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  • My Name Is Nell

    Laura Abbot

    Brady Logan never expected to find Nell Porter when he left California. He didn't even know he was looking for her. After the death of his wife and child, Brady Logan barely felt like living, never mind loving again. Meeting Nell has somehow made ...

  • In the Ice Caves of Krog

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Way up north in the ice caves of Droon lives a nasty, snowy beast. Krog has just woken up from a long nap, and boy, is he grouchy! Eric and his friends have to stop the monster from ca...

  • Barbie of Swan Lake

    Linda Williams Aber

    Barbie is one of the top girls' properties - the world's #1 fashion doll. Now Scholastic is publishing a tie-in with "Barbie in Swan Lake," Mattel's third direct-to-video Barbie movie.

    Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived ...

  • Love and Country

    Christina Adam

    When rodeo practice begins, young Kenny Swanson is hugely disappointed to learn that he won't be able to compete. He and his mother, Lenna, have just moved to a new town and can't afford the risk of injury that is a fact of riding broncs. But a boy...

  • Cam Jansen and the Tennis Trophy Mystery

    David A. Adler

    Mr. Day's prized tennis trophy had been safely locked in his cabinet. Now it's gone! "I keep the office door and the cabinet doors locked. How could anyone have taken it?" Mr. Day asks. Eric thinks he can solve the case. Cam knows she can. Can you?...

  • Great Expectations

    Ginny Aiken
    in

    For the Miami-based "Classic Strings" quartet, the mellow tones of violin, viola, bass, and cello blend in perfect harmony. But discord fills the personal life of each member. Marissa Soliz, who plays the upright bass, has serious doubts about the ne...

  • Less Than Perfect

    Louise Albert

    By ignoring her mother's breast cancer, Laura secretly hopes that it will just go away as she does her best to cope with such a tragic turn of events with the help and support of her new friend, love, and confidant, Paul....

  • The Price of Murder

    Bruce Alexander

    When the body of a young girl is pulled from the Thames, blind magistrate Sir John Fielding's investigation leads his protege, Jeremy Proctor, into the notorious Seven Dials section of London. There the sordid inclinations of both the working class a...

  • Ghosts of Boyfriends Past

    Carly Alexander

    First She Wanted Naughty... Madison Greenwood's first post-college Christmas is more Sex and the City than It's a Wonderful Life. Sure, she does the home-for-the-holidays thing, but with her cynical gay pal Leo tagging along, her mom confessing to a...

  • Hideaway

    Hannah Alexander

    As an E.R. doctor, Cheyenne Allison is used to handling emergencies on a daily basis -- until her own sister codes on the trauma bed. Devastated, Cheyenne retreats to an isolated farm in Hideaway, Missouri. But peace and solitude are in short supply ...

  • I'll Never Share You, Blackboard Bear

    Martha Alexander

    With a spare narrative and inviting watercolors, Martha Alexander tells a charming new tale of a boy and his beloved Blackboard Bear - who has some creative ideas about sharing.

    Share? Why? But you’re mine!

    When the other children wa...

  • The Best Thing Yet

    Robin Allen

    Stunning fashion model Tangi Ellington has it all -youth, beauty, fame, and enough money to last a lifetime. She even has a sweet disposition. Yet something special-or more specifically, someone special -is missing. Until she meets compelling Distric...

  • Dr. Bodyguard

    Jessica Andersen

    PROTECTOR...LOVER She'd been a prodigy since birth, a woman for whom no puzzle was unsolvable. But when she was attacked in her very own research lab, brilliant, reserved Dr. Genie "Genius" Watson quickly discovered that this time she didn't have ...

  • For Christmas, for Always

    Caroline Anderson

    When GP Katharine Crawford walks out of the shower in her hotel room and into the arms of the husband she hasn't seen in five years, the love and passion they once shared is instantly rekindled. Now sure of Kate's love, Dr. Oliver Crawford is dete...

  • Up In A Heaval

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

    “The 26th installment of Anthony’s popular Xanth series contains a wealth of puns and wordplay, as well as a host of ingenuous and likable protagonists.” -- Library JournalAn innocent piece of Mundane Snail Mail has provoked the dreaded Demon ...

  • Cube Route

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

    For nearly three decades, Piers Anthony's bestselling Xanth series has been delighting tens of thousands of fantasy fans around the world. Now, with Cube Route, the series' twenty-seventh adventure, Anthony has penned a tale that adds another dime...

  • The Ideal Husband

    Shari Anton

    The marriage is make-believe, but the passion is all too real... 'Tis the stuff legends are made of: a heroic husband risks his life to save his beloved from a shipwreck. Yet the gravely injured man Leah of Pecham tenderly cradles is not her...

  • We're Going on a Treasure Hunt

    Tom Arma

  • Skyfall

    Catherine Asaro

    THE BIRTH OF AN EMPIRE Skyfallgoes back to the beginning, to the rebirth of Skolia, showing how a chance meeting on a backwater planet forges a vast interstellar empire. Eldrinson, a provincial ruler on a primitive planet, is plagued by inner demo...

  • A Fair Exchange Is Robbery

    Jeffrey Ashford

    Description When Gavin Penfold finished work that evening, he was thinking only of looking forward to an evening drink with his wife before dinner at their beautiful home in the country. But his journey was soon brutally interrupted by men who hijack...

  • The Pirate Next Door

    Jennifer Ashley

    Love & Daring in Mayfair What was a proper English lady to do when a pirate moved next door? Add the newly titled viscount to her list of possible suitors? Take his wildly eccentric young daughter under her wing? Let the outlandish rogue kiss her ...

  • Loony Little

    Dianna Hutts Aston

    A wry, simple story with luminous illustrations offers a delightful twist on the traditional Chicken Little fable - and an important message about our environment.

    Great top of the world! The polar icecap is melting!

    When a drop of wate...

  • Room... But Not Bored!

    Dawn Atkins

    Roommates are off-limits...aren't they? Ariel Adams hates everything about the beach. So when circumstances force her to move into a small beach house, she's convinced life can't get worse. It can. The house isn't empty. Inside, sports gear, dirty...

  • Captain America, Volume 3: Ice

    Chuck Austen

    For decades World War 2 super-soldier Captain America lay in frozen suspended-animation, encased in ice, until he was revived in the modern world to again take his post of protector of the Red, White and Blue. But when a mysterious package arrives at...

  • Thunder on the Dos Gatos

    Paul Bagdon

    In 1880s Texas, the spirited Lee Morgan is on the verge of developing the finest ranch horses the West has ever seen. When her prized mares are nearly destroyed by a band of wild, trigger-happy cowhands, Lee is infuriated and ready to spring into act...

  • Should Have Been Her Child

    Stella Bagwell

    FIVE YEARS TOO LATE.... She should have been mine, Victoria Ketchum thought as she cradled Jess Hasting's daughter. Instead, Victoria had turned from Jess, and he'd married another. Now a widowed single father, the lean, rugged deputy sheriff coul...

  • Pea Pod Babies

    Karen Baicker

    How many times can three babies be chucked under the chin and told they look "just like three peas in a pod"? Even the most patient babies have their limits, and Sweet Pea, Snap Pea, and Snow Pea are no exception. In a moment of rebellion, they burst...

  • Dragon's Breath

    E.D. Baker

    When your grandmother is a cranky old witch, your intended prince is a jerk, and your kingdom is about to be invaded, "happily ever after" can be exasperating. But from the bottom of the fishbowl sea to the heights of the mountaintop Dragon Olympics...

  • Wolf Dreamer

    Madeline Baker
    in

    Pregnant and alone on the Colorado prairie, Rebecca Hathaway's prayers were answered -- by rugged Wolf Dreamer. Will her search for home and family lead them to a new life together?...

  • A Family Christmas

    Mary Balogh
    in

    A Family Christmas brings together a couple estranged since just after their arranged marriage the year before, and gives them the perfect chance to start over....

  • Dead in 5 Heartbeats

    Ralph "Sonny" Barger

    Ralph "Sonny" Barger first gained the attention of the book world with his bestselling memoir Hell's Angel. Now he uses what he's learned from a life insidea subculture few will ever know to create his no-holds-barred first novel, giving readers a ta...

  • Unraveled

    C.J. Barry

    To continue her father's life's quest, Tru Van Dye had to leave the insular colony of Majj scientists where she was raised. She had to find Rayce Coburne. Yet the virtual-reality program she acquired to gird herself against the man's touch, his innue...

  • A Baby in the House

    Pamela Bauer

    The bridesmaid is pregnant.... The stuffy air in the church and her queasy stomach are a bad combination, especially since Krystal Graham is trying to hide her condition -- particularly from Garret Donovan, the groomsman assigned to escort her dow...

  • Pulse Points

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    Kasey Ellis's life is shattered after she witnesses the murder of her friend and business partner at their Tyler, Texas, advertising agency. Though Kasey can't identify the killer, she believes the killer saw her -- and that her life is now in danger...

  • Mr. Timothy

    Louis Bayard

    It's the Christmas season, and Mr. Timothy Cratchit, not the pious child the world thought he was, has just buried his father. He's also struggling to bury his past as a cripple and shed his financial ties to his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by los...

  • Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House

    M.C. Beaton

    THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT... Agatha Raisin, snug and warm in her Carsely cottage, has that same old feeling--boredom--until a report of a haunted house sends her and handsome new neighbor Paul Chatterton to investigate. Suddenly, middle-ag...

  • Holly Jolly Jimmy

    Adam Beechen

    It's Christmas Eve in Retroville, but Jimmy Neutron is not in a jolly mood. The boy genius is on a mission -- to convince his friends Carl and Sheen that there is no Santa Claus. To do that, however, they have to take a trip to the North Pole. when ...

  • Shipwreck

    Louis Begley

    A mesmerizing novel of deception and betrayal from the acclaimed author of Wartime Lies and About Schmidt. John North, a prize-winning American writer, is suddenly beset by dark suspicions about the real value of his work. Over endless hours and ...

  • Fall of a Kingdom

    Hilari Bell

    WHO WAS SORAHB? Stories are told of a hero who will come to Farsala's aid when the need is greatest. But for thousands of years the prosperous land of Farsala has felt no such need, as it has enjoyed the peace that comes from being both respected an...

  • Nocturne

    Elaine Bergstrom

    In the first new novel about the Austra family of vampires in over ten years, two modern-day young lovers find that they must face a deadly enemy, in a dangerous land that both thought they had left behind......

  • Exposed

    Jeanne Betancourt

    From award winning author Jeanne Betancourt the 2nd in the series about Maya, Joy and Carolyn, 3 unlikely friends who meet at a photo-workshop in Greenwich Village, NYC.

    Joy: Now living at her mom's full time. She thinks she'll have more freed...

  • Shattered

    Olga Bicos

    When architect Holly Fairfield lands a dream job renovating a posh San Francisco restaurant, she discovers nothing has happened by chance. Soon she's caught in a dangerous game between Cutty family rivals -- and a dark legacy of obsession and murder....

  • An Unbreakable Hope

    Kristin Billerbeck

    Emily Jensen has always longed for marriage and a family of her own. She has her ideals - or at least those imposed by her mother - of how the right man will look and act. But life doesn't always work the way it should. Darin Black was blessed to ...

  • The Wind Off the Sea

    Charlotte Bingham

    It is 1947, the worst winter in England since records began, and even the sea is frozen. For the women living in the little fishing port of Bexham, the chronic lack of everything from fuel to food has left them reeling. When Waldo Astley drives th...

  • The Other Groom

    Lisa Bingham

    Someone wanted her dead -- or so her faintly familiar bodyguard kept telling her. But the only person "Louisa Haversham Winslow" needed protection from was him -- because this gentle giant of a man made her crave things no respectable newly widowed w...

  • Attack of the Mutant Underwear

    Tom Birdseye

    In an attempt to leave his "wild and wacky guy" reputation behind, Cody Lee Carlson has made a personal pledge to change his ways when he goes back to school as a fifth grader, but after he is seen in his underwear in a local store by a female classm...

  • The House of Gaian

    Anne Bishop

    It began as a witch-hunt. But the Master Inquisitor's plans to eliminate all traces of female power in the world have expanded to crushing the Sylvalan barons who oppose him--and to destroying the wellspring of magic in the Mother's Hills. Faced w...

  • Line of Duty

    Terri Blackstock

    At the request of her many fans -- Terri Blackstock revisits the heroic cast of characters in this fifth book in her best-selling Newpointe 911 series In Line of Duty, a bomb explodes at the Icon International building in New Orleans while lawyer Jil...

  • Shakespeare's Spy

    Gary Blackwood

    "You will come into a fortune..." But what the Fortune-Teller doesn't tell Widge, the orphan-boy-turned-actor in Will Shakespeare's company, is who is stealing from the company. Things are disappearing mysteriously, and it looks like an inside job....

  • Unmistakable Rogue

    Annette Blair

    FOR RICHER OR POORER... Married and widowed in short order, Chastity Somers vows to claim her bridegroom's inheritance as the long-lost St. Iyves, Earl of Barrington, if only to have the means to care for his impoverished young cousins. After free...

  • A Viscount for Christmas

    Catherine Blair

    They Were Shockingly Mismatched... With the untimely death of his father, handsome, privileged Jack Harrow inherited a wealth of responsibilities. And his first order of business was to pay a visit to his new country estate. No matter that he has l...

  • Peacemaker: Buffalo Brigade

    Clifford Blair

    Professional troubleshooter James Stark (The Peacemaker) and his wife, attorney Prudence McKay, are asked by black lawyer, Thaddeus Jenkins, to aid his Uncle Caleb who owns a freight line in the lawless Indian Territory town of Beaver.

    Caleb and ...

  • The Wedding Wish

    Ally Blake

    "I'm getting married! Now I just need a fiance!" Party planner Holly Denison decides that if she is ever going to have the leading role in her own wedding party, she has to take matters into her own hands! Surely her best friends can fix her u...

  • A Crossworder's Gift

    Nero Blanc

    FIVE CROSSWORDS INCLUDED--ANSWERS IN THE BACK! "At last," raves puzzle editor Charles Preston of USA Today, "puzzle fans have their revenge...super sleuthing and solving for puzzle lovers." Now, the irrepressible crossword editor ...

  • The Antarctic Scoop

    Lucy Jane Bledsoe

    Selected as the next child star for an on-line travel video, twelve-year-old Victoria is thrilled about her upcoming expedition to Antarctica, but things don't go as she had expected and she now must make the most of a bad situation that is sure to c...

  • The Wild Child

    Judith Bowen

    When Eva Haines first comes to remote (and supposedly deserted) Liberty Island, she has the uncanny feeling that someone's watching her -- and she's right. A small wild-looking child with a huge black dog has been following her around. Eva, who's spe...

  • The Impostor

    Celeste Bradley

    RULE #2: NEVER LET YOURSELF BE SEDUCED. He is a member of the Liar's Club, an elite group of renegade spies who work in the service of the Crown. His missions are difficult, dangerous, and undercover, requiring him to study his subject very, ver...

  • Lives of the Circus Animals

    Christopher Bram

    There is Caleb Doyle, a hot new playwright whose newest work, Chaos Theory, has just bombed. His sister, Jessie, also loves theater but has no outlet for her talents except to work as the personal assistant to British actor Henry Lewse, "the Hamlet o...

  • Swimming with the Dead

    Kathy Brandt

    THE CRIME SCENE: UNDERWATER THE CLUES: BELOW THE SURFACE I'm Hannah Sampson. I head the Dive and Recovery Team of Denver's homicide division--underwater investigation of crime scenes and evidence retrieval. When you dive, equipment can fail, reas...

  • Once Late with a .38

    Peter Brandvold

    Sheriff Ben Stillman finds himself immersed in mystery when Tom Suthern, the owner of the Circle P Ranch, is brutally murdered and his future son-in-law, Matt Parrish, who desperately wanted Tom to sell the ranch to him, is found standing over the bo...

  • The Vatican Connection

    James Brant

    A MAN IS KILLED ON A BEACH IN SPAIN. MISSING ARE HIS LAPTOP AND A SECRET DOCUMENT. THE LAPTOP CONTAINS MILITARY SOFTWARE THAT COULD CHANGE THE FACE OF WAR. THE DOCUMENT, CALLED THE PROFESSIO, CONTAINS A DECLARATION THAT COULD DESTROY THE CATHOLIC ...

  • The Private Life of the Cat Who

    Lilian Jackson Braun

    What could be more purrfect for fans of the Cat Who series than an intimate look at the private lives of those extraordinary Siamese cats Koko and Yum Yum--the most unlikely, most unusual, most delightful team in detective fiction! In this charming ...

  • 'Round the Corner

    Vonette Bright; Nancy Moser

    Evelyn is not so sure she likes the new dynamics of Peerbaugh Place. Even though it had been hard adapting to strangers living in her home, she and the other women (from The Sister Circle) had found a calm cove of sisterhood. Now Evelyn is starting o...

  • Star Dragon

    Mike Brotherton

    The SS Cygni is 245 light-years from Earth. It sends back hours and hours of video, but only a few minutes matter--the four minutes that show a creature living, moving, dancing in the plasma fire of a double star's accretion disk. A dragon made of st...

  • Tyrone's Story

    Sigmund Brouwer

    This new trilogy from three best-selling authors explores the differing perspectives of three high school seniors on the events and choices leading up to the death of a classmate, Sammy. All feel a measure of guilt for their role in the loss of their...

  • Willow

    Carolyn Brown

    Willow Gail Dulan didn't like Rafe Pierce when he read her father's will. She sure didn't like him when he tried to talk Hank Gibson out of letting her and her four newly-found sisters travel to California with the wagon train of mail-order brides. <...

  • Centennial Bride

    Debra Lee Brown
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    A covert network of secret agents is Colorado's most lethal weapon -- and its only hope. Bound by love, loyalty and the law, these men and women are trained to handle the most clandestine and dangerous cases. As scandal and ruin threaten the state's ...

  • The Night We Kissed

    Laurie Brown

    A Woman With A Secret Impersonating her young friend Precious is the most bizarre thing American Cordelia Weston has ever done, but in order to find her sister Emily's errant British fiance, Cordelia needs the aid of her friend's family in L...

  • Hello, Darkness

    Sandra Brown

    Since moving to Austin to ease the pain of tragic mistakes, Paris Gibson has led a life of virtual isolation, coming alive only at night when she hosts her popular radio show. Then one listener--who identifies himself as "Valentino"--tells Paris that...

  • Inheritance

    Simon Brown

    A Kingdom Divided Together, the four Keys of Power give the ruler of Grenda Lear absolute authority. But on her deathbed Queen Usharna divides the keys, and thus the power that augments the throne, among her four children, giving the Key of the Sc...

  • The Eye of the Abyss

    Marshall Browne

    It is Germany, 1938, and Franz Schmidt is the chief auditor in a commercial bank in a provincial city. But as Schmidt will soon learn, the bank's prestigious new client, the Nazi party, is at once its least desirable. Schmidt will oversee their accou...

  • Traggedy Ann

    Sinclair Browning

    SEX, LIES AND MURDER Trade Ellis's high-country Vaca Grande ranch is just a car ride away from a world that couldn't be more different--a city of flash and glitter, poverty and hurt. Trade is happy making her living with Brahman cattle, but an occ...

  • Morning Dark

    Daniel Buckman

    Daniel Buckman has been praised for his stunning prose and sharp, riveting portrayals of the lives of American veterans in the wake of this country's twentieth-century wars. Morning Dark is the story of three generations of men from Watega County, Il...

  • The Names of Rivers

    Daniel Buckman

    In a rustbelt town south of Chicago, three generations of Konick men attempt to assemble lives lived in the shadows of war. Bruno Konick is the patriarch, haunted by his actions during the World War II liberation of Dachau. His middle-aged sons, B...

  • A Faker's Dozen

    Melvin Jules Bukiet

    The wicked exploits of an assortment of louts and losers occupy Melvin Jules Bukiet's profligate imagination in these delectable stories. The title of Melvin Jules Bukiet's latest collection hints at the deceitful nature of its multiple protagonists....

  • Familiar Double

    Caroline Burnes

    PICTURE PURRRFECT Someone wanted gorgeous stunt double Nicole Paul out of the picture in more ways than one. Except Familiar, the crime-solving black cat, knew only her rugged boss, Jax McClure, believed she was being framed for a jewel theft. But...

  • Samhain

    Laura J. Burns
    in

    The Witching Hours Samhain: 10/31, or Halloween -- traditionally a time to reflect, a time of divination, and a time to honor the ancients. But Phoebe's plans to communicate with her ancestors are cut short when she's recruited to help reunite a s...

  • If Loving You Is Wrong

    Loure Bussey

    Things are looking up for Simi Mitchell. After years as a struggling screenwriter and the recent pain of a bitter divorce, she's finally hit pay dirt-a major studio has bought her screenplay for a feature film. As if that weren't enough, the man who'...

  • White Midnight

    Dia Calhoun

    Companion to Firegold, an ALA Best Book for Young Adults

    Rose Chandler, a fifteen-year-old bondgirl who lives on Greengarden Orchard, fears everything: the dark, the moon, other people, and the Dalriadas from the Red Mountains who are at war w...

  • Mesmerized

    Candace Camp

    All her life, Olivia Moreland has denied her clairvoyant abilities, working instead to disprove the mediums that flock to London. But when Stephen, Lord St. Leger, requests her help in investigating an alleged psychic, she can't ignore the ominou...

  • Parker's Passion

    Joanna Campbell

    Parker has never wanted to run Townsend Acres, but when Brad makes him an offer he can't refuse...

    Parker Townsend has always had one passion: eventing. And as he works with a legendary trainer in England, it seems as if Parker's dreams a...

  • Hard Cash // Moving Out

    Kate Cann

    Easy Money Rich is sick of being broke. He can never afford new clothes and has to scrounge off his mates in the pub. The girl he fancies won't look at him twice, and he's pretty sure that life is passing him by. But soon fortune decides to smi...

  • Miranda's Story

    Melody Carlson

    This new trilogy from three best-selling authors explores the differing perspectives of three high school seniors on the events and choices leading up to the death of a classmate, Sammy. All feel a measure of guilt for their role in the loss of their...

  • Giggle-Wiggle Wake-Up

    Nancy White Carlstrom

    Swirl in, twirl in
    Monday morning sunshine
    T i n y S h i n y
    Wakes a sleepyhead.

    It’s morning! Time for Sam to get ready for school. After a sniffy-whiffy eat-up and a splashy-flashy wash-up, Sammy’s off into the busy-whizzy wild...

  • I'll Be Your Shelter

    Giselle Carmichael

    Attorney Jillian Newman, advocate for the downtrodden and watchdog of the local police department, witnesses a horrible murder during the height of a thunderous storm in a downtown parking deck. Hunted by the gunmen, an attempt is made on her life an...

  • Ho! Ho! Ho! A Chistmas Peek-A-Boo Book

    Lark Carrier

    Eye-catching illustrations, die-cut pages, and an adorable dog make this a fun novelty book for Christmas.

    Where could Leroy's present be? He snoops in the closet, peeks under the bed, sniffs under the tree, and jumps on the kitchen table. Kid...

  • Wyrmhole

    Jay Caselberg

    Meet Jack Stein, Psychic Investigator.... hIs specialty: Drawing CLUES FROM DREAMS AND PSYCHIC impressions. Not a line of work that brings a lot of respect. His stomping ground: The Locality, a crowded, quasi-organic, self-feeding "urban enviro...

  • The Woman in the News

    K.N. Casper

    She's aiming for a promotion...and scores love instead Marlee Reid is up against some tough competition for her dream job of sports anchor on KNCS-TV in Coyote Springs, Texas. That news director Renn Davis has been critical of her work ever since ...

  • Dead Certain

    Carla Cassidy

    BONDED BY FATE After coming home and finding her father unconscious and her mother mysteriously missing, homicide cop Savannah Tallfeather teamed up with the one person she knew she could trust. Riley Frazier had faced a similar situation nearly t...

  • Goddess of the Sea

    P.C. Cast

    On the night of her twenty-fifth birthday, alone in her apartment, Air Force Sergeant Christine Canady wished for one thing: a little magic in her life. After drinking way too much champagne, she performed, of all crazy things, a goddess-summoning ri...

  • All I Want

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  • The White Lights Roar

    Tim Champlin

    It is 1916 in Arizona along the border with Mexico. Below the border there is a revolution in progress. Pancho Villa and his army are intent on seizing power. In Arizona thousands of Krag rifles have disappeared. In fact, the entire train on which th...

  • The C.E.O. & The Cookie Queen

    Victoria Chancellor

    Note to Self: A steer is not a pet... I, Greg Rafferty, must not be of sound mind anymore. Why else would I bid on -- and win! -- little Jennifer Jacks's prizewinning bull, um, steer? It could have something to do with her doesn't-look-old-enough-...

  • Christmas in Big City

    J-P Chanda

    Everyone is making plans to trim the tallest tree in the park, but Oswald can't find a star for the top. As Henry says, no tree is complete without one. What's Oswald going to do? Then something magical happens. Find out what it is as you celebrate ...

  • Randall Renegade

    Judy Christenberry

    RANDALL HONOR demanded that Jim Randall help the only woman to break his heart. Patience Anderson's child's life was at stake -- so Jim swept back into her life, secreting her and her son high in the mountains to protect them from a dangerous enemy. ...

  • Franklin Wants A Badge

    Brenda Clark

    Franklin learns it's not easy to earn a badge, but that scouting has its own rewards.

    Franklin is joining the Trailblazers, and he can hardly wait to start earning badges. At his first meeting, he learns the Trailblazer promise, the Trailblaze...

  • Stranger

    Simon Clark

    An ocean of humanity runs from a devastating force that no one can even see - they pour northwards over the Mexican border. A mighty nation falls...Sullivan town remains one of the last enclaves of civilisation. Greg Valdiva, a stranger to the commun...

  • Ragtime in Simla

    Barbara Cleverly

    Simla 1922. While the rest of India bakes in the hot season, up in the pine-scented coolness of the Himalayan hills the English have recreated a vision of home. Here are half-timbered houses, amateur theatricals, gymkhanas and a glittering vice-regal...

  • Elizabeth Costello

    J.M. Coetzee

    In his new work of fiction, J. M. Coetzee has crafted an unusual and deeply affecting tale told through an ingenious series of formal addresses. Vividly imagined and masterfully wrought, Elizabeth Costello is, on the surface, the story of a woman's l...

  • Youth

    J.M. Coetzee

    J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. 

    The second installment of J. M. Coetzee's fictionalized "memoir" explores a young man's struggle to...

  • The Favorite Game

    Leonard Cohen

    In this unforgettable novel, Leonard Cohen boldly etches the youth and early manhood of Lawrence Breavman, only son of an old Jewish family in Montreal. Life for Breavman is made up of dazzling colour " a series of motion pictures fed through a hig...

  • Harmonized Hearts

    Lynn A. Coleman
    in

    For the Miami-based "Classic Strings" quartet, the mellow tones of violin, viola, bass, and cello blend in perfect harmony. But discord fills the personal life of each member. Marissa Soliz, who plays the upright bass, has serious doubts about the ne...

  • The Wish List

    Eoin Colfer

    MEG IS TOO GOOD FOR HELL AND TOO BAD FOR HEAVEN. Cast out of her own home after her mother's death, Meg is a drifter, a troublemaker. But after a botched attempt to rob an old man, Meg ends up in a very sticky situation. Her soul is up for grabs a...

  • Runaway

    Suzan Colon

  • The Wild Bunch

    Dane Coolidge

    Seeking refuge from a storm in a cave, Abner Meadows comes face to face with Butch Brennan, one of the West's most notorious bandits, who is hiding out with the loot from his latest holdup, and finds himself on the run from the outlaws and the law as...

  • On Glorious Wings

    Stephen Coonts

    Since its invention in 1903, the airplane has become the dominant mode of transport, travel, and combat. It has brought the entire planet closer together and changed almost every aspect of how we live today.Along the way, the airplane has inspired w...

  • Heretic

    Bernard Cornwell

    Still young but already a seasoned veteran of King Edward's army, Thomas of Hookton possesses a fearlessness and an uncanny prowess with the longbow, talents that have made him a natural leader. Now, at the head of a small but able band of soldiers, ...

  • Blow Fly

    Patricia Cornwell

    Settling into her new life as a private forensic consultant, Kay Scarpetta agrees to investigate a cold-case in Louisiana--the baffling eight-year-old murder of a woman with a history of blackouts and violent outbursts. Then she receives news that ch...

  • The Cross Kisses Back

    C.R. Corwin

    The morgue is that cold and sterile facility where medical examiners do their necessary, but to many of us, dreadful work. Less familiar is its dry and dusty version, usually housed in the bowels of newspaper buildings, where old story clippings are ...

  • A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

    Gil Courtemanche

    A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda’s genocide.All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatr...

  • Juliet Dove, Queen of Love

    Bruce Coville

    CHAINS OF LOVE Juliet reached behind her neck to unfasten the chain. She couldn't locate the clasp. Exasperated, she went to the mirror and pulled the chain around, planning to unfasten it from the front. A cold chill rippled over her shou...

  • Hallelujah Handel

    Douglas Cowling

    A stunning picture book inspired by the beloved "Hallelujah Chorus," and the remarkable story of Handel's personal mission to spread peace and joy.

    Somewhere in a darkened room behind London's famous Opera House there is a young, orphaned boy ...

  • The Q-Continuum

    Greg Cox

    The unpredictable cosmic entity known only as Q has plagued Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Starship Enterprise" since their very first voyage together. But little was known of Q's mysterious past or of the unearthly realm from which he...

  • The Beachcomber

    Josephine Cox

    TWO STRANGERS. . . The windswept village of West Bay is hope, an escape, and a future for Kathy Wilson, who dreams of turning the empty cottage she inherited into a home free of the pain and scorn she suffered back in London. As the summer slowly pa...

  • A 5th Avenue Christmas

    Tracy Cozzens

    They Meet Again... Meryl Carrington, the youngest of the five Carrington sisters, is her mother's darling--and her mother's despair. Matrimony? Meryl seems to have most unladylike plans to run the family railroad empire instead. Fortunately, her fat...

  • Kisses and Mistletoe

    Francine Craft
    in

    Kisses and Mistletoe could be in store in Francine Craft's sensual and heartwarming story. Nick Redmond is the sexy lead singer of a rising band. When he and single mother Janet Smith meet, it's lust at first sight. But can the chemistry and unique c...

  • Private Eyes

    Jasmine Cresswell
    in

    A covert network of secret agents is Colorado's most lethal weapon -- and its only hope. Bound by love, loyalty and the law, these men and women are trained to handle the most clandestine and dangerous cases. As scandal and ruin threaten the state's ...

  • We'll Always Have Murder

    Bill Crider

    Humphrey Bogart teams up with down-and-out Hollywood private detective Terry Scott to uncover a blackmailer out to frame Bogie for murder, an investigation that leads them from the glamorous haunts of the stars to L.A.'s dark underbelly and brings th...

  • Red, White, and Blue Murder

    Bill Crider

    Sheriff Dan Rhodes has half a mind to shoot the next person who asks if it's hot enough for him, what with the near hundred-degree heat and a months-old drought. He's also a bit warm under the collar over an ambitious local reporter's allegations of ...

  • Staying Single

    Millie Criswell

    "Engaging men" are lining up for Francesca Morelli, thanks to her enterprising Italian mama. The very able and controlling Josephina has arranged three -- count 'em, three -- weddings so far for her 29-and-pushing-it daughter. Unfortunately, all thre...

  • Holloway Falls

    Neil Cross

    The paths of a cult leader, a precognitive man with a secret, and a detective with a troubled past intersect in this dark and absorbing mystery from the creator of Luther Andrew Taylor was a typical, pleasant lower-middle-class Bristol boy, content w...

  • Feast of Fools

    Bridget Crowley

    In England in the late thirteenth century, a young chorister at the Cathedral of Saint Aelred, outcast because of his crippled foot, sympathizes with the city's other outcasts, the Jews, and sets out to prove their leader innocent of murder....

  • Theodora's Wedding

    Penny Culliford

    I've actually done it! I've kept up my diary for over a year. I may not have grown very much spiritually, nor have I been hailed as the next British supermodel, but I have gained a fiance, even if he is football mad. And to cap it ail, I weigh hal...

  • The Dark

    Marianne Curley

    Isabel and Ethan are joined by Isabel''s brother Matt, who is still getting accustomed to life in the Guard. This time, they must find Arkarian, their ageless mentor, who has been kidnapped and sent to the underworld. Although Isabel and Ethan hav...

  • Golden Buddha

    Clive Cussler; Craig Dirgo

    Now, Clive Cussler presents his most-intriguing high-seas action hero: the enigmatic captain of the Oregon, Juan Cabrillo. Only Cabrillo could convert the interior of a nondescript lumber hauler into a state-of-the-art spy ship--and only he could ...

  • Operation Squish!

    Dan Danko

    Thirteen-year-old Guy Martin, also known as superhero Pumpkin Pete's sidekick Speedy, helps the League of Big Justice save the human race, and still has to do his homework and make curfew. Simultaneous....

  • The Honourable Midwife

    Lilian Darcy

    A spark of attraction has just ignited between GP Pete Croft and midwife Emma Burns. Given the chance, their passion would set ablaze. But Pete's ex-wife is ill and his young twin daughters need him most right now. Even if it breaks her heart, Emma m...

  • To Catch a Clownosaurus

    Lawrence David

  • Stone and Anvil

    Peter David

    A crewman has been murdered aboard the U.S.S. Trident, and all evidence points to Ensign Janos of the Excalibur. Captain Mackenzie Calhoun is reluctant to accept that Janos, a powerful non-humanoid whom the captain has known and trusted for years, co...

  • Under Cover

    Maryjanice Davidson

    "Sweet Strangers" Renee Jardin never meant to become the world's most sought-after thief. But the minute she walks out of her biotech firm accidentally carrying "The Cure"--the most important scientific discovery of the century--she's on the run fr...

  • Shoveling Smoke

    Austin Davis

    “A Houston lawyer’s attempt to escape the rat race backfires with hilarious results in Davis’s thoroughly enjoyable debut crime novel” (Publishers Weekly).Reveling in outrageous shenanigans and hilariously off-kilter characters, Shoveling Smo...

  • Destruction of Illusions

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    Captain Dylan Hunt of the Andromeda Ascendant -- a mighty vessel of the Systems Commonwealth that encompassed three galaxies -- finds himself a man out of time. Three hundred years have passed, the Commonwealth has fallen, and chaos reigns in the Kno...

  • Line of Fire

    Cindy Dees

    The tall, dark and deadly Special Forces officer was everything Kimberly Stanton hated. But when she was abducted and dragged deep into the South American jungle, she came to understand the comfort a woman could take in having a man like him at her s...

  • Cyclops One

    Jim DeFelice

    A white-hot military thriller that pits a brilliant agent against a traitorous cabal within the United States Cyclops One: America's most advanced airborne laser system. It will change the face of combat forever--perhaps rendering war itself obsol...

  • Having the Best Man's Baby

    Shawna Delacorte

    Fifteen years had passed since Ry Collier broke her teenage heart. Fifteen years during which the golden boy had amassed a fortune, making a name for the man. Fifteen years during which she'd blossomed into a woman bearing little resemblance to an aw...

  • Pure Indulgence

    Janelle Denison

    Decadence has never been so good... Kayla Thomas is counting on her latest idea to clinch the success of her bakery -- aphrodisiac chocolates! But first she needs an unsuspecting test subject to ensure the candy is as stimulating as she hopes. So ...

  • All She Wants for Christmas

    Janelle Denison
    in

    When sexy pediatrician Matthew Carlton plays Santa, pulling Faith Roberts on his lap, he has no idea what's on her Christmas wish list...or how much he'll enjoy fulfilling every bit of it......

  • Morgan

    Kathie DeNosky

    The Chivalrous Cowboy: Morgan Wakefield His Profile: Protective, proud and passionate His soft spot: Single moms-to-be Morgan didn't know a thing about delivering babies, but when he came across a stranded woman in labor, he knew he was her only...

  • Heatwave

    Jamie Denton

    When it's this hot, someone's bound to get burned! To say Emily Dugan's life has been a blur is an understatement. She's lost her job, her boyfriend is in love with someone else and he's kicked her out of their apartment. Ready to recoup, she's he...

  • A Flight of Storks and Angels

    Robert Devereaux

    Renowned fantasist T. E. Jameson writes his masterworks in a treehouse, carrying on what seems to be a one-way conversation with his muse. Cracked? Possibly. But rich eccentrics must have their foibles.

    Also rich in creative eccentricity is Ja...

  • Murder in the Blood

    Gene DeWeese

    GRAVE DOUBTS When local history teacher Lou Cameron disappears, Farrell County sheriff Frank Decker is puzzled by accusations of embezzlement, even if they do come from wealthy and influential Nathaniel Wetherston, whose family has owned half of F...

  • T'was The Fight Before Christmas

    Howie Dewin

    "The Powerpuff Girls" is Cartoon Network's highest-rated show among kids 2-11. It's a mega-hit! And now the Girls are flyin' in to stores just in time for the holidays with their first original video.

    The Powerpuff Girls' spoiled rival, Prince...

  • Dexter's Ink

    Howie Dewin

    Since its debut in 1996, DEXTER'S LAB has been one of Cartoon Network's top-rated shows. Now Scholastic teams up with the boy genius and his pesky sister Dee Dee for original chapter and picture books

    Dexter is sick and tired of doing stupid c...

  • Train

    Pete Dexter

    Los Angeles, 1953. Lionel Walk is a young black caddy at Brookline, the oldest, most exclusive country club in the city, where he is known by the nickname "Train." A troubled, keenly intelligent kid with no particular interest in his own prodigious t...

  • The Ropemaker

    Peter Dickinson

    Tilja has grown up in the peaceful Valley, which is protected from the fearsome Empire by an enchanted forest. But the forest’s power has begun to fade and the Valley is in danger. Tilja is the youngest of four brave souls who venture into the Empi...

  • The Expanse

    J.M. Dillard

    High above the planet Earth, an alien probe appears -- and in an unspeakably horrific instant, releases a deadly blast that strafes the planet's surface, leaving a miles-wide, smoldering crater of destruction in its wake. Millions die in Florida, Cub...

  • Build Your Own Haunted Mansion

    Disney Book Group

    One of the most popular Disney theme park attractions comes to life in this spook-tacular new storybook format. Kids will love reading the ghostly story, then punching out the walls of the mansion and assembling it with the nifty nuts, bolts, and wre...

  • Disney: My First 1000 Words: A Picture Wordbook

    Disney Book Group

    Disney characters invite children to discover the world of words in a new and magical way with My First 1000 Words. Thematic environments such as Beauty and the Beast's "Be Our Guest" and The Lion King's "Jungle Animals" bring a real-life context to ...

  • Lucinda's Secret

    Tony DiTerlizzi; Holly Black

    Let the story of my niece and nephews be a warning. The more you know, the more danger you're in. And trust me, you don't want to meddle with the Little People. -- S.S. One thrilling adventure -- The Spiderwick Chronicles! Their world is closer tha...

  • The Calligrapher

    Edward Docx

    This beguiling novel is a provocative romantic comedy centered on a young London calligrapher named Jasper, who is an engaging, intelligent serial seducer and a breaker of hearts. But when he meets Madeleine, a captivating but enigmatic woman who is ...

  • Prairie Nocturne

    Ivan Doig

    From one of the greatest novelists of the American West comes a surprising and riveting story set in Montana and New York during the Harlem Renaissance, drawing together an unlikely set of thwarted performers in one last inspired grasp at life's set ...

  • Last Man in Berlin

    Gaylord Dold

    This page-turning thriller evocatively depicts a corrupt and desolate Berlin at that turning point in history when Hitler is on the cusp of taking power. It is the story of Detective Harry Wulff, a member of an elite police force, who is assigned to ...

  • Turning Up the Heat

    Susan Donovan
    in

    Being stood up on Christmas Eve is bad enough, but now Valerie's furnace is broken, too. Good thing that sexy repairman is available to raise the temperature dramatically......

  • Cornerstone

    Paige Winship Dooly
    in

    Come to the church in the wildwood. . .where the citizens of Hickory Hollow have worshiped for generations. In 1869, the preacher's daughter, Amanda Hodges, is drawn to mysterious newcomer Matt Campbell who helps to build the church. When Matt's croo...

  • 'Twas the Fight Before Christmas

    Laura Dower

    "The Powerpuff Girls" is Cartoon Network's highest-rated show among kids 2-11. It's a mega-hit! And now the Girls are flyin' in to stores just in time for the holidays with their first original video.

    The Powerpuff Girls' spoiled rival, Prince...

  • One True Love?

    Stephanie Doyle

    There's only you... Of, and you, too... Corinne Weatherby believes everyone on this planet has one true love. Just one. Okay, so the one she's picked is a shallow, inconsiderate womanizer -- nothing a good breakup scene can't fix. Corinne comes f...

  • The Far Side of the Stars

    David Drake

    While the Republic of Cinnabar is at peace with the Alliance, warriors like Lt. Daniel Leary and Signals Officer Adele Mundy must find other work--like escorting a pair of wealthy nobles on an expedition to the back of beyond! The Princess Cecile, th...

  • The Awakening

    Shannon Drake

    The tree-lined streets and mystical shops of Salem, Massachusetts resonate with a seductive and brutal history. New Orleans musician Megan O'Casey has returned to the home of her ancestors to perform, with her husband Finn, in a weeklong series of co...

  • Wizard's Holiday

    Diane Duane

    Sometimes even wizards need a break. A little rest and relaxation -- that's what Nita expects when she and her partner-wizard Kit depart for a wizardly "cultural exchange" program that sends them halfway across the galaxy. But nothing about wizardr...

  • The Big Sweep

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Level 2: Reading Independently? More complex stories? Varied sentence structure? Paragraphs and short chaptersThe latest Iceman hockey stick is out, and Otto wants one -- but he doesn't have enough money. Then Lars challenges Otto to ...

  • Tell Me Something Happy Before I Go to Sleep Gift Set

    Joyce Dunbar

    Joyce Dunbar and Debi Gliori's bestselling classic has become a favorite for grown-ups and little ones to share at bedtime. Now in a small hardcover paired with a cozy night-light, it is available for the first time in a charming gift set that's perf...

  • The Hollow Kingdom

    Clare B. Dunkle

    The Hollow Kingdom, the first book in Clare Dunkle's acclaimed fantasy trilogy, will transport readers into a magical realm that Newbery Award winner Lloyd Alexander calls "as persuasive as it is remarkable." For thousands of years, young women have ...

  • Fearless

    Doranna Durgin

    Even if it takes an eternity, he will make amends.... PRETTY POISON The gang at Angel Investigations is well versed in the nuances of demon fighting. So they're surprised to find themselves euphorically giddy after a long night of...what? Their...

  • Practice Makes Pregnant

    Lois Faye Dyer

    ONE PASSIONATE NIGHT... For the first time in her life, shy secretary Allison Baker threw caution to the wind. No sooner did she enter the party than suave attorney Jorge Perez whispered sweet compliments in her ear. Breathless, Allison was captivat...

  • Shirley, Goodness & Mercy

    Kristy Dykes
    in

    Meet six men who are dedicated to preaching God’s Word -- and six women who wonder if they are cut out to support that calling. Being a helpmate to a pastor is no easy task. They must step out in a special kind of faith and love to become preachers...

  • Abduction

    Wanda L. Dyson

    "Where's Jessie?" Even as she breathes out the words, Karen Matthews knows that her worst nightmare has become a reality. Her seven-month-old baby is gone, stolen during the night. When the police call a famous psychic, Zoe Shefford, to use her myste...

  • Cowboy Days and Indian Nights

    Kathleen Eagle
    in

    Meredith Woodward had emptied her nest. She didn't need a scruffy rodeo cowboy moving into her home -- or her world. But Ryder Red Hawk was a man prepared to face his past and discover his future -- with her....

  • Night Falls Like Silk

    Kathleen Eagle

    To everyone who sees her, Cassandra Westbrook exudes a cool beauty and an aloofness borne of wealth and privilege. A connoisseur of exquisite objects, she collects whatever catches her eye. While attending an auction, her interest is captivated by a ...

  • Beyond Borders

    James Ellison

    ONE WOMAN
    Sarah Jordan lived in a dream world. Her beauty and wit made her a favorite of high society, and an opulent life of travel and privilege was hers for the having. Then, in one shocking moment, her eyes were opened to th...

  • Cinderlily

    David Ellwand

    Where have all the flowers gone? They’re dancing up a storm in this whimsical, wondrous rendition of a well-known fairy tale, created by the one and only David Ellwand.

    For hours beneath the velvet sky they dance without a care,
    Until th...

  • The Vampire Files, Volume One

    P.N. Elrod

    Bloodlist  introduces Jack Fleming, an investigative journalist in Prohibition-era Chicago who got bitten by a vampire. In Lifeblood and Bloodcircle Jack hunted for the men who killed him, and for his long-lost love, Maureen. Now, the original ...

  • A Misty Harbor Christmas

    Marcia Evanick
    in

    Olivia Hamilton comes home to Misty Harbor only to sell her late grandmother's house to Ethan Wycliffe, the obnoxious boy she remembers from childhood. But Christmas memories have a funny way of holding people, and boys have a funny way of growing up...

  • A Perfect Day

    Richard Paul Evans

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Broken Road series presents an inspiring story about a man who has to rediscover his priorities after finding money and fame.   Robert Harlan has three loves in life: his wife, his daught...

  • Longarm and Maximilian's Gold

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm partners up with a French aristocrat in a race for lost treasure…Deputy Marshal Custis Long has no interest in putting up with the antics of an arrogant Frenchman. But though he’d like to tell the Marquis de Sant’ Cerre to take a flying...

  • Longarm and the Dead Man's Tale

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm enlists a play-pretty in a game of play-deadly!Deputy U.S. Marshal Custis Long is out to recover fifty grand that the late Abner Prentiss hid away before being arrested -- in the company of hired gal-pal Cherry Poppin. Since Prentiss murdered...

  • Burning Garbo

    Robert Eversz

    Paroled for a crime she doesn't regret committing, Nina Zero is an ex-con trying to lay low in Los Angeles, a city where not being famous is worse than being dead. She isn't looking for a fight or, for that matter, a friend. But in Burning Garbo -- R...

  • Lord of the Shadows

    Jennifer Fallon

    Darkness threatens Ranadon again in the form of an eclipse. The Goddess wants to give the people of Ranadon a sign--and only Dirk Provin can interpret it. To do so, Dirk has systematically betrayed his one-time allies to join his most hated enemi...

  • Lie Still

    David Farris

    In an Arizona hospital, a patient barely clings to life after suffering a cardiac arrest -- the victim of a hidden condition, an inexplicable accident ... or an unspeakable vengeance. Surgical resident Malcolm Ishmail made two mistakes that devast...

  • Hello Kitty Hello Halloween

    Thea Feldman

  • The Greatest Possible Mischief

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    Regency favorite Jo Ann Ferguson brings us the latest tale of intrigue featuring the delightful Lady Priscilla Flanders and her dashing admirer, Sir Neville Hathaway. A romantic tryst in Bath turns deadly--and our intrepid pair finds themselves at th...

  • Racing Against Time

    Marie Ferrarella

    FAILURE WASN'T AN OPTION The Honorable Brenton Montgomery would break every rule to recover his kidnapped little girl. But he wasn't prepared to clash with the one woman he'd secretly loved for years, Detective Callie Cavanaugh, whose job it was t...

  • Under His Protection

    Amy J. Fetzer

    HE WAS SWORN TO UPHOLD THE LAW Detective Nash Couviyon never let emotion interfere with duty. But when his former flame Lisa Bracket was the victim of a frame-up, he knew he had to help her clear her name. Although Nash had thought he'd never see ...

  • Destination Murder

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    Everyone's favorite crimesolver takes a ride on the historic Whistler Northwind train through Canada...in this very special twentieth novel in the bestselling series. Celebrity mystery writer Jessica Fletcher has always loved Vancouver. So when he...

  • Summer Dream

    Marilou Flinkman

    In 1825 New York, marriage and family are a common desire of most women. But for Liz, whose family is very dependent on her, she knows romance may be as fleeting as a summer dream. But that's before Stephen Ames arrives in town to become the new p...

  • The Cat in the Hat: Movie Storybook

    Justine Fontes

    The kids slumped in their chairs
    Too glum to complain.
    And to make matters worse,
    It started to rain . . .

    The Cat has arrived, and he’s got a hat full of fun to save Conrad and Sally from a boring rainy afternoon. Written in buo...

  • The Perils of Marie Louise

    Deloris Stanton Forbes

    Marie Louise was eight years old when she discovered the meaning of murder. She remembers specifically because it was her birthday and everybody in her family was out at her grandmother's and before she could blow out the candles and Grandmere could ...

  • The Student Conductor

    Robert Ford

    Returning to the orchestral communities of Germany just as the Berlin Wall falls, Cooper Barrow begins studying under the cruel and capricious maestro and concentration camp survivor Karlheinz Ziegler, an endeavor that is compromised by a psychologic...

  • Hello, World

    Michael Foreman

    Renowned artist Michael Foreman invites small children to explore the world and its wonders. And what better way to do so than with friends?

    As the day begins, Teddy and Baby set out to discover the wide world around them. New friends join wit...

  • He Sees You When You're Sleeping

    Lori Foster
    in

    What Booker Dean wants for Christmas isn't under the tree, it's right next door. Frances Kennedy is everything Booker desires...and the gift he has planned for her involves a lot of delicious unwrapping......

  • Confessions of a Deathmaiden

    Ruth Francisco

    I am a deathmaiden. That's my job. I help people die.... Like a religious call, a career as a deathmaiden is not something you choose: It chooses you ... . The little boy in a coma was sent home to die. But from the moment she touches him, Frances...

  • Who Is Stealing the Twelve Days of Christmas?

    Martha Freeman

    Every Christmas since Alex can remember, his family and neighbors have filled their front yards with decorations from each of the twelve days mentioned in the song ""The Twelve Days of Chirstmas."" But this year someone is stealing them one by one. A...

  • Two Women

    Brian Freemantle

    From the master storyteller and creator of Charlie Muffin When accountant John Carver dies in a road accident, the two women in his life find out about each other's existence. Jane, the unsuspecting wife, and Alice, the mistress, streetwise financial...

  • Winnie & Ernst

    Gina Freschet

    Four funny, easy-to-read stories about best friends Winnie (a possum) and Ernst (an otter) are best friends who can weather any predicament together. These charming, screwball stories have the pair looking desperately for the gift Winnie has gotte...

  • A Merry Little Murder

    Shelley Freydont

    This Christmas, former dancer Lindy Haggerty leaves her toe shoes behind to hit the glitzy International Ballroom Competition in Atlantic City, where it takes two to tango--but only one to kill... Lindy and company barely have time to unpack befor...

  • As Cool As I Am

    Pete Fromm

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING CLAIRE DANES, JAMES MARSDEN AND SARAH BOLGER As Cool As I Am "... packs an emotional punch that sneaks up from behind... Fromm creates an engrossing coming-of-age saga that cuts to the essence and shines."(Seattl...