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New Books List: 599 titles

  • Tribe

    R.D. Zimmerman

    FREE FALL All he remembered was the furtive encounter, the terror of discovery, the burning cigarette...and the voyeur on the fire escape plummeting to his death. For twenty years, Todd Mills was safe, closeted, building his career as a two-time E...

  • Marriage in a Bottle

    Carolyn Zane

    ALL SHE WANTED WAS HUSBAND. WHAT SHE GO WERE SEVEN WISHES...AND A HUNK! She'd opened one ancient bottle and moments later a sexy stranger named G.T. was promising to grant her seven wishes. So single gal Hayley Douglas happily asked her own priva...

  • Mansions of Darkness

    Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

    Ambitious in its scope and provocative in its content, the saga of Count Saint-Germain is a monumental feat of the imagination. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's powerful and evocative novels have captured Saint-Germain throughout his long existence, from th...

  • The Dream of the Red Chamber

    Cao Xuequin

    The Dream of the Red Chamber is one of China's Four Great Classical Novels. It was composed in the middle of the 18th century during the Qing Dynasty. It is considered to be a masterpiece of Chinese vernacular literature and is ge...

  • Hacks

    Christopher S. Wren

    Disgusted by the amateurish enthusiasm of public radio stringer Cassandra Benoit, jaded newspaperman T. K. Farrow rescues Cass from a near rape and is shocked when she out-scoops him and captures his heart. 15,000 first printing....

  • Disney's Anytime Stories

    Mouse Works

  • Pooh Anytime Stories

    Mouse Works

  • Big Meeting

    Dee Parmer Woodtor

    It is August, and family members from far and wide travel across the wooden bridge at Pigeon Creek to gather with their kin in a special yearly reunion, where the children learn about their roots and are able to nurture a sense of belonging from olde...

  • Once Upon A Tangled Tale

    Bronwyn Wolfe

    FOUR WEDDING AND A FAIRY GODMOTHER Only a storybook affair like the marriage of Cindy Ella Jones and Princeton Chalmers could lead to three such tangled romances -- and happily-ever-after ending. BELINDA Kidnapped from the wedding party, ...

  • Daddy, Could I Have an Elephant?

    Jack Wolf

  • Do You Take This Man...

    Linda Randall Wisdom

    A funny thing happened on the way to the altar... Dru St. James: In the limo, just minutes from the chapel and her waiting fiancee, she got a bride's biggest shock: a big fat run in her stocking, right below her garter! Sam Winslow: He was on...

  • Kit and the Cowboy

    Rebecca Winters

    The rancher and the runaway. Who would ever have guessed that Kit Mitchell's guardian angel would have been wearing spurs? But rancher Jarod Banning had saved Kit's life, offering her what she needed most -- a place to hide from her stalke...

  • Diagnosis: Terminal an Anthology of Medical Terror

    F. Paul Wilson

    From alternative medicine to murder, F.Paul Wilson's Diagnosis: Terminal reveals terrors surgical, psychological, and institutional. In stark, operating-room light these fourteen writers take scalpel and pen to the body and soul of humanity as it lie...

  • City of Angels

    Chet Williamson

    I believe there's a place where the restless souls wander. Burdened bq the weight of their own sadness, they cannot enter Heaven... And so they wait, trapped between our world and the next, endlessly searching for a wag to rid themselves of their pai...

  • Second Best Man

    David Williams
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    Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

  • Halfway Home

    Bronwyn Williams

    Becoming one of Virginia's wealthiest women after unexpectedly inheriting a fortune, formerly impoverished Sara Young must protect herself from a lecherous stepbrother by marrying his most hated enemy. After coming into an unexpected inheritance,...

  • Wedding Fever

    Lee Wilkinson

    He was about to marry another woman... Raine had fallen in love with Nick Marlowe, not knowing that the tall, brooding American was anything but available. It seemed their brief affair had been just his last-minute fling. Still, the experience had t...

  • William's Wish Wellingtons: William's Dog

    Vanessa Wild

  • Miranda

    Susan Wiggs

    WHO WAS SHE? In Regency London, a woman escapes from a burning warehouse only to realize she doesn't know her own identity. Although the locket around her neck says her name is Miranda, she has absolutely no recollection of her past. Nor does ...

  • A Desirable Residence

    Madeleine Wickham

    WHAT GOES ON BEHIND CLOSED DOORS... Liz and Jonathan Chambers were in trouble. Mortgage trouble. They'd stretched themselves to busting with their new exciting project -- well, Liz thought it exciting -- buying and managing the Silchester Tutorial...

  • Death Trap

    Charles Whiting

    Common Smith is in a race against time to retrieve sensitive British intelligence before it falls into enemy handsYugoslavia, Winter 1924. The British official courier plane from Cairo to Gibraltar has been forced down in the mountains off the Yugosl...

  • Avoiding Mr. Right

    Sophie Weston

    The Mystery Man! Christina Howard knows there's no knight in shining armor waiting to rescue her. The only way for a girl to be free is to pay her own way. So when a handsome stranger offers to help her out Christina can't help being susp...

  • Too Many Crooks

    Donald E. Westlake
    in

    Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

  • Doubles or Nothing

    Eliza West

    Devastated when her friend Darcy chooses to partner newcomer Sara for the tennis club, Stephanie challenges Darcy to a face-off match in front of the whole school and fears that she will lose Darcy's friendship if she wins. Original....

  • Where Evil Sleeps

    Valerie Wilson Wesley

    Death doesn't take a holiday -- even when Tamara does. Off to sunny Kingston, Jamaica, for some much needed relaxation, former Newark cop and hard-working p.i. Tamara Hayle is pleased at first to join fellow Jersey homegirl, Lilah Love, for a nig...

  • Marriage by Arrangement

    Sally Wentworth

    In name only? Red McGee hadn't got her nickname for nothing. Her hair was as red-hot as her temper. Linus Hunt didn't particularly like her hair or her temper. He liked his life calm, orderly and businesslike. And Red was disorderly, chaot...

  • Ecstasy

    Irvine Welsh

    From the celebrated author of the best-selling cult classic Trainspotting, a new work of fiction that triumphantly puts the "E" back in Eros. With three delightful tales of love and its ups and downs, the ever-surprising Irvine Welsh virtually inven...

  • Class Trip

    Ellen Weiss

  • Callie's Honor

    Kathleen Webb

    A PROUD WOMAN ALONE After her husband's unmourned death Callie Lambert looked forward to peaceful years of hard work on her isolated Oregon ranch, doing things her way. Yet all too soon a handsome stranger showed up, a man who slowly chipped away at...

  • Under One Roof

    Shannon Waverly

    Only one summer... for Dr. Spencer Coburn to sort out his rebellious--and pregnant--daughter, Stacy. To ensure that his daughter still has a future and to rekindle the joy he used to find in his own life and work. Only one summer. . .for Gina Ban...

  • What Are They Saying About Me?

    Maureen Wartski

    Before she can discover the truth about her shy, smart lab partner with the bad reputation, teenager Meg Fairling learns that her friend has committed a terrible act of desperation, as horrible stories begin circulating about Fairling herself. Origin...

  • A Home for Hannah

    Pat Warren

    HAVE YOU SEEN THESE CHILDREN? With that sentence-broadcast on national television-Hannah Richards's whole life was about to change. Years ago she had been resigned to living her life alone. And then she had met Joel Merrick-and in his warm embr...

  • Raising Cain

    Gallatin Warfield

    His father's death on a deserted road is regarded as a natural passing, but Sergeant Joe Brown suspects foul play. He has his suspicions, and when his prime suspect is suddenly found dead too, he is charged with the murder. With Brown's reputation an...

  • Those Calculating Crows!

    Alice Wakefield

    The concept of mathematics is presented in a series of simple arithmetic problems and the enjoyable tale of Farmer Roy and his battle to rid his farm of a flock of pesky crows who are ruining his potentially successful corn crop....

  • Walking Rain

    Susan Wade

    Eight years with a new name and a new identity had not succeeded in wiping out the past. It was time for Ameba Rawlins to go home. Home to the New Mexico ranch where she had spent her childhood summers. Home to the place where she could feel her gran...

  • Small Bear Lost

    Martin Waddell

    Small Bear is accidentally left on a train one day and separated from the girl who really loves him, thus he must find a way to get back home on his own and return to his special friend, in an adventurous tale with full-color illustrations....

  • What Use Is a Moose?

    Martin Waddell

    When Jack brings home a moose and explains to his mother that there are so many things a moose can do, his mother only sees disaster and sends the moose away, but she soon realizes that Jack really loves his new friend....

  • Quantum Moon

    Denise Vitola

    In the wake of a powerful district councilman's wife's murder, detective Ty Merrick realizes that the truth will threaten the structure of the district's government and fights an unusual disorder that emerges during the full moon. Original....

  • The Death of Frank Sinatra

    Michael Ventura

    No one is innocent Born in Las Vegas to a showgirl and a small-time Mafioso, private detective Mike Rose knows this better than anyone. Like it or not, Mike's got this sin-soaked city in his blood. Now he's on a case that will take him deep into t...

  • Storms Never Last

    Vivian Vaughan
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    One hurricane-lashed night with a stranger will pay innocent Lindsey Mae Burnett's sea passage from the Texas coast. But a lightning love could thwart her plans --- and that stranger's secret mission....

  • Cast of Fate

    Allen Varney

    The Volcano City Karakto, home of the Morehl--the mad, corrupted lava elves. Decades ago, the forces of good conquered this evil city. The occupying forces of the Selumari, the coral elves, now live in an uneasy truce with their hated enemies. ...

  • Aladdin and the King of Thieves

    Chris Varley

  • Childish Things

    Marita Van der Vyver

    Living in South Africa an adult, Mart Vermaak reminisces about growing up in the South African outback during the 1970s with her roommate Dalena as they seek out the truth about love, sex, and the political realities of their country. 15,000 first pr...

  • Wheel of Dreams

    Salinda Tyson

    FUGITIVE DREAMER Kiera was desperate. The dreams that threatened to steal her soul had grown stronger in the short time since her beloved mother had died. Only if she could escape her abusive father and make her way to the witches rumored to inhab...

  • Death at Spanish Wells

    Dodge Tyler

  • Hammer and Anvil

    Harry Turtledove

    THE RED BOOTS
    Videssos was beset by enemies. A pretender held the throne--a despot who cared little that barbarian hordes and rival realms carved away at his empire, so long as the wealth and booty of the land satisfied his unbridled appetites.

  • Dreamer's Heart

    Lynn Turner

    Lately, Faith MacRae'sdreams are haunted by frightening images of a man striking out with flames and fury. And now her nightmares have just made headlines! Louisville, Kentucky is being turned upside down by a serial bomber, and Faith is the only hop...

  • Juarez Justice

    Jack Trolley

    Jack Trolley's San Diego police detective Tommy Donahoo ventures once again across the border to trace the trail of political corruption in modern-day Mexico in this bizarre, noirish crime thriller. Donahoo is a hard-living cop, but his own peccad...

  • Astrology and Predictions Workstation

    Jon Tremaine

    A deck of fortune-telling cards, twenty-five rune stones, and a Mystic Seven Spinner and spindle are all included in this how-to guide to astrology, numerology, runes, Chinese dice, palmistry, and other ways to predict the future....

  • The Action

    Peter Tonkin

  • A Test of Wills

    Charles Todd

    It's 1919, and the War to End All Wars has been won. But for Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge, recently returned from the battlefields of France, there is no peace. Suffering from shell shock, tormented by the mocking, ever-present voice of the y...

  • The Mage in the Iron Mask

    Brian Thomsen
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Volo Is Back... Mulmaster--a center for commerce and industry...where an innocent man is imprisoned, his identity obscured by a magically forged iron mask. Mulmaster--benevolently ruled by a council of nobles called the Blades...whose leader, the Hi...

  • Holding Out for a Hero

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    TEXAS MEN MAGAZINE PRESENTS: Bachelor of the month--Tanner Jones: Six feet tall, drop-dead gorgeous and filthy rich to boot, this rugged construction worker is looking for a woman who can love him for himself-- not his money. Through Texas Men ...

  • The Mating Game

    Raeanne Thayne

    Could any woman resist his blue eyes and outlaw's grin? Chase Samuelson was still the most gorgeous male Carly Jacobs had ever known! She'd never forgotten her teenage crush--or his betrayal years before--but now he was back, and the chemistry bet...

  • Gibbon's Decline and Fall

    Sheri S. Tepper

    The year is 2000. America is swept up in the tide of fundamentalism that is overwhelming the world. Suicide cults and paranoid militias are on the rise and mobs of hooded men drive young women from the streets, as the right-wing American Alliance mar...

  • Death by Rhubarb

    Lou Jane Temple

    AT CAFE HEAVEN, THE SOUFFLES DON'T FALL, BUT THE BODIES DO. Heaven Lee is sassy, brassy, and street-smart. She's also one of Kansas City's premier caterers. With a string of failed careers and stalled marriages behind her, Heaven's finally found h...

  • Fallen Angel

    Laura Taylor

    His gaze staked a claim--then his lips branded her his forever.. Thomas Coltrane never expected to find the most tantalizing challenge of his life in a rural town iii Nevada, but when his new next-door neighbor insisted she wanted him to keep his ...

  • Sex and Salmonella

    Kathleen Taylor

    When the remains of real murder victims are discovered among the grisly special effects at the amusement park horror house, forty-something waitress and amateur sleuth Tory Bauer finds a mystery in the Hall of Mirrors. Original....

  • Enticed

    Jennifer Taylor

    Shadow from the past... How many married couples had the chance to fall in love all over again? Anna might have lost her memory but she remembered her husband--and how much she loved him. Ricco Falcone was not a man who could be easily forgotten! ...

  • Summit

    Charles Taylor

  • King & Goddess

    Judith Tarr

    A fictional portrait of Queen Hatshepsut, a woman who loved her land too much to see it in the hands of one weak king after another, describes how she made a commoner her chief servant, her architect, and her secret paramour, and how she became phara...

  • Social Work

    William G. Tapply
    in

    Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

  • Great Halloween Treat

    Suzy-Jane Tanner

    Trick or treat -- it’s Halloween! Join in the fun and follow the trick-or-treaters as they go from house to house. But will they find tricks or treats behind each door? Each door ‘opens’ to reveal a festive, funny surprise.

    ...

  • The Magic Forest: Tattoo Story Book

    Tony Tallarico

    Tattoos are the latest craze among kids, and they'll go wild for these colorful storybooks, featuring die-cut covers that show the two full pages of wash-off tattoos. In The Magic Forest, a fairy helps a young princess and her parents find the riches...

  • A Monstrous Day: Tattoo Book

    Tony Tallarico

  • A Perfect Pony

    Lois Szymanski

  • A Deceptive Bequest

    Olivia Sumner

    A lord in love is seeing double -- when a lady has a secret twin! TWO LADIES, ONE GENTLEMAN...ONE MERRY MIX-UP Facing a deadly dull future as a governess, foundling Ashley Douglas hasn't an inkling that she has a twin sister named Alcida Bl...

  • Throwback

    Frank C. Strunk

    Cole Clayfield is called a throwback by those who know him. A Kentucky mountain man lost in modern times, he's more comfortable alone in his isolated cabin, hunting with his dogs, or teaching his granddaughter Shelby to understand nature and respect ...

  • Crisis on Vulcan

    Brad Strickland

    A young Spock accompanied his father, the Vulcan diplomat Sarek, to the planet Marath to help negotiate a peace treaty. With the signed treaty safely in hand, they board the Starship EnterpriseTM and head home. Spock is fascinated by the easy accepta...

  • Playing for Love

    Todd Strasser

  • Beyond Midnight

    Antoinette Stockenberg

    IN A SMALL TOWN WITH A DARK PAST... No one believes in ghosts anymore, not even in Salem, Massachusetts. And especially not sensible Helen Evett, a widow who lives for her two teenaged kids and who runs the best preschool in town. But when little ...

  • Curse of the Creeping Coffin

    R.L. Stine

    Reader beware--you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS!You're off to visit your grandmother, whose house backs up to a graveyard. At first the tombstones seem far away. But every day they move a little closer. Then you discover the headstones ...

  • The First Scream

    R.L. Stine

    Get your ticket for terror. . . . Would you open an amusement park on Fear Street? Would you take the risk and go against the ancient curse of the Fear family? Dierdre Bradley's father would. He is opening Fear Park in a few days. But he doesn't kno...

  • How to Kill a Monster

    R.L. Stine

    HOME ALONE... WITH A MONSTER? Gretchen and her stepbrother, Clark, hate staying at their grandparents' house. Grandpa Eddie is totally deaf. And Grandma Rose is obsessed with baking. Plus, they live right in the middle of a dark, muddy swamp. Things...

  • Clouds End

    Sean Stewart

    The author of Resurrection Man, a New York Times Notable Book, weaves a fantasy about two female twins, one earth-born and one descended from the heavens, who pursue a fate larger than life. Reprint....

  • The Menace of Mysterio

    Michael Stewart

  • Kennedy's Ghost

    Gordon Stevens

    It was the sort of day you remembered. Where you were when you heard and what you were doing; who you turned to and who you telephoned.This is not 22 November 1963, but now. This is 'KENNEDY’S GHOST', a nerve-shredding thriller of kidnap, conspirac...

  • With His Ring

    Jessica Steele

    The ruse and the ring! Yorke Mackinnon was determined to get back his grandmother's emerald ring...Grandma had given him two choices: return the ring to her, or give it to the woman he wanted to marry. Sabina was safekeeping her best frien...

  • Mrs. O'Dell's Third-Grade Class is Shrinking

    George Edward Stanley

  • Oxford Mourning

    Veronica Stallwood

    While writing a novel, Kate Ivory clashes with Olivia Blacket, an English don at Leicester College, and when Olivia turns up dead and Kate's boyfriend becomes the prime suspect, Kate must find a way to unearth the truth...

  • Gerbilitis

    Stephanie Spinner

    Unenthused about having to care for Weebie, the class gerbil, during summer break, Garth is astonished when he realizes that he can communicate with Weebie and has wonderful adventures that he fears will end with the summer. Simultaneous....

  • Sing, Elvis, Sing!

    Stephanie Spinner

    Visiting his aunt with his gerbil companion Weebie, Garth learns that his aunt's dog, Elvis, is in a state of deep depression that comes from the star-stricken canine's lifelong dream of singing the national anthem at a Braves game. Simultaneous....

  • Encyclopedia Brown and the Case of Pablo's Nose

    Donald J. Sobol

    Encyclopedia Brown, the secret weapon in Idaville's war on crime, is back--with 10 all-new mysteries to solve. Bugs Meany and his tricky Tigers are back, too. And Wilford Wiggins, lazy as a bedpost, is still dreaming up ways to part little kids from ...

  • What's the Big Idea?

    Margaret Snyder

  • Lucca and Chester's Big Fight

    Elizabeth Smitt

  • The Knowledge of Water

    Sarah Smith

    An enigmatic man haunted by guilt and a dark secret from the past ... A beautiful young woman consumed by a desire that could destroy her lifelong dream ... A madman who stalks them both in retribution for a murder they know nothing about ......

  • Daughters of Darkness

    L.J. Smith

    UNEARTHLY BEAUTY There's something strange about the new girls in town. Briar Creek, Oregon, has never seen anything like the supernatural grace of Rowan, Kestrel, and Jade, three sisters who move into the dilapidated old house next to Mark and Ma...

  • Cowboy at the Wedding

    Karen Rose Smith

    Maid Of Honor Falls For Best Man! Other than being in the same wedding party, Cade Gallagher and Miranda Sinclair had nothing in common--except intense attraction. After one soul-searing kiss goodbye, Miranda wasn't going to let the sexy cowboy ge...

  • Cheap Ticket to Heaven

    Charlie Smith

  • Bliss

    Bob Sloan

  • Amanda's Perfect 10

    Teddy Slater

    Encouraged by Olympics trainer Coach Sokolov, who tells her that her routine is nearly a perfect 10, Amanda plans to get an audition for a place on his team but fears her plan will mean big trouble. Original....

  • Just a Minute

    Teddy Slater

    Attempting to show his newest drawing to his family, young Fred is discouraged when everyone proves too busy at first and wants him to "wait a minute," and his pet dog shows him that a minute is sometimes too long, in an easy reader featuring a range...

  • Follow the Dream: The Story of Christopher Columbus

    Peter Sis

    Illus. in full color. The 15th century comes alive in this splendidly original picture book about Christopher Columbus. "The illustrations, executed in a variety of media, show scenes from the explorer's life as well as some imaginary creatures that ...

  • The Trouble with Texans

    Maggie Simpson

    The more she sees Michelle Davis has come to Sotol Junction, Texas, for one reason. To check out what kind of father her ex-brother-in-law is. Michelle's sure her niece would be better off living in Boston. But this small border town and its frien...

  • The Black Vessel

    Morris Simon

    The discovery of a cursed statue buried deep within an ancient silver mine in Almarron becomes the focus of sinister intrigue and arcane research. Mazrooth al Yedom's study of the dangerous sculpture extends far beyond the Savage Baronies in time and...

  • Raiders of the Rimrock

    Luke Short

    Determined to take over all of Tornado Basin, shrewd sheepman Sands realizes he has bitten off more than he can chew when he is confronted by a gang of angry men, a determined young woman, and range detective Tim Enever...

  • Forging the Runes

    Josepha Sherman

    Banished from the world of humans after being framed, elven prince Ardagh struggles to find a place for himself and is called upon to defend Ireland against the evil magic of an Anglo-Saxon menace. Original....

  • Dead for a Ducat

    Simon Shaw

    Caught in a career slump, actor Philip Fletch is delighted to be offered a lucrative part in a movie, but, after accepting, he finds his life suddenly being threatened during filming and must turn the tables on his predator in an attempt to save his ...

  • Curse of the Grizzly

    Jon Sharpe

    Torn between the demands of hunting down a human-eating grizzly bear and fending off two beautiful women who demand his services, Skye Fargo stumbles across a lost mine that contains millions in bloody profits. Original....

  • Crows over a Wheatfield

    Paula Sharp

    This extraordinary bestseller, set in small-town Wisconsin and spanning thirty years, is the story of Judge Melanie Klonecki, the daughter of an abusive and brilliant criminal defense lawyer. Returning to the rural landscape of her youth, Melanie bef...

  • Just a Family Man

    Carolyn Seabaugh

    All Kate Prescott was looking for was a nice, stable man. One who would stay home at night, read stories with her son, Bobby ...the kind who wouldn't make her pulse race and her heart break. The settling-down type who so rarely showed up in a tiny tr...

  • Night Sky Mine

    Melissa Scott

    The tale of a complex society details the life of young Ista Kelly, a foundling and the only survivor of a pirate raid on an asteroid mine, in a future in which one cannot live without an official identity. Reprint....

  • Tut, Tut

    Jon Scieszka

    The intrepid Time Warpers find themselves in the middle of hieroglyphic high jinks in ancient Egypt....

  • Addie and the Renegade

    Dallas Schulze

    STRANDED...WITH A STRANGER Crashing his charter plane was not in single father Cole Walker's plans. But now he was stranded with his beautiful passenger, Adelaide Smith, and wondering why he wasn't feeling worse about things.... Surviving the c...

  • It's the First Day of School!

    Charles M. Schulz

  • Kick the Ball, Marcie!

    Charles M. Schulz

    Regardless of what Peppermint Patty does to teach Marcie the basics of the sport of football, Marcie always seems to end up doing things in her own unique way, making Peppermint Patty wonder if Marcie will ever learn how to play. Original....

  • Trick or Treat, Great Pumpkin

    Charles M. Schulz

    ‘Dear Great Pumpkin, I visited fifty homes today to tell them about you . . .’ Linus tries to spread the word about the Great Pumpkin, only to have door after door slammed in his face. So, on Halloween night, only Sally Brown accompanies him to t...

  • Your Dog Plays Hockey?

    Charles M. Schulz

    During an ice hockey game, Snoopy hurts his knee and has to be taken to the hospital for surgery, but while sitting in the waiting room, Charlie Brown and Marcie discover something very interesting. Original....

  • Voyage

    Elaine L. Schulte

    Years after a dashing exchange student named Alex visits her home, Anne Marie inherits a ticket for a cruise to the homeland of the young Greek who is still dear to her heart. She looks forward to a renewed acquaintance and, perhaps, rekindled affect...

  • Phoenix Upside Down

    Elizabeth Scarboro

    Although Jamie does not particularly like the year away from her friends and home in Colorado, she is happy to see that the time to go back home is soon approaching, until she overhears her parents talking about staying permanently and her fears real...

  • Someone Like You

    Susan Sawyer

    Clashing throughout their childhoods and agreeing that they have nothing in common, flirtatious Kate Carey and widower Sam Springer are unexpectedly brought together when Kate moves in as a temporary nanny for Sam's small child. ...

  • Marvel Universe

    Peter Sanderson

  • More Short and Shivery

    Robert D. San Souci

    Thirty hair-raising stories from around the world fill this spooky collection with delicious shivers and spine-tingling chills -- perfect for fans of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark!   Sit down and meet "The Vampire Cat," "The Draug" and "The...

  • Pedro and the Monkey

    Robert D. San Souci

    In this Filipino trickster tale, Pedro finally catches the monkey that has been stealing his corn. But when the wily thief begs for his release, the kindhearted farmer sets him free. In return, the monkey tells Pedro that he will arrange for the poor...

  • The Football that Won

    Michael Sampson

  • The Dragon's Dagger

    R.A. Salvatore

    Gary had longed to return to the realm of Faerie ever since the day he left. In that mystical world hidden behind his house, life was very different. But at least there was beauty, and peace. But things have changed since Gary's last visit. The sa...

  • Passage to Dawn

    R.A. Salvatore
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Six years. Not so long in the lifespan of a drow. And yet--in counting the months, the weeks, the days, the hours--it seemed to me as if I had been away from Mithril Hall a hundred times that number, The place was another lifetime, another way of lif...

  • Second Chances

    Sharon Sala

    FIRST, A KISS It happened in the space of a heartbeat. Matt, the mysterious cowboy, pierced the armor around Billie's heart, and then walked out of her life. But before their brief moment of passion faded into a bittersweet memory, fate reint...

  • ABC of Crawlers and Flyers

    Hope Ryden

  • Brides for Brazen Gulch

    Renee Roszel

    THE BRIDE: Lorna Willow THE GROOM: Any nice, stable guy who will make a good father for her son THE PROBLEM: Clint McCord, daredevil stunt pilot...and heartbreaker In Brazen Gulch, eligible bachelors were a dime a dozen. How hard could it be...

  • Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

    Laura Rossiter

  • Little Ballerina

    Katharine Ross

    Illustrated in full color. The Little Ballerina will dance her way into the hearts of little girls everywhere. Readers will share her determination as she practices the five basic positions, works at the barre, and struggles to do a perfect pirouette...

  • I Do, I Do...For Now

    JoAnn Ross

    HIS FATAL FLAW His problem, Mitch Cudahy told himself yet again as he hung upside down in a tree rescuing a cat, was that he always had to be the hero. Which was fine on the job, but he had to learn to leave his work at the fire station. Maybe he...

  • The Silver Stone

    Joel Rosenberg

    In a place of lethal politics, three friends became entangled in the sinister intrigues of noble houses. Amid the whispers of doomsday prophecies, young Ian Silverstein swordsmanship and mettle were tested and, judged most worthy. Now the young...

  • See Me In Your Dreams

    Patricia Rosemoor

    The McKenna Legacy: Does Keelin McKenna have what it takes to fulfill it? Keelin McKenna dreamed through other people's eyes...victim's eyes. Too bad no one ever believed her. But when Keelin tried to reunite the McKenna clan, the dreams intensi...

  • The Boy Who Ate Fear Street

    Stephen Roos

    HE JUST KEEPS EATING, AND EATING, AND EATING.. . Sam Kinny used to be a picky eater. He hated to try new foods. But not anymore. Now he eats everything he sees. Paste and pepper. Dishwashing soap, and dog food, and dirt. Everything. Sam won...

  • Innocent Graves

    Peter Robinson

    The worst that can possibly happen... has. A beautiful child is dead--defiled and murdered in a lonely graveyard on a fog-shrouded evening. It is the sort of horrific crime Chief Inspector Alan Banks fled the city to escape. But the slaying of a b...

  • Star Country

    Jill Robinson

    When the phone goes at four in the morning it means somebody's dead, drunk, or wants to get laid. . . . In the hip and knowing L.A. world where Alexandra Zachary grew up, life is all in how you play the scene. Though she's been a successful producer ...

  • Daring To Dream

    Nora Roberts

    Nora Roberts presents the first novel in a dramatic new trilogy. Margo, Kate, anal Laura were brought up like sisters amidst the peerless grandeur of Templeton House. But it was Margo whose dreams first took her far away... Margo Sullivan had ever...

  • The Mummers' Curse

    Gillian Roberts

    When, a reveling Pierrot is shot dead at the Mummers' Parade in Philadelphia, schoolteacher Amanda Pepper is first just a horrified spectator. But then the prime suspect - her friend and fellow teacher at Philly Prep - falsely claims to have been wit...

  • A Booke of Days

    Stephen J. Rivele

    Written by the coauthor of the film Nixon, a critically acclaimed recreation of the first papal crusades, in 1096, focuses on one man who undergoes a spiritual crisis amid the fury and mindless greed of the pilgrimage....

  • Today Is the Day

    Nancy Riecken

  • Having It All

    Emma Richmond

    Rowan wanted it all: a man, a marriage and her own company! But her transatlantic romance with Bostonian businessman Arden Harveson had been doomed from the start. Compromise hadn't been in either of their vocabularies and they had parted bitterl...

  • Bachelor Brothers' Bed & Breakfast

    Bill Richardson

    A pair of endearingly eccentric bachelors--in their fifties, and fraternal twins--own and operate a bed & breakfast establishment where people like them, the "gentle and bookish and ever so slightly confused," can feel at home. Hector and Virgil t...

  • Once More With Feeling

    Emilie Richards

    LIFE IS FULL OF SURPRISES Elisabeth Whitfield is restless. Her son doesn't need her anymore. She and her husband don't seem to connect the way they used to. And she's secretly envious of gorgeous, tempestuous Gypsy Dugan -- the superstar host of a...

  • Hot on His Trail

    Denise Richards

    LOVE ME DEADLY A routine assignment for Las Vegas private eye Geri Halifax turns deadly when the unfaithful wife she's been hired to follow is murdered right before her eyes. Suddenly, feeling vulnerable and alone, everything changes for Geri whe...

  • Swim!

    Eve Rice

  • Wish List

    Jeane Renick

    AS THE NEW YEAR DAWNS, SO DOES THEIR FUTURE TOGETHER Charlayme Pearce's new book assignment is a fantasy come to life-a chance to spend the New bear in the lush forests of exotic Nepal. Not to mention working beside the irresistibly sensual Jordan...

  • The Keys to the Street

    Ruth Rendell

    MISSING PERSONS Each of the murdered men was found impaled on the spiked fence around Regent's Park. Except for one, all were street people - like Pharoah the Key Man - whose real identities had vanished with their descent into the city's undersi...

  • A Needle For The Devil

    Ruth Rendell
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    Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

  • The Devil Problem: and Other True Stories

    David Remnick

    Readers know from his now classic Lenin's Tomb that Remnick is a superb portraitist who can bring his subjects to life and reveal them in such surprising ways as to justify comparison to Dickens, Balzac, or Proust. In this collection, Remnick's gift ...

  • April Blossom's Wedding

    Alexandra Reid

  • Lacey's Dancing Shoes

    Alexandra Reid

  • Moon Shimmer's Birthday Party

    Alexandra Reid

  • Sea Starr's Day at the Beach

    Alexandra Reid

  • The Seduction of Lady Carroll

    Joy Reed

    AFFAIR OF THE HEART The very young, very beautiful Lady Carroll was at loose ends in London. Recently widowed, she vowed never, ever to allow a domineering husband to tell her what to wear and what to do. Then her dearest friend and trusted confid...

  • The Angel with the Smallest Wings

    William Raymond

  • Above All Others

    Karen Ranney

    The daughter of an impecunious baron --- and a woman with few llusions and even fewer assets --- Katherine Sanderson has just accepted the position of governess to the infant daughter of the Earl of Moncrief. The notorious, sinfully handsome nobleman...

  • The Greatest Gift

    Karen Ranney
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    Love is always a miracle, but sometimes it needs a little help from above. Now, seven authors of historical romance bring us stories sure to make us true believers in the divine intervention that unites hearts, souls...and bodies! And in Karen Ra...

  • Someone Got To Eddie

    Ian Rankin
    in

    Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

  • Shadows

    Kimberly Rangel

    AN ANCIENT CURSE... A MODERN HORROR In the distant past, in a far-off land, the spell was cast, damning the family to an eternity of blood hunger. Over countless centuries, in the dark of night, they were doomed to assume the shape of savage beas...

  • Thank You, Pooh!

    Ronne Randall

  • Cool in School

    Janet Quin-Harkin

  • The Demon of the Deep

    Brad Quentin

    "That Thing! Is that an eye?" It's huge, and cold, and slimy. And it's dragging them deeper and deeper into an unknown world far under the South Pacific, where gigantic crustaceans creep through dark chasms and mutant monsters lurk in lightless caver...

  • The Forbidden City of Luxor

    Brad Quentin

    Deep in the trackless jungles of India, in an ancient city prowled by man-eating tigers and infested with crocodiles, a strange light is seen. Is it a message form the ancient gods? Jonny quest doesn't think so. He believes in sciences, not in gho...

  • The Last Don

    Mario Puzo

    The Last Don is Domenico Clericuzio, a wise and ruthless old man who is determined to see his heirs established in legitimate society but whose vision is threatened when secrets from the family's past spark a vicious war between two blood cousins. T...

  • Sentinels

    Bill Pronzini

    A "worried mother" job takes "Nameless" to a California backwater, where college student Allison McDowell has disappeared with her mysterious new boyfriend on a drive from Oregon to San Francisco. And behind a simple missing-persons case lies a ...

  • The Sinner

    Fayrene Preston

    He'd taken her captive in a savage moment--and spirited her to paradise.... He stood on the beach, as wild as the approaching storm--and hated himself for inspiring the fear that darkened Jillian Wythe's gray eyes. Lured into his trap, Jillian awa...

  • Tran

    Jerry Pournelle

    Finding himself on the distant world of Tran, which is populated by humans from all Earth times, former mercenary Rick Galloway, now known as Lord Rick, must unite the warring nations of the planet to survive the time of the Demon Star....

  • Pride's Way

    Patricia Potter
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    A wounded man on the run takes a passionate journey to unexpected treasure with a woman who shelters him from a fierce Colorado mountain storm....

  • Erica

    Eileen Pollinger

    Erica Nelson is shaken by her mother's career-focused decision to spend a year away from her family. How can her mother even consider living apart from them, and how will their family survive? Then a smear campaign threatens her father's weekly news...

  • Dog Doo Afternoon

    Pat Pollari

  • Tikvah Means Hope

    Patricia Polacco

    Justine and Duane and their neighbors are happily getting ready for Sukkoth, the Jewish harvest holiday. Suddenly, catastrophe strikes as a fire sweeps through their town. Luckily for everyone, there are still miracles in this world--sometimes in the...

  • The Murders in the Rue Morgue

    Edgar Allan Poe

    The Murders in the Rue Morgue was written by Edgar Allan Poe and first published in 1841. The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened on the inside. The chimney was too ...

  • Coming Home

    Rosamunde Pilcher

    Against the backdrop of an elegant Cornwall mansion before World War II and a vast continent-spanning canvas during the turbulent war years, this involving story tells of an extraordinary young woman's coming of age, coming to grips with love and sad...

  • The Deadly Past

    Christopher Pike

    Dinosaurs create prehistoric hysteria in this eleventh book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Pike’s Spooksville series -- now on TV!There are dinosaurs in Spooksville! Huge meat-eating lizards attack people in their cars. Flying rep...

  • Mercy

    Jodi Picoult

    Police chief of a small Massachusetts town, Cameron McDonald makes the toughest arrest of his life when his own cousin Jamie comes to him and confesses outright that he has killed his terminally ill wife out of mercy. Now, a heated murder trial pl...

  • The Penguin Book of Scottish Folktales

    Neil Philip

    The telling of folktales in Scotland comes from an oral tradition that blends rich imagination with verbal artistry.Kate Crackernuts and the two herdsmen of Lochbuie, the Black Laird and the Milk-white Doo, Oisean, Mac Iain Direach and the wonders of...

  • The Pizza Puzzle

    Susan Beth Pfeffer

    Accused of pulling a nasty prank on a teacher, Taryn tries to clear her name at school while trying to smooth things over at home, where her parents' constant fighting makes her afraid they will get divorced....

  • Ride the Beast

    Don Pendleton

    DEATH GAMES Red China is the pulsing heart of global Communism, exporting death to Europe and America in a devil's bargain with the Chinese underworld. Mack Bolan's commitment to eradicate these human predators has produced a bloodbath, from San ...

  • Tooth and Claw

    Don Pendleton

    RED TIDE The Chinese are ready to reclaim Hong Kong. but they're already delivering a grim vision of the future. While hit teams are working the island. world governments look the other way. Mack Bolan. the lone man who can make a difference, i...

  • Blind Faith

    Judith Pella

    A fledgling artist and a single mother, Irene Delany has had her share of hardships, and the shocking news of her ex-husband's mysterious death threatens to crumple her newly found contentment in suburban San Francisco. As the events surrounding Greg...

  • Independence

    John Peel

    Leaping into the body of one of his own ancestors, Sam Beckett finds himself at the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, where his actions depend upon whether the Beckett from the past was a Tory, patriot, or double spy. Original....

  • The Promise

    Jane Peart

    She was of American blood, born in the islands. He was a native islander. Their love bridged two worlds that would one day threaten to tear them apart. As a child, Jana Rutherford played barefoot on the sparkling Hawaiian beaches with her friend, ...

  • The Beast Must Die

    Francine Pascal

    On a hill on the outskirts of Sweet  Valley sits a beautiful old Victorian house. It  stood empty until a few weeks ago, when a big  family moved in . . . the perfect clients for Elizabeth  and Jessica Wakefield's new baby-sitting service . ...

  • The Roommate

    Francine Pascal

    Isabella Ricci has found the perfect roommate.  Quiet, clean, and considerate, Lisa Fontaine is  totally interested in Isabella's life. But maybe she's  a little too interested...



    Lisa  starts to dress and talk like Isabella, a...

  • Tall, Dark, and Deadly

    Francine Pascal

    Is Jonathan a dream guy . . . or a monster? When Jonathan Cain moves to Sweet Valley, Jessica Wakefield feels an attraction so strong it's almost supernatural. Jonathan is interesting, intelligent, and gorgeous in a dark, brooding sort of way--no w...

  • Who Will Be Miss Unicorn?

    Francine Pascal

    Battle of the beauty queens . .  .



    You won't believe it. Just  when I thought the Unicorns were through acting  silly and competitive with each other, they've  entered the Sweet Valley Princess Beauty Pageant!  Notice I said ...

  • The Herald Angels

    Linda Parry

  • Found: One Marriage

    Laura Parker

    WIFE ON THE DOORSTEP Joe Guinn was shocked. Halle Hayworth, the ex-Mrs. Guinn, had arrived at his ranch, asking for his investigative expertise. It seemed she'd been in an accident and couldn't even remember her name. She certainly had no idea she...

  • The Great Tetsuji

    Sara Paretsky
    in

    Crime in all its devious incarnations is presented in this treat of murderous morsels dished out by old ppros and promising newcomers. Artfully crafted and impossible to put down, each story bountifully demooonstrates why these authors are la creme d...

  • Nightwatch

    Frank Palmer

    Jackson finds himself in charge of a case in which a doctor, practicing the brutal legacy of his Nazi father, performs ghastly experiments on captive patients throughout Europe, and Jacko must hunt him down before he is able to strike again....

  • Sometimes Forever

    Catherine Palmer

    It began as a joke - and became the scandal of the century. Ruel Chouteau, Marquess of Blackthorne, proposed to a common housemaid. Anne Webster called his bluff, shocking him and all of England... It was a scandal well worth enduring - for Ruel k...

  • Fight Club

    Chuck Palahniuk

    An underground classic since its first publication in 1996, Fight Club is now recognized as one of the most original and provocative novels published in this decade. Chuck Palahniuk's darkly funny first novel tells the story of a godforsaken young ma...

  • Bright Eyes

    Preston Pairo

    In the criminal justice system, everyone makes deals.  It's part of the game.  But sometimes deals backfire.

    F    our years ago, on a rainy summer night, police detective ...

  • Lockwood

    Lauran Paine

    After working a number of years in Montana as a rangeman, Cuff Lockwood wants to move on to a warmer climate and sets his direction toward New Mexico where he encounters Shelly Harrison, a woman he finds hard to forget....

  • To Love, Honour and Betray

    Trudi Pacter

    Sally's husband has just walked out on her after 20 years of marriage. Diane had a man 20 years ago, one she loved like no other, but he married one of her friends. Sally and Diane. Two women with a lot to learn about love, honour and betrayal....

  • Nightland

    Louis Owens

    A man falls from the sky over the New Mexico wilds. Will Striker and Billy Keene, two lifelong friends who share half-Cherokee blood, see him come down. Near the corpse they find another object from the sky as well: a suitcase containing nearly a mil...

  • Time's Tapestry

    Joan Overfield

    Now, the incomparable author of THE DOOR AJAR sends a spirited modern-day policewoman back through time to teach a bygone society and a bedazzled lord about crimes of passion...and makes her own discovery about affairs of the heart. It took a toug...

  • The Brides of Prairie Gold

    Maggie Osborne

    FATE BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER ON A JOURNEY THAT WOULD TEST THEM, CHANGE THEM, AND GIVE THEM A CHANCE AT LOVE... The twelve women from Chastity, Missouri, meant trouble for wagon master Cody Snow. He was used to transporting guns and whiskey, not mail...

  • The Bride's Choice

    Sara Orwig

    MARRY A STRANGER? Juliana Aldrich wouldn't think of it! But that's exactly what her benefactor's will was asking her to do. Worse, her would-be groom, Caleb Duncan, actually wanted to go through with it! Think of the money, he insisted. All Julian...

  • El astillero

    Juan Carlos Onetti

    Regresar a la alucinada ciudad de Santa María, emplearse en el astillero de Petrus y enamorar a la hija de éste es para Larsen la última oportunidad de encontrar un sentido. Sin embargo, muy pronto dicha tentativa se convierte en una rigurosa fars...

  • Run to the Mountain & Day of the Buzzard

    Theodore V. Olsen / T.V. Olsen

    In "Run to the Mountain," an unexpected job offer enforces a shaky peace agreement between an outlaw and his enemies, and in "Day of the Buzzard," outlaw-seeker Jason is unsettled by his companion's vengeful rage...

  • Wish You Were Here: Ireland

    Robin O'Neill

  • Lady of Fire

    Janeen O'Kerry

    After her boyfriend of six years dumped her, Christine Connolly thought the idea of being worshipped like a goddess wouldn't be so bad. Little did she know that a two-dollar torque bought at a tag sale would grant her divinity. No sooner had she put ...

  • Of Texas Ladies, Cowboys...and Babies

    Jodi O'Donnell

    CAUGHT! AND AT HER AGE! Glenna Dunn was aghast to learn she was expecting. How could it have happened? But then she recalled the night when rancher Reid Shelton's comfort turned to passion and...she blushed. How could she tell him -- or her pregn...

  • A Deep and Dreamless Sleep

    Meg O'Brien

    A high-powered attorney and full-blooded Wintu Indian, Naomi Wing returns to her Native American roots after a series of visions about a young girl's murder and must face the girl's mother and the heritage she has denied to learn the shocking truth a...

  • Tyrannosaurus Tex

    John O'Brien

    Tyrannosaurus Tex, with his ten-thousand-gallon hat and his stories about Texas before the people came, proves himself a loyal friend to a group of cowboys out on the range leaving behind a new legend to be told around the campfire....

  • A Dream Across Time

    Constance O'Banyon
    in

    When a lovely librarian chases her dream to a New Orleans plantation, she finds a faded bridal veil she swears she has worn before.....