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  • The Liberated

    Dafydd ab Hugh

    Major Kira and the ambitious Kai Winn have never seen eye to eye, but when Cardassian renegades invade Deep Space Nine, determined to capture one of the sacred Orbs of the Prophets, the two women must work together to preserve both the Orb and the sa...

  • The Visitor

    Patrice Aggs

    When two cute kittens are told that Giraffe will visit, they wonder what a giraffe is and become quite alarmed by the answers the other animals give them, but when Giraffe arrives, they all have a rollicking good time....

  • One Bride Delivered

    Jeanne Allan

    Hope Valley Brides: Four weddings, one Colorado family. Where family comes first, and romance comes knocking. "Need wife to take kare (sic) of a little kid. Has to bake cookys (sic) and smile a lot." Was this newspaper advert a child&...

  • Isaac Asimov's Utopia

    Roger MacBride Allen

  • Double Exposure

    C.J. Anders

    Caught on film... Bessie's restaurant is in desperate need of repairs, so Joey is thrilled to land a high-paying modeling gig...until photos of her wearing lingerie end up on the Internet. Jack keeps his cool, but Dawson goes postal. Only Jen's c...

  • Be My Baby

    Susan Andersen

    Juliet and Her Romeo Beau Prim and proper Juliet Rose Astor Lowell doesn't want her body guarded by anyone while she's in New Orleans for the grand opening of Daddy's new hotel--especially not by consummate macho cop Beau Dupree. He's just too big...

  • A Funny Thing Happened...

    Caroline Anderson

    City man meets county girl... All Sam Bradley intended was a safe journey from London to Dorset to visit his grandparents, but he hadn't allowed for the weather! A blizzard brought him to a standstill by a run-down farm, just short of his des...

  • No Time for Mother's Day

    Laurie Halse Anderson

  • Stone Girl, Bone Girl

    Laurence Anholt

    Discover the story of Mary Anning, the worlds best-known fossil hunter. As a baby, Mary was struck by lightning, then as a little girl she found a fossilised sea monster, the most important prehistoric discovery of its time. This spectacular tale of ...

  • The Attack

    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...

  • Nina Shapes Up

    Katherine Applegate

    They've 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. Nina shapes up because she's desperate to keep Ben's love. She's terrified that if he regains hi...

  • The Radley Curse

    Aileen Armitage

    When Fern Saxby arrived at Bradford to claim her inheritance she simply dismissed the strange feeling of familiarity that she felt, but was it more than deja vu that her betrothed had spoken of?

    Perplexed by disturbing dreams which give her a power...

  • Trashmaster

    Robb Armstrong

    More trash than flash.

    Ronnie "Garbage Man" Miller has skills with the slams. His good-natured put-downs give his basketball team, the Bulldogs, an edge on the court. Patrick Ewing has even made up a comic about him--the "Trashma...

  • Wrongful Death

    Catherine Arnold

    Is there such a thing as rightful murder, in the case of a WRONGFUL DEATH? The political becomes shockingly personal in this third gripping legal thriller featuring criminal attorney Karen Perry-Mondori. When Karen's brother, a respected U.S. sena...

  • The Dollmaker

    Harriette Simpson Arnow

    The Dollmaker was originally published in 1954 to immediate success and critical acclaim. In unadorned and powerful prose, Harriette Arnow tells the unforgettable and heartbreaking story of the Nevels family and their quest to preserve their deep-roo...

  • Not of Woman Born

    Constance Ash

    An original collection of stories details modern science's effect on humankinds' notions of conception, birth, and parenting and includes contributions from such authors as Michael Armstrong, Robert Silverberg, Susan Palwick, and many others. Origina...

  • Lady Knightley's Secret

    Anne Ashley

    MARRIAGE WAS THE ONLY OPTION... Miss Elizabeth Beresford had become an heiress upon her grandmother's death. Her sister, Evadne, thought she was very clever when she engineered that Elizabeth would be trapped overnight in the cellars with Evadne's...

  • An Officer and a Hero

    Elizabeth Ashtree

    THE OFFICER: Captain Kaitlin McCord, an attorney in the US Army's Judge Advocate General's Corps. THE HERO: Master Sergeant Daniel Wilson, a paralegal assigned to Captain McCord. THE PROBLEM: The captain meets the handsome enlisted man before...

  • Deadbeat

    Leo Atkins

    His name is Connor Gibbs. His past is shady, but his present is rosy. He enjoys the simple pleasures of a well-turned phrase and finding lost souls. He's a gentle giant - until he's crossed. Then he becomes a six-foot-seven human hammer. Gibbs isn't ...

  • Hellbound Fury

    James Axler

    Humankind faces extinction after the nuclear blasts at the turn of the millennium, until a former enforcer for the new lords, Kane, along with archivist Brigid and magistrate Grant, is catapulted into another reality where they attempt to remake the ...

  • The Company of Cats

    Marian Babson

    A PURRFECT MURDER... When millionaire Arthur Arbuthnot mistakes gossip maven Annabel Hinchby-Smythe for a decorator--and hires her to redecorate his apartment--the fiscally challenged Annabel can't refuse. When she sees Arbuthnot's tatty London fl...

  • King and I: Deluxe Edition

    Bonnie Bader

    A deluxe, oversized picture book contains colorful movie stills from the new animated version of the popular American musical which features new animal characters and a new, happier ending. Original. Movie tie-in....

  • Forever Friends

    Judy Baer

    As Egg McNaughton graduates from high school and heads for college, much to the dismay of his sister Binky, Lexi must rely on her Christian faith when her parents insist that she break up with Todd because they seem to be getting too serious, and she...

  • Piglet in a Playpen

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. 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. Ruby the p...

  • Certifiably Insane

    Arthur W. Bahr

    Defense attorney Kate Newhouse hires forensic psychiatrist Simon Rose to determine the sanity of Janice Jensen, who has murdered her husband and baby, not realizing that Jensen and Rose have a history together and that her own life is in danger. A fi...

  • Spirit's Song

    Madeline Baker

    She was a runaway wife, with a hefty reward posted for her return. And he was the best darn tracker in the territory. For the half-breed bounty hunter, it was an easy choice. His had been a hard life, with little to show for it except his horse, his ...

  • Born for This Love

    Brenda Bancroft

    Everything in Tess Trevor's world is threatened. Her father lies unconscious in a hospital bed. Her home is endangered by bankruptcy. Even her relationship with Cal, the man she loved so long, is changing. When Justin Galloway enters her life, Tes...

  • The Bird, the Monkey and the Snake in the Jungle

    Kate Banks

    This is a story in words and pictures about a bird, a monkey, and a snake who have an adventure together. Along the way they meet a family of squirrels, a hungry alligator, an enormous spider, a fierce tiger, and a friendly frog--and they find a new ...

  • Finity

    John Barnes

    VERTIGO! Lyle Peripart's world is coming apart. Up to just a few days ago he was an obscure professor, quietly unenthusiastic about the Reichs that have dominated the world since the Axis victory over a century ago--but not looking for a fight wit...

  • Liberty Falling

    Nevada Barr

    There is peril beneath the watchful eyes of the Lady... When Anna Pigeon left New York City after her husband was killed, she hoped it would be forever. But now her sister Molly is clinging to life in an uptown hospital ICU, so Anna has reluctant...

  • His Secret Child

    Beverly Barton

    PASSIONATE SECRETS One sultry night many years ago, Sheila Vance became a woman in Caleb Bishop's arms. And though he never knew it, Caleb became a father. Now the hard-hearted bachelor was back in town, and Sheila fought the fiery attraction be...

  • George Paints His House

    Francine Bassede

  • Boondocking

    Tricia Bauer

    Boondocking is a family's journey into parts unknown. In the RV world, "boondocking" means setting up camp in an uncharted area-letting go of your plan and making your way on resourcefulness, wits, and emotional resolve. Which is exactly what Sylvia ...

  • The Reckless Seduction

    Jayne Bauling

    Opposites attract! The only thing Richard Donvale and Challis Fox could agree on was that they were just too different ever to be compatible. A 32-year-old, rich, sophisticated diamond mine owner, Richard considered himself to be the complete oppo...

  • Barbie Feelings: My First Day of Preschool

    Jean Bay

  • I Got so Mad!

    Jean Bay

  • X20

    Richard Beard

    Gregory Simpson is thirty and trying to quit, keeping ten fingers glued to a keyboard in order to fight their incessant ache to hold a burning paper tube filled with dead leaves. In twenty entries in twenty days for twenty to a pack -- one word for e...

  • The Revenge of Kali-Ra

    K.K. Beck

    Nadia Wentworth is a Hollywood star. A big star. And she's so dreadfully bored on location in the South Pacific, she begins reading the first thing her assistant can dig up: a piece of gloriously bad pulp fiction by 1920s author Valerian Ricardo. Nad...

  • Love Remembered

    Ann Bell

    Dawn Harkness has been happy for several years with her career as an obstetrical nurse. She gained a sense of fulfillment and achievement by using her God-given gifts to help young families. When Sarah, a teenaged unwed mother, needs her help, Daw...

  • Border Crossings

    Carole Bellacera

    Kathy O'Faolain is an American woman who seems to have it all-a loving husband, a satisfying job helping troubled teens, and an adorable young son. She lives happily with her Irish husband, Pearse, in Dublin -- but her life is forever changed when Pe...

  • Blazing Colts

    Don Bendell

    Reunited while avenging their brother-in-law's death, Chris Colt and his half-brother, along with their sister Charley, return to the Silver Cliff Ranch, only to discover Chris's wife brutally murdered and his children kidnapped, and the Colt family ...

  • Zorro and the Dragon Riders

    David Bergantino

    The legendary masked hero of Old California returns, posing as a foppish Spanish nobleman by day, but by night Don Diego transforms himself into Zorro, protector of the innocent and scourge of the wicked. Original....

  • A Family for Andi

    Eileen Berger

    FROM MILLIONAIRE HEIRESS...TO SMALL-TOWN BRIDE? Heiress Andi Barker came to Sylvan Falls on a well-intentioned but secret mission: to investigate her long-lost relations and the rift that had separated her family for generations. Andi easily c...

  • Deep Harbor

    Lisa Tawn Bergren

    SOME TIES CAN NEVER BE BROKEN... TORA ANDERS -- Determined to live "the good life," no matter the price, Tora weaves a web of lies that could cost her everything she cares for -- including a successful future and the man she loves -- but lead her ...

  • Little Sister

    Carol Birch

    Cathy Wren, aged 37, lives alone in a small town, surviving on waitressing and piano teaching. Nursing her quiet, drab life, she keeps memories of her tumultuous past at bay -- until one stray remnant of that old life knocks on her front door. Sudden...

  • Texas Passions

    Rosanne Bittner

    When old enemies of ex-Texas Ranger John Hawkins seek revenge against him and his beloved wife, they steal a treasure beyond price: their young son. Texas, and his little sister, Honor, John and Tess have become pawns in a cruel game meant to lure th...

  • Taxi That Hurried

    Irma Simonton Black

  • Luke

    Jennifer Blake

    Luke Benedict figures he's the only one in Turn-Coupe, Louisiana, who can save novelist Aril Halstead from someone intent on revenge. If only he could get April to cooperate. Years ago, Luke had let April down -- in the worst possible way. She's ...

  • GameMaster

    John Bochak

  • The Music of Star Trek

    Jeff Bond

    The Music of Star Trek is a critical and historical overview of music scored for Paramount's Star Trek franchise, from the original '60s series to the highly successful Star Trek movies and the new television show spin-offs. This comprises some of th...

  • The Hoodwinked Bride

    Barbara Boswell

    Was beautiful, headstrong Angelica Carroll another supposed long-lost heiress claiming her right to the Fortune family riches? Not this time. Because twenty-five years ago, someone saw to it that the new baby Fortune remained a secret. And now someon...

  • Evanly Choirs

    Rhys Bowen

    World-renowned tenor Ifor Llewelyn came back to his quiet Welsh hometown on doctor's orders. But the visit didn't exactly benefit his health. The hard-drinking ladies' man has just been found dead--and Constable Evan Evans is trying to find out why. ...

  • Cullen's Bride

    Fiona Brand

    PREGNANT WITH HIS CHILD... When Rachel Sinclair met former agent Cullen Logan, she was all too aware of his dark past. Soon, though, she was falling in love with him, reputation or no reputation. But Cullen wasn't so easy to convince, even once she ...

  • E-Love

    Gloria Brandt
    in

    Romance readers will love this brand-new collection of contemporary inspirational novellas, all centered on the season of spring. Includes the stories E-Love by Gloria Brandt, The Garden Plot by Rebecca Germany, Stormy Weather by Tracie Peterson, and...

  • Gentleman Rogue

    Matt Braun

    Old Texas would give way to new-- but not without a fight...They called it Hell's Half Acre: a violent sinkhole of dance halls and brothels, gaming dives and busthead saloons. To some citizens of Fort Worth, the only hope for Hell's Half Acre was to ...

  • Dirty Pool

    Steve Brewer

    UNEASY MONEY If Albuquerque P.I. Bubba Mabry has any competition -- and it's debatable that he even has a job--it would be William J. Pool, a slick Texas hotshot who loves playing Bubba for a chump. So when Pool asks Bubba if he wants some easy mo...

  • Oops, Clifford!

    Norman Bridwell

    The beloved, blundering red canine returns in this collection of some of his biggest mistakes and greatest rescues, which occur during a race, while performing a good deed, and even while learning a pet trick. Original....

  • The Murder of Tutankhamen

    Bob Brier

    A respected Egyptologist, the author of Tutankhamen and the Tomb that Changed the World, examines the compelling mystery behind the death of King Tutankhamen.Today, Tutankhamen is the most famous of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. After his death at t...

  • The Mother of His Child

    Laurey Bright

    A MOTHER'S LIE Five years after little Kristy was conceived, all of Charisse Lane's carefully constructed lies came crashing down. One fateful encounter finally brought her face-to-face with the father of the child she'd raised. And the single mothe...

  • What Good Is a Tree?

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • Aggie & Will

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • Devil's Valley

    Andre Brink

    When Flip Lochner, a seedy, tired journalist fleeing a failed marriage, sees a beautiful woman with four breasts in Devil's Valley, he thinks it's a mirage. But then a man called Lukas Death stands before him. So begins Lochner's search for "the trut...

  • Heartthrob

    Suzanne Brockmann

    NO WOMAN COULD RESIST HIM... Once voted the "Sexiest Man Alive," Jericho Beaumont had dominated the box office before his fall from grace. Now poised for a comeback, he wants the role of Laramie bad enough to sign an outrageous contract with top p...

  • Barry

    Bruce Brooks

  • Cat on the Scent

    Rita Mae Brown

    It takes a cat to write the purr-fect mystery. Things have been pretty exciting lately in Crozet, Virginia--a little too exciting if you ask resident feline investigator Mrs. Murphy. Just as the town starts to buzz over its Civil War reenactment, ...

  • White Silence

    Ginjer Buchanan

    The year is 1889 and the San Francisco gold rush is in full swing. Seeking adventure, Duncan MacLeod, member of an age old race of immortals, sets out for the Alaskan territory. He and his friends soon find themselves trapped in a frozen hell....

  • Little Green Men

    Christopher Buckley

    In 1994, Christopher Buckley published one of the most acclaimed and successful comic novels of the decade, Thank You for Smoking. Now Buckley returns to the strange land of Washington, D.C., in Little Green Men, a millennial comedy of manners about ...

  • The Professor of Light

    Marina Budhos

    Megan, who has served from childhood as prote+a7ge+a7 and helper to her father, a Guyanese scientist, finds the pull between family and society overwhelming as her father descends into jealousy and madness when she nears adulthood. 12,500 first print...

  • Dalton's Dilemma

    Lynn Bulock

    Adventure is what's missing in her life, decides competent, no-nonsense Lacey Robbins. But Jack Dalton, the attractive man she literally runs into at the skating rink, isn't exactly what she had in mind. Neither is using her accounting skills to unta...

  • In the Dark

    Pamela Burford

    Brody Mikhailov was expecting a fruit basket at his hotel. But maybe a New York City blackout rated special attention.... Like a woman in his bed. A near-naked woman who insisted that he had a very special date with her.... Too late he discovered ...

  • It's Funny Where Ben's Train Takes Him

    Robert Burleigh

  • Elementals

    A.S. Byatt

    From the Booker Prize-winning author of Possession comes a short story collection that transports the reader to a world where opposites -- passion and loneliness, betrayal and loyalty, fire and ice -- clash and converge."A wonderful book -- complex, ...

  • Petal Power

    Sandra Byrd

    Book Eight in the Secret Sisters Series! Tess and Erin’s teacher planned the perfect wedding"but now something’s gone very wrong. Can the Secret Sisters save the day? Ms. Martinez, Tess and Erin’s sixth-grade teacher, has planned a storybook ...

  • My Lord Stranger

    Eve Byron

    AN ARRANGED MARRIAGE Theirs is an arranged marriage, one Drew Sinclair resisted but his childhood friend Lady Harriet, Countess Saxon, longed for. But Drew, raised by a foster father with only haunting dreams for memories, is gnawed with a desperate...

  • Spy Girls Are Forever

    Elizabeth Cage

    Watch out, Swiss misses and misters -- the Spy Girls are hitting the slopes! The disappearance of a hot young rock star has been linked to a bizarre international conspiracy -- and the secret may be hiding in the remote, snow-covered mountains of Swi...

  • Hammer Down

    T.B. Calhoun

    Tomorrow's the Seabreeze 250'-and Kin Travis only wants to practice his new job as catch-can man for Waddy Peytona's team. After Kin's worked hard, though, it's time to play hard! Tonight's the Pit Road Scramble, and Kin can't wait to dance with Tere...

  • Racing Parker

    Joanna Campbell

    Don't miss the exciting adventures of a new generation of Thoroughbred horses and riders at Whitebrook Farm!

    A reckless decision...

    Christina Reese is confident that her horse, Sterling, is ready for higher jumps. But Christina's trainer,...

  • Day of Honor

    Diane Carey

    Together in one volume: six complete novels that explore the heart and soul of Klingons everywhere! To true Klingon" warriors, no occasion is more sacred than the Day of Honor, when they pay homage to all that makes them Klingon. But honor ca...

  • Monday's Child

    Jody Carr

    She was no match for a soulless enemy. And still she had to fight.

    Julia Fleming, a stunningly beautiful and successful business woman, and Wilson Streatfield, a cool and distant research scientist, are the perfect professional couple. Though their...

  • The Night Drifter

    Susan Carroll

    The eldest son and heir to Castle Leger, Lance St. Leger is plagued by an infernal restlessness that cannot be appeased, perhaps because the family legacy of strange powers is most pronounced in Lance's own dubious lift. He calls it night driftin...

  • Crescent Moon

    Alden R. Carter

    In the course of this novel, 12-year-old Jeremy comes to know the Chippewa, apeople whose culture is fast disappearing in his part of Wisconsin; his heartis broken and his spirit is awakened; and he learns to appreciate the gentlerways of the past....

  • The Gathering of the Sinister Six

    Adam-Troy Castro

    SPIDER-MAN'S DEADLIEST FOES .A GATHERING TO DESTROY HIM... On several occasions, a half-dozen of Spider-Man's greatest enemies have banded together as the Sinister Six. Now, at the behest of a deadly benefactor known only as the Gentleman, the Cha...

  • "Quack!"" Said the Billy-Goat

    Charles Causley

    A boisterous romp of playful rhymes finds a mixed-up collection of barnyard animals driving the farmer crazy, especially when the hen goes "oink," the pig goes "cluck," and the cow goes "baa." Original....

  • A Cry at Midnight

    Victoria Chancellor

    Suddenly transported to the Old South, twentieth-century beauty Randi Galloway finds herself employed as governess to widower Jackson Durant's only child, Rose. Randi has never met anyone who stirs her soul like the darkly handsome plantation owner w...

  • Margaret's Quest

    Muncy Chapman

    In 1836, Savannah debutante Margaret Porter travels by schooner to the wild, unsettled Florida Territory, and learns that her fiance' has been killed in a fierce conflict between the army and Seminole Indians. Margaret is befriended by shipboard a...

  • New Cat

    Yangsook Choi

    New Cat loves living in Mr. Kim's tofu factory, but she is frustrated because she has seen a mouse in the production room, where Mr. Kim doesn't allow her to go. One night, a door is left open and New Cat disobeys Mr. Kim's rule. As she chases the mo...

  • A Ring for Cinderella

    Judy Christenberry

    Susan Greenwood had expected a tip, not an offer of marriage! One very run-down diner and three beautiful, independent sisters. Baby sister Susan is still getting used to the fact that she has two sisters she never knew about. Now, wealthy rancher ...

  • Teeth of the Dog

    Jill Ciment

    The author of the critically hailed Half a Life steps boldly into world-class literary territory with this tightly structured yet richly expansive literary thriller that will call to mind the work of Graham Greene and Paul Bowles's The Sheltering Sky...

  • The Yeoman's Daring Daughter and the Princes in the Tower

    Elaine Clayton

    In 1483, after their father, King Edward IV's death, the princes Edward and Richard of England were locked up in the Tower of London by their uncle, Richard Duke of Gloucester, who was eager to precede them to the throne. Soon after their imprisonmen...

  • Five-Ring Circus

    Jon Cleary

    It’s a special occasion Down Under and the notoriously frugal Inspector Malone is taking his family to dinner at one of Sydney’s finest Chinese restaurants. But their gala turns grisly when a masked assassin enters and guns down three men at a ne...

  • Death Rounds

    Peter Clement

    BREEDING GROUND The bacteria was supposed to be treatable. Until a nurse dies from it. Horrifically. Traced to University Hospital, the infection is raging out of control. Dr. Earl Garnet tries to remain calm. But as more people fall gravely ill--in...

  • Mimmy and Sophie

    Miriam Cohen

    Mimmy and Sophie live in Brooklyn, New York, during the Great Depression. Like most sisters, they have a lot in common, but they're also different: Mimmy dreams of owning an Oldsmobile that she can fix with her own tools, and of growing up to be a tr...

  • Evil Breeding

    Susan Conant

    DEADLY PEDIGREE Dog's Life columnist Holly Winter has just landed a plum contract to write a book on Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge's legendary pre-World War II dog shows. Holly arranges to interview one of the last living participants in those fabul...

  • Water Sleeps

    Glen Cook

    Water sleeps ...but your enemies don't Regrouping in Taglios, the surviving members of the Black Company are determined to free their fellow warriors held in stasis beneath the glittering plain, journeying there under terrible conditions, they arr...

  • Never Trust a Squirrel

    Patrick Cooper

    Sure that life outside his little hutch is lots more fun, young William the guinea pig decides to take up Stella the squirrel's invitation to come out and play, but he soon discovers that the woods are scary and squirrels unreliable....

  • Sharpe's Fortress

    Bernard Cornwell

    RICHARD SHARPE AND THE SIEGE OF GAWILGHUR, DECEMBER 1803 Richard Sharpe, now an officer in Wellesley's army, faces a battle of a different kind--this time among his own ranks. Uncomfortable with his newfound authority and unwilling colleagues, Sha...

  • The Last Climb

    Thomas H. Cosgrove

    Mountain climber Jim Bridgman, determined to cap his career with a successful assault on the unscaled and notorious Nevado Virachocha, the Andes' tallest peak, becomes dangerously involved in the revolutionary struggles of the Peruvian Incas...

  • Girlfriend in a Coma

    Douglas Coupland

    On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the ne...

  • Dress Maisy

    Lucy Cousins

    Children who love Maisy will enjoy matching reusable stickers to bright pictures to help Maisy dress. Helping Maisy complete familiar tasks -- so like the tasks young children encounter in their everyday lives -- is a comforting way to learn. More th...

  • Maisy's Day

    Lucy Cousins

    Children who love Maisy will enjoy matching reusable stickers to bright pictures to help Maisy set the table, feed the fish, or get ready for bed. Helping Maisy complete these familiar tasks -- so like the tasks young children encounter in their ever...

  • Still in Love

    Francine Craft

  • Cloudy Day, Sunny Day

    Donald Crews

    The day is gray and cloudy. It’s a good day to snuggle up with a book, a fine day for make-believe, until . . . the sun bursts through the clouds! Now it’s a great day to fly a kite, the perfect day to ride a bike. No matter what the weat...

  • The Rose and the Skull

    Jeff Crook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Gargantuan dragons soar over Krynn, battling for control of the lands below. On the isle of Sancrist, the weakened Knights of Solamnia ask their old enemies the Knights of Takhisis, for help. At the insistence of Lord Gunthar, the knights renew the a...

  • Best Laid Plans

    Evelyn A. Crowe
    in

    Four Texas authors render tales of the long, tall Texan male and the women who lasso their hearts... Journey to Texas, where the passion is hotter than a branding iron and the men are as rugged as the land they work. Join four beautiful and courageou...

  • Crazy for You

    Jennifer Crusie

    On Wednesday, Quinn McKenzie adopted a dog and changed her life. On Thursday, she tried to get somebody to notice. On Thursday night, somebody did. When Quinn McKenzie decides to change her "beige" life by adopting a stray dog, everything begins to...

  • Evermeet: Island of Elves

    Elaine Cunningham
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Serene, beautiful, inviolate. Rich in magic and treasure, to those who hear of its legends it is the ultimate paradise. To the beleagured elves of Toril it is the ultimate refuge. But to many it is the ultimate prize. At the heart of its story ...

  • To Waters' End

    Brian Daley

    The battered GammaLAW mission to Aquamarine had barely succeeded in ending the war with the world-destroying aliens, the Roke. The key to victory lay deep within Aquamarine's terrifying sentient ocean, and Commissioner Dextra Haven was determined to ...

  • The Trials of Nikki Hill

    Christopher Darden; Dick Lochte

    It all begins when a Hollywood icon is found murdered in a Dumpster... Smart, sexy, and seriously overworked L.A. prosecutor Nikki Hill has just been handed the high-profile murder case of a TV gossip maven. From the start, an airtight case spring...

  • Beyond the Call

    Sandra Davidson
    in

    A trio of enchanting tales celebrates the promise of new love and includes Lisa Plumley's "Chances Are," in which a young woman is transported back in time and into the life of widower Matt Chance, but destiny forces her to choose between returning t...

  • A Dying Light in Corduba

    Lindsey Davis

    Surprisingly, nobody is poisoned at the Society of Olive Oil Producers banquet. The attempted murder of Rome's Chief Spy occurs immediately afterward. Suspicion, like the Italian night, quickly falls on the dinner's sinuous dancer, a lady who has alr...

  • The Body Spoken

    Janice Deaner

    In the latest novel by the author of Where Blue Begins, two strangers meet on a train to L.A., both fleeing from wrecked lives, and without exchanging names, a deep intimacy grows between the two. Reprint....

  • The Coffin Dancer

    Jeffery Deaver

    Detective Lincoln Rhyme, the foremost criminalist in the NYPD, joins his beautiful protege, Amelia Sachs, in the hunt for the Coffin Dancer - an ingenious killer who changes his appearance even faster than he adds to his trail of victims. So far, the...

  • Out for Good: The Adventures of Panda and Koala

    Thierry Dedieu

  • The Irish Cottage Murder

    Dicey Deere

    MEET TORREY TUNET. GREAT CAREER. BIG DREAMS. ONE TERRIBLE MISTAKE. Accept an invitation from a stranger who spills soup on her at a restaurant to stay at his Irish castle? What is pretty translator Torrey Tunet thinking? That's easy. She's thinkin...

  • Monitor

    James T. Dekay

    In an accessible and compelling account, a naval historian details the story of the USS Monitor, its brilliant creator, Swedish engineer John Ericsson, and its victorious clash with the Confederacy's Merrimac. Reprint....

  • The Damsel

    Claire Delacroix

    She was the beauty he couldn't forget. He wouldn't stop searching until he found her... "I come in search of a bride." Once upon a time, the legendary knight, Burke Fitzgavin, galloped into Kiltorren Castle and fell in love with Alys, the lord...

  • Wild, Wild West

    Judy Delton

    The Pee Wees are visiting the Lazy T Ranch, where they get to wear cowboy hats, learn how to throw a lasso, and go horseback riding. There's even a spooky ghost town to explore. The only down side is the big square dance scheduled for the end of the ...

  • Zookeeper Sue

    Chris L. Demarest

    Help Zookeeper Sue identify the zoo animals in this interactive read-aloud. Children follow the descriptive clues in the rhyming text and then lift the flaps on the brightly colored pages to discover the friendly animals hidden behind them.
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  • The Donkey and the Rock

    Demi

    Two men are on their way to market when one man's donkey knocks over the other man's jar of precious oil. Confused and upset, neither man knows who to blame for the mishap. They decide to ask their wise and just king for help. He suggests holding a t...

  • Kites: Magic Wishes That Fly Up to the Sky

    Demi

    With the signature style and extraordinary artistry that have won her a loyal following, Demi tells the story of how kites came to be.  Long ago in China, holy painters would paint the townspeople's wishes on paper to be left in temples for the god...

  • Kites

    Demi

    With the signature style and extraordinary artistry that have won her a loyal following, Demi tells the story of how kites came to be.  Long ago in China, holy painters would paint the townspeople's wishes on paper to be left in temples for the god...

  • Abbeyford Inheritance

    Margaret Dickinson

    Adelina Cole has grown up knowing little of her parents' history before they eloped to New York in 1795. Now, twenty years later, orphaned and alone she determines to escape from the scandal and disgrace her father sunk to before his violent death, a...

  • Abbeyford Remembered

    Margaret Dickinson

    For Evan Smithson, the illegitimate son of Guy Trent, the years have served only to sharpen his desire for vengeance against his father's family. Consumed by his cold fury, he leaves many of his daughter Carrie's questions unanswered. But the grudge ...

  • For the Time Being

    Annie Dillard

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time comes a "beautifully written and delightfully strange" (Daily News) narrative that renews our ...

  • The Mask of Ra

    P.C. Doherty / Paul Doherty

    Pharaoh Tuthmosis II is coming home victorious from war in the Nile Delta--and he expects a hearty welcome. But instead of a parade, murder greets him within the hour of his docking. At the sound of ringing trumpets, the pharaoh falls dead before the...

  • The Paternity Affair

    Robyn Donald

    The only man Kate had ever loved was standing right beside her. Her heart leapt, as it always had, yet she had dreaded such a reunion, and the thought of Patric meeting her six-year-old son. While Kate had dreamed of them together as a family she...

  • Big and Little on the Farm

    Dorothy Donohue

  • The Bridal Promise

    Virginia Dove

    A MARRIAGE OF INCONVENIENCE Matthew Ransom had thought nothing could destroy his star-crossed love for beautiful Perri Stone--until the night she left town without a word. Twelve years later, Perri returned with no explanations, and they were forc...

  • What's That Sound?

    Laura Driscoll

  • What Time Is It?

    Laura Driscoll

  • Wing Commander

    Kevin Droney

    600 Years in the Future the Battle for Earth is About to Begin....

    The egomaniacal alien Kilrathi have struck again, savaging a peaceful planet at the edge of space. And worse, they have captured a NAVCOM device that will lead them...

  • Storm at Eldala

    Diane Duane

    Former Marine Gabriel Connor and his fraal companion are scratching out a living among the dangerous stars of the Verge when they stumble onto new, unknown forces. Only their deaths seem likely to avert the disaster about to flood into the Verge. But...

  • Never Been Kissed

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Not that kind of kiss. The bell-ringing kind. Where the world stands still, if only for a moment. And you never want to quit...

    Josie had missed it in high school, where she was considered a loser. But when her job as a newspaper reporter gives he...

  • Split Image

    Cathy East Dubowski

    After a near accident with a car, Allen Strange finds himself split literally into two selves--one human, one alien--and Robbie and Josh must figure out how to reunite Allen's two halves before Phil Berg, the alien hunter, can interfere. Original....

  • Alien for Rent

    Betsy Duffey

    How much trouble can two third graders and one pint-sized alien get into? Plenty, as well as plenty of slapstick fun!

    It's just an ordinary school day when third-graders Lexie and J.P. see an unusual sign on the bulletin board. In silver lette...

  • The Bowl of Fruit

    Joyce Dunbar

  • Panda's New Toy

    Joyce Dunbar

  • Gander's Pond

    Joyce Dunbar

  • The Secret Friend

    Joyce Dunbar

  • Tales of Magic

    Edward Eager

    Just in time for the holiday season, four classic Edward Eager Tales of Magic in one affordable package.Ever since Half Magic first hit bookshelves in 1954, Edward Eager's Tales of Magic have been favorites with readers of all ages. Now his four most...

  • The Feast

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

    The Feast is a modern translation of Fled Bricrend, one of Ireland's most thrilling and humorous legends. Three men, each striving to be named Champion of Conchobor's realm, enter into a battle of wits and words in an effort to enjoy the privileges a...

  • Scapegoat for a Stuart

    Elizabeth Elgin

    When James, King of Scotland, succeeded to the throne of England in 1603, many Romanists cheered, hoping the new monarch, whose mother had shared their beliefs, might grant them the freedom of worship they had fought for so long.

    But kingmaker Ceci...

  • My Dark Places

    James Ellroy

    The internationally acclaimed author of the L.A. Quartet and The Underworld USA Trilogy presents another literary masterpiece, this time a true crime murder mystery about his own mother.In 1958 Jean Ellroy was murdered, her body dumped on a...

  • Firestorm at Kookaburra Station

    Robert Elmer

    During the drought-stricken year of 1869, Michael McWaid gets swept away by a hot-air balloon along with his brother Patrick, and the boys must make their way home in spite of dust storms and a devastating fire that nearly destroys the city of Wentwo...

  • The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

    Elvira

    Not believing her friend Brad when he tells her he has become a werewolf, Elvira becomes alarmed when Brad's full-moon personality emerges and decides to rescue him before the neighbors start shooting silver bullets. Original....

  • Circle Song

    Diana Engel

  • For the Relief of Unbearable Urges

    Nathan Englander

    Energized, irreverent, and deliciously inventive stories from Pulitzer-nominated, bestselling author of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank.In the collection's hilarious title story, a Hasidic man gets a special dispensation fr...

  • Manuela's Gift

    Kristyn Rehling Estes

    More than anything, Manuela wants a new yellow party dress for her birthday. But times are hard for her family and what she gets instead is her Mama's blue dress cut and resewn to fit her. Disappointed, she lays down under the pinata Papa has hung fo...

  • Legend

    Loren D. Estleman
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    An exciting new novel of the Old West told collectively by seven of the genre's most acclaimed authors--Loren D. Estleman, Elmer Kelton, Judy Alter, James Reasoner, Jane Candia Coleman, Ed Gorman, and Robert J. Randisi....

  • The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association

    Loren D. Estleman

    Lights...Camera...Danger! Los Angeles, 1913: Director Buck Bensinger is desperately trying to hold together the fledgling Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association when aspiring writer Dmitri Pulski walks out of the snowy Sierra Nevadas and onto t...

  • Carter Clay

    Elizabeth Evans

    Drunk, and driving a van down a Florida highway, Carter Clay, a Vietnam vet at loose ends, irrevocably shatters the lives of the Altiz family, killing Joe and seriously injuring his wife, Katherine, and their daughter, Jersey, in a hit-and-run accide...

  • Longarm and the Kansas Jailbird

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm rides to rescue of his old mentor!Marshall Norman Wold of Kansas is in jail. But Wold is one of the finest lawmen Longarm has ever known. That means just one thing: Longarm has to go in there and straighten things out....

  • Blood & Water

    Lori Fairweather

  • Immaculate Reception

    Jerrilyn Farmer

    A DEADLY LEAP OF FAITH The Pope is coming to breakfast, and Madeline Bean's got frittatas on the skillet. What a coup for gourmet caterer Mad Bean and her company, the event-planning wizards, chosen to mastermind L.A.'s official welcoming extravag...

  • Back from Hell

    Mick Farren

    Pomona: a gigantic arena where Car Warriors, their high-performance machine armed with high-tech weapons, duels to the death on network TV.

    Palm Springs: a battered oasis in the desert, once the playground of the rich and famous, now temporary...

  • Bold Destiny

    Jane Feather

    Land of Fury, Heart of Passion The glory of the British Empire had long faded in the heart of Lieutenant Kit Ralston. Banished to a bleak, Afghanistan outpost, he hid his despair behind a cynical facade...until he met Ayesha, a beautiful, jade-eye...

  • Take My Heart

    Adelaide Ferguson

    A WOMAN'S FAVORITE SPORT Allison McKay has the two things she needs to be happy: a comfortable sofa and the remote control. That's before the cute couch potato is rooted out of rerun heaven by her new neighbor. The cause? His blasting stereo. The s...

  • A Match for Morgan

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE COWBOY NEXT DOOR... Morgan Cutler was used to getting headaches from Wyatt McCall--but heartache? Impossible! So why was her sexy neighbor suddenly starting to make her pulse jump and her cheeks blush? Could that one magical wedding night-...

  • Crewel World

    Monica Ferris

    The art of needlecraft requires patience, discipline, and creativity. So, too, does the art of detection. Just ask Betsy Devonshire--who's learning that life in a small-town needlecraft shop can reveal an unexpected knack for knitting ... and a hidde...

  • The Skin I'm In

    Sharon G. Flake

    When Miss Saunders asks, "What's my face say?" don't nobody say nothing. "Don't get all closed-mouth, now," she says. "I hear you whispering in the hall. Laughing at me." She walks the aisles again. She stops by me and sits on my desk. "Faces say ...

  • When Agnes Caws

    Candace Fleming

    When eight-year-old Agnes Peregrine, an accomplished birdcaller, travels with her parents to the Himalayas in search of the elusive pink-headed duck, she encounters Colonel Edwin Pittsnap, a dastardly foe. By the creators of Gabriella's Song.

  • Five Trucks

    Brian Floca

    Trucks of different shapes and sizes share one important purpose in this classic picture book from the bestselling creator of Moonshot and Locomotive. You have hurried to be on time. You look now through a window and see five trucks. They...

  • Face Down in the Park

    Leonard Foglia

    Brutally attacked in Central Park, an amnesiac Brent Stevens joins forces with Queens aerobics instructor Tina Ruffo to find out who he is and who tried to kill him, only to unlock dark secrets connected to some of the most powerful names in Hollywoo...

  • Last Ditch

    G.M. Ford

    Seattle p.i. Leo Waterman knows the city like no one else. And he knows how to stretch the limits of the law, when necessary, to accomplish what needs to be done--a very useful talent Leo acquired from his late, larger-than-life father, once one of t...

  • The Pool of Two Moons

    Kate Forsyth

    On the Eclipse o' the Two Moons, All Will Be Healed or Broken, Saved Or Surrendered.... It has been sixteen years since the Day of Reckoning, when magic and witchcraft were outlawed throughout all of Eileanan. And though rumors say that she is dea...

  • A Boy and His Tank

    Leo Frankowski

    AND THE STREETS WERE MADE OF GOLD. . . . He Was a Rugged, Hardened Combat Veteran Who Had Gone to Hell and Back--in Virtual Reality! Now He Had to Face the Real Thing.. . The planet New Kashubia started out as a gas giant, but when its sun we...

  • At Any Price

    Brian Freemantle; Jonathan Evans

    The prize is more than to be Chairman of the Board; it is to control the biggest and most prestigious hotel chain in the world. Two men race towards this goal. One is an American, born to nothing; the other is an Englishman, born to everything.

    Har...

  • Lady Moonlight

    Kate Freiman

    County Sligo, Ireland, 1899. A desperate and beautiful young woman makes a dangerous pact with a sly Leprechaun -- and finds herself under a spell that threatens her very freedom...and her only chance for true love. Aisling Ahearn's hand in m...

  • Lost on Earth

    Mark Fritz

  • The Hourglass

    Elizabeth Gage

    They are three children, brought together by loneliness and encroaching tragedy, who forge a friendship that will define their lives. To orphaned Kate, who idolizes Lily and feels a strange kinship to Jordan, this "threeness" becomes the touchstone o...

  • Pooh's Easter Egg Hunt

    Isabel Gaines

  • Dog Day Afternoon

    Diana G. Gallagher

  • A Ship Possessed

    Alton Gansky

    The USS Triggerfish--an American World War II submarine--has come home over fifty years after she was presumed lost in the Atlantic. Now her dark gray hulk lies embedded in the sand of a San Diego beach, her conning tower barely above the breaking su...

  • Vigilant

    James Alan Gardner

    THE PRICE OF LIBERTY IS ETERNAL VIGILANCE. EVEN ON ANOTHER PLANET. Two species lived in peaceful coexistence on the planet Demoth until a deadly plague wiped out millions of the winged Ooloms while leaving humans untouched, helpless to do more tha...

  • The Vatican Rip

    Jonathan Gash

    Lovejoy goes to Rome to steal an antique table ... from the Pope! Lovejoy, that witty rogue with a genius for antiques, is asked to recover a family heirloom. Unfortunately, the Chippendale table in question now sits in the Vatican. Though matters...

  • The Rich and the Profane

    Jonathan Gash

    A new mystery for Lovejoy Antiques, Inc., involves the somewhat nefarious Lovejoy in a plot to rob the treasure of Albansham priory, which leads to a chase to the Channel Islands and a number of sudden disappearances and close calls. Reprint....

  • Sun Slices, Moon Slices

    Adele Geras

    Every day, Maria looks after Lewis while his mum is at work. Even though he misses his mum, Lewis enjoys playing with the other children after she has gone. Maria always has a special treat for the children after lunch, and today they're allowed to g...

  • The Garden Plot

    Rebecca Germany
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    Romance readers will love this brand-new collection of contemporary inspirational novellas, all centered on the season of spring. Includes the stories E-Love by Gloria Brandt, The Garden Plot by Rebecca Germany, Stormy Weather by Tracie Peterson, and...

  • Highland Call

    Sharon Gillenwater

    When Great Britain declares war on France, Napoleon orders the arrest of all British men on French soil, including Selena Delaroe's twin brother Nicholas.All attempts to secure his freedom fail. By 1811 he has been detained for eight years. When the ...

  • Thale's Folly

    Dorothy Gilman

    At the request of his father, New York City novelist Andrew Thale tackles an odd assignment--to check out an old family property in Massachusetts, neglected since Aunt Harriet Thale's death years ago. But far from being deserted, Thale's Folly, as An...

  • Lost Between Houses

    David Gilmour

    Lost Between Houses is about a turbulent year in the life of Simon Albright, a fifteen-year-old private school boy struggling to be his sophisticated mother's best friend, the rebel his girlfriend adores and the son his father respects. Which is a ha...

  • All The Way To God

    Katie Giuliano

  • Mr. Bear's New Baby

    Debi Gliori

  • Evensong

    Gail Godwin

    To read Gail Godwin is to touch the very core of human experience. With inimitable grace and aching emotional precision, Godwin probes our own complexities in characters whose lives oscillate between success and struggle, stoic resolve and quixotic t...

  • Camp Out!

    Becky Gold

  • Ghost Roads

    Christopher Golden; Nancy Holder

    PASSPORT TO HELL Buffy, Oz, and Angel are Europe-bound, only they're not flying any airlines. They're traveling limbo's "ghost roads" in search of Jacques Regnier. Jacques is the sole heir of the dying Gatekeeper whose Boston mansion is the supern...

  • Loving You Was My Undoing

    Javier Gonzalez-Rubio

    No one in Mexico ever imagined the revolution would pass through Montreal. Not Frederico Farias, who had composed a quiet revolutionary life for himself in lectures and town meetings, far from the battlefronts. Not Rosario Alomar, whose husband's lif...

  • Soul of the Fire

    Terry Goodkind

    A World Without Magic A Seeker Without a Sword Richard Rahl has traveled far from his roots as a simple woods guide. Emperor of the D'Haran Empire, war wizard, the Seeker of Truth--none of these roles mean as much to him as his newest: husband to...

  • The Terrible Twos

    Julia Gorton

    Lulu and J.J., a pair of lovable two-year-old twins, seem innocent enough, but when you lift the flaps, you discover that this terrible twosome keeps poor Papa on his toes with their mischief. By the illustrator of My New Sandbox. ...

  • Violent Stars

    Phyllis Gotlieb

    An interstellar alien corporation run by aliens was thwarted in its plans to exploit genetically altered slaves. Now, in an attempt to keep it's case from ever coming to court, a judge is murdered on Khagodis--the planet where the amphibious human sl...

  • Expecting...

    Carol Grace

    PREGNANT WITHOUT A GROOM She was pregnant, alone -- and achingly beautiful. So what could an honorable cowboy like Zach Calhoun do but offer her a job while she waited for her baby to be born? He was a loner -- and irresistibly sexy. So why wou...

  • The Spanish Groom

    Lynne Graham

    It started with a ring... Cesar Valverde was the man with everything -- stunning good looks, wealth and a bachelor lifestyle. But Cesar knew it would please his ailing godfather more than anything if he got married, preferably to Dixie Robinson.... ...

  • No Decent Gentleman

    Patricia Grasso

    He was a man no lady would dare to love, but no passionate woman could ever refuse... She was the perfect lady... How could this man, a virtual stranger, have such a profound effect on her? Sabrina Savage had never met Adam St. Aubyn. But when ...

  • For the Love of Mercy // An Old Love's Shadow

    Abby Gray

    Mercy Spencer is blonde dynamite with a short fuse. Yet she never expects it to be lit so soon after arriving in Mexico and on such a charitable mission. But if the gospel singing spitfire thinks the rowdy cantina next door to her church is bad, clas...

  • Irish Mist

    Andrew M. Greeley

    Dermot Michael Coyne isn't sure what he's gotten himself into. Nuala Anne McGrail, that beautiful and vivacious "Celtic witch" has finally agreed to marry him. But they've barely tied the knot when Nuala's psychic "spells" begin again. Visions of a b...

  • A Witness To Life

    Terence Green / Terence M. Green

    Green returns to the history of his own family with the prequel to his critically acclaimed Shadow of Ashland. This is the story of Martin Radey, Greens grandfather. Radey, the child of Irish immigrant parents in late nineteenth-century Canada, lived...

  • My Favorite Science Fiction Story

    Martin H. Greenberg

    The top names in sci-fi--Anne McCaffrey, Alan Dean Foster, Greg Bear, and others--present a distinctive collection of stories from the masters of science fiction, including Roger Zelazny, Theodore Sturgeon, and Lester Del Rey, that have influenced th...

  • Breathing Water

    T. Greenwood

    “A poignant, clear-eyed novel” about a Vermont homecoming and a reckoning with tragedy (The New York Times Book Review).   Effie Greer has been away from Lake Gormlaith, Vermont, for three years. Now she is coming home. The unspoiled lake, s...

  • His Bodyguard

    Lois Greiman

    All her life, Brenna O'Shay has dreamed of being a cop. So she sets out to prove herself--and Nathan Fox's case is the perfect opportunity. The last thing Nathan wants is a bodyguard, so he hires petite, curvaceous, gorgeous Brenna. He thinks havi...

  • Rabbit Food

    Susanna Gretz

    Uncle Bunny, who has been summoned to make sure that John joins his fellow rabbits in eating lots of vegetables, reveals a surprising dislike for carrots, in a delightful tale that encourages picky eaters to eat their veggies....