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New Books List: 576 titles

  • Friend Frog

    Alma Flor Ada

    Field Mouse wants a friend--more than anything. When he spots Frog by the pond, he's sure she'd be perfect, until she invites him to play. Frog can croak. Frog can jump. Frog can swim. . . . Field Mouse can't. How will they ever be friends?
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  • Stryker's Bride

    Joyce Adams

    RELUCTANT BRIDE Jacey Forester had pulled her sister Jeanette out of scrapes before, but this was the worst! Her flighty twin had temporarily flown the coop, leaving Jacey to fulfill her contract as a mail order bride -- or face jail for fraud. Masq...

  • Young Cam Jansen and the Pizza Shop Mystery

    David A. Adler

    At a pizza parlor, Cam Jansen's jacket disappears. Could someone have taken it? Where could it be? Find out when Cam's amazing memory clicks into action in the sixth book of the Young Cam Jansen series....

  • Caracol Beach

    Eliseo Alberto

    Eliseo Alberto's award-winning Caracol Beach combines the passionate imagination of magic realism with the plotting of a thriller (and a modicum of farce). The result is a literary tour de force.

    Beto Milanes, the night watchman at a graveyard...

  • The Return

    Buzz Aldrin; John Barnes

    A NOVEL OF TODAY -- ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITIES OF TOMORROW Former astronaut Scott Blackstone's dream of opening outer space to visits from everyday people is under attack. His pilot program has been marred by a fatal accident, he's out of a job, and ...

  • Just Before Dawn

    Rochelle Alers

    SUDDEN PASSION After prosecuting the biggest case of her career, New York district attorney Sara Sterling was looking forward to relaxing amid starry desert nights in her childhood home in New Mexico. Then she met her enigmatic neighbor Salem Lassit...

  • Solemn Oath

    Hannah Alexander

    Dr. Lukas Bower is the temporary director at Knolls Community Hospital, but he's a doctor first. As an E.R. surgeon he took a solemn oath to put his patients' needs ahead of anyone else's -- his own, the insurance companies' or the hospital's. Yet no...

  • Berlin Exchange

    Ted Allbeury

    A captured US spy plane pilot is being traded for a senior KGB agent - a strangely unequal exchange that British spycatcher Joe Shapiro had persuaded them to make. However, Shapiro has more than a professional interest in the case....

  • Baby, Don't Go

    Susan Andersen

    Rule One: Don't Let Him In When photographer Nick Coltrane saunters into Daisy Parker's office, all she sees is the man who broke her heart nine years ago. Never mind that he wants to hire her as his bodyguard--ah, security specialist -- or that h...

  • Akima's Story

    Kevin J. Anderson

    Akima, a refugee from Earth living in a Drifter colony, risks everything to become the best possible starship pilot, so she can go in search of the legendary ship called Titan, which may enable the human race to regain its freedom....

  • Cale's Story

    Kevin J. Anderson

    Cale Tucker, whose father escaped from Earth on the starship Titan, grows up a refugee under the care of an alien guardian, one step ahead of the Drej, who know something Cale doesn't--that he has the secret that will save the human race....

  • Fight for Life

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    Maggie has a mission Maggie MacKenzie is great with dogs, but her homework is out of control. Dr. Mac, her veterinarian grandmother, puts her on a short leash until her grades improve. Four new volunteers show up to help Gran in the clinic, but no...

  • Homeless

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    Volunteer at Wild at Heart Animal Clinic with Brenna, Zoe, David, Maggie, and Sunita. Sunita: Socrates is missing! We've looked everywhere. But instead of finding Dr. Mac's cat, we found a pack of feral cats -- hundreds of them, living outside in th...

  • Trickster

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    As soon as he sees Trickster, the new horse at Quinn’s Stables, David knows he’s found the horse he was born to ride. But David’s got a reputation as a troublemaker . . . and Trickster’s still recuperating from an accident. David is determine...

  • Quinn's Return

    Shannon Anderson (1)

  • Murder With Puffins

    Donna Andrews

    A romantic getaway was what Meg Langslow had in mind when she and her boyfriend planned a trip to the tiny island of Monhegan off the coast of Maine. They would spend their days hiking the trails and their evenings by the fire. But in this remote pla...

  • Heaven Cent

    Piers Anthony
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Heaven Cent continues the Xanth saga from New York Times bestselling fantasy author Piers Anthony. In the mind of Xanth's precious shapeshifting Prince Dolph, the perfect way to see the world is to search for the missing sorcerer, Humfrey. Setting of...

  • The Gutbucket Quest

    Piers Anthony; Ron Leming

    Slim's a Texas bluesman of a certain age, down on his luck, and just about broke--but hey, that's what the blues are all about. Then, one day, in a single hot burst of lightning that comes straight up out of the ground, Slim finds himself in Tejas. N...

  • Toddler Two-Step

    Kathi Appelt

  • Gateway to the Gods

    K.A. Applegate

    There is a place that shouldn’t exist. But does. And there are creatures that shouldn’t exist. But do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real -- and often deadly. Welcome to EVERWORLD. Most of us probably won't g...

  • Back to Before

    K.A. Applegate

    What would you do if you had the opportunity to change your life? Not just where you live or who you hang out with, but your past, present, and future? Sounds like it might be pretty cool, right? Well, that's what Jake thought. He thought it might be...

  • The Familiar

    K.A. Applegate

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

  • Now Zoey's Alone

    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. Now Zoey's alone. At least, that's how it feels to Zoey. With Lucas and Nina behaving so stra...

  • The Bride of Spring

    Catherine Archer

    LADY RAINE HAD NEED OF A HUSBAND... But not just any man would do. She required a man of honor to protect her young brother's inheritance. And from the moment she laid eyes upon Benedict Ainsworth at court, she knew her search was over. But...

  • The Unexpected Husband

    Lindsay Armstrong

    An outback marriage? Lydia had been thrilled by her temporary assignment on an Australian cattle station -- until she came face-to-face with Joe Jordan on her first day! Tough, sexy Joe: the man Lydia's impulsive sister had planned to seduce.....

  • The Bravest of Us All

    Marsha Diane Arnold

    Daring ten-year-old Velma Jean, one of seven brothers and sisters, walks barefoot over sandburs, swims in the new horse tank, even stands up to Alfred the Bull. Every day Velma Jean does something that amazes her siblings. To her sister Ruby Jane, sh...

  • The Boomer

    Marty Asher

    Meet the boomer.

    He's smart, successful, well-adjusted, and on the brink of total despair.

    Sound like anyone you know?


    boom-er (bü'mer), n. 1: a person or thing that booms. 2: a person who settles in area or towns that are b...

  • Tropical Nights

    Phyll Ashworth

    Tracy Bames has a few words for real-estate mogul Gregory Thompson. Infuriating. Obstinate. Presumptuous. It's bad enough that the man has bought the Hawaiian hotel where she works as assistant manager -- a move that might force her out of her job. B...

  • Ripping Time

    Robert Asprin; Linda Evans

    Settle Back for a Hot One: IT'S RIPPING TIME When terrorists gun down Jenna Caddrick's fiancee, the only daughter of Senator John Caddrick is trapped in a desperate struggle to stay alive. With a pack of killers on her trail, Jenna plunges throug...

  • A Royal Mission

    Elizabeth August

    Under cover of darkness, Lance Grayson conducted the most crucial rescue mission of his career. And succeeded. Though dazed from her ordeal, the rightful Princess Victoria of Thortonburg was still breathtakingly beautiful...and spirited enough to que...

  • Ragweed

    Avi

    The first book in the beloved Poppy series by Newbery Medal"winning author Avi, with illustrations from Caldecott Medal"winning artist Brian Floca, is available as an ebook for the first time!A mouse has to do what a mouse has to do. Ragweed is d...

  • The Marriage Scheme

    Patricia K. Azeltine

    Khara Thompson can't believe her luck: she inherited a house from her Aunt Beatrice only to discover the property line she shares with Adam Mansfield runs right through the middle of her house! Little does she know that Aunt Beatrice and Adam's mot...

  • The Hero's Walk

    Anita Rau Badami

    In a small, dusty town in India, Sripathi Rao struggles as a copywriter to keep his family afloat in their crumbling ancestral home. But his mother berates him for not becoming a lawyer, his son prefers social protest to work, his unmarried sister se...

  • Atlantis

    Christina Balit

    A magnificently illustrated retelling of the story of Atlantis--one of the world's most haunting and fascinating myths.

    Floating on the emerald sea is a small rocky island belonging to the mighty sea-god Poseidon. Few visit its shores-until Po...

  • Grandma Tells A Tale

    Donna Ball
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Up Jumps the Devil

    Donna Ball
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Fingerprints

    Donna Ball
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Refiner's Fire

    Sylvia Bambola

    A thriller steeped in European culture like The Salzburg Connection, Refiner's Fire serves up serious suspense to avid fiction readers. This book's "secret underground society" is not Nazi war criminals, however-it's the persecuted Christian church. ...

  • Expecting His Child

    Leanne Banks

    INTERLUDE WITH AMOROUS ENEMY... Martina Logan dangerously shared a passionate affair with her family's nemesis, handsome Noah Coltrane. But when she became pregnant, Martina was determined to have the baby alone. So, armed with baby booties, she...

  • A Space Oddity

    Steven Banks

    As stowaways aboard Rancid Rabbit's Really Rancid Spaceship, CatDog gets the adventure of their life when they find themselves on the planet Mars in this first addition to the new CatDog Tales series. Original....

  • Buried Secrets

    Anne Barbour

    The Scandalous Spinster Love was for poets. Marriage was for fools. The philosophy of dashing rake Christopher Culver, the Earl of Cordray, would never melt a woman's heart. But that wasn't his desire. Nor was adhering to the restrictive tastes of...

  • In the Arms of a Hero

    Beverly Barton

    The Fortunes of Texas: Membership in this family has its privileges... and its price. But what a fortune can't buy, a true-bred Texas love is sure to bring! THE PROTECTOR His mission was clear: bring home Texas blue blood Victoria Fortune. But...

  • The Feast of Love

    Charles Baxter

    National Book Award Finalist • A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, from "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) and the winner of the PEN/...

  • Rogue Planet

    Greg Bear

    MASTER AND APPRENTICE The Force is strong in twelve-year-old Anakin Skywalker ... so strong that the Jedi Council, despite misgivings, entrusted young Obi-Wan Kenobi with the mission of training him to become a Jedi Knight. Obi-Wan--like his slain...

  • Tuff

    Paul Beatty

    From Paul Beatty, the author of the Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, comes Tuff, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays.Age nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay is an East Harlem deniz...

  • Pay-Off Pitch

    Clair Bee

    Play ball with one of America's most endearing and enduring heroes! It’s baseball season again, and Chip and his sophomore friends hope to build on their freshman success with the varsity team. However, cliques within the team and rumors of a...

  • Songs of Power

    Hilari Bell

    Imina knows nothing about science. Nothing about quarks or equations, zooplankton or phytoplankton. What she does know is magic. Not pretend stage magic, but real magic -- casting spells, summoning spirits, and seeing visions. Her Grandma Ata was an ...

  • Ravelstein

    Saul Bellow

    Abe Ravelstein is a brilliant professor at a prominent midwestern university and a man who glories in training the movers and shakers of the political world. He has lived grandly and ferociously-and much beyond his means. His close friend Chick has s...

  • Eater

    Gregory Benford

    Impending personal tragedy is dimming the brilliant light of Dr. Benjamin Knowlton's world. On the threshold of their greatest achievement, the renowned astrophysicist's beloved wife and partner--ex-astronaut-turned-astronomer Channing--is dying. ...

  • Lake Lenore

    Eileen Berger
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    The spark of love stands the test of time and is fanned to a flame as four couples are reunited. These contemporary novellas include four reunion celebrations -- high school, college, family, and organ donors -- that will tug at the tightest of heart...

  • Headlock

    Adam Berlin

    “A powerful debut novel” following two cousins on a dangerous road trip from New York to Las Vegas (Booklist, starred review). Odessa Rose is the kind of guy who gives the term “hair-trigger temper” a whole new meaning. His violent nature has...

  • Dr. Irresistible

    Elizabeth Bevarly

    His fantasies never involved having a family - until Seth met nurse Prudence Holloway and her baby. So when Pru needed a one-night groom, he gallantly offered his husbandly services. Pru might have done some irresponsible things in her life, but fall...

  • The Landlord Takes a Bride

    Kristin Billerbeck

    Stefani Willems is about to reach her ambitious goal of buying the land that her family's orchard once occupied just outside Silicon Valley. But a handsome cowboy from Colorado saunters in and buys the brand-new duplex which now occupies the property...

  • In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories

    Terry Bisson

    In the Upper Room and Other Likely Stories is a collection of sixteen fantastic, ironic science fiction tales by Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Terry Bisson. Terry Bisson uses the fantastic genres as do Kurt Vonnegut or Harlan Ellison, and like...

  • Love's Bounty

    Rosanne Bittner

    LOVE'S SWEET REWARD Bent on revenge, Callie Hobbs hires a bounty hunter to chase down the outlaws who took her mother's life, stole her means of survival and destroyed her innocent trust in the good of mankind. She does not know that the m...

  • Mystic Visions

    Rosanne Bittner

    In Mystic Dreamers, best-selling author Rosanne Bittner began a compelling saga with the meeting of Buffalo Dreamer, a holy woman, and Rising Eagle, a warrior whose powers were unmatched, for he had been blessed by the Feathered One. Now, in a new st...

  • Hanging Out With Mom

    Sonia W. Black

  • The Rebellious Bride

    Catherine Blair
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    A trio of delightful Regency romances celebrates the joy of matrimony and includes Cathleen Clare's The Impossible Bride, in which a woman destined to be a spinster through family tradition must choose between being a dutiful daughter or elop...

  • Noddy Makes a New Friend

    Enid Blyton

    Strike up the band!The circus is in town, and Noddy makes a funny new friend called a Bunkey. The Bunkey just loves to help out his pals in any way he can. But as Noddy soon finds out, there is such a thing as being too helpful! Fans of the televisio...

  • Franklin's Bicycle Helmet

    Paulette Bourgeois

    Franklin can hardly wait to show off his new bicycle helmet at the Bike Safety Rally until he overhears Fox and Beaver making fun of it, but Rabbit offers Franklin some words of encouragement. Original....

  • Katastrophe

    Randall Boyll

    On an ordinary night deep in the heartland of America, two men striving for recognition in the their chosen fields will be thrustinto the national spotlight and become famous beyond their wildest imaginations. One will be celebrated as the journalist...

  • The Deep Field

    James Bradley

    One of Australia's "most ambitious and talented younger writers" (Sydney Morning Herald), delivers a gripping novel about a young woman's emotional awakening against the backdrop of global conflict and political chaosJames Bradley exploded onto the l...

  • The Masterman

    Max Brand

    Bob Melville, on the run from the law for a crime he didn't commit, finally gets his chance for revenge against Styeve Christy - the man who framed him - when Christy, wounded and seeking refuge, unknowingly asks Melville's one and only friend for he...

  • Game of Chance

    Guy Brewer

    In the fourth Diamondback novel a case of mistaken identity turns con man Dex Yancy into a rich man -- a ploy which soon has him running for his life....

  • The Cat and the Bird in the Hat

    Norman Bridwell

    Spats the cat wears the hat that the bird lives in, but when Spats wants to go left and the bird wants to go right, they must learn to help each other out to both enjoy the hat and each other's friendship. Original....

  • Callaway Country

    Annette Broadrick

    From bestselling author Annette Broadrick comes her most compelling novel yet, a saga about the proud, passionate family that taught readers worldwide the meaning of forever love -- those charismatic Callaways! An earth-shattering explosion. . . a...

  • A Suspicious Proposal

    Helen Brooks

    One wedding leads to another... Essie Russell met millionaire businessman Xavier Grey at a wedding: she was the chief bridesmaid; he was a distant relative of the bridegroom. They were strangers, yet for some reason Xavier clearly disapproved of Ess...

  • Pawing Through the Past

    Rita Mae Brown

    "You'll never get old." Each member of the class of 1980 has received the letter. Mary Minor "Harry" Haristeen, who is on the organizing committee for Crozet High's twentieth reunion, decides to take it as a compliment. Others think it's a joke. But ...

  • Half a Heart

    Rosellen Brown

    An unforgettable novel about race and motherhood from the bestselling author of Before and AfterOnce a Civil Rights activist, Miriam Vener feels trapped in the comfortable upper-middle-class life she leads with her family in Houston in the 1980s. Tha...

  • Standoff

    Sandra Brown

    TV reporter Tiel McCoy is driving to New Mexico for a well-earned vacation when she hears the news on the radio: The teenage daughter of Fort Worth tycoon Russell Dendy has been a kidnapped. Immediately, she abandons her holiday plans to chase down w...

  • Heroes Like Us

    Thomas Brussig

    Provocative and hilarious, Heroes Like Us was the first novel to comment on the downfall of East Germany by an author who had grown up with the Berlin Wall. Klaus Uhltzscht, born in 1968 in East Germany, grows up across the street from the Ministr...

  • Million-Dollar Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    Money isn't everything . . .Pine Hollow Stables has a new resident, and while The Saddle Club loves all horses, they aren't impressed by this one. Honey-Pie is a sweet old mare, but there's nothing special about her--or is there? It turns out that Ho...

  • The Copper Treasure

    Melvin Burgess

    Jamie, Davies, and Ten Tons are mudlarks, boys who stay alive in 1850s London by finding and selling coal in the banks along the Thames River. Their dream is to find adventure by going to sea, but they'll never get a place on a seagoing ship without ...

  • Seven Roads to Hell

    Donald Burgett

    The author, a member of the Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, describes his experiences in Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge and the close combat under difficult winter conditions and a lack of supplies. Reprint....

  • For Love Alone

    Shirlee Busbee

    Tempestuous young widow Sophy Marlow vowed she would never wed again ... except for love. Proud, brooding Viscount Ives Harrington swore he would never shed his bachelor ways ... except for revenge. Then Ives chose to save the fearless Sophy from a s...

  • The Night Inspector

    Frederick Busch

    An immensely powerful story, The Night Inspector follows the extraordinary life of William Bartholomew, a maimed veteran of the Civil War, as he returns from the battlefields to New York City, bent on reversing his fortunes. It is there he meets Jess...

  • Sorority Sisters

    Tajuana Butler

    Dear Heavenly Father,Thank you for developing me into abeautiful and talented woman.Thank you for being my protectorand my guide.And as I make my way along my journey,bless me with the wisdom to makeintelligent choices.So begins Sorority Sisters by T...

  • Robert's Lady

    Nicole Byrd

    He returned home only to find his betrothed had married another... After rotting away for years in a French prison, Lord Robert Manning wants nothing more than to return to the life -- and fiancee -- he had left behind to fight Napoleon. but belie...

  • Wolf at the Door

    Ann Campbell

    Pet owner Annie O'Hara and her foul-tempered dog Claudius investigate a murder together during a visit to Annie's aunt in Roswell, New Mexico, as they probe the killing of an unsavory religious guru. Original....

  • The Lost Foal

    Joanna Campbell

    Before Thoroughbred, Ashleigh Griffen lived at Edgardale, her family's farm in Kentucky. Nothing could be more perfect than life on the farm with her family, her favorite horses, and her best friend, Mona. Ashleigh loves helping with the horses--and ...

  • Innocent Betrayal

    Mary Campisi

    SHE WANTED HER FREEDOM Headstrong Emily St. Simon longed to escape the stifling confines of her English noblewoman's life. So, dressed as a boy, she daringly stowed away on a ship bound for America -- unaware that her dreams of independence wo...

  • Pop Pop Pop

    Candlewick Press

  • The Fourth Child

    C.J. Carmichael

    MOMENT OF TRUTH... Claire Ridgeway has everything--a handsome, hardworking husband of twelve years, a beautiful home in the suburbs, three delightful children she can raise without having to worry about money. Until one morning. Claire's lif...

  • Praying to A. L.

    Judith Caseley

    Sierra and her family are lost in grief over the death of her father, and she begins to confide in a picture of her hero, Abraham Lincoln, to give herself the peace of mind that her family can't quite provide yet....

  • The Major Comes to Texas

    K.N. Casper

    SHE'S GOT A MAJOR PROBLEM Rika Philips, investigative journalist and single mother, plans to have a laid-back summer visiting family in the sleepy Texas town of Coyote Springs. ENTER MAJOR ALEX HUSTON, UNITED STATES AIR FORCE So much ...

  • In a Heartbeat

    Carla Cassidy

    Caleb McMann embarked on the most emotional journey of his life, the search for the little girl who had received the ultimate gift -- a new heart. His daughter's heart. Hitting pay dirt, he temporarily moved next door to Erica Clemmons and her ch...

  • Remember the Night

    Linda Castillo

    UNDER SUSPICION... Michelle Pelletier had no alibi, a fuzzy memory and an utterly gorgeous detective on her doorstep accusing her of murder. Philip Betancourt wasn't buying her plea of innocence. After all, she'd confessed only half the truth.... ...

  • Captain Bob Sets Sail

    Joe Cepeda

  • Happy Birthday, America!

    Marsha Wilson Chall

    A family reunion, a parade, a Jell-O mold in the shape of the United States, fireworks-- it must be the Fourth of July! From picnic preparations to the final starburst floating down through a midnight blue sky, Marsha Wilson Chall and Guy Porfirio se...

  • The Dragon's Eye

    Joel Champetier

    A couple of hundred years in the future, there is a struggling Chinese colony on the planet of a double star not too far from Earth. One of their suns is the blinding and carcinogenic Dragon's Eye, which requires them to cover up and wear hats when ...

  • Wayfaring Strangers

    Tim Champlin

    Three different groups of people - Rob Merriman and Clay Collins, who are fleeing a murder charge, Trevor Sloan, whose father was murdered by Merriman, and Lisa Sizemore, who hopes to encounter Clay Collins again, embark on separate journeys to Calif...

  • Doggie Dreams

    Nancy Kapp Chapman

  • The Loss of the Ship Essex, Sunk by a Whale

    Owen Chase

    The gripping first-hand narrative of the whaling ship disaster that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick and informed Nathaniel Philbrick's monumental history, In the Heart of the Sea In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed by an angry spe...

  • The Jesus Shoes

    Sandra Chastain
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Bigdaddy's Outhouse

    Sandra Chastain
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • The Reunion

    Sandra Chastain
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Fortress of Dragons

    C.J. Cherryh

    THE WALLS BETWEEN THE WORLDS ARE DOWN, A NEW UNFOLDING HAS BEGUN.. . It started long ago, as a war between the shadowy Immortals that persists today, as the wizard Mauryl's Shaping confronts the Shadows summoned from Chaos. Tristen is that Shaping...

  • Pig and Crow

    Kay Chorao


    A magical tale about loneliness and friendship-with a happy ending.

    "Pig was lonely, but baking raised his spirits. He baked a lot."

    Crow loves Pig's baking, and in exchange for delicious desserts he gives Pig special gifts, such as...

  • In the Still of the Night

    Jill Churchill

    Lily Brewster and her brother Robert have all the appearances of being filthy rich, even though the family fortune went out the window with the crash of 1929. But thanks to great-uncle Horatio, who left them Grace and Favor Cottage, a huge mansion on...

  • Raptor Without a Cause

    Scott Ciencin

    Thanks to Bertram Phillips's crazy science fair project, Will Reilly's mind is catapulted back millions of years and into the body of a Raptor. But he is not alone. Three other students are dropped into the predator-infested swamp that is prehistoric...

  • Stardust on My Pillow

    Patsy Clairmont

    Best-selling Author and Beloved Storyteller Patsy Clairmont Takes an All-New Approach to Her Message of Encouragement, Healing, and Hope.From Boxed In, the story of a woman making a startling discovery about a distant aunt she never really knew, to C...

  • Fortune Like the Moon

    Alys Clare

    IN A SACRED PLACE, UNHOLY PASSIONS LEAD TO MURDER... Sunlight shone on the dark crimson blood, making it shine like a jewel...thus the body of Gunnora, a young nun from Hawkenlye Abbey, is found with her throat cut. Felons have been released from ...

  • The Impossible Bride

    Cathleen Clare
    in

    A trio of delightful Regency romances celebrates the joy of matrimony and includes Cathleen Clare's The Impossible Bride, in which a woman destined to be a spinster through family tradition must choose between being a dutiful daughter or elop...

  • Nailed by the Heart

    Simon Clark

    Chris and Ruth Stainforth are living their fantasy, turning the old Sea-fort at Manshead " purchased at a steal after the previous owners abandoned building work " into a hotel, and living on the coast with their son, David. But as work begins, a...

  • Dilemma

    Jon Cleary

    Australian detective Scobie Malone is asked to investigate what seems like an easy case: Norma Glaze has been strangled in her bedroom and her husband Ron has disappeared. What appears cut-and-dry on the surface is complicated by the fact that the ni...

  • The Janitor's Boy

    Andrew Clements

    IT WAS THE PERFECT CRIME Unfortunately, it also led to the perfect punishment. When Jack Rankin gets busted for defacing a school desk with a huge wad of disgusting, watermelon bubble gum, the principal sentences him to three weeks of after-school g...

  • The Secret Father's Day Present

    Andrew Clements

  • Sheltie Saves the Day!

    Peter Clover

    Sheltie's discovery of a treasure map could be just the thing to save Horseshoe Pond from being sold. But someone else is after the long-lost treasure, and it's up to Emma and Sheltie to find it first!...

  • Storm Warning

    Colleen Coble
    in

    The spark of love stands the test of time and is fanned to a flame as four couples are reunited. These contemporary novellas include four reunion celebrations -- high school, college, family, and organ donors -- that will tug at the tightest of heart...

  • Illusions of Victory

    Loren L. Coleman

    LET THE GAMES BEGIN... Solaris VII is known as the Game World--where entertainment is king, money is power, and MechWarriors from every corner of the Inner Sphere come to make war against one another in the ultimate sporting event. Michael Sear...

  • Goodbye Without Leaving

    Laurie Colwin

    An insightful domestic comedy, at once hilarious and extremely moving, Goodbye Without Leaving is the story of a woman's attempt to remain true to herself in a world of diminishing returns. As a bored graduate student, Geraldine Colshares is pluck...

  • Places in the Dark

    Thomas H. Cook

    It is autumn 1937 when a mystery woman appears in Port Alma, a sea village nestled on the chilly coast of Maine. A fragile, green-eyed beauty, the woman arrives with little more than the clothes on her back and a wealth of unspoken secrets. Before a ...

  • Miss Verey's Proposal

    Nicola Cornick

    Jane Verey was not going to marry Lord Philip Delahaye! He was rude, insulting, and a drunkard! And at the thought of spending a lifetime with him, Jane would even lower herself to deception in order to dissuade her boorish suitor. But Philip's h...

  • Don't Fry My Veeblax // Class Pet Catastrophe

    Bruce Coville

    ENDANGERED SPECIES When Percy the Mad Poet assigns Ms. Weintraub's class to write poems about their pets, Pleskit decides he should bring his Veeblax to school. Not a good idea! When the little shapeshifter frightens one of Pleskit's classmates, sh...

  • Shadrach Girl

    Joy Cowley

  • Seducing Alicia

    Tracy Cozzens

    AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE Top scientist Alicia Underwood has dedicated her every waking minute to life-saving research. Hiding her beauty -- and her broken heart -- behind a microscope feels much safer than taking a chance on a man who would only leave ...

  • Demolition Angel

    Robert Crais

    Carol Starkey is struggling to pick up the pieces of her former life as L.A.'s finest bomb squad technician. Fueled with liberal doses of alcohol and Tagamet, she's doing time as a Detective-2 with LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Section. Three years have...

  • The Cowboy's Hidden Agenda

    Kathleen Creighton

    CAPTOR ...OR LOVER? 0ne minute they'd been dancing ... the next Laurie Brown found herself abducted, with a charming renegade, Apache cowboy Johnny Bronco, as her jailer. She was angry at his deception, but more furious with her own body for wanti...

  • Don't the Moon Look Lonesome

    Stanley Crouch

    Stanley Crouch's gloriously bold first novel provides an intimate and epic portrait of America that breaks all the rules in crossing the boundaries of race, sex, and class. Blonde Carla from South Dakota is a jazz singer who has been around the block...

  • Angel Baby

    Pat Cummings

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    "Amanda Lynne," said her mother,"Come help me feed your baby brother.Grab that towel and Mr. Bear.Oops! There's oatmeal in his hair.Wipe off his face. Now look, you seeWhat an angel he can be"

    In Mother's eyes, Aman...

  • Kiss the Cook

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    JUST ADD ROMANCE... Bubbly, off-beat beauty Melanie Gibson has her hands full. Not only is she caring for her beloved grandmother, she's also working desperately to secure a bank loan for her fledgling gourmet catering service. The last thing sh...

  • The Cowgirl's Man

    Ruth Jean Dale

    BEAUTY Of course, Niki Keene had followed her sisters to Hard Knox, Texas--the Keene triplets were inseparable. And yes, she helped run their fledgling dude ranch. But when the townsfolk entered her in the Queen of the Cowgirls contest, she had to...

  • Best Man in Wyoming

    Margot Dalton

    Every man has his price! Lost Springs Ranch was famous for turning young mavericks into good men. So word that the ranch was in financial trouble sent a herd of loyal bachelors stampeding back to Wyoming -- to put themselves on the auction block!...

  • In Plain Sight

    Margot Dalton

    Welcome to Crystal Creek, Texas: If this is your first visit to the friendly ranching town in the Texas hill country, get ready to meet some unforgettable people. If you've been here before, you'll recognize old friends... and make some new ones....

  • Red, White, and Blue Murder

    Jeanne M. Dams

  • Kiss the Bride

    Amy Danicic

    Victoria Scott can't believe it's happening again. This must be a record -- no one has ever been jilted at the altar three times in a row by three different men. Now the pretty blue-eyed blonde has to face a party full of gossiping wedding guests whi...

  • Intimate Secrets

    B.J. Daniels

    SHE HAD THE KIND OF SECRET NO WOMAN COULD KEEP... When Josie O'Malley found herself pregnant, she knew her father would surely mete out the Texas law of the West -- and shoot the no 'count before he'd demand a shotgun wedding. What her dad didn't...

  • Her Sister's Child

    Lilian Darcy

    THE MOST PRECIOUS GIFT... Still reeling from learning her late sister had borne a child, lawyer Meg Jonas prepared to confront her niece's father with a custody suit. But Adam Callahan had a bombshell, too -- news even more shocking than Meg's ow...

  • Too Hot for Comfort

    Kay David

    Something was sizzling... and it wasn't steak... Sally Beaumont thought a call-in cooking show was a brilliant idea ... at the time. Unfortunately, listeners thought Too Hot for Comfort referred to the bedroom, not the kitchen! Suddenly Sally was th...

  • Land of Hungry Armadillos

    Lawrence David

    Gus won't share crayons and paper with his little sister, Wendy. So, after being sent to his room, Gus angrily wishes upon a star for his very own drawing supplies. A creature named Zub appears, ready to grant Gus his wish for the right trade. Why no...

  • Chicken Run

    Lawrence David

  • Armies of Light and Dark

    Peter David

    The Drakh have assaulted Earth with deadly Shadow technology--but the worst is yet to come in this stunning continuation of the Babylon 5 epic adventure... Centauri Prime has been infiltrated by malevolent allies of the Shadows, creatures known as...

  • Tanner Stakes His Claim

    Carolyn Davidson

    SHERIFF WES TANNER WAS WED TO THE LAW -- UNTIL HE MET ANGELENA ...a pregnant saloon singer with no memory of how she got that way. The shy beauty was in desperate need of a protector -- and Tanner was convinced he was the man for the job. Now, i...

  • Too Good to be True

    Maryjanice Davidson
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    The spark of love stands the test of time and is fanned to a flame as four couples are reunited. These contemporary novellas include four reunion celebrations -- high school, college, family, and organ donors -- that will tug at the tightest of heart...

  • The Sorceress & the Savage

    Saranne Dawson

    Set on a futuristic planet, this tale is about a charming sorceress who returns to her people's homeland and uncovers the love of a lifetime with her ancient enemy--a disarmingly dangerous and purely male savage. He stood amidst the stones, purely...

  • The Empty Chair

    Jeffery Deaver

    Lincoln Rhyme, the renowned criminalist from The Bone Collector and The Coffin Dancer, faces his ultimate opponent: a kidnapper and murderer dubbed the Insect Boy. But Rhyme is in for a surprise when he learns that catching a criminal is one thing .....

  • If Ever I Return Again

    Corinne Demas

    In 1856, twelve-year-old Celia Snow sets sail with her parents on her father's whaling ship and chronicles her subsequent adventures on the more than two-year voyage in a series of letters written to her cousin Abigail...

  • Did You Say Married?!

    Kathie DeNosky

    Chance Warren had no problem waking up next to auburn-haired Kristen Lassiter -- but discovering they were married Vegas-style was a completely different story. He'd rather eat his Stetson than be roped into marriage. But his cowboy code of honor...

  • Diamond Dust

    Anita Desai

    Upon the recent publication of Fasting, Feasting, critics raved about Anita Desai: "Desai is more than smart; she's an undeniable genius" (Washington Post Book World). The Wall Street Journal called Fasting, Feasting "poignant, penetrating . . . a sp...

  • Babu's Babushka

    Bronwen DeSena

  • The Trophy Wife

    Diana Diamond

    For the readers of Olivia Goldsmith and Susan Isaacs comes a dramatic - and fun - thriller with an over-the-top ending that will leave readers gasping.For twenty-five years Emily Childs has been the perfect wife. She has devoted herself completely t...

  • Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty

    Disney Book Group

  • Dinosaur: Junior Novel

    Disney Book Group

    Lost in the scary, dangerous aftermath of a devastating asteroid explosion, Aladar the iguanodon struggles to find a place where his friends and family can start again. A perfect and un-put-downable page-turner for middle graders....

  • From Whence We Come

    Debra Dixon
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Sweet Tea

    Debra Dixon
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Training for Trouble

    Franklin W. Dixon

    JUDO...FENCING...ARCHERY...BIATHLON...SOMEONE WANTS TO WIN -- AT ANY COST!The combat sports training facility has just opened in Bayport, and the Hardys are on hand to check it out. They can practice judo, fencing, archery, and biathlon, and meet asp...

  • Here Be Monsters

    Cameron Dokey

    EVIL TIMES TWO Something icky is brewing, as usual, in Sunnydale. This time it's in the form of two clean-cut, prep school-type boys. Buffy's suspicious from the start -- their fashion statement is so old it's dead, and it seems they have a slight...

  • Take a Chance

    Tina Donahue

    ONE BROKEN HEART, COMING RIGHT UP... Price Sloan will do anything for his billionaire boss, even romance -- then dump -- the guy's daughter. If all goes according to plan, the jilted heiress will then flee Las Vegas to get away from him -- and he...

  • Atlantis: Bermuda Triangle

    Greg Donegan

    Three areas on the Earth's surface defy explanation: the Bermuda Triangle, the Devil's Sea of Japan, and a small region of Cambodia. In Cambodia, the destructive force behind these mysteries returned to wreak havoc in our world. With bravery and l...

  • An English Murder

    Louise Doughty

    BLOOD RELATIONS When the bodies of the Cowpers, a reclusive middle-aged couple, are discovered brutally slaughtered--and their teenage daughter goes missing--the tiny village of Nether Bowston reels in shock. And as the townspeople mull over the f...

  • Cat in a Kiwi Con

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Midnight Louie, the purring P.I., is a jet-black sleuth making his twelfth outing in Carole Nelson Douglas's Cat in a Kiwi Con. While his human partner, public relations whiz Temple Barr, and her significant other, ex-magician Max Kinsella, are bespe...

  • Mojo Jojo's Rising

    Laura Dower

    The evil monkey, Mojo Jojo, kidnaps the Professor, and it's up to the Powerpuff Girls Blossom, Bubbles, and Buttercup, to figure out a way to save him before he is forced to fulfill Mojo Jojo's dangerous demand to grant him superpowers....

  • Bubble Trouble

    Laura Dower

    Tired of being treated like a baby because of her squeaky voice and slight fear of the dark, Bubbles strikes out to fight crime on her own, not realizing that Mojo set a trap for the supercharged Bubbles....

  • The Furthest Horizon: Sf Adventures to the Far Future

    Gardner Dozois

    It is the essence of science fiction to chart the possibilities of the future, but it takes the hand of a master to capture the farthest reaches of time--futures almost unimaginably distant. The Furthest Horizon collects seventeen of the most inventi...

  • Hunts in Dreams

    Tom Drury

    The award-winning author of The End of Vandalism pens “a gorgeous, inexplicably sad and funny novel about screwups trying to do better” (Salon).   In this mesmerizing novel, Tom Drury once again journeys to the quiet Midwest to spend an acti...

  • Safe House

    Diane Duane

    To save a prominent scientist and his son from a corrupt government's agents, the Net Force Explorers embark on a terrifying virtual hunt for their enemies--before it's too late....

  • I Take Thee, a Stranger

    Kristy Dykes
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    Lofty dreams of a new and better life lured untold thousands to America between 1775 and 1906. Among those “huddled masses yearning to be free” are nine displaced individuals dumped upon American soil and trying to figure out how to pu...

  • Forever and a Baby

    Margot Early

    DRU HAVERFORD HALL: Midwife. Pregnant. Widow. A MAN FROM THE PAST: Dru hasn't seen Ben Hall (a nephew of her dead husband's) in more than twenty years. But they share memories of a difficult and traumatic event in their childhood. PREGNANCY: ...

  • The Absentee

    Maria Edgeworth

    Just before coming of age, Lord Colambre, the sensitive hero of the novel, finds that his mother Lady Clonbrony's attempts to buy her way into the high society of London are only ridiculed, while his father, Lord Clonbrony, is in serious debt as a re...

  • Sun Hawk

    Cassie Edwards

    Sun Hawk was adopted by the Ojibwa after his family was slaughtered by a renegade Indian band. He soon rose in prominence and became chief of his tribe. Then a chance encounter with a beautiful woman -- in need of rescue from villianous trappers -- c...

  • Girl Reporter Stuck in Jam!

    Linda Ellerbee

    Girl Reporter Charged with First-Degree Nosiness

    Call the perky patrol! Real News editor Megan O'Connor has gone too far. She's started a new advice column called JAM ("Just Ask Megan"), and Casey Smith, girl reporter, is...

  • Drop-Dead Gorgeous

    Lyn Ellis

    SWEET TALKER # 5 -- MITCH McKEE Chief of Police Mitch McKee thinks he can handle just about anything -- until his first love Katie Sutherland, shows up, with a plan to raise some hell and a body made for sin..... Golden girl Katie Sutherland ha...

  • Adam's Kiss

    Patricia Ellis

    ONE KISS IS ALL IT TAKES... Inheriting a Wisconsin farm gave Amelia Appleberry plenty of room for her menagerie of pets. The rent-free house and a small legacy also allowed her time to think about her future and what direction she should take. But w...

  • The Keeper of the Stick

    Virginia Ellis
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • No More Mickey Mouse

    Virginia Ellis
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Cookie, the One-Eyed Horse

    Virginia Ellis
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    Come sit on the porch a spell. Let's talk about times gone by and folks we remember, about slow summer evenings and lightning bugs in a jar. Listen to the music of the creaky swing, hand-cranked ice cream, and cicadas chorusing in the background. Let...

  • Alfred's Party

    David Ellwand

  • Promise Breaker

    Robert Elmer

  • Peace Rebel

    Robert Elmer

    After escaping from a Jewish refugee ship, Dov, a Polish Jew, and Emily, the daughter of a British major, are taken to a Jewish kibbutz and are caught up in the danger and violence between the Jews, Arabs, and British in Palestine in 1947....

  • Big City Eyes

    Delia Ephron

    To keep her fifteen-year-old son safe from the everyday temptations of New York City"namely sex, drugs, and all-night clubs"single mom Lily Davis decides it’s time she and Sam move to Sakonnet Bay, a picturesque town on the Long Island coast wi...

  • A Parting Gift

    Ben Erickson

    Josh is 17 years old when he is enlisted to help an old man write his memoirs. Beautifully evoking ordinary life, A Parting Gift explores such fundamental puzzles as how to live one's life, the reason for existence and the nature of God....

  • The Case of the Saddle House Robbery

    John R. Erickson

    There’s a new dog on the ranch, and Hank is none too thrilled about it. Hank’s supposed to keep an eye on Jake the Birddog ‘til his owner shows up. Jake has other plans. Jake needs to get to Madagascar before someone makes off with his treasure...

  • Wife in Name Only

    Marcia Evanick

    THE BRIDE Sue Ellen Fabian is a beautician with a secret dream she knows will never come true in the small-town of Wild Rose, Iowa. Still, if she can't have a family of her own, she'll channel her love of children toward her cherished godsons. After...

  • The Elevator Family

    Douglas Evans

    For the Wilson family, only the best will do! So when they arrive at the San Francisco Hotel and discover that there are no regular rooms available, they decide to stay in the place that suits them best of all: a room that has its ups and its down --...

  • Hannah's Heart

    Marianne Evans

    After divorcing her no-good gambler husband, Hannah Webster is ready to start a new life with her six-year-old daughter. Too bad she's completely broke. Determined to support her family, Hannah applies for a better paying position in her company ...

  • Longarm and the Pistolero Princess

    Tabor Evans

    THE CONSUMMATE LAWMAN There's something rotten behind the scenes of Colonel Jasper Pettigrew's Wild West Show, and U.S. Deputy Marshal Custis Long is ready for his big entrance. The Bureau of Indian Affairs believes that the show's Indian sharpshoot...

  • Blessed Land

    Nancy J. Farrier
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    Lofty dreams of a new and better life lured untold thousands to America between 1775 and 1906. Among those “huddled masses yearning to be free” are nine displaced individuals dumped upon American soil and trying to figure out how to pu...

  • Greenwich

    Howard Fast

    Richard Castle is one of Greenwich, Connecticut's wealthiest residents. A former assistant secretary for Latin American Affairs, he has blood on his hands from his complicity in a number of murders half a world away. But tonight, not one of the peopl...

  • Black Belt

    Matt Faulkner

    Bushi is menaced by the bullies who call themselves Bullfrogs. One day, when he's running away from them, he hides in a dojo (karate school), where he sees a belt that once belonged to a karate master hanging on the wall. When he tries on the belt, h...

  • A Special Something

    Jan Fearnley

  • The Captain's Pearl

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    Bryce Trevarian loves one thing -- his life as the first mate on a clipper ship sailing the waters between Massachusetts and China. But his life gets much more complicated when a woman claiming to be his captain’s half-sister seeks their help. Beau...

  • Tall, Strong & Cool Under Fire

    Marie Ferrarella

    SPARKS! When Lisa Billings swept into Bryce Walker's fire station looking for her missing daughter, he was smitten with the enticing single mother. The handsome firefighter had long ago realized that white picket fences and parent-teacher meet...

  • The Case of the Cheerleading Camp Mystery

    Lisa Fiedler

    Mary-Kate and Ashley are psyched to spend a whole week at cheerleading camp! It looks as if Ashley has a serious shot at being chosen as team captain; but two days before tryouts Ashley's favorite pom-poms disappear! Is someone trying to sabotage Ash...

  • Contract Bridegroom

    Sandra Field

    Her convenient husband... Celia Scott was paying Jethro Lathem to be her husband -- so she was disconcerted to discover Jethro was actually a multimillionaire. Why had he agreed to marry -- if he didn't need the money...? All Celia had want...

  • His Desert Rose

    Liz Fielding

    THE SHEIK's CAPTIVE! Prince Hassan al Rashid has all the trappings of an international playboy. But beneath his designer suit lies the heart of a true desert prince. Determined to save his country from ruin, Hassan decides to attract the world's ...

  • White Oleander

    Janet Fitch

    The unforgettable story of a young woman's odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes on her journey to redemption.Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate ...

  • Cross Dressing

    Bill Fitzhugh

    Big-shot ad exec Dan Steele feels entitled to the best life has to offer -- even if he has to live way beyond his means to acquire it. But there's hope on the horizon. Dan has just stolen what's sure to be an award-winning idea for a multimillion-dol...

  • Let's Share

    Michelle Foerder

  • The Cursed Towers

    Kate Forsyth

    Magic--and Glory--Come with a Price.... A new age dawns in the kingdom of Eileanan, but not without resistance. Now the Righ, Lachlan the Winged, overturns his dead brother's decrees against witchcraft. But sixteen years of hatred and superstition...

  • The Marriage Bargain

    Susan Fox

    A husband in name only? Hallie had never even been in love -- now she must marry to save her home! She just needed a wedding certificate -- well, first she had to find a bridegroom. . . Wes Lansing was her neighbor and the ideal candidate. Only, what...

  • Beneath the Skin

    Nicci French

    Zoe. Jenny. Nadia. Three women of varying ages and backgrounds with little else in common but for one thing: Someone has sent them each a note informing them that they will be killed. A cruel joke? A hoax? The police don't seem to think so. Now, with...

  • Cinderella

    Sonali Fry

  • Bachelor By Design

    Kristin Gabriel

    Whether you're looking for lattes or love, you'll find both at Cafe Romeo... Building contractor Trace Callahan is determined to stay single-even if his aunt reads romance in his coffee grounds--until he finds the perfect woman. And that woman is de...

  • Light at Dusk

    Peter Gadol

    Will Law, a rising star in the U.S. Foreign Service, mysteriously walks away from his post and, in Paris, falls into the arms of his onetime lover Pedro. When the child of a mutual friend is kidnapped by a Nationalist gang, Will is reluctantly drawn ...

  • Twigboy

    Stephen Gammell

    Twigboy has everything a twig could wish for. . . except a best friend. Then one morning, when a rolling rock saves Twigboy from a gang of menacing bullies, he finds the friend he has always wanted. Together Twigboy and Rockwell have a fine time, vis...

  • Sky Fire

    Cliff Garnett

    DEATH FROM ABOVE. Even as the Communist Bloc recedes into memory, some of its most fanatical supporters in the aerospace community known as the Frateco have retreated to a hidden base in the mountains of central Asia...planning for the day when th...

  • Bull God

    Roberta Gellis

    MOMMA DOESN'T TALK ABOUT THAT PARTY ... ;-) When gods still walked the Earth, a king could pray for a sign and have a white bull rise from the sea to confirm his claim to the throne. But a god's price was high, and when Minos did not keep his prom...

  • Rice Is Life

    Rita Golden Gelman

    In Bali, as in many parts of the world, rice is more than just a staple food-rice is life!

    In Bali, life revolves around the planting and harvesting of rice. While eels slip through the mud and dragonflies flutter overhead, farmers plant see...

  • Mole in a Hole

    Rita Golden Gelman

    Little Mr. Mole is lonely as only a mole can be. He prefers his cozy, dark hole under an apple tree to the bright outdoors. But try as he might to have friends over, he finds that his hole is not well suited to the frog, the bee, and the mouse. Poor ...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Spooky Strikeout

    James Gelsey

    Scooby-Doo may be the next home run hero. But he’d rather be eating peanuts and Cracker Jack. Scooby and the gang are chasing clues in a haunted baseball stadium. And a spooky ghost has the home-team advantage. Batter up! The pressure is on, but th...