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New Books List: 610 titles


  • Mark Richard Zubro / Mark Zubro

    Boys4U is the world's most popular singing group - at least among teenaged girls - and they have closed out their sold-out world tour with a series of shows in Chicago's brand new arena. The premier group of the inexplicably popular "boy band" trend,...



  • Mako Yoshikawa

    The Washington Post praised Mako Yoshikawa’s extraordinary first novel, One Hundred and One Ways, as “strikingly assured.” The Orlando Sentinel called it “an impressive accomplishment.” In Once Removed, Yoshikawa continues in the tradition ...



  • Laurence Yep

    Teddy's idea of a good vacation is a triple-feature at the movie theater. So when his uncle invites him to go camping, he is more than a little reluctant. To make matters worse, his know-it-all little brother, Bobby, is coming, too. Teddy practices h...



  • Rich Wulf

    Darkness Grows in the Empire... Naseru, known as "The Anvil," will stop at nothing to sit upon the Throne of Rokugan. When dark forces rise in the City of Night, he must act swiftly. To save his beloved Empire, Naseru must learn to wield the most ...



  • Lenora Worth

    SOLID AS A ROCK... No one wanted roots more than Rock Dempsey, who worked as a minister and a carpenter in his small community. He dreamed of meeting a woman whose feet were firmly planted on the ground, a companion to share everything with. Somet...



  • Alice Wootson

    Angela Baring will never forget the night she witnessed her boss's murder-or the handsome detective who hid out with her until she could enter the witness protection program. Those days and nights spent with Trent Stewart were some of the sweetest of...



  • Sara Wood

    Catherine can't believe her late landlady has left the manor to workaholic Zach Talant! He may be handsome, but he makes it perfectly clear that he wants Catherine off his new properly. However, their stormy encounter arouses passion of another k...



  • David Wojtowycz

    This large-size picture book, with bold, kid-friendly illustrations, provides a wonderful introduction to different animals and the sounds they make.

    Cheery little chick . . . Cheep cheep cheep
    Happy little lion. . . Roar

    An assortme...



  • Jill Winters

    Reese Brock is sleep-deprived, sex-deprived, and fun-deprived. But all that is about to change. With one sister already maritally enhanced and another halfway down the aisle, twenty-seven-year-old Reese Brock fears her own life has taken a turn fo...



  • Bonnie K. Winn

    A child has vanished... And Houston P.D. detective Brad Mitchell wants the case. Too bad his boss won't let that happen -- only because Brad has a history of letting child kidnappings get too personal. Brad thinks his dedication and insight are an as...



  • Jonathan Wilson

    In British-occupied Palestine after World War I, Mark Bloomberg, a beleaguered London painter, and Joyce, his American wife, witness the murder of a prominent Orthodox Jew. Joyce, a non-Jew and ardent Zionist, is drawn into an affair with the British...



  • Jacqueline Wilson

    In the final volume of the fresh and funny Girls Quartet, Ellie’s best friends do the unthinkable -- bond without her -- until the girls realize how to really be friends.Ellie knows the rule: Best friends always come before boys. But Russell isn’...



  • Jacqueline Wilson

    Ellie finally meets a boy. The right boy. And she wants to spend all her time with him. Her curfew is way too early, but if her stepmother doesn’t tell, her father will never know she’s been out late. It’s not like anything bad is going to happ...



  • Gayle Wilson
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    After twelve long years, a widow and a jaded earl were reunited against all odds. But as the past threatened to destroy their newfound happiness, would love be enough to save this battle-scarred man from a lifetime of loneliness?...



  • F. Paul Wilson

    F. Paul Wilson returns with another riveting episode in the saga of Repairman Jack, the secretive, ingenious, and heroic champion of those whose problems no one else can fix. As Dean Koontz says, "Repairman Jack is one of the most original and int...




  • Darren Williams

    After a week lost in the Australian outback, thirteen-year-old Tom Ferry makes his way back to Angel Rock. To the horror of everyone in the small town, he is alone. Exhausted and traumatized, he can't remember what happened to Flynn, his little broth...



  • Carolyn Wilkerson

    From debut novelist Carolyn Wilkerson comes this tale of an often-ignored problem facing the American Southwest - illegal immigrants - and one mother's quest for justice in a world where no one is who they seem, and danger is everywhere....



  • Rick Wilber

    Cold . . . cold is all Melissa O'Malley feels, growing up in the frigid expanses of rural Minnesota. The one thing keeping her warm is the obeah talent she has inherited from her island mother, who mysteriously left when Melissa was only five. Bright...



  • Marianne Wiggins

    This poetic novel, by the acclaimed author of John Dollar and Properties of Thirst, describes America at the brink of the Atomic Age. In the years between the two world wars, the future held more promise than peril, but there was evidence of things u...



  • Steve White

    THE OLD GODS ARE RETURNING- AND SOME OF THEM ARE NOT FRIENDLY! When Derek Secrest was suddenly pulled out of Naval flight officer school to take part in a top secret government project involving telepathy--because tests showed that he had a stro...



  • Kate White

    For Bailey, trading Manhattan for a weekend of major pampering at a friend's resort in rural Massachusetts is a no-brainer. But when she stumbles across a mummy-wrapped corpse in one of the spa's treatment rooms, her time-out suddenly morphs into a f...



  • Owen West

    With style and nonstop action, Owen West, winner of the Boyd literary award for best military novel of 2001, returns with Four Days to Veracruz -- an adventure-thriller that sizzles with international intrigue, relentless suspense, and straight-from-...




  • Joseph A. West

    BLOODY HOMECOMING Buck Fletcher headed for Montana’s Two-Bit Creek in order to pay his respects at the graves of his parents. But what awaits him there may land him six feet under as well. First he comes across an unconscious lady bleeding from a ...



  • Kate Welsh

    A FAMILY TO CHERISH Reverend Justine Clemens returns to the town where she spent her rebellious youth, determined to prove herself. And to make her flock the family she never had. But God clearly has other ideas for her. First He limits the scope ...



  • Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    What began as a hopeful reunion of friends has turned into a nightmare. The Companions vowed to protect a beautiful barbarian princess and the mystical staff she bears. But they never dreamed the price would be so high. Called by their dark goddes...



  • Margaret Weis; Tracy Hickman
    • / Heroic Fantasy / Sword & Sorcery
    • Buy Buy

    Fear and dread have fallen on the land of Ansalon as life-long friends reunite at the Inn of the Last Home. They are as different as friends can be--an outcast in love with a princess, a would-be warrior, his brother a wizard-in-training, a stern kni...



  • Meredith Webber

    Nurse Amelia Peterson's relationship with bad-tempered E.R. doctor "Mac"McDougal has always been rocky. So she's astonished when he asks her out for dinner one night...and even more surprised when she wakes up with him the next morning! The ill-ma...



  • Meredith Webber

    Three carefree medical students. Harry loved Steph...but Steph married Martin. Five years on, Steph is a widow. Martin's bereaved parents are fighting for custody of her beloved daughter. And Harry is back in town...and back in love! Harry know...



  • Debra Webb
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    Michal Arad wanted vengeance when he kidnapped former CIA agent Ami Donovan, claiming she'd posed as his lover to set him up as an assassin. But Ami had amnesia and no way of knowing the truth...until Michal took her in his arms. In spite of her fear...



  • Joanna Wayne

    UNBREAKABLE VOWS A string of murders reunited homicide detective Dallas Mitchell with a woman he'd tried to forget. Years had passed, but the passion was still there. Only, this time it was fraught with danger. Because Nicole Lancaster was a marri...



  • Margaret Way

    The small town of Koomera Crossing was the perfect hiding place for runaway Laura Graham. She immediately felt at home -- thanks to her neighbor, handsome, brooding Evan Thompson. Evan had his own reasons for hiding out, but maintaining his distan...



  • Freda Warrington

    The Wars of the Roses - colourful, full of fury and passion. In our histories - and Shakespeare's play - Richard the Third dies on Bosworth Field, hacked to death in a just ending. But another Richard exists, who is still loved in the North of Englan...



  • Susan May Warren
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    Carla Wainwright was building a house - and a future - with the man she loved. But when he walked out of her life, she held on to her dream of the house....Now, with the help of a reluctant contractor, Jack Dugan, she sees her project - and her hopes...



  • Pat Warren

    What was her secret? Was it her beseeching blue eyes? Her unstoppable spirit? What was it about gutsy yet vulnerable Sara Morgan that lured legendary lawman Graham Kincaid back into tracking a missing person and -- worse -- taking Sara along? Sara...



  • Jack Warner

    Shikar marks the spectacular debut of Jack Warner. Totally absorbing, it is a thriller of verve, accomplishment, tension, and imaginative power. This is the kind of story that keeps us awake and reading into the early morning hours, makes us miss our...



  • Sheila Walsh

    Big Billy and his Gnoo Zoo pals go on a sailing adventure. Big Billy's courage and trust in the Great White Tiger is tested. He and his friends grow spiritually by helping each other, while learning to appreciate the strengths and differences they ea...



  • Kathryn R. Wall

    FROM CHARLESTON TO HILTON HEAD, FAMILY MATTERS...AND MURDER IS RELATIVE When a fifth cousin twice removed calls Bay Tanner - a young, recently widowed, financial consultant - from the Beaufort County Jail, it's no accident. Mercer Mary Prescott sp...



  • Kate Walker

    The mistress's secret...is hot news! Gorgeous Greek tycoon Damon Nicolaides is always in the news...so when the paparazzi get a tip-off about his new mistress, they come banging on her door! Actually, Sarah and Damon were married a year ago...



  • John Vornholt

    The passing of the Genesis Wave has damaged hundreds of worlds in the newly named "Genesis Sector," and chaos reigns throughout that area of space. Each world has been changed in different ways, and a group of extraordinary men and women -- some old...



  • Charlotte Voake

    No one captures cats better than Charlotte Voake! In this prequel to GINGER, a forlorn feline is coaxed inside by a little girl - and finds a new life as a beloved pet.

    Once there was a little orange cat who was so scrawny that his tail was li...



  • Debbie Viguie

    Once upon a time in the Kingdom of Aster a strange thing happened. They say the prince married a girl who was not what she appeared And that another girl who saved the kingdom vanished without a trace. Some said it was witchcraft. Some said it was...



  • Robert Vaughan

    O Christ, whose voice the waters heard and hushed their raging at thy word… -from The Navy HymnThis second WWII novel from decorated veteran, Robert Vaughan, has the same appeal as Touch the Face of God-painstaking research of military strateg...



  • Omar Tyree

    Tabitha Knight lives a very peculiar life. A child of foster care who has grown into an attractive and ambitious adult, she now finds solace, excitement, and security in the company of rich and famous men whom she dates as a discreet and charming gro...



  • Irene Trimble

    Long ago, there was a legend of a ghostly ship that sometimes appeared when the fog grew thick. Its sails were big and black. Its timbers had been stained dark with blood. And its crew were pirates all -- cursed to sail forever under a foul wind of m...



  • Peter Tremayne

    DANGEROUS WATERS In the late autumn of A.D. 666, Sister Fidelma, an advocate of the Brehon law courts, embarks on a pilgrimage to contemplate her commitment to Ireland's Celtic Church and her relationship to the Saxon monk Eadulf. On a ship bound ...



  • Rose Tremain

    From the critically-acclaimed historical novelist Rose Tremain comes the The Colour

    Newlyweds Joseph and Harriet Blackstone emigrate from England to New Zealand, along with Joseph's mother Lilian, in search of new beginnings and prosperity. ...



  • Pamela Kaye Tracy
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    Misreading an order for bridles, a New England farmer sends his four sisters-in-law as mail-order brides to Lickwind, Wyoming. When the four women step off the train, astonishment turns to mayhem as the men of the town suddenly spruce up and make tim...



  • Richard Torrey

    Beans Baker sure can pogo. He’s the Robo-Pogo champion of the school -- until his classmate Sheldon beats his record. Beans knows he can become the Robo-Pogo Champion for Life, if only he didn’t have to study for that pesky spelling test Readers ...



  • Rebecca Tingle

    An adventure worthy of legend, for fans of Game of Thrones and Ranger's Apprentice

    When fifteen-year-old Æthelflæd is suddenly and reluctantly betrothed to an ally of her father, the king, her world will never be the same. For as a noblewoma...




  • Tamara Thorne

    When she is invited to join Greenbriar University's elite sorority, Fata Morgana, Eve is plunged into a nightmarish realm of dark magic, sexual deviancy, corruption, and murder where evil thrives on the souls of its members. Original....



  • Ronda Thompson

    THE EMBER Abandoned by her father, Rachel Brodie was adopted and raised by the Mescalero Indians. Silent Wind she was called; and the smoldering eyes of Swift Buck -- her handsome adoptive brother -- urged her to drop all pretense of being White, ...




  • Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Ruthless Businessman -- Or... Mixing business and pleasure was out of the question for Connor Templeton. Except with Kristy Neumeyer, he was reassessing his options. The spirited widow of twin little girls had her hands full with a ramshackle waterfr...



  • Christopher Tebbetts

    Through the power of a magical key, fourteen-year-old Zack is again transported from twenty-first century Minnesota to a ninth-century Viking land, where he continues a prophesied quest to find Ygdrassil's treasure with the help of Vikings who look j...



  • Christopher Tebbetts

    While reluctantly attending a Vikings football game with his father, fourteen-year-old Zack Gilman finds himself transported to ninth-century Scandinavia amongst Vikings that look like people he knows and who see him as the fulfillment of a prophecy ...



  • Sarah Stewart Taylor

    NOW HER TOMB LIES QUIET... Sweeney St. George looks nothing like a university Professor with her unruly red curls and preference for vintage clothing. Single and wary of relationships, she pours her energy into her college teaching and a passionate ...



  • Jennifer Taylor

    A&E doctor Heather Cooper isn't looking for love. She's got her career and her daughter to keep her busy. But when she crosses paths with a daring firefighter, she's frightened by the strength of her emotions -- she doesn't want anoth...



  • Ann Tatlock

    Catherine Tierney, angry with God and questioning His existence, finds support, renewed faith, and a strengthening in her bond with her daughter through a friendship with Auschwitz survivor Jusef Karski. Original....



  • Gary D. Svee

    In turn-of-the-century Montana, there is a fine line between those who serve the law and those who break it. Sheriff Frank Drinkwalter might have walked that line in his youth, but the love of one woman changed his ways. Now, years later, Catherine ...



  • J. Michael Straczynski

    While Aunt May comes to terms with her nephew's secret identity as Spider-Man, high school teacher Peter tries to keep his marriage to MJ intact as he continues to battle villains such as the Green Goblin and Doctor Octopus....



  • Matthew Stover

    Mace Windu is a living legend: Jedi Master, skilled diplomat, and devastating fighter. But he is also a man of peace--and for the first time in a thousand years, the galaxy is at war. The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, the homeworld Mace barely reme...



  • Lyn Stone
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    In order to collect her inheritance, a daring debutante needed a husband. Could she convince her childhood sweetheart--now a penniless ex-soldier-to elope with her in exchange for a share of her fortune?...



  • Daniel Stolar

    A commanding performance of profound emotional resonance, The Middle of the Night examines the crucial moments in people’s struggles to understand the strange paths their lives have taken: a seventy-year-old retired doctor tries to teach his sixtee...



  • Amanda Stevens

    Welcome to Twin Oaks -- the new B and B in Cooper's Corner. Some come for pleasure, others for passion -- and one to set things straight... Check-in: Librarian Beth Young was so quiet, she simply blended in to the town of Cooper's Corner. But Clin...



  • Ricki Stern

    Invasion!
    Beryl E. Bean

    Beryl's way too busy to play host when Alex moves into her home while his parents are away. He can't keep his nose out of her stuff, but her classmates think he's great -- and they're ignori...



  • George Edward Stanley

    GREEN VEGETABLES AREN'T ALWAYS GOOD FOR YOU The new restaurant in town is a hit, but when several diners get sick, the Health Department threatens to shut the place down. And if the restaurant closes, Todd and Noelle's new friend, JoAnn, may have to ...



  • Erica Spindler

    To the outside world, Cypress Springs, Louisiana, is a postcard-perfect town where moral, decent citizens lead safe, wholesome lives. But outsiders, it seems, don't fare so well.... When journalist Avery Chauvin returns home to Cypress Springs, Lo...



  • Ian Spiegelman

    A young man without prospects finds his place in the universe--as a young woman's slave.

    Poised somewhere between high school and adulthood, Leon Koch roams the bars and bedrooms of Bayside, Queens, twenty minutes and a thousand psychic miles ...



  • S.P. Somtow

    Every five thousand years, so the people of the planet Thanet believe, the world ends in fire and a new cycle of creation begins. Now the Last Days are once again upon them, and a fiery star draws near. This is the Death-Bringer, the Eater of the Wor...



  • Nina Solomon

    Grace Brookman's husband is missing. He wasn't kidnapped or murdered (she's fairly certain); he just seems to have run away from home. He got up one morning, and with an offhand Gracie, I'll be back in a little while, he was gone. Laz had left before...



  • Sheridon Smythe
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    SEX. BETRAYAL. A YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI. Two hundred singles. Six weeks. One HOT tropical island. Welcome to EDEN, the best new reality game show on television. A hundred blind dates, two hundred first kisses, and ninety-nine heart-wrenching confess...



  • Sarah Smith

    Meet Joe Roper, tough-minded young graduate student, who has been lucky enough to land a job cataloging the famed Kellogg Collection of Elizabethan texts and curiosities. Joe's been passionate about Shakespeare since he read a duct-taped paperback at...



  • James V. Smith Jr.

    After the Marine Corps send their best shooter to a mental hospital, Team Midnight operatives Swayne and Greiner are sent to Afghanistan where they must race against time to rescue a CIA agent who is being held hostage by terrorists. Original....



  • Deborah Smith
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    It's a typical summer in the good-hearted mountain town of Mossy Creek, Georgia, where love, laughter and friendship make nostalgia a way of life. Creekites are always ready for a sultry romance, a funny feud or a sincere celebration, and this summer...



  • Dean Wesley Smith

    In the sixth year of its ongoing mission, the Strange New Worlds writing competition has once again sought out exciting new voices and imaginations among Star Trek's vast galaxy of fans. After scanning countless submissions for signs of style and ori...



  • Elisa Smalley

    Adventurous Zoe Sophia and her dog, Mickey, embark on a whirlwind trip to Venice to visit her great aunt Dorothy Pomander. During her stay, Zoe Sophia sees the sites, explores the city and bonds with her wonderful, quirky aunt. Featuring fun, vibrant...



  • Michael Slade

    Isolated in the Riverside Insane Asylum is the Ripper. He believes he's the notorious butcher who terrorized Whitechapel more than a century ago. In the black hole of his imagination he reenacts the crimes. In the darkness of his heart he still crave...



  • Indra Sinha

    When an Anglo-Indian love triangle ended in murder, it sent shockwaves through 1950s Bombay. The Nanavati trial split Indian high-society, its effects reaching as far as the Nehru government. In modern-day London, Bhalu's dying mother leaves him a tr...



  • Isaac Bashevis Singer

    A fictional exploration of primitive history, Singer's novel portrays an age of superstition and violence in a country emerging from the darkness of savagery. Part parable of modern civilization, part fascinating historical novel, it reaffrims the...



  • Isaac Bashevis Singer

    Meshugah, Singer's third posthumous novel, is an impressive work which the author published serially in 1981 - 83. It concerns Holocaust survivors in New York in the early 1950s. The story is narrated by Aaron Greidinger, who finds himself inextri...



  • Roger L. Simon

    A quarter of a century after he first appeared in the now-classic The Big Fix, Moses Wine remains a private investigator par excellence. Still a Berkeley radical at heart, Moses is now thoroughly chastened by the events that have led to the war on te...



  • Wm. Mark Simmons

    THE LIVING DEAD WERE MAKING HIS LIFE A LIVING HELL . . . A year ago, Chris Csejthe (pronounced "Chay-tay") was completely human - then a blood transfusion from the Lord of the Undead changed everything. No/w he is a hunted man, sought by human and...



  • Deborah Simmons

    A MAN of MANY TALENTS ...and a woman with too much spirit. LOSING HIS SPIRIT Christian Reade, heir to the earldom of Westhaven, is tired of ghosts. It's his own fault for debunking a haunted house in Belles Corners as the work of two silly p...



  • Judy Sierra

    Coco, a very smart poodle, and Cavendish, a very brave border collie, are circus stars"until the greedy owner of the circus replaces them with robot dogs. The two unemployed dogs set off to find a new job and have many funny and exciting adventures...



  • Neal Shusterman

    Sixteen-year-old Blake and his younger brother, Quinn, are exact opposites. Blake is the responsible member of the family. He constantly has to keep an eye on the fearless Quinn, whose thrill-seeking sometimes goes too far. But the stakes get higher ...



  • Tom Shippey

    The Road to Middle-earth, Tom Shippey’s classic work, now revised in paperback, explores J.R.R. Tolkien’s creativity and the sources of his inspiration. Shippey shows in detail how Tolkien’s professional background led him to write The Hobbi...



  • Julie Shigekuni

    In this long-awaited follow-up to her acclaimed debut novel, A Bridge Between Us, Julie Shigekuni offers a beautiful and disturbing look at the intimacy and isolation, desire and despair that haunt a young woman's life.Invisible Gardens is the story ...



  • Martha Shields
    in

    It's a typical summer in the good-hearted mountain town of Mossy Creek, Georgia, where love, laughter and friendship make nostalgia a way of life. Creekites are always ready for a sultry romance, a funny feud or a sincere celebration, and this summer...



  • Rick Shelley

    THE LUCKY 13TH The 13th Spaceborne is the elite fighting force of the Accord of Free Worlds. For decades, the Accord tried to keep out of the war that divided the galaxy. But now, they have no choice. It's fight or die. And the soldiers of the 13t...



  • Maggie Shayne

    Subject: Zach Ingram, brawny brain, aka Professor Ingram Family History: The Ingram heir, brother of financial whiz Jake Deepest Secret: He'd always envied his brother -- until now.... Professor Zach Ingram was believed to have classified in...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo vows to unveil a killer at a Kansas wedding…Skye Fargo likes a wedding just fine, as long as it isn’t his own. And his friend, Jeb, sure knows how to throw a good party, with plenty of sousing and carousing. But just when the party kic...



  • Larry Segriff

    A Nebula Award-winning Author

    Writer Jeffrey Conner researches his books on pseudo-science and leaves life's mundane details to others. Then his insurance company calls to say they've received obstetrical bills for his wife, but have him listed a...



  • Bo Sebastian
    in

    It's a typical summer in the good-hearted mountain town of Mossy Creek, Georgia, where love, laughter and friendship make nostalgia a way of life. Creekites are always ready for a sultry romance, a funny feud or a sincere celebration, and this summer...



  • Barbara Scrupski

    Part Gone with the Wind, part Doctor Zhivago, and thoroughly captivating, Ruslan is the epic story of a destitute young countess in Tsarist Russia who tries every avenue to restore her fortunes.In glittering St. Petersburg, we meet Countess Alexandra...



  • Lisa Scottoline

    Philadelphia lawyer Bennie Rosato has her eye focused firmly on the bottom line, especially since she has three dedicated young associates and a very pregnant secretary on her payroll, and she takes a professional risk, charging into a class action l...



  • Regina Scott

    From beloved Regency author Regina Scott comes this sparkling new romance about a woman who knows the stars better than her own heart, a man more interested in a legend than his own destiny--and a love as rare as a falling star... Make A Wish... ...



  • Jefferson Scott

    Muslim raiders have destroyed a village in the Christian south of Sudan, killing men and seizing women and children as slaves. Now Jason Kromer and the Firebrand team of Christian commandos are sent into the breach. Upon their arrival, they discover ...



  • Charles M. Schulz

    From her pearls of wisdom behind the psychiatrist's booth to unsolicited advice, Lucy has no problem sharing her opinion--whether it is welcome or not--in a hilarious book that is perfect for youngsters who are learning to read independently. Simulta...



  • Janelle Schneider
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    Misreading an order for bridles, a New England farmer sends his four sisters-in-law as mail-order brides to Lickwind, Wyoming. When the four women step off the train, astonishment turns to mayhem as the men of the town suddenly spruce up and make tim...



  • Gail Sattler
    in

    Carla Wainwright was building a house - and a future - with the man she loved. But when he walked out of her life, she held on to her dream of the house....Now, with the help of a reluctant contractor, Jack Dugan, she sees her project - and her hopes...



  • Charlene Sands

    Jenna Duncan had suffered enough at the hands of gambling men. Now, however, her happiness was secure, for her intended husband was here in her arms -- or was he? As passionate and caring as the man she embraced was, he had no memory of their promise...



  • Tim Sandlin

    A free-spirited young Texas woman becomes the center of a near-future political ring that includes a dying president, a mafia man fleeing his family and the Secret Service with a cache of stolen money, and a cocaine-addicted vice president. Reprint....



  • Carolyn Chambers Sanders

    WHEN THE 'HOOD IS YOUR PAST, IT'S YOUR PRESENT, TOO. Three sizzling sistahs-for-life grew up on the roughest streets of West Palm Beach-and knew they wanted more than triflin' men and hustling for nothing. Now these crazy-successful businesswomen...



  • Grace Gray Sample

    In spite of her father's disapproval, Nicole Downing is leaving Minnesota to visit the home of her childhood in Iowa, and her mother's close-knit family, the Wingates. Years earlier when she was four her father, Milton Downing was found guilt...



  • Fred Saberhagen

    Fred Saberhagen continues his Berserker Series®, a chronicle of a war between humanity and the terrifying race of sentient machines bent on death and destruction. Pilot Harry Silver's name is know throughout the galaxy. While he has defeated his sha...



  • Kevin Ryan

    FACING AN UNKNOWN FUTURE As Max, Michael, Isabel, Liz, Maria, and Kyle pile into their van and leave Roswell behind, they are each hoping for positive experiences--or at least something different from most of the events of the past three years. Af...



  • Norman Rush

    The greatly anticipated new novel by Norman Rush -- whose first novel, Mating, won the National Book Award and was everywhere acclaimed -- is his richest work yet. It is at once a political adventure, a social comedy, and a passionate triangle. It is...



  • Ron Roy

    Meet Tyrone the Tyrannosaurus, Green Lawn’s newest -- and biggest! -- visitor. The kids’ old friend Jud Wheat is in town, and he’s raising funds for a dinosaur museum by taking the T. rex on tour. But after the show in Green Lawn, all Jud’s m...



  • Jeff Rovin

    A half-dead Singapore pirate is plucked from the Celebes Sea in the Western Pacific, setting off alarms halfway around the world in Washington, D.C. Traces of radiation are found on the man, causing Australian officials to call in Op-Center for a to...



  • Renee Roszel

    Taggart Lancaster had reluctantly agreed to pose as his friend for all the best reasons. But his disguise is so successful that everyone assumes he's the womanizing playboy he's imitating. Mary O'Mara wants nothing to do with him -- only,...



  • Wendy Rosnau

    THE FAMILY MAN Lucky Masado was already heir to one throne -- but he'd had another thrust upon him. And he was in between those two worlds when into his life walked Elena Tandi. The spirited beauty was full of questions, and she was not going to l...



  • David Rosenfelt

    When a cop's body is found burned and decapitated, the last thing Andy Carpenter expects is for a stranger to waltz into his office and admit to the crime. For the wisecracking millionaire defense attorney suffering from "lawyer's block," the case lo...



  • Joel Rosenberg

    Kethol is an adventurer with an easy smile, a man who is quick with a quip and quicker with a sword. His partner, Pirojil, is the ugly one who deceives people into thinking he's stupid--to their sorrow. And the fledgling wizard Erenor is a man who tr...



  • Helen A. Rosburg

    Once upon a time, a knight and the daughter of one of Henry III's barons fell in love. He was Stephen of Bellingham; she, Amarantha of Ullswater. They were brought together by a desperate bid to escape the madness of Baldwin, Earl of Cumbria. The tas...



  • Franklin Rogers

    Set in India in September 1817 on the eve of the Third Maratha War, this historical novel tells the story of lovers united by serious misconceptions about each other and beset by intrigue as Baji Rao II, Peshwa of Poona, plots to free himself from th...



  • M.J. Rodgers

    Jack Knight isn't used to having to prove himself to anyone. But that's exactly what he has to do. Because Diana Mason doesn't think he's the right man to find the evidence she needs to defend her client in court. After all, Jack joined his family fi...



  • Kristen Robinette

    The scene was one she'd long fantasized but fate had denied: a strong, handsome man protecting her, a gurgling baby gazing adoringly at her. Yet, snowbound with police chief Luke Sutherlin and a rescued infant, Dana Langston had never felt so alone. ...



  • J.R. Roberts

    The Gunsmith must go up against his greatest adversary, Morgan Mason, who has taken over the town of West Bend, killing anyone who opposes him, while trying to ignore a gorgeous double agent who is doing her best to distract him from the task at hand...



  • Gillian Roberts

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    When May Belle meets an Ogre who tries to take many of May Belle’s favorite things away, such as her hat and gloves, May Belle realizes that the best thing to do is make the Ogre a friend and learn to share so that both of them can be happy, in an ...



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    Workaholic Rafe McMillan loves his wife and his job, but he’s gotten the message: she’s fed up with him. If he doesn’t go on this vacation -- a Caribbean cruise -- with her, however grudgingly, their relationship might never recover. After ...



  • Paula Detmer Riggs

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  • Kitty Richards

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  • Robert Rice

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    2000: A postal worker and a customer are found murdered in...



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  • James Rhodes

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  • RH/Disney

    Deep beneath the sea, Ariel daydreams about life on land. Will this curious little mermaid’s dreams ever come true? Dive into this delightful board book featuring a three-dimensional Ariel molded on the soft plastic cover....



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  • Alastair Reynolds

    Late in the twenty-sixth century, the human race has advanced enough to accidentally trigger the Inhibitors--alien-killing machines designed to detect intelligent life and destroy it. The only hope for humanity lies in the recovery of a secret cache ...



  • Mike Resnick

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  • Carol Reddick

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  • Jeanne Ray

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  • Gail Ranstrom

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  • Deborah Raney

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  • Tara Randel

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    Soft-hearted Charity Malone wants nothing so much as to find a way to comfort her friend, Anthony, Lord Caldwell, who blames himself for his younger brother's death. But nothing she does or says seems to reach him...until the night he catches her in ...



  • Kris Radish

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  • Tara Taylor Quinn

    What's wrong with this picture? Bonnie Nielson's life looks perfect. She has everything she's always wanted -- a husband and child she adores, a successful business, close family and friends, a town she loves. And yet she's not happy. For some ...




  • Candice Proctor

    Can life ever be a real adventure without falling in love? Ever since she can remember, India McKnight has craved adventure, dreaming of lands past the horizon. Following her calling, she becomes a travel writer, a vocation that takes her far and ...



  • Tracy Price-Thompson

    Featuring contributions from such noted writers as Pearl Cleage, Omar Tyree, Timmothy McCann, and Earl Sewell, a dramatically rendered anthology of stories, drawn from African, African-American, and Biblical proverbs, is filled with an abundance of w...




  • John Wesley Powell

    One of the great works of American exploration literature, this account of a scientific expedition forced to survive famine, attacks, mutiny, and some of the most dangerous rapids known to man remains as fresh and exciting today as it was in 1874. ...



  • Elizabeth Powell

    Stuff and Nonsense That's what Jane Rutledge thinks of suffering through an endless Season. Stuck in London for her sister's come-out, the lovely miss would much prefer being on horseback in the country. But she quickly changes her mind when a mos...



  • Lisa Plumley

    After her long-running sitcom is cancelled, actress Marley Madison finds herself a typecast has-been at the ripe old age of twenty-seven. Her career needs a jump-start, fast--and an incognito appearance on the hit reality game show Dream Date will pr...




  • Joan Elliott Pickart
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    She'd do anything to save her son . . .

    He Was Her Last Chance . . .

    For her son, Glynis Hamilton would do anything -- even confront the man who'd broken her heart years before. Once Glynis had loved Cort McBride, but, consumed by ambit...



  • Patricia Anne Phillips

    Coming In From The Cold... Real estate agent Tracey Woods is an energetic woman leading an orderly, ideal life--or so she thought, until the horrible night her husband was killed in a car accident. At age fifty-two, Donald Woods was twenty years her...



  • Clyde Phillips

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  • Tracie Peterson

    As a Harvey tour guide, Rainy Gordon spends her days in the magnificent landscape of New Mexico. Having already fled a tainted past, Rainy is alarmed when she becomes a suspect in an investigation of stolen Hopi Indian artifacts. The man she loves ha...



  • Don Pendleton

    Bolan stalks the underbelly of Central America. HIGH GROUND Francisco Gothe is the godfather of southern Costa Rica, a human monster whose real estate and resort holdings front the world's biggest illegal antiquities smuggling business. He's bu...



  • Don Pendleton

    The Middle East conflict reaches the point of no return . . . The anti-terrorist organization known as Stony Man has pulled off impossible missions time and again. Each victory is snatched against insurmountable odds by the finest ground force in ...



  • Iain Pears

    In national bestseller The Dream of Scipio, acclaimed author Iain Pears intertwines three intellectual mysteries, three love stories, and three of the darkest moments in human history. United by a classical text called "The Dream of Scipio," thr...



  • Gary Paulsen

    THE STORY IS all true and happened to me and is mine.Tony’s mom, Al, is a terrific single mother who works as a dancer at the Kitty Kat Club. Twelve-year-old Tony is a budding artist, inspired by backstage life at the club. When some of his drawing...



  • Julia Parks

    Has He Met The Ideal Matchmaker... The honorable Montgomery Darby loves only one thing in life--Darwood Hall, the derelict estate that his father's dissolute ways have reduced to near ruin. It will take a fortune to restore the place to glory, and a...



  • Heather Parkinson

    With echoes of Cormac McCarthy, an exquisite debut novel from America's heartland.

    Seventeen-year-old Walter Pascoe sets out for his first season as a sheep herder and learns quickly the dangers and beauties of the land. Also awakening to ma...



  • Carolyn Parkhurst

    A poignant and beautiful debut novel explores a man's quest to unravel the mystery of his wife's death with the help of the only witness -- their Rhodesian ridgeback, Lorelei....



  • Laura Paquet
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    Lady Lucinda Denham yearns to be taken seriously by the sophisticated writers who flock to her mother's parties. All the more humiliating, then, when Stephen Charlton, London's most daring playwright, overhears Lucy telling a friend that his female c...



  • Catherine Palmer

    In Victorian England, Jane Fellowes searches for the truth behind Newton's Box--which may in fact contain proof of the existence of God. Tension mounts as those who touch the box suffer strange, unexplained bouts of illness. As Jane and scientist Tho...



  • Lauran Paine

    Two thrilling novels in one volume, from an unrivaled frontier fiction author, includes The Calexico Kid, in which a mysterious bandit is finally served justice, and Gathering Storm, in which two legendary gunfighters arrive in the sa...



  • Laurie Paige

    SHE WAS A ROCK IN HIS CONTROLLED POND Everything came easily to Dr. Beau Dalton -- until she walked in. Medical assistant Shelby Wheeling had secrets -- big secrets. But that didn't ease the attraction that sizzled between them. Still, why was she r...



  • Victoria Pade

    SURPRISE, YOU MIGHT BE A DADDY! As a wildlife photographer, confirmed bachelor Devon Tarlington had encountered his share of dangerous nighttime predators. But it was the news that he might be the father of ten-month-old Harley that scared him mos...



  • Robin D. Owens

    Ruis Elder never asked for his unusual trait -- the ability to neutralize others' psychic talents. Because of it, he has always been hated in his own homeland, destined to roam the harsh planet alone. But trouble finds him in front of the ruling Coun...



  • Mary Pope Osborne

    Odysseus and his men have done what no other mortals have done: returned alive from the terrifying Land of the Dead. Armed with warnings and advice from the ghosts of the prophet Tiresias, Odysseus is determined to finally sail home to Ithaca. But th...



  • Joyce Carol Oates

    Joshua Seigl, a celebrated but reclusive author, is forced for reasons of failing health to surrender his much-prized bachelor's independence. Advertising for an assistant, he unwittingly embarks upon the most dangerous adventure of his privileged li...



  • Katherine Pebley O'Neal

    Introducing the Stink Squad...

    Gilbreath No odor gets past him

    Dr. Sniffton Shroeder His nose really knows

    Whiff A Smelling Nose dog with a taste for kibble

    ...they're saving the ...



  • Katherine O'Neal

    He broke her heart...Now a struggling actress must put on the performance of a lifetime... Orphaned at the age of thirteen, actress Liana Wycliffe was no stranger to life's cruelties. But nothing had prepared her for the despair she felt when the ...



  • Jane O'Connor

    Here is a terrific book for anyone who wants a puppy. Our hero is desperate for a dog of his own. He has dog T-shirts, posters, books, and even a barking clock! But he has to wait until next year when he's ten before he can have a real dog. That g...




  • Judith O'Brien

    Written by the award-winning romance and young adult novelist Judith O'Brien, this traditional prose novel is a high school romance updated for today's teens! The new girl at Midtown High, Mary Jane Watson juggles and struggles with her parents' divo...



  • Karen Novak

    "The dark corners of the human soul are Karen Novak's specialty, and there are few writing today who able to illuminate them with such courage and elegance." -Karen Karbo

    When private investigator Leslie Stone's own thirtee...



  • Hailey North

    Can a man this bad... Jonni Landry DeVries was nuts to have let her twin sister, "the Love Doctor," talk her into opening her stately New Orleans home to a Hollywood film crew. Struggling to recover from a marriage that ended in tragedy and protecti...





  • Nadia Nichols

    Caleb McCutcheon is living his dream as owner of a large ranch in the Montana wilderness. But when the woman he loves tells him she can't be part of that dream, Caleb is determined to learn the real reason for her reluctance. Because he knows...



  • Robert Newcomb

    Three centuries ago, the unspeakable ravages of a devastating war nearly tore apart the kingdom of Eutracia. Those who masterminded the bloodshed--a coven of powerful, conquest-hungry Sorceresses--were sentenced to exile, with return all but impossib...



  • Kerry Newcomb

    The war betweeen the white man and the Cheyenne was over then the killing began ... Exiled from his Northern tribe, sent to the Southern Cheyenne as they were leaving their ancestral ways behind, Panther Burn saw his people becoming slaves, and kn...




  • Theresa Nelson

    When the lights go dim and you're sitting in the dark with your popcorn -- that's the magic time that Ruby Miller loves best. And then the music creeps in, and the lion roars, or maybe the moon kid goes fishing.... For Ruby, age twelve and a half, m...



  • Jill Nelson

    From bestselling author Jill Nelson comes a sexy and uproarious novel about Lydia and Acey, two best friends whose career successes are matched only by their romantic and sexual frustrations -- until one night, over a bottle of wine, they concoct a p...



  • Kathleen Nance

    As the Minstrel of Kaf, Zayne keeps the land of the djinn in harmony. Yet lately, he needs a woman to restore balance to his life, a woman with whom he can blend his voice and his body. And according to his destiny, this soul mate can only be found i...



  • Walter Dean Myers

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  • Jack Murnighan

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  • Marsha Moyer

    On a lazy June morning in Mooney -- a wooded patch of sparsely populated northeast Texas -- a shiny red Chrysler sedan pulls up to the home of Lucy Hatch and Ash Farrell, depositing a teenage girl on their doorstep before speeding away. For Ash, town...



  • Billie Sue Mosiman

    When the Predators, who believe that he is the long-prophesied hunter of vampires, murder his wife and kidnap his child, Malachi, part mortal, part vampire, becomes a dark creature with an insatiable thirst for revenge, a transformation that could le...



  • Howard Frank Mosher

    An explorer and his nephew set out to beat Lewis & Clark to the Pacific in this humorous historical novel by the author of A Stranger in the Kingdom.In the spring of 1804, Private True Teague Kinneson -- schoolmaster, inventor, playwright, and ex...



  • Carole Mortimer

    Georgie is still in love with her ex-husband, Jed, but has resigned herself to life without him. She is sure that he can never give her what she yearns for -- love -- and that she can never give him what he needs: a baby. But, as heir to the famil...



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    It's a typical summer in the good-hearted mountain town of Mossy Creek, Georgia, where love, laughter and friendship make nostalgia a way of life. Creekites are always ready for a sultry romance, a funny feud or a sincere celebration, and this summer...



  • Debrah Morris

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  • Raye Morgan

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  • Lyda Morehouse

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  • Stephanie Perry Moore

    "Walk Worthy Press books remind us that in every area of our lives He truly cares for us." -T. D. Jakes Zoe Clarke has a strong prayer life, a good job, loyal friends...and today she was going to marry her college sweetheart and make a lifelong c...



  • Harker Moore

    A COP IS CHASING THE DEVIL. THE DEVIL IS MAKING ANGELS. THE CRUELEST SEASON HAS BEGUN... A madman is pushing New York to the edge of panic, leaving dead bodies on display-unbloodied, naked, posed with the giant white wings of birds. Facing press...



  • Christopher Moore

    Just why do humpback whales sing? That's the question that has marine behavioral biologist Nate Quinn and his crew poking, charting, recording, and photographing very big, wet, gray marine mammals. Until the extraordinary day when a whale lifts its t...



  • Michelle Monkou

    Spunky, successful career woman Nicole Montgomery seems to have it all until a health scare turns her would upside down-for the better. Determined to use her second chance to pursue more meaningful dreams, Nicole trades her business suit for a simpl...



  • Rick Mofina

    Witness San Francisco crime reporter Tom Reed is burnt out. The breaking story of a jewel heist gone violently awry--with the murder of a cop and the abduction of a female hostage--is one most journalists would kill for. Tom hopes it will be his l...



  • Doug Moench

    Comics pre-eminent star of martial arts action -- Shang-Chi, Master of Kung Fu -- is back. If Moench and Gully's seminal Master of Kung Fu successfully tapped into the Bruce Lee kung fu craze and popular James Bond spy flicks, then their revamped MOK...