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New Books List: 520 titles

  • The Prince of Egypt Brother in Egypt

    David A. Adler

    A chapter book that includes illustrations from the new animated film tells the story of Moses and Rameses, growing up as princes of Egypt, who share adventure, mischief, and brotherly love until Moses learns of his true identity. Original. Movie tie...

  • Log Cabin Patch

    Ginny Aiken
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  • Chile Death

    Susan Wittig Albert

    China Bayles is looking forward to the annual chili cook-off in Pecan Springs. And when the event arrives, she takes along her fiance, giving both of them a nice break from China's visiting (i.e., meddling) mother. But then cook-off judge Jerry Jeff ...

  • Ben Morgan's Mistake

    Victoria Aldridge

    Saving Emma Johnson... Ben Morgan couldn't help but admire Emma -- not only was she beautiful to him, but she had to be the most resourceful female he had ever known. Being left destitute in the New Zealand outback, she had befriended a local trib...

  • Flutter By, Butterfly

    Liza Alexander

    A butterfly flutters by and startles Elmo and a chain reaction of silliness is set into motion. A block tower crashes, books topple, cookies get crunched. Finally things settle down, and then another butterfly flutters by...  ...

  • Giddy-Up!

    Liza Alexander

    Elmo anticipates his first pony ride--until he sees how big the pony looks! But Elmo thinks it through and realizes that there is nothing to worry about. So he climbs into the saddle and says, "Giddy-Up!"  ...

  • A Mother for Jeffrey

    Trisha Alexander

    THE CHILD SHE ALWAYS WANTED Once, Leslie Marlowe had had high hopes for her future -- a man to love and lots of babies. But when those dreams faded, she tried to convince herself that she didn't need a family of her own. Then eleven-year-old Jeffr...

  • Second Sight

    Beth Amos

    You can't always see... An acclaimed investigative journalist, Marlie Kaplan was headed for stardom until a story she was working on undercover went terribly wrong, leaving her blind. But through experimental surgery, she miraculously gets back par...

  • Shifting into Overdrive

    C.J. Anders

    The road calls... Joey and Jen totally need a Dawson-free zone, so when Jen's wealthy cousin invites her to an elegant Sweet Sixteen party in New York City, Jen coaxes a reluctant Joey along. Meanwhile, Dawson and Pacey are hot on their trail, dy...

  • Cherish

    Catherine Anderson

    He Longed For... Race Spencer's gunslinging days are far behind him. He is now a respectable rancher, but it's a solitary life. But then Fate lead Race to an earthbound angel--lost and alone, the sole survivor of an outlaw attack--and even his har...

  • The Monkey Tree

    Janet S. Anderson

    Fourteen-year-old Susanna, stung by the betrayal of a friend, retreats deep within herself--and to the room of her great-uncle who has not left the house in twenty years--until a determined neighbor draws her out....

  • Starfarers

    Poul Anderson

    When evidence of an advanced civilization is discovered by SETT astronomers, an expedition into the far reaches of the galaxy is planned and an eclectic team of scientists is chosen to make the trip. But because the origin of the alien signals is tho...

  • Hoka! Hoka! Hoka!

    Poul Anderson; Gordon R. Dickson

    The Interbeing League had been formed to make contact with new intelligent races in the galaxy and offer them membership. But when the League encountered the Hokas, furry creatures strongly resembling the teddy bears of Earth, the League’s agent, A...

  • Runaways

    V.C. Andrews

    "All for one and one for all" was the girls' motto. In the grim foster home for orphans run by Louise and Gordon Tooey, at least Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly had each other. Calling themselves "sisters," together they could forget the past a...

  • The Big Book of Families

    Catherine Anholt; Laurence Anholt

    A brightly colored celebration of families of all kinds includes aunts, uncles, sisters, brothers, mothers, fathers, grannies, grandads, houses, traditions, history, struggles, hugs, and ultimately, love....

  • What I Like

    Laurence Anholt

  • Beyond the Pale

    Mark Anthony

    Reality is unraveling in the dusty Colorado town of Castle City. Strange symbols are carved into storefronts, and ancient legends come to life. Saloonkeeper Travis Wilder is handed an ornate iron box and a mysterious mission. And in Denver, where dea...

  • Dream a Little Dream

    Piers Anthony

    Nola and Tina are both girls with problems. They don't know each other yet, though they will; each is a Creator, with the magical ability to turn dreams into reality. That would be a powerful gift--if either knew that she had it. And this world is ha...

  • The Solution

    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 e...

  • Out of Time

    Chris Archer

    In the ninth book of this middle grade sci-fi series, teens time travel to find the scientist who can help them save their home planet.   Ethan, Ashley, Toni, and Jack used to be ordinary junior high schoolers in a small Wisconsin town. Until th...

  • The Collected Short Stories

    Jeffrey Archer

    International bestselling author Jeffrey Archer has enthralled readers with his riveting suspense, surprise denouements, and unforgettable storylines. Now Archer's three acclaimed collections of short fiction are brought together in one irresistible ...

  • Outback Mistress

    Lindsay Armstrong

    He wanted her on his terms! Olivia was shocked to find a gorgeous stranger unconscious on her property -- especially as he'd lost his memory and only knew his name was Benedict! Equally disturbing was the powerful chemistry between Olivia and ...

  • He's My Husband!

    Lindsay Armstrong

    Marriage in jeopardy Nicola was married to Brett Harcourt -- but only just! She had some strong competition -- his first wife wanted a reconciliation, and his new female colleague had designs on him, too. Nicola had the law on her side, but did...

  • Loyal Disloyalty

    Jeffrey Ashford

    Jeffrey Ashford, the master of crime fiction, gives us a compelling portrait of an ordinary man under extraordinary pressure, in Loyal Disloyalty.When a woman is lured into a car and raped, Richard Adeane begins to suspect his brother-in-law. Should ...

  • Perloo the Bold

    Avi

    A MOST UNLIKELY LEADER.... A scholarly, shy member of the rabbit-like Montmers, Perloo is content sipping myrtle tea and reading his history books in his warm burrow. Until the day Perloo's quiet life is interrupted by a mysterious summons from the...

  • Jim Aylesworth's Book of Bedtime Stories

    Jim Aylesworth

    A collection of four of the author's best bedtime stories includes Two Terrible Frights, Teddy Bear Tears, The Completed Hickory-Dickory-Dock, and The Good-Night Kiss, with new introductions for each....

  • Lair of the Lizard

    E.C. Ayres

    E.C. Ayers's Hour of the Manatee won the St. Martin's Press/Private Eye Writers of America award, and his subsequent P.I. novels, all with an environmental undertone, have garnered nothing but high marks from readers. In the fourth outing for Ayers's...

  • Finn

    Katharine Jay Bacon

    Fifteen-year-old Finn, mute after being traumatized in a family plane crash in which he was the only survivor, is living with his grandmother in Vermont when he and his friend Julia discover drug dealers using an abandoned dry well as a drop for thei...

  • Sheepdog in the Snow

    Ben M. Baglio

    All animals and animal lovers are welcome at the Animal Ark Veterinary Clinic. At Animal Ark, Mandy Hope helps her parents treat animals of all shapes and sizes. Even outside the clinic, Mandy can't resist helping any animal in need. It's Chr...

  • The Cowboy and the Debutante

    Stella Bagwell

    THE RICH RANCHER'S DAUGHTER Bright lights, big cities and a brazenly unfaithful fiance had fatigued Anna Murdock Sanders and left her longing for home. So she returned to the Bar M, swearing off men forever! But then she met Miguel Chavez.... A...

  • Master Georgie

    Beryl Bainbridge

    The highly acclaimed New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 1998 and Booker Prize Nominee that reinvents the historical novel from Beryl Bainbridge, the distinguished author of The Birthday Boys and Every Man For Himself. A misadventure in a brot...

  • Nell

    Jeanette Baker

    The lives and fortunes of two star-crossed sets of lovers intertwine across the centuries as wealthy Jillian Fitzgerald and poor Frankie Maguire are torn apart by prison, while Irish princess Nell Fitzgerald confronts the violence of Henry VIII's cou...

  • The Simple Truth

    David Baldacci

    "SIZZLING" David Baldacci's novels have been called "sizzling" (USA Today) and "superior" (Houston Chronicle). Now Baldacci is back, with the story of a death row inmate, a Supreme Court clerk, and a crime that is costing people their lives... TERRI...

  • The Last Waltz

    Mary Balogh

    A Bride to Be Lady Christina was still in mourning, though it had been well over a year. And while she hadn't loved her late husband, she had grown accustomed to his money and his Puritan ways. But all this would change with the arrival of the...

  • Thirty-Day Fiance

    Leanne Banks

    THE MAN OF HER DREAMS... The moment young Nick Nolan had rescued her from her bully brother, Olivia Polnecek knew he was destined to be a true-blue hero--and the man she would always love. But over the years Nick's knight-in-shining-armor nature n...

  • Moses in Egypt

    Lynne Reid Banks

  • Lost Acres Bride

    Lynna Banning

    A CATTLE DRIVE WAS NO PLACE FOR A CITY GIRL But Serene Hull was no wilting townish miss, Carleton Kearney realized. She was a woman with a fiery spirit, who could easily warm the winter in his soul. Yet was he ready for a springtime with a woman ...

  • Another World

    Pat Barker

    Plagued by nightmarish memories of the trenches where he saw his brother die, Nick's grandfather Gordie lays dying as Nick struggles to keep the peace in his increasingly fractious home. As Nick's suburban family loses control over their world, Nick...

  • Outings for the Mice of Brambly Hedge

    Jill Barklem

  • Baby Mice in Brambly Hedge

    Jill Barklem

  • Magic Handbook

    Patricia Barnes-Svarney

    Offers fans of the television program tricks, rules of the magic of everyday life, and do-it-yourself experiments that reveal such wonders as how scents can help one prepare for tests and the secret behind goosebumps...

  • Wild

    Jill Barnett

    Shunned by superstitious villagers, Teleri of the Woods learned early that the world is a frightening place. For years she has lived hidden away in a dark forest, where her only friends are the creatures of the woods. But when she finds a gravely w...

  • Slow Talkin' Texan

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    MR. NOVEMBER The Problem: Sexy single dad Porter Wyman was a Texan born and bred, but this tycoon's fortune was no help in his current predicament. If he didn't get some assistance with baby Matthew soon, he was going to run for the hills. Th...

  • Black Gold

    Fred Bean


    The Osage Indians lost their ancestral freedom on a windswept reservation in Oklahoma. Now, in the Roaring Twenties, the land is spewing black gold; oil has been found, and every Osage owns a share of the rights. Soon Osage tribal members are bei...

  • Life and Times of R. Crumb: Comments from Contemporaries

    Monte Beauchamp

    Enhanced by his illustrations, the life of the underground comix artist is celebrated through a collection of contributions from some of today's well-known filmmakers, film critics, publishers, and writers, accompanied by R. Crumb's distinctive artwo...

  • The Spirited Miss Caroline

    Kathleen Beck

    Miss Caroline Garvey had no sooner given up on love and sworn her whole heart to restoring her ancestral home when Fate threatened to snatch it straight out from under her. Caroline's cousin, the rightful heir to Monksend Manor, was forced to mar...

  • Link

    Walt Becker

    The final piece has been found. In a tiny cave in Central Africa, paleoanthropologist Samantha Colby has discovered the skeleton of what might be the long-sought missing link between ape and man. But the ancient bones raise more questions then they a...

  • The National Pageant

    Cherie Bennett

    The fifth installment of the series that follows the regional competitions as experienced by its teen finalists finds them preparing for the day they have all been waiting for, on which only one of them will win the title of Miss Teen Spirit. Origina...

  • Searching for David's Heart

    Cherie Bennett

  • Watchdog

    Laurien Berenson

    It's autumn in Connecticut. Melanie Travis has just started a new job, and with the added excitement of showing her standard poodle, Faith, in the fall shows, the last thing she wants is to become embroiled in yet another of her brother Frank's money...

  • Ten True Animal Rescues

    Jeanne Betancourt

    A gorilla takes care of a little boy who falls into her cage at the zoo; a cat saves an infant''s life; a dolphin rescues a drowning woman. These and more exciting true stories offer the best in real-life drama for animal lovers....

  • Forbidden Magic

    Jo Beverley

    A Christmas Miracle Left penniless after her parents' death, Meg Gillingham was in dire straits. Her cruel landlord threatened to turn her and her siblings out of their home by the New Year -- unless she surrendered her sister to his lecherous...

  • Peacemaker Bounty

    Clifford Blair

  • October Moon

    Toni Blair

    ENCHANTED EVENING. Julie hated Halloween - and that included everything from costumes to haunted houses. But a bad break up has her feeling down, so her best friend forces to go to a wild Halloween party where she encounters the most aggressive, an...

  • Red Grass River

    James Carlos Blake

    James Carlos Blake is a masterful chronicler of the restless, outcast, the lawless, and the lonelyheart. His previous novel, In the Rogue Blood, was awarded the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction. Now he has written a powerful and rousing histo...

  • Second Time Around

    Andrea Boeshaar

    Kori McDonald's life is in order. She has finished college, become a certified medical assistant, and is engaged to be married-again. She thinks she has moved on from her relationship with Brent McDonald-until the day he appears in her life for the f...

  • Midwives

    Chris Bohjalian

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • This modern classic from the author of The Flight Attendant is a compulsively readable novel that explores questions of human responsibility that are as fundamental to our society now as they were when the book was f...

  • Gone Bamboo

    Anthony Bourdain

    A hilarious crime thriller by Anthony Bourdain, the New York Times bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential and host of Parts Unknown on CNN.

    CIA-trained assassin Henry Denard is looking for the good life when he retires with his wife, F...

  • Bouncy Baby Bunny

    Joan Bowden

  • Rancher's Lady

    Charlene Bowen

    Amy O'Brien vows to do anything in her...

  • The Man Who Whispered

    Rick Boyer

    Convicted drug smuggler Christos Ramos once made headlines for refusing to divulge the whereabouts of his buried cache. Now sixty and nearing death, he wants to come clean. But his last whispered words to Doc Adams leave much to the imagination: "The...

  • T.C. Boyle Stories

    T.C. Boyle / T. Coraghessan Boyle

    A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • The first volume of collected short fiction from the award"winning author of The Tortilla Curtain, featuring sixty-eight “varied, clever, and delightful” (The Chicago Tribune) short stories, including seve...

  • The Gauntlet

    Max Brand

    The friendship of Red Harrigan and Black MacTee is legendary in the Old West -- until they both fall in love with Kate Malone in "The Blackness of MacTee." In "The Gauntlet, " wastrel Joseph Stillwater Larrimee has struck it rich and is on his way to...

  • Once a Marshal

    Peter Brandvold

    Remembering his glorious past life as a lawman, Ben Stillman finds himself having to live up to his own legendary status when the admiring son of an old friend comes to him for help in defeating the ranchers who had killed the boy's father. Original....

  • Mr. Trelawney's Proposal

    Mary Brendan

    Miss Rebecca Nash had found refuge and a kind landlord in Robin, Lord Rumsden. She'd needed both five years ago, when she'd lost her parents and fiance, and her brother Simon had disappeared with her dowry. Now, suddenly, Robin was dead, and his heir...

  • The Long-Winded Lady

    Maeve Brennan

    From 1954 to 1981, Maeve Brennan wrote for The New Yorker's "Talk of the Town" department under the pen name "The Long"Winded Lady." Her unforgettable sketches -- prose snapshots of life in small restaurants, cheap hotels, and crowded streets of Ti...

  • A Love Through Time

    Terri Brisbin

    Modern Scotland. To Maggie Hobbs, Scotland was a dream vacation. Finally she could relax and get a new start on life. For Alex MacKendimen, Scotland was a way to free himself from work and explore his family history. Or so they thought...until a myst...

  • Green Rider

    Kristen Britain

    THE MAGICAL MESSENGER On her long journey home from school after a fight which will surely lead to her expulsion, Karigan G'ladheon ponders her future as she trudges through the immense forest called Green Cloak. But her thoughts are interrupted by ...

  • Each a Piece

    Bruce Brooks

  • Reed

    Bruce Brooks

  • Falling From Grace

    Patricia Brooks

    Death in a safe harbor On an island shaped like a dolphin, in a tiny hamlet called Grace, Molly Piper has escaped her past: as a Chicago cop and a victim of a violent crime. With her boyfriend giving her enough space--he's a police chief on the ma...

  • Train to Timbuctoo

    Margaret Wise Brown

    Back in print for a new generation, a rollicking, rhyming train tale from the author of Goodnight Moon!From Kalamazoo to Timbuctoo, from Timbuctoo and back!This beloved story from 1951, about a big train and a little train that have just left Kalamaz...

  • His Business, Her Baby

    Dixie Browning

    Tired of the business rat race, tycoon Harrison Lawless exchanges his corporate world for a simpler existence, only to find himself roughing it in a remote cabin with a feisty, extremely pregnant Cleo Barnes. Original....

  • Body Language

    Margaret Brownley

    WHO IS THAT HERO FOR HIRE? Rick Westley: When a letter bomb destroys his office he figures it's a fluke--who'd want to hurt him? He isn't exactly the action/adventure hero type. Nevertheless, Rick finds himself assigned a bodyguard whose own bo...

  • Dragon

    Steven Brust

    Marching through mud just isn't as much fun as they say. After years of surviving in Adrilankha by practicing the trade I know best--killing people for a living--suddenly I'm in the last place any self-respecting assassin wants to be: the army. Wo...

  • Christmas Treasure

    Bonnie Bryant

    Christmas is coming and Max wants Horse Wise to get in the holiday spirit. He announces that they are going to have Secret Santas, but there's a catch: You can't give something; you have to do something. It sounds like fun, until they draw names. Lis...

  • Reining In

    Bonnie Bryant

    Will Lisa leave Virginia for sunny California? She's been there for most of the summer and she likes it. There's a lot less pressure on her, and she's working on a TV show loaded with good-looking guys, romance, and horses. What more could she want? ...

  • The Doublet Affair

    Fiona Buckley

    Now, the young, widowed lady-in-waiting is back, once again defending her mistress, Queen Elizabeth I--this time from a plot to overthrow the Queen and usurp her throne, a task that will test Ursula's sharp wits and investigative skills to the limits...

  • Flying Leap

    Judy Budnitz

    These shocking, brilliant, and ultimately beautiful stories chronicle the lives of ordinary people in extraordinary situations. Each tale is laced with enough wit, humor, and imagination to keep the reader constantly amazed. From the young son pers...

  • Love Be Mine

    Shirlee Busbee

    Taught to be a refined French lady, Micaela Dupree despises the crude Americans whose government just purchased Louisiana Territory. She especially resents interloper Hugh Lancaster, a new partner in her family's business. As for Hugh, he thinks ...

  • Benjamin McFadden and the Robot Babysitter

    Timothy Bush

    "Drawing or writing, Bush's pen is loaded with wit."

    Welcome to the spaceship home of Benjamin McFadden--where tennis is played in spacesuits, books are read in zero gravity, and robot babysitters have eight arms and are preprogrammed to send...

  • Feeling Safe

    Sheila Byrne

  • The Gallowsman

    Will Cade

    Moving to Colorado after losing his family, former Union spy Ben Woolard is haunted by memories of the man he helped bring to the gallows, who surprisingly turns up alive in Woolard's new home town. Original....

  • Live and Let Spy

    Elizabeth Cage

    The three fabulous femmes, aka the Spy Girls, are making their way around Eastern Europe, where a young ballerina has been kidnapped and replaced by a dangerous double. This dancing queen is downright deadly -- and she won’t stop pirouetting until ...

  • Doorstep Daddy

    Linda Cajio

    Richard Holiday: Single, sexy--and up to his ears in dirty diapers and raging hormones, toddlers and teenagers and kids in between! Becoming an instant single dad put a major crimp in Richard Holiday's bachelor style. But the liveliness of three h...

  • Ka

    Roberto Calasso

    In "the very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written" (The New Republic) Calasso plunges Western readers into the mind of ancient India. He begins with a mystery: Why is the most important god in the Rg Veda, the oldest of I...

  • Race Ready

    T.B. Calhoun

    Half the fun of the NASCAR stock car circuit is traveling from race to race. Kin, Laura, and Laptop Travis are enjoying a scenic vacation trip with the NASCAR caravan—until a sneak attack on a steep mountain road leads to a perilous showdown wit...

  • The Dark Room

    Julia Cameron

  • Hear No Evil

    Bethany Campbell

    Fittingly, it began with a phone call. Her grandmother had fallen. Her grandmother was in the hospital. Her grandmother needed Eden to come home and take care of business. Eden knew the deal. "Business" meant Grandma Jessie's phone line. Jessie wa...

  • A Home for Melanie

    Joanna Campbell

    Is Melanie leaving the only place that's ever felt like home?

    Melanie Graham expected Whitebrook Farm to be the most boring place in America. And she thought her cousin, Christina Reese, would be a snob.

    But after an entire summer at Whit...

  • Call to Arms...

    Diane Carey

    Based on "Call to Arms" written by Ira Steven Behr & Robert Hewitt Wolfe "A Time to Stand" written by Ira Steven Behr & Hans Beimler "Sons and Daughters" written by Bradley Thompson & David Weddle "Rocks and Shoals" written by Ron...

  • Crime of Silence

    Patricia Carlon

    A child has been kidnapped. His father, Evan Kiley, a newspaper reporter, telephones the home of the Wintons, a well-to-do family whose daughter had been abducted a year or so earlier. The Wintons paid and their child was restored to them; they did n...

  • Before Thanksgiving Comes

    Marisa Carroll

    JAKE WALTHERS IS A HARDWORKING MAN When he's not farming, his hands are full just taking care of his three young children. He doesn't have time for anything else ...certainly not love. Until he meets his new neighbor. Allison Martin is beautifu...

  • Bad Company

    Carol Carson

    SHE SHOT THE SHERIFF Lying on the rug was not where Sheriff Magrane thought he'd be when he caught the notorious bank robber Mad Maggie West. Sure, she was dangerous, but Chance never expected the flame-haired beauty to shoot him in the shoulder. Sh...

  • The Oldest Living Married Virgin

    Maureen Child

    VIRGIN BRIDE When Colonel Candello found his daughter in a marine's room the morning after the Battalion Ball, he was ready to explode. Until First Sergeant Jack Harris offered to marry Donna in name only to save all their reputations. So, for bet...

  • A Fate Worse than Death

    Rob Childs

    Part of the TIME RANGERS series, a football adventure featuring Tanfield Rangers who lose three players when they disappear back in time to World War II London and find themselves trapped in a time-loop. Team skipper Jacko must try to save them, but ...

  • Laptop of the Gods

    Peter Chippindale

    It is December 1999 and, as the millennium approaches, all is not well in the Land of the Gods. The deities, engrossed in their petty squabbles, are bored out of their immortal skulls with the earthlings in charge. But then GOD, the central computer ...

  • The Merchant of Menace

    Jill Churchill

    'Tis the season to be jolly and suburban mom Jane Jeffry's in a scramble to finish her cookie baking and chores before her teenage kids arrive. Guests are expected -- Jane's late husband's mother and Mel VanDyne's as well. The kitchen is a disaster...

  • Jungle Wedding

    Joseph Lynn Clark

    An electrifying debut collection by an ultra-contemporary and startlingly talented new writer.

    Few writers of fiction have demonstrated so early in their career such a firm grasp of the forms disaster can take as Joseph Clark does in Jungle We...

  • Do You Want to Know a Secret?

    Mary Jane Clark

    SECRETS CAN REALLY KILL YOUR CAREER. Beautiful New York TV anchorwoman Eliza Blake has a past to hide. Her popular co-anchor has a scandal he'd die to keep secret. The next President's pretty wife wants desperately to avoid an indecent exposure. A...

  • Jaguar Eyes

    Casey Claybourne

    Lost Horizon. Shangri-La. Daniel Heywood ventures into the wilds of the Amazon, determined to leave his mark on science. Wounded by Indians shortly into his journey, he is rescued by a beautiful woman with the longest legs he's ever seen. As she...

  • The Phantom Husband

    Alana Clayton

    A BRIDEGROOM MISPLACED Her father's death had left Baroness Emma Randolph in sole charge of her young sister. In a bid to protect the miss from a fortune hunter, Emma had rushed into a calculated marriage with a near-stranger. Now, with the i...

  • Buffalo Bill / Kit Carson

    William Cody

    In Buffalo Bill, the life of the legendary buffalo hunter is presented from his own perspective, while in Kit Carson, the legendary scout, tracker, and wilderness hero is portrayed in historic detail. Original....

  • Murder

    Jackie Collins

    In the world of L.A.'s multi-million-dollar dealers, talent and looks can open doors and make hot connections. But some find the ultimate thrill is in the chase itself--and in the kill. Without warning, raw desire spirals into shattering violence wit...

  • Bridge of Shadows

    Roxanne Conrad

    A lawman caught between duty and desire, a proud young doctor forced to confront the darker side of those she loves, and a mysterious seer. All are at the heart of this compelling tale of suspense, passion, and intrigue. In the heart of El Paso, T...

  • Texas Orphan Train - An Avalon Western

    Kent Conwell

    Texas Orphan Train is Kent's twelfth book for AVALON, which include the recently published titles The Ghost of Blue Bone Mesa, Painted Comanche Tree, Valley of Gold, Bumpo, Bill, and the Girls, and Jim Wells....

  • Night Fires

    Linda Cook

    SHE WAS THE QUEEN'S PAWN... For years Alyse Mirbeau remained in a crumbling fortress in Cornwall, protecting Eleanor of Aquitaine's cache of hidden jewels. She was waiting to be freed from her lonely vigil when a dashing knight arrived to claim th...

  • Instruments of Night

    Thomas H. Cook

    Will the truth bring peace -- or pain? A “once-in-a-lifetime masterpiece” by the Edgar Award"winning author (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Mystery writer Paul Graves, a man with a painful past, has come to an artists’ retreat in New York’...

  • If You Go Down to the Woods

    Louise Cooper

    The wicked stepmother in the school play is evil, so Alex gives her a costume of fur, feathers and skin, which is a great success. However, things soon start to go wrong - her little sister gets hurt, the panto scenery is defaced, and strange footpri...

  • See how They Run

    Louise Cooper

    When Jon moves to a new house, he encounters a neighbour called Frankie who keeps twitching, and scrabbling about in the yard at night. Jon's cat, Gnasher, won't go near him, and instead keeps killing rats and leaving Jon to bury them. But the rats w...

  • Merely Married

    Patricia Coughlin

    Life for Adrian Devereau, the sixth duke of Raven, was flawless, but for one nagging detail. Try as he did to live down to his reputation as the Wicked Lord Raven, the ladies persisted in viewing him as desirable husband material. So he conceived a b...

  • Imazighen

    Margaret Courtney-Clarke

    As she has in her previous books, Ndebele: The Art of an African Tribe and African Canvas: The Art of West African Women, Margaret Courtney-Clarke turns her sensitive eye on women whose lives have seldom been observed. Her photos explore the remarkab...

  • Battle On!

    Greg Cox

    Offers an irreverent and humorous look at the top syndicated hit show, providing fan reactions, interactions, and commentaries that also compare the events of the show to events in actual history. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Jack of Hearts

    Emma Craig
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    With the help of saintly Gentleman Jack Oakes, love warms the hearts of a miner and a laundress, turning a nineteenth-century California mining camp golden in the glow of the season....

  • Marriage Under Suspicion

    Sara Craven

    "Your husband loves another woman." The note was signed "A Friend," but no friend would ever do that to another woman. Could it be true? Was Kate Lassiter's marriage falling apart? She still loved her husband, Ryan, still thril...

  • Shiver

    Jordan Cray

    Riley lives for his late night talks with six online buddies and hesitates only briefly when one of them suggests they all meet, but as chat room members start disappearing Riley must find the psycho before he becomes the next victim. Original....

  • One More Knight

    Kathleen Creighton

    FOR HER CHILD'S SAKE Years ago, Charlene "Charly" Phelps had been talked into leaving her hometown and her baby behind--to give her son the life she never could. Then, on a visit home, she saw a picture of a boy who seemed impossibly familiar--and...

  • A Berry Merry Christmas

    Claire Cross
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    In Claire Cross's "A Berry Merry Christmas," a mysterious nanny has a special message to deliver to a young orphan and her uncle who long to feel the joy of Christmas in their hearts once again......

  • Under the Midnight Sun

    Marilyn Cunningham

    IN FROM THE COLD... Loner Brian Kennedy relished living in the unconquered Alaskan wilderness. Yet discovering a body on the tundra was not an adventure he'd wished for. The authorities assured him his role in the investigation was over -- unt...

  • The Hours

    Michael Cunningham

    The Hours tells the story of three women: Virginia Woolf, beginning to write Mrs. Dalloway as she recuperates in a London suburb with her husband in 1923; Clarissa Vaughan, beloved friend of an acclaimed poet dying from AIDS, who in modern-day New Yo...

  • Ten Play Hide-and-Seek

    Penny Dale

  • Sign Me, Speechless in Seattle

    Emily Dalton

    Dear Aunt Tilly, I've met the man of my dreams--an English duke! Tall, blond, charming.... so what's the problem, you ask? He's ties and tails, I'm sweats and sneakers. He's a British peer. I'm an all American gal. Oh, yeah--and I've ruined his...

  • Secondhand Dad

    Kayla Daniels

    MOTHER AND CHILD... Noah Garrett had given Caroline Tate back her child. And after years of searching all she wanted was to take Ethan home. But the rugged cop was on the trail of a murderer--and her son was the only witness. So how could Caroline...

  • Dinotopia - The Maze

    Peter David

    A master storyteller who has appeared seven times on The New York Times bestseller list, fantasy writer Peter David joins the popular Dinotopia middle-grade adventure series with a gripping new tale. A witty young Raptor, Booj, teams up with Jason an...

  • Return of the Heroes

    Peter David

  • Bride By Friday

    Trisha David

    The marriage deadline. Tessa is on a mission of mercy, through she can barely afford the visit to England to check that her newly orphaned nephew will be all right with his grandmother. Afterwards she plans to return to Australia and her fiance. But ...

  • Deer Avenger

    Ssi Davidson

  • Kermit's ABC

    Stef De Reuver

  • Seymour Bleu: A Space Odyssey

    Catherine Deeter

    At a loss for new ideas, famous artist cat Seymour first tours all of his favorite places--the garden, the bookstore, a lake, a museum and other beautiful spots--before realizing that it is friendship which truly inspires him....

  • Promise Forever

    Patricia DeGroot

    Although Jade Kendell was desperate to escape her stepfather's rundown tavern to make a life for herself and her sister in London, she was not desperate enough to steal. But when Karr Alexander arrived looking for his brother, he discovered a pou...

  • A Dad for Daniel

    Janelle Denison

    His secret son... Tyler Whitmore has returned home after nine years to claim his half of the family ranch. Brianne is right to be nervous. When Tyler left he had taken more than her innocence -- he had taken her dreams and her heart. But unbeknown...

  • Faces of Deception

    Troy Denning
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Atreus of Erlkazar Hidden from his powerful family's enemies behind the hideous mask of his own face. Sent by the goddess of beauty on an impossible mission. Driven to find a way past his own flesh, into a soul torn between destiny and love. De...

  • Flirting with Danger

    Jamie Denton

    The leggy blonde with cornflower blue eyes caught Mason O'Neill's attention...as a red-blooded male - and a cop. Clearly Bailey Grayson was out of her element on the streets of L.A. So Mason arrested the sexy small-town accountant - temporarily - to ...

  • Final Notice

    Jo Dereske

    SHELVE UNDER M...FOR MURDER Librarian Helma Zukas usually keeps her home as well organized as the library where she works so she never expected a visit from her elderly Aunt Em to turn her life into chaos and provide her with the makings of a hair...

  • The Stranger

    Jean DeWitt

    WITHOUT A PAST, HE COULD BE ANYONE, OR ANYTHING... Julie Ryan heads for the secluded woods of Washington State looking for solitude. But it isn't peace she finds. Caught in a wicked storm, she discovers an injured man with little recollection of w...

  • Jedi Knight

    William C. Dietz

    With Luke Skywalker's help, Jedi novice and rebel agent Kyle Katarn will save the legendary Valley of the Jedi from Jerec, a dark Jedi who plans to invade the planet where the valley is located and eventually dethrone the emperor...

  • Visit from Saint Nicholas: And Santa Mouse Too!

    Disney Book Group

    Filled with rich, detailed illustrations that young readers will love to explore, this retelling of a classic story comes from the perspective of a very small mouse who wants more than anything to catch a glimpse of Saint Nicholas....

  • Bible Sticker Activity Book--the First Christmas

    DK Publishing

    An introduction to some of the best-loved Bible stories through exciting hands-on activities, the Bible Sticker Activity Books offer hours of fill-in fun. Young children can answer quick quizzes, play a fun board game, draw and color pictures, make c...

  • The Midnight Man

    Berlie Doherty

  • Surrender to Seduction

    Robyn Donald

    Seduction/abduction. Geraldine Dacre is beautiful, sophisticated and loved by all, but she's yet to surrender to love. Only one man turns her head -- Bryn Falconer. Gerry falls in love the moment she sees him cradling a baby, awakening all of h...

  • Prophets for the End of Time

    Marcos Donnelly

    The Heavenly Hosts, having decided the time has come for the Apocalypse, name two unlikely humans who will enable the fulfillment of ancient prophecies, including charismatic religious leader Clayton and management consultant Henri. Original....

  • The Good Old Stuff: Adventure Sf in the Grand Tradition

    Gardner Dozois

    A compilation of sixteen science fiction tales, written between 1940 and 1970, such as "Moon Duel" and the "The Sky People", brings works together from such acclaimed writers as Jack Vance, H. Beam Piper, Poul Anderson, Fritz Leiber, and Ursula K. Le...

  • The Butcher's Bill

    David Drake

    YOU THOUGHT VICTORY CAME CHEAP? Tanks don't fight without crews. The men and women who crew Colonel Hammer's tanks are the best in the human universe--and they're ready to prove it for anybody who can afford to hire them. Facing an enemy whose ...

  • The Gay Canon

    Robert Drake

     

    Attempting to identify the authoritative texts on male homosexual culture, Robert Drake presents an illuminating anthology of 23 evocative works in The Gay Canon: Great Books Every Gay Man Should Read. Exploring...

  • Miriam's Gift

    Dreamworks

  • Slugger Season

    Laura Driscoll

  • Public Men

    Allen Drury

    “We live in the Republic of Feel-Good in a time when all the scum of America is rising to the top.” So begins Public Men, the final novel of “the University trilogy” in which Pulitzer Prize winner Allen Drury concludes some fifty years...

  • Turbulent Souls

    Stephen J. Dubner

    Two years ago, Stephen J. Dubner wrote a cover story for the New York Times Magazine called "Choosing My Religion." It became one of the most widely discussed articles in the magazine's history. Turbulent Souls, the book that grew out of that article...

  • The Crime Czar

    Tony Dunbar

    Gumbo of Murder It's a city as friendly as a glad-handing attorney, where the bending Mississippi carves a channel six-hundred-feet deep, the air smells of chicory, and shell casings litter sidewalks beneath the live oak trees. And somewhere betwe...

  • The Gilded Chain

    Dave Duncan

    As unwanted, rebellious boys, they find refuge in Ironhall...Years later they emerge as the finest swordsmen in the realm -- THE KING'S BLADES A magical ritual of a sword through the heart binds teach to his ward--if not the king himself, then t...

  • Power and Society

    Thomas R. Dye

    To accomplish your course goals, use this study guide to enhance your understanding of the text content and to be better prepared for quizzes and tests. This convenient manual helps you assimilate and master the information encountered in the text th...

  • The Lighthouse

    David Eckelberry

    The STAR*DRIVE Campaign Setting offers a wealth of epic ALTERNITY game adventures in the distant frontier region of the Verge. Yet amid these bewildering opportunities, even the bravest need a place to call home. The Lighthouse stands as a base of op...

  • Echo of a Stuart

    Elizabeth Elgin

    The man is Sir John Weaver, whose mind holds a secret that has its roots planted by an oak tree. The year is 1586, when those who cleave to the Church of Rome steal to their forbidden Mass and plot against Elizabeth Tudor in favour of the captive Que...

  • Tall, Dark and Reckless

    Lyn Ellis

    Bachelor of the Month--Matt Travis Tall, dark and reckless. Brave, bold and fearless. This rugged Texas Ranger puts his life on the line daily. But now he's up against a more subtle, more powerful adversary: desire. Lone Star Lover? Ranger Matt ...

  • Silver in the Moonlight

    Marcia Evanick

    Scandal haunted him until she arrived -- and made being bad look so good! When the elderly ladies ext door alerted him that Kitty was coming home, Dean Katz dared to hope that their niece would take his advice about their future...until a blonde i...

  • Longarm and the Grave Robbers

    Tabor Evans

  • Homecourt Advantage

    Rita Ewing

    The headlines are all about the players -- the superstars of the court, the heroes of the playoffs, and the winners of NBA championships. Here's the flip side of the bright spotlight -- the women who live in the shadows of the "great men." Casey R...

  • Felicity's Forfeit

    Elisabeth Fairchild
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    Make the season bright with these original stories of Christmas love, written by five award-winning Regency authors. Heartwarming, celebratory, and romantic, each delightful story captures the essence of the Yuletide spirit -- its loving good will an...

  • The Quest for the One Big Thing

    Lou Fancher

    A charming book about numbers and teamwork follows Dot, who finds a Big Thing and keeps going back to the colony for help, until finally all the ants are trying to lift the Big Thing, but it does not budge until Flik appears to save the day....

  • Highland Blood

    Colleen Faulkner
    in

    In Colleen Faulkner's captivating story, an 1898 vampire dreads spilling "Highland Blood" and when an American beauty visits his lonely Scottish castle, he must conquer his craving for her--unless she can cure the curse that lies upon him....

  • Krondor: The Betrayal

    Raymond E. Feist

    The RiftWar is done. But a fearsome army of trolls and renegade humans, emboldened by the drug of destruction, has risen in strength from the ashes of defeat. There is one, however, who defies the call to battle... New York Times bestselling fanta...

  • Word

    Coerte V.W. Felske

    Callie Carlson has spent her life at odds with the sea. Growing up on the Florida Straits, she blames the Atlantic for her mother's and father's death and the enticement of her younger brother Jeff whom she has practically raised -- the only family m...

  • Raven Quest

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A PIRATE'S GOLD... Orphaned by her pirate father, Aurora Mullins had survived the rough life of Port Royal, Jamaica, by masquerading as a boy. 'Rory' answered to no one, until that arrogant privateer Nathan Lawler unwittingly unmasked her. Convince...

  • Will and the Headstrong Female

    Marie Ferrarella

    DAMSEL IN DISTRESS? What happens when a spitfire little lady driving a big rig runs a confirmed cowboy off the road? Fireworks! But no way was single mother Denise Cavanaugh going to swoon at the feet of some gorgeous, rugged wranglin' man, not wh...

  • Rebel Heart

    Amy J. Fetzer

    THE COURAGE TO FIGHT An unhappy and penniless prisoner in her Loyalist uncle's home, Michaela Denton has rebelled in the only way she can -- by helping the Americans fight for liberty. Stealing away to carry an urgent message to her contact, Mic...

  • The Re-Enlisted Groom

    Amy J. Fetzer

    "HE's BACK -- WHAT WILL I DO?" The answer to that question -- and any coherent thought -- deserted Maxie Parrish when Sergeant Kyle Hayden was assigned to her ranch. Maxie had no choice but to usher her new boarder inside and safeguard her somersaul...

  • Remarried in Haste

    Sandra Field

    Back to the altar...! For the first time in his life, Brant Curtis had acted on impulse. He'd arranged to meet Rowan Carter, his ex-wife... one last time! Only, now that she was in front of him, he found he needed to kiss her so badly that ...

  • His Little Girl

    Liz Fielding

    Daddy on the run! When John Gannon turned up on her brother-in-law's doorstep one cold, stormy night there was nothing Dora could do but let him in. It wasn't so much his devastating charm and slow, sexy smile that convinced her she should...

  • Red Moon Rising

    Carol Finch
    in

    Thrown together beneath a "RED MOON RISING" in Colorado Territory, Carol Finch's lovers are a mysterious cave dweller and an angel of mercy who, in his arms, reveals a dark secret to match his own....

  • The Light in the Darkness

    Ellen Fisher

    GOOD HUSBAND MATERIAL It was a complete joke to Grey that he was considered such a catch. Embittered by the death of his wife, scornful of female wiles, and completely contemptuous of any attempt to bring happiness into his life, Grey hardly consi...

  • Death Marks Time in Trampas

    T.T. Flynn

    A classic Western tale from an author whose stories masterfully capture the glory and adventure of the Old West.

    Southerland enters the Valley of the Damned to find his brothers murderers. Will he survive?

    "...

  • The Last King of Scotland

    Giles Foden

    Nicholas Garrigan has fled his native Scotland, and his parents' expectations, to take a position as a doctor in a remote rural outpost of Central Africa. Shortly after his arrival in Uganda, he is called to the scene of a bizarre car accident: Idi A...

  • The Best Christmas Tree Ever

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Bug's Life: Junior Novel

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Disney's a Bug's Life

    Justine Korman Fontes

  • Santa Claus, Inc.

    Linda Ford

    Nick Martin, the son of a toy-making family that uses reindeer, an anti-gravity sleigh, and Laplanders to distribute toys from their location at the North Pole, fears telling everyone he wants to be an oceanographer. Original....

  • Monday Man

    Kristin Gabriel

    Not another Monday! Lucy Moore loved Mondays. She'd lost three pounds, unearthed forgotten money and been promised a promotion at the library. And in Nick she found the rough, tough and gorgeous sidekick she needed for her paring plan to prove her br...

  • Smoke and Mirrors

    Neil Gaiman

    In the deft hands of Neil Gaiman, magic is no mere illusion ... and anything is possible. In this, Gaiman's first book of short stories, his imagination and supreme artistry transform a mundane world into a place of terrible wonders -- a place where ...

  • Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained!

    Diana G. Gallagher

    Having had a nightmare that everyone knew about her powers, Alex swears Louis, who has found her out, to secrecy, but the truth leaks out in the wake of Danielle's unlawful release of a new wonder diet pill. Original....

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Haunted Castle

    James Gelsey

    LOOKS LIKE THERE'S A MYSTERY TO SOLVE! When the Mystery Machine gets a flat tire, the only place to stop is a creepy old castle. The man who owns the castle is having a dinner party and invites the whole gang. But an unexpected visitor shows up -- a...

  • Scooby-Doo! and the Mummy's Curse

    James Gelsey

    Scooby-Doo and the gang are watching the filming of a new movie, The Sands of Cairo. A real mummy's tomb, with jewels and treasures, is on the set. When creepy things start happening, the director thinks the mummy's tomb is cursed. It is up to Scooby...

  • The Happy Man and His Dump Truck

    Tibor Gergely

    A happy man thrills a group of farm animals when he takes them for a joy ride in his dump truck. This book is a true classic illustrated by the inimitable Tibor Gergely. ...

  • Broken Wings

    Kahlil Gibran

    Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-American writer and poet.  Even though Gibran was considered a literary and political rebel, his works are still celebrated throughout the world.  Gibran’s most famous work is The Prophet.  This edition o...

  • Spirit Brides

    Kahlil Gibran

    In Spirit Brides, a collection of three short stories, Kahlil Gibran portrays his belief in the overwhelming power of love in human nature. In "The Ash of Centuries and the Immortal Flame," Gibran describes a love that unites souls beyond time and so...

  • Stone Water

    Barbara Snow Gilbert

    Grant Hughes is asked by his beloved grandfather to help him die if he is transferred to the terminal ward of his nursing home. Both Grant's parents are lawyers, and his father is emotionally distant. Because Grant's grandfather does not feel he can ...

  • Cher's Frantically Romantic Assignment

    H.B. Gilmour

    Cher hopes to win a dream date with teen heartthrob Troy, the handsome cover boy for a popular romance book series, by writing the best romantic story, and she gets her entire class involved. Original....

  • The Hired Mans Christmas

    George Givens

    In the tradition of Christmas memoirs such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and A Christmas Memory, The Hired Man's Christmas is the story of how the events of two Christmas Eves brought George Givens from boyhood into manhood. Every summer a mysterio...

  • Deadly Exposure

    Leonard S. Goldberg

    In an iceberg off the coast of Alaska, a virtual fountain of death is waiting to erupt … a bacteria so virulent it could, if released, cause a worldwide catastrophe. On the Navy research ship Global Explorer, forensic pathologist Joanna Blalock and...

  • Alaskan Magic

    Theresa Goldstrand

  • Spencer's Secret

    Laura Gordon

    RELUCTANT COWBOY... Sarah Allen had married another man -- but she'd never gotten over Logan Spencer. Now her husband's untimely death had brought Logan back to her Colorado ranch, searching for answers -- and looking so much like her child it br...

  • Be My Girl!

    Lucy Gordon

    The bachelor needs a wife.... As a teenager, Katie Deakins had caused Nick Kenton nothing but havoc and had even ruined his love life! Now, years later, she was coming to stay and Nick felt obliged to look after her.... Nick was shocked to disc...

  • Contract Baby

    Lynne Graham

    The terms of the will: Maxie, Darcy and Polly have each been left a share of their godmother's estate, if they marry within a year and remain married for six months. The hunter: Polly Johnson became a surrogate mother to pay for her mother...

  • Just This Once

    Tricia Graves

    JUST SAY YES Shannon Walsh is a minister's daughter... and she was brought up to resist temptation. Bid she never knew what temptation was until she met her next door neighbor. Rick Hardison is wickedly handsome--and he sure doesn't look like he s...

  • The Little Black Truck

    Libba Moore Gray

    A little black truck who carried all sorts of cargo in all sorts of weather is left in the woods to rust when its engine stops, but years later the original owner's grandson takes it upon himself to bring the truck back to life. Reprint....

  • The Bishop and the Three Kings

    Andrew M. Greeley

    It's a chilly October morning in Cologne, Germany, when a major relic of the Catholic Church, the remains of the Three Kings, is stolen from the cathedral! When the theft becomes public it'll be a cold day in Cologne, for the resultant furor could ha...

  • Santa My Life and Times: An Illustrated Autobiography

    Martin I. Green

    Old Kris Kringle himself tells the story of his life, throwing light on his childhood, on the workings of his toyshop, and on the mysteries of his Christmas Eve flight, in an illustrated Christmas keepsake designed for families to read aloud. 136,000...

  • Holmes for the Holidays

    Martin H. Greenberg

    Master sleuth Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. Watson, return in a collection of fourteen original stories, all set during the Christmas holiday season, by Anne Perry, Carole Nelson Douglas, Loren D. Estleman, Reginald Hill, Bill Crider, and oth...

  • Her Holiday Secret

    Jennifer Greene

    SLEEPING BEAUTY... Maggie Fletcher could recall everything except the past twenty-four hours. Luckily for her, town sheriff Andy Gautier was on the case. Rumor had it that the lawman with the sexy grin could get to the bottom of anything--or anyon...

  • Sunderlies Seeking

    Gayle Greeno

    THE SUNDERLIES -- home to convicts, rebels, and the unwanted refuse of society--or so it has traditionally been. Even now it is a land where, for the law-abiding population, the price of safety is eternal vigilance. For Doyce's and Jenret's sixte...