Books Published in August 1994

New Books List: 521 titles

  • Zoe's Gift

    Sheila Hayes

    New Yorker Cory Gales's unhappiness at having to spend her summer at Rose Farm in England with the ever-so-perfect Zoe Mitchell starts to fade when she realizes that Zoe has ESP, which leads to their involvement in a century-old mystery....

  • Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Seventh Annual Collection

    Ellen Datlow

  • The Wrong Wife

    Jule McBride

    HIS MAIL-ORDER BRIDE HAD BEEN SWITCHED FOR ANOTHER! Who had he married? When wealthy widower Lord Nicholas Westhawke lifted the veil, the bride beneath it didn't match the photo he'd received in the mail! She was prettier - just not the nanny he...

  • Wrench

    Primo Levi

    This is not a book for journalists. Civil servants, too, will feel uneasy while reading it, and as for lawyers, they will never sleep again. For it is about a man in his capacity as homo faber, a maker of things with his hands, and what has any of us...

  • The Wrath of Squat

    Bruce Coville

    WHAT IS SQUAT’S EVIL PLAN? When Blork is declared a hero and invited to the Galactic Celebration, his old enemy, Squat, decides it is time to take revenge. With the help of his personal mad scientist, Squat hatches a plan to humiliate Blork in fro...

  • Wolverine: Duty and Honor

    Gail Herman

  • The Wizard's Promise

    Samuel Marshak

  • Wizard's First Rule

    Terry Goodkind

    A SWORD OF TRUTH TO DESTROY A PRINCE OF LIES Twilight has fallen upon the Three Kingdoms: a grey time that could foretell either dawn or descent into bitter night. Richard Cypher, woodsman and warrior, is chosen to bear the powerful Sword of Truth...

  • Witch Dance

    Peggy Webb

    AN EXQUISITE WOMAN OF IVORY AND JADE She'd come to Witch Dance, Oklahoma, to bring modern medicine to the native Chickasaw people. But when Dr. Kate Malone saw the magnificent Indian rising from the river, naked as sin and twice as tempting, every t...

  • The Wind Casts No Shadow

    Roslynn Griffith

    Despite her best intentions, schoolteacher Frances MacDonnell -- stranded in the New Mexico territory -- is irresistibly drawn to half-Indian gunslinger Chaco Jones, the man who accidentally shot down her new husband. ONLY THE GUNSLINGER WHO KILL...

  • Wilson Sat Alone

    Debra Hess

    Too shy to join the other children in group activities, Wilson resigns himself to doing everything alone--until the arrival at school of a new girl who does things alone too. By the author of the Three Little Witches series....

  • Willow Creek

    Carolyn Lampman

    TWO HARDENED HEARTS Nicki Chandler was a woman who didn't have time for frilly dresses or fancy dreams--she was too busy fighting natural disasters and the threat of a range war on her Wyoming homestead. Then a handsome, rugged stranger with a mys...

  • William Shakespeare's The Tempest

    Bruce Coville

    The fantastic monsters, spirits, and magic in the ever-popular play about love, justice, and revenge are introduced to young readers in a dramatic retelling of one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. By the author of The Unicorn Treasury. ...

  • Wild Horses, Wild Men

    Ann Williams

    JURY OF ONE... Ty Yancy was a scorned man, a dangerous cowboy...a murderer! Or so the people of Rainville, Montana, thought. Everyone, that is, except Lee Ann Newley. For some reason she believed in him, despite the scandalous whispers that brande...

  • Wild Hearts on the Edge

    Cherie Bennett

    Sandra is torn when her real father, also a musician, comes for a visit, and her efforts to build their relationship are clouded by her family's opinion of him, her boyfriend's negativity, and alienation from her fellow band members. Original....

  • Who's Your Hot Star Dream Date?

    Amanda Anderson

    Provides a series of quizzes on the backgrounds and tastes of popular young male actors and singers--and a few of the characters they play--and suggests what they would be like as dates for the reader...

  • Whitefish Will Rides Again!

    Arthur Yorinks

  • White Eye

    Blanche D'Alpuget

    Animal rights activist Diana Pembridge is embroiled in a tangle of scientific corruption and sexual scandal when her friend, scientist Carolyn Williams, is found murdered, and chief scientist John Parker will go to any lengths to protect his deadly s...

  • Whispered Words

    Catherine Wyatt

    As the Chicago Daily Star's first female crusading reporter, Emily McKay vowed to expose the graft and corruption that ran rampant through the city. Yet from the moment she collided with Quinn Stoddard, Emily knew her battle was just beginning. Born ...

  • Where's My Mom?

    Leon Rosselson

  • Where Old Bones Lie

    Ann Granger

    Meredith Mitchell has joined her friend, archaeologist Ursula Gretton, in the Cotswold village farmland, digging for the old bones of Saxon warriors. But it's the discovery of some very new bones that brings Inspector Alan Markby to the ancient buria...

  • Where in America's Past Is Carmen Sandiego

    John Peel

  • When You Go to Kindergarten

    James Howe

  • When I Grow Bigger

    Trish Cooke

  • What Will the Children Think?

    Trisha Alexander

    Caleb Mahoney was as seductive as sin - and entirely too tempting for widowed mom Margaret Desmond. The handsome bachelor was a few years younger than she, but no less mature when it came to other matters. With Caleb, Maggie suddenly found herself le...

  • What Joe Saw

    Anna Grossnickle Hines

  • What Are Friends For?

    Naomi Horton

    MR. MARRIAGE-PHOBIC Name: Connor Devlin Turn-ons: Independent, sexy women Turn-offs: Any female looking for a ring on her third finger, left hand! Favorite Romantic Interlude: Doesn't involve a single thought about commitment All of a su...

  • Wellfire

    Don Pendleton

    FLAMES OF WAR Long promised retribution for the Gulf War is set to explode throughout Oklahoma when a terrorist group plots to ignite the state's oil wells. Once the fiery carnage begins, it would be unstoppable. Mack Bolan must go under cover...

  • Wedding Song

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    KEEP YOUR LOVE FOR ETERNITY For generations, couples have been coming to Eternity, Massachusetts, to exchange wedding vows. Legend has it that those married in Eternity's chapel are destined for a lifetime of happiness. And the townsfolk are more ...

  • The Wedding Knot

    Pamela Toth

    Kindergarten teacher Karen Whitworth knew how to handle troubled tots. But she was at a loss with one youngster's temporary guardian, rough-hewn rancher Daniel Sixkiller. The handsome Comanche was all brooding silences and fierce family loyalty - hun...

  • Web of Darkness

    Helen Brooks

    Getting even... Kane Steel had everything -- money, power. But it was all at the expense of Janie's father, and now she wanted revenge.... If only Kane wasn't as clever as he was handsome. No matter how hard Janie tried, she couldn'...

  • Wanted: Dude or Alive

    Kate Morgan

    HOMICIDE ON THE RANGE Dewey's mingling with the rich and famous at the _luxurious Los Lobos dude ranch--but she isn't there for the horseback riding and hiking trails. As a favor for a friend, she's looking for the prankster who's been causing probl...

  • Walks in Stardust

    Lynn Armistead McKee

    In a time long before the arrival of the Spaniards, Cimmera runs through the biting saw grass and shallow water of the untamed Everglades. She is frantic, remembering hazy images of battle, sorrow, heartache, and loss. Finding shelter from an angry s...

  • Waking Nightmare

    Alicia Scott

    DESPERATE SEARCH... Nightmares of the day her life had been shattered still haunted Maria Pegauchi. Now private investigator Sam Mathers was demanding that she help him find a missing child, bringing back the terror of the past full-force. Mari...

  • Waiting Game

    Diana Hamilton

    "Face the truth. You want me as I want you." Saul Ackerman changed his girlfriends as often as he changed his shirts. Rich, successful and attractive, he had no shortage of women waiting to share his life. And he assumed that Fenella was a...

  • Wait for Me

    Mary Kay McComas

    "My heart will speak to yours, and time will stop...." A split-second tackle by Oliver Carey saved Holly Loftin's life during an earthquake, but only when their eyes met did he feel the earth tremble and her compassionate soul reach out to his. I...

  • Wait and See

    Virginia Bradley

    Eleven-year-old Amy Ryker, orphaned at two and raised by her grandfather, feels angry and abandoned, and when newcomer Violetta Mills, who has problems too, joins Amy's class, the two slowly become friends....

  • Wacky Jacks

    David A. Adler

    Illus. in black-and-white. Super-sleuths Herman "Houdini" Foster and his cousin, Janet Perry, discover a mystery at school, and cards are not the only things to vanish. Has Houdini's skill in making things disappear transferred to the classroom pet? ...

  • A Vow of Penance

    Veronica Black

    SEASON OF PENANCE...AND MURDER. As the Lenten season of Penance is observed in the Convent of the Daughters of Compassion, Sister Joan finds herself struggling with her less-than-Christian feelings toward two very prickly personalities: the seriou...

  • Visitations of the Night

    Richard Gilliam

  • Verdict at Medicine Springs

    R.C. House

    Finding freedom again after being set up for another man's crime and subsequently losing his fiance+a7e, Frank Woodson meets marauder and murderer Cletus Kane, and leads a posse to get revenge for an entire town. Original....

  • User

    Bruce Benderson

    A New York City hustler with a special gift for reeling in customers, Apollo, 'a pale skinned mulatto with a mournful mouth' strips at a gay sex theatre in Times Square. He is one of the most seductive and disturbing creations in recent Ameri...

  • Until Death

    Polly Whitney

    MURDER BEFORE DAWN "Morning Watch" TV co-anchor Connie Candela sits poised and ready for her cue. Her makeup and clothes are perfect. She doesn't fidget, or breathe. She is, in fact dead. Co-workers Abby Abagnarro and Ike Tygart are horrified--...

  • Unicorns and Other Fabulous Creatures

    Heather Lowenberg

  • Tune in Tomorrow

    Tom Tomorrow

  • Truths and Roses

    Inglath Caulder

    Re-Released in 2012 as Inglath Cooper HOMETOWN HERO Super Bowl hero Will Kincaid was at a crossroads. After a serious knee injury brought an abrupt end to his football career, he returned home to contemplate his future. But once there, he fou...

  • A Trusting Heart

    Helena Dawson

    'You keep insisting on how wrong I've been in my assessment of your character. Well, now you can prove it!' Armando Conti threw down the gauntlet to Jenny with all the arrogance and haughty disdain she'd come to expect of him. From...

  • True Texas Love

    Thelma Alexander

    As the widow of a distinguished senator, Leigh Wright has spent the past three years accepting awards, serving on boards, and providing stability for her children. Now it's her turn to do something for herself: leave the Washington, D.C. limeligh...

  • A True Blue Knight

    Roseanne Williams

    A BAD BOY WITH A BADGE Tomasina Walden avoided cops - especially ones that looked like Detective Brogue Donovan. In Tomasina's opinion, loving a man in a uniform wasn't worth the risk. So why did she have an irrepressible desire to see Brogue out ...

  • Trouble Ahead

    Beth Cruise

  • Tropical Depression

    Jeff Lindsay

    A disillusioned ex-cop is drawn back into danger in this “rock-solid series debut” by the New York Times"bestselling author of the Dexter novels (Booklist).   When a hostage situation turns deadly, Billy Knight loses everything -- his wife...

  • Tricks and Treats

    Judy Delton

    As Halloween approaches, Mrs. Peters puts the Pee Wees to work earning their treats by writing scary stories, making costumes, and bringing food to the local food bank -- all for the less fortunate kids in town....

  • Train Home

    Susan Richards Shreve

    "Magical . . . . A quirky, elliptical tale of obsessive emotions and double lives." The New York Times Book Review

    By the author of "Daughters of the New World," a unique and captivating tale of obsession, redemption and romance . . . in the mos...

  • Trail's End

    Frederic Bean

    Given the task of driving 1,200 longhorns from Mexico to Abilene along the Chisholm Trail, trail boss Buck Smith must contend not only with marauding outlaws, Indian attacks, storms, and stampedes, but also with his own unruly crew of cowboys. Origin...

  • Tractor Factory

    Steve Augarde

  • The Total Zone

    Liz Nickles; Martina Navtatilova

    High pressure, high risks, high profile: H the passwords of professional tennis. Nobody knows them better than Jordan Myles, tennis champ turned sports therapist, who helps players achieve the Total Zone, when the mind and body are in perfect harmony...

  • Tori's Crush

    Cherie Bennett

    To prepare for the competition against Camp Bluewater, Tori becomes an assistant for the water ballet show, but she ends up doing all the work because Delores only wants to practice her solo, a situation that worsens when Tori falls for Delores's boy...

  • Top Dog

    Erica Farber

  • Tom and Pippo and the Bicycle

    Helen Oxenbury

  • To the End of Her Days

    Malcolm MacDonald

    Jessica, a beautiful and proper widow, discovers that her feelings for her old friend David--who stood by her during her husband's long illness--are changing and must confront her attachment to the honorably married David....

  • To Love and to Cherish

    Leah Laiman

    Lovely Sarah Symington Fielding has finally left her unfaithful, power-hungry husband, James. The memories of James's casual contempt still hurt, and when she meets sweet, handsome schoolteacher Ian Taylor, she is afraid to trust again. Desperately i...

  • Time Rambler

    Kim Hansen

    A cowboy trapped in time... Travis McCord thought he'd lost his life in a shoot-out, defending his best friend's wife in 1883. But somehow he'd never been put to rest. He heard voices and saw people around him, but why couldn't they...

  • Time Fix: And Other Tales of Terror

    Don L. Wulffson

    A spine-tingling collection of eight horrifying tales reveals the scary side of normal reality, including a story of phone pranks played on an old lady and the tale of Dr. Feller's time-fix television, which sees the past and the future....

  • Thunder Wagon

    James Reasoner

    Marshal Cole Tyler and his deputy, Billy Casebolt, must track down some cattle rustlers to keep peace in Wind River, Wyoming Territory, before the culprits can light the fuse that will set off a bloody massacre...

  • Thunder Mountain

    Rachel Lee

    Thunder Mountain speaks in the voice of fire.... It was scarcely possible to believe, but Mercy Kendrick could not escape the sensation that the storm-racked mountain looking down on Conard County was a living, breathing entity - a being so powerf...

  • Three Is a Crowd // Three-Ring Circus

    D.B. Borton

    Cat Caliban relives the '60s in her search for a hippie killer. Not only does Cincinnati's smartest snoop and mother of three have to contend with her youngest daughter back home and in her hair, Cat also has an old friend who's been accused of murde...

  • Thornbeck

    Lynda Trent

    Pssion's Power Damaris Fleetwood, lady of Thornbeck, was born of sea, storm and magic. Or so it was whispered across her island keep. Certainly Gavin Rutledge, knight of the realm, doubted it not. For the merest glance from her bewitching eyes ign...

  • This Side Of Judgment

    J.R. Dunn

    Investigating two sloppy crimes, a murder and a bank computer intrusion, Washington COSSF agent Ross Bohlen finds a connection between the seemingly unrelated incidents in a cybernetically enhanced person who is presumed dead. Reprint....

  • The Things in Mouldy Manor

    Keith Moseley

    This is a pop-up book....

  • Texas Destiny

    Dana Ransom

    DESTINED TO SAVE HIM Wounded and left for dead by a band of savage Apaches, Texas Ranger Jack Bass thought his life was over -- until a white woman dressed in Indian clothing suddenly appeared. Before he could learn the identity of this green-eyed...

  • Tender Heart

    Gwen Cleary

    Pursued by her past... Forced into marriage with a wealthy stranger, Hannah Turner scandalized St. Louis society by running away from her brutal husband. Now, with nothing but a ticket West, Hannah boarded a train for Sacramento...never dreaming s...

  • Taratuta and Still Life With Pipe

    Jose Donoso

    These striking novellas are the witty crystallizations of José Donoso's concerns over a lifetime of writing.

    In them he poses many of the questions raised by his fellow Latin American writers, Fuentes, García Marquez, and Vargas Llosa: What ...

  • Taming the Pirate

    Ruth Owen

    He whispered words of sin and promise in her ear... When Laurie Palmer heated his blood with the golden lure of her gaze and the wanton heat of her smile, she stirred to life the appetites of investigator Gabe Ramirez's buccaneer ancestors! She'd ...

  • Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice

    Mark J. Plotkin

    The fascinating account of a pioneering ethnobotanist’s travels in the Amazon -- at once a gripping adventure story, a passionate argument for conservationism, and an investigation into the healing power of plants, by the author of The Amazon: What...

  • Taking Chances

    Rebecca Hagan Lee

    LOVE COMES TO TOWN... All of Harmony is abuzz with gossip when the blacksmith, Jake Sutherland, seems to be smitten. And no one is more surprised than Jake himself, who doesn't know the first thing about courting a pretty woman... There's a pla...

  • A Sweet Refrain

    Margie Walker

    When jazz musician and widower Nate Padell returns from New York City to his small Texas hometown, an unexpected danger threatens his small daughter, sending him into the arms of Jenine Jones, a music teacher and onetime love. Original....

  • Sweet Escape

    Susan Macias

    MAGGIE Preparing for her journey west, she ignored the stories about what could happen to women traveling alone. But when she looked up and saw the rugged, steely-eyed man with the gun, she wished she had heeded the warnings... COLTER He couldn'...

  • Swan Star

    Betina Lindsey

    A QUEST INTO THE MYSTICAL DARKNESS CAN FREE BOTH A WOMAN'S HEART...AND A TRANSCENDANT LOVE. In the misty moonlight of Myr, Arrah swam through waters black as satin, reveling in her freedom. Her magical feathered cloak lay on shore, where the young...

  • Surf's Up

    Erica Farber

  • Sunset Illusions

    Cherie Bennett

  • Sunrise

    Chassie West

    Returning to her childhood home in North Carolina in order to escape the harsh realities of big-city police work, Leigh Ann Warren is unwittingly drawn into a local murder mystery involving a mall's construction on top of a cemetery. Reissue....

  • Summer's Storm

    Denise Domning

    NEITHER SWORDS NOR BETRAYAL COULD STOP THEIR FORBIDDEN LOVE Lady Phillipa of Lindhurst had been a prisoner in her husband's castle since her arrival there as a child bride. His current absence gave her a respite from his cruelty and a chance to ve...

  • Summer School

    Nicholas Pine

  • The Story of Christmas

    Tyndale House

    John Haysom's resplendent, full-color watercolors bring to life the story of Jesus' wondrous birth in a stable in Bethlehem. Certain to captivate young readers, each 2-page spread features an eye-catching pop-up illustration, plus interactive windows...

  • Storm Warning

    Mercedes Lackey

    Karse and Valdemar have long been enemy kingdoms their peoples filled with mutual prejudice and mistrust. Only the vile deeds perpetrated on both kingdoms by Ancar of Hardorn, and the subsequent emergence of the armies of the Eastern Empire in the wa...

  • Steven's Enemy

    Francine Pascal

    When his sister, Jessica, falls for Ben Oliver, who usurped his starting position on the Junior Varsity basketball team and walloped him in the election for class treasurer, Steven Wakefield devises a blueprint for revenge. Original....

  • Stella's Bull

    Frances Arrington

    Although she has never seen--nor has anyone else--Stella's vicious bull, Mary Wilson knows that it is there, running amok every dark, rainy night, but when her schoolbook ends up behind the fence on Stella's land, Mary must confront her fears--and th...

  • State of Siege

    Mike McQuay

    As violent revolution sweeps through the streets of Buenos Aires, the deposed Argentinian president seeks refuge in the U.S. embassy, putting the entire compound in deadly danger, while an unstable American agent threatens to unleash a lethal virus. ...

  • Starfire

    Phoebe Conn

    He is Dez Sanchez --- brilliant space pilot --- about to take on the greatest challenge of his career. She is Blaise Quinn --- beautiful rebel Skychild --- ready to risk her life to find her vanished twin brother. From the gentle planet Aurora to the...

  • Stand-In for Murder

    Lynn Bradley

    STRANGE BEDFELLOWS It all began when a very hung over Cole January stepped out of a warm bed and onto a stone-cold corpse -- a beautiful blonde in a slinky number that would have done his male ego proud if she had a pulse. She is identified as ...

  • Stallion Valley

    Gary McCarthy

    To preserve their father's dream and save his precious thoroughbred horses, Ruff Ballou and his sister, Dixie, leave the post-Civil War South to seek a new life in Denver, only to become caught up in a search for murderous outlaws. Original....

  • Spook Sme Body A Mini

    Keith Moseley

  • Spook Matinee And Other Scary Poems For Kids

    George Ulrich

    Twenty-two poems and pictures of pirates, ghosts, spiders and trolls are designed to inspire the giggles and the shivers in equal measure, and make perfect bedtime reading for ghouls and boys. Reprint....

  • Spook Creepy Cas Mini

    Keith Moseley

  • Spilling the Beans

    Beth Cruise

    After Lindsay and her friends get the school newspaper going again, Scott decides to use his position as horoscope writer to help his friends get the dates of their dreams, only to discover that there is more to romance than astrology. Original....

  • Specters of the Dawn

    S. Andrew Swann

    Angelica Lopez, a moreau descended from genetically altered rabbit stock, finds refuge from her tough street life as a waitress in San Francisco, until Byron the fox drags her into a lethal underground of information peddling and murder. Original....

  • Spare Change

    John A. Peak

  • Southern Cross

    Jim Debrosse

    An all-expense-paid trip to the Caribbean offers a much-needed distraction to Cincinnati investigative reporter Rick Decker. Justin Grammer, the black-sheep scion of one of Cincinnati's most socially prominent families, has disappeared from a cruise ...

  • Somewhere East of Life

    Brian W. Aldiss

    Burnell, a culture preservationist, travels throughout the world appealing to the masses to consider the detriment of war and human folly, and trying to locate a ten-year piece of his memory that has been stolen and sold as soft porn...

  • Some Girls

    Kristin McCloy

    Claire moves from New Mexico to New York City hoping to find independence and some direction for her life. It's not until she meets her next door neighbor, the dazzling Jade, and begins to follow Jade's lifestyle that she feels connected to the city....

  • Snow Bride

    Dallas Schulze

    SHE'D ALWAYS WANTED TO MARRY HIM.... From the time she was a teenager, Colleen Bryan had loved Gunnar Larson. With his broad shoulders and sexy swagger, he'd been everything she'd ever dreamed of. And now, snowbound with him in the wilds of Wyomin...

  • Snagged

    Carol Higgins Clark

    Murder at a Miami panty-hose convention? It's a perfect case for a sleuth with panache and great legs. Coming to trendy South Beach for a wedding, Regan Reilly meets the bride's favorite relative, the seventy-something Uncle Richie. He's also headed ...

  • Slocum and the Gold Slaves

    Jake Logan

    After a night in a San Francisco bordello, Slocum awakens to find that he has been drugged and shanghaied aboard an Alaska-bound slave ship, en route to a remote gold mine under the control of a greedy owner and a sadistic slave driver. Original....

  • A Slight Detour

    Christopher Stasheff

    SUMMER STOCK The fledgling Star Company had scarcely landed for a quick visit to the prosperous colony planet of Citadel when they found themselves...well, grounded. To their dismay, Citadel proved to be a Puritan world where even the sight of fem...

  • The Sleeping Beauty

    Mercer Mayer

  • The Sky Lord

    Emma Harrington

    FOR LOVE . . . OR COUNTRY Isobel was a MacDougall through and through, even though she didn't agree with her clan's allegiance to England. But when that handsome devil Dallas MacDonald took her prisoner, she vowed he would rue the day he called he...

  • The Sins of the Wolf

    Anne Perry

    Nurse Hester Latterly finds herself well suited for the position: accompany Mrs. Mary Farraline, an elderly Scottish lady in delicate health, on a short train trip to London. Yet Hester's simple job takes a grave turn when the woman dies during the n...

  • A Simple Twist of Fate

    Mary Ann Evans

    A man realizes that his baby is the result of his wife's affair and leaves her. Embittered, he lives by himself in a small town. A single mother collapses and dies, whilst her toddler finds her way into the man's house. He adopts her, not realizing t...

  • Simple Passion

    Annie Ernaux

    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREA New York Times Notable BookIn her spare, stark style, Annie Ernaux documents the desires and indignities of a human heart ensnared in an all-consuming passion.Blurring the line between fact and fiction, a...

  • Silver Angel

    Phoebe Fitzjames

    Haunted by her tragic past, Boston-born-and-bred Bridey Calloway is a woman in search of a new life. That's why she just traveled all the way to Potluck, Arizona to claim her surprising, if modest, inheritance. But as the reluctant proprietress o...

  • Silver and Steel

    Susan Amarillas

    Worlds Apart Alex Moreau commanded respect both in the wilds of Montana and in Washington's political arenas. But when Mary Clancy rolled into town ready for a fight, Alex's ordered life was turned upside down. For here was a woman whose passion sti...

  • Sideshow

    Anne D. Leclaire

    Confronting the abusive ex-lover who devastated her life, Soleil Browne finds her intentions complicated by a Boston serial killer and haunting dreams about an imperiled orphan girl from sixty years in the past. Reprint....

  • The Shorty Society

    Sheri Cooper Sinykin

    Seventh-graders Drew, Bo, and Kate, sick of being teased about being short, form the Shorty Society and begin to get back at their tormenters, devising pranks that humiliate them completely, and that maybe go a little too far....

  • Shields of Pride

    Elizabeth Chadwick

    Their love defied the treachery surrounding them.... 1173. King Henry's efforts to crush his rebellious sons ignite bloody border skirmishes throughout the land. Yet it is a time of triumph for mercenary Joscelin de Gael, the bastard son of th...

  • She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain

    Emily Coplon

  • Shark in School

    Patricia Reilly Giff

    When his neighbor J. P. informs new student Matthew Jackson that the kids in their class are terrible and the teacher is known as The Shark, Matthew dreads beginning school and must tackle a difficult assignment. Reprint....

  • Shadows of Doubt

    Herb Brown

    At the behest of her birth mother, attorney and adoptee Kathleen Sullivan takes on the case of her newly discovered half-sister, Deb Garrison, accused by her husband of aborting her pregnancy and now indicted for his murder...

  • Shadows in the Mist

    Karen Young

    THE O'CONNORS Ryan O'Connor wanted his privacy. He wanted to lick his wounds and learn to forget. What he didn't want was a boy, a dog, his grandmother, his ex-wife, Joanna, and another woman invading his island sanctuary. But that's exactly what ...

  • The Shadow of Silver Tip

    Max Brand

    Facing an enemy's return two years after leaving behind a wide trail of crime and murder, Sheriff Algernon Thomas struggles against an outlaw as untouchable as a ghost who threatens revenge against the cowboys of Silver Tip, and Thomas himself. Repri...

  • Shadow

    Joyce Sweeney

    Haunted by visions, a teenage girl sees a window into what’s to come When Sarah’s cat, Shadow, is put to sleep, she feels the world crumbling around her. Shadow was her closest companion, and now, just like that, she’s gone. Sarah’s brother P...

  • The Seventh Sunrise

    Judy Cornwell

    Three women, their lives intertwined, are forced to live a lie. Zarah, an Eurasian, is denying her Indian origins; Sybil, a Jewess, is passing as a gentile; Leda, an Englishwoman, escapes a loveless marriage by mysticism. Fate takes each of the women...

  • Seven Spiders Spinning

    Gregory Maguire

    Kiss of the Siberian Snow Spider It's the discovery of the century: seven baby Siberian snow spiders frozen in a glacier. But as the spectacular chunk of ice is being trucked for analysis, the tiny tarantulas defrost -- and escape. And when their ...

  • Serendipity

    Fern Michaels

    SERENDIPITY transforms a heartbroken girl into a proud, sophisticated woman... Six years ago, Jory Ryan Landers fled Philadelphia after a brief, tragic marriage to wealthy Ross Landers. Now Jory has come home to make peace with the past. And to fa...

  • Seeing Is Believing

    Elizabeth Shub

    Two folktales, one from Ireland and one from Cornwall, about Tom and his encounters with a leprechaun and piskies, which convince him that they are real. "The visual balance of text and illustration completes the elegance of the book." --Booklist...

  • Seduced by Innocence

    Lucy Gordon

    Terri Wainwright's ice-princess fake hid a depth of passion that no man had ever touched -- but that Maurizio Vanzani could set afire with a look from his intense eyes. Still, Terri had no time to get involved with any man. She had cone to Venice...

  • The Secret Code

    Erica Farber

  • Second Vision

    Ralph Vallone

    Realizing that he has died and now walks unseen throughout the world, former rich man Henry Somerset uses his new abilities as a spirit to extract revenge against those who wronged him in life and seeks the reason behind his death. A first novel....

  • Seal Team Seven

    Keith Douglass

    OPERATION SUN HAMMER As twin torpedoes from a renegade Iranian sub streak into the hull of their escort ship, the crew of the Yuduki Maru looks on in horror... Their cargo includes two tons of weapons-grade plutonium. And now, with enough nuke ...

  • Seafire

    John E. Gardner

    James Bond is back in action, with Flicka von Grusse at his side and his licence to kill renewed once more. His target is Sir Maxwell Tarn: a businessman whose legitimate empire spans the globe, whose wealth is uncountable . . . and who appears to de...

  • Sea View Hotel

    James Stevenson

  • Scorpianne

    Emily Devenport

    Determined to unlock the deadly secrets of illegal biotech research, Lucy finds herself with a new identity on a planet on the brink of rebellion, stalked by a mysterious assassin known only by the name Scorpianne. Original....

  • Scandal's Reward

    Jean R. Ewing

    DEVILISH DELIGHT Catherine Hunter was enjoying a last stroll on the moors before she left her father's vicarage to become a paid companion to Lady Montagu. Spying the approaching horseman, Catherine had only meant to warn him of the bog; instead, ...

  • Scandal in Fair Haven

    Carolyn Hart / Carolyn G. Hart

    Henrie O is looking forward to a quiet holiday. Instead, the ex-journalist turned sleuth awakens in a cabin to discover her friend's nephew, his shirt stained with blood, his handsome face stricken by fear and horror... Craig Matthews swears he did...

  • Say Uncle

    Eric Shaw Quinn

    A gay, thirtysomething advertising executive, suddenly finds himself guardian of his infant nephew--possibly the most challenging job of his life--and is soon embroiled in a custody battle with the child's grandfather, a closed-minded, conservative s...

  • Savage Spirit

    Cassie Edwards

    Life in the Arizona Territory had prepared Alicia Cline to expect the unexpected. Brash and reckless, she dared to take on renegades and bandidos. But the warm caresses and soft words of an Apache cheiftain threatened her vulnerable heart more than a...

  • Saturday Market

    Patricia Grossman

    "This well-designed book successfully combines text and vibrant artwork to portray the cultural richness of the Zapotec people and bring to life a Saturday market in a town in Oaxaca, Mexico. The story is simply written in carefully crafted words tha...

  • Sarita

    Julie Caille
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    SENSIBLE SARITA Convinced that love is a myth, Lady Sarita aspires to a marriage of convenience...until she meets the darkly mysterious Robert, Marquess of Cheriton. From the moment they share a breathless kiss, reason falters...and romance flourish...

  • The Rustlers of Panther Gap

    Gilbert Morris

    With fast-paced action, this favorite author blazes a trail to the Ozarks, where the Buck brothers make a home for themselves after their parents' death. Their outrageous capers lead to lessons about friendship, honesty, and faith in God....

  • Runaway

    Heather Graham

    "I accepted you as payment on a gambling table because you're incredibly beautiful and I want you for the same reason." His smoldering gaze claimed her long before a poker hand made her his. Tara Brent knew she could never escape this dark and br...

  • A Royal Murder

    Elliott Roosevelt

    First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt journeys to the Bahamas to visit the exiled Duke and Duchess of Windsor and uncovers dangerous plots involving Nazi plans for expansion, smuggling, defection, wartime profiteering, and murder. At FDR's request, Eleano...

  • Royal Crimes

    Maxim Jakubowski

    Members of the British royal family become involved in mystery, mayhem, and murder in a collection of original tales by Robert Barnard, Peter Lovesey, Sharyn McCrumb, Edward Hoch, and other notable writers. Original....

  • The Rogue's Revenge

    Olivia Fontayne

    A vengeful heart is surprised by love... After the tragic news of her brother's demise, Lady Penelope Ashington awaits the arrival of the new head of the household. Once ensconced in Laughton Abbey, Nicholas Bellington proves the most insuffer...

  • Rogue Stallion

    Diana Palmer

    "I don't want kindness -- or your kind of woman." Sterling McCallum gave the plain, hard warning to Jessica Larson. The brooding rogue cop had a stone in place of a heart - and a past as mysterious as the case that had brought them together. But...

  • Rodeo Nights

    Patricia McLinn

    Rodeo rider Walker Riley had loved his young wife with every fiber of his bronco-stomped body. But, hating his reckless ways, she'd up and left, and loneliness dwelled where his soul used to be. Now Kalli was back in Wyoming--for one brief summer--st...

  • River of Sky

    Karen Harper

    When Kate Craig's husband died, the St. Louis riverboat captain left her only a legacy of debts, a battered old riverboat, and a plot of land up the Missouri. Worse, he had betrayed her love and trust. Vowing never again to put her happiness in t...

  • Rivals and Lovers

    Risa Kirk

    GENE LOGAN is a born winner. She has skill, courage and a burning desire to regain her title as a national riding champion. ROSS MALONE knows the cost of winning. Part of him understands Gene's dream and admires her for it. Another part -- th...

  • The Ring

    Shari Lewis

  • Riding Lesson

    Bonnie Bryant

    At first Carole, who has always wanted a sister, is delighted when Marie, the daughter of her father's girlfriend, comes to stay, but when Marie gets all the attention Carole grows jealous, and the Saddle Club tries to help....

  • Rider, Reaper

    James Axler

    VENGEANCE TRAIL The red-baked mountains of New Mexico offer a peaceful interlude for Ryan Cawddr, and a reunion with Jak Lauren. But in the violent post-holocaust world of Deathlands, survival is a blood-soaked game--and Ryan's idyll becomes a mis...

  • Revenant

    Melanie Tem

    Compelled by a hungry spirit to journey to the ghost town Revenant, a group of people grieving for their dead children and spouses find a second chance to contact them, and choose between the worlds of the living and the dead...

  • Reunion on Neverend

    John E. Stith

    In Neverend's underground colony, a technological laboratory on the edge of the universe, science and courage are used to unlock the secrets of the cosmos, while one man journeys to his homeland to take up a long-forgotten battle. Reprint....

  • Regency Masquerade

    Joan Smith

    Posing as Lady Crieff, a saucy, rich widow, Moira is closing in on Lionel March, the notorious thief who tricked her family out of their fortune--but Daniel Hartly has his own reasons for pursuing the scoundrel--and Moira. Original....

  • The Ranger Man

    Sheryl Danson

    SHE LASSOED HIM IN THE PRODUCE SECTION! New York ad exec Julia Adams went shopping for the perfect mango -- what she found was the perfect man for her campaign. Chance Palladin had cowboy written all over him. His jeans were soft, his thighs were ...

  • A Rainbow Summer

    Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

    It is summertime when Janet leaves home for the first time and heads south. She falls in love with an actor called Roger, but when he gets his big break on television, cracks appear in their relationship....

  • Rainbow and Mr. Zed

    Jenny Nimmo

    In the sequel to Ultramarine, Nell McQueen uncovers the final mysteries about her past and the true meaning of her given name, Rainbow Nightingale, while spending time at the island compound of a secretive, wealthy misanthrope, Mr. Zed....

  • Quick Killer

    Jake McMasters

    Pursuing his quest for revenge in such a way that he has become a feared and hated figure to the settlers of the Arizona Territory, the White Apache meets his match in Quick Killer, a bloodthirsty army scout. Original....

  • The Queen of Hearts

    Michelle Martin

    IT WAS HARD TO DETEST A WOMAN WHO SET HIS HEART TO POUNDING. The apoplectic Lord Cartwright had some rather scathing comments for Samantha Adamson, "the scandalous meddler." But she hardly considered herself scandalous. She was, at most, determine...

  • Quarterback Hero

    Dean Hughes

    Sterling's father expects him to set an example of leadership for African Americans, so when the coach chooses him for quarterback, Sterling must decide whether he trying to please others or if he really want to be a quarterback. Original....

  • Purple Kiss

    Erica Farber

    LC tries to find out who sent him a valentine signed with only a purple kiss....

  • Pumpkin Heads

    Lara Rice Bergen

  • A Proper Taming

    Joan Overfield

    A LADY IN NEED Orphaned and penniless, Portia Haverall is a comely young miss with few options. And an embarrassing encounter with oversized Lord Connor Dewhurst, Earl of Doncaster, further narrows her choices...to one. Forced by mishap and circumst...

  • Prisoner of My Heart

    Paige Brantley

    Forced into a loveless marriage with King Philip's eldest son, Nicolette of Burgundy suddenly finds herself falsely accused of adultery... then imprisoned for life in the dreaded Chateau Gaillard! Her jailer is Laire de Fontenne, legendary commander...

  • A Prison Unsought

    Sherwood Smith; Dave Trowbridge

    Brandon vlith-Arkad is safe on Ares, the Panarchic Navy's HQ. he sole heir to the Phoenix Throne must now fight a battle of symbols and deadly political intent, if he is to win the power to order the Navy into battle, to rescue his father, and win ba...

  • Prince of Wolves

    Susan Krinard

    Through with running from the past, Joelle Randall had come to the rugged Canadian Rockies determined to face her pain and begin anew. All she needed was a guide to lead her through the untamed mountain wilderness to the site where her parents' plan...

  • Primal Instinct

    John Newland

    Paige Howard, a young worker at an Alabama animal research lab, is forced to fight back when she finds herself stalked by Kattrina Goodhand, the psychotic leader of a fanatical animal rights group. Original....

  • Pride's Last Race

    Joanna Campbell

    Race to the finish... Wonder's Pride has just had the best year of his life! First he ran to a stunning victory in the Breeders' Cup race. Then he was named Horse of the Year. Pride's trainers, Samantha McLean and Ashleigh Griffen, can't wait for the...

  • Pretty Babies

    Julia Grice

    Placed in a seemingly ideal foster home after running away from her addict mother, young Dani discovers a terrible secret about her adoptive father that compels her to kidnap her infant sister. Reprint....

  • Prairie Fire

    Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo tangles with an arrogant English lord on a hunting trip in the American West and finds himself caught between a luscious lady's maid and the lord's stunning wife, while trying to keep the entire party safe from marauding Arapaho. Original....

  • Power Trio

    Philip Baxter

    Searching for a missing rock star, who has disappeared along with his music company's tapes just as they were preparing for a platinum release, recovery specialist Paul Desmond uncovers a bloody trail of bootlegging and murder. Original....

  • Pot of Gold

    Judith Michael

    On a beautiful spring day, a hard-working single mother's secret fantasy came true. Claire Goddard won sixty million dollars in the lottery. Claure quit her job, and indulged herself and her seventeen-year-old daughter in the shopping spree of a l...

  • Playland

    John Gregory Dunne

    A critically acclaimed best-seller set in the glamorous, gangster-dominated Hollywood of the 1940s tells the story of Blue Tyler, a child star who disappears from Hollywood and becomes a bag lady in New York City....

  • The Planet Yzark

    Shari Lewis

  • Pirate's Prize

    Venita Helton

    STOLEN GOODS Loire Chartier was a determined businesswoman, the daughter of a fallen woman -- and the most ravishing beauty in 1814 New Orleans. To the notorious gentleman pirate who caught a glimpse of her in a stolen portrait, she was more enticin...

  • Picture Puzzler

    Kathleen Westray

    Demonstrating why we cannot always believe our eyes, this collection of intriguing illusions features afterimages and blind spots, reversible pictures, and tricky comparisons. Kathleen Westray introduces young children to the wonderful world of optic...

  • The Phantom of the Circus

    Gilbert Morris

  • Pete's Chicken

    Harriet Ziefert

  • Perfect Timing

    Theresa Gladden

    He made her believe she was beautiful -- and she was.... Jenny Johnson wasn't looking for a new husband, no matter how many hunks her sister sent her way, but Carter Dalton's cobalt-blue eyes mesmerized her into letting his daughter join h...

  • People of the Lakes

    Kathleen O'Neal Gear; W. Michael Gear

    Set in what will become Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky and Michigan, People of the Lakes is another spellbinding epic in New York Times and USA Today bestelling authors' W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's North America's Forgotten past saga. Clan ...

  • Peggy Sue Got Murdered // Girl Missing

    Tess Gerritsen

    IF YOU KNEW PEGGY SUE... M.J. Novak, a wisecracking, streetwise medical examiner, thinks she's seen it all. Then a red-haired woman named Peggy Sue mysteriously dies--the first victim of what may be an epidemic. M.J.'s only clue is a matchbook cle...

  • Passion's Prey

    Rebecca King

    Who was sleeping in Petra's bed? It certainly wasn't Goldilocks! It took Petra a moment to realize it, but the strange man occupying her bed was Jared Tremayne! The years since their last meeting had been kind to him. If anything, he was m...

  • Passion Becomes You

    Michelle Reid

    He wanted nothing more than her love... From their first meeting, Jemma Davis had known that forever wasn't in Leon Stephanades's vocabulary. she was inexperienced, but the passion between them was so powerful that she cast her doubts asid...

  • Paradise City // Born of Ice

    Sherrilyn Kenyon

    DISTANT STAR, ENDLESS LOVE Devyn Kell's knowledge of women, gambling, and medicine was as vast as the cosmos. But what he knew about a spaceship's maintenance system wouldn't fill a moon crater. So when irresistible Alix Garran told him that his v...

  • Outside, Looking in

    Kathleen Rowntree

    Aston Favell is a picturesque village in middle England. The main concern of the ladies who count in the village are litter and the arrival of a Peeping Tom, fleeting glimpses of whom have been caught by some of the villagers. Other work by the autho...

  • Origin and Cause

    Shelly Reuben

    Cable-TV mogul Stanfield Standish wrote the book and broke the rules in the news and entertainment industry. When his charred body is found inside the burnt-out remains of his classic 1930 Duesenberg sedan, his family files a $52 million damage suit...

  • The Optimist

    Bob Kerr

    Things go badly wrong when Danny Jackson borrows Mr Martin's dingy and gets swept out to sea. Surprisingly, instead of giving him a hard time, Mr Martin teaches Danny to sail. This book won the AIm Children's Book of the Year Award for Best First Boo...

  • Only for Love

    Elaine Barbieri

    When Gillian Haige's father dies, his only legacy is a mountain of debts. But never does the eighteen-year-old English beauty dream she'll end up in the dank hold of a ship bound for the Colonies ... as an indentured servant! And now her gentle twin ...

  • One of Our Own

    Cheryl Reavis

    OBVIOUSLY COYOTE, EARTH'S MISCHIEF-MAKER, WAS AFOOT ON THE RESERVATION, BEDEVILING NAVAHO POLICEMAN LUCAS SINGER.... The tiny orphan Lucas had rescued was clearly one of his own proud People. Yet feisty Sloan Baron, the waif's pretty spinster aunt...

  • One for the Money

    Janet Evanovich

    Trenton native Stephanie Plum is out of work, out of money, and her car's in repo-hell. So who does a hardly working girl turn to when the going gets tough? Meet cousin Vinnie, bail bondsman. Stephanie figures it's nice work if you can get it - shagg...

  • One Cow Coughs

    Christine Loomis

    An entertaining counting book is about all of the sick animals in the barnyard--moaning mules, shaking sheep, hens with headaches, and turkeys with welts on their knees--but the animals soon come up with some clever cures....

  • On the Contrary

    Andre Brink

    The South Africa of 1739 provides the backdrop for the picaresque escapades of wandering adventurer Estienne Barbier as he searches for a lost treasure, seduces women, fosters rebellion, and tries to deal with the hypocrisy of the colonial leaders....

  • On Halloween Night

    Ferida Wolff

  • On Blueberry Hill

    Marcella Thompson

    The neighborhood ladies are matchmaking! They're convinced her new farm manager is the right man for Kate! She isn't. In the first place, he's only her temporary farm manager. In the second place, the man's hiding something. Unfortunately, whenev...

  • Olivia

    Judith Rossner

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Looking for Mr. Goodbar comes the story of one family’s unfinished business and overcoming the weight of the past.Caroline Ferrante is a gifted chef who has just been tapped for her own cooking show. Bu...

  • October's Ghost

    Ryne Douglas Pearson

    Once, the arrogant leader of a small island nation brought the world to the brink of the Apocalypse. With-bold, decisive action, a young American President forced the aggressor to back down. But not every weapon was removed from the enemy's hands. ...

  • Nosferatu

    Carl Sargent

  • Northern Borders

    Howard Frank Mosher

    A New York Times Notable Book: A novel about growing up in a remote corner of Vermont, from the author Richard Russo calls “one of our very best writers.”   When six-year-old Austen Kittredge was sent up north to live on his grandparents’ ...

  • Nora

    Diana Palmer

    NORA NEEDED TO BE TAUGHT A LESSON...AND CAL WAS JUST THE MAN TO DO IT Nora Marlowe had come to Texas with visions of dashing cowboys and great adventure - but one despicable man with infernal laughing eyes put an end to her illusions. Cal Barton d...

  • No Dogs Allowed

    Jane Cutler

  • No Big Deal

    Ellen Jaffe McClain

    Humor and sensitivity mark an exploration of a controversial issue as young Janice Green does not understand why everyone in town, including her mother, is getting so excited about the rumors that her favorite teacher, Mr. P, is gay....

  • Nightfire

    Barbara McCauley

    MR. KNOW-IT-ALL Name: Thomas Kane Turn-ons: Being in charge Turn-offs: Do-good socialites Favorite Romantic Interlude: Turning a lesson in self-defense into a lesson in seduction Allison Westcott makes a big deal about her volunteer work b...