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  • Milton in America

    Peter Ackroyd

    When Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's undisputed literary masters, writes a new novel, it is a literary event. With his last novel, The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, "as gripping and ingenious a murder mystery as you could hope to come across," in the word...

  • Bird // The Other Woman

    Jane A. Adams

    Bird's grandfather is dying, haunted by the image from his youth of a woman hanging from a tree. Before he dies, Bird vows to uncover the true story behind this woman. Even if it points to her grandfather being a murderer....

  • Grief Street

    Thomas Adcock

    A rabbi is killed and a Catholic procession is sprayed with gunfire in this crime thriller in the “beautifully written” Edgar-winning series (The Washington Post).   NYPD detective Neil Hockaday has acted on his conscience by reporting a fel...

  • Tijuana Bibles: Art and Wit in America's Forbidden Funnies, 1930s-1950s

    Bob Adelman

    Crammed with 140 illustrations, twenty in color, a collection contains selections from the Tijuana Bibles, risque comic books of the thirties, forties, and fifties that poked erotic fun at the celebrities and issues of the day. 20,000 first printing....

  • Person or Persons Unknown

    Bruce Alexander

    Person or Persons Unknown once again brings readers to eighteenth-century London, where prostitutes are being brutally murdered in Covent Garden. Sir John Fielding, the blind magistrate who cofounded London's first police force, calls upon his keen i...

  • The Amorous Heiress

    Carrie Alexander

    Augustina Fairchild knew that if she didn't find a husband soon all the good ones would be gone. Then she'd never get out from under her matchmaking grandmother's thumb. Enter Jed Kelley -- her passport to freedom, her license to run wild -- a sex...

  • Do You Take This Cowboy?

    Jeanne Allan

    City miss meets headstrong cowboy... Jacqueline -- J.J. -- O'Brien was a hot city lawyer. Luke Remington was a rugged country rancher. When these two opposites met, sparks flew -- so much so that their marriage seemed destined to be as brief a...

  • Isaac Asimov's Caliban

    Roger MacBride Allen

    When an experiment with a new type of robot brain goes awry, the result is the creation of Caliban, a conscienceless robot that is not monitored by the Three Laws of Robotics that keep humans safe. Reprint....

  • Callie's Heart

    Rose Allyn

    Bouncing back from a failed marriage, resilient Callie O'Rourke is as spirited as the fillies she trains -- and just the woman to teach a shy young pupil lessons in riding and confidence. But it's the girl's overprotective father who's Callie's great...

  • Sunflower Sal

    Janet S. Anderson

  • Antibodies

    Kevin J. Anderson

    THE PROMISE OF ETERNAL LIFE OR INSTANT DEATH? When a disease-ravaged body is found in the burned ruins of a federally funded genetic research lab, Agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully fear that a deadly, man-made plague is on the loose. As the FBI agen...

  • Cocoa Ice

    Diana Karter Appelbaum

  • Elmo Saves Christmas

    Ellen Appleby

    What would the world be like if every day was Christmas? Based on the best-selling video Elmo Saves Christmas, this Pictureback®; is filled with big, bright illustrations and lots of fun and cheer. Children will enjoy the holiday spirit as they lear...

  • The Android

    K.A. Applegate

    When Marco runs into his old friend Erek, he doesn't think too much of it. He's got a couple of more important things to do. Like helping to save the world. But then Marco finds out Erek's been hanging with the kids at The Sharing. And he starts to t...

  • Elfangor's Journey

    K.A. Applegate

    His name is Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul. An Andalite war-prince. The one who gave five young humans the ability to morph into any animal they touch. They are still out there, fighting an evil so powerful there isn’t a moment that goes by when they ac...

  • The Secret

    K.A. Applegate

    We can't tell you who we are. Or where we live. It's too risky, and we've got to be careful. Really careful. So we don't trust anyone. Because if they find us...well, we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in r...

  • Lord Sin

    Catherine Archer

    THE INFAMOUS LORD SIN HAD TAKEN A WIFE! Ian Sinclair, the lord of ill repute, had married a country vicar's daughter. Now he was sure there'd be the devil to pay, for the passionate Mary Fulton was the woman he held above all others, and a woman he ...

  • Foolish Gretel

    Jennifer Armstrong

    Meet Gretel Muller, a young German girl growing up in Galveston, Texas in 1855. Gretel dreams of living in a fairy-tale castle by the sea, but instead spends her days working with her short-tempered sisters in their mother's hat shop. When a rich res...

  • Courting Trouble

    Judith Arnold

    The groom said "No" -- The bride said "I'll see you in court!" Sophie Wallace never imagined jury duty as a good place to meet men -- until she cast her eyes on gorgeous juror Gary Brett. Now they were working closely together ...

  • Parts

    Tedd Arnold

    I just don't know what's going onOr why it has to beBut every day it's something worseWhat's happening to me?So begins this uproarious new story from the best-selling creator of No Jumping on the Bed!,Green Wilma, and other popular books. The young n...

  • September Valentine

    Faye Ashley

    When Valentine Townsend dies in a plane crash her guardian angel, Elisse, gives her a second chance to find true love within one year, in a charming romance by the author of Lost in My Dreams. Original....

  • Bantam of the Opera

    Mary Jane Auch / M.J. Auch

  • The Atonement and Other Stories

    Louis Auchincloss

    Gaze into the lives of the twentieth century’s wealthy and declining WASP establishment in these twelve stories by the author of The Education of Oscar Fairfax.No one else writes about the moral life of America’s moneyed class with anything appro...

  • Tractor Trouble

    Steve Augarde

    Suited for all youngsters who are fascinated with tractors and the inner workings of big machines, this humorous pop-up book follows a tractor that breaks down, is taken apart, gets fixed, and receives a thorough washing at the tractor wash....

  • Cally and the Sheriff

    Cassandra Austin

    ANDREW HAYWOOD WAS IN TROUBLE He knew he'd promised to watch out for Cally DuBois. But he'd never expected to be mooning over a wildflower of a woman who'd just as soon shoot him as look at him! Sheriff Haywood just kept looking out for her, no ma...

  • Merry Christmas, Thomas the Tank Engine

    Rev. W. Awdry

    It's Christmas Eve and Thomas the Tank Engine is chugging down the track. Annie and Clarabel are packed with people and presents, and it's up to Thomas to make sure everyone gets home for the holidays!....

  • Destiny Run

    James Axler

    NIGHT OF THE WORLD Two centuries after the nuclear holocaust, fortified villes loom in the wastelands, imposing a menacing rule that's shaping the future. SEARCH AND ELUDE As a warrior, Kane served the lords of the villes, but on a punitive expe...

  • Canapes for the Kitties

    Marian Babson

    DEAD WRITERS TELL NO TAILS... The cat's out of the bag: dead bodies are piling up in Brimful Coffers, a picturesque English village. Among the deceased is Boswell, a pet white rat. His killers were caught: Had-I and But-Known, two mischievous feli...

  • Tamarind Mem

    Anita Rau Badami

    Having moved to Canada from India, Kamini tries to make sense of the eccentric family she has left behind. Recounting the story of her mother's life, Kamini reveals the desires, secrets and fears that link different generations, exploring the bond be...

  • Worlds Apart

    Judy Baer

    When Todd's family takes in a seventeen-year-old exchange student from Greece, Lexi and her friends learn a great deal about the handsome boy's home country and watch him become the center of attention at school...

  • What's a Daring Detective Like Me Doing in the Doghouse

    Linda Bailey

  • Every Man for Himself

    Beryl Bainbridge

    Recapturing the four crucial days prior to the sinking of the Titanic and the loss of fifteen hundred lives, this story is told from the perspective of Morgan, the American nephew of the owner of the shipping line, and reveals how his destiny is link...

  • Paradise Found

    Jill Baker

    ONE IN A MILLION It appeared that luck was finally on Tess Driscoll's side. Not only did the financially strapped businesswoman win an essay competition in the local newspaper, but the prize was a house in Key West nestled in a sultry real-lif...

  • The Flamingo Rising

    Larry Baker

    In this touching, hilarious novel of the heart and mind, of dreams and memory, of desire and first love, Abe Lee comes of age in the 1960s, living with his unforgettable family at the Flamingo Drive-In Theatre on a scrubby patch of coast between Jack...

  • Little Mermaid Word Book

    Rita Balducci

  • Tae's Sonata

    Haemi Balgassi

  • The Forgetting Room

    Nick Bantock

  • The Witch's Hat

    Joanne Barkan

    Shaped to look like a pickle-nosed witch's face, this bewitching Halloween book contains dozens of glow-in-the-dark stickers that can be used to complete the pictures and die-cut eye holes to be used as masks for trick-or-treaters....

  • Zeena's Cat

    Joanne Barkan

    Shaped in the form of a black cat, an exciting Halloween storybook contains dozens of glow-in-the-dark stickers that can be used to complete the pictures, and die-cut eye holes to be used as face masks for trick-or-treaters....

  • Wonderful

    Jill Barnett

    After too many years on the battlefield, Merrick de Beaucourt is looking forward to a simple life of peace and quiet with a docile wife at his side. But when he finally fetches his bride-to-be from a secluded English convent, he finds he needs more t...

  • Tender Crusader

    Linda Lang Bartell

    The Holy Land at the time of the Crusades -- a place of chivalrous deeds and treacherous intrigue -- where scented oils perfume the air and the hot sun arouses forbidden desires... Defiantly independent, Brielle d'Avignon leaves the safety of ...

  • Roarke's Wife

    Beverly Barton

    A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE... Cleo McNamara desperately needed a husband ...someone to father her child and protect her from a would-be murderer. Security expert Simon Roarke bravely took the job. But Cleo was more than he'd bargained for every tou...

  • The Book of Famous Iowans

    Douglas Bauer

    Will Vaughn looks back in a painful retrospective at the controversy surrounding his mother's love affair and subsequent departure from the small town of New Holland, recounting the story of his parents' marriage, life on the farm, and their final br...

  • Turtle Dreams

    Marion Dane Bauer

  • Lone Star Heat

    Mary Lynn Baxter

    Juliana Reed is one of broadcast journalism's most promising talents. But just as her show is about to be syndicated, she's caught in a dangerous whirlwind of political corruption, blackmail and murder. And suddenly she has no choice but to rely on t...

  • Anti-Ice

    Stephen Baxter

    Discovering a new element, Anti-Ice, a mysterious substance that unleashes vast energies when warmed, a millionaire industrialist dreams of power from an item that promises world peace--or world destruction. Original....

  • Agatha Raisin and the Murderous Marriage

    M.C. Beaton

    WEDDING BELLS SOUND A DEATH KNELL Moonstruck Agatha Raisin is tying the knot with distinguished but reserved James Lacey before he can have second thoughts. After all, her first husband Jimmy must be long since dead of alcohol poisoning. But Jimmy...

  • Home Before Dark

    Ian Beck

  • The Mauve Decade

    Thomas Beer

  • Bitter Grounds

    Sandra Benitez

    Winner of the 1998 American Book Award

    Spanning the years between 1932 and 1977, this beautifully told epic is set in the heart of El Salvador, where coffee plantations are the center of life for rich and poor alike. Following three generati...

  • Let's Celebrate!

    Alan Benjamin

  • Dirty Big Secrets

    Cherie Bennett; Jeff Gottesfeld

    Chelsea does not know who to believe when intern Jazz says she is pregnant and that Chelsea's boyfriend, Nick, is the father, and things turn worse when Jazz is invited to be interviewed for a show about the children of murderers. Original....

  • King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

    Anne Berthelot

  • Give Me Back My Pony

    Jeanne Betancourt

    Lulu has fallen in love with the beautiful pony Snow White, and when the pony's snobby owner returns from boarding school, the Pony Pals realize that Lulu and Snow White belong together and come up with a plan. Original....

  • Gunslinger's Lady

    Cheryln Biggs

    His gaze could chill a man's blood or turn a woman's to fire... If the Tombstone Old West Festival didn't start until tomorrow, what was the lady in petticoats doing sprawled in Jack Ringo's cactus patch? Kate Holliday couldn't understand why he s...

  • A Green Horn Blowing

    David Francis Birchman

    A young boys passion for music and his friendship with an itinerant trumpeter combine to make the impossible happen. Set during the Great Depression, this is a story about the universal dream of finding something to have and hold forever. Ages 5-up....

  • The Possibility of Angels: A Literary Anthology

    Sophie Biriotti

    Including more than fifty richly colored original paintings, an anthology explores humankind's fascination with angels as revealed in writings by contemporary authors, as well as traditional stories from the Bible, Native American cultures, and Afric...

  • The Traders Wife

    Campbell Black; Thomas Weldon

    Sara Klein's husband, Mark - a trusted investment consultant - has vanished, along with millions of pounds from the accounts of a Wall Street broker. The Feds believe Sara knows where the money is and are prepared to grind her down until she tells th...

  • Sierra Baron

    Tom W. Blackburn

    Mike McGann journeys from the tough Irish slums of the Boston waterfront to 1840s California, where he becomes caught up in the Gold Rush and does battle with Spanish aristocrats to carve out his own empire. Original....

  • Baby Rock, Baby Roll

    Stella Blackstone

  • In the Rogue Blood

    James Carlos Blake

    Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, In the Rogue Blood is “powerful . . . impressive . . . [an] epic of the 1840s frontier” (Dallas Morning News).With soaring and masterful prose, James Carlos Blake brings to life an e...

  • A Noble Pursuit

    Sara Blayne

    A MOST UNLIKELY COUPLE...IN A MOST OUTRAGEOUS ROMANCE! "Hurry up and kiss me!" The Earl of Ransome has embraced many a miss, but he has never been asked by a perfectly strange woman! But her eyes are blue, her hair is gold, and her lips ar...

  • Little Bunny's Cool Tool Set

    Maribeth Boelts

    Having finally saved enough money to buy a new tool set, Little Bunny proudly brings it to class but has trouble letting anyone else touch it, so the teacher steps in to show Little Bunny and his friend Patrick more about sharing....

  • The Mad Dog

    Heinrich Boll

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
    Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

    In this collection of stories, written between 1938 and 1945, Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) recalls Erich Maria Remarque in his ability to depict war and its ps...

  • The H & R Cattle Company

    Doug Bowman

    In Doug Bowman's The H&R Cattle Company, when Zack Hunter and his best friend Brett Rollins first hit Texas, they are near-penniless men, looking to get a stake in life. But they don't stay that way for long: Charming Rollins always has a smile, ...

  • Santa's Workshop

    Carolyn Bracken

    Santa's workshop is all in a tizzy! There's still so much to do before Christmas. The elves have to finish making the toys, Santa has to check his list twice, and the reindeer have to get ready for the yearly flight....

  • Gravelight

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    From bestselling author of The Mists of Avalon comes Marion Zimmer Bradley's Gravelight.Wycherly Musgrave is the perfect drunken, ne'er-do-well youngest brother. Beneath his lighthearted manner, however, lies . . . something dark. Now, afraid that in...

  • The Game

    John Brancato

    Nicholas Van Orton receives a membership to the Consumer Recreation Services for his birthday and waits for his "game" to begin, until his money mysteriously disappears and he has to run for his life in order to survive...

  • Down Comes the Rain

    Franklyn Mansfield Branley

  • Lady of Gold

    Paige Brantley

    After her mistress's cortege is attacked by marauders, servant Amalie Michaut is forced to assume the identity of her dead mistress and, accompanied by Fabien de Rais, a counterfeit priest, embarks on a perilous masquerade to rescue an imprisoned car...

  • Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Count Scar

    C. Dale Brittain

    Magic, heresy, and treachery: Count Galoran must face them all to keep his high castle.- Galoran is a scarred warrior and younger son, cast aside by the emperor when his days of service seem over.- Melchior is a priest trained in the difficult and hi...

  • Give Me Liberty

    Anne Brock

    AT LONG LAST...LOVE! For Liberty Jones, life is an open road, and in her Triumph Spitfire she cruises through it moment by thrilling moment. Until the car breaks down in Sterling--the Vermont town where she spent her childhood summers. Not only do...

  • Heaven With a Gun

    Connie Brockway
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    DANGEROUS MEN...SPIRITED WOMEN...UNTAMED DESIRES THAT SET THE WILD WEST AFIRE... She was "Heaven with a Gun": a notorious masked gunfighter who granted a reporter a career-making interview -- if, in exchange, he'd let her masquerade a...

  • The Windhover

    Alan Brown

    A kestrel chick is born and shares a nest high above a school yard with his brother and sister. They spend their days looking out over the playground, testing the wind with their downy wings, and awaiting their parents and the food they bring. But on...

  • Arthur's Computer Disaster

    Marc Brown

    Arthur loves playing games on his mother's computer, but when he uses it without permission, chaos ensues. Arthur and his cohorts search desperately for a solution, and in the process learn a lesson about following rules and respecting others. Text c...

  • Cry Baby

    Ruth Brown

    Their little sister is afraid of everything and cries over the slightest event, but when her comfort blanket unravels, she must retrace her path alone in order to gather the loose string and, in doing so, successfully faces and overcomes her fears....

  • Highland Hearts

    Virginia Brown

    IT WAS A TIME OF WARRING CLANS, BITTER RIVALRIES... She tumbled into his arms from a rocky overpass, a feisty copper-haired beauty eavesdropping on soldiers marching into Glencoe, where she had run to hide. They said they came in peace, but Lianna F...

  • Buttons & Beaus

    Margaret Brownley

    When Amanda Blackwell's popular bicycling school in turn-of-the-century New York City is threatened with eviction at the hands of an architect who dreams of building the city's tallest building, love saves the day. No one can pedal a bicycle aroun...

  • May's Runaway Ride

    Bonnie Bryant

    May Grover is having one of those days. Everyone is mad at her. First, she woke up Jasmine's little sister. Then she broke the heel on one of her mother's favorite shoes. Finally, she let a puppy out of his pen, and Doc Tock had to chase him all over...

  • Nightmare

    Bonnie Bryant

    Carole Hansen's father has been sent away on a secret Marine Corps assignment. She worries about him constantly. When a fatal equine illness strikes a neighboring stable, The Saddle Club girls have 45 days to wonder, and worry about, whether the dise...

  • Little Boy Blue

    Edward Bunker

    Raised within the confines of a system that has done nothing but provide him with pain, Alex Hamilton's frustration and anger are completely natural--and inherently dangerous.Since his parents split up, Alex has been constantly running from foster ho...

  • Byrne

    Anthony Burgess

    The first American publication of the late writer's comic-satiric epic novel in verse tells the story of a Don Juan-type Irish artist who vanishes under Hitler's regime. By the author of A Clockwork Orange. ...

  • Night of the Cougar

    Frank Burleson

    The sixth novel in the Apache Wars series follows U.S. Army soldier Nathaniel Barrington as he fights alongside Geronimo and his Apaches against the U.S. and Mexico in a last-ditch effort to save his own land. Original....

  • Cellmates

    Robert A. Burton

    Imagine: You've just found out you have nine brothers.  Identical to you in every way.  Except for the gene that made one of them a killer--

    Artie Singleton's mother was dead.  But among her possessions lay a letter.  And inside was a ...

  • Boss Man

    Linda Cajio

    A LABOR OF LOVE .... Who's in charge? Boss-secretary romance ...love at first sight ...malarkey! Nonetheless, Jared Holiday was buying into both and breaking all the rules after his Labor Day meeting with Alison Palmer, his new assistant. Aliso...

  • Aeromancer

    Don Callander

  • A Story of Caroline Beale

    Duncan Campbell

    The story of Caroline Beale, a 30-year-old British health worker who was arrested in September 1994 at JFK airport in New York with the body of her dead baby for whose murder she was charged and sent to the notorious Rikers Island jail. The account i...

  • Farm 123

    Rod Campbell

    A lift-the-flap counting book.Rod Campbell''s classic alphabet and numbers board books FARM 123 and ABC ZOO can now be enjoyed in large paperback editions. In FARM 123 you can make all sorts of animal friends -- just count from one farm cat all the w...

  • Becoming a Witch

    Shelagh Canning

  • Ancient Blood

    Diane Carey

    To true Klingon warriors, no occasion is more sacred than the Day of Honor, when they pay homage to all that makes them Klingon. But honor demands its price.... Worf finds his honor tested when he goes undercover to infiltrate a planetary criminal...

  • The Bride Price

    Suzanne Carey

    IF HER WEDDING HAD BEEN A DREAM... Kyra Martin woke up convinced that she and Navajo heartthrob David Yazzie had just been married. She had vivid memories of the traditional ceremony - and the anything-but-wedding night that followed. Yet just yeste...

  • The Greatest Gift

    Melody Carlson

  • The Angel of Darkness

    Caleb Carr

    It is June 1897. A year has passed since Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, a pioneer in forensic psychiatry, tracked down the brutal serial killer John Beecham with the help of a team of trusted companions and a revolutionary application of the principles of his...

  • Beauty and the Groom

    Lorraine Carroll

    MAN OF ICE Lee Stratton could walk away from anyone without regrets -- he was a true man of ice. Proof? Jilted at the altar, he shrugged off his honeymoon and headed instead for his old hometown. But there he encountered Meredith Cole, a single...

  • Cowboy to the Altar

    Rosemary Carter

    Beauty and the...cowboy! If Morgan Muir wanted to play at cowboys and Indians, Jason Delaney wasn't going to stand in her way. He just wished she hadn't chosen his ranch as her playground. Morgan might have a good reason for wanting to fin...

  • Beep! Beep! Oink! Oink! Animals in the City

    Patricia Casey

  • Masterworks of Latin American Short Fiction: Eight Novellas

    Cass Canfield Cass

    A collection of Latin American short fiction which is designed to enable readers to savour an individual writer's style and vision. These eight novellas are by some of Latin America's most popular and critically acclaimed writers....

  • Endangered

    Linda Chaikin / Linda Lee Chaikin

    Sable Dunsmoor's love for Kenya brings her home to Africa to aid her recently widowed father in his government job on a game reserve, but the impending civil war and the dangers of poachers force Sable to seek the aid of Kash Hallet, an adventurer sh...

  • A Race against Time

    Rob Childs

    The Time Rangers are flung far into a deadly future, where even football is played under a plastic dome because there's no atmosphere left. The Time Rangers must take on a life or death mission - a mission to change the course of history and save the...

  • Jumpety-Bumpety-Hop

    Kay Chorao

    A winning combination of funny animal antics and beautiful poetry containing a variety of nursery rhymes; poetry by Ogden Nash, William Wordsworth, and other notable poets; and Japanese haiku highlights a collection of animal poems with a multicultur...

  • Not Until Christmas, Walter!

    Eileen Christelow

  • Little Miss Muffet's Count-Along Surprise

    Emma Chichester Clark

    It's a special day for Little Miss Muffet. But she doesn't know it yet. As her animal friends appear--one spider, two lemurs, three magpies, and more--carrying gifts and decorations and tasty treats, she can only count and wonder. What's all the fuss...

  • Prodigy

    Jan Clark

    GALACTIC EMPIRE ON THE BRINK OF WAR Uniting seven races on ten planets, the mighty Commonwealth has only one enemy: the Procyons, a warlike race who thrive on aggression. A fragile truce between the two powers has ensured galactic peace--until Rie...

  • Mystique

    Marion Clarke

    BLINDING PASSION... Charlotte Davenport felt a dark foreboding from the moment she arrived at the Stone Garden, her aunt's Virginia plantation. It was the second powerful feeling she'd experienced in a single night. The first had come whe...

  • The Unsuitable Suitor

    Marilyn Clay

    A RAKE MAY REFORM... Remarkably handsome, devastatingly charming, Viscount Peterbloom was rumored to have kept as many as eight mistresses at once. But five years ago he became tired of his dissolute ways and had been leading an exemplary life ever ...

  • Stage Fright!

    Andrew Clements

  • Go for the Mold!

    Andrew Clements

  • Adventure Cat Goes to School

    Susan Clymer

    Who sits high up on the classroom flagpole? Who leaves a mouse's head on the teacher's chair? Who curls up inside a desk and goes to sleep? Who gobbles chicken in the cafeteria? Adventure cat tells the story of her visit to school. What a story! W...

  • Musclebound

    Liza Cody

    Part-time wrestler, nighttime security guard, and all-the-time big, ugly, bad-tempered, and proud of it, Eva Wylie knows how to stand out in a crowd. She should. In the ring, she's the London Lassassin, with a reputation as one of the meanest, toughe...

  • Someone Like You

    Elaine Coffman

    For Susannah Dowell, a life of self-imposed spinsterhood and hard work in the parched plains of West Texas cannot erase the pain of a shameful past. Then she meets Reed Garrett, a man also burdened by hurt. Tentatively, two lost souls dare to reach o...

  • CrookJaw

    Caron Lee Cohen

    A colonial whaler from Nantucket who caught his first whale with his teething ring ... Ichabod Paddock seems to have met his match with the behemoth Crookjaw. This version of the Crookjaw legend packs more fun than fear, and ... the view over the rai...

  • Raising the Dead

    Daniel Cohen

    Readers will get thrills and chills as they read about real-life monsters, the mummy's curse, zombies, and other weird tales from beyond the grave in a grimly fascinating and extensively researched book....

  • Jim Meets the Thing; Welcome to First Grade!

    Miriam Cohen

    Jim is the only one in the first grade who is scared of The Thing on television. He feels so ashamed. No one else is afraid. He won't even play Super Heroes with the rest of the class. But when a praying mantis walks on Danny's arm, no one wants to t...

  • Seajack

    Robert Colby

  • Piece of the Cake

    Robert Colby

  • Medicine Hat

    Don Coldsmith

    When Pipe Bearer, the young shaman of the Elk-Dog people dreams of a powerful spirit-horse--one bearing distinctive, hat-like markings on its head and ears--he knows he is being sent an important message. But he cannot interpret its meaning. Soon aft...

  • With Friends Like These

    Nicholas Coleridge

    When a beautiful but treacherous investigative journalist is found murdered in her apartment, the long list of suspects leads inside the magazine industry, where the truth becomes just another commodity to be bought and sold....

  • Blue Blood

    Max Allan Collins

    When a pair of armed intruders bursts into Detective Andy Sipowicz's apartment, he quickly concludes they are out to get him, and that he has put his new wife in danger. But everyone involved in the case believes Andy's wife, a prosecutor who has mad...

  • The Trojan War and the Adventures of Odysseus

    Padraic Colum

    Here is the perfect introduction to The Iliad and The Odyssey, two of the cornerstones of Western literature. All of the glories of Homer's world—from the mysterious Wooden Horse to Helen, whose beauty launched a thousand ships, to the fearsome ...

  • Angel Wings

    Nicole Conn

    The creator of the film Claire of the Moon unfolds the story of two teenagers destined to be lovers but conspired against by the stars, and two angels who are given the task of bringing them together. 15,000 first printing....

  • Questionable Remains

    Beverly Connor

    MURDER -- PAST AND PRESENT Man's eternal quest for gold proves as enduring as it is fatal when forensic archaeologist Lindsay Chamberlain unearths a four-hundred-year-old mystery--and a modern-day murder. Vacationing in Tennessee, Lindsay studie...

  • Corinne's Family Affair

    Zoe Cooper

    Becoming engaged to the man of her dreams, Corinne becomes skeptical and then afraid when her dysfunctional family meets her fiance+a7's own less-than-perfect family, and she wonders if marriage is the right choice for her. Original....

  • The Courtship of Cade Kolby // A Kiss for Cade

    Lori Copeland

    KOLBY'S COME BACK... Cade Kolby is trouble and Zoe Bradshaw knows it. But she still feels the fire they once shared -- before Cade left her and their one-horse Kansas town to become the most feared bounty hunter in the territory. Now Zoe needs h...

  • The Miracle Strain // The Messiah Code

    Michael Cordy

    At the moment of his supreme triumph, a man of science dodges an assassin's bullet and loses everything that truly matters in his life. Now only a miracle can save Dr. Tom Carter's dying daughter: the blood of salvation shed twenty centuries ago. ...

  • The Blackmoor Devil

    Patricia Coughlin
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    To thine own wish be true. Do not follow the moth to the star. So says the message in an exquisite green bottle. Is it a wish? A warning? A spell to cast over a lover? In these six charming love stories, a mysterious bottle brings a touch of magi...

  • The Judgment

    William J. Coughlin

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  • Mordant's Wish

    Valerie Coursen

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    ...

  • Virtual Fred and the Big Dip

    Vincent Courtney

    In his second imaginative adventure, Virtual Fred becomes "Deadeye" Fred, a straight-shooting cowboy who always wins against the toughest hombres around. But can he take on the nutty Pistachio Pete, whose ice cream truck's music is putting everyone t...

  • The Skull of Truth

    Bruce Coville

    HOLD ON TO YOUR SKULL! When Charlie Eggleston stumbles into Mr. Elive's mysterious magic shop, he's just looking for a phone so he can call his parents. What he finds is a wise-cracking skull that leads him into the adventure of a lifetime. Along th...

  • Common Ground

    Andrew Cowan

    With his wife, Jane, pregnant, Ashley must resign himself to impending fatherhood and must decide whether to assume the values of his parents or shun society like his brother, in a poignant, witty story by the author of Pig. ...

  • If Only

    Debra Cowan

    All she wanted was his love ... She shot his hat off before she recognized the man she'd known as a child, returned from the War Between the States. Elise Worthen had just buried a deadly secret. She couldn't afford to let her guard down, not even f...

  • Alien Impact

    Michael Craft

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  • The Reiver's Woman

    Catherine Creel

    In a land without rules, passion has no boundaries.... Analise Howard is powerless against the political tide along England's Scottish border. As a pawn for peace, she is married off to Ronan Armstrong, the Scottish leader of a fierce band of bord...

  • Contract: Paternity

    Jasmine Cresswell

    In the sultry Louisiana heat, a family dynasty of law and order is shattered by a mysterious crime of passion TONI DELACROIX was a lady who could sing the blues, but she was planning to put her career on hold in favor of motherhood. Then, suddenly...

  • Christmas in Toyland

    Kathryn Cristaldi

    The spirit of the holiday season comes to life when a little girl and boy discover Toyland--an incredible, dream-like place where anything is possible. Tin soldiers, stuffed bears, and all kinds of wonderful toys show the children what Christmas is a...

  • Parade Day

    Kathryn Cristaldi

  • My Pop-up Surprise ABC

    Robert Crowther

  • My Pop-up Surprise 1 2 3

    Robert Crowther

  • R. Crumb Coffee Table Art Book: Crumb's Whole Career, from Shack to Chateau!

    R. Crumb

    This first-ever hardcover retrospective of the legendary underground artist's work features his characters Keep on Truckin', Fritz the Cat, Devil Girl, and Mr. Natural, as well as unpublished rarities and personal reflections from the artist himself....

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    Andrew Crumey

    "Pfitz is a surprisingly warm and likeable book, a combination of intellectual high-wire act and good traditional storytelling with a population of lovers and madmen we do care about, despite their advertised fictionality. Certainly Crumey’s narrat...

  • Terrible Teresa and Other Very Short Stories

    Mittie Cuetara

    An anthology containing fourteen sly, amusing, and appealing short stories, each told in four lines and four panels, is sure to bring giggles from small children with its quirky cast of characters, including Teresa the teaser and many more....

  • The Natural Child

    Sharon Curtis; Tom Curtis
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    To thine own wish be true. Do not follow the moth to the star. So says the message in an exquisite green bottle. Is it a wish? A warning? A spell to cast over a lover? In these six charming love stories, a mysterious bottle brings a touch of magi...

  • Flood Tide

    Clive Cussler

    An underwater graveyard in the Pacific Northwest... A mysterious seaport in the bayous of Louisiana... A diabolical plot to destroy America! Unknown waters, 1948. The Princess Dou Wan, a sea-weary cruise ship covertly seized by Chiang Kai-shek, s...

  • Hard Bargain

    Barbara D'Amato

    She's an ace reporter. An amateur sleuth. And she's always clued in. But now Cat Marsala is faced with her toughest case, one that could put a friend's job--and life--on the line. A domestic-violence call turns into a case of murder--of one cop by an...

  • The Alpine Icon

    Mary Daheim

    ALL THE MURDER FIT TO PRINT Editor-publisher Emma Lord and her Alpine Advocate staff predict excitement when glamorous Ursula O'Toole Randall returns to Alpine to marry her third husband. But hers is a lethal homecoming.... Ursula, clad in sati...

  • Revolting Recipes

    Roald Dahl

    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Offers simple, step-by-step recipes for dishes mentioned in Roald Dahl's works, including such delicacies as "Bruce Bogtrotter's Sensational Chocolate Cake" and "Stinkbug Eggs....

  • The Secret Fairy Handbook Or how to Be a Little Fairy

    Penny Dann

  • Promises

    Peggy Darty

  • McTavish and Twins

    Trisha David

    Why else would Erin O'Connell come back to Australia to live with her grandfather? Mike McTavish was convinced she was only out for what she could get - but when he saw Erin handle his orphaned twin niece and nephew so tenderly, he began to doubt his...

  • The Grilling Season

    Diane Mott Davidson

    CHILLY RECEPTION Caterer Goldy Schulz has been hired to host a hockey party. But the proceedings won't be all fun and games. Unfortunately, her client won't be satisfied until Goldy adds a hefty serving of revenge. AN EX-HUSBAND FROM HELL...

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    Donna Davidson
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    A hoydenish beauty decides to take the wind out of the sails of a naughty but irresistibly handsome sea captain....

  • The Ugliest House in the World

    Peter Ho Davies

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  • A Man to Trust

    Justine Davis

    THE MAN BEHIND THE BADGE Kelsey Hall needed someone to trust. But the one man she wanted desperately to trust with her secrets AND her heart, was the one man she KNEW she couldn't.... One week at Kelsey's country inn was the only vacation Detec...

  • All It Takes Is Family

    Sharon De Vita

    A MUFFIN IS FOREVER... And that's why Gracie Adair wouldn't sell her family's secret muffin recipes to hotshot businessman Nick Blackwell. They'd been in her family for generations. And though Nick was charming and handsome, both she and her muffins...

  • Three Wishes

    Barbara Delinsky

    Here is a tale of courage, community, and the magical consequences of being given a second chance. What if wishes really could come true? It's the question facing waitress Bree Walker when she awakens in the hospital following a blizzard in...

  • Halloween Helpers

    Judy Delton

    Mrs. Peters is missing! The Pee Wees' leader has been called out of town on a family emergency. Who will run their scout meetings now that Mrs. Peters is gone? And who will help the Pee Wees plan their big Halloween party? Captain Spencer is the firs...

  • Return to the Painted Cave

    Justin Denzel

    As the sequel to Boy of the Painted Cave, Tao continues on with the craft he learned from his friend, Graybeard, and tries to bring luck to the other Mountain people, until he stumbles upon a clan held prisoner by an evil shaman and knows he ...

  • Cut and Dry

    Jo Dereske

    LADY ON THE LAKE In Michigan's northwest country, the rivers run amber, the lakes are blue and deep, and the people guard their land, their secrets, and their fears. Forgery expert Ruby Crane has returned to the land where she grew up and from whi...

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    Jo Dereske

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  • Scandalous

    Teresa DesJardien
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    A scandalous lady just might get a reluctant bachelor to the altar with a clever but shocking scheme....

  • The Red Tent

    Anita Diamant

    Her name is Dinah. In the Bible, her life is only hinted at in a brief and violent detour within the more familiar chapters of the Book of Genesis that are about her father, Jacob, and his dozen sons. Told in Dinah's voice, this novel reveals the tra...

  • And the Bride Vanishes

    Jacqueline Diamond

    As she slipped into her wedding dress, Linda Farley felt the baby move for the first time... Nothing in Linda's life was happening the way she thought it would. Her adored husband, her baby's father, had been killed four months ago -- afte...

  • MacLaren's Bride

    Debra Dier

    Original 1997 Edition: She was a challenge to the gentlemen of the ton, for it was said she could freeze a man with a single glance of her green eyes. Meg Drummond wanted nothing to do with love -- not when she'd seen her own parents' marria...

  • The Santa Clause

    Walt Disney

  • Tower of Terror

    Walt Disney

  • Stress Point

    Franklin W. Dixon

  • Time Blender

    Michael Dorn

    A rousing science fiction debut from Michael Dorn, Worf of the immensely popular Star TrekT television series and films.

    After cultural anthropologist Tony Millers plane is blown off course, he must land on a strange tropical island. The natives ca...

  • The Shaman's Bones

    James D. Doss

    A women of the Tohono O'otam tribe has been savagely--and ritually--murdered in Wyoming, outside the jurisdictions of Granite Creek, Colorado, Police Chief Scott Parris and Ute tribal policeman Charlie Moon. But a brutal, unprovoked assault by the su...

  • Why Lapin's Ears Are Long and Other Tales of the Louisiana Bayou

    Sharon Arms Doucet

  • Ben's Wife

    Charlotte Douglas

    HER HUSBAND After a suspicious fire claimed the life of her father and nearly that of rescuer Ben Wells, Morgan Winters engaged in a marriage of convenience with Ben for protection -- and vengeance. Swathed in bandages and wheelchair-bound, Ben enli...

  • Flying Dimitri

    Blair Drawson

  • The Bravest Cat!

    Laura Driscoll

    Here's the heartwarming, true story of the cat who risked her life to save her five kittens from a burning building. Written for very young readers, The Bravest Cat! follows the feline family's recovery and their eventual adoptions into loving homes...

  • Christmas Surprise

    Emma Dryden

    Spend this Christmas with a merry family of mice as they prepare for the holiday festivities. The cuddly, furry creatures hang their stockings, decorate the tree, and snuggle down to bed and their dreams of St....

  • Santa's Biggest Little Helper

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Anastasia: Looking for Pooka

    Cathy East Dubowski

  • Damsel in Distress

    Carola Dunn

    The 1923 English countryside is as colorful and calamitous as ever in the newest installment of Carola Dunn's cozy mystery series. In this outing, dauntless Daisy Dalrymple matches wits with a mysterious band of kidnappers in an effort to locate an a...

  • Sins of the Sons

    Dominick Dunne

  • Hand-Me-Downs

    Andrew Durkee

  • Bug Off

    Jennifer Dussling

    Crushing bugs was something Bugsy loved to do, but when he awakens one morning to find himself looking at the world from a bug's perspective, he soon begins to see things very differently. Simultaneous....

  • The Lady from Spain

    Gail Eastwood

    The Mysterious Montero The beautiful young woman claimed her name was Dona Sofia Christina Ynez Alamar de Montero when she arrived in England. Yet in the office of a London lawyer, she said she was Miss Falcarrah Colburne, come to claim her legacy...

  • Jackson's Monster

    Deborah Eaton

  • Smile, Baby!

    Deborah Eaton

  • Blackberry Winter

    Sherrie Eddington

    Vowing to steer clear of each other after a tumultuous first meeting, Lacy and Adam are reluctantly brought together while investigating a fifteen-year-old mystery that finds its roots in Lacy's childhood memories. Even when you least expect it, l...

  • Jooka Saves the Day

    Gilles Eduar

    Life is good among the crocodiles on the banks of the Zimbu River, until unusual little Jooka sneezes fire and wings pop out from under his shirt, evidence that he is a dragon, and he frightens his friends away, in this magical tale of growing up....

  • Whydunit?

    Martin Edwards

    Following on from the first CWA anthology, Perfectly Criminal, whose story Herbert in Motion by Ian Rankin won the 1996 CWA Short Story Dagger, this thrilling collection focuses on the elusive 'why?' behind the crime. This theme has inspired many con...

  • Dinorella: A Prehistoric Fairytale

    Pamela Duncan Edwards

  • All Around Atlantis

    Deborah Eisenberg

    Deborah Eisenberg's deeply etched and mysterious stories focus on individuals grappling with dislocations, ironies, and compromises levied by ordinary reality and the vivid, troubling worlds her characters inhabit. With lyrical and gleaming prose, Ei...

  • Bewitched

    Elizabeth Elliott
    in

    To thine own wish be true. Do not follow the moth to the star. So says the message in an exquisite green bottle. Is it a wish? A warning? A spell to cast over a lover? In these six charming love stories, a mysterious bottle brings a touch of magi...

  • Bright Phoenix

    Roger Elwood

    It could happen. A sinister plot catches the world off guard. How would you react if the world crumbled around you tomorrow? This is what your customers will discover as they become absorbed in the plot of Without the Dawn. Packed full of action, adv...

  • Stolen Kisses

    Suzanne Enoch

    A FROSTY MAIDEN Jack Faraday, the Marquis of Dansbury, is rich, titled, and handsome as sin. A scandalous rake who's charmed a long string of ladies, he finally meets his match in Miss Lilith Benton. When the emerald-eyed, raven-haired beauty...

  • The Case of the Vampire Vacuum Sweeper

    John R. Erickson

    Marauding trespassers are threatening to stampede the cattle. It’s Hank the Cowdog, Head of Ranch Security, to the rescue as he: tracks down enemy agent, Mysterious Esther, escapes the relentless Vampire Vacuum Sweeper, and confronts Buster and his...

  • Busy Bear Takes a Trip: With 25 Reusable Stickers

    Pascale Estellon

  • Time Station Berlin

    David Evans

    As the Berlin Wall is being constructed in 1963, beautiful Angela Chance arrives from the year 2688 on the heels of a dangerous time-traveling criminal who is determined to change the future. Original....

  • Longarm and the Dead Man's Play

    Tabor Evans

    While hunting down a gang of lowlifes, Longarm tackles the more difficult mystery of Miss Glynnis Mathry, a Welsh writer who proves more desirable than he can resist and who harbors a suspicious agenda of her own. Original....

  • Family Values

    Forrest Evers

    Los Palos Hills, with its winding suburban streets, is a world away from the violent inner city. But the gang of violent teens who are holding Dan Messina's wife and family hostage have crossed the line. Dan has until the banks close to raise a quart...

  • Shadows in the Flame

    Tess Farraday

    Where am I? Rose's cry echoed in her mind, even as she saw a reflection -- not her own -- in the glass window. Oh God. My Molly. Older! My Molly all grown up. She could see her child, smell lavender from the clothes chest clinging to her dress, y...

  • Guilt by Association

    Michael Farris

    When an abortion clinic burns to the ground, Suzie O'Dell, a college student on the clinic's board, is charged with the crime. In the face of daunting evidence to the contrary, a pro-life group hires Peter Barron to fight the charges in federal court...

  • Boddekker's Demons

    Joe Clifford Faust

    Boddekker's not just a faceless copywriter anymore, grinding out ads for VR simulators and mood/attitude orienters.  Now he's the "five-hundred-pound gorilla" of the Pembroke Hall agency, lumbering toward fame, fortune, and a fabled house in Prince...

  • Against the Brotherhood

    Quinn Fawcett

    Acknowledged by Sherlock Holmes himself as the smarter brother, and gifted with even greater powers of observation than the famous consulting detective, Mycroft Holmes appears in only four stories in the Canon and remains an enigmatic figure wrapped ...