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  • His Witness, Her Child

    Ann Voss Peterson

    SHE COULDN'T SAY NO TO HIM She couldn't say no to him. Not when he vowed to protect her child with his life. For Dillon Reese was after a murderer and Jacqueline Schettler's child was his only witness. Now Jacqueline fought to keep from falling ha...

  • Wolverine's Revenge

    Jason Aaron

    Collects Wolverine (2010) #10-16. James Howlett, Logan, Weapon X, Patch. In his many lives, Wolverine has known great pain -- but never did he suffer more than at the hands of the devil himself in the depths of hell. Now, he takes on the cult that ...

  • Sam Capra's Last Chance

    Jeff Abbott

    Sam Capra's infant son has been kidnapped. The shadowy, powerful organization responsible for the abduction has thwarted Sam at every turn. But now Sam, an ex-CIA agent, has a potential lead: a picture of the woman who took his child from the clinic ...

  • The King's Blood

    Daniel Abraham

    WAR AND MADNESS CAST SHADOWS OVER THE LANDS DRAGONS ONCE RULED. Geder Palliako's star is rising. He is a hero of Antea, protector to the crown prince, and darling of the court. But storms from his past are gathering, and with them, a war that will...

  • Vortex

    Cherry Adair

    Cherry Adair plunges into a world of high-sea adventure and romance, where a long-lost treasure is a deadly lure -- and love is the most dangerous current of all… SWEPT AWAY Searching for a sunken ship off the coast of Peru, treasure hunter Log...

  • Secrets of the Henna Girl

    Sufiya Ahmed

    Life as Zeba knows it could be over for good . . .Zeba Khan is like any other sixteen-year-old girl: enjoying herself, waiting for exam results . . . and dreaming of the day she'll meet her one true love.Except her parents have other plans.In Pakista...

  • Prairie Evers

    Ellen Airgood

    A sweet, spirited ten-year-old embarks upon the adventure of first friendship in this sparkling debut Prairie Evers is finding that socialization isn't all it's cracked up to be. She's been homeschooled by her granny and has learned the most from ...

  • All of It

    Bev Aisbett

  • Running on Empty

    Don Aker

    Ethan Palmer just wants the car, and he's finally saved enough money to buy it. That is, until he accidentally rams his dad's Volvo into their garage. It's not like his lawyer/politician father can't afford to pay for the damages--after all, they do ...

  • Crossing the Line

    Malin Alegria

    In Dos Rios, Texas, life is all about borders -- and what happens when you cross the line. Nothing is simple in a border town like Dos Rios, in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Even for high school students Fabiola Garza and her younger sister Alex...

  • As Dead as it Gets

    Katie Alender

    It's been three months since Alexis helplessly witnessed Lydia Small's violent death, and all she wants is for her life to return to normal. But normal people don't see decaying bodies haunting photographs. Normal people don't have to deal with re...

  • Nightshifted

    Cassie Alexander

    From debut author Cassie Alexander comes a spectacular new urban fantasy series where working the nightshift can be a real nightmare. Nothing compares to being Nightshifted. Nursing school prepared Edie Spence for a lot of things. Burn victims? No...

  • Beauty to Die For

    Kim Alexis; Mindy Starns Clark

    Juliette Taylor walked away from her career as a supermodel twenty-five years ago. Now approaching fifty -- an emotionally complex milestone -- she co-owns a beauty supply company that makes skincare products for salons and spas. Her niche is pamperi...

  • Antiques Disposal

    Barbara Allan

    Autumn has descended on Serenity, that quiet, cozy town nestled in the crook of the mighty Mississippi River -- or, one might say, with crooks. For the rain and fog have also brought an undercurrent of chaos -- and it's not just because the fall colo...

  • The Last Real Cowboy

    Donna Alward

    From the moment he turned up late to her charity's meeting, placating everyone with a tip of his Stetson and a lazy smile, Angela Beck knew that Sam Diamond was going to be Trouble with a capital T. Angela is the prickliest woman Sam's ever met --...

  • Second-Chance Mother

    Donna Alward
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    No one holds a special place in the heart quite like a mother -- but moms need romance, too! This Mother's Day, enjoy four heartwarming contemporary romance novellas from Harlequin about the greatest gift of all: love!

    The Greatest Gift: A M...

  • Valtieri's Bride

    Caroline Anderson

    Swapping chef's whites for ivory silk, Lydia Fletcher's competing in a contest to see how far she can travel in a wedding dress! She's determined to win her beloved sister her dream wedding -- but a chance meeting with the gorgeous but guarded widowe...

  • First Time Lucky?

    Natalie Anderson

    She needed...sexperience! Forced to grow up too quickly, Roxie skipped too many all-important "firsts." Now, armed with a six-point checklist, she's ready to get going -- starting with the big one -- losing her "V" plates! A hu...

  • Swipe

    Evan Angler

    Everyone gets the Mark. It gives all the benefits of citizenship. Yet if getting the Mark is such a good thing, then why does it feel so wrong? Set in a future North America that is struggling to recover after famine and global war, Swipe follows...

  • Lucy in the Sky

    Anonymous

    A riveting first-person tale of addiction, in the tradition of Go Ask Alice and Jay's Journal. The author of this diary began journaling on her sixteenth birthday. She lived in an upper middle class neighborhood in Santa Monica with her mom, dad, ...

  • Keeper

    Kathi Appelt

    Blue moon, magic moon...good for wishing. To ten-year-old Keeper, this moon is her chance to fix all that has gone wrong . . . and so much has gone wrong. But she knows who can make things right again: Meggie Marie, her mermaid mother who swam ...

  • Magic Lantern

    Alex Archer

    In late 1700s Paris, a young but promising illusionist dabbles in the arcane art of phantasmagoria. But at his moment of greatest triumph -- unveiling a magical lantern said to open a door to the Chinese spirit world -- he is violently struck down by...

  • The Sins of the Father

    Jeffrey Archer

    Only days before Britain declares war on Germany, Harry Clifton, hoping to escape the consequences of long-buried family secrets, and forced to accept that his desire to marry Emma Barrington will never be fulfilled, has joined the Merchant Navy. Bu...

  • Demon's Bride

    Zoe Archer

    Hell To Pay Leo Bailey may have been born to poverty, but ruthless business sense and sparkling intelligence have made money worries a thing of his past. It doesn't hurt that the Devil himself has granted Leo the ability to read the future. But...

  • The First Adventures of Spider

    Joyce Cooper Arkhurst

    In West Africa, children love to listen to stories about Spider. He is a clever and crafty character. He loves to eat and he hates to work, and he plays tricks that get him into trouble. But he tries to be good as much as he can, and he is always lot...

  • Batman and Friends

    Jade Ashe

    This 32-page Level 2 reader follows Batman as he teams up with superheroes from across the DC Comics universe to battle classic DC Comics villains. Based on "Batman: The Brave and the Bold," the popular Cartoon Network series targeting boys ages 6-11...

  • Precious Bones

    Mika Ashley-Hollinger

    Meet ten-year-old Bones, whose playground is the Florida swamps, brimming with mystical witches, black bears, alligators and bobcats. Bones' father, Nolay, a Miccosukee Indian, is smart and mischievous. Her Mama, practical as corn bread, can see stra...

  • Robert B. Parker's Lullaby

    Ace Atkins

    When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie is gruff, street-smart, and wise beyond her years, left ...

  • Becoming Bayley

    Susan Auten

    Bayley Albrecht’s dream is to play soccer on BYU’s South Field. When she is invited to soccer camp the summer before her senior year in high school, she just knows she’s one step closer to her dream. Things get even better when she meets Matt M...

  • Hope from Persia

    Ben Avery

    Against the historical backdrop of the rise and fall of maneuvering kings and warring empires in 1 and 2 Kings and 1 and 2 Chronicles, the fictional series Kingdoms traces the saga of the dedicated advisor Iddo and his descendants. As he remains loya...

  • Battle Between

    Ben Avery

    Laurel’s ordinary life changes to extraordinary when cyborg flies shrink her down and take her on the adventure of saving the world. Racing through and against time to famous places of the past, learning about history and faith, Laurel discovers th...

  • A Nation Restored

    Ben Avery

    ENEMIES GATHER AS TIME RUNS SHORT With the support of a foreign king and divine favor, Nehemiah arrives in Jerusalem to rebuild its wall. While citizens join the effort to fortify the defenses, local governors who despise the idea of a reborn Jewis...

  • Final Face Off

    Ben Avery

    TIME EXPLODES ... AND THE BATTLE OF GOOD AND EVIL WILL BE DECIDED! Laurel must escape from prison to stop her enemy’s destructive master plan. In the process, she learns how Kairos came to be, and that decisions can have long-term consequences. W...

  • Into the Storm

    Avi

    Avi's suspenseful seafaring adventure ESCAPE FROM HOME continues in INTO THE STORM. Fifteen-year-old Maura and twelve-year-old Patrick O'Connell are finally free from the impoverished conditions of their small Irish village. Though they've made it...

  • The Battle of Blood and Ink

    Jared Axelrod; Steve Walker

    If you're visiting the flying city of Amperstam without the latest printing of The Lurker's Guide, you might as well be lost. This one-sheet is written, edited, and printed by Ashe, a girl raised on the streets of the flying city, and is dedicated to...

  • Dragon City

    James Axler

    AFTER THE END Humanity has been held in subjugation for thousands of years, manipulated by a cruel alien race. But what began as a game among self-styled gods evolved into an internecine power play. Divided by ego and greed, the enemy faced resist...

  • Palaces of Light

    James Axler

    LOST VISTAS Remnants of America's past are littered across the postapocalyptic landscape, but little remains of the predark ideals of law and order. Survival is a blood quest, and lethal force the means to power. Still, a handful retains their hum...

  • Wanted

    Heidi Ayarbe

    Sanctuary. A one-word text message: That's all Michal "Mike" Garcia needs to gather a crowd. Mike is a seventeen-year-old bookie, and Sanctuary is where she takes bets for anyone at Carson City High with enough cash. Her only rule: Never participa...

  • The Drowned Cities

    Paolo Bacigalupi

    Soldier boys emerged from the darkness. Guns gleamed dully. Bullet bandoliers and scars draped their bare chests. Ugly brands scored their faces. She knew why these soldier boys had come. She knew what they sought, and she knew, too, that if they fou...

  • The Princesses of Iowa

    M. Molly Backes

    What does it mean to do wrong, when no one punishes you? A smart and unflinching look at friendship, the nature of entitlement, and growing up in the heartland. Paige Sheridan has the perfect life. She's pretty, rich, and popular, and her spot on ...

  • Shift

    Em Bailey

    Olive Corbett is not crazy. Not anymore. She obediently takes her meds and stays under the radar at school. After “the incident,†Olive just wants to avoid any more trouble, so she knows the smartest thing is to stay clear of the new girl wh...

  • The Undertow

    Jo Baker

    The American debut of an enthralling new voice: a vivid, indelibly told work of fiction that follows four generations of a family against the backdrop of a tumultuous century -- a novel about inheritance, about fate and passion, and about what it mea...

  • The Proposal

    Mary Balogh

    Gwendoline, Lady Muir, has seen her share of tragedy, especially since a freak accident took her husband much too soon. Content in a quiet life with friends and family, the young widow has no desire to marry again. But when Hugo, Lord Trentham, scoop...

  • Patchwork

    Ellen Banda-Aaku

    Destined from birth to inhabit two very different worlds--that of her father, the wealthy Joseph Savakungo, and that of her mother, his mistress--this emotive tale takes us to the heart of a young girl's attempts to come to terms with her own identit...

  • Of Poseidon

    Anna Banks

    Galen, a Syrena prince, searches land for a girl he's heard can communicate with fish. It’s while Emma is on vacation at the beach that she meets Galen. Although their connection is immediate and powerful, Galen's not fully convinced that Emma's th...

  • Legacy Lost

    Anna Banks

    He is a mer-prince, she is the mermaid princess that his family orders him to marry so that their kingdoms unite. Grom dreads this arrangement, until he meets Nalia--both beautiful and smart, she’s everything he ever wanted. But just when their con...

  • Undone by Her Tender Touch

    Maya Banks

    Just one night? Yeah, right. Pippa Laingley should have known better. When an unplanned evening of passion with Cameron Hollingsworth results in unplanned pregnancy, she's at a crossroads. She knew going in that the enigmatic entrepreneur had built a...

  • The Cottage at Glass Beach

    Heather Barbieri

    Married to the youngest attorney general in Massachusetts state history, Nora Cunningham is a picture-perfect political wife and a doting mother. But her carefully constructed life falls to pieces when she, along with the rest of the world, learns of...

  • Pirate Princess

    Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen

    Princess Bea isn't like other princesses -- she prefers pirate ships above tea parties, the salty sea over silly dolls. But what's a landlocked princess to do? Ahoy, Captain Jack to the rescue! When the captain offers Bea a place aboard his ship, ...

  • Taken by Storm

    Jennifer Lynn Barnes

    In the eye of a storm stands Bryn, the alpha of the Cedar Ridge werewolf pack. She is young. Female. Human. Physically weaker than any werewolf, she could never survive a battle with another alpha, the strongest, fiercest, and canniest of his pack. ...

  • Ride with Buddy

    Craig Bartlett

  • The Inquisitor's Key

    Jefferson Bass

    While helping to excavate a newly unearthed chamber beneath the spectacular Palace of the Popes in Avignon, France, Miranda Lovelady -- protegee of Dr. Bill Brockton -- makes a startling discovery: a stone chest bearing an inscription declaring it ho...

  • Embrace of the Damned

    Anya Bast

    A damned Viking warrior. Centuries ago Broder Calderson committed murder. As punishment, he was given over to the dominion of Loki, the Trickster God, made part of the Brotherhood of the Damned and condemned to an immortal life of battle against t...

  • Snivel

    Dale E. Basye

    Dale E. Basye sends Milton and Marlo to Snivel, the circle reserved for crybabies, for their latest hilarious escapade in Heck. Snivel is a camp -- a bummer camp -- a dismal place where it's always raining, and Unhappy Campers are besieged by swarms ...

  • The Widow of Saunders Creek

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    A grief that knows no boundary. A love without any limit. A need that doesn't end at death. Corrie Saunders grew up in a life of privilege. But she gave it all up for Jarrod, her Army husband, a man she knew was a hero when she vowed to spend ...

  • Petal's Story

    Battersea Dogs Home

    Gemma is the youngest of a big family - what with her parents plus SIX older brothers and sisters, there isn't room for anyone else. But then they meet Petal, the adorable dachshund puppy from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home, who quickly makes herself ...

  • Jessie's Story

    Battersea Dogs Home

    Izzy isn't looking forward to spending her school holidays on her aunt and uncle's farm. But when she finds out that Jessie - a fluffy Old English sheepdog puppy from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home - will be joining them too, her summer suddenly starts l...

  • Little Dog, Lost

    Marion Dane Bauer

    From Newbery Honoree Marion Dane Bauer comes the tale of a boy who needs a dog, and a dog who needs a boy -- a match made in heaven, if only the two can meet. Mark is a boy who needs a dog. But he can't get his mom on board with his plan. Buddy...

  • Dinosaur Thunder

    Marion Dane Bauer

    An imaginative story of a little boy who conquers his fear of thunder! When lightning flares in the faraway sky, and clouds growl like lions waking, big brother Chad is thrilled by the coming storm. But not little Brannon. He looks for a place to ...

  • Jersey Angel

    Beth Ann Bauman

    It's the summer before senior year and the alluring Angel is ready to have fun. She's not like her best friend, Inggy, who has a steady boyfriend, good grades, and college plans. Angel isn't sure what she wants to do yet, but she has confidence and e...

  • Are You My Mother?

    Alison Bechdel

    From the best-selling author of "Fun Home," Time magazine’s No. 1 Book of the Year, a brilliantly told graphic memoir of Alison Bechdel becoming the artist her mother wanted to be. Alison Bechdel’s "Fun Home" was a pop culture and literary phe...

  • Kepler's Dream

    Juliet Bell

    A young girl makes her fractured family whole again with the help of a very special book When eleven-year-old Ella's mother has to be hospitalized to undergo a dangerous cancer treatment, Ella spends the summer at "Broken Family Camp" with her ecc...

  • Madeline's Tea Party

    Ludwig Bemelmans

    In this story Madeline hosts a fabulously dainty tea party. Her naughty friend Pepito makes an appearance as well, and havoc ensues! ...

  • The Prince Who Fell from the Sky

    John Claude Bemis

    In Casseomae's world, the wolves rule the Forest, and the Forest is everywhere. The animals tell stories of the Skinless Ones, whose cities and roads once covered the earth, but the Skinless disappeared long ago. Casseomae is content to live alon...

  • Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis - Volume 3

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Avengers #18-24 & #24.1. Tony Stark's fortune is gone. Captain America's leadership has been questioned. Thor is dead. And Norman Osborn is back and united with A.I.M., Superia and Madame Hydra. Now, the Avengers who deposed him are the ...

  • Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Volume 4: Death of Spider-Man

    Brian Michael Bendis

    Collects Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #156-160. Can Peter summon the necessary power, and bear the weight of responsibility for one more battle? His Aunt May is there. So is his girlfriend Mary Jane Watson. As Spider-Man fights on with a seemingly mor...

  • Fall from Grace

    Charles Benoit

    "I need you to steal something for me." Grace always has a plan. There's her plan to get famous, her plan to get rich, and -- above all -- her plan to have fun. Sawyer has plenty of plans, too. Plans made for him by his mother, his father, his ...

  • Magic Kitten Double Trouble

    Sue Bentley

    Kim can't wait for her cousin Mia and her cousin's Siamese cat, Bibi to visit. But when they turn up neither cousin nor cat are half as nice as Kim remembers and proceed to make Kim's summer really horrible. But when Kim discovers a tiny silver tabby...

  • The Paragon Prison

    Derek Benz; J.S. Lewis

    A new world means a world of trouble... The Paragon Engine, a machine that can unlock portals to any dimension throughout the universe, is the most powerful and dangerous invention in Templar history-and the Grey Griffins have just been pulled t...

  • The Puzzler's Mansion

    Eric Berlin

    Winston Breen is back with more puzzle fun! Puzzle fanatic Winston Breen and his best friends receive a once-in-a-lifetime invitation--to a weekend of riddles, games and puzzles at a fabulous mansion! Famous musician Richard Overton is giving away...

  • The Water Children

    Anne Berry

    WHAT WILL DESTROY ONE CHILD WILL BE THE MAKING OF ANOTHER. From the icy banks of a secluded country pond to the fevered core of a historic London heat wave and immersion in an abandoned underwater village in the Tuscan mountains, four young people...

  • The Columbus Affair

    Steve Berry

    He was called by many names -- Columb, Colom, Colon -- but we know him as Christopher Columbus. Many questions about him exist: Where was he born, raised, and educated? Where did he die? How did he discover the New World? None have ever been prop...

  • Within the Dark Hills

    Sian Ann Bessey

    Desperate to escape the unwanted advances of a cruel master, chambermaid Annie Morgan runs miles through stormy weather to find sanctuary at the home of Reverend and Mrs. Davies. Without family and tainted by scandal, she’s in dire need of a new id...

  • Mammoth Books presents The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society

    John Betancourt

    Mr Pendleton-Smythe, an excluded schoolboy turned military man, visits Holmes surreptitiously having been hiding out of fear for his life. Holmes quickly discovers the unfortunate outcomes of this man's adolescent decisions when he discovers Pendleto...

  • What She Left Behind

    Tracy Bilen

    In this suspenseful thriller, Sara and her mother are going to secretly escape her abusive father -- when her mother mysteriously disappears. Sara and her mom have a plan to finally escape Sara's abusive father. But when her mom doesn't show up as...

  • A Dark Anatomy

    Robin Blake

    In 1740s England, the roots of evil run deep... The year is 1740. George II is on the throne, but England’s remoter provinces remain largely a law unto themselves. In Lancashire a grim discovery has been made: a squire’s wife, Dolores Brockle...

  • Welcome to the World, Zooborns!

    Andrew Bleiman

    Give a warm welcome to the awww-some ZooBorns animal babies!Get to know the adorable ZooBorns in this Ready-to-Read storybook that’s chock-full of cute and cuddly baby zoo animals. With a familiar refrain of “Welcome to the world!†on every pag...

  • Happy Like Soccer

    Maribeth Boelts

    A warmhearted story about a young girl who finds a way to bring together the two things that make her most happy- soccer and her family. Nothing makes Sierra happy like soccer. Her shoes have flames as she spins the ball down the spread-out sea of...

  • The Sumerton Women

    D.L. Bogdan

    Orphaned at age eight, Lady Cecily Burkhart becomes the ward of Harold Pierce, Earl of Sumerton. The charming Lord Hal and his wife, Lady Grace, immediately welcome sweet-natured Cecily as one of their own. With Brey, their young son, Cecily develops...

  • Summer of No Regrets

    Katherine Grace Bond

    This was the summer that would change my life. No more being what everyone expected. No more doing what everyone else wanted. So when Luke came into my life, I decided to keep him a secret. Maybe he as a dead -- ringer for notorious Hollywood b...

  • Exit Plan

    Larry Bond

    Jerry Mitchell is on exercises off the coast of Pakistan when his submarine, the USS Michigan, is ordered to a rendezvous off the Iranian coast. Once there, disembarked SEALs---experts in seaborne commando operations---are to extract two Iranian nati...

  • Madhattan Mystery

    John J. Bonk

    All set to spend their summer in New York City with their aunt while their father is honeymooning with his new wife, Lexi and her younger brother Kevin’s snoozy summer plans turn into high-stakes adventure when Lexi overhears a plot to steal Cleopa...

  • Struck

    Jennifer Bosworth

    Mia Price is a lightning addict. She's survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her. Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia f...

  • Real Mermaids Don't Hold Their Breath

    Helene Boudreau

    Normal is Never Coming Back Jade is totally confused. As in, "will this be a leg-day or a tail-day?" kind of confused. Even worse, it's been forever since her first kiss with Luke and now -- nothing. Not even a text message. Sigh. But Jade d...

  • Are You a Cow?

    Sandra Boynton

    Embrace identity with this brand-new board book from the beloved and bestselling Sandra Boynton! Are you a COW? Are you a DOG? Are you a DUCK? Are you a FROG? A clever chicken narrates a playful inquiry in this charming and hilarious s...

  • Getaway

    Lisa Brackmann

    Michelle Mason tells herself she's on vacation. A brief stay in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Vallarta. It's a chance to figure out her next move after the unexpected death of her banker husband, who's left behind a scandal and a pile of debt. Th...

  • A Bride's Dilemma in Friendship, Tennessee

    Diana Lesire Brandmeyer

    Journey to Tennessee at the end of the Civil War. Heaven Wharton has been left in charge of her father's farm, but weeks of facing marauders has finally taken its toll. Meaning to fire into the air, she accidently shoots a man charging the house. Sho...

  • Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders

    Gyles Brandreth

    Oscar Wilde and the Vatican Murders opens in 1892, as an exhausted Arthur Conan Doyle retires to a spa in Germany with a suitcase full of fan mail. But his rest cure does not go as planned. The first person he encounters is Oscar Wilde, and the two f...

  • The Devil's Laughter

    Peter Brandvold

    Lou Prophet loves to keep beautiful women company. But when the invitation comes from Miss Louisa Bonaventure, the Vengeance Queen, he finds himself intimate with hot lead instead of her warm female form. Louisa’s got him riding the brutal Mexican ...

  • Heartstealer

    Grace Brannigan

    Jacie Turner, a professional stunt woman, is afraid she's lost her edge. Following an aerial stunt gone wrong and then her fiancé running out on her, she's determined to restore her pride and her life. Needing time away from well-meaning family, she...

  • Doc Holliday

    Matt Braun

    He came from the American South, a gentleman by breeding, a dentist by training, a gambler by vocation. But as Dr. John H. Holliday, a man fleeing his tragic past, drifted across the West, living among some of the roughest men on the frontier, word s...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Defends Her Own

    Emily Brightwell

    BAD BUSINESS When the general office manager of Sutcliffe Manufacturing is murdered, no one is really surprised. Ronald Dearman was anything but a dear man. The tyrannical bully had more than enough enemies to go around. But who hated him enough t...

  • Until the Darkness Comes

    Kevin Brooks

    PI John Craine has come to Hale Island to get away from it all - the memories and the guilt, and a past that just won't let go. But within hours he stumbles across the dead body of a young girl on the beach. When the police arrive the body has inexpl...

  • Solace

    Andrew Brown

    The body of a Muslim boy is found in a synagogue, mutilated in what looks like a ritual sacrifice, and Inspector Eberard Februarie is called in to solve the case. As news of the murder quickly becomes public, a storm of religious violence threatens t...

  • Coldsleep Lullaby

    Andrew Brown

    "A finely crafted novel with an unstoppable plot." -- Top BillingIn the sleepy Cape Winelands of South Africa the body of a young woman is found drifting in a river, and Detective Eberard Februarie is called in to investigate the case. It doesn't he...

  • How Do You Feel?

    Anthony Browne

    What better feeling than opening a new book from Anthony Browne? A simple look at familiar emotions for the very young. How do you feel? Sometimes you feel happy, sometimes sad. At times you feel curious, but that may be followed by feeling . . . ...

  • Secret Avengers, Volume 1: Mission to Mars

    Ed Brubaker

    Collects Secret Avengers #1-5. Who are the Secret Avengers? Are they a covert team of heroes working the darkest corners of the globe to stop disaster? Are they part-spy, part-super hero? Are they Steve Rogers' newest idea to save the world…or all...

  • Little White Dogs Can't Jump

    Whatley Bruce

    Smudge and his family have got a problem to solve - Smudge's legs are so short that he can't jump into the car! One of the children in the family devises a series of ingenious ways of getting Smudge into the car, but none of them work. Finally, it is...

  • Sisters of Holmes County Omnibus

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    Enjoy the pleasure of owning the complete Sisters of Holmes County series all under one cover. Be able to follow the Hostettler family’s mysterious struggle against an unseen enemy from start to finish. Along the way, watch as love triumphs out of ...

  • They Eat Puppies, Don't They?

    Christopher Buckley

    In an attempt to gain congressional approval for a top-secret weapons system, Washington lobbyist "Bird" McIntyre teams up with sexy, outspoken neocon Angel Templeton to pit the American public against the Chinese. When Bird fails to uncover an authe...

  • The Greedy Python

    Richard Buckley

    A classic tale of a greedy snake, with illustrations from Eric Carle, is now available as a Ready-to-Read. In this humorous story about manners, respect, and friendship, a greedy python eats every creature he comes across in the jungle. From a tin...

  • Spider-Man: Season One

    Cullen Bunn

    The greatest origin story of all time, retold for a new generation. Read the earliest adventures of the Amazing Spider-Man....

  • Popular

    Jessica Burkhart

    Pressure threatens Lauren's popularity as she shines in the spotlight of the Canterwood Crest series. Popular is Lauren's status, at last. She's fitting in at Canterwood Crest Academy, dating a trÈs cute boy, and working hard as she prepares for h...

  • Transformation

    Rogers Ninaltowski Burner

    HIS WIFE HELD PRISONER, THE WORLD HELD HOSTAGE A baby's birth should be a time of joy for a young couple. But as Elena’s due date approaches, she is taken captive by the Hand of the Morningstar and goes into labor while Michael fights for her res...

  • This Is How

    Augusten Burroughs

  • Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal

    Grace Burrowes

    LADY MAGGIE WINDHAM HAS SECRETS And she's been perfectly capable of keeping them...until now. When she's threatened with exposure, she turns to investigator Benjamin Hazlit to keep catastrophe at bay. But Maggie herself intrigues Benjamin more tha...

  • Avengers Assemble - Volume 3

    Kurt Busiek

    Collects Avengers (1998) 24-34, Annual 2000, Thunderbolts #42-44. Earth's Mightiest Heroes vs. Marvel's Most Wanted, and more! The crisis of the Eighth Day pits the Avengers against the unstoppable force that is the Juggernaut, while Triathlon's fir...

  • Emma

    Nancy Butler

    Marvel continues its bestselling graphic novel adaptations of Jane Austen's classics! Award-winning author Nancy Butler, adapter of Marvel's bestselling adaptations Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, brings you another Jane Austen classic...

  • Bridge of Time

    Lewis Buzbee

    Best friends Lee Jones and Joan Lee have a lot more in common besides their names. On the eve of their class trip, they each learn their parents are getting divorced. Ugh. The class trip is a dud, so Lee and Joan steal away to talk. What follows is a...

  • X-Men: The Hidden Years - Volume 1

    John Byrne

    The first twelve issues of John Byrne's fan-favorite X-project are collected in one titanic tome for the first time! This fan favorite series chronicles the adventures of Marvel's original team of merry mutants after their Silver Age saga had run its...

  • Underworld

    Meg Cabot

    From #1 New York Times bestselling author Meg Cabot, the dark reimagining of the Persephone myth begun in ABANDON continues ... into the Underworld. Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn't dead. Not this time. But she is being held against ...

  • Black Dawn

    Rachel Caine

    When a tide of ferocious draug, the vampire's deadliest enemy, floods Morganville, its eclectic mix of residents must fight to save their town from devastation. Chaos has taken over the quiet college town of Morganville as the threat of the draug rap...

  • Act of Terror

    Marc Cameron

    From coast to coast, our nation is witnessing a new wave of terror. Suicide bombers incite blind panic and paralyzing fear. A flight attendant tries to crash an airliner. A police officer opens fire on fans in a stadium. And at CIA headquarters, a De...

  • A Dog's Journey

    W. Bruce Cameron

    Buddy is a good dog. After searching for his purpose through several eventful lives, Buddy is sure that he has found and fulfilled it. Yet as he watches curious baby Clarity get into dangerous mischief, he is certain that this little girl is very...

  • Invincible

    Jack Campbell

    New York Times bestselling author Jack Cambell's space saga hits lightspeed with an action-packed story of interstellar war. Admiral John "Black Jack" Geary earned his rank after being revived from cryogenic sleep to lead the Alliance to victory a...

  • The Grass Harp

    Truman Capote

    Set on the outskirts of a small Southern town, "The Grass Harp" tells the story of three endearing misfits -- an orphaned boy and two whimsical old ladies -- who one day take up residence in a tree house. As they pass sweet yet hazardous hours in a c...

  • My First Gymnastics Class

    Alyssa Satin Capucilli

    Little ones can learn gymnastics on the go with this highly interactive book featuring reassuring text, striking photographs, and foldout pages! Playful text and striking photographs take readers through their very first gymnastics class! This pa...

  • Heroes of the Surf

    Elisa Carbone

    Adventure on the high seas! WHAM! The Pliny jolts as if Black Beard himself has just punched her in the belly. Pedro and I slide and smack--bang--into the bulwark. "We're grounded," cries the first mate. "We've hit a shoal!" In May of 1882, ...

  • The Chemistry of Tears

    Peter Carey

    An automaton, a man and a woman who can never meet, two stories of love -- all are brought to incandescent life in this hauntingly moving novel from one of the finest writers of our time. London 2010: Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburn...

  • The Mariner's Daughter and Doomed Knight

    A.J. Carlisle

    AN ANCIENT EVIL RETURNS TO THE DESERT LANDS OF THE CRUSADES, & ONLY THE TEENAGERS CLARINDA & RÃG CAN PREVENT THE COMING OF THE FINAL TWILIGHT! The Codex Lacrimae, a book of ancient evil, is loose again in the world. It’s the 12th Century, a...

  • Summer of the Wolves

    Polly Carlson-Voiles

    Julie of the Wolves meets Hatchet in this middle grade novel that follows orphaned twelve-year-old Nika and her seven-year-old brother Randall as they leave a California foster home to visit a long-lost uncle in the wilderness lake country of Norther...

  • Footsoldiers

    Michael Carroll

    Thunder, a hero from the Super Human series, reveals the truth behind one of the world's most famous superhero teams in this short story....

  • Planet Tad

    Tim Carvell

    Tad has an agenda: Survive seventh grade. He also wants to: grow a mustache, get girls to notice him, and do a kickflip on his skateboard. . . . But those are not the main reasons he started a blog. Tad just has a lot of important thoughts he w...

  • Dreaming Ivy

    Rhonda Lee Carver

    Can a past love become their future? The Thorntons' mansion is full of timeless secrets waiting to be unraveled. When small-town journalist Ivy and ghost hunter Max are stuck in the forgotten, dilapidated house, they find more than just a haunting. I...

  • The Beast of Baskerville

    A.G. Cascone

    Everyone in Baskerville knows about Jimmy Leeds. In fact, Adam Riley and his friends have been telling scary stories about Jimmy for years -- stories they don't really believe. After all, how can anyone believe in a half-human beast with horns and ho...

  • The Reckoning

    Jane Casey

    To the public, he’s a hero: a brutal killer who targets sex offenders. To most of London’s police force, he’s the suspect in a gruesome, time-consuming case to be avoided. But to Detective Constable Maeve Kerrigan, he’s a murderer -- no matte...

  • Bitterblue

    Kristin Cashore

    Welcome to a glorious realm of mystery, magic, heroism and danger. In a world where a small percentage of people have an extreme skill called a Grace, King Leck's Grace allowed him to tell lies that everyone believed. When Bitterblue became que...

  • Dead Time

    Anne Cassidy

    When Rose was twelve, her mother and stepfather went out for dinner and never came back. Now seventeen, she lives with her grandmother and goes to school in London. She’s always wondered about her stepbrother, Joshua, whom she only lived with brief...

  • A Brewing Storm

    Richard Castle

    Part One of the Derrick Storm trilogy from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Castle, available exclusively as an eBook short. When Derrick Storm needed to leave the CIA, he couldn't just retire. He had to fake his own death. So when his...

  • Our Human

    Adam-Troy Castro

    On a savage backwater world, the last ragged survivors of an expedition to hunt down the infamous war criminal known as The Beast Magrison set off into an inhospitable wilderness in search of the alien village that may be sheltering this beast. The h...

  • Brownies and Broomsticks

    Bailey Cates

    Easy-Bake Coven Katie Lightfoot's tired of loafing around as the assistant manager of an Ohio bakery. So when her aunt Lucy and uncle Ben open a bakery in Savannah's quaint downtown district and ask Katie to join them, she enthusiastically agrees....

  • Rest in Pizza

    Chris Cavender

    Cozy towns like Timber Ridge, North Carolina -- the home of Eleanor Swift's delectable pizzeria, A Slice of Delight -- don't take well to prima donna celebrities. So no one is particularly pleased when TV host and famous chef Antonio Benet roars into...

  • The Tenant and The Motive

    Javier Cercas; Anne McLean

    The Tenant and The Motive are two darkly humorous novellas from the award-winning author of Soldiers of Salamis. The Tenant is the mischievous story of Mario Rota, a linguistics professor whose life starts to unravel after he twists his ankle while o...

  • The Selfish Crocodile Book of Numbers

    Faustin Charles

    What better way to get to grips with numbers than in the company of the selfish crocodile! Zebras, frogs and butterflies bring the pages to life in this fabulous first counting book, with lots to count--from one crocodile to ten cheeky monkeys. ...

  • Alien Attack

    Max Chase

    Welcome to the Intergalactic Force Academy -- IF for short -- the training ground for an elite young fighting team sworn to protect and defend the galaxy. Peri is a first-year student who has been selected for a rare unsupervised exercise in space. H...

  • Deadly Mission

    Max Chase

    Welcome to the Intergalactic Force Academy -- IF for short -- the training ground for an elite young fighting team sworn to protect and defend the galaxy. Tthe action heats up when Peri and Diesel side with the Meigworians in the new intergalactic...

  • The Story of a Nobody

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    Combining psychological detail with a strong sense of place and time, this tale bears all the hallmarks of Chekhov's genius, and perfectly captures the political and social tensions of its day A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a g...

  • The Year of the Book

    Andrea Cheng

    In Chinese, peng you means friend. But in any language, all Anna knows for certain is that friendship is complicated. When Anna needs company, she turns to her books. Whether traveling through A Wrinkle in Time, or peering over My Side of the Moun...

  • The Invitation

    Anne Cherian

    A moving story that redefines the meaning of family, friendship, and success among a group of first-generation Indian immigrants. When Vikram invites three of his college friends to his son's graduation from MIT, they accept out of obligation and cu...

  • We Completely Must Go to London

    Lauren Child

  • Living with Max

    Maxwell Chloe

    Heartbreakingly honest, moving and inspiring, Chloe Maxwell and Mat Rogers share their journey of discovery with their autistic son, Max. 'It feels terrible for your son to want to hurt you so bad that you bleed, and to look into his beautiful eyes a...

  • The Manhood of Edward Robinson

    Agatha Christie

    Sane and sensible Edward Robinson secretly dreams of fast cars, adventurous women, and danger, but his fiancée, Maud, keeps him grounded in reality. When Edward wins money in a newspaper competition, he immediately buys the sleek red car of his drea...

  • The Shadow on the Glass

    Agatha Christie

    At Mr. and Mrs. Unkerton's party in Greenway's House, Mr. Satterthwaite learns of a haunted window: no matter how many times it is replaced, it always contains the image of a gentleman in a plumed hat. When gunshots are heard, Satterthwaite finds tha...

  • The Tragedy at Marsdon Manor

    Agatha Christie

    An aging, heavily-insured country squire whose estate is in financial ruin is thought to have committed suicide. Hercule Poirot investigates, in the guise of a representative of the victim's insurance company, to uncover the identity of the real murd...

  • Mr. Eastwood's Adventure // The Mystery of the Spanish Shawl

    Agatha Christie

    Mystery writer Anthony Eastwood is lured to the crime scene of a faked murder, where two individuals masquerading as police officers arrest him and charge him for murder. As the phony police officers escort Mr. Eastwood home, the true goal of the mas...

  • Finessing the King

    Agatha Christie

    A personal advertisement written in code attracts the attention of Tuppence Beresford. When Tuppence suspects that the code involves the Three Arts Ball, she persuades Tommy to attend dressed in costume. Tuppence's suspicions prove to be correct when...

  • The Idol House of Astarte

    Agatha Christie

    Years ago, a murder was committed on the night of a costume party thrown by Sir Richard Haydon. Sir Richard's estate contained the grove of Astarte, which held a mysterious stone summer house rumored to have been the site of numerous sacred rites in ...

  • Ingots of Gold

    Agatha Christie

    Raymond West approaches the Tuesday Night Club after his visit to John Newman, a friend who is searching for the Spanish ship Otranto which was shipwrecked off the coast of Cornwall. When John Newman disappears for days, upon his return he claims tha...

  • The Coming of Mr. Quin

    Agatha Christie

    It's dark and cold, with snow drifts everywhere, when Mr. Harley Quin appears at the door of Royston Hall under the premise that his car has broken down. Once inside, he finds a small party celebrating the new year. Quin remarks that he knew t...

  • The Case of the Middle-Aged Wife

    Agatha Christie

    Maria Packington suspects her husband of having an affair. In an attempt to revitalize her marriage, she responds to an ad from Mr. Parker Pyne--who promises to provide solutions to unhappiness. Maria's life soon undergoes a rapid transformation…...

  • The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan

    Agatha Christie

    Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings are on holiday at the opulent Grand Metropolitan Hotel in Brighton, where they meet the wife of a wealthy stockbroker. As they discuss the jewels worn by Mrs. Opalsen, the great detective relates his experiences in...

  • The Blood-Stained Pavement

    Agatha Christie

    Joyce Lempiere tells the Tuesday Night Club of an incident that occurred five years ago when she was vacationing at a small inn on the Cornish coast. She was painting a picture of the front of the inn, including details of wet bathing suits drying on...

  • Jane in Search of a Job

    Agatha Christie

    Jane Cleveland is in desperate need of a job, and when she sees an ad for a woman of her description needed to impersonate a grand duchess, she cannot believe her luck. The royal retainers tell Jane that the job will be dangerous because attempts hav...

  • The Adventure of the Sinister Stranger

    Agatha Christie

    Tommy and Tuppence Beresford wait anxiously for a letter from Russia that may contain information of international importance hidden beneath the stamp. The letter is anticipated by more than just the Beresfords, and they must fight to keep the inform...

  • The Plymouth Express

    Agatha Christie

    When Ebenezer Halliday's daughter's body is found stuffed underneath a train seat, the wealthy American industrialist hires Hercule Poirot to locate the murderer and over one hundred thousand dollars' worth of stolen jewels....

  • The Case of the Discontented Soldier

    Agatha Christie

    When civilian life proves too dull for Major Wilbrahams, he contacts Parker Pyne to escape his boredom. Pyne's assistant arranges a chance meeting with the beautiful Freda Clegg and the two join forces, but on leaving for Africa they encounter more t...

  • The King of Clubs

    Agatha Christie

    A dead heiress on a train, a murdered recluse, a wealthy playboy slain at a costume ball are but a few of the unfortunate victims of confounding crimes committed in the pages of Agatha Christie’s The Under Dog and Other Stories, a superio...

  • The Adventure of the Western Star

    Agatha Christie

    Movie star Mary Marvell consults with Hercule Poirot after receiving threatening letters that warn her to return her diamond, the famous "Western Star," to its rightful owner. But who does own the diamond, and is it even the genuine article?...

  • Motive v. Opportunity

    Agatha Christie

    At a meeting of the Tuesday Night Club, attorney Mr. Petherick relates an incident involving the late Simon Clode, a wealthy client. Obsessed by his granddaughter's death, Clode turned to spiritualist Eurydice Spragg to contact her in the afterlife, ...

  • The Tuesday Night Club

    Agatha Christie

    After a supper of canned lobster and a dessert of canned trifle, three people become ill and Mrs Jones is found dead. Although a bout of botulism is suspected, the Tuesday Night Club is keen to investigate further… ...

  • The Kidnapped Prime Minister

    Agatha Christie

    Just as World War I is drawing to an end, the prime minister is kidnapped. It is down to Hercule Poirot to locate him before a crucial conference, to avert an international crisis. ...

  • The Rose of Sarifal

    Paulina Claiborne

    Cloaked in mist and layered in magic, the denizens of Moonshae Isles move in secret circles as capricious rulers vie for power. High Lady Ordalf wanted her niece, the princess known as the Rose of Sarifal, dead. Instead, the young regent was sec...

  • City of Lost Souls

    Cassandra Clare

    What price is too high to pay, even for love? Plunge into the fifth installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked†(Entertainment Weekly). The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments c...

  • X-Men: Mutant Genesis 2.0

    Chris Claremont

    Magneto's future, Wolverine's past - and the X-Men in between! From Asteroid M to Weapon X, Marvel's mightiest mutants are getting brainwashed wherever they go! Magneto acquires a new army, the Hand revives an old enemy, and it's up to the X-Men to s...

  • Guilt by Degrees

    Marcia Clark

    Someone has been watching D.A. Rachel Knight--someone who's Rachel's equal in brains, but with more malicious intentions. It began when a near-impossible case fell into Rachel's lap, the suspectless homicide of a homeless man. In the face of courthou...

  • Hollyweird

    Terri Clark

    Aly King is about to fall for the fallen My best friend, Des, and I totally freaked when we won the contest to meet THE Dakota Danvers in Hollywood. But now we're finding out he's SO not the angel everyone believes him to be. In fact, Dakota is th...

  • Alex and the Amazing Time Machine

    Rich Cohen

    Alex Trumble is a pretty ordinary kid -- except for the fact that his IQ borders on genius, and he loves to read books on vortexes and time travel. But when two angry hit men kidnap his big brother Steven, Alex's life changes fast. Inventing a time m...

  • The Old Man and the Wasteland

    Nick Cole

    Part Hemingway, part Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a suspenseful odyssey into the dark heart of the post-apocalyptic American Southwest. Forty years after the destruction of civilization, human beings are reduced to salvaging the ruins of a broken w...

  • Monster Knock Knocks

    William Cole

    Knock knock jokes make humorously awful puns on the names of monsters and words associated with horror stories. ...

  • Lady, Go Die!

    Max Allan Collins; Mickey Spillane

    When Hammer and Velda go on vacation to a Long Island beach town, Hammer becomes embroiled in the mystery of a missing well-known New York party girl who lives nearby. When the woman turns up naked - and dead - astride the statue of a horse in the to...

  • What Janie Saw

    Caroline B. Cooney

    This suspenseful ebook original features the main characters from Caroline B. Cooney's hugely successful Janie series, which began with The Face on the Milk Carton. Readers will be enthralled to discover what still matters to Janie, who was kidnapped...

  • The Sea Witch

    Stephen Coonts

    Stephen Coonts weaves three unforgettable tales of men and women at war, with the sort of dramatic military action and undercover technology for which he is known. Included in this collection are: The Sea Witch... When young Dauntless dive-bom...

  • 365 Ways to Get You Writing

    Jane Cooper

  • Killing Yourself To Survive

    David Corbett

    Seven stories of desperation and death from a master of crime fiction Sterling Associates recruited Satcher in the killing fields of Iraq. A marine who learned the brutalities and frustrations of war in Fallujah, Satcher was ideal for Sterling, a ...

  • Vicious Deep

    Zoraida Cordova

    HE WAS CLAIMED BY THE SEA...AND NOW IT WANTS HIM BACK Tristan Hart was gone for three days. Sucked out to sea in a tidal wave and spit back ashore at Coney Island with no memory of what happened. Now his dreams are haunted by a terrifying silver m...

  • Welcome, Caller, This Is Chloe

    Shelley Coriell

    Big-hearted Chloe Camden is the queen of her universe until her best friend shreds her reputation and her school counselor axes her junior independent study project. Chloe is forced to take on a meaningful project in order to pass, and so she joins h...

  • The Last Plantagenet

    Thomas B. Costain

    There are periods in history when things are seen dimly as through a veil. Such were the years from 1377 to 1485. During this time the Chronicles were silent and the sources of information few. And yet these were eventful years, filled with important...

  • Hanging Off Jefferson's Nose

    Tina Nichols Coury

    Growing up in the shadow of Mount RushmoreLincoln Borglum was a young boy when his father, the great sculptor Gutzon Borglum, suggested to a group of South Dakota businessmen that he should carve the faces of four presidents into a side of a mountain...

  • The Blind Fisherman

    Mia Couto

    "The Blind Fisherman" is a compilation of Mia Couto's early short stories--as first presented to the English-speaking world in his two collections: "Voices Made Night" (1990) and "Every Man is a Race" (1994). It was in these collections that Mia Cout...

  • Heidi Heckelbeck and the Cookie Contest

    Wanda Coven

    Heidi Heckelbeck mixes up a magical cookie concoction in a new whimsically witchy adventure that's perfect for beginning readers. Heidi can't wait to enter the famous Heckelbeck Chocolate Chunk Cookies in the annual cookie contest at Brewster Elem...

  • Thwarting Cupid

    Lori Crawford

    When good cupids go bad. . . Carissa Langston is a perfectly lovely woman, so she can't figure out why she's always been single. The higher ups at Cupid Headquarters are wondering the same thing. What none of them knows is that Quincy, her as...

  • The Last Princess

    Galaxy Craze

    Happily ever after is a thing of the past. A series of natural disasters has decimated the earth. Cut off from the rest of the world, England is a dark place. The sun rarely shines, food is scarce, and groups of criminals roam the woods, searching...

  • Why Does Batman Carry Shark Repellent?: And Other Amazing Comic Book Trivia!

    Brian Cronin

    Outrageous, fascinating and bizarre facts from every corner of the comic book universeWhat comic book artist was the recipient of an on-stage thank you from Paul McCartney and an on-air apology from Johnny Carson? What superhero got his powers by bei...

  • The Girl in the Clockwork Collar

    Kady Cross

    1897 In New York City, life has never been more thrilling -- or more dangerous Sixteen-year-old Finley Jayne and her "straynge band of mysfits" have journeyed from London to America to rescue their friend Jasper, hauled off by bounty hunters. But...

  • Heart of Brass

    Kate Cross

    Arden is an undercover agent for one of the most powerful organizations of this steam powered world -- the Wardens of the Realm -- a group with extraordinary abilities, dedicated to protecting England against evil. Arden Grey enjoys a life most w...

  • Guilt Trip

    Judith Cutler

    The local antiques fair Lina Townend and Griff Tripp set up stall at may be a disaster, but when a local director swoops in and begs Griff to star in her latest production, Lina hopes it will take Griff's mind off a problem he won't share. Lina's own...

  • The Fire Ascending

    Chris D'Lacey

    On Earth, at the battle of Scuffenbury Hill, time has been suspended. Dragons and their natural enemies, the Ix, are trapped in a bitter, unresolved conflict. But at the dawn of history, something is working to change the past -- and the future. A my...

  • Trouble at Trident Academy

    Debbie Dadey

    In this start to a new series starring Shelly the mermaid, a classroom conflict is no fun -- even when school is 20,000 leagues under the sea. It's MerGirl Shelly Siren's first day at a new school, and she is nervous from the tip of her head to th...

  • Battle of the Best Friends

    Debbie Dadey

    In this splashy new Mermaid Tale, a megapopular boy band is set to perform at an undersea celebration -- but what if a mean girl keeps Shelly from joining in the fun? Echo, Shelly Siren's best friend, is doing tail flips because she's going to see...

  • Penguin Says ''Please''

    Michael Dahl

    Penguin is very demanding and must learn to use his manners and say please. ...

  • Hippo Says ''Excuse Me''

    Michael Dahl

    Hippo uses his manners to help a little chick. ...

  • Mouse Says ''Sorry''

    Michael Dahl

    Mouse is very careless as he runs home for supper. He must use his manners and say sorry as he makes his way home. ...

  • Beauty

    Lisa Daily

    What's it like to be the most beautiful girl in the world? Molly desperately wants to be beautiful. And that's what she tells Dharma, the mysterious portrait artist who sketches her face at the town fair just minutes after she's humiliated in fron...

  • Birthdays Around the World

    Jay Dale

  • Can You See It?

    Jay Dale

  • African Love Story Lov Air Exp

    Sheldrick Daphne

    Daphne Sheldrick's best-selling love story of romance, life and elephants, An African Love Story: Love, Life and Elephants is an incredible story from Africa's greatest living conservationist. A typical day for Daphne involves rescuing baby elephants...

  • A Small Fortune

    Rosie Dastgir

    An entertaining debut novel that explores the lives of an extended Pakistani family -- all with a gently humorous touch and fond but wry eye. Harris, the presumed patriarch of his large extended family in both England and Pakistan, has unexpected...

  • Fable: Jack of Blades

    Peter David

    Fable Heroes, available May 2, 2012, on Xbox Live Arcade, gathers a range of heroes and villains from across the epic videogame saga -- and the Fable companion eBook series delves even deeper into their greatest triumphs, darkest secrets, and never-b...

  • Fable: Reaver

    Peter David

    Fable Heroes, available May 2, 2012, on Xbox Live Arcade, gathers a range of heroes and villains from across the epic videogame saga -- and the Fable companion eBook series delves even deeper into their greatest triumphs, darkest secrets, and never-b...

  • X-Factor - Volume 13: Hard Labor

    Peter David

    Collects X-Factor (2005) #220-224. Rahne Sinclair has a baby on the way - but instead of a calm and peaceful birth, there's a hard labor coming her way. Haunted by her actions as a member of Wolverine's X-Force, Rahne returned to X-Factor in search o...