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Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives
Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1998

Coal Black Horse
Robert Olmstead

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Coal River
Ellen Marie Wiseman

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Cobalt Red: How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives
Siddharth Kara

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2023

Cocaine Blues
Kerry Greenwood

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1989

Cockroach
Rawi Hage

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Cockroaches
Scholastique Mukasonga

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Cocktails for Three
Madeleine Wickham

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2001

Cocky Bastard
Penelope Ward, Vi Keeland

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Cocoa Beach
Beatriz Williams

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Coco Chanel: The Legend and the Life
Justine Picardie

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Coconut
Kopano Matlwa

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2007

Coconut Layer Cake Murder (Hannah Swensen, #25)
Joanne Fluke

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World
Mark Kurlansky

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1997

Code
Lawrence Lessig

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Code Girls
Liza Mundy

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2017

Code Name Hélène
Ariel Lawhon

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Code Name Verity
Elizabeth Wein

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Code of Honor
Alan Gratz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2015

Code of Silence (Code of Silence, #1)
Tim Shoemaker

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Code of the Street
Elijah Anderson

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1999

Code Orange
Caroline B. Cooney

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Melody Beattie

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1986

Code Talker
Joseph Bruchac

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2005

Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII
Judith Schiess Avila, Chester Nez

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Code to Zero
Ken Follett

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Coffee Will Make You Black
April Sinclair

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 1994

Coffin Moon
Keith Rosson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2025

Coffin Road
Peter May

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Cogheart (The Cogheart Adventures, #1)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Cold Case (Barbara Holloway #11)
Kate Wilhelm

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2008

Cold Comfort Farm
Stella Gibbons

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1932

Cold Days
Jim Butcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Cold Enough for Snow
Jessica Au

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2022

Cold Fire
Tamora Pierce

Fiction | Novel | Published in 1991

Cold Granite
Stuart MacBride

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Cold-Hearted Rake
Lisa Kleypas

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Cold is the Grave (Inspector Banks, #11)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2000

Cold Mountain
Charles Frazier

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Cold Sassy Tree
Olive Ann Burns

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1984

Cold Storage
David Koepp

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2019

Cold Vengeance
Lincoln Child, Douglas Preston

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2011

Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy
Mary L. Dudziak

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2000

Coleridge: Early Visions
Richard Holmes

Nonfiction | Biography | Adult | Published in 1989

Colin Fischer
Ashley Miller, Zack Stentz

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2012

Collapse
Jared Diamond

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Collected Essays
Aldous Huxley

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1923

Collide
Bal Khabra

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2023

Collided (Dirty Air, #2)
Lauren Asher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Collision Low Crossers
Nicholas Dawidoff

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Colonel Roosevelt
Edmund Morris

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2010

Colonialism/Postcolonialism (ISSN)
Ania Loomba

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2015

Color: A Natural History of the Palette
Victoria Finlay

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Colored People: A Memoir
Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1994

Colored Television
Danzy Senna

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Haruki Murakami

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Color of the Sea
John Hamamura

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2006

Colors of the Mountain
Da Chen

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2001

Columbine
Dave Cullen

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2009

Columbus Day
Craig Alanson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Coma
Robin Cook

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Comanche Moon (Lonesome Dove, #4)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Combray (In Search of Lost Time, #1.1)

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1913

Come and Get It
Kiley Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2024

Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2015

Come Away with Me
Kristen Proby

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Come Back, Little Sheba
William Inge

Fiction | Play | Adult | Published in 1950

Come Back to Afghanistan
Said Hyder Akbar, Susan Burton

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2006

Come Closer
Sara Gran

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2003

Comedy in a Minor Key
Hans Keilson

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1947

Come Fly The World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2021

Come Home
Lisa Scottoline

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2012

Come November
Katrin van Dam

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2018

Come Sundown
Nora Roberts

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2017

Come, Thou Tortoise
Jessica Grant

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2009

Cometh the Hour
Jeffrey Archer

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2016

Cometh Up as a Flower
Rhoda Broughton

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1867

Comet in Moominland
Tove Jansson

Fiction | Novel | Early Reader Picture Book | Published in 1946

Come to Grief (Sid Halley, #3)
Dick Francis

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Come Tumbling Down
Seanan McGuire

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020

Comfort & Joy
Kristin Hannah

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2005

Comfort Me With Apples
Catherynne M. Valente

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2021

Comfort Woman
Nora Okja Keller

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1997

Comics and Sequential Art
Will Eisner

Nonfiction | Reference/Text Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Coming Apart
Roger Rosenblatt

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Coming, Aphrodite!
Willa Cather

Fiction | Short Story | Adult | Published in 1920

Coming Clean
Kimberly Rae Miller

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2013

Coming Home
Rosamunde Pilcher

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1995

Coming Of Age In Mississippi
Anne Moody

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1968

Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
Margaret Mead

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1928

Coming of Age in the Milky Way
Timothy Ferris

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1988

Coming Through Slaughter
Michael Ondaatje

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1976

Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness
Jon Kabat-Zinn

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2004

Coming Up for Air
George Orwell

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1939

Coming Up Roses
Staci Hart

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2013

Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
Eric Schlosser

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 2013

Commentary
Marcelle Sauvageot

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1933

Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage
Elizabeth Gilbert

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 2009

Commodore Perry in the Land of the Shogun: A Newbery Honor Award Winner
Rhoda Blumberg

Nonfiction | Book | Adult | Published in 1985

Common Goal
Rachel Reid

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2020