhardt

    In the heart of the nation's capital, defense attorney Ben Kincaid takes on his most shocking, headline-making case yet. After powerful U.S. senator Tod Glancy is caught in a sordid sex scandal, Senate aide Veronica Cooper is found brutally murdered....

  • Let's Cruise!

    Frank Berrios

  • Rapid Transit

    Elizabeth Bevarly
    in

    Welcome to alternative dating...the tenth circle of hell. It started simply enough. The editor of Tess Magazine demanded an assignment about dating practices for the urban set. Something fun. Something sexy. Something that the three women working ...

  • The Ranbaxy Story

    Bhupesh Bhandari

    It took a sleeping pill to get a somnolent company up and running. The drug was Calmpose-Ranbaxy's answer to Roche's Valium-and its launch in 1969 was the hitherto unknown company's first step on the long road to global stardom. Bhupesh Bhandari, a b...

  • Embolus

    Gary A. Birken

    Welcome to the trauma ward, a place of healing... Death is a fact of life at the Gillette Trauma Center, a prestigious Washington, D.C., facility that gets more than its fair share of borderline cases. At some point the doctors have all seen a rec...

  • Lord Ryburn's Apprentice

    Laurie Bishop

    Teacher's Pet Abandoned by her mother at a boarding school for young ladies, Georgiana Marland enjoys some good fortune when a distant relative takes her in as a ward -- with plans to present her to high society during the forthcoming season. ...

  • Dark Side of the Moon

    J. Carson Black

    When two newlyweds are murdered in an Arizona campground, Detective Laura Cardinal is enlisted to investigate. Still reeling from a tragedy of her own, and teamed with a partner who's working her last nerve, Laura's already walking an emotional tight...

  • My Favorite Witch

    Annette Blair

    HE SWORE OFF WOMEN. SHE SWORE OFF MEN... Jason Pickering Goddard's career as a playboy hockey star comes to a dramatic halt when he tragically damages his legs in a car accident. Swearing off women, he decides to stand in as Director of Special Even...

  • A Father in the Making

    Ally Blake

    Ryan Gasper opened the long-forgotten envelope and read the letter. The contents shocked him: his brother, Will, had died leaving a woman pregnant... Laura had long since given up waiting to hear from the Gaspers -- she'd thought they couldn&...

  • Dawn Encounter

    Jennifer Blake

    They are perhaps the most dangerous men in New Orleans, skilled swordsmen who play by no rules but their own -- heroes to many, wicked to some, irresistible to the women they love... Lisette Moisant is a widow, courtesy of the swordsmanship of Cai...

  • The Wish

    Lauralee Bliss

    Debbie Reilly longs for love and a place to belong. She delights in her work with the elderly of White Pines Health Care Facility, but her friendship with the residents causes friction among the nurses. Especially when one has an eligible grandson. N...

  • The Mustang Breaker

    Stephen A. Bly

    In this second book of the winsome Horse Dreams trilogy, heavyhearted divorcee Develyn Worrell’s mood continues to lighten as she has escaped Indiana to enjoy the equine charms of a small Wyoming town. There, in a place she visited as a child and h...

  • January 1905

    Katharine Boling

    The winter has been a tough one for Pauline and Arlene's family. Though only eleven, the twin girls are old in too many ways: They know what it is to work to exhaustion, to be hamstrung by longing, to be blind with hate.

    Pauline labors fr...

  • Angels of Wrath

    Larry Bond; Jim DeFelice

    New York Times bestselling authors Larry Bond and Jim DeFelice deliver fresh thrills and unexpected twists in this latest installment of their electrifying series, Larry Bond's First Team: Angels of Wrath.Led by CIA agent par excellence Bob Ferguson,...

  • The Righteous Men

    Sam Bourne

    The righteous shall never be removed: but the wicked shall not inherit the earth... A teenage computer prodigy is strangled in Mumbai. A far-right extremist is killed in a remote cabin in the Pacific Northwest. A wealthy businessman is murdered in...

  • Roaring Thunder

    Walter J. Boyne

    The story of the jet age of aviation revolves around remarkable geniuses--including Sir Frank Whittle, the British inventor of the jet engine; Hans von Ohain, a German jet engine designer who comes to work for the U.S.; famed aeronautical engineer Ke...

  • What We All Long for

    Dionne Brand

    Gripping at times, heartrending at others, What We All Long For is an ode to a generation of longing and identity, and to the rhythms and pulses of a city and its burgeoning, questioning youth. Dionne Brand's multicultural infusion follows the storie...

  • The Cat Who Dropped A Bombshell

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    Good thing prizewinning reporter Jim Qwilleran has his extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum to smell trouble from a mile away... The town of Pickax is buzzing with excitement: its residents are about to celebrate the 150th anniversary of it...

  • Your Best Friend's Boyfriend

    J.E. Bright

    You share an instant connection with Mike, the star of your school's rival soccer team. Too bad he's dating your best friend, Sally. When Mike starts flirting with you, do you flirt back? Should you confess your feelings to Sally, or keep the whole t...

  • The Man Means Business

    Annette Broadrick

    AN OUT-OF-THE-OFFICE AFFAIR TO REMEMBER Inviting his dedicated secretary on a Hawaiian business trip seemed the perfect way to show Jodie Cameron his appreciation. But millionaire Dean Logan hadn't expected Jodie to need more than the tropical sun...

  • Trouble in Paradise

    Carolyn Brown

    After her divorce, best-selling romance author, Mary Jane Marsh Simmons decided to move all seven of her girls out of the big city and back home to her hometown, Nacona, Texas. So when the last remaining relative of Miz Raven died and the Paradise wa...

  • Bumble Bugs and Elephants

    Margaret Wise Brown

    Start with something that is great big. A bumble bug?

    Then add more animals -- two great big chickens? -- for a sing songy read-aloud perfect for the youngest reader. The best part of this colorful book of opposites is that it never ends!

  • Enemy Husband

    Nina Bruhns

    MISSION: PRETEND LOVERS She was a trained thief for the FBI. He was in charge of the FBI's elite ANSIR squad, responsible for preventing the theft of top secret government assets. Bitter enemies within the Bureau, Special Agents Kansas Hawthorne a...

  • The Steel Claw: The Vanishing Man

    Ken Bulmer

    Now starring in Albion -- a brand new US comics series plotted by the legendary Alan Moore -- the Steel Claw joins the Spider as the next classic British comics character to receive the beautifully packaged hardcover archive treatment!

    When a ...

  • Do-Over

    Niki Burnham

    When it comes to love, how many chances do you get? Girl meets prince. Girl looses prince. Girl gets prince back -- right? Well, that's what Valerie is hoping. She's back in Schwerinborg after spending some time with her mother in the good ol' US ...

  • Lessons in Duck Hunting

    Jayne Buxton

    A harried single mother of two young children in London, Ally James is less than thrilled with her lackluster life. Her job marketing marmalade is a yawn fest and the domestic front seems to streak by in a flash of fish sticks and school runs. To top...

  • Essential Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, Volume 1

    John Byrne

    A picture's worth a thousand words, and there have always been top supplies of both in the ever-moving manuals of marvels and miscreants! Now, witness first-hand the series that started it all in Mark Gruenwald's original fifteen issues worth of secr...

  • Avalon High

    Meg Cabot

    Avalon High seems like a typical high school, attended by typical students: There's Lance, the jock. Jennifer, the cheerleader. And Will, senior class president, quarterback, and all-around good guy. But not everybody at Avalon High is who they ap...

  • Devil's Due

    Rachel Caine

    The money Lucia and her new partner received to open their detective agency had come with strings: any assignment delivered via red envelope had to be top priority. No sweat. No one could make Lucia do something she didn't believe in -- right? Wro...

  • Where They Were Missed

    Lucy Caldwell

  • The Ruby Ghost

    June Calvin

    Dreams Are Made of This Penelope Jones is a young woman of reduced means, eager to give her family one less mouth to feed. Seeking a position as governess for the Silverthorne family, she is put off by James Betterton -- Lord Silverthorne's no...

  • The Wedding Officer

    Anthony Capella

    IN THE SENSUAL TRADITION OF CHOCOLAT AND CAPTAIN CORELLIS MANDOLIN COMES A RICH, JUICY, AND UTTERLY MAGICAL TALE OF PASSION, CULINARY DELIGHT -- AND ITALY. It's 1944, and Captain James Gould arrives in Naples, assigned to discourage marriages betw...

  • Yard Sale/Let's Go Shopping!

    Danielle Carl

  • Go, Meg, Go!/What Kind of Day?

    Danielle Carl

  • Get up and Go!

    Nancy Carlson

    We all come in different shapes and sizes, and it doesn’t matter if you are tall, short, skinny, or round. Your body is your own, and you need to take care of it. Whether it’s a New Year’s resolution or simply time for a change, this book is th...

  • Two Little Lies

    Liz Carlyle

    Once, he spurned the woman he loved. The Earl of Wynwood was far too reckless to handle a sophisticated woman like Viviana Alessandri. And the beautiful opera singer was far too famous to make a suitable wife for Wynwood. Twice, she wagered with ...

  • Valentine's Survivor

    Susanna Carr
    in

    Lost roses. Cancelled reservations. Broken dates. Arrests. Dead bodies. There's always some reason to hate Valentine's Day...unless the scene of the crime starts really heating up.... This Valentine's Day was supposed to be different for Shanna M...

  • Spin Doctor

    Leslie Carroll

    Question: What do Amy, the new mom; Meriel, the West-Indian housekeeper; Claude and Naomi, the alternative couple; Faith, the elegant widow; and Talia, the super-skinny ballerina have in common? Answer: Abso-freakin'-lutely-nothing! Except t...

  • Battlestar Galactica

    Jeffrey A. Carver

    Battlestar Galactica, an original SCI FI Channel miniseries, electrified viewers and critics alike and was hailed as a landmark in sci-fi television. Here, for the first time, is the novel based on that exciting drama. For forty years, the Twelve ...

  • Jess

    Mary Casanova

    When ten-year-old Jess McConnell meets a new friend on her trip to the ancient Maya ruins in Belize, she is invited on an eco-adventure and makes some real discoveries--about the dangers in the Belizean jungle, about the people who have lived there s...

  • Christmas Wish

    Jeanie Smith Cash
    in

  • The Gazebo

    Kimberly Cates

    When former wild child Deirdre McDaniel clears out her childhood home, she comes face-to-face with a lifetime of memories and failures. She had been a rebellious teenager with dreams of making it big, but her high school pregnancy had changed all tha...

  • Gold!

    Grace Cavendish

    Preparations for the wedding of one of Lady Grace's fellow Maids of Honour are interrupted when a shipment of gold, on its way to the Queen, is stolen! The culprit is a single masked horseman, all in black - or is it a gang of ruffians from the fores...

  • House Calls

    Michelle Celmer

    Sharing the cottage was her idea, and since Dr. Pete Morgan was her patient, Maggie made the rules. If only "Doc" weren't so attractive...and so hard to tame. She tried to convince him that the lake setting would heal him, body and soul. And her ther...

  • Cleo Barnes: Worst Blind Date Ever

    Holly Chamberlin
    in

    The trauma of the blind date. It's like being trapped in a bad, four-hour movie. Like shopping for Manolos with a maxed-out Visa. Like going for a massage and getting a bikini wax instead. Like...well, you get the idea. How many frogs can a woman kis...

  • Daddy Lessons

    Victoria Chancellor

    A Crash Course -- In Fatherhood! Deep in the heart of Texas, Ranger Springs is the perfect place to start over. Kate Wooten and her young son aren't the only newcomers in town -- Luke Simon has just moved into the ranch next door, along with his...

  • He Was No Hero

    Jon Chandler

  • The Diamond Country

    Jon Chandler

  • Wild Weather - Blizzards!

    Eric Charlesworth

  • Signal Red

    Rimi B. Chatterjee

    All's well for Gopal Chandran and his wife Vidura on the sleepy campus of a semi-secret defense lab where Gopal is a valuable scientist, till an old friend, Anuprabha, visits them and starts asking awkward questions. What are the nano-powders produce...

  • The Lemon Sisters

    Andrea Cheng

    On her eightieth birthday, a woman watches three young sisters play outside in the snow, remembers good times with her own sisters, and receives several birthday surprises, in a title that includes a simple recipe for making lemon ice with snow....

  • Hoedown Showdown

    Kelli Chipponeri

  • White Tiger

    Rohini Chowdhury

  • A Texas Family Reunion

    Judy Christenberry

    The Last Barlow? David Buford/Barlow has finally found his long-lost family, but the joy he feels at being reunited with his brother and sisters is complicated by his growing feelings for his "cousin" Alexandra Buford. Will Alex ever be ab...

  • Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 8

    CLAMP

    INTO THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST

    Princess Sakura’s memories are scattered across multiple dimensions"and now she and Syaoran are part of an unlikely group of friends traveling from world to world to find them. Unfortunately the memories have be...

  • Saving Solace

    Douglas W. Clark
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Solace is booming out of control. An important temple dedication is bringing merchants, dignitaries, and a host of ne’er-do-wells and surprise visitors to the fabled tree-top town. And lately there have been a series of mysterious incidentsÉ.Palin...

  • Sharks

    Phillip Clarke

  • Curiosity Killed the Cat Sitter

    Blaize Clement

    With pooper-scooper in hand, smart and sassy Dixie Hemingway--Sarasota, Florida's top amateur sleuth and professional pet-sitter--fearlessly faces schnauzers, greyhounds, tabbies . . . and murder. Dixie Hemingway knows first-hand that many things ...

  • Tales From the Crib

    Jennifer Coburn

    House in the 'burbs: check. Baby on the way: check. Rock-solid marriage: Can I get back to you on that one...? People say my timing with a wisecrack is flawless, but my real-life "special moments" sensor is clearly on the blink. Then again, so is J...

  • South of the Law Line

    Walt Coburn

    Three of Walt Coburn's finest Western short novels appear here in book form for the first time. "Riders of the Purple" concerns two ranches that have worked together and co-operated for twenty years before someone else managed to split them into feud...

  • Correcting the Landscape

    Marjorie Kowalski Cole

    The editor of a small weekly newspaper in Fairbanks, Alaska, Gus Traynor is an independent spirit whose idealism has survived numerous tests. When big business interests threaten the breathtaking wilderness he cherishes, he joins forces with his best...

  • Web of Lies

    Brandilyn Collins

    She was washing dishes when her world began to blur. Chelsea Adams hitched in a breath, her skin pebbling. She knew the dreaded sign all too well. God was pushing a vision into her consciousness. Black dots crowded her sight. She dropped a plate, hea...

  • Love's Nine Lives

    Cara Colter

    HE HARDLY KNEW HER, BUT HE ALREADY WANTED TO BE A BETTER MAN.... She made rugged contractor Justin West believe he existed only to protect those more fragile than himself. And that, more than anything, told him Bridget Daisy was trouble. Justin ha...

  • A Gentleman's Kiss

    Kim Comeaux / Kimberley Comeaux

    Lady Claudia Baumgartner is not the woman London expects her to be. She longs to make a difference - but as she searches for her estranged grandfather and secretly tends to orphans and widows in the city's slum, the unexpected occurs. Claudia falls i...

  • Mademoiselle Benoir

    Christine Conrad

    Tim Reinhart enters a wondrous world the moment he buys a farmhouse in rural France. Or, in his marvelous words, "From the moment I saw this property, I had a bead on it. I can't completely explain why, but I had an intense feeling of belonging." Let...

  • High School Bites

    Liza Conrad

    Lucy Hellenberg is not your typical Pacific Cedar High student. Because in between hanging out with her friends, hating her hair and her math teacher, and trying to decide whether she should dump her on-again, off-again boyfriend, she has to deal wit...

  • Young Will

    Bruce Cook

    A fresh and vivid re-imagining of Shakespeare's early years in Stratford and in London

    It's 1616 and William Shakespeare is back in his native Stratford-Upon-Avon. His extraordinary career as a playwright and poet in London seems like another ...

  • Whose Tools Are These?

    Katz Cooper

    Use your thinking tool and guess whose tools are whose. Tools can be big, small, soft, hard, sharp, or smooth. Many workers use special tools to do their jobs. Can you guess whose tools are whose? Learn all about the different tools used by doctors, ...

  • The Plainsman

    Lori Copeland

    Trey McAllister is on his way home to Tyrone, Kansas, after three years away fighting in the Union Army. Trey is riding past Sassy Gap, Louisiana, when he sees a fire blazing out of control. He stops to help and discovers that the entire town is made...

  • The Shooting Season

    Steve Copling

    Three years of madness. Cunning, methodical, and elusive, a serial sniper hits a new city every July 24th. Everett, Washington was first, then Tempe, Arizona. In year three, he brought his terror to Brighton, Colorado. Different cities same pattern: ...

  • The Pale Horseman

    Bernard Cornwell

    The last unvanquished piece of England, Wessex is eyed hungrily by the fearsome Viking conquerors. A dispossessed young nobleman, Uhtred is tied to the imperiled land by birth and marriage but was raised by the Danish invaders--and he questions where...

  • Ski Share: Vermont

    Emily Costello

    When six ski bums and snow-boarding fanatics take over a small condo in Vermont for the winter, the group of friends have to find a way to balance fun, work, relationships, and cramped living quarters in order to make their special vacation the great...

  • Leigh

    Lyn Cote

    The women of Ivy Manor--four generations of women who forged a dynasty amid the tapestry of the twentieth century... Linda Leigh Sinclair is born in the aftermath of WWII. Raised near Ivy Manor, enveloped in the love of her family, Leigh has every...

  • Dog Days

    Ana Marie Cox

    Melanie Thorton has the job she's been dreaming of since her student-government days-and the man she's been dreaming of since they started flirting on the campaign trail. She's on the communications team of Democrat John Hillman's presidential campai...

  • Evolution

    Greg Cox

    THE WAR IS OVER. BUT THE TRUE HORROR HAS ONLY JUST BEGUN.... For more than six hundred years, Selene was a Death Dealer, a vampire warrior dedicated to the destruction of her people's savage enemies: the werewolves. But then she learned the sho...

  • Mistress On Demand

    Maggie Cox

    Available wherever and whenever he wanted? After a reckless, hot encounter with Dominic van Straaten, Sophie tried to slip back to her quiet life as a schoolteacher. But Dominic insisted that she should become part of his glamorous, glittering ...

  • On Blue Falls Pond

    Susan Crandall

    Nearly two years after tragedy drove Glory Harrison from home, she's called back to Tennessee to care for her ailing Gran. But time and the tranquility of Blue Falls Pond cannot erase the memories of the fire that took her husband and unborn child. H...

  • The Count's Blackmail Bargain

    Sara Craven

    For handsome Italian count Alessio Ramontella, seducing women comes as naturally as breathing. Alessio lives his life based on two criteria: first that success and satisfaction are guaranteed, and second that all his dealings are discreet and conduct...

  • The Venetian's Mistress

    Ann Elizabeth Cree

    HE BROUGHT DANGER... AND DESIRE An English widow in Italy, Cecily Renato has heard murmurings about a past tragedy which has caused a bitter rift with a neighboring family. This past is brought abruptly into the present when her stepdaughter decla...

  • The Sheriff Of Heartbreak County

    Kathleen Creighton

    HE HAD HIS PRIME SUSPECT IN CUSTODY, BUT SOMETHING DIDN'T ADD UP... Small-town sheriff Roan Harley arrested plain-as-all-get-out Mary Yancy because he couldn't afford not to. She'd had motive, means and opportunity to kill the son of a senator -- pl...

  • White Star: A Dog on the Titanic

    Marty Crisp

    A simply-told, poignant tale of friendship and survival, set on history's most famous doomed ship!

    The year is 1912, and twelve-year-old Sam Harris is traveling from England to America on the grand ship theTitanic. Sam is lonely at first, but ...

  • Theodora's Baby

    Penny Culliford

    “I’m not sure I’m cut out for parenthood. It’s not in my plan. All right, I haven’t actually got a plan, but if I had one, this wouldn’t be in it. I don’t even likebabies -- nasty, small, noisy, smelly things that take over your life. ...

  • Letters of a Portuguese Nun

    Myriam Cyr

    In 1669, a Parisian bookseller published a slim volume called Portuguese Letters, which unveiled a love affair between a young Portuguese nun and a French officer that had occurred a few years earlier during a chaotic and war-torn period in Portgual....

  • Murder in Memoriam

    Didier Daeninckx

    ";Murder in Memoriam is the kind of book that begins to restore one’s confidence in the detective story.";?Nick HornbySet against the backdrop of a demonstration in Paris in 1961, in which hundreds of Algerians died, Didier Daeninckx’s chilling n...

  • The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

    Gordon Dahlquist

    Here begins an extraordinary alliance -- and a brutal and tender, shocking, and electrifying adventure to end all adventures. It starts with a simple note. Roger Bascombe regretfully wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith...

  • Lily Finds a Friend

    Jenny Dale

    Everyone loves puppies! Bouncy and cute, furry and huggable, what could be more perfect than a puppy tale? Lily is feeling lonely. Her friends are too busy to play and she's tired of being all by herself. When she disappears, her owner, Jack, think...

  • Dead of Night

    Cynthia Danielewski

    On the most important night of her life Jane Ramsey, senior designer of the World Museum in Long Island, NY, finds her assistant murdered among the mummies and ancient Egyptian artifacts. Josh Brody's dead body shocks the museum community and threate...

  • House of Many Gods

    Kiana Davenport

    Abandoned by her mother as a child, Ana is raised by her extended family on the lawless Wai`anae Coast of 0`ahu. Against the odds, she becomes a physician. While tending victims of Hurricane 'Iniki on the neighboring island of Kaua`i, she meets Nikol...

  • Not Without the Truth

    Kay David

    Lauren Stanley has to unlock the secret of her past. Discovering what happened the night her mother died is the only way she'll ever have a normal life. So she travels to Peru to find a mysterious doctor named Armando Torres -- a man who is more t...

  • Star Trek Comics Classics - Death Before Dishonor

    Peter David

    In the aftermath of the destruction of the Genesis planet -- and a Klingon ship -- in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, the Klingons are after Captain Kirk... with a vengeance! And when Kirk manages to infuriate the crazed Nasguls, a bidding w...

  • His Bundle Of Love

    Patricia Davids

    Heavenly Father, I would love to be a dad, to hold a sticky hand while we watch a ball game. But is Caitlin Williams's daughter coming into my arms at birth part of Your plan? Caitlin named me as the dad so her preemie could receive urgent medical ca...

  • Redemption

    Carolyn Davidson

    He was a Civil War veteran, wounded in body and soul. And when his wife died unexpectedly, he retreated from life, craving only solitude and his happy memories. But his young son needed a mother's love and guidance -- even if Jake wanted no woman him...

  • Cuffs and Coffee Breaks

    Maryjanice Davidson
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    Lost roses. Cancelled reservations. Broken dates. Arrests. Dead bodies. There's always some reason to hate Valentine's Day...unless the scene of the crime starts really heating up.... In a moment of weakness, greeting card writer Julie Kay About ...

  • Anne Frank

    Susanna Davidson

  • The Model Man

    Genie Davis

    Will the real Christie Harris blow her chance at love? So she's taken some stuff nobody will miss. Pretended to be a producer to get into a party. And used her acting skills--currently not being used on movie screens across America--to impersonate ...

  • The Grand Hotel

    Mary Davis
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    A family legend brings Aimee Mikkelson to the Grand Hotel on Michigan's Mackinac Island. As she seeks to uncover a hidden inheritance, Aimee's carefree nature hits a wall of organization - Mr. Dillon Thurough. Now her mission is two-fold: Recover the...

  • Swallowing Stones

    Lisa St. Aubin De Teran

    Lisa St Aubin de Teran's Swallowing Stones is a fictionalized account of the extraordinary life of one Oswaldo Barreto Miliani, code-named Otto -- adviser to Castro, confidant of Salvador Allende, and sharp thorn in the sides of both the CIA and t...

  • The Madonnas of Leningrad

    Debra Dean

    Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories--the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild--yet ...

  • Angel With a Gun

    Joe DeCicco

    Not all cops are angels. But a few go bad, real bad. Mike Romano is just a beat officer, but now he finds himself facing police corruption and worse. He joined the force to stop a child molester from preying on his neighborhood, but to make the colla...

  • Wisdom's Prize

    Patricia DeGroot

    Meredith "Red" Wilde is convinced that Michael Wisdom is one of the rudest and most egotistical men she has ever encountered after trying unsuccessfully to convince him to send his daughter, Caroline, to her school. But when he assists her with an in...

  • Showdown

    Ted Dekker

    welcome to paradise When a stranger named Marsuvees Black appears in Paradise, he brings with him a message of hope and love. Or is it death and hate? Perhaps neither--perhaps both. He seems to know too much about the town's many unspoken se...

  • The Big Red Stop Sign

    Helen Delaney

  • Love-Lies-Bleeding

    Don DeLillo

    Love-Lies-Bleeding, Don DeLillo's third play, is a daring, profoundly compassionate story about life, death, art and human connection. Three people gather to determine the fate of the man who sits in a straight-backed chair saying nothing. He is Alex...

  • Pumpkin Patch Puppy

    Danielle Denega

  • Engagement Between Enemies

    Kathie DeNosky

    ENGAGED TO HER WORST ENEMY... Finding out that he was a tycoon's secret grandson shocked Caleb Walker, especially when he was made president of his family's financial consulting company. Yet his biggest surprise was Alyssa Merrick. Threatened by t...

  • Kuraj

    Silvia di Natale

    Born in the late 1930s on the Central Asian steppe, Naja is the daughter of a clan chieftain of the Tushan nomads, proud descendants of Genghis Khan. When her fiercely independent father, U'lan, hears of Stalin's plan to bring the Tushan unde...

  • Death Called to the Bar

    David Dickinson

    Queen's Inn is London's youngest and most fashionable Inn of Court. On 29th February 1902, at a Feast, senior barrister Alexander Dauntsey collapses into his soup and dies. He has been poisoned. Soon after his friend Woodford Stewart is shot dead, an...

  • River Rising

    Athol Dickson

    "Hale Poser arrives in Louisiana in 1927 to find racial prejudices missing from the small town of Pilotsville. In pursuit of a missing child, however, he uncovers a dark secret"--Provided by publisher....

  • Tremor

    Craig Dirgo

    More than one hundred years ago, inventor Nikola Tesla created a device for transferring electricity without wires. It was supposed to be his greatest triumph. Instead, his invention spawned a nightmare. And the nightmare has returned.... After th...

  • Disney Presents a Pixar Film Splashtacular Cartoon Tales

    Disney Book Group

    Cartoon Tales gives young kids a chance to enjoy all the fun of their older siblings' comic books and graphic novels! This clever new format interweaves colorful comic strips with blocks of prose to create exciting stories young readers won't be able...

  • Between Light and Dark

    Disney Book Group

  • The Little Balloonist

    Linda Donn

    A soaring love story set in Napoleonic France This irresistible literary debut novel was inspired by the life of Sophie Blanchard, one of the first women to fly. In Paris, a young widow inherits her late husband's considerable debts, as well ...

  • Stone Cradle

    Louise Doughty

    **A BIRD IN WINTER - THE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM LOUISE DOUGHTY - AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW** FROM THE WRITER OF BBC SMASH HIT DRAMA CROSSFIRECaptivating and beautifully written.' Mirror From the bestselling author of Apple Tree Yard comes th...

  • Love Lasts Forever

    Dominiqua Douglas

    What do you do when your dreams are shattered?Thor Magnusen is clueless. The first time he touched pigskin, he knew football was his life. He never expected a tackle to end his dream. Yet the answer comes when a special family heirloom takes him away...

  • Last Stand

    Keith Douglass

    When a secretive society known as the Kaigun Samurai, Naval Knights who, creating a culture based on ancient traditions, are armed with technology that renders them invisible to detection, begin hijacking cargo ships, Carrier Battle Group Fou...

  • The Crippled Angel

    Sara Douglass

    The world that the former monk Thomas Neville knows is crumbling about him. The Holy Mother Church of Rome is losing its power over men and Thomas knows that this is not Man's doing but the work of the demons who have escaped their earthly prison and...

  • The Surgeon's Rescue Mission

    Dianne Drake

    Solaina Léandre saved Dr. David Gentry's life when she found him injured near the Dharavaj jungle. As she nursed him back to health, he nurtured feelings in her she'd never known -- so why did he leave without a trace? Going against every cautiou...

  • The Buried Bones Mystery

    Sharon M. Draper

    Ziggy and his friends Rico, Rashawn, and Jerome call themselves The Black Dinosaurs, and share exciting adventures. In The Buried Bones Mystery, the boys build a clubhouse in Ziggy's backyard, where they uncover a box of bones while digging to bury t...

  • Lost in the Tunnel of Time

    Sharon M. Draper

    In Lost in the Tunnel of Time, the boys discover their hometown was a stop on the Underground Railroad and are excited to explore the part of the tunnel that is right under their school. When a trapdoor slams behind them, locking them in the tunnel, ...

  • Legally Tender

    Michele Dunaway

    Her Crime Guilt ridden after a failed marriage and trying to make things up to her daughter, Christina Jones joins a small-town law practice, hoping a fresh start will put her career and their life back on track.... The Punishment Saying no to ...

  • A Model Spy

    Natalie Dunbar

    The It Girls They're rich, fabulous...and dangerously underestimated. It Girl: Vanessa Dawson Mission: Resume a high-gloss fashion career to investigate the murder of two top models in a Miami drug-smuggling ring. Supermodel Vanessa Dawson ha...

  • Thunderbolt Over Texas

    Barbara Dunlop

    TEMPORARY TEXAS VOWS A marriage of convenience is the perfect plan for New York museum curator Sydney Wainsbrook and Texas rancher Cole Erickson. It's a business transaction that will save her career and safeguard his family's traditions. After...

  • House of Orphans

    Helen Dunmore

    Finland 1901. Eeva, the young orphaned daughter of a revolutionary, is sent from the orphanage to work as housekeeper for Thomas, a widowed country doctor. Her enigmatic presence disturbs Thomas as much as it fascinates him, shattering all the certai...

  • The Diary of Mademoiselle D'Arvers

    Toru Dutt

    Set in France in the second half of the nineteenth century, "The Diary of Mademoiselle D'Arvers", or "Le Journal de Mademoiselle D'Arvers", is a novel of possibilities and limitations; of love, marriage and domesticity, and the heartaches and joys of...

  • White Vengeance

    Susan Edwards

    A TASTE OF VENGEANCE There were few things Renait O'Brien resented more than interference with her family. Sheriff Tyler clearly meant to help, but removing her siblings to foster homes was unnecessary. She had looked after the children since th...

  • Futureshocks

    George Alec Effinger

    Sixteen renowned masters of speculative fiction share their individual visions of the future of humankind, in an anthology containing all-original short stories by Keven J. Anderson, Alan Dean Foster, Sean McMullen, Louise Marley, Mike Resnick, Harry...

  • On the Fringe

    Aaron Elkins; Charlotte Elkins

    A Lee Ofsted mystery Lee Ofsted and Graham Sheldon, her ex-cop fianc?, have decided to take advantage of the glorious setting of the historic Royal Mauna Kea Golf and Country Club to have a quiet wedding ceremony. But from the start things go awry, p...

  • Ultimate Galactus - Book 2: Secret

    Warren Ellis

    Collects Ultimate Secret #1-4. A hidden alien race is trying desperately to keep Man from reaching the stars and Phillip Lawson will use all his considerable power to stop it...the power of Captain Mahr Vehl! Also, the Ultimates and the Ultimate Fant...

  • Choose or Lose: How to Pick a Winner

    Robin Epstein

  • Growing Up Groovy: An Out of This World Adventure

    Robin Epstein

  • A "No Drama" Valentine's

    Leslie Esdaile
    in

    Lost roses. Cancelled reservations. Broken dates. Arrests. Dead bodies. There's always some reason to hate Valentine's Day...unless the scene of the crime starts really heating up.... Jocelyn Jefferson is one sister who is not falling for any rom...

  • Leonardo's Swans

    Karen Essex

    Isabelle d’Este, daughter of the Duke of Ferrara, born into privilege and the political and artistic turbulence of Renaissance Italy, is a stunning black-eyed blond and an art lover and collector. Worldly and ambitious, she has never envied her les...

  • Love Is Like a Box of Chocolates

    Marcia Evanick
    in

    The trauma of the blind date. It's like being trapped in a bad, four-hour movie. Like shopping for Manolos with a maxed-out Visa. Like going for a massage and getting a bikini wax instead. Like...well, you get the idea. How many frogs can a woman kis...

  • Longarm and the Bad Break

    Tabor Evans

    BLOW UP Custis Long's riding with a shiny new deputy, so puffed up and green that Longarm can't resist calling him "Jimmy the Kid." But when they attempt to capture the Dekins gang, an exploding pocketbook grinds the Kid's face to hamburger, and lea...

  • Elizabeth Street

    Laurie Fabiano

    In Elizabeth Street, Laurie Fabiano tells a remarkable, and previously unheard, story of the Italian immigrant experience at the start of the twentieth century. Culled from her own family history, Fabiano paints an entrancing portrait of Giovanna Cos...

  • Death Dance

    Linda Fairstein

    Murder at the Metropolitan Opera House pulls Alexandra Cooper behind the scenes at Lincoln Center--and into the cutthroat conglomerate that controls the city's theaters. Joe Berk, the powerful head of the Berk Organization, was the lover of world-cla...

  • Wolfblade

    Jennifer Fallon

    MARLA WOLFBLADE OF HYTHRIA is determined to restore her family's great name, but conspirators surround her: the Sorcerers' Collective, the Patriots -- even members of her own family. She must make sure her son Damin lives to be old enough to restore ...