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  • A Question of Honor

    Nita Abrams

    London, 1813: Wellington and Napoleon are locked in a desperate battle for Spain. And now that the French have infiltrated England's intelligence network, Captain Richard Drayton has sworn to ferret out the traitor. But he'll be damned if he&...

  • Risky Moves

    Carrie Alexander

    ONCE BURNED, TWICE AS HOT... Smart, pretty, personable Julia Knox has always played it safe. Dangerous Adam Brody, her first love, is the only risk she's ever taken...with disastrous results. But that's about to change! Adam is back in town and Juli...

  • A Game of Spies

    John Altman

    It is February 1940, and England is desperate to find out when and how Hitler will make his move toward France. Sleeper agent Eva Bernhardt, seduced into spydom by the roguish MI6 agent Hobbs, comes into possession of a vital piece of information--an...

  • Time to Fly

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    Zoe: I'm stunned. There's a flock of parrots in our backyard! No one knows where they came from or how well they can survive in the wild, out of their natural environment. But they aren't as a big a surprise as the sight of my mom, who has just arriv...

  • Final Arrangements

    Miles Keaton Andrew


    Ever since his parents' funeral, Casey Kight felt a comfort and ease among morticians that he knew no where else in the world. He decided right then, at the age of nine, what he wanted to be when he grew up...an undertaker. The day he turned twen...

  • Mutation

    K.A. Applegate

    The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty new science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of a action!

    Caught in the bowels of their strange new world...

  • A Double Sacrifice

    Aileen Armitage

    As a child, Marie Louise, daughter of the Emperor of Austria, was taught by example and experience to loathe and fear Napoleon Bonaparte. When his Josephine fails to provide him with a son, however, Napoleon seeks a new wife, and the beautiful archdu...

  • Marriage on Command

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Lee admired hotshot Australian tycoon Damien Moore -- he was a brilliant lawyer, as well as drop-dead gorgeous. But she was stunned when a legal loophole forced her to marry him! Damien assured Lee it would be temporary and in name only. But there wa...

  • Let's Find It!: My First Nature Guide

    Katya Arnold

  • The Cowboy Fling

    Dawn Atkins

    THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THIS COWBOY... Lacey Wellington is out to change her life. And sexy cowboy Max McLane is the perfect man for the hot fling she has in mind. Problem is, he seems to be the noble kind and is resisting her advances. She'll just ...

  • The Ferryman Will Be There

    Rosemary Aubert

    The New York Times Book Review called former judge Ellis Portal "a character with great dignity and unusual moral depth." A fallen hero forced to live on the streets, he is the unexpected star of Rosemary Aubert's award-winning series -- and one of t...

  • April Witch

    Majgull Axelsson

    Desirée lies in a hospital bed thinking, dreaming. Born severely disabled, she cannot walk or talk, but she has other capabilities. Desirée is an April witch, clairvoyant and omniscient, traveling through time and space into the world denied her.

  • Breakthrough

    James Axler

    Merciless Interdiction More than a century after a multi-warhead nuclear strike wiped out nearly all of earth's population, humanity's feral instinct to survive has spawned a savage new America. Here, the brutality of man and nature conspire again...

  • The Floating City

    Pamela Ball

    When a body mysteriously washes up on the shore of Hawaii in 1895, Eva Hanson, a caucasian woman living among island natives, becomes embroiled in the social and political maelstrom swirling around the islands. Reprint....

  • Hanging Valley

    Jack Ballas

    When Lingo Barnes rescues Emily Lou Colter from the kidnappers who had ambushed her stagecoach, he discovers that the young woman's father and brother operate a mine that has become the target of lowlifes who will do anything to gain control of the p...

  • The Skeleton in the Closet

    M.C. Beaton

    IGNORANCE IS BLISS... Ever since the death of his father, poor Fellworth Dolphin has slaved away as a waiter to support his miserly, cold-hearted mother. When his mother suddenly dies, Fellworth is shocked to discover that she has left him a sizable...

  • Chip Hilton Baseball

    Clair Bee

  • The Beast Under the Wizard's Bridge

    John Bellairs

    What is it about the old Wilder Creek Bridge that makes Lewis Barnavelt so curious-and so afraid? When Lewis and his best friend Rose Rita Pottinger set out to explore the bridge and the deserted farm nearby, they discover shocking secrets -- and a h...

  • The Lily and the Sword

    Sara Bennett

    Married to Her Enemy! Trapped in an old Saxon church, Lady Lily is dragged from her hiding place to the very feet of the warrior who's been hunting for her -- Radulf, the King's Sword, a man whose name all speak in fear. Yet when she looks into hi...

  • The Cyclist

    Viken Berberian

    A stunningly original novel about food, love, and political violence.Somewhere in the Middle East, an aspiring terrorist has been entrusted with a mission that will reverberate around the world: to deliver a bomb to a hotel in Beirut, where the deton...

  • Final Round

    William Bernhardt

    In the glamorous world of professional golf, one match is synonymous with excellence, tradition, and prestige. The Masters is played on the sweeping fairways of Georgia's exclusive Augusta National Golf Club, drawing its annual pilgrimage of Lear-jet...

  • Imminent Crisis

    Randall N. Bills

    THE RAZOR'S EDGE Leftenant Colonel Grayson Addison's first absolute loyalty is to the Capellan March of the Federated Suns. If Field Marshal Hasek calls, Addison and his Eighth Syrtis Fusiliers will heed. But his fealty is not so clear where Archo...

  • In the Line of Fire

    Beverly Bird

    After six years in jail for a crime he didn't commit, ex-mobster Danny Gates was ready for a new life, and hoped to find it helping troubled kids at the local rec center. But when sassy, sexy Molly French showed up, Danny knew playtime was over. Offi...

  • Faster, Faster, Faster

    Jonah Black

    Volume IV continues what began with the first three installments of Jonah Black's diary: the no-holds-barred, darkly comic tale of one teenager's inner life. Teens will find a new kind of hero in Jonah: one whose acute observations mirror their own. ...

  • The Wall of Night

    Grant Blackwood

    Twelve years ago, Agent Briggs Tanner was sent into China to help strategic mastermind General Han Soong defect to the West. The escape went perfectly until, somehow, the secret police intercepted them at the final rendezvous. Tanner barely escaped t...

  • Something Wild

    Toni Blake

    SHE'S GOING TO TAKE A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE! Penny Halloran is confused. Her boyfriend has proposed, but they've never... Well, before she makes her decision, she needs to know if they're...compatible. What better way to find out than seduce her man...

  • Friends and Enemies

    Stephen A. Bly

    ROBERT FORTUNE IS THE LAST ONE TO COME HOME. Robert is not like his father, the legendary Brazos Fortune. Not a businessman like his brother Todd. Not a notorious retired gunslinger like his brother Sam. Nor the social darlings of the Black Hills ...

  • The Steel Throne

    Edward Bolme

    THE CLAN WAR IS OVER. THE DANGER IS NOT. Once the greatest samurai in all Rokugan, Toturi has managed to hold the Empire together despite warring clans and internal treacheries. But nothing has prepared him for the hordes of vile spirits ravaging...

  • Murder in the Rough

    J.S. Borthwick

    During an especially cold, rainy May, three families move to the recently opened Ocean Tide community on the coast of Maine. Not long after their arrival, a decaying corpse is found lying in the rough of their beautifully manicured golf course-disrup...

  • Silly Questions

    Lynea Bowdish

  • Evans to Betsy

    Rhys Bowen

    When a jaguar rolls into Llanfair, it turns a few heads. And when its passenger, an attractive young American named Emmy, wanders unescorted into the Red Dragon pub, the patrons' interest is piqued. Especially entranced is Betsy the barmaid-because E...

  • One More for the Road

    Ray Bradbury

    From Ray Bradbury, the recipient of the National Book Foundation's 2000 Medal comes a magical collection of short fiction.Ray Bradbury is one of the most celebrated fiction writers of the 20th century. He is the author of such classics as Fahrenheit ...

  • Little Pig Figwort Can't Get to Sleep

    Henrietta Branford

    The other little pigs snuggled and snoozed, but little Pig Figwort could not get to sleep! "What I need is an adventure," Pig Figwort decides, and he's off for a dive in his submarine. But no one on the ocean floor wants to have fun; the mermaids and...

  • The Wrong Mr. Wright

    Patricia Bray

    HE OFFERED RESTITUTION... Diana Somerville never imagined that her first Season would end so disastrously -- or ruin her reputation so completely. And while her family is appalled that the rakehell who compromised her, Mr. George Wright, refuses to ...

  • Evvy's Civil War

    Miriam Brenaman

    Set during the period of the Civil War, Evvy finds herself being forced into the role of a lady as she is made to dress and act in a specific way, yet her strong belief that she is equal to a man causes her to rebel and find ways to prove herself to ...

  • The Heiress Bride

    Laurey Bright

    When their gazes clashed and held at the holiday party, she'd never envisioned wedding her father's right-hand man in a marriage that was more merger than love match. But Alysia Kingsley, heiress to a publishing empire, would do anything to p...

  • Big, Beautiful, Brown Box

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • Messy Lot

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • The Noodle Game

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • Big Tee Ball Game

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • Money Trouble

    Larry Dane Brimner

  • Once Forbidden

    Terri Brisbin

    Healing Love Anice MacNab has just wed her betrothed, the heir to the clan MacKendimen -- a family powerful in both name and arms. In the years she has waited for this day, Anice has dreamed of becoming the lady of the clan and its castle, and of ...

  • Things That Fall from the Sky

    Kevin Brockmeier

    Weaving together loss and anxiety with fantastic elements and literary sleight-of-hand, Kevin Brockmeier’s richly imagined Things That Fall from the Sky views the nagging realities of the world through a hopeful lens. In the deftly told “These H...

  • Mission 9: Manchurian Sector

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Set in 2039-2040, this best-selling series features 14-year-old Tyce Sanders, the only child who's ever been born on Mars. He lives under a dome on the red planet with 200 scientists and tekkies, including his mother, Kristy Sanders, a Christian biol...

  • Mission 10: Last Stand

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Set in 2039-2040, this best-selling series features 14-year-old Tyce Sanders, the only child who's ever been born on Mars. He lives under a dome on the red planet with 200 scientists and tekkies, including his mother, Kristy Sanders, a Christian biol...

  • The House on Belle Isle

    Carrie Brown

    Collects short tales of people attempting to discover their place in the world, with settings including a widow's empty kitchen and neglected backyard, a house on the Rhode Island seaside, and a museum in a small Spanish village. Reprint....

  • Welcome to Kit's World, 1934

    Harriet Brown

    Through photographs, illustrations, and both factual and fictionalized anecdotes, shows what life was like in the United States during the Depression, including major historical events to the details of everyday life....

  • The Earth Kitchen

    Sharon Bryant

  • Too Many Cooks!

    Andrea Buckless

    In this funny Level 3 Hello Math Reader!, two siblings figure out how to measure and multiply to make a delicious soup. Meanwhile, their younger brother is adding his own outrageous ingredients!

    Wouldn't it be nice to surprise Mom, Grandma, an...

  • Surrender to Love

    Adrianne Byrd

    Big Time Trouble Julia Kelley's abusive husband has been murdered...and she's afraid she might be next. Penniless, she hits the road with her six-year-old daughter, only to have her car give out in the middle of a small town. Julia's sure her luck...

  • Dating Without Novocaine

    Lisa Cach

    For 29-year-old Hannah O'Dowd, finding a decent man in Portland, Oregon, is like pulling teeth! Luckily, the self-employed clothing designer has a job she loves and friends to help ease the pain: oversexed Cassie (always good to have the opposite ...

  • Breeding Season

    Lisa Cach
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    Mother Knows Best Was it the king who commanded Lord Jonathan to wed, or was it the diabolical scheme of his marriage-minded mama? After escaping her restrictive schooling, Miss Evelina Johnson wanted to sow her wild oats. Mrs. Johnson was plan...

  • Yikes-Lice!

    Donna Caffey

    Here's a light way to talk to children about that old nuisance head lice. Rhyming verses describe how one little girl gets head lice and how she and her parents get rid of them. Kids will enjoy the rollicking cartoon "cooties" playing hide-and-seek a...

  • Gloria Rising

    Ann Cameron

    Gloria is thrilled when she goes to the store to buy an onion and meets Dr. Grace Street, an astronaut. Dr. Street tells Gloria to have confidence in herself and that big problems aren't always as big as they seem. Gloria hopes Dr. Street is right, b...

  • Hell on Hoe Street

    Jeremy Cameron

    From the man whose street-speak 'sizzles with wit and invention', a new, turbo-charged East London thriller; Out of the nick, in his own gaff, and with Walthamstow's tastiest bird hanging off his arm, life couldn't be sweeter for East London anti-her...

  • Paradise Found

    Mary Campisi

    Love Shows Up In The Most Surprising Places... Seven months is a long time to spend hiding from the world. But when a freak accident takes celebrated author Matthew Brandon's sight, he's no longer interested in a world he can't see--or a woman who...

  • Kushiel's Dart

    Jacqueline Carey

    When Love cast me out, it was Cruelty who took pity on me. The land of Terre d'Ange is a place of unsurpassing beauty and grace. It is said that angels found the land and saw it was good . . . and the ensuing race that rose from the seed of angels...

  • The Chocolate Cat Caper

    Joanna Carl

    ENJOY THE GUILT After giving up her career as a Texas trophy wife, Lee McKinney finds herself in a Michigan resort town, keeping the books for her aunt Nettie's luxury chocolate business. But she soon discovers that her new life isn't all truffles...

  • A Convenient Proposal

    C.J. Carmichael

    She was doing her duty. Now he'll do his... While investigating a local murder, Kelly Shannon, an officer with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, is forced to kill in the line of duty. Afterward she feels the terrible responsibility of having take...

  • Safe House

    Jenny Carroll

    Home Court Advantage It wasn't her fault. Sixteen-year-old Jessica Mastriani was on vacation when classmate Amber Mackey went missing. How could Jess--even with her newly acquired psychic ability to find anyone, anywhere--have stopped the varsity ...

  • Revenge of the Sinister Six

    Adam-Troy Castro

    GHOSTS OF THE PAST As the amazing Spider-Man, Peter Parker has had to endure many shocks in his life. But nothing could have ever prepared him for the latest unexpected turn in his life: the possibility that he has a long-lost sister! Unfortunatel...

  • These Dreams

    B.A. Chepaitis

    "What would you do if you were going to live your life as if you only had a year to live?" When a stranger poses this question in the supermarket checkout line, Cricket Thompson is jolted out of her everyday life to face a startling revelation: afte...

  • The Strength of the Sun

    Catherine Chidgey


    "[Chidgey] has written an elegant, connect-the-dots novel, in which each step the characters make toward one another proves emotionally treacherous."--The New Yorker

    When Colette receives a letter from The Friends of Patrick Mercer about a...

  • Gunpowder Green

    Laura Childs

    Tea shop owner Theodosia Browning knows that something's brewing in the high society of Charleston -- something other than her newest tea... The Indigo Tea Shop, Charleston's favorite spot of tea, has just come out with its latest flavor: ...

  • Wicked Day

    Rob Childs

    What a wicked day! Join in all the fun and games of sports day. Bradley and his mates are out to make it a very special day. But why can't Jagdish take part? What's happened to the cup? And why does the school's grumpy old caretaker think it's a dog'...

  • Franklin Flyer

    Nicholas Christopher

    In this shimmering work of fiction, Nicholas Christopher follows the remarkable life of Franklin Flyerâ€"a restless young inventor named after the train on which he was bornâ€"through the tumultuous years of the Great Depression, into the Second Worl...

  • X-Men: Vignettes

    Chris Claremont

    Written by Chris Claremont. Art and cover by John Bolton. Published in March of 2002, Softcover, 160 pages, full color. Cover price $17.95. If you want additional books, I ship as many books as you want for a low flat fee....

  • Essential X-Men, Volume 2

    Chris Claremont

  • The Family He Needs

    Lucy Clark

    The surgeon's risk Successful Australian surgeons Zac Carmichael and Julia Bolton are reunited after 10 years apart, and it seems their relationship is about to be rekindled. But when Zac meets Julia's adorable three-year-old son, Edward, the painfu...

  • The Mistress Thief

    Alana Clayton

    A Stolen Kiss Daring Lavinia Peyton is devoted to the cause of rescuing women from the world's oldest profession. But when she succeeds in convincing three of the Earl of Weston's mistresses to abandon the life, it has little to do with re...

  • The Sight

    David Clement-Davies

    In the shadow of an abandoned castle, a wolf pack seeks shelter. The she-wolf is about to give birth, and her pups will not be able to survive the harsh Transylvanian winter. But something more threatening than snow and wind stalks the pack -- a lone...

  • Things Not Seen

    Andrew Clements

    invisible sight Bobby Phillips is your average fifteen-year-old boy. That is, until he wakes up one morning and can't see himself in the mirror. Not blind, not dreaming -- Bobby is just plain invisible. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason...

  • Saints of Big Harbour

    Lynn Coady

    "A true grit coming-of-age novel" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), Saints of Big Harbour is a funny, brutal, and vivid story about small-town life and the inescapable power of gossip. Lynn Coady gives us the unforgettable Guy Boucher, a fatherless teena...

  • Happenings

    Katie Cobb

    What happens when you break the rules?

    Kelsey Gene Blackwell and her classmates in advanced placement English have all agreed: Until Mrs. Delaney starts to teach again, they're going to do nothing-no homework, no tests, abso...

  • Rules of Ascension

    David B. Coe

    For 900 years, since the Qirsi War, the Forelands have enjoyed relative peace. The Qirsi leaders, Weavers whose powerful magic could bend to their will not only the elements but also the thoughts of others, were all killed. The rest of the pale-skinn...

  • The Varieties of Romantic Experience: Stories

    Robert Cohen

    For years Robert Cohen has been praised by reviewers and readers alike for his masterful prose and his exuberant and penetrating comic vision. The New York Times has even called his writing redemptive -- so satisfying as to "remind readers why they c...

  • A Night in the Manchester Store and Other Stories

    Stanley Cohen

  • Gingerbread

    Rachel Cohn

    "I will be as wild as I wanna be." After getting tossed from her posh boarding school, wild, willful, and coffee addicted Cyd Charisse returns to San Francisco to live with her parents. But there's no way Cyd can survive in her parents' pristine h...

  • Storms of Fate

    Loren L. Coleman

    FOREVER BL00D FEUD The civil war within the Federated Commonwealth rages unabated. Katrina Steiner-Davion continues her tyrannical rule as her deposed brother, Victor, slowly wins back the empire Katrina stole from him. Now, with the Clans strikin...

  • Spider-Man: The Movie Storybook

    Shane Coll

    Filled with color photos from the film, an action-packed movie storybook tells the story of Peter Parker, an ordinary teenager who is bitten by a genetically altered spider, transforming him into a web-spinning, crime-fighting superhero called Spider...

  • Butterfly Count

    Sneed B. Collard III

    Amy and her mother look for a very special butterfly while attending the annual Fourth of July Butterfly Count at a prairie restoration site, in a story that includes factual information about butterflies and how to attract and watch them....

  • Color the Sidewalk for Me

    Brandilyn Collins

    Bradleyville Series Book 2 (Contemporary/Romance Genre)
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    "As a chalk-fingered child, I had worn my craving for Mama's love on my sleeve. But as I grew, that craving became cloaked in excuses and denial until slowly it sank beneath...

  • The Scorpion King

    Max Allan Collins

    As the warlord Memnon gains control of the Middle East, he seeks to fulfill prophecy by becoming the Scorpion King, but Mathayus, an Akkadian assassin, has plans to stop him with the help of Memnon's own sorceress, Cassandra....

  • Spies and Thieves, Cops and Killers, Etc.

    Michael Collins

  • The Wicked Flea

    Susan Conant

    Holly Winter's malamutes, Rowdy and Kimi, are as delightful a pair of canine companions as anyone could ask for. Less faithful is her ex-lover who left her with a bitter heart and over-priced therapy sessions. Add a bout with amnesia and trepidation ...

  • A Home of Her Own

    Cathleen Connors

    No matter how far she roamed, Melodie Coleman had never quite shaken the dust of her Wyoming hometown -- nor the bittersweet memories. Now, widowed and pregnant, she was back in high country for her mother's funeral. Back to face a charismatic cowboy...

  • Combat, Vol. 3

    Stephen Coonts

    A historic landmark collection, Combat, Vol. 3 depicts war as it is and soon will be-the shape of war to come.Featuring: Harold Coyle, reporting from the front lines of the information war, where cyberpunks are recruited to combat the growing swarm o...

  • Saucer

    Stephen Coonts

    AFTER 140,000 YEARS... Seismic surveyor Rip Cantrell has made an exhilarating discovery--a flying saucer embedded in the Sahara sandstone. Buried for eons, it's not the invention of modern man. Computer-equipped, it can't belong to ancient man. Rip'...

  • Tatty Ratty

    Helen Cooper

    The adventures of a lost toy, by the two-time Kate Greenaway Medalist

    Cooper sends the beloved bunny on a train ride to a meal at the Three Bears’ cottage, a run-in with pirates, and a flight on dragon-back to the moon. Finally Tatty Ratty r...

  • The Love Match: The Rake's Bride

    Nicola Cornick
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    The Marquis of Merlin is honor bound to prevent his young cousin from marrying a "scheming older woman." But the jaded nobleman is completely intrigued when the would-be bride bolts at the altar and then refuses his generous offer of settlement.......

  • The Notorious Marriage

    Nicola Cornick

    Marry in haste... Debutante Lady Eleanor Trevithick's elopement with Kit, Lord Mostyn, was enough to have the gossips in an uproar. Then it was heard that her new husband had disappeared a day after the wedding...and their marriage became the ...

  • I Don't Know but I've Been Told

    Raul Correa

    "I was a paratrooper in the 2nd 304 Scout Reconnaissance Platoon, 82nd Airborne Division. You don't know me without that. It's where I come from." So begins Raul Correa's raw, mesmerizing tale of a peacetime soldier. To escape trouble at home, the...

  • A Perfect Name

    Charlene Costanzo

    Desperate to give their child the perfect name, Mama and Papa Potamus research all kinds of names and give the decision great thought, yet in the end, the baby's own personality is the inspiration behind the name they choose for her....

  • Winter's Secret

    Lyn Cote

    Sheriff Rod Durand is desperate to solve the snowmobile burglaries. As the one link to the crimes against the elderly, Wendy Carey is determined to risk anything to protect those she loves. As they follow the thief's trail, Rod and Wendy discover muc...

  • The Cupcake Queen

    Patricia Coughlin

    BUSY AS A BEE The escaped bees were not her fault...well, okay, so Olivia Ashfield did fall on their hives and they did severely sting a man and a dog, leaving Owen Rancourt without his trusty assistant and his best search-and-rescue dog. The rugg...

  • Crustaceans

    Andrew Cowan

    It's December and there is one foot of snow. Paul, the narrator, is driving east to the seaside in the imaginary company of his son, Euan, whose sixth birthday this would have been. As he drives, and later as he wanders the coast, Paul assembles in d...

  • What Matters Most

    Francine Craft

    LOVED BY THE WORLD... If there's one thing that stunning mezzo-soprano Ashley Steele knows, it's that the demands of love and career don't mix. She's already seen her first marriage destroyed by her dream of singing all over the world. So why-just...

  • Single Separate People

    Lynn Crawford

    Inspired by the Walt Whitman line “Oneself I sing, a simple, separate person,†Lynn Crawford’s novel traces a group of characters whose outlook on life blends practicality and fantasy. Linked by obsessions and quirks, they fall in and out of lo...

  • The Sheikh Takes a Bride

    Caroline Cross

    "MARRY ME" With his arrogance, Sheikh Kaj al bin Russard got men to follow his orders. With his dark good looks, he got women to fall at his feet. Now Kaj needed every one of those talents to lure Princess Catherine of Altaria to the altar. One...

  • The Translator

    John Crowley

    A novel of tremendous scope and beauty, The Translator tells of the relationship between an exiled Russian poet and his American translator during the Cuban missile crisis, a time when a writer's words -- especially forbidden ones -- could be powerfu...

  • Nelly in the Wilderness

    Lynn Cullen

    When Pa returns home with a new bride from the city, Nelly doesn't like her at first since she has no understanding of the wilderness, yet their relationship changes with time as Nelly realizes that they both have special talents and skills to offer ...

  • The Wizardwar

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

    Defeat breeds anger. Hatred breeds revenge. Once again, the counselors of Halruaa have beaten back an attack by the wizard Akhlaur. Once more, the kingdom has been saved from its enemies. But victory comes at a terrible price. The aged king is...

  • Old Magic

    Marianne Curley

    Kate is at a loss. She meets a boy with curious powers and a bizarre history - but he thinks he is very ordinary. How can she convince him that he has a gift, a gift that he must use to unravel mysteries that have hung over his family for generations...

  • The Egyptian Box

    Jane Louise Curry

    Tee (short for Leticia) Woodie and her family have moved into a big, old house that is a part of her father's inheritance from Great-uncle Sebastian. While exploring the contents of Great-uncle's antiques-and-junk store, they find a parcel marked FOR...

  • Come in Spinner

    Dymphna Cusack

    An acclaimed novel which explores what life on the home-front was like for Australian women in WWII. Come in Spinner was an immediate sensation when it was first published in an abridged version in 1951.

    Florence James was the author o...

  • The Collected Ghost Stories of E. F. Benson

    Richard Dalby

    Available again, this collection brings together all of E. F. Benson's masterfully frightening literary ghost stories. Ranking with the best chillers of M. R. James and Henry James are over fifty classics of the macabre. Benson's graceful style unite...

  • Carrot and Clover

    Jenny Dale

    Carrot is a little rabbit who lives in Lucy's garden with his best friend Clover, a fluffy yellow chick. Every morning, Lucy gives them their breakfast, then she goes to school. Carrot and Clover have never been outside the garden - and they want to ...

  • The Power of Love

    Margaret Daley

    Struggling to single-handedly raise a special-needs infant and a son headed for trouble, Rebecca Michaels thought God had abandoned her. Until police officer Gabriel Stone showed up on her doorstep, offering a firm hand, an understanding heart and an...

  • Howling in the Darkness

    B.J. Daniels

    GUARDIAN OF THE NIGHT Danger! Undercover agent Jonah Ries couldn't explain to the stunning woman who'd mistaken him for her blind date exactly how he knew someone was trying to harm her. But evil stalked Moriah's Landing, and Katherine Ridgemont w...

  • Mistress to a Tycoon

    Emma Darcy

    Fleur had steeled herself to be cool toward Kit Malone, the powerful Australian tycoon who'd taken over the company. His reputation was formidable, but in the flesh Kit was sinfully sexy. Within hours of her new boss entering the boardroom, Fleur was...

  • The Surgeon's Love-Child

    Lilian Darcy

    The sexual attraction was instantaneous. American surgeon Candace Fletcher felt it as soon as Dr. Steve Colton met her off the plane as she arrived down under. He was gorgeous - tanned, lean, muscular Australian male - several years younger than he...

  • Raising Fences

    Michael Datcher

    This New York Timesâ€"bestselling memoir about an African American man’s struggles and triumphs is “heartrending and beautiful†(Junot Diaz Pulitzer Prizeâ€"winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao).   A Today Show Book Club ...

  • Marriage to a Stranger

    Kay David

    After seven years, the marriage of Conley and Lara Harrison is over. Lara still cares for Conley, but he's hurt her once too often. She wants nothing more than to get her divorce and move on. But that's not going to be easy. Not once she learns there...

  • Spider-Man

    Peter David

    It begins with an orphan named Peter Parker, raised by his beloved Aunt May and Uncle Ben in Queens, New York. A quiet student, he works diligently at his studies and pines for the beautiful Mary Jane Watson. But this ordinary teenage boy is about to...

  • The House of Blue Mangoes

    David Davidar

    In 1899, in the south Indian village of Chevathar, Solomon Dorai is contemplating the imminent destruction of his world and everything he holds dear. As the thalaivar, or headman, of Chevathar, he seeks to preserve the village from both catastrophe a...

  • A Marriage by Chance

    Carolyn Davidson

    Chloe Biddleton was in big trouble! Her fool brother had gone and lost his half of the family ranch in a game of cards, leaving her to live with her brother's mistakes, and handsome cowboy Mr. J. T. Flannery. Then trouble struck the ranch, and Ch...

  • The Vertigo Murders

    J. Madison Davis

    Did Alfred Hitchcock, the world-famous Master of Suspense, have a secret life as a detective? Did his mordant humor hide a deductive mind worthy of a Hercule Poirot or Nero Wolfe? The year is 1957. The sun-tanned citizenry of Los Angeles is in the gr...

  • The Way to Somewhere

    Angie Day

    Tough, street-smart, and mouthy, Taylor Jessup has always been the kind of girl who knows exactly how life should be. But it seems the world around her won't cooperate -- she keeps getting involved with the wrong friends, the wrong older man, even th...

  • Anything for Her Family

    Sharon De Vita

    THE SECRET MOTHER... Gentle and kind Natalie McMahon was everything rancher Jared Ryan wanted in his rambunctious children's nanny. While she was the perfect role model for his twin sons, she was also the embodiment of all of Jared's fantasies. But ...

  • The Stone Monkey

    Jeffery Deaver

    Forensics expert Lincoln Rhyme, along with his protegee, Amelia Sachs, has been recruited by the FBI to capture "the Ghost"--a homicidal immigrant smuggler. But when they corner him aboard a cargo ship headed for New York, the bust goes disastrously ...

  • St. Famous

    Jonathan Dee

    Abducted by young African-American Victor Hartley in the middle of a riot, aspiring writer Paul Soloway becomes a reluctant hero at the center of a racial maelstrom. By the author of The Liberty Campaign....

  • The Irish Cairn Murder

    Dicey Deere

    MURDER--IRISH STYLE. It is mid-October and unexpectedly cold in Ballynagh, the small Irish village that Torrey Tunet, the young American translator and sometime amateur sleuth, calls home. She has just built a fire of peat and coal to warm her cot...

  • In His Safekeeping

    Shawna Delacorte

    HER PROTECTOR One by one the government witnesses who'd testified against a mob associate began to die -- and now Tara Ford was the last witness remaining. Suddenly with a killer shadowing her every move, she was forced to rely on the protection o...

  • Birdbrain Amos

    Michael Delaney / M.C. Delaney

    When Amos the Hippo hires a tick bird to eat the bugs off his back, he gets a bird like no other when it soon sets up a nest, lays three eggs, and entertains guests at a baby shower--all in full view of the other hippos!...

  • The Boy Who Was Generous with Salt

    Corinne Demas

    It's 1850 and nine year-old Ned has been called upon to go to sea as ship's cook aboard the fishing schooner Adeline. Young readers glimpse a fascinating era of New England history as they set sail with Ned in search of cod. Glowing images of life on...

  • Cover Up

    Abby Denson

    Suddenly, every time the Powerpuff Girls get called to save the day, Buttercup--who used to love fighting--is mysteriously missing, but her sisters are determined to find out what Buttercup is hiding. Original....

  • Abandon

    Sean Desmond

    Sean Desmond's Abandon, now a major motion picture starring Katie Holmes and Benjamin Bratt.There are worse places an Ivy Leaguer, desperate to restore a tattered academic career, can pass the mist-shrouded New England autumn of his senior year. Ther...

  • Caliban and Other Tales

    Robert Devereaux

    His mother was a sorceress, and his master is-a powerful magician. His home is a dark, wild island of enchantment, spells . . . and evil. He is Caliban. Is he human, spirit or demon? Who can say? All he knows is that he burns with a lust for revenge ...

  • Baby Gets the Zapper

    Ted Dewan

    What happens when Baby gets the zapper? Not only does the TV get zapped, but also the stuffed animals, the toys, and even the moon! When the situation gets a little out of control, Baby lands in Mama’s safe hands. And luckily, there’s still a lit...

  • The Improperly Pregnant Princess

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Scandal Rocks Fairy-Tale Family Seems that the most proper Princess CeCe Carradigne has stunned New York society and royal watchers all over the globe with the announcement that she is marrying longtime business rival (and uncommonly sexy commoner...

  • Goodnight Sulley!

    Disney Book Group

    What’s a monster to do when he’s scared of children -- and there’s a little human girl right in his living room?! Find out how Sulley, the big blue monster from the feature film hit Monsters, Inc., handles this potentially toxic situation. Die-...

  • Disney's Easy to Read Treasury Storybook

    Disney Book Group

    Combining simple text and vibrant illustrations, a wonderful collection of stories from Disney's Easy-to-Read Stories, To School and Beyond, and Winnie the Pooh Easy-to-Read Stories is centered around such beloved Disney chara...

  • Lost in Your Arms

    Christina Dodd

    A GROOM WHO CAN'T REMEMBER. A BRIDE WHO WANTS DESPERATELY TO FORGET. Enid MacLean is finally living a peaceful life when she receives word that an explosion has injured the husband she hoped she'd never have to see again. Reluctantly, she agrees ...

  • Hedgehog Howdedo

    Lynley Dodd

    A little girl wanders round her garden in winter, looking at all the hedgehogs hibernating in its many different corners. The book is a simple counting book and an early science book as it introduces readers to the impact of the seasons on animals an...

  • Excalibur

    Robert Doherty

    EXCALIBUR: LOST RELIC. LEGENDARY TALISMAN. ULTIMATE WEAPON. Once thought of as myth, the legendary sword of King Arthur is now a fiercely pursued reality--the most important artifact in a worldwide chess game for control of man's destiny. Tw...

  • Finally and Forever

    Tina Donahue
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    When Captain Aidan O'Rourke stopped at a local inn for a mug of ale, he found spirited Briana MacCullen--a lass with fire in her flashing green eyes. Helping her find a missing claddagh ring sounded like a simple task--until Aidan realized he had los...

  • Shades of Gray

    Wendy Douglas

    Secrets ate at his soul...and Derek Fontaine wanted only to escape them. Now a legacy from the father he'd never known had brought him to a ramshackle ranch in Texas -- and introduced him to Amber Laughton, who possessed a loving spirit that acted as...

  • Counterfire

    Keith Douglass

    Their power is awesome... A group of Palestinian extremists have acquired a nuclear warhead with the capacity to kill three million people. Their demands are simple... Israel must evacuate all civilians and military personnel from the West Bank ...

  • Baby See, Baby Do

    Malachy Doyle

    A simple tale with bold illustrations and lift-the-flap pages offers an amusing look at how baby animals interact with their own parents, such as the baby seahorse who rides in its father's pouch and the zebra that hides alongside its mother....

  • Knight Triumphant

    Shannon Drake

    After her husband Afton, Lord of Langley, falls prey to a deadly plague, Englishwoman Igrainia finds herself a captive in her own castle...held hostage by Scottish warrior Eric Graham, whose wife and son--prisoners of Lord Langley--have also perished...

  • Stop the Wedding

    Jennifer Drew

    Nick Franklin doesn't know what he wants. He doesn't have the right job, and he certainly can't find the right woman. When he's accidentally kidnapped trying to rescue someone, he doesn't know what's going on! Stacy Moore's whole world is upside down...

  • Leaving

    Richard Dry

    In 1959, newly-widowed and pregnant Ruby Washington and her thirteen-year-old half brother, Easton, board a bus in rural South Carolina, destined for Oakland, California. There, far from the violent events that forced her to flee her home, Ruby hope...

  • Cowboy Courage

    Judy Duarte

    SHE WAS A WOMAN ON THE RUN... Shattered by her fiance's betrayal, Lauren Taylor fled California and her society engagement. In a small Texas town, she found a place for herself in the gentle arms of rancher Cole McAdams. He was as honest as the day w...

  • Cattleman's Bride-to-Be

    Lois Faye Dyer

    The last man on earth...was how Nikki Petersen saw the cowboy who'd broken her heart four lonely years ago. Suddenly, Cully Bowdrie was the only man who could help her. But when the guarded man walked into her little sister's hospital room, Nikki saw...

  • Always Copycub

    Richard Edwards

    Copycub loves a good game of hide-and-seek with his mother, but when he hides so well that he ends up lost and can't be heard, Copycub begins to wonder if his mother will ever find him and bring him back home....

  • Wild Weather: Earthquake!

    Lorraine Hopping Egan

  • Murder Can Cool Off Your Affair

    Selma Eichler

    Rich-as-Croesus Uncle Victor has only a few months to live. Edward, his favorite nephew and heir to his fortune, was recently shot to death. Now a second nephew, John Lander--the next in line to inherit--is enlisting the help of Manhattan PI Desiree ...

  • He Stands Alone

    Randy Lee Eickhoff

    Randy Lee Eickhoff, the award-winning translator of the epic Ulster Cycle, continues his retelling of Ireland's spellbinding history and folklore in He Stands Alone. For the very first time, Randy Lee Eickhoff has combined several translations of the...

  • Born Too Short

    Dan Elish

    Due to his height and appearance, eighth-grader Matt Greene doesn't have much luck in sports or dating, thus his jealously toward his good looking, tall, and successful friend Keith takes over his life and makes him perform a spell so that things cha...

  • Freedom Trap

    Robert Elmer

    Book 5 of the Promise of Zion series for teens. On the eve of Israel's independence, Dov and Emily part ways. Trying to get back to England, Emily soon finds herself stranded in Cyprus, while Dov helps rescue a dozen orphans trapped during the siege ...

  • South of Reason

    Cindy Eppes

    Everybody in Rosalita, Texas, wondered why the Sanders family had come back to town and bought the house next door to Lou Jean Perry. It was the absolute last place they should want to be. Now, Kayla Sanders looks back on that sizzling summer of her ...

  • The Dead Survivors

    K.J. Erickson

    A SUSPICIOUS DEATH When Frank Beck, a sympathetic dreamer on a lifelong losing streak, is found hanged during a lonely Minnesota snowstorm, everyone assumes that he committed suicide. But Minneapolis Homicide Detective Marshall Bahr can't make sense...

  • Harriet Spies Again

    Helen Ericson

    Harriet M. Welsch has just received the best news of her eleventh year -- Ole Golly is coming back! Harriet can still remember how sad she was when her beloved nanny married George Waldenstein and moved away. But the circumstances of Ole Golly's retu...

  • She Did It!

    Jennifer A. Ericsson


    Antics galore capture the everyday challenge of having siblings

    Who did it? Four sisters â€" different ages, different interests,
    but all bursting with energy â€" are about to bounce, leap, trip, and tumble right into trouble. As they ...

  • The Three Spinning Fairies

    Lisa Campbell Ernst

    When Zelda seeks help in spinning the wool necessary to win the prince's hand in marriage, three talented fairies decide to assist her, yet when they feel their kindness is being abused, the fairies turn things around and teach lazy Zelda an importan...

  • Nonsense! He Yelled

    Roger Eschbacher

  • Longarm on the Border

    Tabor Evans

    Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long heads for the border city of El Paso to extradite a prisoner from Mexico, only to find himself dealing with uncooperative FederalTs and an unknown enemy who wants him dead. Original....

  • Red Berry Wool

    Robyn Eversole

  • The John Fante Reader

    John Fante

    It's not every day that a writer, almost unheard of in his lifetime, emerges twenty years after his death as a voice of his generation. But then again, there aren't many writers with such irrepressible genius as John Fante.The John Fante Reader is th...

  • Grandmothers

    Penelope Farmer

    Following on from her books of twins and sisters, the author now turns to grandmothers, describing the tentative beginnings of her own relationship to two small granddaughters, in a family where she is the first grandmother to survive in four generat...

  • Twice Blessed

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A Woman With A Secret. A Man With A Past. Can A Child Bring Them Together? For Emma Delancy, cozy Haven, Ohio, is just that -- a safe haven from the life she'd run from seven years before. Then handsome newcomer Noah Sawyer accused an orphan b...

  • The Disenchanted Duke

    Marie Ferrarella

    Who was Max Ryker? The sinfully sensual P.I. had the looks of a playboy and the bearing of a king. Bounty hunter Cara Rivers could only dream of being Cinderella for a night in Max's strong arms. Because she and Max were hunting the same man -- and t...

  • A Murderous Yarn

    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...

  • Mangoes and Quince

    Carol Field

    Mangoes and Quince tells the story of Miranda, abandoned in Amsterdam by her husband, Anton, who disappeared into the South Seas. Marooned but restlessly inspired, Miranda expresses her passion through cooking. But as the restaurant she builds in Ant...

  • The Corporate Bridegroom

    Liz Fielding

    Romana Claibourne was determined to prove to Niall Farraday Macaulay that she and her sisters could run Claibourne & Farraday, the exclusive London department store, more profitably than the Farraday men. That should be easy, thought Romana.... Oh...

  • I Am Spider-Man

    Acton Figueroa

    I used to be Peter Parker ... Now, I am Spider-Man!

    Everything changed for Peter Parker after a genetically altered spider bit him. He used to be a scrawny high-school student who struggled to defend himself against the big...

  • The Family Feud

    Carol Finch

    In the small town of Oz, Jan Mitchell's wacky family is fast falling apart! Her parents are fighting, her sister's lost it and to top it off, Jan's high school crush is now in the middle of everything! Morgan Price always had the ability to make her ...

  • Isle of Lies

    Donna Fletcher

    Clan loyalty has forced her to marry... Moira Maclean has spent most of her life cloistered in the solemn halls of a Scottish convent -- and has only ever known her father's iron will. So when a handsome warrior barges in with news of her fat...

  • Forward the Mage

    Eric Flint; Richard Roach

    Even the Philosophical Strangler's Hands are Tied when the King's Dreams Became Nightmares ... The youthful artist-swordsman Benvenuti Sfondrati-Piccolomini arrived in the city of Goimr just in time for disaster to strike. The evil sorcerer Zulk...

  • When a Man Loves a Woman

    Bette Ford

    Haunted by her parents' tragic relationship, successful designer Amanda Daniels is desperately afraid her hasty marriage to rancher Zachery McFadden will lead to nothing but heartbreak. She agrees to give their union a try for one year. But to her ...

  • Too Much Temptation

    Lori Foster

    Grace Jenkins has had little experience with men--feeling too awkward and insecure to free the passionate woman inside her. But that hasn't stopped her from dreaming about Noah Harper. Gorgeous, strong and darkly sexy, his rough edge beneath the poli...

  • Ferns

    Allan Fowler

  • Maple Trees

    Allan Fowler

  • Europe

    Allan Fowler

  • Africa

    Allan Fowler

    The popular Rookie Books expand their horizons - to all corners of the globe! With this series all about geography, emergent readers will take off on adventures to cities, nations, waterways, and habitats around the worldand right in their own backya...

  • Asia

    Allan Fowler

  • Pine Trees

    Allan Fowler

  • The Seduction

    Kathryn Fox

    Should She Follow The Story...Or Follow Her Heart? Fame, fortune, and critical acclaim awaited aspiring journalist Samantha Wilder, if she could just uncover a scandal that would shake up the North West Mounted Police. Heading to the Yukon Territo...

  • Wide Open Spaces

    Roz Denny Fox

    The Forked Lightning Ranch, near Callanton, Oregon Summer Marsh wants to hang on to her family's cattle spread. It's the only life she knows...and it's her son's legacy. Summer's ex-husband, Frank, sees the ranch as a cash cow -- literally. Wit...

  • The Watchmen

    Brian Freemantle

    Only a miracle-and faulty workmanship-prevents a germ-packed warhead from exploding when a terrorist missile slams into the United Nations building in New York. The lettering on the side of the rocket is Russian, which presents the West with its wors...

  • Love Will Find a Way

    Barbara Freethy

    Sometimes forbidden fruit is the sweetest of all... She was untouchable...his business partner's wife. Beautiful Rachel Tanner was everything that Dylan Prescott longed for in a woman -- all lush curves and unconscious sensuality. But he had too m...

  • Star Trek Starfleet: Year One

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Earth Command defeated the Romulans with the help of other races across the galaxy, and the Neutral Zone was established. Out of that necessary and uneasy collaboration came the United Federation of Planets and its combined forces, Starfleet. But the...

  • Prairie Summer

    Arthur Geisert

    Working hard on the family farm and helping her father whenever she can, ten-year-old Rachel, who despises farm life but does her fair share of the chores anyway, finds that no matter what she does, her father seems to think that she is worthless, in...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Vicious Viking

    James Gelsey

    SCOOBY-DOO is an 'Ameri-canine' icon, the most beloved cartoon pooch of the past three generations. The snack-sniffing sleuth and his pals are in the midst of a huge popularity boom.

    Scooby and the gang are ready for a fun afternoon in the new...

  • All Your Own Teeth

    Adrienne Geoghegan

    While in the jungle trying to find the perfect model to paint, Stewart encounters various wild animals who are willing to pose for his painting, but Stewart's demanding personality causes problems and so only the crocodile, with his own plan in mind,...

  • Sweet Surrender

    Catherine George

    Kate hadn't planned to settle old scores with Alasdair Drummond. But when he reappeared in her life, she realized that here was her chance! He had been her first love, yet he hadn't even considered her as more than a friend. This time arou...

  • Essential Howard the Duck

    Steve Gerber

  • Leaping to the Stars

    David Gerrold

    No longer able to return to his home on Earth, Charles Dingillian and his two brothers must choose a new planet to call home. But which one?Charles has come into possession of a prototype HARLIE unit so revolutionary and state-of-the-art that corpora...

  • The Spirit of Thunder

    Kurt R.A. Giambastiani

    In an alternate history of the American West, the battle between the U.S. government and the nations of the Cheyenne Alliance takes a bizarre turn when George Custer, Jr., the only son of President Custer, falls into the hands of the Cheyenne and dec...

  • Joshua: a Parable for Today

    Joseph Girzone

    The Beloved Classic,
    Now a Major Motion Picture
    When Joshua moves to a small cabin on the edge of town, the local people are mystified by his presence. A quiet and simple man, Joshua appears to seek...

  • No Apologies

    Seressia Glass

    A second chance at love-- or heartbreak? Angela Davenport is successful in business but a failure at love. Jeff Maxwell left her broken-hearted and resolved to never make that mistake again. Now Jeff is back, determined to win Angela's forgivene...

  • Gypsy Girl

    Rumer Godden

    There's a girt who's a gypsy. She has rings in her ears and she sometimes comes to school in a little wagon.Kizzy Lovell is a gypsy girl. She has her gran and her horse, Joe, and she doesn't need anything else. Then Gran dies, her wagon burns, and Ki...

  • Dr. Destiny

    Kristi Gold

    Social worker Cassie Allen had always fought her heart-stopping attraction to drop-dead-gorgeous Dr. Brendan O'Connor. After all, best friends didn't feel that way about each other...did they? Then, one shattering night, long-denied passion finall...

  • Spike and the Substitute

    Leslie Goldman

    When their beloved teacher, Miss Cuttle, enforces a rule Spike feels is unfair, he decides that he doesn't like her anymore, but when she doesn't come to school one day, Spike soon realizes just how much she is missed. Original....

  • A Death in the Venetian Quarter

    Alan Gordon

    In 1203, the ships of the Fourth Crusade, instead of traveling to the Holy Land, show up outside the walls of Constantinople and besiege the city. Within the walls, the jester couple Theophilos and Viola, agents of the Fools' Guild (and working under...

  • Sharpshooter

    Nadia Gordon

    A Napa Valley chef must uncover who eighty-sixed a vineyard heir in this cozy mystery series opener by the author of Death by the Glass.Sunny McCoskey is the independent chef/owner of Wildside, a respected little cafe nestled in the heart of Californ...

  • Tasting

    Sharon Gordon

  • Food Safety

    Sharon Gordon