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New Books List: 770 titles

  • Lonely Lioness and the Ostrich Chicks

    Verna Aardema

    Illustrated in full color. Beloved storyteller Verna Aardema is at her finest in this African animal tale, weaving charm and suspense with a delightfully satisfying resolution. Peering down from her treetop perch, a lonely lioness admires the noisily...

  • King Big Wig

    Portia Aborio

  • Dmitri the Astronaut

    Jon Agee

    ‘It’s me!’ says Dmitri. ‘I’m back from the moon!’ But alas, nobody remembers the former space hero anymore. Unknown to Dmitri, Lulu -- his loyal lunar pal -- has stowed away in his sack of moon rocks, and this remarkable creature soon bec...

  • It Was a Dark and Stormy Night

    Janet Ahlberg

    A small boy who has been kidnapped by brigands, passes a dark and stormy night in their cave weaving for them incredible stories of their own exploits. Through the stories he solves his own problem and manages to escape....

  • Candy Kiss

    Ginny Aiken

    There is a place that lives within every heart...a special place where only love can bloom. And from the peaceful mountains of the Rockies to the Eastern windswept shores, there are small towns where gentle hearts can find their home -- and where tru...

  • The Cockatrice Boys

    Joan Aiken

    What does a cockatrice enjoy most for dinner? Anyone it can find. So the alarmed inhabitants of England discover when a plague of monsters -- known as cockatrices -- invade their country and begin gobbling them up. They must be stopped! A plucky b...

  • Emma Watson

    Joan Aiken

    Jane Austen wrote the untitled fragment that was later called The Watsons in 1803-5, and it was published posthumously in 1871. Joan Aiken, well known for her Jane Austen sequels and children's books, finishes the fragment, introducing a new hero and...

  • Chelli Tells the Truth

    Sarah Albee

  • Song of Songs

    Sholom Aleichem

    A tender Jewish tale follows the story of a young boy named Shimek who finds himself falling in love with Buzie, the daughter of his deceased brother, and due to shyness can only express his feelings through quoting the Bible. 15,000 first printing....

  • The Constant Heart

    Trisha Alexander

    They came from different worlds. She was a Texas beauty who'd known privilege and luxury all her life. He was a photojournalist who'd spent a lonely childhood in foster homes, battling for his very survival. Yet from the moment Amy Carpenter and Sam ...

  • Quaker Testimony

    Irene Allen

    A SIMPLE LIFE...A DEADLY INTERRUPTION Widow Elizabeth Elliot leads a modest life. As Clerk of the local Quaker meeting, she not only handles the congregation's daily activities, but also is their moral and inspirational leader. So when murder ...

  • Cold White Fury

    Beth Amos

    Sliver of fate...... A freak accident. A tiny, unnoticed fragment of metal is embedded in an infant's brain. Eight years later, the bizarre is triggered, a phenomenon that goes undetected by medical personnel, but which may save America from a sin...

  • Flipper

    Dina Anastasio

    Sandy (Elijah Wood) can’t believe his misfortune. He’s being forced to spend the summer on an island with his weird Uncle Porter (Paul Hogan). Adding insult to injury, the trip will mean missing the concert of the year. Just when it seems his ...

  • Rio Grande Fall

    Rudolfo A. Anaya

    Everyone loves the Hot Air Balloon Fiesta de Albuquerque. This year the fiesta is more profitable and livelier than ever. Until a body plummets from the heavens. PI. Sonny Baca immediately recognizes the corpse as a key witness in his cousin's murde...

  • The Ideal Choice

    Caroline Anderson

    Dr. Tricia Page arrived at the small rural clinic to cover her friend Linsey's maternity leave. But, after a disastrous first encounter with Dr. Rhys Williams and his three children, Tricia had more than a suspicion that Linsey was matchmaking. S...

  • Disney's Big, Bad Book of Puzzlers

    Karen C. Anderson

    More than 100 picture and word puzzles, mazes, logic and memory games, and number and letter problems featuring 17 of Disney's most popular villains come together in a hefty volume filled with illustrations of the bad guys and gals. Villains from suc...

  • Turkey Pox

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    On their way to Thanksgiving at Nana's house, Charity's family notices that Charity has chicken pox, and it looks like there will not be any Thanksgiving celebration for Charity, until Nana comes up with a big surprise....

  • Melody

    V.C. Andrews

    MELODY LOGAN KNEW HER BEAUTIFUL MOTHER, HAILLE, WAS UNHAPPY IN THEIR HARDSCRABBLE MINING TOWN.... But with her wonderful father's unwavering love, Melody always felt safe -- until a dreadful mine accident ripped her from her family's moorings. She ...

  • The Magpie Song

    Laurence Anholt

    A story based on the traditional rhyme is told through the correspondence of young Carla, who lives in the city and writes about a forthcoming sibling, and her grandfather, who lives in the country and makes up riddles about the birds in his yard....

  • Almost a Lady

    Barbara Ankrum

    BETWEEN LOVE AND DANGER IT'S HARD TO CHOOSE Everyone had to go sometime, but Luke Turner never figured he'd end up freezing to death in the middle of a Colorado snowstorm, handcuffed to a gorgeous pickpocket named Maddy Barnes. Of course, she w...

  • The Hand I Fan With

    Tina McElroy Ansa

    Bestselling author Tina McElroy Ansa is back with another tale from Mulberry, Georgia, the richly drawn fictional town and home of the extraordinary Lena McPherson.  Lena, now forty-five and tired of being "the hand everyone fans with," has...

  • Seven Moves

    Carol Anshaw

    Christine Snow, a successful Chicago therapist, sets out to find her vanished lover, the sultry and elusive travel photographer Taylor Hayes. Forging a trail that leads into the heart of Morocco, Seven Moves tracks Christine's gradual recognition tha...

  • The Encounter

    K.A. Applegate

    When Tobias, Jake, Rachel, Marco, and Cassie were given the ability to morph, they were also given one very important warning: Never stay in a morph for more than two hours. It seemed a small price to pay, since the kids know that humans everywhere a...

  • Pagan's Father

    Michael Arditti

    Pagan is a five-year-old girl who has been orphaned by the death of her mother. The identity of her biological father is unknown. She has been left to the care of her mother's best friend, Leo.Her strait-laced grandparents seek custody of the child. ...

  • Small Cloud

    Ariane

  • The Dreams of Mairhe Mehan

    Jennifer Armstrong

    In a rich tapestry of dreams, legend, and the pivotal events of the American Civil War, this haunting novel portrays a family of Irish immigrants fighting to find its identity in the New World while a nation struggles to be born anew out of the carna...

  • Hong Kong, China

    Ralph Arnote

    1997: Hong Kong, China. No longer a prize of British colonialism, Hong Kong will enter a new realm of history as China reclaims what she sees as her most wayward child. No one knows what this change will bring. Will this become a new era of peace ...

  • In the Hold

    Vladimi Arsenijevic

    Set during the autumn of 1991, at the beginning of the war in the former Yugoslavia, In the Hold tells a brutal, nightmarish, and comical story of a generation taken helplessly unawares by the horrors of war. Three young people, including a young cou...

  • Deadly Impression

    Dennis Asen

    The debut of a major new talent and a treat for Patricia Cornwell readers, this first novel in a new series teams a detective and a forensic dentist who grapple with killers. For "the Fox," a veteran police lieutenant legendary for his ability to out...

  • The Chronicles of the Holy Grail

    Mike Ashley

  • Alias Grace

    Margaret Atwood

    In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of...

  • Lord Kirkles Money

    Avi

    Maura and Patrick have escaped the desperate poverty and danger of leaving home in Ireland to face even greater peril as they continue their daring voyage to the New World with their friend Laurence Kirkle. Aboard ship, they are crowded into the sten...

  • My Sister's Rusty Bike

    Jim Aylesworth

    Heading out on a cross-country journey, a young traveler encounters a host of diverse characters along the way, such as Buddy Biggs whose cow has more than twenty-two blue spots and Maybelle Bean whose dog can recite his ABCs....

  • Families, Phooey!

    Carin Greenberg Baker

  • Legacy

    Jeanette Baker

    When a distant relative bequeaths a Scottish castle to Christina Murray, the beautiful college professor is off to a distant land to claim her inheritance. It is there that she meets Ian Douglas, a breathtakingly handsome man who may hold the key to ...

  • Chase the Wind

    Madeline Baker

    HEADSTRONG Elizabeth Johnson was a woman who knew her own mind. Not for her an arranged marriage with a fancy lawyer from the East. Defying her parents, she set her sights on the handsome young sheriff of Twin Rivers. But when Dusty's virile half...

  • The Plumed Bonnet

    Mary Balogh

    DECEIVING THE DUKE There was no reason for a lord as handsome and high and mighty as the Duke of Bridgewater even to glance at a humble vicar's daughter like Miss Stephanie Gray. No reason except the Duke was in need of amorous amusement, and ...

  • Goose

    Molly Bang

    The story of a little goose who had to leave home to find out what no one could teach her. Adopted by woodchucks at birth, goose never feels she truly belongs ... until the day she discovers she can fly.Written in 1996, Goose was named a best book of...

  • Whit

    Iain M. Banks

    A little knowledge can be a very dangerous thing... Innocent in the ways of the world, an ingenue when it comes to pop and fashion, the Elect of God of a small but committed Stirlingshire religious cult: Isis Whit is no ordinary teenager.When her cou...

  • Help! It's Halloween!

    Joanne Barkan

    Terry wants to come to the rescue of his kids if and when the ghost and goblins appear, but he somehow almost misses his heroic opportunity, in an amusing tale for young children, complete with thirty-nine glow-in-the-dark stickers and die-cut carryi...

  • Strangest Halloween

    Joanne Barkan

    On this particular Halloween, the street becomes just a bit too spooky for the young trick-or-treaters in a mildly scary tale for young children that comes complete with thirty-nine glow-in-the-dark stickers and die-cut carrying handle....

  • The Switching Hour

    Joanne Barkan

    Ickis, a rather trouble-seeking monster, finds himself in a real jam when he switches places with Nick, a human boy, in this amusing and adventurous tale, complete with eight pages of colorful artwork. Original....

  • Flower Fairies Bracelet Book

    Cicely Mary Barker

  • The Habit of Widowhood

    Robert Barnard

    Prize-winning author Robert Barnard presents seventeen witty mystery stories featuring everyday characters who discover their potential for murder, including a young woman who weds a string of old men and develops a penchant for widowhood....

  • Carried Away

    Jill Barnett

    The proud descendants of a Highland clan, Calum and Cachann MacLachlan now live in seclusion on a Maine island. The brothers are as different in spirit as they are in looks. Though one is dark and levelheaded, the other fair and adventurous, they hav...

  • American Too

    Elisa Bartone

  • Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain

    Margaret Bateson-Hill

  • Good Evening Mr. & Mrs. America, and All the Ships at Sea

    Richard Bausch

    The critics have been effusive in their praise for Richard Bausch's Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America and All the Ships at Sea.His hardover sales have also never been higher.Taking its title from Walter Winchell's famous radio salutation, Good Even...

  • Where You'll Find Me: and Other Stories

    Ann Beattie

    A collection of short stories highlights characters who came of age in the 1960s and 1970s and includes tales about a woman's fascination with a bowl and a couple's coming-to-terms with the loss of their daughter. Reprint. 12,500 first printing....

  • Bad Neighbors

    Kathrine Beck

    Anita Jamison's new next-door neighbor--a prim, dominating, and manipulative woman--insinuates herself into Anita's disintegrating family, seducing her husband and winning over her kids, culminating in a violent showdown....

  • The Maiden Bride

    Rexanne Becnel

    Born in Shame... All her life the ravishing Linnea de Valcourt has been reviled as the "cursed" daughter of Maidenstone Castle. Redeemed by Deceit... Now, to save her beloved twin sister from a terrible fate, she will sacrifice herself by impers...

  • About Schmidt

    Louis Begley

    As he tries to make his life habitable again--after the devastating loss of his wife--retired lawyer Albert Schmidt finds the possibility of regeneration in a new love the old "Schmidtie" would never have dreamt of. Set in the Hamptons and Mahnattan,...

  • The Hand of the Necromancer

    John Bellairs

    In a Massachusetts town, an evil wizard is about to come back from the dead and a young hero must fight to stop him . . .
     
    In the days of the Salem witch trials, the sleepy hamlet of Duston Heights had just one...

  • Obscene Bodies

    Kim Benabib

    A novel set in New York City's art world traces a romantic triangle involving a well-off museum curator in his early twenties, a young woman from SoHo, and her ex-lover, an unscrupulous, up-and-coming artist. A first novel. 15,000 first printing....

  • Love Without End

    Cherie Bennett

    When Cisco's younger sister Shelby becomes increasingly depressed after her sibling's death, teen angel Nicole reluctantly chooses to help Shelby overcome the tragedy but fears Cisco will not approve of her methods. Original....

  • The Book Of Virtues

    William J. Bennett

    Responsibility. Courage. Compassion. Honesty. Friendship. Persistence. Faith. Everyone recognizes these traits as essentials of good character. In order for our children to develop such traits, we have to offer them examples of good and bad, right an...

  • The Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Sci-fi Pizza

    Stan Berenstain; Jan Berenstain

    Trouble in Bear Country? It's the Berenstain Bear Scouts to the rescue! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a pizza? Uh-oh. Looks like the evil Weasel McGreed has cooked up a new scheme to destroy the Bear Scouts. He's built a monstrous flying pizza a...

  • Photocopies

    John Berger

    Booker Prize-winning author John Berger presents a collection of moments, each supremely vivid, that together make up a frieze of human history at the end of the millennium as well as a subtle and affecting self-portrait of their author. Using carefu...

  • Suspects

    Thomas Berger

    Little Big Man author Thomas Berger takes the murder mystery and runs with it in this trip around a quiet suburb with a dark secret. “A cutting, ironic wit and a precision of detail so deadly it hurts when you laugh.” -- Ms. Mary Jane Jones does...

  • Men on Men 6

    David Bergman

  • Hostile Witness

    Richard Berman

    Stealing an incriminating diary in order to get revenge on a congressman who set him up, Lightfoot Scott wrongly lands in jail a second time, this time for murder, and calls upon his lawyer friend David Cohen for help. Original....

  • Happy New Year!

    Emery Bernhard

    A look at ancient and modern New Year's customs throughout the world teaches young readers why Nigerian children remain indoors until the old year is over, why Americans celebrate the new year in Times Square, and more....

  • Barney Through the Seasons

    Mark Bernthal

  • Getting Used to Harry

    Cari Best

  • Dracula Junior and the Fake Fangs: A 3-D Picture Book

    Julianna Bethlen

  • The Ghost Pirate: A Spirited Hologram Book

    Julianna Bethlen

  • The Determined Bride: A Novella

    Jo Beverley
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    Compelling story, a woman abandoned on the battlefield discovers that dreams can come true when an honorable commanding officer gallantly offers his name......

  • Pie's in the Oven

    Betty G. Birney

  • Tame the Wild Wind

    Rosanne Bittner

    A MAN HAUNTED BY VENGEANCE Half-breed Gabe Beaumont had had to choose between the Sioux tribe of his mother and the white family of his father, and his choice had cost him everything. Settlers had murdered his Indian wife and child, and now reveng...

  • Pieces of Dreams

    Jennifer Blake
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    Four heartwarming stories of the ties that bind. FOUR MASTERS OF ROMANCE. FOUR TALES OF LOVE DESTINED TO LAST FOREVER. ONE QUILT WEAVING A CIRCLE OF ETERNAL PASSION AND HOPE... Jennifer Blake's Pieces of Dreams It's 1843, four brides...

  • Spanish Blood

    Mike Blakely

    In 1870, Bart Young heads for the New Mexico Territory, where he's heard men were making fortunes overnight in land speculation on the old Spanish grants. He figures to be a rich land baron before the year is out.But the ranchers are stubborn and the...

  • Ghost beyond the Garden

    Lynn Blankman

    Tormented by a fear of heights after a traumatic fall, Elly finds a locket once worn by her ancestors and is transported back to 1912, where she meets Winnie, who will suffer a tragic death unless she can overcome her own fears. Original....

  • Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing

    William Peter Blatty

    Based on his own experiences in tinseltown, Demons Five, Exorcists Nothing is a hilarious satire of Hollywood fame and misfortune from William Peter Blatty, the New York Times bestselling author of The Exorcist.Once an auteur of renown, Jason Hazard ...

  • Theodora

    Sara Blayne

    Called the "Devil's Cub" because violence and danger seem to follow him, Caleb Dameron gallops across the moors . . . and nearly runs down a lithe, flaxen-haired lady. A woman possessed of a blessed gift, Theodora gazes into Dameron's...

  • Trail of Darkness

    Darlene D. Bolesny

    Trail of Darkness is a historical fantasy of politics and intrigue set in a divided society under a stern inquisition, and under attack by creatures of darkness, written by the protege of Robert Asprin, bestselling author of the Thieves World and Myt...

  • Nana Hannah's Piano

    Barbara Bottner

    Nana Hannah helps Sonny play the piano and tells him that he will be good at whatever he does, and when Nana twists her ankle and needs some cheering up, they watch the World Series together, and Sonny realizes that he has room in his life for both b...

  • That Bad Woman

    Clare Boylan

  • Atlas of Literature

    Malcolm Bradbury

  • Witchlight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    Marion Zimmer Bradley, one of the most beloved and praised fantasy storytellers of our time, has once again written a compelling and powerful novel with larger-than-life characters.Winter Musgrave's past is largely blank, her memories missing or tiss...

  • The Outlaw Tamer

    Max Brand

    Sandy is a gentle giant who would never hurt anyone or anything, but if he is crossed, he can tame any outlaw and outshoot the quickest gunman, and even the lowest outlaws in the country hired to kill Sandy do not stand a chance. Reprint....

  • Bringing Benjy Home

    Kylie Brant

    MISSING: BENJY GARRISON, AGE TWO Trey Garrison was a security consultant, a man of action, a man who trusted his heart to no one--except his sister and her little boy, Benjy. Now Benjy had been kidnapped, and Trey was desperate. Jaida West was ...

  • Count with Tigger

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Sweet Dried Apples: A Vietnamese Wartime Childhood

    Rosemary Breckler

  • The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: 5th Annual Edition

    Jon L. Breen

    An anthology of the best short mystery stories of 1995 ranges from the traditional to the cutting-edge and includes the work of such writers as Lawrence Block, Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller, and Sharyn McCrumb....

  • Cats Love Christmas Too

    Isabelle Brent

  • Rogues and Ranchers

    Annette Broadrick

    WHO CAN RESIST A TEXAN...OR A CALLAWAY? They were known as the mighty Callaways... three irresistible brothers whose Texas charm got them whatever -- and whomever -- they wanted. Now they looked to the next generation to carry on the family tradi...

  • Dead Even

    Emma Brookes

    The scars on her wrists, throat and chest told the story. Somehow Audra Delaney had survived, but with her memory of her attacker shattered. Then the unthinkable happens; she hears his voice on the radio, and now all she lives for are dark dreams of ...

  • Cliff Dive: Mountain Biking -- To the Extreme

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Rippin': Snowboarding -- To the Extreme

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Mountain Biking to the Extreme

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Blake Coffey knows the mountain trails better than anyone. He practices harder than anyone. And nobody can pull the stunts he does. So winning the Summit Race seems to be a sure thing.until he finds a backpack of hundred-dollar bills along the tra...

  • Snowboarding to the Extreme

    Sigmund Brouwer

  • Sleepy Men

    Margaret Wise Brown

  • What Keeps Me Here

    Rebecca Brown

  • Seduced

    Amanda Browning

    An expert seduction... Megan Terrell had followed Lucas Canfield's progress over the years in the business pages...and the scandal sheets. In her opinion, Lucas's reputation was wildly exaggerated -- there was no way she'd fall for the...

  • Corey and the Spooky Pony

    Bonnie Bryant

    The Pony Tails look forward to trick-or-treating on horseback, until Corey's pony, Samurai, starts acting up, leading Corey to wonder whether more than the usual Halloween ghosts and goblins are active. Original....

  • Phantom Horse

    Bonnie Bryant

    Ever since strange Troy became a stable hand at Pine Hollow, Carole has been creeped out. Troy's scary story about a phantom horse has made her wonder about Starlight. Could her beloved bay horse really be possessed by an evil spirit that appears onc...

  • High Latitudes

    James Buchan

    Jane Haddon is resigned to personal and professional loneliness, divorced for eight years and living during a time of great natural and man-made disasters, in a story that reveals her turbulent past, including a history of doomed romance, heroin addi...

  • After

    Melvin Jules Bukiet

    As the remaining Jews are being freed from the concentration camps, three ex-prisoners--a logician, a saint, and a schemer--join together to take over the only industry in a crippled German town, the black market...

  • A Patchwork of Ghosts

    Angela Bull

    Lizzie hates Bankside, the old house where she and her mother go to live. Who is the evil ghost tormenting Lizzie, and why does he want to hurt her? Lizzie is sure that it is connected to Helena, who used to live in the house. Maybe the dangers that ...

  • Felix and the 400 Frogs

    Jon Buller

    Illustrated in full color. Felix is in a real fix. After deciding he wants to be a mind reader when he grows up, Felix falls into a wild adventure that finds him leading an army of frogs against an evil lawn elf. Now he is beginning to think that a c...

  • Hunt the Heavens

    Chris Bunch

    Bounty hunter. Federation intelligence agent. Former prisoner of the terrifying Al’ar. Joshua Wolfe had been all those things. Now he’s on the hunt for secrets amid the ruble of the Great War.The Federation want the secrets to stay hidden, as doe...

  • How Many Feet? How Many Tails?

    Marilyn Burns

  • The Seasons of Beento Blackbird

    Akosua Busia

    Solomon Wilberforce, a best-selling children's author dedicated to helping black children find their heritage, spends one season each year in New York, the Caribbean, and Africa with the very different women who love him. Reprint....

  • Glennis, before and After

    Patricia Calvert

    Glennis moves into Aunt Wanda's home after her entire family is separated due to the imprisonment of her father for committing a white-collar crime, but Glennis has faith and visits her father often, showing him support and believing in him when othe...

  • Scandalous

    Candace Camp

    A MAN WITHOUT A PAST Who was the stranger on her doorstep? Why was someone trying to kill him? And what had happened to his memory? A WOMAN WITH A SECRET She had always been a model of propriety, the dutiful daughter and loving sister who pu...

  • Ember from the Sun

    Mark Canter

    In the blue ice of an arctic cave, a scientist has made an extraordinary discovery: a woman's body, frozen for 25,000 years in a near-perfect state, with pliant tissues, vessels filled with blood--and an embryo waiting to be born....

    They call...

  • To Sleep With Evil

    Andria Cardarelle
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The innocent and the damned... Desperate to escape the terrors of Ravenloft, Marguerite came to Lord Donskoy's castle full of hope for the future. Instead, she found herself betrothed to a mysterious purveyor of flesh whose secret past, like the d...

  • Danger Zone

    D.l. Carey

    Tempted by his former gang members to join in the carousing on Devil's Night one last time, Yellowjacket volunteer Ben Varga witnesses the torching of an old building and is horrified when several children are critically injured...

  • Hang Loose

    Linda Cargill

    A series of practical jokes takes a deadly turn on Mattie Sullivan's seventeenth birthday when she finds a corpse in the lighthouse on St. Simon's Island and later receives a life-threatening note. Original....

  • I See a Song

    Eric Carle

  • Dreamland

    Mary Chapin Carpenter

    Internationally acclaimed singer and songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter extends her many talents to children’s books with this gentle bedtime story. A goodnight kiss sends a little girl sailing off to a magical world where children from around the wo...

  • Unexpected Son

    Marisa Carroll

    A compelling stranger comes looking for the family he never knew and some meaning to his chaotic life. A lonely young preacher, newly widowed, befriends him, risking Tyler's disapproval and her place at the head of the pulpit. An explosive ...

  • Forever Annie

    Jo Anne Cassity
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    Four heartwarming stories of the ties that bind. FOUR MASTERS OF ROMANCE. FOUR TALES OF LOVE DESTINED TO LAST FOREVER. ONE QUILT WEAVING A CIRCLE OF ETERNAL PASSION AND HOPE... Jo Anne Cassity's Forever Annie The owners of rival general ...

  • The Eyes of Light and Darkness

    Ivan Cat

    COLD-SLEEP had given Earth the stars, but at what price? Filled with the hope of a new life on a new world, many a voyager had entered the cryo-containers aboard the titanic starships sent to populate Jayvee 9, Earth's lone far-flung colony. For som...

  • Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You

    Fred Chappell

    Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You is rich with the music of the Southern mountains and the stories of their people. In this novel from acclaimed author Fred Chappell, Jess Kirkman's grandmother is dying, and Jess remembers the tales she and his mother...

  • Eye of the Serpent

    Robert N. Charrette

    THE ORB TALISMAN Since the Timespell set them free, Yan Tanafres and Teletha have wandered far, seeking the lost city and secrets of the Dark Ones. But now Yan's quest is interrupted by war, for the land of Kolvin is besieged. The beastlike bregil...

  • The Wager

    Sally Cheney

    Not To Be Trusted A rogue draped in a mantle of savagery and civilization was the only way to describe Peter Desmond, she'd decided. But Marianne Trenton shuddered to realize she was dangerously intrigued, indeed, beguiled, by the very man she&#...

  • Cloud's Rider

    C.J. Cherryh

    A lethal mountain blizzard leads to a holocaust of madness and murder, but young rider Danny Fisher and the alien nighthorse Cloud must, protect a snowbound village beset by fear and greed. For the telepathic predators of the Wild, emotions are weapo...

  • The Folly

    Marion Chesney

    HER MISSION WAS TO MA LOVE OR FOR DUTY The pampered world of the six Beverley sisters came crashing down when their father gambled away the family's exquisite estate, Mannerling. Each sister secretly dreamed of marrying some new owner of their...

  • A Road We Do Not Know

    Frederick J. Chiaventone

    A fictional account brings to life the battle that occurred at Little Bighorn on July 25, 1876, recreating in meticulous detail the events of the bloodbath using original diaries, letters, and transcripts of interviews with Sitting Bull. 17,500 first...

  • Christmas Story

    Kay Chorao

    Written for young readers and enhanced by vibrant illustrations, this adaptation from the King James Version of the Bible tells the nearly two-thousand-year-old story of the Virgin Mary and the birth of Jesus Christ....

  • Mourning Gloria

    Joyce Christmas

    LOOK WHO'S BACK IN TOWN. . .
    None other than notorious Gloria Gilpin Forsythe Anton--with a fresh face-lift, a new husband, and plans for a major social comeback. But Gloria is riding for a fall--a fatal one--down the back stairs of an old East Si...

  • The Winning Stroke

    Matt Christopher

    When hydrotherapy for an injured leg takes him to the pool on a regular basis, twelve-year-old Jerry finds himself fascinated and challenged by the rigors of competitive swimming....

  • Blue Italian

    Rita Ciresi

    Rosa comes from a working-class Italian neighborhood of narrow houses with chipped Madonnas in the front yards. Gary grew up with blue swimming pools and overdone bar mitzvahs. Rosa's a social worker who read Freud at Southern Connecticut State Colle...

  • Shock Radio

    Leigh Clark

    As a verbal terrorist, DJ Sunset Scott rules the dog-eat-dog world of Los Angeles radio. He angers producers, sponsors and callers with his rude antics. But when he hangs up on "Mr. X", he just might have made a big mistake--if "Mr. X" really is the ...

  • Pet Store

    M.T. Coffin

    Moving to a bizarre town after his father accepts a new job, Ben is shocked when he learns that Woofburg is actually ruled by dogs who keep humans as pets, and their chances for escape are lessened by roaming bands of wild humans. Original....

  • Ghostly Warnings

    Daniel Cohen

    A collection of real-life spooky tales follow the stories of people who were warned of imminent danger or death, from the legend of "the fetch," to the famous story of a man who was told by Death that his time had come....

  • Bug in a Rug

    Joanna Cole

  • Bloody Bones Canyon

    Judd Cole

    Born the son of a great chieftain but raised by frontier settlers, Touch the Sky returns to protect his tribe from renegades, but he is forced by Cheyenne law to leave to avenge the brutal slaughter of their peace chief, Gray Thunder, and without his...

  • Orphan Train

    Judd Cole

    Loyal to both his Cheyenne heritage and the white frontier settlers who raised him, Touch the Sky is torn between his loved ones in the wake of a train robbery that threatens a group of orphaned children. Original....

  • The World of Little House

    Carolyn Strom Collins

    Step back in time and experience all the wonders of Laura and her pioneer life. At the heart of this book are chapters revolving around Laura’s nine Little House books, each exploring in detail the stories, houses, landscapes, journeys, foods, acti...

  • The Legend of the Painted Horse

    Harry Combs

    In 1917 a young man left the land where he was born to fight the war to end all wars -- to fly planes, to know courage, death, and loss. And when Steven Cartwright came back from the glory and the fury, he went straight to an isolated cabin in the Ro...

  • Crazy Lady!

    Jane Leslie Conly

    They changed the way he saw the world... Maxine, short and stocky, with her dark glasses and strange hat and weaving walk, was called the crazy lady. Ronald, with his eyes open wide and his mouth always parted as if he were about to speak, was her...

  • Rooster's Gift

    Pamela Conrad

  • A Ring for Remembrance

    Christina Cordaire
    in

    Four heartwarming stories of the ties that bind. FOUR MASTERS OF ROMANCE. FOUR TALES OF LOVE DESTINED TO LAST FOREVER. ONE QUILT WEAVING A CIRCLE OF ETERNAL PASSION AND HOPE... Christina Cordaire's A Ring for Remembrance Sara Blake is a ...

  • Ella and the Naughty Lion

    Anne Cottringer

    Only Ella can save her baby brother from Jasper, a naughty lion who slips in the door when Ella's mother comes home with a new baby and causes trouble by pulling the baby's blanket off, jumping into his bath, and chewing up his favorite toy....

  • Virtual Fred

    Vincent Courtney

    Illustrated in black-and-white. He played the game and out they came! To escape the endless chores on his aunt's chicken farm, Fred plays his computer's virtual reality game, Dumb. Playing Dumb, Frederick becomes Sir Frederick, the Fearless Knight ba...

  • Pig

    Andrew Cowan

    In a “coming-of-age story as strange and surprising...as The Catcher in the Rye” (New York Times Book Review), a fifteen-year-old boy must learn to live on his own and contend with the vagaries of romantic love and racial hatred.
    ...

  • A Secret Yearning

    Debra Cowan

    A STOLEN KISS She was running for her life when she felt his arms around her, a stranger in a dark alley whose searing kiss branded her soul. He was stunned to realize that the woman who'd left his lips burning was a nun! Regina Harrison couldn't af...

  • Until the End

    Harold Coyle

    Brothers James and Kevin Bannon find themselves on opposing sides in the Civil War, during which they and the women they love must confront a haunting truth about their pasts while making difficult decisions for the future. Reprint....

  • OP JB: The Last Great Secret of the Second World War

    Christopher Creighton

    During the 1930s, the Nazi Party looted thousands of pounds, hiding the proceeds in secret accounts. The key to getting it back lay with Nazi treasurer, Martin Bormann. This book tells the story of Ian Fleming's raid to snatch Bormann out of Berlin. ...

  • The Nutcracker

    Victoria Crenson

    Join Marie and the Nutcracker as they battle an army of mice and travel to Candytown. Share their exciting adventures in this Christmas Rebus Sticker Storybook, which contains more than 40 brightly illustrated stickers!...

  • The Lost World

    Michael Crichton

    It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. ...

  • A Kiss After Midnight

    Tanya Anne Crosby
    in

    Enchanting tale, a rebellious heiress who must wed by the stroke of midnight learns that a twist of fate has fulfilled her heart's deepest desire......

  • Pope Joan

    Donna Cross

    For a thousand years men have denied her existence--Pope Joan, the woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to rule Christianity for two years. Now this compelling novel animates the legend with a portrait of an unforgettable woman who struggles...

  • Merciless

    Michael Cross

    Released from an institution for the criminally insane, Alexander Snow returns to New York City, where he leaves a trail of horrifying murders in his quest to find and destroy the psychiatrist who betrayed him. Original....

  • Stuck Rubber Baby

    Howard Cruse

    Art and story combine powerfully in this lyrical tale of a young man caught in the maelstrom of the civil rights movement and the systematic homophobia of small-town America. Told in flashback, this is the story of Toland Polk, the son of an uneducat...

  • Anyone But You

    Jennifer Crusie

    THE LAST THING NINA NEEDED WAS FRED... She was beginning life fresh -- new job, new apartment. No husband. All she wanted was a puppy. A happy, perky puppy. Instead she got Fred. Part basset, part beagle, part manic-depressive. Nina loved ...

  • Midnight Garden

    Laura Cunningham

  • Little Sister

    Kara Dalkey

    Her family has been destroyed. It is her task to restore their honor. LIke other noble girls in the Japanese imperial court, Mitsuko lives behind screens of modesty, hiding her face behind her kimono sleeves. But when her village is attacked, ...

  • The Body in the Transept

    Jeanne M. Dams

    IT'S A BEAUTIFUL CHRISTMAS-- EXCEPT FOR THE DEAD BODY Dorothy Martin is an inquisitive American widow who has relocated to Sherebury, a small college town outside of London, after the death of her beloved husband. Although it's difficult to get in...

  • Murder at the Baseball Hall of Fame

    David Daniel

    Ex-cop Frank Branco is an appealing Boston-based PI and a big baseball fan. Winning a radio station contest sends him to Cooperstown for the annual induction ceremonies at the Baseball Hall of Fame. At an outdoor reception, a car careens down the law...

  • Forever Amber Brown

    Paula Danziger

    School pictures . . . Amber Brown's are a real problem. Not only does she not look like she thought she looked, but who gets them? Mom and Dad, the grandparents, and Justin for sure. But should Max get one, too? And what about all the extras? Scho...

  • The Main Corpse

    Diane Mott Davidson

    A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY For caterer Goldy Schulz, who's been worrying about her cash flow, the chance to work for a high-powered company like Prospect Financial Partners seems like a dream come true. But it turns out to be murder...in every sense o...

  • Crash Landing

    Nicole Davidson

    Kelly and a group of friends head to the mountains for a ski trip, despite terrifying memories of a weekend being stalked by a killer and the death of a close friend, but Kelly's glimpse of a familiar face strikes panic in her heart and a returned fe...

  • To Build a New Jerusulem

    Davies

    In August 1892, Keir Hardie took up his seat in Parliament as the first independent Labour MP. Hardie's world was a bleak one of factories, cities, fledgling trade unions and manual work. Today, over a century on, the computer terminal has replaced t...

  • We, the Nation

    Ann Davies

    This work analyzes one of the most successful political organizations the world has ever seen. Since the election of 1945, the Conserative Party has been decisively defeated once (1966) but has recorded eight clear victories. This independent survey ...

  • Consuming Fire

    Thomas D. Davis

    P.I. Dave Strickland is called to Granite Valley, California, to investigate anonymous threats against John Havens, a local author of a book on grief and healing. At first, the case seems unrelated to a series of murders that have taken place in the ...

  • Dark Riders of Doom

    Peter Dawson

    Five tales of the West portray a rancher who goes up against nocturnal raiders, a man framed for murder by a crooked judge, the showdown between a sheriff and a wealthy land owner, an accused murderer and cattle rustler, and a confrontation with arme...

  • True Ghost Stories

    Terry Deary

    These two collections of horrifying tales aren't ordinary chillers--because they're not make-believe. Some of these stories have possible explanations, but others remain unsolved mysteries. Case files present the facts, leaving readers to play detect...

  • The Demons in the Green

    Tom Deitz

    BETWEEN LAND AND WATER, BETWEEN REALITY AND PHANTASM, ONLY THE POWER OF BLOOD AND FIRE CAN SAVE THE FUTURE The eerie death of a holy man is drawing the world's leaders to a magical Mexican city-- while predators from another reality plot the ulti...

  • Golden Tales

    Lulu Delacre

  • Bookworm Buddies

    Judy Delton

    Join the Pee Wee Scouts for fun and adventure as they make friends and earn badges.Ready . . . Get set . . . Read!The Pee Wee Scouts are going to get library cards. And in addition to a Reading Badge, Mrs. Peters is going to give a prize to the scout...

  • When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864

    Barry Denenberg

    I am no longer young Wednesday, November 23, 1864 Sometimes I try to remember what our lives used to be like, but it has been so long I have difficulty conjuring up the images. I can, at times, picture the house when it was alive and full of activi...

  • Pages of Pain

    Troy Denning

    SOME QUESTIONS ARE BETTER LEFT UNASKED... There is a void in my chest where once had a heart, and from this emptiness springs all the suffering in the Multiverse. At first, the Pains are like a kiss, hot and breathy and welcome. They reach out wit...

  • Walking Wounded

    Robert Devereaux

    Katt, a woman with a supernatural gift for healing must decide whether to cure her terminally ill husband or take his sensual lover for herself, while she stays one step of a serial killer on her heels. Original....

  • Dear Lonely in L.A. ...

    Jacqueline Diamond

    Dear Lonely in L.A.--You'll always have a place in my heart--but I am not ready to meet you .... DG Dear Lady Love--Meet me at the Top Hat restaurant on July 4 at 11:00 p.m. You won't be disappointed .... RW Dana Grant couldn't possibly meet he...

  • The 13 Nights of Halloween

    Rebecca Dickinson

    A rhyming Halloween story follows a shy goblin boy who gives his sweetheart a special present on each of the thirteen nights of Halloween, and eagle-eyed readers must find the presents hidden in the illustrations...

  • The Rainborough Inheritance

    Helen Dickson

    LUCINDA WOULD NEVER TOLERATE SUCH A MAN . . . Although Lucinda Howard could not deny her feelings for Laurence Dwyer, she knew that he meant to marry her sister for her inheritance, and was determined to put all thoughts of the handsome earl behind ...

  • The Last Thing He Wanted

    Joan Didion

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Didion at her finest" -- USA Today • An intricate, fast-paced novel about trying to create a context for democracy and getting hands a little dirty in the process, complete with conspiracies, arms dealing, a...

  • Up Pop the Monsters 1 2 3!

    Carla Dijs

  • Reyna's Reward

    Wanda Dionne

    Raised in a Spanish convent, Reyna is bound for Louisiana and an arranged marriage, until her ship is captured by pirates and she becomes a pawn in the intrigue between the Americans and British, a role that sweeps her into a personal battle for free...

  • What if Cruella de Vil Was Your Lunch Lady?

    Disney Book Group

  • When You Wish upon a Star

    Walt Disney

  • Cave Trap

    Franklin W. Dixon

    CHAMBERS OF DEATH Frank and Joe are headed out on a Kentucky spelunking expedition -- exploring caves, that is. But on this particular descent, something stinks to high heaven. Joe stumbles onto an uncharted subcavern, and suddenly the entire expedi...

  • Schedule Two

    Gaylord Dold

    While working undercover, San Francisco police officer Grace Chu learns that her corrupt superior is willing to sell her out and must outwit the corrupt official to arrest the head drug lord in Chinatown...

  • Meant to Marry

    Robyn Donald

    Meant to marry -- divided by scandal Anet Carruthers had always kept her past firmly where it belonged, until she met Lucas Tremaine! Lucas Tremaine, a writer of considerable prowess, was in pursuit of Anet's past--for therein lay an unreso...

  • The Renegade and the Rose

    Christine Dorsey

    The Renegade... As the notorious Scotsman called the Renegade, fierce outlander Keegan MacLeod stikes terror in all who date oppose him. Obsessed with revenge against Foxworth Morgan, the Englishman who destroyed his family and dispatched him to the...

  • Stitch in Rhyme

    Belinda Downes

    Illustrated in full color. A former artist-in-residence at Queen Elizabeth's England Hampton Court Palace and an artist widely exhibited around the world, Belinda Downes is a needlesmith of royal quality. Now she has stitched playful pictures of Jack...

  • Groogleman

    Debra Doyle

  • Mary Margaret's Tree

    Blair Drawson

  • Dear Mr. Right

    Jennifer Drew

    It was a single girl's worst nightmare. It was bad enough when Amy's old high school nemesis, Joe Malone, showed up at the newspaper and horned in on her job. Her boss seemed to think Amy's advice column needed a male point of view...b...

  • Aunt Isabel Makes Trouble

    Kate Duke

    A sequel to Aunt Isabel Tells a Good One finds young Penelope and her niece creating another incredible tale in which the fearless heroine, Lady Penelope, nearly misses the birthday of her beloved Prince Augustus....

  • Echohawk

    Lynda Durrant

  • A Very Strange Dollhouse

    Jennifer Dussling

  • You're What?!

    Anne Eames

    "I'M WHAT?!" All Michelle Purdue wanted was a baby. And now she was pregnant--but she had no idea who the father was! Could it be Dr. Kevin Singleton, the handsome stranger she'd had an unexpected one-week fling with? Or was it a mystery man from ...

  • The Chronicles of the Door

    Gene Edwards

  • Livingstone Mouse

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

    When the time comes for Livingstone Mouse to find a nest of his own, he wants it to be in the best place. I have heard that China is very nice," his mom says. But where is China? Could it be in a noisy cupboard? A smelly old shoe? A picnic basket?...

  • Dot Has Spots

    Roberta Edwards

  • The Golden Key

    Kate Elliott

    In Tira Virte, art is prized for its beauty and as a binding legal record of everything from marriages to treaties. Yet not even the Grand Duke knows how extraordinary the Grijalva family's art is, for certain Grijalva males are born with the ability...

  • Nine Days to Kill

    Julie Ellis

    Romantic SuspenseLarge Print EditionGorgeous, twenty-four-year-old Randall Brooks will never forget the hateful way forty-year-old Anita Cantrell had spurned his marriage proposal. When Anitas mother found out about Randall, she sued for custody of A...

  • Thor: Worldengine

    Warren Ellis

  • The Million-Dollar Tattoo

    Earl Emerson

    Seattle P.I. Thomas Black is sound asleep when he gets a panicked call from "Snake," a fellow gumshoe, with a case that's one for The X-Files. There's an exotic-looking woman dead in Snake's bed. He's not sure how she died, but he's certain about whe...

  • Big Wind Coming!

    Karen English

    When Sarah and her family realize a hurricane is headed toward their farm, they board up the windows, collect their candles and flashlights, and wait, but Sarah begins to worry about her favorite doll....

  • The Case of the Night-Stalking Bone Monster

    John R. Erickson

    A Fortune in Buried Treasure Is Missing Join the Head of Ranch Security, his sidekick Drover, and old pal Dog-pound Ralph as they track down the elusive monster who strikes the ranch and makes off with a fortune in buried T-bones. Danger Lurks at...

  • The Most Beautiful Kid in the World

    Jennifer A. Ericsson

    Grandma is coming for dinner, and Annie wants to be the most beautiful kid in the world. But she doesn't feel beautiful in the scratchy dress and droopy tights Mama's picked out for her, so she makes a few minor adjustments. "Ericsson has a canny app...

  • Winner's Circle

    Allison Estes

    Believing that her beloved pony Pixie and she work well together, Megan is disillusioned and faces a difficult choice when her grandmother, who thinks Megan could be a champion without Pixie, offers her a flashy horse...

  • Second-Time Lucky

    Marcia Evanick

    Nothing felt as good as his brand of temptation .... He arrived without warning to claim a place in her life, but Luke Callahan reminded Dayna too much of the heartbreak she'd endured during her marriage to his brother! Luke wanted to help rai...

  • Time Station London

    David Evans

    Sent to 1940 London at the height of the Second World War, Master Temporal Warden Steven Whitefeather disguises himself as a British intelligence agent in order to flush out a Nazi sympathizer from his own century. Original....