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New Books List: 606 titles

  • 100% Laugh Riot

    Paul Zindel

  • What Is Passover?

    Harriet Ziefert

  • But Where Is the Green Parrot?

    Thomas Zacharias

  • Whistling in the Woods

    Selina Young

  • Kitchen

    Banana Yoshimoto

    The acclaimed debut of Japan’s “master storyteller” (Chicago Tribune).   With the publication of Kitchen, the dazzling English-language debut that is still her best-loved book, the literary world realized that Banana Yoshimoto wa...

  • Sins of Commission

    Susan Wright

    SINS OF COMMISSIONwhile on a misssion to save the planet Lessenar from environmental collapse, the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise" is crippled by an emotional onslaught as the surviving aliens respond in anger and pain to the death of their comrade....

  • Jumping the Broom

    Courtni Wright

    In honor of Tillie's wedding day, the other women weave a quilt, and the men carve utensils for the couple's new cabin, all in preparation for the special event, in a colorfully illustrated tale of slave life in the Old South....

  • Blue Chips

    Richard Woodley

  • The Dark Edge of Love

    Sara Wood

    Arriving in Madeira for a much-needed holiday, Ellen is horrified to find a handsome man sleeping in her bed -- Addan de Torres. Addan is not only a Brazilian millionaire, he's the Latin lover who's haunted her dreams for years and who blames...

  • Friends for Life

    Meg Wolitzer

    Meeting once each month for a Chinese lunch, childhood friends Lisa, Meredith, and Ann exchange their dreams, career moves, and personal crises until a sudden change forces them to put their friendships to the test. Reprint....

  • Carolina on My Mind

    Anne Marie Winston

    UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE OBSESSION When Luke Murray woke up cold, naked and next to the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen--and he could see all of her--he thought he was dreaming. Maybe he didn't know exactly how--or why--they were together, but stru...

  • Adventures in South America // Cave of the Inca Re

    Jeanette Windle

  • The Heart's Desire

    Gayle Wilson

    One Night of Glory Tall and lithe, Emily Fairfax was unaware of the power of her innocence. But from the first, Dominic knew the danger of their desire. For she alone could draw aside the mantle of despair that kept him safely hidden, and condemn ...

  • What I'll Remember When I Am a Grownup

    Gina Willner-Pardo

  • When Africa Was Home

    Karen L. Williams

  • Unwilling Surrender

    Cathy Williams

    Although Adam Palmer was a very attractive man, his vanity and arrogance finished with the love of adolescent that one day Christina felt for him. Now, some years later, Adam seemed to be interested in her, although he was saying that he preferred th...

  • Toby

    Margaret Wild

  • Wedding of Her Dreams

    Karen Toller Whittenburg

    NEWS FLASH: EMMA CATES TO MARRY ALEC SAYRE Cameras clicked! Lights flashed! And everyone around her was calling her "Lucky." Lucky? Emma Cates had only crashed the glitzy Las Vegas bash to confront Alec Sayre about stealing her wedding chapel...

  • The Secret

    Diana Whitney

    Chad Grayson was back in town. And his brooding, unexplained presence was disrupting the troubled peace Clarice Somerset had made with their disquieting past. Two years ago, the single mother thought her love had tamed Chad's wanderlust. She'd expect...

  • Only Opal

    Opal Whiteley

  • Old Love and Lilac Lace

    Becky Lee Weyrich
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    The Topaz Man personally introduces in "A Dream Come True" his favorite stories of dreams that really do come true. From a woman thrown back to 1844 New Orleans, to a Western dream vacation, to a female passenger and boat captain's romance on the hig...

  • Once Upon Forever

    Becky Lee Weyrich

    In the arms of Union soldier Hunter Breckinridge, Clair Sumner finds herself living another woman's life-and loving another woman's husband. Haunted by visions of an eerily glowing moonbow, Clair must risk her past and future for a passion that spans...

  • The Dragons of Krynn

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

    In this one-of-a-kind collection, you'll find: An elite corps of bridge-building draconians. A solamni stalking a dangerous spectre. A minotaur captured by a dark wizard and put to a cruel and unusual test. Kender who pilfer magic, gully dw...

  • Honorable Enemies

    Joe Weber

    Teaming up on a case involving a helicopter terrorist attack on a Hawaiian cruise ship, CIA agent Steve Wickham and FBI agent Susan Nakamura form an unlikely partnership in order to prevent a full-scale war. Reprint....

  • Finders Keepers

    Jan Washburn

    Laurie Adams always seems to get klutzy when she is around her crush, Matt Harding, but when yet another accident throws them together, they are plunged into a mysterious search for a hidden treasure. Original....

  • Body and Soul

    Linda Warren

    ZEKE--An Arrogant Outdoorsman Whose Mouth Made Her Want to Melt He frowned as if the smoky Saratoga Springs nightclub was the last place on earth he wanted to be, but Zeke North was imagining how it would feel to make love to a woman whose hands c...

  • Lady in Shadow

    Rebecca Ward

    SHE WAS MUCH TOO SENSIBLE TO BE SEDUCED BY A MAN OF THE WORLD.... Though amnesia had kept Nigel from the hangman's noose, accusations of treason hung over the family like a vicious dark cloud. His sister, Elisande, hoped to jostle his memory by ta...

  • Light Sister, Dark Sister

    Lee Walmsley

  • My Hen Is Dancing

    Karen Wallace

    A colorful picture book, full of realistic details and interesting farmyard facts, features a boy explaining all about his energetic hen, telling how she eats, sleeps, cares for her chicks, and much more....

  • The Wrong House

    Carol McD Wallace

  • But Names Will Never Hurt Me

    Bernard Waber

  • The Rifles

    William Vollmann

    The story of John Franklin’s doomed 1845 attempt to discover a Northwest Passage, from the National Book Award-winning author of Europe Central

    Vaulting through time to another flashpoint in the long struggle between Indians and Europeans, W...

  • The Alphabet from Z to A (With Much Confusion on the Way)

    Judith Viorst

    In "The Alphabet from Z to A (With Much Confusion on the Way), " Judith Viorst once again applies her clear-sighted wit to a subject of universal appeal, turning the traditional alphabet book on its head by going through the alphabet backwards. Viors...

  • Pas De Death

    L.M. Vincent

    Kansas City radiologist Townsend Reeves returns in a mystery case that starts when Reeves accidently becomes a sperm donor while working at a fertility clinic, a situation that becomes complicated by modern dance, basketball, and murder...

  • Uncle Alfredo's Zoo

    Judith Vigna

  • A Love Untamed

    Karen Van Der Zee

    Should she give him the photo or throw it out and pretend she'd never found it? Livia had bought the house lock, stock and barrel. Unknowingly, she'd also bought Clint Bracamonte's past. He'd returned to find Livia the new owner of hi...

  • Family Bear Pop-up Book

    Ron Van der Meer

  • Strangers in the Night

    Peg Tyre

    Attempting to redeem her reputation after a big screw up, New York tabloid reporter Kate Murray is given six months to come up with a great story and finds it in the murder of a saintly nurse from Brooklyn. Reprint....

  • The Woman in the Mirror

    Lynn Turner

    Who's the fairest of them all? Thanks to the Witness Protection Program, for five years Jenna Kendrick, a.k.a. Kendra Jenner, faced a stranger in the mirror. Now, with the man she helped imprison about to be paroled, she was facing danger.... ...

  • Cooper

    Linda Turner

    One angry cowboy... THE WILD WEST Cooper Rawlings: A good-looking rancher who knows better than to be talon in by a pair of doe eyes and long legs. Susannah Patterson: Cooper's newest neighbor--a woman with an innocent face end the trust...

  • Free to Love

    Ivana Trump

  • Gunpowder Legacy

    Doyle Trent

  • How Much Land Does a Man Need?

    Leo Tolstoy

    In this collection, "How Much Land Does a Man Need? And Other Stories," Russian born Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) demonstrates his varied subject matter and style in his shorter fiction. In the title piece, "How Much Land Does a Man Need?,"...

  • Mantrap

    Louise Titchener

    NO ONE EVER DIED OF A BROKEN HEART Sally Dunphy has had a rough eighteen months. Then she hears that her ex-fiance has taken a dive off a bridge. Convinced that Joe, who had everything going for him, would never kill himself over her, as his note ...

  • The Button Horse

    Giles Tippette

    WARNER GRAYSON AND LAURA PICO ARE BREEDING PRIZE HORSES. AND JACK FISHER IS JEALOUS AS ALL HELL. Warner Grayson was eating his breakfast when the gunfighter barged in with a point-blank message from thoroughbred breeder Jack Fisher: meet one in a...

  • A Brand New Life

    Kathy Thurlow

    Eerily clever about predicting the stock market, Wall Street analyst Elizabeth March was a career woman on her way to the top. But when her husband left her -- suddenly -- Elizabeth wasn't so quick to predict her own future. Needing time and spac...

  • Wild Life 1-2-3

    Jan Thornhill

  • Winds of Destiny

    Victoria Thompson

    SHAME Born into a dynasty of wealth and privilege, Becky Tate is an outcast--branded by the Comanche blood that runs hotly through her veins. Then she meets a rugged stranger who awakens her heart to the magic and mystery of passion... SECRETS A...

  • Loverboy

    Vicki Lewis Thompson

    HE WAS EVERY WOMAN'S FANTASY! Luke Bannister swore he'd never return to his hometown of Chandler, Arizona. He was sick of being labelled a delinquent and sick of his father's constant abuse. But most of all, he was sick of hearing that he wasn't g...

  • Looking for Atlantis

    Colin Thompson

    Grandfather left his grandson a seafarer's chest, a parrot called Titanic and a dream - the dream of looking for Atlantis. "Atlantis is right here all around you," Grandfather said, "you have to learn how to look for it." So when Grandfather dies, t...

  • Lily

    Abigail Thomas

  • Daddy to the Rescue

    Cathy Gillen Thacker

    Single dad in shining armor One stormy night, an Amish beauty captured Jack Roark's heart...and nine months later an anonymous infant was left in his arms. With baby in tow, Jack set out to woo the mother of his child. Employing his Hollywood ...

  • Shanty Boat

    Charles Temple

    This rollicking ballad recounts the life of a happy idler whose only worry is snagging his fishing line and whose image is said to appear on the river when the moon is bright. By the creators of On the Riverbank. ...

  • Do You Know How Much I Love You?

    Donna Tedesco

  • Throne of Isis

    Judith Tarr

    Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt She was the most powerful woman of the ancient Mediterranean, and the only person standing between Rome and its dominion over the world. She was wife to Julius Caesar, and bore his only son. After his death she took Marc ...

  • The Heldan

    Deborah Talmadge-Bickmore

    THE LAW OF THE TRIBE Held-law had been called. Senea, along with the other firstborn of her tribe, was summoned to the Held fortress, there to train as a Heldan warrior. The firstborn would never see family or home agi in. Their lives would be to...

  • A First Passover

    Leslie Swartz

    In the Soviet Union, Jasha and his grandfather Zayde must celebrate Passover in secret, until they move to the United States, where they can practice their faith in the open and where Jasha gains new insights into the Passover celebration....

  • The Year Roger Wasn't Well

    Sarah Payne Stuart

    Lizzie Reade, a Harvard graduate and newly employed typist at Boston's liberal public television station, fears none of her numerous relationships will end in marriage--until she meets Roger, who has just begun to ask himself why he never falls in lo...

  • Without Honor

    Elizabeth Stuart

    THEY WERE BORN TO HATE EACH OTHER, BUT DESTINED TO FORGE A DEFIANT LOVE... It was a time of revolution and chaos, of danger and deception ...when Scotland teetered on the brink of civil war and lawlessness swept the borderlands. And in the midst o...

  • Cinderman

    Anne Stuart

    HE'D BEEN SO ELUSIVE Suzanna Molloy was trailing top-secret Dr. Daniel Crompton-a man reputed to be as hot as his experiments with chemical fusion. But even Suzanna didn't expect their meeting to be so explosive! HE WAS SO DANGEROUS A suspe...

  • Three Ninjas Kick Back

    Todd Strasser

  • Popsicle Pony

    Jill Stover

  • Weeds and the Weather

    Mary Stolz

  • Tap-Tap

    Catherine Stock

    On her first trip with her Mama to sell oranges in the market, a young Haitian girl and her mother cannot afford to ride on the truck that lets passengers off when they bang on its side, but she works extra hard and earns a ride for them both....

  • Shadows on the Shore

    Jessica Stirling

    1790. In Europe, the war against the French rages. In Ayrshire, a different kind of battle begins... Once, Frederick Striker betrayed her, then abandoned Clare thirteen years earlier. Now, Clare Quinn is no longer a guileless, impressionable innocent...

  • Bad Dreams

    R.L. Stine

    It's just a bad dream -- but it seems so real. Every night Maggie Travers has the same horrible dream. Every night she is forced to watch the same murder. And every night the girl in her dream cries out for help. Maggie is afraid to go to sleep agai...

  • Why I'm Afraid Of Bees

    R.L. Stine

    Right brain. Wrong Body. Gary Lutz needs a vacation ...from himself. Bullies are constantly beating him up. His only friend is his computer. Even his little sister doesn't like him. But now Gary's dream is about to come true. He's going to exchange...

  • Camp Zombie

    Megan Stine

  • First Action

    G. Harry Stine

    Captain William M. Corry of the American submarine U.S.S. Shenandoah must try to figure out why Americans stationed at the Pacific island port of Makasar are disappearing without a trace. Original....

  • Second Contact

    G. Harry Stine

  • A Rose for Every Month

    Sally Stewart

    After being jilted, thirty-one-year-old Jane Rushton leaves her native England for Florence in the early years of Mussolini's reign, finding work as a governess for an aristocratic Italian family that introduces her to an exotic world of romance...

  • A College of Magics

    Caroline Stevermer

    Teenager Faris Nallaneen is the heir to the small northern dukedom of Galazon. Too young still to claim her title, her despotic Uncle Brinker has ruled in her place. Now he demands she be sent to Greenlaw College. For her benefit he insists. To ke...

  • The Gentleman and the Kitchen Maid

    Diane Stanley

  • River

    Bill Staines

    Full-color illustrations by the artist for Fanny and Margarita accompany a folksinger's reflections on the every-changing river, always a source of inspiration, in a book that includes the author's original music....

  • A Cold-Blooded Business

    Dana Stabenow

    Once, Kate Shugak was the star investigator of the Anchorage D.A.'s office. Now she's gone back to her Aleut roots in the far Alaska north--where her talent for detection makes her the toughest crime-tracker in that stark and mysterious land... An...

  • Practical Joke War

    Stephanie St. Pierre

  • Rain Shadow

    Cheryl St. John

    A Guarded Heart Raised among the Lakota Sioux, Rain Shadow was the picture of an Indian princess. Exotic. Ethereal. But away from the glamour of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, she was a mother alone. An orphan in search of her past. And, armed wit...

  • The Green Musketeers And The Fabulous Frogs

    Sarah St. Antoine

    When Samantha Ripley and the rest of her fifth-grade class spot a tiny, lime-green frog while on a field trip to Emerson's Bog, the children form an environmentally aware club called the Green Musketeers...

  • The Green Musketeers and the Incredible Energy Escapade

    Sarah St. Antoine

  • Who Killed What's-Her-Name?

    Elizabeth Daniels Squire

    Acclaimed author Elizabeth Daniels Squire presents the first mystery in an exciting new series featuring Peaches Dann--an amateur sleuth who's slightly forgetful... and totally unforgettable! Peaches Dann is getting older and she forgets things a ...

  • My Soul to Take

    Steven Spruill

    Once an aspiring young neurosurgeon, Dr. Suzannah Lord was forced to abandon her passion and settle for general surgery after she rebuffed the advances of a brilliant and powerful researcher, Dr. Lancaster. Now Dr. Lancaster has made it big by develo...

  • The Vow

    Mary Spencer

    A GALLANT KNIGHT When Sir Eric Stavelot was asked to escort Lady Margot out of danger, he performed with the utmost reluctance. On the battlefield his prowess was legendary, but in the gentler arts he felt sadly lacking. Yet Eric had never met a l...

  • River God

    Wilbur Smith

    Ancient Egypt, Land of the Pharaohs. A kingdom built on gold. A legend shattered by greed... Now the Valley of the Kings lies ravaged by civil war, drained of its lifeblood, as weak men inherit the cherished crown. For Tanus, the fair-haired yo...

  • The Hunter

    L.J. Smith

    PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK. He sold her the Game, and Jenny Thornton walked out mesmerized by Julian, the gorgeous cyber-punk with electric blue eyes and frost-white hair. When she and her friends open the plain white box at her boyfriend Tom's birthda...

  • Behold, a Mystery!

    Joan Smith

    THE HOLIDAYS HAD TAKEN ON A DECIDED CHILL THIS YEAR. When Jessica Greenwood's great-aunt Hettie was murdered in her sleep, suspicion fell on the four visiting nephews who would presumably inherit her fortune. But shock greeted those gathered when ...

  • Love, Remember Me

    Bertrice Small

    Lovely Nyssa Wyndham, fair and proud as her mother, Blaze, is lady-in-waiting to Henry VIII's fourth wife.... Scandalizing all of England, Henry has his marriage annulled, for the Queen cannot meet the bawdy desires of the insatiable king. Henry s...

  • The Space Ship Returns to the Apple Tree

    Louis Slobodkin

  • MacArthur Must Die

    Ian Slater

    The bestselling author of WW III Wonderful, one of the great suspense stories of World War II —Clive Cussler Set during World War II, MacArthur Must Die is a what-if thriller in the great tradition of Eye of the Needle and The Eagle Has Landed...

  • Sweet Texas Kiss

    Rebecca Sinclair

    HE'S TEACH HER TO BE A LADY More at home in spurs than petticoats, rancher's daughter Dallas Cameron can ride herd as well as any man. It's catching that man that has her all tied up in knots. Ever since her daddy gave her an ultimatum, "rope a husb...

  • A Will of Their Own

    Susan Richards Shreve

    "Shreve is a master storyteller....[An] intricate portrait of the American woman and her creative centrality inside and outside the home."

    THE MIAMI HERALD

    They are four generations of women--Anna, Amanda, Sara, and Eleanor--and their remarkable ...

  • Stalking Horse

    Bill Shoemaker

    Straight from the Winner's Circle, the greatest jockey of all time draws on his vast experience on and off the track to spin one of the most suspenseful mysteries of the year....

    Coley Killebrew was one of the best jockeys in the business -- u...

  • The Devil's Dance Floor

    Gordon D. Shirreffs

    IF THE DESERT DIDN'T KILL THEM, THE BULLETS WOULD... Ash Mawson, a green-eyed half-breed with a lethal knife, had done it again: got himself and partner Dave Hunter caught in another death trap. This time it involved the search for a stolen treasu...

  • The Stone Diaries

    Carol Shields

    In celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of its original publication, Carol Shields's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is now available in a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition One of the most successful and acclaimed novels of our time, this fictionalize...

  • Gleaming Bright

    Josepha Sherman

  • Until Relieved

    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...

  • Love, Your Bear Pete

    Dyan Sheldon

  • Death Trails

    Jon Sharpe

    Out to settle the score with a trio of bushwhackers who had stolen his roll, Skye Fargo encounters a group of murderous Mescalero Apaches and searches for Dulcy Abbot, the daughter of a rich businessman. Original....

  • Seeds

    George Shannon

  • A Cast of Thousands

    Steve Shagan

    From Steve Shagan -- New York Times bestselling author and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter comes the ultimate behind-the-scenes Hollywood novel, A CAST OF THOUSANDS.... Within the inner sanctums of Gemstone Pictures and the walled security o...

  • Til the Stars Fall

    Kathleen Gilles Seidel

    They were young, they were in love, and the world was a place where dreams could come true, where the highest heights of fame could be reached, and where friendships never ended... KRISSA Desperate to escape the stifling life of a small mining to...

  • Last Rights

    Tim Sebastian

    British financial consultant Edward Bell is living a dangerous lie--but he doesn't know it yet... Then, on a dark day in a bleak North London November, he finds his mother's house mysteriously empty--and the corpse of a murdered stranger abandoned...

  • The Commissioner's Moll

    Justin Scott

    The Adams Round Table is today's counterpart of the legendary Algonquin Roundtable. Founded in 1982 by Mary Higgins Clark and Thomas Chastain, the members meet every month to discuss their craft and create some of the best-loved mysteries of our time...

  • Relative Attraction

    Celia Scott

    He was definitely the wrong man! For starters, he was much too young, far too attractive and a little too interested in Selby. Not that Selby Maitland was averse to male attention. But she was on a mission: to find and confront the Danny Fore...

  • The Werewolf's Sin

    Cheri Scotch

    THE PROMISE OF THE MOON Sylvie Drago surrendered to a secret and sensual world no mortal woman could imagine. With her faithful lover Lucien, she discovered the beautiful, haunted world of the werewolf--a timeless realm of passion hidden in the sh...

  • Next of Kin

    Joseph Schreiber

    Anthem, a strange girl who claims to be fourteen-year-old Nicholas's sister, kidnaps him to reunite with their real father and a brother who shares special powers, but when they arrive at sinister "Uncle" Titus's home, Nick realizes that terror...

  • Murder by Owl Light

    Corinne Holt Sawyer

    For those far-from-over-the-hill senior sleuths, Angela Benbow and Caledonia Wingate, the murder of the gardener at posh Camden-sur-Mer retirement complex is a delightful break in their rather dull routine. Unfortunately, a bad-tempered police office...

  • A Reformed Rake

    Jeanne Savery

    Can a scoundrel shed his wicked ways? SCANDAL'S DARLING Never one to resist an adventure, governess Harriet Cole was only too delighted to help her young charge flee France -- and the designs of a despicable suitor. But more trouble soon ar...

  • Pale Flyer

    Julian Jay Savarin

    A thriller about a band of the world's most talented pilots who investigate a secret base deep in the Sahara, and it becomes apparent that a group of Russian hardliners are plotting to restore their shattered motherland. From the author of TARGET DOW...

  • Forever

    Amy Elizabeth Saunders

    HEAVEN CAN WAIT Laurel Behrman was used to putting up with daily hard knocks. Bursting water beds, a miserable job, even a divorce from Mr. Wrong she could handle. But her accidental death was too much, especially when her bumbling guardian angels...

  • Sacred Lips of the Bronx

    Douglas Sadownick

    Taking the gay novel into uncharted terrain, Sacred Lips of the Bronx explores AIDS activism, Jewish folklore, kinky sex, the California New Age, and the streets of the Bronx. "Sadownick's imaginative narrative, unique voice, and character developmen...

  • Mountain Bike Madness

    Betsy Sachs

  • All I See

    Cynthia Rylant

  • A House by the Sea

    Joanne Ryder

  • A Year in the Life of the Forest

    Joanne Ryder

    Welcoming children to Bambi's forest home to watch it and its animals grow and adapt to the ever-changing seasons, watercolor illustrations display a year's worth of green grass, bright flowers, autumn leaves, and glistening snow....

  • A Lifetime of Heaven

    Nan Ryan

    THE SAINT She was a spirited St. Louis do-gooder who'd traveled to the teeming shores of San Francisco's waterfront to find her missing brother... and to wage an all-out war on sin and corruption. ...AND THE SINNER He was a silver-eyed scoundrel...

  • When Night Falls

    Jenna Ryan

    Love was waiting for her in the past...and so was a legendary killer Cassie Lachlin had witnessed some bizarre things as a police photographer. But London circa 1790 was definitely a first! Dark, dashing Anthony Morgan was the only sight she r...

  • Time to Wake Up!

    Marisabina Russo

  • Pursued

    Patricia H. Rushford

    Allison Beaumont is beautiful, popular, wealthy, and she’s just been crowned the Rose Festival Princess. But when dead roses begin arriving on her doorstep and threatening phone calls follow, Allison realizes she's paying a high price for her thron...

  • Friday's Journey

    Ken Rush

    When it is time for seven-year-old Chris to leave his mother and go to his father's house for the weekend, he rides the New York subway with his father and thinks about the wonderful places in the city they can visit together...

  • Days of Future Past

    Aristides Ruiz

  • The Treeless Plains

    Glen Rounds

  • Citybook

    Shelley Rotner

  • The Kinder Heart

    Marcy Elias Rothman

    A Curious Courtship Lady Barbara Worth had good reason to mistrust men. Her own brother, Marlow, left her impoverished while he dissipated their family fortune gambling, wenching, and worse. Her former suitors had abandoned her to solitude, and sh...

  • Sex, Lies and Leprechauns

    Renee Roszel

    BEGUILED... Sex: Okay, so what if Devlin Rafferty was as handsome as the devil, and sexy and charming to boot! Laura Todd was a woman on a mission--to find a missing heir in Ireland. And if that wasn't reason enough to avoid Devlin, she'd vowed to...

  • Angel of Desire

    JoAnn Ross

    The devil: Shade Blackstone His mission: Rescue his best friend, Conlan, and kill the sadistic general responsible for his abduction. Shade was used to getting the job done, doing whatever it took, living on the dark side. What he hadn't counted o...

  • Hour of the Octopus

    Joel Rosenberg

    On the eve of a grand royal wedding, a nobleman is killed with a hunting arrow. The priceless tapestries of the bridal keep are stained with blood. And the fatal arrow bears the mark of the prime suspect--the bridegroom himself. Only one person ca...

  • Decorating Easter Eggs

    Mara R. Rogers

  • Flame

    Evelyn Rogers

    SOME FIRES ARE LIT BY DESIRE... Lovely Flame Chadwick was bound for the sun-scorched trails of West Texas in search of her charming, high-born fiance. He'd taken her innocence in a fleeting moment of passion and had ridden out of her life... leaving...

  • A Trick of Light

    Patricia Robinson

    Jervey, director of the Parmalee Players, an amateur theater group in Southern California, has her hands full of trouble, between finding the right leading man for a new play and finding a skeleton in a trunk from last year's production...

  • The Ditches of Edison County

    Ronald Richard Roberts

  • Convincing Alex

    Nora Roberts

    Soap opera writer Bess McNee figured the only way to understand a character was to stand in her shoes-even if they were a streetwalker's stiletto heels. So she got tossed in the slammer, thanks to the sexiest detective in New York, and she decided th...

  • Blind Justice

    J.R. Roberts

    Robbed of his sight and his family by desperados, Stan Barton swore he'd track down the bushwhackers and make them pay. Clint Adams reluctantly agrees to help the blind ex-lawman follow the trail to Colorado. There, in a deserted town taken over by o...

  • The Trouble With Joe

    Emilie Richards

    Urchin Corey Haskins loved her teacher to pieces. Trouble was, she wasn't crazy about "Miss Sam's" grouchy ol' husband, Joe Giovanelli. And the feeling was mutual. Just 'cause she'd wrecked his car and bashed in his mandolin didn't mean the big guy s...

  • Rebar

    Mary Carpenter Reid

    When Tillie Gibson inherits control of her uncle Wallace's rebar company, she is as surprised as everyone else. While his window, Dee, knows nothing about the business, his stepson, Austin Neff, has more than a passing interest in its success. Eve...

  • American Story: Short Stories from the REA Award

    Michael M. Rea

    Established by the Dungannon Foundation in 1986 to honor living American writers who have made a significant contribution to the short story form, the annual Rea Award for the Short Story has become one of America's most prestigious literary prizes. ...

  • Pianna

    Mary Lyn Ray

    Full-color paintings illustrate the story of an eighty-year-old woman, living in an orange house between the railroad and Ragged Mountain, who as a girl had loved nothing more than playing her piano. By the author of Pumpkins. ...

  • Ghostly Enchantment

    Angie Ray

    Determined to overcome her status as a social outcast, Margaret Westbourne rashly marries dull Lord Barnett, and a dashing ghost who resides in her new home involves her in a game of passionate mischief. Original....

  • Skybowl

    Melanie Rawn

    THE FINAL CONFLICT! With her widely acclaimed fantasy trilogy, DRAGON PRINCE, Melanie Rawn opened an enchanted gateway to a spellbinding universe of Sunrunner's .magic and sorcerous evil, telling the tale of one man's crusade to bring peace to a l...

  • Elizabeth Imagined an Iceberg

    Chris Raschka

  • The Spitball Class

    Candice Ransom

  • Like Me and You

    Raffi

  • The Apartment

    Janet Quin-Harkin

    Three young women--Toya, whose boyfriend has just betrayed her; Sharon, who has just lost her mother; and Dorothy, an aspiring dancer--come to escape the past, and together they find the future. Original....

  • The Tin Princess

    Philip Pullman

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  • The Black Hen

    Antony Pogorelsky

  • A Rose Without a Thorn

    Jean Plaidy

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  • Knot in the Tracks

    Roberto Piumini

  • The Prom

    Nicholas Pine

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  • The Longings of Women

    Marge Piercy

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    Lorna Philpot

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  • Robinson

    Christopher Petit

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    Anne Peters

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  • A Plant Called Spot

    Nancy Peteraf

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    Don Pendleton

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    Don Pendleton

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    Robert Newton Peck

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    Philippa Pearce

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    Susan Patron

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    Francine Pascal

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  • Love and Death in London

    Francine Pascal

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  • Steven the Zombie

    Francine Pascal

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  • Slippin' Into Darkness

    Norman Partridge

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  • Risk

    Doris Parmett

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  • Dear God, Help! Love, Earl

    Barbara Park

    Earl is ready to do anything to avoid the meanest kid in school-even if it means playing dead....

  • Natural Causes

    Michael Palmer

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  • Shadow Dance

    Jessica Palmer

  • Unfit to Plead

    Frank Palmer

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  • Behind Closed Doors

    Catherine Palmer
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  • Caleb's Son

    Laurie Paige

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  • The Last American Hero

    Ruth Owen

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  • Magic Weaver of Rugs

    Jerrie Oughton

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  • The Last Lullaby

    Jesse Osburn

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    Mary Pope Osborne

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  • Camp Fear

    Alice Orr

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    Frank Orenstein

    Florence Beasley insists that her husband is not just missing--he's dead, and asks retired state trooper and self-styled curmudgeon Hugh Morrison to find the body so she can collect on the insurance. Hugh discovers the professor led a life outside of...

  • Miss Drayton's Downfall

    Patricia Oliver

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  • Sharon Plays It Cool

    Diana Oliver

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  • James Bear and the Goose Gathering

    Jim Olatimer

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  • Omega Score

    Mel Odom

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  • How Music Came to the World: An Ancient Mexican Myth

    Carol Ober

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    Constance O'Day-Flannery
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    Cathy Connelly takes off for Ireland to forget a broken love affair. But a treacherous fall sends her reeling - and sweeps her back in time...where a handsome Irishman's shining eyes hold a promise to cherish: she will find love again......

  • Redline the Stars

    Andre Norton; P.M. Griffin

    When the interstellar trade ship Solar Queen lands at Canuche in Halio, Captain Jellico and his crew are faced with a plague of rats that threatens to decimate the ranks of visiting spacefarers. Reprint....

  • Deep End

    Geoffrey Norman

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  • Lucky Morning

    Sally Noll

  • Crashlander

    Larry Niven

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    Barbara Nichol

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  • There's a Bear in the Bath

    Nanette Newman

  • One-Eyed Cowboy Wild

    John D. Nesbitt

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  • Uncertain April 1909-1950

    Betty Palmer Nelson

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  • Waiting for Deborah

    Betty Neels

    Deborah knew that she wasn't glamorous! Even if she had all the time and money in the world, nothing was going to alter the fact that she was skinny with hair the color of carrots. So if was hardly surprising that attractive consultant Sir Jam...

  • Alice In-Between

    Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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  • When the Water Closes Over My Head

    Donna Jo Napoli

  • Looking for Mister Green

    Warren Murphy

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  • Disney's Aladdin

    Diane Muldrow

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  • The Gallant Outlaw

    Gilbert Morris

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  • The Daddy Due Date

    Raye Morgan

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  • Grand Days

    Frank Moorhouse

  • Coyote Blue

    Christopher Moore

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  • Wild Bride

    Jeanne Montague

    Lady Berenice couldn't believe she was being forced to marry a man she'd never met. Very well, then! She'd make the most of the London season as long as her freedom lasted. How was she to know she would encounter her unknown and unwanted fiance durin...

  • The Magic Engineer

    L.E. Modesitt Jr.

    The chronicles of the magical island of Recluce continue as young Dorrin, fascinated by forbidden science, goes into exile in the lands of Chaos, where he unwillingly invents devices of war to save his land from the evil Chaos wizards....

  • From the Heart

    Sara Mitchell

    Olivia Sinclair, owner and operator of the Bridal Bower, has launched many a starry-eyed couple down the path to marital bliss. But the possibility of becoming a bride herself is more and more remote. Bequeathed a legacy of hatred and shame that has ...