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New Books List: 576 titles

  • Rockheads

    Harriet Ziefert

    This zany counting book introduces a number of concepts from counting and basic addition to different words for quantities (a trio is made of three) to the number of participants required for certain activities (eleven are needed for a soccer team). ...

  • The Geisha's Granddaughter

    Chayym Zeldis

    Though a geisha, Mariko had a binding relationship with an older man. However, her occupation forbids her to ever marry. When she gives birth to a son, she gives the child Akira to her brother who raises the lad as a farmer. When his uncle dies, Akir...

  • The Shadow of the Wind

    Carlos Ruiz Zafon

    Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals from its war wounds, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer's son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julian Carax. But when he sets out to ...

  • Out Of Nowhere

    Rebecca York

    SHE CAME INTO HIS LIFE FROM OUT OF NOWHERE... And landed right into his murder investigation. Spy-turned-detective Max Dakota had seen it all -- until he rescued a beautiful blonde who plunged off a Florida bridge. She had no memory, no ID -- noth...

  • Bedtime Story

    Arthur Yorinks

  • What Time is It?

    Arthur Yorinks

  • Hunchback

    Randall Wright

    "You!" shouted a voice from near the willow tree. "Stop!" Hodge heard the jangle of a horse's bridle. He spun about the other way, but a dark shape jumped out of the shadows and knocked him to the ground. Light flashed into his face as a lantern wa...

  • Miranda Blue Calling

    Michelle Curry Wright

    She's the breezy voice on the telephone, bringing life into the lonely days of her elderly clients ... But who's calling Miranda Blue? Not a soul -- which is the way Miranda likes it. From her sweet, ramshackle house in the middle of Colorado's pi...

  • Redwolf's Woman

    Laura Wright

    CLAIMING HIS OWN Jared Redwolf knew Ava Thompson should have been his, but four years ago his lover had left Paradise, Texas, to marry another man. Now Ava was back, and Jared was hell-bent on uncovering the truth of why she had fled. Their reunio...

  • Summer Breeze

    Courtni Wright

    From the moment she lands in Bermuda, schoolteacher Eve Turner knows that this tropical Eden is going to be her new home. As the sand and surf begin to work their magic, she meets charming math professor David Scott, who shows her the hidden treasur...

  • Reckless Abandon

    Stuart Woods

    Cop-turned-lawyer Stone Barrington tracks a mobster hiding deep within the witness protection program in this new thriller in the New York Times bestselling series--with a little help from a beautiful Florida police chief... . STONEWALLED Stone...

  • Treasured

    Sherryl Woods

    DESTINY STRIKES AGAIN... Despite the wealth and power of his remarkable family, Ben Carlton stayed hidden away in rural Virginia with only his artistic talent and his troubled memories for company. But when he met beautiful gallery owner Kathleen Du...

  • Tom Cat

    Noah Woods

    MOO! ARF! QUACK!

    What kind of cat makes noises like that? A little cat with a big personality! You see, sometimes Tom feels more like a cow, or a snail, or even a kangaroo than a cat. What a silly goose! But one thing is for sure, Mom and Dad ...

  • The Greek Millionaire's Marriage

    Sara Wood

    When his marriage to Olivia falls apart, Dimitri Angelaki is ready with a plan to keep his wife... Olivia asks for a divorce from the Greek tycoon, and Dimitri surprises her with a counterproposal: fake a temporary reconciliation and he will set h...

  • Elsina's Clouds

    Jeanette Winter

    A Basotho girl's prayer to the ancestors

    "When can I paint a wall, Mama?"
    "When the rains come and wash away my designs, Elsina. Then you can paint the walls," she says.

    For hundreds of years Basotho women in southern Africa have dec...

  • Good Grief

    Lolly Winston

    Thirty-six-year-old Sophie Stanton desperately wants to I be a good widow -- a graceful, composed, Jackie Kennedy kind of widow. Alas, she is more of the Jack Daniels kind. Self-medicating with ice cream for breakfast, breaking down at the supermarke...

  • For the Sake of His Child

    Bonnie K. Winn

    After tragedy deprives her of the two people she loves most, Brynn Alder decides to leave her old life behind and start over in Texas Hill Country. Here she'll help troubled kids get their lives in order -- it's the only way she can make sense of eve...

  • In Plain Sight

    Gayle Wilson

    An atmospheric tale of two people who suddenly have nowhere left to run... Robin Holt has struggled to make a life for herself and her son, Taylor, knowing all the while that one false move could put him in harm's way. But years of being on the ru...

  • Midnight Mass

    F. Paul Wilson

    HOW CAN MORTAL MEN DEFEAT AN IMMORTAL AND SEEMINGLY INVINCIBLE ENEMY? Vampires control all of Europe, India, the Far East and the major cities in North and South America. It seems that nothing can stand in their way and that humanity will become c...

  • Beautiful Shadow

    Andrew Wilson

    The life of Patricia Highsmith was as secretive and unusual as that of many of the best-known characters who people her "peerlessly disturbing" thrillers and short stories. Yet even as her work has found new popularity in the last few years, the l...

  • A Good Distance

    Sarah Willis

    From the award-winning author of Some Things That Stay and The Rehearsal, comes the story of the malleability of memory, of women traveling and trapped, and of mothers and daughters trying their best to negotiate the distance between freedom and...

  • His Virgin Secretary

    Cathy Williams

    Millionaire business tycoon Bruno Giannella is gorgeous, proud and successful. Katy West cannot believe her ears when the sexy Italian demands that she become his personal assistant! But Bruno is determined to find the real woman hiding beneath Ka...

  • The Ocean Between Us

    Susan Wiggs

    On the surface Grace Bennett has it all -- three wonderful children, a devoted husband and a life of adventure and travel. But somewhere between her husband Steve's demanding career, raising a family, the constant uprooting and the Navy's routine, Gr...

  • Harry And The Robots

    Ian Whybrow

    Harry's robot has to go to the robot hospital to get fixed. So Nan and Harry decide to make their own robot while he's being mended. Then when Nan has to go into hospital (to get mended as well), Harry knows exactly what to do to help her get better!...

  • The Matchmaker's Plan

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    Cupid's Plan Goes Awry When Her Arrows Hit Home... For once, intrepid matchmaker Ainsley Danville Dunbar doesn't know how to proceed. There's instant chemistry between her brother Matt and her new friend Peyton O'Reilly, but Ainsley sees no reason...

  • A Most Unsuitable Bride

    Gail Whitiker

    What has she to hide? The mysterious heavily-veiled woman Edward Thurlow, Lord Garthdale, meets on his early-morning rides in Hyde Park intrigues and then utterly charms him. What dark secret could possibly force her to hide away from society in suc...

  • A Kept Woman

    Sheri Whitefeather

    "THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF CAGES." Once the glamorous mistress to a high-powered mob boss, Natalie Pascal was now a kept woman of a very different sort. Her new keeper: U.S. Marshal Zack Ryder, the handsome man assigned to give her a new identity and...

  • The Arcanum

    Thomas Wheeler

    It is 1919 and the Great War has come to a close. But in the shadows of the world’s major cities, the killing has just begun. In this perilous time, as the division between order and chaos grows increasingly slim, a select group of visionaries have...

  • Te Amo, Bebe, Little One

    Lisa Wheeler

    The sweet illustrations and rhythmic text of this mother-child love story follow a mother and child from the baby's birth to his first birthday, bringing the fiestas and mariachis resoundingly to life....

  • The Road to Ruin

    Donald E. Westlake

    "Pariah!" Monroe Hall wishes that people would stop using that word. So what if he was born rich but scammed his own conglomerate for more than the boys from Enron and WorldCom combined? And so what if he takes a little pleasure in reporting people t...

  • Thieves' Dozen

    Donald E. Westlake

    SO MANY HEISTS, SO LITTLE TIME... THIEVES' DOZEN Horse Laugh: Dortmunder always avoids thefts that involve four-legged creatures. Then why is he somewhere out in New Jersey, listening to sirens wailing in the distance, holding on for dear life to...

  • Double Helix

    Nancy Werlin

    THE SECRET IS PART OF HIM. Although Eli Samuels is barely out of high school, he's offered a job at prestigious Wyatt Transgenics by Dr. Quincy Wyatt, the legendary molecular biologist. The salary's amazing, the work is interesting, and Dr. Wyatt se...

  • The Perfect Play

    Louise Wener

    Playing the cards she's been dealt has left Audrey Unger feeling out of control. Her professional poker-playing father walked out of her life when she was eleven. Now in her early thirties -- on the verge of her own midlife crisis -- she's prepare...

  • Abiding Love

    Kate Welsh

    Guidance counselor Alexandra Lexington found strength in prayer as she healed from an abusive relationship. And when she encountered the troubled son of Adam Boyer, something special happened. Not only could she help this boy find peace, but also she...

  • Babar and the Runaway Egg

    Ellen Weiss

  • A Gift for Mother

    Ellen Weiss

    Each of Celeste's children has made or chosen a special gift for Mother's Day except Isabelle, who describes to her father Babar what she would like to give her mother, and he finds a way to make it happen....

  • Holy Order of the Stars

    Margaret Weis
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  • Match Made in Heaven

    Jennifer Liberts Weinberg

    The church bells are ringing because it’s time for a precious little wedding! A little girl learns the tale of how
    her parents met and got married in this 16-page Look-Look book that celebrates love! Comes with a full page of wedding-themed sti...

  • The Sunbird

    Elizabeth Wein

    At the request of his aunt, Telemakos must enter the city of Afar and the dangerous business of the salt trade to find out who has ignored the emperor's command--continuing to ship salt and spread disease from port to port around the world....

  • So B. It

    Sarah Weeks

    Heidi Is On A Quest She doesn't know when her birthday is or who her father is. In fact, everything about Heidi and her mentally disabled mother's past is a mystery. When a strange word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi sets out ...

  • Agent Cowboy

    Debra Webb

    A MAN UNLIKE ANY OTHER In jeopardy and running for her life, Kelly Parker was the lone witness to a ghastly triple murder. And her only chance for survival rested on the impossibly broad shoulders of Trent Tucker. His mission: Protect Kelly from a...

  • The Trucker

    Brenda Weatherby

    Mark Weatherby's artwork explodes with excitement and adventure in this story about a little boy whose toy truck magically grows as big as a real one!

    Early one morning, Wesley plays with his toy truck when something odd begins to happen. It g...

  • Two on the Run

    Margaret Watson

    Be careful what you wish for! Eleanor Perkins has always longed for more excitement in her life. But the last thing she expects as she reaches her car after work one Friday evening is to find herself facing down a man with a gun. Mike Reilly is de...

  • Maid Marian

    Elsa Watson

    An irresistible reimagining of the Robin Hood legend, Maid Marian brings to life the rollickingâ,¬â€and romanticâ,¬â€world of the Middle Ages.An orphan and heiress to a large country estate, Marian Fitzwater is wed at the age of five to an equally ...

  • Remember the Alamo!

    Robert Penn Warren

    Remembering the Alamo is a tale of extraordinary courage and riveting adventure. For thirteen days, 189 men lead by Davy Crockett, Colonel William Travis and hopelessly outnumbered, held off the Mexican army lead by General Santa Anna at the Missi...

  • Ride

    David Walton

    Working to teach others how to use the public buses in Pittsburgh, Ray Maddes believes that the only way to advance in a materialistic society is to care nothing for advancement, but he soon finds himself in danger of losing his minimalistic struggle...

  • No Dogs Allowed!

    Bill Wallace

    NO MORE PETS! After losing Dandy, her family's beloved horse, Kristine decides that she will never get close to another pet again. It's just too heartbreaking. So when her father surprises her with a new puppy for her birthday, Kristine is furious! ...

  • Our Kind

    Kate Walbert

    From the award-winning author of The Gardens of Kyoto comes this witty and incisive novel about the lives and attitudes of a group of women -- once country-club housewives; today divorced, independent, and breaking the rules.In Our Kind, Kate Walbert...

  • Necropolis

    Tim Waggoner

    From author Tim Waggoner comes a novel featuring a home for all of those creatures that go bump in the night . . .

    Centuries ago, when Earth's Darkfolk -- vampires, werewolves, witches and other creatures -- were threatened by humanity, they depa...

  • The Snoodle's Tale

    Phil Vischer

    A charming tale that helps children ages 4-8 understand who created them and how special they are There's a curious building in the middle of Snoodleburg. It's a clock tower where every fourth Tuesday at quarter past nine a tiny young Snoodle is crea...

  • Spider-Man/Doctor Octopus: Negative Exposure

    Brian K. Vaughan

  • City of Saints and Madmen

    Jeff VanderMeer

    City of elegance and squalor. Of religious fervor and wanton lusts. And everywhere, on the walls of courtyards and churches, an incandescent fungus of mysterious and ominous origin. In Ambergris, a would-be suitor discovers that a sunlit street can b...

  • Down Here

    Andrew H. Vachss

    For many years, Burke has carried a torch for Wolfe, a former sex crimes prosecutor who was fired for refusing to "go along to get along." They walk different sides of the street when it comes to "justice," but they share a limitless hatred of predat...

  • Out of the Darkness

    Harry Turtledove

    Harry Turtledove's rousing saga of a fantastic world at war, which began in Into the Darkness and continued through Darkness Descending, Through the Darkness, Rulers of the Darkness, and Jaws of Darkness, draws to its climactic conclusion in Out of t...

  • Return Engagement

    Harry Turtledove

    It's 1941, and an alliance of peace holds in check the most powerful nations of the world -- but it is an uneasy peace. Japan dominates the Pacific, the Russian tsar rules Alaska, and England, under Winston Churchill, chafes for a return to its forme...

  • Shout Down the Moon

    Lisa Tucker

    Her acclaimed debut, The Song Reader, won her praise as a "brilliant new literary talent" (The Albuquerque Tribune). Now, Lisa Tucker returns with a starkly lyrical novel of page-turning intensity and rare emotional power. Patty Taylor can handle an...

  • The Book of Joe

    Jonathan Tropper

    Right after high school, Joe Goffman left sleepy Bush Falls, Connecticut and never looked back. Then he wrote a novel savaging everything in town, a novel that became a national bestseller and a huge hit movie. Fifteen years later, Joe is struggling ...

  • Live Bait

    P.J. Tracy

    Minneapolis detectives Leo Magozzi and Gino Rolseth are bored - ever since they solved the Monkeewrench case, the Twin Cities have been in a murder-free dry spell, as people no longer seem interested in killing one another. But with two brutal homici...

  • A Complicated Kindness

    Miriam Toews

    This “darkly funny and provocative†coming-of-age novel balances grief and hope in the voice of a witty teenage girl whose Canadian family is shattered by fundamentalist Christianity (O, The Oprah Magazine). From the author of Women Talking -- no...

  • The Siege of Troy

    Greg Tobin

    It was the Age of HeroesValiant warriors like Hector, Ajax, wily Odysseus, and brave Achilles, their exploits in battle, their secret passions and hidden strengths, their friendships and rivalries -these are what legends are made of.It began with a s...

  • The Spirit Line

    David Thurlo

    Crystal Manyfeathers is caught between two worlds: her life at a modern American high school, and her life with the Dineh, her Navajo people, where spiritual ceremonies and traditions prevail. In deference to her father, Crystal prepares for her upco...

  • Wind Spirit

    Aimee Thurlo; David Thurlo

    When an arson fire claims the life of the wife of a Navajo Councilmember who spearheaded gun control measures, tensions flare throughout the Rex. Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah's search for the killers is hampered by what happened to he...

  • Flames of Justice

    David Thompson

    In the untamed wilderness of the Rocky Mountains, there is frequently only one law.the law of survival. But sometimes even the brave men and women living on the brutal frontier must answer to the justice of so-called civilization. This is the lesson ...

  • Victorine

    Catherine Texier

    In 1899, Victorine Texier abandons her small French village, her husband, and her two young children to follow her lover to Indochina. She has fallen for Antoine, her childhood sweetheart, and when his work sends him to Asia she is compelled to go wi...

  • Surgeon in Crisis

    Jennifer Taylor

    THE COURAGEOUS WIDOWER A posting in Mexico with a medical aid organization is going to be an adventure for Nurse Rachel Hart. Then, when she meets Worlds Together's courageous founder and surgeon Shiloh Smith, her heart really starts to pound...

  • A Mom Like No Other

    Christine Taylor-Butler

    "I listen to rap music. Mom dances to pop." Though they're different, it's clear they're best friends! Reading Level 2 (grade 1). Includes tips for reading with a parent, plus after-reading activities!...

  • The Donkey's Christmas Welcome

    Nancy Tafuri

  • Bergdorf Blondes

    Plum Sykes

    New York Times Bestseller“Into the blender go Anita Loos, Bridget Jones, Sex and the City, and Clueless; out comes a diabolically amusing concoction.†  --  New York TimesA 10th anniversary edition of New York Times ...

  • Infertility Survival Handbook

    Elizabeth Swire-Falker

    An engaging guide to navigating the challenges of infertility.After seven years of tests and more tests, treatments and more treatments, Elizabeth Swire-Falker understands what it means to struggle with infertility. In this frank, reassuring, and tho...

  • Husband In Harmony

    Sharon Swan

    Mixing Business And Pleasure -- Or Just Getting Mixed Up? Adam Lassiter is one of the top men in his field, a consultant who specializes in turning around unsuccessful businesses. He's married to his job, which explains why he's now divorced and w...

  • Early To Bed?

    Cara Summers

    Early to bed and early to rise makes a man... Healthy? Talk about early! Tony Romano and Lily McNeil hadn't even introduced themselves before they were burning up the sheets! But the exercise didn't do Tony's health any good. Since luscious ...

  • Backseat Bridegroom

    Jane Sullivan
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    No more catching the bouquet... Three bridesmaids catch their man. Plan-it-to-death Serena Stafford believes that only her wildly impetuous sister could fall in love in three days. But Serena hasn't planned on her chemistry with best man Tom Erick...

  • Paws Off, Cheddarface!

    Geronimo Stilton

    WHO IS GERONIMO STILTON? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing adventure stories. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are funny, fa-mouse-ly funny. They are whisker-lic...

  • A Scholar of Magics

    Caroline Stevermer

    Glasscastle. University of dreaming towers and distant bells, pompous dons and disputatious undergraduates, exquisite architecture and grass that can choke you to death if you walk on it without the proper escort. On the surface, it is one of the m...

  • The Zenith Angle

    Bruce Sterling

    Pioneering computer wizard Derek "Van" Vandeveer has been living extra-large as a VP for a booming Internet company. But the September 11 attacks on America change everything. Recruited as the key member of an elite federal computer-security team, Va...

  • The Confusion

    Neal Stephenson

    In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves -- including one Jack Shaftoe, aka King of the Vagabonds, aka Half-Cocked Jack -- devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues -- a perilous race for an enormous prize o...

  • Come Summer

    Sandra Steffen

    IN SEARCH OF HER SISTER'S PAST, SHE'LL MEET HER OWN FUTURE HEAD-ON. When artist Liza Cassidy heads for tiny Alcott, New Hampshire, she's traveling back in time--to the last year of her twin sister Laurel's life. Five years have passed since Laurel...

  • The Legend of Hamtaro

    Michael Anthony Steele

    This second action-packed junior chapter book recounts Hamtaro's dream as he and the Ham-Hams battle the evil Ham-wizard!

    Based on the twenty-sixth TV episode in which a wicked wizard Ham turns all the sky black and dries up all of the sunflow...

  • Best of Spider-Man, Volume 1

    Richard Starkings

    Peter Parker, a.k.a. Spider-Man, struggles to cope with the damage caused to his beloved city on September 11, 2001; eludes capture; deals with Rhino; and finds himself in the middle of a clash between Daredevil and the Punisher....

  • Beverly Billingsly Can't Catch

    Alexander Stadler

    Beverly Billingsly is a bear of many talents. She can sing, she can swim, and she frosts a mean cupcake. But does the mild-mannered bear have what it takes to tear up the softball field? Well, not quite. . . . Still, with a little help from everyone'...

  • While You Are Away

    Eileen Spinelli

  • The Italian's Secret Child

    Catherine Spencer

    A Mediterranean passion... On an idyllic Italian island, Stephanie is reunited with her former lover, Matteo De Luca. Once a rough and unrefined young man, he seduced Stephanie when she was nineteen, and unknowingly left her pregnant. Now she is s...

  • Out of the Deep I Cry

    Julia Spencer-Fleming

    A DARK PAST THAT COULD BRING... On April 1, 1930, Jonathon Ketchem's wife, Jane, walked from her house to the police department to ask for help in finding her husband. The men, worn out from a night of chasing bootleggers, did what they could. But n...

  • Save the Last Dance

    Marie Sparks

    Marla Shelton is a young woman with spirit and grit, and she isn't afraid to go after what she wants. She recently graduated from college with plans to teach school. However, her father's accident throws a wrench in things and she must return to her ...

  • We Never Make Mistakes

    Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn

    This volume collects two quietly powerful short novels.

    In "An Incident at Krechetovka Station," a Red Army lieutenant is confronted by a disturbing straggler soldier and must decide what to do with him. "Matryona's House" is the tale of an ol...

  • My Lady Luck

    Hayley Ann Solomon

    No bet is too high when love is at stake... A DARING GAMBLE Honor Finchley loathes the conventions of polite society she's been taught at Miss Bramble's Seminary for Young Ladies. Clever and rebellious, she yearns to be wicked, and decide...

  • The Matter of Desire

    Edmundo Paz Soldan

    “A Bolivian professor probes the depths of his rebel father’s past in this taut, gritty tale of two dramatically different Americas†(Booklist).The Matter of Desire is the story of Pedro, a Bolivian-American political scientist who teaches at a...

  • Pearl

    Lauraine Snelling

    Book 2 of Dakotah Treasures. Author Lauraine Snelling takes readers further forward in Ruby Torvald's story as Dove House becomes a well-known establishment. Ruby plays matchmaker between the lovely but hidden Pearl and the carpenter Soren, who longs...

  • Mr. Complete

    Sheridon Smythe

    "This is your lucky night. I just happen to be wearing black silk boxers." That was exactly the kind of confirmation Lydia Carmichael was looking for. Proof positive that the drop-dead gorgeous date: provided by Mr. Complete Escort Services was a gi...

  • Moonrise

    Mitchell Smith

    Civilization survives in pockets of warmth, most notably in the vast, Mississippi-based Middle Kingdom of North America and in glacier-covered Boston. Boston, where high technology that borders on magic is used to create the "moonrisen," people with ...

  • Wild Cowboy

    Dana Kessimakis Smith

    When a little boy gets set to spend the day at Grandma's, he's really preparing to go on the cowboy ride of his dreams. With his imagination in tow, he and his pardner (brother) ride their horses (Mom and Dad) to meet their ranch hand (Grandma). Afte...

  • The Wedding Night

    Barbara Dawson Smith

    Dear Diary, Four years have passed since the utter humiliation of my wedding night. But it seems like just yesterday that my husband left me--before consummating our marriage. So why, then, do I still harbor feelings for the selfish cad I once adore...

  • The Full Cupboard of Life

    Alexander McCall Smith

    In the fifth book in the prodigiously successful series, traditionally built, eminently sensible Mma Precious Ramotswe continues her enterprise at the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Gaborone, Botswana, a country that is indeed fortunate. Still ...

  • Dead End

    Judith Skillings

    Rebecca Moore has had more than her fill of dead men . . . The first, her lover David, took his own life in her bedroom just outside of Washington, D.C. -- a totally senseless act of violence that causes a severely shaken Rebecca to quit her job ...

  • Creature Carnival

    Marilyn Singer

    This collection of twenty-six poems features some of the creepiest, funniest, most bizarre, and fascinating creatures from myth, legend, and popular culture. Marilyn Singer has written more than sixty books for children and young adults, including Mo...

  • Swimming Naked

    Stacy Sims

    Despite her ambivalent feelings toward her mother, Fay, thirty-year-old Lucy Greene heads for Florida to care for her during her terminal illness, and finds herself reassessing her family's history, the freak accident that shattered her family, her v...

  • To Have and to Hold

    Janice Sims

    After finding the man of her dreams on a dangerous Ethiopian trip, archaeologist Solange DuPree thought her life was going to settle down into a peaceful routine. But now she and her insurance investigator fiance Rupert Giles are in the middle of a r...

  • Outside the White Lines

    Chris Simms

  • Underwater Adventure

    Lauryn Silverhardt

    Reg is watching the other Rubbadubbers play underwater games. He wishes he could join in the fun, but knows that he can't because he'll rust. So Reg imagines that he can go in the water and swim...and just like that, his underwater adventure begins!...

  • Roma Eterna

    Robert Silverberg

    No power on Earth can resist the might of Imperial Rome, so it has been and so it ever shall be. Through brute force, terror, and sheer indomitable will, her armies have enslaved a world. From the reign of Maximilianus the Great in A.U.C. 1203 onward...

  • Ideas of Heaven

    Joan Silber

    Shortlisted for the National Book Award: "Joan Silber writes with wisdom, humor, grace, and wry intelligence. Her characters bear welcome news of how we will survive." -- Andrea Barrett Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, these stories are abo...

  • Coco and Cavendish: Fire Dogs

    Judy Sierra

    After Coco and Cavendish’s adventure in the Step into Reading book Circus Dogs, the poodle and Border collie want to try their paws as fire dogs. But their old rivals Torbo and Orbot, two nasty robot dogs, have ideas of their own. How the two lovab...

  • The Stolen Woman: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life

    Pat Shipman

    The events of Florence Baker's life read like a novel. Born in the 1840s into an aristocratic family who was murdered in the Hungarian revolution, Florence fled to the Ottoman empire with her nurse. She was next heard of living in a harem, barely in ...

  • Competition Can Be Murder

    Connie Shelton

    Charlie Parker and her husband, Drake, leave sunny New Mexico for a lucrative contract in Scotland, flying helicopters to the North Sea oil rigs. It's tough enough coping with the temperamental Scottish weather, and worse, the escalating hostilities ...

  • Pandora Brown

    Mary Sheldon

    Dreaming of finding success outside of her Palm Springs upbringing, Pandora Brown takes over her uncle's Los Angeles agency after his unexpected death, only to encounter backstabbing, the cutthroat world of Hollywood ambition, politics, revenge, and ...

  • Between the Strokes of Night

    Charles Sheffield

    TO DEFEAT THE IMMORTALS, YOU MUST BECOME AN IMMORTAL After the Nuclear Spasm in the 21st century, homo sapiens was extinct, save for a tiny remnant scattered in small, primitive space colonies. At first Solar Humanity had only one goal: survival. ...

  • The Dust Diaries

    Owen Sheers

    At a family reunion in Wales several years ago, the prize-winning poet Owen Sheers stumbled across the mesmerizing story of his great-great-uncle Arthur Cripps, a mysterious figure who turned from poetry to missionary work in Africa and ultimately be...

  • Colorado Corpse

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo forgets his name -- but not how to fight!Some low-down varmint in Mountain View, Colorado, has framed Curt Cates for murder. And when Skye Fargo goes in search of the truth to set matters straight, he ends up in the same lot of trouble -- ...

  • Love is a Beach

    Isabel Sharpe
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    No more catching the bouquet... Three bridesmaids catch their man. Plan-it-to-death Serena Stafford believes that only her wildly impetuous sister could fall in love in three days. But Serena hasn't planned on her chemistry with best man Tom Erick...

  • The Matzo Ball Heiress

    Laurie Gwen Shapiro

    Q: How does Heather Greenblotz, the thirty-one-year-old heiress to the world's leading matzo company, celebrate Passover? A: Alone. In her Manhattan apartment. With an extremely unkosher ham and cheese panini. But this year will be different. T...

  • Like The Red Panda

    Andrea Seigel

    Stella is a girl we all know but rarely meet in fiction -- seventeen, smart, attractive, and deeply alienated. In this novel, she narrates her last two weeks of high school in Orange County, California. Here is what it is like to be a smart high scho...

  • Why Mole Shouted and Other Stories

    Lore Groszmann Segal

    What's a Mole to do?

    Once there was a Mole who lived with his Grandmother Mole in a hole in the forest, and most of the time they get on well enough . . .

    But see what happens when Mole loses his glasses, doesn't zip his jacket, shouts,...

  • The Last of the Roundup Boys

    Debra Seely

    When Tom Hunter's family faces financial difficulties, he comes to work right alongside Evie on her family ranch and, considering their feelings for one another, is just about the best thing that could happen, in a romantic frontier tale about two yo...

  • Risking His Heart

    Stephanie Scott

    One night, Missy walks into a bar and kisses the first man she sees. That man is Jase Montgomery, a drifter who doesn't like to stay in any one place for long and has no interest whatsoever in beginning a relationship with a society belle.

    For Mi...

  • Somewhere Past Forever

    Dallas Schulze

  • It's Father's Day, Charlie Brown!

    Charles M. Schulz

    Charlie Brown is determined to find the perfect present for his dad. Lucy makes a card, Snoopy writes a letter, and Peppermint Patty tires to call her father (and gets Charlie Brown instead), but none of their ideas seems quite right. Finally, when C...

  • Beloved Enemy

    Mary Schaller

    Only the heart sees what the eyes can't... HOW COULD SHE FALL IN LOVE WITH A YANKEE? Julia Chandler was a true daughter of the Confederacy, believing any man who wore Union blue was no man at all. But the magic of a costume ball transformed...

  • Lady Killer

    Meryl Sawyer

    SOME MEN... He preys on a certain type of woman--smart, successful, professional, the kind who doesn't realize how vulnerable she is until it's too late. The last terrifying sight she sees is the face of a ruthless serial killer... WILL CHARM YOU...

  • My Lady Housekeeper

    Jeanne Savery

    A DARING DISGUISE... Lady Sarah Staunton would rather die a spinster than marry out of desperation. She's refused every suitor her father championed, with the result that at six and twenty, Sarah finds herself banished from London to a ramshackle co...

  • The Perfect Mother, Retired

    Jeanne Savery
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    With her three stepdaughters married, young and widowed Anne Vernon is free, for the first time in her life, to do as she pleases. On the Continent, she expects nothing more than to see the Old World--and instead meets a mysterious stranger who offer...

  • Flowers for a Friend

    Gail Sattler
    in

    The wedding bouquet symbolizes the hope that love will sail into the life of the person who catches it. Romance, though, is the last thing four of Abby's wedding guests want. But when a whirling ceiling fan disintegrates Abby's carefully crafted nose...

  • Secret Admirer

    Gail Sattler

    Shannon Andrews thought she'd never have to see her older brother's obnoxious best friend again. But, out of the blue, Todd Sanders has come back into her life. It's too much to believe he's reformed himself, but somehow, he is different... Todd h...

  • Conqueror Fantastic

    Pamela Sargent

    A collection of all original short stories rewrites history in thirteen works by Michelle West, Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg, Jack Dann, George Alec Effinger, Ian Watson, and other notable authors who offer alternative fates for such historica...

  • And Then There Were Three

    Lynda Sandoval

    WHEN LIFE THROWS YOU A CURVE... Single father Sam Lowery was good at many things, but raising his little girl to be a lady didn't seem to be one of them. So before his precious daughter started swearing like a truck driver, Sam set out to find a n...

  • The Abcs of Love

    Sarah Salway

    Recounting tales about her lecherous boss over drinks with her best friend Sally, media employee Verity Bell makes observations about the world of romance that correspond with every letter of the alphabet, from Ambition to Zest, and searches for her ...

  • A Cowboy Summer

    Debra Salonen

    Anne Fraser can't refuse her stepfather's request to manage his ranch while he's away, but she has reservations about taking her daughter back to Nevada for the summer. Especially when she discovers that her stepfather has also talked his...

  • The Last Temptation

    Mia Ryan
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    Who Stole Lady Neeley's Bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant, or the rogue? All of London is abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that one of four couples is connected to the crime. Lady Whistledown's Society Paper...

  • Remembering Stone

    Barbara Timberlake Russell

    A surprising journey of self-discovery

    In early fall, the blackbirds creak like rusty wheels behind our apartment . . . "One day I will return like you," my mother tells the birds. "But for now, you go. Que les vaya bien. Safe journey."

  • Consequences

    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    Officer Noelle DeRicci is investigating a murder in the domed colony of Armstrong on the Moon. The victim was one of the Disappeared--outlaws in hiding who are wanted for crimes against alien civilizations--whose family had her brought home, believin...

  • Daddy All Day Long

    Francesca Rusackas

    When Owen and Daddy have a whole day to spend together, Owen tries to tell his daddy how much he loves him. Owen loves Daddy more than chocolate milk...more than seven scoops of ooey-gooey chocolate caramel ice cream...more than one million zillion k...

  • Soloing

    Harriet Rubin

    Soloing has two meanings: "going it alone" and being "complete in yourself." . . . But you don't just leave--a company/a career/a paycheck--and cross over to a more satisfying life. There's more to it. There is a mysterious passage to be negotiated, ...

  • The Perfumed Sleeve

    Laura Joh Rowland

    An unusual death, a puzzling clue, and an uncompromising investigator... Sano Ichiro-, Most Honorable Investigator of Events, Situations, and People, is faced with his most challenging case when he investigates the death of Senior Elder Makino, th...

  • Stress & The City

    Stephanie Rowe

    And forget the world. Cassie Halloway is definitely not losing it! So she sucked face with a perfect stranger to prove she was over her ex-fiance. So the new guy nearly made her swoon and forget anyone else was around. And so he turned out to be T...

  • Cause of Fear

    Robert Ross

    She's Been Watching...Waiting... All her life, Linda Leigh has been a plain Jane--the kind of woman no one notices. That all changes when handsome college professor Geoffrey Manwaring falls in love with her. The only shadow cast over their upcomin...

  • Miss Julia Meets Her Match

    Ann B. Ross

    Finally, the answer to the most burning question of all: Will the feisty Miss Julia meet her match in love? Miss Julia--that beloved steel magnolia of a certain age--has been doing just fine for herself in the years since her philandering husband...

  • Wanted: An Interesting Life

    Bev Katz Rosenbaum

    With twenty-nine fading fast and thirty on the horizon, single-again Lou Bergman vows to become the capital-I Interesting person she knows she was meant to be. Which means ditching her cheesy job as a wedding videographer to write screenplays, mov...

  • A Passionate Proposal

    Emilie Rose

    A LONG, HOT SUMMER... After drowning in a slow-burning kiss with Tracy Sullivan at their high school reunion, an enamored Cort Lander realized she'd blossomed from a bookworm into a sultry beauty with a body made for lovin'. His lovin'. Whoa! That...

  • A Lovely Day for Amelia Goose

    Yu Rong

    Boing! Splash! Sploosh! A warm pond, a good friend, and hours to play -- what could make for a lovelier day?

    It’s a lovely day, and Amelia Goose is off to the pond to play with her friend, Frog. They bounce and splash and play hide-and-see...

  • Father By Choice

    M.J. Rodgers

    Emily Barrett wants a baby in her life -- not a husband. And that's the reason she went to a sperm bank. Through some detective work she's able to work out who the donor is, but she doesn't ever plan to reveal to Dr. Brad Winslow that he's about ...

  • The Magic Key

    Emily Rodda

    Enter the realm of enchantment. Jessie returns to the magical Realm for the fifth time. The magic of the Realm has rescued her home from terrible fires, and she has saved the Realm's magical people from a wicked imposter, kept the griffin guards u...

  • Chip and the Karate Kick

    Anne Rockwell

    Chip O'Hare wants to be just like the martial-arts hero Striper Mee. But when he goes to karate class,it isn't action packed at all! Chip thinks he's the best in the class at striking and kicking, so he can't understand why Mr. Leo won't give him ...

  • The Princess's Secret Letters

    Hilary Robinson

    Does a royal princess eat cucumber sandwiches (with no crusts) on her birthday? Does she get teapots and candlesticks as gifts from the king? Shhh, don't tell--it's a secret! In letters to her new friend, Lucy, Her Royal Highness Princess Isabella re...

  • Big-Sky Bandits

    J.R. Roberts

    Three years after ridding Cielo Grande of the depredations of Dutch Dreyman and his gang, Clint Adams returns to the desert town, only to find that it once again is faced with trouble, this time in the form of Jeremy Teaghan and his outlaws. Original...

  • 13 Going on 30

    Christa Roberts

    For some, 13 feels like it was just yesterday.

    For Jenna, it was.

    All Jenna Rink wants to be is pretty and popular. And on her thirteenth birthday, she gets her wish. When she wakes up, Jenna is stunned to find that she's . . . a grown...

  • My Shoelaces Are Hard to Tie!

    Karla Roberson

    "I have to give it one more try!" Will the girl in this story learn how to tie her shoelaces? Reading Level I (grades K-1). Includes tips for reading with a parent, plus after-reading activities!...

  • Voyage into the Deep: The Saga of Jules Verne and Captain Nemo

    Francois Riviere

    An imaginative graphic novel chronicles the imaginary adventures of author Jules Verne during his writing of the classic 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, detailing his encounters with an Indian princess on an unusual quest, an orphaned boy with ...

  • The Scandalous Widow

    Evelyn Richardson

    Love Lessons Lady Catherine Granville may have lost her social status when her husband died, but she will not allow her husband's family to dictate how she will live. With firm resolve, she opens an academy for genteel young ladies. But then she r...

  • Trail to Fort Smith

    Dusty Richards

    Hamp comes to the aid of his hot-tempered friend, Clint, after he is jailed for killing a cheating gambler, bribing the guards to let him go, but no sooner is Clint free than he kills a local rancher with vengeful friends who will do anything to see ...

  • Paperback Original

    William Rhode

    Joshua King has more reasons than most young writers to produce that Great First Novel-and they're sitting in his father's bank account. Before dying of a tragic Viagra overdose, Josh's father put a stipulation in his will: Josh cannot claim his fort...

  • Do Me, Do My Roots

    Eileen Rendahl

    It's about healing. After a couple of rough years, Emily is finally getting things back together. She doesn't need to re-do everything at work three times, her young daughter's soccer uniform is almost always clean the day of a game, and meals are...

  • Scarecrow

    Matthew Reilly

    It is the greatest bounty hunt in history. The targets are the finest warriors in the world-commandos, spies, terrorists. And they must all be dead by 12 noon, today. The price on their heads: almost $20 million each. Among the names, one stands out...

  • Freddy in Peril

    Dietlof Reiche

    Even a brilliant hamster can be prone to lapses of judgment, which is how Freddy Auratus--author of the insatiably witty memoir I Freddy: Book One in the Golden Hamster Saga--came to post his story on the internet. (After all, a writer needs an audie...

  • Changing Seasons

    Colleen Reece; Renee DeMarco

    For Emily Ann Carr, life has been a series of obligations. Putting aside hopes for love and a family of her own, Emily raised her niece and nephew after the death of her brother. Now, with the children grown and gone, she has time to revisit some of ...

  • Fidelity

    Michael Redhill

    Redhill conjures up many unexpected twists in ten richly textured stories that range from the darkness of family silences to the hilarity of people caught in their own snares. With his unflinching attention to emotional detail, Redhill proves once ag...

  • The Impudent Rooster

    Sabina Rascol

    When he catches a greedy nobleman stealing his master's purse filled with money, the rooster begins to squawk to the world and, despite being hidden, stomped, and thrown in a well, is successful in getting the purse back to its rightful owner....

  • I Dream of Microwaves

    Imad Rahman

    A bitingly funny debut story collection trails a Pakistani-American actor searching for a way to play himself in real, actual life.When B-movie-grade actor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar opens the mail one day, he find a one-way bus ticket to Cleveland and a no...

  • The First Kiss

    Julia Quinn
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    Who Stole Lady Neeley's Bracelet? Was it the fortune hunter, the gambler, the servant, or the rogue? All of London is abuzz with speculation, but it is clear that one of four couples is connected to the crime. Lady Whistledown's Society Paper...

  • Johnny Mutton, He's So Him!

    James Proimos

    Johnny Mutton, that crazy sheep in boy's clothing, rides again. This time he's saving the universe from the Sweet Baby Doll 5000, bobbing for broccoli at his best friend's birthday party, and spreading world peace with cupcakes. But whatever the adve...

  • Weird Heroes

    Bryon Preiss

    A new edition of a classic compilation of short fiction by some of the leading fantasy and science fiction authors--including Philip José Farmer, Ron Goulart, Joann Kobin, and eight others--introduces an extraordinary array of unusual and outrageous...

  • Murder Is Academic

    Christine Poulson

    All is not well at Cambridge University's St. Ethelreda's College. The head of the English Department is dead, and Professor Cassandra James is appointed the task of running the department. Faced with the choice of whipping her underperformin...

  • Beautiful Somewhere Else

    Stephen Policoff

    Ever since he was an aspiring teen magician, thirty-eight-year-old Paul Brickner has been obsessed with the enigmatic Sung Soo. Known as the “Wondrous Chinese Wizard,†Sung Soo was a famous con artist who taught Houdini many of his famous illusio...

  • Haunted Revenge

    Darlene Pitts

  • Young Larry

    Daniel Pinkwater

    Hide your blueberry muffins!Meet Larry. He’s an average polar bear from the Arctic who just happens to take a snooze on an ice floe. When he wakes up, he is in Bayonne, New Jersey. Stranded at the shore, Larry gets a job as a lifeguard and uses ...

  • Waters Luminous and Deep

    Meredith Ann Pierce

    A spellbinding collection of short stories by the author of the Darkangel and Firebringer trilogies.

    Meredith Ann Pierce’s acclaimed novels are the proof of a remarkable imagination. Here is more proof -- eight shorter works of fiction, each...

  • My Sister's Keeper

    Jodi Picoult

    Can a parent love too much? Or is too much never enough? Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has ...

  • Southern Fried

    Cathy Pickens

    GO HOME AT YOUR OWN RISK Attorney Avery Andrews left her BMW behind in Columbia, South Carolina, along with her job at a high powered law firm. She's come back home to Dacus where the vehicle of choice is a pickup truck with a doc chained in the b...

  • Rose in Bloom

    Sandie Petit
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    The wedding bouquet symbolizes the hope that love will sail into the life of the person who catches it. Romance, though, is the last thing four of Abby's wedding guests want. But when a whirling ceiling fan disintegrates Abby's carefully crafted nose...

  • The Shifting Tide

    Anne Perry

    William Monk knows London's streets like the back of his hand. But the river Thames and its teeming docks -- where wharf rats and night plunderers ply their trades -- is unknown territory. Only Monk's dire need for work persuades him to accept an ass...

  • The Delta Sisters

    Kayla Perrin

    The Grayson family is a pillar of the African-American community in New Orleans. But Sylvia Grayson, the matriarch, has deep secrets that she conceals beneath a veneer of propriety. She keeps a tight rein on her daughter, Olivia, and has the perfect ...

  • Dragons

    Lucille Recht Penner

    For hundreds of years, people believed dragons were real. They thought dragons lived in caves full of treasure, soared through the air on large bat wings, and breathed fire. Storytellers told tales of dragons that fought knights and kings. Now kids c...

  • Point Position

    Don Pendleton

    Bankrolled by a drug czar turned arms dealer, Europe's most dangerous right-wing splinter group grabs a cache of stolen chemical weapons. Doubling the score, the terrorists seize a prototype weapon, the brainchild of a U.S. black ops project so cover...

  • Ramrod Intercept

    Don Pendleton

    In the covert world of clandestine operations, Stony Man is the President's deniable expendable -- a ready-reaction force that officially doesn't exist. For this elite fighting team, there's no glory, just the knowledge that a successful mission mean...

  • Highline Riders

    Howard Pelham

    Jason Ward's plans to run a ranch in a valley in New Castle, Arizona are interrupted when he becomes witness to the murder of local rancher Evan Taylor. The killers spot Jason, capture him, and frame him for the murder, sending Jason to prison while ...

  • The Body of David Hayes

    Ridley Pearson

    Years ago, Lou Boldt's wife Liz had an affair with David Hayes, a young computer specialist at the bank where she is an executive. When Liz ended the relationship after reconciling with Lou, Hayes engaged in a daring embezzlement scheme. Now, years l...

  • Beautiful Ghosts

    Eliot Pattison

    In an earlier time, Shan Tao Yun was an Inspector stationed in Beijing. But he lost his position, his family and his freedom when he ran afoul of a powerful figure high in the Chinese government. Released unofficially from the work camp to which he'd...

  • Otto Goes to Camp

    Todd Parr

    When Otto goes to camp, everyone else makes fun of the things he has brought along, but one of those things comes in very handy....

  • Otto Has a Birthday Party

    Todd Parr

    There is a problem with the cake Otto the dog makes for his birthday party, but he and his friends have a good time anyway....

  • Getting Mother's Body

    Suzan-Lori Parks

    Pulitzer Prize winner Suzan-Lori Parks’s wildly original debut novel, Getting Mother’s Body, follows pregnant, unmarried Billy Beede and her down-and-out family in 1960s Texas as they search for the storied jewels buried—or were the...

  • Too Many Mothers

    Julia Parks
    in

    Margaret Tate believes the orphaned Duke of Fairhaven should receive proper parenting--from his guardian, Major Aiden Ash. Unfortunately, the confirmed bachelor has no patience for a spinster's advice until he realizes that he wants much more from Ma...

  • Cattleman's Pride

    Diana Palmer

    ARE HIS BACHELOR DAYS NUMBERED? He was strong, seductive and set in his ways. She was shy, unassuming and achingly innocent. Together, next-door neighbors Jordan Powell and Libby Collins were like oil and water. Yet when Jordan made it his persona...

  • Rain Valley

    Lauran Paine

    As he so aptly demonstrated in his novel "Open Range," which was made into a movie starring Kevin Costner and Robert Duvall, Lauran Paine is one of the West's most powerful storytellers. In the title novella of this collection, Burt Crownover caus...

  • The Church Invisible

    Nick Page

  • The Body in the Attic

    Katherine Hall Page

    Caterer Faith Fairchild and family are living in one of historic Cambridge, Massachusetts', venerable Brattle Street houses while the Reverend Tom teaches a course at the Harvard Divinity School and does some soul searching--is his Aleford parish his...

  • A Secret Word

    Jennifer Paddock

    Jennifer Paddock's incandescent debut novel spans fifteen years in the lives of friends Leigh, Sarah, and Chandler, beginning one fateful day in high school that forever connects them. While Leigh remains stuck in dead-end jobs in their Arkansas home...

  • Heart Duel

    Robin D. Owens

    In HeartMate and Heart Thief, award-winning author Robin D. Owens built a world where psychic talents and desires of he heart flourish. Now, she returns to Celta with a story of star-crossed lovers... Healer Lark Collinson hates the street dueling...

  • Reunion

    Michael B. Oren

    From the best-selling nonfiction author, Michael B. Oren comes his first novel. Set in Belgium's Ardennes Forest, the site of a brutal, last-ditch assault by the Nazis in December 1944, Reunion reunites the surviving members of the 133rd Infantry Bat...

  • Will Northaway and the Quest for Liberty

    Susan Olasky

    Everyone calls Will Northaway Fish, probably because he hangsaround the wharves hunting for fish scraps. To round out his diethe steals from street vendors in his Southwark neighborhood inLondon. People there feel sorry for the boy since he's all alo...

  • I Am No One You Know

    Joyce Carol Oates

    I Am No One You Know contains nineteen startling stories that bear witness to the remarkably varied lives of Americans of our time. In "Fire," a troubled young wife discovers a rare, radiant happiness in an adulterous relationship. In "Curly Red," a ...

  • Breakfast at Bethany's

    Kathleen O'Reilly

    Be careful what you wish for... "Directionally challenged" Beth Von Meeter has had it up to here with watching her friends saunter down the aisle. But when she turns to an online matchmaking service, Beth finds herself sitting across the table fro...

  • It Should Happen To You

    Kathleen O'Reilly

    If (good) looks could kill... Mickey Coleman has a whiz-kid IQ, a stellar job in astronomy and ambition to boot. So how can she slip up? When a sexy one-night fling results in a homemade videotape, Mickey is feeling a new kind of heat...she's bein...

  • Fume in the Tomb

    Katherine Pebley O'Neal

    This plot reeks!

    The Stink Squad unearths an evil plot at the Museum of Ancient Sniffstory. Someone has stolen the Golden Nose of King Tustinkhamen, an Egyptian artifact so powerful it can smell into the future.

    How can the Sti...

  • A Family of Her Own // First Love, Second Chance

    Brenda Novak

    Pregnant...and alone? When Katie Rogers returns to Dundee, Idaho, it's not because she wants to. It's because she's disillusioned, broke -- and pregnant. She was going to make something of her life in the big city. Instead, she's paying a high pri...

  • Dark Companion

    Andre Norton

    In a future where humanity has scattered itself across the stars and Earth itself is now a dimly-remembered place of legend, two worlds of near-supernatural strangeness challenge two naive but courageous heroes. The planet Beltane had been unscathed ...

  • Gods and Androids

    Andre Norton

    From the Far Reaches of Space to the Unknown Depths of Past Time -- Rapid-fire Science Fiction Adventure from ''One of the most popular authors of our time.'' (Publishers Weekly)Was Andas an android -- or the rightful Emperor, held prisoner on a dist...

  • Masks of the Outcasts

    Andre Norton

    The planet Korwar was a glittering jewel of a world, inhabited by the galaxy's wealthiest, visited by the upper classes of other worlds in search of diversion. The jewel had a flaw: the Dipple, its name coming from a contraction of ''displaced person...

  • Wraiths of Time

    Andre Norton
    in

    HANDMAIDEN OF THE GODS Abducted by powerful spirits released from an ancient ankh, talisman of Egyptian gods, young archaeologist Tallahassee Mitford suddenly found herself hurled back in time to a strange Nubian kingdom called Meroe. There, moved b...

  • Dinah!

    Kae Nishimura

    From a remarkable new talent, here is the story of Dinah, a sheltered (and overfed) cat who escapes to have an adventure in the outside world. After being mistaken for a watermelon, a sheep, and a raccoon, Dinah finally recovers her identity as a bel...

  • Object of Virtue

    Nicholas B.A. Nicholson

    A dazzling debut about the power of family and the pain of betrayal set within Manhattan's Fifth Avenue apartments, the opulent mansions of the new Moscow, and the pre-revolutionary palaces of Saint Petersburg. Sasha Ozerovsky is a young expert ...