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  • Alexander Zane

    Best-selling artist James Warhola and author Alex Zane have created a fun, read-aloud picture book with rhyming text and wonderfully amusing illustrations inspired by the song THE WHEELS ON THE BUS.

    "Racers start your engines! The drivers in t...



  • Chun Yu

    I was born in a small city near the East Sea,when the Great Cultural Revolution began.My name is Little Green,my country Zhong Guo, the Middle Kingdom.When I was ten years old,our leader had died and the revolution ended.And this is how I remember it...



  • Akira Yoshimura

    Based on real characters and events, Storm Rider is a vivid historical portrait of Japan and America in the mid-nineteenth century, as well as an exciting high-seas adventure and a moving story of a man lost between two cultures.

    At the age o...



  • Arthur Yorinks

    A precocious group of bees loves to wreak havoc at picnics, in the backyard, and around the beehive--especially when bears come to steal honey--in a vibrant picture book that is accompanied by a CD of ten silly songs about bees....



  • Susan Wright

    Years ago, Rose Rico learned firsthand that Earth's government was secretly "exporting" hundreds of human beings into bondage, in exchange for advanced alien technology from the Alphas. Forced to wear the collar of a pleasure slave, Rose and her fell...



  • John C. Wright

    The Chronicles of Everness continue.Young Galen Waylock is the last watchman of the Dream Gate, beyond which the ancient evils wait, hungry for the human world. For a thousand years, Galen's family has stood guard, scorned by a world that dismissed t...



  • Sherryl Woods

    Every woman needs a backup plan... And no one knows that better than foreign correspondent Dinah Davis, who's spent years wriggling out of international hot spots. Now she's come home to South Carolina's Low Country to hook up with the dependable ...



  • Sherryl Woods

    Recipe for Disaster -- or Red-Hot Romance? Take one part Maggie D'Angelo, the striking and independent food critic who's had her fill of casual men.... Add one part gorgeous photographer on a mission for seduction. Rick Flannery's playboy rep...



  • Valerie Wolzien

    DOUBLE THE LOVE, DOUBLE THE DEATH Susan Henshaw and her husband, Jeb, are the proud grandparents of beautiful twins, and their daughter and son-in-law are temporarily moving into the Henshaws' Connecticut home with their tiny bundles of joy. Added...



  • Meg Wolitzer

    Crackling with intelligence and humor, The Position is the masterful story of one extraordinary family at the hilarious height of the sexual revolution -- and through the thirty-year hangover that followed. In 1975, Paul and Roz Mellow write a bests...



  • Paul Witcover

    Twelve-year-old twins Jack and Jilly Doone are closer than most siblings -- uncannily linked, sharing thoughts, sensations, and emotions as if one person -- as they enjoy a mostly parentless August at the Delaware shore. But in the fury of an onrushi...



  • Linda Randall Wisdom

    He's Getting In Trouble For All the Right Reasons! For thirteen-year-old Nick Donner, it was worth getting into some trouble to match his mom, Lucy, with Judge Kincaid's son, Logan. Now Nick's doing community service at Logan's animal clinic, hopi...



  • Tom Wilson

    Blackfoot operative Link Anderson must foil a terrorist attack being orchestrated by the Native American Sociedad Serpiente, which leads him into the heart of the northwestern redwoods where one of the world's most feared terrorists has been recruite...



  • Karma Wilson

    Mama Bird and Mama Cat and even teensy-weensy Mama Mole must leave their little ones from time to time; but in the end, mamas always come home.

    Karma Wilson's reassuring text, paired with Brooke Dyer's colorful and comforting mother-child i...



  • Jacqueline Wilson

    Em adores her funny, glamorous dad - who cares if he's not her real father? He's wonderful to her, and to her little brother Maxie and sister Vita. True to form at Christmas, Dad gives them fantastic presents, including a real emerald ring for his li...



  • Sarah Willson

    Sam, Clover, and Alex are excited about their next mission: They're going to a costume party! But can they stop a kidnapping dressed as a clown, a chicken, and a cowgirl? Readers can use the enclosed holographic stickers to help the girls take on...



  • Jeanne Willis

    Everyone is talking too loud, and moving too fast. But no one seems to hear what's being said. What to do? A well-dressed shrew has all the answers. All you have to do is be still and listen … "One, two, three…Shhh!" This eloquent and brilliantly...



  • Michael Z. Williamson

    A new war against a new breed of monster The sniper works alone, or in a team of two -- a hardened military professional with only one opportunity to turn the tide of battle and make a difference ... with a single bullet. Still haunted by the ...



  • Sam Williams



  • Jeanne Williams

    Book Three in Beneath the Burning Ground

    A Spur Award-winning Author

    Jeanne Williams is a master of the historical novel, and nowhere more so than in this epic story of the Kansas Territory in the years just before and during the War Between th...



  • Edward Willett

    A thrilling sci-fi novel of communication and learned trust between human and alienKathryn was a human empath whose world and life had been destroyed when, as a young child, she watched helplessly as the alien S’sinn slaughtered her parents be...



  • Kim Wilkins

    Christine Starlight lives with her lover, Jude, in a hip artists' colony in modern-day Berlin. Haunted by a troubled past, she is shocked when her missing childhood friend, May, suddenly reappears. Abducted as a young girl, May now presides over a ma...



  • Michael Wiecek

    BLIND FEAR An assault on Blindside, a high-tech corporation dealing in computer espionage, encryption, and code breaking, leaves eight employees blown away. All evidence is incinerated. But the faceless killers made two mistakes. They left two witne...



  • Lori Wick

    Will Lies Destroy Their Chance at Love ? The last thing Jace Randall wants is to be smitten with a woman. His sister, Eden, said it would happen when he moved to Tucker Mills to help his uncle run the sawmill. Now he wants to prove her wrong. T...



  • Steve White

    Only a Gigantic Hoax Kept the Earth from Being Taken Over by Aliens--but the Secret was About to be Leaked by a Traitor in THE PROMETHEUS PROJECT Bob Devaney was a soldier in the Special Forces in the early 1960s until a traumatic event which h...



  • Stephen White

    Psychologist Alan Gregory’s friend and fellow therapist Hannah Grant has died suddenly and mysteriously. The police are baffled, leaving another unsolved homicide in Boulder, Colorado. Only Alan can decipher Hannah’s clues -- a quest that will ta...



  • Randy Wayne White

    It starts with a simple request: check up on the mysteriously reclusive biologist brother of an old friend. But what Doc Ford stumbles upon in the doctor's secluded island home is a nightmare. He has hanged himself--and his body is host to a rare str...



  • Scott Westerfeld

    Bixby, Oklahoma, is full of secrets. some come out at midnight. some should stay hidden. As the Midnighters search for the truth about the secret hour, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby's history, and a consp...



  • Valerie Wilson Wesley

    Dani Carter was seven years old -- her sister, Rose, seventeen -- when their beautiful, impetuous mother, Maria, walked out of their lives, abandoning her husband and family for a love affair that would end tragically mere months later. Over the deca...



  • Louise Wener

    From the author of The Perfect Play comes a charmingly romantic -- yet very edgy -- novel set in the music industry about friendship, love, growing up, and always following your dreams. Danny McQueen has dreamed of being a pop star since he was th...



  • Ellis Weiner

    When would-be blackmailers get hold of obscene outtakes from a popular children's TV show, private investigator Pete Ingalls is called in to find the culprits and save the show, only to confront murder in the wonderful world of puppets. Reprint....



  • Richard Weber

    "That"---she said regally, in the direction of the coffin being wheeled offstage---"that can be delivered later. Let's go." Lydia gave a queenly toss of her head, careful not to lose its invisible crown. "I need some fresh air." Delivered later......



  • Sarah Webb
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    You thought you'd heard the whole story? They painted the town green in the acclaimed international bestseller "Irish Girls About Town." Now "Irish Girls Are Back In Town" ...and their unique charm resonates throughout this high-spirited gathering...



  • Debra Webb

    My name is Merri Walters. I'm twenty-seven years old. Two years ago, I suddenly went deaf... My teaching career ended and my fiance walked out. I survived -- and learned to lip-read. I grew very good at it. Maybe too good. So here I am, two years ...



  • Ingrid Weaver

    She was seconds away from pulling the trigger...when the stranger strode out of the storm and witnessed her failure to take out her brother's killer. His eyes, his gaze...everything about him stirred a response in Hayley Tavistock. But he'd interfere...



  • Susan May Warren

    Ex-CIA operative Lacey Montgomery is a liar, a murderer, and a fugitive -- or is she? Former Green Beret Jim Micah must either prove her innocence or bring her to justice. Too bad his heart won't stay out of the way. With a little girl's life and nat...



  • Nancy Warren

    Earthquake aftershocks trap Mayor Patrick O'Shea and his assistant Briana Bliss in an elevator. But emergency services are stretched to the limit with 911 calls. The mayor and Briana wait. And passions flare... Briana Bliss planned to use her job as...



  • Tim Warnes

    Mommies come in all shapes and sizes -- tiny and chubby, spiny and grubby!

    And Mommies make all different kinds of noises -- chomp and chatter, stomp and pitter-patter!

    But for every child, the best mom in the whole world is

    Momm...



  • Gertrude Chandler Warner

    The Alden children knew they would be investigating a mystery at Eton Place, but they had no idea there would be a ghost there, too! An old family friend, Norah Eton, believes there is a valuable piece of jewelry hidden somewhere on her property....



  • Suzanne Walter

    When Chase Dymond woke up in Abigail Blue's barn, he had a splitting headache and couldn't remember how he had gotten there. When he woke up again ten minutes later, after being smacked with a horse brush wielded by Ms. Blue herself, he couldn't wait...



  • Aury Wallington

    Get the story behind the TV show--stories you won't find anywhere else! Everything's changing in the O.C.

    The events of the past few months have left everyone changed. Seth has found the person he wants to be and he's grown confident about mos...



  • John Wallace

    It is Little One's bedtime, and she has a question for her daddy: Can you guess who my favorite person in the whole wide world is? As she gets ready for bed, Daddy tries to figure it out. Who is kind and gentle? Who can reach the top shelf where the ...



  • Alice Walker

    The Pulitzer Prize"winning author of The Color Purple, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and The Temple of My Familiar now gives us a beautiful new novel that is at once a deeply moving personal story and a powerful spiritual journey. In Now Is the ...



  • Ann Waldron

    Prize-winning journalist McLeod Dulaney is back--and under suspicion after she literally stumbles over a corpse packed into a garment bag. To clear her name, she must investigate some shadowy goings-on at the Princeton Seminary, where someone may hav...



  • Marcos M. Villatoro

    The award-winning Home Killings, Marcos M. Villatoro's first Romilia Chacon novel. won dazzling acclaim for its fusion of character. suspense, and a gripping police procedural swirling around a fiery Latina detective. Now, in a new novel filled with ...



  • Leah Vale

    He's an Officer... When lawyer Lynn Hayes's career depends on keeping one of the long-lost McCoy heirs out of jail, she braces herself for a courtroom battle. But the defendant's rigid sense of duty is the first enemy she faces -- followed quickly b...



  • Lisa Tuttle

    From award-winning author Lisa Tuttle comes a riveting novel that combines the contemporary story of one man's search for a missing young woman with history's most enduring legends of the disappeared. Gripping and unforgettable, here is a spellbindin...



  • Valerie Tripp

    Lindy has great ideas, but she forgets to finish what she starts! When she forgets to put the lid back on the ducklings' box, she really lets trouble loose in the classroom. Find out how a few friends and a field trip help Lindy find her way to a hap...



  • Peter Tremayne

    October, A.D. 667: Sister to one of the kings of Ireland religieuse of the Celtic Church, and advocate in local courts, Fidelma of Cashel is struggling with her most challenging role yet--that of mother. With her baby boy ever in mind, she takes on h...



  • J.D. Townsend

    2174 A.D. Acquired Genetic Neurological Syndrome has killed nearly two-thirds of Earth's male population, and women have risen to dominate all aspects of life. The Whole Body governs with chilling efficiency; the Ministry of Termination dispatches th...



  • Gemma Townley

    WHAT'S ONE LITTLE WHITE LIE? Okay, so it isn't that little. It's kind of a whopper. It's just that when Natalie Raglan ups and quits her job at a Bath advertising firm, breaks up with her loser-ish boyfriend, and moves -- to London! Things don't q...



  • Pamela Toth

    DIAGNOSIS -- ROMANCE!! Our most eligible doctor has met his match! Thunder Canyon General Hospital is abuzz with rumors about Chris Taylor and our newest resident, Dr. Zoe Hart. They've had their hands full of "gold rush" injuries in the E.R. -- and...



  • J. Torres

    Teen Titans: five teenage superheroes fighting for truth, justice, and pizza.

    Super Ninja Fury: The Movie is the hottest show in town and the Teen Titans can't wait to see it. Unfortunately, Dr. Light is trying to spoil the fun but stealing al...



  • J. Torres

    Teen Titans: five teenage superheroes fighting for truth, justice, and the last slice of pizza

    Who are the Teen Titans? Beast Boy who can turn into any animal he wants; Cyborg who's half-man, half-robot; Raven who can move objects with her min...



  • Allan Topol

    National bestselling author Allan Topol returns with a lightning-paced thriller that takes readers into the shifting sands of global intrigue and the silent war against terror. In Syria, a downed American pilot from a powerful political family bec...



  • Pier Vittorio Tondelli

    "The author's lyricism and low-key humor successfully contend with the weight of an immense melancholy. And despite its casual texture, Tondelli's prose never deviates far from the 'seam of that other reality that we call art'."-The New York Times Bo...



  • Alan Titchmarsh

    'The voice on the other end of the phone was severe. "It's your grandmother ... She's been arrested." ' Nick Robertson has become used to his grandmother Rosie's dotty behaviour. At 86, a widow now, she is determined that before life passes her by, s...



  • Cynthia Thayer

    Jessie and Carl have made a terrible mistake. They should have been more careful. When Jonah came to their cabin in the Maine woods, asking to use the phone, they should never have let him in. But he told them his campsite had been robbed and he was ...



  • James Swain

    Tony Valentine made his living and his name as a cop in Atlantic City -- and is now known worldwide for his ability to spot the kinds of scams, grifts, and rip-offs that cost casinos billions every year. A man with a biting wit who drives a '92 Honda...




  • Alison Strobel

    Some Decisions Change Your Day. Some Will Change Your Life.While the headlines screamed “Hollywood Heartthrob Marries Girl Next Door,” the public relationship of Jack Harrington and Grace Winslowe never revealed the private struggles that threate...



  • Jean Stone

    Four best friends, one risky business, and a chance to say "I do" one more time. . . With their fledgling business Second Chances facing its first big break, four best friends turned wedding consultants face second chances -- and challenges -- ...



  • Robert Stokesberry

    Trouble has a way of finding Clay Parder. After minding his own business and heading away from some undeserved trouble, Clay decides to ride into an isolated town to look for a drink. Unfortunately, he then finds himself smack dab in the middle of a ...



  • R.L. Stine

    Sometimes, love can be murder. Joanna and Scotty lead perfect lives. That is, until Joanna dumps her boyfriend and Scotty cheats on his girlfriend. But it's all for the best, right? Dead wrong. Joanna's ex-boyfriend Dex turns up dead. But it's not...



  • R.L. Stine

    This summer Max is going to sleep-away camp for the first time. Will it also be his last time? This summer Max is going to Camp Snake Lake -- where he will have to swim in a lake filled with poisonous snakes . . . where a Headless Ghost roams the fi...



  • Geronimo Stilton

    Who is Geronimo Stilton? That's me! I run a newspaper, but my true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse Island, my books are all bestsellers! My stories are full of fun -- tastier than Swiss cheese and t...



  • Vicki Stiefel

    It starts with a mysterious phone call, summoning homicide counselor Tally Whyte back to the hometown she thought she'd left far behind her. Almost as soon as she arrives, Tally hears that a young woman she knew as a child has been found ritualistica...



  • Kevin Stevens

    Divorced and fonder of whisky that he should be, Harry Donohue moves through the familiar debris of a failed American life. But Harry has a book to publish. Obtained in classic Boston-Irish style, replete with high-level political favor-trading, it...



  • Steve Stern

    In a trilogy of connected stories that revolve around an unfinished manuscript and a fallen angel's relationship with his half-mortal son in 1900 New York, three people depart from their ordinary lives in the wake of a series of extraordinary adventu...



  • Susan Stephens

    Forced to marry...a sheikh! One passionate night was all it took! Now Lucy is the mother of Sheikh Kahlil's son. If their baby is to inherit the kingdom of Abadan, Kahlil insists that Lucy must marry him! Lucy is both appalled by the idea o...



  • Charlie Stella

    Former bus driver and ex-con Reese Waters wants to help his prison buddy Peter Rizzo, but his good intentions will land him in hot water with the mafia and the Nation of Islam, as well as New York's finest....



  • Rene Steinke

    No one in 1917 New York had ever encountered a woman like the Bar-oness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven -- poet, artist, proto-punk rocker, sexual libertine, fashion avatar, and unrepentant troublemaker. When she wasn't stalking the streets of Greenwich...



  • Danielle Steel

    When a high-powered gallery owner collides with an offbeat artist, it's the perfect recipe for disaster. Sasha is widowed and knows she was lucky to have been married to a wonderful man. Liam's impulsive behavior has helped tear his marriage apart. W...



  • Pamela Leigh Starr

    In FATE you met Vanessa Lewis, a young woman from a strong, black Southern family. She was destined to fall in love with Scott, a man so different from, yet so perfect for her.

    CHANCES continues this family's story with Vanessa's strong no nonsens...



  • Alexander Stadler

    What's the most important part of any birthday celebration? The cake, of course! And who better to create Oliver Shumacher's birthday confection than his best friend, Beverly. She even has the perfect recipe: The Caramel Candy Castle Cake. Just gazin...



  • Michael A. Stackpole

    In Nalenyr, the family of the Royal Cartographer stands in a unique position. They not only draw the maps, but also explore uncharted territories, expanding and updating the existing knowledge of the world. Their talent has yielded them enormous powe...



  • Brian Stableford

    The gods of Asgard are in deep trouble. If they can’t defeat their internal enemies, the starlet in the macroworld’s core will blow up, killing trillions humanoids in its various layers. Only one man can save this articifial planet, and he can on...



  • Tina St. John

    Six months in an enemy's dungeon might have broken a weaker man, but the former Templar knight Kenrick of Clairmont has emerged from imprisonment with an unyielding determination, consumed by a single, daunting quest: to find the Dragon Chalice, a my...



  • Patricia Sprinkle

    It's a high-stakes game for Hopemore, Georgia, county magistrate MacLaren Yarbrough when she investigates the murder of a bridge maven.... State bridge champion Edith Whelan Burkett has been dealt a string of bad hands. Not only did her husband comm...



  • Michael P. Spradlin

    Blackthorn Academy, meet Rachel Buchanan I'm not a delinquent. I'm just misunderstood. Of course, the judge didn't see it that way. She gave me a choice: juvenile detention or boarding school in Pennsylvania, of all places. That's how I woun...



  • Annie Sparrow
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    You thought you'd heard the whole story? They painted the town green in the acclaimed international bestseller Irish Girls About Town. Now Irish Girls Are Back In Town ...and their unique charm resonates throughout this high-spirited gathering of ...




  • Sharon Sobel

    Performance of a Lifetime Jilted by her fiance, Lady Larkspur finds herself in a very vulnerable position. As the only unattached daughter of a peer, she is in danger of becoming an old maid at twenty-four. Until her father arranges a marriage beh...



  • Diana Love Snell

    TROUBLE NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD Her fear was palpable, the danger pursuing her larger than life. Zane Black knew he had no business risking his mission as an undercover DEA agent on the long-legged distraction he'd found stowed away on his plane....



  • Haywood Smith

    Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Diane, and Linda are back in a warm, sassy Southern novel from the New York Times bestselling author of QUEEN BEE OF MIMOSA BRANCH and RED HAT CLUB.Georgia, SuSu, Teeny, Linda and Diane have been friends for more than thirty yea...



  • Debra White Smith

    Central Park: A Contemporary Retelling of Mansfield Park When her friend returns from his trip to Paris accompanied by a beautiful woman and her flirtatious brother, Francine faces a difficult choice: wait for a love that may never be or settle for ...



  • Lisa Smedman
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    Arvin A mind-mage of growing power sets off on a secret journey to the barony of Sespech A human realm crawling with yuan-ti, where he encounters Karell A yuan-ti half-blood who in turn has her serpent's eyes set on Dmetrio Scion of the ...



  • Ian Slater

    Old soldiers never die. They just come back for more. Three terrorist missiles have struck three jetliners filled with innocent people. America knows this shock all too well. But unlike 9/11, the nation is already on a war footing. The White Hous...



  • Judith Skillings

    Rebecca Moore thought she left violent death behind her, but the bodies keep mounting ... and they're begging for justice. Having abandoned her career as a Washington, D.C., reporter to run her late uncle's classic car restoration shop, Rebec...



  • Susan Sizemore

    In her steamy new vampire romance, acclaimed author Susan Sizemore pits vampires against mortals, destiny against desire.... Mia Luchese comes from a long line of vampire hunters but has never believed in the supernatural. When she's attacked by va...



  • Karen V. Siplin

    Karen Siplin, whose first novel, His Insignificant Other, earned her critical praise from her peers and fans, presents Such a Girl -- a sexy and engaging new novel. In Such a Girl, Siplin brings to vivid life the story of a woman who ends a love affa...



  • Gammy L. Singer

    While eluding a drug lord to whom he owes a great deal of money, Amos Brown, a down-on-his-luck gambler, unexpectedly becomes a landlord when he inherits two brownstones and meets a cast of colorful characters, all of whom help him unlock the mysteri...



  • Janice Sims
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    Landscaper Alexandra Cartwright has no time for men...until she meets sexy construction company owner Jared Kyles. When he joins her for worship at Red Oaks, Alex knows she's falling for him...but is this lust or a lasting love?...



  • Seymour Simon

    SeeMore Readers are designed for every young reader. Large, bright pictures instantly engage readers in the subject. Exciting yet simple text provides the information that kids, parents, and teachers want from key facts to fascinating trivia. Each Re...



  • Seymour Simon

    SeeMore Readers are designed for every young reader. Large, bright pictures instantly engage readers in the subject. Exciting yet simple text provides the information that kids, parents, and teachers want from key facts to fascinating trivia. Each Re...



  • Frank Simon

    "SECURITY" IS THE NAME OF THE GAME FOR JOHN MASON AND GARY NESBITT BUT TERRORISM IS NO GAME. Fresh off a job testing the defenses of Britain's crown jewels, the SecurityCheck company is approached by the U.S. government with an assignment of much ...



  • Chris Simms

    A gripping psychological crime novel that follows the success of his first, Outside the White Lines.

    Rubble lives in a caravan and works on a battery farm. Totally oblivious to the outside world, he spends his days disposing of the sick and in...



  • Shel Silverstein

    From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature: Runny Babbit.

    Runny Babbit is Shel Silverstein's hilarious and Ne...



  • Erica Silverman

    The boy whose stories became Fiddler on the RoofSholom Aleichem's favorite childhood memory may have been listening as his father read stories aloud on Saturday nights and a roomful of adults burst out laughing. Sholom wanted to make people laugh, to...



  • James Silke



  • Davitt Sigerson

    Nick and Trish married within two months of meeting each other. A thoroughly modern couple with demanding careers"Nick is a stock trader, Trish works in international marketing"they are drawn together by a fiercely erotic bond. Trish has a voraci...



  • James Siegel

    They want what every young couple wants: a child of their own. But Paul and Joanna Breidbart have been trying to conceive for five long years-a torturous process of failed medical procedures that nearly tore their marriage apart. When they finally de...



  • Porter Shreve

    “A hilarious family tale” about a modern-day mother’s lifestyle crisis -- and her outlandish attempts to get her family back (Woman’s Day). Lydia Modine is sixty-one and about to come undone. Her three grown-up children have flown the coop. S...



  • Sharon Short

    NEW AGE, NEW MURDER Laundromat owner and stain removal expert Josie Toadfern knows her tiny town's dirty clothes and most of its dirty little secrets. But an upcoming "Psychic Fair" is bringing a brand-new mess to Paradise, Ohio. The arrival of al...



  • Sharon Shinn

    Gillengaria seethes with unrest. In the south, hostility toward magic and its users has risen to a dangerous level, though King Baryn has ordered that such mystics are to be tolerated. It is whispered that he issued the decree because his new wife us...



  • Jory Sherman

    Fresh from a war with rival rancher Miguel Aguilar, and still licking family wounds, Martin Baron and his son, Anson, go their separate ways as Jory Sherman continues the epic saga of the Barons. Martin heeds the call of the Texas Rangers, hoping to...



  • Sandi Kahn Shelton

    Fast-paced, warm, and laugh-out-loud funny, What Comes After Crazy chronicles a quest for normalcy that nearly drives a woman nuts. Maz Lombard craves a nice, quiet life -- and who can blame her? Having grown up as the daughter of Madame Lucille, “...



  • Janet Beeler Shaw

    Kaya’s village is preparing for the powerful winter Spirit Dances when an injured stranger arrives. She doesn’t speak, and no one can reach her but Kaya’s beloved dog, Tatlo. Who is the stranger and why is she so silent and alone? Kaya searches...



  • Jon Sharpe

    Fargo takes on a legend...but will he live to tell the tale?The truth is way out there in the northwestern territory when Skye Fargo investigates reports of sea creatures straight out of Indian legend, abducting settlers and natives from their homes....



  • Jon Sharpe

    Skye Fargo fights fire with fire! When Skye Fargo stops in the tiny town of Chico Springs, New Mexico, the last thing he expects is to be run out of town in a blaze of fire and bullets, with every gun in the territory out to hang him for arson a...



  • Jon Sharpe

    While entertaining himself in the arms of the local ladies, Skye Fargo falls victim to the scheming daughter of a bank robber who will do anything to find out where her father hid his loot before being thrown in jail. Original....



  • Jill Shalvis
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    A beautiful antiques dealer is persuaded to find her missing ex-husband. An offer of a cool million is irresistible...and so is the stranger who puts it on the table. But what forbidden secret--and illicit passion--is she about to discover?...




  • Caitlin Scott-Turner

    In this swashbuckling historical romance, Ardys Trevallon is the strong-willed daughter of Queen Elizabeth's fencing master, and a master fencer herself. She is taken prisoner by Desmond Kirkconnell, a scoundrel and rogue who eventually wins her hear...



  • Julie Schumacher

    Livvie isn't superstitious like her best friend, Joyce, who thinks everything is bad luck. So Livvie isn't worried about tearing up the chain letter and throwing it away--until she's humiliated in gym class, falls down her back stairs, and gets invit...



  • Charles M. Schulz

    GOOD GRIEF, THAT’S A SAND TRAP, CHARLIE BROWN!

    Hit the links with this laugh-out-loud collection of golf-themed strips featuring the entire Peanuts Gang. Snoopy has snagged an invite to play at the Masters, but will he bow-wow under pressure...



  • Bernhard Schlink

    As a young man, Gerhard Self served as a Nazi prosecutor. After the war he was barred from the judicial system and so became a private investigator. He has never, however, forgotten his complicity in evil.Hired by a childhood friend, the aging Self s...




  • Carole Lexa Schaefer

    During the hot summer days on the savannah, all the wild animals are quiet as they rest in the great heat, but when the evening arrives and the air cools, kudos, zebras, giraffes, lions, and all the rest get moving again--making their own special mus...



  • Patricia Scanlan
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    You thought you'd heard the whole story? They painted the town green in the acclaimed international bestseller Irish Girls About Town. Now Irish Girls Are Back In Town ...and their unique charm resonates throughout this high-spirited gathering of ...




  • P.B. Ryan

    Boston, 1869: As governess to the wealthy Hewitts, Irish immigrant Nell Sweeney belongs to no particular caste--hers is halfway between her brethren and the Brahmin. But now, a double murder involves both maid and mistress--and it will take cooperati...



  • Mary Ryan
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    You thought you'd heard the whole story? They painted the town green in the acclaimed international bestseller "Irish Girls About Town." Now "Irish Girls Are Back In Town" ...and their unique charm resonates throughout this high-spirited gathering...



  • Patricia Rushford; Harrison James

    Two dead bodies. A web of conspiracies and cover-ups. A young detective, searching for answers to the case . . . and to his heart. The body of a retired, wheelchair-bound rail yard worker has been discovered on the tracks near his home. A tragic...



  • Alan Rusbridger

    The loveable animals and their keepers at Melton Mowbray Zoo are back! Everyone has recovered from the disastrous weekend when the heating broke and Mr Pickles, the zoo director, asked all the keepers to take their animal home for the weekend. In fac...



  • Ron Roy

    Y is for YACHT... Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are having a great time visiting their friend Sammi, the prince of Costra. They swim, soak in the sun, and admire the bright yellow yacht that is moored just offshore. But the owners of the yacht are actin...



  • Ann B. Ross

    Miss Julia -- the original steel magnolia -- has finally tied the knot, but can she keep it from coming undone? Miss Julia -- now Mrs. Sam Murdoch -- has just returned from her elopement to find that, as usual, numerous matters require her attenti...



  • Ray Romano

    Everybody might love Raymond now, but when Ray Romano was ten years old, he and his brothers didn't always get along.

    Raymie has two brothers, Dickie and the Bean. Sometimes he loves his brothers. Sometimes he hates them.

    One day Raymie's...



  • Emily Rodda

    An ancient curse. Seven mysterious dragons. A race against time. With the aid of Deltora's last dragons, Lief, Barda and Jasmine have destroyed three of the Four Sisters, evil Shadow Lord creations that are poisoning their land. Their quest will end...



  • Mark K. Roberts

    In This War It's Not How Many You Kill--It's Who You Kill... ...and on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Captain Logan Warner and his Alpha Team know exactly who has to die: Saddam Hussein. Their new mission is to take out the murderous dictator b...



  • J.R. Roberts

    VENDETTA Clint Adams has made his share of enemies over the years, but never one who was a threat to the country. U.S. Marshals have been pursuing a ruthless professional assassin whose kills include politicians and cattle barons. Galloway is a walki...



  • David Robbins

    THE REBEL After the surrender of the Confederacy and the death of his wife, Jed Adams strikes out west to build a new life for his sons and himself. THE YANKEE Tom Waldron fought to keep the Union intact and now believes the unsettled land of th...



  • Gene Riehl

    FBI agent Puller Monk is losing his mind. His father passed away six months ago and left him a predisposition for Alzheimer's disease. Add to that a lethal American spy raised by the North Koreans, and Monk's life just got a lot more complicated. ...



  • Emma Richler

    In Feed My Dear Dogs, Emma Richler returns to the life of the Weiss family, first introduced to readers in her debut"and much-celebrated"book, Sister Crazy, through a series of interconnected stories narrated by Jemima (Jem) Weiss.

    The Wei...



  • L.B. Richards

    Charley Tooth is a nice, upstanding boy who once lived with his family, the Tooths (or Teeth), in Quaint and Boring Connecticut. Transported to Nivalg, he confronted Dix and Dax the Orphan Lords and met the two-tongued Wednesday O’Friday.

    Now Ch...



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  • Judith Reeves-Stevens; Garfield Reeves-Stevens

    The year is 2008 The next race to the Moon has begun Not to make new discoveries But to bury old secrets THE PLACE The International Space Station. Docked to it, the Space Shuttle Constitution. Crewed by ten astronauts trained to recover the $100...



  • Paula Reed

    "I vow, should I ever meet another English damsel in distress, she will have to look to someone other than Diego Montoya Fernandez de Madrid y Delgado Cortes for help." Captain Diego Montoya is working toward one goal--owning his own ship. His patr...




  • Tennant Redbank

    JoJo's Circus is a stop-motion animation series which follows the adventures of JoJo, an adorable and curious clown who lives in Circus Town with her family and best friend, a pet lion named Goliath. JoJo's Circus encourages kids at home to try movem...



  • Michael Reaves

    Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes is among the most famous literary figures of all time. For more than a hundred years, his adventures have stood as imperishable monuments to the ability of human reason to penetrate every mystery, solve every puzz...



  • Francis Ray

    The protege of a world-renowned artist, sculptress Phoenix Banister dreams of one day taking the art world by storm. Few people know that Phoenix has a secret that could ruin her career before it even starts. To protect that secret, Phoenix lives a v...



  • Robert J. Randisi

    Twelve thrilling Western tales that celebrate the proud heritage of the TEXAS RANGERS Louis L'Amour leads off this powerful collection with a stunning tale featuring his legendary Texas Ranger Chick Bowdrie. Here, too, are superb, action-packed en...



  • Robert J. Randisi

    Having lost a wife to violence and a son to retribution, onetime Texas sheriff Daniel Shaye has brought what remains of his shattered family -- two grown boys fiercely devoted to their father and justice -- to Vengeance Creek, Arizona. In a lawless t...



  • Ken Rand

    US regulars at the Lucky Nickel Saloon, Second Ave, Laramie, Wyoming Territory, US of A, are shocked to hear from Mick, the Irish barkeep, that his mortgage is due tomorrow. Bankruptcy looms, dire straits for certain sure, as we-all're broke and none...



  • Natasha Radojcic

    Halid, a young Muslim “war hero,” returns home from the Bosnian War. Although his village was spared heavy combat, it has been ravaged by years of privation and heartbreak, and by the blood politics that continue to boil.

    The community is...



  • Fiona Quirina

    Taking up a lucrative new career as a high-class courtesan--or "sex surrogate"--after her whistleblowing leads to her dismissal from her job as Senior VP for a major conglomerate, Lydia Quess begins to have second thoughts when one of her clients is ...



  • James Purdy

    The people of Prince’s Crossing called him the old maggot. Not just because he was despicably rich, nor because he owned all their farms, or sired the wild young men who tore up the roads with their galloping horses -- it was because they could not...



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  • Francine Prose

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  • Bill Pronzini

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  • Beth Powning

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  • Jodi Picoult

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  • Patricia Anne Phillips

    A Blessing In Disguise... After twenty-five years of marriage, Ashley Lake and her husband Marcus have a lovely home in sunny California, successful careers, and a beloved grown daughter. At age fifty, Marcus is still a fine-looking man and a gre...



  • Michael Phillips

    The author of the Secret of the Rose series transports readers to the South, as the seeds of Civil War are sown -- and those against slavery take a stand.   In the antebellum South, Richmond and Carolyn Davidson live lives of ease as wealthy pl...



  • Ken Petti; John Amodeo

    Today was the first day of Aurora Academy, which means classes with girls and boys. That will take getting used to! I'm so excited to study kani and astral sight, but I'm nervous, too. With two gifts, I'll have twice the work of anyone else--what if ...



  • Audrey Peterson

    "When a famous man dies," says Anne Hathaway Shakespeare, "it's always the men who write about his life. Why don't they ask the wife?" And so she tells the story "the way it was," including their early days, William's rise to success as a playwright,...



  • Elizabeth Peters

    A priceless relic has been delivered to the Emerson home overlooking the Nile. But more than history surrounds this golden likeness of a forgotten king, for it is said early death will befall anyone who possesses it. The woman who implores the ren...



  • Marta Perry

    FINDING THE COURAGE TO LOVE... Life was much safer at a remove, or at least so Julie Alexander thought. Her photojournalist job allowed her to view life through her camera lens, a job that would help her learn if a man she'd never met was a good fat...



  • Anne Perry

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  • Sharon Kay Penman

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  • Don Pendleton

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  • Don Pendleton

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  • George P. Pelecanos

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  • John Peel

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    Hel...



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  • Owen Parry

    New Orleans, 1863 -- occupied and impoverished, yet defiant. The "embarrassed" corpse of a Yankee heiress washes up on a levee. Citizens disappear in the night from the alleys of the French Quarter. Tales of ritual murder taunt the authorities -- as ...



  • Nancy J. Parra

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  • Robert B. Parker

    When his closest ally, Hawk, is beaten and left for dead while protecting a bookie, Spenser embarks on an epic journey to rehabilitate his best pal, body and soul. But that means infiltrating a ruthless mob--and redefining his friendship with Hawk in...



  • Victoria Pade

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  • Laura Ovresat



  • Mary Pope Osborne

    Adventure is waiting inside every MAGIC TREE HOUSE book! History, mystery, and magic! Merlin has a new mission for Jack and Annie: save the Grand Lady of the Lagoon from a terrible disaster! To find her, they must travel back in time to Venice, Ita...



  • Jerry Oltion


    In a world dominated by America's heavy hand, an independent scientist reveals the secret of fast, cheap interstellar travel, sparking an exodus like none in history. When anyone with a few hundred dollars and a little ingenuity can build their ...



  • Eugenie Seifer Olson

    Moxie Brecker never thought she'd be peddling panties for a living. After all, she started her working life teaching middle school science and trying to get kids excited about the laws of matter and energy. But when faced with the pulsating prepubesc...



  • Natasha Oakley

    Amy has known -- and been in love with -- Hugh Balfour for as long as she can remember. Her strategy has been to avoid him at all costs. But now Hugh needs Amy's help -- he needs a secretary and only Amy will do! With a bit of a makeover -- co...



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  • Flann O'Brien

    "Along with Joyce and Beckett, [Flann O'Brien] constitutes our trinity of great Irish writers. And who is funnier?" - Edna O'Brien The cream of Flann O'Brien's comic tour-de-force, the Keats and Chapman stories began in O'Brien's column in the Iris...



  • Naomi Shihab Nye

    Florrie's favorite coffee shop, with its open mike night, dreamy candles, and cute waiters ... Going?

    The mysterious little hut selling fresh lemon ice on the west side of town ... Going?

    The boutique featuring clothes you don't fin...



  • Mae Nunn

    I NOW PRONOUNCE YOU...COMANAGERS? It had to be a mistake. Tara Elliott's grandmother had bequeathed the family office building to Tara -- jointly? Her comanager was Sam Kennesaw, the abrasive but still-handsome man who'd broken Tara's tender teena...



  • Celeste O. Norfleet

    Fashion buyer Prudence Washington's Thanksgiving dinner for the homeless is on the verge of fiasco when none of the volunteers show up. The situation goes from bad to worse after local NFL quarterback Michael "Speed" Hunter and his teammates arrive w...



  • Bette Nordberg

    Callie O’Brian’s ordinary life takes an unexpected detour when social services places a four"year"old orphan, Keeshan Hernandez, in her care. Overwhelmed, Callie is just about ready to give the boy back to the authorities when Marcus Jeffe...



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    Passing himself off as a dancing master seems a fine way to find a bride, but Neville Dunsleigh discovers that London's ladies are not the fleet-footed lot he imagined--until lovely Penelope Spencer waltzes into his life. Her grace can't be denied, b...



  • Lisa Noeli

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  • Douglas Niles
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    During the dark years after the War of Souls, chaos threatens the once-mighty empire of Solamnia. Goblins raid even fortified cities, and bandits rule great sections of the countryside. The ruling dukes, lords, and knights bicker and backstab. Thr...



  • Donna Jo Napoli

    There are some strange new pets in Sly's neighborhood: a cat on a diet that keeps getting fatter, a fish that seems angry at its owner, and a peculiar pet named Wilson that suddenly disappears! Only Sly the Sleuth can solve these mysteries. Grade-sc...



  • John J. Nance

    A few hundred years ago, Cascadia Island didn't even exist. Like the Washington seacoast, it was rock submerged beneath the Pacific. A massive earthquake changed that, exploding the rock upward, making it land -- unstable land, according to seismolog...



  • Cindi Myers

    Okay, so there are some cliches that are true -- rolling stones gathering no moss and the grass is greener are two that come to mind...mainly because I'm stuck in a ditch next to a sinfully gorgeous and far too stubborn man who won't allow himself to...



  • Beverle Graves Myers

    Venice, 1734. Neglecting his vocal practice for dubious pleasures, singer Tito Amato finds himself demoted to secondary roles and overshadowed by a visiting star. When the murder of scene painter Luca Cavalieri threatens to close the opera house, Tit...



  • Debra Mullins

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  • Miriam Moss



  • Gilbert Morris

    Between her dedicated nursing at Mercy Hospital and plans to be a missionary in India, Ketura Lindsey had no time to think about marriage. But to follow God's plan, she had to acknowledge that love was part of His higher purpose for her life. Yet did...



  • Debrah Morris

    H.A.R.P. Field Report From: Celestian, Earthbound Operative Re: Operation True Love Mission: Unite hopelessly star-crossed soul mates. Complications: Subject Trick Templeton is one ornery West Texan who lets no woman get too close. For subje...



  • Richard K. Morgan

    In a world where real and virtual are one and the same and the dead can come back to life, Takeshi Kovacs was once a galaxy-hopping Envoy. Now he battles against biomachines gone wild, searches for a centuries-old missing weapons system, and endures ...



  • Raye Morgan

    Nobody could put Rafe Allman in his place... until a corporate challenge put Shelley Sinclair in the position to teach the control-freak corporate bigwig what it's like to take orders for a change! But as their brainstorming sessions segued into stol...



  • Melissa J. Morgan

    “Another summer at Camp! My family and I have been coming to this camp forever. But this year I wouldn’t mind being on my own for once. I can’t talk about it with Mom and Dad, so maybe I just have to deal? Having my whole family around used to ...



  • Melissa J. Morgan

    "Camp Laveview. Ugh. On a scale of 1-10, I want to go to camp times, like, negative three. What's so great about the outdoors, anyway? If trees were that important, there would be more of them in New York City. But Mom thinks that camp will help me '...