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New Books List: 733 titles

  • City in the Clouds

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Uh-oh! Neal has a problem. He's turned into a bug--again. Eric and Julie hope someone in Droon can help. Princess Keeah thinks there might be a cure in the City in the Clouds. Too ...

  • Cam Jansen and the Barking Treasure Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Sail with Cam Jansen, the girl with the amazing photographic memory. See a two-hundred-year-old pirate ship. Meet funny Mabel Trent. Meet Lila Wood and her Little Treasure. Look for clues as you read Cam Jansen and the Barking Treasure Mystery....

  • The Bravest Ever Bear

    Allan Ahlberg

  • A Single's Honeymoon

    Ginny Aiken
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    Ginny Aiken, Jeri Odell, and Elizabeth White

    What could be better on a chilly winter's night than a collection of heartwarming stories about special vacations? Readers will love the exotic locations-and unexpected romance-in this trio of no...

  • Lavender Lies

    Susan Wittig Albert

    In the eighth book in Susan Wittig Albert's award-nominated series, ex-lawyer and herbalist China Bayles must put her upcoming nuptials on the back burner when a murder investigation entangles her friends and neighbors... "Good riddance,&#...

  • The Forever Husband

    Kathryn Alexander

    A HUSBAND FOR ALL REASONS All her life Hope had loved Eric Granston. The gentle childhood friend he'd been. The handsome high-school sweetheart he'd become. The magnificent man who'd married her and fathered her beautiful daughters. So how had...

  • Daughter of Fortune

    Isabel Allende

    From the New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits, Isabelle Allende, comes a passionate tale of one young woman's quest to save her lover set against the chaos of the 1849 California Gold Rush. Orphaned at birth, Eliza Somme...

  • Kiss Me Once Again

    Laura Marie Altom

    IT's BEEN A LONG, LONG TIME To the good southern folks of sleepy Cattoola, Mississippi, Madeline Lowell is the quintessential small town hostess. What no one knows is that she isn't as content as she appears. On her eighteenth birthday, she spe...

  • Only You

    Joye Ames

    Ten years ago, Trey Harris lost everything when Parish Bannister decided to replace him with his daughter's fiancé. It's like a dream come true for Trey when Parish's daughter comes to him to help her save the same company. Ashley Bannister is l...

  • Practically Perfect

    Caroline Anderson

    Falling in love was out of the question When surgeon Connie Wright broke her arm, she had some serious decisions to make. It seemed natural to go home, but finding Patrick Durrant pinch-hitting for her father in his general practice was disturbing. ...

  • Baby Love

    Catherine Anderson

    OUT OF THE EMPTY RUINS OF YESTERDAY Penniless, desperate and determined, Maggie Stanley grabs her small baby and runs into the snowy Idaho night, fleeing a dangerous, hurtful life. Now in her loneliest, blackest hour, a handsome, down-and-out stra...

  • Speak

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    The tough, tender, and darkly funny story of a teenage outcast Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is...

  • Anything Goes

    Shannon Anderson (1)

    LOCKED OUT OF LOVE? Kathleen McKenna has had it with following her heart. From now on, she's looking for a man who can show her the finer things in life, and the richer he is, the better. So why is she coming unglued over the handsome locksmi...

  • Millennia the Angel

    Giles Andreae

    In this book a top author and illustrator have joined forces to create a stunning memento of the Millennium, the story of how it takes the innocence of a young boy to enable the angel Millennia to fly into the future.'...

  • Cat

    V.C. Andrews

    "I felt like I was going to my own execution...." Cat had listened patiently, as the other three girls in Dr. Marlowe's therapy group shared their innermost feelings. They had described their broken families honestly, to the point of pain. If Cat ...

  • Zombie Lover

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

    Something’s rotten in the land of Xanth -- and it’s not just the undead -- in this “cheeky” adventure in the New York Times"bestselling series (Publishers Weekly).   Horrors and hilarity collide as a fate far worse than death awaits a ...

  • The Illusion

    K.A. Applegate

    Tobias and the other Animorphs already have a few problems: saving the world, keeping their identities secret, finishing their homework. Now they have one more thing to add to the list. The Yeerks have discovered a way to cause a person to demorph. A...

  • The Prophecy

    K.A. Applegate

    There is a chance for the free Hork-Bajir on Earth to help start a rebellion against the Yeerks on the Hork-Bajir home world. And they've learned from the last surviving Arn--the race that created the Hork-bajir--that Aldrea, daughter of Prince Seero...

  • Two-timing Aisha

    Katherine Applegate

    Two-timing Aisha doesn't like playing games with the two guys she loves. But how can she decide between Christopher, her longtime boyfriend, and brilliant but maddening David? Breaking up with either of them seems impossible, but keeping them both co...

  • Crinkleroot's Visit to Crinkle Cove

    Jim Arnosky

    While looking for Sassafrass the snake, naturalist Crinkleroot explores the snake's natural habitat and provides an explanation of the things he sees in this colorfully illustrated picture book for young readers. Reprint....

  • A Phule and His Money

    Robert Asprin

    AMUSEMENT PARKS -- THE FINAL FRONTIER Captain Willard Phule has whipped his troops into shape. That's how he turned Phule's Company from the laughingstock of the Legion into...a crack team of casino security guards. Now his company is deployed ...

  • Aunt Dimity's Christmas

    Nancy Atherton

    Lori Shepherd can hardly wait to celebrate Christmas this year with her husband, Bill, and their twin sons in the beautiful cottage willed to her by Aunt Dimity. But then Lori makes a disturbing discovery beneath the cottage's snow-covered lilac ...

  • Risk Factor

    Charles Atkins

    When they found the nurse she was already dead. Sitting next to her body, covered in blood and holding a knife, was seventeen-year-old Garret, a patient in the psychiatric ward of the hospital. Dr. Molly Katz can't believe it. She's Garret's doctor a...

  • Gaia's Demise

    James Axler

    On a desperate quest to destroy a scheme to unite the East Coast Baronies under a single totalitarian rule, Ryan Cawdor and his companions journey to Tennessee, where they are confronted by a super weapon from the world prior to the nuclear holocaust...

  • A Shadow on the Wall

    Jonathan Aycliffe

    Some things are best left undisturbed . . .In the countryside of Victorian England, Edward Atherton, rector of Thornham St. Stephen, has taken on the arduous task of restoring the ancient church. But he should never have meddled with the tomb ...

  • Holly the Lamb Finds Baby Jesus

    B&H Kids

  • Angel at Troublesome Creek

    Mignon F. Ballard

    Since her sudden break-up with her fiance, and the even more sudden death of her beloved Aunt Caroline, Mary George Murphy had not only considered suicide she'd tried it. But her attempts at ending it all proved yet another in her list of failures......

  • Those Bones Are Not My Child

    Toni Cade Bambara

    ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • This suspenseful novel portrays a community--and a family--under siege, during the shocking string of murders of black children in Atlanta in the early 1980s. ...

  • Wicked

    Jill Barnett

    WICKED ... sweeps us away to the pageantry of medieval England, where a strong-willed knight must fight the battle of his life to win a stubborn lady. Lady Sofia Beatrice Rosalynde Anne Therese Howard has had as many suitors as she has names. But...

  • Drag Strip

    Nancy Bartholomew

    The only thing hotter than the supercharged engines at the Dead Lakes Motor Speedway is the special appearance by Sierra and her friend Ruby Diamond. But befcre the day ends, Sierra will be pinched black and blue, seeing red when she spots her cop-bo...

  • Silverhair

    Stephen Baxter

    From Stephen Baxter, one of today's most acclaimed writers of science fiction and fantasy, comes this unforgettable saga of life and loss in the grand tradition of Watership Down.

    For fifty thousand springs, Silverhair and ...

  • Man in the Mirror

    Julie Beard
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    When darkness holds the most tantalizing of possibilities, what goes bump in the night may be the man of your dreams .... Everything is possible and nothing is as it seems in four enchanting tales brimming with romance, passion, and a touch of won...

  • Norton Reader

    Jerome Beaty

    Adopted at over 700 schools in its previous edition, The Norton Reader has long been the standard bearer for liberal arts composition readers. The editors' goals have always been the same: to collect the very best essays, by the very best writers, an...

  • Virtue's Prize

    Kathleen Beck

    SHE WAS THE PRIZE... When Vicar Goodbody goes to his eternal reward, his pious daughter Virtue is left destitute...unless she can find the mother who abandoned her, in infancy, for a courtesan's life in London. But when she does, she becomes a...

  • Fence Busters

    Clair Bee

    Play ball with one of America's most endearing and enduring heroes! Faced with a fractured team and a father and daughter in need, Chip sets the groundwork for what could be the best season ever for State baseball! C-R-A-C-K! The baseball seaso...

  • Murdering Ministers

    Alan Beechey

    "Filled with clever repartee, memorable characters, and an ending as satisfying as it is unexpected." -- BooklistWhat holy terror spiked the sacraments with strychnine?When a teenage girl disappears from a north London suburb a few days before Christ...

  • In These Hills

    Ralph Beer

    After a lifetime spent writing and working on his family’s cattle ranch outside of Helena, Montana, Ralph Beer has gathered his best magazine essays into one collection called In These Hills. In thirty-three essays he provides a moving and elegiac ...

  • Biggie and the Meddlesome Mailman

    Nancy Bell

    In a town as small as Job's Crossing,, a nosy mailman who opens the mail, reads it all, and broadcasts the contents to the rest of the people on his route --more or less, the whole town --puts himself seriously at risk, and it isn't long before Luthe...

  • Jack and the Beanstalk

    Ann Keay Beneduce

    Having traded the family's only cow for beans, Jack hears the angry tone of his mother upon his return, yet when the beans turn into a magical stalk that rises to a kingdom above the clouds, young Jack's luck is about to change forever....

  • University Hospital

    Cherie Bennett

    Dreaming of careers in medicine, five teenagers confront the challenges, heartbreak, triumphs, and tragedies of the life-and-death world of medicine as they take jobs in Fable Harbor University Hospital, in the first of a new medical series for young...

  • Zink

    Cherie Bennett

    Becky's cancer diagnosis has introduced her to a world she never knew existed, a scary world of hospitals and blood counts and chemotherapy. She's afraid. But she doesn't have to go through this alone ... she's got a trio of singing zebras to keep he...

  • The World Is Not Enough

    Raymond Benson

    Around the world in 007 ways After oil tycoon Sir Robert King is killed in a bombing at MI6 headquarters, his daughter, Elektra, inherits his fortune -- billions of dollars worth of oil deposits in the Caspian Sea...and James Bond, 007, as a bodygua...

  • God of the Rodeo

    Daniel Bergner

    Never before had Daniel Bergner seen a spectacle as bizarre as the one he had come to watch that Sunday in October. Murderers, rapists, and armed robbers were competing in the annual rodeo at Angola, the grim maximum-security penitentiary in Louisian...

  • Death and the Easter Bunny

    Linda Berry

    OUT OF THE ASHES Police detectin' in Ogeechee, Georgia, falls somewhere between Mayberry and "N.Y.P.D. Blue," but the force's newest member, Trudy Roundtree, is happy to be home again. True, the police chief is her cousin, and there's some family ...

  • Well Wished

    Franny Billingsley

    One wish for a lifetime... In the village of Bishop Mayne there is a magical Wishing Well where a person may make one wish in a lifetime. But the Well can create problems for those who use its power, for wishes often go wrong. It was just such a w...

  • Moonshine

    Gary L. Blackwood

    During the Depression in the Ozarks of Missouri, thirteen-year-old Thad has adventures selling moonshine and fishing with Harlan James, a rich visitor. By the author of The Shakespeare Stealer. ...

  • Thee, I Love

    Annette Blair

    A WOMAN'S FAITH For Amish schoolteacher Rachel Zook, the world beyond her tightly knit village was unknown--and the Elders decreed that it should stay that way. So when the man she loved abandoned their peaceful culture for a forbidden life among th...

  • Miss Fontenot

    Stephen A. Bly

    Oliole Fontenot did not come West to look for a husband. She came for freedom. The freedom to stand outside and shout to the heavens. The freedom to be herself. To be a photographer. To succeed or fail on her own merit. To grow in her devotion to God...

  • Cat and Mouse in the Snow

    Tomek Bogacki

    A first experience with snow

    Cat and Mouse have gone out to play together in the green meadow every day since they became friends. Then one morning they find that the green meadow is gone! The two friends set off in search of it, but everywher...

  • Paddington Bear and the Christmas Surprise

    Michael Bond

    Christmas is coming, and Paddington has saved just enough bun money to take the entire Brown family to Barkridges store for a holiday adventure. But things don't turn out at all as Paddington had planned...and Barkridges may never be the same! Lea...

  • Paddington Treasury

    Michael Bond

    A delightful collection of the best-loved tales featuring the beloved bear from Darkest Peru, Paddington, features newly colored versions of the classic illustrations marking Paddington's fortieth anniversary and introducing him to a new generation o...

  • About Last Night...

    Stephanie Bond

    THE RIGHT ROOM... Bride-to-be Janine Murphy is experiencing more than a few jitters when she thinks about her upcoming nuptials. After all, she and her fiance haven't even, well...you know. So, dressed for success, she lets herself into her fiance's...

  • The Industry of Souls

    Martin Booth

    The Industry of Souls is the story of Alexander Bayliss, a British citizen who was wrongfully arrested for espionage by the KGB in the 1950s and sentenced to twenty-five years of hard labor in the work camps of Siberia. Eventually freed in the 1970s...

  • Forever Flint

    Barbara Boswell

    "If you're pregnant, we're getting married!" -- Flint Paradise, CEO and surprised father-to-be. After a single night of passion put Ashlinn Carey in the family way, millionaire businessman Flint Paradise acquired a very stubborn, pregnant bride...

  • The Promise

    Donna Boyd

    "I saw the only woman I ever loved almost destroyed by my secrets. But it was the telling of them, in the end, that brought her to ruin." From the journal of Matise Devoncroix Hannah Braselton North has abandoned civilization to spend her life in ...

  • Ruthie's Gift

    Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

    How can a girl ever hope to become a lady when she's surrounded by a houseful of boys? Lively, sassy Ruth Hawk, eight years old and living in Indiana in 1916, loves her five brothers, but sometimes she can't help wishing for the company of another gi...

  • Sweet Dreams, Scary Monsters

    Elisabeth Brami

  • Sweet Treats, Nasty Eats

    Elisabeth Brami

  • Fated Sky

    Henrietta Branford

    A realistic evocation of the difficult and unforgiving world of the Vikings follows sixteen-year-old Ran, a young Viking woman whose father and brothers have been killed, as she learns to take charge of her life and survive....

  • Falling Hard and Fast

    Kylie Brant

    HEAT OF THE NIGHT When shadows fell across the sultry streets of Charity, Louisiana, the usually laidback sheriff was too restless for sleep. Cage Gauthier had an unsolved murder on his hands--and a beguiling Yankee gal on his mind. But Zoey Presc...

  • No Quarter

    Jack Brennan

    Left with a bounty on his head after being accused of a crime he did not commit, drifter Gil Barret makes his way into the lair of a notorious Confederate war criminal, Horace "No Quarter" Crawley, and suddenly finds himself hunted by men on both sid...

  • Mrs. Pargeter's Point of Honour

    Simon Brett

    The gang that couldn't shoot straight While the activities of her dearly departed husband often took place beyond the confines of the law, the genteel Mrs. Pargeter wears the diamonds and other spoils of the late Mr. P's nefarious career with impe...

  • A Veiled Journey

    Nell Brien

    With heartbreaking details only someone who has lived there could know, Nell Brien conveys the haunting beauty and saw savergy of Saudi Arabia. Liz Tyan grew up knowing she was adopted, but it never held much significence for her. Happy with her lov...

  • Beyond the Myth

    Polly Schoyer Brooks

  • Mucky Pup's Christmas

    Ken Brown

  • The Collector of Moments

    Quint Buchholz

    A solitary boy is drawn to his mysterious new neighbor, an artist named Max. He spends hours in Max's studio, but Max is secretive and does not show the boy his pictures -- until he departs on a journey and leaves behind a surprise exhibition for his...

  • Wild Tiger Wind

    Gayle Buck

    When her fiance' left her standing at the altar, veterinarian Terry Russell determined never to get involved in another romantic relationship. Instead, she concentrates on caring for the animals at the clinic. The only man in her life is her best fri...

  • A Heart Untamed

    Adrienne Burns

    In 1885 Flint, Kansas, Amy Baxter finds her plans to marry the wrong man foiled by the arrival of her lifelong friend, Polly, back from school, and the return of her childhood nemesis Race Jordan, a handsome ex-Texas Ranger. As willful as a wild h...

  • Race for the Roses

    Lauraine Bush

    As a talented jockey,Robynn O'Dell risks her life every day. But some dangers she avoids at all costs-like putting herself and her young son at risk of being hurt again. Ever since her husband deserted her and then died in a car crash, Robynn has sea...

  • The White Pony

    Sandra Byrd

    Raised on the starkly beautiful land of the North American plains, young Starlight spends her days beating dust out of blankets, caring for her family's ponies, and helping her mother pound grain for the tribe's meals. But during the evening, Starlig...

  • Larimont

    Will Cade

    A TOWN WITH SECRETS John Kendall didn't want to go back home to Larimont, Montana. He had to--to investigate the death of his father. At first everyone believed that Bill Kendall had died in a tragic fire ... until an autopsy revealed a bullet hol...

  • Love Me Tender

    Michaila Callan

    THE CITY GIRL It is with mixed emotions that Eden Karr has decided to leave her exciting career as a New York City fashion editor behind. Determined to raise her unborn twins alone in a wholesome community, she's moved to small-town Texas and opened...

  • Star in Danger

    Joanna Campbell

    Don't Miss the Exciting Adventures of a New Generation of Thoroughbred Horses and Riders at Whitebrook Farm!

    Will Christina ever see Star again?

    Christina Reese is worried. She's been taking care of Wonder's Star ever since his dam, Wo...

  • The Voyage

    Philip Caputo

    In the tradition of great seafaring adventures, The Voyage is an intricately plotted, superbly detailed, and gripping story of adventure and courage. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Caputo has written a timeless novel about the dangerous reverbe...

  • Ender's Shadow

    Orson Scott Card

    A COMPANION VOLUME TO ENDER'S GAME, ONE THAT EXPANDS AND COMPLIMENTS THE FIRST, ENHANCING ITS POWER, ILLUMINATING ITS EVENTS AND ITS POWERFUL CONCLUSION. Andrew "Ender" Wiggin was not the only child in the Battle School; he was just the best of th...

  • Equinox

    Diane Carey

    Captain Janeway believed she commanded the only Starfleet vessel in the Delta Quadrant -- until the U.S.S. Voyager" came to the rescue of the U.S.S. Equinox, a battered starship besieged by a ravening horde of extradimensional predators. Helmed by...

  • The Prince's Heir

    Sally Carleen

    THE PRINCE'S BRIDE When Prince Stephan Reynard swept into the tiny Texas town to lay claim to his royal nephew, he never dreamed the boy's adoptive mother would prove so resistant - or so alluring. Seemed not even a king's ransom could convince th...

  • The Price of an Orphan

    Patricia Carlon

    Johnnie is a nine-year-old city orphan recently placed with a couple on a cattle ranch in the Australian outback. But he is not quite the foster child they had in mind. He is "cheeky and lazy, cowardly and stubborn." When he claims to have witnessed ...

  • The Wonder of Christmas

    Melody Carlson

    Gather your family for a journey to the true meaning of Christmas. Along the way you'll unwrap the many layers of God's wondrous gift and discover afresh His saving love. Thirty-one captivating readings, written just for kids, share the full Chris...

  • Tomorrowland

    Michael Cart

    From humor to drama to fiction, a cutting-edge collection of stories from such authors as Rodman Philbrick, Lois Lowry, and Tor Seidler explores the future with such diverse themes as love, hate, the environment, disease, and the fate of the human ra...

  • Deathday Party

    Paula Carter

    A Talent for Decoration--and Detection Meet Hillary Scarborough, a domestic artiste with a flair for design . . . and Jane Ferguson, an ex--law student who can't cook or decorate to save her life. Between the two of them, they solve more crimes--a...

  • Leading the Cheers

    Justin Cartwright

    Recently retired from the advertising business, Englishman Dan Silas returns to Michigan for his thirty-year high-school reunion, where he learns that his best friend believes that he is a reincarnated Shawnee Indian and that his high-school sweethea...

  • Wife for a Week

    Carla Cassidy

    PROPOSITIONED When irresistible Hank Riverton said he needed Angela Samuel's help, how was the virginal secretary to know he'd be talking about marriage? Now she was on her way to Mustang, Montana, to play wife for a week to the most unmarried man i...

  • Bridal Jitters

    Jayne Castle
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    Bridal Jitters by Jayne Castle On a faraway planet... Virginia Burch, a psychic archaeologist, can't believe her luck when she meets Sam Gage, a ghost-hunter and owner of prime real estate in the Old Quarter of Cadence, above the Dead City. ...

  • Ruby, the Christmas Donkey

    Mirabel Cecil

    The donkeys who give rides to children at the beach learn important lessons of empathy, sharing, and cooperation when they try to help the aging Ruby, whose winter coat has become too thin for her to survive alone. Original....

  • Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe

    Raymond Chandler

    Authorized by the estate of the late Raymond Chandler, this volume reveals the missing life history and detective adventures of Philip Marlowe, one of the 20th century's most enduring and beloved characters. Marlowe is the quintessential American...

  • Merry Christmas, Bear! with 48 Stickers!

    Janelle Cherrington

  • The Protocol

    April Christofferson

    Jennifer Rockhill’s plans for revenge fall into place the day she’s hired as the corporate attorney for a Seattle biotech firm, which lets her get tantalizingly close to Dr. Sherwood Fielding, the man who killed her husband. Jennifer has to pr...

  • Snowboard Showdown

    Matt Christopher

    Out-of-control competition leads to disaster When Freddie Ruiz and his brother, Dondi, compete, it's like two mutts wrestling over the same bone -- neither one is willing to give an inch. Unfortunately for Freddie, older, stronger, better-looking ...

  • Tie Breaker

    Matt Christopher

  • A Groom With a View

    Jill Churchill

    Jane Jeffry thinks that a remote, rundown monastery -- turned hunt club is an odd place to hold a wedding. But the doubting suburban single mom is being paid to plan the fabulous event, not to say "I do." With overnight guests already arrivin...

  • More!

    Emma Chichester Clark

    Billy wants more! More games of hide-and-seek, more ice cream, more story telling. More, more, more! Even his extra patient mom can't keep up with him. And when she says "That's enough," he decides he's had enough of her. Luckily, his friend the lion...

  • River, Cross My Heart

    Breena Clarke

    The acclaimed bestseller -- a selection of Oprah's Book Club -- that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, and a community reeling from a young girl's tragic death.When five-year-old Clara Bynum drowns in ...

  • The Lost Day

    Judith Clarke

    A captivating blend of realism and spine-tingling suspense describes the reactions and fears of Vinny's friends and relations when he, a young man just out of school and approaching adulthood, suddenly disappears one Saturday night....

  • Miss Darby's Debut

    Marilyn Clay

    AN UNCONVENTIONAL MISS Nineteen-year-old Tessa Darby came to England to escape the tyranny of a cruel stepfather -- and to do her utmost to reform the harsh child labor laws of her birth country. Harrison Belmour, the 5th Earl of Penwyck, and membe...

  • Her Dream Come True

    Donna Clayton

    IF WISHES WERE WEDDINGS... Her dreams had been simple when she left for Little Haven. A reunion with her long-lost sister and then a return to city life and her stellar career. But when Hannah Cavanaugh stepped foot in her small hometown once aga...

  • Look Who's in the Thanksgiving Play!

    Andrew Clements

    At first Annie enjoys participating in the school's production of the first Thanksgiving, until her two-year-old brother Alex starts appearing, in a lift-the-flap book which invites readers to find where Alex is hiding next....

  • West on 66

    James H. Cobb

    Aclassic noir mystery in the tradition of Elmore Leonard. Set on Route 66 in 1958, a young detective becomes involved with a mysterious and beautiful woman, mobsters and a search for a cache of moolah....

  • The Lost Bird

    Margaret Coel

    When a frail Father Keenan is murdered at St. Francis Mission, the community is shocked. Who would kill an ailing priest? The answer may date back to 1964, the year he abruptly left his post--and dozens of Arapaho parents were told their newborns had...

  • Too Many Suspects

    Ina Coggeshall

  • Regeneration

    Barbara Collins; Max Allan Collins

    Aging baby boomer Joyce Lackey never imagined she could go from having it all to being forced into an early retirement she can’t afford. Increasingly alone and desperate, Joyce turns suicidal -- until she’s put in touch with a mysterious benefact...

  • Courtin' Patience

    Kim Comeaux / Kimberley Comeaux

    Plain in looks and low in confidence, Patience Primrose wants desperately to marry and have a family of her own. When handsome Sheriff Lee Cutler falls ill and needs someone to care for him, Patience seizes the opportunity and volunteers her services...

  • Tub People's Christmas

    Pam Conrad

    What's a Tub Child to think when his Grandfather hands him a metal hook and tells him to “stand guard” as a roly-poly man in a red suit with a very large sack and an even larger tree pops out of the chimney in the middle of the night? In this...

  • Stuart Little: The Storybook

    Amy Jo Cooper

  • The Bride of Johnny McAllister

    Lori Copeland

    They called him "Outlaw." Unjustly accused of a crime he didn't commit, he's looking for nothing more than vengeance. But when Ragan Ramsey stared into the silent stranger's dark, brooding eyes, she saw her hearts desire... REV...

  • Zen and the City of Angels

    Elizabeth M. Cosin

    In the madness of L.A., Zen Moses is a risk-taking P.I. who has already fought for her life and her sanity--so what's wrong with doing a little favor for a friend? The friend is Jim Gray, a trusted attorney, who needs her to find a missing dog. But t...

  • The Countess

    Catherine Coulter

    DEAR READER: The Countess was my very first novel, published in 1978 under the title The Autumn Countess. Even at that amazingly young age, I still realized that I should write about something I knew. Since I'd grown up reading Georgette Heyer...

  • At His Side

    Roxanne Countryman

    She needed his protection. Shelby Raines was there the night her father was murdered. Born blind, she couldn't see the killer, but she heard what he said and knew he'd be back again. Alone for the first time, Shelby was in no position to refuse the...

  • The Hero's Journey

    Phil Cousineau

  • Bruce Coville's Alien Visitors

    Bruce Coville

    First ContactIf you can go outside, please do so, said the blue woman.I don't like to go outside if I can help it. But I went. So did Mom. So did most of the people in our development. A humming sound filled the sky. I looked up and gasped.The sky wa...

  • Bruce Coville's Shapeshifters

    Bruce Coville

  • The Prince's Bride

    Tracy Cozzens

    MIRROR, MIRROR ON THE WALL... Career-minded Nicole Aldridge left Caldonia, a principality mired in tradition, to pursue opportunities in America. Now the society editor for a glossy magazine in New York City, Nicole's life was going exactly as p...

  • Sleeping Boy

    Sonia Craddock

    Laugh and smile. Smile and laugh. That's Herr and Frau Rosen -- so happy to have a new baby boy! But when they invite all their friends in Berlin to celebrate the birth of little Knabe Rosen, they leave out one person -- the dreaded Major Krieg. When...

  • Goldengrove

    Mary Beth Craft

  • The Moonstone

    Claire Cross

    North England, 1390. Falsely accused of witchcraft, ever-optimistic Viviane is sure the truth will set her free. But when her execution is imminent, only a wish on an unusual moonstone pendant bequeathed by her father offers any solace. Thinking it h...

  • Lee Trebilcock in the 20th Century

    Hannah Crow

  • Slickrock

    Laura Crum

    Equine veterinarian Gail McCarthy is up for the challenge of a lifetime: two weeks alone deep within the winding trails of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California. Needing a break from the stress of everyday life and a somewhat trying long-distance...

  • A Stolen Life

    Jane Louise Curry

    In the late 1700s, young Jamesina is suddenly forced into a life of hardship after she is kidnapped by "spiriters," taken away from her family in Scotland, sent across the seas and sold into slavery to Shaws Plantation in Virginia....

  • Ties of Power

    Julie E. Czerneda

    SELF-EXILE became Sira's only choice when she discovered how deeply she'd been betrayed by the leaders of her people. Rather than allow them to continue to use her for their own ruthless purposes, Sira, the most powerful being ever born to the alien...

  • Help Me Please

    Barbara D'Amato

    An hour and a half after three-year-old Danielle Gaston is kidnapped from the Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago, a new web site pops up on the Wold Wide Web--featuring Danielle Gaston. She's isolated in a room with no food and only water to drink. This ...

  • The Alpine Legacy

    Mary Daheim

    KILL THE COMPETITION Emma Lord, editor and publisher of The Alpine Advocate, has never faced such cruel competition--especially not the fierce personal attacks mounted by Alpine's radical new publication, Crystal Clear. So when Crystal Bird, the e...

  • The Worm Tunnel

    Michael Dahl

    Thirteen-year-old sleuth Finnegan discovers that digging up the past is not always a good idea when he accompanies his uncle and their friend Jared on an archeological expedition to Aguilar, where they will uncover a rare dinosaur egg and evidence of...

  • Nipper the Noisy Puppy

    Jenny Dale

  • Stolen Moments

    B.J. Daniels

    Some men have sex appeal. Seth Gantry has it in spades. With ebony hair and bottomless eyes, Seth was the kind of man Olivia 'Levi' McCord's father warned her about - and the last man on earth she'd ever fall for. Especially when the sinewy cowbo...

  • Batman The Complete History: The Life and Times of the Dark Knight

    Les Daniels

    Following on the heels of Superman: The Complete History, author Les Daniels spotlights another famed crime fighterone who is perhaps even more popular than Superman. Batman, the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knightwhatever name he goes by, he is recogniz...

  • I, Amber Brown

    Paula Danziger

    Amber's father is back in town. That means joint custody and more fighting. What part of Amber belongs to her mom? To her dad? To herself? Amber decides to make her own choices and have her ears pierced. Though her mom has said no, her dad doesn't kn...

  • The Courage to Say Yes

    Lilian Darcy

    Spending Christmas with his sister Rachel’s in-laws should have been a pleasure for pediatric surgeon Angus Ferguson, even though she was set on matchmaking! But it was Caitlin Gray who caught his attention, until he found she was engaged to Scott,...

  • Dreams

    Peggy Darty
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    This four-in-one volume of all-new historical novelas -- each from an experienced author -- is sure to radiate nostalgic harmony in the midst of modern holiday cheer. Includes Dreams by Peggy Darty, Paper Roses by JoAnn A. Grote, Navidad de los Sueno...

  • Bonjour, Babies!

    Luke David

    The babies learn about the special charms of the French when their neighbor, Jacqueline DuMonde, comes to baby-sit with her son, Jean Claude, in an easy-to-read chapter book featuring the Rugrats stars. Original. TV tie-in....

  • Boswell Wide-Awake

    Day

    When Boswell Bear is wakened by a full moon, he sets out on a patrol of his house and discovers a variety of things that need his attention. His final duty before putting himself back to bed is to tuck in and kiss his sleeping father and mother.
    ...

  • Down in the Bottomlands: (And Other Places)

    L. Sprague de Camp

    LAWYER IN A STRANGE LAND In the real world, the Mediterranean basin dried up several times, only to refill again. If it hadn't, what's really sea bottom would have become the most savage desert in the world. Mild-mannered Radnal vez Krobir likes i...

  • The Courtship

    Anna De Forest

    THE FALLEN WOMAN Sacrificing her reputation so that she could provide a home for her two orphaned nephews, Miranda Kilpatrick took over the saloon she inherited from her uncle. Deciding long-ago that marriage wasn't for her, Miranda didn't care if T...

  • Soldier of Light

    John de Lancie; Tom Cool

    For more than a decade, actor John de Lancie has delighted and provoked audiences as Star Trek®'s most unpredictable antagonist, the enigmatic cosmic entity known only as Q. Now de Lancie has turned his talent and imagination to the creation of a wh...

  • Top Ten Greek Legends

    Terry Deary

  • Nightbird

    Edward Dee

    A young actress plummets through the sky, slamming down onto the roof of a parked car. Detectives Anthony Ryan and Joe Gregory believe the Broadway star's "suicide" may actually be something more sinister. The main suspect is a big-time Broadway prod...

  • The Oath of Stonekeep

    Troy Denning

    There were dark things in the valley...a host of throgs and shargas and hell-forged creatures sweeping out of the frozen wilderness to murder and ravage and take what men were too weak to defend... STONEKEEP An ancient citadel blessed by the gods...

  • Train man

    P.T. Deutermann

    ALL On a dark night, a bridge is blown to smithereens, thunderously plunging a one-hundred-car train deep into the Mississippi River. In Washington, the FBI scrambles--sending Assistant Director Hush Hanson and agent Carolyn Lang to investigate the ...

  • Betrayal

    Georgina Devon

    Lady Pippa LeClaire was desperate to find Philip, her twin, even posing as a boy to search the battlefield at Waterloo for the wounded. As a healer, she couldn't ignore the devastation, and did her best to help, saving the leg of Deverell St. Simon. ...

  • Shooby Is Short

    Lawrence Difiori

  • Blood Moon

    Sharman DiVono

    IT BEGAN WITH A CALL FOR HELP -- In the early part of the 21st century, the United States renewed its commitment to the space program, building a base on the far side of the Moon. The first four missions of the new century went off without a hitch...

  • Outside Chance

    Louisa Dixon

    With the aid of a psychotic highway patrolman, the Governor's right-hand man fakes his own death, and murder follows murder in a roller coaster ride of suspense served up Southern-style in this second novel in the Laura Owen trilogy....

  • The Raven and the Nightingale

    Joanne Dobson

    As professor of American women's literature at an elite New England college, Karen Pelletier has discovered that murder can occur even within the civilized confines of academia. But even she is not prepared for the waves of violence that rock Enfield...

  • A Reluctant Mistress

    Robyn Donald

    She was nobody's fool...and nobody's mistress! Clay Beauchamp would have to learn -- Natalia was not for sale! He was handsome, protective, even generous, but nothing would lure Natalia into his bed...until the night her livelihood was des...

  • Do No Harm

    Don Donaldson

    When pediatric resident Sarchi Seminoux's young nephew arrives in her emergency room paralyzed, Drew's only hope lies in an experimental procedure created by enigmatic brain surgeon Dr. Latham, but the mysterious side effects of the operation lead Sa...

  • Undercover Dad

    Charlotte Douglas

    He'd forgotten everything -- his identity, his woman, his baby... It had been sixteen months since Rachel Goforth had seen or heard from FBI agent Stephen Chandler, but she wasted no time heeding his frantic call warning her of danger. Yet wh...

  • War Cry

    Keith Douglass

    Since 1953, the no-man's-land between North and South Korea has remained in a permanent stalemate...until now. As the vice president of the United States and several congressmen make an official inspection of the American border troops, the North Kor...

  • Eyes of the Heart

    Rosey Dow
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    This four-in-one volume of all-new historical novelas -- each from an experienced author -- is sure to radiate nostalgic harmony in the midst of modern holiday cheer. Includes Dreams by Peggy Darty, Paper Roses by JoAnn A. Grote, Navidad de los Sueno...

  • Beneath a Blood Red Moon

    Shannon Drake

    A tale that sweeps the reader from the antebellum South to contemporary New Orleans, the dark, sensuous world of love and immortality -- of the beauty and the beast whom some call vampire... Maggie Montgomery, the owner of Magdalena's an elegant...

  • State Ward

    Alan Duff

    Charlie Wilson the "state house boy" is sent to Riverton Boys' Home as a state ward until such time he is seen fit to return to society. The door in the cellblock isn't the only thing that Charlie finds is for real - there's also the name "George" sc...

  • Crazy Horse

    Bill Dugan

    THE SIOUX WARS As the United States recovers from the devastation of the Civil War, the white man begins a violent push westward, claiming the land of the Sioux and their Cheyenne allies through broken treaties and cold-blooded aggression. Despera...

  • The Parent Test

    Elizabeth Duke

    A wedding for baby's sake. Roxy Warren was abroad when her baby niece was tragically orphaned. Little Emma is now in the custody of her uncle, Cam Raeburn. Roxy is furious! Cam is a playboy and knows nothing about babies! When Roxy arrives to sta...

  • Lord of the Fire Lands

    Dave Duncan

    As unwanted, rebellious boys, they found refuge in Ironhall...Years, later they emerged as the finest swordsmen in the realm-- THE KING'S BLADES Once bound, a Blade's life is no longer his own. Only death can break the gilded chain of enchantment...

  • The Unknown Malone

    Anne Eames

    TWO SECRET SONS Michael Phillips had been shocked to learn he was the unknown Malone--the secret child of a wealthy Montana family's patriarch. And now it seemed his beautiful boarder was hiding something from him. But he'd never expected that some...

  • Santa Cow Island

    Cooper Edens

  • Frames Per Second

    Bill Eidson

    When a journalist friend is killed by a bomb planted in his camera case, news photographer Ben Harris searches for the murderer, following a deadly trail that leads him into a plot involving right-wing extremists, the mob, and high-level political in...

  • A Ranger's Wife

    Lyn Ellis

    He couldn't love her before -- because of her vow. And he can't love her now -- because of his promise. Lawmen know everything can change in an instant. They hope for the best and prepare for the worst. They don't take their lives or their promis...

  • Wendy's Phoenix

    Roger Elwood

    A determined young public defender who has devoted her career to help the unfortunate, Wendy MacPherson finds her life turned upside down by a devastating automobile accident that forces her to rediscover the true meaning of friendship and faith. Ori...

  • Glad Monster, Sad Monster

    Ed Emberley

    Glad, sad, silly, mad - monsters have all kinds of different feelings! In this innovative die-cut book, featuring a snazzy foil cover, you'll try on funny masks as you walk through the wide range of moods all little monsters (and kids!) experience. ...

  • Ice Fire Water

    Leslie Epstein

    "At once a travel tale, a historical meditation, a Holocaust revenge fantasy, and a bedroom farce." -- D. T. Max, New York Times Book Review Leib Goldkorn, aged musician, first appeared almost a quarter-century ago in The Steinway Quintet. Now Leib h...

  • Toss

    Boomer Esiason; Lowell Cauffiel

    IT'S GOING TO BE A KILLER SEASON Ten-million-dollar quarterback Derek Brody is the best new hope for the New York Stars. He's got the arm, the attitude, and the guts to make it work on the football field. But off the field, he finds things more...

  • Passion! Betrayal! Outrage! Revenge!

    Greg Evans

  • The Dance

    Richard Paul Evans

    Dancing marks the rites of passage in a daughter's life and that of the father who loves her. From her first carefree twirling in the flower-dotted yard, to her first solo performance in The Nutcracker, to the waltz of her wedding night, her father i...

  • Longarm and the Chain Gang Women

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm is called in by a cowardly sheriff to corral six escaped convicts, dead or alive, but his mission becomes complicated when he discovers that the wanted outlaws are six beautiful ladies. Original....

  • Longarm and the Diary of Madame Velvet

    Tabor Evans

    Some dirty diaries give Longarm clues to a killer!When two spinsters inherit a former whorehouse -- and stumble on the incriminating journals of the scarlet woman who once ran the place--it's up to Longarm to fend off danger and keep these very lovin...

  • Magical Creatures

    Carolyn Ewing

  • A Christmas Canvas

    Elisabeth Fairchild
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    The gifts of Christmas are priceless -- good cheer, warm hearts, and happy times with friends. And now five bestselling Regency authors have made a special present to you--five brand-new stories. High-spirited and humorous, heartwarming and romantic ...

  • Yearling

    Steven Farley

    Once again, Danielle must adjust to life without her beloved horse Redman, who's back on duty at the riding camp. She turns to Raven for comfort, but the brash young colt is more full of himself than ever. Although Alec, Raven's trainer, is pleased w...

  • Fair Game

    Diane Farr

    A Shocking Barter Clarissa is a young woman of unearthly beauty -- and unfortunate parentage. Ostracized by the family of her deceased nobleman father, the refined innocent is left to the devices of her estranged mother, an infamous harlot known a...

  • The Flying Scotsman

    Quinn Fawcett

    To keep the peace after an attempted assassination, a Prince must be smuggled out of England aboard the Flying Scotsman, the fastest train between London and Edinburgh. Disguised as journalists, Mycroft and Patterson Guthrie, guard the Prince. Also a...

  • Dead in the Hay

    Connie Feddersen

    Amanda Hazard, savvy CPA and amateur sleuth, thought marriage might give her a break from murder. But crime never takes a honeymoon. A BALE OF BLOODSHED Amanda is just settling into married life with her new husband, sexy country cop Nick Thorn, ...

  • The Millennium Girl

    Coerte V.W. Felske

    Enter a world of beautiful gold-diggers and their rich quarry as Bodicea, the Millennium Girl, and her lovely friends move through the in-crowd searching for kicks, fast times, and extreme wealth while they can still enjoy them. Reprint.....

  • The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: The Fiftieth Anniversary Anthology

    Edward L. Ferman

    Since its founding, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has been acclaimed as one of the pinnacles of the field, the source of fantastic fiction of the highest literary quality. Now the magazine known to its readers as "F&SF" celebrates its f...

  • Hero in the Nick of Time

    Marie Ferrarella

    THE MARRIAGE MASQUERADE Cade Townsend knew almost nothing about his new wife! But posing as McKayla Dellaventura's husband was the only way they could expose the black-market ring that had stolen her infant niece - and his son. Still, the savvy in...

  • Framed in Lace

    Monica Ferris

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

  • Dying for a Clue

    Judy Fitzwater

    MYSTERY NOVELIST JENNIFER MARSH IS BACK -- CAUGHT IN A MURDER PLOT SHE DIDN'T CREATE! Jennifer Marsh thinks getting some real investigative experience will be good for her writing-and helping private eye Johnny Zeeman track down the birth parents ...

  • Knock 'Em Dead

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    SHOW BUSINESS CAN BE MURDER.... When her latest mystery novel is tapped to become a Broadway play, Jessica Fletcher is thrilled beyond words. But she soon learns that the bright lights of the New York theater scene aren't all they're cracked up to...

  • The Home Love Built

    Christine Flynn

    ONE WOMAN... Estate sales were routine for paralegal Laura Barrett -- that is, when the parties involved weren't a harried single dad and his vulnerable tomboy daughter. Suddenly Laura wasn't just the outsider looking in. She'd becom...

  • The Start Of Something Big

    Focus on the Family

  • Twinship

    Laurie Foos

  • Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

    Esther Forbes

    This vivid account of the life and times of Paul Revere was first published in 1942 to great acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize. An elegant storyteller and expert historian, Edith Forbes paints a memorable portrait of American colonial history and of this ...

  • Memoranda

    Jeffrey Ford

    The acclaimed author of the World Fantasy Award-winning New York Times Notable novel, The Physiognomy, returns us now to a shadow purgatory of strange dreams and striking moral ambiguities.

    Once Cley held a position of respect and fear in Master Dr...

  • Fools Rush In

    Gwynne Forster

    After a devastating tragedy sent her into a severe depression, Justine Montgomery gave up her newborn daughter for adoption. Realizing her mistake too late, she discovered her daughter had been adopted by divorced journalist Duncan Banks -- and that ...

  • Tangled Dreams

    Lori Foster
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    When darkness holds the most tantalizing of possibilities, what goes bump in the night may be the man of your dreams .... Everything is possible and nothing is as it seems in four enchanting tales brimming with romance, passion, and a touch of won...

  • Wanton

    Lori Foster

    CONSTANT CRAVING Private Investigator Alec Sharpe wanted to keep Celia Carter safe. He also just plain WANTED her. But Celia had some crazy ideas -- first that she could conduct a risky investigation all by herself, and second that she could ignor...

  • More Murder, They Wrote

    Elizabeth Foxwell

    Mystery writer-turned-amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher presents a new collection of fourteen intriguing, original mysteries by J. A. Jance, Margaret Coel, Sharan Newman, Sue Henry, Eileen Dreyer, and other notable authors. Original....

  • Second Wind

    Dick Francis

    When a hurricane-chasing plane is downed on a Caribbean island, TV meteorologist Perry Stuart barely escapes with his life. But he can't escape what he saw on the island--and if the people who've tracked him back to England have their way, Stuart wil...

  • Simon's Family

    Marianne Fredriksson

    In her #1 international bestseller Hanna's Daughters, Marianne Fredriksson brilliantly evoked three generations of mothers, daughters, and the men in their lives. Now, in her haunting new novel, she traces the extraordinary relationship between a mot...

  • Story of Christmas

    Vivian French

  • Backstage Murder

    Shelley Freydont

    Helping a friend out with a favor, Lindy Haggerty agrees to put her dance shoes back on to rescue a troubled show. But Lindy has no idea just how doomed the production is until the backstage tantrums, demands, and threats turn a simple pas de deux in...

  • How Are You Peeling?

    Saxton Freymann

    Let Scholastic Bookshelf be your guide through the whole range of your child's experiences-laugh with them, learn with them, read with them! Eight classic, best-selling titles are available now!Category: Feelings"Amused? Confused? Frustrated? Surpris...

  • A Midsummer Night's Faery Tale

    Wendy Froud

    In a forest called the Old Oak Wood, early on a rosy summer's morn, a young faery named Sneezle wakes in his nest to the clear music of pipes and the warm smell of the sun. At dusk tonight, the Midsummer Eve festivities will begin -- a time of potent...

  • Be Quiet, Pooh!

    Isabel Gaines

  • Time Capsule

    Donald R. Gallo

    Teenagers who have entered this new millennium with visions of what their lives will be like in years to come will be intrigued by these 10 imaginative stories collected and edited by author and editor Donald R. Gallo. Award-winning authors explore a...

  • Fencing The Sky

    James Galvin

    A cattleman flees the scene of an accidental murder in “the most ambitious and original novel about the modern West to have appeared in some time” (Kirkus Reviews).Stepping his horse through the lush, beaver-worked draw looking for stray cows, Mi...

  • A Miracle in Paradise

    Carolina Garcia-Aguilera

    Spirituality has never been Lupe Solano's strong suit. But the recently transplanted Order of the Illumination of the Sacred Virgin is predicting that, on October tenth, the blessed icon at the Shrine of the Cuban Virgin will shed real tears. It is a...

  • Love Lessons // Lecciones Amorosas

    Diana Garcia

    A weekend in the wilderness with Daniel Stephens? Susanna Diaz can't possibly be expected to endure such torture. Never mind that both of their daughters--and an entire group of grade schoolers--will be along as chaperones! When Susanna looks into Da...

  • An Elf for Christmas

    Michael Garland

    After falling asleep and being delivered along with a toy airplane on Christmas morning, Tingle, a hard-working elf, tries to make his way back to the North Pole. By the illustrator of The Mouse Before Christmas. ...

  • What's for Lunch?

    Ann Garrett

    Pull down the flaps in this bright, playful, oversize book and find out what an elephant and other animals have for lunch--and the messes they make eating it! Young children will love identifying their favorite animals, guessing what kind of food the...

  • The Sorcerer's Gun

    Peter Garrison

    With the portal between Earth and Castle open, the war that has raged in Castle spills over into the human domain, and a band of courageous humans is determined to overthrow the despot who orchestrates the chaos in both worlds. Reprint....

  • Welding with Children

    Tim Gautreaux

    A master storyteller's triumphant, moving collection about lost souls, found love, and rediscovered traditionTim Gautreaux returns to the form that won him his first fans, with tales of family, sin, and redemption: from a man who realizes his grandch...