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  • The Fortress of the Treasure Queen

    Tony Abbott

    A Hidden Door. A Magical Staircase. Discover the World of Droon! Ko is back in power -- and nothing is safe! His beasts have found a lightning-powered submarine hidden in the secret Fortress of the Treasure Queen. Now Eric and his friends have to st...

  • On Thin Ice

    Alina Adams

    Figure skating is a cutthroat world. Just ask Rebecca "Bex" Levy, up-and-coming figure-skating researcher for the 24/7 network. She's seen her share of meltdowns, bitter rivalries, and hot-headed ice princesses--so no one has to draw Bex a Figure Eig...

  • Cam Jansen and the Snowy Day Mystery

    David A. Adler

    It's snowing outside. Inside Cam and her classmates are headed to the computer lab. When they get there, Cam, Eric, and Danny can't do any work. Their computers are missing! What happened to them? Were they stolen? Will you be able to solve the myste...

  • Negima! Volume 3

    Ken Akamatsu

    BLOOD FEUD WITH A VAMPIRE
    There is a vampire stalking the night! Normally ten-year-old teacher/magician Negi Springfield would have no problem dispatching such a villain, but this vampire has a magic-enhancing partnerâ€"and worse, the vampire is a...

  • The Eggnog Chronicles

    Carly Alexander

    Christmas. It is the time for going into debt, neuroses-gone-wild, dates from hell, spiked eggnog and maybe even a miracle. And for three women on the verge of what seems like holiday disaster, it might just be the season to toast the best times of t...

  • Brown Paper Teddy Bear

    Catherine Allison

    A magical teddy bear leads Jess on an exciting journey to a place where stuffed toys can talk and porcelain dolls can dance.

    Jess is sick in bed, and to make her feel better, Granddad promises her a brand-new teddy bear. But before she drifts ...

  • Human Capital

    Stephen Amidon

    It's the spring of 2001, and Drew Hagel has spent the last decade watching things slip away--his first marriage, his real estate brokerage, his beloved daughter, Shannon, now a distant and mysterious high school senior. He is in danger of losing his ...

  • Black Cat

    V.C. Andrews

    She hid her true self. Now the truth will be revealed. Living a life of lies under the thumb of her widowed, spiritually-obsessed mother, Celeste has been forced to take on the identity of her dead twin brother, Noble. She's almost forgotte...

  • Currant Events

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

    When Clio, the Muse of History, sat down to pen the twenty-eighth volume in the Chronicles of Xanth, she was stunned to discover it was already there! And, what was worse, it was totally unreadable, for the words on its pages were fuzzed beyond co...

  • Mermaid's Manual

    Dawn Apperley

    In this delightful and very pink book the reader will become trained in the ways of being a mermaid. From the first swimming lessons all the way through to classes in hair decoration, jewellery making and shell identification, this is the essentia...

  • Truecrime

    Jake Arnott

    “Funny, fast, witty, and brutal.” -- David Bowie

    Jake Arnott’s brilliant trilogy of criminal life in England forms a kind of Godfather-like history of Britain’s gangland, spanning 40 years. The first, The Long Firm (1999), caught ever...

  • Snakecharm

    Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

    ZANE COBRIANA, COBRA shapeshifter, thanks the gods every day for Danica, his hawk pair bond, and the peace their union has brought to the avian and serpiente. Soon, Danica will have a child to carry on their royal line. But what should be a happy tim...

  • The End of the Beginning

    Avi

    SMALL STEPS LEAD TO BIG ADVENTURES! This is a story that begins where it ends, and ends where it begins: in the treetop home of a rather small snail named Avon. Avon longs to go on an adventure. Adventure, he has heard, is the key to a happy life. S...

  • Pure Dynamite

    Lauren Bach

    HIS MISSION: HIGH RISK FBI Special Agent Adam Duval is deep undercover with one mission: gain the trust of his cellmate, Lyle McEdwin, one of the notorious McEdwin family, by staging a prison break with him. Lyle promises they can hide out with his ...

  • Captain America, Volume 5: Homeland

    Chris Bachalo

  • Five

    Julianna Baggott
    in

    A STAR-STUDDED STORY COLLECTION FEATURING AMERICA'S RED-HOT WOMEN WRITERS They're taking liberties--and pursuing happiness on their own terms! Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel"--and the trouble with falling for an in...

  • Hour Game

    David Baldacci

    A woman is found murdered in the woods with a very special watch on her wrist-and what seemed a simple case soon escalates into a nightmare. The criminal methods of some of the most infamous killers of all time are being replicated by a new predator ...

  • The Helmsman

    William P. Baldwin

    A survivor of a stealthy League attack on his homeworld of Carescria, a vengeful Wilf Brim seizes the opportunity to escape his lower-class background by graduating from the Academy and, as a new young Sublieutenant, is given his first assignment as ...

  • Disappearing Act

    Margaret Ball

    TO ESCAPE PURSUIT, SHE TOOK ON ANOTHER'S IDENTITY-- AND FOUND HERSELF MARKED FOR DEATH! Maris's work with the local underworld on the huge space station was anything but honest, but life was much more pleasant than it had been before the gang's l...

  • Snowed Under: The Bobblesberg Winter Games

    Sarah Ball

  • Betrayal of the Trust

    Leslie Esdaile Banks

    Darien Price, Ill, privileged son of a wealthy family and executive director of Philadelphia's prominent Educate America program, is in deep trouble. Certain "inconsistencies" have been found in his business accounts--and no one could be happier to h...

  • The Darling

    Russell Banks

    A New York Times Notable Book • National Bestseller“Russell Banks’s work presents without falsehood and with tough affection the uncompromising moral voice of our time. You find the craziness of false dreams, the political inequalities, and som...

  • Days of Magic, Nights of War

    Clive Barker

    Candy Quackenbush's adventures in the amazing world of the Abarat are getting more strange by the hour. Christopher Carrion, the Lord of Midnight, has sent his henchman to capture her. Why? she wonders. What would Carrion want with a girl from Minnes...

  • Child of the Dark Prophecy

    T.A. Barron
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Long ago, Merlin planted a magical seed that grew into the Great Tree of Avalon. And for centuries, Avalon flourished. But now Avalon reels from brutal attacks, mysterious droughts, and strange evils. And then one night, all the stars in the sky sudd...

  • Mr. Katapat's Incredible Adventures

    Stephane Barroux

  • The Coat

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman
    in

    9 Romances Stitched with Love Treasure this collection of nine historical romances. Faced with finding the right fit in life and love, nine young women seek the courage to stitch together romance. But when unexpected obstacles abound, will love un...

  • Sleepside

    Greg Bear

    Greg Bear has been called the "best working writer of science fiction" by The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. He has been awarded two Hugo and four Nebula Awards, and holds the distinction of being one of two authors to win a Nebula in ever...

  • Little House, Little Town

    Scott Beck

    Simple, lyrical text and engaging illustrations take preschoolers on a tour of life for a young family living in a cozy house in a lovely little town and the many people they meet while traveling through town....

  • A Morning Like This

    Deborah Bedford / Debbi Bedford

    David and Abby Treasure seem to have everything together: a perfect marriage, a perfect son, and a perfect life. But one simple phone call turns their world upside down. Years ago, David had an affair outside of his marriage, and though he never knew...

  • The Night Before Christmas

    Bill Bell

    Since it first appeared in 1823 as "A Visit from St. Nicholas," THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS has been a classic holiday story, read and enjoyed by people of all ages. This bright and vividly illustrated edition is a must-have for any library....

  • My Pants Are Haunted!

    Jim Benton

    HAIR. BEAGLES. JEANS. IT NEVER ENDS. Dear Dumb Dairy, Anyway, Isabella said it wasn't the makeover that boosted Margaret's popularity and forced us down. It was the pants. She said it wasn't my loud "yahoo" in science that got me switched again s...

  • Brian Froud's Goblins!

    Ari Berk

    The illustrator of the popular Pressed Fairy albums and the author of The Runes of Elfland share their collaborative "investigations" into the maleficent world of goblins, in a nonsensical volume that profiles common goblin traits and offers ...

  • Hunters of the Deep

    Randall N. Bills

    Sea Fox Clansmen are space-bound, nomadic warrior-merchants who live and die aboard their naval vessels, going planetside only to negotiate a new deal or for combat--often the same thing for a Fox. Divided into five autonomous Khanates, they are led ...

  • The Painted Rose

    Donna Birdsell

    Secrets Some say that a phantom haunts Elmstone Manor. A young woman, heavily veiled, has been seen walking among the estate's lavish rose gardens. The townspeople are afraid to go there, but Lucien Delacourte has no choice. Regrets Hired by the...

  • The Kitchen Witch

    Annette Blair

    Is she a good witch or a bad witch? With a flip of her raven black hair, a flash of her topaz eyes, and a shake of a stick, rumored witch Melody Seabright has cast a spell on single dad Logan Kilgarven. What else can explain what's happening to him?...

  • Untamable Rogue // A Christmas Baby

    Annette Blair

    A Merry Gentleman Rocking a cradle is no diversion for a rogue--but the new earl of Blackburne has no choice. Ashford Blackburne cannot clear his debts or save his family's estates unless he comes into his inheritance, and his grandfather's will mak...

  • A Notorious Lady

    Catherine Blair

    He Was The Epitome Of Propriety... Once Cambridge astronomy professor John Caldwell's only passion was for the pursuit of knowledge. Then he met a woman more intriguing than the most radiant star. Lady Eleanor Whitcombe, with her quiet reserve a...

  • Marrying the Marquis

    Sara Blayne

    A GENTLEMAN'S SWEET REVENGE Gideon Rochelle, the Marquis of Vere, has found a daring solution to his financial troubles, moonlighting as London's most notorious and romantic highwayman, the Black Rose. It's a dangerous enterprise in whic...

  • The Vanished Priestess

    Meredith Blevins

    The indomitable Annie Szabo has lost too many friends and loved ones, so the death of Margo Spanger hits hard. Margo, Annie's neighbor, was a cultural icon with money and fame. Maybe too much. She used one of her projects, a New Age circus, to fund a...

  • Beauty for Ashes

    Win Blevins

    Young Sam Morgan, serving his apprenticeship as a mountain man in the Rocky Mountains in the early 1820s, searches for Meadowlark, the Crow Indian girl he loves. At the Wind River village of Meadowlark's people, Sam finds her being courted by a Crow ...

  • Don't Let the Peas Touch!

    Deborah Blumenthal

    Meet Sophie and Annie. They're sisters. They're smart. They're fighting. They're funny!

    Annie's sister Sophie won't eat her peas. Sophie's sister Annie is a know-it-all. Annie's sister Sophie refuses to be quiet. Sophie's sister Annie can't st...

  • Arrowville

    Geefwee Boedoe

    Beyond the Arrow Mountains, where winds blow bitter chill,across the Arrow Ocean lies a town called Arrowville,where every pointed person had a pointed point of view,and every point in Arrowville was always just askew.

    In Ar...

  • Ruskin's Bond Book of Nature

    Ruskin Bond

  • Whole Lotta Trouble

    Stephanie Bond

    ONE WOMAN IS FURIOUS Tallie Blankenship is a small town girl out to make her mark onManhattan's publishing scene, even at the expense of a personal life. She's thrilled to be working with a high-profile mystery writer, until sleazy superagent Jerry ...

  • Doctor Illuminatus

    Martin Booth

    Pip and her twin brother, Tim, awaken an alchemist's son from a centuries-long slumber when their family moves to an old English country estate, and he enlists them in the fight against an evil alchemist who seeks to create a homunculus....

  • Death of a Trickster

    Kate Borden

  • Trumped

    John Boswell

    Dear Reader:CONGRATULATIONS!You have just picked up the best book ever written, by the greatest person who ever lived, using the finest pen ever made, set down on the world's most luxurious legal pads. And the advice I have to share with you in Trump...

  • The Charmer

    Celeste Bradley

    Collis Tremayne could make any female swoon; yet no one would guess the hidden desperation that drove him to become the most skilled spy in service to the Crown. All that stands in his way...is Rose Lacey, a confounding chit who manages to outsmart h...

  • The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green

    Joshua Braff

    Jacob doesn’t mean to disappoint his father, but he can't help thinking the most unthinkable (and very funny) thoughts about public-school humiliation, Hebrew-school disinclination, and in-home sex education (with the live-in nanny!). If only his m...

  • Staring Down the Devil

    Peter Brandvold

    This Prophet is riding to hell and back Bounty hunter Lou Prophet is escorting a Russian noblewoman through Arizona on the trail of her missing sister—and a buried treasure that is being sought by a gang of desperadoes....

  • The Purple Emperor

    Herbie Brennan

    When Henry Atherton returned to his own life in the suburbs of London, he thought all was well in the Faerie Ream. His new friend Pyrgus, the crown prince of Faerie, was about to be coronated as Purple Emperor. But then Princess Holly Blue arrived on...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Stalks The Hunter

    Emily Brightwell

    STALK THIS WAY... Sir Edmund Leggett has a stalker--a young lady whose attentions have turned from puppy love to obsession. Rather than be alarmed, Sir Edmund is somewhat flattered. That is, until his engagement party, when someone murders him in ...

  • My Pleasure

    Connie Brockway

    The breathtaking love story of a dashing Scotsman who is duty bound to protect the one woman who incites in him a wild passion. How exactly can he save her from himself? By day, celebrated beauty Helena Nash works as a proper companion to one of ...

  • The Waitress

    Daniella Brodsky
    in

    Three young women searching for love in the big city come together at the finest spot in Manhattan to find the perfect ice cream sundae where they share their problems, enjoy their friendship, and commiserate about their romantic ups and downs, but t...

  • Daredevil Vs. Bullseye, Volume 1

    Bob Brown

  • The Christmas Wedding

    Laurie Brown

    Just In Case... Related to a duke? Matty Maxwell doesn't believe a word of that preposterous tale -- especially since her unexpected visitor, Davies Preston, insists that he has been sent to America by the Queen of England herself to reunite Mat...

  • Sovereign

    Simon Brown

    Exiled and betrayed by his family, Prince Lynan, the guardian of the Key of Union, is tormented by dreams of the vampire Silona as he prepares to return to Grenda Lear and take his rightful place on the throne. Original....

  • Heard It Through the Grapevine

    Pamela Browning

    Can She Overcome the Fear Factor? Gina Angelini never wants to see Josh Corbett again, and everyone knows why. Two years ago he romanced her in front of millions of TV viewers -- then surprised the world by picking another contestant to share his li...

  • Blueberry Surprise

    Wanda E. Brunstetter
    in

    The perfect ingredients for tasty reading, these four stories follow the culinary adventures--and misadventures--of a cooking instructor and three of her students who want to stir up a little romance....

  • Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid

    Jan Harold Brunvand

    An anthology of the most chilling urban legends of all time collected by the maestro himself.

    Urban legends are those strange, but seemingly credible tales that always happen to a friend of a friend. For the first time, Professor Jan Harold Br...

  • Strawberry Shortcake's Filly Friends

    Megan E. Bryant

    Strawberry Shortcake and her pals each have a special filly friend that need lots of love and care, such as brushing their long manes and tucking them in with their special blankets at the end of a fun day. Original....

  • The Winter Pearl

    Molly Bull

    In 1888, Colorado was a dangerous place for a girl on the run. But Honor McCall had to take her chances to escape from her cruel, drunken uncle and start a new life. She never imagined that she'd be rescued by a handsome young minister, or find a pla...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Golden Age Marvel Comics Volume 1

    Carl Burgos

    In celebration of 65 years in comic book publishing the House of Ideas is proud to present the first four issues of the comic series that launched Marvel Comics. This monumental hardcover volume re-masters and restores these first four historic issue...

  • Performance Anxiety

    Betsy Burke

    Miranda Lyme, mezzo-soprano, is in love with the infamous -- and, okay, technically married -- conductor-composer Kurt Hancock. So what if he lives in London, and she...doesn't. Their secret rendezvous are more than enough -- for now. Besides, Mir...

  • A Clock Without Hands

    Guy Burt

    "I want to turn back the hands on the clock and change it all, make it different; three friends who meet up by chance in an old city and share a beer and laugh at old stories and jokes. But it wasn't like that; and the clock has no hands, so I can't ...

  • Furies of Calderon

    Jim Butcher

    In this extraordinary new fantasy epic, USA Today bestselling author Jim Butcher leads readers into a world where the fate of the realm rests on the shoulders of a boy with no power to call his own... For a thousand years, the people of Alera have...

  • Dream of Me

    Lisa Cach

    Theron, undying creature of the Night World, knew everything about making love. But though he was an incubus, a bringer of carnal dreams to sleeping maids, he had grander ambition. He plotted to step into the mortal world and rule as king. The beaut...

  • Winterset

    Candace Camp

    Despite its graceful beauty, Winterset remains shrouded in the mystery of its dark psat... Ever since Anna Holcombe inexplicably refused his proposal, Reed Moreland has been unable to set foot in the home that was the backdrop to their romance -- ...

  • Crystal Lies

    Melody Carlson

    A Son’s Addiction. A Mother’s Heartbreak. A Family’s Crisis. As the wife of a prominent city attorney and the mother of two teenage children on the brink of adulthood, Glennis Harmon lives the kind of successful, high-profile life that many pe...

  • Bitsy's Harvest Party

    Melody Carlson

  • 'Twas the Night: The Nativity Story

    Melody Carlson

  • Snow Day

    Susanna Carr
    in

    Showing up naked in Tyler's bed has more to do with Karen's rotten luck and bad sense of direction than actual intent. But Tyler's sure she's right where she belongs, and he's got one Christmas snowstorm to prove it to her......

  • Santa's Night

    Lark Carrier

  • The Murder Artist

    John Case

    As a television news correspondent, Alex Callahan has traveled to some of the most dangerous corners of the globe, covering famine, plague, and war. He's seen more than his share of blood and death, and knows what it means to be afraid. But what he's...

  • The Shooting Party

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    A story of concealed love and fatal jealousy wrapped into a classic murder mystery

    When a young woman dies during a shooting party at the country estate of a dissolute count, a magistrate is called to investigate. But suspicion descends upon v...

  • A Life in Letters

    Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

    The life story of a Russian master as he told it to others 

    From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, Chekhov wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspondents, including family and friends,...

  • Kissing Vanessa

    Simon Cheshire

    The instant Kevin Watts sees the new girl, he falls head over heels in love. Not only is Vanessa gorgeous, sophisticated, and intelligent -- but she’s also into photography, just like Kevin. He’s sure they’d be perfect for each other . . . if i...

  • From the Lighthouse

    Elizabeth Chipman

    The river, the lighthouse, and her family are all that thirteen- year-old Weezie Bloom has ever wanted or needed. Not so for Ma, who, without warning, leaves forever. Healing is slow, but the family survives, guided by their father's strength and l...

  • Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi

    David Chotjewitz

  • Moving Day

    Cindy Chupack
    in

    A STAR-STUDDED STORY COLLECTION FEATURING AMERICA'S RED-HOT WOMEN WRITERS They're taking liberties--and pursuing happiness on their own terms! Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel"--and the trouble with falling for an in...

  • xxxHolic, Volume 3

    CLAMP

    Kimihiro Watanuki is haunted by spiritsâ€"and the only way to escape his curse is to become the indentured servant of the mysterious witch, YĂ»ko Ichihara. But when his beloved, beautiful Himawari-chan, asks him for a favor, he and his eternal rival,...

  • Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle, Volume 3

    CLAMP

    CAN PURE DETERMINATION DEFEAT A MASTER MAGICIAN?
    Sakura is awake, but she remembers almost nothingâ€"certainly not Syaoran, who has sacrificed everything to help her. Accompanied by the happy-go-lucky Fai, the intense Kurogane, and the strikingly ...

  • Merry Christmas to You, Blue Kangaroo!

    Emma Chichester Clark

    BLUE KANGAROO BELONGS to Lily and the two of them are getting ready to celebrate their first Christmas together. Lily is especially excited. She’s made cards for everyone, helped decorate the house, and put presents beneath the tree. One special pr...

  • It Was You, Blue Kangaroo!

    Emma Chichester Clark

    BLUE KANGAROO BELONGS to Lily, and they do everything together. Almost everything, that is. Recently Lily has been doing some things -- some not very nice things -- by herself. And blaming Blue Kangaroo! Soon Blue Kangaroo is in big trouble with Lily...

  • Diagnosis: Amnesia

    Lucy Clark

    When family practitioner Logan Hargraves is called out to an unconscious patient, he's amazed to see medical researcher Dr. Charlotte Summerfield. Why is the beautiful American alone in the Outback? Did she come to see him, after their electric first...

  • The Last Holiday Concert

    Andrew Clements

    WINTERHOPE. It didn't sound like much, but it was a big idea. A very big idea. It all started when Hart Evans zinged a rubber band that hit Mr. Meinert, the chorus director. Actually, it started before that, when Mr. Meinert learned he was out of a...

  • Me and Billy

    James Lincoln Collier

    Life at Deacon Smith’s Home for Waifs would be completely dreary if it weren’t for Possum’s best friend, Billy, who “thinks up lies faster than he can talk” and provides plenty of excitement for the other boys. When Billy hears that gold is...

  • Grave Matters

    Max Allan Collins

    Rebecca Bennett, the estranged stepdaughter of a well-to-do Las Vegas businessman, is hounding the Las Vegas Police Department to reopen the investigation into her mother Rita's death -- alleging that, despite appearances to the contrary, Rebecca's g...

  • Wives and Sisters

    Natalie R. Collins

    Decades ago, young Allison Jensen and her best friend Cindy were separated in the woods. Cindy disappeared forever. Allison survived amid a web of small-town secrets and lies that greeted every anguished question she asked about that fateful afternoo...

  • Germs

    Ross Collins

    Pox is not an ordinary germ. Sure, like other germs he takes the bubonic bus to Germ Academy, and he proves that he is unhealthy before he attends school. But Pox just doesn't understand why he should want to make a person miserable. Poor Pox is ...

  • Over the Hills and Far Away

    Chris Conover

    Hold on to your hat!Tommy was a piper's son,He learned to pipe when he was young;The only song that he could playWas over the hills and far away.Over the hills and a long way offThe wind shall blow my top hat off.Come join the fun as Tom, an otter pu...

  • Jump!

    Floyd Cooper

    What was Michael Jordan like as a boy? You might be surprised that the greatest professional basketball player ever wasn't even the best player in his own family!Michael Jordan was once just an ordinary little boy growing up in a North Carolina subur...

  • Some People, Some Other Place

    J. California Cooper

    For generations Eula Too’s family has been making a journey North, year after year, step by painful step; and she’s determined to be the one to make it all the way to Chicago. In and out of school, taking care of her fourteen brothers and sisters...

  • Keep Me Alive

    Natasha Cooper

    Why did investigative journalist Jamie Maxden die? The coroner says it was suicide. The case is closed. Only one man fights to reopen it. Will Applewood is sure Jamie was about to expose a scandal that would shame the British food industry. But Will ...

  • Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

    J. Fred Coots

    Experience the magic of a Steven Kellogg Christmas!

    Santa has never come to town with such pizzazz -- and with "elephants, boats, and kiddie cars, too!" Here is artwork so completely festive and comically inventive, you'll feel the inspired...

  • The Rake's Mistress

    Nicola Cornick

    COURTED BY LONDON'S MOST NOTORIOUS RAKE... Lord Lucas Kestrel's anger turns to desire when he meets Miss Rebecca Raleigh. He believes that she's one of the scandalous Archangel courtesans, but he quickly discovers that not only is she innocent she i...

  • One Night of Scandal

    Nicola Cornick

    THE WIDOW AND THE RAKE! Deborah Stratton is a respectable widow -- or so the inhabitants of the Midwinter villages believe. But she hides a secret that means she'll never marry again.... Lord Richard Kestrel is London's most notorious rake, a d...

  • The Closer

    Donn Cortez

    METHOD
    He is the Closer -- a remorseless executioner whose modus operandi is terrifying in its brutal simplicity. He captures his prey, tortures them until they confess their sins, and disposes of them as they deserve. His victims hav...

  • Here They Come!

    David Hyde Costello

    Two young monsters learn the joys of a good scare

    Here come some warlocks, here come the ghosts,
    Here come the witches, greeting the hosts,
    Then it's a scarecrow with corn for the cookout,
    Along with an owl who will keep a keen lookou...

  • Watcher in the Woods

    Carol Cox
    in

    Love Illuminates Mysterious Shadows Romance is blossoming, and lives are on the verge of exciting changes -- but these four women are also threatened by suspicion, mystery, and danger. Laurel Masters's only friend at her estranged grandmother's...

  • Lovers and Liars

    Josephine Cox

    Their love was as young and hopeful as the new century ... Emily Ramsden knows that her feelings for John Hanley go far beyond teenage infatuation. It is love, pure, strong, and as glorious as the surrounding English countryside, and John shares h...

  • Live the Dream

    Josephine Cox

    Plain, down-to-earth Amy Maitland can't help but notice the sad and handsome stranger who spends every Tuesday at the local cafe -- an artist who puts his heart and turbulent emotions on canvas in vivid, powerful paintings. No stranger herself to the...

  • Lovers and Liars

    Josephine Cox

    Their love was as young and hopeful as the new century ... Emily Ramsden knows that her feelings for John Hanley go far beyond teenage infatuation. It is love, pure, strong, and as glorious as the surrounding English countryside, and John shares h...

  • Through The Grinder

    Cleo Coyle

    Clare Cosi has coffee in her veins. That's why she jumped at the chance to return to New York City as manager of the historic Village Blend coffeehouse. And her new life is a pretty flavorful blend too -- with her daughter close by, her ex-husban...

  • Wild Heart

    Francine Craft

    Nightclub owner Clea Wilde has never forgotten surgeon Robert Redding, her ex-fiance' and her one and only love. Although she is now dating an R&B record mogul, her thoughts still turn to Robert and what might have been - if only his socialite mother...

  • The Stuff of Love

    DiAnna Crawford
    in

    In four interwoven novellas set in 1941, an American OSS officer enlists a mother and daughter in America and two of their relatives in Europe to carry out a clever plan. They sew dolls for the children of the war-torn continent...but add a life-savi...

  • In a Dark House

    Deborah Crombie

    An abandoned Southwark warehouse burns next door to a women's shelter for victims of spousal abuse. Within it lies the charred corpse of a female body burned beyond all recognition. At the same time, workers at Guy's Hospital anxiously discuss the di...

  • The Dark Ground

    Gillian Cross

  • Murder at the B-School

    Jeffrey Cruikshank

    Eric MacInnes is the golden boy of Harvard Business School-until an incident in a hot tub turns him into a beautiful corpse. Now the B-School elders need somebody to placate both Eric's parents and the Boston police. First on their list is assistant ...

  • Conflicted

    Michael Culp

    Follows David Meadows, Director of Research at a large Wall Street brokerage firm, as he puts into play a special assignment from his CEO that will generate twenty million dollars, if he can make things go his way. Reprint....

  • Shadows in the Darkness

    Elaine Cunningham

    Gwen "Gigi" Gellman, a ten year veteran of the Providence, Rhode Island vice squad, finds herself unemployed after a routine bust turns into a bloodbath and she's made the scapegoat. Gigi is used to being on her own, though, and with the help of a DA...

  • The Uncertainty Principle

    Lynda Curnyn
    in

    A STAR-STUDDED STORY COLLECTION FEATURING AMERICA'S RED-HOT WOMEN WRITERS They're taking liberties--and pursuing happiness on their own terms! Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel"--and the trouble with falling for an in...

  • Outcasts of the Storm

    Dan Cushman

    If Comanche John has a last name, no one knows it, and it is not mentioned in the one hundred or so verses of the frontier ballad composed about him. When John happens accidentally on a stage robbery being arranged by a young greenhorn, professional ...

  • Mine at Midnight

    Jacquie D'Alessandro
    in

    For Cinderella, the fun ended at midnight. But for these women, that's just when things start heating up... USA Today bestselling author Jacquie D'Alessandro turns a professional relationship into a pleasurable pastime when two business partners f...

  • Escape to West Berlin

    Maurine F. Dahlberg

    The advent of the WallHeidi's thirteenth birthday is coming up, but she's disappointed -- her mother is pregnant and refuses to make the annual summer visit to Heidi's grandmother. What's more, it's 1961 and the government is cracking down on border ...

  • Tracked

    Claudia Dain
    in

    Snow falls, but this is no ordinary white Christmas. There's no festive cheer, no carolers, no mistletoe. Three women are running for their lives: a college student home on break, the wife of a murdered DEA agent, a Denver widow. They're frightened a...

  • Shotgun Station

    Kit Dalton

  • I Know a Woman

    Quinn Dalton
    in

    A STAR-STUDDED STORY COLLECTION FEATURING AMERICA'S RED-HOT WOMEN WRITERS They're taking liberties--and pursuing happiness on their own terms! Jennifer Weiner (In Her Shoes) learns "The Truth About Nigel"--and the trouble with falling for an in...

  • The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex

    Charles Darwin

    This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This book features a table of contents linked to every chapter. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the iPad, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic reade...

  • The Partner

    Kay David

    In a heart-stopping moment she'd never stop reliving, Risa Taylor lost everything -- her partner, her friends, her career and her self-confidence. The family she was never close to has taken a step back and there's nowhere else to turn. Things can't ...

  • Pickle and Penguin

    Lawrence David

    Having lived an adventurous life, Pickle is excited to join up with Penguin who, bored with Antarctica, is looking for a change, but after the two reach New York City and accidentally get separated, the new friends must rely on the residents of the c...

  • After the Fall

    Peter David

    Three years have passed since the events depicted in the novel, Stone and Anvil, and for the past and present crew members of thr U.S.S. Excalibur, life has taken many surprising twists and turns. Captain Elizabeth Shelby has been promoted to admiral...

  • Double Shot

    Diane Mott Davidson

    Caterer supreme Goldy Schulz has more on her plate than she can handle. Her ultra-charming, ultra-wealthy, and seriously psychopathic ex-husband, Dr. John Richard Korman (aka "the Jerk"), is free now that the governor of Colorado has commuted...

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    Maryjanice Davidson
    in

    Dressed as a sidewalk Santa, undercover cop Corinne mistakes Tony Danielson for a purse snatcher. What Tony sees is a beautiful, lonely workaholic, and he'd love to take her out of disguise and help her slip into something a little more comfortable.....

  • Still of the Night

    Dee Davis
    in

    Snow falls, but this is no ordinary white Christmas. There's no festive cheer, no carolers, no mistletoe. Three women are running for their lives: a college student home on break, the wife of a murdered DEA agent, a Denver widow. They're frightened a...

  • Garfield's Guide to Everything

    Jim Davis

    In Garfield’s Guide to Everything, the philosophizing fat cat weighs in on a whole kit and caboodle of subjects, from ecology to astrology, Shakespeare to stupidity. Sleep -- “The best 18 hours of my day” Coffee -- “Mother Nature’s Jum...

  • Babar's Mystery

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • The Sugar Child

    Monique de Varennes

    Young Martine is made from marzipan, and must never play in the sun, walk in the rain, or cry because she could melt, but when Martine's friend becomes sick, her tears melt away her sugary exterior to reveal the skin of a real girl....

  • A Time for War, A Time for Peace

    Keith R.A. Decandido

    On the cusp of their epic battle with Shinzon, many of Captain Jean-Luc Picard's long-time crew were heading for new assignments and new challenges. Among the changes were William Riker's promotion to captain and his new command, Riker's marriage to ...

  • Killer Instinct

    Cindy Dees

    Q: What's beautiful, hard to trace...and cold as ice? A: Black-market diamonds. And Amanda McClintock, the covert operative assigned to dismantle a diamond smuggling ring. Thanks to Amanda's double-agent father, killer instinct was in her blood. H...

  • The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists

    Gideon Defoe

    Not since Moby-Dick...No, not since Treasure Island...Actually, not since Jonah and the Whale has there been a sea saga to rival The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists, featuring the greatest sea-faring hero of all time, the immortal Pirate Cap...

  • The Fund

    Wes Demott

    Peter Jamison is an aerospace engineer who wanted nothing more than to save his contract for a tactical weapons system. But together with his girlfriend, attorney Melissa Corley, he uncovered a crime of corruption, power and violence, a crime that ha...

  • Atticus of Rome

    Barry Denenberg

    THE LIFE AND TIMES Atticus is a young boy who has been torn from his family and home and sold into slavery to a Roman aristocrat. As a spy for Lucius Opimius, he quickly learns that not all is as it seems in the republic of Rome. Politicians and gree...

  • Pandora of Athens

    Barry Denenberg

    Pandora is trapped in the restrictive roles laid out for Greek girls, and, to her despair, her father has negotiated her engagement to a man more than twice her age. Now Pandora waits with dread for her fourteenth birthday, when she will be old enoug...

  • Meet Me at Midnight

    Janelle Denison
    in

    For Cinderella, the fun ended at midnight. But for these women, that's just when things start heating up... USA Today bestselling author Janelle Denison sets the stage for seduction when a young woman throws caution to the wind and responds to an ...

  • The Unknown Daughter

    Anna DeStefano

    Carrinne Wilmington vowed she'd never return to the Georgia hometown she fled as a pregnant teen. But now she has no choice. Carrinne's life depends on finding her father, a man she never knew...and the key to the transplant she needs. So she decides...

  • Naughty Or Nice

    Eric Jerome Dickey

    With all the humor, passion, and soul his fans have come to expect, New York Times bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey has written a novel with enough spice to warm even the coldest winter nights.... “Just in time for the holidays...a very funny ...

  • Eye of Newt

    Denise Dietz

    Sydney St. Charles is descended from a long line of witches. She owns an apothecary shop in Manitou Falls, Colorado, where she sells spells, potions and talismans. Sydney's charms are very popular, but it isn't witchcraft that has the town buzzing. C...

  • For More Than Glory

    William C. Dietz

    You're only a hero... The Legion has repelled a war that was waged against all sentient creatures. And they've gained new allies in the process: two alien races. It's up to Legion General Bill Booly to stabilize the Confederacy -- and crush the last...

  • Disney's Junior Encyclopedia of Animated Characters

    Disney Book Group

    Inside this fun and comprehensive book, you'll find all the information you ever wanted to know about your favorite Disney animated characters. Did you know that O'Malley, the alley cat from The Aristocats, is actually named Abraham DeLacey Giuseppe ...

  • Freaked out

    Disney Book Group

    If Lizzie thinks her little brother Matt can't get any freakier, she's about to learn she is way wrong. When Lizzie and Matt suddenly switch bodies, Lizzie starts to see how warped her little brother's world really is--firsthand! Meanwhile, Matt's go...

  • Alien Legion: Tenants of Hell

    Chuck Dixon

    They are the dregs, the lost and the forsaken. They are loyal only to each other. They are the mudslogging mercenaries of Force Nomad, Alien Legion’s worst of the worst, and they are the stars of this planet-busting new series!

    Lost for 15 years...

  • Every Shut Eye

    Collen Dixon

    Alex Baxter knows what it’s like to fight for your survival on the meanest streets of Washington D.C. And he knows what it’s like to cross over to the other side, into a world where money flows like water, power is more precious than gold, and se...

  • About Grace

    Anthony Doerr

    The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debut...

  • The Runes of the Earth

    Stephen R. Donaldson

    New York Times bestselling author Stephen R. Donaldson presents the first novel of the four-volume finale to the series that’s become a modern fantasy classic: The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant.Thomas Covenant lost everything. Abando...

  • Mother's Old Quilt

    Lena Nelson Dooley
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    As long as women have been sewing, there have been boxes of scraps and recycled garments in their homes. The women of the Collins family have such a treasure box, which down through time is opened by Bridgit, who stitches her wedding dress on the Dak...

  • Gerda's Lawman

    Lena Nelson Dooley

    Years spent tracking a swindler and his twin daughters have cost Frank dearly in time and money. When his search leads to Litchfield, Minnesota, the former U.S. Marshal finds more than he bargained for -- in the form of his quarry, Gerda Nilsson. ...

  • Almost Heaven

    Charlotte Douglas

    Home Is Where the Heart(Ache) Is... Six years ago she left Pleasant Valley to follow a dream...and now she's back, knee-deep in a nightmare. With her parents' marriage on the rocks, her grandmother at her wit's end and the man she once loved -- and ...

  • The Red Queen

    Margaret Drabble

    On the cusp of a trip to Korea, Barbara Halliwell receives an unexpected package with no return address. Inside she finds a centuries-old memoir by a Korean crown princess that details the mysteries of the Korean court as well as the dramas that left...

  • A Watery Grave

    Joan Druett

    The year is 1838, and after more than ten years in the planning, the famous United States Exploring Expedition is set to launch into uncharted waters from the coast of Virginia. A convoy of seven ships filled with astronomers, mapmakers, naturalists,...

  • Speak Now

    Margaret Dumas

    Charley Van Leeuwen can tell by a kiss whether someone has been drinking Taittinger or Veuve Clicquot. But a connoisseur of men she is not. Which is why it's such a shock to her friends when the confirmed commitment-phobe theater director returns to ...

  • Private Agenda

    Natalie Dunbar

    "SOMEONE WILL PAY FOR WHAT HAPPENED..." The last year of her life had been hell. CIA agent Reese Whittaker's attempt at marriage and motherhood had ended in heartache. Now her brother had been killed in an embassy bombing and the CIA wanted her to...

  • The Jaguar Knights

    Dave Duncan

    Supremely skilled warriors, bonded by magic, their destiny is to serve without question... The realm's most feared swordsman, Sir Wolf has earned his name, the "King's Killer," well. Unlike many of his brother Blades, however, Wolf detests his swo...

  • Close Kin

    Clare B. Dunkle

    For thousands of years, young women have been vanishing from Hallow Hill, never to be seen again. Now Kate and Emily have moved there with no idea of the land's dreadful heritage--until Marak decides to tell them himself. Marak is a powerful magician...

  • Petunia's Christmas

    Roger Duvoisin

    While taking a walk in the snow, the pet goose Petunia meets Charles, a most charming and handsome gander. Handsome, yesâ€"and hefty, because poor Charles is being fattened for Christmas dinner by the farmer next door. Will the gander of Petunia’s ...

  • The Prince's Bride

    Lois Faye Dyer

    Deciding to focus on her thriving business as a wedding planner, Emily Parks had given up her dream of finding the perfect man. Yet when handsome Prince Lazhar Eban asked Emily to plan his royal wedding, she accepted, never guessing that she was the ...

  • Wisdom's Daughter

    India Edghill

    This is the tale of Bilqis, the Queen of Sheba, who rules the spice lands and bows before the will of the Goddess.This is the tale of Solomon, the King of Israel and Judea, who built the golden temple to Yahweh in Jerusalem. Once he prayed that he mi...

  • The Coffin Trail

    Martin Edwards

    "...a beautifully-evoked sense of the Lake District and an interesting and diverse group of characters. Martin Edwards got plenty of kudos for his Harry Devlin series, and he should get even more for this one. His DCI Hannah Scarlett is a fine creati...

  • Santa Paws and the New Puppy

    Nicholas Edwards

    Everyone's favorite canine hero, Santa Paws, is back in this sixth book in the series. And this time, he's got a mysterious new friend....

    Last Christmas in Oceanport?

    It's Christmastime, Santa Paws' favorite time of year! The famous do...

  • Scream Queens of the Dead Sea

    Gilad Elbom

    When a young graduate of the Israeli army decides to moonlight as an assistant nurse at a mental institution in Jerusalem, the job seems like a nice break from everyday life in the Promised Land. What could be easier than exercising power over a smal...

  • Siege Perilous

    P.N. Elrod; Nigel Bennett

    THE VAMPIRE WHO WAS ONCE A KNIGHT HAS DEFENDED THE HELPLESS FOR CENTURIES--BUT NOW HE MUST DEFEND ALL WHO LIVE! Vampire hero Richard Dun, once called Lancelot, is back in the latest book in this exciting, critically acclaimed fantasy series by awa...

  • Pranks a Lot: The Girls vs the Boys

    Robin Epstein

    It's the Girls versus the Boys! Spelling Bee season has arrived and the Grovy Girls are ready for more slumberific F-U-N! During their second pajama party the Groovies... Play a mysterious new game.. that will bring some "spirit" to the sl...

  • Cupcakes for Two

    Birdie L. Etchison
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    The perfect ingredients for tasty reading, these four stories follow the culinary adventures--and misadventures--of a cooking instructor and three of her students who want to stir up a little romance....

  • A Berry Merry Christmas

    Marcia Evanick

    Seasons Greetings from Misty Harbor, Maine! The snowy coastal village is as pretty as a postcard, decked out for the holidays in its winter finery. It's the ideal place to celebrate a picture-perfect Christmas, as its hometown warmth melts the coldes...

  • Odd One Out

    Lissa Evans

    Some are born odd, some achieve oddness, and some are just in the wrong place at the wrong time The Devon family's a good example: there's thirty-nine-year-old Glenn, whose main interest in life is rubbish collection; his mother, Bel, who teaches tap...

  • Longarm and the Bartered Brides

    Tabor Evans

    Longarm GIANT novels…the biggest and best in Western adventure!Down in the driest parts of the southwest, gals are scarcer than water -- and some men, crazy from lust and the scorching sun, have sent away for mail-order brides. But when the womenfo...

  • Longarm and the Devil's Bride

    Tabor Evans

    Temptation never looked so good…When buxom Miss Boothe goes missing, Marshal Custis Long is called to find her. But following her trail takes him through the plains and straight to where rancher Grant Stockton is waiting. He’s richer than God and...

  • The Perfect Bride

    Jo Ann Ferguson

    A Plan Gone Perfectly Awry... A duel has left Lucian, fourth Earl of Wandersee, with a wounded arm and a sudden distaste for London society. Traveling in secret to the country, he is laid low by a raging fever -- and he finds himself recuperating in...

  • Crewel Yule

    Monica Ferris

    Part-time sleuth and full-time owner of the needlework shop Crewel World, Betsy Devonshire often has a hand in anything crafty -- from knitting to solving crime. In this latest yarn in the "delightful" (Mystery Time) series, Betsy prepares for a chil...

  • Saloon Girl

    Dirk Fletcher

    Investigating the murder of a land office agent, Spur McCoy goes up against a legendary outlaw while trying to choose between Maggie, a local lady with many talents, and Colette, a sultry saloon singer. Original....

  • A Vote for Murder

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    CAPITOL CRIME Mystery writer and amateur sleuth Jessica Fletcher can't believe her luck when she finds herself in Washington, D.C., to support a new literacy initiative. Not only does she get to spend a week helping with such an important cause, but ...

  • Double-Cross

    Meredith Fletcher

    An orphan with an unknown past, CIA operative Samantha St. John used her quick speed and sharp mind to make up for her small size. Sam was about to go AWOL on a mission for vengeance--bringing down the legendary killer she believed was responsible fo...

  • Eve Green

    Susan Fletcher

    Winner of the 2004 Whitbread First Novel Award.

    "Susan Fletcher's first novel . . . is one of those lyrical books about childhood in which the physical details―the sights, the smells―take on a vividness that's entrancing."―Polly Shulman,...

  • Lux

    Maria Flook

    A searing, poignant, darkly comic novel set on Cape Cod by the author of the bestselling true crime story Invisible Eden. Young Alden Warren's husband has vanished without a trace. Her daily routine -- working for the National Park Service at the Cap...

  • Persuasive Evidence

    R. Barri Flowers

    Since her husband's death, Assistant District Attorney Jordan La Fontaine has worked non-stop to get the position of Bureau Chief of the Homicide Division, competing with fellow ADA Jerrod Wresler. But the law's taken on a whole new importance to Jor...

  • On the Run

    Sean Flynn; Gina Hill; Gregg Hill

    The children of notorious Mafia wiseguy and informant Henry Hill-the real-life subject of Goodfellas-tell their own story of danger, hurt, and family in this extraordinary account of growing up with an out-of-control father in the federal witness pro...

  • Tales from Wrescal Lane

    Mick Foley

    Come one, come all, to Wrescal Lane.It's the bestest place to seeyour favorite WWE Superstarsas kids like you and me!First there's young Mick Foley,with missing teeth and dirty shirt.One look at him will tell youhe's not afraid of getting hurt!Kurt A...

  • Flippin' the Script

    Aisha Ford

    She's the assistant producer for The Daily Dose, one of the Midwest's hottest daytime talk shows. Yet Sabrina Bradley knows she hasn't been working nearly as hard on her walk with God as she has on fixing up her life. What with finding out Mr. Right ...

  • Forever in My Heart

    Linda Ford

    Having seen the devastation of broken promises firsthand, Laureen Baker determines never to break a child's heart. She loves her job at Barnabas Home, a refuge for orphaned boys. Pete Long also knows devastation -- specifically, the havoc wreake...

  • Sliding Scales

    Alan Dean Foster

    From New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster comes a fantastic new Pip and Flinx adventure starring a certain twenty-four-year-old redhead with emerald eyes and uncanny abilities and his devoted mini-dragon protector. Time and again, the d...

  • The Jane Austen Book Club

    Karen Joy Fowler

    In California's central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen's novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements become suitable, and love happens. With her eye for the f...

  • The Bride Prize

    Susan Fox

    Corrie Davis has never had a real date. She's been too busy trying to run her ranch single-handedly and thinks she knows more about money (as in not having any!) than men. But now the two sexy Merrick brothers -- the richest men in the county -- ...

  • Good Morning, Darkness

    Ruth Francisco

    Everybody was in love with Laura: the Mexican fisherman who admired her through her kitchen window in the predawn darkness, the boyfriend who refused to take no for an answer, the detective who instructed her in martial arts, and the creepy boss who ...

  • Cheat and Charmer

    Elizabeth Frank

    Twenty-five years in the making, a first novel that has already been compared to The Sun Also Rises and The Last Tycoon, Cheat and Charmer is certain to be one of the most admired literary debuts of the season. Written by Pulitzer Prize -- winning bi...

  • I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691

    Lisa Rowe Fraustino

    Lisa Rowe Fraustino's dramatic tale of the Salem witch trials is back in print with a beautiful new cover design!Deliverance Trembley lives in Salem Village where she must take care of her sickly sister, Mem, and where she does her daily chores in fe...

  • Essential Monster of Frankenstein, Volume 1

    Gary Friedrich

  • Night After Night

    Kristin Gabriel

    Subjects: Mia Maldonado, Nate Cafferty Experiment: To study the effects of sleeping with a stranger Observations: Vital signs of both subjects are off the charts -- and they aren't doing any sleeping! When Mia agrees to take her friend's place i...

  • The Incumbent

    Alton Gansky

    An abduction...a trail of disturbing clues... Politics are about to become deadly. As the controversial mayor of the beautiful coastal community of Santa Rita, Madison 'Maddy' Glenn likes to face things head-on. But nothing can prepare her for a host...

  • Michael Garland's Christmas Treasury

    Michael Garland

    Three Christmas stories present the holiday adventures of a mouse who goes along for the ride with Santa, an elf who is accidentally delivered along with a Christmas gift, and a little girl who witnesses amazing events on Christmas Eve....

  • On the Twelfth Day of Christmas

    Mona Gedney

    Will Christmas Complications... Violet Leigh has always loved the Christmas season...until she finds herself at a holiday house party she earnestly wishes to avoid. Not only must she curb her flirtatious widowed mother and two high-spirited siblings...

  • Nabokov's Butterfly: And Other Stories of Great Authors and Rare Books

    Rick Gekoski

    A first edition of Ulysses sold for 460,000 in auction at Christie's in 2002. The price might have upset the union chief, convicted gangster, and major-league James Joyce book collector Dennis Silverman, who had sold his copy, signed and inscribed by...

  • Snowboard Twist

    Jean Craighead George

    It's snowboarding season in the Teton Mountains, and the snow at Glory Bowl is fresh. But as Axel and his father, Dag, well know, new snow settling on top of old snow can also mean the risk of an avalanche. While Dag surveys the landscape for signs o...

  • The Santa Snatcher

    Jane E. Gerver

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    Rhonda Gibson
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    As long as women have been sewing, there have been boxes of scraps and recycled garments in their homes. The women of the Collins family have such a treasure box, which down through time is opened by Bridgit, who stitches her wedding dress on the Dak...

  • A House of Tailors

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    SEWING! NO ONE could hate it more than Dina Kirk. Endless tiny stitches, button holes, darts. Since she was tiny, she’s worked in her family’s dressmaking business, where the sewing machine is a cranky member of the family.When 13-year-old Dina l...

  • Cuddle Time

    Libby Gleeson

    Two toddlers are on the prowl for a family cuddle in a playful celebration of cozy togetherness that will bring smiles to "monsters" and little ones alike.

    It's early morning and the adults are asleep. But the little ones are up -- and they'...

  • Last Breath

    Christopher Golden; Rick Hautala

    "When a psycho wants to make a statement, and nobody gets it, he's only going to say it louder the next time." Jenna thought spending her summer in Somerset would be quiet and relaxing. With classes over and the students home on break, the campus ...