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New Books List: 633 titles

  • Zoe Sophia in New York: The Mystery of the Pink Phoenix Papers

    Elisa Smalley

    When Zoe Sophia's favorite person in the world, her great aunt Dorothy Pomander, comes to New York, she and Zoe Sophia quickly become embroiled in a mystery as they do research for Dorothy Pomander's new book. Their hunt takes them to many of...

  • Yumi Talks the Talk

    Tea Emesse

    Talk to an animal in its own language.

    Would you dare?

    Yumi Suzuki’s mom is acting really weird. When Yumi brings home a stray kitten, her animal-loving mom is furious. Mrs. Suzuki normally hates pizza but has been eating it every nig...

  • Younguncle Comes to Town

    Vandana Singh

    As the siblings await the arrival of their father's youngest brother in their small town in northern India, the excitement builds as talk of his grand adventures, such as charming an angry tree ghost and feeding a tiger, takes over the event and incr...

  • Young McDonald

    David Milgrim

    Using a homemade machine, a junior scientist delights in the results of his creation of unusual animal pairings, but when the animals suddenly take over the show, the young inventor must find a way of putting things back to normal once more, in an am...

  • Young Avengers - Volume 1: Sidekicks

    Allan Heinberg

    Collects Young Avengers #1-6. In the wake of AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED, a mysterious new group of teen super heroes appears. But who are they? Where did they come from? And what right do they have to call themselves the Young Avengers?...

  • The Young Apollo and Other Stories

    Louis Auchincloss

    Short stories from a New York Timesâ€"bestselling author, in settings ranging from Edwardian garden parties to 1970s Manhattan.   While bringing to life stories of the past filled with privilege and glamour, these tales also explore their charac...

  • You Do!

    Kes Gray

    Say hello to quick-witted, determined Daisy-sure to be the Junie B. Jones of the picture book set! In this second book in the series, You Do!, Daisy notices that her mom has some of the same bad habits she chastises Daisy for having. Mom denies it bu...

  • You Can't Hide

    Karen Rose

    YOU DON'T KNOW WHO I AM. Terror has forever changed the life of psychiatrist Tess Ciccotelli. Someone is tormenting her patients, pushing them to commit suicide, and setting her up to take the blame. But Tess can't break her oath to protect her pa...

  • Yestermorrow

    Stefan Petrucha

    “Either it’s too beautiful for words, or there are too many words for beautiful.”So says teen Harry Keller as he tried to explain a timeless singularity to a drugged-out suicidal thug on whose shoulders hang the fate of millions.Sin...

  • Yankee Doodle America: The Spririt of 1776 from A to Z

    Wendell Minor

    If you traveled the roads of colonial America, colorful hand-painted signs would greet you when you came across an inn or tavern, and inside, folks would be gathered to eagerly share the news of the day.Wendell Minor invites us on just such a journey...

  • X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic - Book 3

    Scott Lobdell

    Collects X-Calibre #2-3, Astonishing X-Men (1995) #2-4, Generation Next #2-3, X-Man #2-3, Factor X #3, Amazing X-Men (1995) #3, Weapon X (1995) #3, Gambit & The Externals #3, and X-Universe #1. The mirror gets darker and the Amazing X-Men more As...

  • X-Men: The Complete Age of Apocalypse Epic - Book 1

    Scott Lobdell

    Collects X-Men Blink #1-4 (2001), X-Men Chronicles (1995) #1-2, Tales of the Age of Apocalypse: By the Light (1996), Tales of the Age of Apocalypse: Sinister Bloodlines (1997). In a world ruled by Apocalypse, one hope remains: Magneto and his X-Men!...

  • X-23: Innocence Lost

    Christopher Yost

    Collects X-23 (2005) #1-6 Now the full story can be told - witness the machinations behind the origin of X-23 â€" who she is, where she came from, and the exact nature of her relationship to Wolverine....

  • The Wright 3

    Blue Balliett

    Supersleuths Petra and Calder, along with Calder's old friend, Tommy, have been cryptically drawn into another mystery -- this time involving a Frank Lloyd Wright architectural masterpiece, the Robie House. When the kids' sixth-grade class attempts...

  • The Wrath of Angels

    Theodore Beale

    Having fought legions of the Fallen before the gates of heaven and prevented a school shooting, Christopher, Jami, and Holli Lewis experience the greatest test of their faith when they are targeted by a legion of demons and dark princes. By the autho...

  • The World Made Straight

    Ron Rash

    Travis Shelton is seventeen the summer he wanders into the woods onto private property near his North Carolina home, discovers a grove of marijuana large enough to make him some serious money, and steps into the jaws of a bear trap. After hours on th...

  • The Woman Who Wasn't There

    Marie Ferrarella

    HIDDEN DEPTHS... Detective Troy Cavanaugh had never met a woman who didn't like him -- until Agent Delene D'Angelo gave him the cold shoulder at a crime scene. Thrown together by a murder investigation, Troy's attempts to woo the sexy parole officer...

  • Wolves in Chic Clothing

    Carrie Karasyov

    In The Right Address, Carrie Karasyov and Jill Kargman seared through the upper crust of New York’s glitterati with wicked glee. In their delicious new novel, Wolves in Chic Clothing, they train their merciless spotlight on the young princes and pr...

  • Wolf's Eye

    Jane McBride Choate

    Businessman turned naturalist, Matthew McCall, is ready for the greatest challenge of his life--restoring gray wolves to their former home in the high desert of Arizona. His love for the animals dates back to the stories with which his grandfather re...

  • Wolf Who Rules

    Wen Spencer

    WOLF WHO RULES UNDER SIEGE. IN PITSBURGH! DISCONTINUITY IN TURTLE CREEK! Wolf Who Rules finds himself besieged from all sides in this sequel to Tinker. Viceroy and head of the Wind Clan, Wolf had been able to guarantee the safety of everyone in his...

  • Wolf Hunting

    Jane M. Lindskold

    In Through Wolf's Eyes, Jane Lindskold introduced Firekeeper, the young girl raised by intelligent, language-using wolves. Abducted back into human society, Firekeeper found that, in the world of deadly human political intrigues, her training as a pa...

  • Witness to Myself

    Seymour Shubin

    Fifteen years ago, teenager Alan Benning jogged off a beach--and into a nightmare. Because what awaited him in the Cape Cod woods was an unspeakable temptation, a moment of panic, and a brutal memory that would haunt him for the rest of his life. ...

  • Wish You Weren't Here

    Melissa J. Morgan

    Athletic, quiet Sarah loves Camp Lakeview and is psyched to be back for another summer in the sun. She gets along with everyone and never makes waves. But when Sarah meets the girls of bunk 4C, she’s in for a huge surprise: Phoebe, a classmate of h...

  • Winslow in Love

    Kevin Canty

    Richard Winslow is in a rut. His marriage is over and he is alone, teaching poetry as a visiting professor in Montana and continuing to avoid actually writing himself. He drinks to oblivion every night.At this freezing college, in the dead of winter,...

  • Winds of the Wild Sea

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

    In the realm of Aquilonia, in the time when Conan was King, a young barbarian fights to restore the honor of his tribe -- and to claim his revenge... In the bustling city of Tarantia, the young Pictish warrior Kral has been imprisoned after slaughte...

  • Winds of the Storm

    Beverly Jenkins

    Archer Le Veq owes his life to the woman who rescued him from certain death at the height of the Civil War...a woman known only as "the Butterfly." Now, in the dark, waning days of Reconstruction, he needs the courageous and beautiful former spy...in...

  • Windows on the World

    Frederic Beigbeder

    Windows on the World debuted at #2 on the French national best-seller list and won the prestigious Prix Interalli prize in 2003. Now available in paperback, this unprecedented novel will once again astonish, provoke, and embrace the reader as it atte...

  • Wilfred to the Rescue

    Alan MacDonald

    A brand-new story from Brambly Hedge, based on the enchantingworld created by Jill Barklem.

    Brambly Hedge has flooded, and it is dangerous to go outside. Instead, little mice, Wilfred and Primrose, are playing indoors with the Vole...

  • The Wilde Women

    Paula Wall

    Paula Wall, the national bestselling author of The Rock Orchard, returns with another witty, wise, and romantic tale of two sisters with a talent for seduction and the unfortunate habit of falling for the wrong man every time. The Wilde sisters dove...

  • Wild Stars Seeking Midnight Suns

    J. California Cooper

    J. California Cooper's irresistible collection of new stories explores the universal themes of romance, family, and the hopes that propel people's dreams. In "As Time Goes By" a young woman singlemindedly pursues material wealth, only to suffer f...

  • Who Is Your Favorite Monster, Mama?

    Barbara Shook Hazen

    Being a middle child, Harry Monster never seems to be able to do what his siblings do, and never seems to get enough attention from Mama Monster, but when Harry asks his mother which child is his favorite, his clever mama has just the right answer....

  • Whispers

    Erin Grady

    If you listen hard enough... Diablo Springs--once a boomtown of gamblers, outlaws, and miners. Now a place where shifting sands whisper only of torment and loss...a place where shadows lure the unsuspecting into its abyss. It is where Gracie Be...

  • Whispering Glass

    Graham Ison

    Featuring the worldly wise DI Brock and his wry sidekick DS Poole When Jimmy ?Spotter? Gould is shot dead within seconds of emerging from London's Stone Mill Prison, Brock and Poole are faced with a baffling crime. Enquiries uncover an embezzling sol...

  • Which Brings Me to You

    Steve Almond

    Two rambunctious, romantic flameouts. One boring wedding. One heated embrace in a quiet coatroom. This is not exactly the recipe for true love. John and Jane's lusty encounter at a friend's wedding isn't really the beginning of anything with any weig...

  • Where Did Daddy's Hair Go?

    Joe O'Connor

    Young Jeremiah never noticed it before, but now he can’t seem to think of anything else: his daddy is missing a lot of hair! In fact, Daddy even says that he has “lost” his hair. But whatever’s lost can be found again, right? Jeremiah’s sea...

  • When a Stranger Calls

    Kathleen Long

    THE PHONE RINGS... He was the last person she vowed to go to for help, but the only person who believed she was being stalked. The late-night phone calls, the mysterious packages, the blow to the head all had Lindsey Tarlington fearing for her lif...

  • What's with Dad?

    Sarah Willson

    Stu Pickles is acting a bit strange. He's wearing baggy pants, dying his hair blue, and even trading in the family van for something a little bit faster! All of this odd behavior leaves Tommy and Oil asking, "What's with Dad?"

    ...

  • What Love Means to You People

    NancyKay Shapiro

    A powerful debut about a young man whose denial of his past nearly destroys the new life he seeksShaking off his hellish adolescence in a nowhere Nebraska town (and leaving a beloved younger sister to fend for herself in the same hostile environment)...

  • What I Did Wrong

    John Weir

    Set in a rapidly gentrifying New York City determined to move beyond the decimation of a generation a decade earlier, What I Did Wrong is a day in the life of Tom, a forty-two-year-old English professor, haunted by the death of his best friend, Zack,...

  • Wed Under Western Skies: His Brother's Bride

    Jenna Kernan
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    Only a desperate woman would marry a man she'd never met, even if it was her dying husband's last request. But with a young daughter to protect, Clara Justice is desperate, so she accepts the proposal from Nate, the black sheep of the family.......

  • Wed Under Western Skies: Almost a Bride

    Cheryl St. John
    in

    The only unmarried woman in town, Charmaine Renlow has been waiting years for her beau to propose, and she's had enough. Maybe it's time to move on to greener pastures...like single father Jack Easton's homestead!...

  • Wed Under Western Skies: Abandoned

    Carolyn Davidson
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    The sole survivor of a wagon train raid, Elizabeth Travis has been left with amnesia. Cameron Montgomery comes to her rescue and takes special care of her. But how can she desire him while she is a woman with no past?...

  • We Are All Welcome Here

    Elizabeth Berg

    It is the summer of 1964. In Tupelo, Mississippi, the town of Elvis's birth, tensions are mounting over civil-rights demonstrations occurring ever more frequently -- and violently -- across the state. But in Paige Dunn's small, ramshackle house, ther...

  • Way U Look Tonight

    Dianne Castell

    In 'Til There Was U, Dianne Castell introduced the strong, family-centered O'Fallon clan, Mississippi men who are always there for each other. When Rory O' Fallon discovers a beautiful baby girl on his front porch, he's determined to find the little ...

  • Water Shaper

    Laura Williams McCaffrey

    Margot is the daughter of a king, but she is beloved by neither his court nor his kingdom. She has “water in her blood,” a trait associated with magic and looked upon with distaste and suspicion. When she meets Orrin, a foreign king who is respec...

  • Warsworn

    Elizabeth Vaughan

    LARA IS THE WARPRIZE A powerful healer, she has sworn an oath of loyalty to Keir the Warlord, and his people. Now the Warlord and his chosen mate face enemies within the tribe and danger lurks on every hand as they journey toward Keir's homeland. ...

  • The Warrior Heir

    Cinda Williams Chima

    AN EPIC BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL... BEFORE HE KNEW ABOUT THE ROSES, sixteen-year-old Jack lived an unremarkable life in the small Ohio town of Trinity. Only the medicine he has to take daily and the thick scar above his heart set him apart from ...

  • Waiting for Gregory

    Kimberly Willis Holt

    The first picture book from National Book Award winner Kimberly Willis Holt
    When exactly is cousin Gregory going to be born? asks little Iris. Each family member has a different answer to her question. While she's waiting for what seems like fo...

  • Wabi

    Joseph Bruchac

    Wabi was born an owl -- a great horned owl who grew to become such a strong, confident creature that he was afraid of nothing. But now he is afraid. He fears that he might never win the heart of the girl he loves. Somehow, despite his own intentions,...

  • The Virgin of Small Plains

    Nancy Pickard

    Small Plains, Kansas, January 23, 1987: In the midst of a deadly blizzard, eighteen-year-old Rex Shellenberger scours his father's pasture, looking for helpless newborn calves. Then he makes a shocking discovery: the naked, frozen body of a teenage g...

  • Vellum

    Hal Duncan

    VELLUM: THE BOOK OF ALL HOURS It's 2017 and angels and demons walk the earth. Once they were human; now they are unkin, transformed by the ancient machine-code language of reality itself. They seek The Book of All Hours, the mythical tome within w...

  • Vanquishing the Infidel: A Novella

    Eileen Dreyer
    in

    A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...

  • Vanishing Point

    Don Pendleton

    A covert group of warriors dedicated to protecting America against acts of terror and violence perpetrated by enemies of the free world, the commandos of Stony Man enter each new battle backed by advanced cybernetics, sophisticated weaponry and order...

  • Vamps and the City

    Kerrelyn Sparks

    Who says a vamp can't have it all? Darcy Newhart thought it was a stroke of genius -- the first-ever reality TV show where mortals vie with vampires for the title of The Sexiest Man on Earth. As the show's director, Darcy's career would be on tra...

  • The Valley of the Wolves

    Laura Gallego Garcia

    Dana attends a school of magic with only one other student. She has a great love only she can see. And only she can unravel these mysteries and become mistress of the Valley of the Wolves.

    Ever since Dana was a little girl, Kai has been her be...

  • Valiant Hope

    Donna Fleisher

    Can Chris forgive the unforgivable? If not, is she willing to pay the cost? A cost that may be more than she ever imagined . . . There's nothing Chris McIntyre hates more than child abuse. And now one of the children at Kimberley Square's new gym...

  • The Unvisibles

    Ian Whybrow

    When Oliver, a loud-mouthed troublemaker, discovers a "disappearing" formula in an old magic magazine, he is stunned when it works, but when the magazine is stolen--along with the directions for undoing the spell, he must turn to his neighbor Nicky, ...

  • Unnatural Selection

    Tim Lebbon

    Hellboy, a bloodred, cloven-hoofed demon raised by the United States government, is a top field agent for the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense. He questions the unknown -- then beats it into submission. A dragon is seen perching on th...

  • Unexpected Father // Unlikely Guardian

    Delores Fossen

    Tough-as-nails cop Jason Lawrence hadn't planned on parenthood. But after his brother's death, he'd raised his baby niece, Megan, becoming her father in every way that mattered. And there was no way that he was giving her up -- even to the biological...

  • Unexpected Complication

    Amy Knupp

    This is not how she pictured her life Pregnant, single and no prospect for love. How's a globe-trotting freelance photographer like Carey Langford supposed to cope? Well, love will just have to wait while she focuses on her baby and getting through ...

  • Unearthing Passions

    Elaine Sims

    Perfectly coiffed and carefully controlled Atlanta architect Kai Ellis' career, like her life, is just the way she wants it - focused and serious. When sexy archaeologist Asa Matthews slips ever so smoothly into her well-structured world, she can't d...

  • Under Camelot's Banner

    Sarah Zettel

    Danger is everywhere she turns, because the path to Camelot never runs smooth... When war threatens the kingdom of Camliard, sisters Lynet and Laurel find themselves in the heart of the darkening crisis, with only one way to restore peace. While h...

  • Unburnable

    Marie-Elena John

    In this riveting narrative of family, betrayal, vengeance, and murder, Lillian Baptiste is willed back to her island home of Dominica to finally settle her past. Haunted by scandal and secrets, Lillian left Dominica when she was fourteen after discov...

  • Ultimates - Volume 2: Homeland Security

    Mark Millar

    Iron Man. Thor. Captain America. The Wasp. Giant Man. They are the world's newest heroes, brought together by the U.S. government to combat the world's growing wave of superhuman threats. But just because they have amazing powers doesn't also mean th...

  • Ultimates - Volume 1: Super-Human

    Mark Millar

    When Nick Fury, head of an elite espionage agency, hears about several bizarre characters and misfits, he puts together a small but lethal army known as the Ultimates, created to protect mankind from rising threats. Collects Ultimates (2002) #1-6....

  • Ultimate Spider-Man, Volume 7: Irresponsible

    Brian Michael Bendis

    An all-new villain explodes on the scene, literally! But how can Spider-Man fight a new mysterious foe named Geldhoff if he can't even find a costume? And will Peter and Mary Jane finally just say what they feel?! Guest-starring the Ultimate X-Men. C...

  • Ultimate Fantastic Four - Volume 5: Crossover

    Mark Millar

    Collects Ultimate Fantastic Four #21-26. Reed Richards has used his scientific genius to contact an Earth in a surprisingly familiar parallel dimension â€" except it's overrun by Marvel super hero ZOMBIES! Plus: This is a Namor you’ve never seen ...

  • The Two-Minute Rule

    Robert Crais

    Max Holman knew the two minute rule: Get in, get the cash, and get out. But two minutes can be a lifetime. . . . In one moment of weakness he botched a bank job and was sent away for years. Now released from prison, Max wants to reconcile with his es...

  • Two Little Girls in Blue

    Mary Higgins Clark

    In a riveting thriller, worldwide bestselling suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark brilliantly weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother's search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead. When Margaret and Steve Frawley come home to Connectic...

  • Twist and Shout Murder

    Rosemary Martin

    Bebe's new job at a modeling agency quickly sours when Bradley, her adored boss, takes a personal interest in the company's top model. Then the scheming beauty is strangled with a Pucci scarf-a gift from Bradley! Bebe's determined to find the real ki...

  • Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Art

    Sarah Dessen

    A girl dresses in a bunny costume to earn her dad’s approval…. A boy bakes a cake and takes out his dad in the same afternoon…. These are just two of the offbeat and utterly captivating scenarios readers will find in this collection of stories ...

  • Twice Her Husband

    Mary J. Forbes

    When Ginny Franklin returned as a widow to her Oregon hometown, her heart was shattered. Shattered like the home she'd left years ago. Shattered like her marriage with Luke Tucker, her first husband -- and first love. But this time Ginny had anoth...

  • Tsubasa, Volume 9

    CLAMP

    IN THE GOD’S HANDS

    Five friends continue their desperate search for Princess Sakura’s memories, which have been scattered across parallel worlds in the form of magically potent feathers. But this time Syaoran and Sakura are pulled from a t...

  • Truth or Dare

    Delilah Dawson

    Kai Armstrong has been secretly watching Sonya Drummond for weeks. Not because her sexy curves drive Kai wild. Not because her every move sets his body on fire. Kai's watching Sonya because she's in possession of a stolen butterfly necklace--and he's...

  • Trouble with Tilly Trumble

    Lynn Manuel

    A sweet, read-aloud story of friendship for dog lovers everywhere. In the grand tradition of Peggy Rathman's Officer Buckle and Gloria and Kate DiCamillo's Because of Winn Dixie comes this tale of the relationship between a lonely person and a homele...

  • The Trouble with Honey

    Disney Book Group

    Just in time for Winnie the Pooh's eightieth anniversary, here's a new Winnie the Pooh book that children and parents alike will treasure for years to come. Pooh's eaten too much honey, and now the bear of little brain is stuck in Rabbit's door! W...

  • The Trophy Wife

    Ginna Gray

    Houston heiress Elizabeth Stanton lost nearly everything when a stunning betrayal by her ex-husband left her with only a fraction of the fortune her genteel Southern family had worked so hard for. Even now Mimosa Landing, Elizabeth's beloved home, co...

  • Treasure of the Amazon

    Pinkie Paranya

  • The Treasure Man

    Pamela Browning

    Finders, Keepers? When Chloe Timberlake agrees to look after the Frangipani Inn, her cousin's bed-and-breakfast, she expects to find the fabulous Florida inn of her youth -- not a derelict mansion that could collapse around her if she so much as sla...

  • Treasure Forest

    Cat Bordhi

    How can you retrieve a treasure from the bottom of a pond without disturbing the water? This is the challenge left for Ben Maclennon by his grandmother, and the start of an enchanting new trilogy that will take readers deep into the heart of the ...

  • Travis and Freddy's Adventures in Vegas

    Paul Hoppe; Henry Johnson

    Travis has the million-dollar smile. Freddy has the million-dollar brain. Together the two buddies -- one the coolest kid and the other the biggest brain at Walla Walla Junior High -- set out to save Travis’s dad from disaster by winning big in Las...

  • Trailer Trashed

    Barbara Collins
    in

    A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...

  • Trail of the Black Wyrm

    Chris Pierson
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The Battle of the Run is over, but for Barreth Forlo victory is bitter.With only a dragon’s scale to aid them, Barreth and his friends must find his missing wife before it’s too late. A strange evil is stirring and a foul ritual has begun.And For...

  • The Torso

    Helene Tursten

    Part of a human torso washes up on a beach near Goteborg, Sweden. It is so mutilated that gender is only established by DNA testing. A similar crime, now several years old, remains unsolved in Denmark. Detective Inspector Irene Huss is dispatched to ...

  • The Tooth of Time

    Sue Henry

    Maxie McNabb, the "irresistible"' Winnebago-driving, pistol-packing sixty-something-year-old, is back--and criminals from the Iditarod Trail to the Southwest had better beware. This time, she sets out to turn, one on-edge town back into a peaceful pu...

  • Tonopah Range

    Alan Le May

    Missouri Sloper and Elmer Law, having given up their range riding jobs to wander, have drifted into the desert town of Molech. With the wind blowing from the southeast, a dark sulphurous cloud has descended upon the town from the nearby smelter so th...

  • Tomb of the Golden Bird

    Elizabeth Peters

    A sinister plot and a dark family secret stand in the way of the Emerson clan's ultimate ambition… Banned forever from the eastern end of the Valley of the Kings, eminent Egyptologist Radcliffe Emerson's desperate attempt to regain digging rights ...

  • Together Forever

    E.S. Mooney

    The hilarious and top-rated new animated series from Cartoon Network. Real-life Japanese rockers Puffy AmiYumi star in a show that mixes animation, live-action, and music in a whole new way.

    Japanese pop meets Japanese animation in this ultra-...

  • To Serve and Submit

    Susan Wright

    Between domination and subservience exists a realm of sensual fantasy unlike any ever dreamed. Marja was born a child of the fens, young, beautiful, and free. Her days were spent searching for bog iron for her poor family and communing with the s...

  • To Protect and Cherish

    Karen Rose Smith

    AN OFFER SHE COULDN'T REFUSE... Because Anita Sutton had three young children and no experience, it took all of her efforts to convince Tate Pardell to hire her as his live-in housekeeper. But once they moved in together and settled down, it was t...

  • The Times Bridge

    Andrew Robson

    A large print bridge guide aimed at the less experienced or social player who longs to improve but keeps repeating the same mistakes, often not knowing that they are mistakes.Andrew Robson, The Times Bridge Correspondent, is both a champion bridge pl...

  • Ticknor

    Sheila Heti

    On a cold, rainy night, an aging bachelor named George Ticknor prepares to visit his childhood friend Prescott, a successful man who is now one of the leading intellectual lights of their generation. With a hastily baked pie in his hands, and a lifet...

  • Ticket to Tomorrow

    Carol Cox

    Annie Trenton and her late husband's partner, Silas Crockett, step off the train at the great world's fair in Chicago and walk smack into political intrigue. When a stranger accidentally collides with Silas, more than a satchel is unintentionally exc...

  • Thunder of Time

    James F. David

    Ten years ago, the prehistoric past collided with the present as time itself underwent a tremendous disruption, transporting huge swaths of the Cretaceous Period into the world of the twentieth century. Entire neighborhoods and cities were replaced b...

  • Through the Fire

    Seressia Glass

    In this sequel to Three Wishes, Brandt Hughes, brother of Maya Hughes, is consumed by guilt from the deaths of this wife and young son four years ago. Every day is a battle for survival, a battle that heââ,¬â"˘s not sure he wants to win. When his fo...

  • Throne of Jade

    Naomi Novik

    When Britain intercepted a French ship and its precious cargo -- an unhatched dragon's egg -- Capt. Will Laurence of HMS Reliant unexpectedly became master and commander of the noble dragon he named Temeraire. As new recruits in Britain's Aerial Corp...

  • Thrill Ride

    Rachel Hawthorne

    Thrill Ride! One-day admission: $15 Summer job: Pros: Living on my own (plus roommates) Rides are free (but avoid the roller coasters--too scary!) Super-hot coworker . . . Cons: Periodic homesickness Dressing like ...

  • This Is Not a Love Song

    Sarahbeth Purcell

    Brilliant young writer Sarahbeth Purcell combines witty melodramatics with her own brand of hard-edged, tough-girl cadences in This Is Not a Love Song, a fantastic new novel filled with characters who are idealistic enough for readers to relate to an...

  • This Book Will Save Your Life

    A.M. Homes

    Richard Novak is a modern-day Everyman, a middle-aged divorce trading stocks out of his home in the surreal promised land of Los Angeles. Having done such a good job getting his life under control, Richard now needs no one -- except his trainer, nutr...

  • The Third Princess

    Philip Boast

    A Roman mystery, introducing Septimus Severus Quistus Quistus, lucky seventh son, has everything ? then, in one fateful hour, Quistus's life is destroyed, his much-loved wife and family bloodily murdered, all except his seventh son and only daughter....

  • Third Grade Wedding Bells

    Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna

    When he is chosen to play the prince in Ms. Tingle's play, Gordie becomes extremely nervous due to his part in the second-grade play fiasco last year, and, thinking that things can't get any worse, stumbles upon a clue suggesting that his favorite te...

  • The Thieves of Heaven

    Richard Doetsch

    The most closely Guarded treasure on Earth. An explosive ancient secret. A breakneck journey into the heart of the Vatican. In a small, heavily fortified room just north of the Sistine Chapel, a master thief is about to strike. All he needs ...

  • Their Million-Dollar Night

    Katherine Garbera

    WAS ONE NIGHT WORTH ONE MILLION DOLLARS? Millionaire Max Williams would have said no -- then he set eyes on the scandalous and sinful Roxy O'Malley. The former showgirl's troubled past and uncertain future practically begged for a takeover -- by h...

  • A Texas Wedding Vow

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    When the bride skips town, maid of honor Laurel McCabe faces the wrath of one fit-to-be-tied groom. Unable to come up with a suitable excuse for the missing bride, Laurel vows to fix everything herself. But never in her wildest dreams does she envisi...

  • The Texan's Forbidden Affair

    Peggy Moreland

    "WE'RE FINISHING WHAT WE STARTED." He was the rich rancher next door who swept her off her feet, then destroyed her. She could never forgive him. But being near Wade Parker again had Stephanie Calloway rethinking her decision to hold on to the pas...

  • Tersias the Oracle

    G.P. Taylor

    London is in the aftermath of a near-apocalypse--a comet has just missed earth, leaving the city in chaos. in this time of uncertainty, only the blind boy oracle, tersias, can see what the future holds. but awareness of his power is growing, and he i...

  • Tempt Me

    Lucy Monroe

    Humiliated by his family's indiscretions, Lucas, Lord Ashton--nicknamed "The Saint"--wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with the prim and proper bride of his choice. And if the innocent young lady in question gives him some deci...

  • Tarra Khash:Hrossak!

    Brian Lumley

    Tarra Khash is a Hrossak, a barbarian from the steppes beyond the River Luhr. A fearless adventurer, Tarra roves Theem-hdra in search of his next fortune, his next drink, and warm, willing females to share his bed. The Hrossak is a most fortunate man...

  • Talk Gertie to Me

    Lois Winston

    Nori Stedworth was living the good life. Her own apartment in Manhattan, a hotter-than-hot boyfriend, and the best coffee in the city right around the corner. That is, until the dot-com company she worked for went bust, she found her supposedly commi...

  • Tales of the Last War

    David Bishop
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    The war to end all wars â€" or so it is hoped.
    For generations battle broke the once-proud kingdom
    of Galifar. As nation fought nation, adventure was never
    far away from those eager to find it.

    Hunters of evil, seekers of fortune, ...

  • Tales from the Crib

    Risa Green

    Lara Stone is back again, and nine months of being miserably pregnant was nothing compared to how miserable she is now that her baby has actually arrived.  But when Lara’s long-estranged dad shows up with a stripper on his arm, her husband beg...

  • The Tailor's Daughter

    Janice Graham

    Aware of the limitations imposed by her deafness, Veda Grenfell lends her considerable talents to her fathers prestigious tailoring firm rather than submit to a disappointing marriage. Spurning the advances of an ambitious Italian tailor, Veda finall...

  • Sword of the Deceiver

    Sarah Zettel

    PRINCESS NATHARIE OF SINDHU was celebrating her womanhood ceremony when Prince Samudra, the powerful brother of Hastinapura's emperor, arrived demanding tribute, and she, the eldest unmarried royal daughter, was forced to swallow her pride and journe...

  • Sweet Mercy

    Jean Brashear

    A man lost in grief. A woman who can heal him. A secret that could destroy everything. Honey Creek Cottage is the house of Jezebel Hart's dreams -- and the place of Gamble Smith's nightmares. The place he built with his own hands, every ...

  • Sweet Humphrey

    Peter Turnbull

    A new psychological thriller from the master of suspense When Dr Maurice Simnal goes to interview the charming psychopath Humphrey Sweet, he thinks he may be on to something: an entirely new kind of serial killer. But as he and his colleague Ruth Day...

  • The Swarm

    Frank Schatzing

    Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, killing thousands in Europe. Around the world, countries are beginning to feel the effects of the ocean's revenge as the seas and their...

  • Swann's Last Song

    Charles Salzberg

    Skip tracer Henry Swann cares little about anything but money, so when a beautiful Upper East Side woman shows up in his office and hires him to find her missing husband, he smiles and takes the cash. But when this seemingly simple missing-person cas...

  • The Survivors

    Dinah McCall

    The search for survivors becomes a race against time -- and a killer When a passenger plane goes down in the Appalacians, rescue teams start looking for the survivors and discover that a five-year-old boy and a woman are missing. Twenty miles fro...

  • Survival Instinct

    Doranna Durgin

    Dear Ellen, I miss you terribly, and I'm sorry you're dead. I wish it weren't my fault. Karin Sommers's sister had died while helping Karin escape from the con man who'd entrapped her. But Ellen wouldn't die in vain. Acting on instinct, Karin too...

  • The Surrogate

    Judith Henry Wall

    To a penniless twenty-year-old like Jamie Long, surrogate motherhood seemed both an act of altruism and a financial opportunity. But once pregnant and under contract to Amanda Hartmann, the head of a famous evangelical family, Jamie realizes that she...

  • Superior Death

    Matthew Williams

    A DEADLY FALL When a woman plunges to her death from Eagle's Cliff, newspaper reporter Vince Marshall is summoned to the tragic scene. Vince is stunned to find that his mother is the only witness to the fatal fall, but she refuses to tell him wha...

  • A Summer of Kings

    Han Nolan

    It's 1963 and fourteen-year-old Esther Young is looking for excitement. Cursed with a lack of talent in a family filled with artistic types, Esther vows to get some attention by initiating a summer romance with a black teen accused of murdering a whi...

  • Suite Francaise

    Irene Nemirovsky

    Beginning in Paris on the eve of the Nazi occupation in 1940. Suite Francaise tells the remarkable story of men and women thrown together in circumstances beyond their control. As Parisians flee the city, human folly surfaces in every imaginable way:...

  • Strange Birds

    Judith Heide Gilliland

    On Monday, eleven-year-old Anna is a perfectly happy child.In a few days, her parents will return from their sailing trip andgive her a horse of her own! The terrible news arrives onTuesday, sweeping over Anna like a dense fog: her parents arelost at...

  • Story House

    Timothy Taylor

    In his first novel, Stanley Park, Taylor brought readers into the inner workings of the Vancouver culinary scene, writing evocatively about everything from divine local ingredients to kitchen politics. In Story House, he takes on the rarefied world o...

  • The Stolen Child

    Keith Donohue

    I am a changeling -- a word that describes within its own name what we are bound and intended to do. We kidnap a human child and replace him or her with one of our own. . . . The double story of Henry Day begins in 1949, when he is kidnapped at ag...

  • Stay With Me

    Garret Freymann-Weyr

    Sixteen-year-old Leila Abranel was born some twenty years after her sisters. Her elegant sisters from her father's first marriage have lives full of work, love affairs, and travel. Leila doesn't know either of them very well, but she loves hearing ab...

  • State's Evidence

    R. Barri Flowers

    In Eagles Landing, California, Assistant District Attorney Beverly Mendoza has been selected to prosecute a disturbing case, the brutal murder of a local judge and the rape of his wife. The defendant, Rafael Santiago, once vowed to get revenge agains...

  • Starlight

    Erin Hunter

    BEFORE THERE IS PEACE, BLOOD WILL SPILL BLOOD... The Clans have finally arrived in their new home, and now they must struggle to establish territories and learn the hidden dangers of this unfamiliar world. Most importantly, they must find a replacem...

  • Star Trek: The Next Generation Comics Classics: The Battle Within

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Star Trek: The Next Generation breathed new life into the Star Trek franchise and kicked off a whole new era of Starfleet exploration and adventure! Now the crew of the Enterprise-D continue their mission in these great comics stories!

    In The ...

  • Spooning

    Darri Stephens; Megan DeSales

    Take one kitchen, add six friends, combine with a dash of romance, and stir. Meet Charlotte -- a.k.a. Charlie -- Brown: a recent college grad and newly minted New Yorker, eager to begin her grown-up life. All kinds of "firsts" await her in the big c...

  • The Spirit of the Wolf

    Karen Kay

    Many centuries ago, a village killed the children of the Thunder god. For their crime the Creator banished them to live a half existence in the land of shadows, neither dead nor alive. But once in a generation, a brave is given the opportunity to sav...

  • Sonnet of the Sphinx

    Diana Killian

    For one of Innisdale's residents, a priceless sonnet means poetic license to kill. . . . Grace Hollister's stay in England's picturesque Lake District has proven doubly fruitful -- the American literary scholar just sold her first book, and her r...

  • Some Like It Hot

    Zoey Dean

    If you have to ask, you'll never be on...THE A-LIST It's prom season, and no town does prom like Tinsel Town. Ben is back for the summer--ju time to be Anna's prom date. But his family has a house guest who's so hot, she's bound to burn up their p...

  • The Soldier's Seduction

    Anne Marie Winston

    ONE NIGHT WAS ALL IT TOOK The last time he'd seen her, they'd wound up in bed together. Now, after two years, decorated soldier Wade Donnelly had every intention of reliving -- and repeating -- that incredible night. Back then, Phoebe Merriman had...

  • So Hard to Say

    Alex Sanchez

    When Frederick shows up at school, Xio is thrilled. The new boy is shy, cute, and definitely good boyfriend material. Before long, she pulls him into her lively circle of friends. Frederick knows he should be flattered by Xio's attention. After all,...

  • Snakeskin Shamisen

    Naomi Hirahara

    From Summer of the Big Bachi to Gasa-Gasa Girl, Naomi Hirahara's acclaimed novels have featured one of mystery fiction's most unique heroes: Mas Arai, a curmudgeonly L.A. gardener, Hiroshima survivor, and inveterate gambler. Few things get Mas mo...

  • Smoked

    Patrick Quinlan

    Smoke Dugan is on the run. An aging bomb-maker, he was a prized asset to organized crime for most of his life. But when he finds out that one of his bombs was used to take down a plane with innocent women and children aboard, he is furious. He takes ...

  • Sly the Sleuth and the Sports Mysteries

    Donna Jo Napoli

    Sly (a.k.a. Sylvia) has newly set up shop as a neighborhood detective, and the advice from Kirkus Reviews is plain and simple: "Clear some shelf space" for this funny, engaging series.With each zany mystery brought to her by friends and parents -- th...

  • Slocum and the Big Payback

    Jake Logan

    Slocum’s reached the end of his rope against the Hemp clan…Down to his last few dollars in the town of Hard Luck, Slocum decides to collect a bounty when he spies wanted man Asa Hemp. Unwilling to come peacefully, the outlaw finds himself on the ...

  • Sleepy Places

    Judy Hindley

    Sweet dreams! Judy Hindley's lulling text combines with Tor Freeman's soft illustrations to create this gentle, loving ode to favorite sleeping places.

    When you're yawning and nodding and flopping and ready to fall in a heap, where do you choo...

  • The Sleeper Awakes

    H.G. Wells

    A fascinating and prescient account of a future dominated by capitalist greed and mechanical force

    A troubled insomniac in 1890s England falls suddenly into a sleep-like trance, from which he does not awake for over two hundred years. During h...

  • The Slavers

    Garth Ennis

    On a pitch-black Brooklyn night, in a dead-end alley, Frank Castle brutally dispatches a crew of Albanian thugs menacing a young woman. Her name is Viorica, she's from Moldavia, and when she tells Frank her story, that's when the real killing starts!...

  • Skylar

    David Colbert

    Philip Pullman's epic fantasy series-His Dark Materials-chronicling the adventures of Lyra Silvertongue, her shapeshifting daemon Pantalaimon, and Will Parry on their multi-dimensional odyssey to save all of reality from the mysterious su...

  • Sister Chicas

    Penguin Books

    When the three of us became the Sister Chicas, who knew we’d each get the surprise of our lives! And even though we don’t always agree on things -- boys, clothes, and music come to mind -- nothing gets in the way of our friendship. Three amigas: ...

  • Sister Chicas

    Lisa Alvarado

    Taina's turning fifteen-and is so dreading her Pepto-pink quinceañera, her Sweet Fifteen.What about her secret Jamaican artist boyfriend? Should she let Mami choose her escort, or follow her heart-and ignite a family riot?

    Grachi must choos...

  • The Single Life

    Liz Wood

    Meet Lauren Wilt, Chicago's newest hot thirty-something. She's making a splash Carrie Bradshaw-style with a sex column in the Chicago Gazette that has singles in the city craving more. Meet Lauren Gard, the fifty-something writer once loved by the...

  • Sin and Surrender

    J.M. Jeffries

    Two murders intertwine. Andrea is bereaved by one, accused of the other. In the meantime, she's engaged to the man with motive for both.Benjamin's a likely suspect in her sister's murder, but Andrea's heart says no. She searches for her sister's kill...

  • Silent Waters

    Jan Coffey

    A fast-attack nuclear submarine cuts silently through the waters of the north Atlantic, hijacked by two dozen armed terrorists. The target: New York City. Fighting for their lives aboard the hijacked submarine, ship superintendent Amy Russell and...

  • Sighs Matter

    Marianne Stillings

    IT WAS A NIGHT OF SLOW DANCES, HEATED LOOKS, AND FOR DETECTIVE TAYLOR McKENNITT, THE EARTH MOVED. UNFORTUNATELY, SO DID THE LOVELY CLAIRE . . . . . right on out the door. Not that it wasn't the hottest night of her life. In fact, the memor...

  • Shug

    Jenny Han

    SHUG is clever and brave and true (on the inside, anyway). And she's about to become your new best friend. Annemarie Wilcox, or Shug as her family calls her, is beginning to think there's nothing worse than being twelve. She's too tall, too frec...

  • Shotgun Opera

    Victor Gischler

    Mike Foley can never forget the night he tagged along with his brother on a job for the mob that ended in a hail of bullets. Now his brother is dead, Mike's making wine in Oklahoma, and life is almost as good as it gets when you've been hiding out fo...

  • Shiver

    Lisa Jackson

    THE CRIMES ARE UNTHINKABLE A serial killer is turning the Big Easy into his personal playground. The victims are killed in pairs--no connection, no apparent motive, no real clues. It's a very sick game, and it's only just begun. THE FEAR IS REAL ...

  • The Shining City

    Kate Forsyth

    Rhiannon, a wild and fierce half-human girl, tamed a winged horse to escape the vicious satyricorn tribe who raised her. In the human world, the handsome apprentice-witch Lewen has convinced her to stay with him and learn to use her strong magical ta...

  • She's Got the Look

    Jasmine Jones

  • Sharp North

    Patrick Cave

    In a futuristic world, will everyone be replaceable? Mira had always lived quietly until the day a stranger is shot and killed in front of her. The woman's body is quickly removed, leaving bloodstained snow and a crumpled piece of paper on the gr...

  • The Shape of Things to Come

    H.G. Wells

    The Shape of Things to Come tells of an intellectual who dies and leaves behind a "dream book" inspired by visions that are remarkably prescient.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the ...

  • The Shadow Thieves

    Anne Ursu

    Something extraordinary is about to happen to Charlotte Mielswetzski. It's not the very cute kitten that appears out of nowhere. It's not the arrival of her cousin Zee, who believes he's the cause of a mysterious sickness that has struck his friends...

  • Sex as a Second Language

    Alisa Kwitney

    From Alisa Kwitney, the acclaimed author of On the Couch and The Dominant Blonde, comes a wickedly funny new novel about adult education. A teacher of English as a second language, Katherine Miner is an expert in idiomatic phrases, subtle verbal cues...

  • The Serpent's Tooth

    Michelle Paver

    Belle must confront the man who brought her so much misery in her childhood and who now threatens her only chance of happiness. Since she was twelve years old, Belle has lived with a secret -- a secret that cuts her off from her family and isolate...

  • The Secret Supper

    Javier Sierra

    Tightly paced and atmospheric, The Secret Supper is a dazzling historical thriller with a unique vision of both Leonardo da Vinci's genius and his masterpiece -- which you will never look at in the same way again. Milan, 1497: Leonardo is complet...

  • Secret of the Three Treasures

    Janni Lee Simner

    Tiernay, an eleven-year-old aspiring sleuth, is fast on the trail of Revolutionary War gold that is rumored to be buried in her town, but running for her life, scaling cliffs in the middle of the night, and getting trapped underground is definitely n...

  • The Secret Night

    Rebecca York

    He was wrapped in a cloak of secrecy...but Nicholas Vickers was Emma Birmingham's only hope to rescue her sister from a maniac. She'd met the charismatic P.I. in her unusual, erotic dreams, and in person Nick was every bit as strong, steady, sexy. ...

  • Secret Country

    Jane Johnson

    Ben wants a Mongolian Fighting Fish more than anything. But when he goes to Mr. Dodds's Pet Emporium with his hard-earned savings, he buys a cat instead. He doesn't have a choice, really. The cat insists. Iggy (as the tabby likes to be called) h...

  • Secret

    Shirley Hailstock

    A Twist Of Fate... At the age of three, Stephanie Hunter was kidnapped and adopted by her abductor. Now, thirty-four years later, Stephanie is an independent, creative woman, and the new founder of her own design firm. She's also on the verge of dis...

  • Second Time's the Charm

    Melissa J. Morgan

    Nowhere, PA: and yes, Natalie Goode is back for a second summer at Lakeview. Gross camp food and -- ugh -- sports notwithstanding, Lakeview is pretty cool. Natalie met some great girls last year -- and one totally awesome boy, too. Now Nat can't wait...

  • A Second Chance

    Tara Taylor Quinn
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    When the daughter she gave up for adoption appears in her life eager to meet both her birth parents, Amelia Copperstone nervously agrees to track down a man she hasn't seen in thirty years. What she finds is rekindled passion -- and, at age forty-eig...

  • Scout's Honor

    Jory Simms

    Now that she and Eli have the farm under control, Victoria is looking to "get involved" in Bailey. She decides to be a Scout leader for a local Jaybird troop. Darcy also gets involved and goes on the next overnight. The overnight goes off with only a...

  • The Scoundrel

    Lisa Plumley

    Brawny blacksmith Daniel McCabe is not the marrying kind. He likes his freedom just fine, and no Morrow Creek lady is going to change that! But an unexpected delivery makes the bachelor rethink his roguish ways. Daniel suddenly needs a wife -- and...

  • Saxon Lady

    Margo Maguire

    Sworn Enemies...Fated Lovers Drawn to her avowed enemy Baron Mathieu Fitz Autier expected some resistance when he staked his claim to the Saxon land he'd won in battle. But he never imagined that the former lady of the manor would have the cour...

  • Saving the World

    Julia Alvarez

    Latina novelist Alma Huebner is suffering from writer's block and is years past the completion date for yet another of her bestselling family sagas. Her husband, Richard, works for a humanitarian organization dedicated to the health and prosperity of...

  • Savannah Breeze

    Mary Kay Andrews

    Southern belle BeBe Loudermilk has lost all her worldly possessions, thanks to a brief but disastrous relationship with the gorgeous Reddy, an "investment counselor" who turns out to be a con man. All that's left is a ramshackle 1950s motel on Tybee ...

  • Sanctuary Ranch

    Junior Michael Ray; Corinne Joy Brown

  • San Antonio Sunset

    Kathleen Fuller

    After trouble with his family and much debate, dejected rancher Jeremiah Jackson sets out from San Antonio to make his fortune mining gold in California. With his heart full of hope and determination burning within, he forges through the Sierra Nevad...

  • Run for the Money

    Stephanie Feagan

    THEY HIRED HER TO WATCH THE MONEY -- NOW SHE'S ACCUSED OF STEALING IT! It all started with Whitney "Pink" Pearl's bank statement. More than $200,000 mysteriously showed up in her account -- along with a paper trail linking her to embezzling from ...

  • Rules

    Cynthia Lord

    NO TOYS IN THE FISH TANK. Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules-from "a pe...

  • Ruby Lu, Empress of Everything

    Lenore Look

    When Ruby's cousin Flying Duck emigrates from China to live with her, Ruby decides the best thing about Flying Duck is that she is a great new friend. BUT the worst thing about Flying Duck is that now, no one speaks English at home. Plus, there's str...

  • Rosa Takes a Chance: Mexican Immigrants in the Dust Bowl Years

    Susan Martins Miller

    Time Period:  1934 - 1935  Rosa Sanchez's parents took a chance on their future by emigrating from Mexico to the United States. Now, the ten-year-old takes a chance of her own. She wants to go to school! That's not easy for an immigrant gir...

  • The Room of Wonders

    Sergio Ruzzier

    Pius Pelosi, a young pack rat, is a born collector who fills aroom with his marvelous findings, attracting curious visitors.His very favorite item, a plain gray pebble, is given a place ofhonor, which baffles everyone. They all ask why he would keeps...

  • Romantically Challenged

    Beth Orsoff

    When L.A. entertainment lawyer Julie Burns becomes convinced that finding The One is "just a numbers game," she sets out on a dating frenzy. From chance meetings and blind dates to dating services and the wonderful world of the Internet, Julie will t...

  • Riding Out the Storm

    Claudia Jones

    Fifteen-year-old Emily has never wondered if she's had past lives-she's too busy thinking about the life she's living. Between taking care of her horse Moonie, keeping up with homework, and fending off the school bully who picks on her best friend fo...

  • Riding Dirty on I-95

    Nikki Turner

    BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Nikki Turner's Heartbreak of a Hustler's Wife. Queen of hip hop fiction Nikki Turner follows her gritty, emotionally charged novel The Glamorous Life with this new tale from the hood featuring a beau...

  • The Richest Season

    Maryann McFadden

    Sometimes you have to leave your life to find yourself again... When lonely corporate wife Joanna Harrison runs away to Pawleys Island, she has no idea what will happen next. As she's drawn into island life, and an exciting new relationship, sudde...

  • Riches of the Heart

    Tish Davis

    Glenna Mayfield has been taking care of the family business for more than ten years, but it looks as if her time of independence is up. After her father, an ex-convict, has a stroke, she decides she can't handle things on her own. With so much person...

  • Rewind

    Laura Dower

    Sometimes, love only makes sense backward. This is a teen romance like no other -- a thrilling tale of betrayal and heartache told in an incredible reverse format. Think MEMENTO meets SUMMER BOYS! It's prom night. Shy hippie chick Cady is hopin...

  • Regarding the Sink: Where Oh Where Did Waters Go?

    Kate Klise

    Geyser Creek Middle School's cafeteria sink is clogged, and the smell is . . . well, P-U-trid. Of course, the savvy students in the sixth-grade class know just who can create a fabuloso new sink--Florence Waters, who designed the school's OTT (over-t...

  • Redemption

    Carolyn Brown

    Geneva Garner's mind was fixed on survival, her unborn child, escaping out of Savannah, and getting away from the men in the white robes with hoods over their heads. Covered in dirt and smoke from the cellar where she took refuge when the Klan burned...

  • The Red Carpet

    Lavanya Sankaran

    Wry humor and a delicious grasp of the friction between generations in Bangalore are the hallmarks of Lavanya Sankaran’s fresh, deeply nuanced debut collection. “A potpourri of beggars and billionaires and determinedly laid-back ways,” Bangalo...

  • The Raven League

    Bill McCay

    When Sherlock Holmes goes missing, Archie Wiggins, an ex-member of the Baker Street Irregulars, believes the Irregulars may have something to do with it, and sets out with other misfits to not only find the famous sleuth, but solve a few murders alon...

  • A Rare Murder In Princeton

    Ann Waldron

    TOME OF DEATH For some patrons of Princeton's library, books are their whole lives. But for one bookworm, they will also spell death... McLeod Dulaney has returned to Princeton as a visiting professor -- and as a lifelong lover of the written word, ...

  • Quite Honestly

    John Clifford Mortimer

    Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. She's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences from Manchester University, and the offer of a high-powered job in advertising. With all this good fortune, isn't it appropriate for her to give so...

  • A Question of Murder

    Jessica Fletcher; Donald Bain

    ALL PART OF THE SHOW Jessica Fletcher is in the Berkshires attending a writers' conference at a historic mansion where her friends the Savoys are hosting a murder-mystery party. As both a crime solver and a mystery author, Jessica is an old hand at t...

  • Quest for the Tower

    Michael Anthony Steele

    Defend the Tower. Save the Kingdom.
    The adventure continues and new challenges await King Jayko

    The peaceful reign of King Jayko is threatened when Lord Vladek unexpectedly returns with an army of Rogue Knights. The fate of Morcia is determ...

  • Purrz, Baby

    Vicki Hendricks
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    A heart-stopping mystery anthology from fourteen of today’s best-loved and bestselling female mystery and suspense writers.

    In the expert hands of fourteen unsurpassed storytellers, being a housewife takes on a whole new meaning. Get ready...

  • Promoted to Mom

    Karen Rose Smith
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    April Renquist is riding the corporate fast track when pregnancy challenges her to sort out her priorities: from the fiance she broke up with, to the fears that plague her...to the dawning realization that perhaps life doesn't stop with motherhood....

  • Promises Of The Heart

    Elaine Overton

    Life is tough for mechanic Callie Tyler, between keeping her party-loving, cross-dressing cousin out of trouble, and struggling to keep her financially strapped garage out of bankruptcy. The last thing she needs is to make an enemy of dangerously att...

  • The Prodigal Son

    Kate Sedley

    The latest title in the acclaimed Roger the Chapman series When Roger the Chapman discovers he has a hitherto unknown half-brother, he has mixed feelings about the matter. But when John Wedmore is accused of being the young page who, six years earlie...

  • The Problem Child

    Michael Buckley

    For Sabrina and Daphne Grimm, the latest in a long line of fairy-tale detectives, there is one mystery they want to solve more than all the others: Who kidnapped their parents more than a year ago? Sabrina enters the hideout of the Scarlet Hand, the ...

  • Prisoner of Memory

    Denise Hamilton

    Set in L.A.'s vibrant Russian immigrant community, where new money and raw power collide with hidden agendas left over from the Cold War, Prisoner of Memory confirms Hamilton's reputation as one of the most astute writers of engrossing, atmospheric c...