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New Books List: 715 titles

  • Beguiled

    Lori Foster
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    Dane Carter is not who everyone thinks he is. The errant son has returned to the family company after his twin brother, Derek, was found murdered. However, everyone, including Derek's old flame, Angel, believes Derek is still alive. Dane's Mission Im...

  • Winning

    C.S. Adler

    When Vicky makes the tennis team, she expects her problems to be solved, but she is soon confronted with a whole new set of problems when her vehement focus on tennis threatens her relationship with her best friend, and her new tennis partner, Barbar...

  • Big Bird's Ticklish Christmas

    Sarah Albee

  • Forever True // Solo Tuya

    Elaine Alberro

    Celebrating her long-awaited quinceañera, Elena Garcia was ready for romance. That night, she discovered the sweetest passion of all: the forbidden kind. Antonio Del Valle was a cleaning woman's illegitimate son; Elena descended from Cuban aristoc...

  • Death of a Colonial

    Bruce Alexander

    When a nobleman who is the last of his line is executed, his possessions are expected to go to the Crown. Then a man appears--claiming to be the nobleman's younger brother who disappeared seven years ago -- and declares his right to the estate. But i...

  • Big Bird Meets Santa Claus

    Liza Alexander

  • Playing for Keeps

    Nina Alexander

    An impossible decision... When Claudia tries out for the guys' soccer team, her boyfriend, Aaron, isn't too happy about it. And when she wins his position, he can't take anymore. Before she knows what is happening, they're over. Claudia can't bel...

  • One More Time, Mama

    Sue Alexander

    A mother remembers the fireflies, afternoon rain, squirrels, geese, and other aspects of nature that she watched while waiting for her child to be born. By the illustrator of When I Am Old with You. ...

  • Merry Christmas Everybody!

    Allen

  • Unwelcome to Grouchland

    Constance Allen

  • Desert Kiss // Besos En El Desierto

    Gloria Alvarez

    Daniel Rivera can't believe his eyes--or ears. This Aztec knockout doesn't look a thing like the naive, innocent teenager he'd once loved. That sassy, sexy voice doesn't sound like her, either. But it's Patricia Martinez, all right. And Daniel's to b...

  • Cool It, Carrie

    Kate Andrews

    Carrie Mersel gets upset when her friend Jordan enters her story in a contest without her knowledge, and things only get worse when she wins and her mother forbids her to attend the awards ceremony when everyone else will be there...

  • Bone Hunter

    Sarah Andrews

    Forensic geologist Em Hansen uses her keen senses and fascinating scientific background to uncover the buried secrets of the most baffling murder cases. Now Em travels to a Utah paleontology conference, where a renowned dinosaur expert is found bruta...

  • Jade

    V.C. Andrews

    "Tears are more private than smiles....Why should I share anything with these girls?" Jade had listened to Misty and Star tell their stories. Now it is her time to speak. But she can't. For while the others in Dr. Marlowe's therapy group had expos...

  • Fish Book

    Christopher Angelfish

  • The Twenty-Four-Hour Groom

    Laura Anthony

    "MARRY ME, KATIE" When Detective Truman West rescued the beautiful bridesmaid in distress, he couldn't believe his eyes. Katie Prentiss had blossomed from a chubby schoolgirl into a very desirable woman. And that made her the perfect c...

  • Enter the Enchanted

    K.A. Applegate

    There is a place that shouldn't exist -- but does. There are creatures that shouldn't exist -- but do. Welcome to a land where all of your dreams and nightmares are very real -- and often deadly. Welcome to Everworld. Jalil, David, April and Chri...

  • The Separation

    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 they find us ... well we just won't let them find us. The thing you should know is that everyone is in r...

  • Lara Gets Even

    Katherine Applegate

    Lara can't bear to watch Kate steal Jake. But Kate's about to find the mystery boy who rescued her at Ben's party. Can Lara dream up a scheme that will lead Kate straight to the wrong guy?...

  • Winter's Bride

    Catherine Archer

    Tristan of Brackenmoore Was Desperate If a bouquet of forget-me-nots could but make the Lady Lily Gray remember what they once shared, Tristan would have gathered the flowers from beneath the winter snows. But his one true love had no memory of th...

  • Body & Soul

    Jennifer Archer

    What woman hasn't wished for the sexy body of a twenty-year-old? Overworked under-appreciated housewife and mother Lisa O'Conner gazed at the young driver in the car next to her. Tory Beecham's manicured nails kept time with the radio, her curly ...

  • Jokes You Shouldnt Tell a Ghost

    Eric Arnold

  • Huggly and the Toy Monster

    Tedd Arnold

  • First Year of Marriage

    Miriam Arond

    A practical and compassionate guide will help couples of all ages create a firm foundation for a lasting partnership, offering helpful advice on handling in-laws, managing money, accepting intimacy, juggling work and love, and other vital topic...

  • Bride to Be

    Jane Ashford

    TO HAVE AND TO HOLD The daughter of free spirits who routinely outraged the haut ton, Emily Crane longed for a less scandalous life. Now she's the toast of society -- and she couldn't find it more tedious. Until, in the midst of yet anothe...

  • Stolen Charms

    Adele Ashworth

    A Flawless Beauty Bored with her pompous suitors, Miss Natalie Haislett longs for romance and adventure. She is inflamed by dreams of the mysterious Black Knight -- a daring English thief who has stolen her heart from afar with his legendary explo...

  • When Jeff Comes Home

    Catherine Atkins

    Sixteen-year-old Jeff, returning home after having been kidnapped and held prisoner for three years, must face his family, friends, and school and the widespread assumption that he engaged in sexual activity with his kidnapper....

  • Happy Holidays

    Lauren Attinello

  • Logan's Bride

    Elizabeth August

    A WOMAN WITH A PAST Katrina Polinari couldn't seem to escape her family ties. Though she'd made good as a police officer, to many people she was still linked with the sins of her father. A MAN WITH A FUTURE Boyd Logan was hot on the ...

  • Chasing Alfie

    Sandra August

    Alfie & The Ghost Chaser The little girl sitting neat to her on the train wasn't supposed to talk to strangers; and L. V "Alfie" Foster knew better herself But the handsome man across the car was eager to introduce himself, and the feisty reporter...

  • Eve's Daughters

    Lynn Austin / Lynn N. Austin

    Yearning for love and dignity, four generations of women must come to grips with the choices they've made -- and those their mothers made before them. But breaking the cycle that has ensnared them over the decades will prove more difficult than the...

  • 1, 2, 3, Music

    Sylvie Auzary-Luton

    Annie's love of music keeps getting her in trouble because with her headphones tight on her ears she can't hear her grandmother, but Annie and her grandfather decided to open everyone's ears to the delight of music....

  • Outer Darkness

    James Axler

    FIRE AND ASHES His new world born out of the fire and ashes of a nuclear exchange, a rogue warrior searches for ways to undo the past. With brother-in-arms Grant and the archivist Brigid Baptiste, he dares to seek out the secrets of time.... Ka...

  • Aunt Pitty Patty's Piggy

    Jim Aylesworth

  • Out of My Mind

    Richard Bach

    The author of eleven books, including such classic bestsellers as Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Illusions, and One, Richard Bach has earned a permanent place in the hearts of readers around the world.  His visionary works have shown millions of read...

  • Homesickness

    Murray Bail

    The wildly funny novel-never published before in the United States-that put Murray Bail on the literary map.

    Thirteen men and women on a package tour travel the world, visiting museums, hotels, and shops. They are like tourists anywhere, excep...

  • Apache Flame

    Madeline Baker

    As a child, Mitch Garrett was excluded from respectable society. His father was the town drunkard, his mother was an Apache, and his only friend was Alisha Faraday, the sweet, innocent daughter of a preacher. But as adults, their secret affection ...

  • Wilderness

    Karen Ball

    Mady Donovan and Jason Tiber have little in common-or so they think. When they find themselves lost together in the wilderness of Washington's North Cascades, they realize they share one disturbing similarity: anger with the God they each believe has...

  • The Queen's Amulet

    Julianne Balmain

    The planet of Naboo is surrounded by dark and powerful forces, and it is up to the young, strong, and beautiful Queen Amidala to save it. Readers will thrill to this epic tale of adventure set in the faraway, long-ago galaxy of Star Wars: Episode I. ...

  • A Very Scary Jack-O'-Lantern

    Joanne Barkan

  • A Very Scary Witch Story

    Joanne Barkan

  • John Brown's Body

    A.L. Barker

    Marise Tomelty is a child-wife who dislikes sex and is terrified of open spaces. Ralph Shilling, a dealer in pesticides, lives in the flat above the Tomeltys'. One day, Marise's traveling-salesman husband casually mentions that he recognizes Ralph as...

  • The Gooseboy

    A.L. Barker

    Doug and Dulcie Bysshe are twins. Doug is a successful film star living in the South of France, contemplating a new part as a saintly doctor in an African leper colony. Dulcie, busy and energetic, is fighting to retrieve her husband, the mournful and...

  • Flashpoint

    Linda Barnes

    Carlotta Carlyle, Boston's favorite redheaded, wisecracking P.I., is back in a taut mystery that begins with a seemingly innocent tenant-landlord dispute--and quickly escalates to arson, intrigue, and murder. Carlotta thinks she's simply doing a f...

  • Day Care Days

    Mary Brigid Barrett

  • The Mirror of Merlin

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

    Strange wickedness is rising up on the magical isle of Fincayra. To save his homeland, and his destiny, Merlin is forced to travel to frightening places -- both on the land and within himself. Joined by Hallia, the deer-woman he has grown to love, an...

  • Big Trouble

    Dave Barry

    In the city of Coconut Grove, Florida, these things happen: A struggling adman named Eliot Arnold drives home from a meeting with the Client From Hell. His teenage son, Matt, fills a Squirtmaster 9000 for his turn at a high school game called Killer....

  • Worst Band in the Universe

    Graeme Base

    Castigated for defying tradition and playing an original tune on his Splingtwanger, thirteen-year-old Sprocc leaves Planet Bipp in search of musical freedom and enters the annual Worst Band in the Universe Competition. Includes a CD of songs supposed...

  • Daddy's Home

    Pamela Bauer

    LOCAL MAN IS HERO Thirty-five-year-old Tyler Brant saved the life of popular TV personality Kristen Kellar when the small plane the were traveling in crashed into the St. Louis River near Hibbing, Minnesota. Brant--single father of a six-year-old d...

  • Jakob the Liar

    Jurek Becker

    One of the most remarkable novels of the Holocaust ever written, Jakob the Liar is a tale of everyday heroism and the extraordinary power of illusion. Set in an unnamed German-occupied ghetto, the story centers on an unlikely hero, Jakob Heym, who ac...

  • The Wrath of the Grinning Ghost

    John Bellairs

    A young man fights to save his father from a spirit’s curse in the epic finale to a series starring “a terrific hero” (The New York Times)
     
    The sea is calm, the air is fresh, and the bobbing boat feels like ...

  • Lady Vanishes

    Carol Lea Benjamin

    The residents at Harbor View, a Greenwich Village home for "thrown away" people, love Lady, the live-in therapy dog. But when the owner dies in a tragic and bizarre hit-and-run accident and Lady vanishes, Harbor View is plunged into chaos. Working...

  • The Catastrophist

    Ronan Bennett

    The Catastrophist is a brilliant, highly acclaimed novel of love, passion, violence, and desire, set in the Belgian Congo in 1959. While expatriates loll about their pools in a colonial paradise soon to erupt into chaos, huge crowds are drawn to the ...

  • Terra!

    Stefano Benni

    In the year 2157, during the nuclear winter of six atomic wars, a bizarre collection of irreverent representatives of the remaining superpowers competes in a frenzied space race to reach Terra, the planet that promises the new Eden...

  • Oh Jackie

    Maudy Benz

    During the Kennedy Administration, fifteen-year-old North Wagoner, spending the summer with her cousin's family, tries to cope with adult problems, including the unwanted attentions of her uncle, and writes to letters to Jackie Kennedy, her ideal of ...

  • Montezuma's Revenge

    Cari Best

  • Mistress by Arrangement

    Helen Bianchin

    A CONVENIENT AFFAIR? Nikos Alessandros needed a social hostess and he'd decided that beautiful, sophisticated Michelle would be the perfect companion -- temporarily. For Michelle, their pretend affair would certainly help her escape the suita...

  • Highland Bride

    Janet Bieber

    A tale of two spirited people who love as fiercely as they fight. A glorious female chieftain in Scotland retaliates against those who killed her father and brothers by kidnapping and wedding the enemy -- a handsome knight. As proud and fierce as an...

  • Remembering Jake

    Cheryl Biggs

    ONE AND THE SAME MAN Someone had betrayed him. Someone had wanted him dead. Now Jake Blagette was back to find out who, and his prime suspect was the woman he'd once loved more than anything in his life. Tina Peychaud had meant the world to him, u...

  • Carnage

    Andrew Billings

    Lurking in the darkest corners of Lauren Bowman's mind are the memories of a brutal past and stolen innocence. Now one of Seattle's most respected businesswomen, she is a formidable animal rights advocate. But her convictions cannot stop her closes...

  • Tara Road

    Maeve Binchy

    New York Times bestselling author Maeve Binchy has captured the hearts of millions with her unforgettable novels. Binchy's graceful storytelling and wise compassion have earned her the devotion of fans worldwide -- and made her one of the most be...

  • The Brightest Flame

    Sonya Birmingham

    Ship of Dreams Molly Kilmartin left Ireland on a ship bound for New York City, determined to stand on her own two feet--to find her piece of the American dream and never have to ask a soul for anything. She certainly didn't need a man like the dashi...

  • The Desperate Season

    Michael Blaine

    It begins, as shocking events often do, with a simple lapse in judgment.

    A strange and brilliant young man slips out of a mental institution and takes his family hostage in the frozen isolation of the mountains. In a suffoca...

  • Give Me My Yam!: Read and Share

    Jan Blake

    Friendly advice for reading fun included in every book!

    READ AND SHARE is a unique first library for parents and children that helps build early readers’ confidence. Grouped in four progressive levels, Read and Share books - available indivi...

  • The Tentmaker

    Michelle Blake

    "In Michelle Blake's The Tentmaker, we not only have the pleasure of meeting Lily Connor, an Episcopal priest who wrestles with doubt and temptation while solving a murder mystery--we also learn about the intrigues of church politics and the struggle...

  • Zagazoo

    Quentin Blake

    A pretty pink creature, a zagazoo, arrives at George and Bella's house--bringing the couple much joy until one morning Zagazoo turned into a screeching vulture, then an accident-prone elephant, and later a mud-loving warthog....

  • Yudonsi: A Tale from the Canyons

    Robert J. Blake

  • The Ghost of the Southern Belle

    Odds Bodkin

  • Hurray for Christmas

    Betty Boegehold

    Pippa Mouse is back again, and this time in a charming Christmas story. On Christmas morning, Pippa awakens to find her stocking overflowing, as well as her heart. She gives gifts to her parents and friends, and wishes Christmas could last forever. B...

  • Jeremiah Learns to Read

    Jo Ellen Bogart

  • Bloodhound

    Jay Bonansinga

    Psychic Charlotte Vickers is used to helping the police locate missing persons, but when a woman hires her to find a fiance+a7 who vanished a year earlier, she finds her extrasensory powers strained to the limits. Original....

  • Just Like a Baby

    Rebecca Bond (1)

    When the family learns they are going to have a baby, they decide they need a cradle. After each member works on the gift, and the baby finally arrives, she sleeps in it "just like a baby." Color illustrations throughout....

  • Thanks to a Lonely Heart

    Elaine Bonner

    Steven needs a mother for his five children. Emily wants a famiy and a home of her own. So thier marriage seems like a good arrangement for them both. But when Emily sets out with Steven for east Texas, she certainly never planned on her home bein...

  • Neighborhood

    Paulette Bourgeois

    Having been given an assignment by Mr. Owl to draw his most favorite thing in his neighborhood, Franklin decides to draw the people he sees in his community because they are what he likes most of all. Reprint....

  • The Copelands

    Doug Bowman

    When Seth Copeland returns home to Kentucky after the Civil War, he is a different man. Having expanded his horizons during the war, he finds himself suddenly restless, his mind filled with the tales of his fellow soldiers in arms about the wide-open...

  • The Gold Trail

    Max Brand

    Presents three tales of the frontier by the popular Western author, including the title story, which follows the unforgettable Reata, as he, on the run from the law after a robbery gone wrong, tries to find the real criminals and reclaim his loot. Re...

  • You Know My Name

    Matt Braun


    His career spanned the West itself, from the days of reckless cowboys and their long-barrel colts to an age of mobsters, tommy guns, and cars. Now, the last days of his towering story are told.

    Bill Tilghman was the real thing, a lawman wh...

  • Indian Territory

    Matt Braun

    The railroad’s drive to close the great distances of the wild American West was treacherous. One man was hired to troubleshoot -- and, along the way, he grew to admire the Indian way of life….and a Cherokee maiden. When hired gun John Ryan heads ...

  • The Edna Webster Collection of Undiscovered Writing

    Richard Brautigan

    On the eve of his departure from Eugene, Oregon, to San Francisco and worldly success, a twenty-one-year-old unpublished writer named Richard Brautigan gave these funny, buoyant stories and poems as a gift to Edna Webster, the beloved mother of both ...

  • Lord Freddie's First Love

    Patricia Bray

    HER CHILDHOOD FRIEND After six years abroad, Anne Webster returned to New Biddeford with a child at her side -- a child whose unruly red hair and mischievous green eyes left society no doubt as to the identity of his mother! Though five-year-old Ian...

  • Too Cool

    Duff Brenna

    "An unfaltering, unflinching, piercing look into a tormented, youthful heart."--The New York Times

    In the dead of winter, in the midst of a blizzard, Elbert Earl Evans--known as Triple E--has escaped from a Colorado reform school in a stolen O...

  • I See Moon

    Patricia Brennan

  • Diamondback

    Guy Brewer

    Con artist Dex Yancy is not much interested in the family business--a cotton plantation called Blackgum Bend--but when his own brother cheats him out of his inheritance and fires his best friend, he heads home to settle the score. Original....

  • The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland: Movie Storybook

    James Bridges

    Based on the motion picture screenplay by Mitchell Kriegman and Joseph Mazzarino

    Whoosh! Elmo and his blanket are whisked away to Grouchland. What's worse, the greedy Huxley steals Elmo's blanket! Elmo must use all of his courage to rescue his...

  • Mrs. Jeffries Rocks the Boat

    Emily Brightwell

    DEADLOCKED Mirabelle Daws traveled all the way from Australia to Sheridan Square to visit her sister--only to be stabbed to death in the middle of a locked garden. The residents of Sheridan Square all have their own key to the garden, but the more I...

  • Lean Mean & Lonesome

    Annette Broadrick

    "Me, lonesome? Hell, I'm too mean to ever get lonesome." -- Rafe McClain, ornery ex-Texan Love? Mighty scarce in Rafe's hardscrabble life. So he'd learned to live solo -- and liked it that way. Until a mysterious plea for help had the restless, r...

  • A Is for AARRGH!

    William J. Brooke

  • A Boss in a Million

    Helen Brooks

    From secretary--to wife? Max Hunter's last secretary had called him a boss in a million, and Cory Masters soon discovered that she was now working for a man who more than lived up to his reputation! Cory tried to concentrate on her work, no...

  • Bathtub Prima Donna

    Anne Brouillard

  • The Alibi

    Sandra Brown

    The sensational murder of one of Charleston's most powerful citizens, real-estate tycoon Lute Pettijohn, rocks the city and gives ambitious prosecutor Hammond Cross his chance to become the city's next district attorney -- if he wins the case...

  • Color Her Dead

    Steve Brown

    Color Her Dead introduces one of the most interesting, attitudinal and sexy mystery heroines in years, Susan Chase, a lifeguard who moonlights as a runaway finder. When cranky, penny-pinching Mrs. Rogers wants her 26-year-old daughter found, Susan...

  • The Scoundrel's Vow

    Sherri Browning

    THE SCOUNDRELS SURPRISE Six years of Lady Shelbourne's School for Girls gave her polish. But nothing could tame the passion Calandra Locke felt for Sir Scarborough Weston, her father's employer, the man she'd loved since childhood. She knew that Sc...

  • Course of Action

    Bonnie Bryant

    Lisa must tell her boyfriend some secrets that could hurt him, Carole debates selling her beloved horse for a more competitive one, and Stevie's work on Scott Forester's campaign for student body president is causing problems with her boyfriend...

  • Class Picture Day

    Andrea Buckless

    Tricked into sticking her tongue out just as the school picture was taken, a young girl turns an embarrassing moment into a triumphant event by devising a clever plan to fix the ruined class photograph. Original....

  • A Civil Campaign

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    ONE CUNNING PLAN TOO MANY... ? It's spring in Vorbarr Sultana, and a young person's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love ... money ... bio-genetics ... love ... lack of money ... incompatible planetary sexual mores ... love ... District success...

  • A Class Act

    Pamela Burford

    MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED... Who, but handsome, preppy prelaw Gabe Moreau? And it was obvious to everyone except Gabe that what he felt for Dena Devlin-the janitor's daughter!--was just puppy love. But it was Dena who walked away when Gabe lost his i...

  • Bones

    Jan Burke

    WHAT REALLY HAPPENED TO JULIA SAYRE? She disappeared four years ago. A young mother of two, Sayre was more than a news story to reporter Irene Kelly. When Sayre's family sought Irene's help, the search became a personal mission--and a fruitless on...

  • System

    Larry Burkett

  • Bertie and Small and the Brave Sea Journey

    Vanessa Cabban

  • Bertie and Small and the Fast Bike Ride

    Vanessa Cabban

    Accompanied by Small, her dedicated stuffed rabbit friend, Bertie takes an incredible journey on her bike, travelling to the four corners of the world in search for treasures to bring home to her mother....

  • A Knight's Vow

    Gayle Callen

    Married by His Majesty's Request He was her father's enemy, and now he was her husband by the king's decree. But that didn't mean Lady Isabel Atherstone planned on honoring James Markham, Earl of Bolton, with her love. She only hop...

  • Gator Halloween

    Stephanie Calmenson

    Dressed as a pair of dice, best friend Amy and Alice are confident that they will win the costume party prize, yet when they come upon a frightened and lost lizard in the road, they have to decide whether to help him or get to their event on time....

  • The Devil's Workshop

    Stephen J. Cannell

    They told USC grad student Stacy Richardson that the death of her noted microbiologist husband was suicide, but nothing will convince her of that. Now only her own death will keep her from the truth... They told "Lucky" Cunningham he was doing his...

  • Hurray for Three Kings' Day!

    Lori Marie Carlson

    Three Kings' Day -- the sixth of January -- is almost here! Anita and her older brothers, Tito and Tomas, walk in the streets the night before, celebrating and singing. Carrying gifts and dressed as the Three Kings -- Balthazar, Kaspar, and Melchoir ...

  • Who Said Boo?

    Nancy White Carlstrom

    Trick or Treat! Glowing jack-o'-lanterns. Haunted houses. Scary monsters and spooky shadows. What is more fun than Halloween? This collection of twelve lively poems, perfect for reading aloud, is a delightful chronicle of a family's adventures on tha...

  • Return to Love

    Viveca Carlysle

  • A Ghost for Maggie

    Emily Carmichael

    She's a ghost with a disreputable past...and a heavenly mission. With her trademark blend of sparkling humor and sizzling romance, Emily Carmichael has earned a legion of devoted fans. Now she returns to delight readers with a wickedly delicious t...

  • Obernewtyn

    Isobelle Carmody

    In a world struggling back from the brink of apocalypse, life is harsh. And for Elspeth Gordie, it is also dangerous. That's because Elspeth has a secret: she is a Misfit, born with mysterious mental abilities that she must keep hidden under threat o...

  • Frozen Noses

    Jan Carr

  • Patrick's Dinosaurs on the Internet

    Carol Carrick

    Patrick loves dinosaurs, and he loves looking at them on the Internet. But he has no idea that dinosaurs are looking back! One night, Flato, a friendly, freckle-faced creature, invites Patrick to travel in a fantastic spaceship to visit his dinosaur ...

  • The Marriage of Sticks

    Jonathan Carroll

    Miranda Romanac is a successful thirtysomething woman in today's modern world, yet she feels alone and adrift on the sea of her life. At her high school reunion she makes a shattering discovery that further undermines her already shaky sense of who s...

  • Peel My Love Like an Onion

    Ana Castillo

    The seductive world of flamenco forms the backdrop for a classic tale of independence found, lost, and reclaimed. Like Bizet's legendary gypsy, Carmen "La Coja" (The Cripple) Santos is hilarious, passionate, triumphant, and mesmerizing.A renowned fla...

  • Chains of Command

    William J. Caunitz

    William J. Caunitz's One Police Plaza has become the benchmark by which all cop novels are measured. Now Caunitz sets a new standard in an explosive novel that probes the treacherous chains of command on both sides of the law.... In Upper Manhatta...

  • Born in Texas

    Ginger Chambers

    Welcome back to West Texas -- and the Parker ranch! Jodie Connelly is resourceful, but her husband, Tate, has her stymied. She just doesn't know what else she can possibly do. As a lawman, Tate was injured in the line of duty-he got caught in ...

  • Look Back All the Green Valley

    Fred Chappell

    The last in the Kirkman family cycle by one of our most treasured writersIn Look Back All the Green Valley, Jess Kirkman returns to the North Carolina mountain town of his boyhood to be with his ailing mother and finally settle the family's accounts ...

  • A Boy in Winter

    Maxine Chernoff

    A Boy in Winter takes the stuff of newspaper headlines and explores, in a taut, deeply moving narrative, the human passions behind it.
            
    After Nancy Horvath and her eleven-year-old son, Danny, move into their dream house, Danny ...

  • A is for the Americas

    Cynthia Chin-Lee

  • Latch Key Guard

    Matt Christopher

  • Sky Dance

    Scott Ciencin

    Since he was small, Marc has wanted to be a tightrope walker - even though he has no sense of balance and a fear of heights. His buddy Gentle, a Parasaurolophus, dreams of being a musician - even though his notes are wildly out of tune. Through sh...

  • Lord Maxfield's Birthday Cake

    Cathleen Clare
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    The new Lady Maxfield adores her bridegroom, who took her from a life of genteel poverty to one of wealth and opulence. Determined to prove her own worth, Tabitha begins to practice economics by reducing the chef's budget. When he resigns in a huff, ...

  • A Matter of Taste

    Alana Clayton
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    Lady Fiona Atterly is everything a young lady should be -- except for her most unladylike culinary skills. When she agrees to help a friend's house party by preparing some of her special recipes, her mysterious absences from the festivities attra...

  • The Nightmare Chronicles

    Douglas Clegg

    These short stories from a master storyteller of horror, The Nightmare Chronicles is a world of horror within the boundaries of a book -- the equivalent of opening a Pandora's box of terror and growing fear. It all begins when a young boy is held ca...

  • Half Life

    Hal Clement

    In about two hundred years, the human race on Earth is perhaps facing extinction due to the rapid evolution of disease. A crew of young men and women travel to the moons of Saturn, to Titan, to investigate the biochemistry of the pre-life conditions ...

  • Civil War Ghosts

    Daniel Cohen

    This book provides eleven true ghost stories about famous Civil War figures and the places they continue haunt, complete with an eight-page photo insert, historical overviews and biographical information. Original....

  • The Gods Awaken

    Allan Cole

    Enter lands of mystery, magic, and danger in the triumphant epic fantasy inspired by The Rubaiyit of Omar Khayyam! The realm is tormented by catastrophe. Lord Safar Timura, the great wizard, is trapped in the doomed world of Hadin, condemned to su...

  • Bleeding Kansas

    Judd Cole

    The Kansas Pacific Railroad is laying track where someone definitely doesn't want it, and a number of people have been murdered, so the Pinkerton Agency sends Wild Bill Hickok to get to the bottom of the situation...

  • Married After Breakfast

    Colleen Collins

    THREE DAYS CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING.... Were there ever two more different people than millionaire Dirk Harriman and showgirl Belle O'Leary? He was a communications tycoon, while she talked to her pets. He liked his champagne expensive, while she hop...

  • Majic Man

    Max Allan Collins

    It’s 1949 in Washington, D.C., and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, convinced he has been targeted for murder, hires Chicago P.I. Nate Heller for protection. Heller must deal with Beltway infighting, Communist paranoia, Israeli agents, and...

  • The Green River Trail

    Ralph Compton

    Bestselling author Ralph Compton brings the Old West back to life in this epic saga of the trail-blazing cowboys who paved the way toward the Great Frontier. The horses came from California. The cattle came from Texas. And the men were coming Nort...

  • Blue Willow

    Pamela Conrad

    When love strikes Kung Shi Fair and Chang the Good on the banks of the Wen River, they feel bound together, yet Kung Shi Fair refuses to let them be together and works to end the special romance that has just started to bloom....

  • Follow the Moon

    Linda Cook

    SHE FOUND LOVE BY MOONLIGHT... 1193 Brittany. Newly widowed Lady Johanna awakens to find a stranger in her bedchamber, his handsome face hidden in the shadows. He claims to be an assassin -- sent to kill her. Instead, he promises her safety and help...

  • Apologizing To Dogs

    Joe Coomer

    Times are tough on Worth Row. This is not to say, however, that it is by any means quiet on the Row, a place where bathtubs double as lawn furniture, and adultery, bribery and larceny are as commonplace as the glass eyeballs that pop up in every yard...

  • The Loop

    Joe Coomer

    Lyman, a thirty-year-old orphan, is sipping coffee on the front steps of the trailer he calls home one morning, when a ninety-year-old parrot arrives with a beakful of cryptic sayings -- such as "That which hath wings shall tell the matter" -- and a ...

  • Tune in Anytime

    Caroline B. Cooney

    Intrigue. Suspense. Romance. Evil Schemers, Innocent Victims, and True Love. Is it a TV soap opera? Not exactly. It's what's happening to sixteen-year-old Sophie Olivette. Her father has announced that he wants out of his marriage because he's found...

  • Gumbo Limbo

    Tom Corcoran

    In this acclaimed mystery series, author Tom Corcoran takes readers to the sizzling, spicy, sometimes seedy Key West, plunging them into a dangerous mystery featuring freelance crime-scene photographer Alex Rutledge. When Alex's Navy pal, banker Zack...

  • Deep Background

    David Corn

    Deep Background is an exciting political thriller from David Corn that starts with the assassination of the President of the U.S. and never lets up.After President Bob Hanover is shot dead at the White House press conference by a gunman with no ident...

  • Lady Polly

    Nicola Cornick

    Lady Heartbreaker of London Even as Lady Polly rejected another proposal of marriage, her heart burned for the man she'd rejected five years ago. She'd heard that in his misery, her beloved Lord Henry Marchnight had become a rogue and a gambler. But...

  • Getting Near to Baby

    Audrey Couloumbis

    Things don't feel right here. I want to open my eyes in the morning to see my very own wallpaper with the tiny blue flowers and pink rosebuds. Aunt Patty does not believe in putting up wallpaper, not even in the bathroom. She says mold grows behind i...

  • Willed to Wed

    Wilma Counts

    WILL A MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE Her Grandpapa's will was outrageous. Lady Emily Longbourne would inherit only if she wed the heir to the adjoining estate. Of course, Grandpapa thought her fiance would be sweet Robert Markholme. But the young man's ...

  • The Attack of the Two-Inch Teacher // I Shrank My Teacher

    Bruce Coville

    Tiny teacher -- BIG Trouble! All Pleskit Meenom wants to do is fit in on his new planet. But even a trip to the mall to get some Earth-style clothing isn't enough to stop Jordan Lynch's teasing. Finally Pleskit and his best friend Tim decide to te...

  • Little Bo Peep's Library Book

    Cressida Cowell

    Poor Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep and cannot find them, but luckily her book-loving friend, Little Boy Blue, suggests that she find just the book she needs at the library, along with a cookbook by a wolf chef and much more....

  • Being Dead

    Jim Crace

    A National Book Critics Circle Awards WinnerFrom the author of Quarantine comes Being Dead, Jim Crace's haunting novel about love, death, and the afterlife.Baritone Bay, mid-afternoon. A couple, naked, married almost thirty years, are lying murdered ...

  • Miss Seeton's Finest Hour

    Hamilton Crane

    Bombs away! No one can be trusted in World War II England, even an unassuming young art teacher named Miss Emily D. Seeton. Her suspicious sketches of the surrounding area call her loyalty into question. But instead of being hanged for spying, Mis...

  • A Ceiling of Stars

    Ann Howard Creel

  • Christmas Carousel

    Francesca Crespi

    The story of Christmas springs to life in this lavishly illustrated book. From Mary and Joseph's journey to Bethlehem to the birth of baby Jesus in the manger, to the arrival of the wise men, readers will experience the miracle and magic of Christmas...

  • When Will Sarah Come

    Nina Crews

    Listening to all the different sounds of the vehicles as they pass the house, Jonathan keeps himself entertained, but when he hears the rumble of the school bus, he becomes extra happy because he knows that his big sister has returned home from schoo...

  • Texas Vigilante

    Bill Crider

    The powerful sequel to Outrage at Blanco, Edgar & Shamus Award nominee Bill Crider’s startlingly original western crime novelSix months ago, Ellie was a newlywed, working the dry land in 1880s Texas. Then the desperados came. They raped her...

  • Percival's Angel

    Anne Crompton / Anne Eliot Crompton

    Lili’s eyes can see in the dark like an owl. She can sense spirit auras of all creatures and perform magic more powerful than most. But because Lili is Fey, she does not possess the world’s greatest power -- the Human Heart. Lili wants to underst...

  • Cinderella's Tycoon

    Caroline Cross

    THE BUSINESS TYCOON "Honor" was Texas tycoon Sterling Churchill's middle name. So when a mix-up at the local sperm bank unexpectedly made him a father-to-be, he gallantly stepped forward to marry shy beauty Susan Wilkins. It was a marriage in name...

  • Skin Deep

    Kathleen Cross

    Nina Moore never thought of herself as a white woman. Sure she was pale with eyes bluer than a windswept sky. But until her move from metropolitan Los Angeles to small-town Glendale, Arizona, it didn't bother her when people perceived her as anything...

  • What Am I? Halloween!

    Alain Crozon

    Lift the colorful flaps to solve the holiday riddles in the third pair of books in this popular, playful series. With a peek-a-boo format and adorable art, toddlers will love to play these simple guessing games over and over again....

  • What Am I? Christmas

    Alain Crozon

    Lift the colorful flaps to solve the holiday riddles in the third pair of books in this popular, playful series. With a peek-a-boo format and adorable art, toddlers will love to play these simple guessing games over and over again....

  • Bud, Not Buddy

    Christopher Paul Curtis

    I squeezed my bag to my stomach and ran. The train was going faster and faster. People were jumping on and reaching back to help others. I finally got to the tracks and was running as hard as I could. I looked up into the boxcar and saw Bugs. He scr...

  • The Pecos Kid

    Dan Cushman

    Two exciting adventures of the Pecos Kid, otherwise known as former Confederate officer Bill Warren, are contained within one volume and include "Riders of the Gunsmoke Rim, " in which the Kid and his two saddle partners arrive in Yellowstone country...

  • The Cello of Mr. O

    Jane Cutler

    As the war rages on and times get difficult, Mr. O makes his contribution to the community by playing his cello in the square every Wednesday afternoon, thus as things get even more desperate, all in the community soon begin to realize the meaning be...

  • Red Roses Mean Love

    Jacquie D'Alessandro

    Yellow for friendship. Pink for passion. But . . . Red Roses Mean Love. She dreamed of roses.... Orphaned and abandoned by her fiance, Hayley Albright is determined to care for her younger siblings even if it means having to give up her own dr...

  • The Victim in Victoria Station

    Jeanne M. Dams

    A charming, quick-witted woman of a certain age, Dorothy Martin once more finds herself embroiled in a most puzzling crime...and a saga of greed, jealousy and murder. The victim: a fellow American, her seat companion on a commuter train to London....

  • Aaron's Hair

    Alan Daniel

    When Amy refuses to wake-up and go to school, her family decides to teach her a lesson and so, bed and all, move her out of the house, through the streets and to her school for everyone in town to see. Reprint....

  • The Secret Fairy Party Book

    Penny Dann

  • The Farming of Bones

    Edwidge Danticat

    It is 1937 and Amabelle Désir, a young Haitian woman living in the Dominican Republic, has built herself a life as the servant and companion of the wife of a wealthy colonel. She and Sebastien, a cane worker, are deeply in love and plan to marry. Bu...

  • Having Leo's Child

    Emma Darcy

    Get this, Teri, and get it good! You are going to marry me. It takes two people to do right by their child. And we are going to do it together! Leo didn't stop there. He kissed Teri with all the sizzling heat that had fired their affair. But she ...

  • The Baby Bond

    Lilian Darcy

    A DOUBLE BUNDLE OF JOY! Surrogate mother Julie Gregory was suddenly the only mother for the beloved baby she was carrying. And the baby's handsome father wasn't even aware she or the baby existed! Yet millionaire businessman Tom Callahan didn't inte...

  • Her Passion for Dr. Jones

    Lilian Darcy

    Dr. Harry Jones is pretty sure that it is a mistake having Rebecca Irwin work in their Southshore practice As daughter of his partner, surely her father will make allowances he wouldn’t with someone else? Unfortunately for Harry, Rebecca overhears ...

  • Loving Elizabeth

    Victoria Dark

    WHEN YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE... Elizabeth McKay's life had drastically changed the day she found Rand Matthews wounded on the Kansas prairie. Nursing him back to health, she never imagined she would also give her heart away to a man on the run, falsely ...

  • The Experiment

    John Darnton

    Skyler was a test subject, and the Lab was his home. Carefully attended to by physicians, he never had a reason to leave the Lab. Until he found one of the other test subjects dead--with his heart removed. Jude was a journalist, and New York was h...

  • I, Q

    Peter David

    The enigmatic entity known as Q remains one of the greatest mysteries in the universe, yet no one, perhaps, understands Q as well as actor John de Lancie, who has played Q. on television for more than a decade. Now de Lancie and Peter David, the best...

  • The Avram Davidson Treasury

    Avram Davidson

    Avram Davidson was one of the great original American writers of this century. He was erudite, cranky, Jewish, wildly creative, and sold most of his wonderful stories to pulp magazines. They are wonderful.

    Now his estate and his friends have b...

  • The Midwife

    Carolyn Davidson

    FOR THE SAKE OF HIS CHILD Widowed father Gar Lundstrom's offer of a marriage of convenience had given Leah the chance of a new life for herself caring for his children. Yet what would happen to her newfound happiness when the stalwart farmer learn...

  • Somewhere Lies the Moon

    Kathryn Lynn Davis

    For free spirit Ena Rose, the daughter of Ailsa Rose, growing up in Glen Affric has been idyllic. But womanhood looms; she faces tormenting questions of the heart -- and a love that can never be. Then there are the women whose destinies hay unfolded ...

  • Kettles Buy New Cloths

    Dayle Ann A. Dodds

  • The Sun God

    Katherine Deauxville
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    Ah Venice In the whirling decadence of Carnival all forms of desire are unveiled. Amidst the crush of those attending the balls, filling the waterways, and traveling in the gondolas of post-Napoleonic Venice, nothing is unavailable--should one kno...

  • Young Hercules

    Keith R.A. Decandido

  • The Heiress

    Claire Delacroix

    "I SEEK A BRIDE, THE WEALTHIEST HEIRESS IN IRELAND." No woman can resist the charms of Rowan de Montvieux. But the dashing rogue is in no hurry to marry--until his family dares him to find a bride . . . or risk losing his inheritance. So Rowan set...

  • The Journal of Ben Uchida, citizen #13559

    Barry Denenberg

    Tuesday, April 21, 1942 I never thought I looked different from the other kids. Never once, even though most of them are Caucasian, except for Billy Smith, who's a Negro, and Charles Hamada, who's part Japanese, part jerk. But now I realized my fa...

  • The Seduction of Sydney

    Jamie Denton

    THE SEDUCTION... For weeks, Derek Buchanan has been trying to tell gorgeous leggy pal Sydney Travers that he loves her. And he's planning on seducing her.... But even Derek's surprised when one night the softhearted veterinarian turns to him for c...

  • Just Revenge

    Alan M. Dershowitz

    One of the foremost courtroom lawyers of his generation, Alan M. Dershowitz takes controversial stands based on the principle of equal justice for all. Along the way, he has authored the #1 New York Times bestseller Chutzpah; the bestselling account ...

  • The Misfit Marquess

    Teresa DesJardien

    A Daring Masquerade Seeking to escape the cruel designs of a false lover, Elizabeth Hatton fled into the night. Then an accident left her unconscious--and she was rescued by the handsome Lord Gideon Grayleigh! Elizabeth's reputation depended on se...

  • Keeping the Moon // Last Chance

    Sarah Dessen

    Colie expects the worst when she's sent to spend the summer with her eccentric aunt Mira while her mother, queen of the television infomercial, tours Europe. Always an outcast-first for being fat and then for being "easy"-Colie has no friends at home...

  • Dark Desires

    Thea Devine
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    Drue Caledon despises her new husband Courtland Summerville, the man she was forced to marry, and vows to remain loyal to her true love, Gerard Lenoir. But Court intends to make Drue his in body and spirit by introducing her to the pleasures of the f...

  • Assignment: Groom

    Jacqueline Diamond

    The Wedding Party: Anything can happen at a Bellamy wedding! The wedding of the year was about to become the scandal of the decade! And social secretary Anne Crumm was in the middle of it The groom-to-be was none other than her former flame, Er...

  • The Big Box

    Disney Book Group

  • These Hands

    Disney Book Group

  • Add a Little Magic

    Disney Book Group

  • Old MacDonald Had a Farm

    Siobhan Dodds

  • Faithful Travelers

    James Dodson

    In Final Rounds, James Dodson told the poignant story of the golf trip of a lifetime with his terminally ill father. Now, armed with a fly-fishing rod and reel, he embarks with his seven-year-old daughter on an equally memorable journey across Ame...

  • The Night Visitor

    James D. Doss

    The world of Daisy Perika ia a realm of shadows, omens, and restless spirits. In tribal policeman Charlie Moon's world, good and evil manifest themselves in more explainable, human ways. Yet the irascible old Ute shaman and her huge, good-natured nep...

  • The Cat in the Hat's Great Big Flap

    Dr. Seuss

    Now for the first time ever, the Cat in the Hat appears in a silly, Seussian flap book, which offers loads of learning and lots of laughs and is packed with over 50 seek-and-find flaps that help teach basic concepts such as colors, numbers, letters, ...

  • Romiette and Julio

    Sharon M. Draper

    Star Crossed Lovers When Romiette Cappelle meets Julio Montague, she feels as though she has met the soul mate who can rescue her from her recurring nightmare about fire and water. But like the Shakespearean characters whose names echo theirs, Romie...

  • When I'm Big

    Tim Drury

  • Cookie Monster's Christmas

    Anne Duax

  • Fortune Cookie Fox

    Cathy East Dubowski

    Warning: Practical joker on the loose! Okay, the hairy rubber spiders in Sabrina's cafeteria lunch were kind of funny. (At least she could identify something on her plate.) But the avalanche of popcorn from her locker, the bedroom slippers full of co...

  • The Longest Hair in the World

    Lois Duncan

  • The Journal of Sean Sullivan

    William Durbin

    August 17 Last night I found out why the Indians are still so dangerous.... Pa and his buddy Bill Flanagan were playing cribbage like they usually do before they go to bed, when a bullet whizzed through the side of our tent. I didn't even realize wh...

  • Giant Squid

    Jennifer Dussling

    Talk about a BIG catch! The 25-foot squid hauled in by a fishing boat off the coast of New Zealand in December 1997 was one of the most amazing stories of that year! Here's a fascinating look at the giant squid, cephalopods in general, and the implic...

  • To Find a Place: Western Stories

    Robert Easton

    Quick and the Cat tells of a bounty hunter who kills a mountain lion only to find himself in the cave where she has made her den. In Nobody Danced, modern ranch life is depicted as two men confront each other at a town dance. And a black outlaw bull ...

  • The Glorious Christmas Songbook

    Cooper Edens

    Fill the holidays with joyous song! In the tradition of Chronicle Book's Classic Illustrated Edition of The Night Before Christmas comes another charming book to help you sing in the holidays. With illustrations garnered from one of the world's most ...

  • Frames Per Second

    Bill Edison

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

  • Dream Journey

    Gilles Eduar

    Anatole is a fearless explorer and the gentle protector of a napping little boy, and when Jules finds a comfy spot between the camel's two humps, Anatole sets out to discover new vistas--taking the little boy and young readers on an exciting journey....