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  • Map Keys

    Rebecca Aberg

  • Latitude and Longitude

    Rebecca Aberg

  • Numbers

    Ken Abraham; Daniel Hart

    Special Agent John Jameson has been assigned a daunting task -- to take out the vicious leader of the militant Islamic mujahideen that has been menacing the world in the wake of the Rapture. Caught between his duty to country and his newfound faith, ...

  • The Secret Father

    Anna Adams

    How is it possible to forget the love of your life? Zach Calvert has no memory of his last three years as a Navy pilot. And for the most part, he's resigned himself to that. He's content with his new life as the sheriff of his hometown, happy that...

  • The Hotel Riviera

    Elizabeth Adler

    She thought she was in love... American Lola Laforet is swept away in a whirlwind wedding to a handsome Frenchman and finds herself the chef/owner of the Hotel Riviera, a gemlike retreat snuggled up against the blue Mediterranean. In their first bli...

  • Welcome Home or Someplace Like It

    Charlotte Agell

    A refreshingly witty and moving novel that uncovers the true meaning of "home"

    "Mom's left us a lot. She left us in Dayton, Denver, and Detroit. She left us in Tucson and Teaneck. I make it sound like a song, but it's true. Except that we neve...

  • Pumpkin Shivaree

    Rick Agran

    In the spring, a small silver seed is planted in the garden. By fall, it's a full-grown pumpkin on a long vine. The careful and accurate depiction of the development of a pumpkin - from seed to sprout to flower to fruit - is followed by a description...

  • Baby Santa's Very Merry Christmas

    Julie Aigner-Clark

    Treasured Christmas poems and beautiful holiday photographs make the celebration of the holidays come alive for babies and young children in this beautiful board book. Baby Santa's Very Merry Christmas is certain to become a treasured holiday keepsak...

  • Distant Echoes

    Judie Aitken

    Jesse Spotted Horse had every good reason to shoot a documentary on the history of Native American boarding schools -- he promised his Lakota grandmother he would reveal the true story. Kathleen Prescott had every good reason to stop the film f...

  • Off Limits

    Michele Albert

    Breaking All The Rules Sexy and smart, Emma Frey is a by-the-books cop who knows there are certain men she should avoid -- and "bad boy" detective Bobby Halloran is a prime example. But now she's been teamed up with the legendary heartbreaker...

  • The Five People You Meet in Heaven

    Mitch Albom

    Eddie is a grizzled war veteran who feels trapped in the toil of his father before him, fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. As the park has changed over the years.--from the Loop-the-Loop to the Pipeline Plunge--so, too, has Eddie changed, from...

  • Midnight Flight

    V.C. Andrews

    They lived on the wild side. Now these bad girls are paying the price. At Dr. Foreman's School for Girls, the "students" sleep in barns, work on a farm in the blazing heat, and are subjected to ruthless guards who watch their every move. It's an ...

  • Begin Again

    K.A. Applegate

    The best-selling author of ANIMORPHS and EVERWORLD presents a fresh, exciting, and gritty science-fiction series that combines a little 2001, a little Armageddon, and a whole lot of action!

    The end of the world has come and gone, leaving only ...

  • Terrible Times

    Philip Ardagh

    In the third installment of the Eddie Dickens saga, Eddie, our steadfast hero, finds himself en route to North America aboard the sailing ship Pompous Pig along with a cargo hold full of left shoes, the world-famous Dog's Bone Diamond, and some of th...

  • Brotherhood of Betrayal

    Randall Arthur

    "Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples," Jesus said (John 13:35, NLT). Why then are Christians noted for their hateful judgment of each other? Brotherhood of Betrayal illustrates the ugliness of the betrayal synd...

  • The Essential Worldwide Monster Guide

    Linda Ashman

    While vacationing, this indispensible guide will help travelers of all ages avoid being disturbed by pesky monsters and crazy creatures by providing a wealth of advice for handling encounters with a Tengu, a Sasquatch, and a Domovic. 50,000 first pri...

  • Uncanny X-Men Vol. 3: Holy War

    Chuck Austen

    Collects Uncanny X-Men (1963) #421-427. The return of the Canadian super team Alpha Flight… but do they return as friends or foes? The hunt for the mysterious religious sect known as the Church of Humanity concludes, but what secrets will they have...

  • The Mayor of Central Park

    Avi

    Life is good for Oscar Westerwit. He's the mayor of Central Park -- the greatest place on earth for the squirrels, chipmunks, mice, and other animals who live there. He's the shortstop and manager of his baseball team. What could be bad?

    Ple...

  • Devil Riders

    James Axler

    Judgment day has come and gone. Now only the strongest survive. Law of the Lawless A century after the nuclear conflagrating almost destroyed the world, humanity endures in a lawless land. Those who inhabit Deathlands are either killers or those ...

  • The Madam

    Julianna Baggott

    Alma and Henry can barely feed their three children -- responsible Irving, slow-witted Willard, nervous Lettie -- despite their grueling jobs, hers in a hosiery factory, his in a railroad yard. So when a bootlegging scam artist lends them money to bu...

  • Jeoffry's Halloween

    Mary Bryant Bailey

    On Halloween, Jeoffry shows as much courage as kindness

    The hound’s howl calls me through the haze
    to the garden, where pumpkins blaze.
    As frost has not yet laced the straw,
    the warm sod sinks beneath our paws.

    So begins Jeof...

  • The Empress of Mars

    Kage Baker

    When the British Arean Company founded its Martian colony, it welcomed any settlers it could get. Outcasts, misfits and dreamers emigrated in droves to undertake the grueling task of terraforming the cold red planet--only to be abandoned when the BAC...

  • Split Second

    David Baldacci

    THE WORLD CAN CHANGE FOREVER IN A SINGLE... SPLIT SECOND Michelle Maxwell has just wrecked her promising career at the Secret Service. Against her instincts, she let a presidential candidate out of her sight for the briefest moment and the man whose ...

  • Daughter

    Asha Bandele

    Daughter, a penetrating novel by Essence editor Asha Bandele and chosen by Black Issues Book Review as Best Urban Fiction for 2003, follows a young woman through life that changes in one night from a horrific incident with police brutality.At ninetee...

  • Prince of Ayodhya

    Ashok K. Banker

    In the high-towered capital city of Ayodhya, a legendary seer-mage casts a dire warning: Ravana, the great demon of the netherworld, is plotting to conquer the mortal plane. Amassing the largest and most vicious army of demons ever assembled, the dar...

  • No Mountain High Enough

    Leslie Esdaile Banks

    Teri Joseph may be taking a much-needed breather from her law career, but she's never one to sit still for too long. She decides the perfect project to keep her busy is reopening the family-owned grocery store, vacant and in shambles since the fire t...

  • The Big Halloween Scare

    Steven Banks

    It's Halloween, and SpongeBob SquarePants is determined to scare everyone this year. All he has to do is dress up like the Flying Dutchman. But SpongeBob doesn't realize just how scary he can look. Join the gang from Bikini Bottom in this Spo...

  • Special Delivery!

    Steven Banks

    SpongeBob Squarepants sends away for a free toy from the back of a cereal box. He is so excited that he vows to wait by his mailbox, day and night, until his prize arrives. But will his free toy be worth the long wait? Find out in this hilarious orig...

  • Miss Prestwick's Crusade

    Anne Barbour

    Congratulations, it's an Earl! Miss Helen Prestwick has completed her arduous journey from Portugal to England determined to ensure the future of her nephew, the ninth Earl of Camberwell. Unfortunately, she has no evidence that the child is th...

  • Cowboy PI

    Jean Barrett

    COWBOY UNDER HER COVERS? Driving cattle across mountainous Colorado terrain to gain an inheritance she didn't even want was not Samantha Howard's idea of a good time. Especially since someone was dead set against her inheriting her grandfather's r...

  • Nobody's Nosier than a Cat

    Susan Campbell Bartoletti

    Nobody's prowlier than a cat-a sneak-a-peek cat, a hide-'n'-seek cat. How do you describe the most beloved pet in America? It would take a whole new dictionary of authentic and invented words to capture their essences. Watch out, Webster's! Award-win...

  • Family Ties

    Janet Lee Barton

    Everyone in Lake Breland's large family has a significant other - everyone, that is, except Luke. He hasn't been able to find anyone in the small town of Sweet Springs, New Mexico. Months after losing her fiance to her best friend, Rae Wellington ...

  • Saul and Patsy

    Charles Baxter

    From the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence and “one of our most gifted writers” (Chicago Tribune), Saul and Patsy is "stunning, never predictable, glimmering fiction, full of mischief and insight" (The Los Angeles Times).Fi...

  • Higher Justice

    James Scott Bell

    Kit Shannon takes on the case of a woman whose young son is tragically killed on a turn-of-the-century Los Angeles trolley. She soon finds herself up against a powerful coalition of railroad men and politicians--all of whom seem to have something to ...

  • The Gates of Heaven

    Curt Benjamin

    THE PRINCES' QUEST.... Prince Llesho was seven when the Ham invaded his family's mountain kingdom of Thebin. In one devastating attack, these barbarian conquerors stole the lives of his family, his kingdom, and his freedom, selling him into slaver...

  • High Ride

    Peter Benjamin

    A classic thriller set in the high stakes world of top-class horse racing and breeding Against his better judgement, Dublin financier Joe Grace agrees to carry out a favour for a business associate and comes up against the select group of men at the ...

  • Lunch Walks Among Us

    Jim Benton

    FRANNY SAYS: PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD!...

  • Best in Show

    Laurien Berenson

    Murder's on the ticket when intrepid poodle breeder Melanie Travis travels to Maryland for a world-famous dog show where the competition isn't the only thing that's cutthroat... There are dog shows. And then there's The Poodle Club of America Nati...

  • Chaos and Amber

    John Gregory Betancourt

    In Roger Zelazny's "Amber" universe, there is only one true world, of which all others are but Shadows. In the ten-book saga that he created, it is learned that "Amber" was not the first true world; rather, it was "The Courts of Chaos." The saga c...

  • My Brother's Keeper

    ReShonda Tate Billingsley

    With an engaging and realistic voice, ReShonda Tate Billingsley has spun an irresistible story that will touch every reader's heart. Aja James is a survivor. Her outward beauty and strength artfully conceal the scars within... Scars inflicted by a h...

  • A Killing Frost

    Michael A. Black

    It hasn't exactly been a banner year for Chicago-based private detective Ron Shade. First, his main ladylove left for a new life in California. Then his faithful old Chevy turned over its second hundred thousand miles and died. Finally, Shade realize...

  • The Second Glass of Absinthe

    Michelle Black

    In the American West of 1880, Leadville, Colorado, is the wealthiest mining district on earth and by far its richest mine is the Eye Dazzler. When Lucinda Ridenour, the notorious widow-heiress to the Dazzler, chooses young Kit Randall to be her lover...

  • Times of Trouble

    Russell Blackford

    As the genocidal war between humankind and intelligent machines reaches its epic climax, John Connor and his mother Sarah become caught in the middle of a battle that rages through time and across dimensions, with the fate of two worlds at stake. Ori...

  • Stranger in the Night

    Sara Blayne
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    Georgiana Thornberry hopes to unearth ancient treasure while exploring the moldering ruins of her ancestral home. Instead she encounters Julius Lathrop. Does the enigmatic--and disturbingly attractive-- stranger hold the key to a family legend? Or so...

  • The Hummingbird Wizard

    Meredith Blevins

    An old friend dies, and the Gypsies want answers. Suspecting murder, Annie Szabo is forced to form an alliance with her mother-in-law, fortune-teller Madame Mina, and use all their resources--a talent for petty theft, exotic love magic, a Gypsy shamu...

  • Can You See It?

    Wiley Blevins

  • So Wild a Dream

    Win Blevins

    Pennsylvania farmboy Sam Morgan learns the mountain man's perilous trade when, in 1822, he joins a fur brigade headed by keelboat to the trackless country of the Upper Missouri River. Sam is youthful and inexperienced but also strong, daring, and a q...

  • Reason & Riots

    Stephen A. Bly

    When a boy is killed by a breakaway rail car, Jolie Bowers's compulsion to control is stretched to the limit.

    The homesteaders of western Nebraska threaten to retaliate against the railroad. And this is only the beginning. In the midst of t...

  • Dangerous Ride Across Humboldt Flats

    Stephen A. Bly

    Gabe Young is an orphan. He barely survives in the unforgiving West by working for meals at mining camps and frontier towns. Then in 1860 he gets lost along the Humboldt River in northern Nevada Territory. He meets a girl, who takes him to her par...

  • Daring Rescue at Sonora Pass

    Stephen A. Bly

    The Joyton family runs a station for the famed Butterfield Stage Line on a mountain pass in southern Arizona. It is a pleasant, solitary life until a stagecoach arrives with a dead man inside. They are told that the mysterious man accidentally sho...

  • Mysterious Robbery on the Utah Plains

    Stephen A. Bly

    When her husband is killed in a railroad accident, leaving no pension or provision for the future, Daisy Hopewell opens a bakery with her three sons and sells doughnuts in northern Utah Territory in 1869. With the help of friends in the Union Paci...

  • Death by Hollywood

    Steven Bochco

    From the acclaimed co-creator of Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, and NYPD Blue, Death by Hollywood is a suspenseful and darkly comic crime novel about a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who tries to turn a brutal murder into his next movie payday. One d...

  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Fish Happens!

    Tricia Boczkowski

  • Poinsettia and the Firefighters

    Felicia Bond

    Although expecting to be excited by finally getting a bedroom all to herself, young Poinsettia is nervous being on her own as she listens to all the creaks and bangs by herself, but her inability to sleep becomes a blessing in disguise when she sees ...

  • Five Little Christmas Trees

    William Boniface

    Five little, four little, three little . . . two little adorable books that will get kids counting their way down through two charming Christmas adventures. With a unique trim size and a plastic-molded counting piece on each spread that disappears as...

  • Five Little Christmas Angels

    William Boniface

  • Emma Brown

    Clare Boylan

    When Charlotte Bront died in 1855, she left behind twenty pages of a novel that signaled her most compelling work since Jane Eyre. One hundred fifty years later, Clare Boylan has finished Bront's novel, sparking a sensational literary event. With p...

  • The Fall of Atlantis

    Marion Zimmer Bradley

    A wounded Atlantean prince...a deadly battle between Dark and Light...and the sisters Deoris and Domaris, whose lives are changed utterly by the magic involving them. These are the elements of The Fall of Atlantis, Marion Zimmer Bradley's epic fantas...

  • Render Unto Caesar

    Gillian Bradshaw

    In this historical thriller, a young Greek risks life and limb traveling to ancient Rome to claim his inheritance.Hermogenes is a young Greek from Alexandria, heir to a noble and vibrant society. But in his youth Hermogenes and his family were held c...

  • Funny Hunny Christmas

    Ann Braybrooks

  • Feast of the King's Shadow

    Chaz Brenchley

    Where courage counted above all, one woman could make the difference... Enemies of long standing are united under the fiercely charismatic Hasan -- and Outremer may be defeated before the first battle has even been fought. The Ghost Walker's loyal...

  • Hand of the King's Evil

    Chaz Brenchley

  • Cowboy Lessons

    Pamela Britton

    Love on the Lazy Y? She'd sooner sleep with a snake! Yet Amanda Johnson had no choice but to do business with barracuda Scott Beringer. This millionaire wanted to go from computer wizard to prime cowboy material, and he had Amanda hanging by the a...

  • Night Watch // Wild, Wild Wes

    Suzanne Brockmann

    HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS...LEADING TO HOLLYWOOD DAZE When U.S. Navy SEAL Chief Wes Skelly was sent to L.A. on assignment, he agreed to go on a blind date with beautiful single mother Brittany Evans, sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL. After all, he had been s...

  • Never Tear Us Apart

    Quinn Brockton

    Your favorite Queer as Folk characters take you along on their youthful journey of sexual self-discovery in a line of books based on the record-breaking Showtime series hailed as "fiercely realistic" by The New York Times. USA Today raves, "There's n...

  • Darkest Hour

    Lauren Brooke

    Heartland is a horse farm nestled in the hills of Virginia, but it's much more than that. Heartland is a place like no other -- a place where the scars of the past can be healed, a place where frightened and abused horses learn to trust again. An ...

  • The Lies of Saints

    Sigmund Brouwer

    The apparent suicide of a young cadet at the Citadel leads Nick Barrett back two decades to the disappearance of a South Carolina beauty pageant queen. Beneath the glittering exterior of the elite of Charleston lies a century-old conspiracy that will...

  • Mystery Pennies

    Sigmund Brouwer

    Book 5 of Watch Out for Joel! Joel is thrilled when his older brother, Ricky, lets him deliver newspapers and collect mystery pennies. But Joel doesn’t know that Ricky is actually cheating him. When Joel uses the pennies to buy Ricky a gift, how wi...

  • Strunk Soup

    Sigmund Brouwer

    When Joel and Ricky go to Mrs. Strunk’s house for supper, she prepares onion soup, stewed beets, and fried liver. She is a very nice lady (though a very bad cook!), and they don’t want to hurt her feelings. Can Joel and Ricky be kind without havi...

  • The Shape Game

    Anthony Browne

    Art makes a difference!

    The same family that had such an enlightening experience in Anthony Browne's Zoo is now going to an art museum, Mom's choice for her birthday treat. But wisecracking Dad and their two sons are skeptical about how much f...

  • Paladin of Souls

    Lois McMaster Bujold

    Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets -...

  • The Presence

    Eve Bunting

    A brutal car accident that claimed the life of her best friend has left seventeen-year-old Catherine in a state of shock and severe depression. She longs to move forward with her life, but feels she can’t until she is somehow assured of her friend...

  • My Big Boy Bed

    Eve Bunting

    For one energetic three-year-old, there are countless reasons to love his new big boy bed. There’s room now for Teddy to sleep with him, and his painted clay lizard, and Hippo. He can go under the bed and pretend to be a dog and scare his cat, ...

  • Lucy's Launderette

    Betsy Burke

    Lucy Madison's life is spinning out of control. After her grandfather crashes his motorcycle for the last time, this frustrated artist is left picking up the pieces (not to mention holding the ashes). But fulfilling his dying wish of befriending his ...

  • Last Car to Elysian Fields

    James Lee Burke

    A rainy late-summer night finds Robicheaux in a New Orleans bar, about to confront the man who may have savagely assaulted his friend, Father Jimmy Dolan, a Catholic priest who's always at the centre of controversy. But things in a Burke novel are r...

  • Magic Bed

    John Burningham

    When Georgie outgrows his baby bed, he chooses a big second-hand bed that the thrift shop owner tells him is magic. “The lady who had it before said you could travel in it.” Georgie’s granny teases him about his magic bed. But every night, Geor...

  • Stranger in Paradise

    Geraldine Burrows

    Kate has been coasting through life managing a bed-and-breakfast on Maui. But life gets complicated when she receives a warning from a local kahuna. Then Mark Smith checks into her inn and makes a home for himself in her heart. By the time Kate learn...

  • Coming Home

    Shirlee Busbee

    A world-famous model, Roxanne Ballinger has traded big money and neon-filled nights for the rolling hills and friendly faces of her hometown, Oak Valley. Now that the bitter feud between her family and another has faded, the peace she longs for seems...

  • Who Says Woof?

    John Butler

  • Albert the Bear

    Nick Butterworth

    When Albert arrives in Mr. Jolly's toy shop, the other toys think he is the saddest-looking bear they have ever seen. Determined to cheer him up, the toys spring into action. But underneath his frown, Albert the bear has a surprise of his own. . ...

  • The Black Bouquet

    Richard Lee Byers
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    He thought it was a game. He thought no one would get hurt. He thought he could trust a tanarukk bandit. He thought he was hired for his skill and cunning. He thought it was just another victim, just another mark. He thought he could d...

  • Widow in Scarlet

    Nicole Byrd

    Lord of mystery... Nicholas Ramsey, Viscount Richmond, has a well-earned reputation for seduction and scandal. What isn't so widely known is the secret mission entrusted to him by the Prince Regent -- to bring to England a legendary ruby known...

  • The Lonesome Polar Bear

    Jane Cabrera

    Polar bear is rather lonely. Snow animals meant to keep him company melt away at the end of the day. And they can’t swim and splash or play hide-and-seek like a real friend can. A real friend . . . that’s just what he needs! And Jane Cabrera’s ...

  • Lucifer's Crown

    Lillian Stewart Carl

    First print-published by Five Star/Gale in 2003When Maggie Sinclair walks into myth-haunted Glastonbury Abbey she intends only to teach a group of students the stories of King Arthur. But she can't escape her mid-life crisis, which soon leads her to ...

  • A Twist of Fate

    Susannah Carleton

    THE HEART KNOWS Lord David Winterbrook is too much the gentleman to leave a woman with carriage trouble stranded. But when he offers his help, he falls instantly in love with the beguiling stranger. After his ill-fated first marriage, he'd wo...

  • Finding Alice

    Melody Carlson

    Sliding into the Rabbit Hole… Would She Ever Return?On the surface, Alice Laxton seems no different from any other college girl: bright, inquisitive, excited about the life ahead of her. But for years, a genetic time bomb has been ticking away. Bec...

  • Trade Secrets

    C.J. Carmichael
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    A group of MBA students at Harvard made a pact -- to each become CEO of a Fortune 500 company before they reached forty. Now their friendships, their loves and even their lives were at stake... Annie Hughes had become the Martha Stewart of cosmeti...

  • The Dewey Decimal System of Love

    Josephine Carr

    For questions about the science of the heart and how it beats, go to the 616.12's and for questions about the philosophy of the heart, go to the 700.4's [ms. pg 223] Ally Skinner doesn't fall into any category... Forget those stereotypes about ...

  • What Makes the Seasons?

    Megan Montague Cash

    Why do leaves fall off trees?
    What makes flowers bud? What makes snow?

    In delightful rhyming verse, Megan Montague Cash asks and answers thoughtful questions children have about the weather and the seasons. As they walk outside or look ou...

  • Prairie Train

    Marsha Wilson Chall

    For one young girl, a ride on the Great Northern Railroad from her small country town to her grandmother’s home in the big city of St. Paul in the early 20th century was an event that would be cherished forever....

  • On a Farm

    Cindy Chapman

  • Trick-Or-Treat!

    Janelle Cherrington

    When Bear concocts a special Halloween surprise--clam-shaped chocolates--for his otter friends, Pip and Pop, who are quite enamored with their treat, devise a clever scheme to trick Bear into filling their bags with even more candy! Original....

  • At The Edge Of Space

    C.J. Cherryh

    Now, two of C.J. Cherryh's long-unavailable early classics are together in one omnibus edition. Brothers of Earth and Hunter of Worlds chronicle the survival of solitary humans among hostile, predatory aliens on the fringes of human-explored space-an...

  • Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Book?

    Lauren Child

    Herb never imagined the dangers when he decided to scribble on and cut up his book of fairy tales. Drawing mustaches on the characters, pasting telephones into the rooms, and cutting out Prince Charming and the royal thrones had seemed like good fun....

  • Sleeping With The Boss

    Maureen Child

    MIXING BUSINESS WITH BABY Though Rick Hawkins had been the bane of Eileen Ryan's existence, she soon found his charm irresistible when she had to share close quarters with the handsome financial adviser as his fill-in secretary. She vowed to stay ...

  • More Than You Know

    Meg Chittenden

    When Maddy Sloane's husband Bart disappears in the middle of Seattle's Pike Place Market, Maddy is sure he must have met with an accident. She wouldn't wish that on him even though she's come to despise him and is about to give up on their six month ...

  • American Woman

    Susan Choi

    Susan Choi's first novel, The Foreign Student, was published to remarkable critical acclaim. The New Yorker called it "an auspicious debut," and the Los Angeles Times touted it as "a novel of extraordinary sensibility and transforming strangeness," n...

  • Hush

    Judy Christenberry

    SHHH. IT'S A SECRET... No one ever had reason to speak ill of the Crawfords. The wealthy Oklahoma ranchers were the cornerstone of Lawton society. But with the arrival of a stranger in town, rumors soon spread of an affair, an illegitimate child a...

  • Homemade Christmas

    Chronicle Books

    With Homemade Christmas, Magic Forest Yule Log Cake, Twinkling Star Soaps, frosty window decorations and an irrestible selection of treats and projects will delight crafty little elves. Includes sixteen sheets of sparkly and decorative paper, sticker...

  • Annihilation

    David Cian

    The world is at war-and the Transformers are at the forefront of the battle! And yet, even though the nations of Earth face their greatest threat, the issues that have divided mankind for centuries destroy any true hope of global unity against the...

  • Mortal Fear

    Scott Ciencin; Denise Ciencin

    Control Issues Buffy Summers is being run ragged all over Sunnydale these days. Working from clues some mysterious power is providing her with, the Slayer's chasing down different baddies to gather pieces of a soul sword before it can be reassembl...

  • Harvest Time

    Jeri S. Cipriano

  • Celebrations

    Jeri S. Cipriano

  • Popped

    Carol Higgins Clark

    L.A.-based private detective Regan Reilly heads to Las Vegas to help out her old school chum Danny Madley. Danny is producing a reality TV show featuring three married couples who have all suffered the proverbial "Seven Year Itch," but are now vying...

  • Englishman at Dingo Creek

    Lucy Clark

    Dr. Dannyella Thompson certainly needed help with her Outback practice, but an English doctor at Dingo Creek? She was expecting more amusement than assistance! Dr. Sebastian MacKenzie proved Dannyella wrong at every turn. By the time his two-week ...

  • Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do

    Pearl Cleage

    Depending on the time of day, Regina Burns is a woman on the edge of either a nervous breakdown or an overdue breakthrough. One shattered heart and six months of rehab have left her wary and shell-shocked. To rescue the family home that she borrowed ...

  • Noise

    Hal Clement

    Hal Clement, the dean of hard science fiction, has written a new planetary adventure in the tradition of his classic Mission of Gravity. It is the kind of story that made his reputation as a meticulous designer of otherworldly settings that are utter...

  • Mortal Remains

    Peter Clement

    In a small upstate New York town, an idyllic lake yields a ghastly discovery when the skeletal remains of a young woman missing for twenty-seven years are pulled from the icy depths--along with unmistakable evidence of her murder. Suddenly, the long-...

  • Gold Rush Christmas

    Colleen Coble
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    When the "Gold Fever" epidemic sweeps the nation in 1849, people drop everything to chase the dream of striking it rich. Follow one family's itch for adventure from California to the Rockies to the Yukon - and discover a Christmas gift more valuable ...

  • Border Wolves

    Walt Coburn

  • Killing Raven

    Margaret Coel

    The discovery of a white man's body on the Wind River Reservation has passions running high--and Father John O'Malley trying to keep the peace. Meanwhile, the newly opened Great Plains Casino--with Vicky Holden as its in-house counsel--is fighting fo...

  • Dragonfly Bones

    David Cole

    All the pretty little bones... Cloaked in the web's anonymity, part-Hopi computer hacker Laura Winslow is hiding from her past -- but it has found her in the Arizona desert. The daughter she lost years ago is now an angry young woman serving priso...

  • Gold Fever

    Tobias Cole

    Union Army sharpshooter Jed Wells met the possibly mad artist Josephus McCade when they were prisoners in Andersonville, and he remembers well the strange man's rants about a "key" to unimaginable wealth. Now that the guns of the war between North an...

  • Lost River

    Jane Candia Coleman

    Coleman has won the Western Heritage Award from the Cowboy Hall of Fame three times, as well as two Spur Awards from the Western Writers of America.

    Wealthy archeologist Lawrence Haslett has located an important site for the artifacts of an ancien...

  • Can't Buy Me Louie

    Colleen Collins

    Former bad guy Louie Ragazzi is dark, sexy and a little dangerous -- and Alicia Hansen is just a little in love. She's determined to help him get over his "I'm a one-man show" thing. Shouldn't take much because, well, look at her! She's got it all, i...

  • Let It Bree

    Colleen Collins

    Kirk Dunmore has suddenly found himself in times of trouble! When he stops to help a stranded Bree Brown, he winds up being chased by bad guys who are after Bree's pet bull?! And while they've been making their evasive maneuvers, he's managed to fall...

  • Quarry's Greatest Hits

    Max Allan Collins

    New York Times bestselling author

    An icon of noir anti-heroes, Max Allan Collins's taciturn hit man known only as Quarry made his mark in more than a dozen novels in the 1970s and '80s. Along the way he gained a popular following and appeared in a...

  • Gregor the Overlander

    Suzanne Collins

    WHEN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD GREGOR follows his little sister through a grate in the laundry room of their New York apartment building, he hurtles into the dark Underland beneath the city. There, humans live uneasily besides giant spiders, bats, cockroaches,...

  • Canine Catastrophe!

    Terry Collins

    When Jimmy researches cats for his science report, he uses Goddard to download some feline facts from the Internet. Goddard downloads the information -- as well as a virus that makes him act like a cat! Can Jimmy figure out how to get his canine com...

  • The Bewitched Baron

    Lynn Collum
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    When Wyndom Long, Baron Newlyn, a noted botanist who pays little attention to the gaiety of the ton, engages Naomi Clayton as his shy sister's companion, he is startled by the girl he remembers as plain and reserved. Naomi is a sparkling presence in ...

  • What A Woman Should Know

    Cara Colter

    J. D. Turner couldn't let Tally select a mate without understanding how things should be between a man and a woman. Especially since the innocent beauty was going to be raising his little boy! So he took it upon himself to show her just how life and ...

  • The Story of Paper

    Ying Chang Compestine

    PreS-Gr 3-The irrepressible Kang boys are now credited with the invention of paper. The three brothers struggle to concentrate on their math as they write their answers on the ground with sticks, an early Chinese method of doing schoolwork, but pl...

  • Seducing Sybilla

    Madeleine Conway

    HE AWAKENED HER DARKEST SUSPICIONS... Sybilla Smethwick cannot help but feel protective of her older sister, Honoria, who upon the tragic death of her husband Henry was left alone to raise their son. So when Sybilla hears that Henry's brother August...

  • A Place of Safety

    Natasha Cooper

    Barrister Trish Maguire needs all the time she can find to help her young half-brother adjust to life after the violent death of his mother. Sir Henry Buxford, an influential acquaintance, has other ideas. He asks Trish to investigate one of his priv...

  • Green Boy

    Susan Cooper

    Two brothers encounter danger and adventure in a world of the future in this classic dystopian novel from Newbery Medalist Susan Cooper.Long Pond Cay, in the Bahamas, is a magical white-sand island, and twelve-year-old Trey and silent seven-year-old ...

  • Toni's Vow

    Kay Cornelius

    Vowing never to marry, Toni Schmidt returns to Rockdale to help kids who face the same problems she encountered in her youth. But she's unprepared for her growing attraction to her mentor's brother, David Trent. David is doing his best to raise tw...

  • The Preacher's Daughter

    Lyn Cote

    WAS SHE THE ANSWER TO HIS PRAYERS? Pastor Tanner Bond needed to break down the barriers between his congregation and the Mexican-Americans who had recently moved to Pleasant Prairie. But he didn't expect God to send him Lucie Hansen.... Lucie w...

  • Maisy's Rainbow Dream

    Lucy Cousins

    Lucy Cousins outdoes herself with this big, bold, brilliant visit to Maisy's dream world -- a kaleidoscopic journey filled with familiar friends and fantastical creatures.

    Maisy is fast asleep in her little bed.
    Suddenly a dream begins insi...

  • The Monsters of Morley Manor

    Bruce Coville

    How do you mix together... Werewolves, vampires, mad scientists, wizards, aliens, ghosts, ancient curses, giant frogs, evil clones, fallen angels, zombie warriors... and two clever kids in whose hands rests the fate of the Earth? Just add water. ...

  • A Walking Guide

    Alan S. Cowell

    Joe Shelby -- a brilliant and daring combat reporter for a big magazine he refers to as "the comic" -- is an Englishman who is at home only in the world's trouble spots -- Chechnya, Rwanda, Gaza -- where he is face-to-face with murder, starvation, wa...

  • Underworld

    Greg Cox

    DEADLY RIVALS FOR CENTURIES, DESTINY WILL BRING THEM TOGETHER. Vampires and werewolves. Sworn enemies for over nine hundred years, they have fought a secret war in the darkest shadows of the mortal world, pitting undead strength and cunning again...

  • On What Grounds

    Cleo Coyle

    Clare Cosi used to manage the historic Pillage Blend coffeehouse...until she opted for quieter pastures and a more suburban life. But after ten scars and a little friendly cajoling from the owner (a fresh pot of Jamaican Blue .1 fountain was all it t...

  • Waking Samuel

    Daniel Coyle

    After the loss of her only son, Sara Black finds herself spending more and more time at the Seattle hospital where she is a nurse, tending to "the tall man," the victim of a gunshot wound whose identity has remained a provocative riddle-until...

  • A 5th Avenue Affair

    Tracy Cozzens

    Would She Heal His Heart... Despite her sisters' nuptial successes, Clara Carrington is decidedly not interested in a husband--her charitable work is far more fulfilling than marriage would be. Or so she believes, until her sister Pauline sends her ...

  • Born to Love You

    Francine Craft

    Detective Lieutenant Danielle Ritchey has been having dreams of a tall, handsome stranger who sweeps her off her feet. She is shocked when she meets noted gospel singer Whit Steele during a minor accident and discovers he is the man of her dreams. ...

  • Love in Idleness

    Amanda Craig

    In her delightful reimagining of A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Amanda Craig slyly serves up a witty cross-cultural farce, a modern-day tale of love and lies set against the magical landscape of Tuscany. When Theo, a workaholic lawyer, his English wife...

  • Akiko and the Journey to Toog

    Mark Crilley

    “Poog’s in trouble.” Just three simple words, but they’re enough to launch fifth-grade Akiko and the rest of her crew -- Spuckler Boach, Mr. Beeba, and Gax -- on their next mission. And it just might be their most important mission yet: To sa...

  • Now May You Weep

    Deborah Crombie

    Newly appointed Detective Inspector Gemma James has never thought to question her friend Hazel Cavendish about her past. So it is quite a shock when Gemma learns that their holiday retreat to a hotel in the Scottish Highlands is, in fact, Hazel's hom...

  • Dark Thane

    Jeff Crook
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The latest title in a series based on characters from the best-selling War of Souls trilogy.

    This title is the next in the series that explores the lives of key characters from Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman's current Dragonlance trilogy. Dark ...

  • Desert Places

    Blake Crouch

    Greetings. There is a body buried on your property, covered in your blood. The unfortunate young lady's name is Rita Jones. In her jeans pocket you'll find a slip of paper with a phone number on it. Call that number. If I have not heard from you by 8...

  • Little Scraggly Hair

    Lynn Cullen

    At a time when men and dogs are not friendly, Scraggly Hair helps Noah build an ark and round up the pairs of animals it will carry, but conditions on the boat turn his warm, dry nose to a cold, wet one....

  • The Unseen

    Richie Tankersley Cusick

    Lucy hates her life. After her mother's tragic death, she's sent to live with relatives she's never even met, in a sleepy little town that couldn't be more different from her home. Her aunt is cold and silent, and Lucy's cousin isn't exactly friendly...

  • Empire of Light

    David Czuchlewski

    Researching a powerful religious cult into which his ex-girlfriend Anna has disappeared, Matt Kelly pretends to join in order to rescue Anna, an endeavor that is complicated by his own vulnerability to the cult's seductive ways. Reprint....

  • Hattie and Henry

    Jenny Dale

  • Lost and Found

    Jenny Dale

    Puppies are a priority at King Street Kennels The Parker family have got new neighbors--and they hate dogs! Their mom is determined to close down King Street Kennels. Even worse, there's a puppy roaming wild on their land. Neil and Emily don't know ...

  • The Light of Machu Picchu

    A.B. Daniel

    The gripping conclusion to the bestselling Incas Trilogy.Peru, 1536. After three years of foreign occupation by the Conquistadors, the Incas finally launch their counter-offensive. Lulling the Spaniards into a false sense of security, they secretly m...

  • Guarded Secrets: Hijacked Bride

    B.J. Daniels
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    Jack Donovan had loved Angie Grant. Now Angie was dead, her body never found. Jack was determined to prove that Angie's husband -- Jack's business partner -- had murdered her. But then Jack began catching glimpses of Angie...in a crowd, a taxi. Was A...

  • Night Talk

    Rebecca Daniels

    SOMEONE WAS WATCHING Kristin Carey was nationally known for her on-air relationship advice, but when it came to Jake Hayes, "Dear Jane" was in over her head. Hiding out on a remote mountaintop with the gorgeous ex-cop was almost as dangerous as the ...

  • Sidekicks

    Dan Danko

    Thirteen-year-old Guy Martin, also known as superhero Pumpkin Pete's sidekick Speedy, helps the League of Big Justice save the human race from being turned into puppets by Pinoh Keyoh and the Brotherhood of Rottenness. Simultaneous....

  • Sweet & Crazy

    Patty Dann

    Poignant and bittersweet, Sweet & Crazy is the story of a single mother coping with the extremes of life.

    At thirty-nine, Hanna Painter has returned to her hometown of Ash Creek, Ohio. Since Hanna's husband, Ed, has died of cancer, Hanna has b...

  • The Tiger's Mistress

    Andrea DaRif

    When her beloved father mysteriously disappears, Portia Hadley is determined to discover why...even if it means charging straight into the arms of the Earl of Branford. Known as the "Black Cat" when he was a spy for England, Branford is no stranger ...

  • On the Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin

    The Origin of Species is one of the most important and influential books of its time and remains one of the most significant contributions to philosophical and scientific thought. The theories Darwin sets out here had an immediate and profound impact...

  • Captain Marvel, Volume 2: Coven

    Peter David

  • The Fox's Walk

    Annabel Davis-Goff

    A New York Times Notable Book. “[An] engaging and keenly particular story of a watchful little girl caught at a fateful historical crossroads.” -- The Seattle TimesDuring the First World War, ten-year-old Alice Moore is left in the care of her a...

  • The Jupiter Myth

    Lindsey Davis

    In this sensational new novel in her "top-drawer series" (Newsday), Lindsey Davis sets her Roman detective, Marcus Didius Falco, on the wild streets of London, where he'll need both his sharp wit and sharpened sword to survive in the city along the T...

  • My Big Old Texas Heartache

    Geralyn Dawson

    Dear Friends and Neighbors: How did life become so complicated? One minute I'm dating the hottest man in Dallas and the next I'm back in Cedar Dell, Texas, surrounded by grannies, gossip, and green bean casserole -- and helping my dad recuperate fr...

  • Babar and the Christmas House

    Laurent de Brunhoff

    Newcomers to Celestville have so many Christmas decorations on their hilltop house that Babar, the king of the elephants, receives a demand from King Rataxes of nearby Rhino City that the "ugliness" be removed....

  • Babar Goes to School

    Laurent de Brunhoff

  • Tapping the Dream Tree

    Charles de Lint

    This collection from the World Fantasy award-winning author of The Onion Girl  contains “lucid transfiguration of folklore and myth into fantasy tales.” -- Booklist Charles de Lint's urban fantasies, including Moonheart, ...

  • The A-List

    Zoey Dean

    If you have to ask, you'll never be on ... THE A LIST Anna needs a time-out from all her boys, and Sam's hunting for a good one to love. So together they make a getaway to Las Casitas, Mexico, the super luxury spa where Angelenos go to get more su...

  • Every Day and All the Time

    Sis Deans

    A heartbreaking, honest, and downright funny novel about loss and recovery"She lay pinned in the back seat listening . . . to the sounds of help that had come too late."Six months ago a terrible car accident devastated Emily Racine. Not only did she ...

  • Perfect Pony

    Corinne Demas

    Jamie's greatest wish is to have a pony of her very own. So when she sees a sign advertising a free pony, she's ecstatic! As soon as Jamie pets McIntosh for the first time, she's sure that they are perfect for each other. Is Jamie's dream about to be...

  • Around the World With Auntie Mame

    Patrick Dennis

    Encore, Encore! The brilliant sequel to the smash bestseller Auntie Mame is back and the reviews are in . . ....

  • All Their Names Were Courage

    Sharon Phillips Denslow

    Black Bess.Kangaroo.Burns.Traveller.All the horses of the Civil War.And Belle,the Burd family's mare.

    Sallie Burd loves horses. She wants to know everything about them. What she's going to find out is that all their names are Coura...

  • LBD: It's a Girl Thing

    Grace Dent

    LES BAMBINOS DANGEREUSES = Three dangerous babes ready for anything! Ronnie, Fleur, and Claude are the LBD -- Les Bambinos Dangereuses. These best friends are hip, feisty, and ready for the Astlebury Music Festival, a weekend of music, dancing, an...

  • Slow Burn

    Jamie Denton

    IS IT GETTING HOT IN HERE? Maggie LaRue doesn't know who she is. All she remembers is passing out in the arms of a gorgeous man. When she awakens, she's in a hospital, apparently lucky to be alive. Injured in a fire, Maggie doesn't know her real n...

  • A Blade of Grass

    Lewis DeSoto

    Märit Laurens is a young woman of British descent who comes to live with her husband, Ben, on their newly purchased farm along the border of South Africa. Shortly after her arrival, violence strikes at the heart of Märit's world. Devastated and con...

  • A Stain Upon the Robe

    Terry Devane

    The Honorable Barbara Quincy Pitt is presiding over an explosive new trial … that of a priest who stands accused of a shocking transgression. But the judge’s own problems are disturbing her as well. The young law clerk assigned to assist her iin ...

  • Forever and Always

    Jude Deveraux

    Darci's psychic abilities have always guided her through hardship...and into a once-in-a-lifetime love with her rich, powerful husband, Adam Montgomery. When Adam vanishes in a mysterious accident, a grief-stricken Darci is left alone to raise their ...

  • Christmas Cookies

    Susan Devins

    What could be a homier holiday tradition than making Christmas cookies? Bakers young and old will find all they need in this inviting, illustrated cookbook - including the cookie cutters.


    Here is a charming holiday cookbook that is sure to...

  • One Pill Makes You Smaller

    Lisa Dierbeck

    A brilliantly original novel of the 1970s countercultureAlice Duncan is an eleven-year-old girl who looks so much like a grown woman, she attracts the attention of adult men. Abandoned by her mother and neglected by her father who has checked himself...

  • Art of the Haunted Mansion

    Disney Book Group

  • Don't Even Go There!

    Disney Book Group

  • Brother Bear

    Disney Book Group

    This 72-page hardcover storybook retells Disney’s new animated film Brother Bear, an epic tale about a boy who is transformed into a bear and forced to see the world through the eyes of his enemy. Combining humor, drama, and thrilling animation, th...

  • Simon Says

    Collen Dixon

    LIFE’S A GAME. ARE YOU READY TO PLAY?

    The blood rushed from Alex’s head, and his body went limp. As he passed into an abyss of darkness, the chilling final words of The Deliverer rang in his ears, words that would haunt him for the rest of...

  • Burn

    Sean Doolittle

    FEEL THE BURN In California the hills are on fire. Not a good sign for Andrew Kindler, who just came from back east to get away from his past--as an arsonist. In fact, almost from the moment he sets foot in his cousin's Santa Monica beach house, t...

  • Seeking Shade

    Paige Winship Dooly
    in

    Christmas - Military Style Life... i is never still in the military. Even Christmas is a season of challenge. . .a season of change. This year, several servicemen and women will face a range of life-altering experiences. Captain Tim Falkirk, a ...

  • Dead Soul

    James D. Doss

    Where Colorado's border pushes against New Mexico, autumn is short. Rancher and tribal investigator Charlie Moon has fat cattle and a prowling cougar that demand his attention. He doesn't have the time to investigate the assault that killed hard-drin...

  • Femme Fatale

    Carole Nelson Douglas

    Irene Adler is the only woman ever to have outwitted Sherlock Holmes... and the one who has come closest to stealing his heart.She has competed (and sometimes cooperated) with the famous fictional detective over six popular and acclaimed novels, feat...

  • Threshold

    Sara Douglass

    Over the hot southern land of Ashdod looms the V shadow of Threshold, the pyramid that the Magi of Ashdod are building to propel themselves into Infinity. Over the years, thousands of slaves have given their lives to the construction of Threshold. No...

  • Rory & Ita

    Roddy Doyle

  • Goddess of the Ice Realm

    David Drake

    Garric and Sharina, Cashel and Ilna, are young brother and sister pairs whose destiny is to reunite the kingdoms of the Isles into one empire for the first time in a millennium. As Garric and his retinue reach the island city of Carcosa, his benign ...

  • Think Big, Vote Little!

    Laura Driscoll

    The playground is a mess, the lockers keep jamming, and the worst thing imaginable has just happened -- Taco Tuesday has been replaced by Fish Stick Tuesday! Stuart runs for class officer because he wants to make the school a better place. But is he ...

  • The Flyers

    Allan Drummond


    Just in time for the 2003 centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flight

    The arrival of Orville and Wilbur Wright in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with their “crazy kite” of an airplane inspires five local kids to envision their own ...

  • Big Sky Baby

    Judy Duarte

    BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE...AND LOVE After five years, Jeff Forsythe was finally back in Rumor, Montana -- just when Jilly Davis needed him most. But she had no intention of clipping the wings of the footloose pilot just because she was having a baby....

  • Horse Named Seabiscuit

    Mark Dubowski

    Seabiscuit didn't start out a winner. He was a runt who was squat and funny looking. But Seabiscuit became a champion, and during the dark days of the Depression, he grew so popular that newspapers, radio shows, and magazines covered his every move. ...

  • The Good House

    Tananarive Due

    Tananarive Due's first three novels gained her legions of dedicated fans who recognize a true master of the genre. Now she returns with her best yet -- a chilling story set in a small town in the Pacific Northwest. The house Angela Toussaint's late g...

  • Welcome to Higby

    Mark Dunn

    Following the national success of 'Ella Minnow Pea', this second novel from Mark Dunn brings the same charm and love of good language to a small town in the South. 'Welcome to Higby' follows the hilarious goings-on in a small town in ...

  • Peter Claus and the Naughty List

    Delphine Durand

    Naughty or nice? Peter Claus thinks this yearly question is most unfair. As Santa’s son, he should know. For the second year in a row his name appears on the dreaded Naughty List. That means no presents for Christmas! But Peter doesn’t remember m...

  • The Tender Heart

    Kristy Dykes

    Sebbie's first loyalty is to her mother and sisters. All of the Hanford women are struggling to keep their Florida ranch running after the death of their husband and father, Jed. In the face of dire poverty, Mama decides that Sebbie must marry a weal...

  • Two to Go

    Nick Earls


    Med students Phil and Frank have big plans for their future. Part-time jobs at Ron Todd's World of Chickens seemed like the perfect way to earn a few bucks on the way.

    But Phil's stuck out in front in the chicken suit trying to lure in re...

  • The Furies

    Fernanda Eberstadt

    A new novel -- her largest and most ambitious -- by the author of Low Tide, Isaac and His Devils, and When the Sons of Heaven Meet the Daughters of the Earth. In The Furies, Fernanda Eberstadt brings all her gifts of insight, feeling, and storyte...

  • Echoes of Silence

    Marjorie Eccles

    Moving back to Yorkshire was the last thing DI Tom Richmonds thought he would do. His superiors are also perturbed by his decision to transfer. Surely after the murder of the young girl, Yorkshire is the last place he should want to be? Is this Richm...

  • 'Tis the Season

    Cooper Edens

  • Dumpy and the Firefighters

    Julie Andrews Edwards

    It's New Year's Day in Apple Harbor, and all the villagers are celebrating at Farmer Barnes' annual Open House, including Charlie, Pop-Up, and Dumpy the Dump Truck. But when the fire bell sounds, everyone's help is suddenly needed in town. Discov...

  • Good Boy!: Dog's Best Friend

    Kate Egan

    When outer-space hound Hubble crashes into Owen Baker's life, he's not sure if the two of them will get along. But then Owen teaches Hubble to trust others, and this first-time pet sees that a boy just might be a dog's best friend.

    ...

  • Dangling

    Lillian Eige

    While sitting on the side of the river with his friend's parents and grandmother, Ben watches Ring go into the water, but when he doesn't emerge and days pass with no discovery, Ben wonders if his friend truly did drown or if Ring had other plans in ...